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UC President Yudof Proposes 8 Percent Fee Increase Only 45 Percent of UC Students Would See Fee Increase in First Year if Regents Approve Plan by Javier Panzar Daily Cal Staff Writer
After weeks of rumors and speculation, UC President Mark Yudof announced a budget plan Monday that includes an 8 percent hike ONLINE PODCAST in student fees for the next Hear Javier Panzar talk academic year, about Yudof’s proposed though only 45 budget plan for the UC. percent of students will have to pay these higher fees for the first year thanks to a one-time expansion of the university’s financial aid program. If approved by the UC Board of Regents, Yudof ’s proposal would raise the UC system’s educational fee by $828 to $11,124 — more than twice what the fee was in 2003 — as well as the student services fee by $72 to a total of $972. Along with the increases, Yudof has proposed an extension of the university’s financial aid plan so students from families making less than $80,000 will have all fees paid for them by the UC, while students from families making under $120,000 will be shielded from
the increase for the first year. Yudof said those two provisions mean that only 45 percent of the university’s approximately 181,000 students will feel any increase while still generating around $116 million in revenue, though student leaders called the increase a Band-Aid for the university’s enduring funding issues. “Increasing student fees is always going to be a step away from our core values,” said UC Student Regent Jesse Cheng, adding that he will vote against the fee increase when the board meets next week at UC San Francisco. “It is not a solution to the long-term problems the UC is facing.” Claudia Magana, president of the UC Student Association, said though she appreciates the increase in financial aid, the UC’s move toward a “highfee, high-aid model,” common at other public universities, will force students to take out even larger loans, which universities count as aid. Despite these concerns, Yudof said students will be “defraying a relatively small share” of the university’s $1 billion deficit, which includes $350 million in increased costs in the next year alone. Yudof added that more than half of those increased costs will be taken up by increased payments into the UC’s pension fund, which currently has $20 billion in unfunded liabilities. “I don’t increase fees lightly,” he said
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Flames Engulf AC Transit Bus No one was injured during a fire Monday that reduced an AC Transit bus to a burned-out hulk, smoldering near the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and ONLINE MULTIMEDIA Dwight Way. See a slideshow and According to video footage of the bus Sabina Imrie, the Berkeley Fire online at dailycal.org. Depar tment ’s assistant fire chief for special operations, the first call reporting the blaze came at around 12:35 p.m. When fire crews from the department
arrived on the scene, they found the back portion of the bus and the area where its engine is housed ablaze. Imrie said the fire was contained by about 12:50 p.m. AC Transit spokesperson Clarence Johnson said the driver operating the bus was informed there was something dragging from its rear by a person who pulled their car alongside the bus. When the driver confirmed there was smoke trailing behind the bus in a rear-view mirror, she immediately stopped and evacuated the passengers aboard. “Almost the second she (evacuated the
passengers), the bus was engulfed in flames,” Johnson said. “So she really did what we think is a heroic job.” While investigators were not able to confirm the fire’s cause as of press time — and Johnson said he could not speculate on the matter — what appeared to be a mattress was found underneath the bus. “There’s something that was definitely underneath the bus that was being dragged,” Imrie said. “We don’t have that confirmed yet. Investigators are still working on it.” —Nick Myers
Rather than being evaluated by the traditional term paper, some UC Berkeley students will be assessed on how well they can update existing Wikipedia articles this semester as part of a collaboration with the online encyclopedia website. UC Berkeley’s School of Information has been collaborating with Wikipedia on the WikiProject United States Public Policy initiative, which aims to improve the quality of the website’s articles on U.S. public policy while providing a new learning tool for students to help improve their media literacy skills and introduce them to collaborative work. The $1.2 million Wikipedia initiative — to be funded through September 2011 — supports courses through online and campus ambassadors for 10 different universities nationwide, including Harvard University and George Washington University. Two courses at UC Berkeley are being offered in conjunction with the initiative — one at the information school and one DeCal. “The main reason we’re working with professors and students is that they’re constantly dealing in the world of knowledge,” said Annie Lin, the initiative’s campus team coordinator and a UC Berkeley alumna. “Academia focuses heavily on good sourcing, research and writing skills, and these all align very well with Wikipedia.” For Brian Carver, assistant professor at the information school, incorporating Wikipedia articles into class assignments for his course, “Intellectual Property Law for the Information Industries,” is not a new experience — he has assigned students to edit the website’s articles for several semesters.
Carver said benefits of the collaboration with Wikipedia include the additional support provided by the website with a new framework for when assignments are due as well as the initiative’s hired online ambassadors who provide technical assistance. He said his class must be making some improvement to Wikipedia’s coverage of intellectual property law because he has “nearly run out of topics to set for students.” Carver added that since the initiative began, more students have expressed an interest in editing Wikipedia articles in their free time. UC Berkeley senior Max Klein said the “Politics of Piracy” DeCal he is cofacilitating aims to silence critics who claim Wikipedia lacks academic rigor. He added that his is “the most Wikipedia-esque course of all those participating” since it is not led by the traditional authority of a professor, just as the site does not have one sole contributor. Klein said each course supported by the initiative aims to fill the gaps within Wikipedia knowledge on “more niche and academic topics” than the area of popular culture in which the site has traditionally been very strong. At Syracuse University, the project has led to a newly created class called “Wikipedia and Public Policy.” “This is an interesting experiment that can have long-term value for my students and Wikipedia, so I see it as win-win for everyone,” said Syracuse University professor Carol Dwyer, who is teaching the course, in an e-mail. For next semester, the project’s organizers are planning to expand the project to 20 universities, according to Lin. Contact Rachel Banning-Lover at rlover@dailycal.org.
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by Victoria Pardini Contributing Writer
Even as Cindy Chang treats student-athletes as one of UC Berkeley’s sports medicine physicians and sees sick patients at the Tang Center’s urgent care ward, she is also preparing to be the United States’ chief medical officer for the 2012 Olympic team, where she will be in charge of the health and well-being of America’s top athletes. Chang, the head physician for athletic teams on campus from 1995 to 2008, first volunteered with the United States Olympic Committee in 1996. After what she described as a “rigorous” application process, she worked at the committee’s training center in Colorado Springs, Colo. She began practicing internationally at the 1998 Paralympic Games in Nagano. As the medical chief, Chang will work with a team of trainers, chiropractors and physical therapists to ensure the health and safety of American athletes. Currently, Chang is working part time at the Tang Center in order to balance her work and her family. While studying at Ohio State University, Chang played club volleyball and learned the basics of sports medicine, which sparked her interest in the field. She said she was inspired by John Lombardo, who helped found the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine — the largest organization of sports medicine physicians in the world — in 1991. Chang is now the first vice president of the society and is set to be president in April 2011. She said her
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Monday’s article “Cal Fends Off Feisty Cougars in First Road Win” incorrectly stated Brock Mansion went 14-of-24; in fact, he went 12-of-24. It also incorrectly stated that he had a net total of 53 rushing yards; in fact, he had 25. It also incorrectly stated Jeremy Ross’ 21-yard catch and run on 3rd-and-20 occurred with seven minutes remaining; in fact there were nine minutes left.
scaled-back position on campus allows her to have a larger role in national organizations. Kim Harmon, a former president of the society and team physician at the University of Washington, said Chang always has what is best for the athletes in mind. “She doesn’t care how much trouble it’s going to get her in — she does what’s right,” Harmon said. Though Chang is currently set to hold the top position for sports medicine for the American Olympic team, she mentioned that early in her career, it was often difficult to be a woman in the field because older coaches weren’t used to female sports physicians and would not take her opinion seriously. However, she said patients were more comfortable coming to her with personal problems. “I feel like I had a really good relationship with her, and I felt comfortable with telling her about my injuries and not sugar-coating things, whereas with other physicians you’re afraid because you don’t know what’s going to be the outcome,” said fifth-year senior track and field athlete Kimyon Broom, who has worked with Chang on and off for the past five years. Though no athletes have yet been chosen for the 2012 Olympics, Chang said that she is already excited for the challenge of working with an Olympic team again, though she will have to manage it closely. “We’re volunteering to do that, and it’s a great honor, but it’s a huge time commitment,” she said.
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Bill to Replace Fee Committee Tabled by ASUC by Allie Bidwell Contributing Writer
The ASUC Standing Committee on University and External Affairs considered a bill Monday night that seeks to create a new body to replace the campus’s Committee on Student Fees and Budget Review, stating that the committee does not comply with guidelines set forth in UC policy and is not representative of the student body. The bill — co-authored by Graduate Assembly President Miguel Daal and former assembly president Philippe Marchand — calls for a new committee to be composed of a majority of students appointed by the ASUC and Graduate Assembly, with the number of members proportional to the number of undergraduate, graduate and professional students on campus. The current committee audits various campus entities and makes suggestions for allocation of student service fees. The UC Student Fee Policy, which was revised in May, states each campus’s chancellor will consult students on the use of the fee revenues. In a 2003 Memorandum of Understanding between campus administrators and the ASUC, it was further recognized that the ASUC and Graduate Assembly Academic Affairs officers will make all undergraduate and graduate appointments to the committee, respectively. But Marchand said the current committee has 13 self-appointed members — only one of which is a graduate student — and reports to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer. Marchand said this composition is not representative of students and does not comply with the policy. He added that after months of negotiating and suggesting the committee change its internal structure, the co-chairs refused to restructure. “It’s not like we’re being hostile and fighting among students, it’s just that we want to accomplish a goal of being compliant with policy,” he said. The co-chairs were not able to be reached as of press time. According to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof, representatives from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Harry Le Grande’s office said the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Student Services and Fees — which includes students appointed by the ASUC, Graduate Assembly and the committee — is reviewing the new systemwide policy “to identify potential changes to Berkeley’s structure and responsibilities for compliance with this policy.” Student Action Senator Joey Freeman, a co-sponsor of the bill, said in an e-mail it is important for the committee to be self-governing in order to ensure student concerns are addressed. He added that he planned to amend the bill at Monday night’s standing committee meeting to recognize the work of the current student
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ave you ever tried washing cum out of your hair? It’s fucking weird. As you shampoo through the nowslippery mess, you might wonder, as I sometimes do, what exactly inspires men to unleash their man-juice all over the place. Facials and pearl necklaces sound lovely and proper until you realize that what they entail — a stream of semen artfully squirted across various body parts (very avant-garde, very Jackson Pollock) — is actually kind of bizarre. After giving the matter some serious consideration, I ruled out biology. Clearly, if a dude is blowing his load anywhere other than in the Promised Land, then it’s not going to result in a wailing bundle of life. And since, from a purely scientific standpoint, procreation is the impetus behind all sexual endeavors, the desire to, quite literally, spread that seed simply can’t come from any caveman-esque urges lingering in our subconscious. For obvious reasons, I couldn’t use my own point of view to answer this age-old question, and so I first went off in search of someone who had the necessary ... equipment ... to provide me with a solid male perspective. If you read the Sex on Tuesday column last year, you may or may not remember its author, Mustafa Shaikh, otherwise known as Moose, but he’s who answered my call of distress and he’s who I’ll be referencing in these next few paragraphs. My simple question, “why do guys want to cum on weird places?” (yeah, there are more eloquent ways to phrase it, but when you’re hastily typing a Facebook message during a 30 Rock commercial break, no one really cares if your diction is a little halfassed) warranted a simple answer: porn. A one-word reply wasn’t exactly what I’d been hoping for, but then I checked my inbox a second time only to find a Russian novel of a response that further explained the logic behind such a seemingly illogical act. oose started off with a nice little vignette in which his younger self mimicked the trademark moves of his beloved athletic all-stars. Whether it was a big ol’ pre-pitch leg kick a la Dennis Eckersley or Michael Jordan’s customary stuck-out tongue, Moose
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Jillian Wertheim adopted these signatures in the hopes that they would make him, too, great. When it finally came time for our young protagonist to do the deed and become a bona fide man, he did exactly what he had always done — imitate the professionals. With visions of grandeur and porn stars racing through his mind, Moose asked if he could cum on his ladyfriend’s face. Her response (asking him to aim for her stomach, instead) is not the important part here. What we want to focus on is that, in this high-pressure situation, Moose relied on the signature move of the ultimate sexpert — the porn star. ust about every porno that teenage Moose had ever seen concluded with the man triumphantly pulling out and ejaculating, spectacularly, all over his co-star’s face/neck/breasts/you get the idea. Why wouldn’t he bring this technique into bed with him? No one wants to feel like they’re clueless in the sack, and what’s more, no one wants anyone else to know just how clueless they might be. Which is why it makes perfect sense that guys copy the pros. So why are guys still so keen on exploring their decorative powers even after those first few awkward times? It’s not biology. It’s not even a male ego power-trip kind of thing, necessarily. This whole shebang can be reduced to the uber-extensive circulation of porn. Everyone has fantasies they’d like to act out, and living like a porn star merely happens to be one that’s particularly widespread. It’s the dream, baby — and the men? They’re just living it.
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Alameda Awaits Results of Uncounted Votes by Nina Brown Contributing Writer
Around 122,000 absentee and provisional ballots from last Tuesday’s election have yet to be counted throughout the county, though the Alameda Elections County Registrar of Voters has 21 more days to certify the re2010 sults of its first dailycal.org/elections ever election using a rankedchoice voting system. The outstanding ballots may help in deciding some of the county’s closest races, including the Oakland mayoral race where candidates Jean Quan and Don Perata stand at 51.09 percent and 48.91 percent, respectively, as of Nov. 5, according to unofficial results on the Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ website. Voters may rank up to three choices in each race under the new system, thereby eliminating the need for a primary elec-
tion and cutting down costs for the three cities — Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro — that just adopted the system, according the county’s Deputy Registrar of Voters Cynthia Cornejo. While the system has been applied to all election results thus far, the registrar is not releasing any more ranked-choice voting results until the election is certified, said Leshaun Yopack, an election technician in candidate services at the registrar’s office. Updated results will reflect only firstchoice votes until all the ballots have been counted, at which point second and third choices will also be taken into consideration, according to a statement from Registrar of Voters Dave Macdonald. Cornejo said after all of the outstanding ballots have been counted, an algorithm is run to tally candidates’ total votes. While there have been mixed reviews of the new system, Quan’s campaign coordinator Sue Piper said she believed it worked well. “It did what it was supposed to do — give candidates an opportunity to be be-
fore all voters so they didn’t get screened out in the primary, and it saved the city money,” she said. George Beier, a former candidate for Berkeley City Council who ran against District 7 incumbent Kriss Worthington and made it through two rounds of ranked-choice elimination, said the system was “a mixed bag.” “In races like ours, with only three people in the race, I think it makes sense,” he said. But Beier added that in large elections, like the mayoral race in Oakland, voters who only selected candidates that were immediately dropped in the first rounds of ranked-choice voting would not have any input in the final results. “Let’s say you vote for a person who comes in 10th, the person who comes in eighth, and the person who comes in sixth — you don’t have a say in the runoff between the top two,” he said. “You’re basically disenfranchised.” Contact Nina Brown at nbrown@dailycal.org.
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The rioting that took place in Oakland on Friday was the wrong reaction, yet we sympathize with protesters’ anger.
t is easy to dismiss continually repeated protests as over the top, yet it is more valuable to evaluate why these movements are recurring. The march and then subsequent rioting on Friday in Oakland was the latest of several similar situations that have taken place since then-BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed civilian Oscar Grant III in January 2009. The violence that took place Friday included several smashed windows and resulted in roughly 150 arrests. Consistent with our opinion on the last riot, we cannot condone violence in any form. Yet it is the unfortunate expression of a problem that still exists — a wrong reaction, yet not an overreaction. Mehserle was sentenced to two years in prison, the minimum sentence allowed for someone convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He can apply the time that he has already been in custody to his overall sentence, meaning that Mehserle could be eligible for release in about seven months. We sympathize with protesters who are a largely racial
minority that feel betrayed by authorities. After a case in which an officer was caught-on-tape shooting an unarmed black man, those who are upset likely do not think they can express their anger in any legitimate avenue since the courts and enforcement officials have let them down. This, in and of itself, is a tragedy for the community. Any form of protest is significant, but strategies are only as valid as the letter of the law. Illegitimate tactics, namely violence, only serve to further the divide in the city as we can clearly see after every instance of rioting. We do not pretend to have the magic solution to alleviate these ongoing tensions. While mass protests are always effective, much like the impromptu gathering of about 350 people in front of City Hall Friday, we sympathize with protesters’ frustrations. Many pledge to continue their quest for justice in this case. We hope any future efforts are nonviolent and we hope that the city notices and recognizes these valid frustrations in this ongoing conflict.
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State parks, in danger of closing, should be protected by Sacramento even though voters defeated Proposition 21.
or many of California’s voters, the vast majority of propositions on a page hold little sway after all of the ballots have been tallied up. Yet one defeated proposition in particular might result in the closing of some state parks, which will not be missed until they are gone. Proposition 21 would have instated an $18 vehicle registration fee to provide funds to support California state parks. In the final count, 58 percent of voters soundly said no. This defeat may come as a surprise in a place that is regarded as environmentally conscious and proudly displays naturalist John Muir on its state quarter. Perhaps voters were simply wary of a fee that cannot be traditionally evaluated as stimulating the economy or providing tangible benefits. Perhaps people did not want to reach into their own pocketbooks and relieve Sacramento from funding a service that they have a responsibility to provide in the past. Perhaps this is a sign of hard times when $18 is too much to spare from already stretched pay-
checks. Worst of all, perhaps a large number of Californians honestly do not care about state parks. Yet we think that this proposition’s failure to pass, along with other results from last week’s election, ultimately shows just how distrustful voters are of Sacramento. These misgivings were also reflected in the passage of Prop. 22 and Prop. 26, the first reducing the state’s ability to borrow and allocate funds and the second instating a supermajority for levying new fees. Clearly, voters do not trust the state’s ability to spend money responsibly. We see state parks as an unfortunate casualty of voters’ distrust. Yet regardless of the current political climate, these parks are an essential service and benefit to the state. Soon-to-be-governor-again Jerry Brown is likely aware that he faces a wary public, yet he should absolutely support state parks as well. By backing this one necessity, Sacramento can start to regain some of the people’s confidence in saving what is important in our state.
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by Kelly Fabian The Student Advocate’s Office, the campus public defender, would like to inform students about several little-publicized potential changes to the Code of Conduct with potentially drastic ramifications for student rights. In early July the UC Office of the President released three proposed policy changes in response to the proliferation of hate crimes across UC campuses. The policies have gone through one round of feedback and are currently in a second round. If adopted, these policies will become part of the Code of Student Conduct at each UC Campus. The Student Advocate’s Office strongly supports addressing and preventing hate crimes; however, these proposed policies are not the solution. Furthermore, they pose a serious threat to student rights. The first proposed policy prohibits conduct with the intent to “terrorize,” defined as: “to cause a reasonable person to fear bodily harm or death, perpetrated by the actor or his/her confederates.” This policy is redundant at best, and leads to the injection of a vague and loaded term that could be misapplied and lead to viewpoint
discrimination. Article V, Section 102 of the Code of Student Conduct already prohibits any action that could constitute causing fear of harm or death. Furthermore, wording such as “terrorizing” is vague and fraught with loaded connotations. Under this policy, this term could possibly be used to single out individuals and groups with benign, but unconventional views. The second proposed policy enables sanction enhancement for violations motivated by hate. The motivation of a crime is often difficult to determine. Given the current discretion already vested in the conduct officers, this provision invites increased subjectivity on behalf of conduct officers and injects greater ambiguity into the conduct process. The third proposed policy presents the most dangerous threat to student rights and is the furthest removed from the aforementioned purpose. This policy gives conduct offices at each UC the authority to pursue campus discipline against a student following a state or federal criminal conviction. On the grounds that if the conviction provides “reasonable cause” to believe the student poses a current threat to “any person or property on University premises or to the orderly operation of the campus” even if the incident occurred off University jurisdiction. This policy is counterintuitive to the alleged purpose of campus Conduct Offices. Conduct processes are built on the notion that in addition to a criminal process, a campus-based entity is necessary to handle violations that either occur within the campus geography (the ‘geographic box’) or
involve university matters. However, this section drastically expands that jurisdiction, allowing and even obligating conduct officers to investigate matters that are normally left to the criminal justice system. This not only infringes upon students’ rights, but also places a burden on the student conduct process by involving it in issues that is neither equipped nor prepared to handle. This provision is not narrowly tailored to the issue of hate crimes and therefore our office does not believe that it should be included in this package of proposals. Our office fears that this could lead to precedent for the expansion of the conduct process across other UC campuses. Ultimately, the Student Advocate’s Office understands the importance of addressing hate crimes at a UC wide level and on individual campuses. Facilitating candid discussions about hate crimes on all campuses and enhancing hate crime reporting are steps in the right direction. These policies are a step in the wrong direction. We urge students to read the full text of the proposed policies at advocate.berkeley.edu and to submit any feedback to help@studentadvocateoffice.com or directly to UCOP at president@ucop.edu. Kelly Fabian is the ASUC student advocate. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.
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Thursday’s Game Marks End of Lengthy History Between Cal Seniors and Their Stanford Friends by Kelly Suckow Contributing Writer
The Cal versus Stanford rivalry is something bigger than just two games. For the No. 10 Cal men’s soccer team (11-2-3, 7-1-1 in the Pac-10), it represents the evolution from a friendly game between friends to a battle of superiority on the soccer field. Seniors like Davis Paul, Hector Jimenez and A.J. Soares have friendships that run years-deep with some of the players in the red jerseys across the Bay. Thursday’s 2 p.m., match at Edwards Stadium will close the chapter on Pac-10 play for both squads. It will not only end conference play but also mark the culmination of those friendships that started on club teams as kids and have grown into collegiate soccer competitions. “When you are a freshman, you are playing against your friends,” Paul said about playing his Cardinal friends. “Separation, rivalry of schools and the seriousness of college soccer has made the rivalry more serious. Now, we don’t talk for weeks before the game.” Growing up in Southern California, Paul and Jimenez both played with Garrett Gunther, Dominique Yahyavi, Cameron Lamming and Ryan Thomas. The years spent together wearing the same jerseys on the same teams ended
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Anthony Avalos is one of seven seniors that will be playing their final home game of the season on Thursday against Stanford. freshman year. The pool of recruits that coaches Kevin Grimes and Bret Simon wanted to choose from must have included the same names. The former teammates were then forced to make a choice between the Bay Area rivals. In fall of 2007 players stood on a different side of the field as their friends. That first game, when the current seniors were in the nascence of their Cal careers, the Bears fell to the Card, 1-0. Despite clinching the Pac-10 that year, the loss to unranked Stanford changed where Cal was seeded. After playing UC Davis at home for the first round, the squad traveled across the country to
play Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Last year, the Bears’ high expectations in the preseason were prematurely dampened by a series of unfortunate events that came with injuries that sidelined players like goalkeeper David Bingham and midfielder Ted Jones. Heading into the final game versus Stanford of the Cal’s down season, the Bears were sitting on a six game winless streak. The rivalry, despite the records, disappointments or previous performances in the season, managed to provide enough incentive for Cal to defy the odds. Defender Jacob Wilson’s goal in
the 21st minute of play put the Bears on the scoreboard early. The lone goal went unanswered for the rest of the match, despite the pressure put on the healthy Bingham in the net, forcing five saves total. The physical battle saw a total of 32 fouls and five yellow cards between the two teams. “Every game, regardless of records or expectations, it is always going to be a huge, physical battle between the two of us,” senior co-captain A.J. Soares said. The win seemed to pull the team out of the mire of losses that ruined the Bears’ season. According to Paul, Cal returned the favor for the loss the Card
served the Bears two years previously. Although Cal was not among the 48 teams selected for the NCAA tournament, the upset surely changed the dynamics of Stanford’s seeding and kept it out of the top 16. This season’s Pac-10 opener at Laird Q. Cagan Stadium was no exception to the competitive history of the teams. A little more than 10 minutes into the contest, Stanford goalkeeper Jason Dodson got taken out of the game with an injury. He wasn’t the only one to leave the field as a fallen soldier. After 90 minutes of play, 20 fouls and changes in Cal’s lineup to accommodate Steve Birnbaum’s injury, the score read 3-0. The Bears had blanked the Card. “The 3-0 goal line doesn’t reflect how close the game was,” Soares said. “We were fortunate enough to get the goals we got, but the game was very close. It was definitely not a blow out.” Since securing that opening win against Stanford (8-9, 4-5 in the Pac-10), the Bears have rolled through their season with only two losses. While Thursday’s game brings the regular season to an end, it serves as yet another opportunity for this rivalry to drastically change each team’s season. Stanford is mired in a very disappointing, inconsistent campaign, while Cal is on the verge of clinching the Pac-10. Thursday will serve as the culmination of four years of collegiate soccer and a life’s worth of the world’s game. “When it comes to Stanford, you have to play with pride in the jersey,” says Paul. “I couldn’t think of a better way to go out. Win or lose, we are going to give it our all.” Kelly Suckow covers men’s soccer. Contact her at ksuckow@dailycal.org.
Sophomores Prepared to Fill Void, Lead Team by Jonathan Kuperberg Contributing Writer
The Cal women’s basketball team will begin the 2010-2011 season without a familiar face. Alexis Gray-Lawson, the program’s third all-time leading scorer, graduated and has moved on to the WNBA. How the Bears fill her void may very well make the difference this season. Coach Joanne Boyle notes that Cal has been able to deal with departures of star players before, but admits that this year will be different, with no proven veteran to ease into Gray-Lawson’s place. “I think in the last couple of years, we have been dominated by one or two people with points,” Boyle said at the team’s media day press conference. “Ash (Ashley Walker) and Dev (Devanei Hampton). And then it was Lexi. I think we have much more balance this year.” In other words, no one player will be able to the place of Gray-Lawson, who was the Pac10’s second leading scorer with 17.8 points per game. She was responsible for over a quarter of the Bears’ points last year.
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“It is going to be totally different. We’re a brand new team” guard Layshia Clarendon said. “We’re just trying to find our identity and see what we look like this year.” Boyle pinpointed sophomores DeNesha Stallworth and Clarendon as players who will need to pick up the scoring load. Stallworth is a logical choice. The 6-foot-3 power forward was second on the team in points (12.9) and rebounds (6.4) last season. She ended her All-Pac 10 Freshman season with a 21-point effort in the WNIT Championship Game last spring. Stallworth grew into her role as the second-option throughout the course of the season, and saw her numbers spike during the postseason. This year, though, she will be the primary option. “DeNesha needs to be the one to coordinate the post,” Boyle said. “She has to get her post group and demand it. ” When Stallworth calls for the ball in the post, Clarendon will have to be the one to get it her. After starting 28 of 37 games and splitting duties at point guard last year, the San Bernardino, Calif. native takes over the position this year. She was second on the team in assists but first in turnovers. Clarendon will need to take care of the ball for the Bears to be
successful. “(Clarendon) has to be our point guard,” Boyle said. “It’s probably going to fall more early on Layshia and she has to be willing to accept that. That means leadership and running her team and stuff like that.” Gray-Lawson did not just leave behind a heavy scoring load; she was the leader of a team of a young team that is even younger this season — a large reason for missing out on the NCAA tournament last year, and being picked fourth in preseason conference polls. There are only two seniors on the squad, and the rest are all underclassmen. One of those seniors is Rama N’diaye, who missed all of last season after undergoing a scope on her knee. The center should bring some much needed veteran leadership to the squad and, at 6-foot-5, extra height. “She dominates in the post,” Stallworth said of N’diaye, who had a double-double in the Bears’ 79-41 exhibition win over Vanguard last Thursday. “She just needs to do more for us this year. She knows that ... we need her to step up and I think she has done that and will continue to do that.” Jonathan Kuperberg covers women’s basketball. Contact him at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.
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Resilient Squad Has Bright Future Ahead After Hard-Fought Season by Catherine Nguyen Contributing Writer
It’s easy to forget that the Cal field hockey team is just one year removed from a completely overhauled lineup. 10 graduating seniors from an ideal cast of players in 2008 left in their wake a fledgling Bears squad — one that, like its predecessor, finished as runner-up to Stanford in the NorPac championship match. This fall, that same squad started to emerge from the shadow cast by Cal’s 2008 juggernaut. 16-year head coach Shellie Onstead has seen many teams throughout her
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career, both her own and those on the opposite side of the field. With such a prolific tenure, it’s no wonder that she remains unfazed by trivialities like records and national standings. Onstead was impressed by the caliber of such opponents as No. 1 North Carolina and No. 9 Wake Forest, but was more taken with her team’s mental fortitude. What Onstead believed as profound was the way her team united to overcome the shock of the death of freshman Rosa Stabler’s mother during the team’s roadtrip to North Carolina, a reality much harsher than a back-to-back set. “Resiliency is something we’ve been lacking in past years, and in terms of being able to dig deep and push past your limits,” Onstead said. “It’s one of those things that coaches can talk
about a lot, but it’s an elusive skill.” The squad recovered emotionally the day after, enough to bounce back from a 5-1 loss to the Demon Deacons and hold the Tar Heels to just one goal despite their overwhelming shot advantage. If anything, resiliency has been the theme for Onstead’s team the entire season. After the difficult weekend in North Carolina, Cal came away with the realization that it could not only hang with, but also match the level of the nation’s top teams. And the Bears (10-9, 5-1 in NorPac) were not proven wrong in the conference tournament, even though their wins over Radford and Davidson, in particular, did not come easy. The arduous 100-plus minutes against the Wildcats were just a microcosm of Cal’s season-long determination.
“I think that semifinal game where we had to dig for two overtimes and finish on strokes was enormous,” Onstead said. “That showed me ultimately the character of the team.” Although the Bears fell to Stanford again in the tournament finals, they have all the factors in place to overcome the obstacle that even the 2008 squad couldn’t hurdle. “I think resiliency be the key ingredient of top performances of being a competitive or championship-level team,” Onstead said. “I’ve always believed that whatever the level your team has as a whole, that if you have that, it’s better than if you don’t. It’s something that is pretty powerful, and I’m very happy to see that this year.” With last season’s rebuilding phase
over, the Bears can look forward to the beginning of their peak in 2011. The core that toppled then-No. 16 Stanford in the regular season will remain largely intact, apart from graduating points leader Megan Psyllos, all-conference selection Lisa Lohre and two-time Defensive Player of the Week Maddie Hand. Moreover, a squad that withstood trials on and off the field this year will be altogether more formidable next season, especially with the return of a senior and nine juniors. “I think we’re still pretty young and that we’re going to be quite good next year with some good recruits on board,” Onstead said. “I think we’re going to be a real force to be reckoned with.” Catherine Nguyen covers field hockey. Contact her at cnguyen@dailycal.org.