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UCPD Failed to Adhere to Facing Eviction Due to Financial Aid Federal Transparency Law by Katie Nelson Contributing Writer
by Tomer Ovadia Daily Cal Staff Writer
For years, UCPD has maintained a publicly available daily crime log aimed at providing the public with an accurate representation of the dangers people face and keeping the department in compliance with a stringent federal law governing university police transparency. That law — the Jeanne Clery Act — mandates the disclosure of the nature, date, time and general location of all crimes within two business days of their initial report to campus police, among other requirements. And while UCPD goes to great lengths to abide by the act, it has failed to be in full compliance by not disclosing the time crimes occurred and instead disclosing when they were reported, a violation the department has admitted to and recently addressed. The department claims the issue was due to an improperly programmed computer system that generates the logs from manually inputted data, and emphasizes that the issue was not intentional and that it was addressed after being brought to its attention by The Daily Californian. “I don’t have the details on what occurred,” said UCPD Lt. Alex Yao, a spokesperson for the department. “It was information that we already had. It just didn’t import properly into the
Daily Activity Log.” “As soon as this concern was brought to us, we corrected our data and corrected the information that we disseminate to the public under the Clery Act.” But following an Oct. 12 incident in which residents of the ChanningBowditch Apartments reported a suspicious person prowling the halls of the dormitory and offering massages under the guise of being a survey taker, the time of occurrence was not disclosed in the crime logs, in a crime alert or during an interview with Yao a week after the incident. The crime log indicated only the time of the last report of the incident, while the crime alert — which described the incident in more detail and was released Oct. 19 — stated only that it was reported “last week.” Yao did not release any additional information in the interview. When The Daily Californian brought the Clery compliance issue to the department’s attention on Oct. 20, Yao said that the Clery provision requiring that the information be released “within two business days of the initial report being made” applies from the point when incidents are deemed by the department to be crimes, not necessarily from when they occurred. Because UCPD classified the prowling incident as a crime on Oct. 19 — a
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Gina Cariveau and her family faced eviction if she could not pay rent due to delays in receiving financial aid. Cariveau is one of many student parents in this situation.
On Oct. 19, UC Berkeley senior Gina Cariveau came home around 7 p.m. to find her 18-year-old son sobbing as he was cradled by his 11-year-old ONLINE PODCAST brother on the Katie Nelson discusses couch of Carthe impact of financial iveau’s apartment in Uni- aid on student parents. versity Village in Albany. Cariveau panicked. She could not figure out why her older son was so upset. But then he gave her a piece of paper that stated they would be evicted from their apartment if Cariveau could not pay rent within 60 days. “All he kept saying was that we’re going to get thrown out and that we would have to move,” she said. “He asked if he needed to call his dad, who is deployed in the Middle East, or if he needed to quit school and help pay rent. In his mind, that was better than me having to leave school.” Cariveau is one of dozens of student parents facing possible eviction from their campus-owned homes in either the Smyth Fernwald Complex or University Village due to financial aid delays. This year, the campus financial aid office has had record delays due to glitches in its recently installed ProSAM software, implemented to expedite the aid allocation process. Though rent costs vary depending
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Opinions Vary Regarding Downtown Revitalization Plan Contract Negotiations Measure R Doesn’t Provide Derail Due to Wording, A Sufficiently Clear Plan for Potential Fees for GSIs Development of Downtown, Some Council Members Say
by Aaida Samad Contributing Writer
by Gianna Albaum Contributing Writer
Berkeley’s slow progress toward creating a new plan to revitalize Downtown inched forward yet again with the passage of Measure R last week, which outlined certain guidelines ONLINE PODCAST for the city in drafting Gianna Albaum talks a final proposal for the about how Measure R area. Berkeley voters will impact Downtown. passed Measure R with a solid majority of 64 percent on Nov. 2, approving maximum heights for five tall buildings, concentrated development near transit and Mayor Tom Bates’ “Green Pathways” program, which is intended to expedite city processes for “green” developers. Because the measure is nonbinding and leaves many elements undefined, some opponents have referred to it as a plan to have a plan. “It isn’t a plan,” Councilmember Kriss Worthington said. “The city will still need to adopt a plan.” The Berkeley City Council’s previous Downtown Area Plan — approved in 2009 — faced a 9,200 signature referendum from residents that ultimately led the council to rescind the plan in February of this year and vote to place Measure R on the November ballot last summer. Jim Novosel, member of the planning commission and a former candidate for the council, said voters’ main concern regarding the previous plan was the provision allowing buildings of up to 225 feet. Measure R allows three buildings at 180 feet and two at 120 feet. Novosel said the commission has to wait for official direction from the city — coming sometime in the next few months — to
Though there is no precise timetable for the process, Novosel said he does not expect the council to pass a final plan until at least May of next year. Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, whose district includes Downtown, said it is difficult to know how council, staff and commission discussions will develop over the next several months. “How long it’s going to take, what the process is going to be ... these things are still unclear,” Arreguin said. “Who is going to be at the table? ... We don’t know.” Arreguin and Worthington have spoken out against Measure R repeatedly over the
Contract language, rather than issues of wage increases and child care subsidies, derailed resumed negotiations between the University of California and a union representing nearly 12,000 academic student employees Tuesday afternoon, and with no further bargaining sessions scheduled, the contract between the university and the union is set to expire Monday. Officials from the UC and the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — a union representing the graduate student instructors, readers and tutors throughout the UC system — were close to reaching an agreement Tuesday, but negotiations fell apart when union officials realized that fee remittances provided for in their previous contracts and used to cover GSIs’ systemwide fees may not be covered if the UC Board of Regents approves changing the name of “educational fee” to “tuition” at their meeting Wednesday, according to Megan Wachspress, a UC Berkeley GSI and union member. Over the course of negotiations, the union bargaining team became concerned the new contract’s language would not cover fee remittances given the potential name change, Wachspress said. Without a fee remission, GSIs would end up footing the bill of more than $9,000 in educational fees, she added. The wording change — which was first proposed at the UC Commission on the Future in March — is an attempt to “improve transparency by reflecting the now longstanding use of this revenue source for the University’s basic operations,” according to the action item for the meeting. When the union brought the issue up with the UC bargaining team, the bargaining team stated that they were not authorized to make further offers and negotiations ended unilaterally with the UC walking away from the table, Wachspress added. “There’s a lot of confusion and anger right now,” she said. “To suddenly learn an element in our contract that we absolutely rely on to do our jobs is at risk is hugely upsetting.
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Downtown Berkeley revitalization is a common goal for many, but the route toward achieving progress has been debated. Measure R may provide a framework for change, but opponents call it a ‘plan to have a plan.’ combine the previous plan with the measure’s guidelines to create a final proposal to revitalize Downtown. He said he expected the process would include input from city staff and that the commission would probably hold public hearings. The commission will send the final product to the council sometime next spring, according to Novosel. Barring a referendum, whatever plan the city council passes will not have to go back to the voters. “For it to be referendumed would be very odd,” Novosel said, pointing out that Measure R had addressed the issues behind the first referendum.
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the time of reporting instead of the time it actually occurred — it is misleading and they need to fix it. But on the scale of violations — certainly to what we’ve seen — it’s pretty minor, I would say.” An example of the discrepancy is a robbery that occurred at 9:48 p.m. on Sept. 10 but was logged under Sept. 11 with the time of 4:52 p.m., which is when it was reported to UCPD. The prowler incident at the Channing-Bowditch Apartments is another example, but one that also presents a unique situation of its own. The Clery Act — enacted in 1990 in response to the 1986 sexual assault and gruesome murder of a college student amid an unpublicized wave of violent crimes on the campus — is intended to inform students of recent crimes and allow them the opportunity to defend themselves. The law’s timely warning provision reflects this intent by mandating that — in regard to only certain major crimes — publicly funded university police departments “shall make timely reports to the campus community on crimes considered to be a threat to other students and employees” and that “such reports shall be provided to
week after it had occurred — Yao said the department had until Oct. 21 to report the time of occurrence. But it did not meet even this extended interpretation of the time limit, and many other more clear-cut crimes reported on the crime logs throughout previous years also lacked times of occurrence. In response to an Oct. 21 inquiry on the matter, on Nov. 5 the department added the times of occurrence to about 936 entries of reported crimes listed in the logs for 2010 and admitted to the oversight of the federal law. Yao declined requests for an interview with UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya and members of the department’s record unit, which works to ensure Clery compliance. “Having dealt with school officials over the years, (Yao’s) response was actually pretty refreshing in that he admitted,” said Mike Hiestand, a consulting attorney at the Student Press Law Center. “You just don’t hear that very often coming from campus police. But it is a violation. The law does require what, when and where. But putting in
students and employees in a manner that is timely and that will aid in the prevention of similar occurrences.” In the prowler incident — in which the suspect would claim to be conducting a survey, offer sample massages and attempt to “inappropriately approach” several residents, according to Fernanda Roveri, an apartment assistant at the complex, and ask them “to lift up their shirt and undo their bra straps,” according to the crime alert — the public might have benefited from an announcement warning people not to accept the suspect’s advances. But the crime log released the day after the incident described it simply as a “suspicious person prowling,” and the more in-depth crime alert was issued a week after the incident. Because UCPD classified the crime as disorderly conduct, not a sexual offense, it is not governed by the timely warning provision. And although the act requires the disclosure of new information within two business days of it becoming available to the department, UCPD has used the act’s exemption for ongoing investigations to withhold further details even a month after the incident. Tomer Ovadia is the lead crime reporter. Contact him at tovadia@dailycal.org.
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There’s a lack of clarity as to what’s happening and what the university’s intentions are, given that the university has shown so little respect for our whole membership.” While union members have alleged that the language change may be used by the UC to get around its contractual obligation to provide fee remittances, UC spokesperson Steve Montiel said in an e-mail that the change was “in no way directed at reducing the fee remission that the UC provides.” “Negotiations are going well,” Montiel said in the e-mail. “The University’s labor negotiator is optimistic that the University and the UAW will resolve the negotiations soon. Pinning down the fee remission issue is a critical step that will enable the University and the UAW to return to the bargaining table in the near future and reach an agreement.” However, according to Nick Kardahji, a UC Berkeley graduate student and the union’s recording secretary, no further negotiations have been scheduled and the union’s current contract — which has been extended three times in hopes of reaching some sort of agreement — is set to expire Monday. He added that this latest grievance, along with previous ones, may push the union members to an unfair labor practices strike near the end of the semester. “The UC’s actions constitutes outrageous and unlawful behavior,” Kardahji said. “We definitely have the grounds to recommend an unfair labor practice strike to our members, and it’s an option we’re seriously considering preparing for.” Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at asamad@dailycal.org.
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ast week in my column, I challenged karma to prove its existence by plagiarizing the styles of my fellow columnists and thus provoking adverse consequences. And yet the balancing mechanism of good and bad deeds failed to respond in the way I prescribed as necessary to prove its presence. The reactions of my colleagues at the Friday columnists’ meeting in no way indicated any consequences from karma. In fact, such was the extent of the non-existence of karma that instead of being greeted with horrible repercussions, I was rewarded for my actions by Monday columnist Pauline, who gave me some of her sweet, sweet candy. Now, just as the above shows an ignorance of the fact that karma is theoretically too subtle and elusive to have terms dictated to it, so you too may have misinterpreted the previous paragraph’s last sentence. You may be flabbergasted by the rapidity and ease with which Pauline turned from composed columnist to a raunchy, overreacting lady of the midafternoon. But you’d be mistaken in this interpretation. Indeed, you’d owe Pauline an apology (as do I for potentially offending her for two weeks in a row. Sorry Pauline). Pauline’s candy actually came in the form of a Baby Ruth bar, and that was all. There wasn’t even a hint of raunch. Unless I misinterpreted the desired implications of this gift, in which case I may now be risking an awkward/violent Friday columnist meeting for the second week running by ignoring and then publicizing her advances. I apologize again if this is the case. However, you would be forgiven for your misunderstandings. Nowadays, virtually everything can be interpreted as or manipulated towards having sexual meaning — such is the state of our times. Except it’s not really: We are by no means a salient generation in terms of our inclination towards saucy innuendos, euphemisms or slang. During my brief flirtations with history of art freshman year, I was exposed to an 18th century French cartoon depicting a nude French woman stroking her feline friend. That particular duplicity of meaning, we were assured, was well known even at the time of its production. Similarly, the aforementioned term “candy” is by no means modern in its bearing of slightly sticky connotations. n 1928, a man named Mississippi John Hurt recorded a song titled “Candy Man Blues.” “How delightful,” thought I, popping on my headphones. “Surely this is a song fondly evocative of childhood memories.” However, as you may have shrewdly guessed, this tune celebrated an entirely different kind of sweetness in life. An example: “His stick candy don’t melt away / It just gets better so the ladies say.” Let me assure you this is not my only motivation for accusing it of innuendo. Other lines include: “He’ll leave a big candy stick in your hand,” “She always takes a candy stick to bed” and, last but by no means least, “a stick of candy nine
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inches long.” With songs like this, the combination of cheery, innocent sounding instrumentation and barely veiled sexuality makes me laugh: it’s a good track. However, when it comes to more contemporary candy-based songs, I find a marked difference in my reactions. An example: “Got the magic stick, I’m the love doctor / I ain’t finished teachin’ you ’bout how sprung I got ya.” here’s a key difference between this and good ’ol John Hurt. The latter sings not in the first person but instead in the third, jovially telling us about a legendary candy man who is not necessarily the singer himself. In the former song, however, 50 Cent refers to his naked self and immediate carnal environment as a veritable “Candy Shop.” This, besides being slightly weird and exposing a poor grasp of biology, is also pretty arrogant. 50 Cent clearly thinks he’s gloriously sexy. In contrast, Mr. Hurt and his song aren’t arrogant, and so I like the song, albeit in a detached sort of way. Although I’m pretty sure that my candy stick doesn’t melt away, I’m not bigheaded enough to predict that “You sure will want it for a long long time.” — it’s a penis, not a family heirloom. Thus I don’t relate to it, but I do find it funny. And yet, Mr. Cent’s tune was a No. 1 hit, people love to hear him proclaiming his sexual prowess. So what is it that I’m not getting? The answer, I think, is multilayered: 1. I am not sexy, gangsta or arrogant enough to sing along/relate to the lyrics. I do not refer to the locations of my sexual exploits as confectionery stores because they are usually not actual confectionery stores, thus it would not make sense to do so. Other, more metaphysically grounded people do not feel such restrictions. 2. I should have been around in the 1920s when things were more reserved: the fact that I prefer the song by the Mississippi man is sure-fire evidence that I would have been sexy in that decade. 3. I am thinking way too much into this. These are songs. By liking them, I am not committing myself to binding contracts or manifestos. There you go, I’ve convinced myself to tolerate sexual arrogance. But then I am about as convincing as I am incredible in the bedroom. Lollipop?
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The Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education voted to reverse just over a quarter of a million dollars in cuts Wednesday based on ONLINE PODCAST Gov. Arnold Soumya Karlamangla Schwarzeneganalyzes the school ger’s October budget, which board’s budget. awarded school districts across California an unexpected level of funding. The board members’ unanimous decision to restore cuts totaling $271,000 at this week’s board meeting comes after the state budget, passed Oct. 8, provided about $1.5 billion more to districts throughout the state — more than Schwarzenegger’s May budget revision — which translates to about $2.4 million more for the district. The May revision’s reduction in education funding spurred drastic cuts in the district’s June budget, which was approved with cuts totaling $3.16 million. Although the district should now receive over $2 million from the state — bringing the district the closest to a balanced budget than it has been in the past few years — the funding that was restored is only 8 percent of what was cut in June. District officials said they are unsure of how to respond to the funds provided by the state in its October budget because of the possibility of midyear cuts this year and in 2011.
“I’m hoping we can keep (the money),” said district Deputy Superintendent Javetta Cleveland. “But since the state borrowed cash from fiscal year 2011-12 to address the budget gap, the likelihood of a budget cut happening next year is pretty high.” The $271,000 in cuts the district restored includes $75,000 for instructional materials like textbooks and $60,000 for athletic transportation. “We did limit ourselves because we know there could be bad news coming in,” said district Superintendent Bill Huyett. In addition to the approximately $2 million increase in district general fund revenue, the state’s October budget also reversed cuts to child care that would have stripped the district’s programs of $4.5 million. The district had to pass its budget in June and the final state budget was not released until after the beginning of the school year, so the district was forced to close programs based on the May revision cuts while awaiting the passage of the final budget. In August, the district had to make a 75 percent reduction to its low-income after-school program, Berkeley’s Excellent Academic Road to Success, which is funded by the state. The program went from serving 300 to 70 students in Berkeley. Also, the district’s preschool program suffered cuts from the budget because it relies on funds from BEARS. Now that preschool and child care are again funded by the state, five
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last several months, arguing that the measure does not provide clear parameters for development or advance the planning process for the area in any meaningful way. Worthington added that the council should have remanded the creation of a Downtown plan to the city’s Planning Commission without going to the voters because Measure R delayed the planning process for months. “Having meetings, having the planning commission vote,” he said. “All of that could have been done a long time ago.” However, Councilmember Gordon Wozniak said the measure is an important step in determining the inclinations of Berkeley voters. “Now that there’s directions from the citizenry ... we’ve got to actually come up with some detailed guidelines,” he said. Moving forward, Worthington said he hopes the proposal that comes out of the commission will be an “intelligent” plan and include provisions for affordable housing, access to public transit as well as traffic issues. Though several plans regarding Downtown development have been proposed — such as the Streets and Open Space Improvement Plan — the new Downtown plan resulting from the measure will be a separate entity. However, Arreguin said the plan could potentially provide funding for some of the other proposed but unfunded projects for the area. Gianna Albaum covers city government. Contact her at galbaum@dailycal.org.
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Opinion Of students will have to pay this fee increase for the next by the 8 Proposed 45 increase the first year since their academic year, as presented by numbers ... percent UC President Mark Yudof. percent families make over $120,0000.
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With another fee hike on the table, UC students must learn from past action to present the best response.
et? Hike. With the staggering 32 percent fee increase from last year still on the minds of many students, UC President Mark Yudof ’s announcement Monday that the university is seeking an 8 percent raise next academic year probably came as an unwelcome shock. On one hand, UC administrators facing a $1 billion deficit systemwide could certainly have levied a larger fee hike similar to last year’s level. Still, the fact that increases at any rate have become an expected annual event continues to be deeply concerning. This time around, however, Yudof ’s proposal is strategically smart and progressively considerate. The fee increase is packaged with an expansion of the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan, which currently promises to cover systemwide fees for UC students whose families make below $70,000. If Yudof ’s request is approved, the plan will include families who make up to $ 8 0 , 0 0 0 . Fu r t h e r m o r e , the fee increase would be delayed one year for families making between $80,000 and $120,000. At the very least, this proposal reflects administrators’ awareness that fee increases affect different students by differing degrees that are often dictated by income. That being said, we do not want to present the university in a more positive light than it deserves for this approach, especially in regard to extensions of financial aid. The Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan relies on federal and state financial aid programs in addition to university funds. Additionally, many students who qualify for this guarantee often rely on loans for the increasing costs of living, textbooks and food. We also realize that we have been significantly desensitized by fee increases since the previously unthinkable 32 percent hike was implemented last year. It is critical to note that if Yudof ’s proposal to increase student fees by 8 percent had been presented two years ago, it would have appeared much less acceptable by both ourselves and by the university community as a whole.
This desensitization highlights a conceptual issue we take with this latest proposed fee hike. If this one is also approved, there is no guarantee it will resolve systemic issues or even prevent other increases in the near future. Looking at recent university history as an undeniable indication, we have no guarantee that this ongoing fee incline will ever end for UC students and their families. Last year we were shocked when fees were pushed to break the $10,000 mark annually. Just a year later, we are well past that point now: if Yudof ’s plan goes through the grand total for UC fees will be $11,124 systemwide. Sure, targeted middle income families have a year to prepare for the additional 8 percent that could be asked of them. Yet this proposal does not take anything else off of the table — midyear fee increases could still be a possibility in this ongoing fiscal crisis. This grim reality leaves us as students with the same question we have been battling for the last several semesters: What really can be done? Just as the university seems to be learning to better implement fee raises, the campus community should take the most successful parts of its past protests. A cohesive and constructive response to the latest episode in this ongoing issue must be developed to present a thoughtful and persuasive message to California’s voters. We do not discourage protests. We absolutely agree that university officials should be accountable for their actions and realize the repercussions of their policies. Yet students systemwide should realize what we have emphasized before: The more vocal and convincing we are as a whole, the more aware the people will be of the issue. The voters we can reach have the power to elect people who can make this essential goal a non-negotiable priority. The cycle of action and reaction continues in the fee increase saga. At the end of the day, California must place more value in higher education to have an able and ready workforce for the future. Let us go forth with a compelling message that conveys why we are absolutely worth that investment.
...we have no guarantee that this ongoing fee incline will ever end for UC students and their families.
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Conduct Cases Waste Resources The Student Conduct Process Is a Broken System Marked by a Poor Record of Consistent Failure by Nathan Shaffer In the spring of 1999, students took over Barrows Hall to protest the campus’s planned cuts to the Ethnic Studies Department. The students did not cooperate with police and some of them became “violent,” according to the Office of Student Conduct. The resulting criminal and student conduct charges led to UC Berkeley students taking over a state courthouse, further criminal charges and a recommendation of no sanction from a campus hearing panel. In spring 2002, close to 80 students occupied Wheeler Hall to raise awareness about Palestine. One student was accused of biting a cop, the campus sought to suspend several,
and after nearly a year of student conduct proceedings, all students settled out with no suspensions. In the fall of 2009, nearly 60 students were allegedly involved in a series of political actions against fee hikes and budget cuts on the UC Berkeley campus. The campus sought to suspend many, and threatened them all with formal hearings where expulsion could result. Nearly a year later these cases are still unresolved, and the only completed hearing has resulted in a slap on the wrist and some community service for the student. No one has been suspended. In each of these events, which were political in nature, the campus came out swinging, wasted tens of thousands of dollars from already tight budgets, branded peaceful stu-
Together, these political cases stand for waste and incompetence.
dents as violent and cop-biters and came up with exactly nothing to show for it. Together, these political cases stand for waste and incompetence. You might think that the system is fine, and it gets gummed up when it deals with cause-based trouble makers, that political students had it coming. But if you think that, you are wrong. This waste and incompetence is not limited to political cases; instead these are defining characteristics of a process that cannot keep students safe, cannot settle the easiest of disputes and yet runs wild with students’ futures and a significant share of your campus fees. Consider this scenario. A professor accuses you of cheating on a hunch. You didn’t do anything wrong, but the professor isn’t convinced. Since you won’t agree to an F on your assignment, it gets referred to student conduct. Even though the professor has no evidence to support the accusation, you get to choose between admitting guilt or putting your fate into the hands of five strangers at a hearing
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Police Overreaction to Protest Is Typical Protest Was Largely a Peaceful Demonstration by Joseph Anderson I was “swept up” in the mass arrests in Oakland at the “end” of the Justice for Oscar Grant march on Nov. 5. It’s amazing how highly edited, rearranged video, with reporters giving a very propolice version can make TV viewers think they are seeing something that they aren’t, contextually. As in George Orwell’s “1984.” the lie becomes the “truth,” and the truth — if a major march (especially if there’s “violence”) is televised at all — becomes the “lie.” Right-wing TV in Venezuela made it look like Chavez supporters were shooting at Chavez opponents; Israeli media made it look like the Gaza flotilla attacked Israeli commandos; instead of what really happened: actually, the opposite! When riot cops indiscriminately storm and club people trying to protect themselves, TV makes it look like it's the protesters who are violent, “resisting arrest,” “assaulting an officer” — those pro forma police charges! Many TV stations described marchers pushing down a chain-link fence as an example of “widespread violence.” In reality, what happened was overwhelmingly peaceful but included frightened marchers trying to escape from pha-
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lanxes of very aggressive, paramilitarized cops in full riot gear who tried to entrap them. These cops seemed about to assault innocent marchers, bystanders and, later, even neighborhood people. I saw young black females peacefully sitting in their own neighborhood trapped and led off in handcuffs by big riot cops, who arrested us all for “failure to disperse” when we weren’t even allowed to leave! I saw one small woman roughly picked up, slammed to the ground and handcuffed. All this in spite of a black mayor, Ron Dellums (who is often missing in action). Like Oscar Grant, none of us were armed, none of us were resisting and, overwhelmingly, none of us were violent. At least two reporters at the mass arrest reported no rocks thrown at police and no “widespread” violence – except, much earlier, a few broken windows. Such minor incidents should have been easy for up to a thousand riot cops to control. Instead, the cops played the public relations game — proclaiming 152 arrests — enclosing and mass arresting obviously nonviolent protesters (the easiest ones to catch). I’ve also seen, defying any common sense, riot cops purposely antagonize protesters. This would anger me if I were an Oakland business owner. TV news propagated “rumors” (gee, I
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wonder by whom?) of “a marcher who pulled a gun from the holster of a riot cop and pointed it at the cop.” It would seem to defy common sense, since the rumor is all we heard! Let’s see you get close enough, long enough, especially if you’re black, to a phalanx of itchy-to-strike, riot cops, to then successfully reach out for and wrest a gun from his holster, and then even point it at the cop – and live to tell the story! Instead, you’d be gunned down along with any nearby marchers in a hail of other cops’ bullets or viciously clubbed worse than Rodney King! A cop killed Oscar Grant, as Oscar merely tried to catch his breath, while torturously pinned face down! Cops kill, in a hail of bullets, black men for merely standing in their doorway (Amado Diallo) or for merely sitting in their car (Sean Bell)! The police portray themselves as concerned with protecting Oakland's small businesses. But, after a previous Oscar Grant march, cops in full riot gear, also far outnumbering the remaining “protesters,” stood down and just watched as they let the downtown Foot Locker be sacrificed — practically waving looters into the store. Oakland Police Department did this for sheer self-serving manipulation. As citywide budget cuts fell on the department too, it could show TV viewers, “See, this is why you need us cops!”
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Veterans Need More Than Just One Day of Respect and Support to Ease Their Struggles by Ryan Berg We have come a long way since 1954 when Armistice Day was officially renamed to Veterans Day. This change, of course, symbolized our country’s dedication in honoring not only the men and women who served in WWI, but those who were currently serving in WWII, with the likelihood that there would be more veterans to come. And come they have. Today they return in the thousands after multiple tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world. And even though they are much fewer in number, and causalities pale in comparison, there is something to be said of Veterans Day today, and the tradition of welcoming
our troops home. It’s true the warriors of America’s past wars showed us what it meant to fight and die for our country. Yet they didn’t show us how to deal with multiple deployments in the face of endless terrorism. They didn’t show us how to dig our way out of not having a strong local community of veterans, and I won’t mention the cowardness of our enemy who make falling asleep at night seem like playing a game of peek-a-boo with Osama Bin Laden. My point is we’re on edge. We’re worried about those still fighting; we’re trying to find ourselves and other vets; and we’re seeking the care and treatment we need without feeling like it’s a threat to our warrior ethos. We often hear today by many that every day is Veterans Day. Is it? If it were, surely 18 of us wouldn’t be killing ourselves every day, 10,000 of us wouldn’t be calling for help every month, and certainly the Secretary of the VA’s answer in preventing such tragedy wouldn’t beg the question by insisting on the challenge of it all. Veterans Day, traditionally, has
meant that we remember those who Today’s Veterans Day calls on us, served, celebrate the lives of those like the lonesome shoe salesman who survived and teach our children Alfred King did in 1953 as he urged how to live under the freedoms they the country to honor the tens of thouhave granted. sands of returning servicemen Today, however, rememAmerica’s current crisis We took the from brance for them is not only in WWII. tied to their valor on the fight overseas The current rate of suicides battlefield, but chosen and the rising number of and have extreme cases of PTSD are methods in their bedrooms. We’re losing veterans at an assumed the today’s equivalent of those alarming rate right here in thousands of vets, and the sands and demand that we reconsider a our communities, and while we look to connect way to pay tribute to mountains are better their deaths to combat with them is just as necessary. where it stays, This doesn’t mean giving us slogans like, “the war comes home” and the day or simply renaming neglecting ... ait,new “invisible wounds of war,” rather: The mission of comdefenses against such the veterans ... ing home demands that we be attacks, namely being other veterans, not in coming home. with around other veterans, merely “coping” with ourselves aren’t around to help. and the world we live in, but in We’re distracted, nearly dumbgaining new perspective. To learn the founded by just how close the wars language of the new mission we’re on, have come to aggravate our peaceful together. society. We took the fight overseas With it, we have a better opportuand have assumed the sands and nity to pierce through the crisis that mountains are where it stays, neglecthas become the IED of coming home. ing strategies for the veterans’ new The kind of improvisation that, if not mission in coming home. handled thoughtfully, can be no less
explosive than the kind that took our friends in combat. If you want to honor, pay tribute and celebrate veterans today, we must focus on helping them build local veteran communities, in addition to beefing up VA care and resources. We need this opportunity to make friendships with those who know us, seek advice from those who can help us and observe the leadership of those who came home before us. My battalion commander would always say before heading out on patrol: “Nothing is what it is until it is proven to be what it is, it is only what it appears to be.” While Veterans Day presently appears to be a day that we honor and remember our returning heroes, until suicides decrease and the resources are given to help us build lasting veteran communities across the United States, we’re celebrating something else, other than a Veterans Day. Ryan Berg is a UC Berkeley student and a veteran. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org
GRANT: The Typical Media Narrative Only Ignores What Really Happened CONDUCT: The University Should Stop the Waste from Page 4
And, “See, this isn’t really about Oscar Grant: it's just about Negroes wanting stolen athletic shoes.” You can bet that the cops wouldn't have stood down and let nearby Wells Fargo Bank be broken into, because that would have been a message by protesters that TV viewers could relate to about the institutions that have looted all of the U.S.! Unfortunately, most middle-classand-above, and especially older people fall for this TV manipulation. TV news can always find one of these types to verbally set up on camera, who then say how scared they were for themselves or their businesses. Such people have probably never participated in a political march where they would see how the police often behave. They watch TV and believe that, since they are watching the (rearranged) video, they must be seeing
“what happened!” But, the police say that they don’t want to be all judged by the supposedly “few bad apples”; yet, the cops and the media always judge all the protesters by the relative few! It’s all part of the media narrative that’s spooled out to us each day to keep us fearful (especially of U.S.-provoked foreign “boogeymen”), racially divided, docile and accepting whatever the state and the police do — even literally blocking people seeking social and global justice. It’s the same media that harps about protesters not from Oakland. Yet, Oakland cops often reside in the outer reaches of suburban counties with riot cops even from Modesto — lapping up much overtime! — rarely live in black neighborhoods. Well, police atrocities should anger everyone! Why weren’t all the cops at the Fruitvale BART arrested as accomplices to, ahem, “involuntary manslaughter”
— or conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice in their attempted cover-up (they even attempted to confiscate people’s cell phones)? Oakland civic groups condemned the latest police actions; while, sadly, even the Daily Cal called the march “a mob” and “a riot!” But, if we aren’t allowed an overwhelmingly nonviolent protest, then what else is left to do? It’s crucial to give support to the true protesters, and to those very few reporters who do honest reporting. One journalist is the highly respected Davey D, of Oakland, who has posted excellent articles at daveyd.com about the protests. And please read online, “Cops Arrest 152 Justice for Oscar Grant Protesters,” for a neighborhood woman’s chilling account. Joseph Anderson is a Berkeley resident and author of Karmic Justice. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.
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who were hand-picked by the conduct office with a mind toward getting “convictions.” Now you might fail your course and get a mark on your record because you maintained your innocence. You might think that this kind of case is uncommon, and you might think that people generally avoid making false accusations. But you really have no basis for this assumption, do you? The sad, real fact is that the same incompetent and self-important staff that cannot handle the political cases will be assigned to yours. There’s one difference between the individual and the group cases: no one will ever hear about how the campus destroyed your year or your life. You will just have to suck it up and take it. Or, if your parents can
afford it, you can sue, which will probably get you off the hook. The question you should be asking is why they waste the money, why they waste the time and why they waste student life to get absolutely nothing to show for it? There is no answer to this question. The Office of Student Conduct is currently hijacked by ideologues who think that the campus is supposed to take the place of your parent, and that basic rights and protections are just as unnecessary here as they are unnecessary when in your living room. I say that until the campus can show that this does anything of value, they might as well save our money, and stop wasting our time. Nathan Shaffer is a student at UC Berkeley School of Law. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.
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on where student parents live — a $980 minimum at Smyth Fernwald or a $1,254 minimum at University Village — most rely heavily on aid to help pay rent each month. Eviction notices, at an all-time high compared to previous years, range from five-day notifications to 30- or 60-day notifications. California Civil Code section 1946.1 states that landlords — in this case the university — are allowed to hand out eviction notices to tenants if they do not pay rent on time. But with current programming issues in the financial aid office, students are not receiving their aid in time to pay for student fees or rent. As a result, they feel eviction notices are premature or unwarranted because the office has not been able to properly allocate aid packages. Alice Jordan, coordinator of student parent programs and services at the Transfer, Re-entry, and Student Parent Center, sent a letter to Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs for Residential and Student Service Programs LeNorman Strong in early October asking for a moratorium on all eviction notices until the financial aid office is able to process aid packages, including appeal forms, for student parents. “I don’t think it occurred to anyone that this could drag out into November,” she said. “Now, because student parents are not able to afford university housing, there has been a growing trend for the housing office to rent spaces in (University Village) to faculty, staff, visiting scholars, etc. Basically anyone who can pay rent or has some affiliation to the university. Those who can pay are put there, not necessarily the student parents who actually need it.” Strong, who is responsible for signing off on eviction notices, said it is “critical” that student parents voice their concerns to bridge an information gap between housing and financial aid. According to Assistant Vice
Chancellor and Director of Financial Aid Cheryl Resh, Cal Housing and the financial aid office are collaborating to try to address students’ concerns about financial aid authorizations and housing issues. “Students should know that the delay is not their fault,” Strong said. “The last thing we want to do is add additional stress to lives of students.” Though groups such as the ASUC Renter’s Legal Assistance could be of use to students for issues such as rent disputes, Jordan said student parents cannot utilize the organization because it does not have any jurisdiction over university housing, despite the fact that rent money from student parents goes directly back to the campus. According to senior Melissa Barker, an intern for the association as well as a student parent who lives at Smyth Fernwald, the association can only help students if their housing is not part of the university system. The university oversees its own renters’ policy for university housing, whether they are on or off-campus. Per university rules, student parent housing is considered off-campus and, rather than having money be directly withdrawn from their financial aid to pay for rent — as it is for students who live in the dorms — the monthly payment is processed through the student parents’ CARS accounts, making it a “renter-to-landlord” payment process. “With financial aid holdups, packages aren’t being processed and budget appeals are just sitting there and student bills are rising,” Barker said. “Student parents are having to rent out rooms for $200 to $300 a month just to survive. It’s technically illegal to do that, or so it says in the contract, but what else can they do? It’s like a direct marginalization of a specific group of students.” Katie Nelson is the lead academics and administration reporter. Contact her at knelson@dailycal.org.
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any approved changes next fall, said Neil Satterlund, a Graduate Assembly representative to the task force. However, some task force members expressed concerns about the impact and viability of the group’s deliberations. “One of the biggest problems is that we get people to the table, but some people who will be involved in the implementation aren’t involved in the conversation,” Shah said. “Once it comes to final recommendations, those above the conversation who have not been involved in the process — or at least in the past — have prevented them from being implemented.” Satterlund, who is also involved in the Campus Rights Project defending students charged with conduct violations for their involvement in last year’s protests, said the meeting Monday lacked “anything of real substance,”
and the task force should focus on the ongoing rights violations. “I do believe that there are people on the task force who, at the bare minimum, have a possibility for ... providing due process of rights to students with conduct charges,” said Callie Maidhof, a doctoral candidate who faces conduct charges for her involvement in a Nov. 18 demonstration. “No one has respect for the student conduct code.” The group will meet two more times this semester on Nov. 29 and Dec. 6, hoping to make progress in “achieving our goals” and organizing more student participation, Jacobsen said. “To do a good job, you want to get as many concerns on the table as you can,” he said. “And you won’t solve them all.” Contact Yousur Alhlou at yalhlou@dailycal.org.
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campuses at the end of June and again in October. Campuses were encouraged to give feedback and report to the UCOP by Wednesday. In response, the Student Advocate’s Office sent a letter expressing disagreement on Wednesday. Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein, a co-author of the bill, said one of his main concerns was that the proposed changes do not directly address hate crimes. “My concern is that (the office) is effectively expanding the jurisdiction of the code in ways that will infringe on students’ rights in a guise of claiming to address hate crimes,” he said.
CalSERVE Senator Stefan Montouth said the original language of the bill seemed to dismiss the possibility of addressing hate crimes rather than focusing on changing the language of the proposals and that the amendments made at Wednesday’s meeting better reflected these concerns. “The changes that we made had specific language added saying that we wanted the officials to continue to make policies and take other avenues to addressing hate crimes,” he said. UC President Mark Yudof will make the final decision on whether to amend the policy changes after reviewing feedback from all UC campuses. Student Action Senator Joey Free-
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man, a co-sponsor of the bill, said in an e-mail he hopes the office will consider the “unique climate” of each campus. “I am hoping that this bill sends a strong message to UCOP that we take hate crimes very seriously and that any new policy to address these despicable acts needs to ... reach out to all affected parties and include real teeth in terms of enforcement,” he said in the e-mail. At Wednesday’s meeting, Dean of Students Jonathan Poullard said policy changes may not affect the amount of hate crimes that occur systemwide. “You can change a policy all you want to — it may not be able to change the socialcultural ethos of a campus behavior,” he said at the meeting. Contact Victoria Pardini at vpardini@dailycal.org.
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Described as an avid indie rock lover, an active sorority member and an unfaltering friend, UC Berkeley junior Jenna Bockmiller died after a six-year battle with melanoma on Saturday. She was 20 years old. Friends said Bockmiller, a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority and intended psychology major, pursued her interests, including her devotion to music, despite the significant burden of frequent doctors’ appointments and treatments for her illness. “She had the best taste in music,” said Delta Delta Delta President Joyce Chang. “She was the one who introduced me to Coachella. That says a lot.” According to UCLA junior Piper Akol, Bockmiller taught herself to play guitar and piano and would spend time helping with her brother’s band as well as attending and working at concerts. She said Bockmiller got to meet the Strokes — one of her favorite bands — through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Akol, one of Bockmiller’s best friends since middle school, said Bockmiller did not allow her illness to control her life and was able to complete all requirements in time to graduate with her high school class despite the time constraints associated with being a melanoma patient. “She was very resilient,” Akol said. “She was not dealt a great hand in life. Most people don’t have to deal with this ... But she didn’t complain. She was honest, enthusiastic, funny, everything a girl could want in a best friend.” Friends said Bockmiller demonstrated her dependability and enthusiasm through her participation in her sorority.
“Even if she was tired and wasn’t feeling that well, if she had committed to helping out at an event or something, she was there and she helped,” Chang said. Bockmiller’s battle with cancer began when she was diagnosed at age 14, toward the end of eighth grade. Radiation treatments damaged her spinal cord, making walking difficult and running impossible, impacting her love for athletics like track and field. She was in remission for about four years before relapsing her freshman year at UC Berkeley. “I felt like she was wiser about everything, about life in general, because of her experiences,” said UC Berkeley junior Eileen Libove. “Jenna never let petty things upset her.” In 2008, Bockmiller received a Courage Award from the Melanoma Research Foundation. Melanoma survivor Suzanne Lescure, who met Bockmiller through the foundation, said Bockmiller’s mother was extremely involved with the foundation and dedicated to helping her daughter overcome the cancer. On a personal online fundraising page that encourages donations for the Melanoma Research Foundation, Bockmiller wrote earlier this year about how her illness changed how she perceived her life. “I have an appreciation for life that many other people my age don’t,” Bockmiller wrote. “I look at every day as a blessing and the things that I do, no matter if it’s something I want to do or not, is something I get to do, and am therefore grateful.” Bockmiller’s memorial service will be held on Nov. 13 at Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church at 11 a.m. Contact Jeffrey Butterfield at jbutterfield@dailycal.org.
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Conduct Revision Task Force Discusses Policy Modifications by Yousur Alhlou Contributing Writer
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Laura Zelko (left) may receive sanctions including community service and disciplinary probation for her involvement in two protests.
UC Berkeley Junior’s Conduct Hearing Ends by Sarah Mohamed Contributing Writer
Tuesday evening marked the final night of student conduct hearings for UC Berkeley junior Laura Zelko — charged for her involvement in campus protests almost a year ago — but the process is not quite over as Zelko awaits a final decision from the Office of the Dean of Students. During the approximately five-hour public hearing, Zelko was found responsible for three out of the five charges for a Nov. 18 demonstration and all five charges for the Nov. 20 occupation of Wheeler Hall. The hearing panel recommended sanctions that include 80 hours of community service as well as disciplinary probation in effect until the start of next fall, meaning if Zelko is alleged to have violated the Code of Student Conduct again, her sanctions will be enhanced. A designee of the Office of the Dean of Students will have the final say on what sanctions to issue. Neil Satterlund, a member of the Campus Rights Project which has been advising students throughout the conduct hearing
process, said because the designee will have the final say, the hearing panel’s recommendations are “meaningless.” When the hearing panel for the first student to be sanctioned this semester delivered their recommendations, these recommendations were changed by designee Steven Sutton. Zelko said she is worried that she will receive harsher punishment from the Office of the Dean of Students. “We became aware of the Dean of Students’ opinion; he not only disapproved, but was especially upset (at the actions of the protesters) and was seeking high punishments for us,” she said. “There’s no reason to believe my sanction is safe.” Zelko’s hearing has also attracted concern and attention within and outside of the campus community. Judith Butler, a campus professor of rhetoric and comparative literature, spoke at the hearing about students’ rights to peacefully protest. In April, Butler co-authored a letter that collected the signatures of about 150 campus faculty and staff criticizing the conduct procedures.
The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter Tuesday urging fairness in Zelko’s disciplinary hearing. Zelko said she plans to spend her community service time working for the Berkeley Free Clinic in an outreach program at People’s Park — a program she said she would have participated in regardless. She added that she is extremely disappointed about one charge in particular — threatening the health and safety of any person — for which she was found responsible in the Nov. 20 case. Zelko, who is currently training to be an HIV test counselor for the Berkeley Free Clinic and hopes to be a nurse someday, said she is terrified that this charge may be on her record. For that reason, Zelko said she may choose to appeal at the end of the process. Associate Dean of Students Christina Gonzales said a final decision on Zelko’s sanctions is expected to be released in 20 days. Contact Sarah Mohamed at smohamed@dailycal.org.
About one month after a formal charge for the creation of a committee to oversee revisions to the hotly debated UC Berkeley Code of Student Conduct, the Conduct Revision Task Force met for the first time Monday to outline their procedures, though some members expressed concerns about the true impact their work will have. Organized by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer in an effort to modify what many campus activists are calling controversial and incoherent policies, the task force — composed of 19 administrators, faculty and students — will evaluate whether current policies are “fair,” “consistent” and “timely,” Breslauer said in an Oct. 18 letter to task force members.
“We’ve been told not to think about throwing the whole code away — we’ve been told to narrow ourselves to key solutions,” said Samar Shah, the Student Advocate’s Office chief of staff and a member of the task force. “So we’re working within that construct.” Bob Jacobsen, vice chair of the campus division of the Academic Senate and co-chair of the task force, said the group will be divided into two subcommittees. Each committee will analyze and modify three of the six aspects of the code put forth by Breslauer, including amendment of code timelines, decision rights and representation of students as well as communication between students and the campus Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards. Come spring, the task force will submit their recommendations to Breslauer, who is expected to implement
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ASUC Bill Criticizes Proposed Revisions to Code of Conduct by Victoria Pardini Contributing Writer
The ASUC Senate unanimously passed a bill Wednesday night that urges the UC Office of the President to reconsider its proposed ONLINE PODCAST policy changes Victoria Pardini talks to the Code of Student Con- about the proposed duct, claiming changes and the bill. that language used in the proposed revisions is too harsh and could infringe upon students’ rights. One proposed change questioned in the bill would add a clause that vaguely defines additional prohibited actions,
which ASUC officials said was unnecessary and redundant, while the other proposed change would make students convicted under state and federal criminal law subject to further discipline under the code of conduct. The changes are part of a “multipronged” mission in response to systemwide hate crimes over the course of the last academic year, according to Eric Heng, policy and program analyst for the UCOP’s Department of Student Affairs. Student Advocate Kelly Fabian, a co-author of the bill who was formerly employed by The Daily Californian, said instead of adopting policies, the office should focus on facilitating discussions. The proposals were sent to all UC
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Bears to Begin Life Without cross country Gray-Lawson in Home Opener At-Large Bids on Line at NCAA West Regional by Jonathan Kuperberg Contributing Writer
Tonight marks the first game of the post-Alexis Gray-Lawson era for the Cal women’s basketball team. The 7 p.m., tilt Cal against Rutgers Women’s at Haas Pavilion Hoops could also be the first in power for- TIPOFF: ward DeNesha Stallworth’s reign Cal takes as the face of the on Rutgers vs program. tonight at “Me and coach 7 p.m. at had a meeting be- Haas Pavilion in its fore,” Stallworth home opener. said. “She said she TV/Radio: CSN wants me to step up and be a leader California/KKGN and be that go-to 960 AM player, so that’s what I’m trying to focus on, just leading my team and do the best I can.” Stallworth is excited to finally take the court against a team other than her own. The Richmond, Calif., native worked hard during the offseason to improve upon her All-Pac-10 freshman campaign. She focused on a number of things, such as her jump shot, but her main goal was to enhance her conditioning. “Last year I felt like if I was in better shape that our offense would’ve went faster, we would’ve had more open looks,” said Stallworth, the squad’s top returning scorer at 12.9 points per game. “And just watching film on myself, I’ve noticed when I sprint and I get open position, it’s easier for me to score, without having to do set plays and stuff like that.” Getting the ball to Stallworth and the other front court players — Talia Caldwell and Rama N’diaye —will be a point of emphasis against a Scarlet Knights squad that has no players taller than 6-foot-2. But what Rutgers lacks in height, it makes up for in strength.
“They’re strong and physical,” Stallworth said. “So the speed is going to of course kind of hurt us since they’re quick. We just have to be able to move our feet.” Nonetheless, Cal’s ball-handlers will still look to the post; that is, if the Bears can get the ball past half court. Rutgers has been known to employ a full-court press, which could cause problems for Cal’s backcourt, considering that is young and often turnoverprone. Yet the recipe for beating the press, according to Stallworth, is simple. “We just have to make sure to be patient, make good decisions, good passes, flash when we need to,” she said. “And just we have to trust in each other. “We just have to play smart ... because that’s gonna be our key: our turnovers.” Cal will also have to be extra alert on defense too, since the Scarlet Knights’ offense utilizes backdoor plays. The Big-East squad returns junior guard Khadijah Rushdan, who averaged nine points a game last season, but lost leading scorer Brittany Ray to gradation. The duo helped to power Rutgers to an NCAA Tournament berth last season. With no seniors on the roster, the Scarlet Knights are a relatively young and inexperienced team, much like the Bears. Ten of Cal’s 12 players are underclassmen, so having their first game at home should ease the jitters some. They also hope to energize the crowd. “Fan-base-wise, if we get a big crowd now and then we do good, maybe they’ll come to more games,” Stallworth said. “It’s important to see where we’re at. This could really help our chemistry. And it could help in the future, because we’ll know what we’re capable of doing.” And the fans will know what Stallworth is capable of. Jonathan Kuperberg covers women’s hoops. Contact him at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.
by Samuel Farahmand Contributing Writer
Inviting some of the highest ranked programs in the nation, the NCAA West Regional has proven to be a cruel but permitting mistress for the Cal cross country team. More than anything else, the sporting event is a story about qualifying for the championships, as the cruelest of mistresses always are, but the Bears have been very successful in recent seasons. The No. 22 Cal men are looking for their third NCAA berth in the past four years, while the 26th-ranked women are looking to justify their current ranking and earn their first ever invitation to the fast-approaching NCAA Championships. If both the men and women’s teams earn bids to the championships, it would be the first time in school history. As for tomorrow’s race, held at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield, Ore., the level of competition
wang from back in the 2008 Holiday Bowl. Similarly, there’s very little about the offense that’s original. These are plays that have been run by spread teams for years. Shotgun formations aren’t exactly rare in college football; after all, it’s one of the main knocks on quarterbacks trying to transition to the NFL. It’s the dizzying speed that makes it a game-changer. This is the no-huddle spread after chugging a can of Four Loko — then spitting it out in the face of time of possession. A touch of brute strength doesn’t hurt either. A burly offensive line has paved gaping avenues for LaMichael James, who boasts enough muscle to bowl through Owen Marecic. You may have read this elsewhere but the stat is so absurd, it bears
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repeating: 29 of 58 touchdowns have come in five plays or fewer. Then again, so many of their stats are. Over 567 yards per game. An offense that runs plays 35 percent faster than normal teams. Almost one point per minute. The scariest one? Five of their six leaders in all-purpose yards are either sophomores or freshmen. I’m near the back of the line of those who fawn over Oregon. Jon Gruden, who won Super Bowl XXXVII as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, almost took a gig as an offensive coordinator just for the opportunity to learn it. (His wife was relieved he didn’t.) So when the Cal defense starts to look helpless against the Ducks — and at some point in the game, it will — don’t despair. Just try and soak in the chance to watch the No. 1 team in the
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country. It’s good for the Pac-10. For all of commissioner Larry Scott’s slick efforts to revamp the conference’s image, it is winning that’s finally stealing some of the shine from the SEC — where I’m told the best football ever is played. And with the way Auburn seems to be on the verge of implosion, you’ll be watching a team that should be the first to break the South’s stranglehold on the national title. When both the FBI and TMZ are breathing down your neck because of what your star quarterback may or may not have done, it hasn’t been a good week. So for one day, don’t worry about your midterms or papers. (You’re probably doing better than Cam Newton.) Just sit back and enjoy. Fawn over Oregon’s offense with Jack at sports@dailycal.org.
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No. 6 USC snapped the Cal volleyball teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home-winning streak last Friday in a 3-1 decision. Tonight at 7 p.m., the No. 4 Bears (21-2, 11-2 in the Pac-10) will look to spoil No. 11 Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bid at perfection at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Wash. The Huskies (18-5) have capitalized on home-court advantage throughout the season, notching big wins against the Trojans in five and No. 10 UCLA in three in the first weekend of October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They always have a good crowd,â&#x20AC;? sophomore libero Robin Rostratter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good match just based on good competition, let alone they always have a lot of fans.â&#x20AC;? Coming away with a win in a hostile gym is all about focus, according to middle hitter Kat Brown. In her freshman campaign, Brown tied her season-high in blocks, with eight, in Calâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five-set upset at Washington last season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were just really focused,â&#x20AC;? Brown said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to do that in the tough environment there.â&#x20AC;? Though projected to finish second in the conference, Washington finds itself in fourth place due to its inability to win on the road, having only beaten bottom-feeders Washington State and Oregon State outside of Seattle. The Bears are currently tied with No. 2 Stanford at the top of the standings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very good; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just struggled with the top teams in the conference, which is a good thing for 5 teams us because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re one of the#top in the conference,â&#x20AC;? coach Rich Feller
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Understandably, Cal football coach Jeff Tedford had nothing but nice things to say about No. 1 OrONLINE PODCAST egon’s offense The Daily Cal football this week. “They just writers preview the tilt have so many against No. 1 Oregon. weapons,” Tedford said. “They make huge plays in the run game ... “I have great respect for (Jeremiah) Masoli — Masoli was a tough, hard runner — but (quarterback Darron) Thomas I think even brings more to that offense because he’s so elusive and so fast in the open field.” One state north, Ducks coach Chip Kelly wasn’t quite as impressed with the Bears’ signal caller, Brock Mansion. “For the first time starting a college football game, I thought he did a decent job,” Kelly said. At 4:30 p.m., at Memorial Stadium this Saturday, Mansion and the Bears will have a chance to show Kelly that they’re capable of something better than just decent. But, at least on paper, that seems like it could be a nearly insurmountable task. Undefeated Oregon’s 54.7 points per game ranks first in the conference and first in the nation. Their quickstrike, no-huddle offense, helmed by Thomas and kept rolling by running back LaMichael James, averages 567.2 total yards per game. They haven’t been held under 40 points yet this season. They’ve scored often, and they’ve scored quickly. Twenty-nine of their 58 touchdown drives have taken five plays or fewer to complete. They’re outscoring the competition 87-7 in the fourth quarter alone. Which begs the question: Can Cal, or anyone, stop them? “We’re going to find out,” Tedford said. “The thing is, they average over
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Junior wide receiver Marvin Jones leads the team with 75 yards receiving per game. Jones has also reeled in three touchdown grabs. 50 points a game. That would be a huge feat for us to do that. I think we need to keep the score low and keep the game close to be there to win the game.” The Bears (5-4, 3-3 in the Pac-10) have statistically the best defense in the Pac-10 and they haven’t given up more than 17 points at home all season. But the offense that gave them the most trouble was Nevada’s pistol. And if they thought the Wolf Pack had athletic options, they ain’t seen nothing yet. Thomas can pass and run; he has 22 touchdown passes to six picks and averages 44.4 yards rushing per game. Seven players are averaging double-digit receiving yards, the most prominent being wide receiver Jeff Maehl. In the backfield, James already has
1,331 yards on the ground this season. The Heisman candidate is 420 yards away from become the program’s all-time leading rusher. He’s a sophomore. “I’m not sure if you can really slow them down,” senior linebacker Mike Mohamed said. “They really pride themselves on fast tempo. But what we can try to do is try to hang with them.” That task also falls on Cal’s offense and much of that depends on how Mansion plays in just his second career start. Last week in the Bears’ 20-13 win against Washington State, Mansion went 14-of-24 for 171 yards. He’ll have to do a lot better if Cal hopes to keep pace with the Ducks (9-0, 6-0). Mansion, for one, seems confident he can. “There’s nothing daunting about it
at all. It’s a great opportunity,” Mansion said. “Everybody on this team is excited. We haven’t come out and practiced with this much enthusiasm since probably the first week of fall camp, so I was really excited.” The odds are not in their favor — quite literally. Las Vegas has Cal as the 20-point underdog going into the contest which, some might say, is a generous margin of defeat. The Bears have played a No. 1-ranked team 11 times in their history. They’ve never won. “We’re the only team playing the number one team in the country this week,” Mohamed said. “This is basically our BCS game. It’s going to be awesome to just go out there and play them.” Katie Dowd covers football. Contact her at sports@dailycal.org.
f you have tickets to tomorrow’s game against Oregon, consider yourself lucky; you’re in for a show. To prepare yourself, look down at its sideline tomorrow. Here are a few things you’ll probably see. Chip Kelly. Gatorade coolers. Benches. The Burger King. Eh? You see, the Ducks don’t run their offense the way anyone else in the country does. Therefore, the Ducks also don’t call their plays the way anyone else in the country does. Instead of having quarterbacks try to look for hand signals or rely solely on small, hard-to-read wristbands, Oregon has someone raise up a large, poster board. Divided into four sections, the placards are covered with everything from a photo of a battleship to one of a fat beaver to the word “glycerine.” They all unite to indicate one of the team’s endless list of lightning-quick maneuvers. Faster playcalling, faster plays. That no one else will know what the hell anything means is just an added bonus. Chip Kelly doesn’t get full credit for this. His team lifted the idea from teams such as Oklahoma State, who used six-part cards against the Ducks
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Cal Flies to Gainesville for First Round of NCAA Tourney by Alex Matthews Contributing Writer
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The Cal men’s soccer team won its third conference championship in program history with a 3-2 victory over Stanford on Thursday.
Cal Clinches Pac-10 By Beating Card by Kelly Suckow Contributing Writer
Practice makes perfect. Not matter how cliche the saying may be, for the No. 8 Cal men’s soccer team m. soccer it was made the dif2 ference in Thurs- Stanford 3 day’s game against Cal Stanford (8-10, 4-6 in the Pac 10). Two of the three goals the Bears (122-3, 8-1-1 in the Pac 10) garnered in the 3-2 win were off of set pieces. It was senior forward Davis Paul’s two corner kicks that first set up freshman forward Alec Sundly and then fellow senior Servando Carrasco.
After Paul’s corner about 30 minutes into the game, Sundly came streaking into the box with a bullet of a header past Cardinal goalkeeper Jason Dodson to tally his first goal of his career. “We literally work on that a day before a game,” Paul said. “We just executed to a tee.” The Capistrano Beach, Calif., native worked hard to make his presence known on the field yesterday. To him, the effort he put forth was in honor of the seniors for their last home game of the regular season. “He is such a good player,” senior co-captain A.J. Soares said. “He got his opportunity today and showed that he is a top player.” Eight seniors saw the last regular
season home game of their collegiate careers. Carrasco, Soares, Paul, Hector Jimenez, Demitrius Omphroy, Anthony Avalos and Scot VanBuskirk were honored in front of the largest turnout at Edwards Stadium, with 2,415 people in attendance. “At the start of this game, I just thought, ‘I want to do this for them,’” Sundly said. “Mentally, I just wanted to leave it all on the field.” Adam Jahn knocked in the equalizer for Stanford with eight minutes left in the first half to make it 1-1. Cal came out stronger at the beginning of the second half, working to keep possession. A little over halfway into the second half, Paul broke through on a run
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After an overtime win against Pac10 runner-up Oregon State Sunday, the Cal women’s soccer team had an even more suspenseful Monday, waiting to hear if they would receive a bid to the NCAA tournament. Within 24 hours of the announcement that Cal had received a bid, the Bears were traveling the farthest they had all season: Gainesville, Fla. There, they will face Duke in the first round today at 5:30 p.m. The Blue Devils (10-7-1) tied with Virginia Tech for sixth with a 4-5-1 in the challenging Atlantic Coast Conference. Every team that finished above them, including No. 3 North Carolina and No. 4 Maryland, is nationally ranked. “They play in a tremendous conference, so they’ll have very few weaknesses,” Cal coach Neil McGuire said. Duke has demonstrated its ability to compete with and, on occasion, beat those ranked opponents. The Blue Devils shut out No. 18 Boston College, 3-0, and posted 1-1 draws against both No. 4 Maryland and No. 5 Florida. The ties show Duke’s ability to fight out a game beyond the regulation 90 minutes into overtime. “I don’t know that we’re going to be overly concerned that we’re playing a team from another good conference,” McGuire said. “Other than the fact that we have to respect all of the things that they’re capable of.” One Blue Devil strength Cal will
need to respect is Duke’s endurance through overtime. The Bears have proved to be slightly more of a secondhalf team this season; of their 40 goals, 25 have been scored in the second half or overtime. The Bears fire nearly 50percent more shots in the second half than they do in the first. “We have talked about that, and we certainly have made the players aware that we have to be more sharp in our possession and in our ability to attack in the first half ,” McGuire said. Until this weekend, it seemed like Cal was struggling in the absence of co-captain Alex Morgan, who is currently playing with the national team. The Bears lost to Arizona for the first time ever and only put one ball in the back of the net in three conference games. This past weekend, however, Cal (9-5-5) stepped up its game, shutting out both Oregon and No. 15 Oregon State to finish 4-4-1 in the Pac-10, good for fifth place. The Bears bring four of their five All-Pac-10 players to the tournament. Megan Jesolva, a senior named to second team, has yet to score in her four years of Cal soccer. Instead, the versatile midfielder leads the team in assists with six. Duke’s offense also has some statistically threatening players, led by a pair of freshman forwards. Mollie Patham has eight goals and five assists, and Laura Weinberg, with nine goals and two assists. Alex Matthews covers women’s soccer. Contact her at almatthews@dailycal.org.