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Regents’ Meeting Marred by Unrest Regents Vote to Change

Student Fees to Tuition

by Aaida Samad Contributing Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — As the UC Board of Regents met at UC San Francisco Wednesday, violent skirmishes broke out between police officers and students protesting an impending 8 percent fee increase, resulting in 13 arrests throughout the day. During the height of the demonSLIDESHOW & VIDEO stration, police doused more than a dozen protesters with pepper spray Go online for pictures and as a crowd of 300 amassed outside video of the protests that the meeting. In the day’s most dra- were outside the meeting. matic moment, a UCPD officer drew his pistol and pointed it at a crowd of protesters after they swarmed him and he dropped his baton. Eleven UC students were arrested — including seven from UC Berkeley — and one student from UC Merced was charged with a felony for allegedly striking a UCPD officer

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Protesters and police Officers clash outside of the Regents’ meeting Wednesday. The meeting sparked these demonstrations because the Regents considered implementing an 8 percent fee hike.

City Sees Decrease in Crime Over Past Year by Tomer Ovadia Contributing Writer

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tinual 10 percent reduction goal in all Part 1 crimes.” The crime report is the first direct disclosure of crime statistics by the department since June 2009. Figures for all of 2009 were already available from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which reviews and publishes data from the department yearly. No statistics for 2010 had previously been available. Kusmiss said the goal to decrease Part 1 crimes by 10 percent is ongoing in that it has no deadline and does not require meeting the decrease as soon as possible. “The leadership of the department doesn’t offer it with any kind of disclaimers, provisos,” she said. “That is the goal, and let’s constantly be figuring out ways to achieve that on a daily

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In a Tuesday presentation to the Berkeley City Council, the Berkeley Police Department revealed 2010 crime statistics for the first time, indicating a continuing decrease in major crime, but falling short of meeting the department’s goal. The data — made public last Thursday — showed a decrease in the number of major crime incidents between 2009 and 2010 for the first nine months of each year, marking at least the sixth year in a row such a decrease has occurred, according to crime reports issued by the department. But the reduction was not enough to meet the department’s goal of de-

creasing the number of major crimes — known as Part I crimes — by 10 percent, a goal set by the chief and the department’s command staff in January, according to Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, a spokesperson for the department. In an interview Wednesday, Kusmiss initially said the data indicated that “the department has met that goal.” But she later acknowledged that because the number of Part 1 crimes that occurred between January and September decreased by only 8 percent between 2009 and 2010, the 10 percent goal was not met. “So the Daily Cal is correct in that the combined Part 1 reduction is 8 percent,” she said. “So we have been just shy of meeting our consistent, con-

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that has stirred debate and raised questions about California’s future financial obligations to its public universities, a joint committee of the UC Board of Regents voted Wednesday to change the name of university educational fees to tuition, acknowledging the state’s declining funding for the university system. While the wording change — which is expected to be approved by the full board today — has no impact on the university’s use and level of student charges, opponents of the proposal say the change marks an abandonment of the foundational mission of a tuitionfree university. The UC states the change will improve transparency by admitting that fee revenue funds a majority of the university’s basic operations. While the state’s 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education defines “tuition” as charges for teaching expenses and “educational fees” as charges for services not directly related to instruction, during the recession of the early 1990s, systemwide fees skyrocketed to compensate for reductions in state financial support, and educational fees were increasingly used to cover instructional and other related costs. “Claiming to be a ‘tuition-free’ institution is no longer meaningful for the University of California,” the action item for the change states. “Although financial aid has preserved the spirit of ‘tuition-free’ education for low-income students, all three higher education segments in California now charge California students for educational and instructional costs.” While the name change acknowledges that student fees, rather than

state funding, are being increasingly used to cover instructional costs, the implications of the change are cause for debate. The UC’s proposal acknowledges that the adoption of the term tuition could be seen as an abandonment of the “tuition-free university.” Kevin Woolfork, a budget policy coordinator at the California Postsecondary Education Commission, said the renaming should be considered a “practical change” rather than an abandonment of efforts to increase state funding for the UC, and should not be seen as a barrier to future state support in better economic times. “This change is kind of a nod to reality that state support in terms of the total amount of money the UC gets has been waning,” he said. “With every budget and recession, there is a hope that the state will eventually be able to move the clock back in terms of willingness to pay for higher education. Right now, the UC is sober to the reality the money just isn’t there to do so.” While some have stated the name change more honestly describes the cost of a public education in California, state Assemblymember Ira Ruskin, DRedwood City, said it does so at the expense of the state’s higher education goal of providing affordable, quality education to eligible Californians. “Ultimately, the state ... will need to establish a policy that specifies what part of education is a public investment in our state’s prosperity and what part our students will need to pay,” said Ruskin, who chaired the latest decennial review of the state’s master plan, in an e-mail. Since the educational fee was established by the regents in 1970 to cover construction and non-instructional

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The Stanford/ Berkeley Quidditch match was this weekend, and Berkeley, of course, emerged victorious. For a video and blow-by-blow pictures of chocolate Snitches and costumed onlookers, log on to the Clog.

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Following more than five months of drawn-out negotiations, the University of California and a union representing nearly 12,000 academic student employees reached an agreement Tuesday night, but there is still debate over whether union members will ratify the contract, as some union members assert that their leaders made unnecessary concessions. Officials from the UC and the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — a union representing graduate student instructors, readers and tutors throughout the UC system — met in Los Angeles Tuesday and were able to reach a tentative agreement on previously contentious issues, including fee remittances for GSIs, child care subsidies and wage increases, according to Daraka Larimore-Hall, the union’s northern vice president and a UC Santa Barbara graduate student. The next step is to have the union members vote whether to ratify the contract, but some members have voiced opposition to the ratification. Voting will occur Nov. 29 through Dec. 2, and a simple majority of members who vote across all 10 campuses is required for ratification. The union’s current contract has been extended — for the fifth time — through Dec. 4 to accommodate the process. “The tentative agreement is really good, especially considering the cur-

rent budget situation,� Larimore-Hall said. “There were no giveaways or losses — only gains.� The agreement includes a 2 percent wage increase for each of the three years covered by the contract, guarantees that any changes in the terminology from “fees� to “tuition� will not impact GSI fee remissions and nearly triples the contract childcare subsidy, by doubling regular subsidies and including subsidies for GSIs working in the summer, according to Nick Kardahji, a UC Berkeley graduate student and the union’s recording secretary. “We are very pleased to have reached what we believe is a fair agreement and one that recognizes both the contributions our student employees make to UC’s teaching mission and the budgetary challenges we face,� said Peter Chester, UC’s chief negotiator for the contract, in a statement from the UC Office of the President. However, while some union leaders are asserting that the tentative agreement is a victory, there is dissent among rank-and-file members, according to Megan Wachspress, a UC Berkeley graduate student and union member. Three members of the bargaining team from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz did not sign the agreement because they were not satisfied, Wachspress said. “As a member, there is some con-

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oly hand grenade! It’s here ... almost. Time has melted away. Hundreds of pages lay semi-crinkled in the muddled wake of a semester’s reading assignments, papers have somehow written themselves and an analogy for the workload of UC Berkeley has formed in my brain. Ha! Like I’m going to tell you what it is yet. Keep reading, dear friend, and maybe I’ll be generous at the end of this brief communique. After all, it’s nearly the holiday season. And that’s what makes the end of the semester that much sweeter. As we complete the academic marathon that is a UC Berkeley fall, I feel like it’s safe to say everyone finds solace knowing that the Yul-a-rama-hanakwanza-mas season is also upon us. But, you might say, there’s still finals and more papers, and somehow, somewhere in some crazy program, some poor souls still have a midterm to take in the interim. Meh. Those are just minute details at this point. Lest we forget that the end of fall means the beginning of winter, and comforting memories of the holidays of yore create a special place where we can hide from the academic perils that await us after Thanksgiving. When pumpkin spice lattes hit the hands of baristas all over the land a few weeks back, the transition began. And my olfactory glands immediately shuddered. This response is merely one of muscle memory for my poor senses. The overabundance of nutmeg immediately brings up one of the most harrowing of my holiday memories. It all began one summer afternoon. I was but a young sprout of maybe five years. Mischief was my confidant, and we made good friends. I remember that it was hot, and not just 80-degree, no air conditioning Berkeley hot. It was high summer, thick humidity, Louisiana swamp hot. There are many wonderful things about growing up in The Boot, but the heat certainly does not make the list. My mother must have recently gone to the store, the refrigerator was packed with a fresh bounty befitting of a middle-class family of four. There was bread, vegetables, a couple of gallons of milk and eggs galore. And a bored child gazing at them. I’m not sure where my parental units were when my master plan hit me. Like I said, I was a little kid. Some of the details are a bit fuzzy, but they matter not. All I know is that I saw a whole lot of milk and eggs. I also know that I knew something about eggnog — mostly that it was some sort of milky egg drink that tasted pretty good — but something nonetheless. s I stared at the open refrigerator my plan was hatched. You see, before I joined the Army and after my discharge, I was a chef. I loved working in restaurants in Louisiana. The culture of food there is second to none. It is obvious to me now as I reflect on the story that I have once again

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ROBERT R. KING digressed from, that I was destined to be a cook at some point during my adult life. My five-year-old self ’s ill fated plan certainly sealed the deal. Anyways, back again to the gaping fridge. I raised my self onto my tippy toes and grabbed a gallon of skim milk with both hands. I proceeded to lug it outside to the back porch just outside our home’s sliding glass portal. Then, I returned to the ice box and picked up a carton of eggs, nabbed an unsuspecting whisk from the dishwasher and returned to the scene of the imminent crime. I carefully cracked the eggs open one by one and poured their contents into a five gallon bucket, placing the empty shells back into the carton. I then added the gallon of milk and whisked with all my might. hen my potion was complete, I returned the egg carton to its rightful place inside its chilly home. As I went back inside, I closed the door and the blinds, leaving behind the evidence that would damn me later. After the now-empty eggs were back where they belonged, I summarily forgot about my cocktail sitting outside in the blazing sun. I’m not sure how much time passed, but my mother eventually noticed the missing gallon of milk. She eventually caught a glimpse of it through the French blinds of the back door sitting on the porch next to the bucket. The next thing I remember I was standing next to my concoction underneath her fiery glare, begging for clemency which I would not be awarded. Instead, my prize was to sample my new homebrew, a moment that forever destroyed my enjoyment of the comforting holiday drink called eggnog. Fear not, faithful readers. I survived, but the trauma from this experience persists. The end-of-the-semester brain lethargy makes me wish it was time for cookies and peppermint hot chocolate. Alas, my brain feels like a scrambled mess right now. For me, my first term of work here has felt like trying to sip from a fire hose. Just like everyone here, however, I can get used to it. So long as I don’t have to drink any eggnog when it’s all over.

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in the head with his own baton, according to Pamela Roskowski, UCSF’s police chief. She said given the crowd’s aggressive nature the officer “showed great restraint,” adding that he acted in self defense in the face of shouts from some demonstrators to “take his gun.” Alejandro Lara-Briseno, an alumnus of UC Berkeley who witnessed the event, said that in fact, the officer hit a student with his baton with such force that the baton bounced out of his hand. Facing the crowd, the officer panicked, pulled his gun and aimed it at students, according to Lara-Briseno. “Nobody actually struck an officer,” he said. “We were, on the other hand, struck by them, for no reason other than we were linking arms, we were chanting.” Clashes broke out between police and protesters around 9 a.m. as the two groups gathered on opposite sides of UCPD barricades on the east side of UCSF’s Mission Bay Community Center. Without warning, police officers began pepper spraying protesters after some in the crowd began pulling barricades away from the officers. As the

crowd threw rocks and wooden signs at officers, police responded with more pepper spray. “I was in the very front and there were 150 people pushing me forward,” said UC Berkeley graduate student Callie Maidhof as she rinsed her eyes after being pepper-sprayed. “I can’t walk, I got jabbed in the leg and every time I blink, it’s worse.” Members of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 and University Professional and Technical Employees unions — as well as student activists from several UC campuses — first surrounded the building where the regents were meeting at around 7:30 a.m. The majority of arrests occurred after the UCPD officer who was swarmed by the protesters called for back-up. As police in riot gear ran up a short stairwell to the parking garage where the officer was located, dozens of protesters threw themselves on the officers, pushing them back down the stairwell. Police responded by arresting six of the protesters, including ASUC External Affairs Vice President Ricardo

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Gomez, who was also pepper sprayed earlier. As of press time, three of the 13 arrested had been released and had returned to UC Berkeley. As the protests unfolded outside, UC President Mark Yudof made an impassioned plea to the board inside, telling them proposed fee increases and pension cuts were necessary given the financial crisis the state is facing. Other university officials — including UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Academic Senate Chair Daniel Simmons — said they support raising fees by 8 percent to $11,124 per year for the 2011-12 academic year. Russell Gould, chair of the board and former director of the state’s department of finance, called the state’s looming two-year $25 billion budget deficit historic in its size, adding that he expects the UC to face more cuts when the state legislature meets to close a $6 billion deficit for the current fiscal year. “This is more fundamental — this is enduring,” Gould told the board. Aaida Samad of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. Contact Nina Brown and Javier Panzar at newsdesk@dailycal.org.

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student services costs, it has expanded to cover instructional and other university-related costs as state funding for the UC declines. While the first educational fee in 1975 was $300, it has since grown to $10,302, a number that will increase to $11,124 next year if the regents approve an 8 percent fee hike today. The plan is an honest one, said John Vasconcellos, a retired state senator and assemblymember who chaired the first two reviews of the state’s master plan. But he added that the ideal of the tuition-free California education has been “tragically lost.” “The idea of a tuition-free education is one that should be cherished, one that has been regrettably changed to reflect the current reality of our times and one that should not be entirely forsaken,” he said. Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at asamad@dailycal.org.

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basis. So (the chief ) never had any kind of strict framework for it.” The number of violent crime incidents decreased by 17 percent between 2009 and 2010 for the nine-month period, while property crime decreased by 7 percent. The reductions include decreases in the numbers of homicides, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, larceny and auto thefts. Burglary was the only listed crime to increase, by 6 percent.

The data does not include crime that occurred on UC Berkeley property. The department claims its major organizational restructuring — implemented on Sept. 19 — as well as its adoption of the CompStat model for addressing crime trends and creation of a Crime Analysis Response Strategies team in May have contributed to the decrease. Tomer Ovadia is the lead crime reporter. Contact him at tovadia@dailycal.org.

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cern and resentment that the union leadership should have been much, much stronger in fighting for a wage increase, given the strong position we entered negotiations in,” she said. Kardahji said the agreement reflects a growing disconnect between union leaders and other members, resulting

from a lack of inclusion of rank-andfile members in the past few years. “The effect has been that union leaders are increasingly becoming disconnected from people they represent, and we saw that play out in situations like this,” Kardahji said. Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at asamad@dailycal.org.

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ynics, beware — Lucy Walker’s “Waste Land” will inject even the coldest, most shriveled of hearts with a healthy dose of faith in humanity. Shot in Brazil’s Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, the new documentary exposes one artist’s ambitious attempt to help the poverty-stricken workers who make their living hiking the putrid garbage mounds in search of recyclables to sell. Though it rings of a classic rags-to-riches theme, the film carefully avoids condescension by focusing on a handful of workers’ heartrending individual life struggles as photographer Vik Muniz uses his project, “Pictures of Garbage,” to inspire and financially aid them. Born in Sao Paolo, Muniz expresses many times that he, too, could have ended up a trash “picker” rather than a celebrated Brooklyn artist. But rather than becoming a patronizing Daddy Warbucks figure to the workers, Muniz’s sensitivity to Brazilian culture and awareness of his role as an outside benefactor make him a competent guide through the film’s social terrain. One of Muniz’s photographs depicts an 18-year-old mother of two, draped in fabric with her children like tragic saints in a makeshift Orthodox icon. Viewing the image alone, it would be difficult to believe that the same beautiful young woman had spent years at Jardim Gramacho before the photo was taken, enduring a never-ending smell of rotting filth while she labored amid the trash, away from her family. But as this woman, Suelem, and several fellow workers of diverse backgrounds relate their reasons for ending up at the landfill, both Muniz and the viewer become engrossed in their individual lives and invested in their personal success. Walker’s vision as the director and Muniz’s goals for his art project seem perfectly synchronized, and at times it’s easy to

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forget that Muniz did not create the film himself. During the shots of Muniz’s photo sessions at the landfill, he proves to be as adept an interviewer as a documentary filmmaker, making the workers feel at ease as they confess their hopes for the future while posing for his camera. Other times, Walker’s filmmaking appears to amplify the effect of Muniz’s photography. Over the course of the three years the footage was collected, Walker constructed her own decidedly artistic representation of life in Jardim Gramacho while documenting Muniz taking the workers’ portraits. The lingering close-ups of individual facial expressions and distant shots of imposing trash heaps make for a stunning visual display perhaps more evocative than Muniz’s staged studio work. “Waste Land” dispels common depictions of the world’s poor as helpless masses, instead showing how individuals can do great things if given access to the right opportunities. Muniz’s commentary emphasizes the role of circumstance in determining a person’s social status, and indeed, many of the workers featured in the film came from lower-middle class families (much like the artist himself ) but fell on hard times and were forced to choose between Jardim Gramacho and prostitution or the drug trade. As his ideas for “Pictures of Garbage” grow more ambitious, Muniz collaborates with the workers in the production process of his artworks and gives each person the profit from his or her portrait. Watching these individuals transform as they realize their power to shape their destiny, it’s impossible not to be grateful for the basic conditions many take for granted in our part of the world. After all, it’s one thing to come from nothing, but wholly another to emerge out of a veritable “Waste Land.”

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he said, presumably before lighting a cigar and fondling his pet chinchilla. So there’s a new brand, and with it, a new band. An actual band. After a nationwide search, Detroit rock band the Victorious Secrets clinched the prize of being freecreditscore.com’s official band and a bunch of corporate tools. If I were a reporter, and if this were a news story, I would give you a thorough background of this band, and I’d get to be on the front page with an impressive headline. But here we are, children of the night, tucked away in the middle pages of this paper, lost forever, like old spoons dropped behind the refrigerator by a mother who had something else on her mind. But the point is, freecreditwhateveritisnow.com is not just using rock and roll to push their brand, they are trying to equate their band with rock itself. Because nothing says rock-and-roll like personal financial responsibility. As Mick Jagger once sang, “I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes / I have to turn my head until I get my taxes done.” We have one of two scenarios happening here: Art is moving towards advertising, with greater and greater control by corporations, a process that I will term in-corporation. Or alternatively, we have advertising moving towards art. Neither of these cases can fully represent the situation — because both are happening together. And, my cumbersome ducks, this new commercial is pretty good. I might not even mute it if I saw it on TV. It has a catchy tune. The band seems (and seeming is what is important) to be genuine, charming, funny. Would I tap the bassist? Yes. Yes, I probably would. The ads get better, the art gets worse. But are we really mourning the loss of a little band from Detroit? Notreallyfreecreditscore.com is trying to subsume itself entirely in the world of art, but like a fat kid trying to hide in the shallow end, the jelly rolls of insincerity will inevitably float to the surface and give the game away. After a dozen or so weeks, I’m not yet convinced that if the intent is to plug a product, you can call something art. I have one more column in which to change my mind. Spoon behind the refrigerator with Hannah at hjewell@dailycal.org.

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The attacker readies herself to receive the pass and sizes up the competition. She won’t try to hit through the Cal volleyball team’s block — the third best regiment in the country is just too strong. The setter has passed the ball and it’s in mid-air, awaiting her decision. The attacker jumps and aims her kill toward the girl in the back row, thinking that the 5-foot-9 walk-on freshman crouching there won’t be able to complete the dig. That attacker could be any hitter in the Pac-10, since they have all come across the defensive force that is Erin Freeman. No matter where the ball is hit, the starting defensive specialist for the No. 4 Bears will complete the dig. She’ll use her quick reflexes to snag a sharply hit ball to her side. She’ll showcase her athleticism with a pancake dive. She’ll even run into the bench to save the ball if she

has to. After all, there was a time when she was on the bench. She never thought that she would be off it so soon. reeman did not expect to start or even play major minutes this season. And at the beginning of the year, she seemed to be right. She only played in six of 31 preseason sets, and was buried in the depth chart. “It’s really important as a freshman to be confident in being out there and I think the beginning part of the season she was nervous and you could see it in her face,” senior setter Carli Lloyd says. Nevertheless, Freeman kept giving her usual all-out effort in practice and knew that it was important for her to support her teammates whether she was playing or not. “I knew that practice is so crucial to our success ... if it’s by digging people so they have to work harder to get a kill and that makes them better on the court then that was important

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my back,” Freeman says. “I think that was a big turning point for the team, and myself — that we’re really good.” After the match, Cal coach Rich Feller raved about how well she played in her first start, and over six weeks later, he still references Freeman’s performance in the match. “She came in, no fear, dug a couple of balls, made some plays, got the team excited, and we went on to score a bunch of points in a row after that,” Feller says. “She’s a little spark plug ... She’ll make a great play and it’ll fire people up and good things happen after that.” Freeman has started every match since. t would be another three weeks until Freeman’s most memorable play — and the Bears’ signature win. No. 2 Stanford won the first set of the Big Spike on Oct. 22. Cal won the second. After the Bears came from behind to tie the third frame

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Drake High product does not take anything for granted, not starting — not even playing, for that matter. “I think that to play you have to continually earn it and it’s not something that’s just given to you,” Freeman says. Feller never knew Freeman would play such a major role when she joined the team. As a freshman and a walk-on, she was expected to be more of a practice player early on than a big match player. Feller even recalled the uncanny nature of their first meeting. “I played volleyball with her uncle way back in the day,” Feller says. “And I remember Erin actually made a visit here with her uncle when he came to see the team and he introduced his 14-year-old niece at the time, ‘hey, great, way to go, keep playing.’” “Little did we know that (a few) years later ... she’d be here on the court.” She seems to be on the court to stay. Erin Freeman often may be the shortest girl on the floor but she stands head and shoulders above her competition. Jonathan Kuperberg covers volleyball. Contact him at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.

Soares Named Pac-10 Player of the Year in Bears’ Title Run by Kelly Suckow Contributing Writer

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onference play is over for the Cal men’s soccer team. The Bears (12-2-3, 8-1-1 in the Pac-10) are back in the postseason, with the sixth seed in the NCAA tournament and a Pac-10 title. Along with the Pac-10 trophy, the Bears garnered six All-Pac-10 team spots, Coach of the Year and Player of the Year. Part of the forward movement has come from senior A.J. Soares, the anchor in Cal’s stingy back line unit that allowed only 13 goals over the 17 games this season. The 170-pound defender earned the distinction of Pac-10 Player of the Year, his third all-Pac-10 honor over the course of his illustrious collegiate career. “It is an honor to be in the category with the other players who have won it in the past,” the Solano Beach, Calif. native said. “It means our team has been successful thus far — that we have performed at the highest potential every game.” When it comes to post-college plans, professional soccer is not the only thing on his mind. “My plan is, to wherever I move, to find the best cafe and to drink all the coffee I can,” he said. For Soares, the award was really a reflection on his coach.

“He came into the program as a very good player,” Grimes said of his co-captain. “Our goal is to improve on the already God-given talent. Our hope is to do everything we can to make him the best player that he can be.” Along with Soares, David Bingham, Servando Carrasco, Hector Jimenez and Davis Paul represent Cal on the all-conference team. Paul set a program single-season assist record with the 13 he collected this year. This broke previous holder Peter Woodring’s 12 during his tenure from 1986-1990. Paul led the Pac-10 in scoring with 27 points, finishing six points ahead of second-place finisher Brent Richards of Washington. Arguably one of the best playmakers in the history of the program, Jimenez ranks second in the record books with 27 career assists. Paul is close behind him, with 20 to rank fourth for all-time. As a team, the Bears have 43 assists, one away from tying the program record. Not only are the players putting their names in the books, but head coach Kevin Grimes is as well. This year marks Grimes’ 11th season at the helm of the Bears’ program. In 2010, he earned an unprecedented fifth Pac-10 Coach of the Year title. Grimes is the first coach in the conference to earn the honors more than once.

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Senior A.J. Soares also posted solid offensive numbers this season, including a career-high 11 points and five goals en route to his Pac-10 Player of the Year nod. Starting in all but one game, the co-captain was joined by four teammates on the conference First Team. “Soccer is a player’s game,” Grimes said. “(The award) is really a tribute to the players and the assistant coaches. It is a collective effort.” According to him, the team is moving closer to reaching the targeted effort that the squad has been striving for throughout this year.

The five players named to the first team all-conference squad are the most of any other Pac-10 school. The recognition completes Cal’s transformation from last place in the conference last season to first place this year. With the exception of Bingham,

Soares, Paul, Carrasco and Jimenez are all in their final year of eligibility. All five are being scouted by professional teams from both the United States and overseas. Kelly Suckow covers men’s soccer. Contact her aat ksuckow@dailycal.org.

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