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by Aaida Samad A union representing nearly 12,000 academic student employees will begin voting over the next four days whether to accept an agreement recently settled with the University of California. But with a growing number of union members asserting that union leadership made unnecessary concessions and mishandled the contract campaign, there is increasingly widespread mobilization to reject the agreement, possibly sending the UC and the union back to the bargaining table with no guarantee that resuming negotiations would result in a stronger contract. A simple majority of all members of the United Auto Workers Local 2865 union — which represents graduate student instructors, readers and tutors throughout the UC system — who vote across campuses is needed to ratify the contract. There is debate, however, over whether union members will vote to ratify the contract. While statewide union leaders have maintained that the contract is a victory, an increasing number of rankand-file members are mobilizing, campaigning for a “no” vote on what they assert is a weak contract that reflects a “significant disconnect that has grown between the union leadership and the rank-and-file members,” said Mandy Cohen, a UC Berkeley graduate student and head steward for the union on campus. Union members are saying that the contract proposes a wage increase that will not keep up with the projected cost of living increases over the next three years, and some union members have stated that the issue is larger than a matter of wage increases and stems from the “passive” way the contract campaign has been run since its inception, according to Cheryl Deutsch, a graduate student and union steward at UC Irvine. Across the UC campuses, opposition caucuses within the union are rapidly forming, using an active ground-up approach that engages and mobilizes rank-and-file union members through meetings and e-mails, said Brian Malone, a graduate student and union unit chair at UC Santa Cruz. The caucuses’ central idea is that unions need to function democratically — something Malone said has not been the case within the union in the past few years, with a “cynical topdown” approach that assumes a “silent, unengaged, apathetic membership,” leaving rank-and-file members without a voice in the union. “The way the union is structured is such that we receive recommendations from on high,” said Nick Kardahji, a graduate student and recording secretary for the union at UC Berkeley. “This movement is about changing the culture within the union. Our fundamental aim is not towards changing the leadership — it is towards bringing more rank-and-file members into the union and connecting with them so they can have more of a voice in what is happening in their union.” While some union members say

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Although four people were murdered in Oakland between Nov. 15 and Nov. 21, the number of murders in the city this year is still on track to mark a decrease for the fourth year in a row. Residential robberies, on the other hand, are up a whopping 43 percent, with 163 occurring so far this year, 49 more than that in the same period last year. These statistics are several of the many crime statistics the Oakland Police Department publishes weekly on its website. The police departments for Richmond, Emeryville, San Leandro and Albany similarly post such statistics online every month. In contrast, the Berkeley Police Department does not have such data on its website. Searches on the city of Berkeley’s website, a process which the department’s spokesperson recommends, show 14 crime reports presented to the Berkeley City Council starting in 2005. The latest, released on Nov. 11, was the first crime report the department has issued in 17 months. And that document, which is mostly composed of information already made available in September by the FBI, only compares the current year to last year and does not include data on arrest rates or lower-level crime. The department’s struggle in preparing and releasing crime information has come in many forms — not only affecting residents who use it to garner an understanding of the threats they may face to their safety and property, but also at times leaving the police department itself without the data it needs to respond to trends. “What I can tell you is, ‘we can’t tell you,’” said

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Brain Function May Be Impaired by Jet Lag by Jeffrey Butterfield Contributing Writer

A new study on hamsters conducted by a UC Berkeley associate psychology professor and a team of undergraduate and graduate students sugONLINE PODCAST gests that jet Jeffrey Butterfield talks lag may have about the recent jet lag adverse effects on human brain research on hamsters. functions and may inhibit the ability to learn and memorize. The study, to be published Wednesday online in the scientific journal PLoS ONE, checked for side effects of jet lag by observing groups of female Syrian hamsters exposed to lighting conditions that simulated six-hour time shifts twice a week for one month. According to the study, the hamsters were given memory tests both during the last two weeks of jet lag and one month after being introduced back to normal light cycles. Co-author of the study and UC Berkeley associate professor of psychology Lance Kriegsfeld said that the jet-lagged hamsters performed worse on a simple learning test than the hamsters that were not jet-lagged. “We weren’t very surprised,” Kriegsfeld said. “Jet lag can make you feel tired and feel general malaise. Your body isn’t working properly.” Kriegsfeld said the memory tests administered a month after the jet lag simulation had ended produced similar results. The specimens that had not been jet-lagged performed better on the memory tests. “This was the really interesting part of the experiment,” Kriegsfeld said. “Everyone thinks that when it’s over, a week later you’ll be fine ... These results suggest otherwise.” Kriegsfeld said the researchers ob-

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New ASUC Bill Aims to Reform Noncompliant Fee Committee by Allie Bidwell Contributing Writer

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Hamsters were found to have decreased memory and learning ability after exposure to changing environments that simulated jet lag time shifts in a UC Berkeley study. served that the brains of jet-lagged hamsters experienced a rapid decrease in the addition of new neurons in the hippocampus — a part of the brain that plays a key role in memory. He said the brain depends on routine bodily rhythms — such as the sleep cycle, which can be disrupted when transitioning between time zones — to maintain production of these neurons. “We have many of these rhythms within our body, and only when these cycles are in sync can the body function best,” said recent UC Berkeley graduate and one of the study’s authors Stephanie Tjho. “When you disrupt that symphony, problems like these can arise.” Tjho said hamsters were used in the

experiment because their biological cycles are very predictable. She explained that the ovulation of these hamsters can be accurately predicted within a 15-minute window, and any disruption in the animals’ cycles can be easily detected. Kriegsfeld said the study suggests that common quick-fixes to jet lag will not protect people such as frequent travelers from the long-term effects of repeatedly shifting time zones. “It’s possible that taking melatonin may help to reduce the immediate effects,” Kriegsfeld said. “You should also try to maintain your real sleep schedules and not just adjust to the changed time.” Contact Jeffrey Butterfield at jbutterfield@dailycal.org.

After an initial bill failed to pass through the ASUC Senate due to a lack of communication between the ASUC and members of the Committee on Student Fees and Budget Review, student government leaders met with committee members and introduced a new bill recommending changes that would make the committee compliant with revised guidelines set forth in UC policy. The UC Board of Regents revised the non-binding Guidelines for Implementing the UC Student Fee Policy in May to state that each campus’s chancellor will consider recommendations from a Student Fee Advisory Committee on fee revenues usage, derived from a semesterly $450 fee and fund non-academic units. But ASUC executives, senators and Graduate Assembly members criticized UC Berkeley’s committee in the first bill because it has not made allocation recommendations. All other UC campuses have committees that reflect the new guidelines and most have made recommendations for years. According to Student Action Senator Joey Freeman, a co-author of the bill, student government leaders met with committee members and the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Student Service and Fees — a separate committee co-chaired by Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Harry Le Grande — in the hopes

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Berkeley police Chief Michael Meehan in his Oct. 13 address to the city’s Police Review Commission, referring to the unavailability of August statistics. “It’s a frustration. Not only does the police department need those numbers, but the community needs those numbers, and I can’t provide them. I wish I could. I don’t get it either, so the fact that I don’t even have numbers for August should tell you how bad things are.” Meehan has attributed this and other difficulties in releasing crime data to computer software deficiencies, which he has said the department is working to address. The department meanwhile paid its Records Division overtime to catch up. The department, which did not follow through with requests for comment last week, does have an interactive map of major crimes on its website. But it includes a disclaimer indicating that the map does not guarantee “the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or correct sequencing of the information,” which “should not be used for comparison purposes over time.” The crime reports the department issues are called “Quarterly Crime Reports,” which stem back to July 2005 when the city council passed a recommendation asking for reports on crime four times a year. But the council has not taken issue with the 17-month lack of reports, instead praising the department for

helping reduce crime by 8 percent from last year and instituting significant internal changes, including implementing its most significant restructuring in recent memory this fall. The department also had other issues to deal with over the last two years. Its chief retired in March 2009, and Meehan — who came from Seattle’s police department — took charge in December before facing multiple senior-level retirements. The city council itself, which could have requested a report at any time, was busy tackling a $12.2 million recurring budget shortfall and preparing for this year’s elections. “Any one of the nine council members could have put this on at any point,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington. “But right now, while (the department is) in the midst of having a series of changes, which I think are improvements, it’s actually less important to spend time talking about (crime) than it is to actually get out there and do things that need to be done.” Regardless of what the department or council faces, at least two agencies collect and distribute crime data from the Berkeley Police Department regularly — the California Department of Justice and the FBI, which Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said is the department’s “vehicle for releasing statistics.” But each agency issues only one final report per year, and neither releases data showing trends in lower-level crimes,

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that the chancellor’s advisory committee will become the campus student fee advisory committee that will no longer report to the administration. “Student fees constitute over $30 million dollars which go to vital services ... we must ensure that the people responsible for directing these fees are representative of and accountable to the student body,” Freeman said in an e-mail. While the new bill states that the committee — which would exist as a subcommittee of the new student fee advisory

committee — should continue to appoint its own members, it suggests the student government can remove a member of the committee for failure to meet expectations and that the undergraduate and graduate committee chairs should be approved by a two-thirds vote of the ASUC Senate and Graduate Assembly, respectively. It also states that the number of undergraduate, graduate and professional students on the committee should be proportional to the student body. CalSERVE Senator and bill co-author Courtney McDonald said in an

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which experts say usually follow the trends of major crimes and can thus be used to test their statistical significance. In March 2007, the city council approved a resolution requesting that the city manager “provide a plan to give public access to Berkeley’s Police Department information” in response to a December 2006 audit by the nonprofit organization Californians Aware that gave the department an “F-” for compliance with public record laws. “Members of the public in Berkeley have been frustrated for years about their inability to access crime reports, especially those that occur in their neighborhoods,” the council’s resolution, written by the late Councilmember Dona Spring, states. And although the department scored higher in a re-audit done by the organization nearly a year later, the accessibility of timely crime data from the department has a long way to go to catch up with that of other East Bay police departments. “Crime statistics are not meaningless numbers but are used to make policy decisions, to conduct countless research studies and as intelligence to fight crime and terrorism,” said John A. Eterno, a retired New York Police Department captain and the associate dean and graduate program director for the Department of Criminal Justice at Molloy College, in an e-mail. “Consequently, transparency in crime numbers is essential for policing in democratic society.” Tomer Ovadia is the lead crime reporter. Contact him at tovadia@dailycal.org.

e-mail that the changes would hold the committee accountable to students. “Rather than completely getting rid of the current committees that we have ... these changes recognize the importance and work of our existing committees and incorporate them into a reformed committee,” she said in the e-mail. The bill will be discussed and possibly amended at the Standing Committee on University and External Affairs meeting Monday night. If the bill passes, the senate will vote on it Wednesday night. Allie Bidwell is the lead student government reporter. Contact her at abidwell@dailycal.org.

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hobbies, the time with friends, the passions, the questions and the time-wasters that make life bearable. No matter what you love in life, someone will tell you that it’s pointless nonsense and you should be ashamed. It’ll always be up to you to decide if they were right. I wouldn’t take back the experience of working here, even if I would gladly take back a lot of what I wrote. Despite spending most of college worrying about my grades and my resume, I hardly remember what I learned in freshman year, let alone what the classes were called. But I can never imagine forgetting the people that made all the work manageable, even enjoyable. And these people stuck with me even when I made an ass of myself in the paper. They were kind enough to say something sweet when they read something they liked and kind enough not to remind me just how much the bad weeks sucked. Believe me, I knew when I sucked. And I would think about it until I got sucked into a black hole of suck and my fingertips would literally tremble as I tried to think of a topic for the next week. It was at these times that I was always somehow lucky enough to find an old friend to do something stupid to fill the hours. Afterwards, I always felt better because I was reminded that some things are a lot more important than angst. I remembered how lucky I was. And whatever I was worried about seemed pretty insignificant. he other day, right before the Big Game, I stopped thinking about this paper I was writing long enough to notice the Campanile against the clear night, lit up and looking good enough to be on a poster. I wondered if I was going to miss it. I wondered if I was going to miss the stress and the deadlines and the casual detachment that comes from from being harassed for money constantly. I wasn’t sure. But I know of a few things I never wanted to have to miss. A few great people that college gave me a way of meeting, rediscovering and reappreciating time and time again. Walt Whitman said it better than I ever could: I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.

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they believe that rejecting the contract would send a strong signal to the UC that the union is willing to fight for better benefits including wage increases and childcare subsides, these members do not recognize that the tentative agreement is “outstanding” given the state’s economic situation and austerity measures — including layoffs and wage and benefits cuts — other unions are facing, according to Daraka Larimore-Hall, the union’s northern vice president and a UC Santa Barbara graduate student. “You have to be completely out of touch with the membership and the economic situation in California to think this is anything but a successful contract campaign,” Larimore-Hall said. “While the opposition caucuses represent a small group of people who are combining very legitimate concerns with some real shortsightedness and refusal to look at the broader context, I think the majority of members would agree that this is a contract to be proud of.” Rejecting the tentative agreement would result in the union and the UC having to resume negotiations, throwing previously agreed to issues “back up into the air,” Larimore-Hall said. He added that there is also the possibility that the UC could file for an impasse with the state Public

Employment Relations Board — a self-described quasi-judicial agency that oversees “collective bargaining statutes” of a wide range of state and local employees — but this would be a lengthy process requiring a mediator to help the parties reach a settlement. “If the contract is not ratified, negotiations would resume, but the university would have no obligation to modify the offer reflected in the tentative agreement, and there should be no assumption that the university would enhance its offer,” said UC spokesperson Steve Montiel in an e-mail. According to Filiberto Nolasco, the union’s guide, while this level of dissension in the union is “unprecedented,” the union is a democratic organization, and as a result, all members are entitled to express what views they wish. He added that in the end, the result of the vote is what will determine how the union will move forward. “It’s a testament to the health of our democratic process that all parties can express their opinions and say what they want,” Nolasco said. “The results will show where the members stand in terms of this contract agreement, and that is ultimately what matters the most to our union.” Aaida Samad covers higher education. Contact her at asamad@dailycal.org.

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Neil Gaiman’s Fantasy Novella ‘Coraline’ Comes to the Stage at SF Playhouse, With Songs by Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields by Ryan Lattanzio Daily Cal Staff Writer

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ometimes, it’s better to accept the way things are in adolescence, however confusing or dull, than to battle the crazed doppelganger of your mother or rescue souls, all before bedtime. Such is the life of Coraline Jones. Originally a 2002 novella written by Neil Gaiman, “Coraline” has been transfigured into several art forms in the last few years: as a graphic novel in 2008, a stop-motion animation film by Henry Selick in 2009 and finally an OffBroadway musical premiering that same year. Scored by Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt and written by celebrated playwright David Greenspan, “Coraline” is now making its West Coast debut at the SF Playhouse. This theater, an unpretentious space, is the perfect host for a play as creative as “Coraline.” And despite the modest space, the company keeps its imagination outside the box. Coraline (Maya Donato, one of two actresses who play her) is a young girl, precocious and brave, whose mind is much bigger than that of her mom and dad (Stacy Ross and Jackson Davis). Her parents, literally tethered to their Mac Books onstage, haven’t the time to even look up from their skull-numbing screens to notice her. She is on vacation from school and isn’t allowed to go outside — so what child wouldn’t hatch a scheme under such circumstances? Coraline finds a way to pass through the impermeable brick wall that separates her family’s apartment from the one next door. On the other side is the “Other World,” filled with menacing characters that could put this play on the iffy side for kids. Coraline encounters her “Other Mother” and “Other Father” (also played by Ross and Davis) who entice the girl with lots of parental attention, toys and pancakes. But she soon learns that her Other parents are impostors — and soul-suckers, too. The Other Mother offers Coraline an eternity of happiness if she can sew buttons in place of Coraline’s eyes. Thus, Coraline, armed with nothing but her wits and a Cat for a conscience

(Brian Yates Sharber) — a flightier Cheshire — sets out to free herself and her parents from what lies behind those Other bricks in the wall. Onstage, the “Other World” is an expressionist, kitschy nightmare of sorts, populated with creepy puppets by Chris White. They look like the drawings of children from a psych ward but set in 3-D and pastels. The Other Mother’s spider-like fingers, with the long nails and red polish, terrorize Coraline. White astutely merges actor and prop, bringing the body closer to the puppet. For one, PVC pipes, fitted to an actor’s body, embody the Other Mother’s hand. The music, with banjos and toy pianos, is chock-full of the Merritt-esque flourishes his fans will know well: syncopation, dissonance, but always a sense of whimsy and wonderment. His score fits snugly between the Magnetic Fields albums he’s churned out in the past few years (Distortion in 2008 and Realism in 2000). It’s a raw, off-the-cuff kind of performance that complements Merritt’s otherwise tight songwriting. As a musical, though, “Coraline” is somewhat perplexing: Sometimes, the actors don’t quite match up vocally, such as in the anthem of the toys in the Other World. The result is something like a harmony slipping on a banana peel and sliding clumsily onto a melody. These missed cues and skipped beats are few and far between, but they’re there, sometimes in a split-second, and it’s hard to say whether or not these slip-ups are intentional since Merritt’s haphazard score demands spontaneity. At 12 years old, the vocally confident (but not too polished) Maya Donato is a fine young actress, neither a princess nor a tomboy; physically, and in her mannerisms, she’s perfect to play Coraline. Her un-theatrical, natural performance defies the wunderkind of Gaiman’s novella and Selick’s film. With choices like these, director Bill English makes “Coraline” seem more believable, but believability is not one of the criteria for a fantasy musical. Still, it’s a winsome stage production for adults and children. It would also work well as the first chapter in a pathologically twisted Bildungsroman. Enjoy pancakes from your button-eyed Other Mother with Ryan at rlattanzio@dailycal.org.

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Isabelle Huppert Stars in ‘White Material,’ Claire Denis’ Turbulent Portrait of Post-Colonial Africa by David Liu

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specter haunts the African continent in “White Material,” Claire Denis’ savage rumination on the clash between developing societies and their bourgeoisie occupants. In the vein of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” the film probes the convoluted legacy of European colonial heritage with remarkable panache. A radical departure from the lyrical simplicity of her previous film “35 Shots of Rum,” Denis’ latest is a feast for the senses, at once elegiac and defiant, disintegrating into chaos even as it coalesces into a maddening whole. Set in an unidentified contemporary African state, “White Material” centers on Maria (Isabelle Huppert), a French

proprietress who oversees a family-run coffee plantation. The world she inhabits is a violent, senseless one, brimming with conflict at every corner: Rebels have gained control over the country’s infrastructure, and the government has dispatched its own military forces to curb their insurrections. The film begins with the discovery of a corpse, that of a revolutionary hero named “The Boxer” (Isaach de Bankole), and promptly cuts to Maria’s breathless quest to complete her final harvest despite warnings from the evacuating French. We later discover that these two events bookend the film’s chronology. Denis cuts between time and place almost invisibly, creating an elliptical narrative that disorients and immerses. “Coffee’s just coffee. Not worth dying for,” one disinterested worker tells

Maria before departing the plantation for his own refuge. Steadfast in her allegiance to the harvest, Maria treks to a nearby village to recruit new labor, completely unaware that that her exhusband, Andre (Christophe Lambert), is closing in on a deal to sell the plantation. At the root of the couple’s woes is their twenty-something son Manuel (Nicolas Duvauchelle), a listless, waifish pretty boy reluctant to take part in the family business. His curiosity piqued by fleeting visions of two African child soldiers, Manuel treks into the wild expanse, only to return to civilization a frighteningly transformed madman. In a career defined by films like “Beau Travail” (1999) and “The Intruder” (2004), Denis has built a reputation as one of modern cinema’s foremost visual storytellers. Working from a script she coauthored with Marie N’Diaye, Denis commands the medium in every single frame of “White Material,” incorporating jump cuts, lateral shots and

extreme close-ups to convey the film’s atmosphere of dread. Her camera is at once illuminating and expository, harnessing the expressive power of quotidian objects and images: flies climbing on faceless corpses, abandoned houses pitted against lush African landscapes, gloomy totems from a bygone culture, coffee beans cascading into a dark processing chamber. Operating in stark contrast with its protagonist’s unwavering resolve, the film’s meandering, restless narrative eventually escalates into surreal territory. Child soldiers carrying assault rifles infiltrate pristine bathrooms; a cow’s head tumbles ominously out of a newly harvested batch of coffee beans; Manuel shaves his head and transforms into a murderous xenophobe. Trapped in a hellish continent with nowhere to go, the characters of “White Material” have little choice but to accept their fates — including the Boxer himself, the film’s sturdiest embodiment of integrity and order. Evoking

the hallucinatory texture of Faulkner and Golding, Denis paints a portrait of pandemonium in bold strokes, empathizing with Maria’s frustration as her stubborn quest to maintain the present finally spirals out of control. By the end, the film’s mounting despair quietly overwhelms. Africans and French, civilians and fighters, soldiers and rebels, young and old all converge into one phenomenological nightmare, orchestrated to the turbulent pulse of history. As Maria’s world crumbles beneath the weight of the white man’s burden, the sense of loss feels irreversible. The closing moments of “White Material” percolate with apocalyptic finality, recalling Yeats’ immortal words: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned.” David Liu is the assistant arts & entertainment editor. Contact him at dliu@dailycal.org.

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Daily Cal Staff Writer Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian waited until there were two seconds left on the clock before calling a timeout. With his team facing ONLINE PODCAST fourth-and-1 on the goal line — Katie Dowd and Jack their season and Wang discuss Cal’s Cal’s hanging in season-ending loss. the balance — he turned to the huddle. “We’ve been preaching now for three weeks about how you’ve got to finish,” he said. “There’s no better way to finish than on the last play of the game. Here we go. This is what we do.” Across the field, the Bears felt sure quarterback Jake Locker was going to keep the ball. As they lined up, they were convinced they were about to win on a thrilling four-down stop. But Locker didn’t keep the ball. Instead, running back Chris Polk rushed right into the end zone. Washington 16, Cal 13. “I looked at the clock, realized there was no time left, no time for our offense,” defensive end Cameron Jordan said. “I went numb and realized that was the end of my Cal career.” It was a sadly appropriate ending for the most bipolar year that the Bears (5-7, 3-6 in the Pac-10) have endured under head coach Jeff Tedford. “We worked long and hard. The players endured a lot,” Tedford said. “Time, energy and effort dates all the way back to January. We had goals going in, and obviously today is the first time we have been here in nine years. It is very disappointing.” Cal entered the game scoring an average of 13.5 points since losing Kevin Riley at Oregon State, and any hope of offensive redemption was wiped out early. The Bears mostly kept the ball out of quarterback Brock Mansion’s hands, relying on tailback Shane Vereen as well as running a fair amount of their offense out the wildcat with Keenan Allen. A booming 53-yard field goal from Giorgio Tavecchio as time expired was all that prevented the half from ending in a scoreless tie. “We had more confidence in the

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Volleyball

cal wins first ever pac-10 championship by Christina Jones Contributing Writer

After suffering a shocking loss to lowly Arizona State on Wednesday, the Cal volleyball team entered Haas Pavilion on Friday afternoon needing a win to claim a share of its first Pac-10 title in school history. The loss, which took the No. 2 Bears (25-3, 15-3) out of position of claiming the crown outright, did not seem to rattle the team. “I don’t feel like there’s a lot on the line right now,” Lloyd said. “It’s not like we have this huge thing we have to back up, like we have to do this. We’re doing really well this season. We have a chance to win a Pac-10 title ... It’s not scary, it’s exciting.” With that sense of perspective, Cal handily defeated No. 20 Arizona in four sets (25-14, 25-23, 22-25, 25-21). The Bears claimed its first ever conference title, but had to share with No. 4 Stanford. Cal defeated the Cardinal twice this season, which gave coach Rich Feller’s squad the automatic bid

into the NCAA tournament. “Today, out here, you could tell in everyone’s eyes that they were there in that moment, playing in that moment,” Lloyd said. The squad’s energy on Friday was in stark contrast to the lethargy the Bears displayed against the Sun Devils. Arizona State (13-18, 7-11) outblocked the conference’s best blocking team, 16-11, en route to their upset of Cal (25-23, 14-25, 20-25, 26-24, 15-7). The Sun Devils slowed outside hitter Tarah Murrey, who finished the night with a meager .176 hitting percentage. The underdogs threw the Bears (25-3, 15-3) out of system for most of the match, which made it difficult for Lloyd to run a more balanced attack. The Bears were the ones putting up the stops against the Wildcats, posting 14.5 team blocks and holding Arizona to a .170 attack rate. But the Wildcats (20-11, 9-9) pushed Cal, building early leads and prolonging rallies to make the Bears be crafty to earn their points.

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few minutes left in the third quarter, and the ball squirted out. Jordan bent down, snatched it up and rumbled 21 yards for the score. On the Bears’ next possession, Tavecchio nailed a 47-yard field goal. It would have been the game-winner, but Cal didn’t get to the red zone again — or ever. Instead, Washington took four-plus minutes to drive down the field, setting up its game-winning finale. “We had the talent, we had the team. We just didn’t execute,” said Vereen, who finished the game with 106 yards rushing. “Things didn’t go our way at times.” The loss marked the end of Cal’s streak of winning seasons. The last time the Bears had a losing record was in 2001, when Tom Holmoe was the coach. For the first time since the year he took over, Tedford’s Bears will be not play in a bowl game.

Cal was without defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi, who was suspended for encouraging a player to fake an injury during the Oregon game — an action that led to intense media scrutiny over the last few weeks. Although one week of regular season play still remains, the Bears will probably end up near seventh in the conference — where they were picked to finish in the preseason poll. From the beginning, Cal chafed at that preseason ranking, taking it as a personal challenge to do better. But in the end, they fulfilled the media’s expectations, if not their own. “This is not acceptable to us as coaches. This is not acceptable to the players,” Tedford said. “We will dedicate ourselves to work our hardest to bounce back.” Katie Dowd covers football. Contact her at kdowd@dailycal.org.

urple and white jerseys flooded onto the field Saturday, celebrating a stunning last-second win over the Cal football team as “Chariots of Fire” hummed in the background. Moments earlier, the Bears had stopped Washington’s Jake Locker from the 1-yard line three times. They had expected to do it again. But it wasn’t Locker who carried the ball on fourth-and-goal with two seconds left on the clock. In a brilliant play call, tailback Chris Polk bounced to the right, walking into the end zone almost untouched. 16-13. There would be no extra point. A bitter rain, and a brief bout of hail, poured down for a good portion of old Memorial Stadium’s final afternoon, but there were also pockets of sunshine. As seagulls circled the field like vultures over carrion, it felt like Mother Nature herself had woven together the elements just for the stadium’s swan song. This year’s Gameday T-shirts had it right: This is Cal football. And Cal football, as fans know all too well, plucks at your heartstrings with the reckless abandon of Kirk Hammett on “Enter Sandman.” Whenever one thing goes right, something else goes wrong. Let’s start with the offense. Again, Shane Vereen put it a workmanlike performance, carving out 106 yards on the ground for his 11th triple-digit career rushing game. Again, Brock Mansion couldn’t muster a touchdown, which leaves him without a meaningful score this season. This time, however, Giorgio Tavecchio made his field goals, finding some measure of redemption after numerous

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Bears Advance to Quarters With Win Over Brown by Gabriel Baumgaertner Daily Cal Staff Writer

Facing a Brown team that had only allowed 10 goals all season, the Cal men’s soccer team knew that creating scoring chances would be difficult. After forward John Fitzpatrick’s header hit the back of the net to give Cal a 1-0 lead over Brown, the Bears showed the best way to beat a staunch defense — off of set pieces. Fitzpatrick headed home Davis Paul’s corner kick midway through the first half to give a lead that Cal would not surrender in its 2-0 victory over Brown in the third round of the NCAA College Cup. The Bears move on to the quarterfinals to play Akron, who defeated Indiana 2-1. Playing a significantly stronger game than in its victory over UCSB, Cal withstood a gritty Brown squad, who outshot the Bears 15-13 despite losing defender Eric Robertson to a second yellow card in the 63rd minute. It was a tough day for Robertson, who deflected one of Paul’s crosses into his own net to make the score 2-0. Brown broke up a series of good scoring chances throughout the game, but had no chance to stop Fitzpatrick’s header in the 30th minute. Defender Chris Ortega started it by streaking down the sideline before having his

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Hector Jimenez leaps past a sliding challenge from Brown’s Sean Rosa. Cal’s win moves them into the quarterfinals against third-ranked Akron, last year’s national runner-up. cross knocked out of bounds by the Brown defense. Paul’s ensuing corner kick found a charging Fitzpatrick, who knocked the ball past all-Ivy League goalie Paul Grandstrand into the upperV. It was Fitzpatrick’s sixth goal, and Paul’s assist moved his single-season record to 14.

“It was a great ball by Davis,” Fitzpatrick said. “I was in the right place at the right time; it just happened to go to me and I put it in.” Brown is well regarded for its defense, but even after being reduced to 10 men, it showed its willingness to

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