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El Corral Bookstore may soon have to open its financial records, Campus Dining will have to share its kitchen secrets and University Graphic Systems will have to stop screening its information. This fall, state legislators will vote on a bill that would force the Cal Poly Corporation and the Cal Poly Foundation to disclose expenditures they currently keep under wraps. Senate Bill 218 would expand the California Public Records Act to include university auxiliary organizations, which are secondary bodies that benefit a university. The Cal Poly Corporation and foundation are auxiliary organizations categorized as nonprofit organizations. The bill, introduced and endorsed by a bipartisan committee in the California Senate, would require the corporation to show how it spends the money it receives from various avenues including grants and donors. Many of the corporation’s executive members have expressed apprehension about the bill, which will likely be passed in the next school year and instated in January. “We’re just concerned about people dissecting what we’re doing, how we’re doing and how that’s going to impact the services that we provide for the campus,” said Bonnie Murphy, executive director of the Cal Poly Corporation, which earns profits from El Corral Bookstore, Campus Dining, University Graphics Systems, Swanton Pacific Ranch, Cal Poly Chocolates, the meat shop and other agricultural revenue outlets. The corporation “provides a service for the university where any reserves that (it) gets at the end of the year are set aside to improve the operations, to maintain the operations, and so that we’re in a position that if we
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have t o renovate or rebuild, t h o s e funds go back into that,” Murphy said. “It’s all a cycle; none of the money is taken out other than the service we provide for the university.” Sen. Leland Yee (D – San Francisco), who authored the bill, aims to increase transparency among university auxiliary organizations, according to his chief of staff, Adam Keigwin. The senator has introduced several bills meant to regulate California higher education, Keigwin said, adding that these organizations take advantage of the their public status for tax reasons but do not want to disclose information that other public entities must. Yee was inspired to introduce the bill after learning of denials of public records requests at state universities. At Sacramento State University, the student newspaper tried to determine the amount that the university bookstore was marking up books. Another case centered around the Fresno Bee when it was denied access to information about how much
was paid for the luxury boxes at the football stadium at Fresno State University. Keigwin called it a quid pro quo relationship between the donors and the organization that runs the stadium. A recent request to view the Cal Poly Corporation’s investment portfolio as well as unedited tax returns was met with confusion. A representative did not know anything of records requests and after assuring reporters the corporation did not “do” requests they were referred to legal counsel. Starr Lee, Cal Poly Corporation’s legal counsel, denied requests for the investment portfolio and referred reporters to an online nonprofit information database for the complete tax forms, which at the time were incomplete.
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could prevent hundreds of thousands of Californians from attending college this fall, higher education officials told a legislative committee Monday. The executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, Diana Fuentes-Michel, said the Republican governor’s plan to phase out Cal Grant aid to lower income, college-bound students could keep more than 200,000 out of classes. “If these students cannot afford to attend college, they will face the worst job market in decades,” she told a two-house committee that is trying to eliminate a state budget deficit now pegged at $24.3 billion. Karen Humphrey, executive director of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, urged lawmakers to scale back rather than eliminate Cal Grants. She suggested temporarily lowering grants for students attending private schools and raising the grade point average required to qualify for the aid. She also suggested phasing in temporary fee increases at community colleges to ease some program cuts. “CPEC doesn’t normally recommend fee increases like this,” she said. “But the other options on your table could be worse.” Schwarzenegger is proposing to cut $2.75 billion from higher education through June 30, 2010. That includes community colleges, Uni-
versity of California and California State University systems. The state will get $537 million from the federal stimulus package to offset some of those cuts, and the administration anticipates California will receive more aid, said H.D Palmer, a spokesman for the Department of Finance. Schwarzenegger is also proposing to save another $173 million in the coming fiscal year by eliminating new Cal Grants. The California State University’s chancellor, Charles Reed, said the cuts proposed for his 23-campus system were the equivalent of cutting its enrollment by 60,000. “That is impossible,” he told the committee. He said student funding at CSU has dropped 25 percent over the last decade. The university has also frozen administrative salaries and limited travel and purchases to hold down expenses, he added. “Now we have to do something about the number of faculty and staff we have,” he said. “Our No. 1 goal is to offer as many classes and sections as we possibly can and secondly protect as many jobs as we can.” Reed and University of California President Mark Yudof urged lawmakers to let university officials figure out how to impose any cuts the Legislature adopts instead of mandating cuts in certain areas. “It’s very important for us to have flexibility,”Yudof said. “There are things we probably should have eliminated years ago. For a variety of reasons they have not been.” He said the cuts would force employee furloughs and the cancellation of some programs.
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A female Cal Poly student was rushed to the hospital early Saturday morning after falling out of a window on the third floor of a dormitory, university police said. University Police Department Commander Lori Hashim said that police responded to an emergency medical aid call around 4:15 a.m. from the Sierra Madre dorms. When they arrived on scene, ambulance and fire
personnel were preparing to transport the injured woman to Sierra Vista Hospital, where she was treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. The incident is considered to be an accident, according to university police. However, they are still actively investigating the events leading up to the incident. Hashim said. No further details have been released as of yet regarding the incident.
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Opponents to the bill argue that the time-consuming process of granting public requests to view university auxiliary organization records would place an undue burden on those organizations. “It’s not the contracts with the university that are an issue,” said Lee, who sat in on Murphy’s interview with reporters. “It’s when people
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want to start picking apart the transactional data. It’s the time and effort you have to spend and then dealing with people who don’t understand the complexity of the business.” The bill would also put the corporation at a disadvantage in competing with off-campus, for-profit businesses, Murphy said. “We do want to make sure that we are taking care of our students on campus.” Supporters of the bill discount these concerns. “I would say the impact in terms
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of hurting is going to be minimal, but in terms of aggravating them, they’ll be very angry,” said Tim O’Keefe, professor emeritus and Cal Poly PasLedge Chair of the California Faculty Association, a union that represents 23,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches in the California State University system. The bill will revoke the corporation’s current immunity to public question about their financial activity, O’Keefe said. Exposing the magnitude of money the corporation re-
ceives each year might make donors think twice about giving money to a program that already obtains so much, he added. “It’s going to make it much more difficult for (the corporation) to actually say they don’t have enough money because it’s going to be out there in public for everyone to see,” O’Keefe said. “So it could result in some drop in donations, I suspect. But, people who want to give to the university are going to give anyway.” Giving the public access to corporation records is particularly important when the university is facing a budget crisis, said Cal Poly CFA President Richard Saenz. “It seems to me that since they deal with a lot of student funds, their transactions should be more transparent and meet the same level other agencies have to meet,” he said. The Cal Poly Corporation is “an arm of Cal Poly and students have the right to know where their money is going, Saenz said. “Even though they don’t deal in state money, they deal in student money, money associated with enterprises on campus and I think, in particular in times like this, people want to know where their money is going. How much goes to athletics? How much does the bookstore make and where does it go?” Their nonprofit status affords the foundation and the corporation certain privileges, he said. “I think in return they owe the people they serve information on what goes on,” Saenz said. “It is a two-way street.” The existence of these two separate auxiliary groups dates back to 2006, when Cal Poly Foundation changed its name to the Cal Poly
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Corporation, upon which another nonprofit organization called the Cal Poly Foundation was formed. The two organizations are legally able to achieve different results for the university. The foundation exists to generate and receive money such as grants and donations for the university, while the corporation is contracted to manage this money and to provide other financial services. Murphy described the split as an executive decision made by Cal Poly President Warren Baker. “It was a business decision by the university,” she said, “to have a philanthropic arm for the university as well as a separate arm that manages all the other types of services that we manage. They basically split those based on the fact that they wanted a focus on donor relations and making sure there is one department that focused on working with donors and fundraising for the university to make sure the university has funds for scholarships, buildings and projects.” The change in the operations appears to be minimal as both organizations are mainly housed in the same building — under the corporation title — and seem to perform some of the same duties on paper. According to business professor Christopher Perello, however, a corporation and foundation, with respect to education, have different definitions and specific restrictions. The existence of both allows for each organization to pick up after the other. Finance professor Earl Keller said the split might have been protection for the foundation in case of a change in the tax code for the profit earning organizations within the corporation. If it passes, the bill will apply to both organizations.
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“How busy is your dead week?” “I actually have more work this week than next week. A lot of professors give us work or tests, which kind of takes away the point of having a dead week to prepare for finals.” -Chester Matkey, industrial engineer junior “I have assignments that are due but they weren’t assigned this week. I don’t think professors should assign anything hard over dead week because that’s the time when everyone should be able to study.” -Jessyl Defrank, animal science freshman “I have had homework in a couple of classes but no tests this week so it (has) been pretty easy. Professors were done teaching last week so it’s a good way to wrap up and review rather than try to cram in a bunch of material in the tenth week.” -Jeff Hardin, civil engineering freshman
“I had a midterm today and a final next week. I think having midterms in the last week is unfair. It’s really hard to try and study when you have finals the next week too.” -Jennifer Donnelley, psychology senior compiled and photographed by ashley Cuillo
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For weeks after North Korean guards seized Laura Ling and Euna Lee near the border with China and spirited the American journalists to Pyongyang on criminal charges, their families waited quietly for news about them.
They watched with mounting fear as an international standoff with North Korea over its rogue nuclear program deepened, with little word about the women’s imprisonment in one of the most isolated countries in the world. Two months after their arrest, the families received letters relayed by the Swedish ambassador to the reclusive
communist nation. Then out of the blue, a phone call last Tuesday — the first since the reporters vanished March 17 while on a trip near the Chinese-North Korean border. “They were very scared; they’re very, very scared,” sister Lisa Ling, also a TV journalist who reported from see Reporters, page 4
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North Korea in 2005, said Monday on NBC’s “Today” show. “You know, imagine, 11 o’clock, phone rings and I hear this little voice on the other end of the line saying, ‘Hi, Li, it’s me.’” Breaking their silence, Ling’s sister, parents and husband appeared on the show alongside Lee’s husband and 4-year-old daughter to plead with North Korea for leniency and urge Pyongyang and Washington not to let the women become pawns in an increasingly tense geopolitical game. Ling and Lee — reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, a media venture started by former Vice President Al Gore — stand trial Thursday in North Korea’s highest court, accused of entering the country illegally and engaging in “hostile acts.” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called the allegations “baseless.” Their trial, on charges that could
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 land them in one of North Korea’s notoriously grim labor camps, comes at a sensitive time in the diplomatic scramble to rein in an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang. In a separate interview on ABC’s “Nightline,” Lisa Ling said she did not know much about the upcoming trial. “We’re told that they’re going to have a lawyer appointed to them from North Korea,” she said. “We are hoping and praying ... that they get a fair trial and when they conclude the trial they will show mercy and let the girls come home to their families.” In the past two months, North Korea has launched a long-range rocket and conducted an underground nuclear test in defiance of the U.N. Security Council.The North also abandoned international disarmament negotiations and may have restarted its plutonium reprocessing plant. On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the regime appeared to be preparing a long-range missile.
State Briefs LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s three-member State Lands Commission has passed a resolution urging the Legislature not to support a proposed new oil drilling project off the Santa Barbara coast. Lt. Gov. John Garamendi and State Controller John Chiang voted in favor of the resolution. The state Finance Department’s chief deputy director Tom Sheehy had left the meeting before the vote was held, citing a death in the family. Department spokesman H.D. Palmer said Sheehy’s father-in-law was killed in a traffic accident. Last year, Houston-based Plains Exploration & Production Co. unveiled an unprecedented deal with longtime anti-oil conservationists in Santa Barbara County to allow the state’s first new offshore oil project in more than 40 years.
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CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Chico police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man outside a fraternity party. Authorities say a 28-year-old man was found early Sunday in the driveway of the Delta Psi Delta fraternity house. The fraternity is not officially affiliated with Chico State University, and campus spokesman Joe Wills says the victim was not a student. Witnesses told police they heard several gunshots and saw a man running from the area. The victim’s name has not yet been released.
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To do it, or not to do it ... that is the question You’re right. I talk a big game. I basically declared war on the Sex and Dating column at the beginning of this quarter, crying for a change from its former mediocrity. I haven’t been able to please everyone all of the time, but I have managed to meet the goals I set at the start of this adventure. Except one: inclusiveness. What? You protest. Haven’t I, somewhere in this sarcastic mess of a column, addressed an LGBT issue, sexual health information and even a topic most sex columnists find too graphic to discuss? Yes, but I’ve been working with an assumption that is, believe it or not, wrong: All college students have sex. I have failed you, my abstinent see Abstinence, page 6
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readers. But honestly, I don’t have enough to say about abstinence for an entire column. I’m not abstinent, but I have nothing against it. Yawn. This is the kind of column I hated reading for the last four years. But I want those of you who are not sexually active to know that you’re not alone. Many people don’t have sex. I’m making the conscious decision to not get it on right now because it would be very difficult to write this column. So, to at least find a compromise for this inclusiveness issue, here is a list I made of very good reasons for not having sex:
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Good reasons for not having sex 1. When you are not emotionally ready for it. 2. When you don’t have protection with you. Safer sex, kids! 3. When one, both or all of you are drunk. 4. When you are at a funeral. 5. When you are at a family reunion.
6. When you are at or before a job interview. And to be clear, I include this on the list not because you won’t get the job, but because using this method to obtain a job will set a standard for the position(s) you take at the company. 7. During the third trimester of your pregnancy. 8. When you need to take something out of the oven in 15 seconds. 9. When doing any kind of project that involves super glue. 10. If you see something that looks like a camera in the room. Exception: If you discussed the camera’s involvement beforehand. 11. When your parents call to say they are on their way to your apartment. 12. When you are on a bunk bed that you share with a roommate. 13. When your hunger meter is low or your bladder meter is high. Note: only applies if you are a Sim. Also, how hilarious would it be if we started calling it "whoopee" in real life? 14. After eating spicy foods. 15. When "House" is on. Jenna Ray is an English senior and Mustang Daily sex columnist.
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Locals showed up to toast and taste the town for a good cause on a sunny Sunday afternoon in mitchell Park. The first annual “Flavor of SLO” event raised money to benefit Alpha Counseling and support the United Way of San Luis Obispo. “This was something that you needed a lot of organization for,” business senior Jessica Sisco said. "Both the United Way and Alpha have been so helpful.” While these charities may have helped Sisco with the organization of the event, the community was their true beneficiary. “Alpha is a pregnancy counseling and support center and we provide nonjudgmental services in both a practical and emotional way,” said Jen miller, an employee for the organization. “Pretty much all the needs that a new mother would have in a challenging situation we provide.” United Way chief operating officer Charlene Rosales explained the charity's purpose. “We support health and human service programs by raising funds to distribute funds to local nonprofit agencies,” he said. The event was created by Sisco to allow locals to experience restaurants in an affordable and beneficial way. more than 23 local restaurants, wineries and breweries showed up to support the cause while promoting their products. “A lot of businesses are really gracious and willing to help support nonprofit organizations and we were
really lucky to have their help,” Sisco said. And several venders were happy to be contributing to the cause. “Anytime you can pour beer in a community, it's pretty fun,” Spike’s bartender danny Kramer said. doug Beckett, co-owner of Peachy Canyon Winery, was excited to benefit the day’s featured charities and to support a Cal Poly senior project. “We have supported Cal Poly for many years,” Beckett said. “We have always felt that the kids coming out of Poly are going to make a difference in the future and this was a project put together by a student senior project and right away it appealed to us.” Sisco was pleased with the variety of food and business. “We contacted almost every restaurant in town,” she said. “We wanted to get some restaurants that maybe people had never been to and give people a chance to try something new. We welcomed all restaurants and the same goes for the wineries and breweries.” Food wasn’t the only thing on display. Local bands Central Currency and Criticnue serenaded patrons as they tasted and toasted the afternoon away. “It’s just a really great cause; playing an outdoor show on a beautiful day is just hard to say no to,” lead vocalist and guitarist for Central Currency dave Carlsen said. “All these other business are donating there stuff, it’s a lot of good people coming together to do good things.”
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Make a difference with a local or international internship As we are rapidly approaching finals week, the light at the end of the tunnel is becoming increasingly brighter. Summer, and the freedoms that come with it, can entail both stress and relief — considering our current economic predicament. Whereas Cal Poly once boasted about the plentiful job offers that rained down on its graduates only a few years a g o , now we envy anyone with a steady paycheck. But even with today’s limited options, there are still some prime summer internships up for grabs. And I’m not talking about the filing-and-copying variety. Building more sustainable cities is going to take a lot of work. Living a one-planet lifestyle, in a one-planet city, implies that we’ve halted our outpouring of climate changing emissions and we are using our share of resources efficiently. This level of local planning and organization will require us to imagine new programs and projects that will create the sustainable infrastructure of the future. Young activists are already proving that they’re hungry for jobs in these fields. Case in point: The Summer of Solutions, a two-month program created and run by a group of students at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minn. Instead of leaving the Twin Cities, the students used their summer break to envision the city they wanted to live and work in. By the end of the summer they had created local partnerships, networks and projects dealing with issues such as energy efficiency, local food production and renewable energy. One of the most successful projects that the students got off the ground last summer was called Cooperative Energy Futures. This energy efficiency project connected local contractors with neighborhood groups to insulate a large number of houses under one contract. Together, the homeowners bought all the necessary items in bulk and then signed a group contract with an energy efficiency expert. Focusing on one neighborhood meant the contractor could serve more homes while reducing transportation costs, and it also ensured the contractor a consistent source of revenue. The volunteers at Cooperative Energy Futures conducted the research and development and assisted in helping the different groups find each other. The cooperative hopes to continue the project this summer, hopefully extending their services to low-income communities. Many green economy jobs — such as the ones a business like the Cooperative Energy Futures could provide — don’t quite exist yet. But that’s not stopping these students from train-
ing for them now. “We need to create the opportunities from the ground level, where there isn’t necessarily capacity to do it,” Macalester student Timothy Den Herder-Thomas said. “To fix the problems, we need to figure out a way to build a society that works … Yet no one knows what that looks like.” This summer, the program will continue and expand to include 13 more cities across the United States, including West Coast cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Eugene. Funded by local, regional and national grants, the students will begin working on projects that will help them develop their cities into places where local opportunities, climate and energy solutions and social justice abound. Den Herder-Thomas said that he hopes that the program will produce self-sustaining initiatives that could eventually offer career opportunities for those involved. In addition, he hopes that the Summer of Solutions 2009 can help to build a model for citizens and community groups who wish to do this type of work in their own communities. On the flipside, it’s increasingly common these days for folks who are interested in global issues, sustainability and building a better
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world to want to spend time volunteering for some good cause in another country. We, the idealistic, the globally concerned — we love to travel and are curious about other cultures. We find that spending an extended period of time in another country and giving of ourselves to help improve conditions for those who are less fortunate than ourselves teaches us fascinating things and enriches our lives. The San Francisco-based nonprofit Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) harnesses the enthusiasm of globally concerned young people in order to fulfill its mission: “To support the efforts of local development organizations working to improve the welfare of the people living in their communities.” Since 1995 FSD has partnered with grassroots organizations in the developing world, providing them with human resources, financial resources and technical assistance. FSD works with local development organizations in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Uganda, Kenya and India. The local organizations work in a wide range of areas related to sustainable development: microfinance, environment, health, youth and education, women’s empowerment, community development and human rights. The cornerstone of FSD’s work is the Internship Program, through which individuals participate in a volunteer internship with a local development organization for anywhere from 8 to 52 weeks. Along with the intern’s time and skills, the local host organizations receive a grant to support the intern’s work activities. FSD also runs shorter-term programs, including its enrichment trips: “Adventure Travel for the Service-minded,” summer service trips and study tours. The volunteer programs are integrated with homestays with local families, designed to provide volunteers with a cultural immersion experience. Historically most of FSD’s volunteers have been college students and graduate students, but as a result of recent outreach efforts, an increasing number of professionals are participating in FSD programs. Although most of FSD’s volunteers are American, citizens of many other countries, such as Canada, the UK, Singapore, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, Australia and India have participated. So while the current job market might seem bleak, know that there are still some options out there. And I encourage you to make the most of your summer — strive to affect the most positive change that you can with the time available. And have fun with it. You’re only young for so long. As Maya Angelou once succinctly put it: “Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” Ben Eckold is a business administration senior, the former president of the Empower Poly Coalition and a Mustang Daily columnist.
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PARIS — Roger Federer knows full well, of course, that Rafael Nadal is no longer around this year to befuddle him, to beat him, to stand between him and a French Open title. Federer insists he is not thinking about that, not thinking ahead. Still, Federer sure did play as if preoccupied for the better part of two hours Monday, dropping the first two sets of his fourth-round match against 63rd-ranked Tommy Haas of Germany. One point from letting Haas serve for the victory, Federer conjured up one particularly spectacular forehand that managed to change the entire flow of things. That shot spurred a run of nine consecutive games for Federer, sending him to a 6-7 (4), 5-7, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 victory over Haas and a berth in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros. “I knew I was going to look back on that shot. That saved me,” Federer said. “I was in quite some danger.” But he escaped. With two more victories, Federer will reach a fourth consecutive final at the French Open, the only Grand Slam championship he hasn’t won. Federer lost to Nadal in each of the past three finals and in the 2005 semifinals, but the Spaniard’s 31-match winning streak at the clay-court major tournament ended Sunday against Robin Soderling. “You’re aware of it,” Federer said. “Definitely changes it up, if I were to make the final. But we’re not there yet, so honestly it hasn’t changed a whole lot for me.” Federer now tries to reach the semifinals at a 20th Grand Slam event in a row, which would extend his own record, when he meets 11th-seeded Gael Monfils of France, a 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 winner over No. 6 Andy Roddick, the last American man in the tournament.
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evidence is what the prosecutors say it is without Anderson’s testimony. Bonds has pleaded not guilty to lying to a federal grand jury investigating BALCO in December 2003 when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs. The government filed its plea Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal has delayed indefinitely the start of Bonds’ trial. In its filing, federal prosecutors said Illston erred by excluding the evidence because they can prove the connection to Bonds through his own grand jury testimony and through
Federer is 4-0 against Monfils, including a victory in the French Open semifinals a year ago. Monfils dominated Roddick, even outacing him 17-4, and Roddick began complaining in the second set that it was too dark to see. “Don’t tell me what’s OK and what’s not,” the 2003 U.S. Open champion snapped at chair umpire Enric Molina. “You’re not the one playing.” It was the day’s last match on Court Suzanne Lenglen, and the start was delayed by No. 5 Jelena Jankovic’s loss to the 41st-ranked Sorana Cirstea of Romania 3-6, 6-0, 9-7, which lasted 2 hours, 44 minutes. “It wasn’t easy at the end,” said Cirstea, two points from defeat when Jankovic served for the match at 5-4, 30-love in the third set. “I saw she was tired, also. So I knew it was also a little bit mental: Who is going to stay stronger?” Elsewhere, 2002 champion Serena Williams beat No. 24 Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada 6-1, 6-2; No. 7 Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated No. 12 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; and No. 30 Samantha Stosur beat Virginie Razzano of France 6-1, 6-2. “This,” Williams said, “is when everything counts.” No one knows that better than Federer, whose 13 major championships are one shy of Pete Sampras’ record. With Nadal, Roddick and No. 4 Novak Djokovic all gone, Federer is the only man left with a Grand Slam title. “For a lot of players,” Federer said, “I think it must be quite a big opportunity, and their heads must be spinning right now.” The other matchup on his half of the draw is No. 5 Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina against No. 16 Tommy Robredo of Spain — two men who are a combined 0-6 in Grand Slam quarterfinals. Del Potro beat No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4, and
Robredo eliminated No. 29 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2. “Expectations? Everyone has expectations, even myself,” Robredo said. There are two ways to look at what Nadal’s loss means for Federer. A potential obstacle is out of the way. And now Federer is expected to win the title, which could be a burden. Consider: Dating to 2005, Federer is 0-4 against Nadal at the French Open, 27-0 against everyone else. “It kicks the door open for Roger, but suddenly: ‘Yeah, step up.’ Now the pressure’s really on,” threetime French Open champion Mats Wilander said. “The pressure before was to just give Nadal a good match. Now, it’s like,‘Hey, listen, if you can’t win it now, then you’re definitely not considered the greatest player of all time — until you do.’” Asked about Nadal, Federer joked: “Um, he didn’t retire, right?” “My dream scenario is to beat Rafa here in the finals,” Federer continued, “but I’ve got to concentrate on my part of the draw and make sure I come through like today.” Good as he was at the start against Haas — Federer won the first 24 points on his serve — there were moments when his signature forehand let him down. Federer missed two in a row to fall behind in the opening tiebreaker. When Haas took the second set, too, the prospect of the No. 2-seeded Federer following No. 1 Nadal on the way out was a distinct possibility. Then came the third-set point both Federer and Haas considered pivotal: With Federer serving at 3-4, 30-40 — five points from losing — he ran around his backhand side for an inside-out forehand winner that landed right near a line. “We both knew there was a chance for me to finish him off,” Haas said. “Just got to tip your hat and say, ‘That’s why he’s Roger Federer.’”
other witnesses. “Bonds’ grand jury testimony unequivocally established that as early as 2000, he started giving blood and urine samples to Anderson to deliver to BALCO for the sole purpose of having those samples tested,” prosecutor Barbara Valliere wrote in the 64page filing. Central to the government’s appeal are three urine tests that tested positive. BALCO executive James Valente has testified that Anderson delivered the urine samples to him and identified them as belonging to Bonds. Courts do generally exclude such statements as “hearsay” if the speaker doesn’t vouch for them. But there are several exceptions to those exclusions, including whether the disputed statement was uttered by an employee or agent of the suspect. The trial court judge ruled Ander-
son didn’t fall into that category because he received sporadic payments from Bonds that appeared to be gifts rather than salary. Prosecutors disagreed and said Monday that Bonds paid Anderson $15,000 a year and gave him a $20,000 bonus after the slugger broke the single-season homer mark with 73 in 2001. The government’s court filing said records show Anderson “was at Bonds’s beck and call nearly every day of the year. It was thus more than sufficient to establish that Anderson was acting as Bonds’s ‘servant’ when he delivered the samples to BALCO.” Bonds’ attorney Dennis Riordan didn’t return a telephone call Monday. Bonds’ written reply is due July
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Nelson will not play this season, said Monday a quicker recovery and the chance of winning a championship has forced him to at least take a look at Nelson. “It’s still no in my mind,” Smith said, adding that the team will explore the idea even if Nelson doesn’t return for Game 1. “There’s a very smidgen of a chance he can play.” Orlando was 2-0 against the Lakers this season. Nelson was Orlando’s leading scorer in both those games, averaging 27.5 points. He has been lobbying the Magic for a chance at playing since the playoffs began, with each round the team advances the idea — and the talk — of him returning growing. But Nelson would likely just be a shell of his All-Star form. He hasn’t played in four months, and even he admits it will be difficult to convince the training staff and coaches that he isn’t risking future damage. “A miracle has to happen,” Nelson said. The Magic had the best record in the NBA in January behind Nelson, who was having a career season. He averaged 16.7 points, 5.4 assists and 3.5 rebounds in 42 games this season. But their title hopes took a major hit after he was injured. A tradedeadline deal that brought Rafer Alston from Houston largely saved the Magic’s season, allowing the rotation to remain the same and Anthony Johnson to continue to provide solid play as Alston’s backup. The formula was enough to win only the franchise’s second Eastern Conference championship, knocking off the defending champion Boston Celtics and eliminating MVP LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Van Gundy said disrupting that chemistry would be a concern. “You always worry about that,” Van Gundy said. “But that’s just the decision that I’ll have to make after a couple of days and he’s practicing. ... But to me, four months is a long time
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to be out to have two practices and play in the NBA finals.” Nelson has been lauded by players and coaches during the playoffs for his leadership. He has been sitting between the coaching staff and players on the Magic bench, offering pointers during timeouts and acting like “a fifth or sixth assistant coach,” Smith said. But Smith worried from the beginning that Nelson would feel excluded. The two met before the playoffs to make sure Nelson wasn’t tempted to rush back early. “I just told him, ‘Don’t fall prey to the trap,’” Smith said. “The trap is, you want your team to do well, but you don’t want them to do too well because you feel like you’re not needed or missed.” Teammates say they would welcome his return. Dwight Howard, one of Nelson’s closest friends, said Nelson is a “fearless” player who always wants to do what’s best for the team. But even Howard said Nelson’s comeback might be taking too much of a chance. “I just want him healthy,” Howard said. “He doesn’t have to play if he doesn’t feel up to it. I’d rather see him healthy more than anything because his career in the long run is more important.This is just one series.”
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Condon reflects on team’s success and future most accomplished player in program history. She leaves as Cal Poly’s career leader for home runs (34), RBI (135) and slugging percentage The Cal Poly softball team soared to new (.583). heights this year setting several program records. The left side of the infield will be revamped While head coach Jenny Condon was pleased next season as second baseman Stephanie Tam with the progress, she wishes the team were still and third baseman Cristen Lee also ended their out there competing. Cal Poly careers last month. “I think we had a great season,” Condon said. “Our seniors did so much to help build this “We’re disappointed that we’re not still play- program and send us out on a winning note,” ing but I think the team left everything on the Condon said.“It’s given us a big springboard tofield.” wards next year.” The Mustangs won their She admitted that the second Big West Conferteam looked a little small ence championship in three during their last meeting years and made a second without the five seniors, trip to the NCAA Divileaving just nine players sion I softball tournament. and the coaching staff but Unlike two years ago, when Condon is looking forward Cal Poly was dominated and to the arrival of several key swept out of the regional, freshmen in the fall. this year the Mustangs were Included in the recruits able to cause some damage is pitcher Rebecca Patton, — winning two games and who struck out 275 hitters reaching the regional final in 184 innings of work and —Jenny Condon Cal Poly head coach before ultimately falling to posted a 0.42 ERA as a junational-seed and regionalnior at Granada Hills Charhost Stanford 4-0 on May ter High School. 17. She was nearly as strong in her sophomore “We came to play every day,” Condon said season, where she was named Most Valuable of her team’s effort. “We were consistent all year Player of the West Valley League after compiling long. I couldn’t have asked anything more of my a 0.71 ERA and 271 strikeouts against just 20 players. It was a good season and it was good to walks. get some postseason wins.” Condon said that the team would take a hit Condon’s team will lose five seniors off an al- from the loss of so many key players but she was ready small 14-player roster including shortstop optimistic that the team would continue to imMelissa Pura who leaves Cal Poly as possibly the prove. Scott Silvey mustang daily
Our seniors did so much to help build this program and send us out on a winning note.
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Cal Poly junior first baseman Krysten Cary represents one of the core members returning to the Mustangs next year. Cal Poly finished with a 41-12 record and a Big West title. “We’re definitely going to feel the loss of our five seniors,” Condon admitted. “They’ve contributed so much to this team and this program. But we’ve got some great talent coming in.” Patton will join a pitching staff that returns Big West Pitcher of the Year Anna Cahn and Helen Pena. Cahn, who led all Big West pitchers with 27 victories, ranked second with 151 strikeouts and third with a 1.71 ERA and a .223 opposing batting average during the regular season, holds single-year program records for wins (28) and innings pitched (252.2). “We’re going to have a different look next year,” Condon said. “It’s not going to be just Anna and Helen.We’ve got two freshman pitch-
ers coming in and we’re going to have a situation like we did with (senior pitcher and utility player) Jenna Maiden. If we don’t need a pitcher and we let her progress then that’s great.” While the team will remain relatively small next season compared to many 25-player rosters around the country, Condon said that the atmosphere created by such a tight-knit group helped Cal Poly perform at a higher level. “Everyone loved showing up to the field every day,” Condon said. “That’s something special and that doesn’t come along very often. So when everyone’s doing it, I love my job. I love coming to work everyday to that kind of attitude and atmosphere.”
Prosecutors appeal ruling tossing out Bonds evidence Paul Elias associated press
associated press file photo Barry Bonds, seen in this undated file photo, won a major fight in his perjury lawsuit when crucial prosecution evidence was not allowed.
SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors urged an appeals court to let them present evidence they say shows Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids, arguing Monday it was mistakenly thrown out by a trial court judge on the eve of his perjury trial earlier this year. Among the evidence that prosecutors say is key to their case are three urine samples they say belong to Bonds and tested positive for the steroids, methenolone and nandrolone. Prosecutors allege Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson, collected the samples for testing at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the headquarters of a massive sports doping ring busted by federal investigators in 2003. In February, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston banned evidence connected to Anderson because of his refusal to testify at Bonds’ trial.Anderson has told the judge he would go to jail rather than testify. Anderson spent more than a year in prison for previously refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Bonds. Illston also barred an alleged “doping calendar” kept by Anderson, log books maintained at the lab and other evidence produced by the trainer.The judge said there’s no way to prove see Bonds, page 11
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Magic guard Jameer Nelson, left, celebrates with teammates after Orlando’s Game 6 win. Nelson could play in the NBA Finals on Thusday.
Magic mull possible return of Nelson for finals Antonio Gonzalez associated press
ORLANDO, Fla. — Jameer Nelson can shoot again. His injured right shoulder can take contact, and he’s been cleared by doctors to practice. Though that doesn’t add up to Orlando’s All-Star point guard being healthy enough to play in the NBA finals, it does create a dilemma for the Magic’s front office. Nelson said Monday that he has been playing full-court games, participating in contact drills and will practice with the Magic for the first time since tearing the labrum in his right shoulder Feb. 2 against the Dal-
las Mavericks. “I’m a competitor,” Nelson said. “No matter what the situation is, I always think I can go out there and get contact.” He had what was then called season-ending surgery Feb. 19. Nelson’s rehabilitation was supposed to take at least another two months. Game 1 of the finals is Thursday night in Los Angeles. Magic general manager Otis Smith and coach Stan Van Gundy expressed doubt Monday whether Nelson could seriously return for the finals. Smith, who had repeatedly see Magic, page 11