www.dailycal.org Established 1871. Independent Student Press Since 1971. Berkeley, California Tuesday, February 16, 2010 A requestfor a stateauditof the University of California will be led Wednesday in response to alleged - nancial mismanagement by the uni- versity administration. California Senator Leland Yee, D- San Francisco/San Mateo, will le the request with the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which will hear and vote on the request Wednesday, according ZachE.J. Williams to Adam Keigwin, chief of staff for Yee. UC ofcials have denied that funds have been mismanaged, adding that a nan- cial auditof the 10-campus university’s approximately $20 billion operating budget would not be plausible. Among the issues cited by Yee as reason for his request is an alleged conict of interest surrounding UC Regent Paul Wachter’s stock invest- ment in a mutual fund management company in which the university has a substantial nancial interest. According to a March 2009 State- ment of Economic Interests, Wa- chter—who is the chair of the Regents’ Committee on Investments—owns more than $1 million in stocks in Di- mensional Fund Advisors Inc. Wachter did not respond to a re- quest for comment left at his Santa Monica ofce Friday. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger—who appointed Wachter, a longtime friend, to the board in 2004—also has invested more than $1 million in the company, according to a March 2009 Statement of Economic Interests. The university’s retirement fund had $151,611,750 invested in the company, according to a Dec. 31, 2008 nancial statement from the UC Ofce of the President. According toUC spokesperson Steve Montiel, safeguards are in place to pre- clude potential conicts of interest. “The Regents’ role is oversight,” he said in an e-mail. “It’s up to the Treasurer’s Ofce to make decisions about specic investments, investment managers or investment management rms.” According to board policy, alleged con- icts of interest are referred to the Ofce of the President’s General Counsel, who “shall immediately bring the matter to the attention of the Chair of the Regents’ Committee on Investments.” Montiel added that given both the size of the company and the extent of the university’s retirement fund investments, >> A suspected gang member allegedly stabbed a man in the chest Thursday evening in West Berkeley, marking the city’s rst homicide of the year. Berkeley Police Department of- cers responded to the scene on the 2100 block of Cur- tis Street at about 7:40 p.m. Berkeley Fire Department paramedics trans- ported the victim to the Highland General Hospital in Oakland, where he was pronounced dead a few hours later, according to Berkeley police Of- cer Andrew Frankel. The suspect, 22-year-old Berkeley resident Kevin Aaron Alvarado, ed the scene in a vehicle, Frankel said. Police said Alvarado is a member of the West Side Berkeley gang, and it is believed he will attempt to ee the country. The gang was founded in the late 1970s and is the oldest existing gang in the city, Frankel said. Frankel added that police do not believe the stabbing was random or gang-motivated. “We’re in the process of dening the motive in this case,” he said. Tomer Ovadia Alvarado is described as male, 5 feet 7 inches and weighing 205 pounds. The homicide is the rst in Berkeley this year. There were six homicides in 2009 and eight in 2008, according to Frankel. Berkeley Safe Neighborhoods As- sociation President Jim Smith, who has lived in Berkeley for 40 years, said more attention needs to be given to the culture of Berkeley youth. “The overall solution really is to stop the potential of youngsters heading in that direction and really put them into some kind of meaningful productive activity that keeps them out of harm’s way in the rst place,” he said. Smith added that violent crimes were more prevalent before he joined other community members in bringing trou- bled households to small claims court and knocking on doors to raise awareness. “Starting about 1998, we started re- ally seeing a big, big change,” he said. “But prior to, let’s say, 10 years ago, we were experiencing drive-by shootings in the neighborhood all the time.” The Berkeley Police Department is urging anyone who may have informa- tion regarding the stabbing to call BPD Homicide Detail at (510) 981-5741 or (510) 981-5900. If callers wish to re- main anonymous, they are asked to call the Bay Area Crime Stoppers Tip Line (BACS) at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). illustration/evan walbridge Nanofibers Turn Movement into Electricity Walking to class may not be such an energy drain in the near future, accord- ing toUC Berkeley researchers who are developing “nanogenerators” that may eventually power small electronic de- vices by utilizing body movements. In a study published Feb. 10 in the journal Nano Letters, an international Gabby Fastiggi team led by Liwei Lin, a campus profes- sor of mechanical engineering, outlines specic properties of the nanobers that can convert human energy into electric- ity. Though the concept of piezoelectrics has been researched for years, the newest study describes how it could eventually be implemented in daily life, Lin said. “These nanobers can create a current when put under mechanical strain,” he said. “Human movements can create this strain on clothes to gen- erate electricity.” According to the study, the produc- tion of nanobers is similar to process- es used in existing industries. “The fabrication process is simple and scalable, similar to those widely used for dyeing bers and fabrics in the textile industry,” according to the study. But researchers developed the new Students from across Northern California will file suit against the University of California Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn Proposition 209 and re-establish affirmative action programs at the university. In a press con- ference held Monday on the UC Berkeley campus, the plaintiffs said that the 1996 ballot initiative unfairly discrimi- nates against ethnic minority students and should be declared unconstitutional. The suit, filed on behalf of 55 university, high school and middle school students from Northern California, names the UC Board of Regents, UC President Mark Yudof and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as defendants in the suit. A court date has yet to be set. “California stands as a backwater keeping out minority students,” said Tania Kappner, a UC Berkeley graduate and founding member ofBy Any Means Necessary (BAMN). According toUC spokesperson Steve Montiel, the university is attempting to increase access to all populations while still abiding by Prop. 209. “We’re doing everything possible to ensure the widest possible access to UC—through the Blue and Gold program and other student aid initiatives,” he said in an e-mail. Prop. 209, which was passed by California voters after the UC Board of Regents voted to ban affirmative action in 1996, prohibits prefer- ential treatment based on race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin. A federal appeals court upheld the proposition the following year. Though the board reversed its ban on the policy in 2001, only underrepresented groups such as rural or disabled students can petition the university for preferential admissions cri- teria, said George B. Washington, lead legal counsel for the plaintiffs. “Minorities are the only group who are legally barred from requesting a special admissions policy,” he said. —Jordan Bach-Lombardo allyse bacharach/contributor Tomer Ovadia is the city news editor. Contact him at tovadia@dailycal.org. >> A controversial UC Berkeley admin- istration effort to identify structural in- efciencies and implement cost-saving measures released an interim report Friday. Launched by campus ofcials last October, “Operational Excellence” is currently in the diagnostic stage, in which data on cam- pus processes is being gathered. Accord- ing to the report released by the Opera- tional Excellence Steering Committee, ZachE.J. Williams >> Listen to plaintiffs and supporters speaking at the press conference. ZachE.J. Williams talks about the interim report released on Friday. 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Williams is the university news editor. Contact him at zwilliams@dailycal.org. nanogenerators using different tech- niques than previous research, Lin said. He said in previous studies, re- searchers used “inorganic” materials that were limited by the material com- position of the bers. The new nanobers are made from organic materials that are not only more comfortable for those wearing the de- vices but can also “be deposited orderly with unlimited length with good place- ment precision,” Lin said in an e-mail. “The key advance made in our work is the enhancement of energy conver- sion efciency to 20 percent,” he said. But Lin said further research is needed in order to determine how to manufacture clothing that could pow- er small handheld electronics, such as a cell phone or an iPod. “The power from the prototype - ber nanogenerator is too low to power electrical devices,” Lin said. “One can assemble many nanobers together to power electrical devices in the future, such as an electrical watch.” Chieh Chang, a UC Berkeley gradu- ate in mechanical engineering and lead author of the study, said in an e-mail that researchers are looking into ways to improve the nanogenerators, such as ad- justing the composition of the material. “There are a lot of aspects we are looking into to enhance the efciency even more,” Chang said in an e-mail. In addition to developing more ef- cient materials, Chang said researchers are in the process of making the con- cept of electric clothing more feasible. “Although it’s not clear at this stage what kind of movement could generate the power needed for real applications in clothing, we expect a material to be produced within three years that is fully functional, exible and wearable,” he said in the e-mail. CLOTHING: Contact Gabby Fastiggi at gfastiggi@dailycal.org. While an ofcial U.S. Department of Justice investigation may clear Boalt Hall School of Law professor John Yoo of professional misconduct, a group of legal experts insists that an ongoing civil suit against him proceed to trial. In amicus briengs led before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, university law professors and prominent attorneys have expressed support for the suit brought by convict- ed terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen. Yoo is currently appealing an earlier decision that upheld the suit that seeks $1 in damages and a judg- ment that Yoo was responsible for au- thorizing the alleged torture of Padilla. The suit centers around Yoo’s actions as a deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, as he authored several legal memos stating the legality of interrogation methods such as water- boarding, exposure to non-lethal insects and the use of stress positions. Yoo has defended his actions during the administration, saying that he only provided legal advice that was within the connes of federal law. He did not respond to a requestfor comment. But according to a Jan. 23 amicus brief led by some of the experts in support of Padilla, Yoo took a more ac- tive role in formulating policy. Michael Pearlman “Defendant Yoo did not merely give wrong advice in performing customary legal duties,” the brief stated. “(He) act- ed outside of his legal role altogether by participating directly in the formulation of policy that gave rise to the deprivation of (Padilla’s) constitutional rights.” UC Davis law professor Cruz Rey- noso—who led the Jan. 23 brief along with six other legal experts—said that Yoo offered legal advice that justied illegal policies. “It’s like a lawyer saying he is using his best judgment that the administra- tion can go out and murder someone,” Reynoso said. Padilla was arrested eight years ago in Chicago for allegedly plotting to detonate a radioactive “dirty” bomb. He was ulti- mately convicted on an unrelated charge of conspiracy to commit terrorism abroad and sentenced to 17 years in prison. During his connement in a naval brig in North Carolina, Padilla alleged that he was tortured due to the legal ad- vice that Yoo provided for the Bush ad- ministration, which authorized the in- terrogation techniques used on Padilla. According to the Washington Post and Newsweek, a Justice Department investigation will nd that Yoo and Jay Bybee, another former Justice Depart- ment ofcial, exercised “poor judge- ment” but did not violate professional conduct standards. >> Representatives from the University of California, the city of Berkeley and the U.S. Census Bureau commenced a three-month publicity campaign in an effort to increase student awareness of the U.S. Census. In the beginning of February, the three bodies began a marketing campaign un- der the UC Berkeley Complete Count Committee to promote an accurate and complete counting of the student popu- lation for the 2010 Census in order to x problems stemming from erroneous re- sults during the 2000 Census. Under the campaign, the committee has created a Web site, started tabling on Upper Sproul Plaza and provided information to housing representatives, said Christina Markle, intern for the Ofce of Government and Community Relations in the Ofce of the Chancellor. Committee members will also display posters and distribute yers provided by the Alameda County government. The committee will educate stu- dents to clarify misconceptions, mainly the “myth” that students are counted in their hometown, said Joe Lee, census coordinator for the city of Berkeley. “A lot of students have the miscon- ception that their parents will take care of it,” he said. “You are counted where you currently reside, but many students think it is your permanent residence.” Bryn Jura >> BREAKFAST ALL DAY, EVERYDAY! Try our weekend Brunch special: The Alameda. Running to class? 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(Ofcer: “OK so we’re going to breathalyze you.” Me: “Ofcer, in all due respect, this is completely unnecessary—I’m going to blow way over the limit.”) Sad that I was missing out on my nal Big Game as a student, I slowly worked my way toward a tailgate some of my friends were crashing. After joining them, I worked my way to a picnic table that had remnants of a solid spread. Before I knew it, I was making friends and trying to gure out if there were any lawyers present who could help me nagle my way out of my citations. Well, there weren’t any lawyers, but there was someone else who was willing to cheer me up. I’m not really sure how it started, but either way I was joined at the table by a 40-something-year-old woman. (I should note that her age is up for debate. I’m going to say that I think she was 46, but one friend in attendance thinks she had an AARP card.) We were making what I thought was casual conversation. Note to the adventurous type: casual conversation for a cougar means the green light to have her hand slide onto your jeans. From there she jumped right into kissing me on the cheek and telling me that I was cute. Not in the “Oh, your photo in the yearbook is cute” way. Nope, she meant you’re cute in the “I want to do naughty things to you” way. She then got up and walked behind the table. With my body trembling, I swiveled my head around to see what she was up to. After making eye contact, the cougar immediately made this head bob motion, which translated to “meet me out back.” (I’m having trouble aptly describing the actual motion of the absurd head bob; if you see me strolling on campus, I give you full license to stop me and ask me exactly what it looked like.) In true form, I went ahead and met her out back. Our lips locked pretty fast upon my arrival, while a gropefest ensued in the background. In a matter of a couple of minutes, we decided to drive back to her place so we could get our freak on. So we started moving toward the parking lot hand-in-hand—I’m not going to lie, I felt really weird when people walked by and gawked at the sight of us together. Then my trip to hall-of-fame status hit a wall or, in this case, a sidewalk. Somehow she managed to get tripped up on an imaginary hurdle and rather uidly proceeded to fall into a face-plant. The cougar rolled onto her back and tried to get up. Epic fail. I had to eventually pull her up myself. A s we continued to walk to her car I came upon three disappointing realizations. 1. There is no way I’m in any shape to drive. 2. She might actually be blacked out—that’s not chill, bro. 3. She’s giving off this really funky odor. (Anyone see the irony here? I had the wherewithal to make those judgments, but apparently didn’t have the wits about me to watch a football game.) When we nally made it to the parking lot, I stopped her, pointed in the opposite direction and said, “I actually saw your car over there.” She had never actually described her car to me. Her: “No, it’s right over here.” Too late. I was already in a full-out dash trying to distance myself from making a regrettable decision. After I made it across the street, I quickly glanced over my shoulder to see her standing there agape and utterly bewildered. When I nally got out of sight I looked down at my hands and realized that I had run away with her designer shades. I have since given them to my sister—don’t tell her, though. U sually at this point in the column I have to take a certain stance on whatever story I just related and connect it to some larger point. I think I’m going to settle on encour- aging you all to hook up with someone much older than you. I don’t know if it will make you a better lover or whatever, but it will denitely make you the most popular kid in your circle of friends for a good week. OK, I guess we can also throw in how you should feel free to party hard, but also pause at times to make the responsible choice. Well, at least the semi-responsible one. Who am I kidding? Let’s just classify this one under pure entertainment that made your day a little bit brighter as your chem lecture glazes over you since you once again failed to do the reading. And yes Vagina Monologuers, I expect you to ll my inbox telling me how self-absorbed and depraved I am. I love my job. If you’re over 40 and need sunglasses, drop Mustafa a line at sex@dailycal.org Escaping the Cougar Den helen thai dmd www.helenthaidental.com *Oer valid while supplies last. Checkup and cleaning are required for the free teeth whitening oer. **Requires insurance eligibility. Start Spring With A Big Bright Smile! summer.berkeley.edu/travelstudy Summer Sessions CENSUS: The committee has planned two waves of census gathering, according to Markle. Students living in apart- ments will turn in their forms by April 1 on National Census Day, while uni- versity housing will host a three-day collection drive starting April 19. Each resident in a university housing unit will be sent a seven-question census form, Markle she said. Instead of mail- ing it in, residents will be directed to turn the form in a depository on location. Many university-affiliated hous- ing drop-off locations will offer gift incentives and rafes to encourage maximum participation, she added. “The (committee) was created be- cause in 2000, Berkeley lost thou- sands of counts, which amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to the city of Berkeley,” Markle said. According to Lee, each missed count costs the city about $1,000 in state funding. He said in 2000, only one resident was counted for Unit 2. Lee said a complete census count will ensure that Berkeley receives full funding for public programs, including Cal Grants, public safety and transpor- tation and public health resources. Members of the city, the university and the bureau formed the committee last summer. The committee collabo- rated with the ASUC groups, univer- sity-afliated housing and the campus division of the Graduate Assembly to implement the campaign and target on-campus residents. Martin Takimoto, committee chair and director of communication and marketing for residential and student service programs at UC Berkeley, said he hopes to see high student turnout. “This committee was made to in- crease the number of students who complete their census forms,” he said. Contact Bryn Jura at bjura@dailycal.org. REPORT: several potential areas have been iden- tied for cutting costs, such as stream- lining campus procurement processes, slimming down the administrative hi- erarchy as well as consolidating campus infrastructure and resources. The effort is being conducting with the advice of consulting rm Bain & Company—which has directed similar efforts at other universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—and will cost the campus ap- proximately $3 million, half of which will be paid this scal year, with the other half expected by campus ofcials to be paid through savings generated through the steering committee’s rec- ommendations. A nal report is expected later this spring. According to Vice Chancellor Frank Yeary, a member of the committee over- seeing the effort, reforming the campus procurement process may eventually save the campus millions of dollars. “We need to manage and put tools and practices in place that allow it to be easy for vendors to make and consolidate purchases to get bigger discounts,” he said. “This is a clear op- portunity that a lot of the campus com- munity can appreciate.” He added that new technologies may play an important role in shaving costs and creating greater efciency in the procurement process. “A cross-campus team has been in- vestigating and implementing ‘E-Pro- curement’ technology and functional- ity that will let people make purchases directly. Our team has already invested a lot of time and energy to encourage and enable that.” Uneven distribution of administra- tive staff may also be responsible for inefciencies, Yeary said. According to the interim report, 471 campus supervisors have one di- rect reporting employee and 307 have only two direct reports, while the two categories cumulatively account for 43 percent of campus supervisors. Such an organization implies “slower decision making,” which may lead su- pervisors to “not be challenged to fully utilize managerial skills,” according to the interim report. “(Administrative structure) is an area (in which) we can achieve much im- provement,” said Miguel Daal, graduate assembly president and a member of the committee. “It’s difcult to make those changes, difcult as in slow, because that’s reorganizing things, you want to do that as properly as possible.” Ryan Means, campus interim chief privacy and security ofcer, said many staff and faculty are paying attention to the progress of Operational Excel- lence and its eventual implications for the campus’s future structure. “It’s certainly what’s affecting us the most right now: the idea of what are the ndings going to be (and) what are we going to be doing as an organiza- tion,” Means said. Leah Moskovich and Mihir Zaveri of The Daily Californian contributed to this report. ZachE.J. Williams is the university news editor. Contact him at zwilliams@dailycal.org. YOO: The report was softened from its original version, which said Yoo and Bybee had violated their professional obligations, a conclusion that could have meant a referral tostate bar as- sociations for potential disciplinary ac- tion, Newsweek reported. According to Jesse Choper, a Boalt Hall law professor, there is legal prec- edent that may exonerate Yoo. He said a similar case brought against then-Attorney General John Ashcroft found that since he was not personally involved in the alleged tor- ture of terrorism suspect Abdullah Al-Kidd, Ashcroft could not be held legally liable. Padilla faces an “uphill” battle, Choper said. “It is not to say it can’t be done, but I would say the decision (in favor of Ash- croft) is quite favorable to the govern- ment’s position,” Choper said. “Unless (Yoo) specically engaged in the wa- terboarding you can’t get damages.” Contact Michael Pearlman at mpearlman@dailycal.org. This is trial version www.adultpdf.com I n recent years, Berkeley resi- dents have relied primarily on two newspapers for coverage of local happenings: The Daily Cali- fornian and The Berkeley Daily Planet. That was until last week, when our competitor announced that it will cease print production by the month’s end. It’s true that the version of the Planet that will remain—online and composed largely of reader- generated content—is not much different from what it’s been for nearly the last two years, with the exception of the once-weekly print edition. And it would be disingenuous to assert that the Planet was univer- sally recognized for its journalistic value. But to many in this commu- nity, it was a valuable forum, pro- viding ample opportunity for dis- cussion and engagement. In this capacity, its print demise is cer- tainly a loss for the city of Berkeley. In the Bay Area at large, print journalism is already rapidly declin- ing, with even The San Francisco Chronicle facing major financial hurdles. Independent papers have become even rarer, since the Bay Area News Group absorbed many local outlets. With the end of the Daily Planet as a newspaper, there is one fewer voice for readers to turn to—that’s bad for Berkeley and the tradition of local newspapers in general. On the other hand, the potential bright side of this story is the opportunity for innovation and change that it could bring for local journalists, professional and other- wise. Like the print journalism market in general, the possibilities are really wide open for new outlets and new voices. Though these up-and-comers may not be newspapers, we hope that they emerge in a form that’s accessible to residents and that serves the needs of the community in the way the Daily Planet did. In this way, we’re saddened by the loss of another local newspaper and hopeful that something new can take the Planet’s place for its loyal readership. Another Planet Eclipsed editorials W ithout even leaving a name, anonymous Web site com- menters have sparked a head-on conflict between The Colle- giate Times (Virginia Tech’s student newspaper) and an influential advi- sory committee on its campus. To make matters worse, the commis- sion’s unreasonable crusade has put thousands of dollars meant for cam- pus media on the line. The Times has a Web site filter that weeds out spam and pornogra- phy, but its allowance of anonymous commenting has provoked the anger of the University Commission on Student Affairs. Some offensive comments have led commission members to character- ize the newspaper’s monitoring of the system as irresponsible and the comments themselves as a misrepre- sentation of the university. And now the commission is asking university administrators to withhold an annual $70,000 contribution to the news- paper’s parent company, which over- sees all campus media. Such a monetary threat, especially in such a dire financial time, is a gross overreaction. Anonymous comments can cer- tainly be obnoxious, offensive or off- topic. But that doesn’t justify disal- lowing them altogether; we believe The Collegiate Times ought to con- tinue allowing anonymous com- menting, if that’s the policy preferred by the editors. The newspaper itself doesn’t even receive any direct money from the threatened contribution, although losing the money would presumably affect its free office space in the Stu- dent Union. So other outlets over- seen by the company, like the year- book and radio station, could lose funding for an issue they had noth- ing to do with. Also unlikely is the Commission’s belief that people simply assume that the commenters are Virginia Tech students or faculty, given that offen- sive comments can be found just about anywhere on the internet. And regardless, the university does not get to dictate what the comment- ing policy should be—that’s up to The Collegiate Times to decide. Withholding needed funds to unin- volved campus media outlets or ban- ning student groups from advertising in the paper are unfair solutions— plain and simple. Though anonymous comments may be offensive, that’s not reason enough to circumvent the indepen- dent editorial judgment of the cam- pus paper while harming the larger campus community in the process. Fair Comment CitY aFFairs The community will suffer from the loss of The Berkeley Daily Planet as a valuable forum for residents’ perspectives. NatioNal aFFairs Offensive anonymous comments on campus newspaper’s Web site do not justify withholding funds for other outlets. Awareness and Power in ‘Monologues’ Opinion Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Daily Californian Drop in state and federal funding for higher education in 2008-09 58,027 More California students are enrolled in public institutions than last year 1.2 percent Decrease in revenue per student last year for California public institutions numbers by the $2.8 billion It’s that time of year. Images and ideals of relationships are abounding. “Love is in the air.” While many of us are under the spell of our sweet- hearts, in the haze of gifts and romance others suffer from anxiety and walk in fear for their safety. February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. With rape and domestic violence occurring at alarming rates on this campus and colleges across the coun- try, women have more to fear than Cupid’s attack. “The Vagina Monologues” brings UC Berkeley by Kolieka Seigle back into focus. Written by award-winning author Eve Ensler, “The Vagina Monologues” is an episodic celebration of women. Seeking to raise consciousness, the monologues explore and embrace sex- uality and promote female empower- ment. This is not your standard run of the mill static presentation. It is a dynamic one. Insightful, thought-pro- voking, and taboo, each monologue will touch a different part of your soul. With topics ranging from rape and genital mutilation to shaving and tampons, some will make you laugh out loud, others will bring you to illustration/EriC WonG tears and many will cause you to think. “The Vagina Monologues” has been performed on college campuses around the world. It has inspired V-Day, a global movement to bring an end to violence against women. Violence transcends race, wealth and culture. In the public sphere and in their homes, in times of war and in times of peace, women are brutally attacked, raped and killed. Spotlighting the atrocities women have faced all over the world, V-Day inspires communities to raise aware- ness and envisions change in our con- sciousness. The impact of V-Day at UC Berkeley goes beyond the stage. We have established a community, work- ing towards a common goal. A “Cunt” Mailing Address: P.O. 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As far as the goals of the library, what we seek is to serve our patrons. Everyone has their own beliefs, theological, atheologi- cal—as if it matters, I am a non-theist and I check books out to Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, the list continues. Historical conflicts are irrelevant. As a matter of fact, your photographer asked that I pose in front of some “reli- gious art.” I told her “No,” and then led her downstairs to a piece of brilliant cal- ligraphy created by Ronald Nakasone, of one of the GTU’s affiliates. I’d want to be photographed in front of his work regardless of his faith. UC Berkeley and the GTU have a relationship—there are library privileg- es, cross-registration privileges galore. Even one of Cal’s distinguished faculty members is seated on my Thesis Committee. I am disappointed in the subjective assumptions of the Daily Cal. Stepping into the library and taking a gander will not yield knowledge about the GTU. I thought a Cal student might know that. Lauren Byrne GTU employee I missed an opportunity to talk to Chancellor Birgeneau the other after- noon. The lady two places ahead of me at the CVS Pharmacy had just bought a few small potted flowers and some other things and was paying for them when he came in to help her carry them to the car. I quickly recognized the chancellor but did not want to interrupt his free- dom in anonymity to be himself. But I realize I should have in order to press my point of view. So, here it is, belat- edly, now. I retired from working as a comput- er programmer at UC Berkeley almost four years ago, and still feel very good about having worked there and still think very highly of the university. I know the chancellor also loves the uni- versity and wants the best for it. Now, because of the California state budget crisis, Chancellor Birgeneau is forced into this untenable position between forced state cuts and the fac- ulty, staff and students who desire to maintain the university as one of the greatest experiments in free higher education in the world. We need the chancellor in Sacramento as our advocate. We need him on our side. We need Chancellor Birgeneau ask- ing everyone in not just UC Berkeley but UC systemwide to sign petitions, collect petitions, contribute money for and spread the word about the California Democracy Act. The entire proposition we are Richard Tamm attempting to get on the November ballot is just 14 words: “All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote.” It was written by our own university’s George Lakoff. And time is precious and urgent: we need a minimum of 700,000 signatures (we are aiming for 1,300,000 because a fairly large per- centage may get rejected) by early April to qualify for the ballot. We need Chancellor Birgeneau on our side, speaking at the March 4 stu- dent demonstrations, urging all to help with this petition because this petition is one of the best hopes we have of sav- ing our state. This proposition reverses part of a law passed in 1933 changing the bud- get passage requirement from a major- ity to two-thirds, and also reverses part of Proposition 13 passed in 1978 changing the raising of revenues requirement from a majority to two- thirds. The passage of this proposition would restore democracy to our state, where a majority of us voters elect a majority of the legislators who are then responsible for voting on revenue and budget. A quick math explanation (Excuse me, I was a math major.): the current two-thirds vote requirement means that one-third plus 1 legislator in either the state Senate or the state Assembly stops all forward progress on budget and revenue dead until this minority is satisfied. In other words, it’s minority rule. So, the current two-thirds require- ment is much less democratic than a simple majority. And this minority has become one that believes in “starving the beast” (reducing government, how- ever painfully), reducing or eliminat- ing social welfare supports, public education, etc. and not allowing fair and sensible taxation, especially of cor- porations and the wealthy. For example, because of the two- thirds vote requirement, we cannot get an extraction tax passed in California. California gives away the oil and gas that comes out of the ground. Even states like Alaska and Texas have fairly robust extraction taxes on oil and gas, and they use this money to help sup- port their schools, social welfare sys- tems, etc. Because of the current two-thirds vote requirements, we have seen a steady shift of taxation from corpora- tions and the wealthy onto the middle and lower classes in our annual attempts to satisfy the controlling par- tisan and ideological minority. Chancellor Birgeneau, please con- sider my request and come to the aid of our great state university system about which I know you also care deeply, as well as to the aid of our once great state. Help us remove the yoke of minority rule by working with us to pass the California Democracy Act. Thank you. I hope to hear you speaking on March 4 and working with us to get this much-needed initia- tive onto the ballot. See www.ca4democracy.com for more information. Richard Tamm is a Berkeley resident. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org. To Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, UC President Mark Yudof, California Legislators and UC Board of Regents: This is a call to regulate closed ses- sions by legislative bodies of the Associated Students of the University of California. Various California laws express the clear opinion that open meetings are a vital part of democratic government. The Brown Act ensures local govern- ments conduct their business publicly and has included community colleges by an Attorney General opinion in 1992. The Bagley-Keene Act lays out proce- dures all state agencies—including the UC Regents—must follow in closing a meeting. The Gloria Romero Open Meetings Act applies to the governing councils of all Cal State schools. The only public higher education leg- islative council in this state unregulated by an open meeting act is ASUC. While existing laws could have been applicable to ASUC, a 1983 Attorney General opin- ion exempted bodies with powers dele- gated by the regents. As a result of this decision, the letter of the law permits our student representatives to conduct business as secretly as they like. With representatives elected by the The Daily Nexus editorial staff students and multi-million dollar bud- gets of student fees to spend at their discretion, ASUC cannot be described as anything less than a legitimate gov- ernment. This alone necessitates trans- parency, but the need for oversight has been compounded by recent incidents. ASUC at UC Santa Barbara’s Legislative Council has abused the power to eject the public, holding closed meetings for the second consecutive week without offering sufficient rationale for their clo- sure. Regardless of the subject matter of these closed sessions, it is disturbing that the group entrusted with student money and governance has no legal obligation to conduct business openly. Further allegations have plagued ASUC at UCSB (ASUCSB), including the alleged trashing of a rented villa while on a student fee-funded retreat. Where the transparency promised on the campaign trail should compel the responsible individuals to admit their mistakes, the public has instead been kept entirely in the dark as ASUCSB members close ranks in an attempt to protect them behind legal procedure and stonewalling. Student demands for accountability can be heard loud and clear—a Facebook group titled “Hold Associated Students accountable for their actions” garnered almost 1,400 members a day after its creation. In this current budget crisis, students bristle at the idea of ASUC spending their fees without any form of public oversight. An open meet- ing act geared toward UC student gov- ernment would regulate when and how ASUC can hold a closed session, rather than allow them to do so whenever they would prefer to legislate unsupervised. As guardians of the integrity and rep- utation of the University of California, we urge you to join with us in support- ing legislation to hold UC student gov- ernment to the same accountability standards to which other California public higher education student govern- ments must adhere. Transparency in the legislative, fiscal and ethical arenas is vital to the quality and credibility of this university, and it is appalling that these abuses by student government have gone unchecked until now. By propos- ing an amendment to an existing open meeting act or drafting a new act specif- ically designed to keep ASUC publicly accountable, we can ensure that our student governments answer to the people they claim to represent. The Daily Nexus is the student newspaper ofUC Santa Barbara. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org. vagina: community, that has brought together women from all walks of life. We have developed lasting friendships and cre- ated a brave space of unrelenting sup- port. Self proclaimed “Vagina war- riors,” take the message of V-Day throughout the campus and into the greater community. We strive to turn personal pain into power. “The Vagina Monologues” has inspired me to tap into my vagina power, taught me to challenge the status quo and to believe in what seems impossible. I have vowed to continue my work as a sexual and domestic violence peer educator with renewed fervor. Each of us can do our part in this movement. Each of us can help destroy the myths around sexual violence, change the social climate and end the silence. Everyone must take part in the solution. UC Berkeley’s production has made record-breaking strides. “The Vagina Monologues” at UC Berkeley raised over $24,000 for local beneficiaries last year alone. The proceeds of this weekend’s performance will benefit A Safe Place women’s center in Oakland, the Pacific Center and the Gender Equity Resource Center on campus. The magnitude of this pro- duction is felt intensely and locally. The centers depend on this contribu- tion. They depend on this movement. After the curtains have closed and we have given our final bows, V-Day is a call to action. “The Monologues” are a catalyst for change. With domestic violence and rape seen in record numbers on college campuses, the struggle for justice must go on, “Until the violence stops.” Kolieka Seigle is a UC Berkeley student. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org. ? Got SOMETHING to say letters to the editor This is trial version www.adultpdf.com FILL OUT YOUR FAFSA NOW! Submit your FAFSA by March 2, 2010 at www.fafsa.ed.gov BLUE+GOLD HAS YOU COVERED. PARENTS MAKE $70,000 OR LESS? FINANCIAL AID. GET YOURS. The Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan ensures that you have enough grants to cover your systemwide fees. 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Wednesday, February 17th 7:00 PM MLK Student Union 4th floor, Tan Oak Room FREE ADMISSION For more information, contact tikvahsfi@gmail.com 6 SPORTS Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Daily Californian looking as mortal as Bruce Wayne. But as in the comic books, sidekicks are allowed vulnerability—the Dark Knight is not. “The one thing I learned from my teammates is if it were them, they would come back on the oor, so I tried to do the same things for them,” Gray-Lawson said. With Cal’s timeout and a quick media timeout, the senior had enough time to get re-taped and back into the game. The Huskies only managed one point before Gray-Lawson was back on the court. Even though she favored her right ankle for the rest of the contest, Gray- Lawson nished the game—overtime period, included. And she continued to be effective. After her injury, Gray-Lawson gingerly knocked down one of her ve three-pointers and contributed eight more points to hold off the Huskies. But what happens when Batman doesn’t make his triumphant return? When Alexis Gray-Lawson isn’t able to dig deep and take the court? Earlier in the contest, the Bears got a taste of a world without their crime- ghting superhero. Gray-Lawson, who accounted for 14 of Cal’s rst 16 points, picked up three early fouls and left the Bears un- protected for the nal nine minutes of the rst half. In that time, Washington tallied eight unanswered points, took the lead and nished the half up ve. But as is customary in Gotham, the superhero swooped in at the last minute to save the day. Gray-Lawson returned in the second half and added another 20 points—ve of which came in extra minutes—en route to her 35- point effort. Batman vanquished the villain, Cal improved to 8-5 in the conference and all was right in Gotham. But Batman didn’t escape unscathed. “I am in pain,” Gray-Lawson said. “We have a day off and some time before the next game so we’ll just x it and get back to work.” Batman was condent in her recovery, but Sunday’s overtime effort proved that Gotham won’t survive the perils of the postseason without the Caped Crusader. Stanford is, after all, much more daunting than even the most villain- ous adversaries. Be whatever Gotham needs you to be with Caroline at sports@dailycal.org. M. HOOpS: His activity seemed contagious. Cal hounded Washington State (15-10, 5-8) on defense after break, forcing its opponent into 37-percent shooting from the eld after the Cougars made 65.4 percent of their attempts in the rst half. Sophomore guard Klay Thompson poured in 23 points in the rst half but scored ve after halftime, missing all three of his shots from beyond the arc after going 5-of-5 before the break. “He made his rst shot, but it was al- most as if nobody was guarding him,” Christopher said. “With a shooter like that, you have to contest all of his shots. Once we were able to key in on him, lo- cate him and chase him off screens we did a better job of containing him.” The Bears, who took their rst lead of the second half on Jerome Randle’s three-pointer with 10:35 remaining, closed the game on a 15-0 run. Wash- ington State didn’t score after Nikola Koprivica’s offensive rebound and put- back with 4:03 left in the game. The Bears trailed at halftime, 45-34, unable to avenge an early 12-2 run by Washington State, but they outscored Ken Bone’s squad by 27 points in the second half. They shot 22 of their 24 free throws after the break, one of sev- eral signs that they responded well to Randle’s mid-game ultimatum. “I just wanted everyone to know if we came out the same as the rst half, we would lose,” Randle said. Thanks to Gutierrez, they didn’t do either. Contact Jeff Goodman at jgoodman@dailycal.org. The Daily Californian is certied Green! This is trial version www.adultpdf.com 3D<<H Mankl]Zr%FZr,%+))0 Ma^=Zber<Zeb_hkgbZg #4532 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 21 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 61 60 62 63 64 65 66 67 ACROSS 1. Chocolate substitute 6. Help in crime 10. Strike 14. Game site 15. Fly high 16. Part of a horse!s collar 17. Ore sources 18. Custodian 20. Terrorist org. 21. __ machine 23. Auguries 24. Root vegetable 25. “Merry Old Soul” of nursery rhyme 27. Bawl out 30. Whittle 31. ENE plus 90° 34. Spanish passion 35. Ventilated 36. 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The ordi- nance requires gas shut-off devices to be installed for newly constructed residential buildings, at point of sale, and when remodeling exceeds $50,000 in valuation. The ordinance provides for two classes of auto- matic earthquake shut-off valves: 1) Motion activated valves, and 2) Excess flow valves. The public can submit comments on the Draft until Monday, February 22, 2010, or request additional information by contacting Danita Hardaway, Associate Management Analyst, Planning and Development Department at 981-7407 or via email at dhardaway@ci.berkeley.ca.us. Publish: 2/16/10 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME No. RG09482969 In the Matter of the Application of Karen Kho and Wernher Rober Schorlemmer for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioners Karen Kho and Wernher Rober Schorlemmer filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Karen Kho to Karen Castellvi and Wernher Rober Schorlemmer to Robert Castellvi. THE COURT ORDERS that all per- sons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hear- ing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING: 3/12/10, at 11:00 AM in Dept. #31, at 201 13th Street, Oakland, CA. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspa- per of general circulation, printed, in this county: The Daily Californian in Berkeley, California. Dated: Novemeber 4, 2009 Yolanda N. Northridge Judge of the Superior Court Publish: 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16/10 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 09-0108695 Title Order No. 09-8-311605 APN No. 065-2625-015-02 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 12/06/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.” Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pur- suant to the Deed of Trust executed by VIKRAM AGGARWAL, AN UNMARRIED MAN, dated 12/06/2006 and recorded 12/13/06, as Instrument No. 2006454922, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Alameda County, Stateof California, will sell on 03/02/2010 at 12:00PM, At the Fallon Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and inter- est conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other com- mon designation, if any of the real property described above is pur- ported to be: 1605 MARIN AVENUE, ALBANY, CA, 94707. The under- signed Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common desig- nation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obliga- tion secured by the property to be sold plus reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $877,097.77. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, sav- ings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances there- under, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of sec- tion 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mort- gagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale duly recorded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office. DATED: 10/28/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY,N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FEI # 1006.83288 Publish: 2/2, 2/9, 2/16/10 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 433565 The name of the business: VRS Metal Fabrication, street address 2177 American Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545, mailing address 25125 Santa Clara Street #211, Hayward, CA 94545 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): Victor Sickenger, 25125 Santa Clara Street #211, Hayward, CA 94545. This business is conducted by an Individual. The registrant began to transact business under the fictitious busi- ness name(s) listed above on 1/2/10. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on January 14, 2010. VRS Metal Fabrication Publish: 2/8, 2/16, 2/22, 3/1/10 Notice is hereby given that sealed competitive bids will be accepted in the office of the GSA-Purchasing Department, County of Alameda, 1401 Lakeside Drive, 8th Floor, Suite 800, Oakland, CA 94612 MANDATORY NETWORKING/ PROPOSERS CONFERENCE- N. COUNTY RFP/SOQ - Highland Hospital ATR Project Inspector of Record Services (REBID), Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. – General Services Agency, 1401 Lakeside Drive, Room 1107, 11th Floor, Oakland, CA OPTIONAL SITE TOUR – N. COUNTY RFP/SOQ - Highland Hospital ATR Project Inspector of Record Services (REBID), Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. - Highland Hospital Cafeteria, 1411 East 31st Street , Oakland, CA Attendance at the Mandatory Networking/ Proposers Conference is required Responses Due by 2:00 pm on March 30, 2010 County Contact : Fawaz Khanachet at (510) 208-9824 or via email: fawaz.khanachet@ acgov.org Information regarding the above may be obtained at the Current Contracting Opportunities Internet website at www.acgov.org. CNS-1794970# Publish: 2/16/10 Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be accepted in the office of the Alameda County Redevelopment Agency, 224 W. Winton Avenue, Room 110, Hayward, CA NETWORKING/BIDDERS CONFERENCE – S. COUNTY RFP CDA RDA 2010/01, ARCHITECTURAL/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES, Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 10:00 a.m., Alameda County Redevelopment Agency, 224 W. Winton Avenue, Room 109, Hayward, CA NETWORKING/ BIDDERS CONFERENCE – S. COUNTY RFP CDA RDA 2010/01, ARCHITECTURAL/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES, Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 3:00 p.m., Alameda County Redevelopment Agency, 224 W. Winton Avenue, Room 109, Hayward, CA Responses Due by 4:00 pm on March 26, 2010 County Contact: Matt Weber (510) 670-6164 or via email: Matt.Weber@acgov.org Information regarding the above may be obtained at the Alameda County Current Contracting Opportunities Internet website at www.acgov.org. CNS-1794988# Publish: 2/16/10 E>@:EL iahg^3.*)& 1&1,))_Zq3.*)&1-2&+1),e^`Zel9]Zber\Ze'hk` 7 SPORTS & LEGALS Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Daily Californian The feeling of dissatisfaction, fol- lowed by an overall sense of optimism, surrounded the Cal women’s tennis team after its performance in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. Coach Amanda Augustus and her team had hoped for a nals appearance and a possible tournament victory, but the Bears were defeated 4-3 by third- ranked Northwestern in the seminal on Sunday in Madison, Wisc. “We were denitely disappointed after losing in the seminal, especially when it was so close,” junior Mari An- dersson said. “At the same time though, by Jeff Carillo Contributing Writer we feel that we weren’t as condent in ourselves heading into the tournament. Now, we believe in our potential and we feel that we’re a stronger team.” The Bears will return home to re- sume conference play on Monday, against Arizona State at 1:30 p.m. Augustus was particularly pleased with her team’s doubles play, especially from her top team of Andersson and sophomore Jana Juricova. The defending NCAA doubles cham- pions, who have struggled to recapture their title form thus far, went 3-0 over the weekend against the No. 1 doubles teams from Georgia Tech, UCLA and Northwestern. Andersson and Juricova were most impressive against the No. 10 ranked team of Andrea Remynse and Yasmin Schnack, as they earned a dominating 8-1 victory over a team that defeated the pair earlier this season. “I was denitely happy with our doubles play,” Augustus said. “(Ander- sson and Juricova) looked like they were back in their top form from last year, which bodes well for us going into the remainder of the season.” The third-year coach was also pleased with the performance from her No. 2 team of junior Marina Cos- sou and senior Kasia Siwosz. Cossou and Siwosz went undefeated over the weekend, winning all three of their matches, while freshmen Annie Goransson and Tayler Davis went 1-2 in their matches. In singles play, Augustus felt her team had a good start during the semi- nal match. She said the team needs to improve its aggressiveness when nishing off points, as well as serve more effectively during matches. “There’s plenty of stuff that we need to work on in order to get better,” she said, “but at the same time, we’re not looking to peak right now and have everything be perfect. We still accom- plished a lot and we sent a strong mes- sage to the other teams that we will be a tough team to deal with come time for the NCAA championships.” Juricova said that this weekend’s performance was the best of the dual season considering the strength of the competition. With more work, she said, the team can take the extra step and advance to the nals during na- tional championships in May. Contact Jeff Carillo at jcarillo@dailycal.org. Tennis Cal 3 Northwestern 4 The Daily Californian is a fully adjudicated paper in Alameda County. Call our legals department today: 510-548-8300 We post legals. This is trial version www.adultpdf.com SPORTS Berkeley, California Tuesday, February 16, 2010 www.dailycal.org >> Keep your poise under pressure with Jimmy at sports@dailycal.org. Overtime Win Shows Need for Bears’ Batman On Sunday in Seattle—a place fa- mous for its rain—Alexis Gray-Lawson made it pour. The Cal women’s basket- ball team’s star splashed 35 points on Washington in a 75-68 overtime victory at Bank of America Are- na. And she did it on one leg. “Alexis is a big-time player,” coach Joanne Boyle said. “She shows up when we need her in big games. (It) was one of those nights when we weren’t get- ting points in other ways, and she re- ally reads that and just sort of takes over games.” With the Bears down, 56-53, Gray- Lawson drove toward the free throw line with a Washington defender in tow and one oncoming. The senior jump-stopped at the line, sending the rst defender whizzing by her and go- ing up and under the other. On the plant, Gray-Lawson tweaked her right ankle but still managed to rise up off one foot to bring her team within a point with 4:41 to play. Unable to put pressure on the foot, Gray-Lawson was helped off the oor. After a quick evaluation, Gray-Law- son’s ankle was taped then suited with a lace-up brace. At 2:55 Gray-Lawson checked herself back in, limping, gri- macing and looking as if she were hold- ing back tears with every step. “The one thing I learned from my teammates is if it were them, they by Joseph Cannon Contributing Writer would come back on the oor, so I tried to do the same things for them,” Gray-Lawson said. The senior put Cal up by three with time winding down, but the Huskies’ Sami Whitcomb tied the game as time expired with a long three in the corner. In overtime, though, Gray-Lawson hit a fadeaway three of NBA length, followed by two free throws to put the game out of Washington’s reach. “I have had some games where I have been slipping up a little bit, and my teammates told me to get back into it,” Gray-Lawson said. The senior picked it up from the get-go, scoring 14 of the Bears’ rst 16 points before picking up her third foul with 8:41 left in the rst. Until Rachelle Federico came in for the last few minutes of the half, it seemed that Cal wasn’t interested in shooting. Washington closed out the half on a 10-3 run. The Bears (14-10, 8-5 in the Pac- 10) did better in the second with their leader back on the oor, but Cal did not have a defensive answer on the block. Boyle said Cal pressed for most of the game to try to keep the ball out of the paint. The press eventually paid dividends, as Washington (9-14, 4-9) committed two costly shot-clock viola- tions in overtime. “I thought the kids did a good job having to press the entire games,” Boyle said. “Their three at the end could have been a momentum changer, but we withstood that in overtime.” Freshman guard Layshia Clarendon had 14 points on 2-of-3 shooting from beyond the arc in the Bears’ overtime victory against Washington on Sunday afternoon in Seattle. the daily evergreen/courtesy Contact Joseph Cannon at jcannon@dailycal.org. Cal 75 Washington 68 I n a world without Batman, the villain wins. When there’s no cloaked super- hero to protect Gotham from the ne’er- do-wellers of the world, chaos ensues. And with ve minutes left in Sun- day’s game against Washington, the Huskies held a one-point lead, the Bat Signal was in the sky, and yet the Caped Crusader was absent from the court. Alexis Gray-Lawson, whom Cal women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle dubbed the Batman of the season, was sitting in the Batcave with an ankle injury. With ve minutes left in the game, Gray-Lawson tweaked her right ankle on a jump shot. (Note: Playing like a composed veteran, Gray-Lawson still netted the shot and cut the lead to just one point before falling to the oor, clutching her right ankle.) The sight of Gray-Lawson falling brought back memories of her season- ending ACL injury at the start of what would have been her sophomore year. Back then, as Boyle put it, Gray- Lawson played the Robin to Ashley Walker and Devanei Hampton. The newly-named Batman was >> caroline ogawa Point guard Jerome Randle drives the lane against Cougars guard Xavier Thames in the Bears’ victory on Saturday at Haas Pavilion. anna vignet/contributor Patrick Christopher entered Satur- day’s post-game press conference, sat down and immediately put his arm around Jorge Gutierrez. Gutierrez had catapulted the Cal men’s basketball team to a come-from- behind 86-70 victory over Washington State at Haas Pavilion, complement- ing his usual defensive intensity with a career-high scoring effort. by Jeff Goodman Daily Cal Staff Writer His energy was a catalyst in a win that gave the Bears (17-8, 9-4 in the Pac-10) a season sweep of the Cou- gars and, perhaps more importantly, kept them in rst place in the conference standings. “He changed the game,” Je- rome Randle said. Randle had 24 points on 6-of-9 three-point shooting, Chris- topher scored 19 and forward Jamal Boykin added 18 points and 11 re- bounds for the Bears, but their second- half comeback seemed largely due to the efforts of Gutierrez. The sophomore guard had a personal-best 15 points to go along with six assists, four rebounds and four steals in 34 minutes. “I just enjoy being on the court with my teammates, playing hard,” he said. You Thought Cal Couldn’t Be Aggressive? Jimmy tran W hen the halftime buzzer sounded, thousands of fans rained a chorus of boos onto the court. They were directed at the refs, not at Cal. The Bears were in striking distance and no one in Haas Pavilion was vis- ibly worried. Even if coach Mike Montgomery’s squad had played 20 minutes of bas- ketball that seemed to cement many of the issues critics had pointed out about the team. Cal just isn’t mentally tough, they said. The Bears are all about nesse and can’t play physically. Given an option, the players would rather settle for a jump shot than take it to the rim. They can’t win coming from behind. Cal knows how to shoot the ball and not much else. If all these criticisms rang true, how could the Bears possibly mount a comeback? Something happened though, on the very rst play of the second half. Patrick Christopher turned down a shot, and instead, drove the ball to the hoop and drew a foul. The fans acknowledged it right away and started getting loud. In a single play, Cal sent a message to the Cougars. This was going to be their half, and there was nothing Washington State could do about it. No strategy change was necessary. What did change then? Montgomery said it. Jerome Randle said it. Cougars coach Ken Bone said it. The Bears became the aggressors. And like that, each and every mis- conception broke down. Teams that aren’t mentally tough let the referees get into their heads. Cal never complained about a whistle. Finesse teams try to win on skill alone and refuse to do the dirty work. Yet there was Jorge Gutier- rez making hustle plays. There was Christopher ghting through screens and making life difcult for Klay Thompson after the Washington State sophomore torched him in the rst half. There were the Bears jumping the passing lane, contesting shots and forcing the issue around the rim. Randle had been blocked literally more than a handful of times but continued to attack the paint. All season long, Cal hadn’t won a game after trailing at the midway mark. Not on Saturday. The Bears outscored Washington Stateby 27 points in the second half and took another big step in its jour- ney to becoming the rst Cal squad to win the conference in 50 years. No, this game didn’t change much, but it did show that the Bears aren’t the team the doubters pinned them to be. All they had to do was talk to one of the many fans in attendance Saturday afternoon. For them, the outcome, and this team’s true character, was never in doubt. Washington State 70 Cal 86 Beat writer Jimmy Tran discuss the implications of the Bears’ comeback. W. SWIM RUGBY W. POLO ONLINE CHECK SOFTBALL W. GOLF TRACK & FIELD ONLINE CHECK This is trial version www.adultpdf.com . Independent papers have become even rarer, since the Bay Area News Group absorbed many local outlets. With the end of the Daily Planet as a newspaper, there is one fewer voice for readers to. 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