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ASUC Leaders to Begin After Summer of Prep

Impact of Endorsements On Council Race Uncertain

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Ricardo Gomez hopes to encourage social justice and unite students and workers during his time as ASUC External Affairs Vice President.DaviD HerscHorn/contributor

Throughout the summer, ASUC ex-ecutives elected last April made prepa-rations for the 2010-11 school year and continued working to address linger-ing issues facing UC Berkeley such as coping with budget cuts, renovating Lower Sproul Plaza and improving student relations between the admin-istration and the community.

Outreach From Berkeley to HaitiASUC President Noah Stern re-

turned from Haiti Aug. 22, where he and 19 other students and faculty members from across the UC system spent about a week and a half assess-ing ways in which university faculty and students could help the nation re-coup from the devastating earthquake which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives earlier this year.

“Although the UCs don’t have a lot of money to send to Haiti, we do have a wealth of knowledge and expertise that could benefit the people of Haiti and help empower them to a stable re-covery,” he said in an e-mail.

Stern said the initiative will focus on six sectors: agriculture, arts and culture, economics and law, education,

engineering and health care. “It was clear to me after this trip we

all have an obligation to support Haiti in any way we can,” he said in the e-mail.

While in Berkeley earlier in the sum-mer, Stern signed a second Memoran-dum of Understanding with campus administrators regarding renovations to Lower Sproul. The memorandum guaranteed that the campus will compensate the ASUC for revenues lost during the construction project, provide alternative rehearsal space in Hearst Gymnasium for displaced student groups and create a single of-fice or position responsible for issuing event permits for the plaza.

“It’s hard to navigate all of the bu-reaucracy,” he said. “Having a single point of contact will streamline the process and make sure students can do their work.”

Training and Online UnificationResponsible for chairing senate meet-

ings, Executive Vice President Nanxi Liu trained incoming senators, worked with Stern to create the annual Advo-cacy Agenda and worked with the Cal Online Student Experience to launch a beta test site combining Tele-BEARS, BearFacts and other resources into one

Professor’s Critique of Public Education generates Buzz for Berkeley Blog

Public policy professor Michael O’Hare declared in a letter Monday that UC Berkeley students were being “swindled” out of a good education due to statewide inefficiencies.

The next day, his letter had received more than 50,000 hits between two blog sites and more than 150 com-

by Katie NelsonContributing Writer

ments from faculty and the UC Berke-ley community on the online campus forum, The Berkeley Blog.

The over-w h e l m i n g response to O’Hare’s letter generated plen-ty of buzz for the blog, setting records for both the number of hits and the number of

comments, said Sara Leavitt, a member of the web team for the blog. She hopes the blog’s popularity will continue.

“We want (the blog) to be provoca-tive and controversial,” she said. “The letter really hit a nerve. But that is the point of the blog — to be a two-way conversation and share the faculty’s wealth of knowledge. The fact that we are getting a lot of comments is very gratifying.”

The race to fill Berkeley City Coun-cil seats is more unpredictable this year than in the past as the city’s new ranked-choice voting system may have changed the weight carried by endorsements from labor unions, po-litical groups, individuals and other organizations.

Fourteen candidates are running for seats in Districts 1, 4, 7 and 8, occupied by incumbents Linda Maio, Jesse Ar-reguin, Kriss Worthington and Gor-don Wozniak, respectively. As the Nov. 2 elections approach — Berkeley’s first under the new voting system — en-dorsements may become increasingly important to building a strong coali-tion of support.

Under the new system, voters rank up to three candidates, who must re-ceive a majority of votes in order to win. Once the first-choice votes are tallied, if no winner emerges, the can-didate with the lowest number of votes

by Stephanie BaerContributing Writer

is eliminated. The eliminated candi-date’s first-ranked votes then go to the second-choice candidate. The process repeats if the condition to win is not yet met.

Mayor Tom Bates said endorse-ments give voters a “frame of refer-ence” for where a candidate lies on the political spectrum but added that no one endorsement defines a campaign.

‘A Fairly New Phenomenon’The introduction of the ranked-

choice voting system creates the “fairly new phenomenon” of dual endorse-ments, which were possible — but far less prevalent — before this election, according to Bates.

Bates, who has co-endorsed Dis-trict 4 candidates Jim Novosel and Eric Panzer and District 7 candidates George Beier and Cecilia Rosales, said dual endorsements increase the chanc-es of unseating incumbents Arreguin and Worthington.

Wozniak said the new system “levels

Balloons floated atop Wheeler Auditorium on Thursday. Cards dangling from the ends of hovering strings were advertising a planned UC systemwide strike and rally Oct. 7 seeking to raise awareness about cuts to public education.

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In his letter, O’Hare lamented the fate of public education, both prima-ry and secondary, blaming the state’s bureaucratic institutions for deny-ing appropriate funds to schools and universities.

“Your education was trashed as California fell to the bottom of US states in school spending, and the art classes, AP courses, physical educa-tion, working toilets and teaching

generally went by the board,” O’Hare said in the letter. “You spent your school years with teachers paid less and less, trained worse and worse, loaded up with more and more mind-less administrative duties, and given less and less real support from ad-ministrators and staff.”

O’Hare said the letter, which he origi-nally posted on the “The Reality-Based

OnLInE POdCAStKatie Nelson discusses O’Hare’s letter and The Berkeley Blog.

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News iN BriefUC Berkeley Ranked Second Among World’s Universities

UC Berkeley was ranked number two out of all universities in the world, according to this year’s Academic Ranking of World Universities released by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Aug. 15.

The campus fell behind Harvard University at number one and rose above Stanford University, which was ranked at number three, Massachu-setts Institute of Technology at number four and the University of Cambridge at number five.

This year marks the first time since the center began ranking top universi-ties in 2003 that UC Berkeley has sur-passed third or fourth place and was rated above Stanford.

The rating system started as a way to gauge the standing of Chinese uni-versities against others worldwide.

UCPD, City Police Department to Patrol Around Campus in Tandem

As part of a perpetual effort to co-ordinate efforts, UCPD and Berkeley Police Department officers are operat-ing two squad cars jointly during peak policing hours this fall semester in a program announced Tuesday.

Under the Joint Southside Safety Patrol, two squad cars containing one UCPD officer and one Berkeley police officer each will patrol communities around campus in order to streamline communication between the two depart-ments. The idea was proposed in Decem-ber and developed by the departments’ chiefs as well as the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Student-Neighbor Relations, according to Associate Chancellor Linda Williams, the chair of the council.

UCPD has jurisdiction over UC Berke-ley property, which includes off-campus student housing facilities and People’s

by Tomer OvadiaDaily Cal Staff Writer

Park, while the Berkeley Police Depart-ment is responsible for the rest of the city. Because most students live off campus and some campus facilities are located off campus, the departments come into contact with one another frequently, and enhancing communication between the two has been an ongoing endeavor.

“In recent years we have noticed at the Berkeley Police Department a stronger interest in the conduct of students at the university, (and) that the university is interested in know-ing when there is a significant event (on Berkeley police jurisdiction),” said Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.

The two squad cars patrol on Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday nights be-tween 10 p.m. and 2 a.m., with addi-tional vehicles to be deployed before and after home football games. Police officials said this is intended to better

endorsements: Some Candidates May Be UnfamiliarfroM front

the playing field” for challengers but that dual endorsements may allow them to “gang up on the incumbent.”

However, Worthington, who has been solely endorsed by several lib-eral interest groups including the Sierra Club and the Black Women Organized for Political Action, said endorsing multiple candidates in-creases confusion and “dilutes the weight of an endorsement.”

Newcomers at a DisadvantageRelationships between incumbents,

community members, organizations and elected officials pose a challenge for some candidates who may lack a track record and have little face recog-nition in the public sphere.

Maio said winning endorsements is more difficult for her three opponents — Jasper Kingeter, Merilee Mitchell and Anthony DiDonato — because the voters may be unaware of their accom-plishments and capabilities.

“You’re really running on your re-cord,” Maio said. “The proof is in the pudding. People know if they support you or if they don’t support you based on what you’ve done.”

Kingeter said it is “impossible” for District 1 challengers to get endorsed by some groups because Maio is “locked in” with several organizations and elected officials who have known her since she took office in 1992.

“I’m not going to have the backing of some senator because .... I’m just entering this world,” he said. “It’s re-ally hard being a newcomer because you have these people who have been there for way too long, and they’re just buddy-buddy.”

Andy Katz, political chair for the Northern Alameda County Group at the Sierra Club, said the club’s guide-

lines encourage the group to endorse previously endorsed incumbents with commendable environmental records. He added the process is meant to rein-force “public officials who do the right thing.”

“It would be difficult for a candidate running against a previously endorsed incumbent with a good environmental record unless they can show they’re viable,” he said, adding that the club rarely gives out dual endorsements.

This year, the club has endorsed Maio for District 1 and Worthington for District 7 with pending endorse-ments for Districts 4 and 8.

Beier, who is running for the District 7 seat for the third time, said his expe-rience with city elections has made it easier for him to build a large list of endorsements this time around.

“You have to prove viability and last time I ... proved that I was a really vi-able candidate,” Beier said. In 2006, he lost the election by a margin of about 200 votes.

He added that more people have endorsed him in this election because people are ready for change.

Invaluable Personal ContactWhile endorsements allow voters

to catch a glimpse of candidates’ val-ues and accomplishments, candidates agreed that the experience of meeting prospective officials in person is what decides votes.

“In Berkeley, endorsements as a whole are less significant ... because Berkeley is such a small place that (voters) generally have a chance to meet the candidates and figure it out for themselves,” Worthington said. “Endorsements have less impact than personal knowledge that people gain.”

The center takes into account six fac-tors when evaluating each university — the number of staff or alumni to receive Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals, the num-ber of Highly Cited Researchers identi-fied by Thomson Reuters, the number of articles published in the journals Na-ture and Science, the number of articles indexed by Science Citation Index-Ex-panded and Social Science Citation In-dex as well as “per capita performance” in relation to the university’s size, ac-cording to the ranking’s website.

At a Thursday press conference for the beginning of the semester, UC Berke-ley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said that had the evaluations placed more emphasis on humanities, the campus’s ranking may have been even higher. “Our view is — since we have really outstanding humanities here — that if there was a way of including humani-ties into the ranking, that our relative ranking might even have risen,” said Birgeneau the press conference.

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I like to remember insignificant moments ... which explains why I’m terrible at telling stories about

my study abroad experience. I distinctly remember sitting on a

hostel terrace in the Patagonian town of Bariloche, where my travel partner-in-crime Clare and I were spending the end of our first month in Argen-tina. Though we didn’t know it then, this would become our tradition: spending nights on rooftops and ter-races all over Argentina and ponder-ing insignificant things, always over a glass of Malbec wine.

“Des, we’re going to make a pact,” she had said. When we returned to Buenos Aires, we were going to stop living in our extranjero (foreigner) bubble. We were going to immerse ourselves in Argentinean culture, speak more Spanish and make Argentinean friends. “Deal,” I said, our glasses clink-ing. And it really did feel like every-thing was going to be different.

The week after my conversation with Clare in Bariloche, we were invited to a Berkeley acquaintance’s housewarming party, where we met Pablo, our first Argentinean friend. He was a peace-loving, philosophizing vegetarian studying Arabic; somehow, we’d chanced upon our Argentinean equivalent. Then we met his friends, and his friends’ friends and ... while celebrating Argentina’s first World Cup victory with them months later, I realized it. We weren’t extranjeros anymore.

I also clearly remember a Wednesday night in Buenos Aires, a few

months later. It was just another “Intercambio Club” night, the two hours a week when a bizarre mix of Argentineans and expats came together to practice Spanish and Eng-lish. Although there wasn’t anything particularly special about this Wednesday night, every Wednesday night kind of was.

That night, I found myself sitting to the right of a Columbia University graduate doing fieldwork in Argentina, and to the left of a former sex-shop employee, an Argentinean who referred to himself as “Big D.” And here I was, somehow connected to the two, our conversations flowing as freely as the cheap wine the club solicited as entry fare, my Spanish skills improving exponentially with each glass.

My mind drifted off and I thought about the perfection of the moment, an insignificant moment on an insig-nificant Wednesday night, and yet completely representative of my expe-rience studying abroad.

You find yourself sharing all these “insignificant” moments that somehow amount to an incredibly significant time abroad, with people you would never have otherwise talked to or even met. And yet, your experience would have been incomplete without them.

I tuned back in, and the spotlight was on Big D, who was recounting his reasons for quitting the sex shop industry. “My new job at Google pays

better,” he said simply.Another blink and it was all over;

somehow, I was on the car ride home from the airport in Los Angeles. I whipped out my camera and started flipping through photos, partly as sup-plements to the stories I was blurting and partly to confirm to myself that Argentina hadn’t just been a dream. Then I arrived at the last picture. It was of Martin, the Argentinean con-struction worker I had befriended, taken when he’d come to give me a goodbye letter before my flight.

Our friendship had sprung from an insignificant moment. After wak-

ing up to construction noise outside my room one afternoon, I decided to talk to the scruffy middle-aged man who had just begun repairing the ter-race. Three hours later, I was still standing there, immersed in conversa-tion. I had a midterm to study for, but I was in Argentina. Minutes didn’t matter, and I had all the time in the world.

As it turns out, life works in myste-rious ways.

That first conversation with Martin turned into many — about Argentin-ean history, culture and his childhood growing up homeless — and ended up becoming some of the most important I had while abroad. Just as surpris-ingly, his also turned out to be one of my hardest goodbyes.

And the insignificant things ... well, they weren’t so insignificant after all.

It’s my senior year, and I have so many critical things to think about, my future being one of them. But I don’t want to miss any of the insignifi-cant moments tha, from my five months in Argentina to my four years at Berkeley, unexpectedly end up being the most perfect of them all.

The insignificant moments and ques-tions and people and chances and deci-sions that, in the end, turn out being the memories I come back to years from now, despite how unworthy or ridicu-lous they may seem at the time.

Speaking of unworthy and ridicu-lous, I’m still wondering how one goes from working at a sex shop to being gainfully employed at Google ...

But, I guess some things will always remain mysteries. I kind of like it that way.

Ponder life’s mysteries on a rooftop with Desiree at desiree@dailycal.org.

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Berkeley Police Awarded Grant To Fight Alcohol-Related Crime

For the seventh year running, the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control awarded the Berke-ley Police Department with a grant to combat alcohol-related crime through-out the city, beginning July 1.

The department originally applied for $93,000 and received $78,000 — $3,000 more than it did last year. Over 200 law enforcement agencies state-wide submitted grant proposals to the ABC in March and 32 were selected, including the San Francisco Police De-partment, Alameda County Sheriff ’s Of-fice and Oakland Police Department.

The ABC distributes $3 million in grants annually to law enforcement organizations statewide and assigns investigators to each participating department to provide training and collect data regarding alcohol-related crimes, according to Pat Deasy, grant program director at the ABC.

The Berkeley Police Department re-ceived more funding this year because of an increased focus on weeding out non-compliant establishments and its continuation of last year’s programs, said Deasy, who added that the depart-ment writes an “outstanding” grant re-

by Alisha AzevedoContributing Writer

quest every year.“There’s a definite need in that

community, and they’ve done a great job,” he said. “Each year they’ve added something new — a little twist on their grant that keeps them going.”

Criteria to receive the grant include cities’ populations, geographic locations, previous success with grant funding and demonstrated need, according to Deasy.

He added that the grant allows cities to conduct numerous alcohol-related prevention programs, including the use of minor decoys to indict underage alcohol purchasers and merchants.

UCPD applied for the grant and did not receive it this year. However, a federally-funded college campus un-derage drinking enforcement program grant given to the ABC will be available to various campuses to target alcohol issues later this year, Deasy said.

Though alcohol abuse, including that by minors, is not the largest crime-related issue in Berkeley, it neverthe-less requires attention, according to Berkeley police Officer Jamie Perkins.

“The grant works to make sure busi-nesses and individuals are compliant with the law, and we try to make sure that happens,” she said.

Contact Alisha Azevedo at aazevedo@dailycal.org.

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target violent crime and address noise complaints and alcohol abuse.

UCPD and Berkeley police officers cross their jurisdictional boundaries on a daily basis to assist each other. But with officers from both departments shar-ing squad cars, police officials hope that UCPD officers more familiar with stu-dents and campus procedures will help Berkeley officers police areas with high student populations and that reports to UCPD regarding incidents in Berkeley’s jurisdiction will be quickly rerouted.

The Berkeley Police Department and UCPD currently utilize two separate ra-dio channels, and although the system allows UCPD to listen and transmit on Berkeley police radio, Berkeley police cannot do so on UCPD radio, according to Kusmiss, who also said the officers in joint squad cars are listening to both frequencies and help overcome this in-ability. Kusmiss added that scheduled improvements should allow all police departments in the Bay Area to com-municate with each other by 2013.

“What you’re going to see with (the joint patrols) is faster communication because the calls are going to come in to BPD and/or UCPD, and whoever dis-patches it, that radio is going to be in the patrol car,” said UCPD Captain Margo Bennett. “We’re going to have the best of both worlds. Both radios will be in the same car. ... The caller doesn’t have to shop around for who they should call.”

Previously, a call to one of the police departments regarding an incident out of its jurisdiction could take a variety of paths to reach the appropriate offi-cers, depending on the severity of the incident and the dispatcher involved, Kusmiss said. Police hope the joint pa-trols will add a new means of sharing and routing this type of information.

The joint patrols will also make the process for reporting conduct violations more efficient, according to police offi-cials. UCPD has a more direct channel to the UC Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards, but violations of-ten occur on Berkeley police jurisdiction.

“Because (UCPD) is present there, we’re going to be able to facilitate a more rapid flow of information to the student conduct office,” Bennett said. “So you’re going to find that we will be very straightforwardly addressing ir-responsible drinking and behavior as-sociated with irresponsible drinking in the Southside.”

Tomer Ovadia covers crime. Contact him at tovadia@dailycal.org.

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Off the Beat

Money talks, but many prefer to keep quiet when donat-ing funds — especially to

California universities. A bill passed by the state senate last week aims to break the silence at a dangerous cost.

SB 330, authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, would define UC and CSU systems as state agencies, making them sub-ject to the California Public Records Act (CPRA). Essentially, donors who receive any gift or service of $500 or more value in return for their dona-tion would no longer have the privi-lege to request anonymity. Propo-nents argue that this measure would increase access to university funding. Those against the bill claim that the regulations would discourage mil-lions in donations.

While there is a need for increased transparency within public universi-ties, we are alarmed by the potential backlash of the bill and must regret-fully oppose SB 330 becoming law.

With the state budget still far from resolution, the bottom line is that

California’s public universities face a harsh fiscal reality: We need money, somehow, someway. Since there is no threat to anonymity for those who give to private schools, it would be hard for the CSU and UC systems to compete in an already-strapped donor pool should the bill pass. Fur-thermore, restricting a multimillion-dollar-donor to less than a $500 ges-ture of thanks seems frankly insult-ing and would not be the best way to encourage another gift.

Although we support the intent of this bill, in its current form SB 330 would do more harm than good. A veto from Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger would provide the needed chance to revisit the issue to ensure that a donor’s desire for anonymity is better respected. The $500 limit could be changed to a percentage of the dona-tion with a threshold, say 5 percent, therefore providing more flexibility.

There might not be a perfect bal-ance of transparency without scaring off donors. Sadly, SB 330 is far from the fair compromise we seek.

More Harm Than Goodeditorials

As students statewide began their various endeavors this summer, UC President Mark

Yudof was also on the move, leaving the four-story property he called home the past two years.

His change-of-residence did not initially appear contentious until details of expensive damage and upgrades emerged, all with the uni-versity picking up the tab. Yet this is much more than a money issue. The continuing conflict between Yudof and his former landlord can only spell trouble for an administration that has already been criticized for its inability to grasp the magnitude of the UC budget crisis.

Despite the fact that in two years, more than $600,000 was spent at the university’s expense for Yudof ’s residence, the damage done to the UC’s image is immeasurable. In light of the multibillion-dollar budget that the university manages, the quantifi-able cost is relatively miniscule. This is in no way legitimizing the reported damage to the house; $600,000 could have gone a long way for a lot

of underfunded UC programs. Nevertheless, the bigger emphasis should be on how detrimental this is to Yudof ’s public persona.

We understand that the university requires talented (and therefore well-paid) officials to remain a competi-tive and functioning system of public higher education. We know that it is easy to get caught up in numbers and that the thousands spent on Yudof ’s former residence in no way translate to funds that could compensate the state’s lack of fiscal support.

Those realities aside, Yudof ’s dis-regard for his surroundings and reck-less spending for his own personal gain call his priorities into question. Even worse, it makes those in the UC system lose faith in his dedication to keeping the university solvent when unnecessary expenditures arise in his own home.

Perhaps Yudof would be better off in a house with fewer rooms and a rented banquet hall to host any needed events. A little bit goes a long way — it is time to buckle down and make some personal sacrifices.

Renter’s Remorse

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A current bill meant to increase transparency in university donations would not be worth its potentially high costs.

UNiVersitY issUes

The tumult surrounding UC President Mark Yudof ’s rented estate comes at both high and unforeseen costs.

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UC and City Police Team Up on Southside Safety

On behalf of the university and city police departments, we would like to welcome you back to UC Berkeley and to the City of Berkeley. Our two police departments are working closely to ensure your safety on and off campus. Two new initia-tives, a joint safety patrol and increased football game day patrol-ling, highlight our commitment to your safety both at night and after UC Berkeley’s home football games.

Two teams of university and city police officers will work jointly to patrol near-campus neighborhoods Thursday through Saturday nights. Having these dedicated officers nearby will allow us to respond more quickly to calls for service. While our priority is protecting you from vio-lent crime, our officers also focus on pre-serving the community’s overall quality of life. Please keep in mind that loud, unruly parties disturb the peace, making it hard for neighbors to sleep or study. Officers may issue citations for signifi-cant disturbances that carry fines rang-ing from $750 to $2500 for subsequent violations during a 120-day period. Please be a responsible host or guest,

respect the neighborhood, keep the noise down and the party indoors.

We are increasing the number of uni-versity and city officers patrolling before and after UC Berkeley's home football games. Our officers strictly enforce all laws relating to underage drinking, use of false identification, public possession of open containers of alcohol and public drunkenness. As with any celebration, please be considerate of your neighbors.

Also be aware that if you are cited for a violation of city ordinances and state laws, the police will share that informa-tion with UC’s Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards. The UC Code of Student Conduct applies both on and off campus, and serious violations can jeopardize your status as a student.

Ensuring the safety and enjoyment of our campus and near-campus neighbor-hoods is a community-wide effort, and we ask that you take an active role in ensuring your own personal safety as well as the livability of your community. We encourage students to “Be Aware, Be Safe and Be Respectful.”

Be Aware: While Berkeley is generally a safe city, crime does occur in our neighborhoods and theft is a significant, ongoing issue affecting students. Be mindful of your belongings; do not leave them unattended in public areas like campus buildings and local coffee shops. When you are away from your residence, make sure you lock your doors and win-dows. And always be aware of your sur-roundings: Headphones and other gad-gets act as distractions, causing you to pay less attention to risks to your safety.

Be Safe: Avoid high-risk situations,

especially after dark. The campus pro-vides a variety of nighttime safety servic-es, including BearWALK escorts who will walk you from campus to your resi-dence. The Bear Transit Night Safety Shuttle and Owl service vans provide rides well into the night and early morn-ing.

In addition, Berkeley is a dense, urban environment, and pedestrians, cyclists and motorists should be very aware that they are sharing the same spaces. Follow the rules of the road and familiarize yourself with the California Vehicle Code, which has many provi-sions for your safety.

If you drink alcohol, be responsible. Many crimes that harm students stem from irresponsible alcohol consumption. If you notice unsafe situations, contact the police or Student Conduct.

Be Respectful: UC Berkeley students are expected to be good neighbors. Introduce yourself to your neighbors; join a neighborhood watch group or your local neighborhood association. This can also be a great way to meet other Berkeley residents and open doors to lasting connections with this diverse and creative community.

We want you to achieve great success at Cal and enjoy your time in Berkeley. UC and Berkeley police will continue to work hard to make our city a safe and peaceful place.

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Prop. 25: The Solution We’ve Been Looking Forbonnie kim/contributor

Cesar Chavez wrote in the Plan of Delano, ”We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”

Let’s be honest. Today, there is much to despair about. We are living through a Great Recession, our country is cur-rently engaged in the longest war it’s ever seen, racism and xenophobia are on the rise, public services are under attack, our national infrastructure is decaying and global warming and envi-ronmental degra-dation threaten not only our social systems but also the future of our species itself. Our predecessors seem intent on handing over to us an unmanage-able set of prob-lems.

Until last year, we as students have played along with our predecessors’ games. Over the years, our university has stopped being a laboratory for what higher edu-cation can be and has instead become obsessed with chasing the image of itself. Our university vies in an unend-ing competition to be “the large public research university,” instead of setting itself apart. Our student government over the years has lost its way, model-ing itself after the federal government (and all its problems), instead of being the laboratory for social movements and solidarity it once was.

However, our position as students gives us the duty to hope, imagine, inspire and act. If there is much despair, there is also much strength to be drawn. From sitting down at segre-gated lunch counters in the Deep South to fundamentally alter American race relations to shutting down ROTC offices in order to stop imperialist wars of aggression, to waging war on univer-sity administrators to divest from South African apartheid, students have stood at the forefront of social move-ments throughout history. The current state of the world cries out for us to act and last year we began to take up that

by Ricardo Gomez call, organizing mass direct actions to defend public education, against insti-tutional racism and against anti-immi-grant and anti-union policies. These actions have already shown results—like hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for higher education and an increased number of enrolled black students at UCSD—but much is left to be done. The Office of External Affairs will be there this year to aid in our col-lective struggle to imagine and create a better campus and world.

In prior years, the Office of External Affairs has acted as a banal interest

group. This year, it will be a labo-ratory for aiding and building lab-movements for social justice and solidarity. I will be honest—we may stall and fal-ter along the way while trying to find the contours of our current terrain of strug-gle.

However, we have already made headway and plans towards this vision. We have brought together students, workers, alumni and faculty to envision and create the 2010 Cal Disorientation Guide. We will be registering students to vote and protesting the Cyber University along with workers and grad students. We plan to provide resources for days of mobilization, like the Oct. 7th Day of Action to Defend Public Education, and spaces of direct democracy, like the General Assembly. We will produce media about our struggle as well as counter-narratives to spark the imagination. We seek to impart submerged and emerging knowledge about social movements. However, the Office of External Affairs will not be there to provide answers or the path to victory; we must come up with solutions and the paths to them together, collectively.

If you’re ready for the journey, go to mobilizeberkeley.com for information on the struggle and how to get involved. I’ll see you in the streets.

Taking a New Direction in The Search for Progress

California is in a prodigious crisis, and, as the students of the No.1 public university in the world, it is our responsibility to take the initiative, generate fresh ideas and find effective ways to return California to its former status of excellence.

But have we become complacent with updating our Facebook statuses or posting tweets with complaints about budget cuts and assuming our social networking will lead to change?

Just as every generation before us has faced monumental social, political and economic challenges, we have come face-to-face with our defining moment. Though there are multiple perspectives on how to effectively cre-ate change in our debt-stricken state, many believe, and I strongly agree, that passing Proposition 25 can be one of the pivotal actions to jumpstart California on the path to recovery.

Instead of prioritizing the needs of the majority of Californians, we have watched an outdated legislative struc-ture allow the minority to set a non-representative agenda. Our legislature has been forced to make incredibly dif-ficult choices because there simply

by Noah Sternisn’t enough money to go around. When push comes to shove, our state legislature has put public education on the back burner. This is why your tuition has gone up, your classes are overcrowded and your faculty is being furloughed.

As the law stands today, the most crucial budgetary decisions require a two-thirds majority vote. Prop 25 would finally end the horse-trading that currently plagues our legislature and ultimately empower our Democratic majority. Prop 25 would substantially decrease the requirement for passing a budget in California from 66 percent to 50 percent of the legisla-ture. In order to save the UC system, we need to make sure that every Californian understands that passing this proposition could save public edu-cation in our debilitated state.

It’s a known historical, and yet trag-ic, fact that higher education is the first institution to be cut when our representatives in Sacramento need to pass a budget. Instead of funding a flawed prison system and facilitating tax cuts for big business, Proposition 25 will remove the power that the Republican minority has abused and finally utilize education as an engine for social growth.

Constant budget cuts have blurred our forward-minded thinking and action. Investing in education will undeniably produce the resources for the next generation of leaders to devel-op dynamic policies, combat global warming, establish more affordable health care and repair our economy. We cannot forget that education is inherently tied to social change and we need to be pioneers of that movement. However, being aware is just the beginning. As students we must take action by registering to vote, generat-ing conversation with friends and fam-ily, donating to campaigns and becom-ing active proponents of the cause.

Whether it is world war or extreme famine, depression or landmark civil rights legislation, every era faces its defining moment. It will be too easy to be remembered as the “Y2K/face-book/Jersey Shore-crazed” generation, so let’s take charge and author a lega-cy of change, starting with Proposition 25.Editor’s Note: Will Leivenberg, associate marketing and communications director for the ASUC, contributed to this article.

Noah Stern is president of the ASUC. Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

Editor’s NoteThis fall, the Opinion Page will be running an

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Students Must Pressure the University to Return to Its Roots as a ‘Laboratory For Social Movements”

SUMMER TRAVEL

EUROPE

IBIZA, SPAINAs if Barcelona wasn’t crazy enough for us, for our next destination we decided to head to the

partying mecca of Europe, Ibiza. Clubbing is to Ibiza what carbohydrates are to Italy: a lifestyle. Velvet rope and burly security guards line the entrances of the extravagant discotecas, with even more rope and muscle guarding the exclusive VIP rooms of celebrity DJs. We managed to sneak into Armin van Buuren’s VIP area at megaclub Amnesia because let’s be honest, life is much better at the top (quite literally, as we were granted access to a balcony overlooking the thousands of Armin fans dancing on the main floor).

Even without VIP amenities, entrance fees to clubs in Ibiza are not cheap. Prices can skyrocket as high as 60-70 euros on sold-out nights with big name DJs such as Tiesto or Guetta. Our futile attempts at haggling at the door were of no use. We tried wooing security guards, claiming we were on nonexistent lists, and just plain old begging, all to no avail.

But never fear, dear travel blog readers, because of course your frugal travel blogger and her equally cheap friends found a way out of the frustratingly high cover fees. The next day, while basking in the sun on the beautiful shores of Playa D’en Bossa, an unexpected miracle happened. Club promoters towered over our stretched across the sand bodies and offered us the best gift that could be given: neon green free club entrance wristbands. That’s right ladies and gentlemen, the best way to get into a club for free is by looking as fabulous as possible — not in the club, nor at a bar, but on the beach.

—Shirin Ghaffary

BUDAPEST, HUNGARYHungary is one of those remarkable countries that manage to make you fall in

love despite days of cold, shoe-destroying rain, a 222-1 conversion rate to mentally calculate, and a completely un-readable native tongue.

In fact, Budapest is the top contender for my favorite city, ever. My whole visit felt charmed, a perfect journey from ancient to modern and back on the banks of the beautiful Danube.

On my first day, my friend Qianlai proposed that we buy cheap seats at the Hun-garian State Opera for that evening, but on the way to the opera house, we were dis-tracted by an artisan market. We stopped to browse the stands of hand-made jewelry and crafts before settling on necklaces made from pieces of European porcelain.

We made it to the opera house just in time to buy tickets to Handel’s “Xerxes.” For lunch, I introduced Qianlai to doner kebabs (a staple of the student-traveler diet) and then we fled back to the hostel to escape the pouring rain.

When the rain eased, we crossed the river onto the Buda side of the city and made our way along the river, watching the light rain settle on the brilliant green trees and miles of gray stone buildings to Gellert Hill.

Then we hiked up Castle Hill to the regal Buda Castle and showed ourselves around the quiet courtyards guarded by stately stone lions. We spent so much time there that we had to dash back across the river to make the opera.

The inside of the opera house was as grandiose and ornate as you would expect in the capital of a former imperial power. The show itself was in the original Italian, but set in supposedly modern-day Iran, complete with break-dancing gangsters and a bomb-dropping Xerxes in a bi-plane suspended from the ceiling.

When the show was over, we went out to dinner and walked along the Danube on the Pest side taking pictures of the bridges and Buda Castle brilliantly lit up across the river.

—Heather Ross

Summer is drawing to a close. Perhaps you’ve been spending your time working, attending summer classes or, for the luckier among us, traveling. Even if you haven’t been so lucky, the Daily Cal Travel Blog provides a collection of travel accounts by Daily Cal staffers who happen to be visiting, working or studying abroad. Locations covered range from Spain to Syria and South Africa to Sweden.

And so, as we prepare for classes to begin again, we decided to take a look back at some of the best posts on the travel blog this summer. To read these posts in full, along with many more, go to blog.dailycal.org/travel.

—Valerie WoolardP.S. The travel blog will be continuing through the fall, just in case you ever need a distraction

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summer: Executives Focus on Justice, CommunityFrom Front

online portal. Liu trained the senators at an annual

retreat during which they practice sen-ate meetings, use Robert’s Rules of Or-der dictating parliamentary procedure and learn the ASUC constitution and bylaws. Liu also brought in past sena-tors and Berkeley City Council repre-sentatives to present and organize activ-ities, such as the Student Leader Lunch, to help the senators build relationships with other organizations on campus.

The Advocacy Agenda, posted each year on the ASUC website, “encourages students to send their input on what they want.” Senators will narrow down the is-sues to three or four agenda items at the beginning of the semester and work to achieve the goals throughout the year.

The purpose of the beta test site, dubbed the myBerkeley project, is to reduce the number of websites students must navigate in order to pay bills, sign up for classes, view their grades and check school e-mails. The campus College of Environmental Design was selected as the pilot group for the test site, which was launched Aug. 23.

A ‘Laboratory for Social Justice’Instead of lobbying government offi-

cials, External Affairs Vice President Ri-cardo Gomez said he prioritizes lobby-ing students to “challenge and question authority.” Over the summer, Gomez helped organize the Cal Disorientation Guide and formed a student-worker action group, attempting to intertwine the struggles of students and workers.

He plans to continue to use his of-fice to act as a group promoting “social justice” by organizing and continuing to fight against systemwide reductions in state funding.

Gomez, who has worked in the Ex-ternal Affairs Vice President’s office for the past three years, said he be-came more involved in organizing with Berkeley Students Against the Cuts this past year, which significantly in-fluenced his philosophy on organizing. He said he wants to take a more direct action approach to what the office does by finding ways to engage students.

“What I’m trying to do is make the office into a laboratory for social jus-tice organizing as opposed to an in-terest group,” he said. “Unfortunately, three years of experience shows that lobby visits don’t work.”

He said a more effective way of lob-bying would be to engage the student population by informing incoming stu-dents of university concerns through efforts such as the Disorientation Guide, which provides a local radical

history of Berkeley and a description of ongoing struggles in the UC system.

“(The ASUC is) now a wannabe fed-eral government with all of its scandals and a wannabe interest group with all the failures of interest groups,” he said. “That whole image is what students see and it’s hard to say that it’s not true for the most part, but I think that there is hope and that we can change the ASUC and, at least in this office, make it something that embodies solidarity.”

Student Support and Community Relations

Student Advocate Kelly Fabian and her staff focused on informing stu-dents of the standards of academic dishonesty and expanding her office’s work to include policy issues such as getting rid of “arbitrary” deadlines such as the pass/no pass deadline for students’ courses.

Throughout the summer, Fabian said in an e-mail that she and her chief of staff, Samar Shah, attended various CalSO and Caltopia events and dis-tributed an academic dishonesty fact sheet, describing standards of academ-ic dishonesty and consequences of fail-ing to meet those standards, to fresh-men through their dorm mailboxes.

She said she would expand the reach of the office by tackling policy issues includ-ing bringing back non-reportable warn-ings for minor and first time offenses, such as citations issued for being drunk at football games so the offense would not be on a student’s conduct record, and researching the impact of conduct re-cords on graduate school admissions.

But because a large part of the stu-dent advocate’s position is handling casework, Fabian said in her e-mail that a focus of her work this semester will be hiring the best possible case-workers “to ensure that our office can continue to provide excellent, free, and confidential advice for all students in-volved with university disputes.”

Fabian also met with the UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya to discuss UCPD-student relations, including the review of the Nov. 20 occupation of Wheeler Hall.

“(We want to) standardize the release of police reports to students and Office of Student Conduct to make sure both parties are working off of the same in-formation,” she said in an e-mail.

ASUC Academic Affairs Vice Presi-dent Viola Tang did not respond to questions regarding her summer ac-tivities as of press time.

blog: Site Caters to over 150 Faculty, Staff AuthorsFrom FrontCommunity” blog, was a “reflection of what the hell is going on in California.”

The Berkeley Blog has become a hub of activity for staff and faculty — hailing from the music to agriculture and resource economics to marketing — to post and weigh in on ideas and opinions in a forum that draws feed-back and commentary. Recent topics range from articles on the study of xenophobia to analyses of the Federal Trade Commission’s crackdown on false weight loss advertisements.

While the university-wide blog “Remaking the University” allows any faculty member from any campus to publish posts on issues within the university, the Berkeley Blog is the only faculty-specific blog on a UC campus.

Only a year old, the blog is the brainchild of Jeff Kahn, director of UC Berkeley’s main, NewsCenter and Calendar Network websites. Since its inception, the blog has gone through multiple design changes to cater to the preferences of the 150-plus faculty and staff authors, Leavitt said.

“It took time to get authors on board,” she said. “We started out ask-ing a particular question and having faculty respond. Now, the faculty come up with their own topics. They are more engaged now.”

O’Hare, who usually posts on “The Reality-Based Community,” is rela-tively new to the Berkeley Blog, having only a few of his items posted. In con-trast, anthropology professor Rose-mary Joyce has published more than 25 blog posts since October 2009.

“I only had two or three posts there

Katie Nelson covers academics and administration. Contact her at knelson@dailycal.org.

RESEARCH & IDEAS

A newly discovered microbe is thought to be fueling cleanup of the oil plume created in the Gulf of Mexico by the explosion of the Beyond Petro-leum-owned Deepwater Horizon drill-ing rig, according to Lawrence Berke-ley National Laboratory researchers.

In a study published online Thurs-day in the journal Science, the re-searchers said they found that a bac-teria related to the Oceanospirillales bacteria was consuming the oil and making the plume gradually undetect-able without significantly depleting the oxygen in the water.

“To determine the impact of the deep hydrocarbon plume on the marine mi-crobes residing in the plume and the rates of hydrocarbon biodegradation, we collected deepwater samples from two ships between 25 May 2010 and 2 June 2010,” the study reads. “In total, we analyzed the physical, chemical and mi-crobiological properties of 17 deepwater samples from across the Gulf of Mexico.”

The research was conducted through a grant with the Energy Bio-sciences Institute — a collaboration of

by Cristian MacaveiContributing Writer

UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and funded by BP — to study microbial enhanced hy-drocarbon recovery.

Terry Hazen, head of the ecology de-partment at the Berkeley Lab and one of the authors of the paper, said the microbe uses the oil as a carbon and energy source and that the exact de-composed products are unknown. The microbes do degrade the oil, however, and they could potentially completely mineralize it.

Some components in the oil degrade more slowly than others and could re-main in the water longer, but about 80 percent of the oil is made of alkanes, which degrade fairly quickly, Hazen said.

“On July 15 and since then, since the oil’s stopped, we’ve seen the plume gradually decline, and within two weeks or so it became very difficult to detect,” he said. “But we can still de-tect the bacteria, so we still detect this community structure, and there’s still an oxygen change occurring.”

Hazen added that since the bacteria no longer have oil to consume, they have started degrading themselves.

Researchers are continuing to study the bacteria, he said. In the future, it

could be used to indicate a recent oil contamination in particular areas even when oil cannot be detected.

Hazen said the fact that these mi-crobes exist in the Gulf region does not surprise him since oil seeping into the water has been a common occurrence for a long time.

“The oil biodegradation rates re-ported here at 5°C are explained in part by the relatively light nature of this crude … the dispersed nature of the deep plume … the low overall con-centrations of oil in the deep plume and the frequent episodic oil leaks from natural seeps in this area that the deep-sea microbial community may have adapted to over long periods of time,” the study said.

Hazen added that he would not seek a patent for the discovery.

“I don’t believe in bioaugmentation, so it’s nothing I would want to patent,” he said. “It just shows how there are bugs in the deep that are adaptive to these particular environments and can degrade oil ... All this stuff will be pub-licly available, and it should be used by everybody, and there’s no reason to be-lieve this would be a magic bug, which, of course, some companies would like to say they have.”

Allie Bidwell covers student government. Contact her at abidwell@dailycal.org.

before,” O’Hare said. “Now 30,000 hits (on “The Reality-Based Community”), and over 20,000 on (the Berkeley Blog) — I have never communicated with that many people in my life.”

Public policy professor Robert Re-ich, a frequent author and commenta-tor on the blog, said in an e-mail that he feels the blog is an opportunity to expand the way in which faculty and students discuss and debate a variety of issues and can be an important ad-dition to campus.

“Faculty have many policy ideas and opinions, but have lacked an easily-ac-cessible place to post short summaries of them, or react to other’s ideas and opinions,” he said in an e-mail. “Ide-ally, the Berkeley Blog can serve this function. I hope it catches on.”

Cristian Macavei covers research and ideas. Contact him at cmacavei@dailycal.org.

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sets which allowed them to overpower opposing blockers.

This team is now running an up-tem-po offense with quick sets and faster at-tacks. The team thinks the faster game is more fitting for its current personnel.

That takes pressure off the current and future Bears since they will not be expected to fill such huge shoes (and Hana’s shoes certainly were huge). It gives the players freedom to develop.

Though the Bears you will see tonight look very different from last year’s team in composition and style, there will be several familiar faces.

An important distinction between rebuilding and reconfiguring is what is done with those returning players. Se-nior setter Carli Lloyd isn’t being tossed aside in favor of developing another setter because Lloyd quarterbacked the slower offense.

In fact, the All-American takes on a leadership position in the new system.

For the past three summers, Lloyd has been a member of the USA A2 Na-tional Team, in which she had ten days not only to adjust to the new system, but employ it in matches.

Junior Tarah Murrey has joined her for the last two summers, so she too has an advantage.

As would be expected following the departure of three key players, this Cal team has a whole new look. In a roster of 13 players, 10 are underclassmen and the four freshmen are projected to see playing time right away.

Because of its relative inexperience, expect the team to experiment with dif-ferent lineups and rotations. With the departure of Kristen Kathan, the libero position opened up with four defensive-minded players ready to assume the role. Wiley’s departure left a hole at middle blocker, and Cutura left a vacancy at outside hitter.

Like a team in a rebuilding year, the Bears will experience some growing pains. They may turn out to be more visible at first with clear miscommuni-cations or off-timed hits.

So while the team may look young, inexperienced, and occasionally out of sync, it should not be judged against last year’s team. And with the adjustments being made, the Bears should fair better over the course of the season.

Besides, they’re not rebuilding. They’re reconfiguring.

Pick up the tempo with Christina at sports@dailycal.org.

Cal Banks on Experience To Take Aim At Redhawks

So what exactly is the feeling when the first whistle blows?

“I live for that moment, even after all of this time,” Cal head coach Shelly Onstead said. “I just hope my players feel that way too.”

After two exhibition victories over Pacific and St. Joseph’s, the Cal field hockey team plays first official game of the season today, a 5 p.m. tilt at Max-well Field against Miami of Ohio.

It will be a different feel when the Bears take the field this year as op-posed to last, when they entered with 12 freshmen. Onstead said that she will still start a couple of newcomers on this year’s squad, but that last year’s growing pains are over for the most part.

With one year of experience, the head coach thinks that her team will be more disciplined and mature.

“We were quite young last year,” Onstead said. “The overall quality has gone up quite a bit and the year of ex-perience that the freshmen got is re-ally showing. We’re looking at a signifi-cantly stronger squad this year.”

Though it is the season opener against a non-conference opponent, the match should have a little extra edge af-ter last season’s tilt in Oxford, Ohio. The Redhawks scraped by Cal, 2-1, in extra periods to give the Bears an eighth con-secutive road loss and keep them win-less away from Maxwell.

This time, the Miami arrives in Berkeley to start the year instead of late in the season and Cal isn’t marred in a disastrous losing streak.

“I’m quite familiar with (Redhawks

by Gabriel Baumgaertnercontributing Writer

>> fiEld hoCkEy: PAgE 10Jessica Kreck started all 19 games for the Bears last year as a sophomore, scoring five goals to rank third on the team. She is one of only five upperclassmen on the roster.

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football notes: Isi sofele Wins Backup Positionfrom Backbeing extremely fast to now. We’re experienced so everything is slowing down,” Cheadle said.

Good Things in Small PackagesAt 5-foot-7, Isi Sofele is the shortest

player on the Cal roster — shorter even than kicker Giorgio Tavecchio. That hasn’t stopped the tailback from wrap-ping up one starting and one backup spot on the opening day roster, though.

Sofele will receive kickoffs and back up starter Shane Vereen, adding a spark of incredible speed to special teams and the offense. He’s also put on more muscle to increase his durability. Tedford said that the coaching staff has no plans of going easy on Sofele because of his slight stature; he’ll have the usual amount of carries for a backup.

It’s already evident that he’s got all

the makings of a fan favorite, and the offensive linemen are already members of the Isi Sofele fan club.

“It’s awesome for us,” Cheadle said. “He’s so fast so we don’t have to hold our blocks for so long. It’s ‘whoosh’ and he’s through.”

Quick Hits—If the season started today,

Tavecchio would handle both field goals and kickoffs. But Tedford did indicate that true freshman punter Jed Barnett has been showing promise in kickoffs.

“Coming in, I definitely wanted to compete for both,” Barnett said. “Being under Bryan (Anger), I knew this year was going to be a learning situation … I’m definitely working hard to be the best punter and kicker I can be.”

Contact Katie Dowd at kdowd@dailycal.org.

The Cal offensive line is one of the most uncertain units heading into the season opener. Coach Jeff Tedford announced several changes to try and fortify a relatively shaky line.

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Bears Look to Buck the Broncos in Nor-Cal Tilt

The gloves come off for the Cal wom-en’s soccer team this afternoon, as No. 8 Santa Clara visits Edwards Stadium for a much-anticipated 4 p.m. match-up.

Though the Broncos are not part of the Pac-10, their rivalry with the Bears has all the intensity of Cal-Stanford.

“Whenever we play (the Broncos), it’s always like a nail-scraping game,” captain Emily Shibata said.

Last year was a perfect example — the teams fought through two overtime periods, only to emerge with a 1-1 tie.

For the Bears, an opportunity to prove themselves against such a nation-ally prominent team raises the stakes of a game that has no bearing on confer-ence standing.

“(Santa Clara is) always a top-ranked team,” Shibata said. “It’s always one of those games where we want to know we’re the better team.”

The fact the Broncos (2-0) are such a national powerhouse also makes the game an important step towards suc-

by Alex Matthews Contributing Writer

cess for later in the season. Cal coach Neil McGuire said the game is impor-tant for gauging how his squad will do in the Pac-10 and NCAA tournament. The Bears have enjoyed relative success in their last few trips to the Big Dance, but a tilt with a title contender like the Broncos this early in the season puts an entirely new spin on this game.

A chance to see how the two schools stack up so early in the year could be a crucial insight into the 2010 season because of how much their rosters have changed. The Bears lost nine total play-ers from 2009, while the Broncos lost 12 — and both teams are replacing seven starters.

The spotlight may fall on both teams’ respective freshmen, who have already played key roles this fall — but who McGuire said may be challenged by such an early high-profile game.

“If we’re looking at any obstacle, it’s just how our young players deal with the perceived pressure of the match, dealing with a cross-town rival, a national perennial powerhouse,” he said. “But ultimately I’m very confident

in our younger players.”The perceived pressure won’t likely

compare to the offensive pressure the Bears have been preparing to face against Santa Clara.

“Their pace up top is definitely gonna be a challenge,” Shibata said. “I know they have a couple fast forwards, so we’re all just gonna have to be on the same page and cover one another.”

Sophomore Betsy Hassett said the team needs to watch for the Broncos playing long direct balls into the offen-sive end. Santa Clara could continue its perfect record if the Bears are unable to counter their aggressive attempts on goal.

But McGuire and the squad have confidence in their ability to take on such a highly competitive and challeng-ing match-up.

“We have a much stronger team this year, so it’ll be a lot better game (than last year),” Hassett said. “We’re really well prepared.”

Megan Jesolva is one of two Cal players to play every minute of both games this season. The senior is healthy after a tough junior year.AnnA Vignet/File

field hockey: Redhawks Provide Growing RivalryfRom PaGe 8

coach Jill Reeve); we have very similar in our approach to the game,” Onstead said. “I think it’s going to become an every-other-year or every-three-year rivalry. We definitely will take some things from last year and we’re going to show a little different formation.”

Picked to finish second in the MAC, Miami returns nine letterwinners from last year’s squad, one that finished 13-10. Among those returners is senior Mary Hull, who scored the game-win-

ning goal in last year’s match.Friday’s match commences a three-

game Northern California roadtrip for the Redhawks; they will visit Pacific and UC Davis after their stop in Berkeley.

In this roadtrip alone, Miami will face 75 percent of the West Coast col-legiate field hockey programs over the course of three days. The Redhawks only avoid No. 20 Stanford, who en-joyed its best season in its program’s history last year.

As for Cal, the team knows it will be a different feeling now that the games

are counting, and today will be step one in improving what was a pretty rough campaign last season. The extra year of experience for what was such a young squad is nice, but Onstead is only worried about getting started be-fore looking too far in the future.

“Your first match is obviously going to be different than your last match of the season, but you want to have your pillars in place,” Onstead said. “We’re really going to be working on some ba-sic, structural things to start and then we will go for there.”Contact Gabriel Baumgaertner at gbaumgaertner@dailycal.org.

Contact Alex Matthews at almatthews@dailycal.org.

SPORTS Friday, August 27, 2010 The Daily Californian10

Not a Game, We Are Talkin’ About Practice

You know what they always say: practice makes perfect.

You play like you practice.With existence of programs like

ESPN’s “College Football Live” and websites devoted solely to college foot-ball, most fans can figure out their favorite teams’ depth chart before the coach officially releases them.

But for the average Cal fan, there always seems to be a surprise or two when the final chart is released. Head coach Jeff Tedford rarely drops any hints about future starters and always preaches about the importance of com-petition in practice.

With the release of the 2010 depth chart, we again see the importance that Tedford places on practice, and that almost no spot is secure.

But how does this affect the team at large? Does it create too much pressure on those brink players? Does it give unsung players a chance that they may not be offered at other programs? All we know is that Allen Iverson would not be a fan of Tedford’s approach. I mean, we talkin’ about practice.

Even with fans’ incessant over-spec-ulation about the “psychological effect” of such tactics, we spectators can never quite gauge how these players respond to Tedford’s open competition method.

Now, several fans have probably already scrolled down to the comment box to remind me of the 2008 quarter-back shuffle between Nate Longshore and Kevin Riley and how it negatively affected the team. Don’t worry, I

remember.Frustrating as the QB schizophrenia

may have been, Tedford’s competition standard certainly played its way into this depth chart, and it offers us a new look on the 2010 season.

Let’s take the secondary as the focus for this article.

This is a unit that finished 111th in pass defense last season and was more or less figured out by opposing offen-sive coordinators. The secondary’s struggles were probably no more evi-dent than when Jeff Tuel, the quarter-back of a Washington State team that would eventually finish 1-11, torched the Cal defensive backs for 354 yards.

And now the one rock of that defense, cornerback Syd’Quan Thompson, is gone to the Denver Broncos.

So how to fix what was an entirely broken product last year?

Competition.Sean Cattouse and Chris Conte are

the announced starters at the safety position, but how secure are their posi-tion after all? Tedford mentioned their names but quickly followed that D.J. Campbell and newly converted Josh Hill will see several snaps at free and strong safety respectively.

Now, I realize that by championing “competition”, you may expect me to next promote Reaganomics and Palin 2012. Don’t worry, I’m not that crazy. But I’m with Tedford when it comes to this particular approach.

Potential is only potential. Practice is the best litmus test of one’s ability to compete in a game situation.

Marc Anthony was functionally lost in the rotation last year. Sure, he appeared in eight games, but he lost most of the backup snaps to Josh Hill and Bryant Nnabuife.

Because of a great fall camp, Anthony surpassed the players he backed up last season, and is now slotted to start opposite Darian Hagan.

Any Cal football fan knows that the Bears are innately mercurial.

By ramping up competition within the weaker parts of the team, Tedford is trying to create a consistent unit.

But come on, man. We talkin’ about practice.

Talk about practice with Gabriel at sports@dailycal.org.

gabrielbaumgaertner

sports in BriefM. Golf: Homa, An Advance At Amatuer Championship

Most Cal students set foot in lecture halls for their first classes of the year on Thursday.

For sophomore Max Homa and incoming freshman Ben An, they set foot on the Chambers Bay links in University Place, Wash. to compete in the U.S. Amateur Championship.

Both Homa and An advanced to the round of 16 after easily disposing of Carter Newman and Alex Shi Yup Kim. Neither Homa nor An ever trailed in their match play events and lost only two holes between the two of them.

Homa turned in a dominating per-formance, taking only 12 holes to defeat Newman. The Valencia, Calif. native tallied an eagle and four birdies, includ-ing one on his final hole to ice the vic-tory and send him into the next round.

An did not put up the stats that Homa did, but played a consistent round that never allowed Kim closer than two strokes after the ninth hole.

An is looking to defend the 2009 amateur championship that he won at age 17, which made him the youngest golfer to ever win the coveted award.

Homa will face Harris English in the round of 16, An will take on Scott Strohmeyer

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20 21 22 23

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37 38 39 40

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ACROSS 1. __ Mater 5. Families10. Word in a warning14. Picnic spoiler15. Item on a night stand16. Tied17. Minnie and Mighty18. Pillow feather provider19. Experiment20. Go quickly22. Makes firm24. Auto need25. Colombian cash26. Singer/comedienne Judy29. Spanish article30. Useful34. Patient!s complaint35. Wire enclosure36. Foot part37. Louis XV!s title38. Provided a

connection between40. Period immediately

before41. Little finger43. Word with ring or plug44. Pintail duck45. Sneaky one46. Gallery visitor!s interest47. Sits for a photo48. Trades goods for money50. Blue51. Iranian realm, once54. Horrifies58. Sound59. Too-frequent drinker61. Metal container62. At all times63. City in the Ruhr Valley64. Spread65. Baseball team66. Place67. History

DOWN 1. Limbs 2. Secular 3. Crystallized minerals 4. Cup-shaped flower 5. Fishing item 6. Hideaway 7. Recipe verb 8. Family tree members 9. Painful spots

10. Hates11. Kitchen item12. Robin!s refuge13. Explosive substances21. Tart23. Hill25. Thinks deeply26. Nags27. Flip __; choose in a random manner28. Horned animal, for short29. Item made of

Hawaiian flowers31. Articles32. Landing place33. Swords35. Prefix for text or school36. Comparative ending38. Two-footed animal39. Gangster!s pistol42. Certain pickles44. Fizzy beverage46. Approximately47. Baby food49. Suffers defeat50. Pay out money51. Stalk

52. Lifted with effort53. Dill herb54. In a dither55. Ooh-__56. Is prone57. Opening60. Purpose

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# 93

MEDIUM # 93

32 9 5 3

7 3 8 46 8 4

4 7 6 23 2 1

6 5 2 84 6 3 7

7

4 5 6 7 3 8 1 9 28 1 2 9 4 5 3 6 79 7 3 2 6 1 8 4 56 2 1 5 8 7 9 3 45 4 7 3 1 9 6 2 83 9 8 4 2 6 5 7 17 6 5 1 9 4 2 8 32 8 4 6 5 3 7 1 91 3 9 8 7 2 4 5 6

# 94

MEDIUM # 94

2 1 9 85 4

8 75 6 2 49 1 4 61 9 7 5

6 29 3

5 9 7 1

3 6 4 2 1 9 8 5 77 5 1 3 6 8 2 4 98 2 9 5 4 7 6 1 35 8 6 7 2 3 1 9 49 7 2 1 5 4 3 8 61 4 3 8 9 6 7 2 54 1 8 6 3 5 9 7 26 9 7 4 8 2 5 3 12 3 5 9 7 1 4 6 8

# 95

MEDIUM # 95

3 68 9

6 9 5 3 22

7 9 5 1 8 35

6 3 1 7 41 5

2 7

3 1 9 4 2 6 8 7 55 7 2 3 1 8 4 6 96 8 4 9 7 5 3 2 18 2 1 7 5 3 9 4 67 9 5 6 4 2 1 8 34 3 6 8 9 1 7 5 22 6 3 1 8 7 5 9 41 4 7 5 6 9 2 3 89 5 8 2 3 4 6 1 7

# 96

MEDIUM # 96

3 1 5 84 7

9 8 42 6 3 1

8 7 3 58 4 2

3 69 6 7 3

3 1 2 5 6 9 8 4 75 4 6 8 1 7 3 2 99 7 8 2 4 3 6 5 12 6 5 9 3 8 7 1 47 9 3 1 5 4 2 8 61 8 4 6 7 2 9 3 56 3 1 7 8 5 4 9 24 2 7 3 9 1 5 6 88 5 9 4 2 6 1 7 3

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# 93

MEDIUM # 93

32 9 5 3

7 3 8 46 8 4

4 7 6 23 2 1

6 5 2 84 6 3 7

7

4 5 6 7 3 8 1 9 28 1 2 9 4 5 3 6 79 7 3 2 6 1 8 4 56 2 1 5 8 7 9 3 45 4 7 3 1 9 6 2 83 9 8 4 2 6 5 7 17 6 5 1 9 4 2 8 32 8 4 6 5 3 7 1 91 3 9 8 7 2 4 5 6

# 94

MEDIUM # 94

2 1 9 85 4

8 75 6 2 49 1 4 61 9 7 5

6 29 3

5 9 7 1

3 6 4 2 1 9 8 5 77 5 1 3 6 8 2 4 98 2 9 5 4 7 6 1 35 8 6 7 2 3 1 9 49 7 2 1 5 4 3 8 61 4 3 8 9 6 7 2 54 1 8 6 3 5 9 7 26 9 7 4 8 2 5 3 12 3 5 9 7 1 4 6 8

# 95

MEDIUM # 95

3 68 9

6 9 5 3 22

7 9 5 1 8 35

6 3 1 7 41 5

2 7

3 1 9 4 2 6 8 7 55 7 2 3 1 8 4 6 96 8 4 9 7 5 3 2 18 2 1 7 5 3 9 4 67 9 5 6 4 2 1 8 34 3 6 8 9 1 7 5 22 6 3 1 8 7 5 9 41 4 7 5 6 9 2 3 89 5 8 2 3 4 6 1 7

# 96

MEDIUM # 96

3 1 5 84 7

9 8 42 6 3 1

8 7 3 58 4 2

3 69 6 7 3

3 1 2 5 6 9 8 4 75 4 6 8 1 7 3 2 99 7 8 2 4 3 6 5 12 6 5 9 3 8 7 1 47 9 3 1 5 4 2 8 61 8 4 6 7 2 9 3 56 3 1 7 8 5 4 9 24 2 7 3 9 1 5 6 88 5 9 4 2 6 1 7 3

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ACROSS 1. __ Mater 5. Families10. Word in a warning14. Picnic spoiler15. Item on a night stand16. Tied17. Minnie and Mighty18. Pillow feather provider19. Experiment20. Go quickly22. Makes firm24. Auto need25. Colombian cash26. Singer/comedienne Judy29. Spanish article30. Useful34. Patient!s complaint35. Wire enclosure36. Foot part37. Louis XV!s title38. Provided a

connection between40. Period immediately

before41. Little finger43. Word with ring or plug44. Pintail duck45. Sneaky one46. Gallery visitor!s interest47. Sits for a photo48. Trades goods for money50. Blue51. Iranian realm, once54. Horrifies58. Sound59. Too-frequent drinker61. Metal container62. At all times63. City in the Ruhr Valley64. Spread65. Baseball team66. Place67. History

DOWN 1. Limbs 2. Secular 3. Crystallized minerals 4. Cup-shaped flower 5. Fishing item 6. Hideaway 7. Recipe verb 8. Family tree members 9. Painful spots

10. Hates11. Kitchen item12. Robin!s refuge13. Explosive substances21. Tart23. Hill25. Thinks deeply26. Nags27. Flip __; choose in a random manner28. Horned animal, for short29. Item made of

Hawaiian flowers31. Articles32. Landing place33. Swords35. Prefix for text or school36. Comparative ending38. Two-footed animal39. Gangster!s pistol42. Certain pickles44. Fizzy beverage46. Approximately47. Baby food49. Suffers defeat50. Pay out money51. Stalk

52. Lifted with effort53. Dill herb54. In a dither55. Ooh-__56. Is prone57. Opening60. Purpose

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8. Family tree members9. Painful spots10. Hate11. Kitchen item12. Robin’s refuge13. Explosive substances21. Tart23. Hill25. Thinks deeply26. Nags27. Flip __; choose in a random manner

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EASY # 93

1 9 4 66 9

6 2 8 5 13 1 2 9

8 35 8 3 74 3 5 6 2

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EASY # 94

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3 96 9

2 3 8 4 9 57 6

1 65 1 6 2

7 9 2 1

1 2 5 3 7 8 4 9 67 6 9 5 4 1 2 3 84 3 8 2 9 6 1 5 78 7 6 1 5 9 3 2 42 1 3 8 6 4 9 7 59 5 4 7 2 3 6 8 13 8 2 4 1 5 7 6 95 9 1 6 3 7 8 4 26 4 7 9 8 2 5 1 3

# 95

EASY # 95

9 8 3 5 67 3 2 1 4 8

9 1 3 66 3

3 5 2 4

4 6 7 2 9 53 5 8 4 7

2 9 4 8 3 5 1 6 77 5 3 2 6 1 4 9 86 1 8 9 4 7 5 2 39 7 1 4 2 8 3 5 68 4 2 6 5 3 7 1 93 6 5 1 7 9 2 8 45 2 7 3 9 6 8 4 14 8 6 7 1 2 9 3 51 3 9 5 8 4 6 7 2

# 96

EASY # 96

2 7 8 9 3 14 3 6

9 76 4 7 2

68 2 3 1

8 55 4 3

6 2 5 1 9 4

6 2 7 8 5 9 3 1 44 1 5 7 3 2 8 9 68 9 3 6 1 4 5 7 21 5 6 4 8 7 2 3 92 3 9 1 6 5 4 8 77 4 8 2 9 3 1 6 59 8 4 3 2 6 7 5 15 7 1 9 4 8 6 2 33 6 2 5 7 1 9 4 8

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# 93

EASY # 93

1 9 4 66 9

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8 35 8 3 74 3 5 6 2

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1 9 8 3 2 5 7 4 67 5 4 6 1 9 3 2 86 2 3 4 8 7 9 5 13 6 7 1 4 2 5 8 99 8 1 5 7 6 2 3 45 4 2 8 9 3 6 1 74 3 9 7 5 1 8 6 22 1 6 9 3 8 4 7 58 7 5 2 6 4 1 9 3

# 94

EASY # 94

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# 95

EASY # 95

9 8 3 5 67 3 2 1 4 8

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3 5 2 4

4 6 7 2 9 53 5 8 4 7

2 9 4 8 3 5 1 6 77 5 3 2 6 1 4 9 86 1 8 9 4 7 5 2 39 7 1 4 2 8 3 5 68 4 2 6 5 3 7 1 93 6 5 1 7 9 2 8 45 2 7 3 9 6 8 4 14 8 6 7 1 2 9 3 51 3 9 5 8 4 6 7 2

# 96

EASY # 96

2 7 8 9 3 14 3 6

9 76 4 7 2

68 2 3 1

8 55 4 3

6 2 5 1 9 4

6 2 7 8 5 9 3 1 44 1 5 7 3 2 8 9 68 9 3 6 1 4 5 7 21 5 6 4 8 7 2 3 92 3 9 1 6 5 4 8 77 4 8 2 9 3 1 6 59 8 4 3 2 6 7 5 15 7 1 9 4 8 6 2 33 6 2 5 7 1 9 4 8

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spin-off15. Like an egg16. Game of chance17. Hard to find18. Inclinations19. Fictional villain20. Idealist22. Unending24. Child25. Secret meeting26. Looks toward29. __ Alamos, NM30. Speed34. Seaweed product35. Ending for sand or wind36. Save37. Egypt & Syria, once: abbr.38. Budding plant40. Female animal41. Paper fastener43. Calendar abbr.44. Raft traveler45. Numerical prefix46. Resident of: suf.47. Kills48. __ acid50. “__ be in England...”

(Robert Browning)51. Old54. Inhale58. Red and Black59. Laid flooring squares61. Level62. Cover with asphalt63. Act passionately64. Generations65. Suffix for gang or prank66. Coat with black again67. Remove text

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when or what 7. Prohibit 8. Says

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# 93

HARD # 93

8 2 46 1 8

8 4 3 67 1

5 41 2

6 7 3 52 9 19 1 8

3 7 8 2 6 5 9 1 46 9 4 7 1 3 2 5 85 1 2 9 8 4 3 6 77 2 1 8 4 6 5 9 38 5 9 1 3 2 7 4 64 3 6 5 7 9 1 8 21 6 7 3 5 8 4 2 92 8 5 4 9 7 6 3 19 4 3 6 2 1 8 7 5

# 94

HARD # 94

9 3 1 46 4 2 9

29 1 6

5 23 7 4

59 7 8 6

8 5 2 1

5 9 8 3 6 1 7 4 21 3 6 4 2 7 9 5 82 7 4 9 8 5 3 6 19 4 2 8 5 3 1 7 68 1 5 7 4 6 2 3 93 6 7 2 1 9 5 8 47 2 1 6 3 4 8 9 54 5 9 1 7 8 6 2 36 8 3 5 9 2 4 1 7

# 95

HARD # 95

7 28 5 9

5 8 76 1 2 48 3

3 1 2 68 9 6

3 7 81 6

9 4 6 7 3 1 8 2 58 2 7 5 6 9 3 4 11 3 5 2 8 4 7 9 67 6 1 9 2 3 5 8 42 8 4 6 7 5 1 3 93 5 9 4 1 8 2 6 74 7 8 1 9 2 6 5 36 9 2 3 5 7 4 1 85 1 3 8 4 6 9 7 2

# 96

HARD # 96

3 41 6 5 2

6 1 78 2

5 4 9 79 5

5 3 28 2 1 47 3

2 8 5 3 7 1 9 6 43 7 1 9 6 4 5 8 29 6 4 8 2 5 1 7 34 3 7 1 8 6 2 9 55 2 8 4 3 9 6 1 76 1 9 7 5 2 3 4 81 5 3 6 4 8 7 2 98 9 2 5 1 7 4 3 67 4 6 2 9 3 8 5 1

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HARD # 93

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8 4 3 67 1

5 41 2

6 7 3 52 9 19 1 8

3 7 8 2 6 5 9 1 46 9 4 7 1 3 2 5 85 1 2 9 8 4 3 6 77 2 1 8 4 6 5 9 38 5 9 1 3 2 7 4 64 3 6 5 7 9 1 8 21 6 7 3 5 8 4 2 92 8 5 4 9 7 6 3 19 4 3 6 2 1 8 7 5

# 94

HARD # 94

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29 1 6

5 23 7 4

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Since the talented trio of Desean Jackson, Lavelle Hawkins and Robert Jordan left Berkeley, Cal’s gap at wide receiver has been just that: wide.

Other than Verran Tucker and Marvin Jones two years ago, the Bears’ recruiting efforts have struggled to produce legitimate playmaking wideouts.

Enter Keenan Allen.Though best known as a safety — Allen recorded

eight picks and 145 tackles his senior year in high school — the Greensboro, N.C., native was also an impressive pass-catcher, recording 53 offensive touchdowns.

After working strictly at receiver during camp, the 6-foot-3, 195-pound Allen cracked the team’s depth chart on Thursday as the opening day starter opposite Jones. Fellow newcomer Coleman Edmond, a JUCO transfer, and senior Jeremy Ross are the primary back-ups.

According to Cal coach Jeff Tedford, the gem from the Bears’ 2010 class didn’t take long to impress the staff this fall.

“It was evident right away,” Tedford said of Allen. “Big, strong, fast, good hands. Great body control ... It took maybe three days (to rise to the top of the depth chart).”

While Allen established himself quickly, other major position battles have taken longer to settle — if they have been settled at all.

The safeties and spots also have seen some particularly strong compe-tition.

Junior Sean Cattouse and senior Chris Conte began fall training camp atop the safety depth chart, but will now platoon in a four-man commit-tee with D.J. Campbell and converted cornerback Josh Hill.

“They’ll all rotate,” Tedford said. “It doesn’t matter who takes the first snap.”

Whatever mixing and matching they go through in 2010, it may not match the amount of shifting undergone up front.

Though junior Mitchell Schwartz locked up the left tackle spot, he is moving over from the right side, where he started in 2009. Along with senior Chris Guarnero at center, Schwartz was the only guaranteed starter on the line for much of training camp.

Matt Summers-Gavin was a likely left guard candidate, but his bone bruise early in camp created even more shuffling.

Now, either Dominic Galas or Brian Schwenke will step at guard in place of Summers-Gavin, who should replace the incumbent Donovan Edwards at right tackle upon return. Right guard, now occupied by Justin Cheadle, has been competitive throughout.

On the other side of the ball, Tedford expects a consistent three-man rotation between Trevor Guyton, Ernest Owusu, and Deandre Coleman at defensive end opposite senior Cameron Jordan.

In addition to leaving some questions unanswered, fall training camp has featured its share of surprises.

One of the top stories has been 5-foot-7 Isi Sofele, who became the No. 2 running back behind Shane Vereen and emerged as the team’s top kick returner. In the backfield, the speedy sophomore beat out Dasarte Yarnway and Covaughn Deboskie-Johnson.

At cornerback, sophomore Marc Anthony beat out Steve Williams after the redshirt freshman was widely considered a favorite for a spot atop the depth chart.

by Ed YevelevContributing Writer

tedford Seeks Stability With new Depth chart

Cal football coach Jeff Tedford has been pretty revealing about depth chart decisions throughout fall camp, which meant that yesterday’s official announcement was mostly confirma-tion of previous information. Maybe the only real bombshell, though, was that when Matt Summers-Gavin returns from his knee injury, he won’t be playing left guard. He’s moving to the right side.

The pre-camp plans had Summers-Gavin on the left side with Mitchell Schwartz to create an experienced blind side for quarterback Kevin Riley. But when Summers-Gavin went down on day two of camp, the offensive line devel-oped without him. Luckily for the Bears, that may turn out to be a positive sign.

“We have more depth inside,” Tedford said to succinctly explain why Summers-Gavin will be moved.

Summers-Gavin was supposed to practice this weekend, but now it seems as if he’ll be held out until early next week. If he doesn’t practice in the week leading up to the Sept. 4 game against UC Davis, he won’t play.

“We’re just going to prepare without (Summers-Gavin). If he comes back, that’s great,” right guard Justin Cheadle said. “He’s a great player, but there’s a lot of competition and the offensive line will be just fine.”

As of today, the offensive line — from left to right — is Schwartz, Brian Schwenke or Dominic Galas, center Chris Guarnero, Cheadle and Donovan Edwards. Between them, they have 112 games of experience.

“It’s awesome. (The game) went from

Summers-Gavin Shifts Right to aid Line Depth

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Bears Eagerly Anticipate New, Fast Approach

Christina Jones

Carli Lloyd returns for her senior season, but without fellow All-American Hana Cutura. The two-time All-American was recently nominated for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award.

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The Cal women’s volleyball team is not rebuilding. It’s reconfiguring.

Don’t confuse the two terms. Re-building has a negative connotation, implying that a team will use the same blueprint to arrive at a finished product we’ve already seen. It’s as if you’re plug-ging in a new player and expecting her to turn out to be a carbon copy of who-ever previously held the position.

Rebuilding also denotes a certain de-cline in performance as a result of culti-vating that young talent and getting the newer players experience.

The Bears could have taken that ap-proach. They have big, athletic girls that could learn to play the way their prede-cessors played. No one will replace last year’s Pac-10 Player of the Year and Cal’s all-time kill leader Hana Cutura, but Cal has some strong hitters in freshmen Adrienne Gehan and Lauren Loerch that could evolve into dominating pres-ences on the outside.

Coach Rich Feller opted for a differ-ent route. Instead of adapting them to Cal’s existing system, he found some-thing to better suit their talents.

Cutura, along with former middle hitter Mindi Wiley, liked the slower-paced attack characterized by towering

cal Serves up new attack In opener against Gauchos

When the No. 11 Cal volleyball team steps onto the court at Haas Pa-vilion tonight for its season opener, the Bears will have a completely dif-ferent team than last year and an en-tirely new playing style.

The 7 p.m. match against UC Santa Barbara will unveil Cal’s new fast-paced offense, but more importantly, it is a chance to get the season off to a good start.

Luckily for the Bears, coach Rich Feller’s recipe is simple.

“Basic fundamentals — serve and pass,” Feller said. “Serve to get teams out of their system and pass to keep ourselves in our system.”

Though easy enough in theory, it will be compounded with a new sys-tem that the Bears have been working on since the spring. The quick, pass-based scheme represents a drastic change from the old, standard one that usually ended in a slow, high lob to graduated senior and Pac-10 Player of the Year Hana Cutura.

Even as the team tries to break in a brand new strategy while playing key seniors in Cutura and middle hit-ter Mindi Wiley, setter Carli Lloyd remains optimistic about this week-end’s Cal Molten Classic, which also includes a 7 p.m. match-up against Manhattan College on Saturday night.

“We’ll look like a good team,” the senior said. “We won’t look like we’re still learning.”

Junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey is thrilled with the new strategy and confident in its effectiveness.

“I love it,” Murrey said. “Faster is always better. (It will) catch teams off guard.”

Along with the new system come some fresh faces. The Bears have four freshmen on the squad, so Feller anticipates occasional mistakes. Yet Lloyd hopes to calm some nerves with her pre-game talk.

“It’s important to fall back on each other, to look to one another for help,” Lloyd said. “As long as we pass the majority of balls to get into the sys-tem.”

Murrey believes nerves are a posi-tive thing and that as long as Cal re-mains focused, the team should have success in its 2010 opener. Besides, she said, the Bears are finally play-ing an actual match after months of preparation and intrasquad scrim-mages.

“We’re all excited to play somebody different,” she said.

Despite preparing to face less her-alded opponent, Bears are certainly not taking the Gauchos lightly. After all, they upset a top-ten Cal squad six years ago.

“UCSB has a great history,” Feller said. “They have a great setter and most (of their players) return.”

But the opponent does not matter to Cal, nor do the high expectations that come with the team’s lofty pre-season ranking. The Bears are con-centrating on their first couple of matches to try to gain momentum for the season.

“Our expectations this year are pretty high,” she said. “We definitely expect to win.”

Contact Jonathan Kuperberg at jkuperberg@dailycal.org.

Kevin Riley was named the starting quarterback for the third year in a row. Despite low inter-ception totals, Riley is looking to improve upon a season mired in inconsistency and inaccuracy.

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by Jonathan KuperbergContributing Writer

by Katie Dowd Daily Cal Staff Writer

onLIne PoDcaStBeat writers Jack Wang and Ed Yevelev break down the depth chart.