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Parents and teachers voiced concern about preschool funding cuts at the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education meeting.Tim maloney/sTaff
Board Extends Preschool Funding
Welcomed by a round of applause, members of the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education decided Wednesday night to continue funding preschool and child care pro-grams with the district’s own funds un-til the end of January.
The board voted unanimously to contribute $148,000 to keep the pro-grams alive until Jan. 31 — or until a state budget is approved — thereby also securing the jobs of over 40 teach-ers and instructional assistants who work within the programs.
“We’re very, very grateful,” said Ma-ria Carriedo, principal of the district’s three preschools. “To cut preschool right now ... will pause all of our plans to close the achievement gap and hurt the families that are most in need.”
Over the past six months, the dis-trict’s preschool program — which serves 370 students, almost all of whom are low-income — has been left to “twist in the wind,” according to dis-
by Soumya KarlamanglaContributing Writer
trict Superintendent Bill Huyett, while the district has scrambled to fund the program on its own.
In August, as the beginning of the school year approached, the district made its first decision to keep preschool and after-school programs alive, even as the state budget remained unapproved. At an Aug. 18 board meeting, members voted to begin the new school year with fewer after-school programs and to maintain the preschool programs at re-duced hours until Oct. 31 with the hope that a state budget would be approved before then. The two-month extension required a $38,000 contribution from the district.
Now, almost a month into the school year, the board met again Wednes-day night to decide whether to extend the programs further until the end of January.
About 40 parents, students and teachers attended the meeting in sup-port of the programs, and several came forward asking the board members to “be the heroes in the midst of this stu-pid crisis we’re in.”
“This decision today — if you’re go-ing to ... throw us a lifeline — really makes the difference between success and failure in (the kids’) lives, but also, it may be one of the most important decisions you make this year,” said Pablo Paredes, a Berkeley resident and district parent, at the meeting.
The board voted unanimously to contribute $148,000 from the dis-trict’s reserves to fund the programs until Jan. 31.
For over half a year, the district has been grappling with where to make cuts. When the first budget cuts were proposed in March, the district was preparing for a $2.7 million cut to its funds, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger’s May revision bumped that num-ber up to $3.1 million. The revision also slashed the district’s $5 million pre-school and after-school programs for low-income families by $3.6 million.
District officials and educators have long stressed the importance of pre-school programs, making these deci-sions in the district — and around the
ASUC Proposes Student Positions Within Initiative
ASUC President Noah Stern and Graduate Assembly President Philippe Marchand intro-duced a proposal at Wednesday night’s ASUC Senate meeting seeking to create student positions within the Operational Excellence ini-tiative due to concerns that the student voice may be lost as plans proceed.
The proposal — converted into a sen-ate bill from a letter Stern and March-and wrote to administrators over the summer — seeks to create one to two student positions on each of the seven initiative teams. It would also create a student coordinator position whose primary role would be to serve as a li-aison between student team members, the initiative’s Program Office, and the ASUC and Graduate Assembly.
“When such drastic changes come through our university, it’s important that students are involved in every step of the way as the large stakeholders on our campus,” Stern said.
Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein, who sponsored and converted the proposal, said each Operational Ex-cellence task force is expected to create a student engagement plan, but that the ASUC should not wait for the task forces to come forward with their plans.
“(Operational Excellence is) hap-pening without the students really
by Allie BidwellContributing Writer
being informed about what’s going on, and yet it’s such a huge structural change that there should be more transparency,” he said. “They’re not communicating well with the ASUC and students at large.”
Last year, former ASUC President Will Smelko and former Graduate As-sembly President Miguel Daal served on the Operational Excellence Steering Committee to represent students. Stern said though he met with initiative lead-ers a few times over the summer, he has no official role in the effort.
At last week’s senate meeting, ASUC Attorney Mark Himelstein gave a pre-sentation to the senate regarding po-tential threats the initiative could pose for the ASUC, including the disman-tling of the ASUC Auxiliary.
Though Stern said the proposal was not drafted in response to Himelstein’s presentation, he said the points raised are of great concern to the ASUC.
“We’re watching it very closely, and we are prepared to push hard if things aren’t looking friendly to our students and if it looks like the mission of the ASUC could be put in jeopardy,” Stern said.
Stern said he hopes that under the proposal, student participants would be from outside the ASUC and the Graduate Assembly. The proposal also suggests student participants be compensated for their work. He added that although no concrete plans are in place, a possible form of compensation could be earning course credit for stu-dents’ work on the initiative teams.
ONLINE PODCASTASUC President Noah Stern discusses the proposed senate bill.
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Ophelia Shalott and professor Daniel Kammen were featured in Playboy. Shalott posed for the ‘Girls of the Pac-10’ pictorial, while Kammen made the ‘College Honor Roll.’
Tim maloney/sTaff
Last Friday, UC Berkeley senior Ophelia Shalott, 21, exposed herself to her classmates in more detail than they would usu-ally see in class — she posed for Playboy maga-zine’s “Girls of the Pac-10” pic-torial.
Shalott, a philosophy and English double major, was one of 17 women who were hand-selected for Playboy’s 34th annual col-lege pictorial. The eight-page nude
by Rachel Banning-LoverContributing Writer
spread features women from all of the Pac-10 schools for the magazine’s Oc-tober issue.
“I feel great about it — I feel it’s a re-ally unique opportunity,” said Shalott. “It was a lot of fun, it was something I’d never done before and something I, as it’s for Playboy, probably won’t do again.”
Playboy visited campus on April 12 and April 13 to conduct a casting call for the pictorial. According to Cathe-rine Walker, junior publicist at Playboy Enterprises Inc., between 50 and 100 women came out to audition on each campus that the magazine visited.
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City Council Approves housing Project
Berkeley City Council members gave a Downtown Berkeley sustain-able housing project their stamp of approval this week, pushing the proj-ect — which has been in the works for several years — toward implementa-tion as it cleared yet another zoning hurdle.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the council affirmed the Zoning Adjust-ments Board’s approval of a use permit for local developer CityCentric’s mixed-use housing project, Parker Place, after an appeal was filed in response to the board’s decision.
by Stephanie Baerand Kate Lyons
During a public hearing in April, the board approved the developer’s appli-cation — except for alcoholic beverage service and live entertainment — in a unanimous vote, with one board mem-ber excused. An appeal by Berkeley residents Gale Garcia and Patti Dacey was filed in mid-May.
The proposed development will construct two five-story mixed-use buildings — located at 2598 and 2600 Shattuck Ave. — and one three-story residential building, located at 2037 Parker St. Of the project’s 155 units, 28 are proposed inclusionary rental dwelling units that require a 20 per-cent inclusion of long-term affordable housing accessible to families whose
income is 80 percent of the region’s median income.
According to Dan Marks, director of planning and development for the city, the project would provide afford-able housing for the Downtown com-munity.
Mark Rhoades, a principal at Cit-yCentric, said Parker Place will provide housing for young families, profes-sionals and empty nesters with a wide range of housing close to main transit corridors.
“We still don’t have a balance of housing types to allow access at all income levels,” he said. “To protect our neighborhoods, we need to cre-ate housing that provides entry op-portunities.”
At the meeting Tuesday, Dacey told the council that the new project would
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UC Berkeley’s Shuttle Transit Program Could Be Outsourced
UC Berkeley Parking and Trans-portation is looking to outsource its outdated shuttle transit program and is currently evaluating six out-side vendors that would take over the shuttle services the system currently provides.
While Laura Watson, an organizer for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees lo-cal 3299 — the union that represents the program’s bus drivers — said drivers were concerned about the repercussions of the outsourcing, campus officials maintain it is necessary to replace the costly and unsafe bus fleet.
The buses, including Perimeter, Reverse Perimeter, Center, Rich-mond Field Station and Hill lines, are older buses that are leased from AC Transit that require a large amount of maintenance and are unsafe, according to Associate Vice Chancellor, Business and Adminis-trative Services Ron Coley.
“We are not okay with the bus ser-vice that is now being provided,” he said.
by Marjon MomandContributing Writer
UC Berkeley’s shuttle program, including the Perimeter Line shown above, could be outsourced to one of six outside vendors.ryan Ballard/contriButor
Coley said if UC Berkeley chooses not to outsource the bus services, there is a “very strong possibility” that the fleet will be downsized.
He declined to state which vendors were being considered because the campus was currently evaluating the vendors’ proposals.
The transit program currently employs 16 bus drivers, according to Seamus Wilmot, campus acting di-rector for parking and transportion.
Coley said if the campus outsources the buses, one option is that all cur-rent drivers will be given “alternate employment with no reduction in salary,” such as positions in parking enforcement and parking lot main-tenance.
In January, the campus outsourced Lawrence Berkeley National Labora-tory bus services to Fairfield-based MV Transportation Inc., resulting in the reassignment of the lab’s 13 bus
drivers to other positions at the same level of pay.
But Watson said many of the lab bus drivers who were reassigned were unhappy with the alternate employ-ment opportunities given to them. She added that some of the jobs given to the drivers included gardening and custodial positions, which she said were tough for some of the “older and larger” employees.
PRESCHOOL: District Expects Further Cuts Next YearFrom FroNt
state — high-profile and emotional for many community members.
“When children are able to attend quality preschools, they walk in the kindergarten door eager and ready to learn,” said Cynthia Allman, an officer with Berkeley Federation of Teachers, the local teachers’ union. “The effects (of additional cuts) will ripple up the entire K-12 system for years to come.”
The board was also considering lay-ing off almost 50 teachers and instruc-tional assistants that work at the pre-schools or after-school programs but was able to avoid this move once the extensions were approved.
Cathy Campbell, president of the teachers’ union, said she is relieved teachers — 20 of whom currently work in the preschool program — were not laid off. Eleven teachers were laid off earlier this year when program hours were reduced in August.
“That would’ve been a double wham-
my,” she said. “But I don’t think there’s any district that hasn’t either reduced or eliminated their programs.”
Huyett said he expects a budget with preschool funding to be passed before Jan. 31, which would grant the dis-trict its reimbursement from the state. But if preschool funding is cut at the state level, the district will have spent $448,000 that will not be returned.
“We think that this is a risk worth taking, given the terrible downside of not doing it,” Huyett said.
For the 2011-12 school year, the dis-trict is expecting at least $5 million in cuts from its state funds, making dis-trict cuts over the past four years total at least $19 million.
“There’s going to come a point where we have to do things we hate doing,” said board director Shirley Issel. “Please have mercy on this board come spring.”
Soumya Karlamangla is the lead local schools reporter. Contact her at [email protected].
The proposal was referred to the Standing Committee on University and External Affairs and will be discussed and possibly amended at the committee meeting Monday. If the proposal is passed by the committee, it will be considered at Wednesday night’s senate meeting.
Stern and Marchand said they hope to implement the positions as soon as possible because initiative teams are already beginning their work.
“The more eyes that look at a pro-posal, the better it’s going to be because these decisions will affect the whole structure and organization of the cam-pus,” Marchand said. “In some way, the short answer to that is there’s no such thing as too much consultation.”
Katie Bender of The Daily Califor-nian contributed to this report.
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Allie Bidwell is the lead student government reporter. Contact her at [email protected].
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3OPINION & NEWS Friday, September 24, 2010The Daily Californian
AC Transit Approves Weekend, Weeknight Cuts
In response to an $18.9 million deficit, the AC Transit District board of directors voted unanimously at a meeting Wednesday night in favor of cutbacks that would reduce services on weekends and weeknights beginning in December.
This is the third major cut to servic-
by Mary SusmanContributing Writer
es following a 7.8 percent cut in March and a 7.2 percent cut effective Oct. 31 that was postponed in August because of labor contract disputes. The delay cost the district about $4.6 million, according to Chris Peeples, AC Tran-sit director-at-large. The most recent cuts will save the district about $11.1 million.
Over 70 general and administrative staff positions have been eliminated, AC Transit spokesperson Clarence
Johnson said.December’s cuts — which will elimi-
nate 39 of 56 weekend routes — will impact about 25 percent of weekend riders, a decision AC Transit Director Jeff Davis said was “very unpopular.”
Several people spoke out against the cuts at the meeting Wednesday, call-ing the decision “ridiculous” and an outcome of “years of fiscal irresponsi-bility.”
“This is preposterous,” said Celia-Faye Russell, an AC Transit rider. “What am I going to do on the week-ends to get to church?”
Contact Stephanie Baer and Kate Lyons at [email protected].
HOUSING: Permit Approved Early in the MorningfroM front
leave union workers at the Berkeley Honda dealership — which is current-ly leasing the lot at 2600 Shattuck Ave. — without work and the city without cash revenue from the dealership.
She added that at the zoning board’s public hearing in April, the board ap-proved the project’s use permit in the early hours of the morning when the public had already gone to sleep.
“This can hardly be considered a public hearing,” Dacey said. “Every-thing was done to ensure that the pub-lic wasn’t even present. For this reason alone, the council should have a public hearing.”
Though the council could have de-cided to hold an additional hearing,
it instead affirmed the zoning board’s permit and allowed the project to move forward.
“Berkeley strives to create afford-able housing for all of its citizens across the range of incomes, and I think that Parker Place represents an important addition to the hous-ing stock here,” said Councilmember Max Anderson, whose district will in-clude the new buildings. “We haven’t had a project this size in my district for some time, and I think it’s signifi-cant that it’s right on the edge of the Downtown.”
He added that he hopes this project will serve as a template for rental hous-ing developments in the city because it “goes above and beyond” what is re-quired by law.
“Saying no to new housing in our town has had some unintended con-sequences,” Rhoades told the council Tuesday. “Berkeley’s demographic pro-file is wealthier and more ethnically homogeneous than it has been in the last 50 years.”
Berkeley resident Joy Moore, who has lived in the city since 1969, said she has seen minorities move because they could not afford to live in the city, adding that she had to move to Oak-land for several years due to a lack of affordable housing.
“There’s a greater need for subsi-dized housing now than there’s ever been,” she said. “Whenever afford-able housing gets attacked, it always impacts unfairly low-income seniors, handicapped and disabled people.”
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Third Major Cut to Service to Begin in December, Expected to Save District Roughly $11.1 Million
MAx Johnson
One night during Welcome Week, my roommate and I were standing in the Unit 2
courtyard. I had a lighter in my hand and was fumbling awkwardly with the flint in the way that inexperienced smokers adorably do. A flame was just flickering up to light what may or may not have been a joint of marijuana (it was) when I heard a voice over my left shoulder ask “What’s that you’re smoking?”
I turned to look, lowering the joint as I did so, and saw a police officer who looked alarmingly like the moustached cop from “Super Troopers.”
I want to pause to explain why I am telling you about this, because if I don’t I fear this article may ramble on so long that I’ll get in to trouble with the police again, this time for time-wasting. I have brought this up because (to use a thoroughly British expression), I was jolly well miffed by said police officer’s behaviour.
Firstly, I was shocked by the attitude and fundamental stance that this cop took towards me in contrast to my experiences with the police in Britain. He was distrusting and disrespectful to me from the off, and the only way to attain any leniency from him was to display obeisance.
I would almost go as far as to say that this particular law enforcement officer was getting a kick out of being a prick, but there was something about his attitude that was too enigmatic to be classed simply as malice — more on this later.
Secondly, I thought that the cop’s treatment of us was out of proportion with the event; indeed, it would be excessive for most events not involving him walking in on me smothering his (consenting) girlfriend in peanut butter.
Marijuana is not rare in Berkeley, neither is it the worst of what goes on. In July and August alone there were six armed robberies, two assaults with a deadly weapon, one hate crime, a “series of arsons” and one discomfort-ingly vague “suspicious circumstance” reported on the Crime Alerts and Advisories page of the UCPD website. Thus, for the cop to be this aggressive to what is a relatively small crime (indeed, bearing Proposition 19 in mind, it might no longer even be illegal) seems irrational.
It’s not that I don’t think I should have been in trouble; it’s just that the cop shouldn’t have treated us as if we were disrupting public security (which smoking marijuana isn’t, unless you factor in the likelihood of a mass crush of apathetic stoners mooching in the snack aisles of supermarkets).
Before I go further into the odd nuances of this cop’s behaviour, let
me first examine his mainstream malicious distrust. In Britain, police officers are fundamentally respectful until you give them grounds to treat you otherwise.
Although some felonies may exempt you from deserving perfect courtesy, small things like underage drinking or smoking marijuana are recognized as things that ordinary, decent people sometimes do, and so you are given
the benefit of the doubt initially. Between me and the cop, however, the following dialogue took place:
Cop: Do you enjoy getting in to trouble with the police?
Me (after pausing incredulously to register the fact that he actually expects an answer): No.
Cop: Do you smoke often?Me: No. Cop: I doubt that very much.This is completely true: I don’t
smoke often. But I had been in California for a week and a half, and when your roommate offers you a toke of a fat joint from his morbidly obese bag of weed, what ya gonna mother flippin’ do?
But this cop couldn’t have cared less if my mother was an actual pancake, he was out to make things as uncom-fortable for me as he could — and the thing that annoys me most is that he treated me as a dishonest criminal when it was not necessary to do so.
Alongside this contrast in attitudes between Britain and America (as
admittedly stereotyped by this one cop) is a slightly off-kilter aspect that the cop seemed to possess. This dynamic can be summarised by three possible conclusions: either the local authorities are stupid, or they think we’re stupid or we are actually stupid and thus can’t understand their complex policing logic.
Besides such questions as the first in the dialogue I detailed above, this cop (now in the presence of his superior officer) also asked my roommate if he would like his (illegal) weed back.
An overage friend of mine carrying a six-pack of beer the other day was asked by a cop where the (illegal) party was so that she knew “where not to go.” This is just odd. These cops’ questions on all three occasions defy any rational answer besides saying the most law-abiding thing possible. The cops must realize that this is the case, but again, all three questions have some sense of being clever traps to trick unsuspecting, idiotic law-frolick-ers into a confession.
Although I bemoan this police unorthodoxy, I am a bit thankful for the cop’s methods. In an effort at humilia-tion, Super Trooper cop made my roommate trample his bag of weed into the ground. Despite everything, that particular spectacle was quite amusing.
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Most people begin each aca-demic year hoping for a fresh start, but an ongo-
ing case between a student and an academic counselor at Berkeley High School is carrying over allega-tions of sexual harassment from last April. Some affiliates of the school community, including par-ents, worry that the continuing case is hurting the high school’s image as a whole.
A female student at Berkeley High School has accused counselor Anthony Smith of caressing her inner thigh and spanking her as she left his office, among other allega-tions. The Berkeley Unified School District concluded that Smith could continue as a counselor since Smith denied the allegations and there were no witnesses to the alleged incidents.
However, the plaintiff ’s attorney, Stephen Rosenbaum, filed for a temporary restraining order with the Alameda County Superior Court on Aug. 31 after his requests that the counselor be removed from the school and then from his posi-tion were denied by the district. A court date is now set for Oct. 19 to see if the restraining order should be extended or removed.
Since the case is more public and now outside of the district’s sphere, we believe that Smith should go on paid leave. This case is taking its toll on the high school community
and Smith should not be allowed back on campus before the hearing on Oct. 19. We doubt that he can be entirely effective at his job right after these public accusations.
In addition, the evaluation done by the district leaves many unan-swered questions since officials d e t e r m i n e d t h a t S m i t h h a d “engaged in inappropriate and unprofessional behavior contrary to District policy.” While it is unclear what this conclusion means, district officials say they took precautions to minimize con-tact between him and the student.
While Rosenbaum commented that he hopes to “informally resolve” the case before the court date, this would be the wrong course of action for the district. We believe that such an arrangement would involve transferring Smith to another posi-tion. But after formally finding no proof in the case and after denying Rosenbaum’s requests, such a set-tlement could put the district in danger of legal action from Smith. We also believe that if the court does not extend the restraining order, the case can be considered officially closed and Smith should be free to return to his job at the high school.
The district should wait for the courts to lay down the law, and we only hope that this case can be resolved as quickly as possible for the school community’s sake.
Need Court’s Conclusioneditorials
Embryonic stem cell research continues to be a hot-button issue nationwide, yet a fed-
eral district court’s decision in August to block federal funding for this research brought the debate a lot closer to home.
The University of California was able to resume its work with stem cells when the issued injunction was temporarily lifted this month. Yet the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals, which is currently review-ing the case, could rule to once again block funding.
Ultimately, we hope the Court of Appeals overturns the injunction to allow research to definitively con-tinue with federal funding. The federal district court’s decision seems nothing more than a politi-cal stunt. Funds for stem cell research have previously been
established as a part of the federal budget and were successfully approved at that level.
At a smaller and more local level, the university deserves this funding since general attitudes in California also appear to be in support of such studies: 59 percent of voters passed Proposition 71 in 2004, which approved grants that provide state funding for embryonic stem cell research.
With this history in mind, we are glad that the university has filed a motion to try and intervene in this case. Although it is the first institu-tion that has done so, we would like to see other affected organizations join in to defend federal funding. As long as the university continues to be careful and deliberate with this controversial research, there should be no reason to stop its progression.
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CitY aFFairs
The counselor accused of sexual harassment should go on paid leave to preserve Berkeley High School’s image.
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The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals should overturn the injunction that would block funding for stem cell research.
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OpinionFriday, September 24, 2010
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A Mosque for All Americans to Be Proud OfAll eyes are fixed on Manhattan.It has become the latest laboratory in
which the American experiment is con-ducted. Here, again, it will be decided whether the ideals that built this nation will stand strong through a storm of raw emotion or whether they will suc-cumb and crumble to the whims of the populace as feared by the Founding Fathers.
The current mosque-near-Ground-Zero controversy, as coined and manu-factured by media pundits and politi-cians alike, is supposedly a debate between the rights of Muslims and the sensitivities of the American public. However, this framing is a legitimiza-tion of an argument that derives from emotion and misinformation. In reality, this debate ignores the actual crux of the matter.
The true issue at hand is the reliance upon the perpetually flimsy association of Islam, the religion of the terrorists who conducted the attack. It ignores the fact that neither the Sept. 11 hijack-ers, nor Osama Bin Laden, nor even an estimated 90 percent of Muslim extremists around the world have any formal religious training in the study of the Quranic and Islamic sciences. Most of their expertise is in business, engi-neering or medicine. And yet it is these people, an infinitesimally small propor-tion of the 1.4 billion Muslims around the globe, who have become the mouth-pieces for the religion itself, drowning
by Omer Khan out voices of reputed Islamic scholars all over the world who have spoken out against the attacks. This includes Imam Feisal Rauf, the moderate spokesman for the Mosque, who has collaborated with Jewish and Christian organiza-tions to build a center of understand-ing.
It also ignores the estimated 60 Muslims that died in the attacks; hard-working, peace-loving Americans who not only saw their lives mercilessly taken on Sept. 11, but also, to the dis-may of their families, had their stories largely ignored by the tidal wave of Islamophobia and fear-mongering that washed the nation. Buried underneath the rubble of the World Trade Centers, they transformed from victims to per-petrators, as the national discourse that blamed their religion also implicitly handed each adherent of the faith a portion of the responsibility for the tragedy. Now, according to this twisted logic, the existence of a place to pray for the families of these victims within a two-block radius of Ground Zero is insensitive to the families of the victims as a whole. How does this reasoning stand?
Perhaps most alarming is the utiliza-tion of Sept. 11 attacks, a wound that is still relatively fresh in the American conscience, as an election-time tactic by politicians to win votes. It has been nothing beyond an effort by right-wing-ers to once again tap into the deep-rooted Islamophobia still rampant amongst the American public. Like a
bloodhound snuffing out its prey for its master to shoot, this time by literally manufacturing a controversy out of thin air, they have once again resorted to the Bush-era stratagem of tapping into the lack of knowledge in America and media-fed distrust of anything remotely Islamic to win votes. And, sadly enough, so many spineless Democrats have been shocked into silence.
This is not the America I grew up believing in. We are not a nation of the ignorant; we are a learned society with an ideology promoting the even, ratio-nal application of law and principle. We will not condemn Islam as the driving force of terrorist attacks without read-ing and understanding the Quran. We will not ignore the plight of a single vic-tim of the Sept. 11 attacks, Muslim or not. And, most importantly, we will not allow their memory to be tarnished by politicians seeking only to advance their own careers by tastelessly manipulating a harsh memory.
This mosque must stand, not only as a symbol of the synergetic cooperation between numerous religious groups in America but also as a symbol of the strength of American ideals, standing resiliently in the midst of an emotional-ly charged atmosphere to make our Founding Fathers proud.
All eyes turn to Manhattan.
Omer Khan is editor-in-chief of Al-Bayan, a campus publication. Reply to [email protected].
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5NEWS & SPORTS Friday, September 24, 2010The Daily Californian
Responses to Harassment Accusations Varied
The accusations of sexual harassment against Berkeley High School counselor Anthony Smith by a student at the school have generated varied responses among community members, who seem to be largely unaware of the allegations even as the case makes its way to court.
Despite rumors that the issue would be brought before the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education at its meeting yesterday — as well as the distribution of fliers on the high school campus late last week — only one par-ent spoke out at the meeting, and stu-dents on the campus seem largely un-informed of allegations of harassment.
In April, a female student at the high school filed a sexual harassment report with the district against Smith, but following a district evaluation, he has been allowed to retain his position since the beginning of the school year.
On Sept. 2, a temporary restrain-ing order against Smith was issued by the Alameda County Superior Court,
by Gabby FastiggiContributing Writer
which will remain in effect until the case goes before a judge Oct. 19, when it can either be revoked or extended.
The student’s lawyer, Stephen Rosen-baum, has filed three appeals with dis-trict officials — two of which have al-ready been denied — asking that Smith be removed from his position. The third appeal was filed with the board Sept. 19 and is under review.
Board members met in closed ses-sion Wednesday night amid speculation from parents and community members that the case and appeal were under dis-cussion. However, Rosenbaum has not yet received a decision from the district regarding his latest appeal and could not confirm if the case was discussed by the board that night.
At the meeting afterward, Peggy Scott, the only parent to speak about the case during the public comment period, raised concerns about student safety while Smith remains on campus. However, district Superintendent Bill Huyett intervened mid-comment and said the meeting was an inappropriate forum for discussion of the case.
“The district is always ensuring the safety of the students, however I also think the rights of employees have to be represented as well,” Huyett said.
More than a week after news of the al-legations spread throughout the parent community, several students are still un-aware of the report filed against Smith. Even among those who have heard of the allegations, there is debate regarding the validity of the claims.
“I don’t think it’s true,” said Berkeley High School sophomore Sumyah Has-san. “I’ve never seen Mr. Smith act like that — he’s a nice guy. I don’t feel un-safe on campus.”
But the district’s lack of severe punish-ment of Smith has incited criticism from some students, who, like some members of the parent community, feel the district should have acted on the situation before it was elevated to a legal matter.
“It’s good she took action, but the Berkeley High School system has failed us,” said freshman Dorianna Blitt.
Gabby Fastiggi covers the courts. Contact her at [email protected].
RESEARCH & IDEAS
Study: Maternal Death Rate Has Declined
In New York’s bustling Times Square, members of Amnesty International hung a clock Monday that would count to 90 seconds and then start over again. Each time the clock finished a cycle, a woman somewhere in the world had died of complications during pregnancy or childbirth, reminding passersby that maternal mortality still presents a per-vasive human rights problem.
But according to a study by UC Berkeley researchers released Sept. 15 by the World Health Organization and other international organizations, the maternal mortality ratio — the number of maternal deaths compared to the number of live births — has de-creased by 34 percent since 1990.
The study — and Amnesty Interna-tional’s Maternal Death Clock — was in preparation for a United Nations summit Sept. 20 to Sept. 22, where world leaders discussed the progress of the United Na-tions Millennium Development Goals, which aim to significantly decrease world
by Claire PerlmanContributing Writer
poverty by 2015. The goal to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75 percent has nearly been half met.
John Wilmoth, an associate profes-sor of demography at UC Berkeley and lead consultant in the project, developed a method for estimating the maternity death toll that is more conducive to re-porting long-term trends instead of sim-ply providing statistics for a specific year.
“We created a statistical model, which allows us to predict the level of maternal mortality based on co-vari-ables that tend to go up and down with maternal mortality,” he said.
Wilmoth and his team, which in-cluded three UC Berkeley graduate students from the demography depart-ment, gathered government data from the countries that collected maternal mortality numbers. For the rest of the 172 countries surveyed in the study, mostly the undeveloped nations where there was either incomplete or no in-formation, Wilmoth said predictive statistical models were necessary.
Income, for example, has such a pre-dictive power. When the per-capita in-
come of a region increases, women are more able to afford midwives or hospi-tal care, safe abortions, contraceptives or even a small pill for five cents that prevents and treats hemorrhages.
Progress has occurred to some ex-tent in North Africa and Asia, where the decrease in the ratio has been above 4 percent a year, almost meeting the annual 5.5 percent improvement rate necessary to meet the U.N. goal.
Other regions have not fared as well. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest ma-ternal mortality ratio at 640 deaths per 100,000 live births and has only improved by 1.7 percent annually since 1990.
“The tragedy, I think, is that the world is divided into two groups. There are about 45 or 50 million women who do not have a skilled birth attendant,” said Malcolm Potts, a professor in the School of Public Health. “The mortality rates have gone down in many places, and I think that’s wonderful. We’re not giving women enough care, but we’re giving them more than we used to.”
Claire Perlman covers research and ideas. Contact her at [email protected].
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Walker said in an e-mail that “the pictorial proves that women can be both smart and sexy,” adding that many women who have been featured in college pictorials have gone on to have professional careers in law, medi-cine and business.
Shalott said she liked the fact that the women featured did not adhere to stereotypes.
“I shot with the Stanford girl,” Shal-lott said. “At first, I was like ‘Stanford, gross!’ But then we became friends, it was great. She’s getting her doctorate in biology — she’s going to be a doctor and people look at her and look at me and they’re going to make judgements ... I like breaking misconceptions, I feel like anomalies are really awesome.”
Though Shalott has had previous modeling experience — for 2Nite Vod-ka and Wikkit — she said the photo shoot with Playboy is the biggest mod-eling job she has had so far.
She added that her friends have been very supportive of her modeling career.
“People at Berkeley are multi-achievers, and we embrace unique-ness,” she said.
Shalott is not the only person from the UC Berkeley community to be fea-tured in Playboy’s October College Issue — UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group professor Daniel Kammen is one of 20 professors on the magazine’s “College Honor Roll” for faculty who are “reinventing the classroom.”
Kammen, who has recently been appointed to the World Bank and is internationally known for his work in the field of renewable energy, was recognized by Playboy for such work, according to Playboy Senior Editor Josh Schollmeyer. Over 200 profes-sors were nominated for the College Honor Roll.
“I definitely have mixed feelings about it as a magazine — I’ve actually never purchased,” Kammen said. “But if it brings attention to interesting ap-proaches, I hope the association with the sexist aspect of Playboy is secondary.”
Contact Rachel Banning-Lover at [email protected].
Ann Boyd, a bus driver and Amal-gamated Transit Union Local 192 member, said AC Transit is unfairly blaming the union for the cuts.
“I think (the decision) was very un-fair,” Boyd said in an interview. “The district is basically holding the public hostage and using ATU to do it.”
AC Transit is currently in arbitra-tion with the union after their contract expired in June. Johnson said the dis-trict asked for $15.7 million in labor cost reductions, but the union has only offered $6 million.
The new contract — which the union refused to enter into — would change work rules affecting overtime, retire-ment plans and medical co-payments and premiums but would not affect salaries, Johnson said.
Davis said work rules have a “huge impact” on the district.
“They’re somewhat complicated, and sometimes the union makes them overly simple,” he said.
In addition to voting on the cuts, the board motioned to continue dis-cussion on outsourcing paratransit services, which provide transporta-tion for people with disabilities or certain health conditions. Contract-ing out would save AC Transit about $760,000 annually, according to Johnson.
He said the board could vote on out-sourcing the services as early as their next meeting.
“We may have to do it because of the amount of money it saves, but I think there’s a good deal of skepticism about it,” Peeples said.
He added that the board will “con-sider everything” to reduce the dis-trict’s deficit but that the solution does not lie in cutbacks.
“It’s a major policy shift that has to take place locally and federally,” he said.
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Contact Mary Susman at [email protected].
According to Coley, current employ-ees of the campus shuttle system will be offered a second job option with which-ever vendor is selected. He added that, as part of the requests for proposal for outsourcing the buses, the campus will require that the companies offer current shuttle employees a job if the bus drivers choose not to be displaced.
According to a document given to The Daily Californian by Wilmot describing the shuttle program, UC Berkeley is currently reviewing alter-native options besides outsourcing the bus program, such as leasing or purchasing new buses and having the campus run the program. But accord-ing to Watson, the union has not heard
any of these alternatives. “They have not been willing to sit
with us to find alternatives,” Watson said.
According to the document, the program is funded by about $1 mil-lion from parking permit fees as well as $880,000 from the Class Pass fee. Coley said the current system is “cost-ing too much.”
Coley said in addition to safety, sus-tainability and service issues, campus officials would like to replace the cur-rent shuttle service to make the service more cost-effective.
“We are not satisfied by the status quo,” Coley said.
Contact Marjon Momand at [email protected].
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will no doubt become one of its most storied victories in program history. It’s going to be a packed, riled up house at Arizona Stadium to greet the Bears.
Not to mention that Cal doesn’t play well on the road anyway. Since 2005, the Bears have lost 21 regular season games. Sixteen of those losses came on the road.
In Reno last week, the Cal defense was torn apart by 6-foot-6 quarter-back Colin Kaepernick. And while the problem of the pistol offense is obvi-ously no longer relevant, the challenge doesn’t necessarily decrease with the Wildcats.
Like Kaepernick, Arizona quar-terback Nick Foles is tall (6-foot-5), but he’s even more accurate. Foles is completing 78.6-percent of his passes, second-best in the nation.
In the Wildcats’ upset of then-No. 9 Iowa last week, Foles was 28-of-39 for 303 yards. Beside him line up one of the better running backs in the conference, Nic Grigsby, and one of the best receivers in the nation, Juron Criner.
It’s not a good combination for the
Cal defense, which was held captive by the Wolf Pack. The Bears looked a step slow most of the game, and with Mike Mohamed’s sprained toe keeping him out of practice through Wednesday, they’ll probably have to play without their star linebacker again.
Then, there’s Arizona’s defense. If the Cal offense struggled against Nevada, they’ve got another thing coming for them in the stifling desert air of Tucson.
The Wildcats are big, physical and aggressive — they’ve got the best rushing defense (86.3 yards per game) and most sacks per contest (3.67) in the conference. Their two huge defensive ends, Ricky Elmore and Justin Washington, probably saw the pressure Nevada got and salivated. They know they can do better.
Which brings us back, as it always does, to Kevin Riley.
Cal can win if and only if Riley rights his ship. No mistakes in the red zone, re-connect with his receivers, makes good decisions.
Tedford has faith in him.We’ll see if Arizona shakes it.
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Conference-Topping Cal Hopes To Keep Its Hot Hand in Davis
After toppling then-No. 16 Stan-ford in an upset win last weekend, the Cal field hockey team now faces a hot UC Davis squad that is fresh off three straight victories on the road. The Bears (4-4, 3-0 in the NorPac) hope to sustain their own winning momentum when they travel to Davis on Saturday for a 1 p.m., tilt.
Saturday’s match is the last of a three-game set against conference ri-vals. With wins over Pacific and the Cardinal last weekend, the Bears are the only undefeated team in NorPac play, with Stanford in second place with a 2-1 record.
In the first meeting between the two teams earlier this season, Cal recorded its first win with a 5-1 victory over the Aggies. Claire Dougherty and Andrea Earle each scored a brace in the rout, while senior Megan Psyllos tallied the gamewinner.
The loss against the Bears on Sept. 5 marks the last time the Aggies have dropped a decision.
Since then, Davis (3-3, 0-2) has outscored its opponents 7-1 to bring its record back up to .500. The Aggies posted two consecutive shutouts over St. Louis and Central Michigan to fol-low up a thrilling double-overtime vic-tory over Missouri State.
Much of the Aggies’ recent success can be attributed, in large part, to two standout sophomores: forward Nadia Namdari and keeper Lauren Sawvelle.
Namdari notched two goals and two assists during Davis’ torrid win streak,
by Catherine NguyenContributing Writer
entrenching her firmly as the Aggies’ top offensive performer with nine points.
Additionally, Sawvelle’s impressive performances in the cage have earned her recognition among NCAA field hockey statistical leaders. Through games up to Sept. 19, the San Diego, Calif., native is ranked 10th in save percentage (.797) and tied for ninth in saves per game (8.00).
Cal is not without its own notewor-thy performances.
Dishing out two assists last weekend to bring her season total up to seven, sophomore Deanna Kennedy is rising rapidly in the team record books. She is now ranked eighth in school history for career assists with 17, and is one away from tying coach and Hall of Fame in-ductee Shellie Onstead for seventh.
Kennedy has been a key contributor in penalty corner conversions, which are a main staple in the Bears’ offensive game, earning most of her assists this season in her role as the setter. Mid-way through the season, the midfielder is well on pace to break her freshman assist total of 10.
Dougherty has also paced Cal’s offense. With game-winning goals against Pacific and Stanford last week-end, the forward has captured the team lead with six scores. She earned her second NorPac Weekly honor as Offensive Player of the Week.
After the match against Davis, the Bears’ stretch of road games concludes next week with visits to currently ranked No. 8 Wake Forest and No. 1 North Carolina.
Catherine Nguyen covers field hockey. Contact her at [email protected].
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lead, would be the only high point of the day.
Minutes into the second half, on a Portland corner kick, Michelle Cruz lofted the ball into the 6-yard box which was pin-balled between Cal players finally being knocked in by Cloee Colohan.
But the headache for the once ec-static Bears would only get worse when 64 seconds later Pilot’s senior forward Sophie Schmidt banged home a low shot after a nifty step-over by a team-mate at the top of the box.
“We need to learn that a goal lost is just a goal lost,” McGuire said.
After the Pilot’s flurry of goals, Cal seemed to deflate as the entire team appeared to drop its shoulders and play with much less dynamism and excite-ment that was present in the first half.
“We kind of just lost our composure and started to lose possession of the ball and they started to find a rhythm again,” senior midfielder Emily Shibata
said. “We let them back in the game.”Schmidt, a member of the Canadian
National Team, proved a handful all game for the Bears who were without their own international talent, Alex Morgan. The senior forward was ab-sent due to a call up to the Senior U.S. National Team for two matches against China early next month.
“Alex is arguably one of the finest strikers in the world,” McGuire said of her absence. “But one of the things we focused on all week was that regardless of whether Alex is in the lineup or not we’re still a very talented team.”
And yet, Cal looked like it sorely missed Morgan and her 2.63 points per game, only managing five shots on goal as they digressed into their ane-mic second half form.
“We don’t want to focus on missing Alex,” Shibata said deflecting atten-tion away from the team’s absent star. “We’re Cal. We’re not Alex.”
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Teamwork-Oriented Cal to Finish Nonconference Play
The Northern California-Southern California rivalry often finds its way into everyday conversations between Berkeley students.
For the Cal men’s soccer team, there is a time during practice to see that rivalry play out in a drill.
“North versus South” is a shooting game sometimes played at the end of practice, where the team is divided by home region. The two regions then battle it out against one another to bol-ster team bonding while working on shooting.
It was on this note that practice con-cluded yesterday morning in the last training session before today’s game against Denver University at 4 p.m., to start off the Stanford Nike Classic.
This afternoon’s challenge marks the end of nonconference matches for the squad before heading into Pac-10 con-tests. Despite the impending rival game against Stanford on Oct. 2, Cal still takes things one adversary at a time.
“You can’t look past any team on your schedule, and certainly Denver is a team that has been to the playoffs recently and they have a good-quality team,” Grimes said.
The Bears (4-1-1) are currently on a three-game winning streak, after clos-ing out last weekend’s competitions as the co-champion of the Bay Area Clas-sic.
Less than halfway into the regular
by Kelly Suckowcontributing Writer
season, coach Kevin Grimes and his players have already made their mark nationally as well as in the Pac-10.
Goalkeeper David Bingham ranks 26th in the nation for goals against average percentage (0.608), while the Bears as a whole place seventh overall in their save percentage (0.902) and sit at No. 14 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll.
Both seniors A.J. Soares and Da-vis Paul have garnered recognition as Pac-10 Players of the Week this sea-son.
Even with the accolades and prof-itable season so far, Cal remains grounded in its consistent philosophy involving team improvement and fo-cus from week to week. The scouting and preparation for Denver were no exception.
“They are a really good team,” Soares said. “We watched them on the films a lot and it is definitely not a team to underestimate. They are going to be a really hard team to play.”
Pioneers’ junior midfielder Jarod Stigall currently leads his team in points and received all-MPSF Honor-able Mention in 2009.
More recently, Denver has split its last two games, winning against Oral Roberts and losing to No. 23 Penn State.
Having seen three nationally ranked opponents in commendable perfor-mances, the Pioneers should bring formidable competition to Edwards Stadium.
“We always expect the best from ev-ery team,” senior forward Davis Paul said. “Looking at film and over things, Denver is definitely a solid side. It should be one of our toughest matches to boot.”
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Kelly Suckow covers men’s soccer. Contact her at [email protected].
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7SPORTS Friday, September 24. 2010The Daily Californian
Bears Change Pace, Take It Easy in Davis at Mini Tourney
The No. 3 Cal men’s water polo team (5-1) has another tournament this weekend, although the Davis Mini Tournament is not nearly as stacked with talent as last weekend’s Norcal Invitational.
The Bears are one of five teams par-ticipating, the others being Redlands, Santa Clara, UC Davis and ARC.
Cal will open the Davis Mini Tour-nament against the unranked Red-lands (5-4) bright and early at 10:15 a.m., before taking on tournament host No. 11 UC Davis (9-3) at 4:15 p.m., the same day.
As a frame of reference, the Division III Bulldogs lost 23-3 against USC and 23-5 against Stanford. When the Bears faced the Trojans and Cardinals at the Norcal Invitational, they lost 11-12 and won 11-8, respectively.
All things held equal, Cal should have a field day with Redlands and be able to allow its younger players a good deal of playing time. The newest addi-tions to the Bears have responded pos-itively to the responsibility their team has given them.
“Giacomo (Cupido) is one of our stronger defensive players,” senior Zach White said. “I play against Gia-como in practice and he’s really quick, very active when he plays defense.”
Cupido and lefty Max Bergeson, another freshman, were key play-ers against Cal’s MPSF opponents in the NorCal Invitational, assisting and scoring in clutch situations.
by Byron AtashianContributing Writer
“(Max) is quick with the ball,” White said. “On the six-on-five, he’s money in the six spot.”
Bergeson pitched in three goals in the NorCal tournament. He plays the supporting role for Serbian veteran Luka Saponjic, who is also a lefty.
“Max, Giacomo, and Collin (Smith) are all very active kind of players which really helps fit the missing piece of the puzzle that we have from this summer,” White added.
The Bears’ second game against the Aggies shouldn’t be quite as easy their first. This isn’t to say it will be close, though, since the season opener against them was a 14-4 victory.
“They’re not going to beat UCLA or Stanford out there, but they always come out aggressive,” White said. “We have to match that energy and not let them get momentum on us or it ex-tends the game.”
Davis has done well for itself so far, moving up four spots from when it started the season at 15th place. It split the NorCal Tournament 2-2, one of those losses coming against Stanford.
Cal head coach Kirk Everist predict-ed the Aggies’ potential far before they started moving up the ranks.
“I think Davis is going to give people some trouble,” he said after the season opener. “They’ve got some strong guys, some speed, and a pretty good goalie.”
The Bears were supposed to preface the Davis Mini Tournament by playing Pacific at home tonight, but the game was rescheduled for Oct. 22.
Byron Atashian covers men’s water polo. Contact him at [email protected].
Senior Brian Dudley is contributing in every major statistical category for the Bears. Dudley has 13 steals, second-best on the team, six assists and five goals on the season.
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unsatisfying final score39. Sharp cry40. Donahue and Gramm41. Departed42. Nasal stimulant43. This: Sp.44. Actions45. More emaciated47. Make out49. Move smoothly51. Connect56. Greek letter58. In song, gifts for
December 26th61. Fisherman!s pride63. Word from Popeye64. DC figures: abbr.65. Party decorator!s paper66. Like the Mojave67. Gaelic language68. Witch!s home69. Watched70. Way to go: abbr.
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Cal coach Jeff Tedford didn’t mince words when talking about his team’s humbling 21-point loss at Nevada.
“If we weren’t (ready to bounce back) I’d be very dis-a p p o i n t e d ,” Tedford said at Tuesday’s press conference.
“Anytime something like that hap-pens to you, it stings. I know a couple of players, when I saw them on Mon-day, they still said they were sick to their stomach about it.”
Saturday night’s 7 p.m. Pac-10 open-er at No. 14 Arizona (3-0), then, could be either a much-needed dose of Tums or another punch in the gut.
The Wildcats have won two straight home meetings against the Bears (2-1), and are just one week removed from a thrilling 34-27 upset of No. 9 Iowa — arguably the program’s biggest win of the decade. They have dropped just three of their last 17 games down in the desert.
“Being a freshman, and going there, it was very loud, very loud, and it was hostile,” wideout Marvin Jones said.
And if the end of Arizona’s upset last Saturday was any indication, then Mike Stoops is at the helm of a legiti-mate conference contender.
After Pac-10 passing leader Nick Foles went 5-for-6 while command-ing the Wildcats’ 72-yard winning touchdown, Arizona emphatically sealed the victory with four consecu-tive sacks of Hawkeyes’ quarterback Ricky Stanzi.
Indeed, it was the Wildcats' defense which had Cal talking at length on Tuesday.
Junior defensive ends Ricky Elmore and Brooks Reed have combined for 24.5 quarterback take-downs over the last two years, yet both trail a redshirt freshman teammate (Justin Washington) for the conference sack lead.
by Ed YevelevContributing Writer
Bears Hope to Reshuffle in Tucson After Bust in Reno
The No. 8 Cal volleyball team has played 10 matches and won all but one set, but ask the Bears about their sea-son and they’ll say it hasn’t started.
Conference play kicks off tonight when Cal opens with Arizona at 7 p.m., at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Ariz. The Bears (10-0) will then travel to Tempe to face Arizona St. in a 12:30 matinee on Sunday.
“The Pac-10 is truly a different season focus,” coach Rich Feller said. “There’s no mediocre competition in the Pac-10 ... They’re all good.”
Feller said the Wildcats (10-2), who have won 15 straight sets, are repre-sentative of the conference in terms of their height and athleticism. For in-stance, all of their middle blockers are at least 6-foot-1.
“It’s a different level,” sophomore middle hitter Shannon Hawari said. “We have to pick up the competitive ur-gency, be ready, get our block together.”
Cal leads the Pac-10 in blocks per set, with an average of 2.94; however, but Bears’ net play will be rigorously tested against more formidable com-petition, especially up front.
Arizona, which was ranked No. 18 in preseason, features a pair of senior outside hitters in Tiffany Owens and Whitney Dosty.
Owens is coming off a 22-kill, one error performance in the Wildcats’ win over New Mexico St.
Dosty is seventh in the Pac-10 with a 3.95 kills-per-set average. The Bears know that Arizona setter Paige Weber
by Jonathan KuperbergContributing Writer
will pass to Dosty frequently, and they will react accordingly.
“They hit a lot of balls to their out-side hitters, a lot from the right side of the court,” Feller said. “We have to de-fend a lot of the antenna, the pin sets.”
If Hawari and the other Cal block-ers are unable to block or disrupt the Wildcats’ kill attempts, the Bears’ de-fense will need libero Robin Rostratter to put on another career match. The sophomore, who had a career-high 20 digs last weekend against San Francis-co, expects a strong team effort.
“My goal for the game is definitely to have good communication, go all out,” she said, “(and) not let anything touch my court.”
Besides talented athletes like Owens and Dosty, the Pac-10 offers another challenge to Cal: road matches in hos-tile environments.
Although preparing for Pac-10 road matches is the reason Feller scheduled away matches at USF and St. Mary’s, the passive WCC crowds are not the same as in the Pac-10, specifically at the McKale Memorial Center. Arizona is known to host particularly rowdy spectators.
“The crowd is really loud and close to the court,” Hawari said. “It should be interesting for the freshmen.”
Hawari, the nation’s leader in hit-ting percentage, knows her squad just needs to stay focused and not concen-trate on the fans, the other team or the fact that it’s a Pac-10 match.
Feller concurred, saying it’s the same game no matter where it is played.
Cal hopes the result is the same too.
Jonathan Kuperberg covers volleyball. Contact him at [email protected].
Cal Takes No. 8 Ranking To Zona in Pac-10 opener
“You’ve got to stop a lot of the twists that they do,” quarterback Kevin Riley said.
“They just kind of crash with force in there and try and open up holes. We’re going to have to be ready, that’s for sure, because they can get after you.”
Against a pair of physical Arizona cornerbacks in Trevin Wade and Robert Golden, Riley must hone his accuracy as well as his pocket presence after toss-ing a career high three interceptions against the Wolf Pack. All of the turn-overs came in Nevada territory.
“They really put a lot on their sec-ondary, which they have a lot of trust in,” Riley said.
“They don’t want teams to run the ball on them and teams haven’t been
running the ball on them, so we’re going to definitely, again, have to throw the football this week to be able to win.”
Riley certainly has the requisite stash of downfield weapons for a bounce back performance.
Opposite Jones, who comes off of a career-high 12 catches and 161 yards, Keenan Allen will line up healthy. An ankle injury limited the freshman wide-out to a single reception in last Friday’s loss, but Allen will return at full strength after undergoing an entire week of practice.
Tight end Anthony Miller also came alive against the Wolf Pack, racking up 64 yards after a slow start to the sea-son.
“We have playmakers that spread the
field,” Tedford said. “So I don’t you can point out any one guy or focus on one guy.”
Still, it’s hard to discuss Cal’s fate against Arizona without recognizing the importance of running back Shane Vereen. Last time Wildcats fans saw Vereen, he was scampering 61 yards to the end-zone for the game-clinching score in the Bears’ 24-16 upset at Me-morial Stadium.
His fourth-quarter heroics capped off a then-career-high 159-yard per-formance, which he topped at Stanford the following week and then last Friday against Nevada.
Ed Yevelev covers football. Contact him at [email protected].
oNLiNe PoDCASTThe Daily Cal football beat writers preview the tilt against Arizona.
Wide receiver Marvin Jones had a banner day against Nevada last week. The junior caught 12 passes for 161 yards, both career highs.
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Cal’s Prospects Look Dim
Against ’Cats
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A t Tuesday’s weekly press con-ference, coach Jeff Tedford was asked about senior quarter-
back Kevin Riley’s performance at Nevada.
“I don’t know if there’s any specific thing he did poorly,” he replied.
Like Riley, the Cal football last week didn’t just do any specific thing poorly; they did a lot of things poorly.
Four weeks into the season, the Bears can probably best be described — much to the eternal frustration of Cal fans — as bipolar.
It’s still very, very early, but we’ve seen two starkly different teams. The Bears have been practically per-fect, blowing out Colorado and UC Davis by a combined score of 104-10. They’ve also been misery to behold, getting thrashed by the Wolf Pack last Friday.
But tomorrow, it’s not going to mat-ter which squad shows up — Cal isn’t going to beat Arizona.
In a banner year for the Bears, the Wildcats are the type of team that often has Cal’s number. In a year that is so far bereft of banners, they’re kryptonite.
First, the obvious. Cal slumped home last week; Arizona spent the week basking in the glow of what
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Bears Jump out to early Lead But Fall Late to Pilots
As the No. 16 Cal women’s soccer team found out yesterday at Edwards Stadium, it’s not always easy to follow their team man-tra to “Live Like Champions,” fall-ing 3-1 to No. 3 Portland. The loss was the Bears’ first of the young season.
Early in the match, Cal (5-1-3) looked like the unbeaten side that had hung 20 goals on their last four oppo-nents possessing the ball and playing a bend-but-don’t-break defense to the chagrin of the Pilots (10-0-0).
“Going into the match, we felt the team that possessed the ball the best was going to be the victor,” Cal coach Neil McGuire said. “So we wanted to focus on keeping the ball and being very, very patient.”
Hounding the Portland defenders, the Bears’ patient offense and tena-cious defense finally forced an error in the 19th minute as Pilot goalkeeper Erin Dees miss-cleared a pass which deflected to sophomore forward Lau-ren Battung who whistled a shot from just outside the box into the upper left corner of the net.
However, that goal, and the 1-0
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Junior outside hitter Tarah Murrey is handily leading the squad in kills; her 146 kills is third-best in the conference. Her 5.35 points per set is also the third-best in the Pac-10.
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