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Operational Excellence Efforts Under WayBill Aims to Implement UC Pension Plan Limits
California State Assemblymember Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, sponsored a bill aimed at closing the loophole pro-viding for increased retirement pen-sions for some of the state’s highest-paid employees, thereby adding his two cents to a debate between mem-bers of the UC Board of Regents, UC President Mark Yudof and 36 univer-sity executives.
Introduced on Jan. 6, Assembly Bill 89 is the latest installment in a dis-course dating from December, when the executives signed a letter to the UC Office of the President threatening legal action if a 1999 regents proposal to increase pensions of employees making upward of $245,000 was not enacted. The letter sparked responses from Yudof and Russell Gould, chair of the Board of Regents, as well as the 1,453 members of the university com-munity who signed a petition urging the regents to resist the executives’ request.
If passed, AB 89 would take effect Jan. 1, 2012 and would put the pen-sion limit of $245,000 in state statute, forcing the university to honor the cap despite the IRS waiver. But it would not provide a definitive answer to the argument over the proposal’s nature.
In a letter and position paper dated Dec. 9, the executives stated that the university was obligated to calculate their pensions based on their total sal-ary, after the IRS lifted the limit on pension calculations in 2007, and that the proposal was a binding policy that should be retroactively implemented.
by Nina BrownDaily Cal Staff Writer
For over a year, UC Berkeley has worked with consulting firm Bain & Company on an ambitious endeavor to save the campus upward of $75 million annually.
Now, Operational Excellence’s seven teams are starting to make moves to change the size and scope of campus operations — most controversially with the recent announcement that 280 po-sitions will be eliminated by June.
Staff reductions are already under way and the campus expects to save about $20 million annually, administra-
by Alisha AzevedoDaily Cal Staff Writer
tors announced Thursday in a campus-wide e-mail. Nearly 150 staff members will be laid off and the remaining posi-tions will be cut through retirements, voluntary separations and the elimina-tion of already vacant positions.
In addition to streamlining staff, the organizational simplification team will publish preliminary plans for shared service centers within a month, which will house administration for human resources, finance and information technology.
Position cuts have affected all levels of staff, as one-fourth of the eliminated positions have salaries and benefits of $100,000 and above. The number of
managers who supervise fewer than three staff members will decrease from 45 to 20 percent, with a new campus average of seven staff members per su-pervisor.
However, SAVE the University and the Berkeley Faculty Association are ques-tioning why the campus did not make any reductions in top administrators and offices, according to Richard Walker, professor of geography and vice chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association.
The organizations also have concerns about the transparency of the distribu-tion of layoffs across the campus units, as well as “potential discriminatory ef-fects” of the cuts in terms of the ethnic
and gender demographics of those laid off, Walker said in an e-mail.
“Where does slash and burn cutting end and long-term planning begin?” he said in the e-mail. “OE has to be carefully thought out, involve every-one on campus, be transparent, and be implemented step-by-step, but it is being rushed or ignored in the drive to reduce staff by large numbers.”
An Outside Firm Comes InBain & Company was originally
hired to assess operating costs after the campus suffered a budget deficit
New Ice Cream Store Sees Positive Reaction Following Test Run Opening
Since early December, a nighttime walk down Telegraph Avenue toward Channing Way will usually reveal a long line of customers waiting to experience Berkeley’s new-est comfort food: warm cookies “engulfing” a scoop of ice cream.
While a number of oth-er businesses located near the UC Berkeley campus reduced store hours in preparation for the business lull that accompa-nies winter break, CREAM — an acronym for the official name, Cookies Rule Everything Around Me — opened its doors in a test run to gauge con-sumer response to their product.
Owner Jimmy Shamieh chose a soft open-ing for CREAM on Dec. 6, so that the majority of consumers — UC Berkeley students — could experience the product before leaving for win-ter break, during which Shamieh and his family evaluated the business’s performance and service as well as the consumer reaction.
“In order to be ready for the onslaught of the after-break business, we wanted to open up be-
by Jessica GillotteDaily Cal Staff Writer
fore break to see what business is like and to get our feet wet with the actual running of day-to-day business,” he said. “Then having that downtime to go over our steps to see what we did right and what we have to improve on — and to improve on it before students come back.”
A store that serves custom-made ice cream sandwiches and blended drinks, CREAM is fam-ily owned and operated. The business is headed by Shamieh, a San Francisco native who wanted to “provide a little happiness” to consumers “in this economically stressed time.” His wife, son and daughter, along with five recently hired UC Berkeley students, make up the store’s staff.
Like other customers enjoying CREAM treats, Wellington Onyenwe, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, was first drawn to CREAM by its line — which wrapped around the block.
“(The servers) were all cheery and happy, and it looked like it was pretty exciting,” he said. “We ac-tually have something in Los Angeles that’s pretty similar to this, but the product here is a little bit different. It has a different edge to it so I really like it out here.”
After the store’s soft opening in early Decem-ber, the Shamieh family made some changes to
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>> CREAm: PAgE 2CREAM has drawn large crowds since its opening in early December. Opening as a test run just before winter break allowed the owner to evaluate the store’s performance and improve operations before students returned.
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The father of a former Cal football player is suing The Daily Californian’s editor in chief and president, Rajesh Srinivasan, in a Fresno County small claims court, charging him with inten-tional infliction of emotional distress related to one article and two blog posts from 2006 and 2007 that remain in the newspaper’s online archives.
Harvey Purtz, a Fresno podiatrist, repeatedly requested via e-mail that Srinivasan remove the articles about Chris Purtz’s altercation at a San Fran-cisco nightclub, despite citations of company policy against the removal.
On Oct. 7, he requested that Srini-vasan pay $7,500 in damages because the articles “inflict harm” upon his son’s
by True ShieldsDaily Cal Staff Writer
memory. Chris Purtz died in June 2010.After Srinivasan refused to pay,
Purtz filed the small claims suit, which will be heard on Jan. 19.
Some legal experts say it will be dif-ficult for Purtz to prove his case.
“(Purtz is) not saying exactly what caused stress, and in this situation it’s hard to say that anything the paper did caused more emotional distress than the death of his son,” said Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate for the Student Press Law Center, which pro-vided legal help to Srinivasan.
Purtz’s suit references a Daily Cal article published Oct. 12, 2006, which details then-senior Chris Purtz’s in-volvement in a physical and verbal confrontation with employees of the Lusty Lady, a San Francisco adult club. The suit also references two blog posts
True Shields is the lead courts reporter. Contact him at [email protected].
cream: Some Vendors Question Business ModelfroM front
their operations, including offering “the same superior” Double Rainbow brand ice cream and Otis Spunkmeyer brand cookies that consumers with special dietary needs could also enjoy. Shamieh also smoothed out other in-ternal issues by fine-tuning inventory control, work schedules and hiring in addition to managing his storage space.
Although the consumer reaction to CREAM has “exceeded our wild-est expectations,” Shamieh added that the process of opening his business — which took one and a half to two months’ time — was not easy, a com-mon complaint from business owners in the city.
“Berkeley is a difficult place to con-duct business that has food service. It’s
really extremely difficult, and you’re going to go through a lot of hoops to be able to get all the permits and licenses required to operate,” Shamieh said.
Additionally, he noted that other business owners on Telegraph seem unconvinced by his business model and that they don’t see “where the math is, (and) the business sense” in selling his custom-made sandwiches for $1.50.
“Rents and expenses are very high on Telegraph,” Shamieh admitted. “The (profit) margin is slim, but the family is working tremendously hard and so we’re cutting a lot of the expenses to make this an affordable item to the student, and whether they’re right or I’m right, only time will tell.”
Jessica Gillotte is the lead business reporter. Contact her at [email protected].
executives: Pension Pay Controversy ContinuesfroM front
The 36 executives declined to com-ment on the issue.
But Yudof and Gould issued a state-ment on Jan. 4 refuting that claim, saying, “the action taken by the Board 10 years ago was not self-executing and … the pension proposal was never implemented.”
Christopher Edley, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and a signa-tory of the executives’ letter, responded in a blog post on Jan. 10 to Yudof and Gould’s statement and to the outcry from members of the university com-munity. Edley cited a need for high lev-els of compensation to hire and retain new faculty and administrators.
Estimates of the number of employ-ees affected by the proposal range wide-ly. While the executives’ position paper
states that over 200 employees would be affected by the measure, Edley cited “450 affected individuals.” In an interview on Jan. 4, Steve Montiel, a UC spokesper-son, said he could not confirm the cost of enacting the proposal, although some estimates range in the millions.
While Yudof intended to introduce an item at the December regents’ meeting calling for the elimination of the 1999 proposal, the measure was postponed to allow time for further consideration after protests from the executives, said Montiel on Jan. 4. The item is expected to be on the agenda at a regents’ meeting in the future. If it passes, the 1999 proposal will be aban-doned — although the executives may still challenge that decision in court.
published by the Daily Clog on Jan.17, 2007 and Feb. 19, 2007 discussing Chris Purtz’s departure from the foot-ball team.
In addition to the infliction of emo-tional distress, Purtz’s claim suggests that The Daily Californian provided misinformation about his son in the articles. The suit, however, is filed solely against Srinivasan — who has been the editor in chief and president since May 2010 and has worked for the paper since Dec. 2007 — and not The Daily Californian.
Purtz declined multiple requests for comment on the case.
“Newspapers and their websites do not pull stories because they reflect, at some point after publication, badly on the people involved,” said Allen Mat-thews, a San Francisco Chronicle edi-
tor who chairs the Daily Cal’s board of directors.
David Levine, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law who special-izes in California civil procedure, said California’s two-year statute of limita-tions for tort cases — wherein a party is injured by a civil wrong — could make Purtz’s claim difficult to prove.
“This is an egregious abuse of the legal system and of the vital purpose of our state’s small claims court pro-cess,” Matthews said. “I’m sorry about the family’s loss, but grief is not an excuse for Dr. Purtz to file a reprehen-sible claim against the current student editor, who was in high school when the original article appeared, and not against the newspaper itself.”
Nina Brown covers higher education. Contact her at [email protected].
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3OPINION & NEWS Tuesday, January 18, 2011The Daily Californian
I love basic cable.Basic cable is comforting. It’s
relaxing. But most importantly, basic cable makes me feel good about myself.
I spent a good chunk of my winter break sitting at home, sifting through a glorious hodgepodge of initialisms: MTV. TLC. VH1. It’s easy to dismiss the quality of the shows I watched as “mind-numbing,” but I fancy them to be ... educational. Because by far, I have learned more about the saddest extremes of the human condition while watching reality shows than through any other medium.
I’m not even talking about shows like “The Hills” or “Jersey Shore.” I actually find most of the characters on those programs somewhat likable, albeit oblivious to their own obnox-iousness. I’m talking about the documentary programs that take a peek into the minds of the world’s most troubled people.
Watching A&E’s “Hoarders” is an experience that just makes you think, “Thank god I don’t live like that.” The series documents interventions staged for compulsive hoarders who, for all intents and purposes, are pretty much batshit crazy. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.
These people live like animals. One woman has to live in a trailer outside of her house because the latter is packed wall-to-wall with caged, diseased animals. Two children develop asthma and sleep in the same bed with their parents because while filth is abundant in their home, space for beds is not. Dozens of cats — living and dead — clutter the home of an elderly lady.
You gain a certain appreciation for your own living conditions after seeing these people — inevitably afflicted with OCD or other mental disorders — and how attached they are to their crap. When parting with junk collected from a dumpster becomes an emotionally trying ordeal, you know you’ve got problems.
You can probably guess what TLC’s “My Strange Addiction” is about from the title. Another documentary series, this one features people with compulsions from bizarre to just plain nasty.
About half of the addictions are some form of pica — the habit of eating non-nutritional items — in-cluding soap, chalk and hair follicles (plucked from one’s own head, of course). One woman almost exclu-sively communicates through her pup-pets. As if ventriloquism weren’t weird enough already.
But maybe I shouldn’t feel so high and mighty. Just because I don’t
eat toilet paper constantly doesn’t mean I have the best habits, right? I eat Chipotle probably five times a week, and you might call that an addic-tion. However, once I saw the woman who shovels handfuls of Comet cleaning powder into her mouth — a 30-year daily habit, no less — that
pretty much dispels any notion of abnormality I might be placing myself into. Eating Chipotle won’t cause $20,000 worth of damage to your teeth (Your arteries though ... that might be another story).
While the hoarders and addicts may be able to pin their
problems on psychological conditions or some form of emotional trauma, the parents of the child pageant stars — I use that term loosely — on the pedophile’s wet dream that is “Toddlers & Tiaras” have no excuse. I really don’t know if it’s worse to be actually crazy and have a collection of over a thousand rats or to be the child of one of these wannabe-diva parents who pimp their children out in beauty contests.
Psychological problems that cause you to eat household cleaners are disturbing, but watching the sexualization these kids under 10 years old are being subjected to is another thing. I feel like it’s doing damage to MY psyche.
I can maybe understand the most beautiful contests — these infants can’t even stand up, so it’s more akin to showing off your prize pig at the county fair. But watching an 8-year-old prancing around in a two-piece bathing suit and doing her best frat party hip gyrations? Dear lord, these parents have no shame.
I really can conceive of no benefit to emphasizing — from birth, practically — that physical beauty is the only redeeming and self-fulfilling trait in the world. You can just predict that some of these kids are going to be emotionally unbalanced when they grow up. And for that they will have their hair-curling, mascara-applying, childhood-tramp-enabling parents to thank.
What’s the lesson we learn here? People can be crazy. Really crazy. And suddenly, the problems and stresses of life are put into perspective. And they’re really not that bad. My life is fucking awesome compared to these people’s. Yours is, too.
So go back to your unexceptional daily routine. Just be thankful that TLC isn’t knocking on your door to feature you in their latest reality series.
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of nearly $150 million in the 2009-10 school year and took $67 million in permanent budget reductions.
Though the campus hired the firm in October 2009 at a cost of $3 mil-lion, the firm’s continued support of the initiative through Dec. 31 of this year cost an additional $4.5 million.
The initiative’s final diagnostic report completed in April showed potential for savings of at least $75 million per year, and seven initiative teams have been charged with recommending savings in their respective categories.
However, additional funding may be required to complete the initiative’s implementation. A clause of the Phase Two Amendment of Operational Excel-lence signed April 1 states that the ini-tiative may require much more fund-ing, estimating further investments at $50 million to $70 million in total over the next three years, with annual costs of $5 million thereafter. Further investments will occur in process rede-sign, automation projects, people and
training, the amendment said.Claire Holmes, associate vice chan-
cellor for public affairs and univer-sity communications, said in an e-mail that the ultimate cost of the initiative has yet to be determined.
“Until the plans are actually finished and approved, there is no way to know what investments in technology, train-ing, etc. may be. However, we do know that we will need to invest in the cam-pus to ultimately achieve our perma-nent savings,” she said in the e-mail.
Future Plans Begin to DevelopAs large changes occur in organiza-
tional simplification, other initiative teams continue at varied paces, with most planning to submit their recom-mendations to campus administration by March before implementing chang-es. Teams have found savings in areas of energy, information technology and travel, among others.
The campus currently runs a deficit of $6 million in utility bills due to a lack of state funding, but energy cost
Off the Beat cuts could save between $3 million and $4 million to help close the gap.
Plans to increase campus energy efficiency by allowing faculty to track energy usage via meters installed in all campus buildings will be completed by the end of January as part of the en-ergy management initiative.
Altering the campus’s software li-censing, servers and data centers could be another area for big savings. The information technology team found that new software such as BFS9 — the updated version of the Berkeley Fi-nancial System — cost between 300 and 600 percent more than originally budgeted. The team hopes to decrease annual information technology spend-ing of $140 million by 10 percent and is currently drafting case studies.
Cuts in the costs of lab supplies and equipment as well as travel and enter-tainment could save the campus any-where from $1.7 million to $6.4 mil-lion, according to a preliminary draft of recommendations published by the procurement team in December.
Alisha Azevedo covers academics and administration. Contact her at [email protected].
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CaMPUsissUes
While we disagree with its conclusions, the chancellor's e-mail is nonetheless a valid expression of personal opinion.
HiGHer edUCatioN
The request of 36 university executives to receive increased pension benefits is ill-timed and should not be granted.
By Nina Tompkineditorial CartooN
OpinionTuesday, January 18, 2011
The Daily Californian
Current maximum annual salary used to calculate
pension benefits.
$51million
Cost, in retroactive benefits, of granting the
executives’ request.
$5.5million
Annual additional cost to the university pension liability of this change.numbers ...
by the $245,000
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Chancellor Birgeneau is not known for staying silent on controversial issues, and the
recent shooting in Arizona is no dif-ferent. Though we disagree with his linking the shooting to recent politi-cal events, we believe he has the right to state his opinion to the campus.
On Jan. 10, Birgeneau sent an e-mail to the campus community linking the attack to a “mean-spirited xenophobia” that he credits for the defeat of the DREAM Act and the passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070. Since then, controversy has arisen regarding whether the chancellor was out of line in sending such an e-mail. While the campus asserts that student response has been lim-ited, many political commentators have criticized the chancellor.
The controversy in response to the e-mail speaks to its value to the cam-pus community as a discussion start-er. By sharing his opinion, the chan-cellor is stimulating intellectual dia-logue, and in doing so he is contrib-uting a vital service to the campus.
While we believe that the connec-tion between the shooting and those
events is tenuous at best and non-existent at worst, we hold that the chancellor has every right to express his opinion, especially on matters which he believes pertain to the cam-pus community. This is not the first time that the chancellor has weighed in on political issues — he has previ-ously commented on the effects Proposition 8 would have on campus and he is an outspoken and ardent supporter of the DREAM Act.
We agree with campus spokespeo-ple that the e-mail contained his own views, a fact reinforced by his stating them in an e-mail to students, faculty and staff. Had he issued a press release, it would appear that he was communicating for the university.
We also agree completely with the sentiment expressed by the chancel-lor in his final paragraph regarding our duty as a campus to move away from divisive confrontation and instead toward open communica-tion. This is important to keep in mind as we begin a new semester, as we can only gain as a campus diverse in thought and opinion by construc-tively resolving our differences.
As the entire University of California tightens its belt in the face of severe financial
hardship, it makes little sense to expect its highest paid employees not to share in the sacrifice.
On Dec. 6, 36 university employ-ees, including the deans of the Haas School of Business and UC Berkeley School of Law, sent Mark Yudof and the UC Board of Regents a letter demanding that the regents honor a 1999 agreement to calculate retire-ment benefits as a percentage of their total salaries. Currently, the maximum salary used to calculate pensions is $245,000 per year, a cap imposed by the IRS — though the IRS granted an exception to the university in 2007 that lifted this cap.
While we respect the sanctity of contractual agreements and the principle of upholding promises, we believe that this arrangement, while certainly an oral agreement, does not seem to be an irreversible con-tract, as mention of it only exists in the bylaws of two meetings of the regents from 11 years ago. If the executives were counting on the increased funds as an essential part of their retirement planning, as they
claim, they should have received an official contract in writing — not a cursory mention.
We also question whether the timing of this request is appropri-ate. The university is facing mount-ing deficits, and cuts to funding are so severe that with Gov. Jerry Brown proposing $500 million in cuts, the university cannot afford the addi-tional $51 million burden in retro-active benefits and the $5.5 million annual cost that implementing this policy would entail.
The executives are threatening to sue, but we hope that the issue is settled before it reaches the courts, as any legal fees would just worsen the university’s financial predica-ment.
While maintaining the cap may decrease competitiveness for execu-tive positions, we fear that capitu-lating sends the wrong message to the thousands of university employ-ees who would see no benefit from this change. Rather than appease 36 of the system’s most well-com-pensated executives and managers, the priority of the university should be remembering its original prom-ise: the California Master Plan for Public Education.
Public tragedies are never appropri-ate times
for partisan politicking.
Thus Chancellor
Robert Birgeneau’s Jan. 10
e-mail seems odd for a non-partisan state official and former scientist. His campus-wide message stated: “I believe that it is not a coincidence that
this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated dis-crimination against undocu-mented persons.”
To state as fact his opinion that Arizona’s recent immi-gration law legislated dis-crimination reflects more about Mr. Birgeneau’s politi-cal views than it reflects reali-
ty. One can certainly adhere to such a view regarding Arizona’s law, but one can also legiti-
mately see it as an effort to re-enthrone the rule of
law and protect the state’s deluged social services.
Either viewpoint, which tends to be highly
correlated with whether one is on the political left
or right, is an opinion — a partisan opinion. Since when
did the chancellor have the right to push his political viewpoints, dis-guised as facts, upon the university community?
But he didn’t stop there. He then decided to provide commentary on recent action by the US Congress that is completely unrelated to the Arizona shootings. He wrote: “This same mean-spirited xenophobia played a major role in the defeat of the Dream Act by our legislators in Washington ... ” While Chancellor Birgeneau is entitled to his beliefs on
by James Phillips
the DREAM Act, such opinions do not belong in official communications
to the entire campus. And for the chancellor to label the motiva-
tion behind legislative acts as “mean-spirited xenophobia,” and then in the same para-graph call on the campus community to “eschew expressions of demoniza-tion,” makes little sense. President Obama was cor-rect when he declared, “[W]
hat we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion
to turn on one another.”The shooter’s friend said of him,
“He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.”
The simple truth is that the shooter is at fault — not conservatives, not
liberals, not those who support strict-er immigration, not those who prefer open borders. To hastily blame the actions of a murderer and a madman on any group of American society is not the sign of a scientist or a states-man. As our president stated, “[T]he truth is that none of us can know exactly what triggered this vicious attack ... or what thoughts lurked in the inner recesses of a violent man’s mind.”
Imagine the outcry there would be if the chancellor had blamed the shootings on the Obama administra-tion’s lack of enforcement of federal immigration law, or liberal social wel-fare policies that attract illegal immi-grants, or any other similar criticism from the political right. It’s doubtful that he would have a job 24 hours later.
The campus community’s reaction to the chancellor’s partisanship will reveal the degree to which tolerance extends to all and not just to groups with which one agrees.
Sure, we’ve all made snap judg-ments as to the cause of some event when we first hear about it. And we’ve all probably made accusations, accepted stereotypes or invoked heat-ed rhetoric from time to time. But to communicate such within 48 hours of a horrific event to the entire campus community is the action less of a uniter and more of a divider.
As President Obama stated, “ ... when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do — it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
In the end, Mr. Birgeneau’s e-mail is the epitome of the problem in American politics and society as his remarks are further proof that nei-ther the right nor the left is devoid of “mean-spiritedness,” “demonization,” bias or intolerance. An apology to us all, Mr. Chancellor, would be wel-comed, for UC Berkeley is better than that.
Editor’s note: this piece was sub-mitted on behalf of the Conservative Berkeley Law Students.
James Phillips is a UC Berkeley stu-dent. Reply to [email protected].
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The ‘Thanks to Berkeley’ wall has been permanently removed from campus due to the high cost of repairing damage from protesters.chris mcdermut/staff
Due to extensive damage during stu-dent protests and high maintenance and repair costs, the “Thanks to Berkeley” wall was permanently removed from its location outside of Dwinelle Hall.
The wall, which prominently dis-played pictures of students and quotes about their experiences at UC Berkeley, was first vandalized soon after it was constructed in September 2008. But the destruction escalated when images were torn from the wall during the Nov. 19 protest, and campus officials decided to permanently remove the wall Jan. 6.
“We struggled with the notion of taking it down,” said David Blinder, associate vice chancellor for univer-sity relations. “You hate to give in ... But given the financial state, you don’t want to spend money on what you don’t have to spend it on.”
The wall was created as a market-ing tool for the fundraising initiative “Campaign for Berkeley” and was a “tribute to the diversity of Berkeley,”
by Mary SusmanDaily Cal Staff Writer
according to Blinder. Yet the idea of the wall met heavy criticism.
“I, like many other students, believe that the wall offers an uncritical and unrealistic portrayal of UC Berkeley through a manufactured sense of di-versity and perfection,” said ASUC Ex-ternal Affairs Vice President Ricardo Gomez in an e-mail.
Vandalism to the wall cost the cam-pus no more than $2,000 each year, according to Jose Rodriguez, campaign communications manager, who said the cost was low because most damage was covered by insurance.
The wall was laminated with a coat-ing that protected the images against graffiti, but ripped images on the wall made the cost of repair too high.
Before it was torn down, the final wall had been graffitied with “your apathy = our fees” and ripped. It had featured stu-dents who had “donated to support the University through their senior class gift,” Mary Keegan, director of development communications, said in an e-mail.
Gomez helped organize the Nov. 19 protest, but said he did not participate
in the destruction of the wall and did not agree with the “message and ex-ecution” of the vandalism.
“If you want people to care about something, you can’t expect that some accusatory and ugly words on a wall are going to do the trick,” Gomez said in the e-mail. “With that said, I’m not going to throw whoever did that under the bus. I don’t think that using the wall as a canvas for public discourse was in any way wrong.”
However, with over 2,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and parents hav-ing participated in the campaign, Blinder said he believes the majority of people supported the wall.
He added that campaign organiz-ers are seeking new ways to spread the message of the campaign.
“Berkeley is a place where there is rarely unanimity,” Blinder said. “It only takes a few people in their own ex-pressions of incivility to unfortunately wreck it for everybody else.”
Wall of Faces Permanently Removed
Mary Susman covers communities. Contact her at [email protected].
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Brown’s Budget Stirs DebateUC System Troubled byFunding Gap That Gov. Brown’s Proposed Cuts To Education Will Cause
With California facing a $25.4 bil-lion budget deficit in the next fiscal year, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed on Jan. 10 a budget that slashes state spending by $12.5 billion, including a $500 million cut to the UC system.
The $500 million cut constitutes a 16.4 percent reduction from last year’s state general fund support for the UC and an approximately 5 percent reduc-tion of the university’s overall operating budget, according to UC President Mark Yudof ’s Jan. 10 open letter to California, in which he opposed the cut, citing po-tential harm to one of California’s most important public institutions.
“Early and enduring support for the University of California has been criti-cal to the state’s success,” Yudof wrote. “This won’t be easy, and all possible remedies must be considered ... With the governor’s budget, as proposed, we will be digging deep into bone.”
If the governor’s budget is approved without changes, the state will contrib-ute $7,210 per student, and the student and his or her family will pay $7,930 — the first time in history that the state’s contribution has been less than the student’s, according to Yudof ’s letter.
To weather the proposed cut, Yudof will present each UC campus with spe-cific budget reduction goals for chan-cellors to meet while the central UC office will identify ways to reduce costs systemwide.
In its assessment of the governor’s budget proposal, the California Leg-islative Analyst’s Office — a nonpar-tisan fiscal policy adviser for the state — wrote that the language of the pro-posal leaves it unclear as to how the UC is going to cope with the reduction in funding.
“Although the administration in-tends that the segments’ General Fund reductions be achieved primarily through cost reductions and increased
by Jordan Bach-LombardoDaily Cal Staff Writer
efficiency, the proposed budget pack-age includes no language that would ensure such an outcome,” the report reads. “In the past, the segments have responded to unallocated cuts in a variety of ways, including midyear tu-ition increases, enrollment reductions, and furloughs, as well as some efforts at increased efficiencies.”
UC Vice President for Budget Pat-rick Lenz identified several of these sources of revenue as potential meth-ods of navigating the funding gap, in-cluding increases in student fees.
But Yudof stated in his letter that his preference “is to not seek an additional fee increase,” although he also said he cannot commit to this until he and the UC Board of Regents assess the pro-posed budget’s impact.
The proposed cut is another chap-ter in a two-decade trend of declining state support for the UC, represent-ing a 22.5 percent reduction since the 2007-08 fiscal year, according to Lenz, and a 57 percent cut over the last 20 years, according to Yudof ’s letter.
UC Student Association President Claudia Magana opposed the cuts in a Jan. 10 statement, saying that the de-creasing support — and fee increases it could lead to — “fundamentally jeop-ardizes” the quality, affordability and accessibility of the UC system.
The budget plan also proposes a $500 million cut from the California State University system, as well as $432.5 million in cuts to the state’s community college system while increasing the price per unit from $26 to $36.
The budget could undergo many changes between now and when it will be voted on in the summer, includ-ing any modifications made by the state Legislature. It is also contingent upon state voters approving a five-year continuation of current taxes in a June special election, a prospect that the Legislative Analyst’s Office stated “obviously carries some risk” and that worries Lenz.
“If voters don’t support his tax con-tinuation ... this recommendation would come to us so late it would limit the uni-versity’s options to respond,” Lenz said.
The city of Berkeley may soon ad-minister traditionally state-led and sponsored programs as Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal attempts to return decision-making power to local government, though some city officials are concerned that such a transfer of authority will take a toll on the city’s finances.
The realignment proposal is a com-ponent of Brown’s state budget — which was announced last Monday — and is part of a plan to involve local jurisdictions in service delivery to fa-cilitate greater efficiency and reduced costs. This realignment will take sev-eral years to complete but, when fully implemented, will restructure how and where more than $10 billion in services are delivered.
Berkeley City Councilmember Gor-don Wozniak said the main concern with Brown’s realignment proposal is whether the state also plans to transfer the financial burden of providing such services to local government.
“Usually what happens when the state does this is that they move the services ... but they don’t move fund-ing with it,” Wozniak said. “Any further transfer of responsibilities with no money would be a real problem ... and I suspect that there will be additional costs to the city.”
City staff have not yet discussed how the city will respond to Brown’s proposal and other effects of the gov-ernor’s budget and will likely do so in early February, according to Wozniak.
“We really haven’t yet gotten an analysis from the city manager on what the impacts are going to be,” he said. “Even then, city staff takes a while to assess the impacts.”
Under the realignment proposal, services that would shift from the state to city and county jurisdictions include fire and emergency response activities
by Sarah MohamedDaily Cal Staff Writer
Some Officials Question Brown’s Proposal Calling For Cities to Take Over State-Officiated Programs
in over 31 million acres across the state, funding of court security, management of low-level offenders and parolees, housing and treatment of juvenile of-fenders, treatment of substance abus-ers, operation of foster care and child welfare services and protection for neglected and functionally impaired senior citizens.
Brown’s budget summary states that “necessary statutory changes must be final no later than June to ensure a smooth transition of programs to the local level,” assuming that the Legisla-ture votes on the budget by March 30 — nearly three months earlier than the regular June 15 deadline — and that Brown can call a special election in June for voters to pass a tax extension.
If passed by voters, the tax extension would be effective for a period of five years and would maintain current tax rates in order to fund the realignment plans, according to Brown’s summary.
One component of Brown’s bud-get proposal that may create financial problems for Berkeley is Brown’s deci-sion to eliminate state tax benefits for enterprise zones, said Councilmember Susan Wengraf.
“We were recently designated an enterprise zone,” Wengraf said. “That does affect us because enterprise zones get certain tax credits, and if we lose those, that really will negatively im-pact the businesses receiving those benefits.”
Discussion of Berkeley’s budget for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 began in Oc-tober 2010 and will continue through June. According to the city’s budget calendar, staff expect to adopt the 2012 fiscal year budget on June 28.
Though Wozniak and Wengraf said they are worried about the potential financial burden of the realignment, they understand the direction of the governor’s choices.
“(The governor is) in a really diffi-cult situation because he has inherited years of mismanagement — basically, he’s coming in and he has to mop up,” Wengraf said. “He can’t win — you can’t please everybody.”
Jordan Bach-Lombardo is the lead higher education reporter. Contact him at [email protected].
Sarah Mohamed covers city government. Contact her at [email protected].
A lack of rent revenue from empty commercial spaces on Lower Sproul Pla-za last fall and costly emergency mainte-nance repairs have left the ASUC Aux-iliary unable to meet its original budget projection as a new committee formed by the ASUC Store Operations Board be-gins to analyze ways to cut down costs.
Construction requirements and ne-gotiations with vendors have delayed the openings of new businesses in the unused spaces further than student government leaders and the auxiliary had anticipated. This delay prompted the board to use its right of creating ad hoc committees to form the Bud-get Committee at the end of the fall semester in order to find a solution to the current budget shortfall.
Executive Vice President Nanxi Liu, who sits on the new committee, said a potential solution may involve restructuring the entire auxiliary to streamline overlaps in various depart-ments among the ASUC, the auxiliary and the campus, though she said the committee is sensitive to the changes in employment that would occur.
According to Liu, the auxiliary’s budget took another big hit last se-mester when one elevator in Eshleman Hall had to be repaired and the auxil-iary had to use reserve funds to pay for the fix. Cooperative Movement Sena-tor Elliot Goldstein said this sharply affected the original budget shortfall predicted by the auxiliary.
“They had a best-case scenario and a worst-case scenario,” Goldstein said. “It was higher than the worst-case sce-nario.”
Liu said the auxiliary has not been able to contribute back as much as the ASUC had hoped because of these prob-lems. This prompted Goldstein to sug-gest that the senate should raise more money on its own by contacting student
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Apple cores, coffee grounds and even grimy takeout boxes are not just a bunch of garbage. And, with its con-tinuing food scrap recycling program, neither is the city of Berkeley’s com-mitment to reducing waste.
The city recently completed its third year of food scrap recycling, which turns food waste into compost, though challenges remain in increasing the composting participation rate.
Like the city of San Francisco — the first in the nation to outlaw throw-ing recyclables in the trash in 2009 and a leader in the fight against waste — Berkeley aims to eventually reach “zero waste,” so that no waste enters landfills. City and county officials agree that food scrap recycling is necessary for reaching that goal.
“It really reduces that amount of gar-bage going to a landfill,” said city spokes-person Mary Kay Clunies-Ross. “And once people get into it, it’s very easy.”
The city, which has collected plant debris since 1990, began offering weekly curbside pick-up of food scraps in 2007, about five years after the Castro Val-ley Sanitary District began composting food scraps and became the first juris-diction in Alameda County to do so.
Even though Berkeley was one of the “late adopters,” the city currently boasts the highest participation rate in the county, according to Robin Plutchok, a program manager at StopWaste.org, a regional public agency that oversees recycling throughout the county.
“I think that a lot of the residents of Berkeley are really attuned to do-ing the right thing — very eco-minded, overall pretty educated,” she said. “It’s Berkeley; Berkeley is different from other places in the county.”
The compostables, which include items like eggshells and used pizza boxes, are picked up from green curbside bins once a week and taken to a composting facility in the Central Valley, run by Re-cology Grover Environmental Products. Eventually, after a weeks-long process, the material becomes compost and is used throughout the city and distributed free to residents at the Berkeley Marina.
by Soumya KarlamanglaDaily Cal Staff Writer
Berkeley residents can sort their compostables into green bins marked for food scrap recycling. Alameda County hosts one of the nation’s largest food scrap recycling programs.
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The city saw a 33 percent increase in the amount of green waste collected following the inclusion of food scraps in waste collection in 2007, along with an 11 percent decrease in the amount of refuse entering landfills, according to Plutchok.
Despite the relatively high participa-tion rate, Berkeley still struggles with recycling collection for large apart-ment buildings, Clunies-Ross said. Students especially are a challenge, as many move every year and are often unsure of where and what to compost.
UC Berkeley sophomore Itria Licitra agrees. Licitra saves food scraps in her apartment and puts them in her apart-ment building’s green bin, but does not know other students who do the same.
“It’s an easier way to dispose of things and then they don’t go into the landfill, where God only knows what happens,” she said.
At the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, members put their food scraps in a 65-gallon composting bin in the kitchen. Senior Jordon Hemingway, who, a few months ago, set up the compost program with junior Brian Manley as sustainability chairs for the fraternity,
estimated that the members compost about 80 percent of their food scraps.
Although TKE is the first frater-nity to successfully compost their food scraps, many campus sororities already do so or have plans to begin soon.
“As long as we can get all the girls in the house as excited about sustain-ability as we are ... then composting at Chi Omega will be coming soon!” Mina Azarnoush, UC Berkeley junior and sustainability chair for the soror-ity, said in an e-mail.
These widespread efforts to reduce waste will help the county — which has one of the largest food scrap recycling programs in the nation and serves over 350,000 single family households — reach its 2020 goal of reducing recy-clables in the trash to 10 percent, ac-cording to Plutchok.
“We’re asking people to do something new and we’re really impressed by how quickly people are adopting the pro-gram and the enthusiasm with which people are embracing it,” she said.
Soumya Karlamangla is the lead environment reporter. Contact her at [email protected].
finance: ASUC May Resort to Alumni SupportfRoM pAge 7
government alumni to make donations.“There’s a vast reservoir of alumni sup-
port, especially parties like CalSERVE and Student Action that go back de-cades … with that kind of support we could really raise funds that would go directly to student groups,” he said.
But the auxiliary’s contribution is not the only budget concern to the ASUC. Finance Officer Anuj Kamdar and ASUC Auxiliary Director Nadesan Permaul said the student government fee, a main source of funding for the ASUC, has not changed for the past 10 years, even though the student govern-ment’s expenditures have increased.
“Without residual funds from com-mercial activities to subsidize their an-nual budget, student government has had to reduce allocations to student groups over the past few years,” Per-maul said in an e-mail.
According to a presentation made by Kamdar at a Nov. 10 senate meeting,
the average allocation made to groups from the contingency fund increased $61.98 from last year, but Kamdar said the type of bill the senate is seeing is much different. He cited a 25 percent increase in bills asking for $1,000 or more and that the senate only replen-ished its contingency fund once.
“There’s definitely a lot to be opti-mistic about in the sense that we’re being really fiscally responsible and hitting every benchmark we set out to hit,” he said. “But as we go forward we have to keep in mind the goals we set out to achieve.”
In May 2009, the board forgave The Daily Californian a portion of its rent for the office it leases. As part of the agreement, a nonpolitical student member of the board sits on The Daily Californian’s Board of Operations, which has no control over the paper’s editorial content.
J.D. Morris is the lead ASUC reporter. Contact him at [email protected].
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KE$HAIt’s questionable whether she
can actually sing, or if she has even bathed within the
last year but what is undeniable is the meteoric rise that Ke$ha had in 2010. Mainly powered by what seems to be only glitter and Jack Daniel’s, the pop anthems and pounding beats could not be ignored as “TiK ToK” effectively infiltrated every media outlet. It was showcased on “Saturday Night Live,” “The Simpsons,” and everyone’s favorite, “The Hills” where, finally a soundtrack as insubstantial and engi-neered as that show’s drunken antics was found.
Just as the “reality” of the “The Hills” is manufactured by MTV, the phe-nomenon of Ke$ha remains nothing more than a heavily calculated image of trash chic. The sound is not quite rap and any singing is muted by an auto-tuner, but Ke$ha’s mass proliferation does beg the question: do you need to be talented to be a musician? Or, can the auditory equivalent of 20 strobe lights and 40 shots be considered “music”?
It’s a perplexing and hyperbolic concoction which has upped the ante for pop music to a new level of mediocrity. The world, under the influence of a “sexy-fied” Ke$ha cocktail, has spoken and we’re all “dancing like we’re dumb.”
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truth OR HOAX?
THEATRICALITY & HIp Hop
By and large, 2010 featured a host of fasci-nating developments in the juxtaposition of reality and fiction in movies. In their own
ways, two high-profile works quietly rejuvenated the mockumentary as a revolutionary, influential art form. Filmgoers saw a relationship blossom and then collapse in strange fashion behind the veil of an online social networking platform in “Catfish.” Enter world-famous graffiti artist Banksy, his ano-nymity preserved by facial obscuration and voice al-teration, narrating the improbable transformation of one Thierry Guetta from amateur video artist to street art celebrity. In the wake of both films - of-ficially billed as “documentaries” — many immedi-ately questioned the veracity of the characters and events they witnessed. As truth and fiction emerged as equally potent interpretative forces, films like “Catfish” and “Exit Through the Gift Shop” sparked a rich array of discussions on the nature of screen representation and the creative process.
Perhaps less tantalizingly, the trend managed to extend into the realm of mindless popcorn enter-tainment as well. Audiences reveled as a world-wea-ry evangelical minister navigated his way through a fictitious documentary chronicling his final procedure (Daniel Stamm’s “The Last Exorcism”) while supernatural forces terrorized a household in hauntingly familiar fashion (Tod Williams’ “Para-normal Activity 2”). But make no mistake: The true nadir arrived in the form of “I’m Still Here,” Casey Affleck’s egregiously pointless portrait of Joaquin Phoenix on the verge of a nervous breakdown. When it was revealed to us that Phoenix’s odyssey from Hollywood to a career in hip-hop was just an elaborate hoax, Affleck’s project drowned itself in a quagmire of purported self-importance.
—David Liu
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
October, November, December. It’s a short breath to utter the phrase; It takes nearly as short a time to break up, too, if you’re Jake Gyllen-haal and Taylor Swift. Fall romances bring media advances, and as
with all fairy-tales-gone-sour, the tabs are bound to ask: Did all the attention get to be too much? Of course, the two were bound to be at the center of media speculation, being famous, hot, and — until recently — carefree enough to shamelessly hold hands in very public places.
They went on adorable dates (their favorites: maple lattes, Nashville and non-alcoholic events). They insisted on “talking a lot and enjoying each oth-er’s company.” Something was fishy from the start.
Considering that the release of Gyllenhaal’s film (“Love and Other Drugs”) and Swift’s album (Speak Now) coincided with attention-grabbing media cov-erage of the budding romance, their situation still seems suspiciously seren-dipitous. The whole arrangement smells, and it’s not just the maple syrup — the stench of free publicity lingers in the air. Funny how relationships always end, after the movie's come out.
—Liz Mak
3-d films: Falling Flat
Type “Nicki Minaj” into YouTube and you’ll get 221,000 results. Most are videos of the wild-eyed rapper clad in pink wig and with an absurdly thick ass. The rest are of black, white, Puerto Rican, Chinese boys and girls try-
ing to imitate Nicki’s whiplash flow, rolling from syrupy sweetness to rottweiler growl.
With Young Money Entertainment leading the way, more circus troupe than rap label, hip-hop has regained its sense of humor and awakened from a mid-decade lull, when laid-back complacency had become the rap gold standard. Tag-ging has given way to hash-tagging, self-serious street credibility has turned to ridiculously overwrought production (think Kanye’s 34-minute music video) and Rick Ross now reminds himself of MC Hammer, John Lennon (if he had made all of his bitches tattoo his logo on they titty), Larry Hoover — sometimes he even reminds himself of himself.
Both the rapping/singing/whining/Bar Mitzvah’d Drake and LaGuardia High School graduate Nicki Minaj have acting pedigrees, and Minaj especially has brought a newfound theatricality to rap through her voices, faces, and alter-egos. And for the first time in a while, rappers seem to be spending ridiculous amounts of money on their actual music (who would have thought!). It’s music that sounds insane and engaging, that seems like actual fun to make and to listen to.
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It seems as if we quickly latch on to any trend that showcases the superiority and advance-ment of this modern age. 3-D films are no
exception. After “Avatar”’s immense commercial success, filmmakers jumped on the bandwagon, proudly pronouncing “in 3-D!” after their film titles in hopes of eliciting revenue.
Stripped down to its core, it’s simply another way of burning money. Producers empty their pockets to pay for the equipment, the costs of which trickles down to moviegoers, who are coaxed by the aforementioned producers to shell out an extra five or six bucks in exchange for a pair of uncomfortable glasses and headache-in-ducing visuals. And where does the money go? To fund complicated techniques, all for the pur-pose of making the images more “realistic.” I’m sorry, but I’m just not going to believe that tall, blue-skinned people exist, no matter what crazy shenanigans you use to convince me otherwise.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe that a film’s core lies in its script and actors. But once you add in this 3-D/CGI business, it cre-ates another layer that masks a film’s mediocrity
through extravagant displays, making it difficult to distinguish between an narratively satisfying cinematic experience and mere eye candy (“Alice in Wonderland,” anyone?). It’s a pity, consider-ing the amount of funding and effort that goes into 3-D projects. Why not channel that innova-tion into, say, creating more unique storylines or tweaking the cinematography? At least it guar-antees a lasting impression.
I’ll admit that when done tastefully, 3-D can certainly enhance and support a film’s premise. Such is the case with “Avatar,” whose purpose is to showcase the aesthetic ingenuity of Pandora. Sadly, however, too many filmmakers view it as a trend that they must follow. Half of the films aren’t even shot in 3-D, as they were hastily con-verted after production (“The Last Airbender,” I’m talking about you). When our theaters are flooded with the likes of “Step Up 3D,” and mov-iegoers storm over to the multiplex to watch atro-cious actors dance in front of their eyes, I can-not help but wonder what’s wrong with a world where we prize spectacle over substance.
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Promoting Kev-in Daft, a record-setting quarterback during his playing days at UC Davis, to wide receivers coach was an inter-esting experiment. As it turns out, it
was also something of a failure.After seven years at Cal — three as a
graduate assistant, one as quarterbacks coach and three as the wide receivers coach — the Bears announced shortly before Christmas that Daft would not be returning in 2011.
In his last three years, the results have been underwhelming. Marvin Jones led the corps in receiving yards each of the past two seasons, but he didn’t top 770 yards either time. In that span, no wideout caught more than six single-season touchdowns. With corps full of upperclassmen, some of whom are now playing in the NFL, the Bears never delivered the eye-catching num-bers they probably were capable of.
While quarterback woes are also equally culpable for the Bears’ passing game problems, the receivers haven’t helped their own cause. The squad's inability to consistently catch easy passes never seemed to get fixed.
—Katie Dowd
After Suffering the First Sub-.500 Season of Coach Jeff Tedford's Nine-Year Tenure, Cal Football's Coaching Staff Has Started Working on Its Makeover
oUTgoINgWR CoACH: KevIN DAfT
As Cal’s defen-sive backs coach, Al Simmons depar-ture was perhaps the most surprising of the recent coach-ing changes.
The Bears’ pass-ing defense, after
all, was ranked 21st in the country af-ter their disappointing 2010 campaign — not exactly making it the cause of the team’s first losing season under Jeff Tedford. That top-25 ranking, how-ever, was marked by blowouts both at home and on the road.
At USC’s Los Angeles Coliseum in October, Matt Barkley shredded Cal for five touchdowns — in the first half. A month later, Stanford’s Andrew Luck only managed two scores, but led the Cardinal to the end zone on every one of his possessions.
Simmons, who the team says is leav-ing “to pursue other professional oppor-tunities,” worked two three-year stints in Berkeley. From 1998-2000, he served as the Bears’ cornerbacks coach. Over most of the next decade, he bounced to the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose State and Arizona State, again taking charge of their respective secondaries before returning to Cal in 2008.
—Jack Wang
oUTgoINgDB CoACH: Al SIMMoNS
For a man with a great deal of coach-ing experience, Steve Marshall’s stay at Cal was brief and unspectacular.
After just two years coaching the offensive line, Mar-
shall left the Bears to take the same position at Colorado this offseason. He arrived at Cal with almost 30 years of coaching experience, some of that in the NFL, but the Bears never did see the dividends his resume promised.
In Marshall’s first at the helm, Cal gave up 31 sacks in 13 games, ninth-worst in the Pac-10. Last year, they gave up slightly fewer sacks (23), but ranked sixth in the conference in rush-ing yards per contest (158.92).
Inconsistency was Marshall’s Achil-les’ heel at Cal. The offensive line was sometimes stellar, sometimes pitiful. Against then-No. 1 Oregon, they gave up just one sack. At USC, the Bears struggled to rush for 52 yards. And considering Cal may be starting an inexperienced new quarterback next season, a reliable offensive line will be a necessity, not an item on a wish list.
Although Marshall left in December, a replacement has yet to be found.
—Katie Dowd
oUTgoINgol CoACH: STeve MARSHAll
When the Cal chose its replace-ment for Kevin Daft, it adopted the strategy of out with the old and in with the … older.
Former wide re-ceivers coach Eric
Kiesau, who left Cal in 2006 to coach at Colorado, makes his return to Berke-ley this spring. Kiesau rose through the ranks, ending his career there as the offensive coordinator.
While his resume at Colorado isn’t stellar, Kiesau wasn’t hired to replicate what he did at Colorado. He’s here to reinvent the Bears’ underachieving wide receiver corps like he did during his first stint in Berkeley.
In 2003, the Bears averaged 264.6 passing yards per game, fourth-best in Cal history, a feat Kiesau accomplished with no-names like Burl Toler, Vinnie Strang and Geoff McArthur. With tal-ent like Marvin Jones and Keenan Allen on this squad, Cal fans certainly hope Kiesau can do them one better.
He’s also been named as the newly minted “passing game coordinator,” a title that — if vague — sounds appealing for a team that has struggled to coordi-nate anything through the air lately.
—Katie Dowd
INCoMINgWR CoACH: eRIC KIeSAU
On Jan. 4, Ashley Ambrose was hired as Cal’s defensive backs coach, replac-ing Al Simmons.
Ambrose leaves Colorado after three years as an assistant there. He served as
defensive backs coach in 2010 and re-ceivers coach in 2009.
Under Ambrose’s guidance, senior cornerback Jimmy Smith merited All-Big 12 honors, an improvement from his honorable mention selection in 2009.
Before coaching the Buffaloes, Am-brose spent 13 years in the NFL, playing for the Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints and At-lanta Falcons. He retired in 2004 after starting 141 games and compiling 42 interceptions, 514 tackles and 178 pass deflections. His 1996 season with Cin-cinnati earned him All-Pro honors. Am-brose was also named AFC Defensive Back of the Year.
He was taken by Indianapolis in the second round (29th pick overall) of the 1992 NFL Draft after an illustrious ca-reer at Mississippi Valley State, where he played cornerback for four years. He intercepted 17 passes and deflected 40 throws with the Delta Devils.
—Jonathan Kuperberg
INCoMINgDB CoACH: ASHley AMBRoSe
Cal tailback Shane Vereen rang in 2011 in a big way.Although he has one year of eligibility left, Vereen an-
nounced via the Santa Clarita Valley Signal on New Year’s Eve that he will not be returning to the Cal football team for his senior season. Instead, he’ll try his hand at April’s NFL Draft.
Vereen leaves Cal with a fairly accomplished career in his own right, even if his accomplishments seem dimmer than those of his high-flying predecessor Jahvid Best. Last season, Vereen racked up 1,167 rushing yards and 13 touch-downs on the ground (and three in the air). For his career, he had 2,834 rushing yards. Academically, Vereen has al-
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ready graduated with a degree in media studies.His decision comes on the heels of a disappointing season
for the Bears. Cal failed to reach a bowl game for the first time in coach Jeff Tedford’s tenure. Next season, what would have been Vereen’s senior season, will be played away from Memorial Stadium with an uncertain face at quarterback.
All things considered, it’s probably a good time for Vereen to leave. The Draft is noticeably weak at running back, with no RBs projected to be picked in the first round. The situa-tion was also improved for Vereen by the fact that Oregon’s LaMichael James will not leave early for the NFL Draft.
Vereen Opts for Early Run at NFL
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Young, active and gritty, the Cal men’s basketball team is picking up a reputation more for its never-say-die attitude than for its skill. And so far, that has been a good thing.
Having played four ranked teams, including two current top-10 squads, the Bears are what they were thought to be — a youthful squad that must ad-just quickly to the college game.
The team has energetic leaders in Jorge Gutierrez, Harper Kamp and Markhuri Sanders-Frison, who have all taken on large roles as the sole veterans.
The newest and perhaps most excit-ing addition to Cal’s play during winter break has been the increased scoring role of freshman swingman Allen Crabbe. Crabbe was surrounded by considerable fanfare when he arrived in Berkeley, hav-ing been named the Gatorade California Player of the Year. Ever since the sudden departure of freshman Gary Franklin, Crabbe has scored in double digits in every game, including a career-high 30-point outburst in Thursday’s 88-81 over-time victory over Washington State.
“I think he’s getting more comfort-able with the college game,” Sanders-Frison said about Crabbe. “He’s just doing his thing now. He’s a good bas-ketball player, he knows the game and he takes great shots.”
The Bears finished winter break with a 4-4 record including 2-3 in Pac-10 play. Cal’s best performances of the break came at Arizona and at home against Washington State.
The team’s trip to Tucson, Ariz., was
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one game where it played hard for the entire 40 minutes but was derailed by the one spot that it could not defend: the free throw line. In the Bears’ first game since Franklin’s transfer, Cal turned in a gutty performance on the road, but fell 73-71 to the Wildcats. Arizona star Derrick Williams scored a career-high 31 points, but earned over half of them at the charity stripe, shooting 16-of-22 from the line. Williams’ primary de-fender, Sanders-Frison, did not attempt a free throw in the game.
“If they’ll commit like that, I’ll take the results,” Cal coach Mike Montgom-ery said. “They committed to this game and they committed to each other. They went out there and played really hard. I can’t really find anything at fault.”
Arizona guard Lamont “Momo” Jones admitted he was surprised by the Bears’ feisty play.
“They’re not one of the better teams we’ve played, but they’re definitely the most physical,” Jones said. “They play to their strengths. They’re going to sur-prise some people down the stretch.”
Thursday’s overtime win over Wash-ington State was the Bears’ best perfor-mance in conference play. Overcoming a jaw-dropping 36 points from the Cougars’ Klay Thompson, Cal prevailed 88-81 led by Crabbe’s career night.
“Having these kinds of stats are good, but getting this type of win with my teammates is better,” Crabbe said after the win. “I was so excited after this win. We all played together; we played hard.”
Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at [email protected].
Young Bears’ Squad Fighting, Progressing
Freshman guard Gary Franklin, who was the team leader in shot attempts for the first 13 games of the season, abruptly decided to transfer from the Cal men’s basketball team before leaving for its Jan. 6 game at Arizona. Franklin recent-ly announced that he would be enrolling at Baylor for the coming semester.
The decision came as a tremendous surprise to the program. Franklin, the 2010 CIF Player of the Year, had started 11 of the Bears’ 13 games and shot the ball frequently despite early struggles. According to coach Mike Montgomery,
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the question was not playing time or shot count, but his own feeling about how Cal would help his future.
“He has dreams to play in the NBA and he doesn’t think he can do it here,” Montgomery said. “He wasn’t upset about anything. He feels like he needs to be a point guard at the next level. Transferring is something that he felt he needed to do.”
Baylor was ranked as highly as No. 9 this season, but is currently unranked with a record of 12-4.
Freshman Guard Franklin Abruptly Transfers From Cal
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He wasn’t donning a Detroit Pis-tons jersey and nobody was calling him “Zeke,” but Washington guard Isaiah Thomas played a game that NBA Hall-of-Fame point guard Isiah Thomas would have complimented.
Though unrelated to the legendary NBA guard, Thomas utterly domi-nated the contest, leading all scorers with 27 points and dishing out an as-tounding 13 assists. His outing guided the Huskies (13-4, 5-1 in the Pac-10) to a 92-71 victory over the Cal men’s basketball team (9-8, 2-3) on Sunday night at Haas Pavilion.
“That was probably the best perfor-mance I’ve seen him have as a Husky,” Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said. “He was the band conductor or-chestrating that game for all of the 35 minutes that he was in there.”
Thomas’s stellar play at the point opened up the floor for a strong shoot-ing Washington squad that showcased its depth and prowess in virtually all facets of the game.
Thomas, Justin Holiday and Mat-thew Bryan-Amaning all eclipsed 20 points and Washington flummoxed Cal with its dizzying tempo and brawn in the paint.
Thomas’ outstanding game some-how overshadowed Holiday’s career night and Bryan-Amaning’s double-double. Holiday scored a career-high 23 points while the burly Bryan-Amaning netted 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
Harper Kamp led Cal with 20 points and seven rebounds.
Thomas penetrated the lane with ease, threaded several beautiful passes in the key and showcased his range with three 3-pointers.
A nightmare for the Cal defense all night, the diminutive guard over-whelmed defenders Brandon Smith and Emerson Murray as well as the
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Bears’ zone and box-in-one defenses.“(Thomas) had an awesome game,”
Smith said. “Defensively we had some struggles communicating and getting back on defense. We weren’t hedging on screens and we weren’t helping oth-er teammates out.”
Montgomery was clearly displeased with his team’s defensive effort, but ad-mitted that Washington played one of, if not its best game of the season.
“We weren’t as sharp mentally as we needed to be,” Montgomery said. “(Washington is) very aggressive, long and athletic. We just didn’t seem to be able to adjust to that.”
In his eight years in charge of the Washington program, Romar has fos-tered a fast-paced offense that relies heavily on lots of outside shooting and offensive rebounding.
After struggling on Thursday to establish its offense against Stan-ford in its first game without injured point guard Abdul Gaddy, Washing-ton played its trademark basketball all night, knocking down 13 of 29 3-pointers and winning the rebound battle 43-27.
Seven different Huskies sank 3-point baskets anchored by Holiday’s five, four of which came in the second half. Holiday credited Thomas with his perimeter surge.
“(Thomas said) ‘If I pass it to you, it’s for a reason,’” Holiday said. “He said, ‘If I give it to you then you shoot it.’”
Cal endured endless defensive struggles, but the disappointing play from guard Jorge Gutierrez was a big concern for Montgomery. Gutierrez finished with a season-low five points and didn’t seem to possess his usual grit.
“I think Jorge really struggled to-night,” Montgomery said. “I didn’t think he was engaged. We need him. He’s one of our leaders.”
Gabriel Baumgaertner covers men’s basketball. Contact him at [email protected].
They say there is a calm before the storm.
In the Cal women’s basketball team’s 57-48 loss to Washington on Sunday afternoon, that calm was halftime.
After falling behind early to Wash-ington State on Friday and losing by 14 points, the Bears (10-6, 2-3 in the Pac-10) were ahead by three at the break. They were shooting a better per-centage and had almost twice as many rebounds (19) as the Huskies (10).
In the beginning of the second half came the storm at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Wash. Propelled by two 3-pointers from Sarah Morton, Washington (7-8, 2-4) went on a 19-7 run to open the half, grabbing the lead and all the momentum.
Cal never regained the lead. The Bears made only six baskets in the second half. They were 0-for-10 from 3-point range and 25 percent overall after the break.
The poor shooting was partially a re-sult of failing to get the ball down low.
“It was very hard to get one-on-one touches,” said sophomore power for-ward DeNesha Stallworth, whose 10 points were below her season average of 14.6. “They really try to crowd the rebounders and have our guards have tough touches so it was kind of hard to get the ball.”
Center Talia Caldwell only took three shots, but the lone basket she made came at a crucial time. With just over three minutes remaining in the game, the sophomore made a lay-up to narrow the score to 52-46. It capped a five-point run that brought the Bears as close as they had been since early in the half.
The Huskies responded with six of the next seven points to seal the game. The streak included another three-pointer by Morton, who filled up the stat sheet with 12 points, five rebounds and four assists. Backcourt mate Kristi Kingma scored a game-high 15 points.
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thomas Leaves no Doubt in Husky Victory
Eliza Pierre scored seven points and had four assists in Cal’s 57-48 loss to Washington on Sunday. The sophomore guard and Pac-10 leader in steals recorded six in the contest.
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Markhuri Sanders-Frison scored eight points and nabbed five rebounds in Cal’s 92-71 loss to Washington at Haas Pavilion Sunday night. The center is averaging 10.1 points.
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“The whole trip has been evaluating ourselves,” said Bears’ coach Joanne Boyle of the winless weekend in Wash-ington. “I’ve said this all year — we’re not a team that’s competing. We’re not working hard, we don’t play together.”
Two days after committing 24 turn-overs, Cal finished with 21 infractions. Even with a height advantage, the Bears still lost the battle of the boards, 35-32.
One bright spot for Cal was the play of freshman Mikayla Lyles. The guard led the Bears with 11 points, hitting 3-of-7 threes. All three of those baskets came in the first half, though.
“When adversity hits us, we just don’t know how to act,” Stallworth said. “I don’t know if it comes with youth or growth or I don’t know what it is. For us personally, we just have to learn how to come together as a team and just figure things out.”
The game did not feature superb shooting, unlike the contest against the Cougars. Washington State (4-14, 2-4) shot 50 percent from the field and made 12 3-pointers in its 77-63 victory over Cal.
Rather, the Huskies simply out-fought the Bears.
“I’m uncertain of what’s going on,” Boyle said. “I’m there to help them. I don’t think it’s offenses or defenses. It’s either you work hard, like we do in spurts, and you choose to do that for 40 minutes or you don’t.”
The Pac-10 season does not get any easier for Cal. Regardless, Stallworth fully expects her squad to rebound when the Bears host USC and No. 8 UCLA this week.
“We just have to bounce back,” Stall-worth said. “Coach said this is the first time that we went 0-2 in the Washing-tons. This is something that we just have to take pride in and come back next week stronger versus the L.A. schools.”
In a rematch of Saturday’s last game of the day, the Cal rugby team took on UCLA in the Dennis Storer Classic on Sunday in Los Angeles.
While the outcome was the same as the squads’ previous dust-up — a vic-tory for the Bears — the two matches hardly resembled each other.
Cal (8-0) barely edged UCLA (4-2) on Saturday, 14-12, but burned the Bruins, 53-5, on Sunday to win the tournament for the sixth straight year.
UCLA did not get on the scoreboard until a try by Eddie de Dios in the final minutes of the match, while the Bears scored four tries in each half.
The difference between the two matches was simple, according to coach Jack Clark.
“We had a better starting team on the field (on Sunday),” Clark said. “We had to play a really strong Utah team before (playing UCLA on Saturday) ... We were caught a little shorthanded.”
Having played five matches on Sat-urday prior to that afternoon’s contest against the Bruins, the Bears went with a younger lineup, which made for a tighter match. With the more expe-rienced players rested on Sunday, Cal obliterated UCLA.
After a try by the Bruins’ Marshall Chaput in the 26th minute, UCLA was poised to tie at 14, but could not con-vert. The Bears were able to hold off the Bruins for the rest of the match to advance to Sunday’s final with a spot-less record.
Senior wing Blaine Scully scored the final’s first points within the first two minutes, a try that senior flyhalf/fullback James Bailes followed up with a conversion. With the Bears leading 10-0, Scully struck again with a try to begin Cal’s six-minute flurry to end the second half with a 27-0 advantage.
Sophomore center Seamus Kelly followed Scully’s lead, opening the second half with an early try. Kelly went on to score a second try in the 36th minute.
On the path to the finals, the Bears blanked USC, Oregon and Washington State on Saturday before giving up their first points of the tourney to Arizona on a penalty kick. After those three points, the Wildcats were shut out. Through those four games, Cal tallied 145 points, and registered 253 points over the course of the weekend.
“I think we did well on set pieces and lineouts,” Scully said. “We were able to disrupt our opposition.”
Despite notching convincing wins, Clark called the Bears’ performance “uneven,” saying it was not until trouncing the Cougars that Cal finally “came right a little bit.”
Clark was pleased with the Bears’ performance against Utah in the match prior to facing UCLA on Saturday. The Utes defeated Cal 31-26 in overtime of the seven-a-side Collegiate Champion-ship Invitational last June, leading to a highly anticipated preseason rematch in Utah’s first appearance in the Den-nis Storer Classic.
This time, however, the Bears shut out Utah, 34-0, behind five tries, a penalty kick and three conversions. Bailes accounted for nine points, while senior wing/scrumhalf Dustin Muhn logged two tries within three minutes to end the match.
According to Scully, the match against Utah wasn’t as one-sided as the score indicated, saying the Utes forced the Bears to make strong defen-sive stands on the Cal goal lines.
by Christina JonesDaily Cal Staff Writer
Christina Jones covers rugby. Contact her at [email protected].
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