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Cal comes back from a halftime deficit and holds off the Cougars.

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MEANINGFUL

‘MONOLOGUES’:

Prompting an end to violence against women.

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Campaign seeks accurate count

of students for

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Senator to File Request for State Financial Audit of UC

A request for a state audit of the

University of California will be filed

Wednesday in response to alleged

fi-nancial mismanagement by the

uni-versity administration

California Senator Leland Yee,

D-San Francisco/D-San Mateo, will file the

request with the Joint Legislative Audit

Committee, which will hear and vote

on the request Wednesday, according

by Zach E.J Williams

Daily Cal Staff Writer

to Adam Keigwin, chief of staff for Yee

UC officials have denied that funds have been mismanaged, adding that a finan-cial audit of the 10-campus university’s approximately $20 billion operating budget would not be plausible

Among the issues cited by Yee as reason for his request is an alleged conflict of interest surrounding UC Regent Paul Wachter’s stock invest-ment in a mutual fund manageinvest-ment company in which the university has a substantial financial interest

According to a March 2009 State-ment of Economic Interests, Wa-chter—who is the chair of the Regents’

Committee on Investments—owns more than $1 million in stocks in Di-mensional Fund Advisors Inc

Wachter did not respond to a re-quest for comment left at his Santa Monica office Friday

Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger—who appointed Wachter, a longtime friend,

to the board in 2004—also has invested more than $1 million in the company,

according to a March 2009 Statement

of Economic Interests

The university’s retirement fund had

$151,611,750 invested in the company, according to a Dec 31, 2008 financial statement from the UC Office of the President

According to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel, safeguards are in place to pre-clude potential conflicts of interest

“The Regents’ role is oversight,” he said

in an e-mail “It’s up to the Treasurer’s Office to make decisions about specific

investments, investment managers or investment management firms.” According to board policy, alleged con-flicts of interest are referred to the Office

of the President’s General Counsel, who

“shall immediately bring the matter to the attention of the Chair of the Regents’ Committee on Investments.”

Montiel added that given both the size of the company and the extent of the university’s retirement fund investments,

>> RegentS: PAge 2 Man Fatally Stabbed in

West Berkeley Homicide

A suspected gang member allegedly

stabbed a man in the chest Thursday

evening in West Berkeley, marking the

city’s first homicide of the year

Berkeley Police

Department

offi-cers responded to

the scene on the

2100 block of

Cur-tis Street at about

7:40 p.m Berkeley

Fire Department

paramedics

trans-ported the victim

to the Highland

General Hospital

in Oakland, where

he was pronounced dead a few hours

later, according to Berkeley police

Of-ficer Andrew Frankel

The suspect, 22-year-old Berkeley

resident Kevin Aaron Alvarado, fled

the scene in a vehicle, Frankel said

Police said Alvarado is a member

of the West Side Berkeley gang, and it

is believed he will attempt to flee the

country

The gang was founded in the late

1970s and is the oldest existing gang in

the city, Frankel said

Frankel added that police do not

believe the stabbing was random or

gang-motivated

“We’re in the process of defining the

motive in this case,” he said

by Tomer Ovadia

Contributing Writer

Alvarado is described as male, 5 feet

7 inches and weighing 205 pounds

The homicide is the first in Berkeley this year There were six homicides in

2009 and eight in 2008, according to Frankel

Berkeley Safe Neighborhoods As-sociation President Jim Smith, who has lived in Berkeley for 40 years, said more attention needs to be given to the culture of Berkeley youth

“The overall solution really is to stop the potential of youngsters heading in that direction and really put them into some kind of meaningful productive activity that keeps them out of harm’s way in the first place,” he said

Smith added that violent crimes were more prevalent before he joined other community members in bringing trou-bled households to small claims court and knocking on doors to raise awareness

“Starting about 1998, we started re-ally seeing a big, big change,” he said

“But prior to, let’s say, 10 years ago, we were experiencing drive-by shootings in the neighborhood all the time.”

The Berkeley Police Department is urging anyone who may have informa-tion regarding the stabbing to call BPD Homicide Detail at (510) 981-5741 or (510) 981-5900 If callers wish to re-main anonymous, they are asked to call the Bay Area Crime Stoppers Tip Line (BACS) at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

RESEARCH & IDEAS

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Nanofibers Turn Movement into Electricity

Walking to class may not be such an energy drain in the near future, accord-ing to UC Berkeley researchers who are developing “nanogenerators” that may eventually power small electronic de-vices by utilizing body movements

In a study published Feb 10 in the journal Nano Letters, an international

by Gabby Fastiggi

Contributing Writer

team led by Liwei Lin, a campus profes-sor of mechanical engineering, outlines specific properties of the nanofibers that can convert human energy into electric-ity Though the concept of piezoelectrics has been researched for years, the newest study describes how it could eventually

be implemented in daily life, Lin said

“These nanofibers can create a current when put under mechanical strain,” he said “Human movements

can create this strain on clothes to gen-erate electricity.”

According to the study, the produc-tion of nanofibers is similar to

process-es used in existing industriprocess-es

“The fabrication process is simple and scalable, similar to those widely used for dyeing fibers and fabrics in the textile industry,” according to the study But researchers developed the new

Students from across Northern California will file suit against the University of California Tuesday in a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn Proposition 209 and re-establish affirmative action

programs at the university

In a press

Monday on the

UC Berkeley campus, the plaintiffs said that the 1996 ballot initiative unfairly discrimi-nates against ethnic minority students and should be declared unconstitutional

The suit, filed on behalf of 55 university, high school and middle school students from Northern California, names the UC Board of Regents, UC President Mark Yudof and Gov

Arnold Schwarzenegger as defendants in the suit A court date has yet to be set

“California stands as a backwater keeping out minority students,” said Tania Kappner, a

UC Berkeley graduate and founding member

of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)

California Students to File Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn Prop 209

According to UC spokesperson Steve Montiel, the university is attempting to increase access to all populations while still abiding by Prop 209

“We’re doing everything possible to ensure the widest possible access to UC—through the Blue and Gold program and other student aid initiatives,” he said in an e-mail

Prop 209, which was passed by California voters after the UC Board of Regents voted to ban affirmative action in 1996, prohibits prefer-ential treatment based on race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin A federal appeals court upheld the proposition the following year

Though the board reversed its ban on the policy in 2001, only underrepresented groups such as rural or disabled students can petition the university for preferential admissions cri-teria, said George B Washington, lead legal counsel for the plaintiffs

“Minorities are the only group who are legally barred from requesting a special admissions policy,” he said

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Tomer Ovadia is the city news editor.

Report Details Potential to Cut Campus Costs

A controversial UC Berkeley admistration effort to identify structural in-efficiencies and implement cost-saving measures released an interim report Friday

Launched by campus officials last October,

“ O p e rat i o n a l Excellence” is currently in the diagnostic stage, in which data on cam-pus processes is being gathered Accord-ing to the report released by the Opera-tional Excellence Steering Committee,

by Zach E.J Williams

Daily Cal Staff Writer

>> RePORt: PAge 3

OnLine PODCASt Listen to plaintiffs and supporters speaking at the press conference.

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there was no reason to suspect undue financial practices on the board

“It’s worth noting that DFA has

rough-ly $160 billion under management,” he said in the e-mail “It’s not surprising to see the fund represented in part in any endowment or pension fund.”

But Yee said the issue of Wachter’s investments in the company was only part of an alleged long-term trend

“Unfortunately, not even one month can pass without another scandal plaguing our university,” Yee said in a statement Friday “A comprehensive state audit will help further uncover the extent of the waste, fraud and abuse within the UC and finally hold university executives accountable.”

REGENTS: Senator Claims

UC Mismanaged Funds

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nanogenerators using different tech-niques than previous research, Lin said

He said in previous studies, re-searchers used “inorganic” materials that were limited by the material com-position of the fibers

The new nanofibers are made from organic materials that are not only more comfortable for those wearing the de-vices but can also “be deposited orderly with unlimited length with good place-ment precision,” Lin said in an e-mail

“The key advance made in our work

is the enhancement of energy conver-sion efficiency to 20 percent,” he said But Lin said further research is needed in order to determine how to manufacture clothing that could

pow-er small handheld electronics, such as

a cell phone or an iPod

“The power from the prototype fi-ber nanogenerator is too low to power electrical devices,” Lin said “One can assemble many nanofibers together to power electrical devices in the future, such as an electrical watch.”

Chieh Chang, a UC Berkeley gradu-ate in mechanical engineering and lead author of the study, said in an e-mail that researchers are looking into ways to improve the nanogenerators, such as ad-justing the composition of the material

“There are a lot of aspects we are looking into to enhance the efficiency even more,” Chang said in an e-mail

In addition to developing more effi-cient materials, Chang said researchers are in the process of making the con-cept of electric clothing more feasible

“Although it’s not clear at this stage what kind of movement could generate the power needed for real applications

in clothing, we expect a material to be produced within three years that is fully functional, flexible and wearable,”

he said in the e-mail

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Legal experts Show Support For Lawsuit Against John Yoo

While an official U.S Department of Justice investigation may clear Boalt Hall School of Law professor John Yoo

of professional misconduct, a group of legal experts insists that an ongoing civil suit against him proceed to trial

In amicus briefings filed before the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, university law professors and prominent attorneys have expressed support for the suit brought by

convict-ed terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla, a U.S citizen Yoo is currently appealing

an earlier decision that upheld the suit that seeks $1 in damages and a judg-ment that Yoo was responsible for au-thorizing the alleged torture of Padilla

The suit centers around Yoo’s actions

as a deputy attorney general during the Bush administration, as he authored several legal memos stating the legality

of interrogation methods such as water-boarding, exposure to non-lethal insects and the use of stress positions

Yoo has defended his actions during the administration, saying that he only provided legal advice that was within the confines of federal law

He did not respond to a request for comment

But according to a Jan 23 amicus brief filed by some of the experts in support of Padilla, Yoo took a more ac-tive role in formulating policy

by Michael Pearlman

Contributing Writer

“Defendant Yoo did not merely give wrong advice in performing customary legal duties,” the brief stated “(He)

act-ed outside of his legal role altogether by participating directly in the formulation

of policy that gave rise to the deprivation

of (Padilla’s) constitutional rights.”

UC Davis law professor Cruz Rey-noso—who filed the Jan 23 brief along with six other legal experts—said that Yoo offered legal advice that justified illegal policies

“It’s like a lawyer saying he is using his best judgment that the administra-tion can go out and murder someone,”

Reynoso said

Padilla was arrested eight years ago in Chicago for allegedly plotting to detonate

a radioactive “dirty” bomb He was ulti-mately convicted on an unrelated charge

of conspiracy to commit terrorism abroad and sentenced to 17 years in prison

During his confinement in a naval brig in North Carolina, Padilla alleged that he was tortured due to the legal vice that Yoo provided for the Bush ad-ministration, which authorized the in-terrogation techniques used on Padilla

According to the Washington Post and Newsweek, a Justice Department investigation will find that Yoo and Jay Bybee, another former Justice Depart-ment official, exercised “poor judge-ment” but did not violate professional conduct standards

Campaign Aims

to educate UC Students About

2010 Census

>> YOO: PAge 3

Representatives from the University

of California, the city of Berkeley and the U.S Census Bureau commenced a three-month publicity campaign in an effort to increase student awareness of the U.S Census

In the beginning of February, the three bodies began a marketing campaign un-der the UC Berkeley Complete Count Committee to promote an accurate and complete counting of the student popu-lation for the 2010 Census in order to fix problems stemming from erroneous re-sults during the 2000 Census

Under the campaign, the committee has created a Web site, started tabling

on Upper Sproul Plaza and provided information to housing representatives, said Christina Markle, intern for the Office of Government and Community Relations in the Office of the Chancellor

Committee members will also display posters and distribute flyers provided by the Alameda County government

The committee will educate stu-dents to clarify misconceptions, mainly the “myth” that students are counted in their hometown, said Joe Lee, census coordinator for the city of Berkeley

“A lot of students have the miscon-ception that their parents will take care

of it,” he said “You are counted where you currently reside, but many students think it is your permanent residence.”

by Bryn Jura

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In light of the Sex Issue’s expose on

“cougars,” I thought it was time I

shared an encounter I had with a

certain feline (Mom, that’s your cue to

close the browser.)

Big Game 2009—for whatever

reason by the third quarter, I had been

thrown out of the stadium twice

(Officer: “OK so we’re going to

breathalyze you.” Me: “Officer, in all

due respect, this is completely

unnecessary—I’m going to blow way

over the limit.”)

Sad that I was missing out on my

final Big Game as a student, I slowly

worked my way toward a tailgate some

of my friends were crashing

After joining them, I worked my way

to a picnic table that had remnants of a

solid spread Before I knew it, I was

making friends and trying to figure out

if there were any lawyers present who

could help me finagle my way out of my

citations

Well, there weren’t any lawyers, but

there was someone else who was

willing to cheer me up

I’m not really sure how it started, but

either way I was joined at the table by a

40-something-year-old woman (I

should note that her age is up for

debate I’m going to say that I think she

was 46, but one friend in attendance

thinks she had an AARP card.)

We were making what I thought was

casual conversation Note to the

adventurous type: casual conversation

for a cougar means the green light to

have her hand slide onto your jeans

From there she jumped right into

kissing me on the cheek and telling me

that I was cute Not in the “Oh, your

photo in the yearbook is cute” way

Nope, she meant you’re cute in the “I

want to do naughty things to you” way

She then got up and walked behind

the table With my body trembling, I

swiveled my head around to see what

she was up to After making eye

contact, the cougar immediately made

this head bob motion, which translated

to “meet me out back.” (I’m having

trouble aptly describing the actual

motion of the absurd head bob; if you

see me strolling on campus, I give you

full license to stop me and ask me

exactly what it looked like.)

In true form, I went ahead and met

her out back

Our lips locked pretty fast upon my

arrival, while a gropefest ensued in the

background In a matter of a couple of

minutes, we decided to drive back to

her place so we could get our freak on

So we started moving toward the

parking lot hand-in-hand—I’m not

going to lie, I felt really weird when

people walked by and gawked at the

sight of us together

Then my trip to hall-of-fame status

hit a wall or, in this case, a sidewalk

Somehow she managed to get tripped

up on an imaginary hurdle and rather

fluidly proceeded to fall into a

face-plant

The cougar rolled onto her back and

tried to get up Epic fail I had to

eventually pull her up myself

As we continued to walk to her car I came upon three disappointing realizations

1 There is no way I’m in any shape

to drive

2 She might actually be blacked out—that’s not chill, bro

3 She’s giving off this really funky odor

(Anyone see the irony here? I had the wherewithal to make those judgments, but apparently didn’t have the wits about me to watch a football game.)

When we finally made it to the parking lot, I stopped her, pointed in the opposite direction and said, “I actually saw your car over there.” She had never actually described her car to me

Her: “No, it’s right over here.”

Too late I was already in a full-out dash trying to distance myself from making a regrettable decision After I made it across the street, I quickly glanced over my shoulder to see her standing there agape and utterly bewildered

When I finally got out of sight I looked down at my hands and realized that I had run away with her designer shades I have since given them to my sister—don’t tell her, though

Usually at this point in the column

I have to take a certain stance on whatever story I just related and connect it to some larger point

I think I’m going to settle on encour-aging you all to hook up with someone much older than you I don’t know if it will make you a better lover or whatever, but it will definitely make you the most popular kid in your circle

of friends for a good week

OK, I guess we can also throw in how you should feel free to party hard, but also pause at times to make the responsible choice Well, at least the semi-responsible one

Who am I kidding? Let’s just classify this one under pure entertainment that made your day a little bit brighter as your chem lecture glazes over you since you once again failed to do the reading

And yes Vagina Monologuers, I expect you to fill my inbox telling me how self-absorbed and depraved I am

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CENSUS: City Funding relies on Accurate Counts

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The committee has planned two waves of census gathering, according

to Markle Students living in apart-ments will turn in their forms by April

1 on National Census Day, while uni-versity housing will host a three-day collection drive starting April 19

Each resident in a university housing unit will be sent a seven-question census form, Markle she said Instead of mail-ing it in, residents will be directed to turn the form in a depository on location

Many university-affiliated hous-ing drop-off locations will offer gift

incentives and raffles to encourage maximum participation, she added

“The (committee) was created be-cause in 2000, Berkeley lost thou-sands of counts, which amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars lost

to the city of Berkeley,” Markle said

According to Lee, each missed count costs the city about $1,000 in state funding He said in 2000, only one resident was counted for Unit 2

Lee said a complete census count will ensure that Berkeley receives full funding for public programs, including Cal Grants, public safety and transpor-tation and public health resources

Members of the city, the university and the bureau formed the committee last summer The committee collabo-rated with the ASUC groups, univer-sity-affiliated housing and the campus division of the Graduate Assembly to implement the campaign and target on-campus residents

Martin Takimoto, committee chair and director of communication and marketing for residential and student service programs at UC Berkeley, said

he hopes to see high student turnout

“This committee was made to in-crease the number of students who complete their census forms,” he said

Contact Bryn Jura at

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REPORT: Final Assessment expected this Spring

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several potential areas have been iden-tified for cutting costs, such as stream-lining campus procurement processes, slimming down the administrative hi-erarchy as well as consolidating campus infrastructure and resources

The effort is being conducting with the advice of consulting firm Bain &

Company—which has directed similar efforts at other universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—and will cost the campus ap-proximately $3 million, half of which will be paid this fiscal year, with the other half expected by campus officials

to be paid through savings generated through the steering committee’s rec-ommendations

A final report is expected later this spring

According to Vice Chancellor Frank Yeary, a member of the committee over-seeing the effort, reforming the campus procurement process may eventually save the campus millions of dollars

“We need to manage and put tools

and practices in place that allow it

to be easy for vendors to make and consolidate purchases to get bigger discounts,” he said “This is a clear op-portunity that a lot of the campus com-munity can appreciate.”

He added that new technologies may play an important role in shaving costs and creating greater efficiency in the procurement process

“A cross-campus team has been in-vestigating and implementing ‘E-Pro-curement’ technology and functional-ity that will let people make purchases directly Our team has already invested

a lot of time and energy to encourage and enable that.”

Uneven distribution of administra-tive staff may also be responsible for inefficiencies, Yeary said

According to the interim report,

471 campus supervisors have one di-rect reporting employee and 307 have only two direct reports, while the two categories cumulatively account for 43 percent of campus supervisors

Such an organization implies “slower

decision making,” which may lead su-pervisors to “not be challenged to fully utilize managerial skills,” according to the interim report

“(Administrative structure) is an area (in which) we can achieve much im-provement,” said Miguel Daal, graduate assembly president and a member of the committee “It’s difficult to make those changes, difficult as in slow, because that’s reorganizing things, you want to

do that as properly as possible.” Ryan Means, campus interim chief privacy and security officer, said many staff and faculty are paying attention

to the progress of Operational Excel-lence and its eventual implications for the campus’s future structure

“It’s certainly what’s affecting us the most right now: the idea of what are the findings going to be (and) what are

we going to be doing as an organiza-tion,” Means said

Leah Moskovich and Mihir Zaveri

of The Daily Californian contributed

to this report.

Zach E.J Williams is the university news editor Contact him at

zwilliams@dailycal.org.

YOO: group Hopes Lawsuit Will proceed to trial

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The report was softened from its original version, which said Yoo and Bybee had violated their professional obligations, a conclusion that could have meant a referral to state bar as-sociations for potential disciplinary ac-tion, Newsweek reported

According to Jesse Choper, a Boalt Hall law professor, there is legal prec-edent that may exonerate Yoo

He said a similar case brought against then-Attorney General John Ashcroft found that since he was not personally involved in the alleged tor-ture of terrorism suspect Abdullah Al-Kidd, Ashcroft could not be held

legally liable

Padilla faces an “uphill” battle, Choper said

“It is not to say it can’t be done, but I would say the decision (in favor of Ash-croft) is quite favorable to the govern-ment’s position,” Choper said “Unless (Yoo) specifically engaged in the wa-terboarding you can’t get damages.”

Contact Michael Pearlman at

mpearlman@dailycal.org.

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I n recent years, Berkeley

resi-dents have relied primarily on

two newspapers for coverage of

local happenings: The Daily

Cali-fornian and The Berkeley Daily

Planet That was until last week,

when our competitor announced

that it will cease print production

by the month’s end

It’s true that the version of the

Planet that will remain—online

and composed largely of

reader-generated content—is not much

different from what it’s been for

nearly the last two years, with the

exception of the once-weekly print

edition

And it would be disingenuous to

assert that the Planet was

univer-sally recognized for its journalistic

value But to many in this

commu-nity, it was a valuable forum,

pro-viding ample opportunity for

dis-cussion and engagement In this

capacity, its print demise is

cer-tainly a loss for the city of Berkeley

In the Bay Area at large, print

journalism is already rapidly

declin-ing, with even The San Francisco

Chronicle facing major financial

hurdles Independent papers have become even rarer, since the Bay Area News Group absorbed many local outlets

With the end of the Daily Planet

as a newspaper, there is one fewer voice for readers to turn to—that’s bad for Berkeley and the tradition

of local newspapers in general

On the other hand, the potential bright side of this story is the opportunity for innovation and change that it could bring for local journalists, professional and other-wise Like the print journalism market in general, the possibilities are really wide open for new outlets and new voices

Though these up-and-comers may not be newspapers, we hope that they emerge in a form that’s accessible to residents and that serves the needs of the community

in the way the Daily Planet did

In this way, we’re saddened by the loss of another local newspaper and hopeful that something new can take the Planet’s place for its loyal readership

Another Planet Eclipsed

editorials

anonymous Web site

com-menters have sparked a

head-on conflict between The

Colle-giate Times (Virginia Tech’s student

newspaper) and an influential

advi-sory committee on its campus To

make matters worse, the

commis-sion’s unreasonable crusade has put

thousands of dollars meant for

cam-pus media on the line

The Times has a Web site filter

that weeds out spam and

pornogra-phy, but its allowance of anonymous

commenting has provoked the anger

of the University Commission on

Student Affairs

Some offensive comments have led

commission members to

character-ize the newspaper’s monitoring of

the system as irresponsible and the

comments themselves as a

misrepre-sentation of the university And now

the commission is asking university

administrators to withhold an annual

$70,000 contribution to the

news-paper’s parent company, which

over-sees all campus media

Such a monetary threat, especially

in such a dire financial time, is a gross

overreaction

Anonymous comments can

cer-tainly be obnoxious, offensive or

off-topic But that doesn’t justify

disal-lowing them altogether; we believe

The Collegiate Times ought to con-tinue allowing anonymous com-menting, if that’s the policy preferred

by the editors

The newspaper itself doesn’t even receive any direct money from the threatened contribution, although losing the money would presumably affect its free office space in the Stu-dent Union So other outlets over-seen by the company, like the year-book and radio station, could lose funding for an issue they had noth-ing to do with

Also unlikely is the Commission’s belief that people simply assume that the commenters are Virginia Tech students or faculty, given that offen-sive comments can be found just about anywhere on the internet

And regardless, the university does not get to dictate what the comment-ing policy should be—that’s up to The Collegiate Times to decide

Withholding needed funds to unin-volved campus media outlets or ban-ning student groups from advertising

in the paper are unfair solutions—

plain and simple

Though anonymous comments may be offensive, that’s not reason enough to circumvent the indepen-dent editorial judgment of the cam-pus paper while harming the larger campus community in the process

Fair Comment

CitY

aFFairs The community will suffer from the loss of The Berkeley Daily Planet as a valuable forum for residents’ perspectives

NatioNal

aFFairs Offensive anonymous comments on campus newspaper’s Web site do not justify withholding funds for other outlets

Awareness and Power in ‘Monologues’

Opinion

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Daily Californian

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February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month

With rape and domestic violence occurring at alarming rates on this campus and colleges across the coun-try, women have more to fear than Cupid’s attack “The Vagina Monologues” brings UC Berkeley

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Seeking to raise consciousness, the monologues explore and embrace sex-uality and promote female empower-ment

This is not your standard run of the mill static presentation It is a dynamic one Insightful, thought-pro-voking, and taboo, each monologue will touch a different part of your soul With topics ranging from rape and genital mutilation to shaving and tampons, some will make you laugh out loud, others will bring you to

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“The Vagina Monologues” has been performed on college campuses around the world It has inspired V-Day, a global movement to bring an end to violence against women Violence transcends race, wealth and culture In the public sphere and in their homes, in times of war and in times of peace, women are brutally attacked, raped and killed

Spotlighting the atrocities women have faced all over the world, V-Day inspires communities to raise aware-ness and envisions change in our con-sciousness

The impact of V-Day at UC Berkeley goes beyond the stage We have established a community, work-ing towards a common goal A “Cunt”

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letter to the editor

Employee Disappointed in

Daily Californian Coverage

I am writing in response to “Strange

Neighbors.” I am one of the employees of

the Graduate Theological Union (GTU)

interviewed for the story It is clear that

it was shaped before the journalist

entered the library Is this objective,

research-oriented work? I think not

I sought Religious Studies as an

aca-demic discipline two years ago I checked

out UC Berkeley, to my surprise, there

was no “real” Religious Studies

depart-ment, for it had been dissolved into an

IDS program An academic faculty member at my undergraduate university suggested I try the GTU for my aca-demic, religion-as-a-social-science inter-ests

How dare you judge our institution?

As far as the goals of the library, what we seek is to serve our patrons Everyone has their own beliefs, theological, atheologi-cal—as if it matters, I am a non-theist and I check books out to Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, the list continues

Historical conflicts are irrelevant

As a matter of fact, your photographer asked that I pose in front of some “reli-gious art.” I told her “No,” and then led

her downstairs to a piece of brilliant cal-ligraphy created by Ronald Nakasone, of one of the GTU’s affiliates I’d want to be photographed in front of his work regardless of his faith

UC Berkeley and the GTU have a relationship—there are library

privileg-es, cross-registration privileges galore

Even one of Cal’s distinguished faculty members is seated on my Thesis Committee

I am disappointed in the subjective assumptions of the Daily Cal Stepping into the library and taking a gander will not yield knowledge about the GTU I thought a Cal student might know that

Lauren Byrne

GTU employee

Transparency is a Necessity for the ASUC

I missed an opportunity to talk to

Chancellor Birgeneau the other

after-noon The lady two places ahead of me

at the CVS Pharmacy had just bought

a few small potted flowers and some

other things and was paying for them

when he came in to help her carry

them to the car

I quickly recognized the chancellor

but did not want to interrupt his

free-dom in anonymity to be himself But I

realize I should have in order to press

my point of view So, here it is,

belat-edly, now

I retired from working as a

comput-er programmcomput-er at UC Bcomput-erkeley almost

four years ago, and still feel very good

about having worked there and still

think very highly of the university I

know the chancellor also loves the

uni-versity and wants the best for it

Now, because of the California state

budget crisis, Chancellor Birgeneau is

forced into this untenable position

between forced state cuts and the

fac-ulty, staff and students who desire to

maintain the university as one of the

greatest experiments in free higher

education in the world

We need the chancellor in

Sacramento as our advocate We need

him on our side

We need Chancellor Birgeneau

ask-ing everyone in not just UC Berkeley

but UC systemwide to sign petitions,

collect petitions, contribute money for

and spread the word about the

California Democracy Act

The entire proposition we are

ballot is just 14 words: “All legislative actions on revenue and budget must

be determined by a majority vote.” It was written by our own university’s George Lakoff And time is precious and urgent: we need a minimum of 700,000 signatures (we are aiming for 1,300,000 because a fairly large per-centage may get rejected) by early April to qualify for the ballot

We need Chancellor Birgeneau on our side, speaking at the March 4 stu-dent demonstrations, urging all to help with this petition because this petition

is one of the best hopes we have of sav-ing our state

This proposition reverses part of a law passed in 1933 changing the bud-get passage requirement from a major-ity to two-thirds, and also reverses part

of Proposition 13 passed in 1978 changing the raising of revenues requirement from a majority to two-thirds

The passage of this proposition would restore democracy to our state, where a majority of us voters elect a majority of the legislators who are then responsible for voting on revenue and budget A quick math explanation (Excuse me, I was a math major.): the current two-thirds vote requirement means that one-third plus 1 legislator

in either the state Senate or the state Assembly stops all forward progress

on budget and revenue dead until this minority is satisfied In other words, it’s minority rule

So, the current two-thirds require-ment is much less democratic than a

simple majority And this minority has become one that believes in “starving the beast” (reducing government, how-ever painfully), reducing or eliminat-ing social welfare supports, public education, etc and not allowing fair and sensible taxation, especially of cor-porations and the wealthy

For example, because of the two-thirds vote requirement, we cannot get

an extraction tax passed in California

California gives away the oil and gas that comes out of the ground Even states like Alaska and Texas have fairly robust extraction taxes on oil and gas, and they use this money to help sup-port their schools, social welfare sys-tems, etc

Because of the current two-thirds vote requirements, we have seen a steady shift of taxation from corpora-tions and the wealthy onto the middle and lower classes in our annual attempts to satisfy the controlling par-tisan and ideological minority

Chancellor Birgeneau, please con-sider my request and come to the aid

of our great state university system about which I know you also care deeply, as well as to the aid of our once great state Help us remove the yoke of minority rule by working with us to pass the California Democracy Act

Thank you I hope to hear you speaking on March 4 and working with us to get this much-needed initia-tive onto the ballot

See www.ca4democracy.com for more information

Richard Tamm is a Berkeley resident

Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

Chancellor Must Support State Act

To Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger, UC

President Mark Yudof, California

Legislators and UC Board of Regents:

This is a call to regulate closed

ses-sions by legislative bodies of the

Associated Students of the University of

California

Various California laws express the

clear opinion that open meetings are a

vital part of democratic government

The Brown Act ensures local

govern-ments conduct their business publicly

and has included community colleges

by an Attorney General opinion in 1992

The Bagley-Keene Act lays out

proce-dures all state agencies—including the

UC Regents—must follow in closing a

meeting The Gloria Romero Open

Meetings Act applies to the governing

councils of all Cal State schools

The only public higher education

leg-islative council in this state unregulated

by an open meeting act is ASUC While

existing laws could have been applicable

to ASUC, a 1983 Attorney General

opin-ion exempted bodies with powers

dele-gated by the regents As a result of this

decision, the letter of the law permits

our student representatives to conduct

business as secretly as they like

With representatives elected by the

by The Daily Nexus editorial staff students and multi-million dollar

bud-gets of student fees to spend at their discretion, ASUC cannot be described

as anything less than a legitimate gov-ernment This alone necessitates trans-parency, but the need for oversight has been compounded by recent incidents

ASUC at UC Santa Barbara’s Legislative Council has abused the power to eject the public, holding closed meetings for the second consecutive week without offering sufficient rationale for their clo-sure Regardless of the subject matter of these closed sessions, it is disturbing that the group entrusted with student money and governance has no legal obligation to conduct business openly

Further allegations have plagued ASUC at UCSB (ASUCSB), including the alleged trashing of a rented villa while on a student fee-funded retreat

Where the transparency promised on the campaign trail should compel the responsible individuals to admit their mistakes, the public has instead been kept entirely in the dark as ASUCSB members close ranks in an attempt to protect them behind legal procedure and stonewalling

Student demands for accountability can be heard loud and clear—a Facebook group titled “Hold Associated Students accountable for their actions”

garnered almost 1,400 members a day after its creation In this current budget crisis, students bristle at the idea of ASUC spending their fees without any form of public oversight An open meet-ing act geared toward UC student gov-ernment would regulate when and how ASUC can hold a closed session, rather than allow them to do so whenever they would prefer to legislate unsupervised

As guardians of the integrity and rep-utation of the University of California,

we urge you to join with us in support-ing legislation to hold UC student gov-ernment to the same accountability standards to which other California public higher education student govern-ments must adhere Transparency in the legislative, fiscal and ethical arenas is vital to the quality and credibility of this university, and it is appalling that these abuses by student government have gone unchecked until now By propos-ing an amendment to an existpropos-ing open meeting act or drafting a new act specif-ically designed to keep ASUC publicly accountable, we can ensure that our student governments answer to the people they claim to represent

The Daily Nexus is the student newspaper of UC Santa Barbara

Reply to opinion@dailycal.org.

vagina: Silence Surrounding Abuse Must End

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community, that has brought together

women from all walks of life We have

developed lasting friendships and

cre-ated a brave space of unrelenting

sup-port Self proclaimed “Vagina

war-riors,” take the message of V-Day

throughout the campus and into the

greater community We strive to turn

personal pain into power

“The Vagina Monologues” has

inspired me to tap into my vagina

power, taught me to challenge the

status quo and to believe in what

seems impossible I have vowed to continue my work as a sexual and domestic violence peer educator with renewed fervor Each of us can do our part in this movement Each of us can help destroy the myths around sexual violence, change the social climate and end the silence Everyone must take part in the solution

UC Berkeley’s production has made record-breaking strides “The Vagina Monologues” at UC Berkeley raised over $24,000 for local beneficiaries last year alone The proceeds of this weekend’s performance will benefit A

Safe Place women’s center in Oakland, the Pacific Center and the Gender Equity Resource Center on campus The magnitude of this pro-duction is felt intensely and locally

The centers depend on this contribu-tion They depend on this movement

After the curtains have closed and

we have given our final bows, V-Day

is a call to action “The Monologues”

are a catalyst for change With domestic violence and rape seen in record numbers on college campuses, the struggle for justice must go on,

“Until the violence stops.”

Kolieka Seigle is a UC Berkeley student

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looking as mortal as Bruce Wayne

But as in the comic books, sidekicks are allowed vulnerability—the Dark Knight is not

“The one thing I learned from my teammates is if it were them, they would come back on the floor, so I tried to do the same things for them,”

Gray-Lawson said

With Cal’s timeout and a quick media timeout, the senior had enough time to get re-taped and back into the game The Huskies only managed one point before Gray-Lawson was back

on the court

Even though she favored her right ankle for the rest of the contest, Gray-Lawson finished the game—overtime period, included

And she continued to be effective

After her injury, Gray-Lawson gingerly knocked down one of her five three-pointers and contributed eight more points to hold off the Huskies

But what happens when Batman doesn’t make his triumphant return?

When Alexis Gray-Lawson isn’t able

to dig deep and take the court?

Earlier in the contest, the Bears got

a taste of a world without their

crime-fighting superhero

Gray-Lawson, who accounted for

14 of Cal’s first 16 points, picked up three early fouls and left the Bears un-protected for the final nine minutes of the first half In that time, Washington tallied eight unanswered points, took the lead and finished the half up five But as is customary in Gotham, the superhero swooped in at the last minute to save the day Gray-Lawson returned in the second half and added another 20 points—five of which came

in extra minutes—en route to her 35-point effort

Batman vanquished the villain, Cal improved to 8-5 in the conference and all was right in Gotham

But Batman didn’t escape unscathed

“I am in pain,” Gray-Lawson said

“We have a day off and some time before the next game so we’ll just fix it and get back to work.”

Batman was confident in her recovery, but Sunday’s overtime effort proved that Gotham won’t survive the perils of the postseason without the Caped Crusader

Stanford is, after all, much more daunting than even the most villain-ous adversaries

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His activity seemed contagious Cal hounded Washington State (15-10, 5-8) on defense after break, forcing its opponent into 37-percent shooting from the field after the Cougars made 65.4 percent of their attempts in the first half

Sophomore guard Klay Thompson poured in 23 points in the first half but scored five after halftime, missing all three of his shots from beyond the arc after going 5-of-5 before the break

“He made his first shot, but it was al-most as if nobody was guarding him,”

Christopher said “With a shooter like that, you have to contest all of his shots

Once we were able to key in on him, lo-cate him and chase him off screens

we did a better job of containing him.”

The Bears, who took their first lead

of the second half on Jerome Randle’s three-pointer with 10:35 remaining, closed the game on a 15-0 run Wash-ington State didn’t score after Nikola Koprivica’s offensive rebound and put-back with 4:03 left in the game

The Bears trailed at halftime, 45-34, unable to avenge an early 12-2 run by Washington State, but they outscored Ken Bone’s squad by 27 points in the second half They shot 22 of their 24 free throws after the break, one of sev-eral signs that they responded well to Randle’s mid-game ultimatum

“I just wanted everyone to know if

we came out the same as the first half,

we would lose,” Randle said

Thanks to Gutierrez, they didn’t do either

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2939 ELLIS STREET (CORNER

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to be installed for newly constructed residential buildings, at point of sale, and when remodeling exceeds

$50,000 in valuation The ordinance provides for two classes of auto-matic earthquake shut-off valves: 1) Motion activated valves, and 2) Excess flow valves The public can submit comments on the Draft until Monday, February 22, 2010, or request ađitional information by contacting Danita Hardaway, Associate Management Analyst, Planning and Development Department at 981-7407 or via email

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Petitioners Karen Kho and Wernher Rober Schorlemmer filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Karen Kho to Karen Castellvi and Wernher Rober Schorlemmer to Robert Castellvị

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bears Nipped by Northwestern at iTa indoor Championships

The feeling of dissatisfaction, fol-lowed by an overall sense of optimism, surrounded the Cal women’s tennis team after its performance in the ITA National Team Indoor Championships

Coach Amanda Augustus and her team had hoped for

a finals appearance and a possible tournament victory, but the Bears were defeated 4-3 by third-ranked Northwestern in the semifinal

on Sunday in Madison, Wisc

“We were definitely disappointed after losing in the semifinal, especially when it was so close,” junior Mari An-dersson said “At the same time though,

by Jeff Carillo

Contributing Writer

we feel that we weren’t as confident in ourselves heading into the tournament

Now, we believe in our potential and

we feel that we’re a stronger team.”

The Bears will return home to re-sume conference play on Monday, against Arizona State at 1:30 p.m

Augustus was particularly pleased with her team’s doubles play, especially from her top team of Andersson and sophomore Jana Juricovạ

The defending NCAA doubles cham-pions, who have struggled to recapture their title form thus far, went 3-0 over the weekend against the Nọ 1 doubles teams from Georgia Tech, UCLA and Northwestern

Andersson and Juricova were most impressive against the Nọ 10 ranked team of Andrea Remynse and Yasmin Schnack, as they earned a dominating

8-1 victory over a team that defeated the pair earlier this season

“I was definitely happy with our doubles play,” Augustus said “(Ander-sson and Juricova) looked like they were back in their top form from last year, which bodes well for us going into the remainder of the season.”

The third-year coach was also pleased with the performance from her Nọ 2 team of junior Marina Cos-sou and senior Kasia Siwosz

Cossou and Siwosz went undefeated over the weekend, winning all three of their matches, while freshmen Annie Goransson and Tayler Davis went 1-2

in their matches

In singles play, Augustus felt her team had a good start during the semi-final match She said the team needs

to improve its aggressiveness when

finishing off points, as well as serve more effectively during matches

“There’s plenty of stuff that we need

to work on in order to get better,” she said, “but at the same time, we’re not looking to peak right now and have everything be perfect We still accom-plished a lot and we sent a strong mes-sage to the other teams that we will be

a tough team to deal with come time for the NCAA championships.”

Juricova said that this weekend’s performance was the best of the dual season considering the strength of the competition With more work, she said, the team can take the extra step and advance to the finals during na-tional championships in Maỵ

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Overtime Win Shows Need for Bears’ Batman

On Sunday in Seattle—a place

fa-mous for its rain—Alexis Gray-Lawson

made it pour The Cal women’s

basket-ball team’s star splashed 35 points on

Washington in a

75-68 overtime

victory at Bank

of America

Are-na And she did

it on one leg

“Alexis is a big-time player,” coach

Joanne Boyle said “She shows up when

we need her in big games (It) was one

of those nights when we weren’t

get-ting points in other ways, and she

re-ally reads that and just sort of takes

over games.”

With the Bears down, 56-53,

Gray-Lawson drove toward the free throw

line with a Washington defender in

tow and one oncoming The senior

jump-stopped at the line, sending the

first defender whizzing by her and

go-ing up and under the other

On the plant, Gray-Lawson tweaked

her right ankle but still managed to

rise up off one foot to bring her team

within a point with 4:41 to play

Unable to put pressure on the foot,

Gray-Lawson was helped off the floor

After a quick evaluation,

Gray-Law-son’s ankle was taped then suited with

a lace-up brace At 2:55 Gray-Lawson

checked herself back in, limping,

gri-macing and looking as if she were

hold-ing back tears with every step

“The one thing I learned from my

teammates is if it were them, they

by Joseph Cannon

Contributing Writer

would come back on the floor, so I tried to do the same things for them,”

Gray-Lawson said

The senior put Cal up by three with time winding down, but the Huskies’

Sami Whitcomb tied the game as time expired with a long three in the corner

In overtime, though, Gray-Lawson hit a fadeaway three of NBA length, followed by two free throws to put the game out of Washington’s reach

“I have had some games where I have been slipping up a little bit, and

my teammates told me to get back into it,” Gray-Lawson said

The senior picked it up from the get-go, scoring 14 of the Bears’ first 16 points before picking up her third foul with 8:41 left in the first

Until Rachelle Federico came in for the last few minutes of the half, it seemed that Cal wasn’t interested in shooting Washington closed out the half on a 10-3 run

The Bears (14-10, 8-5 in the Pac-10) did better in the second with their leader back on the floor, but Cal did not have a defensive answer on the block Boyle said Cal pressed for most

of the game to try to keep the ball out

of the paint The press eventually paid dividends, as Washington (9-14, 4-9) committed two costly shot-clock viola-tions in overtime

“I thought the kids did a good job having to press the entire games,” Boyle said “Their three at the end could have been a momentum changer, but we withstood that in overtime.”

Freshman guard Layshia Clarendon had 14 points on 2-of-3 shooting from beyond the arc in the Bears’ overtime victory against Washington on Sunday afternoon in Seattle

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villain wins

When there’s no cloaked super-hero to protect Gotham from the ne’er-do-wellers of the world, chaos ensues And with five minutes left in Sun-day’s game against Washington, the Huskies held a one-point lead, the Bat Signal was in the sky, and yet the Caped Crusader was absent from the court Alexis Gray-Lawson, whom Cal women’s basketball coach Joanne Boyle dubbed the Batman of the season, was sitting in the Batcave with

an ankle injury

With five minutes left in the game, Gray-Lawson tweaked her right ankle

on a jump shot (Note: Playing like a composed veteran, Gray-Lawson still netted the shot and cut the lead to just one point before falling to the floor, clutching her right ankle.)

The sight of Gray-Lawson falling brought back memories of her season-ending ACL injury at the start of what would have been her sophomore year Back then, as Boyle put it, Gray-Lawson played the Robin to Ashley Walker and Devanei Hampton The newly-named Batman was

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bears start in red, get redemption in Comeback win

Point guard Jerome Randle drives the lane against Cougars guard Xavier Thames in the Bears’ victory on Saturday at Haas Pavilion

anna vignet/contributor

Patrick Christopher entered

Satur-day’s post-game press conference, sat

down and immediately put his arm

around Jorge Gutierrez

Gutierrez had catapulted the Cal

men’s basketball team to a

come-from-behind 86-70 victory over Washington

State at Haas Pavilion,

complement-ing his usual defensive intensity with a

career-high scoring effort

by Jeff Goodman

Daily Cal Staff Writer

His energy was a catalyst in a win that gave the Bears (17-8, 9-4 in the Pac-10) a season sweep of the Cou-gars and, perhaps more importantly, kept them in

first place in the conference standings

“He changed the game,” Je-rome Randle said

Randle had

24 points on

6-of-9 three-point shooting, Chris-topher scored 19 and forward Jamal Boykin added 18 points and 11 re-bounds for the Bears, but their second-half comeback seemed largely due to the efforts of Gutierrez The sophomore guard had a personal-best 15 points to

go along with six assists, four rebounds and four steals in 34 minutes

“I just enjoy being on the court with

my teammates, playing hard,” he said

You Thought Cal Couldn’t

Be Aggressive?

Jimmy tran

When the halftime buzzer

sounded, thousands of fans rained a chorus of boos onto the court

They were directed at the refs, not

at Cal

The Bears were in striking distance and no one in Haas Pavilion was vis-ibly worried

Even if coach Mike Montgomery’s squad had played 20 minutes of bas-ketball that seemed to cement many

of the issues critics had pointed out about the team

Cal just isn’t mentally tough, they said

The Bears are all about finesse and can’t play physically

Given an option, the players would rather settle for a jump shot than take

it to the rim

They can’t win coming from behind

Cal knows how to shoot the ball and not much else

If all these criticisms rang true, how could the Bears possibly mount a comeback?

Something happened though, on the very first play of the second half

Patrick Christopher turned down a shot, and instead, drove the ball to the hoop and drew a foul

The fans acknowledged it right

away and started getting loud

In a single play, Cal sent a message

to the Cougars

This was going to be their half, and there was nothing Washington State could do about it

No strategy change was necessary What did change then?

Montgomery said it Jerome Randle said it Cougars coach Ken Bone said it

The Bears became the aggressors And like that, each and every mis-conception broke down

Teams that aren’t mentally tough let the referees get into their heads Cal never complained about a whistle

Finesse teams try to win on skill alone and refuse to do the dirty work Yet there was Jorge Gutier-rez making hustle plays There was Christopher fighting through screens and making life difficult for Klay Thompson after the Washington State sophomore torched him in the first half

There were the Bears jumping the passing lane, contesting shots and forcing the issue around the rim Randle had been blocked literally more than a handful of times but continued to attack the paint

All season long, Cal hadn’t won

a game after trailing at the midway mark

Not on Saturday

The Bears outscored Washington State by 27 points in the second half and took another big step in its jour-ney to becoming the first Cal squad to win the conference in 50 years

No, this game didn’t change much, but it did show that the Bears aren’t the team the doubters pinned them

to be

All they had to do was talk to one of the many fans in attendance Saturday afternoon For them, the outcome, and this team’s true character, was never in doubt

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