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Day of Action demonstrators discuss demands for protest By Amruta Trivedi | Staff atrivedi@dailycal.org UC Berkeley students, rally organizers and community members discussed demands Tuesday evening at an open forum in preparation for Thursday’s Day of Action for Public Education in protest of a plan that could increase student fees. Rally co-sponsors Public Education Coalition and United Auto Workers Local 2865 union have included in their list of demands a reversal of recent fee increases, access to the university for undocumented students and staff and “a revision of current admissions policies to lift barriers faced by underrepresented students of color and working class students.” A multi-year budget plan discussed by the UC Board of Regents at last week’s meeting that could increase student fees by up to 16 percent per year serves as a major impetus for the Day of Action and subsequent events planned for upcoming months. “Many people are suffering silently and feel isolated because of the recent fee increases,” said Blanca Misse, an executive board member of the union. “We want to raise public awareness and fight back against the cuts and fee hikes.” According to UCPD Lieutenant Marc DeCoulode, police will be monitoring the protest but are not worried about an uncontrollable situation. “The Berkeley campus has activity frequently, so this kind of thing is not that unusual,” DeCoulode said. He added that despite the publicity surrounding the event, it is hard to tell whether this event will be different from past rallies on campus. According to Misse, the Day of Action will be the first of many organized rallies this academic year. The union and coalition have planned walkouts for early November before the regents meet to discuss the fee increase plan. The organizers intend to take their demands to Sacramento in the spring. Yet many community members who attended the public forum expressed concern about the effectiveness of the rally, citing the need for many coordinated movements around the Bay Area in order for the groups’ demands to be heard and met. Centering the movement on campus, many said, may diminish the importance of the cause.

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Claudette Begin, a campus administrative assistant, speaks up at an open forum on Tuesday evening. Zachary Aslanian-Williams, a UC Berkeley senior who said he will be participating in the rally, said the rally is a pre-emptive response to fee increases. He added that public action is necessary to bring attention to decreased state funding. Ricardo Gomez, a UC Berkeley senior and an organizer of the Day of Action, said he was confident that the efficacy of direct action by rally-goers would draw the attention of the regents and make them think twice before taking action on the multiyear budget plan. “There is no other tactic that transforms people and completely changes how they view the world,” Gomez said at the forum. Amruta Trivedi covers academics and administration.

Two UC Berkeley alumni arrested in Iran for allegedly entering the country illegally were released Wednesday morning on $1 million bail after more than two years in an Iranian prison. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both 29, were seized in July 2009 shane for crossing the border from Iraq bauer into Iran while hiking. Bauer’s fiancee, 33-year-old Sarah Shourd, was also with them but was released last September on $500,000 bail. According to The New York Times, Bauer and Josh Fattal were seen Fattal Wednesday morning by Associated Press reporters leaving Evin Prison in Tehran in a diplomatic convoy that included Swiss and Omani officials. They flew to Muscat, Oman, where they were met by their families and throngs of reporters. The families of the two hikers said in a statement that the release made Wednesday the “best day of our lives.”

“We now all want nothing more than to wrap Shane and Josh in our arms, catch up on two lost years and make a new beginning, for them and for all of us,” the families said in the statement. The release of the hikers comes about a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised that they would be freed as a humanitarian gesture “in a couple of days.” The next day, Iran’s judiciary contradicted these statements, saying the Americans’ release was not imminent. Last month, Bauer and Fattal were convicted of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison after more than two years of detention in an Iranian prison. Each received a five-year sentence for espionage and three additional years for allegedly illegally entering the country. The conviction was widely condemned by world leaders as unnecessarily harsh. Last year, President Barack Obama denied that the three were ever affiliated with the U.S. government, so they could not be guilty of espionage, calling their detention “unjust.” Claire Holmes, UC Berkeley associate vice chancellor for public affairs and university communications, said in a press release Wednesday that the hikers’ release “brings a joyful end to what was a heartbreaking ordeal for our alums and their loved ones.” “We are relieved and thankful that our two alumni, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, will soon be reunited with family and friends after more than two years of imprisonment,” she said in the statement.

to file charges against an individual in any criminal investigation is made after a full and thorough investigation,” she said. According to UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode, the charging decision was probably based on whether protesters had prior protest-related arrests. But Graham Archer, an attorney working with the 2011 protesters, said he saw a difference in the decision to charge protesters of the later demonstration. “My impression is that the UC Berkeley admin has gotten more aggressive about pushing the Alameda County District Attorney with charging protesters with crimes,” he said. “I am not surprised there has sort of been a pattern of increasing pressure with getting charges brought.” But according to campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof, the university has remained consistent in its position on protester actions. “We have been and always will be staunch supporters of (the right of ) students, faculty and staff to have their

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Sit-in’s results contrast November 2009 protest’s As 11 protesters charged in relation to the March 2 Wheeler Hall sit-in close the book on their charges, the legal consequences of that demonstration stand in contrast to the aftermath of the November 2009 occupation of the same building. Seventeen protesters were arrested on March 2 after they refused to leave Wheeler Hall when instructed by law enforcement at its closing time. Of these 17, 11 were charged with trespassing, and three were charged with trespassing and resisting arrest. In November 2009, when 40 protesters barricaded themselves inside a second-floor room in Wheeler Hall and were subsequently arrested in connection to the occupation, no charges were brought against those arrested. Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick said she could not comment on the charging determination for the specific case. “The determination of whether or not

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Campus room and board among costliest By Annie Sciacca | Staff asciacca@dailycal.org Living expenses can significantly increase the cost of going to college, and for UC Berkeley students living on-campus, the cost of room and board is among the highest in the country. In a recent ranking by U.S. News & World Report, UC Berkeley is second on a list of the 10 most expensive room and board fees for the 2011-2012 academic year — the only

other public school besides UC Santa Cruz to make the list. With an average annual cost of $15,272, the fees are more than $6,000 higher than the $9,047 average across all schools, according to a U.S. News survey of 1,130 schools. Location is the primary reason why living expenses at UC Berkeley are higher on average than other public schools, said Marty Takimoto, director of marketing communications for Residential and Student Services Programs at UC Berkeley. Because the university is located in a major urban

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COST: High living expenses due to urban location, support programs From Front area, “everything from space to construction costs to food costs is going to be higher,” Takimoto said. The fees, he said, cover utilities, operational costs, internet and cable access, as well as student programming. “Ninety-seven percent of freshmen live in residence halls, and as part of their experience, we have support programs that assist them through their first year at Berkeley,” Takimoto said. However, Ashmita Baral, a freshman living in Unit 2, said the programs are not well-publicized and may not be worth the extra cost. “I don’t think many students are informed about it, so even if it is included in the cost, I don’t think it’s worth it.” Baral added her parents, who are paying for her housing, urged her to live in an off-campus apartment, but she wanted the experience of living in a dorm. She plans on moving into an off-campus apartment next year. Freshman Alissa Dawson said the housing fees combined with daily expenses in Berkeley are steep. However, the convenience of on-campus living is worth the cost, she said. To help offset the rise of tuition fees and provide accessibility for housing, the program put a oneyear moratorium on room and board increases last year, Takimoto said. This year, there is a 2 percent increase for housing costs. To help fund construction and outstanding debts in the long-term, the program is refinancing properties and reducing operational costs. “We were able to reduce our operating expenses by about $1.8 million last year,” Takimoto said. “We want to make sure that students are able to live with us and attend the university.”

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Corrections Tuesday’s op-ed “What does the coalition stand for?” incorrectly stated that the UC Board of Regents would be voting on a plan to increase tuition this November. In fact, there is no guarantee that action will be taken on this plan. The op-ed also incorrectly stated that a protest will take place next Thursday. In fact, that protest is taking place this Thursday, Sept. 22. The Daily Californian regrets the errors.

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ver the past six months, I have become fluent in legalese. I have drafted pages of insurance agreements, paraphrased policy and translated liability contracts into French. I have spoken to every vice chancellor, deputy manager and passive-aggressive telephone operator in the Bay Area and beyond. I have learned to navigate the labyrinthine halls of UC Berkeley’s offices and unearth that one phone number off of the archaic website of a department no one knew existed. I ventured into the depths of campus bureaucracy with a simple goal in mind — to obtain the internship insurance required for a great job opportunity. But the job’s stringent criteria soon outstripped Berkeley administrators’ ability to acquiesce, and I found myself acting as an interpreter between two systems refusing to compromise. In short, I have seen the ugly underbelly of UC Berkeley’s bureaucracy. At a university of over 35,000, I am fairly certain I am not alone. So I introduce to you Beef with Bureaucracy: A weekly column dedicated to shedding a (very bright) light on the cases of lost souls trapped in Berkeley’s forgotten hallways, searching for forms a sadistic secretary lost for fun or trying for the umpteenth time to thwart a policy no one should have established in the first place. My hope is that by accepting readers’ submissions and bringing these situations to light, unnecessary issues will be resolved amicably; students, administrators and others on campus will learn more about the inner workings of an immense bureaucracy and everyone will be reminded that this is an establishment of people, not cogs in a machine. Let’s be clear: This is not a battle of students versus the administration. No one’s problems will be solved if half of the campus is perpetually up in arms against the other. Indeed, my hope is that this column will, from time to time, demonstrate administrative success — perhaps clarifying the intricacies of a policy that really ticks kids off but in fact does everyone a lot of good. y beef isn’t with one side or the other; it’s with an inefficient system that — from time to time — throws obstacles up in front of people pursuing straightforward, reasonable goals. While Berkeley is by no means the only school infected with bureaucratic hassles, any campus with tens of thousands of staff and students is sure to show some symptoms. This column seeks to cure at least some of these bureaucratic cankers. I will be constantly accepting submissions from everyone on campus — students, faculty and staff. Some of those most burdened by bureaucracy are the people employed by the university, and addressing their qualms is equally as important as taking on students’ horror stories. Write to

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Nina Brown nbrown@dailycal.org nbrown@dailycal.org and outline your situation — what you initially hoped to do, the obstacles you encountered, the offices you visited, the responses you received, the people who deleted your emails just for shits and giggles and the ones who offered you a chair when you walked into their office, flustered and unannounced, at 4:59 p.m. Those who find themselves embroiled in the trench warfare of a long bureaucratic battle eventually become experts on their topic. In your email, give me the CliffsNotes. rom there, I will first confirm your story, then educate myself about the situation and sit down with you to hear about your problem. Once I get the details of your side straight, I’ll follow up with all the people who have been helping or hurting your cause. I have no delusions about solving bureaucratic headaches overnight (did you read that intro?), and for every case resolved, I have no doubt that others will come to an infuriating stalemate. My hope is that in those latter cases, a disappointing conclusion will be due to a legitimate policy that everyone should know more about. And in those cases when the answer is just “nope� for no real reason, let’s broadcast that absurd response to everyone on campus so that when an identical case arises a few months later, the answer might be different. At the moment, the jury’s still out on my own case of tackling bellicose bureaucracy. Taking that long look at some of an institution’s most unattractive traits is an experience akin to watching the preparation of fois gras or listening in on Boehner and Obama’s conference calls during the budget debacle. Not only did I unravel the secrets of the university’s red tape, but I got to witness two bureaucracies literally collide. It resembled what I imagine my home state of Virginia might have looked like if that East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene had happened on the same day. Wish me luck, though. There may yet be a few survivors. At any rate: You psych majors flabbergasted by the department’s waitlist policy or financial aid recipients who are forming blisters from schlepping paperwork to opposite corners of campus, hit me up! I await your harried emails with anticipation.

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With Berkeley’s only warm water pool set to close in under three months, city staff held a meeting Tuesday night to hear the complaints of an agitated elderly crowd that raised concerns about the possibility of using the Downtown Berkeley YMCA’s pools for their physical therapy exercises. At the meeting, the Parks Recreation and Waterfront department reiterated that the last day of operation for the warm water pool at Berkeley High School is Dec. 15, while notifying community members that a deal with the YMCA to let swimmers use their facilities is still being worked out. The pool’s almost certain closure comes as a result of the Berkeley Unified School District’s plan to renovate the high school’s facilities next summer. William Rogers, director of the department, said that an arrangement was still in progress with the YMCA but did not give any details about what the arrangement would be or when it would revealed. The deal is assumed to be a way for the regular users of the high school’s warm pool, in particular the elderly

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and disabled, to access the YMCA’s warm pools. Many of those who attended the meeting on Tuesday expressed concerns about the YMCA’s two warm pools, saying that the water temperature is too low, parking is not easily accessible and the hours of operation are too short. The high school’s pool is kept at 92 degrees Fahrenheit, whereas the YMCA pools are 88 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Several attendees said they simply would not use the YMCA pools. The YMCA has rebuilt its warm pools in recent years to better serve the community, according to YMCA CEO

Fran Gallati. “It’s essentially a brand new pool — we raised the temperature to expand the number of people’s needs we can meet,� Gallati said. Robert Collier, co-chair for the Berkeley Pools campaign, which formed last year to save Willard Pool, said swimmers do “appreciate the Y as a stopgap measure� but added that warm pool users feel the YMCA does not meet their needs. The campaign tried to pass a $22.5 million bond, Measure C, on the June 2010 ballot to provide funding to keep the pool open and renovate the city’s

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Shanghai is falling. The Japanese army is moving to its next target: the Chinese capital, Nanjing.”

— Diary of John Rabe, German businessman present at Nanjing, 12 November 1937

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With the monumental ‘City of Life and Death,’ Lu Chuan crafts an affecting cinematic canvas of wartime brutality. with those of historical figures: John Rabe, a German businessman; and Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary. In the wake of the Japanese occupation, each character’s mohells fly, walls crumble and bodies fall tives and means of survival are ostensibly in the first 25 minutes of “City of Life different, but Lu frames them within one and Death,” Lu Chuan’s monumental overarching tapestry of humanity regardless account of the Japanese occupation of of background or ethnicity. As a result, the Nanjing in 1937. Shot in stately chiaroscu- film never feels disjointed as it shifts from ro, the sequence recalls the scope of Pablo one individual’s point of view to another. Picasso’s “Guernica”: Chaos reigns as a That the controversy surrounding “City of once-proud national capital falls victim to Life and Death” hindered its domestic release the vagaries of war. Whirling in and out of by over two years and elicited death threats ruined buildings, Lu’s wide-angle compositoward its director is troubling yet hardly tions capture Nanjing in its final hours of surprising. The events of Nanjing remain resistance with uncompromising veracity. deeply embedded within the sensitive realm What ensues is a film that confronts the darkest depths of the human condition. Af- of East Asian sociopolitical culture today, ter quelling the final regiments of Chinese and for Lu to include a Japanese soldier who hardly fits the bill of a traditional antagofreedom fighters, the Japanese soldiers nist would understandably raise a wave of engage in a six-week period of wanton protest sentiment among mainland Chinese debauchery that would take hundreds of thousands of lives. Civilians are ordered to audiences. Yet it is precisely Kadokawa’s ambivalence — his vacillation between morality dig their own graves, women are enlisted and the spoils of war — that crystallizes the in makeshift brothels and pleas for peace film’s psychological and ideological core. fall on deaf ears. It’s a descent into madness painstakingly orchestrated by writer- Through his eyes, a city ravaged by brutality transforms into a stronghold of national director Lu, whose previous two films resilience. — 2002’s darkly comedic “The Missing Over 70 years later, the horror remains Gun,” 2004’s sparse, ruminative “Kekexili: indelible. The film’s kaleidoscopic approach Mountain Patrol” — have established him as one of China’s most versatile contempo- to history presents a bold, maddening irony: one man’s struggle to comprehend man’s rary auteurs. inhumanity against himself. It’s a measure of We observe the monstrosities through Lu Chuan’s ability to craft indelible images a wealth of colorful if muted characters, that “City of Life and Death” unfolds as among them brooding fighter Lu Jianxnothing less than a beautiful provocation, an iong (Liu Ye), headstrong schoolteacher Jiang Shuyun (Gao Yuanyuan) and pensive anthropological document of magisterial Japanese soldier Kadokawa (Hideo Nakai- proportions. zumi). Their individual anecdotes coalesce David Liu is the arts & entertainment editor.

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Mark Morris dazzles at Zellerbach By Sara Hayden | Staff shayden@dailycal.org

would have been effective, some of the choreography was excessively abstracted to the point of being inaccessible. At points, it created fragmented visuals that, by the end, left plot puzzles ike the two-dimensional figures painted on yet to be solved. The performance became a stimulating opportunity to unwind the knot of a Grecian urn, Mark Morris Dance Group cultural nods. contorted their bodies into fierce angles The performance portrays the fate of Aeneas last weekend; the stage lost its depth and gained (Domingo Estrada Jr.) as he sets off to found the boldness of an urn’s lines and shattered Rome but instead falls in love with Dido, Queen shapes. Ancient themes punctuated the space the of Carthage. way purposefully painted During more motifs mark a piece of serious pottery. In MMDG’s ren- “The performance became a moments, dition of the tale “Dido stimulating opportunity to mezzo-soand Aeneas,” presented prano by Cal Performances at unwind the knot of cultural nods.” Stephanie Zellerbach Hall, antiBlythe’s voice quated influence is cobsoars robustbled together with wholly, complementing Dido’s agile, martial character. ly contemporary presentation. The dancer Amber Star Merkens’ movements as MMDG’s “Dido and Aeneas” defies definitions Dido are powerful, but the musical elements of any one period or style of dance and instead make them naturally extraordinary. embraces a fair few, resulting in a piece that is The production welcomed Mark Morris as timeless and culturally transcendent. In addition conductor of the Philharmonia Baroque to references to Greco-Roman myth, Henry Orchestra. An artist in the truest sense of the Purcell’s 1689 opera adds English Baroque disword, Morris has had his hands in the clay of his tinction. One such influence frames dancer project since its beginning; he originally danced Lauren Grant as a jolly sailor dancing a bit of a the title role of Dido during the production’s reel in a moment of comic relief, recalling Irish Belgium premier. For the performance’s Berkeley step-dance and the cross-cultural interaction appearance, Merkens took the lead. between England and Ireland. Given her command and intensity, Merkens At times, the layers of allusions became overwhelming. Where clear balletic storytelling

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With its performance of Henry Purcell’s 1689 opera rendition of ‘Dido and Aeneas’ at Zellerbach this past Friday, Mark Morris Dance Group set contemporary gender issues against a classical backdrop.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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here were so many better things to do on Sunday night than watch the Emmys. I had homework, there was a Choco Taco in the freezer ready to be devoured and it was high time I showed the spider making its home in my room who was boss. I live an exciting life. Sadly, I accomplished none of these. That spider — let’s call him Steve — continues to mock me from his ever-expanding empire atop my bookshelf, the Choco Taco remains uneaten and what do I have to show in place of these momentous, missed opportunities? I saw Michael Bolton dressed as a pirate. I’m trying to not be cynical, which is difficult when you’re 90 percent pessimistic and 10 percent blubber like I am. Michael Bolton, festooned in dreads and eyeliner, is certainly a sight to behold. But, I can’t help myself when it comes to award shows and especially when it comes to the Emmys. Occasionally, the Oscars shell out a shocking surprise. And the Grammys have their own flair — mainly in the form of meat dresses. However, the Emmys remain exceptional in their ability to be both consistently predictable and completely dull. Even Steve the spider was yawning, which is saying something for a creature who dwells in my dusty collection of Civil War letters. Between the obligatory musical opener and the shots of Ashton Kutcher’s vaguely serial killer-esque beard, I sat puzzled, wondering who the fuck is even watching this? Honestly. For a program that claims to celebrate television, there’s a serious absence of entertainment involved in the

Emmys that not even Michael Bolton’s guyliner can salvage. Perhaps the problem resides in the fact that award shows are supposed to be banal — just lists of prizes with a momentary montage of dead people. But, somehow the Emmys are different. People still make Oscar pools, the Grammys at least have some noteworthy performances and the Tonys have Hugh Jackman, I suppose. What then do the Emmys have to offer? Besides a chance to see Sofia Vergara’s breasts or Charlie Sheen “winning,� there is little incentive to watch. And it’s not the Emmys’ production that is troubling. Jane Lynch was a suitable host, as most of them (sans Ryan Seacrest) are. The bits were mildly amusing, and everybody loves to see Kate Winslet win awards. No, the Emmys’ problems lie beyond the mediocre writing and lukewarm reaction. The Emmys, more than the Oscars and the Grammys (the Golden Globes remain the lowest on the rung), are inherently irrelevant. Perhaps this has always been the case. I can recall major Academy Award upsets. Remember when “Crash� won? Yuck. But, for the life of me and Steve the spider, my memory is blank when it comes to memorable Emmy moments. I’m never shocked when “Modern Family� wins Outstanding Comedy or “Mad Men� wins Outstanding Drama. Those shows don’t need the recognition of multiple awards in addition to their abounding critical acclaim. They’re accessible programs with outstanding writing. Nothing to complain about. So why shouldn’t “Modern Family� and “Mad Men� win an Emmy? Because they’re spoiled brats who already have enough? Because there are more deserving series nominated? No, that’s not a satisfactory reason. They should win, but why should we, as viewers, care? Simple answer: we shouldn’t. Not that anyone cared to begin with, because people don’t need an award to justify their appreciation for a certain TV show. The Emmys work backward from the Oscars in this manner. People didn’t start watching “30 Rock� because it suddenly started winning Emmys. People were already well-attuned to Liz Lemon’s antics, with the Emmy acting only as an afterthought, a redundancy. Even though it’s pleasant to have a show you love gain recognition and see Rob Lowe in a tux, the Emmys are unnecessary. Television is a populist platform where every the lowliest of people, or spiders in the case of Steve, can decide they like “Modern Family� not because of an award, but because it’s funny and Sofia Vergara has great jugs.

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Film ‘Restless’ traces painfully hip love affair By Ryan Lattanzio | Senior Staff rlattanzio@dailycal.org

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n the first shot of “Restless,� Enoch is drawing his own chalk outline, tracing his body on the pavement. We learn all we need to know about this painfully hip, fun-hating guy right here. Enoch is obsessed with death, and himself. Played by newcomer Henry Hopper, he is a young man without purpose. He has lost both his parents in an automobile accident and has dropped out of high school. It seems Enoch has seen “Harold and Maude� too many times because he attends funerals of people he never knew. Enter Annabel (Mia Wasikowska), the requisite Manic Pixie Dream Girl of the proceedings, who shares his morbid fascination with strange cadavers. She must be a free-spirit because she loves droopy hats and funky prints. All too early, “Restless� reeks of kitsch, the stuff of a rotting funereal bouquet. Enoch not only sees dead people in coffins, he really sees dead people. The ghost of a Japanese kamikaze fighter pilot brings board games and platitudes to Enoch in his lonesome. But Enoch is freed from his self-loathing shell when

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Federal transportation cuts could derail local transit plans March 2012. But this is not a long-term fix, especially for BART, which is waiting for federal funding to renew its outdated fleet of cars which dates back to 1972, said BART Board of Directors President Bob Franklin. “BART is scheduled to receive $851 million by a federal formula for new cars, which could be cut by 34 percent (if the House bill is passed),” Franklin said. “So, if we are short by a couple hundred million dollars, it would mean the cars that we have since 1972 would be forced to run, which are less reliable.” He added that BART currently runs its trains at a 95 percent on-time rate, but that the approval of these proposed cuts would increase the likelihood for delays and more expensive fares.

By Jonathan Tam | Staff jtam@dailycal.org Proposed cuts to federal transportation across the country would undoubtedly adversely affect Bay Area local services such as Caltrain, BART and AC Transit. Even though the U.S. House of Representatives is working on a bill that could cut up to 34 percent of federal funding to public transportation, Senator Barbara Boxer, D-California is countering with a bill that would maintain current funding for the next two years. Last week, both the House and Senate passed an extension on the existing Surface Transportation Authorization bill which would maintain current funding until the end of

AC Transit commuters may experience more bus delays if the agency receives a cut from its $322.6 million budget for the 2011 fiscal year, of which federal funding accounts for 10 percent, according to Clarence Johnson, spokesperson for AC Transit. From these proposed cuts, Caltrain would also expect similar service deficits. In the next three to five years, Caltrain is poised to replace up to 100 passenger cars that would cost about $450 million, but that depends heavily on federal funding, according to Caltrain spokesperson Christine Dunn. With an up to 34 percent federal funding reduction, Caltrain would have to defer the replacement of up to 30 vehicles, which, like BART, would

require the continued use of old cars and result in longer trip times and even fewer trains on the tracks, Dunn said. Even though these federal cuts imply longer commute times, Justin Harclerode, communications director for the House’s Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, said these cuts are in response to continued federal overspending. “Funding levels for these (services) have not been sustainable,” Harclerode said. “We have been spending much more than we have been collecting in user fees, and this has necessitated a cut in funding.” The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is currently preparing the bill and plans to have it completed by March 2012.

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Pool: Community concerns, litigation surround closure From Page 3 three other public pools. The measure, which required a two-thirds majority to pass, gained only 62.24 percent of votes, and as a result, Willard Pool closed. Collier said the campaign is considering placing a bond measure on the November 2012 ballot to raise funds for a completely new structure and warm pool as a permanent solution.

In addition to dealing with the concerns of the community, a lawsuit filed July 11 is looking for compensation for an accident that occurred at the warm water pool while attempting to keep it open on the grounds that closing it would be discriminatory toward disabled people. The lawsuit names the city of Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District as defendants.

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Thursday, september 22, 2011 • dailycal.org/sports

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By Byron Atashian | Staff batashian@dailycal.org

POW Trekking everywhere from North Dakota to South Korea, former Cal basketball player Rod Benson has started a movement: Boom Tho.

elcome to the Boom Tho Game Show! First question: In about 10 words, what is Boom Tho? Is it: a. Wearing a ridiculously oversized mask in a professional dunk contest b. “An occurrence of an uncommonly good thing” c. Former Cal and current Korean Basketball League basketball player Rod Benson d. A punch-line that started between friends and would later evolve into much more e. All of the above If you answered E, you are correct. The Boom Tho Movement is centered around “having fun, being ridiculous, and being yourself,” according to former Cal basketball player and now a blogging pseudo-celebrity clothes designer, Rod Benson. He was on the Bears’ men’s basketball team from 2002 to 2006 and is The Boom Tho Movement’s greatest proponent. “Rod was a bouncy personality,” says Ben Braun, his coach at Cal. “He kept the guys on the team loose.” The way the term “Boom Tho” was coined accurately captures the idea it represents; one day Benson’s teammate Jason Gant said it as an exclamation on the basketball court. The two didn’t know it, but “Boom Tho” would later become a significant part of their lives, especially for Benson. “We used to say a lot of stupid things but ‘Boom Tho’ was the one I thought was coolest, so we made a YouTube video (about it) and people just kind of got into it,” Benson says. The duo’s theme song titled “Boom Got Them Tho” opens up with the Pokemon theme song before transitioning into Benson and Gant rapping and dancing with Gant intermittently dressed as Mr. T. The video, one of over 50 on Benson’s YouTube account, has over 50,000 views. ound 2: Choose the option that’s not a part of Benson’s internet portfolio A. The No. 1 blog in professional

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sports, as recognized by ESPN B. The Boom Tho clothing line at boomthoshop.com C. Part two of “Boom Got Them Tho” which is entitled “Boom Got Them Dos” D. Yahoo! NBA Sports Blog: Ball Don’t Lie (BDL) E. The creation of Facebook If you chose E, you are correct. Rod Benson is not Mark Zuckerberg. Benson, who says he is not a writer by trade, details his quest for the NBA as well as situations he describes as “the ridiculousness that is (his) life” in his blog. In his blog, Benson craftily balances his goofiness with his journey to becoming a pro athlete. For example, in response to hearing about the honor from ESPN, Benson wrote: “Not knowing what to do, I gave a slight fistpump. It was like MJ in the first quarter or Tiger Woods on the third green. Not the big time fist pump signaling victory, but a subtle, less energetic pump that says ‘there’s still more work to do.’” Benson lives for these small victories. He has been playing in the NBA D-League and overseas since graduation, which takes us to our... IGHTNING ROUND! Which accolade has Benson NOT earned during his hoops career? A. 2008-09 and 2009-10 NBA MVP B. 2007-08 D-League League Rebound Leader C. Most Improved Player for Cal in 2005-06 D. 2010-2011 Korean Basketball League All-Star If you chose A, you are correct. Rod Benson is not Lebron James. Both lost in their league’s finals in six games despite being dominant forces on their teams. During his junior year with the Bears, Benson led the team with averages of 13.3 points and 6.3 rebounds a game en route to being voted the team’s Most Improved Player. He followed his breakout year with a breakdown physically, suffering heel and knee injuries which forced him to miss 11 games. The missed time greatly weakened his chances of being drafted straight into the NBA. After his senior year woes, Benson bounced around in the D-League for a couple of years, mostly playing with the D-League Dakota Wizards, including an All-Star 2007-08 season with averages of 13.6 points and a league-best 12.1 rebounds per game. After playing in summer leagues for the Nets and Pacers, scouts would take notice of Benson but often think that he was too skinny (6-foot-10 but only 235 pounds) to bang in the NBA. Frustrated, he decided to take his talents overseas to the Wonju Dongbu Promy of the Korean Basketball League, where he is again one of the dominant big men in the league. “(Reaching the NBA) was my ultimate goal but now there are so many other things that I’m working on,” he says. “The journey has led me to just be happy with being successful off the court because you can only play basketball so long.” So Benson pursued other talents he had at his fingertips. Not long after graduating from Cal, Benson got himself a MacBook. Scrolling through his new toy’s features, he discovered iWeb. Benson thought back to his first brush with blog-style writing. It came during his senior year at Cal when he made a journal entry on calbears.com during the team’s trip to Italy. He used the positive feedback as inspiration to delve more deeply into a multimedia world. “I wanted to just make a website and see how powerful it was,” Benson says. “I never called it a blog, other people started calling it that but once they started finding out about it, I started adding video and it pretty much had to become a blog because I was updating it like crazy.” Benson’s work on Yahoo’s blog caught the eye of one of his high school alumni working for Pony shoes. “He was just super hyped that I was on BDL,” Benson says. “For them, it was nothing to make me a pair of shoes and a hundred T-shirts.” Benson and Gant put the shirts on the website; they sold out in a week. They began making T-shirts themselves and have not stopped since. The site, toomuchrodbenson.com, only became a limited liability corporation within the last six months, but the clothing line has already expanded to include tank tops, hats, beach balls and stickers. As a partner in his clothing company and an internet pseudo-celebrity blogger, Benson continues to make his name known through a combination of hard work and outrageousness. Benson never made it to the big leagues for basketball, but that didn’t keep him from making it big. Boom Tho, Rod. Boom Tho.

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Cross Country| Season Preview

Veteran women, new-look men provide high expectations for cross-country By Austin Crochetiere | Staff acrochetiere@dailycal.org As part of the preseason training program, members of the Cal cross country team trek to the mountains of Tahoe for altitude training each year. This year, 30 runners made the journey as opposed to 15 last year, a

testament to the team’s dedication, according to coach Tony Sandoval. “I’m most impressed by the overall enthusiasm on both teams, they funded themselves and took a trip to Tahoe,” Sandoval said. “That’s the kind of inertia they have developed and it’s exciting.” But the trip fosters more than fitness. “We became a band of brothers,” freshman Chris Walden said.

The team’s chemistry will be important for both squads this season, though they face different challenges. While the men’s team is rebuilding, the women’s program is poised for a run in the NCAA championships. Last year the Cal men’s cross country program, led by then-seniors Michael Coe and Steve Sodaro, finished third in the Pac-10 en route to a

berth in the NCAA championships. Their graduation leaves a void, which senior Maxime Chevee and junior Collin Jarvis should fill. “Collin and Maxime are making a difficult transition from a supporting role into a leadership role, but they do have the talent to step up,” Sandoval said. Sandoval will also look to the incoming freshmen, heralded as one of the

best recruiting classes in the nation, to propel the team forward. Through training and tune-up meets, the freshmen have been working on not only their endurance but also their mental approach to running. “Coach Sandoval is all about mental toughness and when it comes down to the line you need to be mentally stronger

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