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The Berkeley College Republicans will go through with their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” today, despite sharp criticism from both the UC Berkeley community and the campus administration. The event has garnered national media attention.

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Defunding The ASUC could potentially revoke funding for the Berkeley College Republicans — but various technical and procedural complications stand in the way. Questions of muzzling free speech would also come into play, should charges be filed against the campus Republicans’ group and the ASUC considers revoking the funding.

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40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

Former editors remember a history marked by controversy By Amruta Trivedi | Staff atrivedi@dailycal.org

Staff members of The Daily Californian — from left, Jim Branson, Toni Martin and Trish Hall — convene in the wake of the newspaper’s 1971 declaration of independence from the campus after a controversial editorial angered UC Berkeley officials.

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Paper changes to keep up with media shift By Alisha Azevedo | Staff aazevedo@dailycal.org In the 40 years since The Daily Californian first declared its independence, the paper has worked to remain an autonomous and financially stable news source for the Berkeley community, despite falling advertising income and increasing costs. Developing a strong online presence, utilizing social media and fundraising have become greater priorities for the paper as it works to keep up with a changing media industry. The paper launched a student life blog in November 2006, and the publication’s online presence has continued to increase. Most recently, the Daily Cal Twitter account reached over 4,000 followers on Sept. 15, 2011. However, the shifting emphasis from print to online news has challenged the newspaper, mirroring the current obstacles the industry faces. Other independent college newspapers are also experiencing ongoing financial difficulties. The Independent Florida Alligator at the University of Florida — which declared its independence in 1973 after the administration disapproved of publishing a listing of abortion

clinics in the area, since abortion was illegal at the time — has cut back paid positions and is working to improve its website, according to Editor in Chief Elizabeth Behrman. “It’s a struggle,” she said. “We’re feeling the pitfalls of the industry just like the other papers and want to able to continue providing for the students.” Despite challenges, the Daily Cal remains strong, earning 23 first place awards from the California College Media Association from 2007 to 2011. According to current Editor in Chief Tomer Ovadia, the paper will be “increasingly reliant” on alumni donations and is also considering a student fee referendum for stable revenue. “This fee would keep us accountable to the people we seek to serve — the students,” he said. “The student fee can act as a cushion to ensure not only the success of the Daily Cal but buttress communication between students.” In the past, the Daily Cal has sacrificed print publication days in order to mitigate tight finances. On Aug. 26, 2008, Editor in Chief Bryan Thomas announced that the paper would cut print publication on Wednesdays. During the same period, other local newspapers ex-

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The Daily Californian proclaimed its independence from the campus 40 years ago today, months after a controversial editorial angered UC Berkeley officials into firing the editors responsible for its publication. The front-page editorial, published May 11, 1971, encouraged readers to “Take Back (People’s) Park” and tear down the fence that the UC Board of Regents had put up around it. The piece divided the Daily Cal’s staff and readers while sparking criticism from then-chancellor Roger Heyns, the UC Board of Regents and then-governor Ronald Reagan. “This (editorial) was following years of bickering and fighting with administration about what we wrote and how we wrote it,” said then-editor in chief John Emshwiller. “It was the last straw towards independence.” Emshwiller said the Daily Cal wanted

Editor’s Note: It’s Still Your Newspaper By Tomer Ovadia Editor in Chief and President editor@dailycal.org Four decades ago, The Daily Californian published an editorial that sparked a heated controversy and prompted its Publishers Board to attempt to bring its publication to a halt. The possibility of the students’ voice being silenced was real, and the editor in chief asserted at the time that it “seriously threaten(ed) the future of any student newspaper on this campus.” In an editorial published forty years

ago tomorrow titled “It’s Your Newspaper Now,” the staff announced its independence and noted that while it would “no longer be under the protective apron of the University,” independence would afford “us an exciting opportunity to create a newspaper worthy of the campus.” Forty years later, we once again face one of the most significant challenges in our 140-year history. While independence has allowed us to truly pave our own path, it has exposed us over the past several years to shifts in the journalism industry, as newspapers every-

to commemorate the riot that ensued after the fence’s installation in May 1969. “The question arose of what we should do,” Emshwiller said. “We thought about it with half a mind and our managing editor, James Blodgett, sat down and knocked off this editorial.” The Senior Editorial Board voted to run the editorial 3-2, with Emshwiller as one of the dissenters. According to Emshwiller, the board was not expecting the editorial to be as controversial as it would become in the days and weeks following May 11. “We had gotten used to the notion that people didn’t read the Daily Cal,” Emshwiller said. “But they read this one, and then the day comes and turns into a riot.” In the days preceding the “party at People’s Park,” as the editorial characterized it, the Daily Cal published other articles, editorials and letters to the editor about the community’s reaction to the original editorial. A minority editorial, signed by Emshwiller and then-city editor Trish Hall, apologized to readers about the controversy the original editorial had caused. Yet, after the May 15 riot resulted in 43 arrests, the Daily Californian Publisher’s Board voted to fire Blodgett, lower staff representative Fran Hawthorne and editorial page editor David Dozier — the three editors who voted in favor of the editorial. Emshwiller and Hall resigned in protest of the firings. Richard Hafner, the chancellor’s representative on the Daily Californian Publisher’s Board, called the Senior Editorial Board’s decision to run the editorial “insensitive.” On May 19, 1971, the Daily Californian

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From the Archives

It’s your newspaper now The following is a reprint of The Daily Californian’s editorial, published 40 years ago tomorrow, declaring independence

from the university after months of conflict surrounding a controversial editorial the paper published about People’s Park.

By Senior Editorial Board Tuesday, September 28, 1971

third floor. Our independence means that we are free from control by the Board of Regents or the Chancellor’s handpicked Publishers’ Board. Independence, of course, places greatly heightened responsibility on our shoulders, since we will no longer be under the protective apron of the University. But it also affords us an exciting opportunity to create a newspaper worthy of the campus.

The Daily Californian is now an independent newspaper. We are operating as a non-profit staff-controlled corporation. For funding, we will depend on our advertising and subscription revenue — without any subsidy from student fee money. We have left our campus offices and will operate out of new headquarters at 2490 Channing (corner of Telegraph),

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Toni Martin, the first editor in chief of The Daily Californian after it declared independence, leads a staff discussion. Toni Martin/Courtesy

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Bake sale cooks up controversy Event has grabbed national attention Campus Republican organization to proceed with bake sale amid cries of racism from community By Chloe Hunt and Amy Wang newsdesk@dailycal.org Despite massive outcries of protest from campus organizations, the Berkeley College Republicans are adamant in going ahead with their controversial bake sale. The sale — intended as a satirical response to the affirmative action-like SB 185 currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature — will involve baked goods that are priced according to the purchaser’s race and sex. Under the pricing structure, white students would have to pay $2 for a pastry, for example, while Latinos would pay $1 and Native Americans would pay 25 cents. Women would receive a blanket 25-cent discount. The sale is scheduled to occur on Sproul Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — at the same time as an ASUC-sponsored phone bank in support of SB 185. Since its announcement last week, the sale has received national media attention and heavy criticism from the campus community. Most recently, a campuswide email signed by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion Gibor Basri and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Harry Le Grande stated that the publicity of the event was “contrary to the Principles of Community we espouse as a campus.” “It is our sincere hope that the strong reactions generated by the proposed bake sale provide a vivid lesson that issues of race, ethnicity, and gender are far from resolved, and very much a part of lived experience here and now,” the email states.

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Many students assembled on campus on Monday to protest the Berkeley College Republicans’ planned ‘Increase Diversity Bake Sale.’

ASUC Senate unanimously passes bill urging respectful conduct but takes no formal action against campus Republican group By Jason Willick | Staff jwillick@dailycal.org

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Though the ASUC Senate did not take formal action against the Berkeley College Republicans at the senate’s emergency meeting Sunday, individual students could file charges against the group — but formal punishment for the group is fraught with technical, procedural and legal difficulties. The senate unanimously passed “A Bill in Support of Respectful ASUC Student Group Conduct,” which notes that the ASUC has the authority to revoke sponsorship for a student group through the ASUC Judicial Council. The bill stresses the council’s responsibility to “review charges of violation” of the constitution and bylaws. In other words, the senate left the door open to punishment against the campus Republicans’ group while declining to take action at the meeting. While no senators stated their views as to whether the campus group would be formally punished, other ASUC officials suggested that it could. ASUC President Vishalli Loomba said in an email Saturday it was possible the campus group would get its funding revoked. Last year’s ASUC Attorney General, Nathan Rahmanou, who is

Watch a video of the ASUC Senate’s emergency meeting to pass the student conduct bill.

currently a law student at UCLA, said, “it’s very possible that (the campus Republicans’ group) could lose (its) ability to have ASUC sponsorship.” Punitive action against a student organization can be referred to the council in two ways, according to the ASUC bylaws. The first is for the senate to vote to file charges by a twothirds majority. The second is for a UC Berkeley student to file a charge sheet. The senate is declining to exercise its authority to recommend that charges be pursued, according to Student Action Senators Shahryar Abbasi, Connor Landgraf and Aviv Gilboa. However, individual students have threatened to file charges against the Berkeley College Republicans, according to Landgraf. After the council considers the charges, it can do one of four things: find that the group is not guilty of wrongdoing under the ASUC constitution and bylaws, issue a formal reprimand, issue a suspension or revoke ASUC sponsorship of the group. If the council considers charges against the group, it will find itself in

Controversy regarding legality surrounds state bill similar to affirmative action legislation By Jessica Rossoni | Staff jrossoni@dailycal.org With national uproar sparked by a bake sale set to descend Tuesday on Sproul Plaza, the root of the issue might go overlooked — SB 185, a piece of affirmative action-like legislation currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. The constitutionality of the bill — which would allow the UC and CSU to consider factors such as race, gender, geographical origin and household income in student admissions — has been questioned due to its similarity to affirmative action. Opponents of the bill — authored by state Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina — say it goes against Proposition 209. The proposition, approved by voters in 1996, effectively ended the use of affirmative action by forbidding preferential treatment for any student on the basis of race, gender, economic status or ethnicity.

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a quandary, as two relevant portions of the ASUC constitution and bylaws are inconsistent with each another. The bylaws state that sponsorship can be revoked if a group “discriminates in its method of recruitment and acceptance for membership.” Even if the Republicans’ group were guilty of discriminatory conduct, it would not be guilty of discriminating with regard to member selection. However, the ASUC constitution, in what may be a typo, states “the Senate shall not fund any activity or group which discriminates against any student ... in its method or recruitment and acceptance for membership.” Students who may file charges against the group could exploit this specific language and argue that the group’s “method” of expression is discriminatory. Currently, the Judicial Council is not equipped to pursue charges against the group, as several spots on the council are vacant and no attorney general has been confirmed, Abbasi said. Until a successor is appointed, Rahmanou is technically still the attorney general but is unlikely to be involved in any action because he is no longer a UC Berkeley student, he said. An attorney general and Judicial Council members have been nominated by Loomba but

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The ASUC Senate, multiple members of the Berkeley College Republicans and bake sale opponents convened to discuss the controversy at the senate meeting. will not be confirmed until later this week, according to Abbasi. There may also be state or federal constitutional issues associated with punitive action against the group. Multiple members of the campus Republicans’ group who commented during Sunday’s senate meeting said that formal punitive action against the group would violate its right to freedom of speech. According to UC Berkeley School

of Law professor Daniel Farber, if the group actually sold cupcakes at different prices to students of different races, then its conduct would not be protected under the First Amendment because “a general rule against racial discrimination in commercial transactions should be valid.” However, Farber cautioned that the ASUC cannot legally “cut off funding just because they don’t like the group’s viewpoint.”

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“If someone excluded from town hall meeting of student slapped you in this coalition seeking to promote multiculturalism face and you were By Travis Bickham | Staff gathering with tbickham@dailycal.org your family to grieve and cry, then it would be hugely inappropriate for the person who slapped you to show up and try to explain it.” — Ruben Canedo, Student coalition leader

Members of the Berkeley College Republicans were excluded from the town hall meeting of a coalition of UC Berkeley students seeking to promote multiculturalism and open dialogue on Friday night. The coalition was meeting to discuss a response to the highly controversial “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” being organized by the campus Republican organization. The bake sale plans to incorporate a sliding price scale, with students being charged based on their race and sex. Prices begin at $2 for whites and drop incrementally based on race or ethnicity down to 25 cents for Native Americans. The meeting originated in the Rochdale Village Apartments and was subsequently moved to the Multicultural Community

Center in the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, where over 200 people were in attendance. According to Berkeley College Republicans President Shawn Lewis, a member of the Republican group who gained access to the meeting later that night in the campus multicultural center, an announcement was made barring admittance to Republicans and members of the press. “We were told that we were not part of the community that needed healing and refused entrance to the meeting,” said Mia Lincoln, external vice president of the Berkeley College Republicans. Salih Muhammad, one of the leaders of the student coalition, said the Republicans were in fact asked to leave because the meeting was meant to be a venting opportunity for the community. “If someone slapped you in the face and

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Daily Californian

OPINION

Sex on Tuesday

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was having an awful night earlier this summer. It was the type of evening during which multiple plans fall out at the last minute, and the battery on your phone is on its last, measly bar. I was adamant about turning the night around, so I called an old high school friend who I had unexpectedly run into earlier that week. Half an hour later, I met him at City Lights Bookstore, where he was reading “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” — a surprisingly tiny book compared to the lengthy movie. Afterward, we ate pesto pizza on a rooftop, caught up on each other’s lives and gazed at the radiant luminescence of the enchanting San Francisco cityscape. The rest of the night consisted of watching “Mad Men” until five in the morning and attempting to fall asleep on the same bed together. I twisted and turned for what seemed like hours. His leg touched mine, my arms grazed his. An unprecedented shiver rushed down my spine. When I finally started to drift off in to sleep, he put his arms around mine, enveloped my body and rolled on top of me. We kissed passionately, as if we had been waiting to do so for years. I fervently took his shirt off, and he started undoing my pants. That’s when I woke up — immediately after and unfortunately before the climax. I looked to my left and was startled to find my friend fast asleep, so I bolted out of bed, grabbed my backpack and ran out of his room and down the stairs. he dynamics of our friendship have been nonsexual, and this subconscious manifestation left me perplexed. On the BART ride home, I started mulling over the concept of incorporating sex into platonic relationships and why this subject has such a notorious reputation. Yes, one person will be more affected than the other, and no, it will not work out forever. However, is this not the case for any relationships, regardless of its sexual content? There is always a power struggle. Friends move to different parts of the world. Relationships fade away. People progress onto the next chapter of their lives in opposite directions. If two people respect each other and are able to have stimulating conversations, as is the case in strong friendships, the natural possibility of being sexually involved should not be ruled out. The difficulty is that we are accustomed to the conventions of monogamy deeply ingrained in our society, so we become disoriented when an action disrupts these boundaries. I prefer having friends to having boyfriends because, in many committed relationships, neurosis occurs — two identities become one, jealousy rears its ugly head and people become codependent. On the other hand, the beauty of

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It is our sincere hope that the strong reactions generated by the proposed bake sale provide a vivid lesson that issues of race, ethnicity, and gender are far from resolved (and) a part of lived experience.” — from a statement released by UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Vice Chancellors Gibor Basri and Harry LeGrande

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

EDITORIALS

Half-baked sale CAMPUS ISSUES While within the rights of free speech, the planned bake sale is offensive and represents a need to converse on campus.

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C Berkeley, known as the bastion of free speech, has a student body that appears to suffer from the same ailment of many failed college relationships ­— a lack of communication. The controversy surrounding the Berkeley College Republicans’ bake sale planned for today stems not only from the event’s offensiveness but also from the lack of communication among student groups leading up to and following the announcement of the event. Rather than holding open and honest forums to discuss the implications of SB 185 — proposed state legislation that instigated the bake sale and would allow state universities to consider factors like race and gender in admissions — student groups are not engaging with one another in a productive manner. The bake sale itself is hurtful and thus limits the development of discussion. The Berkeley College Republicans wanted to express their frustration with the ASUC phone bank in support of SB 185 by scheduling an event at the same time. But what was meant to be a political message became an insensitive Facebook event that equated an individual’s race with a monetary value. The gimmick was intended to imitate affirmative action in a satirical manner, but the satire did not work. Not only is this pricing scale a flawed representation of how affirmative action functions — money has nothing to do with it — but reducing the value of an individual to the price of a baked good detracts from the greater conversation. We cannot tell the Republican group not to hold the bake sale, because we respect each student organization’s right to express itself. They are also well within their rights to go forward with the event. We do, however, wish that they had approached the demonstration in a different manner. he Berkeley College Republicans were not the only ones who failed to promote productive discourse in this whole debacle. By delivering an endorsement of SB 185 on behalf of UC Berkeley students through the planned phone banking session, the ASUC failed to reach out to and represent other voices on campus, namely the Berkeley College Republicans. While Salih Muhammad, chair of the campus Black Student Union, informed The Daily Californian’s Senior Editorial Board that he was invited to speak to the ASUC Senate on the subject of SB 185, Berkeley College Republicans President Shawn Lewis told the board that he was never contacted. We are shocked that student government officials are even considering punishing the Republican group by revoking its

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funding. Such an action would further serve to undermine and quash a unique and strong student voice on campus. Acknowledging the dangerous precedent such a move could set, we strongly urge ASUC officials to strike this possibility from their discussions. Additionally, instead of using the emergency ASUC Senate meeting held Sunday night as a forum to exchange ideas, student government officials limited public comment to less than a minute per speaker and rushed conversation in order to rubber-stamp a bill that simply asks student groups to be respectful. We applaud External Affairs Vice President Joey Freeman for being one of the few student government officials who demonstrated a willingness to reach out and communicate by contacting Lewis amid all the contention, despite Freeman’s vocal opposition to the bake sale. acklash against the Berkeley College Republicans has also hindered effective interaction. Student organizers of the bake sale received hateful messages and threats of violence — not exactly characteristic of a campus climate that promotes free speech or tolerance of new ideas. The town hall that took place Friday in response to the bake sale turned away members of the Republican group, according to Lewis. While we acknowledge that it is important for students to be able to air grievances privately within their community, an event marked as public should not oust attendees for their beliefs. The campus is now left with a frenzy of miscommunication and frustration. The only positive aspect of this controversy is that it finally brings to the surface issues of race, diversity and tolerance on our campus — topics that must be discussed in order to move forward as a community. But it should not have taken an event that has led to so much anger and anguish for our campus to finally start talking. All of the hurt will be for naught if the bake sale does not result in a proper forum for free discussion. It is not too late. Students can still correct what has so far been an egregious lack of dialogue into a productive conversation. We look to student groups and the student government to start engaging more openly with one another. We look to the administration to provide a space where the campus can come together to talk and learn from one another. Hopefully, too, we can learn to bring these important conversations to the table much sooner in the future. This is UC Berkeley. Let us demonstrate that as mature, intelligent adults, we can have respectful, civil discourse.

op-ed | Discussing Sustainable Food Choices

Kingman residents Fresh meat is a kill bunnies for food sustainable choice By Ian Elwood Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org

By Gabe Schwartzman Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org

On Aug. 27, a post went out to the Kingman Hall internal website stating grimly, “Bunnies: They are all dead.” On Aug. 30, another message went out, reading, “Okay, since we killed some rabbits we might as well...” together with a Web link to a video of a toad being slaughtered with a meat cleaver. Residents of Kingman Hall slaughtered domesticated rabbits as an experiment in what is now viewed by locavores as the ultimate expression of ecological sustainability — killing animals in your backyard. While most people think of bunnies as pets and chickens as food, the Kingman fall welcome letter encouraged new house members to introduce themselves to three animal residents — pet chickens Gabe, Bagel, and America. The birds were allowed to live in the co-op on a trial basis as an “exclusion” to the Berkeley Student Cooperative pets policy, which previously stated, “A BSC

This commotion over slaughtered rabbits on the grounds of my home, Kingman Hall, reveals the stark reality of our food system but brings about a hopeful set of alternatives. I too often find myself distanced from the realities of my food. The frozen chicken breasts sitting in Safeway bring us as close to the animal from whence they came as Corn Flakes do to a corn field. Here in Berkeley, many people learn and understand that the meat industry is unhealthy, cruel and ecologically unsustainable. The industrialized food system commodifies our food, cutting costs at the expense of the consumer, the workers, the animals and our ecosystems. The solution is to create small-scale and local food systems — a diet that respects labor, keeps ecosystems sustainable and builds closer communities. When I slaughtered locally raised rabbits at Kingman Hall, with an open invitation to friends and housemates, it was a locavore consumer choice. A friend of mine

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Op-Ed | Assessing Racial Climate on Campus

College Republicans highlight Diversity, racism, higher education discriminatory policy in SB 185 and the real cost of baked goods By Shawn Lewis Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org Setting prices for baked goods based on race is blatantly discriminatory — in the same way that using race to judge college applicants would be discriminatory. The Berkeley College Republicans oppose any policy that treats one racial group different from another. Some people would call treating one ethnic group different from another racist, and we agree with that position. Any system or policy that judges you a certain way because of the color of your skin is discriminatory, and BCR is not okay with that. California Senate Bill 185, which was passed by the state Legislature and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval or veto, does exactly this. It would “authorize the University of California and the California State University to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions.” The bill provides no language in explaining how these factors would be considered, much less what “other relevant factors” would be considered. The vagueness of the bill opens a wide door for abuse and very little accountability. Further, SB 185 does nothing to connect any of this information to the actual socioeconomic status of a college applicant. As the bill is written, public universities would be authorized to use race alone as a factor in the admissions process, but certainly the color of one’s skin is not the only factor contributing to one’s opportunity or access to higher education. Socioeconomic status is a fundamental component of the debate of equity and inclusion on our college campuses, but this bill fails to include it. Race should not be used as a proxy for socioeconomic status. But why hold such a controversial bake sale? In fact, such bake sales have been done before, so what’s the point? Our “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” is in direct response to

the ASUC’s sponsoring of a phone bank that will make calls urging Gov. Brown to sign the bill into law. When the ASUC decided to not only take a position on policy but also sponsor a phone bank without ever reaching out to members of the Cal community who may have another view, BCR had to let another voice be heard. The phone bank intends to send the message to Gov. Brown that all UC Berkeley students support SB 185, but that is not true. Our bake sale is intended to be at the same time and location as the ASUC-sponsored phone bank in order to demonstrate a physical counterpoint to the supporters of the bill. The decision to hold the bake sale was certainly to stir emotions in students and hopefully make them think more critically about a policy that judges students based on their race. It is also important to note that the event was unanimously supported by the BCR board, which includes Hispanic, Chinese and Taiwanese representation, with over half of the board being female. The notion that this event was planned by a bunch of insensitive white guys is harshly inaccurate and draws on false, negative stereotypes about Republicans. Some members of the community have been outraged by our event, as they should be! Treating people differently because of the color of their skin is unquestionably wrong, and that’s how we hope people react to the satirical bake sale, along with SB 185. The point is that considering race in university admissions does exactly that — it treats people differently because of their race. The strongest reactions have been targeted at the satirical pricing structure specifically, arguing that, for example, a black student is worth more than 75 cents for a cupcake, and we couldn’t agree more. We see the implementation of any race-based admissions policy to have a negative impact on any underrepresented ethnic group because of the stigma it would create toward members of those groups. I know that every single Hispanic, Asian, African American or any

other student here at Cal has rightfully earned his or her place for having an incredible mind and strong work ethic. Race-based admissions should have no place in taking that credit away from underrepresented communities on our campuses. So far, the Facebook event page has a little over 860 attending in support of the bake sale, and the event will go on as planned. The reaction on Facebook has been mixed, with a lot of opposition but with some strong support as well. Both implicit and expressed threats have been made against the creators and supporters of the event. “Don’t make me show up to your porch with a spiked bat” was posted on the Facebook event, for example. However, BCR does not believe threats or intimidation should stop free speech. Shawn Lewis is a junior at UC Berkeley and the president of the Berkeley College Republicans.

By David Oppenheimer Special to the Daily Cal opinion@dailycal.org If we want to make a point by holding bake sales with differential pricing based on race, let’s get the prices right. It is empirically well established that black and Hispanic Americans pay more for goods and services, while getting less, than white Americans. As I described in a recent law review article on Proposition 209, if we take a statistically typical black high school senior from the Bay Area, here’s what the differential pricing really looks like: “It is likely that his or her (hereafter his) African American parents earn substantially less than similarly educated whites. They are less likely to be hired or pro-

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moted than similarly qualified whites and earn less even if they do hold similar jobs. Even correcting for income, they have far less wealth than whites of similar income, in significant part because ... (of discriminatory government policies). If these African American parents were able to buy a home, it was probably in a minority neighborhood, where home values rise less quickly than in white neighborhoods ... They were more likely to need a car to get to and from that home, because subsidized public transportation is disproportionately provided to white neighborhoods ... (but) car ownership remains out of reach for more African Americans than whites in part because car dealers charge whites less than blacks for identical cars, and dealers charge a higher interest rate to blacks than they do to whites with the same credit ratings. “(In minority neighborhoods,) there is less attention paid to ... public infrastructure investments, including garbage collection, street sweeping, road and sign repair, street lights, fire fighting, water and sewer systems, libraries, parks and other services that support neighborhood development. Why? Partly because the Republican Party has written off the black vote and often works to suppress it. But it is also because there are fewer black voters per capita because so many black men (currently one in four) have been disenfranchised by our criminal justice system, in which African Americans — as compared to similarly situated whites — are more likely to be (affected, compared with whites who have) engaged in the same conduct. “What has his experience been at school? He has probably been disciplined more than white students who engaged in the same conduct. His school probably has far fewer resourc-

es than schools serving white neighborhoods, including textbooks, classroom space ... computers, library resources, academic counseling, pre-college counseling, college preparatory classes, advanced placement classes ... and athletic facilities. He will probably get little or no meaningful pre-college counseling and thus will not know which classes he needs to take to qualify for UC or CSU, nor how he should be preparing for the SAT. His teachers are far less likely to have teaching experience or even permanent teaching credentials ... (and) are likely to expect less of him academically than they do of otherwise similarly situated white students. “If he has looked for a summer or part-time job ... employers are less likely to offer him a job than similarly or even less qualified white applicants. In one recent study, employers actually preferred white excons over equally qualified black applicants with no criminal record. If he was offered a job, the pay was probably lower and the job responsibilities less desirable than that offered to white students of the same age, experience and qualifications. “If all of this has not left our high school senior feeling like an outsider in his own country, he merely needs to go shopping in any local mall or downtown business district. It is likely that as he enters most stores he will be regarded as a likely potential shoplifter, followed or watched by store personnel. If he stands near a white person on an elevator or at a check-out counter, he is likely to notice that white person clutching his wallet or her purse, probably unconsciously.” When that student, despite the disadvantages he faces because of racism, nonetheless makes it to Cal, he has already paid far more than the statistically typical white student sitting next to him in class. So let’s adjust those prices to reflect the truth about racial disadvantage. David Oppenheimer is the director of professional skills and a clinical professor of law at Berkeley Law.

Rabbits: BSC should update rules and residents involved in rabbit slaughter should apologize From Page 4 Unit (in this case, Kingman Hall) may maintain chickens exclusively for egg production...” All reference to the Kingman chickens has since been removed from BSC policy. The backyard chickens at Kingman Hall live in a ramshackle outdoor pen built with cinder blocks and a few metal stakes driven into the ground and wrapped with flimsy chicken wire not buried deep enough to prevent raccoons (or other mesopredators) from squeezing under it. The Kingman chickens are lacking in humane care, compared with guidelines established by Chicken Run Rescue, a leading authority on backyard chickens. What about wildlife? A resident “whacked” a squirrel with a rock after he saw it “bothering

the chickens,” according to another post on the Kingman website. Squirrels are herbivores and not a threat to chickens. In the case of bunnies, keeping live rabbits at a co-op is against BSA rules. And you can’t slaughter pet chickens at any co-op. Given the rules and regulations, why would Kingman residents think it was okay to kill bunnies? A member of the student group Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy raised the issue of the Kingman rabbit slaughter at the first meeting of the semester. Anne Martin, BOAA member and Ph.D. candidate in city and regional planning, said, “I was shocked to find out that a student … slaughtered rabbits at Kingman and that no one spoke up to

defend the animals and prevent this from happening. At BOAA, we encourage our fellow students to discover the joys of a plant-based, vegan diet as a way to reduce environmental impacts, cut carbon emissions, improve health and reduce animal suffering. There is simply no need for us to kill animals in our homes to further these goals.” Kingman residents do not have the capacity to treat animals humanely. To prevent Berkeley Student Co-Op residents from causing further harm to animals, BSC policies should be updated to explicitly prohibit slaughtering or otherwise harming animals and should prohibit keeping any animal that could be misconstrued as “livestock.”

In addition, Kingman Hall should issue a collective public apology for the conduct of its residents. Students, teachers and members of the community — join me in telling the BSC that slaughtering animals is not acceptable in the co-op system, at UC Berkeley or in the city. I urge you to email Ruby Lee (concomchair@ bsc.coop), the Student Conduct Committee Chair at BSC, responsible for student conduct in all the member co-operatives; and Jan Stokley ( jan@bsc.coop), the Executive Director of BSC, responsible for maintaining relationships with staff, UC Berkeley, neighbors and the board. Ian Elwood is a founding member of Neighbors Opposed to Backyard Slaughter.

KINGMaN: Resident outlines rabbit slaughter and food policies governing meals served at co-op From Page 4 raised the rabbits for food on kitchen scraps in a backyard six blocks from my house, proving that local eating can be both feasible and affordable. In addition to decoupling ourselves from industrialized meat, butchering the rabbits brought home the realities of animal protein. Sourcing meat in this manner affords consumers like me the transparency necessary to make ethically conscious decisions on the humane and ecological implications of meat consumption — a level of transparency impossible with commercial meat sources, even organic ones. Meat is a critical part of small-scale local food

production in the Bay Area’s semi-arid ecology. Michael Pollan has noted that in climates with less rainfall, animal protein is key to a local diet. While intensive plant-protein agriculture often requires lots of water and good soil, animals like cattle and rabbits will thrive on plants and scraps that humans will not eat. In “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Pollan kills and butchers a hog to demonstrate sustainable meat production. I had the space to have such an educational and political experience at Kingman Hall because the community is committed to being conscious consumers and intentional actors in

our ecosystem. Although as a restaurant-grade kitchen we cannot buy or serve this type of unregulated meat, we do, as a house, have food policies that make all our meat, most of our dairy and all our produce local and organic — almost all from within 150 miles. Because we buy our food collectively, we are able to source from organic and local farms while keeping within a five-dollar-per-person-per-day budget. Furthermore, these rabbits stand in line with a cooperative culture that values and actively protects our branch of Strawberry Creek, raises chickens to turn our food scraps into eggs, com-

posts on-site and grows our own herbs and oyster mushrooms. I would challenge you all to make our community even more of a leader in the sustainable living and local food movement. Part of the solution lies, I would argue, in the opportunity of alternative meat-sourcing made feasible by small-scale, local animal husbandry uniquely enabled by the growing East Bay DIY urban agriculture movement. Gabe Schwartzman is a junior at UC Berkeley and a resident and kitchen manager of the Kingman Hall co-op.

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preview: Student Republican groups have held similar bake sales in the past From Page 2 Due to the amount of press coverage that the event has garnered, Andrew Glidden of the California Patriot, a conservative political magazine published at UC Berkeley, said there is a possibility that other universities’ political student groups will show up tomorrow to voice their opinions as well. “We’re going to see college Republicans from San Jose, Sacramento, (UC) Davis, University of the Pacific,” said Shawn Lewis, the president of group. “We’ve heard that they’re going to be sending some people out. There’s a lot of excitement building.” Anais LaVoie, president of the Cal Berkeley Democrats, called the event “too much of a publicity stunt.” She said she encourages UC Berkeley students to attend the phone bank event on Sproul. Members of the campus Republican group said they have received threats from opponents of the sale. “I’ve been personally targeted many times,” said Mia Lincoln, the group’s external vice president. “(The sale) was just meant to get the discussion started: Is it fair to base college admissions off of race? Is it fair to base cupcakes off of race?” A similar anti-affirmative action bake sale, also staged by the Berkeley College Republicans, occurred

at UC Berkeley in 2003. Bake sales have also occurred at UC Irvine and UCLA, among other colleges. UC Student Regent Alfredo Mireles Jr., who was present at the 2003 sale, said he disapproved of tomorrow’s event. “I remember being kind of baffled by such a clumsy, insensitive way to deal with an issue that is very sensitive,” he said. “It is not only an offensive way to address a sensitive issue, but it is also something college Republicans have been doing for years. The affirmative action bake sale is not only offensive, but it is really unoriginal.” Lincoln said the current group knew about these previous events. “We were thinking it would be timely with the ASUC-sponsored phone bank — this is a really timely issue,” she said. “We thought the ASUC was sponsoring something that the (student body) might not have a complete opinion on.” UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode said the police are aware of the bake sale. Following traditional procedures, the department will monitor Sproul Plaza in ways similar to how they monitor any event, said DeCoulode. In addition to a Sproul Plaza officer, other police officers will be on the scene to ensure crowd safety.

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meeting: Coalition leaders say purpose of exclusion was attendees’ comfort From Page 2 you were gathering with your family to grieve and cry, then it would be hugely inappropriate for the person who slapped you to show up and try to explain it,” said Ruben Canedo, another leader of the student coalition. Muhammad added that the Berkeley College Republicans had not shown disrespect at the meeting — rather, the reason for their exclusion was the bake sale itself. The bylaws of the multicultural center state that “events must be open to the entire campus community.” Muhammad said it was important for attendees to feel comfortable at the meeting, which they could not if the Berkeley College Republicans

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Nurses to return to Union may cancel labor contract work amidst patient death investigation By Jamie Applegate | Staff japplegate@dailycal.org

Tension arises between a nurses union and a hospital association after a patient’s death. By Annie Sciacca | Staff asciacca@dailycal.org Following a statewide strike last week, local nurses will return to work Tuesday, amidst the investigation of the death of a patient at an Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campus in Oakland over the weekend. In anticipation of the Thursday union strike, the hospital hired replacement nurses for five days, during which a patient was given a lethal dosage of medication by a replacement nurse at the Alta Bates hospital on Hawthorne Avenue, according to the Bay City News. Members from the union California Nurses Association blamed the death on the decision by Sutter Health — of which Alta Bates is an affiliate — to lock them out of hospital facilities after the one-day strike. “On Friday morning, a nurse with 24 years of experience, who works on that unit, reported to work and was told that she was locked out because she participated in the strike,� said Efren Garza, a registered nurse at Alta Bates and a member of the state union. “She had provided care to this patient, and had she been able to return to work, then this would have been prevented.� Garza added that the hospital’s “failure to maintain safe patient care� directly caused the patient’s death. Alta Bates spokesperson Carolyn Kemp said the hospital was required

to uphold a contract with replacement nurses. “In order to find the caliber of nurse in the quantity we needed, we worked with an agency that would give us a five-day contract (for replacement nurses),� she said. Kemp described Saturday’s incident as a “very tragic accident,� adding that the hospital began its own internal investigations immediately. “Every caregiver in our medical center is highly qualified,� a Monday Alta Bates statement reads. “Contract nurses are part of every hospital every day. These nurses are registered, highly trained and qualified, and they undergo extensive screening and orientation before they come to work here or at any hospital.� Ralph Montano, a spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health, confirmed that the department had launched an investigation at Alta Bates regarding a patient death, but he could not provide details. The California Hospital Association, which represents health care systems, criticized the nurses union for the strike and its response to the death. “It is inappropriate and irresponsible for the California Nurses Association labor union to exploit this tragedy to further their union agenda,� said C. Duane Dauner, president of the association, in a statement. “It also is unfortunate that the nurses union is questioning the qualifications of other nurses providing patient care.� In a 2010 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers found that nurses’ strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4 percent for patients admitted during a strike. The results were based on a dataset collected on nurses’ strikes in New York between 1984 and 2004.

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Continuing negotiations between Southwest Berkeley’s Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals and union workers heated up last Wednesday, as the union voted to authorize its negotiating committee to potentially cancel its labor agreement with the company. According to a statement released by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 — which represents 414 workers at Bayer — members voted to authorize the committee to cancel the union’s agreement “if the company refuses to protect jobs from being outsourced.� Union spokesperson Craig Merrilees said that while the union does intend to go forward with negotiations, the decision to authorize the committee to have the power to cancel the contract is an important one. “The contract provides a degree of certainty and predictability that is usually important to employers, and when the contract ends, those assur-

ances disappear with the expired contract,� Merrilees said. “The recent vote by workers at the Bayer facility authorized the worker negotiation committee to provide Bayer with that notice if necessary because the company is refusing to take issues raised by workers seriously.� The dispute has come in the wake of negotiations between the union and the company over a contract which expired Aug. 24. The contract had been agreed upon in 2008, and negotiations have focused on deciding upon a new contract for the next four years. Negotiations have run into obstacles as union workers rejected the contract on Aug. 31, citing a proposed increase of workers’ health care contributions from 18 percent to 20 percent over the next four years and concerns over recent employee layoffs as reasons. “The main goal at this point is to try and work things out with Bayer and see if a reasonable compromise can’t be reached that provides for more job security, safer staffing and affordable health care,� Merrilees said. Sreejit Mohan, Bayer’s director of public policy and communications,

said the union’s demands that the contract include language assuring job security is “unprecedented.� “It would severely handcuff Bayer’s ability to maintain and grow this site in the years to come,� Mohan said. “Our contract with the Union has never had the sort of language they are proposing. In fact, no successful company — certainly not a global company operating in the U.S. — would agree to such language.� Mohan added that the company has worked to treat employees with fairness in the face of the current economic recession and that any assurances of job security must come from the stability of the company as a whole. “By any standard, what we have offered our employees is a fair and generous offer,� Mohan said. “Job security for all of us comes from being the most competitive biotech manufacturing plant in the global market. New work and new products will come our way only if we are seen as an efficient and productive site.� According to Mohan, negotiations between Bayer and the union will continue later this week.

journalism: For past and present editors, economic strife has led to new ways of generating revenue, cutting costs From Front perienced even more drastic cuts — the East Bay Daily News closed earlier that March, and the Berkeley Daily Planet reduced its publication to one day per week in April 2008. “The Daily Cal is certainly unique in Berkeley, functioning as an entirely student-produced publication which is financially and editorially independent,� Thomas wrote in his announcement. “But it is not immune to the tides of change.� On Sept. 17, 1993, Editor in Chief Nick Perlmuter announced that publication would move to a thrice-weekly schedule. The paper did not resume five days of publication until 1995. “As a business, we must make hard decisions,� Perlmuter wrote. “To be blunt, if the economy suffers, we suffer.� The Daily Californian senior editorial board’s writings have continued to elicit debate, with some backlash leading to newspaper theft.

On Nov. 5, 1996, nearly 23,000 papers were stolen after the board endorsed Proposition 209. The contentious proposition prohibits California public institutions from considering race, sex or ethnicity in the admissions process. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates stole roughly 1,000 copies of the Nov. 4, 2002 edition endorsing his opponent, thenmayor Shirley Dean. According to Interim Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Tom Goldstein, the paper’s independence lends it strength in a “precarious market.� “Being independent is so important and part of the DNA of the newspaper,� he said. “The independence of the paper gives it its credibility.� Alisha Azevedo is the lead academics and administration reporter.

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Campus scientists find muscle reversion process By Franklin Krbechek | Staff fkrbechek@dailycal.org

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UC Berkeley researchers recently discovered a process that allows them to revert mature muscle tissue back to an earlier development stage, potentially leading to new ways for treating muscle degeneration diseases. The results, published in the Sept. 23 edition of the journal Chemistry & Biology, describe a process in which muscle cells that have fused into bundles — called myofibers — are restored back to an earlier cell stage, known as myoblasts. From this stage, the cells are able to multiply and fuse back again into myofibers, repairing damaged muscle, which has implications as a possible cure for those who suffer from muscular dystrophy. It was questioned for almost a decade if reverting myofibers back to myoblasts was even possible, according to Preeti Paliwal, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and lead author of the study. Paliwal spent almost three years on the issue herself, from April 2008 to August 2011, before her most recent experiment, which demonstrated in only 10 days that this process was possible. The research, which took place largely in Stanley Hall, consisted of

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complex experiments to revert myofibers back to progenitor muscle cells to see if they would fuse again back into myofibers, which was accomplished using only chemistry and did not require the manipulation of the genes of the cells, according to Paliwal. The experiment began by looking at muscle fibers that could no longer repair themselves. Normally, damaged myofibers are either healed or replaced by muscle progenitor cells that fuse together after going through cell duplication to replace the myofibers. However, these progenitor cells begin to get exhausted over time with aging or as a result of muscular dystrophy and other degenerative muscular diseases, stopping the regeneration of the muscles, Paliwal said. She studied these progenitor stem cells that repair muscle tissues, believing that they would be able to continue the process of healing damaged myofibers. After separating muscle tissue into separate strands of myofibers, inhibitors were then applied to coax them to return to an earlier development stage. As the inhibitors took effect, the newly formed progenitor cells began dividing

and multiplying again, without incurring large amounts of cell death. The cells were then coated with a protein that emits a green fluorescent light and cultured in a colony in a Stanley laboratory to see if they would fuse back into myofibers. The protein coating allowed the researchers to test their results easily, as newly formed myofibers glowed green. To further the testing of these cultured myofibers, they were injected into mice with damaged muscles. The myofibers were coated with a protein that emits a green fluorescent light and, when seeing that new muscle tissues in the mice glowed green, it confirmed the testing, said Paliwal. In the future, researchers plan to look into repairing larger sections of damaged muscle in mice before eventually applying the research to human muscle. There are hopes that this research will lead to a cure for muscular dystrophy and potentially other muscular diseases once the process for muscle regeneration using this technique has been normalized. “It is a major step towards understanding muscle regeneration,� said Paliwal, who hopes to eventually establish a similar process for muscle regeneration for humans. “It is a good step, but still there is a long way to go.�

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history: Newspaper elected new editor in chief, Senior Editorial Board after firings From Front staff published an editorial in which they refused to accept the firings and moved forth to elect a new editor in chief, Toni Martin, and appoint a new Senior Editorial Board. After the publisher’s board suspended all future publications, independence was “the only way to keep the paper running,� said Craig Oren, the first editorial page editor of the independent Daily Cal. “The campus was under pressure from the Board of Regents to wane the influence of student publications, so both sides needed a compromise.� In an agreement with the campus, the Daily Cal’s new editorial board agreed to move the paper off-campus and become editorially and financially independent.

Martin said that moving off campus gave a different perspective to the paper’s reporting of UC Berkeley. “When we were in Eshleman, the student president would be constantly be howling at us for what we wrote and what we didn’t,� Martin said. “That didn’t happen after we moved off.� Yet Martin said that the biggest change to editorial content came not in the words that were published but in the way the paper approached reporting. “Now we took responsibility for what we saw and what we wrote,� Martin said. “It made us more careful about the truth.� Amruta Trivedi covers academics and administration.

bill: Whether legislation would give some ‘preferential treatment’ a point of dispute From Page 2 The bill must be signed or vetoed by Oct. 9, according to Brown spokesperson Evan Westrup. Much of the controversy now surrounding SB 185 relates to whether being able to “consider� race and other factors in a student’s admission would be the same as giving a student “preferential treatment.� Pedro Salcido, senior district representative for Hernandez, said the bill would not be unconstitutional because “affirmative action in its pure definition calls for some type of preferential treatment and additional weight given.� “This bill doesn’t call for that at all,� he added. “It just permits the university to include (those factors) in the admissions process. If you’re going to implement a holistic admissions process for the university, it should be a factor.� According to UC spokesperson Ricardo Vazquez, under current law, students applying to the UC system report details regarding their race, household income and national origin. However, this information is used for statistical purposes only and is blocked from view to those who review university applications for admission. Ward Connerly — former UC Regent, president of the American Civil Rights Coalition and considered by many to be a driving force behind Proposition 209 — has

stated several times that he strongly opposes the bill due to questions of legality. “If you don’t care about the constitution, then you go ahead and pass this,� he said. “But if you do care about the constitution, then it shouldn’t be at the governor’s desk. Sen. Hernandez is thumbing his nose at the will of the people.� Connerly also said that if Brown does sign the bill, he thinks its passage would result in a multitude of lawsuits brought against the state regarding SB 185’s legality, which California cannot afford. However, according to Salcido, Hernandez’s office has had the bill reviewed by attorneys and the judiciary committee, all of whom believe SB 185 conforms with state and federal law. Last year as a state assemblyman, Hernandez introduced AB 2047, a similar bill which was vetoed on Sept. 30, 2010, by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over questions of its legality. UC spokesperson Steve Montiel said the UC Office of the President will not produce a formal opinion on the bill. “Despite the significant concerns of legality in its implementation, we support its underlying goal and would welcome additional tools to achieve a more diverse student body — but we are neutral,� he said.

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How far can Stanford go without star Shayne Skov? On Sept. 17, Stanford suffered its first loss. No, the No. 6 Cardinal beat Arizona pretty soundly, scoring 21 unanswered points in the second half to win 37-10. But the squad’s defensive leader, junior linebacker Shayne Skov, injured his knee in the second quarter and is out for the season, hindering Stanford’s conference — and national — title hopes. Skov currently leads the Cardinal in tackles with 19. In 2010, he led the squad with 84 tackles and seven and a half sacks. Stanford (3-0, 1-0 in the Pac-12) still has Andrew Luck, arguably the best player in college

football. But since he only plays quarterback, there is only so far he can take the team. The defense had already taken hits due to graduation, but the loss of Skov cannot be downplayed. He appeared to be the defense’s heart and soul. His mohawk and eye black symbolizes the unit’s strength and intensity. As the middle linebacker, he was also involved in relaying play calls and overseeing audibles. Redshirt sophomore Jarek Lancaster and redshirt freshman A.J. Tarpley will platoon as Skov’s replacement, Stanford head coach David Shaw said. Both linebackers have combined for 25 tackles thus far this season, but have had little playing time before 2011. Tarpley, in fact, had not played at all until this season. The team had a bye week last weekend and faces mediocre competition in its next three games. The Cardinal’s first true test post-Skov won’t come until Oct. 22 against Washington, so the team has a month to practice and prepare. With Luck running a fruitful and efficient offensive attack, Stanford only needs the defense to play well, not amazingly. A national title seems like a much bigger long shot now, but the Cardinal still seem like the best bet for a Rose Bowl ticket. — Jonathan Kuperberg

After win over USC, is ASU now the Pac-12 South favorite? When Arizona State narrowly escaped blowing its home opener against then- No. 21 Missouri, it looked like a talented but undeniably raw team. When the Sun Devils fell, 17-14, to Illinois on the road, to drop them out of the top-25 spot that they earned earlier that week, it appeared that coach Dennis Erickson’s squad may not be ready to ascend in the conference. But then came ASU’s 43-22 victory over USC at home in Tempe on Saturday night. This victory had all the elements of a solid victory against a strong opponent.

The Trojans are a shell of their former, Pete Carroll-coached selves, but the Sun Devils took 21-9 lead into halftime, lost it midway through the third quarter, and then proceeded to suffocate the Trojans on both sides of the ball for the remainder of the second half. Arizona State trailed 22-21 for just under three minutes and then rattled off 22 unanswered points, including a pick-six of heralded USC quarterback Matt Barkley, to finish an exciting but thoroughly convincing performance against a team that it had not defeated in 11 seasons. Despite suffering several debilitating injuries on both sides of the ball, the Sun Devils (3-1, 1-0) look like they are for real. Athletic specimen Brock Osweiler looks like a stud under center, running back Cameron Marshall has been effective both out of the backfield and out wide and superstar linebacker Vontaze Burfict looks (initially) like he is starting to control his self-inflicted personal foul problem. Wide receiver Aaron Pflugrad has also emerged as one of the increasingly dependable targets in the conference. For the first time since 2007, the Sun Devils are hot again. Right now, they should be considered the best team in the Pac-12 south. — Gabriel Baumgaertner

Press Room Banter

A letter to Katie Benz

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ear Katie, I was saving up this column to write about how the Giants rekindled my childhood love for the Dodgers. Fate, obviously, didn’t want to hear another sports fan chronicling how he came to love some team. First, I want to say I am sorry about your season-ending injury; fate put an end to your Cal career in the most messed up way possible. Hopefully you are reading this somewhere, whether it be from a hospital over in San Francisco or your home in Berkeley. Perhaps right now, your mind has been replaying the injury nonstop, thinking of the whatifs and what-nows. I cannot fathom the emotional and physical pains you must currently be feeling. But perhaps like you, I have some resonating memories about you

that have been replaying in my head ever since breaking the news about your injury. You were the first women’s soccer player I interviewed. I had no clue as to who any of the players were that day, so I decided to let the media relations person choose who I should interview. She picked you out from the pack of huddled soccer players and I can remember you ran towards us, your usual wide smile now stretching ear to ear, saying: “Oh wow, I’ve never been interviewed by the newspaper before!” It is no surprise that other beat writers never interviewed you before. In your first three years, you were recuperating from injuries and playing limited time behind Alex Morgan. You only scored three goals during that time span.

Nobody would have imagined that this unknown, injury-prone striker would ever score 10 goals in the first 10 games of her last season at Cal. Another resonating memory is when you scored your third goal against Denver to complete your hattrick. I was at the top row of Edwards Stadium that day, but I could still see a sense of euphoria on your face after you scored that goal. To me, that goal has been my favorite moment covering the team thus far. After the match, I jotted down the title “The Girl That Can’t Be Stopped” in my notebook, hoping to build a future article around that line. But unfortunately, you were stopped by — of all things — injury. Thanks to your 10 goals, the Bears have gotten to their first eight-game winning streak for the first time since

2000. Cal began the season far and away from the national rankings; now the team is ranked No. 17. Needless to say, the team is going to miss you on the field. I wish I can say that you’ll have a chance to come back, but that seems near impossible. The injury came so far into the season. You have a broken leg that required immediate surgery. For you to come back in this storybook season is just too scripted to believe. But this doesn’t mean that you should give up. Who says you won’t come back and play at some point, someday? Perhaps this might be the road to an incredible climax to your storybook season, about the girl that can’t be stopped. Funnier things have happened.

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The Daily Californian SPORTS

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Press Room Banter

Change we can (maybe) believe in

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was pretty frustrated after watching the Cal football team lose to Washington on Saturday. Initially, it just seemed like the same old story for the Bears: they put themselves in a position to win a key game, and ultimately came up empty. The loss brought back plenty of unkind memories from years past — USC in 2004, Arizona in 2006, Oregon State in 2007, the entire 3D<<H Ma^ =Zber <Zeb_hkgbZg 2010 season, etc. In talking to some of the players who didn’t travel with the team to Seattle, one claimed that Cal could be so good if it cut out the penalties and dumb mistakes. After the game, another player lamented over the fact that the Bears just can’t beat decent teams on the road. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard those phrases over the last decade, rising tuition costs would be the least of my worries. cbyrne@dailycal.org But, upon further reflection,

something felt different this time around. The end result was the same, but the way it happened was unique. First off, anyone who’s followed Cal football for a reasonable amount of time is probably pretty astute in his or her ability to perceive the warning signs of an impending loss. Watching the Bears can be like watching a train derail in slow motion. As the wheels start to come off, all you can do is sit in agony, painfully aware of the impending doom. Midway through the third quarter on Sept. 10, I was convinced that Cal was going to lose to Colorado. These same warning signs started to surface (blown coverages, stupid penalties, you name it) and yet the team held it together long enough to get the win — something seldom seen from this program.

cially late in games. For this reason, I was surprised, if not delighted, to see him go for four fourth down conversions. Tedford explicitly showed trust in his offense, specifically in quarterback Zach Maynard, and it delivered — almost. When Maynard sailed the final pass of the game out of bounds, he placed the blame solely on himself, Mankl]Zr% FZr ,% +))0 something only a true leader would do, as opposed to complaining about middle-aged women calling him nasty names (Joe Ayoob) or whining about the lack of support among the fans (Nate Longshore). This isn’t to say that the Bears have completely forgone their depressing ways of the past. This is just to say that there’s something distinctly different about these Bears. Cal is far from the team many so desperately want it to be, but it’s at least headed in the right direction.

These same issues began to manifest in the second half against Washington, epitomized by a thirdand-12 turned into a 70-yard touchdown. With Cal teams of old, there is no doubt that this would have been an absolute dagger. Though that play would prove to be the difference in the game, the Bears, for the second time in three weeks, appeared completely undaunted by a fourth quarter road deficit. Instead of letting the train just fall off the tracks, Cal managed to give itself a chance to tie the game up, driving 86 yards and converting a handful of third and fourth downs in the final minutes. At the end of the day, a loss is a loss. But there have been signs of life in 2011 rarely seen from these Bears. One of my few criticisms of Jeff Tedford’s coaching philosophy has been his ultra-conservatism, espe-

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It hasn’t always been the case. This just happens to be a golden era.” — Sean Nolan, assistant coach, on the strength of the Cal water polo team’s goalies

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 • dailycal.org/sports

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from my friend Justin Parsons and Jon Sibley have competed all over the world to start at goalie. By Annie Gerlach | Staff agerlach@dailycal.org

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f Justin Parsons and Jon Sibley were at different universities, they would each be the unequivocal starting goalie on their men’s water polo team. But the way it stands now, returning starter Parsons and redshirt freshman Sibley will both fight for that position all season long for the No. 3 Bears. “Fight” might be too acerbic a word. Jostle sounds more appropriate, because for these two, the competition is neither a race nor a hurdle blocking the path to achievement. If anything, it’s a key component to Cal’s success and a way for Parsons and Sibley to bolster themselves and their teammates. Parsons, known as JP within the squad, says that formidable anchors at both ends of the pool during a scrimmage help to strengthen the team for an actual match. “We give them the toughest time to

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