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POLICE

Proposal emphasizes peaceful engagements with protests

Recommendation
for interactions with
protesters passed by
review commission
By Trevor Greenan | Staff
tgreenan@dailycal.org
At its Wednesday meeting,
Berkeleys Police Review Commission passed a policy recommendation that would curtail
officer tactics for dealing with
protests as part of the PRCs review of police policy surrounding the December Black Lives
Matter demonstrations.
The commission passed an
amended version of a policy

recommendation
put
forward by commissioner George
Lippman, which emphasizes
peaceful engagement with protesters as a starting point, challenging Berkeley Police Departments recommendation to
seek greater opportunities for
de-escalation. Commissioners
also initiated several separate
policy reviews prompted by
complaints from the public.
Lippmans proposal was
meant to replace BPDs eighth
of 32 recommendations, which
stated that officers should recognize and seize opportunities
to switch from more confrontational crowd control tactics to
greater diplomacy in the form
of crowd management tactics.
Other
commissioners,
however, had an issue with

Lippmans strong language

and the significant limitation
of actions afforded to officers
during demonstrations. PRC
chair Alison Bernstein said
she wasnt comfortable with
phrases such as must not that
were used in the recommendations, stating that it would be
more appropriate to tell officers that they should not do
something.
Im struggling with the
idea that we can say to any city
employee, let alone the police,
People are throwing stuff at
you, but you cant do anything,
Bernstein said at the meeting.
The original proposal would
have removed officers from

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The Police Review Commission meets June 10. It recently passed a policy
recommendation that would curtail officer tactics for dealing with protests.

FACULTY: Numbers of underrepresented minority and female faculty continue to lag after years of campus
equal-opportunity employment efforts. A resolution by the Graduate Assembly aims to fix the lack of diversity.

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Confronting adversity in diversity

UC Berkeleys Zero
Club of departments
with limited faculty
diversity still concern
By Madeleine Pauker | Staff
mpauker@dailycal.org
In 1989, a group of graduate students exposed what they
called the Zero Club the 28
departments at UC Berkeley with
no underrepresented minority
faculty.

In 2015, 20 of those 28 departments are still in existence,

and despite efforts to increase diversity, 16 of the 20 still have no
black or Latino faculty.
Recently, both the Graduate
Assembly and the ASUC have
addressed this issue by passing resolutions targeting faculty
diversity. To tackle the issue directly, the assembly passed a bill
in April endorsing the election of
graduate students to be full voting members of the faculty search
committee.
There are many factors that
contribute to a lack of diversity

and delay the efcacy of new policies, such as implicit bias, few underrepresented minorities in the
application pool and slow turnover rates for tenured faculty.
Diversity is a right and a
public good, said Iman Sylvain,
external affairs vice president for
the Graduate Assembly. To have
one voting graduate student is a
big commitment in terms of democratizing that process.
Numbers of underrepresented minority and women faculty continue to lag after years of
campus equal-opportunity employment efforts. Proportions of

underrepresented minorities and

female faculty often fall behind
placement goals, and even those
placement goals are often unrepresentative of Californias demographics. Both black and Latino
faculty are frequently absent
from departments or academic
committees.
Diversifying departments
UC Berkeleys faculty diversity
falls well behind the relative diversity of Californias population,
and recent campus reports show

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COURTS

Man stopped in city charged with 6 felony offenses

Michael Green faces
charges of human
trafficking, assault
with deadly weapon
By Natchapol Praditpetchara
Staff
npraditpetchara@dailycal.org
The Alameda County District
Attorneys Ofce has charged
Michael Green with six felony
offenses, including human trafcking for commercial sex, after
Green was stopped by a Berkeley
police ofcer in June.

The district attorney also

charged Green with attempted
solicitation of a prostitute, assault
with a deadly weapon, resisting
an executive ofcer, possession for
sale of a controlled substance and
transportation of a controlled substance for sale. The charges were
rst reported by Berkeleyside.
According to court documents, Green was stopped in
Berkeley on June 26 by Berkeley
Police Department Ofcer Jason
Collier for a trafc violation. Collier found that Green possessed a
suspended or revoked drivers license and that a woman sitting in
the rear right passenger seat was
bleeding from her forehead. The
woman told Collier that Green

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had hit her with a hammer, which

was also seen in Greens car, and
had strangulated her earlier in
the day to force her into prostitution for his nancial benet, according to the documents.
Collier also found marijuana in
Greens pants pocket, in addition
to 29 alprazolam pills, two hydrocodone/acetaminophen pills and
one OxyContin pill all of which
are controlled substances.
Collier said Green threatened
to kill an ofcer while he was being booked, according to the documents. Green was transferred to
Santa Rita Jail the morning after
his arrest, where he remains in
custody with bail set at $315,000.
He has a court hearing set for

Tuesday at the Wiley W. Manuel

Courthouse in Oakland.
Ofcers searched Greens
home in Hercules, California,
and recovered an assault rie and
a handgun.
According to court documents, Green has a history of offenses. In 1996, he was convicted
of a felony crime involving controlled substances. In 2009, he
was sentenced to probation for
the same offense. In 2005, he
was sentenced to probation for
second-degree burglary.
Green already has one strike
under California law for a previous conviction and could receive
a second strike if he is convicted
of the current charges.

OBITUARY

Ernest Kuh,
former dean
of college of
engineering,
dies at age 86
By Rachel Lew | Staff
rlew@dailycal.org
Ernest Kuh, professor
emeritus and dean of the UC
Berkeley College of Engineering from 197380, died June
27. He was 86.
During the
time Kuh spent
on campus as a
professor and
administrator,
he made major
contributions
ERNEST
to the eld of
KUH
electronic circuit
theory.
After the invention of the computer chip in 1958 replaced the
traditional electronic circuit
with a smaller and faster version, Kuh became a pioneer in
adapting circuit theory for application to computers.
Born in Beijing, Kuh became a faculty member of UC
Berkeleys electrical engineering and computer sciences
department in 1956. He then
went on to serve as department
chair from 1968-72 and, a year
later, became the rst Asian
dean of the college of engineering.
As dean, Kuh spent several
years raising funds for a project he conceived to integrate
the old engineering library on
campus into a larger, more accessible complex: what is now
known as the Bechtel Engineering Center.
He really made the library
beautiful and much more
workable, said Edwin Lewis,
professor emeritus of the EECS
department. For many years,
it was a major source of teaching innovations.
Kuh formally established
a fund for the college of engineering and represented the
campus in its efforts to develop
industry and academic relationships with Chinese ofcials
in the 1970s, when China was
looking to restart ChineseAmerican relations.
Representing UC Berkeley as an institution meant so
much to him, said his son Theodore Kuh. The Berkeley campus and so many of its people
became an extended family of
incredibly close relationships
for him.
As a mentor, colleague and
father, Ernest Kuh shared advice with and cared deeply
about those close to him,
according to his son Anthony

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Councilmember Jesse Arreguin speaks at a City Council meeting June 9. On Tuesday, the council
will deliberate on proposed structural regulations on balconies and community benefits packages.

Council to discuss community

benefits, balcony regulations
By Austin Weinstein
Staff
aweinstein@dailycal.org
On Tuesday, Berkeley
City Council will deliberate on proposed structural
regulations to balconies,
a plan to determine community benefits packages
for all buildings more 75
feet tall and a plan to underground utility wires on
major Berkeley streets,
among other items on the
agenda.
In response to the balcony collapse at Library
Gardens on June 16 that
killed six and injured
seven, City Council will
discuss a plan to require
steel reinforcement of balconies. A report by city officials cited dry rot as the
cause of the collapse.
We expect a lot of attention on the balcony
issue, said Anthony Sanchez, chief of staff for
Councilmember Jesse Arreguin. In consultation
with structural engineers,
Arreguin will propose
amendments to the regulations that will refine the
plan brought to the council.
In addition to the proposed balcony reinforcement, the city manager has

proposed more stringent

standards on the materials and building practices
involved in the construction of weather-exposed
elements, such as balconies, in addition to a regular inspection schedule.
Arreguin will also propose an amendment to
these regulations that
would increase the frequency of inspections
based on the materials
and design of the balcony.
The regulations will go to
a vote at the meeting.
City Council will also
vote on a resolution that
will outline the required
significant
community
benefits to be provided by
Downtown Berkeley development projects more
than 75 feet tall. This
framework will allow for
these buildings to provide
either affordable housing
and hire local labor or pay
a per-square-foot fee determined by third-party
consultants.
Councilmember Kriss
Worthington said he plans
to propose a low-income
housing unit requirement
of at least 20 percent of
the built units.
On June 25, the citys
Zoning
Adjustments
Board approved the environmental impact report

for the contentious 2211

Harold Way project, and
City Council decided at a
special meeting that the
developers will pay a predetermined square-footage fee for the residential
portion of the building.
A plan for the undergrounding of utility lines,
which proposes to bury
utility wires on major
streets, will also be discussed. In the case of an
earthquake or other natural disaster, aerial lines
can ignite fires and delay
emergency vehicles.
The proposed plan
would distribute funding more evenly across all
major Berkeley streets, in
response to requests from
community members for a
citywide approach.
Undergrounding funding has been unfair almost all the money has
been going to only two districts, Worthington said.
The council is also
expected to confirm the
appointment of Dee Williams-Ridley for the position of interim city manager.
The City Council meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at
Old City Hall and will be
the last meeting before
the councils summer recess.

BUILDINGS

Students call for renaming of

buildings tied to Confederacy
By Sujin Shin | Staff
sujinshin@dailycal.org
Amid national debate
about efforts to remove
the Confederate flag, some
are questioning why UC
Berkeley has named campus buildings to honor
Confederate slave owners
and promoters of white
supremacy.
Two buildings that
have come under criticism
are Barrows Hall, named
after former UC Berkeley
president David Barrows,
and LeConte Hall, named
after brothers Joseph and
John LeConte, who played
key roles in manufacturing munitions for the
Confederate States Army.
John LeConte was the
first UC Berkeley president, and Joseph LeConte
was a geologist and natural historian.
The criticisms have
been brought to attention

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LeConte Hall was named after Joseph and John LeConte,

who helped manufacture munitions for the Confederate army.

after the June 17 shooting in Charleston, South

Carolina, which prompted
efforts to remove the Confederate flag from South
Carolinas capitol grounds
through a proposal that
was passed this week in
both chambers of the state
legislature and signed into
law Thursday.

In March, the campuss Black Student Union

sent Chancellor Nicholas
Dirks a list of demands to
implement institutional
change on campus, one
being to change the name
of Barrows Hall to Assata
Shakur Hall in honor of

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endorsed the Tenants United For Fairness slate in the 2012 Rent Board election. In
fact, Bates endorsed one of its candidates.

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Berkeley Public
Library removes
outdated books,
draws criticism
By Tianyi Dong | Staff
tdong@dailycal.org

Zion Barrios
zbarrios@dailycal.org

In a deaccession, or weeding process, the Berkeley

Public Librarys Central Library is recycling books that
are in poor condition, are out
of date or have a low circulation record.
Books that have not circulated in three years are pulled
for review, and librarians decide which books are to be
removed and either donated
or recycled. The weeding process came with a change in
the collection development
policy, and the director of the
library delegated the task to
a team of six librarians, who
will be responsible for the selection and maintenance of
the collections. The deaccession began in January.
Reference department librarian Tom Dufour and 14
other library staff members
expressed their concerns in
a letter to the citys Board of
Library Trustees during its
May 28 meeting, referencing
the replacement of 34 professional librarians the number that used to complete the
weeding with two full-time
librarians and four others
with partial input, who cannot duplicate the knowledge,
experience, and quality of all
the other librarians, according to the letter.

PROPOSAL:
Commissioners
agree to accept
revised version
FROM FRONT

their role as the primary

point of contact between
demonstrators and the
city and would instruct
officers to treat all protesters not known to be
committing illegal acts
as bystanders rather
than potential threats.
Lippman intended to create a new group led by
city officials that would
coordinate directly with
protesters and use police
as supporting force, arguing against claims that it
would increase city bureaucracy.
The vision Im trying
to present is a different
vision, Lippman said at
the meeting. Wouldnt
that be better than what
happened in December?
The creation of a new
group to coordinate with
protesters, the labeling of
all noncriminal protesters
as bystanders and the further restriction of tactics
such as kettling and gassing were removed from
the proposal. The commission then passed the
amended version unanimously.
Commissioners
also
chose to look into issues
presented by Carol Denney, who said officers
were not properly trained
on new electronic-cigarette laws, and by Tesfaye
Tsadik, who alleged that
officers were misidentifying people who identify as
black such as himself
as other in order to
manipulate police detention statistics.
The PRC will meet
again Wednesday to go
over key factual ndings of
the December protests.

ALVIN WU/SENIOR STAFF

The Berkeley Public Librarys Central Library is currently undergoing a deaccession process, in
which books that are in poor condition, are out of date or have a low circulation record are removed.

(The new policy) takes

jobs that so many people did
and gives them to so few people, Dufour said. (Weeding)
is a huge amount of work.
According to Jeff Scott, director of library services, special librarians will go through
the books and make assessments about why the books
have not been circulating. The
librarians will remove books
that the community does not
want, are out of date or are in
poor condition. Scott said the
list can also be an informational tool used for ordering
new and different books.
According to Scott, the
process is carried out by a collection development team of
active librarians who are fa-

miliar with the children, teen,

adult-fiction and nonfiction
collections.
Roya Arasteh, former librarian at the Berkeley Public
Library, said that weeding is
important for a good library
collection. But when things
go as fast as they are going
now, there is no possibility
for trained librarians to look
at whats worth keeping,
Arasteh said.
Scott explained that currently, the staff has too many
tasks, including maintaining
open hours, programming,
outreach and desk service.
The collection development
team was reduced for efficiency, but the staff will still
have input on the order of the

process, Scott said.

It would be a strange argument to make to say you
dont have time to do this,
Dufour said.
According to Dufour, for
decades, each librarian has
been assigned a small part of
the collection and develops
an expertise in the field. With
fewer people weeding, the library collection will become
less complete, as the librarians wont buy books that they
find disagreeable or that they
are not personally exposed to.
Scott said the library is currently reviewing and weeding
in the natural sciences, applied sciences, social sciences,
arts, music and entertainment collections.

DEVELOPMENT

Group involved in Harold Way project

plans for new Blake Street building
By Andrea Platten
Senior Staff
aplatten@dailycal.org
The group involved in the
construction of a contentious
18-story mixed-use building
on Harold Way is planning another development project on
Blake Street.
Mark Rhoades, president
and CEO of the Rhoades Planning Group, is the consultant
for the ve-story Roost @
Blake development, which will
include 72 apartments, three
live-work units and 2,200 feet
of retail and cafe space. The
project meets the citys inclusionary housing requirements,
as it reserves six apartments for

rental at below-market rates,

and the property has not been
deemed a city landmark or
structure of merit.
Rhoades led the zoning
project application for the
Blake Street project whose
developers are Nathan George
and Xin Jin in 2013, and the
project held an open-housestyle neighborhood meeting in
September. Mayor Tom Bates
said he hadnt been aware of
the project until Thursday,
and City Councilmember
Jesse Arreguin and workers
at nearby businesses said they
knew little to nothing about it.
I dont have an opinion on
the project, Bates said. More
than likely, it will be appealed
to the City Council.

In order to construct the

Roost @ Blake, the buildings
currently occupying the site
a warehouse and a storage facility will be demolished. Todd Malone, the sales
director of the Airport Home
Appliance store on Shattuck
Avenue, which uses the warehouse at 2035 Blake St., considered the construction a
good change after so many
years.
The Rhoades Planning
Group, which offers urban
planning and development
consulting, has taken on multiple projects in Berkeley, such
as the Eureka restaurant and
the Overture, a mixed-use

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[eh`l

everal weeks and hundreds of swipes

ago, I decided to test out a virtual connection in the real world, as is the growing norm. We agreed to keep it traditional
and meet at Comal in Downtown Berkeley for
dinner at 7.
I went through the typical pre-date phases:
anxiety, followed by sweating, followed by
multiple shirt changes, followed by checking
and rechecking myself in mirrors, and then
a final resignation that shed just have to accept me for who I am which meant that I
needed to bring some chocolates with me.
I made a stop at my usual clinic of the dark
confection. I walked in to survey the morsels
behind polished glass, and there, standing before me, was one of the most beautiful slingers
of the devils throat lozenges I had ever seen.
I was instantly smitten, and when she
asked me how many of the hand-crafted
candies I was hoping to buy, I had to mentally
slap myself to refocus on why Id walked in
(What was I doing there? Who was I?). After
I regained my composure and remembered I
could use my mouth to articulate words and
potentially communicate with this divine being, I found I could make her laugh.
And it was a very memorable laugh: hearty
and without a hint of guile. There may have
even been an endearing snort in there.
She tied a bow around my bag of chocolates with deft hands, took my money, asked
me if I wanted a receipt and said, Bye. Then
I said, Bye. And that was it.
walked out, towing my purchase and my
memory of her laugh, a dissonance growing between the two where there was once a
warm bond.
The rest of the day wasnt nearly as notable.
My actual date turned out to be a pleasant
enough person, but there wasnt much of
a spark. The flame evoked by Tinder just
wouldnt catch not in the way the chocolate-shop girls laughter had set the embers
inside me glowing. To this day, I feel that the
dating app swindled me out of a genuine connection. Though, to be fair, she was working,
and I would never want to make a person feel
uncomfortable, especially when shes trying to
get through the work day.
Still, I cant shake the feeling that there was
something there. Something palpable. Yet I
ignored that feeling.
I dont believe in destiny or fate, but I do
believe in instinct. And I believe apps such as
Tinder and its counterparts have the power to
erode our trust in our own instincts.
Most criticisms of humanitys ever-expanding ways of outsourcing experience will focus
primarily on the idea of superficiality. But
isnt much of the natural dating experience
superficial at least at first? That said, some
forms of superficiality may be better suited
for the domain of sex and attraction than
others. And in mediating the superficiality of
attraction, apps such as Tinder deprive us of
something sui generis to human nature.
If youve ever watched a dance performance, you know that the human body is
capable of grand feats of communication.
When it comes to the province of sex and
attraction, the importance of body language
cant be downplayed. And this is exactly what
dating apps cant replace.
How do you engineer a virtual proxy for the
lip bite, the flip of the hair or a carefully placed
hand or smile? What is an lol if not ersatz
laughter, removed from its visceral resonance,
removed from the context of a perfectly delivered remark or an awkward moment?
e lose these messages that may be better
at indexing compatibility. We lose the
sensory adventure of smell that home of
memory and emotion. We lose gesture, facial
expressions and intonation. Our cues of arousal
and, to an extent, how we choose a potential
partner become flat and unidimensional.
Attraction is reduced to the visual domain:
Youre only as hot as your photos. Courtship is
distilled to a swipe of a finger and an exchange
of messages.
Dating apps have their own criteria for
selecting whom you should date and be attracted to, and this may narrow whom and
what you pay attention to, despite the ostensibly large pool of candidates.
Theres a formula to online dating: Fill out
bio; post flattering pictures; list hobbies and
activities; swipe, browse, wink and poke until
you match; choose photo to make pertinent
comment on; start conversation; maintain
connection; meet.
And what about the other side of the coin?
What rejection cues are we missing out on?
My friend Adonay related to me an
exchange he had on Grindr, where someone
messaged him and was completely stonewalled. The static created when someone
misses out on bodily cues isnt only romantically disappointing it can also be pretty
ugly.
Hes like, Hello? You there? Adonay recounted. And I wasnt responding, and then
hes like, Hey, man, are you there? Its really
discouraging when you dont say anything.
And then hes like, HEY MAN ARE YOU
THERE! YOURE MAKING THIS WHOLE
EXPERIENCE REALLY BAD FOR ME!
No kidding.
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social topics that rarely enter open conversation.

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Opinion

Balconies are a major risk to health and life and need to be treated that
way, even though they often are not.
Niall McCarthy, a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP

Monday, July 13, 2015

EDITORIAL | Berkeley needs improved housing-saftey measures

CITY AFFAIRS

Measures proposed to increase balcony safety fill gaps in current building

codes, but the city must also address all prominent housing-saftey concerns.

n June 16, six students died and

seven more were
injured because of the collapse of a Downtown apartment buildings fifth-floor
balcony. To the families of
the victims, we offer our
deepest sympathies, and to
those students still recovering, we offer our prayers
and best wishes.
In the wake of this tragedy, Berkeley City Council is set to consider three
measures designed to prevent similar building malfunctions from occurring.
The proposals, which will
be discussed at Tuesdays
meeting, primarily recommend building inspections
every five years, the adoption of steel-reinforced
beams in new balconies
and the mandatory disclosure of a balconys condition in addition to signage specifying a balconys
weight capacity.
We are glad that the city
has been prompted by this
catastrophe to take action,
but the proposed changes
only skim the surface of
problems that could lead
to similar events. For example, the city manager
recommends the routine
inspection of weather-

exposed elements. Such

an inspection, though a
positive measure, should
extend beyond exterior elements of the building, and
the proposal should explicitly call for the review
of the most dangerous or
potentially faulty structural
aspects of a property, both
interior and exterior.
Additionally, the proposals should specify that
periodic official inspections
should be supplemented
by more frequent inspections initiated by the property owner. These inspections would be beneficial in
identifying problems such
as dry rot the primary
cause of the June 16 balcony collapse which can
develop and cause damage
in as little as a year.
Another weak aspect of
the proposed changes is the
insufficiency with which the
proposals address the issue of balconies on existing
buildings. Councilmember
Jesse Arreguin has proposed that steel reinforcements be implemented in
all balcony construction,
but this would apply only to
new buildings.
The last proposed building code addition requiring property owners to dis-

close whether the building

has wooden cantilevered
balconies without steel
reinforcement and implementing signage detailing a
balconys maximum weight
capacity would improve
the publics safety. It would
not, however, necessarily prevent events like the
June 16 balcony collapse,
which was due to a flaw in
the structure.
Although this would be
without legal precedence,
any changes to the citys
building code should also
be directly applicable not
only to future buildings
but to existing buildings.
Inspections,
especially,
should be mandatory for
all buildings.
Uncomfortable and often unsafe housing conditions seem to be a prominent problem for students,
many of whom lack the
experience and financial
resources to invest in quality housing. In light of this
fact, the city must take this
opportunity to update the
building code, prioritizing quality over speed and
quantity, and to implement
changes that will foresee
and potentially prevent
such avoidable tragedies
from ever repeating.

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OP-ED | International issues

Equality
for a teen
queer

Anna Sturla
asturla@dailycal.org

TINA PAI/STAFF

From Brazil to US, young lives matter

Brazils proposal to
lower criminal age
targets blacks, poor,
migrants unfairly
By Eliane Knorr de Carvalho
Special to the Daily Cal
opinion@dailycal.org
One of the reasons I chose UC
Berkeley was because of its long
history of fighting for freedom.
While in Brazil, I was aware of
the recent struggles in the United
States regarding police violence
against black youth and other
minority groups.
In Brazil, the Senate is voting on a proposal to amend the
Brazilian Constitution to lower
the age of minors with regard to
criminal culpability. Like the U.S.,
most of the incarcerated people in
Brazil are black, poor or migrants.
The young people in Brazil are
already incarcerated in so-called
socio-educational institutes.
Much of Brazils population
is clamoring for approval of this
amendment because the medias
coverage increases fear about
violence in the streets. Nevertheless, the so-called crimes committed by young people are not
even close to the violence endured

by Brazilian youth. According to

research coordinated by Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, the main cause of death for
people between 16 and 17 years
old is homicide; 10 young people
are killed each day in Brazil.
Brazil wants to believe that
young people have become more
violent in recent years and that
they are surrounded by impunity.
But we see that youth especially those who are black, poor
or migrants are suffering from
even more police violence each
day and that their situation becomes even more unbearable.
And that all remains true,
aside from the fact that increasing incarceration rates are not
causally related to decreases in
violent crime. The truism holds
that more imprisonment overall
means more imprisonment for
the same folks who are already
the usual targets of racism and
police violence.
Police brutality is not a
problem that concerns only one
country or another. Young people
are being killed around the world.
This issue is about changing our
own mentality and not just forcing others to change. How many
murders are committed daily by
governments worldwide in the
name of democracy, freedom,
order or progress?
The violence against youth of

all classes begins at home. A lot

of parents think that hitting their
kids is a tool to facilitate education, obedience and instilling
children with maturity. They were
taught that life is about being
punished and rewarded according to their capacity to control the
rules. They believe that the world
is made of winners and losers
and that the winners are the ones
who have the capacity to follow
the rules, or at least the ability
to avoid getting caught breaking
them.
Being successful for these
young people means being successful over the lives of others
to be able to control the rules
and subject those who are weaker
to their will. Many think that
because kids are younger, smaller
and weaker, they should just obey.
Fortunately, some people notice
that each young person has a life
of his or her own and should be
allowed to learn about the world
through encouragement and
freedom.
Our two nation-states emerged
from massacres. The American
continent as a whole (including
North America, Central America
and South America) was born at
the expense of murder, slavery
and imprisonment. All 35 national flags in this continent are
painted in blood. The success of
the current nations is founded in

the subjection of the people who

lived here before the arrival of the
colonizers.
Unless we have the chance
to change the way we relate to
one another, the massacre that is
police brutality and mass incarceration will continue endlessly.
We need to look not with fear, but
with curiosity not demanding more of the same kinds of
solutions, but learning through
different perspectives.
Most situations people call
crimes are nothing more than
the response of an oppressed people against societys daily massacre. As the Hulsman Foundation found, dealing with offenses
as problematic situations, as
opposed to crimes, enables those
involved to find a solution to the
problem. It also allows those
involved to address their actions
rather than repeating ad eternum
the punishment tautology.
From South to North America,
young people are being killed and
will very soon be imprisoned for
decades. It is unreasonable for us
to stay quiet in the face of whats
happening in the United States,
in Brazil and elsewhere.
Eliane Knorr de Carvalho is a
visiting student researcher in UC
Berkeleys history department and
a doctoral candidate at Pontifica
Universidade Catolica de Sao
Paulo.

was at work when

I saw the New York
Times headline.
Kneeling behind our store
counter, I sobbed but
didnt cry. I was bowled
over with the magnitude
of the moment.
My parents came in a
while later to congratulate
me and celebrate for a
few minutes, but they left
soon. The world paused,
then continued; I still
had to finish my shift.
But while I was working,
I kept thinking, What
now? What does this
mean for me? Am I different?
I was left primarily
with a feeling of joy, but
the emotion was still
tempered by lacerations
from the long struggle for
same-sex marriage.
The fight for marriage
equality was my introduction to organized queerness. I participated in my
first advocacy campaign in
the eighth grade, volunteering at an anti-Proposition 8 phone bank. It was
my first opportunity to
connect with adult queer
and trans people alone as
I began to process my own
identity.
I had always planned
on marrying, so same-sex
marriage was an important goal for me. My parents are happily married,
and I am one of a handful
of queer youth who grew
up seeing loving same-sex
couples regularly at my
liberal Methodist church,
if you can believe that.
But as a queer teenager,
the prolonged struggle
and the most prominent
lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender organizations
all-consuming focus on
same-sex marriage left me
increasingly hurt.
Why were LGBT

STURLA: PAGE 5

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Monday, July 13, 2015

FROM THE BLOGS

Whose
Islam is it,
anyway?

Shanzeh Khurram
skhurram@dailycal.org

espite being one of

the most prominent
religions, Islam is still
grossly misrepresented.
The media often generalizes about Islam, portraying all
Muslims as a single entity. And
many of these generalizations
focus on fundamentalism and
terrorism, which dont apply to
most Muslims.
But even after separating
the extremist strains from the
religion, it is hard to define
true Islam. Unlike how the
Pope speaks for the Catholic

Church, there isnt one person

who can serve as a spokesperson or representative of Islam.
The question remains: Who
speaks for Islam?
Most Muslims are either
Sunni or Shia, with some
identifying as neither. These
two groups are then split into
many subdivisions including Ismailis and Aga Khanees
all of which have their own
teachings. Geographically, 1.6
billion Muslims are spread
across the world.
Many live in Muslim-majority nations ranging from Asian
to Middle Eastern to African
countries. The Islam practiced
in secular Turkey is very different from the rigid Islam of
Saudi Arabia.
Not only do Muslims in different countries practice Islam
differently, but because the
Quran is not the only source of
religious law, there is room for
further variation. The ulama,
or Muslim clergy, devise interpretations and rulings based
on the Quran and hadith, or
the Prophets sayings.
But these interpretations
are often politically motivated
and influenced by the culture
and mindset of the ulama. It
doesnt help that most of these
ulama are males in patriarchal
societies, which explains their
sexist interpretations.
Because cultural practices
distort Islam, it is hard to discern what is part of the culture
and what is part of the religion
itself.

hen thinking of Islam,

W
many non-Muslims in
the West look to Arab cul-

ture and think it represents

the entire religion. A lot of
practices in Saudi Arabia are
cultural. For example, the fact
that women in Saudi Arabia
arent allowed to drive is not a
sign that Islam is sexist its
simply part of the culture.
Islamic radicalism, which
is sometimes connected to
terrorism, has its roots in
Wahhabism, which originated
in Arabia and was founded
by Muhammad ibn Abd alWahhab. Wahhabism rejects
many of the traditional Islamic
teachings and instead offers
narrow and dogmatic interpretations. This rigid mindset is
what leads to extremism.
Although there are so many
ways of practicing Islam, and
Islam is extremely diverse and
varied, the religion has been
hijacked by extremists.
Fundamentalists have
affected Islams reputation
disproportionately. Most Muslims are moderate and dont
condone violence in the name
of religion.
There are writers such
as Tariq Ramadan, Reza Aslan
and Khaled Abou El Fadl
who are speaking out against
the radicalization of Islam and
offering a more liberal approach.
But more moderate Muslims, especially in Muslimmajority countries, need to
stand up against extremists

and reclaim their religion.

Even when it comes to practicing Islam on an individual
level, not all Muslims are the
same.
I personally struggled with
trying to follow the right
version of Islam I explored
orthodox Islam, moderate
Islam, Islamic feminism and
Sufism, among others schools,
but I was left confused by their
contradictory outlooks.
ost Islamic sects also
believe that they alone
represent the one true path,
and its not a coincidence that
most Muslims follow the type
of Islam practiced by their
families.
There are Muslims who are
devoutly religious and dedicate
their lives to serving God, even
obeying rules such as avoiding
eye contact with the opposite
sex and not listening to music.
Most Muslims, especially the
ones in Western countries, balance Western values and their
religion they are often liberal,
and many pray and fast but
dont necessarily believe in rules
such as gender segregation.
Then there are Muslims
who are just culturally Muslim
or dont follow Islam at all,
except when it comes to eating
pork, because pork is haram,
or forbidden. (Many Muslims
still drink alcohol, which is
also haram, but for some reason avoid pork as if it were the
one major sin that God wont
forgive.)
But as long as they arent

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rights still dont
address youth,
trans rights
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organizations focused
so much on marriage, a
lovely eventuality, when
queer and trans people
particularly those too
young to marry are
suffering now? About 40
percent of youth who pass
through homeless shelters
are queer or trans, according to a 2012 UCLA study.
While all 50 states now
recognize same-sex marriage, 29 do not protect
lesbian, gay or bisexual
employees from job discrimination, and 32 do
not protect transgender
employees.
saw the lingering resentment of many queer
and trans friends echoed
on my Facebook news feed
after the decision. For me,
our emotions boiled down
to a familiar message:
Queer and trans youth
were left behind, dead
weight cast overboard on
the way to a more achievable goal. Or perhaps we
were merely set aside,
with some LGBT and
marriage-equality organizations treating trans,
youth rights and antidiscrimination laws as
a lovely eventuality of
their own.
And yet, despite being
part of a group ignored
and marginalized by my
country and even my own
community organizations
for so long, something

distorting religion into an

extremist version or using it to
mistakenly justify terrorism,
Muslims should be allowed
to practice Islam the way they
want to. People shouldnt deny
others the right to claim their
religion or identify as Muslim
just because their practices differs from the norm.
For example, some hijabis
who wear the complete burqa
look down on other Muslim
women who dont cover up or
dont wear the hijab the right
way.
These people are in no position to judge others and tell
them what to do.
People have the right to
define their religion on their
own terms.
Ive experienced Islam
though multiple perspectives
and read dozens of books on
this topic, and Ive come to
realize that there is truth in
opposing viewpoints.
Muslims will benefit from
exploring and understanding
different approaches, which is
why, when it comes to speaking about Islam, no ones voice
should be silenced.
Ultimately, these are all
Muslim voices, and they represent the diversity within Islam.
No one community can
claim to have a monopoly over
Islam the religion belongs
to all those who identify as
Muslim.
Shanzeh Khurram writes
the Friday blog on feminism
and religion.

shifted inside of me the

during the 24 hours after
the decision. I experienced the growing realization that I was more of
a citizen of this country
than when I woke up that
June 26 morning.
Most people have
realized that the fight for
same-sex marriage isnt
about marriage but is
instead about the place
of the queer and trans
community in this country. Seeing the decision
through this lens, I found

We must work against

discrimination in housing, jobs and schools, and
particularly systemic discrimination against trans
people and queer and
trans underrepresented
minorities work that
should have been done
yesterday. But we can still
rejoice because, thank
God, you and I are a little
bit more free, and our
union has become that
little bit more perfect.
In his dissent, Supreme Court Justice John
Roberts argued that he
begrudged none their
celebration of achieving
national same-sex marriage but that it should
have been decided by
popular vote, not the
I dont have to
With all due
earn your love, but I courts.
respect, Justice Roberts,
am an American,
that isnt how Americans
equal under the law, do things.
I would have loved to
and I have the right have
a national referento your respect.
dum as in Ireland, where
my family and friends
could vote and where we
could see graphs demonstrating our nations love
for us. But instead, we
get the most American of
decisions an imperative
the impact of this achieve- to the nation. Perhaps this
ment distilled most beau- article fails to capture the
tifully in President Barack joy of that momentous
Obamas speech in front
weekend, but my thoughts
of the White House.
are this: Feel however you
When all Americans
want about queer or trans
are treated as equal, our
people, but get on board
president said, we are all and recognize us as your
more free.
equals.
ogether, we have fit
I dont have to earn
one more crucial tile
your love, but I am an
into the patchwork moAmerican, equal under
saic of American justice.
the law, and I have the
The work is not over, our right to your respect.
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DEVELOPMENT

Harold Way high-rise sees more criticism

City landmarks
commission hears
concerns of locals
over development
ALVIN WU/FILE

The proposed Roost @ Blake development would include 72

apartments, three live-work units, and retail and cafe spaces.

BLAKE: Berkeley
in need of more
housing, says
project planner
FROM PAGE 3

building on University Avenue. The biggest yet the

2211 Harold Way development has seen substantial criticism, especially because it will partly block the
view from Campanile Way,
beloved by many locals.
In one of the most recent
steps of the Harold Way
projects review, the citys
Landmarks Preservation
Commission looked over its
nal environmental impact
report on Thursday, opting
to continue discussion of
the development at a future
meeting.
Rhoades has long been
concerned with Berkeley
affairs, serving as city planning manager from 1998 to
2007, and has referred to
himself as a controversial

KUH: Professor
emeritus earned
many awards,
wrote textbooks
FROM FRONT

Kuh.
Wayne Dai, who was
mentored by Ernest Kuh
as a doctoral student and
went on to found the company VeriSilicon, praised
his lifelong mentor for his
independent and innovative classroom style.
Dai said Ernest Kuh
trained his doctoral students to think about the
big picture and never
micromanaged their research.
He was a person who
had an innate ability to
teach and get the most
out of people in terms of
reaching their potential,

NAMES: Student
says buildings
reflect racism
at UC Berkeley

gure in the city.

Arreguin has expressed
concerns about Rhoades
connections in the city planning and development department. But Rhoades said
he is subject to the same
rules as any other developer, pointing out that his
Berkeley developments go
through a public oversight
process.
Despite the outcry the
Harold Way project has
elicited, Rhoades said that
the city is in need of more
housing and that each of his
projects benets the community.
We are very, very careful
in how we choose our projects and clients, Rhoades
said. There are a lot of people mostly older people
in Berkeley who do not like
change.
Rhoades said the Blake
Street development is set
to have its design review
later this month and may
start construction as early
as spring 2016, according
to the San Francisco Business Times.

Theodore Kuh said.

In his lifetime, Ernest
Kuh received a number of
academic awards, and he
authored or co-authored
several hundred research
papers and six textbooks.
He completed his undergraduate studies in
electrical engineering at
the University of Michigan,
earned a masters degree in
electrical engineering from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a doctorate at Stanford University.
Ernest Kuh is survived
by his sons, Anthony and
Theodore Kuh; his wife,
Bettine Kuh; and his
grandsons, Evan, Matthew
and Jason. Anthony Kuh is
a professor of electrical engineering at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, and
Theodore Kuh is a lecturer
at and alumnus of UC
Berkeleys Haas School of
Business.

Improvements Committee considers requests for

naming and makes recommendations to the chancellor.
LeConte Hall, which is
home to the physics department on campus, is
FROM PAGE 2
not the only memorial in
Berkeley that honors the
the black activist.
LeConte brothers: There
According to a press re- is a street and a public ellease from the BSU, Bar- ementary school named
rows was an imperialist after them as well.
by way of anthropology
With recent events in
and participated in per- Charleston and a lot of
petuating American co- people paying attention to
lonialism, and his name this issue, I do think this
directly opposes the mis- is a timely moment about
sion of the departments these symbols of white suthat are housed
premacy or mein the building,
morials of white
such as African
supremacy,said
American studLyndon ComIts a daily stock, an amaies and gender
and
womens reminder
teur
Berkeley
studies.
historian
and
Its a daily that Black
author of On
reminder that students are
Parker Street,
Black students not respecta book detailare
not
reing the history
spected on cam- ed on camof the area south
pus, said Blake pus.
of Dwight Way,
Simons, a memwhich is where
ber of the BSU,
Ele Blake Simons, LeConte
Campus Black mentary School
in an email. Its
Student Union is located.
hypocritical of
member
UC Berkeley to
For Simons,
name a buildthe buildings on
ing after Martin
campus named
Luther
King,
after Barrows
and then have buildings and the LeConte brothnamed after slave-owning ers are symbols of instituracists and colonizers.
tional racism at UC BerkeThe campus has a set ley, further represented by
of principles for nam- the lack of black people on
ing properties and facili- campus.
ties to honor people who,
I was one of 365 unaccording to university dergrad Black men last
documents, have made year, and about half of us
important contributions are being used for profit
to enable the teaching, re- on the athletic field, Sisearch and public service mons said.
mission of the university.
Szeri was unable to
According to Andrew comment on the requests
Szeri, campus vice pro- to rename LeConte and
vost of strategic academic Barrows halls and said
and facilities planning, he had not yet gotten a
UC Berkeleys Space As- chance to familiarize himsignment and Capital self with the issue.

By Yuka Koshino | Staff

ykoshino@dailycal.org
Developers continued
to face disapproval from
community members over
the planning of a Downtown mixed-use building
during a Thursday meeting of the Landmarks
Preservation Commission,
or LPC.
The commission reviewed the nal environmental impact report and
the design alternatives
recommended by the citys
Design Review Committee
for the 18-story building
proposed for 2211 Harold
Way. The project, which
would include 302 residential units and movie
theaters, is one of the
high-rises permitted under the Downtown development policies approved
by Berkeley City Council
in 2012.
If approved by the LPC,
the project will demolish
and alter the currently
landmarked site on Kittredge Street and Harold
Way, adjacent to the Hotel
Shattuck Plaza, which is
considered to be a signicant landmark in Berkeley.
The commission decided to continue the discussion at the next meeting because of opposing
comments from the public, some commissioners
concerns about the mass
scale and safety of the
project, the effects on Hotel Shattuck Plaza during

ZERO: Diversity
initiatives to be
announced in
fall, says official
FROM FRONT

that it also lags behind diversity in the academic job

market.
In 2012, there were more
than 130 underrepresented
minorities among UC
Berkeley faculty out of 1,620
full-time faculty, or about 8
percent. Underrepresented
minorities make up more
than 45 percent of Californias population and continue to rise in proportion.
Within tenure-track faculty, underrepresented minorities are underutilized in
every scientic eld, according to a 2014 UC Berkeley
report, which denes underutilization as having
fewer minorities or women
in a particular job group
than would reasonably be
expected given their availability in the job market.
In other words, there are
proportionally more underrepresented minorities
who hold doctorates in the
academic pipeline than the
campus hires.
Among tenured faculty,
blacks and Latinos are underutilized in about half of
academic elds, especially
in the sciences. In the departments of economics
and political science, there
are no black professors.
I think theres this
conversation about not
enough diversity in the
pipeline, and its given as an
excuse to not hire diverse
candidates or evaluate them
equally, Sylvain said.
Diversity controversy
In 2014, environmental
science, policy and management professor Carolyn
Finney was denied tenure,
sparking an online petition to reverse the decision,
which the campus ultimately upheld. Sylvain, one
of Finneys graduate students, participated in a protest of the decision in May.
The hiring and tenure
processes are isolated from
student involvement, largely
controlled by committees
that often have no underrepresented minorities. The
campus budget committee,
which makes nal recommendations on all promotion and tenure cases, has
had one underrepresented
minority member in 25
years and currently has

ALVIN WU/FILE

If approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, a development on Harold Way would

require the demolition of Shattuck Cinemas. The LPC will further discuss the project in August.

construction and the projects design features.

The
environmental
impact report is so decient. ... There are so
many things missing, said
LPC chair Austene Hall.
Theres still tons of work
to be done in this project.
Community
members, including some
from Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association and Save Shattuck
Cinemas, have continuously expressed concerns
during many commission
and City Council meetings about the projects
location in the historical district among other
landmarks, including the
post ofce and the public
library.
At the meeting, residents and several com-

missioners pointed out

that the location was not
identied as an opportunity site for the project in
the 2012 Downtown Area
Plan.
Mark Rhoades, former city planning manager and consultant for
the Harold Way project,
stressed that the project
will not change any features of the hotel and said
the proposed building will
be a beautiful backdrop.
He also said that more requirements and the delay
of approval will lead to the
implausibility of development projects and cause
housing shortages in the
area.
We need to build a
whole lot more housing
luxury housing, affordable
housing and in-middle

housing to scratch the

surface of the citys demand, and we started to
do so in the last few years,
Rhoades said.
The projects application was submitted in
February 2013, the environmental impact report
was certied June 25 and
the project is now awaiting approval from the
LPC and City Council.
The council will vote on
a resolution to determine
signicant
community
benets a system for the
city to capture value from
developments more than
75 feet tall at its regular
meeting Tuesday.
The LPC will continue
the discussion at a special
August 13 meeting to talk
over the approval of the
project.

none, according to David

Stark, director of Stiles Hall,
a nonprot community service agency afliated with
the campus.
Finney believes that the
tenure process should be
more transparent.
It protects the anonymity of those who can
say what they want with
no repercussions, she said.
When it comes to bias or
prejudice, (tenure committee members) can say
whatever they want and are
never called out on it, which
is really dangerous.
Over the past four years,
UC Berkeleys Division of
Equity and Inclusion, created in 2006, has developed
an equity adviser network
of one tenured professor in
each department who evaluates diversity throughout
the hiring process.
The advisers compare diversity measures twice during any hiring process: once
to check if the search pool
represents demographics of
available people with doctorates in the eld, and once
to check if the short list for
hiring represents the search
pool. If it does not, they ask
for the search pool to be expanded. Numbers of underrepresented minority faculty
have increased as a result of
these measures, said Vice
Chancellor of Equity and
Inclusion Gibor Basri, who
announced last year that he
will soon be stepping down.
Basri said that while
percentages of black hires
have mostly stayed the same
in the last 20 years, underrepresented minority faculty and female faculty are
granted tenure at the same
rate as white or male faculty.
According to Stark, underrepresented
minority
faculty frequently take on
more mentorship responsibilities because of their roles
as support structures for
underrepresented minority
students on a largely Asian
and white campus.
It can be difcult for
graduate students of color
to nd mentors when there
are few reections of themselves in faculty, Sylvain
said.
Finney says she was criticized for publishing a book
written in accessible instead
of purely academic language, as well as for taking
on more public outreach engagements than her peers.
In 2013, the UC Presidents Advisory Council
on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion recommended annual transparent
reporting by the campus

on tenure-track hiring and

promotion to senior administration, as well as key
academic committee membership, citing UCLA as an
example of this type of reporting. Then-UC president
Mark Yudof endorsed the
recommendations, which
were sent to campus chancellors.
Out of 89 academic personnel committee or budget
committee members on all
nine UC campuses, ve are
underrepresented minorities. Three of those ve are
at UCLA.

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The issues that underrepresented minority and
female faculty face frequently intersect. Among
UC Berkeley tenured faculty, women are underutilized in every eld except
environmental design and
information, according to a
campus report, and out of
the 89 UC academic personnel committee or budget
committee members, only
28 are women.
Basri said that signicant
progress has been made in
the hiring of female faculty,
with new hires of women
at about 40 percent, but
that the slow rate of faculty
turnover keeps the total percentage of female faculty at
about 30 percent.
At our current (hiring) rate of 40 percent, we
would achieve 40 percent
total headcount in the year
2040, Basri said. We need
to do better than 40 percent
in hiring if we want that to
happen earlier.
But Leslie Salzinger, a
campus professor of gender
and womens studies, says
implicit bias continues to affect how female faculty are
treated.
Female professors are
evaluated more harshly
than male professors, according to a recent study
by Northeastern University that analyzed Rate
My Professor reviews. In
performance reviews, students are also more likely
to describe male professors
as brilliant, awesome or
knowledgeable and female
professors as bossy or annoying.
Jobs are gendered,
meaning our ideas about
what makes an authoritative
lecturer ... those images that
we carry are highly masculinized, Salzinger said.
Implicit bias is also well
documented against underrepresented minorities,
especially blacks, showing
that resumes are less likely

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to receive an interview if
they have stereotypically
black names and that faculty members at universities
are more likely to reply to
emails with stereotypically
white names.
In hiring new professors,
weve consistently chosen
white men, Sylvain said.
I asked faculty (about hiring), and its a lot of theyre
a good t, which means
theyre comfortable going out to have a beer with
them.
Seats for graduate students
The Graduate Assembly resolution in April, authored by Sylvain and the
assemblys former internal
vice president Mary Flores,
aims to increase faculty
diversity through the appointment of at least two
elected graduate students
as full voting members on
the faculty search committee.
The resolution doesnt
guarantee change, but it
means the Graduate Assembly executive board
now has support from the
graduate student body to
advocate to the administration at least two graduate student seats. Graduate
student delegates in each
department will also urge
their respective departments to support the resolution, Sylvain said.
Basri said the campus
will announce new diversity initiatives in the fall.
Sylvain hopes graduate
student representatives will
challenge discrimination in
faculty hiring.
We have the ability to
make a really inclusive,
beautiful, vibrant, diverse
university, but its going to
take some effort, Sylvain
said. This conversation has
been going on for 30 years,
but the administration has
been slow to react because
(change) challenges the
power structure.

VOLLEYBALL:
Kerr impressed
by freshmen in
practices so far
FROM BACK

Everyone was so excited,

and the crowd was just
really cool. It really represented Oakland well.
The crowd was diverse
and hip and cool.
DC: Can you imagine how different everything would be if
your dad had taken the
Knicks job?
MK: I dont even
know how to imagine
that. We all thought he
was going to take that
job, and we werent trying to influence his decision or anything. And
I couldnt be like, Oh,
I want you to stay! Im
somewhat of an adult,
so I need to keep my
place. But obviously,
Im so glad he took this
job. Hes a total California person I dont

FOOTBALL: Ude
could help push
Bears defense
to acceptability
FROM BACK

like I fit really well, Ude

said. We run a 4-3 defense, and I feel like Im
the type of guy who can
play standing up but
with my hand in the dirt,
Im better suited.
Ude figures to play
mostly at the defensive
end position, at least
early in his career, and
thats likely where he can
wreak the most havoc
on opposing offensive
lines. He has an impressive first step, and his
initial burst of quickness
should be key to helping
him get around blockers
and to the quarterback.
Ude has a strong motor, so hell likely be getting into the backfield all
game throughout his Cal

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Monday, July 13, 2015

think he wouldve done
so well in New York
with the weather and
being alone. He needs
my mom.
DC: What do you
learn from being around
a team such as the Warriors as an athlete yourself? What do you try
to take away from that
team?
MK: I think what they
achieved over the year
was a really good balance
of discipline and fun.
Thats something most
teams and athletes dont
really ever fully understand. If youre having
too much fun a lot of the
time, you feel like youre
not putting in the work.
Or if youre being too
angsty or intense, you
end up really stressed.
They made it fun to be
disciplined and work really hard, because it led
to them winning. That,
and just having really
good chemistry, is so important.
DC: What sort of
preparation have you
gone through already?

MK: The main thing

for me is that I had
shoulder surgery in
January, and Ive been
injured kind of the last
two years, just playing
on a bad shoulder. So
getting healthy has been
my main priority for the
last six months, and I
feel really good right
now.
DC: How does everything with the team
look so far?
MK: It looks good.
The freshman are, I
mean, I was really impressed. Coming in as
a freshman is really
hard, especially when
youre only playing with
the team, without the
coaches, because literally no one knows you
or has seen you play.
You know, its really intimidating. I was really impressed by them
(Wednesday).
Everyones definitely going to
be able to contribute. I
think we all dont want
a repeat of last season,
so everyones really motivated.

career. The recruit also

has long arms that he
can throw up there to try
to deflect the ball when
he fails to get all the way
to the quarterback.
These arms also help
him keep blockers off
his body, which can be
very helpful for defensive linemen. A big area
where this can help is in
the running game, where
hell have an easier time
getting blockers off him
so he can get to the other
teams running backs
and help the Bears improve their 40th-ranked
run defense.
Much of Udes offseason focus is on improving his mobility,
flexibility and general
athleticism, but it would
not be a surprise to see
him add enough size
in his time with Cal to
eventually move to the
defensive tackle position. This versatility,
along with his talent and
motor, could have him
poised to be the next

Bear to join the programs recent tradition

of accomplished defensive linemen, some of
whom have even made it
to the NFL, such as Tyson Alualu, Andre Carter
and Cameron Jordan.
Jordan,
especially,
is a fitting comparison
for Ude. Both players
have an ability to play all
along the defensive line,
and they carry similar
traits and body sizes.
The two are even Facebook friends. It would
be no surprise to see
Ude modelling his game
after Jordan, and his
coaches would surely be
thrilled to have that sort
of player on the team.
Hes one of those
kids that has the maturity to potentially come
in and play early, said
head coach Sonny Dykes
to Cal Athletics. We really like his upside. Hes
going to continue to develop, and we really like
what he brings to our
program.

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LEGALS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 505576
The name(s) of the business: Sweet
Adeline Bakeshop, street address:
3350 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA,
94703 is hereby registered by the
following owner(s): Jennifer Millar,
3350 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA
94703.
This business is conducted by an
Individual. The registrant began to
transact business using the fictitious
business name(s) listed above on/
in 07/12/2005.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of Alameda County on
June 1, 2015.
Sweet Adeline Bakeshop
Publish: 6/22, 6/29, 7/6, 7/13/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 506354-56
The name(s) of the business:
Gonzalez Painting Liquid Culture,
Berkeleyrocks, Applatino, street
address: 2022 University Ave. Ste
91, Berkeley, CA 94704 is hereby
registered by the following owner(s):
Gonzalez Painting Liquid Culture,
Inc., 2022 University Avenue Ste 91,
Berkeley, CA 94704.
This business is conducted by a
Corporation. The registrant has not
yet begun to transact business using
the fictitious business name listed
above.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of Alameda County on
June 23, 2015.
Gonzalez Painting Liquid Culture,
Berkeleyrocks, Applatino
Publish: 6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20/15
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FILE NO. 505880
The name(s) of the business:
Elegant Beauty Salon, street
address: 5406 College Avenue,
Oakland, Almeda, CA 94618
is
hereby registered by the following
owner(s): Betty Ngoc Train, 5406

College Avenue , Oakland, CA

94618.
This business is conducted by an
Individual. The registrant began to
transact business using the fictitious
business name(s) listed above on/
in 6/9/2015.
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of Alameda County on
July 9, 2015.
Elegant Beauty Salon
Publish: 7/6, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27/15
NOTICE OF Intention to SELL
REAL PROPERTY
case NO: RP13661901
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that,
subject to confirmation by the
Alameda Superior Court on August
10, 2015 at 9:30 am, or thereafter
within the time allowed by law,
Veronica N. Panella, as Administrator
of the Estate of Julijana L. Janich,
will sell at private sale to the highest
and best net bidder, on the terms
and conditions stated below, all
right, title and interest of the
Decendent, Julijana L. Janich, in the
real property located at 2235 Stuart
Street, Berkeley, CA 94 APN: 0541717-006
more
particularly
described as follows:
Portion of Lots 14 and 15, Block C,
Map of Southern portion of the Blake
Estate, Plot No. 69 of the V and D
Peralta Rancho as per Julius
.HOOHUVEHUJHUV 0DS VXEGLYLGHG
December 1879, filed April 18, 1884,
Map Book 6 page 26, Alameda
County Records, described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the northern

line of Stuart Street, distant thereon
westerly 140 feet from the intersection thereof with the western line of
Ellsworth Street, as said streets are
shown on the said map: running
thence westerly along said line of
Stuart Street, 40 feet; thence at right
angles northerly 134 feet, 6 inches;

thence at right angles easterly 40

feet; thence at right angles southerly
134 feet, 6 inches to the point of
beginning.
The property sold subject to current
taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, right, right of
way and easement of record, with
any encumbrances of record to be
satisfied from the purchase price.
The property is to be sold on an
as-is basis, except for title.
Bids or offers are invited for this
property. All bids or offers must be in
writing and can be mailed or delivered personally to Veronica N.
Panella, 11100 San Pablo Avenue,
Ste. 212, El Cerrito, CA 94539 at
any time after the date of the first
publication until confirmation of the
sale by the court.
Veronica N. Panella reserves the
right to reject any and all bids or
offers. The initial bid is $747,500.
Any person desiring to purchase this
property must make an overbid
totaling $785,375, calculated as the
basis of the original bid, plus ten
percent of the first $10,000.00 plus
5% of the original bid minus
$10,000.00.
For further information please contact Veronica N Panella, 11100 San
Pablo Ave., Ste. 212, El Cerrito, CA
94530 at (510)860-2470.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
ZELDA A. BOYD
CASE NO. RP15776502
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested in
the will or estate, or both of Zelda A.
Boyd, aka Zelda Boyd, aka Zelda
Arber Boyd.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has
been filed by Stephen Poythress
Boyd in the Superior Court of
California, County of ALAMEDA.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE
requests that Stephen Poythress
Boyd be appointed as personal rep-

resentative to administer the estate

of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the deceGHQWV ZLOO DQG FRGLFLOV LI DQ\ EH
admitted to probate. The will and
any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to
administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will
allow the personal representative to
take many actions without obtaining
court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however,
the personal representative will be
required to give notice to interested
persons unless they have waived
notice or consented to the proposed
action.) The independent administration authority will be granted
unless an interested person files an
objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be
held in this court as follows: August
24, 2015 at 9:30 AM in Department
201 located at 2120 Martin Luther
King, Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of
the petition, you should appear at
the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with
the court before the hearing. Your
appearance may be in person or by
your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you
must file your claim with the court
and mail a copy to the personal
representative appointed by the
court within the later of either (1) four
months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal
representative, as defined in section
58(b) of the California Probate
Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
mailing or personal delivery to you of
a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code. Other
California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an
attorney knowledgeable in California

law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by
the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with
the court a Request for Special
Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of
an inventory and appraisal of estate
assets or of any petition or account
as provided in Probate Code Section
1250. A Request for Special Notice
form is available from the court
clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner
Julia L. Ross
1442 Walnut Street, Ste. 301
Berkeley, CA 94709
(510) 528-2555
Publish: 7/13, 7/16, 7/20/15.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO
ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
CHRISTINE HAWKINS
CASE NO. RP15777084
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons
who may otherwise be interested in
the will or estate, or both of Christine
Hawkins.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has
been filed by Brian D. Young in the
Superior Court of California, County
of ALAMEDA.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE
requests that Brian D. Young be
appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the
decedent.
THE PETITION requests the deceGHQWV ZLOO DQG FRGLFLOV LI DQ\ EH
admitted to probate. The will and
any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to
administer the estate under the
Independent Administration of
Estates Act. (This authority will
allow the personal representative to
take many actions without obtaining
court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however,
the personal representative will be
required to give notice to interested
persons unless they have waived
notice or consented to the proposed

action.) The independent administration authority will be granted

unless an interested person files an
objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not
grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be
held in this court as follows: August
19, 2015 at 9:30 AM in Department
201 located at 2120 Martin Luther
King, Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of
the petition, you should appear at
the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with
the court before the hearing. Your
appearance may be in person or by
your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you
must file your claim with the court
and mail a copy to the personal
representative appointed by the
court within the later of either (1) four
months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal
representative, as defined in section
58(b) of the California Probate
Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of
mailing or personal delivery to you of
a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code. Other
California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an
attorney knowledgeable in California
law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by
the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with
the court a Request for Special
Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of
an inventory and appraisal of estate
assets or of any petition or account
as provided in Probate Code Section
1250. A Request for Special Notice
form is available from the court
clerk.
Petitioner
Brian D. Young
1212 Broadway, Suite 742
Oakland, CA 94612-1806
(510) 893-0050
Publish: 7/13, 7/16, 7/20/15.

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I think what (the Golden State

Warriors) achieved over the
year was a really good balance
of discipline and fun.

MONDAY, JULY 13, 2015 DAILYCAL.ORG/SPORTS

Maddy Kerr, Cal volleyball player

FOOTBALL

VOLLEYBALL

Cals defense
looks for big
impact from
Russell Ude
By Hooman Yazdanian
Senior Staff
hyazdanian@dailycal.org

GOLDENBEARSPORTS.COM/COURTESY

Maddy Kerr is the daughter of Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, who won the NBA Championship this season.
Kerr is also one of the stars on Cals volleyball team, and her brother Nick is joining the Bears basketball team next season as well.

Maddy Kerr talks volleyball, Steve Kerr

Kerr explores what
Bears should take
away from her titlewinning dads team
By Hooman Yazdanian
Senior Staff
hyazdanian@dailycal.org
Maddy Kerr is a rising junior on Cals volleyball team
and is expected to be one of
the teams biggest stars this
upcoming season. Shes not
the only Kerr whos making
a mark in the Bay Area: Her
dad, Steve Kerr, is the head
coach of the Golden State
Warriors and recently led the
team to an NBA Championship. Meanwhile, her brother
Nick is transferring to UC
Berkeley next season as a
fifth-year senior and will play

on the basketball team. The

Daily Californian sat down
with Kerr to talk about the
Warriors, her dad and the
upcoming volleyball season.
The Daily Californian:
Youve had a lot of time for
the NBA Finals to sink in.
What are your thoughts and
your experiences?
Maddy Kerr: It was really
surreal. I think my dad getting a coaching job, especially
with the Warriors to begin
with, was such a surprise and
such an awesome thing for
our family. We were still kind
of riding that train, so we
didnt really expect them to
go to the finals or win the finals. It was really cool. It was
a good surprise. He worked
really hard and has always
wanted to be a coach, so its
awesome to see your family
members succeed.
DC: Does he talk about it
all the time now?

MK: Right now, hes in

relaxation mode like hes
not doing anything. Hell
be like, It feels pretty good
to be an NBA champion.
Hes very sarcastic about it,
though. Hes not arrogant or
anything.
DC: Your brothers coming here next year, too, right?
Thats got to be awesome.
MK: Hes really excited
to come to Cal. The basketball teams going to be really
good, and hes a fifth year, so
he only has one more year
of eligibility. I think he was
kind of bummed to be missing out on all of this stuff,
because him and my dad are
best friends, and its such a
cool experience being able to
be around such a great team
and winning all the time. So
he felt a little left out.
DC: You went to the
games in Cleveland, too,
right? I know the crowd was

giving you guys a lot of trouble.

MK: Im sure every crowd
is like that in playoff games.
We may not see it as much
because were in the family
section at Oracle, but Im
sure stuff goes on everywhere. They just love their
team like we love ours.
DC: And how was the parade?
MK: That was the coolest thing ever! The parade
was crazy. I went when I was
little, when my dad won as
a player a few times. I think
the last one I was 8, so I was
pretty little. None of them
have been that wild. My dad
said it was the best parade
hed seen. I mean, Oakland
is so cool, and the city just
really loves its sports teams,
like the whole Bay Area. They
put it on, so it was incredible.

VOLLEYBALL: PAGE 7

After a lackluster season

for the Cal football teams
defense in 2014, there is perhaps nothing the teams fans
should be more excited about
than a highly esteemed and
talented incoming player on
the defensive side of the football. That is exactly what the
Bears will be getting with defensive lineman Russell Ude.
The four-star recruit is
talented enough to make an
impact on the Bears as early
as this season. Cal could certainly use it after giving up
39.8 points per game in 2014
to rank 123rd in the country.
While not all of these
problems pointed to the defensive line (the defensive
backfield deserves its fair
share of blame as well), an
improvement there would
help steady the whole defense. The teams 16 sacks
last season were tied for
114th in the country with
Ball State. Thats not somewhere Cal can afford to be if
it wants to achieve bowl eligibility in 2015. Enter Ude,
who, at 6-foot-3 and 260
pounds, is a force to be reckoned with at any level.
My mindset is I want to
go out and perform to the
best of my abilities and do
whatever my coaches see fit,
Ude said. Im going to do
the best I can to get on that
field as soon as possible.
Given his combination of
size and talent, that time will
likely come sooner rather
than later. He is the type of
player who could fit in some
role in any scheme, but defensive
coordinator
Art
Kaufmans seems to be perfect for Ude.
The defensive scheme is
one of the many factors that
drew me here because I felt

FOOTBALL: PAGE 7

W. WORLD CUP

FIELD HOCKEY

Cal hopes Alie Zimmer US rediscovers form in time to win

can lead team in 2015 World Cup amid strong fan support
By Shiktij Dave | Staff
sdave@dailycal.org
Cal field hockey disappointed
last season with an 8-11 record,
but the season was not completely
devoid of silver linings. One of
these positive takeaways was the
emergence of Alie Zimmer, who
showed flashes of strong play in
an impressive freshman campaign and looks to be the future of
the Bears.
While Zimmer started just
four games, she played in all 19
to gain valuable experience at the
collegiate level. She also produced
significantly for the team with
seven points, which ranked her
fifth on the team. Despite Zimmer
not starting 15 games, she racked
up three goals for the Bears, which
ranked her an impressive third on
the team.
Zimmer captured NorPac
Freshman of the Week honors
during her first week of play last
season for her heroic debut in the
come-from-behind victory in the
teams season opener against Fairfield. In the game, Cal put pressure on Fairfield from the start
but was unable to break through,
leading to an early 1-0 hole. Zimmer helped the Bears retaliate
when she hoisted a shot past
Fairfield goalkeeper Caitlin Bennett to tie the game in the 49th
minute. Less than three minutes
into the overtime period, Zimmer
fought through a scrum near the
net to put another shot on goal.
The strike went past Bennett, and
Zimmer became Cals first freshman since 2010 to notch a gamewinning shot.
Thats exactly why I wanted
Alie (Zimmer) to come to school
here, said head coach Shellie Onstead to Cal Athletics after the victory.

While Zimmers production

and playing time leveled off over
the course of the season, she still
managed to make her effect felt in
a limited role as part of the Bears
offensive attack. Throughout the
season, she compiled a shot-ongoal percentage of .692, which
ranked second on the team, with
13 attempted shots and nine on
frame. The aggressiveness and
accuracy showcased by the freshman forward in a limited sample
size is a good indicator of things
to come, with an expanded role
available for the taking this season.
Throughout the off-season, she
has continued to actively work on
improving her game and has been
competing in challenging tournaments. Zimmers USA Gold Team
recently captured a silver medal
at the USA Field Hockey Young
Womens National Championship
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The
team won its first three matchups against USA Blue, USA Red
and USA White but ultimately
dropped its last game, 4-2, to the
Patriots.
The departure of several key
leaders and players for the team
such as Lara Kruggel, Andrea
Earle and Wallstedt clears the
path for an athlete to emerge
to fill their void. Kruggel, who
started 14 games for Cal last season, was able to notch 12 goals
on 56 shots and 31 on frame for a
shot-on-goal percentage of .554.
Earl put up five goals and had a
shot-on-goal percentage of .600.
Wallstedt notched three goals on
a .619 shot-on-goal percentage.
Zimmer seems poised to help replace part of the production that
this stellar veteran trio provided
the team and may help change the
tides for the struggling program
in its attempt to break through in
the Pac-12.

By Manny Flores | Staff

jflores@dailycal.org
Berkeley residents, students
and restaurant employees all
moaned, nervously groaned and
cheered as they had their eyes
glued to the nearest television
screen to watch the U.S. Womens
National Teams stressful journey en route to winning the 2015
FIFA Womens World Cup.
Their grunts of frustration and
sighs of disappointment were numerous during the United States
group-stage matches. The United
States entered the tournament as
one of the heavily favored sides to
win the tournament but left much
to be desired on the pitch in its
early fixtures, despite its favorable
final scores.
Team USAs explosive offensive line seemed almost nonexistent in the group stage. Its lack
of creativity and inability to finish
goal-scoring opportunities raised
doubts about the teams ability to
go far in the tournament, but the
defensive line served as the teams
reliable crutch to help keep victories within reach. The strong
defensive line helped goalkeeper
Hope Solo win the Golden Glove
award and record five clean sheets,
as she conceded only three goals.
The backline of (Meghan)
Klingenberg, (Becky) Sauerbrunn,
(Julie) Johnston and (Ali) Krieger
performed as well as Ive seen any
backline play on the U.S. national
team against great opposition,
said Cal womens soccer head
coach Neil McGuire.
As the tournament progressed,
the United States gradually improved and played more like a
well-rounded championship contender. The Americans began effectively dictating the pace of their
matches, maintained possession

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U.S. players celebrate their World Cup win at a rally in New York. They defeated
Japan in the final game in front of 26.7 million viewers on American televisions.

and showed less trouble penetrating adversaries defenses.

According to McGuire, it seems
that it took some time for USWNT
head coach Jill Ellis to figure out
the best sequence of players to
include in her teams lineup, and
near the tail end of the World Cup,
the United States overall performance finally became as good as
everyone expected because Ellis
figured out the right balance in
her squad.
The United States rediscovered
its sharp form in its victory against
Germany in the semifinals, in
time to face Japan in the final
a rematch of 2011s championship
match. Most pundits and spectators, however, didnt expect to see
the heavily one-sided affair that
the 2015 World Cup final turned
into. The United States dominated Japan throughout most of
match and routed the team, 5-2.
I think it shows the spirit of
the womens national team, McGuire said. People questioned
them. People didnt think they
were ready. I think they wanted
to prove (to) everybody that they
were the best team in the world.

Although Alex Morgan did not

score as many goals as she and
many U.S. supporters may have
hoped for, McGuire believes that
the Cal alumnas speed, strength
and aerial ability helped Team
USA play in a certain style that
Japan couldnt overcome in the
final.
Stateside support for Morgan
and the rest of the USWNT in
the World Cup final was astounding, as Team USAs victory was
watched by 26.7 million viewers
in the United States nearly
double the viewership of the
teams loss to Japan in 2011. The
matchs audience surpassed that
of Game 7 of last years World Series, Game 6 of last months NBA
Finals and last months Game 6
of the Stanley Cup Finals, as reported by Fox Sports.
The support is real, McGuire
said. Soccers growth has been
exceptional. People are watching the games. People are playing the game. I think that soccer
should be one of the top three or
four sports in this country, and it
deserves to be because it truly is a
wonderful sport.