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GhOST WORlD: Jawad Qadir reviews Cannes winner ‘Uncle Boonmee.’See PAGe 4
Berkeley Joins Nationwide Protests for Public Education
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Naturalist Shares Passion for Environment at the Berkeley Marina
It is easy to imagine that Patricia Donald is an organic element of the Berkeley Marina. The salty air and the wide expanse of sea and sunlight seem to have worked their way far below her skin, burrowing themselves bone-deep and structuring the course of her life in a fundamental way.
During Donald’s childhood, the ma-rina was “halfway not there,” but, as she grew, it did too. As a young girl, she watched as it was transformed from landfill into land through her home’s big bay windows during coveted two-minute telephone conversations with
by Noor Al-SamarraiStaff Writer
friends — a time limit set by her father, a physician, in case of hospital emer-gencies.
Poring over countless issues of Na-tional Geographic Magazine, Donald studied the impacts of water pollution and environmental degradation.
“When I was 10 and 11, teachers didn’t talk about things like that,” she explained.
Over time, Donald has honed a sav-age sense of stewardship over the en-vironment, covertly collecting snails from her yard and hiding them to pre-vent her pest-conscious mother from crushing them. She discovered herself in the wild on family trips to the red-wood forest in Santa Cruz and sculpt-
ed nature paths in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during high school.
Until she entered college, toxic run-off from neighboring industries and urban centers constantly churned into the San Francisco Bay. Chemicals like DDT still linger in its sediments today.
While pesticide pollution has de-creased, Donald is quick to point out that vast volumes of plastic litter and oil waste now seep into the bay.
As Coordinator of Berkeley’s Shore-bird Park Nature Center at the ma-rina, Donald organizes activities such as beach cleanups and collects data for proposals like that to establish a plastic bag ban in Berkeley, but her true role in-volves investing in future generations.
“I’m not really preserving (the ma-rina habitat) per se,” she said. “I’m pointing it out, saying ... look at all these things.”
Retired Tilden Regional Park natu-ralist Tim Gordon, who was a mentor to Donald, remembers her as a fre-quenter of the park.
“You’d be talking to a group of kids and there she would be,” he said.
Donald said she always knew she would become an interpretive natural-ist and share the simultaneous sense of self-discovery and wonder about the world that she found in nature and that naturalists like Gordon shared with her.
“I found a whole new world and that
personal discovery that I had was just like” — she paused to find the right word — “rockets. I had to try to figure out a way to make that contagious for other people. The trick is to find the magic words to entrance people and make them aware of nature and their place in it.”
Donald began working for the city full-time in 1981, travelling to class-rooms like a “kind of a bag lady” with a projector to teach students about wildlife and conservation and inviting them to learn hands-on at the marina.
Although marina staff, accustomed to interacting with boaters, were initial-ly resistant to the constant presence of
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While there was a relatively small turnout to UC Berkeley’s campus protest Wednesday in opposi-tion to California’s cuts to public education, other campuses nationwide hosted like-minded events in a display of solidarity with varied levels of support.
From coast to coast, students marched, rallied and even occupied buildings in order to show their disdain for public education budget cuts as part of the day of protest.
In San Francisco, students and faculty from San Francisco State University marched for about two miles through gloom and rain to the City College of San Francisco’s Mission campus, where at 2 p.m. more than 200 gathered in a joint rally.
Campuses like UCLA, UC Irvine and UC Davis organized rallies despite experiencing the same poor weather as Bay Area universities.
A noon rally on Bruin Plaza at UCLA attracted between 200 and 300 people, according to Bob Samuels, president of the University Council —
by Damian Ortellado and True Shields
Holding homemade picket signs and umbrel-las, over 200 students, parents and members of the Berkeley Unified School District community rallied in support of pub-lic education Wednesday afternoon, while stand-ing in the pouring rain in front of the district’s ad-ministration building.
The rally, which joined other demon-strations across California Wednesday in speaking out against recent statewide budget cuts to public education, featured a variety of speakers ranging from elementary school students to district board members. Speeches from the steps of the administration building
by Jeffrey ButterfieldStaff Writer
Hundreds of College Students Protest Across Country, Rallying Against Funding Cuts to Public Education on Day of Protest
Local School Children and Community Members Rally To Support School District, Future of Public Education
Campus Protests Start Small, End With 17 Detainments for Refusing to Leave Wheeler Hall
American Federation of Teachers — a union which represents lecturers, UC faculty and librarians.
A few hundred students at UC Santa Cruz fo-cused their efforts over two days, first enacting a “naked protest” Tuesday by spelling out the words “Free Education” with their bare bodies on the cam-pus’s East Field. On Wednesday, about 300 rallied in Quarry Plaza at noon to protest the campus’s re-fusal to institute an ethnic studies program.
After rallying, about 75 students began occupy-ing the Ethnic Resource Center at around 2 p.m. and were expected to stay through the night as of press time.
“We want to highlight the fact that this is a safe space for students of color when most people don’t know where it is,” said UC Santa Cruz student or-ganizer Leo Ritz-Barr. “We’re here to help the con-versation, not to steer it.”
UC Santa Cruz students were not the only ones to occupy buildings to declare their beliefs — several hundred students joined public workers in the oc-cupation of the Wisconsin state Capitol building in
focused mainly on support for progressive taxes that would generate more revenue for public education as well as on how valuable children are to the Berkeley community.
“We are here because we are tired of these cuts,” said Sam Frankel, a second-grade teacher at Berkeley Arts Magnet Elementary School. “We were here last year, the year before that and the year before that, and we are tired of asking.”
Frankel, who stood along Martin Luther King Jr. Way holding up a sign that said, “Close Tax Loops Not Schools,” said that cut-ting funds for education makes crucial tasks like closing the district and state achievement gap along race lines impossible.
Dale Long, a teacher at King Child Develop-ment Center, said in his speech to the crowd that a reduction in educational funds and resources especially hurts younger children, noting that the years a child spends in kindergarten through fifth grade are key to his or her development.
“If the tax extensions our governor has pro-posed do not make it to the ballot, or do not pass, these cuts are likely to grow exponen-tially,” Long said.
The crowd remained large for the duration of the rally. Notable among the crowd were
While protest actions planned for March 2 at UC Berkeley were generally uneventful during the daytime as participation in the day’s events proved significantly lower than in previous protests, the day of action ended with a faction of demonstrators refusing to leave Wheeler Hall and the subsequent detainment of 17 people.
Following a day filled with rallies, marches and snacking that began with a noon demonstration in front of Sproul Hall — with numbers peaking at less than 200 throughout the day — a small group of protesters reconvened on the steps of Wheeler Hall at about 5 p.m. and later moved inside.
The building officially closes and must be cleared out by 10 p.m., according to campus officials. The 17 protesters who sat on the floor, linked arms and refused to leave were zip-tied and detained. UCPD Police Chief Mitch Celaya said that unless those de-tained have any other criminal actions pending, they will be cited for trespassing and released. Student
by Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Katie Nelson
oNlINE VIDEoS Watch footage of Wednesday’s protests for public education.
>> ProtESt: PagE 2Marco Amaral, top left, is being detained by police Officers in Wheeler Hall Wednesday night after he and 16 others refused to leave. Demonstrators, bottom left and right, rallied for public education on Sproul Plaza earlier in the day. The campus protests were part of a nationwide day to defend public education, which was joined by local school children as well.
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oNlINE PoDcaStJordan Bach-Lombardo and Katie Nelson talk about the day’s events.
oNlINE VIDEo Watch footage of school children and community members protesting.
2 NEWS Thursday, March 3, 2011 The Daily Californian
The Man Behind the Marble Bathtubclog.dailycal.org The Clog shares some day-of-action-appropriate trivia about the greatly misunderstood UC President Mark Yudof, such as his zeal for pancakes and lasagna cupcakes, and highlights from his ever-so-insightful twitter feed.
Copy Editors: 2, AP and Pop Songs: 0Blog.dailycal.org/grammar A name misspelling makes its way into an Associated Press headline at 3:30 in the morning. Also, does the notoriously poor grammar of pop music spell out the death of good grammar everywhere?
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Protest: Rally Moved Through Different Parts of CampusfRoM fRonT
organizer Marco Amaral was among those detained.
Those who do have pending crimi-nal actions will be booked and appear in Alameda Superior Court Thursday.
“As far as I know, they will only be cited for trespassing,” Celaya said. “However, because I did not see every arrest, there could be an additional charge for those who resisted arrest.”
Some 70 other demonstrators gath-ered around the building while detain-ment took place inside, some shouting at police who were lined up blocking the building’s main entrance, while others ran to the east side of the build-ing chanting “let them go.”
Earlier in the day, roughly 100 peo-ple gathered in front of Sproul Hall and then marched around campus, garner-ing no more than 200 people total as
they entered Doe Library and contin-ued to march through Wheeler Hall before returning to Eshleman Hall.
“I think it is suicidal as a state to cut from higher education,” said UC Berke-ley junior Grant Hutchins during the day’s demonstrations. “With the cuts that are happening now, I have to say that this is a horrific path the state could take.”
Though protest organizers had ini-tially planned for a picnic in the after-noon on Memorial Glade, protesters moved their picnic’s location to the seventh floor of Eshleman Hall for fear of rain after the noon rally. However, they were told by campus event staff that they could not stay past 3:30 p.m. because the protesters had not proper-ly completed the reservation process.
While the number of people protesting was much smaller than the hundreds and sometimes thousands who participated in previous protests such as on March 4, and Oct. 7 of last year, protesters said the showing was by no means a failure.
“These things come in waves ... Stu-dents are by definition a transient popu-lation, the leaders graduate,” said UC Berkeley lecturer Michael Cohen, who spoke outside Wheeler Hall. “The task of an event like this is to remind (students) what is at stake. Nothing got changed overnight. Decision makers are so insu-lated from the democratic process.”
But the lower number of protest par-ticipants troubled ASUC Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein, who said that the campus community was not adequately educated about the problems it will face if Brown’s propos-al to cut $500 million in state funding to the UC is approved.
“The crisis is not acute yet, but peo-ple need to wake up to the train that is barreling at them,” he said.
Previous funding cuts from the state have already lead to cuts across all campus departments and has lead to increased tuition fees systemwide.
Future reductions threaten to curtail enrollment — which could leave many instate students who are guaranteed admission to the university by the state’s 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education without access to a UC degree — as well as further cuts to departments.
“The frustration is palpable on cam-pus,” said UC Berkeley senior Alex Tan. “Faculty and staff are worried and stu-dents aren’t getting what they need.”
Alisha Azevedo, J.D. Morris, Rachel Banning-Lover, Kate Randle and Jessica Rossoni contributed to this report.
Contact Jordan Bach-Lombardo and Katie Nelson at [email protected].
The Feb. 22 editorial “Paying the Price” incorrectly stated that since 2010, the house of UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann has undergone three burglaries. In fact, the house has undergone three burglaries since 2000.
Tuesday’s article “City’s Parking Cita-tion Profits Decline as Businesses Struggle” incorrectly stated that the city increased parking citation fees by $5 in October 2010 to bring in $280,000 in additional revenue. In fact, the city increased the fee by $3, which did not result in any additional revenue for the city.
Tuesday’s article “Specialty Wine Store Takes Root in Berkeley” misiden-tified Bauman College as the Baumont Culinary School. The article also incor-rectly stated that Michael Glasby has worked at Premier Cru since 1980. In fact, he has worked there since 1996.
The Daily Californian regrets the errors.
Corrections
Tuesday’s article “Specialty Wine Store Takes Root in Berkeley” may have implied that the 2003 Ausone is a 750 milliliter bottle when it is actually a 6-liter jug.
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The ATM was not lying to me. This was obvious because it was a machine and so incapable of
subterfuge, and in any case, it was unlikely to have any personal motivation to do so. As “CSI” and Sherlock Holmes have taught us, motive is everything. Still, I double-checked my balance: No such luck. I blinked, hoping a zero or two might appear. The digital readout, unimpressed with my efforts, remained unchanged. Two things then became apparent: One, I am probably a spendthrift, and two, I needed a job.
The first revelation was not some-thing I was prepared to tackle, especially so close to lunchtime or so close to Cheeseboard — so it was the second revelation to which I turned my attention. A job.
In my life, I’ve held various positions. I was the editor and co-founder of a magazine devoted to pop culture entitled Empty Calories, which, due to creative differences between the founders concerning the artistic merit of VH1, never made it to a second issue.
I was a camp councilor, marketing captain of a robotics team and president of my high school’s Young Democrats Club. I founded two t-shirt companies and a freelance graphic design practice.
I was even the proprietress and sometimes patron of a small business. Admittedly, my business was a lemonade stand and my profit was around 25 cents, but as they tell us, small businesses are the backbone of America. With the exception of the lemonade stand, though, none of these were permanently paid positions. I put in my time and in return got back that ever so tenuous currency: “experience.”
However, as I read the job descrip-tions on Callisto, it became clear that I had been shortchanged. I had managed to survive 19 years on Earth without being qualified for anything. Further analysis revealed several startling facts about the jobs available to students:
1. There are no jobs at coffee shops. This is contrary to every single post-collegiate movie or wistful guitar song you’ve ever heard. Possibly, this is because all of those jobs opened up in the mid-nineties and were promptly filled by Reed College graduates looking to “get reacquainted with themselves” — and so remain occupied 13 years later. Barista is for life.
2. It turns out you probably shouldn’t have dropped that statistics class. Who would have thought you would be deviating from the norm?
3. Nobody wants a liberal arts major, therefore, I would like to point out that I am not a liberal arts major. In fact, my major has the word “science” in it, as in cognitive science. This ought to separate me from the masses of English and media studies majors out there. Sure, political science also has “science” in it, but everyone knows that’s just for show.
Sadly, companies are not fooled by this and prefer the suffix “engineer-
ing” over the more general “science” as in: bioengineering, chemical engineer-ing, mechanical engineering, etc. I would advocate the immediate creation of a major entitled “social engineering” to replace “political science” — but I suspect that would smack mildly of
eugenics. In the mean time, I shall have to hope that the people reading my resume confuse cognitive science with computer science. Seriously, it’s an easy mistake to make.
4. Are you a self-starter? Do you practice synergy? Would you like an exciting career in a morally ambiguous business? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? Do you look good in suits? Are you just generally really awesome? Well then, the insurance business is the perfect place for you.
5. The most readily available jobs are tutoring positions teaching other students so that they can get great jobs — as SAT tutors and so the cycle perpetuates. This alone is disheartening, not to mention the fact that our most valuable asset as students at UC Berkeley appears to be our ability to accurately fill in bubbles.
6. The job I am currently most qualified for is as a sales representative for an artisan olive oil refinery. Laugh, friends, laugh.
Writing cover letters is even worse than applying for jobs. How do
you appear competent, but not self-aggrandizing? Confident but not cocky? How can you be formal without sounding like an asshole? Is there a synonym for “analytical skills,” how about one for “creative approach?” And of course, my personal pet peeve, the ubiquitous question: “What would you say is your greatest weakness?”
If I had a weakness, would I tell you? There is a reason that “student” is
listed under occupation heading on official forms. There is no such thing as being a 9-to-5 student. If you are lucky, you love your classes, love your professors and love your major — if you don’t, it can start to feel like school is an unwanted stray that follows you home.
Yet, we go through school with the knowledge that eventually we will leave the, if not hallowed, then certainly muddy, Berkeley halls for the chilling embrace of the real world. We hope that, after sweating out four years in higher education, we will be welcomed and recognized for our talents. Most of us came to college in search of mobility: social, geographic or economic. A college degree, we have been told, is the great equalizer, and it will be, in the future. However, as I filled out my third application for a dog-walker, that future seemed very far away. But hey, at least I’d be working a fast-paced job.
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four giant 14-foot replicas of pencils with the words, “Tax the rich to teach our children” inscribed on them.
“(The energy) is awesome,” said Mer-edith Gold, a second-grade teacher at Malcolm X Elementary School. “We are here in the pouring rain, and people from all over the district have come out.”
The students at the rally made their enthusiasm heard with chants like, “Education is our right. For our future we will fight.” Some people throughout the crowd beat drums after speakers stated key points about the need to support education.
“I see potential school board mem-bers, superintendents, future teachers and leaders here today,” said district board member Beatriz Leyva-Cutler. “We hope that everyone here will make their voices heard in Sacramento and get the vote out.”
Superintendent Bill Huyett officially closed the rally just as the rain began to subside, thanking everyone for coming to support the district’s schools and chil-dren. At the very end, he led the crowd in several cries of “save our schools.”
SchoolS: Local Residents Join Education ProtestsfRom fRont
Patricia Donald poses with a dog at Shorebird Nature Park. She has worked in and around the marina in many ways, including teaching children and organizing cleanups.
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youngsters, they were eased into it, Donald said. She has been teaching programs there ever since, and now has a facility where kids come to her.
“Patty really dug in down there at the marina and really made it hers,” Gordon said.
Donald possesses an easy grace and power, quietly drawing an excitement about marine ecology that mimics her own from kids who may have arrived at the marina clinging to iP-ods. She teaches deftly, letting children and adults alike think critically about the natural world without realizing they are doing so, the way waders can be shifted down the shoreline by waves without exerting any effort.
“(Teaching children) is important for the lon-gevity of the marina, to show the people living nearby that it wasn’t just an area for rich folks,” she said. “It’s an environment, a habitat, a crea-ture — a niche that’s right in front of you.”
DonalD: Local teaches others About Conservation at marinafRom fRont
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After four years away from the international film scene, Thai filmmaker Apichatpong
Weerasethakul returns with the highly anticipated “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.” Loosely based on a book by a Buddhist monk entitled “A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” the story was referenced by Weerasethakul in his past works, namely in his 2004 Cannes entry, “Tropical Malady.” His latest film moves drastically away from its source material, culminating into a wholly personal and original film.
As the title suggests, the film centers on Boonmee, a landowner in the Thai countryside bordering Laos. He has a certain way of attracting the paranor-mal side of life, as Weerasethakul purposely blurs the line between reality and fantasy. As Boonmee nears death, Boonmee welcomes a visit from his sister-in-law and nephew, while also receiving an unexpected appearance from the ghost of his dead wife, Huay.
Her appearance also prompts the return of Boonmee’s lost son, Boon-
by Jawad QadirStaff Writer
song, who has transformed into a red-eyed monkey-like creature after years of mating with apes. Weerasethakul frames the scene as a subtle family meal around a dinner table. The shock of seeing Boonsong and Huay balances itself out with the moderate pacing, slowly lulling the viewer into an acceptance of the film’s fantastic reality.
As each of the titular character’s past lives are are explored, “Uncle Boonmee” can further be divided into four distinct plot lines. With such oddly imaginative sequences — an ox roaming the fields with red-eyed apes, a catfish having sex with a princess — the film can’t be blamed for lack of creativity.
However, it may be argued that the abrupt jumps between sequences can feel jarring and leave much about the characters unexplained. But therein lies its appeal. By leaving the subject matter vague, Weerasethakul forces the audience to interact with the film on a personal level. It goes without saying that this isn’t the kind of movie that’s forgotten once the picture fades to black. It may not have grandiose costumes, special effects or large set
Spiritual profundity and political immediacy can make poor bedfellows, but Xavier Beauvois’
“Of Gods and Men,” based on a tragic episode from Algeria’s 1990s civil war, manages to accomplish both without the pretension of unwieldy “message films.” Beauvois’ film is first and foremost a contemplative portrait of eight Trappist monks who make their home in the Algerian village of Tibhirine. As they coexist with the predominantly Muslim inhabitants, the specter of extremist violence looms, but Beauvois steers away from cliched characterizations. What he offers instead is a sensitive rendering of routine disrupted and resolve tested, as the day-to-day lives of the monks and townspeople are shaken by the encroaching threat of terrorism.
The film takes pains to establish the monks’ role in their adoptive commu-
by Sam StanderSenior Staff Writer
pieces that can typically found in epics, but “Uncle Boonmee” maintains a larger-than-life quality throughout its nearly two-hour running time. The surreal account of life and death does away with classic narrative structure, further illustrating the possibilities of cinema.
About halfway through “Uncle Boonmee,” the intentional incompre-hensibility of the film becomes a fact. At least this happens to be the case during one’s first viewing. But once this is accepted, the film becomes more of an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to be taken on an emotional and humorous journey with the characters.
But the heart of “Uncle Boonmee” rests in Weerasethakul’s technical mastery of the filmmaking. Shot entirely using 16mm film, the grainy texture of the print adds to the movie’s other-worldly quality, while the pacing plays a key role here by mesmerizing the viewer well after the film is done.
The film also marks a departure from the director’s previous works, largely stemming from the sheer immensity of the material at hand. Ambitious doesn’t begin to describe
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I’m a contrarian when it comes to movie talk, and often unfound-edly so.
now that “The King’s Speech” has picked up Best Picture, it will join the ranks of movies I love to hate. It was a fine movie — but now, thanks to Oscar’s blessing, it just turns me off. But fret not, my “King,” for you’re in good company because people (mostly old ones) love you. As for Tom Hooper, I’m sure he’ll crank out many an old-fashioned historically revisionist romp in his time.
Who the hell is Tom Hooper, you ask? yeah, I’m with you. don’t really know this guy either. He’s a nobody in my book, but he was apparently enough of a somebody to be crowned Best director on Sunday. And oh, what a waste of a Sunday, when I could’ve been hand-washing my socks or racing a turtle.
When it comes to Best director, I suspect the Academy was faced with too many great filmmakers so they picked the runt of the litter. “This film was made against all odds,” Hooper said of his Weinstein-produced, conspicuously Oscar-baiting feature. do tell: What odds are those?
So many bold visions went unrecognized on Sunday. While Mr. Hooper evidently sees the world through a rosy, english-royalty-smudged lens, david fincher sees it through steely ultra-cool widescreen; darren Aronofsky through gritty Steadicam. fincher and Aronofsky films are all about direction, unlike “Speech,” whose strength is in the performances, not the director. Still fresh off their 2008 sweep for “no Country for Old Men,” the Coen brothers didn’t have a shot in Oscar hell — but even they would’ve been a better choice. And though david O. Russell is something of a sellout after a decade of indie quirk-fests like “flirting with disaster” and “I Heart Huckabees,” at least “The fighter” is highly cinephilic, which is the mark of an auteur.
Last month, entertainment Weekly — a bastion of journalism, I know — published a list of the “25 Greatest Working directors” that was as frustrating as the Academy’s taste. eW staffers ranked david fincher as the best working director, obviously in the wake of “The Social network.” My man Aronofsky — never a subtle filmmaker, but mmph! how I love his bravado — clocked in at number five. I love the guy, but c’mon: How is his work superior to the prodigious catalogue of Terrence Malick, maker of some of the all-time greats, who came in at eighth? And do these people honestly believe that Steven Spielberg is the third best director working today? He hasn’t made a good movie since “Minority Report,” and that was ten years ago. you should never put credence in eW but, like the Academy, they are arbiters of taste.
I’m urging that we reject these tastes imposed upon us and give up the ghosts of Hollywood fogeys — Tom Hooper is a fogey-in-training, a total non-revolutionary — in favor of the hyper-modern maestros of the moment, like those other Best directors. I will always gravitate toward auteurs who don’t just go against the grain, but define it. To follow an auteur’s career is to really know the man behind the curtain. As a kid I remade Hitchcock scenes using my mom’s camera (taping over milestone family moments to do it). Auteurs invite imitation, and imitation is the sincerest if most annoying form of flattery, which is how cinematic precedents are made.
So there’s my nail in the Oscar coffin, where the fogeys belong. next year, we’ll all collectively dig out that coffin again and prop up ol’ Oscar so he doesn’t look as dead as he actually is.
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the magnitude of the film. With each major sequence, the director employs a different production technique, ranging from a historical costume drama to a pared-down documentary style as Boonmee nears his death. Weerasethakul illustrates his ability to adapt to any genre, while still maintaining his own original vision in every scene.
As with most personal filmmakers, the stylistic choices seen throughout “Uncle Boonmee” reflect the director’s own love for the films and television shows that inspired him. Weerasethakul has often been described as an auteur, but the term doesn’t do justice in relation to his latest release. The problem with the term auteur is that it can only describe a director that brings a single distinct and often technical quality to a film, whereas a personal filmmaker puts his soul into every single shot. With its intimate celebration of all that cinema has to offer, “Uncle Boonmee” proves that Weerasethakul belongs to the latter.
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nity. Brother Christian (Lambert Wilson) is conversant in the Quran, which sits on his desk alongside Catholic texts. Brother Luc (Michael Lonsdale) runs a clinic for the people of Tibhirine, but he doesn’t just provide medicine — he also doles out new shoes and life advice. The brothers are intimately involved in the lives of their neighbors, who trust and value them in return.
When the monks’ Christmas is interrupted by armed radicals in the wake of local violence, Christian persuades them to relent with his reverent quotation of the Quran. In the aftermath, the monastery is cast into upheaval. Some of the monks are ready to return to france, while others find fleeing unfathomable, a disagreement that drives the rest of the movie.
The film is built around several scenes of the monks somberly praying together, with the soundtrack domi-nated by their spoken or sung prayer. A harrowing exception comes when their
worship is nearly drowned out by the sounds of a military helicopter — in one of the film’s most moving moments, they simply band together to pray louder.
With these interludes for punctua-tion, the film is evenly paced, slow but not plodding. But occasional eruptions of brutality reshape the emotional landscape. The characters — from Lonsdale’s big-hearted Luc to Abdellah Chakiri’s uncompromising Algerian colonel — are sometimes mouthpieces for certain points of view, but never caricatures. Their faces register real terror and convincing passion, which shifts the conflict from the realm of theology to the more universal domain of human cruelty and understanding.
The already oft-cited climax of the film is its emotional crux — the monks, joined by a visiting comrade, sit around a table and sip wine as they listen to a tape of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” The camera cuts or pans from face to face in ever-tightening close-ups, capturing
expressions of overwhelming emotion ranging from beatific grins to sudden tears, sometimes on the same face. Their fate — as the audience may guess, since in reality, the monks of Tibhirine are remembered for their enigmatic deaths — is sealed, and they accept this grim awareness with the absolute breadth of human emotion.
This is perhaps the film’s primary strength: the ability to draw forth deep feeling from simple images, whether vast landscape shots or individuals engaged in prayer. As the film closes, Christian offers explicit statements about religious violence, but “Of Gods and Men” is ultimately a movie about people rather than grand political narratives, and through this specificity it stunningly explores how decent individuals must cope with the chaos around them.
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UC Berkeley researchers have suc-cessfully manipulated a bacteria that may shed new light on current biofuel production, ac-cording to a recently pub-lished report.
S c i e n t i s t s in the campus chemistry de-partment re-leased results of their research involving the manipulation of Escherichia coli for the produc-tion of butanol, published in a report online on Feb. 27.
Michelle Chang, assistant chemistry professor and co-author of the report, said the research focuses on “genetical-ly engineering microbes to do chemis-try,” which in her research means plac-ing new DNA sequences into E. coli to maximize butanol production.
“We see this research as being very in line with our general principles,” said Martin Mulvihill, executive director for the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, of which Chang is a member.
Chang said another organism — Clostridium acetobutylicum — already used to produce butanol commercially, can provide insight about manipulat-ing other organisms. She said Clostrid-ium naturally produces butanol, but is “more difficult to work with.”
The report, published in Nature Chemical Biology, states that the group is “interested in using n-butanol pro-
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duction as a system to explore the basic biochemical principles underlying the design of high-flux synthetic pathways inspired by ethanol fermentation.”
Between ethanol and butanol, butanol is more ideal because a higher percentage can be mixed with gasoline and still run in normal vehicles, according to Chang.
Brooks Bond-Watts, a graduate stu-dent in chemistry and co-author of the re-port, said the team decided to work with E. coli because of the wealth of informa-tion already known about the organism.
“It’s not necessarily the best (organ-ism),” Bond-Watts said. “There are a lot that people are trying.”
Chang said the current manipulated E. coli produces three times less butanol than industrial Clostridium, but ten times more than previous engineered E. coli systems.
“We still have, obviously, stuff to do,” Chang said. “This is the first generation.”
She said she hopes to engineer E. coli to yield two to three times more butanol — a goal that may take another two to three years of research.
“Everything that we are doing now is at the DNA level,” Bond-Watts said. “We’re trying to start to look at the rest of metabolism.”
He added that the research could have applications in producing other fuels and pharmaceuticals.
Chang’s lab is one of many on cam-pus working to engineer organisms used in the production of biofuels.
“Everyone is working towards using renewable resources to create these fuels and feedstocks, but everyone is taking a different approach,” Mulvihill said.
Study Learns to Manipulate E. Coli to Produce Biofuels
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ONLINE PODCASTSara Johnson talks about the use of E. coli in biofuel production.
City to Delay Spending on Public Works Projects
In a scramble to implement cost-saving solutions, the Berkeley City Council will consider deferring capital improvement projects to offset a por-tion of the city’s $1.8 million deficit that extends through June 30.
The city will save about $813,500 by delaying funding for three large proj-ects maintained by the city’s Depart-ment of Public Works — which is re-sponsible for upkeep of physical assets and infrastructure — until fiscal year 2012, as outlined in the city’s revised fiscal year 2011 budget.
Postponed projects include bike and pedestrian programs, street rehabilita-tion and storm response and mainte-nance services.
Funding for all three capital im-provement projects will be delayed until the next fiscal year, which be-gins July 1. While street rehabilitation projects were already scheduled to oc-cur after that date, implementation of the bike and pedestrian programs and
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storm response projects will be pushed back, according to the city’s Budget Manager Teresa Berkeley-Simmons.
“We just know that we’re not go-ing to have to write checks until after July,” said city spokesperson Mary Kay Clunies-Ross.
Clunies-Ross added that deferred spending will “solve the cash flow prob-lem” for this budget cycle and help the city recover revenue losses stemming largely from decreased property and sales taxes, both of which are sensitive to the economic climate.
Allocation of funds for the projects will be finalized when the city is ex-pected to adopt its new biennial bud-get on June 28.
“This happens in regular budget years, even when there is no big drop (in revenue),” Clunies-Ross said.
To balance overall decreased rev-enue with total expenditure, the city has also implemented a range of short-term cost saving measures.
Freezing vacant positions through-out city departments, excluding fire and police, will save the city about $1 million while employee “give backs” —
voluntary non-paid days off — have al-ready accounted for about $1.7 million in savings.
The department itself — which staffs 301 employees — has coped with difficult economic times by freezing 12 vacancies, accumulating to about $2.3 million in savings for fiscal year 2011.
Reduced services and unfilled vacan-cies have proven favorable over increased layoffs while attempting to close the bud-get gap, City Manager Phil Kamlarz said at a press briefing in February.
However, drastic measures, includ-ing city layoffs, seem inevitable.
In the past two years, 130 city em-ployee positions have been eliminated. Seven more are slated for termination and 14 employees face pay cuts or job transfers, according to Kamlarz.
Until a final biennial budget is ap-proved, the council will evaluate the impacts of both reduced services and staff layoffs as the city enters into a projected $11 million shortfall for all funds next year.
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SCOPE: Despite Turnout, Activists Remain HopefulfRom fRonT
opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s pro-posed 9 percent cut to state education funding as well as his proposal to take away most collective bargaining pow-ers from public state employee union members.
Samuels said that efforts to plan protests at UCLA may have benefited from social media publicity.
“We were going to do a much smaller thing, but because people wanted to rally in support of Wisconsin, we want-ed to bring in other people,” he said.
Facebook events promoting the day of action mobilized protests at UCLA, UC Riverside, and CSU Northridge by providing times and locations for ac-tivists to congregate.
On the East Coast, schools includ-ing the University of Central Florida and Stony Brook University in New York also held rallies, aided in part by representatives from the United States Student Association — a national stu-dent advocacy group. Jake Stillwell, the association’s communications director, said the organization’s involvement in student protests varies depending on
each campus’s individual needs.“We’re really trying to make this so
its not an isolated day of action,” he said. “We’re trying to take this mes-sage to the (nation’s) capital and really hammer this home.”
Despite relatively low turnout at student rallies across the nation, some activists said they are optimistic about the day’s results and future protests.
“It’s just as perfect and whiny as a newborn baby can be,” Ritz-Barr said.
Nina Brown of The Daily Califor-nian contributed to this report.
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Akademie für Alte Musik BerlinFri, March 4, 8 pm, First Congregational ChurchGermany’s remarkable period-instrument ensemble, among the most virtuosic Baroque musicians in the world, performs a survey of German masterpieces—including an endearing favorite, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto.Program: Telemann: Overture in C Major · J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. · Violin Concerto in E Major · Handel: Concerto Grosso · Telemann: Concerto in E Minor
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often: abbr.18. Actress Zellweger19. Fuel bucket22. Literary work23. Of the ankle24. Jerks26. Head of France29. Like a car in a
junkyard32. Compose36. Talk wildly38. German article39. Means of transportation40. Actor MacLeod41. Behold: Lat.42. Tread43. Deli purchases44. Curvy characters45. Part of a sentence47. Future plant49. Nahuatl speaker51. Difficult situations56. Rearward58. Daydreaming61. Barbecue63. Scorch64. Algerian seaport65. Believer!s palindrome66. __ jury67. Sell68. Trumpet-shaped
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man!s secret48. Come forth50. Hidden supply52. Household appliance53. Warning sound54. Dale __
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ACROSS 1. Opening 4. Interlock 8. Cause pain13. Edson Arantes do
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often: abbr.18. Actress Zellweger19. Fuel bucket22. Literary work23. Of the ankle24. Jerks26. Head of France29. Like a car in a
junkyard32. Compose36. Talk wildly38. German article39. Means of transportation40. Actor MacLeod41. Behold: Lat.42. Tread43. Deli purchases44. Curvy characters45. Part of a sentence47. Future plant49. Nahuatl speaker51. Difficult situations56. Rearward58. Daydreaming61. Barbecue63. Scorch64. Algerian seaport65. Believer!s palindrome66. __ jury67. Sell68. Trumpet-shaped
flowers69. Do yardwork70. Junior nav. rank
DOWN 1. Columbus! birthplace 2. Cathedral feature 3. Sleep upside-down 4. Strength 5. Beige shade 6. Wooden piece 7. Fast 8. Calm 9. __ West
10. Faithless ones11. Marsh growth12. Pine, for example13. Covenant20. Fill21. Burdened25. Joints27. Waiter!s item28. Roof edges30. Suffix for confer or
prefer31. Shameful grades32. Flying insect33. Old Testament book34. Saying again35. November birthstone37. Clamp40. Inexperienced44. Troublefree spot46. Circus tall
man!s secret48. Come forth50. Hidden supply52. Household appliance53. Warning sound54. Dale __
55. Transmit56. Reps.57. Unchained59. Dull sound60. Orangey drink62. Name for 13 Popes
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FILE NO. 448043The name of the business: Fandor, street address 2887 College Ave., Suite #113, Berkeley, CA 94705, mailing address 2887 College Ave., Suite #113, Berkeley, CA 94705 is hereby registered by the following owners: Our Film Festival, Inc., 2887 College Ave., Suite #113, Berkeley, CA 94705.This business is conducted by a Corporation.The registrant began to transact business under the fictitious busi-ness name listed above on 2/1/11.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on February 14, 2011.FandorPublish: 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17/11
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Trustee Sale No. FC26858 11 Loan No. 0218740 Title Order No. 4764030 APN 058 2127 019 TRA No.: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 08/25/06. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE
OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On March 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, MORTGAGE LENDER SERVICES, INC. as the duly appointed Trustee under and pursu-ant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 09/01/06 as Document No. 2006335956 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of ALAMEDA County, California, exe-cuted by: CHRISTOPHER B.STERLING AND BRENNAN E. HEDGES, as Trustor, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by cash, a cashier’s check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings asso-ciation, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). At: THE FALLON STREET EMERGENCY EXIT TO THE ALAMEDA COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, 1225 FALLON ST., OAKLAND, CA, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County, California describing the land there-in: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST. The property heretofore described is being sold "as is". The street address and other common desig-nation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1737 10TH STREET, BERKELEY, CA 94710. Regarding the property that is the subject of this notice of sale, the "mortgage loan servicer" as defined in Civil Code § 2923.53(k)(3), declares that it has obtained from the Commissioner a final or temporary order of exemption pursu-ant to Civil Code section 2923.53 and that the exemption is current and valid on the date this notice of sale is recorded. The time frame for
giving a notice of sale specified in Civil Code Section 2923.52 subdivi-sion (a) does not apply to this notice of sale pursuant to Civil Code Sections 2923.52. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or war-ranty, expressed or implied, regard-ing title, possession, or encum-brances, to pay the remaining princi-pal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to-wit: $238,634.40 (Estimated). Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The Beneficiary may elect to bid less than the full credit bid. The benefi-ciary under said Deed of Trust here-tofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. Date: 02/24/11 MORTGAGE LENDER SERVICES, INC. 81 BLUE RAVINE ROAD, SUITE 100, FOLSOM, CA 95630, (916) 962-3453 Sale Information Line: (916) 939-0772 Tara Campbell, Trustee Sale Officer MORTGAGE LENDER SERVICES, INC. MAY BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. NPP0177013 PUB: 03/03/11, 03/10/11, 03/17/11
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
ICHIJI YANABACASE NO. RP11561855
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors,
contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Ichiji Yanaba.A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Katherine M. Nakano in the Superior Court of California, County of ALAMEDA.THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Katherine M. Nakano be appointed as personal represen-tative to administer the estate of the decedent.THE PETITION requests the dece-dent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for exami-nation 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 cer-tain 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 adminis-tration 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: March 28, 2011 at 9:30AM in Dept. 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 objec-tions 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 a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the per-sonal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from
the hearing date noticed above.YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person inter-ested 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 PetitionerAllan T. Hikoyeda675 North First St., Ste. PH-7San Jose, CA 95112-5112Publish: 3/3, 3/4, 3/10/11
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TS No. 10-0153369
Title Order No. 10-8-548325APN No. 056-1964-016
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 05/09/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER.” Notice is hereby given that RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., as duly appointed trustee pur-suant to the Deed of Trust executed by TAMARA NADARAJAH, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN. dated 05/09/2005 and recorded 05/16/05, as Instrument No. 2005201081, in Book , Page ), of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Alameda County, State of California, will sell on 04/01/2011 at 12:00PM, At the Fallon Street entrance to the County Courthouse, 1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, Alameda, CA at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash or check as described below, payable in full at time of sale, all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situ-ated in said County and State and as more fully described in the above referenced Deed of Trust. The street address and other common desig-nation, if any of the real property
described above is purported to be: 835 BANCROFT WAY, BERKELEY, CA, 94710. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incor-rectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The total amount of the unpaid balance with interest thereon of the obligation secured by the property to be sold plus reason-able estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $686,019.64. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept cashier’s checks drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan associa-tion, savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state. Said sale will be made, in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances there-under, with interest as provided, and the unpaid principal of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as provided in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. If required by the provisions of sec-tion 2923.5 of the California Civil Code, the declaration from the mort-gagee, beneficiary or authorized agent is attached to the Notice of Trustee’s Sale duly re-corded with the appropriate County Recorder’s Office. DATED: 03/02/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., CA6-914-01-94 SIMI VALLEY, CA 93063 Phone/Sale Information: (800) 281 8219 By: Trustee’s Sale Officer RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that pur-pose. FEI # 1006.127845Publish 3/03, 3/10, 3/17/2011
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Long jumper Sunny Margerum has some big shoes to fill. Spikes, to be more accurate, and several pairs of them.
Sunny is the newest member of the Margerum-Upshaw family to join the Cal track and field team, extending the streak to three generations.
The man who started it all was Monte Upshaw, Marg-erum’s maternal grandfather. On May 29, 1954, he broke Jesse Owens’ national high school record by five inches with a distance of 25-4.25. From there he launched his career with the Bears, setting a then-world record in the sprint medley relay (3:18.8) with Jack Yerman, Willie White and Don Bowden, the first man to break the four-minute mile.
Margerum’s aunt Grace Upshaw was next up in line. The newly retired two-time Olympic long jumper competed for Cal from 1995-1997, later claiming four national titles.
“Of course there are really big shoes to fill, but that’s not really how I think about it,” Margerum says. “There’s this quote, ‘Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.’ That’s how I think about it.”
Margerum is a freshman who redshirted this indoor season after recovering from a stress fracture she suffered during her senior year of high school. Getting back on track for the upcoming outdoor season should be easier with the kind of support she receives from her family.
Her mom, Joy, and aunt coached her at Gunn High in Palo Alto, Calif., helping her refine her technique. In Margerum’s sophomore year, Grace helped her transform from a hang jumper style of long jumping to a hitch kicker, which looks like running in the air. Hitch kicking is generally more effec-tive because it makes better use of the athlete’s hang-time.
“She was teaching it to me through sounds — jump and go ‘Haiyaa! Knee, knee!’” Margerum says. “I’d be constantly thinking that in my head and that’s how I got it. It clicked.”
Monte also chimed in with a piece of advice, though it was far less technical than Grace’s. In order to help with the landing, he suggested hanging from a pull-up bar and keeping her legs out, holding them for as long as possible.
“That’s the one thing he really thinks helped him when he was younger,” Margerum recounts. “It’s kind of dorky, but that’s my family.”
Margerum isn’t the only one who’s gotten help.Joy helped convince Grace to start competing
professionally two years after she graduated from Cal. “Joy always believed in me and was a huge reason why
I got back into track after I finished my collegiate career,” Grace said in an interview with the Pacific Association of USA Track and Field. “She always thought I had more to offer and that I never reached my potential in college.”
Her professional career included the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, which Monte, Joy, Sunny and her little sister Windy attended.
In the enormous Bird’s Nest stadium, Monte managed to make his way all the way down in the stands right next to the long jump pit. He used a paper with Chinese written on it explaining that his daughter was competing in the long jump.
The inter-generational parallels are uncanny; on that memorable day in 1954, Monte’s father allegedly held out a handkerchief from the stands to visually mark Jesse Owens’ record so Monte knew how far to jump.
Grace’s return to long jumping had an even greater effect on Margerum, who was inspired by the Olympic experience.
“The feeling of everybody cheering in the stadium made me really want to do that and drove me to be like her and make it there someday,” Margerum says. “I’m not a superstar right now or anything, my family is kind of known as devel-oping athletes, so I know it takes time and I’m not worried.”
by Byron AtashianStaff Writer
Grace is proof of that. Although she made it to the Pac-10 Championships her three years at Cal, she didn't break records out of the gate like Monte. It wasn’t until after college that she began racking up the awards.
Margerum is in the same boat as Grace as a “develop-ing athlete.” As a result, she takes all the necessary steps to keep her edge. Determined to avoid injuries like the stress fracture her senior year, she pounds milk at the same rate other college students pound beers.
“That was probably one of the hardest times of my life,” she recalls. “I was ready to dominate my senior year, it was devastating.”
Luckily, her acceptance to Cal had already been secured by then. She was given a Stanford backpack for winning the Stanford invite earlier that year, but she got more satisfaction from putting a big X through the logo than she would have had from using it.
Although Margerum was never pressured by her family to be a Bear, a strong Cal tradition was instilled in her
from a young age.While coaching hurdles for the Bears from 1997-2003,
Joy sometimes brought Margerum and Windy to practices. Windy was confined to her stroller or baby backpack at the time, but young Sunny was hard at work making sure the team did its stretches correctly.
She knew all the school cheers long before student orien-tation since she grew up often singing them in the car with her mom on the way to meets and practices.
“Sometimes I get chills when I hear (the band) play,” Margerum says. “I’m actually here now, in college.”
With her debut for the Bears set for this weekend’s Cal Outdoor Opener, Margerum will get her chance to make a splash of sand in the pit named after her grandfather.
“It’s called the Upshaw Long Jump Pit,” she says. “I bet-ter jump far.”
Byron Atashian covers track and field. Contact him at [email protected].
Sunny Margerum Carries on a Three-Generation Track and Field Legacy at Cal
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