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City proposes major cuts to budget

Amid a grim national, state and local economic recovery forecast, the city of Berkeley will implement drastic cost-saving measures to overcome an overall projected $12.2 million deficit in fiscal year 2012 and $13.3 million deficit in fiscal year 2013.

The city expects to balance its bi-ennial budget by eliminating about 79 full-time positions, consolidat-ing public services, increasing parcel taxes and decreasing contributions to pension and health care plans for city employees, as outlined by city Budget Manager Teresa Berkeley-Simmons at the city’s biennial budget work-shop Tuesday night. The Berkeley City Council is expected to adopt the bien-nial budget June 28.

In attempting to balance the bud-get, though, city departments will likely absorb the heaviest impacts.

The Mental Health Division will shift away from high-intensity ser-vices and toward wellness and recov-ery services while the Public Health Division will decrease clinic and case management services. The Housing and Community Services Department will terminate its weatherization pro-gram, convert the West Berkeley Se-nior Center into a supportive service center and slash funding to commu-nity service agencies.

Likewise, the Department of Pub-lic Works will overcome a projected $2 million to $3 million deficit in its

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Solid Waste Management Division by deploying 19 one-person solid waste trucks, which will require an initial investment of $1.6 million.

“Because Berkeley, like most California cities, con-tinues to struggle towards economic recovery, this biennial budget requires some difficult trade-offs,” Berkeley-Simmons said at the meeting. “We face im-mediate shortfalls, but we need to avoid short-term solutions that do not resolve the long-term prob-lems.”

However, city employees are not immune to harsh economic pressures.

Although the city previously mitigated employee costs by freezing vacant positions, it can no longer rely

FaCes oF Berkeley

Michael Lewis is a best-selling author, and yet he never wrote for fun, never wrote for a school paper and even admitted he was “vain” about things he wrote for school.

But leaning back in his desk chair in his studio office at his Berkeley home, Lewis now says he cannot imagine do-

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Best-selling author Michael lewis travels the world as a speaker and a journalist.

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ing anything else.Perfectly situated among shelves of

neatly placed books and a floor covered in stacks of paper, Lewis, the Berkeley-based author known for works includ-ing “The Blind Side” — the novel-turned-movie that earned Sandra Bullock an Academy Award — admit-ted he never planned on being a writer. He said he knew people liked reading letters he wrote them, but other than that he did not have much sense of how to entertain people through the written word.

“When I got out of college, I had no idea what I wanted to do,” he said. “The first conscious thought I had about be-ing a writer was how do I replicate be-ing in college all the time in the real world?”

Lewis, who grew up in New Orleans, had quite the migration to Berkeley, living everywhere from London to To-kyo before he and his wife settled in what Lewis calls a “community of writ-ers” that houses fellow authors such as Michael Pollan and Michael Chabon.

“Everybody is a writer here,” he said. “Michael Pollan lives six or seven blocks up the road. Writers can live anywhere, but Berkeley is the only place other than New Orleans where I have truly felt at home.”

Growing up in the South, Lewis said the idea of being a writer was nearly unfathomable. He said his parents had a friend who was supposedly writing a novel, thousands of pages long, that languished in the trunk of the man’s car for years because working on a book was “an outrageous idea.”

“Books just materialized out of the ether,” Lewis said. “No one ever thought

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the men’s gymnastics team will be reinstated Monday due to its acquisition of $2.5 million of donations.

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In 1912, the Cal men’s gymnastics team held its inaugural season. And after nearly a year of uncertainty, the squad will be able to celebrate its centennial.

One of five varsity athletic teams origi-nally cut on Sept. 28, men’s gymnastics was the final sport to be reinstated by the campus on Monday. The program garnered about $2.5 million in donations that, despite not meeting the campus’s fundraising goal of $4 million, should sus-tain men’s gymnastics in the immediate future.

Freshman Donothan Bailey was the first to learn of the reinstatement after a coach let it slip in a candid conversation. Bailey said the members of the team had mixed emotions of relief and excitement when they finally learned they were going to be able to compete again next winter.

“They got us around in a little circle and told us,” he said. “(There was) obviously excitement. We were all pretty happy. It’s tough to get something like this taken

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Donations allow campus to reinstate men’s gymnastics

Following a contentious decision to halt vote count-ing in a statewide leadership election and amid outcry and mobilization by members from both competing slates, the elections committee for a union representing academic student employees throughout the UC recon-vened Tuesday afternoon, deciding unanimously to resume counting votes.

Members of the Elections Committee for the United Auto Workers Local 2865 — which represents nearly 12,000 graduate students, readers and tutors — met via confer-ence call, eventually choosing to continue vote counting Thursday and agreeing on additional policies — including the involvement of a third-party mediator — to avoid some of the setbacks that initially plagued the process.

The vote count began Friday but after two days was abruptly halted in a vote by committee members Satur-day, following challenges to many ballots from members of both competing slates and multiple breakdowns in the process. The count ended despite the fact that three campuses — UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Merced — which represent just short of half the votes cast had not

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on such measures, Berkeley-Simmons said. Though 10 percent of city personnel has decreased between fiscal year 2009 and fiscal year 2011 — accounting for over 130 cuts — the city is set to terminate about 79 additional positions through fiscal year 2013.

At the meeting, Councilmembers Gordon Wozniak and Kriss Worthington proposed alternative cost-saving measures to job terminations, including salary freezes and decreased payouts, to offset the projected deficit.

“It’s like the (alternatives) are not even up for dis-cussion,” Wozniak said at the meeting. “Is the only alternative really just to get rid of people?”

Potential cuts include reduced funding to city departments, slashing of 79 full-time positions

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I had no intention of joining The Daily Californian four years ago. I had never written for a news-

paper, and I had no interest in jour-nalism. Had it not been for my obsession with music, I wouldn’t have even applied, and when I did, I wanted only to be a critic. Yet here I am now, on page three, writing a column after the conclusion of my term as editor in chief and president of the Daily Cal.

When I arrived at Berkeley as a 16-year-old freshman, I wanted a low-key college career, but I never made a better choice in my life than joining the most prominent newspa-per in Berkeley. Because of this unforgettable experience, I could talk about numerous topics right now: the amazing people I worked with, the stories I wrote or the seem-ingly impossible odds this staff has consistently beaten.

But instead, I want to talk about the most meaningful lesson I learned at this organization. I want to talk about failure.

Over the course of the last year — hell, the last four years — I have failed greatly, in my life, in my work and in my education. In my time as editor in chief, I have run front-page notes correcting inaccurate information in our newspaper. I have mishandled sensitive situa-tions. I have made wrong calls.

But I learned from these errors, and I never let them make me fear failure so much that I lost my will to try.

Too often, we view failure as hor-rendous, something to be embar-rassed about. We forget that high-profile fiascoes have positively changed the lives of legends. It didn’t matter in the long run that Kobe Bryant airballed multiple cru-cial shots against the Jazz in the 1997 playoffs — it marked a turning point in his tireless quest for great-ness. It didn’t matter that Pete Townshend never saw his rock opera Lifehouse come to fruition — his next rock opera, Quadrophenia, was an epic.

We must recognize that some-times, failure is simply the

result of a risk worth taking.In the competitive atmosphere of

UC Berkeley, it can be easy to worry about messing up. Sometimes, you might even spend more time avoid-ing mistakes than you do searching for success. But a college career without missteps is one without risks, and a college career without risks is one not worth having.

We shouldn’t ignore failure, either. Indeed, newspapers write endlessly about errors of others, and readers talk endlessly about the errors of newspapers. An important part of our society is recognizing mishaps. But the possibility of disaster or censure should never be the basis for doing nothing at all.

We should work toward goals, not dodge difficulties.

During the first month of my edi-torship, I called my predecessor, Will Kane, to ask for his advice on a matter. At the end of the conversa-tion, I paused, and then asked him, “Do you ever stop making mistakes?” “No,” he replied. “You just learn to get over them.”

Last week, I repeated this state-ment to Tomer Ovadia, my suc-

cessor, as I passed control of the organization to him. Tomer has not only been an exemplary reporter and editor but also a great friend, and I know that he will be bold moving forward and never fear tak-ing wrong turns in his search for success. I hope that every one of his employees does the same next year.

The Daily Californian has been my life over the last four years, and there are many stories that I could have written about in this column. But no lesson in my life has been more important than this one, and I can rest easy knowing that even if I failed in conveying it to you, at least I tried.

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his love of college basketball. Brad, for his humor and creativi-

ty and for making crazy ideas come to life.

Matt Wilson, for his work ethic and brilliance, and the cups of cof-fee he bought me.

Adam Goldstein, for being the lawyer I aspire to be.

James Wagstaffe and Daniel A. Zaheer, for their help.

And every editor and reporter at the newspaper, for the care they put into their jobs.

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From Front

UNION: Policies to accompany resumption of counting

been counted.“I’m excited to announce that the

Election Committee met ... and was able to agree on a process for moving forward and counting all the ballots,” said Travis Knowles, elections committee chair, in a letter to union members. “I want to thank everyone for their patience as we worked with all parties to resolve this challenging, stressful situation.”

According to the letter, several poli-cies have been put in place for when counting resumes. A neutral, mutu-ally agreed upon, third-party mediator will be present to “make sure the bal-lot count is done in a fair and neutral manner.”

“I am happy there is a commitment to finish soon, and that there is agree-ment to bring a mediator to resolve any conflicts efficiently,” said Philippe Marchand, the elections commit-tee member from UC Berkeley, in an email. “I can only assume that every-one realized it wasn’t good for the union as a whole if the controversy surrounding the count continued for a long time.”

According to Jennifer Tucker, a UC

Berkeley graduate student and union unit chair for the campus, the mobili-zation of union members, members of Academic Workers for a Democratic Union — a union reform caucus — and other supporters helped put pressure on the elections committee in its deci-sion to resume vote counting.

At UC Berkeley on Monday, about 100 union members and supporters rallied at Sather Gate before around 60 people marched to the union office in the Downtown to join a “sit-down” that had begun earlier that morning. While numbers have fluctuated, around 12 or 15 members have remained in the of-fice since 9 a.m. Monday and intend to stay until all votes are counted, Tucker said.

In addition, in a letter, more than 50 faculty members and labor scholars from the UC and universities around the nation called for the vote count-ing to resume, motivated by a “general interest in ensuring the legitimacy and durability of the labor movement.”

In a statement Monday, members of United for Social and Economic Jus-tice, a slate affiliated with the union’s

incumbent leadership, also called for the vote counting to resume, asking that both parties withdraw challenges to ballots.

“I’m relieved that the elections committee decided to use some new methods that will hopefully eliminate the shenanigans that we’ve seen so they can do their jobs and count these votes,” said Daraka Larimore-Hall, the current union president who is run-ning for reelection.

According to Megan Wachspress, a UC Berkeley graduate student and campus head steward for the union, regardless of the outcome of the elec-tion, the widespread mobilization the elections have brought about is benefi-cial to the union.

“Union members have already won because we managed to mobilize and engage so many members in this elec-tion,” she said. “When people feel invested in the direction of their union, they will continue to be engaged, and in that way, coming out of this elec-tion, as a union we are stronger.”

Aaida Samad is the lead higher edu-cation reporter.

From Front

LEWIS: Prior to settling in Berkeley, author traveled around the world

that someone actually wrote them.”Lewis attended Princeton Univer-

sity, majoring in art history, and fol-lowing graduation worked with a New York art dealer before enrolling at the London School of Economics, where he went on to graduate with a degree in economics. He then moved back to New York City to work as a bonds salesman for Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment bank.

However, Lewis became weary with his work and eventually quit to write his best-selling book “Liar’s Poker” and to become a financial journalist.

Lewis and his wife, former MTV News reporter Tabitha Soren, moved around the world before both agreed to move to Berkeley to take up teach-ing positions at the UC Berkeley Grad-uate School of Journalism.

Since settling in Berkeley, Lewis has become a full-time writer. When he is not traveling the world giving speeches or cooped up in his office writing books, articles or television pilots, Lewis is just another father, husband and neighbor.

He currently helps run the Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League, in which both of his daughters play. Not only does he coach, but he will also be

the commissioner for the league’s com-petitive team this summer.

Walt Gill, the league’s president, said he did not think much of it when par-ents explained that Lewis’ busy sched-ule was due to the fact that he was a writer. He said it was not until he saw Lewis’ picture in The San Francisco Chronicle that he realized Lewis was a “well-travelled and famous fella.”

“I called him once and I couldn’t hear him very well, so I asked where he was,” Gill said. “Turns out he was in mountains of Greece interviewing the prime minister.”

UC Berkeley senior Andrei Ko-pelevich said he began reading “Liar’s Poker” after he became interested in Wall Street politics from another novel he had read. After finishing the novel, Koplevich said he has not only con-tinued to read Lewis’s novels but also Lewis’s articles that are regularly pub-lished in Vanity Fair Magazine.

“(Lewis) is a genius in the way he describes things,” he said. “The stuff he talks about is extremely relevant, and he makes it really understandable.”

Katie Nelson is an assistant news editor.

From Front

BUDGET: Increases in pension costs partly to blame

However, Mayor Tom Bates said at the meeting that the city must confront its budget woes even if it requires cutting jobs, adding that “there’s no way we can wish or dream our way out of it.”

Increasing pension and health care costs contribute largely to the city’s budget woes. Rising rates of CalPERS — the city’s con-tribution to the statewide pension agency — will cost the city about $7 million over the next two fis-cal years. Health care rates have also risen significantly, increasing about 70 percent since fiscal year 2005.

To offset skyrocketing expendi-tures, the city is also considering several cost-saving alternatives. Potential measures include impos-ing an annual parcel tax of $52 — which would yield $2.1 million for park, street and clean water programs annually — and requir-ing property owners to share up to 50 percent of repair costs on sidewalks in front of their proper-ties.

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City Council votes to delay taxi meeting

The Berkeley City Council voted to postpone action on the grievances of the Berkeley Taxicab Association at the council’s Tuesday meeting, opting to move discussion to a later meeting in order to allow time for a meeting between city officials and members of the association.

The association — comprised of about 12 Berkeley taxi drivers — sent a letter Oct. 4 to City Manager Phil Kamlarz which listed 13 grievances and requested a meeting with city officials.

Since that time, the association has been frustrated with the length of time it has taken the city to begin addressing its grievances.

After Councilmember Kriss Wor-

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Eugene Lee, Institute of Government Studies director and professor, dies at 86

Education enthusiast, author and former director of the Institute of Governmental Studies and professor of political science Eugene Lee died in his Sonoma home April 27 due to complications from a stroke. He was 86.

Described as quiet and unassuming, yet an extremely effective mentor and leader, Lee was a driving force in the

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efforts to bring financial endowment, political research programs and a spe-cialized library to the institute while he was director from 1967 until 1988.

“He was absolutely instrumental in building IGS, and we would not be where we are today without the foun-dation that he built,” said Jack Citrin, current director of the institute and professor of political science. “What he did in creating IGS was to make a kind of interdisciplinary forum for re-search and politics and public policy.”

Born Sept. 19, 1924, Lee graduated from UCLA in 1946 and earned his

Ph.D in political science at UC Berke-ley before joining the faculty in 1955. Lee began his work at the institute — which provides research on non-partisan state and federal politics and public policy — as a graduate student at UC Berkeley.

Todd La Porte, a professor emeritus of political science and former associ-ate director of the institute, recalled the passion Lee instilled in each of his undergraduate and graduate students, especially with the California Policy

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thington submitted a request to the city manager’s office for a formal re-sponse to the association’s grievances, the issue was presented at the council’s meeting on Tuesday. The council de-layed action on the grievances until its May 31 meeting in order to allow time for the association to meet with the city manager.

“The gasoline prices are affecting our business very, very badly,” said Said Ali, chairman of the association, at the meeting. “It’s high — almost $5 a gallon.”

But Ali said rising gas prices are just one of a number of growing concerns local taxi drivers want to see addressed by the city. Other issues include the problem of illegal taxis, which take business away from permitted taxi drivers.

“They are everywhere,” said Sanjay Sharma, vice president of the asso-

ciation. “Every corner, they are there taking up our fare. Nothing has been done in this regard so far. There is no check, there is no control ... The taxis come from as far as Fairfield and Sac-ramento.”

Sharma added that these drivers take away nearly 35 percent of busi-ness from permitted drivers in Berke-ley.

About a dozen taxi drivers were present at the meeting, standing with signs stating facts about the hardships of taxi driving in Berkeley — one sign reading “Stop Illegal Cab Drivers” — while Ali and others from the association spoke to the council members.

“We look forward to you guys meeting with the manager and com-ing back to us — hopefully with a solution,” said Mayor Tom Bates at the meeting.

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GYMNASTICS: Team to resume annual recruitment as well

away from you. We were all ecstatic, it was a pretty awesome feeling.”

The reinstatement agreement comes on the heels of a lengthy fundraising campaign that began early last August. According to senior and team captain Daniel Geri, the campaign to keep the team alive — Cal Gymnastics Forever — collected over 1,000 pledges on its website.

The outreach to gain donations in-cluded calls to alumni and a partner-ship outreach program with USA Gym-nastics, which helped gather pledges at other gymnasiums around the country.

“It was all a collective effort from the entire gymnastic community, so it was really awesome to see the gymnastics community act as a family and raise all that money,” Geri said.

Coach Tim McNeill, a UC Berkeley alumnus who began coaching this year after serving as a graduate intern for the team in 2009, said that while there were many challenging points through-out the season, he could not have been happier with how the season went.

“I think it would have been really easy to give up at any point, but no one did the entire year,” McNeill said. “It’s incredible that the team stuck together in a really tough situation.”

The amount of money collected will be enough to sustain the program for

the next seven to 10 years, but the team will be restricted in its ability to offer financial aid until the $4 million mark is reached, according to Athletic Di-rector Sandy Barbour.

The program will have three total scholarships to divide among its re-turning gymnasts next season — less than half of the NCAA maximum of 6.3 scholarships allowed for men’s gymnas-tics. However, barring additional funds, incoming gymnasts will not be able to receive a scholarship should they choose to compete for the team.

This year, the team divided 4.7 scholarships among nine gymnasts, with the team’s graduating seniors ac-counting for 1.7 scholarships.

‘‘This is a concession to the timing and to the fact that they have not and are not yet at the $4 million mark,” Barbour said. “There is a step down in financial aid, and as to any other cur-tailment? We have not contemplated that at this point.”

The team will continue fundraising as it enters its 100th season next win-ter while also resuming recruitment ef-forts after missing out this year due to the program’s uncertain future.

Currently, all 14 members eligible to return plan to do so. McNeill, who will be at this week’s Junior Olympic Na-tional Championships to recruit, said he

hopes to stay put at UC Berkeley as well. After guiding the team to a fourth-

place NCAA finish in a turbulent first year at the helm, McNeill will be dis-cussing long-term plans with Barbour in the coming weeks.

“(McNeill’s) leadership skills, they’re the best of anybody I know,” Geri, who was a former teammate of McNeill’s, said. “He’s told us multiple times that this is his dream job, to be a gymnas-tics coach at a university. This is what he wants to do.”

Bailey said that while the team un-derstands its disadvantage after miss-ing out on the prime recruitment pe-riod, the team is confident about its chances next season.

The team will be led by a trio of tal-ented All-Arounders in Bailey, junior Glen Ishino and Swiss national team member and sophomore Dennis Man-nhart.

“With all of the distractions that have been going on this year, with us getting cut, it was just a big roller coaster ride that Sandy (Barbour) and the chancellor were giving us,” Geri said. “We had to deal with that all the time in the gym, and considering the circumstances I think we did awesome ... We still have a very good chance of being a really good competitor at NCAAs.”

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Sarah Shourd, a UC Berkeley alumna and one of three hikers who had been arrested in Iran in 2009, has refused to appear in court in the country this month, major media out-lets reported today.

According to a statement from the Free the Hikers organization, Shourd said she is suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by her imprisonment and will not appear for the trial May 11. She received a subpoena last Wednesday, requesting her presence

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“Given the clear link between her capture and incarceration and the emergence of severe psychological symptoms ... there is little doubt that Ms. Shourd’s symptoms would wors-en substantially if she were forced to return to Iran and face criminal sanc-tions,” he said in the statement. ...

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ASUC Auxiliary plans to seek potential vendors to fill the space currently occupied by campus pub the Bear’s Lair, which presently operates on a month-to-month lease.

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UC Berkeley students showcasedinteractive computer devices of theirowndesign—suchas apersonalizedvirtual closet, a feedback-giving backbrace and a transforming wall — onMonday and Wednesday as part oftheirfinalprojectsforagraduatelevelclassattheSchoolofInformation.

The class — Theory and PracticeofTangibleUserInterfaces,taughtbyassistantprofessorof informationKi-mikoRyokai—focusesontechnologywith which people naturally interact.Thefinalprojectswereprototypesthestudents had been developing all se-mester that would naturally relate topeople’slivesandbetestedinaninter-activeenvironmenttoseereactions.

“It’s graduate-level because we’vechallengedstudentstodesignnewin-teractive designs that take advantageofourfamiliaritywiththephysicalandsocialworld,”Ryokai said. “The tech-nology should be intuitive and natu-ral.”

Ryokai said that the students dem-onstratedtheirprototypesontwodaysinordertogainfeedbackfromvisitors.Bothgraduateandundergraduatestu-dents that participated came from a

widearrayofmajors,varyingfromme-chanicalengineeringtofilmstudies.

Ajuniorarchitecturemajor,KyungJinHan,saidshewasinspiredbystu-dentswhositonthefloorwhilewait-ingtogotoclassortomeetwithGSIsforofficehours.

Han created a wall that wouldsense aperson’s presence and adjustitself to formaseat.The“interactivekineticpublicspace”wouldbelocatedinthemiddleofahallwaytocreatealoungeareaforstudents.

Ryokaisaidshealsohadtoaccountfor the students’ differing levels ofcomputer programming experiencebycreatingbasicandadvancedtracksandencouragingteamwork.

Oneofthegroupsthattookacol-laborative approach created a backbracethatalertswearersiftheyhavebadpostureinordertopreventinjurywhenpickingupheavyobjects.

The team—madeupofgraduatestudentsAlexKantchelianandWalterKoningandsophomoreErichHacker,whoallcomefromdifferentacademicbackgrounds—saidthedevicecouldbe utilized by physical therapists or

Whiletheformalleaseforthethird-partyvendoroperatingtheBear’sLairPubatUCBerkeleyexpiredinMarch,thepub iscontinuing tooperateonamonth-to-month lease that could bediscontinued in the future, leavingroom for new third-party vendors tofillthespace.

TheASUCAuxiliary—whichcon-trols the space that the pub occupiesand leases it toJupiterBeverageLLC—isdevelopingarequestforproposalinordertosolicitpotentialvendorsforthebusinessspaceandwillgothrougha period of analysis and discussion

withthecurrentvendorbeforefutureaction is taken, according to ASUCAuxiliaryDirectorNadesanPermaul.

“Our current vendormay be inter-estedinstaying,buttheyhaven’tmadeuptheirmindyet,”Permaulsaid.

AttheFeb.1StoreOperationsBoardmeeting, the pub provided documen-tationshowingthatithadlostasizableamountofmoneyinthepastyear.Theboarddecidedthepub’scurrentman-agement would remain in the spaceuntilJune30withamonth-to-monthleasewithoutpayingrent—$4,637amonth—forthespace.

According toRyanLandis, interimvice-chair of the board, this decisionwasmadeinordertocontinueprovid-ing students with the pub’s services

whilethepub’sformalleaseisexpired.Headdedthatthiswillallowtheboardto see proposals from other potentialvendors.

At the board’smeeting last Friday,Cal Dining Director Shawn LaPeanmade a presentation detailing thescopeofservicesCalDiningcurrentlyprovidesthecampus.LaPeansaidtheboard asked Cal Dining at themeet-ing if theywould consider a partner-shipwiththeauxiliaryinoperatingthepub.

“Wehavehadlittletimetoresearchorrespondwithanythingbeyondthefactthatwe are excited by a potential op-portunitytofurtherservethestudentsofUCBerkeleyandthatwewouldlike

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lee: Professor was awarded Berkeley Citation in 1999

Seminarconferences.“We worked on a project

called the California PolicySeminar, an activity that en-gaged faculty in differentpolicy areas with the statelegislature and agencies inSacramento,” said La Porte.“This was instrumental inhelping crystallize graduatestudents in political scienceandwasasignatureofthein-stitutes’sactivities.”

Apart from his tenure attheinstitute,LeealsoworkedintheUCOfficeofthePresi-dent,andservedasVicePres-ident–Executive Assistant toformer UC President ClarkKerr.He then served as firstchairmanoftheCommissionon California State Govern-mentOrganizationandEcon-omyandwasmadeadirectorof the Trust for Public LandandtheCal-TaxFoundation.

“He was very highly re-garded,notjustinCaliforniagovernmentcirclesbutinsidetheUniversity,andhestudiedthegovernanceof systemsofhigher education, includingthe UC system,” said JohnCummins, who worked ontheCaliforniaPolicySeminarand was later recommendedby Lee to become assistantchancellorin1980.

Beyond his involvementin politics and encouragingresearch, Lee remained an

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academicatheart,takingupteaching and visiting posi-tions everywhere from theUniversity of Puerto Ricoto the London School ofEconomicsandPoliticalSci-enceinthe1980s,eventuallyfinishinghiscareerasapro-fessor of political science atUCBerkeley just before hisretirement.Torecognizehispublic service and politicalresearch,hewasawardedtheBerkeleyCitationin1999.

JoanneHurley,Lee’swifeof35years,saidhewasalov-inghusbandandfatherwhoalwaysthoughtofhimselfasateacher.

“He always said ‘I’m ateacher,’ andhe reallycaredaboutlocalgovernmentandhis students,” Hurley said.“After he retired, we had awonderful life of travelingtogether to Cuba, Kenya,Russia and New Zealandwherehegottoplaytheroleofamalespouse.”Lee is survived by his wife,son Douglas Edwin Lee,daughter Nancy Gale Lee,daughter-in-law SusanGahry, son-in-law AnoushZebarjadian and grandchil-dren Alexandra Lee andMorgan Lee. An event inhonorofLee’slifeisplannedfor 4 p.m. May 12 at theFacultyClub.

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Study suggests score alteration on New York test

A report co-authored by UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Justin McCrary found that teach-ers in New York manipulated test scores on the state’s Regents E x a m i n a t i o n s , which determine whether students can graduate from high school.

The report, drafted in Febru-ary, used statistical data from exams taken between January 2001 and June 2010, finding that many stu-dents’ scores were likely adjusted to meet cutoff graduation requirements. The report also found that the ma-nipulation of Regents scores existed before the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which uses statewide test scores to deter-mine the performance of schools.

The exams, which the state began us-ing in 1866, are a requirement for stu-dents in New York public high schools — students must score a minimum of 65 out of 100 on the exam in order to graduate. In the current system, tests are graded at the high schools, which,

By Damian Ortellado | Staffdortellado@dailycal.org

Justin Mccrary

according to Jonah Rockoff, an associ-ate professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, contributes to the manipulation problem.

The abnormally high prevalence of exams scoring at the minimum cutoff compared to the relatively low num-ber of exams scoring directly beneath cutoff is evidence that scores were manipulated to help students pass, according to Rockoff. The results of the U.S. History and Government portion of the exam, for example, show that 6,412 students scored at 65 while only 395 students received a score of 64.

“You can look at (the graphs of the scores) and it’s obvious that some-thing is going on,” Rockoff said. “At some level, scores near the cutoff level are being manipulated to help students pass the test.”

Rockoff added that the manipula-tion of scores could affect students’ future academic success. Students able to graduate with sub-par scores could face a disadvantage when com-pared to students who actually pass the test.

“What we’re seeing in more recent analysis ... is that (score manipula-tion) might have long-term implica-tions for kids,” he said. “It’s an equity issue.”

Manipulation near cutoffs was more likely to occur in low-income, inner-city schools, according to Rockoff. The

report found that students with lim-ited English proficiency or minority students might be helped more than their peers in score manipulation.

Cleo Palmer-Poroner, a freshman at UC Berkeley who went to public high school in New York, said the re-sults were not surprising considering the demographics of inner-city public high schools.

“In inner-city New York, if you’re above a certain income bracket, you don’t go to public school unless you absolutely have to,” she said. “Rich kids from Manhattan either go to pri-vate schools ... or their parents move to the suburbs.”

Because of the lack of funding for a centralized grading system for the exams, Rockoff said hiding the cutoff score from teachers grading the exams could help solve the problem. Howev-er, he said he understands why teach-ers might manipulate students’ scores.

“A lot of teachers view what they’re doing as morally correct,” he said. “If you’re the teacher of these kids, you’re going to try to give them the biggest benefit of the doubt to help them graduate.”

Rockoff added that he believes the results of the report could also point to problems outside of the New York public education system.

“I assume some of this manipula-tion is going on for all kinds of class-rooms across the country,” he said.

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PROTOTYPES: One project helps users to understand computer communication

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LAIR: Cal Dining may consider operating the campus pub

everyday workmen who do heavy lift-ing.

Melissa Yu — a senior electrical en-gineering and computer science major — developed an interactive closet that helps coordinate the perfect outfit.

“There’s a mirror with a touch screen over it,” Yu said. “It displays the weath-er, and you select the occasion. Then you can scan through your options.”

Graduate students Stuart Gieger, Em-ily Wagner and Yoon Jeong developed a

way for humans to send information to each other as computers do. People sit-ting inside a box play a xylophone with notes that correspond to IP code. Par-ticipants learn about the Internet while empathizing with the tedious work that computers do instantly.

“It’s really uncomfortable, and you don’t really know what you’re doing,” Geiger said of the experience. “(The manual process) would take six months to send the front page of Wikipedia.”

to be at the table to see how we can help,” LaPean said in an email.

According to LaPean, Cal Dining can currently serve alcohol only at ca-tered events and cannot hold a liquor license as a university entity due to state and UC Office of the President policies. LaPean — who said he has had experience working at Vander-bilt University managing its student

pub — said this does not exclude the possibility of a partnership with an established bar or restaurant group in order to operate the pub.

Cal Dining took a tour of the pub on Wednesday, LaPean said, in order to understand the location and its pa-rameters. He said that the next step for Cal Dining is to seek potential partners and build a business plan to

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Anyone looking to vacation in the cool-breezed mountains this summer is in luck, because Fleet Foxes’ Helpless-

ness Blues will provide the perfect tunes to whistle. The West Coast folk group has finally reappeared with their much awaited sophomore album after gaining popularity in 2008 for their self titled debut. Light-hearted Appalachian anthems like “White Winter Hymnal” boosted their original country-chorus style into indie fan adoration for three years, building excitement for their return. Foxes fans may have high expecta-tions, but Helplessness Blues will fulfill them with flying colors.

The album presents a more mature poeti-cism, with less abstract descriptions through more effectively meaningful lyrics. An elabo-rate instrumental composition paired with calmer vocals steer it into a more subdued style. While many of Helplessness’ songs are not as immediately impressive as favorites on Fleet Foxes’ last album, they prove to be long lasting listens. The album’s opening song, “Montezuma,” weaves choral background “oohs” with bluegrass inspired guitar picks and Robin Pecknold’s folk ballad vocals into a simple yet graceful hymn, unconcerned with catchy hooks. This refreshing simplicity continues throughout the album with songs like the instrumental “The Cascades” and re-released “Blue Spotted Tail” that provide a stylistic departure from the rest of the full-bodied album. Meanwhile, “The Shrine/An Argument” departs in the other direction, by with an unexpected experimental jazz solo. Beyond that, Fleet Foxes don’t provide much surprise but, with such a memorable first album, living up to their sound is more of a challenge than reinventing it. Helplessness Blues is nothing new but, it’s familar in the best way possible.

—Sarah Burke

HELPLESSNESS BLUESFleet Foxes

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It’s been four years since we’ve last had an album from the hand-clapping Aussie quintent Architecture in Helsinki. Alas,

it seems the years away haven’t aged them well. When the band debuted with Fingers Crossed in 2003, they were vivacious, bubbly and numerous. But now that three of the band’s original line-up have departed, it seems those members have taken the cre-ative energy with them. Once infectious and playful, the band’s latest release, Moment Bends, never manages to be anything but disappointingly dull.

Unlike the band’s previous hits “Heart it Races” and “the Owls Go” that exuded an organic charm, the tracks on Moment Bends surface as overly-polished and synthesized. Though songs like “Desert Island” and “Everything’s Blue” begin with vibrant pop potential, the auto-tuned vocals and mo-notonous melodies sound like nothing more than a haphazard melding of Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and the Caribbean beats of fellow countrymen Men At Work. It’s a derivative mess of ’80s homages that rarely captures the exuberance of those aforemen-tioned influences.

The only saving grace to the album’s otherwise aimless pursuits is the track “That Beep.” Sandwiched in the middle of the record, its pulsating beats and quirky vocals provide a refreshing punch of pop in an otherwise lackluster work. But “That Beep” was released as a single EP in 2008, making the rest of the album a sorely discouraging follow-up. While songs like “Contact High” and “Denial Style” attempt to re-capture the lively spirit of “That Beep,” their production is too neat, maybe even sterile, to achieve the kind of spontaneous zest Architecture in Helsinki used to be. Like these songs, Mo-ment Bends remains a lifeless shell of what the band used to be.

—Jessica Pena

MOMENT BENDSArchitecture in HelsinkiCooperative/Downtown

Cd reviews film festival

Made as a tribute to the glory days of

Japanese swordplay epics, Takashi Miike’s “13 Assassins” embodies the best

of the samurai genre. Loosely based on Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 movie of the same name, Miike’s

film begins in 1844, as the sadistic young Lord Naritsugu ascends to the position of political advisor

to the Shogun. When a government official realizes the damage that can be done by the immature nobleman, he

hires a trusted samurai to gather a group of fighters to assassinate Nartisugu.

Similar to Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai,” the film can be divided into two halves. The first part deals with the job of recruiting the crew of warriors, while the last 50 minutes are used for a climax that entails a larger-than-life battle sequence, giving viewers exactly what they want from a samurai epic.

With its simple plot and bloody action sequences, “13 Assassins” isn’t that different from most films of this

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The film follows the tale of a late blooming giant named Terri. Terri is the kid you find out is cool once you get to know him, but is not someone you want to be seen with outside of class because he wears pa-jamas all the time. Terri befriends the lovable principal (John C. Reily) who, through his own errors, teaches Terri to live life with a chin up.

Naming the films of John Hughes as a major influence growing up, Azazel Jacobs presents moments of honesty, moments where

the camera seems almost voyeuristic as shown in an extended scene between Terri and his love interest Heather (Olivia

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pajamas, stuffinghermouthwithsugar. It’sa rawandcuri-ously absurd moment only to be outdone when she meets astranded youngEnglishman (OllyAlexander) in a lighthouse. It’snotexactlyameet-cute,butsomehow,thetwobecomeconfidantsandthefilmfollowstheirfantasticaladventuresastheycometotermswiththepainofreality.

Whilethisdisillusionmentmightseemdour,thefilmissurprisinglylight-hearted:AlexanderticklesthepianokeysasGerwigimprovisesatapdance.Thetwostageafaux-weddinginoneofthoseOldWestphotostudios.Andlikethecharacters,wetooarecaptivatedbythesheerwhimsyofitall.Butthequirkonlygoessofar.Though“TheDish&TheSpoon”unravelslikeanendearingromanticcomedy,thecharactersneverdevelopfully.OllyAlexan-

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The Dish and the Spoon

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Martiniexplainsearlyon,oneofseveralreal-lifedancerscastinthefilm.“OnTour”focusesonthetriumphsandtrialsofaburlesquetroupeontheroadinFrance.Themostentertainingscenesofthefilmcomeasthedancersdollthemselvesup.Gleefulcamaraderieinthedressingroomquicklyintosultryconfidenceunderthespotlight.

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Our writers carry on coverage of San Francisco International Film Festival, as the event enters its third week.

Cinematic wonders continue

Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard

at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo’s

“Hahaha” isn’t the kind of comedy one would expect from its title. Told in a series of flashbacks, the

film details the seemingly unrelated romantic escapades of two men visiting the same seaside town as they relay their

experiences to one another. As the story unfolds, the audience realizes that the accounts take place at the same time with the

same characters.Although the film contains elements of the romantic-comedy,

Hong avoids the simple answers that have become a mainstay for the genre. Instead, he works against the typical romance film in similar fashion to the French New Wave filmmakers of the ’60s by using unexpected directorial techniques. Still images and abrupt camera zooms replace the usual cross-cutting seen during a

conversation between characters, creating a fantastic but familiar quality. While exploring the complexities of love-

triangles, Hong retains humor and sweetness with the help of the overriding narration provided by his

central characters, delivering a sincere vision of a deceptively simple story. ­

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­—Jawad­Qadir

Hahaha

san francisco film society/courtesy

Film Festival

DUMMY

# 13

HARD # 13

3 6 96 7 1

3 4 78 3

4 8 96 1

3 2 54 1 8

5 9 4

7 4 3 2 1 8 6 5 99 6 2 7 4 5 1 3 88 5 1 9 3 6 2 4 74 8 7 1 6 2 3 9 51 3 5 4 8 9 7 2 62 9 6 5 7 3 8 1 43 2 8 6 5 4 9 7 16 7 4 3 9 1 5 8 25 1 9 8 2 7 4 6 3

# 14

HARD # 14

1 6 23 5 6

6 8 58 5

1 95 9

6 2 13 6 9

1 5 7

5 3 1 6 8 7 9 2 44 2 9 3 5 1 6 8 77 6 8 4 9 2 1 3 59 4 6 7 1 8 3 5 21 8 7 5 2 3 4 6 93 5 2 9 4 6 8 7 16 9 5 8 7 4 2 1 32 7 3 1 6 9 5 4 88 1 4 2 3 5 7 9 6

# 15

HARD # 15

4 2 1 81

2 7 53 8 6 2 5

7 6 8 3 92 8 6

96 5 3 2

6 4 2 1 5 7 9 8 37 1 5 8 3 9 4 6 28 3 9 2 6 4 7 1 53 8 6 9 7 2 5 4 14 9 1 5 8 3 2 7 65 2 7 6 4 1 8 3 92 7 8 3 9 6 1 5 41 5 3 4 2 8 6 9 79 6 4 7 1 5 3 2 8

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HARD # 16

7 2 5 46 7 9 2

81 9

4 3 81 7

29 3 5 6

3 6 8 9

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# 13

HARD # 13

3 6 96 7 1

3 4 78 3

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5 9 4

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HARD # 14

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HARD # 15

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# 16

HARD # 16

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#4760CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1. Heartburn causer 5. Killer whale 9. Unreasonably

zealous14. Royal one15. Amphibian16. Black17. Curves18. Edible tuber19. Deposit20. Bruised23. Fell24. Dine25. Suffix for civil

or guard28. Wyoming Indian32. Interfere34. Open-eyed35. River in Europe37. Sea denizens38. Chinese dynasty39. Gum growth40. Purposely antagonize41. Feed the kitty42. Yemeni capital43. Tones down44. Planter46. Lowers in rank48. Former Soviet div.49. Young, for one51. Female cells52. In an

outstanding way58. Two under par61. Cartoonist Thomas62. Ye63. Nest noise64. Ceremony65. Asia66. Pays attention67. Son of Seth68. Enthusiastic response,

in Chihuahua

10. Skilled11. Reptile12. Abbr. with Mattel

or General Mills13. Coloring21. Retained22. Like a poorer excuse25. Imagine26. Friendly nations27. Fits snugly28. Skirts of the sixties29. Apartment

dweller, often30. Head covering31. Greased33. High society misses34. Collect36. Not bananas39. __ Osmond43. Impatient chess

player!s demand45. Wading birds47. Actor Markham & others50. Type52. Begged53. Common street name54. Ratio words

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 32 33

34 35 36 37

38 39 40

41 42 43

44 45 46 47

48 49 50 51

52 53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61 62

63 64 65

66 67 68

DOWN 1. Saudi or Jordanian 2. Rob Reiner!s dad 3. Early Peruvian 4. Fired 5. Capital city 6. Animal!s color 7. Jack, for one 8. Building material 9. Fame

55. Asian language56. Not as much57. Abominable Snowman58. Biblical verb ending59. Astonishment60. “Holy Toledo!”

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1. Heartburn causer5. Killer whale9. Unreasonably zealous14. Royal one15. Amphibian16. Black17. Curves18. Edible tuber19. Deposit20. Bruised23. Fell24. Dine25. Su�x for civil or guard28. Wyoming Indian32. Interfere34. Open-eyed35. River in Europe37. Sea denizens38. Chinese dynasty39. Gum growth40. Purposely antagonize41. Feed the kitty42. Yemeni capital43. Tones down44. Planter46. Lowers in rank48. Former Soviet div.49. Young, for one51. Female cells52. In an outstanding way58. Two under par61. Cartoonist Thomas62. Ye63. Nest noise64. Ceremony65. Asia66. Pays attention67. Son of Seth68. Enthusiastic response, in Chihuahua

1. Saudi or Jordanian2. Rob Reiner’s dad3. Early Peruvian4. Fired5. Capital city6. Animal’s color7. Jack, for one8. Building material9. Fame

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29. Apartment dweller, often30. Head covering31. Greased33. High society misses34. Collect36. Not bananas39. __ Osmond43. Impatient chess player’s demand45. Wading birds47. Actor Markham & others

50. Type52. Begged53. Common street name54. Ratio words55. Asian language56. Not as much57. Abominable Snowman58. Biblical verb ending59. Astonishment60. “Holy Toledo!”

# 13

MEDIUM # 13

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1 5 63 5 2

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6 4 37 2 1

9 3 1 7

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MEDIUM # 14

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# 15

MEDIUM # 15

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# 16

MEDIUM # 16

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7 28 4 5

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8 6 4 5 2 1 9 7 32 1 9 6 7 3 4 5 85 3 7 4 9 8 6 1 23 8 1 7 4 6 2 9 54 7 5 9 8 2 1 3 66 9 2 3 1 5 7 8 49 2 3 1 5 4 8 6 71 5 8 2 6 7 3 4 97 4 6 8 3 9 5 2 1

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# 13

MEDIUM # 13

6 9 3 29 2 5

1 5 63 5 2

2 41 5 3

6 4 37 2 1

9 3 1 7

8 6 5 9 1 3 7 2 49 7 3 4 6 2 1 8 54 2 1 8 5 7 6 3 93 5 9 1 7 4 8 6 26 8 2 5 3 9 4 1 71 4 7 6 2 8 9 5 32 1 6 7 4 5 3 9 87 3 8 2 9 6 5 4 15 9 4 3 8 1 2 7 6

# 14

MEDIUM # 14

6 72 8 9

8 7 3 45 2 1 9 4

4 31 4 3 5 9

1 3 7 55 4 1

7 6

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# 15

MEDIUM # 15

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9 6 2 16 8 1

8 77 4 5

8 5 6 42 9 3 1

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# 16

MEDIUM # 16

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#4760CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1. Heartburn causer 5. Killer whale 9. Unreasonably

zealous14. Royal one15. Amphibian16. Black17. Curves18. Edible tuber19. Deposit20. Bruised23. Fell24. Dine25. Suffix for civil

or guard28. Wyoming Indian32. Interfere34. Open-eyed35. River in Europe37. Sea denizens38. Chinese dynasty39. Gum growth40. Purposely antagonize41. Feed the kitty42. Yemeni capital43. Tones down44. Planter46. Lowers in rank48. Former Soviet div.49. Young, for one51. Female cells52. In an

outstanding way58. Two under par61. Cartoonist Thomas62. Ye63. Nest noise64. Ceremony65. Asia66. Pays attention67. Son of Seth68. Enthusiastic response,

in Chihuahua

10. Skilled11. Reptile12. Abbr. with Mattel

or General Mills13. Coloring21. Retained22. Like a poorer excuse25. Imagine26. Friendly nations27. Fits snugly28. Skirts of the sixties29. Apartment

dweller, often30. Head covering31. Greased33. High society misses34. Collect36. Not bananas39. __ Osmond43. Impatient chess

player!s demand45. Wading birds47. Actor Markham & others50. Type52. Begged53. Common street name54. Ratio words

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 31 32 33

34 35 36 37

38 39 40

41 42 43

44 45 46 47

48 49 50 51

52 53 54 55 56 57

58 59 60 61 62

63 64 65

66 67 68

DOWN 1. Saudi or Jordanian 2. Rob Reiner!s dad 3. Early Peruvian 4. Fired 5. Capital city 6. Animal!s color 7. Jack, for one 8. Building material 9. Fame

55. Asian language56. Not as much57. Abominable Snowman58. Biblical verb ending59. Astonishment60. “Holy Toledo!”

ANSWER TO #1063

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A&E “I like mashing two stories that maybe don’t go together in one essay. I think that’s how life naturally works. It doesn’t go perfectly together.”

—Sloane Crosley

Thursday, May 5, 2011 – Sunday, May 8, 2011

books

The whole thing is made up,” Sloane Crosley told me over the phone about her book, she in New York and I in Berkeley. “I’m a Japanese midget.”

This could be true. The small jacket photo in the back of her second book of essays How Did You Get This Number, published last summer and now in paperback, certainly doesn’t look like a Japanese midget. But Crosley, tall with long hair and discerning eyes, is the type of person (and New Yorker) you might not want to trust. “I like to trick people into thinking they are in a safe happy place,” Crosley said of her work, inspiring me to ask my-self: Is this line safe? Are you wearing a wire? How DID you get this number?

Despite the 3,000 miles and millions of cell phone radiation waves between us, I took an instant liking to Crosley, an I-can-feel-her-hot-young-New-York-writer-breath-on-my-neck sort of liking. As we passed the banter banana back and forth, I felt her baubles of wit percolating through the tiny holes on the receiving end of my phone and into my receiving ear.

I felt in her a kindred spirit. She said she loves Joan Didion — check. She said she cries and eats cereal all day — check. She was once called a racist — check. As a 32-year-old writer living in New York, Crosley is living the

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dream of a lot of

p e o p l e — people who will undoubtedly never have that dream and instead will live the nightmare of parents’ basements and remaking a venti latte for a WASP-y asshole who said he wanted soy, damn it, soy.

Does Crosley, author of two books of essays and a col-umnist for The Independent, think she’s living the dream that Carrie Bradshaw has incepted into my brain? “When it’s your life,” she said, “you see it as a little more three-dimensional than living a specific kind of dream.” Okay, whatever, Crosley, you lucky little thing, you.

Crosley’s got a string of pearls on her hands. Her first essay collection, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (doubtless words we’ve all said upon going to a place we didn’t like), was met with acclaim and an eager anticipation for her next work. For jaded New-York-living-essay-loving liter-ary enthusiasts, this was like tenacious tweens camping outside Barnes & Noble for the next Harry Potter install-ment: Do we really have to wait?

And now, How Did You Get This Number has racked up equal praise for Crosley’s wry and absurd take on the seemingly mundane. “There’s so much pressure on essay collections to have a distinct theme,” Crosley said of her transition between books. “I was gunning for having opted out of that requirement, like taking an AP exam in high school.”

The topic for this paperback course in Crosley is travel, ranging from personal narratives about apartment hunt-ing and hooker ghosts to New York esoterica (“If you can still see the location from where you hailed the cab,” she writes in one story, “you don’t have to pay when you get out.” Shows what I know. I’ll never make it in that town).

Though she’s a vegetar-ian, Crosley says these essays

are “meatier” and “less dancing monkeys.” When you’re a writer ready to put those dancing rhe-

torical monkeys back in their pen, it’s a sure sign of maturity.Crosley subscribes to the dictum

that the specific is always funnier than the general. Take the first line of her book:

“There is only one answer to the question: Would you like to see a three a.m. performance of ama-

teur Portuguese circus clowns?”Despite being spatially challenged — according to one

story, she has a condition where she often can’t tell left from right or read the hands of an analog clock — Crosley treads the slippery terrain of memory with flair.

“Traveling is much easier in terms of memories be-cause your whole brain is a sponge,” said Crosley. “I don’t want to make it sound totally effortless … I have a good memory but it’s not a Truman Capote kind of memory.”

She likes to think of these essays, which find her in places like a back alley in Lisbon chilling with chickens or as a witness to a bear killing in Alaska, as her “unofficial” reports. It keeps her from thinking she’s writing the story of her life, “which would make my skin crawl,” she said. “I’m actually a pretty private person. What I’m trying to do is … entertain people with something we all find funny (without) digging up every emotional core I’ve ever had.”

The spongy Crosley is not as self-aware as you’d imag-ine, considering this is a collection of personal essays. “This sounds … crazy but now I think of these essays as being about me. “At the time, I didn’t think I was writ-ing a book of personal essays” — and it shows. Crosley does especially well with stories that have a narrative, a beginning, a middle and an end. And boy, can she do an ending. While most of the stories are comical and confessional, as Crosley inexplicably finds herself the victim of strange and (often literally) outlandish circumstances, she crafts profound moments out of her bubbling, bauble-y drollery. That wit, like the champagne I will someday roll out of bed to buy every morning with my freelance writer’s pay-check, is acerbic and dizzying. And yet, it goes down deceptively easy while giving you things to think about the morning after.

Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard

at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo’s

“Hahaha” isn’t the kind of comedy one would expect from its title. Told in a series of flashbacks, the

film details the seemingly unrelated romantic escapades of two men visiting the same seaside town as they relay their

experiences to one another. As the story unfolds, the audience realizes that the accounts take place at the same time with the

same characters.Although the film contains elements of the romantic-comedy,

Hong avoids the simple answers that have become a mainstay for the genre. Instead, he works against the typical romance film in similar fashion to the French New Wave filmmakers of the ’60s by using unexpected directorial techniques. Still images and abrupt camera zooms replace the usual cross-cutting seen during a

conversation between characters, creating a fantastic but familiar quality. While exploring the complexities of love-

triangles, Hong retains humor and sweetness with the help of the overriding narration provided by his

central characters, delivering a sincere vision of a deceptively simple story.

—Jawad Qadir

Hahaha

New York-based writer Sloane Crosley takes on bears and the world with her vicious wit.

Slouchingtowards

event:what: Sloane Crosley Readingwhen: Diesel Books, 5433 College ave. OaklandwheRe: tuesday, May 10 at 7 p.m.

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Sloane