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Monday, 14 September 2009
1. Students prepare to fight massive UC hikes
KGO TV
September 11, 2009
The U.C. Board of Regents is talking about raising tuition again. It's not a done deal, but if it happens, the tuition increase could go into effect as early as this spring, but students won't let it happen without a fight.
Attending one of the University of California schools could cost more than $10,000 next year just for tuition. The U.C. Regents will sit down next week to talk about a possible increase for the upcoming spring term and next fall. Some students and their parents say they can't afford to pay an extra $2,000 to $3,000.
"I've got rent to pay because I'm trying to pay for that on my own. I'm probably even looking at having to find a job this year, during the school year, which is already ridiculous because the Berkeley work load is insane," says U.C. BERKELEY STUDENT JOE FLYNN.
"I have a small loan for myself, but I think I may have to get another one and this is only my first year so I'm already starting to get a lot of loans this year. I think it would be worse over the years to go," says U.C. BERKELEY STUDENT DIAMOND ALEXANDER....
"It makes Berkeley not the accessible public university it's supposed to be. It makes it a lot harder for, not only middle income, but lower income students to get into the school they need for their future," says John Tran from the Associated Students of U.C....
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2. Berkeley Law Expands Loan Program
KCBS Radio
September 6, 2009
Berkeley, Calif. (KCBS) -- UC BERKELEY'S BOALT HALL SCHOOL OF LAW announced this week that it's expanding its loan repayment assistance program for alumni who pursue public interest or government work.
UC BERKELEY'S LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM has been helping graduates repay their student loans for the past decade. It will expand in January to offer unlimited help to alumni who earn up to $65,000 a year. Previously the amount had been capped at $100,000 for alumni who make less than $58,000 per year.
"The law school provides the graduates who meet the income and employment requirements with a forgivable loan. Every six months, they're required to make their student loan payments," explained BERKELEY LAW ASSISTANT DEAN OF FINANCIAL AID DENNIS TOMINAGA. He said those loans are forgiven if the students maintain the income and job requirements and uses the money make student loan payments.
Rebecca Hart graduated from Berkeley Law in 2007 with about $140,000 in loan debt and now is a legal fellow for the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York. She says Berkeley's loan repayment assistance program is one of the things that attracted her to the school....
Berkeley has been able to expand the assistance program by integrating it with the federal College Cost Reduction and Access Act's Income-Based Repayment plan.
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3. NCAA's sickle cell test plan raises fears
San Francisco Chronicle
September 14, 2009
A recent NCAA recommendation to screen college athletes for sickle cell trait - the gene that can cause sickle cell disease - is raising the hackles of some experts who say testing is probably unnecessary, and may even lead to inadvertent discrimination against minority players.
Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder that can cause severe pain, stroke and death, but sickle cell trait is almost always benign, and many people never know whether they carry the gene. About 8 percent of black people and about 1 percent of Latinos have sickle cell trait, but it's rare among white people, affecting only about 1 in 10,000....
UC BERKELEY OFFICIALS have already started screening for sickle cell trait based on the NCAA recommendations, although the testing is optional, said DR. BRAD BUCHMAN, MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY HEALTH SERVICES. So far, about 150 student athletes out of about 800 athletes have been tested, and five people tested positive for sickle cell trait.
"We're aware of the controversies, but we're trying to be good stewards for our athletes and do what is appropriate for their health," Buchman said. "We are keeping a closer eye on them should they look like they're in any discomfort or distress. In some cases, they're going to have to make adjustments to their workouts."...
The United States has a long history of discrimination against people with sickle cell trait, said TROY DUSTER, A SOCIOLOGIST AT UC BERKELEY and New York University. In the 1960s, people who tested positive weren't allowed into the Air Force Academy, and into the '70s people were denied insurance or certain jobs, he said.
It's irresponsible to screen people when there's little scientific evidence that the gene causes death and no specific precautions athletes can take to protect themselves, Duster said.
"When you screen someone, the question is, for what? What are you going to do with that information?" Duster said. "The NCAA is saying they want education, but education requires research, and there's no research."... Full Story
4. Colleges Map Hazy Routes to Limiting Emissions
Chronicle of Higher Education (*requires registration)
September 14, 2009
Nearly 400 colleges are expected to submit their climate action plans this week, a major step in the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. The heavily detailed reports, which took colleges many months to produce, map out strategies for limiting emissions for decades to come....
Drafts and summaries of climate action plans reviewed by The Chronicle may give some indication what other plans will look like. The plans are as different as the colleges themselves but have some broad similarities. Here are some of the plans:
...THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY's climate action plan was released early. The plan says that the university will reach its 1990 levels of emissions by 2014, mainly through projects to replace lighting, upgrade heating and cooling systems, install meters to more closely track energy use, and other projects already under way. Those efforts will get the university only halfway to its 2014 goal, and Berkeley may have to purchase renewable-energy credits to make up the difference. Notably, while the plan does say that climate neutrality is an ultimate goal, it does not set a date for that goal—something that sustainability advocates at other institutions have noticed and privately criticized. Rather, the university says it will release another emissions goal for 2020 or 2025 in 2011, after planners have tried putting this plan in place....
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5. Pesticide sought by Calif. growers
Foes want to stop known carcinogen
Fresno Bee
September 13, 2009
A highly potent chemical capable of clearing farmland of pests, disease and weeds is attracting fierce opposition from environmental groups and some scientists in California -- even as growers look to it as a crucial replacement for a banned fumigant....
Opponents say that while they understand the need for farmers to remain productive, the risk of using methyl iodide is too great.
"We know that even in small amounts it can be very toxic," said ROBERT BERGMAN, A CHEMIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY and member of the National Academy of Sciences. "And in agriculture, you are talking about hundreds of pounds being put into the ground and covered with a tarp."
Bergman was among 50 scientists who wrote a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the use of methyl iodide in the U.S. until the agency's risk assessment was reviewed by an independent panel.
The scientists were concerned that because of the broad use in agriculture, the possibility of substantial releases in the air and water could result in exposure to many people, including the potential for more cancer. Full Story
6. Engineers find ways to combat climate change
Times of India
September 14, 2009
Varanasi: This year's theme of Engineer's Day- 'Engineering Solutions to Combat Climate Change'- fits perfectly with the technology being applied by Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF) for cleaning the Ganga under the second phase of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) in Varanasi....
In Varanasi too, the local centre of IEI has organised a programme to commemorate the occasion on Tuesday, inviting environmentalist-cum-engineering professor Veer Bhadra Mishra, who is also the president of SMF. Mishra, a retired professor from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), has also been nominated as a member of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA). Mishra was recognised on the United Nations Environmental Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1992 and was a TIME Magazine's Hero of the Planet recipient in 1999 for his work related to cleaning of the Ganga....
His tireless advocacy for the application of Advanced Integrated Wastewater Oxidation Pond System (AIWPS) technology for the treatment of sewage resulted in its inclusion in the second phase of GAP in Varanasi. The AIWPS technology has been developed and designed by W Oswald and his associate Bailey Green at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IN BERKELEY, US.
He claims that unlike other technologies used in GAP, the AIWPS technology is carbon negative. According to him, the technology is based on research involving physical, chemical and microbiological laboratory, pilot plant and field study. It has established the most efficient way to use solar energy for algal photosynthetic oxygen release from the supporting water and discovering the special design requirements to foster pond methane formation. According to him, this technology has been successfully used at many places in California and elsewhere.... Full Story
7. Op-Ed: Taking the Right Seriously
Conservatism is a tradition, not a pathology
Chronicle of Higher Education (*requires registration)
September 11, 2009
This month the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY opened a CENTER FOR THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RIGHT-WING MOVEMENTS. The center is housed in the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE, which the university advertises online as an institution placing "issues of race, gender, and class at the center of the agenda," conducting "research with a conscience," and capitalizing on "Berkeley's history as the birthplace of transformative social movements." Needless to say, the center is not promoting conservatism. This is, as the university reminds us, Berkeley.
It's not even clear that the faculty members involved have figured out what terms like "right wing" and "conservative" might mean. The Web-site blurb introducing the center describes anti-Communism as the "transcendent" issue for the right for most of the 20th century, and says that since the end of the cold war, right-wing groups have "spun on to the political stage with centripetal energy," whatever that means. This statement does not inspire confidence. ...
But beggars can't be choosers. The unfortunate fact is that American academics have until recently shown little curiosity about conservative ideas, even though those ideas have utterly transformed American (and British) politics over the past 30 years....
So, in the end, I give my ex-conservative blessing to the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements and wish it a long life. If nothing else, it will get professors and students to discuss ideas and read books that until now have been relegated to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. That's a start. And who knows, maybe Berkeley will even begin hiring conservative professors, if only to preserve its reputation as "the birthplace of transformative social movements."
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8. Politics and the Age Gap
New York Times (*requires registration)
September 13, 2009
Washington -- American politics has been defined by gender gaps, racial gaps, geographic gaps and the gap between the religious and the secular.
Now comes the geriatric gap. As the population ages and the nation faces intense battles over rapidly rising health care and retirement costs, American politics seems increasingly divided along generational lines....
MEREDITH MINKLER, A PROFESSOR OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, contends that the whole notion of generational warfare has been exaggerated anyway: polling suggests that on issues other than health care reform, older Americans are no different from the rest of the country in how they divide on issues.
“This whole business of intergenerational conflict has been blown out of proportion,” Professor Minkler said....
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9. Silicon Valley Moguls Square Off in Race to Run California
The Wall Street Journal (*requires registration)
September 12, 2009
Sacramento, Calif. -- Former eBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman has become an early favorite in California's Republican gubernatorial primary race, but she may soon get a run for her money from another Silicon Valley veteran with deep pockets, Steve Poizner....
Political analysts say Mr. Poizner may have an even tougher hurdle to clear. They say he isn't a dynamic speaker and has a hard time exciting crowds.
"The charisma factor is a real problem here," said BRUCE CAIN, A POLITICAL-SCIENCE PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. "How you look and how you sound is a major part of how you attract voters."...
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10. Unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story
San Francisco Chronicle
September 13, 2009
Yosha Bourgea earned $43,000 a year teaching school until he lost his job about a year ago and had to settle for substitute work that pays a fraction of his former income....
Bourgea represents a growing number of Californians who have been forced to work part-time jobs because they can't find full-time positions....
"The numbers are telling us that about 1 in 5 Californians is either unemployed or underemployed," said ECONOMIST SYLVIA ALLEGRETTO, WITH THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT AT UC BERKELEY. "The story of this recession is not just people losing their jobs, but people losing hours and losing wages."... Full Story
11. Chron RX Blog: Uninsured by the numbers
San Francisco Chronicle Online
September 11, 2009
The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest numbers on health insurance coverage and there are some interesting - and disheartening - tidbits to be gleaned....
UC BERKELEY'S CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION analyzed the California figures and found the state pretty much follows the national trend. The share of Californians under 65 whose health care is covered by a job fell by 1 percent, while those covered by public health programs increased to 18.3 pecent from 16.8 percent in 2007, a shift that added 560,000 people to those programs.
The only "good" news in all this is that fewer kids are uninsured; in fact, both the number and rate of uninsured children nationwide is the lowest since 1987, the first year the data was collected. But, once again, we have public programs to thank - the very programs that are being threatened under state budget cuts. Full Story
12. Socialism Threat Has Long History for Health-Care Overhaul Foes
Bloomberg
September 14, 2009
The debate is about health care. The threat is of a march toward “socialism.” The words come from a famous voice.
Not Sarah Palin in 2009. It was Ronald Reagan in 1961....
The experiences of Truman, Kennedy and Clinton offer lessons for Obama, said RICHARD RAPAPORT, A VISITING SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY who has researched the AMA’s initiative in the 1960s, dubbed “Operation Coffeecup.”
Once the public associates the word “socialism” with a plan, it’s hard to change the impression, he said. In 1945, when Truman addressed Congress about a national insurance plan, 75 percent of Americans supported the proposal. By 1949, after it was targeted by opponents, only 21 percent did, according to a book by former Democratic Senator Tom Daschle, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.”...
Rapaport said emotions run even higher today.
“It’s escalated into even more of a war than it was back then,” Rapaport said.
Still, he said, the public would come to embrace programs put in place.
“Whatever bill gets out of this, once it gets in front of the people,” he said, “they’ll want to continue it.” He cited the controversy over Medicare’s creation. Today, he said, Americans “would kill if it was taken away.”... Full Story
13. Commission struggles to overhaul tax system
Bipartisan agreement is sought for state changes
San Diego Union-Tribune
September 14, 2009
Los Angeles – A twice-delayed plan to overhaul California's volatile tax structure is due later this month, but consensus on how to smooth out the state's boom-or-bust tax cycles is proving elusive.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last year signed an executive order creating the Commission on the 21st Century Economy. He and Democratic legislative leaders appointed 14 economists and business leaders – seven Republicans and seven Democrats – some of whom are pursuing very different agendas as they race to meet a Sept. 20 deadline....
The result that emerges probably depends on how close commission chairman Gerald Parsky, a prominent Republican and Rancho Santa Fe venture capitalist, can come to achieving his hoped-for consensus....
But the legislative focus is likely to be on the complicated tax package championed by Parsky and a bipartisan team of economists – Republican John Cogan at Stanford University and Democrat CHRISTOPHER EDLEY JR. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY [DEAN OF THE LAW SCHOOL]. The plan was debated at an all-day hearing on Thursday at UCLA; another session is scheduled for today in Berkeley.... Full Story
14. Sleepless in textland
San Jose Mercury News (*requires registration)
September 13, 2009
Between their crazy schedules and upside-down circadian rhythms, teens have always been somewhat sleep-deprived. Now technology is making it worse.
Teens are not just texting, instant-messaging and surfing Facebook all day; they're sleeping with their cell phones or laptops too. Or rather, not sleeping. And doctors and parents, many of them raised in an era when phones were attached to walls, are concerned....
NORMAN CONSTANTINE worries that the stakes are higher than most parents realize. THE DIRECTOR OF UC-BERKELEY'S CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT says sleep deprivation is linked to memory and concentration problems, anxiety and depression, moodiness and hyperactivity.
"Many people assume these problems arise directly from adolescence, which is not really true," he says. "The real issue is sleep deprivation. Late-night texting can certainly make the situation worse. But one has to ask: Are the teens texting because they can't sleep, or are they staying awake because they are texting? We really don't know."... Full Story
15. Why Can’t She Walk to School?
New York Times (*requires registration)
September 13, 2009
To get to school, the child leaves home by herself, proudly walking down the boulevard in a suburb of a small city in upstate New York. The crossing guard helps her at the intersection. She lives only a block and a half from school. Yet she walks by older children waiting with parents for buses to the same school....
The fear of abduction by strangers “has become a norm within middle-class parental circles,” said PAULA S. FASS, A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, and author of “Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America.” “We try to control our fears to the nth degree, so we drop our children off right at school. It’s a confirmation that ‘I’m a good parent.’ ”...
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16. UC Merced team tackles solar energy as cooling sources
Modesto Bee
September 14, 2009
Someday, you might unplug your air conditioner and cool your house on a 110-degree afternoon by cranking up the heat from the sun.
In his laboratory at the University of California at Merced, physicist Roland Winston says he is nearing a breakthrough that could make that scenario happen in the next several years.
Winston, an innovator in amplifying sunlight for energy, is putting the finishing touches on a solar-concentration array that heats oil to 400 degrees. The oil's heat will be used to power a chilling unit that produces cold water for air conditioners....
Winston is the director of the California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute, which received a $2.25 million grant from the UC Office of the President last month to fund solar research over the next five years. The institute includes researchers at UC CAMPUSES AT BERKELEY and Santa Barbara.
Their goal is to make solar energy more affordable and widespread.... Full Story
17. High marks for Healthy S.F. again
San Francisco Chronicle
September 13, 2009
First came the UC BERKELEY report showing the city's universal health care program, Healthy San Francisco, isn't hurting San Francisco's economy. Then came the Kaiser Family Foundation report showing participants are largely satisfied with their care.
Now comes a third report, prepared by the Department of Public Health itself. Surprise, surprise: It, too, finds the 2-year-old Healthy San Francisco a success....
It's not all great news, though. Already, 60,000 people have participated at one time or another, but 16,500 have dropped out.... Full Story
18. Editorial: Will the Afghan war widen?
San Francisco Chronicle
September 12, 2009
Though he came to power opposing one war, President Obama is beating the drums for a second one. Unlike the Iraq conflict, the fight in Afghanistan is a "war of necessity," he believes....
Mired in the health care fight, the president understandably has had little time to make his case. But he needs to speak up soon, or risk losing ground in a battle he's chosen.
Coming Sunday
Perspectives on the war in Afghanistan:
...THREE WRITERS FROM THE UC BERKELEY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM with Generation Y's view on a war far away. [See commentaries below] Full Story
19. Sunday Insight: 'There'll be no revolution anytime soon'
San Francisco Chronicle
September 13, 2009
A motion-blurred image of two U.S. Marines bending down to aid a dying comrade. Discarded bandage packets littering the ground, clearly not enough of them to dress the wounded Marine's severed leg.
An Associated Press photographer captured this controversial image moments after Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard was struck by a grenade while fighting in Afghanistan. It is one of the rare published images that illustrates the brutality of this "good" war.
During my year in Iraq as a public affairs sergeant for the U.S. Army, I experienced combat and documented it. There are images in my mind that will haunt me for the rest of my life, but I wouldn't want to forget them even if I could.
And because the majority of Americans seem to agree with my opposition to this eight-year debacle in Afghanistan, it only seems reasonable that, a la Vietnam, the youth of America would be taking to the streets in protest of the Obama administration's plan to deploy an additional 21,000 troops to the region....
If you're looking for a revolution, maybe the media needs to bring the war into our living rooms. Make us feel uncomfortable. Maybe then my generation will rise to the occasion. But they'll probably just change the channel. Full Story
20. Sunday Insight: Young people clueless about Afghanistan
San Francisco Chronicle
September 13, 2009
Newsweek ran a cover story in February that called Afghanistan "Obama's Vietnam."
Those Baby Boomers just can't help themselves: They see every military conflict through the lens of the war they hated. But this is a stretch at best. The sad truth is exactly what older generations feared: The prevailing sentiment about Afghanistan among Generation Y is apathy.
Ask me about Iraq, and I can grumble at length about the nonexistence of WMDs and the reluctance of the Iraqi people to control their own country. I can work myself into quite an anti-war lather.
Ask me about Afghanistan, and I can offer little more than the fact that I know that the Taliban are still fighting us and that former Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson went there in the '80s and had a fit of conscience (at least Tom Hanks did in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War")....
Maybe my generation has just figured out what the self-congratulatory Baby Boomers never could: Despite all of their rallies and draft-card burning, the Vietnam War still raged on for 10 years under three presidents. I hope our wars don't last that long, but history has a remarkable way of repeating itself. Full Story
21. Sunday Insight: Confusion, not apathy, over Afghan war
San Francisco Chronicle
September 13, 2009
Should the president deploy more troops to Afghanistan, don't expect much brouhaha from the young liberals of this country. And while it might be tempting to assume we're mindlessly apathetic, don't be fooled: We're just confused.
It's not only that the war in Afghanistan lacks the dubious and tenuous justifications offered during the Iraq and Vietnam wars that we could easily rally against. It's also that we're a mixed-up generation right now. Keep in mind that before 9/11, the Clinton era was the only era we knew, and that stretch of relative peace and prosperity was pervasive enough to create the impression that it would never end. Eight years after the terrorist attacks, our economy is profoundly troubled, and we continue to be hindered by two seemingly unending wars. We're only now discovering that what's scarier than enduring eight years of turmoil under the leadership of clownish ideologues is realizing that given the chance, even the best and the brightest don't seem to know what to do to fix things, either. So how should we know?...
So President Obama needn't worry about this generation's reaction to his Afghanistan policy. The prospect of warfare waged indefinitely by a volunteer army in a far-off land may not be ideal, but it doesn't seem strange or improper, either. If the past decade has proved anything, it's that nobody has a friggin' clue. Full Story
22. All Things Considered: Food Industry Reform Needed In U.S.
NPR
September 12, 2009
Food writer [UC BERKELEY PROFESSOR] MICHAEL POLLAN thinks food industry reform goes hand in hand with health care reform. Host Guy Raz talks to Pollan about how to improve America's eating habits and wean the country away from the cheap, unhealthy food produced by big agribusiness.
Guy Raz, host: Welcome back to "All Things Considered" from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.
In an opinion piece this week in the New York Times, Michael Pollan writes:
Professor MICHAEL POLLAN (JOURNALISM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY; Author, "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto"): The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care....
Michael Pollan, how does the food industry create business for the health care industry?
Prof. Pollan: Well, as you suggest in your intro, we've got an epidemic of chronic disease linked to diet. It represents a significant part of the money we're spending on health care. We're talking about type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, many types of cancer. And right now the one that is really threatening to bankrupt the health care system is type 2 diabetes, which the CDC estimates that one in three Americans born after the year 2000 may well get, and that's really expensive to treat. You know, the government's about to put itself on the hook to pay a lot of these costs and they could well swamp the new health care system...
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23. The New Season -- Art
Yesterday, Today and Maybe Tomorrow
New York Times (*requires registration)
September 13, 2009
...October
...What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley In Retrospect
Almost 90 works from the 1960s to the present make up this touring retrospective, the first in three decades for Mr. Wiley, the popular West Coast artist. Oct. 2 through Jan. 24 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, (202) 633-7970, americanart.si.edu. Travels to the BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE in Berkeley, Calif. (March 17 through June 20)....
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24. Best leads No. 10 Cal past E Wash. 59-7
Washington Post
September 12, 2009
Berkeley, Calif. -- Eastern Washington managed to hang close with No. 10 California for one quarter. Then the bigger, faster, more talented GOLDEN BEARS took over and turned the game into the mismatch it was supposed to be.
JAHVID BEST rushed for 144 yards and scored two touchdowns to make sure California avoided a letdown against Eastern Washington with a 59-7 victory Saturday.
Best caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from KEVIN RILEY in the first half and scored on a 1-yard run in the third quarter, turning a 10-point lead into a blowout. Riley also ran for a touchdown and SHANE VEREEN had three short TD runs as Cal (2-0) posted its second straight blowout to open the season....
The Bears scored the final 52 points after the game was tied at 7 after the first quarter. They ran for 342 yards, didn't turn the ball over for a second straight week and completely overwhelmed the Eagles (1-1)....
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