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Going places Marianne Stanley, the women's basketball coach hired April 11 to replace retiring Gooch Foster, has a past. It includes three national championships at Old Dominion, two- time national Coach of the Year honors, and the distinction of coaching 19 All-Americans in 17 years, including National Player of the Year Lisa Leslie. But it also includes her leaving USC in 1993--after turning the Pac-10 bottom-feeders into a national contender--over a salary dispute. In her fourth year as head coach, Stanley asked for pay equal to that of the men's coach (then George Raveling). When she was turned down, she sued. Her case is still under appeal. To Cal athletic director John Kasser, only Stanley's coaching record mattered. "You always have a short list, and as I looked at mine, it was obvious that one person stood above all the others," Kasser said at a press conference announcing Stanley's hiring. "Marianne fits right into what we're doing here. She wants to be number one--that's all she knows about." But Stanley also knows about being rejected. In the nearly three years after her break with USC, she applied for close to 100 head coaching jobs--women's, men's, Divisions I, II, and III, NAIA, junior college, everything but high school--and was never even invited for an interview. During that time, Stanley rattled around the world of women's basketball, most recently as a temporary substitute for Stanford's Tara Van Der Veer, who is coaching the U.S. Olympic Team. "I was virtually a pariah in athletics," said Stanley at the press conference, fighting back tears. "I thought I'd never coach again. I want to commend John Kasser for having the strength of conviction to not be swayed by public opinion, and to know what's right. Everybody in this room ought to feel proud of this institution." Stanley will receive a base salary comparable to that of men's coach Todd Bozeman, although Bozeman earns extra money in outside contracts. In return, Cal gets an aggressive, committed educator ready to release three years of pent-up coaching energy. "I promise you, we're going places," she said. "Throughout this ordeal, people have lifted me up. Now I'm looking forward to lifting this program up, and restoring it to the prominence it deserves."--Virginia Matzek ASUC Store goes bust Customers buying books and sundries at the ASUC Store this fall may find themselves making out checks to Barnes & Noble--or the UC Regents. An external audit of the store's finances revealed in February that the $18 million business, which is the only independent, student-run campus store in the nation, had gone so far into debt that it would not have enough credit to remain open through the summer or buy fall textbooks. The origins of the crisis are not in dispute. "It was just general mismanagement," says Noah Doyle, an MBA student and chair of the ASUC's Business Management Board (BMB). The once- profitable store failed to keep track of inventory and prevent losses from theft; made costly capital improvements; billed inefficiently and overspent on its own contracts; and invested in an inappropriate computer accounting system that may have masked the magnitude of the store's fiscal crisis until it was too late. Meanwhile, the ASUC Senate was mired in some of the pettiest political disputes in recent memory, and the BMB, which is responsible for all of the ASUC's business operations, was so apathetic that it met only once during the entire fall semester. The question now is what will become of the store. In the short term, the ASUC has a three-month reprieve, thanks to a $2 million loan from the campus that will keep the doors open at least until August 20. In the long term, it seems unlikely that the store can remain independent much longer. When the store's imminent insolvency became public, Barnes & Noble, which operates the campus bookstores at Harvard and Columbia, expressed an interest in taking over some of the store's operations. The ASUC eagerly voted to accept the offer in April, but the University vetoed the proposal, saying the students were required to open the contract to competitive bids. (The campus owns the building and must approve any changes to the ASUC's use permit.) The University also has offered to buy out the store. Whatever the outcome, the details must be hammered out before the beginning of the fall term, when the store uses up the last of its credit.--Virginia Matzek Lottery payback As a former mathematician, Robert Uomini '69, Ph.D. '76 knows the odds he beat when he won a $22 million jackpot in the California lottery last year. And he promptly gave some of the money to the math department for teaching him how to figure them. The day after he won, Uomini called the department to arrange a visiting professorship in honor of his favorite teacher, math professor emeritus Shiing-Shen Chern. Chern, now 85, encouraged Uomini and helped him get into graduate school. "I loved his lectures," said Uomini, who found Chern's undergraduate course in differential geometry so stimulating that "by the end of the course I felt I wanted to become a differential geometer." Honoring Chern, he said, was a privilege. This year, income from Uomini's lottery contributions is funding a five week visit to Berkeley by Sir Michael Atiyah, a world- renowned British mathematician who has done research in geometry and topology. Uomini himself, however, no longer practices mathematics. Now "in active retirement," he is developing software for the Internet and a program to predict the behavior of the financial market. And whenever the jackpot tops $10 million, he buys lottery tickets. Despite the odds. Good sports The Cal women's water polo team fell one game short of what would have been an unprecedented athletic achievement--winning a national championship in its first year of competition in the sport. The team, coached by Maureen O'Toole, blasted through the opposition in the first four rounds of the Collegiate National Championships in May, allowing only five goals, but succumbed to top-ranked UCLA in the final, 8-4....The Cal men also lost in the final round of the NCAA water polo championships to UCLA, making Bruins coach Guy Baker the first coach to win the men's and women's title in the same year....Cal basketball star Shareef Abdur-Rahim, the first freshman ever to win Pac-10 Player of the Year honors, hopped on the NBA draft bandwagon in May, following a growing trend of underclassmen leaving for the pros. In an emotional press conference to announce his decision, Abdur- Rahim said he'd prefer to stay at Cal if he could, but that his family's pressing financial needs had to come first....Two other men's basketball players, sophomore guard Jelani Gardner and sophomore forward Tremaine Fowlkes, won releases from their scholarships after disappointing seasons in 1996. Gardner is off to Pepperdine, and Fowlkes to Fresno State, leaving coach Todd Bozeman with several big pairs of shoes to fill....Cal swimmer Ugur Taner missed his shot at the Olympics but bounced back for the NCAA Championships, earning his third consecutive national title in the 200 fly. He is only the fourth swimmer in Cal history to three-peat at the NCAAs...Meanwhile, rugby made it six in a row by beating Penn State 47-6 (ouch) at the national championships in Colorado Springs. The Bears' sixth straight national title helped take the sting out of losing the Scrum Axe to Stanford this season, for the first time in 16 years. CalMo Index 20 Things -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advice from the Class of 1996 about what you must do before you graduate from Cal. 1. Deconstruct everything you've learned at Berkeley and start from square one. ..................................................................................................... 2. Find the meaning of life inscribed in the grout in campus bathrooms. ..................................................................................................... 3. Challenge a T.A.'s grade by going to the professor, who will always change the grade in your favor. ..................................................................................................... 4. Go a semester without shopping for groceries. ..................................................................................................... 5. Go a year without eating a bean burrito. ..................................................................................................... 6. Read The Sound and the Fury or The Brothers Karamazov on a rainy day. ..................................................................................................... 7. Live alone, if only for a few months--solitude is strengthening. ..................................................................................................... 8. Go through the course catalogue and mourn all the cool-sounding courses you didn't have time to take. ..................................................................................................... 9. Go skinny-dipping at Lake Anza at 1 a.m. ..................................................................................................... 10. Go to the top of the Campanile in the middle of a thunderstorm. ..................................................................................................... 11. Do something a little foolish in chem lab. ..................................................................................................... 12. Use glue, scissors, contact paper, and a color xerox to make a fake I.D.--and fail. ..................................................................................................... 13. Take a course that clues you into your cultural heritage. ..................................................................................................... 14. Hold a midnight dance party in a parking garage. ..................................................................................................... 15. Visit a professor you don't know and you never had a class with. Remind him how much he enjoyed your papers. Ask him to write you a letter of recommendation. ..................................................................................................... 16. Learn how to sleep standing up. ..................................................................................................... 17. Review your graduation invitation list to make sure you haven't forgotten to invite somebody related, important, or rich. ..................................................................................................... 18.Take a breather: leave school for a six-month internship. ..................................................................................................... 19. Dance to the bongo players on Lower Sproul. ..................................................................................................... 20. Re-read your acceptance letter from four years ago and remember how thrilled you were to be accepted at Cal. ..................................................................................................... --Compiled by William Rodarmor |
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