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Big Dancer Senior Shawn Lampley led the men’s basketball team to an 11-7 Pac-10 season, good for a fourth-place tie. The Bears then received their first invitation to the Big Dance, a.k.a. the NCAA Tournament, since 1997. Along the way, Lampley surpassed Lamond Murray to become the all-time leading scorer in Cal history, and was named the Pac-10’s Player of the Year. Cal lost to Fresno State, 82 to 70, in the first round of the NCAA tourney. Cal fumbles “Academic” and “fraud” are not words the Berkeley campus likes to see joined together in describing its actions. But that is what happened in late February, when Cal admitted in a report to the Pac-10 that a Cal professor gave two football players credit for a course they did not attend. All three were charged with committing academic fraud. “This is a very sad day,” said Chancellor Robert Berdahl, “because this strikes at the very heart of the University’s academic integrity.” In the summer of 1999, ethnic studies professor Alex Saragoza retroactively gave credit to two football players for a course that spring they hadn’t taken. The credits enabled wide receivers Ronnie Davenport and Mike Answorth to compete in the ’99 football season, after which both left for academic reasons. For the past year, Saragoza has also been vice president in charge of outreach for the UC system. In March, the Pac-10’s Compliance and Enforcement Committee recommended that Berkeley’s athletic program be placed on probation for one year and receive a public reprimand. It also asked for a new “compliance oversight plan,” and for the football program to be docked four scholarships, spread over the 2001-2 and 2002-3 academic years. Finally, it recommended that Cal forfeit its victory over Arizona State on September 25, 1999 because of the contributions the wide receivers made to that victory. A final decision on these matters will be made in June. According to the investigations, Cal’s football coaches and athletic department officials had no knowledge of the violations. In fact, football coach Tom Holmoe alerted school officials of his concern about whether the credits were properly earned. “Nobody likes bad news,” Holmoe said after the investigation, “but we have to accept the consequences of this situation and make the best of it. There is some pain we’ll feel in the proposed sanctions, but it’s not going to undermine our goal of achieving major success over the next few seasons.” For his part, Professor Saragoza said: “I offer no excuses for my lapses in judgment and carelessness, except to say that I allowed my heart to prevail in the accommodations which I made to the two students in question.” Although the University maintains silence on its personnel decisions, the San Francisco Chronicle reported last month that Saragoza had been suspended from teaching at Cal next fall. “Berkeley’s academic integrity must be beyond reproach,” said a concerned Chancellor Berdahl. “The sad fact is that our community’s most honored standards were violated. Though an isolated incident of academic impropriety, its seriousness must be acknowledged in order for us to restore Berkeley’s integrity.” Blue and Cold
Over the top After seven years, Cal’s ambitious Campaign for the New Century fundraising drive has concluded in spectacular fashion. Launched in 1993 with a goal of $1.1 billion, the campaign ended last December with a final total of $1.44 billion—nearly one-third more than initially planned. “This is the largest amount ever raised by a public university and the most raised by any university without a medical school,” said Chancellor Robert Berdahl. “The Campaign for the New Century has helped to develop a new culture of private support for Cal,” said Donald McQuade, vice chancellor for University Relations. “We compete at the highest intellectual levels in teaching and research. We also need to marshal the same kind of private support to recruit and retain the best faculty and students in the world.” Cal’s reliance on private funds continues to grow as state support shrinks; state funds now account for only 35 percent of Berkeley’s operating budget. The $1.44 billion “makes it clear that the University can count on alumni and friends,” said Berdahl, “but it does not eliminate our dependence on the state’s continuing core support for higher education.” As a result of the campaign, 68 faculty chairs, 50 distinguished professorships, 501 graduate fellowships, and nearly a thousand undergraduate scholarships will be established. Among other projects, campaign funds also made possible the new Walter A. Haas Jr. Pavilion sports complex and enabled the campus to expand initiatives that encourage undergraduate research; other monies have been allocated to enhance Cal’s library collections and music performance facilities, and to support research to create new industrial and medical materials, the Wills Neuroscience Center, and other bioengineering and biomedical sciences efforts. In addition, $747.2 million will provide ongoing support in the form of faculty research funds as well as support for school, college, and department projects; and $52.6 million in unrestricted gifts was donated to the Chancellor’s Millennium Fund. Berdahl credits former Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien with establishing a strong foundation for the campaign. “Chang-Lin launched this very effectively; he laid the groundwork for a successful campaign,” says Berdahl, who took over when he arrived as chancellor in 1997. “I was able to step into a well-structured and fast-moving campaign process.” Throughout the campaign, Berkeley strengthened its ties to alumni around the world, from Silicon Valley to Asia. More than 500,000 gifts were contributed by Berkeley graduates, friends, and parents; 16 individual gifts of over $10 million each were received. Even students showed their support—graduating seniors contributed more than $140,000 in Class gifts between 1996 and 2000. McQuade said the home stretch of the campaign was particularly remarkable: $240 million was raised in just six months—a record for Berkeley fundraising. “It’s been an enormously gratifying campaign,” Berdahl said. “The generosity of Cal’s benefactors will be felt on campus for generations to come.” Fruits of the past
Tel Dor, an ancient city of around 25,000 inhabitants, is mentioned many times in the Old Testament. It was first established by the Canaanites in 2000 B.C., and was at various times controlled by the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Israelites, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The new archeological evidence suggests that the temple was deliberately dismantled. “This was part of a crusade by the [Jewish] Hasmonean dynasty to wipe out all pagan symbols after two centuries of paganism,” says Stewart. “If we are right about the date of this deposit, this is the first evidence of the Hasmonean destruction of pagan shrines and a direct link with Jewish history.” The story of the Hasmoneans is told in the Book of Maccabees. There had been evidence of a Greek influence, in the form of pottery and coins, but it is now clear that Greeks actually lived in the area during this period. “This adds a new chapter to Greek art and architecture,” says Stewart. “ No one had found Greek architecture and sculpture like this in Israel before. Now we have it.” Back to Top |
 Shawn Lampley, celebrating after Cal crushed UCLA (Photo: Johnny Hawkins)
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