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New show in University Art Gallery features award winners.

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Ten years later, Columbine victims are remembered.

Find out what happened over the weekend in Cal Poly Athletics.

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Volume LXXIII, Number 127

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Making a difference with no money to spare: Volunteer opportunities abound in Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo Matt Fountain mustang daily

In light of tough economic times, participating in this year’s National Volunteer Week is perhaps more important than ever.

Even if a donation to a local nonprofit is hard to spare, there are plenty of opportunities to make a difference by volunteering. According to many of these organizations, a donation of one’s time is often more helpful, as they depend on the work of communtiy members to operate.

For Cal Poly students in-

terested in getting involved, many opportunities are available right on campus.

Student Community Services (SCS) links participants with a number of volunteer programs and organizes events which put students at the forefront of dealing with important issues affecting the community.

Throughout this week SCS is seeking volunteers for a number of events dealing with homelessness in San Luis Obispo.

The 11th annual Homelessness Awareness Week kicked off Sunday with a Walk to Fight Homelessness at Mitchell Park. Through Friday, SCS is also sponsoring a clothing drive on Dexter Lawn from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Other SCS events this week include a presentation about the Homeless Enumeration Project by presenter Jesse Huselid for the weekly Soup & Substance forum on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon in University Union, room 204. On Wednesday, students will serve breakfast at the Prado

Day Center, and later view a screening of the film “Suckerfish” from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. on Dexter Lawn, followed by an overnight Sleep-Out, which simulates a night without a home.

On Thursday, students are urged to donate to the local overflow shelter by purchasing a button made by local homeless children at the Developing Through Art Button Sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the UU Plaza. Students will be serving dinner Friday at the Maxine Lewis Shelter, from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., and helping to make minor repairs to the shelter Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information on SCS events and volunteer programs, drop by room 217 of the UU, or visit their Web site at scs.calpoly.edu.

SCS also encourages students to participate in the Environmental Council, a program that works with Cal Poly and local organizations to help address environmental issues affecting the local community. The Council organizes volunteer events such as beach clean-ups, tree plantings and work days at Cal Poly's organic

National Volunteer Week

April 21 to April 24

Tuesday: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Soup & Substance Presentation Wednesday: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Suckerfish Screening on Dexter Lawn.

Overnight “Sleepout” Thursday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Developing thru Art Button Sale in UU Plaza.

Friday: 3:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Students Serving Dinner at The Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter

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Journalist and physicist White House says Republicans to discuss climate change should be more constructive Douglass K. Daniel

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Students will have the chance to hear the senior editor at Physics Today lecture about the science involved in global climate change Tuesday night.

Barbara Levi, a noted physicist and co-editor of the book “Global Warming: Physics and Facts” will be speaking tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Philips Hall at the Performing Arts Center.

“She has followed a lot of the climate change science,” Cal Poly physics professor Pete Schwartz said.

“She can tell us what people have said and put it in the context of what’s going on in the world.”

Levi, a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been an editor at Physics Today for

over 30 years. She comes to Cal Poly to talk about her background and the inner workings of some of the science behind climate change.

“It’s certainly one of the fundamental issues of our day,” Cal Poly professor Randy Knight said. “(It’s) a problem that affects every student, not just this year but throughout their lifetime. It’s really important for students to understand more about this.”

Although her expertise is foremost in journalism, Levi has dedicated herself to the understanding of modern-day physics.

“My expertise is essentially communicacourtesy photo tion, climate change is one of the things I try to communicate about,” Levi said.

Her long career of reporting is part of the reason why she was selected to talk. see Speaker, page 2

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wants Republicans to return to Congress this week from their spring recess with a more constructive attitude toward health care, energy and other administration initiatives. GOP lawmakers say they have ideas, just not the ones the president may want.

“When you’re the party of no, when you’re the party of never, when you’re the party of no new ideas, that’s not constructive,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday. “The challenge will be, will the Republicans come to the table with constructive ideas?”

Emanuel predicted progress by congressional committees on changing the health care system, particularly on proposals for controlling costs and providing incentives for healthy lifestyles. Obama will not consider proposals to tax employer benefits before those and other problems are addressed, Emanuel said, and perhaps not even then.

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio agreed that Democrats and Republicans want Americans to have access to highquality, affordable health insurance and that

lawmakers differ on how to reach that goal.

“We’re working on a plan that preserves the doctor-patient relationship, rewards quality and rewards innovation,” Boehner said.

“We’re not for a plan that puts the government in charge of our health care, decides what doctors ought to be paid or what treatments ought to be prescribed.”

On energy, Boehner said Republicans continue to favor the all-of-the-above strategy, including more nuclear energy and more domestic oil drilling, that they pushed last year.

Although the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases pose a major health hazard, Boehner dismissed concerns about carbon dioxide as “almost comical.” He questioned the role humans have played in climate change and what should be done about global warming.

“We don’t want to raise taxes, $1.5 to $2 trillion like the administration is proposing, and we don’t want to ship millions of American jobs overseas,” he said. “And so we’ve got to find ways to work toward this solution to this problem without risking the future for our kids and grandkids.” see Obama, page 2

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farm. Their monthly beach cleanups at Avila Beach take place the first Saturday of every month (the next one is May 2).Volunteers who want to bike to the beach meet in the Administration parking lot at 9:15 a.m. for a carpool arrive at 10:15 a.m. For more information about the council’s activities, stop by SCS or call (805)756-5834.

There are also a number of volunteer organizations off-campus which deal with local environmental issues. Pacific Wildlife Care of San Luis Obispo County, for example, seeks volunteers to help rehabilitate and return to the wild injured or orphaned animals as well as raise awareness within the community about respect for wildlife and the environment. The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obsipo County is anoth-

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er nonprofit that has worked for over 25 years to enhance and protect local land with important scenic, ecological and agricultural value for people and wildlife. For those who enjoy the beaches of the Central Coast, the San Luis Bay chapter of the Surfrider Foundation are always looking for volunteers to assist in beach cleanups, water-testing and event staffing.

Students who had to leave a pet at home and are in need of their animal fix can get involved with animal shelters seeking volunteers, including one on campus. The Cal Poly Cat Shelter offers students the opportunity to care for felines that have been abandoned or are too old to live outside. According to Edie Griffin-Shaw, director of the shelter, volunteer activities can also benefit a student’s academic career.

“It’s a great place to volunteer for people who love animals and maybe miss their pets,” Griffin-Shaw said.

“We also have lots of opportunities for people doing special topics

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courses and senior projects. At one point, we had a construction management major build our old shelter.

We also had our Web site re-done as a project. So there are many ways students can help.”

Call (805) 756-5220 to volunteer.

In addition, the San Luis Obispo Animal Shelter and Woods Humane Society are always in need of volunteers to assist in daily operations.

At Woods, volunteers are needed to spend time with, walk and bathe dogs and cats. After a little training, volunteers are able to walk dogs offsite to places like downtown or the beach.Volunteers at Woods also participate in pet visitations, where they take dogs to nursing homes and retirement homes.

There are also plenty of ways for students to have a positive influence in the lives of local youths. One such opportunity is to volunteer at Big Brothers and Sisters of San Luis Obispo County, where participants spend six to eight hours a month with local children in need of positive role models. According to Program Director Sarah Rudd-Lawlor, the organization pairs mentors and children with similar interests.

“I originally got involved as a Big Sister,” Rudd-Lawlor said.

“I was great because you’re doing things you’re already interested in and sharing that experience with children. It’s a fun way to spend a weekend and you’re doing things with kids in common interests. I found it incredibly rewarding.”

She said that one mentor recently commented that setting aside fun time with his little brother is really setting aside fun time for himself, and that he loves being able to act like a kid again without getting funny looks from people.

To get involved with Big Brothers San Luis Obispo, visit http:// www.slobigs.org, or call (805) 7813226.

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“She has a lot of ‘on the ground knowledge,’” Schwartz said. “She has something like 20 years of experience and will be able to convey that in regards to climate change at her talk.”

Levi says that speaking to college-aged students is vital.

“The more someone can understand the science behind (climate change) the more one can understand the consequences behind it,” she said. “I think it’s a very important issue (for students) today and it’s something that will affect their future.”

The event is being co-sponsored by the by the Cal Poly Department of Physics and the Empower Poly Coalition. It is open to the public including those who are not convinced of the sincerity of climate change.

“There are a number of objections that have been raised by the climate change skeptics,” Levi said. “I feel there are some answers that can be made to those.”

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parties for a reason, but there are areas of common interest, and we ought to pursue them.” continued from page 1 Democrats and Republicans also Emanuel rejected Republican differ on how to crack down on criticism that Obama’s plan for a abuses by credit-card companies.

Just before the break the Senate cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions amounts to a broad-based Banking, Housing and Urban Aftax increase. He predicted that by fairs Committee approved limiting the end of the first year of the new the reasons card issuers could raise Congress the president would have interest rates and fees on consuman energy bill, though he would ers. Instead of such limits, Repubnot say whether the cap-and-trade licans favor prosecuting predatory lenders and requiring issuers to proposal would be part of it.

“Even those who object to par- more fully disclose agreements in ticulars know that we have to deal language that consumers can easily understand. with this part White House of our energy economic adviser policy and that Larry Summers — the chalsaid that putting lenge now is, a stop to the marrather than to keting of credit criticize and cards in ways that rather than say “addicts” people no, rather than to them will help to say never, Americans save is to provide more of their ideas. And that money. has yet to hapObama is “gopen from the ing to be very foother side,” he cused, in a very said. near term, on a Obama sewhole set of issues nior adviser —Rahm Emanuel having to do with David Axelrod White House Cheif of Staff credit card abuses, said it remains having to do with to be seen the way people whether the president’s budget proposal would have been deceived into paying gain any GOP support in Con- extraordinarily high rates that they wouldn’t have paid if they knew gress.

“No one expects the Repub- what they were getting themselves lican Party to fully embrace what into,” Summers said.

Emanuel and Boehner appeared we’re doing,” Axelrod said. “What they would like is for us to ratify on ABC’s “This Week” while Axelthe policies that we’ve had for the rod spoke on CBS’ “Face the Nalast eight years that have gotten us tion.” Summers’ interview was with into the mess we’re in. We have two NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

When you’re the party of no, when you’re the party of never, when you’re the party of no new ideas, that’s not constructive.

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“I do have a credit card and I use it way too much and more than I should. I buy clothes and groceries and that kind of stuff.”

-Chris Tollefson, art and design senior

“No, because I think that cash is better.”

“I do, but I only use it for emergency situations or if (stores) will only take that credit card. I usually just go to the ATM for cash.”

-Taylor Redmond, business administration junior

“I do, just to boost my credit. I use it for books and my mom uses it once in a while.”

-Mike Sabido, business administration junior

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man suspected of pulling a badly injured college student off a car windshield after a deadly hit-and-run accident was arrested while trying to cross back into the United States from Mexico, police said Saturday.

Josue Luna, 32, of Los Angeles, was detained by federal agents at the San Ysidro border crossing Friday after his name prompted a computer alert that he was wanted in Los Angeles, LAPD Officer April Harding said.

Luna was jailed on suspicion of being an accessory to the hit-andrun, she said. He was released Saturday on $50,000 bail.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than three years after Katrina stirred up the waters and washed out levees along a 75-mile, manmade shipping channel dubbed “hurricane highway,” a judge could soon decide whether the Army Corps of Engineers owes residents and businesses damages because of the massive flooding.

Arguments are set to begin Monday in the trial, which will be heard and decided by a judge, not a jury. And much is at stake: If the five residents and one business in this initial lawsuit are victorious, more than 120,000 other individuals, businesses and government entities could have a better shot at claiming billions of dollars in damages.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A frail, 90-year-old Nelson Mandela struggled to the stage Sunday at the ANC’s last rally before South Africa’s election, making a surprise appearance to the cheers of 100,000 supporters while countrymen watched on national TV. He wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of Jacob Zuma, the party’s popular presidential candidate who drew almost as mighty a cheer from the fans gathered in central Johannesburg days before Wednesday’s parliamentary elections.

Mandela began his visit with a drive around a field in a golf cart with Zuma at his side.

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“Do you have a credit card?

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A University of Southern California fraternity has been suspended as police investigate allegations that three students were assaulted at a rowdy party last week.

University officials say three women have reported assaults at Lambda Chi Alpha’s frat house early Wednesday.

Police say they’ve interviewed one victim and hope others will come forward.

LAPD Capt. Denis Cremins says a 19-year-old student reports attending a mixer at the fraternity house Tuesday night, drinking punch, blacking out and waking up several hours later partly unclothed.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Police filed intoxication manslaughter charges Sunday against a driver who lost control of his car while using a cell phone, plunging the vehicle into a rain-filled ditch and killing five children inside.

Chanton Jenkins, 32, was in police custody facing four counts of intoxication manslaughter, one charge for each of the children found dead so far, said Houston police spokesman Kese Smith.

Police said a relative told them Jenkins was the father of three of the victims.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Clear-plastic ballot boxes were nearly as empty as Port-auPrince’s unusually deserted streets Sunday as few voters turned out for Senate elections in which candidates from a major populist party were not allowed to run.

The vote had been seen as a key step in the development of Haitian democracy and in President Rene Preval’s bid to retool the constitution and fight poverty.

The international community gave Haiti’s government $12.5 million to coordinate the elections, including $3 million from the U.S.

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Studies find medicine Supreme Court will hear Ariz. teen strip-search case released in sewage do something about the emotional scar.

The nation’s highest court will hear the 19-year-old’s case Tuesday against Safford Middle School officials who searched her for prescription-strength ibuprofen pills that a fellow student accused her of having.

“I’m never going to be able to forget about this,” says Redding, a college freshman living in her hometown of Safford in rural eastern Arizona. “I’ll think about it constantly, but I don’t think it’ll be as big associated press/aclu a burden.”

The Supreme Court will hear Savanna Redding talks to media in Safford, Ariz. in this March 2009 arguments on whether school ofphoto provided by the ACLU. The 19-year-old hopes a U.S. Supreme ficials violated the Fourth AmendCourt hearing on Tuesday will ease the pain she feels from an event in ment, which prohibits unreasonable eighth grade that’s clouded much of her life and set strict guidelines searches. Among the questions to be for school administrators. resolved are whether they had reasonable grounds to believe Redding Arthur H. Rotstein was hiding pills and whether the pills posed a public associated press health threat serious enough to justify a strip search.

If the court finds the search was unconstitutional, it Savana Redding was 13 years old when she was told will have to decide whether school officials can be held to remove her clothes for a strip search by school of- financially liable by determining whether it should have ficials looking for the equivalent of two Advils. And been clear to them in October 2003 that the search was while the humiliation hasn’t diminished in the past five illegal. and a half years, she hopes the U.S. Supreme Court can “Strip searches of children produce trauma similar in kind and degree to sexual abuse,” said Adam Wolf, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing Redding. “For Savana, she thinks about this event every day, has trust issues with her peers and adults ... The search has radically altered her life.”

A federal magistrate had dismissed the lawsuit Redding and her mother brought, and a federal appeals panel agreed that the search didn’t violate her rights.

But last July, a full panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the search was “an invasion of constitutional rights.”

The court also said vice principal Kerry Wilson could be found personally liable.

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Federal scientists testing for pharmaceuticals in water have been finding significantly more medicine residues in sewage downstream from public treatment facilities that handle waste from drugmakers.

Early results from two pivotal federal studies compare wastewater at treatment plants that handle sewage from drugmakers with those that do not. The studies cover just a small fraction of the 1,886 pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities counted in a 2006 U.S. Census report.

In one study, samples taken at two treatment plants down the sewer line from drugmaking factories contained a range of pharmaceuticals — among them opiates, a barbiturate and a tranquilizer at “much higher detection frequencies and concentrations” than samples taken at other plants, according to preliminary research by the U.S. Geological Survey.

One drug, the muscle relaxant metaxalone, was measured in treated sewage at concentrations hundreds of times higher than the level at which federal regulators can order a review of a drug’s environmental impact.

Based on secrecy agreements with the researchers, the treatment plants were not identified.

USGS researcher Herb Buxton, who co-chairs a White House task force on pharmaceuticals in the environment, said it’s important that federal scientists test the pharmaceutical industry’s claims that their wastewater is not a meaningful source of pharmaceuticals in water.

“It’s critical that those types of assumptions are confirmed through real testing,” said Buxton.

In another study, Environmental Protection Agency researchers tested sewage at a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., that serves a major Pfizer Inc. factory. Bruce Merchant, Kalamazoo’s public services director, provided data that showed unusually high concentrations of the antibiotic lincomycin entering the plant, a drug the factory was producing around the time samples were collected.

“There’s some product going down the drain,” said Merchant.

While nearly all the lincomycin was removed during wastewater treatment, some did survive. According to a separate 2008 study, lincomycin combined in minute concentrations with several other drugs that also have been detected in surface water made human cancer and kidney cells and fish liver cells proliferate.

Biologist Francesco Pomati, at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, was so concerned with the findings that he and his colleagues warned that chronic exposure to the combination of drugs via drinking water could be “a potential hazard for particular human conditions, such as pregnancy or infancy.”

In earlier experiments, lincomycin acted as a mutagen, changing genetic information in bacteria, algae, microscopic aquatic animals and fish.

Pfizer spokesman Rick Chambers said that while the company does not test wastewater from the facility for the drugs made on site, “compliance with all environmental, health and safety laws is imperative to our business operations worldwide.”

The two domestic studies follow a burst of recent research in Asia and Europe that has started to link factories to the presence in water of drugs including the antibiotic sulfamethoxazole, the pain reliever diclofenac and the anticonvulsant carbamazepine, as well as an antihistamine, female sex hormones and aspirin.

Researchers in India, where multinational companies have increasingly turned for the manufacture of raw pharmaceutical ingredients, found that 100 pounds a day of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin enters a river from a wastewater treatment plant that processes sewage from dozens of pharmaceutical makers.

In Switzerland, a study sponsored by drugmaking giant Roche documented that 0.2 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients escape during its own processing. That kind of loss rate doesn’t sound like a lot until it’s projected out over the entire annual production of drugs worldwide. Studies in Taiwan and China also suggest drugmaking plants discharge product.

All of which raises questions about U.S. manufacturing.

“Is it as bad in the U.S. as it is in India? Probably not. But it does make me think we should test,” said Kyla Bennett, a former EPA enforcement officer who is now an ecologist and environmental attorney.

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10 years after Columbine, survivors try to move on Sandy Shore associated press

The “boy in the window” — who fell bloodied and paralyzed into the arms of rescuers during the horrifying Columbine High shooting rampage — is doing just fine.

Now 27, Patrick Ireland has regained mobility with few lingering effects from gunshot wounds to his head and leg a decade ago. He is married and works in the financial services industry.

His mantra: “I choose to be a victor rather than a victim.”

Like Ireland, many survivors of the April 20, 1999 massacre have moved on to careers in education, medicine, ministry and retail.

But emotional scars still can trigger anxiety, nightmares and deeply etched recollections of gunfire, blood and bodies.

Some have written books; a few travel the world to share their experiences to help victims of violence.

“People have been able to have 10 years to reconcile what happened and see what fits in their life and who they are,” said Kristi Mohrbacher of Littleton, who fled Columbine as the gunfire erupted. “It’s kind of a part of who I am today. I think my priorities might be a little bit different if I hadn’t had that experience.”

Just after 11 a.m. on that day, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, stormed the suburban school, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding about two dozen. The massacre ended with the gunmen’s suicides not quite an hour later.

Sean Graves saw the pair loading weapons in a parking lot and thought they were preparing a senior prank with paintball guns.

Graves, Lance Kirklin and Daniel Rohrbough were walking toward them for a better look when the gunmen opened fire, killing Rachel Scott and Rohrbough and critically wounding Anne Marie Hochhalter, Graves and Kirklin, among others.

In the second-floor library, Ireland was about to finish some homework when he heard pipe bombs exploding in the hallway.

Debris fell from the ceiling and a teacher shouted for students to take cover.

Klebold and Harris strode in, shouted for students to stand up, laughing and ridiculing classmates as they sprayed bullets.

Ireland was under a table with Dan Steepleton and Makai Hall when they were shot in the knees. Ireland was shot twice in the head and once in a leg, and lost consciousness.

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Family and friends gather for a candlelight vigil at the Columbine High School memorial at Clement Park, near Littleton, Colo., on Sunday.

The killers shot out a library window. Graves, lying partially paralyzed on a sidewalk below, worried that they would return.

He smeared blood from his neck wound on his face and the ground to make it appear he was dead.

Harris and Klebold killed 10 students in the library before they left to reload, which gave some survivors a chance to flee.

Steepleton and Hall tried to pull Ireland but couldn’t move him far before they fled for safety.

Shortly before noon, the gunmen returned to the library and committed suicide.

Ireland awoke some time later, his vision blurred. With fire alarms sounding and strobe lights flashing, the partially paralyzed teen began to push himself toward the bullet-shattered window.

Over the next three hours, he pulled his body along, lost and regained consciousness, then moved again through tables and chairs and past classmates’ bodies. He figures he traveled about 50 feet to the window.

“I thought how much easier it would be just to give up, stay there and let somebody come get you or whatever would happen to you,” Ireland said.

“But every time those thoughts came in my mind, I thought about all the people that I would be giving up on. ... It was really the friends and family I would be letting down that kept me going.”

Ireland pushed himself up to the window and got the attention of SWAT teams below. He doesn’t recall flopping over the sill and dropping into the arms of rescuers, the image that grabbed the attention of TV viewers nationwide.

Graves, now 25, moved into a suburb near the mountains, where he recently purchased a home with his fiancee, Kara DeHart, 22. He walks with a limp and still feels pain but keeps a positive attitude. He plans to return to college to pursue a career in forensics science, a path that began to interest him after Columbine.

On Monday’s anniversary, Graves will go back to the spot where he was shot, smoke a cigar and leave another on the ground for Rohrbough, something he does every year.

With two children at Columbine, Ted Hochhalter watched the drama unfold on television while waiting in a Seattle airport for a flight back to Denver. He arrived to find his daughter, Anne Marie, paralyzed and in critical condition, and that his son Nathan had been trapped, but unhurt, in the science wing for four hours.

He took a leave of absence from his job as a government emergency management coordinator. Six months later his wife, Carla, who had a history of mental illness, walked into a pawn shop, picked up a gun and committed suicide.

Hochhalter believes the aftermath of the shootings exacerbated his wife’s illness. “It got to a point where she made a choice,” he said.

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Student work is on display in the University Art Gallery. The show allowed students to submit their best assignments from their art classes.

A myriad of award-winning student paintings, photographs and sculptures are now on display in the University Art Gallery.

Cal Poly’s annual Juried Student Exhibition, which will be on display until May 1, features the very best of Cal Poly’s student artwork.

The juried show is an annual event in which students submit artwork, created for any art and design class to be judged by notable experts.

“You get to be in a show that’s really spectacular,” gallery coordinator Jeff Van Kleeck said. “This is really nice work in here and it’s really competitive.”

The exhibition is titled “State Funded” with each piece of art being judged in of four separate categories, including 2-D studio, 3-D studio, graphic design and photography.

The art was judged by Connie Hwang, the assistant professor in the school of art and design at San Jose State University, and Laura Meyer, an assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at Fresno State University. The curator for the exhibit was Cal Poly’s Elizabeth Adan.

Wining this year’s award for the 2-D studio was Damion Bailey, a studio art senior, for his painting of two mixed martial art fighters titled “Re-fractured.” Runner-up was art and design senior Ashley Wertheimer with “Taming the Gods.” Damon’s work was a stunning portrait of two fighters grappling with each other.

The contact made from one fighter’s glove to the other fighter’s face was the epicenter of a color explosion.

“I wanted to approach violence in such a way... so that it’d be a topic of interest.” Bailey said. “So regardless of whether or not you have a distaste for violence, you can at least acknowledge the interest of the piece.”

Art and design junior Clayton Beltran won the 3-D studio with his

sculpture titled “I firmly resolve...”

Taking second place was fellow junior art and design major John Dixon’s “Sunday Morning.”

“I got a lot of positive feedback (beforehand) so I was thinking it was going to make the show,” Beltran said. “I was pretty surprised when it won.”

His piece was essentially a portable confessional that fit over the head of the subject and was inspired by Beltran’s Catholic upbringing.

“A lot of times I try and resolve some of my issues through my art,” Beltran said.“It’s kind of comedic but at the same time it deals with being exposed and vulnerable.”

In the graphic design category art and design senior Amanda Wallace’s “The Unconventional Oddities of San Luis Obispo” took first while senior art and design senior Chris Hall’s “RIT #1” taking second.

Wallace put together an eccentric travel book which highlighted the lesser know, “hot spots” of San Luis Obispo.

“I’ve been around San Luis Obispo County for most of my life,” he said. “The whole point of the travel guide was to point out some of those ‘random off things’ that maybe you wouldn’t really know about unless you were talking to a local.”

In the photography category Hall again placed and this time won with his work “Still Gaze-Dave.” Finishing second was art and design senior Trevor Ingraham’s ‘Burning.’

“It’s great, it’s my first time in here and I plan on coming back,” engineering sophomore Santiago Caceres said.

Van Kleeck also said that visiting the art gallery would be beneficial to students.

“The average student (upon their visit) might find some new ideas, some new visuals and some new ways of thinking,” he said. “I always like to say that art is the hotbed for innovation.”

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MIA takes Coachella main stage Ryan Pearson ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDIO, Calif. (AP) — M.I.A. gave the main stage at Coachella her best shot. It just didn’t work out.

After a strong start, a few hiccups, and a somewhat listless finale, the Grammy-nominated new mom declared at the end of her hour-long set in the desert that “next time I’m back in the tent.”

“I want to be in the sweat,” she said.

M.I.A. had performed twice in smaller tents at the music festival, in its 10th year and one of the nation’s most prestigious.

She noted earlier,“I really don’t know how to bring it on the main stage.” And her live show staples — climbing on speakers, dancing body-to-body with CHris PiZZeLLO associated press

M.I.A. performs during the second day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. on Saturday.

the crowd — didn’t quite fit the new digs.

When she tried to bring some of the audience onstage Saturday night, security guards thwarted most fans.

M.I.A. ended up on a platform above the crowd performing “Bird Flu,” and asked when it was over: “Can we get some order in the place? My baby’s waiting.” She gave birth to a son in February, a few days after the Grammys.

The Killers took the main stage to close the evening. The Las Vegas-based group, who began with their most recent single “Human,” appeared far more comfortable in the setting.

Wearing a black No Limit Records T-shirt, sneakers and jeans with Day-Glo green lining, M.I.A. performed songs from her two most recent albums and gave up the spotlight to Baltimore-based

protege Rye Rye for a song. While she moved alongside Day-Glo-clad dancers for a lively opening number, she stood stiffly at other times behind a podium adorned with microphones as if for a press conference.

Roaming into the audience with help of a piggyback ride, she finished with crowd favorite “Paper Planes,” lifted to hit status by appearances in “Pineapple Express” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”

But the British-born, Sri-Lankan-bred rapper pushed back against Hollywood. She slyly referenced her status as Coachella replacement for Amy Winehouse, who canceled due to visa trouble, by singing “They tried to make me do the Oscars. I said no, no, no.”

And, she noted, “I want to let you know that just cuz I did the Grammys, it doesn’t mean I’ve gone all sold out.”

Though she wasn’t embracing Hollywood, some of its regulars certainly wanted to be around for her.

Zac Efron was seen ducking out of the fest’s VIP area in the afternoon Saturday, and Paris Hilton posed for pictures with her new boyfriend during Thievery Corporation’s popular main stage set just before M.I.A. Also performing Saturday were Joss Stone, TV On The Radio, Fleet Foxes — who apologized to fans after suffering repeated technical problems — and Travis Barker and DJ AM, who had the dance tent crowd roaring at their drum-assisted remixes of pop hits.

Exact figures weren’t released but crowds at the three-day festival appear to have more than doubled the approximate 75,000 population of this community southeast of Palm Springs. Police reported 17 arrests Saturday and fire officials said two people had been taken to hospitals.

Temperatures, climbing throughout the fest, were expected to hit the high 90s on Sunday, which features the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Public Enemy, My Bloody Valentine and the Cure.

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All Wall Street’s a stage Leave the free market be and the play unfolds as it should

Capitalism’s received quite a blow to its reputation in the past few years. We’ve been told that a strange breed of men, in lustful pursuit of profits, brought the entire world economy down. These men, so unlike ourselves, play the parts of the antagonists. Investment bankers, corporate CEOs, mortgage brokers, oil executives, whoever the hell they were – these people, we’re told, are the villains in the great tragedy that is the financial crisis.

To that end, the government has taken unprecedented measures all aimed at taming the ‘unruly spirits’ of the free market. The argument goes that if we simply regulate enough, we can keep the harmful forces of greed and risk-taking from spiraling out of control.

Now, it would be one thing for us to take such bold regulatory measures and to spend trillions of dollars if our reasons for doing so were based on conclusive factual evidence indicating that it was indeed a lack of government oversight that lead to financial collapse.

After all, as Obama himself has said, “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament.” Of course; how else do we learn if not from our mistakes?

Yet much evidence points at the fact that it wasn’t a lack of regulation, but an excess thereof, that caused the financial crisis. And those facts – and facts they are – are being blatantly dismissed even as the United States moves through arguably the largest economic reform in its history.

Despite the rhetoric, the Obama administra-

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tion (and the Bush administration previously) I’m no economist, but I do have a proseems to have little interest in encouraging found interest in studying the subject; there’s a genuine understanding of the roots of the just something about economics and the logicrisis. cal, quantifiable way it looks at the world. And In a speech before Congress at the end of from what I’ve learned, I’ve come to the conFebruary, Obama again blamed deregulation clusion that capitalism is neither good nor bad, of the financial system: “Regulations were but merely the productive outlet of a free and gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the prosperous nation. expense of a healthy market. People bought Because the truth is, the actors on Wall Street homes they knew they couldn’t afford from and Main Street can only play out their parts banks and lenders who pushed those bad according to the stage they’re placed on. Leave loans anyway.” them to perform their roles in peace — to creNo one is denying that risky investment ate, to buy, to sell, to trade — with minimal was one factor in the financial collapse. But to interference and you’ll see the intricate scaffold blame everything on something as unquanti- of the free market system begin to take shape. fiable as greed – the pursuit of “a quick profit” On this stage, prices, acting as signals to both – while ignoring the much larger and more suppliers and demanders, always tend toward measurable influences is truly disingenuous. equilibrium.

The facts are as follows. Former Fed ChairIt’s when the stage changes that the story man Alan Greenspan created an excess of easy, changes; distort the very markets that make up “cheap money” when he lowered interest our economy and the tale takes a tragic turn. rates to record lows of 1 and 2 percent in the Bubbles balloon and pop, markets collapse, early 2000s. What folcredit freezes. lowed was a speculative If everything is confrenzy in the real essidered – and if our tate market which sent leaders were truly open home prices through with us – they would the roof. Meanwhile, admit that over-regugovernment-sponsored lation, not deregulaenterprises Fannie Mae tion, played a key role and Freddie Mac balin creating the financial looned larger and larger, crisis. Federal Reserve buying more and more policies led to interest risky loans from other rates that made loans lending institutions and seem like must-haves socializing those risks to for people who could taxpayers. The Communot afford them, while — William Shakespeare nity Reinvestment Act legislation forced bankof 1977, in the interest ers to make loans to of further encouraging those high-risk lenders. homeownership, forced banks and other lend- And that’s just the beginning of it. ing institutions to make loans to low-income But you don’t have to take my word for it. individuals who they wouldn’t normally lend I only ask that if you take one moral from this to. (Perhaps Obama should have explained that story, it’s that you do your own homework: Find the banks who “pushed those bad loans” where out for yourself what the facts are, precisely so doing so only because the government was that you can gain the very “understanding” our pushing them to do so.) president speaks of.

If the administration was truly interested in evaluating the root causes of the financial crisis, Marlize van Romburgh is a journalism senior with it would lay all the facts on the table, not just an economics minor and the Mustang Daily editor in chief. those that are politically viable.

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Responses to “Modern-day tea party shows absurdity is brewing”: I have learned from your opinion piece that peaceful dissent through public protest is an activity to mock, as long as you disagree with the cause. When causes you agree with march down the streets (eg. green movements, gay pride, immigrant rights, etc.), it is a symbol of patriotic pride for diversity and an empowered society. When the cause opposes your views it is an “absurdity.”

It is embarrassing that respect-

Stephanie, you totally missed the point of the tea party. It was not protesting taxes. It was protesting the wasteful spending the government has done with the tax money they collect. The stimulus is a joke; it’s just throwing more money at the problem to make it go away when we already have a huge debt.

People are starting to see this now and they don’t like what they see.

So what do you do when you think something is wrong? Protest!

It was peaceful, just like the many Anti-war protests the left have been praising. So I guess if you have dissent it can only be against the right, huh? If this was put up by the left, I bet you would be chomping at the

bit to tell everyone how great the tea party was.

— William I was actually interested in your article for the first three paragraphs.

It almost looked like you were reaching a logical argument. Sadly, you failed to connect the obvious dots and I felt like banging my head into the wall. If you believe that those people were protesting taxation as a whole, you should probably take a minute and watch something besides Keith Olbermann.

No one is in objection to paying taxes. While the people who were protesting do in fact have physical representation in congress, many believe it to be disproportionate.

This has become a huge issue in light of the stimulus package. Of the citizens who did in fact pay taxes in the last year, a large proportion of them seem to be in opposition of how their money is being spent (as evidenced by recent events, not just

the tea parties).

Keep in mind that anyone can vote for government spending, but not everyone can pay for it. The GDP numbers you presented do not illustrate a relevant point. It is not how much is being taken, it is who it is being taken from. Your hypothesis of what portion of the 40 percent population did in fact attend the protest is speculation only and in no way gives your argument weight. I am not saying what is right and wrong, this is just observance.

For a writer who calls on others to be less ignorant, I find it funny that you have no real grasp of your target’s concerns. It would be one thing if you were to disagree on principals, but you clearly do not understand the issue at hand. If I were to write an article condemning a political event, you could bet that I would spend sufficient time researching it.

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least a hit and an RBI. Six players had a multiple hit showing and three hit for three RBIs. “Hitting is contagious,” Mustangs’ head coach Larry Lee said.

“We have a solid one through nine lineup that feed off of internal competition, which is important.”

Contagious indeed.

When one horse went running, the others followed as the Mustangs scored in bunches.

They went for four runs in the second inning, three more in the third, twice in the fourth, and a seven-run stampede in the seventh frame killed any hopes for the Aggies (6-28, 1-8).

“I think we learned a lot this weekend on the mental part of performing on a high level and how to simplify things,” Lee said of his team’s state of mind.

Cal Poly freshman righthander Mason Radeke (3-1) got his third win on the season as he pitched six innings, only giving up four runs on 10 hits. UC Davis senior right hander Jeremy McChesney (1-5) got the loss.

Cal Poly’s offense that showed up for the final game of the series wasn’t there in the first game that was taken into extra innings before the Mustangs scored a run in the 10th inning on a dropped fly ball.

“Anybody can beat anybody in the Big West,” Lee said.“We’ve been lucky this year of riding out the storm at home and find-

Tam would score the winning run on a single by senior shortstop Melissa Pura.

Cahn would pick up her 20th win of the year and second of the weekend in completing the sweep over the Matadors (24-17, 4-8) on Sunday.

The Mustangs would score seven runs in the first three innings en route to the easy victory. Cahn was able to help her own cause with the bat, connecting on the game’s big hit, a three-run homer in the third inning.

Cal Poly will continue their conference road swing as they travel to play UC Davis in a threegame series starting Saturday.

Yankees

The origin of it all, of course, was the Sept. 11 attacks, and, believe me, just watching the Yankees on television at the time made me teary. The nation had been violated, we wanted more than anything to heal, and the performances were a tribute to the heroes and victims of that terrible day.

They helped us get through some awful times.

But “God Bless America” is not our national anthem, and the whole thing now seems more than a little contrived. Fans in Yankee Stadium

Bryant spent the first quarter getting his teammates involved before putting his own mark on the game.

His total gave Bryant 3,710 career postseason points, moving him past Magic Johnson and into ninth on the NBA’s list. He trails only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (4,070) and Jerry West (4,457) for most points in the playoffs with the Lakers.

The Jazz outscored the Lakers 33-24 in the third quarter to trail 8673 going into the final 12 minutes.

They opened the quarter on a 9-0 run, then a 9-2 burst got them to 7263, their first single-digit deficit since late in the opening quarter.

But Bryant scored three in a row and Shannon Brown hit a 3-pointer that kept the Lakers ahead by 13.

The Jazz got to 98-89 on a 3-pointer by Andrei Kirilenko with 5:46 remaining in the game. Bryant answered with four points in a row and Gasol hit two free throws that pushed the lead back to 13 points.

The teams combined to make 67 trips to the free throw line.

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board, no fans are allowed to leave their seats while it is being played. If you go, make sure you take your hat off and put your hand over your heart, lest the guy next to you think you’re some kind of Red Sox loving commie.

And if Irish tenor Ronan Tynan is singing, it’s considered appropriate to get a little choked up.

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had here have been pretty nasty and they will get after you from daylight to dark.We’re just learning how to get after it a little bit more as we go along with younger guys.

“Part of that’s my fault. I probably haven’t been nasty enough with them.”

Bryant wasn’t buying Sloan’s assessment.

“I’m a game connoisseur, so I know how nasty Sloan was when he was playing,” he said. “Pardon my French, but your ass would be kicked out of the league if you played that physical now. I’m sure he’s using it as a motivational tool to get those guys to play even harder.”

They’ll need to at Staples Center.

The Jazz were 15-26 on the road during the regular season, and the Lakers have now beaten them 10 in a row at home, including playoff games.

football If the spring scrimmage is any indication, the Mustangs will return to their defensive ways when the football team returns to the field this fall.

The defense dominated the Cal Poly offense on Saturday allowing just one score.

“Our defense is definitely getting the attitude and effort we want to playwith,” Mustangs head coach Tim Walsh said in a statement. “I really love the way we were playing on defense today.”

Senior fullback Jon Hall is the only returning skill player to return from Cal Poly’s 8-3 team but his backup scored the only points for the offense as junior Jordan Yocum scored on a 14-yard run.

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ITA Division I ranking earlier this year when they were ranked No. 74 on March 24. The season-ending loss also meant the end of four Cal Poly careers as seniors Darryn Young, Andrew Gerst, Nick Berger and injured senior Robert Zacks participated in their final matches.

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The Cal Poly men’s tennis season came to an end on Saturday in Indian Wells in the Big West Conference Semifinals.

The Anteaters claimed the doubles point and won three singles matches to claim the dual and advance to the finals.

Cal Poly sophomore Drew Jacobs ended a strong season with a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 win over UC Irvine freshman Steven Henderson at the top singles position.

The Mustangs were without freshman Andre Dome who typically played at No. 1 but missed the final five duals of the year with an injury.

Cal Poly achieved its first ever

The two teams battled to the end of the Big West Conference Quarterfinal matchup with it all coming down to a third set at No. 3 singles to decide the winner.

UC Santa Barbara freshman Sofia Novak was able to defeat Mustangs senior Whitney Peterson 6-3 in the final set to earn the victory for the Gauchos.

“Santa Barbara came out really strong in doubles. I thought they were more aggressive than us and we may have been a little bit tight,” Cal Poly head coach Hugh Bream said in a statement.

“It was a little unfortunate for us that Santa Barbara didn’t get the four-seed after the tiebreaker so we could’ve avoided them in the opening round. I give credit to their team. They really fought hard and came up with a big win.”

Junior Brittany Blalock will he hoping for a selection to the NCAA singles championship while junior Suzie Matzenauer and sophomore Amy Markhoff are hoping to be invited to the NCAA’s as a doubles team. The field will be announced on April 29.

and, at times, in other ballparks, are now expected to stand and pay homage to their country two different times as if watching a ballgame is some kind of patriotic activity.

Campeau-Laurion says in his lawsuit that he’s a proud American, but doesn’t think he should be compelled to remain in place for what basically is a show tune written by Irving Berlin and later popularized by Kate Smith. He thought he should be able to go to the bathroom, even as Yankee ushers and security guards stretched

chains down aisles to make sure no one left.

He’s right. Standing with our hats off for our national anthem is both appropriate and a part of our sporting fabric since World War II, but are we so insecure about our feelings about our country that we need to publicly display them again a couple hours later? Do fans have to be chained in to ensure they are patriots?

What’s next, “America the Beautiful” after the third inning?

“God Bless the USA” before the

sixth? Does “American Pie” somehow qualify?

Maybe we should just scrap “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and recite the Pledge of Allegiance instead.

The bottom line is, we all love our country. A lot of us love baseball, too.

Just because it was once America’s pastime, though, doesn’t mean it can decide what is patriotic and what is not.

Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for the Associated Press.

get to the line it stops the momentum,” Bryant said. “It doesn’t enable us to get out on transition. It was a stop-and-go game, and that’s exactly the style of basketball that they play.”

That’s what Jackson disliked, especially Utah’s 20-7 edge on the offensive boards.

“Foul after foul after foul,” he said. “Rebounds, offensive rebounds, those are the things we harped on all week about having to watch that particular aspect of our game.”

Williams stole the ball from Bryant to start the game and the Jazz hit

three quick shots to take their largest lead of four points.

It was all Lakers after that.

Bryant dished off to Ariza and Brown for 3-pointers, and the Lakers built a 30-10 lead while shooting 71 percent.

Bryant sat down to start the second quarter while Lamar Odom and Bynum combined to score the Lakers’ first 12 points, stretching their lead to 42-29. Twice the Jazz got within 10 in that span, but the Lakers took off on a 20-8 scoring binge the second time.

Bryant contributed by reeling off nine consecutive points before Luke Walton’s 3-pointer gave the Lakers a 62-40 halftime lead.

The Jazz struggled on 35 percent shooting from the floor, and hit just 1-of-7 from 3-point range in the half.

“We kind of looked like deer in the headlights to start,” Sloan said. “I was kind of shocked.”

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Cal Poly junior fullback Jon Hall, left, is the only skill position player on offense returning to the Mustangs this fall.

“Yocum is the real deal,” Walsh said. “We’re finding out where we are at fullback.”

Senior cornerback Xavier Gardner intercepted a pass for the defense, which also recorded numerous sacks.

The Mustangs will have three more spring practices culminating in the 2009 Spring Game at 5 p.m. Saturday in Alex G. Spanos Stadium.

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Mustangs finish sweep of helpless Aggies It was a scorcher Sunday afternoon at Baggett Stadium as Cal Poly roasted UC Davis 16-8 to complete the sweep against the struggling Aggies and win their 17th straight contest at home.

The game’s first pitch was thrown in front of fans holding umbrellas high, trying to protect themselves from the 93 degree weather. As the game reached the fourth inning, Cal Poly (27-9, 8-4 Big West Conference) added to the heat, scoring seven runs on nine hits as the temperature reached 96.

Coming into the game, Cal Poly’s senior center fielder Ryan Lee was sitting on a 25-game hitting streak that tied him with Brandon Roberts for the longest

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Cal Poly junior infielder Kyle Smith, shown above, had two hits and an RBI in the Mustangs’ 16-8 victory over UC Davis on Sunday. since Cal Poly joined Division I ball. In the fourth inning, in his third at bat, Lee hit a sharp ground ball through the left side of the infield to record his first hit in the game and at least one in 26 consecutive games, breaking the record set in 2004.

“It’s a relief just to get it out of the way,” Lee said of getting that hit. “It’s hard to keep it out of your head, but it was a big moment for me and I’m happy about it, but glad that it’s out of the way.”

Following not too far behind Lee is freshman second baseman Matt Jensen, who has a little streak of his own. Jensen went one for

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Los Angeles center Pau Gasol dunks during the Lakers’ 113-110 victory over the Utah Jazz in the opening round of the NBA playoffs on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES — Pardon Phil Jackson’s lack of enthusiasm for how the Los Angeles Lakers played in the second half.They piled up 62 points on Utah in the first half, then got outscored over the final 24 minutes.

“It wasn’t a coach’s delight, that’s for sure,” he said.

But his players sure liked the outcome, a 113-100 victory over the Jazz in the teams’ playoff opener Sunday.

Kobe Bryant scored 24 points, Trevor Ariza added 21 and Pau Gasol 20 as the Lakers pretty much had their way against the eighth-seeded Jazz. They led by 22 points at halftime and then answered resoundingly both times Utah got within nine in the second half.

“They kept knocking on the door and we just never let them in,” Bryant said.

Allowing a Phil Jackson-coached team to win Game 1 of any series doesn’t bode well for the opposition. Jackson’s teams have never lost a playoff series after winning Game 1, going 41-for-41 with Chicago and the Lakers.

“We had a very difficult time,” Utah coach Jerry Sloan said. “We

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gave up 62 points in the first half and it’s virtually impossible to beat this team giving them an edge.”

Carlos Boozer led the Jazz with 27 points and Deron Williams added 16 points and a career playoff-high 17 assists. Both were in foul trouble, with Boozer getting his third just before halftime when Williams already had two.

“I didn’t shoot the ball too well,” Williams said. “I did a good job getting in the lane and distributing the basketball, I just couldn’t finish.”

The Jazz sorely missed Mehmet Okur, who sat out with a mild right hamstring strain. He averages 17 points and 7.5 rebounds and gives Utah a much-needed inside presence against the Lakers’ twin 7-footers, Andrew Bynum and Gasol.

Bynum had seven points and three rebounds playing in foul trouble most of the game.

“We were just a step slow,” Sloan said. “They kicked our butt off the floor.”

He questioned his young team’s toughness, a trait Utah has rarely lacked during the Hall of Fame coach’s tenure.

“We’re not a nasty team,” Sloan said. “Most of the teams that we’ve

two on the day, hitting an RBI triple in the fourth inning to improve his hitting streak to 23 games. It is fitting that Lee would score on the triple.

“He’s been awesome this year,” Lee said of his teammate. “I’m a fifth-year senior and I’m learning some things from him about hitting. Just the way he approaches each at bat, he doesn’t think too much about what is going on around him.”

It was an offensive explosion for Cal Poly. All nine of the Mustangs in the starting lineup got at

Cal Poly completed a crucial sweep of Cal State Northridge to maintain a share of first place in the Big West Conference over the weekend in Northridge.

The Mustangs (31-9, 10-2) won a pair of one-run games on Saturday including the nine-inning victory in the series opener.

A single by Mustangs senior second baseman Stephanie Tam scored freshman outfielder Nora Sobczak to provide the winning run.

Sophomore pitcher Anna Cahn (20-5) pitched another complete game for Cal Poly despite having to throw in another extra-inning affair.

Junior hurler Helen Pena was dominant in Saturday’s late game allowing just one run in collecting her 10th win of the season.

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Tim Dahlberg Bradford Campeau-Laurion may or may not be telling the whole story about what happened to him during the seventh inning stretch one August night last year at Yankee Stadium. A judge or a jury will eventually decide that, as is often the American way with these kind of things.

Certainly, the timing of his lawsuit against the Yankees and the city of New York is a bit suspicious, coming just as the Yankees open their new monument to excess in the Bronx. Then again, CampeauLaurion and his pals at the New York Civil Liberties Union can’t be faulted for wanting to stir up a little publicity for their side.

But if Campeau-Laurion was tossed from Yankee Stadium for, as police claim, having a few beers and using inappropriate language, a case could be made for kicking out half the fans at any ballpark in America.

Just doesn’t happen. Especially in New York.

So I tend to believe CampeauLaurion’s basic contention — that he was forcibly removed from Yankee Stadium because he dared to try and go to the restroom while “God Bless America” was being played between innings.

That’s right, kicked out because he picked the wrong time to take a potty break.

Now I’m as patriotic as the next guy, but I’ve got a problem with that. You should, too, even if you, like a lot of your fellow countrymen, are never able to afford a seat in the new stadium.

Paying good money to see a ballgame is one thing. Being forced to engage in an act of faux patriotism when you really, really, have to go, is quite another.

Besides, if the Yankees are going to sell beer and not let anyone get up for the seventh-inning stretch, they should at least sell boxes of Depends to go along with it.

I jest, of course, if only because it is kind of silly. The Yankees and Campeau-Laurion should have settled this long before it reached the federal courthouse, but they didn’t.

That’s probably because both believe they are answering to a higher cause.

For the Steinbrenner family that means rallying around the flag not just once during a baseball game, but twice. Apparently standing for the national anthem before a game isn’t enough anymore, so “God Bless America” is sung during what is now an extended seventh-inning stretch.

Just to make sure everyone is

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Clinton McGue

Yankees shouldn’t be enforcing patriotism at park