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SLO City Council votes unanimously Proposed modifications to noise ordinance approved last night Megan Hassler mustang daily
The San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of Police Chief Deborah Linden’s proposal that would allow for stricter enforcement and administration of city noise violations Linden and Public Information Officer Ian Parkinson presented the council with recommendations to amend the procedures for residential noise regulations, the first of five strategies Linden and Parkinson first presented at a Sept. 29 council meeting. Parkinson is a candidate for San Luis Obispo County sheriff. Linden recommended that residences in violation of noise regulations be placed on a ‘premises list’ after the first issuance of a Disturbance Advisory Card (DAC). DACs are the formal citation city residents receive when they violate city noise regulations. She also rec-
ommended that residences remain on the list for six months after the violation. As of Jan. 19 there were 137 houses on the city’s premises list. Chief Linden said the number would drastically rise if the ordinance was adopted. The number of noise complaints to the police department has dropped from 2,897 violations in 2007 to 2,700 last year. However, the number of DACs increased over the same time period. The fine for a DAC is $350 for the first infraction. Tonight the council approved the option for first-time offenders to perform 35 hours of community service in lieu of the administrative fine. Other municipal code changes included the creation of a process for property owners or tenants to apply for early removal from the premises list, the ability to hold residential property owners responsible for repeat noise violations and
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Downtown San Luis Obispo businesses are facing difficult times in this economy. Sale signs and empty stores are located on every street as businesses try to bolster their revenue and attract more customers. Businesses in the downtown area have always come and gone; however, the city’s single biggest source of revenue — sales tax — remains down. Compounding the issue, businesses are unable to get loans easily. David Garth, president of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, said that it is difficult to tell whether it is solely the economy or other aspects that are hindering business. “Due to seismic retrofitting, some businesses have been forced out of town because of higher rent prices,” Garth said. “These businesses normally would have stayed around.” Garth also said that the holiday
period was not profitable enough for several businesses, many of which still remain in a state of limbo between open and permanently closed. In spite of the tough times, the number of business licenses in the city has increased. Claire Clark, the Economic Development Manager, said there are more new businesses in smaller locations as many people have lost jobs and decided to start their own endeavors. Downtown, there are plenty of spaces available in units larger than 2,000 square feet because companies are downsizing due to the economy. She said every business goes through a life cycle and the economy is bringing those cycles to an end for some stores. In the downtown area, office space availabily have increased to between 6 and 7 percent when space availability has normally see Businesses, page 2
to modify the notification process to property owners. Council member Allen Settle motioned to pass the ordinance, amending the length of time on the premises list from six to nine months, which was approved by all council members. Linden’s remaining four strategies dealt with unruly gatherings, a curfew for those under 18, regulation of property owners’ licenses and a safety enhancement zone ordinance. Associated Students Incorporated President Kelly Griggs said she was disappointed in the decision. It solidified the notion that this was targeted at students with the language of the ordinances and the nine-month amendment being determined by the length of the academic school year, she added. “Students weren’t asked to participate in the beginning; we sort see Council, page 2
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Approximately 70 people attended the San Luis Obispo City Council meeting Tuesday afternoon. The council approved changes to the city’s noise ordinance policy.
Campus sustainability better, student efforts can improve Anieca Ayler mustang daily
Cal Poly’s improvement in sustainability efforts have improved in the last year, according to GreenReportCard.org, but it is not necessarily reflective of maximum efforts, say environmental club leaders. An annual report card is given to hundreds of campuses nationwide that evaluate and grade sustainability activities and progress for each campus. Cal Poly received a B+ this year, up from a B- in 2009. From the construction and deconstruction of buildings to make them more environmentally friendly, to an increasing number of electric university vehicles and the diversion of 70 percent of campus waste, Cal Poly is making strides in progressive sustainability actions. Cal Poly received higher marks than last year in five of the nine categories graded, and was the only California State University campus
designated as a Campus Sustainability Leader. “I think within the CSU system, Cal Poly is definitely seen as the leader,” said Dennis Elliot, Sustainability Manager of Facilities Services. “We have routinely garnered the majority of Sustainability Best Practice Awards from the annual UC, CSU and community college statewide sustainability conference that has been going on since about 2004. In fact, last year in 2009, Cal Poly won four of the total six awards. Being recognized by the college sustainability report is a big deal for us.” The grade shows Cal Poly has been progressing, but student environmental club leaders still feel real changes in sustainability can only happen with more commitment from the students. The president of the Cal Poly Biodiesel Club, Mark Johnsonbaugh, feels Cal Poly is moving in the right direction, but without optimum student involvement, progress is limited.
“I think there’s a lot of really good things going on around campus,” Johnsonbaugh said. “There’s a lot of people who are interested in these ideas, and they want to participate in sustainability, but they just don’t know how to do it, or what to do.” Tyler Hartrich, city and regional planning senior and vice president of the Empower Poly Coalition notices the gap between administrative efforts and student efforts. “It’s definitely true that there’s a disconnect between students and what the administration is doing and what they’re pushing,” Hartrich said. “They have all these things going on, and the students have no idea. There is full disclosure about it, but it’s not like it’s on their website. How do students become involved? How do you bridge that?” Both Hartrich and Johnsonbaugh feel the strain of the lack of student involvement in trying to accomplish see Sustainability, page 2
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their club goals. The Empower Poly Coalition is a conglomerate of 27 environmental clubs, established spring 2007 to centralize the energy and goals of all the different groups interested in sustainability. Its membership has doubled since the last report card, which may account for the grade improvement from B to A in the student involvement category. The coalition is currently working on several initiatives regarding sustainability policies. One is The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), a policy which would add $5 to the College Based Fee that would go directly toward sustainability projects. If approved, the pool of approximately $300,000 would be delegated entirely by students for projects that would contribute to improving the sustainability of Cal Poly. But getting students to vote for a fee increase of any sort is particularly difficult, Hartrich explained. “It’s totally doable,” he said. “And we’re not the only students doing it. In fact, we’re behind the times. UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara all have TGIF. Just recently, UC Irvine and UC Davis passed it. The cool part is, though, we’d be the first state school to do it.” If more students were in actively participating in accomplishing this and other initiatives, Hartrich added, efforts would be much more successful. The Cal Poly Biodiesel Club is also having trouble in reaching their
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goals without more student involvement. “The club built a biodisel reactor and they lobbied Campus Dining to switch all of their diesel fuel vehicles to run on biodiesel,” Elliot said. “A mechanical system would take campus’s waste cooking oil and convert it directly into biodiesel, on campus, to be used as fuel in our fleet vechiles
In a perfect world, the best way to have students be a part of this is to have a center for sustainability.
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both for deliviry trucks and tractors in the (agriculture) area.” Johnsonbaugh has been working tirelessly to construct and get his new biodiesel reactor, also his senior project, approved by administration. The club’s ultimate goal — to eventually have all diesel vehicles run on campus-produced biodiesel — can be accomplished easier if students would take advantage of the senior project
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opportunities that come with his club’s initiative, Johnsonbaugh said. “The best way to get to the next step is more student involvement,” he said. “The best way to get students involved is senior projects.” Hartrich and Johnsonbaugh don’t deny the obvious interest in sustainability from the students; there are clearly enough clubs to join and enough goals to reach to advance Cal Poly’s presence as a campus leader in sustainability. But both are certain that knowledge, awareness and serious commitment are the keys to any sort of progression. “I really think it’s just the follow-through,” Hartrich said. “It’s not that hard to type in ‘Cal Poly sustainability’ and find us. But a little bit of it is just a lack of commitment and will power to go out and to find these organizations. When I step back and think about how many students could be potentially interested in our organization, it’s probably over half the school. But how do you get them in? In a perfect world, the best way to have students be a part of this is to have a center for sustainability.” After a failed attempt fall quarter to revive the old campus powerhouse and convert it into a central hub for everything regarding campus sustainability, Hartrich is still hopeful that physically containing all sustainability efforts in one building will advance latent interest into active involvement and change.
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been around 3 percent Clark said. The redevelopment projects that occurred downtown, including the Downtown Centre and the Court Street project, have helped the most to bolster success in the area. These improvements led to an influx of national retailers, which have made the city more of a tourist draw. Clark said that the pedestrian feel of downtown encourages shopping and dining in the area. “Downtown has really benefited from the influx of corporate stores along with locally owned stores,” Clark said. “I hope to continue to see these smaller businesses staying because they give a nice breath to downtown.” Despite some successes, the economy has forced businesses to head out of town. Deborah Cash, executive director of the San Luis Obispo Downtown Association, said two dozen businesses had to close or move for various reasons during the past year. Some of those businesses include Taste, Therapy and San Luis Surf Company. Cash said the economy and the fact that more people are shopping on-line now have affected downtown businesses. Restaurants, salons, women’s apparel, and specialty stores are doing the best in the downtown area, says Cash. She said their association is trying to revitalize the downtown areas through design, promotions, economic restructuring, organization, and by constantly searching for new ways to bring more people downtown. The heart of downtown sees the most productivity in good times and bad among businesses, Clark
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said, adding that businesses further away from the four-block area on Higuera Street between Nipomo and Osos are struggling to attract customers. She said the most affected area right now is on Monterey Street from the mission to Morro where several storefronts are vacant due to seismic concerns and decisions of businesses to move to other locations downtown. For the 2009-2011 financial plan, which was effective July 1, 2009, the city’s budget was cut by $10 million per year. Clark said the city’s largest revenue sectors, sales, and transient occupancy taxes were projected to decrease. At this time, she said revenues are on the decline but are still within the projected budgetary constraints. However, the city is cautiously guarding against further downturn in revenues. “The economy needs to improve and it is key that the downtown area remains attractive, safe and clean so people continually want to come to the city,” Clark said.
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of had to come in after the fact, so we were reacting rather than sitting down and collaborating beforehand,” Griggs said. Some Cal Poly students attended the meeting and voiced their opinions. “I feel that a lot of these actions and propositions are alienating the student population from the rest of the community. A true and effective community is one that works together instead of being split like oil and water,” mechanical engineering junior Derek Brangham said. While some saw the ordinance as a way of splitting the community, others saw it as a way to protect San Luis Obispo. Community member Sandra Rowley said, “Most students are here for an education, unfortunately there are some that are here to party. Some think that because they are considered adults under the law, it means they are free to do anything they want, anytime they want, without consequences and without taking responsibility for their actions.”
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Group urges cancellation of Haiti debt; U.N. to increase troops Joe Mozingo and Ken Ellingwood los angeles times
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. forces fanned out in Haiti’s ruined capital Tuesday as part of a building global relief effort that still had yet to reach hundreds of thousands of needy residents a week after the devastating 7.0 earthquake. In Port-au-Prince, aid workers, supplies and U.S. troops continued to flow in increasing numbers. A number of U.S. military helicopters touched down on the grounds of the damaged presidential palace Tuesday morning, dropping off more than 100 U.S. troops, according to wire-service reports. Meanwhile, the world’s relief effort included a call Tuesday by the Paris Club of international creditors for wealthy nations to cancel debts owed by Haiti so that it can rebuild. And in New York, the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution to raise its own cap on the size of its peacekeeping mission in Haiti, increasing the number of troops by 2,000 and police officers by 1,500. In Haiti’s capital, U.S. troops, in full combat gear, unloaded boxes of water bottles and food rations and appeared to be setting up a base at the palace, Reuters reported. Haitians crowded the fence of the compound to watch, and some cheered as soldiers arrived, news reports said. Several thousand more soldiers and Marines began arriving on Monday as part of a U.S. mobilization that involved more than 10,000 troops. They will provide food and water and will work to repair the badly damaged seaport to permit the delivery of larger quantities of goods. Troops also were standing by to help provide security amid scattered reports of looting and gunfire in the capital. U.S. forces are already running the city’s airport, which has been the main portal for thousands of tons of
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Soldiers with Charlie Company 1/325th avoid rotor wash as a Navy helicopter lifts off from the lawn of the damaged Presidential Palace in Port-auPrince, Haiti. More than 100 troops were dropped off Tuesday morning. emergency supplies and rescuers. Offshore, a growing flotilla of U.S. vessels serves as a floating military base and airport for aircraft delivering goods. Some injured Haitians also have been airlifted to the ships for emergency medical treatment. The Paris Club, an informal grouping of creditor governments from industrialized countries
that meets monthly in Paris, said members agreed in July to cancel debts that at the time totaled $214 million. Tuesday, it called on other creditors to follow suit. “Considering the financing needs that Haiti will face in reconstructing the country, Paris Club creditors call upon other bilateral creditors also to urgently provide full debt cancellation to Haiti,” the group said in a statement. The group estimated that Haiti’s total public external debt stood at nearly $1.9 billion in September 2008. The U.N.’s decision Tuesday to raise the cap on the size of its peacekeeping mission in Haiti brings the total U.N. force to 8,940 troops and 3,711 police officers on the ground to deal with the disaster. What is unclear is how soon the additional troops and officers will get there. Radio Metropole, citing Haitian government officials, reported Tuesday that the bodies of 70,000
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LOS ANGELES — Seeking to reduce the long waits many people endure to see a doctor, California regulators are implementing new rules that specify how quickly patients in health maintenance organizations must be seen. The regulations by the California Department of Managed Health Care, in the works for much of the last decade, will require that patients be treated by HMO doctors within 10 business days of requesting an appointment, and by specialists within 15. Patients seeking urgent care that does not require prior authorization must be seen within 48 hours. Telephone calls to doctors’ offices will have to be returned within 30 minutes, and physicians or other health professionals will have to be available 24 hours a day. California says it is the first state to set time standards for HMOs, which serve nearly 21 million of its residents. The managed health care department acted in response to a 2002 law that mandated more timely access to medical care. The law left it to state officials to work out the details, which became subject to protracted negotiations with HMOs, doctors, hospitals, consumer groups and other healthcare activists. In all, it took seven years to finally reach agreement amid intensive talks, bureaucratic hurdles and a lengthy rulewriting process, participants said. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a consumer group that pushed for the 2002 law. “These regulations ... will not only get people access to care when they need it, but will reduce unnecessary use of the emergency room.” The rules will be unveiled Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles and phased in over the next year. The legislation came in response to complaints from HMO members of long delays in getting treatment, and it does not generally affect people served by other healthcare plans. HMOs cautiously support the new rules, even as some predict that they may drive up costs. Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit HMO, said it would spend the next two months analyzing potential gaps in the delivery of medical services to fulfill the requirements. “We really feel the work we’ve done over the last several years has put us in a place to be in compliance,” said Patti Harvey, Kaiser’s vice president for quality in Southern California. She declined to specify the company’s current wait times or to estimate potential costs. The trade group representing California HMOs called the new rules a “reasonable compromise” but predicted higher costs as a result. “A regulation like this will certainly add another challenge,” said Charles Bacchi, executive vice president of the California Assocation of Health Plans. California consumers have long complained about delays in getting care from HMOs and other health insurers. One 2009 study that has been cited by state officials found that consumers in California’s two largest cities face extended delays when trying to get medical services. People in San Diego wait an average of 24 days for a routine physical with a family practitioner, according to the survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a national physician recruiting firm. In Los Angeles, patients wait 59 days on average, the study found. Researchers said Los Angeles’ high cost of living, its vast poor population and low reimbursement rates from Medi-Cal drive family doctors away from the city or into see Wait time, page 5
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Tuesday put off a decision on whether California must release more than 40,000 inmates to relieve overcrowding in its prisons. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had appealed a ruling of a three-judge panel last year that found prisoners were being denied adequate health care because of overcrowding. The judges then ordered the state to come up with a plan to reduce the prison population by more than 40,000 inmates. In his appeal, the governor said the judges had overstepped their authority under federal law.
But before the high court acted on that appeal, the state had filed a plan to comply with the judges’ order. Tuesday, the justices dismissed the initial appeal from Schwarzenegger, but noted that the judges’ order had been put on hold and would remain so “pending review by this court.” Washington attorney Carter Phillips, who is representing the state of California, said he was preparing a new appeal that challenges the entire basis for the judges’ order. Tuesday’s action “largely affects the timing,” he said. The justices will decide in a few months whether to hear the prison case, and the prison-release order remains on hold in the interim.
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A former day room is now used to house prisoners at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch Tuesday for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature education plan, promised to “raise the bar” on what is expected of public school teachers and students. “Nothing will make as much of a difference as the way we educate our sons and daughters,” Obama said after meeting with schoolchildren at an elementary school in Falls Church, Va. “The countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow, and I refuse to let that happen on my watch.” Under the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program, states are competing for a share of $4.35 billion in federal funding aimed at spurring public schools to make student achievement the core of their programs. That potentially could include evaluating — and paying — teachers according to how well their students perform. The initial funding was included in the economic stimulus act that the president signed into law in February, with the deadline for states to apply for that money arriving Tuesday. There is not enough money to go around for the states that are interested, the White House says. Obama plans to include a bid for another $1.35 billion for the program in the 2011 budget that he proposes next month. That will enable not only more states but also individual school districts to apply for some of the money, according to the White House. Obama said Tuesday the apparent popularity of the “national competition” is “a sign of how much states and schools believe this initiative will benefit them.” By expanding the program, the president said, “we’re going to raise the bar for all our students and take bigger steps toward closing the achievement gap that denies so many students, especially blacks and Latinos, a fair shot at their dreams.”
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President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan meet with sixth grade students at the Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, VA. Following his meeting with students, the President will deliver remarks on his ‘Race To The Top’ program and his request for an additional $1.35 billion for the program in 2011. The first winners of the first Race to the Top awards will be announced in April, with a second round of applications from states due in June and those grants to be awarded in September. As a stage for the promotion of expansion of the program, the White House chose Graham Road Elementary School, one of the lowest-income yet highestachieving schools in Virginia’s Fairfax County. Nearly 80 percent of its students qualify for free or reduced-price meals and 95 percent are black or Latino. In 2008, the White House says, all of the school’s sixth-graders met Virginia’s reading standards, and 96 percent met math standards. Five years ago, Graham Road
started a program of tougher standards, testing, teacher evaluation and professional development aimed at boosting achievement. The federal program encourages the design and implementation of “rigorous standards and high-quality assessments, by encouraging states to work jointly toward a system of common academic standards that builds toward college and career readiness,” the White House says. It also is intended to attract and retain “great teachers and leaders in America’s classrooms” with expanded support for teachers and principals and new methods of teacher evaluation and pay. The Department of Education says the program focuses on boosting academic standards, recruiting and keeping effective teachers, tracking student perfor-
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Word on the Street “What do you think of San Luis Obispo cracking down on noise violations?” “It’s already pretty strict and very easy to get noise violations. I don’t see why they need to make it any easier.” -Chris Roland, chemistry junior
“I feel like they need to realize it’s a college town. With warnings, it makes you more aware and more courteous. But it will happen regardless.” -Tessa Paneri, graphic communications sophomore
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SAN LUIS OBISPO (MCT) — Cuesta College’s decision to drop its women’s tennis program over the summer has spurred complaints that could result in an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, as well as potential lawsuits. Diane Milutinovich — a notable Title IX expert and former Fresno State University administrator who reached a $3.5 million settlement with the university after filing a gender discrimination lawsuit in 2006 — said she faxed a complaint against Cuesta to the Office of Civil Rights on Saturday. Enacted by Congress in 1972,Title IX forbids gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. In sports, the law has been interpreted to require equal opportunities for male and female athletes.
BOSTON (MCT) — In the brave new electronic world that includes such morality movies as “Avatar,” it seems that anything is possible. Even declaring a winner in the Massachusetts Senate race before the polls closed. Boston.com, the Web site of the Boston Globe, briefly put up a map of the Senate results, about eight hours before the polls actually closed, according to the enterprising reporters at the Boston Phoenix. The post shows Democrat Martha Coakley with a narrow victory over Republican Scott Brown. Even before conspiracy theorists could flood media mailboxes with dark denunciations, the Globe apologized for the error, blaming a test of a wire service feed that inadvertently went live.
NEW DELHI (MCT) — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, moving to deepen U.S. ties to India as a key partner in a turbulent region, pushed Tuesday for expanded cooperation with New Delhi on a range of issues, from military technology to cybersecurity. Arriving for a two-day visit, Gates met with top Indian leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and S.M. Krishna, the external affairs minister. The trip comes after Singh traveled to Washington in November in the first formal state visit hosted by President Barack Obama. “This is a growing relationship between the U.S. and India,” said a senior defense official, briefing reporters after the meetings and speaking on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic protocol.
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“For some neighborhoods it’s good to show respect. I live down Grand Avenue, so it’s not too big of an issue. People should be more courteous though.” -Sean Dawson, materials engineering junior
“I think the city needs to accept it’s a college town. We need to respect each other. Students won’t act to the best of the situation every time but not because we want to harm anyone.” -Carolyn Mescher, business administration senior “I can understand if it’s a 2 a.m. complaint, but not 10 p.m. I think the students should have a say in it. If people in the area are all right, it shouldn’t be an issue.” -Kevin Hicks, architecture senior
“I think they need to explain why they are making changes now. I’m sure it’s been just as loud other years.” -Marie Heier, sophomore
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“In addition to mandating wait times, there needs to be some strategy for increasing the numbers of doctors being trained in California,” said Phil Miller, a spokesman for the recruiting firm. After the rules are unveiled Wednesday, HMOs will be given nine months to submit plans that
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meet the new guidelines, allowing for the fact that many HMOs will need to revise their contract agreements with physician networks and other groups. HMOs will be given until January 2011 to comply; after that, the managed health care department will have the authority to penalize HMOs that fail to ensure timely care. People will be able to complain to the department about delays.
OAKLAND (MCT) — Tired of years of public urination, assaults and vandalism, residents near the University of California-Berkeley’s southern edge on Tuesday sued dozens of the university’s fraternities. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court against more than 70 groups and property owners, claims the fraternities make life miserable for neighbors by encouraging underage drinking, littering sidewalks and streets, partying all night and shooting pellet guns at residents.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (MCT) — The most common and deadly form of brain tumor is not one disease, but at least four subtypes, scientists at University of North CarolinaChapel Hill and other institutions reported Tuesday. Each type of tumor, called a glioblastoma, has distinct molecular features that possibly arise from different causes. Knowing that should help scientists develop targeted treatments. Currently, glioblastomas are nearly always fatal, and the average survival after diagnosis is about a year.
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BAGHDAD (MCT) — The banning of hundreds of mostly Sunni candidates from participating in Iraq’s upcoming elections is testing the limits of U.S. influence in Iraq even as American troops prepare to draw down later in the year. U.S. diplomacy has shifted into high gear in recent days in an attempt to pressure Iraqi government officials into finding a way out of a crisis that many fear could seriously destabilize the country both before and after the election.
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Cal Poly grads open new yoga studio off Broad Street Jessica Barba mustang daily
A calm environment, accomplished instructors, affordable classes and massage therapy are just some of the things m.BODY, the new yoga studio in San Luis Obispo, offers students looking to take a break from their studies. The studio will be offering free classes till the end of the month in order to create a customer base. The new center will compete with yoga studios such as Smiling Dog and Bikram Yoga San Luis Obispo, located downtown. Owner and instructor Tawny Sterios said the skill level of Peter Sterios, the other owner and instructor, will set their studio apart and help establish it in the community. Peter Sterios is returning to San Luis Obispo after being the first person to open a yoga studio in town 18 years ago and has taught for over 20 years. For architect and yogi Peter Sterios, and Cal Poly nutrition graduate and yogi Tawny Sterios, there was much excitement in coming back to the city after two years of teaching in Santa Monica. “The inspiration to move back to (San Luis Obispo) was more about feeling complete with what we set out to accomplish in (Los Angeles) and missing the Central Coast,”Tawny Sterios said. To create m.BODY they transformed the warehouse for Manduka, an eco-yoga products company owned by Peter Sterios, by putting down cork floors and planting a garden in the back so classes can be practiced indoors and outdoors. The studio, which has jasmine flowing in the air, natural lighting, flowers and leafy plants in every room, is something you would never
expect given the surrounding location. A detailed mural commissioned by a local graffiti artist includes Ganesha, a hindu deity with an elephant head and four arms and is known as the remover of all obstacles, covers the right wall you see entering the space that later opens to a small garden in the back. Despite being a small area, a kitchen about 3 feet by 6 feet to make tea placed adjacent from the massage room where a colorful Indian tapestry is draped on the ceiling adds to the atmosphere. Energy generated from the environment and instructor are important factors for yogis in the community said earth science junior Anna Zeppelin who has practiced yoga for two years. “I look for a welcoming environment and encouragement from instructors,” she said. “It is important for teachers to speak to you in a way that you can click into the mind set of positive energy and how to do yoga correctly, it’s a ‘glad that you’re here’ type of setting.” The center offers a variety of classes to appeal to all of their customer’s needs, including hatha, a form of yoga focused on breathing, and vinyasa a technique of “connecting poses.” An introductory class for those looking to try yoga for the first time is offered every Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. along with a dynamic class meant for experienced students looking to challenge themselves at 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. While yoga may be a helpful stress relief on campus, for most students with limited budgets and looking to join a class, price can be factor. “Sadly yoga isn’t one of the most affordable things especially on a student budget,” Zeppelin said.
As a way to still appeal to those with limited resources, on Sundays the center offers one class at half price as a “gesture of community goodwill,” according to the Web site. Classes are normally $10 each. Peter Sterios who leads several of the classes has practiced yoga for over 30 years in the U.S. and India, and continues to teach at conferences and workshops throughout the country. He first began yoga when he took a class at Cal Poly’s Recreation Center when he was 18 to help the injuries he acquired as a semi pro rugby player. Tawny Sterios took her first yoga class as a way to combat the stress of competitive sports when she was only 14-years-old. Then after seeing an ad on the Rec Center board to teach yoga she felt she had a calling, she said. Sterios is also a certified teacher in kundalini yoga, a unique practice which incorporates breath and movement. “After seven years now of teaching I feel very grateful that I listened to that call and feel ready to open our center to a broader community,” she said. m.BODY is hidden between small houses and sheltered from the busy traffic of Broad Street. While the location may make the studio difficult to find, the staff feel that its just one of the things that makes the studio unique. “It’s like our little gem just hidden amongst the residential and industrial areas,” Karen Bullock, massage therapist and close friend of the Sterios, said. “From the outside you wouldn’t expect it to be a calming environment but it’s almost like yoga that once you make the connection can transport you to somewhere else.” Space is limited for classes so attendees are encouraged to come ear-
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“The Book of Lost Things” shows another side of fairy tales
Most of us are familiar with the softened Disney version of fairy tales, but few of us have read any of the original Grimm’s fairy tales or anything like them. Many readers are also familiar with the standard coming-of-age story that inspires, however subtely, much of today’s literature. John Connolly, however, intertwines both these familiar and unfamiliar elements in his novel “The Book of Lost Things.” Connolly’s main character, David, is a 12-year-old boy trying to cope with the loss of his mother after watching her slowly deteriorate from her disease. Connolly depicts him as a vulnerable young boy who is losing all sense of power and control in his life. In order to regain some degree of control, David develops routines and traditions that give him peace of mind, a sense that he does have some control over his life. He develops patterns like getting out of bed a certain way, washing his hands a specific number of times and other idiosyncratic routines. David does these things because he believes it will help his mother in some way; he feels useful and helpful by taking part in these daily routines. However, when his mother eventually dies from her disease, he feels as though he’s failed her and his routines have failed him. However, he’s unable to stop himself from keeping them up. When his father eventually remarries, David and his father move into a new house, where David’s stepmother gives birth to a new baby boy. All of David’s efforts to stick with his routines begin to crumble as he is thrust into a set of events that neither David, nor readers, are expecting. One night, after David has lost all semblances of normalcy and routine in his life, he hears a voice, a voice which he thinks will lead him to his mother and his old life that he misses so dearly. Unsure of what is happening, he follows the voice and ends up where he never thought possible.
He enters a hole in a gnarled tree in his backyard and is transported to another world, where fairy tales come to life. The fairy tales, however, are not the sort that we are used to hearing — nor are they the sweetened versions that we as a modern audience are used to. The first person David meets is a hunter who saves him from the “wolves” that prowl the forest. The hunter tells David about the King’s book, something the hunter thinks will help him get home and away from the dangerous forest. The rest of the book spins the story of David and his desperate quest to find the king and his book. Elements of other fairy tales, including Snow White, the Three Billy Goats Gruff also appear. Even though David is desperately seeking safety, he has a strange sense of exhilaration over these new and exciting events. This is where the coming-of-age story comes into play. Although Connolly has created an amazing chain of events with the retelling of such classic fairy tales, the really unique aspect of “The Book of Lost Things” is that he also tells the story of a young boy who grows and develops throughout the novel. His experiences help to shape him into a more mature young man who certainly becomes ready to handle nearly anything that can be thrown at him. Whether it is the story of David’s growth that intrigues you or the retelling aspect of fairy tales, this book is certainly worth giving some of your attention. John Connolly writes in a style reminiscent of his 12-year-old protagonist that is surprisingly successful at conveying a suspenseful and engaging story as well as creating complex and highly innovative characters. Definitely put this on your must read list. Melinda Truelsen is an English graduate student and Mustang Daily book columnist.
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“Creation” chronicles Darwin’s literary journey
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WASHINGTON — Funny how some projects evolve. Take the new film “Creation.” Its director, Jon Amiel, insists he had no interest in making a movie about the life of Charles Darwin. “Truthfully, I have to say my first reaction was ‘not interested,’” Amiel recalled, laughing. “Don’t want to make a movie about some crusty old fart with a big beard, don’t even like biopics, don’t like historical drama. ... I find mostly they’re reverential, dull. “The fact that these people led interesting lives does not make them necessarily interesting movies, and chronology of a life is rarely plot. So I was deeply resistant for all of those reasons, until I started reading that book.”
“That book” was “Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter, and Human Evolution” by British conservationist Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great-great grandson. “It’s such an intensely personal memoir, because Randal had access to all the journals, letters, writings, objects of the Darwin family,” Amiel said. “His work is infused by something very different, a kind of heart and a very personal connection to the Darwins. ... I found these remote Victorians suddenly becoming absolutely real, living, moving people.” So Amiel signed on with his friend, screenwriter John Collee, for “Creation.” It depicts Darwin’s struggle to produce his masterwork, “On the Origin of Species,” after being devastated by the death of his young daughter, Annie — and the tension be-
tween Darwin and his devoutly religious wife, Emma. Paul Bettany (“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Legion”) portrays Darwin; Jennifer Connelly, Bettany’s off-screen wife, plays Emma. The film also stars Jeremy Northam and Toby Jones. Amiel and Keynes spent a day last week at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, promoting the film and, by extension, Keynes’ 2001 book (now being released in paperback as “Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin” to tie in with the movie). “I’ve done much more commercial films with big movie stars, and there most of the questions are about movie stars,” said Amiel, an Englishman whose resee Darwin, page 8
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Coachella line-up lacks big names Geoff Boucher and Todd Martens los angeles times
LOS ANGELES — The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will bring a youth movement to the low desert this year. After several years of greybeard headliners, California’s signature festival is going back to the future with younger acts including Gorillaz, Muse, Jay-Z, Thom Yorke, MGMT, Hot Chip, Spoon, Vampire Weekend and LCD Soundsystem at the very top of the bill for the threeday concert that begins April 16 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. There are some flashback acts, including Woodstock icon Sly Stone and the Family Stone, 1980s alt-rock outfit Echo and the Bunnymen and reconstituted collegerock outfit Pavement, but they’re not leading the bill like Paul McCartney, Prince and Roger Waters were in past years. The presence of rap superstar Jay-Z will raise the eyebrows of those fans who like to think of Coachella as an indie-music oasis on today’s live-music landscape; hip-hop stars such as Kanye West, the Beastie Boys, Lupe Fiasco and Kool Keith have performed at Coachella in the past but none of them tap into the same street imagery and conspicuous consumption ethos that defines the $150million mogul. Jay-Z is also a somewhat unex-
pected booking because he has a performance — for which tickets are still available — at the Staples Center on March 26. The hip-hop star will close out the opening night of the fest on Friday, when other performers will be LCD Soundsystem, rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Specials and John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols experimental outfit Public Image
If you take all these little things and put them together it becomes a compelling bill. There’s not a reliance on one name. — Gary Bongiovanni Editor in cheif of Pollstar
Ltd. Saturday night will be headlined by Muse, Faith No More, DJs Tiesto and David Guetta, MGMT, Hot Chip and Jack White’s The Dead Weather. Sunday will close with Gorillaz, Thom Yorke, Spoon,
Parisian electronic rockers Phoenix and dance veterans Orbital. The desert event has won a reputation among fans for showcasing artists on the comeback trail, and rock acts such as the Pixies and Iggy & the Stooges made splashy returns at Coachella. Pavement, a staple of the ‘90s alt-rock scene, has been an expected Coachella headliner since announcing its reunion at the end of 2009. Gary Bongiovanni, the editor in chief of Pollstar, the concertindustry trade publication, believes Coachella doesn’t need a boomerfriendly headliner such as McCartney, who performed last year, or Waters, who closed the event in 2008. A package built around Pavement, Public Image Ltd. and hipper acts, he believes, might even hold greater appeal for Coachella’s target young audience. “Pavement was never an arena headliner, but it lends some excellent buzz to the lineup,” Bongiovanni said. “In a way, it’s like looking at what the Super Bowl had to do. They have The Who this year, and if you stop and think about it, ‘What’s the biggest act we can get that we haven’t already done?’ — it’s a tough question to answer. If you take all these little things and put them together it becomes a compelling bill. There’s not a reliance on one name.” Pavement already has a history with the event. Lead singer Stephen Malkmus has appeared at
Coachella with his post-Pavement band the Jicks, and Pavement split soon after appearing at the first-ever Coachella in 1999. The latter performance has gone down in alt-music lore as one that showcased the band unraveling on stage. Lydon has gone on numerous comeback treks with the Sex Pistols, but this will mark the return of Public Image Ltd. after more than 15 years. The band, which experimented with dance and electronic textures throughout its career, went through numerous lineup changes. The act that takes the stage at Coachella is not expected to feature original members Jah Wobble or Keith Levene, but will include onetime guitarist Lu Edmonds and drummer Bruce Smith. Radiohead’s leader Yorke will be making a return to Southern California after sold-out dates in Echo Park and downtown in October. With Muse on the bill, he’ll be sharing the event with a band that’s long been compared to his showcase act, though Muse hasn’t reached the kind of sales success in the United States that it has overseas. Bolstered by its presence in the first “Twilight” film, Muse has become an MTV staple, and its 2009 effort “Resistance” has sold 370,000 copies in the United States since its September release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Synth rockers MGMT have a hotly anticipated album due in 2010, and the act will compete for best new artist at the Jan. 31 Grammy Awards. But MGMT won’t be the only act expected to bring new material to the event, as Damon Albarn’s adventurous electronic-rock outfit Gorillaz has a long-awaited album expected to be released this spring. Oh, and what about those question marks after Yorke’s name on Sunday’s text in the concert poster? No, that isn’t saving a spot for a Smiths reunion or U2 debut on the Coachella stage, it’s the way that Yorke presents himself as a solo star, the marquee at his Orpheum concert had the same punctuational flourish. The big question heading into last year’s Coachella was whether the economy would take its toll on the festival, and the answer was a resounding no. Paid attendance topped 150,000, said Bongiovanni, and promoter Goldenvoice/AEG put overall attendance at more than 160,000. Additionally, the festival’s gross reached $15.3 million, according to concert tracker Billboard Boxscore. Those numbers topped such well-known destination events as Lollapalooza in Chicago and the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Coachella also made some recession-friendly concessions, offering fans the opportunity to purchase tickets on layaway, which it is again doing this year. Three-day packages are $269,
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“Sommersby,” but who most recently has been associated with escapist action-adventure fare (“Entrapment,” “The Core”). “What’s been really nice about this is that we get a lot of questions about the film and the issues it’s dealing with.” “Annie’s box,” the catalyst for Keynes’ book, was the writing box used by Charles Darwin’s favorite child before her death at age 10 from scarlet fever. Keynes discovered it in a chest of drawers left by his grandmother to his father. “I found photographs, letters, books, games the children played — everything like that, and then, in one corner, this little child’s writing case, which turned out to be the writing case which had belonged to Annie ... and had been kept by Emma (Darwin) after her death as her private keepsake of Annie,” said Keynes, who also happens to be the great-nephew of the iconic economist John Maynard Keynes. “She never showed it to anyone, never could talk to any of her other children freely about Annie. But she kept this little box.” Keynes said he’s very happy with “Creation,” even though the film dramatizes only a part of his book. “Randal’s book covers Darwin from childhood, his family context, his social and political context, and follows him all the way through to his death — and indeed, some of the repercussions after his death,” Amiel said. “So it was vastly too broad a canvas to be (made into) a two-hour film. What we had to do ... (was) to say ‘What’s the heart of this story? What actually would make a movie?’ “What we discovered very quickly was that if we focused on one year, the year in which he was writing “Origin,” and the enormous emotional turmoil that that cost him, and told other parts of the story in flashback, so we told the story in a non-linear way, we could actually make sense of the story in a way that a literal, month-by-month chronological account would not have done.” Martha West makes her film debut in “Creation” as Annie. She threatens to steal every scene she’s in, even from such seasoned costars as Bettany and Connelly, who won a supporting-actress Oscar for her role in “A Beautiful Mind.” “When I first met Martha, I was as smitten with her as I know every person who sees the film is. My fear was that she was too beautiful,” said Amiel, laughing. “I thought the screen is going to just love her, and is she going to look like a movie moppet, and not like this sort of robust, vibrant and earthy girl that Darwin described?” “She’s very important to the film,” Keynes said. “Is this a sentimental portrayal? Absolutely not ... She was fearless.” “She does have the acting gene,” Amiel said. “Her father is Dominic West of (the acclaimed HBO series) ‘The Wire.’ “Dominic became the stage father, and would turn up at the rehearsal room and sit outside for hours, waiting for his daughter,” Amiel smiled. “It was an interesting turnaround, I’m sure, for
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The job fair this week encourages many of us to consider our futures. As Cal Poly students and soonto-be graduates, we enjoy heavy recruitment and good job opportunities. Much of the world however, is not so lucky. Justin Lahart of the Wall Street Journal reported last week that employers cut another 85,000 jobs last month, maintaining the 17 percent overall unemployment rate between November and December. The discrepancy between the widely publicized unemployment rate of 10 percent and the overall unemployment rate mentioned above accounts for the many unemployed workers who have stopped looking for work. You may recall that on Dec. 8, President Obama called for more money to fulfill the “urgent need to accelerate job growth.” He was right that the job market is doing quite poorly, and it seems logical to fix this problem, but is government spending the right solution? Just last Monday, the Associated Press reported that $20 billion, part of $787 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, spent on roads and bridges had “no effect on local unemployment rates.” In light of the fact that this portion of the stimulus package was one of the most beneficial, it seems that more questionable parts of the package will have little, if any, impact on unemployment rates. The stimulus package failed to improve unemployment. The
administration’s next move is not to fix the underlying employment problem through a myriad of other options, but rather to re-brand their broken strategy. William McGurn, vice president of News Corp., points out the word missing from the administration’s marketing of the $154 billion bailout passed in the last vote of 2009: stimulus.White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has replaced the likely pejorative term “stimulus” with the delicately-worded phrase, “targeted ideas that he (Obama) believes and the economic team believe will have a positive impact on private sector hiring.” This elaborate verbiage is irrelevant in light of the fact that unemployment remains at 17 percent after close to a trillion dollars, $941 billion to be precise, has been squandered by the federal government in an attempt
to bring down this percentage. Targeted spending at the federal level is a necessity of a functioning government. However, the current administration’s bailout strategy, which essentially forced every tax payer to fork over some of their hard-earned cash to cover for greedy Wall Street’s mistakes, is myopic. The U.S. national debt is currently at $12.3 trillion and growing. This equates about $112,395 distributed across all tax-paying Americans, the only people who would help pay off our debt. The federal government should take a hint from Wall Street and address this debt problem before it becomes unmanageable, if it has not become so already. Though it seems novel, the best way to address a debt problem is to stop spending. Unemployment, though not the quality of life, could be improved by lowering or removing the barrier of entry for employers: the minimum wage. The Federal Government needs to focus on the primary source of jobs, which is small business, and forget about keeping failed corporate giants such as Government Motors (GM) afloat. In any case, the rebranding of failed stimulus programs and exorbitant federal spending has little hope of bringing long-term financial success to the U.S. and no chance of improving the dismal job market. Nathan Tsoi is a computer science senior and Mustang Daily political columnist.
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It’s a battle.” They train daily to earn a trip to the Olympics, but their mother doesn’t let them forget that education is important too. “My major is industrial technology, but I have been thinking about doing a packaging minor,” Filip said. “I don’t know if I want to coach. I can’t see myself coaching kids, but maybe.” Boris has his eyes on physical therapy or coaching a team after the Olympics, but has a harder time coming to terms with school. “If I lived in Bulgaria, I wouldn’t go to school, I would be training for the Olympics,” Boris said. “If I don’t make the Olympics in America, I would try in Bulgaria.” The brothers at this point are focusing on the PAC-10 championship as well as the NCAA championship, but count on the Olympics to come after school, even though Boris hopes they come sooner. “Iowa made the world team. If I win Nationals, then I will think about the Olympics,” Boris said.
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Tim Lincecum asks for record-setting contract Daniel Brown san jose mercury news
In what could be a recordsetting arbitration case, representatives for pitcher Tim Lincecum asked for a $13 million salary while the Giants countered with an $8 million offer. Barring a breakthrough in negotiations, an independent party will be asked to choose one of those figures as Lincecum’s paycheck for 2010. There are no comprises in arbitration cases. The highest salary ever awarded to a first-year eligible pitcher is $6.25 million, which went last year to Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon. But there’s never been a situation like this. Lincecum, 25, is the first pitcher to win Cy Young awards in each of his first two full seasons. He is 40-17 with a 2.90 ERA in his brief career, and is coming off back-to-back National League strikeout titles. Finding what arbitrators call a “comparable player” is virtually impossible and speculation about what Lincecum might ask for ranged as high as $23,000,001— one dollar more than C.C. Sabathia, the game’s highest-paid pitcher. Neither Thurman nor Giants General Manager Brian Sabean could discuss the details of the arbitration figures exchanged
Tuesday. But around the major leagues, front offices were watching. “Mostly out of curiosity,” one executive said. “It’s not about precedent. Chances are your team isn’t going to have a first-time eligible guy who is a two-time Cy Young Award winner — ever.” One executive expected Lincecum’s camp to ask for even more. He interpreted the $13 million figure as a sign that Thurman expects the case might advance to the hearing stage. (The vast majority of cases get settled before reaching an arbitrator). “Maybe they thought it’s a number they could defend if it actually goes to a hearing,” the executive said. “If you file an obscenely high number, say $20 million and the Giants offer $8 million, your client ends up losing real dollars. (The $13 million proposal) is still an incredibly high number, but if it’s realistic you give yourself a shot.” A second executive said the key to the case is the midpoint between the player and the team— in other words, $10.5 million. In a hearing, the executive said, Lincecum’s camp will have to prove that “he’s worth $1 more than $10.5 million and the Giants will have to prove that he’s worth $1 less.” That’s the tipping point for the arbitrator. “$10.5 million is the magic number,” the executive said.
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San Francisco Giants starting pitcher and two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum could soon hold a record-setting salary. The previous record for a player in his first year of eligibility off arbitration is $10 million, awarded to first baseman Ryan Howard in 2008. Either way, Lincecum will get a massive bump from the $650,000 he made in 2009. The arbitration process was established in 1974 as part of the collective bargaining agreement.
Lincecum barely qualified for the process this season as a so-called “super two.” His two years, 148 days in the majors cleared the service-time eligibility bar by nine days.
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Filip and Boris Novachkov dominate the mat schools are required to use, meaning no dropping opponents on heads, and the point system is different. “It was hard at first to wrestle in America, because there is no folkstyle in Bulgaria, it’s all freestyle, so we had to change the way we played,” Boris said.
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“I guess I like violence, I like blood. Bulgaria is close to Transylvania, you know,” Filip said laughing at himself. When they received an opportunity to go to America, the brothers had already been wrestling freestyle for four years and were interested to see what the United States would bring them. Coming here, they soon found that Bulgarian wrestling was vastly different. Folkstyle is what the
They adapted quickly and soon made names for themselves while competing for Fremont High School. Boris was a two-time state champion and a two-time National Freestyle Champion, while Filip was a high school state champion and took third in nationals his senior year. College brought more competition, more chances for improvement, but also a higher risk of injury. “I have never been seriously hurt from wrestling, but I have had a few stitches,” Filip said knocking on his head to avoid jinxing himself. “I would still wrestle, even if my legs were cut off.” While he hasn’t had any injuries from wrestling, he’s had plenty from other sports, including a broken neck from surfing and a broken right arm that prevented him from competing in the PAC10 tournament, a competition for West Coast schools that leads to the NCAA tournament. The brothers found that their best wrestling partner was each other. Azevedo has seen the brothers wrestle each other and is pleased with their intensity as well as their competitiveness. “It’s scary to watch. No one is giving each other slack,” Azevedo said. “I pray that no one gets hurt.
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Whether it’s in Bulgaria or America, the Navachkov brothers have always been wrestling. Filip and Boris Novachkov moved to California six years ago and since then have been consistently winning matches and are now ranked in the top 10 in the country for the Mustangs. Cal Poly’s wrestling team currently ranked No. 14 in the country due in part to two Bulgarian brothers who want to compete and win in the Olympics. “They are both good competitors,” Cal Poly head coach John Azevedo said. “If they lose, they don’t get all pissed off; they get over it quickly, move forward, determined to be better.” Azevedo was one of the main reasons that Filip came to Cal Poly. He was originally looking at Stanford, but when he visited the Cal Poly campus, he realized he didn’t want to leave. “When I met coach Azevedo and Matt Azevedo, his nephew, I knew I would improve my wrestling because they used to compete in smaller weight,” said Filip, who competes at 141 pounds. Boris came to Cal Poly a year later to follow in his brother’s footsteps, but he hasn’t always
been the follower. Boris was the one who wrestled first. At 9 years old, a friend invited Boris to join a wrestling club in his hometown of Radnevo, Bulgaria. Filip, involved with folk dancing at the time, soon traded dancing shoes for a singlet, and it didn’t take long for them to both realize they were good.
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Women’s water polo club team titled “team of the decade” Jessica Barba mustang daily
Cal Poly’s women’s water polo club was named Women’s Collegiate Club Team of the Decade (2000-2009) by the Collegiate Water Polo Association. Cal Poly women’s water polo club team member, Erika Bigbie was excited when they received the title. “It was awesome. It only adds to the athletes’ motivation and pushes us to work harder to maintain the title,” she said. The team won five of the last 10 National Collegiate Club Championships and has been called the most honored women’s national collegiate club program in the history of the sport according to the CWPA site. The team earned championship titles in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009 and placed second in 2002 and 2007.
Sports Club administrator Everette Brooks has seen a variety of club teams receive championship titles in the past. “To be named team of the decade means they are really in a class of their own,” he said. Cal Poly’s women’s water polo club have also earned eight Pacific Coast Division Championships (PCD) (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009). During the PCD championships in 2004, they finished third and won a bid to the then 12-team National Collegiate Club Championship as the host team. They became the only non-division champion in the history of the collegiate club championship to win the National Championship. This year the team has been dealing with problems due to the construction of the recreation center where they used to practice and their inability to use the new Anderson Pool because the correct lighting needed for night practices and games has not been installed. Brooks, who helps club teams arrange facility use time through out campus, said, “The pool situation is a little delicate.” According to team president Jessica Wilson, the team will also be forced to host the regional championships at Cuesta Community College. “We’ve been pretty much all barred from all uses of the pool (Anderson),” Wilson said. “We just can’t get any answers (or) pool
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The women’s club team earned championships in 2003-05 and 2008-09. They placed second in 2002 and 2007. time.” For now the team has been practicing everyday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Slo Swim Center. To afford renting a pool at $1,200 a month the team has been forced to hold more fundraisers and look for sponsorship through businesses interested in advertising on the team’s uniforms. “All the frustrations have made us a stronger group by rallying us closer together,” Wilson said.
As a club team, the women must “pay to play,” Wilson said. “We’ve been doing a boat load of fund raising,” she said “People are just not as willing to donate as they have been in the past.” Wilson added that although they receive $4,000 for Associated Students Incorporated, they still must pay for 90 percent of the funding needed to cover costs for equipment, travel expenses, and coach stipends.
The team has also had to drop out of some large tournaments such as an invitational held in Ohio due to funding. “They are huge bonding experiences for the team,” Bigbie said. “At the Ohio invitational we get to see a lot of East Coast teams we don’t get to see ‘till nationals.” Cal Poly’s women’s water polo is going to Santa Cruz this Saturday to attend a scrimmage against UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.