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The H1N1 vaccine arrived at the Cal Poly Health Center Thursday afternoon. The first shipment contained 3,500 vaccines.

There have been between 400 and 500 cases of influenza-like illness reported in the Health Center since the beginning of the school year.

Health Center officials have made plans to alter the hours of operation of the Health Center in order to make time to administer the vaccine.

Starting tomorrow, the Health Center will be open from 8:30 to 11 a.m. and then will open again from 1 to 4 p.m. for immunization. The schedule change will last through Thursday.

A student-ID card is the only thing needed to get the shot. The vaccine will not be given to anyone who is currently sick or allergic to eggs, because the vaccine is made of see H1N1, page 2

The Cal Poly Health Center started a free after-hours nurse hot line in response to the rapid spread of H1N1. It will help students who have health inquiries when the Health Center is closed.

“This product we have purchased is an accredited nurse info line. They are practiced at interviewing over the phone and trained,” said Dr. Martin Bragg, director of Health and Counseling Services.

The company, Nurse Response, has professionally trained triage nurses who received special training to help patients make informed decisions by phone. The service is open from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Monday through Friday as well as on weekends and holidays.The service became available on Oct. 24.

The program cost between $35,000 and $40,000, which came from an emergency funds reserve.

These funds are similar to a savings account, which the Health Center keeps for unexpected costs. This year, the reserve started with about $500,000. The money is also used to purchase software and computers and to maintain staff during budget cuts.

This program will not affect health fees this year or next year.

There are similar products that are online and feature live chat with medical professionals. However, Bragg said there is something lost when you don’t hear the person’s voice in communication; he felt that the Nurse Response’s

With this extraordinary year we are going through, we thought it would be helpful to have one number to advertise for students.

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phone service would be more beneficial.

“There have been times when I have wished the Health Center was open on the weekend,” mechanical engineering junior Tyler Whipple said. “It will be helpful for quick questions rather than going into the ER.” Although the hot line was

Former hostage marks 30 years since Iran embassy takeover Kevin Diaz star tribune

WASHINGTON — A yellow ribbon — ceramic to withstand the passage of time — still hangs from the old oak tree in L. Bruce Laingen’s front yard, a 30-year-old reminder of the Minnesota farm boy’s ordeal as the highest ranking diplomat among 52 American embassy workers held hostage in Iran for 444 days.

It dangles by a string as frayed as the memories of that Iranian hostage crisis, which introduced America to militant Islam.

To Laingen, now 87, little has changed in America’s relationship over those years with that autocratic regime. As the 30th anniversary of the embassy takeover by radical Iranian students approaches Wednesday, three American hikers are being held there against their will.

Laingen decries the regime’s continuing failures: last June’s tainted elections, the brutal repression of protests and subsequent show trials, including the

I’ve been an advocate of engagement with Iran since the hour I left.

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started because of H1N1, it is not only for flu cases. Students can fire off symptom-specific questions, learn if they should wait to treat their symptoms when the Health Center opens or ask general health questions.

“I won’t really use (the nurse hot line) because my sister is a

one set to begin soon for the hikers.

Despite all of that, Laingen remains as certain as he was three decades ago that engaging with Iran is the right approach for the United States.

“I’ve been an advocate of engagement with Iran since the hour I left,” Laingen said in an interview last week in his suburban Bethesda, Md., home. “I meant it then and I’ve said it ever since,” he said. “I’m deeply grateful now that we’re beginning to maybe talk to them.”

To Laingen, ever the diplomat, that’s not a slam on the more hawkish stance of former President George W. Bush, who included Iran in his Axis of Evil.

“He did what was possible at the time,” Laingen said of Bush.

“I don’t believe he should have

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doctor, so I just call her for help.

I think for most people who don’t have that family member it is a really good idea,” biology sophomore Misty Moyle said.

This service has been available for many years.

“We had explored (the nurse hot line) as a possibility several years ago,” Bragg said.

However, it did not seem to be necessary because most students at Cal Poly have health insurance, he said. Nearly all health insurance includes a health advice line in the cost. It was decided in the past that it was not worth the cost when most students had access to a similar service.

Due to “the flu epidemic at hand,” Bragg said the service now seemed to be a good option for the Health Center.An e-mail announcing the nurse hot line’s availability said that this would be the “most challenging year health-wise.”

Nurse Response is used at Humboldt State and 15 other universities nationwide. They also work with other businesses, including health providers, hospitals, provider groups and state agencies.

The program will be used on a trial basis this year. Once the Health Center conducts an annual review, they will decide whether it been a worthwhile venture.

“With this extraordinary year we are going through, we thought it would be helpful to have one number to advertise for students,” Bragg said.

More information can be found at www.hcs.calpoly.edu/health/ nurse_line.html or the hot line (1-866-439-2012).

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Dr. Martin Bragg, the director of Health and Counseling Services, said the Health Center is hoping to administer 1,000 shots per day to students.

Health Center officials knew the vaccine was on its way and were told they would receive a 48-hour notice prior to its arrival.

Another shipment of 3,500 vaccines is expected to arrive in the next week.

Students who have diabetes, asthma, heart problems or compromised immune systems are encouraged to come tomorrow all other students are encouraged to wait until Wednesday and Thursday, but will not be turned away on tomorrow even if they do not have these conditions.

Bragg’s advice for students is not to put off getting the shot.

The Health Center ordered 19,000 vaccines originally in hopes that everyone could be vaccinated.

More information can be found at www.afd.calpoly.edu/ehs/h1n1/.

made any particular steps to acquiesce in what the Iranians were asking of us.”

But in Laingen’s view, the Iranian Revolution of the late Ayatollah Khomeini remains a work in progress, and the renewed stirrings of a new generation of Iranian youth presents an opening the U.S. president should encourage — from afar.

“I believe in regime change, but conducted internally, by them,” Laingen said.

Laingen remains uncertain about the widely suspected nuclear ambitions of Iran’s current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the controversial government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But his advice to President Obama is the same either way.

“Find a way to talk on that issue, too,” Laingen says.

Although Laingen was widely celebrated for his cool-under-fire during the 14-month hostage crisis — newsreels clips at the time usually pictured him bound and blindfolded — his diplomacy-isthe-best-policy attitude has not been universally shared in U.S. military and foreign policy circles.

Among those on the other side of the debate is his 48-year-son, Chip Laingen, who heads the Defense Alliance of Minnesota, a network of defense contractors in the Twin Cities. The younger Laingen, who was a Navy ROTC student at the University of Min-

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nesota during his father’s captivity, says their differences stem in part from their professional perspectives.

“The way my father approached his entire professional life was in diplomacy,” said Chip Laingen, now retired from the Navy. “It’s a core belief for me that there are some people you just can’t find common ground with. He and I go round and round on that.”

The elder Laingen was the U.S. charge d’affaires in Tehran when the American embassy was overrun amid rising tensions over the deposed Shah, who had been admitted to the United States for medical treatment.

The subsequent impasse, which dominated the final year of the Carter administration, dragged on until the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. By then, the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis had been draped with a massive yellow ribbon, a giant echo of a symbol started by Laingen’s wife, Penne, on the oak in their front yard.

The intransigence of the Iranians was no surprise to Laingen, who had served previously in Iran in the 1950s, after a U.S.-aided coup that brought the Shah to power.

In a secret State Department memo authored three months before the 1979 embassy takeover, Laingen warned then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance of the “overriding egoism” and “bazaar mentality” of the “Persian psyche,” which, he concluded, “leaves little room for understanding points of view other than one’s own.”

But combined with that unflattering assessment — which would seem to preclude constructive talks — Laingen has always possessed an abiding optimism, which he attributes to his farm upbringing outside Odin Township in southern Minnesota.

“I grew up in the dust storm days of the ‘20s and ‘30s in Minnesota,” Laingen said. “You need a lot of optimism to cope with that situation. You have to be an optimist to farm in southern Min-

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nesota even today.”

Laingen’s memories of his long captivity remain sharp. “An experience like that, of being a hostage, doesn’t totally fade,” he said.

“It leaves a considerable impression on your psyche, your mind and your heart. But I don’t live it.”

His sense of the injustice of it all is still palpable, though rendered in the somewhat eventempered tones of a son of stolid Norwegian farmers.

“Having your freedom totally denied is hell,” Laingen said. But

the other hostages, who were held separately — some in solitary confinement — had it worse.

“They were my people. I was in charge of them. But I couldn’t help them. That drove me crazy sometimes. I was angry a lot.”

According to his son, the violation of the embassy compound didn’t change Laingen’s faith in diplomacy. Rather, he said, “it intensified his natural tendencies.”

Finally boarding the plane that would fly the hostages to freedom, Laingen recalls encountering one of the senior hostage takers. Laingen’s parting words: “I look forward to the day your country and mine can have normal diplomatic relations.”

Nearly 30 years later, Laingen still looks forward to that day.

Meanwhile, the original fabric yellow ribbon that once decorated the Laingens’ oak tree, now resides in the Library of Congress.

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Farmers fight climate bill, but warming spells trouble for them

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WASHINGTON — Farm state senators and others soon will get a taste of what their colleagues from Missouri already have piled high on their desks: thousands of letters from farmers urging them to vote against the climate and energy bill.

The Missouri Farm Bureau started the letter campaign early, weeks before the bill was fully written and made public. It was followed in October with a pitch from the American Farm Bureau, the nation’s largest agriculture lobby, to get farmers to take farm caps, sign their bills and send them to senators with notes that say, “Don’t cap our future.”

Agriculture is likely to have a central place in the debate on the bill later this year about the shortterm costs of acting to curb climate change — and the costs of failing to address the long-term risks.

Farm lobby groups and senators who agree with them argue that imposing limits on the nation’s emissions of heat-trapping gases from coal, oil and natural gas would raise the cost of farming necessities such as fuel, electricity and natural gas-based fertilizer. A government report, however, warns of a dire outlook for farms if rising emissions drive more rapid climate shifts in the decades ahead.

The Senate bill includes provisions that would hold down energy costs for consumers, and some senators are working to add sections that would help farmers.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vil-

sack said in written testimony while traveling in China last week that the bill would create opportunities for farmers to sell renewable energy and to earn money by selling credits for reducing emissions. He also said the bill contained provisions that would prevent fertilizer price increases before 2025, even though fuel prices would rise.

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run, and “easily trump” increased costs in the long run, he said.

Others are worried, however.

“I can understand in the political world why they’re trying to get this under control,” said Bill Wiebold, a University of Missouri agronomist, a scientist who specializes in crop production and soil. “What are the ripple effects? That’s what farmers are concerned about. They understand that what’s being passed in Washington, D.C., could have a direct effect on their bottom line.”

Another side of the cost question will be the burden on the daughters and sons who succeed today’s farmers, and the generations after them. A comprehensive review of scientific literature and government data undertaken by a team of 19 U.S. scientists at the end of the Bush administration and released in June forecast a disturbing future for American agriculture as warming accelerates in the decades ahead.

The report, “Global Change Impacts in the United States,” is the most comprehensive U.S. effort so far to move from a global view of rising temperatures due to accumulating greenhouse gases to a more regionally focused look at current and future changes.

The key messages on agriculture: -Early on, some warming and elevated carbon-dioxide levels may be good for some crops, but higher levels of warming impair plant growth and yields. More frequent heat waves, for example, would be hard on crops such as corn and soybeans.

-Other more frequent extremes, such as heavy downpours and droughts, also would be likely to reduce crop yields.

-The quality of grazing land will decline, and heat and disease will be see Farmers, page 4

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is considering, for the third time, the case of a California murderer who was sentenced to die in 1982 for the brutal killing of a young woman in the state’s central valley.

Twenty years ago, the California Supreme Court affirmed a death sentence for Fernando Belmontes, but since then, his case has bounced back and forth in the federal courts. Three times in this decade, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned his death sentence as flawed.

The case is the latest skirmish in the long-running war between California prosecutors and the 9th Circuit over the death penalty, and it helps explains the oddity of capital punishment in California. While death sentences are common, executions are rare.

California has by far the largest death row in the nation, with 685 inmates. Yet, only 13 condemned prisoners have been executed since capital punishment was restored in 1977, far fewer than the 38 death row inmates who have died of natural causes.

By contrast, Texas has carried out 441 executions during the same time and has 358 inmates on death row. Though a much smaller state, Virginia has executed 103 murderers during that time and has only 18 inmates serving death sentences. Among them is John Allen Muhammad, who is scheduled to die on Nov. 10 for one in a series of sniper shootings in the Washington area in the fall of 2002.

The stark differences in execution rates reflect the contrasting approaches of the regional U.S. courts of appeals. In the South, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals based in Richmond,Virginia and the 5th Circuit based in New Orleans are dominated by conservative judges who are inclined to reject appeals and to uphold death sentences.

The 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, has a core of liberal judges who say it is their duty to carefully scrutinize capital cases.

“There is no greater burden than falls on a member of the judiciary than to sit in judgment on whether an individual shall live or die, and no greater see Death row, page 5

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(MCT) — The Atascadero woman accused of stabbing a Paso Robles High School graduate to death in August reportedly told police while in jail, “I killed him,” and “I’m going to be in jail forever,” an officer testified in court Friday.

Judge John A. Trice ruled after the preliminary hearing that attorneys presented sufficient evidence to charge Kelsey Morasci with murder.

Morasci, 28, is accused of killing 21-year-old Everett Allen Quaid on Aug. 6 in an apartment in the 9300 block of Musselman Drive in Atascadero, investigators testified.

SAN FRANCISCO (MCT) — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Sunday cautioned while there were some encouraging signs in the latest report on economic growth, the recovery will be choppy and uneven.

“This is gonna be a different recovery than in the past because Americans are gonna have to save more,” he said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “A lot of damage was caused by this crisis.

It’s gonna take some time for us to grow out of this.”

Helped by the massive government stimulus programs, GDP rose 3.5 percent in the third quarter.

President Obama said in his weekly address on Saturday his programs have created or saved 1 million jobs.

NAHA, Okinawa, Japan (MCT) — The government of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan has begun discussing whether to rescind the city’s decision to accept the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station to the shore of Camp Schwab in Nago’s Henoko area, according to senior municipal officials.

The municipal government will summarize its deliberations at a meeting of senior municipal officials on Monday.The city is apparently ready to inform the central government of its desire to withdraw its consent if Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s administration does not proceed with the base’s relocation to Henoko.

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SACRAMENTO (MCT) — U.S. Coast Guard officials today shifted to a recovery operation from a search and rescue mission for nine crew members in a disastrous crash off the San Diego coast.

Lt. Josh Nelson, the Coast Guard’s public affairs officer in San Diego, said the search over 644 square miles ended shortly after 10:30 a.m. when a Jayhawk helicopter with a crew of four landed and ended 63 hours of search.

Family members were notified late Saturday night that the search and rescue effort would be suspended Sunday unless the Coast Guard helicopter returned with promising news.

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harder on livestock.

Finally, warming will be good for something: pests and weeds.

Climate scientists, in reports such as those used in the government study, say that while the weather will keep varying from year to year, the long-term warming trend that’s already being observed will continue and accelerate. The severity of the warming will depend on the amount of heat-trapping gases that build up in the atmosphere.

Richard Oswald, 59, grows corn and soybeans and raises cattle with his son on 2,000 acres in Rock Port, in Missouri’s northwest corner. He’s the chairman of the board of the Missouri Farmers Union, which is part of the National Farm-

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WASHINGTON (MCT) — Under fire from prominent members of her own party who said she wasn’t conservative enough, the Republican candidate for an open U.S. House seat in New York abruptly withdrew from the race Saturday just days before the election.

State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava said she was trailing in polls, unable to raise money and unlikely to win. She told supporters that while her name would still be on the ballot Tuesday, she released all of them from their pledges and said they could vote for anyone. ers Union, a group that supports a mandatory cap on emissions and a trading scheme for pollution permits, as long as farmers’ concerns are met.

“We can either get behind this and push this legislation in a direction that will help farmers, or we can sit back and fight it all the way and get something we really don’t want,” Oswald said.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the Agriculture Committee’s ranking Republican, said he’d oppose the bill because it would bring “economic pain for no benefit” and would “only hurt farmers, ranchers and forest landowners and provide them no opportunity to recoup the higher costs they will pay.”

“The huge taxes on carbon would be devastating to Midwest farmers,” said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.

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I S L A M A B A D, P a k i s t a n (MCT) — Every time Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to win over Pakistanis during her three-day charm offensive last week, they fired back a polite but firm message: We don’t really trust your country.

No matter how hard Clinton tried to reassure audiences in Lahore and Islamabad with talk of providing economic aid where it is needed most, Pakistanis seized on her visit as the perfect moment to lash out at a U.S. government they perceive as arrogant, domineering and insensitive to their plight.

The bill would charge large sources of emissions, such as power plants, for the amount of greenhouse gases they produce. Farms wouldn’t be required to reduce their emissions.

As those limits further tighten, businesses would have to find ways to comply or pay more.

Some of those penalty payments would be used to help vulnerable industries and consumers.

Energy costs would rise, but how that would affect Americans would depend on the policies the law imposed.

Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., who was the secretary of agriculture for several years during the Bush administration, said that higher energy costs were certain if the bill passed. He wasn’t convinced by the government study that climate changes are equally certain.

mcclatchy-newspapers First lady Michelle Obama takes pictures with kids during a fall harvest event in the Kitchen garden on the South Lawn of the White House Thursday. She will launch a unique mentoring program for high school girls.

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WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama — and some of her Chicago “sisters” in the White House — will launch a first-ofits-kind mentoring program with about 20 high school girls from greater Washington Monday.

As the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s election nears, it’s the first lady who is making history now. Call this chapter “Girl Power.”

Observers say her leadership and mentoring initiative, which debuts in the State Dining Room, has not been done by a first lady before. It will see Mrs. Obama — and White House staffers including Valerie Jarrett, Tina Tchen, Susan Sher and Desiree Rogers, Chicagoans all — act as mentors to high school juniors and sophomores.

Jarrett is a senior White House adviser.Tchen leads its public liaison

office. Sher is the first lady’s chief of staff. Rogers is her social secretary.

The proteges were chosen by area high schools, the Girl Scouts and military families, including Gold Star families who have lost a loved one, said Catherine McCormick-Lelyveld, Mrs. Obama’s spokeswoman.

A similar initiative for young men is coming later, she said.

Tchen, an attorney from Chicago long active in politics, said the leadership and mentoring program builds on a “Women of Excellence” event at the White House in March.

That saw high school girls interact with the first lady, White House officials and a cast of stars: singers Alicia Keyes and Sheryl Crow; actresses and sisters Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad; actress Fran Drescher; Gen. Ann Dunwoody, the first woman to become a four-star general; and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space.

“This was one of my dreams, let me tell you ... gathering an amazing group of women together, and going out and talking to young girls around this country,” Mrs. Obama said then.

Tchen said the program launch will see proteges visit their mentors’ offices and gather as a group for dinner. The duration of the inaugural class has not been decided, she said.

Tchen, formerly with the Chicago law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, said she expects discussions of college, careers, life skills and balancing work and motherhood.

The mentors, she said, want to give proteges a “window to a wide variety of different opportunities to play out your dreams.” see Mentor, page 5

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responsibility than to make certain that every capital defendant receives the full protection to which he is entitled to under our Constitution and our laws,” said Judge Stephen Reinhardt of Los Angeles, defending his decision to set aside Belmontes’ death sentence again.

In a 2-1 decision last year, Reinhart and Judge Richard Paez, also of Los Angeles, ruled the lawyer for Belmontes provided “ineffective assistance of counsel” because he failed to tell the jury of the “traumas that Belmontes faced as a youth.” Given this evidence, the jury might have spared his life, they said.

Eight conservative judges of the 9th Circuit dissented and said the full appeals court should reconsider this ruling. However, it takes a majority vote of the circuit’s 27 judges to re-hear such a case.

In 1981, Belmontes broke into the home of 19-year-old Steacy McConnell and beat her to death with a bar bell. He stole a stereo and sold it for $100.

In two earlier rulings, Reinhart and Paez overturned the death sentence for Belmontes on the grounds jurors may have thought they could not consider his conversion to Christianity in prison as a reason for leniency. Police and prosecutors said Belmontes had shot and killed a man two years earlier, but this evidence was kept from the jury.

After each of these rulings overturning his death sentence, the California attorney general appealed to the Supreme Court.

Twice before, the justices set aside the 9th Circuit’s decision, once in brief order and once in a full opinion.

The state’s lawyers have been waiting for several weeks, anticipating the high court will act soon on their latest appeal. They are used to waiting, however.

“A great many people are frustrated by the pace at which these cases are resolved,” said Ronald Matthias, a California assistant attorney general, who oversees litigation on the death penalty. He noted other Western states “face the same logjam.” The 9th Circuit hears cases from nine states, several of which have large numbers of prisoners on death row. They include Arizona (122), Nevada (79), Oregon (35) and Idaho (18). None of these Western states has carried out an execution in the past two years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.

In Arizona, “We’ve had just one execution since 2000,” said Steve Wilson, a spokesman for the state attorney general.

Critics of the death penalty have cited the high cost and seemingly endless litigation as a good reason for abolishing capital punishment. Last year, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice called the state’s death penalty system “broken” and “dysfunctional” and estimated it costs the state $137 million a year.

The justices met Friday to discuss pending appeals, including the Belmontes case, and may act

Washington’s Letitia Baldrige, who was the top aide to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, said the mentoring program was “definitely” a first for a presidential spouse. She called it “wonderfully imaginative,” but cautioned it will be difficult in part because of the ongoing commitment it requires.

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or community gathering,” she said.

“Mentoring for their careers, gosh, that’s a big commitment.”

Participants “are going to have to put their heart and spirit and soul to it,” she said.

Baldrige, a Republican, is a fan of Mrs. Obama and thinks the program will only burnish her reputation.

“She’ll set a tremendous example,” Baldrige said. “She’ll be looked up to and revered all over the world for doing this. She is go-

ing to be deluged by wannabes.”

The latest effort comes after Mrs. Obama has tried to set an example for young people, promoted healthy eating and exercise, lent support to military families and hosted high-profile musical events.

“She’s really gone in many directions,” Baldrige said, “and I think it’s fantastic that she has the energy.”

Carl S. Anthony, a Los Angeles author and a historian for the National First Ladies’ Library in

Canton, Ohio, agreed the mentoring program is a first. He observed the cause builds on her leadership at Public Allies Chicago, which aims to groom a new generation of leaders.

He predicted it could grow much bigger, noting Lady Bird Johnson began a committee to beautify the nation’s capital, triggering a nationwide effort to plant wildflowers, beautify highways, spruce up parks and enact clean air and land initiatives.

Word on the Street

“What do you think about the Health Center’s new nurse hot line?”

“Well, I’ve personally never used the one on campus so it’s not really helpful to me, but it’s nice to know it’s there.”

“I think it’s helpful. People always need advice. I don’t always know about different sicknesses.”

-Matt Ahn, civil engineering senior

-Cameron Walters, mechanical engineering junior

“I guess I would use it if I really needed to. I haven’t really gotten sick yet.”

-Joel Yan, business freshman

“It’s a good idea; everyone’s talking budget though, so I don’t know how much is being put into it, but with swine flu and other seasonal stuff it’s a good idea.”

-Bobby Landon, biology junior

“I think it’s cool you can do it, but it might be hard just talking (on the phone) as opposed to urgent care. It could save time if it’s a little problem.”

-Haley McCown, wine and viticulture sophomore

“I think it’s good considering all of the swine flu stuff all over the news.”

-Julia Dean, chemistry freshman

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Drum solos taken to the extreme in “To The Breathing World” I really wish I could reference the Brontë sisters right now without a trace of irony. It would be nice, perhaps, to speak of “Wuthering Heights” and the sincerity of the text, its characters and love and all that. But it would just be a stupid joke that would inadvertently alienate the earnest readers of the gothic novel among you, and this review is intended for the sincere.

This album is so sincere, in fact, that by the end of the article, I will have exhausted my thesaurus’ synonyms and antonyms of the word “earnest,” because to hell with it.

When I first heard Neal Morgan’s “To The Breathing World” released on Drag City, I thought it was a sort of male equivalent of Joanna N e w s o m ’s sans harp, plus drum breakdowns that keep the erratic beat of the metaphorical heart of the natural world.

Then I Wikied that shit and found out that Morgan

was actually the drummer and background singer for Newsom and that this is his first solo album — a fact I probably should have looked up before reviewing the album. But this is just a genuine reaction and review of this warm and heartfelt album.

As I said, Morgan is a lot like the male equivalent of Newsom, with lyrics that, when taken out of context, seem like pretentiously incomprehensible clutter of hipster mumbo jumbo. But, in the grand scheme, they are earnest and poignant lyrics about “a butterfly that carelessly liked singing, paused in midflight, stuck around to stay with the slave whale for a time, in its time of shame and loneliness.”

See? Taken out of context, it sounds like a whole bunch of nothing. But watch him play that song in “The Basement” on YouTube, and you’ll see one hell of a performance.

The whole album is just a boy with his drums and voice. No

Faculty art showcase brings research out of the classroom

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A number of new faculty members featured their work at the Art and Design Faculty Creative Research Triennial.

Jeff Van Kleeck, University Art Gallery coordinator, said that while most people don’t think about art as research, it is an important part of faculty development. It can also take a good deal of time, which is why the show only happens once every three years.

The show had a variety of mediums including glass sculptures of sea creatures, photos, paintings, aroma art and a variety of multimedia pieces. Art and design faculty chair Sky Bergman said the diversity of

mediums reflects the diversity of the faculty. Bergman said this year’s show was particularly interesting because of the number of new faculty who had work on display.While many of the faculty members do show their work locally, it can be hard to see everyone’s work, Bergman said. It’s nice to have a venue on campus to show their work, she added.

One of the new department members who showed their work is full-time lecturer Brian Priest, who has two multimedia sculptures.

One of his pieces titled “LAX Shaman” was a video display split in half with two men sitting next to each other on one side of the screen and a static, lit-up Ferris wheel on the other. Priest said he edited the video together while he was on a

day trip from Indiana to California in order to get a grain of sand. The two men were meditating together in the Los Angeles Airport terminal.

“They were sitting next to each other as if they were on the ride,” he said.

Priest said the Ferris wheel’s lights had a spiritual element to them and that the motion of the wheel was very similar to meditation.

Priest shot the video near to closing time when the wheel had stopped spinning but the lights were still on.

He said he likes for his viewers to have an immediate response to his works. His philosophy can be seen in his other piece at the exhibit, an see Exhibit, page 8

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The University Art Gallery’s opening exhibit features a number of art and design faculty members’ ongoing research in a variety of mediums.

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Art and design professor Michael Miller painted the two piece on the left with watercolor on a vellum canvas. On the right is one of lecturer Brian Priest’s multimedia pieces titled “LAX Shaman.”

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guitars or bass or anything, just a raw recording of the artist banging away in structured, but in no way standard or simple beats.

Think an early acoustic “Animal Collective” type of drum, if it’ll help, with the theatre nerd appeal of Newsom’s lyrics but more personal and less destroyed by a goofy, high-pitched, elfish voice.

Even if you are not a fan of Newsom, the album is still definitely worth a listen just to hear this unique take on what a solo singer/songwriter can be. It’s accessible without being a cookie cutout of the douche with his guitar struggling with basic chord progression. There is some technical drumming here that, if I didn’t know any better, I would think was improvisational.

As a whole, the album is an honest good time that goes beyond simple melody and pleasant or ignorable lyrics. Morgan is a hyper-lyrical musician who understands the nuance of longing and despair and doesn’t just oversimplify human desire to dumbed down relationship dynamics.

By the way, if you have been enjoying this article and/or any of the albums we have told you about, take a listen to KCPR 91.3 FM on your radio dial and we’ll give you some more to listen to.

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audio clip of him reciting every entry in a Dollar Store Webster’s dictionary.

“I liked that you could buy the English language for a dollar,” he said.

Bergman said the show is a good way for students to get to know the faculty members better.

“It’s important for students to know that we are working artists,” she said.

Seeing the actual pieces of art is important, because the physicality of the work is much different from seeing them on the computer, she added.

Michael Miller, a professor of studio art who has been at Cal Poly for more than 12 years, said that the faculty research show is a way for faculty members to evolve their work and show off the new directions they are exploring.

Miller showed two watercolors done on vellum, a very thin material.

He played around with his pieces and painted on both sides of the material in order to capture light in different ways. He is now working with a similar technique by painting the wall behind the vellum and letting the color show through Within Cal Poly, the art department might not seem as important as some of the larger programs, but Cal Poly has a great reputation in the design world, Bergman said.This exhibit is just one of many that allows the department to showcase their talent to students, fellow faculty and the university as a whole.

Jack LaPorte is an English graduate and KCPR DJ.

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ABC’s “V” gives aliens a new look Chuck Barney contra costa times

When it comes to terrifying mankind, space aliens have been overshadowed lately by vampires and zombies. But on Tuesday night, the extraterrestrials launch an inspired rally in “V,” a captivating new science-fiction drama from ABC. Based on a 1980s miniseries, “V” (for “Visitors”) tells of a close encounter with an alien race, which arrives via massive spacecraft that hover ominously over every major city on Earth. Naturally, their presence triggers mindnumbing panic. This is followed by an intense desire to blow those big metal orbs to smithereens.

But hold your fire. Amazingly, these aliens look just like us — or at least the really attractive folk

among us. And, in a nice twist, they come bearing a message of peace.

Not only do they want to be our BFFs; they promise to use their advanced technology to solve the world’s problems and — get this — provide universal health care.

All this Summer of Love-like bliss is conveyed by Anna (Morena Baccarin), the gorgeous leader of the Vs who radiates a calm, Zenlike demeanor that might be unnerving if it wasn’t so seductive.

Not surprisingly, most young male Earthlings think she’s hot.

But is Anna just killing us softly with her song? Is this the alien version of the rope-a-dope? Some down on terra firma suspect that might be the case, including FBI agent Erica Evans (winningly played by Elizabeth Mitchell of “Lost”) and priest Jack Landry (Joel Gretsch).

With some sleuthing, they discover there’s a secret hidden beneath the skin of every V. They also learn that many stealthy aliens have been living among us for years, apparently just waiting to unleash some sinister deeds. Suddenly, Erica and others are looking over their shoulders, wondering who they can trust.

It all makes for a suspenseful, scary concoction. The fast-paced “V” pilot sucks you in from the start and keeps you welded to your seat right up through a couple of shockers near the end of the hour.

ABC will introduce “V” with four episodes and then pick up with more in the spring. If the series can maintain the pilot’s momentum, TV viewers can happily brace themselves for an alien abduction.

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Bankers dislike pay cuts?

Take a number, join the club Mitch Albom detroit free press

If a bank gives you a mortgage, it sets the rates, right? If a credit card company issues you a Visa, it tells you the terms, correct?

Then why do financial institutions bailed out by the government cry foul when that government — i.e. their bank — wants to set the rules?

Isn’t that how they do business?

Look. I am not one who thinks that limiting the pay of CEOs is going to make America solvent. But I do expect people to play by the same principles they impose.

So I’m a little amused (at least before I get furious) that banks are whining when the people who lent them money — you and me — insist on some responsibility. Think about it. If these same Wall Street firms buy your company and start making slashes — sell off this division, close down this office — your complaints fall on deaf ears, right?

Yet the folks at Citigroup, AIG and Bank of America are now wailing at the idea that their top dogs may get their bowls downsized. That instead of hundreds of millions, they may be able to make only hundreds of thousands.

Hey. Like these same firms tell us: Be grateful you still have a job.

Remember, when places like Citigroup got in trouble, it wasn’t over a $50 late payment — the kind of mistake for which they routinely sock you or me with a fee or a raised interest rate.

No, when they tripped up, it was billions. Hundreds of billions. They had one place to turn, the govern-

This is absurd. The fines are way too expensive for someone trying to bike to school. Do you think any college kids can afford these? Campus is already hard enough to get to with ridiculously expensive parking passes, a commodity of parking spaces, commodity of bike parking, no skateboarding, no crossing the train tracks and over-crowded buses.

These laws in no way support the use of alternative transportation, at a school that claims to be green.

People know how to ride bikes and I’m sure that they already know its dangerous; it should be up to them to enforce their own safety, not the campus police (on a case to case basis) —Sean In response to “UPD steps up bike enforcement” Obey the stop signs and yield to pedestrian traffic. I’m tired of be-

ment, or face doomsday.

So the government gave them money. Our money. Lots of it. So much, in fact, that the United States owns 34 percent of Citigroup. That’s a huge chunk. Enough to have a say in how that money gets paid back, right?

So let’s take a peek at how Citigroup pays its people.

Take the case of Andrew J. Hall.

He is a top Citigroup trader. Exactly what he trades is hard to determine, since his little corner is very secretive; so secretive, according to the Wall Street Journal, that it operates out of a dairy farm in Connecticut.

This much we know. Hall trades in the energy field.

Now, if two words ought to make people run, they’re “secretive” and “energy.” Wasn’t secretive part of the problem with the mortgage crisis?

And wasn’t betting on energy what sank Enron?

Yet Mr. Hall is one of Citigroup’s prized employees. And last year, he was given a $100 million pay package. This year, reportedly, he is likely due the same.

That’s $100 million. One man.

I don’t care how much business he generates. In today’s world, in this economic quagmire, in a company that had to be bailed out, that can’t go on.

The ghosts of scandals past Of course, bankers will insist you don’t understand. You don’t get it.

This is the world they move in. If they don’t give monstrous pay packages to guys like Mr. Hall — who according to the Journal owns a 1,000-year-old castle in Germany where he can display his renowned art collection —

he’ll jump ship.

And? These places act as if nobody will do it for less, nobody will be as good, or that they can’t possibly afford not to be in these risky, high-bet businesses because, well, how else could they afford 1,000-year-old castles in Germany?

The thing is, when your highprized talent makes those same risky bets the wrong way — e.g. the mortgage crisis — or abuses its power — e.g. the Enron scandal — you lose your right to a high horse. If you were like the rest of us, you’d be out of business.

Instead, the government bails you out. And yet, in many cases, as soon

ing almost runover by assholes who have no respect for anyone. Don’t want to pay for running a stop sign?

Don’t run the stop sign. Don’t want to get a ticket for riding your bike unsafely without a light at night and endangering other people who can’t see you? Don’t ride your bike at night or strap a flashlight to it.

Common sense people, quit bitching about how much these tickets cost. They cost that much to teach you to stop breaking the law. How can you possibly argue against this?

least pepper spray for the tellers to have either in a pocket or on the desk of where they work. This actually makes me think about all of our safety.

—Jose In response to “UPD steps up bike enforcement” This is really assuring me that the people in banks don’t really have any protection from anyone that comes into the bank. The article as I read it said that the man was dressed formally and the civilians were oblivious to what was actually going on.

I truly believe that we need to step up security in most banks. I know it may cost more money, but it’s better than losing all that money to one customer who took a loan and did not pay back.We should have at

as possible, you make a beeline back to doing things the way they used to be done.

The worst part of this whole debate is the hubris Wall Street types display toward the rest of America, a belief that they are special because they are rich and always have been, that their lobbyists can and should finagle out of any government intervention.

But you can’t live off the wallets of common people then act is if you’re above them. If Wall Street can’t understand why Main Street has no sympathy for its pay problems, it might want to spend a little more time down here.You know.Where its bank lives.

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California Dreamin’: Trojans’ BCS hopes diminish Bud Withers the seattle times

SEATTLE — The belief here last week was that for the well-being of the Pac-10 Conference, an Oregon victory over USC would be a good thing.

You know the recent history of the league, as well as the national perception: USC reigns, with no accompanying jolt for the rest of the Pac-10. While the Trojans have won or tied for seven straight conference championships, the league hasn't had two BCS entries since 2002.

So the theory was: Somebody else win it, and the national sway USC holds will carry it along to a BCS bowl, too.

Fine job then, Ducks. But did you have to pound the Trojans, punish the Trojans, puree them, so ruthlessly that Sugar or Fiesta Bowl officials might look at USC and go, gulp?

Maybe it's too early to say the king is dead after Oregon's 47-20 victory Saturday night in Eugene, Ore. But it's safe to say he's feeling nauseated. If that wasn't a defrocking, it was every bit a demolition.

The Ducks had 613 yards, 10 off the opponent record Notre Dame put up on USC, in 1946.

In a week's time, Oregon and Oregon State put up 83 points on the Trojans. You have to go back to late 1986, Ted Tollner was coaching USC then, to find a total as big over two games.

Oregon played hyper-fast, certain of itself. USC looked ponderous and unsure, increasingly flummoxed by the speed and diversity of the Ducks' offense.

Oregon unleashed players in

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ered a Jordan Yocum fumble on the North Dakota 16-yard line.

The Fighting Sioux then retaliated with two touchdowns in the second half to turn the game around.

Sutton ran 10 yards for the go-ahead score with three minutes elapsed in the third quarter, capping a 91-yard Fighting Sioux drive.

Brandon Hellevang kicked a 47-yard field goal with 13:24 to go in the game, and Sutton capped the scoring with a 5-yard run around the right end with 3:38 to go.

Landry completed 14 of 22 passes and the North Dakota running game netted 230 yards on 48 carries to build the scoring advantage.

Cal Poly junior quarterback Tony Smith completed five of his first eight passes, two for touchdowns, as the Mustangs constructed their 17-7 lead in the first 19 minutes of the game.

Junior Chris Pinto booted a 38-yard field goal early in the first quarter following a 60-yard pass play from Smith to junior wide receiver Dominique Johnson.

The Mustangs increased their lead to 10-0 on a 10-yard touch-

space. USC seemed lost in space.

There was a simple play that captured it all, Oregon's five-yard touchdown from LaMichael James, running left, to make it 34-20 in the third quarter. Left tackle Bo Thran blocked down on USC end Nick Perry, caving him in. Tight end Ed Dickson roamed into that hole and cleaned out safety Will Harris toward the back of the end zone.

Right guard Mark Asper pulled and mashed USC safety Taylor Mays aside at the 2. The middle linebacker, Chris Galippo, bought quarterback Jeremiah Masoli's move to the right and ran himself out of the play.

James just pranced into the end zone. The guy for whom the field is named, Rich Brooks, would have scored on the play, and he's 68.

November came too late for the Trojans.This is the month in which coach Pete Carroll is 27-0 at USC. But it's a tricky climb back into another co-championship for the Trojans (6-2, 3-2), requiring that they win out and Oregon (7-1, 5-0) lose twice.

Arizona (5-2, 3-1) is still a factor, and the Ducks can hardly exhale. They go to Tucson Nov. 21, but travel this week to meet a good Stanford team (5-3, 4-2), packing whatever distraction might come of the possible reinstatement of running back LeGarrette Blount.

That September night in Boise that seemed so surreal has now assumed an added element of implausibility. It's almost incomprehensible that the Oregon offense that shamed USC began its opener at Boise State with seven consecutive three-and-outs before it got a first down.

down pass from Smith to senior slotback Jon Hall with five minutes remaining in the first period. The short 18-yard drive was set up by Asa Jackson’s 34-yard punt return.

North Dakota scored its first points on a scrambling 28-yard run by Landry with 12:35 to go in the second quarter.

Cal Poly answered with a 30yard pass from Smith to Hall.

Two minutes later the Fighting Sioux reduced the deficit to three points again on an 8-yard touchdown pass from Brent Goska to Ryan Konrath.

Senior Jono Grayson was Cal Poly’s top ground gainer, netting 27 yards on four carries. Johnson caught six passes for 121 yards while Hall had three grabs for 48 yards and two scores.

North Dakota finished with 427 yards in total offense to Cal Poly’s 265 yards. The Fighting Sioux ran 21 more offensive plays than the Mustangs.

Cal Poly’s defensive leaders were safety Scottie Cordier with eight tackles, and linebacker Marty Mohamed with seven stops. Cal Poly, plus-12 in turnovers entering the game, lost the turnover battle, 3-2.

Cal Poly plays another Great West Conference game on the road next week, visiting UC Davis (4-4, 1-1 Great West) for a 1 p.m. game on Nov. 7. UC Davis fell 56-35 to Southern Utah on

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The USC Trojans went from national title contenders, to BCS bowl hopefuls after Saturday’s loss.

Now Oregon is ranked seventh

by AP, eighth in the BCS standings, best of the one-loss teams. Win out, and it's not unrealistic that the Ducks, with help, could complete a who-knew comeback and play for the national title.

Towed happily in Oregon's wake is Boise State, still unbeaten and grateful for the reflected glory of the Ducks' resurgence. The Broncos are No. 5 in the polls and

hopeful of fending off a bettercredentialed TCU team for a BCS bowl.

As for the Trojans, BCS bowls are hardly the issue right now.

It's apparent that even at USC, you don't always just restock, like Home Depot when it runs out of sprinkler heads.

The Trojans replaced a quarterback now starting in the NFL with a true freshman. No matter how

Carroll touted them, the linebacker replacements for first-day draftees Clay Matthews, Brian Cushing and Rey Maualuga have been merely OK, nothing extraordinary.

Lately, they've lost to injury tight end Anthony McCoy and fullback Stanley Havili, and before that, running back Stafon Johnson.

In Eugene, it all roiled up and they lost big. And a dynasty teetered.

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out went wide left.

In the 25th minute Jacqui Simon took a shot from 15 yards out but Julieanne Grinstead blocked it only to have Kugler fire a second shot from about the same distance with Grinstead making a second block.

Two minutes later Cal Poly had the advantage in numbers when a cross by Andruss to the far corner of the box to Miller, but a slide tackle by a UCSB defender disrupted Milller’s shot and it went wide.

The second half opened with Burright beating two defenders with footwork and firing a shot from 15 yards out with Lenham making the save.

UCSB responded with Katy Roby, from just out side the penalty box, firing a shot with Hoover making a diving save.

In the 65th minute Gummow hit a shot that most thought would find the net but it defected off the top of the crossbar.

UCSB’s Alexa Stringler pulled down Miller when she had the opportunity for a breakaway and was whistled for a yellow card in the 68th minute. But the resulting free kick by Kristina CondonSherwood went high from 40 yards out.

The Mustangs enter the BWC semi-final game on a seven game win streak.

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SANTA BARBARA — Cal Poly’s Tiffany Gummow scored her team-leading fifth goal of the season in the 71st minute, leading the women’s soccer team to a Big West Conference regular season title and a 2-0 win over UC Santa Barbara in the regular season finale for both teams.

With the win, Cal Poly earns the right to host the Big West semi-final on Thursday, where they will play the No. 4, seed UC Irvine. UCSB earned the third seed and will travel to Cal State Northridge, No. 2 seed, for the other BWC semifinal.

Cal Poly concluded the regular season with a 13-5-0 record and a 7-1 mark in conference play while UC Santa Barbara falls to 8-9-2 and 5-2-1 in the BWC. Sunday’s win marked the sixth regular season conference title the Mustangs have won in school history (1997, ’99, 2000, ’02 and ’03).

Gummow’s game-winner came after she beat a UCSB defender and fired the ball into the left side of the net. Gummow received the ball from Afton Thulin, who lofted a cross from the right side.

The Mustangs looked to add to their lead with just under four minutes remaining when Morgan Miller fired an uncontested ball from 20 yards out with UCSB’s Tammy Lenham making the stop.

Kristina Condon-Shirwood put the Mustangs up 2-0 with her sec-

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Cal Poly marches on to face No. 4 seed UC Irvine on Thursday at home, after defeating UCSB 2-0 Sunday. ond goal of the season when she fired a shot off a free kick from just outside the goal box into the top left side of the net. Condon-Shirwood’s goal came after Bianca Burright was brought down trying to beat a UCSB defender.

UC Santa Barbara outshot the Mustangs 24-13, while both teams had six shots on goal. UCSB was whistled for just one more foul (10-9) while the Gauchos had nine corners compared to two for the

Mustangs.

Coral Hoover earned her 10th shutout of the season when she made six saves and improved her overall record to 13-2-0. Lenham took the loss, making four saves for the Gauchos.

To open the game, Cal Poly had its first scoring chance when Julie McKee fed Miller on a cross, but was defected by a Gaucho defender.

Eight minutes into the game, the Mustangs took the game’s first cor-

ner kick. Kaleena Andruss placed the ball perfectly in front of the goal, but no Mustang was able to get a header on it and the attempted cleared ball was picked off by Shandon Rovetta who put a shot wide left.

UCSB’s Kailyn Kugler, responded on the next possession, splitting two Cal Poly defenders, driving for the goal, but her shot from 15 yards see Soccer, page 11

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Cal Poly loses conference game to North Dakota mustang daily staff report

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — With one of the most dominant rushing offenses in the FCS, Cal Poly has rushed for no less than 164 yards all season.

Saturday night in the Alerus Center, The Mustangs rushed for a total of 62 yards in a 31-17 loss to the Fighting Sioux in a Great West Conference football game.

North Dakota overcame a

Men’s soccer muffled at UC Davis

17-7 second-quarter deficit to hand Cal Poly their first conference loss this season.

Junior quarterback Jake Landry passed for 181 yards and ran for 92 more yards, scoring once.

Cal Poly, 4-0 at home and now 0-4 on the road, fell to 4-4 on the year. North Dakota also is 4-4 overall. The Fighting Sioux improved to 2-1 in Great West games, while the Mustangs, who captured the Great West title a year ago, fell to 1-1.

Freshman running back Mitch Sutton scampered for 143 yards on 30 carries and scored a pair of touchdowns as North Dakota beat Cal Poly for the second time in the series. The only other meeting between the two schools was a 38-21 Fighting Sioux victory in the 1972 Camellia Bowl at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, Calif.

Trailing 17-7 just before halftime, the Fighting Sioux recov see Football, page 11

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Dominique Johnson caught 6 passes for 121 yards in Cal Poly’s loss to North Dakota Saturday.

DAVIS – UC Davis senior forward Chris Leer notched the eventual game-winning strike midway through the first half and a second goal three minutes after the restart to help the Aggies deal the Cal Poly men’s soccer team a 2-0 defeat Saturday afternoon at Aggie Soccer Stadium.

Junior goalkeeper Patrick McLain managed three saves in net for Cal Poly (8-9-1, 6-3-0; 18 points), which was outshot by UC Davis (6-12-1, 3-5-1), 18-7, and received just a solitary shot on goal by junior defender Daniel Gray in the 51st minute. Cal Poly, who entered the match as Big West Conference co-leaders along with UC Santa Barbara (12-3-1, 6-1-0; 18 points), will depart Saturday no worse than second place in the league table as the fourth-ranked Gauchos host No. 19 UC Irvine (12-4-0, 5-2-0; 15 points) at 7 p.m.

Leer tallied his third goal of the season in the 25th minute as he received a feed from freshman midfielder Riley Newport and, following a single touch, deflected a shot off of McLain from 12 yards. Cal Poly, meanwhile, failed to record a shot until senior forward Daniel Cumming headed an attempt wide following a 38th-minute corner kick from sophomore midfielder Jacob Hustedt.

Leer doubled the Aggie advantage in the 48th, unleashing a goal into the lower right corner of the Mustang net from eight yards.

Cal Poly contests its final regular season match against UC Santa Barbara Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. inside Alex G. Spanos Stadium.

Last year’s fixture between the two programs in San Luis Obispo drew 11,075 spectators – the third-largest crowd figure in NCAA Division I history. The match result versus the Gauchos will directly influence not only the seeding for the Big West Tournament, but also hosting rights for the semifinal phase and championship game.