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Student eats off $1 a day Journalism senior spent only $28 for food in the month of February.
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Leaders of Cal Poly’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) recently announced a new policy that will defer first-quarter students from joining a fraternity. The changes will take effect fall quarter 2010 with the intention of giving new students a chance to adjust academically and socially before considering the demands of the greek system, according to Student Life and Leadership director Ken Barclay.
allowed to formally join a greek fraternity beginning their second quarter. “I have to give credit to the IFC for taking the initiative to do this,” Barclay said. The alcohol-related death of Carson Starkey in 2008 sparked questions about the pledging process. Starkey was part of an alleged hazing incident in Dec. 2008 while pledging Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was a freshman finishing his first quarter at Cal Poly at the time of his death. Assistant IFC director Matt
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Journalism senior Niki Burns took advantage of opportunities to eat for free — including the free pancake fundraiser IHOP last week — while completing her senior project, which involved eating only $1 worth of food each day and then blogging about her experiences. Leticia Rodriguez mustang daily
When it came time for Niki Burns to decide on a senior project this quarter, she knew she wanted to do something about eating on a budget. What she didn’t anticipate was was feeding herself for the
entire month of February on $28. “At first I didn’t think that was really possible, to only eat $1 of food each day, but then once I started thinking about it more and more I realized there are ways to eat for free in San Luis Obispo,” Burns said. “Also I realized people are forced to have to live this
way and if they can do it, then I hoped that I could.” Burns, a Cal Poly journalism senior, spent $28 on groceries at the beginning of the month and is documenting her experience for her senior project on a blog, see Food, page 3
—Ken Barclay Director of Student Life and Leadership
“The concern is that first-time freshmen aren’t given enough time to get comfortable with the university,” Barclay said. “Students will have a quarter under their belt to get to know leaders of a fraternity before rushing.” The university’s new mandate makes it so incoming freshmen and transfer students will only be
Lancara said the climate in the greek system is definitely different after the Starkey incident, but there is not necessarily a direct relationship between the mandate and the tragic event. “We are acting in a way that is responsible and proactive to shape see Greek, page 2
SLO city council sets new goals for 2010-11 Jessica Barba mustang daily
The San Luis Obispo City Council met Tuesday night to discuss a $1.5 million budget deficit and to set goals for the upcoming year. As the council examined the midyear budget review, they noticed that the income generated from sales and hotel taxes had seen a major shortfall. City finance manager Debbie Malicoat said those taxes make up 40 percent of the general fund, and because it is one of the largest sources of income for the city, when that amount goes down, even by one percent, it becomes a struggle. “This year, we’re going to have to
tighten the belt around the budget,” Malicoat said. After paying close attention to the financial report, she said manufacturing, exportation, consumption and the current economic state of the country are all intertwined factors that affect income tax. Malicoat said she plans to speak with several economic trend specialists within the next months to discuss new proposals for improvement. She confirmed the sales tax will not go up and that consumers should see an improvement near June. As the council examined the city’s current economic state of the 200910 financial plan, they began to discuss cutbacks to be made this upcoming
year. Due to the deficit, the city’s total budget for 2010-11 is expected to be $99.6 million. City manager Katie Lichtig said because of the budget cut, the hiring freeze on government positions will be continued from last year and all travel and training requests must be approved by her. “We are monitoring all of our revenue shortages, but we are up for the challenge,” Lichtig said. During the meeting, the council also addressed maintenance, traffic and safety as the main themes for improvement in the upcoming city projects. The list of the city’s goals and Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) included installing new sidewalks, re-
paving roads and placing new curbs throughout the city. The agenda for the items hung on the meeting room and categorized the projects as under construction, under design and under study. Malicoat said that even though the budget was tight, the completion of an interchange on Los Osos Valley road is also something the council will look into. She said the price of the land is now the cheapest they have seen and if they purchase it, despite the limited budget, it could actually be a cheaper project than if they were to do it in the future. “We project we will need to find a million and a half dollars in solutions,” Malicoat said. “We have done this be-
fore, and we have a really good team of state employees ready to solve this problem. Unfortunately, we have been in this problem before.” The biggest concern for downtown businesses is what can bring more people downtown to shop and possibly improve the income generated from sales tax. The owner of Hands Gallery, Debra Feltman who opened her store 18 years ago said, “We just obviously want the downtown to keep us as great looking as can be and we just want to see the projects bring more people down here to shop.” The city’s finance team plans to return in June with another report and new set of proposals.
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the greek system to prevent tragedies like this from happening again,” Lancara said. Since the IFC proposed the change from previous years, the rule only applies to the 17 fraternities. Sororities will still be allowed to have newcomers rush during fall quarter, but the Panhellenic council is considering the idea of deferring rush as well. “We can better prepare men for what they are getting themselves into,” Lancara said. “They can get their bearings around campus ... and when winter comes around, they can make a more educated decision.” Deferring rush is not new to Cal Poly. It was mandated in the
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past but only for brief periods of time. “It’s something that’s indefinite,” Lancara said. “We want to see if it will actually change numbers. It’s pretty much an experiment.” Wishing to remain anonymous, a Cal Poly senior who has been in the fraternity system since he was a sophomore, said the majority of his fraternity and other people in the greek system he has talked to are not thrilled about deferring rush for fall quarter. Even alumni are upset, he said. “It’s really unfortunate,” he said. “It’s going to force all the frats to impress people during fall quarter, which could mean even more parties without the structure of rushing. Fall rush is about 90 percent freshmen ... so it makes our whole situation that much more diffi-
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cult.” Concerned about the number of available pledges, he said fewer members will also mean fewer people for fall philanthropy, such as food drives. Barclay explained members of the greek system in the past have asked to have deferred rush reconsidered because of a fear of losing numbers. He believes the recent mandate won’t hurt membership. “That’s just an assumption,” he said. “There is no data to prove that they lost members. I think this is best for everybody. It’s best for the greeks, and it’s best for the students.” IFC President Andy Farrell said this is the right move for the fraternity system. “I believe the good this will do is greater than the damage,” Farrell said.
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located at www.eatonedollaraday.blogspot.com. Burns hopes that by posting her happenings, others will see how it is possible to live on a small budget and want to challenge themselves. The uniqueness of her own challenge and the “out of the box” idea is what excites her adviser, journalism professor John Soares. Soares said that as Burns documents the entire month of February, eating only food that she had bought at the beginning of the month with $28, or was free, traded or bartered from someone else, she is learning how to generate interest in an era when news is becoming more technologically-based. Documenting her experience and her work with the Internet and social media such as Facebook is what makes her project relevant, Soares said. “She’s doing a story, and it’s going to be newsworthy to a particular audience and that’s part of her senior project: to figure out who it’s going to be newsworthy to and putting it on the Web,” Soares said. “It’s going to give her an opportunity to figure out how many hits is she getting and kind of extrapolate who are those people that are actually going to the Web site.” Creating her own blog is also giving Burns the opportunity to participate in a new realm of journalism. “Blogging is a great venue just because it’s free,” Burns said. “It’s time efficient; it doesn’t take me very much time to type up everything each night and just let everyone know how each day is going, and how I eat. It’s just easy and it’s just a way to share your story with the community as a whole.” Sharing her story and having everything online for people to see is what could land her a job against a competitor with just a résumé because she will be able to show her project and explain the problems or challenges she faced in the process, Soares said. “The more that you can do, and in this instance, Niki’s project on doing this blog, synthesizing video skills, writing skills, new media skills, working with the web, working with traditional media outlets to gain popularity for a Web site and then all the problems that come along with that and how she solved all those problems within a compressed amount of time, well that just makes her look so good when she goes out there,” Soares said. Initially, the idea of Burns doing the project to challenge herself wasn’t what worried her family and boyfriend. When Burns first approached her mom, Jennifer Burns, about the concept, Jennifer said she didn’t know whether or not to take her seriously. When she finally realized her daughter wasn’t joking around, Jennifer got concerned. “I was really concerned about her nutrition, I didn’t like the whole idea. I was hoping she
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010 could think of something else to do,” Jennifer said. “I was just like, ‘Niki, you can’t live on a dollar a day,’ and she insisted that it could be done.” Burns found out that convincing her mom she could do it was easier than the experience itself. By the second day, Burns admitted on her blog that she was “feeling less energetic” and by the fourth day was tired of eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, one of the only food items from her bundle of groceries purchased at the beginning that could be mass produced. “I just really want nice salad,” Burns said. “I know that sounds like a lame answer, but I’ve really been craving veggies and I really like salads.” She also came to the realization of just how fortunate she was to be able to eat out when she wanted and to not have to worry about hunger. Burns said the project has made her want to help out others whose reality is her month-long project, something her mom wanted her to walk away with at the end of the month. “I hope that what she does learn out of it is the value of food and how blessed we are to have an abundance of it, that we don’t have to think about every dollar we spend on food so carefully, because so many people do,” Jennifer Burns said. Knowing that she would have to make a relatively small amount of food last her for three meals a day for 28 days, Burns set up a list of guidelines on food that was considered free or food that she could accept before starting her project. During the month, Burns babysat a younger cousin for salami, taken fruit from a friend’s tree, traded a potato for an avocado and eaten at IHOP and Denny’s during their free breakfast days. “I’ll cook my friend a meal if they cook me a meal or something like that, so I’ve done that a couple of times, and I’ve found different events where I’ve been able to eat for free,” Burns said. “Like Denny’s’ Free Grand Slam, IHOP and I ate at Woodstock’s I think, twice last week for free, just by writing a review about them.” She wants people to challenge themselves and see that free food is available. “I want people that can’t afford to eat out to see that there are free ways to eat out. Like there’s a lot for coupons out there on Web sites local restaurants,” Burns said. “I just want people to see there are cheaper ways to eat, maybe not eating a $1 a day but do something that would challenge them for the year because I think it’s important to experience different aspects of life and to always be challenging ones self otherwise you could get bored and get stuck in the same routine every day.”
UCSD student apologizes for noose incident, claims no racist intent Larry Gordon los angeles times
LOS ANGELES — The University of California, San Diego student reportedly responsible for last week’s controversial noose episode issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist intent when she hung the rope from a bookcase in the campus’s main library.The discovery of the noose set off angry protests at a school already tense from racially charged episodes and triggered a round of condemnations from university leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In a letter published Monday on the front page of the campus’s student newspaper, the Guardian, the student wrote that “this was not an act of racism” and contended that it was a “stupid mistake.” She said it was the result of fooling around and had nothing to do with seeking to intimidate black students with a symbol of lynching. “I know what I did was offensive — regardless of my intentions — I am just trying to say I’m sorry. As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues
on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain,” wrote the student, who was suspended Friday and remains under investigation by campus police for a possible hate crime.
I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to (minority students’) pain. —Anonymous UCSD student
The letter is signed “by Anonymous UCSD Student” and offers no clues to her identity or ethnicity. A note at the end of the letter states that the newspaper had verified the author’s authenticity. Sari Thayer, the Guardian’s Web ed-
itor, said in a telephone interview that the woman had approached the paper and asked to publish the letter and that “a reliable source” had confirmed it. In the letter, the woman said she and friends had been playing with a rope, jumping with it, making a lasso and then a noose early last week. She then carried it to the library, where she was studying, and strung it over a desk there Tuesday and forgot about it. Its discovery Thursday night caused a firestorm on campus, where racial tensions were high after a Jan. 15 off-campus party mocked Black History Month and a derogatory term for blacks was used on a student television show. When she realized the controversial noose was her responsibility, “I felt so ashamed and embarrassed, and the first thing I did was call the campus police and confess,” she wrote. She said her motivation in publishing the letter was “to hopefully put a little bit of faith back into the UCSD campus by clarifying that it was not an act of racism.” A campus spokesperson said campus police are continuing to investigate the incident and are consulting about it with the San Diego County district attorney’s office and the U.S. attorney’s office. The student remains suspended while the investigation continues, the spokesperson said.
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Russia nuclear treaty stalls over U.S. defense plan Jonathan S. Landay McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Negotiations to complete a new U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty have stalled over a Russian demand for the option to withdraw unilaterally if Moscow determines that U.S. missile defenses would threaten its intercontinental nuclear missile force, a senior U.S. official said Monday. Similar “unilateral statements” have been included in previous arms control treaties, and the Bush administration used one in 2002 to abrogate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the former Soviet Union. The Obama administration, however, has rejected the Russian demand, fearing that it could make it harder to win the Republican votes needed for Senate ratification of the new nuclear arms pact. “The issue here is what do the Russians feel they need, but also keeping an eye on not trying to complicate the ratification process,” said a senior U.S. official, who requested anonymity because of the delicacy of the negotiations. Sixty-six votes are required to ratify the treaty in the Senate, but President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party now controls 59 seats. The treaty is expected to limit deployed U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,500-to-1,600 warheads each, a reduction from a limit of 2,200 due to take effect on Dec. 31, 2012. Obama tried unsuccessfully to resolve the U.S. missile defense issue last week by telephone with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, the senior U.S. official told McClatchy Newspapers. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also failed to find a solution in a call with her Russian counterpart, Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov. The U.S. negotiating team, led by Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, returned to Washington from Geneva on Monday for consultations with top officials aimed at finding a formula to break the impasse, the senior U.S. official said. “We don’t think that these problems are insurmountable,” he said. “We are trying to find a way to manage Russian concerns.” Russian and U.S. negotiators aimed to finish drafting a successor accord to the 1991 Strategic
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Arms Reduction Treaty, C-START, before it expired on Dec. 5, but a number of issues have hampered completion of the talks. The latest complication centers on Obama’s decision to deploy U.S. anti-missile interceptors in Romania as part of a plan to defend Europe against medium-range missile attacks from Iran. Iran has missiles capable of reaching parts of Europe, and U.S. and European officials charge that it’s developing nuclear weapons, an allegation that Iranian officials deny. Obama’s decision replaced a Bush administration plan to place a tracking radar in Poland and 20 interceptors in the Czech Republic to shield the U.S. from a limited Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile strike. Iran currently doesn’t have such missiles. Russia hailed Obama for canceling the Bush plan, but Moscow has raised the same objection to Obama’s plan, contending that the medium-range interceptors that would be deployed in Romania could threaten Russia’s long-range nuclear missile force. “Russia has serious questions regarding the true purpose of the U.S. missile defense in Romania,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said in a statement Friday. “That is why we will consistently oppose any dubious unilateral actions in the missile defense field.” Experts said that the initial deployment of 20 SM-3 interceptors in Romania wouldn’t threaten Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles because the U.S. projectiles have a 900-kilometer (560-mile) range and are too slow to catch the long-range Russian missiles. “The Standard Three Missile has a configuration that gives it a range of 900 kilometers. That doesn’t get it to Russia,” said Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and arms control expert who is with the Brookings Institution, a center-left research group in Washington. “They will not endanger Russia’s ability to have a strong robust deterrent.” Moscow, however, worries that the next generation of the missile will be fast enough to knock out its long-range weapons, a concern fueled by the absence of a treaty limiting the number of interceptors that the U.S. can deploy in Romania, Pifer and other experts said.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO (MCT) — The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold another set of two public meetings Wednesday in San Luis Obispo on license renewal for Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The purpose of the meetings is to take public testimony about the environmental issues the agency should consider when processing the renewal application. A panel of NRC officials will be on hand to hear the testimony. The meetings will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 333 Madonna Road, San Luis Obispo. The first session will run from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. and will be followed by a second session from 7 to 10 p.m.
MARYLAND (MCT) — A Frederick man faces attempted second-degree murder and assault charges after Frederick Police say he severely beat a man. Police learned the man and his girlfriend had been involved in an ongoing feud with Eaves, police said.The two men got into an argument. The victim was knocked to the ground and repeatedly punched and kicked by Eaves. Eaves has been charged with attempted seconddegree murder, first- and seconddegree assault and reckless endangerment.
AFGHANISTAN (MCT) — One man accused U.S. Marines of insulting Afghan men by conducting intrusive searches. Two worried that the government would tax their poppy harvests just like the Taliban did. A fourth was told he would receive financial compensation for relatives killed during the fighting. With U.S.-led forces now in control of the one-time insurgent stronghold in southern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai’s deputy flew from Kabul on Monday to reassure Marjah residents that the Taliban were gone for good and that things would slowly get better.
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SACRAMENTO (MCT) — A coalition of atheist and agnostic groups has bought billboard space to tell individuals they are not alone.The billboards say: “Are you good without God? Millions are.” The message appears on a background of fluffy white clouds and blue sky. The advertising is sponsored by the Sacramento Area Coalition of Reason with funding from the national United Coalition of Reason, based in Washington, D.C.
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CHICAGO (MCT) — Friends and family had a memorial for the SeaWorld trainer who was killed last week. Brancheau, a devout Catholic who led Bible study, was killed Wednesday when Tilikum, a 12,000pound killer whale, pulled her into the water by her ponytail as at least two dozen tourists watched in horror. The incident happened near the end of a session with the whale, the largest in SeaWorld’s collection. Tilikum has been involved in two other deaths since 1991, but SeaWorld officials say they plan to keep him. The emotional funeral was packed with inspirational music, which Terri Lenz said was carefully chosen to fit Brancheau and her funloving personality. Lenz sang “Wind Beneath My Wings “ at the request of the Brancheau family.
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ETHIOPIA (MCT) — Ethiopian cattle herders killed a Kenyan police officer in attack carried out after they had been prevented from reaching the waters of Lake Turkana near the border between the two countries. The officer from the paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) was killed late on Friday after 500 militiamen, from the Ethiopian Merille tribe, attacked the unit’s camp in Todonyang, a village abandoned since 1997 when the two ethnic groups fought.
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WASHINGTON — Calling it critical to American global competitiveness, President Barack Obama pledged Monday to fight the dropout rate among U.S. high school students and to improve low-performing schools through new investments in “turnaround” programs. Obama proposed $900 million more next year in grants for school systems that commit to improving their struggling schools — much of it likely bound for districts in large cities, such as Chicago and Los Angeles. Obama directed $3 billion of last year’s stimulus package to improve school performance. The president’s latest spending plan must be approved by Congress. In an address to a coalition of education advocates at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Obama said he wants states to transform the poorest schools with “last resort” strategies that could necessitate dismissing principals and staff and closing some campuses. “Not long ago, you could drop out of high school and reasonably expect to find a blue-collar job that would pay the bills and help support your family. That’s just not the case anymore,” Obama said. “Graduating from high school is an economic imperative.” To receive the Obama administration’s turnaround grants for their districts, state officials must draft a set of criteria to determine their lowest-performing schools. To be eligible, a school must either have state test scores in the bottom 5 percent or high school graduation rates below 60 percent.
Once the Department of Education has approved the criteria, schools may compete for the money against other schools in their state. Winners will be chosen by officials in each state based on the strength of the plan. Although administration officials don’t know which schools will get the money, they said that many of those being targeted are inner-city schools. School districts can qualify for a share of the grant money by taking steps to reform instructional strategies and improve teacher effectiveness, in part by extending planning time for educators. The more dramatic options include a “turnaround” model, which requires replacing a principal and half the school staff and setting up a new structure of school governance and instructional program. Another “restart” model calls for closing a school and reopening under charter management, while the “closure” model requires sending students to better schools in the district. There are approximately 25,000 public high schools in the United States, but fewer than one-tenth of them — about 2,000 — produce half the dropouts, according to administration officials. Obama discussed the plan in a speech to the America’s Promise Alliance, founded in 1997 by retired Army Gen. Colin Powell and currently chaired by his wife, Alma Powell. The group is a partnership made up of corporations, nonprofit and faith-based organizations and education advocates. In addition to the turnaround grants, the Obama administration is setting aside $50 million targeted to support dropout-prevention strategies.
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The Expendables sell out Downtown Brew John McCullough special to the mustang daily
The Expendables wrapped up their Winter Blackout tour this Sunday night at Downtown Brew with
another sold-out show. The evening completed a seven-week tour and was their third show in San Luis Obispo in the past five nights. The band, made up of guitarist and lead singer Geoff Weers, lead gui-
tarist Raul Bianchi, bass and vocalist Ryan DeMars and drummer Adam Patterson, has been making music together for roughly 10 years. Their music is inspired by a range of genres, from metal to reggae.
Bianchi has a sense of humor when talking about his band’s history. “We’ve known each other for years, unfortunately,” Bianchi said as the band laughed. “We went to elementary school and junior high together. We started out just jamming for some of our friends.” The Expendables left San Luis Obispo Thursday night after playing back-to-back shows.They played San Francisco’s Fillmore on Friday and the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Saturday. Over the past few weeks they have played shows from Anaheim, CA to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Weers said touring’s fun but difficult at the same time. “It’s not meant for everyone; not everyone can play shows 46 out of 50 nights out on tour without wanting to cry and run home,”Weers said.
They booked their first headlining show by selling tickets to their friends at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. “I think Downtown Brew is the first venue outside of the Catalyst that we ever sold out,” Bianchi said. They’ve been promoting their upcoming album, “Prove It,” which features the use of vintage equipment. Even with all the experience in the studio, Weers said the band still prefers going out on tour. “I’d rather be on tour, personally. Recording’s more stressful,” he said. The band plans on enjoying the next few weeks at home relaxing. “All the bands on this tour are really tight friends,” Patterson said.“Everyone has gotten along almost like a family. I’m glad to get home, but its kind of sad to leave everyone at the see Concert, page 8
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The Expendables ended their Winter Blackout tour Sunday night with a sold out concert at Downtown Brew. Their latest album, “Prove It,” is set to be released April 20.
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Over 500 people attended last night’s Project Orange hosted by Campus Crusade for Christ, the greek life of Cal Poly and International Justice Mission. The mission of Project Orange is to inform people of the slavery taking place in the world and to encourage them to take action. The documentary “At the End of Slavery” was shown, while students discussed their involvement and ways for other students to get involved in the cause. Event organizers sold 167 orange T-shirts and 108 blue T-shirts, which raised $1,767. All of the proceeds will go to International Justice Mission to stop child slavery and human trafficking. Students are directed to visit the International Justice Mission Web site, and to sign up to receive more information and learn about ways to help.
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end of a tour.” Weers agreed, saying that it’s hard to go home after a long tour. “Even though we’ve been cramped together for the past three weeks, we probably won’t even go a week without seeing each other once we get home,”Weers said. The Expendables are no stranger
to San Luis Obispo. Last year, they played a free surprise show at Cal Poly and a sold out show at the Veteran’s Hall. “We had a backyard show here on Carpenter Street a few years back called SLO-Stock. It was probably one of the most awesome backyard parties we’ve ever done,”Weers said. The Expendables performed alongside Iration, Passafire and Pour Habit, a punk band from Compton, Calif. “I like having guys like that on
tour with us,”Weers says.“It’s not just white guys playing reggae rock.” One of their fans, Richard Easton came to see all of the bands play. He said, it makes it a lot easier to go to shows when he likes all of the bands playing. Concert-goer Amanda Frost found out about The Expendables through friends. “I’ve mostly downloaded their music online and from friends,” she said. “If I could buy all the CDs I wanted, I would.”
When it comes to sex, practice may not make perfect, but it definitely helps. The more sex you have, the more opportunities you have to correct mistakes and learn new techniques. But everyone has to have a first time, and to lessen the surprise, people tend to try to learn a bit on their own. You could turn to any number of books and Web sites that methodically explain how the body works and give helpful tips. However, there tend to be two drawbacks when it comes to these sources. First, they tend to be written for people who have already had sex and are looking for ways to spice it up. As such, they tend to gloss over ‘simple things’ that some people might not know about. Also, as informative as their writing and pictures are, they can’t really match the information that can be gained in a video.Videos are really thousands of pictures, which equals millions of words. That’s just logic. For this reason, knowledge about sex comes from pornography, consciously or otherwise. While porn is good at portraying information, it’s sometimes hard to remember that it is, in fact, not real. Therefore, porn can teach you things that just aren’t true: You are way too small Whether we’re talking penis or breasts, the averages in porn are much larger than in real life. Even if you know this is true, your brain will be comparing your body to those of the actors every time. And it should also be obvious to you that penis or breast size is not very important and not the only possible reason someone could find you attractive. You are also way too hairy Unless you are on a Web site specifically devoted to hairiness (hairy men, usually), it seems to be a rule that any hair not shaved off is bleached within an inch of its life. Most of us just don’t have that kind of time, and a lot of us just don’t really mind hair that much. It’s all about the man (in straight porn) This may be confusing, because chances are you don’t see him very much. Since almost all porn is made for men, the man being filmed tends to fade into the background so the viewer can imagine
himself in that situation. If there was actually a focus on men, do you think Ron Jeremy would have ever gotten work? I had always assumed he’d be at least a tiny bit attractive. Anyway, considering the mediocre attractiveness of the men, it is kind of surprising that the women seem to be willing to do anything to please them. Whatever he wants to do, she is absolutely obsessed with doing. In porn, that’s because it’s her job. In real life, it usually isn’t. All women are bisexual, but not too bisexual In porn, women exist for the pleasure of men. Straight men are (apparently) turned on by the sight of two women together. However, they still want to be involved. So obviously lesbian women don’t exist, and even bisexual women absolutely need to have a man. In real life, most women who are interested in other women don’t act that way just to turn men on, believe it or not. This porn phenomenon of the bisexual has probably led to thousands of men sleeping on the couch for asking for a man-woman-woman threesome. Such a thing is possible, of course, but definitely not if you assume that it’s a sure thing. Timing is bullshit In porn, everyone wants sex at the same time. This is not only because they came to the set specifically to have sex, but also because people get irritated if the first hour of their porn video is just sexual tension. However, in real life, sexual tension is not only pretty damn fun, but necessary to assure that both people will actually be in the mood. This is why pizza delivery people tend not to be seduced in the approximately 30 seconds they are in your house. Finally, in porn, love does not exist. The actors don’t love each other and usually don’t bother trying to act that they do. Sometimes there is no kissing at all. I assume there are couples who don’t kiss, especially if it’s just a casual encounter. But really, if you believed everything you see, you would be surprised that people kiss at all. Anthony Rust is a biological sciences junior and Mustang Daily sex columnist.
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Local organizations aim to lessen global food impact Every day, people are starving. Every day, food is wasted. However, there is no food shortage.There is no lack of food on our planet.The heart of the problem is the method of production and distribution. The force driving industrial agriculture is to produce the highest yield for the lowest cost — without regard for the environment, ecosystems, nutrition or people who cannot afford their product. These food systems export their yield to any location where there is demand and therefore money to be gained. Too often, the coffee farmers who produce our beans don’t earn enough to provide their family with a meal. And too often, our grocery stores are cluttered with food from thousands of miles away, packaged, trucked, flown, trucked and unpackaged, from a country where some citizens cannot afford to buy a piece of fruit. Not only do these industrialized systems encourage the uneven distribution of food, but they are also responsible for much of the imbalance seen in nature. Currently, nine crops supply 75 percent of the world’s food and three crops provide 50 percent, according to UCSC Food Systems Working Group Campus Food Guide. This is a result of the monocrop method of agriculture. Monocropping is an industrialized agricultural practice in which only one crop is planted on a large plot of land. Although monocropping can be an efficient form of agriculture, it depletes the soil of nutrients, decreases biodiversity and makes any plot of land extremely vulnerable. When there is a lack of biodiversity, just one pest or disease could prove detrimental to an entire piece of land. And if this plagued piece of land usually feeds millions of people around the world, that one crop disease could easily deprive U.S. citizens of a staple food item. And the global population and the demand for food continue to grow. So what can we do to ensure crop stability and increased food availability in every region of a country? One solution is the support and understanding of sustainable food systems. Purchasing local, organic and fair-trade items from sustainable sources has recently gained popularity. Sustainable food systems actually support local economies. They involve endorsing businesses who pay their workers a liveable salary, cooking in your kitchen, celebrating food traditions and culture, nourishing your body with fresh produce ripened on the vine and reducing your carbon footprint by purchasing organic food within your region. In short, a sustainable food system is one that values a product, which benefits people, producers, communities, laborers and the environment. These ideals are addressed and practiced through many global, national and state-wide food-related movements. The Real Food Challenge, the SLOW Food Club, the
Cal Poly Organic Farm, Zero Waste Program and the Fair Trade Club are some of the groups on campus who practice and support sustainable agricultural techniques. Some of these groups are part of a national movement, while some are specific to Cal Poly campus. The students who make up these clubs and organizations work to educate and implement sustainable agricultural practices into the San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly communities. Real Food Challenge: The Real Food Challenge is a national campaign that seeks to increase the procurement of real food on campus to 20 percent real food by 2020. “Real Food” is from local and community-based systems, which include humanely raised animals, ecologically sound farming practices and fairly treated and paid workers. The Cal Poly Real Food Challenge committee is a collection of students that works toward incorporating more of this fresh and sustainable food into campus dining.The Real Food Challenge serves as both a campaign at Cal Poly and a network of hundreds of universities across the nation. The UC system has already agreed that 20 percent of food purchased through dining services will be real food by 2020. For more information, check out the Real Food Challenge Web site: www.realfoodchallenge.org or e-mail tsalzman@calpoly.edu. Meetings are on the second floor of the library, Wednesday at 3 p.m. (subject to change next quarter). Organic Farm:
CSA program or at the Thursday evening San Luis Obispo Farmer’s Market. For more information, or to schedule a CPOF tour, please visit: www.calpolyorgfarm.com, call 805756-6139 or e-mail orgfarm@calpoly.edu SLOW Food Club: SLOW Food Cal Poly is an oncampus chapter of SLOW Food USA. By supporting the Slow Food global movement, we promote and educate the community and students about eating clean, fair and great-tasting food. Slow Food Cal Poly believes in eating food that is local and sustainable, fair to the farmer and workers who produce it and representative of the rich and unique traditions of our ancestors. Food has become stripped of its nutritional value and freshness through the industrialization of agriculture and packaged food.As a group, we hope to enlighten students on the huge impact their food has on the environment, the economic strength of the community and its health.This year, the Slow Food club presented the documentary “FRESH” and led a Cal Poly Organic Farm tour. For more information on Slow Food Cal Poly, become a fan on Facebook or e-mail slowfoodcalpoly@gmail.com. Fair Trade Club: The goal of Fair Trade Club is to bring awareness on campus and to the community. The concept of fair trade is to fight the injustices of conventional trade by ensuring that farmers get a fair price for their product, have decent labor conditions and use sustainable farming methods. Cur-
The Cal Poly Organic Farm is a student-driven operation intended to further sustainable practices and education within agriculture. The Organic Farm is a great place for students interested in learning how to grow and produce food. Students are introduced to concepts and practical hands-on knowledge about gardening and production mark weber newsart agriculture. Students sow seeds, plant, transplant, weed, harvest, wash, pack and market food that is grown on the farm. Enrollment in the Organic Enterprise course has grown over the years to over 30 students per term. There are also paid staff opportunities for students to participate. The best way to support organic and sustainable agricultural education is by purchasing the farm’s produce through the year-round
rently, only a limited number of farmers can be reached because of the limited market demand for fairly traded products. Fair Trade Club wants to increase support of fairly traded products so both farmers and the environment can be sustained. For more information visit fairtradeclub@calpoly.edu or call 805-5586383. Zero Waste Club: The Cal Poly Zero Waste Program aims at reducing the solid waste our campus sends to the landfill by enhancing the composting and recycling program. The group also aims to educate students on campus about the importance of recycling and composting and how they can practice waste reduction at home. Currently,students are working to implement a composting system at the San Luis Obispo Farmer’s Market. For more information or to become involved in increasing composting on campus, find Cal Poly’s Zero Waste club on Facebook or attend a meeting at the Engineering East building, room 119 Thursdays at 7 p.m. Today, many aim to “green” their lifestyle. Recycling, buying organic and turning off lights are easy things to do, but it takes much more to address the root of the problem. Since food is a human necessity, its availability and origin have the power to change the lives of each individual citizen in the United Sates and in the world. Our current agricultural practices must be enhanced into more sustainable food systems if our global community wishes to decrease humanity’s carbon footprint and thereby decrease the degradation of our environment. Though it is hard to conceptualize, Cal Poly is an integral part of the food systems in other countries, thousands of miles away. As a student at a university and in a system of higher education, you have the power to affect and change policy. Join a movement today on campus or on a national level to further understand why sustainable food systems are one solution to many, complex global and climate related problems. Empower Poly is a coalition of member clubs on Cal Poly campus. It addresses all issues of sustainability such as education, climate change, renewable energy, transportation, recycling, composting and food systems. Meetings are held at the Engineering IV building, room 242 Tuesdays at 6 p.m. The California Student Sustainability Coalition is a state-wide network that encourages students to collaborate on all aspects of sustainability including sustainable agriculture and food systems through the Real Food Challenge. Become a fan on Facebook or visit www.sustainabilitycoalition.org. Tessa Salzman is a city and regional planning freshman and Mustang Daily columnist.
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2007. Jacoby Ellsbury replaced him in center for much of the postseason, but Crisp did make a running catch in deep center against Cleveland that clinched Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. The following season, he hit .450 (9-for-20) for Boston in the ALCS against Tampa Bay. “I think I’ve been fortunate to have played in good cities so far, and in the order in which I played in them,” Crisp, 30, said. “Starting off with Cleveland, a young team with some veteran guys, I was able to learn a lot. Then I transitioned over to Boston, going to where the atmosphere is probably the most electric in any stadium. “I know there’s a lot of guys who are Hall of Fame-type ballplayers and never win a ring.” Crisp was shipped to Kansas City before the 2009 season but played in just 49 games due to his shoulder
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to deal with being in the spotlight with thousands of fans watching. He said it has helped him remain more relaxed under pressure situations. “I think football has definitely helped in calming my nerves down and dialing myself into game situations,” Grayson said. “After playing
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injuries. He’s most closely associated with his time in Boston, where his diving catches made him a regular on highlight clips. The A’s hope he’ll patrol the Oakland Coliseum outfield as effectively. Gabe Gross, another new A’s outfielder, played against Crisp frequently while with Tampa Bay and saw Crisp’s impact. “He does such a good job of covering ground in the outfield,” Gross said. “And he can do multiple things offensively to put pressure on you, stealing bases, taking extra bases, maybe laying down a bunt.” Crisp had surgery to repair tears in the labrum and rotator cuff of each shoulder last summer but said he won’t sacrifice his all-out style of defensive play to preserve his health. He’s also likely to bat first or second and said he’s happy to be with Oakland, even though it means getting acquainted with yet another set of teammates. “When I started out I was dubbed as no more than a fourth outfielder,” he said. “To be wanted is always a
Center fielder Coco Crisp has tallied a .277 batting average and has stolen 137 bases over eight seasons.
in front of 85,000 fans at Wisconsin and 40,000 at San Diego State, it helps me to focus in and remain in the moment.” Throughout his career in each sport, Grayson said the support of his family has meant the most to him. He said the coolest thing is having his family travel to different places to watch him compete. He said he wants to make them proud every time they come out. “They are my backbone,” Grayson said. “I wouldn’t be at Cal Poly
if it wasn’t for them. Their support is the best thing for me.” Grayson said the two sports have allowed him to meet a variety of people along the way, and he is grateful for those relationships. “It’s just cool to see the different characters on each team,” Grayson said. “Baseball is a more relaxed pace while football is a lot of intensity. It’s cool being able to meet so many people and build friendships.”
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top of our singles line-up.” With the loss, Cal Poly falls to 1-8 on the season and 1-1 in Big West matches. The Mustangs earned their first win of the season Sunday, defeating UC Davis 7-0. “We will work hard in those areas and will be ready when it
comes to the conference tournament,” McGrath added. “I’m proud of the way our guys competed today.” Cal Poly returns to action Sunday with a 1 p.m. Big West match against UC Santa Barbara on the Mustang Courts.
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Jono Grayson travels from the gridiron to the diamond Patrick Leiva mustang daily
For many athletes, being able to play one sport at the Division I level would be a dream come true. For
Jono Grayson, one wasn’t enough. Grayson currently plays for the Cal Poly baseball team after four years of competing for the Mustangs in football. Grayson came to Cal Poly in
2006 from Marin Catholic High School where he starred as both a football and baseball player. Grayson is small in stature at only 5-foot-7, but he said his speed and quickness are his biggest weapons
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Jono Grayson has begun his first year on the baseball team at Cal Poly after playing with the Mustangs on the football field for four years. He finished his career as a slotback with 987 yards and eight touchdowns.
on both fields. He is currently majoring in ethnic studies and is an outfielder on the baseball team. He has two years of eligibility remaining in baseball. While waiting for his opportunities in baseball, Grayson was a consistent contributor to the Cal Poly football team. He finished his career for the Mustangs rushing for 987 yards and eight touchdowns, while also catching 17 passes for 246 yards and two scores. Grayson said football provided plenty of fun memories for him, and he looks to continue his development as a baseball player. Coming into college, Grayson always had his sights on playing both football and baseball. However, things did not work out his first couple of years due to scheduling conflicts and time management. He still possessed a desire to play baseball, which ultimately led him back to the sport. “After this past football season, I called up my dad and talked with him about (playing baseball),” Grayson said. “It seemed like a good idea because of my love for the game.” He said the main difference between the two sports is the physicality of football, but each sport requires a strong mental focus. “There is so much detail that goes into both sports,” Grayson said. “Whether it’s running a route or throwing in the outfield, there are so many little details which lead to success.” Head baseball coach Larry Lee said he likes his baseball players to
have some sort of football background because it gives them a better understanding of discipline and self-sacrifice. Also, he said Grayson shows good body awareness on the field and has the tools to develop into a solid baseball player in the future. Junior pitcher Steven Fischback said Grayson’s biggest asset is his speed since the Mustangs do not have a player on the team as fast as him. Also, he said Grayson has gelled well with the rest of the team, despite joining late, following the football season. “He’s definitely a funny guy,” Fischback said. “He’s someone you can joke around with, and he’s always smiling.” Fischback said it’s amazing how Grayson has been able to find the time to work on both sports and excel. He said Grayson constantly works on his hitting or other aspects of his game before and after practice. Lee said Grayson knows how to compete and he enjoys coming out to play the game every day. He said he looks for that in any athlete. “You can tell that he’s a competitor because when he has an at-bat in a game situation, his natural instincts take over,” Lee said. “That’s pretty rare since usually it’s the opposite, where you can get them dialed in on the practice field, but when it comes to the game, their mind is too cluttered and they don’t perform well.” Grayson said football helped see Grayson, page 11
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Major league teams covet switchhitting outfielders who play good defense and fly around the bases. That explains why new Athletics outfielder Coco Crisp hasn’t grown roots at any stop in his career. Crisp has been traded three times since being drafted by St. Louis in 1999, and the acquiring teams have coughed up quality players to get him. “It’d be nice to be in a spot where you don’t have to move or think about next year,” Crisp said. “But in
this day and age, only a select few have that opportunity.” Crisp was a wanted man by the A’s this offseason even as he was coming off surgery to both shoulders.The team, looking to strengthen its defense up the middle, signed Crisp to a one-year, $5.25 million contract with a club option for 2011. He’s expected to take over centerfield with Rajai Davis shifting to left. “I think there’s some traditional stats that show he was a good player,”A’s general manager Billy Beane said. “But I think there’s some other metrics that indicate his whole career he’s been a very productive guy, more so than on the surface. He’s a great defender, an outstanding base runner, and a switch hitter that gives you a lot of flexibility with the lineup.” Something else Crisp brings? Substantial postseason experience to a roster that’s lacking in that department. Traded from Cleveland to Boston before the 2006 season, Crisp was the everyday center fielder for World Series-winning Red Sox in see Coco, page 11
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Pacific edged past Cal Poly, 4-3, Monday. After Cal Poly recorded the first win of the season, they couldn’t keep the momentum rolling against the Tigers. The Mustangs split the six singles matches, but lost the doubles point. mustang daily staff report
Cal Poly (1-8, 1-1 Big West) and Pacific (2-4, 1-2) split the six singles matches, but the Tigers earned the doubles point, the difference in Pacific’s 4-3 Big West Conference men’s tennis victory over the Mustangs Monday. Rob Foy and Matt Fawcett
earned an 8-3 win for Cal Poly, but Drew Jacobs and Robert Zacks dropped an 8-5 decision and Jordan Bridge and Alex Sonesson fell 8-6, giving Pacific the doubles point. Cal Poly took singles victories with Sonesson with a triumph over Renan Delsin, Brian McPhee with a decision over Karl-Erik Paaro and Foy with a verdict over Vegerd Ves-
kimagi. “We certainly played well enough to win the match today,” Cal Poly head coach Justin McGrath said in a release. “We put ourselves in a position to win again. It just came down to the doubles point and some key positions in the see Tennis, page 11