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Staff and faculty members of the California State University system came out on Wednesday, Sept. 23 to protest recent actions that the board of trustees has made to solve this year’s fiscal deficit.

The protest took place in the form of a mock funeral right outside of the office of Chancellor Charles B. Reed in Long Beach, during a board of trustees meeting at 10:30 a.m. Both students and faculty members protested recent budgetary actions. CSU Coalition encouraged attendees to come for the 90-minute demonstration and to dress in black attire. The demonstration included a coffin labeled “California’s Master Plan for Higher Education.” Those who were not able to attend the fake

funeral were encouraged to wear mourning clothes to campus.

The Californian Master Plan for Higher Education, established in 1960, maintains that at least the top one-third of California’s high school graduates have access to a CSU education.

Those behind the fake funeral argue that the state’s priorities have been flipped. “It costs more to imprison one inmate ($47,000 a year])than to send a student to college, averaging $28,000,” the CSU Coalition invitation said.

The shocking nature of the protest drew attention to a sizable CSU budget shortfall, estimated at $564 million for 2009-2010.

“Now is our time to rebuild, to insist that public higher education be fully funded by the state as a public good,” said CFA Presi-

Now is our time to rebuild, to insist that public higher education be fully funded by the state as a public good.

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dent Lillian Taiz in a press release before the event. “The time has come for us to join in common purpose to ensure that all children, through their talent and perseverance, have a chance at the California Dream.”

Erik Fallis, a representative of the chancellor’s office, said that the California Faculty Association helped put the event together.

“The California State University had to make some hard decisions,” Fallis said. “It’s been a difficult year [and] budget cuts had a significant effect on the system.

“It’s important for students to express opinions (on the cuts),” he said.

Events also took place at CSU East Bay, CSU Los Angeles and Cal Poly Pomona.

No events have been planned

at Cal Poly.

Steps taken to address this year’s budget shortfall included mandatory furloughs, program cuts and two separate tuition increases.

The California Faculty Association, the largest union in the CSU system, voted to approve the furloughs in July by a 54 to 46 margin. The furlough resulted in a 10 percent pay cut but some union members have said that there is not a corresponding cut in the workload.

A preliminary 2010-2011 budget presented at the board of trustees meeting included the reinstatement of $255 million cut this year in a line-item veto. This assumes a stream of funding will continue to come via the Higher Education see Funeral, page 2

Calif. man brought Black policymakers get few back from Spain to invites to Sunday news shows face fraud charges William Douglas

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Garret Griffith Gililland III, who fled to two continents to avoid prosecution and fought a pitched, 11-month battle against extradition, on Friday finally entered a federal courtroom in Sacramento, Calif.

He is charged with 24 counts stemming from an alleged large mortgage fraud scheme and has alleged ties to what has been described by federal authorities as a $100 million mortgage fraud based in Roseville, Calif., the largest in the history of the Sacramento region.

Gililland, 28, fled on the night of June 26, 2008, wearing his Breitling watch but leaving behind his custom “Jesse James” motorcycle, Adobe Photoshop software, a garage full of marijuana and an assortment of flat screen televisions.

FBI and IRS agents had raided his mansion in Chico, Calif., that day and seized thousands of documents, according to a court memorandum filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell Carlberg.

Gililland delayed his departure just long enough to pull together an estimated $250,000 in cash and

make the rounds of his associates to warn them the agents were closing in, the memo says.

Two of them took the hint and also skipped the country. One was captured trying to re-enter the United States at a Canadian border crossing. The other is still at large.

Gililland, his wife, Nicole Magpusao, and their 3-year-old daughter first went to Colombia, where he tried but failed to open a nightclub. The family moved on to Sitges, a village on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

Things started unraveling, the memo relates, when an unidentified Sacramento man “who served as his unofficial banker” mailed $20,000 in a Pringles potato chip can to a false name in Barcelona, Spain. Agents intercepted the package and seized the cash. They thought about filling it with potato chips, but finally sent an empty can on its way. Some in court Friday were second-guessing the decision to skip the chips.

Gililland and Magpusao were arrested Oct. 16. He has been in custody since. She was released to care for their little girl and is still in Spain fighting extradition.

After he lost his extradition fight, Gililland applied for asylum, see Fraud, page 2

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sprinted through appearances on five consecutive news shows last Sunday, but other African-American lawmakers and opinion-shapers have a hard time getting face time on those programs.

Although an African-American is serving as the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, four AfricanAmericans are chairing important House committees, and 17 other Congressional Black Caucus members are holding subcommittee chairs, they haven’t made many appearances on the Sunday talk-show circuit.

“There hasn’t been much change,” said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., the chair of the black caucus. “You need a diversity of opinion, of thought, and we’re not getting that on the (Sunday) talk shows.”

TV One, a cable television channel that’s geared toward African-American viewers, aims to add more diversity to the Sunday morning mix by launching “Washington Watch with Roland Martin” this Sunday.

The hourlong show will feature a “Meet the Press”-style for-

mcclatchy-tribune TV One, a cable channel that reaches 50 million homes, looks to add more diversity to the Sunday news shows mix with its launch this Sunday of “Washington Watch With Roland Martin. The “Meet the Press”-type program is designed to highlight African-American lawmakers and present news from an African-American perspective.

mat with Martin — TV One’s political editor and an analyst for CNN and radio’s “Tom Joyner Morning Show” — conducting interviews with newsmakers.

A rotating panel of journalists and experts, anchored by April Ryan, an American Urban Radio Networks White House correspondent, and Comcast Network host Robert Traynham, will discuss the top news stories of the week.

The show’s main mission is to give an African-American outlook that’s absent from the Sunday programs on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox News Channel, said Johnathan Rodgers, TV One’s president and chief executive.

“The timing of the show couldn’t be better,” said Angie Chuang, a journalism assistant see Policymakers, page 2

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but Spain didn’t want him. When deputy U.S. marshals went to get him Thursday in Barcelona, he refused to leave his cell. A bodybuilder and brawler of some renown, Gililland had to be wrestled to the floor by Spanish authorities and then strapped into a wheelchair in order to ready him for air travel. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail late Thursday.

He entered the courtroom Friday wearing a scowl and the traditional orange inmate ensemble, handcuffed to a belly chain and shuffling along in leg irons. His head is nearly shaved and his big arms are covered in tattoos.

San Diego attorney Philip DeMassa entered a not guilty plea on his behalf and asked for a bail hearing Wednesday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory G. Hollows kept a straight face while informing DeMassa he will be paddling upstream on the issue of obtaining Gililland’s release.

Compact. Another potential piece of the budget includes $94 million from the state and a request for an additional $882 million to be added to the CSU budget to “begin to reverse the damage caused by recent state budget cuts, including restoring courses and services to students and providing compensation increases to faculty and staff.”

Over the next two years, an estimated 40,000 fewer students will be admitted to the system as part of the CSU’s plan to deal with budgetary problems.

Two CSU students have sued the CSU over the second tuition fee increase, saying double charging students is illegal. This case is similar to one brought against the University of California in 2005 when tuition was increased after students had been billed.

professor at American University.

“The discussion on race — particularly around Obama — has reached a critical mass and we’re having trouble figuring out how to talk about it. Someone like Martin might be able to push it through.”

TV One, which reaches 50 million households nationwide, hopes to generate buzz from Martin’s star power and by booking heavyweight guests.

Vice President Joe Biden and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., a central figure in the House’s decision to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., for shouting “You lie!” at Obama as he addressed a joint session of Congress two weeks ago, are scheduled to be the show’s first guests.

“It’s interesting that on the Sunday shows, Joe Wilson was put in the context of Kanye West and Serena Williams, which many African-Americans found unfair,” Rodgers said, referring to public verbal outbursts by the AfricanAmerican rap artist West and tennis star Williams. West and Williams made public apologies, but Wilson didn’t apologize to the House for violating its rules.

“We need to balance out the debate in this country,” Rodgers said. “I’m not saying we’re the left wing, but we’ll add a different perspective, a different voice.”

The lack of diversity on the network shows has been well documented.

The National Urban League examined appearances on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” CBS’ “Face the Nation,” CNN’s “Late Edition,” “Fox News Sunday” and NBC’s “Meet the Press” from January 2004 through December 2005 and found that 61 percent of the shows featured no African-Amer-

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ican guests. Only 8 percent of more than 2,800 guest appearances were by African-Americans.

The 2006 report, titled “Sunday Morning Apartheid,” found that one person — Fox News commentator Juan Williams — accounted for 40 percent of the appearances by African-American guests.

Three guests — Williams and Bush administration Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — accounted for 65 percent of all appearances by African-American guests.

Chuang attributes the paucity of African-Americans, Hispanics and women on the shows to producers and bookers on the programs relying on a time-tested stable of guests.

“People who have been ‘go to’ people — the usual suspects — are easy to find,” Chuang said.

“The usual suspects are usually white males. You have to work a little harder to find someone who isn’t the usual suspect.”

Television executives say they’ve been doing just that since the Urban League study.

Newsmakers and experts such as Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, Democratic political analyst Donna Brazile, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, commentator-author Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio anchor Michele Norris and conservative commentator Michelle Malkin turn up regularly on Sunday telecasts.

Rodgers agrees that things have gotten better, but not by much.

Only two African-American members of Congress — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, DN.Y., and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. — have appeared more than once on the five major Sunday shows so far this year, according to Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper that tracks news show appearances by lawmakers.

Rangel has made four Sunday show appearances this year, Waters three. No Hispanic senator or House member has appeared on a Sunday show this year, according to Roll Call’s tally.

“Washington Watch” host Martin said his show would give African-American lawmakers a venue but that they shouldn’t expect an unfiltered microphone

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to advocate their policies.

“It’s not like we’re going to just talk to CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) members. We’re going to have conservatives, liberals, Democrats and Republicans,” Martin said. “People can make assumptions if they want to. Because we are a black cable network, and I’m African-American, they’re going to be in for a surprise.”

Rodgers is hoping for surprising ratings from “Washington Watch” during a tough period for African-American-oriented media.

NPR canceled “News and Notes” last December, and Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University professor and social critic, left his self-titled nationally syndicated radio show this month, replaced in the host’s chair by Tony Cox. The Bay State Banner, Boston’s African-American weekly newspaper, accepted a $200,000 loan from the city to keep its presses running.

TV One will air Martin’s show twice on Sundays — 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT — to catch churchgoing and football-watching viewers.

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Supreme Court considers Bush terror policies Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor McClatchy Newspapers

Graphic photos of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners present the Supreme Court with its latest, but not its last, national security legal dilemma.

On Tuesday, justices will meet privately to consider the incendiary photos, as well as a case involving Chinese Muslim men who have been held without charges at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Both legal disputes could become the highest-profile national security conflicts of the Supreme Court term that starts Oct. 5.

These cases, and others like them, also demonstrate how the Obama administration is defending some of the Bush administration’s most controversial anti-terrorism policies.

Fundamental questions about liberty, detention and a president’s wartime authority have captivated the Supreme Court since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“It’s a very delicate balance, the system of checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution,” said Jon Eisenberg, a lawyer who’s challenging the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping. “The terrorist threat continues to this day. If the president has the power to break the law during this time of national security at the expense of civil liberties, it’s endless.”

The Supreme Court typically hears about 75 cases each term. So far, it’s accepted 45 for review.

On Thursday, the Obama administration took steps to blunt a potential Supreme Court review of the Chinese Muslim case.

Solicitor General Elena Kagan disclosed that as many as 12 of the captives, members of China’s Uighur

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ethnic minority, could be transferred to the Pacific island nation of Palau.

Another four are already in Bermuda, potentially allowing the court to conclude that there’s no longer any pressing Guantanamo Bay controversy to resolve.

The potential release of nearly all the Uighurs from U.S. custody could allow the justices to put off until another day the fundamental dilemma that the Uighurs case poses. That question is whether judges can order a Guantanamo detainee to be released after he’s successfully challenged his imprisonment.

Whichever cases come up also will spotlight the court’s newest justice, former federal prosecutor and trial Judge Sonia Sotomayor, and underscore how the Obama administration has embraced the Bush administration’s aggressive post-Sept. 11 policies, which it justified in what once was called the “war on terrorism.”

Obama, for instance, has followed Bush’s lead in wanting to keep secret certain photos that show abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners. The administration argues that the photos should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act because their release would inflame certain populations and put U.S. troops at risk.

“These are photos that show,I think everyone agrees, profound government misconduct,” said Jameel Jaffer, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.“These photos have a kind of power that text doesn’t.”

For instance, the Justice Department’s own brief noted one photo as showing “several soldiers posing near standing detainees who are hand see Supreme Court, page 4

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA (MCT) — Another North County lending firm is facing charges of fraud, mismanagement and other wrongdoing from state regulators and investor lawsuits.

The state Department of Real Estate is accusing Creekside Financial Inc., an Atascadero company owned by H. Wayne LaPrade, of failing to comply with requirements to notify investors of certain actions, failing to properly supervise loans and failing to comply with other regulatory reporting requirements.

WASHINGTON (MCT) — House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, in an unusual public spat involving three of the nation’s most prominent black politicians, criticized President Barack Obama for reportedly pressuring New York Gov. David Paterson not to seek a full term.

In an interview for broadcast Sunday on “Washington Watch With Roland Martin,” a new talk show, Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress and a close Obama ally, reacted sharply to published reports that Obama emissaries had advised the unpopular incumbent against running next year.

ISLAMBAD, Pakistan (MCT) — Two suicide car bomb attacks Saturday killed at least 20 people and injured more than 150 others in northwest Pakistan, sending an ominous signal that the death of Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud during the summer will not curb the Islamic militants’ agenda for violence in this nuclear-armed state.

The bloodiest explosion occurred in the bustling city of Peshawar, where an assailant detonated his car near a state-owned bank just 500 meters from the U.S. consulate.

The blast tore through the building and surrounding structures, killing at least 10 people and wounding 91 more.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (MCT) — U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Fla., says an important weather satellite is on the verge of dying, and he is pushing to see four hightech satellites constructed at a cost of $2.8 billion.

Klein on Friday introduced a satellite modernization bill after learning the QuikSCAT satellite is possibly weeks from failing. He made a similar proposal last year but nothing came of it.

However, a new memo from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration states the motor that turns the satellite’s antenna is grinding down, Klein said.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (MCT) — The Germany government donated Ethiopia,70 mine detectors worth 150,000 Euros, to support country’s ongoing demining efforts in regions of Afar, Somali and Tigray.

During the handing over ceremony Ethiopia’s mine action office Director General Etsay Gebresilase said that the latest contribution by Germany and other similar interventions will reinforce Ethiopia’s determination of clearing operation of the dangerous landmines, as nation approaches to successfully meet Ottawa convention deadline in 2015.

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WALNUT CREEK, CA (MCT) — Jury selection is under way in the capital murder trial of a Sacramento County man accused in the grisly 2006 killings of a prominent El Cerrito couple — his sister and brother-in-law.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if defendant Edward Wycoff, 40, of Citrus Heights, is convicted.

Wycoff is serving as his own attorney. His defense? The couple deserved to die.

“I’m the Alpha Explosives Hauling truck driver who killed his (sister) and brother-in-law, a couple of greedy attorneys who were screwing up my family and me,” Wycoff wrote to the Times last year.

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Secret uranium enrichment plant in Iran changes U.S. strategy Paul Richter and Peter Nicholas MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

President Barack Obama has always said he would not wait forever for Iran to agree to negotiate over its suspected nuclear weapons program.

It looks like the wait is about over.

As Obama met with world leaders in New York and Pittsburgh last week, Obama gave the clearest signals yet that he is giving up on “engagement,” his trademark campaign theme, in favor of tough economic sanctions he hopes will finally break the will of the Tehran regime.

Obama insists he still holds hopes for this week’s meeting between the Iranians and world powers, but he spent hours last week lobbying Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao at the United Nations to give up their longstanding opposition to sanctions.

On Friday, Obama and European allies rolled out what they hope is their most convincing argument yet of Iranian intentions: intelligence suggesting that a previously undisclosed site is a well-hidden uranium enrichment plant capable of helping build at least one nuclear bomb a year.

U.S. intelligence officials said Friday that they have known about the newly disclosed Iranian nuclear facility for years, possibly as early as 2006, and that its dimensions and design all but rule out any civilian nuclear purpose.

When Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appeared before a worldwide television audience, their message was clear: Iran is doing all it can to gain the ability to build a nuclear bomb.

The disclosure has abruptly changed the diplomatic climate surrounding the issue. Now Iran’s traditional defenders will have a more difficult time refusing to line up with those who want to toughen U.N. sanctions.

Although the Russian state-

ments have vacillated in recent days, the Kremlin was firm on Friday.

“Iran’s construction of a uranium enrichment plant violates decisions of the United Nations Security Council,” it said in an official statement.

The White House was quick to seize on the international shift. At a briefing for reporters, administration officials said they continue to follow a two-track strategy, trying to line up international support for tougher sanctions even while hoping Iran will relent. Suddenly, however, officials were talking about engagement in the past tense.

One senior administration official told reporters that an offer of incentives to Iran “was made repeatedly.” “The Iranians refused to meet, refused to accept this offer,” the official said, seemingly plotting the administration’s next step.

Obama’s pivot on negotiating with Iran marks a long evolution.

Outreach to U.S. adversaries became a signature of Obama’s presidential campaign during a political debate in July 2007, when his chief adversary, Hillary Clinton, now the secretary of state, argued that such an approach might be unwise.

It was “disgraceful,” Obama said then, that the Bush administration had not sought a dialogue.

Nonetheless, a senior White House official said Friday that Obama never intended to look away from Iran’s transgressions.

“All along we’ve been cleareyed, and the president has said we don’t want to do talks for the sake of talks,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity when discussing the evolution of the strategy.

In the aftermath of this year’s contested presidential elections in Iran, Obama administration officials watched to see whether divisions there would make the hard-line leadership more resistant to compromise, or make it more eager for greater accord with the

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Iran has revealed to the U.N. nuclear watchdog the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant, which is reportedly located near the city of Qom.

West, to build domestic support.

Now, however, the administration seems to be discarding the optimistic scenario.

There appears to be little chance that growing concern among the Iranian public will persuade the leadership to give way to the West.

“They don’t care about public pressure,” said Ray Takeyh, an Iran specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations who advised the administration until a few weeks ago.

But if the culmination of the week opened a way to international action on Iran, it still promises to be an uphill climb.

The Russians are sounding more supportive. But the Chinese, the other key international player, sounded less enthusiastic.

Russia’s support was firmed up by the Obama administration’s announcement this month that it is abandoning the past administration’s missile defense program in Eastern Europe, which had been a special irritant to the Kremlin.

Yet the Russians and Chinese have indicated repeatedly that they would like to settle the issue with as little damage as possible to their economic ties to Iran.

In Europe, many have misgivings about imposing the very toughest sanctions, which include halting vital imports of refined petroleum products into Iran.

Although Sarkozy has talked a tough line on sanctions before, France’s foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said last week that banning such imports was “a bit dangerous.” Critics contend that a ban would hurt ordinary Iranians and strengthen the extreme elements.

As a result, Suzanne Maloney, an expert at the Brookings Institution, said it remains to be seen whether the toughest sanctions proposals “can even carry Europe.”

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cuffed to bars with sandbags covering their heads while a soldier holds a broom as if sticking (its) end ... into the rectum of a restrained detainee.”

Another shows a soldier who appears to be striking an Iraqi detainee with the butt of a rifle.

“Disclosure of those photographs would pose a clear and grave risk of inciting violence and riots against American troops and coalition forces,” Kagan warned, citing an Army general’s testimony.

An appeals court rejected the argument, but legal experts on both sides of the issue expect the Supreme Court to be much more sympathetic if it agrees to hear the case.

The case, known as Department of Defense v. American Civil Liberties Union, is akin to other national security cases, in part because justices must figure out how much deference they owe the president and his military advisers.

In a 2004 case commonly known as Rasul, for instance, the court rejected Bush’s claims and ruled that U.S. constitutional protections cover Guantanamo prisoners. In a 2006 case known as Hamdan, the court struck down Guantanamo military commissions that the Bush administration had set up. In a ruling last year known as Boumediene, the court said that the prisoners could challenge their captivity through habeas corpus petitions.

So far, the Chinese Muslim case is the only Guantanamo-related dispute that the high court may consider for the 2009-10 term.

Jamal Kiyemba and 16 other Uighurs captured in Pakistan or Afghanistan were held at Guantanamo starting in 2003, even though U.S. officials ultimately determined that they weren’t a threat. Officials said, however, that they had no place to release them safely because they might face persecution in China.

A federal judge’s order last year that they be released into the United States was overturned.

Kiyemba’s question is essentially whether the habeas petition rights recognized in the Boumediene ruling have any teeth: Can a judge who’s hearing habeas petitions order the release of the Guantanamo detainees as if they were conventional prisoners?

Obama, like the Bush administration before him, asserts that judges don’t have the jurisdiction to force the executive branch to release foreign nationals into the country.

“If the court takes that case, it becomes huge,” said Steven Shapiro of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Honduras’ de facto government turns away diplomats Tyler Bridges

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The government of de facto Honduras' President Roberto Micheletti Sunday refused to allow four diplomats from the Washington-based Organization of American States to enter Honduras, including one from the U.S., because of these countries' recent diplomatic moves against the small Central American nation.

The move marks the first time Honduras' de facto government has denied entry to diplomats and is the latest sign that Micheletti is refusing to budge amid growing

international pressure to reinstate deposed President Manuel Zelaya, who was removed from power in June. Zelaya sneaked back into the country a week ago and has been holed up in the Brazilian Embassy with about 70 supporters.

OAS General Secretary Jose Miguel Insulza said he couldn't understand the decision, because the group was supposed to serve as an advance team for an upcoming OAS mission.

"Actions like this one adopted today by Honduran authorities of the de facto regime create serious difficulties for those trying to create social peace in Honduras," In-

sulza said in a statement.

Honduras also gave Brazil 10 days to stop harboring Zelaya at the embassy.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his government "doesn't accept ultimatums from coup-plotters."

Though electricity and water have been restored, and international groups are providing food to Zelaya and his allies, the conditions inside the embassy are increasingly difficult. The Honduran government has said it won't breach international law by trying to grab Zelaya inside the embassy, so for now, he seems likely to stay.

The U.S. has joined Latin American nations _ including Brazil _ in calling for Zelaya's reinstitution. The administration has cut aid and revoked visas to visit the U.S. by Honduran politicians and business leaders who are seen as supporting the alleged coup. The Obama administration, as well as Latin American and European governments, has said not restoring Zelaya to power would encourage future coups in the region.

For his part, Micheletti says what happened wasn't a coup but a legal transfer of power.

Although Zelaya has several

thousand supporters who march for him every day in Tegucigalpa, the capital, he has yet to demonstrate the type of backing that could shake an intransigent government.

Published news accounts in Honduras have reported that Zelaya hoped a groundswell of popular support would greet his clandestine return, possibly even forcing Micheletti to slink from power.

However, Sunday's developments seem to reflect the Micheletti government's belief that Zelaya lacks popular support in Honduras and is left with a weak hand to play.

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“Will you get the flu shot during this flu season?”

Compiled and photographed by Jennifer Titcomb “No, because I already got the flu. Am I immune now?”

-Paul Abraham, wine and viticulture senior

“I already have. I thought it would be good to get the shot.”

-Jaimie Bughao, nutrition senior

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Clementin Andrade found few buyers Sunday, September 27, 2009, for the women’s sandals, underwear and socks she had for sale in the central square in Sabanagrande outside of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Andrade blamed ousted President Manuel Zelaya for her plight.

“I already have, because I work at a hospital.”

-Marisa Crawford, biological sciences senior

“Probably, because I don’t want to get the flu!”

-Ali Gillen, liberal studies junior

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a refresh rate of at least 120 Hz, notes Jon Peddie president of Jon Peddie Research.While new televisions typically can do that, few older ones can, he said.

So most consumers will need to buy a new TV or computer moni-

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tor to watch 3-D programming, and many may be reluctant to go through the upgrade cycle in the near future after recently replacing their old analog TVs with digital ones.

“That’ll be a barrier,” Peddie acknowledges.

He and other analysts think the first place 3-D will take off in the home is with video games. As with animated films, games are already produced in three virtual dimensions, making them fairly easy to display in stereoscopic 3-D. Electronics companies are already making special 3-Dcapable monitors, game companies

are starting to make 3-D-compatible games and graphics chip giant Nvidia is pushing software that can display standard games in 3-D. Gamers present a natural target, Brennesholtz said.

“There are lots of gamers willing to spend a lot of money” on games and accessories, he said.

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Yacht’s latest “Lights” will appeal to any music fan A couple of years ago, I was up in San Francisco visiting an old pal of mine.

Throughout high school, she guided my evolution through hipsterdom. By this time, however, I had long since moved on from The Strokes and The Unicorns, as I had had three years of continuous exposure to new music through KCPR. We shared a lunch of leftover Indian food, and I told her about some of the bands that I had recently discovered, which were mostly bullshit DIY bands that lacked any sort of musical talent or emotional maturity, much like myself.

As I’m sure you can imagine, this got boring really fast, so she went to her iTunes and started playing Yacht, then she gave me gin and told me we were going to a party. This was my introduction to Yacht, in a dingy apartment in San Francisco with a glass of gin and tonic as a preparty psych mix.

Now I’m sitting in KCPR listening to Yacht’s new album entitled “See Mystery Lights” off of DFA records trying to slam out my first “Hipster Bullshit” column of the school year, because I know that it will be an easy album to review.

There is nothing inaccessible about it. It’s the kind of album I could show anybody and anybody would like it. In fact, I bet it’s on mtvU right now.

You’re actually probably reading this in the Avenue with your box of chicken nuggets, side of ranch and 42oz of Sobe Life Water. I bet you could look up right now and Yacht’s newest music video would be up on the screen.

The single is “Summer Song,” and it has everything you need for

a dance jam hit of the year.

The style is straight forward synth-pop with vocal effects that don’t distort Yacht’s vocals in that bastardized, pseudo-lo-fi way. Instead, he goes balls out and actually produces his album so that it sounds good and is radio-friendly.

It’s simple, but not so formulaic that you would get bored halfway through the album.

You’ll be able to throw it on while you and you’re posse apply appropriate amounts of eye makeup and fragrance to complement your neon outfits that will serve as the costume for your ‘80s themed parties.

It’ll get the blood flowing to the appropr iate areas with electronic compositions, perfect for alcohol-induced overly sexual behavior.

You might insist that you are only joking when “Don’t Fight The Darkness” comes on, with the introduction sounding vaguely like Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (Whisper Song)” and you start getting just a little bit touchy.

But, let’s face it, you aren’t wearing a white blazer with a pink under shirt or a black leotard with an asymmetrical pony tail and legwarmers for sensibility’s sake.

You’re here to have some fun without pretension and to get pretty damn silly.

Speaking of pretension, KCPR is accepting applications for new DJ’s -- just come by the station in building 26 room 301. Also, Brightblack Morning Light will be playing at Downtown Brew this Tuesday. We will be there.

Jack LaPorte is a KCPR DJ and “Hipster Bullshit” contributing columnist.

3-D films making a cinema comeback:

Moviegoers should expect an increase in releases as technology becomes more widespread

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Columbia Pictures’ new animated film “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” combines computer generated images with 3-D technology to bring the popular children’s book to the big screen.

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Those who remember the cheesy horror flicks of the ‘50s might not believe it, but 3-D movies are experiencing a renaissance and may usher in an era in which viewing images in three dimensions is the rule, not the exception.

In the past five years, about 20 3-D films have hit theaters, most recently “The Final Destination” last weekend. Another 50 or so are in production, including “Avatar,” the latest film from “Titanic” director James Cameron.

One reason for the surge is that theater owners have found that they generally can charge more for three-dimensional films than their two-dimensional counterparts, analysts and industry experts say.What’s more, 3-D movies tend to sell more seats per showing, they say.

“3-D cinema has proven itself to be very profitable for Hollywood,” said Matthew Brennesholtz, a senior analyst at Insight Media, a consulting and publishing firm that focuses on display technologies.

Entertainment, electronics and technology companies hope to follow Hollywood’s lead and bring 3-D display technologies into consumers’ homes. Already you can find computer monitors and televisions that say they are “3-D ready.”

But the road into the home may be a long one, analysts caution. Most consumers will need to buy new TV screens and computer monitors - not to mention special 3-D glasses - to be able to watch 3-D movies or play 3-D games.

Even if they already have 3-D-

ready devices, they won’t be able to do much with them for a while.

That’s because there’s no agreement yet on the technical standards for how to deliver 3-D images to consumers’TV screens. And not many movies,TV shows or games are now available in 3-D. “In the near term [3-D] cinema is a sure thing,” said Jennifer Colegrove, an analyst who covers display technologies for DisplaySearch, a market research firm. “For other applications ... the 3-D market is still quite small.”

Three-dimensional technologies have a long history, dating back to the early days of still photography and moving images.They attempt to trick the brain into registering a three-dimensional image by tapping into people’s stereoscopic vision.

Each eye is shown its own image that typically overlaps with one seen by the other eye.The brain puts the two together to create a threedimensional picture.

The 1950s 3-D horror films produced two different images by overlapping blue- and red-tinted images.Viewers were able to see a 3-D image by wearing goofy glasses with one red lens and one blue one that canceled out the tints on the screen.

Later techniques used in the 1970s and 1980s overlapped images projected in light that had been altered by polarization.Viewers had to wear glasses with lenses polarized in two different ways. A polarized lens or filter acts like the teeth of a comb; only light of the same polarization - i.e., whose waves are parallel to the comb’s teeth - can pass through.

The latest iterations of 3-D still typically require you to wear glasses - sometimes polarized, sometimes with electronic “shutters” that alternately close over each eye. But they rely on computer technologies, such as digital video projectors and computerized production, to get the 3-D effect.

Those advances have corrected some of the bugs that plagued past iterations of 3-D video.With analog film projection, it was relatively easy for the two images to get out of sync, or for the image to flicker or degrade. Such problems could not only diminish the 3-D effect but leave viewers with nausea or headaches.

Digital images don’t degrade like film does, and the computer behind the projector can keep the stereoscopic images in perfect sync.

“The technology is now bulletproof,” said Michael Lewis, CEO and co-founder of RealD, whose 3-D projector technology has been the most widely adopted in the United States. “It truly replicates the way we see.”

The bulk of 3-D films using the latest digital techniques have been animated films.That’s because such films are composed on computers and already constructed in three virtual dimensions.Translating them into stereoscopic 3-D images is a fairly easy task.

In contrast, live-action films require different camera equipment.

And directors have to be brought up to speed on how to film and use 3-D, analysts say.That’s slowly happening, but it may be a long time before 3-D makes its way into the see 3-D, page 6

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Dangerous times again, as hatred flows Michael Smerconish the philadelphia inquirer

A first-of-his-kind president is suspected by some of conspiring with antiChristians. He is treated inhospitably in classrooms and associated with communism on posters. He is accused of awarding government jobs to radicals.

Sound familiar?

The latest issue of Vanity Fair includes a story titled “A Clash of Camelots,” by Sam Kashner. But it is not set in the present.

Kashner’s subject is the story behind William Manchester’s “The Death of a President,” the definitive account of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Manchester, Kashner reports, found that in the third year of the Kennedy presidency, “a kind of fever lay over Dallas country. Mad things happened. Huge billboards screamed ‘Impeach Earl Warren.’ Jewish stores were smeared with crude swastikas. ... Radical right polemics were distributed in public schools; Kennedy’s name was booed in classrooms; corporate junior executives were required to attend radical seminars.”

Kashner continues: “A retired major general ran the American flag upside down, deriding it as ‘the Democratic flag.’ A wanted poster with JFK’s face on it was circulated, announcing ‘this man is wanted’ for _ among other things _ ‘turning the sovereignty of the U.S. over to communist-controlled United Nations’ and appointing ‘anti-Christians ... aliens and known communists’ to federal offices. And a full-page advertisement had appeared the day of the assassination in the Dallas Morning News accusing Kennedy of making a secret deal with the Communist Party; when it was shown to the president, he was appalled. He turned to Jacqueline, who was visibly upset and said, ‘Oh, you know, we’re headed into nut country today.’”

No wonder Kennedy was warned not to make the trip. “Evangelist Billy Graham had attempted to

reach Kennedy ... about his own foreboding.

The Dallas mood was no secret,” Manchester wrote. U.S. Sen. William Fulbright, D-Ark., told Kennedy that Dallas was “a very dangerous place. I wouldn’t go there. Don’t you go.”

According to Kashner, Manchester determined that the last words Kennedy heard were those of Nellie Connally, wife of Texas Gov. John Connally. “Delighted by the enthusiastic crowd along the motorcade route, she turned around in her seat and said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.’ And then the first shot rang out,” Kashner wrote.

It’s impossible to read this without wondering about the present.

Protesters marched on Washington carrying signs that read “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy,” “Impeach the Muslim Marxist,” and “We came unarmed ... this time.” A member of Congress shouted down the president and raked in more than $1.5 million in campaign contributions in the days that followed.

Cable TV’s hottest personality just called the commander-in-chief a “racist” with a “deepseated hatred for white people.”

Kashner reminds us that some Dallas schoolchildren booed Kennedy’s name in classrooms, and others in a fourth-grade class cheered when told of his assassina-

tion. Recently, some found it objectionable that the president would speak to children about personal responsibility in a school setting on the grounds of potential indoctrination. A swastika was painted on a sign outside the district office of Georgia Congressman David Scott last month. And don’t forget the Obama-as-Joker posters _ emblazoned with the word “socialism” _ that began popping up this summer.

The vast majority of the president’s harsh critics are rightfully concerned about the size of government. But there’s also little doubt that some of the vehemence directed at the president is racially motivated. It can’t be proven, and it can’t be quantified. But logic dictates that if the protests are driven entirely by worries over the expanded reach of government and increased federal deficit, there would have been signs of similar agitation during the Bush administration.

After all, it was Bush who erased a healthy surplus during his eight years in office. And it was the Bush administration that initiated the federal bailout of AIG and others. Indeed, if the protesters are concerned about the government’s intrusion upon civil liberties, why were they silent about the Patriot Act? The climate in which George W. Bush governed was similarly vulgar. He and Vice President Dick Cheney were subjected to ridicule and scorn beyond any pale of reasonableness. Still, somehow this feels different.

No matter how it began, or what motivations may exist, we should all be able to agree that the current political climate is unhealthy, counterproductive, and eerily dangerous. And those critics of any administration, the many reasonable Americans with truly patriotic motivations, can always benefit from a reminder that it takes just one unreasonable actor, incited by some illogical notion that he acts in the name of saving the republic, to truly threaten that state.

In all the fighting, the left's been out for blood Glenn Garvin mcclatchy newspapers

For one, brief shining moment last week, I thought Nancy Pelosi must be the bravest American politician of the century, standing up to her own nutball constituency in the interest of American political politesse. After all, when she tearfully told a press conference that the partisan bombast should be dialed down several notches lest it turn bloody — “I saw this myself in the late ‘70s in San Francisco, this kind of rhetoric ... it created an environment in which violence took place” — she had to be talking about left-wing violence, right?

Because when you talk about political murder and mayhem in San Francisco 30 years ago, the trigger was almost always pulled or the cyanide Kool-Aid poured by a leftist.There were the revolutionary nihilists of the Symbionese Liberation Army, assassinating an Oakland school superintendent, kidnapping Patty Hearst and finally shotgunning an innocent bystander during a bank robbery.

There were the cop-killing drug dealers of the Black Panthers, who began murdering their own sympathizers to keep them quiet. And of course the Black Liberation Army,

a Panther offshoot that bombed a church where a policeman’s funeral was being held.We think it was the BLA, anyway; in San Francisco those days, you couldn’t tell your bombers without a scorecard.The Weather Underground, the New World Liberation Front, the Revolutionary Army, they were all blowing something up on practically a weekly basis.

And who can forget Jim Jones and his communal cult that ended in an orgy of murder and mass suicide in 1978? Well, most Democrats can; otherwise, they have to explain why people like Rosalynn Carter,Walter Mondale and Jerry Brown were such enthusiastic supporters of Jones until his infamous Kool-Aid party.

But no, Pelosi wasn’t thinking of any of those examples. Soon after she quelled her theatrical sniffles, her spinmasters clarified that she was referring only to the 1979 murders of liberal politicians George Moscone and Harvey Milk by a conservative rival, Dan White, dramatized in last year’s film “Milk.”

Now that’s the Pelosi I know: conveniently ignoring the corpses of literally hundreds of victims of organized left-wing violence while using two murders committed by an unbalanced (and, to be sure, evil) individual to make it sound like

the San Francisco of the 1970s was a hellhole of right-wing terrorism.

How silly of me to think she might, however briefly, have lapsed into intellectual honesty.

Unfortunately, Pelosi isn’t alone in neither her equation of conservative politics with bloodlust nor her willingness to shade the truth to make her case. Lately, the favorite talking point of America’s chattering classes has been that to oppose President Obama’s economic policies is to court presidential assassination.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and the New York Times’ Frank Rich have even gone so far as to say that it’s happened before.

Rich compared the anti-Obama tea-party rallies to “the walk-up to the Kennedy assassination, (when) there was all this hate talk about Kennedy.” Matthews chimed in that “the mood we’re in right now” reminded of him of when “Jack Kennedy was killed in an open car in Dallas.”

Neither Rich nor Matthews offered a plausible explanation of how right-wing hate could have triggered the death of Kennedy, killed by a Marxist who six weeks before the assassination was begging for visas from Cuba and the Soviet Union.There’s no need.The idea that conservatives (especially Christian conservatives)

are a homicidal mob eternally poised on the verge of bloodshed is an article of faith on the left.

Rich in particular has practically made a career of predicting mass murder by the right. He wrote column after column warning that Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of The Christ” would touch off worldwide slaughter: “Its real tinder-box effect could be abroad, where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11.”

Five years later, we’re still waiting for the first riot, just as we’re still looking for the anti-Asian bloodshed that was certain to follow the 2001 film “Pearl Harbor,” which indelicately suggested the guys dropping the bombs that day were Japanese.

Or the angry white male who was, we were repeatedly assured, behind the Washington Beltway sniper murders of 2002. (Actual killers: a pair of black Muslims.)

The unavoidable fact is that there is a rich history of violence on the fringes of both sides of the American political spectrum.The right, as liberals are fond of pointing out, has Timothy McVeigh and James Earl Ray.The left has the Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire on the floor of Congress, animal-rights nuts and eco-terrorists. If Nancy Pelosi really sees trouble coming, she needs to look in both directions.

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Dodgers double up Bucs, clinch playoffs Rob Biertempfel

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One night after dominating the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Pirates’ bullpen collapsed Saturday amid an 8-4 loss.

With the victory, the Dodgers clinched a playoff berth for the third time in four years -- the first time they’ve done that since 1963, ‘65 and ‘66 -- and for the fourth time in the past six seasons. Los Angeles’ 9362 record is the best in the National League.

With two hits and four walks, the Dodgers scored four runs in the eighth inning. The tying and goahead runs scored on back-to-back, bases-loaded walks issued by Steven Jackson. Denny Bautista (1-1) was charged with two runs and Phil Dumatrait allowed one.

The Dodgers belted the ball in the first inning against left-hander Paul Maholm, but came up with just one run.

Rafael Furcal lined a leadoff single to left field, but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Juan Pierre tripled to center and scored on Manny Ramirez’s ground-rule double.

The Dodgers added two runs in the fourth. Andy LaRoche opened the bottom of the inning with a solo homer to left.

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seventh inning. With two outs, Luis Cruz bounced an 0-2 pitch up the middle for an RBI single. Andrew McCutchen put the Pirates ahead with a two-run single off George Sherrill (1-0).

How they scored: Dodgers first inning (Paul Maholm pitching) -- With one out, Juan Pierre tripled to center field. Manny Ramirez hit a ground-rule double to right, Pierre scored. Dodgers 1, Pirates 0 Dodgers third -- Ramirez walked.

With one out, Ronnie Belliard singled to pitcher, Ramirez to second.

Mark Loretta doubled to left, Ramirez scored, Belliard to third. Russell Martin grounded out to shortstop, Belliard scored. Dodgers 3, Pirates 0 Pirates fourth (Randy Wolf pitching) -- Andy LaRoche hit a solo home run (No. 10) to left on a 2-2 pitch. Dodgers 3, Pirates 1 Pirates seventh -- Ryan Doumit walked. (Hong-Chih Kuo pitching) Wild pitch, Doumit to second. With two outs, Delwyn Young walked.

Jose Cruz singled to center, Doumit scored, Young to second. Wild pitch, Young to third and Cruz to second.

(George Sherrill pitching) Robinzon Diaz (pinch-hitting for Maholm) walked, loading the bases. Andrew McCutchen singled to center, Young and Cruz scored, Diaz to second. Pirates 4, Dodgers 3

Dodgers eighth (Denny Bautista pitching) -- Ramirez walked. With one out, Belliard singled to left, Ramirez to second. (Phil Dumatrait pitching) James Loney (pinchhitting for Loretta) walked, loading the bases. (Steven Jackson pitching) Andre Ethier (pinch-hitting for Martin) walked, Ramirez scored, Belliard to third, Loney to second.

Orlando Hudson walked, Belliard scored, Loney to third, Ethier to second. Jim Thome (pinch-hitting for Sherrill) singled to right, Loney and Ethier scored. Dodgers 7, Pirates 4 Dodgers ninth (Virgil Vasquez pitching) -- With two outs, Belliard hit a solo homer (No. 10) to left on an 0-1 pitch. Dodgers 8, Pirates 4.

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Randy Wolf pitched 6.1 innings in an 8 - 4 win.

Mustangs Upset No. 7 Cal, 1-0, in Overtime SPORTS INFORMATION REPORT

The Cal Poly women’s soccer team upset the No. 7 Cal Bears in a non-conference soccer game 1-0 Friday at Edwards Stadium in Berkeley. The Golden Bears outshot the Mustangs, 25-8, but the Mustangs were able to put the ball in the net just three minutes into overtime to earn the win. The Mustangs improve to 5-4-0 for the season while the Bears fall to 6-2-0.

Junior Whitney Sisler came off the bench to score the game winner while senior goalie Coral Hoover recorded her third shutout in a row when she tallied nine saves in shutting down the Golden Bears.

It took just 2:18 into the overtime period for Sisler to score her first goal of the season when she hit the shot from the right side off a cross from Bira Park.

The Mustangs had opportunities in the closing moments of regulation with a pair of shots while Cal had one of its own, but neither could find net forcing overtime.

The Bears dominated both periods with 10 shots in the opening period and 15 in the second half while the Mustangs were limited to three in the first half and eight to-

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Sisler and Bianca Burright had all the Mustang shots on goal, with Burright credited with two and Sisler one.

Hoover was busy in the net for the Mustangs, recording her fifth win of the season, with nine of the Bear’s shots on goal. The senior made three first half saves and six in the second.

Cal had six corner kicks to Cal Poly’s one while the Mustangs whistled for five fouls to the Bear’s four.

The Mustangs return to the field on Sunday at Alex G. Spanos Stadium when they host Arizona for an 11 a.m. game.

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No. 16/14 Mustangs Fall to San Jose State, 19-9 SPORTS INFORMATION REPORT

Junior quarterback Jordan La Secla passed for 172 yards and two scores while junior running back Lamon Muldrow rushed for 184 yards and one touchdown as San Jose State rallied in the second half to beat No. 16/14 Cal Poly 19-9 in a nonconference football game Saturday at Spartan Stadium.

La Secla completed 18 of 32 passes, including scoring strikes to Jalal Beauchman and Marquis Avery, as the Spartans (1-3) earned their first win of the season after losses to USC, Utah and Stanford.

Cal Poly falls to 1-2.

Muldrow carried the ball 20 times and scored on a one-yard run to clinch the victory with 4:33 to play.

A 53-yard run around right end by senior slotback Jono Grayson with 7:45 remaining in the first quarter gave Cal Poly a 6-0 lead. Junior Chris Pinto’s PAT kick was blocked.

Pinto followed with a 30-yard field goal with 3:25 to go in the second quarter for a 9-0 Mustang advantage. The kick capped a 57-yard, 10-play drive.

San Jose State managed to get on the scoreboard late in the second period as La Secla connected with Beauchman on an eight-yard scoring pass with 31 seconds to play before intermission. Tyler Cope’s extrapoint kick missed to the right.

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Grayson netted 113 of his careerhigh 138 rushing yards in the first half, surpassing the 100-yard mark for the third time in his Mustang career. He ran for 124 yards against South Dakota State a year ago and 127 yards against Northern Colorado in 2007.

San Jose State took advantage of a Cal Poly turnover to take its first lead of the game midway through the third quarter.

A fumble by Mustang junior quarterback Tony Smith on a mis-

handled handoff was recovered by the Spartans’ Tanner Burns at the Cal Poly nine, and Avery capped the short drive with a seven-yard touchdown catch thrown by La Secla.

Cope’s PAT kick gave the Spartans a 13-9 lead with 5:07 to play in the period.

After holding Cal Poly on its next drive, San Jose State drove 68 yards but Cope missed a 40-yard field goal attempt wide to the right two minutes into the final quarter.

The Mustangs were faced with

poor field position throughout the second half, starting two drives at their own one and two others at their own 22 and 23.

Cal Poly drove 71 yards to the San Jose State 6-yard line, but Pinto’s 27yard field goal attempt was blocked by former Atascadero High School standout Travis Jones with 5:57 to play.

San Jose State drove 80 yards in the next 90 seconds for the clinching score. Muldrow ran 72 yards to set up his scoring run, a two-yard

plunge. Another missed PAT kick by Cope left the Spartans with a 19-9 advantage with 4:33 to go.

Cal Poly drove to the Spartan 31yard line before turning the ball over on downs with 1:41 to play.

Smith, who completed just one pass last week at Ohio, connected on 10 of 25 attempts for 135 yards.

He was intercepted once. Junior Dominique Johnson, the transfer from UCLA, caught six passes for 93 yards, a Mustang career high and one short of his UCLA high for catches in a game.

Mustang sophomore fullback JordanYocum, who netted a career-high 130 yards on 27 carries last week, was held out of Saturday’s game because of a minor hip injury. Sophomore fullback Jake Romanelli replaced Yocum and gained 37 yards on 10 carries. He also caught one pass.

Mustang junior linebacker Marty Mohamed recorded nine tackles while freshman linebacker Kenny Jackson had seven. Junior safety Scottie Cordier intercepted a Spartan pass.

After playing two Football Bowl Subdivision teams the last two weeks, Cal Poly will play a pair of top-20 Football Championship Subdivision schools the next two weeks.

The Mustangs will host South Dakota State on Saturday at 6:05 p.m. and visit Montana in two weeks.

Cal Poly Held Scoreless Cal Poly Sweeps UC Riverside

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Cal Poly men’s soccer freshman goalkeeper Brett Finkelstein notched a career-high nine saves Friday evening, but Portland found the back of the net twice during a three-minute span midway through the second half to deal the Mustangs a 2-0 defeat at the Husky Fever Classic, hosted by Washington at Husky Soccer Stadium.

Cal Poly (2-5), who scored six goals in consecutive home victories last week against Sacramento State and San Jose State, mustered just one shot on target against the Pilots (4-1-1). Portland, which recorded 16 of its 20 shots during the second half, scored the only goal it needed during the 71st minute, as sophomore defender Ryan Kawulok headed a Jarad vanSchaik corner kick into the right corner of the Mustang net. Three minutes

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freshm a n midfielder Colin Barich drove a shot past Finkelstein and into the lower right corner of the goal to double Portland’s lead.

Midfielder Junior Burgos, a transfer from San Jose State and a squad selection by the El Salvador Men’s National Team during spring CONCACAF World Cup qualifiers, debuted for the Mustangs by ripping three shots inside the opening five minutes.

Cal Poly notched its lone shot on goal during the sixth minute, as senior defender Josh Didion’s attempt was turned away by Pilots junior goalkeeper Austin Guerrero. Trailing by two goals, Cal Poly registered just one shot during the final 16 minutes of action.

Portland tallied eight of its nine corner kick opportunities during the second half.

Cal Poly completes play at the Husky Fever Classic Sunday versus Washington at 12:30 p.m.

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The Cal Poly volleyball team trailed UC Riverside just twice Saturday evening in recording both its initial Big West Conference victory of the season and ninth-consecutive win against the Highlanders with a 25-20, 2523, 25-20 whitewash inside Mott Gym. Cal Poly (5-10, 1-1), which improved to 39-8 in Mott Gym and recorded the program’s 25th home sweep under fifth-year head coach Jon Stevenson, received a team-high eight kills and a .500 hitting percentage from junior middle blocker Dominique Olowolafe. Six separate Mustangs recorded an ace and a further four tallied a solo block for Cal Poly, which utilized the victory to erase only the second sub.-500 Big West winning percentage during Stevenson’s tenure.

Two of freshman opposite Holly Franks’ three kills allowed the Mustangs to establish an 8-3 lead to open the match.The Highlanders (1-10, 0-2), held to a .125 hitting percentage during game No. 1, failed to close to within three points of the Mustang advantage in succumbing.

Cal Poly never led set No. 2 by more than three points, but managed to hold the advantage for the game’s entirety. Trailing, 20-17, UC Riverside claimed six of the next nine points to deadlock the

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With their win Saturday, Cal Poly advances to (5-10, 1-1) on the season. game at 23-23. A serving error by Highlanders senior libero Amanda Nilsson, coupled with an ace from Mustang freshman setter Anuhea Keanini, however, swung the set in Cal Poly’s favor.

UC Riverside opened a 7-3 lead to begin the third set before a 12-7 run by the Mustangs helped Cal Poly regain its match-winning ad-

vantage.

Keanini finished with a matchbest 25 assists while junior libero Alison Mort contributed 16 digs.

Cal Poly opens a four-match road trip at Cal State Fullerton Friday, Oct. 2. Match time in Titan Gym is scheduled for 7 p.m. The Mustangs next play home Friday, Oct. 16 against UC Davis at 7 p.m.