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THE RELENTLESS

AYZHIANA BASALLO Brian Truong @ crusaderkitten

It’s 11 p.m. on a Saturday, and Ayzhiana Basallo is at Mott Athletics Center. After returning from a disappointing weekend with two loses from the Cal Poly women’s basketball team, the freshman point guard left the team bus and went straight to the basketball court.

A loss to Cal State University Northridge earlier in the day fresh on Basallo’s mind, she methodically shoots shot, after shot, after shot. Having gone 1-6 from the field against the Matadors, a startlingly low shooting percentage compared to her overall 42 percent average, Basallo was determined to make sure she did better in the next game.

“I just wanted to get back in the gym,”

Basallo said. ”It keeps me going, it keeps me on my feet.”

With the gym to herself, Basallo shoots 250 makes, repeats moves to the baskets, and practices ball handling. It’s a familiar routine that the San Francisco native has perfected over the years.

“The work ethic that she’s put in ... sometimes I wonder when she goes to class because I always see her in [Mott],” head coach

TIME’S UP ‘TOWN HALL’

‘THE YOUNG SERIES’

Students can voice concerns about sexual assault at Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo.

A New York-based photographer displays teen photo project at the University Art Gallery.

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Faith Mimnaugh said.

Basallo is dedicated. She practices by herself at least once or twice a day nearly every day.

Basallo’s teammates jokingly call her a gym rat.

Her dad describes her as relentless.

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Content NEWS

ONSHORE DRILLING ...................................4 TIME’S UP MARCH .......................................4

ARTS

CLOVE ..........................................................5 ‘THE YOUNG SERIES’...................................5 STONE STOVES ...........................................8

OPINION

END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN...............10

SPORTS

AYZHIANA BASALLO ..................................14 POWER OF PRONOUNS

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Ayzhiana Basallo was ranked by ESPN as the 74thbest freshman point guard before the 2018 season.

Photo by Matt Lalanne, Mustang News.

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| Cal Poly’s initiatives to increase inclusivity include understanding how students identify to provide necessary resources.

Poly’s push for gender inclusivity and equality Sydney Brandt @ syd_brandtt

Cal Poly is pushing for more inclusivity and support for underrepresented students on campus, according to Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Cross Cultural Centers Bryan Hubain.

Cal Poly’s emphasis on using pronouns such as “he, she or they” led to the growth of many other initiatives to raise awareness of these issues on campus. The Cross Cultural Centers (CCC) — comprised of the MultiCultural Center, Pride Center and Gender Equity Center — have become leaders of this through increased involvement during Week of Welcome (WOW), analyzing data about gender identities and installing more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.

Hubain said that with these goals in mind, they changed the “Mustang Way” to relate it to Cal Poly’s values of inclusion, equity and respect.

“Really understanding people’s narratives, where they’re coming from and just be[ing] curious about each other [is important], and I think that’s how we take the step to becoming a more inclusive campus,” Hubain said.

English freshman Grace McGuire said having resources on campus is a good step in the right direction for these groups at Cal Poly. McGuire uses both she/her/hers pronouns and they/ them/theirs pronouns.

“The LGBTQ population, we’re sort of underrepresented. There are resources for us, and I really appreciate those resources and I think they’re vital to our existence and thriving on campus,” McGuire said.

Because the CCC is partially funded by student success fees, Hubain said it is the Centers’ duty to the students to make sure they feel included at Cal Poly.

The CCC have partnered with several departments on campus. This new initiative has interns in different areas on campus with an educational outreach goal to encourage more awareness of underrepresented groups at Cal Poly.

The initiative is taking effect in on-campus housing, where some students who work with

the CCC double as resident advisors. They also partnered with New Student and Transition Programs’ WOW team to train students to identify common issues such as microaggressions and encourage conversations about them.

“During WOW training and what I teach leaders, we talk about drug and alcohol abuse, we talk about mental illnesses, we talk about inclusivity and culture ... we talk about facilitating tough conversations, while still having that fun environment that WOW is supposed to be,” WOW team leader and liberal studies sophomore Camille Erskine said.

In addition, a new campaign was launched to increase awareness about the initiative. The Chancellor’s Office has mandated that all schools collect voluntary data about gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation.

At Cal Poly, changes have already started to appear on campus — such as the gender-inclusive residence halls — based on this data.

“Being data-driven and making decisions based on data is really important and so we are trying to encourage every single student to go in and report their gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation because that’s a way we are able to provide services and resources for them ... our priority is always the student first,” Hubain said.

This data allows the university to know that there are underrepresented groups on campus, on the basis of race, gender identity, sexuality and other factors. It it not necessary for the university to know how specific students identify, but knowing there is at least one informs the school to provide necessary resources.

The gender identity campaign also encourages the use of inclusive pronouns on campus. Within the Dean of Students’ office, there is a push for using them, especially when implementing new members into the staff.

“We lead by pronouns, so it’s our name, our pronouns ... it throws some people off sometimes, but it’s really important that we do that.

So it’s those little things you find make all of these ripples,” Hubain said.

He added that Cal Poly students especially love when someone leads with pronouns to help them create a sense of trust.

“We really like to use pronouns ... we do that during WOW a lot hoping that it will continue, and I know some professors do that during the first week of class, just encouraging people to be themselves ... If I might look like a girl but I identify as a guy, then you can say that just through [pronouns] right off the bat and I feel like that makes people feel more inclusive,” Erskine said.

Currently, the CCC are working with Cal Poly Information Technology Services on how to incorporate pronouns in class rosters. Right now, students click the personal tab on the Cal Poly Portal, select their gender identity and share their preferred name, making it public to the university.

“That’s a way of being inclusive because when a student is transitioning and saying ‘This is who I am,’ and a faculty member can actually call them by their name, that’s powerful, because there’s a lot behind a name,” Hubain said.

The gender identity campaign has also pushed for the CCC to start incorporating more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.

“We’ve already identified a couple of spaces in the [University Union] for a gender-neutral restroom ... the Cross Cultural Centers is really a place to have those conversations. We’re pushing the agenda and really saying, ‘How can we include students so that they don’t have to go to another building just to use the restroom?’ and they shouldn’t have to because they pay student success fees like everyone else,” Hubain said.

McGuire said it is crucial to have these accommodations for students to feel safe and welcome on campus.

“I think [gender neutral bathrooms are] crucial to the safety of our gender-neutral students,” McGuire said. “I would say that there’s an element of unsafety (sic) when there’s not a place that there’s no danger of harassment or any sort of violence present that exists in those gender-neutral bathrooms.”

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Frack off: Students against onshore drilling Aidan McGloin @ mcgloin_aidan

A group of Cal Poly students are collecting signatures to support an initiative that would prevent the expansion of oil drills in Price Canyon in San Luis Obispo County.

They argue that the injection wells contaminate the aquifer that runs underneath the field and flows into the ocean, and expanding oil drilling is not necessary.

The initiative would ban new oil and gas wells in San Luis Obispo County, which in effect would also ban fracking, since no fracking wells exist. Sentinel Peak Resources is expected to add 481 additional wells to Price Canyon if the 13,000 signatures are not collected by April.

Sentinel Peak Resources could not be reached for comment.

Fracking is a process of cracking open groundwater with blasts of water to create injection wells. Water flows into the aquifer and carries oil with it into the ocean. The

contaminated water is not used as drinking water, but it still could harm the canyon and ocean environments it flows through.

“The Earth goes away; that’s it, if we don’t fix the environment,” political science freshman Rob Moore said. “I think we all must do what we can to better our environment.

The biggest issue Moore has is finding students who are registered to vote in San Luis Obispo County, or helping students register locally, he said, which is a prerequisite to join the initiative.

“Our voice has a lot more power here,” Moore said. “It’s a very tangible thing, you can directly better the environment by passing this initiative.” He also urged students to come by his residence hall (Shasta Hall, room 4) to sign the initiative.

Moore has joined the Coalition to Protect San Luis Obispo County, which is the main organization to prevent the expansion of oil drills in the canyon.

Sentinel Peak Resources announced it

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| Moore walks around with a sign to gain interest and signatures.

bought the Price Canyon oil field in January 2017.

“This transaction provides the foundation to build a world-class, California-focused oil and gas company, and we look forward to working with the various stakeholders in California in a safe, reliable and environmentally sensitive manner,” President and Chief Executive Officer of Sentinel Peak Resources Michael Duginski said in a press release announcing the purchase.

Moore is working with the Coalition to Protect San Luis Obispo County, which

aims to protect water, conserve oil and save the earth, according to Charles Varni, a longtime environmental activist who is in the coalition.

Varni said the oil industry is on its way out, and the expansion of drills may harm the $1.7 billion tourism industry in San Luis Obispo.

“It’s a matter of what kind of development we want,” Varni said. “Our initiative does not affect any existing oil extraction operations in the county. This is only about new oil, and the fact is oil is on its way out.”

Times Up Cal Poly hosting town hall for students to voice concerns about sexual assault Caroline Ster, Courtney Lucas @ CPMustangNews

“We’re not going to take this anymore,” philosophy junior Gina Welisch said.

Welisch is one of the many student voices that will be featured in a “town hall” event to discuss community actions and institutional changes to protect students from sexual violence hosted by Times Up Cal Poly. The event will be held March 7 in Phillips Hall at 7 p.m.

This event was created because Times Up Cal Poly believes that administration is not upholding students’ right to exist safely and freely in a learning environment. In response to this lack of change, students say “times up, Cal Poly.”

President Jeffrey Armstrong, Vice President for Student Affairs Keith Humphrey, and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Kathleen McMahon declined to speak at the event.

“It’s so important just for educational purposes to have an event like this,” psychology

freshman Holly Davis said. “This is so important to be talking about.”

Times Up Cal Poly is a group inspired by the recent #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and they are dedicated to ending sexual violence.

Survivors are welcome to share and submit their stories to be told anonymously for the event. Some student survivors will personally tell their stories at the gathering.

The goal of this “town hall” event is to get the attention of those in authority at Cal Poly and guarantee they address the injustices facing students regarding gender-based violence. Times Up Cal Poly discussed the need for culture to change in our university’s leadership, and they don’t think that President Armstrong is working with them.

Humphrey said sexual assault is not only an issue at Cal Poly but at every college campus.

“We have students that are experimenting with alcohol, testing boundaries, and in many cases making bad decisions about

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| After the #TimesUp movement was founded, Cal Poly held a march in January.

how they treat others that create conditions for a sexual assault to occur. From my perspective we have a problem with sexual assault at Cal Poly until the day comes that we have no sexual assault on campus,”

Humphrey said. #TimesUp Cal Poly wants students to know that this event is open to everyone, and encourage people to come in with an open mind.

Clove: revoluntionizing cooking with indoor plant chambers True to Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing motto, students design their own products and start their own businesses for their senior project.

Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Senior Design Project I, II and III (ENGR 463, 464 and 465) are completed over a span of three quarters, taken in succession. The classes are a combination of engineering and business students and are advised by biomedical engineering professor Tom Katona, electrical engineering professor Lynne Slivovski and entrepreneurship professor Jonathan York.

Students must take an idea and transform it into what has the potential to be “a scalable business” with a budget of $300.

“The challenge with all of these projects is, one, of technology and making it work. I think in general, our students are pretty good at that,” Katona said. “The question is getting the other pieces together that connect it with actual users and understand how this is going to integrate in with their lives.”

Clove, one of the 10 groups, has designed a product that they believe can revolutionize the at-home cooking experience. Members are Matthew Callaghan, Alex Decker, AJ Gankhuyag, Elliot Kirk, computer science

YEAR Andrew Lam, Aaron Quinn and Kieran Scandrett, each with a specialty in hardware, software or business.

“Our product is a self-contained automated aeroponics tower, a bunch of fancy words for saying it’s a tool that allows you to grow food automatically at home,” mechanical engineering senior Callaghan said.

Pantry is a device created for culinary enthusiasts who frequently cook at home. The name was inspired by the concept of a “living pantry.”

The Clove team found that those with a passion for cooking typically were not as enthused about the amount of time, effort and money regularly dedicated to buying fresh produce.

According to Decker, the kitchen-friendly vertical farm can grow most common herbs and leafy vegetables. While some fruits could also be planted, pollination would be a limiting factor, as Pantry is an indoor device.

Scandrett compared the product to a Keurig, but for plants. The small device has 12 spots to place pods with volcanic rock that contain the seeds of a plant. Roots would grow into a chamber that fills with mist, and an enclosed LED lighting system would provide plants with the necessary energy to grow. Due to the optimal amount of water and light available to the plants, they have the ability to grow two to three times faster than they would in

normal soil. The only upkeep would involve filling the reservoir as well as trimming and replacing the plants.

The team said they agrees that delving into entrepreneurship has been a “really fun” and “really interesting” experience. They found that customer development is a constant process that forces them to reach outside of their comfort zones and have conversations with new people everyday.

The project involved a lot of trial and error, and customer reactions identified matters to be improved upon. Clove’s first Pantry design received feedback that it resembled a trash can, prompting them to change the design.

“Everyone is just as passionate about making this vision a reality,” business administration senior Scandrett said.

The team also found that they were dissatisfied with the number of email responses they were getting, and after modifying their outreach approach, they saw a 250 percent response increase.

“This entire project has been a challenge, but as a group, we’ve made sure that the direction of the group has been, for the most part, a consensus,” Callaghan said.

The Clove team is currently in the process of applying for Innovation Quest, which could provide them with more funds, the goal being

‘The Young Series’ delves into teenage culture across the world Cassandra Garibay @ Cassandragari

“Teenagers are raw adults,” New York-based writer and street photographer Amy Touchette said. “I just find them sort of interesting in their state of life because they are just embarking on adulthood.”

After walking around the streets of New York, Touchette was inspired by teenage style and began her photo series “The Young Series,” on display at the University Art Gallery in Walter F. Dexter Building (building 34) until March 16.

Touchette has written many articles about photography. Her writing led her to interviewing Cal Poly photography professor Sky Bergman about her film “Lives Well Lived,” a documentary showcasing the wisdom of 75 to 100-year-olds, which recently premiered at the Palm Theatre.

Bergman kept in contact with Touchette and connected her with the University Art Gallery to show her work. Touchette gave a lecture prior to the opening of her show Feb 22.

“The Young Series” “The Young Series” was shot with a rolodex and highlights teenagers from New York City, Oahu, Hawaii and Tokyo.

Touchette’s project originally began as “New

York Young” a series capturing New York teens.

It was published in the New York Times. Afterwards, Touchette expanded upon the project, creating “The Young Series.”

“Teenagers [have] this incredible mix of being savvy and, at the same time, were vulnerable and I was sort of transfixed by that hybrid nature of theirs. And I feel like it’s more heightened in a place like New York City,” Touchette said.

Touchette chose Oahu and Tokyo to expand her series because these cities, like New York City, are what she referred to as island locations. “[Each location has] their own distinct personality, which was part of the reason why I chose them.” Touchette said. “These island locations— even though the world is globalized— they had very sequestered populations for a while, so as a result, have very unique customs and cultures.”

To capture the true essence of teenagers and their culture, Touchette walked around looking for a subject who she felt embodied fashion and style unique to their location. She then would ask them for permission to photograph them, allowing the teens to pose themselves, only asking that they all look at the camera.

“My hope is that the experience of viewing the images is not just edifying that in that we are all in this together but that it’s just enjoy-

able like time travel without having to leave the campus,” Touchette said.

According to University Art Gallery employee and art and design junior Riley Chapman, the show is unique in its style and presentation.

“It’s a really refreshing photography show. It’s not like studio or portraiture, it’s not traditional

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$15,000, as well as company opportunities.

“We’re really optimistic for the future,” Decker said.

Pantry is constantly evolving as Clove continues to advance with the design and customer relations. The shift from a preliminary prototype to a marketable final product is in effect and continues to be fueled by innovation. photography. I think street photography is definitely very contemporary right now. It’s such a different process from traditional technique,” Chapman said.

Chapman, who helped set up the gallery said Touchette purposefully grouped certain photographs together so that the viewers may draw upon the similarities and differences of teenage culture across the globe.

“My main [point] was to show how similar teenagers are across those three locations and that’s part of the reason I put them into groups. I wanted viewers to feel compelled to draw those comparisons and the contrast,” Touchette said.

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| Street photographer Amy Touchette captured images of teenagers from New York.

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SUCCESS WITH STOVES

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| Cal Poly students, Proworld Service Corps and Peruvian families at the site of one stove. These stoves had an adoption rate of 70 percent in Cusco, Peru.

Study abroad students find success with stone stoves in Peru Olivia Hooker @ CPMustangNews

Cooking for many people is enjoyable and relaxing. However, for about three billion people worldwide, making a meal is detrimental to their health and contributes to climate change through the use of traditional stoves throughout developing countries, according to geography professor James Keese.

“The traditional stove is basically an open fire inside the house. They put adobe blocks in a horseshoe with a pot on top and just light a fire in their house generating smoke everywhere,” Keese said.

As families use these biomass open-fire

stoves, the smoke exposure puts them at risk for respiratory infections, heart disease, illness, eye irritation and many other health threats, according to Keese.

“This especially affects women and children who spend a disproportionate time inside,” Keese said.

Cal Poly Global Program: Cal Poly in Peru was created by Keese and political science professor Craig Arceneaux in 2006, as a four-week summer program, but it has transitioned into an eight-week spring program. Cal Poly students in this program participate in an ongoing project that helps design and install clean burning stoves for indigenous communities within the region of Cusco, Peru, according to Keese.

Cal Poly works with Proworld Service issue, many projects to install new stoves Corps, a non-governmental organization have erupted, but the problem is that stove (NGO). Environmental management and programs around the world have low rates protection sophomore Lauren Zaragoza of adoption by the indigenous communiknows how paramount this project is. She ties, Keese said. took part in the Peru program in 2017 “In reality, if the stove doesn’t work and discussed her experience well or if it is not easy to use, installing news stoves. it is not a matter of teach“I thought it was more ing people how to use it,” important that the Keese said. “If the stove NGO we worked with is inferior and if it is were closely affiliatnot equivalent or beted with the commuter than what they are nities that they built using now, they are stoves for. Designing not going to use it.” a stove that fit in culBut Cal Poly’s work turally with their cookin Peru has shown to be ing style was way more a major success in a folJAMES KEESE important than just giving low-up study conducted in a fancy, new stove,” Zaragoza March 2015. The adoption rate said. “The ones we built were very of the new stoves was 70 percent, similar to an open fire stove except they according to Keese. Anthropology and had a chimney as an escape for the smoke. geology junior Anna Williamson said she The design served purpose for large pots enjoyed the full circle nature of the project. and kept the taste of food the same,” Zara“It was really nice to learn about the projgoza said. ect beforehand, and then go in ourselves Since the acknowledgment of this global and actually build them,” Williamson said.

This especially affects women and children who spend a disproportionate time inside.

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End the war in Afghanistan Elias Atienza @ elias_atienza

Elias Atienza is a history junior and Mustang News opinion editor. The views expressed in this column do not reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News.

Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires. Its historically isolated culture and topography made it difficult for infamous conquerors like the British, Arabs and the Soviet Union hold the region. So why have we been there for 17 years?

When the United States military first went to Afghanistan in 2001, it was because they were hunting down a specific enemy. Osama Bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and the United States sought justice. But after killing him in 2011, ten years after 9/11, we continued to pour troops and resources into the country, despite accomplishing the original goal.

It’s time to acknowledge that we will never win the war in Afghanistan. Senator Rand Paul knows this. President Donald J. Trump, used to speak out against the war. Even Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that we may “never win” in a press conference last August.

The United States will never be able to declare victory in Afghanistan as long as we continue to have the same goal of uniting every single inch, nook and cranny under the Kabul regime. Only 56 percent of the country is under government control, with the rest contested by the Taliban and other insurgent groups. The Taliban is active in 70 percent of the country. This is after 17 years of con-

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| Atienza argues it’s time to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war the United States has waged in its history.

tinuous warfare, from the initial invasion to the troop surges, to Trump sending 4,000 additional soldiers back into Afghanistan.

Neoconservatives want to continue this war until Afghanistan magically falls into the hands of the national government.

They believe that unconditional surrender will come from a faction that has not been destroyed in 17 years of fighting. This is not World War II. It is the modern age.

Senator Paul wrote for Fox News, “If victory requires the disparate tribes and regional fac-

tions of Afghanistan to have more allegiance to a regime in Kabul than to their local tribal leaders, then victory will never come.”

We have spent at least $1 trillion on this war since it began in 2001. That $1 trillion figure does not begin to take into account the cost the war has had on the psyche and society of both America and Afghanistan.

The United States does not have a clear strategy for finishing this war. Like Vietnam, we are expected to continue to bleed for a regime that is corrupt and unstable. While the Taliban may never win, neither will we or the

Afghan national government. It will continue to be a stalemate that will kill thousands on both sides for decades to come.

This is a war without end. It is a war that will continue to damage our people, assets and reputation across the world. Afghanistan is the graveyard of thousands of Americans, tens of thousands of Afghans and it’s where our empire went to die. It’s time to settle with the Taliban and other insurgent groups and bring our soldiers back home.

Maybe then we can throw that military parade the President wants.

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1. Chop or cut 4. Green veggie 7. Bar bill 10. Doctors’ group 11. One who buys and sells securities (slang) 12. Be in debt 13. Lively ballroom dance 15. Singer Charles 16. Polish city 19. Former 21. Dismissing from employment 23. Minerals 24. Plotted 25. Consult 26. After a prayer 27. Agents of one’s downfall 30. Leaseholders 34. Supervises flying 35. Voodoo god 36. Alfalfa 41. Apply another coat to 45. Witnesses 46. Jai __, sport 47. Ones who proof 50. Recant 54. Small group with shared interests 55. Part of warming headgear 56. Woolen cloth 57. Snag 59. Central American fruit tree 60. Woman (French) 61. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet 62. Type of bed 63. Soviet Socialist Republic 64. Consume 65. Japanese freight company (abbr.)

1. Czech monetary unit 2. Able to arouse intense feeling 3. Elk 4. Muscular weaknesses 5. Geological time 6. Depths of the ocean 7. Burns to the ground 8. Becomes cognizant of 9. Cause to shade 13. US political party 14. Refers to some of a thing 17. Single 18. Type of beer 20. Ancient Iranian people 22. Grocery chain 27. Gridiron league 28. English river 29. __ and cheese 31. Peyton’s younger brother 32. Long time 33. High schoolers’ test 37. Respects 38. Organize anew 39. Filippo __, Saint 40. Intrinsic nature of something 41. Cheese dish 42. Ancient Greek City 43. Patron saint of Ireland 44. Produced by moving aircraft or vehicle 47. Shock treatment 48. __ Jones 49. Things 51. Having wings 52. Panthers’ QB Newton 53. Third-party access 58. Satisfaction

HOROSCOPES ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 A change is rumbling for you., Aries, and it’s coming soon. Be prepared to make some uncomfortable changes. You’ll get used to them.

Text your mom about your day Thursday night.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you’ve been feeling defeated lately.

Count your roses, not your thorns. Thing will get better. Write a letter to an old flame Wednesday morning.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 You’re doing more harm than good lately, Gemini. Do something positive for a change.

Fax an apology letter to the last person you hurt Friday night.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Things might not work out just as you planned, Cancer. That’s okay, sometimes it’s important to go with the flow. Email a professor about something you enjoyed in their class Tuesday morning.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, stresses at work have been causing anxiety in your day to day life. It’s been affecting those you care about and you know it. Reinitiate conversation with someone you’ve ghosted recently.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Stop investing so much time in negative presences in your life, Scorpio. It’s time to focus positive energy on you! Write a love letter to yourself Sunday evening.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, nothing is either here nor there for you this week. You’re just living and that’s OK. Text a coworker a funny emoji Monday morning.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 A cutie is looking your way, Capricorn, look alive! Remember to be yourself, that is the best version of you. Slide into someone’s DMs Thursday night.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 You’ve been overconfident about your decisions, Leo. Scale it back a bit, you might be scaring some folks off. Try your hand at smoke signals Saturday evening.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 It’s the journey, not the destination, Aquarius.

Slow down, you’ll get to where you need to be.

Give your cousin a shoutout on your local radio station.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, you’re everyone’s favorite this week.

Your friends mean a lot to you, so keep up the good work. Do something fun with a good friend, they will appreciate it. Leave a funny voicemail Thursday morning.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, welcome to your season! This is your month, so flaunt your best attributes! Write a brave message to a fling via sky writing.

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Undersized but undeterred Standing at 5 feet 5 inches, it is no secret that Basallo is a petite player. However, being the shortest player on the Cal Poly team hasn’t stopped her from contributing in a big way. Basallo averages almost eight points in an average 18 minutes per game for the Mustangs, who rank second in the Big West Conference. “[Basallo] comes in and gives us instant offense,” Mimnaugh said. “Her intelligence on the court, her ball handling, all of it is something that’s beyond where most freshman would be.”

Basallo also shoots 40.8 percent from the three-point line, putting her at sixth in the Big West. As the only freshman point guard entering a Cal Poly roster stacked with seven seniors, Basallo knew she had to impress from the start.

“I knew I had to be a threat,” Basallo said.

“I have to score and be a leader … even though I’m a freshman. It’s pretty much the things I’ve been doing all my life.”

While growing up in San Francisco, Basallo was exposed to other sports like gymnastics and martial arts. But after seeing her older sister play basketball, she was hooked.

“She would see the difference in the crowd noise,” Ayzhiana’s father Cesar Basallo said.

“When you’re at a basketball game, people are going crazy — the fans, the coaches, the players. There’s a lot of excitement. I think she was drawn to that.”

By the end of elementary school, Ayzhiana was taking the sport seriously. She began to work on conditioning, forming the practice routine that she follows today. Ayzhiana’s determination to be the best became clear to her father.

“She’s the one that wanted to go to the gym, she’s the one who wanted to go work out,” Cesar Basallo said. “That’s the difference — when you’re a parent and you have a kid and you have to tell them, to go to practice, to wake up, get your stuff, don’t forget your shoes… she never did that. Everything was ready, and we had to be early.”

Ayzhiana developed her game with Golden City, a youth team in San Francisco. While still in eighth grade, she was matched up against high school students. Senior guard Kelly Wong, also a San Francisco native, remembers noticing Basallo on the court.

“She had quick handles, she’s really fast, she has good court vision,” Wong said. “You could really tell she loves the game.”

Before her sophomore year of high school, Ayzhiana was already capturing the attention of college coaches.

“I started getting phone calls at the end of the summer from college coaches … at that time she was a 5’3”, 5’4” backup point guard, impressing Division I college coaches,” head coach of Golden City Armando Pazos said.

Already defying expectations, Ayzhiana had her mind set on making an impact at the Division I level. To achieve that, she knew she couldn’t let up. In her last year

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with Golden City, Pazos, who describes himself as a “tough coach”, considered taking it easier on her.

“She didn’t want that,” Pazos said. “She wanted me to keep pushing her because she wanted to continue to get better.”

Becoming a Mustang Currently a recreation parks and administration major, Ayzhiana signed her letter of intent to play for Cal Poly in November 2016.

“It was an accomplishment,” Ayzhiana said. “I try to be someone that people can look up to. Just that my height doesn’t really matter, as long as you put in the work, and got a big heart.”

Ayzhiana’s first game as a Mustang was a homecoming, as the team traveled to play the University of San Francisco at the War Memorial Sobrato Center. The gym was filled with memories for Basallo, it was where she played her high school’s rival when she attended St. Ignatius Prep.

Despite being 230 miles away from Mott, Cal Poly had supporters in the stands.

Ayzhiana’s family, friends, and former teammates showed up in force.

“It was a pretty surreal experience,” Cesar said. “As soon as she came off the bench ... a lot of the people we know were going crazy.”

Ayzhiana entered the game late in the first quarter, immediately making her presence known just 10 seconds later with a jumper for her first points as a Mustang.

“I just wanted to come out with fire,”

Ayzhiana said, “I wanted to show everyone that this team is going to win.”

Ayzhiana recorded 11 points and six assists in 20 minutes in what was ultimately a loss to the home team. Since then, Ayzhiana has continued to contribute to the Mustangs’ offense. Early this January, she recorded a career-high 21 points.

“She’s like a little silent assassin,” Wong said. “Before you know it, she’s at like, 15 points already.”

Mimnaugh echoed Wong’s sentiments, even predicting that Ayzhiana could one day end up with a plaque of her own hanging in the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame.

“Ayzhiana is someone that can light up the gym,” Mimnaugh said. “I certainly think by the time that Ayzhiana graduates she’ll be one of the top ten scorers in Cal Poly history.”

Shot after shot It was the endless days and nights of practicing for hours on end that brought the undersized Filipino American to Cal Poly.

“I probably don’t tell her enough of how proud I am of her, it’s such a big deal that she’s made it this far,” Pazos said. “But I know she’s going to go so much further than this.”

Ayzhiana hopes she can be an inspiration, especially for kids growing up in the Bay Area.

“She does take pride in it — you don’t see too many [Filipino American] players at the Division I level,” Cesar said. “Especially

from the Bay Area.”

For the current players at her former San Francisco stomping grounds, Ayzhiana serves as an iconic figure that many can relate to.

“The younger girls in my program look up to her,” Pazos said. “They all say they want to be like her, especially her being 5’5” and an Asian player. She’s a huge inspiration.”

Ayzhiana helps Pazos and her former club with training the next generation of young basketball players in the Bay Area. She aims to encourage others like her — girls with a wpassion for basketball that are willing to put in the work — to keep going.

“Keep working because something is going to happen,” Ayzhiana said. “Don’t listen to anybody, just believe in yourself. Believe in the process, believe in what you’re doing.

Let all of the hate fuel you.”

Now, Ayzhiana is focused on the next step for her team: winning the Big West tournament. In a preseason poll, the Cal Poly team was projected to finish sixth in the conference, a massive underestimation of a team that’s now poised for a deep playoff run.

“This year I want to turn it around,” Ayzhiana said. “We just want to show everyone that that’s not us, and eventually, game-bygame, to make it to the championship.”

The dream of winning a championship with the Mustangs is what keeps Ayzhiana coming back to the gym twice a day, in her relentless routine of practicing shot, after shot, after shot.

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