Mustang News March 12, 2019

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Shabang Reborn will include headliners Cherry Glazerr, Bane’s World and Will Clarke.

D ES I GN Calista Lam Director Michelle Cao Solena Aguilar Julia Jackson-Clark D I V ERS I TY Monique Ejenuko Editor PR Alyssa Wilson Dominique Morales Kaitlyn Hoyer Mikaela Lincoln Tess Loarie Intern Christina Arthur Intern SOCIAL Emma Kumagawa Hanna Crowley Danielle Lee Kelsey Luvisa Candace Lee Intern S PEC I A L S ECT I O N S Isabel Hughes Editor A DV ERT I S I NG Bianka Pantoja Manager BJ Drye Manager Kylie Goldfarb Manager Shea Irwin Design Manager Keilani Waxdeck Design Lauren Marshall Design Steven Nguyen Design Von Balanon Design Kendra Oliver Design Jasen Journeycake Distribution A DV I S O RS Paul Bittick General Manager Pat Howe Brady Teufel

BY AUST IN L IN T H ICU M Shabang Reborn will return to Laguna Lake Park May 4 with headliners Cherry Glazerr, Bane’s World and Will Clarke. The festival is expected to be the largest to-date.

These artists join more than 25 acts

on three stages, including Sure Sure and The Palms, Jasper Bones, San Luis Obispo bands Dudeo Perez and Arthur Watership and electronic artists Madeaux and Lucati.

“In addition to the caliber of music we’ve booked, we have opened up the

creative floodgate, and fans can expect an immersive, artistic and all-around memorable experience,” Shabang Director and Cal Poly alumnus Ryan Snow said.

General admission tickets are now on sale for $35, and bus passes from Cal Poly and Campus Bottle are available for $8.

There will be several local food vendors on site, and SLO Brew will provide beer for the event. Shabang will also feature live art installations.

Hosted by local production groups Shabang, Respect the Funk and KCPR, Shabang began in 2014 as a small Cuesta Ridge concert. Now, it has become a bi-annual festival, attended by 4,000 people in Fall 2018.

“Attendees should be most excited about the ‘Reborn’ part of this upcoming Shabang,” Shabang Founder Greg Golf said. “This will be a completely new experience for our fans and will blow away first timers.”

MUSTANG MEDIA GROUP WINS 48 NATIONAL & STATE AWARDS

BY MUSTAN G N E W S STAF F RE P O RT Every platform of Mustang Media Group (MMG) received national recognition Saturday, Mar. 2 from three of college media’s most distinguished organizations — the California College Media Association (CCMA), the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) and the College Media Business and Advertising Managers (CMBAM).

Mustang News was awarded first place in both the California College Media Awards (CCMA) — meaning it won out of all California university newspapers — and Best of Show awards at the convention for its redesigned website launched in Fall 2018. The print newspaper overall received first prize at the conference and second in CCMA.

Mustang News’ overall social media strategy received first place in the country at the CMBAM awards and took first in California for social coverage of the midterm election.

MMG was awarded second best media company in the country.

The editorial team also received first place honors in layout design for the blue-green rivalry print spread. Graphic communication senior and Mustang News designer Julia Jackson-Clark earned first place illustration/cartoon with her frontpage illustration of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The team also won best multimedia package highlighting Women’s Basketball’s Dye Stahley and best photo illustration after the California fires.

Art and design senior and Advertising

Design Manager Shea Irwin; journalism senior and Advertising Manager Bianka Pantoja; and journalism senior and PR Director Claire Blachowski were also awarded for their contributions to MMG this year.

This was the first time the national conference brought together both the editorial and business teams in one location.

More than 50 staff members attended sessions throughout the weekend geared towards design, marketing, advertising, photojournalism, reporting on tragedy and more taught by professors and advisers in collegiate media as well as professionals in the field. MMG members Blachowski, Austin Linthicum, BJ Drye and Lauren Arendt also led their own sessions at the convention.

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Men’s Basketball head coach Joe Callero talks to players at their Feb. 9 home game against Long Beach.

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STUDENT DIAGNOSED WITH CHICKENPOX DESPITE CAL POLY VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS According to California State University Immunization Requirements (Executive Order 803), students are permitted to attend a CSU for up to an entire academic year before providing proof of full immunization upon the campuses’ discretion.

Cal Poly Immunization Policy requires that incoming students provide full proof of either vaccination or medical exemption at the beginning of their second term. To elaborate, a student could attend for a full Fall quarter, and be required to submit full proof by the beginning of Winter quarter and if they failed to do so, their class registration would be placed on hold.

On March 5 a Cal Poly student was diagnosed with Varicella, otherwise known as Chicken Pox, a highly contagious disease that is especially dangerous for people with weakened immune systems, babies, pregnant women, adolescents and adults.

The Varicella vaccine is one of the required vaccinations according to University Immunization Policy unless waived by a medical exemption form.

“Students who do not provide proof of full immunization by the beginning of the second term of the academic year (i.e., fall, winter, spring) shall not be allowed to enroll in future classes until proof of full immunization has been provided to the campus,” the Cal Poly Immunization Policy read.

In January of 2016, Governor Jerry Brown passed a bill titled “SB 277,” which banned the “personal or religious belief” vaccination exemption for schools. Currently, students can be exempt from immunization if forms are submitted by a physician stating that it would be medically unsafe for the individual to be immunized.

After Brown’s bill passed, the rate of medical exemptions nearly quadrupled, according to a study by the Journal of Pediatrics.

Currently, the CSU-wide immunization policy is under revision.

Revisions to the Executive Order 803 are in final review and will go into action Fall 2019, Toni Kelley of the CSU Public Affairs Office wrote in an email to Mustang News. Further details on the 2019 revisions were

not provided.

Because the E.O. 803 is not yet revised, all students who either received vaccinations or were exempt while attending California Public School have satisfied the requirement to be admitted into the CSU System.

“Students enrolled in a California Public School for the seventh grade or higher on or after July 1, 1999 will have satisfied this requirement,” Chancellor Charles B. Reed wrote in the E.O. 803.

In an Immunization requirement form posted on Cal Poly’s website, the form states that “students who graduated from a California Public high school after January 2005 do not need to complete and submit this form to provide proof of immunization against Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Hepatitis B.” However, due to the permissible “personal belief ” exemption that was in place prior to 2016, there is no promise that all public school kids were vaccinated, according to County of San Luis Obispo Public Health Department Health Agency Communications Coordinator Tara Kennon.

“While the state public health department and local school systems would have recommended that people who attended public school in [California] receive immunizations, personal belief exemptions were allowed until 2016 — so there was no guarantee that all public school stu-

dents would be vaccinated,” Kennon wrote.

Cal Poly Spokesperson Matt Lazier declined the request for specific data involving how many Cal Poly students are not vaccinated.

Measles, Rubella, Meningococcal and Hepatitis B vaccinations are discussed in the Executive Order 803.

CSU students are required to provide proof of either Measles, Rubella and Hepatitis B vaccination or medical exemption. “Specified Student Groups” have additional immunization proof requirements.

“These groups include students who reside in on-campus residence halls, students whose primary and secondary schooling were obtained outside of the United States, students who are enrolled in dietetics, medical technology, nursing, physical therapy and any practicum, student teaching or field work involving preschool age children or taking place in a hospital or health care center,” the Executive Order 803 reads. In regard to the Meningococcal immunization, the University is required to educate all incoming students on the disease, and each student is required to submit a form stating whether or not they chose to receive the vaccine.

The vaccination for Meningococcal and Varicella are not required by the CSU Executive Order 803, but are required by Cal Poly University.

However, medical exemptions are permitted.

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Jake Douglas auditioned for Wheel of Fortune his freshman year at Cal Poly and two years later he got a call , saying he was chosen for a college episode.

STUDENT TAKING A SPIN ON ‘WHEEL OF FORTUNE’

BY E MMA KU M AGAW A Graphic communication junior Jake Douglas had an hour to kill between classes. He went to the University Union in a state of boredom — and then spotted the Wheel of Fortune Wheelmobile in Chumash Auditorium.

Douglas went to investigate and was swept into a mock audition.

Moving on to another round of auditions in Paso Robles, Douglas played six rounds of mock games with about 100 players until he was one of the last 15 standing.

“They were like, ‘Hey, we’ll e-mail you when you’re going to be on the show,’” Douglas said.

Two years later, Douglas received an email from Wheel of Fortune confirming his appearance on a “college edition” episode. The taping was scheduled for Feb. 18, 2019.

After a full day of classes, Douglas headed down to Los Angeles with two friends and settled into a hotel. The next morning, they hopped on a shuttle filled with other college students and left for Sony Studios. The contestants were consulted by lawyers about

the rules and then allowed an onstage rehearsal where they could practice spinning the wheel.

“The wheel is pretty heavy, actually,” Douglas said. “In the rehearsal parts, they had us spin the wheel probably 20 times each, just like, ‘Alright no, you need to follow through on that. We need a good spin each time.’ It was intense.”

In total, 20 college students came for taping, with two as backups. Six consecutive episodes were filmed in front of a live audience.

“They make everything look so much bigger than it actually is,” Douglas said. “It was really fun. It was exciting — really nerve-wracking — being up there. Pat Sajak is actually as charismatic as he seems on TV, just naturally. He’s a really nice, funny, genuine person. Vanna White? Also awesome.”

The show will air March 18, 2019 at 7 p.m., allowing the country — and Cal Poly community — to find out whether or not Douglas won.

“It’s definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, like, I don’t think I’ll ever go do something like that again,” Douglas said. “It’s something I’ll remember for a long time.”

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CAMPUS DINING ANNOUNCES END OF MEAL CREDITS DINING COMES FACE-TO-FACE WITH STUDENTS IN OPEN FORUM

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A panel of four representatives from Campus Dining spoke at the event.

BY SA MA N T H A S P I TZ Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), Inter Housing Council (IHC) and Campus Dining collaborated to hold a Campus Dining Open Forum Friday, Mar. 8 from 1-2 p.m. in the University Union.

The event served as a way for students to express feedback on Campus Dining and voice their opinions about the current food on campus.

There were about 50 to 65 individuals in attendance, along with 700 people tuned into the live stream of the event.

Two ASI board members, anthropology senior Aliza Herzberg and business senior Jack Wooldridge helped organize the event.

“I really just wanted to increase transparency,” Wooldridge said.

“So, allowing students to have that voice and communicate directly towards dining and then having dining be able to directly follow-up with the students.”

A panel of four representatives from Campus Dining, including Campus Dining Director Tom Visvikis, Assistant Director of Campus Dining Russell Monteath, Campus Dining Registered Dietitian and Sustainability Coordinator Kaitlin Gibbons and Corporation Counsel and Director of Facilities Will Marchese, attended and answered questions during the forum.

Political science freshman and IHC member Austin McLellan pitched the idea for the open forum and helped coordinate the event.

“We want to have more opportunities like this for residents, for

students to talk to dining and voice their opinion,” McLellan said.

The forum started with a statement from each of the representatives, followed by answering pre-submitted questions from students.

The forum was then opened up to students in attendance to ask questions.

Cal Poly currently displays three options for food and container disposal on campus: recycle, landfill and compost. During the open forum, animal science senior Tyler Knight asked the representatives about their plans to educate students as to which item belongs in which bin.

“It’d be a really good idea to post pictures of the things that are served [in each dining facility] rather than just a plastic cup or a paper box because those aren’t the things you’re getting when you’re ordering those items,” Knight said. “It gets confusing and then you see Chickfil-A boxes in every single trash can: compost, recycling and trash.”

Questions about meal plans, food quality, the lack of variety, alternative food options and a better food review system were just a few of the many concerns brought up during the forum.

According to Visvikis, meal credits will be eliminated next year and students will have the option to choose between three different amounts of declining balances for their meal plan.­ Gibbons said the Avenue’s Student Choice option, where students vote on a type of food for the quarter serves as a way to rotate the menu, but they will continue to look at solutions especially with the upcoming Building 19 (The Avenue and 805 Kitchen) Renovation project.

Updates on the new market coming to yakʔitʸutʸu were discussed as the plans are complete and currently under peer review. Marchese said they expect the market project to start sometime in Fall 2020.

Students not only voiced concerns, but also offered suggestions, including a system where students can bring in their own bowls and take food to go — eliminating contamination and waste.

NEW WINE AND VITICULTURE CENTER TO BREAK GROUND SOON

OPENING PUSHED FROM FALL 2019 TO SUMMER 2020

BY SA MA NTH A SP ITZ Designs for the new JUSTIN and J. LOHR Center for Wine and Viticulture are complete and construction is expected to begin within the next two months.

“It’s going to be the best thing that Cal Poly can do for this program,” enology lecturer and Pilot Winery Manager Jim Shumate said.

The center is named after JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery and J. Lohr Vineyards following the donation of $2.5 million from each owner to Cal Poly’s campaign to build a new space for the Wine and Viticulture program.

According to director of communications and strategic initiatives for the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science (CAFES) Haley Marconett, the college has raised about 75 percent of the total $20 million projected cost. The project is funded by private donations, so the college is contacting other potential donors offering naming rights for tanks, barrel rooms and fermentation labs to finish off fundraising for the project.

The new center will include two

buildings located on Mount Bishop Road between the crops unit and the H-1 parking lot on Cal Poly’s campus. A 15,600-square-foot winery with a fermentation hall, bottling room, barrel rooms and a research lab will be built first, followed by a 12,000-square-foot grange hall. The grange hall will house a space for industry and community events, viticulture and enology labs and offices for faculty and students.

An additional building has been proposed to follow the completion of the winery and grange hall but has not been publicly announced.

“Adding this facility is going to make the program so much better because the students are going to get real world applications,” Shumate said. “We will now have the room to produce three different types of wine in this facility.”

The Wine and Viticulture Program in CAFES currently has a 14-acre vineyard and small winery used for teaching and providing students with a hands-on-experience.

Currently all Cal Poly-labeled wine is produced at Chamisal Vineyards off-campus because there is not enough room in the pilot winery.

Only research wine and wine made during wine and viticulture classes are produced at the pilot winery.

According to Shumate, the new facility will allow for the production and bottling of three types of wine: Cal Poly-labeled wine, student-made wine and research wine.

The 14-acre winery will still be used for fruit production in addition to the new winery.

The center was originally scheduled to open in Fall 2019, but the opening has been pushed back due to building-plan-approval wait times and permit timing. The winery is anticipated to be complete in late Summer 2020 with the grange hall following shortly after, but no specific dates have been released.

Cal Poly is partnering with TLCD Architecture, Von Raesfeld and JW Design & Construction to complete the project.

“I know there are a lot of classes that use the current vineyards, so this new center will give us more space,” wine and viticulture sophomore CJ Cole said. “Right now, not a lot of people are usually down there hanging out, but if we got a new space it could change that.”

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A new wine and viticulture center is slated to open Summer 2020.

BY KAIL EY O ’ CO N N ELL Hazy grey water whooshes over rocks and stones on its way south, kicking up soil and dirt in its path.

Small tree branches coil around the stream, blowing lazily in the breeze, as leaves flutter into the tide. A choir of crickets chirp in the distance, performing a soundtrack for the free flowing creek teeming with life.

It flows by Taco Bell, Breakfast Buzz and even through the center of Cal Poly, but you have probably never seen it. It is Brizzolara Creek, a three-mile stream running southwest through campus into Stenner Creek.

Cal Poly has stated its commitment to sustainability in areas such as energy, water and zero waste, but one student is worried local creeks, including Brizzolara, are threatened by Cal Poly’s expansion plans.

Written in 2016, the Cal Poly Master Housing Plan aims to expand the physical campus and facilities through 2035 to accommodate large numbers of incoming students. Continuous construction and development over the next 15 years, however, comes with numerous impacts to the environment.

According to Environmental Outreach and Education Club President Kaiyana Aldrich, the housing plan presents “huge issues” to Brizzolara Creek.

“It’s not sustainable for that amount of stormwater to go into that stream when it rains,” Aldrich said.

An environmental earth and soil sciences junior, Aldrich has also served as a resident advisor in Poly Canyon Village for the past two years.

Aldrich said working closely with on-campus housing has prompted her to pay attention to upcoming housing development plans.

According to Aldrich, Brizzolara Creek already faces issues from housing pollution runoff. More expansion along the creek will only augment those issues.

“I do believe Cal Poly has its heart in the right place — it just thinks about its own needs first,” Aldrich said. “It does come at the cost of the local environment and does impact the community of San Luis Obispo.”

The university is aware the development will impact the creeks. In fact, the Board of Trustees wrote an Environmental Impact Report to examine just how much it could affect them.

This report analyzes different aspects of the environmental impact

the housing development could leave as what it deems a “potentially significant impact,” such as greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, soils and water quality.

According to project planner and architect in Facilities Planning and Capital Projects Anthony Palazzo, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires owners of construction projects to identify potential environmental impacts and develop mitigation plans to minimize those impacts on the natural environment.

“Cal Poly works with environmental consultants to ensure third-party experts identify these impacts and propose effective mitigation strategies,” Palazzo wrote in an email to Mustang News.

The master plan states that development would not violate water quality standards, expose people or structures to significant risk or substantially alter the drainage pattern of the site. The authors deemed these risks “no impact” or “less than significant impact.”

However, there was one issue deemed potentially impactful. The report authors agreed Brizzolara Creek could be threatened, as the project will contribute runoff exceeding the capacity of existing stormwater drainage systems.

Palazzo said Cal Poly’s stormwater drainage system was designed to allow water to flow away from public buildings and property to prevent damage and safety hazards.

“Rain water flows away from buildings, sidewalks and streets and enters one of 1,400 drain inlets across the campus core,” Palazzo wrote in an email. “The university deploys control measures to minimize solid materials from entering the stormwater drains and maximizes replenishing groundwater by diverting rain water into the ground where practical.”

Palazzo said Cal Poly’s stormwater operations team visually monitors the stormwater system during rain events to prevent flooding and to identify potential problems and that the campus also conducts routine maintenance of streets, sidewalks and storm drains to prevent obstructions and debris flowing into the drains during rain events. All discharges are currently made under a state water board permit and coordinated by the local Regional Water Quality Control Board.

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According to Kaiyana Aldrich, the housing plan presents “huge issues” to Brizzolara Creek. sciences professor Nicholas Babin, stormwater could contribute excess pollution to Brizzolara Creek.

“When you’re paving things and building construction, you end up with more water flowing more rapidly and directly to certain spots rather than being able to percolate,” Babin said. “That could bring some sediment or other things into the creek.”

There are many ways to combat stormwater drainage patterns, Babin said, such as rain gardens, cisterns, living roofs or rain barrels.

According to Palazzo, master plan projects are subject to state stormwater design requirements during the construction permitting process.

“This includes mitigation measures for runoff into streams by either re-

taining it on site or filtration of solids, depending on the circumstance,” Palazzo wrote in an email. “Additionally, during construction, Cal Poly is subject to additional controls to prevent disturbed soils and construction debris from being carried by rain water into the stormwater drainage system. These controls are mandated by the state’s stormwater permit regulations, which are monitored and enforced by the Regional Water Quality Control Board.”

The university’s Board of Trustees prioritized the Master Housing Plan in order to “accommodate a gradual growth in student enrollment projected to reach 22,500 FTE [full-time equivalent] students (25,000 headcount students) by 2035.” The previous plan, structured in 2001, was

similarly designed to accommodate 17,000 students.

According to Palazzo, Cal Poly is currently revising the master plan based on comments received from the campus community when the master plan draft and supporting environmental documents were made available to review in Nov. 2017.

Palazzo said Cal Poly will share the revisions in Spring 2019 and will submit the revised plan to the California State University Board of Trustees for approval in Nov. 2020.

Until then, Aldrich said she hopes to raise awareness about how the plan will affect the local environment.

“If we have a bunch of students saying, ‘We don’t want to do that,’ and make enough noise, they will have to listen,” Aldrich said.

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TAKING POD RACING TO A NEW LEVEL CAL POLY HYPERLOOP TEAM MAKES SPACEX FINALS

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Cal Poly Hyperloop Team made it to SpaceX pod racing finals.

BY RAC HEL MA R QUA R DT He and his team were only allowed 15 minutes to answer the questions fired at them before the Skype call was cut off. On the other end of the call were SpaceX engineers that would decide the future of the project mechanical engineering senior and Cal Poly Hyperloop President Sam Flood and the Hyperloop team

had been working on since July 2018.

If the engineers found them worthy, they would be entered into the final round of the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition and would compete in a drag race for the fastest pod.

“We know our pod very, very well,” Flood said. “We designed it to be simple, really effective, and they recognized that.”

About 200 schools entered the first

round of the competition, and only 22 made it to the final round. Cal Poly’s Hyperloop team was informed Feb. 22 that they were part of the 22 teams.

In July, the team will travel to Hawthorne, California to race their pod at SpaceX’s headquarters.

“It was pretty uncertain that we would make it,” aerospace engineering freshman and Hyperloop manufacturing team member Kevin Hamel

said. “No first-year team has ever made it to [the final] stage.”

This is Cal Poly’s first ever Hyperloop team. The SpaceX competition itself is just returning for the fourth time, having begun in 2015.

The club’s main goal is to build a pod that emulates a train, which will travel in a one-mile vacuum tube at SpaceX’s headquarters.

The idea is to build a pod that can travel the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco in around 37 minutes. No one has ever achieved this speed before. With their math and calculations, the club’s pod has been estimated to travel about 200 mph. While this is not quite as fast as the speed needed to reach the goal, the team said they were excited for the opportunity.

“It’s all going to be over in 30 seconds,” Flood said. “We’re going to hit a button, and it goes, and all of our hopes and dreams will go with it for 30 seconds, and then it’s over.”

The club went through three rounds of elimination, including a preliminary design review, a 120page final design review and, lastly, an interview with SpaceX engineers.

In July 2019, the Hyperloop team will compete with Massachusetts In-

stitute of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, Purdue University and other teams all over the globe in the finals. Each team will receive three 30-second chances to see if their pod will be the fastest to speed down the mile-long tube.

“The competition is really just about getting into the competition, and after that it’s easy,” physics senior and Hyperloop treasurer Mackenzie Duce said.

Flood began the club April of last year with a friend and held an interest meeting for the Hyperloop club, a club dedicated to SpaceX’s competition. Since April, 202 members have joined, and the team has split into sections to work on their pod.

“It’s definitely grown way past anything I expected or wanted,” Flood said. “It’s amazing, and it’s been a lot of fun.”

The only step prior to their final race is to submit a 200-page safety report in Spring 2019 to prove their pod will stop while in SpaceX’s tube.

“We’re going to load something that is going to go 200 mph, and [SpaceX] just [has] to trust that we know enough of what we are doing that it’s going to stop and not break their $6 million tube,” Flood said.

NEW BUILDING LEAVES 2,300 PLANTS HOMELESS

BY A S HL EY LA D I N There are more than 2,300 individual plants living in the Cal Poly plant conservatory — and they are all getting evicted this summer. The on-campus facility is getting torn down to make space for the Science and Agriculture Teaching and Research Complex, which will begin construction May 2019.

Conservatory members are currently working with the Horticulture and Crop Science Department to secure a temporary space to store the plants while a new plant conservatory is built. The university originally told conservatory volunteers that a new, permanent facility would be available to move the plants into before demolition. Four months away from the expected demolition date, funding for the new conservatory has yet to be secured.

The plant conservatory has five dif-

ferent climate-controlled greenhouses to accommodate more than 1,100 plant species from across the globe.

The temporary space will only be able to maintain one climate, which student curator and agricultural and environmental plant sciences senior Molly Vanderlip said will keep the plants surviving but not thriving.

Vanderlip has been volunteering at the conservatory since Winter quarter her freshman year and now holds a paid position. She is in the conservatory every weekday to water, weed and care for the plants.

“This has been the most important thing for my college experience,” Vanderlip said. “This place is where I do the hands-on stuff for my major.

People care about it. There’s [alumni] that come in and say ‘Oh, I worked here 10 years ago, this is awesome that it’s still here, it was such a life-shaping place for me’ and I’m like, ‘Me too!’”

There are about 20 weekly volun-

teers at the conservatory, but more than 2,000 students visit the conservatory each year during classes.

“I think [the conservatory loss] is really going to affect the biology programs,” Vanderlip said. “When you walk into a certain greenhouse, like the desert or tropical room, you are in the environment with the plants, and you’re feeling, ‘Oh, it’s hot in this greenhouse’ or ‘It’s humid.’ You associate and learn more than just seeing a plant in a classroom.”

The conservatory is open to the public and students from all majors are encouraged to visit. Physics sophomore Jack Crofton started visiting the conservatory last year during his class breaks and said he decided to start officially volunteering at the beginning of winter quarter this year.

“I’m excited for a new greenhouse, because this place is old, some of the heaters don’t work and everything’s leaking,” Crofton said. “But, I think

they should build the new place before they tear [the current one] down. They said it’s going to be up by the start of next year, but they haven’t even started so I don’t think that’s realistic. It’s a bummer. ” Vanderlip said some supporters are planning to protest the demolition if funding for the new facility is not secured before the tear down date.

“If they can’t promise they will build a new one because there isn’t funding, we can say ‘Okay, you’re not going to take down the old one,’” Vanderlip said. “We can be in here when they come with bulldozers, because there’s a lot of people that care about this place.”

University spokesperson Matt Lazier was unable to confirm the funding timeline for the new conservatory, but wrote in an email to Mustang News that the new conservatory is part of the overall Science and Agriculture Teaching and Research Com-

plex project, which is receiving funding from various sources.

“It’s really sad that people in our society don’t know anything about plants,” Vanderlip said. “Think in your head how many brand [logos] you could look at and know, but how many plants can you look at and know? The conservatory is where volunteers and classes can come in and learn. It’s so exciting seeing people stoked on plants.”

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Conservancy members are currently looking for a temporary space.

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Kim Dougherty and her assigned foal posing together at the Oppenheimer Family Equine Center.

EQUINE SCIENCE CLASS ALLOWS NON-ANIMAL SCIENCE MAJORS TO WORK WITH BABY HORSES

BY NICO L E T ROY It is nighttime and the street lights are illuminating the Poly Canyon Village apartments. Inside, child development junior Kim Dougherty is getting ready for bed. Her face is washed and her hair is thrown up into a ponytail.

It is when she hops into bed, comfortable and ready to fall asleep, that she gets the text: her mare is in labor.

She stumbles out of bed, hops on her bike, and races down to the beef unit.

Arriving just a few minutes late, she gets to meet her foal.

Dougherty is one of three student managers of Foaling Enterprise (ASCI 290). She has always had an interest in horses, but never knew if she wanted to pursue it further. Her parents are from the midwest, so she often visited with them and played with horses there as a child. Upon arriving at Cal Poly, she began looking into minors and stumbled up on the equine science minor. After taking Principles of Animal Science (ASCI 112), she decided to pursue the minor, leading

her into the foaling management position she holds today.

“It’s a really cool experience to know how to help and be present when something is born and you can be the first human to ever come into contact with it,” Dougherty said.

The foaling enterprise is managed by professor Julie Yuhas-Volk and offered every Winter and Spring as a two-quarter commitment class. The three student managers who help Yuhas-Volk with the class are interviewed and selected by her.

Animal science junior Dionne Rasquinha is one of the students managers and describes the class as fun, hard work. She said she enjoys that students of all majors are able to take the class and that she can help teach the first-timers.

“It’s interesting to see how much I’ve learned and that I can help them catch up in a way,” Rasquinha said. “I think it’s nice that other majors can be involved with it so you can pursue a degree you are more interested in, but if you’re interested in horses, be a

part of that too.”

One of the first and most basic things first-time students learn in class is how to properly address the animals. A baby horse is called a foal while a female horse is referred to as a mare. The department’s materials describe the class as having students actively participate in multiple components of mare care, 24-hour foal watch, assisting with foaling, and all aspects of neo-natal care. After the birth of the foals, students handle and halter-train them while providing all care and management.

Dougherty explained that the first half of the class is primarily lecture-based to prepare students for the Learn by Doing experience of foaling.

Students learn what the process is like and what to do if something goes wrong. Dougherty herself did not know much about foaling or working with horses before taking the class, but said she has learned a lot from it.

“The enterprise has very much encompassed the Learn by Doing mantra in that you are working with the

horses whenever you are on shift, which could be every day,” Dougherty said. “It’s very hands-on and you get in there and if the situation calls for it, you are pulling a baby horse out.”

The second half of the class is where the real Learn by Doing comes into play. During the 24-hour foal watch, students check on the horses in their stalls every 15 minutes. They perform health checks and assist with the birthing of horses. Once the foals are born, the students rub them down with towels and give them their first experience with human contact.

Within an hour, the foals are walking and within two, they begin to nurse.

“Based on my experience as far as our mares go, they are very open to us being around them and their foals,” Dougherty said. While some mares can be “foal proud” and protective over their babies, most at the foaling barn are not aggressive or dangerous, according to Dougherty.

She credits a majority of the mares’ trust in them to the building of their relationship before birth. While the horses come into contact with many people, Dougherty said they know who you are and trust you.

The foaling class is one of 35 enterprise classes offered by the Animal Science Department for the 2018-2019 school year. According to Leanne Berning, associate dean of the department, enterprise classes have been offered by the college for decades. She said they emerged out of a Learn by Doing need for students to work with the animals already on campus, coupled with faculty members’ expertise for a match made in heaven.

“My favorite part is seeing people get used to the reality of taking care of a living being,” Berning said. She likens the experience to a reality check because students do not just get to see the cute babies, but instead the nitty

gritty part of what goes into fostering life.

The spectrum of enterprise classes offered range from bull testing to working with Iberian pigs to marine mammal health.

Students of all majors are eligible to take enterprise courses with permission from the instructor, however some classes may have different prerequisites to be considered. A list of enterprise classes offered each year can be found outside the department office (building 10, room 141).

Though not everyone gets to receive hands-on experience to explore a passion, Berning, Dougherty, and Rasquinha all believe the opportunities offered through these enterprise classes are special because they further educate students on their interests.

“It’s a really great hands-on experience that you can’t really get anywhere else,” Dougherty said. “As far as after college, I don’t know if I could go anywhere and be like, ‘I don’t know much about this,’ and be able to hop in and learn how. You get to gain that experience here.”

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Kim Dougherty rubbing down her assigned foal moments after birth.

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Some horses from the foaling enterprise can be seen roaming the Cal Poly fields on Slack Street.

BUMBLE AMBASSADORS ON CAMPUS STUDENTS ADVOCATE FOR THE “PROGRESSIVE” DATING APP

BY SYDNEY SH ERM A N If you have been on campus lately, you may have heard the “buzz” from Bumble student ambassador booths or flyers plastered on building walls.

In 2014, Whitney Wolfe Herd launched Bumble, an online application originally created for dating. Now, it has become a “fully-fledged social network that fosters connections in love, life and work for over 50 millions users in 150 countries globally,” according to Bumble Chief Brand Officer Alex Williamson.

Herd left Tinder, the dating app she co-founded, determined to change the way people interacted with one another.

“Whitney Wolfe Herd saw the need for change in the antiquated rules of dating,” Williamson said in an interview with Mustang News. “We empower women, giving them the ability to control the conversation when dating and networking online by making the first move.”

Bumble distinguishes itself from other dating apps by leaving the ball “in her court.”

The campaign, which features Serena Williams as the face of the movement, is set up so that, for heterosexual “connections,” only the female constituent can initiate the conversation. Even if the male counterpart wants to reach out first, he cannot. For LGBTQ+ couples, any individual can reach out first.

“We want women to own their power and know that they don’t have to wait for permission, whether in their love life, friendships or career,” Williamson said.

According to Williamson, Bumble has helped facilitate over 858 million first moves since its launch in 2014.

In addition to striving to be a “progressive” dating app, Bumble also includes forums for business networking (Bumble Bizz) and making friends (Bumble BFF). Within the app, the user is able to switch between the separate platforms, showcasing various parts of their personality depending on the image they wish to portray.

At Cal Poly and college campuses nationwide, Bumble recruits ambassadors, or “Honeys” and “Queen Bees” as they call them, to help promote and “build an inclusive and diverse community,” according to Bumble.

There are five ambassadors on campus who are all hired by Bumble individually

but meant to work together to plan events and promote the app.

Communication studies freshman Jordan Overmeyer was inspired to join the team and become an ambassador on campus.

“I wanted to get more involved in something bigger, and Bumble’s values were something I wanted to be a part of,” Overmeyer said.

Overmeyer said her goal as an ambassador is to get the word out and get as many people on Bumble as possible through various campaigns and events, such as a Valentine’s singles mixer that featured Bumble merchandise to promote the app in person rather than through social media. However, Overmeyer said she likes the app for reasons beyond dating.

“It’s not just about dating — you can find all types of connections,” Overmeyer said.

She compared Bumble with other dating apps, where “there is more of a hook-up vibe.”

“On Bumble, you can move between the platforms based on what makes you comfortable or what you are personally looking for,” Overmeyer said.

Specifically, Bumble BFF offers a unique way to create new friendships and meet new people without even going outside.

“As a student, you can find yourself busy and don’t have the time to go to [Cal Poly] events,” Overmeyer said. “Bumble BFF is a more casual way to meet new people around [San Luis Obispo] and campus. It can fit into any schedule because it’s easy just to go on Bumble.”

One of the main slogans of Bumble is to “Make the first move.”

“This slogan also teaches all of the users not only on the app but in all aspects of people’s lives that stepping up and making the first move is empowering and something they should not be embarrassed to do,” Overmeyer said.

Bumble continues to grow with 50 million registered users at present and 83,000 new users per day, according to Williamson.

“The stigma around dating apps and meeting people online has really changed since we launched,” Williamson said. “As we move forward, we will continue to ask our users and society to rethink the gender dynamics in relationships, to challenge them and to embrace equality while encouraging meaningful connections.”

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HEAD COACH JOE CALLERO’S IMPACT IN HIS DECADE AT CAL POLY

BY NAYTHAN B RYA NT On Wednesday, March 6, Cal Poly Athletics Director Don Oberhelman announced Men’s Basketball head coach Joe Callero will not be retained after 21 losses this season. The decision came in the midst of one of the program’s worst statistical seasons ever.

Following Cal Poly’s final regular-season game of the year against UC Santa Barbara, Callero addressed the media regarding his release for the first time.

APRIL 3, 2009

Callero is named the new head coach of the Cal Poly men’s basketball program. Before coming to Cal Poly, Callero coached the Seattle Redhawks from 2001–09, and was the Redhawks’ first coach after transitioning back to Division I.

“My dream is finally accomplished,” Callero said. “My dream was to coach a Division I team in paradise. I got to live on the Central Coast for 10 years.

I got to be at a high academic school with great student-athletes.”

Callero jokingly mentioned his second dream of coaching the Seattle Supersonics, an NBA team that no longer resides in Callero’s home state of Washington. The coach also mentioned running for president in 2020.

“In all seriousness, this has been

a dream,” Callero said. “It’s been a dream ride. It’s been a dream place.

This has been home for 10 years.”

Callero said he enjoyed all the challenges the program solved throughout the years — from remodeling the court in Mott Athletics Center, to fundraising for new scoreboards.

“The nice part is knowing you did everything you could,” Callero said.

“My daughter goes, ‘Dad you worked so hard, you worked your ass off.’ I said, ‘That’s why I’m happy.’ There’s

no regrets for anything ... Every single day I thought about Cal Poly Basketball and the Central Coast and how to do things the right way from a moral standpoint and an ethical standpoint.”

Callero admitted the program did not win enough games and said he felt the pressure of expectations following Cal Poly’s NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014.

“No regrets, except I wish I would’ve helped win more games,” Callero said

“But, the process was sincere, it was daily.”

Callero also pointed out his appreciation for assistant coach Mitch Reaves, who coached with Callero during his entire 10-year span at Cal Poly. As far as his future, Callero said it was time for him to step away from coaching.

“I think this is a great time for me to a better husband and a better father and a better friend,” Callero said.

“Provided the Sonics don’t move to Seattle and offer me a job right away,

2009–2010

2012–2013

MARCH 2014

In his first season, Callero coached the Mustangs to a 5-2 start in Big West Conference action and guides them to the Big West Conference Tournament after being predicted to finish last.

The Mustangs also won their first Big West Conference Tournament game in three years against UC Irvine.

Cal Poly has its best season since transition to Division I, with an 18-14 record and a .563 winning percentage. This is the best winning percentage in the Mustangs history since transitioning to Division I. This will turn out to be the Mustangs’ most recent season with a winning record.

2011–2012

MARCH 20, 2013

The Mustangs defeat CSUN as the No. 7 seed in the final of the Big West Conference Tournament to secure their first appearance as a D-I team in the NCAA Tournament. Seeded No. 16 in March Madness, the Mustangs win their First Four matchup against fellow 16 seed Texas Southern. Their season comes to an end against No. 1 seed Wichita State.

Under Callero, the Mustangs record their first winning season in six years, going 18-15 in the regular season.

Despite the winning season, Cal Poly finishes with a record of 8-8 in conference play.

The Mustangs make their first appearance in a postseason tournament as a Division I team by competing in the College Insider Tournament. However, the Mustangs are eliminated by Weber State in the round of 32.

NOV. 25, 2012

After being down by 18 points in the second half, the Mustangs upset thenNo. 11 UCLA to win 70-68. This is the first win over a ranked D-I opponent in program history.

PLAYERS REACT TO THE HEAD COACH’S DEPARTURE

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Athletics Director Don Oberhelman said the decision to not bring Callero back was due to lack of improvement. Callero will receive a $137,000 buyout.

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I think I’ll take one full year away from coaching and do a variety of different things that I’ve never done in my life.”

Callero said he wants to do volunteer work with kids who do not have the financial access to camps and clinics.

“Coaching is coaching, and I think that’s the type of stuff that can rejuvenate,” Callero said. “Next year at this time, if I’m not dying to be a head coach or coaching somewhere, that presidential run better work out for me.”

Cal Poly Athletics Director Don Oberhelman held a press conference Sunday evening about the decision to not bring Joe Callero back as Men’s Basketball head coach, along with what lies ahead for the coaching search.

Oberhelman stated in Sunday evening’s press conference that the decision to not bring Callero back was based on a lack of improvement in win-loss record throughout his tenure. The Mustangs’ last winning season was in 2012-2013.

“I wanted to see improvement,” Oberhelman said. “We need to be in the hunt for titles and I’m not saying that we need to win a Big West title every single year. I want us to get back into the hunt. This was one more year where we weren’t.”

With one year left on Callero’s contract at the time of his firing, Oberhelman announced that Callero will receive a $137,000 buyout, or half of his yearly salary. The buyout will be absorbed by the Athletics Department’s salary budget.

FEB. 18, 2015

FEB. 28, 2017

Callero gets his 100th win with the Mustangs after they defeated UC Davis 58-53. This would be the last win of the 2014–15 season for Cal Poly, as they lost their next five games en route to a first-round exit in the Big West Conference Tournament.

David Nwaba made his debut for the Los Angeles Lakers, and is the first Mustang in the NBA. Nwaba played three seasons with the Mustangs under Callero, and is No. 15 in program history with rebounds with 465. In his three seasons, Nwaba averaged 11.9 points per game and 5.3 rebounds per game.

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Cal Poly begins Big West Conference play with a 1-10 record, with their lone win coming against UC Riverside on the road. The Mustangs go over three weeks without a win in between their January 31 victory against UC Riverside and their February 23 win versus Hawaii.

Oberhelman will be in Las Vegas this week, which is the site of the Pac-12, West Coast Conference, Western Athletic Conference and Mountain West Conference tournaments. He acknowledged his intent to interview coaches from these conferences — both head coaches and assistants — but said they will be “pretty tight-lipped” in regards to who is in contention.

Nonetheless, Oberhelman indicated that the ideal candidate will not need to be sold on Cal Poly in spite of previous performance in seasons prior.

“The kind of coach we want wants this job badly,” Oberhelman said, reflecting on the similar mentality he had when he wanted to become Cal Poly’s athletic director. Oberhelman contrasted Cal Poly’s standards in recruiting, playing and academics to programs with “win-at-all-costs” mentalities.

“Our president [ Jeffrey Armstrong] doesn’t want that. I don’t want that,” Oberhelman added.

“The kind of coach we want doesn’t want that either.”

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Cal Poly athletics announces that Callero will not be returning as head coach. This decision comes after a 6-23 season, with a 2-14 record in Big West conference play.

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To the players on the Cal Poly Men’s Basketball team, Joe Callero was more than just a basketball coach.

In addition to his job as the bench boss of the Mustangs, Callero took on a bigger role, displaying his genuine care for his student-athletes — as both basketball players and men.

“My first impression of [Callero] was that he really cared about his players,” former guard Victor Joseph said, remembering when Callero recruited him to come to Cal Poly.

The morning after attending one of

My first impression of [Callero] was that he really cared about his players.  VICTOR JOSEPH Joseph’s games at Chaffey College, Callero met with Joseph and his family.

“He could’ve offered me a scholarship and left, but he decided to stay another night and really have that interaction with my family,” Joseph said.

Joseph also remembered the rough welcoming Callero gave him to fulltime university academic life. After skipping a class in his second week at Cal Poly, he received a text from Callero asking if he had missed class.

“I’m thinking, ‘There’s no way he found out, it’s a big lecture,’” Joseph said. “I was thinking I should lie, but I told the truth.”

Callero’s reply did not come until a few days later, on a Sunday night.

“I get hit with a text: ‘6 a.m. on the track tomorrow,’” Joseph said.

“Yeah, he’s on you for that,” senior guard Marcellus Garrick said. “If you miss tutoring, you’re running miles and stuff like that.”

“I was extremely mad then,” Joseph said. “I was like, ‘Bro, this is one class.’ But in the long run, I don’t think I missed too many classes on purpose after that.”

Current and former players agreed that Callero was a head coach that was focused on the bigger picture.

“There’s lot of life outside basketball,” senior point guard Donovan Fields said, remembering an important lesson Callero taught him.

“If you have a bad day on the court,

it shouldn’t affect you outside the court.”

“I used to get so down on myself about everything,” Garrick said.

“Anything basketball related, it would affect my life. I wouldn’t go to class, I wouldn’t want to talk to anybody. I’d have a negative energy.”

When it came to basketball, Callero himself refused to display a negative attitude in front of his players.

“Day in, day out, we’ll come into the locker room and he’s coming in excited to show us film, excited to help us get better, excited to show us the game plan,” Joseph said.

Callero has led the Mustangs through some tough times recently, as the team has started Big West Conference play with a losing record for the past five years. However, Joseph said Callero always brought the same energy to practice, win or lose.

“It helps you as a player because when you’re on a losing streak, you’re already going to be mad,“ Joseph said. “If you went to practice and that same energy was given off by your coach, it would be a down practice. But all these practices, we had the same high energy, as if we were on a winning streak.”

Callero was also focused on having one-on-one interactions with his players. According to Joseph, Callero would take each of his players out for dinner or host them for a homecooked meal.

The whole coaching staff, everybody on the team, will miss him.  DONOVAN FIELDS

“Just having little stuff like that to have a one-on-one interaction with your coach, some coaches get too busy recruiting and stuff in the off-season, but he always took that time each year,” Joseph said.

To his players, Callero’s constant high energy, his focus on the bigger picture and his dedication to improving his student-athletes in all aspects of their lives was what made him a leader.

“I’ll miss him so much,” Fields said. “The whole coaching staff, everybody on the team, will miss him.”

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PATRICK MADDEN BRINGS INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE TO CLUB RUGBY

BY KY LIE SM I T H As a high school All-American rugby player with significant international exposure, sophomore Patrick Madden has brought his talent and love for the game to the Cal Poly Club Rugby team. Madden is looking to add on another chapter to his lengthy book of achievements and personal successes.

“The USA platform is a super cool thing to be a part of, but it all starts here and now,” Madden said. “I just hope I can keep building this and keep making my way up through the ranks.”

Madden took on the captain role of the Cal Poly Club Rugby team at the start of his sophomore season.

With a driven and offensive mindset on the field, the San Diego native is currently the leading point scorer for the Mustangs.

“When it comes down to legacy, I would love to leave a personal legacy of being in the Cal Poly Club Rugby Hall Of Fame,” Madden said.

Despite only being in his second year with the team, Madden has demonstrated the skills and qualities of a senior, according to head coach James Tesoriero.

“We identified [Madden] as a leader before he gained entry to Cal Poly,” Tesoriero said. “There were some obvious leadership qualities, as a captain of the high school [All-American] team, so when he gained admission it was a shoe-in that he would gain a leadership role almost immediately.”

Before coming to Cal Poly, Madden was recognized as a U.S.A. High School Rugby All-American and a U.S.A. Men’s Junior Rugby All-American in 2016 and 2017. During his high school years, Madden had the opportunity to play on tour in New Zealand.

He also founded and served as the president of the rugby club at University City High School in 2015. The list of accomplishments and honors throughout his rugby career goes on.

“The accolades come but a lot of

the guys here keep me humble with it all,” Madden said. “They keep me grounded, but it’s always cool to get recognized for what you’re doing.”

When he first came to Cal Poly he won the Mark Loane medal, which is given to America’s most accomplished high school rugby player. As a result of this award, he received a full-ride scholarship to travel to Brisbane, Australia, where he was granted the opportunity to play with the highly reputed University of Queensland Rugby Club.

As current captain of the Cal Poly Club Rugby fifteens team, Madden exceeds the expectations placed on a club sport’s student athlete. “[Madden’s] training habits have been impeccable,” Tesoriero said. “[Madden] is always one of the first ones here and works very hard. He sets a good example for our guys.”

Rugby has taken Madden all over the world. He has significant international experience, which allowed him to flourish as a player. As a 15 year old, he not only made the U.S.A team, but was a starter at the number 10, fly-high, position and named captain.

“I have been here [at Cal Poly] and loving it,” Madden said. “I am still gonna rep with the USA, so it’s kinda a lot of time and I’m jumping backand-forth a lot.”

He then went on with the team to compete and gain caps — an honor earned every time a player plays and starts for a team — against France, Belgium, England, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand and Canada.

“We have been extremely lucky to have [Madden],” senior and Cal Poly Club Rugby president Connor Miller said, “I am a fourth year and he is a second year, and I think he has already had more experience and maturity in rugby than the rest of us combined.”

Despite a losing record of 1-6, Madden has managed to keep the team’s spirits high. He assists in practices by transmitting his rugby experience to influence the team.

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Sophomore Patrick Madden hopes to leave a legacy in the Cal Poly Club Rugby Hall Of Fame.

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Rugby has taken Madden to France, Belgium, England, Dubai, New Zealand And Canada

“[Madden] enjoys our wins and suffers our loses so he kind of is a bit of a bench mark in that way so that the guys can see what the games mean to him,” Tesoriero said.

Tesoriero emphasized that Madden’s innate and genuine desire to lead, while also playing to his greatest potential, is what sets him apart from other players. Madden exudes

a strong connection to the game and his fellow team members.

“The coaches and myself will give a group of the players to [Madden], and he will basically lead them through some training drills,” Tesoriero said. “He is almost like a coach on the field.”

As captain of both Cal Poly club teams, Madden said he is looking to

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Madden is the team captain for both club rugby’s fifteens and sevens teams. add another accolade to his rugby career and hoping to light a spark within his teammates and propel them into the Sevens National Championship tournament at the end of summer.

“I’m doing well with it and I see a future with it, so of course that drives me a bit,” Madden said. “With all the friends I’ve made, it’s kind of hard to leave what you love.”

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PUZZLES Sudoku Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku.

This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3

boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box.

You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

CLUES ACROSS

Guess Who?

Word Scramble

I am an actress born in New Jersey on March 8, 1961. Before I was famous, I worked as a sign language interpreter at a hospital However, drama appealed to me, and I would go on to win an Emmy award.

R Rearrange the letters to spell

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something pertaining to basketball.

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1. Employ 4. Not a starter 7. Matchstick game 8. One who receives a gift 10. One shows highlights 12. Open sore 13. Within 14. __ Caesar, comedian 16. Investment account 17. A negatively charged ion 19. Immoral act 20. Cheek 21. Lacking in vigor or vitality 25. Partner to flow 26. Ink 27. “Mad Men” actor 29. A taunt 30. Single 31. A very large body of water 32. A configuration of stars as seen from the earth 39. Herringlike fish 41. No (Scottish) 42. White-breasted N. American auk 43. American time 44. Adult female 45. Singer Horne 46. Pronouncements 48. From a distance 49. Indian term of respect 50. One from Utah 51. Never sleeps 52. Type of bulb

CLUES DOWN

1. Hard to believe 2. Used as a pigment in painting 3. Induces vomiting 4. Fifth note of a major scale 5. Written in a majuscule script 6. Brews 8. Misfire 9. Amounts of time 11. The act of perceiving something visually 14. Female sibling 15. First 18. Sodium 19. Brother or sister 20. Satisfy 22. The lands of an estate 23. Antiballistic missile 24. Taxi 27. Covers the engine 28. Commentator Coulter 29. Mousse 31. Witness 32. Unlikely to be forgotten 33. Bar bill 34. Morning 35. City south of Moscow 36. Highly incensed 37. Intricately decorated 38. Drew closer to 39. Beers 40. Central China city 44. Touch lightly 47. Habitual twitching

ARIES – March 21/April 20 Your thoughts and actions may be spurred on by your emotions this week, Aries. It may be better to wait a few days to make decisions until things quiet down.

LIBRA – Sept. 23/Oct. 23 Libra, on the surface, it may seem like you have your act all together. But beneath your emotions may be roiling. You may want to let some close people in on your secrets.

TAURUS – April 21/May 21 Taurus, you could be in for a roller coaster ride this week, especially as it pertains to spending.

Money could fly out of your wallet faster than you can earn it. Exercise caution.

SCORPIO – Oct. 24/Nov. 22 So many things hinge upon balance, Scorpio.

Make a concerted effort to balance things in your life. You may have to make some changes and experiment.

GEMINI – May 22/June 21 Gemini, as long as you have a solid team in your corner, you can adapt well to the changing environment. However, even a superhero needs a break from time to time.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov. 23/Dec. 21 Your inclination to meet the needs of others this week is commendable, Sagittarius. Just be sure your generosity does not come at the expense of your own well-being.

CANCER – June 22/July 22 Overcome your resistance and listen to another person’s side of the story, Cancer. Embrace letting this person take the lead on something at work or in your home life.

CAPRICORN – Dec. 22/Jan. 20 Capricorn, there is nothing wrong with seeing the world through rose-colored glasses from time to time. Such a positive perspective might change your outlook for good.

LEO – July 23/Aug. 23 Friends are lining up to be helpful over the next few days, Leo. Take advantage of their generosity, especially if you find yourself feeling under the weather.

AQUARIUS – Jan. 21/Feb. 18 You are adept at staying on track when you need to, Aquarius. This makes you an ideal fitness guru. Try to inspire others to be regimented as well.

VIRGO – Aug. 24/Sept. 22 Virgo, the personalized touches you put on any project will showcase your personality and passion. Think about embracing a crafty task to really display your talents.

PISCES – Feb. 19/March 20 Pisces, do your best to honor requests from friends, associates and family this week. If you pull it off, take some time to recharge.

PROGRAMS VITA AND LITC HELP HUNDREDS IN THE COMMUNITY

BY NI COL E TROY The Cal Poly Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program is providing free tax-return-preparation assistance in an effort to aid underprivileged communities in the San Luis Obispo community.

As part of the VITA Senior Project class (BUS 416), more than 125 business administration students host VITA clinics every Saturday. The Winter clinics started Feb. 2 and will end March 16. Through the program, students get hands-on experience by interacting with clients and preparing tax return forms.

VITA is sanctioned and coordinated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and California Franchise Tax Board. The students are IRS-certified prior to preparing the tax returns.

The tax clinic is completely free and no appointment is necessary, which is, according to business administration senior Christine Nunez, what sets the program apart from other tax preparation services.

“A lot of people do their taxes through TurboTax or through certain companies like H&R Block where you have to pay,” Nunez said.

“It’s a really nice program that we can offer the community.”

When a client arrives at the tax clinic, they are welcomed by student greeters who hand out three forms. After filling out those forms, the client is taken to an interview in which other students ask about the tax-related documents. In order to be accepted to participate in the tax clinic, the client is required to have their Social Security Card, government issued identification, 2017 tax returns and 2018 tax-related documents. Once a client is cleared, another set of students meet the client and prepare the tax returns.

Five weeks into the VITA program this year, students have filed 350 tax returns. Nunez said this experience has helped her put her tax knowledge to use.

“The reason why [VITA] is so important is because no one really teaches students how to do taxes themselves,” Nunez said. “This experience has given me the opportunity to learn about the importance of filing my taxes, understanding where my wages go and why taxes are taken out of my salary.”

The students are responsible for

preparing the tax return forms. Faculty and volunteer certified public accountants (CPAs) review the tax returns before submitting them to be filed.

Business administration senior Marcos Diaz said that, to him, tax is a broad subject that is constantly changing with tax laws. He said that he has learned something new every Saturday with VITA. “You have to adapt to [tax laws] and you learn new things every day,” Diaz said.

Nunez said her favorite part about VITA is being able to help people who come from lower-income backgrounds.

“Being able to say that [a client] gets a $3,000 refund, which will come in three to five weeks, is a great feeling,” Nunez said. “That’s a huge sum of money that they could put to good use for whatever they need.”

Students also staffed two other VITA clinics at Allan Hancock College Community Education Center in Santa Maria and Lucia Mar Education School in Oceano.

The Cal Poly clinic is held on the third floor of the Business Building (Building 3) from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The last clinic of 2019 will be held on March 16.

Another student-ran tax program, the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) also provides hands-on experience for students and help for the community.

The program staff is smaller than that of VITA and only accepts about 15 to 18 students per quarter. It’s goal is to help low-income taxpayers in the community resolve issues with the IRS and understand their rights and responsibilities as taxpayers.

In Fall 2018, the LITC had 28 active clients, closed 10 cases and had $85,435 of liabilities reduced. In all of 2018, VITA accepted 59 new clients total.

They worked 91 total cases, 19 court cases and conducted 56 oneon-one consultations, according to their 2018 end of year report.

According to the report, they reduced client liabilities by a total of $430,000 and obtained a total of $27,000 in refunds for clients. The program recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to continually grow their program and community outreach.

Lauryn Luescher contributed to this story.

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HAVE TROUBLE PARKING AT PIRATE’S COVE? SLO COUNTY PARKS AND REC PROPOSES A SOLUTION

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SLO County Parks and Rec proposes a new parking lot for Pirate’s Cove.

While Pirate’s Cove is a great place to watch the sunset, take a good photo or just explore, the location has increasingly faced a number of issues.

Among the most notable of these issues is the parking lot, which is difficult to drive across due to an uneven foundation. The lot has also become home to car break-ins, high rates of littering and crime. San Luis Obispo County Parks and Recreation is working on a new project to improve public safety and combat the area’s high volume of litter. The county was granted ownership of the area above the beach including the parking lot and trails in 2014. Since then it has pushed for renovations in the area, but none have been approved thus far.

County Parks and Recreation is back with its most recent plan proposal. The plan includes a new road base in the parking lot and the addition of trash cans, recycling bins and other features to protect the area’s cultural resources. County Parks and Recreation Director Nick Franco said rather than making the area a park, the goal behind these plans is to better manage the natural area.

One concern expressed in a public workshop was that these renovations would result in losing anywhere from 20 to 25 parking spots in the area.

Franco said the Parks and Recreation Department has asked designers to go back to the drawing board to see if they can keep the current amount of parking to keep constituents happy.

“The goal is to actually manage the area and improve public safe-

ty,” Franco said. “The area is getting trashed.”

Communication studies junior Amanda Guard said Pirates Cove is the dirtiest beach in the entire county. Guard is the social chairman for Cal Poly’s environmental management club, the Surfrider Foundation.

Guard said she is hopeful renovations could make the area more regulated to combat all the trash found in the area. She said volunteers are constantly picking up trash and that they commonly find needles and traces of illegal substances around the cove.

County Parks and Recreation is working to obtain a permit to make renovations to the area but does not presently have details as to an estimated cost. Before any official plans for renovations can begin, it must be granted a permit.

SLO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO SCREEN EIGHT STUDENT FILMS

EUGENE S O | COURT ESY Students David Bortolomucci, Maximo Zhang, Dylan Martin, Jarod Urrutia, and Lily de la Pena, film a scene for their short film “Clinched.”

BY KAIL E Y O’ CO NNELL On March 13, the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival will debut eight original films written, directed and produced by Cal Poly students.

This is the 25th year of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

Student films will screen on March 13 at 8 p.m. in Fremont Theater, and student admission is free. The festival in-

volves six total days of film screenings at various theaters in San Luis Obispo.

Groups of students worked to create these short films called Short Cuts for Media Arts and Technologies: Cinematic Process (ISLA 341) and Digital Video II (ART 483). According to the Short Cuts website, the films convey stories of self-discovery, family and the importance of human connection.

Art and design junior Mary Ma-

cLane is one of four students bringing the student-written script of Clean Slate to the screen. She said the short film is a coming of age story about an 18 year-old college freshman.

“It’s pretty hilarious,” MacLane said. “I think a lot of Cal Poly students, or anyone who has gone to college before, will be able to relate.”

MacLane’s team has filmed more than half of the 10 minute film so far.

EU GEN E S O | COU RT ESY Students work on filming “Clean Slate” for the film fest.

Her primary role is photographer, but she said she also collaborates with other positions, like screenwriter.

“We all have different strengths,” she said. “I think it’s going to reflect in our film that this group works well together.”

Other student films debuting include “Slippers,” “Cut Short” and “Clinched.”

“We have that motivation that it’s

going to be seen by a large amount of people at a renowned international film festival,” MacLane said. “It’s a great thing to have on our resumes and an opportunity that not a lot of student filmmakers have while they’re still in school.”

Although admission is free for students, tickets are $15 for general admission and $5 for Film Society members.

OPINION

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A view of the Danube River, which splits the city between two sides: Buda , the side from which the photo was taken, and Pest, across the water.

BY OLI V IA PELUSO When I first began mentioning my plans to study in Budapest, most of my listeners were unaware of where the city is located. Many guessed Turkey, some guessed India based solely upon some major phonetic stereotyping and some disregarded the thought altogether and instead just warned me not to drink the tap water. Those who knew the name got their main ideas from the Wes Anderson film that really has more to do with concierges and little to do with Hungary.

Yet, upon mentioning where I was from, most Hungarian students I met quickly responded with “New Joy-zey,” or inquired if I traveled to Manhattan often. Upon mentioning my university in California, they cooed about the palm trees and the Kardashians and even asked about the wildfires.

It was during these early interactions that I became grossly aware of my own presence as an American and our nation’s global presence. It felt as though our politics and media followed me like a shadow. The topic of Trump came up rather frequently — far more frequently than I desired — but was rarely anything but a

laughable topic, an attitude for which I was incredibly grateful. I was there to learn about their country, not talk about mine. What I gathered, unfortunately, was that Hungary is not in any better a political climate than the United States. In fact, it is actually much worse. I quickly realized just how lucky I was to be in Budapest, and this gratitude exponentiated the more I learned about the history and culture embedded within the city. I was able to experience the multitude of incredible things Hungary has to offer without being tied to its rather, for lack of a more scathing yet tasteful word, unpleasant government.

Yet the more grateful I was for my opportunity, the guiltier I felt. It is not to be said that I condone or applaud what the American government has been doing. Our politics, as I know them, are horrible — disgusting, even. Yet by the grace of something incredible and entirely arbitrary, I was born into a body that has managed to dodge most of the effects of our government’s inhumane decisions without scarring. I’ve always been acutely aware of my position and privilege in this world — but that is not to say I have always been comfortable with it. That is not to say just because I am uncomfortable with my

privilege I am unhappy with it. In my life I have had incredible opportunity, incredible support and incredible luck. What I struggle with is knowing there are amazing people born every single minute into circumstances that will inherently inhibit them.

Budapest was the best place I could have studied abroad; however, I would not live there. It is a strange distinction, spending four months and building a home somewhere without actually living there. The difference becomes more tangible when the government privatizes all public universities, and I am able to return home to Cal Poly while my professors and peers at Corvinus University of Budapest were left to deal with a major threat to the entire nation’s education system. The privatization thus far has resulted in the closure of many departments and majors in Hungarian universities. I was there to witness the stress this put on students and faculty before quietly heading back home.

The difference again became tangible when I was there to witness hundreds of Hungarians protesting a law that allows employers to require up to 400 hours of overtime per year, a law literally nicknamed and commonly referred to as the “slave law.”

And while I was present, observing the protests and chants outside the Parliament building from afar, it felt wrong for me to participate; in just a couple short weeks, I was to be on a plane heading back home to the U.S., where my restaurant job earned me in two weeks what my Hungarian counterpart makes in a month. It is an incredible place.

I could spend another year there so long as it meant I did not have to subscribe to the government, which recently has been nearing a dictatorship. It’s difficult to have friends who submit to a different ruler than you.

It’s like watching them get punched in the face without being able to do anything but verbally object to deaf ears. During my time away I tutored Hungarians, some of whom were students around my age, in English.

During our sessions a few asked me, “Why Hungary?” To hear this from a Hungarian is rare, for they are generally a prideful people. They wear their past like a medal. After decades of having their culture stripped and suppressed, their land stolen and divvied, Hungarians value deeply what they have. Yet, even they were confused at my decision. Through these exchanges I was able to explain why I was drawn to Hungary, and they voiced their concerns on where the country was headed. We adjusted our respective worldviews accordingly.

My enthusiasm helped them appreciate their home for what it was, while their discontent helped me remove my rose-colored glasses (or rather, slide them down the bridge of my nose so I may still peer through them when desired). The severity of these circumstances resulted in a profound learning experience for me, while for my Hungarian counterparts it was simply a conversation, a conversation they will have again and again while they make sense of their national situation. It felt as though no amount of gratitude or self-awareness could justify my presence there. I am entirely indebted to Hungary for the incredible people I met and for each day I experienced. I was also, however, grateful to return home to a place where my rights as a citizen, woman, student and employee are still ~ relatively ~ intact.

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The Gellert-Bad, a thermal bath in Budapest, Hungary. The mineral water in the spa comes from hot springs under the surface of the city.

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BUDAPEST REFLECTIONS THE PRIVILEGE OF SEPARATING A PLACE FROM ITS GOVERNMENT

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