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Catch up on campus current events ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS SOLIDA RIT Y A ND CH A NGE

Aidan McGloin @A_C_McG

For incoming freshmen and those who had their nose buried in textbooks at the end of last year, here is a recap of major events that occurred on campus.

SLO Solidarity aims for change After instances of offensive speech appeared on a free speech wall and on the door of a student in Poly Canyon Village, a group called SLO Solidarity formed on Nov. 11 to share its frustration over a lack of diversity and appreciation for minority groups.

The group of 80 people sent a list of 41 demands to Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong with the administration on campus agreeing that their demands were reasonable.

The demands included the

| SLO Solidarity formed in response to offensive speech on an on-campus free speech wall during fall quarter. They are still active and vouching for the 41 demands they gave to administration. formation of a greek life diversity and inclusivity task force, mandatory women’s and gender studies or ethnic studies courses for every student and an increase in faculty hires of people of color until the demographics of Cal Poly’s faculty match the demographics of California.

Political science junior Matt Klepfer, a leader of SLO Solidarity and drafter of the demands, received threats from an anonymous Facebook account. Charles Raymond Bird — who is still a Cal Poly history student, according to the Cal Poly portal directory — was arrested for the threats, but pleaded not guilty and is still on trial.

In response to the SLO Solidarity demands, administration created a framework and plan to diversify the campus. This included having two diversity training sessions at

campus orientation.

The first session began with a talk on what it means to be diverse, followed by an exercise that explained the concept of privilege to incoming students.

The second session contained a message board of slurs and hate speech, which incoming students tore down by removing the slur from the board and speaking out against its use; followed by exposure from the #IAmCalPoly campaign.

SLO Solidarity agreed the administration is taking a step in the right

direction. But, according to them, more needs to be done.

California Faculty Association strikes After the financial shockwave of the 2008 housing crisis struck the California State University system, faculty suffered pay cuts that have remained unalleviated.

For the past five years of negotiations, the California Faculty Association (CFA) insisted on a 5 percent wage increase, while Chancellor White countered with

2 percent. Unable to reach a compromise, CFA voted to hold a strike during fall semester.

The strike would have left students to teach themselves the curriculum they missed, leaving them struggling for finals and possibly delaying their graduation date The chancellor acquiesced and increased faculty wages by 7 percent, with an additional 3.5 percent promised for the future and a 2.65 percent service salary increase for tenured and longtime faculty.

THE AGREEMENT

10.5% General salary increase

Distributed over the next three years

First year: 5% Second year: 2% Third year: 3.5% *With an extra 2.65% for eligible staff

Quarrel over admin raises Meanwhile, administration wages have increased by 55 percent over the past four years, in contrast to the chancellor’s claim that there is no money available for faculty increases.

Cal Poly staff, faculty and students protested against wage inequity last year, and the reappearance of the issue surprised the Cal Poly CFA President, architectural engineering professor Graham Archer.

“From a fiscal standpoint, this requires balancing a number of budgetary priorities as the university works to attract and retain not only world-class faculty, but also the support staff and administrators necessary to maintain the university’s learning environment.

The CFA’s numbers paint an incomplete picture of that effort,” Laizer said in a previous interview about the issue.

CELINA OSEGUERA | MUSTANG NE WS

Celina Oseguera @celinaoseguera

Being editor-in-chief of a news organization isn’t about looking pretty, obviously. It’s about producing news for the masses.

In the same way, news itself isn’t meant to just look pretty. It’s meant to be more than a piece of eye candy.

If you look at any big names, like the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times, one thing is for certain. Yes, they are delivering news, but they are doing it in the most “pretty” way possible — articles and news content are now ridden with beautiful infographics, stunning photos, captivating videos and moving elements as you scroll down the page.

Out with the static and simple, in with the kinetic and complex seems to have become the new motto.

This is not about looking pretty

During my early days at Mustang News, I was always looking for ways to present news in this “pretty” way, mostly because the big dogs in the journalism world did it and it looked aesthetically pleasing. And who doesn’t like something that has a clean design?

But that mindset has changed over the years. For me, news has become less and less about just being “pretty” and more about being other things: Bold.

Selfless.

Vigilant.

Interactive.

Mustang News will never back down from a story that needs to be told, regardless of who tries to cover the

truth or keep us from discovering it. We will be strong for you and dig up the facts you want to know.

Why? Because we are bold.

Mustang News will work tirelessly to find out what’s happening in the world around you so you don’t have to. We will work day and night, because that’s what it takes.

Why? Because we are selfless.

Mustang News will keep a watchful eye on the happenings in our community and hold its citizens accountable.

Why? Because we are vigilant.

Mustang News will never be a oneway street. When we present news, we aren’t talking to hear our own voices; we want to hear yours too, and start

a conversation. If that means coming into the newsroom (Graphic Arts, bldg. 26, room 226) and talking with us, the door is wide open.

Why? Because we are interactive.

Why are we doing all these things?

Because that’s what news is, and as a news organization, that’s what we must strive to be as well.

This doesn’t mean we will completely abandon the tools and technologies that make news “pretty.” Adding aesthetic to how news is presented does no harm as long as the information is still there. In fact, using these tools mostly enhances the information, making it easier and more enjoyable to read.

So here’s to a year of not just “looking pretty” with infographics and multimedia — though there will be plenty of that — but to one of boldness, selflessness, vigilance and interactivity.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Cal Poly receives greatest number of applicants in university history 48,215 freshmen applicants 8,553 transfer applicants

14,190

were admitted into Cal Poly for Fall 2016

≈21,000 total students Fall 2016

Beth Strutz @CPMustangNews

For the 2016-17 year, Cal Poly received the greatest numbers of applicants seen in the university’s history.

The total number of firsttime freshman applicants came to 48,215, along with 8,553 transfer applicants, totalling 56,768. Of these students, 14,190 were admitted into the school for Fall 2016, indicating a 29 percent admittance rate.

Since 1993, the number of applicants has been on the rise. Demographic data shows this increased de-

mand has resulted in the overall caliber of admitted students increasing as well.

This year the average SAT math and reading scores were 1352, while ACT scores were 30.

With each passing year, more and more highly qualified students are demonstrating an interest in Cal Poly and its trademark Learn by Doing philosophy. As the applicant pool increases in both size and quality, the admitted student pool, and subsequently the Cal Poly student body, are comprised of students who

are more dedicated and qualified than ever before.

According to university

This illustrates the high demand for Cal Poly’s excellent academic programs MATT LAZIER

spokesperson Matt Lazier, “This illustrates the high

demand for Cal Poly’s excellent academic programs and unique Learn by Doing environment, which together provide students with one of the best values in higher education.”

Lazier also cites the very high returns on investment seen by Cal Poly graduates, which have been nationally recognized by publications such as Forbes, Bloomberg and the U.S. News & World Report. The latter, an extremely well-known report of universities, has rated Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

as the best public regional university in the West for the past 23 years, which adds to the university’s reputation and increases demand for the famed Learn by Doing education.

As more and more highly dedicated and intelligent students enter Cal Poly, the school’s academic and collaborative environment becomes richer.

“This means the university continually has the best and brightest students taking part in Learn by Doing and becoming the industry and community leaders of the future,” Lazier said.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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GURPREET BHOOT | MUSTANG NE WS | CAL POLY CORPOR ATION | COURTESY LOGO BEER,W INE ,PIZ Z A | Mustang Station will take over Ciao and will serve beer and wine along with former Ciao items. The university is still looking into adding a full-on pub on campus too.

Alcoholic beverages added to the campus menu Aidan McGloin @A_C_McG

Cal Poly will open a new restaurant fall quarter with the additions of beer and wine on the menu, a change from the university’s historic inability to serve alcohol on campus. The new alcoholic beverages come at the request of Cal Poly students, through a 4,800 student-large survey taken last year.

The survey’s original intent was to provide framework for the renovation and expansion of a new University Union (UU). After the UU referendum in 2016 did not pass and the decision was made to not pay for an entirely new UU, the survey was adapted to guide the renovation of the existing center of campus life.

Supplementing the survey is the student advisory council, with

representatives from greek life, athletics, clubs and most other aspects of campus life. The council agreed the creation of a new bar

menu. It will also be accessible

by Mustang Lanes.

Associated Student, Inc. (ASI) President Jana Colombini explained the campus’s decision not to create a full bar.

“We are not a completely wet campus, we can only have beer and wine,” Colombini said. “That being said, Mustang Station will not be a full-on bar, but just an opportunity where students will be able to grab drinks before a game with friends, or meet with a professor for a meeting, that sort of thing.”

Mustang Station was one of several names that were in the running. Campus Dining sent out an electronic survey to students with the alternative options: The P, Tack Room, Mane Street and Poly Station.

I think by 2022 we’ll at least be building a pub.

PRESIDENT JEFFREY ARMSTRONG

is a top priority.

Named Mustang Station, the new restaurant will take over the pre-existing location of Ciao, and will continue serving Ciao’s pizza, along with an enhanced

University spokesperson Matt Lazier described the administration’s view.

“The university supports an on-campus pub as part of its broader strategy and goal of creating a vibrant campus community that attracts more students to both live and spend more of their time on campus,” Lazier said. “This objective requires the university to provide the kinds of amenities — including food, drinks and entertainment — that people want to have convenient to their residence.”

Lazier also spoke about the long-standing support for the pub amongst university stakeholders, and Mustang Station’s intent to carry out all measures to ensure there is no underage drinking.

The idea of opening a full-on pub has actually been debated amongst university officials since

October 2013.

“I think by 2022 we’ll at least be building a pub,” Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong said in April 2014.

Now six years ahead of the plan, the university’s policy of ‘possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on the campus (being) prohibited,’ has been revised to allow certain entities to sell alcohol on campus, allowing for a full-on pub to open on campus in the future.

The menu is not the only aspect of Ciao that will be altered.

Mustang Station will have new decor crafted by a professional designer, which was completed and planned over the summer.

For those over 21, pair a mug of beer with a bowling session at Mustang Lanes.

Either way, enjoy yourself at Mustang Station.

Kennedy Library gets revamped

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GURPREET BHOOT | MUSTANG NE WS DOUBLING UP

| The library is doubling the first floor 24-hour space for fall and also introducing a Peer-to-Peer Learning Center complete with AutoCAD, GIS and other programs.

Aidan McGloin @A_C_McG

Kennedy Library has doubled its first floor 24-hour space for fall quarter and added more services for late-night workers.

Included in the new 24-hour space are four new study rooms, a web conference room and the relocation of the One Button Studio to the first floor.

The library opened the 24-hour room in 2007 and doubled the space in 2010. After 70 percent of students in the library’s annual student library advisory committee survey thought 24-hour access to the library during exam

periods would be very useful, the library saw more need to grow and hopes opening the first floor 24-hours will alleviate that need.

Also coming to campus is the 24-hour Peer-to-Peer Learning Center which will also be on the first floor of the library. The center will also feature AutoCAD, GIS, Excel, SAS, Adobe Creative Cloud and Tableau for all students to use, with Innovation Sandbox — a shared workspace currently located in the Bonderson Project Center — expected to join the Learning Center in the future.

Nearly $500,000 was allocated by the Student Success Fee Allocation Advisory Committee

to make this project happen.

The committee is co-chaired by Associated Students, Inc. President Jana Colombini and Vice President for Administration and Finance Cynthia Vizcaíno Villa, while the majority of voters are students.

The multi-faceted renovation is only a part of Kennedy Library’s 2014 master plan, which also plans the addition of 445 student seats, 16 additional group study rooms and climate control for rare exhibits.

A separate aspect of the master plan was finished last summer with the creation of the third floor’s architecture lounge. This

summer, the library staff reorganized the special collections and archives to create a better environment to work with rare, original and historic documents. Come fall, the library will launch a research project led by faculty and students to make the air conditioning system more sustainable.

“The impetus behind this project is our commitment to listening to students, understanding their needs and delivering well-designed and supportive environments where students feel empowered, and where students can help each other,” Director of External Relations of Kennedy

Library Briana Martenies said.

“We are proud and honored that students voted to use Student Success Fee money for library improvements, and we are committed to providing every Cal Poly student with a place where they can be focused, creative, supported and productive.”

Martenies explained the space is not only for all-nighters or early-risers, but also for students working on projects on Friday or Saturday nights.

Those looking to support the library through the Master Plan can visit www.http:// lib.calpoly.edu/giving for more information.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Student by day, police officer by night: A life of multiple identities

Rebecca Ezrin @CPMustangNews

Young adults that balance the burdens of both school and work are no rarity.

Whether it’s having an internship, working at Red Radish or babysitting through the school year, each job comes with its own obstacles.

Economics senior Alberto Sanchez faces a particularly unique challenge as he manages being a full-time student and cop.

“I’m a first generation college student. My parents came from Mexico. Growing up, I felt animosity between the community I lived in and the police,” Sanchez said. “I work on the south side of my hometown where it’s predominantly Hispanic, so I like bridging the cultural understanding between law enforcement and the community.”

Sanchez began the strenuous process of becoming a police officer in 2013 and currently works for a department in Northern California.

“I like throwing the ‘bad guy’ in jail; that’s my way of helping out my community,” Sanchez said.

“Don’t get me wrong, driving fast with sirens is also fun. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up.”

When Sanchez first became an officer, he was taking classes at a city college, but after being accepted to Cal Poly, he knew he couldn’t pass up the academic opportunity.

“There’s a misconception that law enforcement is a mindless job, but that’s not the case,” Sanchez said. “One thing you’ll find among command ranks is that they all have undergraduate degrees and many of them have their master’s as well.”

Because Sanchez is working for a department located several hours away, he usually works only two weekends each month.

This means that depending on his Friday schedule, he may have to leave class and immediately

head to work. Sanchez can work up to 40 hours in one weekend as an officer.

“If I’m working at night, coffee keeps me going. I get out of my car and do some push-ups at times,” Sanchez said. “The toughest hours are between 4:30 and 6 a.m., which is the slowest time. It picks up again when people start going to work.”

Sanchez shared that the biggest obstacle with juggling school and work is time management.

“My shifts are longer than most college jobs are,” Sanchez said. “I work over three hours away. The nature of the job is also just non-traditional for a college student.”

For Sanchez, the stress he carries from work goes far deeper than what most college students endure. Just because he’s off duty at times, that does not necessarily mean he feels that way.

“There have been a couple calls that can’t be easily forgotten and they do keep me up at night; it gets hard. My soft spot is kids’ suffering,” Sanchez said. “When you hear that stuff on the news, it’s never nearly as bad as it is in person. There are things out there that people should never see.”

One thing Sanchez has reflected upon since his work with the police department started is that most of what people stress over is unimportant. He applies this mentality to his life as a student.

“I’ve learned not to stress too much about little things anymore, like finals,” Sanchez said. “In my job, you have moments when you’re not sure you’re going to make it out alive.”

While Sanchez is off-duty, however, he sets aside his badge and blends in with the rest of the students.

“I think students would treat me differently if they knew I was a cop. I’ve only mentioned it a few times in class when it comes up in conversations,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez is not naïve to the fact that some have expressed in-

ALBERTO SANCHEZ | COURTESY PHOTO

creased hostility toward officers, especially recently.

“Generally there is a greater divide nowadays,” he said. “You’re either ‘for the blue,’ or you’re

not. Most people out there are good, including both cops and non-cops.”

Even when Sanchez is off-duty, he always tries to do the right

thing. He notes that his school friends are law-abiding citizens.

“If you’re smoking a joint or whatever, I won’t do anything,” Sanchez said. “Drinking and

driving is a big deal, so I’ll call 9-1-1 and report the vehicle.”

Nonetheless, without his badge, Sanchez must live as an honest civilian, and not a law enforcer.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Students earn extra cash as Uber drivers Julia Tettamanzi @CPMustangNews

Sitting at home, business administration senior Alex Chaconas opened his Uber app. It was past dinner time and students were heading out to parties or downtown, but Chaconas wouldn’t be participating in the college nightlife.

Instead, he would wait for requests from other students to be driven around in exchange for some fast cash.

Uber is an app where people can select a destination and request rides from drivers that are close by. Uber driving is becoming more popular among Cal Poly students because of its flexible hours and high financial reward.

Chaconas quit his minimum wage daycare job to become an Uber driver this past January.

“I make the same working four to five hours on Thursday nights as an Uber driver as I did working at the daycare 12 to 13 hours per week,” Chaconas said.

“I am most surprised by how easy it is and how rewarding it is monetarily.”

Not only is driving for Uber lucrative, but it’s especially rewarding in San Luis Obispo.

Computer engineering graduate Casey Glasgow, who drives for Uber, said he has tried it in other cities, but enjoys it in San Luis Obispo more.

“I am so used to doing it here in SLO, that a long ride is taking someone to another city,” Glasgow said. “But (in San Diego), every single ride that I did was a huge circle around the city.”

Glasgow said he ended up driving farther when he was based in San Diego, but made the same amount of money as he would driving shorter distances in San Luis Obispo.

“Uber is pricier here in SLO,” Glasgow said.

According to the Uber website, the fare per mile in San Luis Obispo is $2, while in San Diego the fare is $1.10 per mile.

The good, the bad and the drunk The job does have its own set of pitfalls. Both Glasgow and Chaconas said they drive an abundance of drunk students and make many late-night trips to Taco Bell.

Glasgow told of a situation that went wrong quickly.

A man requested an Uber at 2 a.m., but when Glasgow arrived to pick him up, the man handed over his girlfriend. Glasgow said he accepted the ride because the surge was high that night — approximately three times the cost of a normal Uber ride.

“Obviously, it was not the best time for expecting sober people,” Glasgow said. “I knew I could make a lot of money off the ride, but it was kind of risky.”

Glasgow said he didn’t immediately realize how drunk the woman was, but once they started driving, she stuck her head out of the window and threw up.

“Thankfully she was conscious enough to get it out the window, so it was only on the outside of my car,” Glasgow said.

Uber policy allows the driver to take a picture of the damage if the rider pukes in or on the car, and the company will then charge the rider extra for cleanup costs. Glasgow said he was able to make $120 from the ride because of it.

“It sucked, but it worked out well,” he said.

But that wasn’t the worst experience Glasgow said he had.

After he drove a group of men downtown, one of them requested a ride back home just half an hour later.

“He was so drunk he could barely stand,” Glasgow said.

“When we arrived at his house, I opened the door and he practically rolled out.”

Out of courtesy, Glasgow walked the man to his door to make sure he was home safe.

Booming popularity Regardless of stories like these, Uber is still an appealing job.

In fact, Glasgow is surprised by how popular Uber has become.

“It’s always surprising when I am out driving at night and most of the other cars are Uber drivers,” Glasgow said. “For such a small town, I feel like the concentration of Uber drivers is really high here, which is good ... but the demand goes down when there are a lot more drivers.”

Cornelius Nuworsoo, a city and regional planning professor who specializes in transportation planning studies, said the popularity of Uber in a city depends on demographics, separation of activities’ centers and their distances, size of the metropolitan city and the availability and efficiency of public transportation. “(In) your generation, people see Uber as a novelty; for me, it is no different than a taxi. It is just a freelance taxi,” Nuworsoo said.

Overall, Uber provides people with the opportunity to drive people around on their own schedule.

“You don’t have to do much work, but you get rewarded more so than working other jobs,” Chaconas said.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Five years after creation, SLO Safe Ride is a changed company Benjy Egel @CPMustangNews

As a college senior, Mike Linn had plenty of opportunities to blow the $609,493 he won at the 2010 World Series of Poker. He chose to buy four old Ford E-350 vans and create SLO Safe Ride, a company that evolved from a downtown shuttle service to the Central Coast’s primary group transportation system.

Linn’s company, which he started with Bull’s Tavern bartender Trevor Freeman and former Cal Poly student Noah Raynor, now boasts a fleet of 11 vehicles, ranging from white vans adorned with sponsors’ logos to party buses complete with black leather interiors and TV screens. It’s the multi-person transportation model — as well as the local connection — that has helped SLO Safe Ride continue to grow, even as Uber rolled into San Luis Obispo.

“It’s made us better.

Competition is good within any sort of ecosystem,” Linn said. “It allowed us to really examine what we were doing on that nightlife side and adapt there; it kind of kicked us into overdrive.”

Bottle Shoppe and Cork ‘N’ Bottle to the downtown bar area (and back) on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, nights on which some bars offer discounted drinks.

IFC members also receive a slew of benefits at local businesses, such as 10 percent off entrees at Splash Cafe, happy hour prices all night at Spike’s Pub and a free topping at Batch. However, IFC President Alex Campbell said that some business employees are unaware of their obligation to SLO Safe Ride members.

“We have gotten a lot of pushback from the restaurants. They’re not really familiar with the deal that we have,” Campbell said.

“They’ve honored it every time I’ve gone

Though Linn expected to have to use some of SLO Safe Ride’s $15 million insurance policy on fraternity members’ drunken mistakes, the men have been fine passengers by all accounts. On the contrary, groups who use SLO Safe Ride’s vehicles for wine tasting or large parties occasionally vomit or break things, Linn shared, and the money comes out of the renters’ security deposit to pay for it.

More money, more students and more locations Implementing a set schedule is one of the few wrinkles left to be ironed out in the agreement.

Though Campbell said IFC was looking to set a pick up and dropoff schedule for its buses, Linn explained that SLO Safe Ride had found a similar system to be ineffective at the company’s inception.

“It just wasn’t good for us on an economic scale. We were running empty too much,” Linn said.

SLO Safe Ride’s roots are rather unconventional. Linn, now 28, played competitive online poker while studying English at Cal Poly and spent his summers competing in Las Vegas, making enough money to travel and enjoy college before his big win. He did well in his classes, but rarely focused intensely on academics, proved by the fact that he took the same creative writing class four quarters in a row — and got an A every time.

The company, founded when

People would call us and say, ‘Oh, you do wine tours, right?’ And you think about it for a second and say, ‘Yeah, of course we do!

Fraternity partnership SLO Safe Ride recently linked up with the Cal Poly Interfraternity Council (IFC), which represents 16 fraternities and approximately 1,400 students. The agreement ensures that anyone in a fraternity, plus one guest, can hop in a SLO Safe Ride shuttle from Campus

MIKE LINN

in, but I’ve heard from a lot of people that some deals aren’t being honored or that there’s confusion.”

Nevertheless, IFC has generally been happy with the service that SLO Safe Ride has provided.

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Linn and Raynor were still in school, soon became too successful to be a side project. Linn left Cal Poly just 18 units shy of graduation to focus on SLO Safe Ride full time, though he is still considered an alumnus in the eyes of the university.

As the company has matured, Linn, Raynor and Freeman’s priorities have shifted from exclusively student transportation to San Luis Obispo County as a whole. SLO Safe Ride now runs more wedding shuttles than any other Central Coast outfit, Linn said.

“People would call us and say, ‘Oh, you do wine tours, right?’

And you think about it for a second and say, ‘Yeah, of course we do!’” Linn said. “We’ve moved onto a much, much different scope of service.”

For now, SLO Safe Ride’s in-city driving is well-defined. Though

fluctuating ride prices based on businesses leave Uber riders susceptible to varying costs, SLO Safe Ride vans will take passengers anywhere in San Luis Obispo for a flat rate of only $10.

The City of San Luis Obispo can be indirectly credited with helping SLO Safe Ride prosper as a business; city buses stop running around 6-8 p.m., opening up the nighttime for private transportation businesses. However, SLO Transit, which operates public transportation in San Luis Obispo, hopes to extend all routes to 11 p.m. by June 2017 to address Cal Poly students’ needs, according to SLO Transit assistant Dee Lawson.

“In the last year, we’ve tried to add some more service at night,” Lawson said. “We can add little bits and pieces of service, but

you can’t make major changes without going through the chain of approvals and meetings.

Since SLO Safe Ride is not a metered taxi service, it is governed by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), not the City of San Luis Obispo. The PUC monitors local businesses’ safety precautions slightly less often than the city, though Linn said all SLO Safe Ride vehicles are meticulously checked and maintained.

SLO Transit is free from the liability associated with a shuttle service intended to transport people who have been drinking.

“You’ve got the issues that come along with carrying intoxicated people, and we don’t want to deal with that,” Lawson said. “And that’s where SLO Safe Ride came in, because they were willing to deal with that.”

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Equine science gets students out of the classroom and into the real world Shannon McCallister @CPMustangNews

Animal science alumna Jessica Hutchings laughs as she remembers the moment. It was in her breeding enterprise class — a classmate had her hand in a horse’s vagina, and was talking about how hungry she was.

“Only in animal science would you hear someone with their hand up there, thinking about food,” Hutchings said.

The breeding enterprise course is one of the six equine science enterprise course options. Students take their lecture-based equine science coursework and move on to enterprise classes, which range from the breeding enterprise to the equine nutrition enterprise. The breeding enterprise in particular teaches animal science students all the steps of breeding, from artificially impregnating a mother to overseeing births.

The program’s enterprises are hands-on courses available to students who are equine science minors, like Hutchings was. Animal science majors may also take the enterprises and other lecture-based classes.

Hutchings began taking equine science classes her freshman year, after an advisor recommended she try working with animals besides dogs and cats. So, she took the breeding enterprise course twice.

“The most stressful part of breeding is the amount of responsibility that students have,” Hutchings said.

Though there are difficult as-

pects, the hands-on enterprises at the equine center are unique to Cal Poly because many students don’t experience them until their fourth year of veterinary school, Hutchings explained. The classes teach you the importance of being accountable, as each student is assigned and responsible for one horse during the course.

“It’s so student-run t h at e v e r y o n e’s learning things, so mistakes happen,” Hutchings said. “We do things with a lot of people involved, and a lot of parts and directions given at once.

It’s easy to make a small mistake.”

Animal science alumna Katie McGraw took the breeding enterprise course for the first time during her freshman year.

She was also the manager of the foaling enterprise, in which students learn how to train foals after they’re born. Being manager, McGraw was required to be at all births.

“The majority of the births happen at night, when the mares feel most safe and away from predators,” McGraw said.

When McGraw and other students come see a birth, they usually don’t have to interrupt.

Most horses are born healthy, and students are there to learn and observe.

“I’ve always found the process a bit nerve-racking, only because I like to see the foal born healthy and without com-

plications,” McGraw said. “But I never get tired of the birthing experience, it’s one of my favorite aspects of the enterprise.”

The births are meaningful to the students, as they see their hard work pay off, said both McGraw and Hutchings.

“At the end of the day, you made a baby. That’s really cool,” Hutchings said.

McGraw feels the amount of work the enterprise requires is worth it to her, but takes up a good portion of her time. Students are required to sign up for 10 one-hour shifts outside of class to care for the mares. Shifts can be at any hour of the day.

“I’ve made so many mistakes doing this, and I’ve just learned to pick myself up and do it right the next time,” Hutchings

said. “Small things happen all the time, like not tying the horse’s tail correctly, or not making a breeding dose the correct way.”

A major goal of the enterprise is to ensure the horses trust students.

“They’re not like a dog, they don’t just give you their trust.

You kind of have to earn their trust. And once you earn their trust it’s just so rewarding,” McGraw said.

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Your guide to one-day study breaks 15

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The importance of balancing school, social life and sleep

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Your guide to one-day

Molly O’Brien @mollypop61196

study breaks 1 Only 15 minutes away from the Cal Poly campus is the cove of Avila Beach. Its sunshine and warm sand will help you unwind from

College life can get pretty stressful between classes, work and other responsibilities. Take time to sit back and relax at these great San Luis Obispo study-break spots.

Avila Beach

a stressful course load. Avila has a pier to stroll on, a variety of ice cream shops and perfect weather nearly all year-round.

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To help you unwind and fuel up, enjoy an espresso before hitting the books again. Any of the many coffee shops downtown are a great place to study. Try Sally Loo’s for

Downtown coffee shops

a fresh brewed cup of coffee, or Kreuzberg for a crisp cold brew.

Each shop has its own unique atmosphere and delicious variety of caffeinated drinks.

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Hiking the “P”

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There are endless hikes around San Luis Obispo to enjoy, but the “P” is right in Cal Poly’s own backyard. This short 20 to 30 minute hike lets stu-

dents release endorphins and check out the beautiful panoramic view of the Cal Poly campus without having to drive anywhere.

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The free classes and machines available at the Cal Poly Recreation Center gives you the chance

to recharge in restorative yoga, sweat out the stress in a spin class or just chill out by the pool.

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Rec Center Poly Canyon

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The hike to Poly Canyon is also on the Cal Poly campus and is about a flat mile from the residence halls. It’s an oasis away from the hustle and bustle of

everyday college stress, and filled with the sculptures of past architecture students that decorate the landscape and surrounding hills.

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This beach is a bit further from campus and bigger than Avila, but great for watersports like surfing and stand-up pad-

dleboarding. Grab a bite at the original Splash Caf for a classic bread bowl with clam chowder too.

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Pismo Beach

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The importance of balancing school, social life and sleep Carly Quinn @carlyquinnMN

You got into Cal Poly, so you definitely had your fair share of AP classes, extracurriculars or part-time jobs that took up your time in high school. You’re not new to time management.

College is a similar boat. With classes, clubs, extracurriculars and part-time jobs, balancing school, your social life and sleep can be a difficult task.

“Everyone defines a balance in life differently,” mathematics senior Michael Boulos said.

“It’s all about finding your own balance.”

According to Director of Wellbeing and Health Education Genie Kim, students should always

be getting at least eight hours of sleep a night. If you can’t fit this into one block of sleep, try your best to fit in naps or even resting periods throughout the day.

“I think that balance is very important to a student’s success here at Cal Poly,” Kim said. “It’s so important to take some time out of your day.”

Drinking caffeine or alcohol, looking at computer screens and eating large meals right before bed can disrupt sleep. Kim recommends looking ahead at what you have coming up in the week to ensure you are not overwhelmed and are capable of satisfying all your needs.

Boulos doesn’t always prioritize sleep before school work.

“Academics will get you really far in the long run, but if your health is a concern, you really should pay attention to it,” Boulos said. “But if all else is going well, academics come first.”

Cal Poly is a nationally renowned university, and the courses offered on campus are rigorous and time-consuming.

Success requires hard work and time, so try to follow the Cal Poly “25-35 hours per week” mantra.

It’s a manageable work load, no doubt. The key is to ration your work and be efficient in

the use of your time throughout the week. Do reading assignments during travel time if you take the bus or carpool. Be aware of your professors’ office hours and try to study between classes.

Having a social life is also a crucial aspect of living a balanced life. Having friends helps you to destress and get your mind off of the pressure of school for at least a little while.

“Don’t over-stress yourself,” aerospace engineering junior Naomi Chavez said. “It’s college, have fun.”

Overworking yourself can leave you burnt out, which is

worse than taking an hour-long study break.

“Everything in moderation,” Chavez said. “Too much of one thing is bad.”

Every aspect of college life is important in its own way. The balance of each aspect keeps your life moving along without too many complications.

If you feel overwhelmed with any part of college life, Cal Poly offers a variety of support services for students. Seek out your academic advisor, resident advisors, professors, campus health and wellbeing or the Dean of Students’ office to get you started in the right direction.

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Get on your professor’s g d side this quarter Beth Strutz @CPMustangNews

As fall quarter begins, each student will experience a variety of new professors, subjects and teaching styles. While this can mean new challenges, it can also mean new opportunities, as each student has the chance to have a fresh start with their professors.

Building strong relationships with professors can lead to numerous benefits further down the road, both during your time at Cal Poly and beyond. This helps most immediately in terms of success in the classroom.

When you’re comfortable with your professors, it makes asking for help significantly easier.

Whether this is during office hours or by connecting with the tutoring programs available on campus, faculty are there to help you succeed in your academics.

Both during school and after graduation, the professional and research connections that professors have can be helpful toward your career development.

Letters of recommendation and personal endorsements can be major boosts to applications for jobs and internships. The contacts many Cal Poly faculty have in their fields can give promising students access to amazing positions and opportunities. They

are significantly more likely to extend these opportunities to the students whose work ethic and character they know more closely.

As classes begin, there are plenty of different opportunities to get on your new professors’ good side. On the first day of class, introduce yourself, making sure to include a handshake and eye contact. Afterwards, thank the professor and be sure to ask any questions you have about the lecture or syllabus. Making a good first impression can be extremely important, and it’s better to already have introduced yourself before the quarter gets into full swing. This way, if you’re struggling later on, the professor will already have an idea of who you are and be more willing to go out of their way to help you.

If you have any questions about anything in the course or start to get lost as the quarter progresses, don’t hesitate to take advantage of the professors’ office hours. At Cal Poly, instructors have office hours where you can get clarification on any concepts you’re

confused about. If these office hours don’t work for your schedule, most professors are willing to schedule an appointment with you for a different time.

When you reach out for the help you need early on, you receive a dual benefit: your grade in the class will likely be higher because you know the content more thoroughly, and the professor will have a better impression of you and your dedication as a student.

Your professors are there to help you succeed and want to do everything they can to help you master course content, get your degree and go on to achieve great things.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Depression knows no discrimination Tara Kaveh @CPMustangNews

Twenty three years old.

Software engineer in the Silicon Valley.

Three-time Ironman.

Nine-time Tough Mudder competitor.

At first glance you would never know that recent Cal Poly graduate John Jae Woo Lee battled with chronic depression during college.

Just one year after graduation, he is competing in the World’s Toughest Mudder Competition: a 24-hour race where competitors run as many laps as they can.

The funds he is raising through his GoFundMe campaign will go to the Hope for Depression Foundation.

Lee is only one of an increasing number of students who struggle to seek treatment for depression in college.

According to Cal Poly Campus Health and Wellbeing, two-thirds of people suffering from depression do not seek treatment at all. And for those who do not seek treatment for severe depression, the suicide rate is as high as 15 percent.

Though Cal Poly and other universities offer resources to help cope with depression, students like Lee are often hesitant to seek treatment.

“The hardest part for someone going through it is to open up,” Lee said. “I think that’s because of all the social stigmas. When I had depression I thought that if I opened up I would feel insecure and embarrassed — but I realized that that’s probably the worst thing that you can do. What you really need to do is reach out to others and get that unconditional help.”

As a straight-A student and athlete throughout high school, Lee was admitted to Cal Poly’s computer engineering program in 2010. That same year, he suffered from a severe concussion after getting hit in the back of the head during a flag football game.

After the concussion, he became very withdrawn and experienced regular anxiety attacks and night sweats. People close to him pointed out dramatic personality changes, and encouraged him

to seek help. After visiting the Health Center for screenings, Lee was diagnosed with Dysthymia — otherwise known as chronic depression.

lege, and is especially prevalent among young adults.

“Thinking that you are a ‘depressed

According to the UCLA loneliness scale, college students tend to score on the much higher end of loneliness.

This feeling combined with the high stress of harder classes and heavy workloads can increase feelings of depression in college students.

“Don’t be ashamed of your depression. It’s not the only defining factor in your life.”

Leaving stigmas behind Nationally, 40 percent of college students seek help from a counselor, therapist or other resource for concerns about depression, according to Campus Health & Wellbeing.

At Cal Poly, 15 percent of students who went into Peers Understanding Listening Supporting Educating (PULSE) for consultations presented feelings of diagnosable depression, co-coordinator of the Mental Health team at PULSE Ryker Wall said.

When people seek treatment, it more than often works. More than 80 percent of all people with clinical depression who receive proper treatment significantly improve their lives, according to Campus Health & Wellbeing.

“Don’t be ashamed of your depression.

It’s not the only defining factor in your life,” Wall said.

Wall helps conduct screenings similar to the initial process that Lee went through at the counseling center. He and the rest of the PULSE team are certified educators who provide counseling for students, by students.

“Just because you have depression doesn’t mean that you are a depressed person,” Wall said. “There’s a difference.”

There are many triggers for depression, and sometimes college can contribute to them. College is a place where students are going through a major life transition — from being a teenager to young adulthood. Though many severe forms of depression are often triggered by traumatic events in a person’s past, situational depression is triggered by a person’s situation. This short-term form of depression usually occurs during transitionary stages in people’s lives, such as going to col-

-RYKER WALL person’ has this sort of forever characteristic about it in your life,” Wall said.

“Having depression is just dealing with depression at one part of your life. It’s not the only thing that’s going on, so not feeling ashamed that you are depressed is really important.

The transitionary phase that students are in can trigger feelings of depression, especially depending on the level of college they are at. During fall quarter, Wall explained that there are more first-years seeking counseling from PULSE. Toward the end of the year, PULSE counselors see an influx of graduating seniors coming in for support.

“Depression and anxiety are perfectly normal,” psychology professor Laura Freberg said. “Where they become ‘abnormal’ is when they become disabling.”

There’s really no single factor that can make someone develop any kind of psychological disorder that is truly as disabling as Freberg described.

There are several factors that have to be in place.

“Maybe you have a genetic predisposition and you’ve had some past experience interacting with that, so you’re part of the vulnerable population,” Freberg said. “If you then experience loneliness in college, that might be enough.”

Finding the root Though some clinicians and pharmaceutical representatives might disagree, psychologists like Freberg are proponents for the vast amount of research that suggests medication is not the only way to deal with depression.

Unlike some other mental health syndromes like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, depression is a condition that can be dealt with just as effectively through therapeutic treatments such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is a type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and the world are challenged in an attempt to alter unwanted behavior patterns, which in turn alters mood.

“Even just 30 minutes of exercise a day has the same benefits in depression as taking an SSRI [a class of medication designed to regulate serotonin levels, which is the brain’s greatest influencer of mood],” Freberg said. “It’s just hard to get people who are depressed to walk around for thirty minutes.”

Shortly after starting his prescribed anti-depressants, Lee noticed an improvement in his happiness and concentration levels. However, he decided to stop taking the prescription and seek a more natural alternative.

“I understood that I felt depressed, but I didn’t want to be on medication,” Lee said. “I wanted to find the root cause of all the things that were making me depressed and tackle them myself. I believe that if you mitigate all those negative factors, that’s the true

way of healing.”

While regularly attending counseling, Lee took it upon himself to find ways to cope with his depression beyond the pills. He kept detailed lists of all his actions, sometimes down to the minute of everything he did that day. He made efforts to eat better, sleep more, surround himself with friends and to be more time efficient and proactive with classes.

“I realized when I started feeling depressed, I started portraying certain emotions or doing certain things that just didn’t help with my current state,” Lee said. “I tried to find the root cause of all the things that added more stress to my life, and tried to eliminate them by handling them in a more effective manner.”

Even today, Lee still picks up a notebook to log his actions whenever he starts feeling depressed. He still keeps in touch with old friends who also went through it, and has started a blogging site about mental health awareness.

The physical challenges he pushes himself to achieve such as the Ironman and the Tough Mudder Competitions are not only ways that he raises funds for the cause, but also keep him focused and mindful about mental health.

The coping skills Lee has developed are what the PULSE Mental Health Team call mindfulness. According to Wall, mindfulness is the perspective on life where you’re viewing everything objectively, especially what’s in the present moment. You’re not thinking about the future. You’re not thinking about the past. You’re thinking about right here, right now. Some of these activities include things like reading a book, coloring or going for a hike.

Practicing mindfulness tends to eliminate anxiety about the future as well as some stress or regret about the past — all major things that can contribute to depression.

“Putting yourself in the present moment is what truly can help with these feelings of depression,” Wall said.

JOHN JAE WOO LEE | COURTESY PHOTO TOUGH C OOK IE

| These competitions also help Lee focus and be mindful of his mental health.

“I wanted to find the root cause of all the things making me depressed and tackle them myself.”

- JOHN JAE WOO LEE JOHN JAE WOO LEE | COURTESY PHOTO FINI SH LINE

| Lee is a nine-time Tough Mudder competitor and three-time Ironman winner.

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Cal Poly’s rap scene Morgan Butler @CPMustangNews

MICHAEL RUMERY AKA KILA MIKE “I never named myself Kila Mike.”

Mechanical engineering graduate student Michael Rumery began rapping during his senior year of high school. He’s part of a small but passionate selection of students at Cal Poly who rap.

“I never thought that made any sense that I was Kila Mike, but people from high school were calling me Kila Mike. When I got here, people were calling me Kila Mike. My coms teacher [called]

me Kila Mike, it just sticks,” Rumery said.

Rumery had played trumpet his whole life. As high school band began to come to an end, he started making songs with his friends that were jokes and uncharacteristic of who he considers himself to be. But now Rumery’s style has matured.

“When I first started ... I was an idiot, I was just saying stupid stuff. I thought that’s what rap was,” he said. “Now I’m trying to inspire people to be more intelligent, to really think.”

From “So Sweet” featuring Kila Mike, Papa Ryles, JCB and Sam-

myT: Not wasting a second, my intention is to keep my head down, moving in the right direction Never stressing, I stay focused on my blessing And second guessing man that ain’t even worth addressing I’m just confessing, I couldn’t give a fuck about impressing With money status or how I’m dressing I’m more concerned with expression Discovering my inner essence Life teaching me lessons Rumery said his hometown had the largest influence on his music.

“For me, I rap about where I’m

from and I’m from Davis so that’s an inspiring place, that’s a positive place, that’s a happy place so that’s what my music is going to sound like,” he said.

Rumery typically records with his three friends from back home, M10, SammyT and Papa Ryles.

“We get in my friend’s studio and we just listen to instrumentals, producers we really like.

When we hear the right one, the one we really think we can make a song on, then we choose it. We just start writing,” he said.

Typically, Rumery is the first one to go, then M10 will follow. Papa Ryles does the hook and SammyT finishes it off. Rumery’s lyrics set the tone for the song and focus on what inspires him.

“The first line is probably something that I was thinking about that day, that moment when I started writing, but the more and more I write, the more I’m just really expressing thoughts that have been on my mind for weeks or months that maybe I haven’t talked about, or maybe I haven’t really dived into and tried to figure out,” he said.

From “Shoutsout” featuring Kila Mike, bMac, M5 and SammyT: This is how I make my reputation Through lyrical creation and innovation Differentiation the me, from the whack M-C Boy Kila Mike back, blessing the beats Rumery says the rap culture at

Cal Poly is underdeveloped, but has a lot of potential to grow.

He hopes to see rap artists performing at events and parties in the city.

MICHAEL LOZADA AKA LIKE MIKE Computer science senior Michael Lozada tried to join some music clubs at Cal Poly, but said they either didn’t focus on rap or focused too much on talking.

“There isn’t much music culture in SLO besides people on their guitars who think their covers are super legit,” he said.

Lozada grew up in a less-thanideal neighborhood in Long Beach. Being the only white person on his high school basketball team, Lozada was surprised by the lack of diversity when he came to Cal Poly.

“It was so weird, coming here.

The first quarter I was culture shocked,” he said.

Lozada goes by Like Mike, but he didn’t picked the name.

“I really don’t know, it just kind of happened and it just stuck,” Lozada said.

In second grade, Lozada first got into music by playing piano, then guitar. His best friend was in a rock band. When Lozada started playing with them, he discovered his calling.

“We started doing music together because it was fun and I really quickly learned I couldn’t sing,” Lozada said. “And I was like, ‘Well

what takes no talent?’ – ‘Oh rap.’”

Soon after, Lozada put together an album.

“My first mixtape, it did really well for some reason, but I deleted it off the internet and not many people have heard it. I have one physical copy of it and that’s the only way people can see it, but I don’t go around sharing that one,” he said.

Embarrassed by his first album, Lozada says his music quality has improved over the years, but in that time he’s never locked himself down to rapping about one theme.

“I joke around a lot more than I used to, but just about anything that involves life. I’m not trying to box myself in and make myself about something,” he said.

From “Verbal Abuse:” I should take this seriously, But I feel that lyrically, I’m the best in this contest, that’s why all these others fearing me Aight so maybe you don’t see, You just got no steeze, You can’t compete cuz your flow weak, You are way out of yo league Lozada is preparing to release a new collection early fall quarter.

“This new mixtape I’m working on is a mess of my beats, other people’s beats and mainstream beats. It’s just whatever I like,” he said.

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Upcoming ASI events this quarter September 22

September 24

Concert in the Plaza ft. Fialta 11 a.m. to noon in the UU Plaza

Welcome Back Concert ft.

Echosmith and Dev 4 p.m. at the ASI sports complex

October 15

Culturefest with musical entertainment 11 a.m. on Dexter Lawn

October 22

Mustang Family Weekend and opening of Mustang Station Noon to 3 p.m. in UU plaza

November 4 Day of the Dead with musical entertainment

December 2

7 p.m. in UU Plaza Campus Market Concert 5 p.m. at Via Carta Mall

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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BRETT FOREMAN AKA RUMP Brett Foreman, a business administration senior and Cal Poly soccer player with ambitions to go professional, says he’s written tens of thousands of songs over the years, but it wasn’t until college that he started producing them.

“Sophomore year of college I had a bunch of songs that I’d written and I never produced anything. I was too indecisive on whether or not I liked it enough to produce,” he said. “I finally did and it was a hit, people liked it. Production wasn’t

too good ... but it’s all about the lyrics at the end of the day.”

Foreman got his rap name from his teammates on the soccer team.

“My last name’s Foreman, people started saying Foreskin because it rhymed. Then they’d be like Rumple Foreskin - Rumpelstiltskin, they they’d be like Rumple and then they’d say Rump.”

He first started writing poetry in middle school and eventually he started putting beats under his poems to make songs.

“It was just things going on in life at that time around sixth grade. Started asking myself questions because certain people I couldn’t ask them to, they

RUMP

(Brett Foreman)

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weren’t around. So [I] started writing poetry, figured that out and that’s how it began,” he said.

Today, Foreman has produced 20 songs. His favorite song shows his dedication to the lyrics.

“There’s a song called ‘Twenty Years,’ the production’s a little low quality, but that’s the evolution of my life,” he said. “If you look at the document where I made it, it’s like 40 pages of edits.”

His songs focus on the past, present, future and his personal life, which have all had a strong impact on his lyrics.

From “Waking Up at Midnight” featuring Tim Gachot,

beats produced by Benny Boy: Midnight’s more like daytime to me These lines take me through a time machine Back then, if I saw me now Is this where I’d want to be Or am I miles away from what I would think is okay “Parents are divorced, lot of stories, there’s a song called ‘The Reasons,’ that’s about that,” he said. “At the time I was very hateful to my dad, didn’t understand.

It’s more about not reliving it in a negative way, but saying what I felt then, even though I don’t feel the same now, then hoping someone else can relate.”

From “The Reasons Why” featuring Tim Gachot and Brian-

KILA MIKE (Michael Rumery)

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na Rodebaugh, original beat by Hopsin-Fly: I hate you, I love you I love you, I hate you These years of not knowing were years to be thankful Now that I’ve grown a bit older I understand love is much more than a folder With documents spelling out things you ain’t doing And home is wherever you want it to be Foreman has collaborated with other students for the instrumentals or chorus of his song, but he’s never performed with another rapper from Cal Poly.

“As far as Cal Poly, I don’t know any other rappers, I don’t think that it’s really big here,” he said.

Foreman said he likes his music to speak for itself and though Lozada doesn’t know any other rappers, he says he’s confident he’s the best.

“There’s no one at Cal Poly that’s better than me, not that that’s an accomplishment at all,” Lozada said. “I know I can out freestyle or out rap anyone at Cal Poly, which is not hard.”

Rumery has also never heard of Lozada, Foreman or any other rappers at Cal Poly.

“I don’t know any rappers down here. If you’re a rapper down here, you need to get your name out so I can pay attention to you and listen,” he said. “I’m not trying to hate, I want to like everyone out here.”

LIKE MIKE (Michael Lozada)

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Making it into the big leagues: Mustangs go professional

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A look into Cal Poly’s fall playbook

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Games you don’t want to miss this fall

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MUSTANG NATION

Erik Engle @CPMustangNews

As the academic year begins, students come to school with a fresh start, a new set of expectations and excitement for what the future might hold. With 14 different sports starting new seasons during fall quarter, the feeling is no different for Cal Poly Athletics.

In the next few months, there will be dozens of opportunities to see the Mustangs compete against some of the best teams the NCAA has to offer. With so much competition, it can be hard to decide which games to go to, but these are the games every Cal Poly fan needs to attend this year.

Men’s soccer 2015-16 record: 11 wins, 5 losses, 5 draws After setting a Cal Poly men’s soccer record for wins in a single season, and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament, the Mustangs are looking to build on last year’s success. With five starters from last year’s team returning, expectations for this year’s team are just as high, if not higher than they were last year. One of the most important things for the men’s soccer program is to “increase the quality of the schedule every year,” head coach Steve Sampson said. “You have to play the best teams and you have to get results.”

The Mustangs will certainly have their chance to compete against top-tier opponents this year, as the team faces five teams ranked in the top 25 in the preseason

NSCAA poll. After starting the season on the road with losses in North Carolina (Aug. 26) and Wake Forest (Aug. 28), Cal Poly hosts the team that knocked them out of the NCAA Tournament last year, UCLA (Sept. 23), and rival UC Santa Barbara (Oct. 15). The Mustangs will also travel to Santa Barbara to face the Gauchos for the second game of this season’s Blue-Green Rivalry Oct. 22.

While Sampson acknowledged that he will try to keep the team focused on one game at a time, it won’t exactly be easy.

“We have an entire week to prepare for UCLA,” Sampson said.

“Those are the kinds of the games you can make a statement locally, regionally and nationally.”

Women’s soccer 2015-16 record: 6 wins, 8 losses, 5 draws Replacing Elise Krieghoff, the program’s all-time leading goal scorer, and the other eight seniors that graduated last year will not be easy. They will attempt to do so with their preseason All-Big West outside back and midfielder, senior Megan Abutin. Her 20 assists rank second in Cal Poly women’s soccer history.

The Mustangs began their season by traveling to the Bay Area to battle the highest ranked team they will likely face all season, Cal (Aug. 19), and came back with a loss. After the Husky Nike Invitational (Sept.

2-4) in Seattle, Wash. and the Marquette Invitational (Sept.

| After a memorable Blue-Green Rivalry win, the men’s soccer team will face UC Santa Barbara again on Oct. 22.

16-18) in Milwaukee, Wis., Cal Poly returns home to face Pepperdine (Sept. 23) and Seattle (Sept. 25) during Week of Welcome (WOW).

Conference play begins Sept.

30 when Hawaii comes to San Luis Obispo and rival UC Santa Barbara will pay their visit to Alex G. Spanos Stadium (Oct. 13). In the preseason Big West coaches poll, the Mustangs are projected to finish fifth in the conference this year.

Expectations are higher this year for the Mustangs, as 10 letterwinners from last year’s team will return for the 2016-17 season. In addition, four transfer student-athletes will join the team along with one true freshman. The added experience should help an already disciplined team get over the hump and compete for the Big West title. Cal Poly averaged just 10.3 turnovers per game, good enough for 16th best in the NCAA last season.

Men’s basketball

Women’s basketball

2015-16 record: 10 wins, 20 losses Cal Poly has finished every season with a record under .500 and more losses each season than the previous one since winning the Big West Tournament and going to the NCAA Tournament in 2014.

That didn’t stop head coach Joe Callero from creating a basketball schedule with a record 17 opponents who all reached post-season last year.

The road schedule for the Mustangs will be immensely challenging, featuring PAC-12 opponents Arizona State (Nov. 13), Cal (Dec. 17) and Washington (Dec. 20) and Fresno State (Dec. 10) that appeared in the NCAA tournament last season. The first conference home game will be against Cal State Fullerton (Jan. 12), and rival UC Santa Barbara will return to Mott Athletics Center for the last game of the regular season (March 4).

2015-16 record: 15 wins, 16 losses After finishing in the top three of the Big West conference in seven of the last eight years, the Mustangs expect to make another run at the conference title this year. Twelve letterwinners from last year’s team, which lost to Cal State Long Beach in the quarterfinals of the Big West Conference Tournament by just two points, will be returning this season.

A redshirt freshman, two transfers and a true freshman will also join the returnees to round out the team playing for head coach Faith Mimnaugh in her 20th season at Cal Poly.

The Mustangs will begin their season facing a couple of PAC-12 powerhouses on the road, facing Stanford (Nov. 11), a team that went to the Elite Eight in last season’s NCAA Tournament, and UCLA (Nov. 20), who had a

run to the Sweet 16 last year in the NCAA Tournament.

Blue-Green rival UC Santa Barbara will come to San Luis Obispo for the first conference game of the season (Jan. 5).

Football 2015-16 record: 4 wins, 7 losses Seven starters on offense and six starters on defense will return for the Mustangs this season, but they will miss quarterback Chris Brown, who graduated last year and had a brief stint with the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL preseason. Brown accounted for more than 6,000 yards of offense and more than 70 touchdowns during his time at Cal Poly.

Cal Poly began its season on the road against Nevada (Sept.

2), its toughest out of conference opponent this year. Three weeks later, Montana comes to Spanos Stadium for the conference opener (Sept. 24) during WOW. UC Davis will come to San Luis Obispo Oct. 22 for this season’s homecoming game.

The head coaches and media projected Cal Poly to finish ninth in the Big Sky this season out of 13 teams. This is not far off from where the Mustangs finished last season, as they tied for eighth place in the conference with Montana State and Northern Colorado. If the Mustangs can find a way to replace even a fraction of Brown’s offensive production, their improved defense gives them the potential to finish much better than ninth in their division.

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STEVE SAMPSON MEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH

Ty Schilling @ty_schilling106

Athletes have been working hard training for the upcoming season. Behind these athletes are the dedicated coaches.

Here are the role models that will lead Cal Poly Athletics this fall: Steve Sampson After a “historic” 2015 season, Sampson enters his second season as the head coach for the Cal Poly men’s soccer team. Previously, he managed the United States Men’s National Team and MLS’s Los Angeles Galaxy.

ALEX CROZIER

WOMEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH

MARK CONOVER

CROSS COUNTRY HEAD COACH

TIM WALSH

OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND QUARTERBACK COACH

A look into Cal Poly’s fall playbook Sampson led the Mustangs to the NCAA Division I National Tournament for the first time in seven years. He also led them to a program record of 11 victories in one season.

After a close 2-1 loss against No. 1 Stanford on Aug. 17, Sampson hopes to gain another berth into the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year.

Alex Crozier The Cal Poly women’s soccer team enters the 2016 sea-

son with Crozier, who started the program in 1992. This will be his 25th season as the first and only head coach for the Mustangs.

Boasting a 70 percent win-percentage in conference play, Crozier holds an overall record of 272-159-47. After losing multiple players to professional contracts, Cal Poly held a record of 6-8-5 in 2015.

Crozier, with a rebuilt team over the last two years, hopes to be a Big West contender in the 2016 season.

Tim Walsh Walsh leads the Cal Poly football team into their eighth year under his teaching. Walsh was the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at the United States Military Academy for two years preceding his arrival in San Luis Obispo in 2009.

Walsh led the Mustangs to a Great West Conference title in 2011, which was followed by a Big Sky title in 2012. The Mustangs also gained an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoff berth in 2012.

After a losing record of 4-7 in 2015, Walsh hopes to claim a Big Sky Championship in the 2016 season.

Mark Conover Conover will enter his 21st season with the Cal Poly men’s and women’s cross country team. Conover, a two-time national champion and 1988 Olympian, led the men’s team to their seventh straight Big West Conference championship in 2009.

During the 2015 season, Conover led both the men’s and women’s team to the Big West

Championships, finishing with a second-place finish from the men and a first-place from the women.

Conover hopes to have both teams finish as Big West Conference champions in 2016, bringing the Big West cross country reign back to Cal Poly.

Cal Poly is about to begin its 2016-17 sports debut with multiple opportunities for success from all sports across the board. After seeing the hard work Cal Poly has put in through the spring, keep an eye out for headlines this season.

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Cal Poly volleyball spikes off a new season Ayrton Ostly @AyrtonOstly

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| The Mustangs faced four ranked opponents.

The Cal Poly volleyball team, fresh off of a 19-8 season that saw a third place finish in the Big West Conference, is off to a good start in the non-conference portion of its fall schedule. Though the schedule looks unforgiving in the first 11 matches before conference play begins, the Mustangs have handled it well to finish 5-4 through the first nine games going into the second day of the Sacramento State Invitational.

Among those first nine matches include games against four ranked opponents: No. 9 Stanford, No. 13

BYU, No. 19 Western Kentucky and No. 20 Purdue. In those four matches, the Mustangs have gone 1-3, winning 3-1 against Western Kentucky. On the road against Stanford, Cal Poly took it to five sets, losing 3-2, but gave the Cardinals all they could handle.

The Mustangs can use the experience from their close matches with top-ranked opponents to fare well in conference play.

Of all the teams in the Big West, only No. 15 Hawaii is ranked nationally and presents the biggest challenge to the Mustangs. The Mustangs will host the Rainbow Warriors Sept. 24 to open conference play.

Sophomore outside hitter Adlee Van Winden leads the team in kills with 117, good enough for ninth in conference. Fellow sophomore outside hitter Alexis Clewis and junior outside hitter Raeann Greisen are close behind with 112 and 102, respectively. Junior setter Taylor Nelson is second in conference in assists with 389, good enough for 10.81 assists/set and best in conference. Sophomore libero Katherine Brouker leads the team in digs (134) and stands ninth in conference in that category as well.

Though their record may not show it, the Mustangs have played well to open the first part of the season and stand at 5-4 through

nine matches. They played a top10 team close (Stanford), beat a ranked opponent (Western Kentucky) and sit third in the Big West before the start of conference play.

At this point last season, the Mustangs were 7-2 but hadn’t faced a ranked opponent.

After the Sacramento State Invitational wraps up on Sept. 17, the Mustangs have a week to prepare for the Rainbow Warriors to come to Mott Gym. With their good form in the first month of the season and consistent talent up and down the roster, coach Sam Crosson’s squad will be looking to make a statement to start conference play.

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Making it into the big leagues: Mustangs go professional Chris Brown Dallas Cowboys

Burton De Koning Ottawa Redblacks | Canadian Football League

Elise Krieghoff Boston Breakers

Chase Minter Sacramento Republic FC

Kip Colvey San Jose Earthquakes

Wade Hamilton Portland Timbers

Brett Barbier Philadelphia Phillies

John Schuknecht Los Angeles Angels

Justin Calomeni Colorado Rockies

Brian Bennett BK Baník Handlová Slovakian Basketball League

Joel Awich BC Montbrison French Basketball League

Erik Engle @CPMustangNews

Eleven former Mustangs, including two football players, four soccer players, three baseball players and two basketball players have all joined professional sports organizations since their seasons ended with Cal Poly last year.

Back in May, shortly after the National Football League draft, Chris Brown was signed by the Dallas Cowboys to try out as a wide receiver. The former quarterback was unable to secure a spot on the team, despite reportedly catching every ball thrown his way in practice.

Cowboys’ head coach Jason Garrett told Brown that he was “an elite athlete,” and to “be by the phone,” according to a report by The Tribune. Brown has yet to be signed by another team since being cut by Dallas at the end of training camp.

Burton De Koning, who recorded 82 tackles and three sacks last year for Cal Poly, has played a handful of games this season for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League. So far, the 6-foot-2, 235 pound linebacker is mainly a special teams player and has recorded only one tackle this season on a team that lost to the Edmonton Eskimos in the Grey Cup, the CFL’s version of

the Super Bowl, last season.

Former Cal Poly women’s soccer star Elise Krieghoff was signed by the Boston Breakers of the National Women’s Soccer League. Over her four seasons as a Mustang, Krieghoff scored 52 goals, more than anyone else in Cal Poly history. She was named Big West Freshman of the Year

Eleven former Mustangs have joined professional sports organizations.

in 2012, and helped bring the Big West Conference Championship back to San Luis Obispo in 2013.

The 5-foot-8 forward was also one of five finalists for the Senior CLASS Award in 2015.

According to a press release earlier this season, Breaker’s head coach Matt Beard is “confident (Krieghoff) can have an impact,” but the prolific goal-scorer has been limited to just 127 minutes on the field over five games

this season.

After a trio of players from the men’s soccer team were selected in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft, only one has made their professional debut. Kip Colvey, selected 49th overall by the San Jose Earthquakes, has started three games and was used as a substitution in another. In his short career, Colvey has one assist and has drawn two more fouls than he has committed.

Chase Minter was drafted 21st overall by the Columbus Crew, the highest any Cal Poly player has been selected in the MLS SuperDraft, but the two sides were unable to come to terms on a contract. Instead, Minter signed a contract with Sacramento Republic FC of the United Soccer League. So far, the 5-foot-9 midfielder has played 211 minutes over nine games and has only taken one shot. Minter is Cal Poly’s all-time leader in assists (21) and was twice named Big West Midfielder of the Year.

The 61st overall pick of the MLS SuperDraft, Wade Hamilton, has served as the backup goalie for the defending champion Portland Timbers and has yet to appear in a game. Hamilton was a threeyear starter for the Mustangs and recorded 293 saves while in goal.

In addition to the three men’s

soccer players that were drafted, three Cal Poly baseball players, utility player Brett Barbier, outfielder John Schuknecht and pitcher Justin Calomeni were also selected in the Major League Baseball draft.

Barbier, selected in the 16th round by the Philadelphia Phillies, has played 31 games for the Single A Williamsport Crosscutters. He holds a .292 batting average, 10 RBI, 14 runs scored and two home runs.

Schuknecht, drafted in the 37th round by the Los Angeles Angels, has played 48 games for the Rookie League Orem Owlz and holds a .303 batting average with five home runs and 27 RBI. Schuknecht and Barbier were both key parts of the Mustangs’ offense last season, as they accounted for a combined 119 RBI, 79 runs scored, nine home runs and 21 stolen bases.

The highest draft pick of the three, Calomeni, was selected in the ninth round by the Rockies. In 15 appearances, the relief pitcher has two wins and one loss with a 2.33 ERA for the Single A Boise Hawks. Calomeni has struck out 25 batters while only walking seven, and has blown one save over 19 innings.

Former men’s basketball standouts Brian Bennett and

Joel Awich will both be playing next season in Europe. Bennett, who was one of 10 players to score more than 1,000 points and collect 500 rebounds in his career at Cal Poly, will join the Slovakian team BK Baník Handlová. The Kenyan-born Awich, who will play for the French team BC Montbrison this season, started 20 games and averaged eight points and 21 minutes per game through-

out his career with Cal Poly.

Despite all of the talented student-athletes that have moved on within the last year, many of Cal Poly’s athletic teams, including the men’s and women’s soccer teams, the baseball team and the men’s basketball team are projected to finish with a better record this year than they did last year according to multiple Big West coaches and media polls.