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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGIE DE MATTOS | MUSTANG NE WS OUTSIDE THE BOX | Learn by being there with technology like Google cardboard and quadcopters that allow you to be inside a world of virtual reality. Companies like Google continue to explore opportunities.
Changing the virtually impossible to the virtually possible Suha Saya Imagine you could transport yourself anywhere — watch the Northern Lights in Alaska one moment, then observe the pyramids of Egypt the next — all with the use of a cardboard box. It’s possible. Virtual reality (VR) is a technology trend that places users in a computer-generated environment, allowing them to interact with the world in a seemingly real way. Google and other companies have come up with affordable options of VR by giving consumers a simple cardboard box. The box holds mobile devices in a way that consumers can create a mini VR experience. VR — a term coined by computer philosophy writer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier in the 1980s — has been frequently used in gaming and entertainment. But now VR is spreading. VR is reaching areas such as education, student marketability and the world of journalism. Learn by being there: Learning about the world through VR Robert Hernandez, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) who specializes in emerging technologies for
journalism, recalled one memorable, nonjournalism VR story that received a tremendous amount of national feedback last year. Perspective — a series created by Morris May and Rose Troche — consists of an episode about college date rape called “The Party.” The VR fiction story starts off having users experience a college party as a woman talking to a man at a party. While both are intoxicated, users see it from the woman’s perspective. The episode then proceeds to the man and one of his friends walking into the bedroom in which the girl is passed out. “It’s haunting and scary,” Hernandez said. The episode then shows the story again, but switches the perspective. Instead of being the woman, users are now the man, experiencing it from his perspective. “To really put yourself in another world is pretty intense,” Hernandez said. “With the video game and entertainment side of VR, I can create anything and have you experience it … We can go back in time, we can go in a made-up world. Of course, we have to be aware of how to use it. So if someone has been traumatized by rape, we don’t want to put someone through that.” Hernandez explained how out of all the emerging technologies he studies, VR feels different. “VR is an empathy machine,” Hernandez said. “You just feel it.” Along with educating on sensitive and
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serious topics, VR educates students As a learning institution, Cal Emerging Technologies in Jouron things they could learn from a Poly is already ahead of the game nalism — he recruits students all textbook, but tells it in a more en- in getting students familiar with across the university to essentially gaging way than words on a page. this up-and-coming technology. participate in a hackathon that inThis is especially true for Edwin The Innovation Sandbox is a key tertwines journalism and technolAquino, biomedical engineering player in bringing this technology ogy. When his class explored the junior and Student Director for to students. technology of VR, they were able to Innovation Sandbox — a facilcreate stories about cyclists, roller ity for students to foster learnderby and Mexican wrestling. ing and innovation through Outside of USC, news orgahands-on experiences. nizations around the world “In the use of a classroom, are using VR to tell news your teacher could create stories. world history — you’d be In Cal Poly’s journalable to see the pyramids ism department, profes“It’s so new, that if students instead of looking at a sors and students have picture,” Aquino said. started to realize the specialize in this right now, they “In your workplace, impact VR can make on you can view anything reporting. In fact, Muscan stand out tremendously.” face-to-face. VR gives tang News experimentJOACHIM SCHOLZ you more of that personal ed with it earlier this year touch toward spaces.” when Cal Poly scored the CAL POLY And sometimes, it can simwinning shot against the UC MARKETING PROFESSOR ply be used for fun. Santa Barbara men’s soccer team. While that VR story was a mileHow understanding VR can stone for Mustang News, adviser get you a job The Innovation Sandbox owns a Pat Howe explained that different Aside from experiencing VR, starter development kit from Oc- trade-offs — such as battery life knowledge of the technology is ulus. This allows students from all and memory — all have to be made something Cal Poly marketing disciplines to try their hand at VR. when dealing with VR. professor Joachim Scholz says can One of the projects Innovation “We made trade-offs because we increase student marketability in Sandbox has conducted with VR were in the initial stages of explorthe job market. is using it to allow its quadcopter ing this, but it also just takes a ton “It’s so new, that if students spe- pilots to see the perspective of the of computer time and memory to cialize in this right now, they can aircraft as it explores the skies. put this together,” he said. “It’s not stand out tremendously,” Scholz According to Aquino, the facility an easy process.” said. “One of the reasons Facebook has been allowing students to exThough the amount of money was so enthusiastic about buying periment with the equipment for a spent on a VR project can easily Oculus Rift is because it’s an op- little more than a year now. play a role in the final result, Howe portunity to shape the next new “VR is one of the first things that explained that even the simple technology trend, which they see interested me when I walked into technology by the journalism dethrough VR and AR (augmented this space,” Aquino said. “Whenev- partment has the power to make a reality). It’s the same thinking tied er we’re giving a tour, people don’t difference in storytelling. to anyone here at Cal Poly — by usually say no to trying Oculus.” “If you have an unlimited amount searching for courses like digital of money, you can produce an inmarketing or by using this in jour- A look at ourselves: VR credible effect,” Howe said. “But nalism for information consump- in journalism and in the honestly, even with the barebones tion, those are the things that you general future level of technology that we have — can use to stand out.” In addition to learning about the I think we spent 400 or 500 bucks Scholz studies augmented reality world through VR, Hernandez total — I think we could probably and virtual reality. Though he discussed how the world of jour- achieve something that could be specializes in AR, which is nalism has started to use VR for high definition.” an in between of the dig- storytelling. And according to Howe, this is ital and physical world “We (journalists) can (come in just the beginning. — such as being able and) create stories of all different “Have you ever watched any to see arrows on the types — from small experienc- of those early 1904 movies? It sidewalk as you use es to deeper experiences as the was basically waves crashing and your phone to guide technology becomes easier and trains running by and cats boxing. you in an unfamiliar more sophisticated for us to use I think that’s kind of where we’re area on campus — the idea — journalism plays a role there,” at,” he said. “We’re trying to figis similar, simulating a way for users Hernandez said. ure out — how does this work to to engage more. In Hernandez’s class at USC — tell a story?”
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CSU faculty sets dates for strike in April Michelle Zaludek @michellenistic
Cal Poly classrooms might turn into ghost towns soon after spring quarter kicks off. The California Faculty Association (CFA) has officially set dates for a potential strike from April 13-15 and April 18-19 unless it and California State University (CSU) management can come to an agreement before the end of March, according to an emailed statement from the CFA. The strike would occur during Cal Poly’s Open House, which is set to run from April 14-16. For the past two years, the association has been working
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toward a “Fight for Five” — a 5 percent general salary increase — for all faculty. Its demands were answered with a 2 percent salary increase offer from Chancellor Timothy White and CSU management. Cal Poly CFA chapter president and architectural engineering professor Graham Archer said that come April, at least 700 faculty members would be prepared to strike. “Regret — that’s how I feel,” Archer said. “It’s the worst-case scenario. It’s the last thing we wanted to do, but there’s simply nothing left.” After 94.4 percent of the CFA voted to authorize a strike, Archer said he had hoped CSU
management would have agreed to its demands. The strike could shut down the campus, causing students to miss a week’s worth of classes and forcing striking faculty to miss a week of pay, Archer said. However, an online statement from Toni Molle, director of public affairs for the CSU, stated all 23 campuses impacted by the strike would remain open. The statement added that many classes would remain available, and that the strike should not interfere with students’ ability to complete their quarter and graduate on time. Continued on page 6
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Exploring Southeast Asia: Finding a culture unlike my own in the Hmong Village Rebecca Ezrin @CPMustangNews
Rebecca Ezrin is a journalism junior and Mustang News study abroad columnist in Chiang Mai, Thailand. With many class field trips and personal trips planned, her adventures are virtually endless. She aims to share her authentic experiences and what she has learned. She recently stayed overnight in a Hilltribes village, the Hmong village.
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Salmee Prakolsit teaches students how the Hmong people cut down trees and crops, which is done during the rainy season in order to prepare for their ‘slash and burn’ agricultural technique.
Located in the highlands of northern Thailand, this jungle surrounding the Hmong village provides food and medicine for the Hmong people.
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A strawberry field is harvested in the mountains of the Hmong village. Since opium became illegal in 1959, the Hmong people began growing fruits and vegetables as the base of their economy. This reformation, known as The Royal Project, was set up by King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1969.
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Students gather and carry wood to bring back to the main village in order to prepare a campfire.
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Students eat cucumbers grown in the Hmong village. When crops like cucumbers are picked for the rainy season, they are carried down to the main village in baskets. “The reason Hmong people are so short is from carrying baskets all the time,” tour guide Win Lerdchaisahakul said.
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As a goodbye gift, a Hmong man does a prayer over students to grant them spiritual protection from the Shaman, their spiritual healer. “You are not tourists anymore, you are family. We are proud that we could exchange ideas and experiences so we can better see the world. We have only one word for you: Ua tsaug wa chow, thank you,” Lerdchaisahakul said.
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A rooster, along with many others, awakens the village.
Rock climbing culture builds community and breaks stereotypes Madi Salvati @MadiSalvati
Harnesses and clips clapped together in the breeze. The sound of ropes being lowered and tightened through anchors and pullies was constant. Ethnic studies junior Matthew Holguin stood and watched fellow rock climbing friends scamper up walls and try out new routes. He was wearing his own harness and a green Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) shirt. Holguin is a wall supervisor at the rock walls on campus. “I probably climb about three to five days a week,” he said. The rock walls at Cal Poly have become a microcommunity on campus, with regulars that climb almost every day. “I got involved with the help of a friend,” Holguin said. “We were just always here and because of that I was always super interested in getting a job here.” Holguin, along with three other wall supervisors, help anyone who wishes to test their strengths on the rock walls. The larger wall is for sport
climbing, according to Holguin, and the smaller rock wall is for bouldering — which is climbing shorter routes without a harness. “Bouldering is typically shorter and for more power-based climbs and you don’t need a harness or a rope for that,” Holguin said. “Sport climbing — you need a harness and rope.” At least 20 people either sat around one of the walls watching their friends take turns climbing, or were on the wall, contemplating where to put their foot next. Mechanical engineering senior and wall supervisor Dakota Schwartz said the walls host climbers of varying abilities. “We have a pretty relaxed culture here,” Schwartz, who has been climbing for 12 years said. “It’s great, a lot of our climbers are new and some are a little more experienced.” Civil engineering sophomore John Hickey got his start on Cal Poly’s rock walls and has been climbing ever since. “I think it’s a great way to get introduced to climbing,” Hickey said. Considering people like Hickey who only started climbing while at Cal Poly, Schwartz
encourages ever yone who has ever considered climbing to come out and give it a try; there’s nothing to be afraid of. “I think a lot of people are afraid to try it because it can be kind of intimidating and scary,” she said. “Everyone might look like they know what they’re doing, but everyone has to learn.” While the community at the rock walls is strong, there are a few common stereotypes that have been held over those who climb at Cal Poly. “We’ve been told that this is called ‘geed’ mountain,” Holguin said. “A lot of people think that climbers are kind of lazy.” “Geed” is slang that’s used to describe non-greek affiliated students, Holguin explained. Though some of the climbers that hang out at the rock walls might not be associated with greek life, lazy doesn’t quite cut it. Watching one climber after another scale the sides of the sport climbing wall and leap from one grip to another, it’s hard to associate laziness with this activity. “I think it’s more of the ‘dirtbag’ idea that people associate climbers with,” Hickey said.
“‘Dirtbag’ being someone who lives out of their van — that generally goes side-by-side with climbing.” Hickey and Schwartz have climbed in places like Yosemite Valley and Bishop, Calif., where climbing is second nature for many who go there. The community that surrounds the rock walls at Cal Poly would not exist without those who dedicate so much of themselves to it. “I climb for three reasons,” Holguin said. “The first is because I am trying to get into competing — and it’s something that I got into at college — in the place of other competitive things.” Competitions are not common when it comes to rock climbing but can be a part of the sport. In fact, according to Holguin, there will be a bouldering competition in April at the Cal Poly rock walls. “The second reason: It’s fun, the people are fun, climbing is fun and it forces you to go outside,” Holguin said. “And the third reason is the mental aspect of it; it makes me push myself — with climbing and other things. “
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Freedom beyond ideological control Emilio Horner @CPMustangNews
“Life is a consequence of war, society itself a means to war.” – Nietzsche Even for a straight white middle class cis male, change and the unknown of graduation are pretty scary. As a great pop song from my childhood once said, “I am unwritten.” Commonly in western society, the “good” has been associated with certainty, predictability and rationality, while “evil” with fear, contingency and the unknown. The good life supposedly comes from the security against violence that comes from a strong sovereign. Death, the greatest certainty, is the enforcer of sovereignty. However, violence in the modern state is not a break from the norm; conversely, the norm is the direct product of violence. The comfort of our privileged lives comes at the expense of the developing world. We are all Little Eichmanns in a neoliberal capitalist system in which wealth is becoming increasingly polarized and suffering and violence persist. Currently, the modern realist nation-state intended to put an end to feudal and religious warfare has been replaced by the cosmopolis. It was believed that mankind Post-Cold War had reached an end of history, an end point in ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy. However, it turns out the cos-
mopolis is similarly dependent on violence for control. The use of mimetic conjuring’s internally by talk of drugs, immigration, Black Lives Matter and Islam switches over to constructed threats abroad. Realist rhetoric of war objectifies power, fetishishizes weaponry, idealizes the state, virtualizes violence and globalizes new media. Virtual things become reality (opinion polls, worst-case senerios, Microsoft and Disney) while war itself has become a simulacra. What’s the difference between cyberwar, info war, pure war and real human suffering? These media spectacles do not belong to ontology, to the discourse of being or to life or death. The question one needs to ask is: Does globalization enhance democratic peace theory or does virtualization assume the persistence of war by other means? Virtualization is globalization. Meaning disappears into the media black hole of insignificance. Still, it seems like we should not go back to a world of totalitarian, genocide and revolution just to counter the Western line that propagates inequality, exploitation and endocolonization. But hey, isn’t knowing you are unfree better than believing that we live in a post-ideological world? The freedom to change the very social structure of one’s existence is becoming more and more unthinkable as ideology becomes more and more of an unknown known, to put a spin
of Donald Rumsfeld’s Iraq War statements. Freedom in the modern era often means the freedom to consume prepackaged and commodified identities and not to actually do what makes oneself happy. The first step is to accept that the neoliberal capitalist future is a utopian pipe dream. The OECD has reported suppressed growth for the next 50 years. Climate change is quickly destroying human existence, and the aging population and rise of the Global South only look to make economic and environmental problems more complicated. Suppressed wages, destroyed bargaining power of the workforce and the expanded money supply create boom and bust economies. This leads to the adoption of austerity measures, which end up chipping away at the welfare state, and the entitlements that make life bearable for many, while leaving the basic debt problem. Can technology aid the end of neoliberal capitalism? Perhaps. The automation of some services and production could reduce the number of hours we work. Additionally, we can support ending the monopoly of big business on information and support the rise of open source software. Finally, we can support food co-ops and time banks and other less oppressively hierarchical institutions. Is this utopian? No, what’s utopian is thinking that oligarchs
controlling the political parties, fiscal coercion of the big banks, and the surveillance state can continue the way they are. It’s time to not just change reality to conform to one’s dreams, but to change one’s dreams altogether. The problem with the leftist revolutionary movements of the 20th century is that though the governing and economic structures were changed, the
egalitarian society was never implemented. The old dreams still existed and became nightmares. It’s time to conceptualize a world in which neoliberal capitalism in its current form is not the dominant economic system. It’s time we stopped naturalizing violence, oppression and hierarchy. It’s time to reclaim freedom. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
An emailed statement from Cal Poly spokesman Matt Lazier corroborated the CSU statement. “The university has developed contingency plans to minimize any disruption a faculty strike could have on students and the day-to-day operations of campus,” he wrote. Students who wish to support the faculty association’s strike, if it does happen, are encouraged
to join the picket line, according to Archer. “Otherwise, it might be a good time to plan to go home,” he said. Cal Poly administration will also be working to set up activities “aimed at supporting student success during a potential strike, such as career days and professional development workshops,” according to Lazier. The CFA is hopeful that the
strike won’t happen. The faculty are willing to give up if an agreement can’t be reached, even after the strike. “Best-case scenario is that the two sides get together and the chancellor sees our point of view and gives us a raise,” Archer said. “Worst case, we not only have to strike in April, but if he still hasn’t seen the light and we could have to escalate it further, which could be as bad as us not coming back fall.”
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Start of spring play highlights busy sports weekend Tommy Tran @CPMustangSports
Cal Poly athletic teams are in an interesting position this week, with the winter sports season at the peak of conference play and the start of spring sports matchups. The men’s basketball team (8-14, 2-7 Big West) is currently suffering through a four-game losing streak. The Mustangs are also currently ranked last in the Big West Conference standings, tied with Cal State Fullerton. Last week, the Mustangs struggled to keep up with the top two Big West teams, UC Irvine and Hawaii. The 74-60 loss against Hawaii was the men’s basketball team’s biggest conference loss since 2014. However, the Mustangs are scoring an average of 74.2 points per game, a program high under head coach Joe Callero. “We have improved our scoring this year, but need to improve our defense and rebounding consistency,” Callero said. “We have had four tough losses at the buzzer and look to learn from those games before we go to the Big West Conference tournament in March.” The men’s basketball team looks to recover this weekend as it travels south to conference No. 2 Long Beach State (12-12, 6-3 Big West) on Thursday. This will be a big game, considering the Mustangs pulled off a 96-92 double overtime win when the two teams last met on Jan. 16. The game tips off at 7 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN3. The men’s basketball team will
continue its Southern California play with a matchup against conference No. 6 UC Riverside (13-13, 4-6 Big West) on Saturday in the SRC Arena. Cal Poly lost 72-68 to the Highlanders during the last time the two teams met on Jan. 28. The Satur-
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day night game will be televised on FOX Sports West and starts at 7:30 p.m. The men’s basketball team is now more than halfway done with its season, with only seven regular season conference games remaining. The women’s basketball team (1111, 4-5 Big West) topped UC Irvine last Saturday with a 50-38 win in Mott Athletics Center. The Mustangs, ranked sixth in the Big West Conference standings, look to continue their success as they face two of their toughest opponents this weekend. The team travels to UC Davis (139, 6-3 Big West) on Wednesday to face the Aggies, who beat Cal Poly 75-57 in the
teams’ last matchup on Jan. 23. The game tips off at 7 p.m. The women’s basketball team returns home on Saturday, hosting conference-leading UC Riverside (15-7, 8-0 Big West) at 4 p.m. for Alumni Weekend. Two Pac-12 Conference wrestling
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teams will come to Cal Poly (2-8, 0-2 Pac-12) this weekend. Arizona State (5-3, 1-2 Pac-12) comes first on Saturday at 7 p.m., then Boise State (3-5, 1-0 Pac-12) at 1 p.m. on Sunday. The Boise State meet will be held outdoors in the Julian A. McPhee University Union and will celebrate Cal Poly’s homecoming. These are the last two meets before individual wrestlers head to the Pac-12 Wrestling Championships next Saturday. Spring sports also kick off this week, at least in preseason play. The baseball team opens the season with an alumni exhibition game on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Baggett Stadium. The game will
be primarily used to introduce younger players to a game day atmosphere and to help the coaching staff determine the starting lineup. The Mustangs ended last season ranked fourth place in the Big West Conference, going 27-27 overall and 14-10 in conference play.
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The baseball team has been selected to finish sixth out of nine teams in the conference this season, as voted by the nine head coaches of the conference in a preseason poll. “It doesn’t really matter where you start, it matters where you finish,” said head coach Larry Lee. “It’s good for our guys to see that (the prediction) and to use that as a motivational tool.” The team lost a bulk of last year’s players after graduating six seniors and losing four juniors to the Major League Baseball draft. This year’s roster consists of more than 65 percent freshmen and sophomore
players, with only two returning position starters and eight returning pitchers from last season. One of the returning starters is junior catcher/first baseman Brett Barbier, who has been named to the 2016 Big West Preseason All-Conference Second Team by College Sports Madness. “We have quality players on the team, but being young, it’s going to take them some time to develop with many of them being thrown to the fire and having to be ready when the season opens,” said Lee. “We don’t have any impact guys that have the ability to carry the team and this year we don’t, so collectively, we’re going to have to play well.” The softball team also returns to the diamond this weekend, playing five games in the Kajikawa Classic Tournament at Arizona State. The tournament begins with a matchup against Oregon on Friday morning at 10:30 a.m., followed by a game against Georgia State at 8:30 p.m. The Mustangs continue in the Alberta B. Farrington Softball Stadium on Saturday, starting with a 4 p.m. matchup
against Stanford and a 6:30 p.m. game against New Mexico. The softball team closes the tournament with a game against Oregon State at 10:15 a.m. The Mustangs are predicted to finish sixth out of eight teams in Big West Conference, according to a preseason Big West Conference coaches’ poll. The softball team sports nine of 10 starters from last season on its current roster. Men’s tennis (2-4, 0-0 Big West) travels to Loyola Marymount (02) on Sunday for a nonconference match. The Mustangs are ranked 58th in the Division I men’s tennis standings. The women’s tennis team (1-2, 0-1 Big West) dropped its first conference match of the season 4-0 to Hawaii last Saturday and returns to the court this Saturday, traveling to Fresno State for a nonconference match at the Spalding G. Wathen Tennis Center. The track and field team travels to Washington this weekend to compete in the Husky Classic indoor track meet on Friday and Saturday in the Dempsey Indoor Center. Cal Poly athletic teams will begin to transition from the winter and spring seasons this weekend, as the many teams near the peak of conference play and the wrestling and swimming and diving teams approach individual championships. This weekend is important in determining the fate of some seasons and in predicting the start of others.
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