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Brenna Swanston The doors would open any minute, and anticipation was tense.

Associated Students, Inc. and event staff ran around the Recreation Center’s main gym like chickens with their heads cut off, blowing up balloons, adjusting decorations and deciding how to avoid a stampede when it was time to remove the barricades for the horde of impatient Steve Aoki fans outside.

Graphic communication senior Sarah Flores pulled on her yeti costume and struck a pose on the empty stage, ready to play her role as one of the dancing abominable snowmen of the Winter White Tour.

“They needed someone who was weird enough to do this sober,” Flores said. “So obviously, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it.’”

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The clock struck 6 p.m. and an Aoki-pumped crowd filed into the gym, yelling, dancing excitedly and Snapchatting photos of the waiting stage. They sported an assortment of all-white outfits, light-up pacifiers, cat costumes, "kandi" bracelets, “cake me” shirts and signs, light show gloves and glowing neon sunglasses. A girl danced in the bleachers, her calves encased in what looked like huge, white furry legwarmers, accented with black dangling puff balls.

An event staff member passed out Red Bull drinks to the security guards manning the stage.

Mechanical engineering sophomore Andy Zavala took the front row and grabbed the rail, covered in face paint and

wearing a cape.

“It’s just my outfit,” he said. “I’m trying to look good.”

Andy said he has been listening to Aoki for years and was excited to see him live for the first time.

“The theme of Winter White is crazy,” Zavala said. “I admire the costumes. It’s gonna be great. It’s just, in general, a good atmosphere.”

Communication studies senior Dillon Katz and wine and viticulture senior Quin Donahue opened the show as duo Animal>>

see AOKI, pg 5.

PARKING

one consequence of new housing project Celina Oseguera @celinaoseguera

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JOSEPH PACK | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

PREVIEW

Earlier this quarter, Cal Poly announced it would move forward with plans to build a 1,400-person freshman residence hall near the Grand Avenue entrance to campus. Building would take place on the G-1 parking lot, which has some wondering where students will park once the new project is completed. >>

see PARKING, pg 2.

Men’s hoops downed by UC Irvine PREVIEW Cal Poly men’s basketball surrendered a 14-0 run midway through the first half as UC Irvine topped the Mustangs 64-50 in front of a sold out Mott Athletics Center on Saturday night. Senior forward Chris Eversley led Cal Poly with 14 points and 10 rebounds. The Mustangs dropped to 4-4 in Big West play. >>

see MEN’S HOOPS, pg 10.

Maker movement finds permanent SLOme Kelly Trom

@kttrom

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Maker aficionados now have a home in the form of SLO MakerSpace. The locale opened shop to the public this past Saturday. SLO MakerSpace workers are encouraged to work on their own making skills as well as helping others.

SLO MakerSpace also has ties to Cal Poly with physics associate professor Pete Schwartz as the chief sustainability officer, retired Cal Poly professor Ken Rothmuller as a past board member for SLO MakerSpace and recent alumnus Rory Aronson as the shop manager. >>

see MAKER, pg 4.

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Parking one complication of new housing project

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PARKING PROBLEMS | If the housing project is approved by the California State University Board of Trustees, construction will begin in December 2015 with an expected completion date of Fall 2018.

Celina Oseguera @celinaoseguera The five-building freshman housing project Cal Poly recently approved has many proposed amenities: classrooms, a welcome center, community lounges, recreational space and a dining facility.

And when it comes to the question of how to address replacing the parking lot the housing complex will be built on, Cal Poly plans to build a 300- to 500-space parking structure. But there are still challenges that come with building the structure.

One concern is where it will be built.

According to the new housing Environmental Impact Report (EIR), the structure would be on the same plot of land as the housing units — on the parking lots near Cal Poly’s Grand Avenue entrance.

Where it would be placed on this plot of land is a topic of conversation among residents in the neighborhoods next to the proposed resi-

dence halls.

Several residents expressed they wanted a buffer between their neighborhoods and the housing units. They opted to change the plan’s design to move the structure between the neighborhoods and housing to make a barrier. But Cal

tween the neighborhoods and housing units. Instead, it will be built on the northwest corner of the site, closer to the Christopher Cohan Performaning Arts Center.

The reason for this decision was the geography of the area.

“We looked at putting it

Humphrey said the structure will be for general parking, but those general parking spaces could transform into residential or faculty parking later on.

“We have the ability, through management controls, to change what the purpose of a lot is based on

alternative parking where students and others who use the Grand Avenue lot can park during construction, Humphrey said.

Humphrey also said though the housing project and parking structure are planned out in the EIR, details could change along the way.

$200 million BUDGET ALLOCATED TO BOTH THE NEW RESIDENCE HALLS AND ADDITIONAL PARKING Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong said there were better ways to provide a barrier.

“We do have a nice green buffer planned of landscapes, terrain, even fences, so that students have to follow the sidewalks and go the normal pathways,” he said.

According to Humphrey, however, the parking structure will not be built be-

in other places, including looking at putting it in as a buffer between housing and the edge of campus,” Humphrey said. “But there were some reasons about the condition of the site that required the parking garage to go where it is.”

Another detail dealt with who would be allowed to park in the structure.

how our community is consuming that space,” he said.

Humphrey also discussed where students would park during construction.

Many freshmen use the Grand Avenue entrance lot to park their cars. The general public is allowed to park there, as well. Cal Poly’s facilities planning department is considering

“It’s really important to know that what we are showing the community on paper and in pictures and diagrams is not the final,” he said. “It’s close to where buildings will sit, but things can change.”

The housing project was first proposed in May 2013.

When the announcement was made, some local residents

were upset about the plans.

Some expressed their opinions at the two public forums in November and December.

Despite the local uproar, the university approved the project and announced the news to Cal Poly students via email Jan. 15.

Now, Facilities Planning and Capital Projects is working on amending the project’s second EIR to include analysis of alternative construction sites. There will then be a 45-day comment period on the EIR before the final project plans go before the California State University Board of Trustees for approval.

Humphrey anticipates it will go before them late this spring. If the plan is approved, the next step will be to begin construction in December 2015 and end Fall 2018.

The project, including both the housing units and parking structure, has a $200 million budget.

Aja Frost contributed to this report.

Information Systems Association tackles workforce gender equality Sam Sullivan @ssulli04 Approximately 100 people — men, women, faculty and students (both college and high school) — attended Thursday’s Preparing for the Workforce workshop.

Panelists at the workshop — which dealt with how to stand out in an interview for both men and women, how Cal Poly can prepare students for gender inequality and how students and faculty can work to end biases in the workplace — included four women in senior level positions at their companies, said Alexandria Ward, business administration senior and Information Systems Association (ISA) secretary.

These panelists were Solutions Manager at Microsoft Gina Roldan, President and General Manager of Promega Kris Yetter, Director

of FlashRay Engineering at NetApp Avital Arora and Senior Director of Quality Assurance at Oracle Caroline Koss. Cal Poly Provost Kathleen Enz Finken moderated the event.

Roldan sponsored the event along with her husband, Brad. The event, however, was mostly information systems and management professor Barry Floyd’s idea, Roldan said.

Roldan and her husband are Cal Poly alumni, and she said she wanted to offer scholarships in order to give back to a couple of students who fit her “category.” Roldan worked full time to put herself through school while keeping her grades up and participating as a board member of the ISA and Society for Advancement of Management clubs. She wanted to give scholarships to students

who “fit the bill of working hard,” she said.

“And Barry actually dug into our conversation about a deeper problem,” Roldan said. “And that problem was what we talked about today, which is there is a gender inequality in the workforce.”

At one part of the discussion, San Luis Obispo High School students stood up to speak about gender inequality at their school. The students mostly said teachers didn’t do anything about it.

Roldan said she noticed

gender issues at college while studying information systems and management.

Transitioning from college to the workforce was “shocking,” she said.

“I would say that at least at school, if I didn’t have the males and females ratio in some of my classes, I at least had the experience from being on campus,” she said. “And going into my first job, I literally was maybe the only female of many, many men.”

Unfortunately, Cal Poly did

not prepare her, she said.

“I wasn’t prepared for the workforce,” she said.

“I wasn’t prepared for the male dominance that was going to be in the tech industry and I wasn’t prepared for the cultural difference between the males and females that have often led me to do the work that I didn’t always desire.”

Part of the inspiration from the event came from COO of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In,” which details her experi-

ence as a top-level female executive and some of the problems she has faced.

Though Roldan believes the technology field is a popular field to enter, there is a low number of women seeking to go into the industry.

“If we don’t increase the number of women that are trying to get into technology jobs, then we don’t have those women in decisionmaking rules to create a better gender-equality balance in the technology industry as a whole,” she said.

“If we don’t increase the number of women that are trying to get into technology jobs, then we don’t have those women in decision-making roles to create a better gender-equality balance in the technology industry as a whole.”

GINA ROLDAN | MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS MANAGER

DYLAN SUN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

EXPERT PANEL | Thursday’s panel included four women in senior-level positions at their respective companies.

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Safer features athletes in new ad campaign

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SAFER SPORTS | (Left to right) Molly Schlemer, Maddison Allen and Michael Bernardi are three of the many Cal Poly athletes featured on Safer’s new sexual assault advertisement campaign.

Kayla Missman @kaymissman Safer will be launching a new ad campaign featuring student athletes this week.

Members of the men’s lacrosse team, men’s soccer team and women’s basketball team participated in the new campaign, said Stephanie Howard, a liberal studies junior and Safer student assistant as the greek life educator.

“This ad campaign works on educating Cal Poly about intervention vs. bystanding, when you see sexual assault possibly occurring or something that could lead to that,” Howard said.

Student-athletes with a “serious, contemplative look” are on each poster, along with an attention-getting blurb and an afterthought,

which demonstrates how someone can intervene in a situation, Howard said. For example, one poster featuring a lacrosse player reads “That drunk girl would be really easy to hook up with … so I made sure her friends got her home safe.”

“I think they turned out great,” Howard said.

“Hopefully, they’re attention-grabbing enough that people will look at them.”

The idea was inspired by Missoula Intervention in Action Project’s “Make Your Move” campaign, which Howard saw on Facebook.

When she brought the concept to Safer coordinator Christina Kaviani in fall, she got approval and took on the project.

Women’s basketball head coach Faith Mimnaugh, who sits on the Safer committee, said her team was honored

to be asked to participate.

“They were all really eager,” Mimnaugh said. “I was really proud that it was something

“Many athletes were eager to be as helpful as they possibly could,” she said. “Their faces are seen on campus,

“Their faces are seen on campus and on billboards ... so being able to use that as a vehicle to not just have a report on them, but to make a difference on campus, was a desire of the students.”

FAITH MIMNAUGH | WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH they saw a need for, and they could be helpful in the educational process.”

The campaign banks on the idea that students will recognize and pay attention to advertisements with athletes’ faces, she said. The athletes were glad to help.

and on billboards, in the newspaper a lot because of their sports participation.

So being able to use that as a vehicle to not just have a report on them, but to make a difference on campus, was a desire of the students.”

Mimnaugh said every-

thing Safer has had its hands on has been successful, so she’s sure it will be an effective campaign.

“I would love to see it impact all the students, for them all to take a second to reflect on what their choices are when they’re in situations that could be dubious, or how it would be interpreted by another person,” she said.

“Just to be more thoughtful when they’re going into relationships or when they’re in an environment where things can turn quickly.”

The women’s basketball team has a closer relationship with Safer than other teams, Kaviani said. Each summer, Safer holds presentations for teams in training about sexual assault prevention, but the women’s basketball team goes beyond that.

Though she encourages the

women to get involved with Safer’s events — such as selfdefense classes or Walk a Mile in Her Shoes — Mimnaugh said it is ultimately the team’s decision to participate. Despite their heavy schedules, they have a great desire to be educators about this topic, she said.

That desire came together visually through the new campaign. Howard has high hopes for what the advertisements will teach students.

“I just want the Cal Poly community to be more aware that sexual assault is happening, and it’s happening at the parties people go to, down at the bars,” Howard said. “And it’s really easy to intervene and stop something like that from happening, vs. just bystanding and not doing anything about it — preventing it before it happens.”

San Luis Obispo tourism increases with more national exposure Emily Matthews @nottherealem San Luis Obispo has been receiving more national media coverage, and, as a result, tourism has significantly increased within this past year.

Recently, the San Francisco Chronicle began a series of destination articles about San Luis Obispo and the city’s many attractions. This coverage — combined with other articles from across the country — has been putting the city on the map.

Based on San Luis Obispo’s estimated economic impact, tourism in the past year has increased, said Erica Davis, marketing assistant and event coordinator at Visit San Luis Obispo County.

Economic growth in the city has also been shown through the Milken Institute’s Index of Best-Performing Cities in the country, where it received 25th place, an 81-place change since its ranking of 106th in 2012.

This is also the first time the city has been ranked in the top 25 since 2003.

Davis said because San Luis Obispo’s No. 1 tourist is the drive market, the city

promotes overnight stay and festivals such as Sunset Savor the Central Coast, a four-day food and wine festival.

“This festival is a good draw because it hits the top three tourism drives: usable coastlines, cultural aspects — such as Hearst Castle — and our foodie destinations,” Davis said.

Davis said part of her company’s strategic planning for the future is to establish San Luis Obispo as a premier destination on the Central Coast and to accelerate the city’s competitiveness.

In addition, Davis said the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport is trying to create more hubs to draw more international and national flights to the region, making it easier for travelers to get to the city.

Featured in the Chronicle’s section were articles about the restaurants, activities and attractions in the city.

The section is part of a series featuring other cities, such as Monterey and Santa Cruz, said Barbara Belanyi, retail sales manager at the San Francisco Chronicle.

She said the Chronicle has been successful with these sections and is pleasantly

surprised. The newspaper plans on doing another San Luis Obispo section in July.

In addition, San Luis Obispo has also been covered in Travel and Leisure’s “Best College Towns” list, earning third place. The city has also been called the “happiest city in America” by author Dan Buettner, as well as one of the friendliest towns in America by USA Today and Rand McNally’s Best of the Road competition.

Higuera Street was also named one of America’s best main streets by Fodor’s Travel this past week.

City Council member Dan Carpenter said part of the city’s success has been the recognition it receives from Cal Poly, as well as the high-quality life within San Luis Obispo.

“The city focuses on taking taxpayers’ money and putting it back to promote the community,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter said the city spends a lot of money to get people here, to gain recognition and focus on the quality of life.

Mayor Jan Marx agrees with Carpenter on the reasons for the city’s suc-

cess, and mentioned being named one of the happiest cities in North America is a factor as well.

“A lot of the people that

visit are interested in coming to the county, such as Pismo Beach and Paso Robles,” Marx said. “And we are in the center.”

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Maker movement finds permanent SLOme Kelly Trom @kttrom Evidence of the SLO MakerSpace mission is scattered across all crevices of the building. The desks are made out of repurposed Travel Inn doors. Custom-made stickers and decals hang on the wall.

An original piece of wall art made with string and nails proudly proclaims the space’s name. And the best part is all of these projects were made with the tools and resources that can be found in the space.

SLO MakerSpace is a small part of a larger movement that has been active in all areas of the world. San Luis Obispo got a taste of it during the SLO Mini Maker Faire this past May, but SLO MakerSpace is a more permanent home to those interested in the maker movement.

“This whole upcycling, recycling, maker movement has definitely been at the forefront as far as technology and really getting people back involved in relearning all of these old skills that we lost,” SLO MakerSpace CEO Clint Slaughter said.

The company provides tools and resources for a monthly fee. Tools in the workspace include smaller items such as sewing machines, a 3-D printer and vinyl cutter. Tools in the workshop, located in the next room of the space, are larger-scale and include the Computer Numerical Con-

trolled Router, a SawStop, laser cutter and more.

“If people have an idea, they can come and prototype it here,” Slaughter said. “You can also find people to help you, and learn the skills you need to achieve your goal and then take off with it and start your business. Our mission is far-reaching, but I think we will be able to do that here.”

They opened their doors to the public this past Saturday, kicking things off with initial safety classes every member has to take before they can gain access to the tools. It’s not just safety classes that will be taught, however. Anything from photography, painting, specific tools and even forging wedding rings will also be taught. These classes can be attended by anyone from the public for a fee, even if they are not a member.

“My favorite part is seeing things be built out of nothing and seeing people gain these skills and go through this process,” Slaughter said.

SLO MakerSpace Chief Explorations Officer Justin Bennett was intrigued by the vision of SLO MakerSpace and joined the team without making any project of his own beforehand. He made his first project in the space — the billboard listing all the ongoing projects, which every member can see when they walk through the door.

“He was so excited when

he saw his concept come to fruition, and I think we are going to see a lot of that,” Slaughter said.

Slaughter is excited by all of the companies and groups located in San Luis Obispo. “(The) SLO community is perfect for this kind of place,” he said. “We have got local engineering firms, Cal Poly, Cuesta. I keep finding new people that I am amazed live and work here. For example, Next Intent made the wheels for the Mars Rover and the drill that found water on Mars.”

SLO MakerSpace has ties to Cal Poly in various ways. The Cal Poly physics department bought a corporate membership, which means it will have a rotating ID badge that can be borrowed by students or faculty to prototype and work on different projects.

There are also specific individuals with relations to Cal Poly inside SLO MakerSpace: Physics associate professor Pete Schwartz is the chief sustainability officer, Ken Rothmuller is a past board member for SLO MakerSpace and a retired Cal Poly professor and recent alumnus Rory Aronson is shop manager.

Aronson will also be working with freshmen in one of SLO MakerSpace’s community partners, the Sustain SLO learning initiative at Cal Poly. The team

of Cal Poly students will most likely be working with elementary and middle schools in the area to teach them how to work with different technologies.

“In recent years, the shop classes and hands-on learning has gotten kicked out of schools, and that is really important, for people to use their hands, work on a team and use equipment,” Aronson said.

Aronson got involved with SLO MakerSpace when he heard about Slaughter’s idea in a entrepreneurship class at the SLO HotHouse. He is especially excited about making projects and having a built-in community of creative, supportive makers available.

“It is going to be a really awesome community that you can’t find anywhere else,” Aronson said. “There are some clubs, but they are very specialized; it would be hard to come in and present your own project.

This is a place where you could come in, get that support and learn how to make something that is just an idea originally.”

Other recent Cal Poly alumni are involved as work-trade members. They work a few shifts a week by checking members in, ensuring everyone is wearing safety equipment and teaching them to work the different machines.

The week leading up to the opening consisted of all work-

trade members getting acquainted with the machines.

Cal Poly graduate Lauren Blomberg is currently a worktrade member.

“This is the week of learning to do that, so we are like, ‘The toys!’” Blomberg said. “We have to get proficient with them to teach people, which is kind of the fun of this. It is a lot of time to let loose and just place.”

Those working at SLO MakerSpace are there to improve their making skills and help others achieve their vision.

“I grew up doing woodworking and I am getting into more electronics, so it seems like a great place to learn more,” Blomberg said. “A lot

of cities have spaces like this, and I am really excited to see what they do with it here.”

Mike Kim, a work-trade member, graduated with a degree in physics this past June. Kim believes this space is perfect for other Cal Poly and Cuesta students.

“I think that this community is very appropriate for a university-type setting,” Kim said. “It is fairly inexpensive compared to other maker spaces around the world. You are able to get access to all of these tools, and more importantly, all of these people who are interested in making things, and I think college is a very appropriate time to be engaging in your own creativity.”

“My favorite part is seeing things be built out of nothing and seeing people gain these skills and go through this process.”

CLINT SLAUGHTER | SLO MakerSpace CEO

ANNIE KNAPKE | MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST

MAKE IT OR BREAK IT | SLO MakerSpace opened its doors to the public this past Saturday. “If people have an idea, they can come and prototype it here,” SLO MakerSpace CEO Clint Slaughter said.

Check out MustangNews.net for a video of SLO MakerSpace

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Kontrol, warming up the crowd for a night of dancing and insanity.

The live music began: The bass shook the gym and drove the crowd crazy. The music’s intensity could have easily passed for an earthquake.

“It was awesome,” Katz said. “We’ve never played on a stage that big before.”

Donahue said he and Katz began making music together while DJing friends’ house parties.

They submitted a 45-minute set to an electronic music contest and won the opportunity to open for Aoki.

“It wasn’t something we planned on,” Donahue said. “It just fell into our laps.”

Max Styler performed next, followed by AutoErotique. Dancers took to the stage dressed in studded bras, white feathery tutus, thigh-high fishnets and white elevator shoes. Fake snow in the form of soap-sud globs fell from the ceiling.

Hours passed, but the audience appeared endlessly energetic.

Crowd surfers passed from hand to hand, and people climbed on their friends’ shoulders to get a better look at the stage.

The audience was packed from the front rails to the back doors and pushed up the bleachers on either side of the gym. They danced ceaselessly under green lasers shooting from the stage, chopped up by strobe lights. Event staff poured bottled water into the mouths of thirsty spectators. Gym-goers gathered at the secondfloor window to observe the insanity.

AutoErotique closed his set with a rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." The entire gym sang along. Next up was Dzeko & Torres, who continued to pump up the crowd.

Meanwhile, on the sidelines, two yetis frantically blew up beach balls and inflatable rafts in preparation for Aoki, who emerged from the VIP lounge and listened to Dzeko & Torres’s performance backstage. He wore a tank top, skinny jeans and sneakers with wings coming off the heels.

Aoki smiled, dancing along to his opening act, unfazed by nearby fans on the bleachers who yelled at him and snapped photos.

Three yetis took over the stage and instigated a gym-wide beach ball fight. White lightup beach balls flung back and forth between the audience and the stage. Event staff, photographers and security joined in, flinging their inflatable ammunition at the waiting crowd while Aoki and his posse huddled backstage in preparation for his set.

Finally, around 10 p.m., Aoki ran onstage.

The gym exploded with pent-up excitement.

The crowd waved flashing foam batons and danced with almost as much exhilaration as Aoki himself, who flailed his arms and jumped in rhythm to the thumping music. He and his audience sang along to the remixed vocals. His performance was like a conversation with his listeners — he was just as excited

about the music as they were.

Laying in wait behind Aoki and his soundboard was a table covered with 10 large cakes surrounded by bottles of sparkling cranberry juice and stacks of towels. The show had only just begun.

Aoki chugged water and flung the empty bottles into the crowd. A choreographed light show danced around him. The gym’s bleachers rocked under the audience’s stomping feet.

The music dropped to a murmur and began to increase slowly in volume, building tension. Aoki held up his first cake, and spectators went wild.

He ran to the front of the stage, carefully assessing his audience, deciding who was most worthy to be the first caked of the night. He finally chose a girl propped up on a friend’s shoulders, wearing a “cake me” shirt.

Aoki lifted the dessert with both hands, leaned back and — just as the music dropped — launched it directly onto his chosen audience member’s torso.

As his set progressed, Aoki covered his fans with sparkling cranberry juice, white confetti and nine additional cakes launched at audience members he either called onto the stage, chose within the herd or randomly targeted by turning his back to the crowd while throwing. The audience ate it up, soaking in each moment of the show, singing along and refusing to cease their dancing and screaming.

Halfway through his set, Aoki and his crew dragged two large inflatable rafts onto the stage. They picked members of the crowd to come up, set them in the rafts and sent them surfing atop the audience. When the rafts returned to the stage, they simply picked a new set of surfers and sent them on their way, continuing for several rotations.

When the set ended, the crowd begged for an encore and Aoki honored their request. When he had finished for good, he lingered onstage, taking selfies with fans’ cell phones and meeting the front-row audience members while the rest of the gym emptied.

Aoki’s Cal Poly show was one to remember, he said.

“I loved the show,” Aoki said. “It was amazing. At the end of the day, the more energy people give me, the more I remember the show. And memorable shows, well, I obviously never forget them.”

The last time Aoki toured the west coast, he played in San Francisco and Los Angeles but missed everything in between, he said.

This time around, he wanted to hit the inbetween towns and college campuses.

“The college campuses are always the craziest because of the music,” Aoki said. “They’re kids.

They’re educated about this stuff off of YouTube instead of the radio.”

San Luis Obispo was a particularly fun stop, he said.

“It was a pretty energetic, really happy crowd,” Aoki said. “I love happy people.”

“At the end of the day, the more energy people give me, the more I remember the show. And memorable shows, well, I obviously never forget them.”

BRENNA SWANSTON | ARTS FREELANCER

SHAKE AND ‘CAKE’ | Electro house musician Steve Aoki “caked” the crowd this past Friday night.

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STEVE AOKI | ELECTRO HOUSE MUSICIAN

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Gardens & Villa finds its footing

The audio files Parker Evans @parker_d_evans Parker Evans is an economics senior and Mustang News music columnist.

After its self-titled debut release in 2011, the members of Gardens & Villa had no shortage of options. It could have doubled down on the album’s spacy weirdness and carved out a career on the edge of trippy, stoned synthpop. It could have embraced earthy mysticism and elevated frontman Chris Lynch into a woodwindwielding prophet. Instead, it found its voice with Dunes.

The second album from the Santa Barbara band finds Gardens & Villa infinitely more measured and self-assured than the first time around, and that newfound confidence is quickly apparent on opener “Col-

ony Glen,” which doesn’t waste a single second making the band’s position known. Over Shane McKillop’s bubbly, spastic bass and swirling synthesizers, Lynch’s wooden flute floats over the top as if to say, “Chill out. I got this.”

It’s immediate and danceable. Even in the middle of the album, where Gardens & Villa struggled, nifty slices of dancepop like “Avalanche” are carried by Levi Hayden’s confident drums and an effortlessly cool vibe. The band wears its New Wave influences on its collective sleeve, with Tears for Fears being the most obvious (and welcome) inspiration, with Lynch’s deliberate, soft voice acting as a constant stabilizer.

Though initially founded in Santa Barbara, Gardens & Villa has moved to Los Angeles. The city shows itself in new producer Tim Goldsworthy, whose pre-

vious work with Cut Copy and LCD Soundsystem make him more than qualified to cut a sharp, danceable album like Dunes. On the appropriately Californian “Bullet Train,” Lynch gives his own account of his home state: “Speed up to L.A., slow motion in the Bay / Get lost in L.A., devotions in the Bay.” The clearest example of the leaps and bounds Gardens & Villa has made is found in the spacy, pianodriven “Minnesota,” where a featherweight touch and Lynch’s floaty falsetto brings the band into territory usually inhabited

by Grizzly Bear and L.A. counterparts Local Natives.

“Minnesota, when I sober up, I’ve got a number and I’m calling it up,” he sings as he paints a picture of the lonely but hopeful aftermath of a night out.

Gardens & Villa is clear-

ly working hard to make sure it doesn’t become a band defined by the curious novelty of Lynch’s wooden flute, but when it does make an appearance, it fits in seamlessly with the spacious dream-pop that covers much of Dunes. It’s most effective as a weapon on “Chrysanthemums,” where the flute’s loops and effects on the intro start the track off with a suitably cold flurry.

If there’s a knock on Dunes, it’s that the album lacks an absolutely showstopping track.

Occasionally, it drifts a bit too far into the nature-spirit zone.

Gardens & Villa loves natural landscapes and has an annoying penchant for naming its songs by combining a color and bits of nature (see the debut’s “Orange Blossoms,” “Black Hills,” and Dunes’ “Purple Mesas”). The imprecise, ephemeral focus of these tracks is moderately

“Ultimately, Lynch and company have a lot going for them. They’re equally comfortable fashioning something danceable as they are crafting silky slow numbers — and they’re gaining momentum.” frustrating, especially considering Lynch is a much better lyricist when he focuses his attention on human subjects like those of “Minnesota” and “Echosassy.”

Ultimately, Lynch and company have a lot going for them. They’re equally

comfortable fashioning something danceable as they are crafting silky, slow numbers — and they’re gaining momentum. It’s hard to tell where the ceiling is with Gardens & Villa, but it’s certainly going to be exciting to find out.

New releases for Feb. 4 Tired of your same old playlists? Here are some new releases coming to your headphones Feb. 4.

Bombay Bicycle Club — So Long, See You Tomorrow Broken Bells — After the Disco Be Forest — Earthbeat Gardens & Villa — Dunes

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Olympics highlight society’s best Eric Stubben is a mechanical engineering sophomore and Mustang News conservative columnist. These views do not necessarily reflect the opinion or editorial coverage of Mustang News.

The chant, “USA, USA, USA …” still echoes in my mind every once in a while.

Maybe hearing it at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was when I realized the Olympics were much more than just a bunch of games.

Maybe I realized that during the four reports I did on the Olympics during my senior year of high school. Or maybe during my five-year obsession with the movie “Cool Runnings” (okay, I’m still obsessed), I figured out the Olympics reach far beyond their sporting boundaries and deeply into politics.

Needless to say, I’m excited for Sochi. The Olympics stage the best the world has to offer: They delve into the deep cuts of racism, national tensions and international women’s rights. They bring international leaders together much easier than the United Nations ever can. But most importantly, the Olympics display accomplished dreams, successful hard work and national unity that sometimes seem incredibly hard to find within our current society.

In the past, the Olympics were used as a catalyst for domestic politics. The iconic image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising a fist for black equality in the 1968 games still resonates today.

German athlete Luz Long

and American Jesse Owens became close friends in 1936, reaching across racial and political boundaries, infuriating Adolf Hitler.

Internationally, the Olympics have both united and divided countries, usually over political disputes. African countries boycotted the 1976 Games in protest of South Africa’s apartheid regime.

Then, the United States and allies boycotted Moscow, Russia’s 1980 Games in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. More recently, North and South Korea participated as a united team, taking at least a step in the direction to positive diplomatic relations.

What the Olympics do best is cast light on athletes whose lives have been changed through the power of the Olympics. American distance runner Lopez Lomong escaped Sudanese civil war and child slavery before becoming the United States’ flag bearer in 2008. Some of the best track athletes in the world, including Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, rose out of poverty and now use their endorsement money to fight poverty in their hometowns and countries.

However, 2014 is different.

For the first time since 1980, political relations between the United States and the host country are tense, and violence is a real possibility. Sochi, Russia lies less than 100 miles from a recent string of terrorist-related bombings. Only a narrow peninsula separates Sochi from the Chechnya province, a terrorist stronghold and

epicenter for bombings and violence. As if terrorism isn’t a big enough threat in itself, Sochi lies on the border between Russia and Georgia, the small country Russia unexpectedly invaded in 2008.

Though it’s unlikely, there is a small chance Georgia could use the Olympics as a large stage for public retaliation and humiliation.

And if Russia’s $50 billion spent on security wasn’t enough, other countries, including the United States, have sent military backup as well.

Shining in the bright spotlight of the Olympics are also things most people around the world never cared about before and will probably forget about as soon as the torch extinguishes: Russian gay rights and their governmental ban on protests. Though Putin has already relaxed the ban on protests, gay rights could be a hot topic, especially with six openly gay athletes in this year’s Olympics.

As ironic as it is with every country competing against each other, the Olympic rings symbolize unity. Every national flag in the world has a color represented by the five rings.

When times are tense, the Olympics are almost treated as a kind of alternative war between nations purely for a sense of domination. Athletes become our soldiers.

Cue the 1980 Miracle on Ice for a perfect example. It’s like when the United States wins a medal count or a significant event, we can hold it over the head of the other countries. It doesn’t really mean anything besides pro-

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the right angle viding a sense of pride and a justified “told you so” to the rest of the world, but we sure treat it like a whole lot more than that.

Truth be told, these Olympics have a lot of room for political disaster. A sputtering global economy, strained relations between Russia and almost every other country in the world and regional violence combine to form a miserable combination.

Stories of unfinished venues and trashed construction grounds threaten to spoil Putin’s opportunity to show off.

And if things don’t go Putin’s way, well, he’ll make sure the world knows about it.

But what I hope to see

from these Olympics is something similar to what Vancouver and many other Games have displayed. I hope we see incredible athletics, relaxed tensions, positive interactions between leaders and Sochi full of mixed cultures. I hope we all get to see the Olympics I got to see; where a Canadian describes every rule of curling to an American — it’s more than just throwing rocks — while pockets of fans across the arena wave their nations’ flags, all in good fun. Here’s to a great Olympic Games and American success.

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INSIDE JOB | Senior center Molly Schlemer scored a game-high 31 points and grabbed seven boards in a 84-79 win at UC Irvine on Saturday.

The Cal Poly women’s basketball team kept its streak rolling as the Mustangs knocked off UC Irvine 8479 on the road for their fifth straight win on Saturday afternoon.

With the victory, Cal Poly (13-8, 7-1 Big West) retained possession of first place on the Big West Conference standings.

Senior center Molly Schlemer scored a gamehigh 31 points and grabbed seven boards for the Mustangs. Junior guard Ariana Elegado contributed 21

points on 6 of 16 shooting from the floor.

Junior Kristen Ale added 15 points off the bench just two nights after scoring 18 points against UC Davis.

Senior guard Amaka Ofodu also scored in double figures, with 10 points on 4 of 5 shooting.

Camille Buckley led the way for UC Irvine as she netted 19 points and grabbed a game-high 26 boards.

The Mustangs shot over 50 percent from the floor for the third straight game.

They hit 51 percent of their shots in Saturday’s contest.

Cal Poly returns home this weekend with a 2 p.m. game vs. Hawaii on Saturday.

Swimming and diving downed at UCSB Mustang News Staff Report @CPMustangSports While both the Cal Poly men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams were able to turn in exceptional individual performances in a dual meet against rival UC Santa Barbara, it proved not enough, as both teams left Santa Barbara with one more loss on their respective records.

Sophomore Sonny Fierro, who won two events, led the men’s team. In the men’s 1,000 yard freestyle, Fierro came in first with a time of 9:26.37. The 500 free was more of a nail-biter as Fierro beat the UC Santa Barbara’s Andrew Barmann by fivehundredths of a second with

a time of 4:35.18.

Diver Sami McIntyre, who was also able to capture two events, led the women’s squad. McIntyre — last week’s Coca-Cola Cal Poly Student-Athlete of the Week — won the women’s 1-meter competition with a score of 236.55 and the 3-meter board with a score of 242.25.

Swimmers Rachel Cleak and Nicole Antoniuk were also key contributors for the Mustangs. Cleak won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:05.04 and came in second in the 100 fly with a time of 57.64 seconds. Antoniuk won the 500 free in 5:07.78 and finished second in the 1,000-free in 10:34.50.

Keenan Donath contributed to this report.

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BRIGHT SPOT | Sophomore Sonny Fierro won two events for Cal Poly in a rivalry meet at UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.

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Stephan Teodosescu @steodosescu With the spotlights of national TV focused on Mott Athletics Center (MAC), the Cal Poly men’s basketball team never found the offensive spark the sold-out building was trying to provide.

UC Irvine used a 14-0 run midway through the first half as Cal Poly dropped its third straight game with a 64-50 loss to the Anteaters on Saturday night.

The Mustangs (8-13 overall) dropped to 4-4 in Big West play after winning four of its first six conference games, while UC Irvine remained tied atop the standings with UC Santa Barbara and Long

Beach State at 5-2.

“Our first half of the first half has been as much as a coach could ask for,” Callero said. “Tonight was the first real disappointing game. It was the first game where I feel like we got beat. We simply got beat by a better team.”

The loss marks the first three-game Big West home losing streak under Callero and the first since 2009.

UC Irvine put the Mustangs on their heels early on thanks to hot shooting from long range. Freshman guard Luke Nelson converted 4 of 8 shots from beyond the arc, as the Anteaters made 7 of 16 shots (43.8 percent), including 6 of 9 in the first half, from downtown.

“We had a couple lapses here and there, but, for the most part, I thought their shots were contested,” senior forward Chris Eversley said.

“We had guys there. They just made tough shots driving baseline and hitting cutters and everything like that.”

Eversley provided Cal Poly’s highlight moment when he took Jamal Johnson’s steal to the rack and dunked on UC Irvine’s Mamadou Ndiaye — who is the tallest player in the NCAA at 7-foot-6 — in the first half. The dunk claimed a spot in Sportscenters’ Top 10 plays on Saturday. He paced the Mustangs with 14 points and 10 boards in 33 minutes of play.

Despite Eversley’s contri-

bution with 14 double-digit games this season, Cal Poly hasn’t scored more than 58 points in its previous four contests, where the team has gone 1-3.

“There’s some offensive concerns that we had prior to this game,” Callero said.

“When you put a 7-foot-6 guy out there it just accelerates the concern.”

The Mustangs held Ndiaye to four points in 23 minutes of play, but the rest of the Anteaters’ frontcourt helped UC Irvine to a 48.1 percent shooting percentage for the game. The Anteaters also out-rebounded the Mustangs 39-34.

Bolstered by a raucous MAC, Cal Poly jumped out to

a 15-9 lead before UC Irvine stormed back to take the lead for good with 11:37 left in the first half.

The Mustangs attempted to make a run late in that first period, but UC Irvine’s Alex Young nailed a contested 3-pointer as time expired in the half to give the Anteaters a 39-28 lead and momentum headed into the break.

Cal Poly would only score 22 points in the final frame.

Sophomore forward Brian Bennett committed four fouls in four minutes and scored four points off the bench.

Cal Poly shot 30.4 percent from the field and went 8 of 23 from 3-point range despite its sharpshooter senior guard Kyle Odister’s return

to the lineup on Saturday. He missed last week’s games due to a nagging foot injury.

“It keeps hurting and I don’t really have explosiveness,” Odister said. “As long as I keep getting rest like I did and playing and being smart about the situation, everything will be fine.”

Odister went 4 of 15 from the field, including 2 of 9 from 3-point land. He leads the Mustangs with 40 3-pointers made this season.

The Mustangs enter next week with a bye on Thursday before heading west to face Hawaii on Saturday. Cal Poly beat the Rainbow Warriors in the first meeting between the teams in San Luis Obispo on Jan. 9. Tip is set for 9 p.m.

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