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COMING SOON: After renovation, P to reopen

ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS WELCOME BACK | The university closed the P this past July for maintenance. Once it reopens, hikers will have safer access to the “iconic symbol,” maintaining the centurylong Cal Poly tradition of hiking the P.

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The Cal Poly P has been around for almost a century at Cal Poly, overlooking the campus and city of San Luis Obispo.

Safety concerns prompted the university to temporarily close the P while members of the University Union Advisory Board (UUAB) of Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) allocated $100,000 to fund the first major renovation of the P since 1997, according to UUAB chair and child development senior Sevelyn Van Ronk.

“The students that serve on the UUAB saw a campus need to restore this iconic symbol to ensure that the campus tradition can continue in a safe manner,” Van Ronk said.

On July 9, 2015, a reconstruction project began on the P in order to improve access and movement around the structure.

“The Cal Poly P and various trails leading up to this important campus landmark had erosion damage,” Van Ronk said.

“This created potentially unsafe conditions for students who decorated the P, and facility mainte-

nance staff who maintain the P.” Construction involved rerouting 900 feet of trail and taking corrective measures at its base. California Conservation Corps workers have come to reconstruct the P as well as divert water from the upper portion of the hillside to prevent further erosion, Associate Executive Director of ASI Dwayne Brummett said.

“Work began on rehabbing the trails that go up to P in order to create more mature entrances so that people aren’t driving any vehicles up there,” Brummett said. “Also, they are repairing the

P itself and trying to retain the walls around the P.” None of these renovations would have taken place had the rivalry between Cal Poly, previously a four-year polytechnic high school, and San Luis Obispo High not occurred. Several large stone H letters, standing for High, used to surround San Luis Obispo, according to a university media release. In response, Cal Poly students changed the H to P. After a bit of back-and-forth, Cal Poly focused on preserving the P overlooking campus. It has been there ever since.

In 1921, Cal Poly students filled in the rock outline P with calcium hydroxide and powdered lime to further maintain the P. The P has also been used to represent various events and clubs at Cal Poly. It has been altered, with the use of white bed sheets twisted into letters, to represent the letters of fraternities and sororities. In 1964, the P was changed to GOP and in the 1980s, it was used to spell out “SPRINGSTEEN.” “I believe that the P stands as an iconic symbol of school spir-

it for Cal Poly,” Van Ronk said.

“Decorating the P and using it to spread messages is a long-standing campus tradition.”

The Cal Poly P will be reopened in the next few weeks before Thanksgiving, Brummett said.

“UUAB has been talking about the best way to create an event to commemorate the finished construction of the P,” Brummett said. “The P will probably be unveiled mid-November at a ribbon-cutting celebration where local folks and students can come and celebrate it.”

American horror story: Cambria Scarecrow Festival

CHRISTA LAM | MUSTANG NE WS THRILLER | Freshman forward Jared Pressley scored with 4 seconds left in regulation to even the score.

Men’s soccer ties UC Santa Barbara in final seconds to force 2-2 draw Mustang News Staff Report @CPMustangNews

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After the frenzy from last weekend’s installment of the BlueGreen Rivalry, the Cal Poly men’s soccer team made sure not to disappoint. The Mustangs (9-3-4, 4-1-3 Big West) tied the Gauchos (10-5-2, 5-2-1) with a goal in the waning seconds to send the match to overtime.

Trailing 2-0 after halftime, the Mustangs battled back in the second half. Cal Poly finally pulled through in the 73rd minute when senior midfielder Chase Minter buried a shot after a cross from junior midfielder

Jack O’Connor. Minter’s goal marked the first shot on target of the night for the Mustangs.

Cal Poly mustered two more shot attempts before the 90th minute, but neither found the back of the net.

It wasn’t until late in the 90th minute when freshman forward Jared Pressley came up with the biggest goal of his young collegiate career.

Senior midfielder Matt LaGrassa headed a deep cross toward the goal, but Gauchos goalkeeper Justin Vom Steeg made a diving save to prevent the goal. The ball bounced around in front of the goal be-

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fore Pressley swooped in and booted the ball toward goal.

Pressley’s shot found the back of the net with four seconds left, tying the match and sending it to overtime.

Neither team scored in either overtime and the match ended in a 2-2 draw.

The Mustangs finished the match with 13 shots, five on goal. Senior goalkeeper Wade Hamilton had three saves.

Cal Poly remains one point behind the Gauchos in the Big West Conference standings. The Mustangs continue conference play at home against UC Davis on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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IFC plans changes to rush process Gina Randazzo @Gina_Randazzo

Interfraternity Council’s (IFC) fall recruitment came to a close two weeks ago, with 372 potential new members accepting bids from the IFC chapters. This number was slightly smaller than last years’ 410 accepted bids.

This could be because fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) and Delta Sigma Phi (DSP) were removed from campus, and Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) was not able to recruit due to their suspension.

Each chapter gave out an average of 25 bids. Kappa Sigma had 38 bids accepted, the most out of all of the chapters.

IFC president and mechanical engineering senior Alex Campbell said this year’s rush process went well.

“We’re really happy and I think the chapters are happy too,” Campbell said. “This is (IFC Executive Board’s) first run on this side of it and we’ve learned a lot.”

However, IFC’s recruitment committee did see some issues with its current process.

There were 916 men who registered for fall recruitment, and attended IFC’s Rush Kickoff Barbecue on Dexter Lawn this year.

Computer engineering sophomore Dane Low, who is on IFC’s recruitment committee, said many potential new members were very timid when approach-

ing the fraternities’ booths at the barbecue. Many students end up rushing the first house they talk to, Low said, and miss out on others as a result.

The committee’s goal for future rushes, starting with winter rush, is for each potential new member to be informed about each chapter before recruitment starts. That way, each potential new member has an idea of which houses they’d like to approach based on characteristics that appeal to them.

Vice President of Recruitment and agricultural and environmental plant sciences sophomore Sheldon Overton said that making these changes would help students find where they belong within greek life.

He said that IFC will provide pamphlets for potential new members before recruitment starts, filled with information about each chapter.

Low and Overton also agreed that the recruitment committee aims to unify the work of its members more this year.

Instead of having 15 members broken up to do each other’s busy work, they hope to serve the greek community better as a unit.

“What we want, as a council, to share is that greek life is changing,” Overton said. “It’s not going to happen tomorrow, it may not even happen (at) the end of this year, but we’re going to work with what we have right now to lay a foundation for the future.”

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Monday, October 26, 2015

ARTS | 3

Queer Student Union Drag Show brings fairytale fierceness to stage Madi Salvati @MadiSalvati

The theme was “Drag Fairy Tales” and the stage was graced with nine drag queens — drag sisters and evil drag step mothers.

Fake smoke and the sound of stilettos clacking lightly against the low-lit stage was welcomed with applause and enthusiastic cheers at the Queer Student Union’s second Drag Show in the Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre Wednesday night.

Business administration sophomore Sabina Khadr wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into as she sat in the audience.

“I didn’t know

what to expect,” Khadr said, “but it’s nice to see how many people are supporting it.”

The theater was filled almost to capacity and a few participants in drag walked around in high sparkly heels greeting people.

Once the lights went down, the crowd whooped and cheered as the show began.

Following the evening’s fairytale theme, the show started with the story of Rapunzel.

Political science sophomore Ty Amick took on the role of Rapunzel, who spent her time

day-dreaming and working at a club. She dreamt of making it big on the drag stage and to finally have her own routine.

Women in drag also played a part in the show, filling the male roles.

Like many audience members, Cuesta College kinesiology junior Jonathan Castellanos attended the drag show for the humor. “ I t ’s fun,” Castellanos said.

“I’m here for the comedy.”

With provocative dance moves and the utmost confidence

GABBY PA JO | MUSTANG NE WS FAIRYTALE INSPIRATION | The performances incorporated stories of Rapunzel, Cinderella and Snow White.

GABBY PA JO | MUSTANG NE WS BALANCING ACT | The drag queens didn’t miss a step during their routines, despite wearing wigs and high heels.

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in themselves, each performer in drag completed their number.

Following the story of Rapunzel was Snow White and Cinderella.

Snow White was played by biological sciences senior Jason Dierkhising. In her drag fairytale, she competed with the evil drag queen, played by biochemistry senior Isaac De La Cruz, to take center stage as a drag star.

This particular fairytale required a fair amount of dancing, but both Dierkhising and De La Cruz brought their most provocative, “drag-worthy” moves. De La Cruz even managed to throw in a couple of splits throughout his routines.

The crowd never stopped cheering.

Brandon Kirklen, a general engineering senior, appreciated the performers’ confidence.

“I like the fierceness they all have,” Kirklen said. “Once the applause started going, the performers were really getting into it.”

The final fairytale was that of Cinderella, with biological sciences sophomore Jordan Collins as the title character. She brought exceptional energy with hip-hop moves and lots of hair flipping to out-dance her evil stepmother and sister.

At this point, it was hard to imagine what else these drag stars could do to make the show more entertaining than it al-

ready was, but a chair dance to “He Had it Coming” from the musical “Chicago” was the perfect finale.

The crowd seemed to be clapping and cheering the performers on throughout the length of the final act, which contained all six of the performers, using the chairs as props in their routine.

Not a single drag star fell in her high heels that night, nor did anyone lose a wig amidst the hair flipping.

Each drag performer not only brought fierceness and confidence, but bravery, to “Drag Fairy Tales,” making this show one for the storybooks.

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Every year throughout the month of October, hundreds of homes and businesses decorate their own, one-of-a-kind scarecrows as part of the Cambria

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Scarecrow Festival. The festival runs until Oct. 31. A map to the scarecrows can be found at cambriascarecrows.com.

Some of the scarecrows have QR codes where you can scan to read all about them and who created them.

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“We’ve been putting one outside of our pet supply store every year since it started about six or seven years ago. It’s so much fun for us and the rest of the community,” Christie Carroll said.

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Emilio Horner is a political science senior and Mustang News liberal columnist. These views do not reflect the editorial coverage of Mustang News.

About a week or so ago I found myself eavesdropping on some strapping young gentlemen planning out a fraternity function in the library. One particularly “swoll” gentleman suggested a Reagan-Bush ’84 flag be produced for the event. This confirmed in my mind what had been a suspicious hunch, that there has become a strange affiliation between universities’ seediest social organizations and one of America’s B-movie actors who masqueraded as president.

Though there has long been a link between the greek system and jingoism, Reagan/Bush shirts and apparel gained a massive amount of popularity after being produced by Total Frat Move. The problem is that this contributes to the idolatry of a man whose record includes thousands of human casualties, the destruction of governments, infrastructure and the environment by means of imperialism, voodoo economics and structural violence. Ronald Reagan was a war criminal.

The short version is that in order to maintain hegemony, U.S.

corporate interests within the government have continuously supported funding, training and arming repressive governments, rebel groups and death squads worldwide. Once companies can assure the exploitation of repressed workers overseas, they can eliminate the higher paying, commonly unionized, jobs in the United States. Therefore, the economic well-being of U.S. workers is linked to the well-being of the workers of the world. The globalized status of the world economy has led to the deterioration of the working class, both domestically and abroad.

Post World War II, George Kennan, considered a liberal diplomat, wrote a memo to the policy planning staff arguing that if the United States wants to maintain its disproportionate share of the world’s wealth (in 1948 the U.S. has 6.3 percent world’s population but about 50 percent world’s wealth), human rights and altruistic goals would have to be abandoned.

This mindset has led a majority of foreign interventions to have been motivated by protecting corporate interests.

Clearly, this was the case with the 1954 coup in Guatemala in which the CIA deposed of democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz due to the fact that Arbenz called for land reforms that would have hurt the United Fruit Company’s bottom

line. The following military junta and Guatemalan Civil War led to the military committing massive human rights violations, including the genocide of the Mayan population in Guatemala.

Economic motivation for intervention can similarly be found in Iran during the 1953 coup that deposed of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Mossadegh attempted to nationalize the assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (currently British Petroleum), and was subsequently removed by the CIA. This led to the counterrevolution of 1979 in which the current theocratic regime was able to take power.

Every post-war president has committed or been responsible for horrible violence on the international stage causing America to be known as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today,” according to Martin Luther King Jr. Despite all this, no administration was as blatantly immoral as that of Ronald Reagan.

During the Iran-Contra Affair, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of weapons to Iran, who was subject to an arms embargo at the time. Then, the money made on the deal was illegally sent to fund the Contra death squads in Nicaragua, in violation of the Boland Amendment, prohibiting further funding of the Contras by the American government.

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Monday, October 26, 2015 Publishing since 1916 Volume M, Issue VVI HBD JORDAN “I kinda like watching kids trick or treating ... I like little kids. So sue me.”

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the new left From 1983 to 1984, the CIA set fire to Nicaraguan oil storage tanks and in 1984 mined Nicaraguan ports. During the same time, the Contras killed 23 primary school teachers and 135 volunteer adult education teachers. They destroyed 15 rural schools, forced the closing of 138 elementary schools and 64 adult education schools.

There were reports of attacks on civilian targets causing killings, rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture. Former National Security Council staff member Oliver North even had ex-Rhodesian mercenaries bomb a hospital just to show Congress that the Contras could operate easily within the capitol.

Additional crimes of the Reagan Administration include the 1986 bombing of Libya, invasion of Grenada, CIA smuggling of cocaine to support rebel groups in Latin America, the supporting of Apartheid in South Africa and the funding of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan who later became Al-Qaeda. Finally, Reagan sold chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein, including anthrax and the bubonic plague that were used in the Iran-Iraq War, in which the United States also sold weapons to Iran.

Post World War II, the United States has subjected millions of people worldwide to a lower quality of life, all because of the devastating impacts of a foreign policy that prefers corporate

profit over human dignity. The nation’s ideological pretense of human rights further masks the fact that the United States sponsors state terrorism and a neo-colonial system ruled by fear, while serving the interest of business elites.

Poet Gil Scott Heron once remarked that America is a country of nostalgia. A country scared to face the future that has instead been socialized to look for cinema heroes to come tall in the saddle and save the day. America, he argues, would have elected John Wayne, had he been available, but since John Wayne was not available, America had to settle for Ronald Reagan. And he says “it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at … like a ‘B’ movie”.

But life isn’t a movie. There isn’t always a clear line drawn between good and bad guys. As much as Reagan wanted us to think all we had to do was kill another Soviet or Commie and everything would be fine, that’s nothing more than ideology.

A Reagan-Bush ’84 shirt is not a mere fashion statement but a symbol of the United States’ effort to condition the people of the world into believing that if they used their resources to benefit the needs of the people as opposed to the desires of corporate interests, their lives would be ruined. It’s time to stop believing that lie.

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Cal Poly fumbles through loss against No. 13 Portland State

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| The Mustangs rushed for 420 yards in their 38-35 loss to No. 13 Portland State. Junior slotback Kori Garcia led the Mustangs in rushing with 18 carries for 131 yards.

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The Cal Poly football team’s play in a 38-35 loss to No. 13 Portland State on Saturday night can be summed up well by the number five.

Five penalties, with three of those coming at crucial points of the fourth quarter.

Five f umbles, four of which were recovered by Portland State.

Five losses this season, three in the Big Sky Conference games.

That being said, this was a game that was entirely in reach for the Mustangs (2-5, 1-3 Big

Sky). They outgained the visiting Vikings (6-1, 3-1) by 150 yards on offense thanks to 420 rushing yards from freshman quarterback Khaleel Jenkins and a handful of running backs.

“We’re going to look at some things and see a lot of positives,” head coach Tim Walsh said. “Football-wise, we played football tonight on both sides of the ball. Unfortunately we made the mistakes that we did and it cost us the game.”

The offensive line controlled the trenches all night and opened up gaps for a myriad of Cal Poly runners, four of whom had at least 50 yards on the ground. Junior slotback

Kori Garcia had 18 carries for 131 yards and Jenkins finished with 93 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries.

The offense sputtered out of the gate, as the opening drive was cut short by a fumble after one play. This came after the opening kickoff was fumbled by the Mustangs as well.

Cal Poly was lucky to only be down 6-0 after the Vikings’ first two possessions.

But the Mustangs’ offense responded with a 16-play, 78-yard drive to go up 7-6 with a touchdown from sophomore fullback Joe Protheroe. Protheroe finished the night with 11 carries and 75 yards and a touchdown

and helped set the tone on offense as Cal Poly’s power back.

Jenkins found out he would be starting the game on Thursday after senior Chris Brown was ruled out with an undisclosed injury, but the short notice didn’t seem to shake him much. Following a touchdown by the Vikings, Jenkins made three defenders miss and outran the secondary on a 40-yard touchdown.

“I’ve been taking a lot of reps throughout the past two weeks just in case I needed to go in,” Jenkins said after the game. “I had a little bit of jitters at first, but it got easier with more time.”

The two teams traded scores multiple times in the third quarter, with the Mustangs scoring on a 1-yard run by sophomore fullback Jared Mohamed and a pass by freshman wide receiver Kory Fox to sophomore slotback Kyle Lewis. The Vikings responded with two touchdown runs by quarterback Alex Kuresa, who finished with 101 yards on 18 carries and threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns.

Lewis punched in another score for the Mustangs from 29 yards out to tie the game at 35-35 with 2:34 remaining in the fourth quarter.

But the Vikings marched down the field and ran out the

clock, kicking a field goal with 33 seconds left to win the game.

Looking ahead, the Mustangs are down, but not out of a chance at a winning season.

A strong showing next week against Southern Utah (5-2, 4-0) would do much to improve their confidence.

“We have two choices now: We can go 2-6 or we can go 3-5,” said Walsh. “That’s our choice.

We’re going to do everything we can to fix what we need to fix for next week.”

The Mustangs play at Southern Utah next Saturday before returning to Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Nov. 7 to take on Sacramento State (2-6, 1-4).

Weekend sports round up Women’s soccer @ home vs. UC Riverside on Sunday Lost 2-0 UC Riverside scored two goals in the first 50 minutes to drop the Mustangs 2-0 in conference play on Sunday. Cal Poly mustered up more shots than the Highlanders, but couldn’t come out on top.

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Volleyball @ CSUN on Friday Won 3-0 Cal Poly recorded its seventh consecutive victory on Friday with its 3-0 sweep of CSUN. Freshman outside hitter Adlee Van Winden recorded 17 kills and sophomore setter Taylor Nelson recorded a team-high 32 assists. Senior libero Nicole Kessler also led the team with 18 digs.

Volleyball @ Long Beach State on Saturday Lost 3-2 Cal Poly won the first two sets, but couldn’t hold on to defeat the conference-leading 49ers.

Freshman outside hitter Adlee Van Winden recorded her career-high 21 kills, and sophomore Raeann Greisen also recorded season-high 21 kills. The loss snapped the Mustangs’ seven-match winning streak.

Women’s soccer @ home vs. UC Irvine on Friday Won 2-0 Senior forward Elise Krieghoff extended her school record with her 52nd career goal in the 30th minute. The Mustangs went into the half with a 1-0 lead. Sophomore forward McKenzie Flood scored in the 58th minute to extend the lead to 2-0. The last 32 minutes passed without a goal, and the Mustangs snagged their second conference win of the season.

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