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Men’s basketball captures tournament championship

Eric Stubben @EricStubben

The Cal Poly men’s basketball team won the Maui Jim Maui Invitational Regional Round tournament in Greeley, Colorado with a 78-65 win over Maryland – Baltimore County (UMBC) on Sunday.

The Mustangs (3-2), who defeated Austin Peay on Saturday night to advance to the tournament championship game, faced the Retrievers (1-4) for the first time

in program history.

Senior forward Joel Awich led the team in scoring for the second game in a row with 18 points and nine rebounds. Junior guard Ridge Shipley added in 15 points on 5-for8 three-point shooting, and senior guard David Nwaba dished out a career-high eight assists for the Mustangs.

The Mustangs started sluggish, trailing 19-7 eight minutes into the game and allowing the Retrievers to shoot 70 percent from the field. Over the next seven minutes, the

Mustangs ripped off a 15-4 run culminating in 23-22 lead for the Mustangs.

Cal Poly stayed hot for the final five minutes of the half and led 34-27 at the halftime buzzer.

The Mustangs maintained their momentum coming out of halftime and outscored the Retrievers 44-38 the rest of the game to win the championship.

The Mustangs shot 50 percent from the field, a staggering 55.6 percent from beyond the arc and outrebounded UMBC 39-28.

All 10 Cal Poly players who saw action during the game recorded at least one point, a first for the Mustangs this season.

Cal Poly will attempt to extend its current three-game winning streak when the team returns to Mott Athletic Center for a threegame home stand. The Mustangs face off against University of Antelope Valley, an NAIA team, on Nov. 28 before taking on Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) and Fresno State on Dec. 3 and Dec 5.

MUSTANG NEWS FILE PHOTO STATEMENT | Junior guard Ridge Shipley added in 15 points on 5-for-8 three-point shooting against the Retrievers this weekend. The Mustangs return home for a three-game homestand starting on Nov. 28.

Football falls to North Dakota in season finale

JASON HUNG | MUSTANG NE WS WINTER IS COMING | ASI created a “wintery” atmosphere at the “ice” rink with hot chocolate and fake snow.

ASI preps Cal Poly for the holidays with snowy synthetic ice skating rink Michelle Zaludek @michellenistic

Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) hoped to put a deep freeze on pre-final anxieties last Thursday with a free ice skating event for students in the Julian A. McPhee

University Union (UU) Plaza.

As finals approach, the rink was meant to give students a chance to relax and have some fun before going back to studying.

“We figured this event would kind of give everybody a chance to decompress and de-stress

from this exhausting eight weeks of the quarter, and also just have fun with their friends,” ASI Events Outreach Student Assistant and journalism junior Samantha Pryor said.

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CHRISTA L AM | MUSTANG NE WS UPSIDE DOWN

| The Mustangs had more passing yards than rushing yards for the first time this season.

Eric Stubben @EricStubben

The Cal Poly football team ended its season on a sour note with a 45-21 loss to North Dakota in Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Saturday night.

It was Senior Night for the

Mustangs (4-7, 3-5 Big West), whose roster features 18 seniors playing in the final game of their Cal Poly careers. Following the pregame ceremony, it was the Fighting Hawks (6-4, 4-3), not the Mustangs, who jumped out to an early lead.

Battling for seven wins and

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playoff eligibility, the Fighting Hawks led 28-0 at halftime. Two rushing touchdowns by Big West Conference rushing leader John Santiago put the Fighting Hawks up 14-0 less than a minute into the second quarter.

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Monday, November 23, 2015

NEWS | 2

Kathleen McMahon steps up as new Dean of Students Elena Wasserman @elenawasserman

Kathleen McMahon currently works as Dean of Students at Roger Williams in Rhode Island. She has previously worked at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Boston University (BU) and Marlboro College in Vermont. McMahon is looking forward to having new experiences and new challenges at Cal Poly this winter.

MN: Why do you want to work at Cal Poly?

KM: My husband and I used to live in California; when I was at UCLA I loved my time there.

When I saw this position posted, and it being in San Luis Obispo, it just really caught my eye. We weren’t looking to move at this time, but I couldn’t pass up this rare opportunity of the perfect job in the perfect place at this amazing school with all this incredible Learn by Doing.

It just seems like everything was coming together for an amazing opportunity. I really love the Dean of Students role; it’s a role I had at two different institutions now. And it’s one I embrace, just advocating for students.

I was super excited to learn more about Cal Poly and everything that was going on, and the more that I learned, the more I fell in love with the place. I’m just so pleased that it’s worked out and I’m really excited about it.

MN: How do you think your past experiences have prepared you for this job?

KM: I’ve been working in student affairs for about 25 years and I’ve worked at four different institutions, each very different.

I’ve worked at private and public, large and small and medium: UCLA, BU, Marlboro College

and here at Roger Williams.

I think the benefit of working at diverse types of institutions is that I won’t be stepping into this job and saying, “Well, this is how we did it at my past school and this is how we should do it here.”

I’ll be really drawing on diverse experiences and looking at how challenges have posed themselves in different places and how we solved them.

I think it gives me a broader scope to draw on, in terms of problem-solving and working with people, and not just trying to put my square from the past into this square. I’m very adaptable and I learn quickly, and I think that having worked in such different institutions has given me a lot to draw upon.

With that being said, having worked at UCLA I know what it’s like to work in California at a state school with a very strong student body. Roger Williams actually has a similar organizational structure to Cal Poly, it has six schools and a graduate program. The organizational structure will be familiar to me, but now it’s larger.

MN: How do you think your transition will be from Roger Williams University to Cal Poly? (4,000 students to 20,000 students) KM: I think I’ll have to do a lot of listening and learning and talking to students about what their concerns are, and talking to the staff and faculty about what is a priority for them. However, because I’m pretty adaptable and I learn quickly and I have a pretty strong work ethic, I think I’ll hit the ground running.

It will definitely be a challenge starting in the winter, so it’s not an ideal time to start a job, but I think I’ll learn as much as I can, as quickly as I can and I expect

it to be fun and interesting, and I bet it will go well.

MN: Why do you think the position of Dean of Students is important?

KM: Typically students have a lot of things that are important to them, and they need to go to a person that will listen and be an advocate for them and help them have their voices heard by the upper-administration. It’s just a role that I love in terms of working very closely with students. It’s not my goal to move up the administrative ladder so I can be closer to the hierarchy; it’s my goal to always work closely with students about the things that are important to them and help them have their voices heard.

College was a really important time for me in my life, and for some reason I find it really interesting to work with college students. It’s something that keeps me stimulated and vibrant and I hope to do it for a long time.

MN: What are your plans when you come to Cal Poly with the programs you are going to be overseeing? Any changes you’d like to make?

KM: I think whenever you start a new job you have to spend a certain amount of time just listening and learning. My plan would be to meet with a lot of different groups, get myself out there as much as possible to let people learn about me so I can learn about them. Do some trust building, relationship building and really identify what’s going and what might need some support.

I’ll be listening to staff about what’s going on and what their needs are and it’s possible organizational changes will be popping up as an important need for people. Nothing would be

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immediate; it would be a lot of learning at first.

MN: How do you plan to work with greek life? Any changes you’d like to make?

KM: I think Cal Poly has got some challenges with the greek system right now. I can see from Mustang News, students have some frustrations and I want to listen to what those are. I have not worked directly with the greek system, but I have a lot of experience with things related to greek.

For instance, leadership development — I wrote my dissertation on college student leadership development. I have experience working with high-profile groups and conflict resolution. When I was at

UCLA, there were some very large public events around the football team and we did some restorative justice there. I have a lot of experience with alcohol prevention and sexual assault prevention, which are two of the highest areas of concern for people outside the greek system.

So I’m just excited to come in and learn about what people see as the benefits and how I can support the great things they’re doing, and then listen to what the challenges are and look at where we stand and where we want to go. It’s clear to me the greek system means a lot to the Cal Poly campus, and my job would be to listen with fresh eyes and ears and help support mediating where it needs to go next.

MN: Anything else you’d like to add?

KM: I can tell you my family and I are super excited to come to (San Luis Obispo) and part of that is I really love the outdoors and I love hiking. When I was visiting, I ran up the beautiful trail up by Poly Canyon Village.

One of my favorite things to do is to run out there in early morning, and when I was out there I saw some deer and I thought, “This is where I want to be.” So the students can bet on seeing me running in the morning and experiencing the nature. My son is really thrilled and because he went ATV-ing in Pismo Dunes and I think he experienced bliss in that moment. So we’re just going to be loving the area and all the things we can do there.

Monday, November 23, 2015

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Forever 21 on Madonna Road closing early next year Naba Ahmed

GEORGIE DE MATTOS | MUSTANG NE WS CLOSING

| Forever 21 is wrapping up its lease in San Luis Obispo and will not be renewing it.

Forever 21, located in the San Luis Obispo Promenade shopping center on Madonna Road, will be closing after the holiday season, in January 2016.

When the 120,000 square-foot building closes, 72 employees will be laid off, according to a letter from Forever 21 sent to San Luis Obispo Mayor Jan Marx on Nov. 12.

The letter states that the store “plans to permanently cease all store operations ... effective on or around Jan. 6, 2016.”

Forever 21 employs one store manager, two assistant managers, two managers, four “leads” and 63 store associates, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

Forever 21 bought the store and its lease from Gottschalks after that company filed for bankruptcy protection. In 2014,

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the Kroenke Group, based in Columbia, Mo., bought the San Luis Obispo Promenade consisting of 22 retail spaces, one of which is Forever 21.

While employees will have to look for new jobs after the holidays, the closing of this store will affect college students as well.

“I think a lot of girls will be upset because it is convenient and cheap for themed party outfits, costumes and even business attire,” animal science sophomore Madison Wells said. “At Forever 21, you can get the latest trends with a college budget.”

While there is still no information on what will go in the space next, a department store would fit the space best, Wells said.

“Since it is such a large space,

I think it would be nice to have a shop for everything, like a Macy’s or Nordstrom,” Wells said. “It is a little more expensive, but it would have housing items and clothing for men and women.”

Another affordable opt i on to re pl a c e Fore v er 21 would be good for college students, according to business administration sophomore Sophia Mourelatos.

“Another less expensive clothing store would be a great addition,” Mourelatos said.

“There are so many cute boutiques and shops downtown, but being on a college student budget, it would be nice to have an affordable option for shopping.”

Forever 21 and the Kroenke Group did not respond to phone calls.

SLO Solidarity movement takes charge Naba Ahmed In light of recent comments on the Free Speech Wall, students attended an informal assembly of multiple minority clubs on campus — including the Queer Student Union, Black Student Union and feminist group Triota — and have created a movement called SLO Solidarity. This will serve as a safe space for students to express their feelings, according to political science sophomore Mick Bruckner.

“The Free Speech Wall and the context of SLO Solidarity is one symptom of a much larger problem,” Bruckner said. “A lot of campus has perceived our rhetoric as a bashing on free speech, and that’s completely beside the point of our cause.”

SLO Solidarity first gathered on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. to protest the Free Speech Wall. At the event, called Stand in Solidarity, students came together to share their feelings regarding the wall and their frustrations with the current campus climate.

“Our cause is improving the campus climate and that has to do with the Free Speech Wall,” Bruckner said. “It’s not a debate over whether or not they had a right to write those things; it’s about why did they write those things and how do we as a campus address that.”

Bruckner saw more diversity at Stand in Solidarity than he had ever seen on campus previously,

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Students protested in the University Union (UU) Plaza on Thursday while chanting “love, not hate” and organized a forum in the same place on Sunday, Nov. 15.

Students voiced their opinions following the Free Speech Wall, English and ethnic studies senior Mehra Gharibian said.

“In the beginning, we stated how we are not denying the right to free speech, but rather to address the fact that those things were said on campus,” Gharibian said. “And this relates to more pervasive experience for minorities on campus with regard to hearing these kinds of things all the time.”

More than 80 students and faculty attended the forum, according to ethnic studies sophomore Jabe Marvis S. Williams.

“There has never been a movement of this scale at Cal Poly,” Williams said. “As we move forward, we will lay the foundation of the movement to hopefully inflict change in our current campus climate.”

While SLO Solidarity is receiving support from a large number of students and staff, they are not going to become a club. If they were to form an Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) club, they would be mandated to create hierarchical positions, Gharibian said.

ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS SOLIDARIT Y SISTER

| The photo above shows the open forum that followed SLO Solidarity’s “Stand in Solidarity” meeting on campus.

“We don’t want that level of hierarchy because we want students to use this as a starting off point to create change,” Gharibian said. “If it was more like a club, it would be an ending point.”

Students will be organized into teams in order to meet their goals, Bruckner said.

“We have formed a horizontal kind of structure with less hierarchies because we want it to be

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community-centered,” Bruckner said. “In order to incorporate all these individuals, we have to organize them around different aspects like communications and organizing teams.”

Moving forward, SLO Solidarity wants to move toward creating a more inclusive campus, Gharibian said. This would include hiring a more diverse faculty and staff and changing

orientation programs.

“We want a campus where minorities are no longer marginalized into groups,” Gharibian said.

“Our specific goals are education, accountability and changing campus culture.”

SLO Solidarity also aims to address specific groups on campus such as ASI and greek life, with whom they have already started conversations.

“Specifically for ASI, we want to talk about diversity initiatives and integration in ASI,” Gharibian said. “We want to discuss ways with which we can encourage or provide assistance for low-income or minority students to run for ASI positions because as the status quo is right now, minorities don’t feel that ASI represents them, which they don’t.”

Monday, November 23, 2015

ARTS | 4

Reliving the holidays: 5 hilariously memorable Thanksgiving incidents Dillon Payne @CPMustangNews

Thanksgiving — it’s a time to come together with family. To cook, eat and make memories.

What could go wrong? Apparently, a lot. Here’s five funny stories from students who will never forget these Thanksgiving mishaps.

“We forgot about our turkey and we went to a different town and when we had come back, the turkey had exploded. The oven door was open and there was turkey everywhere. It was all over the ceiling, too.”

— Jana Russell, biological sciences freshman “We had just finished dinner and my dad was telling all his college stories. So me and my brother decided to challenge him to a game of beer pong. In that game, I step backward to take my shot and there happened to be a candle behind me and my hair caught on fire. It wasn’t too bad because my brother noticed it Continued from page 1

Additionally, the event would bring holiday spirit to students, getting them excited for a few short weeks of life after finals.

“With winter quarter coming up and, more importantly, Christmas and winter break, we were really excited to bring the students an event that gave them that wintery feel,” Pryor said.

With a pair of bundled-up snowmen blowing fake snow onto skaters and milk and hot chocolate set out for the line of

really fast and put it out. … (My family) just laughed at me and posted it to Facebook.”

— Claire Leslie, psychology sophomore “One day on Thanksgiving — I think it was last year — my uncle had come to my house and he had the weirdest looking hair style I’ve ever seen him have. He was getting old. He has gray hair now and he was so angry at the hair being gray, he cut off half of the hair. And then he was still not satisfied so he dyed the other half but it was only on the fringes.”

— Owen Schwaegerle, agricultural business senior “A few years ago, I was at my grandparents’ house with my family and my grandparents had the entire buffet of Thanksgiving food and we were about to start and we started praying. Then, all of a sudden, we opened our eyes and the power was out. And we’re like, ‘What happened?’ The clock wasn’t working and it was all dark and (we) didn’t know

what to do. We were praying, ‘Jesus, please turn on the lights.’

The lights weren’t on, so we ate Thanksgiving dinner in the dark.

Toward the end, the lights came back on and it was so much fun.”

— Camille Lethcoe, communication studies junior “Well, we were all working in the kitchen (mainly the wom-

en) and the guys were outside drinking beers, doing stuff.

Then, all of sudden, we had the candles out on the table lit.

While we were in the kitchen, we started smelling smoke and we just thought it was something burning in the oven. And for a long time we were still looking around the kitchen trying to find something that was burn-

ing. Finally someone discovered (what it was). I actually think it was one of my 3-year-old cousins (who) said, ‘Mommy, the table’s on fire.’ We go into the living room and the whole tablecloth was ablaze. We started wrapping it up to try and smother it and then all of my family came in and started pouring water on it.

Some people started pouring

alcohol on it — not the right thing to do. It took a good 15 minutes to really get it out. It was still a really good Thanksgiving. None of the food was ruined, so we were able to eat, just without a tablecloth. We didn’t even set up candles for next year.”

— Sydney Jones, architecture freshman

waiting students that stretched up Mustang Way, the event had an excitable holiday spirit.

“It was weird because it wasn’t like actual ice, and I could actually skate,” business administration junior Jackie Burggraf said. “I’m not very advanced like those people who were skating circles around me — but it was fun.”

However, it wasn’t the skating that appeared to be the highlight of the night, but the snowmen and fake snow.

“I liked the fake snow; that was

my favorite part,” environmental earth science sophomore Becky Haworth said. “It felt very wintery — (it) got you in the season and ready for Christmas.”

Several students explained that skating on the faux ice was worlds away from actual ice skating, which made it difficult to fully enjoy.

“It’s just harder,” history sophomore Tibo Smolders said. “Because you have this idea in your mind of what ice skating is like and you have to throw it out of the window.”

The skating rink — which could hold approximately 30 people at a time — was challenging to move on, several students said.

“It’s nice because you definitely won’t trip, since you won’t be moving,” mechanical engineering senior Nelson Lin said.

It was hard to get traction and maintain a skating motion, causing people’s feet to slide out, according to Haworth.

“I think the problem was the skates — they’re not very sharp,” communication studies senior Josi Bertling said. “You can see

the people who brought their own skates were having no problem going super fast. But there’s not enough momentum with the type of floor they’re using with the skates they provide.”

Smolders, Lin and Bertling all suggested that in the future ASI consider forgoing the fake ice completely, instead creating a roller rink which allows students to move faster and with more ease. They also added that the rink didn’t utilize the space that the UU Plaza offers, and that ASI should consider expanding it so

students can have more freedom of motion.

“It was definitely worth the zero dollars that I spent on it,” Bertling said.

“I kind of want my money back, actually,” Lin said.

While a few students said that they probably wouldn’t return to similar events in the future, others were mostly pleased — even if the ice rink was harder to maneuver than they expected.

“This is my first (ASI) event that I’ve ever actually been to,” Burggraf said. “It was a good experience.”

Monday, November 23, 2015

ARTS | 5

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| The rhythmic sound of feet tapping, stomping and sashaying across the stage combined with lively music and dance moves captivated the audience in the nearly full Performing Arts Center.

Riverdance brings folklore and fantastic footwork to the PAC Madi Salvati @MadiSalvati

The sound of feet hitting the stage floor could have been mistaken for a perfectly synced drumline.

But the sound was lighter and more rhythmic as the feet of the Riverdancers flew impossibly fast across the stage.

The Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) hosted Riverdance on Wednesday Nov. 19, bringing in an audience that filled every seat.

Riverdance is an Irish dance troupe featuring Irish, flamenco and Russian Folk dances as well as musicians, singers and international soloists.

The musicians consisted of a lively fiddler, a jazzy saxophone player and a traditional pipe and whistle player.

Vocals were also incorporated into the show with a Riverdance singer’s pristine voice filling the PAC, sounding like something off The Lord of the Rings soundtrack.

Within minutes of the show’s beginning, jaws dropped in awe of the precisely synced foot movements of each Riverdancer. The moves of both the men and women seemed to be ballet nspired, complete with high kicks and acrobatics.

Audience member Janet Ford, 64, from Los Osos was amazed

with each act.

“It was awesome,” Ford said.

“We need to see them again many times just to catch everything happening on stage.”

Each act told a different story inspired by Irish folklore. The clothing each dancer wore was also specific to each act.

San Luis Obispo resident Janet Phillips, 52, was also impressed by the dancers’ fancy footwork.

“This is the first time I’ve seen it live,” Phillips said. “Their foot and hand work is beautiful and the music is excellent.”

The flamenco routines resembled vibrant salsa dances with the skirts of the women being swished around in

deliberate movements.

“The flamenco dancers’ skirt work was excellent,” Phillips said. “Although the sound of their shoes against the floor was a little dull.”

According to Phillips, traditional Irish shoes resonate better on stage when they tap and stomp.

The sound may have been a little dull because of the stage they were dancing on. However, fans like Brent Keast, 57, didn’t seem to notice.

“It’s brilliant,” Keast said, referring to the dancers’ precision.

“It’s something you don’t see every day and the cultural tradition is amazing.”

Keast also admired the special effects on the stage, which consisted of twinkling stars and fog effects that created an ethereal vibe throughout the performance. It added to the folklore aspect of the show and enhanced the storytelling.

The second half of the perfor-

mance incorporated a few more modern pieces. A Riverdance-off between the male dancers had the whole crowd cheering and clapping.

By the final act, the entire Riverdance troupe was out on stage, perfectly in sync. They received a standing ovation by the end of the night, with the entire crowd cheering and clapping.

It’s a wonder the PAC stage is still in one piece from such a lively, foot-stomping show.

Monday, November 23, 2015

OPINION | 6

Navigating the lived experience Emilio Horner @CPMustangNews

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

“Any ontology is made impossible in a colonized and acculturated society,” Franz Fanon said.

I am a white, straight, cis-gendered, middle class male. Pretty much the epitome of privilege. Our subjective experiences shape our worldview and all too often, privileged viewpoints miss out on the nuisance of the lived experience of historically marginalized groups — especially when dominant views on race, sex and class are socialized with the discourse of a post-racial or colorblind society. This means that we ignore structural and institutional racism and its contributions to overciminalization policies, economic inequality, limited health care access, police killing and access to housing. America still remains a nation scarred from its original sin.

At the same time, we get protests like those at Yale, Princeton and even Cal Poly, where the clarity of structural racism, from a position of privilege, becomes blurred.

This is especially true due to the overall lack of diversity at Cal Poly. At the end of day, understanding claims of victimhood come down to whether or not one can empathize with the lived experience of someone else. This raises the question: How do we know if we can trust someone else’s perception of an event? Furthermore, how do we, as a society, make

policies based on other people’s perceived lived experience?

The power of self-deception in humans is incredibly strong. An article came out in the New York Times Magazine last month discussing the strange case of on ethics professor at Rutgers University.

This female professor worked with a severely disabled man who had never spoken due to cerebral palsy and was suspected to have a very low IQ. She used a technique known as “facilitated communication” to allow the disabled man to communicate.

At first, it was considered miraculous and the family was overjoyed. Eventually, oddly enough, the professor and man fall in love and start a sexual relationship, eventually telling the family. At first, the family was incredibly skeptical, then requested that the professor stop seeing their son and eventually informed the police. The professor was then prosecuted for sexual assault because there was no evidence that the man had consented, other than the supposed communication that only the professor could have with the man. In fact, it turns out that “facilitated communication” is largely discredited as an education technique. A review of 19 studies of facilitated communication in the 1990s found zero validations across 183 tests. The way that it works is similar to moving a Ouija board and thinking it’s supernatural.

The point being, in the professor’s subjective lived experience she genuinely thought she was in love with someone in a consensual way over all evidence that this was not the case. Still, in the end she was convicted of sexual assault.

Society sometimes supersedes

the lived experience based on our collective understanding of when an experience is legitimate.

Similarly, if a friend approached you and said that he or she had depression, you would probably believe the friend and offer any support you could. If a friend told you he or she was transgender, you would say you accept their identity and understand that gender is a spectrum. But, if a friend told you, that monkeys were plotting to poison the world’s water supply, you would declare that person crazy, even though that is their subjective lived experience.

Therefore, there has to be some line where we stop listening to individuals lived experiences and instead establish some form of societal norm for what is considered to be within the spectrum of truth. This is what the left needs to do to ensure that identity politics don’t fully consume the political left.

Especially when it’s not ridiculous to say that sometimes individuals do commit to their own pathology or victimhood because it provides a sense of identity and community — something that is super valuable when one is young, idealistic and lonely.

This is important because in the era where identity has gotten so complex and lines of victimhood have become so unclear, we need to decide which individuals morally deserve to be protected and supported. So how do we judge the lived experience, when we are not living someone’s experience? How do we trust others feelings? What percentage of white supremacy or patriarchy or capitalism is responsible for why a white man does not hold

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In the end, it comes down to confronting our own privileges due to understanding our social location, and being able to empathize and give individuals a chance to explain their position. There are a lot of times when the preponderance of evidence becomes so clear that we can assume racial motivation. This can be seen with the reason George Zimmerman decided to follow around Trayvon Martin, but there are also times when it is more complicated. Then what one needs to do is look for institutional evidence of discrimination. The rate that blacks are in prison is insane, and proves

a racial bias in the creation of the prison industrial complex.

But when Yale is protesting a dissenting email of cultural appropriation, I’m not sure that’s a horrible type of oppression that is being claimed. But maybe it is. Hopefully through engaged dialog and understanding of historically marginalized groups, we can make the world a better place. To those on the left, beware that the moral platitudes we’ve been conditioned to believe might not always be true. Trust the lived experience, but be skeptical.

And to those on the right, I challenge you to challenge bias, address the structures of racism, sexism, and classism; be skeptical, but trust the lived experience.

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| The Cal Poly football team finished the sesason with a 4-7 record, including a 45-21 loss to North Dakota on Saturday night. Eighteen seniors were featured during the game’s Senior Night cermony.

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North Dakota quarterback Keaton Studsrud added two touchdown passes of his own before the half, including a 64-yard strike to wide receiver Clive Georges.

The Fighting Hawks received the second-half kickoff and led a long, sustained drive down the field. The drive culminated with a 5-yard touchdown scamper by Santiago, his third of the game.

The Mustangs finally got on the board midway through the third quarter. Senior quarterback Chris Brown finished a 10-play,

50-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown run.

Cutting deeper into the Fighting Hawks’ lead, Brown led the Mustangs on their second scoring drive of the game at the end of the third quarter. The quarterback found senior wide receiver Roland Jackson for a 61-yard touchdown pass to cut the lead to 35-14.

After the pair of touchdowns, the Mustangs’ momentum halted. The Fighting Hawks added a field goal and another touchdown to extend their lead to 4514 with less than five minutes left in the game.

Brown tacked on a 1-yard touchdown rush in the final two minutes of the game, and the Fighting Hawks ran out the clock on the ensuing possession.

The Mustangs led the FCS in rushing prior to the game, averaging 410.7 rushing yards per game. This game, however, told a different story. The Fighting Hawks held the Mustangs to only 153 rushing yards, the Mustangs’ lowest total since the first game of the 2011 season.

In his last game for the Mustangs, Brown led the team with 63 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 21 attempts. Brown

also tacked on 211 passing yards and a passing touchdown, his highest total of the season, topping last week’s 153-yard performance at UC Davis.

In a season defined by missed opportunities, including an overtime loss at then-No. 7 Eastern Washington and a threepoint loss to then-No. 13 Portland State on Homecoming, this game didn’t help ease the pain.

With playoff hopes long out the window, the Mustangs look ahead to next season. The rigorous 2016 schedule features an early-season matchup at FBS opponent Nevada on Sept. 10.

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