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Restorative Helping inmates

Partners one class at a time SERVICE

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| A sociology course, Incarceration and Society: Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System, meets for 90 minutes a week and students are expected to fulfill 12 hours of service at the county jail.

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Bianka Mariles finished wiping down the last yoga mat as women began filing into the room for Friday’s yoga class. Cynthia McCabe, who instructs the class weekly, stood at the top of her mat and greeted the room full of women dressed in orange jumpsuits.

For the next hour, the women moved from one pose to another, ending the class in meditation.

Mariles sat silently among them, leading meditation until it was

time for the mats to be returned to cupboards and the women to return to their dormitories in San Luis Obispo County Jail.

These women may be inmates, but to Mariles, they are just “people in custody,” and each one of these women is just like her.

The class While many people will never set foot in a jail during their lifetime, Mariles voluntarily does so on a weekly basis for her internship with Restorative Partners.

Restorative Partners is a

non-profit organization aiming to “heal all those impacted by crime” by offering programs that focus on body, mind and spiritual transformation. Their goals include addressing responsibility and accountability, reducing violence and lowering the recidivism rate — the pattern of convicted criminals released from jail then committing further crimes and being reincarcerated — within San Luis Obispo County.

Sociology senior Mariles got involved with Restorative Part-

ners through the sociology course Incarceration and Society: Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System (SOC 444/HON 270).

The course was created two years ago by Cal Poly sociology professor Ryan Alaniz, who chose 12 Cal Poly students to join 12 inmates for class at the San Luis Obispo County Jail. Students meet for class 90 minutes per week and fulfill 12 hours of service learning through Restorative Partners at the county jail.

Alaniz developed the course when he noticed that sociology

students concentrating in criminal justice were graduating without ever meeting an inmate or visiting a jail, he said.

Now, the course provides students with firsthand experience essential for careers in criminal and restorative justice.

“By bringing them to the jail, shaking hands with inmates and having dialogue about life, that’s about as Learn by Doing as you can get,” Alaniz said.

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How the Craft Center handles its waste Mikaela Duhs @ mikaeladuhs

Clay spins on a wheel while hands move softly around it, molding, folding and crafting it into a piece of art. A sunset red and orange fire melts glass into workable liquid that’s squished and stretched. Fine white powder flies out from underneath an electric saw and falls to the ground in the shadow of what will soon be a custombuilt surfboard.

All of this creativity coalesces in the Cal Poly Craft Cen-

DON’T WINE ABOUT IT

ter where students can express their artistic sides through pottery, flameworking and surfboard shaping. In spite of the number of projects worked on daily, the Craft Center works to be as ethical as possible when it comes to waste disposal. Specific crafts are considered sustainable or harmful to the environment based on different methods of waste disposal and consideration of environmental factors.

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| Tolosa Vineyards plans to maintain their sustainable practices despite the drought being declared over.

Alarm to action: Viticulture’s turn to sustainability Will Peischel Special to Mustang News

The wine industry represented 6.5 percent – or $1.9 billion – of San Luis Obispo County’s gross domestic product in 2015, according to a University of California, Davis study. The same study pointed out that more than 13,000 out of 136,000 jobs in the county are directly related to the hospitality industry

sustained by wine tasters and visitors to the wine country.

The industry’s well-being affects everyone. Because of the industry’s importance and increased vulnerability due to the California drought, land managers look to sustainable practices for better navigation of the road ahead — drought or no drought.

The last six years were the most extreme drought in Cali-

fornia’s recorded history, which held the state’s agriculture in a tightening headlock as water resources became increasingly scarce. One plentiful winter of rainfall and the times of desperation seem to have come to an end. April 7, Governor Jerry Brown released a simple statement on the complex, pervasive and seemingly ever-present issue that is the drought.

“The drought emergency is

over,” Brown said.

Brown’s statement wasn’t totally nonchalant. He made it clear the next drought could be just around the corner. Even if he hadn’t included that qualifier, California agriculture has swallowed too many seasons of cracked land and dead cattle to return to business as usual.

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| Because Cal Poly requires incoming students to select a major during the application process, some students feel pressured to choose a major and want to change it on the first day of the quarter.

Career Services help freshmen choose the major that fits them Charles Rice @ CPMustangNews

Cal Poly requires undergraduates to select a major during the application process. While this allows some students to get a head start in their studies, others aren’t ready to decide what field they want to pursue.

In fact, according to Career Services, about 30 percent of Cal Poly students change

their major at some point.

The university is aware that there are pros and cons to their major policies. To accommodate students who want to change, Career Services created the Freshman Focus team three years ago.

The team is dedicated to helping freshmen with their majors, whether that means switching them or finding internships.

“We help first-year students with self-exploration,” Fresh-

man Focus team member Ashley Eberle said. “Figuring out who they are as people so they can make good choices about majors and careers that would suit them best.”

The Freshman Focus team assists students with researching majors, careers and ways to “test drive” their majors. They also help with career interests, such as informational interviewing, job shadowing, extracurricular

and leadership involvement, internships and part-time jobs, in addition to developing the necessary professional skills that will allow freshmen to compete for internships and jobs.

Most students reach out to Career Services pretty quickly; the team sees more students coming in during fall and winter quarters.

The Freshman Focus team also helps students move into another major if they decide the major they chose isn’t right for them.

That was the case for computer science freshman Saia Fonongaloa, who is interested in switching into liberal arts and engineering studies.

“After my first computer science class, I realized it wasn’t for me,” Fonongaloa said. “I actually went to a workshop down by the Career Center by the stadium.

The workshop had three advisors and they sort of broke down each and every major within the College of Engineering and they sort of told us what kind of person you have to be to love that major. And they didn’t only go over engineering majors though, they went through all of these other majors that were related to engineering in case we were interested in those.”

Unfortunately, even if students discover that they want to

change majors, the process can be long. They first have to attend Cal Poly for a quarter before they are allowed to begin the process.

They also have to have a good academic standing and be able to complete degree requirements in a timely manner.

Chester Liu, now a business administration sophomore who switched from nutrition, said that if you’re eligible to switch, you may have to attend a workshop.

“In the workshop, they’ll talk about what you’ll do in that major, what you’ll do if you can’t switch and what your back-up plans are,” Liu said.

Betsy DeVos overhauls federal student loan system ONE COMPANY, ALL DEBT

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| The Department of Education’s plan to select one company to collect student debt payments on its behalf will affect the vast majority of those with federal student loan debt.

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Education formally announced that it will select one company to collect student debt payments on its behalf.

Right now, there is $1.4 trillion in student loan debt spread across 44 million borrowers in the United States. Of that amount, the vast majority of student debt is comprised of federal student loans.

While Cal Poly’s graduates are among the lowest in total debt across America, students who finance their education still enter the workforce with an average debt of $22,000, according to a press release from Cal Poly.

During Barack Obama’s presidency, his administration worked to transfer student loans away from private banks and consolidate them within the government. However, there are still

nine different private services that manage these loans.

On top of this, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said they have received millions of complaints from borrowers about these federal loan services.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called the current system “chaotic” and blames the problems on an overly complex system.

“The federal student loan servicing solicitation we inherited was cumbersome and confusing—with shifting deadlines, changing requirements and de-facto regulations that at times contradicted themselves,” DeVos said in a press release.

To address this problem, DeVos said the Department of Education will offer an exclusive contract to one company.

The contract will give them the rights to servicing billions in federal loans, eliminating the other

companies’ involvement.

It is unclear when this change will take effect, but this adjustment could potentially save taxpayers up to $130 million during the next five years, according to the Department of Education.

While this change appears to benefit borrowers, Devos has also taken several steps to decrease protections for students.

In April, DeVos withdrew a series of policy memos issued by the Obama administration to strengthen consumer protections for student loan borrowers.

One of the memos withdrawn called for the creation of financial incentives for outreach to people at increased risk of defaulting on their loans. In addition, it established a standard level of service for all borrowers and a contract flexible enough to penalize service providers for poor service.

In addition, as it stands right now, if you work for the govern-

ment or a nonprofit for 10 years, you can have your student loans forgiven. Under this new budget, that will disappear entirely in favor of an income-based repayment system.

On campus, the changes received a mixed reaction.

“It’s really important that students get the tools that they need,” business administration senior Charmaine Tam said. “In school, we are never taught how to work with finances. We need to give students the knowledge to work with, in many cases, that much debt.”

On the other hand, bioresource and agricultural engineering freshman Matthew Caviglia said keeping track of loans should be exclusively the student’s responsibility.

“It shouldn’t be the [Department of Education’s] job to be on top of the student loans — it should be the people who take them out,” Caviglia said.

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The way I want to go forward in the breeding program is being a more responsible breeder.

JULIE YUHAS

Genetically diseased horse will not affect upcoming sale NOT FOR SALE

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| Stallion Backdoor Cat (not the horse above) is a carrier of hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA), which makes the skin of a horse so fragile that even putting a saddle on could rub off the skin.

Jessi Armstrong Special to Mustang News

Cal Poly faculty and staff are hustling to prepare horses for the Equine Center’s horse sale June 3. However, one stallion presents challenges that could have affected this year’s horses.

The carrier Backdoor Cat, a 14-year-old stallion who has been on campus since 2007, carries a gene for a hereditary disease that could have been passed on to 16 of the 25 foals for sale.

The disease, known as hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA), is predom-

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inantly found in quarter horses.

According to Animal Genetics — a genetics testing lab — it affects the connective tissue of the horse, making its skin so fragile that even putting a saddle on the horse could rub skin off.

According to animal science professor and veterinarian Dr. Matt Burd, if a stallion and mare are carriers of the gene, there is a 25 percent chance a foal they produce will have the disease, 50 percent chance the foal will just be a carrier and 25 percent chance the foal will not have the disease or be a carrier.

Moving forward The Equine Center will no longer

breed Backdoor Cat so carriers will no longer be produced at Cal Poly.

“The way I want to go forward in the breeding program is being a more responsible breeder,” Equine Center Manager Julie Yuhas said.

“So we’re going to have all of our horses tested for HERDA. We have only one mare in the herd that is HERDA positive, so we would pick a stallion accordingly.”

The disease will not affect this year’s horses for sale because none of the mares that bred with Backdoor Cat were carriers.

The sale This year’s sale will be attended by buyers from all over Califor-

nia as well as some out-of-state buyers. The Cal Poly Equine Center is known to have top-ofthe-line horses, so high attendance of buyers is still expected despite HERDA. The main sale will take place Saturday, but there will be a health demonstration of the horses provided by global animal health company Zoetis Friday.

The horses will be auctioned to the highest bidder.

“In prior years, we’ve had some horses go within the $2,000 to $4,000 range, but we’ve also had very generous people and very nice horses that have gone for a little bit higher than that,” Yuhas said.

Generous buyers have bid more money in the past, knowing all of the proceeds go directly back to the Equine Center to help fund education, horse care and maintenance.

“It will be very hard to see these horses go, but I’m very excited to see where they end up. I hope to see them in a career where they excel,” Equine Center Student Manager Annika Moe said.

All horses in the Equine Center have nonstop care from birth until sale. The veterinarians make sure the horses get excellent care and are fully tested for HERDA and other health conditions before leaving campus. When testing for HERDA, veterinarians

send in a hair or blood sample to the lab that then determines if the horse is a carrier, has the disease or is unaffected, according to Burd.

Yuhas explained there is a lot of variety in how the horses are used once they leave Cal Poly.

“We’ve had a family that has come out to look at horses; they just want a nice trailriding horse, something that’s gentle,” Yuhas said. “I’ve had ranchers come out who want a working ranch horse, so they need something they can work with every day. There are other people who want to compete in different disciplines, so there are people looking for that performance horse.”

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| Even though Governor Jerry Brown announced the drought is over, several local wineries are retaining sustainable practices adopted during the drought, such as dry farming and measuring water saturation.

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Tolosa Vineyards Tolosa Vineyards and its chief winemaker Jim Kress embrace the change. The vineyard covers 730 acres of land along Edna Road, across from the airport.

In 2015, Tolosa hired Kress as a winemaker. Among other things, his duties include implementing more sustainable practices while ensuring the continued quality of vintages.

“The idea is that we want to be sustainable — good stewards of the land — and, at the same time, maintain the health of our vines and the quality of the wine. It’s a balancing act,” Kress said.

Although the drought was declared over, Kress said Tolosa doesn’t plan to return to the practices and mentality widely held before the drought.

“We’re still not out of the concern,” Kress said. “I don’t see people abusing [the declaration] going forward.”

Kress hoped a cautious agriculture industry with sustainability in mind will be better prepared for future droughts.

“I think it’s important, all of the changes people have made,” he said. “That will help going forward in the event that there are more drought years and we kind of have to expect that that’ll happen. I don’t have a crystal ball for sure.”

According to Kress, that means

avoiding over-irrigation of crops through close monitoring. New technologies in the field make that process more efficient.

Among Tolosa’s weapons against an uncertain future is normalized difference water index (NDVI), which Kress says can measure water saturation in the ground and help managers more effectively decide when to water the vines.

“Water is an issue and from that standpoint we’ve taken a lot of steps over the years as far as what we would best term ‘sustainability,’’’ Kress said. “The winery is 100 percent solar. We recycle all of our processed waste water. We have ponds that we’re able to store that in and then subsequently use for irrigation.”

When irrigating, he said the recycled water can account for up to half of the water Tolosa uses.

While Kress walked and talked through long rows of grapevines, the sound of construction equipment occupied the background.

Behind him, a tractor ripped out lawn and brush. Kress paused.

“You’ll notice that we just tore out our lawn,” he said.

“The idea is to put in more drought-tolerant [flora].”

The story at Tolosa is similar to the experiences of vineyards across San Luis Obispo County. However, Kress is only one voice, and Tolosa is only one producer amongst hundreds of other vineyards.

Pacific Vineyard Company Pacific Vineyard Company (PVC) is a vineyard management company operating in South San Luis Obispo County. Erin Amaral is a vineyard manager for PVC where she’s worked for almost two decades.

Amaral doesn’t plan on treating the vineyard any differently in response to Brown’s announcement.

“Just because Jerry Brown deems the drought over doesn’t mean that I want to turn on the irrigation,” Amaral said.

Similarly to Tolosa, Amaral said new technology makes land management much more efficient than in the past. Amaral actually suspects the drought forced some of the new technologies to arrive more quickly, by necessity.

“It seems like there’s a correlation with the drought that it’s pushed these technologies to progress,” Amaral said.

Amaral continued to express apprehension about turning on irrigation. She said she doesn’t need to right now thanks to the plentiful rain, but that even in more arid situations, water costs money — a lot of money, she said.

Cutruzzola Vineyards In San Luis Obispo County, the issue of water cost and availability varies, but few places face bigger challenges than in and around Cambria. In 2014, the Los Angeles Times reported

that townspeople were buying container tanks to be filled with trucked-in water for use on their plants and gardens.

Lisa Miller, the proprietor at Cutruzzola Vineyards in Cambria, said the drought’s effects were most serious during 2015 and 2016. She’s proud of the vintage that year, but said the volume was miniscule.

“We harvested less than one ton to the acre for our pinot noir,” Miller said. “That’s pretty tough on a five-acre parcel. We made eight barrels of pinot noir in 2016.”

In 2013, Cutruzzola produced 28 barrels of the same varietal.

That year, Cutruzzola considered expansion. Miller said the vineyard ultimately decided against it. In 2015, their well completely dried up. The vineyard dodged a bullet.

Today, Miller said the vineyard largely relies on dry farming to maintain its vines. When asked about whether Cutruzzola was reconsidering an expansion now that the drought was decidedly over, she spoke cautiously.

“I’m glad to see the water coming back online, but it needs to

be more than a year,” Miller said.

“We got a decent, appreciable amount of rain this year, but we need to get more sustainable I think, before we feel good about planting.”

The water emergency was declared over, but scars and dispositions from the past few years aren’t going anywhere. Kress, Amaral and Miller might be more comfortable than they were a year ago, but they’re not going to turn on the water unless they have to — and now they have the technology and minds to pick their battles more carefully.

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SHREDDED | Polyurethane powder that falls to the ground during surfboard shaping is not able to be repurposed and is not sustainable. So when it is swept up daily, it’s thrown directly into the landfill.

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Flameworking The stool sits directly behind the torch, which has two levers. One reads “oxygen,” the other “propane.” Propane gas starts the fire while the oxygen lever controls the flame and the temperature of the fire. A stu-

dent pulls on gloves to protect his hands, picking up steel tongs and strapping on dark glasses to begin his craft.

The Craft Center uses a type of borosilicate glass called pyrex — similar to the glass of baking pans, according to flameworking instructor Jeremy Dunn.

The raw material is delivered to Cal Poly in long sticks that can

be hollow or solid and clear or colored. Students use solid pieces for souvenirs like pendants for necklaces and hollow pieces for designs within the pendant or different styles of shapes, like a wine glass. The glass comes in different colors, from turquoise blue to magenta pink.

Held under flames, the hard glass turns into a putty-like

liquid. Crafters use steel and bronze tools to carefully grab the hot glass and work with the fire. The flame worker must wear thick, dark didymium glasses to protect their eyes from the heat and bright light that can damage corneas. Especially when working with colored glass, looking into the fire and glass melting together can be extremely harsh on the eyes.

Flameworking glass is a relatively sustainable practice as each piece can be melted down and returned to its original state with just one session under the flame. There aren’t many wasted works of glass found at the Cal Poly Craft Center because employees take discarded pieces and store them in boxes so anyone can repurpose them.

“That’s the best part about flameworking,” materials engineering senior Dunn said. “You can always re-do or melt anything back down. Even if you screw up, you can usually fix it.”

Pottery Bowls, shot glasses and vases sit proudly on the shelves in the Craft Center while a table topped with day-old clumps of clay sits in the corner uncovered.

The Craft Center’s clay comes to Cal Poly in a powder that’s mixed with water to form the correct consistency. When pottery is being created, wet clay pieces are coated in a shiny glaze and placed carefully in a kiln where they are fired until completely baked to hardness.

The process of preparing clay and breaking it down can be

harmful to human health. Craft Center employees wear respirators when mixing together the in-house glazes because of hazardous chemicals. The powder clay has silica in it, dust that can cause lung diseases. Silica dust is released when cutting, grinding, drilling or otherwise disturbing materials that contain crystalline silica particles.

Pottery is called greenware when it is not fired or cooked.

Greenware pieces can be reworked again for new projects.

In the Craft Center, greenware is stored atop a special table and collected after one or two days to be replenished with water a nd reused by potters.

If the clay has been cooked inside a kiln, it is called bisqueware. Once it is fired, the clay is much harder to reuse.

However, leftover bisqueware can take three different routes once abandoned. Sometimes bisqueware is broken up and mixed into wet clay for sculptors. Together, the wet and dry pieces form a different type of clay often used by sculptors and artists to create a more structured and rough appearance in a physical object or figure sculpture. Bisqueware can also be practically used in the Craft Center for things like holding the lid of kilns open. When used this way, pieces get cooked over and over again and eventually break and are thrown away. If completed pieces are forgotten, which they often are, they are sold to members of the San Luis Obispo community.

“A lot of beginner pieces look similar,” Crafter Center instruc-

tor Jayne Benedict said. “Many students tend to look for their piece, but end up giving up when they can’t identify theirs or take others’ by accident.”

Surfboard shaping As closed-toed shoes grace the dusty floors of the surfboard shaping bay in the Craft Center, foam chunks fall from the sides of a foam log that soon reveals itself as a longboard. White powder sprays first from the loud machine that cuts the foam and again from the sandpaper that rubs the surface smooth.

Surfboards are made out of large “blanks” of polyurethane foam that are cut, shaven and smoothed down to precise measurements the shaper chooses for their board. Left behind are tiny pieces of white powder coating the shoes and jackets of surfboard shapers at work.

“Each week that classes are running, we dispose of approximately one to two 40-gallon black plastic garbage bags of surfboard foam,” surfboard shaping instructor Adrian Broz said. “Currently we do not work with anyone to recycle this waste, but we want to.”

The powder falls to the ground where it is swept up daily. Polyurethane foam is not very sustainable and the waste is thrown directly in the landfill.

“It is unfortunately quite difficult to feasibly reuse polyurethane foam on a large or commercial scale. Unless there would be an interested party in [San Luis Obispo] to pick up foam in both sanded dust and solid form,” Broz said.

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OLD TO NEW | Sometimes hardened clay, or bisqueware, can be broken down and mixed with wet clay for reuse.

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Student promotes self-love with ‘Fuck With Myself’ fashion line Sabrina Thompson @ sabrinaswriting

Business administration senior Kaija Clinton can’t wait until graduation to start her career.

Her summer plans include launching her own outerwear fashion line called “Fuck With Myself.” The line’s recycled jean jackets promote diversity and individuality with screen printed original phrases across the back.

Through on-campus resources like the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s (CIE) Hatchery, Clinton developed a unique line for anyone wanting to stand out.

Clinton’s bold name choice came after listening to a Banks song by the same name. After securing the domain name, which Clinton was ecstatic had not already been taken, she had a name for her brand.

“There are so many things competing for our attention,” Clinton said. “I needed a name that could quickly get the point across and that is memorable.”

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Breaking stereotypes The class strives to break down any barriers or stereotypes between students and inmates.

“There’s no longer this huge divide between Cal Poly students and inmates,” Alaniz said. “They have a much more empathetic and broader understanding of the folks on the other side of the bars.”

As a way to assimilate all 24 of his students, Alaniz refers to Cal Poly students as “outside students” and county jail inmate students as “inside students.”

“It’s been really a powerful class, both for the inside and the outside students,” Alaniz said. “Any opportunity where we can create connection between people of all different backgrounds, the better our students will be.”

Mariles was one of 12 students Alaniz chose for the first quarter the class was offered.

Mariles’ in-class experiences and service led her to apply for an internship with Restorative Partners during her senior year.

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their own thing.”

“The main goal behind the brand is to promote individuality, freedom of thought and freedom of expression,” she said.

Clinton wants her pieces to provoke thought for the people wearing them and the people viewing them. The messages on the backs of the jackets are meant to get people to think for themselves. The design Clinton wears has “A nation of sheep, ruled by wolves, owned by pigs” printed on the back.

The second element of the line is promoting the arts within communities.

“One of the ways we can solve people not thinking for themselves is through arts and through creativity,” Clinton said.

She hopes to collaborate with other artists in her designs and encourage others to do the same in their lives. Clinton said she hopes to create a community among the people who wear her clothes.

“Just because you fuck with yourself doesn’t mean you don’t fuck with anyone else,” Clinton said.

For the third element, she said she also wants to make “Fuck With Myself ” a sustainable, ecofriendly line. Clothing industries are major contributors to pollution, according to PBS and

Greenpeace research. Clinton wants to counteract this problem by making her products solely out of recycled jean jackets.

“As a brand coming into the fashion world, I don’t want to be a contributor in the demise of fast fashion,” she said.

Now, as an intern for Restorative Partners, Mariles helps facilitate yoga and meditation classes for women in custody at the county jail as well as a guitar and percussion therapy class for men in custody at the men’s Honor Farm.

While she might have been uncomfortable her first few weeks, Mariles admits it’s just part of the job.

“A lot of it is making myself vulnerable and getting outside of my comfort zone,” Mariles said.

“It might sound like a scary job, but the incarcerated population is just like us. They just made some mistakes.”

It takes a certain person Mariles went in her first time with some stereotypes about what inmates would be like. However, as soon as she spoke with the people in custody around her, she realized they were far more similar than she anticipated.

“Just hearing their frustrations was eye-opening,” Mariles said.

“They’ll talk about who they miss, their dogs, or what they like to do during the day. We just talk more

Handmade by her Ethical business practices don’t only add to her ecologically friendly mission, but to the unique nature of each article of clothing. No two articles in Clinton’s line are the same.

“Me and you could be wearing the same jacket and it has the same message on the back and it has ten buttons and two pockets but it looks different,” Clinton said. “Each piece itself is its own entity.”

Every jacket is handmade by Clinton and will be available for purchase on her website, www. fuckwithmyself.com, once the line has officially launched. For now, the website provides details for joining the company’s mailing list to get updates about the brand. Clinton said she hopes to launch the line this summer.

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| Made from recycled denim, no two “Fuck With Myself ” jackets are the same.

Born in the Hatchery With a team of friends and CIE, Clinton developed “Fuck With Myself ” through the Hatchery, an

on-campus program taking entrepreneurship ideas and helping build them into businesses.

“The Hatchery allows students who want to create a start-up to concentrate on that process before they graduate,” CIE Communications Manager Candice Conti said.

For many students, the Hatchery

is the first step toward starting a business. Through workshops, mentorships and other events, students are given the opportunity of a hands-on experience creating and launching their own company.

“The Hatchery is a great starting point; it is where you realize your farfetched idea might be something,” Daynes said.

Clinton’s designs have already been noticed; she said she is often stopped on the street when wearing her jacket. People want to know where she got it and she’s delighted to share that it’s from her own line.

Clinton aims to market to 18-to 35-year-olds, pricing her jackets at about $100.

about family life in a sense.”

Mariles warns that interning with Restorative Partners is not for people who are shy or are easily intimidated.

“You can’t be the person who hates speaking in front of the class,” Mariles said. “You have to be pretty extroverted and willing to put yourself out there.”

Likewise, future interns must come in with an open mind and be willing to push themselves personally.

“Life only begins where your comfort zone ends,” Mariles said.

“You have to take a new perspective and see things in a different way that you’re not maybe used to seeing them.”

That mentality is exactly what fuels Mariles’ plans for the future.

She plans on pursuing a career in restorative justice where she will continue working with the incarcerated population, she said.

Psychology senior Brittany Abel has interned with Restorative Partners for about a year, working in the San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Hall.

“During my time at Cal Poly, I

have learned so much about the effects of child abuse and neglect on emotional, cognitive and behavioral development,” Abel said.

“I’ve understood the effects of drug addiction and witnessed the consequences of unstable family environments. All of these issues seem to be heavily concentrated among inmate populations.”

For Abel, working face-to-face with the juvenile hall youth not only benefits them, but it helps her learn, as well.

“Working directly with the kids is a real way to understand the greater holistic issue of criminal behavior development,” Abel said.

“This internship has prepared me to enter the workforce with both an academic and personal understanding of criminal behavior and the criminal justice system.”

Abel leads both a Bible study and guitar program for the juvenile hall youth and says it is the most rewarding part of her internship.

“I have been able to develop friendships with the kids inside, listen to their unique stories and be a source of encouragement to them,” Abel said. “For many, pro-

grams like guitar lessons have been a healthy outlet for all the thoughts and emotions they accumulate in juvenile hall.”

Sociology senior Jenny Jang worked with Abel in the juvenile hall for eight months as an intern program coordinator. Jang oversaw a library program and a sports program and also helped other interns with their programs, which included tutoring, art and book club.

Despite her experience in sociology, Jang was still nervous when she started working with Restorative Partners.

“I honestly was intimidated at first, but inmates and juvenile youths are not any different from non-incarcerated people,” Jang said. “People should really give working with inmates or juvenile youths a chance because they have changed my life for the better. They have inspired me and really taught me that people are not what they seem.”

Jang has one distinct memory from working with juvenile hall youths that sticks with her to this day.

One day while Jang was work-

ing in a tutoring program with juvenile hall youths, there was a shy girl who kept asking Jang what time it was. Jang thought this was odd since the girl never usually spoke up during programs, but especially because there was a round analog clock on the wall in front of her. A digital clock usually found in the room was gone for repairs that week, so Jang continued to tell the girl what time it was every time she asked. At one point, Jang finally asked the girl why she kept asking for the time.

The girl, who was around 15 years old at the time, quietly admitted to Jang that she didn’t know how to read an analog clock. Hiding her shock, Jang asked the girl if she wanted to learn. She agreed and for the next hour, Jang sat with her and taught her to tell time.

“By the time the program was done, she knew how to read a clock and looked so proud of herself,” Jang said. “She was still pretty shy, so as I was leaving the programming room, she whispered to me, ‘Thank you,’ and that just made me really happy.”

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| Senior Bianka Mariles (above, far left) helps facilitate a guitar and percussion therapy class for the men in custody at the men’s Honor Farm. She also helps with meditation and yoga classes for women at the county jail.

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Women’s rights issues have been prevalent for centuries, but recently the world has seen a surge in feminist movements.

Individuals and activist groups fight for these rights while empowering the female-identifying people of the world. I was interested to hear from women of Cal Poly about their views and feelings on this subject and what being a woman means to them.

I met with three different women in places they felt the most comfortable. I snapped photos of them at their most candid, natural moments and asked them all the same three questions. They answered whichever ones they felt compelled to, each in their own way.

Agricultural communications senior Holly Ann Wilson at the stables with her horse Getta.

Cal Poly on the meaning of ‘being a woman’ •

What does it mean to be a woman to you?

“When I was younger, I played with dinosaurs instead of Barbies, I rolled around in the dirt and ruined my favorite clothes instead of having tea parties, I ran up and down the house singing ACDC and Johnny Cash and never did I think twice about it. I have never fit into the conventional feminine mold and I feel like there are a lot of other women who feel the same way. We feel best and at our strongest in our element, in whatever environment makes us happiest. For me, that place is the saddle. I feel best in a pair of dirty jeans with a big-bottomed horse and my hair a mess. This type of woman is strong, assertive and independent and yet supportive and forgiving. I strive to be like her every day.”

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What do you hope to see in the future regarding women’s rights?

“Women have been constantly pushing the boundaries and breaking through the glass ceiling long before my time.

My goal, as a woman and a contributor to society, is to

continue persevering. Women are equipped with all of the tools necessary to be competitive, but it is up to us to use them.”

put an end to trafficking — both labor and sex slavery — and reformed laws and polices that are detrimental to the rights of women.”

Political science freshman Rosa Elena Lopez at the Arboretum on campus.

G ra p h i c c o m m u n i c a tion junior Sheila Ahi at the library.

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What does it mean to be a woman to you?

“To me, being a woman means challenging the notion that we can be categorized or put into a box. It involves recognizing the complexity that comes with the label ‘woman.’ People are dynamic and complicated and women are no exception. But I have to say the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word ‘woman’ is ‘trailblazer.’”

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What do you hope to see in the future regarding women’s rights?

“Despite the tremendous progress made, women worldwide still face violence, discrimination and institutional barriers.

In the future, I hope we will have improved access to education for women worldwide, have bridged the wage gap and

What does it mean to be a woman to you?

“It’s hard to pin down all women to one sort of trait or attribute and I think that’s the point. To me, being a woman means staying dynamic. Not in the energetic, aggressive sense, but more like constantly changing. Women have these unrealistic expectations placed on them of having to fit into the box of how our society views females, but what truly makes a woman is challenging that idea. Playing with the barriers of that box in our own unique ways, just by simply being ourselves.

“Nothing makes you more or less of a woman. You become a woman when you start accepting yourself for who you are — with your strengths and faults — while not trying to fit into a mold.”

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How have recent events regarding women’s rights (new presidency, women’s marches, etc.) affected your feelings towards this subject/ these issues?

“Women are woke! It makes me so happy to see this wave of women speak up about being able to have freedom in their own lives.

It raises a lot of perspective shifts, whether it be in a court of law or over the dinner table. I have friends who might not agree with personal choices of one another, but all across the board they fundamentally believe that each woman should have the right to choose — whether it be over their education, career, lifestyle or their own bodies.

“Women across the the country are standing up for themselves, trying to get politicians to understand that they need to be properly represented in the government, too. As long as intersectionality is addressed with this activism, I think it will have a huge, positive impact on the future. Laws are impactful and if there are false facts or personal beliefs in the way, a lot of women will suffer at the hands of incomprehension.”

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Mustangs rack up 87 honors this year Ayrton Ostly

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The Cal Poly baseball team’s home game 4-0 loss Saturday against UC Riverside marked the end of the 2016-17 sports season for Cal Poly. Along the way, many athletes earned conference honors and awards. Here’s a breakdown of each award, by season and by sport:

Swimming & Diving

Basketball Men’s • Second Team, All-Big West: senior guard Ridge Shipley Women’s • First Team, All-Big West: senior forward Hannah Gilbert • Second Team, All-Big West: junior guard Lynn Leaupepe

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BALLERS | Three women’s basketball players won honors this season.

• Honorable Mention, AllBig West: junior guard Dynn Leaupepe

Football • First Team, All-Big Sky: senior offensive tackle Matt Fisher, junior center Joey Kuperman, junior fullback Joe Protheroe, senior linebacker Chris Santini

• Second Team, All-Big Sky: senior quarterback Dano Graves, junior defensive tackle Augustino Elisaia

See all 87 awards online at mustangnews.net

• Third Team, All-Big Sky: sophomore guard Harry Whitson, senior running back Kori Garcia, senior outside linebacker Josh Letuligasenoa, junior safety B.J. Nard

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STAR STUDDED | Swimming and Diving won 24 awards combined for both the men’s and women’s teams.

• Women’s All-MPSF First Team, 400 IM: freshman Hailey Houck • Women’s All-MPSF First Team, 3-meter dive: junior Lauren Pierce, freshman Makenzie Kamei • Women’s All-MPSF Second Team, 500 free: Houck • Women’s All-MPSF Second Team, 1-meter diving: Pierce, Kamei • Women’s All-MPSF Second Team, 400 IM: freshman Ali Epple • Women’s All-MPSF Second Team, 1650 free: sophomore Meghan Merlihan • Women’s All-MPSF Second Team, Platform diving: Kamei • Men’s All-MPSF First Team, 400 IM: junior Zach Cootes • Men’s All-MPSF First Team, 1650 free: junior Nolan Newland • Men’s All-MPSF First Team, 200 fly: Cootes

• Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 500 free: freshman Paul Rogers, Newland • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 50 free: senior Caleb Davies • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 200 free: sophomore Dominic Dalpiaz, Rogers • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 100 breast: Davies, junior Brandon Nguyen • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 3-meter diving: freshman Nevada Schultz • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 1650 free: freshman Sam Hatley • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 200 back: Rogers • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, 100 free: Dalpaiz • Men’s All-MPSF Second Team, Platform diving: Schultz