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Caring Callers ADOPTING A GR ANDPARENT

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| Economics junior Jaymi Boynton has been visiting 89-year-old Lorraine Bailey every Friday afternoon for the past two years through the Caring Callers program.

Fostering friendships across generations

Anjana Melvin @ CPMustangNews

When economics junior Jaymi Boynton moved to California from the East Coast, she left most of her family behind. Though her parents and sister moved with her, she didn’t have a strong relationship with her grandparents or extended family. Boynton felt like she was missing a part of her life, until

she started visiting Lorraine Bailey every Friday.

San Luis Obispo resident Lorraine Bailey recently celebrated her 89th birthday. A survivor of polio and stage four colon cancer, she never expected to live so long. But because she has, she’s lived through the deaths of parents, close friends and even doctors that had taken care of her.

When Bailey was younger, she

took care of her father. He moved from Denver to California and she wanted him to have someone to talk to when she wasn’t around. She called Caring Callers and a young man visited her father every week.

Caring Callers is a program through Wilshire Community Services that makes weekly in-home visits to lonely or isolated seniors.

“At first my dad said, ‘Well I don’t need anything like that,’ but

later on he was looking forward to it and they’d talk for a long time,” Bailey said. “He’d have a big smile on his face and I thought it was wonderful. I never thought I’d be in a situation where I needed a Caring Caller.”

“But you’re stuck with me,” Boynton said, laughing.

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Know your rights: Internships Kristine Xu @ kristiners

Part 2 of an occasional series about students and their rights.

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MAT T L AL ANNE | MUSTA NG NE W S

| An intern’s job does not have to be fetching coffee and filing paperwork. There are certain laws that protect them from menial work.

In the summer of 2014, I spent three hours every day commuting from Berkeley to San Francisco.

I walked 20 minutes from my apartment to Ashby station just to wait another five to ten minutes for a next train. The BART ride itself wasn’t more than 45 minutes, but then I would walk another 20 to 30 minutes from the Embarcadero station to my unpaid internship in the Financial District.

It was an ordeal to say the least.

My daily tasks included writing blogs and copy for the company website, in addition to helping with office projects and planning events throughout the summer.

It was everything I expected from an unpaid internship — I learned skills and gained experience in a professional setting without any monetary compensation. Though the company I interned for reimbursed me for my commute, I was still expected to live within commuting distance and support myself in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the nation.

For college students who are not yet financially independent, the choice sometimes rests between working minimum wage in retail or working at an unpaid internship to gain experience in their fields of study. While some students have the luxury of taking unpaid internships during the summer, others cannot afford to do so.

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Bringing Eastern Asian culture to campus Charles Rice @ CPMustangNews

Asian American, the second largest minority group on campus.

Cal Poly Asian American students run a variety of cultural clubs that bring Eastern Asian culture to campus. Cal Poly’s Chinese Student Association (CSA) hosted their 60th annual Chinese New Year Banquet in Chumash Auditorium. The event was attended by people of many different ages, cultures and backgrounds. In 2016, about 12.56 percent of freshman students enrolled in Cal Poly identified as

Social elements Some of these clubs, such as CSA, identify as a social gathering club with cultural elements, while clubs like the Pilipino Cultural Exchange (PCE) consider themselves first and foremost a cultural club.

In addition to being the largest cultural club, CSA is the second largest club on campus after taking in about 180 new members this year alone.

“With [CSA] it’s like more social events,” Social Chair and Event Planner Christian De Los Santos said. “We have a few Chinese cultural aspects like the Lion Dance Team and we have the Chinese New Year Banquet where we had ribbon dancing and other traditional stuff like that, but for the most part actually, and especially in fall quarter which is our biggest quarter, we are more social than cultural.”

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CHRIS GATELE Y | MUSTA NG NE W S

| Cultural clubs such as CSA, PCE and KASA aim to share Eastern Asian culture on campus.

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| An unpaid internship must be educational in some way for it to be a legitimate internship. This educational experience is a form of compensation to the intern, replacing monetary compensation.

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Built into the curriculum Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing philosophy gives students hands-on experience inside and outside of the classroom. Internships are encouraged and sometimes even required by certain departments for students to graduate, providing students with opportunities to sharpen their skills outside of the classroom.

According to Executive Director of Career Services Eileen Buecher, internships are an important part of any major’s curriculum.

“Any internship — paid or unpaid — the benefit is that students are introduced to an

industry, they’re introduced to corporate or nonprofit culture, they’re introduced to Learn by Doing outside of the classroom so they get to further develop their skills,” Buecher said. “Just as importantly, it helps them either affirm this is what they want to do, or they may find out they don’t want to do that type of work.”

While students understand their field of study, this doesn’t help them make a definitive decision of what they want to do post-grad. Simply attending classes and being involved in extracurricular activities doesn’t mean students are necessarily ready to graduate without a taste of the real workplace, according to Buecher.

That’s where internships come into play.

“An internship is a way to explore who you are and what you want, but also gives you the opportunity to do Learn by Doing outside the classroom, skill development, learning about corporate culture,” Buecher said.

“It’ll teach you something, but you’re also being hired to do something … Just being part of it, showing up for it and learning, is going to teach you something. It’s like going to class.”

Some majors at Cal Poly that require an internship to graduate include wine and viticulture, child development, psychology and agricultural communications.

While internships provide a

learning opportunity that supplements the college classroom experience, the rules are clear: interns must be compensated monetarily or educationally.

According to the Fair Labor Standards Act, individuals “must be compensated under the law for the services they perform for an employer,” with compensation starting at minimum wage and overtime compensation for workweeks that extend past 40 hours. Unpaid interns at for-profit businesses are an exception, but only if they pass the Test for Unpaid Interns created by the United States Department of Labor.

The test for unpaid interns Unpaid internships are only per-

mitted if they are educational. If unpaid interns are asked to do menial tasks such as fetching coffee for the office, the internship does not pass and the intern would need to be paid wages for their work.

However, if the internship passes all six qualifications laid out by the tests, then employers do not have to pay their interns.

The six parts to the test are as follows: 1) The internship must be educational, allowing students to gain experience in their field of study.

2) Interns must benefit from the experience when they accept an internship.

3) The internship is meant to serve the intern, not the oth-

er way around, so an intern cannot replace the duties of a regular employee.

4) The intern’s manager does not benefit immediately from the intern’s work.

5) There is no guarantee or promise of a job at the end of the internship.

6) Both employer and intern agree that the intern is not entitled to wages during the internship.

Since certain majors require students to complete internships that they might not necessarily be passionate about, they may need to be more careful about the kinds of internships they accept.

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Physics professor discovers planet that should not exist Cecilia Seiter @ cseiter17

Cal Poly physics professor David Mitchell has discovered a number of planets throughout his career, but never one that shouldn’t exist — until now. Mitchell’s discovery raised questions about the process by which planets are formed, something he hopes will lead to

more answers about how other planets, stars and solar systems like our own come into existence.

Mitchell is an observational astronomer, studying planets that orbit red giants huge, bright stars with low surface temperatures that are in their last phases of life.

While it’s common to find planets that orbit other stars, called extrasolar planets or exoplanets

in some cases, Mitchell’s newly discovered planet formed under circumstances that do not typically allow for planet formation.

The planet orbits a red giant in a binary system, a system where two stars orbit each other. Those two stars, Mitchell said, are very close to each other. While planets form as byproducts of nebulas collapsing and creating stars, the gravitational pull of a neighboring star lingering too close is enough to disrupt the planet-making process altogether. That’s what makes the existence of this newly discovered planet so puzzling.

“How you could possibly end up with a planet there, when the process shouldn’t even be possible with a star nearby? We don’t really have an explanation for it,” Mitchell said.

Cal Poly is the only American university successfully researching planets that orbit red giants, but scientists in Germany, Australia and Japan are working with Mitchell on his research.

Sabine Reffert, an astronomer at the Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University in Germany and lead of the project, is one of Mitchell’s primary collaborators.

According to Reffert, one explanation for the planet’s existence is that the two stars could have formed after the planet was already in place. Another

theory, she said, is that the planet “The planets we’re finding are what you think is happening.” formed after the star. some of the first data points we Mitchell said there’s only one “There is the possibility of have. It’s not like we have this other known instance of a planet second generation planet for- big collection of information that was formed in close proxmation, which implies that the about planets going around these imity with a neighboring star. planet is much younger than the stars,” Mitchell said. “So in that The fact that there are now two, star, in contrast to regular planet sense, in our small way, every means it’s more likely there’s a formation theory where planets planet we discover is interesting, piece of planet and star formation form in the disks around young just because we have so few of we don’t understand. stars and thus have approxi- them we know about.”

“If there’s one example, you mately the same age as their host Not having an explanation for can imagine that it’s just some stars,” Reffert said in an email to this planet’s existence can actually crazy thing happened,” Mitchell Mustang News. help advance scientific discover- said. “But if there’s two of them, Mitchell has also studied extrathen maybe it’s not some freak solar planets with his students. thing, there’s some fundamental Though no students are involved piece we don’t understand about with this project, some, like the process.” aerospace engineering Now that the planet has sophomore Elle Glad, been discovered, it’s up spent last summer at to other astronomers to How you could possibly Cal Poly’s observatofind out how and why ry collecting data on it can exist. Mitchell end up with a planet roughly 400 extrasosaid that’s out of his there when the process lar planets. field of expertise, so it “[Mitchell] works will likely be taken on shouldn’t even be possible so hard in the specific by a scientist studying areas that he loves and star formation. While with a star nearby? he’s good at it,” Glad said. this discovery is still in “I think we’re naturally cuits early stages, Mitchell DAVID MITCHELL rious people and I think that hopes it will be beneficial more knowledge about our unifor learning more about the verse is just interesting. It helps us formation of stars and planets. learn more about our planet and “No one planet is ever that why we’re here.” important because we know There aren’t many groups re- ies, Mitchell said. of thousands of planets now,” searching these kinds of extra“If we can’t explain why it’s there Mitchell said. “But I think the solar planets, Mitchell said, so ... that’s where the good discover- fact that there’s more than one his discovery is one of the first ies, the good theories come from,” of these means there’s someof its kind.

Mitchell said. “You have to change thing there.”

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Cybersecurity’s a hot topic at Cal Poly Brendan Matsuyama @ CPMustangNews

When the new Central Coast Cyber Forensic Lab (CCCFL) was unveiled at Camp San Luis Obispo March 1, new opportunities in cybersecurity were revealed to Cal Poly students.

The CCCFL is a part of the California Cyber Training Complex (CCTC) that will include the CCCFL, academic and field training facilities, cyber range and a cyber red team — a group of whitehat hitchhackers who attack their employers’ cyber infrastructure as if they were an actual intruder.

Key stakeholders in the project include Cal Poly, the California Military Department, local and state law enforcement agencies, district attorneys and the California Office of Emergency Services.

The complex was funded by the California Attorney General’s office via a Privacy and Piracy Fund grant awarded to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s office March 1, 2016. The funds, amounting to $68,358.71, in addition to $60,000 in matched funding provided by Cal Poly, were passed through the university so it could coordinate the purchase of materials.

As a Cal Poly driven endeavor and only less than a 10 minute drive separating the new lab and the university, the CCCFL will offer unparalleled access of cybersecurity tools to the university.

All local law enforcement agencies will have access to the lab, including the University Police Department (UPD). According to Bill Britton, Cal Poly’s interim

chief information officer and visiting director of Cal Poly’s Cybersecurity Center, the CCCFL aligns with goals set by CyberCalifornia. This initiative to further the development of conne c t ions b et we en cybersecurity and economic development in California aims to localize cybercrime fighting infrastructure, according to its website.

“If you look at it today, there’s five high tech crime regions, which is really where the basis is for cyber,” Britton said. “It’s San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose. You go a half hour outside of those cities and the support to the local police departments drops off significantly. So the idea is: What about the rest of California? ... We have the opportunity now to really

take advantage of a lot of things we have — Cal Poly, National Guard and the other law enforcement agencies — to really combine to come up with a solution set.”

One of the primary reasons San Luis Obispo was chosen as the location for the lab is its proximity to the second largest fiber hub in the United States.

San Luis Obispo County has major fiber cable landing stations in the towns of Grover Beach, Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo, linking it directly to telecommunications networks in Asia, Oceania and Central America. Britton cites this proximity as critical to the lab’s mission.

“It’s huge,” Britton said. “Most of the places have to share bandwidth or they have to put bandwidth in — fiber optic bandwidth — to go get it and have access to it ... We don’t have to worry about access to it; we have complete access to it … What would normally be a very large expenditure for fiber optics and switches and computer pipes and all those other things to be put in, [are] already there pre-existing.

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So it’s a humongous savings.”

Cybersecurity opportunities for students Cal Poly was identified as a thought leader in cybersecurity

by CyberCalifornia. The opening of the CCCFL at Camp San Luis Obispo comes three years after the dedication of the Northrop Grumman Cyber Lab in Engineering IV (building 192) Jan. 23, 2014.

Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing philosophy bleeds into how it approaches cyber. Britton references how the CCCFL sets Cal Poly apart from other universities and their cyber programs.

“A lot of universities and other schools, they have a Learn by Doing, but it’s a little different,” Britton said. “It’s a lab that they have ... that’s on the university property.

This is off-site. This is real world things that they’re interacting with … The technology used to dissect information, how it’s done and the real people doing it is the connection there.”

Students have been involved in the lab since the beginning. Ryan

Jones, the IT operations manager of CCTC, said Cal Poly students were instrumental in constructing the lab.

“The biggest part about the student interaction is … being able to get access to new research, being able to participate in internships out there,” Jones said. “Without the students, we [wouldn’t have been] able to get the lab done in the time frame that we did.”

The lab currently employs three student-interns who aid in the instruction of first responders, military personnel and students.

In addition to teaching, Jones speaks of future opportunities to put interns at CCTC to work on issues in cybersecurity.

“What we’re able to do with the student-intern side of things is going, ‘Okay, they’ve identified a problem set — a real world problem set — that we know we have students with the intellect and the skills to be able to solve some of those problems,’” Jones said.

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| San Luis Obispo was chosen because of its proximity to the second largest fiber hub in the U.S.

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Cultural elements The Chinese Lion Dance is a traditional dance involving two dancers in each lion costume, one in the front and one in the back. The dances usually take the form of skits and stories. They also include acrobatics such as lifting and jumping, making the art very physically strenuous.

“That’s our biggest thing that’s culture based,” CSA President Jason Lu said. “They’re the only lion dance team in [the] Central Coast, so they’re a big part of the culture we try to bring to Cal Poly. They perform for weddings,

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for restaurants, for schools.”

CSA holds social events for members every Saturday, ranging from physical competitions to parodies of game shows such as the Amazing Race.

“Our main goal is also to be culture-based, but also to be inclusive in general as well,” Lu said. “So you could say how we bring culture to campus is that we find people who relate to you and through that we can spread the culture to your group and community.”

Other clubs Cal Poly has its share of culture-oriented clubs as well, such as the PCE. Like other

cultural clubs on campus, PCE has weekly social events, but puts in a considerable effort to make sure they have a cultural element to them.

Similar to the Lion Dance Team, PCE has their own traditional dance group called Kasayahan, which translates to ‘celebration.’ Usually, Kasayahan performs in the spring alongside a play. To raise more interest in the group and to make it more approachable, Kasayahan choreographed their traditional Filipino dances to more modern music last year.

“We have a lot of people of varying ethnicity and races, we’re very open to that. We’re

actually one of the most diverse out of the cultural clubs and we take almost anyone,” PCE staff member Samantha Bituen said.

Recently, PCE also celebrated a cultural week with daily events ranging from cultural workshops to cooking lessons. The week ended with a club potluck.

While members of the Korean American Student Association (KASA) may label the group as a social club, they still have modern and traditional cultural roots.

In every KASA meeting, the club board members lead off by stating a Korean fact of the week, which can range from the very traditional to the very random.

For example, a traditional tidbit

could be talking about the hanbok, a traditional garb worn at events such as weddings.

“We try to make events towards Korean culture,” KASA social chair Julienne Chow said.

Chow described an event called Running Man based off of a Korean variety show of the same name. The game consists of two teams competing in a variety of game-like events, and the winning team is rewarded.

Chow claimed the show isn’t traditional by any means and is more modern, but still cultural.

Besides their social events, KASA also has a Korean pop dance team. KASA members gather at the Cal Poly Recreation Center several times

weekly to dance. The KASA dance crew also performs at several events on campus such as Culture Fest, which happened in early Fall 2016.

Next year, KASA will add a new board position: cultural ambassador. The ambassador will be tasked with integrating more culture into club activities, such as cooking lessons where club members learn how to make and eat Korean dishes.

On the surface, Cal Poly may not seem like the epicenter of Asian culture in San Luis Obispo.

However, since Asians are the second largest minority group on campus, there are plenty of students working to share their culture with the community.

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Now every Friday at Bailey’s house, Boynton fills Bailey in on her school life while Bailey tells Boynton stories from her young adult life. They talk about everything from current politics to Bailey’s hatred of Kraft Macaroni &

“The reason why she’s still around is because she knows how to laugh at life,” Boynton said. “Life is ridiculous, I love that. Life is ridiculous!

Why are we taking it so seriously?

That sort of thing has given me a really different point of view. Like I can get more things out of life than just work and school and that sort of thing. Live a little.”

Bailey’s life itself serves as a piece of advice. Boynton sees Bailey’s optimistic attitude through everything she’s endured as a reminder of how lucky she is. In return, Boynton gives Bailey a window into the life she used to have.

When Boynton first started visiting Bailey, she recorded her volunteer hours after each session. Now when Boynton visits Bailey, whose optimism and wisdom shines through the flowers in her garden and inside her living room, she loses track of her volunteer hours.

In Bailey, Boynton found a deep connection, full of laughter, stories and advice. She found a grandparent.

CHRIS GATELEY | MUSTA NG NE W S

| Asians make up the second largest minority group on campus.

Before she met Boynton, Bailey didn’t have the best impression of Cal Poly students, especially after the 2014 St. Fratty’s Day roof collapse. However, she thought it would be interesting to have a Cal Poly student over to see if the generational gap is actually as big as she thought.

“When Jaymi came into my life, she was a breath of fresh air,” Bailey said. “She’s also such a good example and restored my faith [in college students].”

The pair was reserved at first and asked questions like “how was your day?”— not exactly straying from polite small talk.

But, after two years of visits, Boynton found in Bailey the relationship with a grandparent she felt was missing from her life.

The reason why she’s still around is because she knows how to laugh at life.

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Cheese. What were once reserved interactions turned into sassy banter. Above all, Boynton’s favorite visits are those that include life advice from Bailey.

“You don’t know this but I post these on Facebook,” Boynton said, turning to Bailey.

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Double standard: Chivalry

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Abbie Lauten-Scrivner is a journalism sophomore and Mustang News columnist. The views expressed in this column do not reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News.

Chivalry may be dying. And I am very, very OK with that.

Let me begin to explain by providing the actual definition of the word. Chivalry is “the combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, especially courage, honor, courtesy, justice and a readiness to help the weak,” according to the English Oxford Dictionary. Although it seems a little archaic to place so much worth in a code defined by medieval knights, the values in this definition are not what I have a

problem with.

The way this antiquated code evolved replaces “knight” with “gentleman,” and “the weak” with “women.” It is this evolution and the presumptions driving it where I find several critical faults.

Chivalry dons an extremely condescending double standard. Can a woman be chivalrous?

No, the mere utterance of it feels bizarre on the tongue. Do men act chivalrously toward other men? Probably not. Why would they, when the modern sense of chivalry is inherently designed as a standard for how to treat women?

What does this standard preach? Primarily dependency. When it is customary for a woman to be helped by a man

into a car, or for a man to pay for her meal, it normalizes the notion that she relies on him.

If chivalry worked both ways, I would have far fewer issues.

Chivalry advocates shallow respect for females.

But as a woman, just trying to help a man into his seat, or paying for his meal on the first date is met with either nervous

Neil Sandhu is a biomedical engineering senior and Mustang News opinion editor. The views expressed in this column do not reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News.

Please, forgive me as I offer another exposé of heteronormative relationships. I know, it is a fruit so low to the ground that the clumsiest of us could trip over it. Unfortunately, I can only offer the perspective of a heterosexual man in a traditional relationship, as it is all I have expirience with.

Most people know their number. Not talking about the one that starts with an area code; the number of people you’ve consummated your love with.

I’ll give you a minute to finish tallying up your score.

Got it? OK guys, how completely does that number describe your sexual health, wellbeing, likes, comfort, safety and paternal status and sexual identity? Great, glad we’re on the same page.

Our numbers don’t mean shit, but we still seem to think our partner’s number does. Our partner’s number can tell us if they are a slut, if they get around, if you can trust them, if they have commitment issues, if they are good in bed and if you have to worry about getting an STI; our partner’s number matters to us.

No? Well OK, moving away from this sarcastic caricature of the male mind, let’s talk seriously about why we care how many people our significant

other has slept with. When we think of our number in the context of our own life, we know that it doesn’t define us as a person, yet we still get hung up on other peoples’. So, why the double standard?

When I ask other men why they are curious about the number of people a girl has had sex with, they usually offer semi-rational reasons. Some wonder if she’s open to having a relationship, or usually goes for something less committal. Others are interested in knowing if they are a step up from their significant other’s ex, or if she’s settling. Some guys just like knowing because they want to know who has more experience.

The point is that most guys don’t care about a number for its own sake. They are actually

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laughter, or downright refusal.

It’s awkward, probably because men have been conditioned to feel emasculated by this unconventional behavior.

Furthermore, chivalry advocates shallow respect for women in the form of door-holding and bill-paying, instead of, say, acknowledging them as autonomous, eclectic human beings. It implies that because of the grand gesture of being helped into my chair, I owe my hero something in return.

If chivalry really is dying, as so many claim, my only concern is this: what is it being replaced with? Are superficial acts of respect being exchanged with real, progressive understanding of the female condition, or is chivalry’s absence leaving only apathy in its wake?

These are questions to which I really do not have an answer. But with so many people lamenting chivalry’s death, I think it’s worth consideration.

I would like to end by clarifying I’m not arguing for men to quit holding doors for me.

I just want men to do so because of their courtesy for all human beings, not because of the patronizing notion that doing so for us weak women-folk will win them some points.

Like the guy at the Recreation Center last week who startled me by suddenly running up from behind and cutting in front of me to hold the door open. “There you go!” he beamed, oblivious to the awkwardness of the situation.

Come on, man. It was arm day anyway.

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concerned about real, substantive issues that they have a right to be curious over.

No one is entirely unconcerned with their significant other’s previous relationships.

That isn’t to say that they worry you or keep you up at night, but there is always some level of curiosity when it comes to whom your significant other used to be with. The curiosity itself isn’t nefarious. But attempting to quantify it is, because we aren’t giving the subject the level of conversation he/she deserves.

These conversations are hard, awkward and difficult to navigate with someone you don’t know well. Asking someone what they’re looking for in a relationship or how important sex is to them can be terrifying. It is an unscientific process with no clear path and it would just be

easier if we could boil it down to a few digits but we can’t.

Most of the time, numbers help us make sense of the world. They ostensibly offer objectivity in situations that are otherwise indecipherable.

However, the number of people someone has had sex with is not one of these metrics. It really doesn’t matter.

If you find yourself wondering how many sexual partners someone has had, I implore you to think a little more critically about what you’re actually curious about. Forget about the number and just have a damn conversation.

You’re not a brute for caring about someone’s past, but when you pretend that you can sum someone up with a few digits, you sure are acting like one.

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Mustangs win back-to-back games Erik Engle @ CPMustangSports

After a strong start by junior pitcher Kyle Smith (1-2, 8.59 ERA) and an explosive fifth inning from the Mustangs’ offense, the Cal Poly baseball team (5-11) defeated the Gonzaga Bulldogs (6-9) by a score of 6-1 Monday night in Baggett Stadium with 1,368 in attendance.

The win follows the Mustangs’ 16-1 thrashing of Loyola Marymount Sunday and certainly gives the Mustangs something to build on after their dismal start to the season. The Mustangs played their first 11 games on the road, only winning two of them. Since returning to San Luis Obispo last week, they are 3-2 at home.

“You can see the difference in how they feel from all different aspects; offense, defense, pitching,” Cal Poly head coach Larry Lee said. “It’s a good thing to be here. In the past, we have usually played very well at home.”

With two outs in the bottom of the second inning, junior right fielder Colby Barrick drove in the first run of the game for either team. After a walk by third baseman Michael Sanderson, Barrick smoked a stand-up triple down the right field line to drive in Sanderson.

The Mustangs clung to their small lead until the top of the fifth inning when things started to get a little shaky for Smith who threw 81 pitches over four hitless innings while striking out six.

Despite solid numbers from Smith, he also walked and hit three batters before exiting in the top of the fifth inning with the Mustangs narrowly leading 1-0 and runners at first and second with no outs before being relieved by sophomore righthander Cam Schneider.

Schneider, the first of three re-

lievers the Mustangs used during the night, worked out of the jam by striking out back-to-back Bulldogs and inducing a soft liner to junior first baseman Elijah Skipps for the third out of the inning.

In the bottom half of the inning, the Mustangs’ offense continued to find success against the Bulldogs’ starter, freshman righthander Casey Legumina (0-3, 9.50 ERA), who gave up six runs on 10 hits over six innings in the losing effort to the Mustangs.

After senior designated hitter Kevin Morgan walked, sophomore center fielder Alex McKenna ripped a double to the left-center gap to score Morgan.

McKenna has been the most consistent piece of the Mustangs’ otherwise erratic offense this season as he leads the team with a .373 batting average.

“Honestly, whatever my stats are right now, I haven’t actually hit the ball that well this year, at least to what I think I’m capable of,” McKenna said. “But it just kind of started as a team thing.

The last couple of games we’ve been getting the bats going, hitting with runners in scoring position which we haven’t done the whole year.”

Freshman second baseman Bradlee Beesley followed up McKenna’s double with one of his own, scoring McKenna.

Sophomore catcher Nick Meyer and Skipps would each single to bring home three more for the Mustangs in the inning, giving them a comfortable 6-0 lead going into the top of the sixth inning.

The Mustangs’ bullpen limited the Bulldogs offense to just four hits and one run through the rest of the game to secure their second win in a row for the first time this season. With the victory in the one-game series, the Mustangs’ record rises to 5-11.

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| Sophomore center fielder Alex McKenna hit a double in the fifth inning to get the Mustangs’ offense going against Gonzaga.

“[They’ve seen] what they are capable of the last couple of days,” Lee said. “Hopefully they have a different mindset going up there. Usually offense is contagious.”

On the road, the Mustangs are giving up an average of 6 . 1 r u ns per game while only managing 2.7 runs per game on offense, but at LARRY LEE home they are only giving up 3.8 runs per game while driving in 7.2 runs on average.

The Mustangs continue their 12-game home stand Friday night against Wichita State (8-6) in the first game of a three-game ALEX MCCRACKEN | MUSTA NG NE W S FINESSED | Junior left-handed pitcher Kyle Smith struck out six hitters in four innings on the mound. weekend series.

We have usually played very well at home.