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ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS INSPECTIONS | The rental housing inspection program is part of a larger ordinance that deals with enforcement plans and fines for misbehavior. Three city council members voted in favor of the ordinance and two voted against it.

That’s the Key to ring in spring with a cappella concert

ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS MAKING A STATEMENT | Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong heard from members of the Academic Senate.

Academic Senate passes resolution on faculty and staff raises FILE PHOTO | MUSTANG NE WS SPRING FEVER

| That’s the Key will host two showings of its spring concert on May 8 and May 9.

Will Peischel @CPMustangArts

Cal Poly a cappella group That’s The Key (TTK) will welcome the turn in season with its spring concert. The show will kick off Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m. and again Saturday, May 9, at 6 p.m.

TTK has promoted the show via a perfume

advertisement satire campaign called “Spring

By TTK.” TTK President, alto and kinesiology junior Zoe Lemieux said the video’s content pulls at the seriousness of fashion campaigns while revealing the goofiness of the club.

see A CAPPELLA, pg 4.

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The Cal Poly Academic Senate passed a resolution on faculty, staff and management compensation in front of Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong on Tuesday, saying faculty and staff salary raises have not been significant. The Senate also proposed a a suspension of hiring management until tenure density increases to 75 percent and the student-faculty ratio is reduced to 18:1.

The resolution also said some administration salaries and raises are a significant percent larger

than those of others, as well as noting a decreased tenured/tenure-track faculty-to-student ratio and an increased administrator-to-student ratio.

“The request is that in each year the raises for the administrators should not be higher than average GSI (general salary increase) for staff and faculty,” Academic Senate member and history professor Manzar Foroohar said. “If we are going to reallocate state funds in this university, we should be applying them to the recruitment of faculty.”

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NEWS | 2 RENTAL continued from pg 1.

The San Luis Obispo City Council has approved a new rental housing inspection program by a 3-2 vote after a six-hour meeting on Tuesday night.

The program is part of a larger rental inspection ordinance, details of which will be discussed at the next council meeting. Some components of the ordinance that still need to be clarified include exemptions and punishments for rule violations.

The ordinance requires rental homes to be inspected by city officials every three years to ensure Health and Safety Standards are not being violated. The program could be put into place within the next year.

“This is about the minimum expectations — what you expect to get as a tenant, like heating, a door

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Most faculty members who expressed their opinions in the meeting were strongly in favor of the resolution. English professor Kevin Clark, who started

that locks, working smoke detectors.

Health and safety is the reason for these types of programs,” Community Development Director Derek Johnson said.

Approximately 30 speakers, most of which were against the program’s establishment, spoke in the public commentary section of the meeting.

Some said it violated constitutional rights, such as the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unjust search and seizure by government agencies.

“Frankly, I don’t know why we can’t look at property casualty reports, or self-reporting or anything like that,” San Luis Obispo resident Leslie Halls said. “We really don’t need to start yet another bureaucracy to do this. This is a terrible idea and I hope it will be dropped.”

Check mustangnews.net for updates on this story. teaching at Cal Poly in the late 1980s, said he had never before seen the amount of anger and resentment that currently exists on campus.

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ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS NOT DONE YET | Details of the inspection program, which could be put into place next year, will be finalized at the city council meeting next Tuesday.

ity, yet at the so-called listening session the provost attended at the CLA just last week, she admitted that yes, much of the money going to upper administrators hired since President Armstrong’s arrival could have gone to faculty salaries,” Clark said. “How can the president and the provost assert that faculty salaries are their first priority when they admit that these myriad hires are taking funds that could have gone to faculty in the first place?”

Despite enrollment increases over the past couple of years, the amount of tenured and tenure-track faculty has decreased. The Academic Senate is requesting a tenure density of 75 percent and, according to Academic Senate Chair Gary Laver, Armstrong expressed

that 75 percent may even be too low.

administrators and that the cost of those hires are weighed too greatly.

“I think there is this narrative that we are hearing that this is relatively new as a problem and that we need to give the administration time, and I disagree,” English professor Catherine Waitinas said. “(Money) is simply being allocated towards administration instead of towards faculty.”

After the resolution passed, Armstrong held a Q&A meeting with faculty members. Faculty showed their concern for the lack of faculty being hired and their pay.

“If you look at the faculty perspective, we not only need to increase the pay, we need to increase the number,” Armstrong said.

“The fact remains, we need to hire additional faculty and we need to

(Money) is simply being allocated towards administration instead of towards faculty.

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Another issue addressed was the ratio of administrative costs per student, one of the highest compared to other CSU campuses. Faculty suggested the problem is hiring too many

pay our faculty better. That’s very, very clear.”

Though Armstrong claimed his goals were the same as faculty members, faculty remained frustrated with the administration’s hiring approach.

“It seems that a lot of these hiring and salary decisions have been accumulating in isolation and have not been driven by some kind of strategic planning,” architecture professor and former Academic Senate Chair Bruno Giberti said. “As a faculty member who has been conspicuously taking a lot of new responsibilities, I see all of those salaries changing every time a responsibility changes, but my salary is stuck where it is, and it’s been there for years and it’s not going to change.”

Armstrong said the university needs “game-changing pots of money.” If received, that money could possibly be allocated toward faculty salary raises, though Armstrong also mentioned a need for replacing old buildings.

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NEWS | 3

New Power Fruit smoothies developed for athletes

JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NE WS POWER SMOOTHIES

| Power Fruit smoothies were designed specifically for athletes and tested by men’s basketball and baseball players, but are available for consumption by any students at Lucy’s Juice.

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Cal Poly registered dietician Megan Coats and nutrition professor Scott Reaves have teamed up to create a number of protein-packed health smoothies called Power Fruit.

The smoothies, which have been a work in progress for the last two years, have their grand release to the general public at the Mustang Mile on Thursday. They have been sold at Lucy’s Juice for the last two to three months.

Men’s basketball coach Joe Call-

ero, who could not be reached for comment, received a donation to fund the smoothies’ creation.

Callero’s players drank them three to four times per week after practices, and Cal Poly baseball players recently started doing the same.

Athletes who sampled Power Fruit also received diet analyses and nutrition counseling along the way. Basketball players still receive free smoothies throughout the week, despite not being in the regular season.

Reaves, a student-athlete at Cal Poly in the late 1980s, helped decide the chemistry compo-

sition of the different Power Fruit smoothies.

“They have a certain ratio of carbohydrates and protein, and then we wanted to make sure they’re relatively low in fiber and make sure they’re basically foods instead of a supplement,” Reaves said. “They have approximately 25 grams of protein, 75 grams of carbohydrate. So it’s not a low-calorie (smoothie), and it’s not a protein shake.”

Coats, Reaves and nutrition students experimented with many different kinds of ingredients to find the best nutritional and taste combinations. They spent a sig-

nificant amount of time sampling different protein powders’ tastes in the smoothies, Coats said.

“It’s been shown time and time again that a ... protein/carbohydrate blend is really optimal for performance, recovery, stimulating muscle growth, energy, just kind of everything,” Coats said.

One morning after the recipes were set, Coats, Reaves and a

handful of colleagues fasted to simulate an athlete’s body after a long workout. They checked their blood glucose every 15 minutes to find a quick spike, followed by a slow, steady decline.

Though Coats often works on developing new food and beverages for students, this was the first time she had designed something specifically for athlet-

ic competitors since coming to Cal Poly.

“We had a goal in mind to establish this line of smoothies for the athletes, and then for the general public,” she said. “A lot of universities have sports nutrition programs for their athletes, so it’s exciting that hopefully we can expand to other programs in the future.”

Thursday, May 7, 2015

ARTS | 4

SLO’s creative outlets for the non-artsy Madi Salvati @MadiSalvati

You don’t have to be the next Van Gogh to be creative, nor do you need to have excess free time on your hands.

If you’re a college student with deadlines, assignments and midterms to worry about, this may be hard to believe — especially if art isn’t your thing.

If you’re afraid you aren’t capable of painting, pottery, jewelry, getting lost in museums or taking a surfboard-shaping class just for kicks, don’t worry. There’s a creative outlet for everyone, journalism and art and design junior Emily Detweiler said.

“Everyone can express themselves,” Detweiler said. “I think anyone can be creative. You just have to set your mind to it.”

San Luis Obispo offers several options for busy college students aiming to unleash their inner Picasso.

1. The Craft Center at Cal Poly If you haven’t already noticed the hum of shaping tools and spin of pottery wheels in

the Julian A. McPhee University Union, take a moment to wander through the Craft Center, located on the UU’s first floor across from Yogurt Creations.

The Craft Center offers lessons on crafting bowls, jewelry, stained glass and, of course, your own surfboard.

“It’s really fun being able to create your own toys,” Wyatt Levy, surfboard-shaping instructor and materials engineering senior, said. “You can experiment and really dial in different feelings you’re looking for.”

To register for a class at the Craft Center, go to www.asi. calpoly.edu/craft_center.

2. SLO MakerSpace Similar to the Craft Center, SLO MakerSpace offers a variety of classes to help its students express themselves, from sewing to woodshop to vinyl and stencil cutting. The community aspect that revolves around MakerSpace makes its artists feel welcome, no matter what medium they want to work with.

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3. The Art Bar The Art Bar at the Granada Hotel and Bistro in downtown San Luis Obispo offers a sophisticated setting, complete with wine, music and professional artists.

For everyone from aspiring artists to those who just want to relax and paint, the Art Bar offers step-by-step painting classes taught by local artists.

To sign up, go to www.artbarslo.com/calendar for a list of events. Each workshop is $40.

4. Art After Dark Art After Dark is an event put on

by ArtsObispo, the San Luis Obispo County Arts Council, on the first Friday of every month from 6-9 p.m.

More than 20 different San Luis Obispo galleries and unconventional art exhibits open their doors to the public to showcase local up-and-coming artists.

Observers are free to wander the galleries and get inspiration for their own brand of creativity, free of charge.

For more information on showcased artists and getting involved with Art After Dark,

JASON HUNG | MUSTANG NE WS HAMMERTIME | People without a natural creative knack can learn to express themselves at these artistic outlets.

go to sloartscouncil.org/art-after-dark.

5. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art Not sure what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon when your inner artist is just begging you to think like Matisse? Relieve your left brain at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, located on 1010 Broad St. Wander through exhibits by contemporary California artists and get lost in the brush strokes and oil paints of each exhibit. The museum is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day except Tuesday.

6. Anam-Cre Pottery Studio

Mother’s Day is almost here, and what better way to show her some love than with a handmade bowl? Anam-Cre Pottery Studio offers artists of all skill levels the chance to learn and refine their pottery skills.

Classes occur daily and cost $25 per person. Head over to anamcre. com/sessions.html to see a schedule of classes and opportunities to get your hands dirty on the spinning wheels with some clay.

7. Naturally Jennifer’s Beads and Gallery If painting and sculpting don’t sound appealing, Naturally Jennifer’s offers jewelry making. The full-service bead shop and gal-

lery also offers classes to anyone looking to add a little sparkle to their life.

Classes for stringing, leather-beaded bracelet-making, daisy chains and even tie dye are offered at Naturally Jennifer’s, located on 2322 Broad St. in San Luis Obispo.

To sign up for a class, go to http:// naturallyjennifer.com/classes.php.

Craft Center jewelry and casting instructor and biological sciences graduate student Talia Head emphasized the importance of taking a class to be creative.

“I think it’s really nice to take a class once a week that’s creative and not high stress,” Head said.

“That type of class lets you do what you want.”

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“All of the cologne and fashion ads and commercials are really dramatic,” Lemieux said. “We basically are poking fun at that. It’s ‘Spring By TTK,’ all of our pictures and stuff are black and white and dramatic.

There’s an awkward twist to it. One person is carrying a roll of toilet paper in a poster.”

TTK, which became an official club on campus this past year, will provide the audience with a combination of mash-ups, original renditions and hopefully some fine smells. The show will take place in building 45, room 218.

FILE PHOTO | MUSTANG NE WS BREAK IT DOWN

| That’s the Key promoted its spring concert with a video mocking perfume ads.

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‘Pledge allegiance’: The Anthem returns to Cal Poly Annie Vainshtein @AnnieVain

HANNAH WERTZBERGER | COURTESY PHOTO SPOKEN WORD | Acclaimed poet Tatyana Brown will host the annual Anthem slam on May 11 at Cal Poly.

It’s like “Hell’s Kitchen,” but with words.

The annual Anthem Poetry Slam is back and will take place May 11 at Chumash Auditorium. Acclaimed poet, educator and activist Tatyana Brown will host the event for the second year in a row.

Joining Brown are acclaimed poets Simply Kat, Jason Bayani, Joshua Merchant, Samantha Peterson and Stephen Meads, who will compete in The Anthem’s slam rounds.

The event is separate from Another Type of Groove, a monthly spoken word event hosted by the MultiCultural Center.

According to English junior and The Anthem board member Marley McCaughey, the two are similar in that they both invite slam poetry.

However, the Anthem functions as a competition and is exclusively spoken word poetry.

Topics tend to veer toward sexual, racial and societal issues, she said.

The competition is divvied up in several rounds. When the slam starts, members from the audience are picked anonymously to judge.

History junior Sam Holzer says students can expect a “really diverse showcase of all that spoken word can be.” He also noted the implicit stereotypes and misconceptions students may have about the genre of poetry.

“They think it’s just hipsters wearing all black and drinking coffee, but spoken word is so much more than that,” he said. “It can be fun and energetic but it can also be really emotional and moving.”

Holzer said each featured poet exhibits a different element of the genre.

Last month, The Anthem hosted a student slam, the winner of which will get to perform one poem at The Anthem competition.

“It’s really cool for students to have an outlet to share their spoken word and get a feel for that format,” English senior and board member Hannah Wertzberger said.

The show is free for everyone.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m and the event will start at 7 p.m.

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NBA Finals: Warriors and Hawks among teams most likely headed to NBA Championship Amelia Parreira @CPMustangSports

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scored an average of 23.8 points per game during the 2015 regular season. He has a whopping 31.4 average scored points per game in the playoffs so far.

You don’t see numbers like that too often.

Another major Warrior to look out for is guard Klay Thompson.

Over the course of the playoffs, Thompson has averaged 23.6 points per game. He also scored the team’s second highest amount of points in the regular season with an average of 21.7 points per game.

Curry and Thompson are only two examples of how strong the Warriors are, both offensively and defensively. If they keep up their power and energy, they are sure to win the championship.

I am also impressed with the Atlanta Hawks, who finished the season with a 60-22 record, not too far behind the Warriors.

After soaring their way through the first playoff round against the Brooklyn Nets, the top-seeded Hawks face the Washington Wizards in Round 2. Though the Hawks took a 10498 loss to the Wizards on May 3, they came back to tie up the series with a 106-90 victory.

There isn’t anything quite like the screeching sound of rubber soles against a laminate hardwood floor or the swish of a ball gliding through a netted basket. Not to mention the uproar of a crowd as the home team grabs a rebound.

Luckily, it’s springtime, which means those sounds are continuously surrounding us as we await the ultimate round of the NBA Finals.

Of course, all the teams still in the playoffs have potential.

But which of the eight will be good enough to win the Larry O’Brien trophy?

It’s a tough call, but I believe the Golden State Warriors can definitely take it all the way.

With a 67-15 record, the Warriors have numbers that exceed any other team in the league this than individual skill, forward Demarre Carroll is one to season. Golden State already swept the New Orleans Pelicans watch out for. Carroll’s smooth, in the first round of postseason swift shots and efficient offenplay and now look to take sive action so far earned him down the Memphis Grizan average of 18.9 scored zlies. The Warriors took points per game in the a Game 1 win over the playoffs. Forward Al Grizzlies with a score of Horford is another ma...I believe the Golden State 101-86 but were robbed jor aspect of the Hawks of a consecutive win on offense, scoring a total Warriors can definitely May 5, their first home of 1,156 points over the take it all the way. loss since January.

2014-15 season.

This week, Warriors According to an article guard Stephen Curry was

by Odds Shark that apnamed the 2015 NBA Most peared in Sports Illustrated AMELIA PARREIRA Valuable Player, which he has on May 4, the Cleveland Cavmost certainly earned during the aliers and Chicago Bulls have course of this season. Curry, one the best chances of winning this of the biggest keys to success in Though the Hawks’ strength year’s championship. These prethe Golden State organization, comes more from teamwork dictions may or may not be the

most reliable.

Though the Cavaliers have powerful players like forward LeBron James, who so far has averaged 25.4 points per game in the playoffs, and guard Kyrie Irving, (24.6 points), the Cavaliers will be without other keys throughout the second round of the postseason. Along with guard J.R. Smith’s absence from the court for the next two games, the Cavaliers will be forced to play without forward Kevin Love for the rest of the season because of a shoulder injury.

With two missing pieces, the Cavaliers will have to try even harder to pull off another playoff series success, like they did when they swept the Boston Celtics

in the first round.

The Chicago Bulls are yet another team to have multiple tough team leaders. Guard Jimmy Butler has already scored 169 points in postseason play, holding an average of 24.1 scored points per game. Alongside Butler is guard Derrick Rose, who has scored a total of 139 points so far in the playoffs with an average of 19.9 total points per game.

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SPORTS | 8

Baseball faces tall order in pivotal series at UC Irvine Harry Chang @harrychangmn

The Cal Poly baseball team knows what’s coming this weekend — a three-game road series against No. 23 UC Irvine, which leads the Big West Conference standings alongside Cal State Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara.

They know it’s big, with Saturday’s game set to be aired on Fox Sports Prime Ticket and Sunday’s to be carried on ESPN3.

And they know what they have to do.

The Mustangs, now 22-23 overall after Tuesday night’s win over San Jose State, sit two games behind the log jam atop the Big West at 9-6. With just two more series to go after this weekend, anything but a sweep will likely put them out of contention.

What they don’t know is how they’ll get it done.

In a season that has seemed to field two completely different teams after a 1-6 start by Cal Poly that included back-to-back

sweeps, the Mustangs transformed into a team that has gone 21-17. Since the rocky start, the theme of the year’s final weeks has been finding ways to make up for lost time.

Winners of 12 of its last 17, Cal Poly features several players who have stepped up in the effort to win the Big West — likely the Mustangs’, who are ranked 125 in RPI, only shot at making the postseason.

Junior second baseman Mark Mathias has continued his hitting ways. Mathias went 8-for-17 in four games last week, including a 6-for-13 performance in the Cal State Northridge series, and is currently riding a 14game hitting streak into Friday’s series opener.

The 2014 Big West Conference Field Player of the Year has gone 34-for-74 (.459) over his last 19 games and leads the team with 20 multihit games and a .372 average on the season.

Just behind the leadoff-hitting Mathias is junior shortstop Peter Van Gansen, who boasts

the team’s second-highest average at .322 going into Tuesday night’s game.

Batting third this weekend will likely be junior designated hitter Brian Mundell, who currently sports a .274 average with nine doubles, five home runs and 26 RBI. Where the real uncertainty lies in Cal Poly’s offense is the back end of the lineup, where head coach Larry Lee has stressed all year that he asks for “at least half of the order to step up or find some other way to contribute.”

Senior right fielder Zack Zehner has been the leader of the last six batters, having raked in 39 RBI heading into this weekend’s must-win series.

“We’re communicating well (as hitters),” Zehner said after Sunday’s win over the Matadors.

“We’re getting information from each other about their pitcher and practicing really hard.”

And while offense has been probably the least of their concerns this year (the Mustangs have scored at least four runs

in 15 of their last 17), the margin for error will be small this weekend against a strong UC Irvine weekend pitching staff.

“A sweep’s really hard in the Big West,” Zehner said. “Everyone has pitching top to bottom and trying to stay mentally disciplined throughout those three games, and we need to stay level-headed.”

The first two slots in Cal Poly’s pitching rotation have been claimed by junior Casey Bloomquist (5-2, 2.96 ERA) and freshman Kyle Smith, who has earned his spot with a 5-5 record and 3.17 ERA. The Mustangs’ struggles come at the third slot in the rotation.

Cal Poly is 1-10 in the third games of series, giving up 84 runs in those 11 contests, showing a clear weakness in its rotation.

If it comes down to it and the Mustangs are up two games heading into Sunday, one pitcher who may get the call is senior Taylor Chris, who has posted back-to-back strong long-relief performances out of the bullpen

and can possibly translate that into a much-needed solid start in game three.

Regardless, each pitcher faces a tall order in a UC Irvine team that has won five straight and is 16-5 at home with an overall .281 team average on the year and .365 on-base percentage.

UC Irvine freshman outfielder Keston Hiura was named the Big West Player of the Week for the second time this year after driving in the Anteaters’ winning run four times last week.

Hiura, the Anteaters’ hottest hitter going into the weekend, also posted three multi-RBI games and doubled three times to take over the team lead with 16.

Hiura is backed by senior catcher Jerry McClanahan, who sports an astonishing on-base percentage of .455, helped by his eight walks in four games last week.

The catcher is also riding a hitting spree after going .556 last week to complement a defensive repertoire in which he has erased 20 of 43 stolen base attempts on

the year.

And it doesn’t end there.

Mustangs pitching will also be tasked with cooling off yet another Anteater coming off one of his best offensive weeks. Freshman Parker Coss led UC Irvine last week with seven hits.

All obstacles aside, the top of the rotation in Bloomquist and Smith will have the opportunity to set the tone early, as they have all season regardless of the opponent.

Bloomquist, a pitcher known all around the Big West, knows he can fool batters, having struck out 59 in 73 innings while allowing 24 earned runs, and Smith knows he can do the same on day two, registering 52 strikeouts in 71 innings to complete the Mustangs’ crucial one-two punch. All that’s left to do this weekend in Irvine is to simply get it done.

Start times for this weekend are 6.30 p.m. on Friday, 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.

Cal Poly is 1-10 in the third games of series, giving up 84 runs in those 11 contests.

JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NE WS HOME STRETCH | With a 9-6 record in Big West Conference play, junior starter Casey Bloomquist (5-2) will be a key factor in whether the Cal Poly baseball team will win its last three series and make it into postseason play.