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MD Monday, April 29, 2013

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Volume LXXVII, Number 98

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STUDENTS ‘CALL ON BINI’

Colombini wins a landmark election with 3,720 votes, making him the first male ASI president in five years. SEAN MCMINN

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Just as he hoped they would, students “called on Bini” this week and elected agribusiness junior Jason Colombini into office as the next president of Associated Students, Inc. (ASI). A mob of students wearing shirts with his signature “Call on Bini” slogan collapsed on Colombini as ASI Recruitment and Development Committee Chair Kate Calkins announced the results Thursday afternoon. Colombini nearly collapsed himself, holding on to the campaign team to keep himself steady. Approximately 40 percent of students voted in the election,

which current ASI president and sociology senior Katie Morrow said marks a new record for Cal Poly. That’s not the only landmark in this election: Colombini will also be the first male ASI president since 2008. “(I am) speechless, just all over the place,” he said minutes after learning of his victory. “This is all surreal. I’m shaking. I can’t even take it all in right now … I can’t even talk, honestly.” Results posted on ASI’s website show Colombini seized a decisive majority of votes after an instant-run-off tiebreaker. His 3,720 votes eclipsed those earned by his nearest competitor, sociology senior Haley

Houle. She took 2,358, while political science junior Daniel Wasta barely reached 1,000 votes. Last-place Nate Honeycutt received 744. During Calkins’ announcement in the University Union Plaza, she said the race ended in an instant run-off because no single candidate received more than 50 percent of votes. In order to complete the run-off, ASI added to vote totals the secondplace rankings for those who voted for Honeycutt, since he came in last place. University President Jeffrey Armstrong, who was not present during the announcement, sent Colombini a text message after Chief of Staff Betsy Kinsley

told him the results. Armstrong said he plans to begin working with Colombini this quarter to help with the transition. “I’m really delighted that we had four really good candidates running for ASI, and it’s one of those things in life that only one person prevails,” Armstrong said. “Jason’s going to be an excellent ASI president.” During the campaign, Colombini used his platform to emphasize servant leadership. He said he would make it his top goal to represent students, and would forego some of the traditional perks of being ASI president.

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Haley Houle supporters react as Houle comes in second in the race with 2,358 votes.

see ASI, pg. 2

Brothers ‘Hope on Bikes’ to promote fair trade of the classes he was teaching, and since then I’ve been his lab assistant for three years,” Garrett said. Project Hope and Fairness aims to promote the use of fair trade food, particularly chocolate. “We have three missions,” Neuhaus said. “The purpose is to bring tools to cocoa farmers, to let people know about the problems with the cocoa trade and with child labor issues, and to build a cocoa study center.” Garrett and Brandon plan on leaving the week after the spring term is over, and are looking to spend approximately eight weeks on the road. “It looks like we’ll be leaving the week after school gets out, so probably the 21st or 22nd, and then hopefully get there in late August,” Garrett said. Though the specific route is not yet certain — Garrett said Bran-

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Brothers Brandon (left) and Garrett Morris (right) will bike across the country this summer to support Project Hope and Fairness — a non-profit advocating the use of fair trade foods.

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Nutrition junior Garrett Morris likes an adventure. “I’m always looking for something crazy to do,” he said. His next project? Garrett plans on cycling across the United States this summer, joined by his brother, Humboldt State University alumnus Brandon Morris. But Garrett isn’t in this just for kicks. His main goal is to draw attention to Project Hope and Fairness, a nonprofit organization Garrett became involved with through nutrition associate professor and project director Tom Neuhaus, who has dedicated his life to fair trade chocolate through his work both at Cal Poly and with Mama Ganache, San Luis Obispo’s fair trade chocolate shop. “Freshman year, I took one

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don is working out those details — it will likely take the brothers across the northern half of the United States, and they will end their journey in New York. “We’ll be starting kind (of) off on the Lewis and Clark Trail, so starting in Oregon, and then following the Columbia River, then keeping north through Chicago and then the Great Lakes, then finally to New York,” Brandon said. Garrett said he hopes to find establishments along the way where he can stop to generate attention for Project Hope and Fairness. “We’re going to try to find some chocolatier shops on the way and see if they want to be doing mini-fundraisers as we go,” Garrett said. “If there’s a chocolate company somewhere else that wants to do something for us, see BIKES, pg. 2

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