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JOHN BROWN’S BODY | COURTESY PHOTO A DIFFERENT ST YLE

| The sound of John Brown’s Body combines traditional reggae music with electronic and funk influences, creating music that’s unique and raw compared to their reggae counterparts.

John Brown’s Body brings new sound and energy to SLO Brew Nicole Horton @ CPMustangNews

From the heavy bass guitar presence found in traditional reggae music to the high intensity of electronic music to the dance-friendly beats of funk, it’s about time John Brown’s Body (JBB) created their own genre of music. With a sound so unique and raw compared to their reggae

counterparts in the music industry, JBB’s self-named sound “Future Roots Music” has gained the band quite a following. On Sunday night, the members of JBB left their mark on San Luis Obispo, performing in the newly renovated SLO Brew. The band kept the crowd engaged throughout the show by playing old favorites, as well as an eclectic mix from their recently released

album, “Fireflies.” The open environment of SLO Brew provided the ideal atmosphere for those looking to groove to the reggae beats, which many attendees did. Before JBB hit the stage, the floor was filled with people. Immediately during the first song, the small groups of people chatting dissipated into a sea of foottappers and hipshakers. JBB’s setlist for Sunday night

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created a crescendo effect, as the band started with lower intensity compositions such as “33 Rpm,” which showed off the band’s magnificent three-piece horn section and ended with fan favorites from their newest album. The band’s supreme stage presence can mainly be credited to their history. Hailing from Ithaca, New York, JBB has been creating music together for nearly

two decades. The band’s chemistry was undeniable and added to the show. “We’ve been together for a while, so the interaction between the musicians on stage is at a pretty high level,” JBB drummer Tommy Benedetti said. “It’s hard to beat playing music with your great friends, night after night.” Songs such as “New Fashion” and “High Grade” nestled into the middle of the show displayed lead singer Elliot Martin’s killer vocals. Martin’s pure talent was showcased through his powerful projections in heavy choruses and fast tongue in rap-style tunes. Many audience members sang along to JBB’s lyrics, another thing that differentiates them

from most reggae bands today. Most American reggae bands write lyrics that fall within traditional reggae themes, while JBB gained success from writing about personal experiences. While their records serve as the perfect escape from daily life, JBB’s live performance seemed to add another dimension to the word “escape.” The crowd was deep in the music from the time JBB was greeted by the Central Coast brewery to the time they completed their highly demanded encore. Their music captivated people in a way that was almost hypnotic, bringing smiles to the faces in the crowd and igniting a little more life into this small town.

A look into the Establishment

WILL PEISCHEL | COURTESY PHOTO HIDDEN TREASURE | Inside its exterior, the Establishment holds years of memories from past tenants.

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Music often plays a huge role in how athletes prepare for competition. It can offer a means to calm, excite or focus before performing. Here are a few fall athletes and what they listen to before hitting the court or field: ZACK SPANIER | PHOTO ILLUSTR ATION

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The communal living space called the Establishment at the corner of Leff and Santa Barbara streets has room for 19 tenants. Even when nobody is home, the Establishment is packed to the gills. The exterior of the place is hard to nail down. Overgrown trees shade the profile of the Establishment’s front wall. To see the sign above the front door, you’d have to be looking

for it. Between the trees and the fenced-off yard, only one side of the building is fully visible from the street. It’s easily overlooked. Inside, tenants regularly collide with keepsakes from past residents in the Establishment’s innumerable nooks and crannies. The Establishment is one of the few cooperative living spaces in San Luis Obispo. Since 1976, tenants have come and gone, leaving their marks. Each tenant has their own room, but the living room, kitchen and

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bathrooms are shared. But even when the building’s common room is empty and seemingly dead, it has evidence of the liveliness that walks through it day to day. The room is full of keepsakes, photographs of tenants from generations ago and an unfinished puzzle from the week before. The ceilings, which feel higher than the outside should allow, insulate the traces of those memories. Continued on page 3

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Can we really connect?

Annie Vainshtein Special to Mustang News

Student distress is on the rise. According to a 2014 study by the American College Health Association, almost half of students reported feeling hopeless within the last 12 months of that year. Cal Poly counselors say this mirrors what they see daily. No one knows why: stress, peer pressure, hookup culture, lack of diversity and lack of sleep are all potential culprits. Many or none may be true. In other words, something has intensified students’ feelings of distress. One conjecture? Access to technology. What technological communication lacks Human connection has always expanded or compressed to accommodate the era, whether it was in the newfound freedom of the telegraph, the rise of instant messaging or emojis used as a primary element in our keyboards. According to Cal Poly psychologist Hannah Roberts, this day and age’s advancements may pose a unique problem for

millennials, who face a daily conflict between their human desire for connections and the changing culture of technology. “Technology gives us the opportunity to communicate from the safety and defense of a box, but it doesn’t feel the same as being physically with someone; the mirror neurons aren’t firing in quite the same way,” Roberts said. It’s a paradox, she explained. We have all these great tools for connection, but they also take us away from the in-depth connection we would have in person. If he’s lucky, political science senior Robert Guerra can see his girlfriend once every few weeks. Face to face, that is. In theory, he can talk to her 24 hours a day, seven days a week; they communicate via phone call, text, Facebook and Snapchat. But between all that, it’s not enough. “At some point, I’m not talking to my girlfriend, I’m talking to a screen,” Guerra said. “And even though I do care about my girlfriend and love her, it can be hard to make that connection sometimes.” Through well-crafted design

and million-dollar advertising campaigns, technology gives the guise of having it all. But unlike the internet, real life is four-wheel drive; it’s messy, it treads deeper ground and it fulfills significant physical needs. Roberts said that, in some cases, using technology can almost mimic the effects of dopamine in the brain. “If we think about brain chemistry … you’ve got this immediate gratification, you’re excited, it’s a flood,” Roberts said. “But it’s really short-acting and there’s an emptiness that comes after a dopamine rush.” In-person communication does more: it involves the dopamine of connection, but is grounded by love and bonding hormones, like oxytocin, which hold us even after the interaction has ended, according to Roberts. In substance abuse terms, the use of technology for our interpersonal pursuits is like cocaine. So, though Guerra can still see his girlfriend through a pixelated screen, it’s not the same. “At some point, you’re not here, here,” he said. “You’re a couple hundred miles away and I’m just talking to my phone.”

HANNA CROWLEY | MUSTANG NE WS TECH TAKEOVER

| The rise of technology affects the way in which modern relationships are formed.

Exchanging social media for mindfulness Brooke Holland, a nutrition senior had her fair share of social media fixations and said it often only adds fuel to a familiar fire. “In general, human beings have the tendency to be jealous — we’re curious and want to know,” Holland said. “I think we need to work on that, so having social media isn’t really helping; it just makes people worry and come up with false conclusions.” Holland said it’s like an itch that almost everyone tries not to scratch, but can’t help scratching anyway. “Going to Starbucks and seeing every single person behind each other in line, just staring down — seeing that makes me kind of angry because we are

losing so much of that personal connection,” Holland said. When Holland realized she too was part of the problem, she made efforts to change it through something called mindful thinking. The term may be a buzzword, but mindfulness has been around for centuries. “We’ve just put a different label on it and we’ve packaged it, but now we recognize how much we need it,” Roberts said. “It’s not until you get so distracted that you realize that you need to come back and be mindful.” At its core, mindful thinking simply requires intentionally and thoroughly checking in with one’s body, Roberts said. There are multiple ways to do it. Mindful walking is one: in-

stead of using a morning walk to make do-to lists, you notice the world around you by engaging your senses HALT is another method, according to Roberts. Before acting on an emotion, you check in with yourself by asking a series of four questions: Am I feeling hungry? Am I feeling angry? Am I feeling lonely? Or am I feeling tired?” Being present is an active effort but it does a lot, environmental management and protection senior Daryl Dingman said. “It takes less to scroll your thumb up and down your screen than it does to pay attention to lecture or watch the whole movie, sure, but you might end up seeing something that you’ll never, ever, ever, ever, ever see on that phone,” Dingman said.

Why Cal Poly waste can’t be composted HANNA CROWLEY | MUSTANG NE WS COMPOST CONTAMINATION

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Each year, for the past 10 years, Campus Dining has been sending an average of 236 tons of organics to be composted. Recently, these organics have been too contaminated to be composted effectively. One year ago, Cal Poly began participating in the Zero Waste Units pilot program. In a collaboration between Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), Cal Poly Housing, Cal Poly Facilities and Campus Dining, disposal units were installed with slots for recyclables, garbage and

| Campus Dining’s disposal company found that waste that was thrown by students into the compost section of the Zero Waste Units was contaminated with noncompostables. compost in dining venues for students to use. From these units and the kitchen’s existing units, all compostable material was taken from the receptacles into dumpsters stored near the Eugene and Rachel Boone Dairy Science Complex (building 18). Not long after combining previously compostable kitchen waste with organics from student diners, Campus Dining’s disposal company said its organics were too contaminated to compost. It found many of the noncompostable items were placed into the bins by students, which contaminated all the organics previously collected from the kitchen.

To combat this problem, Campus Dining acquired a second 40-yard dumpster for student’s to place their compostable waste so it does not contaminate the kitchen’s true organic waste again. The kitchen material is picked up by the disposal company Engel and Gray for use in compost, and the student organics are now sent to a landfill. When the organics reach Engel and Gray’s facility, there is a highly calculated formula to create the best compost possible. As the correct carbon/nitrogen ratio is met, microbials (tiny living organisms) transform the organics into compost that can be used in landscaping. Ninety days later,

the compost is ready to be distributed. Compost from materials supplied by Cal Poly may be seen at the Los Osos overpass or in Santa Barbara’s public landscaping amongst other places. From an economical standpoint, Engel and Gray is not able to manually remove all the noncompostable material from the post-consumer organics. “If you toss in a Snapple bottle and ketchup wrappers, that is all going into the compost,” said Bob Engel, Engel and Gray vice president. According to Campus Dining Operations Manager Greg Yeo, the Campus Dining’s sustainability

advisory board hopes to figure out how to train customers to lower the contamination rate. Engel sees the problem occurring across the United States as people work to compost material. “The problem is not just happening at Cal Poly,” Engel said. “People are dealing with this across the country.” The Zero Waste Club works with Campus Dining to audit its disposal programs. Members of the club sort through a sample of the waste to help better target materials needed to educate students about what items to place in each bin. It then makes materials such as the backboards

above the disposal bins to help guests place their waste in the appropriate locations. Students and visitors at Cal Poly can do their part in the goal to reach zero waste by carefully sorting their garbage. For example, a Starbucks cup can be recycled, the stirring stick and heat sleeve can be put in compost and the lid and straw go to the landfill. “If everyone takes part in carefully distributing their garbage to the appropriate bins, we can get the contamination rates to a point where our post-consumer organics can be turned into compost as well,” Yeo said.

DREAM Center anticipated to open in early 2017 Sydney Harder @ CPMustangNews

After a year of planning, a safe space for undocumented Cal Poly students and their supporters will be created on campus this winter quarter. The DREAM Center will “allow students to know they’re coming into a facility where everyone understands their unique needs

and challenges they face,” Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey said. Student Affairs, in coordination with the Educational Opportunity Program and Cal Poly Scholars, pioneered the development of this facility. The DREAM Center will be located in the Hillcrest Building, which currently houses Student Academic Services. Accommodations for the center were finalized about two weeks ago. The campus-wide email announcement regarding the establishment of the DREAM Center came during the tense political climate on campus following the presidential election and free speech wall controversies. “Timing with the announcement was important because we wanted to share something positive with students,” Humphrey

said. “Undocumented students in particular were feeling unsafe with national issues and we wanted to reinforce our commitment to them.” Besides offering a space that welcomes self-expression and provides support for undocumented students, Humphrey said that the DREAM Center will extend resources to “ensure that every student we admit—particularly [those that are] undocumented— reach graduation.” Hu mp h re y h op e s t h e DREAM Center will reinforce Cal Poly’s mission of inclusivity and make an impression on potential applicants to the university. “[I hope] students from underrepresented backgrounds will feel more secure in choosing to enroll at Cal Poly,” Humphrey said.

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| The center will be a safe space for undocumented Cal Poly students and their supporters.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 Continued from page 1

This night, the kitchen of the Establishment is full. Four tenants cook four dinners across two industrial stoves and several feet of counter space. Other tenants are hanging on the chairs and over the table space, drinking coffee and laughing at dirty jokes. Mark “Gizmo” Grayson has lived in the Establishment for a few years. He has a face like Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne with a curly head of grayish hair and is quick to laugh. Paired with his eccentric personality, he has a sort of oracle status with his knowledge of the place and the way he tells it. In Grayson’s room, room nine, there’s a small figurine in a crevice. Even he doesn’t know

where it came from. “There’s a little weird hole in the wall. Everyone I’ve met says that little soldier guy was there from the beginning,” Grayson said. No one knows who put the little soldier there, but everyone who has lived in the room notices it. “They’re like, ‘Oh you used to be in nine! Did you see the little guy?’ Everyone has a super tight tie to their room,” Grayson said. Nobody’s taken the toy. The soldier is left for the next passer-through. But when tenant Laura Anselmo found a memento in her room, she couldn’t resist grabbing it. “When I lived in room 19, I was looking out my window. I found a creepy school picture in the

wall of this girl,” Anselmo said. “On the back she wrote ‘Dear Jean, here’s my school picture. I hate the way I look in it. Love, Kelly.’ I thought, ‘I’m keeping this forever.’ There’s little nooks and crannies everywhere and who knows what’s hiding in them.” Sometimes, old tenants come back and the mystery is solved. As she stood in the doorway of the kitchen, Emily Watson, the 24-year-old property manager and tenant, said a woman returned after two decades to search for her own memento. “We had one woman come back. She stayed here in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. She came back and subleased for awhile. She was in the kitchen and pulled out a little Indian cutout in our cupboard. And

she shouts, ‘The Indian! It’s still here!’ It stuck around for 20 years,” Watson said. During the early ‘50s, before the Establishment was the Establishment, Jack Kerouac lived there for a year while writing “The Dharma Bums,” according to a 2009 “NewTimes” cover story. The tenants of the building take pride in the fact that a Beat Generation superstar may have spent nights in one of their rooms. Maybe a memento of his lies in the walls, waiting to be discovered. These myths are passed down to new housemates through conversation. Watson said the preserved culture of the place is part of how it continues to exist today. “It all relies on the people to carry over the culture, the tra-

dition,” Watson said. “The owner is really hands off, it really has just been the people here passing that culture on to the new people.” The further back the tradition goes, the shakier the details get. Grayson said there’s a story that the Establishment might not even have been built on the site it sits on today. “There’s rumor that this building was across town to some degree and was rolled on logs to this location,” Grayson said. When it comes to older myths about the place, creative interpretation has been added over the years. Even the landmark event of the house, the Establishment’s Halloween party, has a fuzzy past. Nobody’s quite sure where the party originated, but it’s a cor-

nerstone event of the house that is embraced anyway. “Apparently this is the 30th anniversary this year, but we can’t tell if that’s just another one of those things that somebody came up with,” Watson said. “I looked at a newsletter from three years ago, and it said that year was the 27th anniversary. I’m relying on that.” Watson walked through the house, and pointed out the defining aspects that bring the house character. The elements of unknown origin are almost better that way, shrouded in mystery. “Eventually things get left places. Nobody can know where they came from,” Watson said. The hall is full of cold cases like that, sitting and waiting to be discovered by the next tenant to walk on by.

When it comes to older myths about the place, creative interpretation has been added over the years.

WILL PEISCHEL | COURTESY PHOTO MANY FACES

| Tenants come in and out of the Establishment. It is even said that American author Jack Kerouac lived in the building for a year in the 1950s while writing his novel, “The Dharma Bums.”

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Don Bartletti speaks on immigration

“The Road Most Traveled” Sabrina Thompson @ sabrinaswriting

Right now, one of the most heated topics in the United States is how to handle southern immigration from Mexico. The term “immigrant” has many definitions for different people — from the founders of our nation to families looking for a fresh start in a new country to thieves, killers and rapists coming to America only to do harm. In Don Bartletti’s photo essay, “The Roads Most Traveled: Causes and Consequences of Illegal Immigration,” Bartletti takes a closer look at the people coming across the border, what their motivations are and how their journeys unfold. In Chumash Auditorium Monday night, Cal Poly International Students and Scholars welcomed Bartletti as the keynote speaker to celebrate International week. The week’s theme is “supporting our students beyond their borders,” and the presentation of the photojournalist’s images opened up conversation about the impact of immigration during the last few decades. Bartletti is a recently retired photojournalist who previously worked for the Los Angeles Times. A Pulitzer Prize winner, among other accolades, Bartletti has been telling the story of life south of the U.S. border for more than 30 years. His images have been used in pop culture as symbols for both sides of the issue, so Bartletti’s work is considered an unbiased representation of immigration.

The photos presented were a mixture of detailed close-ups and broad, panoramic pictures. One showed hands grabbing food through the gate separating the border. An aerial shot showed the urbanization of southern California juxtaposing the untouched green of Mexico. A major topic that Bartletti talked about was the wage disparity for immigrants. His photos showed immigrants sleeping in camps alongside highways

rivers and jumping onto trains. For some, it’s worth the risk even for minute success in America. Additionally, Bartletti depicted drug cartels and gang violence through his photos. “It’s not as cute as ‘Breaking Bad’,” Bartletti said. “It stinks, it smells like blood, it smells like sweat, it sounds like screams and yelling.” His photos showed cars destroyed by bullet holes and blood spattered on playgrounds with schoolchildren running around. Bartletti spoke about how ordinary this life is for some Mexicans. Some images portrayed the ways that families have been affected by cartel ambushes forever. Bartletti showed photos of families weeping over the losses of their loved ones. One photo was an autopsy photo of a seven-year-old boy shot by a gang member. Another showed a refrigerator filled with body bags. Bartletti recalled the corruption of the Mexican government while presenting images of military funerals. “The government would stage these press events where they would torch contrabands, marijuana, cocaine,” Bartletti said. An audience member noted the lack of women and girls in the photos. Bartletti said that during his time there, few women made the journey because it was too dangerous. Instead, young men and boys would cross the border, often alone.

Bartletti’s photos do something of utmost importance: they tell a story that would otherwise go unheard.

and walking with only a backpack and the clothes on their back. These same people told him about the homes they had back in Mexico and the sacrifices they were making in hope of better wages in America. Bartletti’s photos also highlighted dangers associated with crossing the border. Some immigrants are willing to risk their lives and limbs to make it to America by wading through

DON BARTLETTI | COURTESY PHOTO CULTURAL ICON | Bartletti’s photos have been used in arguments for both sides on the issue of immigration.

Several images depicted young boys finding their way across the border. Many of the boys told Bartletti that they were in search of their mothers, who had managed to come across before them. Others could not stand their lives in Mexico

any longer. Immigration is a loaded topic and photographing the danger and hardship associated with immigration can seem biased. However, Bartletti did not take these photos in the hopes of swaying opinions. He

understands both sides of the issue and thinks there needs to be a resolution. Rather than seeking to prove a point, Bartletti’s photos do something of utmost importance: they tell a story that would otherwise go unheard.

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Sincerely, SLO: SLOPD Chief of Police Deanna Cantrell Deanna Cantrell Special to Mustang News

Deanna Cantrell is the San Luis Obispo Police Department chief of police. The views expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News. This column is part of a series called Sincerely, SLO where San Luis Obispo leaders share their thoughts on certain topics. Let’s go back to the basics; we are all humans. Flesh and blood. We all feel, we all hurt, we all bleed. We are all living here together with many differences, but all the same people. We all see life through our own lenses, based on our individual upbringing, education, friends, religion, personal perceptions, preferences and so on. We fear what is different from us and that causes us to tend to surround ourselves with what we like and what is like us, including people. But what if we got out of that comfort zone and got to know people that may not be like us, at least on the outside? Remember your mother telling you not to judge a book by its cover? I found from years of being in law enforcement that we are much more alike than we are different. Let’s start there. Let’s start with the simple fact that we have things in common. Let’s start with our similarities and not our differences. Let me talk about policing, since it is something I know and have done for more than 22 years. What does it take to police a community of people that all want to be treated with fairness, respect and dignity, but at the same time are very different? I would be remiss if I did not say that police officers are people who also want to be treated with respect and dignity. People have different communication styles and different body language that may be specific to their culture; some suffer from mental illness and some from drug or alcohol addiction. Police officers are in contact with every facet of our community on a daily basis. Because of this, we must continually change our own communication styles, body language, tone, pitch, volume, assertiveness and diffidence to be effective. Those who fail to do this or have not mastered the skill can create a divide between the police and the community.

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Our community needs to understand we have no idea what we may be walking into on a domestic violence call, in a shoplifting incident or during a traffic stop. More recently, we must remain alert just sitting in a coffee shop in case the person approaching has bad intentions. Because we can’t know and because history has shown us we can die during any encounter, we tend to start out initial engagements with a heightened sense of awareness and command presence. In milliseconds, a law enforcement officer is expected to assess a situation and a person to determine the threat level, then adjust their approach accordingly. They do this all while remaining prepared to escalate and deescalate at just the right time and by just the right amount. This is not easy. It is not a science, but it’s more of an art. We do not always get it right. Remember, we are human, we have sympathetic nervous systems controlling our bodies, we have emotions and we have issues at home. In addition to having people understand us, we need to know the people that live in our community. We need to understand who makes up the community and what different cultures there are so we can educate ourselves on how to interact with people without offending them. Are there people fromcultures who are not being dishonest, but may tend to avoid eye contact? People who are not being aggressive, but may communicate in a more boisterous way? People who would like us to ask what their pronoun is? I love the philosophy that we must know you before we need to know you The community and vice versa. needs to know us The community needs to know us and why we act the and why we act the way we do. way we do. Law enforcement has been its own worst enemy DEANNA CANTRELL by not being as transparent as we can be, by not admitting we have messed up, Engagement by not teaching our communi- (PEACE) in January 2017 and ties about all of the wonderful later in the year will start an things we are doing, all of the explorer program. PEACE training we go through and will consist of multiple twothat every one of us entered hour discussions about topics this career because we love the community would like to our community. learn more about in regards to The San Luis Obispo Police policing. The first discussion Department is starting a will be held in January, then program called Policing every other month for the Education and Community remainder of the year.

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The first topic will be related to the police and community relationship. The second will be about use of force and will incorporate video along with discussion. The third will be a Q-&-A that will give the community a chance to ask a panel of police professionals questions about law enforcement. Additionally, we would like to learn more about our community. Eventually, we will create a program called Po l i c e an d C om mu n it y Together (PACT) in which

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 Continued from page 1

Caitlyn Kreutz, women’s soccer Unlike many athletes, the sophomore forward listens to country music to relax. But, like many athletes, her playlist calms her down because it reminds her of home. “You can interpret song lyrics whatever way you want to and I think a lot of my music is different from what other athletes would listen to because we

all go through different stuff,” Kreutz said. “I’m one of those people that need to be calm instead of always needing to be pumped up. I’m from Fresno so I’m a little Aggie, and it’s calming to me because I’ve always grown up around that music and that’s the music that makes me feel like I’m where I’m supposed to be.”

I’m one of those people that need to be calm instead of always needing to be pumped up. CAITLYN KREUTZ

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Justin Dhillon, men’s soccer The senior forward has a very structured playlist. He starts out with light music to take his mind off the game for as long as possible, and ends with songs by Drake, Logic and Future to pump him up. In between, he likes to have a reminder of his love for soccer and where it all started. “I like to listen to Latin music. Growing up, I’ve always loved those Joga Bonita commercials, [which are] these old Nike commercials that a lot of successful soccer athletes would mess around and play with the ball in and remind us how much fun soccer really is,” Dhillon said. “You kind of forget about that a lot, especially preparing for a game, you get really stressed out. You’re like, ‘I gotta perform, I gotta do this, I gotta do that,’ and I feel like listening to those songs that really bring back the culture of the sport to me remind me why I do what I do.” When he was younger, Dhillon was one of the only non-Latino kids on his team in LA and his teammates would all listen to Latin music before games. Lis-

tening to that music now brings back memories of his childhood and the same excitement he felt to play back when soccer was just a fun game without expectations. But while he thinks it’s important to stay calm and remember his love for the sport, he also acknowledges that there are higher stakes now. That’s where songs like “Last Breath” by Future come in: “There has to be a balance. You can’t only have fun and be calm, you also need a little bit of grit, and I think that’s the final piece to get me ready before a game,” Dhillon said. “I’m calm but passionate so I want to make sure when I play I put both of those out there: passion and composure.”

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Adlee Van Winden, volleyball The sophomore outside hitter’s favorite pump-up song is unconventional and you can’t find it on Spotify. Although most people enjoy songs for the relatable lyrics or energizing beats, Van Winden’s favorite song is a memory of her childhood. “Growing up, [my sister and I] had older cousins who played volleyball, and they were our biggest inspirations,” Van Winden said. “They listened to this song called ‘Lean Like a Cholo’ [and] we would always watch them dance and sing to it. So we kind of took the song with us even though it was way past our time. It was on every middle school

volleyball warm-up playlist, high school volleyball warmup playlist, and now it’s on each of our college playlists. So the song doesn’t have much meaning behind it, but it’s a memory of family and how we got into this sport.” Although the song is a reminder of the roots of her love for volleyball, Van Winden also said it matches her outgoing and aggressive personality. “I like to think I take that leadership role on the team and am the one who is always going to get on you for stuff. ‘Lean Like a Cholo’ pumps me up to be the leader who I want to be every game.”

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