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Students remember cancer victim and alumna KAYTLYN LESLIE

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The Cayucos woman and Cal Poly alumna who captured hearts following an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this year will now be remembered with T-shirts sold by Cal Poly students this week.

Following the death of Jodi Fisher on March 17, Cal Poly recreation, parks and tourism administration (RPTA) students began selling T-shirts on Monday to raise money to support Fisher’s family.

Fisher was diagnosed with inoperable cancer in 2010, after which she made headlines by attempting to fulfill her “Fun List,” which included selling ice cream from an ice cream truck, watching an “Ellen” show live and meeting President Barack Obama.

Through her efforts to complete her “Fun List,” Fisher showed people they could still remain positive in light of difficulty, RPTA sophomore Rachel Stephens said.

Stephens is one of the students working on the campaign to sell 2,000 Jodi shirts to raise funds for the family.

“She had this bucket list, and she was just really positive,” Stephens said. “It was just inspiring to see how positive she was. And she kind of lived her life you know: ‘Be Kind,’ ‘Be Generous,’ ‘Be Wonderful.’”

Stephens became involved in the T-shirt campaign through her Leadership in Recreation (REC 205) class shortly after Fisher’s death. According to Stephens, her professor, Jeffrey Jacobs, suggested the project because he was close to Fisher.

“When we first started this project, (Jacobs) showed a video of her, and we were all excited trying to figure out what we

could do to fulfill her bucket list,” Stephens said. “And then he turned off the video and told us, ‘She died several days ago.’ It was a weird moment.”

The different members of the group have different duties in the campaign, Stephens said. Her job is to make tags for all of the products that tell Fisher’s story. RPTA junior Kayla Weaver, on the other hand, is one of the six group leaders for the project.

“As of now I’ve been working … to plan this whole movement, this whole journey we’ve been creating,” Weaver said. “Everyone working on this project has little to no experience in this area of raising money, getting donations and basically trying to run a whole non-profit idea, including myself. The six team leaders have been working so hard and meeting and talking constantly to just try to wrap our heads around the idea of making this all a possibility.”

Yesterday, the group sold Tshirts with the phrase “What’s on your fun list?” printed across the front for $15 each, $10 of which goes directly to the Fisher family, Weaver said.

The rest goes toward production costs and creating a scholarship fund for Cal Poly RPTA students in Fisher’s memory.

At the event also on Dexter Lawn, students also had the chance to sign a board with their own fun list activity.

“It’s a big message of positivity and funness,” Weaver said.

Though the T-shirts on sale were designed by RPTA junior Josh Pighetti, Josh Jacobson, the owner of J.Carroll — a screen printing business in San Luis Obispo — has been integral in producing the shirts.

Jacobson was first approached

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Students will be selling T-shirts in remembrance of Cal Poly alumna, Jodi Fisher, who died from cancer on March 17.

by Fisher before her appearance on “Ellen” when she and friend Rani Shah came to him to inquire about making T-shirts for the show. Jacobson said he decided then to help Fisher on an even larger scale.

“I came back and said, ‘Why don’t we just make a website and get some proceeds going back to you and to the family?’” Jacobson said. “Jodi was getting a little publicity from the public at that time, so it just seemed like a good way to get involved and become a part of something.”

Jacobson has continued to work on selling Jodi-inspired products through whatwouldjodido.com, now with the help of the RPTA students, he said.

Though the atmosphere has changed since Fisher’s death, Jacobson said people still care about Fisher’s story and want to be a part of it.

“To me, the whole premise is there was this lady you heard about and you say, ‘Man there was this person that people are saying such great things about, and I want to help her,’” Ja-

It was just inspiring to see how positive she was. And she kind of lived her life you know: ‘Be Kind,’ ‘Be Generous,’ ‘Be Wonderful.’”

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cobson said. “I think that giving people something to rally behind — and wanting to support the family, wanting to do something — it’s just a good op-

portunity for that.”

“What’s on your fun list?” Tshirts will be available at the website as well as at the booth on Dexter Lawn through Friday.

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San Luis Obispo, despite being named the “Happiest City in America”, is not without problems. And one of the city’s most visible problems may be the most ignored.

Tuesday kicks off Homelessness Awareness Week: a Student Community Services-led week of events to raise awareness about the myths surrounding homelessness and the problems individuals who find themselves without homes in San Luis Obispo face.

According to the United Way of San Luis Obispo’s website, 3,744 people were home-

less in San Luis Obispo as of January 2011. Of these, 1,847 were children.

Camille Crenshaw is a Student Committee Services (SCS) director coordinator and helped organize the week’s events.

“It’s a touchy subject, and it makes people uncomfortable,” Crenshaw said. “We see it frequently downtown, but so often it’s ignored and treated like it doesn’t exist. We’re trying to raise awareness about what causes people to be homeless, and break down those stereotypes.”

Homelessness Awareness Week kicks off with a Soup and Substance discussion Tuesday in University Union room 204. The event, called

The Face of Homelessness, is a presentation and discussion led by a supervisor from the Independent Living Program.

The program was designed to empower youth in the foster care system.

Crenshaw said the programs on Wednesday, a sleepover in the University Union, and Saturday, a Homelessness Awareness Walk and barbecue, were the ones she most hoped to highlight for students.

“For every attendee that sleeps over (on Wednesday), we’re donating $20 to ECHO (El Camino Homeless Organization) on their behalf,” Crenshaw said. “By donating $20, individuals can have two see HOMELESSNESS, pg. 2

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A dose of engineering comes to college of liberal arts KAYTLYN LESLIE

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Very few majors offer students the chance to work in both the arts and sciences simultaneously. In fact, at Cal Poly there is only one: liberal arts and engineering studies.

Liberal arts and engineering studies (LAES) is an interdisciplinary program that combines skills from the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Engineering to give students a more personalized education and career path.

Graduates from the program have gone on to work in fields as varied as audio and visual filmwork, community development, gaming and even theme park technologies, ac-

cording to LAES co-director David Gillette.

“It’s a hybrid program for students who are interested in the technical aspects of engineering but want to match it with the liberal arts,” Gillette said. “Our students are getting a very good liberal arts education, as well as a very good engineering education.”

Who are LAES students?

Most students who switch into the department come from engineering backgrounds, Gillette said, where the coursework is very regulated and strict. LAES offers these students the chance to expand upon what they are learning and apply it to real-life jobs that require a more artistic mindset, he said.

It also helps to hold onto students who are unhappy with their original major, such as LAES senior Jessica Riccio.

“I thought about leaving Cal Poly until I stumbled upon LAES,” Riccio said. “At the time, (it) seemed like a way that I could still do what I loved with computers, but branch out and make it work for me.”

Riccio, who originally majored in computer science, said she heard a lot of criticism of LAES from fellow engineering students, as well as some faculty. “(They said) that ‘It’s not a real engineering major,’” Riccio said. “Most of them who have a very traditional view of engineering, put (traditional engineering) as slightly more prestigious than the other engineering disciplines.”

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Despite the initial criticism, Riccio said her education in the program has given her a lot of experience she would not have gained otherwise.

Among these experiences was her time in Guatemala working on community development; unlike other majors, LAES students are required to study abroad. To satisfy her requirement, Riccio traveled with Guateca — a Cal Polypartnered project that aims to increase sustainability and quality of life in Guatemala by building new businesses — for two months last summer.

“Studying abroad was something I had always wanted to do, regardless of my major,” Riccio said. “I definitely have a different view of the world (now) and what I’m doing here at home and how all of those overlap.”

LAES senior Jacob Stringfellow has also had memorable experiences in the program.

For a class, Stringfellow and a group of students traveled to Los Angeles to visit the Warner Brothers Studios and Disney Imagineering headquarters.

He said one of the most exciting

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meals and four nights of shelter.”

The El Camino Homeless Organization is a volunteerrun, non-profit shelter located in Atascadero. It offers meals, a place to sleep, hotels and vouchers for thrift stores, Crenshaw said.

Saturday’s walk will take place downtown with a barbecue alongside many of San Luis Obispo’s homeless citizens in Mitchell Park.

“They’re not homeless people, they’re people that are homeless,” Crenshaw said.

It’s a hybrid program for students who are interested in the technical aspects of engineering but want to match it with liberal arts.

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moments of the trip was seeing the Disney audio room, where imagineers manufacture audio for the theme park rides.

“They had speakers completely covering all four walls of the room,” said Stringfellow, who wants to go into audio engineering and sound design. “It was like a dream.”

The early years Five years ago, Stringfellow’s dream experience could not have happened. At that time, Cal Poly had already tried and failed to implement an interdisciplinary program similar to LAES, and no further projects were on the horizon.

Then the LAES program began in 2008, mostly due to the efforts of former engineering “We’re all humans together, and that’s why the barbecue is so important. We all get to hang out.

Last year, I met someone who graduated from my high school the year before I did.”

Biological sciences freshman Natalie Chaidez received an email promoting the events of the week. Prior to receiving it, she said she didn’t know that homelessness in San Luis Obispo was a problem. She said she’d like to attend the sleepover in the University Union.

Homeless Awareness Week takes place between May 1 and 5. Other hosted events include a booth at downtown

dean Mohammad Noori and College of Liberal Arts Dean Linda Halisky. According to Halisky, the program was created as a way to solve a problem with retention in the engineering department.

“Even though you really, really have to be smart to get into Cal Poly engineering, we were losing a lot of engineering students,” Halisky said. “It is not unusual for engineering across the country, so it wasn’t that anything was terribly bad here, but what was happening to all of these really good students?”

After some analysis, the college found the majority of those students leaving engineering were students who were either no longer interested in their see LAES, pg. 3

3,744 number of people reported homeless in San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo Farmers’ Market on Thursday and a breakfast and résumé workshop at the Prado Day Center on Friday. For a full list of events, visit the Student Life and Leadership website or the Facebook event page.

Mercedes Rodriguez contributed to this article.

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major, had not really understood what their major was about upon coming to Cal Poly or didn’t have the math skills to compete, Halisky said. Halisky and Noori decided the best way to combat this was to create LAES, where students who were not enjoying their traditional engineering education could broaden their focus.

Once the program was established, Halisky and Noori assigned engineering associate dean Fred Depiero and Gillette (from liberal arts) to be co-directors of the new program and come up with the format for it.

“At first, there was confusion over what the program would do,” Gillette said, “but all of that went away once students started taking classes.”

In the beginning, LAES students had to have a lot of trust that the new major would work out, Halisky said.

“Those first students were pretty gutsy,” Halisky said.

“I mean, who knew with this thing?”

One of these “gutsy” early students is LAES alumnus Daniel DeKlotz. DeKlotz switched to LAES from computer science at a time when the major didn’t have any graduates.

“I did have some reservations,” DeKlotz said. “I didn’t know that many people with a bachelor of arts in liberal arts and engineering studies that had jobs. In fact, the program didn’t even have any graduates at the time, so the big question for me was, ‘Will this degree hold any weight in the real world?’”

It turns out it did. Upon

graduation, DeKlotz received a job offer from Microsoft to work on the next version of Windows. He still works there today.

“While it is true that I don’t have as strong of a technical background as some of the other university hires, … the LAES program really helped prepare me well for virtually every other aspect of my job,” DeKlotz said. “Being a good engineer is about much more than simply knowing how to do technical stuff.”

Into the future Despite the uncertainty at first, after four years of work, students in the major are becoming more sought after, Halisky said. “(Graduating students) almost all have jobs,” Halisky said. “They’re not only getting jobs, they are creating jobs in places when they leave here.

We had a student here who was an intern at THX, a studio in Burbank, where they basically offered him a job before he had even graduated and told him to make it up.”

Though the program has been well-received for the past few years, it could be in for some changes in the future.

Budgets are tight, and as a result, some classes had to be cut from the curriculum, Halisky said. This led to students relying more on advisers in the program, creating a larger workload for those advisers.

“We’re going to have to do something because we are kind of at critical mass,” Halisky said.

Despite budgetary constraints, Halisky said Cal Poly is looking into expanding the program.

“The idea is that this will

be one in a number of things under this umbrella we’re calling ‘expressive technologies,’” Halisky said. “It could really be a starship on campus, highlighting that comprehensive polytechnic that we’re going toward.”

Expressive technologies, which according to Halisky represents the intersection between art and technology, is already being implemented. Cal Poly offered a new interdisciplinary minor for the first time last fall that is slowly gaining ground: media arts and technologies.

The minor combines classes from within the liberal arts and engineering colleges and gives students even more of a chance to tailor their curriculum, Halisky said.

Another change coming to the program, as well as the College of Liberal Arts, is Halisky’s announcement of her impending retirement.

Halisky said the possibility of change within the program would then depend on the new dean.

“It shouldn’t effect it at all, as long as we get a new dean that supports it,” Halisky said.

“The principle players and our directors here essentially run it all themselves now, so I don’t do much. I just sort of stand in the background.”

As the program progresses, current LAES students such as Riccio said they hope more students will become aware of the major.

“To me, the LAES program is really all about letting the students use every part of us, both the engineering and the arts,” Riccio said. “If someone thinks that there is a part of them that isn’t fully satisfied with their current situation, then LAES is the place for them.”

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Rescue crews who tried unsuccessfully over the weekend to guide a confused dolphin from the shallow waters of Orange County’s Bolsa Chica decided Monday to hang back and allow the dolphin to return to the open sea at its own pace.

On Friday, spectators scared the dolphin into staying in the wetlands, wildlife officials said. And on Saturday, another group of dolphins chased the stranded marine animal back into the wetlands as rescuers attempted to guide it back to the open sea.

An Illinois woman bit the family dog after returning home drunk over the weekend, police said Monday.

Analise J. Garner, 19, of Lake in the Hills, was charged with animal cruelty, domestic battery and underage drinking. Police were called to her home around 4 a.m.

Sunday after neighbors reported loud screaming and pounding, Sgt. Mike Smith said.

Police said Garner scratched and hit her 37-year-old mother in the face and also bit her on the right hand.

Myanmar’s main opposition party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, agreed Monday to end its week-long boycott of parliament and swear an oath to a constitution it has resisted.

The decision came as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon praised the country’s transition to democracy and called on the West to lift economic sanctions.

Officials with the opposition National League for Democracy said the newly elected lawmakers planned to take their seats in parliament Wednesday.

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In the week since a fireball shot across the sky and exploded, scattering a rare type of meteorite over California’s Gold Country, these hills have drawn a new rush of treasure seekers.

Once again there are lively saloons, fortune hunters jockeying for prime spots and astounding tales of luck — including that of Brenda Salveson, a local who found a valuable space rock while walking her dog Sheldon, named after the theoretical physicist on the TV show “The Big Bang Theory.”

It started April 22, Earth Day, with a blazing streak across a morning sky and a sonic boom that the next day had the older women in the “Gentle Stretching to Beautiful Music” class at Sierra Ballet comparing notes on how hard their windows shook.

Eight hundred miles away, while windows were still rattling, Robert Ward in Prescott, Ariz., was getting alerts. A 35-year-old professional meteorite hunter and dealer, he pays for tips and keeps a bag packed, ready to go anywhere in the world to chase a meteorite.

On Tuesday, after 16 hours of driving, he scanned a parking lot in Lotus in the pre-dawn not knowing what type of rock he was seeking. But when he spotted a dark space pebble, he immediately recognized it as carbonaceous chondrite, meteorites containing water and carbon — the type scientists long to study for insights into how life began on Earth and possibly in other places.

“I was trembling,” Ward said.

“It’s the rarest of the rare. It’s older than the sun. It holds the building blocks of life.”

The rush was on. The meteorites are invaluable to science but on the open market can also fetch $1,000 a gram, or more for larger, pristine pieces.

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Jason Utas, a geology student at UC Berkeley, holds a 7.5-gram fragment of a meteorite called CM chondrite that he found in Coloma, California, on April 28. bia, Paul Gessler, a part-time meteorite hunter, was readying for a halibut fishing tournament when he read about Ward’s find on a hobbyists Twitter feed. He took his fishing rod back to the house and told his wife he was driving to California.

At the NASA Ames Research Center north of San Jose, Beverly Girten, deputy director in charge of the center’s experiments on the International Space Station, announced she was going to Coloma. Her boss reminded her of a conference call about a $40 million budget.

Girten said meteorites with organic compounds could prove more important to science.

In the Gold Rush town of Rescue (elevation and population both 1,400), Salveson, a wife and mother of two, read a local news article about the meteorites. The field scattered with them, about three miles wide and 10 miles long, included Henningsen Lotus Park, where she walks her dog every morning. She noted what to look for: a rock that seemed out of place — different from anything around it. It would be dark and delicate.

On Wednesday, near the end of her stroll with Sheldon, Salveson picked up a rock the size of a spool of thread that seemed to match the description.

She walked over to a group

with metal detectors.

“I opened my hand and they all let out a collective gasp,” she said.

The geologists, as they turned out to be, wrapped the stone in foil and told Salveson to get it into a bank vault as soon as possible. At 17 grams, it’s the largest of the meteorites found so far.

A few minutes before, a firefighter had stopped to search at the park on his way to work and found a 2-gram meteorite in less than 20 minutes. A dealer paid him $2,000 on the spot.

Before going to the bank, Salveson made one stop: Rescue Elementary School. She had her children — Linnea, 10, and Tommy, 6 — and their classmates put their hands behind their backs. She pulled back the foil just a little and told them to look at perhaps the oldest thing anyone has ever seen.

Girten believes that should any of those children grow up to take a college earth science class, they might study this meteorite. Until now, the most studied meteorite has been the Murchison, found after a witnessed shower in Australia in 1969. All indications are that the Sutter’s Mill meteorite will replace it as the meteorite most known by name to anyone in science.

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SLO Brew teams up with Fremont

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SLO Brewing Co. (SLO Brew) will return live music to the Fremont Theater next month.

SLO Brew is bringing Lindsey Buckingham to the Fremont Theatre on May 8 as part of a plan to use the theater as another concert venue. The move is intended to allow SLO Brew to accommodate a larger variety of artists and help increase its brand recognition, general manager Monty Schaller said.

Getting the venue is a bigger step for the SLO Brewing Co., Schaller said.

“Everyone knows that the Brew is the best concert venue in town, but now we want to make it known that SLO Brew brings the best music to town,” Schaller said.

This plan has been in the works for some time. J.G. King, COO of King Ventures, the real estate development company that owns the Fremont Theater property, said he first started talking with SLO Brew operations manager Todd Newman about this last August.

It isn’t unusual for the Fremont Theater to have live concerts, King said — the band Yes recorded a live album there for three nights in March 1996, and King said “that was a historic thing.” The two downtown businesses have worked on concerts together in the past as well, King said.

However, King said the theater is “a special place,” and they don’t want to bring just anybody. The Lindsey Buckingham concert has already done well in sales, he said, and

they feel confident it will go well. There is a plan in place to have more SLO Brew shows at the theater, but the May 8 concert is a test show to ensure this is the direction the venue wants to go in.

“The SLO Brew guys are good guys,” King said. “We’re just looking for them to bring the right shows.”

Having live concerts at the Fremont Theater lets locals “experience it in all its glory,” King said, and allows the theater to bring acts people wouldn’t normally see that might be too big for the SLO Brew venue. However, that also means he doesn’t want a crowd that would be too aggressive on the building, King said.

While Schaller said SLO Brew has been getting offers from more mainstream artists over the last several years,

it can’t afford to host them at the Garden Street location because of its size, so SLO Brew is working on expanding to other local venues that can better accommodate bigger artists. The Fremont Theater is the only “mid-level venue” in town, he said.

This isn’t the first outside concert venue for SLO Brew — Newman said the business has a working relationship with The Cliffs Resort in Shell Beach, and Schaller said it is also negotiating with the Madonna Inn Expo Center.

Though the Lindsey Buckingham concert is SLO Brew’s only confirmed concert at the Fremont Theater, Schaller said there are plans in the works for an extended contract to have more. This concert is the first time SLO Brew is “entering into the forte” of hosting a prominent artist, Schaller said — and it has other acts “on the burner” to bring to the theater.

“It’s going to make so much more sense when we get to bring the artists ... and get the bigger ones,” Schaller said.

Before it was a concert venue, SLO Brew was primarily a brewery, Schaller said.

“There are two things that we do really well here — it’s

music and it’s beer,” Schaller said. “We’re an establishment that creates our own identity with the music and the beer ... whenever we do a concert offsite like this we’re pouring our own beer. So it’s a great way to expose people to more than just the music — again, it’s bringing what this building does inside offsite.”

Concert promotion has be-

Effort Events. The music his company brings is “a totally different genre” than the artists SLO Brew brings, he said.

“There is really no competition between us,” Kenny said.

“They’re good friends of ours.”

For Otter Productions Inc., another Central Coast promoter, it’s a different story. President Bruce Howard said SLO Brew is com-

There are two things we do really well here — it’s music and beer.

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come more accessible as SLO Brew’s music reputation has grown, Schaller said — it’s “part of what we do.”

But it isn’t easy. When a promoter’s contract at a venue ends, everyone puts in bids and pitches to have it next — it’s a slippery slope, Schaller said.

SLO Brew’s work in concert promotion isn’t worrying Johnny Kenny, owner and partner of Central Coast concert promoter Collective

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petition — but added that his company has also collaborated and co-promoted shows with SLO Brew.

“They are my pals, but we also compete; there’s no doubt about it,” Howard said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s friendly competition ... sometimes they beat me on artists, sometimes we beat them.”

During the past few years, the concert lineup at SLO Brew has been really impressive, Schaller said, and people are noticing. Some artists the venue had to pass on are ones that would work better at the Fremont Theater or other potential venues, and those acts are “going to be really big.”

While business administration senior Alyson Boehm hasn’t been to a concert at SLO Brew before, she said she thinks a concert at the Fremont Theater is “kind of out of place.” However, she wouldn’t be opposed to attending one.

“Their downtown location right now seems a lot more appropriate for the kind of crowd they would bring in,” Boehm said. “I think it would depend on the space that’s available.”

And the Fremont Theater isn’t the only downtown business SLO Brew is working with — it also works with Boo Boo Records to sell concert tickets.

A “side benefit” of bringing artists to San Luis Obispo is how everyone in town prospers from it, Schaller said.

“We sell our tickets online, but we always recommend people to go to Boo Boo’s because they’re our buddies,” Schaller said. “They’re in-house; they’re one of the dying industries of see SLO BREW, pg. 5

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Spice up your life with salsa Heather Rockwood is a food science senior and Mustang Daily food columnist.

In 1997 Pace Foods declared May National Salsa Month, and I am excited to celebrate an entire month of my favorite condiment.

There are so many types of salsa. It would be easy to try a new one each day of the month, but I am especially excited for my Cinco de Mayo salsa extravaganza. This weekend I plan on competing in a blind-taste salsa competition along with friends to compete for the ultimate prize — bragging rights for the best salsa. Winning will be no easy task though. I have quite a few talented chefs that hang in my crowd, and I will have to put on my all-star game shoes if I plan on stirring up the best salsa of them all — and believe me, there are many varieties.

There’s salsa roja, salsa verde, pico de gallo, mole, pineapple salsa, mango salsa, chipotle salsa — like I said before, there is a long lists of salsas to choose from and the one above is by no means exhaustive. My most experienced salsa is a blender variety I picked up from an old boyfriend (at least I kept something healthy from that breakup), but I’m tempted to venture out of the ordinary this weekend in order to really “wow” the tasters.

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the world. We love supporting local businesses.”

Lindsey Miller, director of marketing at the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce, said SLO Brew concerts at the Fremont will benefit local businesses as well.

According to Miller, there will be more people dining in surrounding restaurants when there are shows.

San Luis Obispo is the entertainment hub for the county, Miller said, and SLO Brew concerts at the Fremont Theater will give residents and tourists another option. Its size makes it a “totally different type of venue” and gives the theater “new life.”

“It’s really unique and special that they’ve pulled it all together,” Miller said.

SLO Brew has done concert promoting for years, Miller said — the venue is “in a unique place of knowing what’s out there.”

People still recognize that the Lindsey Buckingham show is a SLO Brew concert, Schaller

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Before I venture too far into remaking the salsa-world wheel, it would be good to review a few salsa-making essentials. The most important thing to remember is salsa from a can is never as good. I know some of you would like to argue because of the convenience factor, but I’m sorry, nothing beats a freshly made salsa topping your taco. The best part of it all is salsa takes less than five minutes to make, but satisfies for much longer.

Your ingredients don’t matter quite as much as you would think either. Sure, there are a few essentials such as tomatoes and some form of spice, but honestly, salsa isn’t an easy thing to mess up — miss a few ingredients or add a few and you’ll still have it tasting quite acceptable. For example, when

I can’t find the right pepper at the store for my favorite blender recipe, I just grab another or substitute with an onion; no one ever seems to care — granted I’m the only one eating it most the time.

Then there’s the question of putting it all together. Do you love to chop and don’t mind a few tears on your apron from all the crying? Then make a salsa full of chunks that are perfect for dipping chips in.

Or if you are more like me and just plain lazy, throw all your ingredients in a blender.

There is minimal effort beyond the “on” button. Either way, in moments you have a fresh salsa to dip or dunk your dinner into.

If you have more time, I would recommend roasting the peppers; it adds a smoky

flavor that is tough to beat.

One other thing to remember is when cooking with peppers, it’s always easier to turn up the heat as you go, but it’s a lot harder to remove the kick once it’s there. Years of crying eyes and gulping down milk has taught me this most valuable lesson. And don’t forget the majority of the heat is in the capsaicin found in the seeds of the peppers. The more seeds, the spicier the salsa.

All this talk of salsas and I still can’t decide on one for this weekend. Then again, I still have some time to test a few out before the big show.

I invite you to host a salsa get together of your own this May and find out why salsa has become the most purchased condiment in the U.S. — sorry ketchup.

said — they understand why the Garden Street venue can’t accommodate it and why it’s being held at the Fremont.

“They’re very excited that we still were able to find a way to put the show on,” Schaller said.

“They’re like ‘Oh sweet, that’s awesome, you guys are doing it over at the Fremont.’ ... It’s not the Fremont doing the show.”

To prepare for the concert, SLO Brew will bring in a separate sound system and lights, Newman said, but take advantage of the seats and stage already in place.

This concert will be a new experience for Schaller. He said it’s going to be interesting and “we’re all going to be on a learning curve together.” The energy

at a concert is different than the energy at a movie, he said.

“I picture it kind of being like a ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ vibe,” Schaller said.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may have to wait for another to be ready before you can begin, but once the day gets going, the pace should pick up considerably.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — What happens today may not be what you expected, but with a quick adjustment you can surely make the most out of almost all developments.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll have something to complain about today when all is said and done, but you’ll also want to choose your method with great care.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It may take a little more work than usual today to get others to express their appreciation and lend support to a current effort.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You know exactly how to give others just what they want today — and in the process you’ll get something you’ve been after for some time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may be in the dark as the day opens, but information will come to you piece by piece and your understanding will increase tenfold.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Put yourself out there today; you can’t expect anyone to buy what you are selling if they don’t know that it is available!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — How you set things up today is just as important as how you see them through.

Beginnings count for much in all things.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll come to an important understanding of the strange dynamics between you and someone who has been in your life for some time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — What happens today may not follow your game plan exactly, but you’ll realize that there are certain improvements to your plans being made.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can make on-the-spot decisions today that will pay off handsomely — provided you are where you are supposed to be, doing what is required.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Seeking comfort from another will provide you with more than you had bargained for — and certain complications will surely be worth it.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

College financing needs serious reform The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on April 27.

Even when congressional Republicans and Democrats say they agree, they find ways to disagree.

Both sides claim they want to prevent interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford student loans from automatically doubling in July. That’s the good news. Interest rates soaring to 6.8 percent would affect 7.4 million Americans.

The bad news: Each political party has its own idea of how to best pay the $6 billion it would cost to keep rates at 3.4 percent.

Democrats like the idea of ending tax subsidies for oil and gas

companies. Republicans prefer a raid on a health fund.

Surely the two sides can put politics aside for a moment and help young people evade an even deeper debt trap. A compromise before a House vote scheduled for today would be a great start.

Republicans are furious with President Barack Obama for barnstorming college campuses to push for legislation freezing the interest rate. However, the president deserves credit for moving the needle.

Although House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans never intended to let the rate double, they passed a budget that accounts for exactly that.

But holding interest rates

steady is a small gesture in the face of mounting student debt, which was expected to hit the $1 trillion mark this week. Policymakers, colleges and students themselves must work to make higher education more affordable and avoid high debt levels.

In Missouri, 65 percent of 2010 college graduates had taken on debt, with the average amount being $22,601, according to the Project on Student Debt. In Kansas, 57 percent of college graduate had loans to pay, with an average amount of $22,280.

Colleges and universities must do a better job holding down costs. The government should expand sanctions on

schools that do a poor job preparing students for careers that will enable them to pay off the loans.

States must show a greater level of support for public higher education. Only recently did student tuition rates climb higher than state aid in many places.

Consumer education is vital.

The government should do a better job making students and graduates aware of specialized loan repayment programs. And families need to seek sound advice about college financing options before taking on a loan.

Action is needed on many fronts, starting today in Congress.

Get mad about mad cow The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on April 27.

U.S. agriculture officials say their announcement Tuesday of the first case of mad cow disease in the United States since 2006 confirms that the nation’s food-safety system works.

We might agree if we didn’t know that the United States randomly tests only about one of every 10,000 cows, or 40,000 of the 35 million cows that are slaughtered every year. By comparison, Britain tests 70 percent of its beef cattle and Japan tests 100 percent.

Face it: Britain and Japan are taking food safety more seriously than the United States.

Two years ago, California adopted a law requiring meat processors to euthanize any downed livestock, animals that can’t walk, and keep them out of the food supply.

Downed cattle are at much higher risk of having mad cow disease than cattle that appear healthy. But in January the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state could not impose stricter requirements than the federal law.

Fortunately, U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., introduced legislation in the House in January that is virtually identical to the California law. Congress should pass Ackerman’s bill and examine other ways to improve the nation’s food safety, including

additional testing.

While the U.S. needs better safeguards, Tuesday’s discovery in the Central Valley may not indicate widespread danger. Despite the lack of testing, the United States has never had a major mad cow outbreak, and there were only 29 cases reported worldwide in 2011. In addition, the meat from this particular animal had not been introduced in any form into the supply chain.

Meat processors probably reduced the chances of mad cow disease when they stopped using high-risk cattle parts in food provided to cows. The massive outbreak in Britain in 1992 is believed to have been exacerbated by cows eating meat from infected livestock.

But food safety experts still fear, with good reason, that if downed cattle are not euthanized, tissue from body parts will be mixed unintentionally with other animal feed, raising the possibility of infecting other animals and spreading the disease. The California Legislature passed the law after viewing evidence that these cows were being included in the state’s food supply. Not only is the practice inhumane, but it creates a higher risk for the spread of disease.

Humans who consume contaminated cattle become susceptible to a human form of mad cow dis-

First world problems

ease. More than 35,000 cases were reported in the United Kingdom in 1992, and 150 people there died of the disease in the 1980s and 1990s.

Scientists have not found a cure for the disease, which slowly destroys brain tissue.

Some conservatives argue that the federal government should abandon testing altogether, believing that the meat industry will self-regulate to protect the integrity of its products. Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976, argued

before his death that the FDA should be abolished.

The problem with self-regulation is that there are always operators who will take short cuts to improve profits, especially when business is poor and if there’s no way to trace where disease-carrying products originate.

Food crosses state and national lines, and most Americans expect some assurance that what they buy will not kill them. Only a federal agency can play that role. There’s more work to be done to protect against mad cow disease.

I’m not naive. Underage drinking is going to happen, and if you are caught, then be ready to deal with the consequences.

The greeks think since it is already happening, they should not be punished for adding to the problem. Sorry, but living the greek life is hazardous. And nobody is saying that underage drinking is effecting grades, so your comment about your GPA is irrelevant.

— john

In response to “Fraternity gets cease and desist”

Semesters will only lower Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo standards to that of CSU Chico or lower.

Keep quarters or my annual Cal Poly fund donation will end.

— anonymous alumnus In response to “Administrators consider semesters” Perhaps the biggest reason for remaining on the quarter system is that it demands immediate focus and emulates workingworld intensity much more than a semester schedule.

In the working world, one must focus on the assignment immediately.

There’s no taking time to slowly get acclimated.

This is why a quarter system approach coupled with Cal Poly’s “Learn by Doing” philosophy prepare students so well for professional life.

On the CSU website, it states university presidents are given independence to manage their campuses with a fair degree of autonomy. If this is true, President Armstrong’s claim that Cal Poly is being forced into the semester system must be fabricated and he has a hidden agenda.

— Brian

In response to “Administrators consider semesters”

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I feel this story trivializes the whole issue of sexual assault.

Don’t be lazy, take it to the next level rather than joke about the fact that these poor boys’ feet hurt after a walk. Whatever.

This event doesn’t serve to poke fun at sexual assault, it raises awareness. This article lessened the potential impact of “Walk a Mile,” and I don’t understand why it’s not taken seriously after they’ve been so rampant on our campus. I hope that in the future MD recognizes the seriousness of events like this.

—C

In response to “Men stand up against sexual assault”

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Big West Standings - Baseball Big West W-L

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3. Cal Poly

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4. UC Santa Barbara 9-6 8-7

5. UC Irvine

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8. UC Riverside

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9. Pacific

Former Mustang cornerback Asa Jackson was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL Draft on Saturday. Ramses Barden, who was drafted in 2009 by the New York Giants, was the last Mustang selected by an NFL team. Jackson had 199 tackles in his four years at Cal Poly and returned to interceptions for touchdowns in 2011.

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The men’s tennis team completed its undefeated conference season with a narrow 4-3 victory over UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Championship on Sunday in Indian Wells, Calif. The team will advance to the NCAA Championships on May 11.

Sebastian Bell came from behind to clinch the title for the Mustangs and defeat the Gauchos’ Max Glenn in a third-set tiebreaker. Bell went down 1-0 after dropping the first set 6-4 but rallied in the second to win 6-1.

“Dropping the first set was pretty disappointing for me because that wasn’t representative of how I felt the match was going,” Bell said at a press conference.

In the decisive third set, Bell took a point from Glenn while he served and propelled the match into a tiebreaker. Bell then proceeded to outduel Glenn and take the final point, winning the tiebreaker 7-4 and the match by a 7-6 margin.

“I had been there before last year, so I knew what was required, what it was going to feel like,” Bell said. “That gave me an advantage and going forward helped a lot because he kind of crumbled in the tiebreak.”

His teammates mobbed the court following the victory while head coach Nick Carless, who didn’t watch the final point, collected himself before joining the celebration.

“I’ve been through a lot of college tennis matches in my nine years of coaching and

that certainly was more of an emotionally packed one than I can imagine,” Carless said at a press conference. “I wanted so badly for the guys on the team to experience the thrills of victory because of what they went through last year and how much hard work they put in to get to that point.”

The 64th-ranked doubles team of Andre Dome and Matt Fawcett kicked off the match against UCSB with a 8-2 win while Jurgen De Jager and Marco Comuzzo clinched the doubles point with an 8-6 win over Ziad Sultan and Alexander Gryaznov.

Dome, boasting a No. 40 ranking nationally, won both sets against No. 124 Mathieu Forget and set up Bell’s championship-clinching win. The only other Mustang to win a singles match was De Jager who beat Sultan 6-2, 6-4.

The Big West Championship culminated the conference portion of Carless’s first year as men’s tennis head coach.

His squad went 15-7 in the regular season while going 6-1 at home and sweeping their Big West opponents.

In the championships last weekend, the Mustangs received a first-round bye due to their first-place finish in the regular season. In the second round, Cal Poly quickly defeated UC Davis 4-0 after taking the doubles point and three singles matches. The remaining matches went unfinished as Cal Poly clinched the match.

Carless said he expects the Mustangs to face a team from

California, possibly Pepperdine or Stanford, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“We’ve got to play good

tennis, and we don’t need to play outside ourselves,” Carless said. “We can play within ourselves and have a good

chance to win.”

The Mustangs’ opponent in the NCAA Championship first round will be announced today

at 2:30 p.m. on NCAA.com.

J.J. Jenkins contributed to this report.

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Men’s tennis head coach Nick Carless (above), a former Mustang tennis player, won the Big West Championship in his first year in the top job. Sebastian Bell clinched the title for Cal Poly this season with a tiebreaker victory over UC Santa Barbara.