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The Cal Poly volleyball team added a 14th game to their win streak Saturday night when they defeated Long Beach State in Mott Athletics Center.

The Long Beach State 49ers (6-17, 3-7) were no match for the No. 23 nationally ranked team (19-2, 9-0) who beat their opponents in three quick sets.

The teams rallied back and forth until the Mustangs took the lead to 17-10 on a 5-1 run. Cal Poly did not look back

from there, and a kill from senior middle blocker Savannah Niemen ended the game 25-14.

The 49ers kept the Mustangs neck and neck the second game. Both teams traded points and were tied 11-11 at one point. However, Cal Poly went on a 6-1 run forcing Long Beach State to take a timeout when they were down 22-16. The Mustangs earned a 25-18 win in the match.

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DEVASTATION | The remains of the Fountain Grove Inn and Steakhouse in Santa Rosa smolder after the wildfires in Northern California.

Wildfires affect Cal Poly students Aidan McGloin @ mcgloin_aidan

As the Northern California fires destroy neighborhoods and force evacuations, some Cal Poly students are among those affected.

CalFire said it responded to 250 new wildfires between Oct. 8 and 20 which burned over 245,000 acres, forced the evacuations of 100,000 residents and took the lives of 42 people.

Wine and viticulture senior Patricia Williams said the three houses on her grandfather’s winery burned down in Napa, the homes of her grandparents and two cousins. Her grandfather built the houses on the property over the past forty years, and grew the winery from nothing.

Williams’ entire family lived on the property at one point, and the winery was an inspiration for her to enter the wine industry. She planned on working for her grandfather.

“It’s heartbreaking. I really don’t know what else to say,” Williams said.

No one in her family was harmed, which she said is truly important, and her grandfather is

Campus dining policies change Sydney Brandt @ syd_brandtt

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Middle back Nadia Retoff spikes the ball in the second set.

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This year, some of Cal Poly’s campus dining policies have changed under the new third party management, Chartwells Higher Education. In April 2017, they began managing all campus dining locations for Cal Poly Corporation. Many of the policies implemented have become concerns for both students and employees on campus.

waiting to talk to their insurance agency before he knows if they can rebuild. A large number of the 30-year-old vines may need to be replaced, she predicted, but the family does not know because only the property manager has seen the damage.

The effects of the fire on students were not limited to property damage.

Environmental earth and soil sciences freshman Wren McCullough couldn’t contact her mother for a while during the fire because cell phone service was knocked out in her area of Santa Rosa. She said her mother decided to stay at her house because she didn’t expect to find a shelter that would take her pets. The fire came within two blocks of her house. While her mother was planning to evacuate, McCullough had to decide what items she wanted to save.

She said it took her an hour to decide on taking her graduation cap, her yearbook and some family photos.

“If you think about it, genuinely, what you would save in the fire?” McCullough asked.

“What out of every single one of your things is irreplaceable?”

McCullough called her mother every two hours after the cell lines came back on, and bought respirator masks from Home Depot to send home because the air quality is bad, and they ran out in Santa Rosa.

Cal Poly parent Traci Holmes Libby has been coordinating relief efforts for students in the Cal Poly SLO Parent Facebook page. She said she knows of 20 students whose families are evacuated and six who have lost their homes.

She predicted that each family will receive $5,000 in cash and cards from donations, and mentioned one architectural firm which offered its services for free for those who lost their houses.

Meathead Movers collected two full trucks of various supplies, the Napa Future Farmers of America rescued over 200 farm animals, and the Napa Community Foundation announced it raised $1.2 million dollars for their community disaster relief fund and distributed $565,000 in immediate grants.

Williams asked that people contribute to relief efforts and travel to Napa Valley to help rebuild local businesses.

“It’s disappointing to me to know that this third party is the cause of most of the problems that we’re seeing with campus dining. I don’t trust the third party to care about the students,” software engineering junior Ty Foster said.

As a previous shift supervisor at Starbucks in Julian A. McPhee University Union, Foster had first hand experience with the interventions from the third party. He expressed many of his concerns that have proven to be problems on campus and led to him quitting his job.

“People complained about the food, so [Campus Dining] made us all dress the same.

Clearly they’re not doing what needs to be done. They’re just fixing what they think is the problem,” Foster said.

Food on campus According to Communications Specialist for Cal Poly Corporation Aaron Lambert, campus dining adjusts pricing every year based on changes in the costs of goods and inflation.

This year, he said that inflation varies from 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent.

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This year, the freshman class will receive partially blocked schedules for the entire 2017-18 school year to increase graduation rates, according to University Registrar Cem Sunata. Blocked scheduling is the process in which the university enrolls students in their classes rather than students completing the process on their own.

Cal Poly is in its ninth year of blocking fall quarter schedules for freshmen. The fall quarter schedule is a full-time blocked schedule of 16 units consisting of major, support and general education classes. Winter and spring quarters will be partially blocked for the first time this school year. Students will be blocked into 12 units of major and support courses.

Sunata initially proposed the idea for yearlong blocked scheduling three years ago, but it gained traction in 2016. Despite Cal Poly having the highest graduation rate in the California State University (CSU) system, the release of the 2016 CSU Graduation Initiative— a detailed plan with the goal “to increase graduation rates for all CSU students while eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps”— was seen as a push for the university to better itself.

This led the university to form a Graduation Initiative Team, which has been working

on a plan to increase the rates of graduation implemented partial blocking for freshmen, by 2025. although it posed concerns for current soph“We, as an institution, started thinking omores. Because freshmen are being blocked about what we can do to improve our reinto major and support classes throughout tention and graduation rates,” Sunata said. the whole year, sophomores who still need to “Class availability has always been a point of fulfill their major requirements are at risk of contention at Cal Poly.” not getting a spot in these classes. However, From 1999 to 2015, the registration systhis potential problem was not overlooked. tem included a series of 12 ro“We did work with the departtations, which put students ments to reserve seats for at a disadvantage if they continuing students,” were placed into one Sunata said. “We have of the last rotations. to make the switch Hopefully going The current system over at some point, prioritizes students otherwise this cycle forward, when these based on their dewill go on forever. gree progress. This Hopefully going freshmen become was implemented for ward, when sophomores, they won’t to even the playing these freshmen befield and allow stucome sophomores, have the same issues. dents to have a better they won’t have the chance at getting the same issues.”

CEM SUNATA classes they need.

Continuing students However, according to who still have issues getting Sunata, this system still put the classes they need may be freshmen at a disadvantage, because some helped by PolyPlanner, a tool that students upperclassmen with higher degree progress are required to use to pick courses or leave still need to take required general education notes regarding absences from the univerclasses. Because upperclassmen are able to sity for upcoming quarters. This allows for register first and secure spots in these coursindividual concerns to be acknowledged by es, freshmen are left unable to enroll in them, the university and the registrar. perpetuating the cycle.

Bioresource and agricultural engineering In order to end this cycle, the university freshman Grady Moosman has conflicting

views on the year-long blocked schedule.

“On one hand, I feel like it makes it a little easier on freshman who are still trying to figure out the college life, not having to figure out how to register for classes,” Moosman said. “But on the other hand, it may make it difficult for freshmen needing to take specific courses to advance in their major and for students looking to change majors.”

Cal Poly students may only request a change of major after their first quarter, which means that freshmen would continue taking classes for their original major during winter quarter regardless of having a blocked schedule or not. The only potential issue for freshmen changing their majors would occur during spring quarter.

“In winter, we’re going to be blocking you into your spring courses. If that change of major happens before we start blocking spring, there’s not a problem,” Sunata said.

If a student’s change of major is approved after their spring quarter is already blocked, they are able to drop their previous major courses and add classes for their new major during their registration rotation.

“Since this is our first time around, there may be some hiccups,” Sunata said. “But we’re pretty confident that it’s going to be successful because we have learned a lot from the full block scheduling, so we’re ahead of the game a little bit.”

Foster said.

Foster expressed his concern with many of the dining locations on campus. For example, Bishop’s Burger now serves burgers on whole grain buns. Foster admitted he disliked them.

“Is it healthier than In-N-Out? Yes. Does it taste good? No,” Foster said.

In addition to food quality, Foster has expressed his concern about how expensive campus dining food can be.

“It’s ridiculous; I think they’re trying to make a super profit, and it’s not like you can spend Plus Dollars anywhere else, so you have to spend them here on your seven dollar fruit cup from The Ave,” he said.

work stuff be clean every single day, it was too much money,” Foster explained.

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STAFF CHANGES | Campus dining employees now get a meal pass if they work more than five hours.

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Poly gets its food plays a role in cost increases as well.

“Over the last number of years, we have increased the amount of food and ingredients that we get from local farms and vendors,” Lambert said. “Smaller vendors often try to

stay competitive with their prices, and we know that buying local will increase our cost, but we do it for the quality, to lessen our environmental impact and to support local businesses.”

The quality of food may be getting better, but according to Foster, taste is another matter.

“I keep hearing that the food quality is getting better and I keep tasting worse food,”

Uniform changes In addition to food changes, there is a new uniform policy for dining employees, according to Lambert. The new change requires students to follow a much stricter dress code, which people have complained about, Foster said.

Every campus dining employee is required to wear black work pants, black non-slip shoes, aprons, campus dining logo hats if applicable and the required shirt.

“The amount of stuff you would have to buy to work 20 hours on campus and have your

Meal passes This year, all employees, full and part time, who work a five-hour shift are eligible for a complimentary meal on site, according to Lambert. Employees who work less than five hours in one shift are eligible for a 50 percent discount if they opt to purchase a meal.

This policy changed from last year, when employees received a $7.50 meal voucher for every four hours they worked.

“This policy aims to encourage employees to work five-hour shifts. The longer shifts are important to ensure staffing levels and are always a little more difficult to fill working around student schedules,” Lambert explained.

Students have the option to work anywhere from two to eight-hour shifts, based on their availability.

However, some students who work for campus dining need the meal passes, according to Foster.

“You don’t take away employee benefits because then they leave, and that’s what happened. I left, I won’t be coming back,” Foster said.

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Solar farm breaks ground and paves way for Cal Poly’s sustainability future Madi Salvati @ CPMustangNews

Dennis Elliot sat with his hands folded at his desk, surrounded by 34 years worth of memories and research.

“It means a lot,” Director of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability Elliot said, pointing to the degree above his desk. “I’ve been at Cal Poly a long time ... it’s pretty cool to be able to give back.”

Elliot graduated from Cal Poly in 1993 with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Now, he’s taking on the largest sustainability project of his career and creating a lasting legacy at Cal Poly.

After breaking ground about two weeks ago on the largest single solar array in the California State University system, Elliot and his team are at the forefront of Cal Poly’s sustainability efforts.

The solar farm will be completed December 2017. More than 16,000 individual panels will generate up to 11 million kilowatt hours of energy per year, enough to power 1,000 homes. About 25 percent of Cal Poly’s power will come from the farm and save $17 million over the next 20 years in energy costs.

Elliot said with this project, the opportunities for research will expand from the engineering department into construction management, architecture, city and regional planning, finance, public policy and political science.

“We are really just starting to scratch the surface,” he said.

Searching for clean energy The solar farm is being built as the central coast prepares for the planned closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in December, which has caused conflict over green energy since the 1960s. With this closure, San Luis Obispo County will lose a major source of clean energy.

Electrical engineering associate professor Bill Ahlgren emphasized Cal Poly’s efforts to not only act as a living lab, but as an example of how to diminish human contributions to global warming. The solar farm is part of these efforts.

“We are part of a giant effort to mitigate anthropomorphic entropic processes,” Ahlgren said.

This means finding more natural ways to produce energy instead of burning fossil fuels. In this case, the solar rays are harnessed to create natural power with no carbon emitted.

“We need to stop throwing carbon into the air,” Ahlgren said. “Some people still don’t get it.”

Coexisting peacefully The solar array is being constructed in the same area as the sheep unit, allowing sheep to graze alongside the solar panels, preventing overgrowth. Animal science students will study how the sheep benefit from the shade.

Sustainability Coordinator Kylee Singh said this crossover between energy and

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| Construction of the 18.5-acre solar farm is slated to finish Winter 2017.

agriculture industries will solve problems in both areas.

“It will be [a] pretty cool way to maintain [agriculture] and renewable energy in the same space,” Singh said.

Though the array creates cohesion between agriculture and renewable energy, the solar panels will take more than 18.5 of the sheep unit’s 20 acres. However, Singh said the coexistence could be beneficial to the environment.

Singh said in many places, construction of renewable options involves paving over many acres of land intended for agriculture. However, Cal Poly’s solar farm will not replace agricultural land because it is shared.

“Places like Southern California are paving over their agriculture, whether or not it’s [a] good idea,” Singh said.

This project will provide equal chances for departments to research and set an ex-

ample of coexistence. The hope is that the two will thrive together after the project is complete.

“Campus will be a living lab ... making sure that Cal Poly is a leader and a more sustainable campus,” Singh said.

Elliot said there will be many ways students can get involved with the living lab.

The solar farm can prove useful for many departments, as it will generate data every five minutes. The database will record how much energy is being processed and can determine if any of the panels are having trouble producing energy. These recordings will provide an enormous data set for analysis.

This project will do more than just catch the light on campus; it could be a sustainable legacy and testament to innovation.

“I’m not just building this and walking away,” Elliot said. “It’s going to last a long time.”

Meditation could be the key to easing political tensions Sonya Jindal @ Sonya_jindal

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| There is a correlation between mediation and politics, according to Mathiowetz.

Meditation and politics are not often practiced in unison. Mediation is a calm, insightful, individualistic activity whereas politics create very vocalized conversations. Although seemingly unrelated, the correlation between meditation and politics proves that one is needed to allow the other to prosper.

University of California, Santa Cruz associate professor and political theorist Dean Mathiowetz has been researching the relation of modern Buddhism to democratic theory. Mathiowetz spoke to Cal Poly students and faculty Oct. 19 in the Warren J. Baker Center (building 180) on this paradoxical idea of bringing in the art of meditation to

the practice of politics. Mathiowetz’s claim highlights the idea that mindful meditation can foster democratic political engagement.

According to ancient texts, Buddhism was founded during the 5th century B.C.E. under Siddhārtha Gautama, later known as the Buddha. The Buddha preferred a form of monarchy that ensured order, but allowed citizens to live in harmony. He believed the main point of politics was to distract individuals from what’s important — achieving enlightenment.

The Buddha taught that when people are suffering, there are three things they can do: keep suffering, change the world or change their mind. He stresssed that the better path is changeing one’s mind.

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If you exercise your capacities and habituate yourself to have this power in little ways everyday, it’ll be easier for you when you confront the big issues, such as disagreements in your own ideologies.”

Mathiowetz believes that if people engage with feelings of discomfort and allow themselves to come to peace with them, they begin to hear other perspectives of political issues and not act out in retaliation.

“As a psychology student, I’m always trying to figure out how the human mind works,” Cuesta College student Maya De Zubiria said.

“I found Professor Mathiowetz’ talk to be very mind-opening because of the idea of two very opposing topics. Initially, I was skeptical, but I think [he] did an amazing job of closing his argument and validating his points.”

Moore said Cal Poly has a commitment to fostering these kinds of ideogolgies.

“I would love to see Cal Poly be a leader, both in the community and more broadly, as a place that represents the best practices – that we can have controversial speakers come to campus and not flip out, that we can have disagreements and not come to blows and that we can kind of model the better way to do stuff – I think that’s the universities role,” Moore said.

Yoga teacher expands Human Being Training beyond Cal Poly Emily Merten @ e_merten

Amanda Parker Lambert begins each weekly Human Being Training yoga class at the Recreation Center by writing an idea or mantra on the small whiteboard behind her.

Sometimes, the Human Being Training founder comes to class with one in mind.

Other times, she will ask students what has been on their minds lately.

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Cal Poly celebrates 70th Rose Float Emma Kumagawa @ emma_kumagawa

The air is filled with a sense of quiet determination amidst the whirring of welding tools and blaring alternative music. Eyes stare intently out of safety goggles at whatever task is being executed, and bodies move swiftly and skillfully, weaving around equipment and peers. The Rose Float Lab is alive.

Since 1949, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly Pomona have combined forces to create one float entry for the annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade held on New Year’s Day. The Cal Poly floats are the only self-built student floats, and work is done entirely by volunteers on both campuses.

The 2018 Rose Parade theme is “Making a Difference,” Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona which are portraying in their 70th entry, “Dreams Take Flight.” The float will display

three baby animals — a koala, a red panda and an otter — flying airplanes through a starry sky.

The planes will feature stamps with images of old floats in honor of past creations. The concept is a tribute to students’ potential for personal success in college.

“We like to be different from the other floats … We want to make the float become its own world,” Design Co-Chair and biology sophomore Yayoi Marumo said.

In San Luis Obispo, float preparation takes place in the Rose Float Lab, (building 50L) located in Building 50L. Saturdays are the designated “open lab days,” until Oct. 21, when San Luis Obispo float members will begin to alternate campus visits with Pomona. Each university has half of the float frame, so visits will allow for them to be connected and for the float to be worked on as a whole. Until then, the back half of the float frame sits outside the warehouse, waiting to be joined with its coun-

terpart in Pomona.

True to the Learn by Doing motto, the Rose Float attracts a community of artists and engineers who thrive off hands-on, innovative practices. They have the freedom to collaborate and create with one another to accomplish objectives.

Rose Float Construction Chair Kendall Searing began participating in the program seven years ago and fell in love with the engineering aspect, which allowed him to tackle technical challenges.

“There’s that little bit of pressure that makes it thrilling, makes it a challenge,” mechanical engineering graduate student Searing said. “I’ve done it every year. It’s part of my Cal Poly experience.”

Both universities grow flower fields to supply decoration materials. In San Luis Obispo, the most used flower is statice, which is grown and processed on campus.

Roses, gerber daisies, straw flowers, beans and seeds are also widely used. The Cal Poly float is one of the few California-grown floats, with 85 percent of flower material from the state.

In terms of mechanical parts, the same frames and engines are used each year. Donations are received from local areas and community members to help fund the project.

San Luis Obispo’s leadership team is composed of 28 people, with an additional 30 volunteers.

The whole group is managed by the advisor, Josh D’acquisto, and the president, Ali Harake. The executive team is comprised of the vice president and the department chairs, who help the president with keeping schedules and tasks in check.

The three departments are design, decorations and construction. Each works on different aspects of the float and follows a specific timeline

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to stay on track.

“If I was doing this just by myself, I would literally die,” Rose Float president and mechanical engineering senior Ali Harake said. “The cool thing is this program is very self-sufficient; we all have our roles, we all have our responsibilities and we know what we want to do and how we want to do it.”

Although the making of the float is a volunteer effort, there is never a shortage of hands or motivation. In addition to dedicating their Saturdays to the Rose Float, the team is constantly communicating with one another and their equals in Pomona through texts and video calls. They look forward to the four-hour drives to Pomona, where they will be working and creating with the entire crew.

“Everyone that’s in this program really wants to be in this program, and that’s just the kind of mentality that’s been passed down from leadership to leadership team,” Harake said.

“Going from nothing to something amazing, something that everyone in the world can see, is really rewarding.”

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“I think our current political structure is violent. It’s more interested in shouting than listening, making our opponents be quiet than sharing a voice, interested in winning than figuring out the process,” political science professor Matthew Moore said. Moore is a political theorist who has two recent publications on the topic of Buddhism and politics.

Mathiowetz stressed the importance of adopting a Buddhist approach, not to policy but to individual lives and actions.

“We have to ask ourselves, ‘How can I not contribute to that bad culture?’” Moore said So how does meditation fall under the sphere of helping individuals become active citizens in the political sphere? In practice, meditation is the art of nonjudgmental, present-moment awareness of sensations and thoughts as they arise and subside.

“It can be really frustrating and uncomfortable – it’s the practice of learning to feel and tolerate discomfort as it comes up and up and up in your body and mind,”Mathiowetz said.

“Scientific research has proven that media-

tion can improve stress reduction, yield better health, improve focus and improve perspective taking.

Mathiowetz noted the importance of different perspectives and looking through other people’s eyes, which meditation can help with.

“When you’re meditating, you’re discovering more about your own point of view,” Mathiowetz said. “While sitting with your own thoughts a little more and analyzing them, you begin to be able to hear others more. Perspective taking plays a huge role in politics.”

According to Mathiowetz, mindfulness meditation is the practice of sitting with and tolerating discomfort, complexity and ambiguity. He further explained that by engaging in the practice of meditation, people can enter into this state of discomfort and find peace in it.

“It exercises your capacities to tolerate that discomfort. In that way, it supports the activity of engaging in the work of democracy and social justice – which is another place where you’re going to confront complexity, discomfort, ambiguity and still have to try and take action,” Mathiowetz said. “Behind this claim that these two things are connected is an idea of something called habituation.

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exercises, Parker Lambert reminded her students of this mantra. During shavasana, a well-known final resting yoga pose, she spoke to her students with this theme in mind. She calls these her “shavasana talks.”

“It’s funny — students seem to feel the same way about it as I do,” Parker Lambert said. “The most common comment I get after class is ‘You just made my week,’ and I feel the same way. I look forward to this all week. In some ways, I get ready for it all week. I’m always human being training myself, but when I get to come together with students to share it, that makes my week.”

For Parker Lambert, human being training can be difficult to describe. It’s not just yoga; it’s also philosophy. Sometimes, she incorporates exercises from her Muay Thai black belt. Sometimes, it’s a dance party.

“It’s a yoga-based, music-fueled journey of self-discovery. It’s fun. It’s whimsical. Sometimes it’s profound; sometimes it’s profane,” Parker Lambert said. “ I call it yoga so the public can relate to it. But really, it’s an adventure in movement.”

The inspiration It all started in 2012 after what she described as her “big awakening” in life. It came after rock bottom.

“At about age 46, I was in a place where I didn’t feel like life was fun anymore,” Parker Lambert said.

Depression and insomnia had lingered for years. She forgot what joy felt like. She had recently moved to the Central Coast, where she met a new friend who introduced her to the ideas of writer and philosopher Alan Watts.

In about a week’s time, Parker Lambert’s way of thinking was transformed.

“I basically learned not to take myself so fucking seriously. Or life, for that matter,” Parker Lambert said. “I talk about this a lot in my class— where you’re so serious about life that you have to laugh at yourself and realize that you’re going to die one day. And what are you doing in the meantime? Let’s have some fun and not get so bound up in the ego and what other people think of us and what we’re ‘supposed’ to be doing.”

After this realization, Parker Lambert felt joy for the first time. She decided that if she had benefited so much from this new way of thinking, there must be others who could benefit from it too. “[Human Being Training] was less of a business idea and more of an overflowing of the joy I was feeling and wanting to share that with others who I saw struggling with the same things I had been suffering from,” Parker Lambert said.

She first started a website writing about the philosophy behind her idea of “human being training.” She had been teaching yoga since 2004, but it wasn’t until 2012 that she combined her human being training ideas with her yoga classes. The first Human Being Training yoga class was in Studio 2 at the Recreation Center at Cal Poly.

“I’ve discovered that when I can get people

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| Parker Lambert teaches Human Being Training at the Rec Center.

sweaty and tired and dancing and happy and doing something different than usual, then they’re usually willing to listen to new ideas,” Parker Lambert said.

Biological sciences alum Lili Gevorkian met Parker Lambert as a student when Human Being Training just began. She was the first student to introduce herself to Parker Lambert.

“Her blunt and genuine presence was refreshing, and her physical challenges were painful, yet transformative,” Gevorkian said. “[Human Being Training] has created a community that will certainly continue growing.”

On Saturday, Parker Lambert hosted her first Human Being Training yoga class outside of Studio 2, expanding the practice beyond the Cal Poly community. The public gathered at SLO Yoga Center at 5 p.m. for “Saturday Night Love,” a donation-based class.

Parker Lambert said she sees potential in the growth of the community. She said Human Being Training is not just for college students.

“Everybody needs this. I need this. Everybody needs a reminder of how to return to their natural state of joyfulness,” Lambert said. “Daily life is really hard if you don’t understand the tricks of how to play the game, and how to think in a new way that makes everything you do a source of joy or inspiration.”

Human Being Training yoga will continue at Cal Poly on Thursday nights, an opportunity for students to practice mind-body health and try a different kind of yoga.

“The class was a lot more free form and lighthearted than traditional yoga classes,” biological sciences senior Elliot Kirk said. “Amanda would add her own flair to classic yoga techniques and that made it truly unique.”

October 2017 Dear CalPoly Student, As you are probably aware, for many years Isla Vista was annually the site of an un-hosted, unsponsored Halloween street party that negatively impacted the local community of families, long-term residents, students and small businesses. In recent years, collective community efforts have been successful in deterring out of town visitors. It is, however, important to continue efforts to dissuade visitors to Isla Vista since they have historically accounted for the majority of problems including arrests, citations, vandalism, and other serious public safety issues. The hope of the Isla Vista community is to emphasize community pride and collective accountability, and to keep this celebration safe and local. To this end, a number of special measures will be in place to help protect the community again this year.

Therefore, it is important that you are fairly warned about the potential serious consequences of a visit to Isla Vista during the Halloween weekend.

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Over the Halloween weekend, a large contingent of peace officers and deputies will be deployed in Isla Vista to enforce the law and local ordinances, heightening the risk of visitors to Isla Vista leaving with an arrest record. Most misdemeanors, such as public intoxication, along with felonies, will mean spending at least one night in the Santa Barbara County Jail.

Here are a just a few of the enforcement efforts planned: • California Highway Patrol (CHP) sobriety checkpoints in the Isla Vista and Goleta areas • Stringent enforcement by CHP of vehicle code violations on the Highway 101 corridor from San Luis Obispo to Ventura • Alcohol and Beverage Control agents monitoring Isla Vista and Goleta for sales of alcohol to minors and the illegal transportation of alcohol • CHP, UC Police, and Sheriff ’s Department saturation patrols in areas surrounding Isla Vista • Sweeps of Goleta hotels by Sheriff ’s Officers for underage drinking • Zero tolerance enforcement (no warnings) Residents of Isla Vista are being urged to host only private celebrations and not to allow access to people they don’t know and those under the age of 21. Potential visitors should also note that there will be no live or pre-recorded amplified music allowed in public in Isla Vista during the Halloween period, from Thursday, October 26 through Wednesday, November 1, each evening from 6 pm to 7 am the following morning. Sheriff ’s officers will be enforcing local ordinances that prohibit people from blocking public right-of-ways (e.g., streets and sidewalks).

Street parking in Isla Vista and on neighborhood streets in Goleta will be severely restricted, and tow companies are prepared to tow illegally parked cars. Oversize vehicles such as RVs and campers are prohibited from parking on Isla Vista streets. Out-of-town visitors will not be allowed to park on the UCSB campus or in commercial lots surrounding Isla Vista, and UCSB policies prohibit Halloween weekend guests in our residence halls and apartments.

Given the strict enforcement and the negative impact that out of area crowds have on the community of Isla Vista, I hope that you will decide to stay away for your own safety and protection and choose to celebrate Halloween locally in your own community.

Sincerely,

Katya Armistead Ed.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor/Dean of Student Life Dean of Students Office UC Santa Barbara

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Cal Poly undergraduate archi program recognized nation

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This year, Cal Poly’s architecture undergraduate program was ranked number one in the west by DesignIntelligence (DI). The program holds the number two position in the nation overall, behind Cornell University.

In 2014, Cal Poly received the number one position. For the past five years, they have maintained their spot in the top three.

DI is an independent company that ranks architecture programs all over the nation based on their focus in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design.

They also take into consideration professor credentials, hiring rates after graduation

and where graduates are hired.

Cal Poly architectural design professor Umut Toker was recognized as one of the top 25 most admired educators, due to his knowledge in the field and dedication to his students.

Architecture sophomore Foster Westover said Cal Poly’s reputation proves to be true in the real world. This summer he interned at an architecture firm and said half his coworkers were from Cal Poly.

“We have such a good ranking, it’s known ‘Cal Poly architects, they’re gonna be good!’” Westover said.

In the skills assessment portion of selection, known as the “architecture design education focus areas,” Cal Poly placed first in engineering fundamentals, healthy built

environments, project planning and management, practice management, sustainable built environments and construction materials and methods.

Cal Poly was also named the most desirable architecture program by deans and department chairs.

A total of 2,654 hiring professionals from 1,923 organizations were surveyed, according to ArchDaily.

Westover said many Cal Poly architecture students often spend 15 hours a week in architecture classes on top of working on projects in the studio “Everybody is so so driven and really cares about what they are doing here, so it makes sense the amount of time we devote, and then we are rewarded by getting this great ranking,” Westover said.

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| In ARCH 131, students are tasked with building their own models.

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| Student models, alongside their diagrams, are displayed in the architecture building.

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| This project reflects the design skillset and engineering fundamentals the department teaches.

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| Before building their projects, students create project diagrams.

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In defense of smoking

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Hunter White is a history senior and Mustang News columnist. The views expressed in this column do not reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News.

Smoking will almost certainly kill you, and before it does, it will ravage the last few years of your life with agony and surprise tracheotomies. We all know this. We have known it for decades and with every generation, fewer people start the toxic addiction.

Despite the habit’s ever-receding prevalence, the fact that it lingers, even among the young and the lively, begs the question: with all the staggering morbid evidence, why do millions of young Americans, myself included, still choose to start the habit? I can provide only my own meager reasonings.

Compared to America’s other poisonous compulsions (heroin, alcohol, etc.) the benefit of cigarette smoking seems pedestrian: years of suffering and lost life in exchange for a momentary buzz so short-lived that a glue-huffing third-grader probably wouldn’t trade the Elmer’s for the Marlboro Man. If you’ve ever listened to the stories of an old, pickled alcoholic, it may be easy to

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understand their choice to trade the banalities and existential dread of life for a few brief highs and an enduring numbness.

It is a transaction we are all tempted towards, some elixir or secret knowledge that might rearrange the horrifying realities of our inevitable doom.

Cigarettes, on the other hand, possess none of the life-altering power, only the cost. They are the most reckless and fruitless of our collective death wishes. It is this very recklessness that draws one to the small paper tubes of dried carcinogenic flora.

Acknowledged or not, death remains the single most powerful force in all of our lives.

Every religion or great work of art from the

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| The liberal arts may still have great value in today’s job market.

Re-examining the liberal arts Max Reichardt @ max_reichardt

Max Reichardt is a communication studies senior and Mustang News columnist. The views expressed in this column do not reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News.

When the term originated in ancient Greece, the “liberal arts” represented the robust, well-rounded education required for public service, democratic participation and proper citizenship. To

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| Though smoking has negative effects on health, White says the habit can be worth it for the momentary buzz it gives.

exist and thrive in society (at least, in the educated upper classes) one was expected to have knowledge of the trivium (grammar, logic and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy) alike.

We don’t live in ancient Greece, but we might consider this mindset as students in an institution designed to prepare us for competent professional and personal lives—one that exists in a country steeped in Grecian democratic principles.

A recent article from Harvard Business Re-

Chauvet Cave Paintings to “Iron Man II” (2010) grapples with the absurdity of our eventual non-existence. It is this absurdity that the cigarette inhabits. It is a gleeful smile in the face of death, trading duration for the dullest excitement.

“What a childish attitude!” screech the hordes behind their acai bowls and fish oil supplements, sipping upon carefully measured powder in water, providing optimum nutrition until gluten returns in vogue. This I do not deny. It is a mortal act of childish insolence, but who among us doesn’t long to be a child again, risking life and limb for a momentary pleasure, existing outside of time with lips untainted by primeval fruit.

So outside the bar and in the state designated no-smoking zones, they gather. Outcasts of the Arc finding a moment’s respite in shared long form suicide. These lost sinners passing the peace pipe in a communal bond burrowed in the roots of our humanity. They are a group formed through the pain of being a man and the subtle refusal to allow death to dictate the terms of life.

If you’ve found yourself shackled within this unholy covenant and now long for an escape from its lethal tithe, seek out the aid of those wiser than I. Yet, if you share the cynical appeal of a life spent dying there are more destructive sins than this, though none quite so brazen.

view (HBR)—titled “Liberal Arts Majors are the Future of the Tech Industry”—examined three novel ideas about the role of liberal arts in the tech space, and advocated for reconsideration.

Venture capitalist Scott Hartley believes as tech skills, such as coding, become easily accessible through the internet, recruiters should focus more on the human problem-solving perspectives and flexible skillsets of their applicants.

That is not to say engineers and computer scientists are incapable of creative, empathic thought, just as humanities-educated folks are not incapable of applied mathematics or computer programming. Such dichotomous thinking is what creates rifts between disciplines in the first place. The allocation of resources toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) versus liberal arts is especially evident at a polytechnic university like Cal Poly. STEM students can be more accustomed to technical thinking and perhaps have not been exposed to the amount of literature, art and humanities-focused curriculum that cultivates a more humanist mindset.

The end goal of any (tech) company is to provide value to their customers in the form of an innovative product or service, but it is easy to stray from this mindset in an age of faceless big data analytics. While such processes are crucial to understanding and solving business challenges, it is possible to become stuck in a mechanical frame of mind. As author and Assistant Editor at HBR J.M. Olejarz put it: “What matters now

is not the skills you have but how you think.”

These differences surely cause liberal arts students to feel uncertain about how they will fit in after they graduate. Certain degrees have a clearer “path” laid out for them since they are so specialized and skill-based, i.e. STEM. Liberal arts can be more open-ended with available options for gainful employment, perhaps due to the abstract nature of their skillset relative to STEM. It’s up to you to specialize, but in a volatile and uncertain job market, the flexibility cultivated in liberal arts education will prove invaluable.

A similar sentiment can be found in a New York Times book review from August: “Don’t Panic, Liberal Arts Majors. The Tech World Wants You.” The books reviewed have such Dr. Seuss-esque and slightly patronizing titles as “You Can Do Anything: The Power of a ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Education.” Such coddling is evident of the general regard of liberal arts as “soft” skills, but the presence of this new literature might also signal a change of attitudes for the better.

On the other hand, these ideas are self-confirming and rosy at best. The post-grad world is challenging to navigate for anyone, so we all need to be as prepared as possible. Ultimately, it behooves anyone to expand their mode of thinking to include that which they don’t understand very well. These “soft skills” are worthy of as much respect as “hard” ones. Both groups are parts of a whole that contribute to a well-rounded individual—a liberal arts education in the classic sense.

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PUZZLES Sodoku Fun By The Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!

Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a

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sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

Word Scramble Rearrange the letters to spell something pertaining to the arts.

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1. Inventor of the apochromatic lens 5. Time units (abbr.)

8. Cool!

11. NY football family 13. A way to consume 14. Competition 15. Monetary units 16. Plant in the daisy family 17. Ottoman military title 18. Small Polish village 20. Relatively insignificant lie 21. Argument 22. Comforts 25. Early 30. Went on and on 31. Type of IRA 32. Short musical composition 33. Images 38. Major component of wood glue (abbr.)

41. Observing expeditions 43. Used as a lightweight foam 45. Recall knowledge 48. Afrikaans word for “language” 49. Fried chicken guru Sanders’ title (abbr.)

50. Caucasian language 55. A Spanish river 56. Used to pierce holes 57. Song of praise 59. In bed 60. Originally called 61. Iron Age Brittonic tribe 62. Young goat 63. Not even 64. Make from wool or yarn

1. Current unit 2. Bleats 3. Soft creamy white cheese 4. Opposite of west 5. Young female cow 6. Deep, narrow gorges 7. Freestanding sculpture 8. Finger millet 9. Hurts 10. Unable to hear 12. Vast body of water 14. Volcanic island in Fiji 19. Not early 23. Wet dirt 24. Be characteristic of 25. Before 26. Tell on 27. Resembles the ostrich 28. Million barrels per day (abbr.)

29. War-torn city in Syria 34. Mode of transportation 35. Metals and minerals are extracted from this 36. Trent Reznor’s band 37. Midway between south and southeast 39. Vesuvius is one 40. Permitted 41. A type of corrosion (abbr.)

42. Tip of Aleutian Islands 44. Shouted 45. Jewish spiritual leader 46. Punched in the side of the head 47. Lout 48. Used to make furniture and ships 51. Spectrum disorder (abbr.)

52. A way to talk 53. American shoe company 54. Chinese ethnic group 58. Egg of a louse

HOROSCOPES ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, embrace that others see you as a role model. There may be someone close to you who holds you in strong regard. Pay attention to the influence you have on others.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, make an effort to be more financially prudent in the coming weeks. Some patience and discipline now will pay big dividends down the road.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, a difficult problem will ultimately prove very rewarding when you find the solution.

Embrace this challenge and give it your best shot. You will be glad you did.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Someone you know is interested in picking up new skills, and you are just the teacher for the job, Scorpio. Embrace this chance to help others.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, attempt to connect with people on a deeper level for the next several days. Your home is a place of comfort and your personal sanctuary, and you can make it that for others, too.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 This is an excellent time to express your feelings, Sagittarius. Others will be receptive to your thoughts, and a new relationship may be on the horizon.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, slow down a little and take time to smell the roses. A breather can help you appreciate all the things you have and give time to show that appreciation.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Your focus this week will be on acquisitions.

You may be renovating a home or business or simply updating a wardrobe. Keep track of your spending.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, you may need to develop some thick skin as you begin taking on a new project.

You’re fully capable, so don’t listen to any potential doubters.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 Your motivation must come from within this week, Aquarius. Others are not around to be your cheer squad. Your inner drive is there; it just may need a boost.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, keep to yourself this week if you feel unwanted conflict is coming. Enjoy some solitary time until the waters calm down.

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Men’s soccer splits final away games of the season Nate Edelman @ NateEdelman

The Cal Poly men’s soccer team split their final two road matches of the season, defeating UC Davis 3-2 on Wednesday and falling to Sacramento State 5-1 on Saturday night. The Mustangs are now 6-9-1 overall and 2-5-1 in the Big West.

Freshman goalkeeper Jason Hernandez made his first start against UC Davis, recording five saves. The game was scoreless through the first 73 minutes until graduate student midfielder Alex Sanchez drove a free kick to VOLLEYBALL continued from page 1

Similar to the first two sets, both teams traded points back and forth until Cal Poly once again was on a scoring roll hitting .500, the highest hitting percentage of the match.

Sophomore outside hitter Torrey Van Winden scored six of her team-high 15 kills this game to help the Mustangs take the third and final set 25-17.

Her sister, junior outside hitter Adlee Van Winden, recorded five kills, two service aces and two blocks.

Senior setter Taylor Nelson greatly contributed to the win with 30 assists, seven digs and four kills. Junior libero Katherine Brouker led the Mustangs with 11 digs.

Collectively, the team only committed two errors per set, which is the fewest amount of errors recorded for a match all season.

The Mustangs travel to UC Davis to take on the Aggies Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. in hopes of maintaining their impeccable conference record.

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senior forward Kaba Alkebulan who headed the ball in to give the Mustangs the first goal of the game.

In the 80th minute, Cal Poly freshman forward Angel De Leon scored his first goal of the season and doubled the Mustangs’ lead.

UC Davis came back and scored with five minutes left to play when Aggie forward Adam Mickelson converted a free kick past Hernandez. Forty-eight seconds later, UC Davis tied the game when forward Matt Baringer headed a cross past Hernandez.

Junior forward Sean Goode scored the game winning goal for the Mustangs in the

91st minute to give the Mustangs the victory.

On Saturday, the Mustangs were tied with Sacramento State 1-1 heading into the second half before the Hornets scored four unanswered goals. Senior defender Adam Olsen’s penalty conversion in the 43rd minute was the only goal for the Mustangs at Hornet Field.

Hornets’ forward Justin Bedig scored his third goal of the season just six minutes into the second half. Sacramento State scored its third goal in the 63rd minute and Hornets’ forward Paul Geyer and Brad Bumgarner scored in the 74th and 75th

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minute, respectively.

The top three programs in the Big West North Division qualify for the Big West Tournament. Cal Poly currently sits in fourth place. The Mustangs close the regular season by hosting UC Davis on Wednesday and UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.

Sampson critical of U.S. men’s soccer Erik Engle & Kenny Campbell @ CPMustangNews

The United States soccer community is still reeling from the national team’s loss to Trinidad and Tobago that eliminated the United States from qualifying for the next World Cup. Cal Poly men’s soccer head coach Steve Sampson coached the U.S. Men’s National Team from 1995 to 1998 and is critical of the recent direction of the program.

“Very, very sad time for U.S. Soccer,” Sampson said. “For us to have qualified for every world championship since 1986 and not to do it this time around, very disappointing.”

Sampson suggestFor us to have sed that the U.S. Men’s Nat ionqualified for every world ALE X ANDER BOHLEN | COURTE SY PHOTO al Team might FRUSTRATION | Sampson used to coach the U.S. national team. championship since not only need a change in coachis the only player run for U.S. soccer. According to Sampson, 1986 and not to do it ing staff, but a on the team that is the tough loss might be a needed wake up this time around, very change in the sysof that younger gencall for the professional soccer community tem itself. Accorderation. The players and bring positive changes to the process disappointing. ing to Sampson, the that played in the qualof player development.

STEVE SAMPSON team needs to focus on ification phase, the old“I think in the short term it’s going to afthe development of younger players, they provided so fect the game, but I think intelligent heads er players and completely shake much quality for this country, will prevail and come up with a plan that up the team’s composition. but a lot of them are on the downside of will possibly make soccer better in this “There has been absolutely zero renovatheir career.” country,” Sampson said. “Sometimes this tion to our national team since prior to The team’s elimination from World Cup is the jolt you need in order to make change Brazil,” Sampson said. “Christian Pulisic contention may not be so bad in the long and change is definitely in order right now.”

Jake Jeffrey takes over starting spot for Cal Poly football With starting quarterback Khaleel Jenkins out for the season due to a knee injury, redshirt freshman Jake Jeffrey was unexpectedly thrown into his first collegiate start against Southern Utah Oct. 14.

In his first appearance on a college football field, Jeffrey completed 11 out of 21 pass attempts for 137 yards.

“I know I didn’t play my best but I just got to continue repping it each week and improve on it each day,” Jeffrey said. “It was a really cool experience, it was for sure a change from high school, the tempo-wise, the physicality-wise, but it was a fun experience.”

His second outing didn’t go much better.

Against the stout defense of Weber State, Jeffrey completed seven of 20 passes for 73 yards and three interceptions in the Mustangs’ 17-3 loss.

“They are probably the most physical team we are going to play all season long and I think

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field from Jenkins.

“I feel horrible for what happened to him that sucks to have your season cut short like that,” Jeffrey said. “He’s walked me through the steps trying to emulate how he did things in practice, how he took the reps.”

Injuries to key starters such as Jenkins, senior fullback Joe Protheroe and a handful of linemen on both sides of the ball hampered the team’s success this season after reaching the first round of the FCS playoffs last year.

“We have lost four of five guys now that are major contributors and those are tough guys to replace,” Walsh said. “We have to make sure everyone understands that they have to help those guys that are next man up.”

Cal Poly is still winless on the season (0-7, 0-4 Big Sky) but Jeffrey will look to guide the Mustangs to victory against UC Davis (3-4, 1-3) on the road Saturday at 4:05 p.m.

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50 touchdown passes during his senior season while leading the Bulldogs to their fifth section championship in the last seven years. Coming to Cal Poly helped Jeffrey improve his footwork in both the run game and passing offense.

“The biggest thing I got from Folsom was just a good understanding of the game of football itself, just a general knowledge of how things work on offense, learn how to watch film, got a lot of reps throwing the ball there,” Jeffrey said. “I think Cal Poly has really built on the running game part of things. I mean they are probably the best defensive team we obviously, it’s a completely different offense.” are going to play all season long.” head coach At Folsom, Jeffrey was able to learn from Tim Walsh said. current University of Washington starting Though Jeffrey may not be the fastest or quarterback Jake Browning, who threw for most athletic quarterback, Walsh a national record with 229 touchcredits Jeffrey’s ability to make down passes in his high school smart decisions with the career, including 91 touchfootball as one of his down passes in his sestrongest attributes nior season, another It was for sure a on the field. national record.

“Number one, “Back in high change from high school, his intelligence is a school I didn’t start the tempo-wise, the huge factor for us,” until my senior Walsh said. “He’s got year because I was physicality-wise, but it was great football intellibehind Browning,” a fun experience. gence and he needs to Jeffrey said. “He reuse that because what ally just taught me he may lack in speed and the ropes, I saw how he JAKE JEFFREY all those things, he makes worked, saw his work ethic up for in how smart he plays and wanted to emulate that.” the game.”

Now at Cal Poly, Jeffrey has been Jeffrey previously played at Folsom High able to learn how to run the offense as well as School, passing for over 4,000 yards and tossing how to study film and what to expect on the