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Williams is no longer employed by Cal Poly as of Friday, Setp. 20 aftering being suspended.

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After being sentenced to five years of probation for using his phone to take photos up a colleague’s skirt, psychology professor Jason Williams is no longer employed at Cal Poly as of Friday, Sept. 20.

Jason was suspended immediately after the university learned of the incident in May 2018, University Spokesperson Matt Lazier wrote in an email to Mustang News. He had been on paid leave until last Friday.

Cal Poly conducted their own investigative process outside of the District Attorney’s Office as prescribed by Cali-

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fornia State University (CSU) executive order and CSU executive collective bargaining agreements.

“These processes are detailed and can be lengthy, but the university is mandated to adhere to them,” Lazier wrote.

As a result, Jason was terminated.

Jason is in process of appealing his termination, Lazier wrote.

The incident in 2018 Survivor and psychology lecturer Kendra Williams said Jason stood behind her in the department mailroom and initiated small talk with her. After she turned to check her mail, Kendra

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said she saw Jason pointing his cell phone up her skirt and taking photos of her body with the flash on.

Kendra said she confronted Jason after seeing him upskirting her, and he was arrested.

After the sexual harassment was reported, Kendra was placed on medical leave and Jason was booked into San Luis Obispo County Jail. He was released the same day on bail, according to court documents.

The defendant pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge, according to court documents.

The sentencing was postponed four times since the complaint against Jason was filed.

In addition to probation, court documents show officials have the right to search Jason’s electronic devices and his residence. He was also fined $221.

Jason had been employed at Cal Poly since 2008 as an assistant professor of psychology.

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Cal Poly is only $60 million away from its $700 million fundraising campaign goal.

The university has raised over $642 million dollars toward The Power of Doing campaign from over 70,000 donors, according to Vice President of Development and Cal Poly Foundation CEO Matthew Ewing. He said the university hopes to reach or exceed the $700 million goal by June 2021.

“We closed out that fiscal year in June with $117 million dollars which is the second highest total fundraising productivity in university history,” Ewing said. “What’s really positive for us is for the first time in the last six or seven years we saw an increase in our total number of donors and total number of gifts.”

The campaign’s goal is to enhance

student success through its three pillars: empowering students, empowering excellence and empowering innovation.

“To date, the $204 million has been raised toward the empowering excellence pillar, over $230 million dollars toward empowering innovation, and empowering students, over $204 million dollars,” Ewing said.

Some of the funding will benefit faculty, undergraduate research, as well as support the 300 incoming Cal Poly Scholars. About one third of Cal Poly Scholars will have half or all of their tuition paid by donors.

The Kennedy Library project, as well as the William and Linda Frost Center for Research and Innovation, which broke ground May 3, are still two of the top building priorities of the campaign.

One donor-funded project in particular is providing students opportunities for athletic success as well as academic.

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Cal Poly announced the campaign at the 2019 Evening of Green & Gold.

Cal Poly is trying a new format.

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Students no longer need to display a plastic placard on your mirror to park on campus.

Cal Poly is implementing permitless parking this year through new license plate recognition technology. Transportation and Parking Services announced the move to permitless parking in Spring 2019 and was activated at the start of Fall 2019.

The reason for the switch to permitless parking is to simplify and streamline the process of purchasing a parking permit on campus, University Spokesperson Matt Lazier wrote in an email to Mustang News. The new system eliminates concerns about lost or stolen physical permits. There is also no longer shipping time to deliver the permits to customers.

“Customers did not have to wait for the permits to be mailed or wait in line to purchase,” Lazier wrote. “At 8 a.m. on the first day of classes, there were no lines at the Public Safety Reception Center for the first time.”

Going permitless has had a great impact on the environment as well, according to Lazier. Each plastic permit weighs about one ounce. With 30,000 plastic hang tags now avoided, 1,875 pounds of plastic have been saved. The carbon footprint from manufacturing the tags has been reduced as well.

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After three Spring ceremonies in 2018 were merged into two in 2019, Cal Poly is trying a new format.

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Cal Poly will host six separate graduation ceremonies, one per college, for the Spring 2020 Commencement. This change comes after Cal Poly had reduced the number of ceremonies for Spring 2019 Commencement by hosting three colleges per ceremony.

According to a 2019 Cal Poly news release, more than 5,100 students

were eligible to graduate at the Spring 2019 Commencement. This resulted in more than 2,000 eligible graduates per ceremony.

Each student was allocated seven tickets for their family members and friends to attend, with additional tickets available upon request. The number of tickets provided to each student depends on the number of expected graduates, according to an email from University Spokesper-

son Matt Lazier in 2019.

The 2020 commencement ceremonies will take place at Alex G. Spanos stadium June 13-14. College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, and College of Engineering ceremonies will take place Saturday at 8 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively.

Orfalea College of Business, College of Science and Mathematics, and

College of Liberal Arts ceremonies will be held Sunday at the same hours as the day before.

Despite the change in the Spring, there will only be three Fall 2019 Commencement ceremonies, with two colleges per ceremony. All three ceremonies will take place Saturday, December 14 at the Recreation Center Main Gym, according to the commencement website.

Instead of parking enforcement officers visually checking plastic permits, cameras are now mounted on their vehicles. When driving around parking lots, the cameras scan each plate and check if the license has a parking permit registered to it, according to Transportation Parking Services.

If there is not a parking permit assigned to the vehicle after the cameras read the plate, the enforcement officer will still write a citation and place it on the vehicle’s window.

If a student gets a new car, the license plate code can be updated on the parking portal where permits are purchased for free.

Lazier added that the university will begin to explore technology showing parking availability this academic year.

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were seeing from the student-athletes,” Ewing said. “The fact that they can now cut down on travel time allows for more academic success.”

Ewing says that he hopes the campaign will spark a culture of giving throughout the Cal Poly community. The effort around the campaign as well as all of the university’s work is “centered around a long-term model.”

“Our goal is to raise money and build relationships with individuals,” Ewing said. “You know, not just a snapshot, quick, one-time gift and then move on, but for their entire lifetime.”

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THE BIRTH OF FARMERS’ MARKET WAS THE DEATH OF CRUISING About five decades ago, on a typical, noisy Thursday night, fumes of exhaust filled the air as the youth of San Luis Obispo cruised the streets of downtown, showing off their late-1960s muscle cars while they blasted their music from their 8-track tapes.

This tradition came to an end once the Downtown Association decided that cruising was deterring patrons from visiting the core of downtown, according to the Downtown SLO website. The Farmer’s Market emerged as a way to solve this, attracting more people to Downtown San Luis Obispo.

In the 1960s and 1970s, high school and college-aged students would “cruise” down Higuera Street as part of a tradition that played a role in San Luis Obispo’s culture and history. This started when the city decided to have the shops downtown stay open until 9 p.m. on Thursday nights, and the cruisers decided to take advantage of the late night scene.

According to longtime San Luis Obispo resident and county genealogy historian Mary Adler Hansen, cruising was an integral part of the San Luis Obispo social scene at the time.

“If you cruised that meant you were cool and wanted to be seen,” Hansen said. “It was the popular thing to do back in the day.”

It was a time for teenagers to interact in a way that allowed them to make memories and unleash their reckless and rebellious sides. These nights were filled with chances to have fun with friends or to get to know others, since it was almost like a community of cruisers, Hansen said.

“The girls would flirt with the guys and the guys would hit on the chicks,” Hansen said. “It was common for a guy to pull up next to you and rev his engine, and maybe you would race with other people.”

According to Hansen, back then there was not much else to do for young people that age, there were only a few clothing stores and

restaurants. There were not all the bars, stores, and coffee shops that downtown San Luis Obispo has now. On top of that, cruising was popular because it was cheap.

“You could fill your car up and really cruise all night with just $2 worth of gas, so it wasn’t very expensive,” Hansen said.

For people who grew up in San Luis Obispo during these times, the cruising nights were memorable and played a big role when they were younger.

Lorie Norkus, a fourth-generation resident of San Luis Obispo, vividly remembers her experiences while cruising in the 1970s when she attended San Luis Obispo High School.

“My friend Sally had a convertible VW Bug. We used to wait at the stoplight at Marsh and Chorro,” Norkus said. “As soon as it turned green, we would floor it and try to catch the green light at Chorro and Higuera.”

She said that one of her favorite parts was when they saw their friends in another car and wanted to chat, they would hop out of their car and get into the other car at a red light, go around the circuit, and then return to their original car later. She and her friends would then end the night by meeting up at Taco Bell on Santa Rosa Street or Denny’s.

“We blasted all the best music back then too,” Norkus said. “Van Halen, Boston, Foreigner, Loverboy, Fleetwood Mac, Police, Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Tom Petty and Queen.”

When it comes to authority, cruisers did not have much to worry about, Norkus said.

“There were the local police that kept things in order, and we all got along with them for the most part,” Norkus said. “They didn’t come down too hard and we had a lot of respect for the law back then.”

Norkus said she remembers seeing many cool cars while cruising, including old Mustangs, Chevy Camaros, Pontiac Firebirds, and Dodge Darts to name a few.

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A police officer gave a citation to a “cruiser” downtown.

kus said. “I wish everyone could have had such good memories of their high school days like this.”

According to former member of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce David Garth, in an effort to stop cruising and encourage more people to visit downtown and the local businesses, the City Council decided it was time to close the street and implement forms of entertainment including bands, musicians, and puppeteers to name a few.

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I remember being really angry when they stopped cruising to start the Farmer’s Market.

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To gain even more traction, the Farmer’s Market Association who already had a Farmer’s Market going on at the Madonna shopping center on Saturdays, proposed the idea of having one downtown, Garth said.

The Downtown Association then stepped in and worked on bringing this new idea to life. This led to the birth of the Farmers’ Market in the summer of 1983 when farmers were invited to sell their produce along Higuera.

Garth said that he recalls the de-

velopment of the Farmer’s Market and how it became a significant part of the community.

“The Farmer’s Market is important to San Luis Obispo because it helped establish this town’s tourism,” Garth said. “It was and still is good for both the businesses and the locals.”

Hansen said there were a lot of people who boycotted Farmers’ Market at first.

“I remember being really angry when they stopped the cruising to start the Farmer’s Market, we were all really mad,” Hansen said. “We thought it was unjust.”

Despite some opposition from former cruisers, the Farmer’s Market ended up taking on a life of its own.

It started out slow, and didn’t gain much popularity at first. It began as purely selling produce and flowers. It evolved once the merchants downtown realized that it could be a money-maker to sell food from their local businesses, Hansen said.

It started out in a small area, and then it got larger as time went on.

Recently they expanded the Farmers Market by adding more blocks.

They have also started to block off the street earlier at 5 p.m.

“Primarily today’s farmers market are Cal Poly students and tourists,” Hansen said.

According to the Farmers’ Market Manager Whitney Chaney, it now runs 6 blocks and has about 70 vendors. On a slow night, it is expected to see around 2,000 people visiting the Farmers’ Market, but on a busy night there is usually over 5,000 people.

Cal Poly invited search firm Isaacson, Miller to hold listening sessions for students, staff, faculty and university leadership to share what qualities they want to see in the new provost.

The university provost is responsible for creating academic policies and managing the budget, according to the provost website.

Cal Poly’s previous provost, Kathleen Enz Finken, announced her retirement January 15, 2019, according to a previous Mustang News article.

Mary Pedersen began as interim provost July 2019 and will serve until Cal Poly selects a new provost, according to the Office of the President.

The listening sessions will be Thursday, September 26 and Friday, September 27, according to an email from the Office of the President.

The sessions will inform Cal Poly faculty about what goals and skills they should prioritize when selecting a new provost, so they can write an accurate position description and recruit candidates that align with Cal Poly values, according to University Spokesperson Matt Lazier.

“We believe it is important for everyone to participate in the listening sessions,” Lazier wrote in an email.

“Faculty, staff and students each have a unique relationship with the provost and academic affairs. We need all three perspectives in order to recruit the best candidate for the university.”

On September 26, there will be a faculty open forum, a dean’s session and a student open forum. All Thursday listening sessions will occur in the University Union (Building 65, Room 220).

On September 27, there will be another faculty open forum, a session for the Academic Affairs Division and the Provost’s Direct Reports, a session for the President’s Cabinet, a staff open forum and a session for the Academic Senate Executive Committee, according to the Office of the President. All Friday listening sessions will occur in the Multi Activity Center (Building 43, Room 170).

Anyone who cannot make it to the listening sessions can contact Isaacson, Miller with their suggestions through Search Coordinator Angela Finocchiaro at afinocchiaro@IMSearch.com.

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The award-winning vehicle is a front-wheel-drive bike covered with a bullet-shaped shell. The team hopes to surpass their record in 2020 by hitting 70 mph.

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Josh Gieschen pedaled Ambition to a new American collegiate human powered vehicle record.

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The Cal Poly team worked on their vehicle for the last year, leading up to the Battle Mountain competition.

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Cal Poly shattered a record held for the past 27 years on Sept. 13 with a vehicle powered entirely by muscular strength.

During the 20th annual World Human-Powered Speed Challenge at Battle Mountain, Nevada, The Cal Poly Human Powered Vehicle Team set the American collegiate speed record at 63.68 mph. The previous record was

61.29 mph, set by a team from UC Berkeley in September 1992, according to the International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA).

This was the first time the Cal Poly club had competed in the world challenge in a decade, according to a news release. The university was one of the only U.S. college teams at the event, competing primarily against experienced enthusiasts and international graduate teams, according to the club.

Cal Poly’s vehicle, named Ambition, competed against other enclosed bicycles that were designed, built and ridden by students.

The course is a perfectly straight,

The Cal Poly vehicle was custom built for biochemistry senior Josh Gieschen.

Splitting into groups, the student team spent the past year designing, engineering and manufacturing the vehicle. The vehicle is a bike covered with an aerodynamic bullet-shaped shell. The exterior is made out of carbon fiber and Kevlar and manufactured in-house at the two Cal Poly machine shops, the Aero Hangar and Mustang 60.

Mechanical engineering senior Kyra Schmidt said in a news release that the team had to make significant changes in the days leading up to the race.

“We had issues, but we knew we had time to fix them,” Schmidt said.

However, Schmidt said she gained confidence just before leaving for the Nevada race when the team had a promising test run.

The competition Battle Mountain is primarily a race

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for speed. In past years, Cal Poly vehicles were designed to travel through a course that included tight turns and obstacles. This sacrificed speed in favor of versatility.

To have a qualifying run, wind speeds cannot exceed 3.7 mph, mechanical engineering senior Derek Fromm said. During their week in Battle Mountain, Ambition surpassed the record at 66.43 mph, but was disqualified because of too much wind.

On their last day at the competition, Cal Poly had one last opportunity to break the record before wind picked up in the evening.

“It was literally our last chance,” Fromm said.

In the team’s last of 10 runs, Gieschen continued to increase speed and broke the long held record.

After the speed was clocked, Ambition crashed at approximately 50 mph — rolling over. Fromm said the driver walked away with just a couple of small bruises and nothing broke on the bike.

“We are all super proud of everything [Gieschen] and the team accomplished,” Schmidt said.

Next year, the team is shooting for 70 mph — a record Schmidt said the team is confident they can pull off.

“We are excited to continue improving and come back even better next year — but first, we can all take a well-deserved break,” Schmidt said.

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flat, 5-mile section of state Route 305 that has been specially paved for human powered vehicle competition. Organizers call Battle Mountain one of the straightest, flattest and smoothest roads in the world.

Competitors are timed over a 200-meter distance after reaching their maximum velocity on the course, according to IHPVA.

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A total of 16 skaters will head to Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics — eight of which are women.

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Sophia Marquez frequents Santa Rosa Park in San Luis Obispo to practice landing tricks.

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Marquez said she uses social media to network with other female skaters in the San Luis Obispo area.

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Clutching a skateboard and wearing ankle-high, hemmed baggy jeans and dirty white Converse, 20-yearold Sophia Marquez set herself down the 10-foot-deep bowl at Santa Rosa Skatepark. The environmental management and protection senior frequents the skatepark every oth-

er night and is part of the glue that holds San Luis Obispo’s women’s skateboarding community together.

Marquez has been skateboarding for two years and recently entered, and won, her first skateboarding competition at the Central Coast Monster Skateboarding Series held at Santa Rosa Skatepark. She was one of three women — including fel-

low skaters Elie Horsman and Hana Goodman — who participated at the competition.

“It lit a fire under my ass and I’m like, ‘I need more of this,’” Marquez said. “It was really fun, and I felt recognized and validated.”

Last year, Marquez, Goodman and Horsman started networking with other girls to organize a local women’s skateboarding community. The trio is part of a recent worldwide surge in female skaters.

According to GRINDTV, 16 percent of the skateboarding industry involves women or girls who describe themselves as a “core skater.” Core skaters are defined as having skated 52+ times per year (once a week, on average), according to Public Skatepark Development Guide.

“It’s starting to blow up, and we’re everywhere,” Horsman said. “Every town I go to, I’ll see a new girl skater when I’m driving with my partner. …

It’s so sick.”

Film director Crystal Moselle ran into a group of teenage girl skate-

boarders on a New York City subway which inspired her 2018 film, Skate Kitchen. In an interview with NPR, Moselle said girls are meeting each other through Youtube, commenting on each other’s videos and creating communities.

Like Moselle, Marquez said she bonds with fellow female skateboarders through social media.

“I mostly came in contact with girls through Instagram and mutual friends,” Marquez said. “I often get DM’d by girls that want to learn to skate, but are intimidated by other skaters.”

The International Olympic Committee unanimously voted to add skateboarding to the roster of events at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.

Diversifying the Games’ events is part of the committee’s plan to reach a younger audience with the purpose of focusing on innovation and flexibility.

Two years after the Olympic announcement, USA Skateboarding (USAS) has finally announced the

16 skaters heading to Japan — eight of them are women, including three California natives. Brighton Zeuner and Bryce Wettstein both reside in Encinitas, and Lacey Baker is from Covina.

“It’s really cool to see women in the Olympics skating,” Horsman said.

“It’s really freaking awesome. We’ve come a long way. A long, long way.”

Horsman mentioned Patti McGee, the first professional female skateboarder in the late 60s, who was featured in Life magazine as the National Girls Champion in 1965. In 2010, she became the first female inductee into the International Association of Skateboard Companies Skateboard Hall of Fame.

“In the 70s, young women in skateboarding were often made fun of and weren't accepted within the skateboarding community and didn’t stick around,” Morro Bay Skateboard Museum curator and director Jack Smith said.

Smith, president of the nonprofit Morro Bay Skateboard Museum, has been involved in the skateboard scene since the mid 60s. In the late 70s and throughout the 80s, he skateboarded at a professional level, competing nationally in downhill and slalom events.

“Back in the days the only time you would see girls in a skateboard magazine was if they were wearing shortshorts or a bikini,” Smith said. “Now you see pictures of girls ripping.”

According to Vice News, female skaters have moved from the margins into the spotlight, and bigname sponsors are noticing. Today the skateboarding community is on the verge of mainstream acceptance.

“If it gets too scary for you, you were never meant to skate in the first place,” Marquez said, quoting late Thrasher editor-in-chief Jake Phelps.

“If you want it, you gotta get it, just literally grab it; it’s all right there.

You’re gonna get hurt; it’s a rite of passage, so just do it.”

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We want people to be aware that their vote matters.”

Lizzy Marshall with the hope to inspire climate action on both a local and global scale.

The Cal Poly Democrats took part in the strike with a booth to help par-

ticipants register to vote.

“We are here today because registering voters is incredibly important for the issues facing our generation, and climate change is the largest issue facing our generation,” Cal Poly Democrats co-president Lizzy Marshall said. “We want people to be aware that their vote matters.”

Marshall went on to say that, although personal habits are important to protect the planet, voting for action-oriented elected officials is the best way to hold the world’s biggest polluters accountable.

Aside from the city of San Luis Obispo, demonstrators in Atascadero, Paso Robles and Templeton took part in the strike.

Another Global Climate Strike will take place Friday, Sept. 27 outside the San Luis Obispo County Courthouse.

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Students, faculty and San Luis Obispo residents gathered on Cal Poly’s Dexter Lawn on Friday, Sept. 20 as part of a global initiative to fight climate change.

The demonstration, organized locally by Sunrise Movement Central Coast and San Luis Obispo County Youth for Environmental Action, took place in tandem with the international Global Climate Strike.

“Sunrise is a group of young people aged 35 and under who are working to stop the climate crisis,” Sunrise Movement representative Emmet Arries said. “Our organization is focused on systemic and political change, specifically with world leaders and corporations who make up the larger group of polluters.”

People in more than 150 countries

stepped out to protest, according to Global Climate Strike.

Participants of all ages crafted signs, listened to speeches from experts and marched across campus

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The demonstration, organized locally by Sunrise Movement Central Coast and San Luis Obispo County Youth for Environmental Action.

Mathematics professor Stan Yoshinobu speaks to listeners about fighting climate change with “love, empathy, and respect.”

Demonstrators in Atascadero, Paso Robles and Templeton took part in the strike.

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NO MORE LEARNING BY VAPING

BY IZAAC TOMPKINS

Izaac Tompkins is an environmental protection and management senior and satire columnist. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang News.

Friends, students, parents, alumni — it comes with a heavy heart to report the closure of a longtime on-campus favorite. Learn By VapeZ, the last on-campus vape shop, is set to close at the end of Fall quarter. Following a nationwide outbreak of vaping-related illnesses, campus officials reluctantly reevaluated whether or not national pressure would lead to sanctions against the university. Students and professors alike vehemently mounted protests in order to persuade the administration to reconsider the closure of the 44 year-old business.

At 2,000 square feet, Learn By VapeZ has served the campus community with a low-stress en-

vironment frequented by community members and professors alike. The space was utilized efficiently to facilitate discussion among the purchase and use of flavors like “C0tt0n C4ndy” and “Melon ExxPlosion.” In addition, the store also handled the overflow of University Union students searching for a place to study.

Learn By Vapez offered a sizeable 40 tables and desks to accommodate studiers late into the night. Subway will now be the last on-campus business to have full 24-hour service for late-night students and residents. Although the protests were met with sympathy

by Cal Poly’s administration, officials had no option. The Board vote on the resolution to close Learn By VapeZ passed by just a single vote.

“Well, we thought about taking off all the bathroom stalls like that high school in Alabama, but we instead decided to initiate a vote to unfortunately close a community

and campus favorite,” an administrative official told The Hoof. “This was a tough choice to make, and we hope to repurpose the space.”

Incoming students and on-campus residents expressed the greatest concern for the eventually passed measure to close Learn By VapeZ. Many freshmen students are met with conflict at the end of the school-year due to unused meal credits for on-campus dining. This issue can be pressing for some students, but Learn By VapeZ was an approved use of campus dining credits since the store’s opening ceremony in 1975.

Without a consistent outlet to liquidate sometimes hundreds of unused dining dollars, first-year students will be faced with a tough challenge at the end of the 20192020 school year. Over the past few years, the Cal Poly campus’ three full-service vape shops have closed their doors due to out-ofcity pressure.

Alumni still living in the San

Luis Obispo community reached out to The Hoof to express their concern for the sudden shutdown of a known campus icon. Roger Firstman, Class of ‘77, was starting his second year when Learn By Vapez was unanimously approved by campus officials and the City of San Luis Obispo.

“It’s disappointing to see such a wellloved campus locale shutdown.” Firstman said. “There was a huge opening celebration with live music and a suspended class schedule, followed by decades as a hub for myself and others.”

The issue was raised to repurpose the space into a purely study-focused area, but officials are considering a bid to welcome a new asbestos-based milkshake shop.

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LOOMING FLAVORED VAPOCALYPSE IS A BENEFIT FOR STUDENT’S HEALTH

BY TESSA HUGHES

Tessa Hughes is a journalism sophomore and Mustang News columnist.

The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang News.

I would like to preface this by saying I don’t vape. Vaping and the use of electronic cigarettes is ridiculous as nicotine is an incredibly addictive substance that people use for a few second high. Quite frankly, there are 1,001 better ways to have a good time.

My personal lifestyle choices aside, vaping is skyrocketing among college students, according to a University of Michigan study. The number of students who vape doubled from 2017 to 2018. So far, there has been seven

vaping-related deaths and 530 cases of hospitalized vaping-related lung diseases in the United States in 2019, according to the Center for Disease Control. These statistics have caused President Donald Trump’s administration to propose banning flavored e-cigarettes, leaving only tobacco flavor.

A health advisory was sent out in San Luis Obispo County to K-12 schools discussing the severe lung illnesses associated with vaping. The advisory, written by County Health Officer Penny Borenstein, stated “President Trump’s recent announcement is good news, that he intends to seek a federal ban on flavoring additives in e-cigarettes, the most common reason for youth uptake of these

products.”

Since e-cigarettes are being offered in an array of flavors, such as blueberry, cheesecake or rocket popsicle, the habit is even more enticing to younger generations. Personally, I can’t see the appeal in smoking the flavor of cheesecake over actually eating a slice (saving calories maybe?), but the overall health effects of fewer calories now don’t seem worth it in comparison to a lifelong addiction.

In fact, I believe all nicotine-related products should be banned. According to the American Heart Association, nicotine is just as addictive a drug as heroin. Why shouldn’t nicotine be just as illegal? The same argument cannot be made for marijuana products because there are medicinal

purposes for cannabis and is far less addictive, according to the CDC. The criminalization of vaping would save lives and reduce teenage smoking.

This type of ban could be equated to that of the Prohibition era. With so many people today who are addicted to nicotine, it is too deeply rooted in our society to completely take it away now. People would riot. However, banning only flavored products is keeping vaping in its purest form and eliminating its more recreational use.

Non-tobacco flavors are heavily to blame for the dramatic rise in youth vaping. Juul, one of the most popular e-cigarette brands, has already stopped selling flavored e-cigarettes in stores that do not verify customer ages.

“We strongly agree with the need for aggressive category-wide action on flavored products. We will fully comply with the final FDA policy when effective,” a JUUL spokesperson said.

E-cigarettes were originally designed as a way to combat smoking — they

were intended to be a safer alternative.

This was because they were thought to have fewer chemicals than traditional cigarettes. However, the chemicals in the special flavorings react to the vapor carrier chemicals during manufacturing and create a more harmful chemical compound known as acetals, according to a study at Duke University.

These compounds are known to be strong irritants and the extent of their harm is still being researched. In other words, flavorful vaping is a lot more dangerous.

By keeping the tobacco flavor but banning other flavors, Trump is allowing vaping to be used for its initial purpose: aiding those who are addicted to actual cigarettes. He is also attempting to lower the appeal for teenagers.

In the end, if teenagers are so dead set on vaping, the flavor shouldn’t matter. If they want to vape they can taste the tobacco, and if they want to taste blueberry cheesecake, you know what they’ll have to do? Eat an actual cheesecake.

Japan] describe what is around them in images is really interesting and how that shapes culture.”

Santos-Elizondo said while the wolf sanctuary taught him about non-verbal communication, Japan taught him how spoken language can be interpreted differently.

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LIVING WITH WOLVES

One senior’s year of travel after being accepted to Cal Poly

BY CHARLOTTE ROSS

It was 2015, Gabriel Marcelo Santos-Elizondo had just graduated high school in Monterrey, Mexico.

His friends were excited to move away and enter college, but it was as simple for him.

Santos-Elizondo was accepted into Cal Poly as a biomedical engineering student, but he said he was indecisive. Instead, the 17-year-old decided to embark on a year-long journey where he lived with a pack of wolves in a cold, desolate home, learned a new language in Japan and traveled through Peru.

Student gap years In Europe, gap years have always been popular and largely accepted.

In the U.S. however, the concept of taking time off of school to do a little self-discovery and travel is newer. Numbers of students taking gap years are increasing world-wide and it has a positive impact on academic performance, according to the Gap Year Association.

At Cal Poly, the procedures for

students to request time varies. The university does not allow accepted freshmen to take year-long deferrals, so if a student entering Cal Poly from high school wants to take a gap year, they are required to reapply for the following term.

According to the Office of the Registrar, for anything longer than two quarters, a student is required to complete a leave of absence form which must be for medical, educational or military reasons.

When Santos-Elizondo, now a biological sciences senior, made the decision to take a year off of school, he said he had three goals: service, learning a new language and traveling somewhere he has never been before.

Working with wolves The first destination for Santos-Elizondo was working in a wolf sanctuary in Maine during the winter.

The center where Santos-Elizondo volunteered was completely desolate. It was only him and two others, living in run-down, rat-infested houses, separate and isolated from

one another. With so much silence and alone time, Santos-Elizondo was able to think and reflect more than he could have imagined.

“My biggest takeaway from Maine was thinking — since I was by myself, it was basically myself and the animals. It was a lot of reflecting and thinking about life” he said.

The first couple of weeks, Santos-Elizondo would sit outside of the wolf cages while they stood in the distance, avoiding being near the mystery he was to them. Over time, he said he would observe their behavior and notice their responses to his actions. Eventually, by the end of his two months there, Santos-Elizondo was sitting in the cages right next to the wolves. He didn’t fear them and they no longer seemed to fear him.

“The first week was really the time where I was like, ‘What am I doing here? What did I get myself into?’”

Santos-Elizondo said.

It was the idea of doing something impactful for animals that would spend the rest of their lives in captivity that changed his perspective. By

Studying in Japan

Next of Santos-Elizondo’s goals was to learn a new language. He wanted to do something out of the ordinary, away from his comfort zone, so he moved to Japan for three months and attended a language academy, KCP International Japanese Language school.

There, he learned not only to speak, write and understand the Japanese language, but the differences between Japanese and American cultures. In the U.S. there are 26 different letters; in Japan there are close to double that, plus thousands of characters.

“The way we view things and shape ideas [in America] is based on words and words we use to describe what is around us,” Santos-Elizondo said.

“And thinking that some people [in

Back to reality

By the end of the gap year, Santos-Elizondo said he was ready to learn again in a classroom setting, surrounded by his peers.

“It [got] to the point where I wanted to be doing something productive,” he recalled thinking.

It can be really difficult, Santos-Elizondo said, to go from a year of not doing any math or English subjects then to have to re-enter at a college level.

Santos-Elizondo’s travels and new discoveries helped him to fulfill what his sister Melissa called his “renewed sense of curiosity.”

“It is still really nice to have that space of time that allows you to think about life in a different way than school after school after school and not having to pause and think, ‘What is it that I really want to do? What is it that I really value?” he said.

It took a while for Santos-Elizondo to re-adjust to the academic lifestyle.

In his first few months at Cal Poly he switched his major from general engineer to biological sciences, where he discovered the wildlife and biodiversity concentration, a place where he said he belongs.

Since his gap year, his mother wrote that her son continues to grow.

“He’s a gentle adventurous soul,” she wrote. “He has always been generous and now even goes out of his way to help any living creature.”

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Gabriel Santos-Elizondo said he had three goals during his gap year: service, learning a new language and traveling somewhere he has never been before.

the end, Santos-Elizondo said he did not want to leave.

Santos-Elizondo said he left the sanctuary in Maine with a better understanding of the wolves and the way they communicated with one another and with humankind.

He eventually moved on to volunteer with hybrid wolves in Paso Robles.

“At first we thought all his experiences were crazy because they were just so out there,” Santos-Elizondo’s older sister, Melissa, said laughing. “When he said ‘wolves,’ we all went ‘what?!’”

When he was away, Santos-Elizondo sent his family letters and photographs.

“We all saw how amazing the work he was doing was and not only was it helping the animals but it was helping him — he was so happy and fulfilled from the experience,” she said.

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The last destination was Santos-Elizondo’s family trip to Peru. It was a way of bringing the whole family together to reconnect with nature.

“Before [our children] could learn to walk they learned to climb mountains and explore; they were taught to love and respect nature,” his mother Camila wrote.

The family took the trek up to Machu Picchu, a five day backpacking trip through the mountains.

After several months of solo travel and discovering his own strengths and weaknesses, Santos-Elizondo said it was nice to just be with family, experiencing a new place and seeing things he had not seen before, with them.

That trip marked the end of Santos-Elizondo’s journey and completed the last of his three goals.

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It’s been three years since Men’s Soccer head coach Steve Sampson has seen a brand of soccer at a high level within his own squad — and the results are paying dividends. Cal Poly has opened their first five matches of 2019 with a winning record of 3-2.

Last year, the Mustangs had won just one of their first five matches into the non-conference schedule.

With last season bringing just five wins out of a total 16 matches, and over half of the team’s losses falling within a one-goal margin, Sampson has retooled his squad with players who are no strangers to

college soccer.

“We worked very hard in the off season to bring in some [players] that have very good experience, not only for their playing experience, but also for the maturity,” Sampson said.

Among the new players are graduate transfers Robert Knights (UCLA), Spencer Held (California) and Colin Hyatt (Stanford). Junior college transfers Jackson Brady, Josh Graham and Creed McKinnon also joined the squad. All three junior college players carry international experience, while the three graduate transfers bring maturity from the highest level of NCAA soccer. The Mustangs also added depth to their roster with the addition of two fresh-

team’s attitude to them knowing “this is just part of the process of us getting better.”

“Whether it’s a training session or it’s a game, let’s find ways of getting better each and every day,” Sampson said. “And they are.”

The Mustangs will look to keep their momentum as the team heads into its final batch of non-conference matches. Cal Poly’s final non-conference match takes place Oct. 5 at Blue-Green-rival UC Santa Barbara.

The Mustangs finished their 2018 season at Harder Stadium with a 2-0 loss.

Perez said the team remains focused on creating a good attitude and environment for the season, including pre-and-post-workout basics like stretching and foam rolling, along with off-the-pitch efforts such as diet maintenance.

“You know, the attitude in practice is so much more intense, and it’s like everyone’s making each other better,” Perez said. “It’s a really good environment to be in.”

A combined effort both on-and-off the pitch has the Mustangs gunning for their most coveted goal of the season: A Big West Conference championship and the NCAA Tournament berth that comes along with it.

“Our goal is definitely to win the Big West,” Perez said. “There’s not a doubt it’s going to be tough, but we have the people to do it.”

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time Boehme caused for the backup goalkeepers. As a result, the team is still looking for a starting goalkeeper in sophomore Carlos Arce-Hurtado or junior Jason Hernandez.

“We’re going to keep alternating them until one really rises to the occasion,” Sampson said.

“And we’ve seen them both play exceptionally well.”

Arce-Hurtado added to his case with a clean sheet and two saves in a 3-0 victory over Westmont on Sept.

19. He also benefited from a defense that allowed one shot attempt over the first 37 minutes.

With their 3-0 shutout over Westmont, the Mustangs are currently on a three-game winning streak against non-conference opponents.

Cal Poly had three goals in each of their three wins, with junior midfielder Emmanuel Perez leading the offensive output.

In his pivotal role during this streak, Perez scored in all three games and slotted in five goals during that span.

He also capped off victories against Gonzaga and Westmont with backto-back braces. His five goals as of Sept. 19 puts him close to last year’s leading goalscorer Sean Goode, who totaled seven goals across the season.

Speaking the day before Cal Poly’s shutout over Westmont, Sampson noted outstanding attitudes among his squad. He attributed the

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men from the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA), Logan Thralls and Noah Boettiger.

Sampson attributed part of last season’s struggles to the high amount of one-goal defeats the program faced. Of the Mustangs’ nine defeats in 2018, five stemmed from a onegoal margin.

“It’s a matter of being more organized and more disciplined on the field, and it’s a matter of having more leadership and maturity on the field,” Sampson said. “And I think we have that now this year.”

Sampson said a consistent challenge at Cal Poly has been finding enough talent to have composure in the attacking third of the field. However, the mix of returning and incoming players has created a faster, more mobile and unpredictable style of play, according to the coach.

And while 2019 has shifted the Mustang program for the better, the team has had to adjust to key losses as well. Defender Brecc Evans started every game for the Mustangs as a freshman in 2018 before signing a professional contract with North Texas FC in January 2019. Senior goalkeeper Simon Boehme, who holds multiple Cal Poly goalkeeping records, graduated in Spring 2019.

Sampson praised Boehme for keeping the Mustangs in many games last season with his outstanding play, but he also recognized the lack of playing

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PUZZLES & HOROSCOPES

CLUES ACROSS 1. Group of languages 5. No seats available 8. Helps little firms 11. Having a strong sharp smell or taste 13. Established by the Treaty of Rome 14. Whale ship captain 15. Thick 16. When you hope to get there 17. First capital of Japan 18. Cyprinids 20. Dry white wine drink 21. Witnesses 22. Alcohol drinks 25. Synthetic resin 30. Latin for “very early” 31. Bill Clinton plays it 32. One-time province of British-India 33. Folic and amino are two 38. Integrated data processing 41. Use to build roads 43. 44th US President 45. Where school kids eat 48. Small New Zealand tree 49. Doctors’ group 50. Civil Rights group 55. Swedish rock group 56. Baby’s dining accessory 57. Succulent plants 59. Dutch word for “language” 60. Polynesian garland of flowers

61. Spiritual leader 62. Single Lens Reflex 63. Baseball stat 64. Abba __, Israeli politician CLUES DOWN 1. He’s honored every June 2. Breezed through 3. Ribosomal ribonucleic acid 4. Flat, thin round object 5. One looking for knowledge 6. Calls it a career 7. Egg-shaped wind instrument 8. Allied H.Q. 9. Reveals 10. Greek sophist 12. Speedy ballplayer Gordon 14. Body that defines computing protocols 19. Common Japanese surname 23. Eucharist box 24. Oil company 25. Parts per billion (abbr.)

26. A metal-bearing material 27. The common gibbon 28. Affirmative 29. Writer 34. Taxi 35. Pioneering journalist Tarbell 36. Used to hold back

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ARIES – March 21/April 20 Aries, you like to be friendly to everyone, but sometimes you have to accept that not everyone is on your team. This week you may experience push-back from a new face.

LIBRA – Sept. 23/Oct. 23 Your professional life could use a shakeup, Libra. You just aren’t sure if that means taking a break for a little bit or going on the hunt for a new position entirely.

TAURUS – April 21/May 21 Taurus, you have a lot on your plate right now and you need to work through some tasks before you can focus on new things. Take some time to contemplate.

SCORPIO – Oct. 24/Nov. 22 Do not take offense if some people do not appreciate your sense of humor, Scorpio.

Humor is sometimes an acquired taste.

Your true friends understand you thoroughly.

GEMINI – May 22/June 21 It is easy to find yourself on a spending spree, Gemini. Instead of figuring out when to put the credit cards away, leave them home instead.

CANCER – June 22/July 22 Cancer, if you’re thinking about running away from big decisions right now, realize they’ll only be waiting for you when you get home. Better to dig in right now.

LEO – July 23/Aug. 23 People have been asking for your input at every turn, Leo. You probably can use a break. It’s fine to step aside and let someone else handle things.

VIRGO – Aug. 24/Sept. 22 Virgo, a change of scenery can be just what you need to infuse a new energy into your life. New opportunities can bring about a different perspective and attitude.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov. 23/Dec. 21 A houseful of guests is one way to put you on the spot and showcase how you are the consummate host/hostess, Sagittarius.

Embrace the party full force.

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Delegate a little, but don’t shy away from hard work.

AQUARIUS – Jan. 21/Feb. 18 Aquarius, even though you are often a fountain of good information, sometimes the delivery leaves something to be desired. Watch your tone and filter for your audience.

PISCES – Feb. 19/March 20 Pisces, it may be good to have a close friend or family member in your corner this week.

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Men’s Soccer vs.

Westmont College Junior midfielder Emmanuel Perez scored his second consecutive brace in a 3-0 home victory against nonconference opponent Westmont College on Thursday, Sept. 19.

Perez was named the Cal Poly Student-Athlete of the Week just four days prior after collecting three goals in victories against Fresno State (Sept. 10) and Gonzaga (Sept. 15).

Junior defender Andrew Forth added his first career goal for the Mustangs in Thursday’s victory as well.

“We were putting together possessions and creating opportunities,” head coach Steve Sampson said. “In that aspect of the game, I thought we had really grown from one game to the next, and that’s what I was really looking for.”

The Mustangs held steady possession of the ball throughout the first half of the match, but failed to convert a goal in their first seven shots.

While the first half finished 0-0, Cal Poly had no trouble converting their opportunities throughout the remainder of the match.

Perez said the team was focused on beginning the second half with high intensity and high quality gameplay.

“We’ve been training on it and emphasizing that the whole week,” Perez said. “One of our goals was to play

the first half the same as the second half, or even better.”

One minute into the second half, sophomore defender Andrew Robertson placed a cross from the right side onto Perez’s ball, who directed the ball into the goal for a 1-0 lead. 90 seconds later, Perez notched his second goal from the middle of the box off an assist from senior midfielder Diego Alonso.

Sampson said the key to Perez’s success was not only placing him higher up the field, but allowing him to be more selfish with the ball as well.

“I told him, ‘You’re in this center channel of the field, stop giving balls away and trying to get assists. You’re a striker now. Go for goal,’” Sampson said. “And that’s exactly what he did.”

Forth capped the scoring for the Mustangs in the 72nd minute with a header off an Alonso corner kick.

The goal was a career first for Forth.

Sophomore goalkeeper Carlos Arce-Hurtado recorded the first solo shut-out of his career in the victory, but not before making two saves in the final eight minutes as the match concluded at 3-0.

While Sampson said the team is starting to click, he also pointed to bigger tests ahead, such as the Mustang’s home match against Seattle University on Sept. 23.

“We just have to match up well with them, close down key players and continue to play the quality soccer

that we’ve demonstrated in the last three games,” Sampson said.

Women’s Soccer vs.

University of Washington Cal Poly Women’s Soccer fell 5-0 to Washington inside Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Sept. 19.

“We are not happy about the result, but these kinds of games make us stronger,” head coach Alex Crozier said.

The Huskies (4-2-2) entered the match coming off a 3-1 upset win against then-No. 17 TCU on the road, and won four of their last five matches. On the other hand, the Mustangs (2-6-1) had put together an impressive 3-1 win against Idaho State on Sept. 15.

The Huskies scored the first goal of the match in the 18th minute when forward Kennedy Smith capitalized off a blocked shot by senior goalkeeper Sophia Brown.

Four minutes later, Huskies forward Summer Yates scored off a cross delivered to the far post by midfielder Isabella Castro. The goal from a 2018 Pac-12 All-Freshman player gave the Huskies a 2-0 lead 22 minutes into the match.

With a minute left to play in the first half, the Huskies extended their lead to 3-0 thanks to a Castro tap-in goal assisted by sophomore Karlee Stueckle.

“They came into the game and

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Women’s Soccer registered eight shots in a 5-0 defeat to Washington.

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Mustang goalkeeper Sophia Brown registered six saves against the huskies.

made the game [their own],” freshman midfielder Camille Lafaix said.

The Huskies did not lift their foot off the gas as Yates scored her second goal of the match in the 50th minute off a one-on-one opportunity against Brown. The goal was set up with an upfield pass from defender Helena Reischling to extend the lead to 4-0.

Washington secured their fifth and final goal of the match with six minutes remaining from full-time when Ally Remington scored a follow-up shot that was initially deflected by Brown.

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“They are a very good team so we had to play well to stay in it, and it got away from us,” Crozier said.

Washington was able to control the match as they had 25 shots (11 on goal) compared to the Mustangs’ 8 shots (3 on goal). Brown made six saves against the Huskies’ 11 shots.

The Huskies also recorded 13 corner kick attempts compared to zero corners for the Mustangs.

“They were a little bit physically bigger than us, [which] just gives us the experience to come out tougher when conference starts,” Crozier said.

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WOMEN’S GOLF TAKES HOME TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP IN BATTLE AT OLD WORKS Cal Poly Women’s Golf captured their first tournament championship of the season in the Battle at Old Works Sept.

16-17 in Anaconda, Mont. Junior Madi Daniel recorded a third-place finish with a two-over-par, 54-hole aggregate of 218 while three other Mustangs finished in the top 10. The tournament saw ten teams and 62 golfers compete on the 6,297-yard, par-72 Old Works Golf Club.

The championship victory comes just one week after the Mustangs claimed 4th place in a field of 17 teams at the Hobble Creek Fall Classic.

“The big picture from a coaching standpoint is seeing that every one of the five players in the lineup contributed to the team score,” head coach Sofie Aagaard said.

Cal Poly dominated Old Works from the start and gained a six-stroke lead in the first round alone with a four-person score of 288. Freshman Jensen Jalufka kicked off her first collegiate event with a round of 71 while junior Caroline Cantlay and Daniel posted rounds of 72. Daniel and Jalufka followed up with scores of 74 in the afternoon.

“That’s obviously very encouraging to have the new players come in and make a statement right away and continue to push and compete with the team,” Aagaard said.

Cal Poly concluded the 36-hole day in first-place with a nine-over-par aggregate of 585. The performance granted the Mustangs a four-stroke lead over second-place Eastern Washington with one final round left to play.

However, the sunny high of 85 degrees on Monday dropped to a windy and rainy 47 degrees into Tuesday morning. Aagaard said the team anticipated the weather change and talked about retaining a good attitude

in advance.

“We know often there’s a lot of players who don’t like to play in poor conditions, and you’ll pretty much be a stroke up on them if you just come out with a good attitude and attack it,” Aagaard said.

The program’s positive mindset paid off as the Mustangs continued to dominate in the last round of the tournament. Daniel led the team again with a final round of 72 while Cantlay followed with a score of 75. Jalufka’s final round of 77 placed the freshman at sixth-place individually with a 222 aggregate. Sophomore Vanessa Wang finished in a tie for eighth place just one stroke behind Cantlay.

The Mustangs four-person score of 300 in the final round granted the team a three-stroke victory over Eastern Washington as the tournament concluded. Eastern Washington’s Madalyn Ardueser took home firstplace individually after posting dominant rounds of 71, 70 and 69 for a sixunder-par total of 210.

Aagaard said a key to this team’s success is not only their ability to play for each other, but their balance of shot selection as well.

“I think this team is doing a good job in realizing more and more when it’s worth being aggressive and when it’s worth just laying back and saving a stroke for the team,” Aagaard said.

The Mustangs will return to competition Sept. 28-29 at the Wyoming Cowgirl Desert Intercollegiate in Palm Desert, Calif. And while Aagaard said the team continues to get better every day, the ultimate goal is to make postseason play and take home a Big West Conference title.

“We’ve talked a lot about learning to compete to win and having the mindset of, ‘Hey, we can win this week, how are we going to do it? ,’” Aagaard said.

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