CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY M USTANG D AILY Monday, October 5, 2009 www.mustangdaily.net Volume LXXIV, Number 19 TOMORROW: Sunny High 71˚/Low 44˚ IN ARTS, 6 IN SPORTS, 12 Local nonprofit store helps artisans and farmers from developing countries Cal Poly football makes defensive stand despite a sputtering offense in victory over SDSU Mary Pack SPECIAL TO THE MUSTANG DAILY Last Thursday, a small crowd of preschoolers, parents, Poly students and campus officials attended the informal dedication of the im- proved outdoor playground at Cal Poly’s preschool learning lab. The playground is expected to provide more educational oppor- tunities for the 50 or so preschool- ers who participate in the innova- tive child development program. “The outdoor space can be just as good of a classroom as an indoor space,” said Cal Poly alum Fran Durekas, who donated some of the $190,000 needed to renovate the playground area, located in the Math and Science building. The renovated playground is filled with unique features, such as a grassy hill, a slide positioned from the top of the hill, a sand box and even a vegetable garden. A less visible aspect to these ar- eas of the playground is that they “reflect the landscapes of Califor- nia,” Durekas said during the dedi- cation ceremony. The new space is carefully planned and designed with an abundance of foliage to “connect children more closely to the natu- ral world,” he said. A first look at the playground may not distinguish it from a typi- cal jungle gym, but the abundance of plant life allows for more ex- ploration, such as the grassy hilltop with its strategically placed boul- ders to help children reach the top. The old playground “used to be a lot of concrete … Now, al- though minimal, (the playground) encourages both imagination and group play in the children,” child development senior Carolyn Tay- lor said. Child development students are required to take a quarter-long course working in the preschool lab; some psychology students take the course as well. The children have to be accept- ed to attend the learning lab as part of a day care program at Cal Poly. MARY PACK special to the mustang daily Children play at the newly expanded preschool learning lab on Cal Poly’s campus during the dedication on Thursday. Playground pleases preschoolers Cal Poly’s learning lab was expanded to include an outdoor play area Record applicants to California State University The largest school system in the country is flooded with applications the first day MUSTANG DAILY STAFF REPORT More than 25,500 prospective students applied to California State University (CSU) for fall 2010 on Thursday. That is more than dou- ble the number who applied in the first 24 hours for the current fall quarter. One reason for the increase in applications is the chancellor’s July 9 announcement of a spring en- rollment freeze. The chancellor’s office is hop- ing to reduce enrollment by 40,000 students system-wide over the next two years. The reduction in enrollment is a plan to save CSU money, because for every dollar in tuition the uni- versity collects, it pays two. CSU is currently the largest pub- lic university system in the country with over 450,000 students. While no advantage is given based on the order in which appli- cations are received, CSU admin- istrators encouraged high school seniors and community college transfer students to apply early and to multiple CSU campuses. About half of the 23 CSU cam- puses, including Cal Poly, will be cutting back enrollment because of system-wide budget cuts. Some campuses will not accept any ap- plicants after Nov. 30. They may also require that out-of-area appli- cants have higher admissions crite- ria, such as grade point average and test scores to give priority to local prospective students. The other CSU campuses will accept applications until their quo- tas are filled. High school seniors who meet the CSU enrollment criteria will have priority admission to their lo- cal school on most CSU campuses. Cal Poly does not give priority to applicants in the Central Coast region, and only 9 percent of the current student body is from the Central Coast region. More than half of the current student body comes from the San Francisco or Los Angeles areas. Enrollment in California com- munity colleges was at its highest ever last year, and the chancellor of the California community col- lege system expects even more this year. Tim Miller contributed to this re- port. see preschool, page 2 Economy persuades 4-year-school students to look closer to home Bonnie Miller Rubin CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHICAGO — When Amar Bhatia was weighing his post- secondary options, he chose Indiana University over DeP- aul University because DeP- aul’s downtown Chicago cam- pus was just too close to Mom and Dad. Now, as a sophomore, he’s even closer — at Harper Com- munity College, a five-minute drive from his Palatine, Ill., home. “It’s like being a senior all over again,” said the 2008 Fremd High School graduate. Bhatia, 19, is part of a grow- ing pool of students called “re- verse transfers.” Rather than use community colleges as a launching pad, these young adults are going the other way. As the recession grinds on, prestige has taken a back seat to affordability. Sky-rocketing university tuition, along with more reluctance to take on huge loans (especially if grades are less than stellar or your ma- jor is “undecided”) has spurred students to reconsider an alter- native they once dismissed. Although recent statistics aren’t available, officials say there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that this group has contributed to the overall record enrollments currently being seen at commu- nity colleges nationwide. “This is a direct response to last fall when the economy imploded,” explained Steve Morse, spokesman of the Illinois Community Col- lege Board, referring to the rise in “reverse-transfers.” Along with Harper, a number of other area community colleges — Oakton in Des Plaines, Mo- raine Valley in Palos Hills, Prairie State in Chicago Heights and Jo- liet — all report an uptick in stu- dents making a U-turn. Oakton officials said that this semester’s crop of students have transferred from some highly selec- tive schools, including University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (25 students) and Northwestern University (15). Finances certainly figured heavily into Bhatia’s decision not to return to Indiana, with its pic- see Transfers, page 2 KEVIN BLACK
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IN ARTS, 6 IN SPORTS, 12
Local nonprofit store helps artisans and farmers from
developing countries
Cal Poly football makes defensive stand despite a sputtering offense in
victory over SDSU
Mary Packspecial to the mustang daily
Last Thursday, a small crowd of preschoolers, parents, Poly students and campus officials attended the informal dedication of the im-proved outdoor playground at Cal Poly’s preschool learning lab.
The playground is expected to provide more educational oppor-tunities for the 50 or so preschool-
ers who participate in the innova-tive child development program.
“The outdoor space can be just as good of a classroom as an indoor space,” said Cal Poly alum Fran Durekas, who donated some of the $190,000 needed to renovate the playground area, located in the Math and Science building.
The renovated playground is filled with unique features, such as a grassy hill, a slide positioned
from the top of the hill, a sand box and even a vegetable garden.
A less visible aspect to these ar-eas of the playground is that they “reflect the landscapes of Califor-nia,” Durekas said during the dedi-cation ceremony.
The new space is carefully planned and designed with an abundance of foliage to “connect children more closely to the natu-ral world,” he said.
A first look at the playground may not distinguish it from a typi-cal jungle gym, but the abundance of plant life allows for more ex-ploration, such as the grassy hilltop with its strategically placed boul-ders to help children reach the top.
The old playground “used to be a lot of concrete … Now, al-though minimal, (the playground) encourages both imagination and group play in the children,” child development senior Carolyn Tay-lor said.
Child development students are required to take a quarter-long course working in the preschool lab; some psychology students take the course as well.
The children have to be accept-ed to attend the learning lab as part of a day care program at Cal Poly.
mary pack special to the mustang dailyChildren play at the newly expanded preschool learning lab on Cal Poly’s campus during the dedication on Thursday.
Playground pleases preschoolersCal Poly’s learning lab was expanded to include an outdoor play area
Record applicants to California State UniversityThe largest school system in the country is flooded with applications the first daymustang daily staff report
More than 25,500 prospective students applied to California State University (CSU) for fall 2010 on Thursday. That is more than dou-ble the number who applied in the first 24 hours for the current fall quarter.
One reason for the increase in applications is the chancellor’s July 9 announcement of a spring en-rollment freeze.
The chancellor’s office is hop-ing to reduce enrollment by 40,000 students system-wide over the next two years.
The reduction in enrollment is a plan to save CSU money, because for every dollar in tuition the uni-versity collects, it pays two.
CSU is currently the largest pub-
lic university system in the country with over 450,000 students.
While no advantage is given based on the order in which appli-cations are received, CSU admin-istrators encouraged high school seniors and community college transfer students to apply early and to multiple CSU campuses.
About half of the 23 CSU cam-puses, including Cal Poly, will be cutting back enrollment because of system-wide budget cuts. Some campuses will not accept any ap-plicants after Nov. 30. They may also require that out-of-area appli-cants have higher admissions crite-ria, such as grade point average and test scores to give priority to local prospective students.
The other CSU campuses will accept applications until their quo-
tas are filled.High school seniors who meet
the CSU enrollment criteria will have priority admission to their lo-cal school on most CSU campuses.
Cal Poly does not give priority to applicants in the Central Coast region, and only 9 percent of the current student body is from the Central Coast region. More than half of the current student body comes from the San Francisco or Los Angeles areas.
Enrollment in California com-munity colleges was at its highest ever last year, and the chancellor of the California community col-lege system expects even more this year.
Tim Miller contributed to this re-port.
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Economy persuades 4-year-school students to look closer to homeBonnie Miller Rubinchicago tribune
CHICAGO — When Amar Bhatia was weighing his post-secondary options, he chose Indiana University over DeP-aul University because DeP-aul’s downtown Chicago cam-pus was just too close to Mom and Dad.
Now, as a sophomore, he’s even closer — at Harper Com-munity College, a five-minute drive from his Palatine, Ill., home. “It’s like being a senior all over again,” said the 2008 Fremd High School graduate.
Bhatia, 19, is part of a grow-ing pool of students called “re-verse transfers.” Rather than use community colleges as a launching pad, these young adults are going the other way.
As the recession grinds on, prestige has taken a back seat to affordability. Sky-rocketing university tuition, along with more reluctance to take on huge loans (especially if grades are less than stellar or your ma-jor is “undecided”) has spurred students to reconsider an alter-
native they once dismissed.Although recent statistics aren’t
available, officials say there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that this group has contributed to the overall record enrollments currently being seen at commu-nity colleges nationwide.
“This is a direct response to last fall when the economy imploded,” explained Steve Morse, spokesman of the Illinois Community Col-lege Board, referring to the rise in “reverse-transfers.”
Along with Harper, a number of other area community colleges — Oakton in Des Plaines, Mo-raine Valley in Palos Hills, Prairie State in Chicago Heights and Jo-liet — all report an uptick in stu-dents making a U-turn.
Oakton officials said that this semester’s crop of students have transferred from some highly selec-tive schools, including University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (25 students) and Northwestern University (15).
Finances certainly figured heavily into Bhatia’s decision not to return to Indiana, with its pic-
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Children are eligible to be part of the program regardless of whether their parents have a connection to Cal Poly.
The ability to do senior proj-ects in the expanded lab, Durekas said, is another welcomed feature for students interested in working with children. Child development student Hillary Sinnott designed the children’s vegetable garden.
The playground is dedicated to Josy Stearns, an inspirational in-structor who worked at the learn-ing lab for many years. Stearns died of breast cancer in 1993.
“(She was the) the magic that (made the lab a reality) in the good old days,” said Janet Murphy, current director of the preschool learning lab.
turesque limestone buildings, Big 10 sports teams and vibrant campus life.
The business major finished freshman year with a solid B average — good, but not good enough to qualify for scholar-ships.
Then, both his parents lost jobs — his mom was at All-state Insurance, his dad, a self-employed consultant, hadn’t snagged a new project in months.
Ultimately, they left the choice up to him. But weigh-ing the annual costs ($40,000 for out-of-state tuition and room and board vs. $3,100) pushed him to Harper, where enrollment among 19- to 24-year-olds jumped 5.2 percent this semester.
Back in high school, the kids who stayed close to home weren’t really in his crowd, Bhatia said. “But now I’d call it one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”
Community colleges have long been seen as the last re-sort for those with limited re-sources — whether academic or financial.
The downturn, though, has chipped away at the stigma. Last year, some 70 percent of high schools reported an increase in the number of students who jettisoned their “dream schools” for more budget-con-scious choices, according to the National Association for Col-lege Admission Counseling.
Still, those negative percep-tions played heavily in Tom Crivellone’s choice of McK-endree College, just east of St. Louis.
His teachers at Richards High School — where he ranked 14th out of 470 — told him he would be wasting his
time at Moraine Valley Commu-nity College, where he’s currently a sophomore. “Maybe that would be true if I knew what I wanted to do,” said the 20-year-old, “but I didn’t.”
Crivellone was drawn to McK-endree by the history (it’s the old-est college in the state), a place on the track team and a $7,000 schol-arship. But when he arrived in the fall of 2008, not everything was “the paradise” he envisioned.
When a part-time job didn’t materialize, the Oak Lawn, Ill., resident pulled the plug after win-ter break, abruptly jumping to Moraine Valley. The $29,000 an-nual tab at McKendree — which he was primarily footing himself — seemed extravagant compared with $1,700 a semester (books in-cluded) in his own backyard.
“Instead of people looking down at me, they were telling me how smart I am,” said Crivel-lone, who still owes $2,500 from his first semester at McKendree. (When his father lost his market-ing job a few months later, the son felt even smarter.)
“Sure, there are things I miss about being on a campus — like waking up at 8:50 for a 9 a.m. class ... but it’s not worth 20 grand a year.”
It’s not unusual for students to flock to community colleges when the economy sours. However, the current unprecedented demand comes at the same time that states are slashing financial aid, accord-ing to a report released Thursday by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama.
Of 43 states that responded to the study, 30 predicted cuts next year in their student aid pro-grams.
But the switch from four-year to two-year schools isn’t always just about money — sometimes it can be prompted by other issues.
For Ryan Derrick, his struggles at Southern Illinois University started with academics. The lively social scene provided too much of
a distraction, explained the 2007 Rich East High School graduate. Then, a car accident caused the biology major to fall even further behind in his studies.
“I needed a fresh start,” he ex-plained. Derrick sheepishly re-turned home to Matteson, Ill., registering at Prairie State College, where, unexpectedly, he found the atmosphere more conducive to learning.
At SIU, a typical lecture class held 300 or more students. But now, most of his classes are limited to 30 students, making it easier to ask questions. “It’s more personal ... you’re not just another face.”
Beyond size, classes are almost always taught by faculty — not teaching assistants — and have turned out to be more rigorous than expected, Crivellone said. “There’s probably a difference when you get to higher-level courses, but in your first two years ... it’s all sort of the same.”
Even though Crivellone, Bha-tia and Derrick are happy with their decisions, they all plan on re-turning to a traditional university. With various offerings available today — online classes, satellite campuses — they see their current stints as just another option in the post-secondary marketplace.
“In high school, it might be looked down upon ... but not
anymore,” Derrick said. “Every-one knows that no matter which path you choose, you’re still trying to move forward.”
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Harper College sophomore Amar Bhatia, center, asks classmate Jason Whiston, right, a question during class at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, Wednesday. Bhatia transferred to Harper from Indiana Univer-sity last year because both of his parents lost their jobs and could no longer afford the out-of-state tuition.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Paki-stani Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ash-faq Parvez Kayani told the media this week that U.S. drone strikes will not be allowed in Balochistan, where the United States is report-edly turning to fight the militant group, Quetta Shura, which alleg-edly provides much of the leader-ship of the Pakistani Taliban.
The stability of Pakistan not only affects the security of the country and the region, but also global security, as the Taliban en-croaches on Pakistani territory, the Afghanistan war is fought next door and Pakistan continues to safeguard its nuclear arsenal.
Pakistan’s over-centralized po-litical system has resulted in con-stant political and economic con-flicts between the country’s center and its provinces. The ongoing separatist conflict in Balochistan
province illustrates this point. Res-idents complain about fiscal depri-vation and their rights as citizens not being recognized, while call-ing for a new social contract with increased provincial autonomy. These grievances are fueling lib-eration movements within the re-gion and could result in division from Pakistan.
To prevent this from happen-ing, the Pakistani government must give the resource-rich and strategically important Balochistan its due share of fiscal benefits and a political standing and strength in the central government.
Balochistan’s subsoil provides a substantial portion of Pakistan’s energy and mineral resources, ac-counting for 36 percent of its total gas production. Resources also in-clude large quantities of coal, gold, copper, silver, platinum, aluminum
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TOKYO (MCT) — For-mer Prime Minister Taro Aso and other political allies offered their condolences to the family of for-mer Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was found dead at his home in Tokyo on Sunday.
“He was an important talent who was supposed to lead the next generation to reconstruct the Lib-eral Democratic Party. As finance minister and state minister in charge of financial services in my admin-istration, he showed his outstand-ing ability in response to the global financial crisis,” Aso said in a state-ment. “I am shocked beyond words, and I offer my deepest condolences.”
Former LDP Secretary Gen-eral Bunmei Ibuki, chairman of an LDP faction to which 56-year-old Nakagawa belonged, also was saddened by his death.
• • •BAGHDAD (MCT) — Beijing’s
airport is declaring war on pigeons.Flocks of pigeons are throng-
ing the airport, crashing into planes and threatening public safety, the state-run China Daily newspaper said Saturday. Some are carrier pigeons raised as pets, a centuries-old Beijing tradition.
On Monday, an aircraft collided with a flock of nine pigeons but man-aged to land safely, the newspaper said. It said the birds were carrier pi-geons raised by a farmer living nearby.
InternationalKANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT)
— The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with one new member and with a cavalcade of court-watchers looking for clues to where this group is headed.
The cases on the high court’s docket may not rattle the rafters of justice – nothing expected to inflame the debates over abortion or gay marriage. But legal scholars see portals that could reveal much about the court’s ideological split and whether incoming Justice Sonia Sotomayor changes the dynamics.
Besides Sotomayor, the justices under closest scrutiny are Anthony Kennedy, who commonly wields the swing vote in 5-4 decisions, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts.
• • •WASHINGTON (MCT) —Florida Sen. Bill Nelson is
trying to become the politi-cal champion of senior citizens on health reform as he and fel-low Democrats struggle to pre-vent a backlash from older voters.
Nelson persuaded the Senate Finance Committee last week to shelter senior citizens from a tax hike designed to help pay for re-forms. And he added a measure to the committee bill to allow pa-tients in many Medicare Advantage plans to retain low-cost coverage, plus fringes such as vision, dental care and health-club memberships.
NationalSACRAMENTO (MCT) —Driven to desperation
while performing triage on this year’s budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state law-makers tapped nearly every pot of public money, pushed some debts down the road and slashed billions from safety-net programs.
But at least a dozen lawsuits, ei-ther filed or in the works, are now challenging their maneuvers – from furloughing workers to raiding re-development revenues – and the consequences for the state’s still-precarious finances could be huge.
The latest courtroom salvo comes Monday, when the gover-nor’s office is due to answer claims he broke the law by using line-item vetoes to carve nearly $500 million from the budget he signed in July.
• • •YUMA, Az. (MCT) — Ele-
ments of the Yuma Fire Depart-ment are heading to San Bernadino County to help local fire agen-cies there battle the “Sheep Fire.”
YFD said it received a mutual aid request from the Imperial Val-ley Strike Team, and at approxi-mately 4:15 a.m. Sunday, an en-gine and four YFD personnel left Yuma to meet with other Strike Team members in Calipatria, CA.
According to YFD, a strike team usually consists of five engines drawn from area departments.
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BriefsWord on the Street
“What issue in the news most concerns you?”
“The budget crisis, be-cause we can see it in our own school. It actu-ally affects me.”
-Sarah Ur, bio-medical en-gineering junior
“The economy is a big one, because it affects us all as college stu-dents because it’s so expensive.”
-Jamie Martin, biology freshman
“Definitely the health care reform; I think it’s very important for low-and middle-class Ameri-cans. I think it’s our re-sponsibility; we are the wealthiest nation in the world.”
-Kareem Nassar, soft-ware engineering junior
“School budget; it affects my life the most.”
-Jeremy Kun, computer science junior
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WASHINGTON – As one of 18,000 legally wed same-sex cou-ples in California, Brad Levenson and Tony Sears file state income taxes as a married couple.
But they file their federal taxes as single individuals, paying hun-
dreds of dollars more each year. That’s because a law called the Defense of Marriage Act bars fed-eral agencies from recognizing gay marriages.
Levenson, a 49-year-old federal public defender in Los Angeles, says that’s not fair because he did not choose to be gay.
“I was born the way I am and
I don’t wish to be discriminated based on some genetic infusion at birth,” he said.
Backers of gay rights are pushing to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA. They’re buoyed by a growing acceptance of same-sex marriage – six states have now made it legal – and changed political realities in Washington: For the first time since DOMA passed in 1996, Democrats are in charge of both the White House and Congress.
“I do think it’s a matter of time and I do think the time has come,” said Darrick Lawson, 42, a chiro-practor from Sacramento, Calif., who’s ready to marry his male partner after they got engaged atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris. “You know, anything that happens pro-gressively happens under the con-trol of the Democratic Party. And that’s what we have right now.”
Levenson said he cannot enroll Sears, 45, in his federal govern-ment health care plan because of DOMA. When Sears needed a root canal and a crown, he paid more than $2,000 because he does not have any dental insurance. Leven-son said the dental work would have cost about $1,000 under his insurance plan.
“We’d like to be able to have the same rights as everyone else does, not only in California, but in the rest of the United States,” Levenson said. “ ... People take
so many things for granted when they’re married.”
President Barack Obama has promised to support a repeal, and the idea is gaining momentum. In the House, there are 97 co-spon-sors of a bill introduced two weeks ago by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., that would dump DOMA.
Doris Matsui, D-Calif., said she shares the “strong conviction and belief in equal rights” of a majority of her constituents. She said more than 86 percent of the 377 calls and letters she has received on the subject have supported a repeal.
“DOMA is a misnamed and unnecessary law that in many ways has restricted the states’ ability to govern,” Matsui said. “The oppor-tunity to marry and create a family is something sacred to all Ameri-cans, and deserving of the utmost respect.”
In the Senate, California Demo-crats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer – two of only 14 senators to vote against the law 13 years ago – both oppose DOMA, though nei-ther has introduced legislation to get rid of it.
Boxer said DOMA should be overturned “because it is it is dis-criminatory, unfair and unconsti-tutional.”
And Feinstein noted how the law is biased in many different ways. In addition to denying gay couples equal tax treatment, she said, DOMA prevents
them from receiving any federal employee benefits or from spon-soring a spouse for immigration purposes.
“I think this is the wrong policy and believe that the federal gov-ernment should treat all married couples equally,” Feinstein said.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are ready to fight any attempt to legalize gay marriage.
Rep. Dan Lungren of California has introduced a bill that would amend the Constitution to ban gay marriages for good. Lungren’s bill, which would have to be rati-fied by three-fourths of the state legislatures within seven years, says that marriage “shall consist solely of a legal union of one man and one woman.”
And a bill introduced by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., would deny federal courts the jurisdiction to hear or decide any questions in-volving the validity of DOMA.
“Marriage between a man and a woman has been the founda-tion of human civilization for thousands of years all around the world,” Burton said. “Protections for this vital institution are built into the culture and laws of our land because of the centrality of the family unit as the procreator of children who represent the future of our society.”
He said DOMA was approved
Democrats target federal law banning gay marriage
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Demonstrators chanted after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 in San Francisco, California, May 26, 2009.
Domestic violence as pre-existing condition? 8 states still allow it
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WASHINGTON – Eight states and the District of Columbia don’t have laws that specifically bar insur-ance companies from using domestic violence as a pre-existing condition to deny health coverage, according to a study from the National Women’s Law Center.
The states are Idaho, Mississip-pi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming. The study was by the nonpartisan, nonprofit center focused on individual coverage, not group coverage.
Some of the states, particularly
North Carolina, argue that other stat-utes on their books address the issue.
At least one of the health care bills circulating in Congress includes a specific federal prohibition on the use of domestic violence as a pre-existing condition. Other bills include blanket bans on pre-existing conditions.
Though domestic violence as a pre-existing condition isn’t thought to be as widespread as it once was, lawmakers say it’s yet another exam-ple of the need to overhaul the health care system.
“This is insane,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who’s been trying to convince Congress to address the issue for roughly a decade.
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and, above all, uranium–crucial for developing nuclear energy. It is also a potential transit zone for a pipeline transporting natural gas from Iran and Turkmenistan to In-dia.
The province’s coast is particu-larly important for the region’s economy. It provides Pakistan with an exclusive economic zone spread over approximately 111,600 square miles, giving Balochistan considerable economic impor-tance. Located close to the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, the city of Gwadar in Balochistan is expected to provide a port, warehouses and industrial facilities to more than 20 Asian and Middle Eastern countries.
Balochistan is the largest of Pakistan’s four provinces in terms of area, but is home to only 5 to 7 percent of its population. And despite having the richest mineral and natural resources in the coun-try, the province has the lowest literacy, health and infrastructure indices.
This impoverishment stems from the National Finance Com-mission awards, which are funded by taxes and distributed among provinces for development by the central government. Resource dis-tribution is based on a province’s population, a system that dates back to the breakup of Pakistan in 1971 and has been controversial since it began. Many claim that the central government has imposed this sys-tem on underdeveloped provinces and ignored their basic needs.
For the past 40 years, the parity principle has been the only cri-terion for the distribution of re-sources. Punjab, the most densely populated province, insisted since the inception of the award that population size should be the sole basis for distribution. Sindh, Bal-ochistan and the North West Fron-tier Province demand that in the revenue collection, geographical size and underdevelopment must be given due weight for resource distribution – ideas that are com-ing under consideration for the first time in decades.
The fiscal decentralization en-visaged under the NFC Award, which is presently being debated, has been a sore point for the Ba-loch people. The government in Islamabad needs to understand the significance and principles of fiscal federalism, which is a fair and just distribution of the fiscal resources, in order to sustain Pakistan’s na-scent democracy.
To restore the people’s trust in democracy, the government in Is-lamabad must pay more attention to the appalling social and eco-nomic problems of marginalized provinces, such Balochistan. Rev-enue-sharing among the provinces under a new NFC award is criti-cal.
With a more democratic gov-ernment in place – as opposed to military rule – the decisions made about Balochistan will be critically important. The Baloch people’s tolerance for the central govern-ment’s actions is at an all time low. People in this richest and the most strategically placed province of the country, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, are anxiously waiting to see whether the actions taken by the present democratic regime will assuage or further exacerbate
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Greenspan predicts unemployment will hit 10 percent in coming months
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SAN FRANCISCO– Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan predicted Sunday the nation’s unemployment rate is likely to top 10 percent in com-ing months before the situation begins to improve.
In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” with George Steph-anopoulos, Greenspan said there
are some signs the economy is starting to improve. But until companies create a substantial number of new jobs, the unem-ployment figure is likely to con-tinue to rise in the near future, he said.
Pointing to the fact that busi-nesses laid off “a very substantial number of people” when the financial markets collapsed last year, Greenspan said the country got productivity gains “of hor-
rendous amounts,” which cannot continue.
“So the silver lining is, at some point, we’re going to start to see an improvement in employment,” Greenspan said, according to a printed transcript of the program. “But remember that unless there is a monthly increase of more than 100,000 a month, you’ve still got the unemployment rate continuing to rise.”
He said that while the econ-omy is likely to show stronger-than-expected growth for the third quarter, that does not mean unemployment will go down im-mediately.
“My own suspicion is that we’re going to penetrate the 10 percent barrier and stay there for a while before we start down,” he said.
Greenspan’s remarks came just two days after the Labor Depart-ment reported an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent, the highest jobless figure since 1983.
Greenspan said lawmakers should not consider new stimulus plans in response to weak job fig-ures and other “soft” data.
“Oh, no new stimulus for two reasons. One, only 40 percent of the first stimulus has been in place. And there is a considerable debate going on in the econom-ics profession about how effec-tive this stimulus package is,” he
said. “So in my judgment, it’s far better to wait and see how this momentum that has already be-gun to develop in the economy carries forward.”
But he added that extension of unemployment benefits should not be counted as any sort of stimulus, and should be consid-ered.
“This is an extraordinary pe-riod and temporary actions must be taken, especially to assuage the angst of a very substantial part of our population,” he said. “So I don’t actually consider those types of actions stimulus pro-grams.”
because “the vast majority of Americans support upholding this sacred institution, and do not want to see marriage exploited and liberalized to fit any defini-tion.”
The White House has sent conflicting signals over what it intends to do.
Just last month, the Obama
administration went to court to defend DOMA, even after the president had made it clear that he personally opposed it. Admin-istration officials said the Justice Department had no choice but to defend the law as long as reason-able arguments could be made about its constitutionality, even if the department disagreed with the statute.
Lawson and his 33-year-old fi-ancee, campaign consultant Dale Howard, were planning to marry
in California but changed their plans in November, when voters in the state decided to outlaw gay marriages. Levenson and Sears married in July 2008, when it was still legal to do so.
Lawson said he’s happy to be living in a city that’s “very pro-gressive and accepting” of gays, but he added: “It doesn’t take me 10 miles to get into an area where I’m not accepted and I couldn’t be successful in business.” He said that he and his partner are in limbo
because of DOMA and that they only want to be treated equally with heterosexual couples.
“It basically comes down to being categorized as something less than everyone else,” he said. “So it’s not special rights, it’s just equal rights. I work hard. I own a business. I pay taxes. And I just want to be treated like everyone else. And putting us in a different class, or having legislation against the type of relationship that I have, is frankly insulting.”
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On July 1, Humankind Fair Trade opened up next door to Boo Boo Records on Monterey Street. Different from other stores, Humankind sells products from more than 35 countries, helping workers in the developing world. From necklaces made in Nepal to artwork from Haiti, all its products are unique and have their own sto-ry. This non-profit store’s mission is to provide vital income to people in need worldwide. The store sells people’s products, tells their stories and makes customers aware of the world around them.
The idea originated from Eliza-beth Aebischer, president of the board of directors. She’s a teacher and mother who wanted to find a way to help more. Searching on-line, she discovered the Fair Trade Federation, which offers several ways to get involved. She decided to start the process of opening a store in San Luis Obispo. A board of directors formed and began funding in January 2000. After a huge community effort with do-nations from churches, rotaries, in-dividuals and other organizations, Humankind Fair Trade opened.
“The real success comes from educating people,” Aebischer said. “It’s rewarding to know that ev-eryday we work and every item we sell, we are contributing to some-one’s life.”
Opening a business in this economy is a difficult effort, but in this case, it’s one that is important. The store’s products come directly from the vendors of the Fair Trade Federation, which also promotes safe working conditions. Expand-ing Humankind’s market through-out the world allows people of
developing countries to sell more products and provide a better liv-ing for themselves and their fami-lies. The store mostly relies on vol-unteers and two paid employees. They are counting on the holidays and getting the word out to en-hance business.
“In the future we hope to ex-pand the knowledge of our world not just through our store but through educational events, mov-ies and more,” Aebischer said. “Ex-panding our market helps others in Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Ghana, et cetera to live better.”
Walking in, the first noticable feature is the unique jewelry and artwork. Each section of items comes with a description of the person who made them and their picture.
Also, the high quality products are affordable to college students. One customer, Cal Poly student Jessica Madvig is very excited to have a store such as Humankind Fair Trade in San Luis Obispo.
“There’s no other store like it around here,” she said. “It was a great idea to open a non-profit store in San Luis Obispo, and list-ing the people’s stories along with their products really is great.”
Aebischer wants Cal Poly stu-dents to know that “you can make a difference. College is an impor-tant time in your life. We really value university students for their input and want them to get in-volved.”
Humankind Fair Trade sells art-work, home décor, jewelry, toys, food, tea, accessories and other unique products. It is located at 982 Monterey Street and is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, go to www.humankindslo.org.
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Dolls made out of beads, wire and corn-husks for hair are sold for $9 each (left). A customer checks the price tag of handcraft-ed bird houses made from hollowed out and decorated gourds and ornaments. Every item that the nonprofit store sells was made by a farmer or artisan living in a developing country, and they are often accompanied by pictures of the artist as well as a description. The Fair Trade Fed-eration promotes the goods of developing countries in order to help people provide a better living for them-selves.
HumanKind Fair Trade sells products made by farmers and artisans in the developing world
Rappers E-40 and DJ Quik performed for a sold-out audience at Downtown Brew Fri-day night. Though the rappers are known for their individual mu-sical styles, both re-ceived similar reactions upon stepping onto the stage. E-40, known for his slang creation and contribution to “mob music,” another type of Northern Califor-nia not popular in the music industry, walked onstage amid chant-ing of his name and bright camera flashes. DJ Quik, more recog-nizable for the smooth beats typical of South-ern California West Coast rap, received the same reaction, but also encouraged the smoky haze that rested above the audience for most of his performance.
San Luis Obispo resident Ray Zepeda, 31, has been listening to rap music since he was a teen-ager and has been a DJ Quik fan
for more than half his life. Hav-ing already seen E-40 perform once before, Zepeda was most excited about seeing DJ Quik but was even more thrilled that San Luis Obispo is reaching out
to different musical artists.“I’m looking forward
to DJ Quik, because I’ve been listening to him for 15-plus years and I have yet to see him in the area,” Zepeda said. “I’m happy to see San Luis bringing tal-ent and shows like this to the area so we don’t have to travel out of the area to watch these artists.”
Born Earl Stevens in Vallejo, California, E-40 is most recognizable for taking the Bay Area hyphy movement out of the Bay and introducing it to audi-ences nationwide. In part, the hyphy movement only came about because of the music industry’s neglect of mob music, a mid-tempo type of music that took off for a small period of time in the mid-1990s. A slang term of the word “hyper-active,” hyphy was first in-troduced to listeners on an album by rapper Keak Da Sneak in 1994. The slang term is in reference to the
fast-paced and spontaneous life-style of the Bay and encourages people to “get dumb”
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Rapper E-40 and DJ Quik performed for a sell-out crowd at Downtown Brew on Friday night.
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and “go stupid,” often in the form of wild, fast and outrageous dancing. It’s most well-known as-sociation is with ghost riding, a term for when passengers get out of a moving car and dance either on top or along side while the car is in neutral.
E-40 got his fi rst taste of suc-cess with his rap group, The Click. Made up of his brother D-Shot, his sister Suga-T and their cousin, B-Legit, the group gained a fol-lowing in the early 90s before re-leasing their debut album, “Down and Dirty.” With his 2006 album “My Ghetto Report Card,” E-40 debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard hip-hop and rap album charts and gained further recognition with popular tracks “Tell Me When to Go” and “U and Dat” featur-ing T-Pain. Proving himself to be more than just a rapper, E-40 is also a successful businessman as owner of his own independent record label, Sick Wid It Records. He is also the owner of a Fat Boy burger restaurant in Vallejo and is partnered with Gatorade in creat-ing 40 Water, a vitamin water that advertises to “supply the body’s daily nutritional needs” on its of-fi cial Web site.
E-40, also known as Forty Fon-zarelli and Charlie Hustle, came on at 9 p.m. accompanied by D-Shot, wearing his trademark thin-rimmed eyeglasses and gold chain, common accessories on most of his album covers. Though he only performed for about 45 minutes,
the crowd went wild for his pop-ular hits “U and Dat” and “White Girl,” screaming “YAY Area!” ev-erytime the rapper drank from his red party cup. Taking up every possible inch of the dance fl oor and bar area, the crowd stepped on, grinded on and sweated all over each other throughout the rapper’s set. Tempers rose to an almost violent level at one point when a tall and skinny, overea-ger crowd member knocked into a bigger man and his girlfriend. Yet despite the pushing, shoving and outrageous dancing during the E-40 show, 27-year-old San Luis Obispo resident Annette Ramirez, heard from friends that more people were going to see DJ Quik than E-40.
“I’m expecting DJ Quik to be better than E-40,” Ramirez said. “(DJ Quik) is a better artist. If it was just E-40, I wouldn’t go.”
Cal Poly political science sophomore Mari Rodriguez said she expected people to walk out of the concert bigger fans of DJ Quik because of his skills as a disc jockey to blend different types of records together without it being distinguishable and his ability to cross musical genres.
“A lot of people are going for E-40 because he’s more well-known but I think people are go-ing to walk away liking DJ Quik better (because) he blends well with other artists and is a chame-leon with other artists and their sounds,” she said.
Born David Blake in Comp-ton, California, DJ Quik is a known Blood gang member (or Piru) but spells his name without
a ‘C’ because ‘CK’ together mean ‘Crip Killer’ among other gang members. He fi rst became a suc-cessful artist in the early 90s with his debut album, “Quik is the Name.” In addition to releasing eight albums, he has produced and worked with other, more main stream artists such as TuPac, Janet Jackson, Xzibit, Whitney Hous-ton, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and E-40, among others. In ode to his talent as a DJ, the rapper half sang and half freestyled almost every song he performed. While he may not be as widely known, his hour and ten minute set had more of the audience dancing, waving their hands and singing to his music than E-40.
Even though DJ Quik came onstage to a thinner crowd, he played a longer set and was more involved with the audience. Wearing a #23 Casey Blake Los Angeles Dodgers jersey, DJ Quik moved across the stage, handed his microphone over to a few fans to sing and manuevered his way into the crowd to shake hands and dance with the audience while being heavily followed by two large bodyguards. Ignoring the ‘No Smoking of Anything’ signs posted on the pillars, the rapper even shared a marijuana joint with an audience member in the middle of his set as fans went crazy and camera fl ashes lit up the room.
“I had no idea it was this pop-pin’ in SLO,” he said onstage. “I ain’t goin’ to lie to ya’ll, this shit feel like a house party.”
In the end, DJ Quik came out on top among concertgoers who were expecting an entertaining and interactive show, especially Cal Poly graduate Jake Leonard, 24, and kinesiology major Joey Valero, 23. Leonard said that DJ Quik was better than E-40 and Valero attributed Quik’s more amped up show to him being a crowd pleaser.
“(The concert is) everything I thought it would be,” Cal Poly graduate Steven Lopez said. “It’s like one big party.”
But Rodriguez insisted that it is his ability as a DJ that won over fans in the end.
“He picks out a beat through his ear and is able to blend it, and when you add lyrics, it just gets that much harder,” Rodriguez said, “and that’s what makes a good DJ.”
Port O’Brien’s “All We Could Do Was Sing” captured post-college life almost perfectly. Over a series of drunken shanties and jams, primary songwriter Van Pierszalowski captured the con-fusing future of the twenty-some-thing. It was an album primarily about deciding what to do, who to love, what to place at the fore-front, and how to deal with those decisions.
Between that album and this new album, “Threadbare,” Port O’Brien went through a band re-shuffl ing dropping all members put primary songwriters Pierszalowski and Cambria Goodwin. During this period of lineup changes and world tours, Goodwin’s 17-year-old younger brother died in a sud-den car crash. As a result, the band that hit the blogosphere with “I Woke Up Today” is now in some ways remarkably different and in many ways more mature.
While prior albums focused on temporary estrangement mainly through the lens of Pierszalowski’s summers spent fi shing in Alaska, this new album focuses on con-stant estrangement. The diffi culty of permanent choices looms heavy over the album. Importantly, it’s not just the repercussions of the choices but the introspection over what they say. “Oslo Campfi re” captures the separation that builds between ourselves and others with the chorus ultimately refl ecting the sensation of not having anyone to trust. First single, “My Will is Good”, travels down a similar path thematically striking at a mature sense of self-reliance, the ability to stand behind diffi cult decisions.
One of the most interest-ing changes on this album is the increased presence of Cambria Goodwin, which now takes on a much larger amount of songwrit-ing. Pierszalowski’s lyrics have al-ways been wonderfully extrovert-ed and anthemic, certainly great enough to anchor a band around. Even so, Goodwin’s increased presence balances the album won-derfully adding touches of intro-version and intimacy. The remark-able “Tree Bones”, which has been around for a while, fi nally get its chance to shine in a fully-pro-duced version showcasing Good-win’s hushed vocals. “Next Sea-son” wonderfully sprawls out over the tail end of the album. With both songwriters working, the al-bum becomes much rounder and nuanced capturing the dynamics of growing with another person in the wake of life’s changes.
While “Threadbare” is perhaps not as catchy as “All We Could Do Was Sing,” it works better as a full album. It captures the experience of growth and change, relying on two wonderfully different song-writers to bottle it up. At the end of “All We Could Do Was Sing,” one wondered if the band could grow past their fi rst album or if they would forever be known as that fi shing band. At the end of “Threadbare,” there is no question that the band can grow and that they have a couple of wonder-ful albums somewhere in front of them.
Graham Culbertson is an Eng-lish graduate student and a “Hipster Bullshit” contributing columnist.
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“I absolutely hate this town of San Luis Obispo. Mutual interde-pendence? Bull. This small village would not even be here if it weren’t for the campus. The people of San Luis Obispo either need to suck it up or move out of the now labeled ”Hot Zone”. The areas around cam-pus should be for students only. That would solve everyone’s problems.”
—JohnResponse to “City council delays deci-sion on party policies”
“Is this a bad time to say I told you so? At the state of the student address last year I specifically asked Dr. Bak-er about the possibility of decisions of the student fee committies being overridden. I’m not sure about you, but I’d consider taking most of the funding away from the committee to be pretty much the same thing as overriding the decisions of the fee committee.”
—AndrewResponse to “Deans weigh in on College Based Fee delays”
“(The proposed city council regula-tions) could be a good thing. Pre-vious posters took the naive route and said “it doesn’t happen here.” However, the truth of the matter is that, yes, maybe the WOWies aren’t drinking while they are with their WOW leaders, but once 11 o’clock roles around they (most not all) are hitting Hathaway, Foothill, Slack, etc to find a party or get trashed. This does occur during WOW. It may not be within the ledger of activities during the day, but it does happen.”
—AnonymousResponse to “Politicians hear the noise”
“How much of our student fees go toward these concerts? If we’re pay-ing the same amount for fewer con-certs, shouldn’t it be up to the stu-dents whether to spend the money on events like these?”
—KateResponse to “Market music replaces UU entertainment”
“The most misunderstood princi-pal regarding Separation of Church and State, is that it was created to protect the Church from the State, and its interference…not the other way around. This idea that some-how there was no basis of God in our history is a more “brainwashed” perspective than that of the author whom everyone is accusing.”
—MikeResponse to “Returning to America’s core values”
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Author missing the point of ‘Declaration’
In Mr. Tsoi’s recent article, “Re-turning to America’s Core Values,” he claimed that “We have exchanged the values which this country was founded on for our interpreta-tion of freedom as it best suits the pursuit of our pleasures.” While his concern for the preservation of our nation’s founding principles is well intentioned, his argument is clearly poorly structured and unsupported.
The core of Mr. Tsoi’s argument article is lacking in logical structure. After illustrating the influence of Thomas Jefferson’s faith on his con-ception of morality, Mr. Tsoi argues, “If Jefferson believed that which he stated, his writings, including the Declaration of Independence, must embody this view of moral-ity.” While this is plausible, Mr. Tsoi is relying heavily on the assumption that Jefferson’s conception of mo-rality in social and religious terms is invariably connected with his con-ception of sound principles for the
effective operation of government. In fact, given Jefferson’s opinions on religious freedom and the separa-tion of church and state, there seems to be considerable evidence to the contrary. In fact, Jefferson notably wrote to the Danbury Baptist As-sociation in 1802:
The Declaration of Indepen-dence makes no clear reference to Jesus Christ or Christianity. Two ambiguous references are made to a “Creator” and “Nature’s God,” but nearly all of the document is devoid of religious reasoning and is based more on a conception of natural law and social contract.
Do not falsely conclude the progressivism and truth are dia-metrically opposed and please do not simply echo the words of self-contradicting pundits like Glenn Beck by telling me that we ought to return to the values we mani-fested in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 lest we see them disappear forever. This country doesn’t need any more crisis-oriented, personali-ty-based journalism. What we need
is thought. Next time make an ar-gument. Maybe then you’ll prove your point.
Keith Goodwinhistory senior
America is not a “Christian” nation
When Obama used the phrase “one of the largest Muslim coun-tries,” it didn’t imply that the Unit-ed States is the largest, but that our Muslim population is comparable to other large Muslim countries. The fact that Tsoi used this quote as an example of an assault to our nation’s moral values is rather tell-ing of his views about Muslims. Obama saying we “do not consider ourselves a Christian nation” is a correct statement, not an offense to our country’s fundamental values! We are a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists and many other religions. This nations was founded on the freedom to practice what-ever religion — or lack thereof — a person chooses. But, don’t take my word for it, try reading the first amendment. Its the one that Tsoi is so worried about being infringed on.
Zoe Lusthbiochemistry junior
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A few hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Ju-daism, Iranian television showed Iranian missiles blasting from land-based batteries. The next day, after a mystical hush engulfed Israel, with much of the population deep in prayer, Tehran said it fired medium-range missiles, capable of hitting Israel, as well as longer range ones, able to strike American positions in the Gulf.
Iran fired its weapons just days after revelations that it had built a secret uranium enrichment plant deep in the mountains near Qom — further proof that Iran indeed has something to hide. The tests came just after the clench-jawed declara-tion by the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom and France that Iran's "serial deception" of the international community must stop or crippling sanctions will follow.
The Islamic Republic timed its missile tests for maximum effect with three audiences in mind: Israel, the Iranian people and the West.
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atone-ment, is not only the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, the day Israel comes to a complete stop (except for the swarms of giddy children bicycling on car-free roads). It also marks the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the surprise attack by Syria and Egypt that came awfully close to wiping Israel off the map.
In October 1973, while Yom Kippur prayers covered Israel in what seemed like a protective blan-ket, Egypt mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, along with more than a thousand tanks. Egyp-tians crossed the Suez Canal, charg-ing into Israel from the south. From the north, Syrians advanced simul-taneously into Israel over the Golan Heights. Israel found itself caught by surprise and quickly losing ground.
Israel does not want another war. Military confrontation would likely bring the entire country, all civilian areas, under rocket fire from Iranian allies Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and even Syria, not to men-tion Iran itself. A peaceful solution to the nuclear crisis is the preferred outcome.
With its missile launches, the Is-lamic Republic showed its muscle to Israel, which needed no c o n -
vincing about the seriousness of the threat. The Iranian regime sought to enlist support at home, even if the regime's legitimacy is questioned af-ter June's stolen elections.
Iran also had a message for the West, which has lost faith in Teh-ran after years of lies. Iran maintains that its nuclear program has peace-ful aims. But even the diplomatic Obama declared that "the size and configuration of (the Qom enrich-ment) facility is inconsistent with a peaceful program." Israeli intelli-gence experts had long said a nucle-ar weapons program by Iran would require a separate secret enrichment plant. That is exactly what was just revealed in Qom.
Iran sought to show strength and determination by launching mis-siles. But the West should read the launches as another sign that Iran is, in Obama's words, "threatening the stability and security of the region and the world." Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believes "Ira-nians have the intention of having nuclear weapons."
The current Iranian regime poses a threat to the region and the world, as Obama rightly said. To Israel, where pictures of
Iranian missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem — with
its Jewish, Muslim and Christian populations and holy sites — the threat is not just theoretical. The West must view Iran's missiles, and the possibility that they could one day carry nuclear tips, as further ev-idence that Iran must, under no cir-cumstances, be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
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BERKELEY, Calif. — The tickets were gone by July, 72,000 folks convinced this would be the most unforgettable game in a most memorable season.
And now they'd like to forget it.While No. 24 Cal and its fans en-
tering Memorial Stadium on Satur-day were still trying to buy into the grand possibilities, including a Pac-10 championship, seventh-ranked USC brought an ice-cold dose of reality.
Scoring on three of their first four possessions, the Trojans went
on to a 30-3 romp that reminded the Golden Bears of the vast gap between where they are and where they thought they'd be.
Where they are is completely out of the Top 25, despite being ranked No. 6 only nine days ago.
Where they are is without a le-gitimate candidate for the Heisman Trophy, despite running back Jahvid Best being among the front-runners only two weeks ago.
Where they are is 0-2 in the Pac-10, burdened by an unwanted share of the cellar, with losses to Oregon and USC, by a combined 72-6.
Where they are today is on the precipice, scrambling to recover and
wondering if they can."There is no way in the world
that we are folding our tent," coach Jeff Tedford vowed.
"We definitely had a lot of ex-pectations," safety Brett Johnson said. "We just kind of haven't been able to put it together these past two games."
If only the effects of the past nine days were limited to the loss of two games, the first of which, to Oregon, crushed the highest of hopes while this one hijacked any pretense of collective ego.
But the ramifications are so much broader, more even than see-ing another season of promise rap-
idly shattered, devolving into an-other year of heartbreak for Cal and its most devoted followers.
Coming immediately after a 42-3 beat down at Eugene, this game served notice that Cal suddenly is a team in trouble, with a coaching staff facing increasing challenges and a quarterback searching for his game.
Junior Kevin Riley completed 15 of 40 passes for 199 yards, throw-ing one interception, a toss into the end zone to bring a devastating end to what had been a fairly impressive opening drive.
What was disturbing about Ri-ley's performance, though, was the frequency with which he missed open receivers. He missed low, missed far, missed wide. And more than a few of those in the crowd expressed their displeasure.
The simple explanation for the absence of offense the past two weeks is Riley's inability to step up against defenses stacked to contain Best (47 yards, 14 carries). Even the quarterback conceded as much, saying he's working with too much talent to accept back-to-back games without a touchdown.
Which brings the problem back into the lap of Tedford, whose brain is wired for offense and whose rep-utation is that of a man who devel-ops passers. He stands by Riley, for now.
Moreover, Tedford stands by his team.
"I'm never going to get into screaming and yelling at the guys,"
Tedford said, trying to maintain or-der in his program while respond-ing to some of the restless Old Blues who have requested that he become more vocally demanding.
Still, these past two weeks are, without question, an undeniable setback for the program. From a Top-10 national ranking to the bot-tom of the Pac-10 speaks in most uncomplimentary terms.
For all Tedford has done to res-urrect football in Berkeley, his task of lifting Cal to a point where it can reasonably compete with USC remains very much undone. It may never get done, no matter how opulent the facilities might be af-ter all the digging and building and polishing near the stadium. After all, Cal has been chasing the likes of USC for three generations.
To be sure, though, Tedford's long-term mission is not about to get any easier.
Among the 72,000 in attendance were a number of prep athletes be-ing recruited by Cal — which means some of them also might be considering USC or Oregon — or UCLA or Washington.
The impressionable teenager who knows what happened last week and saw what happened Sat-urday might find Cal football a bit less to his liking.
All the more if he considers the stadium was full, with longtime fans pregnant with expectations of something more and getting what they have seen much too often over the past half century.
Cal dismantled on own turf, time to pick up pieces
mcclatchy-tribuneThe Trojans’ starting defense has yet to allow over 300 yards of total offense or over 15 points per game this season. They held pre-season All-American Jahvid Best to under 50 yards rushing on Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.
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The Cal Poly defense broke a tie with the South Dakota State Jackrab-bits on a fumble recovered in the end zone with about two minutes left to clinch a 21-14 victory.
The Mustangs even their record at 2-2 after handing the Jackrabbits (3-1) their first loss.
“Right at the start we were feel-ing good,” said fullback Jordan Yocum, who accumulated 43 yards on 13 carries. “We knew it was one of the biggest games on our schedule and that the South Dakota defense would give us a hard time. When the defense dominates like that though, it really makes it easier for us,” he said.
Middle linebacker Marty Mo-hamed forced the fumble on the Jackrabbits’ four yard line with line-backer Carlton Gillespie on the fumble recovery. It was the Mustangs’ second defensive touchdown of the evening, the first coming from a 47-yard interception return by corner-back Asa Jackson just before the sec-ond half. Cal Poly’s offense has scored a mere two touchdowns in the past three games.
The fumble came after a switch decision by head coach Tim Walsh. It appeared the Mustangs were going to go for a fourth down conversion to try and break the 14-14 tie. But after a timeout the Mustangs punted, put-ting the Jackrabbits inside their own 10.
“I thought, ‘we gotta make a play, make a stop and get the ball back to the offense,’” said Muhamed, who had a game-high 13 tackles and two sacks. “We were showing [blitz] the whole game, but we backed off and then rushed.”
Mohmamed not only attributed the win to thorough preparation, but certain intangibles as well.
“I felt like we knew our assign-ments and were well prepared,” Mu-hamed said. “There’s a lot different energy at home. The crowd was defi-nitely lively and it gets us pumped.”
The Mustangs never led the Jackrabbits until the final fumble recovery, but the game was a close battle plagued by injuries. With four minutes to go in the first, Cal Poly
leading wide receiver Dominique Johnson received an undisclosed shoulder injury. Next to go down was the Jackrabbits starting quar-terback Ryan Crawford.
Coming into the game, Craw-ford was the major threat to the Mustang defense with a 69.7 per-cent completion rate. Thomas O’Brien, SDSU’s second-string quarterback, took the helm for the rest of the game, completing 13 of 22 passes for 98 yards.
Cal Poly quarterback Tony Smith found some rhythm dur-ing the game, completing 13 of 24 passes for 131 yards and one inter-ception. His long pass of 38 yards to wide receiver Eric Gardley set up a two-yard David Mahr touchdown to tie the game at seven in the on-set of the second quarter. Gardley had two catches for 47 yards. Run-ning back David Mahr added five catches for 35 yards.
Running back Jaymes Thierry carried the ball 12 times for 64 yards, yielding an average 4.8 yards per carry. Smith tallied 56 yards on nine carries.
Running back Kyle Minett led the Jackrabbits running game with 56 yards on 17 carries. Mi-nett scored both of South Dakota’s touchdowns, bringing his total up to seven. The first came at 8:24 in the first on a one-yard run, the sec-ond on a nine-yard run with 5:15 remaining in the second. The game marked the ninth consecutive game that Minett had scored a touch-down.
The Mustangs visit Montana on Oct. 10 in a non-conference match up.
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Cal Poly men’s soccer senior midfielder Daniel Cumming scored near the end of the first half for the only goal of the game to beat UC Davis yesterday after-noon. It was his second game-win-ner of his career.
“(It was) good to get a goal at (the) end of the half … It put them on their heels,” Cumming said.
Cal Poly (4-6-0, 2-0-0) sopho-more midfielder Jacob Hustedt slid a pass deep across the box where Cumming scored from three yards
out in the 43rd minute.“I didn’t think we played partic-
ularly great today, but (we) played well enough to win,” said Cal Poly head coach Paul Holocher.
The game began quickly with a third-minute shot from junior for-ward David Zamora. Zamora led with five shots, four of which in the first quarter.
UC Davis (4-7-0, 1-1-0) re-ceived six fouls in the first 40 min-utes and totaled 13 fouls for the game, compared to Cal Poly’s 11.
Cal Poly’s freshman defender Dominic Daley received one of the game’s three yellow cards in the 74th minute for a late chal-lenge.
Cal Poly had the 18-13 advan-tage in shot attempts, seven of the 18 attempted shots were on goal.
Holocher said the team would have to do things differently in Wednesday’s game against UC Santa Barbara, which he coined the most dynamic team in college soccer.
Last year’s game against UC Santa Barbara was broadcast on national television and watched by a crowd of more than 10,000, the
third-largest crowd in regular-sea-son college men’s soccer history.
The 2008 game drew not only a large crowd but also an unruly one. Cal Poly fans threw bottles on the field during play, mimicking tortilla-throwing Gaucho fans. The
rivalry has required increased game security at both stadiums.
Cal Poly will face league ri-val UC Santa Barbara Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at Harder Stadium. Both teams are undefeated in league entering the match.
IRVINE — Cal Poly’s Julianne Grinstead’s second goal of the season, 3:40 into the second over-time led the Mustangs to a 3-2 win over UC Irvine in a Big West Conference game in Irvine on Sunday. With the win, the Mus-tangs improve to 7-5 overall and 1-1 in conference play while UCI falls to 8-4 and 1-1.
In the fourth minute of the second overtime period, Grinstead scored her second goal of the sea-son when she knocked in the ball off a corner kick by Kirstina Con-don-Sherwood, ending the game. It was the first Big West Confer-ence win this season.
UC Irvine scored the first goal of the game early in the second pe-riod (54:04) when Milana Shabe-stari scored her first goal of the season. The Mustangs answered back 12 seconds later (54:16) when Cici Kobinski broke away after the ball was back in play and put it in the back of the net.
The Mustangs took the lead in the 60th minute when Kaleena Andruss drew out the UCI goalie then passed to Julie McKee for an open-net goal. For McKee it was her second of the season.
The Anteaters tied the game in the 80th minute off a corner when Devon Delarosa passed the ball to Lexi Kopf for her third of the season.
UCI outshot the Mustangs 18-8 and put 11 shots on goal while Cal Poly had six on goal. The Anteaters had eight corner kicks to Cal Poly’s six while the Mustangs were whistled for 10 fouls compared to four for UCI.
Coral Hoover earned her sev-enth win of the year in goal for the Mustangs, making eight saves while Danielle de Seriere took the loss.
UCI had its first scoring op-portunity of the game in the 12 minute when Mar Rodriguez fired a shot with Hoover making the save. The Mustangs didn’t get their first shot of the game until the 18th minute when Tiffany Gummow missed high.
In the 25th minute Condon-Sherwood put a shot on goal, but was stymied by goalie de Seriere.
Late in the first half, UCI made a push with a pair of shots. Alyssa Humphrey’s attempt in the 39th minute was blocked, and in the 41st Jackie Samis took a header on goal with Hoover making the save.
The Mustangs return to action on Friday at Alex G. Spanos Sta-dium with the team hosting UC Riverside for a Big West Confer-ence game at 7 p.m.
Women’s soccer win in double OT over UCI
ryan sidarto mustang dailyMidfielder Daniel Cummings scores the lone goal of the match to pro-pel the Mustangs to 1-0 victory over UC Davis at home yesterday.
Mustangs blank the Aggies in Sunday’s win
nick camacho mustang dailyDefensive player of the week Marty Mohamed (17) tallies his game-high 13 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble that put the Mustangs ahead late in the game. The defense limited SDSU to 305 total yards.
Timely turnover pushes Mustangs past previously unbeaten Jackrabbits
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