Sunny high 70˚F low 48˚F True freshman finds true power in batter’s box. INDEX News............................. 1-3 Arts...............................4-5 Opinion/Editorial ...............6 Classifieds/Comics............ 7 Sports..................................8 SPORTS, pg. 8 Tomorrow’s Weather: Volume LXXVII, Number 97 ursday, April 25, 2013 www.mustangdaily.net ARTS, pg. 4 Recent grads making people dance Dean excited to be taking bite out of the Big Apple Orfalea College of Business Dean Dave Christy is leaving San Luis Obispo for New York City, but he’s not nervous about the big change — aſter all, he’ll be moving up in academia as he becomes the provost and senior vice president for academic af- fairs at Baruch College. “It’s exciting on two differ- ent levels,” Christy said. “e idea of moving to New York, while scary, is very exciting, and then it will be a whole new level of responsibility for me. I’ll be vice president really of the whole university, and I’m looking forward to that.” In his new position, Christy will be “the No. 2 person to the president,” he said. But with more than 30 years in higher education, Christy said he feels prepared for the new responsibilities. Christy has led Cal Poly’s Or- falea College of Business for the past nine years. During his tenure, he focused on promot- ing interdisciplinary support and building an effective orga- nization, he said. Christy was also involved in the establishment of the San Luis Obispo HotHouse, an en- trepreneurial startup collabo- ration between Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo. “I’m convinced that getting people together for things they’re passionate about is the best way to promote interdis- ciplinary and intercommunity collaboration,” he said. “When we put this together, we didn’t say this is for the Orfalea Col- lege of Business, we said this is for Cal Poly.” Christy also emphasized connecting the college with the community. “Having the HotHouse downtown, for example, has changed the nature of how people see Cal Poly,” he said. “A group of people have really stepped up and said that they want to be partners in this, and they want the HotHouse to be MUSTANG DAILY STAFF REPORT [email protected]DAVE CHRISTY ‘An incident at the finish line’ BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING PCV tries coed living For communication studies sophomore Ben King, the biggest adjustment to liv- ing with women was find- ing long, blonde hairs in the shower, he said. King is the only male in his open-gender Poly Canyon Village apartment. Continuing students who wish to live in Poly Can- yon Village (PCV), an on- campus housing facility for second-year students and transfers, can be suitemates with members of a different gender. e open-gender housing program was pilot- ed last year with three apart- ments. is year marks the first official year of the pro- gram, and eight apartments in PCV are open-gender, in- cluding King’s. “I get to be with my friends and people that I actually care about and care about me,” King said. King lives with recreation, parks and tourism admin- istration sophomore Lily Barnard, kinesiology sopho- more Hannah Tappe and electrical engineering soph- omore Kristen Leemon. Barnard, Tappe and Leemon roomed together in the freshman residence halls, and even though King lived one tower away, he spent the majority of his first year in their dorm room, Leemon said. “When he got home from his classes, he’d come straight to our room,” Leemon said. For their sophomore year, however, the group opted for PCV’s open-gender housing. But even though they rarely analyze their gender roles, gender norms aren’t erased from the equa- tion entirely. King oſten cooks for the whole household, but he also fell into the role of gar- bage duty. “e first time I saw him take out the trash, it was just natural,” Barnard said. e freshman ‘hero,’ the participating professor and the grad student who was supposed to be there: ree Mustangs share their very different experiences with the Boston bombing. Aerospace engineering freshman Noah Falck didn’t hear the bombs explode at the Boston Marathon fin- ish line. He had finished the race almost an hour and a half earlier and was resting in a massage area for run- ners — a safe distance from the destruction wreaked by the bombing. But when an- other runner told him there had been two explosions, Falck worked his way back to the finish line area to help however he could. e Boston Harold named him a “finish line hero,” but he denied that his actions were anything out of the ordinary. “e real heroes were the first responders,” Falck said. “e police and fire depart- ment that went in there, and the doctors who saved hun- dreds of lives. I was just doing what everyone else was doing.” Falck, who finished the marathon in 3 hours, 1 min- ute, spent six hours in the area after the bombs went off, emptying buses full of gear from 27,000 runners, he said. The blocks immedi- ately surrounding the explo- sions were cordoned off, but Falck talked with people who had witnessed the bomb- ing’s chaos and destruction, helped runners find their bags and guided people out of the area. e wind whipped up af- ter the bombs went off, Falck said, chilling the sweaty run- ners who were already wear- ing next to nothing in the 49 degree weather and furthering the need to connect the bags full of clothes to their owners. Since the marathon course began in Hopkinton, Mass., runners loaded their bags of essential items they’d need after the race onto buses so they could pick them up again at the finish on Boylston Street in downtown Boston. Many runners who hadn’t yet finished the race or picked up their bags were without money, clothes or their cell phone. Falck had been unloading buses so they could be moved out of the race area for 30 min- utes when he heard a third ex- plosion just a block and a half away, a purposeful detona- tion by bomb squads, he said. e Boston Globe confirmed bomb squads controlled the third explosion, heard around the city at 4 p.m. But through the confusion and fear on the streets, Falck said the compassion of Bosto- nians was evident. “People were opening their doors and handing out food and water,” he said. “It didn’t matter who you were, they were helping out.” He saw runners with nothing on but shorts or a thin running shirt taken into locals’ houses to warm up. e kindness that emanated from Bostonians was “one great thing” that came of the otherwise tragic event, Falck said. Falck, a ROTC member at Cal Poly, said he would have returned to help people either way, but the values of honor, duty and selfless service he has learned from the Army “rein- forced” his decision. “ere were people running away, but there were hundreds of people running toward it,” he said. “I would have done it either way.” ‘An incident at the finish line’ Another member of Cal Po- ly’s community, mechanical engineering professor Pat- rick Lemieux, also ran the Boston Marathon. Lemieux met Falck by chance, aſter finishing the race and before the bombs went off in a medical building full of chiropractors and masseuses a block down and over from the finish line. “He was coming out as I was coming in,” Lemieux said. “He HOLLY DICKSON [email protected]ON THE RUN: Mechanical engi- neering professor Patrick Lemieux finished running the marathon in 3 hours, 17 minutes — a little more than an hour be- fore the bombings took place. COURTESY PHOTO ARYN SANDERSON [email protected]see PCV, pg. 2 see BOSTON, pg. 2 see DEAN, pg. 2 MD
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Recent grads making people
dance
Dean excited to be taking bite out of the Big Apple
Orfalea College of Business Dean Dave Christy is leaving San Luis Obispo for New York City, but he’s not nervous about the big change — after all, he’ll be moving up in academia as he becomes the provost and senior vice president for academic af-fairs at Baruch College.
“It’s exciting on two differ-ent levels,” Christy said. “The idea of moving to New York, while scary, is very exciting, and then it will be a whole new level of responsibility for me. I’ll be vice president really of the whole university, and I’m looking forward to that.”
In his new position, Christy will be “the No. 2 person to the president,” he said.
But with more than 30 years
in higher education, Christy said he feels prepared for the new responsibilities.
Christy has led Cal Poly’s Or-falea College of Business for the past nine years. During his tenure, he focused on promot-ing interdisciplinary support and building an effective orga-nization, he said.
Christy was also involved in the establishment of the San Luis Obispo HotHouse, an en-
trepreneurial startup collabo-ration between Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo.
“I’m convinced that getting people together for things they’re passionate about is the best way to promote interdis-ciplinary and intercommunity collaboration,” he said. “When we put this together, we didn’t say this is for the Orfalea Col-lege of Business, we said this is for Cal Poly.”
Christy also emphasized connecting the college with the community.
“Having the HotHouse downtown, for example, has changed the nature of how people see Cal Poly,” he said. “A group of people have really stepped up and said that they want to be partners in this, and they want the HotHouse to be
‘An incident at the finish line’BOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGPCV tries
coed living
For communication studies sophomore Ben King, the biggest adjustment to liv-ing with women was find-ing long, blonde hairs in the shower, he said.
King is the only male in his open-gender Poly Canyon Village apartment.
Continuing students who wish to live in Poly Can-yon Village (PCV), an on-campus housing facility for second-year students and transfers, can be suitemates with members of a different gender. The open-gender housing program was pilot-ed last year with three apart-ments. This year marks the first official year of the pro-gram, and eight apartments in PCV are open-gender, in-cluding King’s.
“I get to be with my friends and people that I actually care about and care about me,” King said.
King lives with recreation, parks and tourism admin-istration sophomore Lily Barnard, kinesiology sopho-more Hannah Tappe and electrical engineering soph-omore Kristen Leemon.
Barnard, Tappe and Leemon roomed together in the freshman residence halls, and even though King lived one tower away, he spent the majority of his first year in their dorm room, Leemon said.
“When he got home from his classes, he’d come straight to our room,” Leemon said.
For their sophomore year, however, the group opted for PCV’s open-gender housing. But even though they rarely analyze their gender roles, gender norms aren’t erased from the equa-tion entirely.
King often cooks for the whole household, but he also fell into the role of gar-bage duty.
“The first time I saw him take out the trash, it was just natural,” Barnard said.
The freshman ‘hero,’ the participating professor and the grad student who was supposed to be there: Three Mustangs share
their very different experiences with the Boston bombing.
Aerospace engineering freshman Noah Falck didn’t hear the bombs explode at the Boston Marathon fin-ish line. He had finished the race almost an hour and a half earlier and was resting in a massage area for run-ners — a safe distance from the destruction wreaked by the bombing. But when an-other runner told him there had been two explosions, Falck worked his way back to the finish line area to help however he could.
The Boston Harold named him a “finish line hero,” but he denied that his actions were anything out of the ordinary.
“The real heroes were the first responders,” Falck said.
“The police and fire depart-ment that went in there, and the doctors who saved hun-dreds of lives. I was just doing what everyone else was doing.”
Falck, who finished the marathon in 3 hours, 1 min-ute, spent six hours in the area after the bombs went off, emptying buses full of gear from 27,000 runners, he said. The blocks immedi-ately surrounding the explo-sions were cordoned off, but Falck talked with people who had witnessed the bomb-ing’s chaos and destruction, helped runners find their bags and guided people out of the area.
The wind whipped up af-ter the bombs went off, Falck said, chilling the sweaty run-ners who were already wear-ing next to nothing in the 49
degree weather and furthering the need to connect the bags full of clothes to their owners.
Since the marathon course began in Hopkinton, Mass., runners loaded their bags of essential items they’d need after the race onto buses so they could pick them up again at the finish on Boylston Street in downtown Boston. Many runners who hadn’t yet finished the race or picked up their bags were without money, clothes or their cell phone.
Falck had been unloading buses so they could be moved out of the race area for 30 min-utes when he heard a third ex-plosion just a block and a half away, a purposeful detona-tion by bomb squads, he said. The Boston Globe confirmed bomb squads controlled the
third explosion, heard around the city at 4 p.m.
But through the confusion and fear on the streets, Falck said the compassion of Bosto-nians was evident.
“People were opening their doors and handing out food and water,” he said. “It didn’t matter who you were, they were helping out.”
He saw runners with nothing on but shorts or a thin running shirt taken into locals’ houses to warm up. The kindness that emanated from Bostonians was “one great thing” that came of the otherwise tragic event, Falck said.
Falck, a ROTC member at Cal Poly, said he would have returned to help people either way, but the values of honor, duty and selfless service he has learned from the Army “rein-
forced” his decision.“There were people running
away, but there were hundreds of people running toward it,” he said. “I would have done it either way.”
‘An incident at the finish line’
Another member of Cal Po-ly’s community, mechanical engineering professor Pat-rick Lemieux, also ran the Boston Marathon.
Lemieux met Falck by chance, after finishing the race and before the bombs went off in a medical building full of chiropractors and masseuses a block down and over from the finish line.
“He was coming out as I was coming in,” Lemieux said. “He
ON THE RUN: Mechanical engi-neering professor Patrick Lemieux finished running the marathon in 3 hours, 17 minutes — a little more than an hour be-fore the bombings took place.
“Like, all us girls were gag-ging, but he just tied it up and took it out. It’s like a dad does that, so even though Ben’s not really that masculine, it just fit.”
Suitemates in open-gender PCV apartments do not share rooms, but they split two bath-rooms between four people.
King, who came out as gay during his junior year of high school, defies gender stereo-types in the bathroom he shares with Tappe, he said — at one point, King and Tappe’s bathroom had to be re-waxed because King’s hair spray and self-tanner coated the floor and ate through its wax.
“You’ll see all these products in our bathroom, and you’ll assume they’re all (Tappe’s), but they’re all mine — hair spray, hair mold, self-tanner, blow-dryer,” King said.
And though finding hairs in the shower is still strange, King said boxes of tampons don’t throw him off. Because the majority of his close friends have always been fe-male, he’s “pretty cool with the whole period thing,” he said.
Still, Leemon said hearing King’s electric face razor for the first time was “really weird.”
“I guess my dad shaved his face too, but when you live at home, you’re not really close enough to hear it,” Leemon said. “It took me a minute to realize what that sound was.”
If the option for open-gen-der housing in PCV didn’t exist, King would have most likely ended up living with people he did not know in PCV and feeling uncomfort-able, he said. Instead, their current apartment feels “more like a family,” King said.
“I’ll help them pick out out-fits, but it’s not like they can’t get dressed without me,” he said. “And we all play video games like ‘Mario Party’ and ‘Just Dance.’”
Progress report
A Cal Poly Residential Life and Education official said the open-gender housing program in PCV has been a “success” thus far. Emily San-doval, a residential life learn-ing community coordinator in charge of the open-gender housing program, said the program has had “no major issues at all.”
“When you talk about roommate conflicts in gener-al, we haven’t had any come from open-gender housing,” Sandoval said. “I don’t know if it’s the mixed gender dy-namics or what, but it’s been really easy from a (residen-tial) life perspective.”
Residential Life and Educa-tion is in charge of the appli-cation process, too.
To live in an open-gender PCV apartment, suitemates must be continuing students who have lived in University Housing before, apply and complete an interview as a set group of four. Any group that meets the criteria and applies is approved.
“It’s more of a meeting; it’s not like you’re interviewing,” Sandoval said. “If you and three friends come in to do this, you’re in.”
Though housing combina-tions of all genders exist, the most common split is two females and two males. Fol-lowing that, the next most common arrangement is three females and one male.
The majority of those who ap-ply for open-gender housing are friends from the same major or groups who bonded in freshman housing, Sandoval said. When groups of mixed-gendered friends choose to live off-cam-pus, they don’t have the limita-tion of only living with people of the same gender, she said.
“So this program makes liv-ing on-campus more market-able and more appealing,” she said. “Ultimately, this is here for the students to give them better satisfaction with their living arrangements and to al-low them to choose the best roommates for them.”
But, until four years ago, open-gender housing was not even on Cal Poly’s radar.
How this came to be
In 2009, Inter Housing Council decided gender-neutral housing on campus needed to be a prior-ity, and the Pride Center sup-ported the initiative.
University Housing does not ask about sexual orientation or gender identification in the ap-plication or interview.
“LGBT identification is not a question asked, but there have been a handful of students that have self-disclosed,” Sandoval said. “We consider the Pride Center a partner, and it shows that housing is becoming more open to the LGBT community.”
Gender Equity Center rep-resentative Veronica Heiskell agrees that open-gender hous-ing is a large step for Cal Poly’s LGBT community.
Open-gender housing can be a supportive living space for those who have differ-ent gender identities and can lead to their bettered aca-demic success, said Heiskell, a graduate assistant for the Gender Equity Center.
“For our students who iden-tify as transgender or gender nonconforming, it’s important for them to have a home where they can feel safe and comfort-able,” she said.
National studies indicate ap-
proximately 1 in 500 to 1 in 250 people identify as trans-gender, Heiskell said.
She has no reason to suspect that Cal Poly differs from the national trend and “would es-timate that the amount is on mark with national statistics.” Applying the national statis-tic to Cal Poly would suggest that Cal Poly has at least 38 community members who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming.
A national trend
Until 2005, four-year universi-ties did not offer specialty hous-ing for transgender or gender nonconforming students.
University of California, Riverside (UCR) was the first four-year university to offer gender-neutral housing when it launched Stonewall Hall. Stonewall Hall is much more geared toward the LGBT community on campus than the open-gender program in PCV, which is mainly mar-keted to groups of mixed gender friends.
Another difference between UCR and Cal Poly’s open-gender PCV apartments is that Stonewall Hall is the designated community hall for open-gen-der rooming. At Cal Poly, on the other hand, there is no sin-gular designated building for the program. Suitemates request any PCV apartment building to live in with their mixed gen-dered suitemates, and so there are open-gender apartments in most PCV complexes.
Plans for expansion
The biggest distinction be-tween UCR’s program and Cal Poly’s, though, is that students in Stonewall Hall can live in the same room as someone of the opposite gender, as op-posed to just the same suite.
As of now, there are no plans to extend gender-neu-tral housing to shared bed-rooms or first-year dorms. Still, University Housing said it will reevaluate what stu-dents want yearly.
Next year, there will be ap-proximately 20 open-gender PCV apartments — a 566 percent increase from 2011’s pilot program.
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was wearing a Cal Poly jersey and I shook his hand and said, “Hey, Cal Poly.”
Lemieux, who has run in five marathons including Boston, said the atmosphere during the race was “dynam-ic and electrifying.”
“Once you get closer to the finish line, the whole thresh-old of noise keeps increasing, increasing and increasing,” he said. “You can really tell when you get into Boston.”
Lemieux finished the race in 3 hours, 17 minutes, ap-proximately an hour before the first explosion. After passing under the finish line banner, he was given Gato-rade, water, a space blan-ket and a medal, before he picked up his bag of belong-ings and headed for the same building Falck was in.
But just 30 minutes later, the building was evacuated — race officials said there had “been an incident at the finish line.”
At first Lemieux presumed a runner had a heart at-tack at the finish line, but the scene on the street con-vinced him otherwise.
“Once you got out onto the street, it was just like 9/11,” he said. “They’ve got EMTs and police and ambulances just screeching down the street.”
Eventually, Lemieux said he
heard a rumor that bombs had gone off and he began to try to find his way to his hotel, but if he’d seen a way he could’ve helped people, he would have, he said.
“I didn’t see anything,” he said. “I did not see smoke, didn’t see broken glass, all the pictures of blood that you saw on the news after, all that was so far from where you could stand by the time I got out of the building that I didn’t see any of that.”
In addition, the cell net-work was completely over-whelmed, buses, taxis and the subways shut down im-mediately, he said.
While it hadn’t taken him much more than three hours to run 26.2 miles earlier in the day, it took another three hours and two or three doz-en phone calls to his hotel’s shuttle before he was able to connect with it to make it to his hotel.
“I was in kind of bad shape,” Lemieux said. “I was stiff after the marathon and so on, and I was freezing.”
Split-second decisions
While Falck and Lemieux were in the midst of the action, Cal Poly graduate student An-nie Aguiniga was back home, watching the events in Boston unfold in horror.
She was supposed to go to the race, but dropped out a few weeks before because full-time work and school hadn’t allowed enough time for training, she said.
“I thought about it and de-cided it wasn’t the year to go,” she said.
So instead of running in Boston on April 15, Aguini-ga was sitting at work, admit-tedly bummed she wasn’t in the race, when she got a news update from The New York Times on her phone.
“My stomach just dropped,” she said.
Her phone began ringing repeatedly with calls from worried friends and fam-ily who still thought she was running in Boston.
“I’m sad I didn’t run the race,” she said. “But I really feel that split-second decision saved me and my family’s life.”
Aguiniga said, however, that the bombing wouldn’t scare her away from this “mecca” of running events in future years.
“If anything,” she said, “I think it would give me more of an inspiration to want to run it in honor of what happened.”
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I’m sad I didn’t run the race. But I really feel that split-
second decision saved me and my family’s life.
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not just a Cal Poly thing, but a community thing.”
During Christy’s time as dean, the college has consistently been ranked in Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual list of the nation’s best undergraduate business schools, peaking this year at No. 64.
“It’s not so much ‘Look at this one project or accom-plishment,’ though,” he said. “For example, I could say ‘Oh,
we’ve been ranked by Forbes as a top business program,’ but the fact of the matter is that we achieved that by building an effective organization. I’m proud to say we’re more fo-cused and effective than we were nine years ago.”
Moving forward, Christy will serve as the provost and senior vice president of student af-fairs at Baruch College. More than 78 percent of Baruch Col-lege’s students are enrolled in the Zicklin School of Business, the largest collegiate business school in the nation.
Christy will oversee all of the colleges and “really everything in the university that has to do with academics,” he said.
Christy leaves Cal Poly this summer, but he plans to bring lessons learned with him.
“I think Cal Poly’s ‘Learn By Doing’ philosophy is re-ally something worth pro-tecting,” Christy said. “That’s what makes Cal Poly what it is, and that’s one thing I’ll take with me.”
Aryn Sanderson contributed to this staff report.
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King (left), Barnard (center) and Leemon (right) hang out in Barnard’s room and “assume the typical position,” King said. They gather to chat in her room daily.
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Drug czar: legalization is ‘extreme’ROB HOTAKAINENMcClatchy Newspapers
As Washington state and Col-orado wait to see whether the federal government will allow them to sell marijuana legally, the Obama administration is busy talking about the dan-gerous health effects of smok-ing pot.
When he went to Baltimore on Wednesday to announce the administration’s latest drug-fighting plan, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said legalization was an “extreme” approach.
In a speech this past week in Washington, D.C., Ker-likowske said the best gov-ernment policy was one that discouraged the use of mari-juana and made it less avail-able. Moreover, he said, the Justice Department is obligat-ed to enforce the federal Con-trolled Substances Act, which bans marijuana.
“No state, no executive, can nullify a statute that’s been passed by Congress,” said Kerlikowske, the former po-lice chief of Seattle, making a clear reference to the two states that in November ap-proved the recreational use of marijuana by people 21 and older.
Despite the tough talk in public, the bigger focus is on what steps the administra-tion is taking privately as it
prepares to officially respond to the states that want to over-ride the federal drug laws and sell pot in retail shops.
With U.S. Attorney Gen-eral Eric Holder expected to announce a decision soon, pressure is mounting from both sides.
Drug opponents want the administration to block the states, saying the federal laws would become a farce if the states are allowed to ig-nore them.
Marijuana proponents want the administration not to intervene, saying individual states should have the right to decide whether to legalize the drug.
While the administration has given no public indication of what it will do, many pot advocates are confident they’ll have the upper hand once the smoke clears.
They note that President Barack Obama has admit-ted to smoking pot as a teen, and they think he’s unlikely to quash the will of voters in Washington state and Colo-rado, regardless of what his underlings might want to do.
Advocates say any move to come down hard on the states might be hugely unpopular. A poll by the Pew Research Cen-ter that was released earlier this month found for the first time that a majority of Ameri-
cans — 52 percent — now back legalization.
The opponents appear to have the backing of Ker-likowske, whose official title is director of the White House Office of National Drug Con-trol Policy.
At a news conference Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the drug czar boasted that the administra-tion’s efforts in fighting drugs are paying off.
Overall since 2006, he said, cocaine use is down by 50 per-cent, while methamphetamine use has fallen by one-third. At the same time, Kerlikowske said, fewer Americans are driving after using illicit drugs and fewer are addicted to pre-scription drugs.
But in his official report to Congress outlining the new drug strategy, Kerlikowske said the nation continues to see “elevated rates of marijua-na use among young people, likely driven by declines in perception of risk.”
To fight drug use, he says in the report, the adminis-tration wants Congress to approve more than $10.7 bil-lion for drug-education pro-grams next year and to pro-vide more drug treatment for people with substance abuse disorders. Kerlikowske adds in the report that the admin-
istration’s request for 2014 also includes $9.6 billion for domestic law enforcement, $3.7 billion for interdiction and $1.5 billion for interna-tional programs.
“The economic toll that drugs take on our country is absolutely incredible,” the drug czar said Wednesday, estimating the cost at $193 bil-lion per year.
Kerlikowske said that both legalization and an enforce-ment-only war-on-drugs ap-proach were extreme solu-
tions and the administration wanted to do more in the middle, preventing drug use and spending more on treat-ment for addiction. As a police chief, Kerlikowske said, he’d often failed to understand that addiction was a disease that could be treated, but his views have changed.
One thing has remained consistent: his view that mari-juana shouldn’t be legalized.
In 2009, Obama’s first year in office, the drug czar called legalization “a non-starter”
for the president’s team.But as he goes around the
country these days speaking about the dangers of mari-juana, Kerlikowske is quick to note that the administration’s response to Washington state and Colorado is now a legal matter that the Justice De-partment will decide.
He did that Wednesday as he wrapped up his news confer-ence, but he added, “From our standpoint as a public health issue, nothing has changed as a result of those votes.”
Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske subtly condemned Washington and Colorado for their legalization of marijuana in a speech this past week.
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California boys on house arrest for sexual batteryERIC KURHISan Jose Mercury News
Three 16-year-old boys who face charges of sexual battery and distribution of child por-nography in the Audrie Pott case were released from Juve-nile Hall on Saturday and are now on electronically moni-tored home arrest.
The boys’ movements will be limited and they will have to petition to be allowed to leave the homes of their parents, ac-cording to a source close to the case who did not want to be identified.
Family members and attor-neys for Audrie Pott say the once-bubbly 15-year-old Sara-toga High student felt pub-licly shamed by her peers after being sexually assaulted by classmates at a drunken, un-supervised Labor Day week-end house party last year.
According to court docu-ments, the boys removed her shorts and used a black mark-er to scrawl humiliating mes-sages on her body while she was passed out in a bedroom at the home. One of the boys said that the others touched her in a sexual manner.
Photos were allegedly taken and shared with other stu-dents on campus, where attor-ney Robert Allard said Audrie saw a clutch of boys huddled around a cellphone. She post-ed messages to friends on Facebook indicating she be-lieved “everyone knows about that night.”
“I’m in hell,” Audrie wrote, according to family state-ments at a news conference last week. “The whole school is talking about it.”
Family members said the bullying Audrie suffered caused her to hang herself Sept. 10 at her mother’s home in Los Altos.
I’m in hell. The whole school is talking about it.
AUDRIE POTTSEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM
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Andy Olson raises his drumsticks in the air and looks to his left.
“One, two, three, four.”Nick Larson leans in and presses his fingers
into the keys of his red instrument, kicking off the song with a bluesy, gospel of a melody.
To his right, guitarist Bryson Bailey joins in, bending his knees in time and edging toward the microphone.
Then, a deep bass fills the underbelly of the tune as its owner, Kevin Middlekauff, looks through his long, curly blonde hair back to Olson, until the rhythm of the snare pins the sounds together.
“Oh, last call,” Larson sings.The last note of Larson’s bright voice fills the
small room as he croons, leaning back and clos-ing his eyes.
“Mmm, your request better come in soon.”All four smile.This is Próxima Parada, playing “Believin’ is
Hard” — one of five songs on the San Luis Obispo band’s first-ever EP, “Makes You Wanna,” released Saturday at Boo Boo Records on Record Store Day.
In Harmony
The EP, from conception to final product, was put together in just a few weeks. The group recorded in a converted creamery in Harmo-ny, Calif., and in one day of studio time and less than three takes for each track, an album was made.
“The whole thing was just a great vibe,” Mid-dlekauff said. “It contributed to the energy, and you feel like we’re having fun when you’re lis-tening to the album.”
Próxima Parada’s sound on the EP is a collabo-ration of the members’ personalities and different backgrounds in music.
“There’s a lot of contributing factors,” Bailey said. “We have a lot of influences — blues, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, groovy aspects ... We kind of analyzed our style of music and thought about what kind of sound we want to be coming out on the actual CD.”
The songs were recorded on a 2-inch analog tape from the 1960s “to add a natural compression,”
Bailey said.“The guy had this machine from the ’60s,” Bailey
said, “and he hadn’t used this machine in like 15 years ... we had to bake the tape for a couple hours on really low heat to get the moisture out because the adhesives they used to put the compounds to-gether get really gummy over time, so we baked it to make sure it worked.”
Próxima Parada chose the analog tape, and re-corded the tracks live, in order to preserve the raw authenticity of the band’s music.
“It doesn’t sound like 2013,” Olson said. “More than anything else, it just captures how we sound live. We didn’t add anything. It’s just a good picture, hopefully, of exactly what we sound like live. We just got to jam together and feed off of each other’s energy.”
While the diverse album tends to favor jazzy tem-pos, the soulful sound is abandoned mid-EP for the twangy, lively, dance diddy “Porch Stompin’.”
“The second half of Porch Stompin’ is this snippet where we say, ‘Show me the next stop’ — Get it? Next stop? — in a four-part harmony,”
Larson said. “We did that in the first take, stag-gered all around the microphone. It worked out perfectly the first time. I was so stoked on that; we didn’t know what the hell we were going to do and it just worked out.”
While everyone in the band agreed that no song took precedence over any other, the last track on the EP, titled “Makes You Wanna,” is one Bailey holds close to heart — he wrote it as a tribute to his mom, who is currently battling stage four breast cancer.
“She’s just always looking out for everyone to have fun,” Bailey said.
Bailey, who writes most of the songs alongside Larson, also had the idea for the album cover, which was photographed at Montaña de Oro.
“We wanted the album picture to not look re-hearsed, like we were posing for it, but be a super sincere picture,” Bailey said. “So we thought, like, what’s the best way to take a sincere picture? Let’s dress up in Goodwill suits, jump in the ocean at 5:30 in the morning, get freezing cold, roll in the sand and see what happens.”
The four alumni that call themselves Próxima Parada — Spanish for “next stop” — make music the only way they know how: straight from the soul.
The four alumni that call themselves Próxima Parada — Spanish for “next stop” — make music the only way they know how: straight from the soul.It started with a couch
The spark started when Larson and Bailey joined as a folk duo, but it was a couch-surfing experience that brought the whole group together.
Around that time, Larson’s roommate, Kevin, de-cided to let a couchsurfer — named Myles — stay a night on his sofa.
Myles, the original trumpet player for Próxima Parada, had decided to save money (for the trip to South America he is currently on) and rented out his room while hopping around San Luis Obispo from couch to couch.
“So, we hosted him, and he brought his trumpet, and we jammed,” Larson said. “Myles immedi-ately said, ‘Let’s start a band.’ We said OK, but we thought it was a joke.”
Myles also thought of the name Próxima Parada from riding the local buses. The group immedi-ately loved it.
“He said to us, ‘You know, I’ve been saving this. It’s called “Próxima Parada,’ and we all just said, ‘Yes,’” Larson said.
Próxima Parada, now made up of all Cal Poly graduates, played its first public show shortly after the naming in January 2012 at SLO Donut Company.
A few months later, Middlekauff jumped into the mix, and by July, when Olson joined, the five-man band was in full swing — and hasn’t slowed down since.
The group has performed at more than 15 differ-ent venues and events, from venues such as Creek-side Brewing Company to events such as Art After Dark, and more recently, Santa Barbara’s Lucidity Music Festival.
“Playing at Lucidity felt really official be-cause we had a whole sound crew and our
audience members were all unknown to us, which is not the case when we play in SLO,” Larson said. “I guess right now, we’re trying to broaden our scope and go to the next level, taking all the necessary steps to get out of SLO, play a couple of music festivals and see where that goes.”
But Larson said the band loves the intimate feel of performing in San Luis Obispo and called the constantly growing fanbase here a “huge blessing.”
“When we play at Creekside, we feel so fortunate that friends, and friends of friends, come out to support us to the extent that the place fills to capac-ity and people have to wait outside,” Larson said. “That is something that we never expected to hap-pen to us.”
Fire, water, earth, wind
The band members sit at Linnaea’s Café — their coffee shop of choice — as they discuss their up-coming performances: a music festival, a winery, a record store.
The band’s success comes not just from tal-ent, but also from an uncanny bond as a group. The group, now down to four members, spends most of its time together — whether or not they’re playing music.
“I think the people I hang out with the most on a day-to-day basis are these three here,” Bailey said, motioning to his bandmates.
Bailey’s legs are outstretched, his brown hair falling out from beneath his baseball cap. To his left sit Larson and Middlekauff — one with
crossed legs and curly, dark hair swept into a ponytail and a big grin, the other in a green T-shirt, foot on the bench, hugging his knee. To Bailey’s right, Olson sits quietly, head leaning intently to one side.
“I think that’s the reason why it works really well,” Bailey says. “We have different personalities, that complement each other. It creates a better balance. Where Nick (Larson) and I may be more intense sometimes, and they (Middlekauff and Olson) are a lot more laid-back.”
“Yeah,” Middlekauff chimes in. “Andy and I are the yangs.”
Larson: “Fire and water.”Middlekauff: “Earth and wind.”Bailey: “Heart and soul.”Middlekauff: “And together, we make Próx-
ima Parada.”Back at Boo Boo Records, Record Store Day cel-
ebrators pause from album-perusing as the “heart and soul” sounds of Próxima Parada captures their ears. The crowd draws closer to the stage as the next song begins. Olson taps the cymbals, his shoulders rolling to the groove.
“We’re selling our new EP,” Bailey shouts, “if you like what you hear.”
Bailey’s brown shoes tap along to his guitar. Mid-dlekauff’s bass fills the melody. Larson’s head bobs as jazz pours out of his keyboard.
The music pauses for a second and four feet tap in time, then all at once, the song kicks back into full swing as Bailey’s warm, husky voice travels through his mic, the keyboard riffs a jazzy line and Olson’s cymbals splash over the melody.
The band is surrounded by thousands of albums, records of dozens of music genres and styles, but one thing is for sure — the next stop for many of these music-lovers is Próxima Parada.
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On Monday morning, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with us-ing a weapon of mass destruc-tion. According to a transcript of that proceeding, a mag-istrate at Tsarnaev’s hospital bedside read him the Miranda warning, informing him of his right to counsel and his right to remain silent. But among the things we don’t know is if, or to what extent, Tsarnaev was interrogated before being informed of his rights.Over the weekend, Attor-
ney General Eric H. Holder Jr. gave every indication that he intended to have Tsar-naev questioned without the Miranda warning. We have to hope that didn’t happen. The Constitution is not like a deck chair, to be brought out in good weather and then put away and ignored when the seas get rough. Tsarnaev is entitled to the same constitu-tional protections as any other criminal defendant.The Constitution provides
protections to all those ac-cused of crime, including the privilege against self-incrim-ination, the right to counsel, the right to a speedy trial in front of a jury, and the right to have guilt proved beyond a reasonable doubt.There is no exception in
the Constitution, or ever recognized by the Supreme Court, for especially hor-rible crimes or for ones that
can be labeled terrorism.But that never seems to stop
officials from looking for ex-ceptions during crises. In ad-dition to Holder’s remarks, Republican Sens. John Mc-Cain and Lindsey Graham called over the weekend for Tsarnaev to be held as an en-emy combatant and tried in a military tribunal, an idea that was fortunately rejected.Since 9/11 there has been a
debate, still unresolved, as to what constitutional protections apply to those apprehended in foreign countries and held as enemy combatants. But there is no doubt that a crime in the United States must be investi-gated and prosecuted in accord with the Constitution.This is not the first crime
of terrorism in an Ameri-can city. The anarchists of the early 20th century, the attackers in the first World Trade Center bombing, and Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who were convicted of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, to mention a few, were pros-ecuted and tried in compli-ance with the Constitution.It is striking that in all of
these instances, the govern-ment succeeded in gaining convictions in courts. In oth-er words, complying with the Constitution is not an obsta-cle to successful law enforce-ment. The federal judiciary, and likewise state courts, have shown repeatedly that they are capable of handling such cases. And even if com-
plying with the Constitution were to make prosecution more difficult, that would not be a sufficient reason for suspending it.Holder said on the Sunday
talk shows that the government intended to invoke the “public safety exception” that allows suspects to be questioned with-out being given Miranda warn-ings in emergency circum-stances. But this exception does not apply here because there was no emergency threat facing law enforcement.The emergency exception
to Miranda that Holder em-braced was announced by the Supreme Court in New York v. Quarles in 1984. A woman told the police that she had been raped by a man with a gun. When the police caught the suspect in a gro-cery store, they saw an empty holster and no gun. The man was asked about the location of the gun, and he told the officer where to find it.The Supreme Court ruled
that, although the suspect had not yet been given Mi-randa warnings, the state-ment about the gun was ad-missible against him because of the urgent need to find the gun. In other words, the pub-lic safety exception applies only when police are acting in an emergency to prevent serious immediate harm. If the police needed to question Tsarnaev as to the location of other bombs, the emergency exception would apply.But Holder has said that no
such threat exists. It appears then that the attorney gener-al’s intention to allow ques-tioning of Tsarnaev without reading him his rights would violate Tsarnaev’s Fifth Amendment rights. That could well mean that any incriminating statement he were to make would be ex-cluded from use as evidence.And what about the idea ad-
vanced by McCain and Gra-ham that Tsarnaev should be treated as an enemy com-batant and prosecuted in military courts? It’s unlikely we’ve heard the last of it.But the Constitution does
not _ and should not _ per-mit trying American civil-ians in military tribunals. A verdict from a military tri-bunal, no matter how fair the
proceedings, never would have the credibility of a con-viction from a federal court. More important, there is no stopping point to the ero-sion of the Constitution; why couldn’t any crime that caused significant loss of life be deemed an act of terror and the suspect denied con-stitutional protection?Throughout American his-
tory, whenever there has been a serious threat, people have proposed abridging civil liberties. When that has happened, it has never been shown to have made the country safer. These mis-takes should not be repeated. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be investigated, prosecuted and tried in accord with the U.S. Constitution.
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I am writing to apologize for a re-mark I made at last week’s Campus Conversation forum with students that was reported in Monday’s Mustang Daily, a story titled “Three takeaways from President Arm-strong’s student forum.”
Unfortunately, in trying to make a point about diversity and how seemingly innocent remarks can be hurtful, I inadvertently com-bined separate anecdotes into one and ended up painting an unfair caricature of the staff of our Health and Counseling Services. I am truly sorry and hope the staff will accept my apology.
In the spirit of Learn by Doing, let’s call this a teachable moment and let me try again to make my point about why I feel so strongly about the issues of diversity and inclusivity.
First and foremost, a better under-standing of the issues around diversity will enable our students to be more successful throughout their lives.
To be sure, Cal Poly graduates are very successful. Recent data show that nearly nine out of 10 Cal Poly gradu-ates from the past two years are either employed in their chosen discipline or in graduate school, and Cal Poly graduates are earning salaries well above the national average.
However, top executives of some of America’s most prestigious com-panies have made it clear that they want and need greater diversity in their workforces and expect univer-sities like Cal Poly to provide and prepare that workforce. They also want all of our graduates to be able to function well in our multicultural and increasingly global society. Some of these executives have been very blunt, saying that our relative
lack of diversity is Cal Poly’s Achil-les heel.
What that means to me is that we need to accomplish a number of things to ensure that we have a cam-pus climate that is welcoming to all, that we need to attract a more diverse student body, and we need to recruit a more diverse faculty and staff. Ad-ditionally, we need to make sure our students “learn how to learn” in an environment that reflects the world in which they will work. And part of that means knowing how to interact well with others from backgrounds different from our own.
The point I was trying to make last week was that often seemingly innocent remarks end up being very hurtful. Such incidents hurt our climate, and, in turn, can create a negative perception about Cal Poly as a place to learn.
The example I was attempting to cite last week is how so many students of color have told me that it’s not unusual for them to be asked, “Which sport do you play?” The un-derlying assumption is insulting, to say the least. Students tell me it hap-pens so often that they are numb to it and, unfortunately, consider it a part of the Cal Poly culture. That’s a piece of our culture we need to change.
Students have also told me that if they respond that they don’t play a sport, a less frequent but not uncom-mon follow-up question is, “Then how did you get in?” Nobody is numb to the pain caused by that question.
My point: We all need to be aware of the different facets of diversity, including how our words can hurt others. And I will be more mindful of my own words.
Sincerely,Jeffrey D. ArmstrongCal Poly President
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thing for me is having the guys trust me when my spot comes up in the lineup and that I can do my part.”
While a catcher by trade, Mundell hasn’t had the op-
portunity to sit behind the dish this season, a spot junior Chris Hoo and senior Elliot Stewart occupy. Instead, he’s had to solely produce from the batter’s box.
But the coaching staff has shown full confidence in his powerful frame and quick hands this season. He’s gotten
the start at designated hitter in all 34 games he’s played in, a testament to the potential the coaches saw in him.
Admittedly, Mundell em-ployed an unorthodox swing entering his first collegiate season, but worked through-out the fall to fine-tune his mechanics and earned him-
self a spot on the opening day roster.
“He really blossomed,” Lee said. “You could really see the power and see him hit the next step right before your eyes. He hit seven home runs in a short period of time. He’s been very patient and very mature for a hitter
at his age.”Put simply, if a team had to
chose between the two, it might be better off choosing the guy in the batter’s box — not the one on the mound. Take it from the pitcher Bloomquist.
“He’s one of the batters in the lineup that the other teams hate facing,” Bloomquist said.
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The dreaded slump: It’s just part of the reason why, in baseball, there’s an age-old ad-age that says good pitching al-ways beats good hitting. It says if you had to pick between the two, always go with the guys on the mound, not the ones in the batter’s box.
That may be true, espe-cially in today’s game where dominant pitching often takes center stage. But the best hit-ters might beg to differ. They might argue that it’s just their mechanics or that their tim-ing’s a bit off and that it’ll come around eventually.
And when it does, watch out.In true freshman Brian
Mundell’s case, it’s been a try-ing time at the plate during the past couple of weeks. But for those who were watching this past weekend in Cal Poly baseball’s weekend series against then-No. 4 Cal State Fullerton, they know first-hand that Mundell is back from the depths of his first collegiate slump.
On Saturday, against one of college baseball’s most domi-nant pitchers this year, Justin Garza, Mundell launched a 1-2 offering in the fourth inning and sailed it clear over the left field fence at Baggett Stadium — a crucial two-run home run that cut the Titans’ lead to 4-3 at the time.
And just like that, Mundell was back.
“A lot of our most productive
hitters will have those times when they’re really hot,” head coach Larry Lee said. “And at this level (pitchers) will start attacking your weaknesses, so you have to find out what those weaknesses are and work on that in practice (to get out of a slump).”
Prior to that at-bat, Mundell had gone 1 for his last 31 with no homers. Since, Cal Poly’s designated hitter is 3 for 6 at the plate and has proven that, even as the second youngest player in the lineup, he wasn’t rattled by the rough patch.
“Just being in the lineup ev-
eryday has been great,” Mun-dell said. “DH-ing is not for-giving. You can’t go have a bad at-bat and go play the defense and completely forget about it. It’s kind of rough in that stand-point, but in all I love going out there. Hitting is my favor-ite thing to do.”
The freshman has certainly shown that this season as he is leading the team in home runs with eight on the season and sports Cal Poly’s second best slugging percentage (.512), trailing only sophomore out-fielder Nick Torres. One more
home run and he’ll tie Matt Jensen’s all-time record of nine by a Cal Poly freshman in a single season.
And he has 18 games left to do it.
Mundell was recruited to Cal Poly for that innate ability to hit, Lee said. Last year, he led Valencia High School with nine home runs and 32 RBIs as a senior, but really blossomed once he arrived on campus in the fall.
Freshman pitcher Casey Bloomquist saw that evolution firsthand when the two played summer ball together locally
last year for the Templeton In-dians. The sky is the limit for Mundell, he said.
“Brian’s gonna be playing for a long time, that’s for sure,” Bloomquist said. “He’s gonna be playing until he’s 40-years-old. He’s gonna be playing in the pros.”
The Cal Poly coaching staff had a similar feeling about the 6-foot-3, 225-pound prospect.
Mundell was recruited by familiar names such as UCLA and Oregon, both ranked in the top 10 in many major polls this week, and
had offers rolling in from Big West Conference foes Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara among other schools. He even had a glimpse of playing for 2012 national champion Arizona and was offered a chance at entering the MLB draft while in high school. But in the end, Mundell knew Cal Poly was the right fit for his career.
“(The coaching staff) is known for getting guys to the next level,” Mundell said. “I came up here and then I called all the other schools and said, ‘Hey, I’m going to Cal Poly. This is where I want to go,’ … You don’t really get that op-portunity at other schools. I’ve already gotten a lot better than I was.”
He’s even improved consider-ably since the beginning of this season. Entering a series with Kansas State in early March, Mundell didn’t have a single extra base hit, but soon found his groove by hitting his first collegiate home run in the first game against the Wildcats. He then went on a tear, hitting his next six jacks in the next two series, including a 10th-inning walk-off home run against San Jose State.
“Not a lot of people get a chance to do that,” Mundell said. “I was lucky enough to come up in that position and lucky enough to hit the ball over the fence. It’s been a bless-ing to just get my chance and being able to produce. The big
He really blossomed. You could really see the power and
