Thursday, September 25, 2014 www.mustangnews.net Volume LXXIX, Number 4 SAFE AND SOUND | Fear of having their information shared may have deterred survivors from seeking help, Safer assistant coordinator Cheri Love said. Now, counselors can provide completely confidential support. PHOTO ILLUSTARATION BY JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NEWS THEIR LIPS ARE SEALED Safer, Cal Poly’s on-campus sexual violence resource center, now of- fers completely confidential counseling to survivors of sexual assault. Previously, when someone came to Safer seeking counsel, the or- ganization was required to share any reports of sexual assault with the university’s Title IX coordinator, Dean of Students Jean DeCosta. e affected student would be contacted and told that the university is aware they were affected by sexual or gender violence and inform the student of their options. Cheri Love, an assistant coordinator at Safer, said that even though an official investigation would only be pursued with the survivor’s consent, the prospect of their information being shared with a cam- pus entity still deterred survivors from seeking help. “I think when people hear that there’s a mandated report to the Dean of Students, or university reporting if they come to an entity on campus, there’s a misconception that their name is somehow go- ing to be released,” Love said. “Because of those myths, or those mis- conceptions, I think Safer has been underutilized.” >> see SAFER, pg 3. Kyle McCarty @KyleMMcCarty News... 1-3 | Arts... 4-5 | Opinion... 6 | Classifieds... 7 | Sports... 8 Women’s soccer wraps up nonconference schedule Safer coordinators start new year with fully confidential counseling ASI launches voter registration drive with ‘fancy’ videos KATIE ULLRICH | MUSTANG NEWS COURTESY PHOTO | ASSOCIATED STUDENTS, INC. ALYSSA DEROSA | CREATIVE COMMONS e women’s soccer team (4-5) will host two West Coast Conference opponents this weekend, marking the end of the Mustangs’ nonconference schedule. Cal Poly will face Saint Mary’s at 12 p.m. on Friday and San Francisco at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Big West Conference play begins on Oct. 3 at Long Beach State. Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) student government leaders are encouraging Cal Poly students to register to vote for state and national elections. eir medium of choice? Video. As part of the campaign, ASI has created a four-part video series that will be sent to students through emails and played on housing and dining televisions. e first video, which features ASI President Joi Sullivan rapping, was posted on ASI’s Facebook page Monday morning. >> see ASI, pg 3. Brooke Sperbeck @brookesperbeck7 ABU | Sophomore forward Megan Abutin leads the Mustangs with 4 assists in nine games this season. Aaron Carter 7:30 p.m. tonight at SLO Brewing Co.
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Thursday, September 25, 2014 w w w.mustangnews.netVolume L X XIX , Number 4
SAFE AND SOUND | Fear of having their information shared may have deterred survivors from seeking help, Safer assistant coordinator Cheri Love said. Now, counselors can provide completely confidential support. PHOTO ILLUSTARATION BY JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NEWS
THEIR LIPS ARE SEALED
Safer, Cal Poly’s on-campus sexual violence resource center, now of-fers completely confidential counseling to survivors of sexual assault.
Previously, when someone came to Safer seeking counsel, the or-ganization was required to share any reports of sexual assault with the university’s Title IX coordinator, Dean of Students Jean DeCosta.
The affected student would be contacted and told that the university is aware they were affected by sexual or gender violence and inform the student of their options.
Cheri Love, an assistant coordinator at Safer, said that even though an official investigation would only be pursued with the survivor’s consent, the prospect of their information being shared with a cam-pus entity still deterred survivors from seeking help.
“I think when people hear that there’s a mandated report to the
Dean of Students, or university reporting if they come to an entity on campus, there’s a misconception that their name is somehow go-ing to be released,” Love said. “Because of those myths, or those mis-conceptions, I think Safer has been underutilized.” >>
Safer coordinators start new year with fully confidential counseling
ASI launches voter registration drive with ‘fancy’ videos
KATIE ULLRICH | MUSTANG NEWS
COURTESY PHOTO | ASSOCIATED STUDENTS, INC.
ALYSSA DEROSA | CREATIVE COMMONS
The women’s soccer team (4-5) will host two West Coast Conference opponents this weekend, marking the end of the Mustangs’ nonconference schedule.
Cal Poly will face Saint Mary’s at 12 p.m. on Friday and San Francisco at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Big West Conference play begins on Oct. 3 at Long Beach State.
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) student government leaders are encouraging Cal Poly students to register to vote for state and national elections.
Their medium of choice? Video.As part of the campaign, ASI has created a four-part video series that will be sent to students
through emails and played on housing and dining televisions. The first video, which features ASI President Joi Sullivan rapping, was posted on ASI’s Facebook page Monday morning. >>
see ASI, pg 3.
Brooke Sperbeck@brookesperbeck7
ABU | Sophomore forward Megan Abutin leads the Mustangs with 4 assists in nine games this season.
Aaron Carter 7:30 p.m. tonight at
SLO Brewing Co.
No, the bathroom sink isn’t bro-ken. It’s supposed to be like that.
The apparent decrease in water pressure in faucets around Cal Poly is actually due to low-flow aerators attached to faucets in an attempt to save water during California’s drought, and they’re accompanied by a number of other measures.
“In public restrooms through-out the campus, the common restrooms in the dorms and in shower heads throughout, we got them all,” said Dennis Elliot, Cal Poly’s assistant director for en-ergy, utilities and sustainability.
The faucet modifications, which are screw-on pieces at-tached to the end of faucets, limit water flow to .5 gallons per minute. A standard sink uses between 2.5 and 3.5 gallons per minute, Elliot said.
Students quickly noticed the change in flow.
“Interestingly, we got a few calls within the first few days after that had happened, people thinking that their building water pressure had dropped because the flow was noticeably different,” he said.
In addition, Cal Poly spent part of the summer making similar changes to showers in the resi-dence halls. Most were already “ultra-low flow” at 1.5 gallons per minute, Elliot said, but those that were using more were reduced.
The reductions in water flow come as California experiences a drought so severe Gov. Jerry Brown declared a water emergen-cy in January and ordered state
agencies to limit their water usage.As a result, Cal Poly is re-
quired by 2016 to be using 10 percent less water than it does now, and to lower it another
10 percent by 2022.“I think certainly we are in
for a bumpy ride, and I think hopefully that we got some good rain in the years com-
ing up,” Elliot said. “But we’re in for some things we’ve never seen before.”
Cal Poly is also looking at converting lawns into low-wa-
ter use or zero-water use areas, though Elliot said he recog-nizes students are fond of sev-eral lawns around campus and would be sad to see them go.
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“In public restrooms throughout the campus, the common restrooms in the dorms and in shower heads throughout, we got them all.”DENNIS ELLIOT | CAL POLY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ENERGY, UTILITIES AND SUSTAINABILITY
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SLOW FLOW | Faucet modifications limit flow to 0.5 gallons per minute. A normal sink uses 2.5-3.5 gallons per minute. The shower heads use 1.5 gallons per minute.
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Love believes the value of confidentiality trumps man-dated reporting.
“I think it’s really to ac-knowledge that it’s up to the person that’s been affected by violence, for them to choose what their next steps are,” Love said. “They didn’t ask to be put in that position, and they just need to take care of their own healing process.”
Confidential reporting can influence the amount of offi-cial reports made by survivors. When survivors can weigh their options confidentially, they may feel more comfort-able making an official report, Love said.
A Mustang News investiga-tion in June 2014 found that
the sexual assault report rate at University of California, Santa Barbara was six times that of Cal Poly. UCSB has of-fered confidential reporting at their Safer-equivalent longer than Cal Poly, and the higher report rate could be indicative of survivors feeling more com-fortable coming forward.
Safer now joins the Coun-seling Center as one of two places on campus that are not required to share reports of sexual assault with the Dean of Students. All other Cal Poly employees are required to re-port to the Dean of Students.
Love — along with two stu-dents certified by the state to provide crisis counseling — is available to speak with survi-vors at Safer.
Crisis counseling hours are available at the Safer office
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The group is also partnered with the RISE center in San Luis Obispo, which provides 24/7 counseling services.
Since RISE is not official-ly affiliated with the uni-versity, they do not have to report to a Title IX coor-dinator and are therefore completely confidential.
The change comes from Cal State University (CSU) Ex-ecutive Order No. 1097, which was put in place this past June. Under the new policy, sexual assault counselors and advo-cates are no longer required to make reports.
Mike Uhlenkamp, a CSU spokesperson, said the Execu-tive Order was issued to re-flect changes in the Violence Against Women Act, a federal law updated in March.
“The videos that we’re going to be rolling out not only encourage students to vote, but they explain why students need to vote and some of the issues that can af-fect them,” ASI Chief of Staff and agricultural business senior Jake Rogers said.
Voting could also get students involved in matters outside of
campus, Rogers said.“Here at ASI, we’re really in-
terested in getting students en-gaged, and we feel that it’s re-ally important for them to be engaged not only on campus, but off campus as well,” Rogers said. “One way we saw we could do that is through a voter registra-tion and education drive.”
On Sept. 16, ASI partnered with the President’s Office to launch a voter registration drive
as a way to increase the number of Cal Poly students registered to vote, Rogers said.
“The unique thing about our drive is all of our voter regis-tration is completely online,” Rogers said.
The drive uses a service called Turbo Vote, a nonprofit organi-zation that sets up personalized websites for universities across the nation where students can register to vote, Rogers said. Ac-
cording to the Turbo Vote web-site, Cal Poly is one of 202 uni-versities using the service.
Students can choose to register to vote in any city or state, not just in California. If a state does not have an online voter registry, Turbo Vote will send the student the necessary forms in the mail for free, Rogers said.
ASI had voter registration booths set up during Week of Welcome (WOW). Rogers said
he and his executive cabinet plan to continue setting up weekly booths for students to register throughout the fall.
“We’re also going to have voter registration booths set up throughout campus — so there should be one in the library,” Rogers said. “We’ll have some set up on Dexter on certain days, in Metro, in the University Union, things like that.”
Business administration fresh-
man Steven Andrews registered to vote at ASI’s booth at the WOW Club Showcase on Sun-day. Andrews said he’s always wanted to register to vote, but never had the opportunity.
“I was looking for the opportu-nity and it was conveniently here right in front of me at the club fair,” Andrews said. “It was really easy, just follow the steps.”
Andrews, a San Diego native who registered to vote in his hometown by mail, said he is looking forward to voting in this year’s elections.
“I don’t have a party in mind or anything yet, but I want to be a part of the voting system, so I’m glad I registered today,” Andrews said.
Though Turbo Vote mails stu-dents absentee ballots for free, Cal Poly is paying to use the ser-vice, Rogers said.
“We partnered with the Presi-dent’s Office on this, so ASI is the hands and feet and the voice and doing the work behind the drive, and the funding is com-ing from the President’s Office,” Rogers said.
As of mid-afternoon Sunday, Rogers said 160 students had registered to vote on the Turbo Vote site. ASI is hoping to have at least 2,000 students registered by Oct. 20, he said.
“At the very minimum, we would like to get 10 percent of the Cal Poly population, which is about 2,000 students, but we’re really trying to shoot for the stars on this and hoping to exceed that goal by quite a bit,” Rogers said.
Cal Poly students have been “really excited” about the new voter registration system, Rog-ers said, especially freshmen registering to vote for their first election.
“As soon as people have heard they have this opportunity and it only takes about 5 minutes, they’ve been super receptive,” Rogers said.
The campaign ends Oct. 20, the last day to register to vote for this year’s California general election.
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“(Survivors) didn’t ask to be put in that position, and they just need to take care of their own healing process.”CHERI LOVE | SAFER ASSISTANT COORDINATOR
PHOTOGRAPHER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
VOTER DRIVE | ASI and president Joi Sullivan created four videos to encourage students to vote in both state and national elections. The deadline to vote is Oct. 20.
While roaming through club booths at the Week of Welcome (WOW) showcase, incoming students were able to discover some new music, courtesy of KCPR — Cal Poly’s student-run radio sta-tion — which presented three California-based indie rock bands at the University Union (UU) Plaza stage Sunday.
Recreation, parks and tourism administration junior Connor Griffith, a KCPR disc jockey who goes by “Kid Chameleon,” played music between sets. Last year, KCPR presented Proxima Parada and Swan Thief, but this year, they brought in some new blood, he said.
“A main goal of KCPR in general is to introduce people to new music, and this showcase was expanded off of last year,” Griffith said. “It started off local, and we want to keep some of it local, but
we also wanted to expand it to bring in new bands that people haven’t heard.”
Griffith has started playing a lot more local music on his on-air ra-dio show, Incense and Peppermints. The first band of the showcase, Pleasantly, was requested by one of Griffith’s listeners recently.
Pleasantly originated from music sophomores Thomas Sypkens and Kevin Hegyi. The two met on the Cal Poly music department’s Facebook page and discovered they had the same taste in music.
“Our style is cathedral pop,” Sypkens said. “It’s not a genre yet, but we are getting there. Imagine you are sitting in a cathedral and you have all these huge harmonies. It is very floaty and makes you feel good about yourself.”
Hegyi and Sypkens started writing music together months be-fore the band was complete with electrical engineering freshman Dan Potts on drums and computer science sophomore Javier Tor-res on keys. The band is excited to start writing collaboratively, Sypkens said.
The group’s upbeat, positive sound reverberated through the UU Plaza as the members played their first show together.
“It went a hell of a lot better than I thought it would,” Hegyi said. “It
was cool playing for a bunch of people walking by, and I think some people enjoyed it.”
Bringing a Northern California vibe to the stage, San Francisco-based band sea knight was up next. The band, which has a melodic, folksy feel, consisted of haunting vocals, drums, guitar, bass and vio-lin on occasion.
A lion from the Chinese Student Association danced to sea knight’s songs from their album, Where Are You, adding to the showcase’s eclectic variety.
Indie folk rock band Second Cousins closed out the showcase. Originally from San Diego, Second Cousins describes their sound as old, folky rock ‘n’ roll with a modern twist.
The four band members have been playing together for two years.“It started with Tim and I writing songs and sharing them,” vocal-
ist Austin Burns said. “It was the first relationship I had where I felt they had way better input than I would have thought of originally. Maybe not way better, but it was a really healthy musical relation-ship, and then it spurred into this.”
Until Second Cousins’ next performance on Oct. 22 in San Diego, you can listen for them on KCPR.
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Textbooks are stacked high and flashcards are ready to be studied. It’s official, kids — school is back in session. But despite the painful reality of school, SLO Brewing Co. has presented a lineup so original, it’s bound to stop even the most severe cases of post-summertime sadness.
“We’re doing a lot more indie and electronic dance music (EDM) artists,” SLO Brewing Co. general manager Monte Schaller said. “We haven’t really worked with that industry very often the last two to three years, and there are a lot of tickets to be sold for that.”
The venue prides itself on providing a wide va-riety of music. The San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly communities have a vast range of music tastes, and SLO Brewing Co. has committed itself to catering to a large array of interests.
Schaller said every night at the venue has a dif-ferent feel.
“Sometimes, there are acoustic shows where it’s
seated, and we put candles out,” he said. “We also have EDM shows where we have the smoke on, la-sers out and it’s a Vegas-like show.”
Kinesiology freshman Jessica Eisenhauer said she moved in just one week ago and has already heard of SLO Brewing Co.’s concerts.
“I’m a freshman, so I don’t know much about it, but I’ve heard that a lot of people go and there are live bands,” Eisenhauer said. “I’m really into coun-try and alternative music, so I’d like to see bands like that this quarter.”
Good news: The managers at SLO Brewing Co. feel the same. According to the lineup, this quarter incorporates many new faces and first-time artists.
“Just because the general public hasn’t heard of a band doesn’t mean that it’s going to fail,” Schaller said. “The resources for people to discover music is so plentiful right now — Spotify and Pandora are great examples.”
Kinesiology graduate student Alyssa Britt said she wants to see more low-key, current bands.
“I really like SLO Brew, and I’d love to see small-er-named bands play there,” Britt said.
A lot of alternative, local bands create names for themselves by starting at SLO Brewing Co. — Proxima Parada is one of them. The band, set to perform Friday, Sept. 26, began as a group of Cal Poly students with a dream. Now, they’re perform-ing for an expected sold-out show for their CD release party.
“We have the ability to cater to national touring acts, but whenever we have that, we use it as a way to get exposure for the local bands by having them open for a sold-out show,” Schaller said.
In addition to the line of rising stars, SLO Brewing Co. also includes artists with a wide recognition.
Kalin and Myles, rising stars on the Top 20 Sirius Radio for “Love Robbery,” are set to play on Nov.
10; hip-hop artist Twista expects to play for a sold-out show on Oct. 26.; and Aaron Carter will take the stage on Sept. 25.
“Aaron Carter is definitely one of the favorites, because everyone knows who he is,” Schaller said. “Go ask any 22-year-old girl right now about him, and they totally geek out on it.”
Though most of the bands are new, returning artists for this quarter include Through the Roots on Sept. 30 and the English Beat on Oct. 3.
SLO Brewing Co. typically announces upcoming events via Twitter and Instagram approximately six to eight weeks before the show.
“Come to the opening bands,” Schaller said. “You never know who will surprise you.”
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NEXT STOP | Local band Proxima Parada will perform at SLO Brewing Co. for their CD release party.COURTESY PHOTO | PROXIMA PARADA
Eric Stubben is a mechani-cal engineering junior and Mustang News conservative columnist.
Sept. 9, 2008 was a day I’ll nev-er forget.
As the door to the police car slammed shut and red and blue lights flickered in the window, I didn’t know what to feel. I rode across town, caught in the moment — yet embarrassed because the swarms of people on the side-walks could see me.
When the car finally stopped, I stepped into a football sta-dium full of thousands of law enforcement officers, many of them in tears.
No, I wasn’t in trouble. I was mourning. We all were.
The death of local police dep-uty Anne Jackson one week earlier rocked the entire north-west community, from British Columbia down to Seattle. As I sat through the memorial on that abnormally hot summer day, I knew things wouldn’t be the same for a long time. I watched big, burly police of-ficers break down in tears as they felt the pain of losing a coworker and friend.
Maybe it’s obvious by now, but I was raised as a police officer’s son. Through count-less nights of late police calls and one horribly emotional memorial, I taught myself that police authority is to be respected and appreciated.
So when I watched the riots and looting in Ferguson, Mis-souri this summer, it wasn’t the police behavior that horri-fied me — it was the national news coverage. The overuse and inaccuracy of the term “militarization of police” was and is sickening.
No, Jackson wouldn’t have been saved by some “milita-ristic” police behavior; she was killed in a psychotic shooting spree. But one thing I can guar-antee is no family, friend or community should go through the pain of having one of their protectors gunned down. For that reason, any law or ideol-
ogy preventing our law enforce-ment officers from having the best protection possible is unjustified.
The media attention given to the idea of barring police from attaining surplus military equip-ment is ludicrous. Selling used military equipment to police departments around the coun-try via the Department of De-fense 1033 program has a wide variety of benefits. Monetarily, the Department of Defense re-tains some sell-back value on the weapons and protection without having to scrap it. In fact, more than $5 billion worth of equip-ment has been sold to local au-thorities since the 1990s.
Local police departments also benefit monetarily through the 1033 program. Buying surplus military equipment allows au-thorities to spend less money compared to buying new equip-ment. And if you’re worried about these surplus goods be-ing used against you, think again. Police officers have to go through what is known as a “use of force continuum” before be-ing able to use lethal force. The continuum progresses from mere police presence to verbal-ization, hand control and non-lethal force before lethal force is even an option. Even then, sig-nificant, life-threatening danger must be present.
Ideologically, police knowing military tactics is also promis-ing. Think back to the destruc-tion and terror of 9/11. What if the terrorists who controlled and crashed the planes weren’t the only ones trying to do dam-age? Local police would be our first line of defense against a further attack. Would you want them protecting your life and your family with limited force because they were unable to ob-tain the force they needed at a reasonable price?
Think of the Boston Marathon bombing. After a day-long man-hunt, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wasn’t caught by our military, but by a local police SWAT team. Without precise “militaristic” training, who knows how much damage could have been done.
It’s not unreasonable to think that our country could be attacked again one day. When or if that time comes, we will want all the homeland protection we can get.
Now, think back to Ferguson this summer. Was police behav-ior really that militaristic? Sure, the rights to peacefully assemble and speak freely are protected in the Bill of Rights, but last time I checked, looting and violence are not considered peaceful. The use of heavy armor and SWAT teams wasn’t to drive back protests but to control the significant amount of violence in the area.
Maybe I haven’t addressed the most important question yet: Why were we so wound up in the idea of police militarization, anyway? Of course, the killing of Michael
Brown and ensuing riots con-sumed national news for weeks on end. Emotional cries from Brown’s family and members of the Fergu-son community provided emo-tionally compelling arguments against police force.
Now, let’s be honest. We have no idea what happened in Ferguson. Eyewitness accounts conflict and tell stories with a 180-degree dif-ference. There’s no video — no evidence of Brown doing anything wrong, but no evidence of his in-nocence. One day a judge will give a verdict, slam a gavel and Ameri-ca will move on — with or without
a clear opinion of what happened that fateful day.
There are approximately 600,000 police officers in the United States. Of them, one made a major headline for a contro-versial use of lethal force. Yet at the same time, 100 police of-ficers were killed in the line of duty last year. In the day and age of media scrutiny and neg-ativity toward police officers, we tend to forget they live out a life-threatening job day in and day out.
Let’s keep our police officers safe and our own lives safer.
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Football opens
The Cal Poly football team (1-2) will be looking to spoil its opponent’s family weekend against Northern Arizona (2-2) in Flagstaff.
The Mustangs are carrying the momen-tum of a 42-14 victory in their home open-er against Portland State, their first win of the season.
Northern Arizona is coming off a road loss to South Dakota, seeing their prior ranking at No. 22 disappear.
Cal Poly is still winless on the road, but is coming off a very impressive performance at home, where two players in Cal Poly’s backfield set career highs in yards. Senior fullback Bran-don Howe scored two touchdowns and added 81 yards on the ground, while sophomore run-ning back Kori Garcia rushed for 103 yards and a score. Cal Poly amassed 470 total rushing yards in the victory.
In their loss against North Dakota State, the
Lumberjacks surrendered 304 yards rushing, bringing the average rushing yards against them up to 191 per game. This is a key matchup for the Mustangs and their run-heavy triple-option attack.
The Cal Poly defense had some stand-out per-formances by junior defensive backs Karlton Dennis and Chris Fletcher, as well as freshman Alex Suchesk. The Mustangs limited Portland State to just 106 yards through the air, and should see plenty of action again against a simi-larly balanced Lumberjacks offense, which is led by junior quarterback Kyren Powe. Powe is averaging 224 yards per game, fourth-most in the Big Sky Conference.
Senior linebackers Nick Dzubnar and Cameron Ontko led the Mustangs with six tackles each, with 2.5 of Dzubnar’s resulting in a loss of yard-age. Dzubnar leads the Mustangs in tackles this season with 41.
Cal Poly’s previous meeting with Northern Arizona was a low-scoring, competitive affair, with the Mustangs on the losing end of a 17-13 final score. The Mustangs threatened late, but on
4th-and-1, Northern Arizona linebacker Ryan Reardon leapt over the line of scrim-mage for a sack and the No. 1 spot on the SportsCenter top plays that evening. The Mustangs can take solace in the fact that Reardon is no longer on the Northern Arizona roster.
Last season, Northern Arizona finished 9-3 over-all and 7-1 in the Big Sky, earning its fourth FCS play-off berth in school history. The Mustangs went 6-6 overall and 5-3 in the Big Sky and did not earn a playoff berth.
Cal Poly vs. Northern Arizona kicks off at 4:05 p.m. at the Walkup Skydome in Flagstaff, Arizona.
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RUN IT | Junior quarterback Chris Brown rushed 12 times for 159 yards and two touchdowns in Cal Poly’s 42-14 dismantling of Portland State on Saturday. The Mustangs amassed 470 yards on the ground.IAN BILLINGS | MUSTANG NEWS
