Students will have their third and fi nal opportunity this academic year to express concerns to Cal Poly Pomona administrators and student leaders on Thursday at the Pizza with the Presidents luncheon.

The U-Hour event, which will take place in University Quad, is

held once every quarter to open up discussion between students, Asso-ciated Students, Inc. and university administrators about various issues affecting Cal Poly Pomona.

Past years have presented many fi nancial challenges for students and the California State University system, most of which follow the steady increase of tax cuts to high-er education.

In January, Governor Jerry Brown proposed a budget that an-ticipated the CSU taking a $500 million cut.

This meant a 5 percent tuition in-crease this spring for CSU students and Cal Poly Pomona suffering an approximately $25 million cut.

With the June referendum – which would have allowed voters

to decide whether to continue a series of tax extensions – off the table, Cal Poly Pomona could face a cut by as much as $55 million.

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Marten denBoer said another issue to be addressed is the eventual decision by Cal Poly Pomona President Michael Ortiz on calendar conversion to se-mesters.

He said the administration is still working on cost estimations for the conversion.

Ortiz has stated in his weekly Monday Messages that funding for the conversion would need to come from the central offi ce of the CSU or the project would not come into fruition.

denBoer said programs designed

specifi cally for quarter systems, in terms of variety and intensity of in-struction, are hard to replicate in a semester system. Professors would not be laid-off in these cases and no educational content in the class-room be sacrifi ced.

“A lot of schools have been con-verted in the last several years,” said denBoer. “The general obser-vation is that if it’s well planned, in terms of looking at student pro-grams of study, then there are no impacts in terms of their education outcomes.”

Despite assurances, most of the campus, including student leaders representing Associated Students, Inc., expressed disagreement with calendar conversion.

There are no leads, up-dates or arrests regard-ing the theft of Rose Float equipment that occurred last month, police said.

The theft of more than $13,500 worth of equip-ment from the Rose Float lab was discovered on the morning of March 5, and University Police Lead Dispatcher and Records Supervisor Eric Birkeland said the University Police Department is still investi-gating the case.

In an effort to prevent further thefts from occur-ring, University Police of-fi cers have been working with the Rose Float team to install security equipment at the lab.

Dmitry Soyfertis, fi fth-year mechanical engineer-ing student and Committee Chair for the 2011-12 Rose Float Team, said the police are exploring a variety of

options such as better sur-veillance, but no plans have been set.

So far, the University Po-lice Department has been providing expertise to the team in order to make their workspace more secure.

Soyfertis said the Uni-versity Police Department has contacted other police departments throughout Los Angeles County in an effort to gain information that could benefi t the case.

Since the incident, the Rose Float team has been trying to regain its losses and return to normal. Soy-fertis said the club has sent out a list of stolen items with each item’s value.

Some assistance from Rose Float team alumni and other supporters has reached the team in the form of small donations of equipment and money.

“Any little bit really does help,” said Soyfertis.

The team had been saving funds in order to revamp

its equipment, but with the theft all funds must now be used to replace the stolen equipment.

The team plans to use the funds it has in order to purchase the equipment es-sential for building the fl oat in order to get production back on schedule.

As for the morale of the team, Robert Bauer, third-year mechanical engineer-ing student and Construc-tion Chair of the team, said the situation is frustrating and detrimental to produc-tion.

“I am hurt that someone would take advantage of an organization for students,” said Bauer. “It has affected our ability to move forward [with production].”

Soyfertis said the team still has stationary equip-ment that it can use.

“We can still [work], we just won’t be as effi cient,” said Soyfertis. “We have to orga-nize ourselves in a better way

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Cal Poly Pomona could face $55M cut KATHY NGUYEN

Staff Writer

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Illuminated bags, called luminaria, line the path that participants followed during the 24-hour Relay for Life event at Cal Poly Pomona

Final slice for academic year

BEN FRENCH

Staff Writer

See TAXES/Pg. 5

No leads or arrests in Rose Float theft, police say

(Left to right) Second-year Electrical Engineering student Kevin McGiff en observes

second-year Mechanical Engineering student Amy Van de Poel as she works on the

engine of the 2012 Rose Float.

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MARIA GARDNER

Staff Writer

See PIZZA/Pg. 3

Cal Poly Pomona could suffer a $55 million cut if Governor Jerry Brown’s tax extensions are not approved.

The situation is even more grim for the California State University system as a whole, which already faces a $500 million cut that could double to $1 billion if the tax exten-sions, which would generate $12 billion in revenue for California, are not approved.

As it is, Cal Poly Pomona will experience an approxi-mately $25 million even if Brown’s extensions fail to manifest.

Brown announced Friday that he might ask the state legislature to approve the tax extensions, deviating from his previous route that would have called for a ref-erendum. If the legislature were to approve any tax hikes or amendments, it would re-quire a two-thirds majority.

However, Californian vot-ers would not totally be dis-enfranchised, as they will be offered an alternative refer-endum and the opportunity to undo any approved tax hikes or extensions.

California faces an estimat-ed $26 billion defi cit this year that could be halved with the approval of the tax exten-sions.

“While the governor and the legislature continue to identify ways to mitigate this incredible fi scal crisis, we will not create a false sense of reality,” said University Pres-ident Michael Ortiz in an on-line video message posted on April 4. “There is no simple cure for what we are facing.”

Ortiz’s decision on calendar conversion and Brown’s tax extensions are expected to be major talking points this Thursday at Pizza with the Presidents

RelayRelay for for lifelifeMarks third year on campusMarks third year on campus

ERIN O’BRIENCorrespondent

“Cancer never sleeps, so why should we?”It was a theme that ran throughout the 24-hour event

as well as in the minds of participants as they spent the night in tents at the Bronco Commons.

People stood in the dark, lighting candles to commem-orate the lives of people who have lost their battle to cancer. Candles were lit one by one until the entire area was illuminated in the cold, dark night.

This ceremony was just one part of the big event, Re-lay for Life, which fundraises for the American Cancer Society.

This year more than 500 participants in Relay for Life raised $17,574 and will continue to raise money online until the end of spring quarter.

The committee, which started planning for the event at the beginning of the school year, raised the most mon-ey out of all the 46 participating teams with $1,005.

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POLICE BLOTTERPOLICE BLOTTERASSAULT AGGRAVATED INJURYMarch 30, 5:45 p.m.An incident occurred at the Campus Center. A former employee attempted to hit someone. The subject was picking up a paycheck.Disposition: Report taken.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCESMarch 31, 10:29 p.m.An incident occurred at the swimming pool. A white male was seen jumping the wall into the pool area. Disposition: Cancelled assignment.

RATTLESNAKEApril 1, 12:23 p.m.An incident occurred at Los Olivos Commons. A rattlesnake was seen near the main entrance. Disposition: Animal pickup.

RATTLESNAKEApril 1, 2:09 p.m.An incident occurred at the La Cienega Center. A rattlesnake was seen behind the building near a vending machine.Disposition: Animal pickup.

RATTLESNAKEApril 2, 10:40 a.m.Offi cer initiated activity at University Drive and Camphor Lane. Painters reported seeing a rattlesnake in the grassy area. Disposition: Return to normal duty.

PETTY THEFTApril 4, 10:51 a.m.An incident occurred at the CLA building. Cal Poly hats worth $200 were stolen from the information booth on the tower side of the CLA building.Disposition: Report taken.

MEDICAL ASSISTApril 6, 4:42 a.m.An incident occurred at University Village.A resident hit his head on his doorway and had a small laceration on his forehead. He requested a medic to look at him.Disposition: Assisted.

GRAND THEFTApril 5, 1:16 p.m. An incident occurred at the College Of Engineering.A laptop was stolen within the last week. Disposition: Report taken.

RAPE April 4, 12:29 p.m.An incident occurred at the Cal Poly Pomona Police Department. Disposition: Report taken.

LOST PROPERTYApril 1, 12:35 p.m.A report was made to the Cal Poly Pomona Police Department. A passport was lost at the University Library between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Disposition: Report taken.

With pictures of his dogs, exotic birds, and rep-tiles adorning the walls of his offi ce, there is no doubt Aubrey Fine is a lover of animals.

Ask any faculty member who knows Fine, and he or she will say his face lights up and smiles every time he talks about Puppy – his most beloved dog – or his fi rst dog, Goldie. There’s also Magic, PJ, Heart, Shrimp and a bearded drag-on named Spikey, just to name a few.

Fine, psychotherapist and professor in the Col-lege of Education and Inte-grative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, is internationally renowned for his research on the benefi ts of incor-porating animal-assisted therapy.

“I just know him as a loving, caring man,” said Lisa Lee, administrative specialist of the Depart-ment of Education. “He’s a pleasure to work with. Ev-ery time he comes into my offi ce to ask for something, he never forgets to ask how I’m doing. He’s always happy, always pleasant.”

As a high school student, Fine became interested in helping children. In his ear-ly 20s, he began working with children with learning disabilities and the emo-tionally disturbed, imple-menting a social-skill train-ing program as therapy.

It may be surprising to learn that Fine never owned an animal when he was growing up – he was even afraid of dogs.

“I grew up poor in Can-ada and lived in a tiny apartment with my mom who didn’t like dogs or cats,” said Fine. “I fi nally convinced her that she and I get over our fears by in-

vesting in a small animal.”Fine’s proposition to his

mother manifested into the adoption of a gerbil named Sasha.

“I didn’t know what I was doing,” said Fine. “I had my pet gerbil Sasha and this program with kids with learning disabilities. So one day I brought her in and to my surprise, the

children started behaving differently.”

He found the interac-tion between Sasha and the children to be his fi rst ser-endipitous experience.

The rowdiest of children came up to Fine and timid-ly asked if they could hold the gerbil while promising to be gentle.

BRITTANY CHAVEZ

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Professor Aubrey Fine spends time with his golden retrievers, Magic and PJ, who have helped him with his research.

Chris McCarthy / Th e Poly Post

A ‘Fine’ type of therapy

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Professor Aubrey Fine is researching thetherapeutic qualities and uses for animal companions

Cal Poly Pomona is one of three universities in the California State University system that lay on a fault line; but at 14, it also has the most buildings in the CSU that are not com-pliant with earthquake safety codes.

The CSU Seismic Review Board is a group designed by the trustees of the CSU to annually assess the vul-nerability of a building in the event of and after an earthquake.

In light of the Chino Hills earth-quake in 2008, the board fl agged sev-eral buildings as “red” – or “at risk” – because those buildings did not meet SRB standards.

As of 2009, there are 14 buildings listed as “at risk” including the Class-room, Laboratory and Administration building, Kellogg West, Engineering Building 17 and the Los Olivos Com-mons.

This is double the amount of such buildings on the campuses of San Francisco State University and San Jose State University, which share second place for most seismically-hazardous buildings in the CSU, with seven buildings each.

Ray Morrison, director of Facilities Planning, said building evaluations follow the process by which earth-quakes are measured nationwide on the normal scale of one to 10.

The region covered by the San Jose fault line itself is only at risk of up to magnitude fi ve earthquakes, ac-cording to the California Geological Survey.

Buildings in the CSU are measured by an earthquake performance scale ranging from one to seven, with seven being the most hazardous a building can be.

According to the CSU Major Capi-tal Outlay program, the buildings on campus in need of seismic renovation are ranked level fi ve, with the excep-tion of the CLA and the Kellogg West buildings, which are both level six.

Gary McGavin, an associate pro-fessor of architecture, said that risks of earthquake impact damage from the San Jose Fault are minor in com-parison to the greater risk of shake damage caused by the San Andreas Fault; he said money is better spent preparing for an earthquake from the San Andreas.

“It’s kind of like the lottery,” said McGavin. “If you prepare for the

ground shaking, you’re going to win the lottery; but if you prepare for the basement breaking, you’re going to lose the lottery.”

McGavin said buildings such as the Kellogg West and the CLA are non-ductile-reinforced concrete buildings that use capacitors to help absorb en-ergy and eventually burst from stress.

This makes them higher risk build-ings in regard to safety concerns but the design ensures that people can escape from the buildings before they break down and potentially collapse.

Michael Sylvester, associate vice president of Facilities Planning, said earthquake codes change as the state experiences more earthquakes and that code amendments help to im-prove earthquake safety.

“We’ve had good examples of earthquakes,” said Sylvester. “The most recent one was the Chino Hills quake, where we got an opportunity to see how our buildings performed and the buildings performed pretty well.”

Sylvester said buildings such as the CLA, despite not meeting cur-rent earthquake code requirements, are fairly stable. The CLA, during the

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CORRECTION

In the April 5 edition of Th e Poly Post, an article titled “Mr. and Miss CPP competition to be held May 19” should have reported the minimum required grade point average to be 2.0 and third-year International Business and Marketing student Brian Daily to be the event chair.

In the April 5 edition of Th e Poly Post, an article titled “Converting to the Islamic faith and culture” should have stated that, according to the Islamic faith, the Quaran was revealed by Allah through the angel Gabriel during a 23-year span. Th e spelling of Asim Khan’s name should have also appeared as it does here. *See the Opinions section for a detailed editorial.

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BroncoDirect is more than a horrible website, it’s detri-mental to students’ progress and it needs to be fi xed.

As the online hub for all things academic at Cal Poly Pomona, BroncoDirect has a tendency to not work.

There are the small prob-lems, such as redirect loops.

It’s a pesky glitch where users are kicked out of Bron-coDirect and sent to the Or-acle – BroncoDirect’s web host – login page.

When checking up on po-tential holds or looking at grades, this is just annoy-ing. Users have to clear their cache and then refresh the page to return to BroncoDi-rect and sign in again.

This problem goes from annoying to down-right ag-gravating when registering for classes.

With so much riding on timing, getting into the nec-essary classes can be a matter of a few minutes.

Most Cal Poly Pomona students will have that won-derful feeling of pure and ut-ter rage when – in the midst of the madness of enrolling for classes – Oracle’s login screen pops up and puts a halt to registration.

It only takes a few minutes to clear the Internet history, refresh the page, login and then get back to registering, but it could mean the differ-ence between getting a seat in a class or getting stuck on a wait list.

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Interviews are underway as the College of Science contin-ues to search for a new dean among three fi nal candidates.

The prior Dean of Science, Donald Straney, left the po-sition last year to accept the chancellor position at the Uni-versity of Hawaii at Hilo.

Until a new dean is select-ed, Mandayam Srinivas, an associate dean to the college, is the department’s interim dean.

Last week’s U-Hours gave two of three candidates, Lok Lew Yan Voon and Stephen Bollens, time to present them-selves via a question-and-an-swer open forum.

The third candidate, Mary Hubbard, will be in the Class-room, Laboratory and Admin-istration Building this Thurs-day during U-Hour.

The fi rst round of inter-views was conducted using the online video-chat program Skype.

Surveys were given to those attending the forum to grade the performance of the potential deans. The Search Committee will take the evaluations into consideration when making its decision.

Lew Yan Voon was inter-viewed last Tuesday in the University Library. Lew Yan

Voon has been the chair of the Physics Department at Wright State University for seven years.

His resume lists a bach-elor’s and a master’s degree

from the University of Cam-bridge and three years as an associate dean at the Worces-ter Polytechnic Institute where he received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics.

“By being a department chair, there are more ways you can impact the world than in just one discipline,” said Lew Yan Voon about why he is seeking this position.

“It went excellent,” said Hiram Santisteban, the opera-tions analyst/specialist for the College of Science. “We had a really great representation and it was great to see all the members of the community here.”

Bollens presented Thurs-day in Ursa Major C at the Bronco Student Center.

Bollens’ specialty is in bi-ology, earning his bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College and obtaining his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

He has been the director of Washington State University, Vancouver’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences since 2006 and his work is featured in 83 publications.

“We need to be open and attentive to the needs of other colleges and other students,” said Bollens about budget cuts. “If we’re down to the wire, we have to make the de-cision that would negatively impact as few students as pos-sible.”

“He has a good shot,” said Ian Carlson, a professor from Department of Mathemat-ics about Bollens. “He was not making promises that he couldn’t keep, with budget cuts.”

Hubbard will appear today

Lok Lew Yan Voon, candidate for the dean of the College of Science, speaks at a

forum designed to assess his potential for the position last Tuesday.

Chris McCarthy / Th e Poly Post

JOE MARTONE

Staff Writer

Search for science dean continues

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PIZZA: Calendar conversion expected to be hot topicContinued from page 1

President Ortiz is the last step in the decision process, therefore any student concerns or questions can be addressed at the luncheon.

ASI President Ismael Souley an-ticipates calendar conversion to be one issue most addressed to him by students on Thursday.

Souley said he encouraged stu-dents to care about issues such as calendar conversion because they affect future students as well.

“I guess we think ahead to say

that the decisions that we make will affect the future generation,” said Souley. “If some ASI admin-istrations did not approve to have a student senate, I would not be sitting in this offi ce. You or I can be done by the time they decide to make this decision but I assume you might have a friend, a cousin or a sibling who might be consider-ing coming to Cal Poly Pomona.”

denBoer said he is concerned about the “Take Back the Univer-

sity” movement and the recent chalking incidents – literally all over campus – that announce the Students For Quality Education rally and march tomorrow.

“I take strong issue with that,” said denBoer about the chalking. “Putting chalk on our sidewalk is not going to change the opinion of the people at Golden Shore,” he said, referring to the CSU board of trustees offi ce. “The CSU budget is a very transparent budget and

the majority of it goes toward in-struction. The fact that there is less money out there for instruction is not the board’s fault and it’s not Chancellor Reed’s fault: It’s the fault of the voters of California who decided that they don’t want to spend money on government.”

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and make sure that work is getting done, where we can work around not having portable welders.”

In an effort to raise funds and get donations that could help to replace some of the stolen property, the Rose Float team has been reach-

ing out to various alumni and campus organizations.

The Rose Float team has also been reaching out to various “self-build” teams that build their own fl oats for the Tournament of Ros-es Parade.

Soyfertis said the “tight-

knit” community of “self-builds” has played a crucial part in getting the team back on track.

“We help each other out when we’re missing parts,” said Soyfertis. “We trade and ask for help between each other.”

Besides reaching out to these smaller communities, Soyfertis said he hopes to reach out to larger commu-nities and organizations to spread the team’s story.

To contact University Police with information re-garding the thefts, call 909-

869-3070 or the anonymous tip line at 909-869-3399.

Also contact Soyfertis with any additional infor-mation at: dsoyfertis@csu-pomona.edu.

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This Week:This Week:Tuesday, April 123 p.m. to 4 p.m.Cooking 101 with Little Money, Little TimeThe University Library will host a workshop in the Special Events Room 4829. Participants will learn how to make on-the-go quick meals and snacks, then sample them. Thursday, April 146 p.m. to 8 p.m.Unplugged: Open Mic Night

Students who wish to express themselves through performance can attend the open mic night. This event takes place in the Games Room Etc. located at the Bronco Student Center.Thursday, April 1411 a.m.Art Conservation SeminarChris Maines of the National Gallery of Art will speak about

“Scientifi c Analysis and Materials Research in the Conservation of Works of Art” as part of the spring quarter physics seminars in Building 8 room 241.Friday, April 1511 a.m.Physics SeminarJoseph Kao, from the University of Maryland School of Medicine will speak on “Targeted Delivery of Molecular Probes for In Vivo

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Self Defense CourseLaw enforcement and the Violence Prevention and Women’s Resource Center are collaborating to teach women self-defense techniques.

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logged in for as long as they want. Other times, users get kicked off BroncoDirect after a few minutes.

Even more frustrating are the random alerts and holds.

When the freshman expe-rience was implemented – a system where fi rst-year stu-dents are required to live on campus – there was an inter-esting glitch that occurred.

If a student had changed his or her major – regardless of academic standing – right after the freshman experience was put into play, BroncoDi-rect would alert them that they had to sign up for the freshman experience.

These issues are just minor infractions compared to the biggest problem with Bron-coDirect: degree progress reports.

There is no excuse for having a faulty degree prog-ress system in this time of technical innovation.

The whole system depends partially on a paper trail, par-tially on an automated and glitchy digital report and par-tially on a student’s ability to read minds.

Cal Poly Pomona will never be short of a number of students who were ready to walk in spring only to realize something was missing and it didn’t show up on BroncoDi-rect.

Why does it have to be such a sloppy mix of paper-work and online fi ling?

Here is a crazy suggestion: Get rid of the paper trail.

No more progress report sheets that contradict what BroncoDirect requires.

Then, revamp the living hell out of BroncoDirect.

University President Mi-chael Ortiz wants to improve graduation rates?

Drop some cash into the nerve center for graduating students.

Instead of having a static website, make the whole thing interactive.

Take the paper progress report’s break down of aca-demic requirements to earn a degree and turn it into an ac-tive system.

During registration stu-dents could log on to this dig-ital progress report and have all the necessary information available.

Instead of having to search for classes and assume what would satisfy each academic section, there could be a drop down menu for each academ-ic category – general educa-tion, core, upper division, etc. – that shows which classes are available and allows stu-dents to enroll right there.

There is no need to have to revert to a sheet of paper, a thick catalog of classes and a slow and glitchy registration web page.

Take all the guesswork and uncertainty out of register-ing for classes and degree progress. Centralize it into one entity and remove the frustration from progressing academically.

There is enough crap going on economically. Why stress students out with a system that is faulty and unreliable?

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UNFILTERED: Fixing a nightmareContinued from page 3

Thirty-fi ve years later, in his years working with children, Fine has used birds, lizards and a series of dogs for animal-assisted therapy.

Jake Magnant, an alumnus who is working toward his teaching creden-tial, is a former student of Fine.

“I learned a lot in [Fine’s] class,” said Magnant. “He is very knowl-edgeable and has a great personality.”

Fine and the Department of Edu-cation have issued a proposal for a large Cal Poly Pomona grant that would look at the roles therapy ani-mals could have to enhance reading skills for children with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism.

Fine said animal therapy has many psychological benefi ts and if the de-partment’s study is funded, he hopes to show the positive impact animals would have in a tutoring room, creat-ing a more positive and relaxed envi-ronment.

In one of his nine published books – “Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy: Theoretical Foundations and Guidelines for Practice” – Fine states that petting an animal is like a “biochemical spa treatment” because neurotransmitters are adjusted while levels of serotonin and dopamine are enhanced.

Research also shows that petting an animal will increase oxytocin, the

“love hormone,” also found in women who are pregnant and breastfeeding.

Fine has participated in various civic activities with his Cal Poly Po-mona students, including the Pets All Love and Support program, which as-sists elderly people with daily activi-ties.

“When you’re done with school, what are you going to remember?” said Fine. “I want our students to have a balanced education, not only including academic books, but one that helps them recognize their place and role in our society.”

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Chino Hills quake, moved according to its architec-ture with both parts of the CLA shaking alongside one another instead of forcing into each other.

“The CLA is probably nowhere near a total col-lapse-hazard building,” said McGavin. “It’s more likely to suffer heavy dam-age; it’s the poster child for all the stuff where the code said it wasn’t safe to have all these [architecturally] wacko buildings.”

Tom Kennedy, chief of architecture and engineer-ing for the CSU, said in an email that the CLA itself is more consistent with a level 5 building but given its fault proximity, geom-etry and other factors, the

CLA Building is given the same treatment as a level 6 building.

Despite building codes and earthquake policies, danger still exists in the event of a major disaster and plans have to be made in such events.

Debbi McFall, emergen-cy service coordinator, cre-ates disaster plans, drills, awareness events and or-ganizes volunteers in the event of a major emergency on campus.

“The earthquake in 1994 at Cal State Northridge convinced the campus that there should be a full-time person worrying about emergency preparedness,” said McFall.

McFall said the cam-

pus follows a multi-hazard functional plan that adapts for different disasters in-cluding wildfi res, torna-does and earthquakes.

“There is an emergency team in the CLA building and it’s a very active team,” said McFall. “They know all the evacuation routes, they have radios so they can talk to each other and there is a process in place so that if evacuation is nec-essary they follow a pattern we have pre-identifi ed.”

McFall has set up volun-teer workers as “infantry” in almost every building on campus.

In the event of an earth-quake, the workers perform tasks such as injury triage, searching for structural

damage during evacuation, putting out fi res and other safety procedures.

Between codes and safe-ty plans, the campus has taken state and federal ac-tions required to ensure the safety of the campus in the face of an earthquake.

Even so, the danger is still beyond complete prep-aration.

“I [don’t think] the risk here on campus would be any different than the risk they would probably fi nd in their own home or any other places,” said Morri-son. “I don’t think there is a reason to be more fear-ful because you’re here on campus.”

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at the Heritage Conference Room in the CLA Building.

She earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a former dean and department head of Geology at Utah State Uni-versity and Kansas State Uni-versity, respectively. She is serving as vice provost in the Offi ce of Global Engagement at Utah State University.

University Provost Mar-ten denBoer said he was im-pressed by the candidates so far. He said the people involved with the selection process acted on his vision of what the new dean should be like.

“The search committee conveys a sense of what I want the dean to do and what the responsibilities are,” said denBoer. “They come up with the ads and work with the search fi rm, which also helped identify potential candidates.

They then look at all of the applicants, rank them bring in the best eight or nine for a fi rst round of interviews.”

Santisteban, who has been a part of the selection com-mittee reviewing potential applicants over the past year, said the process has not been easy.

“There were a lot of people applying for the job and the process was a consensus,” said Santisteban. “The com-mittee was formed from fac-ulty and staff from all of the colleges basing our decisions on reviews and recommenda-tions to the top three.”

Santisteban said he has been looking for a visionary person to lead the depart-ment, someone who can take the college to the next level in spite of the budget cuts.

Brown has continued his talks with lawmakers, but it is too late to get the tax exten-sions on the referendum bal-lot in June as he planned.

“The governor is still trying to push through his agenda,” said Darwin Labordo, associ-ate vice president for fi nance and administrative services and associate chief fi nancial offi cer. “He’s still being opti-mistic that he can extend the taxes that we currently have, which would avoid the addi-tional $500 million. I would share the optimism of the governor and wish him the best.”

Labordo said there are two ways Brown can get his tax extensions approved: through the legislature or through an election. Brown has not met the deadlines for a June elec-tion and the referendum may move to September.

Edwin Barnes, vice presi-dent for administrative affairs and chief fi nancial offi cer, said he has never seen a cut of this magnitude before in his 30 years working at Cal Poly Pomona.

“The magnitude of the cut is staggering,” said Barnes.

To offset part of the $500 million cut, student tuition was raised by 5 percent for spring quarter and will be raised 10 percent more in the fall.

“Logic would tell you that if they can’t get tax increases extended, then they are go-ing to have to make up the difference with tax cuts or what we call ‘smoke and mir-rors’ – moving things around, and that’s been the problem in California politics for the longest time,” said Barnes. “We’re ignoring the basic problems here and ultimately

you have to pay the price at a later date.”

Cal Poly Pomona admin-istrators do not have the au-thority to raise tuition, cut salaries, or implement fur-loughs. Those actions must be done by the California State University Chancellor, Charles Reed and approved by a board of trustees.

“What does that mean go-ing forward?” said Barnes. “It means something is going to have to give. To be per-fectly honest, the trustees are going to have to consider tu-ition increases again, or they have to decide to downsize the whole California State University, which would ulti-mately mean denying access to more and more students, and then downsizing.”

Barnes said furloughs, which were fi rst implemented at Cal Poly Pomona two years

ago, saved the university ap-proximately $18.5 million.

Barnes said he believes that although it was an un-popular decision, Cal Poly Pomona may be facing fur-loughs again in the future.

“We can’t cut any more,” said Shelley Bruce, ASI sec-retary of external affairs and California State Student As-sociation lobby corps offi cer. “Now you’re just cutting off parts of the university that are really critical so when you’re facing things like program cuts, not allowing freshmen in … those are things we’re supposed to do every year just to function as an institu-tion.”

Labordo also acknowledg-es that times are tough and has some advice for Cal Poly Pomona students.

“I would say it’s not a bad thing to hurry up and fi nish

your schooling,” said Labor-do. “The longer you wait with schooling, the costs are just going up. That’s been the trend … We’re going to try to balance this budget with the least pain that we can, but there will be pain. It’s just minimizing the negative im-pact to everyone.”

Though Cal Poly Pomona students are faced with uncer-tainty regarding fees, classes, professors and more, students such as Jeff Javier said a Cal Poly Pomona education costs considerably less than other universities.

“My sister went to Chap-man [University],” said Ja-vier, a fourth-year technical theater and design student. “Compared to Chapman, [Cal Poly Pomona] is like free. I understand that other people are in different shoes than me, and that’s prob-

ably one of the reasons why I came here: to get a good education but still have it be affordable.”

The price of tuition is not the only thing that has some students irked with the situa-tion.

“It’s just annoying that they like to cut education fi rst,” said Alex Moraros, a third-year business student. “That always seems like the fi rst thing on the chopping block.”

Bruce recommended stu-dents take a proactive ap-proach.

“The biggest thing that the governor, the legislature, all our administrators and fac-ulty say is to write your legis-lators,” said Bruce. “Take 10 minutes to write a letter and send it to your representa-tives. It’s very simple.”

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Formula 1 has always represented the cutting edge of automotive technology.

These open-wheel rac-ers generate more than 700 horsepower, from a tiny 2.4 liter V8; can pull 5g’s of lateral grip and can rev to a stratospheric 18,000 rpm – just the sound of an F1 en-gine at full song is enough to move even the most ca-sual of car guys.

The speed, power, han-dling and overall dynamics of these cars continue to shatter the limits of what physicists ever thought pos-sible.

Equally impressive are the drivers who deftly ma-neuver these car-shaped ballistic missiles around some of the most diffi cult courses in the world.

There is only one problem with this sport. My favorite country doesn’t participate.

As someone with a melt-ing pot of cultural back-grounds, it’s hard to pick a country of origin to root for in international sports. Be-cause of this, I’ve always been more than content to root for the U.S. of A. After all, this is my home.

The absence of an American team in F1 is a signifi cant problem; it’s alienating America from an iconic sport. While the races are unbelievable to watch – think big go-karts in fast-forward – the lack of

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Cal Poly Pomona students have respond-ed with charity to the devastation Japan is facing in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and the subsequent April 7 af-tershock.

If students on campus have not already become involved with relief efforts for Ja-pan, it is not too late.

The campus community has several op-tions for students to contribute.

The Asian and Pacifi c Islander Student Center is offering several opportunities for students looking to donate.

Members of the center are selling T-shirts for $5 and donating 100 percent of the pro-ceeds to the Red Cross.

James Dang, a fourth-year business man-agement and human resources student, is a social justice leader with the center and is helping with the shirt sales.

The center got the T-shirts for free from DTN Tech Marketing Solutions.

Dang said the T-shirts have been selling

very well, with the center beginning the sale with 100 shirts.

“We didn’t expect to sell this many,” said Dang. “In the fi rst two days of the sale, we sold about 80 shirts.”

Other students have been inspired by the T-shirt drive and have started their own ef-forts to motivate students to donate.

“One of my friends is selling dog tag necklaces and donating all the money to the Red Cross,” said Dang.

The center is also taking cash donations and selling wristbands for $2, with all pro-ceeds also going to the Red Cross.

Joanna Ha, a second-year economics stu-dent, is at the forefront of the cash for pa-per cranes movement that is taking place on campus.

“I heard about the paper crane thing on-line from DoSomething.org and thought it would work great on campus,” said Ha.

For every paper crane built, The Bezos Family Foundation will donate $2 to Ar-chitecture for Humanity’s reconstructive efforts in Japan.

Ha hopes to collect at least 1,000 cranes by April 15, the deadline for the Paper Cranes for Japan campaign.

For students lacking paper crane building skills, help is available from Ha and other volunteers.

“We should have no problem getting to 1,000 cranes; one girl made 40,” said Ha.

The weekend following the earthquake and tsunami, second-year International

Business and Marketing student, Rene Con-treras and his friends Pedro Garcia, Tony Hoang, Adrien Parker and Elvia Valdivia got together and organized a series of con-certs to benefi t Japan.

The group of friends collectively refers to themselves as “Switch.”

“We are a group of friends who are artists and want to help people around the world through music and art,” said Contreras.

Restaurant and performance ven-ue Aladdin Jr. II, located at 296 W. 2nd St., Downtown Pomona, hosted the week-long series of concerts.

“We threw it together over the weekend and booked a week at Alad-din Jr. II, ” said Contreras.

The performers ranged from rock to rap.

All of the bands, that per-formed, did so with no charge.

“We went to Facebook and asked around to see which bands would be willing to help,” said Contreras, “All the ones that ended up participating jumped right in.”

From the concerts, Switch was able to gather $750 to donate to the Red Cross.

Students can also donate money via text message by texting Red Cross to 90999, and a $10 donation will be automatically added to their monthly phone bill.

For students who don’t have cell phones and spend most of their time on campus, the

Cal Poly Pomona Credit Union is collect-ing donations for the Red

Cross at its offi ce on campus. “We welcome all donations from stu-

dents, staff and faculty from two cents to $1,000,” said Barbara A. Bean, the presi-dent and CEO of the Credit Union. “Cal Poly Pomona is a very generous campus, and everybody steps up when it comes to donations. We already have over $2,000.”

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Japan: CPP students lend a helping hand

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University Police department trailed close behind the committee with $1,000.

This is the third year CPP has hosted Relay for Life and the fi rst time it has been held at the Bronco Commons. It was also the fi rst year a radio station, AMP, and two bands, Wilbur and the 45’s, were at the event.

Campus groups and families were put into 46 teams that competed in various activities that were spread out over the 24 hours.

The event had a Mardi Gras theme which was incorporated into walking laps. Themed laps included Mardi Gras mask parade, backwards, glow stick, and wear your beads.

In addition to themed laps, events included a chubby bunny contest in which contestants went on stage to see how many marshmallow they could fi t in their mouths while still being able to say “chubby bunny.” From 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. some participants stayed awake to watch the movie “Princess and The Frog.” With little to no sleep people were still energized enough to play tug of war at 4 a.m. Dodge ball and soccer games were held in the early morn-ing just as the sun was coming up and yoga was offered after breakfast was served.

The vast majority of participants were students and faculty but people from outside of the community came as well.

“[Relay for Life] kind of renews your faith in the younger kids, the college kids that are willing to get in-volved and come out to support a good cause,” said Norm Wiles, a cancer sur-vivor and friend of CPP faculty mem-ber Becky Pepping.

To a cheering crowd of onlookers, Wiles carried the banner for the third time around the fi rst lap with other cancer survivors and “virtual survi-vors,” participants walking in honor of others.

“[Relay for Life is] a good avenue to support the caregivers and survivors; It’s a tool,” said Wiles.

Rafael Barajos Jr., fi rst-year aero-space space engineer student said he enjoyed the themed laps which gave him an opportunity to get to know his fellow club members and other CPP students.

Jonetta Green, a cancer survivor and speaker for the night event Luminaria celebrated her birthday at the event where she was presented with a card and participants sang “Happy Birth-day.”

Following Green’s speech at 9 p.m. was Luminaria, a ceremony in which participants lit candles in honor of family members, friends and others they knew who have battled cancer. All the lights in the area were turned off so the only visible lights came from the Luminaria candles.

“I think everyone has been touched by someone who has passed away

from cancer and it’s kind of a special time to celebrate those that didn’t make the battle,” said Farah Zerehi, second-year nutrition science student.

In addition to raising money before the event, teams sold a variety of food and merchandise such as Mardi Gras masks.

At 11 a.m., after many participants had stayed up all night, everyone took a fi nal lap around Bronco Commons and were encouraged to fi ght back against cancer. Speaker Evan Saito, senior management for Relay for Life, told the crowd to raise money, advo-cate, or join next year’s Relay for Life committee.

Relay for Life was a 24-hour event fundraising for the American Cancer Society starting at 12 p.m. Saturday and ending at 12 p.m. the next day, with many participants spending the night in tents or their cars.

The phrase “Cancer never sleeps so why should we,” was repeated throughout the day and night.

Campus groups and families were put into teams that competed in vari-ous activities that went on all 24 hours. In addition to themed laps, events in-cluded a chubby bunny contest, a fro-zen T-shirt contest, a movie showing of “Princess and The Frog” and tug of war.

Cancer survivors and “virtual survi-vors”, participants walking in honor of others, walked the fi rst lap around the Bronco Commons to a cheering crowd

of onlookers.“The walks are a good opportunity

for us to get to know each other, which is good for me as a fi rst year.”

Cancer survivors were guest speak-ers at the event. One speaker, John Feter, is a retired CPP professor who has been cancer-free for the past 16 months. Another speaker was present-ed with a birthday card and cake as she was sung to by participants.

This year participants in Relay for Life raised $17,574 and will continue to raise money online until the end of spring quarter.

The Relay for Life Committee, which started planning for the event at the beginning of the school year, raised the most money with $1,005. Univer-sity Police department trailed close be-hind the committee with $1,000.

In addition to raising money before the event, teams sold a variety of food and other items, such as Mardi Gras masks. Students could pay $10 to have their friend go in the dunk tank any time during the cold night or day.

At 11 a.m., after many students had stayed up all night, all participants took a fi nal lap around Bronco Com-mons and were encouraged to fi ght back against cancer. Speaker Evan Saito, senior management for Relay for Life told the crowd to raise money, advocate, or join next year’s commit-tee.

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Students conga their way around the track for one lap during the Relay for Life event on Saturday and Sunday held in Bronco Commons.Amanda Newfi eld / Th e Poly Post

RELAY FOR LIFE: ‘Cancer never sleeps’

The W. Keith and Janet Kellogg Univer-sity Art Gallery has held numerous exhibits over the years, but few encompass the history, transformation and depth that this month’s ex-hibit holds.

The 37th annual Ink & Clay exhibit show-cases the work of 79 artists who have created different forms of artwork out of either ink or clay.

“[Ink & Clay 37 is] richly diverse in style, form and content,” said Shari Wasson, the gallery curator, in an email. “From the tradi-tional to the experimental, and the personal to the political, this exhibition offers a wealth of opportunities for visual enjoyment, intellec-tual stimulation and critical inquiry.”

When the exhibit was established in 1971, it included ink and clay work from artists in only California, but it has since expanded to include 17 states in the western part of the United States.

“[The exhibit] shows that ink and clay work is strong in the western side of the coun-try,” said Becca Otis, a third-year fi ne arts and graphic design student. “It brings culture to our campus where we don’t have a lot of sup-port for art.”

The exhibit changes every year with differ-ent artists’ unique ink and clay contributions, but Wasson said one element stays consistent.

“What remains the same, year to year, is the high quality and diverse nature of the works that are chosen,” said Wasson.

At every turn, there is another piece of work to captures the eye.

On pedestals, the walls, and even cascading onto the fl oor of the gallery is a piece of work that is different from the last.

“There is a lot of diversity with ink and clay work,” said Kathryn Izquierdo, a fi fth-year graphic design and apparel merchandising and management student. “It’s good for stu-dents to get this kind of diversity.”

Instead of dividing the gallery into two dis-tinct sections, one for ink and one for clay, the two are intertwined throughout the gallery and showcased underneath bright show lights.

The artwork in this year’s Ink & Clay ex-hibit range from abstract to straightforward.

Some of the more abstract pieces are ex-plained by artists’ statements, which can be found in a notebook at the front of the gallery for reference.

For example, a piece by Ingrid Hendrix titled “Solo,” features a ceramic sculpture of a teddy bear with the cracked face of a man and a large unicorn horn on his forehead.

The meaning of the piece cannot automati-cally be understood by the viewer. Hendrix’s statement explains it as: “My toys are misfi ts and compilations, as most of us are.”

Numerous other pieces, such as “Future of the Gulf Coast, Courtesy of BP” by Ilena Fin-occhi, are more self-explanatory.

The piece features a painted hand sur-rounded by words such as “greed” and “oil” and phrases such as “death to all wildlife” and “Soon to travel up the East Coast.”

Painted over the lines of the palm are the phrases “line of stupidity” and “line of greed,” with dollar signs on the fi ngertips.

“With so many strong and diverse pieces, it’s certainly hard to choose a favorite,” said Wasson.

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Self-proclaimed “transforma-tional speaker” Brent Scarpo visited the Bronco Student Center on Thurs-day to give a free workshop entitled “Last Call.”

The goal of “Last Call” was not only to make students question their relationship with alcohol, but to pre-vent that relationship from reaching an out-of-control level.

The program, which ran from 5 to 7 p.m. in Ursa Major, was composed of mostly dialogue between Scarpo and the audience, as well as some improvisational skits performed by student volunteers.

After being introduced as the “bartender for the night” by ASI Project Assistant Ashley Simmons, Scarpo walked around the audience and asked students for their drink of choice at parties.

Simmons said that Scarpo had spoken at Cal Poly Pomona before and would probably be back in the future.

“He’s very dynamic,” said Sim-mons. “Students were really en-gaged.”

After his introduction, Scarpo

asked for any students who had ever been pulled over for driving under the infl uence or received a DUI to come forward and tell their stories.

“The most I’ve ever had up on stage when we talked about DUIs was 17 students,” said Scarpo.

After the large group of students volunteered, one of the most emo-tional moments Scarpo experienced in any alcohol awareness workshop occurred.

Scarpo said an administrator came up on stage and told the room about her 11 DUIs because she was “tired of living a lie.”

Throughout the workshop and between skits and dialogues, Scarpo told many stories from other pro-grams and of alcohol-related deaths on college campuses.

Scarpo told the crowd a statistic from a Harvard study: 1,700 college students die each year in alcohol-related incidents.

He also gave students tips for avoiding bad situations when drink-ing and suggestions for the best ways to deal with unavoidable ones.

Joseph Garcia, a fourth-year so-ciology student, was an audience member who shared a part of his drinking history with the crowd.

Garcia said that Scarpo’s style of delivery made his message more ef-fective than those of other motiva-tional speakers.

“By the time you get to college, you’ve heard it multiple times with D.A.R.E.,” said Garcia. “He makes it really engaging.”

D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

According to Dare.com, the pro-gram was founded in 1983 and reaches 36 million children around the world.

Scarpo, though not as well es-tablished, has been speaking for 10 years on a wide variety of educa-tional topics.

His presentations often correlate with whatever volunteer project he was working on at the time.

Some of his other programs in-clude discussions of hate, coming out, career opportunities in Holly-wood and fi nding passion and pur-pose in life.

“You know you have the right job when you say to yourself, ‘I will do this for free,’” said Scarpo.

Some of the tips Scarpo gave at the event were the same ones told for years: Use the buddy system, never accept drinks without seeing them prepared, and always have a desig-nated driver.

One of his suggestions was for students to enter a number in their cell phones under the name “I.C.E.”

An I.C.E. number is someone to be called in case of an emergency. Should anything happen and an individual becomes incoherent or completely unconscious, that in-dividual’s friends could obtain his or her cell phone and know exactly who to call.

In regards to dangerous relation-ships with alcohol and the reason that he speaks, Scarpo said, “If you don’t address this stuff now, it’s just who you become.”

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‘Last Call’ workshop with speaker Brent Scarpo discusses drinking and its possible consequences with Cal Poly Pomona students

Brent Scarpo’s interactive presentation ‘Last Call’ enables fi ft h-year Sociology student Joseph Garcia to participate in front of fellow CPP students.

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Ink & Clay 37 exhibits artistic diversity

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Staff Writer

Ingrid Hendrix’s clay piece ‘Solo’ sits in the back area of the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery as part of the Ink & Clay 37 exhibit.

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Body art: ‘It’s All Cartoons and Drawings’

Needles, pain, blood and ink are the im-ages that may creep into the minds of those who have ever considered getting a tattoo.

“It’s All Cartoons and Drawings” offers an alternative point of view to this artistic and individual form of expression.

The art exhibit, which is on display in the Bronco Student Center, is a collab-orative effort between Art Program Man-ager Maria-Lisa Flemington; former BEAT Chair and fourth-year Marketing student Stephanie Lim; and over a dozen tattooed individuals who anonymously shared their body art.

The exhibit has been in the works since fall of last year when Flemington ap-proached Lim with the idea of a tattoo art exhibit.

Lim, at the time, had only a couple of photographs of people’s tattoos, but one photograph in particular sparked her inspi-ration for the art exhibit.

“It seems there is an aura of toughness associated with tattoos,” said Lim. “And my friend is the kind of person who you wouldn’t expect to have a tattoo. I think this exhibit is an opportunity to break those kind of assumptions.”

During the process of gathering the im-ages, Lim encountered a diverse group of people most of whom had nothing in com-

mon – except the fact that they all had tat-toos.

They shared their stories with Lim, and she discovered the motives people have for getting tattoos range anywhere from sex appeal to commemoration to addiction.

Regardless of the individualized reason-ing behind the tattoos, the members of the diverse group all felt that tattoos are a per-

sonal form of expression. “I never understood why people would

get [tattoos] if the process involved pain,” said Lim. “But as I heard the stories of the people I photographed, I began to under-stand that the tattoos are an extension of themselves, and in a way, they are sharing with me who they are.”

Art exhibit located in the Bronco Student Center promotes self-expression through tattoos, showcasing photographs of over a dozen anonymous individuals

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It’s All Cartoons and Drawings in the Bronco Student Center shows off striking photographs by fourth-year Marking

student, Stephanie Lim.

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Documentary opens eyes to Invisible Children

The atrocities children in North-ern Uganda have lived with since 1986 are horrifying. Abduction, rape, fi ghting and killing are a few of the issues they may face.

Cal Poly Pomona was given the opportunity to take part in helping the Ugandan and Congolese chil-dren Thursday in Ursa Major.

Students walked in to watch “Tony: Lose All. Gain Every-thing,” a fi lm about the child sol-diers in Uganda and the Republic of the Congo, put on by the non-profi t organization Invisible Chil-dren.

War spread to the Republic of the Congo in 2007, threatening the lives of its young population.

In the Republic of the Congo to-day, children are abducted, raped and forced to be soldiers in areas with no phone reception or any other way to communicate with the world.

Second-year Anthropology stu-dent Verity Bowler said she had heard of Invisible Children from a club meeting in high school but was not at all impacted by the war until watching the fi lm on Thurs-day.

“It’s really horrifying that peo-

ple can be treated like that,” said Bowler. “It actually makes me re-ally angry.”

“Tony Lose All. Gain Every-thing,” is Invisible Children’s newest fi lm and is a documentary following the life of Tony, a Ugan-dan child war survivor. Filming began in 2004.

From 2003 to 2010, the Invis-ible Children volunteers traveled back and forth from the United States and Uganda to receive up-dates on the conditions of war and help improve the lives of the chil-dren who suffered from the Lord’s Resistance Army.

The army is a rebel group led by Joseph Tony, a man at war with the Ugandan government.

In that time, Tony had started skipping school and left his home. His mother died of human immu-nodefi ciency virus in a displace-ment camp, and he subsequently became an orphan.

After watching the fi lm and lis-tening to guest speaker and war survivor Geoffrey Komakech, students were silent, and some re-acted with tears.

“It really opened my eyes be-cause this stuff isn’t in the media at all,” said Agustin Ortiz, a fourth-year anthropology student. “It’s really sad to see all these children going through so much terror that they can’t even go to school and live their lives like normal kids in other countries.”

According to the Invisible Chil-dren website, the organization was created after three USC and UCSD students, Laren Poole, Jason Rus-sell and Bobby Bailey, set out on fi lm-making adventure to Uganda.

Their lives were changed after witnessing the conditions of the war stricken areas.

Poole dropped out of college and became the co-founder and

Intern Elissa O’Dell sells merchandise aft er the Invisible

Children presentation on Th ursday to students who want to

participate in the ‘speak without speaking’ event.

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SHIAN SAMUEL

Staff Writer

A non-profi t organization raises awareness for CPP students through guest speaker Geoffrey Komakech and a fi lm about the lives and struggles of child soldiers in foreign

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CPP students attend ‘Prom for a Cause’

Cal Poly Pomona students put on their dancing shoes, pulled out their prom attire and relived their high school memories at “Prom for a Cause” on Friday to bring awareness to serious issues: sex traffi cking and child prostitution.

Held at Ursa Major, Prom for a Cause sold out with 220 people and raised $2,000. The cost of ad-mission was $15 per person or $25 for two.

The event was inspired by the SOLD Project, a non-profi t orga-nization that aims to raise aware-ness in the prevention of child prostitution through empowering and mentoring children to stay in school.

The program is working in Thailand and has worked with the children who are vulnerable to ex-ploitation.

The children in the program are supported with educational schol-arships to ensure they receive an education and as a result, are given a chance to succeed in the world.

“It only takes only a $1 a day to fund a child’s education,” said Nate Graeser, the representa-tive and guest speaker from The SOLD Project.

The funds take care of the chil-dren’s lunch, transportation and tuition.

Most of the children stop going to school because their parents cannot afford to send them. Then, they are forced to work in the dan-gerous city, which exposes them to prostitution.

Prom for a Cause brought atten-tion to these problems.

Balloons arched the entrance of Ursa Major, leading into an inti-mate atmosphere. The lights were dimmed, and classical music was playing in the background.

It was a fl ashback to the typi-cal high school prom. There were round tables all over the room, decorated with confetti stars and roses as the centerpieces.

A photo booth was open all

night to guests free of charge. There were props available, in-cluding red boas, sunglasses and straw hats.

“It’s a different way to spend a Friday night,” said Morgan Cha-varria, a third-year graphic de-sign student. “I decided to come tonight because I saw the Face-book page, and it looked like a fun event.”

The high demand for more tick-ets resulted in Prom for a Cause offi cials allowing people without tickets to come to the dance por-tion of the event.

While some came out to Prom for a Cause to support the event, others came for educational pur-poses, including credit for cours-es.

“I came out tonight because it’s for a good cause, and it’s part of my Sociology 322 class,” said Courtney Scheare, a fourth-year sociology student.

The cost of admission included dinner that was provided by the restaurant Mexico Lindo.

The chef, Jimmy Lepe, is a Cal Poly Pomona alumnus who gradu-ated from the Collins College.

Chicken fajitas, beans, rice, salsa, chips and corn and fl our tortillas were served. Desserts in-cluded cupcakes and brownies.

An informational booth about The SOLD project included pam-phlets, DVDs, stickers and T-shirts.

Graeser was at the booth to an-swer any questions and promoted the importance of getting involved in the program and volunteering.

Following the dinner portion that ended at 8:30 p.m., Elena Aespuro, the host of the event and fourth-year nutrition student, greeted the guests and announced raffl e winners.

Some of the raffl e prizes were gift certifi cates to Starbucks, Ap-plebee’s and In-N-Out.

After the raffl e was over, Aes-puro gave an overview on the is-sue of sex traffi cking and then introduced Graeser. He showed a documentary called, “Sex Tour-ism: The SOLD Project Intro to

Thailand.” Graeser and his wife, Rachel

Sparks, have been working with this project for three years. Sparks got involved with the program fi rst and inspired her husband to join her in helping to prevent child exploitation.

The documentary was centered on Northern Thailand and fol-lows the life of Cat, a 13-year-old Thailand native who was raised by only her mother. In the documen-tary, children are forced into pros-titution to support their families.

Cat is one of the children who could have been exposed to this lifestyle.

She was given a scholarship to fi nish school by the SOLD Project and has aspirations to become a national athlete, teacher or doctor.

In Northern Thailand, many children are exposed to Human Immunodefi ciency Virus (HIV) and have no means to protect or treat themselves.

The SOLD Project aims to put

an end to the tragedy. The pro-gram has sponsored 150 children in Cat’s village. There are resourc-es such a tutoring available in her village.

The main goals of the SOLD Project are scholarship, mentor-ship, resources and awareness.

Before the dance portion start-ed, Graeser fi nished his presenta-tion with a question and answer portion.

Second-year Nutrition student Stephany Esqueda said the event expanded students’ horizons on societal issues.

“Cal Poly [Pomona] should have more events like this because it is benefi cial to our students to know about current events,” said Esqueda. “By having these types of events, we are able to enlarge our worlds and perspective and challenge ourselves to get in-volved.”

Sally Saleh, a fi rst-year nutri-tion student, said small actions can have a big impact.

“This event was interesting and empowering,” said Saleh. “People should go on The SOLD Project website because they can make a big difference by doing minimum work.”

With dimmed lights and music playing, the dance portion started at 9:30 p.m. Some of the couples went back to the photo booth, while others preferred the dance fl oor.

“I was blown away from the response of attendees,” said Aes-puro. “We decided on the theme of prom because we wanted to have an event that would capture the college community. Prom is a mixture of having fun and danc-ing and brings in a big audience to promote awareness and raise funds.”

For more information on how to get involved with The SOLD Proj-ect, visit Thesoldproject.org.

Cal Poly Pomona students attend Friday’s sold-out ‘Prom for a Cause’ and dance to music mixed by DJ Chico of Joint T Collective.

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INVISIBLE: Speak outContinued from page 8fi lmmaker of Invisible Children. He learned from their guide Jolly Okot that the way to help children in Africa was to help them be self-reliant by getting an education.

By 2006, Poole and his crew were $250,000 in need of schol-arship money for Ugandan chil-dren. He went back to America, gathered his friends and set them-selves across the country in vans to raise awareness and donations.

Komakech, the guest speaker who escaped being abducted and killed many times, is now a vol-unteer with Invisible Children.

When he goes home to Uganda, he works as a mentor for children who are orphans or who have been abducted but managed to escape.

“I was born at the time the war began,” said Komakech. “Be-cause war was all I knew, no ex-

posure to any life in a peaceful community, I thought it was very normal to me.”

As for Tony, the fi lm’s star, his story did not end tragically.

With the help of Invisible Children, Tony was able to go to school, attend a university and come to the United States to share his experience and raise aware-ness and money for the children who are still suffering at war.

In 2007, Tony and his soldiers left Northern Uganda for the Re-public of the Congo.

Invisible Children is working on installing an FM radio sta-tion, which will reach thousands of people over 3,000 square kilo-meters. A rescue and rehabilita-tion center has been made inside a church in Congo catering to vic-tims of war.

Those interested in donating money to help the children in Af-rica through Invisible Children can visit the website Invisible-Children.com.

Invis ible Children is encourag-ing everyone to “speak out with-out speaking” on April 25.

Participants of the program will not speak for 25 hours to spread awareness of the silenced African children. The day will signify 25 years of war.

Speak Out Without Speaking kits can be purchased online at the Invisible Children’s website.

All proceeds will go toward saving children suffering in Uganda and the Republic of the Congo.

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RACING: Gentlemen, please start building your race teamsContinued from page 6a national team makes it hard to really get into the sport.

There was an attempt at forming a US F1 team for the 2010 season by former technical director of Haas CNC racing Ken Anderson and F1 journalist as well as former Ferrari team manager Peter Wind-sor, but the team fell through and was pulled from the roster about a month before the fi rst race.

The US F1 team would have

been the fi rst F1 team not based in Europe and would have been operated out of Charlotte, North Carolina – ironically the heartland of NASCAR.

The F1 series is around the globe. Races occur in places such as Australia, Singapore, Monaco, Italy, Abu Dhabi, Spain and Bra-zil. The change of scenery can be just as interesting as racing itself.

Because of its global residenc-

es, F1 has amassed an enormous fan base and become a very profi t-able sport.

But with no “Grand ole race-car” to root for Americans really haven’t taken a shine to the racing sport that dominates the rest of the world.

Sure, America has contributed some very successful drivers to F1 racing. Mario Andretti and Dan Gurney, are two of the F1 legends

who paid tribute to the red white and blue.

American F1 driver Scott Speed – the fi rst American to enter the series since Mario Andretti’s de-parture in 1993 – has yet to excel in the series, but with a name like “Speed,” we can’t rule him out just yet.

It’s time America joined the ranks of the most legendary racing series to ever exist.

F1 isn’t an inexpensive sport and startup costs are nothing short of outrageous but there are plenty of American companies fi scally capable of sponsoring a formula racing team.

I’m looking at you Monster En-ergy: Red Bull is making you look awfully bad right now.

DJ Johnson, a photographed non-CPP student and participant of the exhibit, got her fi rst tattoo when she was 18 years old.

Johnson and her best friend were going to different universities, so as a way to stay connected, they decided to get matching tattoos.

“Growing up, I would see a lot of my friends and family members with tattoos,” said Johnson. “I also have a tattoo symbol-ic of loss and death to commemorate my father who passed away when I was 16.”

Andrew Reddish, a second-year business

administration graduate student at Cal Poly Pomona, also paid homage to his father with one of his tattoos, but in a different manner.

“My father actually designed my most recent tattoo,” said Reddish, who is also the Campus Recreation graduate assistant. “I feel a tattoo should express something you’re truly passionate for, and I’m happy to have been able to do it through my fa-ther’s artwork.”

Though the majority of CPP students can legally get tattoos without their parent’s

consent because the legal age to obtain such a body modifi cation is 18 years old, some students still hesitate getting inked because they know their parents would dis-approve.

“My parents were not too happy when they found out I had tattoos – especially my mom,” said Ivan J. Montano, a sixth-year civil engineering and gender, ethnic-ity and multicultural studies student. “The three tattoos I have are not only a refl ection of the kind of person I am, but also a repre-sentation of my history and culture.”

Flemington hopes to move toward incor-porating culture into the exhibit.

“I feel this exhibit is a strong step for-ward and creates a good foundation for fu-ture exhibits,” said Flemington. “Ultimate-ly, I want to incorporate a more historical aspect and greater cultural reference. I feel tattoos are a part of who a person is, and no one should ever have to hide who they are.”

Guest speaker and war survivor Geoff rey Komakech speaks about growing up in Northern Uganda at Th ursday’s ‘Invisible Children’ presentation.

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Another year means an-other Marvel crossover se-ries, and this time the series is called “Fear Itself.”

Book one of the seven part series is titled “Fear Itself: The Serpent,” and it is ex-actly what you would expect from an introductory act in a comic book series. Through-out the book, signs show that something big is looming on the horizon.

Take a wild guess what that something is.

Hint: They tell you in the title.

In this book, we are intro-duced to a new villain – sort of – Skadi, who is resur-rected in the body of the Red Skull’s, Captain America’s nemesis, daughter.

Those who are versed in Norse mythology will recall Skadi as a giantess who is associated with skiing and

winter. Her father, who is never explicitly named in the comic, is the big bad of the series. The rendition of Skadi and “The Serpent” blends a variety of Celtic, Nordic and modern infl u-ences.

Artist Stuart Immonen shows versatility in his art-work for the series. He is

able to shift his style to suit the varied landscapes – from cosmic to urban – which is a necessity to be convincing in this ambitious project.

There are times when Im-monen’s art falls fl at. An example is one of the books overly repeated “here’s all the heroes” scenes. As a cross-over title, scenes such

as these are expected, and there are only so many ways to portray the scene with dy-namism.

One of the artistic high-lights in the book is a two-page spread of Thor fi ghting Odin. Immonen uses colors and panels in a dynamic fash-ion to emphasize the strength of the two combatants.

Fans of fi ghting will be left unsatisfi ed after fi nish-ing the book. The two-page spread previously mentioned is as intense as it gets in the fi rst installment of the series.

Those wanting more will have to wait as the comic is largely a set up for further action down the line.

One of the merits of ar-tistic pursuit is the ability to comment on current society. In the current media, land-scape comics as a medium occupy an interesting place in society; they are not near-ly as accessible as fi lm and not taken as seriously. Books comics are the Rodney Dan-gerfi eld’s of the world – they get no respect.

With the number of refer-ences to the current politi-cal and economic climate, I can almost hear writer Matt Fraction saying “Comics do matter” as he wrote this.

For instance, the fi rst scene opens on two oppos-ing protests in Manhattan with one side holding signs reading “Build it” and the other with signs reading “Is nothing sacred?”

Invariably, a riot breaks

out, and in the middle of it is Steve Rogers, formerly known as Captain America, trying to keep the peace.

When a reporter asks Rog-ers what side he is on, Frac-tion waffl es and Rogers re-plies, “Anti-riot.”

While I applaud Fraction’s willingness to tackle topics in current events, the method with which he did so was too heavy handed for my taste.

The pacing was also un-even in certain areas.

In the book, there were three narrative threads, which I will simplify to hero, villain and everyman. Of the three, the villain thread was the most interesting, with a paranormal magic realism reminiscent of the “Hellboy” franchise.

Due to the unevenness of this issue, I recommend buying this comic only if you absolutely love Marvel. For everyone else, wait until more issues come out before committing to the series.

Rating: 3/5

‘Fear Itself ’: Not exactly a blockbuster

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GALLERY: Defining elementsContinued from page 7by jurors Allegra Pesenti and Kevin Wallace. Pesenti, curator at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, chose the ink artwork. Wallace, director and curator of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts picked the clay artwork.

“There are very few universities that spon-sor juried exhibitions of Ink & Clay’s scope and stature,” said Wasson. “Though the show draws work from the western states, it has a national reputation. The prestige of this show adds to the University’s high profi le.”

CPP alumnus Colonel James H. Jones is the founder of the exhibit.

Wasson said Jones started the Ink & Clay exhibit in collaboration with former Art De-partment Chair and printmaking professor, Diane Divelbess and ceramics professor Karl Winchell.

“Colonel Jones was a true philanthropist who had a great appreciation for art and a de-sire to nurture creativity,” said Wasson. “This sparked the vision and creation of Ink and Clay.”

Before Jones died in 2009, he left an en-dowment that continues to support the ex-hibit.

Ink & Clay is an exhibit as well as a com-petition of which either cash or purchase priz-es are awarded to its winners. The pieces that

win purchase prizes become part of the Dee Roy and Mary M. Jones Art Collection that is overseen by the College of Environmental Design.

This year, the gallery is awarding 10 cash prizes of $5,000 each.

Bruce M. Jewett, Jones’ life partner, has provided for the James H. Jones Memorial Purchase Prize to two artists this year: Presley Martin for his graphic and clay piece called “Infl uence” and Jose Sierra for his clay vessel entitled “El Nudo.”

Many pieces from past Ink & Clay exhibits can be found around campus.

“Ink & Clay is truly a show that has seems to have something for everyone,” said Was-son. “Contemporary art speaks to the impor-tant concerns, issues and interests of the day. So, to engage contemporary art is to engage the very elements that defi ne our time.”

The Ink & Clay 37 exhibit is open to the public at the W. Keith and Janet Kel-logg University Art Gallery, free of charge until April 29. The gallery is open Tues-day through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.

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As college students, we all know what it’s like to struggle with money and watch our bank accounts dwindle every quarter.

It’s hard enough to fi nd the time outside of school and work to enjoy social ac-tivities, let alone the money to spend on them. With the admission prices for places like Disneyland increasing by the year, our favorite forms of entertainment are becoming almost unattain-able.

When Disney decided to start charging a combined fee for admission and rides in 1981 rather than issuing ticket books inside the park, visitors were only charged $10.75.

Today a ticket to get into one park for one day sets you back $76, more than a minimum wage worker makes in a single eight-hour shift.

The Anaheim resort offers various admission options depending on how much time you plan to spend in either park. For California residents, some discounts are available on “park hop-per” tickets or annual pass-ports, but none of the prices are particularly thrifty.

If you’ve got the money

to spend, buying an annual passport is the smart choice.

Depending how much you’re willing to pay, you can visit either Disneyland or California Adventure more days out of the year and receive better discounts at stores and restaurants in either park. All of the pass-port options pay for them-selves after a certain num-ber of trips, but again, none of them are cheap.

The Southern Califor-nia Select Passport allows visitors into either park 160 days out of the year and costs $184.

The next step up is the Southern California Pass-port, which gives you 215 days for $239. For $329, the Deluxe Passport gives guests 315 days. Finally, for just $459, Premium Pass-port owners can visit either park every day of the year.

If you do the math, vis-iting Disneyland for about a week straight allows the Premium Passport to pay for itself. Who really has that much money just wait-ing to be used, especially in an economy like ours?

With the kind of revenue and attendance numbers that Disneyland in Anaheim alone brings in, it seems un-fair for park-goers to have to pay more every year to experience the so-called

“happiest place on earth.” In 2009, Disneyland had

15.9 million visitors. If we pretend each of those visi-tors bought the cheapest ticket at $76, we can easily assume the park made over a billion dollars in admis-sions alone.

The total revenue for all of Disney’s resorts in 2010 totaled over 10 million dol-lars. It would appear that even in today’s economy, the various Disney busi-ness ventures are not hard-

pressed for cash. If this is the case, why should our wallets suffer for some well-deserved fun?

Anyone who has been to Disneyland knows that admission isn’t the only part of the park that over-charges. People should be prepared to empty their pockets for parking, drinks, meals, souvenirs and photo opportunities.

It seems inevitable that certain money-making poli-cies will be enforced further

and that admission fees will continue to rise.

Entertainment is a busi-ness after all.

No matter how much we like to think of Disneyland as the happy and innocent place we longed to visit in childhood, we must come to terms with the fact that there is an unpleasant price to pay for spending time in the happiest place on earth.

VALERIE CHEN

Lifestyle EditorMy boyfriend and I broke

up a couple months ago, but recently, we started talking again, and we are trying to work things out. Every-thing is going well except for one thing. He was very close with my family – he loved them, and they loved him. However, since the break up, they aren’t too fond of him anymore. I understand their point of view because they care about me and don’t want to see me get hurt, but I re-ally want my family to be happy for me and to un-derstand that we are trying to work things out so we can move forward. I hate being in the middle and I hate having to live separate lives: one with him and one with my family. I want him to be able to get a long with family again and vice versa. What do you think I should do?

Remember, your family has your best interest in mind.

Even if they originally loved him, there is noth-ing quite as strong as love among blood relatives.

Although you may have forgiven your boyfriend, they clearly have not.

Even if it has hardly been easy for you to forgive him, it is probably even more difficult for them to grant forgiveness.

After all, it is likely that they have formulated their new and unfavorable im-pression of him after hear-ing what he has done sec-ond-hand.

The initial reason your family members even met him was because of you. And most likely, the rea-son they dislike him now is also because of you.

When you see someone you care about suffer, it is natural and unavoidable to feel distaste for whoever is bringing about that pain.

Because perhaps, you did not know the two of you would get back to-gether in the future, you explicitly let your family know of your angry and hurt feelings.

For your family mem-bers, such statements may be easier said than done to overlook. The resentment from the past has followed you to the present.

Inadvertently, it was your relaying of the break-up and whatever messy af-termath that has made your family members feel this

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Although Islam is prac-ticed by more than 1.6 bil-lion people and is the fastest growing religion in the world, it still remains highly misun-derstood.

Islam is often the subject of many misunderstandings both in the media and in ev-eryday life. Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions of Islam is that Muhammad, the prophet of Islam wrote the Quran, Islam’s holy book.

This misconception was seen in last week’s article in the Poly Post titled “Convert-ing to the Islamic faith and culture.”

Muslims believe Muham-mad, peace be upon him, is the establisher of Islam. He

was illiterate and an orphan who was known in his com-munity as a man of admirable character and exceptional manners.

Muhammad was born in 570 AD and lived a normal life. As a child he worked as a shepherd, then as a business-man when he grew older. His life transformed from ordi-nary to extraordinary when he was 40.

Muslims believe the angel Gabriel was sent by God to Muhammad to the Cave of Hira in Saudi Arabia. This is where the fi rst verses of the Quran were revealed.

The Quran was sent down in the span of 23 years. As revelations came down to Muhammad, he recited the verses back to the angel Ga-briel who made sure Muham-

mad memorized the verses accurately.

The verses were then dic-tated to scribes who wrote and preserved the text. The recorded verses were read to Muhammad who made sure the words were accurate. Many of Muhammad’s clos-est family members and com-panions also memorized the Quran.

The Quran has been pre-served through memoriza-tion. To this day millions of Muslims have memorized the Quran from cover to cover and not a single letter has been changed.

Islam is an Abrahamic faith, and as such, Muslims believe that the Quran is the continuation of the teachings of prophets such as Abraham, Noah, David, Moses and Je-

sus. Many of the teachings of the Quran are similar to those found in the Bible and Torah.

Skeptics of Muhammad believed he was the author of the Quran, but Muslims be-lieve that part of the miracle of the Quran was that it was revealed to an illiterate man. The Quran makes it very clear that the author of the Quran is God, not Muhammad.

“You (O Muhammad) were not a reader of any Scripture before it, nor did you write (such a Scripture) with your right hand, for then those who follow falsehood might (have a right) to doubt it,” Quran, Chapter 29 verse 48.

In addition to the verse stat-ing that Muhammad was not the author of the Quran, Mus-lims believe there are many other verses proving the

Quran was divinely written. Verses were revealed that

described scientifi c phenom-ena such as descriptions of the embryo, the division of salt and fresh water, and the peg-like formation of moun-tains. These phenomena were just barely being discovered in the 19th century.

After Muhammad passed away in 633 AD at age 63, Muhammad’s successors compiled the Quran in book form. The compiled Quran was then dispersed to Mus-lim capitals around the world. These copies of the Quran are preserved in museums and are identical to the Qurans found today.

Islam still subject to misconception

Radiation. It’s a word that strikes fear in many people.

As the nuclear crisis con-tinues in Japan, radiation is a topic of concern amongst many, especially here in the United States.

Should we be concerned with the safety of nuclear power in the U.S.? Yes.

While the Nuclear Regu-latory Commission and plant operators across the country stress how safe these plants are both in structure and safety features.

Nothing is absolute. Struc-tural integrity is one thing, but human error and the pos-sibility of faulty components is another.

Our closest nuclear reac-tor, San Onofre in Northern San Diego County which

lies on the coastline, has been built to withstand up to a 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurring directly under the plant as proudly stated on the website for Southern California Edison.

The closest known fault line is considered inactive.

Even though a plant can withstand the forces of Mother Nature, this is not a guarantee that accidents will never happen, systems will never fail, or human error will not occur.

Nuclear plants have been in operation in the United States for several decades. They have, for the most part, operated without major inci-dent. However, we did have a close call in the U.S. that could have ended very badly.

The biggest nuclear inci-dent in the U.S. occurred at The Three Mile Island Plant

in Harrisburg, Pa on March 28, 1979.

The result was a partial core meltdown and the re-lease of 13 million curies of radioactive gases into the at-mosphere.

As we’ve learned through recent events at Fukushima, the shock wave of such an explosion of hydrogen gas can result in a breach of containment, releasing large amounts of radiation into the environment.

Are those in control to be trusted?

The operator of the Fuku-shima Nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Com-pany, has a history of safety issues as well as concealing incidents and reporting false technical data to the Japa-nese government.

In 2002, the Japanese gov-ernment revealed that for a

period of roughly 25 years, TEPCO had misreported technical data on over 200 occasions. An internal in-vestigation later revealed a number of unreported inci-dents at TEPCO’s nuclear facilities.

In the United States, we must rely on government agencies and private indus-try to monitor and maintain proper operations of these plants. The only problem is that some incidents can result in agencies practicing trial and error to resolve ma-jor issues.

Proponents of nuclear energy claim how safe and clean it is, but I hesitate to agree with that. When things go bad, they can go very bad.

Fallout from the Chernob-yl incident in 1986 rendered the area uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years,

due to the extremely long half-life of some radio-iso-topes. The point is, a critical incident at a nuclear plant – anywhere – can have far reaching and long lasting ef-fects.

Nuclear energy has al-ways seemed a mixed bag to me, having some positives mixed with some heavy-handed consequences. The risks to the environment, to human life, and to this planet are far too great.

As the current crisis in Ja-pan unfolds, to understand the current situation and its impact is to know your his-tory and to know your sci-ence. We are safe, so long as operations run smoothly and we can trust those who oper-ate and monitor these plants.

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CommentaryCommentary

way.Of course, the situa-

tion was not essentially by choice; however, unfortu-nate situations happen.

Such things are hard to undo or take back when it involves protective people who only want the best for their loved ones.

Ease into healing the relationship between your boyfriend and your family.

Sit each party down, separately, and let them know how you feel about the situation.

To your family, explain

how you appreciate their concerns, but make it clear that you need their support and compassion rather than their rebuke.

It’s an awkward situa-tion that they may be more understanding about, once they hear it out loud.

To your boyfriend, reit-erate what he most likely already knows – the rela-tionship between him and your family is not going to be back to normal yet and that it will take some work on his part.

Nevertheless, in the fu-

ture, it hopefully will reach that desirable point once again.

Ask him for his patience, and thank him for it. If he truly wants to make things right, he will be sympa-thetic.

Also, suggest to your boyfriend that he talk to your family members on his own.

It does not need to be a lunch date with just him and all of your fam-ily members, which can be daunting.

Instead, it can be him sit-

ting down with just one or two family members, such as your parents.

Most likely, if your par-ents – as the head of the family – forgive him, the other and less dominant members of your family will follow suit.

By independently ap-proaching them and taking the time and effort to hon-estly explain the situation and his respectable inten-tions, your boyfriend will display courage and a good heart.

Also, plan fun group ac-

tivities that both your boy-friend and your family can attend.

Activities such as bowl-ing, going to an amuse-ment park or visiting the beach are enjoyable and a means for your boyfriend to exhibit the same per-sonality that your family members liked, prior to the break up.

Let the time spent to-gether be a reminder of good times for all those in attendance.

Refresh their memories. If your family sees how

happy he makes you, they will let their guard down – it just takes time and patience.

In the future, be careful of how much negative in-formation you relay to your family members. While your bad feelings may fully recover, your family mem-bers’ may not.

Don’t hesitate to ask me a ques-chen at formspring.me/askmeaqueschen or send an e-mail to opin-ions@thepolypost.com.

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On the Front line

TIFFANY ROESLER

Staff Writer

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CHEN: Your family has your best interest at heartContinued from page 12

Women have come a long way in American history.

For years we have been told not to voice our opin-ions, or get involved with anything that wasn’t cook-ing, cleaning or nurturing a child. It’s a “man’s world,” the saying goes.

Times have changed. Women work just as hard, earn almost as much mon-ey – they’re getting there – and are overall, are just as successful as men. And when it comes to enlisting in the military, it’s more common to see women join then ever before.

Women make up ap-proximately 14 percent of

the armed forces. But are the front lines a place for women to be? Defi nitely.

If a woman chooses to enlist in the military, that is her choice. She’s aware of what she is getting herself into and the consequences that follow. Why shouldn’t it be an equal playing fi eld?

Women’s positions in armed forces are reduced to medics, logistics of-fi cers, and other types of supportive roles that don’t involve being at the front lines whatsoever.

America can’t fathom the thought of women being brutally killed, tortured, and wounded.

Some say women could also be detrimental to a unit’s cohesion.

Yes, having a woman on the front lines may put them at higher risks for be-ing prisoners of war.

America is one of a few countries where women have equal rights. But, those who join know what they’re in for.

However, this wouldn’t be the fi rst time females have been be a part of com-bat.

Women have had front line action that dates back all the way to the Revolu-tionary War. So why not now?

According to an article from the New York Daily, The Military Leadership Diversity Commission is expected to send its report to Congress and President

Obama right around this time urging them to create an equal opportunity for women to be in combat.

People are concerned about women carrying around excess emotional distress, and using too much of it to make deci-sions that perhaps men wouldn’t make.

It’s a preconceived no-tion that women like to weigh out both sides before making a decision, where most men think in black and white and simplicity.

This would mean when a decision needs to be made in a matter of seconds women can’t do it.

In fact, women can think quickly on their feet and make split-second deci-

sions. Women are also accused

of not being strong enough, along with their mere pres-ence causing somewhat of a distraction in a unit.

However, in the 1920s, women made their way into the workforce and proved to be effi cient and produc-tive despite being discrimi-nated against. This is ex-actly the same thing.

Accusations such as these are insignifi cant and not enough to allow women to fi ght in combat.

If America is a country based on equal rights and equal opportunity, it is sure not demonstrating it in its own military services.

It’s not about women be-ing weaker, or the ability to

be able to handle the sight of gruesome death: It just comes down to civil rights.

Women are already apart of the armed forces, and rank just as well as men do, so it’s plain and simple: Let them fi ght too.

Like the armed forces itself, including women in combat has strengths that have not been considered.

The United States should allow women on the front lines in order for them to serve the country to their full potential.

So watch out military, women are ready to femi-nize the front lines.

With overcast weather con-ditions, the Cal Poly Pomona track and fi eld team competed at the Pomona Pitzer Invita-tional in Claremont on Satur-day.

“In general, I was most impressed with Tiffany Dinh, Diana Zapata, Elizabeth Soria and Kyle Wolff for the wom-en,” said head coach Troy Johnson. “Corey Arnold did well in the sprints for the men and our throwers also com-peted well.”

Junior Tramieka Thomas’ fi rst-place fi nish in the tri-ple jump was the Broncos’ highest placing of the meet. Thomas’ best jump measured 37-08.5.

Representing Cal Poly Po-mona in the men’s long jump, freshman Oliver Santiago placed 17th, with a jump of 20-11.25. Freshman James Cooper (20-01.50) was 32nd.

“I P-Red, so I felt a lot bet-ter,” said Santiago. “It was a big boost to my confi dence.”

With a mark of 10-08, ju-nior Nicole Worden gave the Broncos a sixth-place fi nish in the women’s pole vault.

Throwing for the Broncos were senior Ileana Tejada for the women and junior Vin-

cent Huitt for the men. Te-jada placed 13th and 17th in the discus throw (124-0) and hammer throw (154-05), re-spectively, while Huitt (150-05) placed seventh in the dis-cus throw.

On the track, the women’s 4x100 meter relay team, con-sisting of junior Mia Moreno, Thomas, sophomore Brooke Gamble and freshman Heath-er Corder, took fi fth to fi nish its race in 49.17 seconds.

Elsewhere, the men’s 4x100 relay team of sopho-more Matt Boudreau, senior Corey Arnold, senior Carter Griffi n and Deavers had a second-place fi nish (41.56), just behind Div. I Cal State Bakersfi eld (41.43).

Arnold also earned a fourth-place fi nish in both the men’s 200 (21.77) and 400 (48.91).

Boudreau, in the men’s 110 hurdles, ran a 15.33 to fi nish 10th, while sophomore Jacob Cummings (16.27) placed 22nd and freshman Travis Voorhies (21.89) was 41st.

Giving the Broncos their highest mark of the day in a hurdling event was Moreno (64.85), who placed sixth in the women’s 400 hurdles.

Junior Jake Deavers (53.86) took fi fth in the men’s 400 hurdles and earned a NCAA Div. II provisional-qualifying mark with his time.

In the men’s 100 were Cooper (11.38), junior Sam Morales (11.58) and Santiago

(11.93), who placed 38th, 40th and 58th, respectively.

“I’ve defi nitely done bet-ter, but this is practice and the more I practice the better I get,” Cooper said. “My start was much better than my pre-vious meets.”

Earning respective fi nishes of seventh and eighth in the women’s 1,500 were sopho-more Tiffany Dinh (4:38.75) and junior Diana Zapata (4:39.38).

In the women’s longest race, junior Juliana Ruffolo (18:16.24) earned a 15th-place fi nish in the 5,000.

Finishing in just under 4 minutes in the men’s 1,500 with a fi fth-place fi nish was sophomore Ryan Carrell

(3:59.22), whose fi nish marks the Broncos’ best of the sea-son in that event.

Senior Jersain Torres (15:02.64) gave the Broncos another fi fth-place fi nish in the men’s 5,000.

The Broncos compete again at the Mt. SAC Invitational in Walnut, beginning Wednes-day and running through Sat-urday.

“I hope that the great en-vironment of the Mt. SAC Relay brings out the best in our athletes,” Johnson said. “It is an elite track meet and we want them to use this op-portunity to showcase their talents.”

“I play the game, I play it smart. My energy comes straight from the heart. I use my head, I use my feet. Don’t mess with me, I’m 100 per-cent athlete.”--Anonymous

Power, precision and per-fection are what senior javelin thrower Lance Walkington strives for when he is one with his javelin.

On March 26, Walking-ton broke the school record of 207-7 in the javelin event with a mark of 222-0 feet at the Cal-Nevada Invitational in Claremont. His best mark as a junior was earned at Califor-nia’s Brutus Hamilton Invita-tional in 2009 (184-5).

“That was a really nice feel-ing because my original fi nal goal for the year was 225, so after that meet, I had to really re-evaluate some new goals,” Walkington said.

Walkington is a fi rst-year teaching specialist graduate student at Cal Poly Pomona and received his degree in so-ciology with a minor in psy-chology from UC Davis in 2010. He transferred this year from UC Davis because of is-sues with their program.

“I was very disappointed while I was at Davis for be-ing a Division I school, so I wanted to get out of that and basically just started looking around for a school that would be good for me, throwing-wise,” said Walkington.

Before he chose to go to UC Davis, Walkington was already interested in the CCAA conference.

Walkington’s decision to join the Broncos was greatly infl uenced by assistant coach

Lauren Reimer. Walkington has a special training program with Reimer, who has a large amount of experience and is one of the reasons why Walk-ington has been able to per-form at such a high level.

“I talked to coach Reimer and I told her I was inter-ested in coming here, and that I wanted to just get out of Northern California,” said Walkington. “So I came and I visited, I told her all of my concerns and what I was look-ing forward to in a coach and for the rest of my career, and she had the best plan for me to get me to the next level.”

Walkington’s father was also very infl uential in his de-cision to join the Broncos.

“My dad was really sup-portive and understanding that I was just not happy at Davis and he knew that was not how I wanted to fi nish my college career,” said Walkington.

“So if I wanted to continue on and do grad school, he said he would help the best he

could, money-wise, and now he’s very happy with how well things have turned out.”

Walkington has worked with many high-quality coaches and even knows what some of the Olympic throw-ers are doing with their own training.

“My philosophy for train-ing is that there is something you can do everyday,” he said. “You don’t have to go hard everyday but you can do little things on days off, as little as stretching or working on fl exibility, so I’m doing something everyday; intensity level, that defi nitely changes.”

Head coach Troy Johnson said Walkington has defi nitely improved from when he fi rst arrived.

“He has been a great student-athlete for us,” said Johnson. “I like everything he’s done and now he’s seeing the fruits of his labor.”

The 6-foot Walkington has brought a great deal of con-fi dence to his team and has

helped to boost the Bronco Pride.

“Whenever you have a per-son who is going to compete on a national level on your track team, it defi nitely boosts morale and confi dence for everyone else to step up their game and Lance humbly does so,” said Johnson.

“He’s not a prima donna out there; he humbly has gone about his business, speaks to everybody, has competed at a very high level, and I think that just brings up the com-petitive nature of the team al-together.”

Walkington’s teammates also recognize and appreciate all his hard work and dedica-tion to their team.

“You probably wouldn’t be able to tell he can throw far just because he’s not super tall and super buff, but he defi -nitely carries himself tall in practice,” said junior Samuel Morales, Walkington’s team-mate.

“He has a program with the

throwing coach that he fol-lows everyday, and he’s al-ways working hard, and he’s always focused.”

In high school, Walkington played on the baseball team and ran cross-country and track, but it was not until his fi rst year of junior college at Delta that he actually started to throw the javelin.

It was his cross-country coach who suggested he try javelin instead of playing baseball. The rest is history.

There is a passion for sports many people might not under-stand and Walkington shares this passion for his sport, as do many other athletes here at Cal Poly Pomona.

“A baseball pitcher will have a game where he throws 100 throws, where as javelin throwers will throw six and they are pretty beat,” said Walkington. “It’s very unique, it’s very diffi cult, and not ev-eryone can do it, so it’s nice to be able to be unique.”

There is not much spare time in Walkington’s busy schedule but when he does have some time to himself, he enjoys hiking and working on his truck.

“I’m really into cars and trucks, going to the gym and just staying active,” he said.

This is Walkington’s last year of eligibility for track and fi eld, but he will continue as a student here for the upcom-ing school year as he plans to graduate in spring 2012.

“I’m not sure what I’m go-ing to do right after I graduate, but one day, what I would like to do would be to teach at the junior college I went to and assist the track team there as well,” said Walkington.

Bronco hoop starsabroad

In recent years, Cal Poly Pomona has become a launch pad for athletes to play pro-fessional sports in Europe.

In fact, the Broncos have exported at least fi ve basket-ball players (four men and one woman) over the past six years to Europe.

Broncos guard Stephisha Walton, who played two sea-sons with the Broncos (2008-10), is in her fi rst season with Luxembourg’s Black Star Mersch and has played re-markably.

Walton, in 20 games as a guard/forward, is averaging a double-double with her team-leading 21.7 points and 12.2 rebounds per game.

Former forward Larry Gordon (2005-09) is in his second season of profes-sional basketball playing in Austria as a member of the Kapfenberg Bulls.

As of April 10, Gordon has averaged 10.4 points, 1.6 assists and 5.9 rebounds per game in 35 games played this season. Among his team-mates, Gordon has the third-highest and fourth-highest totals in points and assists, respectively, while he leads the team in rebounds.

Elsewhere, former guard Austin Swift (2007-10) has also made a name for himself in professional basketball.

Although he is no lon-ger with BC Vrijednosnice Osijek Darda in the A1 Croa-tian League, Swift is now with Ginasio, a team in Por-tugal.

In the 14 games he has played with Ginasio this season, Swift has averaged 9.1 points, 2.5 assists and 5.2 rebounds. On the team, Swift is fourth and fi fth, re-spectively, in rebounds and points scored.

With these athletes playing in Europe, the athletic pro-grams at Cal Poly Pomona will be able to experience benefi ts that may not be felt right away, but will be some time down the road.

The most obvious of these is that the presence of former Bronco athletes in Europe will get the Cal Poly Pomona name out in the open.

Hopefully, there are a bunch of young kids who follow these athletes’ teams very closely and if they develop a fan base with college-bound high school athletes, those athletes may want to follow the same path to the pros their sports heroes traveled down, thus leading them to apply and sign the letter of intent to play for the Broncos.

Secondly, playing in Eu-rope will attract a much more exclusive pool of talent.

This is where playing in Europe benefi ts the Bron-

ERIK CARR

Sports Editor

TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA

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Senior javelin thrower Lance Walkington of the Cal Poly Pomona track and fi eld team shattered the school record of 201-7, with a throw of 222-0 at the Cal-Nevada Invitational in Claremont on March 26.

Farheen Dayala / Th e Poly Post

GLORIA GONZALEZ

Staff Writer

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Track and fi eld team earns good marks

Junior Tramieka Th omas (left ) leaps over her fi nal hurdle during the women’s 100-meter hurdles event at Saturday’s Pomona Pitzer Invitational in Claremont. Th omas (14.98 seconds) fi nished seventh overall.

Jonny Tai / Th e Poly Post

JACOB SUNDSTROM

Correspondent

Walkington throws hard, trains harder sports@thepolypost.comReach Jacob Sundstrom at:

Thomas, Arnold among Broncos at Saturday’sPomona Pitzer Invitational with high finishes in competitive field

Students, staff members and athletes gathered at Cen-ter Court in the Bronco Stu-dent Center on Thursday to commemorate a victorious 2010-11 season for the Cal Poly Pomona women’s bas-ketball team.

The celebratory rally was organized by ASI B.E.A.T. and ran through U-Hour, ending with the team sign-ing autographs and posing for pictures.

The presentation held per-formances by the Cal Poly Pomona Pep Band and Cheer Team, as well as speeches from University President Michael Ortiz and his wife Betty, Communication pro-fessor Richard Anderson and women’s basketball team head coach Danelle Bishop.

This year marked many great achievements for the

women’s team, including winning the CCAA Cham-pionship and NCAA Div. II West Region titles.

The Broncos’ champion-ship run ended on a bitter-

sweet note in a 78–65 loss to Northwest Missouri State on March 22 in the quarterfi nals of the Elite Eight.

Ortiz and his wife both said they noted how respectful the

team is and how much they care for one another on and off the court. That respect, Bishop said, is what sets the Broncos apart from other pro-grams.

“I think their overall mind-set, both academically and on the court, were different [from other schools],” Bishop said.

Bishop appears to be look-ing at the loss as a starting point for next year.

“They have a really good taste in their mouths that they want to get back,” Bishop said.

In order to achieve that goal for next season, Bishop said the Broncos’ style of play will have to change, but their attitudes are in the right place.

Regardless of any outside differences, Bishop said the girls are willing to do what-ever it takes to get back into the Elite Eight.

Senior guard and NCAA

Div. II All American Reyana Colson said she couldn’t be more proud of her team de-spite the loss at Northwest Missouri State.

“I’m going to miss my teammates,” Colson said. “Everything from little side comments to locker room talk.

“This being my last year, I know a lot of my teammates wanted me to go out in a good fashion.”

Ortiz said Colson will be a hard player to replace.

“Reyana has probably been one of the best players to ever come to Cal Poly Pomona,” he said. “We’re going to miss her.”

Despite the loss, Ortiz is confi dent the team can make a strong return next season.

“They have a tremendous amount of talent coming back,” he said.

After playing fi ve games in six days, the Cal Poly Po-mona baseball team fi nished a busy week with three wins against San Francisco State to go with a non-conference win over Grand Canyon on Tuesday.

“We are trying to make a good solid run what we call a ‘run for the playoffs’ as best we can,” said head coach Randy Betten.

The Broncos improved to 23-12 overall and 16-12 in the CCAA, climbing to fi fth place in the conference, and resume play 3 p.m. on Thurs-day at sixth-place Cal State San Bernardino (15-15, 12-10).

Sunday’s game against the 11th-place Gators (12-23, 7-21) ended 6-2 in favor of the Broncos, giving them the series win.

After leading 2-0 to begin the top of the second inning, the Broncos extended their lead, 3-0, when senior out-fi elder Travis Taijeron’s RBI single brought home senior outfi elder Stephen Gonzalez.

The Gators scored a run in the fi fth and in the eighth, but Gonzalez’s RBI single in the ninth brought home junior in-

fi elder Chris Miller to give the Broncos a four-run, 6-2 lead.

The series began on Friday with a 6-5 Broncos win.

Freshman infi elder Ryan Goodman got the Broncos on the board, 1-0, in the third with a triple, sending senior utility player Tyson Edwards home.

Goodman scored on the next play, 2-0, on junior in-fi elder Mike Santora’s RBI single.

The Gators tied the score, 2-2, in the fi fth and took ad-vantage of two errors by the Broncos to take the lead, 4-2, in the sixth.

Down 5-4 in the ninth, freshman infi elder Humberto Tovalin hit a two-RBI single, scoring Edwards and Miller, and gave the Broncos a 6-5 lead.

The fi rst game of Sat-urday’s doubleheader was scoreless through four in-nings. The scoreless tie ended when Gators junior outfi elder Trevor Pasiecznik hit a solo home run in the fi fth.

Despite being down by a run, Miller’s two-RBI single scored sophomore outfi elder Jordan Whitman and Taije-ron, allowing the Broncos to take a 2-1 lead.

In the eighth, Miller and junior catcher Jenzen Torres

both scored on a single by Edwards, who later scored the third Broncos run of the in-ning, extending the Broncos lead, 5-1.

Redshirt sophomore pitch-er Kevin Bosson threw a complete game, in which he allowed one run, fi ve hits and two walks while striking out four.

The second game on Satur-day showcased Gators senior pitcher Nic Banaugh, who pitched all seven innings in a three-hit shutout.

Senior pitcher Casey Yokubaitis allowed three

hits in the second inning, in-cluding senior catcher Kevin Dultz’s RBI single that scored Pasiecznik and gave the Ga-tors a 1-0 lead.

The next fi ve innings be-came a pitching duel in which only three hits for the Broncos and one hit for the Gators oc-curred.

“[I] just relax and trust my hands and know that they’re not going to beat me with anything,” Whitman said. “Fastball, slider, I know I can hit all of them.”

Prior to the series at San Francisco State, the Broncos

defeated the Grand Canyon Antelopes (18-18) in a non-conference game, 7-4.

After the Antelopes tied the game in the fi fth, 4-4, a dou-ble by Torres scored Whitman to give the Broncos a 5-4 lead.

The score was 7-4 in the sixth when Torres’ RBI single scored Whitman.

At the end of weekend play, both Whitman and San-tora maintained their hitting streaks, having hit safely in 16 and 13 consecutive games, respectively.

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cos’ college recruiting efforts more so than playing profes-sional ball domestically.

The Broncos in Europe belong to leagues with fewer teams, smaller fan bases, and therefore, have fans with fewer options on which play-ers to emulate.

Much like kids in America may try to emulate Los An-geles Lakers forward/center Pau Gasol of Spain, kids in Luxembourg, Denmark and Portugal may try to emulate former Broncos.

If these athletes played professionally in America, it’s likely their achievements would be overshadowed by those from Div. I schools.

Again, by playing in Europe, they have the op-portunity to play profes-sionally while gaining the appreciation of teenage Eu-ropean players.

Finally, the presence of Broncos in Europe gives them and the school a status that wouldn’t be attainable if they stayed in the United States.

Because they are playing in Europe, the Broncos are more than just ordinary ath-letes; they are ambassadors of their respective sports.

In general, people of all ages like to be associated with entities exuding a high degree of respectability, and Cal Poly Pomona earning the distinction of being an inter-national beacon of ambas-sadorship will both gain the campus respect and allow the Broncos to recruit on the domestic and international fronts.

Who knows? In a few years, the men’s basketball team may be able to attract another forward like Tobias Jahn.

Bronco fans will just have to wait and see.

TURF: Overseas presence will havebenefitsfor CPPContinued from page 14

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Baseball team gets three from GatorsAMELIA FRITSCH

Staff Writer

Freshman second baseman Ryan Goodman forces out freshman third baseman Jackie Samora and attempts a double play in Tuesday’s 7-4 Broncos win.

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Women’s basketball team honored in rallyCAITY HANSEN

Staff Writer

Junior guard Rosslyn Beard speaks on behalf of the team, thanking the fans for their support through-out the season during Th ursday’s rally in the BSC.

Ana Ibarra / Th e Poly Post

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Active women’s soccer team plays Broncos of the past

The Cal Poly Pomona women’s soccer team had an exciting weekend when it was challenged by the Broncos of old in an alumni game Sunday.

In front of a small crowd at Kellogg Field, current and old players alike took the fi eld one more time.

The game ended in a 1-1 tie with the alumni drawing fi rst blood early in the fi rst half.

A misplayed ball in the penalty box allowed Cody McClure to put the ball in the back of the net. Mc-Clure, who is set to gradu-ate in the fall, played four seasons for the Broncos from 2006-09.

“[Scoring a goal] is just awesome and wonderful,”

McClure said. “It’s so hard to explain the feeling, but it’s very exciting.

“I played soccer non-stop for about 15 years. So to get the chance to come and play and get back into the rhythm of things is really exciting.”

McClure said she was happy to have the opportu-nity to play against some of her former teammates.

In the second half, the ac-tive Bronco squad had mul-tiple shots on goal, when one fi nally went in off the foot of junior forward Jus-tine Barclay.

“It was a through ball,” Barclay said. “Tiff[any] Salazar put it through. Then I took one touch and the goalie came out so I chipped it over her.”

Barclay added that every-one was looking forward to the alumni game.

“We were excited to come out and play,” Barclay said. “We didn’t know what the turnout would be for the alumni, but we were still excited.”

In the fi nal minutes of the second half, it looked like the alumni team was going to muster out a win when Mary Carroll fi red a shot outside the penalty box that hit the cross bar.

Carroll, who played for Cal Poly Pomona from 2006-09, is tied for second in school history with most goals scored in a single sea-son (32).

The threat proved to be the last for either team as the whistle was blown and

the game ended. Head coach Isabelle Har-

vey was very excited and happy with the turnout of Sunday’s game.

“It was a great day,” Har-vey said. “We had a great group of alumni, and of course we’d always like to have more, but it was defi -nitely a good mix of current players and old players. We had a lot of fun, and that’s how it’s supposed to be.”

Entering her sixth season as the head coach this fall, Harvey is trying to make the alumni game an annual event.

KARINA LOPEZ

Staff Writer

Freshman goalkeeper Sarah Rohman prepares to kick the ball away into the opponent’s territory dur-ing Sunday’s alumni game at Kellogg Field.

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