For the fi rst time in 20 years, Cal Poly Pomona’s Theatre Department will take part in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Los An-geles on Feb. 12, with its rendition of Harold Pinter’s love-triangle drama, “Be-trayal.”

KCACTF is a national student theater program, created in 1969 by the Kennedy Center’s chair-man, Roger Stevens, with the hopes of increasing the quality of college theater productions in the United States.

The Kennedy Center has co-produced award-win-ning works such as “An-nie,” “The King and I” and

“Titanic.” The KCACTF has reached 17.5 million theatergoers, students and teachers across the nation.

CPP’s Theatre Depart-ment fi rst introduced its performance of “Betrayal,” directed by Robert Gilbert, at its on-campus Studio Theater in October, where KCACTF judges deter-mined that it would go on to the prestigious festival.

“When I found out we were going [to KCACTF], I was actually kind of blown away,” said Theresa Du-nipace, stage manager of “Betrayal.” “Even though I was proud of the show and thought it was fantastic, being a show entered into KCACTF was, in my mind, a long shot.”

“Betrayal” revolves around an affair between a woman and her husband’s

best friend, concentrat-ing on all of the troubles, emotions and tragedies that come with it.

The dramatic play, set in England and Italy during the 1970s, focuses on three main characters performed by fi fth-year Theater student Devin Calderone (Robert), fourth-year Theater student Nathaniel Akstin-Johnson (Jerry) and fourth-year Zoology and Theater student Daniela Tarankow (Emma).

After being critiqued by those involved in the Theatre Department, the cast and crew of “Betrayal” were faced with numerous issues to improve upon, such as set design and character interactions.

“It could be that when we were receiving the criticism

It’s not hard to catch To-bias Jahn smiling, but you may have to look up a bit.

The 24-year-old, 6-foot-9-inch senior forward is the tallest member of the Cal Poly Pomona men’s bas-ketball team and has come a long way – both literally and fi guratively – since his days as a teenager play-ing soccer in Babenhausen, Germany.

In the time he has been at Cal Poly Pomona, Jahn has helped the team bring home the 2010 NCAA Div. II national championship. Jahn was also the leading scorer in an exhibition game against reigning Div. I na-tional champion Duke Uni-versity in November 2010, fi nishing the game with 15 points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals.

This season, Jahn is an all-around performer who is second on the team in

blocks (0.9), steals (1.3) and rebounds (5.8) per game. He has an average of 9.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game going into the Broncos’ next match against Cal State Los Angeles on Friday.

In the span of his athletic career at Cal Poly Pomona, Jahn has made 51.2 percent of his fi eld-goal attempts and has averaged 7.0 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.

While Jahn has become a prominent fi gure for the men’s basketball team, the sport wasn’t his fi rst calling.

Jahn picked up basketball late in the game after he lost interest in soccer at the age of 16, following the death of his coach.

At 18, Jahn headed for America, with the intent of bettering his English skills as well as pursuing an ath-letic career.

In Texas, Jahn got his fi rst taste of American culture. He quickly took to the new setting and would become the Most Valuable Player at Fort Worth Christian School, where he was also named the school’s Home-coming King.

Two years later in 2006, Jahn made his way to Cal Poly Pomona and joined the men’s basketball team.

Head coach Greg Kaman-

sky said Jahn had his work cut out for him upon enter-ing the campus, but was driven to improve.

“His skills were a little lacking at the time, but the longer he played the better he got,” Kamansky said. “He just kept playing hard the whole time he was here.”

Jahn said while his late

start in the game may have had setbacks at fi rst, it might have been for the best.

“Knowing me as a person, if I had maybe started ear-lier, I never would be where I am right now because I might be tired of the sport already,” Jahn said. “My love of the game, because I started loving it so late,

wouldn’t be there anymore if I started earlier.”

Kamansky said Jahn’s efforts to become a better basketball player have yet to cease.

“His work ethic is defi -nitely second to none,” Ka-mansky said. “Just on the court, he is the one guy that

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A larger-than-life personality

Senior forward Tobias Jahn is in the midst of his fi nal season with the Cal Poly Pomona’s men’s basketball team.

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The Cal Poly Pomona chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has been suspended after an inves-tigation revealed the organization engaged in hazing dating back to 2005.

The suspension will be in effect until at least winter 2013, and if the chapter is allowed to return to the campus after the suspension ends, it will be on probation for another

three years. “I was really happy that they

took it seriously,” said Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton, associate vice president of Student Affairs and dean of students. “The national [offi ce] sent people out here to ac-tually investigate and talk to the students, and in the end, basically the national [offi ce] said that [haz-ing] is not acceptable.”

An investigation was neces-sary after a student came forward to Student Affairs and claimed to

have been branded by the fraterni-ty in a hazing ritual that took place in December 2009.

As a result, the entire Greek system at CPP was placed on tem-porary probation and required to complete a hazing audit, which called for all Greek organizations to provide proof of educating its members about the subject of haz-ing.

All but one of the organizations have been reinstated after fulfi ll-ing all requirements needed to be

taken off probation. The one group that did not complete the hazing audit asked to remain on probation until it is ready to work with the Greek Life advisor to be taken off.

“Every organization cooper-ated,” said Gutierrez Keeton, add-ing that most organizations had gathered all of the information needed to complete the hazing au-dit within three to four days of it being issued.

Once the suspension period is over, and if the national offi ce of

Pi Kappa Alpha decides to try and bring the fraternity back to CPP, the university and the national offi ce must work together to re-establish the group.

“Being on probation means for that fi rst period of time that they are back, basically it is the uni-versity and the national [offi ce] working to kind of set up how the organization is going to run, who are going to be the alumni board members, who from nationals is

Today at 3 p.m. at the Bronco Student Center in Ursa Major, former presi-dential candidate Michael Dukakis will be giving a speech titled “Public Ser-vice, a Great Career.”

Sponsored by the dean of College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences and or-ganized by the Political Science department and Master of Public Admin-istration, Dukakis’ speech will address career choices students can make in the public service realm.

The speech will also give attendees Dukakis’ views on the benefi ts of public service.

Vanessa Naccara, a fourth-year entertainment marketing student, said it will be insightful for stu-dents who are interested in the fi eld to go.

Dukakis served three terms as the governor of Massachusetts with his fi rst term ranging from 1975-1979, and his fi nal two terms ranging from 1983-1991.

During his second run as governor, Duka-kis ran for president as the

RACHEL WINTER

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MITCHELL SALTZMAN

News Editor

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Dukakis to visit CPP today

Theatre Department to take part in college festival

Fraternity suspended until 2013

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(Left ) Jerry, played by fourth-year Th eater student Nathaniel Akstin-Johnson, is involved in an aff air with Emma, played by fourth-year Zoology and Th eater student Daniela Tarankow.

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Senior forward Tobias Jahn brings strength, skills and personality on and off the court

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CECILY ARAMBULA

Staff Writer

A National Science Foun-dation grant is helping to encourage women and mi-norities pursue a career in as-tronomy by giving them the opportunity to study the birth of stars.

“Women are a minority in the sciences,” said Courtney Lemon, a fourth-year physics student and participant of the California-Arizona Minor-ity Partnership for Astrono-my Research and Education program. “Up until recently, women have not necessarily been discouraged, but they haven’t been encouraged.”

The CAMPARE program is a joint Cal Poly Pomona and University of Arizona opera-tion started by Alexander Ru-dolph, a professor of physics and director of CAMPARE at Cal Poly Pomona.

“Having a program [like CAMPARE] here at all opens an opportunity to a group of students who might not have had that chance,” said Ru-dolph.

In order to create this pro-gram, Rudolph and his col-leagues at the University of

Arizona had to write a pro-posal that would compete with other universities for grant money.

“We had to design the whole program and tell them exactly what we were going to do ahead of time,” said Ru-dolph.

Rudolph has had a love of astronomy from an early age and can recall his fascina-tion with the topic for most of his life. He received his Bachelor’s of Science degree in physics before teaching at Harvey Mudd College, high school and later Cal Poly Po-mona.

“In one of my earliest memories, I had an astronomy book and I was fascinated by these little pictures,” said Ru-

dolph. “I loved science fi ction – Star Trek and Isaac Assimov – all throughout my teenage years. I’ve always wanted to be somewhere where I could do research, teach and involve students in doing research.”

In addition to teaching, Ru-dolph also writes a column for “Spark,” the American As-tronomical Society education newsletter. In his fi rst column, Rudolph wrote about promot-ing minorities and women in astronomy.

“This particular column is focusing on training future astronomers,” said Rudolph. “Astronomy is very heavy to-ward white males, so making an effort to change that is re-ally important.”

One of the students he

highlighted in the article was Stephanie Zajac, a fi fth-year physics student who over the summer was able to attend University of Arizona Stew-ard Observatory, a part of the CAMPARE program.

“As part of that research in-ternship, I traveled to Tucson, doing observations, stay[ing] up all night and taking data,” said Zajac. “My role in the project now is analyzing that data, going through it and see-ing if there is anything signifi -cant in it that would relate to the broader scope of our re-search.”

Rudolph said the research Zajac is working on is focused on the formation of young stars and determining the

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POLICE BLOTTERPOLICE BLOTTERMEDICAL ASSISTJAN 20, 11:36 a.m. An offi cer initiated activity at I-Poly High School. Students may have been having a reaction to hydrochloric acid fumes that were a by-product of an ex-periment. Disposition: Report taken.

MEDICAL ASSISTJAN 20, 11:44 a.m.An incident occurred at the College Of Science. A female student cut her fi nger. Disposition: Assisted.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCESJAN 20, 8:33 p.m.An incident occurred at Kellogg Drive and Red Gum Lane. It was reported that an adult white male in his 20s with short blonde hair and wearing a grey zippered sweatshirt and shorts in Parking Lot C exited a brown or grey Ford lifted truck and slashed the front tire of a car. Dis-position: Report taken.

BURGLARY - FORCED ENTRYJAN 21, 5:11 p.m.An incident occurred at Alamitos Hall. A laptop was stolen. Disposition: Code 14 - Return to normal duty.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLEJAN 22, 9:49 a.m.An incident occurred at Parking Lot C. There was a woman passed out in a ve-hicle that was parked strangely.Disposition: Area secure.

GRAND THEFT JAN 24, 11:19 a.m.An incident occurred at the University Library. A bronze statue of an Arabian horse is missing or was stolen.Disposition: Unable to Locate.

FIRE CALLJAN 24, 2:05 p.m.An incident occurred at Building 3. It was reported that a trash can was smok-ing near the sidewalk near Building 3 and the Health Center. Disposition: Unable to Locate.

MEDICAL ASSIST JAN 24, 4:09 p.m.An incident occurred at the Kellogg Arabian Horse Unit. It was reported that someone was thrown off a horse and rolled into the fence.Disposition: Assisted.

MISSING PERSON - ADULT JAN 25, 2:26 p.m.An incident occurred at the Police De-partment. A San Diego sheriff called for information on a missing Cal Poly Pomona student whose family last heard from him on Jan. 20. The stu-dent was reported missing on Jan. 24. Disposition: Unable to locate.

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NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS IN BRIEFRecent string of bike thefts

There has been a recent string of bicycle thefts on campus University Police have been investigating.

Two bikes were stolen last Wednesday afternoon near the Residential Suites.

Both bikes were locked at the time they were stolen, and police said bolt cutters were used.

One of the suspects was described as being fi ve feet six inches tall; the other was described as a heavy-set male Latino.

Campus police urge stu-dents to use U-locks or bar locks to secure their vehi-cles. They also suggested owners record the serial numbers, make and model of their bicycles.

Bicycles can be registered with the University Police department. Any distin-guishing feature should also be mentioned to aid in the recovery of the bicycles.

Information regarding suspicious activities or per-son should be directed to the police at (909) 869-3070, and those with anonymous tips can call (909) 869-3399.

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from our department, they were looking at it from an educational point of view and how to make us grow, as opposed to the judges who were looking at how entertained they were or how connected they were to the characters,” said Du-nipace, a second-year the-ater student.

The festival requires that each performance be as close to what the judges saw in the original produc-tion – such as set design and stage direction – in order to advance to the next level, which is a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

With only four hours to prepare prior to perfor-mance time, the theater de-partment will face a new set of challenges for its pro-duction of “Betrayal” at the KCACTF.

Because the festival per-formance venue is differ-ent from the department’s Studio Theater, adjustments such as set size and light-ing will have to be made in order to accommodate the new stage.

The triumph has been a long time coming for CPP’s Theatre Department. When Theater Department Chair Bill Morse died last July, the department struggled to make up for the lack of

guidance. “When we lost Bill, a lot

of things kind of got jum-bled around, and there was a lot of picking up the slack we didn’t necessarily intend to have to pick up,” said Du-

nipace. “It defi nitely means that we have a far stronger acting program and techni-cal program than we origi-nally thought.”

The credibility of the department could benefi t

with the performance at KCACTF.

“It’s a great opportunity to present a meaningful and re-alistic piece of work a lot of people can connect to,” said Calderone. “[The festival] will validate what we’re do-ing as a program and show that we are capable of put-ting on legitimate and high quality performances.”

Ideally, the importance of this performance will spark some interest from the rest of the CPP community.

“I’m hoping we put on a good performance, attract a slew of people and make a name for ourselves,” said Akstin-Johnson.

KCACTF also offers those nominated, as well as those who pay the entry fee, a chance to participate in workshops such as learning how to read Shakespeare, how to audition and how to set up resumes.

Despite setbacks and chal-lenges, this tight-knit de-partment has found strength and guidance in each other and after a number of suc-cessful productions, has been chosen to take part in this nation-wide festival.

For more information about location and ticket prices, visit www.kcactf-8.org.

BETRAYAL: New challenges aheadContinued from page 1

Robert, played by fi ft h-year theater student Devin Calderone, must deal with his best friend having an aff air with his wife.

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Reaching for the stars

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Stephanie Zajac, a fi ft h-year physics student and former member of the CAM-PARE program, is researching the characteristics of young stars.

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Seventy-one exotic tur-tles, tortoises and frogs have found a temporary home at Cal Poly Pomo-na after being allegedly smuggled into California in snack and food boxes.

The reptiles were confi s-cated from a pair of men from Osaka, Japan.

The men were charged with illegally importing wildlife and violating the Endangered Species Act.

The men can face up to 21 years in prison if con-victed. The pair were dis-covered as a part of an un-dercover investigation.

There were 11 differ-ent species of turtle some of which were endangered species. The turtles could be sold for $200-800 each.

The reptiles will be housed at Cal Poly Pomona and will stay until the con-clusion of the trial of the two men.

The animals will be used as evidence during the tri-al. Afterwards, they will be signed over to Cal Poly Po-mona and can then be ad-opted as pets.

The California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy program paves the way for minorities in astronomy

MALICIOUS MISCHIEFJAN 20, 4:19 p.m. An incident occurred at the University Village. A window was vandalized.

Disposition: Info received.

Billy Bronco, Cal Poly Pomo-na’s offi cial mascot, has been seen around campus promoting school spirit for years.

But who is Billy Bronco? Why is he not present at every sporting event and why is he always a differ-ent height?

The answer is there is more than one particular person who parades around as Billy Bronco.

He has made students, faculty and staff smile at events including basketball games, orientation, Wel-come Week, club fairs and more.

“I was Billy at Welcome Week 2009 and also Midnight Madness 2010,” said third-year History student Korbyn Dubois. “I really wanted to try it. I was working with Welcome Week and it seemed like a lot of fun, and the other guy that usually did it really didn’t want to do it again.”

According to a Polycentric ar-ticle, Billy Bronco starred in a na-tional commercial with other Cal State University mascots to help promote safe celebrating during the NCAA National Championships in 2007.

Mitchel Anderson, a second-year management and human resources student and a 2010 Division II Na-tional Champion in men’s basket-ball, said it is important to have Billy Bronco at basketball games.

“He’s good for the fan base, and he’s there for energy for our crowd,” said Anderson. “He can bring ener-

gy to our games. If we’re not doing so well, Billy can help pump [the crowd] up.”

According to an additional Poly-centric article, on April 23, 2009, Billy Bronco celebrated his birth-day by helping students collect used athletic shoes for the Nike-Reuse-a-Shoe Program.

Anyone can be Billy Bronco for a major event, but there are rules and guidelines to follow because Billy represents Cal Poly Pomona.

Lisa Kusayanagi, coordinator of marketing promotions and games management, said those who take on the role of Billy Bronco must ad-here to strict protocol. A sheet must be signed by anyone who will rep-resent Billy Bronco, which includes guidelines on areas such as how to dress, how to interact with the pub-lic, behavior and considerations when being photographed.

“Everyone has the opportunity [to be Billy Bronco], but we are selective in that he is our mascot,” Kusayanagi said. “He can’t be standing next to a beer sign because it looks like he’s promoting some-thing like that or he’s not supposed to actively hug a kid, but they can hug him.”

Despite strict protocol, Billy Bronco does not have to worry about being lonely. Students, fac-ulty and visitors love him.

Nicholas Newton, a third-year music student, said Billy Bronco brings positive energy to the crowd at basketball games. At a game last week, Newton loved that Billy Bronco impersonated Miami Heat basketball player LeBron James by mimicking his chalk toss.

“He gives an identity to the school and because this school is such a commuter school, he gives people an identity to the sports,”

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Would you please be quiet?

Don’t talk during class.How hard is it to follow

such a self-explanatory di-rection?

It’s asked of students at the start of each course during the fi rst week of the quarter, yet some are still confused as to what the request means.

Apparently, between “don’t” and “class,” the in-terpretations vary.

While most students stay quiet, take notes and engage in conversation when the class environment permits group discussion, some stu-dents just like to talk – all the time.

It’s hard enough paying at-tention with all the factors at play in a classroom, let alone trying to ignore the constant banter of those who disre-gard a professor’s plea.

A professor’s teaching style, the time a class takes place and its duration can all contribute to a challenging learning environment.

Now, it should be stated that the occasional side com-ment to clarify something or even cracking a joke isn’t all that bad. Minor rambling or side banter for a moment comes with the territory of large classrooms and stu-dents who may grow rest-less.

No, the real culprits are the students who decide to have an ongoing dialog through-out the entire class.

It’s that constant rumbling in the background that really becomes distracting.

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Search for student trustee underway

Billy Bronco, Cal Poly Pomona’s offi cial mascot, poses for the camera at the athletic fi elds behind the gym.

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Getting to know Billy BroncoCal Poly Pomona’s official mascot is a crowd favoriteSHIAN SAMUEL

Staff Writer

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The California State Stu-dent Association is gearing up to select a new student trustee to represent Cali-fornia State University stu-dents on the CSU Board of Trustees.

In a presentation to the Associated Students, Inc. Senate last Thursday, CSSA President Chris Chavez an-nounced that the CSSA is accepting applications to fi ll a soon-vacant student trust-ee position.

At any given time, two student trustees serve on the 25-member CSU Board of Trustees. Due to staggered terms, one new trustee must be selected every year. The trustee in his or her second

term gains a vote on the board, whereas the fi rst-year trustee retains a non-voting representation status.

Of the applicants who may be nominated this year by CSSA for the two-year term, one will ultimately be selected by Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the CSU Board of Trustees.

Despite the inherent high-profi le nature of the position for CSU students, Chavez said the CSSA often does not receive many applica-tions.

“Typically we receive fi ve to 10 applications, but that’s a problem because we have to send three to fi ve applica-tions [for consideration],” said Chavez. “We’re trying to get at least one applica-tion per [CSU] campus to show students are interest-ed.”

Students who apply for the trustee position must attain at least junior status by July 1 and achieve a minimum grade point average of 2.5.An applicant must also be in “good standing” with his or her university and make appointments to meet with his or her university’s vice president of Student Affairs or Dean of Students, who will confi rm the applicant’s eligibility.

“Anyone on campus can apply for the CSU trustee position,” said Shelley Bruce, ASI secretary of ex-ternal affairs and CSSA lob-by corps offi cer for the state-wide CSSA organization, adding that in addition to the

minimum academic require-ments, students should be “generally concerned about the issues and topics that will be discussed.”

The two standing student trustees, Nicole Anderson and Steven Dixon, are both enrolled at Sacramento State University.

Chavez said Anderson is approaching the end of her term, and Dixon will gain a vote in her stead as the se-nior student trustee. Brown will reappoint Dixon’s non-voting position based upon the CSSA’s pool of appli-cants.

The CSSA is a lobbying organization that, according

to its website, “[Consults] the governor, state legis-lature and CSU Board of Trustees on issues affecting students.”

In a Jan. 23 resolution, the CSSA stressed that Brown’s proposed budget – which threatens to cut CSU fund-ing by $500 million and raise tuition by 10 percent – be reconsidered to invest in the state university system.

The resolution cites a CSU impact report, stat-ing that, “Every dollar in-vested in the CSU returns [$5.43] back into the Cali-fornia economy, therefore any budget cut to the CSU would worsen the already

weakened State economy.”In addition to tackling is-

sues as severe as budget cuts and tuition hikes, the CSSA has also lobbied for issues like grading policies.

A 2009 CSSA proposal to the CSU Board of Trustees, albeit unsuccessful, would have allowed CSU students to repeat courses they re-ceived a “B-” or lower in – as opposed to the enacted “lower than a ‘C’” policy.

The deadline for all appli-cations is March 9 at 5 p.m. Applications can be found at www.csustudents.org.

California State Student Association President Chris Chavez explains the ben-efi ts and advantages of the CSSA to the ASI Senate on Th ursday.

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characteristics of those stars. He said one area of interest is the variability of light output because this could be an indi-cation of planets forming.

The work that Zajac does through the CAMPARE pro-gram will be analyzed by fu-ture students who choose to go to Arizona to record data through the program.

“I kind of met a lot of peo-ple and I learned about the grad school experience and what kind of research they were doing,” said Zajac. “I was working most days on the data that I collected at the telescope and [ran] it through the computational gymnastics that needed to be done.”

Lemon traveled to Arizona and spent weeks as a space camp counselor at Kitt Peak National Observatory and Mount Lemmon Sky Center. Lemon said Rudolph was the professor who recommended her to the program because she had previous experience working at a Girls Scout camp.

Lemon said during that time, she focused on having the children become engaged with astronomy. She said one of facets of working at the camp was scientifi c outreach, encouraging children’s inter-est in science. She said one of the reasons people don’t pursue a career in science is because they feel it is abstract.

Lemon, who had previously been an engineering student, said she chose engineering because it was safe.

“It’s about fi nding what you want to do and not be-ing afraid to take a risk,” said Lemon. “When you gradu-ate as a scientist, you learn to think as a scientist, but you may not have a specifi c career lined up.”

Lemon said she plans to graduate in 2012 and is ex-ploring different career paths. She said she is interested in astronomy and high-energy physics. However, she has not decided which fi eld she will specialize in yet.

She plans on further aca-

demic study and wants to get a doctorate’s degree.

Zajac also wants to contin-ue her education as a gradu-ate student in astronomy and has applied to Cornell, John Hopkins, UC Irvine, UC San Diego and UCLA.

Earlier this year, she at-tended the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle and won the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for her poster, which was based on the research she started during her stay at the University of Arizona.

“It was really really inspir-ing,” said Zajac. “You go to talks, learn about the cutting-edge research being done. It was just really cool to see what is out there, what the current questions are.”

Students who are inter-ested in the program and wish to apply for the program can go to www.csupomona.edu/~astronomy/campare.

Cal Poly Pomona ad-ministration, faculty and students joined family and friends in honoring two stu-dents who had recently died.

The students, Shayler Hallis and Johnson Giang, were seniors who were an-ticipating fi nishing their de-grees this year.

Although Hallis and Giang were unable to com-plete their degrees, they were instead honored with certifi cates.

“Both of these students were set to graduate this June, so I asked President Ortiz and their dean to sign certifi cates for them to hon-or the work [the] students had completed at Cal Poly Pomona,” said Rebecca

Gutierrez Keeton, associate vice president of Student Affairs and dean of Students in an e-mail.

The families of Giang and Hallis were each given tas-sels and certifi cates inside offi cial CPP diploma covers. The psychology department chair and faculty presented Hallis’ family with the cer-tifi cate and tassel.

In honor of Giang and Hallis, web pages have been created as tributes to cel-ebrate their lives.

Hallis, 24, of Corona, is being honored online through the Thomas Miller Mortuary website. People who knew Hallis wrote in the comments section of memories they had of good times together, Hallis’ kind-ness and his passion for helping animals.

To honor Hallis, contribu-tions can be made to Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center or to the Animal and Bird Hospital in Corona, where Hallis worked.

Hallis was a psychology student and died on Jan. 11. His service was held on Sat-urday.

Giang was a mechani-cal engineering student and died on Jan. 15 as a result of a traffi c collision. His ser-vice was held last Monday.

Hallis came from a family of four brothers and one sis-ter, raised by parents Donald and Tamara, according to the page dedicated to him on Thomas Miller Mortuary’s website.

“[Hallis’] favorite times were spent with family and friends and hiking in the hills with his beloved dog

Saul,” the website states.A Facebook page titled “In

Loving Memory of Johnson Giang” was put up about a week ago. The page gives the time and place of the viewing and funeral, stating that “Anyone is welcome to join us at any event.”

Friends and family have left comments, photos and videos expressing how much they will miss Giang and how he had touched each of their lives.

Giang’s family is grateful for the support of the Cal Poly Pomona community in the face of its hardship.

“Johnson was a quiet and gentle soul that loved his family and friends,” said Eddie Tiet, Giang’s uncle. “Everyone loved his smile and how wonderful his hugs were. He will be missed

by all. The Giang Family would like to thank the Cal Poly Mechanical Engineer-ing Department and the stu-dents for their support and love during this diffi cult time.”

Ron Fremont, associate vice president for university relations, expressed his con-dolences to the families and friends of Hallis and Giang on behalf of the university.

“Despite the size of our campus, Cal Poly Pomona has always been a close-knit community,” said Fremont in an e-mail. “The loss of these two students is incred-ibly sad, and our thoughts and prayers go out to Shay-ler and Johnson’s family and friends.”

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This Week:This Week:Thursday, Feb. 3 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Lunar New Year Cal Poly Pomona’s Asian Pacifi c Islander Student Center presents, Lunar New Year 2011: Year of the Rabbit. Performances by Touzan Taiko, the Nikkei Student Union, the Vietnamese Student Association, Barkada Band and UC Irvine’s Southern Young Tigers Lion Dance. There will be food sold and free prizes at University Park.

Thursday, Feb. 3Noon to 2 p.m.Barry Green WorkshopThe Music Department presents “Bringing Music to Life.” This workshop is designed to bring imagination and spirit to music through the three master skills: breath, pulse and movement. The workshop is in the Music Recital Hall.Thursday, Feb. 33 p.m. to 7 p.m. Music Discussion PanelThe music department will host a panel discussion on “Music and Image: Is music

losing the battle?” in the Music Recital Hall. The panel will feature Roger Hickman, a musicology, music history and humanities professor; Mike Viola, a singer, songwriter and music architect of the Candy Butchers; Roger Neill, a music composer for more than 20 fi lms; and Beth Custer, a composer, performer and owner of BC Records.Thursday, Feb. 32 p.m.Cal Poly Pomona Baseball at Cal State Dominguez Hills

The 2011 Bronco baseball season begins.Thursday, Feb. 3Noon to 1 p.m.Plagiarism WorkshopThe University Library and Judicial Affairs present a workshop by Susan Ashe, director of Judicial Affairs, on plagiarism.Friday, Feb. 48 p.m.Beth Custer Ensemble As part of the Music Department’s Winter 2011 Creative and Scholarly Series, The Beth Custer Ensemble performs Custer’s

award winning score to the Soviet-era Georgian silent fi lm “My Grandmother.” Admission is free.Saturday, Feb. 56 p.m.Cradle of Filth concertExtreme metal band Cradle of Filth will be playing the Pomona Fox Theater with Nachtmystium, Turisas and Daniel Lioneye. Saturday, Feb. 53 p.m.Bronco Student Life WeekendASI Beat will present a tailgate at the Bronco Commons as the men’s

and women’s basketball teams play against CSU Dominguez Hills. There will be performances by Touzan Taiko drummers, Ballet Folklorico and national anthem singers Hae Kang and Justin Page. Food and activities will also be present at the event.

If you have an event that you would like to include in next week’s issue, please send an e-mail to news@thepolypost.com.

Students honored with posthumous certificatesERIN O’BRIEN

Correspondent

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CAMPARE: Research opportunities for studentsContinued from page 2

Alexander Rudolph, physics professor and founder and di-rector of CAMPARE, works toward improving opportuni-ties for minorities and women in astronomy.

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who aren’t aware – yes, ev-eryone can hear the grum-bling whispers and yes, everyone is waiting for the culprits to shut up.

It’s kind of like white noise, but a lot more irritat-ing because there isn’t a re-mote control or volume dial to mute out the irritating dis-sonance.

Is what they are saying re-ally so important they must distract an entire classroom? Can’t they take it outside?

Come on.Equally frustrating is

when those who chat during class become the fi rst to ask questions about what’s go-ing on, what is due and when something needs to be turned in.

Maybe if those students kept the thing that likes to make words shut for an hour, the thoughts wouldn’t escape so quickly – heck, maybe they could even learn some-thing.

Of course, it’s not just those who talk during class who are to blame.

Those who allow it to con-tinue are equally at fault – professors included.

Sure, it’s an uncomfort-able situation to have to call out a classroom peer and ask them to pipe down, but it’s college, folks.

If there was ever a time to act civil and tell someone when his or her actions are distracting, it’s now.

Maybe it’s OK for high school kids to whisper and pass notes, but at this stage in the educational game, it can be extremely immature.

After all, those who get ticked off at classroom chat-terboxes are usually the ones trying to gain something from the education they are paying for.

UNFILTERED: Silence is goldenContinued from page 3

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Democratic nominee against re-publican candidate George H.W. Bush.

After losing the election, Duka-kis fi nished his term as governor, and went on to become a profes-sor of political science at North-eastern University in Boston.

Dukakis is also a visiting pro-fessor in the Department of Pub-lic Policy at the School of Public Affairs at UCLA.

Dukakis has a passion for pub-lic service and has shown his sup-port for public transportation and

universal healthcare.Carol Richardson,

dean of C.L.A.S.S., said Dukakis has been an active mem-ber of the public ser-vice realm for a very long time and he will have some insight to share.

“He’s been around for a while, and he should have some interesting anecdotal sto-ries that will enrich [attendees] views, as well as give a window

to his outlook,” said Richardson.

While not all ca-reers in the public ser-vice realm require de-grees, many more may require some form of education.

With the job market down, students hope Dukakis’ speech may

help them open doors and think more about future careers they could get into.

“I think it sounds good,” said

Miriam Gomez, a second-year biology student. “It helps in of-fering job opportunities for oth-er people. It brings other ideas, especially with being here at school, you don’t always think outside the box.”

Although many students may not think of public service as a career choice, many will serve the public in their own way.

“Life is about service, and there are different ways to serve,” said Richardson. “We are social animals and we like to serve peo-

ple.”Richardson also said that with

students, especially undergradu-ates, many of them may change their minds a couple of times be-fore getting into what they really want to do and that many people look into living for a bigger cause than their bank account.

“I think it’s cool that Cal Poly [Pomona] got somebody that has a legit political background,” said Naccara.

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DUKAKIS

going to come out to train them, who is going to do the fi rst round of recruiting, and then after all of that is set up, then they can start recruit-ing,” said Gutierrez Keeton.

While the results of the investigation made it clear that the fraternity had been

involved in hazing, Gutier-rez Keeton said there were attempts within the leader-ship of the organization to put an end to hazing.

“They were actually found responsible for acts of hazing over years,” said Gutierrez Keeton. “And the

interesting thing is that this group of leaders had actu-ally recognized it and they were actually trying to stop some of those patterns that had started, but by then … You can’t do it over night.”

Greek Council President Sergio Nava said the punish-

ment seemed standard, giv-en what happened to Sigma Phi Epsilon – a fraternity that was suspended in 2009 after a pledge was uninten-tional burned during a haz-ing ritual.

“It seems like a fair pro-cess because it will give

them time if they come back to campus to have other peo-ple out and start with a new chapter,” said Nava.

Nava said the ordeal has affected the Greek Council, describing the situation as an unfortunate one that does not refl ect the entire Greek

community, “It has made us more

aware of being more cau-tious and taking more pre-cautions on how we oper-ate,” said Nava.

said Mesa Sherrif, a fourth-year urban and regional planning student. “He gives people a sense of it being a legitimate university as op-posed to an extension of a city college.”

Anthony Urbina, a fourth-year urban and regional planning student, said he has been trying to take a picture with Billy Bronco for the past two years.

Kusayanagi said Billy Bronco is not at all sport-ing events because it gets too hot inside the costume. Another reason is there is one costume that is shared through fi ve divisions of the school.

The costume is used for community outreach to help promote activities such as the commercial he had worked on.

“[Billy] is an icon that ev-eryone identifi es with,” Ku-sayanagi said. “When you watch him walk by, people are always yelling out to him. If you watch him at the games there’s big personal-ity behind it. It’s amazing to see how many students run up to Billy and want their photo taken with him and the smiles he can bring to their faces.”

Kusayanagi said she gets

at least fi ve requests per week from clubs and or-ganizations to have Billy Bronco at their events. Students can request Billy Bronco well in advance for an event by calling (909) 869 – 5448.

Students can look up Bil-ly Bronco and follow him on Facebook and Twitter and watch him on YouTube.

BILLY: Campus mascot also a campus iconContinued from page 3

Billy Bronco stretches with senior forward Donnelle Booker at Kellogg Gym during a men’s basketball practice.

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It’s amazing to see how many students run up to Billy and want their photo taken with him.

- Lisa KusayanagiCoordinator of marketing promotions and

games managementagement

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For third-year Computer Science student, John Bac-zkowski, music is such a vital part of the workout en-vironment that without it, his workouts are not as enjoyable – uncomfortable even.

But what kind of music are these exercisers, like Bacz-kowski, listening to? What sounds are fueling their rou-tines?

According to a RunHun-dred.com poll, Flo Rida’s

“Club Can’t Handle Me” was the best workout song of 2010. The Starsmith re-mix of Lady GaGa’s “Bad Romance” and Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R” placed second and third in the online poll.

RunHundred.com is the brainchild of disk jockey and writer Chris Lawhorn who uses songs’ tempos – the speed of the song – to create the workout playlists avail-able on his website.

The playlists are also or-ganized by genre and date of release.

“[The playlists are] a good way to make sure that you’re moving at the pace that you wanted without having to use a pedometer or check your watch all the time or buy a GPS App,” said Lawhorn.

New songs are posted dai-ly, and visitors can preview and vote on whether or not

they would work out to them. At the end of the year, the

votes are counted to deter-mine what the top 10 workout songs of the year. The other songs on the top 10 list are:

4.“After The Love” by R.I.O.

5. “Shut It Down” by Pit-bull & Akon.

6. “Break Your Heart” by Taio Cruz & Ludacris.

7. “Rock That Body” by Black Eyed Peas.

8. “We No Speak Ameri-cano” by Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup.

9. “Major Tom” by Shiny Toy Guns.

10. “Stereo Love” by Ed-ward Maya & Vika Jigulina.

Though the poll consisted of 75,000 votes submitted over the course of a year, some people disagreed with the list because they didn’t

Online poll picks best workout songs of 2010 – what are students listening to when they workout?

Students take the lead

A painter paints his or her feelings onto a canvas.

A sculptor carves a moment into three dimensions.

But a dancer leaps, skips and spins to tell a story without words.

Cal Poly Pomona students showed off their dancing abilities last Thurs-day as part of CPP’s Institute of New Dance and Cultures’ Student/Faculty Dance Concert.

The concert allowed students from the dance department to put on a dance production to show off their movement technique, artistic abili-ties and choreography.

Gayle Fekete, professor and direc-tor of the show, explained the “Stu-dent Faculty” portion of the show’s title.

In order for a student to grow in his or her work, he or she must take

the role of a leader and choreograph a dance piece.

“We like to mentor, and we like to do concerts,” said Fekete. “Some-times we do a concert that’s just spe-cifi cally faculty work or guest work so when you’re mixing it up in terms of the choreography some of the pieces are student pieces and some are faculty pieces.”

Fekete has been by her students’

side since fall 2010. That is when each student had to audition to be in Dance 294L class. The choreogra-pher’s class is Dance 430.

One piece titled “Love…Fear…and Faith…” choreographed by Christopher Dela Cruz, a third-year communication student, told the story of losing a loved one to death and eventually fi nding him or her in heaven.

Pairs of dancers expressed their crushed dreams as they separated from their loved ones only to keep themselves alone and searching. By the end of the piece, all dancers were dressed in white, signifying heaven and surrounded one dancer who wore red, signifying a rose, which meant they each found his or her love.

“Ever since I was in fi fth grade

I’ve [experienced] so many deaths,” said Dela Cruz. “Those emotions within me built up over the years and I’ve been inspired to do this dance of having that last moment with your loved one and not being able to do anything about it.”

First-year Sociology student, Marysol Mendoza, said she liked how Dela Cruz’s piece was present-ed with many couples searching for love. It showed that everyone has a personal way of fi nding and losing love.

The production included many different genres of music in order to express the various emotions being portrayed on stage.

The fi rst half of the show con-sisted of slow and fast paced music such as “Star Chasing” by Bucketh-ead, “Firefl ies (Dubster Remix)” by E. Tubbs and Trillbass and “Royal Wedding” by Kronos Quartet.

The second half of the show was more serious. The music sounded as if it would be in a horror fi lm. The dancers moved as if they were lost in a bad dream, searching for a way to get out.

The dance “Dormant” expressed feelings of regret. One dancer was pushed and pulled by seven other dancers and portrayed shame and

SHIAN SAMUEL

Staff Writer

Cal Poly Pomona students dance in the ‘Lettin’ It Out’ segment of the performance during the Student/Faculty Dance Concert last Thrusday.Jonny Tai / The Poly Post

Students perform during the ‘Love . . . Fear . . . and Faith . . .’ segment of the Student/Fac-ulty Dance Concert.

Jonny Tai / The Poly Post

Concert gives students the opportunity to express themselves through student and faculty-choreographed dance

Let’s get physical to workout songs

(Left) Ashley Jenkins, a fourth-year communication student and Renee Rob-erts, a fourth-year apparel merchandising and marketing student both enjoy Pandora Internet Radio when working out.

Katie O’Laughlin / The Poly Post

KIRK HEMANS

Correspondent

See DANCE/Pg. 10

See FITNESS/Pg. 9

For Tara Sethia, a his-tory professor at Cal Poly Pomona, the Sanskrit word “ahimsa” has not only been her mantra but also an in-spiration for establishing the Ahimsa Center on campus.

Ahimsa translates into “do no harm.”

“I have been teaching his-tory for 23 years at the col-lege level, and I have been concerned,” said Sethia. “Looking at textbooks that college students read, history is almost always explained by means of violence, but there has been a rich history about change that has been brought by peaceful means that is erased from our text-books. The center was es-tablished on campus to bring back lost knowledge.”

The Ahimsa Center, estab-lished in 2004, is unique to Cal Poly Pomona. Located in Building 1, it is the only Ahimsa Center in the na-tion; it aims to educate and advocate for nonviolence,

compassion and forgiveness. Though the Ahimsa Center is located at CPP, its scope extends to the community at large.

“Ahimsa Center’s purpose goes beyond the campus,” said Sethia. “It has three ma-

jor areas of focus. First and foremost is college educa-tion.”

In addition to the center, Sethia has established a mi-nor in nonviolence studies in the College of Letters, Arts and Science department, which includes seven cours-es from various disciplines: history, philosophy and eth-nic and women’s studies courses.

“Given that there is so much violence going on in college and school campus-es, it is imperative on [those] who teach here to fi nd ways to integrate study of nonvio-lence into the curriculum,” said Sethia. “[Students in the nonviolence studies mi-nor] learn about nonviolence and the exemplars of non-

violence, such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. that are relevant for us today.”

In light of recent events, including shootings in Tuc-son, Gardena High School and Pomona, Sethia may be right.

The exemplars like Martin Luther King Jr., 1960s civil rights activist, and Mohandas Gandhi, a nonviolent politi-cal leader of India, have also inspired Sethia in becoming an advocate for nonviolence.

“I am largely inspired by Gandhi,” said Sethia. “Vio-lence occurs when all com-munication has stopped; keeping the lines of com-munication open requires an enormous strength, self-con-trol and self discipline.”

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The inside is what countsEVAN PERKINSOpinions Editor

Almost Famous

Dressed in a black jacket, blue jeans and Adidas shoes, Kevin Lien looks just like any other Cal Poly Pomona student as he nonchalantly strolls through the mall.

Out of nowhere, he is stopped by a group of Asian high school girls. They ask him if he really is Kevin Lien.

Yes, he is.“I get stopped when there is a large

amount of people in my demograph-ic on YouTube,” said Lien. “When I go to a mall from 4 to 9, it could happen. Whenever I’m in Rowland Heights or Hacienda Heights, it could happen. When I’m in Irvine, it always happens.”

With more than 48,000 subscrib-ers on YouTube and 13,000 “likes” on Facebook, Lien has been steadily rising in popularity and fame.

Lien, known for producing full studio tracks from scratch by him-self, covers songs such as Taeyang’s “Wedding Dress” and Katy Perry’s “Firework.”

“Every once in a while, when I was sick of school, I would just re-cord songs in my dorm room,” said Lien, a fourth-year chemical engi-neering student. “That’s pretty much where I am now, except I don’t live in the dorms anymore.”

Lien was also the winner of a heated Topblip.com competition last week, where he won $5,000 after his opponent pulled out last minute.

He plans to buy more equipment with his winnings.

“Not that many people know about my equipment, but I have the cheapest equipment known to man,” said Lien. “I’ve owned the same mi-crophone and microphone interface since 2006. I bought both of those combined for less than $300. So I can fi nally upgrade my equipment

and make some better quality music, faster, for everybody.”

Lien said it takes from 100 to 150 hours to create and produce a full studio track.

“All the mixing, mastering, pro-ducing, arranging – it’s all me,” said Lien. “That’s the main reason it takes so long.”

His top priority is school when it is in session, but his weekends are reserved for making music.

“I don’t look at music as being a practical, steady career,” said Lien. “It’s something that I love to do, and

I’m blessed to be making some sort of income off it, but chemical en-gineering is what I want to do as a career.”

Lien said he started singing as soon as he could talk, but his parents forced him into playing piano when he was six years old.

He took private piano lessons until he entered high school. He plays the violin, cello and bass.

“I picked up other instruments on the way because I was sick of play-ing the same instruments over and over again, and my parents would

force me to play these instruments,” said Lien. “I kept trying more and more until I got to the point where I realized I was kind of profi cient in all the instruments I actually tried to get good at. I used that to my advan-tage and started producing music as opposed to just listening to it.”

Lien said that his mainstream in-fl uences are Michael Jackson, Brian McKnight and Ne-Yo. He describes his own voice as pop rock but said the tracks he releases on YouTube can vary.

His voice is strong but versatile, easily adapting to tracks such as Be-yonce’s “Halo” and a soft, acoustic version of Jason Derulo’s “In My Head.”

“I think his voice sounds like pop rock and blues,” said Michael Dehe-sa, a third-year chemical engineering student.

Lien’s most well known track is his English cover of the Korean song “Wedding Dress” in June 2009, which garnered more than 800,000 views on YouTube.

Due to the track’s popularity, Lien admits most of his fans are Asian. Lien said 75 percent of his fans are 13 to 17-year-old Asian girls from Southern California.

Lien’s friends say he has not let his newfound popularity go to his head.

“He’s always busy and I don’t see him as often,” said Largoza. “But he’s still the same guy.”

Lien said his success would not have been possible without the sup-port of his fans.

“To be honest, it’s my close friends who supported me from the beginning,” said Lien. “It’s my fam-ily for being supportive of me and they helped me spread the word but most of all, the people [who] choose to listen to me. And they choose to spread the love to their friends. It’s just the average YouTube viewer that takes the time to show love. It’s 100 percent the viewers.

“I’m going to make music either way. Even if people didn’t like it, I’ll still be making music the way I am now.”

Kevin Lien has more than 48,000 subscribers on YouTube and 13,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook.

Daniel Nguyen / Th e Poly Post

KATHY NGUYENStaff Writer

Kevin Lien, a fourth-year chemical engineering student, has caused a stir on YouTube with his musical talent and videos

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People can be superfi cial. Few will openly admit it, but many are guilty of such opti-cal indulgences. Sure, even I have been caught with my eyes excessively lingering on sexy Italian curves – cars, I’m talking about cars – but isn’t it really what’s on the inside that counts?

It’s easy to get lost in the divine automotive creatures penned by Pininfarina and the rest of the great design fi rms, but truth be told: Most people spend more time on the inside of their cars than drooling over the exteriors.

According to TheAuto-Channel.com, the average American spends 233 hours in his or her car each year. With so much time spent gluteus maximus planted fi rmly in the driver’s seat, quality interiors should logi-cally take precedence over shiny paint and artistically sculpted body lines.

There really aren’t many bragging rights associated with having a nice interior. You won’t catch a die-hard gearhead saying, “Check out all these cup holders,” or “Man, this seat is comfy.”

Even without the public approval of a fl ashy outside, a well-designed interior will generate a heightened love of any given car.

Interiors have always been the Achilles’ heel of the American auto industry. Until recently, cheap plastic, poor panel fi tment and lousy ergonomics have been the norm in domestic interiors.

The Chrysler Group’s new CEO/savior – it’s a tough job – Sergio Marchionne seems to recognize the importance of a quality interior. Mar-chionne allegedly sat in each of Chrysler’s vehicles after the 2010 Chrysler Fiat merg-er and was appalled at what he saw.

In order to rectify the problem, Marchionne allo-

Ahimsa Center teaches nonviolenceInterdisciplinary study focuses on nonaggression and how it begins with the individual

FAHREEN DAYALA

Staff Writer

It’s change that actually matters and stays.

- Jolene Kladouris graduate student

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Fekete can’t stop moving

Gayle Fekete, professor of dance and director of Cal Poly Pomona’s Institute of New Dance and Cultures, knows how to make a memorable fi rst impression.

Sitting barefoot and cross-legged on the fl oor of her studio, Fekete wore big neon blue ear-rings and multi-colored rings, gesturing broadly with her arms as she spoke.

She has been teaching dance at Cal Poly Pomona for almost 25 years.

“It doesn’t even occur to me it’s been 25 years because in dance, there’s always new ideas and new people,” said Fekete.

Not all of those people fi t neat-ly into the stereotypical image of a dancer.

Fekete has taught students from nearly every major offered at Cal Poly Pomona.

“We’ve got engineers, we’ve got women’s studies, communi-cation, fashion apparel; we’ve got two guys right now that are bio-tech,” said Fekete. “They give you ideas; they make you think a little bit different, so you’re not always thinking like a dancer.”

Fekete fi rst started dancing in high school, where she trained in an accelerated program with older students.

Dance appealed to her because of the human aspect: a way to build a community and to fi nd

one’s self. “It’s self-expression,” said

Fekete. “It’s your journey.”Instead of following the tra-

ditional route from high school straight to college, she joined a dance group in Toronto and did exactly that.

After dancing with groups and doing solo freelancing, she decid-ed to go back to school and get her degree at UCLA.

As a professor, she continues to

guide students through their own journey.

Many students fi nd that a class with Fekete becomes less about physical dance movements and more about self-discovery.

“She helps us fi nd ourselves by letting us play within the dance space,” said Kelsey Tiftick, a fi rst-year food and nutrition stu-dent who took Fekete’s Modern Dance III - IV class. “She’s al-ways keeping us self-aware and

thinking about what we’ve done in class. You’re continually learn-ing new things about dance and about yourself.”

Modern dance is a dancing style born in the early 1900’s that puts more emphasis on emotion and a connection with the music than structured, technical steps.

Fekete herself has been changed by a career in dance be-cause it requires constant re-eval-uation and creativity.

“It’s never over,” she said. “I’m always looking for new ideas. Sometimes, I’m already work-ing on a project, and I don’t even know where I’m going with it.”

The method clearly works for her.

Fekete has worked with exten-sive and international groups, in-cluding the Urban Bush Women, a non-profi t dance company in New York, Troika Ranch Dance Theatre, a dance group that brings together aspects of theater and dance in Germany, and the Janti-Bi Dance Company in Africa.

Fekete choreographs, consults and performs with the companies.

More recently, she has been concentrating on her Students and Faculty show, which hap-pened last Thursday.

The show took about a year to coordinate, starting early in the spring and not stopping until fall.

“The spring festival really gets people excited,” said Fekete. “Then fall is the rallying point for the event when we start plotting choreography”.

Fekete also works with other groups at Cal Poly Pomona, such as the Community Service-Learn-ing Center, the Study Abroad pro-gram and various art clubs and organizations.

Even with all of these campus connections, Fekete feels the dance program is sometimes in danger of being forgotten.

“We have this fantastic facility, but we’re kind of off to the side,” said Fekete. “We’re here.”

Fekete believes it is crucial the program gets the attention it de-serves.

“The arts are really important,” Fekete said. “It doesn’t matter if you want to be an artist or not. I think as adults we forget about being playful, being creative.”

Fekete’s schedule may be packed, but at the end of the day, she wouldn’t change anything.

“To me, it’s hard work, but it doesn’t seem like work.” Fekete said. “I feel so lucky that I get to wake up every day and come here.”

ABIGAIL INMAN

Correspondent

As both a professor and the director of CPP’s Institute of New Dance and Culture, Gayle Fekete is always on the move – fi guratively and literally

Gayle Fekete has been a dance instructor at Cal Poly Pomo-na for 25 years and loves the university’s diversity.

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She helps us find ourselves by letting us play within the dance space.

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Club encourages students to ‘bust’ out of their bubbles

Bust Out of the Bubble has become one of Cal Poly Po-mona’s fastest growing orga-nizations.

The club promotes aware-ness of social and environ-mental issues through dis-cussions and screenings of socially-conscious indepen-dent fi lms, such as award-winning documentaries like “Food, Inc.” and “Fuel.”

B.O.B. constantly aims to break barriers and social stereotypes to create a more peaceful society and lives up to its name of having students “busting” out of their bubble.

“Whenever I learned about a new issue, I felt as if I had burst out of a bubble and [could] see the world in a less biased and sheltered way,” said Josephine Man-Ying Ho a gender, ethnic and mul-ticultural studies alumnus from Cal Poly Pomona and founder and former president

of the club. “I hoped that the club could do the same for its members, so I decided to use this bubble metaphor as its name.”

The club chose to use the word “bust” instead of “burst” because busting out of a bubble requires someone to struggle and break out of something.

“Bursting out of a bubble sounds too easy, and we all know that exposing yourself to inconvenient truths is not an easy act,” said Ho.

B.O.B. has quickly evolved into a club that in-cludes students with various majors from different col-leges and schools on campus.

“We have over 250 [peo-ple] on our e-mail list, and on average, we get at least 40 to 50 people to show up to our monthly screenings,” said Richard Delarosa, a fourth-year architecture student and president of the club.

The club hopes to attract more commuter students and get them involved in the B.O.B. community as well.

“Every quarter we have a retreat in Big Bear, and that’s really how we get a lot more new members,” says Tiffany Rivera, a third-year civil en-gineering student and vice president of the club. “People hear that they get to spend a

weekend in Big Bear for $25 – we end up getting a lot of people who never met any of us before, and we become good friends.”

Founded on April 20, 2009, B.O.B. is a club open to everyone on campus.

It doesn’t just focus on one topic, major, race or creed.

This allows for various points of view to be included; it is hoped that this will facili-tate in the expansion of mem-bers’ way of thinking.

Documentaries shown by the club cover environmen-tal, political, spiritual and academic issues as well as other topics.

One such fi lm the club re-cently had a screening of was the “Yes Men,” a “comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on televi-sion and at business confer-ences around the world.”

“[The club is] about be-coming more aware and not just paying attention to what you see on MTV and your own life because there is so much more to learn,” said Rivera.

However, the club feels that it is not trying to impose certain agendas or view-

points. “Our club takes no for-

mal position on anything we screen,” said Delarosa. “The discussions that we hold af-terwards lets people share their own views without hav-ing anyone convince them of something one way or the other.”

B.O.B.’s next fi lm screen-ing will take place Feb. 23 in BSC’s Centaurus room 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The club will be showing the award-winning fi lm “Se-vere Clear.” It is based on the memoir of marine, 1st Lieu-

tenant Mike Scotti. The fi lm includes video

footage shot by him and oth-er members of his Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

B.O.B. attracts students who would like to educate themselves on important is-sues, volunteer in the com-munity, make new friends and challenge themselves to open their minds even more.

The club has a general meeting on the fi rst Tuesday of every month in Building 5, room 123 during U-hour.

B.O.B. is also willing to

help any other clubs and indi-viduals with any events they want to promote on campus.

It promotes community involvement and hands-on learning about community issues.

B.O.B. continues to fol-low its mission statement of “building a community of socially and environmentally conscious individuals,” hop-ing that other people on cam-pus will fi nd out about it and want to do the same.

Bust Out of the Bubble President Richard Delarosa stands at the club’s booth, inviting new sign ups at the winter club fair Jan. 13.

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Cal Poly Pomona club Bust out of the Bubble promotes awareness through discussions and fi lm screenings

JASMINE LOWE

Correspondent

lifestyle@thepolypost.comReach Jasmine Lowe at:

Jolene Kladouris, a history graduate student at Cal Poly Pomona, was one of Sethia’s fi rst graduates in the nonvio-lent studies minor.

“The exemplars attracted me most because they got so much accomplished by us-ing no violence at all,” said Kladouris. “It’s change that actually matters and stays.”

The second area the Ahim-sa Center focuses on is edu-cating teachers about non-violent studies.

“The Ahimsa Center of-fers a two-week summer fel-lowship program every two years, which is open to K-12 educators all over the United States,” said Sethia.

Educating the public at large is the third area of fo-cus. Sethia said the Ahimsa Center does this by orga-nizing events, seminars and conferences. Such a confer-ence was held in November called Ahimsa and Sustain-ability, where the relation-

ship between nonviolence and sustainability of life is discussed.

The Ahimsa club, which is a branch of the center, was created as another means to spread nonviolence aware-ness. Jennifer Alvarez, a sixth-year kinesiology stu-dent is the president of the club.

“I am very passionate about nonviolence,” said Al-varez. “I have always wanted to help people, but I never

knew how but the exemplars have inspired me.”

Steve McCauley, chair of the physics department has been involved in the Ahimsa Center for fi ve years.

“For myself and the fac-ulty involved with this [cen-ter], all of us feel better about being involved in positive changes,” said McCauley. “Believing that change is possible, believing in your-self is very important.”

In the future, Sethia would

like to see more student participation in the Ahimsa Center.

“I’d like our students to get more involved and know more about Ahimsa Center,” said Sethia. “When some-one has acted really nasty to you, if you could be kind to that person, you have trans-formed that person. And that’s what it’s all about.”

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like the artist or they didn’t like the song.

“Ke$ha’s out,” said Cal Poly Pomona Baseball Pitch-ing Coach, Bret Lachemann. “Lady Gaga’s [has to] go too.”

Coach Lachemann said Metallica, Far East Move-ment and Kanye West are more his style of music to work out to.

Azusa Pacifi c University sophomore football player Cody Allen also said the songs on the list were not his style.

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track and fi eld athlete Mia Moreno said she prefers listening to Linkin Park’s “Points of Authority” while running because its more ag-gressive style helps her run faster and harder during her workouts.

Some people had issues with the poll because the songs on the list were not “hard” enough to strength train to.

Michael Medina, a fi rst-year computer engineering student, felt the list was too “soft.”

“I like to go a little harder,”

said Medina. “[My workout] is about strength. So it’s tak-ing all that power you get from the music and throwing it in there.”

The list is composed of hip-hop, pop and techno styles of music – not “hard” music at all.

Abbis Ismail, a third-year civil engineering student, said that rock-n-roll and heavy metal are his favorite types of music to listen to while he’s working out.

“The softer stuff, like hip-hop music, doesn’t get you ready,” said Ismail. “It doesn’t get your blood pump-ing. It doesn’t get you [ready]

for a hard workout.”Even though Ismail didn’t

agree with “Bad Romance” and “Break Your Heart” mak-ing the list, he did agree with “Major Tom” and “We No Speak Americano,” which he said could get his blood pumping for a workout.

Both Coach Lachemann and CPP Baseball junior catcher Jenzen Torres said this list would probably work well for a runner’s workout, but not so much for the base-ball, basketball and football athletes who may need harder stuff to work out to.

Allen agreed.“I like to listen to Five Fin-

ger Death Punch,” said Allen. “I wouldn’t listen to anything on that [list] if I was lifting weights.”

Lawhorn said that he is working on creating a rock-based workout album.

“It was just a matter of trying to fi nd out what it is people are looking for that doesn’t already exist and then just make it for them,” said Lawhorn.

Lawhorn listens to about 300 new singles every month and tries to feature the best songs on his website.

FITNESS: Poll reveals favorite workout songsContinued from page 6

cated an extra $107 per each car’s interior.

While $100 may not seem like a groundbreaking sum of money or enough to even change anything, consider this: The difference in cost between the interior of a Chevrolet Corvette and a Porsche 911 is $45. So in the world of automotive facts and fi gures, $107 is a huge difference!

Not only should these in-teriors look and feel better, they should last.

That means no more cracking dashboards, peeling trim paint or buttons so faded they no longer say their func-tions. On top of those annoy-ing interior ailments, there is still my personal favorite: chrome trim with an identity crisis. This is the stuff that peels off just enough to act like a razor blade to the fi rst poor soul to grab the door handle – ask me how I know.

While interiors are on their way up in terms of impor-tance and necessity, so are convenience items, such as navigation systems. While a compass is perfectly ad-equate for me, many drivers will rejoice at an affordable navigation system in entry-level and mid-level cars.

With interiors fi nally on par with their exteriors, American cars might just be moving up in the world.

While a quality interior will never draw the same at-tention as an exotic exterior, it’s bound to provide any ve-hicle owner with a better and more fulfi lling experience with his or her car.

INTE-RIOR: SuperficialContinued from page 7

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Nikkei students celebrate (Right) Third-year Microbiology student Stephanie Horiuchi teaches participants the art of folding origami cranes during the beginning of the Nikkei Student Union Culture Night, which was held last Friday. (Below) Third-year Kinesiology student Trevor Okata performs on the Taiko drums during the Nikkei Student Union Culture Night performance, which was held at Ursa Major of the Bronco Student Center. NSU is a Cal Poly Pomona Japanese-American cultural club that is part of the Asian and Pacifi c Islander Student Center on campus.

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self-hate, as if she had al-lowed it all to happen.

Props, lighting and ef-fects were used throughout the production to help the audience have a full-the-ater emotional experience.

Fog machines and colored strobe lights were used to cap-ture the quick movements of the dancers and to give the au-dience an eerie feeling.

Chairs, pillars and shopping carts were used to show pos-sible locations.

The beginning stages of the partner piece, “Edith and Marcus,” began without a story.

The music was given to the two dancers months ago, and dance movements were cre-

ated according to the way the song sounded.

After the piece was fi nished it resembled a romantic story.

“It was not really about feelings, it was more about following the music,” said Edith Narez, a fourth-year Spanish student who danced in the partner piece. “It wasn’t supposed to be a romantic piece, but at the end, it ended up having that feeling.”

Many of the dancers have a minor in dance and plan to continue dancing after they graduate from Cal Poly Po-mona.

Narez started dancing four years ago and hasn’t been able to stop.

She plans to keep dance in

her life.Dela Cruz plans to continue

his education with a master ’s degree in business at New York University . He hopes to travel and perform with a dance company.

For Manny Macias, a third-year kinesiology student who also performed in the show , dancing is a way to connect not only with himself but with the audience.

“The best thing about danc-ing is performing and being vulnerable in front of hun-dreds of people,” said Macias. “It’s about gazing into the audience and making a state-ment.”

DANCE: Performance gives CPP students chance to shineContinued from page 6

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Various dance performances from the Student/Faculty Dance Concert show-cased students’ talents last Thursday.

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The well-known liberal talk show host for MSNBC News, Keith Olbermann, has offi cially left his show “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” and will no longer be working at MS-NBC.

The true reason for his departure is unknown and up-in-the-air.

However, there are ru-mors that his political do-nations, which were in vio-lation of his contract with MSNBC, may have been contributing factors.

Regardless of why the show came to an end, it’s a good thing Olbermann has fi nally left the building.

Olbermann’s crude sense of humor and lack of sensi-tivity and professionalism rubbed too many people the wrong way.

Much of his commentary had to do with the Iraq War and his apparent attitude of disagreement.

However, the times when he chose to comment on the

war were never “good” or “appropriate” times.

Even though many peo-ple were against the Iraq War, most would agree the soldiers who were overseas at the time needed support.

Rather than spending time talking about impor-tant topics, he would spend a lot of the time ragging on George W. Bush’s execu-tive decisions and how he disagreed with almost ev-erything he was doing.

He seemed to have for-gotten that it isn’t about his opinion, or anyone’s opinion, really. The fact was that the War on Terror was happening, even as he spoke.

Instead of throwing around insults, he could’ve been more sensitive to the fact that people had fam-ily in Iraq, sacrifi cing their lives so we can live in peace in the United States.

Sure, he had fans – and just like any other talk show host or journalist, most people either loved him or hated him.

The reasons for Olber-

mann’s departure were not immediately clear, though he has had public diffi cul-ties with the network in the past.

One of the most sig-nifi cant occurrences that caused so much disagree-ment was about donations he made to Democratic candidates, which was and is in violation of network policy. This got him sus-pended from his show in November.

“MSNBC and Keith Ol-bermann have ended our contract,” NBC Universal said in a statement Friday.

“The last broadcast of ‘Countdown’ will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success and we wish him well in his fu-ture endeavors.”

Olbermann has been cause for debate among many individuals, espe-cially journalists who are constantly questioning and examining the foundations behind what “ethical jour-nalism” is.

In school, aspiring jour-

nalists learn to not only fol-low their gut on a story, but also to be ethical in going about fi nding sources and reporting information.

Olbermann triggered many readers to question how consistently he con-sidered ethics in journalism because he didn’t usually care what was considered appropriate or inappropri-ate to report.

In fact, maybe Olber-mann did care, but just chose to ignore proper eti-quette anyway.

Many individuals may say they liked this about him, especially if their views coincided with his liberal perspective. But others would agree that he got away with too much in his time on “Countdown.” It was his time to go.

One common technique used by Olbermann in his political reporting is how he mixes content with opinion without labeling it as such.

This often confused in-dividuals because they weren’t always able to tell

the difference between the two.

In his closing speech as he was leaving the show, Olbermann found a way to throw in some of his fa-mous “witty” humor as he was signing off.

“As God is my witness, in the commercial break just before the emotional moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he said, ‘Um, can you cut it down to 15 seconds so we can get in this tennis result from Stuttgart?’ ” he said. “So I’m grateful that I have a little bit more time to sign off here.”

Whether he was asked to leave or whether it was his personal decision to walk, Olbermann had his time, but now it has come to an end.

Hopefully that’s one step toward restoring ethical journalism and promoting productive political talk shows.

VALERIE CHEN

Asst. Lifestyle Editor

I’ve been with my girl-friend for four years now. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner , and after four of these holi-days together , I’m fr esh out of ideas. The last couple of Cupid’ s days have included most of the cliché V alentines gifts: fl owers, chocolates, awk-wardly cheesy stuffed an-imals, etc. I’ve cooked for her and taken her to nice restaurants, but this year, I really want to raise the bar. I want to show her how much I still care and how special she is to me, but I honestly don’t know what to do. Any ideas?

Valentine’s Day falls on Feb. 14 every year and is a day to celebrate love, af-fection and intimacy.

Although love itself should already be enough, the holiday traditionally calls for expressing love via gifts, such as greeting cards, jewelry, fl owers and candy.

After four years and as a result, possibly four Valen-tine’s Days, multiple birth-days, anniversaries and other holidays together, it is bound to be somewhat diffi cult to come up with amazing gift ideas.

Do something out of the ordinary. If you have al-ready gone the more con-ventional gift-giving routes of fl owers, chocolates, stuffed animals, going out for dinner and home cook-ing, try stepping out of your comfort zone and breaking monotony.

Make memories rather than endorse the materialis-tic side of Valentine’s Day by trying activities neither of you has experienced.

For example, skydiving is an unusual activity that can create a unique con-nection from the resulting exhilaration and adrena-line rush. You also get to conquer a possible fear to-gether.

A visit to the zoo is also a fun day-long activity and a less expensive gift. The San Diego Zoo has a Zoo Valentine’s Day Celebra-tions with brunch and din-ner meals, while the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens presents a quirky event called Sex and the City Zoo II with dessert and wine.

Another idea is hiking with your girlfriend to a scenic view and packing a picnic full of her favorite picnic-appropriate foods.

Go exploring. It will be a nice change from everyday

– Clueless Valentine

Valentine’s ideas to keep things fresh

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Final ‘Countdown’ for Keith

Naked Truth: violence worse than nudityopinions@thepolypost.comReach Erin Moll at:

ERIN MOLL

Staff Writer

“Call of Duty”, “Assas-sin’s Creed” and “Gears of War”: These three games are some of the hundreds that kids and adults play where killing and violence take center stage and are ac-cepted as normal.

Movies like “300” and television shows like “CSI: Crime Investigation” also exploit the normality of vio-lence and crime.

However, as soon as the clothes start to come off and some skin is revealed, we are quick to turn away or change the channel.

We do it because nudity, especially when around oth-ers, is awkward while vio-lence is as common as Star-bucks.

Brutality whether por-trayed through Hollywood, or the real deal, is far worse than nudity.

Violence is advertised

just as much as Coca-Cola through technology, but the consequences of violence in reality are far worse. Cases of domestic violence, mur-der, assault, battery and rape happen every day, yet we don’t even fl inch when we see it on television – maybe we should.

Violence nowadays has become part of society. It’s a lot like having annoying neighbors.

We know they’re there, but we just tend to ignore them and hope they don’t come knocking on the door any time soon, and if they do we are obligated to invite them to the family BBQ.

Between the wars that our country is involved in, and the fact that each gen-eration seems to try to grow up as fast as the one before it; families allow the blood-baths, battles and gore into their homes.

But it’s not just today’s society that has suddenly

let violence be accepted; we can trace it back to the be-ginning of time.

Take religion for exam-ple. The Bible itself is fi lled with stories of violence, sin, crime and war. Cain killed Abel right? That sounds pretty violent to me, and that was only in the begin-ning.

As much as it talks about loving one another, it also sees those factors as part of every day life.

In other words, it was ac-cepted and still is. Usually when something is accept-ed, it’s making that ok to do and in this case, it’s not.

On the other hand, it was only for a while that Adam and Eve wandered around nude until she ate the apple; that’s when it became bad to be naked.

Ever since then, all art-work showcasing the fa-mous couple has included leaves covering unmention-able areas. Because by to-

day’s standards it’s a crime to be freely nude in public.

Most of us have been taught to keep ourselves covered and that our bodies are sacred, etc.

Maybe it’s not even that, it’s the fact that when you’re watching TV with people and everything is coming off, the air becomes tense and it’s just an awk-ward situation.

When it comes to televi-sion and movies, nudity is usually associated with sex, and sex alone creates awk-wardness.

It’s a private matter, so when it comes on, it’s just unnatural for people to watch and accept as normal.

People feel violated as if it was us on the big screen and not the actors.

We were raised to look away from the naked human form; yet, early on we’ve been exposed to aggres-sion and brutality. Society teaches that it’s normal to

have anger and cause con-fl ict. Why?

In artwork, the naked form has been admired by other artists. But now it’s the naked body that is sup-posed to be covered and kept sacred to the point where it’s taboo.

We can’t help but cover our eyes. The human mind has grown to cringe at the very sight of nudity.

It makes us uncomfort-able, not only with our sur-roundings but also our own bodies.

We are groomed to think of nudity as a bad thing while violence has become ordinary in almost every-one’s lives, whether it is games, video, or real-life experiences.

Don’t be fooled by igno-rance, it is violence that we should be concerned about, not nudity.

TIFFANY ROESLER

Correspondent

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The Internet has been used as a tool to connect people all over the world. Every corner of the earth has been tied together, and the world seems just a little bit smaller because of it.

This global system of interconnecting computers has transformed the way we think, learn and live in society today, and like with any other advancement in technology, the Internet has benefi ted every person on this planet.

The Internet has become an endless frontier of vast capabilities and endless problems. We have changed as a species because of it and continue to change along with it.

During President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address to Congress and the American public on Jan. 25, he mentioned that we are a nation of Google and Facebook.

“We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offi ces; the nation of Edison and the

Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook,” said Obama. “In America, inno-vation doesn’t just change our lives. It’s how we make a living.

It’s about a rural com-munity in Iowa or Alabama where farmers and small business owners will be able to sell their products all over the world.

It’s about a fi refi ghter who can download the de-sign of a burning building onto a handheld device; a student who can take class-es with a digital textbook; or a patient who can have face-to-face video chats with her doctor.”

The birth of the Internet has created an entirely new category of jobs such as: online journalism, profes-sional blogging, web design and development and pro-fessional vlogging (video blogging), which you see on websites such as You-Tube.

Billions of individuals can upload and download information instantaneous-ly at the push of a button, and it has helped people like those who have partici-

pated in the revolts in Tuni-sia, Egypt and Yemen that began last week.

The citizen activists there used social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook to protest their respective governments and countered government disinformation.

Net neutrality, the princi-ple proposed for users’ ac-cess to networks participat-ing in the Internet, is now the subject of debate.

Advocates believe there should be no restrictions by Internet service provid-ers and governments on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached and the modes of communication.

Opponents of net neu-trality believe the Internet should be regulated and controlled. They also be-lieve that Internet providers can determine the quality of Internet service one can receive by what the indi-vidual pays.

There are those that think the age of being able to ac-cess whatever website you wanted regardless of your Internet provider should be terminated for profi table

gain.Supporters of net neu-

trality are currently fi ght-ing the FCC’s decision that took place on Dec. 21 to approve new broadband regulations covering web-site blocking, traffi c dis-crimination and network management transparency.The Internet has also chal-lenged the defi nition of the First Amendment’s right of freedom of speech.

Issues such as cyber bul-lying have led to suicide and get added to the long list of crimes that could be committed as well.

But aren’t people just as morally obligated to take responsibility for their words regardless of the me-dium?

Arguments about how the Internet has hurt students academically have also come up.

The days of searching for information in large ency-clopedias located at local libraries have been replaced by Wikipedia and Google.

Plagiarism has plagued universities as it has be-come easier to just copy and paste someone else’s

work into a word document, type your name at the top and hit “print”.

Yet, at the same time, people can access informa-tion and educate themselves whenever or wherever they wanted to, and this far out-weighs the ease of plagia-rism.

The origins of the Inter-net, which reach back to the 1960s, have propelled the world into the digital age, and that is something that

won’t be disappearing any-time soon.

The social and economic globalization that primarily took place in the 21st centu-ry has “fl attened” the world because of the Internet, ac-cording to international au-thor, Thomas Friedman.

The internet will contin-ue to be used for the better-ment of man kind.

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bonding time. One proposal is attending

a culinary class and learn-ing how to cook a delicious meal together. Then, apply the lesson to creating a su-perb home -cooked meal by two new chefs outside the school in your or her kitchen.

An additional suggestion is reliving one of your fi rst dates or most distinctive memories together.

Going to an evocative location the two of you

have not visited in years is a thoughtful reminder to your girlfriend of an unfor-gettable experience.

If you would rather give a gift, make sure the gift is tailored according to your girlfriend’s interest and/or personality. Think uncon-ventionally.

If she is a fan of art, try giving her a new set of paints or a canvas to en-courage her interest. If she is a sports fan, buy her favorite player’s jersey –

even if you don’t agree with her choice of team. Last but certainly not least, if she’s has an addiction to a generally harmless sub-stance such as tea, gather a collection of various teas and tea supplies.

Valentine’s Day is also an opportunity to bring out your arts and crafts skills – or lack thereof.

After four years togeth-er, you probably have an abundance of photos to-gether. Put together a photo

collage or photo album that displays your happiest mo-ments and memories to-gether.

A mix CD accompanying the photos may be consid-ered typical, but making a playlist composed of songs that spark nostalgia can be a sweet addition.

A handmade coupon book is also a resourceful way to show your girlfriend you care. Coupon ideas can be a free massage or an “I get to pick the movie” pass.

Feb. 14 is all about mak-ing someone special in your life feel extra special. It does not matter how big, small, expensive or inex-pensive it is – as cliché as this may sound, it is the thought that counts.

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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The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team, which com-mences its 2011 season 2 p.m. Thursday at Cal State Dominguez Hills, has spent its offseason in a transition phase.

After a disappointing 2010 season in which the Broncos fi nished sixth in conference with an 18-22 record and a 26-27 record overall, the Broncos begin the 2011 campaign with 13 returning players and a new head coach at the helm.

Head coach Randy Bet-ten, former UC Riverside assistant coach, plans to move the Broncos forward into the 2011 season with the goal of “getting things back up to par like coach Scolinos had all those years.”

John Scolinos, the name-sake of the Broncos’ home fi eld, led the baseball team for 30 years at Cal Poly Po-mona, ending his term with an 822-736 record. Under his guidance, the Broncos won three NCAA Div. II na-tional championship titles in 1976, 1980 and 1983.

He was named the CCAA’s Coach of the Year fi ve times and was inducted into the American Associa-

tion of Collegiate Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1974.

Among the 2010 stand-out players returning this season are junior pitcher Geoff Broussard, who re-corded a 10-5 record and 75 strikeouts; senior utility player Tyson Edwards, who had a .400 on-base percent-age; and senior outfi elder Travis Taijeron, who batted .345 and hit a team-high 16 home runs last season.

Senior pitcher John Pol-lock gave some insight into the new players joining the Broncos’ 2011 roster.

“As far as new guys go, we have a junior college transfer [infi elder] Chris Miller, he’ll probably be batting fourth or fi fth,” Pol-lock said. “As far as talent goes, we’ve got returning guys who are probably go-ing to be the core.”

A strong core is going to be vital to the Broncos be-ing successful in a competi-tive conference.

“I know a few teams are playing well: UC San Di-ego, Chico [State] and [Cal State] Dominguez Hills,” Betten said.

UC San Diego, the 2010 NCAA Div. II national run-ner-up that won 54 games, was where Pollock trans-ferred from three years ago.

Pollock said Betten is the kind of coach the Broncos need to take on the Tritons.

As far as the rest of the season is concerned, Betten has a Biblical philosophy he would like the team to abide by.

“My mantra is taking care

of today and worrying about tomorrow when we get to tomorrow,” Betten said.

Betten is not worried about the past either which he demonstrated by not even looking at the Bron-cos’ record from last season.

“That to me is history and we are going to make his-tory with this team,” Betten said. “Nothing that good comes easy.”

In the four weeks since Betten’s hiring, the Broncos have connected with their

new head coach, practicing six days a week in prepa-ration for the 2011 season and have noted the con-trast between his coaching style and former head coach Mike Ashman’s style.

“He’s the complete op-posite,” Pollock said. “He’ll be your friend when it’s time to be your friend, but out here, he’s your coach.”

Junior catcher Jenzen Torres, who acknowledged spending the offseason without a head coach was

unusual, is optimistic about the Broncos’ 2011 chances.

“It was a plus getting coach Betten,” Torres said. “Betten’s more structure[d], having everything planned. He defi nitely fi ts our team perfectly.”

Pollock believes the team is more driven to succeed than in previous years.

“The intensity is better,” Pollock said. “Everything’s a lot better.”

puts in more time than anyone else. He has made himself a good player by putting in the extra time.”

Senior forward Donnelle Booker said Jahn’s fun-loving spirit does not impose on his training for basketball.

“Toby works hard,” Book-er said. “He does all the work-outs … even though he jokes around, you can tell that he likes to work out and work hard.”

At the start of the 2011 season, however, Jahn was forced to watch the men’s basketball team’s success fal-ter from the sideline, after a pulled groin had put him on the bench.

“Every time we lost, while I was injured, I totally

blamed it on myself,” Jahn said. “I was lying in bed and I couldn’t close my eyes or sleep because I was like, ‘Damn, if I were there, we probably could have won,’ ‘It’s just all my fault’ and stuff like that. So the only thought in your head is, ‘I need to get back in there and help my team.’”

Following Jahn’s return, the Broncos managed to bring home six-consecutive wins.

Off the court, Jahn has gained a reputation of being both academically driven and admired for his good attitude and fun-loving spirit.

The International Business and Marketing student has made a name for himself in the classroom, earning a high

grade-point average and leav-ing lasting impressions on those who taught him.

“He’s an amazing guy be-cause he holds his own intel-lectually with anybody, he holds his own athletically with anybody,” said James Swartz, International Busi-ness and Marketing chair and Jahn’s professor. “I’ve been here 25 years and I can’t think of another person that I can say that about.”

Linda Olson, Jahn’s former English professor, said in her 27 years of teaching, Jahn has been her favorite student.

“He’s like a student-athlete dream because I have had a lot of student-athletes and they weren’t all that reliable in the classroom but Toby always was,” Olson said. “He always produced, he always had the most interesting comments, and he had the classroom in the palm of his hands.”

Kamansky said Jahn’s good nature represents the men’s basketball team as a whole.

“When we go in and play basketball, we want to be confi dent but we don’t want to be conceited, and Toby epitomizes our program and what it’s about,” Kamansky said. “He is a confi dent kid, but he is very humble too and approachable and he doesn’t have any attitude.”

Jahn said he developed his humble nature at an early age.

“I can’t walk through the world and say, ‘Hey, I am better than you’,” Jahn said. “The fi rst thing my parents taught me was you can’t judge people.”

Another important lesson Jahn’s parents taught him was

the importance of approach-ing everyone he meets with a smile, a trait that has become somewhat of a signature for the German athlete.

Jahn said, in his heavy Ger-man accent, it stems from a simple fact: “I’m a very lucky guy.”

Beyond luck, there are oth-er factors at play. While his parents are a motivating fac-tor in his success, Jahn said his drive comes from within.

“I think it’s all internal: it’s all in me,” Jahn said. “My love for the game, my passion for the game, my desire to become better for the game, trying to make some money with it one day … being suc-cessful in basketball is what I want to do.”

Beyond the drive, there is his height. And while the advantages in play may over-shadow the disadvantages, Jahn said the extra height makes him somewhat of a tar-get, both on and off the court.

“For me, sometimes, I wish just in class I wasn’t that tall,” Jahn said. “It’s really obvious if you are not there.”

Jahn said he has no issue making time for himself. With all the practice, games and class, he fi nds enjoyment in it all.

“Yes, sometimes I just want to sit in my room, read a book, watch TV and that’s maybe considered time for myself, but playing basketball is my time,” Jahn said. “I do what I love. Learning is what I love, so it’s my time. Hanging out with my friends, who I love, that’s my time too. So all day I do my time, basically.”

Around friends and col-leagues, Jahn’s fun-loving

spirit is also never under-stated. Booker said his fi rst impression of Jahn was a “tall, goofy, German dude” and will never forget an early encounter with him.

“One moment that sticks out in my mind, when my family came to visit me my sophomore year,” Booker said. “I’m giving my mom the tour of my apartment and I hear my little brother yelling.

“So I walk into the living room and Toby is tossing him upside down in the living room. My 3-year-old brother and 6-foot-9 Toby are wres-tling in the living room on an air mattress. I will never for-get that.”

As Jahn’s tenure with Bronco Athletics comes to a end, he plans to continue his educational career and his athletic endeavors.

Jahn said he would like to play basketball in Spain or Italy while studying the lan-guage along with preparing for the Graduate Manage-ment Admission Test.

From there, Jahn said he would like to attend an Ivy League school, earn a mas-ter’s degree in business and become an assistant coach at his dream school, Harvard.

Jahn remains grounded, and said achieving it all would be a longshot.

If his work ethic persists, however, it could be a matter of time.

“We always say you get what you deserve,” Kaman-sky said. “Well, he got what he deserved which is a good basketball career and a very good academic career.”

“It ain’t over til’ it’s over!”-Yogi Berra

This quote by the hall of fame baseball player rings true for any sport, but is es-pecially applicable to the Cal Poly Pomona reigning NCAA Div. II national champion men’s basketball team.

Though the Broncos have been doing a lot of things right lately, including winning six-straight, there is still room for improvement and nowhere is that more apparent than in the second half of a game.

In the six games they won, the Broncos scored 6.2 points more than their opponent in the fi rst half of the game, but only 3.3 points more in the second half.

In the six-game winning streak, the Broncos were tied at the half twice and led three times and were down once. However, the Broncos scored more points in the second half in the games in which they were either tied at the half or down, but fewer points in the games they led at the half.

Head coach Greg Kaman-sky said the team has learned it needed to play hard for 40 minutes in order to win games.

Right now, the Broncos look like they’re playing 25 minutes of hard basketball; the fi rst 20 minutes and the last fi ve.

It’s the fi rst 15 minutes of the second half in which the Broncos look as if they’re on cruise control and when their opponent starts to chip away at their lead if they have one.

In a way, it seems the Bron-cos are continually building on their reputation of being a reactionary team.

By that, I mean the Broncos need a reason to play hard in the second half and it’s the better second-half game play of their opponent that acts as the Broncos’ impetus to play the fi nal fi ve minutes of the game with quality comparable to their fi rst-half performance.

The Broncos have been able to get away with this against weaker CCAA oppo-nents, but this style of game play is hardly characteristic of a reigning national champion.

What the Broncos need to do is play games with the idea there’s no such thing as a cruise control. If they do this, the Broncos will not only re-tain the momentum, but more importantly, the mental ad-vantage over their opponents.

Though it was originally said in the context of baseball, the accidental wisdom of Ber-ra is just as applicable again in basketball.

Basketball “is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.”

ERIK CARR

Sports Editor

‘The other half is physical’

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Baseball team begins new era Th ursda yCal Poly Pomona baseball team plays 2011 home opener vs. St. Martin’s this Fri-day at 11 a.m.

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Aft er an 18-22 conference record and a 26-27 record overall in 2010, the Cal Poly Pomona baseball team has 13 returning players who look to begin a new era of Broncos baseball with new head coach Randy Betten.

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While Jahn is known for his notable sense of humor, he also is known for his work ethic by his teammates, coaches and professors.

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It was a night to remem-ber for the Cal Poly Pomona women’s basketball team as it handed Cal State Monterey Bay its fi rst loss of the season last Friday, 58-55, and picked up its ninth-straight victory against San Francisco State, 72-59, on Saturday.

Cal Poly Pomona im-provesdto 15-2 overall and 12-1 in CCAA play.

The Broncos head back home for a four-game home-stand where they will face ninth-place Cal State Los An-geles (6-12, 3-1 1) and 10th-place Cal State Dominguez Hills (3-15, 3-1 1) on Friday and Saturday , respectively . Both games are at 5:30 p.m.

After losing to the Ot-ters earlier on Dec. 30, the Broncos managed to break Cal State Monterey Bay’ s 16-game-winning streak, dealing the Otters their fi rst loss of the season.

The Otters’ senior guard Lashawn Johnson challenged Cal Poly Pomona with 16 points and four rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to break the Broncos’ determination.

“One of the biggest things is we kept our composure,” said interim head coach Danelle Bishop. “There were some things that didn’ t go our way, right or wrong at the end that I think a lot of teams may have folded on, and I just think we did a great job of keeping our composure and playing through it. To

me, that’ s what good teams do.”

Senior guard Reyana Col-son led the Broncos in scor -ing, rebounds, and assists with 25, nine, and fi ve, re-spectively.

Freshman guard J.J. Judge continued to step up for Cal Poly Pomona as she earned 10 points against the Otters, nine of which were on long-range shots.

“We got down in the fi rst half, and she came in and hit back-to-back threes,” Bishop said. “To me, that’s just huge for a freshman to come in and do that. That just got her mo-mentum going. She’s a good shooter, but tonight she shot the ball well and played good defense.”

Sharp-shooter Judge made 3 of 5 (60 percent) from the fi eld and earned two assists against the Otters.

“I think she’ s doing a good job,” Colson said about Judge. “I think everyone’ s freshman year is always a little shaky-always ups and downs. Also, she’ s learning from the rest of the team, and she’s coming in and being a key contributor. She’s matur-ing as a player.”

Focus, constant intensity and strong defensive play were some of the contribut-ing factors to the Broncos’ triumphant win.

“Good teams don’ t make excuses,” Bishop said. “There were some things that didn’t go our way regardless of what it was, and for them to do that just shows charac-ter.”

Saturday’s game against the San Francisco State Ga-tors gave the Broncos their fourth win of the four -game road stretch.

Despite the 72-49 victory , the Broncos didn’ t come out as strongly as the night be-

fore, but consistent of fensive fl ow penetrated the Gators’ defensive.

“We didn’t come out with the same focus or intensity tonight,” Bishop said. “I was a little bit concerned, espe-cially just over the high [of] last night, but overall we did what we needed to do.”

Junior center Megan Ford led all scorers, coming a re-bound short of a double-dou-ble, with nine boards and 18

points against the Gators. “We came in here and

had some players step up,” Bishop said. “I think J.J. hit some big threes right when we needed them, and es-pecially Reyana, who was hurting a little bit and got hurt in tonight’ s game just really stepped up. Megan just fi nished really well and La’kenya came in and hit some big shots for us too.”

Senior forward La’kenya

Simon West and Judge each scored 13 points and grabbed two boards, respectively.

“The team did really well tonight,” Judge said. “W e came out with a victory and that’s always a good thing. The offense was just in a fl ow and it was really easy to just get in the fl ow of things.”

In the second half of the contest, Cal Poly Pomona re-ally picked it up a notch and broke away from the Gators.

With 13:30 left in the game, junior guard Sarah Semenero hit a big 3-pointer, giving the Broncos a 20-point lead and put a dagger in the Gators’ hopes of a comeback.

At weekend’ s end, Cal State Monterey Bay (17-1, 13-1) remained in fi rst place while San Francisco State (1-17, 1-13) remained in last.

Women’s basketball team stuns Otters

Men’s basketball team’s winning streak ends

The Cal Poly Pomona reigning NCAA Div . II na-tional champion men’ s bas-ketball team suf fered a close 68-66 loss to San Francisco State on Saturday after de-feating Cal State Monterey

Bay, 74-65, on Friday.The Broncos are now 10-7

overall and 7-6 in the con-ference and remain in sixth place.

The Broncos return to Kel-logg Gym for a four -game homestand, their longest one of the year . They play fi fth-place Cal State Los Angeles (12-6, 8-6) on Friday and No. 4 fi rst-place Cal State Dominguez Hills (16-2, 12-2) on Saturday.

Both games tipof f at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s loss snapped the Broncos’ winning-streak at six games.

“We came in running and we just missed some easy looks,” said head coach Greg Kamansky. “W e couldn’ t quite get over the top, but San Francisco State’ s a very good basketball team and this is obviously a great league. To lose by two on the road is tough.”

A late rally , led by the 18-point ef forts of junior forward Dwayne Fells and sophomore guard Mitchel Anderson, brought the Bron-cos to within a possession of taking the lead.

“[I was] pretty much just trying to bring some ener gy out there and then things just started to fall into place,” Fells said.

On of fense, Kamansky was pleased with ef forts by two of his top players.

“Toby and Dwayne, defi -nitely [played well],” Ka-mansky said. “Those guys dominated tonight and that’ s usually our game plan. They played really well tonight and really good offensively.”

The Broncos’ defense, highlighted by senior for -ward Donnelle Booker’s per-formance, forced many turn-overs during the late rally.

Booker fi nished with three defensive rebounds one block.

Several scoring runs in the end though, aided by sopho-more guard Nefi Perdomo’s 22 points and senior guard Phoenix O’Rourke’ s fi ve 3-pointers, were too much for the Broncos to handle.

After Gators’ senior guard Marquel Hoskins intention-ally missed his second free-throw attempt to keep the clock running with three sec-onds to play , Fells grabbed the defensive board, intend-ing to pass it to Anderson.

With the clock ticking

though, Fells launched a des-peration 3-pointer from half court which hit the bottom of the backboard as time ex-pired.

Earlier in the half, the Broncos evened the score at 46-46 when Anderson hit a 3-pointer with 13:32 left to play.

A 12-1 Gators’ run fol-lowed though, giving the Ga-tors an 1 1-point, 58-47 lead, their largest of the night.

While the fi rst half end-ed with the Broncos down seven, they jumped out to a 5-0 lead with senior forward Tobias Jahn’s jumper and se-nior guard Mark Rutledge’ s 3-pointer at 19:17 and 18:14 left in the fi rst half, respec-tively.

The Broncos led by as many as six on two occa-sions.

Jahn hit a free throw to make the score, 10-4, with 15:43 left in the half. About a minute later, Anderson hit a 3-pointer, making the score, 15-9.

The latter unfortunately preceded a 9-0 Gators’ run which lasted 3:58, giving the Gators a 18-15 advantage.

Anderson sank a jumper with 8:39 left in the half to give the Broncos a 19-18 lead, their last lead of the night.

After an 8-0 Gators’ scor-ing run however , the Gators took a 6-0 scoring drive into the half, leading, 38-31.

On Friday, the Broncos be-gan their weekend by beating the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters at their domain, 74-65, extending the Broncos’ win-ning streak to six games.

Friday’s game marked the fi rst game this season in which the Broncos won after a halftime defi cit.

In the wake of a slow start

and a four -point halftime defi cit, senior forward Kevin Menner carried the Broncos’ energy in the game’ s second half on his way to a team-high 18 points.

“We didn’t come out with the energy that I thought we needed to and I think our bench gave us a huge boost,” Kamansky said. “Kevin Menner and Terrence played really well. Mitchel came out and did really well. Our bench really gave us a boost and led us on to victory so it was a nice win for us.”

In the second half, the Broncos were down, 41-33, with 18:23 remaining, but a 14-0 second-half sur ge gave the Broncos the lead, which they never let go.

Other top performers were Jahn and Anderson, who scored 11 and 10 points, re-spectively.

The Broncos shot well from the paint and behind the arc, sinking 29 of 56 (51.8 percent) and 6 of 12 (50 per -cent), respectively.

Strong defense was the main factor in the Broncos’ victory, forcing the Otters to have a poor 5 of 24 (20.8 percent) ef fort from 3-point range.

Getting the Broncos of f to a strong start was Rutledge, who hit a 3-pointer just 20 seconds into the game, to give the Broncos a 3-0 lead.

Otters’ senior guard Dar -roll Phillips sank a 3-pointer 24 seconds later, evening the score at 3-3, and marking the fi rst of fi ve ties in the open-ing half.

Free throws by freshman guard T errence Drisdom proved signifi cant.

Drisdom’s second free throw at 11:08 left in the fi rst half extended a 19-1 1 Bron-cos’ lead to eight points, their

largest of the night.With 1:27 to go in the half,

Drisdom hit another one after getting fouled on his success-ful jumper, breaking a 30-30 tie.

The Otters fi nished the half with a 5-0 run in which redshirt sophomore forward Derrick Anderson hit a pair of free throws and sopho-more guard Davion Berry converted a free throw upon hitting a jumper on a foul to go up, 35-31, at the half.

The Gators (12-6, 10-4) move up one place to third in the conference while the Otters (6-12, 4-10) remain in 11th.

Looking into this weekend, the Golden Eagles and the Toros defeated the visiting Broncos earlier this season, 50-45, and 59-54, respective-ly, and both games will pres-ent a huge test.

“[We need to] just play tough, physical basketball and just keep moving for -ward on some things,” Ka-mansky said. “With this team [Cal State Los Angeles], it’s defi nitely about the ener gy and we’re just not quite as physical as we’re used to be-ing but we’ve got to learn to be.”

Fells believes the team is in a better state of mind than it was in those earlier games.

“When we played in L.A., we didn’ t have that aggres-sive mindset that we do now and that’s going to be a big thing for us when we play Cal State L.A.,” Fells said.

Fells also said the Broncos are undeterred by the Toros’ national ranking.

“We’ll defi nitely show them who’s supposed to be at the top of the rankings when we play them,” Fells said.

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Correspondent

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Practicing plays and formations in preparation for last weekend’s games, junior center Megan Ford (left ) and junior forward Charlene Popoff (center) defend against sophomore forward Rachel Porter (right).

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Senior forward Kevin Menner dribbles to the basket while redshirt sophomore forward DeRonn Scott guards him during practice to prepare for games at Cal State Monterey Bay and San Francisco State.

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Broncos hand the first-place Otters their first conference loss and extend their winning streak to nine games

Late rally is not enough as the Broncos’ six-game-winning streak is snapped by San Francisco State Gators