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The W.K. Kellogg Founda-tion made Cal State Universi-ty history over the summer by gifting Cal Poly Pomona with a $42 million cash grant. The grant comes in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth William Keith Kellogg, the founder of the Kellogg Company, and will be used primarily to ensure that Cal Poly Pomona continues to serve underrepresented com-munities.

It is also the largest cash grant in the history of the Cal State University.

“The W.K. Kellogg Foun-dation is proud that this grant will benefi t Cal Poly Pomona in its efforts to extend and bolster educational opportu-nities for current and aspir-ing students,” said Sterling K. Speirn, the president and CEO of the Kellogg Founda-tion in a statement. “Mr. Kel-logg was a strong believer in higher education, and his vi-sion of ‘investing in people’ has translated into the founda-tion’s fundamental belief that access to a high-quality edu-cation is vital to enhancing the lives of vulnerable youth.”

In accordance with the Kel-logg Foundation’s beliefs, the money will be used to help fund programs that cre-ate opportunities for students who might never have had a chance to obtain a college education.

This includes, but is not limited to, programs like the Renaissance Scholars, which nurtures youth recently eman-cipated from foster care, and the Troops to College initia-tive, which helps returning veterans make the transition back to civilian and student life.

What the money won’t do, however, is offset the loss of state support.

“The Kellogg Foundation believes strongly that if we are a state supported institu-tion, then the state should be providing us with the fund-ing,” said President Michael Ortiz. “We’re not going to offer any additional class sections or anything like that because that’s not their [the Kellogg Foundation’s] re-sponsibility.”

$40 million of the grant will be put into an endowment fund, which means that only the interest will be used to be

Cal Poly Pomona’s iconic Class-room Laboratory Administration Building, which was completed a mere 17 years ago, may soon be nothing more than a memory.

In an e-mail sent out to the Cal Poly Pomona community Wednes-day, Sept. 15 by President Michael Ortiz, it was announced that the CLA building could be replaced by a new administrative building costing roughly $80 million.

“It is the intention or plan that [the CLA building] would most likely come down after we build a new building,” said Michael Syl-vester, associate vice president of Facilities Planning and Manage-

ment.Sylvester said he hopes students

will recognize this project will have no impact on student fees or operating budgets and that the funds will be coming from Califor-nia State University Capital Outlay Program state construction bonds.

“We are striving to give them a building that will serve their needs better,” he said. “The CLA build-ing is just not getting it done, that building is atrocious.”

This would include both the ad-ministrative and classroom facili-ties of the complex.

The CSU Board of Trustees’ decision was made Sept. 21. The next step in the process involves Cal Poly Pomona receiving ap-proval from the California State

Legislature and the Governor.Matthew Stafford, Environ-

mental Design senator for Associ-ated Students, Inc, said he is disap-pointed by the proposed project.

“There are so many other build-ings that need to be retrofi tted on this campus,” he said. “Why is the CLA building special?”

Stafford also said he was disap-pointed with the plan to make the new building smaller and without classrooms.

“Either do it right or don’t do it at all,” he said.

Though talk of demolishing the CLA building has only occurred recently, the building has been be-set with a series of problems since it opened.

“We’ve been studying this for a

number of years and we have been assembling costs and comparisons and alternatives on how to deal with the CLA building,” Sylvester said.

Water intrusion problems arose shortly after faculty and staff mem-bers took occupancy in the build-ing in 1993. At that time, meetings with contractors and consultants began, marking the beginning of the troubles with the building, Syl-vester said.

The university was later award-ed a settlement but Sylvester said, “It was not enough to fi x every-thing,” and was put in the bank for later use.

He also said building stress spots and water troubles quickly turned into a huge project.

Recent earthquakes, along with seismic and safety code changes, added to the laundry list of prob-lems that plagued the iconic build-ing.

Architecture professor Gary McGavin, who has a degree in ge-ology and served on the California Seismic Safety Commission from 1991-99, previously told The Poly Post that because the bracing in the building’s steel structure does not reach the ground, it is the ideal ex-ample of a collapse-hazard build-ing.

“We went from just fi xing the water intrusions to dealing with seismic codes and [Americans with Disabilities Act] life safety issues,” Sylvester said. “Then we

After polling the incom-ing freshman class during orientation, the Associated Student, Inc have decided to move forward with the idea of building a near $60 mil-lion recreation center.

The Cal State University Board of Trustees voted on Tuesday on whether or not the Rec Center would be built, but results were not available at press time. For the updated story, visit www.thepolypost.com

If the vote passes, Cal Poly Pomona would become the 15th of the 23 Cal State University schools to either have a rec center or have one currently in construction.

The new building would be located in the southern section of campus, across from the suites, and adjacent to the new Bronco Com-mons quad, the Darlene May Gym, and the Bronco Stu-dent Center.

Upon completion, the rec center will provide students with brand new indoor bas-ketball and multi-activity courts, a rock wall, racquet-ball courts, an outdoor lap and swimming pool with

deck area, an indoor jogging track, several multi-purpose rooms that could be used for new classes, and a new Bronco Fitness Center.

All of this comes at a price, though. The actual construction of the building will cost the university about $57 million, while the cost of the facility and its opera-

tions will cause the Bronco Student Center fee to be in-creased by $140 per quar-ter. Right now, students pay $83.76 per quarter for this fee during the academic year and $17.70 for the summer.

This fee increase would not take effect until the rec center opens in 2014.

The construction cost will

be paid by using a bond fl oated by the Board of Trustees upon approval.

Since it was indicated that the school would not charge students until the facility opens, the student fees that are collected will also help pay for the principal and in-

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CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA

CLA Building points towards failure

Record setting grant awarded to universityMITCHELL SALTZMAN

News Editor

See GRANT/Pg. 4

Recreational center plans revisited

AMANDA NEWFIELD

Managing Editor

See CLA/Pg. 8

See REC CENTER/Pg. 4

Th e sun may have set for the last time on the iconic CLA building that watches over Cal Poly Pomona, depending on a vote by the Board of Trustees.Daniel Nguyen / Th e Poly Post

Conceptual art of what the proposed rec center will look like and its

location on campus if it were to be made in 2014.

Illustration courtesy of ASI

MITCHELL SALTZMAN

News Editor

Construction workers have fi nished with the underground utilities for

the new buildings.

Daniel Nguyen / Th e Poly Post

The magazine US News and World Report has once again recognized Cal Poly Pomona as being not only one of top engineering schools in the nation, but also one of the best public universities in the Western region.

Cal Poly Pomona’s en-gineering program was ranked eleventh in the cat-egory of best undergradu-ate engineering programs where a doctorate is not of-fered. The program shared the ranking with fi ve other schools including Baylor University, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Milwaukee School of En-gineering, Swarthmore College, and the United States Coast Guard Acad-emy.

Rankings are determined

by analyzing a variety of different factors that in-dicate academic quality. These factors include grad-uation rates, freshman re-tention, faculty resources, student selectivity, fi nan-cial resources and alumni giving rate among others.

Though Cal Poly Pomo-na Pomona’s engineering program may be ranked eleventh in the nation among non doctorate of-fering universities, it is the third best engineering pro-gram in California, with it only being outranked by Harvey Mudd College, a private university in Cla-remont, and our own sister school, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

“Of course we’re very happy with that,” said Don Coduto, the interim dean of the College of Engineer-ing. “No matter how you

After more than 16 years of planning delays due to state budgetary hardships, the College of Business Ad-ministration complex con-struction is now well under-way.

The two-year construction period, which started Febru-ary 2010, is estimated to be complete February 2012.

“So far everything has been pretty smooth,” said Chi Kwan Fong, Cal Poly Pomona’s Project Manager. “At this time [builders] are fi nished with underground utilities. This is considered very normal for any con-struction project.”

Next up for the construc-tion process is the instal-lation of interior electrical materials, Fong said.

Because the project is funded mainly through Cali-fornia Proposition 1D, The Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, and do-nations received from pri-vate donors, it requires spe-cialized requirements.

“It’s very challenging to manage a project of this size, particularly in an aca-demic setting,” he said. “We are not private builders and we have state procedures and state requirements to follow.”

The estimated total con-struction cost for the 75,000 square-foot project is $30 million.

The completed complex will provide the college with 12 classrooms, two labora-tories, conference rooms, two auditoriums, a student café, and a courtyard that business students can call their own.

College of Business Ad-ministration Dean Richard Lapidus believes the new complex will help give the college a sense of identity.

“If you look around cam-pus, the college of busi-ness is the second largest in terms of students,” he said. “There is no singular space for them. They’re scattered in fi ve or six buildings on campus and there is really no sense of community for our students.”

He also believes that pro-

viding a designated space for the college will benefi t faculty members in a direct way by allowing more con-venient communication.

Lapidus said the addition of new technology and fa-cilities will aid the college in upholding and encourag-

ing the polytechnic way of learning.

“Students learn different-ly now and technology is a big part of that,” he said.

Lapidus is looking for-ward to seeing students, fac-ulty and staff utilize the new facility and the camaraderie

the complex will bring the college.

“It’s not really about the buildings, it’s about what’s inside the buildings,” he said.

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Business buildings construction on trackAMANDA NEWFIELD

Managing Editor

Cal Poly Pomona ranks high in new reportMITCHELL SALTZMAN

News Editor

NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS IN BRIEF

See SCHOOLS/Pg. 8

Th e construction of the new business buildings is expected to be com-

pleted by 2012.


[email protected] Amanda Newfi eld at:

Monday, Sept. 20 marked the beginning of the 2010 Fall Conference.

Each year awards are presented to all Cal Poly Pomona employees with more than 10 years of service.

President Michael Ortiz's annual address was the fi rst part of the three-day event, which also included workshops, question and answer sessions and BroncoFusion.

Most of the Monday events took place in the Ursa Major Suite of the Bronco Student Center.

Employees honored at Fall Conference

Csupomona.edu has re-cently gotten a face lift giv-ing the Cal Poly Pomona community a more aestheti-cally pleasing homepage to utilize for the quarters to come.

The redesigned website according to Polycentric, “showcases dramatic photos from the university's iden-tity campaign, highlights campus success stories, im-proves navigation and up-dates the look and feel.”

Cal Poly Pomona’s I&IT Web Development team headed up the project with the goal of making the site more user friendly.

The new design allows specifi c colleges to be more easily accessible as well as departments. The frequently used BroncoDirect, Black-board and Email links can be found at the top right of the page.

New campus website provides easier access

MEDICAL ASSISTSEPT. 11, 4:28 p.m.Alamitos Hall. Worker cut himself, requesting band-aid. Disposition: Assisted

HIT AND RUN -NO INJURYSEPT. 14, 12:41 p.m.Parking Lot C. Suspect a dark blue infi nity with two males.Disposition: Assisted

LOST PROPERTYSEPT. 14, 2:37 p.m.Campus Wide on Temple Avenue. Lost handicap placard somewhere on campus.Disposition: Assisted

SEPT. 9, 4:28 p.m.82A Carpenter Shop. 50 year old male, history of diabetes appears to be losing consciousness. Possible Diabetic comaDisposition: AssistedSUSPICIOUS VEHICLE (UNOCCUPIED)SEPT. 14, 10:22 p.m.University Drive. Offi cer initiated activity at 128 I-poly HS.Disposition: Checks OK / Area

PETTY THEFTSEPT. 11, 4:28 p.m.Cypress Lane/Oak LaneStating he had a CPP Mac book stolen 2-3 years ago from his apartmentDisposition: Report Taken

MEDICAL ASSISTSEPT. 9, 12:20 p.m.University library. Staff member feeling faint, having chest pain.Disposition: Assisted

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCESSEPT. 14, 6:17 p.m.100 storage building. Checking two subjects. Disposition: Checks Ok / Area SecureTRAFFIC COLLISION - NON INJURYSEPT. 11, 4:28 p.m.Cypress Lane/Oak LaneDisposition: Report Taken

MEDICAL ASSIST

As a whole, Cal Poly Pomona Athletics fi nished third among the California Collegiate Athletic Asso-ciation in the Commission-er’s Cup for the 2009-10 academic year.

The award is presented through Apple Computer

and honors the collective athletic performance in eight of the 13 sports offered in the CCAA.

This year’s high rank-ing was highlighted by the men’s basketball team’s championship.

The cup’s ranking is found based on team and individ-ual sports using the top two league fi nishes for the sea-son.

Patrick Merrill, who oversaw the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery from 1997 to 2009 died Aug. 31 at the age 61 after a long battle with cancer.

Merrill was the curator of the art gallery and was instrumental in expanding the gallery show, which offered an occasion for art students of all types to showcase works.

Student works include ceramic and print entries as well as traditional paint-ings, and drawings.

In addition to his efforts on the university level Merrill was known as one of the great print makers and mixed-media artists for Southern California.

He earned his bachelor’s of fi ne arts from Cal State Long Beach and his mas-ter’s of fi ne arts from Cal State Fullerton.

Some of his work can be found on display in muse-ums in China, Poland, Ro-mania, Bulgaria as well as the United States.

For those interested Mer-rill’s work is scheduled to be featured in an upcom-ing show, “Patrick Merrill: Revelation,” at Cal State Fullerton’s Begovich Gal-lery from Oct. 30 to Dec. 9.

A memorial service has been planned for Oct. 30.

Campus Curator Dies at 61

CPP places 3rd among CCAA

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In another effort to move Cal Poly Pomona closer to its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030, more than 4,500 solar panels are cur-rently in the process of be-ing installed on campus.

The first set of solar pan-els, installed on Kellogg Gym, should already be functioning and operational with the second set of pan-els located by Parking Lot M being expected to be up and running by October of this year.

The panels are all part of the Cal Poly Pomona Cli-mate Action Plan, a road-map that guides the uni-versity towards the goal of carbon neutrality.

This particular project began about two years ago when the Cal State Univer-sity system partnered with a company called SunEdi-son and entered into what’s known as a Power Purchase Agreement.

Under this agreement, SunEdison will install and maintain these solar panels for 20 years in exchange for the campus purchasing the actual electricity provided.

Since SunEdison is doing all of the installation and maintenance for the solar panels, the budget is not im-pacted at all by the addition of these panels.

“That’s the beauty of this: is that we’re not pay-ing a dime for the installa-

tion,” said Meghan Smith, manager of sustainability at Cal Poly Pomona. “We have to buy energy anyway, so we’re still buying power, but at least we’re buying clean power.”

According to Smith, the panels will generate about 1.8 kilowatt hours annually, with all of that power going into the campus grid to be used by the entire univer-sity.

“To put that into perspec-tive, the campus currently annually uses about 45 mil-lion kilowatt hours, so it’s a start, but it’s a really good start,” said Smith.

The addition of the new solar panels is only the most recent step taken towards making Cal Poly a greener campus.

Several efforts have been made to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the air by transportation to and from the campus, including the addition of the Bronco Link, a direct shuttle service from the Pomona North and Downtown Pomona Metro-link Stations to Cal Poly, an increased number of online classes, the addition of new on campus housing like the new suites that just opened, and the gradual change from gas powered to elec-tric powered university ve-hicles.

Other attempts to reduce waste on campus include the decision to remove trays from the Los Olivos com-mons, cutting back on wast-

ing of food as well as the water it takes to wash the trays; the addition of “Green Machines” which allow stu-dents to put their cans in a recycling machine and re-ceive credit, which can then be used to purchase items on campus; and the switch to B20 biodiesel, which is used in university agricul-tural vehicles like tractors, making them much more environmentally friendly.

“It’s a really good start for the campus to be mov-ing towards this goal,” said Smith. “We definitely have a lot to do, but the good news is we’re doing things to get there.”

New solar panels power campusMITCHELL SALTZMAN

News Editor

On campus jobs offer funds and flexibility

Student employees make up a signifi cant portion of the working force of Cal Poly. They can be seen every-where: At the bookstore, the library, the farm store, and the various fast food places around campus.

However, there are posi-tions unseen that are just as integral to the workings of Cal Poly.

“Some students are look-ing for something that’s re-lated to their majors so that

they feel like they are getting work experience,” said Tom Munnerlyn, director of the Career Center.

A peek into BroncoCon-nection, the main website where jobs are posted, re-veals a plethora of jobs of-fered by the various depart-ments.

One listing was for a re-search assistant for an up-coming project. Another was a call for a physics grader to “grade homework prob-lems and record scores for introductory physics lecture classes.” A listing titled

“Technology Student Assis-tant” required one to “trou-bleshoot, diagnose, repair and maintain” various hard-ware and software for the University Housing Services; Parking and Transportation Services staff; and University Housing residents.

But not all positions listed are relevant to a major.

There were postings for community service offi cers offered by Parking & Trans-portation Services and by the University Police. Student custodial positions were also offered, as well as landscap-

ing/site assistants to help maintain the school grounds.

Munnerlyn does not see this as a disadvantage.

“Experience is experi-ence,” he said.

And wages are wages. Ac-cording to Munnerlyn, wages usually start at minimum wage depending on the po-sition, but can increase with each passing year.

A student fortunate enough to land a job that corresponds with her major is Katie Fried-man.

Friedman, a second-year

English graduate student, is a Graduation Writing Test con-sultant at the Writing Center in the library. Her job is to help students pass the GWT.

“I was an English major so it just seemed like a natural thing to do to work with writ-ing,” said Friedman.

She offers workshops, does group online tutoring, and meets with students one-on-one by appointment.

According to Vicente Gon-zaga, a fi fth-year mechanical engineering student and writ-ing tutor the hours are “really

Unique electives help fill schedules

Now that Cal Poly’s first week of school is under-way, many students are hustling to meet the Sept. 29 enrollment deadline.

Here are a few interest-ing elective options that may be helpful to those finding it increasingly dif-ficult to meet the 12 unit requirement to be consid-ered a full time student.

Although many students would never pick history as a first choice elective,

Dr. Peg Lamphier, through her unorthodox teaching methods, has found a way to make her courses quite popular among Cal Poly students.

“Some may consider her class biased or partisan, but it is simply hard stone cold facts presented to you through her wit and hu-mor,” said third-year his-tory student Carlos Ayala, of Lamphier’s United States History course.

Another class students know little about is Dr. Len Troncale’s Biology of

Cancer course. In this course, Troncale

emphasizes the importance of becoming more knowl-edgeable about cancer, a disease that will affect one in three women and one in two men at some point in their life.

“The course blends both practical and funda-mental knowledge,” said Troncale, “yet lectures are aimed as much as possible at general audiences. After all, we are trying to help

DERRICK TARUC

Lifestyle Editor

The next step towards the goal of carbon neutrality

[email protected] Mitchell Saltzman at:

Th e Wine, Beer and Spirits class, off ered by

Dr. Margie Jones, is a popular elective class for

students over 21.

Illustration by Pedro Corona / Th e Poly Post

CECILY ARAMBULA

Staff Writer

See ELECTIVES/Pg. 6

It seemed like it was yes-terday.

In 2007, I wrote my fi rst article for The Poly Post. Since then, it has been a mix of dynamic and dramatic experiences that have all pushed me to the position I now facilitate.

Being the Editor in Chief of a newspaper is never an easy thing. The hours are long and the mental fatigue of reworking stories, head-lines and page layouts can drive a person crazy. The human aspect of the position is an entirely different chal-lenge.

The decision making process of whether or not to accept the position, however, seemed to work itself out on its own.

Being a part of the paper for three years, and work-ing along side former edi-tors and staff members who put so much time and effort into The Poly Post, it seemed like the logical progression to take on the challenge and do everything to uphold all the hard work that has been done so far.

Working along side man-aging editor Amanda New-fi eld will bring a good deal of experience to the paper. As the former Editor in Chief, her input and experience will be crucial in the attempt to raise the bar of The Poly Post’s standards even higher.

In the news section, Mitch-ell Saltzman will keep on the beat of all things Cal Poly Pomona. Working on staff for almost a year has prepped him well for the challenges that come with the position of the front page.

Derrick Taruc and assistant editor Valerie Chen will be in charge of the lifestyle sec-tion. As former staff writers, the duo is no stranger to cov-ering campus life and local events, and will keep readers informed when it comes to music, movies and all things media related. Be sure to check out Valerie’s column in opinions, “Ask me a Ques-Chen.”

Evan Perkins will take on the task of opinions edi-tor, bringing readers content that ranges from the thought

New solar panels on Kellogg gym help make the Cal Poly Pomona cam-pus more environmentally friendly.

Pedro Corona / Th e Poly Post


See JOBS/Pg. 4

Brave New YearGREG TOUMASSIAN

Editor in Chief

See GREG/Pg. 4

allocated for the university. It will be paid out over fi ve years, with $10 million being paid out the fi rst year and then yearly awards of $8 million to follow for the remaining four years. The hope is to have at least $1.5 to $2 million of in-terest every year to be used.

The $42 million also comes as a challenge grant, which means Kellogg is awarding the money while challenging Cal Poly Pomona alumni and supporters to rally behind the university’s upcoming $150 million comprehensive cam-paign.

This does not mean that the money will be taken away if the challenge is not met, but instead is a way for the Kel-logg Foundation to inspire additional giving and philan-thropy.

Kevin Truong, a fourth-year computer information systems student, said that while he’s happy about the grant, he still holds some con-cerns about where the money will go.

“At fi rst I said ‘this is awe-some,’ this is going to do a lot of good for our school,” said Truong. “But then I started to

wonder, what exactly are they going to use it for? Are they going to open up more class-es, are they going to put more money into buildings, or help out teachers?”

Upon learning of what the money will be used for, Tru-ong replied that it was “inter-esting because we are helping what our school is known for by helping to represent every-body, but I was also wonder-ing whether they’re missing the big picture, because we are still aiming for a great education.”

However, Ortiz wanted to let students know that there will be much discussion and deliberation with regards to how the funding is distrib-uted.

“We will be engaged in

consultation with faculty, staff, administrators, and stu-dents to fi nd out what their needs are,” said Ortiz. “We will come up with a plan of how we will spend the fi rst two million dollars, mak-ing sure that it’s meeting the needs that we’ve identifi ed.”

“It really is an extraor-dinary gift to the campus,” said Ortiz. “It is absolutely a testimonial to how our prede-cessors and current members of the faculty and staff have addressed what Mr. Kellogg was looking to do, that they are confi dent enough in us to provide us with this kind of support.”


REC CENTER:REC CENTER: Majority of freshmen approve fee increaseMajority of freshmen approve fee increaseterest on the bond.

The idea for a campus rec center is not a new one. In 2008, a campus-wide refer-endum took place in which students denied the con-struction of a rec center with 1083 students voting no and 626 voting yes.

Despite what happened two years ago though, 98 percent of the polled incom-ing freshmen were in favor of the idea of adding a rec center to campus with 75 percent saying that they ap-proved of the fee increase.

Executive Director of

ASI, Cora Culla, explained that the cause for the change of heart could be in the dif-ference of moods between the two years.

“If we look back in time, that was the onset of the budget crunch,” Culla said. “The economy was begin-ning to go south, and stu-dents were just very anxious, and in some cases, very up-set over how the budget cuts were beginning to affect their ability to get classes.”

Culla also said that ac-cording to an exit poll, stu-dents were uncomfortable

voting for a fee increase that would only be imposed on students who came after them.

“This recent opportunity to poll the students was done with the incoming freshmen because that’s the fi rst batch of students who will actually be using the center and pay-ing the fee increase,” Culla said

Salvador Lopez, a fi fth-year computer information systems student, echoes the result of the exit poll.

“They wanted to build the rec center for new incoming

freshmen, so I voted no be-cause I wasn’t going to use it,” said Lopez.

While an advisory stu-dent referendum is the pre-ferred method of measuring student support for a fee increase, Executive Order 1034 allows for an alterna-tive consultation process, which in this case took the form of the poll of incoming freshmen, if it is determined that a referendum is not to be the best measure of student opinion.

Joslin Salazar, a fourth-year fi nance and technol-

ogy operations management student also voted no to the rec center in 2008 due to it not offering enough that the BSC didn’t provide, but did not have a problem with the decision to act on a poll of the freshmen class as op-posed to a referendum.

“Ultimately, since they [freshmen] are going to use it, I guess maybe they do have a good amount of say, since they are going to be using it and not us,” said Salazar.

Though second-year aero-nautical engineering student

Dom Plata likes the fact that they’re upgrading the school’s fi tness center, but wonders if the money could be spent elsewhere.

“If they do have the mon-ey to spend, then I just feel like they should’ve been used some of that money to save a couple of programs,” said Plata.

For more information re-garding the 2014 rec center, visit http://www.asi.csupo-mona.edu/reccenter/.

GRANT:GRANT: An “extraordinary gift”[email protected] Mitchell Saltzman at:


JOBS:JOBS: CPP provides convenient work

fl exible.” “They schedule around

your classes,” said Gonzaga,.At the Gas Creative Group,

the in-house design and mar-keting communications ser-vice of the Associated Stu-dent, Inc and the Offi ce of Student Life, three graphic design students—Trinkel De La Paz, Eric Au, and Jenny Amagrande—put into prac-tice Cal Poly Pomona’s phi-losophy of “learn by doing.”

“We do a lot of market-ing on campus,” said Ama-grande. “We make posters for clubs and organizations on campus, but we mainly focus on ASI events.”

They were responsible for the “Eat, Meet, Study, Play” campaign in the student cen-

ter, a very visible result of the work they have put in.

Like the Writing Center, Gas is very fl exible about hours.

“Our bosses are extremely understanding when it comes to our school schedules,” said Au. “Our school defi nitely comes fi rst.”

And that is one of the many advantages of a job on campus.

“Student work schedules are pretty fl exible,” said Munnerlyn.

Employers are sympathet-ic to students and are willing to work around school and study schedules, which is a boon when mid-terms and fi nals come around.

Location is also an advan-tage. Commutes from school

to work or vice-versa are eliminated which allows for more studying as well.

But there are on-campus employment eligibility re-quirements that must be met before even being consid-ered. From the Career Center website: “To be employed on-campus, a student must have a minimum 2.0 GPA (both Cal Poly Pomona and overall GPA) and be cur-rently enrolled for at least 6.1 units (undergraduate) / 4 units (graduate).” There are also requirements for “Bridge” students as well. And of course, “one must be of legal status to work in California.”

GREG:GREG: A brave new staffA brave new [email protected] Derrick Taruc at:

Continued from page 1


It is absolutely a testimonial to how our predecessors and current mem-bers of the staff have addressed what Mr. Kellogg was looking to do, that they are confi dent in us enough to provide us with this kind of support.

-Michael J. OrtizPresident

provoking to hysterical. For a car guy’s take on life, take a look at Perkin’s own column in lifestyle, “Live and Let Drive.”

Erik Carr will take on the sports beat and keep readers up to date with Bronco Ath-

letics. Be sure head over to “On the Turf,” Carr’s own column to get the sports scoop.

Pedro Corona and Daniel Nguyen will work together as photo editors to bring all of our stories into high resolu-tion detail as Kevin Vu brings

takes all of our stories to the web.

Issue one has come and gone. Be sure to check in with The Poly Post every Tuesday. We keep you posted.



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the average person/family deal better with this issue.”

Avo Garabedian, a second-year busi-ness student, realizes the importance of Troncale’s cancer course after his grand-father lost his battle against cancer ear-lier this year. “It really opens your eyes to the possibilities of others having it, and I think the more you know, the more you’re aware and realize the significance of the issue.”

Troncale’s Biology of Cancer course offers seven lectures given by guest medi-cal doctors from the City of Hope.

This course is also supplemented by a student club to help fi ght against cancer.

The Theatre Department offers many elective courses for students, but one note-worthy one is Technical Production II.

This course offers a hands-on experi-ence, exploring elements of make-up and costume construction in theatre produc-tion.

A third-year theatre student, Anthony Solorzano II says, “I would definitely rec-

ommend this class. It is a great stress re-lief when taking upper division classes or other hard GE classes you have to take.”

Introduction to Film and American Culture is another great theatre elective, which focuses on different perspectives of American films.

James Valencia, a third-year engineer-ing student, sums the course up with, “The teacher was really energetic, people were cool, and the movies were very in-teresting. It gave me a new outlook on all film.”

For those students who are 21 and old-er, a class that may spark some interest is Wine, Beer, and Spirits, taught by Dr. Margie Jones.

“I like to think that my class is a place to learn some science, some history, some

economics and a little culture,” said Jones.

Despite the small product fee require-ment, Dr. Jones claims her course is worth taking.

“Students begin to gain knowl-edge about products that could be pursued the rest of their lives. We focus on how these products are made, what products are common where and why and finish with how to use this information to please others and to enjoy alcohol appropriately in a professional environment.”

Some other interesting electives include World Dance and Cultures, Guitar Class, Companion Animal Care, and Visual Arts.

A water main break oc-curred Sunday, August 22, temporarily closing down part of University Drive.

Facility Management immediately began re-pairs by stopping the water leak and restoring water to nearby campus buildings affected by the incident.

Damages to the under-ground domestic transite pipe and the site are cur-rently being reviewed to determine the cause, but no certain evaluations have been concluded to what might have caused the break.

While there could be several potential causes for a water main break, the most likely cause is the old

age of the pipes. “There is a long history

of old infrastructure, and the pipes are more than 50 years old,” said Mark Millar, director of facility management.

A second pipe was dis-covered damaged after the domestic pipe broke. The second pipe serves reclaimed water that leads to a nearby fi re hydrant and the sprinkler system around the area.

Approximately 300 lin-ear feet to the underground line was damaged and needed to be replaced.

The campus plumbing shop worked with the util-ity work to install a new PVC and replace the dam-aged transite pipe.

Repairs to University Drive were expected to be completed by Sept. 17.

For most Cal Poly Pomo-na Students, registration is a time when nerves are al-ready dangerously on edge.

With the struggle to get classes weighing heavy on most minds, technical diffi culties with Bronco Direct are the last things frustrated students need to deal with.

Several Cal Poly Pomo-na students have reported problems with the system severe enough that they were rendered incapable of registering for classes.

“I was unable to get into 3 of the 4 classes I need-ed.” Said third-year math student Ahsan Currimbhoy.

Fourth-year engineering student Avery Snyder, has also been plagued by Bron-co Direct diffi culties.

“I’ve had holds appear the second I was eligible to register for classes when the past couple days they were not shown,“ said Sny-der.

Cal Poly student Justin Shen actually became so infuriated with the perfor-mance of Bronco Direct he created a facebook page to express his resentment.

The problems with Bronco Direct experienced by most students include, receiving the Peoplesoft error message, Bronco Di-rect reverting to a previous term, and the system com-ing to a near stand-still dur-ing heavy traffi c on regis-tration days.

Mauricio Calderon, the director of applications at Cal Poly’s I&IT center, be-lieves that help for troubled students is readily avail-able.

“The help center is pre-pared to help students,” said Calderas. “We can-not fi x problems we don’t know about though so please inform us.”

There are a few things Calderon recommends stu-dents do in order to oil the gears of the registration process and prevent prob-lems with Bronco Direct.

Calderon recommends that students be as prepared as possible before registra-tion to avoid last minute panic and rush.

“Check and see what classes and times are avail-able before your registra-tion date,” said Calderon. “Putting in a class’s ID number is a lot faster than searching and saves pre-cious time.”

“When you hit your ap-pointment time you need to have a plan,” said Calderon

Calderon also warns against registering from a poor internet connection or using your browser’s back tab.

“There is a caching issue with Peoplesoft’s portal software, “said Calderon. “The back tab reverts the page to its original condi-tion before any information was entered.”

“Bronco Direct gets slow but that’s because everyone is on it,” said fourth-year political science student Alex Martinez.

Like Martinez and so

many other students have noticed, Bronco Direct does slow down consider-ably during registration ap-pointments.

“We have upwards of 3500 connections log on at the same time during add-drop period,” said Calde-ron. “This is why it is es-

pecially important to have a list of courses laid out before registration.”

The CSU system pur-chased Peoplesoft in 1998 and Cal Poly Pomona re-ceived the portal applica-tion, now known as Bronco Direct. The system is in a constant state of evolution

and hasn’t had a crash in several years.

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Being a national contender and capturing the conference title are just two of the goals of interim women’s basket-ball coach Danelle Bishop.

“Coach Bishop has been successful at two respected institutions in Southern Cali-fornia,” said Director of In-tercollegiate Athletics Brian Swanson. “She has existing relationships and numerous contacts state-wide which will be benefi cial to recruit-ing. Her teams have com-peted against the CCAA for many years and she is under-standing of the teams in the league.”

This season at Cal Poly will serve as the third school and the eighth year overall that Bishop has been a head coach. Last year, Bishop coached for Cal Baptist which fi nished the season with an overall record of 12-18 and a conference record

of 5-15.“Danelle is a person whose

had success at APU and Cal Baptist,” said Sports Informa-tion Director Mark Reinhiller. “I think the girls will enjoy playing for her. She played the game [and] had success as a coach.”

Despite this being her fi rst season with Cal Poly, Bishop, who has an overall record of 138-85, has set goals she hopes for the team to accom-plish.

“The fi rst thing would be to be a national contender,” Bishop said. “[Another goal is] try to win the Regionals.”

Bishop also said what it was about this team that makes her excited for this season.

“The mindset of each of the players,” Bishop said. “They kind of know what it takes.”

Last season, the Broncos ended the year with a record of 22-7, which was their best season in six years, and in-cluded a playoff berth. The

Broncos’ season ended in the fi rst round of the NCAA tournament with a 69-50 loss against Alaska Anchorage.

As far as what impressed Bishop most when she ac-cepted Cal Poly’s offer to coach, it was the school’s reputation both on and off the

court.“I think the traditions for

women’s basketball is what is most impressive,” Bishop said. “The university academ-ically is also a major plus.”

While the players have spent a few seasons together under coach Davis, both the

players and coach Bishop will be spending their fi rst season together playing on a new court. With the new court, the problem of dead spots is no longer an issue.

Dead spots are areas on the court, which not only pre-vent the ball from bouncing,

but also has the potential to negatively affect the height a given athlete can jump.

Coach Bishop believes the elimination of the dead spots on the court will be benefi cial to the team’s performance this season because the team will be able to dribble the ball

down the court without the possibility of losing control and be able to jump without any resistance from the court.

Bishop began her head coaching career at Azusa Pa-cifi c University. In every sea-son she coached there, Bish-op led her team to the NAIA National Tournament.

In the 2007-08 season, Bishop became the head coach at California Baptist University. Before coming there, the school’s basket-ball program had averaged a new head coach every other season over a decade-long period.

Upon the completion of the 2008-09 season, Bishop ac-complished a feat that CBU had not experienced in 17 years: back-to-back seasons with a winning record.

Before becoming a head coach, Bishop was a star player in her own right. At her alma mater East Union High School in Manteca, Bishop became one of only three ath-

letes to have her jersey retired and was the fi rst female to have that honor.

In college, Bishop spent a season each at the Univer-sity of Florida and San Joa-quin Delta College, and was named MVP, All-Bay Con-ference at the latter. Bishop then spent her last two sea-sons at Tarleton State, where she was an All-Lone Star Conference selection in both 1998 and 1999.

Upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree in exer-cise and sports science from Tarleton, she returned to San Joaquin Delta College as an assistant coach for three seasons and then served as a graduate assistant at Tarleton. Bishop also has a master’s in education.

The women’s basketball team will begin its season on Nov. 6 with an exhibition game at Long Beach State.


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determined the building sys-tems were failing early as well.”

Sylvester said the next step in the process involved himself and Ortiz taking these requests to CSU Chan-cellor Charles Reed.

In that conversation, Reed made the suggestion to build a new building rather than spending a similar amount to retrofi t the current one.

“It’s only turned the cor-ner from being a seismic ret-rofi t to a new building in just

the last couple of months,” he said.

Additionally, the triangu-lar design of the building may be architecturally at-tractive to some but is dif-fi cult to occupy and move around in, Sylvester said.

“Here is our opportunity to improve on all that and build a new building that’s not on the San Jose Fault,” he said. “We are calling it a student services building, because that’s what it’s go-ing to be.”

He also said that plans for the new building involve a more user-friendly set up to avoid the use of multiple levels for one transaction.

Design development could begin as early as next year and Sylvester hopes

this new building can be-come just as iconic as the current building is.

If the project and demo-lition of the CLA building are approved, the adjacent George and Sakaye Aratani Japanese Garden would be closed temporarily.

“It would be our intent to minimize the impact on the garden,” said Sylvester. “But we do realize that once we get to demolition, there’s going to be some impact.”

Sylvester also said there are plans to expand the gar-den when the CLA building is gone.

“We are optimistic that when it gets to this level it will most likely be ap-proved,” said Sylvester.

Raymond Morrison, di-rector of Facilities Planning and Management, said it was unlikely that designs for a new building by students and faculty would be accept-ed, yet all input is welcome.

“It’s our policy here to have an inclusive process where we have workshops with the campus for stu-dents, faculty and staff,” Morrison said. “We have found this process to be very successful with trying to make sure the campus par-ticipates.”


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frame it, it’s a very nice affi rmation of the quality of our program, and we’re very pleased.”

Coduto credits the suc-cess of the program to the college’s focus on develop-ing the practical skills of its students, which makes Cal Poly Pomona students ex-tremely attractive for com-

panies looking to hire new talent.

“For a lot of employers, we’re among their short list of schools for recruiting,” said Coduto. “They like the fact that our graduates are very practical and able to solve real world prob-lems.”

Fifth-year aerospace engineering student Paul

Spradley believes that the program should have been ranked even higher.

“We have a very good hands-on approach,” said Spradley. “I love being able to work with machines as I’m learning about them.”

The College of Engineer-ing wasn’t the only part of Cal Poly Pomona that earned a spot of recogni-

tion on the list though. The university in general tied for seventh among public universities in the Western region of the US that of-fer a full range of under-grad programs and some master’s programs but few doctoral programs, and tied for 32nd among both public and private schools within the same category.

Another category that Cal Poly Pomona ranked high in was diversity, tying for fi fth in the west with Cal State University Long Beach with a diversity in-dex of 0.69.

To put it into perspective, the diversity index of the number one school in the west, La Sierra University in Riverside CA, was a 7.3.

The Western region of the United States as de-fi ned by these rankings includes Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Wash-ington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyo-ming, and Oklahoma.

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A more modern version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has taken over the stage in Cal Poly Pomona’s University Theatre.

According to Assistant Professor of Theatre Linda Bisesti, “Hamlet” is one of the most mass produced productions.

The story revolves around Hamlet, who comes home from college and fi nds his father dead and his uncle on the throne, married to his mother.

The ghost of Hamlet’s father then appears to him, revealing that the man who now sits on the throne killed him, and that it is time to avenge his death.

Hamlet fakes his madness, and insanity ensues with plenty of sword fi ghting and death in between.

Bisesti, who is also the artistic

director of the Southern California Shakespeare Festival, plays Queen Gertrude for the production.

SCSF gives the opportunity of gaining theatre experience through performing with professional actors.

“I felt it was important for students to have a professional credit on their resume when they go out into the world,” says Bisesti. “It gives them more of a competitive edge when they go out into the world to work.”

The classic yet modernly portrayed play is directed by guest director Joah Machamer, a member of the Pacifi c Conservatory of the Performing Arts faculty.

“The modern clothing helps show that the play is universal, and that it can be done in any time period,” says Laura DeLano, a fourth-year theatre arts student who plays Ophelia. “We are who we are, and the story is what

matters, not the time.”Modern clothing also causes

fewer distractions for the audience, giving them the chance to better listen and concentrate on what is being said.

“It was really about not trying to make it bigger than it was and not trying to make a big spectacle, but instead, just to tell a story,” said

Robert Shields, a fi fth-year theater arts student who plays Hamlet.

Going along with the nontraditional theme of the production, the play is set in a circular arena setting with the audience around the stage.

“This is the fi rst time here that the setup has been in a round,” said

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Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol are two of the most famous Pop artists from the 60s. Their works have been featured in museums and galleries all over the world, and their paintings sell for millions of dollars. And one of them hangs right here in Cal Poly Pomona.

A Lichenstein painting is in the learning commons on the second fl oor of the University Library. Despite its prime position, it goes mostly unnoticed. A new project, called “Pathfi nder to the Treasures,” seeks to rectify this.

“When [artworks] are on display, the proper thing to do is to identify them,” said Ray Wang, dean of the library.

Labels are being created that will have the artist’s name, title of the work

and an explanation of the work. This will position the University Library as a place not only for knowledge but as a gallery as well.

The project, initiated by Wang four months ago and

supervised by Olufunke Oluyemi, assistant to the dean for human resources, is being conducted by recent Cal Poly graduate, Anne Marie Anabeza.

Anabeza found out about

the project last spring while doing a story for The Poly Post. While on assignment, she asked Wang about the artworks in the library. Wang mentioned that he wanted to create a project that would

label the artworks in the library. Anabeza, who has a Bachelors of Arts in art and a Bachelors of Science in anthropology, volunteered.

She is in the process of creating the labels that will accompany each artwork and is also researching each artwork in order to tell its story.

“If you’re curious about a piece of art then you would want to know more about it,” she said. “These pieces right here,”—referring to three paintings in her offi ce—“I have no idea what it’s about, and I’m less interested in it because I have less information. The more information I have about something, the more interested I’ll be.”

Her research has her combing through the expected avenues: books and online sources. But it has also led her to contact some of the artists directly.

There are exceptions to who she can contact.

Lichtenstein died 13 years ago.

The late and great Swiss modernist Le Corbusier, whose print is hanging on the second fl oor, died 45

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Southern California Shakespeare Festival back at Cal Poly Pomona

Like so many oth-er gear-heads, I have watched professional rac-ing for years and always secretly hoped I could somehow be a part of it.

As a college student with very little free time or disposable income, I thought that racing was much better suited to in-class daydreams than real-life endeavors. How-ever, on Saturday, Dec. 4, all of that will change.

I wasn’t discovered by a big name company that wants to slap a logo on my back. I won’t be fl ying down the Mulsane straight in a formula car or ripping off nine second passes at the Winterna-tionals.

There won’t be any me-dia coverage, and I won’t have my name glorifi ed

on anything but a T-shirt make myself.

What I will be doing is driving a zip-tied and duct-taped piece of junk in the 24 Hours of LeM-ons race, with four of my closest friends. No, I didn’t misspell “Le Mans,” I meant “Lem-ons.”

The 24 hours of Lemons is a two-day 24 hour en-durance race that requires entrants’ cars to be pur-chased for a maximum of $500. The purpose of the race is to provide an outlet for people, like me, who want so badly to race but lack the fi nancial backing to run with the big boys.

So maybe I’m not run-ning the Long Beach Grand Prix, and yes, the quality of cars bought for $500 is absolutely terri-ble, but this is a legitimate wheel-to-wheel race, and I’m going to be a part of it!

Actual racing remains the heart of the event, but it’s the environment that draws most of the com-petitors.

The 24 hours of Lem-ons isn’t about having the most expensive or tech-nically advanced car on

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Hamlet, played by Robert Shields (right), suspects his uncle Claudius, played by Baron Kelly, of killing his father. Daniel Nguyen / Th e Poly Post

Roy Lichentstein’s Pop painting in the library commons goes unnoticed.Alex Waldron/ Th e Poly Post

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New project aims to map out artworks in the University Library

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Hamlet: Rob Shields Ophelia: Laura DeLanoClaudius: Baron Kelly Gertrude: Linda Bisesti Polonius: Julian White Horatio:Daniella Tarankow Laertes: Nate Akstin-Johnson Ghost, Player King, 1st Clown,

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So maybe I’m not run-ning the Long Beach Grand Prix . . . but this is a legitimate wheel-to-wheel race, and I’m going to be a part of it!

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“I think it’s going to be a special year for BroncoFu-sion,” Alfred Magallanes, who handles marketing and communications for Asso-ciated Students, Inc., said about today’s event.

BroncoFusion is an annual day-long event held the day before fall quarter begins.

According to Magallanes, it’s a celebration of the new school year.

To help celebrate will be Los Angeles pop-rock outfi t, Shiny Toy Guns HYBRID-IGITAL, and underground hip-hop veteran, Pigeon John. But this time around, besides just having estab-lished big-name acts, there will be emerging artists per-forming as well.

“This year, what I did was incorporate a lot of Cal Poly acts,” said Karlo Arenas, the programs assistant for ASI who has been organizing the concerts at BroncoFusion for six years.

Cal Poly Pomona acts scheduled to perform are Lyrically Twisted, One Sil-

ver Astronaut, Whyte Boy and Chris Alanis. Each per-former refl ects the style of the headliners: either hip-hop or pop/rock.

The choice to include Cal Poly Pomona acts was not based solely on school pride but also the fact that the art-ists have been doing their own legwork to promote themselves.

“These artists actually have a fan base on campus,” said Arenas.

Another change is loca-tion.

This year the free concert at BroncoFusion will take place at the new Bronco Commons near the recently built residential suites lo-cated in the south end of campus. According to Ma-gallanes, this is going to be the new hub for activities. As part of this move, a built-in stage has been construct-ed.

“The stage this year is ac-

tually bigger than any Bron-coFusion stage I’ve ever had,” said Arenas.

Previous BroncoFusion concerts have been held at Horseshoe Hill where a stage had to be constructed. The acts have included Murs, RX Bandits, De La Soul, Plain White T’s, Unwritten Law and KRS-One.

Besides offering a free concert, BroncoFusion of-fers a chance for students to get involved with the cam-pus. There will be educa-tional workshops, campus tours and open houses. Stu-dents will also have access to the Bronco Bookstore and can obtain parking passes and student ID cards.

According to Magallanes, there will also be a club fair and a resource fair where students can fi nd out about the different services and programs that are provided to them.

But remember:“It’s not just geared to-

wards freshmen. Everyone can come,” said Arenas.

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Once again providing a free meal to the Bronco community, the 26th annual Hot Dog Caper will take place in university quad, bringing together new and returning students, staff and faculty.

The event is scheduled to take place Sept. 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Uni-versity Park and serves as a homecoming event for the campus.

Around 12,000 hot dogs, 4,000 of those being veg-etarian, are estimated to be served at the event, which is equal to the amount served last year despite enrollment being lower for the 2010-11 academic year.

“This event is unique,” said Laura Orozco, the mar-keting development man-ager for Cal Poly Pomona Foundation and head of the committee that oversees the event. “It’s faculty staff and students, so you get every-body out there together hav-ing a good time.”

Orozco believes the event serves as a welcome back for the campus community while providing an opportu-nity to create Bronco spirit.

With the appearance of Commander Chuck Street, KIIS FM’s traffi c reporter, his helicopter and the return of the veggie dog option, the free event has evolved to meet the wants and desires of the Bronco family.

“It’s really neat, we have a lot of people in the cam-pus community who are vegetarian,” she said. “It’s really important for us to support them.”

Cal Poly Chief of Police Michael Guerin works with Commander Chuck Street with the landing and taking off of his helicopter to in-sure the area is safe.

“We know where we are going to put [the helicopter], we know he can get in there and the trees are trimmed,” said Guerin. “We also pro-vide a crew of police and parking offi cers to ring the area to make sure no body gets in the way.”

The helicopter landing

is scheduled to take place around 10:30 a.m.

Cal Poly Pomona Foun-dation, one of the main co-horts and organizers of the university event, provides the hot dogs and veggie dogs for the event, while Associated Students Inc. provides ice cream options.

“Pepsi is one of our big-gest sponsors and they bring all the soft drinks,” said Orozco. “Everyone takes part in it and helps. It’s a campus wide thing.”

In addition to free food, the event provides music, entertainment and games for the Bronco community.

Since the event takes place early in the academic year, planning begins as ear-ly as February said Orozco.

“Once we’ve reserved the venue, I design the artwork for the volunteer shirts and meet with committee mem-bers from the various on and off campus sponsors and invite the campus com-munity to volunteer,” she said. “We couldn’t do this without these enthusiastic partners.”

Orozco also said that for more than 40 years, Cal Poly Pomona Foundation has strived to exemplify its motto of quality service and supporting quality educa-tion and will continue to do just that with events such as the Hot Dog Caper.

Students and faculty alike are looking forward to the event said Johnathan Jianu, ASI vice president.

Jianu is excited to meet all the people he can at the event. He believes the ef-fort is worth it in the end because this is one part of the Cal Poly Pomona expe-rience that many will hold on to.

“Cal Poly Pomona is a community, and this is an event that the entire com-munity shares,” he said. “I don’t think you can put a price on that.”

For more information including a comprehensive listing of Foundation pro-grams visit www. Founda-tion.csupomona.edu.

Hotdogs! Get your hotdogs!

President Michael Ortiz passes out free hotdogs at the annual Hot Dog Caper in front of the BSC.

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Bronco Fusion: more acts, better locationDERRICK TARUC

Lifestyle Editor

AMANDA NEWFIELD

Managing Editor

at last year’s BroncoFusion, underground hip-

hop artist Murs helps gets a crowd to move.

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There is plenty to do at BroncoFusion, including educational workshops, cam-pus tours and open houses. However, Tyrone Stokes eagerly anticipates the free concert for Cal Poly Pomona students.

“I’ve been wanting to per-form at BroncoFusion for-ever,” said Stokes.

Today, Stokes, a sixth-year communication student, gets his wish. He performs under the alias “Lyrically Twisted” and dubs himself as a “posi-tive/inspirational hip-hop art-ist.” A long-time resident of Pomona, his fan base gener-ally consists of locals.

At a young age, Stokes enjoyed working on poetry. By middle school, he felt in-spired by his father to write songs as well.

Stokes believes that as an artist, he has the duty of be-ing a good infl uence.

“I think that there’s not a lot of positive messages that go into the majority of hip-hop songs that you hear nowadays,” he said. “Most of it is about materialism and sex. I try to give some type of inspirational message that can create positive change.”

One way he spreads this message is through his own story. In the song “Who Would I Be,” found on his MySpace page, he ponders about the different paths his life could have taken and has taken.

He relates how he was brought up by a single father and a grandmother, about liv-ing on the streets and about time spent in a foster home.

But despite this, or maybe because of it, Stokes is where he is now: at Cal Poly Pomo-na, working towards a degree, making his art and fi nally per-forming at BroncoFusion.

Stokes’ stoked

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Tyrone Stokes, aka Lyrically Twisted, spits positivity.

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Bisesti. Actors agree that

performing in a round setting can be an innovative experience for players.

“It’s my fi rst time in a setup round, but it’s almost better because then there is always someone who can see your face,” said Will Dinwiddie, a fi fth-year theatre arts student who

plays Rosencrantz.Showings for “Hamlet”

are Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through Oct. 3 in the Studio Theatre, building 25, with a special showing on Friday, Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15.

track. The soul of Lem-ons lies in the time spent with friends and team-mates trying to coax the neglected shell of a car to last for an entire 24 hour race.

The race is about act-ing goofy, hanging out and building a car with close friends. Any true gear head knows that friends, tools-and pizza-equate to a soulfully perfect day. When you take big money out of the equation, things get a lot less complicated.

The race will take place at Buttonwillow Speedway in Bakersfield, California through Dec. 4-5. There will be 12 hours of driv-ing each day. On the final day, the car that has com-pleted the most laps will be awarded $1500 paid entirely in nickels. That’s

330 pounds of nickels.The race does require

a full roll cage and five-point harness be fitted to the car. Also brakes, tires, wheels and safety equip-ment are not factored into the $500 maximum.

Those with deeper pock-ets should be discouraged from attempting to sneak a more expensive car past the judges. For every $10 the judges suspect you went over the $500 spend-ing cap, you will be penal-ized one lap.

I am hopeful that fel-low Bronco gear-heads will take note that there are affordable ways to get out and do what we love. When life gives you Lem-ons…build racecars.

At Cal Poly Pomona, stu-dents tend to strictly associ-ate professors with the class-es they teach.

However, these professors have unseen lives outside of the classroom. Which leaves one to wonder: what ex-actly do professors do when they’re not assigning us homework and condemning us to hours at the library?

Dr. Alison Pearlman, an associate professor of art his-tory, spends her time outside of the classroom with the thing we all know and love: food.

She integrates a lifelong passion of food with her deep interest in art and design his-tory through her blog, titled “The Eye in Dining”.

“The Eye in Dining” stemmed from Pearlman’s work on her book-in-prog-ress, “Smart Casual: How Trends in Restaurant Design Changed Fine Dining and the Meaning of Sophisticat-ed Taste in America.” While writing, she had excess thoughts about restaurant design and the aesthetics of food that did not fi t in the book. So, she began a blog.

“It’s kind of like a column in a newspaper,” said Pearl-man. “When you write a book, it’s a long process, and you’re so isolated by not having an audience for a very long time. The blog is a way to get these ideas out there in short form and have an immediate audience for.”

However, “The Eye in Dining” is different from other food blogs, which are plentiful and easy to fi nd on the Internet. It does not showcase restaurant reviews or describe recipes. Instead, the blog is about the visual culture of food.

“I don’t consider myself

a food historian or a food critic. I’m much more in-terested in the aesthetics of food and restaurants,” said Pearlman.

Pearlman points out that the topics of her blog posts all include some sort of aes-thetic dimension or a refer-ence to pop culture and the media.

An example is the blog’s very fi rst entry in Jan. 2009 that dissects the aesthetics of menus themselves, rather than the food on the menu.

“I was looking at the trends of the language of writing menus,” said Pearlman.

Another post references the popular MTV television show, called “Jersey Shore.”

Pearlman, an avid fan, had noticed the reoccurring scene of the “Jersey” charac-ters cooking.

She considers the show to be more than the typical MTV series full of hooking up, partying and drama.

“On MTV shows, you don’t see a lot of communal cooking,” said Pearlman. “Since MTV cannot avoid capturing it on this particu-lar show, it says that there is a culture of cooking among these people.”

Pearlman believes that by incorporating her art his-torian knowledge, she is able to contribute something of her own expertise.

She has no favorite post in her blog, but has some sentimentality for the fi rst post about menu aesthetics.

As she continues to write “Smart Casual: How Trends in Restaurant Design Changed Fine Dining and the Meaning of Sophisti-

cated Taste in America,” the blog will continue with new posts.

Recently, Pearlman vis-ited New York to do research for her book. The research included visiting a number of restaurants featured in the book, documenting photo-graphs and menus and ask-ing questions.

When asked to name her favorite restaurant and favorite food, Pearlman laughed.

“Oh gosh, I can’t answer this question—there’s too many to just pick one,” she said. “I re-ally love innovative food. But I also love pizza. I love sushi. And I love ev-erything in between.”

Pearlman has an “Eye in Dining”

Alison Pearlman, art historian and cultural critic, probes the social signifi -cance of contemporary food and restaurant design in her blog.

photo courtesy of Alison Pearlman

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LEMONS: Not Le Mans

HAMLET: Returns

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The legacy of a young man who strived to help others will be hon-ored as the Matthew Myers Memo-rial 5K Run/Walk commemorates its fi fth year.

Created in tribute to Cal Poly Po-mona student Matthew Myers, who was fatally struck by a car in the fall quarter of 2005, Matt’s Run will take place on Oct. 16.

The race will begin at 8 a.m. and take runners and walkers through a 5K USA Track and Field certi-fi ed course that stretches around the campus.

“Every year, the event will be another year farther away from the loss of our son,” said Kevin Myers, Matt’s father. “That’s just the way life goes, but also, we are another year into helping a lot of people … had it not been for a tragedy that happened to him, this would have not happened.”

Since the establishment of the Matt’s Run, the number of par-

ticipants who run and walk has in-creased every year. Last year’s event saw 734 participants, almost double the fi rst year’s turn out of 370.

“We continue to celebrate Matt’s legacy,” said Laura Peterson, senior event planner. “It’s important for everyone to realize it is about honor-ing Matt—that’s our focus with this. Because it’s the fi fth year, it’s time to take it to another level.”

Money from the event supports the growth of the Matthew Myers Memorial Fund, which goes towards the students scholarships.

In previous years, six $500 schol-arships were awarded to students. This year, a total of 10 scholarships will be awarded. Nine of the awards will be valued at $500 and one for $1000.

The fund that pays for the schol-arships was established with the in-tensions of honoring Matt’s belief in helping others.

With an endowment goal of $100,000 just within reach, the inter-est can be utilized to give out more scholarships.

To date, the fund has awarded 18 scholarships.

Emilia Ospina, a fourth-year lib-eral studies student, was awarded a scholarship at last year’s event dur-ing a rough time in her life.

“When I received [the scholar-ship], my mom had just passed away and I had to take care of my family,” Ospina said. “I felt like I needed the scholarship, and it helped me stay in school.”

For Chris Myers, Matt’s mother, the event represents the extension of her son’s spirit.

“Life does not end here,” said My-ers. “This is the resurrection: the things that you do, go on. What you pour your spirit into on earth goes on.”

Registration will be on the day of the event starting at 6:30 a.m.

Registration fees is $35 for adults and $20 for students with ID.

Those interested in participating can sign up at www.mattsrun.com.


Matt’s legacy continues


Th e fi ft h annual Matthews Myers Run/Walk will take place at Cal Poly Pomona on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010.

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The crackle of communi-cation on ham radios across campus can only mean one thing: the Cal Poly Pomona Amateur Radio Club is mak-ing its return.

“Any club depends on not just staff pushing the stu-dents or guiding students in a certain direction, it requires a student or students that will take something on and then run with it,” said Michael Guerin, chief of police and advisor for the club. “For whatever reason, nobody picked up the club and ran with it.”

Amateur radio operators have the ability to talk with other operators locally, “dis-tance communicate” across the world and conduct exper-iments with the technology.

The club strives to offer students a chance to get in-volved with the expansive hobby and set up a commu-nity of hams – amateur radio operators – on campus.

“I think the club is im-portant, especially for a polytechnic school like this, because it has so much to of-fer,” said Glen Shiery, data-base administrator. “Frankly, as far as technology goes, I don’t think there is any bet-ter way of having hands on experience other than ham radio because it offers so much.”

Due in part to former members graduating or mov-ing on, the club remained relatively inactive for a few years.

Mark Bailey, former club advisor, credits newer tech-nology for some of the loss

of interest in amateur radio.“With the advent of the cell

phone, I have seen amateur radio become not as popular as it used to be,” said Bai-ley. “The club sort of faded away for a while … it takes time and effort, and if you’re not interested in putting that time and effort in, you’re go-ing to lose members.”

After some persuasion and “sleeve tugging,” as Guerin put it, the idea of bringing

the club back started to take shape.

Necessary actions includ-ed rechartering the club and testing a recently installed repeater.

“Glen [Shiery] put to-gether a repeater, which is essentially a base station radio that takes weak trans-missions from small radios, it echoes them – if you will, repeats them – over a wider area with a lot more power,”

said Guerin.With less students on

campus during the summer, ample testing time was avail-able to work out any kinks.

Alex Gonzales, club presi-dent, said CPPARC’s aim is to provide those interested in the hobby a place to interact, learn and experiment.

“We are not trying to limit it to just ham radio, I don’t want to limit it and have a small niche of people,” said

Gonzales. “It will be open to people who are interested in broadcasting, and it’s not just dedicated to having a li-cense.”

Amatuer radio operators are required to have at least a tech license before operating on FCC allotted frequencies. This is the fi rst in a series of licenses available and is earned by completing a 30 question test.

Beyond the enjoyment and

excitement factor, amateur radio operators can also be-come lines of communica-tion in an emergency.

“The ultimate scenario would be, for me as the po-lice chief, now with my po-lice chief hat on, I would have a group of trained com-municators that I could use throughout the campus in an emergency to give us backup communications capability,” said Guerin.

While the technology of radio communication may be over 100 years old, advents in the way it is incorporated with the Internet has allowed amateur radio operators to reach new distances, some-thing the club hopes to take advantage of.

“There is an interesting marriage forming between amateur radio and the Inter-net,” said Guerin. “Now us-ing Echolink and a couple of other technologies and proto-cols, I can sit at my computer here, with no ham radio even in the room. If I had all the right information and all the right codes I could hook into amateur radios.”

Active amateur radio op-erators interested in joining the club are encouraged to contact Gonzales.

While the club cannot pro-vide equipment, members are willing to show those with an interest the proper steps to get up and running as an amateur radio operator.

Those who do not have a license or equipment should contact the club via its web-site, http://www.csupomona.edu/~cpparc/faq.html.

Members of the reformed Cal Poly Pomona Amateur Radio Club, Alex Gonzales (left) and Jesse Katzenberger, send a message through the ham radio and wait for a response.

Daniel Nguyen/ Th e Poly Post

Return of the hams: GREG TOUMASSIAN

Editor in Chief


Amateur radio club cracklin’ once again



About a year and a half ago, Tepi Benjamins, the owner of Store13, a streetwear clothing bou-tique in West Covina, had noticed that one of his friends was losing weight.

“Yo, how you losing weight?” said Benjamins .

“Look, dude, I bought a fi xie,” explained the friend.

Convinced, Benjamins bought a fi xed-gear bicycle as well. The two friends began to ride together from the store every Tuesday.

Thus was born Store13’s weekly bike meet and ride, dubbed Fix2Fix, an infor-mal gathering of hardcore and enthusiast bikers who ride around the city. The ride leaves at 8:30 p.m., heads to some predeter-mined destination, and comes back to Store13. They return around 10:30 p.m. after traveling about 20 miles round trip.

What started out a year and a half ago as a two-man ride between Ben-jamins and his friend has organically evolved, most-ly through word-of-mouth and social media. Today, it is a gathering that can in-clude up to 50 riders.

Fixed-gear bicycles, or fi xies, are single-speed bi-cycles that allow no coast-ing. With a fi xie, one either pedals or brakes.

“It’s a whole different sensation than a normal bike,” said Benjamins.

Fixed-gear bicycles have been a growing phenom-enon found in all major cities. The most visible

evidence of this is Criti-cal Mass, a monthly bike ride that happens in more than 100 cities around the world, according to the Critical Mass Los Angeles website.

But the Store13 ride is not exclusive to fi xed-gear bicycles. Its online fl ier states: “All bikes and rid-ers welcome.”

“We’re a diverse com-munity, so it’s all walks of

life,” said Benjamins. The riders that night

were a testament to that. Jelani Aldredge, 29, of

Rancho Cucamonga, has been with the ride almost since its inception. At one of the rides, he tried out a fi xed gear and liked it so much that he got his dad’s bike out of the garage, cleaned it all up, painted it and converted it into a fi xed-gear. Now, he said, it’s “pretty much turned into a lifestyle.”

“I love riding my bike,” said Aldredge. “Now, I ride my bike around home almost every day.”

17-year-old West Covina resident Daniel Lomeli, a regular rider since March, came about it a different way. His uncle used to take him to downtown LA for the monthly night rides. But for him, downtown is far; a search for a closer ride led him to Store13. Despite the community the informal gathering offers, Lomeli is not interested in socializing.

“I honestly don’t care to talk to anyone,” said Lom-eli. “I’m just here to ride.”

For others, the motiva-tion is partly the destina-tion.

“Everytime we go, we stop at a place and we eat,” said Melinda Samaniego, incoming Cal Poly Pomona freshman and month-long participant. “After you ex-

ercise, everything tastes so much better.”

Her friend, Jessica Men-dez, also an incoming Cal Poly Pomona freshman, agreed.

“The fi rst time it was amazing,” she said. “We went to Donut Man in Glendora.”

This was her second ride. Despite Fix2Fix’s in-

vitation to all riders, Sa-maniego and Mendez were the only two females coming along for the ride. According to Samaniego, there are usually more fe-males who come along. However, for both of them, it didn’t matter.

“The whole girl and guy ratio thing, it doesn’t really bother me,” said Mendez. “It’s fi ne. It feels normal. Everyone is chill with each other. They treat us the same.”

This may have some-thing to do with founder Benjamins’ outgoing per-sonality and his insistence that it’s not about how fast you ride, what kind of bike you have or what gender you are, but how much en-joyment you gain from it.

“Riding bikes is fun, pe-riod,” he said.

Thanks to this attitude, a ride that started with two has grown into a commu-nity.

Store13 bringing bike riders together

Tepi Benjamins (second row from bottom, holding “peace” sign) and the Fix2Fix crew gather together in front of Store13 every Tuesday night before their ride.

Daniel Nguyen / Poly Post

DERRICK TARUC Lifestyle Editor


years ago. Another long-gone

heavyweight hanging within the library is Joan Miró. Miró is most associated with the Surrealist art movement:

Salvador Dalí, Méret Oppenheim, René Magritte, and the like. However, the Miró print had to be located and identifi ed by Anabeza.

Although given a list by the art department, the works are not cataloged as to their locations and

history.This is where the project

and planned website come in.

According to Anabeza, the plan is to have a link on the library page. There will be an interactive map that will locate artwork

on the second and fourth fl oors and within the administration suite. When one scrolls over an artwork, a picture of the work will pop up accompanied by the information she has gathered.

All of this—the research,

the labels and the website—should be done sometime in October. According to Wang, it’s also a possibility that it could be an ongoing project. Since the artwork is on loan from the art department, a new wave of artwork can be brought

back to the library that would need new labels, which could unearth more treasures that have been hidden away in the university.



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After nine years and fi ve games, game developer Bun-gie is fi nally saying good-bye to its beloved Halo series with the long awaited “Halo: Reach”.

The game serves as a cul-mination of everything that the developers have learned throughout all previous Halo titles, making this one send-off party that Halo fans are not going to want to miss.

Halo: Reach is a prequel, so those that missed out on the story of Master Chief as told in the fi rst three games will still be able to get en-joyment out of the story, even without having played through the prior games in the series.

The game takes place on the titular planet known as Reach, one of humanity’s last surviving strongholds in the war against the alien race known as the Covenant, where a team of Spartans, elite supersoldiers, known as the Noble Team are sent to investigate a potential distur-bance on the planet’s surface.

What they fi nd is evidence of a massive incoming Cov-enant invasion that the planet is simply not prepared to fi ght against.

From there, the story most-ly takes a backseat to the ac-tion as players take control of the newest member of the Noble Team, simply known as Noble 6, and attempt to do whatever they can to try and stop the invasion and fall of Reach.

The problem with the story

of Reach is simply that it fails to make its characters inter-esting enough for the player to care about what actually happens to them.

Character development is nearly non-existent, and what little is there is generally not engaging.

For a game with very mov-ing and powerful scenes, where characters sacrifi ce themselves, the lack of char-acter involvement is a big problem.

But, as previously men-tioned, story takes a backseat to the action in “Reach,” and the action is oh-so-good.

Reach, like all Halo games before it, features some of the smartest and most chal-lenging enemy artifi cial in-telligence you’ll fi nd in video games, at least on the Heroic and Legendary diffi culty lev-els.

Enemies intelligently use cover, run away when they’re outmatched, bombard play-ers with grenades when they think they are safely hiding behind cover, use devastating melee attacks when players

get too close, and will make players pay for charging into a battle headfi rst.

Overall, the single player campaign of Halo: Reach is good and up to standard with previous Halo games, but it’s obvious that it’s the mul-tiplayer where Bungee has truly poured most of its love and labor into.

There is something for everybody in Reach’s mul-tiplayer. For those who want to play with friends but would rather fi ght against the game’s AI as opposed to a potential community of trash talking prepubescent kids on Xbox Live, the game offers four-player co-op mode for the single player campaign in addition to the fi refi ght mode that was fi rst featured in “Halo: ODST.”

Firefi ght pits up to four players against increasingly diffi cult waves of enemies and challenges them to sur-vive with only limited ammo and health supplies.

As the waves get harder, game modifi ers known as skulls are also added into

the mix, potentially causing enemies to drop less ammo when they die, throw more grenades and/or have more health just to name a few.

There’s so much more to talk about involving Reach’s multiplayer: the addition of armor powers like jetpacks and armor lock, the slew of new game types, the expan-sive armory that lets you pur-chase new pieces of armor and truly make your charac-ter look unique online and the overwhelming amount of customization offered to players in multiplayer matches. But, there is just not enough room to go over everything.

The fact of the matter is that if you’re a Halo fan, Reach is the ultimate Halo multiplayer experience and it deserves a spot in your game library. It is the result of nine years worth of fi ne tuning and perfecting one of the best console fi rst person shooters on the market.

Bungie, still at the top of its game

Void of laptops and other technical junk that tends to ruin any prospect an of “elektro” band being good, Sweden’s very own proto/post-punk synth marvels, Agent Side Grinder, mash instruments by hand and in real time.

A band that plays its own instruments? What a refresh-ing prospect.

With so many acts de-pending on the saving grace qualities of digital sequenc-ers and virtual workstations, “Debut” avoids these clichés and plays almost everything by hand.

Moody synthesizer lines move to an electronic rhythm that is compressed and mechanically heavy. Underlying bass lines come through with a tenacious and melodic quality. When these elements are put to-gether with Kristoffer Grip’s tormented growl, the Agent Side Grinder sound falls in a realm somewhere between Joy Division and Suicide.

The slow, throbbing rhythm opening of “Kniev-el Claustrophobia” creates a great deal of breath and heavy ambiance. Those

looking for an immedi-ate jack hammer beat and distorted synthesizers may be put off at fi rst, but soon enough the motor gets warm and Agent Side Grinder puts listeners through the ringer with tracks like “Me, Me and Me.”

As with any good artist, Agent Side Grinder fi nds comfort in the negative space. Plenty of reverberat-ed and delayed tones against minimal music breakdowns provide ample sonic space, creating an album that has an immense sound and a sinister atmosphere.

It’s also refreshing to note that, unlike its contempo-raries, Agent Side Grinder uses a nice library of vari-ous synthesized tones and effected sounds. Each com-position comes off with a nice degree of variety, giv-ing the album a constant and fresh quality.

The music may be bor-derline industrial, but the partial polish of “Debut” creates a pleasing mix of the raw and refi ned. The bass is nice and heavy – as it should be – and the pierc-ing synth sounds are never too shrill. Solid produc-tion never hurts, especially when armed with some great songs.

Re-released on the Kill Shaman label, “Debut” was remastered by Daniel Haw-thorn and put out on com-pact disc with some extra tracks for good measure. This post-punk / synth gem should quickly enter the music collection of any self-respecting fan of the genre.

Noble 6 and the rest of the Noble Team in the latest Halo title head out. Courtesy of Gamespress.com

GREG TOUMASSIAN

Editor in Chief



MITCHELL SALTZMAN

News Editor

Elektro synth band “Swedens” the deal


17The Poly Post www.thepolypost.comWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

This issue of the “Poly Post” begins the Commu-nication Department’s fi f-teenth year as publisher of the newspaper.

Since September 1996, the “Poly Post” has been an instructional unit housed within the Communication Department. It is not affi liat-ed with Associated Students Incorporated (ASI), nor does it receive any funding from them.

Such independence allows the paper to function as both a quality learning experience for student journalists and a trusted source of news and opinion for the Cal Poly Po-mona community.

The Communication De-partment’s vision of the “Poly Post” remains the same today as it did fourteen years ago:

• The “Poly Post” should

be a sound teaching and training tool integrated with the writing, technology and design components of the Communication Department curriculum, thus providing a hands-on platform for train-ing future journalists, news-paper designers and public advocates.

• The “Poly Post” should be an editorially independent and balanced forum for free and responsible expression open to all in the campus community; protected by the First Amendment from censorship and harassment by academic, student, com-munity and administrative groups; and bound by the journalism canons of fair-ness, accuracy and decency.

As publisher of the “Poly Post,” the Communica-tion Department sets broad policy (such as that outlined

above), oversees the budget, advises on key personnel matters and monitors poten-tial issues of liability.

Neither I nor any other full-time Communication faculty, however, is involved in the day-to-day operations of the Poly Post. In fact, we generally do not know of the paper’s specifi c contents until its publication on Tues-day.

Doug Spoon serves as the “Poly Post’s” part-time fac-ulty advisor. An alumnus of Cal Poly, Doug was a Com-munication major and the paper’s editor-in-chief in 1977. He is charged with mentoring student journal-ists and supervising the edi-torial side of the “Poly Post”. Linda Perez, another Cal Poly alumnus, is the “Poly Post’s” full-time advertis-ing, marketing and business

advisor. She is charged with building and maintaining the paper’s fi nancial stability, which ensures both its sur-vival and its editorial inde-pendence.

Several other Commu-nication faculty, through the courses they teach, also help train “Poly Post” writ-ers. Such faculty efforts, along with the work of Doug Spoon and Linda Perez, have enabled the “Poly Post” to become a top tier college newspaper recognized for its quality and integrity.

The accomplishments of the paper and its staff are clearly visible.

The “Poly Post” contin-ues to win awards for its news coverage, investigative reporting, opinion pieces, sports writing and photog-raphy.

Staff members have been

selected for prestigious scholarships and internships, and many former staffers now work as professional journalists. Moreover, the “Poly Post” is seen as a re-spected, objective source of information for the campus community.

To be sure, readers will not like everything the “Poly Post” publishes.

Some will balk when the paper covers a controver-sial topic or when a featured story bears negatively on the Cal Poly community.

Some will always want the “Poly Post” to function simply as a campus cheer-leader.

But that is a shortsighted view: no one—including the falsely championed—ulti-mately benefi ts from such puffery.

The “Poly Post” will ag-

gressively seek and present stories that allow its reader-ship to make informed deci-sions and act intelligently.

The opinion and editorial pages may be personal and provocative, but the news pages will be fair and bal-anced. Readers will experi-ence the impartial voice of a credible paper whose agenda is confi ned to illuminating the reader.

A responsible newspaper can do no less.

If the “Poly Post” student staff strays from that charge, it needs to be told.

If you have comments, questions or complaints, please write or call the edi-tor, Greg Toumassian, at 869-3530.

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Deepwater Horizon: gulf oil spill recapped

It has been almost half a year since the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Let’s re-cap.

The number of lives lost when the rig exploded was 11. The amount of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico was approximately 206 mil-lion gallons. And now, the amount of money British Petroleum has set aside for compensation is $20 billion.

What isn’t so defi nitive is if BP will ever truly own up to its mistake and clean up its act.

As thousands of business owners and fi sherman in the Gulf fi le for compensation claims, a degree of uncer-tainty, a seemingly familiar attribute to all things BP, re-mains.

When the Gulf Coast Claims Facility opened in late August, Kenneth Fein-berg took control as head of BP’s $20 billion compensa-tion fund and promised a quick processing time for those who fi led with suffi -cient documentation.

“I will be extremely le-nient in documentation,” Feinberg said, during a press conference in Houma, Loui-siana. “I don’t need reams and reams of stuff. I don’t need a tax return. Do you have something you can show me? Well, the ship captain will vouch for me — fi ne. Well, my priest will — fi ne.”

It seems, however, things are far from “fi ne.”

A lack of response from adjusters at claim offi ces, multiple numbers assigned to fi les, and records being completely lost are just a few of the emerging com-plaints regarding the com-pensation system.

Compensation falls into one of two categories: “emergency” and “fi nal pay-ments.”

Beginning Aug. 23, claim-ants have 90 days to fi le for “emergency” payments. The total amount will equal six months of lost income, and recipients will still have a right to sue BP.

Those who fi le for “fi nal payments,” regarding long-term damages, will have

three years to estimate dam-ages before they fi le a claim. Accepting payment will waive claimant’s right to sue BP.

Feinberg insists that it was his idea, and not BP’s, to make fi nal payment recipi-ents give up the right to sue. He claims it will make the process expeditious, how-ever, it should be noted that Feinberg is on BP’s salary.

So why all the mess? Let’s take a deeper look.

BP told the House Energy and Commerce Committee it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July.

BP insists the money was to keep Gulf Coast residents informed and insures trans-parency; however, it makes one wonder if the intent was more aimed towards repair-ing the marred image of BP.

BP has also spent some time internally restructuring its managerial frame work.

On Oct 1, Bob Dudley will replace CEO Tony Hayward. Hayward was essentially a public rela-tions nightmare, and he was panned for his dealing with

the Gulf oil spill.And in all things related to

BP, the Bureau of Ocean En-ergy Management – former-ly the Minerals Management Service – is aiming to restore credibility after being criti-

cized for working too close with oil and gas companies.

It is becoming increas-ingly clear that BP is already starting a cleanup of its own: its image.

It seems like anyone at

fault for the spill is trying to repair their image and wipe the oil from their hands be-fore the actual work has been done.

Oil may dilute and checks

Welcome to one of the most exciting times of your life. There is nothing quite like the college experience, a window in time that will be the catalyst for your profes-sional career.

Cal Poly Pomona is an extraordinary place, with a faculty and staff committed to your success.

One of the great charac-teristics of this university is our learning-centered phi-losophy.

From the dedicated sup-port of our faculty, who nur-ture and mentor students, ad-vise them on their academic programs and prepare them for a professional career – to the staff that helps anyone understand a policy or pro-cedure, weave through our bureaucracy or navigate the campus, we’re here for you.

You are coming to Cal Poly Pomona at the best pos-sible time and there are nu-merous ways for you to get

involved. You might consider our

award-winning Rose Float team. Last January 1, “Jun-gle Cuts” became the fi rst entry in the history of the Tournament of Roses Parade to win two major honors: the Bob Hope Humor Tro-phy and the Viewers’ Choice Award. “Jungle Cuts” was the 62nd consecutive fl oat jointly built by students from Cal Poly Pomona and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

When people ask me why Cal Poly Pomona doesn’t have a football team, I re-ply that rose fl oat is our fall sport – and we always com-pete on New Year’s Day.

Our Greek community continues to do great things. Over one week last spring quarter, these students raised more than $30,000 for as-sorted charities, completed 3,500 volunteer hours and donated 6,500 cans of food to a local pantry, started by

one of our own students, that fed 14,000 families in Po-mona.

This fall, our men’s bas-ketball team will begin play as the defending NCAA Di-vision II National Champi-ons.

The Broncos captured the title before a live CBS na-tional television audience last spring, and the campus community turned out to celebrate.

Join my wife, Betty, and me at all of our intercolle-giate athletic events.

The word Bronco is not the exclusive domain of our student athletes.

For me, being a Bronco means you are truly passion-ate about Cal Poly Pomona.

You wear university sweatshirts and T-shirts with pride.

You may not have come from an affl uent background or had parents who graduat-ed from college, but you are

someone who always per-severes. Life wasn’t handed to you on a silver platter, but you will achieve great things.

One of the great perks of my job is getting to know our students.

My primary focus will always be on how we can enhance the quality of your education, but I need your feedback.

I frequently drive around in a green and gold electric cart, so stop, wave and say hello. Let me know if we are doing a good job and how I can make it better.

There are select events throughout the year where I will send you an invitation. Until then, best wishes, and on behalf of the entire uni-versity family, welcome to Cal Poly Pomona!

A message from the university President

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GREG TOUMASSIAN

Editor in chief

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Richard. KallanChair, Department of Communication

Michael OrtizPresident

Political debate has begun con-cerning the place of the 14th Amend-ment in American society.

What the 14th Amendment liter-ally states is, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

How low have political morals sunk? OK, maybe the term “po-litical morals” is an oxymoron like “real live ghosts,” or “military intel-ligence.” But I honestly believe this country was founded on the belief that those seeking a better life would always be welcome.

The poem inscribed over the gates of Ellis Island reads:

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Lady liberty doesn’t seem to make any mention of a padlock on “the golden door,” it is simply open and her light is guiding the way to it.

These are the aged and crumbling words of an America much more in touch with the human suffering be-yond our shores.

Striking the 14th Amendment from the Constitution deprives chil-dren of a future based solely upon their parents’ nationality.

This country promises the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-ness to those born between its shores. I was unaware it did so selectively.

Does anyone deserve to be Ameri-can more than another?

I love this country with all of my heart. I am so thankful to have been born here, but at the same time, I realize that there was no conscious choice on my part leading up to the location of my birth.

It was a random and unexplainable stroke of cosmic luck that resulted in me being born an American.

If no one chose to be born into this country, or for that matter, did any-thing to deserve it, how can anyone so resolutely say, “You don’t belong here.”

Yet that phrase is spoken too often. So many Americans are endowed with a stigma of entitlement that is wholly undeserved.

We are so fortunate to be citizens of this country and the 14th Amend-ment ever so slightly extends that privilege to the less fortunate, just as the founding fathers intended.

I understand that with unlimited immigration the regulatory struc-tures that support this country would crumble.

I will concede that immigration does need to be regulated. Undoc-umented members of society who do not pay taxes contribute nothing back to the system they draw from.

I will, however, argue to the teeth that to deny a child born in the Unit-ed States the chance of a better life is only slightly removed from murder.

Where are the ethics in punishing children for the immigration status of their parents?

A child of immigrant parents that is assimilated into American soci-ety will contribute to the system as

much as a child born from American citizens.

The 14th Amendment is the defi n-ing characteristic of the America I am proud to call myself a part of. It is a character mark of a country that extends its hand to the less fortunate. It is the embodiment of those mean-ingful words inscribed at the feet of Lady Liberty.

Is this truly the land of opportunity for all? It used to be.


Moving out and attending a new school are each obstacles on their own—putting the two together can result in feeling completely overwhelmed.

Being nervous is com-pletely understandable. Re-member, you are not alone.

Other upcoming Cal Poly Pomona freshman and trans-fers are all going through the same thing.

So did I, two years ago, at the beginning of the fi rst year as a Bronco. Living in the same city for my entire life and having a great group of friends made the thought of attending a school without any familiar people a scary one. Furthermore, no longer would my parents and sib-

Rethinking the 14th Amendment? EVAN PERKINS

Opinions Editor

VALERIE CHEN

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EVAN PERKINS

Opinions Editor

An embarrassing display of cowardice at a Houston Astros game left many a sports fan wondering, “is chivalry as we know it of-fi cially dead?”

The perpetrator of this most ungallant act, now nicknamed “Bo the Bail-er”, dove out of the way of a foul ball at the last min-ute allowing it to smack his girlfriend.

So does this act spell the end of Chivalry? No, I

don’t think so. It is simply unacceptable

to base the livelihood of chivalry on the obviously questionable character of “Bo the Bailer.” Chivalry is alive but it has evolved to meet modern social norms.

The word “chivalry” evokes thoughts of men holding doors and pulling out chairs for women, re-linquishing jackets in cold weather and always pick-ing up the bill at dinner.

While these gestures are obviously carried out with the best intentions, the

quest for equal rights has many women considering them unwanted acts.

Many women are try-ing to depict themselves as strong independent indi-viduals who do not need to be catered to, waited on, or taken care of.

In this era where the push for equal rights between men and women has nev-er been stronger it seems chivalry no longer makes sense.

How can men be equal to woman but still bare expec-tations of chivalry to the

fairer sex? The answer lies in the evolution of chivalry.

Chivalry in the 21st cen-tury has shifted from a ro-mantic notion to a more general idea of simply be-ing a good person.

The sexist connotation of chivalry has been dropped. No longer is chivalry de-fi ned as men catering to women. As equals in to-day’s society, men and women are both tasked with being chivalrous.

A more fi tting defi nition of chivalry in our modern world is the act of being

courteous to everyone, re-gardless of gender or the presence of romantic at-traction.

Chivalry is alive in some-one who helps an elderly person carry a heavy bag, or even a gesture so simple as saying “bless you” to a sneezing stranger. Com-mon courtesy and chivalry have become one and the same.

Chivalry is still among us, but in new form.

Chivalry takes hit from foul ball [email protected] Evan Perkins at:

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College 101: adapting to campus life

[email protected] Evan Perkins:

Illustration Courtesy of Evan Perkins“I am going to be a fresh-man living in the dorms this fall. I’m not very outgoing, so I don’t make new friends easily. I’m nervous that I’m not going to enjoy my col-lege experience. I’m going to miss home, my family, and the friends I already have. Can you give me advice on how adjust smoothly to this new environment and make friends?”–Anonymous

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Over the summer, Proposi-tion 8 was overturned in the new suit Perry v. Schwar-zenegger.

This ground breaking event has made a stride in the civil rights movement for the ho-mosexual community, but should same sex marriage be allowed in California? Abso-lutely.

Legalizing same sex mar-riage will help support the economy in California.

Edmund Egan, chief economist for the city of San Francisco, estimates the an-nual costs of wedding related spending will increase by $35 million, and raise $2.5 million in tax revenue in the city of San Francisco alone if same sex marriage is legalized.

“San Francisco would see an increase in sales tax revenue and an increase in property tax revenue in the future,” Egan said to Reuters. “Married individuals tend to accumulate more wealth than single people.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hold conferences on the preven-

tion of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

During those conferences, it has been shown that the ma-jority of the homosexual com-munity is likely to spread or contract sexually transmitted diseases.

Marriage within the homo-sexual community will bring down sexual promiscuity be-tween people within the com-munity, promoting normal relationships between same sex couples and reducing the spread of STDs.

Same sex marriage is a step in favor of present-ing individuals considering

adoption to adopt a better en-vironment for raising a child. The American Academy of Pediatrics released a technical report in early 2002 on the ef-fect of homosexual co-parent and second-parent adoption. Within the report it was ex-plained that none of the chil-dren tested in research studies have shown any real differ-ence between those children with heterosexual parents.

The religious argument in all of this is fl awed. The case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger makes a point that a “civil marriage” is not the same as religious marriage; be it

Christian, Islamic, or oth-erwise. Because there is a separation between civil and religious marriage, the homo-sexual community should be free from the stigmas associ-

ated with those religions and their respective opposition against it.

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may clear, but the complex web of problems will only thicken. As the fourth larg-est company in the world, BP should be able to tackle the problems as they are ap-proaching.

And yet, BP decides to work around the problems, fi nd ways to fi x problems, look good while doing so and maybe even save a little money. Humility is a weird thing. It doesn’t cost a penny and yet it is worth every-thing.

If BP would roll up its sleeves and put down the PR veil, maybe some work could get done in a timely manner. Will BP risk ruining its im-age if it decides to admit to its negligence?

At this point, the com-pany already looks like the greedy, careless oil company they really are.

lings be living in close quar-ters with me. In their places would be new roommates. It was a lot to take in at once.

However, you have to re-member the unfamiliar holds new possibilities.

Even if you liked your previous life, you may enjoy your new life as a college stu-dent even more! You have clean slate.

You have the opportunity to reinvent yourself, better your-self, or stay the same.

Although you may not form lasting friendships with

everyone you meet, there are still a large number of possi-ble candidates to choose from, since approximately 15,000 students attend Cal Poly.

Dr. James Sturges, profes-sor of clinical psychology at Cal Poly, also reminds you to “remember that others are probably self-conscious as well, and being friendly and interested in others is often the best guideline.”

What you are experienc-ing is called “social anxiety,” which can be overcome by being willing to get out of

your comfort zone.With this positive attitude,

consider available resources to help you adjust.

For example, BroncoFu-sion is an event to welcome new students to Cal Poly.

Not to mention, there will be multiple club fairs and other social events throughout the year.

Check out on campus jobs; your co-workers may end up being long-lasting friends. Greek life is another great way to meet peers and devel-op friendships.

Last but not least, resident advisors of each dorm hall will organize activities for their diverse residents, in or-der to encourage thriving so-cial activity.

Overall, a smile goes a long way. Don’t let your fear or nerves get the best of you, and be brave. Everyone will be looking for a friend!

Have a ques-chen? ask an-nonymously on formspring.me/askmeaqueschen

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BP needs to clean more than just oilContinued from page 18


Over the summer, Kel-logg Gym underwent a signifi cant “makeover” en-compassing a new court and new lighting.

“We are working through the fi rst phase of the Kel-logg Gym renovation,” said Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Brian Swanson. “The existing fl oor was in extremely poor condi-tion and numerous fl oor board[s] had broken during the past year. This affected academic classes, athletics and recreation sports.”

The old court was in-stalled back in 1996.

Although the court may have exceeded its use-by date, it was the home turf of three championship teams. These teams were the NCAA champion women’s basketball teams of 2001 and 2002 and the 2010 men’s basketball team.

The new court is clas-sifi ed as a Connor Sports Flooring “PermaFlex” system court, which was installed by Canoga Park-based Hur Flooring.

“A new Connor DIN-Certifi ed “Perma-fl ex” fl oor (which is recommended by the NCAA) will give those that use the gym excellent and even play,” Swanson said.

As a result of the new court, the old court’s noto-rious “dead spots,” or areas of the court in which the ball does not bounce, are no

longer an issue. The renova-tion also includes a few oth-er amenities not previously seen in Kellogg Gym.

“It was long overdue,” said Sports Information Di-rector Mark Reinhiller, who also said that the gym will include “complete [air] con-ditioning” and the ceiling is “now painted black.”

The purpose of paint-ing the ceiling black is to improve the lighting in the gym.

“The entire gym has been repainted (including the ceiling) and new lighting is being installed which will greatly brighten the entire area,” Swanson said. “This will certainly enhance our spectator experience as well.”

With the completion of phase one of the renovation, Kellogg Gym will surely in-crease its standing as a turf that both Bronco athletes and visiting teams will want to play at.

Besides the conditioning, spectators in the future will be able to enjoy not only the game itself, but also the area from which it is being seen.

“There’s a plan to have new bleachers and new lob-by seating,” Reinhiller said. “That’s not going to happen right now. That’s down the road.”

Senior forward Tobias Jahn of the men’s basketball team believes the new court will make a negligible dif-ference on his team’s play-ing ability.

“The fl oor looks really bouncy. Maybe we’ll jump higher,” Jahn said. “Perfor-mance-wise, I think it’ll be about the same.”

Jonathan Stoddard, stu-dent manager for the men’s basketball team, is im-

pressed with how different the gym looked when com-pared to last season.

“When you go in there, it looks all nice and clean,” Stoddard said. “It’s amazing what a little paint can do.”

No matter whom one

asks, the new court has re-ceived generally positive feedback.

“We’re thoroughly excit-ed,” Reinhiller said.

The Cal Poly men’s basketball team will com-mence its 2010-11 sea-son in an exhibition game against Duke University, the 2010 NCAA Div. I champion, that will take place at 7 p.m. on Nov. 4 at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, NC.

“I’m super-excited,” said senior forward Tobias Jahn. “I don’t think there’s any other team you want to play to start the season.”

This game will mark the third time in four years in which Duke will host an exhibition contest against the Div. II champion.

However, this year stands as the fi rst one in which Duke will host the exhibi-tion game as the reigning Div. I champion.

In its more than 105-year history, the men’s basket-ball program at Duke has always been a reputable one.

While the team expe-

rienced numerous post-season appearances in the years prior to 1980, no Duke team or coach sur-passed the level of achieve-ment that Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski has attained in the last 30 seasons.

Under Krzyzewski, or “Coach K” as he is also known at Duke, the men’s basketball team has amassed a record of 795-220 while winning four NCAA national champion-ships, reaching the cham-pionship game four times, and making the Final Four, Elite 8 and Sweet 16, 11, 12 and 19 times, respectively.

Sports Information Di-rector Mark Reinhiller said that this game is important to Cal Poly because Duke is one of “a handful of uni-versities that resonate with the entire nation.”

Last season, the Blue Devils fi nished the season with an overall record of 35-5 and a conference re-cord of 13-3.

Duke was undefeated at home, going 17-0, while

going 5-5 on the road, and fi nished the season tied for fi rst place with the Univer-sity of Maryland in the At-lantic Coast Conference.

Duke defeated Butler, 61-59 on April 5 to win its fourth national champion-ship.

In comparison, Cal Po-ly’s men’s basketball team fi nished the 2010-11 sea-son in a fi rst place tie with Humboldt State, posting a 27-6 record overall, a con-ference record of 18-4, and a home and away record of 10-3 and 12-2, respec-tively.

The Broncos won their fi rst NCAA championship on March 27 when they bested Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 65-53.

For the team and the ath-letic department, the recep-tion to receiving the invi-tation to play Duke in an exhibition game has been unanimous.

“It’s the epitome of col-legiate basketball,” said Head Coach Greg Kaman-sky. “It’s the things that

dreams are about. It’s the top place to play in our pro-fession.”

Assistant Coach Damion Hill shares Kamansky’s opinion regarding playing at Duke’s home court, and is especially pleased for the players.

“It’s a great opportunity for our guys,” Hill said. “I’m more excited for them than our guys. I’m real ex-cited for our guys to get that opportunity. It’s a great test for us.”

Associate Head Coach Bill Bannon is also pleased with the opportunity while also focusing on the pres-ent team dynamics.

“It feels great,” Bannon said. “We just want to take

advantage of it while being realistic with our current team goals. We’re not liv-ing in the past.”

This exhibition game will give Bronco fans the fi rst chance to see the men’s basketball team with its returners and some new faces.

“It is a great reward for those returning student-athletes who were part of the championship last year and a unequalled experi-ence for the new additions for this year’s team to start their Bronco careers,” said Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Brian Swanson.

Sports

ERIK CARR

Sports Editor

Men’s basketball team to play Duke

Kellogg Gym receives ‘overdue’ makeoverERIK CARR

Sports Editor

Two construction workers using pneumatic nailers install the new wood

fl ooring which is part of the Kellogg Gym renovation.


Welcome back, fellow Broncos! Over the year, I am going to comment on the state of Bronco athletics while giv-ing an investigative edge in the process.

The summer of 2010 has been a seemingly dramatic one for Cal Poly Pomona.

The following is a recap of the most memorable events that occurred on campus.

If there’s one word to sum up Cal Poly’s summer in ath-letics, it’s “resignations.”

The month of June began with the sudden resignation of women’s basketball coach Scott Davis, which came right off the heels of the best season the women’s team has had in the last few years.

In August, baseball Head Coach Mike Ashman retired after 15 seasons, and just last week, Sports Information Director Mark Reinhiller re-signed from his position after three years of great service.

The summer also featured a handful of players getting drafted by professional teams.

Two pitchers, Joshua Krist and Jarett Attard both signed with the Seattle Mariners or-ganization. Krist was drafted and signed on June 10 with the Single-A affi liate Pu-laski Mariners. Attard was assigned to the Mariners’ Rookie League in Peoria, AZ on June 24.

Another pitcher, freshman Erick Ruvalcaba, was named to the California Collegiate League All-Star team. In the All-Star Game, played on July 14, Ruvalcaba pitched the sixth inning, in which he threw 20 pitches, faced seven batters and gave up four hits, four runs and one walk.

In men’s basketball, guard Austin Swift signed a two-year deal to play with BC Vrijednosnice Osijek Darda in the A1 Croatian League.

As familiar faces bid fare-well to Cal Poly, new ones took their place. Among those people were the wom-en’s basketball team’s new interim Head Coach Danelle Bishop and eight new players to the women’s soccer team, including junior forward Jen-nifer Rivera and freshman de-fender Kristin Mihara.

Both of whom are expected to be top performers this sea-son.

Elsewhere in athletics, 47 student-athletes received one or both of the CCAA All-Ac-ademic Award and the NCAA Div. II Athletic Directors As-sociation Academic Achieve-ment Award, to honor their hard work both on and off the playing fi eld.

The hard work of guard Dahir Nasser was also recog-nized. He earned the NCAA’s

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ERIK CARR

Sports Editor


A WildSummerof Sportsfor Cal Poly

See SUMMER/Pg. 23

Senior guard Austin Swift strives for the basket

while fending off two opponents in the NCAA

Div. II Championship game.

Photo courtesy of Richard Orr


Scott Davis, head coach of the women’s basketball team, resigned on June 2 after three seasons as head coach.

Former APU and Cal Baptist Head Coach Danelle Bishop has been named in-terim head coach.

“He slowly built a team to be better each season,” said Sports Information Di-rector Mark Reinhiller. “He stepped down for family reasons. We all have those.”

Davis’ reasons for leaving are also consistent with the legacy he hopes his era as coach will be remembered for in the years to come.

“Someone who cared about the program and did everything I could,” Davis said. “I stressed that family was fi rst.”

In only three years as head coach, Davis assem-bled an impressive string of seasons.

During his three seasons, Davis accumulated an over-all record of 50-37, and coached players to seven All-CCAA honors. Senior guard Stephisha Walton and junior guard Reyana Colson, each earned the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine District

VIII Academic honor once and twice, respectively.

In the 2007-08 season, Davis led the team to a 12-16 record. Despite being four games below .500, the Broncos turned some heads when they upset No.2 CSU San Bernardino, which also participated in the NCAA tournament.

The following year, the Broncos put together their fi rst winning season since the 2004-05 season, posting a record of 16-14.

In spite of the notable im-provement in overall record from the fi rst and second season, no one last season expected the Broncos to have the season they had under Davis’ third year of leadership.

The Broncos put together a record of 22-7 last season, which was their best record since the aforementioned 2004-05 season. The team’s conference record was 18-4, which placed them in sec-ond in the CCAA.

Davis also was a positive infl uence to his players in the realm of academics.

“Coach Davis contin-ued to focus on academics and competitiveness,” said Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Brian Swanson. “Both areas showed im-

provement and balance dur-ing his tenure.”

Not only will Davis’ infl u-ence on his team be missed, there are a few aspects of coaching at Cal Poly that he himself will miss.

“I think the players, the relationships you have with them and the great people you work with there,” Da-vis said, regarding what he will miss most about being coach at Cal Poly.

Although Davis is now committed to raising his family, he has not ruled out the possibility of coaching again in the future.

“I would [coach again],” Davis said. “It would have to be local. I have no desire to do it right now.”

Over the summer, Davis and his family moved back to his native Novato to be closer to his family. Last April, Davis’ wife gave birth to their second child.

Upon hearing that Danelle Bishop was named as his successor, Davis had com-plimentary words for her.

“She’ll do a great job,” Davis said.

The Broncos will begin their season on Nov. 6 at Long Beach State.

Women’s basketball head coach resigns

Sports Information Direc-tor Mark Reinhiller stepped down from his position after three years of service for Cal Poly Pomona.

Reinhiller’s resignation is the third departure in four months from the athletic department. It follows wom-en’s basketball Head Coach Scott Davis, who resigned last June after three seasons, and baseball Head Coach Mike Ashman, who retired after 15 seasons at the helm.

Reinhiller, who resides in Beaumont, said he accept-ed an offer to become the Sports Information Director of Cal State San Bernardino, which is approximately half the distance between Beau-mont and Pomona.

While Reinhiller wel-comes the shorter commute his new position will pro-vide for him, there are many things that he will miss at

Cal Poly.“There is a great group of

administrators, coaches, and staff,” Reinhiller said. “This is a wonderful university where people support each other and help each other. I’m very thankful [for that].”

Reinhiller began his tenure at Cal Poly in July of 2007. In his three years at Cal Poly, Reinhiller revolutionized the way news about Bronco ath-letics is publicized.

“We hired Mark [Rein-hiller] from the newspaper

side and he has experience in sports information. I think he’s come in and he’s done an excellent job,” said Di-rector of Intercollegiate Ath-letics Brian Swanson. “One of the things that I think you can point to is one of the things that’s really moved us forward is the total transfor-mation of our website.”

Due to Reinhiller’s ef-forts, Cal Poly was able to publish press releases and articles about its athletes and games more effi ciently than ever before.

“The instantaneous need for information now lies right now on a lot of stats,” Swanson said. “He’s done an excellent job of moving our program into 2010 and be-yond and he’s taken that and run with it and it’s a project he’s handled from start to fi nish.”

While many people may recognize Reinhiller from the basketball games in which he operated press

box operations, as he did for all Cal Poly sports, others may know him more for his voice.

Reinhiller was the an-nouncer for the Cal Poly baseball team home games at Scolinos Field.

“The role of an SID is one of a background guy,” Rein-hiller said. “It really is a job of being in the background. I think technology is a part of what we do.”

Prior to his time at Cal Poly, Reinhiller’s involve-ment with the media and athletics truly spanned na-tionwide.

Reinhiller previously worked in the SID offi ce at the University of Florida, where he had a staff as-sistantship, and earned the 1990 CoSIDA Best in Na-tion Award for editing the men’s track and fi eld media guide.

In addition to Florida, Re-inhiller worked at the Wal-nut Creek Pacifi c-10 offi ce

as an intern.In the realm of newspa-

pers, Reinhiller spent more than six years at the San Ber-nardino Sun, where he was a copy editor and golf colum-nist, and earned the 2003 Media Excellence award from the PGA Inland Em-pire’s chapter for his cover-age of local golf events and tours such as the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.

At the Austin, Texas-based publication company, Pub-lications and Communica-tions Inc., Reinhiller worked as a copy editor/editor.

In his home state, Re-inhiller worked for sev-eral newspapers and earned bachelor’s degrees at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota in Mass Commu-nications/Print Media and Elementary Education, re-spectively. He also served as a student assistant at the former.

In 2008, Cal Poly hosted

the NCAA Div. II Outdoor Track and Field Champion-ships at Mt. SAC, where Re-inhiller served as the media relations director.

Regarding what he would like to be remembered for, Reinhiller said, “I would just hope...we have a story here to tell about Div. II athlet-ics.”

As far as his successor is concerned, Reinhiller said the working relationships with colleagues will greatly infl uence his successor’s ac-tions.

“Cal Poly Pomona has tremendous pride for its in-tercollegiate athletic depart-ment. Knowing you’ve got the support of administrators is a big part of what you do,” Reinhiller said. “If you can get the chance to be part of a championship team, that’s the ultimate thrill. I’m going to miss that.”

Sports Information Director resigns after three yearsERIK CARR

Sports Editor

Cal Poly’s fall 2010 athlet-ic calendar began this month for fi ve teams in three sports, resulting in breakout perfor-mances and thrilling fi nishes on the course, on the court, and in the fi eld.

The men’s and women’s cross-country teams opened their seasons at the Cal State Fullerton Invitational in Brea on Sept. 4 and ran in the UC Riverside Invitational last Saturday.

The women’s soccer team lost for the fi rst time this sea-son on Sunday at Cal State Stanislaus, 2-1. Its overall re-cord stands at 4-1-1, while its CCAA record is 2-1-1.

Before Sunday, the wom-en’s team was undefeated, winning four of its fi rst fi ve games. It shut out Notre Dame de Namur, 1-0, Do-minican, 3-0, Sonoma State, in a 0-0 tie, Humboldt State, 1-0, and a 1-0 overtime win against Chico State.

The men’s soccer team’s losing trend ended when it

beat Cal State Stanislaus, 2-1 in overtime. Its now 4-2 over-all and 2-2 in CCAA play.

Before the 3-2 double over-time loss to Humboldt State and the 3-0 shutout loss to Chico State, the men’s team opened the season with three wins against Notre Dame de Namur, Dominican and No. 25 Sonoma State. It beat those teams 3-0, 5-0, and 5-3, respectively.

Cal Poly’s volleyball team began its season with the CPP/CSULA Labor Day Tourney. It won two of its

four matches, beating both Simon Fraser and Dixie State College of Utah, 3-1. It also lost matches to Academy of Art and Northwood Univer-sity, 3-0 and 3-2, respectively.

Despite shutting out CCAA rival San Francisco State, 3-0, the volleyball team has since lost four straight.

It lost to Cal State Mon-terey Bay, 3-0, Cal Baptist, 3-1, Cal State Dominguez Hills, 3-1, and Cal State Los Angeles, 3-0.

Last Saturday at the UC Riverside Invitational, senior Amber Hebb led the women’s team. She ran the 5-kilometer course in 18 minutes and 47.4 seconds. She fi nished 105th.

“Amber’s showed us where she needs to be at,” said Head Coach Troy Johnson. “Over-all, it was a good day.”

In the 8-km men’s race, junior Aaron Armas led all Broncos with a time of 26:45.5. He fi nished 157th.

At the Cal State Fullerton Invitational, freshman Na-tasha Coe led the women’s team. She ran the 6-km race in 24:52.3 seconds, which was good enough for 67th place in her race.

The men’s team was led by junior Clark Selters, who ran

the 8-km course in 27:52.3. He fi nished 55th.

In soccer, the women have been exceptional. Junior for-ward Jennifer Rivera scored one goal in three of the four wins and had one assist.

Other key players are ju-nior midfi elder Gloria Gonza-lez, who has one goal and an assist, and freshman forward Melissa Garcia and junior forward Justine Barclay, who have each scored a goal.

“I’m very pleased where we are,” said Head Coach Isabelle Harvey. “We’ve been putting in the effort and get-ting good results.”

On the men’s soccer side, the Broncos have been un-beatable at home, but they have not lost a game at home or away when either junior forward Luis Gonzalez or ju-nior midfi elder/forward An-thony Salcedo score a goal.

In the fi rst six matches, Gonzalez has scored fi ve goals and had two assists. Salcedo has scored one goal in each of the three wins.

Junior forward Wuta Beta, junior forward Sam Morales and junior midfi elder Juan Mejia have also contributed.

Beta has scored three goals, Mejia has one goal and two

assists and Morales has one of each.

Despite a 3-6 overall record and a 1-3 CCAA record, the volleyball team has scored more kills, assists and blocks than its opponents.

So far, freshman outside hitter Jessica Doerner leads the team with 93 kills, av-eraging 3.1 kills per game. Leading the team in assists is Katie Colin, who has 318.

The fall season is well under way, and what coach Johnson said for his runners could also be applied to all of Cal Poly athletics.

“I expect a lot of these kids at conference,” Johnson said.

Both cross-country teams will compete in the Stanford Invitational in Stanford this Saturday.

This Thursday, volleyball will play 7 p.m. at CCAA ri-val Sonoma State.

On Friday, the men’s and women’s soccer teams will host CCAA rival Cal State Los Angeles’ NCAA Div. II No. 1 and No. 7 ranked teams, respectively.

The women kick off at 4:30 p.m., and the men play at 7 p.m.

Fall athletics begins early with exciting results

ERIK CARR

Sports Editor

Women’s basketball Head Coach Scott Davis announced his resignation

at the end of the 2009-10 spring season.

Jonny Tai/ Th e Poly Post

ERIK CARR

Sports Editor




Junior Russell Vernon (Left ) blocks a pass by junior Anthony Salcedo

(Right) during practice. Men’s soccer plays No. 1 Cal State Los Angeles

on Friday at 7 p.m.


Mark Reinhiller

Mike Ashman, head coach of the Cal Poly baseball team, announced his retire-ment last month after 15 sea-sons.

“[I wanted] to spend more time with my family,” Ash-man said. “I didn’t see my-self doing this for the next 10, 11 years.”

Ashman also accepted an offer to be the Director of Baseball at EM Speed and Power Training, which just opened its newest location in Rancho Cucamonga.

In 15 years, Ashman’s Broncos amassed a 248-305-1 record in the CCAA and a 358-419-4 record overall.

Coach Ashman’s resigna-tion marks the end of a mem-orable era of Broncos base-ball. Under his leadership, 16 athletes were drafted and others went on to play pro-fessionally.

“Coach Ashman has been instrumental in the devel-opment of countless young men competing for Cal Poly Pomona – especially on a personal basis,” said Direc-tor of Intercollegiate Athlet-ics Brian Swanson. “He has been a hands-on coach and continues to maintain rela-tionships with student-ath-letes long after they have left the campus and have become professionals in their chosen profession.”

Ashman’s favorite memo-

ry as Head Coach was sim-ply not a specifi c game or a particular play. It was the relationships he developed with his players.

“Every year was differ-ent,” Ashman said. “See-ing young guys coming in a freshman, having [them] grow up as men. [That is my favorite memory].”

Ashman’s involvement with the game has truly been lifelong. In high school, Ash-man was a star player for Bloomington High School, where he was a fi rst-team selection for the San Andreas League twice. In 1975, his team was CIF runner-up.

After two years at San Ber-nardino Valley College, Ash-man transferred to Cal Poly where he fl ourished. While he earned All-America hon-ors, he led the Broncos to its 1980 championship title, batting .365, hitting safely 95 times while having 95 RBIs.

Upon graduating from Cal Poly with a degree in busi-ness administration, Ashman spent six years playing pro-fessionally in the Oakland Athletics’ and Pittsburgh Pi-rates’ organizations. Ashman also played in Japan for the U.S. Olympic Team.

When his days as a player ended, Ashman began his ca-reer as a coach at Riverside Community College. Dur-ing his fi ve years there as an assistant coach, the Tigers amassed a record of 160-74, and in all seasons, reached

the California State Junior College Regionals. In addi-tion, the Tigers fi nished in fourth place in California in both 1990 and 1991.

Before his return to Cal Poly, Ashman became Hit-ting Coach for the University of Nebraska. Though he was there only a year, his impact on the team was greatly felt.

The 1995 Cornhuskers raised their batting average to .323, compared to .265 the year before.

One player from that team was Darin Erstad. Erstad was the No. 1 draft pick of the 1995 MLB Amateur Draft and later went on to a suc-cessful baseball career.

In 1996, Ashman returned to Cal Poly, where he be-came the Head Coach.

From 1999 through 2002,

the Broncos put together four-straight seasons of win-ning records. In 2000 and 2001, the Broncos qualifi ed for one-of-four slots in the CCAA Championship Tour-nament with conference re-cords of 24-15 and 23-17, respectively. Their overall records were 32-26 in 2000 and 31-24 in 2001.

Perhaps the best year of the Ashman era was the 2005 season. In that season, the Broncos went 25-14 in the CCAA and 30-23 overall. In addition, Ashman’s Broncos had an NCAA Div. II-best team fi elding percentage of .972, their best conference winning percentage since 1985, and the CCAA South Division Championship title.

In 2002, Ashman pitched batting practice to the Ana-

heim Angels prior to game seven of the 2002 World Series. The Angels won that game over the San Francisco Giants, and thus, became the World Series Champions.

To the Broncos, Coach Ashman was known for throwing great batting prac-tice among his players, but that was secondary when compared to the impact he left on his players.

Although his days as Head Coach of the Broncos are over, Ashman’s affi liation with both baseball and the Broncos are far from over.

“[I’m going to be doing] fund raising for baseball,” Ashman said. “My connec-tions with the Angels [will continue] to help out in that regard.”

Swanson believes he will play a vital behind-the-scenes role in the years to come.

“He has and continues to be a good ambassador for baseball,” Swanson said.

At publication time, no one had been named as the Head Coach for the 2011 season. Whoever that will be, Ashman has the follow-ing advice for his successor.

“Be competitive,” Ashman said. “You’re working for a great institution. Enjoy it! You’ll have a great time! It’s an opportunity and do it the right way.”

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Div. II Degree-Completion Award, a fi nancial award given to student-athletes who have used up their athletic eligibility while receiving athletic fi nancial aid.

July was headlined by the Kellogg Gym “makeover,” which is the fi rst major reno-vation for the facility since 1996. This will hopefully im-prove team performance for the men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams.

One of the most exciting bits of news came when the reigning NCAA Div. II cham-pion men’s basketball team accepted an invitation to play Div. I champion Duke Uni-versity in an exhibition game on Nov. 4.

This will be the fi rst game for the Broncos 2010-11 season and the fi rst time that Duke has played the Div. II champion as the reigning Div. I champion.

These stories, among oth-ers, will surely set the stage for another exciting year of Cal Poly athletics.

For a more in-depth, chron-ological, satirical version of this column, please read the WebSclusive “A Wild Sum-mer of Sports for Cal Poly...And Abroad” at thepolypost.com, which compares what happened at Cal Poly athlet-ics with what happened in the sports world over the sum-mer.

After 15 yearsAshman announces

retirement

ERIK CARR

Sports Editor


“Coach Ashman has been instrumental in the development of countless young men competing for Cal Poly Pomona”

Coach Mike Ashman

Mike Ashman Era (15 Seasons)Year: W-L: Pct.: Conf. W-L: Pct.: 1996 13-40-1 .260 5-27 .1601997 28-28 .500 18-14 .5621998 19-25-1 .432 13-19 .4061999 25-24 .510 19-21 .4752000 32-26 .551 24-15 .6152001 31-24 .564 23-17 .5752002 31-22-1 .583 20-20 .5002003 15-39 .278 10-29 .2562004 26-25-2 .509 19-20-1 .4882005 30-23 .566 25-14 .5662006 20-31 .392 15-20 .4292007 20-31 .392 10-26 .2782008 16-31 .340 13-21 .3822009 26-23 .531 16-20 .4442010 26-27 .491 18-22 .450Totals:358-419-4 .461 248-305-1 .448

-Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Brian Swanson

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