A number of positions within next year’s Associat-ed Students Inc. government are being sought by only one candidate, disappoint-ing students who wished to see a tough race.

The situation has sparked some controversy as two presidential candi-dates who were slated to run, dropped out for various reasons at the last minute.

Heena Mehra, ASI at-torney general and former presidential hopeful, of-fi cially cited “time con-straints” as her main reason for deciding not to run, but according to Ismael Souley, the lone ASI presidential candidate, Mehra dropped out because of a crisis of leadership that took place between the two.

Souley said that origi-nally he and Mehra planned to run together, but a dis-agreement got the better of

the two and they eventually split paths, leaving most of the political support with Souley.

“I have so much respect for Heena and it’s a shame the way things turned out between us,” said Souley. “I

still believe she would be a great presidential nominee, but she decided not to run at all in the end.”

Mehra did not fully agree with Souley’s account of the events that led to her decision not to run for the

presidency.“I planned to run, but

due to time constraints I was forced to withdraw my bid,” said Mehra. “The situation between me and Ismael is still a very sensitive topic. I don’t want to comment on it

at the moment, but it’s not as simple as ‘who was going to be president’ or ‘who was going to be vice-president’ that split up our ticket.”

Liu said that the major-

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Track and fi eld makes due with subpar facilities

As the economic crunch continues to impact Cal Poly, runners and hurdlers may have more to overcome than just best times.

The condition of the

track that is utilized for cross-country and track and fi eld is unfi t for competition, according to Head Coach Troy Johnson.

“I know in this hard eco-nomic environment it’s hard to ask anybody for funds to build anything right now,

but I would just like the sta-dium to be at par and it’s not there,” said Johnson.

Issues plaguing the track include a sinkhole, narrow lanes and continually dete-riorating conditions around the area.

Johnson assessed the

impact of the facility’s short-comings and said that be-yond being a non-certifi able track, practices take longer and recruiting top athletes is challenging with the current status of the area.

“Basically your facili-ties speak for you and your

recruiting, they help you es-tablish that student athletes are going to be here and they’re going to have a great training environment and competition environment to be in,” said Johnson.

Matt Boudreau, a fresh-man track team member, said

that the track’s problems are affecting results.

“In order to improve times and get to our maxi-mum performance, we need to improve the track,” said Boudreau. “We can’t really do anything until they make

Cal Poly students brighten up CoachellaVisitor Center to move out of BSC

Collins College plans $10 million expansionMELISSA FOWLER

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As part of the cuts and reductions announced April 5 by the Division of Student Affairs, the Visitor Center will close its location in the Bronco Student Center and move to the CLA Building July 1.

While CalWORKs, In-tercollegiate Tennis and the National Student Exchange are being eliminated or sus-pended, the Visitor Center will continue to operate, al-beit with curtailed services.

The Visitor and Infor-mation Center offers tours to prospective students and their parents, answers ques-tions that new students and faculty may have about the campus, as well as other ser-vices.

The Visitor Center will continue to provide campus tours to potential students but will discontinue some tours, including those for VIPs, and newly hired em-ployees.

While the relocation of the Visitor Center may have come as a shock for some in the campus community, those who work within the center have been expecting the news for a while.

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“Neural Sky,” an art installation by students from Cal Poly Professor Michael Fox’s architectural robotics class, lights up near dusk at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio during the weekend.

The Collins College is in the process of raising money for an extensive building project for spring 2011.

“Carol and Jim Collins have pledged $5 million in matching donations, so we have to pledge $5 million more in order to begin the project,” said Lisa McPher-on, director of communica-tions and external relations for the Collins College of Hospitality and Manage-ment.

If another $5 million is raised, the project en-tails constructing four more buildings in the Collins Col-lege, including faculty and staff offi ces, a new student commons building and new lecture rooms.

McPheron said the con-struction will take place on the hillside between the Col-lins College and Kellogg West.

“There is a steep hill-side between the Collins College and Kellogg West, so we will be engineering those buildings so there will be a terrace on the hill,” said McPheron. “The faculty and staff buildings will be

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Ismael Souley, presidential candidate, planned to run with Mehra.

Johnathan Jianu, vice presi-dential candidate, planned to run with Levinson.

Heena Mehra said time constrains kept her from running for office.

David Levinson withdrew presidential bid to focus on graduate studies.

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Marketing club brings home awards

The Cal Poly chapter of the American Marketing As-sociation, a club that barely existed last year, recently won two national awards in New Orleans, coming in fourth in the Northwestern Mutual Sales Competition and earning an honorable mention for the UNICEF Top Video Competition.

James Swartz, faculty adviser and chair of Inter-national Business and Mar-keting Department, said the wins show how Cal Poly students can go toe-to-toe with students from “power-house” schools and still win big.

“Our students can hold their own against anyone in the nation,” said Swartz. “We outhustle, we outwork and we out impress . . . such that people’s heads turn and say ‘What’s that school again?’”

Justin Rezvani, club president and a fourth-year marketing management stu-dent, and James Ruvalcaba, treasurer and fourth-year fi nance student, competed against 50 teams in the fi ve-day conference held April 7-11.

“We basically went through a whole selling cy-

cle in under seven minutes: developing the sale, devel-oping the contact, develop-ing why the product needs to be used, and closing the sale—all within seven min-utes,” said Rezvani. “And we were being judged by ex-ecutives from Northwestern Mutual Financial.”

The product that they “sold” was the Lifesaver bottle. The bottle is a hand-held water fi ltration system that fi lters bacteria, viruses, cysts, parasites, fungi and all other microbiological water-borne pathogens, according to the Lifesaver Web site.

“It fi lters out every type of bacteria known to man,” said Rezvani.

The $200 bottle was do-nated by the corporation to the club to be used for the competition.

Placing fourth, or even participating in a competi-tion, seemed unlikely just a few months ago, considering the club had not been char-tered since 2002.

“The club just restarted this year,” said Rezvani. “The chapter was dead from last year. In January, we only had six people in the club.”

Rezvani took it upon

himself to resurrect the club.“I came on as president

and I just built it myself,” said Rezvani. “And then I started getting new board members involved.”

Rezvani began rebuild-ing the club in fall quarter and it was rechartered by late 2009.

“In the fall we didn’t have any members,” said Swartz. “They went from zero to 30 members in less than a year.”

Now the group is a nationally-ranked organiza-tion.

Along with placing fourth, the Cal Poly AMA also received an honorable mention in the UNICEF tap water project video compe-tition. Their video, fi lmed and edited by Desiree Duz-ich, vice president of the Cal Poly AMA, competed against 150 videos.

Swartz said he expects the four upstart clubs in the IBM Department to contin-ue this year’s success next year.

“In our department, we’re not only satisfi ed in being good,” said Swartz. “We’re interested in being our best.”

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Panel to discuss green careers

As part of the College of Environmental Design’s Ca-reer Day, Cal Poly’s Green Campus Program will host a “Green Career” panel Thurs-day in Building 7 from noon to 1 p.m.

Four panelists will dis-

Students will express themselves through spoken word, art, poetry and musical performances during “Take Back the Night,” a violence awareness event Thursday in the University Park from 4 to 6 p.m.

Campus clubs that aim to create awareness about violence against women will be in attendance. Participants will have the opportunity to create shirts for the Clothes-line Project, an organization that gives women an outlet to express their emotions.

Refreshments will be served. The event is free.

Cal Poly to host wine tasting and auction

The third annual Southern California Tasting and Auction will offer wine, food, entertainment and an auc-tion May 2 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the W.K. Kellogg Commemorative Rose Garden.

Guests may choose wine samples from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Geyser Peak Winery and Foster’s Wine Es-tates, among others. Campus musicians and the Arabian horse team will provide entertainment.

Auction items include vacation packages, a Michael Jackson autographed collage, a Lakers autographed jer-sey and Golden Retriever puppies. Silent auction items include artwork and Dodgers box seats.

The event is for those 21 years old and older. Ad-mission is $90 per person. Proceeds will benefi t Cal Poly scholarships.

Visit www.polytaste.com for details

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HP director to speak on supply chain management

Director of Imaging and Printing Group Ameri-cas John Benardino will discuss how Hewlett-Pack-ard reengineered its reverse logistic supply chain today in Building 6, room 124.

Hosted by the student-run Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Benardino’s appearance is part of a round-table discus-sion series about the future of supply chain manage-ment.

No reservations are necessary.

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Courtesy of Cal Poly AMA

Justin Rezvani and James Ruvalcava, president and trea-surer of Cal Poly AMA respectively, receive an award. cuss all aspects of green jobs

and the sustainability career fi eld. The panel will also speak about the skills neces-sary to become successful with environmentally-friend-ly jobs.

The Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Pro-gram is active in twelve UC and CSU campuses.

The American Red Cross’ annual blood drive competition between Cal Poly and Mt. San Antonio College begins today in Ursa Minor at the Bronco Student Center from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Cal Poly has beat Mt. SAC the past two years by collecting more blood dur-ing the competition.

Call (800) GIVE-LIFE to schedule an appointment during the three-day compe-tition period or visit www.redcrossblood.org and enter CALPOLY as the sponsor code.

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The Brisk Emerging Artist Contest is looking for original student artwork to be featured on Brisk Iced Tea packages in 2011.

Students may submit graphic design, graffi ti, paint-work and other original art pieces. One artist from each campus will be selected as a semi-fi nalist.

Nationwide voters will pick their top ten artists and Brisk will choose three win-ners to receive $10,000 in scholarship money.

The contest’s application deadline is Thursday, April 29.

Visit www.freedomzone.com/briskartists to enter.

Brisk offers contest to student artists

ity of members within the ASI did not feel confi dent in Mehra’s leadership abili-ties and ultimately sided with Souley as presidential candidate.

Another presidential hopeful who dropped out before the applications were due, was David Levinson, secretary of internal affairs.

Levinson decided to take his name out of the running due to the demands of his graduate program in education and political sci-ence.

“It was a very tough decision for me,” said Levinson. “I thought I could help through my experience with ASI. I wish all the can-didates good luck.”

For the past six years, ASI elections have involved at least two or more oppos-ing parties vying for the job of representing Cal Poly students. This year, presi-dential nominee Ismael Souley and vice presidential candidate Johnathan Jianu will offi cially be running unopposed on May’s elec-toral ballot.

Team Go B.O.L.D., which stands for Bronco pride, Outreach, Leadership and Developing Advocacy, dominated the election an-nouncements, with 11 can-didates running for offi ce.

A majority of the can-didates serve in the current ASI government and have plans to increase their roles on campus.

“I want students to know that I will fi ght just as hard for them, regardless of whether I am opposed or not,” said Souley, current engineering senator and presidential candidate. “I am the type of leader who doesn’t base by decisions only on my own opinions alone. I reach out to my fellow students and gauge their responses to proposals on the table.”

After a long year of grueling budget reductions, furloughs and program cuts, Souley promises students he will remain resilient to-wards the Cal Poly admin-istration.

“I will put my foot down and get into the ad-ministration’s faces,” said Souley. “I don’t like it when the administration sidesteps ASI and thinks they can do whatever they want without consequence.

The majority of Go B.O.L.D. members have received the necessary ex-perience while in offi ce this year to counter proposals which will hurt students.”

ASI president Richard Liu supports Souley’s bid to run for the presidency but cited a few minor short-comings that the presiden-tial candidate will have to tackle before he is ready to assume offi ce.

“I am confi dent in Is-mael’s ability to lead and he defi nitely has what it takes to be ASI president,” said Liu. “He has a very passionate heart just as I do. However, he still needs a lot of train-ing in becoming well-versed in the ASI by-laws and deal-ing with more departments other than engineering. I would be more than willing to help my friend with these areas and could act as an ad-visor if he ever needed my assistance.”

Despite ASI by-laws in-dicating that the president, vice president and senators may serve up to two terms in offi ce, Liu has decided he will not seek re-election in the coming year.

“I’m going to be doing an internship in Washing-ton, D.C. next in the fall,” said Liu. “While I would love nothing more than to be Cal Poly’s ASI president once again, I don’t think it is fair for students to have their president be absent for the entire fall quarter. [They] deserve someone who is going to be here and be able to quickly respond to any new events unfolding at school.”

Some students are con-cerned that the democratic process will be lost because only one party is running for both the presidential and vice-presidential tickets.

“Where is the democ-racy? Where are my choic-

es?” asked David Amaral, a second-year agriculture stu-dent. “It would have been nice to at least have some choices in who I want to be running the student govern-ment, but I guess it’s not re-ally their fault since no one else ran.”

ASI Elections Chair Jose Sanchez has the daunt-ing task of determining can-didate eligibility and orga-nizing events that will boost voter turnout and participa-tion on campus.

According to ASI elec-tion statistics, less than 10 percent of Cal Poly’s 20,000 plus student population vot-

ed last year. Sanchez hopes to change this.

“I always try to go above and beyond my responsibil-ities at ASI,” said Sanchez. “For the fi rst time we will be putting together an event on the last day of voting where we will announce the winners of the ASI elections live on stage and in front of students. Nothing like that has ever been done in past elections.”

ASI will host a free mu-sic concert entitled, “Rock the Ballot,” May 13. The event is intended to bring the voting campus commu-nity together with music,

fun and free refreshments. Other events include

an information session with candidates taking place on May 4 and a student led debates on May 6, intended to provide an open forum for students to speak with future ASI leaders. Both events are scheduled to take place during U-hour in the university quad.

For additional informa-tion on upcoming ASI elec-tion events, visit www.asi.csupomona.edu

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news@thepolypost.comReach Matt Ward at:

When two people are in love, their eyes meet and their hearts start to beat faster.

When their hands touch, thousands of nerves begin to send millions messages signaling an excitement that can be almost overwhelm-ing.

And then comes the ex-change of words. After feel-ings are expressed, emo-tions are close behind. The mere mention of a name can cause a reaction that cannot easily be described.

Love is dangerous, it’s vulnerable and it’s exciting. But it’s also diffi cult to de-scribe.

Wikipedia, which is not always factually accurate, but often is often indicative of what the masses think about a subject, says, “Love is any number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment.”

The Web site goes on to say that the word is used in a diverse manner to de-scribe very complex feel-ings, making it unusually diffi cult to consistently de-fi ne, even compared to other emotional states.

One defi nition from Dictionary.com says love is sexual passion or desire.

Is love sex?When you’re walking

into a club on a Saturday night, are you really there to fi nd love?

According to the theory of linguistic determinism, our thoughts are limited by the language we use. Because we only have one word for love, our under-standing of the concept is inherently limited.

Though the English language only has one word to describe the experience, and whether or not we un-derstand the true meaning of the word, as a society we love love.

The deep desire for companionship thrives deep within us.

Love is diverting. We are intrigued by the idea of love. Many even go as far as fantasizing about it and longing for it.

The Greeks had mul-tiple words to describe the phenomenon.

1. Agápe- this word re-fers to a general affection or deeper sense of “true love.” The word is also used to express the enjoyment of a meal and the feelings for a spouse.

2. Éros- is passionate love, with sensual desire

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Green team to lead Earth Day celebration

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Green Team, one of Cal Poly’s most prominent green organizations, is celebrat-ing the international holiday with a series of special events planned this week.

Earth Day, celebrated today, is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the natural environment. It was founded by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson in 1970 as an environmental teach-in and is celebrated in many countries every year. Many communi-ties celebrate Earth Week, which is traditionally an en-tire week of activities dedi-cated to bringing awareness to environmental issues.

To kick things off on Monday, the Landscape Ar-chitecture Lecture Commit-tee welcomed guest speaker Fritz Haeg, an architect and artist who works with an environmental emphasis, to campus.

Today during U-hour, the Library will host a lec-

ture on edible landscaping in its Grand Reading Room.

On Wednesday, from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Uni-versity Park, the Green Team, with the help of fel-low campus organizations BEAT, Bust Out of the Bub-ble and ASI will showcase “Trashed,” a documentary which investigates one of the fastest growing industries in North America - the garbage business.

“I hope this fi lm helps students realize the amount of unnecessary waste that is thrown away each year,” said

Alana Rivadeneyra, Green Team recycling chair. “Too often, students will disregard blue recycling trash cans and just place all of their waste into the garbage. The fi lm will help to shed light on the dangers of this type of care-lessness.”

The week’s activities will culminate on Thursday with an environmental de-sign job fair, a guest speak-er, a U-hour bike ride and a drum circle sponsored by the Music and Entertainment In-dustry Student Association.

The Green Team re-

cently scored a victory in its efforts to make the campus more environmentally con-scious when its “The Green Initiative Fund” was unani-mously approved by the ASI Senate. The initiative calls for money to be allocated for multi-disciplinary, student-led, campus projects geared toward sustainability. In compliance with Executive Order 1034, TGIF was then reviewed by the Fee Advi-sory Committee, which also approved it.

Final approval for the fee, which calls for an ASI fee increase of $2.50 per stu-dent, per quarter (fall, winter, and spring) must come from the student body in a cam-pus-wide vote.

This fee increase would generate approximately $150,000 per fi scal year to stimulate hands-on, educa-tional opportunities to the student population and would take into effect fall 2010.

“Students from all dif-ferent backgrounds are en-couraged to submit ideas on sustainability innovations,” said Lindsey Stuvick, Green

Team co-president. “These added funds will encourage students to be a central part of the green movement. In time we hope a grassroots ap-proach to sustainability will be the most effective way to reach out to new students.”

Despite the increasing popularity of being environ-mentally responsible, some students are still unsure of the promised outcomes of the proposed initiative.

“As long as there is ac-countability, I don’t mind,” said Ricardo Campos, a fi fth-year civil engineering student. “It’s not really about the money for me, I just want to make sure students are actually going to be tapping this new source of funding and put it too good use. The last thing I want is for it to just sit in the lap of some fat cat bureaucrat.”

For additional informa-tion on Earth Day festivities taking place on campus visit http://cppthegreenteam.wee-bly.com

MATT WARDStaff Writer

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at grade with Kellogg West, and the other buildings will be on the hillside below.”

The reaction to the planned expansion has been mostly positive.

“In general, the expan-sion will be a great thing,” said Matthew Mintzias, a fi fth-year hospitality student and Collins College sena-tor. “We are grateful for the funding and the donation that Carol and Jim Collins have provided.”

Collins College admin-istrators not only plan to construct new buildings, but also plan on repairing the landscape surrounding the new buildings.

“Hop plants, which are used for brewing beer, are also going to be part of the landscape,” said McPher-on. “Hop plants grow like climbing plant vines, which we would like to see grow on trellises in the surround-ing areas.”

Administrators have also considered the idea of students operating the hotel at Kellogg West instead of working in the Restaurant, Kellogg Ranch.

“For a long time admin-istrators have been thinking about students operating the hotel instead of being re-quired to work in the restau-rant,” said Mintzias. “This

would also be good to pro-vide more opportunity for students.”

McPheron said student opinion was taken into con-sideration when the deci-sions were being made about the Collins College building project.

“We did a few focus groups with our students and found out that one of the things students wanted was a space to relax be-tween classes or work on homework, especially since they are removed from the central part of campus,” said McPheron.

She also said Collins College students have a hard

time fi nding a place or op-portunity to eat because the lounge is often congested.

“The Collins College has a student lounge area, but it’s often too crowded to sit and eat, so if adminis-trators were to add another food area, that would be great,” she said.

Beyond the benefi ts of more space, increased inter-activity between students is also regarded as a benefi t.

“The student commons building is answering stu-dent needs,” said McPheron. “We want to create a com-fortable environment for students to do projects, have club meetings or socialize

with one another.”A plan for the new stu-

dent commons building is also considered one of the most benefi cial and student-oriented additions for stu-dents.

“Dean Feinstein sees a lot of positive results with students communicating with each other, so it is par-tially social and partially to help educational efforts,” said McPheron.

Additional lecture halls and classrooms will also be benefi cial by providing more space and less compe-tition for class lectures.

“With additional class-rooms, the strain on current

classrooms is alleviated,” said McPheron. “This will really open up more fl exibil-ity with class scheduling.”

Although the entire amount being spent on the project has not yet been raised, administrators are focusing on the bright side.

“We still need to raise the money,” said McPher-on. “I think the dean wants to break ground by spring 2011, and hopefully start building months after that, depending on if we can raise the money. So far we have several supporters.”

said Steve Quintero, coordi-nator for the Visitor and In-formation Center. “There’s a little sweet sorrow there because it’s a great loca-tion. It becomes your home, somewhere you hang out and make friends, you have memories so it’s part of your college experience.”

The facility in the Bronco Student Center costs $13,000 a year to lease from Associate Students Inc. Quintero said the clo-sure will save them paying the yearly lease, but that the

new location might decrease the traffi c they experience in the BSC.

“The component that is probably going to hurt is the guest services and the current faculty, staff and student ser-vices,” said Quintero. “Be-cause you’re moving over to the CLA, it doesn’t necessar-ily have the same traffi c as the University Park and the Bronco Student Center.”

Cora Culla, executive director for ASI, said the Visitor Center had a positive impact and that its departure

will leave a void not only in terms of rent revenue lost, but also because it served to draw new students into the BSC.

“Through the Visitor Center, the Bronco Student Center has been the fi rst stop for prospective students, schools, groups, professional staff and individuals need-ing campus information and wanting to take the general campus tour,” said Culla. “We have communicated our expectation to the university for the BSC to remain as one

of the stops for campus tours in the future and look for-ward to having prospective students and parents come through the BSC.”

Deanna Duncan, a third -year business administration student and Poly Pathfi nder Guide, knows how important the campus tours are to stu-dents who are interested in attending Cal Poly.

“I took two tours of Cal Poly,” said Duncan. “The tours defi nitely helped me decide that this was my number one school. We will

for sure have tours next year for prospective students and schools.”

“Since tour guides are a unique position to the uni-versity, Doug Freer [vice president of Student Affairs], feels that it is important to keep the tours going for new prospective students,” said Duncan.

Fourth-year sociology social work student Sarah Caperton, who is also a Poly Pathfi nder Guide, said she was surprised to hear the Vis-itor Center would be closing

its doors.“It is sad to hear that we

will have to be limiting stu-dents, faculty, staff, guests’ access to us,” said Caper-ton. “My hopes are that we can get more students, who love the campus as much as we do, to be involved in our Bronco Bound club to volun-tarily provide tours to pro-spective students and their families.”

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it proper and take the time, money and effort to make it that much better.”

Athletics Director Brian Swanson said that improve-ments in the Athletic De-partment are gradually made on an annual basis, and the athletic track is on top of the list.

“One of the priorities for us is the track and fi eld area, and that is one of the top fi ve items on our priority list to move forward as we try to identify donors and private funds and other funds to get that facility into a collegiate competitive venue,” said

Swanson.Included in the list of

priority items are improve-ments to the facilities, such as installing permanent rest-rooms, improving the gym-nasium, updating the score-board and improvements on the seating arrangements for spectators.

As the track stands now, an entire set of bleachers is inaccessible to the public. According to Swanson, old manufacturing techniques have created a health con-cern that can only be ad-dressed with costly removal technique.

“I’ve been told that there is lead in the paint and in those bleachers, and in or-der to remove the bleachers, you have to do an abatement process and the cost is exor-bitant to come in and to do that,” said Swanson.

Jonathan Williams, a fourth-year behavioral sci-ence student, said that the money lost by not having a certifi ed track is detrimental on many levels.

“We can’t even use our track because it’s not regu-lated. We can’t even have conference meets here. We can’t have any meets. We

have to travel places,” said Williams. “If we had a track, we could host track meets, and that just brings in rev-enue for not only athletics, but the school itself.”

Johnson said that the area would have to be rebuilt from scratch to address the problems and bring the sta-dium to certifi able levels, a multi-million dollar endeav-or that the coach said is hard to imagine in this economic climate.

“The links in the chain have been taken away,” said Johnson. “Every department is tight and we are still run-

ning a very professional above average job at what we do with bellow average conditions. I don’t feel like it’s right for me to go and ask for things right now.”

The consensus among administration in the Ath-letics Department seems to echo Johnson’s sentiments.

“There is a need in every part of the campus, so what we’ve tried to do is pick off one project to work on each year,” said Swanson. “Every year we try to pick out one facility or venue or aspect of a facility that makes an im-pact with our students or stu-

dent athletes, but our dollars only go so far.”

Johnson remains posi-tive in the midst of the situ-ation and appreciates the efforts track and fi eld and cross-country make, and is grateful for the facilities.

“When you bring people to your campus, you want to put on the best show you possibly can, and we have the people here that give their heart and their all, and we are appreciative of it,” said Johnson.

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Above: The bleachers located on the south side of the track are closed due to suspected health and safety hazards. Top right: deteriorating conditions surrounding the track are an ever-present concern for athletes and Athletics Department administrators. Bottom right: A lack of funding has resulted in subpar facilities, including a weight room, which is not recognized as an official campus building.

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and longing. It can also ap-ply to dating relationships and marriage.

3. Philia- which is a concept developed by Aris-totle, meaning friendship in Greek. It includes loyalty to friends, family and com-munity, and requires virtue, equality and familiarity.

4. Storge- means “af-fection” in Greek. It is natural affection, such as within as family. The word is also used to express ac-ceptance or putting up with a situation.

There is one defi ni-

tion I am personally fond of, and that comes from the Bible.

In the book of 1 Cor-inthians the Bible defi nes love as more than a feeling or emotion.

It says that love is pa-tient and kind. It is humble and understanding and not easily angered.

It also says love always protects, always trusts, al-ways hopes and always perseveres.

If our society viewed love this way, we would ei-ther live in a more peaceful

place or use the word a lot less.

Every one of us has a different explanation for the word.

My suggestion to you isn’t to make this your defi -nition of love.

I only ask that you de-fi ne love for yourself. Use the word only when you mean it, and the next time you tell someone you love them, it may mean more.

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In an effort to reduce costs associated with student loans, the federal govern-ment will begin lending di-rectly to students, bypassing private lenders that act as middlemen.

The bill, which was signed into law by President Obama, will take effect July 1. The new law will not only make it easier for students to get loans, but it will also provide more money for Pell Grants.

The government plans to increase the amount of money going into grants, as well as boost the number of students who receive them.

Bradley Hendrix, loan specialist for the Financial Aid Offi ce, said the new process will have a positive impact on students.

The new law will al-low students to receive their money directly from the government by going through the Financial Aid Offi ce instead of shopping around for different student loan companies.

Hendrix said the only inconvenience students will encounter is they will need to complete a new master promissory note with the Federal Direct Loan program when applying for loans for the 2010-11 academic year.

“Instructions will be available on our Financial Aid Web site in July for both Stafford and Plus loans,” said Hendrix.

The reaction to the an-nouncement has been largely

positive.“Having never heard of

this before and not looked into the issue, it immediately sounds better than money fl owing through private lenders who might tack on extra fees or what have you,” said Ryan Betts, a third-year mechanical engineering stu-dent. “It may eliminate some lending companies, but I think it will be better for stu-dents, and I think that will be better for the country as a whole .”

Arthur Winer, an as-sistant professor of music, agreed with Betts that the change would be benefi cial for students.

“The Direct Loan pro-gram is a step in the right direction,” said Winer. “The old, for-profi t system amounts to little more than government-sponsored wel-fare for lenders. The old system is also partly respon-sible for driving up tuition and fees in higher education. It was in the banks’ and the administrations’ best inter-ests to make education ex-pensive.”

Even with the benefi ts promised with the new pro-gram, not all students are convinced it will be better than the old system.

Maria Salvador, a third-year social work student, knows how complicated dealing with loans is and is not sure if direct loans will be any easier.

“I do not think that I will be applying for any type of student loan any time soon,” said Salvador. “I do not want to be in debt or have to has-sle with paperwork.”

Hendrix, on the other hand, believes that the new bill will make paperwork bearable for students.

“Our students should fi nd the initial application process less cumbersome with direct loans,” said Hen-drix.

Though more money

will be available for a great-er number of grants, the pro-gram does not offer more money for individual stu-dents. Hendrix said that the annual and lifetime loan lim-its are based on grade level and/or dependent indepen-dent status based on FAFSA data, and will not change.

Salvador said she would like to see more money available for students.

“The new law should be able to give out larger amounts of loans with the money that they are saving by not using outside agen-cies,” said Salvador.

Offi cials from the Fi-nancial Aid Offi ce have talked with other CSU cam-puses that use PeopleSoft and Direct Loans about their experiences with direct lending.

“Their feedback has been encouraging,” said Hendrix. “With any new program, the complexities will exist with the Offi ce of Financial Aid in acclimating to a new process.”

The requirements for students will not change. Each student must fi le a FAFSA each academic year, be enrolled at least half-time and meet satisfactory aca-demic requirements.

“The basic requirements between FFELP lenders and the Direct Loan program are the same,” said Hendrix.

One provision stated in the law is that loan payments will be capped at 10 percent of the student’s disposable income.

According to the Fi-nancial Aid Web site, only students with federal loan packages will be affected.

More information re-garding student loans and the changes can be found on the Offi ce of Financial Aid Web site at http://dsa.csupomona.edu/fi nancialaid.

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Changes to loan industry eliminate private lenders that served as middlemen

Urban

SHOWCASEhighlights ASIAN AMERICAN

TALENT

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Sending a surge of rhythms through the crowd, Derek Nakamato, a second-year mechanical enginnering student, plays the drums for Touzan Taiko.

Daniel Nguyen/Poly PostKevin Lien, a third year chemical engineering student, performs his cover of “Sunday Morning” by Maroon 5 in the Urban Showcase.

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Winning the competition in “The World of Dance” the dance group GRV showed a fantastic performance at this year’s 2010 Urban Showcase.

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The Student Center hosted an Urban Showcase last Tues-day in Ursa Major of the BSC as part of April’s Asia & Pa-cifi c Islands Heritage Month.

The showcase was set up in a concert-like fashion and comprised primarily of an Asian American audience.

Performances consisted of singing, dancing and musi-cal performances by Cal Poly students as well as other musi-cians, bands and dance groups that are well known in the per-formance industry.

“The showcase is good to speak up, and break out of the [Asian] stereotype,” said Yukiko Sato, a second-year hospitality management stu-dent and member of the Tou-zan group.

While reaction to the event was generally positive, not ev-eryone in attendance was sat-isfi ed with the end result.

“I think they could have done better in getting a differ-ent group of people here other than the Asian crowd, because the whole point of this month is to show that Asians aren’t just the stereotype,” said Joey Toledo, a second-year civil en-gineering and biology student. “I think Asians as a whole know that, but they need to get other groups to know that too.”

Sato’s group performed

traditional Japanese drumming known Taiko, utilized percus-sion drums made from oak and cowhide to fi ll the venue with thunderous sounds.

The members chose the name Touzan, which means “East Mountains,” because Cal Poly is east of Los Ange-les.

“Since America is diverse, it’s important to keep in touch with cultural roots,” said De-van Masahiko Koshu, a third year hospitality management student and member of Tou-zan. “Cal Poly is good with Japanese Americans.”

The Filipino club Barka-da, which is the largest Asian American campus club, did a dance routine that could be seen on ‘America’s Best Dance Crew.’

The club has been active for seven years and is in its third year as a competitive collegiate dance team.

“I think [Asian Americans] just started to rise with ‘Amer-ica’s Best Dance Crew’ and be-ing on ‘American Idol,’” said Nicole Calinawan, a third-year graphic design student and Barkada member of the Signal Flow dance band. “So I think we’re getting there.”

Afterschoolspecial is a six-member hip-hop band from San Diego.

Recently the group was nominated for best hip-hop act and best hip-hop club at the San Diego Music Awards.

“We’re just trying to set up shows with as many col-leges as we can go to,” said Daniel Matthews, afterschool-special emcee. We get a lot of love from different people in different cities. We enjoyed ourselves tonight.”

The group’s sound is simi-lar to Linkin Park, without the techno undertones.

The female lead singer brings a unique and new image to the band because Matthews is Asian American, which is considered rare in the music industry.

Other famous performanc-es were by Team Millennia featuring Ed Rhee and David Choi.

The group was featured on MTV’s “America’s Next Dance Crew”

“The famous dance crews give people an incentive,” said Sato.

Ed Rhee is a singer-song-writer from Los Angeles and has experienced a measurable amount of success thus far in his career.

David Choi is also a na-tive Los Angeles singer/song-writer/producer whose songs and tracks have been played on NBC, VH1, and MTV.

He has also worked on major online campaigns such as Starburst and JC Penney.

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Drag

BallGlitter, big hair, voguing and

lip-syncing were the main attractions at Cal Poly’s second Drag Ball last Thursday in Ursa Minor.

The event was produced by the Drag Ball Committee and Cal Poly’s Gender, Ethnicity, Multicultural Studies Club, and featured local drag queen extraordinaire, Vicious.

“We are just a committee of people really,” said Lauren Corralez, a fourth-year apparel production student and Drag Ball Committee member. “We have all had planning experience and three of us are program coordinators on campus.

“Last year we didn’t have the drag ball, but it has been around for quite possibly 10 years,” said Corralez.

The event’s host, Vicious, performed a lip sync routine to start the event. She introduced a few famous friends to lipsync drag classics including “Cover girl” and a Cyndi Lauper montage of her top hits.

Excited audience members

welcomed the off-campus queens, and cheered on the individuality and free expression that transcended the stage through the performances.

“It’s my fi rst time ever coming to this event and I have always been fascinated by drag,” said Danielle Dickson, a third-year agricultural business student. “I love how drag queens over do it and don’t care what anybody thinks about them. I really respect them and I wish I could be more like that.”

In addition to the lipsync entertainment, the event hosted a “Vogue” battle featuring Mount SAC student Irwin Barcenes, a.k.a “Miss Um.”

Vogue is a modern dance stylized by angular movements and posing prevalent in the ballroom scene.

“The ‘voguing’ element of it is great,” said Kaori Watson, a fourth-year biotech student and Drag Ball Committee member. “When people talk about voguing they automatically think of Madonna and this shows people that she really got it from somewhere. We wanted to bring a little piece and educate people a little more about the black and Latino subculture.”

An estimated $125 was raised and will be donated to Vienna Star, a nonprofi t organization, which offered its mobile HIV testing services for free at the event.

“We chose to give the donation of money to them because they do HIV testing and research and prevention,” said Corralez. “They also help out [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and

Transgender] youth, especially the minority LBGT youth. It went well with the voguing because voguing is all about minority LBGT youth.”

The event coordinators were happy with the turnout of students and off campus supporters for the Drag Ball.

“We had a nice little number in there, people collected over time,” said Watson. “We probably had about 50 to 75 people turn out. “

The night’s theme was to promote education and awareness for the LBGT community and minority LBGT youth.

“I think people are very amazed this goes on somewhere,” said Watson. “I am very interested in not only people who are queer, but people of color who are queer because a lot of time they go unnoticed.”

Others interested in local drag events are encouraged to contact the GEMS Club on campus or attend the “Drag Factory” at Brick in Pomona on Saturday nights, hosted by Vicious.

I think people are amazed this goes on somewhere.

“—Kaori Watson

Fourth-year biotech student

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Daniel Nguyen/Poly PostThe Drag Queen ball hosted by the by the GEM club, put on an outstanding display with mutiple lipsync acts performaning on the runaway.

Derek Lee/Poly PostParticipants were called upon to the runway to show off voguing, which is a modern style of dance that involves dramatic poses.

Just Drag queens doing their thing

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The star and

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If someone tells you to take a hike, follow his or her instructions for earthy budget-friendly fun.

Although Pomona is not known for its natural beauty, the city’s central location makes it easy for students to exercise in an economical way.

Walking up Cal Poly’s parking structure may feel like a hike itself, but exploring areas outside the campus proves to be a rewarding activity. Head to the Hollywood sign by foot in order to experience one of the world’s most iconic tourist attractions.

Travel north on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles until the road ends. Free parking at the trail’s entrance lets visitors pay the sign a visit for free.

By keeping a steady pace, uphill trek can be completed in about an hour. Follow the path until you are directly behind the Hollywood sign.

Although a fence separates the sign from hikers and the stunning panoramic views, take a photograph.

Located about fi ve miles west of the sign is Runyon Canyon Park, a sprawling 160-acre hiking haven.

The canyon is full of easy, laid-back walks and more challenging journeys. Advanced trails are usually marked by signs and require proper hiking shoes.

Budget-friendly Runyon Canyon Park is also dog-friendly to its four-legged visitors. The park’s puppy-to-person ratio is equal, as most hikers are accompanied by at least one furry friend.

Hike to Indian Rock, the canyon’s highest point, and admire the city’s spectacular and scenic surroundings. While walking back down, give star-gazing a try by spotting celebrities who frequently walk the trails.

If you’re looking to stay local, head over to Cataract

Falls in San Dimas. Located near the 57 Freeway, the trail is popular with city and neighboring residents.

Jump creeks, dodge rocks and follow the downhill path until you reach a hidden waterfall. The pretty oasis brings peace from the bustling activity above.

The Azusa Canyons provide a rugged backdrop for a hike through the foothills.

Mt. San Antonio and the San Gabriel river surround the area, which is also a popular destination for fi shing and mountain biking.

More experienced hikers can try trekking to the Bridge to Nowhere, a 10-mile unmaintained trail, which involves stream crossings, light rock climbing and acute navigation skills.

After arriving at the bridge, enjoy taking in the view and watching bungee-jumpers get a closer look by leaping down.

For a quick hike between classes, walk up a trail behind Building 1 and visit the “CPP” sign. Cal Poly’s landmark letters are painted monthly by campus clubs. The short walk provides solace from mid-quarter stress.

To fi nd more local hikes, visit www.thishikingtrail.com.

Today at 4:20 p.m. the hippie New Year begins.

It is a favorite celebration among all herbal lovers to glorify all that is green of marijuana.

Why? Because it is 420 – pronounced four-twenty, not four hundred and twenty.

Herbal haters say 420 is just a lousy excuse for potheads to do what they do on a daily basis, except there is a meaning behind today’s high.

Whatever you’re for or against, most people do not know where the term 420 originated from.

The most popular theory is 420 is California’s police radio code for cannabis consumption. This is false.

The number 420 denotes a misdemeanor for the hindrance of public land. The California Health and Safety Code for marijuana possession of less than an ounce is 11357b. All drug related Health and Safety code have fi ve digits and end with a letter.

However, on January 1, 2004 the governor of California signed Senate Bill 420, which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes.

This is the only time where the actual “420” term is used to reference the drug correctly.

But 420 can be

seen strategically placed in popular movies and television shows. The placements are not obvious unless someone knows.

In “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” the football game score was 42-0. And most of the clocks in “Pulp Fiction” are set to 4:20.

Musician Bob Marley did not create the term.

Also, the theory about Bob Dylan is false about 420 coming from the title of “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” because 12 times 35 equals 420 and to support the mathematics is the lyric within the song “everybody must be stoned.”

Although the band Grateful Dead had the most rumors surrounding the number, it is not the creator.

Any rumors dealing with the number and the band are untrue said Grateful Dead Production Spokesman Dennis McNally.

This is mainly referring to how the band only stayed in room 420 on tour, the band’s headquarters’ address and band’s singer Jerry Garcia’s death– not true.

It is not true that the number of chemical compunds in marijuana is 420. According to “High Times” magazine, the number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315.

It is not because of the marijuana that grew freely on the side of a Canadian highway in the ‘60s, which was dubbed Highway 420 in 1972.

It is also not the day to mourn for rock legends Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin’s death. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on Sept. 18 and Joplin on Oct. 4.

However, the date is Adolf Hitler’s birthday but 420 started as a time, not as a date. So don’t worry about celebrating his birthday.

It is not Holland or Amsterdam’s teatime.

April 20 is the date when the Columbine High School massacre occurred, but this happened after the term was already used.

As much as history books can state about when marijuana was used, it cannot be proven or has anything to do with the term. It is interesting to note that marijuana has been smoked since ancient history.

For example, in 650 B.C., Persia and Assyria and in 400 B.C., was used in Rome.

The real story IS … The term’s history started in Northern California.

According to Steven Hager, “High Times” editor, the term 420 originated at San Rafael High School in 1971. It was shorthand for the time and place to meet at the Louis Pasteur statue

to go smoke pot for a group of students known as “The Waldos.”

After decades of watching the term spread, thanks to the “Grateful Dead” and their fan base, “The Waldos” wanted to have claim to the history.

“The Waldos” contacted Hager and presented him with 420 history, which was letters postmarked in the ‘70s with 420 mentioned everywhere.

The group also started a Web site, waldo420.com, to legitimizing their claim.

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According to “420 Magazine,” there is evidence George Washington grew marijuana and possibly smoked it to help with his chronic toothache. It is rumored that Benjamin Franklin experimented with the drug because he owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany saying, “Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp and playing my Hohner harmonica.”

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The Louis Pasteur statue still stands at San Rafael High School.

Taking the haze out of the‘high holiday’

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Dave Lizewski, played by British actor Aaron Johnson, a comic-book nerd, wonders aloud to his friends one day, “How come nobody ís ever tried to be a superhero?”

His friend Marty, played by “Hot Tub Time Machine” actor Clark Duke, responds quickly: “Dude, if anybody did it in real life, they would be dead in like, a day.”

Through those two lines of dialogue is the premise to the action packed, uber-violent, often comical, exhilarating superhero fi lm “Kick-Ass” is born.

Soon after, Dave is crafting a green wetsuit into a superhero costume and trying to fi ght off goons as his alter ego Kick-Ass.

The key word here is “trying.”

During his fi rst bout as Kick-Ass, Dave ends up in the hospital. Once he recovers he meets superheroes that are a little better at vigilante justice, Nicolas Cage’s as Big Daddy and the wonderful Chloë Moretz’s as Hit Girl. Together they begin to fi ght off “baddies” and get one step closer to taking down Frank DiAmico, played with

delightful villainous charm by Mark Strong, “Sherlock Holmes.”

One of the things that everyone will be talking about is Moretz as Hit Girl. Concerns have been voiced by the public and critics about the message the character is sending the youth in the real world.

It is a fake comic-book movie and has a hard R-rating. Watching an 11-year-old girl annihilate a room full of thugs in incredibly well choreographed fi ght sequences is a jaw-dropping good time.

Moretz is a delight to watch on-screen, as is Cage, who channels a very amusing “Adam West as Batman” sort of dialect, when he is suited up as Big Daddy.

In addition, Johnson

adds a much needed realistic touch to the fi lm who contains both depth and an emotional core to the character.

The real star of the fi lm though is director Matthew Vaughn’s unbelievably

entertaining action sequences.

Those willing to take the plunge into this cinematic/comic-book world may fi nd themselves cheering, laughing, and sitting back in

awe at all of the immensely enjoyable, off-the-wall, “kick your ass,” entertainment has to offer.

“My World 2.0” reveals a new level of maturity for 16-year-old Justin Bieber, which is a nice change amid all the teen pop artists on the billboards.

With the track “Baby,” Bieber infuses vocal of yesteryear with a steady, simple fast-paced beat.

The song takes listeners back to the days when the innocent sounds of Hanson fi lled the rooms of teenage girls.

Ludacris makes an appearance on Bieber’s hit single, giving the track a hip- hop sound.

“Runway Love” is a fusion of Janet Jackson’s “Runway” and Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body.”

In the song, Bieber changes up his vocals and tries something a little different.

The tune takes on a little bit of a young Michael Jackson vibe.

“Somebody To Love” starts off with a rapid and thick techno sound that will have listeners moving.

This song could defi nitely make the top of the pop charts due to its quick tempo and dance beat.

Bieber sings about wanting the girl of his dreams, and how he would do anything to get her in his life.

Although this is a reoccuring theme, the beat of “Somebody To Love” brings it into the current sound that is popular today.

One of the most original songs on the album is “Overboard,” a duet with14-year-old Pop/R&B singer Jessica “JJ” Jarrell. The track is slower paced, which makes it one of the more romantic sounding songs on the album.

It opens with a piano piece that continues throughout the song. It gives a nice background to both of their voices.

“Up” and “U Smile” are two tracks that do not fi t Bieber’s pop sound.

“Up” is a song about

how Bieber and his love interest can only further the emotions they have for one another. The song mimics an Usher beat in the background, which is soft but keeps it alive with the tempo on the base.

Bieber wrote “U Smile” for his fans. The opening of the song has a pulsating beat leading into lyrics, which are both repetitive and catchy. The song is about Bieger returning a smile to his fans.

Bieber will certainly have fans cheering for him with this album.

The lyrics will defi nitely get stuck in your head. However, the melodies are nothing new, returning to a time when teen pop bands ruled the world.

“My World 2.0” shows a grownup version of Bieber making his way into the adult world.

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Last Monday, Kentucky Fried Chicken unleashed its newest creation to the world: The Double Down Sandwich.

With “no room for a bun”, as KFC’s Web site proclaims, the sandwich features two thick pieces of chicken (fried or grilled), two pieces of bacon, melted slices of pepper jack and Monterey Jack cheese and Colonel’s sauce.

There is nothing else: no lettuce, no tomato and no bread. It is simply the hearty basics of meat and cheese.

“It sounds good,” said Leonard Vandegrift, writing center program coordinator. “It sounds fattening, but I like fattening.”

Meanwhile, other

students could not believe their ears.

Javier Gallegos, a fourth-year philosophy and computer science student, was hesitant to believe the Double Down commercial was real.

“Is that for real?” said Gallegos. “It almost seems like a joke.”

But it is for real, and Vandegrift is right—it is fattening.

With 10 grams of saturated fat, the KFC Original Recipe Double Down contains about 50 percent of a day’s recommended amount.

Moreover, the sandwich contains about 1,380 milligrams of salt, which is 60 percent of the day’s recommended amount.

Meanwhile, the KFC Grilled Double Down version is meant to be a healthier

version of the sandwich. After all, it only has 460

calories, while the original one boasts a startling 560 calories.

But, the so-called healthier sandwich has 50

more milligrams of sodium.The most popular

adjective used to describe the sandwich during a Cal Poly Pomona students survey was not “delicious” or “healthy”,

but “gross.”“I just don’t need that

much protein,” said Amanda Schluter, a fi fth-year architecture student. “All of that junk, salt, and fat—it’s just not worth it to me.”

Students, Samarah Nikookar, a fi rst-year business student, felt disgusted by the Double Down and its contribution to the obesity problem.

“I think it’s going to make Americans fatter,” said Nikookar. “Everyone’s worried about staying healthy and is trying to make fast food products healthier. But now, they come up with something even more disgusting and fattening.”

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about two thirds of Americans are considered to be overweight or obese.

The sandwich does possess the appeal of being different, however the price of eating, one may halt all curiosity.

“For $5, I could buy two value menu chicken sandwiches put together,” said Robert Redd, a fi fth-year English literature student. “I don’t see how this is innovative.”

Thomas Castro, a second-year hotel restaurant and management student, said he liked the sandwich but did not appreciate the cost.

“I thought it was pretty delicious,” said Castro. “But I wouldn’t get it again. It costs too much, and comparably, I could get a lot more food for that much money. I’m a poor college student.”

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Kentucky Fried Chicken released The Double Down Sandwich on April 12 with no bread to accompanying the chicken, bacon and cheese.

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So much has changed in the last century especially in the technological world.

Many different types of technology have been in-vented, only to fade away and be replaced by newer gadgets and gizmos.

Much like the VHS tapes an 8-track players of yore, Blockbuster Video is slip-ping towards antiquation.

Recent methods of rent-ing videos, such as Netfl ix and Redbox, are what have Blockbuster teetering so vio-lently on the edge of bank-ruptcy.

An unoffi cial survey of 20 students found 80 percent use Redbox or Netfl ix rather than Blockbuster. Most stu-dents said they prefer Red-box and Netfl ix for conve-nience.

Redbox locations are be-coming nearly as prolifi c as Starbucks cafes and seem to hover around high traffi c areas like markets and gas stations.

Placing Redbox kiosks in such convenient places pro-motes the consumer thought, “since I’m here anyway, I might as well get one.”

Redbox also appeals to a consumer tendency that Blockbuster never seemed to understand: the tendency for customers to watch the

movie once, then return it. Redbox’s one dollar for

one-day business plan ap-peals directly to this movie viewer demographic.

While Redbox still requires the user to drive somewhere in order to obtain a movie, Netfl ix is delivered directly to the recipient’s mailbox.

If a walk to the mailbox is too physically exhausting, users can even stream Netf-lix directly to their television set.

Is laziness the motive for the blatant boycotting of Blockbuster?

Fifty percent of students checked yes, stating they preferred Netfl ix because they didn’t have to drive to Blockbuster.

This age of instant grati-fi cation will be the death of the traditional video rental store.

However, Blockbuster isn’t helplessly withering away into obsolescence.

They have come up with a mail out movie scheme almost identical to Netf-lix, though fi fty percent of students said they were not aware of the new service.

The Money section of U.S. News & World Report

listed Blockbuster as one of 15 companies that prob-ably wouldn’t survive 2009. However, they are still here, albeit barely hanging on.

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Excess skin replaces Hollywood skills

More than 50 years ago, Barbie and Ken represented the perfect American image.

Now, half of a century later, the obses-sion for beautiful, near-perfect fi gures still remains strong.

Robert Patterson, Zac Efron and Chan-ning Tatum are among the many Hollywood hunks that have girls going crazy for them.

While this eye candy is fun to look at, it is not sending a healthy message to America’s youth.

Leading men are implying that six-pack abs are necessary in a starring role, and

young female starlets, such as Megan Fox and Ashley Greene, portray the idea that skinny waist and a push-up bra are the keys to fame, money and success.

The issue of body image in Hollywood is a tired debate that seems never ending, and yet despite criticism, casting directors never stop the parade of half-naked movie actors.

What has changed in movies, besides the pressures for more muscles in men and skeletal fi gures for women, are the clothes – or lack there of – that actors wear in feature fi lms.

Fred Astaire, a legendary leading man of early Hollywood cinema, was recognized for his top hat and gleaming coat tails.

Taylor Lautner, the current moviegoers’ obsession, is known for wearing no shirt at all.

Of course, watching an attractive young actor show off his freshly bench-pressed body always brings people to the theater seats, but isn’t it being overdone?

Motion picture costume designers must have the easiest job in the business.

For example, Wendy Chuck, the woman in charge of costumes for the fi lm “Twi-light,” dressed her actors in either drab neu-trals or shirtless get-ups.

I do not wish to come off prudish – at times I just long for the beautiful costumes of the past that told a unique story.

Clothes displayed in classic musicals

such as “The King and I,” or the wonder-fully preppy patterns in “Clueless,” brought an element of art and fun to the screen.

Unfortunately, when watching fi lms such as “Twilight: New Moon” or “Transform-ers: Revenge of the Fallen,” one is bound to see Robert Pattinson’s chest hairs or Megan Fox’s legs and bulging cleavage.

One may even argue that music videos have fallen to the same fate as movies – which also feature a lack of depth and size zero jeans.

Today, a popular song is partnered with lingerie-clad women and men in wife beater tank tops.

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Silly boys, you’re not the only ones looking.

The crucial difference is women know how to be dis-creet when an attractive guy passes by.

A beautiful person will magnetically attract the eyes of the people around them.

The key to remaining on good terms with the person beside you, after you’ve sto-len a quick glance, is discre-tion.

If men would just un-derstand this, we could go about our day enjoying all the eye candy the world has to offer.

And yet again, their sim-plicity forces us to scold them.

Watch and learn, guys.She’ll sneak a peak before

her man even notices there’s another guy in the room.

The measures women take to avoid getting caught ad-miring the opposite sex are not meant to be devious.

We just don’t want the men in our lives to feel in-adequate or insecure.

The fact that some men want their girlfriends to ac-cept that a guy’s eyes will lust after any other woman strutting by shows a lack of sensitivity.

Whether your partner minds you looking or not

should determine how you act in this given situation.

Naturally, if you are dat-ing someone with insecurity and jealousy issues, prepare to face a more hostile reac-tion.

To stay on the safe side, be sure you understand the difference between appreci-ating beauty and downright ogling.

A quick glance is fi ne, a prolonged stare is nearing the danger zone and drool-ing will probably get you cut.

On the fl ip side, it would be naive to think your sig-nifi cant other does not take notice of good looking peo-ple.

You may be the apple of his eye, but don’t forget his eyes are still open.

An easier approach that would take the stress off both of you would be to mu-tually comment on the at-tractiveness, or lack thereof, have a little laugh and move on with your lives.

While some relationships are more maturely evolved and can openly appreciate the attractiveness of people crossing their paths, others must resort to less incrimi-nating means.

Two words: peripheral vi-sion.

“What did you just look at?”

Girls, why do you ask the obvious when you know your guy just looked at an-other girl?

And now, thanks to your insecurities, she is the en-emy.

What women don’t realize is men are just fi guring out why they stick with the girl they are currently with.

Men want to make sure that they picked the right pair of X chromosomes.

Besides, who doesn’t like looking at a work of art?

Why can’t women under-stand that men like to look at a pretty girl?

It doesn’t matter if we are in a relationship or not. Men are going to look when an attractive girl walks by, no matter how angry or inse-cure it makes you.

Ideally, men should be with one woman, but we defi nitely weren’t created to keep our eyes fi xed on just one person.

While it’s hard to know everything about them, women are highly intelligent beings among one another.

Around men, they lose all intelligence and go into ar-gumentation mode.

Why aren’t women just satisfi ed that they have someone?

So what if we look? It’s in a guy’s DNA. Instead, women have to complicate things.

Ladies, let me break it down for you.

Men are of a simple breed: we look, we love and we don’t know any better.

If women realized that all their reverse psychology and mind tricks were just go-ing over our heads, it would make life a lot easier on both sexes.

Blame it on our Y chromo-some, but even if we don’t look, you will ask us if we think a girl is pretty.

What is a man to do?Girls, if we say no, then

you blame us for trying to say what you want to hear. If we say yes, well let’s just say not many men have es-caped unscathed from such a response.

Not only is this technique unfair, it’s entrapment.

So just let us be, and un-derstand that boys will al-ways be boys.

If you are uncomfortable, say something.

Beyond looking, we can also listen too.

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If she looks good, we will be looking

Females look too, we’re just better at it

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Jackson’s red leather jacket or Olivia Newton John’s legwarmers?

Although the pieces seem outdated now, they helped tell a concept in an exciting music video.

In the end, producers and directors live by the motto “sex sells,” even though fi lms that focus on outer beauty are often forgotten or scathed by critics.

Few movies are able to master the combination of a deep message with a capti-vating wardrobe.

Films and actors that have accomplished this feat include Audrey Hepburn in

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” or John Travolta wearing his T-Bird jacket in “Grease.”

The Hollywood of yes-teryear had more to sell than just skin. Films used to bring in record numbers because there was a good story to be told. To think, you could captivate an audi-ence with substance.

One can only hope that a new procession of intrigu-ing and eye-catching mov-ies can emerge and capture both the viewer’s attention and respect.

When committed to another, it doesn’t matter who wears the pants

Unless you have been living un-der a rock for the past few years, you know that we are in the midst of a huge economic crisis.

Sure, the crisis has affected uni-versities and businesses, but how has it affected married couples?

It is 2010, and it is clear the days of June Cleaver are long gone.

No longer is it the norm for women to stay home and watch the kids while the man works to pro-vide for his family.

These days, a dual income fam-ily has shifted our perception of what’s normal in a family setting.

A poll in the October issue of TIME Magazine found that about 40 percent of women are the pri-mary breadwinners in their family.

Aside from working outside the home, women have also been piling on responsibilities inside home.

Of those polled, 55 percent of women say they take on more re-

sponsibilities at home than men. With women taking the roles as

both a breadwinner and caretaker, do women now wear the pants in the marriage?

When you look at the facts, it may seem as though women indeed wear the pants in the relationship.

However the entire concept of wearing the pants in the relation-ship is absurd.

The real question is not who wears the pants, but rather how these roles affect a marriage.

If couples only focus on which responsibilities should be complet-ed by whom, the more important issue is not being addressed.

The real problem is not whether the woman or the man pays the bills, or takes out the trash or even

cooks or cleans at home. The real debate should be about

the strength of the marriage itself. The dissolving marriage is a huge

crisis in the United States. Accord-ing to Divorcerate.org, 26 percent of women and 25 percent of men say that women who work outside of the home devote less time and attention to their marriage.

With the divorce rates as high as 50 percent, there are bigger problems to worry about than who wears the pants.

Divorce has damaging results on a family.

Studies show that children of parents who are divorced perform poorly in school and are more likely to repeat grades and have a much higher drop out rate than

children of parents who re-main married.

Also, children of divorced parents are more likely to be abused and show greater signs of health, behavioral and emotional problems.

A marriage should be based on love and team work.

Couples should work to-gether to complete tasks at home, rather than worrying if those tasks fi t the roles society has created for them.

What does it matter who takes care of various respon-sibilities, as long as those re-sponsibilities are fulfi lled?

Marriage in the United States needs a major make over. Couples should work hard to maintain healthy rela-tionships instead of conforming to ridiculous titles.

SKIN: When movies consist of nothing more than nudity continued from page 10

FARHEEN DAYALAStaff Writer About 40 percent of women are the primary

breadwinners in their families...55 percent say they take on more responsibilities at home

than men do.

Opinions@thepolypost.comReach Farheen Dayala at:

Illustration by Sarah Elkeaikati

Opinions@thepolypost.comReach Micheala Art at:

The Cal Poly baseball team split its four game series against Cal State East Bay, bringing its overall record to 22-23 overall.

The Broncos won the double-header’s second game as well as Sunday’s game 10-6 and 13-8, re-spectively, and lost Friday’s game 9-8 and Saturday’s doubleheader opener 4-1.

The Broncos are seventh in the CCAA, with a record of 14-18 and are 13 games behind fi rst place UC San Diego.

Cal State East Bay is in 10th place, posting an 11-21 CCAA re-cord, and an overall record of 18-26-1.

The Broncos’ fi rst win came during the closer of Saturday’s doubleheader with a score of 10-6, thanks in part to the performance by junior infi elder Tyson Edwards.

Edwards went 4-5, with three RBIs and a home run.

“He did a good job,” said Head Coach Mike Ashman of Edward’s performance. “When he uses all fi eld, he’s an outstanding hitter.”

The Pioneers struck early and late in the game, with the fi rst three of their six runs coming in the fi rst inning, and the remaining coming in the bottom of the ninth.

In between, the Pioneers had no answer for the Broncos’ offense, which included a total of 13 hits.

Taking the win for the Broncos

Senior heptathlete Aman-da Smith is hoping for a strong fi nish as she completes her fi -nal season with the women’s track and fi eld team.

Smith was ranked sev-enth with 4416 points in 2009 on the women’s all-time top ten performers list for the Broncos, under the heptath-lon category. She has also led the team in the javelin throw with a distance of 119-10.

Heptathletes compete for points in seven events, the 100 meters, 200 meters, 800 me-ters, hurdles, high jump, jav-elin, and shot put. The com-petitor with the most points wins the heptathlon event.

It takes 4-5 hours a day to train for seven events, Smith said.

“It’s a lot of endurance training and it’s mostly men-tal,” said Smith. “You have to be strong physically and mentally in order to over-come all those events.”

Smith, a business mar-keting student, is planning to move to Washington D.C. to help train underprivileged children who would like to compete in triathlons.

“The greatest thing would be for me to blend my love for sports with my skills in marketing,” said Smith.

Freshman sprinter, Eliz-abeth Regan said Smith has been an infl uential and mo-tivating force because Regan is working on becoming a heptathlete soon.

“She is a leader in all as-pects,” said Regan. “She is mentally and physically pre-paring me for the heptathlon.”

Every Friday, Smith likes to wear different colored span-dex during practice to loosen up the mood and to make the strenuous training fun and en-joyable, said Regan.

“She does her best to lead by example,” said Regan. “She works her hard-est and hopes everyone else she will do the same.”

After working with Smith for three years, Head Coach Troy Johnson said that “Smith is a great athlete and she is a provisional qualifi er for Nationals this year.”

Sophomore Tramieka Thomas said Smith is the best at what she does because she puts a lot of time and ef-fort into her training.

“At track meets she demonstrates great leader-ship which is something the team really appreciates,” said Thomas.

Smith says she has en-joyed her time at Cal Poly and she encourages all stu-dents to get involved with campus activities because it makes the college experience a better one.

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End of an eraMen’s, women’s tennis teams end season, program with a win and loss

Broncos down CSU Los Angeles 7-2 to end season

Last Tuesday was bit-tersweet for the women’s tennis team as it conquered Cal State Los Angeles on the court, but battled emo-tions at day’s end.

The Broncos took all three of their doubles matches and stayed strong to the end winning four of the six singles matches. The fi nal score was 7-2.

Head Coach Sandy Krie-zel was proud of her team.

“The girls came out ready to play LA,” said Kriezel. “All season, they’ve been fi ghters, and today was no different. It’s great to end the season on a high note.”

According to the Bronco Athletics Web site, the team is ranked 25th in the CCAA.

The team is waiting to hear if it made it into the NCAA Tourney berth. The

announcements will be made during the last week of April.

Junior Jennifer Chow and sophomore Jackie Trendt earned the 8-2 win in the No. 1 doubles spot.

Both girls moved on to win their singles match-es later in the day.

Senior Mallory Brady and sophomore Jennifer Buchanan were success-ful in their No. 3 doubles match with a score of 8-6.

Brady continued to win 6-0 and 6-4 at the No. 3 position in singles.

Junior Kaitlyn Wool-dridge and freshman Chris-tie Lau fi lled the No. 2 spot with a 9-7 victory.

“Christie Lau had a great performance today, she played with an injury,” said Kriezel.

Wooldridge held the No. 5 positions on the court and left victorious.

Tuesday’s match was Senior Day. Recognitions

were given in a pre-match ceremony to Brady and se-nior Fallon Blattner.

Blattner was not pres-ent at the match, but Brady did her team proud.

Blattner is a mem-ber of the school’s ROTC and was visiting the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. Blattner will graduate as a commis-sioned offi cer this spring, according to the Web site.

Brady participated in the 74th singles match and 49th doubles match of her four-year career.

She earned an overall record of 42-31. This in-cludes a 13-5 record in this season’s singles and a 29-19 record in doubles dur-ing her four-year career.

Brady is a three-time All-CCAA Academic hon-oree and a two-time Divi-sion II Athletic Directors Association Academics

sports@thepolypost.comReach Larissa Castanon at:

KATIE O’LAUGHLINStaff Writer

See WOMEN/Pg. 13

It was Senior Day at the Kellogg Sports Complex where the men’s ten-nis team concluded its season last Thursday with a tough 7-2 loss against UC San Diego.

The loss brought the Bron-cos’ overall record to 6-11.

UC San Diego closed its sea-son with a regional record of eight wins and three losses, and an overall record of 12 wins and 10 losses.

Prior to the start of play, seniors Joshua Gong, Joshua Lau and James Lee were honored in a ceremony, rec-ognizing not only their upper-class status, but more importantly, their fi nal match as Broncos.

“It’s an emotional day for me,” said Head Coach Sandy Kriezel. “Jus-tin and Josh have been with us four years. They’re stand-up guys, they battled out today and played hard.”

In doubles, the Broncos won one of three matches against the visiting Tritons. Senior Joshua Lau and junior Keith Boggero of the Broncos defeat-ed freshman Austin West and junior

Armaun Emami in No. 2 doubles, 8-2.“We played very well,” said

Lau. “We started out really strong. The momentum carried me into singles.”

No. 3 doubles Lee and junior Shane McNulty had a close match

with sophomore Jake Fellow and sophomore Sam Ling, but lost 8-6.

On the singles end, only one Bronco

managed a victory, and that was junior Salva-dor Romero who beat sophomore Sam Ling in two sets, 6-2, 6-2, in No. 2 singles.

“I served well,” said Rome-ro. “Whenever I needed to at-tack, I attacked. When I was on defense, I came up with the shots.”

Men’s tennis team falls 7-2 in heartbraking lossERIK CARRSports Editor

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Freshman tennis player Christie Lau won her No. 2 doubles match with Kaitlyn Wooldridge last week 9-7.

Derek Lee/Poly PostJunior tennis player Shane McNulty played in the No. 3 doubles match with James Lee last Thursday, but

lost 8-6.

**FILE** Chris Sloan/Poly Post

Junior pitcher Ryan Parker throws against Cal State San Bernardino in this file photo from last week’s away doubleheader.

Broncos win two, lose two against East Bay

Senior athlete torun herlast race

See BASEBALL/Pg. 13

LARISSA CASTANONStaff Writer

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MITCHELL SALTZMANStaff Writer

SPLITSVILLE

GOING AGAINST THE PROS: Cal Poly’s track and fi eld team goes up against Olympic Athletes at Azusa Pacifi c University

PG. 13

The Cal Poly track and fi eld team competed at the Bryan Clay Invitational last Friday at Azusa Pacifi c Uni-versity, and came away with some great performances.

“[It is] a good technical meet,” said Head Coach Troy Johnson. “We’re working to-wards our goal.”

While the Broncos com-pete against their best compe-tition in every meet, this meet was distinguished by the fact that it featured Olympic med-alists from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.

In the men’s 200-meter race, senior Jonathan Williams ran against Bryan Clay, who won a gold medal in the de-cathlon at the 2008 Olympics.

Williams placed third, fi nishing with a time of 21.34 seconds, which matched his personal best. In addition to this feat, Williams beat Clay, who fi nished fourth with a time 21.48.

“It happens,” said Wil-liams modestly, in reference to beating Clay. “It happens to the best of us.”

Williams also placed fi fth in his heat of the 100, and sixth overall, with a time of 10.76.

On the women’s side, senior Tokunbo Adeniji had a fourth place fi nish, running a 55.73 in the 400.

In her race, Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain ran a 52.30 to win the race. Ohuruogu won the gold med-al in the Beijing Olympics.

Junior Carter Griffi n won the 400 with a time of 47.54, which is a personal best. The time also made him eligible for NCAA Division II Provisionals.

Elsewhere on the track, the men continued to have solid results. Junior Jose Marquez had a personal best in the 1500 with a time of 4:00.56.

In his heat of the 200, se-nior Connor Duckworth won with a time of 23.77.

“I started the race much better than I had [in the past],” said Duckworth. “I was able to hold on thanks to the good start.”

Jake Deavers won the second heat of the men’s 110 with a time of 14.88.

Right behind him in sixth was Michael Hernan-dez, who ran a 15.71. Each race was the seventh and 14th best overall, respectively.

The women’s side of track had its share of personal bests. Senior Allison Brewer ran a personal best of 16.57 in the 110 hurdles.

“We want to be improv-ing at this time in the sea-son,” said Brewer. “[The per-sonal record] just makes me happy.”

Junior Julia Manzo ran a 17.91 in the 110 hurdles, and senior Haley Orr ran a 1:05.72 in the 400. Both of the times were personal bests.

In the women’s 200, freshman Ariel Whitney ran a personal best of 26.11.

Freshman Elizabeth Regan, Orr, and Manzo also ran new personal bests with times of 27.99, 29.12, and 29.58, re-spectively.

Near the end of the day, the women’s 4 x 400 relay team ran a 3:51.17, its fastest time yet. The team consisted of sophomore Kyle Wolff, Whitney, Adeniji, and fresh-man Brooke Gamble.

In addition to their times, the Broncos also post-ed remarkable measurements in the fi eld. Senior Megan Emami leaped 35-6 1/2 in the triple jump, which was the fourth-best jump at the meet.

For the men, freshman Shane Cioni threw 136-09 in the discus throw, which was good enough to win his heat.

Freshman James Cox placed fourth in his heat, throwing a distance of 133-05. Overall, Cioni fi nished 13th and Cox fi nished 14th.

After a four-week ab-sence, senior Mariano Baez was healthy to compete and ran a 1:59.84 in the men’s 800, placing seventh.

“It went well,” said Baez. “Coach just said to concentrate and do the best I could.”

Baez had another sev-enth place fi nish in the 1500, in which he ran a time of 4:05.14.

This Saturday, the track and fi eld team goes west to Los Angeles where it will compete in the Tommy “Tiny” Lister Classic at the Jesse Owens Track of Cal State Los Angeles.

13www.thepolypost.comPOLY POSTApril 20, 2010TUESDAY,

honoree.Brady was also named

to second-team All CCAA her sophomore season.

“It was exciting to win my last match, said Brady. “[UC] San Diego was our biggest win. It was incred-ible to beat them during my last season.”

The match against UC San Diego was memorable for Coach Kriezel, who said, “Cal Poly’s win against San Diego was great. It was the fi rst in seven years.”

Jackie Trendt shared similar feelings about the win over UC San Diego.

“It was a really good sea-

son, a big improvement and I’m really excited about the win over [UC] San Diego.”

Brady feels this season was her best.

“Last season wasn’t the greatest for me, this was a really good last season,” said Brady.

Not only was the last match of the season played on Tuesday, it could be the last match played by the women’s Cal Poly tennis team with the current bud-get cuts.

“Luckily the door is still open for us.” Said Krie-zel. “I am dedicated to save the experience for Cal Poly

students.”Kriezel has submitted

a plan to save the program and will be meeting with the board to discuss it soon.

“We can’t wait until next year to make things happen.” Kriezel said. “It’s going to be a challenge to raise the necessary money but we’re fi ghters.”

Buchanan had somber feelings for the season ending.

“The team is really close and I’m really sad its over.” Buchanan said.

WOMEN: Tennis team is waiting for word if they have made division playoff spotcontinued from page 12

Elsewhere on the courts, a different story was told.

No. 6 singles Lee lost his fi rst set to West 6-1, but came back in the second set, winning 7-6. In the third set, however, the match went to a tiebreaker in which West eeked out a 9-7 victory.

Despite the heartbreaking loss, Lee remained optimistic.

“[I] played aggressive,” said Lee. “I had my usually aggressive game. I didn’t back

down from that. Doubles was very good, too.”

The last match to fi nish the day was the No. 1 singles match between Lau and Tri-tons junior Erik Elliott.

Elliott won the fi rst set, 6-4. However, Lau evened the score at one set apiece when he won the second set 6-4. The third set also resulted in a 6-4 score, but went in favor of Elliott.

“Overall, I thought I

played pretty well,” said Lau. “It’s a great way to end the season.”

Throughout the matches, there was a melancholic at-mosphere for the Broncos, as it was announced last month that Cal Poly would no longer fund the tennis program due to cuts to the state budget.

“This could be my senior day, my fi nal match out here as a coach,” said Kriezel. “I wish I knew what the future held.”

Regardless of what hap-pens with the program, some of the players have already made up their minds about where they will be next year.

“I’m staying,” said Romero. “No matter what happens to the program, I’m staying.”

At the end of play, mem-bers of the men’s tennis team livened their own spirits by at-tempting to douse their fellow teammates with a Gatorade

cooler fi lled with cold water.In the next few weeks,

the men’s tennis team will throw its annual end-of-the-year banquet.

While this year’s banquet will be a time of refl ection for the 2010 season, it may also commemorate the Cal Poly tennis program as a whole.

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was pitcher Geoff Brous-sard, who pitched a complete game, and improved his re-cord to 6-2 for the season.

Broussard gave up no walks and struck out four, while allowing six runs and 11 hits.

The Broncos took away a 13-8 win thanks to homeruns hit by sophomore catcher Jenzen Torres, junior outfi elder Travis Taijeron, and senior second baseman Marcus Makia.

The other two games in the series did not go as well for the Broncos. Despite the losses, both games still featured some great hitting and base running from the Broncos.

In Friday’s game, the Broncos came out strong when they led 7-2 in the eighth inning.

The game turned around when the Pioneers loaded the bases with no outs, leading to a sacrifi ce fl y that made the score 7-3.

A second fl y ball to right fi eld brought the count to two outs, but the Broncos just could not put an end to an inning which saw the Pio-neers bringing in seven runs with four hits.

Junior outfi elder Ste-phen Gonzalez led the team in RBIs, bringing home three runs, while Makia and senior outfi elder Robert Palmer

each scored two runs. Ed-wards hit the Broncos’ sole home run in the sixth.

In the opening of Sat-urday’s doubleheader, the Broncos went down 4-1 due to their inability to mount an offense against junior Paul Jinkens, the Pioneers’ start-ing pitcher.

The Pioneer pitcher threw 15 strikeouts and kept the Broncos to only seven hits throughout the game.

The only Bronco run

came from a solo homerun hit by senior catcher Jordan Alcantar.

Next up for the Broncos is a series against Cal State Stanislaus, with all games taking place in the Broncos’ backyard, Scolinos Field.

The fi rst game starts at 2:30 p.m.

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Broncos sophomore catcher Jenzen Torres prepares to tag out CSU San Bernardino baserunner James Kono in this file photo from last week’s away doubleheader.

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Track team racks up personal bests

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Senior Decathlete, Michael Hernandez throws the javelin during the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific University last Friday.

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14 www.thepolypost.com POLY POST April 20, 2010TUESDAY,

oachellaC Where people of all walks of life gather to make beautiful music

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Thousands gathered for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio last weekend. The electric Coachella nightscape now features the Giant Wheel ferris wheel.

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World class actress and songstress Zooey Deschanel dances

with tambourine in hand during the She and Him performance

at the Outdoor Theater.

Paul Rosales/Poly PostJay-Z performed on Coachella’s opening night. Despite his performance being 30 minutes late, the audience was not dissapointed.

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Dave Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors leads his band during

Saturday’s performance in the Mojave.

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The Pipes installation, located toward the front entrance is a group dynamic work, where many can create sounds with electricity from notes.

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Electro hooligan Major Lazor takes the Mojave stage on Saturday night.

“Welcome to the beautiful world of music,” said John Lydon of Public Image Ltd.

The description couldn’t be better fi t, as heavy booms from the main stage and vari-ous tents kept the night rolling at the sold out three-day Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio.

Lydon, also known as frontman “Johnny Rotten” of the infamous punk band The Sex Pistols, closed the fi rst night with his 1980s postpunk band after Jay-Z had left the stage.

PIL made precise use of its set time, as the group returned for an encore blaring the anthemic song, “Public Image.” A pyrotech-nic display, originally intended for Hova, was now meant for Lydon’s band.

One thing that PIL didn’t have was a Be-yonce appearance; Jay-Z wins

Attendee’s of the festival had a wide se-lection of bands old and new.

Bobby May, 20, of Fullerton, said that Sly Stone, Devo, King Khan and the Shrines, Flying Lotus and De La Soul were on his list of acts to see.

Concertgoers had the selection of fi ve theatres across the vast polo fi eld: Coachella Stage, Outside Theater, Gobi, Mojave, and Sahara.

Mainstream recording artists such as Muse, Gorillaz and Tokyo Police Club played the large main stage fi eld, whereas more obscure and up-and-coming talent took to smaller stages.

New to the festival was the three-day

wristband issued to every patron upon entry with a ticket.

In previous years one could purchase a single-day ticket, but with the three-day pass it gave more incentive for Coachella attend-ees to watch limited occasion acts.

There were still a few problems with the new pass feature.

“We got in at around 9 p.m. [on Friday],” said Tina Cocco, 22 from Costa Mesa. “The security said they ran out of wristbands and we had to wait in line for so long.”

The overall size of the crowd was not ap-parent until around 9 p.m. when multitudes fl ocked to the Outdoor Theater for the pop band MGMT on Saturday.

The crowd for Jay-Z was comparable, but the number of bodies didn’t go on for what seemed like forever.

The alternative-to-alternative bands Girls, Beach House and The Soft Pack played the Gobi and Mojave tents and still managed to capture a full audience.

Devo blew all other Mojave acts out of the water with their performance on Satur-day.

Devo fans were treated to a set featuring classic and current hits.

The event ended Sunday night with re-united 1990s indie favorites Pavement and Radiohead frontman, Thom Yorke. The volu-minous sun-kissed crowd packed for the fi nal day, ending the music festival at 1 a.m.

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Grizzly Bear singer and guitarist Edward Droste performs at the Mojave on Friday.