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Cal Poly football loses a heartbreaker at No. 7 Eastern Washington
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| Cal Poly held the lead for most of the game, but couldn’t hang on. Eastern Washington drove down the field and scored with 57 seconds remaining to force the game into overtime. Eric Stubben @ericstubben
The Cal Poly football team’s trip to Cheney, Washington to take on No. 7 Eastern Washington (3-2, 2-0 Big Sky) was all it cracked up to be. However, the 42-41 final score did not favor the Mustangs (2-4, 1-2).
The highly touted offensive battle between the top rushing team in FCS (Cal Poly) and the top passing team in FCS (Eastern Washington) needed more than four quarters to decide on a winner. Eastern Washington quickly jumped out to a 6-0 lead as quarterback Jordan West capped his
first drive with a 13-yard touchdown pass. Cal Poly then rattled off 21 unanswered points on three consecutive touchdown runs by three different players. Senior quarterback Chris Brown ran in a 2-yard touchdown midway through the first quarter to give the Mustangs a 7-6
lead. Sophomore running back Joe Protheroe scored the Mustangs’ second touchdown on a 3-yard run 12 seconds into the second quarter. The Mustangs’ third and longest touchdown of the game came late in the second quarter when senior wide receiver Roland Jackson Jr. ran the ball
55 yards to the house. Eastern Washington ran for a touchdown with under a minute to go in the first half, settling the halftime score at 21-13 in favor of the Mustangs. Cal Poly had 298 team rushing yards at the break. Continued on page 8
CSU mandates sexual assault awareness training programs
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| Students will now be mandated to take yearly online sexual assault education.
Naba Ahmed @nabaahmed
For the students who were bumped to the end of priority for not completing the new sexual assault education, Haven may benefit students in more ways than one in the future. Haven, the new sexual assault education program for Cal Poly, is part of a broader system that all California State Universities (CSUs) are subject to due to the new Title IX initiative. Title IX mandates all CSU undergraduates and transfer students to complete an online sexual assault education for the first time in history. Title IX requires institutions to take necessary precautions to prevent sexual assault on their campuses, and to respond promptly and effectively
when an assault is reported. In response to Title IX, the CSU Chancellor’s Office issued Executive Order 1095, which outlined information on what to do if you are a victim of sexual violence, and mandates educational training programs to prevent sexual violence. Dean of Students Jean DeCosta is working in correspondence with the Office of Equal Opportunity as one of the Deputy Title IX Coordinators for Student Affairs, where she handles Title IX compliance. “With the new implementation of Title IX guidelines, the legislature has asked that we make sure that every student has this education in some manner,” DeCosta said. Continued on page 6
GABBY PAJO | MUSTANG NE WS COMING TOGETHER | Transgender rights activist Janet Mock was one of the various professionals at the conference.
Your True Gender Conference: Three days of transgender education, awareness and support Brendan Abrams @brenabrams
The Central Coast is far from being known as a beacon of transgender activism. That description is usually awarded to bigger, more socially active cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, but it doesn’t mean transgender individuals are concentrated only in those places. The 2015 Your True Gender Conference — a three-day event hosted at Cal Poly from Oct. 9-11 for transgender or gender-questioning individuals, their family members and allies — began
Friday evening. The opening lecture alone brought hundreds of people to the Chumash Auditorium. The conference, a result of collaboration between Tranz Central Coast, the Cal Poly Pride Center and Your True Gender, was intended to provide attendees with information about all aspects of undergoing a gender transition. Professionals from around the world showed up to talk about medical procedures and legal issues and to provide general support for the transgender community.
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Jewish Unity Fair serves hungry students
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| Five different pro-Israeli clubs on campus came together and collaborated to create an event open to all students. Students were treated with traditional falafels and shawarmas.
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From shawarmas to falafels, the Jewish Unity Fair had it all. These are typical Middle Eastern foods, said Rabbi Chaim Hilel, who established Chabad of SLO. “Shawarma is either lamb, turkey or chicken, slow roasted over a spit with Middle Eastern spices and carved to perfection,” Hilel said. “Falafel is actually a vegetarian mix of parsley, chickpeas and some herbs blended into a mush and deep fried.” The food fair was a collaborative effort designed for everyone on
campus to enjoy, Hillel president and graphic design junior Rachel Martin said. Hillel and Chabad worked with Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, Jewish sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi and Mustangs United For Israel (MUFI) to put on the event. The fair consisted of several tables that created an assembly line of food and represented a different Jewish club on campus. Students started at one end and loaded up a piece of pita as they moved down the table, filling it with vegetables, hummus, falafel and shawarma. The fair is to promote the year of Jewish unity, Hilel said.
“(We organized the event) first of all to show that there’s a Jewish presence at Cal Poly,” Hilel said. “It’s been growing steadily in the past six years since I’ve been working at Cal Poly as a rabbi, and the numbers are huge. Again, it’s Hakhel, the year of Jewish unity, and we’re just trying to do events that promote unity.” Business administration sophomore Tal Edelstein represented MUFI at the fair. He manned a table with pamphlets and swag for any interested students. “I started (MUFI) myself,” Edelstein said. “I’m interning for StandWithUS, which is an Israeli
advocacy group, and I decided, ‘Why not bring a club to campus that shows all the positive aspects of Israel?’ I mean, if you look at this table there’s so much information that you can take — all the environmental stuff, the human aid, all the fantastic things that Israel brings to the world — and I really wanted our campus to be aware of that.”
Pro-Israel sentiment is a common goal among all of the clubs. “I’m a strong supporter of Israel,” Martin said. “I love the Jewish community here. Israel and Judaism is really important to me, so that’s why I’m out here.” “There’s also some negative Israeli sentiment in the media,” Hilel said. “And we want to just
bring awareness that Jewish people are nice people that have good stuff going for them as well.” Despite the 97 degree weather outside, the clubs served food to over 100 Cal Poly students through the hottest part of the day. “I’m really hot and sweaty, but it’s all worth it for this,” Edelstein said.
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Open mic, open minds: ATOG returns better than ever Annie Vainstein @annievain
Open mic, open minds. These were the guiding words for this month’s Another Type of Groove (ATOG), a poetry slam and open mic hosted by the MultiCultural Center. The room was brimming, not just with the physical support of bodies in chairs but with their minds too; the crowd was as imaginative as it was percipient. Alongside the usual pocket of seasoned literary veterans, a spattering of emboldening applause welcomed a substantial number of first-timers in the audience. Bounded by a unifying silence, each of them eventually took their places on stage — some performing in front of an audience for the first time ever. Through the glint of the light, you could make out a few pairs of hands shaking. The event, which takes place on the first Wednesday of every month, features performances from students, faculty and one featured (and usually relatively renowned) poet. Performing this time, was Anthony “The Continued from page 1
Jessica Lynn, the founder and president of Your True Gender, encountered many intimidating societal obstacles as she struggled with her gender expression. She was born male, but knew from a very young age that her anatomy did not match up with her self-image. It was not until she was in her forties that she became completely willing and able to change that, she said. When it comes to gender, however, change can bring a
Saint” Gonsalves, an internationally-recognized slam poet who has won several competitions around the Bay Area and Central Valley. Gonsalves spoke, or rather slammed, about a variety of topics — racial injustice, unrequited love, grandparent guilt, the sexiness of bacon. Fusing his prose, however, was a certain element of personhood — what it means to live freely, persevere against all odds and to love and be loved. For Gonsalves, poetry is unique in its instantaneity; its reactionary ability to evoke raw emotion. That feedback, he said, is part of why he gravitates toward spoken word over anything else. “Being in front of people is exhilarating,” Gonsalves said. “I love just being able to share my story to the world.” Poetry’s ability to move others, however, is what really got Gonsalves to stay. “I’ve been inspired by all types of different people in my lifetime,” he said. “If I can even come close to inspiring someone else — to be able to be in
that vein and share your story and it could possibly help somebody else — that’s super dope.” Among those performing was a new faculty member, sociology assistant professor Unique Shaw-Smith, who recited a poem she entitled as a letter to her young son. The poem echoed sentiments of the Black Lives Matter campaign, as well as portions of the recently released series of open letters from women of color to their young black sons, who are growing up on the fringes of a seemingly post-racial America — letters written in the hopes of preparing them for blatant prejudice and fatal injustice. “Black lives matter. Our people are resilient by nature. We have, and always will be kings and queens, and no amount of deadly force can take that away,” Shaw-Smith read. Peppered in between the lyrical grit were several comedy sets and live performances from student musicians. Agricultural business senior Sean Reish recited a poem circling his family’s flight from oppression in Armenia.
“I’ve known a lot of women who have been through really hard things in their lives, and it goes back to my great-grandma,” he said. “Then I see what’s going on around me so I just start writing about it.” Biological sciences senior and ATOG event coordinator Brianti Williams said ATOG has taught her the importance of feeling grounded.
“Allowing people a space to be freely is a crucial part of that — it’s a part of individual experience that coincides with community experience, and in turn opens that community up and joins it together,” she said. Williams reiterated the contagious effect of poetry throughout the night, encouraging the audience to react — to laugh, clap and vocalize.
“The beauty of poetry is that it can reach through and touch a quiet point of complete understanding with someone you have never even seen before,” Williams said. “Everyone looks around the room in hopes of finding someone who just shared your experience and understands a particular moment that no one else could. Poetry brings that person center stage.”
host of consequences in modern day America. First, she endured the pain of substandard surgical work. “It cost me a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of pain,” Lynn said. Greater awareness of transgender issues on the part of the public would have been ideal, but education remains a slow process. Transgender individuals exist regardless of whether social institutions accept and accommodate them, which is why Lynn start-
ed her organization and has pushed to make this weekend’s conference happen. “We have people in Los Angeles and people in the Bay Area, but no one here. So we said let’s put this together to start educating the transgender community (in San Luis Obispo),” she said. People who want to make a gender transition need resources to help them get through the process with as little pain as possible. Lynn said. For many transgender individuals, life is still not very easy
even after the transition. Isis King, one of the presenters at the conference, is a transgender model and fashion designer. She has achieved a fair amount of success by anyone’s definition, having appeared on America’s Next Top Model, which helped launch her career in fashion. But King said things aren’t as easy for her as people may think. “I might get a callback at an audition, and then someone will notice who I am, and I won’t get that (job),” she said. “I’m like a ‘specialty’ model.”
King’s experiences in the fashion world may not equate to those of other transgender people, but her struggle in finding work and even basic acceptance for her identity is common among those in the community. However, things are slowly beginning to change. The first speaker on Friday night was Jamison Green, a transgender rights activist and the president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. He mentioned repeatedly that the transgender community has
made headway in working together to enact favorable legislation and garner a more positive public opinion, in part because of educational events like the conference. Equally as important, the transgender community has managed to maintain its voice in the face of extreme hostility and disapproval. “(The transgender community) has become resilient,” Green said. “And after resilience there’s something that kicks in as a motivator, and that is determination.”
ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS SLAMMED | Andrew “The Saint” Gonsalves performed slam poetry on topics ranging from racial injustice to bacon.
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GEORGIE DE MATTOS | MUSTANG NE WS GOING WITH THE FLOW | Panga’s singer and guitarist Nate Zak said the band is unconventional in the way it arranges its sets. They choose music in the moment, playing songs based on how they and the crowd are feeling.
Panga brings the beach to Cal Poly with acoustic rock concert Michelle Zaludek @michellenistic
Los Osos-based band Panga drove down the road to Cal Poly earlier this week, performing a Concert in the Plaza on Thursday, Oct. 8. The band’s musical style and easygoing energy felt pleasantly beach-like, especially when paired with the heat of the day and Merry Hoopsters club practicing in the plaza. The set was based off the band’s
self-titled first album. The music was versatile, showing a wide variety of influences — made even more apparent when Panga singer and guitarist Nate Zak abruptly began singing completely in Spanish. Panga also likes to keep their set flexible on stage, according to Zak. Songs, including “The Way They Work,” and “The Alcove,” appeared to be chosen based on how the band was relating to the crowd at the time. Zak even spent
time during the set chatting with the Merry Hoopsters and trying to find songs that they could move to more easily. “We have some songs that we like to play more than others, but we usually judge it off the crowd,” Zak said. “We play whatever song is best out of our set for the moment.” Zak and Panga drummer Jacob Peter first came together in 2010, during Zak’s senior year of high school. Vocalist and bassist
Loren Acosta joined the band about a year ago after the three noticed they had a similar interest in creating “an original sound,” Zak said. The band attributes their large variety of influences — including reggae, jazz and latin — to music prevalent in the state’s music scene. “We’re all original acoustic rock with pretty much every influence that California is so saturated with,” Zak said.
“I just really liked their sound,” said business administration junior and ASI musical entertainment assistant Ryan Viggiano. “I saw that they performed at (The) Naked Fish and some places downtown and I thought they’d make a good fit for Cal Poly … they seem really fun, so I thought it would be just a good show.” Panga has played for KCPR and Poly Permaculture events on campus, but this is the first time that the group has played a Concert
in the Plaza. “It’s sweet,” Zak said. “We were really hoping we’d get a chance to play this venue, so it was really cool.” During the set, Zak also added that the band had recently finished a Kickstarter to fund their second album, Slendermind. The project, which finished mid-August, earned over $2,200 from 42 individual backers. Slendermind is scheduled for release in April 2016.
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“What are you waiting for?” “My bed. I’m waiting for my bed.”
The Dangers of the Internet Libertarian Emilio Horner is a political science senior and Mustang News liberal columnist. There’s a demographic that I not only disagree with politically, but am actually deeply terrified of: the Internet Libertarian. This person is usually a white male. He probably grew up in a nice neighborhood with his parents working well-paid jobs. Hell, they’re probably even Democrats. He perhaps even supported Obama in ’08 (that was before the Internet Libertarian learned the Gospel of Milton Friedman and the free market). This person is probably an atheist. Obviously anyone, in the Internet Libertarian’s worldview, who believes in religion is an Islamic terrorist or Christian fundamentalist. There’s very little room for nuance within a one sentence forum post, and hey, instead of making a complex argument about problematic racist, sexist or classist issues, it’s much easier to just link a three-minute Bill Maher clip. The Internet Libertarian believes in freedom. Free markets, free speech, free healthcare. Whoops, not the last one. The Internet Libertarian believes their freedom is being co-opted by scary and evil people — groups like feminists, who, of course, hate men, hate free speech and look to push a radical lesbian agenda onto the world. The Internet Libertarian believes they’re entitled to sleep with whoever they want. They’re so much smarter than everyone else after all. They probably won’t say this out loud of course, because, you know, Continued from page 1
Even though the sexual assault training program is now mandated, Cal Poly had always been working to get the information to students, DeCosta said. “Students need information more than once and prior to these mandates, we were doing a good job at reaching out,” DeCosta said. “But, that’s not enough; we need to be sure that they have the information and we are trying to use as many opportunities as we can to provide that.” The first year that incoming freshmen were required to take the mandated online
the politically correct “feminazis” would shut it down, but they usually sympathize with Men’s Rights Groups or Pick Up Artists. Catcalling, they’ll say, isn’t that just a compliment? The Internet Libertarian thinks that all these “Social Justice Warriors” caring about race need to go back to Tumblr and stop whining. After all, they know it’s easier for minorities to get into college than the white man nowadays. Clearly reverse racism is happening as Comrade Obama spreads his radical black socialist agenda onto America’s heartland. Sure, racism was a big deal like 100 years ago or something, but why would that still be relevant today? It’s not like the actions of the past impact the social realities of the present or anything. The Internet Libertarian spreads its gospel over a series of Internet forums and chat rooms to likeminded individuals. Why have a discussion in person when you can just post a meme and call it a day? Political theory is so TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read), it’s not like historical background, in-depth analysis or varying perspectives matter at all. Just post a picture of Ayn Rand superimposed over a cat playing the piano and call it a political statement. It’s funny after all, and hey, no one wants to get suckered into reading some liberal-media Elizabeth Warren vegetarian propaganda. The Internet Libertarian believes that they need guns. Guns can help fight off the oppressive armies of minorities, feminists and government bureaucrats that are coming to take away their freedom. And hey, why shouldn’t people who are entitled, sexist, racist and believe in the unfettered free market have access to large amounts of guns?
What could ever go wrong? Who knows? Maybe the Internet Libertarian is right, maybe the black supremacist communist matriarchy has taken over. Or… This could all be nonsense. In fact it is nonsense, but it becomes incredibly dangerous when Internet Libertarians impact the way we view feminist issues, race issues or class issues. This happens when we start to actually believe the stuff we see people posting online. Even if we don’t think that we are agreeing, often times the Internet Libertarian is supporting dominant and hegemonic ways of interpreting the world that have been repackaged for the white male millennial audience. Therefore, beliefs get internalized without us being aware. Furthermore, these horrible views are resonating with people because even a reasonably hard-working white man in today’s society is no longer guarantees a middle-class lifestyle. In fact, at the end of the day it’s much easier to blame minorities, women or the lower class for a lack of economic opportunity than it is to point out structural economic harms that have come from a neo-liberal approach to economics. In fact, a number of studies have shown that white people largely believe the problem of racial bias against blacks is an issue of the past. This is empirically false when blacks have worse outcomes than whites when it comes to income levels, health costs, employment rates, and home ownership. Only 37 percent of white people in the U.S., according to a Harvard University study, believe that blacks make less money than whites and a majority actually believed that income was about
the same. When the beliefs held by the population are this contrary to the socioeconomic reality, we have a problem. This need for victimization by the white man in a nation in which the legacies of Jim Crow still impact us is depressing. And it can lead to violence. Elliot Rodgers believed he was entitled to women’s bodies. Dylann Roof believed we should have a white supremacist society. In Chapel Hill earlier this year, a white male atheist murdered three Muslims just because they practiced a different religion. These ideas don’t come out of no where. Did the Internet Libertarian cause these shootings? No. But did they contribute to a cultural context that influenced the shooters’ behaviors? Probably yes. Did I over simplify the identity of the Internet Liber-
tarian? Also, probably yes. But at the end of the day, we know there are people who believe in the horrible beliefs I previously mentioned. And this is a problem. The solution is not a clear one. We know we live in a culture of male violence. We know we live in a culture that values the white body over the black body. We know we live in a culture in which unregulated markets on a global scale have led to widespread wealth inequality. But if the millennials want a chance at solving these problems we need to stand up to the threat of the Internet Libertarian. A loss of total power does not make one a victim. Instead, let’s establish a society based on principles of equality, tolerance and respect as opposed to devastating irreverence.
training program, Haven - Understanding Sexual Assault was in 2014. But in the past year, Haven has expanded to all undergraduates due to the Executive Order. “It’s important to understand that we have always done outreach, always done education, which was mandated to certain clubs during SOAR or WOW,” DeCosta said. “But, this online education program was the first year we mandated that they take the online course in addition to what they get during SOAR and WOW.” The 2014 incoming students were required to take Haven again this year. However, that will not be the case for consecutive years, the second Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Student Affairs
Stephanie Jarrett said. “Previously we had incoming freshmen take Haven, but now it’s a matter of us wanting every student to know about this,” Jarrett said. Instead of Haven in future years, Cal Poly plans to implement refresher courses for sophomores, juniors and seniors. “The refresher courses probably won’t be that long because it won’t go over everything that the freshmen are getting but will still provide an overview,” Jarrett said. “We want to tailor the message to the level that the student is so that it will focus on different areas.” Haven consists of two components: part one, the information portion, and part two, an assess-
ment 30 days later. “With the assessment component, we want to see — did you learn anything or did that information affect your behavior in the last 30 days?” DeCosta said. “We are still collecting data to make sure that every student takes it.” However, this year has had a high participation rate, DeCosta said. “A majority of freshmen did it before the due date, which was fantastic,” DeCosta said. “I believe that only 500 of the 15,000 continuing students are left that did not comply.” But, for the students who have not completed Haven, a hold can be placed on their accounts. “Students who have not yet
completed Haven as we have outlined to them, they will have a hold placed on their record by the Office of Rights and Responsibilities,” DeCosta said. “We will notify them multiple times if they have not done it, but this is a requirement by law.” Not only is Haven a federal mandate, but it is essential in promoting sexual assault awareness. “With programs like this, we are trying to create safe spaces for students to come forward and report sexual misconduct on the campus,” DeCosta said. “It is hard to know if students are coming forward due to changes in the educational climate, but we are trying to do a better job of reaching out to campus.”
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COURTESY PHOTO | E ASTERN WASHINGTON ATHLETICS NOT ENOUGH
| Senior quarterback Chris Brown ran for a game-high 173 yards on Saturday, but it wasn’t enough for Cal Poly to defeat No. 7/8 Eastern Washington as the Mustangs lost in overtime.
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The Mustangs came out firing in the third quarter, scoring the quarter’s only touchdown on a 6-yard Protheroe run. Going into the final quarter, Cal Poly led 28-13, its second 15-point lead of the night. The Eagles and Mustangs traded touchdowns to start the fourth quarter, but then the wheels began to fall off for the Mustangs. Trailing 35-20, Eastern Washington tacked on a rushing touchdown to get the game
within one possession. With 57 seconds left, West threw a 16-yard touchdown to wide receiver Nic Sblendorio to bring the Eagles within two points of the Mustangs. With an obvious decision to go for the two-point conversion, the Eagles kept their offense on the field and let West — who led the nation in passing yards per game going in — throw the ball. Senior Mustang linebacker Burton De Koning intercepted the pass and appeared to have sealed the game.
However, a controversial holding call gave the Eagles a second chance. West took advantage of the opportunity an threw a twopoint conversion to tight end Terry Jackson II. After a failed Cal Poly drive during the waning minute of the game, the teams headed to overtime. Eastern Washington wasted no time in their first possession as West threw a 25-yard touchdown strike to give the Eagles a one-touchdown lead. Cal Poly answered on their pos-
session as well, but opted to go for a two-point conversion of its own. The Mustangs failed to convert and
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the game ended in a 42-41 Eastern Washington victory. If end-of-game statistics told
the story, the Mustangs dominated. Cal Poly had more first downs, plays, yards and a greater time of possession than the Eagles, but couldn’t pull off the victory. Brown finished with a gamehigh 173 rushing yards on 31 carries and Protheroe added 121 yards of his own. Six other Mustangs recorded rushing yards as the team combined for 503 yards on the ground. Cal Poly’s defense held Eastern Washington’s passing game in check too. West, who aver-
ages 353.4 passing yards per game, threw for only 224 yards. The Mustangs did allow four passing touchdowns. The Mustangs head back to San Luis Obispo for a bye week before taking on No. 25 Portland State at home on Oct. 24. Cal Poly has played four ranked FCS teams and one FBS teams so far in the season. Following the Portland State game, the Mustangs play three unranked teams before hosting No. 23 North Dakota to finish the season.