Gender Equity Center pokes fun at ‘Phallacies’ of stereotypes
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Each year, a group of industrial and manufacturing engineering students band together to help build or renovate a local house for individuals in need (2011 house pictured above).
Students ‘Move to Build’ PolyHouse LAURA PEZZINI
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It’s not often college students are able to put their coursework to use in a philanthropic way, but for industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME) students, that opportunity has been made possible in the form of PolyHouse. In the PolyHouse program, students and faculty work together to improve the home of a local family in need. IME professor Roya Javadpour started the program as part of a project management course,
and it quickly developed into an annual undertaking. “PolyHouse project is a part of the graduate level class that I teach,” Javadpour said. “It’s a class that’s offered every spring and we’ve been doing it every year since 2004.” A group of students in Javadpour’s class remodels and improves the home of a family in the community that may need special conditions because of disabilities, and might not have the funds necessary to provide those conditions. “The benefit is for someone in the community who
has a physical disability and is financially disadvantaged,” Javadpour said. “The purpose of the project is for students to learn the industrial and manufacturing skills through the ‘Learn by Doing’ philosophy, and it’s really learning by doing good.” Javadpour said she began the program because she saw need in the community that could be an opportunity to use coursework for good. “It was just a little bit more than getting the usual reports that the students turn in,” Javadpour said. “I wanted all
their hard work and efforts to go toward giving back to the community.” The students who plan and execute the housing remodel do so with some guidance from Javadpour, but for the most part it is up to the student volunteers to provide planning, management and even their own physical labor. Volunteers are also able to help with the remodel. “The students plan and also do the physical work of the project, but we welcome volunteers for the physical implementation of the project,”
Javadpour said. Because the project takes place during spring quarter, no family has been selected yet for this year’s PolyHouse. Javadpour said the class collaborates with local agencies to select an appropriate family. “We work with nonprofit agencies,” Javadpour said. “They nominate the candidate, someone who has a disability and is financially disadvantaged.” After the candidate family is selected, the first step is to determine the needs of the family. “Students first go to the
house and meet with the family, ask for their wish list and see what can be done,” Javadpour said. The PolyHouse project is funded entirely by donation, and that the project volunteers have various methods of fundraising. One of the more outstanding methods in the past five years is the Move to Build race, a 5K run to benefit the PolyHouse project, put on by students in one of Javadpour’s lower division IME classes. see POLYHOUSE, pg. 2
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To fund the PolyHouse project, students put on a “Move to Build” 5K run. Based on this past year’s run (participants pictured above), they hope to raise approximately $8,000 this year.
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“I think it’s going to be a great event and I would like to see a lot of our Cal Poly community participating in it,” Javadpour said. “The students have been working really hard to put the event together.” This year’s Move to Build race is Saturday, and has been in the process of mar-
keting for much of the quarter. Move to Build project manager for marketing and IME senior Eric Goldsmith said the marketing team for the event has reached out to as many campus organizations as possible. “We’ve reached out to greek life, clubs, local schools, all the Cal Poly departments, just trying to hit anyone and everyone who likes to run and likes pancakes,” Goldsmith said.
Thursday, February 28, 2013 The pancakes Goldsmith mentioned are an added incentive to sign up for the run, which will also feature a raffle for a total of $1,500 in prizes, including various memberships and gift cards to local businesses. The marketing team also created a Facebook event page under the name “5th Annual Move to Build,” which has gained 115 “likes.” Project coordinator and IME senior Mohan Singhal said they
hope to see more people at the event than last year because of their marketing efforts. “We already have 300 registered and we’re still expecting more, a lot of people show up on the last day to sign up,” Singhal said. “We’re shooting for 500.” Based on last year’s numbers — 430 runners for approximately $6,500 raised — Singhal said they hope to raise approximately $8,000 for the PolyHouse project this year. “We’re anticipating to raise more money than last year,” Singhal said. “We don’t have a set dollar amount, but our goal is to beat last year.” According to Singhal, the event is geared toward all types of participants — groups of four or more can sign up for $15 each, with individual entries at $20. All entry fees increase by $5 on the day of the race, and those who do not wish to run can
still contribute $5 to enjoy all-you-can-eat pancakes. Both Singhal and Goldsmith cited the feeling of doing good as part of the reason they have enjoyed working on the Move to Build race. “It’s really about the gratification of knowing the profits are going to a family in need,” Goldsmith said. Singhal said the execution of the event comes with its challenges, though. “We’re managing 26 kids and six project managers, and it definitely teaches you that anything can go wrong,” Singhal said. “One of the biggest things is getting the class to finish strong.” Besides the Move to Build race, fundraising for the PolyHouse project is gained through company and individual donations. Javadpour said the fundraising methods are entirely up to the students. “That’s for the fundraising team in the spring quarter to
coordinate,” Javadpour said. “They come up with different activities, different fundraisers, different things that they want to do.” The community reaction toward PolyHouse has been nothing but positive, according to Javadpour. “We can’t do the PolyHouse without the support and the generosity of all our sponsors and all the support that we get in the community,” Javadpour said. As for the students who work on the project, Javadpour said she sees the positive effects of philanthropic work in addition to the learning gained from putting coursework to use and executing a fullfledged remodel. “There’s really no better way to learn the complexities of building than actually doing the work and doing the project,” Javadpour said. “It’s just kind of nice to give back to the community that we all enjoy being a part of.”
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Cal Poly users are no stranger to bogus emails and the school has a list of previous spam mail messages that have been sent out at its security website. Past bogus emails have claimed to be: termination notices from security services, security support alerts, server upgrade notifications, email fraud notifications, mycalpoly. edu account retainment messages, anti-virus updates and exceeding email account storage limits. Users should take notice of emails with fake Cal Poly signatures such as no-reply@ calpoly.edu, my.calpoly.edu. portal@calpoly.edu or notifi-
cations@calpoly.edu, according to Interim ITS Enterprise Applications Supervisor, Michael Green. Green said users who are not sure whether an email is actually from Cal Poly should call the ITS service desk where they can help identify the email. “If they see something that they think is suspicious it probably is,” Green said. Users are also urged to report any spam email that claims to be from Cal Poly. “It does help us to filter those out of the system,” Green said.
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Centre and so on. The links then lead to a noncalpoly.edu web form, such as a Google Doc, and ask the user to leave their username and password to avoid losing access to their Cal Poly email and services. The email reminded users that ITS will only send reminder emails to update passwords once a year, but will never ask you to input a private password or personal information unless through the official Cal Poly portal.
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California facing sequester cuts SHARON NOGUCHI San Jose Mercury News
The White House released a list of potential hits to California if a budget deal isn’t reached by Friday, when automatic cuts kick in. Among the cuts facing California: Education
“I do community service with my fraternity. I also look for instances for helping groups on an individual basis.” • Daniel Modic agribusiness freshman
Would lose $87.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting approximately 1,210 teacher and aide jobs at risk. Approximately 320 fewer schools would receive funding. In addition, schools would lose $62.9 million in funds for approximately
760 special-education teachers and aides. Approximately 9,600 fewer low-income college students would receive financial aid; approximately 3,690 fewer students would get work-study jobs. Approximately 8,200 children would lose Head Start and Early Head Start services. Public safety Would lose approximately $1.6 million in grants that support law enforcement, courts and anti-crime programs.
Department of Defense employees would be furloughed. Army base operation funding would be cut by $54 million. Air Force operation funding would be cut by $15 million. Maintenance and repair of five Navy ships in San Diego and aircraft depot maintenance in North Island could be canceled. Environment Would lose approximately $12.4 million in clean water, air quality and anti-pollution programs.
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$3.3 million in funding for job search assistance and placement, cutting services to approximately 129,770. Child care Up to 2,000 disadvantaged children could lose access to child care. Public health Approximately $1.1 million in funding for vaccines would be cut, resulting in 15,810 fewer children receiving them. Would lose $2.6 million in funds to help upgrade state’s ability to respond to public health threats. Would lose
approximately $12.4 million in grants to prevent and treat substance abuse. State health department would lose $2 million in funding, resulting in 49,300 fewer HIV tests. Domestic abuse Would lose up to $795,000 in funds that provide services to victims of domestic violence, resulting in up to 3,000 fewer victims getting those services. Senior meals Would lose approximately $5.4 million in funds that provide meals for seniors.
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Rosa Parks statue unveiled at U.S. Capitol BEENA RAGHAVENDRAN McClatchy Newspapers
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She sits tall on a rock, eyes behind her famous circle-frame glasses, staring defiantly across the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ 9-foot bronze statue was unveiled in a ceremony Wednesday that included remarks from President Barack Obama and leaders of Congress, echoing words of her determination and legacy for the future. “We make excuses for inaction,” Obama said, addressing the members of Congress and guests in the National Statuary Hall. “We say to ourselves, ‘It’s not my responsibility. There’s nothing I can do.’ Rosa Parks tells us there’s always something we can do.” The president said if it weren’t for civil rights leaders like Parks, he wouldn’t be in office today. Her bronze likeness joins the Capitol Hill Art Collection after a law authorizing a commemorative statue of Parks’ legacy passed about a month after her death in 2005. Its unveiling is in conjunction with Parks’ 100th birthday earlier this month. Joining the president was House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sen-
ate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. Attending as well was Sheila Keys, Parks’ niece, and Elaine Steele, Parks’ longtime friend. The statue represents a series of firsts: the first full statue of an African-American woman in the Capitol, and the first to be funded and commissioned by Congress since 1873. The timing of its placement also has a sense of historical symmetry. It’s been 50 years since the pivotal 1963 March on Washington for civil rights and 150 years since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Boehner called Parks “a Lady Liberty for our times and all times,” saying the statue’s presence would impact members of Congress and visitors alike. Half a century ago, the placement of such a statue in the hall would have been impossible, he said. Statue designers Eugene Daub and Rob Firmin of Daub & Firmin Sculpture Studios in Kensington, Calif., beat out more than 100 artists to design and build the piece. The two were selected as finalists in a competition held by the National Endowment for the Arts and were chosen by the Joint Committee on the Library of the U.S. Congress, which oversees the institution. The partners designed the
statue to reflect Parks’ determination, which is often softened in retellings of her story. Parks was a quiet woman, but she was also angry, said Firmin, who said that he researched her life thoroughly. That’s why the piece shows Parks turning away from racism and sitting on a rock, to represent the rock of the Civil Rights Movement that supported her. Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson said that Parks was a harsher activist than remembered, noting that her statue is gazing at the image of Confederacy leader Jefferson Davis across the hall. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said that it was ironic that as they celebrated Parks, across the street the Supreme Court was hearing arguments in a case that challenges parts of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. “This is the very core of the cause to which Mrs. Parks devoted her life, and it is once again being questioned,” she said in a statement. Ella McCall Haygan, regional director for Washington’s Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, knew Parks for 15 years. At the ceremony, she was wearing a hat and a pink sweatshirt plastered with photos of her and Parks.
Haygan said if Parks knew a statue of her was being unveiled, she would have humbly said that it was a nice gesture for the children and for the future. Some members of Parks’ extended family from her mother’s side were originally denied a photo with the statue because of the long lines to view it. Lonnie McCauley of Detroit said Parks was
his grandfather’s sister, and he was upset that he couldn’t take a picture with his family member toward whom he felt such strong pride and ties. “She lived for everyone,” he said. Eventually, McCauley and his family were granted the photos. Afterward, he wrapped his arms around the bronze image of the civil rights icon, tears welling in his eyes.
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‘Phallacies’ shatters macho-man stereotypes
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Gender Equity Center Americorp member Nick Bilich (left photo) recited a poem based on the night of his senior prom at the Gender Equity Center’s comedy event on Tuesday. KELLY TROM
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Hegemonic masculinity. This complicated phrase was broken down by the Gender Equity Center’s quarterly event, “Phallacies: Who wears the Pants?�
on Tuesday night in the Julian A. McPhee University Union. This comedy theater dialogue brought issues of stereotypical masculinity to light through a combination of skits, videos and monologues followed by a group discussion.
“Comedy is something that people really gravitate toward, so it’s a really cool community building tool,� Gender Equity Center Americorp member Nick Bilich said. “Sharing a laugh with someone is really bonding.
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We want to build a commu- dialogue session after, one members were encouraged to nity around the information.� audience member comment- share their viewpoints about Phallacies started at the Uni- ed that he felt like his living the skits and the topic of masversity of Massachusetts. It was room was on the stage during culinity after the performances. brought to Cal Poly’s campus the skit. “We always complain about this past winter quarter, with “‘The Vagina Monologues’ is a what guys do like, ‘I can’t believe some of the original troupe lot more in-depth than we can you did that,’� she said. “But if performing one skit that was get in an hour and a half, but it you get more awareness about it, followed by a breakout dia- is cool that people come back things will change. It only takes logue session. so that we can continue the dia- one voice to be heard by a lot of Some may compare the event logue,� Bilich said. people to change things.� to “The Vagina Monologues,� The audience was a mix of The Gender Equity Center but the skits performed at old familiars and new audi- originally started as the Wom“Phallacies� are all original ence members. The Gender en’s Center but the name was skits written by students and Equity Center members wel- changed in 2011 to reflect the staff members at the Gender comed both. entire gender spectrum. Equity Center. “It has grown to a lot of new “We wanted to be a gender “We don’t have a lot of consis- people and it’s awesome to identity education center tency with who is writing the see that there is consistently that talks about masculinity, scripts which is cool because a new crowd of people that femininity, transgender — the script writthe whole gening process itself der experience,� is educational,� Bilich said. Sharing a laugh with Bilich said. “You The center fosomeone is really bonding. cuses on educacan dialogue with someone and figtional presentaNICK BILICH ure out how to tions, awareness GENDER EQUITY CENTER educate through campaigns as as AMERICORPS MEMBER comedy.� “Movember� that Each quarter, raises awareness “Phallacies� centers around a haven’t come before,� male for prostate cancer and current different topic. In the past few educator at the Gender Eq- event workshops that have to quarters, topics included the uity Center and mechanical do with gender. “bro code,� men’s health and engineering sophomore Lo“We try to always have a diaintimacy barriers. Tuesday’s gan Cooper said. “It’s good logue with our events and it topic was the dynamic be- to feel that we are reaching a takes a little while for everyone tween women and men in re- new audience.� to warm up but once it gets golationships and who holds the One of those new audience ing it’s great because these ispower in those relationships. members, architectural engi- sues affect everyone,� Cooper In one skit, “Celebrity Jeop- neering sophomore Katherine said. “It’s good that people can ardy,� students dressed up as Schrotberger, has not attended get talking about masculinity, Mike “The Situation,� Sean a “Phallacies� event, but she has the social pressures people face Connery and the feminist attended the Gender Equity and where they come from.� meme version of Ryan Gos- Center’s “Let’s Talk about Sex� While talking about these isling answered questions about meetings in the past. sues is one thing, the overarchsexual consent, communica“I was impressed by the num- ing vision and heartbeat of the tion in relationships and many ber of people that came out,� center is changing strongly enother topics. Schrotberger said. “It’s nice to grained social stigmas. Another skit, “Coming see that there are a lot of guys “We want to put information Home,� delved into sharing involved in talking about it.� into action,� Bilich said. “That’s one’s sex life with friends The audience was approxi- what we really want to encourand how social pressures af- mately an even split between age people to do. We talked fect that conversation. In the male and females. All audience about it, now go live it.�
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Get your laughs at SLO Comedy Fest and make it funny.” Hatch, who is also co-manager of Cal Poly’s stand-up Want the abdominal workout comedy group Smile and Nod, of a lifetime? Try an entire said while students may be weekend of jokes and laughused to largely famous cometer at the third annual SLO dians such as Louis C.K. and Comedy Festival, starting Aziz Ansari, going to a festiThursday night. vals such as this provides “the The festival showcases 40 opportunity for seeing somecomedians from around the thing totally awesome.” country in 20 different shows But Hatch warned to “expect at venues such as The Graduthe unexpected.” ate, Creekside Brewing Com“There’s a lot of comedians out pany and Mo|Tav. Comic there,” Hatch said. “Good comFlip Schultz edy — you know it said he is one when you see it — of many come... the vibe around SLO is so and bad comedy, dians who will you know when positive and welcoming, it just you see that, too. be returning to the festival for with something feels like one big party that all So the third time. like this, it can be “One of the a hit and miss. The our friends got invited to. great things beauty comes when FLIP SCHULTZ about the fesyou find a good coCOMEDIAN tival is that as median.” much as it is Schultz said, about showcasing new talent, I can’t wait to perform it and though, students would enit’s also about bringing back share with everybody.” joy the “guaranteed great comics who have been there,” Schultz said his comedic comedy” in town. Schultz said. “It’s also just a personality can be compared “I’m a few years out of colgreat time. to Robin Williams and Bill lege, but I remember the Schultz has done other Cosby — but with an indi- stress and just needing a “more high-profile” festivals vidual twist. break,” he said. “But the botin the past, but called San Luis “I don’t have a preferential tom line is: Who couldn’t use Obispo’s “the best time you style, it’s just me,” he said. a laugh?” could have.” “I’ll talk about something to The festival will kick off with “(The other festivals) were set up the joke and then act seven comedians doing standall wonderful — but SLO out the story. I like telling up acts in “Tap the Funny” at ... There’s great talents, all where my life has gone the Tap It Brewing Co. Thursday friends, rooting and support- last few years.” at 7 p.m. ing each other,” Schultz said. Economics junior Kolby Tickets are on sale at Boo “And the vibe around SLO Hatch said the appeal of good Boo Records and online. is so positive and welcom- stand-up comedians is the Most tickets are $20 per show, ing, it just feels like one big ability to “take things in peo- but many of the shows offer a party that all our friends got ple’s lives, put them together $5 student ticket with I.D. ALLISON MONTROY
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Comedian Flip Schultz performed at the first SLO Comedy Festival in 2011. Schultz is back on the festival lineup this year with an updated act.
invited to. It’s cheesy, but it’s the truth.” Schultz, who will have four performances throughout the festival, said he is excited to try out his newest stories in the festival alongside his older, “more popular jokes.” “I make my living always writing, updating my act,” said Schultz, who equated creating his new jokes with getting a new toy. “Just like you can’t wait to play with the new toy and show everybody,
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Global feminism Women in the U.S. still need equal working conditions, but those abroad have more pressing problems. SUSAN REIMER
still work multiple jobs in this country while leaving their children poorly superThis month marks the 50th vised. But what of the womanniversary of the publica- en and children in countries tion of Betty Friedan’s “The ravaged by drought and Feminine Mystique,” which famine and where water is revealed the mind-numbing as precious as oil? ennui of the mid-20th-centuWhile we worry over ry American housewife, and whether our educational a great deal of ink has been system is driving girls out spilled describing how far we of math and science classstill have to go, baby. rooms, daughters in another Public policy and the cor- part of the world are still beporate culture have not kept ing circumcised — by their pace with, nor facilitated, the own mothers and grandmovement of enormous num- mothers — and sold off into bers of women — many highly marriage by their fathers. educated — into the workThe question being asked place, we are told. this month is: Where is femiMaternity leave is still un- nism going during the next paid. Child care is not univer- 50 years? I think we might sally available and child care consider putting aside our workers are poorly compen- own grievances and focus sated. Assumptions are still on sisters in countries where made about a woman’s career rape is a weapon of war, path once she has children. where honor killings still take Sexual harassment and dis- place, where girls have acid crimination have gone under- thrown on them for trying to ground, but both still flourish. go to school, and where famAnd most of the time, no ily size is mandated so baby matter who it is she thought girls are abandoned. she married, his meeting will And then there are all the always be more important smaller indignities: not being than her meeting when the allowed to drive a car, pursue baby throws up. a degree or hold a job. Meanwhile, stay-at-home Since Betty Friedan idenmoms bristle in the company tified “the problem that has of mothers who work outside no name,” the effort to imthe home, while those working prove the lot of women has mothers wrestle feverishly with produced changes no one in their dual identities. 1963 would have beThe world has lieved possible. shrunk a great But we still deal since lag embar1963, and rassingly we are more far behind aware of the other first suffering w o r l d of women c ou nt r i e s elsewhere in in instituthe world than tional supever before. Those ports that would women have found make combining voices speaking for work and famthem in the U.S. State ily easier, especially Department, where since a shrinkwomen have ing economy served as secre- MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE makes dual intary of state for come families 12 of the past 16 years, most almost a necessity. notably, Hillary Clinton. Even so, the next wave of It is those other women I feminism must certainly think about when I think about sweep across Africa, Asia, Af“The Feminine Mystique” and ghanistan and the Arab world. the change it wrought in my Things are clearly still unlife and the lives of so many equal in this country in hirof my contemporaries — and ing, in pay and in expectahow good that life is. tions. But as we make time That maternity leave in this to pay a debt of gratitude to country is not paid renders it the women who came besomewhat useless. But that in- fore us, we should find ways convenience pales next to the — even small ways — to experiences of women who improve the lives of women die in childbirth in developing outside our borders. Somecountries or who have been thing as simple as demandinfected with the HIV virus ing of a retail manager what by their partners and are in his company’s sweatshop danger of passing it on to their policies are. unborn children. We are all sisters, under Poor, single mothers must the skin.
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Americans seek to improve preschool JOSEPH TOBIN
Los Angeles Times
Each morning at Sinan Road Kindergarten in Shanghai, a child stands in front of the class and tells a story. One morning, I watched as 4-yearold Ziyu told a 10-minute story about a group of animals frightened by a strange sound. When he finished, his teacher asked the class: “Shall we make him Storytelling King? Did he do a good job?” Children called out criticisms. “His voice was too soft.” “It was like a story we’d heard before.” Still, when teacher Wong called for a vote, Ziyu was elected Storytelling King by a 16-4 margin. We shot video of Ziyu that morning as part of a cross-cultural research project on the different approaches to preschool education in China, Japan and the United States. Many American teachers who later watched this scene worried that the criticism would be harmful to the storyteller’s self-esteem. As one teacher put it, “I’m 35 years old, and if I were criticized like that, I would cry!” But another of the teachers saw things differently: “If we had learned in preschool to give and receive criticism, maybe we could handle it better as adults.” I thought about Ziyu the other day after President Obama issued his call for making “highquality preschool available to every child in America.” As we found in our research, the definition of “high-quality preschool” varies widely from one society to another, and a wide range of approaches can serve children well. It all depends on what we view as the goals of early education. In Kyoto, Japan, for example, older children at the Komatsudani Childcare Center spend an hour each afternoon caring for the babies and toddlers. This activity is seen as equally important for the younger and older children. In one scene in our video, a 5-year-old boy, Kenichi, teaches 2-year-old Taro how to use the urinal. Positioning Taro in front of the toilet, Kenichi reminds the younger boy to aim and to hold up his shirt tails. He then warns Taro that he is about to flush. When he does flush, the boys scream in a mock display of surprise. They were both having fun, and many of the American teachers who watched this video lamented that such interactions were impossible in their agesegregated classrooms. The Storytelling King and the urinal lesson are both examples of how preschools help children develop ways of thinking and acting valued by their cultures. The Storytelling King activity combined early literacy skills with public speaking, active listening, and giving and receiving criticism. The urinal lesson was an opportunity not just for 2-yearold Taro to learn an important skill from an older child; it also gave 5-year-old Kenichi a chance to practice empathy, and to remember what it was like to be 2 years old. Chinese educational experts told our research team they encourage activities like the Storytelling King to teach individual expression and creativity, skills they hope will help devel-
op the kind of entrepreneurial skills China needs to compete in the global marketplace. The morning exercise incorporates a new Chinese focus on self-expression, a traditional Chinese emphasis on mastery of performance and a communist practice of self-improvement through group critique. Contemporary Japanese preschools, in contrast, emphasize continuity rather than change. Preschools in Japan are key sites for children to be introduced to traditional Japanese values, such as empathy and social-mindedness, values that are seen as at risk in a rapidly changing society. What is taught in preschool — or not taught — helps shape the ethos of a society’s future citizens. As our country debates Obama’s proposal, we need a thoughtful discussion of what that would mean in the United States. Because the preschools of each country reflect that country’s cultural beliefs and values, it would be a bad idea to simply copy wholesale another country’s approach. But examining the strengths of preschools in other cultures can help us define what is possible and desirable to aim for in our own. In a country as culturally, socially, economically and ideologically diverse as the United States, there isn’t likely to be a one-size-fits-all approach that will satisfy everyone. Scholars, policymakers, teachers and parents are already debating the proper balance of academics and play for a preschool curriculum, along with examining how the two can best be combined. We should not expect or desire every community in our country to arrive at the same definition of what should be taught and how. The voices of parents and other community members need to be brought into these discussions. This doesn’t mean, of course, that preschool teachers and administrators should do whatever parents want. Part of a school’s job is to educate parents as well as children, and to explain, for example, how a play-based curriculum can support cognitive as well as social and emotional development. But this communication should not be unidirectional. Parents will stop coming to school if they sense their views are disrespected. Our research makes it clear that a wide variety of approaches to preschool can be considered “highquality.” An educational program works best when it combines the contributions of research on best practice with responsiveness to local conditions, concerns and values.
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Church is sacred tradition, not meant to be media spectacle CHARLES J. CHAPUT
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Since the lava flow of media commentaries about Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation began nearly two weeks ago, dozens of people have asked me why the Holy Father “really” resigned, and who the next pope is likely to be. Given the extraordinary nature of the event, both questions are inevitable. Happily, Benedict’s reasoning has been simple and clear. The church faces serious challenges worldwide. At 85, his declining health and energy impede his ability to serve the church as effectively as she needs. Resignation is an act of unusual humility as well as careful judgment. These qualities, along with his courage, have distinguished his entire priestly life. By this action, Benedict also reminds us that, despite the
unique authority invested in the Petrine office, the pope is first and finally the bishop of Rome — and bishops do grow old and retire to private life everywhere else in the world. Who will be the next pope? Nobody knows, and though speculating about the future can be a pleasant form of entertainment, it’s also fruitless. Pundits don’t vote. Special-interest lobbying in the media has little or no effect. Catholic teaching develops over time, but it doesn’t fundamentally change; and Catholic life, in the end, is ordered to truth, not consensus or polling. Baptism is more than a Catholic tribal ritual. It matters — now and into eternity. And faith is not a religious clubhouse; it’s meant to be lived actively, consciously, radically. It has adult implications. As St. Paul reminds us, we have a duty to
“speak the truth in love.” Truth unguided by mercy and love becomes a special kind of cruelty. Love unguided by a passion for truth about the nature of the human person, human relationships and human dignity isn’t really “love” at all — it’s a sly form of injustice and deceit. A great many critics of the church should plan to be disappointed (again) by whomever the conclave chooses. And yet, anyone who sincerely and unselfishly seeks God will continue to find a welcome in the Catholic Church no matter who bears the title of pope. Timothy George, who ranks among the leading evangelical authors and scholars of our time, recently described Benedict as “the greatest theologian to become pope since the Reformation,” a champion of the culture of life, the Word of God, religious freedom, the pursuit
of Christian unity anchored in truth, and the unembarrassed proclamation of the kingship of Jesus Christ. These words of praise, coming from across Christianity’s historic confessional divide, confirm the real legacy of Joseph Ratzinger. This is how faithful Catholics and so many other believing Christians will remember him. The work he leaves behind, of course, is sobering, and not just for his successor but for all of us who call ourselves Catholic. A bishop friend of mine said recently that what we need now more than anything as a church, both locally and globally, is a “reformation” — the kind of fundamental, root-and-branch conversion that goes vastly deeper than the pet issues of American media and political culture to a transformation of hearts, and thereby behavior. In that regard, sometimes the
best lessons for the future can be learned from the experience of the past. Five centuries ago, just a few years before Luther’s “95 theses,” the Catholic reformer the Rev. John Colet delivered a blisteringly frank homily to a cathedral full of English bishops and senior clergy. To an unamused audience, he argued that “never was there more necessity and never did the state of the church more need” a profound effort at purification — not away from Catholic belief, but back toward living it more zealously, more honestly, more faithfully, as though this world and the next depended on it, because they do. Colet spoke to a convocation of clergy. Today he might need to leave room for quite a few lay people. But the message is worth remembering by all of us in the years ahead, whatever happens in Rome.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
OUT BUT OUTNUMBERED Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist. Saieed Rihan is an average student. He comes from a town called Escondido, just north of San Diego. He enjoys hiking around San Luis Obispo. He is a kinesiology senior with little idea of what he wants to do after graduation. Saieed Rihan is a different kind of student. He can run four miles in a little more than 21 minutes. He is the treasurer of the Cal Poly Distance Club. And he is gay. Rihan is part of a growing number of athletes comfortable enough to make their homosexuality public. This group’s recent notable addition is United States men’s national soccer team forward Robbie Rogers, who came out Feb. 15. Rogers, who had been playing for Stevenage in English soccer’s third-tier league, announced in a public statement that he would be stepping away from professional soccer in the near term. Rihan knew he was gay when attending Escondido High School, but remained closeted out of fear. Escondido did not feel like a welcoming community to him, and Rihan was worried about becoming a social outcast. When Rihan began running for Palomar Community College, he broke away from high school drama. He bonded with many of the other cross country runners, including Cameron Avilez. Avilez was one of Rihan’s best friends, but held a grudge against gays because his father received catcalls from homosexuals while running in San Francisco. Like the rest of the world, he
had no idea Rihan was gay. One day, Rihan turned to Avilez while out on a run and asked, “You want to know what really sucks?” “What?” Avilez responded. “Wanting to tell you that I’m gay, but not knowing how you’ll react.” Avilez showed little reaction. After practice, Rihan decided to tell a few more teammates. Again, it didn’t really seem to sink in. At the end of the next practice, Rihan noticed other runners would stop talking when he approached. As Rihan turned to leave, Avilez came racing out of the shower. Avilez asked if Rihan had been serious about his sexuality. Rihan said yes, he was tired of hiding and had no idea what would happen next. “He was like, ‘All right, that’s cool. Everything’s still the same
with us. It doesn’t matter,’” Rihan said. “That was a big relief for me, just him saying that.” When Rihan transferred to Cal Poly, he was open with everyone on the club team, and has again received nearly universal support. The only negative reaction has come from his mother, whose Muslim faith looks down on homosexuality. Teammates would probably be just as welcoming if Rihan was a gay athlete on one of Cal Poly’s Division I teams, he said. Even after Rogers’ announcement, the four biggest sports in America — baseball, basketball, football and hockey — are still waiting for an active athlete to come out. “(When an active player comes out), I think it’s going to be huge in the sports world,” Rihan said. “It’s going to be getting a lot of attention. If their teammates are supportive, that could be a big help.” Between those four sports, there are approximately 3,500 profes-
WORD ON THE STREET Do you think homosexual athletes are treated differently?
sportscolumn sional athletes. It would be downright foolish to assume there are no active gay players. Some athletes, such as basketball player John Amaechi and cornerback Wade Davis, made their homosexuality public after retirement. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Davis mentioned three players he knew who came out to teammates. “Maybe all the media at-
tention, they don’t want to deal with that,” Rihan said. “It just seems easier to try and fit in and everything, but … then young LGBT people who do like sports don’t have a role model to look up to.” Cal Poly boasts 19 Division I sports teams and 554 student-athletes. Though Rihan does not know any other gay athletes, he is sure there must be others. “Oh, definitely,” Rihan said. “I mean, with how many athletes we have, there’s at least one. There are straight-acting people who are (gay), it’s just their preference (to act straight). I know there has to be at least one, chances are more.” Senior midfielder Chris Fisher is the captain of the men’s soccer team and said he would be fine with a gay teammate. The team’s bond is far more important than a player’s sexuality, he said. “We’re all really close, and I don’t think it would change anything,” Fisher said. “It’s kind of more something personal for them, it doesn’t affect the team. If it bothers another person, that’s their own problem.” If a gay athlete came out at Cal Poly today, he or she would likely receive strong support from most if not all teammates, Fisher said. “I can’t imagine who they liked would ever be a problem,” he said. “I don’t think it would change a thing at all, actually.”
“I don’t know any that are treated differently.” • Mike Sabosky communication studies senior
“On the one hand, they’d get mad respect from the gay community. On the other hand, they’d suffer discrimination or hate, which homosexuals generally face.” • Justin Campbell history senior
“I feel like back in the day they would have cared, but today I think people wouldn’t, but they probably do.” • Steve Shenouda computer engineering senior
Lotito leads Mustangs into championships IAN BILLINGS/MUSTANG DAILY
The Cal Poly wrestling team will travel to Tempe, Ariz. this Saturday to compete in the Pac-12 Championships. Devon Lotito (27-7) has the Mustangs’ best record and spent most of the season ranked in the top 25 nationally.
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