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Studies show more than one in five women will experience a completed or attempted sexual assault during their college careers, yet sexual assaults remain one of the most underreported crimes in the nation. At Cal Poly though, several incidents during the past several years have led to an increased awareness of sexual assaults on campus. LAURA PEZZINI
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Campus police confiscated an unloaded rifle found in Sierra Madre Residence Hall on Tuesday night, according to University Police Department (UPD) Chief George Hughes. The gun, a 22-caliber rifle, was found after police received a tip that a student was keeping a firearm in the residence hall, Hughes said. According to Penalty Code 626.9(h), it is illegal for any individual to bring a firearm onto a school campus without a concealed weapons permit. UPD obtained permission from one of the room’s occupants to enter the premises, at which point they searched the room, he said. Police found the unloaded rifle, as well as ammunition, in the room. “The roommate did not know that the gun was there,” Hughes said. “The owner of the gun and resident of the room was not there. He was off campus, actually out of town at the time.” see RIFLE, pg. 2
Two consecutive sexual assaults were reported near Cal Poly’s campus earlier this month, but nearly three weeks’ worth of investigation into the incidents hasn’t garnered much new information on the culprits. The investigation for these assaults is ongoing, San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) investigative lieutenant John Bledsoe said. “We haven’t had any new information on any suspects as far as anyone providing any information, but the good news is that we haven’t had any other assaults either,” Bledsoe said. “We’re hoping that we can get some info from Crime Stoppers or any citizen, but at this point we’re kind of at a stalemate.” Though these two incidents can seem to indicate an uptick in the number of sexual assaults because of their publicity and timing, Cal Poly’s sexual assault resource, Safer and Gender Equity Center coordinator Christina Kaviani said this is not the case. “If reporting goes up, there’s a misconception that more people are being assaulted. But really, we’re giving people more information about how they can report it,” Kaviani said. “I tend to try and veer away from statistics because it’s not very accurate.”
few common threads in most incidents of sexual harassment seen by Safer. “It’s often someone associated within their friend group,” Kaviani said of a potential assaulter. “Then there’s a line where the consent is lost and there’s not clear communication.” Kaviani also cited alcohol as a common factor in many of the cases she sees. She said although alcohol cannot be blamed for causing sexual assault, it is often involved. “When someone drinks alcohol, you don’t know how incapacitated they are and you don’t know their cues,” Kaviani said. As far as on-campus sexual assaults go, University Police Department (UPD) Chief George Hughes said Cal Poly sees very few that are reported and confirmed by UPD. However, he also spoke to the inaccuracy of sexual assault statistics. “Unfortunately with this type of crime, it typically goes unreported for several reasons,” Hughes said. “The victim doesn’t want it to become public, sometimes the victim knows who the assailant is and doesn’t want that to become public, and there’s some blame that they sometimes put on themselves.”
Sexual assaults by the numbers
Raising awareness
Though Kaviani is hesitant to cite statistics as evidence of sexual assault increases — after all, less than 5 percent of sexual assaults are actually reported, she said — she can attest to the number of students who sought help from Safer: 17 during Fall 2012, and 45 total for the 2011-12 school year. Kaviani said the culture surrounding sexual assault at Cal Poly is similar to any other college campus, in that there are a
Hughes said safety on and around campus starts with education and awareness. “It all starts with those messages about how to take care of ourselves,” Hughes said. Kaviani said her goal for education on safety in regards to sexual assault would be to implement it into the coursework of Cal Poly’s classes. “I’ve been an advocate of having coursework for every student that dis-
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Change the Status Quo comes to Chumash JESSICA BURGER
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In the meantime, Safer and Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) are working together on a few upcoming campaigns. The two organizations will put on a
Approximately 250 people from across Cal Poly’s campus and the San Luis Obispo community showed up at Chumash Auditorium on Saturday for the annual Change the Status Quo conference, where attendees shared new ideas on current social issues and discussed a student’s role in shaping future society. Cal Poly alumna and keynote speaker Danny Kim began the conference with a motivational speech for attendees before sending them off to attend four rounds of workshops in 24 different topics. “Our greatest strengths are millimeters away from our greatest weaknesses,” Kim said. Kim provided an ongoing workshop throughout
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Cal Poly’s sexual assault resource Safer sponsors events such as the “Run to Remember” each fall, in which students run to raise awareness of sexual assaults and domestic abuse. cusses the repercussions of unhealthy sexual ideas,” Kaviani said. “I would love that every college student have really solid information given to them, not just one time over their college career but multiple times.”
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self-defense workshop in March, as well as provide more social media and on-campus marketing, Kaviani said. She also said a few members of ASI are looking into the current lack of lighting on streets surrounding Cal Poly. “Safer’s main piece is that we’re giving awareness to the Cal Poly community,” Kaviani said. Resources Sexual assault victims at Cal Poly have a variety of options for assistance, depending on what kind of help they are looking for. Hughes said a report to UPD
is more of an official matter, and UPD does not have the ability to take legal action if the victim does not desire to do so. “Obviously I would love to be able to prosecute everyone, but I’m more concerned about the person themselves,” Hughes said. “As long as they report it to somebody, I really don’t care who it is. I just want to make sure that they report it to somebody to make sure that they are getting the assistance that they need.” Safer’s approach takes more of the direction toward mental and emotional health. Safer’s goal is to look into the next steps with a victim. It is accredited by the San Luis Obispo Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention (SARP)
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You have to feel very empowered to come out of a situation like that ... CHRISTINA KAVIANI SAFER COORDINATOR
Center and provides counseling by both professionals and peers. According to Hughes, Safer is in no way required to disclose incidents to UPD. “Safer’s mission is to make sure people are feeling safe, supported and educated,” Kaviani said. She also said if a victim wants more long-term counseling they are referred to SARP. Kaviani agreed with
Hughes in that ultimately, the important factor in recovering from sexual assault is to report it to someone, whether that is the authorities or just a friend. “You have to feel very empowered to come out of a situation like that, and when you’re assaulted your power is taken away,” Kaviani said. “There’s responsibility on all people to take an active effort.”
Check below for a brief list of crimes that occurred in San Luis Obispo from Feb. 15 to Feb. 21 or go to mustangdaily.net and check out the full listing. Friday, Feb. 15 • 12:21 a.m. Narcotics code violation in Tenaya Hall. • 7:30 a.m. Theft from an unlocked vehicle on the 1600 block of Diablo Drive. • 11:45 a.m. Attempted sexual offense at Charles Schwab on the 700 block of Marsh Street. • 12:07 a.m. Someone was yelling at customers and disrupting the peace at the Jack in the Box on the 300 block of Santa Rosa Street.
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the eight-hour long conference, titled “Practicing your Art: Identifying and Utilizing your Strengths.” “I was invited because people can’t change the status quo until they understand themselves deeply,” he said. “You can either use your strengths to serve yourself, or a cause greater than you.” Kim graduated in 2009 with a degree in biological sciences, but realized quickly upon graduation that his talent lie in public communication. “I really enjoy helping people understand themselves,” Kim said. “I got excited about just looking at these people and knowing they are gonna be future world changers.” Those “future world changers” could be anyone — from the conference attendees to the event’s organizers. The conference is put on every year by six director coordinators from Student Community Services who institute a strict application process for presenters
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Saturday, Feb. 16 • 2:20 a.m. Alcohol violation in Fremont Hall. • 2:25 a.m. Public intoxication at Vista Grande Café leading to an arrest. • 12:14 a.m. Theft at Rite Aid on the 700 block of Foothill Boulevard.
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“The topics were very diverse and all the speakers seem like they are all very passionate,” business administration sophomore Jessica Carter said of the 12th annual Change the Status Quo conference. “I’m glad I went.” in order to give attendees the tools they need to make changes in their lives. This year’s pick, Kim, was a great one for the 11th annual conference, they said. “He can make you feel special and like you have the strength within yourself to change the world,” psychology senior and director coordinator Connor McGill said. Kim was also well-received
among attendees. Business administration sophomore Jessica Carter said she enjoyed attending Kim’s workshop the most, which provided attendees with a strength-finding test meant to measure a person’s instinctual response. “I wasn’t too excited about it at first, but that test actually describes me,” Carter said. “The topics were very diverse and all the speakers seem like they are all very passionate. I’m glad I went.” Some of the vast array of workshops were presented by members of the community including the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden and the San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition, while others were put on by students and clubs from campus. “I learned as much about myself as I did the presentations,” graphic communication junior Kayla Caballero said. Caballero said she enjoyed the “Intersecting Identities” workshop the most, which was presented by Ariana Chini, a student assistant for the Gender Equity Center. “What I took away was addressing the different ways you conduct yourself in situations and how that affects the way you see yourself,” Caballero said. “You’re one way in school and another in
personal relationships — it was great to see the similarities and differences, and that other people struggle balancing personal identities.” Chini, an English and theater arts junior, said the workshop was meant to focus on the scholarly views of identity and how much they leave out. “They really focus on ethnicity, gender and sexuality,” Chini said. “As a human being, you are so much more than those three things.” Physics sophomore Brandon Tao said he enjoyed the diversity of options at the conference. “I think the goal of the conference is to introduce students to new ways of thinking and new issues that are relevant to us, and I think they did a good job of that,” Tao said. Tao said his favorite workshop was “Start By Believing,” which discussed ways to deal with people who experienced sexual assault. The conference concluded with a resource fair for all attendees and presenters. Director coordinator and biological sciences senior Amanda Muzzio said the conversational nature of the workshops contributed to the conference’s success. “Everyone is contributing to this topic by bringing their own backgrounds into the conversation,” Muzzio said.
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UPD confiscated the firearm and interviewed the rifle’s owner — an unidentified male student — once he returned to campus on Wednesday, Hughes said. “There is nothing to lead us to believe that he was hoping to do anything negative to campus,” Hughes said. Charges have not been made on the student yet, though they will be reviewed by the District Attorney’s Office on Friday, Hughes said. If approved, the student could face anything from probation to jail time for the crime. Hughes said he hopes to have the investigation completed within the week. Kaytlyn Leslie contributed to this staff report.
• 11:16 p.m. Someone was throwing eggs at passers-by out of a truck on the 1100 block of Foothill and California boulevards. Sunday, Feb. 17 • 12:23 a.m. Minor in possession leading to an arrest behind SLO Brewing Co. on the 1100 block of Garden Street. • 2:16 a.m. Narcotics code violation in Poly Canyon Village. • 3:20 p.m. A small group was loudly yelling at each other and in possession of alcohol in the creek behind Motel 6 South on the 1600 block of Calle Joaquin. Monday, Feb. 18 • 7:22 a.m. A bike was stolen from the front yard of a residence on the 200 block of Chorro Street. • 12:03 p.m. Someone was nude in public and disrupting the peace at the Black Sheep Bar and Grill on the 1100 block of Chorro Street. Tuesday, Feb. 19 • 12:38 p.m. Abandoned German shepherd puppies were found in Mitchell Park on the 1400 block of Osos Street. • 5:34 p.m. Two males were engaged in armed assault on the 400 block of Higuera and Nipomo streets. • 9:39 p.m. Weapons violation in Sierra Madre Hall. Wednesday, Feb. 20 • 8:40 a.m. Someone broke the window of a motel room and spent the night inside at the Ramada Inn on the 1000 block of Olive Street. • 11:31 a.m. A deceased body was found in a residence on the 200 block of Higuera Street. • 10:24 p.m. Narcotics violation in Yosemite Hall. Thursday, Feb. 21 • 12:18 p.m. Suicide attempt with a hunting knife on the 1500 block of Huckleberry Lane. • 3:17 p.m. Someone was assaulted to the head with a weapon on the 100 block of Prado Road. • 6:08 p.m. A barn caught on fire on the 10800 block of Los Osos Valley Road and Diablo Drive. • 10:42 p.m. Fireworks violation in the middle of the road on the 1200 block of Murray Street and Hathway Avenue.
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WORD ON THE STREET What do you think of Cal Poly’s registration system?
“It’s hectic if you have a later rotation, but it’s fair.” • Nick Pilgram physics sophomore
“It’s kind of hard to get classes. I think it would be better if it went by your class grade.”
Injured NASCAR fans in stable condition JIM UTTER The Charlotte Observer
The two fans most critically injured in the wreck at the end of Saturday’s NASCAR’s Nationwide Series race at Daytona were upgraded to stable condition, a hospital spokesman said. One of those fans is a child, the other an adult. The child’s injuries had been categorized as life-threatening on Saturday; as of Sunday hospital spokespeople said those injuries no longer were life-threatening. Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III said Saturday that 28 fans had been treated for injuries, 14 at the track’s care center and 14 at local hospitals. Only two fans remained hospitalized Sunday. One of them, Eddie Huckaby — 53, of Krum, Texas — reportedly suffered a severe laceration. The violent, 12-car wreck on the last lap of Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway tore a hole in the safety fence and sent debris —
including a car engine and tire — careening into the frontstretch grandstand. Michael Annett was the only NASCAR driver who was hospitalized after the 12car wreck in the closing laps of the Nationwide Series’ season-opening race at Daytona. He was released Sunday from Halifax Medical Center. Three other injured drivers, Jamie Dick, Johanna Long and Hal Martin, were treated and released from the infield care center. The fan injuries happened after Rookie Kyle Larson got knocked airborne into the catchfence, a 22-foot wall of steel posts and reinforced wire that separates the track from the grandstand seats. The fencing caught the front of Larson’s car and ripped it away, leaving the car’s engine and one wheel tangled in the fence. Another tire went sailing into the grandstand, as did large parts of the car. The tire landed in the stands, nine rows from the fence.
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A 12-car accident injured 28 fans Saturday when an engine and tire ripped through the safety fence and into the crowd at the Nationwide Series Race at Daytona. Chitwood said Sunday he did not know if the tire went over the fence, or through a hole in the fence created by the car. But from video of the wreck, it appears the tire went
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The 85th annual Academy Awards aired Sunday with host Seth MacFarlane joking, dancing and singing within the first 10 minutes of the ceremony. Other performances included a musical number between Daniel Radcliffe and JosephGordon Levitt, Jennifer Hudson belted “And I Am Telling You,” the cast of “Les Misérables” performed “One Day More” and Adele sang her hit, “Skyfall,” which won Best Original Song. Early winners included “Brave” for Best Animated Feature, “Life of Pi” for Best Cinematography, Visual Effects and Director, “Les Misérables” for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, as well as a win for Anne Hathaway as Best Supporting Actress. Christoph Waltz took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in “Django Unchained.” “Argo” (above) won for Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. Jennifer Lawrence (right) won Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Silver Linings Playbook,” which was also up for Best Picture. Her competition included Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty” and Quvenzhané Wallis in “Bests of the Southern Wild.” Carly Rickards contributed to this report.
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through the fence. Chitwood confirmed there were fans treated on the upper deck grandstands from debris from the wreck. Track officials were busy late
into Saturday night working to repair the damaged fencing in preparation for Sunday’s Daytona 500 — the elite’s Sprint Cup Series’ biggest race of the season.
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Chi Omega and charity win big at Sorority’s Best Dance Crew
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Food science senior and Alpha Phi member Kelly Ehrler (left photo, front right) laid down dramatic moves at Theta Chi’s Sorority’s Best Dance Crew on Feb. 20, but members of Chi Omega (right photo) took home the first-place trophy for the third year in a row. ARYN SANDERSON
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Kelly Ehrler hops into a handstand. Two shirtless men in firefighter hats hold her legs up, and Ehrler begins to twerk upside down. It’s not just another night in Chumash Auditorium. It’s a dance battle. For sorority members such as Ehrler of Alpha Phi, Theta Chi’s Sorority’s Best Dance Crew on Wednesday was synonymous with hot competition and hotter moves. “It gave our dance one of those moments where the audience went, ‘Oh snap!’” food
science senior Ehrler said about her gravity-defying twerking. “It felt really good to hear the crowd go crazy when it happened.” Theta Chi’s Sorority’s Best Dance Crew, launched in 2009, unites Panhellenic sororities in friendly competition. Six to 10 girls from each participating sorority competed for the coveted dance crew trophy, bragging rights and charity. “The biggest reward is handing over that check to the charity, knowing that we put all this together for a great cause,” Theta Chi’s philanthropy chair and bio-
logical sciences senior Grant Johnson said. Last year, the philanthropy event raised $1,800 for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of San Luis Obispo County. This year, the fraternity estimated that the event raised at least $2,000 for the organization, Johnson said. Seven Panhellenic sororities — Alpha Phi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega, Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Theta — performed. Kappa Kappa Gamma, the newest sorority on campus, and Sigma Kappa did not compete. This year, defending champion Chi Omega took home
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first place and a trophy Johnson compared to the “Stanley Cup of sorority dancing.” This is the third consecutive year Chi Omega has won. Communication studies senior and dancer for the Chi Omega team Natalie Schutt said the experience was “phenomenal.” “We had a bunch of different girls — from freshmen to seniors — work together, and everyone threw out ideas for what they thought would be cool for the choreography, and that’s what led to the diversity of the dance,” Schutt said. “The surprising moments were the most exciting, like when I jumped into their arms, or the extra
stuff, like the letters we held up or our rip-off pants.” Schutt said although the event was all about having fun, the philanthropic element was never lost. “Of course it’s exciting because it was the third year in a row we won, but our initial purpose for competing and putting all the time and effort in is that it was a philanthropy,” she said. “Everyone put in such a great effort because it was such a great philanthropy, and that made it really neat to watch.” Approximately 550 audience members cheered on the sorority dance teams, and
Schutt said the audience made all the difference. “The turnout, wow, it was great,” Schutt said. “When you’re on stage you can’t see everyone — it’s pitch-black — but we could hear everyone.” Alpha Omicron Pi won second place and the spirit award for audience participation. Gamma Phi Beta took third. Theta Chi president Luke Kittinger, Cal Poly Orchesis Dance Company alumnus Darren Bridges and assistant professor of dance and theater Christy McNeil judged the routines. Editor’s Note: Aryn Sanderson is a member of Alpha Epsilon Phi.
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Welcome to the ’70s SLO Little Theatre’s Nixon-era comedy ‘Watergate and Other Solid Gold Hits’ has been a year in the making.
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As soon as the red, orange and blue circles of light illuminate the stage and the drum set starts tapping a beat, the audience of SLO Little Theatre’s latest production, “Watergate and Other Solid Gold Hits,” is transported into an era of political scandal, long gas lines, seriously groovy fashion and some bangin’ musical hits. The year is 1970, the place is Washington, D.C., President Nixon has just been sworn into office and every bell-bottomed bunny is bouncing along to Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ in the Years.” The musical, an original work from playwright David Vienna and artistic director Kevin Harris, tells the story of the 1970s from the eyes of the politicians ruling the national scene — a grueling, sticky, complicated, scandalous political mess of a decade pitting people against government and government against media — interwoven,
of course, with the ensemble breaking out into covers of flashy pop hits that ruled the era — including President Nixon belting out “Lean on Me” to his White House Plumbers. It makes light of many serious and historic events of the time — like the Watergate break-in, Nixon’s resignation, the death of Elvis and the Carter and Ford presidencies. Artistic director Kevin Harris said the most important part of putting on a production like this, though, is interestingly not the storyline. “What we keep in mind is that in the end, it’s about the music,” Harris said. “If people don’t like the music, it’s a failure.” He’s right. The play itself is filled with heated, fast-paced dialogue that is, at times, tricky to follow. But the main star of the show is the band, perched above the stage, capturing the audience’s attention with covers of Elton John, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, Supertramp and many, many more. “Watergate” is the biggest
show of the year at the SLO Little Theatre, Harris said, and took a year to put together. “There’s nothing better than sitting in a theater with actors, playwrights and musicians and figuring out how to tell a story,” Harris said. The cast and crew are all local, Harris said, and the close-knit feel of the theater is why some of the audience members keep coming back. Irma Macias and her husband were visiting from Whittier, Calif. and decided to go to the playhouse — for the second time. “We like the community aspect of it,” Macias said. “It’s an intimate feel.” While normally the theater gives $10 student-discount tickets for productions, “Watergate” tickets are selling for $35 to $50. But, Harris said, the theater encourages any student who wants to see a play without spending the money to volunteer with the productions. Allison Montroy contributed to this staff report.
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Post-Valentine’s letdowns Nuclear problems
Face the six truths about relationships nobody ever admits
and “who-knows?” can appear like contrails, apparently out of the blue but actually evidence of a longer journey, above the heads and outside 1. When you enter your next relationship, you the horizon of the ordinary onlooker. Wistful is become the person you split up with. Were attractive in books but in life, not so much. you the parsimonious one, always pinching 4. If you have conversations about how you pennies and putting quarters in meters? Were are, in fact only “just friends,” you are not you low on tips and tight on taxi fares? In “just friends.” Friends don’t have these conyour next relationship, you’ll be giving 20s to versations. I’ve had friends since junior high; the maitre d’ and springing for indoor park- we’ve talked a couple of times a week for 40 ing at the airport. years. Never have any of us felt a need to proWere you the tidy one, always doing the nounce ourselves “just friends.” It’s not a topic dishes? Your next squeeze will keep the for anybody except people who have the hots kitchen clean enough for neurosurgery and for each other. you’ll be accused of leaving too many coffee Don’t kid yourself. Think about it: When dealcups unwashed. ing with your dentist, do you feel a need to anDid you have to beg for affection, only to be nounce, “You understand that we have a good told your significant other needed space? Just working relationship but that it doesn’t go any watch: You’ll be the one craning your neck for further?” Probably not. The phrase is shocking a gulp of fresh air when the hugs are too fre- enough that you naturally avoid saying it to an quent and fervid in this next situation. individual holding a live drill in your mouth. If 2. One partner secretly believes the other is in that is indeed the case, and I maintain it is, why control and wields most isn’t it shocking enough to of the power. “I can’t avoid saying to anybody go anywhere without with whom you’re not her knowing where eager to become intiI am and what mately involved — or I’m doing,” he who isn’t about to tell sighs. “He you to rinse and spit? gets antsy 5. The French have a if I spend saying: “In every too much relat ionship, time away there is one f r o m who kisses h o m e and one who ofand gets fers the cheek.” weirdly One always loves passive more; in every pair, aggressive,” one is reaching to ofshe moans. fer and one is deciding Together, as if in Broadwhether or not way duet, they sing “We to accept. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE always see your friends! Of course, the Your family is the one French also have tiny who we have to work so waists and that terrific custardy kind hard to please that we never have any of quiche you simply can’t find in fun with them! You make it so hard America even at really good bakeries, when we do what I want to do that we so I’m not saying everything applies always end up doing what you want to entirely to our culture. But I bet you’ll do, even when it seems like we’re doing agree that when gauging the romantic what I want!” relationships of others, from short-term dalli3. It is not “exactly the same” to be friends ances to long-term marriages (always hoping with people you had regular (or, even more these do not exist simultaneously), it’s easy to strikingly, irregular) sex with as it is to be see who’s the kisser and who’s the kissee. Only friends with people about whom you never in one’s own relationship do things become have an erotic thought. foggy and are phrases such as “We’re absolutely For example, erstwhile lovers tend to com- balanced” or “We trade off; sometimes it’s me, plicate conversations (or Facebook messages) sometimes it’s him” employed in all earnestwith tiny smoke signals arising from their ness. burned bridges. The “what-ifs,” and “if-onlys,” 6. Love is a lot of trouble. But it’s worth it.
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Society rewarding, helping cheaters THOMAS F. SCHALLER
The Baltimore Sun
“Cheat, cheat, never beat.” Remember that catchy, foreboding maxim drilled into us as kids? It’s comforting to believe cheaters never win and winners never cheat. Unfortunately, there’s ample evidence that cheating is rampant in almost every sphere of American life. And for every reported story of cheaters getting busted — be they professional athletes who use banned substances or those who illegally manipulate markets for profit — you can bet there’s at least one case of somebody who escaped detection. The sporting world has produced a nonstop parade of shamed (if not always ashamed) athletes who cheated their way to success. Those who were caught, from baseball stars Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire to cyclist Lance Armstrong and sprinter Ben Johnson, may have lost some of their records, awards or prestige. But even if their fame is ultimately tainted, star athletes retain most of their accumulated fortunes. Faced with cheating your way to millions and hoping you don’t get caught, or competing honestly yet at a disadvantage while others benefit from lax rule enforcement, is it any surprise how many people opt to cheat? Alas, if only cheating were limited to sports. In the past year, five universities, including nearby Bucknell and George Washington, admitted to attempting to inflate their
U.S. News & World Report rankings by submitting falsified performance data. The news makes it tougher to lecture the students from the affluent, Long Island, N.Y., high school who were caught in 2011 hiring expert surrogates to take their SAT college admissions exams. “An increase in cheating reflects deep anxiety and insecurity in America nowadays, desperation even, as well as arrogance among the rich and cynicism among ordinary people,” wrote David Callahan in his 2004 book, “The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong To Get Ahead.” Callahan discusses the connection between cheating and rising inequality. The rich, after all, have greater incentives to cheat, whether by illegally shielding income from taxes or engaging in illicit behavior to attain wealth in the first place. In a July 2012 report, the Tax Justice Network estimated that, conservatively, between $21 trillion and $32 trillion of global income is hidden in offshore tax havens. If we divide the lower figure by four (at roughly $15 trillion annually, the U.S. economy accounts for about a quarter of the world’s gross domestic product), that means probably a minimum of $5 trillion in U.S income is currently shielded from taxation. Assume an average marginal tax rate of just 20 percent, and that’s $1 trillion lost to the treasury. Tax cheating is prevalent across the wealth spectrum. I’ve met middle-class folks who openly admit to claiming
tax breaks they don’t deserve. I know at least two people who deduct as a business expense the costs of purchase, maintenance, insurance and gas for cars they mostly use for personal travel. Heck, I’ll cop to never having declared all my tipped wages while table-waiting during graduate school — an act unjustified by the fact that “everyone else did it.” At the other end of the economic spectrum, those who derive most of their income from assets get to declare, after the fact each April 15, what they owe the state and federal governments. This contrasts sharply with the experience of salaried or hourly wage middle-class workers whose income and payroll taxes are pre-emptively subtracted from their paychecks. Although some taxes paid disproportionately by the wealthy are unavoidably collected at the point of transaction — e.g., transfer taxes when properties are sold — in general the rich have the luxury of surrendering later what the rest of have taken from us ex ante. This asymmetry makes cheating especially tempting to the rich. And guess what? “Highincome people apparently evade more dollars, and for the most part evade more as a percentage of their true incomes ... in part, but not entirely [because] they tend to receive the kind of income that is hard for the IRS to monitor,” explains Stephen J. Dubner, famed coauthor of “Freakonomics,” in a 2009 paper about tax cheating. Cheat, cheat, never beat? More like, “cheat, cheat, often beat.” Sigh.
Excessive United States arsenal should be reduced RICHARD GARWIN LISBETH GRONLUND
McClatchy-Tribune
President Obama devoted only one sentence to U.S. nuclear weapons in his recent State of the Union speech, which was filled with a long list of proposals for his second term. While he has a lot on his plate for the next four years, the time has come for a major overhaul of U.S. nuclear weapons policy. The Cold War ended more than 20 years ago, but the United States still maintains some 5,000 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, with roughly 2,000 of these deployed on missiles or bombers. These weapons do nothing to prevent terrorist attacks, which are perhaps the greatest threat to U.S. security today. And the U.S. policy of targeting Russian nuclear weapons substantially increases the risk of our own total nuclear destruction. Under the current New START agreement with Russia, both countries will reduce their deployed longrange arsenal to 1,550 weapons by 2017; the treaty leaves unconstrained the approximately 3,000 reserve weapons and short-range tactical weapons. Just one of these weapons could destroy much of a large city, while a few hundred would be enough to devastate much of the world. According to news reports, the Pentagon has concluded that the United States can meet its security needs with fewer deployed weapons — perhaps 1,000. But such a modest reduction would be much too timid, and not nearly enough to reduce nuclear dangers. The United States could easily cut its arsenal to a total of 1,000 nuclear weapons — including deployed and reserve, longrange and short-range — while maintaining an effective deterrent. This should be the basis of the next arms reduction agreement with Russia, and would be a prelude to constraining the nuclear arms of other states. But the United States should not wait for an agreement to make these sensible reductions. Continuing to maintain more nuclear weapons than necessary for security is not only unwise, it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars. The annual U.S. budget for nuclear weapons systems is roughly $30 billion, and there are plans to spend much more. For example, the Obama administration has proposed replacing 12 nuclear-armed subma-
rines in the coming decades; each will cost $30 billion over its lifetime. Defense dollars are needed to address real military threats, and in this era of budget cuts, it is especially foolhardy to spend tens of billions of dollars on unnecessary weapons. Nuclear security is about more than numbers. Keeping U.S. land-based nuclear missiles on high alert so they can be launched in a matter of minutes is dangerous. This alert status could lead to an accidental or unauthorized attack, or one in response to a false warning of an incoming attack. Worse, this practice requires Russia to keep its land-based missiles on high alert to avoid a disarming blow by U.S. missiles. Since a Russian nuclear attack is the only one that could destroy the United States as a functioning society, we are continuing to risk everything by clinging to this Cold War policy. Even if the probability of such an attack is small, the overall risk — the probability multiplied by the magnitude of the destruction — is still too high. During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama called attention to the dangers posed by the U.S. launch-on-warning policy, noting that they are unacceptably high. When he ran for president in 2000, George W. Bush also said the United States should “remove as many weapons as possible from high-alert, hair-trigger status.” Both were right. Indeed, there is no reason to accept these dangers. A reliable and credible U.S. nuclear deterrent does not require the ability to retaliate immediately. It requires only the assurance that U.S. nuclear forces and command and control systems could survive and respond to an attack. Both the size and alert levels of the U.S. arsenal are currently based on a warfighting doctrine formulated during the Cold War that assumes the United States needs large numbers of nuclear weapons to destroy Russian nuclear weapons. Changing this dangerous and self-defeating doctrine is long overdue and would allow deeper reductions in U.S. weapons as well as a reduction in alert status. President Obama now has the opportunity to take the next sensible steps to reduce the dangers of nuclear weapons. He should move aggressively to do so, and make this a priority for his last term.
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Lucky No. 7: Baseball streaks to win J.J. JENKINS
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Winning hasn’t been complicated for Cal Poly baseball this season. Pitching and defense have carried the load while the Mustangs’ bats have provided just enough spark to give them a win. After tossing nine innings and allowing one run during
Sunday’s victory over Seattle, the pitching staff has allowed 51 hits and 14 runs through 63 innings this season. Bolstered by starter Bryan Granger’s strong pitching, the Mustangs (7-0) cruised to a 4-1 victory over Seattle (1-6). It was their seventh consecutive victory to start the season — the best start in the program’s 19-year Di-
vision I history — and the 14th straight win dating back to 2012. The team also bucked a trend of not scoring early in games this season. After Tim Wise and Denver Chavez went down quietly to start the game, Jimmy Allen belted a shot off the center field wall which turned into a stand-up triple. Designated hitter Brian Mun-
dell singled to left and Allen scored, the first time the Mustangs got on the board in the first inning this year. “We’re not doing a very good job of getting leadoff hitters on base and that’s the key to offensive scoring,” head coach Larry Lee said. “We’ll work on some mechanical things and once we get those things ironed out, then it becomes
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Denver Chavez (left) went 2-for-5 on Sunday during Cal Poly’s 4-1 win over Seattle. He also helped turn a key double play that ended a Redhawks rally in the seventh inning. The Mustangs (7-0) are off to their best start in Division I history.
the mental part.” Granger made his first career weekend start at Baggett Stadium for the Mustangs and pitched into the ninth inning before Taylor Chris entered in relief. Granger faced the minimum number of batters through four innings and didn’t allow a run until the sixth. “My nerves calmed down a lot today,” Granger said. “Last weekend on the road I was a little uptight, but I settled down today and got into my groove early.” The Redhawks could have scored more runs in the seventh inning after Cal Poly regained a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the sixth. After two Seattle runners reached base with nobody out, a ground ball looked like it was going to sneak into center field. However, Chavez reacted just in time to corral the ball in his glove and flip it to shortstop Peter Van Gansen on second base. Van Gansen caught the ball with his bare hand and threw it to first in time to beat the runner, halting the Redhawks’ rally. “It was just one of those (balls) where you just have to lay out,” Chavez said. “I gloveflipped it and (Van Gansen) is really good at getting rid of the ball quick, and that’s what he had to do to get the force out at first base.” The Mustangs tacked on two error-assisted runs in their half of the seventh, extending their lead to 4-1. Cal Poly scored only one earned run on Sunday, aided by four errors from the Redhawks’ defense. Granger took the mound for the ninth inning, having
thrown just 82 pitches, but his first delivery in the inning was hit into left field and Lee replaced him with Chris. Granger walked one batter and struck out five to earn his second victory of the season. “I wanted to get Chris some work out of the bullpen, but if (Granger) was able to finish it I was going to let him finish it,” Lee said. “The way it worked out was better, we got (Chris) to come in and he’s been good in his two outings. To have him finish the game and not bring Reed Reilly in was a plus also.” The Mustangs are off to their best start since 1981, but the team feels like the start is just the beginning of a successful campaign. “From the end of last year, we knew that we were going to have a good squad,” Chavez said. “Throughout the whole fall we knew that we could swing it, we could pitch, we could pretty much do everything that you need to do to be a good ball club. Obviously, we have some good opponents in conference that are going to make it tough to win the Big West, but right now we’re doing what we do best, and when our hitting comes along we’re going to be a tough team to beat.”
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Dylan Royer hit a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds remaining in the Mustangs’ game against Loyola Marymount on Saturday to give Cal Poly a 63-60 victory.