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University President Jeffrey Armstrong will meet with members of the President’s Semester Review Task Force on Monday to inform them about an update in calendar negotiations with California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White, according to an email

sent out to task force members. In an email marked “Urgent: SRTF — Your Presence Requested,” Semester Review Task Force Chair Rachel Fernflores told members “matters were decided with some finality” early Friday night. Armstrong plans to share information on the decision with task force members Monday afternoon, prior to sending an update to cam-

pus, according to the email. Cal Poly spokesperson Ellen Cohune confirmed Sunday that the university can expect an announcement following the Semester Review Task Force meeting, but said she did not know specifically what Armstrong is prepared to disclose. “I don’t know what the campus is expecting tomorrow,” Cohune said. “I can tell you (Armstrong) is keeping the

task force apprised of the conversations with the chancellor.” Armstrong and White reportedly made their decision after collaboration with presidents at other CSU quarter campuses — a group Armstrong has been working on a presidential task force with for nearly one year. The task force meeting will be Monday at noon in the Administration building, accord-

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ing to the email, though it is not listed on the “Semester Review Task Force Meeting Schedules” website. Requests for comment from the Semester Review Task Force were referred to the Office of Cal Poly Public Affairs. An email request for more information from the CSU was not returned. Sean McMinn contributed to this staff report.

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Stenner fire injures one, no students

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Skateboarders on Cal Poly’s campus pride themselves on their ability to charm their way out of a citation. “I got pulled over like once, and I kinda talked him out of it,” Cal Poly Longboarding Association of America founder and landscape architecture alumnus Cameron Turner said. “I kinda told the officer that I was a freshman and didn’t know the rules.” Turner said he wasn’t the only one who managed to sweet talk an officer into not issuing a citation for skateboarding. One friend, a “charmer” who got stopped multiple times, has never received a citation, Turner said. But skateboarding citations are something the University Police Department (UPD) takes seriously, according to Chief George Hughes. “We have an official policy, and that’s that the use of skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, coasters or similar devices on the campus is prohibited, except for special events which have been authorized by Student Life and approved by the University Police,” Hughes said. These restrictions, according to Hughes, are entirely based on safety. “The reasoning behind that is purely for safety reasons,” Hughes said. “We have such a crowded area here on campus on the sidewalks, all the walkways, the Mustang Village area and the University Union Plaza area, where it’s just so crowded with people and bicycles that just don’t co-mingle well with skateboards.” Even those who do choose to skateboard on campus can speak to its dangerous nature, though they tend to focus more on the landscape of Cal Poly. Chris Ray, a fellow landscape architecture alumnus and a friend of Turner’s, attributed the rules to the fact that Cal Poly’s campus has too many hills for safe skateboarding. “One reason is that it’s just not that great a campus for skating,” Ray said. “Mostly just the fact that the whole school is sloped see SKATEBOARDS, pg. 2 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NHA HA/ MUSTANG DAILY

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A fire broke out in a third-floor apartment in the Stenner Glen complex on Saturday, prompting 40 tenants to be evacuated. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. MUSTANG DAILY STAFF REPORT

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A fire in the Stenner Glen apartment complex Saturday morning forced approximately 40 residents to evacuate and caused the injury of one firefighter, according to fire officials. Firefighters from both San Luis Obispo Fire Department and Cal Fire responded to the 911 call at 11 a.m. Saturday to find a rapidly spreading fire that encompassed two of the thirdfloor suite’s six bedrooms. “The fire was well-established in a third-floor bedroom and was coming out the windows and spreading laterally throughout that whole suite,” Battalion Chief Jeff Gater said. “We were able to get two hose lines quick into that suite.” San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) officers arrived on the scene to aid in the evacuation of 20 people living in the building and nearly 20 more in the neighboring building. According to Gater, however, much of that work was already done by the resident advisers on site. “The Stenner Glen staff were very good about getting everyone out quickly, so even

before we arrived they had gotten everyone out of the building,” Gater said. The fire was under control within 25 minutes of the 911 call, officials said. Damage was contained mainly to four of the six bedrooms, preserving two of the bedrooms as well as common areas. The fire did not reach any other buildings in the complex. “I knew we had a working fire on the way there based on the 911 reporting party,” Gater said. “We had to spend a bunch of time disassembling the building to get to the enclosed spaces.” No tenants sustained injuries from the fire, but one firefighter was injured by a collapsed ceiling fan. He was transported to Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and released. According to Gater, the injured firefighter should be back to work within the week. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. “We know that the fire started in the corner of the bedroom by a mattress or bed,” Gater said. “What’s around there could have started the fire, and a lot of it has to do with whether the room was accessible to see FIRE, pg. 2

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makes it more dangerous than flat campuses. But there’s lots of places where it’s not sloped and you actually can skate, and it would be nice to be able to skate there.” Hughes mentioned this factor as part of the reason why UPD prohibits skateboarding on campus as well. “It’s a hilly area, so you can pick up quite a bit of speed very quickly on skateboards especially, and there’s no brakes on there like there is on a bicycle,” Hughes said. “It’s just not a good place to be walking and skateboarding at the same time because there’s just too much potential for someone to get injured, both the person on the skateboard and off.” Yet both the rules and the dangers themselves sometimes fail to deter students from skateboarding on campus. Ray said the motivation behind breaking these rules is simply to have more fun. “It was just my favorite way to get to class,” Ray said. “That’s the most common reason why anybody skateboards, because it’s the most fun option.” Turner credited his own motivation to a need for transportation that turned into a pastime. “You can pretty much skate everywhere from campus,” Turner said. “It originally started off as a means to get around and once I learned more, I was able to do more downhill stuff and I just kept skating.” Turner even went as far as to create a community of students who were interested in longboarding. Along with his roommate, he created a Facebook page and website under the name “Cal Poly Longboarding Association of America.” “It was basically me and a longtime friend,” Turner

said. “We were roommates freshman year and we had both gotten into longboarding senior year of high school, and we just started skating a lot. We just made that Facebook group and we met a few other guys from San Luis Obispo. It wasn’t much, it was really just shits and giggles.” Despite the group’s seemingly official title, it was never affiliated with any larger organization, including Cal Poly itself. “We were looking to make an actual club but it was too much work, so we didn’t bother,” Turner said. Turner said he did look up the rules regarding skateboarding and longboarding in San Luis Obispo, but his perception was that the group was not so much a club as a loosely knit group of people interested in the same activity. “We looked up rules like the city laws because campus is a little hard to skate in,” Turner said. “But there’s people that can do it and it’s fun.” Turner said though the Cal Poly Longboarding Association of America was never the most organized group, it did make regular trips to longboard in Santa Barbara. When he was a freshman, Turner made a contact in Santa Barbara through an online forum called Silverfish Longboarding, and eventually started regularly bringing groups of people to meet up and longboard. “He invited us down and we kind of started a friendship, and we would get guys from San Luis Obispo to go there,” Turner said. “There was one time where there were 30 guys that met in Santa Barbara and we skated on a bunch of different roads there.” Turner said most of the action, however, occurred in San Luis Obispo. Because of

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the hills on campus, Turner and his friends went off campus frequently, but they did find ways to skirt the issue. “We did sneak into the Poly Canyon parking structure when that was under construction,” Turner said. “We almost got caught once and that was exciting. But we more would go downtown in the parking structures.” According to Hughes, however, this is still a violation of the law. “Most of the CSUs do not allow skateboarding on campus for the same reason, and also downtown San Luis Obispo just because there are so many people walking in that area that they have created a municipal ordinance to not allow any skateboarding in the downtown area,” Hughes said. Turner said the reason they went off campus so often was actually to avoid the possibility of citations from UPD. “We never really skated much on campus because campus police are quite the sticklers and they really take a no-nonsense approach,” Turner said. Ray took a different approach — his experience was that skateboarders who were being responsible were generally able to get out of any citations. “If you’re skating nice and not being a problem, and then you’re nice to the police officer, then they’re not going to give you a ticket,” Ray said. “If you’re causing a problem, then I guess you

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should get a ticket.” Ray said he was pulled aside by UPD officers multiple times, but was never issued a citation. His attitude may stem from the emphasis he puts on responsible skating. Ray came into Cal Poly’s landscape architecture program with the intention of one day designing skate parks — a dream he is now living, working for SITE Design Group. Ray also spent some of his time at Cal Poly looking for a solution for those who want to skateboard on and around Cal Poly’s campus. His senior project involved creating a cohesive plan for providing safe skate spots in San Luis Obispo. “There’s a plan in the works for a new San Luis Obispo skate park, but it’s huge and it’s really expensive, and a lot of people aren’t really too excited about the design,” Ray said. “The city approved the design and it’s been five years now, but there’s still not the money for that.” Ray said there is currently a skate park in San Luis Obispo, but it’s not enough to draw skateboarders off campus. “For a city like this, they really should have something a lot better,” Ray said. “It’s really small and it’s wooden, and wooden skate parks just don’t hold up well.” Until there is a solution, however, skateboarders will simply have to adhere to the rules UPD set in place. “Basically, there’s always the irresponsible skaters that ruin it for everyone else,” Ray said. He also said, however, that skateboarders aren’t going to just go away. “Skateboarding is really a lifestyle,” Ray said. “You carry your skateboard wherever you go, you skateboard with your friends and it’s a community thing.”

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everyone or only people with keys, and we’re still trying to figure that out.” Gater also said multiple fires have occurred in the Stenner Glen complex recently. “We’ve had a few fires there in the past year,” Gater said. “Whether they’re related yet, we don’t know. We’re still investigating the cause.” According to the fire department, all bedrooms in the unit did have working smoke detectors and one of the occupants was first alerted by a smoke detector. “I think one of the most important things about the fire is that there was a girl sleeping next door and she was alerted by the smoke detector going off in her bedroom, so that’s how people found out about it,” Gater said. Stenner Glen was able to provide alternate housing on site for the displaced residents until repairs can be made to the unit. The fire is estimated to have caused $150,000 in property damage and $25,000 in damage to personal belongings. Tenants in both the building where the fire occurred and in the adjacent building were displaced because the fire department shut off gas in both buildings in order to combat and investigate the fire. Laura Pezzini contributed to this staff report.

SLO 5-0 Check below for a brief list of crimes that occurred in San Luis Obispo from March 1 to March 5 or go to mustangdaily.net and check out the full listing. Friday, March 1 • 12:08 p.m. Sexual assault report filed on the 100 block of Grand Avenue. • 4:02 p.m. Theft report filed in Yosemite Hall. • 6:31 p.m. Narcotics code violation in Fremont Hall. • 7:16 p.m. Someone was walking on the 1000 block of Nipomo and Higuera streets with a 2-foot sword and was pointing and gesturing with it at patrons. Saturday, March 2 • 2:00 a.m. Minor was in possession and intoxicated in public leading to an arrest on the 400 block of Kentucky Street. • 2:21 a.m. Two males were seen keying vehicles parked in front of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa on Nipomo Street. • 4:49 a.m. Someone was intoxicated in public and refused to leave the 7-Eleven after bothering patrons on the 1300 block of Monterey Street. • 6:56 a.m. Theft from an unlocked vehicle on the 1200 block of Sumac Court. • 1:49 p.m. Narcotics code violation in Cerro Vista. • 9:03 p.m. Narcotics code violation in Poly Canyon Village, Estrella. Sunday, March 3 • 1:44 a.m. Illegal bonfire in the backyard of a residence on the 1600 block of McCollum Street. • 1:15 p.m. Narcotics code violation in Yosemite Hall. • 3:50 p.m. Small dog weaving through traffic on the 2700 block of Broad Street. Monday, Feb. 18 • 10:05 a.m. Unresponsive male found on the 1200 block of Newport Street. • 12:23 p.m. Suicide attempt at the Travelodge on the 300 block of Marsh Street. • 4:06 p.m. Theft report filed at the bike racks next to Poly Canyon Village. Tuesday, Feb. 19 • 12:34 a.m. Unresponsive subject found in an apartment on the 1400 block of Woodside Drive. • 9:45 a.m. Theft report taken at the Cal Poly Health Center. • 9:25 p.m. Assault on a minor on the 11600 block of Los Osos Valley Road. Wednesday, Feb. 20 • 12:53 a.m. Illegal fireworks reported on the 1100 block of Murray Avenue. • 2:35 p.m. Two juvenile shoplifters in custody at Urban Outfitters on the 900 block of Monterey Street. • 3:32 p.m. Dog stolen from the front of Spencer’s Fresh Market on the 1300 block of Madonna Road. Thursday, Feb. 21 • 8:29 a.m. Vandalism to trees and lampposts in French Park on the 1000 block of Fuller Road. • 4:27 p.m. Dog off leash approached children on the 1300 block of Oceanaire Drive.

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North Korea threatens ‘all-out-war’ DIRK GODDER

What do you think about North Korea’s threats?

“I got the AP alert on my phone and it scared the crap out of me. It’s something I personally take seriously.” • Bridget Wieczorek psychology junior

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Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-un (above), has made threats of nuclear war against South Korea and the United States this past week.

Take a nap today INA PAIVA CORDLE The Miami Herald

“Oh man, that’s bad. We got another enemy.” • Jimmy Goudge agricultural systems management sophomore

“It doesn’t freak me out because I feel like they’re not actually going to do anything.” • Rachel Free statistics freshman

“I think it’s a bad idea because they don’t want to get on the bad side of the U.S. because the U.S. has way more allies.” • Meron Sebhatu industrial technology junior

“For something that big to happen, there would need to be more conflict happening now. It’d be ridiculous if it actually happened.” • Briana Whitney journalism sophomore

Jim Angleton’s work day begins before dawn, so when his eyes get droopy by midafternoon, he just leans back at his desk and takes a nap. “If I feel tired, my body is trying to tell me something, so I will excuse myself, shut the door, sometimes put headphones on and listen to music, and just put my head back and disconnect,” said Angleton, 56, who owns a Miami Lakes financial services company. Are you yawning yet? Go for it: Monday is Napping Day, an unofficial holiday created in 1999 by now-retired Boston University professor William Anthony and his wife, Camille, to help people adjust to Daylight Saving Time. After losing an hour of sleep by setting clocks forward, many in the workforce will drag through the day on Monday; hence the need for a power nap. “You get refreshed, you get re-energized and you get destressed,” Angleton said. “I highly recommend it if you can get away with it. It’s got to be good for the soul.” Everyone needs to sleep. Newborns require as much as 18 hours a day; adults, as a general rule, seven to nine hours, the National Sleep Foundation says. “Sleep is essential for your overall well-being, quality of life, for your mood, for your growth, and also for the prevention of diseases, because the lack of sleep can trigger inflammatory response in your body and can make you more susceptible to infection,” said Dr. Alexandre Abreu, co-director of the UHealth Sleep Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Naps can help, as long as they do not interfere with your nighttime sleep — creating a vicious cycle, he said. One-third of adults take regular naps, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. And more men (38 percent) reported napping than women (31 percent). The habit may start at an early age: preschoolers are accustomed to grabbing their blankets and going to sleep. It’s also a cultural phenomenon. In many European and Latin American cultures, a siesta after lunch is still an important part of the daily schedule. While naps do not necessarily make up for inadequate or poorquality nighttime sleep, a short nap of 20 to 30 minutes can help improve mood, alertness and performance, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Depending on your job, it may even be critical. A study at NASA on sleepy military pilots and astronauts found that a 40-minute nap improved

The National Sleep Foundation recommends adults get seven to nine hours of sleep per night. performance by 34 percent and alertness by 100 percent. And another study, in the October 2012 issue of Academic Medicine, found that among first-year internal medicine residents, a short midday nap improved alertness and cognitive functioning. Yet, by and large, U.S. employers frown upon workers who try to nap on the job. Not C1 Bank’s chief executive, Trevor Burgess. As a napping proponent, he encourages it. At least once a week, he and about a dozen drowsy employees, or nearly 15 percent of his staff of 85, take turns resting in an “EnergyPod” that he bought in October for his bank’s new St. Petersburg, Fla., headquarters. “Even if you don’t fall asleep — in the 20 minutes, the meditation that takes place is pretty powerful, and you’re ready to face whatever your day holds,” Burgess said. He sees offering a napping option as an important part of the overall work-life-balance, especially for members of the millennial generation who want to work when and where they want. “It’s definitely the most talked about element in the space,” Burgess said of the pod, which was created by MetroNaps of New York. Designed to engulf the napper, the pod reclines and has a timer that awakens you with a combination of lights, vibration and music, and automatically puts you back in a seated position, said MetroNaps chief executive Christopher Lindholst. In Florida, St. Leo University and Florida Hospital Celebration Health have also bought the pods, which cost $9,000 to $12,000. Naps are not right for everyone. Nap for too long, and you might be groggy instead of refreshed. Daytime sleeping could lead to insomnia. And if you already have trouble sleeping at night, a nap may only exacerbate the problem, said Abreu, the UM sleep doctor. In fact, the need for a nap may be a sign of a disorder, like disruptive sleep apnea or narcolepsy, he said. “Take naps because it’s cultural, as long as it doesn’t interrupt nighttime sleep, or because you have poor sleep and need to perform at driving or work, so you’re protecting yourself and others from your sleepiness,” he advises.

North Korea continued to churn out threats of war against the United States and South Korea on Sunday, one day before new joint military drills between the two allies were set to begin. Official North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun said the country’s nuclear weapons were ready to be launched as the military prepared for “allout war,” according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. “Our front line military groups, the army, the navy and the air force, the antiaircraft units and the strategic rocket units, who have entered the final all-out war stage, are awaiting the final order to strike,” the widely read newspaper wrote.

The hermit state’s latest threats began on Thursday, after the UN Security Council imposed fresh sanctions on Pyongyang following its third nuclear test in February. In recent days, North Korea warned that it would scrap the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War and threatened the United States with a preemptive nuclear strike. The threats were also a reaction to the U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the North Korean Foreign Ministry has said were “putting the situation on the Korean Peninsula on the brink of war.” Computer simulated drills known as Key Resolve are to begin on Monday while two months of field training exercises known as Foal Eagle kicked off at the beginning of March.

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“This Fremont Theatre is a real treasure,” Mayor Jan Marx said onstage under the San Luis Obispo landmark’s signature spiral ceiling lit with vibrant splashes of green, purple, pink. Marx was one of several speakers, presenters and award recipients to echo this sentiment on Saturday night at the 19th annual SLO International Film Festival’s (SLOIFF) climactic George Sidney Independent Film Awards and King Vidor Award presentations. These statements were accentuated by — and perhaps the result of — a recent temporary

closure of the Fremont after lease complications. In retrospect of the shuttering and the concerned reaction it spurred on social media, Saturday’s ceremony seemed like a triumph for the theater as well as the city. KSBY anchor Dan Shadwell emceed the event, which was sponsored by New Times, KSBY, the city of San Luis Obispo and others. Throughout the night, films featured at the festival earned cash prizes in several categories, including Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary

Feature and Best Short Film. Though the winners of these awards were chosen by a panel of film professionals and journalists, viewer-selected Audience Awards were also announced for similar categories. The Graduate Cal Poly alumnus Kenny Stevenson wrote and acted in one of the jury’s two picks for Best Narrative Feature, the romantic comedy “Missed Connections.” “To be able to win an award at a festival I went to when I was at Cal Poly — it’s awe-

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some,” Stevenson said. Stevenson also said he was honored because the film could have been disadvantaged by its genre. “To win Best Narrative Feature when there’s so many great films, it’s amazing,” Stevenson said. “Especially because I feel like our movie’s this silly little movie about manipulating women to have sex with you, and we’re winning awards.” The SLOIFF was the 16th festival for “Missed Connections” — and its last. Stevenson said the movie has a distributor lined up and

will come out within the next few months with a limited theatrical release. The film will also be released on DVD and Netflix. “So if you missed it while it was here, there will be ample opportunity to see it later this year,” Stevenson said. Stevenson said his next script — a heist comedy — is already finished. The Artist Following the Independent Film Awards, SLOIFF cofounder and Palm Theatre

owner Jim Dee presented the festival’s highest honor, the King Vidor Award, to actor John Hawkes. Hawkes has acted in many notable films, such as “The Perfect Storm,” “Lincoln” and “The Sessions.” Hawkes’ acceptance speech highlighted the importance of including arts in education. After accepting the award, he participated in a Q&A session with the audience. “This is the first, and hopefully not last, career achievement award I’ll receive,” Hawkes said.

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“ Yo u have got the most beautiful people I have ever met,” Clarke-Jones said. “Happiest Americans I have ever seen.” When asked about his next project, Clarke-Jones’ answer was vague, but promising. “It’s more of a stunt thing that has never been done before,” Clarke-Jones said. “If we pull it off, we’ll show you. If not, you’ll be coming to my funeral.” The first annual Surf Nite took place in 2006 with the screening of “Riding Giants.” Special guests included surfers Jeff Clark and Greg Noll as well as producer Stacy Peralta. “It is our biggest event. We realize that this is an area where a lot of people are into outdoors and extreme sports,” Eidson said. “Since the first Surf Nite, we have been adding more and more sports films to the festival.” A new venue, the Avila Beach Community Center, was added this year to screen sports films and short films. Screenings were spread out during the festival weekend.

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The SLO International Film Festival (SLOIFF) started off Wednesday night with a “Red Carpet Gala” in Cal Poly’s Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre. The event featured plenty of wine, a full house, spotlights and a film documenting the history of visual and special effects in films. All that was missing was a red carpet. With local Bianchi wine, Vina Robles, J. Lohr and Laetitia Vineyards serving wine at the reception, it was a crowd of clinking wine glasses and buzzing chatter for the first hour before the doors opened to Spanos. A spotlight marked the entrance, and attendees had the opportunity to take pictures in front of a SLOIFF backdrop before entering the theater. Before the featured documentary, festival director Wendy Eidson opened the festival with a few words about filmmaker Leslie Iwerks and her film “Industrial Light and Magic: Creating the Impossible,” and noted the festival opened and ended with two of Iwerks’ documentaries. Five other documentaries were also to be shown during the festival.

“We’re actually thinking of renaming it the Leslie Iwerks festival,” Eidson joked. Iwerks, who is the granddaughter of Mickey Mouse designer Ub Iwerks, was also awarded the SLOIFF’s Spotlight Award for her documentary work. “Really, documentaries sort of found me,” Iwerks said. “There’s a great diversity of things I’ve been able to document, but there’s a lot more stories to be told.” Iwerks’ featured film, “Industrial Light and Magic: Creating the Impossible,” was narrated by actor Tom Cruise and depicted the history of visual effects and ILM — starting with George Lucas and his out-of-this-world vision of “Star Wars.” The documentary continued to follow the visual effects, stop motion, animation and computer graphics timeline of movies such as “Star Trek,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jurassic Park” and “Transformers,” and even shared how computer generation was used to “enhance” the “simple little things,” such as the feather in “Forrest Gump.” “Especially being someone in-

terested in the special effects side of films, I found the documentary to be fun, and really neat,” liberal arts and engineering studies senior Joshua Lee said. Lee said seeing how Lucas created ILM from a film idea “was very visionary.” After the documentary, Cal Poly liberal arts and engineering professor David Gillette joined a panel that included Iwerks onstage for a Q&A session. Lee, who participated in the Q&A, said the panelists were “very informative” and he felt “welcomed by them.” “I enjoyed it a lot,” Lee said. “We had a much larger turnout than I expected, and it wasn’t just a couple of students and the panelists standing around. I had a great time sampling the wine from around the area, and talking to people from the industry.” Lee said his favorite part, though, was the after-party hosted at the Luis Wine Bar. “I felt very adult going out for a few drinks and meeting everybody in that kind of setting,” he said. “But they were very welcoming.”

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SLO International Film Festival’s opening night featured a screening of a documentary about Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company that brought “Star Wars” to life.

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Feature Length Documentary at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards. It is also the first modern 3D film screened at the film festival. “The planning starts in the beginning of summer,” Eidson said. “I saw ‘Storm Surfers’ in the Toronto Film Festival in the very beginning of September and I just knew it was going to be our kind of surf film.” The documentary follows a trip to Turtle Dove Shoal, a surf break 75 kilometers off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean. ClarkeJones and Carroll were the first to surf the spot. Surfer and now-film star ClarkeJones traveled from New Zealand to San Luis Obispo for the screening and a Q&A segment that followed the two documentaries. Filming “Storm Surfers” involved many cameras. Some attached to surfboards, some at the end of extension arms held by surfers and some stable on the boat. Audiences view the waves from various angles. Eight GoPro cameras were lost during the filming. “There is lots of good footage on the bottom of the ocean somewhere,” Clarke-Jones said with a laugh. Although the GoPro cameras on the extension arms gathered a lot of close-up footage, Clarke-Jones had to adjust where and how he surfed when holding the camera. “(The cameraman) hands it to you and it’s the wave of the day. You are never satisfied, but at least I got to share it with you guys,” ClarkeJones said. Although Clarke-Jones did not get a chance to test the surf in San Luis Obispo, he did have time to meet some of the locals and sample some of the food and shopping downtown.

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Movie and surf enthusiasts alike gathered at the Fremont Theatre for San Luis Obispo International Film Festival’s eighth annual Surf Nite on Thursday. “This was one of the best ones. Sometimes you just hit on the right movie, the right special guest and the right crowd,” festival director Wendy Eidson said. “Even the rain didn’t keep people away, which is nice.” Director Leslie Iwerks’ “The Ride” started the evening off. The documentary follows a group of surfers at “Jaws” or Pe’ahi beach on Maui. While there were no shark encounters, the movie featured 20-foot waves, tow surfing and jet ski rescues. Released in 2004, “The Ride” won best film at X-Dance in 2005. The documentary focuses on surfing as a team sport rather than a competition to catch the biggest and best wave. While the sheer size of the waves and the ability of the surfers shown in the film impressed audiences, the way it was all captured for the screen was also a point of fascination among viewers. The surfers were given little direction by the director in order to catch realistic and raw footage. “The surfers do what they do,” Iwerks said. “You are just lucky if you get it on tape.” And it’s not only the surfers who get out on the water. “The cinematographers that are filming are amazing athletes in themselves,” Iwerks said. “They have to juggle surfing and filming.” Filmed in 2011, “Storm Surfers” singles out two surfers from “The Ride” — Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll. The film was directed by Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan. Only screened in North America twice before, the film won the Best

Audience Awards Best in Fest “G-Dog” Best Short Film “Born Yesterday” Best Documentary Feature “SOMM” Best Narrative Feature “The Story of Luke”

Juried Awards

Best Student Film — $500 prize “First in Flight”

Best Short Film — $500 prize “Behind the Mirrors” Best Documentary Feature — $1,000 prize “G-Dog” Best Narrative Feature — $1,000 prize “The Story of Luke”and “Missed Connections”

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National Rifle Association not for America’s typical gun owners

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Head Start program deserves full funding ALAN GUTTMAN

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Now that sequestration is upon us, our nation's leaders continue to debate which federal programs provide the best bang for the buck. When they ask how effective Head Start is, many legislators have cited the Head Start Impact Study. It concludes that although Head Start consistently closes the achievement gap and prepares many of America's poorest and neediest children for kindergarten, by third grade most children across the nation outperform and outscore children who attend Head Start. The main arguments regarding the study's conclusions have focused on where to affix responsibility for the "reopening" of the achievement gap: with Head Start or the elementary schools that Head Start children later attend. I suggest that to determine Head Start's true effectiveness, lawmakers take a closer look at the impacts that Head Start programs make on children and families that are not as easily quantified. Having served as a preschool and kindergarten teacher, education specialist and Head Start project director, I would like to share my life study of what I call "immeasurable impacts." I will never forget my first day of teaching at the 102nd Street School in the Watts section of Los Angeles. At circle time, when children sit on a rug and have an opportunity to talk about themselves and their lives, one 4-year-old boy shared that his dad kept a gun under his pillow. For a young child growing up in a community where daily acts of violence were a way of life and where he and his parents could not even feel secure in their own home, my classroom was his safe haven. Head Start programs continue to be located in some of the most violent communities and continue to provide this sustaining oasis where children can grow up worry-free for up to eight hours or more each day, Monday through Friday. Impact: immeasurable. During summers when I was not teaching preschoolers, I taught parenting classes

to mothers and fathers in East Los Angeles. These 10-session classes focused on teaching young parents about the stages of child development and appropriate practices for supporting their child's emotional, social, physical and academic development and growth. We also studied strategies for addressing difficult behaviors, with a focus on alternatives to corporal punishment. The curriculum was adapted from a child abuse prevention program. Parents shared their challenges and expressed their frustrations at not knowing how to respond when their children misbehaved. They were relieved to hear that other parents struggled with the same problems and were then grateful to learn effective and positive ways to respond to and support their children. Head Start programs consistently provide some of the best models for involving parents, valuing and strengthening their role as their child's first teacher. Impact: immeasurable. In the mid-'90s, I served with the Riverside County Office of Education in California as a Head Start education specialist, providing training, technical assistance and support to early childhood educators throughout the county. I remember visiting a Head Start classroom in the farming community of Coachella just east of Palm Springs. This program served a large number of migrant and seasonal farm worker families. During this visit, I observed a 4-year-old girl on an outdoor swing. When I walked closer I saw one of her arms was only partially formed, ending at the elbow. When I spoke with her teacher, I learned that this little girl was not classified as disabled since no adaptations were required for her to fully engage in preschool activities, including climbing and swinging. Head Start programs have provided high-quality, inclusive services for children with and without disabilities since its inception. Today it remains the only preschool program that mandates at least 10 percent of the children enrolled and served have disabilities, including severe cases. Impact: immeasurable.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Brian De Los Santos

As a farmer, I need and keep a gun. It is a tool, like a calf-puller, kept handy and brought out when needed. And never predictably. My wife groans to see it, for it is inevitably a sign that things have taken a bad turn and there is no other remedy. Sometimes the occasion is an act of mercy. Sometimes it is an act of protection. I have killed dogs and coyotes attacking livestock. I have killed possums in the henhouse and recidivist raccoons ravaging the garden. I have killed groundhogs undermining an outbuilding. Sometimes it is a painfully belabored judgment call, sometimes it is a harsh immediacy, as the sunny day when a fox was behaving erratically in the barn lot. Though unlikely, I must also consider the potential need for a gun for protection against human depredations. Meanness occurs in the countryside as well as the city, and our location is remote enough that whatever trouble finds its way to our doorstep will likely be resolved, one way or another, before official help has time to respond. On one occasion, in my absence, a rifle was a welcome companion for my wife in her 2 a.m. visit to the barn to see why all the lights were on. Perhaps the stranger she encountered there meant no harm, and was indeed “borrowing” some tools to get his truck started again. I do not, however, like to consider the possibilities of that confrontation where her safety is dependent on that intruder’s good intentions. I have also used guns for sport, though I confess hunting has lost all appeal to me in recent years. A good number of my friends

acterized as imaginary. It does not require much imagination, on the other hand, to foresee ourselves on the other end of that spectrum — innocent victims in our daily lives, in shopping malls, schools, offices and theaters. There is little debate that the prime use of these weapons and enhancements is killing humans. Recent experience demonstrates that aggression, not defense, is the main expression of that use. Who among us, not deranged, would claim that as a right? I remember, many years back, finishing a long day in the field with a crew that was housing a neighbor’s tobacco crop. As we loafed around the water cooler, telling tales of previous harvests, a vehicle found its way down the long farm lane to the empty wagons we sat upon. The driver got out and made friendly banter and then opened up his trunk to reveal quite an inventory of firearms, many of which were illegal at that time. The one, of course, that got the most attention was the assault rifle with an extra capacity magazine. We watched in amazement as he took casual aim and tore an old outhouse to shreds with a prolonged volley of the largecaliber explosions. Nobody that day bought a gun. For some, the attraction was high, but the price tag was higher. For others, the practical value of such a weapon was unapparent. But the lingering residue from that little event, unvoiced until this day, was my own assessment, admittedly colored over time, of the characters involved. Put most simply, as a question of local community, the men in whose hands I would most trust those extreme weapons were the same individuals who had no interest in them. And vice versa. NRA’s Wayne LaPierre seems to be speaking for the latter.

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and neighbors remain avid hunters, however, and are quite responsible with their firearms (though the newest crop of city-bred hunters worry me mightily with their complete lack of outdoors IQ). But the point I wish to make, in no uncertain terms, is that the National Rifle Association does not speak for me. For while I am one who believes strongly in the Second Amendment, I also believe gun control is an issue with a tolerable middle ground. As a farmer, I experience that middle ground of reasonable usage on a daily basis. Consider the example of ammonium nitrate, a bona fide agricultural ingredient with widespread and longstanding use as a fertilizer. Since its involvement in the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, its availability in bagged form has been severely curtailed, which is an inconvenience for many legitimate users, to be sure. But in the larger scheme of things, its restriction presents an acceptable compromise in a world where the illicit use of such substances presents a growing danger to all of us. And the fertilization of crops continues, in slight accommodation to this new reality, unabated. The same rule of reasonable restriction may be applied to firearms, with regard to assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines. The well-demonstrated danger of such extreme weapons in the wrong hands outweighs any real benefit you might imagine for a legal use. What, for instance, might be the number of legitimate instances that a home in this country comes under such heavy assault that an assault rifle is required for its defense? Or that a super-size capacity of rapid-fire ammunition is necessary to repel the invaders? The danger is best char-

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CAN THEY DANCE? Men finish 13-1 at Mott

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After suffering several injuries throughout his career and coping with a redshirt season following his freshman season because of NCAA transfer rules, senior guard Chris O’Brien has waited a long time to deliver a signature performance like the one he did Saturday night against Cal State Fullerton.

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And after posting a career game against the Titans, there should be no doubt the Irvine, Calif. native can lead his team to victory on any given night — especially if it’s senior night. Along with junior forward Chris Eversley, O’Brien erupted for a team-leading 14 points, 12 of which came in the second half, to lead the Mustangs past the Titans 6260 in the regular season finale just hours after he and fellow seniors Drake U’u and Dylan Royer were honored for playing in their final game inside the Mott Athletics Center. “When you’re out there and you’re competing at such a high level, you forget that (it’s your last game),” O’Brien said. “You want to run the play, get to your defensive assignments and do what it takes to win. Once that final horn goes off

then, that little guy in the back of your head says, ‘All right, it’s senior night too, don’t forget that.’ Then you start getting the emotions flowing.” With the win, the Mustangs (17-12, 12-6 Big West) finished undefeated at home in conference play this season and extended their Big West winning streak to 14 straight games inside Mott, dating back to last year. They also set school records for single-season Big West wins and conference winning percentage. That outcome was less than probable near the end of the game Saturday, though, as Cal Poly was deadlocked in a back-and-forth affair with the Titans. With his team up by two, Eversley took a designed oneon-one drive to the left side of the hoop and converted a lefthanded layup with 14 seconds

remaining in the game to ice the victory and secure the Mustangs’ fifth-straight win. “It’s not something we go over a lot in practice, so for us to execute it like that was pretty good,” Eversley said. “It was a matter of making a play when my team needed me to and I was able to make the play, thankfully.” Headed into Saturday’s matchup with Cal State Fullerton (14-17, 6-12), Cal Poly had already clinched the No. 3 seed in next week’s Big West Conference Tournament after Pacific defeated regular-season champion Long Beach State earlier in the day. The Mustangs will face No. 6 UC Davis in the opening round of the tournament starting at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday inside the Honda Center in Anaheim. The winner of the Big West tournament will advance to the NCAA tournament in two weeks. “It’s good for us to use this as a springboard game going into Anaheim next weekend. Hopefully we’ll put forth an effort that will have us happy (next) Sunday,” Eversley said. Down 35-33 at halftime, O’Brien helped ignite the Mustangs out of the locker room as he hit a 3-pointer with 18:30 to go in the game, which broke open a 35-35 tie. The Titans managed to knot the score on two more occasions after that, but O’Brien hit a layup with 2:04 remaining and drew a charge a minute later to give the Mustangs the lead for good. “I thought his scoring was a great boost for us, but his defense was amazing,” head coach Joe Callero said. “He took a big charge down the stretch.” The Mustangs spread the wealth on offense as they saw eight different players score on the night. Freshman forward Brian Bennett and junior guard Jamal Johnson finished with eight points apiece. Royer added six on 2-of-5 shooting from downtown and U’u had five. Cal State Fullerton’s Kwame Vaughn, the conference’s third-leading scorer entering the game, finished with 22 total points on the night, 17 of which came in the first half alone. Guard Alex Harris also added 22. With their five straight wins, the Mustangs are now arguably the hottest team in the conference headed into the most important part of the schedule — the postseason. “Guys have confidence,” Callero said. “They see themselves winning, they believe they can beat anybody and we didn’t want to come in here and drop the last game of the year on senior night.”

Women advance to Big West semis JEFFERSON P. NOLAN

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The Mustangs will have to settle for the No. 2 seed in the Big West Conference Tournament after Long Beach State brought down the Cal Poly women’s basketball team 7158 in the last regular season matchup of the season. Despite falling short of its third consecutive Big West regular season title, the team will advance to the tournament semifinals on Friday, as the top two seeds receive two consecutive byes to begin the week. Just before tip-off, the Mustangs (19-10, 13-5 Big West Conference) paid tribute to the five graduating seniors on the team as they hoped to extend their six-game winning streak. Cal Poly president Jeffrey Armstrong, a regular attendee at the women’s basketball games, spoke with a few of the seniors before their last game in the Mott Athletics Center. “I caught a couple of seniors as they were about to be introduced, and it was great to see the pride and the emotion,” Armstrong said. “They love Cal Poly. They left it all out on the court.” The game began physically as both teams clawed at each other for possession. Sophomore Ariana Elegado knocked down two 3-pointers to start the offensive effort for the Mustangs. Defensive hustle then resulted in six turnovers for both the Mustangs and the 49ers (16-14, 9-9 Big West) with 6:23 left to play until halftime. But with every score made by Cal Poly, Long Beach State continued to chip away at the lead. The game became increasingly physical — fouls distributed left and right — as both teams fought for the ball to secure possession. “The way that the game was being called, it was going to be very physical, and you could see that the whole way through,” head coach Faith Mimnaugh said. “(Long

Beach State) played a brilliant game, kept us out of the paint and had very physical play. I’m disappointed about the result, but not about the effort we put into it.” But by halftime, senior Caroline Reeves led the Mustangs with 10 points to give her team a 32-27 lead. “(Reeves) was the best she could be today,” Mimnaugh said. “She was outstanding. We just needed to be able to make some free throws, and we made some critical errors. Defensively, we were very average from what I’ve seen in the past.” The second half began as Long Beach State’s Ella Clark hit a jump shot to limit Cal Poly’s lead to three points, and 49ers center Devin Hudson tied the game at 33 with another field goal. Hudson dominated the court in the second half with 14 points, and she finished the game as the leading scorer with 22 points and 20 total rebounds. Molly Schlemer battled Hudson in the paint, but the 6-foot3 center pressured the Cal Poly junior center and kept her from tallying any points in the first half. Along with Hudson, the 49ers’ Alex Sanchez finished the game with 16 points. Nikol Allison and Elegado led the Mustangs with 13 points each. “Hudson was just amazing,” Mimnaugh said. “She proved she was one of the best players in the league. She was just outstanding. It didn’t matter what we threw at her; she just answered every single time.” And as the clock ticked down, all senior Brittany Woodard could do was cheer her team from the bench as she saw her fellow seniors (Ashley Cascio, and Kayla Griffin, Allison and Reeves) finish their last game of the regular season. “Obviously there are so many emotions, but we’ve been in this position before and we haven’t had a close game in a while,” Woodard said. “I think we played a little timid, but it doesn’t mean anything at this point. We have the tournament coming up and we will learn from our mistakes.”

I think we played a little timid, but it doesn’t mean anything at this point. We have the tournament coming up and we’ll learn from our mistakes. BRITTANY WOODARD SENIOR FORWARD