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Adderall:
The demands and dangers on campus Jonathan Chodzko Special to Mustang News
Adderall is in higher demand than cocaine today, according to Arroyo Grande Community Hospital nurse Kevin Coyle. One reason for this, Coyle said, is because of abuse on college campuses. Prescription stimulants such as Adderall have a “calming and focusing effect on individuals with ADHD” and are prescribed to patients for daily use, according to drugabuse.gov. But the drug was not intended for the average student. Wine and viticulture freshman Matt Culhane said many
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students use the drug in the residence halls, especially when exams come around. “I know there is definitely a lot of kids who use it, but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal if someone is just using it for a week or two to study,” said Culhane. College Statistics According to AddictionCenter.com: • 30 percent of students abuse Adderall at some point in their college career. • Nearly 90 percent of college students who abuse Adderall also report binge drinking, and more than 50 percent were regular heavy
alcohol users. • Full-time college students are twice as likely to abuse Adderall as their peers who aren’t in college. Students use Adderall because of their high workloads and stress, industrial engineering senior Jacob Reeves said. Though Cal Poly is competitive, he doesn’t think that’s the main reason students take the drug — they’d rather get their work done quicker so they have time to socialize.
see ADDERALL, pg 4.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NE WS FOCUS | Prescription stimulants are intended to help individuals with ADHD focus, but it is commonly abused on college campuses. 30 percent of students abuse Adderall at some point, according to AddictionCenter.com
Kid President makes his first stop at Cal Poly
IAN BILLINGS | MUSTANG NE WS DUSTED | Senior third baseman Tommy Pluschkell was held hitless in the Cal Poly baseball team’s loss against Grand Canyon on Saturday. ARIN E. MILLER | COURTESY PHOTO
MR. PREZ | Novak found fame through his YouTube videos. Jessica Nguyen @xjessnguyen
Robby Novak, also known as Kid President, will deliver a motivational speech at Cal Poly’s campus Wednesday, Feb. 25. The event is sponsored by Associated Students, Inc. (ASI). ASI Event Student Manager Arin Miller says Kid President has been on her list since fall quarter of 2013. “I just thought it would be a
really cool engagement given his inspirational videos,” Miller said. “Finally, it was during Fall (2014) that we realized he was starting his campus tours, and so we’re one of the first stops on his campus tour.” The event will take place at Chumash Auditorium from 9-10 p.m. and is free for students with a Cal Poly ID card.
see KID PREZ, pg 6.
Baseball swept in home-opening series Harry Chang @harrychangmn
An approaching storm moved up Sunday’s scheduled 1 p.m. start time by one hour, but the early start wasn’t enough to jump start the skidding Cal Poly baseball team (1-6), which dropped its third straight game against Grand Canyon (7-0), this time losing 9-3 in Baggett Stadium. The Mustangs have now been swept twice in two series this season and are still searching for their
first home win. “They’re a good team,” junior shortstop Peter Van Gansen said of Grand Canyon. “They came out and did everything right, and we should have been doing that. They came out on top.” After Cal Poly sophomore starting pitcher Justin Calomeni got the Mustangs out to a fast start by setting down the side in the first inning, Cal Poly got its first scoring opportunity of the game after Van Gansen led off the bottom of the inning with a single. He
then reached second after a balk by Grand Canyon junior starter Cameron Brendel. However, after Van Gansen advanced to third, he was thrown out at home on the Mustangs’ second squeeze attempt in as many games — their first was a success in Saturday night’s 4-2 loss. The Mustangs would leave two on base in the inning after junior first baseman John Schuknecht flew out to leave the score 0-0. Following one-two-three innings by both the Antelopes and
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the Mustangs, Calomeni gave up a walk to start the third. He looked like he’d get out of the inning unscathed when Van Gansen threw out senior first baseman Humberto Aranda on a fielder’s choice. However, Grand Canyon opened the scoring later in the top of the third inning when the Mustangs’ 16th and 17th errors on the season led to unearned Grand Canyon runs.
see SWEPT, pg 12.
Monday, February 23, 2015
NEWS | 2
Eating locally: Just a trend? Kelly Trom @kttrom
What’s the difference between an apple grown in San Luis Obispo County and an orange grown in Florida? Those involved in the local food movement might completely disregard the old adage of never comparing apples and oranges. The orange, they might point out, had to travel more than 2,000 miles to get on your plate and in the process lost some taste and nutrients. The local food movement has become more than just a trendy topic of discussion — it has become a way of life for those in communities that can support the need and want for locally grown produce, meat and dairy products. While the definition of what makes up “local food” for each region varies because of climate, it focuses on minimizing the distance between production of the food and consumption. The New Oxford American dictionary even added “locavore” as the word of the year in 2007, meaning a person who attempts to eat food produced within a 100-mile radius. But political science professor Shelley Hurt would argue that the local food movement is about more than just the production of food. “The ethos of a local food movement is how to utilize the resources, the ingredients and the skills within the community,” Hurt said. “It is a community type of movement. The solution is to utilize what we have to create a different ethos around food and farming to be healthier, be
more economical and have our food systems be more socialjustice based.” According to “The New American Food Economy” by John Ikerd, the modern local food movement began in the 1960s as a rejection of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and the industrialization of agriculture. Today, many people choose to eat locally simply for the health benefits. Cal Poly’s registered dietitian, Megan Coats, is one of those people. She chooses to shop at farmers markets to get most of her produce, and shops at other stores such as Whole Foods that make an effort to obtain much of their produce from local farmers. Not only does it taste better, it is actually better for you, she says. “Research has shown that the travel time does decrease the nutritional value in fresh produce,” Coats said. “The less travel time between picking in the farm to your fork, the more nutrientdense the food is going to be.” She is quick to point out that produce imported from other countries, or even across the country, is not bad for your health, but it doesn’t have as many nutrients as those that shoppers can buy at farmers markets that morning. Not only are more nutrients beneficial, but being more knowledgeable about the food production process makes for more educated consumers making healthier decisions. “Farmers markets have the farmers and pickers of the produce standing right there, so you can ask them if they use pesticides, if they are organic if that’s important to you, when the pro-
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| Cal Poly dietician Megan Coats said locally grown produce is ideal because travel time decreases nutritional value.
duce was picked, etc.,” Coats said. Many times, grocery stores sell food packaged by facilities that get their food from several different farms, Coats said. A lot of the time, consumers can’t trace which farm their food comes from, much less the processes that were used to grow it. This is where places such as farmers markets come into play. Biological sciences senior Jessica Stieff likes to ask the farmers if they use antibiotics or where the produce was grown — habits she picked up from her family. She learned to eat locally and organically from the way her mother cooked: with seasonal and locally grown food from the Santa Cruz area. It became a Saturday ritual for her family to go to the farmers market early in the morning to buy fruits and vegetables for the week and make a menu. Coming to college, it was something she knew she wanted to integrate into
her own life as a student. Stieff chooses the food she buys with her underlying knowledge of what should be growing in the current season. In the winter, for instance, she tries to buy fewer strawberries and tomatoes because they would not grow in San Luis Obispo. Instead, she tries to eat more squash and winter produce. “It is really hard to do that with American supermarkets because there are an insane amount of choices there all year round; you don’t see the seasons,” Stieff said. Knowing what is in season and how to cook seasonally with all kinds of produce is a necessary skill for those who are serious about eating locally. However, Stieff doesn’t just choose to eat locally because of her health, because fresh produce tastes better or because her family grew up like that. “I choose to eat local and organic foods mostly for environ-
mental reasons,” she said. “I am aware of the fact that the further we transport our food, the more carbon dioxide is produced to get it there and I just want to limit my ecological footprint.” Even though Stieff is aware that just her habits alone will not change the overall pattern of exporting food long distances, she is still committed to the cause. “Your choice to buy or not to buy is your biggest power as a consumer,” Stieff said. “You have the power to support local farmers and support a community rather than big corporations that are trucking your food to you.” Eating imported foods certainly does add to the global climate change, air pollution and fossil fuel consumption, Hurt said. However, Hurt emphasizes that some people don’t have the choices San Luis Obispo residents have to eat locally. One in six Americans is food insecure and may even live in a food desert,
she said. Food deserts are defined as places in both rural and urban settings where people live a mile or more from any store that contains fresh fruit and vegetables, with many people not having access to an automobile. “They don’t have a farmers market, they don’t have a grocery store,” Hurt said. “For Californians, and especially those living in San Luis Obispo, we are so privileged it is hard for us to wrap our heads around.” Eating locally is not a solution for people who live in those types of areas. However, knowing how food is produced, how it is distributed and how to cook dishes that are inexpensive and fresh are all steps in the right direction to solve some of these larger problems. “The local food movement is more than just the production of food, but how it is used, how it is shared, how it is utilized,” Hurt said.
Monday, February 23, 2015
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Rev. Caro Hall presents ‘Gay, With Jesus: Toward a Homosexual Christianity’
SAM PRYOR | MUSTANG NE WS GAY AND CHRISTIAN
| Rev. Caro Hall, who identifies as a lesbian, said morals surrounding homosexuality in the Bible are a grey area because scripture cannot explicitly address gay life in the present day.
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Reverend Caro Hall, an Episcopalian priest and board member of the national organization for LGBT ministers, Integrity USA, spoke to a large audience in the Business Silo to discuss the topic of gay acceptance in the Christian community this past Tuesday. Hall shared important ideas about human and Christian identities, one of the more notable being God’s unconditional love for all people with no exceptions. “God loves me exactly the way I am,” she said. “God loves every one of us just the way we are.” Hall eased into her talk by ex-
plaining the difficulty she faces identifying as a lesbian. “Being gay is more than something I do; it’s not like a habit I can change or an addiction that with prayer I can overcome,” she said. “It is a core sense of myself.” The effects of being homosexual are culturally conditioned, according to Hall. Her own personal and Christian identity has been “fogged” through her relationships, which has altered her sense of self over time. “It’s always a mistake to make generalizations about a person’s sexual identity,” she said. “Sexual identity changes over time and is very individual.” Through several years of researching the question of why
homosexuality has been such a dividing line in the Christian church, Hall has come to a conclusion. Certain people are the problem, not the religion as a whole. “This debate is human construct and has nothing to do with God’s purposes or intentions,” she said. Hall went on to explain that while people tend to relate certain Biblical passages to homosexuality, they only apply to the modern gay community if one believes each word of each passage is authoritative. “This controversy about whether you can be gay and Christian can’t easily be answered by saying, ‘What does the Bible say about homosexuality?’” she said. “The
Bible itself doesn’t say anything directly about gay relationships in the 21st century just as it says nothing directly about cyber bullying or stem cell research.” There is no true Christian religion that has been passed on from the Apostles over the course of history, Hall said. Deciding which Christian teaching was correct has been a process of debate, one which generated a great deal of strife, unrest and political power battles. Although there are many books on the subject, Hall believes the Bible says very little. To pull out a few verses in order to create an argument regarding homosexuality is not sound; even Luther,
“champion of the Bible,” did not do that. Over the past 30 years, gay, lesbian and transgender people have become the scapegoats of religious rights, Hall said. “It’s normal behavior to cement our relationships by excluding someone else,” she said. “If you’re the scapegoat person, it can be very painful and damaging.” She believes the root of the religious unrest lies in actuality, a political position that is intended to support the status quo and empower white men. Empowering women and people of color as well as lesbians, gays and transgenders to come out of the closet threatens the
current patriarchal system, which has been supported by structures and teachings of the Christian church, Hall said. “But that isn’t what Christianity is about,” she said. “The gospel is about creating a just society where we can all live together in harmony.” Communication studies freshman Hannah Berookhim agreed with Hall’s opinions and hopes these feelings are present in other people. “We are kind of on a tipping point in history where everyone is getting more comfortable with idea of people being who they are and not hiding it,” Berookhim said. “Hopefully at some point it won’t be an issue anymore.”
Monday, February 23, 2015
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Night Riots underwhelms SLO Brew
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| Night Riots’ musicianship and performance were on point, but they drew too much from worn-out sounds. The verdict: Their set showed promise but lacked innovation.
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There are good musicians, and then there are good live musicians. On Friday night, SLO Brewing Co.’s stage saw plenty of good musicians — the “live” part, however, was questionable. If you want your musical career to grow into anything beyond a bit of lionized nostalgia buried in your early 20s, being skilled in your respective instrument is only a small part of the process. Originality is usually step two, but I’ll come back
to that in a second. Night Riots — which headlined at SLO Brewing Co. as part of their tour to promote its new EP, Howl — and openers Armors and Dear Boy all sit on different points of the musical journey. My optimism for each of them ranges from hopeful to pessimistic. Maybe my too-skinny jeans are cutting off blood to my pretentious head, but I think I’m onto something here. Orange County-based Armors bounded out from the red curtain lining the SLO Brewing Co. stage first. They included
four preppy boys with sparkling teeth and a guy who looked like a Clerks character. After the obligatory “What’s up, San Luis Obispo?” they leaped into their first song. The Alt-J-inspired pop did more good than harm. Maybe it didn’t break any ground, but at least it didn’t start any riots or put a bad taste in my mouth. Next, Armors turned to their bread and butter (which is really just bread). Maybe they’ve just listened to too much Fall
Out Boy, but the lukewarm pop felt about as safe as your preteen cousin who isn’t allowed to watch PG-13 films. The doo-doo-doo-dees and doo-doo-dee-duhs felt like sounds someone would turn to in a desperate effort to fill the niche once they’ve accidentally listened to all of their favorite early 2000s pop band’s albums down to a dull nub. Also, there was a ukulele for a second, but I digress. Armors can play their instru-
ments, but if their style has a total influence of, like, two bands, who cares? Dear Boy was a slightly different story. They released a dissonant guitar coupled with something that sounded like a didgeridoo. The unique sound felt distinctly post-punk. At moments, Dear Boy had a hard time escaping the gravitational pull of Two Door Cinema Club. That said, some moments that were certainly TDC-influ-
enced worked to their benefit. Dear Boy has largely mastered the sound that accompanies an indie rocker swiftly twisting his head left and right in paranoia. Dancy pop was supported by a full sound that was too quick to be shoegaze, but certainly brought a dense haze into the air. Then came the band all the SLOcals were waiting for: Night Riots.
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Poly students talking about it during midterms and finals week. “People with ADHD’s brain works differently, and this drug is designed to help treat that,” Reynolds said. “However, when people who don’t have ADHD take it, it will affect their brain differently, which would be my biggest concern.”
and you realize you need that extra boost in order to be successful, so you rely on the drug,” Reeves said. Adderall has many potential side effects, including the development or worsening of mental disorders. Coyle said many of his patients who have abused the drug have developed mental health issues, but that he isn’t surprised by the number of kids in college who take Adderall on a regular basis. “I actually had a patient come in who had no history of mental disorders or addictions, but started using Adderall once she got into law school,” Coyle said. “She was 30 years old, took one too many pills and just snapped. She developed paranoid schizophrenia and was put in a psych ward.”
Though taking Adderall isn’t new to the college scene, Coyle says the use has gone up over the last five to 10 years, and it has become more of a concern in the medical world. According to drugabuse.gov, the students who do abuse Adderall are more prone to have high blood pressure, causing risk for heart attack. It can also cause hair and weight loss, anxiety and paranoia. Adderall has helped millions with mental disorders since it was first created in 1996, but is something that should only be used by those who have been diagnosed with ADHD. If you or anyone you know has an addiction to Adderall or any other drug, please contact Cal Poly Health and Counseling services at (805) 781-4275.
Peace of mind Psychology senior Erin Reynolds has a prescription for Adderall and says students should think twice before taking it. “I was prescribed Adderall when I was in fifth grade because of my ADHD,” Reynolds said. “It’s not something that I disclose, but I’ve been approached by some friends who come up and ask me if they can have some Adderall.” Reynolds was a community college student prior to enrolling at Cal Poly, and said that she didn’t think most students were taking the drug recreationally until she got here and noticed more Cal
Too much of a good thing According to Coyle, all it takes is one or two experiences for someone to become reliant on the drug, and most students aren’t aware of the side effects that come with it. “Most kids in college don’t think about taking drugs like this when you’re younger, but all the sudden you graduate, the real world starts,
see RIOTS, pg 5.
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JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NE WS
RIOTS continued from pg 4. Under the fog and two spacey light towers, the bandmates took their spots on stage. Their faces, illuminated with light teal lights, resembled masks above their black clothes. For some songs, the aesthetic and sound felt original and complementary. Their single “Contagious,” for example, successfully pulled the electricity of M83, toying with the darkness of witch house music while remaining
delightfully accessible. Other songs on the EP carried that torch as well. “Oh My Heart” built itself on a sound sample that felt like a dark, united soccer stadium crowd while vocalist Travis Hawley brought us intimately close, “So close I feel you breathe in, ‘My kingdom come I am undone.’ Your eyes speak candid passions, ‘My kingdom come I am undone.’” Other moments weren’t so bright for the Templeton outfit. For every moment they marched through the snow to
create a new path, there was another of lazily stepping through the prints of someone else — namely The Killers. Meanwhile, Hawley may or may not be developing a sort of Jared Leto complex. He wants you to know he thinks a ton about everything while maintaining a permanently cold, blank face. The worst of it came out in “Holster,” a medium-paced ballet that feels like a ripped B-side from The Killers’ Day and Age, which came out a whopping
seven years ago. Talk about a missed train. Maybe I’m just jaded. If there is something Night Riots gets right, it’s enthralling their audience. Following the show, Garden Street was buzzing with locals, nearly hipsters, drunk adults and a guy who wouldn’t let me borrow his phone. Adrian Alvarez admired the band’s ability to swoon the audience. “It was definitely the atmosphere,” Adrian said. “People were actually there for the
band and stoked. It wasn’t just some group of people who showed up.” Audience member Katy Johnson just wanted to see more skin. “I was waiting for a shirt to come off,” she said. In the end, the members of Night Riots have great prowess as performers. There’s even some creative talent in there, too. Their problem is that a huge segment of their music is the sound of throwing black paint buckets at an image The Killers might as well have trademarked.
When they can escape the selfadministered strait jacket, they could achieve greatness — or very-goodness, at least.
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ARTS | 6 KID PREZ continued from pg 1. “It’s a really exciting way for students to see such a well-known YouTube star,” Miller said. “His brother Brad is also coming to talk, and he’s going to do most of the speaking that night talking about the behind the scenes of how Kid President came to be (and) how his inspiration reached YouTube.” Novak started making videos with his brother-in-law Brad Montague on YouTube and was later discovered by SoulPancake, a multiplatform media company founded by Rainn Wilson, better known as Dwight from “The Office.” The company sponsors popular media stars and launched
a YouTube channel that hosts different shows. The Kid President series currently has more than 2.5 million views with 80 released online videos. “A Pep Talk from Kid President to You” went viral with nearly 35 million views. “It’s a motivational pep talk from Kid President encouraging us to dream big, do good and help one another,” architecture junior Sophia Liu said. “Kid President sees the beauty and the good in life and wants us to do the same.” On Feb. 3, Novak published a book titled “Kid President’s Guide to Being Awesome,” co-written with Montague. Through ASI’s contract with Novak, hundreds of books were purchased and will be distributed to the first 385 people at the event, ASI
Program Coordinator Missi Bullock said. “He’s 11 years old, which is really cool,” Bullock said. “His message is about spreading joy and being awesome. The message aligns with the Mustang Way, which ASI Events supports and promotes among students.” Despite his positive demeanor, Novak suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare brittle bone disease. He has fractured more than 70 bones. “It’s so refreshing seeing life from the perspective of a kid, who may be suffering a physical disease but doesn’t let that destroy his spirit one bit,” Liu said. “Despite the hardships, he keeps going at life, dancing, playing and doing what makes him happy.”
ARIN E. MILLER | COURTESY PHOTO BOOSTING SPIRITS | Kid President, known for his motivational speeches, will come to Cal Poly on Feb. 25.
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Streamus fights Spotify for music-streaming spotlight ADIT YA DEV | COURTESY PHOTO EASY LISTENING | Developer Sean Anderson and business administration seniors Chris Oberheide and Aditya Dev are the creative minds behind Streamus, a Google Chrome extension that streams music straight from YouTube.
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You’re throwing a party and have the perfect Spotify playlist ready to go, but then someone makes a request and you can’t find the song. Naturally, you turn to YouTube. You wait for an advertisement to play. You wait for the song to load. And once it’s over, there’s an awkward lull while you set the Spotify mix back up. This is exactly the scenario San Luis Obispo resident Sean Anderson had in mind when he created Streamus, a free Google Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a music player. With more than 280,000 users and a five-star review, Streamus has turned from a pipe dream to a real-life product, and it’s even gaining the interest of YouTube itself. “Throughout this whole thing I have had to push the envelope in certain regards, breaking the rules in some ways,” Anderson said. “Because YouTube is this black box where you can’t really talk to anyone in there, I figured I would have a better chance at getting what I wanted to have happen once people started to take notice. We are at that point now where they took notice of me.” Once installed, a user can access Streamus at the top right corner of their Google Chrome brows-
er, making it easy to play music and browse the Internet uninterrupted. Users can search for songs directly, add them to playlists, discover new music based on YouTube’s suggested videos and share playlists with friends. Earlier this week, Anderson got the chance to meet with YouTube employees from different departments. Anderson got in touch with YouTube mostly based on a Reddit post, where he met a Reddit user with connections to an employee at YouTube. “There was a lot of ‘What do we do with this guy? Do we try and hire him? Do we use him?’ It was a completely different conversation with each person I talked to,” Anderson said. Most of the conversations revolved around the ways both parties could be satisfied since Streamus is currently breaking one of YouTube’s rules, which states there needs to be at least a 200-pixel video playing with the audio. Anderson began developing Streamus in 2012 in part to learn new things for his job as a software engineer at Cormat, Inc. Once the extension gained more attention, Anderson needed help to become incorporated and market Streamus. “A lot of it has been a learning experience for me,” Anderson said. “I didn’t go into it with goals of making a company or anything like that, I was just having fun
with it. I have torn it all down and rebuilt it from scratch a couple of times.” That’s where business administration seniors Aditya Dev and Chris Oberheide come into the picture. Dev contacted Anderson with the offer to help him with the business side of Streamus for his senior project before even realizing Anderson lived in San Luis Obispo. The two met up and added Oberheide to their team. Dev and Oberheide initially helped just by spreading the word to their classmates. “People don’t know Chrome extensions exist,” Anderson said. “If I say the word ‘app,’ you think mobile phone app.” Dev and Oberheide are currently working on several marketing items for Streamus, but their biggest goal is to make people understand what it is and how it can enhance their music listening experience. Cal Poly is the top university using Spotify, meaning its students play more songs with Spotify than any other college in the country. This means competition for Streamus, but more importantly to Anderson, Dev and Oberheide, it means their target audience loves music. “Our biggest thing with Streamus is that we just want to get the word out because we think that once people start using Streamus, they will realize how
convenient it is,” Dev said. “Coolest thing about Streamus is that there is a lot of music that is not on Spotify.” Dev and Oberheide also work to clear up misconceptions about the app. “Oftentimes, people associate music on YouTube with bad quality,” Oberheide said. “However, Streamus takes the top-viewed video, which is always the best quality, so the music generally sounds almost just like Spotify.” Their senior project incorpo-
rates four main objectives: 1. Researching on incorporations 2. A marketing push 3. Using Google Analytics to track Streamus’ users and gauge marketing effectiveness 4. Creating a mobile app mock-up for Streamus “We aren’t just writing a paper,” Oberheide said. “We aren’t just getting certified in some sort of tech thing. We are trying to incorporate a business. It is cool to see this process in the real world. That’s the biggest thing we are
getting out of it.” Dev and Oberheide plan on making “party cards,” a spin on business cards, to introduce Cal Poly students to Streamus. They also plan to create a study playlist on Streamus and advertise it at the Robert E. Kennedy Library during finals week. Looking toward the future, Anderson plans to add more developers to the Streamus team to develop a mobile application, which seems to be what the users want based on reviews.
Monday, February 23, 2015
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Elegado’s 22 points lead women’s basketball past UC Riverside
Jesse Summers @CPMustangSports
In a 70-68 win over UC Riverside (16-11, 7-6 Big West Conference), Cal Poly senior guard Ariana Elegado returned to form, recording 22 points, five assists and eight rebounds in a close game. After struggling offensively over the previous few games, Elegado just needed a reminder from her team of who she is as a player. “I had a couple meetings with coaches this week, and it definitely helped me start believing in myself again,” Elegado
said. “After I stopped having confidence in myself, they just helped remind me of how great I can play.” After falling by four points to the Highlanders last time they met, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team (13-12, 8-5) looked to attack and get ahead early. Elegado took charge, hitting a couple jump shots followed by two 3-pointers, giving her team a 22-7 lead and forcing UC Riverside to take a timeout to stop the momentum. The Mustangs would not let up, thanks in part to their 50 percent shooting from 3-point
range. Junior guard Lisa Marie Sanchez would come up big off the bench in Saturday’s matchup, knocking down all three of her 3-point attempts. “My confidence has grown a lot over these past couple games,” Sanchez said. “With my teammates helping me, I was able to knock down a few timely shots.” “She definitely stepped up,” Elegado added. “I always tell her to shoot because she has such a great shot. But she is a really patient person, and on offense she knows her role so when the ball gets in her hands she is ready to shoot it.”
Also stepping up and bringing some much-needed energy for the Mustangs was sophomore guard Rachel Koehler, who grabbed seven rebounds and nine points, with a couple of timely free throws in the last 20 seconds to bring her team’s lead to five. “Defensively, she is one of the best that has come through this program,” head coach Faith Minmaugh said. “She brings a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm — and offensively, tonight, was a bonus, too.” Part of Koehler’s defensive responsibility was to try to contain the fourth-best scorer
in the nation, UC Riverside’s Brittany Crain, who averages 23.5 points per game. Despite finishing with 16 points, Crain was held to 25 percent shooting and was forced into difficult shots. The Highlanders’ sophomore guard, Simone DeCoud, picked up some of the scoring slack with a 23-point performance of her own, but it was still not enough to take her team over the hump. In the final few minutes of the game, UC Riverside upped the defensive intensity and began picking up matchups at half court. While some turnovers were created, their
excessive energy led to several fouls at the end of regulation, allowing the Mustangs to boost their lead from behind the free throw line. “It was definitely an ugly game, but that’s why our hot start in the beginning definitely helped,” Elegado said. “We just wanted to play great defense and focus on stopping their 3-point shooting.” Cal Poly will now hit the road for two away games against UC Davis and UC Irvine before heading back to Mott Athletics Center for its final home game of the regular season against UC Santa Barbara.
DAVID E. HOLMES | COURTESY PHOTO FINDING HER FORM | Senior guard Ariana Elegado ended her recent cold streak on Saturday night against UC Riverside, scoring a team-high 22 points in the Mustangs’ victory. Elegado is Cal Poly’s leading scorer this season.
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IAN BILLINGS | MUSTANG NE WS BOGGED | The Cal Poly men’s basketball team was held to just 44 points against UC Riverside on Saturday night. The Mustangs did not convert a single field goal in the final 11 minutes.
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Failing to convert a single field goal in the final 11 minutes of the game, the Cal Poly men’s basketball team (1312, 6-7 Big West Conference) had its three-game winning streak snapped with a 48-44 defeat on the road at UC Riverside (14-13, 7-6). Entering Saturday night’s game with three straight wins, the Mustangs had a golden opportunity to continue the momentum and move up in the Big West standings with a victory. A lackluster start to the game caused the Mustangs to trail the majority of the first half. Junior guard Jaylen Bland led the Highlanders to a 13-9 advantage with three early 3-pointers. The Mustangs failed to respond, and the Highlanders’ lead grew to eight, 23-15, at the six-minute mark of the first half. “We went into the game without the energy we needed to be successful,” sophomore guard Ridge Shipley said. “It wasn’t really a lack of focus on our part. UC Riverside came out really aggressive, and we were taken back about it.” Bland would hit his fourth 3-pointer in
the final moments of the first half, giving the Highlanders a comfortable 30-22 lead at halftime. “That was the worst half of basketball we have played during our winning streak in the month of February,” head coach Joe Callero said. “We started the game out slow, lethargic, timid, and the score showed it.” Junior forward Brian Bennett was the lone bright spot in the first half for the Mustangs, providing a much-needed post presence with eight points. In the second half, the Mustangs played with an improved focus and intensity. Led by Shipley and Bennett, the Mustangs dominated the first five minutes, going on a 12-0 run. Shipley’s two 3-pointers and Bennett’s three jumpers gave the Mustangs a 34-30 lead with 15:29 remaining. “We just played with an intensity and aggressiveness to start the second half,” Callero said. “We had a really good talk at halftime about coming out with more aggression attacking the hoop, and our team responded.” UC Riverside would eventually tie the game at 34 with consecutive layups, but the Mustangs would respond with a 7-0 run of their own.
Junior guard Reese Morgan’s 3-pointer off an assist by senior guard Michael Bolden would give the Mustangs a 4134 advantage with 11:04 remaining. However, the basket by Morgan turned out to be the Mustangs’ last made shot from the floor. After a scorching start to the second half, Cal Poly suffered a scoring drought that would last 10 and a half minutes. Junior forward Joel Awich would finally end the bleeding with a free throw with 26 seconds remaining, but by then it was too late. UC Riverside junior forward Taylor Johns’ three baskets would highlight a 10-0 run that gave the Highlanders a 44-41 lead with 49 seconds remaining. The Highlanders would hit their free throws to seal a 48-44 victory. “Give UC Riverside credit for their defense,” Callero said. “They did a great job of taking away the things we like to do on offense, but a thing we need to work on is mental conditioning. Basketball is a game of spurts — we went on our run, and when UC Riverside went on theirs, we didn’t do a good job of responding to it.” The stalwart Highlanders’ defense held the Mustangs to only 33 percent from the
field on 15-for-45 shooting. Saturday night’s game also marks the fourth straight game junior forward David Nwaba has missed due to mononucleosis. Nwaba is the Mustangs’ leading scorer with 12.5 points per game. “We definitely missed David tonight,” Callero said. “UC Riverside really pressured us defensively, and we could have used David’s athleticism and aggressiveness to break that pressure.” Though doctors cleared Nwaba to play, Callero still does not think Nwaba will play in the upcoming week. “Next man up,” Callero explained. “We’ve won three in a row without David, and we can definitely do it again.” The upcoming week is crucial for the Mustangs, as they welcome the two best teams in the conference to Mott Athletics Center. Cal Poly faces second-place UC Irvine Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. and first-place UC Davis Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. “The loss is definitely disappointing, but we can’t hold our heads down,” Shipley said. “We’ve got a good opportunity at home to knock off the conference’s best teams, and we’re going to definitely bring it in practice to get prepared.”
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IAN BILLINGS | MUSTANG NE WS ROUGH START | Freshman pitcher Kyle Smith leads the Cal Poly baseball team with 16 strikeouts this season. The southpaw picked up the loss in the second game of the weekend series against Grand Canyon.
SWEPT continued from pg 1. With freshman third baseman Ben Mauseth on first, a ground out put Calomeni just one out away from a third straight scoreless inning when the Antelopes’ best hitter, senior left fielder David Walker, came up to bat. Calomeni got the ground ball to the shortstop he was looking for, but Schuknecht was unable to handle a slightly low throw by Van Gansen for the Mustangs’ first error of the game. Junior shortstop Paul Panaccione would make the Mustangs pay in the next at-bat, when his single to right field plated Maus-
eth. Panaccione reached second on the play, as senior right fielder Zack Zehner had trouble getting the ball to the infield, resulting in Cal Poly’s second error of the inning. Grand Canyon would get another run in the next at-bat, when senior infielder Chad De La Guerra reached on an infield single, followed by a bases-clearing triple by freshman right fielder Garrison Schwartz, which gave the visitors a 4-0 lead after three innings. All four Grand Canyon runs were unearned. “You try not to let (the errors) affect you at all,” Calomeni said. “We’ve been through it a lot. Everyone makes errors, you just try
to keep it going pitch by pitch. I tried to do that, but it didn’t go our way.” Calomeni finished with a loss after allowing the four unearned runs on five hits in 6 innings of work to go along with five strikeouts and three walks. The four unearned runs given up by the Mustangs and two errors committed in the inning are a common theme to the young 2015 season. Cal Poly has already surrendered 18 unearned runs and committed 17 errors in just seven games. “(It’s a) combination of ability level and confidence,” head coach Larry Lee said of the errors. “There’s a lot of self-doubt
in a number of our players, and the options that we have are very limited. It’s a big domino effect. You take one guy out of the lineup like (Mark) Mathias, it forces you to play a certain defense and then when one of those guy can’t play a particular position it just snowballs.” The score stayed at 4-0 through six innings, as Mustangs batters only put two on base against Brendel — a walk in the fifth by freshman outfielder Josh George and a leadoff single in the sixth by Van Gansen. In the seventh, the Antelopes pounced all over Cal Poly’s pitching, getting their fifth straight leadoff hitter on base
with an Aranda double into center field off of freshman pitcher Alex Gironda. “I’ve said before: We’re not a very good ball club, and can we get there? I don’t know,” Lee said. “There’s too many holes in our team from a lot of different areas, from pitching to offense to defense ... Guys are getting opportunities, but I don’t know how quickly it’s going to turn around.” The Antelopes finished with 14 hits to the Mustangs’ five. It was the first time Cal Poly has been out-hit this year. Late runs by the Mustangs in the final three innings — a pinch-hit RBI double by freshman catcher Austin Kron in the
seventh, a double by sophomore infielder Alec Smith in the eighth and an RBI ground out by Kron again in the ninth — avoided the shutout, but the late offense wouldn’t be enough to salvage the game or the series. The loss dropped Calomeni to 0-2 on the season, while Brendel got the win to move to 2-0. “We’re not mentally prepared as much as we should be,” Van Gansen said. “We need to work on the little things, and once we do that I think we’ll be fine.” The Mustangs will have Monday off before they try to get back into the win column against Bakersfield at home Tuesday. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.