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Amid increased enforcement and fines, ASI holds alternative weekend events Tim Wetzel @TimaWetzel

With fines for offenses like public intoxication doubled over the weekend and the University Police Department now enforcing party-related crimes within one mile of campus, Inter Housing Council (IHC) and Assosiated Students, Inc. (ASI) have collaborated to create a spooky and fun Halloween for students on campus. The event, Haunted Halloween, will consist of a haunted house in the University Union (UU), glow-inthe-dark laser tag on Mott L awn and live music. It will be

open after 9 p.m. both Friday and Saturday. ASI Events Outreach Student Assistant Samantha Pryor said she is excited for the collaboration between two of the campus’

biggest organizations. “We thought it would be a great opportunity for collaboration as we know IHC has typically done Halloween Events,” Pryor said in an email to Mustang News. “We came together to make the event larger and more widespread.” Event team member Alyssa Lucero helped plan the events, including an escape room in Chandler Lounge. “The event’s supposed to be an alternative to going out,” Lucero said. “It’s just providing another opportunity for something to do for students.” IHC and ASI have been planning this event since Sep-

tember. However, this isn’t the first time Cal Poly has had a haunted house. “Five or six years ago we hosted a haunted house for two consecutive years in Chumash,” Pryor said. “This event is different because there are more activities and the event will be in the entire University Union and surrounding area. There will be more for students to do and experience.” According to Lucero, ASI is taking on the bigger events while IHC covers some of the smaller ones. “ASI has a lot bigger of a budget, and they’re doing a lot of the larger scale things,” Lucero said. “We’re doing the escape room, which is going to

be in Chandler Lounge, and then also some carnival games which is going to be down in the UU marketplace.”

Pryor said she can’t wait for students to see the event, which ASI and IHC have been planning for more than a month. “I am particularly really excited for the Haunted House this year since we have contracted with an off campus vendor,” Pryor said. “We are anticipating for the experience to be very real and spooky. The craft event will be a nice addition to laser tag, silent disco and the Haunted House — there is something for everyone.” ASI Events has released promotional videos for the event, as well as a scavenger hunt. To participate, watch for clues posted on the ASI Events Facebook page.

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| For some students, the scariest thing to encounter this Halloween might be a double-fine ticket for party-related offenses. ASI has compiled a number of activities for the weekend.

Cal Poly club sports program sees its success recognized

ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS WHAT’S THAT? | The band uses various string and percussion instruments, including one made of donkey bone.

Las Cafeteras: Sharing Latino stories and struggles through music Michelle Zaludek @michellenistic

DANIEL DEMPTSER | COURTESY PHOTO TRAVELERS | The rugby club has played against teams from schools like Texas A&M and Arizona State.

Eric Stubben @EricStubben

Cal Poly’s club sports teams saw their successes honored during halftime of last Wednesday’s men’s soccer game. With 18 national championships over the last decade, teams ranging from surfing and sailing

to baseball and badminton filed onto the midfield logo on the turf of Alex G. Spanos Stadium for recognition. Roughly 250 club sports student-athletes represented the 1,150 student-athletes that currently compete for Cal Poly club sports teams. “It’s just a comprehensive group of student-athletes who are ded-

icated to the sport in which they play,” said mechanical engineering senior Zach Markow, Vice Chair of the Club Sports Council. “They’re out here following their passion for sports and the camaraderie that comes along with sports.” Continued on page 8

With Dia de Los Muertos drawing closer, having a Chicano band come to welcome the holiday was a treat for Cal Poly students. The Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre was nothing short of festive on Sunday as audience members danced, clapped and sang along to Las Cafeteras with pride. The Chicano band from East L.A. created a distinctive experience by combining a large variety of influences into its overall performance — including tradi-

tional Son Jarocho, Afro-Mexican music, folk music, spoken word, zapateado dancing and sign language. The group mostly sticks to traditional instruments, including the quijada, a Latin percussion instrument made from a donkey’s jaw bone; the cajón, a boxshaped percussion instrument from Peru; and several sizes of jarana jarochas, a guitar-shaped stringed instrument from Veracruz, Mexico. The larger portion of Las Cafeteras’ music was in Spanish, often bringing in traditional songs

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from Mexico. But the group also reworked iconic English songs, such as Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” and Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire.” Las Cafeteras was strongly interactive with the audience. Vocalist, zapateado dancer and guitarist Hector Flores encouraged them to participate in the show, saying: “Before we had microphones, we had our hands, we had our mouths and we had our feet — and we ask you to join along.” Continued on page 4

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Tau Phi’s reign short-lived in Sierra Madre Gina Randazzo @Gina_Randazzo1

As a freshman, getting into fraternity parties (if not already a member) can be challenging for men. One Sierra Madre Residence Hall found a way to beat the system during the first few weeks of school. The men’s floor of Sierra Madre Tower 5 found its solution after a few nights of hanging out in the common room together. Dubbing themselves as “Tau Phi,” the men started organizing their personal fraternity by printing out letters to hang on each of their doors and scheduling dance parties in the common room on weekend nights. Wine and viticulture freshman Jeremy Retornaz said the men all chipped in to get laser lights and speakers for the events each weekend. Retornaz said each party had a theme, including “CEOs and office respectable women,” “lifeguard bros and beach respectable women” and both “blackouts” and “whiteouts.” “It was all set up for a good time,” said Retornaz. “We had doormen at each door, we had passwords, we would hide the music if the RAs (resident advisers) were coming, we had it all figured out.” However, Tau Phi ran into problems with loud noise levels and outsiders trying to get into their events. “A lot of people hated us, especially guys from other towers,” Retornaz said. “A couple guys tried to start fights in the tower. I think they were just jealous and bummed out that they couldn’t get in.” Retornaz said the RAs from Tower 5 were okay with the parties, but told them to turn down the music late at night. “We had nothing illegal going on — I mean, it was a little loud,

but we weren’t doing anything that wasn’t allowed,” he said. “We were just dancing and playing music.” Retornaz said Tau Phi ended one night after the group’s “whiteout” party, when police came to the tower three times to tell them to shut down the party. The tower was placed on social probation because of the event. However, Retornaz said no one affiliated with Tau Phi was written up. Since then, Tau Phi has stopped its parties and doesn’t plan on organizing anything in the future. Retornaz said most of Tau Phi’s members rushed Cal Poly fraternities after Tau Phi ended and that the group was more of a bonding experience for their tower than anything else. “Everyone loved it, all the guys on our floor are super good friends because of it, and the girls were really excited about it, too,” said Retornaz. In the future, the men plan to create a Tau Phi intramural soccer team, but that’s about it. Sierra Madre Hall’s RAs and Coordinator of Student Development declined requests for an interview.

JASON HUNG | MUSTANG NE WS DONE | Though many members of Tau Phi have begun pledging IFC fraternities, they still plan on playing on an intramural soccer team together.

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ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS SPACE VIBES | Software engineering junior Noah Weitz holds equipment for PolySat’s CP7 satellite. The satellite is still in development and undergoing testing, but PolySat hopes to get accepted for launch soon.

Cal Poly’s 7th cube satellite to fire off to space Savannah Sperry @SavannahJSperry

PolySat, Cal Poly’s satellite launching organization, is writing a NASA proposal to launch its seventh cube satellite into space since 2008. Sponsored by aerospace company Northrop Grumman, the seventh satellite is known as CP7. It also goes by DAVE, short for Damping And Vibrations Experiment. Though PolySat’s 10th satellite was launched last January, CP7 wasn’t originally given a deadline, putting it on the back burner as other projects with stricter deadlines were given more focus. Mechanical engineering senior David Baker is the project lead and mission manager of CP7.

“It’s a collaboration of a lot of undergraduate students working toward a common goal of getting a functional satellite around an experiment from an aerospace company,” Baker said. Northrop Grumman tasked PolySat with creating an experiment inside of a one-unit cube satellite that tests particle damping in a micro-gravity environment. “Damping in general is just limiting the vibration of an object,” Baker said. “So particle damping is a special type of damping and how that’s achieved is, in this case, putting tungsten powder particles at the end of a cavity of a cantilever beam.” Inside CP7, three cantilever beams are fixed to the side of the satellite on one end, with the other end free to vibrate with a

cavity at the end of each beam. One of the beams acts as a control, with no particles inside of its cavity. The second beam’s cavity is filled 95 percent full with tungsten powder and the third is 99 percent filled. The three beams will be compared based on their accelerometer readings to see how effectively the particles inside can dampen the vibration in those beams. “So when we vibrate these beams, in theory, the particles inside the cavities at the end should limit that vibration,” Baker said. “And based on that data, we can apply that to bigger scales, bigger satellites which are more expensive.” Baker said limiting vibration is important in all satellites. “In this case we’re just testing the effect of it, but satellites up

there that have imaging equipment and stuff like that, you don’t want them to be vibrating at all,” Baker said. “So testing how effective this is, a lot of aerospace companies want that

with NASA. “So that’s what we’re in the process of writing right now, and that determines if this satellite will go up within the next few years,” Baker said. “So it’s a really big step in the process.” IT’S A COLL ABOR ATION OF A LOT OF CP7 is still in UNDERGR ADUATE STUDENTS WORKdevelopment ING TOWARD A COMMON GOAL OF mode and will GETTING A FUNCTIONAL SATELLITE undergo more AROUND AN EXPERIMENT FROM AN AEROSPACE COMPANY. testing. “Vibes testDAVID BAKER ing has already PROJECT LEAD AND MISSION b e e n d one MANAGER OF CP7 for it, which is vibration kind of data.” testing, testing if the structure Most importantly, Baker and holds up during flight condihis team are writing a propos- tions,” Baker said. “That’s pretal for Educational Launch of ty much where it sees the most Nanosatellites (ELaNa) in the force, is when it’s going up on hopes of getting CP7 launched the rocket.”

The next phase will be testing the satellite’s hardware with its software. Electrical engineering senior Marshall “Maci” Miri started working on the electronic components of CP7 in spring of 2015. “I started working on the layout of the board, so actually connecting all of the components when you put it on a circuit board and making sure a lot of the radio components were together,” Miri said. While CP7 is close to completion, it isn’t fully built and prototyped yet. The current focus is on writing the proposal for ELaNA. “What I’m most looking forward to is if we get accepted for the ELaNa launch,” Baker said, “because that would be a huge step in the process of getting this up into space.”

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ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS INNOVAT ION T HROUGH T R A DI T ION A L MUSIC

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That connection with the audience would become a major staple to the performance. Songs, including “Señor Presidente,” would ask audience members to call out the chorus and tell the room what they would change about the U.S. if they were president. Answering into a mic held by Jose Cano — the band’s percussionist, who also played the cajón and Native American flute — audience members gave an assortment of responses, including feeding the hungry, raising teachers’ wages, tearing down the Mexico-U.S. border and making college free. Kerri Fisher, who works in sales and design for ProSource

| Las Cafeteras strives to inspire its audience and initiate change in the world by sharing personal stories and struggles via song and dance.

Wholesale Floor Coverage, had answered that she wanted to end hunger. “I have a big heart,” Fisher said, “and I want to take care of people.” Meanwhile, Cal Poly agribusiness assistant professor Neal MacDougall stated that teachers needed a pay raise. “People think teaching is so easy,” he said. “I don’t think they understand, or they forget, how much work goes into it.” But despite Las Cafeteras’ activist roots, with members having been activists or organizers prior to coming together as a band, Flores explained that they didn’t come together intending to become a politically motivated band. In fact, they didn’t originally plan on becoming a band at all.

“The whole idea was just to play music,” Flores said. “We all wanted to learn this style of music called Son Jarocho, and we learned in the community space … that encouraged autonomy, self-determination and had all kinds of programming.” As the group began playing together more often, they gathered a fanbase and eventually started traveling out of town — both within California and to out-ofstate venues as far as Chicago and Texas — on weekends to perform. “We’d leave Thursday on a redeye, then call in sick (to work) Friday and then come back Sunday night,” Flores said. “And we couldn’t do that anymore. And we were getting a lot of love, and we decided to do an album. That

was the tipping point. We decided to make an album and we said, ‘I think — I think we’re a band.’” As Las Cafeteras came together and started to pull influences around the Son Jarocho style, their different voices and musical influences began to create a unique, comprehensive sound. “We’re L.A. kids,” Flores said. “Leah (Gallegos) loves Mariah Carey, Denise (Carlos) is inspired by the Riot Girl movement — so all of those things influence everything we do from hip-hop, ska, Cumbia and then traditional stuff, like spoken-word-esque things … I think L.A. inspired us.” Flores emphasized that Las Cafeteras doesn’t mean to be inherently political, but they want

their stories and struggles to be heard and recognized. But, because they’re sharing stories that don’t flow with the status quo, their songs become a political act by default. “The social issues come from our families’ grievances,” Flores said. “So I think that’s the rub, you know? … Like the U.S. is trying to teach about Christopher Columbus and we’re trying to teach about Indigenous Peoples, so there’s a rub. We don’t intend it to be, we’re just showing our perspective.” Flores added that the band’s political push stems somewhat from growing up as millennials. “We’re a generation that’s very, very much about dignity and freedom and equal access to ed-

ucation and quality of life,” he said. “So we’re all for queer liberation and immigrant rights. We’re down for Black Lives Matter, and we’re down for universal health care. We want to create a world where many worlds exist.” Altogether, Flores explained that using music is a good way for them to share their stories with others in an open, welcoming space and allows people to connect in a significant way. “There’s a saying: If you can’t dance together, how do we build together?” he said. “If we can dance together, that’s a great starting point to everything else. How are we going to eat together, how are we going to be in the same neighborhood together, if we can’t dance?”

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Audio Files: Categorizing music and yourself Annie Vainshtein @annievain

A long time ago, there was a clan of unidentifiable, indistinct people. Nothing about them fit with what we knew and valued, and grouping them together felt like a defective game of Tetris. We even had trouble identif ying them because they weren’t really a “they.” Some of them wore paisley scarves and prefered Satre to John Green — but some of t hem d i d n’t . S o m e of t h e m cuffed their jeans — but some of them didn’t. Some of them liked music that would later be coined “alternative emo,” “prog ressive rock” or “acid jazz” and engaged in politics that would be considered anarchist or counter-culture — but some of them didn’t. We couldn’t understand it, so we decided on an all-encompassing, grounding word to describe the unknown, the other: We called them “hipster.” It had a nice ring to it, “hipster.” Yeah, that felt right. Crisis averted. We could eat our TV

dinners in peace. We’ve never been good at dealing with things we can’t explain. The insoluble feels weird, stuffy — is it hot in here? In music, we came up with words like “ambient” or “experimental” to denote a foreign and overpowering feeling. We felt okay with this, and progressively more and more okay when we came up with subdivisions, and sub-subdivisions and astounding neologisms that seemingly “just hit the spot.” We felt okay knowing there was some order to the evil, dark, scary, weird deviance. We felt good finding more and more holes for the rampant, swarming pigeons of our own emotion. Our incessant need to categorize should come as no surprise. It’s undeniably “human” to designate areas and create harsh distinctions between “us” and “them,” to create unified groups that make us feel good about ourselves and remind us we have a place — that we are loved and heard or that wearing a black studded skirt is okay. “It’s not too weird, right?” “No — it’s like fun and kinda punk.” This phrase has multiplied itself into thousands of derivatives and all of them follow the same form: Don’t worry, there is a place for you. There is a place for that, and this, and me and all the rest. We rake through the weird to find the normal golden nugget, the beacon of understanding, the one indicator of which we can make sense. If you prefer all-black clothing, most likely you’re not a witch — that was laid to rest in Salem — but ostensibly, you must listen to Black Sabbath. Oh, you don’t listen to Black Sabbath? Then what are you

doing dressed all goth? We’ve all felt the wheels turning in our heads as we come to conclusions that surprise us. No one is asking you to protest human nature. It’s in our best interest, our hairy caveman survival instinct, to make those elementary distinctions: to sort, to separate good from bad, poisonous from edible, man from bear, etc. But we can transcend that instinct. It just requires a second step — a flittering moment of cognition where we stop and slow down while the rest of the world keeps turning and, in the uncomfortable blaze, ask ourselves, “Do I even like this?” We seem to lose sight of what it is we appreciate and love if it presents itself unfiltered, untagged or aimlessly free-floating. Sorting music into genres feels arbitrary. I still don’t know what “post-punk” is and I reference it all the time. It seems crazy to me that I think of specific form when I think of “abstract” art. And while it may serve to declutter, does it actually? There is value — great value — to things that exist without genre and tag. Reducing them is dilutive. Consider a really punk band. I mean really, really punk. They’ve got the whole package — the explosive drum lines, the grating lyricism, the autoscopic performance — but they’re not all in spikes and they don’t have mohawks and not all of them are wearing all black and they’re actually smiling in interviews. In fact, one of them is happily married with three beautiful blond children and one of them used to work in a hedge fund. Does that make them less punk? Does that make their band less punk? These variables included, are they any less

authentic? Maybe to some. But what’s the marking point for authenticity? Do their unrelated, personal choices strip them of their artistic genuinity? Why are you the judge? D o n’t ever feel like you have to pretend to like stuff for yourself, or worse, for other people. Trust your instinct. Never feel you have to spend time on something “just because” or because you feel you “should.” There is no “should” in preference. You can listen to music independent of whatever aesthetic you’ve promised Instagram. Find stuff that tugs at you, music you feel you couldn’t live without — music that would land you headfirst into a psychotic episode should they ever be removed from your iTunes library, bedside vinyl collection or Spotify. That’s the stuff to care about. It’s too exhausting to pretend for anything less. ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGIE DE MATTOS | MUSTANG NEWS

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Royals should succeed in World Series Amelia Parreria @AmeliaParreria

Amelia Parreira is a journalism senior and Mustang News sports columnist. It’s that time of year again — when thousands of people who paid no attention to baseball during regular season suddenly jump on the nearest bandwagon. Yes, that’s right. It’s World Series time. This year we will see two teams who have yet to win a World Series title this century, the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals, and I have to say it’s going to be a tough draw. While the Royals have a powerful offense, the Mets’ pitching is simply invincible. It’s a matchup like no other. After bypassing the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 in the National League Division Series, the Mets went on to break the hearts of hopeful Chicago Cubs fans as they swiftly took the NLCS in a 4-0 sweep. Ironically, the Cubs never let the Mets get past them in their seven regular season face-offs. The Cubs, who swept the San Francisco World Series champs in early August, barely managed to get their bats swinging against the Mets in the postseason. With a pitching rotation full of strong youngsters, the Mets had a great advantage, even as they faced remarkable players like Jake Arrieta, Anthony Rizzo and Kris Bryant. There’s no doubt that the Mets will put up a good fight against

the Royals either. The Mets could very well take Game 3 from the Royals as they plan to put right-handed pitcher Noah Syndergaard on the mound. Syndergaard went 9-7 during the regular season and made three postseason appearances, where he averaged a 2.77 ERA. At his home stadium, otherwise known as Citi Field, Syndergaard boasts an 8-2 season record. However, the 23-year-old has never faced the Royals, so we have yet to know what he is capable of as he goes into the Fall Classic. Meanwhile, the Royals prepare Yordano Ventura for Game 3. While Ventura may have had a 13-8 record during the season, his postseason has yet to fall on the brighter side. In almost 18 postseason innings and four starts, Ventura gave up 10 earned runs. Out of the four starts, he achieved only one win. The Mets may overpower the Royals on the mound, but the Royals’ offense is full of life. A major power hitter the Mets should look out for is the Royals’ shortstop Alcides Escobar. In the postseason series against the Toronto Blue Jays, Escobar hit .500 in just 16 at bats. In one game alone he knocked out four hits. There’s no doubt he will have the same energy against the Mets. Kendrys Morales’s top-notch offensive performance is yet another component to the Royals’ strength. The 32-year-old hit four home runs and contributed

10 RBIs so far this post season, and still has a lot left to offer this World Series. There is something that the Royals will continue to bring with them in this World Series, something that the Mets can’t come close to: their undying determination. The Royals have entered the Fall Classic time and time again. After their first and only World Series win in 1985, the team

made it all the way to Game 7 of the 2014 World Series, where they lost the top title to the San Francisco Giants. This season they only let the past teach them and give them room to grow, which they certainly have. This time they will put more into the game than they ever have before, and they will do whatever it takes to get the trophy in the end. Yes, even if it takes them all the way to another

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Eight teams to compete over the weekend

CHRISTA LAM | MUSTANG NE WS SERVICE PLEASE | From left to right: Savannah Niemen, Hannah Schleis and Adlee Van Winden set up before a teammate’s serve. Of its last eight matches, the Cal Poly volleyball team has lost just one — to Long Beach State.

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Another busy weekend for Cal Poly athletics gets underway this Thursday with eight teams competing in six events over four days. The Cal Poly volleyball team (155, 7-2 Big West) travels to UC Santa Barbara this Thursday to take on a struggling Gauchos squad (6-14, 2-7). The Mustangs are off to their best start since 2010 and have won seven of their last eight matches. Freshman outside hitter Adlee Van Winden will look to continue her record-setting success. Van Winden received her sixth Big West Conference Freshman of the Week honors last week for recording 38 kills over two matchContinued from page 1

Encompassing more than 5 percent of the student body, club sports is one of the largest communities on campus. “We are a huge representation of the school, and sometimes it’s not seen because we aren’t given as much highlights as greek life or (NCAA) sports programs.”

es. No other Big West Conference volleyball player has ever received more than three Freshman of the Week honors. Historically, the Gauchos volleyball squad has had the upper hand against the Mustangs with a series record of 48-27, but Cal Poly looks for its second match win over the Gauchos this year. The Mustangs defeated the Gauchos in four sets in a home match on Oct. 10. The men’s and women’s cross-country teams kick off Saturday’s slate of events with the Big West Conference Championships hosted by UC Riverside. Both teams finished second in last year’s meet and are ranked highly this season. Junior Swarnjit Boyal has led

the men’s side in each event this season, but the women’s team has seen more diversity among its top runners. Freshman Peyton Bilo, sophomore Sydney Szabo and junior Ashley Windsor have all led the Mustangs in meets this season. The Cal Poly football team (2-5, 1-3 Big Sky) faces another formidable opponent this weekend as well, as it travels to Big Sky Conference co-leader Southern Utah (5-2, 4-0). The Thunderbirds, ranked No. 24 in the latest FCS Coaches’ Poll, have won five straight games, outscoring opponents 207-16. The Mustangs lead the FCS in rushing with 391 yards per game, but the Thunderbirds defense is a formidable opponent, allowing only 305 total yards per game.

Southern Utah is the sixth ranked FCS opponent Cal Poly has faced this year to go along with the Mustangs’ early-season matchup at former FBS Top-25 Arizona State. The men’s soccer team (93-4, 4-1-3 Big West) looks to build on its recent string of success as it travels to Sacramento State this Saturday for a 2 p.m. conference matchup against the Hornets (6-8-2, 3-4-1). The No. 20 Mustangs moved up three spots in the national coaches poll after their one win, one draw performance last week. Last week’s win was a 2-0 shutout over the Hornets in Alex G. Spanos Stadium. The draw came against conference-leading UC Santa Barbara on a last-second goal by freshman

forward Jared Pressley in Santa Barbara last Saturday. Sacramento State has not been close to the top of the conference all year, but pulled off a 5-2 trouncing of UC Santa Barbara on Oct. 14. The Cal Poly men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams host their extension of the Blue-Green Rivalry this weekend in San Luis Obispo. The meet marks the second non-exhibition meet of the year for the men’s side and the first non-exhibition meet for the women. The men’s team fell to USC 152-104 in a meet held at Cal Poly’s Anderson Aquatic Center on Oct. 3. Lastly, the women’s soccer team (6-7-5, 2-5) rounds out the week-

end on Sunday with its 2 p.m. home match against Cal State Fullerton (13-2-1, 5-1) in Spanos Stadium. Sunday marks last match of the season for the Mustangs, who will look to get back on track after losing four of their last five matches. Star forward Elise Krieghoff and eight other seniors will be honored before they play their last game at Spanos Stadium. As the fall season comes to a close for many programs, Halloween weekend marks a pivotal opportunity for gaining momentum before heading to the playoffs. Both men’s and women’s soccer finish their regular seasons this weekend, and both cross-country programs look for strong starts to their postseasons.

said business administration senior Natalie Royle, Club Sports Council president. Perhaps more impressive than the sheer size of the club sports program is the success many teams have had over the past decade. The women’s lacrosse club, led by Royle, placed second in the nation at the end of last season. Its finish

marked the team’s 10th consecutive National Championship tournament appearance. “I think it’s just the hard work ethic and dedication that Cal Poly students have overall,” Markow said. The club sports program boasts more than just an affinity for winning. Royle said club sports involvement helps students off the

field as well. “It definitely gives them a community,” she said. “It’s people they can hang out with, study with. It kind of gives them a schedule if they’re looking for a way to stay fit and do something fun. We are student-athletes, so grades are just as important as the sport aspect of it.” Backing up Royle’s claim, the rugby club boasts that it graduates

100 percent of all athletes who are with the program throughout their entire undergraduate careers. Getting involved in a club sport is relatively simple. “(Students) can easily get involved in club sports. All the information is online,” Markow said. “You’ll get contact information to all the officers for all the teams.” As the quarter wears on, many

club sports teams begin postseason play in the upcoming weeks. The men’s soccer club qualified for and hosts its regional tournament the weekend of Oct. 31 through Nov. 1 on the turf fields below Poly Canyon Village. Both Markow and Royle hope the tournament marks only the start of the success for this year’s club sports teams.