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App aims to make roommate living stress-free to Moyers, computer science engineering senior, in the summer of 2012. “I had just moved into a new house with a different group of new roommates, and I wanted a way to communicate and keep the house less messy,” Moyers said. “So originally, I was just going to make it for my house, just to use, and I kept the idea going from there.” Moyers pitched it to a class
full of entrepreneurs in Business 464, a senior project class focusing on collaborating between engineering and entrepreneurship, and Brucker and Montejano jumped on the project. “After the pitch was over, I was just gung-ho on meeting with him (Moyers) and solidifying our relationship,” said Brucker, a business administration senior. “I walked out of there, saying
‘This is going to be a huge.’ Patrick (Montejano) and I left knowing we could turn this into a business.” The app targets collegeaged housemates who are looking for a “non-confrontational” means of communication and conflict resolution, he said. “If a certain person needs to be paid by a certain time, see HOMESLICE, pg. 2
CAL POLY COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
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Safer stirs up debate with posts
Political comedian and viral sensation brings his latest routine to Cal Poly.
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Cal Poly’s Gender Equity Center has no problem being a bold force on campus. It enlisted the help of a life-size, dancing vagina to promote “The Vagina Monologues” in February, and supporters are often seen sporting their “I (heart) consensual sex” Tshirts. But Safer, the center’s sexual assault and relationship violence prevention program, is creating controversy in a new place: the Internet. In addition to promoting Gender Equity Center events on its Facebook page, some of Safer’s postings also have political undertones. On the page, Safer criticized a New Mexico Republican lawmaker who introduced rape-related legislation it found disagreeable. It also linked to an article from feminist blog Feminspire titled “Why Does America Pretend it Doesn’t Hate Women?” Safer director Christina Kaviani said she had not seen the two postings, nor had she seen a post Safer “liked” linking to “How Male Sexual Entitlement Hurts Everyone,” an article on everydayfeminism.com. Students typically manage the page, Kaviani said. “We trust the students that they’re going to put things that are important for other students to read,” she said. Matt Lazier, Cal Poly’s interim director of media relations, wrote in an email to Mustang
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Political comedian Steven Crowder brought laughs to Cal Poly on Tuesday night, an event hosted by the Cal Poly College Republicans with the help of the Young America’s Foundation. The 25-year-old performed his routine “American Idiots: An Evening Guide to Mainstream Liberalism” for audience members, followed by a Q&A. “He is kind of new on the political scene, but he’s been doing film and TV and comedy for many, many years,” College Republicans President and graduate student Elena Reynolds said. The conservative comedian is a Fox News contributor, but is also known for his viral videos, with one of his YouTube videos reaching more than 2 million views. His entertainment career began as a child in television and film, having voiced the character of “The Brain” on the children’s series “Arthur” at age 12. His stand-up comedy career began six years later. College Republicans Vice President and political science sophomore Gabriel Bastomski said Crowder is a “pretty popular guy.” “He’s an up-and-coming, young, very funny guy — very witty, conservative,” Bastomski said. “It’s nice to see because typically, you know, when people think of conservatives, you think of older people. He really just has this kind of unique style. He’ll just say what he wants and it’s really entertaining.” see CROWDER, pg. 2
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“Whose turn was it to buy toilet paper this month? Did you already pay me for rent? And why did you leave a sink full of dirty dishes for me to wash … again? You owe me!” Living with other people can be stressful, but a team of four Cal Poly entrepreneurs is looking to make unnecessary roommate conflict a thing of
the past. Enter HomeSlice, a smart phone application that will help users divide rent, utilities and IOU’s, and aid communication about household matters. Co-founders Shea Brucker, Patrick Montejano, Jeremy Moyers and Caine Fair hope the app will help roommates organize finances and household matters in a stress-free way. The idea originally came
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Political comedian Steven Crowder, known for his viral YouTube videos, performed his “American Idiots: An Evening Guide to Mainstream Liberalism” routine yesterday in building 52.
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Student parents balance life and school with ASI Children’s Center HILLARY KAISER
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Getting ready for school in the morning can be a challenging task, especially when you’re doing it for two people. Some Cal Poly students aren’t headed to school by themselves in the morning — they drop their young
children off at the on-campus Orfalea Family and ASI Children’s Center before heading to class themselves. Cal Poly’s children’s center provides childcare for kids ages four months to 6 years old, and students with children get first priority in enrollment. “That is our primary mission, to help our students,” Director
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of Children’s Programs Tonya Iversen said. The center has 17 full-time staff members and 80 to 100 student employees to care for the 125 children who attend, Iversen said. Childcare aside, the children’s center also strives to build a sense of community among all families, Iversen said.
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The various classrooms have parent meetings and socials that allow for everyone to get to know each other and talk about parenthood. In addition to the camaraderie that is built, there is also the support that comes with being surrounded by other students who are also parents. “I think just being able to
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walk into the building and know that you are not the only student parent is probably a good feeling,” Iversen said. Graduate student Heidi Webber is one of the students who uses this resource. Her 4-yearold daughter, Maggie, currently attends and her 6-yearold son, Jack, went there but is now in kindergarten.
Webber’s husband is an undergraduate at Cal Poly, and she said that without the children’s center, they would both not be able to go to school. “Being a student is exhausting, and working and being a student is exhausting, but this is a sacrifice that we both see CHILDREN, pg. 2
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Reynolds also sees another factor that differentiates Crowder from others. “Most political comedians aren’t conservative, so I think right there, that sets him apart,” Reynolds said. “He’s very young and he’s very honest about what he feels and what he thinks.” This time around, the club decided to bring someone to campus who was different from guests in years past. “Over the past year, our club has brought some re-
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there will be a notification so people know to take care of it,” Brucker said. “The innovative part of that is it’s giving you a feed of what’s going on, not just communicationwise, but what’s going on in the house, like what’s in supply, what’s out of supply. It keeps people accountable.” In January, Brucker and
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ally intense speakers talking about some really intense topics,” Reynolds said. “We kind of wanted to do something to lighten the mood a little bit.” The club has brought guests speaking on issues including race and gun control in previous years. This past year, the club brought conservative social and political commentator Ann Coulter, causing some backlash. This year, the club chose to go with a political comedian. At a Crowder performance, Reynolds said audience members can expect to have some good laughs.
“He’s also not just funny, but he’s informative too,” Reynolds said. “I think a lot of people think comedians are joking all the time, but he also has some serious things to say about current issues. He does it in a way that makes it humorous, not to make light of it, but to make us realize how ridiculous some things are that we take very seriously. It can be nice to have a good laugh now and then instead of having such intense speakers come.”
Montejano reached out to Fair, a business administration senior, to design the visual aspects of the app. “From there, we’ve all been together,” said Fair, who uses his skills as a graphic communication minor. “We’re all really positive and encouraging of each other. The whole business side is passionate about making this become a reality, Jeremy (Moyers) is sitting behind his computer plugging away code, and we’re all just
working together to make this hit the market.” Their collaborative effort has pushed HomeSlice from concept to creation — the app is currently moving into the beta stage in the next week or two. There will be ten households of beta testers, with around four to five roommates in each house. “During the summer, we should be able to get a lot done on the development side and branding,” said Montejano, a business administration senior. “So I think by the end of the summer, we should have a solid app.” At the latest, HomeSlice should hit the app store by fall, he said. Still, the team is looking for a back-end developer to quicken the process. HomeSlice will be at the Spectacle showcase on May 14 in Chumash Auditorium.
Kassi Luja contributed to this staff report.
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The children’s center provides Cal Poly students employment opportunities as well as the time to observe the development of young children.
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decided to make,” Webber said. “One of the challenges is just making sure that we are meeting our own expectations for parenting.” Aside from the convenience of the children’s center and the fact that the fees are subsidized, as is true for most student parents, it is the quality of the center that she loves, Webber said. “There is peace of mind that the teachers have been doing this a long time and are really watching, caring and investing in our kid and who they are as individuals,” Webber said. “Just the partnership between us and them has been really amazing.” Mathematics junior Veronica Medina said she might not have come to Cal Poly had her 5-year-old daughter Olivia not been accepted into the chil-
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Daily that there is no university policy for social media. It can be difficult, he said, for the university to create such a policy while being mindful of free speech and academic freedom. There are, however, limitations on Cal Poly employees. Per California law, no public official can use, or allow others to use, state resources for campaign activities or to post anything illegal. Kaviani said Safer hasn’t crossed either line. “I don’t think by posting anything, it’s endorsing any train of thought,” she said. “I wouldn’t say the Gender Equity Center and Safer are prochoice and democrats.” But Elena Reynolds, graduate student and Cal Poly College Republicans president, disagrees. When Reynolds saw Safer write “How about believing instead, New Mex-
dren’s center. Medina said the center is not an average day care in that it actually has a curriculum set up for the children. She sees how it has helped Olivia develop. “It has shaped Olivia in a lot of ways,” Medina said. “She is really smart for her age and a really social creature. They do so many great things for kids, and they teach them so much.” Though being a parent and a student is hard, student parents just have to be disciplined and responsible, Medina said. “I don’t do this for myself, I do it for my daughter so she can have a better future,” Medina said. “It is not only an internal battle, but a battle you are fighting for someone else, and you have to have faith in yourself and know you can do it. If I can do it, anyone can do it.” Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey said the children’s center and the
Child Development Preschool Learning Lab are tremendous resources for both students and faculty and staff. Humphrey, a parent of two small boys, said he understands having to balance different things and make commitments and trade-offs. “Full-time anything and also being a parent is always challenging,” Humphrey said. “I am always impressed by students who are going to school while raising young children, it is a huge commitment.” Humphrey said he is glad the children’s program is at Cal Poly and pleased with the message it provides. “Simply by its presence, it sends a clear message that every aspect of your life is important to Cal Poly, including the fact that you have a family,” Humphrey said. “The sheer presence of it sends a strong message to someone on the outside that this is possible.”
ico?” next to a story about a Republican state representative who tried to create a law requiring rape victims carry out pregnancies to use the fetus as evidence in trial, she said it was an unfair attack on conservatives. “I’m not surprised the things posted there are the kind of things that makes conservatives look bad,” she said. “I see what they’re trying to do. It’s pretty blatant that they want to make Republicans look bad.” Reynolds said she thinks Safer should keep its postings balanced, presenting two sides of the stories it addresses. The feminist blogs posted should also be coupled with commentary written by men, Reynolds said. Men wrote two of the eight articles Safer has linked to in the past five months. Kaviani said she believes articles with “wow factor” and extreme news stories are how organizations start discussion and make change.
“I can guess it’s to get the pot stirred,” she said. “Controversy and getting people fired up is how a lot of people get things done.” Safer student assistant and English senior Kat Beglin is one of the students who rotates management of the Safer and Gender Equity Center Facebook accounts on a weekly schedule. Beglin said she looks for blogs and national news stories about reproductive-health justice and sexual-assault awareness when she’s posting. Echoing Kaviani, Beglin said Safer won’t align itself with a political party. There are, however, some times when the debate surrounding sexual assault intersects with political battles. “We want people to know that sexual assault isn’t just a social issue and a cultural issue,” Beglin said. “It obviously starts there, but there are also legal ways that these things can be addressed.”
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Three women freed after 10 years in captivity
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Emotions ranging from joy to anger were among the reactions Tuesday in a westside Cleveland neighborhood buzzing after the astonishing rescue of three young women who police suspect were kidnapped and kept in an aging, two-story home for more than a decade. Now, Cleveland police are facing questions about their handling of the case and are conducting an internal review to see if they overlooked anything. Police Chief Michael McGrath said Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s. The break in the case came when the 27-year-old Berry kicked out the bottom of a locked screen door at the home and used a neighbor’s
telephone to call 911. Choking back tears, she breathlessly told the dispatcher, “Help me. I’m Amanda Berry. I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.” Police arrived to find the two other women, along with a 6-year-old girl who authorities said was believed to Berry’s daughter. Police would not say who the father was or where the child was born. “Prayers have finally been answered. The nightmare is over,” said Stephen Anthony, head of the FBI in Cleveland. “These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of survival and perseverance. The healing can now begin.” Authorities arrested three brothers, ages 50 to 54. One of them, former school bus driver Ariel Castro, owned the home, situated in a working-class area dotted with boarded-up houses. No im-
Five limo accident victims identified PABLO LOPEZ The Fresno Bee
The five women killed in a bridal limousine fire last Saturday were Fresno nurses Michelle Estrera, 35, and Neriza Fojas, 31, and three of their friends from the Bay area, the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office confirmed Tuesday. Also killed were Anna Alcantara, 46, Felomino Geronga, 43, and Jennifer Balon, 39, all from Alameda, Coroner Robert Foucrault said. The cause of the victims’ death is still under investigation pending toxicology results, Foucrault said. The coroner’s final report could take 3 to 4 weeks to complete. The five victims were celebrating Fojas’ recent marriage. They were headed to Foster City to celebrate with Fojas’ new husband when the Lincoln Town Car stretch limo they were riding in burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge just after 10 a.m. Saturday. The driver and four other women in the limo escaped. Estrera, Fojas and their three friends died in the fire. State PUC spokeswoman Terrie Prosper said the commission is looking into whether the operator of the limo, Limo Stop, willfully misrepresented the seating capacity to the agency. The car was approved to take eight passengers, but nine women were inside when the fire broke out. If so, Limo Stop could be penalized $7,500 for each day it was in violation.
Limo Stop is licensed and has shown evidence of liability insurance, Prosper said. The company has seven vehicles with a seating capacity of up to eight passengers listed with the commission, and it has not been the target of any previous enforcement action. The CPUC requires that all carriers have a preventive maintenance program and maintain a daily vehicle inspection report, Prosper said. Carriers also certify that they have or are enrolled in a safety education and training program, she said. Prosper said requirements for emergency exits only apply to buses, and limousines are not required to have fire extinguishers. Joan Claybrook, the top federal auto-safety regulator under President Jimmy Carter, said the stretch limousine industry is poorly regulated because the main agency that oversees car safety doesn’t have enough money to prioritize investigating the small businesses that modify limos after they leave the assembly line. “I think the oversight is pretty lousy, because the modifications are so individualistic, and there are not that many companies out there that do this. Mostly, they are mom-and-pop operations,” said Claybrook, a former administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who previously led consumer group Public Citizen.
mediate charges were filed. Dean Kavouras, a chaplain for Cleveland police and the FBI, said law enforcement had pursued leads on the case for years. Upon learning that the women were still alive late Monday night, he said he and others at first thought it was a joke. “They (police) are on an emotional rollercoaster,” he said. “This vindicates all the work they’ve put into this case.” Israel Lugo, 39, said Castro, his longtime neighbor, was mostly an “average Joe” with whom he had hung out over the years. “He hung out with his family, drank a couple beers with us, went four-wheeling with us. He was just a typical man, you know what I’m saying?” Lugo said. But Lugo and others said they’d seen signs that something was amiss. Another neighbor, Elsie Cintron, said her daughter once
saw a naked woman crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard several years ago and called police. “But they didn’t take it seriously,” she said. And Lugo said he heard pounding on some of the doors of Castro’s house, which had plastic bags on the windows, in November 2011. Lugo said officers knocked on the front door, but no one answered. Neighbors also said they would see Castro sometimes walking a little girl to a neighborhood playground. And Cintron said she once saw a little girl looking out of the attic window of the house. Authorities would not say how the women were taken captive, whether they were restrained inside the house or if they had been sexually assaulted. Police said they were trying to be delicate in their questioning of the women, given their ordeal.
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‘Gatsby’ trailers, soundtrack dazzle MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
But will the film?
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The New York lights glitter in the night. In West Egg, a mansion is filled with crowds adorned in
opulent ’20s garments. Guests dance and converse on every confetti-blanketed surface. Fireworks boom above their heads as restlessness envelopes the air. Gatsby.
First, take a story set in 1920s America about the inability to forget the past, the pursuit of the American Dream and, ultimately, tragedy. Add the mysterious and moneyed Jay
Gatsby, and you have arguably the best piece of Jazz Age American fiction. Thanks to Australian writer, producer and director Baz Luhrmann, I’ll be able to see my favorite novel come alive (again) with his rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved classic “The Great Gatsby,” in theaters Friday. “That book is now,” Luhrmann said at the movie’s world premiere. “That book is us. That book reflects who we are, where we are now. I mean, it’s always relevant, but it’s particularly relevant now.” Luhrmann’s work of art will be released in 3-D as well as 2-D. Effervescent diamonds, suede furniture and fringe that Tina Turner would be proud of — all of this will intermix on the big screen with a star-packed cast: Leonardo DiCaprio playing Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson and Tobey Maguire as the novel’s narrator, Nick Carraway. I’ve loved DiCaprio since his Jack Dawson days, so having him play the title character is the icing on the cake. “When you’re talking about that character with those qualities, there’s not much of a list,” Luhrmann said at the premiere. “It was always Leonardo.” Despite being a little bitter that the original release date of Christmas 2012 didn’t go according to plan, I’m happy to see the film come to fruition
this weekend. In the novel that debuted in 1925, Minnesota-born Fitzgerald depicts what some would consider the moral-loosening era with ease, having lived through it himself. I was able to get a taste of the decade in Woody Allen’s 2011 film, “Midnight in Paris,” when the film’s main character, Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson), is sent back to the Roaring Twenties. Pender even “meets” Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, in the movie. But it’s a whole different story when it’s your favorite novel. How can you not be excited for “Gatsby” after seeing the three official movie trailers? They’re visual feasts. The second trailer opens with Gatsby talking about his life from “(living) in all the capitols of Europe, collecting jewels, hunting big game, painting a little,” presenting the track “No Church in the Wild” by Kanye West and JayZ, featuring Grammy nominee Frank Ocean. And it wouldn’t be a trailer without the glimpse of a ritzy, glitter-gold party in true Gatsby fashion. Red Solo cups aren’t on the grocery list. The trailer progresses with Filter’s rendition of The Turtle’s “Happy Together” as the background track for a scene featuring Gatsby and Daisy. Clever, clever. Intensity pinnacles as the
trailer flashes action-packed, chilling scenes. While this won’t be the first time Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has been made into a film, it’s never been in the hands of Luhrmann, the guy who brought you “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet.” The film’s soundtrack was released on Tuesday. The collection features big-name musicians Jay-Z, will.i.am, Lana Del Rey, Florence + The Machine, Gotye and Jack White with his cover of U2’s “Love Is Blindness.” Florence + The Machine’s “Over the Love” was made specifically for the soundtrack, written from the point of view of leading lady Daisy Buchanan: “There’s green light in my eyes/ And my lover on my mind.” Hopefully you “Gatsby” fanatics out there got the notso-subtle splendor of that lyric from the track. Each song on the soundtrack is a puzzle piece, fitting perfectly into Luhrmann’s depiction of Fitzgerald’s novel. Get out your bubbly and diamonds: “The Great Gatsby” is bound to be a box office hit. And if the film lives up to the trailers, Luhrmann can start writing his Oscar acceptance speech (Calling it!). “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Julianne Roth is a journalism senior and Mustang Daily sex columnist.
I have yet to meet a college student who doesn’t have some form of a to-do list — especially females. So, the other day, of course my perpetual internal soundtrack was reminding me of my own: • • • • •
dishes internship laundry sex read
What the (insert expletive here)? In panic mode, I took my brain off autopilot and went in manually. What I found, sadly, was not a system error, but my own behavioral error. Sex had actually become a chore for me — just part of my routine. Dare I even say sex was boring? Suddenly, a menacing wave of desperation and confusion consumed me: Did this natural disaster hit without warning? I don’t think so. Unfortunately, I’d chosen to ignore the obvious. As I struggled to the surface, I couldn’t help but no-
tice my sex life had been suffocating for some time. Fleeting infatuation
My manfriend (I don’t say “boyfriend” — it sounds too juvenile) is not new anymore. He was new once. We were infatuated with one another. Many healthy relationships start out this way. However, this stage cannot last forever. Although it is intense, it lacks substance. Infatuation was a time of obsession, nerves, lust, (the best sort of ) ongoing discomfort and incredible sex. I felt (as I still do) I’d met the one for me. All of a sudden, I was in love. Lasting love Love between souls is hopeful and strong — forever. In my opinion, every healthy relationship minimally requires love, respect, communication and sex in order to thrive. Sex and love are in the same family, but they sure aren’t the same species. I believe two people can be deeply in love, but physically lack the necessities (such as chemistry) for an erotic and
satisfying relationship. Love truly is a funny thing. Love can make sex more meaningful and pleasurable. However, the comfort that follows love can combat eroticism. You feel secure. Security doesn’t necessarily induce an erection. But risk does. There’s a positive correlation between love and monotonous sex. In this instance, positive doesn’t mean “good,” either.
In love with my ‘best friend’ Throughout my childhood, I’d hear my parents joke with each other that they were “best friends.” My dad would softly slug my mom in the arm and call her “buddy.” Years later, I found myself in a monogamous, loving relationship and was tempted to call Alex my “best friend,” for real. While he was visiting during spring break, I revealed these feelings to my parents. Alex thought it was cute and squeezed my hand — a little silent “I love you.” My parents attempted to set us straight: “Once you start calling each other best friends or soul mates, it becomes boring.” I shrugged this advice off, and my new best friend —
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Fall in love with sex (again) I mean manfriend — and I went on our merry way back up to San Luis Obispo. Now, it dawns on me: They’re right, but I guess I had to learn the hard way. I had let myself become a little too comfortable. Play games Couples get stuck in ruts. Here are some ways that may help you and your partner get unstuck: One day, I proposed we go on a date, with one stipulation — we must act like we know little to nothing about each other. This was surprisingly nerve-racking and very fun. Especially, since at the end of the night, we ended up in bed together. You can also play card games with your lover — instead of lugging yourself off to bed for another night of redundancy. Hearts equal kissing, diamonds equal massage, clubs equal hand-jobs and spades equal oral-sex. The number on the card represents the number of seconds you play out each action. I promise, you won’t get halfway through the deck before you toss the cards aside and beg your lover to come inside.
Look into his or her eyes Sex is a very selfish act — love is anything but. If sex has become a chore, it can often feel a little lonely. To increase intimacy, you
can look into your partner’s eyes or kiss them while making love. So, while you’re fulfilling a biological function — connecting genitally — you’re also meeting an emotional need.
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Cars (and guns) are dangerous
Do you think people should have to go through a safety course before buying a gun?
Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. While I was in high school, a friend of mine said to me, “Cars are pretty damn dangerous.” It didn’t require any special powers of observation to see this, and so I replied, “They are, indeed.” Sensing that I wasn’t looking at it in the same way, my friend continued “Think about it, we’ve made it necessary that we use these two-ton steel blocks, and move them at speeds that consistently result in death or injury” (car accidents cause approximately 30,000 deaths in the U.S. each year). He was right, but it wasn’t anything driver’s ed hadn’t taught me already. I knew/know the risk of driving, and try to follow the rules of the road to avoid aforementioned death or injury. The other day in one of my classes, the topic of punishment with regards to awareness of crime committed came up. In that same day, a 5-year-old boy in Kentucky accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister. He received the gun as his birthday present. I’ve tried to avoid talking about guns and gun control, because honestly, I’m not even sure of my own stance on the issue. But when it came up in class, I thought we were in for a heated conversation about use, control and regulations. The cat was out of the bag, and as my professor often says, “It was a puma!” To my surprise, our class discussion did not revolve around what causes gun violence or how regulated the sales of guns should be. Instead, we spoke about the lack of gun education within our society and the lack of education regarding rights attached to them. The reason why we don’t hold children in court on
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the same level of accountability as adults is because we believe children to not fully understand the ramifications of their actions. Oftentimes, philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes or John Locke will explain that how children act is akin to what a “state of nature” would be like, devoid of any social order or law. They act in their own self-interest, not because they necessarily choose to, but because they do not comprehend the larger abstract ideas like the right to life that our social contract documents guarantee. We give leniency because they are learning, and will hopefully understand those concepts by the time they are 18. But when children commit heinous acts, we are sometimes forced to ask, who — if anyone at all — is responsible for such a crime? In the case of the 5 year old in Kentucky, our class came to the consensus that it might have been an accident (and so agreed the state of Kentucky). But that this accident even happened was an example of the lack of gun eduction throughout our society. Numerous students shared their own early age ex-
periences with guns: fathers who had taken their daughters hunting, but who had stressed the importance of gun safety; whole families who attended gun safety classes together. “I got my first gun when I was 8 years old,” someone said. They claimed to have understood what it meant to have a gun and what that gun could do, but lamented over how sparse the education was. Whether we like it or not, guns are extremely prevalent within our society. That there is so little education on their use and function is a little strange. Cars are pretty dangerous, but they aren’t designed to cause harm like guns are. And to even drive a car, we need to take a test. If you are younger, you take classes. These rules are stringent and can be so annoying that some people wait to get their licenses until much later in their lives (that means you, roommate who is 20 and still doesn’t drive). We have very little regulation when it comes to gun knowledge and this issue, more than any other topic dealing with firearms, harms our society more than we realize. Just this week, a
man successfully used a 3-D printer to create his own gun out of plastic. He easily built all the parts of the gun in the comfort of his home and made them available to anyone. Now, I don’t know very many people with 3-D printers, but with any sort of restrictive gun law being impossible to pass within our government system, we leave it up to ourselves to become educated on the dangers of the use of guns, especially when we can create them with relative ease. I cannot claim to know the reasoning (or lack thereof) behind the recent mass shootings in this country. I don’t know if guns kill people or people kill people. But I also don’t know very much about guns in the first place, and I think that puts me at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to gun safety. Accidents like those in Kentucky can be prevented, and if we just take the time to educate ourselves on guns like we do with cars, maybe we will be better for it. This is Zachary Antoyan, believing lemonade to be a very tasty drink. Have a great week.
“I would think so. They’re dangerous weapons, and you should know how to use them properly.” • Danelle Wacker English junior
“No, you don’t need a safety course for computers and you can do just as much damage.” • Matthew Levinson business administration freshman
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Family of Boston bombing suspect can help city’s healing with burial decision ROBIN ABCARIAN
Los Angeles Times
What kind of power do the living have over the dead? It’s a question that a Massachusetts town answered Sunday, when Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy said he would not allow Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the Boston Marathon bombings, to be buried in the local public cemetery. “The difficult and stressful efforts of the citizens of the city of Cambridge to return to a peaceful life would be adversely effected by the turmoil, protests and widespread media presence at such an internment,” Healy said in a statement emailed to reporters. “The families of loved ones interred in Cambridge Cemetery also deserve to have their deceased family members rest in peace.” Healy suggested that federal agencies should “take the lead in the burial of this individual” though it’s not clear which agencies would be appropriate for such a task. Does a city have an ethical responsibility to bury one of its residents, even if that resident is suspected of one of the most heinous crimes in memory? “I think it’s a tangled ethical issue,” said Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a Vermontbased nonprofit that describes itself as a Consumer Reports for those seeking funeral services. “I can empathize with Cambridge not wanting to have this guy buried there. If they do, there are going to be people out there picketing and damn near rioting about this, and I can imagine the lot owners near the burial site would strongly object. “On the other hand,” he added, “the reality is his body is just a body, and no harm comes to anyone from burying it there.” Is there a precedent for this kind of refusal? Slocum was unaware of one, but wondered whether the disposal of the remains
of convicted killers Timothy McVeigh, Jeffery Dahmer or Lee Harvey Oswald offered any lessons. McVeigh and Dahmer were cremated, according to news reports. Oswald is buried in a Fort Worth cemetery called Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park. A cemetery office worker referred calls to a publicist who did not return a message. On Sunday, the director of the Worcester funeral home where Tsarnaev’s body is being kept told the Boston Globe that, in addition to being turned away by Cambridge’s public cemetery, four private cemeteries had refused to accept the body. “What does the city want me to do with his body?” asked Peter Stefan, of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors. Some individuals had offered private plots in New Hampshire, New Jersey and Ohio, the Globe reported, but the Tsarnaev family’s preference is burial in a “Muslim-designated plot in Massachusetts.” On Monday, city manager Healy said he would not speak further about his decision. “My participation in multiple interviews that have been requested would create the same disruption that the city deserves to be spared,” he said in an email. “There is a case to be made that the feds should step up,” said Slocum. “Local people like Peter Stephan and the city of Cambridge should not be in the position of having to deal with this. That’s not fair, regardless of what you think should happen. I don’t know who in the government could or should take care of it, but they know who they are.” Although the Muslim tradition is burial, said Slocum, cremation would be the
easiest way to resolve the burial problem. “Once the body is reduced to ashes, the family could very discreetly bury them in a place no one knows about.” If the Tsarnaev family has any human instinct to help assuage the pain its sons have caused, putting the community’s raw emotion above their own is a good place to start. In fact, it’s the least they can do.
“Oh, absolutely. It is crazy that there’s so much accessibility to guns. They’re designed to do damage and they have such lax background checks.” • Ray Scott forestry and natural resources senior
“I do, yes, because if you don’t know how to handle it, the risks increase dramatically.” • Connor Healy biological sciences sophomore
“Yes, because all of the different controversies that happened, (gun safety courses) make it more safe for everyone.”
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Moraga, Brown vie for QB role STEPHAN TEODOSESCU
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After last weekend’s Cal Poly football Spring Game at Alex G. Spanos Stadium, one thing is clear: The quarterback situation still remains a mystery. Not one of the four main quarterbacks distanced themselves from the pack for the right to be called the starter in the fall, and because of that, head coach Tim Walsh will have a difficult decision to make come training camp. But each quarterback knows they’ve got what it takes to get the nod under center, as long as they produce in the months leading up to the season. And for each individual pass hurler that’s locked into the quarterback battle, that production comes in very different forms. Junior Vince Moraga took his familiarity with the offense into the Spring Game on Saturday and finished the day 6 of 8 passing for 60 yards with a touchdown pass. The Oxnard native has the most experience of any quarterback running Walsh’s tripleoption offense, as he was Andre Broadous’ backup last year on a team that went 9-3 and made it
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to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs for the first time in four years. Not to mention, he’s been a part of the team since 2009. “I’m really comfortable with our offense as a whole and what we’re trying to do when we’re out there on the field,” Moraga said. The oldest of the four quarterbacks in the competition, Moraga even saw some first-team repetitions in practice on those weeks that Broadous was hurt last year. But Moraga’s ascension to second string this past season, along with a shot at the starter’s role this year, proved to be a rocky one at first. He nursed a back injury in his first year on campus and didn’t spend the season with the team that fall, as he was forced to grayshirt. On top of that, he was deemed ineligible to play in his second year, but he’s back now looking to capitalize on his opportunity at Cal Poly. “Vince made some good throws that didn’t wind up being touchdowns, but probably should have been,” Walsh said of Moraga’s performance following the Spring Game. “We know what Vince can do, and we feel confident that he can get out and set a kind of tone for the other guys to live up to.” As for the competition he faces with the other quarterbacks, Moraga has emerged as a leader by example, Walsh said. Moraga, though, views it more as a symbiotic relationship between him and the others. “I’m getting used to it,” he said of the dead heat with fellow quarterbacks freshman Tanner Trosin, sophomore transfer Dano Graves and sophomore
Chris Brown. “It’s been like this all spring and the rotations have been going pretty well. Behind the scenes, we’re all brothers, and we have each other’s backs. When we’re out there on the practice field it’s not too much of a competition. We’re correcting each other and picking each other up.” While still very much in the race for next year’s spot at the helm of the offense, the sophomore Brown spent Saturday’s Spring Game on the sidelines nursing a left wrist bruise suffered during the first week of spring drills. According to him, the Compton, Calif. native will be vying for the starting spot by using his athleticism to impress the Cal Poly coaches going into training camp. After all, Brown was originally recruited for his speed and shiftiness that helped Dominquez High School to a 10-2 record and a second round berth in the CIF-Southern Section Western Division playoffs his senior year. He passed for 1,219 yards and 13 touchdowns with no interceptions, while also rushing for 774 yards and six scores in that campaign. Doing so, he caught the attention of several Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools such as Fresno State, Nevada and Hawaii. Based on his natural play-making abilities, he was offered to play cornerback or safety at those schools, but the 6-foot-1 Brown chose Cal Poly because he simply wanted to play quarterback. “It worked out the way it was supposed to work out,” Brown said. “I’ve always wanted to be a
quarterback since I was young. I’m here and trying to make due of my situation.” If awarded the job, he’ll replace another athletic quarterback in Broadous who also passed on bigger name schools to get a shot at playing quarterback. “Athleticism and being able to
produce is my greatest strength,” Brown said. “Athleticism has a lot do with (production).” No matter their strengths, though, each quarterback will have a lot to prove throughout the summer and early fall as the competition continues further. According to Walsh, he’d like to
narrow the competition down by mid-August in preparation for his team’s first game against San Diego on Aug. 31. “Each guy has got to get to their maximum potential, and whoever does that first will probably be the starting quarterback,” Walsh said.
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Vince Moraga hit 6 of 8 passes for 60 yards and threw a touchdown during Saturday’s Spring Game. As a junior, he is considered the most experienced candidate for the quarterback position.
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