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Faculty rally to protest lack of salary increases Tara Kaveh
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JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NE WS PAY PROTEST | Students, faculty, staff and community members rallied around Administration (building 1) for a full hour, delivering petitions to Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong regarding faculty salaries.
On Thursday morning, students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in front of the administration building to rally and deliver petitions to Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong. The rally circled around the front of Administration (building 1) for a full hour, packed with students, faculty and staff hold-
ing signs, blowing whistles and chanting. Some even wore red masks to avoid being identified. Signs saying “Money for managers, promises for profs!” and “The mustang has lost its way!” pointed to the concerns surrounding faculty pay and administrative bloating. “Maybe we can see some positive change,” said Glen
Thorncroft, former president of the California Faculty Association (CFA) San Luis Obispo Chapter and mechanical engineering professor. “The priorities of the administration seem to have gone away from where the faculty and students want it to go, and we don’t understand why.”
see PROTEST, pg 3.
IAN BILLINGS | MUSTANG NE WS
SENIOR DAY
| Cal Poly tallied 16 hits in the Mustangs’ final home game of the season on Sunday.
Baseball sweeps UC Riverside in final home series Keenan Donath @CPMustangSports
HARRISON CHEUNG | MUSTANG NE WS OUT OF THE BOX | Laverne Cox delivered a speech as part of Cal Poly’s “Don’t put me in a box” campaign.
7 things I learned from Laverne Cox Jordan Dunn @jordanndunn
Coming from a conservative family, I wasn’t exposed to any positive representation of the LGBTQ culture until college. Laverne Cox, transgender activist and star of
Netflix series “Orange is the New Black (OITNB),” was one of the first people representing the transgender community I became aware of — which I admit was entirely because of her role on OITNB. After listening to her speech on transgender awareness and
inclusivity in Chumash Auditorium this past Thursday evening, I — someone with no transgender eduction — learned the following compelling facts.
see LAVERNE, pg 3.
It’s been an up-and-down season for the Cal Poly baseball team, but the Mustangs are looking strong coming down the final stretch. After winning the first two games of its series with UC Riverside, Cal Poly captured its second series sweep of the season with a 11-1 victory on Sunday. Freshman starter Jarred Zill provided some much-needed innings for the Cal Poly pitching staff. He allowed just a single run in his seven innings of work, the longest outing in his Cal Poly career. Zill is the seventh differ-
ent starting pitcher the Mustangs have put on the mound for a series finale this season. Senior outfielders Zach Zehner and Jordan Ellis, along with senior third baseman Tommy Pluschkell, each collected hits on Sunday. The final games of their collegiate careers will take place later this week with a series at UC Davis. Relief pitcher and fifth-year senior Taylor Chris came in to pitch in the top of the eighth inning. His scoreless 1 1/3 inning was the proper send-off to one of the most experienced Mustangs on the roster. To close out the game, head coach Larry Lee put in another senior, Danny Zandona.
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The right-handed relief pitcher threw the last two outs to finish off an 11-1 Cal Poly victory. “People say it goes by quick, but I can remember every moment from my freshman year to here,” Chris said. “I have enjoyed my whole experience here, and it was great to get a win today.” While the Mustangs (26-25, 13-8 Big West Conference) haven’t lived up to the elevated expectations bestowed upon them in the preseason, Sunday’s comfortable victory was another glimpse of the talent on this year’s squad. Cal Poly closes out its season with a three-game series at UC Davis starting Friday.
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Fraternity life after disaffiliation Olivia Proffit @ojproffit
A freshman comes to Cal Poly wishing to join greek life. He has just completed the whole process — barbecues and schmoozing — when a fraternity that is not hosting any recruitment events on the Cal Poly campus approaches him. He spent some time with the guys in that fraternity and feels like that’s where he belongs. But there’s a problem. The fraternity is no longer associated with Cal Poly. This story is an example of what some students may face dur ing re cr uitment. Enrollment in greek life has increased but three fraternities have been reprimanded this year. In January, Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) was suspended for six years. Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) was placed on social probation for one year, and Delta Sigma Phi (DSP) was disaffiliated for five years. Business administration senior Nick Lench has been PIKE’s president since it was suspended. “There isn’t a specific thing that we miss the most, but rather an overall sense of unity with the Cal Poly community,” Lench said. “The past several months have been a challenge for myself, the leaders of this chapter and the group that wishes to continue.” According to the Dean of Students’ website, there are a total
of six greek organizations that are no longer affiliated with Cal Poly. DSP was disaffiliated just last week. The incidents that lead to disaffiliation are those that endanger or harm the lives of students, according to Dean of
Individual greek members may represent their fraternity, but the entire organization is not allowed to act like an active group with actions such as putting up booths for rush, according to DeCosta. If members break these rules, individuals will be held accountable through the Title 5 Judicial Code for violating university policy, according to DeCosta. “S omet imes a group or chapter who were disaffiliated years ago will tr y to come back on campu s du r i ng recruitment week or something of that nature and put up a booth, so we tell them that they are no longer allowed to do that,” DeCosta said. “Generally, they are pretty cooperative.” Once an organization has been disaffiliated, they have 20 days to appeal to the university in writing. Vice President for Student Affairs Keith Humphrey reviews the appeal and makes a final decision. DSP plans to appeal its disaffiliation as well, according to business administration senior and chapter president Derek Morefield. PIKE appealed its suspension in February 2015 and is waiting for the result. “It is still the desire and hope of this chapter to be affiliated with Cal Poly as we await the outcome of the appeal,” Lench said. “PIKE has adhered to the cease and desist order throughout this time, other than attending campus-sponsored and
There isn’t a specific thing that we miss the most, but rather an overall sense of unity with the Cal Poly community
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Students Jean DeCosta. DeCosta and greek leaders discuss incidents at hand and weigh it against students’ health and safety. If it is concluded that students may be at risk, the organization may be disaffiliated. “It’s got to be something that addresses or points toward some piece that we believe harms our students or continual harm of students,” DeCosta said. Disaffiliated organizations are no longer allowed to use the Cal Poly brand or participate in university activities as a group. They cannot benefit from the perks an affiliated organization would have, such as reserving rooms for chapter meetings.
RYAN DENNEHY| COURTEST Y PHOTO LIMITATIONS | Kappa Chi holds social events, but cannot collaborate with recognized fraternities and sororities.
community service events as a group of individuals.” Since suspension, PIKE has terminated all chapter operations until the appeal process has concluded, except for conducting meetings that involve continuing investigations. “Several members have already resigned their membership, and others will be removed following a review conducted by the national office,” Lench said. “The core group that remains will be a great fraternity, a fraternity that Cal Poly can be proud of.” Kappa Chi is another disaffiliated fraternity hoping to join Cal Poly greek life once again. The group was established on Cal Poly’s campus in 1957 and merged with Theta Chi in 1969 so they could benefit from having a national presence and
larger alumni base, according to business administration junior and Kappa Chi President Ryan Dennehy. In 1993, Theta Chi’s national organization revoked the chapter’s national charter. Kappa Chi re-formed as a local fraternity until December 2008 when it was disaffiliated from Cal Poly for alcohol consumption by a guest in the fraternity house who was later hospitalized, according to DeCosta. “That was right around the time of the Carson Starkey incident, which we all know of, so I believe there was quite a bit of liability that the school had to deal with and without a national chapter to take that liability,” Dennehy said. Though Kappa Chi does not have any national presence, there are more than 600 alumni
who are involved and supportive of the fraternity, according to Dennehy. “We have a very active alumni association that essentially act as a national chapter would. They give us financial support, insurance and help with whatever we need,” Dennehy said. “We have a solid group backing us.” Kappa Chi is discussing the possibly of becoming a national organization but is currently focused on trying to join Cal Poly’s Interfraternity Council (IFC). The fraternity has already attempted to join Cal Poly but has been rejected because they are a local fraternity, Dennehy said. “I don’t know if there was
see GREEK, pg 3.
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JOSEPH PACK | MUSTANG NE WS JOINT EFFORT | Faculty, staff and students protested instructors’ low wages and growth in administrative positions and salaries. Faculty and staff have expressed their concerns in listening sessions over the past few months.
PROTEST continued from pg 1. Faculty and staff have spoken up in listening sessions with Armstrong about their concerns for the past few months. “I’m not sure if the listening has turned into action,” Thorncraft said. “We could call this a friendly intervention.” The main concerns surround the increase in administrative positions and salary while faculty salaries remain stagnant. Though Armstrong and administration recently allocated $2.5 million to raise staff and faculty pay, the petition created by the CFA San Luis Obispo chapter says this is
GREEK continued from pg 2. ever any lawsuits that came from the Kappa Chi incident, but I understand where the school is coming from, with not having a fallback like the national fraternities,” he said. Despite disaffiliation, the 31 members of Kappa Chi hold social, brotherhood
nowhere near sufficient to make any inroads into salary stagnation and inversion. Much of the frustration lies in the inequities of pay for lecturers, coaches, counselors and long-serving tenured faculty whose salaries have seen little increase. “For the last seven years, faculty have seen virtually no increase in salary, and so there’s a huge disparity,” Graham Archer, current president of the CFA San Luis Obispo chapter and architectural engineering professor said. “What we want is the table to turn. We want the bloat to diminish and we want our salaries to rise.” The petition, proposed by fac-
ulty and staff of the CFA, directly addresses Armstrong in three calls to action: • Put an immediate moratorium on the total amount paid to administrators • March the total of all administration salaries back to the 2010 level in the next three years • Tie future increases in the total of all administration salaries to increases in the total amount of faculty salaries Not only did some faculty cancel class in order to attend the event, but many students joined in as well. Student concerns involved the effects low faculty salaries ultimately have on
and philanthropy events. The alumni association is involved with organizing operations, but the fraternity is largely self-governed, according to Dennehy. “I was very surprised to hear that we can’t do philanthropy or community service events with other greek organizations,” he said. “Panhellenic and IFC has basically been
told to avoid us.” Kappa Chi’s lack of affiliation with a university or national office means it does not need to follow IFC rules. Even so Kappa Chi is striving to follow all IFC regulations so that if it is ever able to join Cal Poly greek life again, the fraternity won’t have to change how it operates, Dennehy said.
student success. “Faculty morale being low, that totally affects students,” industrial engineering freshman Matt Klepfer said. “Especially with the number of lecturers and the lack of full-time faculty. I was shocked, I didn’t expect that at an institution like this.” Some students were concerned about access to classes. “Yesterday was the first day of priority and two of the classes that I really needed to get were already full. So now I’m off track for graduation,” Isamar Hernandez, an agricultural communications sophomore said. “It’s just ridiculous that these administrators keep getting raises and
not enough money is being put back into our actual education.” A significant amount of students from the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences came out in support of faculty pay increases as well as to represent their own cause, calling themselves “The Students for Agriculture.” The group is concerned about the possibility of current agricultural lands being used as sites for new construction as part of the the school’s master plan update. The students are currently working on a petition and website to explain their cause. The group created a Facebook page, gaining over 280 likes in one day.
“All of the croplands, orchards, the arboretum — they’re all learning environments that we can’t just replicate,” crop science and horticulture senior Cody Wallace said. The group has set up a meeting open to all students with the Dean of the College of Agriculture to express their input on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Though the concerns about the master plan are a separate issue, both causes have one thing in common: the belief of investing in what Cal Poly already has and developing it. “It’s absolutely huge — being able to protect what we have right now,” Wallace said.
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7 things I learned from Laverne Cox Jordan Dunn
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Gender policing perpetuates society’s idea of the gender binary model.
Cox explained that assuming someone is male or female and harassing them for not conforming to the norms associated with that assumed gender does real damage. She used the example of the gender binary model for bathrooms, which shows a lack of inclusivity by only giving male and female options.
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Having a passion can be ‘life-saving.’
Cox went on to discuss her love for dance. She said because her mother had enrolled her in a dance class at such a young age, she was able to express herself and make goals for the future of her passion. This led her to eventually major in dance at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. “If you can find something in this world that you are truly passionate about, it can be life-saving,” she said.
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Suicide rates in the transgender community are significantly higher than that of the general population.
Forty-one percent of people who are transgender or gender-nonconforming have attempted suicide at some point in their lives, as opposed to a 1.6 percent suicide attempt rate among the general population, according to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey conducted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.
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Shame is not the same as humiliation.
Cox explained that shame is feeling like you are to blame or you are not worth what you truly are. She references Brene Brown’s TED Talk on shame to better explain how detrimental it can be to shame people who are transgender.
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Misgendering a trans person can be taken as an act of violence. She recalled her what it was like being “spooked” in New York City, which means other people were audibly commenting on the fact that she is transgender. Cox, who identifies as a woman, says “misgendering transgender people is an act of violence.”
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Hurt-people, hurt people. Cox described a scenario where a woman on a subway in New York city told her, “I think you should die.” Cox went on to explain the importance to “create spaces to heal from our pain so we don’t take it out on each other.”
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Knowledge is key in understanding and accepting. Cox explained that though she is a transgender woman herself, she used to have misconceptions of the way transgender people could live their lives based on what she had been exposed to at that point.
HARRISON CHEUNG | MUSTANG NE WS GIRL POWER | “Orange is the New Black” star Laverne Cox spoke in Chumash this past Thursday about transgender rights and issues. She brought up several points about transgender issues and her own experiences.
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The Audio Files: For the record Alyssa Stowers @KCPR913
For those who are unaware, Whole Foods now sells vinyl. I discovered this one Sunday afternoon while I was visiting my neighborhood Whole Foods market. While waiting in line to check out, I was allured by a display of vinyl records. Though I could envision myself lying in bed listening to all of these albums via the Web, the irrational music lover in me said I needed a copy of Arcade Fire’s latest release. Then, just 15 seconds later, I found myself completing one of the more bizarre grocery transactions of my life: kale, popcorn and an LP of Reflektor. When I got home, I gave the record a listen and tried to think of a relevant reason for why owning that particular album on vinyl was significant. Yes, I did enjoy hearing it, because it reminded me of happy times. Then again, those times occurred long after the days of pressing vinyl were supposedly over. What made owning it so special? After dwelling on it for the remainder of the evening, the peculiar connection between health foods and vinyl had dawned on me —
they both make you feel good inside. I then began to wonder: How had we managed to resurrect a nearly extinct format? The resurgence of vinyl can be accredited to many different factors. Some claim that the sound quality makes it enduringly special, but the unfortunate truth is that vinyl’s quality is only slightly better than a cassette tape that’s been buried in your glove box for the past two decades. After all, tape recorders were the essential stepping-stones between LPs and iPods. Made up of thousands of tiny bumps and grooves, records aren’t meant to play music as smooth as many born-again vinyl enthusiasts may suggest. Perhaps the static provides a sense of nostalgia to some, but most people who buy freshly pressed records weren’t even alive during vinyl’s glory days. More ironically, the majority of records people purchase weren’t released until recent years. Regardless, it’s no surprise our generation hopped on the bandwagon and bought into it. Just as with most trends, music is cyclical, and records are currently the format du jour. Therefore, it’s fitting that Jack White, the Arctic Monkeys and Lana Del Rey put out the top three selling LPs of 2014.
But people choose vinyl for various reasons. Whether they have more to do with the desire to own something tangible, or just the overwhelming influence of Urban Outfitters — currently the largest vinyl retailer — record sales are at an all-time high. Oddly enough, there seems to be a great disconnect between vinyl sales and the rest of the music industry. Almost all other music formats except for vinyl have been hit hard. For the first time ever, even digital downloads are declining thanks to the emergence of music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Tidal and SoundCloud. I personally enjoy collecting vinyl because it replaces the worry of expensive streaming membership fees or my computer unexpectedly crashing. I know that the records I own will always be mine. Whichever format you listen to, be sure to appreciate it. Music is one of life’s finest pleasures. I don’t know if anything will ever compare to the feeling I had while standing barefoot in the grass watching Arcade Fire perform. So perhaps next time you unexpectedly come across some vinyl, whether it’s at a Whole Foods or wherever, you should consider adding it to your cart.
70 years old and still groovin’: Boz Scaggs to take the PAC stage on May 19 Annie Vainshtein @AnnieVain
He’s funky. He’s seasoned. He’s groovy. He’s Boz Scaggs, and he’s about to fire it up. The critically acclaimed rock artist will hit the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center on May 19. Scaggs is touring on behalf
of his new album release, A Fool To Care. Cal Poly arts director Steve Lerian says the album has been well received, which is to be expected from “one of the greatest feel-good performers of the last half century.” “It’s an album you would expect from him, and it’s really well done,” he said.
Scaggs is a jack-of-all-trades, so
to speak, with a sound that ranges from blues to R&B, from rock to funk. Scaggs is perhaps best known for his 1976 album, Silk Degrees, which contains some of his greatest hits, such as “Lido Shuffle” and “Lowdown.” Tickets are available pre-sale, online at Polytix or at the door. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m.
JASON HUNG | MUSTANG NE WS VINYL COMEBACK
| Despite the dying breed of records, the music medium has spiked in popularity.
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Law enforcement is far from a problem Eric Stubben @ericstubben
Eric Stubben is a mechanical engineering junior and Mustang News conservative columnist. These views do not necessarily reflect the opinion or editorial coverage of Mustang News. Police brutality isn’t a topic that’s new. I’ve written about it more than once, and I’ll continue writing about it until I’ve exhausted all my thoughts. My point of view never becomes less taboo. I support law enforcement. Am I biased because I grew up with a father who was a police officer? Probably. But to that point, I’ve experienced many stories and emotions that helped develop my views, which many who protest law enforcement will never get the privilege or heartbreak of experiencing. Am I a week late to throwing my opinions into the ring of fire that Baltimore has become? Maybe. It’s probably healthier that way. My opinions are much more refined now than they were during the raw emotion that encompassed me as I watched media provide mass coverage to the Baltimore riots while all but ignoring the slayings of two police officers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The argument that police officers are inherently evil and the insinuation that our law enforcement system has a race problem got old a long time ago. In reality, nobody is arguing against the #BlackLivesMatter complaint. Nobody is arguing that law enforcement is perfect. But the constant notion that law enforcement is broken beyond simple repair is factually incorrect. So answer this: Why are people rioting in Baltimore?
Beyond the typical, unsupported answers somewhere along the lines of “Freddy Gray was murdered by a white police officer,” nobody can provide a factual answer to the question. Nobody knows what happened to Freddy Gray. At 8:46 a.m. on the morning of April 12, Gray was arrested and placed in a police van. Nearly an hour later, medics were called after the police van carrying Gray stopped and Gray was found in the back with a severe spinal chord injury. On one hand, it wouldn’t be the first time that a suspect
their controversial incidents took place. Gray was involved in 20 criminal court cases in Maryland, Garner had more than 30 arrests since 1980 and Brown was fresh off of stealing cigars from a market at the time of his death. Though these criminals live on in infamy in the minds of activists, police officers across the country are continually adversely affected by the public perception that law enforcement officers have some inherent evil. This negative public perception cannot only serve poorly for our law enforcement officers, but for the American public as well. A law enforcement force that is acutely under the eye of public scrutiny and is forced to record their every word and every movement is a law enforcement force that will not perform up to its highest potential. To address the arguments at hand that paint our law enforcement in a negative light, let’s look at arguments against law enforcement, then analyze why they’re wrong. First, many critics argue that law enforcement targets minorities in arrest-related killings. False. According to data from the FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics, arrest-related killings nearly mirror crime percentage by race. A second argument against law enforcement usually runs along the lines of law enforcement becoming increasingly militant. Fewer law enforcement officers are being killed in the line of duty while arrest-related deaths rise. Over the most recent comparable data from 2003 to 2009, this premise is false. Both law enforcement deaths and arrest-related deaths hover around a constant value over
My point is that law enforcement is not inherently evil. My goal is to persuade others to come to the same conclusion. ERIC STUBBEN
physically hurt himself in the back of a police vehicle to gain notoriety or distract from his or her criminal action. It’s also not impossible for a “bad apple” police officer to let his dark side see the light of day as he assaulted a suspect. All arguments go to show that we have no clue what happened to Freddie Gray. Yet all arguments in support of individuals such as Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and Michael Brown fail to address the crux of the entire debate: Why should we demonize law enforcement? Keep in mind that Gray, Garner and Brown combined for more than 50 criminal incidents in their respective lifetimes at the time that each of
the right angle the seven-year data span. The third argument often pointed out against law enforcement is their lack of trustworthiness. Often, law enforcement critics slyly suggest that law enforcement is continually becoming more and more incredible. Though there’s no way to argue trustworthiness, it’s important to note that America’s confidence in law enforcement has barely wavered over the years, according to Gallup. Ending this column, I just want to make my point clear. My point is that law enforcement is not inherently evil. My goal is to persuade others to come to the same conclusion.
My point is not to paint one race over another or to blame one race for any police violence. That would be incredibly untrue and incredibly unethical. Growing up in the heart of law enforcement, I take complaints hurled at law enforcement with vengeance. I’ll go down swinging while fighting the stereotype that law enforcement has an inherent evil. As Americans, we must understand that law enforcement is here for the greater good. Their job is complicated, their shifts are rough and their stereotypes are unfair. As we don’t let a few bad apples spoil a tree, don’t let a few rough officers define the rest.
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Track and field finishes third at Big West Championships
ALYSSA RAZO | CAL POLY ATHLETICS SPLASH | Sophomore Ivy Adair (above) and the rest of the Cal Poly track and field team concluded their season this weekend. Ten Mustangs were awarded All-Big West Conference honors and 13 of them set PR’s.
Jesse Summers @summers10jesse
At the Big West Conference Championships, victories in the 5,000-meter race by junior Nick Woolf and sophomore Molly Haar helped Cal Poly take third place overall at the meet held at UC Riverside this weekend. While Woolf edged the second-place competitor by less than one second to secure his
top time, Haar blew away the competition by racing nearly seven seconds faster than the runner-up, with a blistering time of 17:31.75. Haar previously recorded a 16:56.02 at the Bryan Clay invitational earlier in April, the top time for her team on the season. Despite performing short of her personal best, Haar still managed to outperform the rest of the field.
Freshman Sydney Szabo, junior Meghan Breadmore and sophomores Kylie Nishisaka and Michelle Read all placed in the top 10 in the 5,000-meter behind their first-place teammate. Junior Ashley Windsor placed second in the women’s 1,500-meter run, finishing with a 4:18.54 time, her new personal best. On the men’s side of the
1,500-meter run, 13 of the top 32 times were held by Cal Poly runners, well ahead of UC Santa Barbara’s six — the second highest amount by a team. Some notable times behind Woolf ’s first-place finish were sophomore Dimitri Voytilla’s 14:45.02, good for fourth place, followed by a fifthplace 14:46.88 by sophomore Clayton Hutchins. Junior Kendal Nielsen earned
a third-place spot in the women’s triple jump by landing 40 feet, 10.5 inches on her final attempt. Not only did she land her personal best with that jump, but also earned herself a spot in the school record book — her jump was fourth on the all-time list. Sophomore Ben Hartinger finished third in the men’s 110-meter hurdles with a 0:14.53 time.
Long Beach State took first place on the weekend, while UC Santa Barbara secured the runner-up spot. In all, 10 Mustangs earned All-Conference honors, while 13 set new personal records. The NCAA West Regional Meet will be held in Austin, Texas the last weekend of May, beginning on Thursday, May 28. Cal Poly athletes are now waiting for invitations to the meet.