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Marijuana and Cal Poly A before and after look at campus under Prop 64 CAMPUS CANNABIS

MAT T L AL ANNE | MUSTA NG NE W S

| With the legalization of marijuana in California, the University Police Department believes that there will be an increase in possession at Cal Poly if dispensaries begin opening in 2018.

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As a federally-funded institution, using or possessing marijuana is prohibited at Cal Poly. Possession rates have declined on campus since 2014. However, now that recreational marijuana is legal in California, University Police Department (UPD) Chief George Hughes expects an uptick in possession if dispensaries begin opening in 2018.

Marijuana at Cal Poly In the past 10 years, the highest number of marijuana-related campus violations was in 2014. That year, there were 47 on-campus and five off-campus cases of possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. In addition, there were two possessions of concentrated cannabis and 207 other cannabisrelated violations. Since then, the number of other cannabis violations has decreased nearly 18 percent

with 165 violations reported in 2016. So far this year, five narcotic citations have been issued with 51 total calls for service. It is unclear how many of those are marijuana-related, according to Hughes. For the category of reports classified as ‘other cannabis violations,’ Hughes stated that the total reports can account for various violations. Anything from complaints filed for smelling marijuana to

students being caught smoking on campus property is included in this category. UPD doesn’t respond for service calls in the city, but California Education Code Section 89560 allows UPD officers jurisdiction within a mile radius around campus, which is accounted for in offcampus violations. Explaining changes in state law Under Proposition 64, adults

over 21 are able to possess and use recreational marijuana in private homes or businesses licensed for marijuana consumption on-site. Individuals can possess less than an ounce of marijuana and less than eight grams of concentrated marijuana and can cultivate up to six plants per household. MARIJUANA continued on page 2

Eight upcoming festivals to check out Carly Quinn @ carlyquinnMN

While pictures of Coachella Music and Arts Festival flooded Instagram feeds, the Electric Daisy Carnival line-up was released and tickets to Outside Lands were sold, several other smaller festivals were preparing for a summer of music.

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If these big-name festivals are too crowded and expensive, there are plenty of others happening this summer and fall. They’re intimate, unique and cheaper than the mainstream must-go festivals. There’s one for just about any music lover. FESTIVALS continued on page 5

MEGAN SCHELLONG | MUSTA NG NE W S

| President Trumps’ executive order may allow offshore oil and gas drilling in areas along the Atlantic and Artic Oceans.

Central Coast not named in offshore drilling executive order Megan Schellong @meganschellong

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 28 that would allow for the expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling along portions of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, but does not explicitly mention the Central Coast. The executive order, “America-First Offshore Energy Strategy,” was proposed to reduce the amount of oil imported from

overseas and to increase economic growth in the United States. “I think it’s putting America last when you consider that the world is moving forward with exploring new renewable energy sources,” Rep. Salud Carbajal said. The order will undo former President Barack Obama’s plan to prohibit offshore drilling off the coasts of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and California coast from 2017 to 2022.

“I don’t enjoy going down to the Santa Barbara Channel and looking at a bunch of rigs in the ocean,” Dean Wendt, Cal Poly’s director of the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences, said. “There’s a huge aesthetic impact that happens when we build these rigs. They call it the ‘view shed’ and that alters peoples’ experiences with [the] coastline as well.” Concerns surrounding offshore drilling often stem from previous offshore drilling-related

incidents. For example in 1969, nearly three million gallons of oil spilled into Santa Barbara’s oceans, enough to fill four and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools. Union Oil, the company responsible for the rig, built a barrier around the drilling hole that was 61 feet short of the federal requirements at the time, the Los Angeles Times reported. DRILLING continued on page 3

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The state anticipates having licenses for medical and recreational marijuana businesses in January 2018. Businesses will be required to obtain state licenses and potentially local licenses if ordered by city governments. Two new excise taxes will be implemented around marijuana cultivation and retail selling prices: $9.25 per ounce of dried marijuana flower, $2.75 per ounce of marijuana leaf and a 15 percent tax on retail prices. Medical marijuana will be exempt from some taxation. The revenue from these taxes will be deposited into a new California Marijuana Tax Fund. The proceeds will first be applied to administration costs and then to

MUSTANG NEWS drug research, treatment and law enforcement. Individuals who have completed sentences that are reduced under the measure can also apply to the courts to have their criminal records changed. Campus policies In compliance with the DrugFree Workplace Act of 1988, some federal contractors and all grantees must agree to provide a drug-free environment as a prerequisite for receiving federal funding, including Cal Poly. Even those with valid medical marijuana licenses are required to exit campus before smoking. On April 7, Executive Order 1108 went into effect, overriding all existing California State University (CSU) campus policies around smoking and tobac-

co. CSU campus presidents are asked to maintain smoke and tobacco-free campuses and develop an implementation plan and task force. At Cal Poly, there is a Substance Use and Abuse Advisory Committee in place. “Our goal in enforcement is to deter the illegal activity from occurring again and we partner with Housing and [the] Counseling Center to proactively educat[e] the campus community about illegal drug and alcohol use,” Hughes said. “If a policy violation is found, we work with Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities (OSSR) to properly educate the student to hopefully not do it again.” The OSSR first examines the student’s conduct to determine if the potential violation is a repeated behavior. If evidence of a violation

is found, students are called in for an informal meeting to determine if sanctions need to be issued. At the end of the day, the OSSR said it wants to see students succeed. “We want to be restorative and educational, not punitive,” OSSR Director David Groom said. “We like to use language that’s not legal because we don’t want to confuse students that this is a criminal process.” A student’s story Natalie Montoya is a landscape architecture senior and the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) representative on the University Union Advisory Board. Montoya suffers from ocular migraines and when morphine wasn’t working, a friend suggested

she try smoking marijuana. “Migraines were so much more manageable,” Montoya said. “Morphine didn’t help, weed did.” Montoya also began to smoke marijuana to cope with trauma. By the end of her freshman year at Cal Poly, Montoya was sexually assaulted three different times. As a result, Montoya said she developed PTSD and sought help from a counselor. “When I was a freshman, a counselor told me not to get my case looked at because no one would believe me,” Montoya said. Montoya said the counselor did not help and navigating social situations became difficult and often anxiety-inducing. “I would be in social situations where I’d see my rapist’s face and freak out. I would think everyone was hitting on me,” Montoya said.

Montoya first tried marijuana in high school, but didn’t become an occasional smoker until it was introduced as a way to help navigate trauma. “When I understood how to use marijuana as medicine, it helped me get through PTSD, functioning in daily life and migraines,” Montoya said. Montoya firmly holds the position that drug and alcohol offenses shouldn’t dissuade anyone from getting involved in student government or other activism. Montoya is involved with various programs and task forces at Cal Poly, such as the external affairs committee and sustainability task force for ASI. “I don’t want people to feel like just because you’re a pot smoker that you don’t deserve a voice or to be respected,” Montoya said.

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| In compliance with the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988, it is a prerequisite for Cal Poly to provide a drug-free environment in order to still receive federal funding.

Property crime in SLO spikes, violent crime on the decline Brendan Matsuyama @ CPMustangNews

Property crime in San Luis Obispo increased drastically in the past two years. Meanwhile, violent crime has declined since a 19-year high in 2014. In 2015, San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) reported the most property crime offenses of any law enforcement agency in the county. At 1,844 offenses for the year, the city of San Luis Obispo accounted for 28.3 percent of the county’s property crime. San Luis Obispo accounted for 28.1 percent of the county’s violent crime at 240 offenses in 2015.

Property and violent crime in SLO 2015 During the same period, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department reported the most cases of violent crime at 324 and second most cases of property crime at 1,347 in the county. Cal Poly reported 163 property crime and three violent crime offenses. Since then, overall crime increased by 11 percent, according to SLOPD Chief Deanna Cantrell. This is down from the 21 percent increase in crime between 2014 and 2015. Cantrell presented these and other key crime statistics to the San Luis Obispo City Council in March, outlining the changes in property and violent crime rates over the past year. These statistics are included in the annual Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from law enforcement agencies across the United States and are available online. Property crime According to SLOPD, there were 2,076 known cases of property crime in 2016. This is a 12.6 percent increase from 2015 and a 44.27 percent increase from 2014. Under FBI standards, property crime includes burglary (commercial and residential), larceny theft (theft from a vehicle, shoplifting and other petty theft) and motor vehicle theft. SLO city crime property crime 2012-2016 This translates to approximately 4,406.1 property crimes per 100,000 people or 1 property crime every four hours and 13 minutes. According to the UCR, San Luis Obispo’s 2016 property crime rate is the highest since 2004 when the crime rate was 4,410.4 property crimes

per 100,000 people. The UCR also reported that the total number of property crimes in San Luis Obispo in 2016 was higher than in any year since 1985 when the FBI began reporting data for individual city law enforcement agencies. The next highest year was 1998 at 2,064 total property crimes.

and 26 cases of arson in 2016. This is a 8.7 percent decrease since 2015 and a 25.1 percent decrease since 2014. The UCR includes murder, non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, aggravated assault and rape within the violent crime category.

Property crime in SLO In a news release posted by SLOPD on March 17, Cantrell attributed the significant increase in property crime to the passage of Proposition 47. Cantrell stated that the referendum that was passed in 2014 reduced the deterrents for petty theft. “The increase in overall crime locally and statewide can be partially attributed to Proposition 47, which reduced certain drug possession felonies and some thefts under $950 from felonies to misdemeanors,” Cantrell said. “Misdemeanor probation carries little or no supervision ... Rehabilitation efforts without consequences for lack of cooperation fail and translate directly to more crime, particularly property crime.” Thefts from vehicles increased by 133.7 percent from 288 offenses in 2014 to 673 offenses in 2016. Cantrell attributed this increase to poor security practices among San Luis Obispo residents. “The increase in thefts from cars – up 52 percent over [2015] – reflects, in part, a cultural issue in the city with people failing to lock their doors and remove items of value due to a false sense of security,” Cantrell said.

SLO city violent crime 20122016 Prior to 2014, the definition of rape used by SLOPD in its UCR reporting was restricted to penetrative intercourse against a woman’s will and attempts. After 2014, the definition expanded to include any non-consensual vaginal or anal penetration with any body part or object or oral intercourse and attempts. Both definitions exclude statutory rape where no force was used. In 2016, the approximate violent crime rate in San Luis Obispo was 379.9 offenses per 100,000 people. This was the lowest point since 2013 when the violent crime rate was 349.3 offenses per 100,000 people according to the UCR. Although there were marginal increases in robberies and rapes, the number of aggravated assaults dropped from 146 in 2015 to 118 in 2016. Up until 2015, the number of aggravated assaults had steadily increased since 2010. During her presentation to the city council, Cantrell alluded to public awareness efforts and new strategies as a possible cause for the decrease in violent crime and the slowing of the increase of overall crime. According to the UCR, there have been no known murders in San Luis Obispo since 2012. The largest number of murder cases in a single year since reporting began was in 2007 and 1989 at three cases.

Violent crime According to SLOPD, there were 179 known cases of violent crime — as defined by the FBI UCR —

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MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 DRILLING continued from page 1

“We have to ask ourselves, ‘Is it ecologically possible to do oil and gas development off the coast without adverse consequences?’ So far, history tells us no,” environmental policy and planning professor Greg Brown said. Brown and other Cal Poly biological sciences professors cited the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969, the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and the Deep Water Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico

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in 2010. In the Exxon Valdez incident, more than 4,000 sea otters, birds and ducks were killed. In addition to the toll the spill took on marine life, tourism also suffered. After the Deep Water Horizon spill, a study conducted by the Louisiana Office of Tourism found that 26 percent of people planning to visit canceled or delayed their trips. While opponents of the order say Trump’s policy will create more threats to the environment and the tourism industry, proponents say that expand-

ing the oil and gas industry will stimulate job growth. As of April 2017, the oil and gas extraction industry employed 181,000 people, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the executive order, Trump says the expansion will “benefit American families and help reinvigorate American manufacturing and job growth.” However, job growth has been increasing in the renewable energy field as well. In 2016, the solar workforce rose by 26 percent while wind energy employment increased by 32

percent, according to the 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER). A May 2 report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration found that wind energy accounted for the greatest source of “operating electric generating capacity in the United States in 2016.” “Most of the public supports economic growth, but what it doesn’t like is putting development in places that are sensitive,” Brown said. Part of the executive order calls for a review of current

marine sanctuaries and prohibits additional sanctuaries from being created, like the proposed Chumash National Heritage, which would stretch 10,000 square miles from Cambria to Gaviota. “He’s going after sanctuaries in particular because he knows they protect us from offshore drilling,” director of the San Luis Obispo Sierra Club chapter Andrew Christie said. Under the Obama administration, marine sanctuaries were expanded across the nation from the East to West Coast.

Before he left office, Obama multiplied the protected area of Hawaii’s Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument by nearly four times, to 582,578 square miles of land and sea. While the Central Coast’s waters are not named in this order, local political leaders don't see value in the proposed vision for the other designated planning areas in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. “There’s no good logic behind what he is doing. He is placing politics over good policy for our country,” Carbajal said.

MEGAN SCHELLONG | MUSTA NG NE W S

| While the Central Coast was not a region explicity named in the executive order, local politicians are concerned about the effects it will have on the environment and the tourism industry if targeted.

Interns create change at City Hall Austin Linthicum @austinlinthicum

Only a few months into her term, San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon is making changes from City Hall. For the first time, the mayor is backed by a team of interns from Cal Poly, working on everything from housing reform to immigration policies. Harmon said the need for interns began when she realized she had more ideas for the community than hours to accomplish them. While hundreds of people work for the city, Harmon doesn’t have any staff that report directly to her. “I run the council meetings and I am supposed to be at ribbon cuttings,” Harmon said. “That’s basically all that is delineated in the city charter for my job.” With flexibility in her duties as mayor, Harmon saw student interns as a way to bring young people into the political process and give them the opportunity to help create tangible change. “It’s one thing to have a lot of

ideas, but obviously I can’t implement to [the] highest level on my own,” Harmon said. “My interns are really great for that.” The mayor’s nine interns work on projects ranging from implementing a program in which Harmon walks with residents from every neighborhood as a form of community outreach, to researching ways to handle housing shortages. Cal Poly interns also review the backgrounds of people Harmon meets with, manage Harmon’s outreach efforts and keep up with policies being implemented in surrounding cities. “You have a lot of agency in what you do,” philosophy sophomore Jacob Watson said. “You are actually affecting real issues.” The student interns primarily work virtually, but meet with Harmon and city staff periodically to discuss the projects they are assigned. Political science sophomore Lindsey Wallace applied for the internship after a professor sparked her interest in local government. “When I interviewed with May-

or Harmon, I saw that she actually cares and wants to make positive change in the city,” Wallace said. “That gave me a lot of hope and inspired me to apply.” Liberal arts and engineering studies junior Bryce Fauble became friends with Harmon while campaigning for Bernie Sanders in the primary elections. After she was elected mayor, he reached out and has been working with Harmon ever since. At the forefront of all the interns’ minds is improving the relationship between Cal Poly students and the city — one they say is rapidly improving. “Sometimes it feels like the city wants to push us out,” Watson said. “Mayor Harmon wanted to combat that viewpoint. It is starting to feel more like we are all SLO residents now.” While Harmon says she’s ecstatic to be mayor, she admits the job is more of a paid volunteer position. “We are all engaged because we care,” Harmon said. “I feel like an intern myself, really!”

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AUSTIN LINTHICUM | MUSTA NG NE W S

| Mayor Harmon is the first in her position to hire student interns from Cal Poly..

SLO chooses not to directly enforce federal civil immigration laws James Hayes Connor McCarthy @ CPMustangNews

San Luis Obispo City Council passed a resolution in April that declared the city welcoming to everyone, regardless of immigration status and continued its current policy of not directly enforcing federal civil immigration laws. However, this does not make San Luis Obispo a sanctuary city. According to a press release from the City

of San Luis Obispo, this is an important distinction. A sanctuary city is defined in the press release as “local jurisdictions that in some way limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities, typically by refusing to honor detention requests from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).” In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order denying federal funding to sanctuary cities,

but the resolution passed by the San Luis Obispo City Council does not exempt the city from federal funding. San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon said this resolution is a way to show support and limit risk for immigrants. “[The resolution] is a way of saying we are standing with all the people in this community regardless of their immigration status,” Harmon said. “We wanted to do the best we could to make it as clear as possible

that we’re standing with those folks without creating any more risk for them.” Despite this new resolution, undocumented residents may still be at risk. “We can only control our own local jurisdiction and our own local police force,” Harmon said. “The federal government is still able to come into any community with immigration informants and do their own processes.” San Luis Obispo Police Department Police Chief Deanna Cantrell said that their

main purpose is to keep the public safe. “With that in mind, we don’t ask people their status — whether they are considered potential victims, witnesses or suspects,” Cantrell said. “Of course, undocumented immigrants who commit serious and/or violent crimes should be subject to federal immigration laws, but our local police do not have the jurisdiction or legal authority to enforce immigration law.”

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On-campus slack-lining rules open to revision

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CURRENT LAW | Because designated locations and poles for slack-lining do not exist on Cal Poly’s campus, slack-lining is banned altogether. The university’s main concern is the safety of students and trees.

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There are countless ways students can enjoy the great outdoors. From bike riding to rock climbing, there are a variety of outlets to blow off some steam. One activity in particular that has increased in popularity is slack-lining, where people attempt to walk across a line of webbing material suspended a few feet above the ground

between two trees or poles. However, on-campus slack-liners walk another fine line since the campus’ ban on slack-lining. Under an interim policy established in early 2015, limitations were put in place regarding where and how slack-lining could be practiced on campus. The university’s main concern was the safety of both students and trees. These concerns stemmed from the dangers of climbing trees

to attach lines and performing aerial tricks. Students were also using lines without bark protection on trees that were not wide enough in diameter, according to Director of Stratexgic Projects and Landscape Services member Scott Loosely. This was worrisome because trees are an important aspect of Cal Poly’s landscape and must be preserved for academic, architectural and horticultural purposes.

When the policy’s draft was released in late 2014, a group of slack-liners attended a campus landscape committee meeting. They were told that if a document was drafted following San Luis Obispo’s addendum specifying slack-lining locations and meeting protection requirements, the committee would be willing to review it. Nothing was ever submitted. Additionally, University Housing planned to build slack-lining

poles in “designated locations,” as stated in the policy (334.1.3334.1.3.4.9), specifically behind the North Mountain, Fremont Hall and Sierra Madre residence halls. This plan was never put into action. Because the designated locations and poles do not exist, slack-lining is essentially banned all together. However, Cal Poly’s slack-lining situation could be resolved in the future.

“I think if there was a sanctioned slack-lining club and we came up with a legitimate policy that mimicked the city’s ordinance, we’d look at it again,” Loosely said. “It’s just that nobody’s come forward with that since and so it sits where it is.” The campus’ policy on slack-lining will remain the same until action is taken, such as students voicing their concerns and creating an official campus slack-lining club.

Thrills and skills combined through aerial silk Anjana Melvin @ CPMustangNews

They look ethereal, hanging from the ceiling, their bodies moving in impossible directions in the air with only a ribbon to hold onto. Aerial silk acrobatics are anything but easy and take enormous body strength. For animal science senior Gianna Milano, the journey to learn aerial arts came with some bruises and aching muscles. For her, they serve

as faint reminders of how much effort she puts into learning every move. Milano decided to try aerial silks after watching her sister who started in community college and followed the performance art professionally. “I started it the summer before I came to Cal Poly,” Milano said. “When I got here I really missed it, so I found this studio a year and a half ago and have been doing it consecutively ever since.” Aerial silk acrobatics consist of

multiple moves including climbs, footlocks and drops. Though the artists make these complicated moves look effortless, they don’t start doing the moves in the air until they’ve mastered them close to the ground with mats to catch them if they fall. When performing drops, acrobats rotate their bodies to strike a different pose, sliding farther down the rope. These moves are dangerous; Milano said her sister had one drop named “straddle strap death drop.”

“One of the girls here that does rope, she just made one up and they call it ‘tell my mother I love her,’ but there are like four or five drops in the entire thing,” Milano said. Depending on the time of year, Milano practices a couple hours each week. She has about six shows a year and those performances are coming up, she’s at the gym three times a week for two hours. For Milano, the gym has become very much like a family now, open to people of

all ages and skill levels, with everyone teaching and critiquing each other so that they are all at their best. For a climber like Milano, aerial arts is very finger and forearm intensive because every routine is centered around the artist’s grip on the silks. If she doesn’t continuously practice, it takes a while to get back into the groove. “You have to continuously come and that’s the same with every sport, you have to keep doing it,” she said. “I really like

that it’s different. I like being a part of something that not everybody does.” Though aerial arts isn’t a conventional sport and not for the faint of heart, Milano suggests everyone should try it at least once. “I can show you these videos and you’ll be like, ‘Oh, that’s really cool,’” Milano said. “But until you’re in person in the studio, you won’t really get it. It’s such a different environment that you don’t get anywhere else.”

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SILK SKILLS | Aerial silk acrobatics include multiple moves such as climbs, footlocks and drops. The acrobat suspends from a piece of silk hanging from the ceiling, using immese strength to hold themselves up.

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MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 FESTIVALS continued from page 1

Lightning in a Bottle Less than an hour away from San Luis Obispo, this electronic arts and music festival has gained popularity in recent years. Riding the new wave of transformative festivals, Lightning in a Bottle is a place to discover new ways of life, ideas and mindsets while jamming out to headliners like Bassnectar, Kaytranada and TroiBoi. Woogie Weekend Inspired by the Woogie Stage at Lightning in a Bottle, Woogie Weekend welcomes house and techno lovers to a camp-out just for them. Claptone, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Damian Lazarus are making appearances at this year’s festival. DirtyBird Campout The renowned house label Dirtybird, started by DJ Claude Von Stroke, began with Dirtybird BBQ’s in San Francisco,

mixing delicious food with bumping house and techno vibes. The festival is equipped with team games, cabins, tents, and of course lots of barbecuing to accommodate the passionate and growing fan base. The lineup includes the Dirtybird crew along with friends like Green Velvet and Maximono from 2016.

FYF Fest Held in the heart of Los Angeles, the FYF Fest has brought a variety of great music in one event to Southern California since 2004. From Cherry Glazerr to Frank Ocean to Nine Inch Nails to Mura Masa, FYF Fest has an array of great acts to experience during the three-day extravaganza.

Northern Lights Festival The Northern Lights Festival can be found deep in the redwoods, surrounded by art, open-minded people and music. Four different stages will hold names such as G Jones, Justin Jay and Cherub.

The Untz Festival Bassheads can find their home at the Untz Festival, with four stages and a self-growth and community healing temple as well. Get down to some soul-shaking wubs and wobbles with Space Jesus, Yheti and The Librarian.

KAABOO KAABOO brings its attendees not only music, but comedy, fine cuisine and other indulgences. While they don’t consider themselves a festival, KAABOO aims to bring ticket-holders a comfortable and unique experience, all while getting to hear the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ice Cube and Milky Chance.

California Roots Music and Arts Festival In addition to music, this coastal festival hosts yoga sessions, live and displayed art and a plethora of green initiatives with information booths to spread environmental awareness. With a solid reggae lineup, festival-goers can expect to see The Dirty Heads, Iration and Collie Buddz.

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SOPHIA O’KEEFE | MUSTA NG NE W S

| A ticket to Coachella Music and Arts Festival starts at around $400 for three days.

If these big-name festivals are too crowded and expensive, there are plenty of others happening this summer and fall.

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CONTEST WINNER

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#HEALTHYHACKS Say goodbye to brain fog with a refreshing power fruit smoothie from Lucy’s. It’s packed with the essential nutrients your body needs to stay energized and focused. (Registered Dietitian approved)

PCV GRILL AND CHILL Stroll down to PCV on Wednesday, May 10 between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. for free mouthwatering Santa Maria-style BBQ. Our chefs will be grilling up tasty tri tip and veggie kabobs for the first 100 students. They’ll grill, you’ll chill!

PLU$ DOLLARS AND SENSE SOPHIA O’KEEFE | MUSTA NG NE W S

We are now 35 days into school! Students in residence halls should have about $826 Plu$ dollars left to spend this quarter and apartment students should have about $630 Plu$ dollars left.

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Neil Sandhu @ CPMustangNews

Neil Sandhu is a biomedical engineering senior and Mustang News opinion editor. The views expressed in this column do not reflect the viewpoints and editorial coverage of Mustang News. As I hack away at my keyboard, my roommate is on hour 35 of an all-out war against his senior project. He’s usually a handsome guy and a hit with everyone he meets. Right now, however, he looks like something elementary schools show their students as a scare tactic to stop them from doing drugs. His story is quite common; in fact it is all of our stories at some point in our college careers. All-nighters enjoy the same ubiquity on college campuses as textbooks and free condoms. They aren’t always avoidable, either. Sometimes life throws you a curveball and you have no choice but to burn the midnight oil in the numbing silence of the 24hour section of Kennedy Library. What’s terrifying to me isn’t that the 24-hour section looks like how Windows 8 would look if Windows 8 were furniture. At least, it’s not just that. What re-

Sleep on it: Tired of the competition ally scares me is the shameless sense of pride we all feel from our lack of sleep. On average, college students get about six or seven hours of sleep per night, which isn’t all that bad. Seven hours is enough to ward off delirium and still make it through the day without your cerebral hemispheres rolling brown-outs like L.A. during a hot summer. However, despite these promising averages, self-reporting studies still show that 20 percent of students are willing to admit they pull all-nighters at least once per month. Although there is no way to tell if these numbers are inflated, they are indicative of a trend I’ve become all too aware of: we are proud of how little we sleep. It’s nearly impossible to slump down into an 8 a.m. class without overhearing a peer bragging about how little they slept the night before. All-nighter stories are like the “fishing stories” of secondary education; they are filled with harrowing tales of conquest and triumph. The stories portray the students reaching some Ad-

derall and caffeine-induced nirvana where they achieve a level of efficiency usually reserved for perpetual motion machines. (Editors note: the issue of studyaid abuse on college campuses is too nuanced to properly address

long their work week is. It is easy to recognize the correlation between hours spent on the job and dedication to your field. As students, no one clocks how many individual hours we spend studying, finishing labs or tirelessly tap-tap-tapping away on a keyboard at SLO Donut Co. Instead, the only aggregate measure of our work ethic is how little time we spend tucked away in our beds. D on’t get me wrong, being proud of how hard you work is by no means a bad thing. I am not advocating for students to work less or even claiming we are all working as hard as we should. I am merely questioning the way we measure our own drive. Sleep is important. It helps lower hypertension, increase sex drive, decrease depression and improve attention span. It may not be entirely understood, but it is widely regarded as the most important part of our daily routines. By taking pride in how little sleep we get, we are all participating in the glorification of self-sabotage.

What really scares me is the shameless sense of pride we all feel from our lack of sleep. in this article, but it is important to recognize that it is a dangerous and trying issue in itself). The point is that we have begun to measure our work ethic by how little we sleep and as a result have began to take pride in it. For people in full-time jobs, work ethic is measured by how

Obviously the topic of sleep deprivation is less sensitive and emotionally charged than other forms of self-harm, but it still perpetuates a culture that puts our own health second to our own success. By using lack of sleep as a metric for our work ethic, we are convoluting an unhealthy habit with a point of pride. If our poor sleep is our primary means of measuring our drive, then it is easy for students to fall into the trap of thinking that sleeping less will bring them more success. It is important we divorce the two ideas and start giving student health the dedication it deserves while still being proud of our work. If we stop thinking of our sleep as a currency we can spend for success, we might be able to make it through a morning class without someone bragging about our ever-shortening life span. So to my roommate and the rest of you who have watched the sun rise this week, by all means, keep on trucking. Just don’t be ashamed to tap out once in a while.

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The rise of Mitch Haniger

Erik Engle @erik_engle

It was June 2015 and as the dog days of midseason baseball started to heat up, Mitch Haniger’s baseball career was cooling down. A former first-round draft pick by the Milwaukee Brewers, Haniger was once touted by the organization as a top prospect with home-runmashing power and a rifle for an arm in the outfield. Just three short years later, he had been traded to the Diamondbacks and was stuck as a backup outfielder in their Double-A affiliate in Mobile, Alabama. Turning his career around The front office that traded for Haniger a year earlier was fired in the offseason. At this point, his career began to blend in with the hundreds of other career minor-leaguers that never get their chance in the major league. Haniger was dangerously close to baseball purgatory and he knew he needed to make a change. “In my mind, being the fourth or fifth outfielder in Double-A not playing very much, playing one day a week, nobody made it to the big leagues doing that,” Haniger said. “By going down, I felt I had my chance to open eyes and really prove myself to people.” Haniger reworked his approach at the plate with hitting coach Bobby Tewksbary to regain the power that had escaped him in recent months and revived his career. Although his 2015 season with the High-A Visalia Rawhide was cut short in August by a hand injury, Haniger proved in his three months with the team that he deserved more playing time at a higher level. Haniger started 2016 back in Double-A and, over the course of the season, was called up to Tri-

ple-A and eventually to the majors. Over the course of his 2016 season at the three different levels Haniger crushed 30 home runs and 111 RBIs. “With the D-Backs I had to change a lot of minds because I don’t think anybody thought that I was gonna be that guy,” Haniger said. “There’s always teams watching, whether it’s your club or someone else’s, so if you just go out there and be yourself and play hard there’s always a spot for you.” His prolific production at the plate combined with his strong arm and athleticism drew the attention of Jerry Dipoto, the newly hired General Manager of the Seattle Mariners. In the 2016 offseason, one day before Thanksgiving, Haniger got a call from the Mariners

... if you just go out there and be yourself and play hard there’s always a spot for you. MITCH HANIGER

informing him that he had been traded for the second time in his five-year career. Just before the phone rang, Haniger had made plans to hang out with his childhood best friend, Elliot Stewart. Haniger and Stewart were friends from elementary school and played baseball together at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California and at Cal Poly as well. Just five minutes after Haniger got the phone call that would

change the course of his career, Stewart showed up at the door. “He wasn’t bummed out, but he was in shock,” Stewart said. “The more that night went on and the more we talked about it, he seemed really fired up and then got really positive about things.” That positivity has turned into major production on the field for Haniger. Though he is currently out for three to four weeks with an oblique strain, he is an early candidate for the American League Rookie of the Year award. This season, Haniger is ranked in the top five in the American League in runs scored (20) and batting average (.342), while his on-base percentage (.447) is currently first in the American League.

The beginning Haniger now sits on the brink of baseball stardom, but while growing up in Santa Clara, California, it was his older brother, Jason, who was the prized prospect out of Archbishop Mitty High School. Under the tutelage of the Monarchs’ former head coach, Bill Hutton, Jason won two section titles en route to earning a spot on the all-state team and a scholarship to Georgia Tech. According to Hutton, Jason’s success helped foster the perfect conditions for the younger Mitch to achieve his maximum potential. “Even when Mitch was in little league and kind of lost in the shadow of his brother, he was already showing freakish power,” Hutton said. “So even though Jason was the man, a strong catcher on a good team and heavily recruited, the younger guy was hitting home runs like nobody’s business in little league.” Mitch knew by the time he was in high school that playing profes-

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| Haniger could be a candidate for American League Rookie of the Year this season.

sional baseball one day was within his reach, but he remained focused on the next goal in front of him the entire way. “For me it was just kinda one step at a time,” Haniger said. “In high school it was all about trying to get a scholarship to play in college.” Coming to Cal Poly Despite Haniger’s production at one of the top high school programs in the country, Cal Poly head coach Larry Lee was not entirely convinced at first that he would be a successful college player. Haniger knew he wanted to go to Cal Poly, so he and coach Hutton invited Lee back four or five times to showcase his abilities. Eventually, Lee offered him a scholarship. Immediately after signing with Cal Poly, Haniger began to campaign for the Mustangs to bring in his friend Stewart, who was playing catcher for West Valley College at the time. Interestingly enough, the Mustangs had thought about bringing in Stewart earlier, but thought he had already signed a scholarship offer from another college.

“Once they found out that he was still searching for a school to commit with, they came out to West Valley and saw him,” Haniger said. “They liked him enough that they brought him down to Cal Poly.” The two friends set out for college, even living together in the residence halls to ease the transition to southern California from the San Francisco Bay Area. Their friendship served as a rock for Haniger throughout college which made focusing on baseball that much easier. “We’ve been close ever since and he’s still one of my best friends to this day,” Haniger said. “He’s been awesome and [I] try to hang out as much as I can when I’m home in the offseason.” Today, Stewart serves as a volunteer assistant coach for the Mustangs, a position he likely never would have reached without Haniger’s recruitment. Haniger also had another emotional rock to help keep him focused on his goals. He and his wife, Amanda Haniger, have been together since Mitch was a fresh-

man in high school. According to Stewart, Mitch’s relationship with Amanda continues to keep him on track in his baseball career. “They’ve been together forever and she’s been awesome through the whole thing back when Mitch was a skinny, 110-pound nerdy freshman with all the potential in the world and now he’s crushing homers in the big leagues,” Stewart said. “That’s really helped him. All these other guys are out there scrounging for a girlfriend and he’s got that steady rock that keeps him in line and keeps distraction away.” Along his journey to the major leagues, Mitch never lost sight of his goal. Even during tumultuous times in Mobile, Alabama, he always had confidence in where he would end up. “Its kind of a long journey, definitely a lot of ups and downs,” Haniger said. “It’s tough being away from home and in some smaller, tougher cities at times, but you got to just keep believing in yourself and trying to just go out there and be who I know I am and play baseball.”