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STUDENTS ‘CALL ON BINI’

Colombini wins a landmark election with 3,720 votes, making him the first male ASI president in five years. SEAN MCMINN

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Just as he hoped they would, students “called on Bini” this week and elected agribusiness junior Jason Colombini into office as the next president of Associated Students, Inc. (ASI). A mob of students wearing shirts with his signature “Call on Bini” slogan collapsed on Colombini as ASI Recruitment and Development Committee Chair Kate Calkins announced the results Thursday afternoon. Colombini nearly collapsed himself, holding on to the campaign team to keep himself steady. Approximately 40 percent of students voted in the election,

which current ASI president and sociology senior Katie Morrow said marks a new record for Cal Poly. That’s not the only landmark in this election: Colombini will also be the first male ASI president since 2008. “(I am) speechless, just all over the place,” he said minutes after learning of his victory. “This is all surreal. I’m shaking. I can’t even take it all in right now … I can’t even talk, honestly.” Results posted on ASI’s website show Colombini seized a decisive majority of votes after an instant-run-off tiebreaker. His 3,720 votes eclipsed those earned by his nearest competitor, sociology senior Haley

Houle. She took 2,358, while political science junior Daniel Wasta barely reached 1,000 votes. Last-place Nate Honeycutt received 744. During Calkins’ announcement in the University Union Plaza, she said the race ended in an instant run-off because no single candidate received more than 50 percent of votes. In order to complete the run-off, ASI added to vote totals the secondplace rankings for those who voted for Honeycutt, since he came in last place. University President Jeffrey Armstrong, who was not present during the announcement, sent Colombini a text message after Chief of Staff Betsy Kinsley

told him the results. Armstrong said he plans to begin working with Colombini this quarter to help with the transition. “I’m really delighted that we had four really good candidates running for ASI, and it’s one of those things in life that only one person prevails,” Armstrong said. “Jason’s going to be an excellent ASI president.” During the campaign, Colombini used his platform to emphasize servant leadership. He said he would make it his top goal to represent students, and would forego some of the traditional perks of being ASI president.

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Haley Houle supporters react as Houle comes in second in the race with 2,358 votes.

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Brothers ‘Hope on Bikes’ to promote fair trade of the classes he was teaching, and since then I’ve been his lab assistant for three years,” Garrett said. Project Hope and Fairness aims to promote the use of fair trade food, particularly chocolate. “We have three missions,” Neuhaus said. “The purpose is to bring tools to cocoa farmers, to let people know about the problems with the cocoa trade and with child labor issues, and to build a cocoa study center.” Garrett and Brandon plan on leaving the week after the spring term is over, and are looking to spend approximately eight weeks on the road. “It looks like we’ll be leaving the week after school gets out, so probably the 21st or 22nd, and then hopefully get there in late August,” Garrett said. Though the specific route is not yet certain — Garrett said Bran-

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Brothers Brandon (left) and Garrett Morris (right) will bike across the country this summer to support Project Hope and Fairness — a non-profit advocating the use of fair trade foods.

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Nutrition junior Garrett Morris likes an adventure. “I’m always looking for something crazy to do,” he said. His next project? Garrett plans on cycling across the United States this summer, joined by his brother, Humboldt State University alumnus Brandon Morris. But Garrett isn’t in this just for kicks. His main goal is to draw attention to Project Hope and Fairness, a nonprofit organization Garrett became involved with through nutrition associate professor and project director Tom Neuhaus, who has dedicated his life to fair trade chocolate through his work both at Cal Poly and with Mama Ganache, San Luis Obispo’s fair trade chocolate shop. “Freshman year, I took one

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don is working out those details — it will likely take the brothers across the northern half of the United States, and they will end their journey in New York. “We’ll be starting kind (of) off on the Lewis and Clark Trail, so starting in Oregon, and then following the Columbia River, then keeping north through Chicago and then the Great Lakes, then finally to New York,” Brandon said. Garrett said he hopes to find establishments along the way where he can stop to generate attention for Project Hope and Fairness. “We’re going to try to find some chocolatier shops on the way and see if they want to be doing mini-fundraisers as we go,” Garrett said. “If there’s a chocolate company somewhere else that wants to do something for us, see BIKES, pg. 2

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KICK UP YOUR HEELS AND WALK

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Check below for a brief list of crimes that occurred in San Luis Obispo from April 19 to April 25 or go to mustangdaily.net and check out the full listing. Friday, April 19 • 3:56 p.m. Someone attempted to use a fake ID at Rite Aid on the 700 block of Foothill Boulevard. • 5:03 p.m. Theft report taken in the H-4 parking lot.

WALK IT OUT: Men, women and children spoke out against sexual assaults on Saturday, during the

• 8:50 p.m. Someone was found using methamphetamine in the bathroom of the Chevron gas station on the 300 block of Marsh Street.

annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event in downtown San Luis Obispo. For more information on the walk, check out our article at mustangdaily.net or photos on our Facebook page.

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• 12:45 a.m. Someone was in possession of less than 28.5 grams of marijuana in the Yosemite Hall area.

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we’ll change our route for that.” For Brandon, the decision to join his brother didn’t take much thought. “I just graduated college, was looking for something to do and wanted to travel a lot,” Brandon said. “It sounded like a good plan, like a fun thing to do, and now would be the best time to do it.” Though Brandon has not been directly involved with Project Hope and Fairness, he said he is interested in the cause and looks forward to spreading the message. “Personally, what strikes me is empowering farmers, because cocoa attracts a certain kind of person since it’s not exactly a necessity,” Brandon said. “Cocoa farmers are a good start for fair trade awareness because it’s a smaller group of people.” Tying the trip to Project Hope and Fairness seemed like a logical step for Garrett. His connection to the organization runs deep, and last summer Garrett accompanied Neuhaus on his annual trip to Africa. Neuhaus makes yearly visits to promote fair trade and to sup-

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port cocoa growers in Ghana, Cameroon and sometimes Ivory Coast. “We visit 16 different villages every summer, and we bring tools to the villages,” Neuhaus said. Garrett traveled with Neuhaus this past summer to five villages in Ghana, describing the experience as “eye-opening.” “The villagers were always really happy to see us, and we brought them boots and machetes — which are their main tool — as well as chocolate,” Garrett said. “They grow cocoa beans, but they don’t really have access to any chocolate because it’s really expensive.” The main project they will be promoting, according to Garrett, is also to raise money for the chocolate study center in Africa. “We’re raising money to start a cocoa study center in Cameroon,” Garrett said. “That would be a place where students can go and study abroad and work with the villagers in all aspects — like a business student could go help them with financial aspects, or a nutrition major could do nutrition, or an (agriculture) major could study sustainable farming.” Garrett said the purpose of

this study center would also be to promote the production of chocolate on-site. “We also want to do in-village production of chocolate, so they would grow the beans, and then they would ferment them and roast them to make chocolate so they can sell it there and promote their own economy,” Garrett said. Neuhaus said the study center is already in the works, and would use buildings already constructed in the village of Ekona, Cameroon. “The buildings are already there for us to use, and they’ll be perfect for what we want to do,” Neuhaus said. “We would teach students and farmers how to make cocoa from their beans, because the chocolate business is basically a colonialtype business and the idea is to empower the farmers.” As far as fundraising for the bike ride, Garrett said they have reached out to local businesses and fair trade chocolatiers. “Most of our fundraising so far has been kind of personal stuff,” Garrett said. “We’ve tried to contact a lot of local businesses and we want to do it locally.” Big-name companies are also taking part in the ride — Garrett said Larabar and Clif Bar

& Company have both offered to donate merchandise, though they are unable to provide funding. Pear Valley Vineyards in Paso Robles is even putting together an event on July 7 to celebrate the start of Garrett and Brandon’s ride. Garrett said they would like to leave from the event, but it will take place after their departure. “We wanted to leave from there, but we also wanted to leave right after school gets out,” Garrett said. “So we’ll be gone by then, but hopefully we’ll Skype in.” Garrett said they would also like the finish line of the ride to promote the values of Project Hope and Fairness. “There’s a lot of really cool fair trade chocolate shops in New York, so it would be cool if we could finish there,” he said. Garret and Brandon are also promoting their trip online with a website under the tagline “Hope on a Bike.” Though a transnational bike ride seems like a huge undertaking, Garrett is nonchalant about the ride itself, focusing more on the good that can come of it. “I thought that while I’m doing it, I might as well do it for a good cause,” Garrett said.

space near the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center. He also said he would give students money he receives from scholarships because ASI pays for the president’s tuition.

Colombini will begin as president in June, taking office as current president and sociology senior Katie Morrow graduates. The two spoke briefly after they learned Colombini, the only non-College of Liberal Arts student running for president, would follow her into office. “I’m excited to hand it over to him, but it’s sad,” Morrow said. “You know, handing it over to anyone would be sad, but I’m really happy for him and I’m excited to start working with him.” Morrow said she’s known Colombini since his freshman year when he was president of the Sierra Madre Hall Council.

Following his time living in Sierra Madre, on-campus residents elected Colombini to lead Cal Poly’s Inter Housing Council. One year later, he took head of the Interfraternity Council, where he originally represented his Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. While working with University Housing, Colombini pushed for, and eventually succeeded in, eliminating parking restrictions for freshmen living in certain residence halls. This past year, he made it his goal to end deferred rush for first-quarter freshmen looking to join on-campus fraternities. That policy has not yet changed, but Colombini said he is optimistic after working with new Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey. The two are meeting Monday to discuss possible alternatives Cal Poly could implement in the future. Several students asked Colombini during his campaign how he would prioritize greek issues, specifically wondering whether he would give them more attention because of his background. He responded that as Interfraternity Council president he represented roughly 16 percent of students, but he understands the ASI president must represent 100 percent. “I understand who I am representing,” he said. “Yes, greeks are a part of it — but that’s not the entire thing. So it’s being fair and equal to all.” Colombini also said he would work with Cal Poly administrators to increase diversity on campus, a topic Armstrong emphasized at a recent student forum which Colombini attended.

• 1:51 a.m. Simple assault report filed at SLO Brewing Co. on the 1100 block of Garden Street. • 9:53 a.m. Narcotics code violation on the third level of the R-1 parking lot. • 1:46 p.m. Narcotics code violation in Yosemite Hall Tower 5. • 10:23 p.m. Alcohol violation in Sierra Madre Hall Tower 2. Sunday, April 21 • 1:38 a.m. A large group of intoxicated subjects were vandalizing property in front of the Black Horse Espresso and Bakery on the 1000 block of Higuera Street. • 1:50 a.m. Someone was using heroin at Jack in the Box on the 300 block of Santa Rosa Street. • 1:53 p.m. Controlled narcotics violation in the parking lot of The Graduate on the 900 block of Industrial Way. Monday, April 22 • 12:36 p.m. Bicycle lock cut and bicycle stolen from Albertsons on the 700 block of Foothill Boulevard. • 3:41 p.m. Laptop stolen from an unlocked residence on the 1200 block of Carmel Street. Tuesday, April 23 • 9:51 a.m. Sex offense report taken in Trinity Hall, sexual offense occurred between 11:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 21. • 10:06 a.m. Bicycle lock cut and bicycle stolen from the Murray Station Apartments on the 1200 block of Murray Avenue. • 10:29 a.m. Someone broke a window at Taco Bell on the 300 block of Santa Rosa Street. Wednesday, April 24 • 11:27 a.m. Someone attempted to steal alcohol from Smart and Final on the 200 block of Higuera Street. • 11:55 a.m. Someone was assaulted without a weapon in the Costco parking lot on the 1500 block of Froom Ranch Way. • 2:58 p.m. Someone spray painted graffiti on the front of the Alpha Epsilon Pi house on the 200 block of California Avenue. • 9:36 p.m. Petty theft report taken in the University Union Plaza. Thursday, April 25 • 4:28 p.m. Someone was drunk in public and in possession of an open container of alcohol at Ben Franklin’s Sandwiches on the 300 block of Higuera Street.

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Comedian in chief

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President Barack Obama (top left) rarely misses a chance to tweak the opposition, and he made good use of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night to get in some zingers. A glance in the mirror at his graying hair, the democrat said, shows him he is “not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be” — a swipe at Republican critics who paint him as a leftist and question his patriotism because his middle name is Hussein. Poking fun at wealthy Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, who spent 100 million dollars on negative antiObama ads in the 2012 campaign, Obama quipped that the money would have been better spent buying an island and naming it “NoBama,” or offering him the money to drop out of the race. Obama said he may have thought about the offer, but not taken it. He joked that he was sure his wife “would have taken it.” First Lady Michelle, also sitting at the head table, laughed and shook her head. He threw satirical darts at CNN for “covering all sides of a story just in case one of them happens to be accurate.” He lampooned conservative Republicans for trying to enlist support from more minorities, suggesting that they

think of him as a “trial run.” Obama ended on a sober note, recalling the tragedies of the week before: the Boston bombings that killed three and wounded more than 250, floods in the Midwest and a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas that killed more than a dozen people, most of them first responders who “rushed into danger.” “We have seen humanity shine at its brightest,” Obama said, referring to the response of rescue workers, police and the public. The room was packed with journalists, and the celebrities they invite, in an event that increasingly resembles a Hollywood awards ceremony. Posing on a red carpet were singers Psy (bottom right) and Katy Perry (bottom left), among many others. Late night talk show host and comedian Conan O’Brien (top right) finished off the evening with a stand-up routine that included swipes at the gun lobby and Republicans, whom he said refer to Latino Senator Marco Rubio — who is not African-American — as “our black guy.” O’Brien then projected 18 years into the future — the same time span since he last entertained at the annual event. Before breaking into Spanish, he declared that in another 18 years, he would be saluting a Hispanic president from the platform.

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Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike, lockdown

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The 100 Guantanamo prisoners who are participating in a hunger strike for political change are being handcuffed to a feeding chair (left) and force-fed through a tube (right). CAROL ROSENBERG The Miami Herald

Dozens of brand-new personal DVD players for the prisoners are stashed in a closet, a perk the military has now put on hold. The $744,000 soccer field is empty. The halal kitchen still cooks three meals a day for each prisoner, but guards throw most of the food away. With nearly every one of the 166 Guantanamo prisoners now under lockdown — back in solitary existence after years of communal living — the military has reverted to a battle rhythm reminiscent of the Bush administration. Pre-cleared captives awaiting political change are confined for long stretches to 8-by-12 cells, each man praying behind his own steel door, deciding for himself whether to eat a solitary meal. Meanwhile, troops are back to managing the most intimate aspects of a detainee’s daily life — when he will be shackled and taken to a shower, when he’ll be shackled and taken to a recreation yard, when he’ll get to hear the call to prayer through a slot in the door rather than muffled through the prison’s walls. And, for 100 hunger strikers, the military decides when

to shackle each man into a restraint chair for tube feedings — an austere, exacting control of the lives of these men that the prison’s Muslim adviser warns will not stop the next suicide. “They are not done yet, and they will not be done until there is more than one death,” said the Pentagon-paid adviser, who goes by Zak. Zak has worked at the prison since 2005 and blames a dozen hard-core prisoners for manipulating the others to join the hunger strike that has engulfed most of the prison — and is still growing. The military acknowledges that two prisoners have attempted suicide since the strike began. Zak predicts the hard-liners will incite a vulnerable captive to die. The prisoners “have perfected their methods of committing suicide,” he said. “It’s not going to be obvious.” Defense lawyer Carlos Warner disagrees. He argued that the hunger strikers are slowly trying to commit suicide in plain view. “Suicide will happen because the men are hopeless,” he said, “not because of influence by other detainees.” They’ve lost hope, he said, because “President Obama has no intention to close Guantanamo.”

For now, the camps careen from one crisis to another. Reporters got a glimpse of this at dawn recently when the words “code yellow” suddenly crackled through a guard’s radio inside Guantanamo’s maximum-security lockup. An officer ordered the reporters to evacuate. Somewhere inside the 124-cell prison a captive “didn’t wake up” or “wasn’t showing enough movement” inside his cell, said the commander, an Army captain who would not identify herself. So Alpha Block declared a medical emergency — something the Army captain said has occurred “very frequently” since she took charge in October. In September, a Yemeni prisoner was found dead in his cell of a drug overdose. The military called it a suicide. This time, troops shackled that morning’s medical emergency to a board and whisked him to the camp clinic. A Navy nurse diagnosed him as feeling “dizzy or faint,” and had him returned to his cell — all within 20 minutes, according to an account provided by the prison’s Army public affairs team. The Pentagon introduced communal, POW-style detention while George W. Bush was president. Defense Department con-

tractors built the first barracks-style prison camp in 2004 as a pre-release lockup for some of the first of the 500 or so captives that the Bush White House would eventually send home. Once Barack Obama was elected president, communal became the norm. Prison camp managers, Zak included, would boast that by letting captives pray together, eat together, study together, the Pentagon was both complying with the Geneva Conventions on how to treat war prisoners and reducing friction between men held for years and their guards, who pass through on roughly one-year rotations. Even as Congress blocked its closing, communal Camp 6 became the showcase of calm coexistence — guards watched from the outside, some in towers air conditioned for their comfort, prisoners got PlayStations, food pantries and permission to roam inside their expanding areas. The holy month of Ramadan passed peacefully, according to both sides, with the captives laying out festive meals at dusk for the prayers and feast that followed. Whatever detente existed ended on Jan. 2, around the date soldiers relieved sailors

guarding the communal camp. A captive started to climb a fence and a guard fired rubber pellets into the soccer field the Pentagon built for $744,000. Then on Feb. 6, guards undertook the most aggressive shakedown of the communal cells in years. The captives responded with protest: They launched the hunger strike, refused to shut themselves in their cells for two hours of nightly lockdown, and one by one obscured more than 100 cameras that had let guards peer in every cellblock corner. On April 13, troops stormed Camp 6 to lock each captive alone inside a cell. Troops with shotguns fired rubber pellets and rubber bullets. Detainees wielded broom handles and other improvised weapons. Somebody whacked two guards’ helmeted heads and a detainee bled on two other guards during a five-hour operation that injured five prisoners and put all but a few of Guantanamo captives on lockdown. The commander of the guard force, Army Col. John Bogdan, described the February shakedown as tightening what is now seen as an era of permissiveness in the prison before Navy sailors

turned over their cellblocks to Army guards. Bogdan said he met with some captives, heard their requests for “any number of things” that he did not detail. “None of them were considered,” he said, noting that gestures would “reinforce bad behavior.” Ultimately, he said, they want to be released from Guantanamo, and that’s something he has no authority to do. That was before the raid that locked everybody at the communal camp inside an individual cell, a single-cell style of confinement that Obaidullah’s lawyer says the Afghan hadn’t seen since the Bush years. To claims of collective punishment, Navy Capt. Robert Durand, the prison spokesman, offers a quote from Southcom’s commander, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly: “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever reward bad behavior.” Because every camera within reach was covered in the communal cellblocks, the military says, every captive who was there is being punished. Bogdan would not predict when they might return to group meals and prayers; Zak said he hoped at least some would be together by Ramadan. It starts in early July.

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Local clothing designer trucks on PHOTOS BY JOSEPH CORRAL/MUSTANG DAILY

Live Local Apparel founder Phil Hurst has been handmaking and selling T-shirts in San Luis Obispo for years. Now, the Cal Poly alumnus is taking his clothes to the streets. JOSEPH CORRAL

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Phil Hurst’s garage isn’t full of cars or exercise equipment. Inside, one finds T-shirts — lots of them. A Cal Poly alumnus, Hurst (who used to peddle shirts under the name Genuine Stolen) owns Live Local Apparel, a clothing line inspired by the friendly people, beautiful nature and historic places of the Central Coast. From a bird’s-eye view of the Cal Poly campus to a street view of the historic Fremont Theatre, Hurst’s screen-printed graphics, crafted with a press in his garage that he helped design, appear on Americanmade T-shirts. “The shirts are something that a local would pay to wear and look good in,” Hurst said. “They can be stoked about being from SLO.” While Hurst sells his shirts

along with tote bags and tank tops at Farmers’ Market and stores downtown such as Boo Boo Records and Dr. Cain’s Comics and Games, he is currently working on a more mobile business approach. He acquired a large vending truck from Santa Barbara off Craigslist.com and is transforming the automobile into a fashion truck, drawing inspiration from similar fashion trucks currently trending in Los Angeles. “Someone told me about the fashion trucks in L.A. and how there’s a whole following for the trucks,” Hurst said. “They tweet their followers and meet up with food trucks and have these big crazy events.” For Hurst, the idea of a fashion truck to display his products in San Luis Obispo correlates perfectly with his love for guerilla marketing — a strategy that employs creative and unconventional means to promote a product or business.

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JUMP START Phil Hurst has turned to Kickstarter and similar crowd-funding site Indiegogo to get his fashion truck rolling. These campaigns aim to raise $2,000 in order to decorate the vehicle with a vinyl wrap of Live Local Apparel’s logo. To entice potential backers, Hurst is offering rewards based on the amount of money a person pledges. Backers of $200 or more earn the opportunity to have their

name printed on the side of the truck for a year. • Scan the QR code below to visit Hurst’s Indiegogo.

“Advertising in my opinion makes people angry, and guerilla marketing enhances your day,” Hurst said. “It’s fun and weird. But redesigning a truck from the inside out is expensive; especially the vinyl wrap Hurst wants on the outside of the truck to transform the overall color and design. Luckily, Hurst has a friend in a graphic design business in San Luis Obispo who believes in him and his project enough to offer a deal on the wrap, once he can afford the mobile makeover. “I see (Hurst) as someone starting a trend to do something that revolves around taking pride in where we live,” Lola Red Design Group owner Elizabeth Howard said. “Someone believed in me enough to help me out when I was starting my business and I want to help him out.” Hurst also launched Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns for his brand. “I set a goal and people can donate money for my project, and then they get a prize like a T-shirt or hat,” Hurst said. “Depending on how much they donate, they get a better prize.” Some people may call Hurst ambitious, but his roommate, who sees Hurst work day in and day out, affectionately refers to him as a maniac. “He’s passionate about his stuff,” roommate Tom Sinnickson said. “Some may think you can just come up with some shirts and then boom, you’re done. But he’s been working his ass off for years now.” Hurst is also working on getting a permit through the city to sell his clothing out of the truck in public places. But he is taking his endeavors one step at a time, an approach that has worked well so far for the young entrepreneur. “A lot is happening,” Hurst said. “I don’t like to put deadlines on my business because that makes it feel like work … and all the fun is lost.”

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It’s the opportunity to win a grand prize with stanzas full of color and creativity bursting off the page. But the clock is ticking. The Academy of American Poets contest is now accepting submissions from all registered Cal Poly students. “The Academy of American Poets is a national organization which advocates on behalf of poetry as an art form,” contest director and English professor Kevin Clark said. Clark said the Academy has a relationship with colleges all over the United States and has been at Cal Poly for approximately 20 years.

English lecturer Lisa Coffman said Cal Poly is lucky to have the contest on campus. “The Academy is one of the foremost representatives of poetry in this country, and so having a contest like this at this school is just a tremendous opportunity,” Coffman said. Typically, off-campus judges are chosen as a way of being objective. Last year, however, English lecturer Leslie St. John was chosen as the judge and selected English senior Jesseca Zwicker as the winner. “I enjoyed seeing the range of writing from the poets and then picking what I (felt) was maybe the most complete or most accomplished poem,” St. John said. “I love reading

work and feeling like, ‘I wish I had written that’ and it’s really impressive when you get to do that when you see undergraduate writing that you’re struck by. So, mostly the contest was fun to judge because I was exposed to the writing here at Poly and also because it was inspirational to me.” Zwicker submitted poetry for the contest for the first time last year. “I was really excited,” Zwicker said about finding out she was the 2012 winner. “I got a phone call and I couldn’t believe it. I was really happy.” Zwicker urges students to submit poetry for the contest.

“It’s a good opportunity,” she said. English senior Cate Harkins has already submitted three poems for the contest this year. Though she didn’t participate in prior years, Harkins felt there were “a lot of things in line” this year. “I would recommend anybody who’s writing poetry or even people who have never written poetry (to) submit to the contest,” Harkins said. “It’s a really good way to get recognition on campus.” The contest enables students to showcase their poetic artistry with hopes of winning the first-place prize of $100. Many previous win-

ners have even gone on to prestigious graduate schools, Clark said. “This can help them get in,” Clark said. “It looks good on a résumé or cover letter or application. It’s a nice feather in your cap.” Coffman encourages students to enter the contest even if they don’t feel their poems are adequate. “If you submit your work and you don’t place, it actually isn’t any kind of judgement about your work because the history of literature is just jammed with writers who didn’t get noticed at the time by the leading quote experts of the day because they were doing something truly new,

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truly different,” Coffman said. “So there just weren’t ways to measure it or understand it or appreciate it yet.” Coffman sees submitting to the contest as a triumph itself. “If you get something, amazing,” she said. “If you don’t get something, it’s still an achievement to have made the step to submit it and it just means you haven’t put it under the right set of eyes yet.” Students are to submit three poems or fewer totaling no more than 150 lines. The winner will receive $100. Poems can be emailed to English@ calpoly.edu with “Academy of American Poets Contest Entry” as the subject. The deadline is May 3 at 4 p.m.

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Bush’s place in history With the dedication of his presidential library, George W. Bush begins his post-Washington legacy from Dallas, Texas JAMES K. GLASSMAN

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As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, dedicates his library this week in Dallas, it’s important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt established the first such archive in Hyde Park, N.Y., to preserve personal papers and mementos from his time in office. His successor, Harry Truman, signed the Presidential Libraries Act into law, authorizing the National Archives to help set up and operate these treasure troves of American politics and policy. There are now 13 presidential libraries. From the beginning, these institutions have been grand storehouses of history. But in recent years, they’ve also become home bases for former presidents’ efforts to make the world better. That’s the context for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. It will be an archive and a museum, certainly, but it will also be a hub for the former president and wife Laura to pursue their long-standing passions, such as fighting disease in Af-

rica and inspiring dissidents in Iran, Burma and Cuba. A big reason the libraries have evolved in recent years into hubs of social action is that so many presidents today leave office with productive decades still ahead of them. With the exception of Ronald Reagan, who left the White House two weeks short of age 78, modern U.S. presidents have been reentering civilian life at around the average age of Fortune 500 CEOs. That leaves these dynamic men facing a unique challenge: What to do after leaving the most powerful job on the planet? Liberated from the bonds of office, the paths chosen by former presidents have tended to mirror the public service causes that drove them to run for office in the first place. Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford were all active in public life following their presidencies, writing books, speaking out on politics and establishing presidential libraries. But the man who really invented the modern post-presidency was Jimmy Carter, who left office at age 56 and quickly established the Carter Center, in Atlanta, which has focused on curbing neglected tropical diseases and observing elections in tough environments. Thanks in

large part to the center’s efforts, cases of Guinea worm disease have dropped from 3.5 million in 1986 to fewer than 542 worldwide today. One of the surprises of George H.W. Bush’s rich post-presidential life was his joining forces with Bill Clinton, the Democrat who defeated him in 1992. Bush, who left office at 68, and Clinton, who left at age 54, have teamed up to raise funds for emergency aid in the wake of major global disasters, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Clinton’s foundation has focused primarily on reducing economic inequality and improving global health, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The Clinton Global Initiative, meanwhile, convenes leaders to make hundreds of specific commitments to improve lives. George W. Bush left the White House four years ago, a vigorous 62. Since then, away from cameras and partisanship, he too has pursued causes that have motivated him since before he ran for governor of Texas. Those causes have formed the agenda for the George W. Bush Institute, which was launched in November 2009 and now quietly manages 13 pro-

grams linked by a common thread of promoting freedom by removing constraints on realizing human potential. As Bush has said, “One aspect of freedom is for people to be free from disease.” For that reason, his institute has focused on disease, particularly on cervical cancer, which needlessly kills hundreds of thousands of women in Africa. The Bush Institute is working with partners that include the State Department and private foundations and businesses to diagnose and treat the disease in early stages in such countries as Zambia and Botswana. Another Bush Institute program has brought dozens of talented Egyptian women to the U.S. to provide them with the tools to free them to build strong civil society institutions at home. Other programs seek to improve the quality of America’s school principals and to intervene in middle school to prevent dropouts later. Obama will be 55 when he leaves office. Many of the presidential hopefuls for the 2016 election are in their 40s and 50s, and would likewise leave office with many fruitful years ahead. As new members join this elite club, we will be able to look forward to some fascinating postpresidential careers.

Boston bombing is no excuse to delay immigration reform The following editorial appeared in the Hartford Courant on Wednesday, April 24: Congress should not listen to the hotheads and the antiimmigrant mischief makers who want to delay action on pending immigration reform because the two suspects in the Boston bombing case were immigrants. The United States would no doubt be less safe, in fact, if reform — with its likely emphasis on increased border security and bringing millions of undocumented immigrants out of the shadows — falls to fear-mongering. The immigration status quo is unacceptable. Congress and President Obama should waste no time in getting to work on a reform acceptable to all sides. Reform will center to greater or lesser degree on improving security at hightraffic crossings at the border with Mexico, revamping the visa system and creating

a path to citizenship for the 11 million to 12 million undocumented workers, largely Hispanic, now living permanently but uneasily in the United States. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, calling themselves the “Gang of Eight,” has just unveiled a compromise reform plan. Mr. Obama has a proposal of his own. There will be other suggestions. It is hoped there are no unbridgeable gaps between them. It has been nearly 30 years since the last immigration reform, and the current system is broken. The momentum to fix it should not be slowed by the crime against humanity in Boston. The surviving suspect in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who was charged with a capital crime Monday, and his brother Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with police Thursday, were ethnic Chechens. Their family came to the United States some 10

years ago, legally, as refugees. The younger brother is a naturalized U.S. citizen and the elder had a green card. The government knew who they were and where they lived. They assimilated to some extent, at least at first. They differed from other immigrants in that the vast majority of immigrants — both legal and undocumented — don’t commit heinous crimes. It’s hard to see how a new immigration policy that works, one that makes immigrants visible, would make it more likely that similar monstrous crimes would be committed.

But here was anti-immigrant Republican Sen. Dan Coats

of Indiana calling for a delay in considering immigration reform for a month or two until “emotions settle down.” If that happens, opponents will look for another excuse to delay. Congress, don’t let the bombings kill reform.

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PRADER LEAPS TO NEW HEIGHTS

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Despite losses from the Cal Poly track and field team on both the men’s and women’s sides to UC Santa Barbara, Saturday’s performances yielded some positive results in its last dual meet of the season — most notably John Prader’s recording-breaking leap in the pole vault — as the team prepares to partake in the 2013 Big West Conference Championships. The men’s and women’s teams, after competing in the Mt. SAC Relays two weekends ago, fell to the Gauchos 101-96 and 102-96, respectively. But in Blue-Green Rivalry meet, it was Prader who turned heads as he broke a 16-year-old school record in the men’s pole vault, clearing the bar of 18 feet, 7 inches. His vault topped Sean Brown’s previous record set in 1997 of 18 feet, 6.75 inches. “I think that the team has

been competing very admirably,” director of track and field/cross country Mark Conover said. “They’re out there competing and fighting for every place, and as a result, they’re putting in some great marks. Personal bests are being put up out here. They’re just fighting and competing hard, and that’s all you can ask for.” But even with the men’s and women’s dual loss, the meet was viewed as preparation for the upcoming Big West championships. “It’s a meet to keep the legs going,” sophomore Hanna Edwards said. “It’s to prepare for conference. It’s more relaxed, and we’re focused on our team and what we’re trying to do. It’s more working for our own goals.” Edwards, after posting a personal record in the Mt. SAC Relays, recorded another personal record of 4:21 in the 1,500-meter run on

Saturday, finishing just before true freshman standout Laura Hollander. After the cross country season, the All-American took time off from competing in track meets because of a foot and knee injury. But after making a full recovery, Hol-

got to take it back a little bit in order to keep progressing,” Hollander said. “After cross country, it was just a lot; I kept training, and I think I’m on the right track now and I can just improve on the season.” On the men’s team, junior Jamison Jordan came out on

(The team is) out there competing and fighting for every place, and as a result, they’re putting in some great marks. MARK CONOVER DIRECTOR OF TRACK AND FIELD

lander finished third in the Mt. SAC Relays in her first race for the track team. And in her run against the Gauchos, she finished the 1,500 in first place with a time of 4:25. “I think it’s important to not only always push, push, push, and recognize when you’ve

top with a season-best time of 10.53 in the 100. Also, junior John Guerrero emerged victorious in the 800, finishing with a time of 1:51. Sophomore Brian Hutchison led the way for the men’s shot put as he threw a personal best of 54 feet, 3 inches.

On the women’s side, freshman Kendal Nielsen secured first place after jumping 40 feet, 8 inches in the women’s triple jump. Her leap was the fifth-best mark in Cal Poly history. Looking ahead, the sight of Conover’s track and field squad is directed to the Big West Conference Championships, which commence on May 10th in Northridge, Calif. In the championships, Hollander will race in the fivekilometer run, not the shorter 1,500. “It’s the same race as cross country, but tactically, it’s just such a different race,” Hollander said. “The runners can see you the entire time, and it’s just a faster pace. They don’t let you get away. On the track, it’s about the last three laps and having a good finish. It’s about being able to finish it hard and strong.” And at the championships, Hollander will do everything in her power to help her

team earn a Big West Conference title. “Conference meets are always interesting because one team might be really strong in certain field events and some may be stronger in the distance events,” Conover said. “We have a very young team on the women’s side and have some good, young talent. I just see them (and the men’s team) using this as invaluable experience and continuing the progress we have made.”

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He grew up a fan of the silver and black, but now former Cal Poly running back Deonte Williams will get a chance to don that iconic jersey after signing with the Oakland Raiders shortly after the conclusion of the 2013 NFL draft on Saturday. Williams averaged more than 125 yards rushing per game for the Mustangs in 2012 and helped Cal Poly qualify for a Football Championship Sub-

division playoff berth. In total, he ran for 1,506 yards on 231 attempts with 12 touchdowns, earning second-team AllAmerican honors from The Associated Press. Williams was training in Southern California leading up to the draft and hoped to be taken in one of the late rounds. However, that hope diminished as few running backs were taken on Thursday and Friday, leaving more highly rated prospects available late into the final day. The beginning of his NFL journey surely means a lot to

Williams, who grew up in a tough area of Sacramento and was described as the “man of the house” by his mother who raised him and his younger sisters on her own. Williams is not guaranteed a spot on the Raiders’ final roster, but he will have a chance to impress coaches in training camp in hopes of making the final cut. Oakland had seven running backs on its roster in 2012-13, including starter Darren McFadden, and the team drafted running back Latavius Murray out of Central Florida in the sixth round. Former Cal Poly cornerback Asa Jackson, who won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens in February, tweeted his support to Williams. The two played Pop Warner football together in IAN BILLINGS/MUSTANG DAILY Sacramento and remained close after Jackson left school Former Cal Poly running back Deonte Williams signed a free-agent contract with the Oakfor the NFL in 2012. land Raiders shortly after the conclusion of the 2013 NFL draft on Saturday.

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