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Woman found dead by police on sidewalk

Service to San Diego and Las Vegas about to take flight

Foul play is not suspected after a San Luis Obispo woman was found unresponsive on a sidewalk early Saturday, Jan. 4, according to San Luis Obispo Police (SLOPD).

At 6:10 a.m., San Luis Obispo City Fire and SLOPD responded to check the welfare of the 29-year-old resident on the 4400 block of Poinsettia.

Emergency personnel rendered first aid, but the subject was pronounced dead at the scene, according to SLOPD Captain Jeff Smith.

After an initial investigation, the cause of death is unknown and the subject had no signs of trauma. An autopsy has been scheduled.

The deceased subject has not been named at this time.

Flights from San Luis Obispo to San Diego will begin Jan. 7, 2020 on Alaska Airlines.

The San Luis Obispo Airport currently offers seven direct flight destinations to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix, Seattle and Las Vegas. San Diego and Portland will mark nine total non-stop destinations.

Based on community feedback and data from airlines, the airport is exploring the possibility of adding flight destinations to Houston, Sacramento, Salt Lake City and Chicago.

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TRANSPORTATION

Traffic light project delayed

A second traffic light was planned to be added to the most used entrance into campus over the winter academic holiday.

The plan is to install the light at Grand Avenue and Pacheco Way – the intersection at the Grand Avenue parking structure across from the Vista Grande dining complex construction site.

This is part of a larger $529,000 yakʔitʸutʸu project aimed at improving pedestrian and vehicle traffic flow at the busy intersection, according to University Spokesperson Matt Lazier.

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UPD RACIAL PROFILING ALLEGATIONS TURNED OVER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR INVESTIGATION

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Union says they are satisfied with investigations, but look forward to addressing the racial issues

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A faculty member of color was allegedly placed in handcuffs, searched for weapons and released without reason.

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We will let the faculty member decide what information we share with the outside investigator, and when.

Faculty Association President and history professor Lewis Call said about the willingness of the union to comply with investigators.

Administration and faculty union spar The faculty union announced the incident in an email to all union members Thursday, Nov. 14. Cal Poly administration did not learn about the incident until the union email was sent, according to Lazier.

In addition to describing the incident, the email said the faculty member continues to fear being

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An email from the faculty union alleges a faculty member of color was placed in handcuffs, searched for weapons and released without a citation or explanation.

President Jeffery Armstrong responded to the allegations in a campus-wide email. He announced the university is investigating the incident, but said the allegations could hurt campus climate.

The union said that instead of addressing why a faculty member might choose not to report an incident to the university, the president chose to criticize the union for reporting it.

While an initial search through University Police records did not show any incidents matching the description, Cal Poly has turned the case over to the California Deputy Attorney General’s office.

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San Luis Obispo Police arrested a resident on suspicion of operating a cannabis delivery service without proper permits.

Josephus Stallworth was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 17 after detectives served a search warrant at his home on the 2900 block of Rockview, according to a news release.

Police seized more than 10,000 cannabis products and several thousand dollars, according to the news release. Most of Stallworth’s products are believed to be fraudulently packaged items intended to match legal cannabis products.

Detectives received information that Stallworth had been selling large quantities of cannabis from his residence during the past several weeks.

Their investigation led police to believe Stallworth had been operating without permits from the Bureau of Cannabis Control.

10,000 Cannabis products and several thousand dollars were seized from Josephus Stallworth.

“Licensed cannabis retailers are required to meet safety standards developed by the State of California and the Bureau of Cannabis Control,” the news release read. “Consuming cannabis from an unlicensed retailer can lead to serious health risks.”

Cannabis delivery services in San Luis Obispo must obtain a permit from the city and from the Bureau of Cannabis Control to operate.

Stallworth was booked into the San Luis Obispo County Jail with bail set at $25,000. His court date is set for Dec. 31.

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“Our primary concern, as always, is for the safety and security of the faculty member,” Call said. “The faculty member will determine what information we release, and when.”

So far, the union has not released

any additional information to University Police. Lazier said the university remains hopeful the union will come forward with information about the incident.

The name of the faculty member has not been disclosed due to privacy and retribution concerns, according to Call.

The attorney general’s office is unable to confirm or deny an ongoing investigation, according to a spokesperson.

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Josephus Stallworth was allegedly selling fraudulent products.

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Allegations of racial profiling during a University Police traffic stop are headed for investigation at the state capital.

The assertion that a faculty member of color was placed in handcuffs, searched for weapons and released without reason has been turned over to the California Deputy Attorney General, according to University Spokesperson Matt Lazier. The case was sent at the end of Fall quarter.

In addition, the matter has been brought to the university’s Office of Equal Opportunity for investigation.

California Faculty Association (CFA) President and history professor Lewis Call said the union was notified of both investigations. Call said the union intends to cooperate with the investigations, but plans to let the faculty member who report-

ed the alleged incident decide what information is shared.

randomly stopped again by campus police and said they came to the union because of their loss of confidence in Cal Poly administration.

The following day, President Jeffrey Armstrong sent a campus-wide email stating an initial search through fall quarter incidents found no traffic stop or other UPD interaction matching the description. The email also detailed plans to investigate the incident.

Armstrong continued to call the union’s accusations destructive to campus climate. The email said the university found it “frustrating” that the union refused to provide additional details about the incident when such a serious allegation has been raised.

The union responded to Armstrong Monday, Nov. 18 in a second email to all members. The email said that instead of addressing factors that might drive a faculty member to choose not to report an incident to the university, the president chose to criticize the CFA for taking action to help the faculty member.

“We are disappointed in President Armstrong’s response to our message,” the email read. “The President appears to blame CFA SLO for raising this important issue.”

Despite the university’s initial response, Call said the faculty union is satisfied that the university is following the investigative procedures described in their Collective Bargaining Agreement and in the relevant California State University executive orders.

“We look forward to the completion of the investigation by the [Office of Equal Opportunity] and [attorney general], because once that investigation is done, the University will be able to address [the CFA’s] grievance regarding alleged racial profiling.”

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CITY THREATENED WITH LAWSUIT OVER COUNCIL ELECTIONS

San Luis Obispo may be forced to switch to electing city council members by district instead of at-large

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If San Luis Obispo were to change to voting by districts, the city would need to follow an aggressive schedule to make the changes.

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The City of San Luis Obispo is being threatened with a lawsuit over how city council members are elected.

On Nov. 13, 2019, the city received a letter demanding they switch to

electing council members by district, citing the California Voting Rights Act, according to council documents.

City council members are currently elected citywide.

When voting in district elections, residents select a single council

member from their geographical section of the city to represent them on the council. District elections are intended to give communities a better chance of being represented on the city council, especially communities of color.

The demand letter was sent by attorney Robert Goodman on behalf of his client Jamie Gomez.

Goodman’s letter demanded the City Council adopt a resolution within 45 days outlining its intention to transition to district elections.

However, the city has negotiated an agreement that gives the city until Jan. 31 to address the letter’s claims.

By law, cities receiving demand letters have a 45-day period in which they cannot be sued to evaluate options and respond to demand letters.

If a resolution has not been adopted by the Jan. 31 deadline, Goodman said they will take legal action to require the city to institute district elections.

The California Voting Rights Act requires cities to pay all legal fees, which can range from tens of thousands to the several million-dollar range, according to a news release.

The City’s response The city is attempting to reach a resolution with the plaintiff without going to court.

However, the city does not agree with all the statements made in the letter, according to the news release.

City Attorney Christine Dietrick said the plaintiff overstated minority influence in local elections, which undermine the plaintiffs’ conclusions. City staff has sent the plaintiffs’ attorney information about existing efforts underway to advance diversity, equity, inclusivity and good local governance.

What is at stake In the last few years, dozens of Cal-

Place Like Home funding. The county is expected to receive the funding by Jan. 8, 2020, according to Administra-

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tive Services Officer II Kristin Ventresca.

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Homelessness in SLO has increased by 32% since January 2017, according to a report by Point-In-Time

CITY APPLIES FOR $15M HOMELESS SHELTER DEVELOPMENT GRANT

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The San Luis Obispo County Behavioral Health Agency will apply for $15 million in funding to build housing for people with severe mental illnesses and those at risk of homelessness January.

“Once you can stabilize an individual and give them a home, they are much more likely to receive their mental health treatment,” San Luis Obispo Mental Health Services Act Coordinator Frank Warren said. “It’s a good thing to give communities this funding.”

Where the money comes from The County Behavioral Health Agency will submit an application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for $15 million in bonds, which are similar to loans. The bonds come from No

ifornia cities have received similar threats pointing back to the California Voting Rights Act, according to the news release.

If San Luis Obispo were to change to voting by districts, the city would need to follow an aggressive schedule to make the changes. Detailed demographic data would need to be gathered and the city would need to hold public hearings to consider district boundaries.

Generally, the final district map must be approved within 90 days of making the decision to switch to district elections, according to the news release.

In the county, Santa Maria, Paso Robles, Grover Beach, and King City are making the change to district elections, according to the news release.

The potential litigation is on the agenda in closed session at the next city council meeting Jan. 14.

Gov. Brown signed the No Place Like Home program into law in 2016. The program offers as much as $2 billion in bonds to California counties to build housing for people in need of mental health services and for homeless people, according to their website.

In the case of the No Place Like Home Bond, the California government lends money to county governments that apply. San Luis Obispo has to pay back the bond with funds generated from the Mental Health Services Act, according to the County Supervisors agenda item document.

This application cycle, the program is offering $52 million in bonds for medium sized counties in California, which includes San Luis Obispo, according to Ventresca. San Luis Obispo will compete with 13 other counties for these funds, she said.

“I think the two applications that we are putting forth are very strong and I think we have a good possibility of obtaining those funds,” Ventresca said.

The county will find out if they receive funding in June 2020.

Construction If San Luis Obispo receives the bond, the Behavioral Health Agency will use the funds to hire a company to build the housing. Right now, the Behavioral Health Agency is considering partnering with People’s Self Help Housing for the project, according to Warren.

The Behavioral Health Agency plans to build two housing developments.

In Atascadero, they plan to build a 42unit apartment complex that features one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. In Pismo Beach, they plan to build a 56 unit apartment complex featuring one- to two-bedroom apartments, according to the County Supervisors agenda item document.

These developments will be available to people with severe mental disabilities, including schizophrenia, extreme bipolar disorder and extreme depressive disorder, according to Warren.

The Behavioral Health Agency will provide mental health services inside of the building for at least 20 years after it is built, according to the County Supervisors agenda item document.

Services will include onsite caregivers who provide case management and support, and potentially counseling services, Warren said. He added that these developments will also be located near a bus line, so residents can access transportation to clinics.

Warren said housing helps create stability in people’s lives, which he said is especially important for individuals in need of mental health services.

“If you don’t have to worry about a place to live, that’s just a huge burden and stress that comes off, and you are more likely to focus on your immediate need,” Warren said. “You are more likely to be able to show up for your appointments and get the treatment that you deserve.”

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Both units of Diablo Canyon began operating together in 1986 and is now set to close 39 years later in 2025.

STUDY FINDS DIABLO CANYON CLOSURE WILL CREATE “POSITIVE SHOCK,” BUT SOME COUNTY ADMINISTRATORS DISAGREE

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community acts now.

Dantona stressed the importance of repurposing the Diablo Canyon facilities and lands to benefit the county instead of letting them go to waste or be lost. Savage said the only way the Diablo Canyon land and assets can be reused is if a viable, actionable plan is created and brought forward.

The Hourglass Project, a self-described “economic development action tank,” has been working on such a plan.

The Hourglass Project studies economic impacts, works to create job opportunities and fosters economic development from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Camp Roberts. Vice President of Strategy for Hourglass Andrew Hackleman said they will release a comprehensive economic action plan in January.

This plan will detail ways the closure of Diablo Canyon, the development of Vandenberg into a space launch hub and other such Central Coast opportunities can be used for economic development and job creation.

Hackleman said because so many governing bodies have a say over reuse decisions, a key aspect of the plan will be to create a land trust. The trust will be able to plan, control and manage land and asset reuse.

“It’s one thing to talk about ideas . . . it’s a whole other thing to actually create the environments in which we can pursue those ideas,” Hackleman said.

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calculations change, the outputs will change as well.

“It’s not gonna be a positive shock,” Savage said.

However, Savage said he agrees with the report in that he does not foresee the closure causing an economic apocalypse.

Savage explained that independent of the study’s findings, the level of the closure’s negative or positive impact is dependent on the county’s and community’s proactiveness.

President and CEO of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce Jim Dantona explained how the county and community cannot just wait to see what happens. “[We are] making sure whatever we do when the time comes that [Diablo Canyon] has to get shut down, that we’re planning enough in advance that there won’t be this giant gap in economic activity,” Dantona said.

Leading up to the closure, Dantona and his colleagues are working to coordinate with the county’s cities, schools and other interested parties to ensure those groups are doing their best to foster economic development, using their respective portions of PG&E’s $85 million dollar payout to minimize the closure’s negative economic impact.

Both Savage and Dantona said the main takeaway from the CPUC study is not that the closure will have a “positive shock,” but that the impact of the closure will not be disastrous – if the

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that the $85 million payout will all be spent before the closure is incorrect.

As an example, he said the school district is placing $10 million of it in an endowment, which will not be spent before the closure.

Additionally, Savage said the report assumes the funds will be used for decommissioning and deconstruction post-closure, which is currently estimated to cost about $4.8 billion and take 10 years. However, Savage said it is known that decommissioning will take longer than 10 years.

Savage also described how the decommissioning process will likely be aided in a large part by out of state workers specializing in power plant decommissioning. The report assumes these workers will spend their income locally, but Savage explained the majority of their money will likely go back home.

The report also assumes the estimated switch from the current 1,500 highly paid workers to a post-closure 4,000 lower-paid workers will have a positive economic impact because there will be more jobs. Savage argues that a highly paid worker in a million-dollar house is vastly different than a lower-paid decommissioning/ deconstruction worker struggling to pay rent.

Savage said there are many more flawed assumptions the report makes, which, if considered differently, would radically change the predicted effects. If the inputs to the report’s

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San Luis Obispo County is on an economic staircase, which has been rising quite consistently. But in 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced the 2024 and 2025 closure of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the second largest employer in the county.

Upon the closure’s announcement, the 2013 PG&E Economic Impact Report found that Diablo Canyon had a local economic impact of almost a billion dollars on the county. A billion dollars lost each year seemed to spell the end of any economic growth or activity in the county.

However, Diablo Canyon’s closure may not have as disastrous an economic impact as previously thought.

A report released in June 2019 from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) — the agency that regulates privately owned public utilities — found that the closure may create a “positive shock” for the economy. The report states that the closure could boost the local economy, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars each year with thousands of jobs created.

The study estimates the annual economic loss post-closure will only be around $77 million, with about 2,900 jobs lost. Pre-closure the county will lose tax income as PG&E’s assets at Diablo Canyon decrease in value. But what does that mean?

As an independently owned utility, PG&E is taxed on their power generating assets through a unitary tax, which currently generates about $23 million for the county. Diablo Canyon supports school districts, city operations, civil programs and many more aspects of the county.

As the closure approaches, the assets’ values drop. To offset this decline, the CPUC authorized PG&E a one-time payout of $85 million to the county.

The study estimates that until the closure, this $85 million payout will boost the economy, increasing economic output by about $40 million annually. The study also determined that for the 10 years post-closure, due to the decommissioning process, the county’s economic output will be increased by about $724 million annually, with an increase of about 4,900 jobs annually.

“I’d just really encourage people to evaluate their individual interests and, I think, take a more balanced perspective on the opportunities,” Berkeley economics professor and one author of the study David Roland-Holst said.

However, assistant county administrator Guy Savage — who is heading the county’s efforts in minimizing the negative effects of the closure — said he believes the CPUC report was based on incorrect assumptions.

Savage said the study’s assumption

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The Dream Center, located in Building 52, Room E11, will host immigration attorneys to provide free legal counsel students, staff, faculty and their families.

IMMIGRATION ATTORNEYS TO SERVE CAL POLY STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF FOR FREE

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The Dream Center will host immigration attorneys to provide free legal counsel to students, staff, faculty and their families twice a month, beginning Jan. 15 and 16, until 2021, according to Dream Center Coordinator Katherine Pastor. “[Seeing an attorney provides] peace of mind,” a Cal Poly staff member who met with one of the attorneys said. “It’s very intimidating to tap into status and citizenship and legal permanent residency and all the legal jargon, so we’re very, very fortunate to have them here.”

The staff member was granted anonymity due to the circumstances of their immigration status.

The attorneys are from Immigrant Legal Defense (ILD), a nonprofit agency that provides immigration legal services, according to the Dream Center. Attorneys Barbara Pinto and Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis serve Cal Poly most frequently.

In 2018, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) allocated $7 million to all California State University campuses to provide these legal immigration services, according to the Dream Center website. In

2019, the funding was provided again and will continue through 2021.

The CDSS selected which legal firms would serve each college campus, and services will “be phased in over the next six months,” according to the Dream Center website.

On the Central Coast, a consultation with an attorney costs about $300 to $400, according to Pastor.

“When we’re talking about being a student, a lot of them already have the financial aid burden and living on campus or living off campus,” Pastor said.

This program eases the financial burden and makes immigration legal counsel more accessible to the undocumented community at Cal Poly, according to Pastor.

Services began in October 2019 and have been used frequently.

“The first time our immigration attorneys were here they were booked the whole day, the whole two days,” Pastor said.

What a consultation looks like The ILD attorneys are available to all undocumented students, staff, and faculty, as well as their families.

Some undoucmented individuals at Cal Poly have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, while others do not.

Definitely acknowledge the fear, the stress that [undocumented] students are going through.

Dream Center Coordinator Katherine Pastor said in response to the possibility of the repeal of DACA.

Then-President Barack Obama signed an executive order to bring DACA into action June 15, 2012.

DACA delays the deportation of select undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors. Applicants receive a Social Security number and a work permit and have to reapply for DACA every two years, according to the University of California, Berkeley.

However, individuals are eligible to

meet with an attorney whether or not they have DACA status, according to Pastor.

The consultations are located on campus and last about an hour.

So far, attorneys have focused most on aiding clients with DACA renewals and family based petitions, according to the Dream Center Website. They can also guide their clients through obtaining visas, marriage based petitions and answer any other questions their client may have, according to Pastor.

“It’s still a stressful situation,” Pastor said. “But I think having immigration attorneys who know what they’re doing really helps to ease the stress.”

The state of DACA

On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced that it would gradually end the DACA program. In response, U.S. District Courts in California, New York and the District of Columbia issued legal court orders to allow DACA recipients to renew their DACA status, according to the National Immigration Law Center.

At the moment, individuals who have DACA or who previously had DACA can submit applications to

renew their DACA status, but the federal government is not taking new applications. As a result, more undocumented students without DACA entered higher education in 2019, according to Pastor.

On Nov. 12, 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether or not the repeal of DACA is constitutional. They will make a decision by June 2020, according to the National Immigration Law Center.

“With the current political climate, we are urging our students to renew their DACA if it expires sometime in 2020,” Pastor said. “And the great thing that these immigration attorneys have been able to do is help them with the application.”

If DACA is repealed, undocumented students will still be allowed to attend university, but they will no longer have the work permit provided under DACA. As a result, undocumented students may have a more difficult time paying for higher education, according to Pastor.

“We’re seeing students looking for more opportunities of financial security,” Pastor said. “We’re talking with students who want to find internships, who want to find ‘learn by doing’ opportunities that are going to allow them to grow in their development as a student and will also provide them a source of financial aid.”

The Dream Center is advocating for programs like BEACON, which partners students with mentors and provides paid research opportunities, and EPIC, which is a paid internship for Cal Poly students at the Cal Poly Engineering Department over the summer.

This would not only affect students.

If DACA is repealed, the CSU system will no longer be able to employ faculty and staff with DACA status, according to CSU Office of the Chancellor Public Affairs Manager Hazel Kelly.

“Honestly, I don’t really think about it too much, just because I have to continue to do what I do,” an anonymous Cal Poly staff member and DACA recipient said. “As a DACA recipient, you always know this is coming up every two years.

You know, so it’s nothing shocking out of the ordinary.”

In addition, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced they may increase immigration fees by 21 percent to cover their operation costs.

“Definitely acknowledge the fear, the stress that [undocumented] students are going through,” Pastor said.

“At least that’s my role, is to allow them to be themselves and be able to express themselves and that fear, but continuing our services and empowering them to continue [their] education.”

Students, staff and faculty can sign up for a consultation through the Dream Center’s website or Instagram account.

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Some students and faculty said they are concerned that there are not enough resources for people with disabilities.

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Safer has been able to provide trainings, perform outreach and work more collaboratively with campus and community partners.

Assistant Director of Wellbeing Kara Samaniego said.

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Student retention has increased through Safer’s major annual event Take Back the Night, an international event with the mission to end sexual violence and domestic violence. April 2019 was their largest Take Back the Night event yet, according to Samaniego.

The event includes two marches through Cal Poly’s campus and downtown San Luis Obispo. Their next one is planned to assemble in April 2020.

However, Samaniego said the transition is still difficult given Safer’s need for space.

“A struggle that is felt here, and across campus, continues to be space and creating the capacity for necessary growth in the future,” Samaniego said.

Updates to the actual facility include a divider from public view for constant privacy and two office spaces for counseling services, as compared to the one visible office in the UU. “Prevention and shifting campus culture takes time and the commitment of all students, faculty and staff,” Samaniego wrote.

“I believe these changes will allow our campus to continue the forward progress we have seen over the last year.”

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Cal Poly’s Americans with Disability Act (ADA) transition plan, which seeks to prioritize the areas of campus that have not yet been made compliant.

According to Executive Order 926, all California State University (CSU) campuses are charged with regularly updating their ADA Transition Plans so that they reflect current status.

Lee said the DRC ultimately seeks to provide a universally accessible campus, but even with the improvements, there are still challenges.

Cal Poly’s transportation services allow students, staff, faculty and visitors to get around campus during business hours. However, the service is unavailable during nights and weekends. The DRC is looking to address this issue and provide 24/7 transportation for everyone on campus in a sustainable and cost-effective way.

“I think we can do a better job with transportation,” Lee said. “I don’t think we’re there.”

Transportation is a relevant and pressing issue because Cal Poly is planning to expand housing within the next 15 years, resulting in fewer cars on campus.

“If we’re going to remove parking spaces and remove cars, are people just going to walk and bike?” Lee said. “What about people who can’t walk and bike?”

A 2015 study published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education showed that 66 percent of the CSU websites had minimal information about disabilities on the home pages.

The researchers argued that visible representations of disability are important to make students with dis-

move as a proactive approach to maintaining confidentiality and increasing student interaction.

“I believe the move allowed Safer to explore new approaches to gender- and power-based violence prevention through more of a public health lens,” Samaniego wrote. “This is critical to ensure that those who are seeking our confidential services with our Campus Advocate can do so in the same building as other campus health and counseling services, while also allowing us to focus more intentionally on prevention with our new Prevention Specialist position.”

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When John Lee watches a video, he sees things other people do not. At the 2019 Fall Conference, where a video highlighting Cal Poly’s inclusivity was shown, Lee noticed something visibly absent ⁠— the video presentation did not provide captions.

The Fall Conference was an event Lee, assistive technology specialist for the DRC, said he expected to be held to Cal Poly’s highest standard of campus values, which made this oversight hold a memorable impact.

“It was a two minute video,” Lee said. “It would have taken so little time to caption it, and when you don’t caption it, it sends a message.”

The Disability Resource Center (DRC) states on its website that disability is diversity and accessibility is inclusion.

Although Cal Poly is in a push to increase attention to diversity and inclusion, according to Lee, disability is often not included at the same level or promoted in the same way as other sects of diversity.

Lee said students rarely see disability inclusion at general diversity events.

Lee said he believes disability gets left out because people think of it as a negative thing, which is reflected in commonly used terminology like “suffers” or “confined to a wheelchair.”

“It’s a very flat, one-dimensional view,” Lee said. “That mindset prevents people from seeing disability through a diversity lens.”

Adrian Lindsey is the AmeriCorps Volunteer Infrastructure Project (VIP) Fellow at the DRC, where she recruits

student-volunteers and coordinates programming. Lindsey said she is passionate about neurodiversity, which is the concept that neurological differences are natural variations in the human population.

Lindsey said students can do this by attending workshops and documentaries put on by the DRC or Cross Cultural Center. Lindsey said her goal is to spread “Disability as Diversity” trainings around campus and have panels or presentations from students and staff on disability inclusivity.

“It’s rewarding to see students passionate about helping others,” Lindsey said. “Students without disabilities have a responsibility to educate themselves on disability issues.”

Business administration sophomore Manmit Singh Chahal is involved in Mustangs United, a movement on campus dedicated to spreading love, empathy and respect for all students.

“Love, empathy and respect are thrown around so much that they have become diluted — becoming words whose meaning we forget to think about,” Singh Chahal said.

“People with disabilities are included in that because love, empathy and respect looks at how we can stand in solidarity and community with each other.”

As a wheelchair user, Lee said many of his difficulties do not come from his disability, but from how the world is designed and how he is treated by society. Lee said he does not think disability and accessibility should only be a focus of the DRC, but a university-wide focus.

The DRC is in the midst of updating

Safer — Cal Poly’s on-campus, confidential advocacy, education and support program concerning sexual assault, sexual misconduct, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking — merged with the Health Center just over a year ago. And now, Safer advocates say that the number of students who return to use their services more than once is up from previous years.

The move was prompted by low numbers of students returning to Safer for their services, originally located in the University Union (UU). The social atmosphere surrounding Safer did not allow for high levels of comfortability, which lowered interest and involvement from the students, according to the Assistant Director of Wellbeing Kara Samaniego.

The switch was made possible through a three-year grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Cal Poly received a $300,000 grant “to inspire holistic and systemic culture change on our campus surrounding sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking,” Samaniego wrote in an email to Mustang News.

The grant also provided the necessary funding to hire two more people to work at Safer – an Assistant Director of Wellbeing and a Prevention Specialist Assistant.

The Assistant Director of Wellbeing is responsible for overseeing the campus’ sexual misconduct advocacy and prevention program, as well as general campus wellbeing strategic initiatives, according to Samaniego. On the other hand, the Prevention Specialist Assistant is responsible for leading and coordinating prevention education, outreach and early intervention efforts related to gender-based violence in a higher education setting, according to Cal Poly Human Resources.

Two additional Campus Advocate positions will also be entering the recruitment phase soon, according to Samaniego. These new positions are important as Safer continues to grow, she added.

“Safer has been able to provide trainings, perform outreach and work more collaboratively with campus and community partners,” Samaniego said. “[The grant also] allowed us to separate the work of prevention from crisis support and advocacy.”

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HACKING CRIMES CONTINUE TO RISE

Here’s what to look out for

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Cal Poly Chief Information Officer Bill Britton estimates the last year brought about a 700 percent increase in phishing attacks on the community.

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BY RYAN BURR Some students have been receiving messages like the one below through their Cal Poly emails: “To whom it may concern, I contacted your school admin at Cal Poly; I graduated from there. I explained that I was looking for an Administrative/Personal Assistant and your email was sent to me, they said you were an honest person… the position is extremely rewarding. Get back to me with your phone number ASAP if you are interested in more information.

Regards, Colton” It may look innocent on the surface, but these scams, known as phishing emails, are used by criminals to steal information and trick victims into purchasing specific items.

According to a report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, individuals in the United States lost roughly $30 million to phishing schemes in 2017.

Approximately 3.4 billion scam emails are sent around the world daily, according to Valimail’s Spring 2019 Email Fraud Landscape, and the Cal Poly community is no exception to the issue.

Cal Poly Chief Information Officer Bill Britton estimates the last year brought about a 700 percent increase in phishing attacks on the community.

Britton is responsible for managing Cal Poly’s information technology. He said the spike could be a result of students directing their school emails to external servers.

“If a bad email goes out to your Cal Poly account, we literally go in and scrape it and put up a block,” Britton said.

The Information Security department uses this process to stop hackers from accessing information, but it is useless when students direct their messages to Gmail or Yahoo.

“Once you send it to your outside account, we can’t touch it. It’s live now in your environment,” Britton said.

According to Cal Poly Information

Security Officer (ISO) Doug Lomsdalen, there are several specific “contexts” in which phishing emails come about on campus that the community should be aware of.

Impersonation scams

Impersonation emails are among the most common, especially for Cal Poly faculty.

According to Lomsdalen, these emails will often appear to be sent by someone of authority. The hackers may impersonate a superior, like a boss or professor, and claim to be in dire need of assistance with a purchase.

“I’ve seen individuals and victims of these go so far as to purchase gift cards,” Lomsdalen said. “I get one or two of these [scams] a week … where they’ll say they’re running into a meeting and need you to get them some gift cards immediately.”

To avoid falling victim to these, Lomsdalen said, it is best to take some extra time and look closely at the sender email.

For example, assume an individual receives a scam email that appears to be from their boss. The name will appear in the inbox and look completely normal, which is why further inspection is necessary. More often than not, according to Lomsdalen, the full email address will look something along the lines of “johnsmith.calpoly.edu@gmail.com”.

Sender verification is necessary when dealing with messaging of this nature, Lomsdalen said, and should be practiced diligently by all members of the community to prevent being attacked.

Job offer scams

According to Lomsdalen, Cal Poly students are commonly affected by email scams in the form of faux job offers.

The unsolicited offers will often directly reference Cal Poly, and claim someone in the university has given a strong job recommendation.

“Do not respond to these emails,” Lomsdalen said. “I’ve seen students

cashing checks because these schemes ask them to deposit and transfer the money to a specific account. By the time the banks catch up, [the student is] out $500.”

To prevent falling victim to a job scam, Lomsdalen said he advises that students only use MustangJobs or Handshake, as the school will rarely send out unsolicited offers.

Cal Poly account authentication scam Additionally, scam requests for fake Cal Poly account authentication are reported frequently.

According to Lomsdalen, students could get an email from someone posing as administration. The message will often claim that the student’s account needs to be authenticated through a specific link, and that failure to do so will result in deactivation.

The Cal Poly Information Security (IS) website warns that cooperating with these scams opens the door to more issues. Once a student’s account is compromised, the email address is used by the scammer to “phish” other Cal Poly emails, and the cycle continues.

The ambiguity of these attacks and threats can be overwhelming. However, an understanding of their structure and the precautions necessary to prevent them can minimize the damage.

“I think right now we emit a lot of digital dust, and that dust is not being filtered,” California Cybersecurity Institute technical advisor Henry Danielson said.

Danielson said students should pay attention to the amount of information they put out on the internet.

He said changing passwords and practicing general precaution — especially on accounts associated with Cal Poly or banking applications, like Venmo — are key to avoiding the loss of information and maintaining personal security.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING CONSIDERED FOR DEPARTMENT STATUS

BY RYAN BURR The Cal Poly College of Engineering (CENG) is launching a task force to elevate the computer engineering (CPE) program to department status.

The computer engineering program is currently an undergraduate program within the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE).

According to an email statement to the CENG community, concerns about the “structure, systems, and culture” within CPE were voiced to the Dean’s Office last year.

Since then, CENG Dean Amy S. Fleischer has worked with staff and faculty from the CSSE, CPE and Electrical Engineering (EE) Department to explore potential solutions.

Throughout the last several months, open forums and retreats with outside moderators were provided to troubleshoot solutions.

Fleischer also offered one-on-one consultations and encouraged anonymous feedback online.

According to the statement, a team of faculty from CSSE and CPE unanimously decided with Fleischer to elevate CPE to department status.

EE Department Chair Dennis Derickson, CSSE Department Chair Chris Lupo, CPE Director Lynne Slivovsky and Fleischer wrote an email to CENG faculty, staff and lecturers detailing this decision.

“We strongly believe that this will set the CPE degree program up for success and will simultaneously strengthen all of our programs,” the email read. “As part of the planning process, we expect to develop systems for collaborative interac-

tion between departments that can serve as a model for the rest of the college and university.”

With hopes for the department to be operational by the 2021-2022 academic year, a task force will move forward immediately, according to the email.

Staff and faculty involved with the task force will develop an indepth strategy to establish the new department, first laying out a broad vision and then addressing specific items, the email read.

“As we look out into the future, we see this opportunity possibly leading to future expansion to a School of Computing model with greater flexibility in degree planning for our students,” the email also read. “But most importantly, we truly believe that a stronger, more dynamic and interdisciplinary CPE degree program strengthens the experience of all our students now.”

Fleischer and others from the team declined to comment.

As we look out into the future, we see this opportunity possibly leading to future expansion to a School of Computing model with greater flexibility in degree planning for our students.

The College of Engineering’s email read. The task force hopes to create the department by the 20212022 academic year.

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The computer engineering program is currently an undergraduate program within the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) but it will soon be a department of its own.

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Breaking down the 2018-2019 ASI and UU fees

The way we do our budgets is a zero base budget process in which we analyze what we really need to run a program.

There is volatility in cost and when there’s an opportunity to put more money in clubs, improvement projects and other things, we do.

ASI Associate Executive Director Dwayne Brummett said, as the budget varies by year.

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money is allocated to. For example, the Student Government budget varies largely from year to year.

“The way we do our budgets is a zero base budget process in which we analyze what we really need to run a program,” Brummett said. “There is volatility in cost and when there’s an opportunity to put more money in clubs, improvement projects and other things, we do.”

But how does ASI decide to divy up the money in this manner? According to UUAB Chair Elizabeth Roseman, “The ASI budget approval process is very extensive.”

“The University Union Advisory Board (UUAB) and Board of Directors,

for example, are two branches of student government that help to ensure money is allocated to meet the needs of students,” Roseman said.

Student committees and branches of student government review the budget and are given detailed presentations so that student needs are met, according to Roseman.

When it comes to decision making and budgeting, students are represented throughout the whole process.

Throughout the year, ASI requests feedback from students through surveys and comment cards about what they would like to see implemented on campus.

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Students at Cal Poly pay nearly $10,000 in tuition, but not all of their money goes toward academic and facilities services.

Each quarter, Cal Poly students pay fees to both Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) and the University Union (UU) to help fund activities, events and clubs on campus that enhance students’ college experience overall.

“Our current ASI fee started in 2001 when ASI put out a referendum, which had the number one goal of shoring up more funding for ASI with the fee,” ASI Associate Executive Director Dwayne Brummett said.

Before, programs for Poly Escapes, student government and others were all taxed. When the referendum was in conversation, the Higher Education Price Index was boosted and the new fee was adjusted to fit those numbers.

The index is designed to track cost drivers in higher education.

Despite there being different fees for different programs, these fees tend to be organized together because they serve a similar purpose.

For example, ASI fees go to programs that support student activities, including events and programs, clubs, club sports and ASI Student Government.

UU fees support the Recreation Center, intramural sports, the Craft Center and programs that occur in the UU commercial space. Both fees support guest speakers, UU Hour concerts and other programs.

“We group them together this way

really just to try to show programs that were related because we look at the program holistically,” Brummett said.

“If we broke it up into smaller pieces, a lot of people would get confused … but we want people to know about it because it’s their money.”

The UU fee for the 2018-2019 school year was $231.17 and the ASI fee was $104.83 per quarter, per student, according to the ASI annual report.

About 20 percent of the money was allocated to Administration and Accounting Services and 14.27 percent went to the Cal Poly Rec Center Facility Operations. Only 2.27 percent went to ASI Student Government and less than 1 percent went to Student Community Services.

About 18 percent went to athletic scholarships. “[The scholarship] portion of the ASI fee is what we call a ‘passthrough,’ meaning that every penny collected from the referendum, ASI doesn’t manage it. We do not manage how those scholarships are given out, but we do have ASI student government representatives that sit in on budget matters,” Brummett said.

According to the report, of all the money allocated to clubs, only about 40 percent goes directly to the clubs themselves, and “the rest goes to administration.”

The breakdown of ASI and UU student fees per quarter has remained similar to previous years and has not seen a large raise since the 2015-2016 school year. However, there is variation annually in the budget of where

lege experience as students, because there is so much support for students from ASI staff that we are lucky to have,” Roseman said.

When the current Recreation Center came into conversation, the University Union Advisory Board (UUAB) worked to make sure the students’ needs were met, according to Roseman.

When asked if there was any knowledge of ASI and UU fees being raised in the near future, Brummett said, “who knows,” but mentioned that this is really up to the students.

Any time a new initiative is voted on, it goes through a referendum process and whatever is determined by it will help make the decision to raise fees or not.

“If [students are] curious, they just need to ask the questions, because like I said, it’s their money,” Brummett said.

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We are already in the movement to utilize waste products and turn it into something humans can continue using.

Food Science professor Samir Amin said. Amin has been researching ways to reuse carrot waste for two years.

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Imagine a world where cakes stay moist after sitting out on the counter for a week, where a pound of ground beef costs $2 and where paper is not made out of trees. Welcome to food science professor Samir Amin’s universe, which he lovingly calls, “carrot stuff.”

For the past two years, Amin has been researching innovative ways to reuse the carrot waste that comes from carrots that are peeled and sculpted to create cylindrical baby carrots or from carrots that have been pressed and juiced.

Up to 40 percent of the food supply is estimated to be wasted in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service.

The USDA joined forces with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2015 to set a goal to cut down America’s food waste by 50 percent by the year 2030. Big food industries responded to this goal by seeking additional uses for discarded byproducts.

Prior to working at Cal Poly, Amin saw large scale food waste firsthand.

Amin worked in product development for a food company in Southern Cali-

fornia. Amin said he was aware of the sheer amount of waste generated from food manufacturing.

Amin said he was inspired to focus his research on carrots after speaking with a representative from Bolthouse Farms, a farm company located in Bakersfield. Bolthouse Farms specializes in refrigerated beverages and presses whole carrots for their carrot juice.

“I could see [semi-trailer trucks] coming and filling up with carrot waste,” Amin said. “And I thought, ‘What are the valuable nutrients in carrot waste?’”

So Amin began his research on “carrot stuff.”

How “carrot stuff” is being applied Amin first looked at published research to see what may have already been done with carrot waste.

Carrot pomace and carrot mash are two forms of carrot waste. Carrot pomace is waste left from juicing whole carrots while carrot mash is waste left from the production of baby carrots.

Amin found that most research had been done on carrot pomace, while little research had been done on carrot mash.

Last spring, Cal Poly graduate Ali

Duval worked with Amin on her senior project after receiving the USDA National Needs Fellowship in Food Waste. Together, they tried to use carrot mash to increase the nutritional value of beef patties.

They found that carrot mash was made of 90 percent water and tried drying the mash to see if it could be added to another food product. When Amin and Duval compared their patties to a control patty with no mash, they discovered there was no significant difference in texture.

“The mash actually held on to more water and fat within the burger,” Amin said. “This would give you a juicier burger.”

Mixing carrot mash with beef patties could have a potential health benefit and lower the cost of meat for those who may not be able to afford it as well.

Carrot mash and pomace contains carotenoids — compounds that give carrots their orange color. The human body breaks down beta carotene compounds into vitamin A, while the burger also provides a boost of fiber.

Students also played around with adding carrot pomace to cake mix.

Food science junior Lindsey Zenker was one of the undergraduates who

worked with Amin to achieve this.

“The hope was that it would retain moisture so that it would have a longer shelf life and more vitamin A so there would be a nutritional boost,” Zenker said.

The biggest challenge is trying to get carrot pomace or mash to be food grade, Amin said. The carrot waste provided is not considered to be food grade. Sensory testing is required for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the product.

To get FDA approval, the manufacturer must put carrots through testing

to prove to the FDA that the additive is safe.

“We can show that it has this beneficial effect on a hamburger patty, but until we’re able to get people to try it and say, ‘Yes, I don’t taste any difference,’ it’s hard to say that this would be viable for [mass production],” Amin said.

Amin and Zenker said they believe carrot waste research is a big step in encouraging additional research on food waste and improving nutrition.

After graduation, Zenker said she hopes to continue working on food waste research to improve nutrition.

“We are already in the movement to utilize waste products and turn it into something humans can continue using,” Zenker said. “These carrots are still usable, so why not turn them into something new?”

Zenker said she has an idea for making a vegetable-based cookie for children’s lunches that is prepackaged and shelf stable.

The movement for more sustainable food has already begun. Impossible Foods’ Impossible Burger is made entirely out of plant-based substitutes.

The creation of a vegan burger allows food waste researchers like Amin to take another step forward in using food waste.

Percentage of U.S. food supply wasted

40% Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research

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ally got posted like a week or two later,” Kaufmann said.

After pulling many all-nighters, he said he finds it comforting to see others going through the same struggle.

“It kind of validates your sleeping,” Kaufmann said. “Everyone is going though the same rough patch. It’s nice to see other people getting sleep where they can.”

The nap master said their favorite kind of posts are those of Week of Welcome (WOW) leaders or WOWies exhausted by the week’s work. Specifically, they said their favorite post is from January 5, 2019.

“The student featured is fast asleep, pencil in hand, at the teacher’s desk in the front of the class,” the nap master said. “I don’t know who he is, but I feel for him.”

If anyone objects to their picture being posted, it will be swiftly deleted as soon as the owner receives their message, assuring that shy nappers can rest in peace.

Perhaps the reason the account is so relatable is that the owner is a frequent napper themself.

“I take naps around campus all the time,” the nap master said. “My favorite place is Orfalea Lawn. There are plenty of shade trees, and it’s less busy than Dexter.”

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No one doubts Cal Poly students work hard. What people might not know is that they nap even harder.

In fact, Cal Poly was rated the 7th best college for sleep health in a study conducted by Sleepoplis out of 133 universities in the United States, and @CalPolySleeps on Instagram has been documenting napping culture on campus since 2013.

The current owner was passed the account from a lab partner who graduated. They opted to stay anonymous, taking the role of a behind-the-scenes curator instead of imposing their own personality on the account.

The mystery is, arguably, part of what draws so many people in. For now let’s call them the nap master.

The account currently has just under 8,000 followers. Why do so many people care about off guard napping?

“Not getting enough sleep is a struggle people can relate to,” the nap master said. “For a lot of us, naps are vital, and we have to take them whenever an opportunity presents itself. Sometimes perfectly presentable people fall asleep in a hilarious way or an interesting setting – both make great content.”

Besides giving its followers a laugh, the account takes student involvement to the next level.

“Some people are great at finding nappers and will send in photos almost every day,” the nap master said. “Others have friends or roommates that can fall asleep anywhere.”

Computer engineering freshman Catherine Phan is one of the latter people.

“I didn’t even realize that I fell asleep, actually,” Phan said about the moment she was caught napping on a friend’s shoulder. “I kind of doze off pretty easily. For me, I can sleep anywhere, really fast. I feel like a lot of students are sleep deprived, so we tend to doze off without knowing . . . Adulting is tiring.”

Napping on campus now has potentially exciting outcomes.

“You have no idea who or how many people saw you, but you check your phone to find a bunch of your friends DMd you a post of you caught slipping,” the nap master said.

The nap master said followers have told them they check the page after napping just to see if they made it on.

Some students send in the photos themselves, like architecture sophomore Brennan Kaufmann, who fell asleep while working long hours on a project. When he woke up, a friend showed him the picture and they decided to send it in.

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After meeting at this year’s Week of Welcome (WOW), two students realized they both had unique talents that could mesh together to create something even better.

Business junior Tyler Boylan and sociology junior Emma Veach formed a business selling hand-crafted tie-dye garments.

“Our brand is called Eye’d Dye 4 U,” Veach said.

Veach said she had tie-dyed for years before she transferred to Cal Poly, while Boylan has spent his time perfecting both his screen printing and embroidery skills. Once realizing they had a common passion for creating artistic clothing, they decided to collaborate.

The pair finds new and old clothing, from thrifted denim garments to brand new t-shirts. From there, Veach tie dyes the fabric, and Boylan follows with embroidery and screen printed designs to create one-of-a-kind pieces.

This duo’s company has come a long way since WOW, but they still consider it a side job. Boylan currently works at a cafe in downtown San Luis Obispo, a job he said he hopes to eventually leave to put more effort into Eye’d Dye 4 U. “It’s my favorite thing to do in my free time,” Veach said. “It would be really

nice to be able to do this all the time instead of having a job.”

Boylan promotes Eye’d Dye 4 U on his personal embroidery Instagram account, @t_tees_embroidery. Soon, the pair hopes to start an Etsy page to continue selling their work.

“We are planning on creating similar tie dye patterns on a bunch of pieces, and then letting the customer pick which design they want either embroidered or screen printed onto the shirt,” Boylan said.

The pair’s first big debut as a company was at the Associate Students, Inc. Fall Craft Fair Nov. 18-20. According to Veach, they sold significantly more items than expected.

Although the team wants to make enough money to solely work for their brand, they said they believe in setting affordable prices for their clothing, as long as their hard work is paid for. The price depends on the product, averaging $20 for t-shirts and $40 for jackets.

Boylan and Veach’s next plan during their artistic journey is to create an interactive website to cater to customer’s unique needs.

The duo will also bring their pieces to theSpringCraftFair,whichwilltakeplace May 4-6.

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Autumn Ford is a transfemme nonbinary student who takes weekly hormonal injections for her transition.

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Ford gets her prescription at an off campus pharmacy since she began transitioning before the health center offered HRT.

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It took three months for environmental management and protection senior Autumn Ford, who identifies as transfemme non-binary, to see a physician who could prescribe her the hormones she needed to be herself.

Until then, she was in a constant battle with gender dysphoria, feeling as though she was not in the right body.

“It wasn’t like the movies’ switch, like ‘Oh no what am I going to do?’”

Ford said. “It was, it was like almost an existential horror.”

Gender dysphoria can come in many different forms, Queer Community Action, Research, Education, & Support (QCARES) lead and psy-

chology professor Jay Bettergarcia said. But, at its core, Bettergarcia said gender dysphoria is any time a person is uncomfortable with the parts of themselves that are gendered, because they are in misalignment with their identity – whether that be the way their voice sounds, their physical appearance or how they are perceived by others.

Ford was a sophomore when she came out as transgender nonbinary and decided to begin her physical transition with hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

She went to the Cal Poly Health Center hoping to begin HRT. However, she was referred to an off-campus physician because the Health Center did not offer HRT – until now.

At the beginning of Fall 2019, the Health Center began offering HRT and formed a gender-affirming care team. The team consists of Dr. Jennifer Bobell and Dr. Kimberli Andridge, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and full-time psychiatrist Elisa Feingold, according to a Cal Poly news release.

Bobell said the “soft launch” of the new services began week one, but they chose to focus on setting up and improving their services before making an official announcement.

Bobell said she had been interested in transgender care for a while and began asking about providing HRT about a year ago when Dr. Denis Taylor, who used to be the sole provider of HRT in San Luis Obispo Coun-

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Cal Poly sells the hormones without a markup.

“Right now a handful of [health centers are] independently moving in the direction that is more inclusive,” Hadaway-Mellis said. “There is a definite interest and commitment for all of the centers to move in this direction.”

Chapin told Mustang News in May that HRT did not fall under Executive Order 943, which governs the 23 CSU health centers. However, Hadaway-Mellis said the order does not define basic needs or state that HRT cannot be provided as such. “[The executive order] has no language related to gender affirming care for trans students or providing care to

trans students,” Hadway-Mellis said.

“It talks about basic primary care … so as health center directors through the CSU, we’re having conversations about what this means and how we define basic care, basic primary care.”

Executive Order 943 states that health centers are meant to facilitate student retention and enhance student’s academic performance by providing accessible and high quality basic medical care. “[HRT] is primary care,” Byrd said. “It’s not specialty care, and some voices in the community will like to say ‘oh, that’s specialty care.’ This is

allowing people to feel comfortable in their skin and allowing them to navigate our community. That’s primary.”

Although Ford still receives her hormones from an off-campus provider, she said accessibility to such care at Cal Poly is necessary.

“Its something that’s so so vital to people like me to have a discreet place where we can get our care, and we don’t have to worry about it being the rug ripped out from under us or taken away from us and we can just continue being,” Ford said. “Having the space on campus now where people could get their care is really amazing.”

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under their preferred name beginning in March 2019 in an attempt to recognize individual identity. The portal already allowed users to add a preferred name different from their legal name, but now only preferred names will be listed.

How to do it?

To update sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, students can log into their Cal Poly portal and click on the Student Center, go to the Personal Information section and choose Identity from the “other personal” drop-down menu.

According to the website, the university reserves the right to remove or deny a preferred name or personal pronoun submission if used inappropriately. The disclaimer reads that inappropriate use “includes, but is not limited to, foul or inappropriate language or identifiers submitted to avoid a legal obligation or to create misrepresentation.”

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Students now have the option to add their personal pronouns to the campus directory.

As of Jan. 2020, pronouns will display on classroom and other administrative rosters, according to the Pride Center. This will allow professors to address students by their self-reported pronouns.

“When someone is referred to with the wrong name or pronoun, it can make them feel disrespected, invalidated, dismissed, alienated or hurt,” Cal Poly Communications Specialist Cynthia Lambert wrote in an email to Mustang News. “Asking about and consistently using a campus community member’s preferred name and personal pronouns is one of the most basic ways to show your respect for their gender identity.”

Students, faculty and staff can also now report their gender iden-

tity, gender expression and sexual orientation to the university. However, this information is only available to select staff members with “legitimate need.”

Providing this information to the university is optional.

The change comes after then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB-620 in 2011.

The bill requested California public universities “collect aggregate demographic information regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.” AB-620 went into full effect in Jan. 2019.

Cal Poly’s move towards inclusivity in terms of sexuality and gender started in 2014 when an option on the California State University admissions application was made available for students to self-report sexual orientation or gender identity. The form was later made available to all current students in April 2017.

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“I think a lot of my experience [at UC Berkeley] has informed and encouraged some of the direction that we’ve headed in, and so this has really been a seed in my mind, and I know it’s been a seed in Sam’s as well, probably since we arrived,” Hadaway-Mellis said.

The University of California System offers HRT at a number of its campuses, and Byrd said UC Berkeley has phenomenal LGBTQ+ care, which was not the case when they arrived in San Luis Obispo.

A 2019 San Luis Obispo County LGBTQ+ needs assessment conducted by QCARES found approximately 85 percent of transgender and nonbinary individuals admitted to having thoughts of suicide, and 68 percent of those surveyed reported not being able to find an LGBTQ+ competent provider. A competent provider means someone who has knowledge, awareness and skills about LGBTQ+ care, according to Bettergarcia, who lead the survey.

“The experiences of queer and trans people in this county are strikingly different than other places in California,” Byrd said. “Almost on all the different levels we see higher rates of suicide, higher rates of attempted suicide.”

The “staggering” results of the QCARES study, Byrd’s assessment of Cal Poly’s LGBTQ+ services and the Cal Poly Experience Survey results all provide data that helped to quickly get the ball rolling at the Health Center.

Hadaway-Mellis said Cal Poly has offered aspects of gender-affirming care through mental health services, for many years. Prior to this school year, California State University (CSU) campuses did not offer HRT, according to CSU Spokesperson Elizabeth Chapin in May 2019.

Currently, Cal Poly, San Jose State and Chico State offer HRT, according to Hadaway-Mellis.

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ty, and Ford came in to talk about LGBTQ+ needs.

With the help of assistant vice president for Student Affairs Health and Wellbeing Tina Hadaway-Mellis and Pride Center Coordinator Samuel Byrd, the team came together to asses LGBTQ+ health care needs.

“Even if it’s one student on this campus [who] identifies as a trans person or genderqueer or gender-nonconforming or nonbinary, that student has paid the health fee, that student has access to our services,” Hadaway-Mellis said. “Those services should be inclusive of their needs as well.”

As of September, the Health Center offers estrogen for feminization and testosterone for masculinization, as well as spironolactone, which Bobell said is often taken for feminization too.

“At this point, I haven’t had anyone coming who was already on hormone therapy or coming in new who was on anything else than those three,” Bobell said. “But I’m open to discussing with any of the patients at any time anything that they’ve read about, any questions they have and looking at the research that is available.”

The costs of hormones at the Health Center for students range from $8 to $30 a month, depending on the dosage of hormones and the method – pills or injections. Consultations with doctors are covered in student health fees.

Byrd and Hadaway-Mellis said providing HRT is the first of about 16 action items in the works to improve LGBTQ+ health care at Cal Poly.

One service that will be added to the Health Center is an LGBTQ+ Mustangs in Recovery group for members of the LGBTQ+ community who are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse.

Hadaway-Mellis and Byrd worked at UC Berkeley, before they both began working at Cal Poly in June 2018 — which Byrd said is a leader in LGBTQ+ healthcare services for college students.

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but the treatment she received was unbearable and unjust.

Nothing that I am saying is new information. Our political system is hypocritical, sexist and unrepresentative of our country, yet it persists because of the intimidation tactics of the rich and powerful. What I am trying to highlight is that Hill is the perfect example of political oppression in our country. She was different, and she was reprimanded more harshly than any of her coworkers because she didn’t fit the mold for traditional politician.

Katie Hill should not have felt scared for her life, the need to resign or that she failed anyone because she was unfairly treated. No one should feel superior to others because of their gender, sexual orientation, race, etc. because those are things that do not make you better than others. Our system is broken and the ones that are trying to fix it are being forced out.

Hill should still have her job in congress because whether or not you agree with her views, she ran for the reason any should run in our country: to make a difference. She didn’t do it for power or status, but to enact change she believed in. She is a wholesome millennial, meaning that some of her personal actions may be a tad risqué, but she is passionate and cares about others. She is someone I was happy to see representing our country, and someone I was dismayed and pissed off to see leave.

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husband felt entitled to her and her body. Since they were legally married, he thought, in a very old fashioned way, that he could control how the public saw his wife. Now Heslep has denied releasing the videos, claiming he was hacked, he hasn’t done so publicly. He is using his father as a middleman. Heslep unleashed a shitstorm he was not ready to face, but you know who was? Katie Hill.

Throughout all of this, she has faced the music, owned up to her actions. In her closing remarks Hill begged for forgiveness and profusely apologized to everyone she let down.

She was a member of office anyone — women, members of the LGBTQ+ community, anyone who has just made a silly mistake — could relate to. She represented minority groups and gave a voice to those who have been constantly repressed in society, yet she feels like she let people down.

Hill committed actions most of the population has, yet our country decided to chastise her for it because she represented what the heterosexual, white, cisgender, Republican men leading our country are afraid of.

As her last act as a congresswoman, Hill decided to vote to proceed with the impeachment of Trump “on behalf of the woman of the United States of America.” She cited the misogyny that our government is laced with a reason for her wanting to come in and fix a broken system,

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entire process, giving people no reason to not believe her now. Besides, Heslep had no problem with other people being brought into his marriage when it was women and on his terms.

Heslep was fine when Hill allowed him to have a threesome with her and one of her female campaign staffers. As long as his tent was pitched, he was a happy camper. I’m sure it made him feel very manly and macho, actually.

It wasn’t until there was the threat of another man that Heslep reacted, trying to make himself seem like the victim. He attacked Hill knowing that, like him, America is full of slut-shaming. He is not being convicted of his crimes, even though distributing revenge porn is punishable with jail time, and Hill is being forced out of office.

Not only is what Heslep did illegal, but he is being inconsiderate of Hill’s bisexuality. He did what many men do and fetishize Hill’s attraction to women, delegitimizing it. He probably never took her sexuality seriously when she was around women because he doesn’t find women threatening. He probably figured, worse case scenario, if his wife wanted to be with a woman they could experiment together, which they did. It wasn’t until there was another man around that Heslep felt his ego beginning to crack.

Society likes to treat bisexuals like unicorns: mythical. If a woman is bisexual, they are really just straight and going through an experimental phase, and if a man is bisexual they are just on their journey to coming out as fully gay. Men are seen as the only genuine option in terms of partners. Heslep is invalidating his estranged wife’s sexuality because he felt that there was no way a woman could replace what he could provide her.

Newsflash: obviously she can, proving that once again, what is in the pants is irrelevant to how qualified you are.

Releasing the videos, submitting Hill to immense scrutiny and threatening the career she has worked incredibly hard for, proves that Hill’s

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When I was asked what I wanted to be when I was older, my answer should have been a straight, white, Republican male politician. That way, I’d be untouchable. I would be able to get away with anything I want, even crimes, in the public sector and nobody would bat an eye.

The latest victim of America unfairly reprimanding women based on sex is former congresswoman Katie Hill.

Hill recently stepped down from her seat in congress after receiving immense scrutiny — causing her to [need attribution -->] fear for her life — for nude photos, ones that were taken without her knowledge, being published without her consent. The photograph depicted “drug use, a controversial tattoo and the ‘throuple’ she and her now-estranged husband were engaged in with a younger [female] campaign staffer,” according to a RealClearPolitics article.

On top of this, she was accused of having a consensual affair with a male congressional staffer once elected into office, which Hill has repeatedly denied. The Congressional Misconduct Database said Hill claims that the “allegation came from her soon to be ex-husband as part of their divorce.” The way Hill has been treated in the wake of the scandal is blasphemous.

Now, if the alleged accusations against Hill and her congressional staffer were true, that would be the only action she committed that is against House rules. Her previous relations with her campaign staffer are not. Last I checked, tattoos and polyamory are not against the law either.

As for the pot? Come on, everyone is smoking it! Marijuana is hardly a crime anymore, but you know what still are very serious crimes? Sexual assault. Prostitution. Abusing taxpayer money. Yet there are countless Republican men that are still al-

lowed to occupy office after allegedly committing one or more of these illicit acts.

Former Republican Senator David Vitter admitted to being involved in a Washington prostitution ring while in office in 2007, but was reelected in 2010. Republican Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to a tax-payer funded affair in 2009, but won a Congressional seat in 2013. Republican Scott DesJarlais admitted to multiple affairs and pressuring one of them to have an abortion but he remains in Congress. Republican Duncan Hunter also admitted to using campaign funds for extramarital affairs with subordinates but he remains in Congress.

The cherry on top: the orange cheese puff we call our president.

Donald Trump has countless sexual assault allegations against him, yet there he is still allowed to run our country.

Come on America, where are our priorities?

We are unjustly forcing candidates out of office for committing acts that we all do and dismissing the heinous actions of actual criminals.

The photographs were both taken and released without her consent, making Hill a victim of revenge porn.

Her ex-husband, Kenny Heslep, who Hill has also said is abusive, is supposedly the perpetrator of distributing the pictures when he became upset about Hill’s alleged affair with her male staffer.

Let me repeat that for clarity: Heslep threw a fit after he thought his wife slept with another man.

First: Revenge porn is never okay, regardless of its in retaliation to infidelity or not. Second, Hill has repeatedly denied accusations of the affairs, which as a country we seem to believe when men deny affairs, so why can’t we trust Hill?

(Oh wait, sorry, I forgot, she’s a woman. Women are the enemy is every situation when it comes to politics. They just hate men and will do everything in their power to dominate. Sorry.)

In addition, Hill has been more transparent and honest about her actual wrongdoings throughout the

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL KICKS OFF 2020 WITH 100-35 WIN OVER HOLY NAMES

BY NAYTHAN BRYANT Cal Poly Women’s Basketball kicked off 2020 with a 100-point victory over Holy Names University on Thursday, Jan. 2 inside Mott Athletics Center. The Hawks (0-11, 0-5 Pac West) were held to just 35 points and never gained a lead over the Mustangs (38, 0-0 Big West). The victory, which marked the end of non-conference play for Cal Poly, was the program’s first 100-point win since 2014.

Redshirt junior forward Sierra Campisano scored a career-high 33 points and added 16 rebounds in the 100-35 victory. Freshman guard Leslie Hunter, who entered Thursday’s game with a career-total of three points, scored 16 points off the bench.

Campisano opened the scoring through a pair of free throws in the first 15 seconds. After jumping to an 8-0 advantage, the Mustangs were halted by a three-pointer from Holy Names forward Gernijah Martin.

However, Cal Poly maintained its opening momentum and capped the

first quarter with a 20-9 lead.

A three-pointer from sophomore guard Gianna Silvestri with just over one minute remaining in the first quarter kicked off a dominant 29-0 run by Cal Poly to pull away for the remainder of the game. The scoring drive lasted over seven minutes and granted the Mustangs a 50-13 advantage at the half.

Cal Poly continued to overwhelm Holy Names after the break and opened the third quarter with a 9-2 run highlighted by a three-pointer from freshman guard Abbey Ellis. The Mustangs extended the gap to 78-23 at the end of the quarter before capping off the victory with a layup from freshman guard Lily Svetich.

Cal Poly led in every statistical category, including a 25-0 advantage in second chance scoring. The Mustangs also shot 45.9 percent from the field (39 of 85) and scored 40 points off the bench in the win.

Cal Poly opens the Big West Conference season on the road against Long Beach State Thursday, Jan. 9 at 7 p.m.

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The womens basketball team poses for a celebratory team photo.

MEN’S BASKETBALL DENIES COMEBACK AGAINST VANGUARD FOR 85-82 VICTORY

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Sophomore guard Junior Ballard dribbles the ball down the court during Cal Poly’s win against Vanguard on Friday, Jan. 3.

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Cal Poly Men’s Basketball earned a tight 85-82 win over Vanguard on Friday, Jan. 3 inside Mott Athletics Center. The Mustangs made 36 of 41 free throws while the bench recorded 62 points in the victory.

Graduate guard Malek Harwell and freshman forward Kyle Colvin led Cal Poly with 18 points each as the Mustangs (3-11, 0-0 Big West) snapped a four-game losing streak.

The win marked the end of non-conference play for Cal Poly.

The Lions (1-0) came into the game with momentum as they opened first half with nine unanswered points behind two three-pointers.

However, Cal Poly answered by scoring 13 consecutive points to take a four-point lead at 13-9. Cal Poly led as many as six points in the opening half and held a 38-34 lead at halftime.

Cal Poly continued to apply pres-

sure in the second half and led by as much as 12 points at 80-68 with 1:57 remaining on the clock. However, Vanguard went on a 7-0 run to shorten the gap to five points with 48 seconds left in the game. Despite the burst of scoring from the Lions, redshirt junior point guard Keith Smith responded with four free throws to keep the Mustangs ahead 84-76.

Vanguard scored back-to-back three-pointers in one last comeback attempt to pull within three points at 84-82, but the effort fell short after the Lions failed to equalize in the last 19 seconds. A final free throw from Keith Smith capped off the 85-82 victory for Cal Poly as the Mustangs improved to 3-11 on the season.

Despite similar shooting percentages from outside the arc, Cal Poly outshot the Lions from the field (44.4 percent versus 40.3 percent).

Cal Poly kicks off Big West Conference play at home against BlueGreen rival UC Santa Barbara Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m.

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Communication on the boat is crucial when it is only guided by two team members: a skipper and a crew.

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From the safety of shore, the Cal Poly Sailing Team’s white sails gently float across Morro Bay. But, on the boat, team members said it can feels like chaos.

“I’m not a very competitive person,” team officer Peyton Nienaber said.

“But sailing definitely takes more of my competitive side out, since, of course, we’ve been doing this like me for six years. You want to keep seeing yourself improve.”

In sailing, competitions are called “regattas.” These regattas involve teams from different schools racing around marks, or buoys, and trying to be the first boat to the finish line.

Aerospace engineering sophomore and competitor Kai Ponting said the quick pace of the races makes sailing maneuvers even more important.

“You can’t get away with just going quickly in a straight line and your turns being subpar. We work really hard to make sure that our maneuvers are quick as possible,” Ponting said.

According to Nienaber, some of the fiercest competition comes from UC Santa Barbara and Stanford’s sailing

teams. However, anyone can come out on top in a race. For Nienaber, one of her most memorable regatta moment came when they broke through into the front of the pack.

“I turned to [my teammate] and I say, ‘I think we’re winning,’” Nienaber said. “We just had to keep that up the whole race and not let ourselves think we could just chill out.”

Each boat is guided by two team members: a skipper and a crew. The skipper is in charge of steering the boat with the rudder and tiller as well as the main sail. The crew manages the control lines and the jib — the smaller sail. That means that communication is crucial to a good performance according to Nienaber.

“Sailing with somebody else, [you] really get to know them so well on a different level,” Nienaber said. “They become a friend, but also someone that you can really depend on. In the boat, it’s not both of you working for different goals. It’s both of you going for the same goal, working together and compromising.”

The team effort extends beyond just individual races. Even getting to the regattas is a feat in and of itself.

While Cal Poly’s regulations prohibit clubs from owning their own vehicles, a partnership with the Morro Bay Yacht Club allows the team to use dedicated boats for the sailing club. Travelling to regattas with boats would be much more difficult without the Morro Bay Yacht Club, team treasurer computer science junior Jack Kelly said said.

“It can certainly be logistically challenging; it’s a lot of stuff to move around,” Kelly said. “But that’s also kind of part of the fun of the team — making sure everything gets from point A to point B and fixing things with electrical tape when it breaks.”

Once all of the travelling is done, and the last-minute repairs are made, teams are ready to compete. Within just a few moments, a peaceful bay can turn into a swirling frenzy of sailors eager to show off their skills..

“Before the regatta starts, it’s super quiet. Usually it’s at some yacht club,” Kelly said. “Then, two hours before the competition, you suddenly start getting dozens of teams with boats and trailers and cars all showing up with college kids jumping out getting boats rigged. It gets pretty intense.”

Competitions aside, the Cal Poly Sailing Team accepts all people who are interested in sailing. They have a social and competitive team.

For industrial technology and packaging sophomore Ellie Bonnie, what started as a social interest became a competitive sport.

After moving from Colorado to at-

tend Cal Poly, she was determined to get started in an ocean sport. Soon enough, Bonnie found herself coming out to more practices to make the cut for varsity.

“There’s not a ton of sailing over there. I’m still not used to the oceans,” Bonnie said. “It’s definitely a luxury for me every single time I see it.”

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