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Spookfest brings out ghouls and groms Nicole Horton @ CPMustangNews

When you think of Halloween, what typically comes to mind? Trick-or-treating? Scary movies? For biomedical engineering senior Griffin Paul, it’s surfing. Four Halloweens ago, Paul and his friends decided to throw on their costumes and hit the waves. “It turned out to be a blast and we decided to make it a tradition,” Paul said. On Saturday Oct. 29, Paul, along with 60 other Cal Poly students, headed to the beach near Morro Rock, wearing their best costumes. From astro-

nauts to life-size bananas, surfers paddled out for the fourth annual Spookfest. The event was originally set for Sunday, but because of a forecast of larger swells, Paul decided to move Spookfest to Saturday. The waves were smaller that day, accommodating for beginner surfers. Spookfest veterans also reached out to the Central Coast Surf School, who brought out a truck full of boards and wetsuits, ensuring that nothing would inhibit less equipped surfers from joining in on the fun. Continued on page 4

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| On Halloween, surfers hit the beach with their surfboards, wetsuits and best costumes to catch some waves in Morro Bay, California. This spooky tradition began four years ago.

Your guide to the SLO city council race Special to Mustang News

Andrea (Andy) Pease Rental Housing Inspection Program Change program to educate renters by hosting workshops for them, posting a video with discounted rent benefits for those who watch it and sending housing liaisons door to door. Form a task force to discuss the issues facing groups effected by the program. The task force would consist of students, renters, non-student renters, attorneys, neighbors, administration from Cal Poly and Cuesta along with city staff. Student housing Incorporate 65 percent of students into off-campus housing, but also allow students to live off-campus. General housing Build mixed-use housing downtown, which serves both a residential and non-residential purpose. Promote more owner-occupied homes and tiny homes in the city.

Brett Strickland

Rental Housing Inspection Program Repeal it. The inspection ordinance is a violation of Fourth Amendment rights and the program is causing gross privacy concerns. Student housing Did not have major comments on this issue. General housing Have new residential development that is affordable by design.

Emily Holland

Megan Schellong

ELECTION

Vinny Van Patten

Mila Vujovich-La Barre

Rental Housing Inspection Program Revisit and revamp the program. The costs of registering rentals often make landlords raise rent. The city also unfairly gains money from the program’s charges.

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Aaron Gomez

Rental Housing Inspection Program The program is too broad and needs to be more targeted toward landlords breaking the rules, not every single landlord.

Student housing House more students on campus by using public-private partnerships (have private companies build student housing on campus, which is considered public land). Possibly build barn-style dormitories on the San Luis Ranch land and feature tourist attractions like a farmer’s market selling Cal Poly products, as well as a few farm animals.

Student housing Use public-private partnerships (have private companies build student housing on campus, which is considered public land) to construct more upperclassman on-campus housing. The purpose of a public-private partnership is to take some of the building cost off Cal Poly so the university doesn’t go into debt. Gomez would also support student housing built off-campus as well.

General housing The best way to handle residential development is to follow the General Plan, which includes the Land Use Circulation Element created to maximize residential development and transportation.

General housing Start new developments downtown. Focus on building larger homes between the $300,000 and $400,000 range. Gomez also wants residents to use recycled water systems within homes by using a two-part filtering process.

Chris Lopez

Rental Housing Inspection Program The city should go back to the old rental inspection program, a general complaint system where if a rental unit needed a repair, the tenant could call the landlord and it could be fixed. Lopez would educate Cal Poly students on their rights as tenants by coordinating pamphlet distribution and University Union booths with Associated Students Incorporated (ASI) and Student Housing Services. Student housing House 65 percent of Cal Poly students on campus. General housing Use a Streamline Process to make the application for developers more accessible and navigable, speeding up building and development.

Mike Clark

Rental Housing Inspection Program Revamp it. Only those homes with complaints between tenants and landlords need to be inspected, not the ones where there is a good relationship between the two. Student housing Provide more on-campus housing for juniors and seniors to open up off-campus housing for non-students. General housing Create more water conservation systems in homes.

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ASI campaign strives to reduce property theft Sydney Harder @ CPMustangNews

Over the last two years, property crime in San Luis Obispo has increased by 80 percent. This statistic includes residential burglary, petty theft and automobile theft. To combat the high property crime rate, Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) is partnering with local law enforcement to raise awareness and encourage preventative measures throughout the community. The ASI-led initiative called “Lock, Lights, Life” aims to “educate all students and community members on easy steps that they can take to avoid becoming victims of theft and property crime,” ASI Secretary of Community Relations and political science sophomore Brett Raffish said. As one of the first community-wide campaigns geared toward all constituents of San Luis Obispo, “Lock, Lights, Life” marks a milestone in ASI history. “This is ran by the students for the safety of the community,”ASI Chief of Staff and philosophy senior Anthony Haddad said. “We’re stepping out of our role as just students to really make it so that the community can thrive and get better,” Haddad said.” Over the last two Proposed to run from years, property crime Nov. 14 until the end in San Luis Obispo of December, “Lock, has increased by 80 Lights, Life” centers around percent. two simple safety measures that both students and community members can take to deter thieves: 1. “Lock” emphasizes the need to lock up belongings, the front door of your home and car. 2. “Lights” refers to turning on a light when no one is home, making it appear as if the property is occupied. “Life” encapsulates the primary message of the campaign: the protection of livelihood. By remembering these precautions, residents will engage in a collective effort to reduce crime and preserve community safety. “Everyone is stepping in to be on full alert,” Haddad said. “That would scare someone trying to be a thief anywhere.” “Lock, Lights, Life” will be promoted in a number of ways, including campus-wide emails and a poster campaign dispersed throughout San Luis Obispo, Raffish said. Besides informing the residents of methods to prevent property crime, Raffish hopes the initiative will also contribute to the fortification of student-community relations. “Any opportunity that we have to work with the community on promoting a common goal Raffish said. “The more pos[and] working out differences itive cooperation that we can that we might have is going have is only beneficial to the to help the student body and forward movement of SLO as community in the long run,” a county.”

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| ASI is informing students on how they can take preventative measures toward combating the high property crime rate.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016

PROVE Lab:

A closer look into the car that will break a world record

ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS PROVE IT

| Engineering students are designing and building the protoype of what could be the world’s fastest solar-powered car. This will be the first car that runs entirely on solar power with no batteries.

Cecilia Seiter @ cseiter17

When assistant aerospace engineering professor Graham Doig first pitched the idea of designing a solar-powered vehicle that would shatter a world record, he was met with little enthusiasm. No one on campus really grasped the idea at first, Doig said. But once he held a meeting with his students to explain, it clicked. “Here we are a year later with dozens of students, a workshop, well over a quarter of a million dollars in funding, sponsorship, donations, etc.,” Doig said in an emailed statement. “And, hopefully, soon, a car and then a world record.” What began as Doig’s seemingly far-fetched idea is now Cal Poly’s very own Prototype Vehicles Laboratory (PROVE Lab), a student-run group of dedicated engineers, designers and marketers ready to take the official record for the fastest solar-powered vehicle in existence. The current Guinness World Record is 56.75 mph. PROVE Lab’s vehicle, utilizing only solar power without a battery, aims at hitting 65, possibly even 70 mph. “Nobody really believes this is possible,” co-project manager and aerospace engineering senior Will Sutton said. “But we’re pushing limits to put Cal Poly on the map.” Solar powered PROVE Lab electrical engineers face a particularly tough challenge: creating an electrical system that powers the vehicle solely using energy from the sun. There’s no other car like this in existence, so the team doesn’t have many examples to draw from. “We tried to research how to build a [solar panel] array like this, but again, with no battery, a lot of this is new and innovative

stuff that not many have done, so it’s pretty groundbreaking,” colead of the electrical engineering team and electrical engineering senior Joey Gross said. The electrical engineers are using commercial-grade solar cells (the same kind you’d put on the roof of a house) to power a vehicle that’s set to break the speed limit on the freeway. The car will hit that speed using only two kilowatts of power, about as much as it takes to turn on a hair dryer. “Another big part we’re working on is balancing the array, making sure it’s operating at a voltage we want and a current we want,” Gross said. Finding a way to properly build and balance such an array is only half the challenge. The solar cells are extremely fragile and expensive, which is why there’s an entirely separate team dedicated to producing a protective system for them. Mechanical engineering senior Alex Power leads the team designing the suspension system. That system, he said, is what provides safety for the solar panels. Using a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine, power cut into thick pieces of metal to make parts precisely the right shape and size for the suspension. The newly cut piece will allow the suspension to move up and down, thereby protecting the solar cells from the shock of an impact. Safety first While it’s critical for the solar panels to remain safe, there’s one thing even more important to keep protected: the driver. Peter Pratt, a mechanical engineering senior and lead of the structures team, is in charge of the system designed to do just that. Pratt points out the parts of the vehicle that he and his

team have been working on in a wooden model sitting outside of the PROVE Lab workshop. The chassis, or internal structure of the car, will be made of carbon fiber, he said. The carbon fiber composites are four times stronger than steel, but they’re light enough that two people will be able to lift the car. “As the car drives it hits bumps, and so that’s what we’re designing for. No matter the force that this takes, we’re designing for a thousand times what we expect, so that way anything that we come across, the chassis and the car are strong enough to take it,” Pratt said. “We’re going to take steel plates, running it through the carbon fiber and welding the roll bars to that.” Sharing the wealth Undertaking such a massive project wouldn’t be possible without a little outside help. In the last year, the students of PROVE Lab have received financial and technical support from numerous organizations. Some resources come in the form of donations from private and corporate sponsors; others in the form of expertise from the top dogs of the industry, like Tesla and Google. Cal Poly students aren’t the only ones benefitting from the generosity of PROVE Lab supporters. This January, students in low-performing Central Coast school districts will have access to after-school STEM education programs, thanks to a $65,000 grant from the American Honda Foundation. Students from PROVE Lab’s outreach team will be leading eighth graders in building their own miniature prototype solar vehicles. Aerospace engineering senior Thomas Rohrbach is the lead for technical coordination within the outreach team and is in charge of creating lesson plans for the program. “We’re hoping to put a lot of

ANDREW EPPERSON | MUSTANG NE WS FAST AND FURIOUS | PROVE Lab is a student-run group of engineers, designers and marketers.

different components in front of them and have them come back to us and do what engineers do and justify their decisions,” Rohrbach said. “We’re not going to give them a kit. It’s gonna be, ‘Here’s three motor options. Tell me why you picked this one.’” In it for the long haul Designing and building a record -breaking car is a lengthy process. Doig first pitched the idea last year,

and thus far, it looks like the car won’t be ready to break the world record until June.Until then, the team is working diligently toward making it happen — and keeping their achievements on record for future employers to take note of. “Going into interviews for internships and whatnot, they’ll look over my resume, they skip over school, they skip over volunteer, they skip over everything and they’re like, ‘What are you doing for this club?’”

Pratt said. Doig also sees the true weight of this project for students. “The students are doing something that hardly any student anywhere gets the experience of— building a real, working vehicle that does something that no other vehicle in history has done before,” Doig said in an email. “So the students we have coming through PROVE now, we hope, are going to go on to do amazing things.”

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Student-run Theatre Revue showcases thespian side of Cal Poly Olivia Doty @ oliviamdoty

Excitement hung in the air as the actors of student-run theater organization Student’s Stage hosted Theatre Revue, a showcase comprised of several monologues and musical numbers, in the H.P. Davidson Center last Friday. The crowd at Theatre Revue cheered one act after another. There was especially thunderous applause for business administration freshman Erika Cospin, a first-time performer. Cospin sang Lin Manuel Miranda’s “Breathe.” The mood of every scene was reflected in the audience. The room was quiet and attentive during dramatic monologues, and broke out into laughter when comedic pieces were performed.

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While the Spookfest team was able to connect with a local surf school, Paul aspires to involve the surrounding community even more so in future years. “I’ll be graduating soon, but I plan on coming back for future

We’re able to trust

Communication studies senior Jacob Corsaro was calm and collected backstage as he prepared to perform his musical number. This wasn’t his first time performing here. Corsaro sang “Settle for Me” from the Emmy-award winning comedy series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” getting laughs from the audience along the way. “My favorite part of performing is getting into another character and being someone else,” Corsaro said. Student’s Stage organizers have been preparing for the showcase since auditions were held early in fall quarter. Show co-director and theatre senior Sabrina Orro, along with two fellow theatre seniors Emily Brehm and Sarah Gamblin, took a directing class last spring that taught them how

to coordinate each other but a theater prowe’re also learning duction such from each other as this one. collaboratively. “I think having the opporTORI WANER tunity to work with students on a student-to-student basis is a really unique experience,” theatre senior and Student's Stage performer Tori Waner said. “We’re able to trust each other but we’re also learning from each other collaboratively.” The Student’s Stage thespians are a diverse mix of Cal Poly students, united under one common passion. From business administration to civil engineering majors, Student’s Stage performers have SAMMI MULHERN | MUSTANG NE WS formed a small community based A COMMON THREAD | Student's Stage brings together a community of students with a love for theater. on their love for theater.

Spookfests. I hope that it can eventually turn into a fundraiser. More and more people come every year but mainly Cal Poly students,” Paul said. “It would be great to gain the attention of the SLO community at large, and maybe turn the event into something that gives back.”

Whether attendees were paddling around in Morro Bay’s cold water or simply watching the festivities from the beach, there was something for everyone to enjoy. “The lineup was scattered with brightly colored costumes. I saw banana drop in on a bomb set of

waves, then a witch went screaming past me,” mechanical engineering senior Kai Staal said. “It was a bunch of cool ghouls having fun.” Staal made a video documenting the fun from the waves. If surfing in costume wasn't fun enough, participants also look

forward to what Paul calls “party waves.” A party wave occurs when a big group of surfers all ride the same wave. Spookfest participant and mechanical engineer senior Chris Naughton has made Spookfest a tradition and hopes to keep attending after he graduates.

“Growing up surfing I learned that the best surfer is the one having the most fun and Spookfest truly embraces that mentality,” Naughton said. There are many ways to embrace the Halloween spirit, but who knew surfing would make the list?

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| Spookfest encourages surfers of all experience levels to participate in the fun.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pismocean festival brings music to Oceano Dunes Meghan Dieckmann @ CPMustangNews

A new music festival is in town and it’s the first of its kind. Debuting at the Oceano Dunes at Pismo State Beach for the weekend of Nov. 4-6, Pismocean promises to bring a new music experience to the Central Coast. “It’s going to be just big enough to be a raging party and just small enough to have a sense of intimacy,” co-founder of Pismocean Cameron Lee Young said. “At the end of the day it’s going to be a rootsy beach gathering and let it go from there.” Young, David Bertolami and Michael Stackhouse are the co-founders of Live Lively Productions, an organization dedicated to implementing environmentally sustainable practices while hosting events and creating multimedia content. “[Pismocean] offers a unique set

of opportunities to enjoy things that are otherwise prohibited on beaches, such as alcohol, bonfires and camping on the sand. You can ride horses and ATVs," Young said. The festival will also feature yoga on the beach and self-empowerment workshops. Headliners of Pismocean include DJs Lee Burridge and The Gaslamp Killer. Though the majority of the artists at Pismocean play electronic dance music and house genres, there will also be live music. “A third of our lineup will be live music because a lot of people, including myself, fall into the category of going to these electronic festivals and getting sick of the same beats all weekend,” Young said. “So we have curated a great lineup of live music that will happen during the day, which will transition to electronic at night. I truly think we have a lot of diversity.” Live Lively Productions has a great respect for the beach where

Pismocean will be held and is working to make the event as eco-friendly as possible. The festival will have biodegradable cutlery, bio-diesel fueled generators and beach clean-ups. “We want to lead by example and demonstrate that we want to have a positive impact on that beach,” Young said. Young, Bertolami and Stackhouse are working to create an open and approachable leadership team for Pismocean, hoping to unite everyone in attendance. Young hopes that Pismocean attendees will leave with a sense of community. “This is going to be one for the record books for sure,” Young said. “We couldn’t be more excited and blessed to have a platform that people can share with us to bring something to the Central Coast that’s never been done before.” For more information, visit www.pismoceanfestival.com.

HANNAH CROWLEY | MUSTANG NE WS MUSIC BY THE SEA | While Pismocean will feature mostly DJ sets, the festival will also have live bands.

TASTE OF FALL Grab a Pumpkin Smash smoothie at Jamba Juice in Poly Canyon Village for a limited time only. It’s a creamy treat of non-fat frozen yogurt with a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg – for a true taste of fall.

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What I’m thankful for The Weekly Bull

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| Columnist Neil Sandhu shares what he and others are thankful for this Thanksgiving season. Hint, a lot of people’s answers were pumpkin spice lattes.

Neil Sandhu @ CPMustangNews

Neil Sandhu is a fourth year biomedical engineering major, and a columnist for Mustang News. The Weekly Bull is a purely satirical column, and any references to actual people or organizations are coincidental. The satire expressed within this column does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Mustang News, or the Mustang News editorial board. Traditionally, a Cal Poly Thanksgiving break lasts just long enough to travel home, stress about how much work you have before finals, not have enough time to do the work, stress out about how much work you have and travel back. However, things are different this year. Four score and two days ago, students made a sacrificial offering to the administrative gods, (President Jeffrey Armstrong will only consider a request if you let him curb-stomp something you love while you watch) in the hopes of receiving more precious time to eat their mom’s food and procrastinate. This year, we immolated two days from the Week-of-Welcome-Week. In return, our professors offered us a cornucopia of the wondrous bounty of two useless days of class, where professors didn’t want to teach anything because it would mess up the MTW sections. However, this 48-hour syllabus-fest was

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not our only reward. Armstrong is graciously allowing us the full week away for Thanksgiving this year, just like every single other school in the country. This move is keeping with our lesser known school motto of “Cal Poly: We’re doing our best, OK?” I am, undoubtedly, incredibly grateful for this extra time to procrastinate, which got me thinking; what else are Cal Poly students thankful for? I took to the poorly designed and borderline unnavigable streets to find out. Here are what some students said tehy were thankful for: “I’m thankful for Chick-fil-a, for reminding us that nothing comes before gay rights, except fried chicken,” social justice warrior junior Mandy Anderson said. “I’m thankful for red Solo cups, because I sometimes don’t know what to do with my hands at parties,” “skips leg day” sophomore Chad Fraternason said. “I’m thankful for SLO Solidarity for reminding us that hundreds of years of systematic oppression can finally be brought to justice by the almighty power of climate surveys,” social media sophomore Čeck Prive-Ledge said. “I’m thankful for Rage Cage,

because standing next to a girl and advising her on the best way to bounce a ball into a cup is the closest I’ve ever got to flirting,” League of Legends freshman Sheldon Humsfree said. “I’m thankful for the class of 2020 Facebook page for helping people return lost Polycards by sending a notification to 6,235 people. Its just so much better than having to look someone up and messaging them directly,” meme studies senior Isa Troll said.

Armstrong is graciously allowing us the full week away for Thanksgiving this year, just like every single other school in the country. Meanwhile, some students looked forward, to the impending election too. “I’m thankful for Donald Trump, for allowing me to find out which one of my friend’s parents are closet racists,” YUUUUGE business sophomore Bernard Sanderson said.

Royalty studies junior Steve Dipstick thought for a while, before deciding; “I’m thankful for the Clintons, for making sure that the Kardashians are not the most powerful family in the country.” “I’m thankful for Ted Cruz,” said no one ever. Some students were grateful for our mass consumption of pop-culture and sports. “I’m thankful for the Warriors for reminding me that I’m not the only one who blows it during the finals,” Jump Baeless, who is a meteorology senior with a concentration in fair-weather, said. “I’m thankful for Snapchat stories, because without them I would never be able to see all the high quality live videos that my friends take at concerts,” “I like my own photos on Instagram” junior Molly Jane said. “Seriously, why even buy concert tickets anymore when you can get the same experience by watching a 300 second Snapchat of the back of some guy’s head?” “I’m thankful for the word literally because without it, I would literally not be able to convey to my peers that I am not speaking in metaphor,” ambiguous literatures sophomore Jane Air said. However, most students were thankful for one special fall treat in particular.

“I’m thankful for Pumpkin Spice Lattes,” basic human development freshman Elle Goodes said. “I’m thankful for Pumpkin Spice Lattes,” basic social development senior Mel Woods said. “I’m thankful for Pumpkin Spice Lattes,” basic atomic development sophomore Belle Hoods said. “I’m thankful for Pumpkin Spice Lattes,” basic city development junior Dell Suds said. “I’m thankful for Pumpkin Spice Lattes,” basic cell development freshman Val Thuds said. Editors note: due to an overwhelming number of submissions for Pumpkin Spice Lattes, the other 121 quotes about them have been excluded for the sanity of our readers. If you have something that you are especially thankful for this holiday season, we want to hear about it. Send your submissions to CPGrapevine@ gmail.com, and check back next edition for student features! (By emailing CPGrapevine@gmail.com, you consent for the contents to be printed or published with your name, year of study and major) Whatever you’re thankful for this holiday season, just be thankful that when the time comes to sit around TV and watch a good old 49ers lose with the whole family, you won’t have your fun interrupted by any political ad.

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Reaching for the

stars

INFINIT Y AND BEYOND

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| Sophie Brown is the starting goalkeeper for the Mustangs, but soccer isn’t the only thing she sees herself possibly doing in the future — becoming an astronaut may also be written in the stars.

Erik Engle @ CPMustangSports

When aerospace engineering freshman Sophia Brown arrived at Cal Poly at the start of the school year, she began her journey toward fulfilling her childhood dream. At age 18, Brown is the starting goalkeeper for the Cal Poly women’s soccer team. In her first season with the Mustangs, Brown started and finished all 19 games this season while recording four shutouts and surrendering an average of just 1.3 goals per game. One would think Brown dreams of playing alongside the stars of the United States Women’s National Soccer team, but she aims to reach a different kind of stardom. “My dream was to become an astronaut,” Brown said. “And who knows, it might still be in the books. Right now I’m just having fun doing what I’m doing.” Her goal seems almost impos-

sible considering the amount of time that is needed to train for soccer and to study for engineering classes, but a hectic schedule is nothing new to Brown. “I think something that really helped me growing up was I always had a busy schedule,” Brown said. “I never really knew what it was like to have down time. I went from soccer in the fall, to basketball in the winter, to lacrosse in the spring and the entire time I was trying to balance school.” Before coming to Cal Poly, Brown attended Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California. She had a chance to play soccer for the school but chose to continue playing for her club team, Rage Soccer Club, instead. In her senior year, Brown was selected as the overall CIF Farmers Insurance Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year for 2015-2016, for which she was recognized at the state capital and awarded a $5,000 scholarship. Brown was also se-

lected for the Olympic Development Program from 2011-2014 for her stellar soccer play. But Brown didn’t just play three different sports; she excelled in all of them. In addition to her selection to the Olympic Development Program for soccer, Brown was an All-East Bay Athletic League First Team selection for lacrosse and the MVP of her team. She was also a captain on her basketball team. With the stress and time of constant training and practices, many high school students would push off homework and studying. That wasn’t the case for Brown. “Growing up, I think my parents definitely taught me and all of my sisters to focus more on our schooling before athletics,” Brown said. “Especially at Cal Poly, we are known as student athletes which I think is really important.” Today, to leave herself enough time in the day to juggle practices, games, classes and homework,

Brown carefully maps everything out on a handwritten calendar pinned to her bulletin board in her dorm room, something the soccer coaches made every freshman do. “Everything’s planned out: when I have practice, when I have class, when I have personal time, time to study, time to sleep,” Brown said. “It keeps me on my toes and keeps my head straight.” While her parents helped her understand the importance of school, it was two of Brown’s four siblings, Elsa and Olivia, who were the primary influences on Brown’s decision to attend Cal Poly. Elsa, Brown’s oldest sister, graduated from Cal Poly in 2015 with a degree in architecture and played intramural soccer. Olivia is currently a junior liberal studies major at Cal Poly and helped found the women’s club basketball team. “My sisters were a big part of why I chose to come to Cal Poly,” Brown said. “I had a ton of rea-

sons going for me as to why I chose to come here. It’s a great soccer program and its an amazing engineering school. It just seemed like the perfect fit for me.” Though Brown is working hard toward her goal of becoming an astronaut, she has not ruled out the possibility of continuing her soccer career if she has the chance to make it professionally. “Playing soccer so much, as I have been doing the past three months, has really lead me to a greater appreciation of the sport,” Brown said. “Right now I’m still looking forward to my next three, who knows, maybe more, seasons here at Poly. Beyond that, I’d like to see where it would take me. I think it would be a really cool opportunity to look into after I graduate.” The main improvement Brown wants to make is in her leadership ability, which may be a tough task for someone that’s captained multiple teams and served as Associated Student Body President her

senior year of high school. “Coming in as a freshman on a team that was half third, fourth and fifth years, it was kind of hard to get my voice heard, but that’s when my teammates really stepped in and helped me,” Brown said. “Especially having a back line that was a majority upperclassmen. They told me right from the start ‘Sophia, we depend on you to be a leader. We need to hear your voice and you’re really the cornerstone in the back.’ So that helped me kind of step out of my shell and assume the leader position that I’m still working towards.” For now, Brown is trying to make it through her first quarter of college. Her freshman season wrapped up last Sunday in a 0-0 tie against UC Davis, so she may finally have some free time in her busy calendar. She’s taking these experiences one step at a time. Making that one giant leap into becoming an astronaut will have to come later.