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Fewer vaccinated at Cal Poly leads to greater risk ERIN HURLEY
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Whooping cough and chickenpox are two uncommon afflictions that have appeared on the Cal Poly campus throughout the past several years. While recent cases of these unusual illnesses have been successfully contained so far, the risk of these or other diseases spreading on campus is growing. Head of Medical Services Dr. David Harris knows why — a large population of college-age students live without vaccinations. “There’s so many students who haven’t had their basic childhood immunizations because their parents rightly or wrongly believe that that was a danger to them,” Harris said. Harris said he estimates between 4 and 7 percent of Cal Poly students don’t have the recommended childhood immunizations. California State University (CSU) requirements for having proof of measles and Hepatitis B vaccinations were removed two years ago, he said, and now it’s harder to get a real sense of who has had vaccinations and who hasn’t. These childhood vaccinations include the MMR (for mumps, measles and rubella), varicella (chickenpox) and the TDP (now called the Tdap for adults, which covers tetanus, diptheria and pertussis, or whooping cough), according to Harris. Except for tetanus, these afflictions are all “devastating” in an epidemic sense, and along with meningitis they are the illnesses the Health Center is most concerned about. Harris said any vaccination requirements at Cal Poly can be waived for personal or religious reasons. However, afflictions such as chickenpox and whooping cough are not regularly diagnosed on campus. Harris said the top diagnoses at the Health Center during the past year have been related to upper re-
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vaccination for chickenpox. “If it’s not really required, I feel like it’s not that big of a deal,” Hedgecock said. Figuring out the origin of illnesses that end up at Cal Poly is almost impossible, Harris said — there are students who work out in the community or go home and risk getting exposed, and others that travel and come back from all over the world. The Health Center has most of the recommended vaccinations and Harris said they can get almost anything else within a day. “We’re not cloistered little villages anymore, we’re all part of this global scheme,” Harris said. “We not only have global
A Cal Poly fraternity’s alumni teed off at a Nipomo golf course Friday morning in honor of former Cal Poly student Carson Starkey who died in an alleged hazing incident three years ago. Delta Sigma Phi alumni raised thousands of dollars for Aware Awake Alive, a non-profit that aims to increase awareness about alcohol poisoning on college campuses Friday at Blacklake Golf Course. The organization has swept the campus this year as a tribute to Carson, who died in 2008. Through hole sponsors and silent-auction bidders, the alumni raised an estimated $5,000 to donate to the Aware Awake Alive charity. The fraternity presented the check to Starkey’s parents Julia and Scott, who co-founded Aware Awake Alive in the summer of 2011. Julia said she was “overwhelmed” by the fraternity’s donation to the organization. “It shows the support of a national organization like that, and they’re really backing us,” she said. The money will be used to help promote a new online feature called the Toolbox, Julia said. The Toolbox is a recently launched resource available for free to colleges that provides multimedia content for different university departments
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Dr. David Harris, head of medical services at the Health Center, said he estimates between 4 and 7 percent of students at Cal Poly have not had their childhood immunizations, which poses a risk for an outbreak. spiratory infections. These illnesses covered by childhood immunizations are not new — they have been around for a long time, he said. But Harris also said higher numbers of students without immunizations mean a greater chance of a larger outbreak. “It’s going to be very, very difficult to contain something like that once it gets started,” he said. Some people have always been against vaccinations, Harris said, but in 1998 a British scientist named Andrew Wakefield concluded that the measles vaccine was a cause of autism. That study seemed to justify the argument against vaccinations, Harris said. Since then, Wakefield’s studies
“have been proved to be fraudulent in every regard,” and the consensus of expert opinion is that the benefits of childhood immunization “vastly outweigh the costs.” However, Harris said Wakefield’s “bogus research” convinced parents to blame vaccinations for their children’s autism. “As a consequence, it frightened enough people that they said, ‘Well we don’t have chickenpox, we don’t have polio, we don’t have these things, so I’m not going to vaccinate my child, I’m not going to risk it,” Harris said. “Well the reality is we do have them. They’ve never gone away.” Today’s college-age people are showing the effects of that scare, Harris said — for the
next four or five, as well as the past two, years, college students are the group with the biggest percentage of individuals who aren’t vaccinated. And resurgences of diseases commonly prevented by vaccinations have happened at other college campuses as well, according to Harris. For example, there was an outbreak of mumps last year at the University of California, Berkeley and one of chickenpox at Syracuse University in 2010. Recreation, parks and tourism administration junior Kelly Hedgecock said she doesn’t think it’s important for Cal Poly students to get their vaccinations if they aren’t required. In fact, she wouldn’t be worried if someone didn’t have a
Greek Week kicks off at the beach ALLISON MONTROY
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Pismo Beach saw crowds in the thousands as almost 30 Cal Poly fraternities and sororities gathered to kick off Greek Week Sunday afternoon. Cal Poly’s Greek Week is an annual spring event where all of greek life joins together to engage in a week of competitive sports and philanthropic events. This year, 30 of Cal Poly’s 34 greek organizations are participating. At “Beach Day,” teams competed in a volleyball tournament, limbo contest, tug-ofwar and obstacle course.
Teams were divided randomly into seven teams based on the size of each greek organization involved. Each team has approximately 300 to 375 members. English sophomore and Alpha Epsilon member Adina Miller said the Beach Day turnout was huge. “Everyone has really good sportsmanship, cheering people on and being really supportive,” Miller said. “It’s also been breezy out, which has been really nice.” Greek Week also gives sororities and fraternities the opportunity to get to know people from different hous-
es, Miller said. Local companies, such as Albertsons, donated water and bottled drinks for Beach Day in support of Greek Week. “In my experience, I have found that local businesses do appreciate greek life,” Greek Life Coordinator Diego Silva said. “It’s individuals in government, like city officials, that often have to deal with the negatives of greek life. Sometimes we don’t get a chance to show individuals like that the great things that we do.” This week, greek organizations will give back to the community by participating in the “Mustang Mile,” donat-
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ing blood and volunteering at the Prado Day Center. Teams can also earn points in sports events and a SLO Donut Co. eating contest. Greek Week will culminate with a lip-sync contest on Sunday. Because six of the 10 multicultural-based fraternities and sororities are participating in Greek Week this year, the MultiCultural Step Show Saturday night was added to the Greek Week agenda. “We wanted to show support for the multicultural frats and sororities,” mathematics junior and President of Executer for Greek Week Sarah Ortiz said. By attending these events
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and winning sports games, one team will ultimately win at the end of the week. The prize: “You just get to say that you won,” Ortiz said. There will be a zero tolerance policy for alcohol during Greek Week, according to Ortiz. If anyone appears in-
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toxicated or brings alcohol to events, they will be kicked out of Greek Week. “Ultimately, I just want everyone to enjoy themselves, nothing to go wrong and everyone to have fun,” Ortiz said. “Everyone looks forward to this week.”
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Students go the extra (Mustang) mile JOSEPH CORRAL
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The Cal Poly community has a chance to come together and show their school pride tomorrow at the first ever Mustang Mile. The Mustang Mile will be held at 5:30 p.m. and consist of a 5-kilometer run through the Cal Poly campus, as well as a festival afterwards. The idea for the Mustang Mile came into fruition after Cal Poly Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) President Kiyana Tabrizi had a chance to meet the Starkey family last fall at a football game. Scott and Julia Starkey’s son Carson, a former Cal Poly student, died from alcohol poisoning in 2008. Since then, the Starkey family has created the non-profit organization Aware Awake Alive to spread alcohol awareness among college students. Tabrizi credited the collab-
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such as housing, athletics and orientation programs to help educate current students on the dangers of alcohol poisoning. Julia said much of what’s featured in the new program was first implemented at Cal Poly this year. “Cal Poly’s been the perfect role model for universities all over,” Julia said. “It’s not just
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communication but global personal interaction.” This idea of a global society is “there all the time,” Harris said, and leads back to the idea of protection and keeping students from “being part of the problem.” Part of that is getting necessary vaccinations, he said. And dealing with an outbreak isn’t easy either — Harris said each individual case is different. When an illness is first identified “it starts a whole cascade of things happening,” he said, such as gathering all the information possible and coordinating with the Public Health department. There are “general plans” in place for these diseases the Health Center is concerned about, Harris said, but “there’s no A, B, C, D.” “We’re at the ready all the time and we just keep our
orative efforts between ASI and Aware Awake Alive for putting the Mustang Mile together in celebration of Carson’s 22nd birthday, which falls on the day of the event. “We would brainstorm on our end about what the event would look like, and then touch back in with the Starkeys,” Tabrizi said. “We really want to make this an awareness event and make this an event for the family. Carson was an athlete, and this is a great event to have to bring our campus together and remember him as part of our Cal Poly family.” The festival following the run is a key component to uniting everyone at the end of the day, Tabrizi said. It will allow those who did not take part in the run to still participate in the event for free, she said. While the run costs $12 to register, the festival being held at the Cal Poly Recre-
ation Center — which is also where the run starts and ends — is free to attend. It will feature an array of educational and food booths, an inflatable velcro wall, an obstacle course, jousting and live music by the local band Still Time until 9 p.m. “We wanted to make this a celebration and big event with lots of components, and the festival will give people a better experience,” ASI Event Coordinator Missi Bullock said. Participants are encouraged to dress in costumes for the run and prizes will be awarded in individual and team categories with up to four people per team. Pre-registration ended on April 13, but race-day registration will still be an option for prospective runners based on availability. The first 1,000 runners are guaranteed bags filled with a shirt, various free items, a
race bib number and a timing chip. But for some, the experience of the event alone is enough of a souvenir to bring back with them. “I’m just excited for the number of people that will be running and the message that it will convey to the Cal Poly community,” business administration junior Natalie Dinges said. Volunteers from numerous on-campus groups such as student government and Week of Welcome, along with ASI student staff, are integral to making sure the day of the event runs smoothly, Tabrizi said. The cumulative efforts of these groups represents what Mustang Mile is all about. “The event is being put on to identify and recognize the privilege it is to be at Cal Poly,” Tabrizi said. “We are a family and community who take care of one another.”
a one-shot, tell about it on the first day at school and forget about it.” Though much of Aware Awake Alive’s success has been found at Cal Poly, Julia said further national expansion is one of the organization’s goals and is something they are actively pursuing. She spoke with a representative from Delta Sigma Phi’s national board of directors at a barbecue following the golf tournament about these plans. “We had a conversation
with their executive director about taking Aware Awake Alive on the national level, and we’re real excited about that,” Julia said. The philanthropy event took place one week after a large party landed Delta Sigma Phi in trouble with local police and the Cal Poly Office of Student Life and Leadership (SLL). The fraternity is currently on a cease-and-desist order after two arrests and four unruly gathering citations began an ongoing SLL inves-
tigation into the organization’s involvement with the party. SLL director Stephan Lamb said the fraternity was allowed to participate in the golf tournament due to its philanthropic nature and connection to alumni. Phone calls to Delta Sigma Phi current members and alumni regarding the golf tournament were not returned as of press time.
fingers crossed,” Harris said. “The reality is that this is a very, very big priority for us and gets an immense amount of attention ... because the consequences can be pretty big.” Electrical engineering freshman Utsav Shrestha said vaccinations don’t just affect the individual, they also affect people around them, because some of the diseases they prevent are contagious. Cal Poly students “should just do it,” even if they’re not required. “It’s better to be safe,” Shrestha said. Even though he wants students to stay home when they’re sick, Harris said students “don’t see their reality that way” and the fast pace of the quarter system leads them to attending class while ill. He said he would like to see more educational opportunities online that would help students stay home and take care of themselves without falling behind. “We’ve got to figure out how we can be receptive to the needs of students when they’re in less than perfect
health,” Harris said. Dean of Students Jean DeCosta also said she doesn’t want people to be sick and go to class, but added that “knowledge itself comes from our interactions and process.” Using class materials online would help “as a Band-Aid” to keep up for a short period of time, but is different than actually being in class. “That ability to interact and have discussions and dialogues is important,” DeCosta said. DeCosta chairs a group known as the Cal Poly Care Team, which is made up of representatives from the Health Center, University Housing, University Police Department and other campus groups who come together to discuss university health concerns and mobilize campus outreach. There are methods in place to inform the campus about how to deal with outbreaks of illness on campus and isolating sick students, DeCosta said. She said the team does “a pretty good job.” Though the university recommends students get vac-
cinated, DeCosta said it’s their legal right to choose whether or not they get recommended immunizations. “The question becomes whether or not we can do more in terms of encouraging and education, and I think we do a good job of that during the orientation to parents and students in the summer,” DeCosta said. “You can’t make people vaccinate.” There are a few things that students and people in the community can do to take care of themselves, Harris said, and one of them is getting vaccinated — it “minimizes risk.” He doesn’t fault parents who don’t vaccinate their children: He said it’s their decision, but “that decision has consequences.” “I just think that we need to be very thoughtful about it and try to make the best decisions that you can given the information that you have at the time,” Harris said. “Given the current state of the information, I would certainly endorse everyone getting vaccinated if they’re thinking about getting vaccinated.”
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Taliban attacks in Afghanistan SLO 5-0 Sunday, April 8 12:06 a.m. — Fraud occurred on the 700 block of Higuera Street. Monday, April 9 10:31 a.m. — A residential burglary occurred on the 1100 block of Peach Street. Tuesday, April 10 10:17 a.m. — A theft report was made at the Architecture and Environmental Design building. Wednesday, April 11 7:19 a.m. — Arrest for driving under the influence between 7:22 a.m. and 7:52 a.m. on Mount Bishop Road on campus. 4:37 p.m. — A narcotics code violation occurred at Yosemite Hall. Thursday, April 12 6:30 p.m. — A narcotics code violation occurred at Muir Hall. 7:14 p.m. — The window of a UPS truck was shot out with a BB or pellet gun on the 900 block of Ambrosia Lane. Friday, April 13 6:04 p.m. — A theft was reported to the University Police Department. Saturday, April 14 1:07 a.m. — Arrest for public intoxication at the R-1 parking lot on campus.
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Taliban-led insurgents opened a spring offensive Sunday with a wave of coordinated suicide missions, firing at embassies and government offices from seized buildings in Kabul and attacking U.S. bases and police stations in three eastern provinces. The strikes, which seemed to catch U.S.-led forces and Afghan authorities by surprise, sparked fierce firefights in Kabul and two other cities. “This is the start of the spring operations,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, declared in a telephone interview. “This is just the beginning.” The attacks lasted past nightfall in Kabul and Puli Alam, the capital of neighboring Logar province. At least 26 insurgents and four civilians were killed, Afghan and NATO officials said. At least 36 others, mostly civilians, were wounded. All of the casualties were Afghans. Some of the attackers were captured. The attacks, Mujahid said, were “a message” in response to recent assertions by U.S. officials and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen “that there would be no spring offensive because we are not able to fight.” The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, issued a statement calling the strikes “largely ineffective.” In a separate statement, the ISAF commander, U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, praised the response of Afghan security forces. The insurgents’ choice of targets, he added, “speaks volumes about where we are in this campaign” to crush the insurgency and create a “sovereign Afghanistan responsive to its people.”
But while the violence brought them no military gains, the insurgents demonstrated their ability once again to stage complex operations inside the security rings of Kabul and other government centers that will without doubt stoke fears of continued turmoil after U.S. and allied combat forces are gone at the end of 2014. The audacious attacks — mirroring a September incident in which insurgents seized an unfinished high-rise building and fired into the U.S. Embassy compound for nearly 24 hours before being killed by Afghan security forces — could also fuel demands in the United States and other NATO capitals to accelerate the withdrawal of international forces after more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan. The violence in Kabul began with intermittent gunfire and then a series of window-shaking blasts around 1:15 p.m., disrupting a languid spring day. Traffic and pedestrians raced from the streets as police blockaded major thoroughfares, paralyzing the city center, and merchants gated their shops. There was no sign that ISAF or Afghan authorities had prior intelligence of the attacks, with security at the international force’s headquarters and around the city no tighter than usual. The attacks showed that the insurgents remain fully capable of executing complex operations requiring extensive preparations, including scouting the buildings they seized and transporting their weapons and extensive stocks of ammunition to them without being caught. “They’ve have organized this for some time,” said Sgt. Sher Shah Sultani, a member of the Afghan National Civil Order Police, a paramilitary
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Reading habits may be fundamentally changing, but a new survey shows that the printed word remains fundamental. Although many Californians who own Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers love their gadgets, they still prefer books the oldfashioned way — on paper — according to a poll by USC Dornsife and the Los Angeles Times. Even with sales of e-readers surging, only 10 percent of respondents who have one said they had abandoned traditional books. More than half said most or all of the books they read are in printed form.
The National Mall is getting a face-lift. The space that some call “America’s front yard” is on track to change. The Trust for the National Mall — the National Park Service’s nonprofit partner dedicated to restoring the country’s mostvisited park — last week announced 10 finalists for a competition to redesign Constitution Gardens and areas near the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol. The proposals aim to balance preservation with modernization, addressing basic maintenance, accessibility and security while incorporating wetlands, amphitheaters and reflecting pools.
police force. He had to withdraw from an assault near the Parliament building after his machine gun malfunctioned. “I can’t say how many days or weeks, but this is wellplanned,” Sultani said. The strikes were the first in Kabul since December, when a suicide bomber killed 84 Shiite Muslims celebrating a religious festival. Four groups of insurgents were involved in the Kabul strikes, police said. A team of two suicide bombers and a guide, however, were arrested before they could assassinate the country’s second vice president, Karim Khalili, said Lutfullah Mashal, the spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan intelligence service.
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Art and design senior Sabina Miklowitz will showcase her photographic series, “Animate Me,” in the University Union’s Epicenter Gallery until June. This is the first of many events put on by Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Events for spring quarter and is Miklow-
itz’s first solo show featuring 12 prints of various sizes. “The series looks great,” ASI Events Outreach Supervisor and business administration junior Sarah McAtee said. “We put the prints up a few days ago, and I wanted to take some home. They were amazing.” Miklowitz said she found her passion for taking photo-
graphs at the age of 10, when she got her first camera for her birthday. She has been behind the lens ever since. At first, Miklowitz began going out with her dad and taking landscape photographs. Since she lived in San Luis Obispo, her main focuses were the local rolling hills and vineyards. In high school, however,
she turned her passion into photographing people. She began doing fashion shoots with friends. “There’s something about adding a human element to a photograph that makes it hard to ignore,” Miklowitz said. “It just speaks more.” Her current series is a set of portraits that speaks for itself. All the images are photographs combined with drawings and sketches to give each image a “child-like approach to imagination,” Miklowitz said. Miklowitz’s own imagination is at work here. She takes a photograph she shot and combines it with a draw-
ing she created to make her final product. “It’s a series of photo drawings. Some are abstract, and others encompass a whole scene,” Miklowitz said. “I’m trying to appeal to the human imagination. Besides taking a photograph of something alone, I am expanding on that and adding a new dimension.” This is Miklowitz’s last quarter at Cal Poly, and she said she is excited to end it with her own show. After graduation, she hopes to find a career working with fashion or editorial photography. Another graduating art and design senior, Jillian Mascheroni, is excited to see her fel-
low classmate’s work. Mascheroni’s digital photography exhibit was held in the same gallery during winter quarter. “Sabina’s great with portraits. I have not been able to see her new series, but naturally, I am excited to see what she created,” Mascheroni said. “She has a great talent for mixing fine art with photography.” Miklowitz’s artwork can be viewed in the University Union Epicenter Gallery throughout spring quarter until June 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Her portfolio can also be viewed on the Sabina Miklowitz Photography website.
Get out of the dorms and into the sun
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. With the thundering weather last week, I feel like I shouldn’t be calling this season spring. But now, with Mother Nature beginning to grace us with the beautiful weather we all have been impatiently waiting for, I am incredibly excited. Spring weather brings out good spirits, colorful clothing (not to mention the clothes I’ve bought and been so eagerly waiting to finally wear in the spring) and allergies — for those who unfortunately have them. But spring weather also excites us for the summer that awaits all of us. Spring is the
teaser for summer. I can tell you right now that while I’ve tried to read away for philosophy, I couldn’t stop thinking about the school year ending and summer beginning. It’s only a mere two months away, and those two little months will undoubtedly fly by at an incredible pace, judging by how the last two quarters have seemed to already disappear. And because I now spend class time daydreaming about the three month break and warm, beautiful weather, it’s difficult to go to class. I can only imagine what it’s going to be like three or four weeks from now. But why would you spend a lovely day inside when the weather outside is perfect? It
doesn’t make any sense. Though it may be extremely tempting to spend your days at the beach instead of in a 200-person, two-hour lecture, it is probably a good idea to keep up your motivation toward school. I’m definitely not saying it’s better to stay in all day while others enjoy the warmth of the sun — I don’t know what I would do with myself if I was cooped up in my dorm — but there is a way to enjoy the sunshine and stay motivated, as impossible as that may seem. Personally, I like studying inside, rather than outside, but when the weather is this nice, who can resist the fresh air. see SUN, pg. 5
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So as spring (actually and finally) rolls around, spend time outside doing work instead of being in your stuffy dorm room. In high school, it was difficult to enjoy being outdoors
because we would be in school all day. Now that we’re in college and our classes are spread out (for the most part), we have time in the morning, in between and in the afternoon to do whatever we choose to do. So with your extra time, spend it in the warmth and get work done. Try to stay on track while you’re outside
so you’ll kill two birds with one stone: you’ll feel accomplished because you’re so productive, and you’ll be getting a good dose of vitamin D. If you have a lot of work for classes, start — and finish — early. I’m all for waking up early, getting my work done and then enjoying the rest of my day. You not only feel ex-
tremely productive, but you get to reward yourself with a full, free day. Being a college student and waking up early doesn’t exactly go hand-in-hand, so this is a difficult task all on its own, but it’s doable. It just takes a little time to adjust your sleep schedule, but in the end, it’ll be worth it because
you’ll be satisfied that you have a free day all to yourself to go surfing, tanning, hiking or whatever you please. If all those just aren’t doing it for you, make a countdown for the end of the year and the beginning of summer. Making a countdown will help you realize how quickly this quarter is going by and
will help you stay on track, making sure you don’t put things off until the last minute. Spring quarter is about having an amazing time, better than the last two quarters, because it’s the last bit of freshman year. Stay motivated and, in the words of Mac Miller, “have a really, really, really good time.”
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America needs to reevaluate taxes Dean Garfield is president and CEO of Information Technology Industry Council. The recent trend of positive job numbers — while good — do not alter the fact that the U.S. tax code is an albatross weighing down our nation’s economy. The code is a case example of outdated punch-card policies having a punitive impact in a Pentium-chip world. To achieve our economic potential and ensure that our children are more prosperous than their parents, it is imperative that we significantly upgrade our antiquated tax system. No government document is more impactful than the
vestments. Every new job is critical, and chasing away America’s economic champions through punitive, complex tax policies makes zero sense. Other nations have learned this lesson and retooled to be more competitive. This year alone, Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan are cutting rates; Japan and the UK became the latest countries to join the “territorial tax club,” avoiding taxing the foreign earnings of their home-grown industries. In fact, when Japan’s lower rates became effective earlier this month, the U.S. took over the mantle of having the highest corporate rate in the industrialized world and being one of
Our nation’s tax policies are holding us back.
tax code in determining the economy’s direction. Unfortunately, it’s a depressing read. The U.S. code paints a picture of a country with complex, chaotic and contradictory imperatives. While the code appropriately encourages investment in research and development, its system of taxing worldwide income punishes the same American-based global corporations that account for the bulk of U.S. R&D spending, exports and almost all outward direct in-
a few outsiders to the territorial tax club — both to its significant disadvantage as a global competitor. Japan, the UK, Canada, and
China — among others — are making the decision to compete, and are adapting quickly to the reality that technology creates an environment for highly effective global collaboration where people can accomplish almost anything from anywhere at anytime. In such an environment, tax policy decisions really matter. Make no mistake: the U.S. can compete and win in today’s hyper-connected, ultracompetitive global marketplace. The entrepreneurial energy at the heart of American innovation has yet to be fully replicated anywhere else. Our nation’s universities remain the best in the world, our legal system remains strong, and, by 2020, our population will be younger than both China and the Eurozone. Moreover, the United States is home to a tech sector that is transforming the world. A recent review of 40 top American multinational tech companies found that they generate global sales in excess of $1 trillion, employ more than one million people with over half being U.S. employees, and have U.S. investments exceeding their U.S. earnings.
Tech is a success story that is driving transformative innovation in areas like mobility, “smart” energy, transportation and buildings, cloud computing, machine-to-machine communication, and molecular-level manufacturing that promise to create millions of new jobs and trillions in revenue. Unfortunately, tech’s success pales in comparison to its potential, and our nation’s tax policies are holding us back. I know firsthand from my discussions with leading companies that corporate tax policy is a major driver of where to locate the next factory or facility, and the jobs that accompany it. These critical investment decisions are not a simple game of salary and supply-chain arbitrage. Yes, costs matter to companies, as they do to customers, but the factors that impact costs are multi-dimensional, with the business climate, including tax policy, often becoming a deciding factor. Upgrading the tax code will go a long way towards reclaiming America’s global economic leadership. Many of the most prominent companies in our country, and certainly in the tech s e c tor, did not
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exist or existed in a very different form when our code was last rewritten in 1986. Like it has in other major markets, an upgraded tax code must be simple, with lower rates and innovation incentives like a permanent R&D tax credit, and membership in the territorial club — all key determinants of economic growth. This won’t be easy. The president and key members of Congress have offered proposals that demonstrate a shared commitment to making reform a reality. But getting from proposals to a final plan is going to take hard work. While we have concerns with some elements of these proposals, we stand with the president and Congress in our commitment to tax reform that makes us more competitive and a magnet for business investment. For too long, U.S. tax policies have driven jobs and investment overseas. It is high time that American tax policies better benefit American workers, businesses, and communities. It’s time to bring i n v e s t m e nt home.
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First world problems: It’s college. SLO is a college town. Parties happen and kids will be young and wild, there is nothing wrong with that. I was in greek life myself, and honestly, we didn’t party nearly as hard as some of the other “academic” fraternities. Seriously, they are the ones to worry about because they are so far out of Cal Poly’s radar. Greek life faces so many rules and regulations that we walk a far more straight arrow than other campus organizations. And seriously, the people writing this crap in the Mustang Daily are doing it to create heat. The only reason they are still around is because of the crap they write with no good proof, just twisted stories to try and keep their less than mediocre “product” on the shelves. They are sorry excuses for “journalists.”
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Men’s tennis shutout by Fresno State
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The Cal Poly men’s tennis team (11-7) had a chance to knock off a No. 34-ranked Fresno State team (16-3) at the Mustang Courts on Sunday afternoon. Instead, the Mustangs were blanked, losing 7-0 in an effort to make a move in the national rankings and vie for an at-large bid to the national championships in May. The Mustangs started the day off well as the No. 70-ranked duo of Andre Dome and Matt Fawcett defeated Remi Boutillier and Francis Alcantara 8-5 in a back-and-forth doubles match on court one. Dome and Fawcett opened an early 4-1 lead over their Bulldog counterparts, but lost the advantage after Boutillier scattered several winners to knot the set at four. Dome and Fawcett fought back and took the next three points earning Cal Poly its lone victory of the day. Jordan Bridge and Brian McPhee lost their match to Jean-Charles Diame and Reid deLaubenfels, while Marco Comuzzo and Jurgen De Jager dropped theirs to put the Mustangs in a 0-1 hole once doubles play concluded. Despite Dome and Fawcett’s win, the Mustangs could not find an answer for the Bulldogs’ spirited singles play. According to head coach Nick Carless, a win against a
ranked non-conference could have provided a confidence boost for Cal Poly headed into key conference matchups next week, but instead will have to focus on learning from Sunday’s hiccup. “Beating (Fresno State) would have been great, but it was also an opportunity to look at what we need to do better going into (the conference championships) coming up two weekends from now,” he said. The loss marked only the second time the Mustangs have suffered back-to-back defeats this season after Cal Poly was overpowered by Santa Clara 6-1 last Saturday. Carless said the team will learn from its previous two matches and try to improve upon its perfect 3-0 record in the Big West Conference this season. “We’re focused on the matches that are in front of us,” he said. “We’re gonna try to get a little better from the Santa Clara loss and the Fresno State loss. It’s get back to basics and the basics of tennis for us are competing, moving hard, structuring points the right way and playing smart.” In singles, No. 29-ranked Dome dropped a tiebreaker in the second set against No. 25 Boutillier to lose 6-2, 7-6 on the first court. Down 5-3 in that set, Dome made a comeback winning the next three points to earn a 6-5 lead, but Boutillier battled to send the set into a tiebreaker.
Beating (Fresno State) would have been great, but it was also an opportunity to look at what we need to do better. NICK CARLESS MEN’S TENNIS HEAD COACH
Any momentum Dome gained was quickly thwarted in the overtime by Boutillier as he opened a 6-0 advantage in the tiebreaker and eventually took the match. “I was fairly confident,” Boutillier said. “I had been playing pretty well lately. I know that Dome is a great player — I’ve seen him play many times before. He plays really quick, and he was going even faster than I thought, but I served pretty well and came out pretty strong.” Dome’s biggest asset — his powerful serve — proved to be inconsistent on the day as he committed two double faults in the first set alone in singles and never got into the necessary rhythm to take down a very technicallysound player in Boutillier. “There were a lot of factors that went into it,” Dome said. “(Boutillier) played well and it’s hard to play against that type of player. He’s consistent, he used a lot of spins, he used the wind to his advantage and he beat me today, so I got to hold my head up high.” Seniors McPhee and Fawcett owned the Mustangs’ best
chances to win a point against the Bulldogs, but both dropped their respective third sets as Cal Poly went winless in all six singles matches. Carless admitted he was pleased with Fawcett’s singles play considering he is not yet at full strength due to an 18-month hiatus dating back to 2010 following a partially-torn ACL injury. The senior lost to 51st ranked Francis Alcantara. McPhee squandered a first set victory against David Ayoun, losing in the second set to allow for a third set 10-point tiebreaker where he lost 12-10. The tiebreaker was played instead of a traditional third set because the overall match had already been decided. The Mustangs play their final two matches of the regular season on the road against Big West opponents UC Irvine (4-15, 1-1 BWC) and UC Riverside (6-13, 0-1 BWC) on April 21 and 22, respectively. Cal Poly looks to earn an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament by winning the Big West Championships in Indian Wells, Calif., April 27 to 29.
Big West Standings - Men’s Baseball Big West W-L
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Cal State Fullerton Long Beach State Cal Poly
7-2 7-2
UC Santa Barbara
5-4 4-5 4-5
Cal State Northridge
4-5
UC Davis UC Riverside
2-4 2-4
Pacific
1-5
UC Irvine
Baseball can’t rally against Matadors, dropping two games, will play Fresno State on Tuesday night at home. Check @MDailysports for live updates.