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A recent report on the salary of public education administrators shows some are nearing the $2 million mark, while Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong is below the nationwide median. This comes a little more than a year after he was announced as the second-highest paid president in the California State University (CSU) system. The Chronicle of Higher Education examined the salaries of 199 presidents at public universities across the United States. Though CSU presidents are not on the list (The Chronicle includes CSU Chancellor Charles Reed instead of each campus’ individual president), Armstrong’s $380,000 compensation is roughly equivalent to No. 114 and No. 115, Mary Jane Saunders of Florida Atlantic University and Mark Huddleston of the University of New Hampshire, respectively. The report came just weeks after students and faculty rallied at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting in early May against what they say is “too high” executive compensation. The CSU has faced a controversial battle with executive compensation, with Reed (who was 75th on The Chronicle’s list) appearing as the No. 1 target of protestors throughout the state. “The CSU needs to continue to attract quality leaders who are relentless in their efforts to provide quality services to students,” Armstrong wrote in an email. “It is the responsibility of the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees to decide whom to hire as president and what to pay, and it’s the responsibility of the presidents to ensure that students receive a high-quality education.” In January, the Board of Trustees originally voted to cap presidential pay increases at 10 percent in years the trustees approve an increase in student tuition. But at its May meeting, the Board of
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Trustees took its latest controversial measure to help regulate presidential pay by voting to freeze state-funded increases on presidents’ salaries. Instead, the new policy allows for university foundations, such as the Cal Poly Corporation, to grant raises up to 10 percent for incoming presidents. Three campus presidents, including Armstrong, currently receive supplementary salaries from university foundations. Board of Trustee student representative Steve Dixon, a graduate student at Sacramento State, said the argument for reducing presidential pay is a political talking point but would not actually help solve the financial problems of the CSU. “I think the presidential compensation argument is a red herring for people who want to beat up on the CSU,” Dixon said. Armstrong is the second highest paid president in the CSU system, only behind San Diego State University President Elliot Hirshman, whose $400,000 salary was set during the same meeting the Board of Trustees approved a 12 percent tuition increase for students. Hirshman’s compensation would fall 103rd on The Chronicle’s rankings, close to the median salary of $408,669. E. Gordon Gee, president at Ohio State University, topped The Chronicle’s list with more than $1.99 million in total annual compensation to run the 56,000-student campus. Texas A&M Chancellor Michael McKinney, who announced his retirement earlier this month, was listed with the second highest salary at approximately $1.96 million. Though Dixon said the CSU’s focus should not be on presidential compensation, he said it is important to ensure the system pays enough to attract qualified candidates who will be able to successfully manage the duties of a university president. “We can’t be spending a lot of money on the presidents
because the public perception is really bad,” Dixon said. “But people don’t understand that to have a really good university, you need really good faculty, really good presidents and really good administrators.” Dixon said the CSU presidents’ goals should be getting donations for the universities, managing their executive cabinets and designing plans to enforce CSU mandates. These tasks, Dixon said, are not easy; it takes money to bring in a qualified candidate that can accomplish them. Cal Poly spokesperson Chip Visci said Armstrong has succeeded in Dixon’s first goal, bringing in money for Cal Poly. The President is on track to receive $18 million in donations from July 2011 to March 2012, which is more than his predecessor Warren Baker did near the end of his tenure. Those gifts Armstrong secured include a $5 million Leprino donation to the dairy science department in June. But even with the money he has brought in, some students have called Armstrong’s salary “extreme” and “a little ridiculous.” “You do need a pretty big amount of money to bring in someone,” mechanical engineering senior Rustie McCumber said. “But something like $200,000, that’d be OK.” CSU spokesperson Liz Chapin said lowering the presidents’ salaries at each of the campuses would play only a tiny part in decreasing overall spending. From the approximately $4 billion CSU budget, only $10 million, or approximately 0.2 percent, is spent on executive salaries. Due to the small percentage of the budget spent on presidents and executive staffs, Chapin said no committee has seriously considered lowering presidents’ compensation as a cost-cutting measure. “The effect would be minimal,” Chapin said. “It’s such a tiny fraction; it’s just part of a percentage point.”
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After a final year of classes, studio time, teamwork building and project designing, architecture seniors will join together one last time to exhibit their senior design projects at the ninth annual Chumash Architecture Show, which showcases fifth year
architecture students’ theses, starting Friday. This year’s show, called “Unfold,” is a way for all 160 fifthyear architecture students to showcase their last three quarters of design work in a gallery setting for the public to see. The projects consist of physical models, drawings and digital renderings. Architecture senior and
committee member Anthony Fossi said calling the Chumash show “Unfold,” came about as a way to express graduation, “as we go out, expand and start careers elsewhere.” “The year has been interesting,” Fossi said. And with Friday night’s reception marking the opening of the show, see UNFOLD, pg. 3
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Cal Poly students, faculty and staff can ride SLORTA buses (pictured above) to surrounding cities in San Luis Obispo County. They can also take SLO Transit for stops in the City of San Luis Obispo for free by swiping their PolyCards. DYLAN HONEA-BAUMANN gone up significantly since then. Rains is also one of many staff members who uses an alternaThis is the first of two installtive mode of transportation to ments of “Commuting that commute to and from campus. makes cents,” which explains On a day-to-day basis, Rains alternative transportation sets people up with carpool peroptions available to faculty, mits and finds alternative and staff and students. affordable ways to get to campus. She said students generally Faculty and staff looking for have more immediate needs reways to reduce their carbon lated to commuting, while staff footprint and save a little and faculty typically have more cash can benefit from servic- long-term needs. es offered through Cal Poly “We just want to make things Commuter and Access Ser- easy for people to get around vices (CAS). without a car,” Rains said. The program is funded solely Cal Poly’s CAS started as an through parking fines. The pro- agreement between Cal Poly gram offers a variety of alterna- and the San Luis Obispo Countives and incentives for students, ty Air Pollution Control Disfaculty and staff to commute to trict to reduce air pollution in and from school without being the early ‘90s, Rains said. Since then, the service has been reada single occupant in a vehicle. In addition, CAS helps stu- ily available on campus. “We are pretty heavily adverdents from out of the area figure out how they’re going to tised when people first get a job commute between Cal Poly here,” Rains said. And the advertising has and their homes. Susan Rains has been the CAS coordinator been wildly successful, acsince 2004 and said the amount cording to Rains. In the past of people using the service has 10 years, the use of the bus
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has more than doubled and the use of bicycles has close to quadrupled, Rains said. “But at the same time, our revenue has gone down because people aren’t filling in the parking spaces anymore,” she said. Rains said it’s great when more people use alternative modes of transportation to get to school; however, as the amount of parking fines go down, it’s harder to keep the program going. One major reason less faculty and staff are parking on campus is because they’re using the Rideshare Registry Program. Faculty and staff who join Cal Poly’s Rideshare Registry Program (RRP) can receive 15 cents for each day they commute to school in any way other than a single-occupant in a car. Another benefit of the RRP is that members can have a free ride home if they have an emergency. “The main focus of Rideshare Registry is to reduce the amount of pollutants and consee COMMUTE, pg. 2
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gestion, and to reduce singleoccupant commuters on the road,” she said. Rains said there is really no distance requirement. Individuals in the program could live a half mile away from campus and still get the 15 cents. The only thing members have to do is submit online or paper reports to CAS that include the days they used an alternative mode of transportation. She said they can choose to use one of the alternatives to commute to school once a week or every day; it’s just an incentive. “It’s not huge, but it’s accumulated quarterly,” Rains said. “People can get like $8 to $10 a quarter and it goes to their Campus Express account.” There are also drawings for faculty and staff who are
members of the RRP. The winners of the drawings receive $25 they can use toward Campus Dining. And this is all done to minimize the amount of cars on campus on a regular basis, Rains said. One popular way RRP members commute to school is carpooling. A benefit of carpooling is eligibility to apply for a carpool sticker that allows them to park at one of 14 available carpool spaces on campus. Katie Schrempp, financial aid systems analyst, has been carpooling to Cal Poly with her husband, who also works at Cal Poly. They’ve been commuting approximately 16 miles to campus from Atascadero together since Schrempp became a staff member in 1996. “We purposely made sure our schedules were the same to reduce traffic on campus, to reduce how much we spend on gas and parking, and to re-
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 duce emissions and that kind of stuff,” Schrempp said. Schrempp joined the RRP after finding out about the incentive. “I’m a nice wife, and I do (the RRP paperwork) for my husband,” she said. “Also, it’s kind of easy when it’s just the two of us, I know what days we were sick or what days we go on vacation, so it’s kind of easier to just do it at the end of the month.” Sometimes their neighbor, a professor at Cal Poly as well, carpools with them to school. Plus, they will occasionally pick up friends that are at the bus stop on campus and drop them off at their cars, which are located one exit short of where they have to go to get home. “I feel like it makes life easier,” Schrempp said. “I get to have fun talking to people on the way to work and home, and I know that I’m helping with parking on campus and helping with the emission standards, making a cleaner environment. I will con-
tinue to do it until I retire.” And when her husband, who is older, retires, Schrempp said she plans to commute to campus by vanpool, another service offered through Commuter and Access Services. Vanpool has been around for 30 years, which was before CAS even existed, Rains said. “It started as more of an employee convenience,” Rains said. “Even in the ‘80s, if you’re coming from far, you’re spending a lot on gas relatively.” Vanpool is for faculty and staff who commute from parts of the county outside of the City of San Luis Obispo. People who take the vanpools also have the option of bringing a bike because the vanpools have bike racks. They can use their bikes to commute around town between classes. The cost of vanpooling ranges from $40 to $100 a month depending on the distance from the pick-up point to campus, Rains said. Despite being advertised mainly through word-ofmouth, the program is mostly self-supporting. Debi Wages, the University Housing administrative support coordinator, found out about the vanpooling service in September 2007 when she first started working for Cal
Poly Corporation. She uses it regularly as a Rideshare Registry Program member. “The vanpool is nicer than taking the bus,” Wages said. “There’s cushier seats, and you kind of develop relationships and networking with other individuals on campus, so you have a little bit more of a closeness to them, and it’s just a lot nicer of a ride. You don’t have to fight for a seat.” The vanpool Wages is a part of departs from Templeton and currently has 13 people using it. Wages is one of the three people who drives the van and said it’s beneficial because drivers only have to pay half the rate that passengers pay. The van can hold up to 15 people, but Wages said they prefer to keep it at a maximum of 14 people to prevent overcrowding. “The more people you have on the van, the lesser the rate you have to pay,” Wages said. “It’s beneficial for everyone to encourage people to ride the vanpools because the rate tends to go down. When you’re coming from the far areas, you tend to pay more, so when you have more riders, it makes it less of a burden. The bus is ultimately cheaper but you get what you pay for.” Wages recommends that fac-
ulty and staff who live outside of the City of San Luis Obispo vanpool whether or not they have a car. “The amount of money that you can save on repairs and stuff on your car, makes it really worth it.” Wages said. “Even though the Rideshare Registry Program only gives you 15 cents, it’s still something, and I would encourage people to do it. It’s nice to have when you’re on campus and you want to have a coffee. I bought a couple lunches off of it.” There will soon be even more benefits for Rideshare Registry Program members during Fall 2012. “October is Rideshare month, so I’ll be doing some kind of event for that,” Rains said. Cal Poly RRP incentives are not offered to students, though. With the budgets the way they are, the 15-cent incentive will probably never be offered to students, Rains said, but regardless of students not being able to receive the 15 cents, there are still benefits for them to use alternative modes of transportation. The second installment of “Commuting that makes cents” will explain alternative transit options for students, from Zipcars to escort vans.
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SpaceX launches capsule into space
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In a pivotal moment for private spaceflight, a towering white rocket lifted a cone-shaped capsule into space early Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carried the unmanned Dragon capsule into space after a 3:44 a.m. EDT launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking the first time a private company has sent a spacecraft to the space station. The mission is considered the first test of NASA’s plan to outsource space missions to privately funded companies now that its fleet of space shuttles is retired. SpaceX aims to prove to NASA that its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule are ready to take on the task of hauling cargo — and eventually astronauts — for the space agency. “Today marks the beginning of a new era in exploration; a private company has launched a spacecraft to the International Space Station that will attempt to dock there for the first time,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a speech at the cape. “And while there is a lot of work ahead to successfully complete this mission, we are certainly off to good start.” In a separate news conference, Elon Musk, SpaceX’s 40-yearold billionaire founder and chief executive, spoke at company headquarters in Hawthorne. It was there that SpaceX employees had gathered, watched and cheered as the Falcon 9 climbed toward the heavens. “There’s so much hope riding on that rocket,” he said. “When it worked ... and they saw their handiwork in space and operat-
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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft blasted off Tuesday from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ing as it should, there was tremendous elation. For us, it’s like winning the Super Bowl.” But the toughest tasks in the mission lie ahead. The Dragon capsule will rendezvous with the space station as it circles the Earth at about 1,700 mph. Once the Dragon catches up to the station, it must complete a series of complicated tests to determine if it is ready to dock. If all goes well, the crew aboard the station will snag the spacecraft with a robotic arm and lead it in. SpaceX hopes to dock the Dragon, which is designed to carry up to seven astronauts, as early as Friday. After years of testing, NASA is hoping to turn the job of carrying cargo and crews over
to private industry at a lower cost. Meanwhile, the agency will focus on deep-space missions to land probes on asteroids and Mars. The agency has poured nearly $400 million in seed money into SpaceX in hopes that the company can one day complete routine missions to the space station. NASA is doling out $63 million to the Russians each time it wants to send an astronaut to the station. SpaceX, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is one of the leading contenders to carry astronauts for NASA one day. Company officials say cargo missions will yield valuable flight experience toward accomplishing this goal by 2015.
“I’m really excited, it’s all of the fifth years together and is much more of a celebration than stress.” While each student works on their own thesis project, they also collaborate with a studio group of 20 students. A committee of two to three representatives from each studio worked together to put the event together. “The project shows the last nine months of work,” architecture senior Danielle Lieu said. “It shows whatever inspired students and whatever they chose to take on this year.” Projects range from houses to skyscrapers; from cargo shipping containers to food stands, Lieu said. “At the show, you can see not only the work that was done, but our personality in projects.” Architecture professor and fifth year student coordinator Tom Di Santo said that having an event like this allows students to find their avenue and find out what interests them. “It’s really rewarding to work with the students: they
take the bull by the horns and make it happen,” Di Santo said. “If it was just left to the faculty to make this happen, it wouldn’t happen.” Before the Chumash show was started, architecture students relied strictly on smaller, individual shows in the architecture building. The creation of the architecture show raised more visibility for the students’ work. “Architecture is an interesting profession in that it’s about art, design and creativity, but it’s also a social art,” Di Santo said. “Unlike an artist that can hole up in his or her studio without any regard for other people, architects have to interact with the community, and this is a way for them to showcase all of their talents, not just design talents.” Because the expectations are ramped up from a typical senior project, but not quite as rigorous as a masters thesis, the architecture design projects are a cross between the two, Di Santo said. “There’s so many different projects, so many different scales, typologies and design styles,” Di Santo said. “The show celebrates diversity. It shows how everybody is looking at different things,
seeing things differently, and appreciating different aspects of people’s work. There’s something for everybody, and what I like, you might not like. What the community might find interesting, the faculty might see as pedestrian. It’s really great to see all of this work and have the venue for that.” In recent years, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has come to the exhibit and awards five top design projects each year. Cal Poly architecture faculty also choose the best 10 to 12 projects each year, called the “Best in Show.” “We’re really lucky as faculty here at Cal Poly that we have so many talented students,” Di Santo said. “A lot of them are whole brain thinkers; they can handle analysis of left brain thinking and can also be creative and draw and paint and create.” There is a sort of extended family closeness within groups, Di Santo said. “We’re together for the whole year, we get upset at each other, we have fun together, we laugh and we cry,” he said. “I would guess that faculty in other departments don’t see students cry as much as I do.” The show is May 25 to 27 in the Chumash Auditorium.
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A look at today’s trending diets
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One of the five food groups food science senior Melanie Sholander eats as a follower of the paleo diet is fruit and vegetables. Sholander is a strong believer in this diet — she said she would recommend it to anyone. ERIN HURLEY
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Diet trends have come and gone throughout the years, each with their own goals and rules about what to eat and what to avoid. The paleo and gluten-free diets are two trends that have become more popular within the last several years, according to Cal Poly nutrition professor and registered dietician Lisa Nicholson. Both diets have benefits and drawbacks though, she said. For Nicholson, there are two general types of diets: One is a diet intended for weight loss, and the other is a long-term healthy eating pattern. She’s seeing more Cal Poly students who want to diet as part of a lifestyle change, she said. “I think the message is out there that any diet can cause weight loss, but if you want to keep the weight off ... then you need to make that lifestyle change,” Nicholson said. Don’t eat the wheat One diet trend Nicholson has seen more during the last several years is going gluten-free. While some people require this diet because they cannot tolerate gluten, others choose to eliminate it. Nutrition senior Mollie Shimer is a personal trainer at the Recreation Center, and agreed more people are going on gluten-free diets today because they think they might have a gluten intolerance. “It’s gotten a lot more prevalent,” Shimer said. “I just don’t think it’s that necessary ... I think it’s more of a trend.” Those who can tolerate gluten but choose this diet believe removing gluten will generally improve their health and may help with gas, bloating, stomach pain and fatigue, Nicholson said, or they believe it will help them lose weight. Nicholson also said more parents of autistic children are eliminating allergens including gluten from their children’s diets as a potential treatment. There is a lot of research in this area, but no scientific link has been found between eliminating gluten and treating autism, Nicholson said. Gluten is a protein found in many grains, Nicholson said, and more people make this dietary choice because they want to remove starchy foods as a way to cut calories and carbohydrates. Being glutenfree eliminates a large number of foods, so people on this diet eat more fruits, vegetables,
dairy and meats. Additionally, by eliminating foods with gluten, people are often eliminating processed foods and “trigger” foods they might overeat such as breads and cake. “They’re eating a lot better from my perspective,” Nicholson said. However, she said people who choose this diet can miss a number of vitamins, minerals and fiber by not eating grains. Another downside can be what these people choose to eat instead — that’s what she would want to know. Glutenfree dieters lose weight because they’re eliminating a whole food group, she said — the diet doesn’t cause weight loss by itself. Nutrition senior Rylee Horner is the coordinator of the Cal Poly PULSE Health Enrichment Action Team (HEAT) and consults with students about healthy eating habits. Horner said while some people do require a gluten-free diet, she wouldn’t recommend it to people who can tolerate gluten. This diet is more expensive, Horner said, and requires cutting something out of a regular diet that the body wants. The body likes a variety of foods, she said, and cutting foods out will make it harder to re-introduce them back into a diet. “I wouldn’t suggest cutting out something if your body feels good consuming it,” Horner said. “But you know, some people don’t have a gluten intolerance, but they feel better if they don’t eat gluten. It’s all by choice.” For Cal Poly students, there are a number of on-campus foods available to accommodate gluten-free diets. According to the Campus Dining website, there are gluten-free options at The Avenue, Campus Market, Ciao!, 19 Metro Station, VG Cafe and Tacos-to-Go. Alayna Albert, a biological sciences senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz tried a gluten-free diet for a week two years ago to see what on-campus options were available as part of an assignment about an aspect of the university she would change. It was really hard, she said — especially because she was already a vegetarian. There aren’t a lot of options out there for people who are gluten-free, Albert said — she even had to check the ingredients in soup before eating it. “It’s crazy how much you have to check labels,” she said. “I was definitely starving at the end of the week.”
Though it was difficult for her, Albert said she’d recommend everyone try different diet options, and people should try being gluten free because they might be allergic to it and not even know it, she said. Back to the cavemen Another diet trend Nicholson said has been growing in the past few years, and one more students have come to see her about, is the paleo diet. This diet is centered around the idea of eating the kind of food humans consumed before the Agricultural Revolution, according to a paleo diet website. For Nicholson, this diet has pros and cons as well. Following it means eating more fruits and vegetables and avoiding processed foods, and she said she’s a big proponent of that idea. There are aspects of the diet “that aren’t that bad,” she said. However, this diet does not include grains or dairy — and Nicholson said she doesn’t see why whole grains are a negative. Cutting out entire food groups is difficult and makes it more difficult to eat out and avoid intense cravings, she said. Followers of this diet might not get enough carbohydrates, she said — which is something hunter-gatherers harvested whenever they could. And Nicholson said followers are in turn getting too much animal protein, which she doesn’t promote. She said in this aspect, the paleo diet is very similar to the South Beach Diet. “This is just another way of writing up a high-protein, low-carb diet in my opinion,” Nicholson said. Like the gluten-free diet, Horner said she wouldn’t recommend the paleo diet either. Horner said cutting out grains and dairy doesn’t seem very healthy — eliminating grains cuts a number of vitamins and minerals, and eliminating dairy cuts out vitamin D and calcium. Food science senior Melanie Sholander has been on the paleo diet for a year, and this is her second time — she took a break after being on it for two years before. She’d planned on trying it for only 30 days to see what it would be like but said she felt so good, she kept going. “I thought it would be really hard, and it was actually really easy,” Sholander said. While she can only eat fruit, vegetables, lean meats, fish
and nuts, Sholander said she can have as much as she wants and at any time. It is timeconsuming because she has to cook all her meals herself, but she said it’s worth it — and she still gets all the nutrients she see DIETS, pg. 6
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needs as long as she eats those five food groups. Eating out is difficult, but Sholander said “you can pretty much find something to eat anywhere you go.” Sholander said she would recommend this diet to anyone, because she feels like this is what people are meant to eat, but she would call it a lifestyle, not a diet, she said. “Once you go on it, you don’t want to go off it because you feel so good,” Sholander said. While Shimer said the principles of the paleo diet make sense, she added it doesn’t include many necessary foods available today. Not eating processed foods is beneficial, but people won’t get much fiber on this diet, she said.
“There are ups and downs to it,” Shimer said. “You do get a lot of protein, but you don’t need that much protein. ... You need more fat than that, you should have other sources of fiber besides fruits and vegetables.” Going to extremes In addition to the gluten-free and paleo diets, there are diets practiced today that are more restrictive. An example is the “master cleanse” which entails consuming only a mixture of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. While Nicholson said it can help you lose weight quickly in a short period of time, it also has a number of health consequences such as diarrhea, the stripping of mucus from the intestinal tract and food allergies. “It is not a good choice,” Nicholson said. “The more
days you’re on it, the worse it is for you.” Nicholson said there are always unusual diets out there — other examples she gave are the peanut butter diet, the cabbage soup diet and the nose tube diet, where people go on nasal tube feeds to lose weight. These kind of diets do cause you to eat less and become more conscious of what you’re eating, Nicholson said, but they can be unhealthy; but, she said she’s seen less extremism in dieting recently. Horner echoed Nicholson’s opinion of these more extreme diets. She’s had people come in to see her who ask about cleanse diets or how to lose weight fast. However, she said those diets cause weight fluctuations, which are unhealthy for the body over extended periods of time. “If you lose it (quickly), you’re going to gain it back really quickly,” Horner said.
In today, out tomorrow Diet trends come in and out of fashion because humans are dichotomous creatures, Nicholson said — they like to classify food as “good” or “bad.” And different foods have been judged as “bad” in the past, Nicholson said — for a time it was fats, then sugar and then high fructose corn syrup. “A diet becomes really popular because it makes sense — ‘Well I can just cut out a whole type of food, I don’t have to think about it,’” Nicholson. “It makes choice easy.” Since all diets cause weight loss when followed diligently, Nicholson said such past diet trends did work for a time and got very popular — but people start gaining the weight back and the popularity goes down. And then people start looking for the next trend, she said — today
the “bad” food is gluten. Human nature draws a connection between health and being thin, Nicholson said, and so people keep looking for the next thing to help them lose weight. But there are thin people who can be unhealthy or people who are heavy but still healthy, she said. So what to do? To maintain a healthy diet, Nicholson advises students do a number of things such as eating some kind of breakfast and getting a variety of foods during the day. Don’t try to eliminate one kind of food completely, she said — it will just make you want that food more. And Nicholson also advises students to find ways to bring healthy food with them to campus so they don’t get stuck hungry and end up eating something unhealthy.
MD op/ed
Why race matters in politics Brendan Pringle is an English senior and Mustang Daily conservative columnist. Whether the conservative establishment likes it or not, race is a determinant of electoral victories. Many Republicans like myself prefer to talk about issues that affect us personally — such as jobs. But this is part of the reason why we lost in 2008. I am not saying that President Obama was elected because of the color of his skin. This undoubtedly drove some people to the polls (in the effort to “make history”), but it was really the manner in which he appealed to the black demographic that won over their precious votes. This pattern will likely continue in the 2012 presidential election. But is it really so shocking for blacks to vote Republican? For Joseph Phillips, a conservative black commentator and former star of “The Cosby Show,” the answer is no. Even as a product of Hollywood, he continues to vote “conservative” time and time again. Yet as a conservative, he believes Republicans still need to change their strategy, especially during the upcoming elec-
tion campaign. With their promises to restore fiscal responsibility to government and get America back on the path to prosperity, they often neglect the issue of race. Phillips said “as a result, the GOP will not be successful at attracting black voters back to the party of Lincoln, and we will have ceded the discussion of race to the left” who are “more than happy to run with the ball.” Phillips f latly denies that “racism has the social power that it once it had,” noting that this doesn’t mean that it has suddenly disappeared from our society. Republicans will continue to lose the trust of blacks when they evade discus-
sions of race or choose not to directly address this important demographic head on. It is one thing to be opposed to liberalsupported policy measures such as affirmative action. But it seems that nowadays, many conservatives haven’t shown the slightest interest in this issue. As a result, Bill Clinton became the “first black President” in 1992, and conservatives had nothing to fall back on after George W. Bush packed his bags. The black identity is strong. Black voters don’t think the same way or have the same views, but they do know when they are ignored and they know when they are given an open ear. Democrats (and liberals
in general) seem to have a monopoly on the term “diversity” as if they invented it. Also, they seem to be most effective at the “conquer by division” strategy; they win over different minority groups through their mushy, meaningless promises of change. Contrary to the liberal myths, conservatives are not racist by nature, nor do their policies purposely try to suppress opportunity for blacks. Our problem is that we haven’t attempted to connect with this important demographic on a personal level. Phillips will be speaking at Cal Poly tonight from 7 to 8 p.m. in Science North, room 215. The event is free and open to the public.
Letter to the Editor In 2000, as repeatedly confirmed by then-President Clinton and Dennis Ross, Ehud Barak, the prime minister of Israel, offered a most generous offer of statehood to Yasser Arafat. He refused it as usual, and started the Second Intifada, in which, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians were killed and injured. One trademark of this Intifada was suicide bombers, an invention of the Palestinians, who blew themselves up in Israeli buses, pizzerias, weddings, clubs and other gatherings of innocent people, killing and maiming countless civilians. In response, Israel built a security fence (a wall in population centers, where the snipers could still shoot civilians) to reduce the incidents of suicide bombers going into Israel. Together with checkpoints, the fence has practically eliminated suicide bombings. This is not done to inconvenience the Palestinians, to grab land, or for any other reason, but security of Israeli civilians. Yes, it makes it very hard for Palestinians to go to Israel to blow themselves up and kill the civilians. Sorry. Many other walls exist around the world when people do not get along. There is a wall between us and Mexico, one between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, and many others. Go find out for yourself. But the security fence between Israel and West Bank is called the Apartheid wall. How is it a apartheid wall if it discriminates the same way against anyone going through it, or if there are Jews and Moslems on both sides of it, or if it inconveniences Israeli and Palestinian the same? Why is it that all other people have the right to security but Israelis? And why do the Students for Justice and Peace in the Middle East delegitimize Israel by never pointing out the hundreds of suicide bombers that went into Israel and killed civilians? Scott Weis San Luis Obispo
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Snag Mustang swag at rummage sale ANDREA KANG
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The Cal Poly Athletics Department will hold its fourth annual athletics rummage sale from 10 a.m. to noon today. Various athletic clothing and equipment will be sold at Mott Gym lawn for $2 to $3 each. Athletic equipment manager Steve Kracher founded the rummage sale to benefit the athletic department during his second year working at Cal Poly. The event helps manage the limited storage space in Mott Gym, he said, and it was necessary to get rid of old equipment and clothing to make room for current items. Another goal of the sale is addressing the lack of funding for the athletics department, he said. Kracher uses profits, usually $1,000 to $1,500,
to purchase towels for all Cal Poly athletes. This year, he bought 552 towels, approximately one per athlete for all the women’s and men’s teams. “Our budget is very small, and (towels are) an item that we have to purchase yearly,” he said. “When you wash a student’s towel every day, it kind of gets worn out. (The sale) kind of helps offset that budget expense.” The sale will include mainly clothing, such as jerseys, shorts, sweatpants and shirts, as well as miscellaneous items such as baseball bats and gear, backpacks and volleyballs. A unique item that will be sold for the first time, though, is turf football shoes, Kracher said, since the football team no longer plays against teams who play on Astroturf. There will be approximately 50 pairs available. Any kind of work-
out clothing, however, is always the most popular at the sale, he said. “The sweats and the shirts and the jerseys all seem to go very quickly,” Kracher said. “It’s nice to have the students pick up something for a couple dollars and be able to wear (Cal Poly clothes) around.” In addition to students, athletes, staff members and locals check out the sale. And everyone is equally charged by university requirement, Kracher said. “There’s a woman who comes every year and spends a lot of time,” Kracher said of the diverse set of attendees. “She buys maybe 20 items for her children and grandchildren.” Although Cal Poly athletes already own a good amount of gear, many plan to attend to show support and check out the items.
“I usually have a lot of Cal Poly gear because I play basketball here,” junior guard Kyle Odister said. “But sometimes they have some good stuff. I’ll probably walk by tomorrow and see what I like.” The sale will provide students with a once-a-year chance to collect cheap, Cal Poly workout clothes. Child development junior Jennifer Song looks forward to finding $2 to $3 shorts and shirts to last her trips to the gym for the rest of her college career. “I love Cal Poly apparel, but the bookstore is pretty pricey for my budget,” Song said. “This way, I don’t have to wear the same workout clothes to
the gym all the time since I’ll be able to afford a bunch of it.” Kracher anticipates a similar turnout and profit as previous years, as the department has about the same amount of items to get rid of each year, he said. “We’re not like Texas or
Penn State, or those big-time schools that spend millions and millions,” Kracher said. “I think we’re all pitching in together around here to make the best of a tight budget; you cinch up your belt where you have to and do what you have to.”
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Callero brings in bigs for ‘re-invention’ STEPHAN TEODOSESCU
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Even in the offseason, basketballs can be heard bouncing in Mott Gym. While the Cal Poly men’s basketball team can’t officially practice as a unit until next school year, the players take it upon themselves to hit the gym. “Even though the season just ended two months ago, I can’t wait to get back out there because I miss the fans, I miss the students and I miss the band,”
said redshirt sophomore forward Chris Eversley. “I miss the whole experience, and I’m kind of itching for that already.” And as spring turns to summer, the 2012-13 team roster is set. After posting its second highest win total in program history with 18 victories last season, Cal Poly will look to improve upon its 18-15 record and a fourth-place finish in the Big West Conference. It’s a tall order considering the Mustangs will have to do it without the six seniors gradu-
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Callero (pictured above) recruited four incoming basketball players for the 2012-13 season taller than 6-foot-7.
ating this year, but head coach Joe Callero said next year’s team will have a completely new identity, one that will hopefully propel the program to its first ever conference title. “We don’t want a rebuilding year,” Callero said. “We want a ‘re-invent yourself’ year.” So throughout the spring Callero addressed concerns raised about the size of his team — Cal Poly only had two active players taller than 6-foot-6 last year — by recruiting four incoming freshmen over 6-foot-7. Brian Bennett, who will become the tallest player at 6-foot-9, will likely anchor the frontcourt for the Mustangs. Bennett averaged 15.6 points per game, shot 59.7 percent from the floor and helped his school to a 27-2 record as a senior at Plainfield East High school in Romeoville, Ill. “Personally, I want to contribute to the team and help the team win because one of the main goals is to get to the dance eventually as a team,” Bennett said. “And individually, I want to help my teammates in any way possible.” Joining Bennett will be 6-foot8 forward Zach Gordon from Everett, Wash., 6-foot-8 Josh Hall from St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy in Brush Prarie, Wash., and 6-foot-7 Zach Allmon, a local, from Mission College Preparatory Catholic High School. All four players will have the option to redshirt in 2012-13, but each has a “high basketball IQ” and the potential to make an immediate impact on the floor with their athleticism, according to Callero. “It’s a really good solid recruit-
ing class, but it has such a high upside because (the incoming freshmen) are all such big, athletic, aggressive guys,” he said. In losing senior forwards David Hanson and Will Taylor, the Mustangs will also lose their interior scoring touch. Hanson led the team a season ago averaging 11.8 points per contest while Taylor boasted a 53 percent shooting figure from the field. Hanson ranks eighth in program history in career points scored as a Mustang. The new-look Cal Poly offense will be more guardoriented to complement the youth gained in the frontcourt, but the Mustangs will stick to their defensive-minded principles to stifle teams in 2012-13. Callero’s squad finished 24th in the country, allowing 60.5 opponent points per game last season. Cal Poly returns most of its guards from a year ago in addition to welcoming back junior Chris O’Brien from injury and redshirt freshman Reese Morgan for his first game action as a Mustang. Junior Dylan Royer will also receive added minutes after recently receiving a full-ride scholarship from Callero for his esteemed play on both offense and defense. Royer made 47 percent of his 3-pointers last year, a figure that would have put him 26th among Division I players had he averaged more than two 3-pointers a game. “All the hard work (Royer) has put in and being one of the more consistent scorers on our team throughout the season and then being one of the top 3-point shooters in the country, it was good to finally see it all
pay off for him,” Eversley said. Eversley will handle much of the offensive burden at the power forward position following breakout performances during conference play in 2011-12. He scored double-digits in 12 of 18 Big West games for the Mustangs, who will have a chance to go deep into the conference tournament if he can provide a consistent scoring touch next season, Callero said. Eversley will look to lead the Mustangs through another demanding non-conference schedule for next year, including games at Pac-12 powers UCLA and Washington. The Bruins own the nation’s No.
1 recruiting class according to multiple sources, while the Huskies are the defending Pac-12 regular season champions. Cal Poly will also travel to St. Mary’s in Moraga and visit TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, before playing a 17game Big West schedule that features newly-added Hawaii to the conference. “I want a conference ring, and I want to be able to go play in the NCAA Tournament,” Eversley said. “I don’t want to just go to the NCAA Tournament — I want to actually make some noise in the tournament and put Cal Poly on the map.”