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THE BREAKDOWN Cal Poly enrolls more white students than any four-year public university in California. These graphs break down racial demographics of four Central Coast colleges.

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WHITE HISPANIC/LATINO ASIAN AMERICAN MULTI-RACIAL UNKNOWN NON-RESIDENT ALIEN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NATIVE AMERICAN HAWAIIAN/PAC ISLANDER

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Cuesta students

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Brandman students

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Culture shock

Cal Poly students, staff, and faculty grapple with a lack of campus diversity

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Cal Poly staff

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75%

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5.8 3.8 2.3 1.7 0.8 0.6 0.3

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Cal Poly lecturers

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ASIAN AMERICAN

75%

82.6

5.7 4.8 2.8 2.5 0.7 0.5 0.4 0

HISPANIC/LATINO

100%

Cal Poly tenure and tenure-track faculty

0% WHITE

50%

74

9 5.4 5.4 2.7 1.6 1 0.5 0

ASIAN AMERICAN

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nclusion Starts With Me. On first read, the words sound like a pithy phrase you’d hear in a middle school classroom—both corny and like something meant for an audience of students to chant over and over again.

Yet, the words are supposed to resonate deeply at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Incoming Cal Poly freshmen will repeatedly hear them during their Week of Welcome (WOW), the Mustangs’ version of freshman orientation, and their meaning should be driven home by a Sept. 21 presentation from students and staff about “what it means to welcome others at Cal Poly.”

“The intention of Inclusion Starts With Me is to drive that message of valuing everybody,” said Jean DeCosta, the interim director of the Cal Poly Office of University Diversity and Inclusivity and a former dean of students at Cal Poly. “Everybody has a responsibility to

blown student social movement calling out the university for failing to cultivate a safe and welcoming environment for underrepresented students.

Tensions boiled over last November, when anonymous students scribbled Islamophobic and transphobic remarks onto a “free speech wall” erected by the Cal Poly College Republicans club on Dexter Lawn.

A group of students started SLO Solidarity in response, joining movements at Yale University and the University of Missouri in bringing awareness to the experiences of underrepresented college students.

It also put pressure on the Cal Poly administration to address campus climate issues through a list of 41 demands.

A month later, in December, one of SLO Solidarity’s leaders, a member of the LGBT community, FILE PHOTO BY PETER JOHNSON received a death threat from a Cal Poly student in a Facebook message.

“The day of the rope is coming soon, and you people will be the first to go,” the threat read, from a fake account. “If you don’t like how it is in this town, you can go somewhere else. We have a nice thing going here, and if you fuck with that you’re going to have some angry young white man on your hands.”

The student behind the threat was arrested after an investigation.

Then, in February, a student’s dorm room was vandalized by a peer. His chair was snapped in two and MEAN SCRIBBLES Cal Poly students gather around a “free speech wall” erect by the Cal Poly College Republicans the statements, “I love last November. Anonymous students wrote bigoted messages n**gers” and “I’m a fag,” about the religion of Islam and transgender students. The were written on his incident jumpstarted a student social movement: SLO Solidarity. door. The perpetrator was charged with a address inclusion on campus.” vandalism misdemeanor in March.

While it may still sound rudimentary The crimes were ugly and public, to some, the campaign is practically and according to those in the SLO essential following a 2015-2016 school Solidarity movement, they illuminated year that featured multiple hateinspired crimes on campus and a full-

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a hostile and bigoted undercurrent on campus. They also weren’t the only recent instances of racism on display at Cal Poly.

In 2008, a Cal Poly agriculture house was discovered donning a Confederate flag coupled with a sign that read: “No n**gers.” Then, in 2013, an off-campus fraternity/sorority party was caught using the theme, “Colonial Bros and Nava-Hos.” For the 2016-2017 school year—and beyond—Cal Poly says it’s doubling down on its efforts to cultivate a campus culture that will be safer for underrepresented students.

“They’re getting slammed with this stuff this year,” DeCosta said. “This a value we hold, and this is a strength you need to have.”

DeCosta is overseeing a 174-pronged Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan designed to enhance campus climate.

“It’s clear that we have to address this issue,” she said. “I’m looking, and my office is looking, at to what degree are we addressing it effectively and holding people accountable to that.”

Yet despite the new plans and efforts, one fact is unchanged: Cal Poly remains the least ethnically diverse four-year public university in California.

2016 America,’ because nobody’s talking about social justice.”

Junior Neel Kogali, the victim of the housing vandalism, shared his personal experiences of racism with the Mustang News in a video interview following the February crime. In the interview, framed behind Kogali is his dorm room door, ravaged and littered with hateful obscenities.

“This is the most blatant racism I’ve experienced,” Kogali said in the video. “At Cal Poly, it’s not like blatant racism, it’s more like subtle racism. It’s to the point where you can’t really complain about it,

Cal Poly’s 10 tenure-tracked AfricanAmerican faculty members and the director of the Cal Poly Bakari Mentoring Program, recently filed a lawsuit against Cal Poly, alleging racial discrimination and harassment. Caldwell did not respond to requests for comment from New Times.

Big picture solutions

In 1996, affirmative action became illegal in California. Voters’ passage of Proposition 209 placed a constitutional ban on “discriminating against or giving preferential treatment to any individual or group in public education on the basis

DeCosta said.

But money won’t solve everything. As the climate survey and the incidents of last year showed, Cal Poly must also become a place where students from all backgrounds can feel welcomed, comfortable, and a part of the fabric of the community. The Office of University Diversity and Inclusivity hopes to address that through its Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.

A handful of action items include adding an anonymous online reporting system for victims of discrimination or harassment, collaborating with FILE PHOTO

‘Subtle racism’

Last year, Cal Poly enrolled 11,985 white students, making up 57 percent of the student body. It enrolled 166 African American students, or less than 1 percent of the student body; 3,262 Hispanic or Latino students attended, as well as 2,527 Asian American students, and 1,437 multi-racial students.

Totaled up, Cal Poly has more Caucasian students than any four-year public university in California. Even though 15 CSU and University of California (UC) campuses have larger student bodies, none have as many white students as Cal Poly.

That reality in itself can bring discomfort for underrepresented community members. A university-wide climate survey administered in 2014 shed light on some of the problems.

“From the survey, we know that when students come here, about 25 percent of them say they think about leaving Cal Poly at some point,” DeCosta said. “And the primary reason [cited by 63 percent of respondents], is they don’t feel like they’re included. They don’t feel like they have a place to belong.”

The Office of University Diversity and Inclusivity is evaluating what factors, other than the diversity numbers, contribute to that perception.

Junior Matt Klepfer, a leader of SLO Solidarity and co-founder of the 2-year-old Cal Poly Queer Student Union, believes that Cal Poly has a reputation around the state that perpetuates a certain culture.

“There’s a reputation of Cal Poly being a white school,” Klepfer said. “And students come here because they know they’re going to be protected, isolated, and comfortable. That’s the type of student that the city appeals to.”

Klepfer said that the campus culture is also built into Cal Poly’s identity as a polytechnic university.

“Part of it is the fact that Cal Poly is about agriculture, STEM, and business, so students come here and they don’t want to engage themselves in conversations around social justice, around race, around inequities, so they don’t,” he said.

“That’s why SLO is ‘the happiest place in

DEMANDING CHANGE Students of the SLO Solidarity movement rallied at University Union in November 2015, days after a “free speech wall” on campus was marked up with Islamophobic and transphobic remarks.

because then you’re seen as overacting to something that’s very minimal. But it adds up. I notice being ostracized by certain groups. I noticed the judgment I get from other people.”

And the problem isn’t just one felt by students.

Almost three-fourths of Cal Poly’s tenure-track faculty members, 82 percent of the part-time lecturers, and 66 percent of staff members, are also white. The campus climate survey revealed that 56 percent of Cal Poly faculty and 53 percent of staff seriously considered leaving Cal Poly in the past year.

Many African-American staff members actually did leave. In the last 18 months, 13 black staff members—or about 40 percent of Cal Poly’s black staff—left the school for other jobs.

Unique Shaw-Smith, a Cal Poly sociology professor, chair of the Black Faculty and Staff Association and one of the 10 tenure-tracked African-American faculty members at Cal Poly, spoke with Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong over the summer about some of the reasons they left.

“We talked about our own personal experience and why we thought people were leaving, ... trying to brainstorm what we can do to improve retention [of underrepresented faculty members],” Shaw-Smith told New Times. “I can’t say that anything came out of it except him being a sounding board.”

Shaw-Smith said she knows many of the staff were driven away by the environment on campus and the larger SLO area and that discussing those concerns with the administration often feels frustrating and unproductive.

“It always goes back to, ‘Oh we need more people. We’re going to recruit more people,’” Shaw-Smith said. “But that’s not necessarily a solution, because you can’t keep the people you have.”

Rosyln M. Caldwell, another one of

of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” The law has been upheld in the California and U.S. supreme courts since.

With that as the reality, how can Cal Poly go about diversifying its student body?

DeCosta says one solution lies in simply raising more money in order to provide more scholarships to low-income or firstgeneration prospective students. Cal Poly admits a more diverse set of applicants, DeCosta said, but some students aren’t able to receive the financial support necessary to attend.

“As a state institution, we don’t have the scholarship history that [other colleges] can provide,” DeCosta said. “If somebody who’s a very good student can get a full ride, then they’re going to go there. We want to be able to offer the same opportunity for students who are qualified to come to Cal Poly, to be able to select Cal Poly.”

Cal Poly’s best hope for increasing scholarship funds is by soliciting more private donations. DeCosta said the university is having success with that strategy, and saw a “substantial increase in donations” over the past year.

The scholarship issue is compounded by the high cost of attending Cal Poly, DeCosta said. Cal Poly asks for the highest tuition price in the CSU system: $9,075 per year for in-state residents, which is almost $2,000 higher than second-place Sonoma State at $7,388.

But tuition is just one of the costs involved.

“The cost of housing, cost of books, cost of tuition—all of that is quite a sum,” DeCosta said. “Many students can’t afford it.”

For the lower-income or first-generation college students who do choose Cal Poly, making ends meet can become an insurmountable burden.

“They get to Cal Poly and what happens is they have to work, they can’t go full time [as a student], and they have to live at home again because they can’t afford the room and board and all that it takes,”

Associated Students Inc. to see how to boost underrepresented student involvement in student government, increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups to connect with each other, creating a new staff position in Cal Poly cross-cultural centers, increasing recruitment efforts for staff and faculty of color, and introducing new diversity-related curriculum.

“There’s the ability to afford [Cal Poly], but then once you come here, there’s the comfort of staying here,” DeCosta said.

“As a leading school in the country, we need to be able to keep our outstanding students once they arrive.”

Shaw-Smith believes the same can be said about retaining Cal Poly staff and faculty, pointing back to the 13 AfricanAmerican staff members who recently left.

“It’s going to take more time and energy,” Shaw-Smith said. “The [Cal Poly administrators] need to start going to conferences and learning about it. It has to be a top-down approach. The people on [Armstrong’s] leadership cabinet, they have to be committed to diversity and inclusivity and retention and really trying to figure out ways that they can better the climate at Cal Poly. Once they’re committed to it, then their supervisors and managers will have to be committed to it, and then the people under them will feel like this is somewhere they want to work.”

DeCosta contends that the administration is already committed to that vision. She also placed her confidence in President Armstrong.

“If I walked up to Armstrong and said, ‘President Armstrong, with all due respect, we need to do X, Y, or Z to make this better,’ he would do everything he could to make it happen, when he has the resources and ability to.”

Shaw-Smith and DeCosta agreed that for retaining staff and faculty, the issues concerning the Cal Poly work environment CULTURE continued page 33

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go beyond the confines of campus.

People don’t just work at Cal Poly; “People they live in SLO County,” DeCosta said.

“To say that Cal Poly is everything when you go home at 5 o’clock is not true. The community has to be equally as welcoming, equally as strong in its commitment to diversity and inclusion.”

SLO County is even less diverse than Cal Poly. The 2010 census reported that 83 percent of SLO County inhabitants are white. On top of that, it isn’t uncommon to see Confederate flags donned on cars or private property throughout the county.

DeCosta challenged the larger community to reflect on its values.

“This is an issue the community has to deal with,” she said. “Are people [of color] finding communities when they leave work? Are they finding communities in their churches on weekends? Are they finding places where they can take their kids and where their kids can feel comfortable? If their kid is the only African-American in a classroom of white students in third grade, and one kid won’t play with him because he’s AfricanAmerican, they’re going to feel hurt.”

DeCosta will stay on as the interim leader of the Office of Diversity and Inclusivity, which is only 4 years old, until Cal Poly can find a long-term replacement.

The university hired a national search firm to recruit candidates.

“We’re making great movement,” DeCosta concluded. “Time will tell, obviously.”

SLO Solidarity, at the very least, added urgency to an issue Cal Poly administrators were perhaps already looking at.

Cal Poly is offering gender-neutral housing options this year, for example.

“Inclusivity Starts With Me,” the WOW campaign, was an item high on the priority list for SLO Solidarity as well.

But as the students in the movement lobbied for institutional changes, not all their peers were behind them. The Cal Poly College Republicans was one organization that took issue with what SLO Solidarity was asking of the university.

“The SLO Solidarity movement, originally, we were in support of because they were a calm, collected movement,” said Katherine Rueckert, president of the Cal Poly College Republicans. “Their movement changed. When they started demanding actions from the president and his advisory, we saw the true colors of this movement.”

Rueckert said that the club, along with a number of other students they spoke with, opposed SLO Solidarity’s demands to implement policies close to affirmative action and to require an ethnic or gender studies class for all students.

“In engineering, we’re already crammed for classes,” Rueckert said. “To add on more classes, that would make us have to stay for over four years.”

Reminiscent of the national political conversation, the exchanges between the groups primarily take place online, through snippy email exchanges and or web posts.

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Republicans’ website, the club calls SLO Solidarity’s demands list “ridiculous” and describes the movement’s reaction to the December death threat as taking “an opportunity to say how much they are victims.”

On SLO Solidarity’s side, Mick Bruckner, a Cal Poly junior and SLO

Solidarity leader, recently copied New Times on an email to Cal Poly College Republicans club advisor Brian Kennelly—subject line: “Brian Kennelly Promotes Racism on Campus”—accusing the club of “perpetuating violence and racism” at Cal Poly by inviting controversial media personality Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus.

Yet, when asked about the schism, Klepfer said, “There really isn’t a conflict.

We just never interact.”

While SLO Solidarity “fizzled out” last spring after many of its leaders graduated, “that’s not to say there isn’t a community in SLO that doesn’t want [it],” Klepfer said.

He believes the “Inclusion Starts With Me” campaign is a step in the right direction for WOW, at the very least in what it says about the university’s intentions.

“For me and for a lot of students, we really view WOW as the first time where new students come and they’re subverted into that Cal Poly norm,” Klepfer said.

“They’re really wanting to change this culture when students come in.”

He encouraged the fresh-faced Cal Poly freshmen to be unafraid of challenging the campus culture and making their voices heard.

“There’s a desperate need,” Klepfer said. “If you’re not doing it, nobody is.” ∆ Staff Writer Peter Johnson can be reached at pjohnson@newtimesslo.com.

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REUSE, REHEAT, RE-EAT!

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Tastier! Better than before! As an incoming freshman college student, you are obviously way too young to understand this cheap reference to The Six Million Dollar Man, but that’s OK. Just pretend I wrote, “Pizza emoji, smiley face, muscle arm, lightening bolts, thumbs up.”

Just look inside any cramped mini fridge on campus. I bet you’ll find at least a dozen crumpled to-go boxes filled with leftovers bound for the trash.

Believe it or not, most doggie bag contents—with a few exceptions—can be up-cycled with a little magic from your dorm room microwave, toaster oven, and hot sauce collection. Yes, I suggest you take copious notes. You will be quizzed at the end of the story. And quit texting, you in the back of the class.

Chapter One: The Basics. This is a bit of elementary science for you, pure and simple. Leftovers that tend to have more moisture in them: a slice of pizza with veggies on top, a wet chicken burrito, or salsa-splattered nachos—should always go in the toaster oven for a blast of dry heat. Always! If you don’t have a toaster oven, get one. Wilted pizza crust will perk up with delightful crunch, sandwich bread will regain its pertness, and even a neglected hunk of fried chicken can become browned and edible again.

That being said, gooey and sauce-based meals (half eaten mac and cheese, lasagna, soups, mashed potatoes and gravy) can benefit from a quick nuke in the old microwave. You already knew that, though.

Now let’s get to Chapter Two: Gaming the System. How do we ensure that we get one, two—even three—extra meals out of a single brunch or dinner date?

Think ahead when you order. That burger patty may still be delicious, but no one wants to eat a soggy day-old bun loaded with too many condiments. To avoid this kind of wastefulness, always have your food cut in half. That means you can spread ketchup or ranch dressing over half your burger and keep the other

half dry and pristine for another meal.

For this reason, dressings should always be ordered on the side, ensuring that you don’t waste an especially bountiful salad loaded with nutritious veggies (dry salad will keep in your mini fridge for at least a few days and can be incorporated into wraps—everyone’s favorite portable snack because you can eat them while swiping left on your iPhone.

Another tip? Learn how to ask, “Are you gonna eat that?” It may sound tacky, but it could earn you a few extra calories in donated leftovers. Just make sure you know the person you’re asking. That could get really weird.

R.I.P: Foods that can never be reused (this is sad but true, so eat all of these items immediately or you will be regretting it for the next four years): french fries, anything with avocado on it (it just turns brown and unappetizing), a fried egg with a broken yolk, Hollandaise sauce, syrup-soaked pancakes, shredded taco lettuce, fresh baked kettle chips, sushi, cooked spinach.

Surprisingly enough, bacon is not on this list, but be sure to throw it in the toaster oven, not the microwave, lest you want to eat a flabby piece of fat.

Chapter Three: Tasty Transformations. Here’s a few masterpieces you can make in less time than it takes to hit “deny” on your RA’s Facebook friend request. All you need to do is stock up on cheap items like sliced bread, tortillas, eggs, shredded cheese, and a few veggies.

• Leftover Frank’s Chili Dog into Sloppy Joe: Throw that soggy bun right in the waste basket. Cut up the hot dog and scoop the whole mess, beans and all, onto two fresh slices of bread. Pop in toaster oven. Top with Red Hot. Bam. • Leftover Tacos de Santa Cruz into Burrito Bowl: (When given the chance at Mexican restaurants, ask for whole beans instead of refried and get any guac or sour cream on the side.) Discard any spent tortilla and scoop innards into a bowl. Heat in microwave. Top with

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chopped veggies, salsa, Tapatío. Extra credit: Add leftover salad lettuce for a fresh crunch. Canned sweet corn is also a nice addition!

• MoTav Nachos into Chilaquiles: Discard any super soggy chips. Lay remaining bean-and-cheese covered nachos on toaster oven tray and allow to crisp up, turning golden brown. Once very hot, crack an egg on top and continue to cook in toaster oven for a few minutes, until it reaches desired doneness. Top with red salsa and, if you have it, half an avocado purchased from Thursday night PHOTO BY CAMILLIA LANHAM

SAVE THEM! It’s hard to finish a big plate of nachos, but save some for later. A toaster oven will re-crisp up the chips and re-melt that cheese.

Just remember to get the guac on the side; nobody likes hot, brown avocado.

PEP Hot sauce is your new best friend, if it wasn’t already. It can spice up, dress up, and renew leftovers from the comfort of your dorm bed.

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• Leftover Louisa’s Place Breakfast Platter into 10 Second Breakfast Burrito: Place any leftover bacon and home fries in the toaster oven. Nuke leftover scrambled eggs quickly in the microwave with a paper towel on top; go easy so they don't explode. Wrap everything in a fresh tortilla, shove a few ketchup packets in your pocket, and run to class. You’re late again, but at least you won’t arrive hungry.

Chapter Four: Bulk up! Still unsure how to feed yourself on the cheap? There’s one other tip I’d recommend, but you’ll probably just tell me to speak to the hand. What? The kids aren’t saying that anymore? Whatever.

Here it is: Learn to cook in bulk! A bag of beans, a bag of grains, and a few other staples will go a long way if you’ve got the time and patience to spend each Sunday cooking meals for the rest of the week. I know, it sounds like advice your mom might give you, but she’s usually right.

Just like learning to do your taxes or talk to cute guys, there’s no easy, quick fix, but hopefully the knowledge I have presented to you will get your stomach through the next semester. I’ll see you in four years, when you’re finally ready to wield a frying pan and your metabolism has simply said, “no more” to jalapeño poppers. Enjoy ’em while you can! Δ Hayley Thomas wishes she could still eat jalapeño poppers. She can be reached at hthomas@newtimesslo.com.

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efore you start at Cal Poly, or any college for that matter, everyone from relatives to school administrators to the crazy cat lady two doors down is going to bombard you with information they think you need in order to survive the experience. After a while you realize that you’re hearing the same pieces of advice over and over again. So now that you already know how to study hard, where to make friends, and why you should wear flip-flops in the dorm showers, I’m going to share some important things I learned during my time at Cal Poly that nobody thought to warn me about.

1. If you live on campus, find out what time the custodians come.

Every morning/early afternoon, custodians clean the bathrooms not only in the dorms, but in the on-campus apartments as well. While this is a wonderful and convenient aspect of living on campus, it can really throw off your day if you’re not prepared for their arrival.

I can’t tell you how many times I went

through my morning routine in a panic because the bathroom was closed for cleaning right at the time I needed to take a shower. If you know when they come, you can plan your day around them and not have to worry about being late for class.

2. When it comes to on-campus doors that require cards and/or passcodes, rules are different.

All of the doors outside of the dorms and on-campus apartments require key cards and/or passcodes, and from the day you move in, you will see posters and hear Resident Assistants (RAs) warning you not to let strangers in. In theory, this is a great way to keep your building safe, but in practice, it can often make you look like a jerk. It’s a minor but highly annoying inconvenience to have to go through that process every time you need to open the door, so if there’s someone behind you that looks like they are also a student, it’s considered polite to hold the door open for them to save them the trouble.

You will probably get a lot of death glares if you shut the door on someone, especially if they are carrying a lot or if it is raining outside, but I don’t want to sound as if I’m condoning jeopardizing the safety of yourself and your neighbors.

Trust your instincts.

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3. Get all the touristy stuff done right away.

San Luis Obispo boasts a lot of attractions, and until you live here for a while you might think that you’ll be visiting all of those attractions on a regular basis. The truth is, after a certain point you will most likely not be interested in going to the farmers’ market every week. Unless you actually attend mass there, odds are you won’t be spending much time at the mission, and unless hiking is a hobby of yours, you won’t be trekking to the top of Bishop Peak regularly. You’re going to want to do all of these things just because you live here, but the further along you get in your college career, the harder it will be to find people willing to do these activities with you. So get all of the “must sees” of SLO done as soon as you can, just to make sure that you don’t graduate feeling like you missed out on something.

4. If you get invited to an event, make sure you know what it’s for.

Let me tell you a little story. When I was a newly minted freshman, a girl came to my dorm room and invited me to a bonfire. I agreed to go because I was eager to make some new friends. The girl neglected to mention that the bonfire was a recruiting event for her club, and that if you were there, everyone assumed that you were interested in joining. I won’t mention which club it was, but let’s just say it was most definitely not meant for

people like me, so the situation got very awkward very quickly.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t take up invitations like that, but just be sure to clarify that the person doesn’t have ulterior motives. In my case, I ended up having a decent time anyway since they gave me free food and I got to watch a guy spin fire, but afterward, I kept getting text messages inviting me to their meetings.

5. When you fill out professor evaluations, your professors are going to read them.

At the end of each quarter, all of your classes will give you a form to fill out that allows you to rate the class and the person who taught it. These evaluations are completely anonymous, done while the instructor is out of the room, and sealed in an envelope which will be hand delivered by one of your classmates. This procedure might give you the impression that the evaluations are not for that professor’s eyes, but in actuality they just aren’t allowed to look at them yet.

In other words, if you want to talk about how you were so much more motivated and focused because your professor is really hot, don’t include that in your evaluation.

Save it for PolyRatings, or just gossiping with your classmates. Δ Intern Katrina Borges only said a professor was hot one time. That was enough. Send comments through the editor at clanham@newtimesslo.com.

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n June, power giant PG&E announced that it no longer planned to renew operating licenses for its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s reactors.

The news about the plant, which has sat on the coast near Avila Beach since the 1980s, sent shockwaves through the community. While those who opposed nuclear power tentatively celebrated a victory, others worried about the consequences of slowing and eventually halting a major engine for the economy in SLO County.

But months later, and despite continuing worries over how the county will make up for the loss of jobs from the plant’s eventual shuttering (initial estimates set the number at about 1,500), PG&E is partnering with a local community college in the hopes of training a new generation of skilled nuclear power workers.

In August, just two months after announcing it would move toward shutting down Diablo Canyon, PG&E announced plans to form a joint partnership with Cuesta College to create programs to train students for careers in the energy industry.

Slated to begin this fall semester, the program will allow Cuesta’s Department of Electronics and Electrical Technology to create a two-year program that will enable students to obtain a new certificate of specialization in nuclear energy systems. The Cuesta program will be rolled out in two phases, with the first phase beginning this year and continuing the following year, so students can eventually obtain an associate degree in the field. “Both phases present numerous job opportunities for nuclear maintenance

technicians,� said Alan Ross, a professor of engineering and technology at Cuesta who will be an instructor for the program.

Ross said the duties of a nuclear maintenance technician vary, requiring specialized skills and knowledge of electrical systems, instrumentation, and controls as well as piping, pneumatics, and hydraulics systems that allow a power plant like Diablo to operate. And they need to know how to do it all while operating under the safety and security measures necessary in a nuclear power plant like Diablo. “You have to be a fairly knowledgeable technician, and you have to learn how to do all that in a nuclear environment,�

Ross said.

That’s where PG&E comes in. In its August announcement, the company said it will partner with Cuesta to develop the classes as well as provide training, projects, field trips, and internships at Diablo Canyon.

But even as Ross prepares to begin the first classes in the program, he does so as Diablo begins its march toward shutdown and decommission. While it might seem counterintuitive to train workers for a job that won’t exist once the plant closes, PG&E is saying techs like the ones who will come out of the Cuesta program will be an important part of the process.

If the company’s current plans get the blessing of various state and federal regulators, Diablo Canyon’s two reactors will cease operations in 2025. Getting approval for plans to decommission the plant could take up to three years.

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Diablo isn’t the only plant that might need skilled employees despite moving toward closure. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 17 nuclear reactors across the country are in the process of decommissioning.

That’s not counting those that have announced plans to close, like Diablo, and American nuclear power plants that are currently operating.

“That’s going to go on for decades and decades,” Ross said. “And the reactors we do have will absolutely require skilled nuclear maintenance techs.”

Cuesta College President Gilbert Stork echoed those sentiments in a statement issued along with PG&E’s announcement in August.

“Whether the power industry is developing, maintaining, or decommissioning a nuclear power facility, there will always be a need for a locally trained technology workforce,” Gilbert said.

While Cuesta begins its program, PG&E is also working with Cal Poly as part of the new program, which will focus on nuclear and carbon-neutral renewable energy systems. It will be run under the university’s Mechanical Engineering Department in the College of Engineering. Δ Staff Writer Chris McGuinness can be reached at cmcguineesss@newtimesslo.com, or on Twitter at @CWMcGuinness.

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ramp stamp” is something of a dirty word. It’s often said with disdain or at best with mocking laughter. The term conjures up a sad cliché of a tattoo, likely a butterfly or a jumping dolphin, floating just above a butt crack, outlined with a trace of lacy panties.

But being scandalous was never really the point of the lower back tattoo.

“It was really easy to conceal,” said Gary Ellsworth, who was voted best tattoo artist in SLO County for New Times’ annual Best Of issue this year.

“That’s why the idea became popular.”

The tramp stamp’s heyday was from the early ’90s to the early 2000s, and during that time tattoos just weren’t accepted on a mainstream level. Older folks associated tattoos with military men, circus freaks, and criminals, so their daughters got tattoos strategically placed somewhere that dear old mom and dad wouldn’t see.

“It was thought of as very lowbrow,” Ellsworth said. “People who didn’t approve gave it a nickname [tramp stamp] to shame people for getting a tattoo.”

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Today, Ellsworth, who works at Sink or Swim Tattoo and Piercing in Grover Beach, rarely gets a request for a lower back placement. Instead tattoos are migrating toward the side torso and rib area. It’s a spot especially popular with the ladies.

“She can get a larger tattoo, but it’s absolutely concealable,” Ellsworth said.

Jake Schroeder, a tattoo artist (voted runner up in New Times’ Best Of issue) at Ink Dynasty in Pismo Beach, also gets a lot of requests for tattoos on the side body, particularly among the Cal Poly and Cuesta crowds.

“Ribs is a big one because a lot of students are hiding tattoos from their parents because they don’t want to get cut off,” Schroeder said.

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Still both Ellsworth and Schroeder agree that tattoos are enjoying a mainstream level of popularity. More people have them than not, and folks are less concerned about covering their ink up.

Designs like mandalas, nature landscapes, wildflowers, and owls (one of

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If you get a tattoo from someone you don’t like, you’re going to have a really negative memory of that experience, but if you like them you’ll have a really good memory of the entire process.” Δ Ryah Cooley has two tattoos and counting at rcooley@newtimesslo.com.

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NORTH COUNTY Your first stop as you head north on Highway 101 is Santa Margarita. And you should always stop in Santa Margarita, because this little strip of a town is pretty quaint and lovely. There’s Margarita Adventures, where you can do some zip lining among other things; Ancient Peaks, for wine drinking; The Range for some delicious steak; and my personal favorite, Dunbar.

It’s the best little beer bar on the way out of town you’ll ever hit, especially if you’re heading east on Highway 58 during the springtime.

Here’s a pretty big secret: When the wildflowers are in bloom along that particular stretch of road, there’s no point in going anywhere else in the county other than Shell Creek Road. And after you see that palette of color, you might as well continue an eastward march to a desolate corner of the county that starts with Soda Lake Road and continues into the Carrizo Plain National Monument. It’s a hell of a drive, but when you see the meadows coated in purple and yellow from valley to mountainside, you’ll thank yourself for spending the gas money.

WINE TIME

No trip to North County would be complete without a visit to a winery. You can grab Stasis Viognier at Tooth & Nail outside of Paso Robles, and pretty much any other type of wine you want at one of several hundred wineries in the county.

If you want to travel a different route, then don’t turn off at Santa Margarita—keep going. There’s Atascadero, Templeton, and Paso Robles still to go. Yes, wine country, but there’s so much more to it than that. Atascadero does have an In-N-Out Burger (we’ve got two in this county!), but it’s also got a Sylvester’s Burgers—way better, in my opinion.

Templeton’s got a downtown street lined with momand-pop shops and restaurants, and Atascadero has a bigger one. But the primo spot is Tin City—where a little commune made up of wine (yes, wine!), beer, and OUT OF SLO continued page 48

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One of the cool things in downtown Templeton is this gigantic grain elevator.

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FLOWERS FOR DAYS

The Carrizo Plain National Monument is accessible via Soda Lake Road, and during the springtime there seems to be flowers for miles. It’s not in North County, but you do need to drive over the grade before you head east.

SWEET TOWN

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spirits lives, off Ramada Drive.

You can find live music and a stellar food truck at Barrelhouse Brewery and Beer Gardens (beer, too) on Limestone Way. But if you’re not into booze, or you’re not old enough to drink, you should just head up to San Miguel.

San Carpoforo Creek Beach is one of my favorite places along Highway 1, and it’s a great stop after a hike along the Big Sur coast.

There, you’ll find a piece of history known as Mission San Miguel. It’s not as sparklingly restored as the one in downtown SLO, and that’s part of its charm. Crumbling adobe, exposed beams, and walls that don’t gleam with fresh white paint. It’s currently under renovation, though, so you’d better get to it before all the wear and tear of two

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centuries disappears.

And if you don’t feel like going so far, but still need a little SLO bubble break, one of the first stops on your way north is Reservoir Canyon. It’s at the base of the grade, and the hike isn’t a leisurely one (5.3 miles with 1,300 feet of elevation gain), but yields great views of the city and a eucalyptus tree with a swing.

NORTH COAST

Yes, North Coast and North County are two separate places. And there’s a stretch of mountains (OK, glorified hills) to separate them. Head out from SLO on Santa Rosa Street, and it’ll turn into OUT OF SLO continued page 50

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PIRATES?

Occasionally pirate ships— it’s not really a pirate ship—show up in the Morro Bay harbor. You can also kayak and paddle board in the harbor.

LIGHTHOUSE The Piedras Blancas

CACTUS FLOWERS

Light Station is waiting for you along Highway 1 north of SLO. A short drive south is the elephant seal rookery. It’s loud, stinky, and full of gigantic sea mammals.

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Highway 1 at some point, leading you to a sandy little fog-soaked paradise known as Morro Bay. Eventually, the coastal drag delivers you through Cayucos, Harmony, Cambria, and San Simeon.

You actually stay in SLO County until you breeze by Rocky Point on your way to Big Sur, where large swaths of wilderness await you and you can be envious of those who are lucky or rich enough to have a secluded house on a coastal cliff. Just a few miles past the county line, you can hit your first big or little hike at Salmon Creek Falls. It’s a pretty popular spot to park and gander at a big-ass waterfall, but head up and away from the get-go and you’ll find the hike less traveled and more falling water.

But before you even start the long drive past Hearst Castle, San Simeon State Beach, the Piedras Blancas State Reserve elephant seal rookery, and the historic Piedras Blancas Light

Yucca tends to blow up in shades of white on the hillsides along the coast.

Station, don’t forget about those beach towns. They’ve got delicious food stops.

In Morro Bay, there’s Taco Temple with the most gigantic, tasty tacos ever and the Libertine Pub, where you can grab a sour beer on the Embarcadero.

In Cayucos, there’s the Brown Butter Cookie Company with moist little delicacies that come in packs of six and Ruddell’s Smokehouse with its beautifully smoked fish that come out of a little shack by the beach. In Cambria, there’s Linn’s Restaurant with its beautiful berry pies and the happy hour prices of Robin’s Restaurant. Of course, there are way more places to eat and way too many to list.

And there’s miles more coastline to explore. The Estero Bluffs outside of Cayucos run a rocky, grassy stretch of pelicans, cormorants, herons, and egrets.

To the south is a spot for pooches, to the north, not so much, but you can walk casually for miles in either direction,

with tidepools and views of Morro Rock to guide you.

But before you even hit Cuesta College, there’s El Chorro Regional Park.

In addition to a dog park, there are barbecue pits, softball fields, and the SLO Botanical Garden—which has tons of native plants growing into the hills, and a path to go with it. If you’re feeling like a little after-school jaunt into oak-studded hills, hit up the short hike to Eagle Rock. Cows will show you the way and maybe a wild turkey or two.

And let’s please not forget Montaña De Oro. Enough said.

SOUTH COUNTY

Heading south on Highway 101, don’t be blinded by the sight of the ocean or the sight of three lanes becoming two.

Don’t forget how to merge, people. If I can teach you anything, it’s not to be one of those jerks who cuts off a bunch of people,

zooms over to the third lane to try to beat a bunch of cars, only to swerve back over at the last minute and add to the traffic that already exists at the first glimpse of Shell Beach.

Before you get to that point anyway, you should try the Avila Ridge Trail or the Bluffs Coastal Trail. And, of course, before you get to that point, there’s always the Bob Jones Trail, where you can bike or walk beneath a canopy of trees from Avila Hot Springs into Avila Beach.

If you feel like a dip, there’s that hot springs or Sycamore Hot Springs. At Avila Hot Springs, you can do a sundowner swim for $8 every day after 5 p.m., and hey, if you feel like watching a movie with that soak, you can do that on Sundays. Visit avilahotsprings.com for hours. Sycamore is a little more private than that, and you can rent a mineral tub by the hour. Check out sycamoresprings.com for prices.

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LITTLE TOWN Harmony has a population

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OSO FLACO The desolate sands near Oso

Flaco Lake in South SLO County carry more wild things than people, especially during snowy plover nesting season, when parts of the beach are closed due to mating season.

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LONG DRAW The Port San Luis Pier is a

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Of course, Avila has much more than that, and if you take Avila Beach Drive to its bitter end, which is really not that far, you can hit up the Port San Luis Pier.

You can fish off the dock or buy some fresh plucked-from-the-sea oysters, crabs, clams, or well, any other seafood you want from one of several markets.

If you decide to go farther south than the Avila turn off, Shell Beach, Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, and Oceano take the coastline, and Arroyo Grande skirts up into the hills. You can hop on the beach in Pismo and walk your way almost all the way to Guadalupe if you want, or you can wait until you hit Grover and take your vehicle out on the sand and into the Oceano Dunes State Vehicle Recreational Area.

Need food? Head up Grand Avenue for a little yellow stand on the side of the road called Fruitiland La Casa del Sabor. They’ve got fabulous tortas the size of your head and a good fruit smoothie to boot.

Want to stay on Highway 1? Outside of Oceano, you can find the Hiyashi Vegetable Stand for strawberries so good, you will know why they call the Central Coast the world’s fruit (berry)

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