CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY M USTANG D AILY Thursday, October 15, 2009 www.mustangdaily.net Volume LXXIV, Number 26 TOMORROW: Sunny High 88˚/Low 57˚ IN ARTS, 8 IN SPORTS, 16 Cal Poly Wheelchair Foundation prepares their final donation. Mustangs face Southern Utah in Homecoming game this weekend. Tim Miller MUSTANG DAILY The Sustainable Agriculture Research Consortium (SARC) has been getting a lot of unan- ticipated attention for its annual fundraiser featuring noted au- thor and journalism professor Michael Pollan, but not for the right reasons. Cal Poly has been criticized by members of the agricultural community for hosting Pollan, who they say has controversial views on farming and food pro- duction. Pollan, who will be speak- ing today at the Performing Arts Center as part of a panel, has written a number of books about food and the way in which it is produced including, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natu- ral History of Four Meals” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” Pollan has spoken all over the country and agreed to help SARC raise money at a dinner and give a free speech to Cal Poly students. Pollan has been an outspoken critic of large-scale farming that in his view is taxing too many natural resources. Pollan warns against food production with a large carbon footprint because of processing, packaging or ship- ment. He only supports farming operations that have free range farming and animals that are fed their natural diet. His views on farming and raising livestock have garnered a large amount of criticism from traditional large- scale food production compa- nies.This criticism has also been aimed at Cal Poly for hosting his speech. Hunter Francis, the program associate of SARC, said it agreed to pay Pollan to speak at the din- ner, which was expected to net $50,000 for SARC by charging guests $150 a plate at the event. In order to help pay for the initial expense of hosting the dinner and to pay for Pollan’s speaking fee, SARC recruited several local organizations to sponsor the event.These organi- zations include the New Times, Hearst Ranch and several orga- nizations affiliated with Cal Poly. The most notable of these or- ganizations is Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Envi- ronmental Resources (CAFES). David Wehner, dean of CAFES, said that Pollan’s total speaking fee was $20,000. SARC is made up of fac- ulty members within CAFES but does not report directly to Wehner. SARC is “sort of inde- pendent” from CAFES,Wehner said. This will change next year, as SARC is slated to become more involved in the college. The issues that Pollan talks about are controversial and re- ceived a lot of concern from the agriculture community, Francis said. But having Pollan speak is a rare opportunity to hear the views of someone who has had such influential books, he added. The New York Times named “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” one of the 10 best books of 2006, as did the Washington Post. Pollan was asked to speak in order to raise money for SARC, Wehner said. “If you were gonna raise money for the baseball team you wouldn’t invite the Cuesta coach, you would invite the manager of the L.A. Dodgers,” Wehner said. However, there were res- ervations among the CAFES department heads about Pollan because of some of his views about (conventional farms), so it was decided that there would be a panel to discuss different views on sustainability,Wehner said. At that time it was uncertain when that panel would be held. The concern that was felt within the department then ex- tended to prominent supporters of Cal Poly’s agriculture pro- Poly takes heat as Pollan speaks Megan Hassler MUSTANG DAILY Over 90 percent of flu cases have been reported as H1N1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this number could possibly be as high as 99 percent of cases. With these numbers many facilities are no longer been test- ing specifically for H1N1 but are assuming and providing treatment for it. The Health Center does not have any totals of individuals infected for this reason. Students watch their peers become sick and await the arrival of the vaccine. However, there are steps that must be taken before students can receive the vaccine. This be- gins with obtaining the necessary funding for production. The Obama administration and Congress have allotted nearly $10 billion for the H1N1 vaccinations. According to the Centers for Dis- ease Control and Prevention’s Web site federal funding is for the pur- chase of the H1N1 vaccine and the states are receiving funding for vaccination efforts from the Cen- ters of Disease Control and Pre- vention. After funding was provided the vaccine was developed by five companies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services listed CSL Biotherapies, MedIm- mune, Novartis, sanofi Pasteur and GlaxoSmithKline as the compa- nies. GlaxoSmithKline was the only company who failed to re- ceive approval from the FDA. Once the developers have the vaccine approved it must be dis- tributed to the nation depending on supply and demand. Michelle Shoresman, Emergen- cy Preparedness Program Manager from the Health Department, said the San Luis Obispo County Health Department began re- ceiving early shipments of the vaccine in the beginning of October. These were small amounts of the vaccine, which were given to a few pediatricians. They received the first installments of their orders, as they are at the top of the priority list. “We are hoping to receive around 40,000 doses around the end of October,” Shoresman said. Accord- ing to the U.S. Cen- sus Bureau as of 2008 there were 265,297 people in San Luis Obispo County. “We are at the whim of dis- tribution process for receiving the vaccina- tion.” Although there are two types of the vaccine being offered the Health Center will only receive the type delivered by injec- tion. The injection contains a dead strain of the virus and is said to be slightly more effective. However, for preg- nant women, children between six months and two years and adults over 49 must receive the vaccination through a shot. One shot will be sufficient for all ex- cept children between six months and two years. The people who have received the vaccine already have not shown adverse reactions that can H1N1 vaccines arrive at Cal Poly see H1N1, page 3 Rain dampens students, spirits COURTESY PHOTO Michael Pollan will speak at a panel discussing sustain- able agriculture at the PAC today at 11. see Pollan, page 2 Katie Koschalk MUSTANG DAILY The squeaking of golashes could be heard throughout the hallways of the Cal Poly campus on Tuesday as hoards of poncho- clad students yielding upturned umbrellas scurried into sheltered hallways with a communal look of “this sucks” spread across their rain-splattered faces. San Luis Obispo started the rainy season early, receiving an abnormal amount of rain for the month of October. Many students found that with the storm came various inconve- niences during the school day in- cluding trouble getting to school, difficulties navigating around campus, and obstacles such as street flooding. Julia Fiore, a social science ju- nior, decided to drive to school and pay the five-dollar parking fee rather than enduring a walk through horizontal sheets of rain “It was buckets yesterday,” she said. “It took me like 15 minutes to find a parking spot and I had to park way in the back in that parking lot by Poly Canyon. I didn’t really care though. I was not about to walk in that rain,” Fiore said. Rather than searching for a parking spot or walking to school, Jackie Woods, a communications junior, decided to take the bus. “There are two bus stops by my house and the first bus that came was too packed so I had to wait for the next bus. It was a lot more crowded than usual,”Woods said. Other students, including Carla Globerson-Lamb, a nutri- tion sophomore, did not have time before class to wait for the next bus. “It was completely full so ev- erybody that was waiting started walking. I really did not want to so I tried to flag down cars. 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CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITYmUSTANG dAILY
Thursday, October 15, 2009 www.mustangdaily.netVolume LXXIV, Number 26
TOMORROW: Sunny High 88˚/Low 57˚
IN ARTS, 8 IN SPORTS, 16
Cal Poly Wheelchair Foundation prepares their fi nal donation.
Mustangs face Southern Utah in
Homecoming game this weekend.
Tim Millermustang daily
The Sustainable Agriculture Research Consortium (SARC) has been getting a lot of unan-ticipated attention for its annual fundraiser featuring noted au-thor and journalism professor Michael Pollan, but not for the right reasons.
Cal Poly has been criticized by members of the agricultural community for hosting Pollan, who they say has controversial views on farming and food pro-duction.
Pollan, who will be speak-ing today at the Performing Arts Center as part of a panel, has written a number of books about food and the way in which it is produced including, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natu-ral History of Four Meals” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” Pollan has spoken all over the country and agreed to help SARC raise money at a
dinner and give a free speech to Cal Poly students.
Pollan has been an outspoken critic of large-scale farming that in his view is taxing too many natural resources. Pollan warns against food production with a large carbon footprint because of processing, packaging or ship-ment. He only supports farming operations that have free range farming and animals that are fed their natural diet. His views on farming and raising livestock have garnered a large amount of criticism from traditional large-scale food production compa-nies. This criticism has also been aimed at Cal Poly for hosting his speech.
Hunter Francis, the program associate of SARC, said it agreed to pay Pollan to speak at the din-ner, which was expected to net $50,000 for SARC by charging guests $150 a plate at the event.
In order to help pay for the initial expense of hosting the dinner and to pay for Pollan’s
speaking fee, SARC recruited several local organizations to sponsor the event. These organi-zations include the New Times, Hearst Ranch and several orga-nizations affi liated with Cal Poly. The most notable of these or-ganizations is Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Envi-ronmental Resources (CAFES).
David Wehner, dean of CAFES, said that Pollan’s total speaking fee was $20,000.
SARC is made up of fac-ulty members within CAFES but does not report directly to Wehner. SARC is “sort of inde-pendent” from CAFES, Wehner said. This will change next year, as SARC is slated to become more involved in the college.
The issues that Pollan talks about are controversial and re-ceived a lot of concern from the agriculture community, Francis said. But having Pollan speak is a rare opportunity to hear the views of someone who has had such infl uential books, he added.
The New York Times named “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” one of the 10 best books of 2006, as did the Washington Post.
Pollan was asked to speak in order to raise money for SARC, Wehner said.
“If you were gonna raise money for the baseball team you wouldn’t invite the Cuesta coach, you would invite the manager of the L.A. Dodgers,” Wehner said.
However, there were res-ervations among the CAFES department heads about Pollan because of some of his views about (conventional farms), so it was decided that there would be a panel to discuss different views on sustainability, Wehner said. At that time it was uncertain when that panel would be held.
The concern that was felt within the department then ex-tended to prominent supporters of Cal Poly’s agriculture pro-
Poly takes heat as Pollan speaks
Megan Hasslermustang daily
Over 90 percent of fl u cases have been reported as H1N1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this number could possibly be as high as 99 percent of cases. With these numbers many facilities are no longer been test-ing specifi cally for H1N1 but are assuming and providing treatment for it. The Health Center does not have any totals of individuals infected for this reason. Students watch their peers become sick and await the arrival of the vaccine.
However, there are steps that must be taken before students can receive the vaccine. This be-gins with obtaining the necessary funding for production.
The Obama administration and Congress have allotted nearly $10 billion for the H1N1 vaccinations. According to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention’s Web site federal funding is for the pur-chase of the H1N1 vaccine and the states are receiving funding for vaccination efforts from the Cen-ters of Disease Control and Pre-vention.
After funding was provided the vaccine was developed by fi ve companies. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services listed CSL Biotherapies, MedIm-mune, Novartis, sanofi Pasteur and GlaxoSmithKline as the compa-nies. GlaxoSmithKline was the only company who failed to re-ceive approval from the FDA.
Once the developers have the vaccine approved it must be dis-tributed to the nation depending on supply and demand.
Michelle Shoresman, Emergen-cy Preparedness Program Manager from the Health Department, said the San Luis Obispo County Health Department began re-ceiving early shipments of the vaccine in the beginning of October. These were small amounts of the vaccine, which were given to a few pediatricians. They received the fi rst installments of their orders, as they are at the top of the priority list.
“We are hoping to receive around 40,000 doses around the end of October,” Shoresman
said. Accord-ing to the
U.S. Cen-sus Bureau as of 2008
there were 265,297 people
in San Luis Obispo County. “We are
at the whim of dis-tribution process for
receiving the vaccina-tion.”
Although there are two types of the vaccine
being offered the Health Center will only receive
the type delivered by injec-tion. The injection contains
a dead strain of the virus and is said to be slightly more
effective. However, for preg-nant women, children between
six months and two years and adults over 49 must receive the
vaccination through a shot. One shot will be suffi cient for all ex-cept children between six months and two years.
The people who have received the vaccine already have not shown adverse reactions that can
H1N1 vaccines arrive at Cal Poly
see H1N1, page 3
Rain dampens students, spirits
CoUrtesY PHoto Michael Pollan will speak at a panel discussing sustain-able agriculture at the PAC today at 11. see Pollan, page 2
Katie Koschalk mustang daily
The squeaking of golashes could be heard throughout the hallways of the Cal Poly campus on Tuesday as hoards of poncho-clad students yielding upturned umbrellas scurried into sheltered hallways with a communal look of “this sucks” spread across their rain-splattered faces.
San Luis Obispo started the rainy season early, receiving an abnormal amount of rain for the month of October.
Many students found that with the storm came various inconve-niences during the school day in-cluding trouble getting to school, diffi culties navigating around campus, and obstacles such as street fl ooding.
Julia Fiore, a social science ju-nior, decided to drive to school and pay the fi ve-dollar parking fee rather than enduring a walk through horizontal sheets of rain
“It was buckets yesterday,” she
said. “It took me like 15 minutes to fi nd a parking spot and I had to park way in the back in that parking lot by Poly Canyon. I didn’t really care though. I was not about to walk in that rain,” Fiore said.
Rather than searching for a parking spot or walking to school, Jackie Woods, a communications junior, decided to take the bus.
“There are two bus stops by my house and the fi rst bus that came was too packed so I had to wait for the next bus. It was a lot more crowded than usual,” Woods said.
Other students, including Carla Globerson-Lamb, a nutri-tion sophomore, did not have time before class to wait for the next bus.
“It was completely full so ev-erybody that was waiting started walking. I really did not want to so I tried to fl ag down cars. This like 60-year-old man pulled over and I asked him if he was going
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gram within the community.The most backlash came from Cal
Poly alumnus Dave Wood, the CEO of Harris Ranch Beef, which is a large meat processing company, and a large contributor to CAFES. Wood wrote a letter to Cal Poly President Warren Baker telling him that he was recon-sidering a $500,000 donation towards a new meat processing facility on Cal Poly’s campus.
The letter stated that he was upset at the direction that CAFES was tak-ing. The first problem that Wood ref-erenced was that Pollan’s speech was being endorsed by the university.
“I find it unacceptable that the uni-versity would provide Michael Pollan an unchallenged forum to promote his stand against conventional agricultural practices,” Wood said in the letter. “To add insult to injury, CAFES unasham-edly admits to contributing $5,000 in discretionary funds to offset a portion
of Mr. Pollan’s speaking fee. Had a bal-anced forum been provided, perhaps I would not have such a strong negative feeling towards the university.”
However, Wehner disagrees with Wood’s assessment that Cal Poly agrees with Pollan’s arguments.
“Whenever you have a speaker it does not reflect the views of (the uni-versity),” he said.
The other major concern that Wood had, according to the letter, was a conversation that his assistant, Mike Smith, also a Cal Poly alumnus, had with Cal Poly professor Rob Ruther-ford about what sustainability meant. Wood objected to the fact that Ru-therford did not consider some of the practices that Harris Ranch uses to be sustainable.
“Mr. Rutherford then had the au-dacity to offer Mike an entirely unso-licited opinion that water should have NEVER been provided to farmers on the west side of the San Joaquin Val-ley,” the letter read. “As Harris Ranch operates one of the largest farms in this region, Mr. Rutherford implies that Harris Ranch should not be farm-
ing!”Wood then questioned the validity
of Rutherford’s class and his ability to teach it.
“Dr. Baker, please assure me that the views held by Rob Rutherford are NOT the norm among the faculty in the Animal Science Department at Cal Poly,” the letter said. “Can you pro-vide me with any assurance this man’s personal views are NOT being taught to the students that attend his classes? Can you explain to me why Professor Rutherford is the only faculty mem-ber in the department teaching Issues in Animal Agriculture, which is a re-quired course of all Animal Science students?”
Issues in Animal Agriculture is still a requirement on the 09-11 course catalogue for animal science majors but the New Times reported that the faculty recently voted to eliminate the course as a requirement.
President Baker wrote a letter back to Wood that offered a compromise to have Pollan answer questions from the audience and then have a panel discus-sion with other industry professionals.
Baker also said that Rutherford did not speak for the university but defended his right to voice his opinion.
“A professor’s freedom of opinion is a piece of academic freedom; aca-demic freedom, a pillar of American universities also calls for peer debate among the faculty as to what should be taught in the classroom,” Baker said in the letter to Wood.
Teaching students about sustain-ability was an important goal of the university for all Cal Poly students, Baker said in the letter.
“It’s paramount for educators to engage their students in all aspects of such an emerging topic,” the letter read. “Clearly, for our agriculture stu-dents, sustainability is a huge issue. If we do not involve our students in the sustainability debate, we set them up to be blindsided when they embark on their careers.”
Wood then sent the final letter in the exchange that approved of the for-mat change for the event but still chas-tised the university for hosting Pollan.
“Moreover, we are appreciative of recent actions taken by individu-als within the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) to bring a semblance of bal-ance to the Michael Pollan event to be held on campus Oct. 15th,” the letter said. “It is truly unfortunate that deci-sion makers at the university did not have the forethought to provide stu-dents both sides of the debate when this even was first being organized.”
Wood also included some quotes from Pollan that he found offensive.
“…we would like to provide a small sample of the many negative quotes attributable to this radical U.C. Berkeley journalism professor:
‘To keep the animals healthy on that corn diet, you have to give them lots of antibiotics, they won’t survive otherwise.’
‘To me, going on feed lots, chicken and hog operations, it has changed the way I eat. You can’t go through those places without being changed. You lose your appetite for certain kinds of food,’” the letter quoted.
Given the choice of having a pan-el after his speech or participating in a panel, Pollan decided to be a part of the panel. Gary Smith and Myra Goodman will also speak at the panel with Pollan.
Smith is currently the meat science Monfort Endowed Chair at Colo-rado State University. Smith has been a leading expert in meat science for more than 40 years and has published 334 full-length articles in refereed sci-entific journals, according to his Web site at Colorado State University.
Goodman along with her husband founded Earthbound Farms, one of the largest organic farming companies in the country. Pollan, an advocate of organic farming, criticized Earth-bound Farm for the amount of fossil fuels that they use to ship and process their products.
“I am familiar with many of Mi-chael Pollan’s books and think he is an incredibly intelligent man and a very creative and persuasive writer,” Good-man said in an e-mail. “I had a hard time with how he portrayed Earth-bound Farm as ‘industrial organic’ in the ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma,’ because I think his score card was too focused on our fossil fuel usage … ”
Goodman was invited to speak for the panel on Oct. 5 while Smith re-ceived his invitation several weeks ago.
Francis said that he thinks that the panel may be more valuable to stu-dents than a stand-alone speaker.
“It is very easy to find Michael Pol-lan’s talks on the Web,” he said. “It is a rare opportunity to see an exchange of ideas.”
The panel’s discussion will start at 11 a.m. and go till 12:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center today.
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towards campus and he said yes so I got in,” Globerson-Lamb said. “It was really awkward and he kept talking to me about his old-man music. He dropped me off close to campus and I just walked the rest of the way.”
While some students chose cars or public transportation to get to school, Shauna Shea, a psychology third year, who lives a few blocks from campus de-cided to walk to school. Upon arriving home from class, Shea appeared to have taken a shower fully clothed.
“I was trying to talk to my mom on the phone and my um-brella kept flipping upside down. I just said forget it and walked home without it and was com-pletely drenched by the time I got home,” Shea said.
Besides the impact on trans-portation, many students, in-cluding Ariana Jarrell, a civil engineering junior, felt that the biggest inconvenience was be-coming drenched while walking around campus between classes.
“Cars would drive through these huge puddles and people would have to jump out of the way so that they wouldn’t get sprayed,” Jarell said. “The side-walks were all muddy and slip-pery too.”
Many students hoping to stay dry during their walks be-tween classes came armed with an umbrella, but many found that the rain-shielding device was no match for winds up to 45 m.p.h.
Frank Cawley, the El Cor-ral Bookstore director, who has been working on campus for 14 years, said that a steady stream of students were coming into the bookstore to purchase umbrellas on Tuesday.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it rain that hard. About three years back I think it was a pretty rough winter. I know in San Francisco, they said it hasn’t rained that hard since 1964,” he said. “We completely sold out of umbrellas. I believe we sold 460 umbrellas total. We’ve already have another 1,000 on order.”
Despite completely selling out of umbrellas, many students found that they did not help much in staying dry.
“I saw at least five people walking around campus, battling with their umbrellas. My friend got all embarrassed because her little, pink umbrella turned completely inside out. It just folded in half and all the wires came detached. She ended up just throwing it in the garbage,” Fiore said.
Fiore also was welcomed by an unfortunate event involving transportation after returning to her car after her classes were over.
“I left my window down in my car so there was a huge pud-dle in my seat. I literally opened the door and water flooded out and soaked me from the waist down. Not like I wasn’t already drenched,” Fiore said.
Since getting to school posed a dilemma for some, students noticed that there were more
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be isolated and concluded to be a result of the vaccine.
However, due to the pressing issue the clinical trials for H1N1 were done on thousands of people. Rare side effects might not have shown up in the population test-ed.
Shari Roan of HealthandSur-vival.com brings up the pandemics of the decade and how they relate to our current situation. This re-minds some of the swine flu scare of 1976 when days after the vac-cine was released it was found to increase the risk of a rare neuro-logical condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
This is when the immune sys-tem attacks the nervous system and can cause temporary paralysis and can be fatal. Ever since the result-ing deaths resulting people have become leery of vaccines. Roan also said that about 500 people de-veloped the syndrome and 25 of them died.
This was shown recently in comments. Talk show host Bill Maher wrote on Twitter that any-one who received the vaccine were “idiots.” He also said he “did not believe that healthy people were vulnerable to dying from the new H1N1 virus.”
Linda Bergthold of the Huff-ington Post said, “Maher said he didn’t think pregnant women needed to get the vaccine. He is WRONG. Lives could be lost over this unscientific “opinion” of Bill Maher.”
His statement also contradicts the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention’s release, which said people between the ages of five and 24 are “particularly vul-nerable” to the flu.
College students are within the top five at risk populations and will receive dosages before people who are not in this list.
The Cal Poly Health Center is expecting to receive the H1N1 vaccine around the end of Octo-ber or beginning of November. This depends on when the County
Health Department receives more of the vaccines from the state. Upon receiving the vaccine the county must analyze and divide the doses based on the demand and actual need for the vaccine and distribute accordingly.
The Health Center requested 19,000 vaccines to meet the needs of all students. There are about 18,000 students that attend Cal Poly. However, the Health Cen-ter polled students twice last week and received varying results. In one poll two thirds of students said they intended to get the vac-cine while in the second poll three quarters said they did not intend to be vaccinated.
Although they ordered 19,000 vaccines they will only receive 7,000 in the initial distribution from the county.
“We believe that the 7,000 will easily get us through the priority students (ones with existing con-ditions or high risk students) and the bulk of students who want it,” Director of Health and Counsel-ing Services, Dr. Martin Bragg said. “Our hope is that we can get everyone a shot who wants a shot.”
Health care and emergency medical services personnel are in-cluded in the top five populations to receive the vaccine. The Health Center staff will be provided with the vaccine as well. This is similar to the seasonal flu shots provided for staff in the past years.
When the vaccine arrives in the next few weeks 12 to 15 staff members will be administering the vaccine. The training leading up to the release of the vaccine will include mainly “crowd control” due to the paperwork that must be done prior to receiving the vac-cine and the crowds they expect at the release of the vaccine.
In order to accommodate the large-scale vaccinations to be ad-ministered the Health Center will have to alter operation for about two weeks.
According to the San Luis Obispo County Health Depart-ment during the week of Oct. 1-8 there were six hospitalized cases and “at least 37 persons have had PH lab results consistent with in-fection with the H1N1 virus.”
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empty seats in their classes than usual.
“In my morning class there were a lot of people missing, but not in my afternoon class because we had a midterm. The rain just makes people want to sit at home and watch movies,” Fiore said.
Besides the inconveniences that students might face in try-ing to get to school or navigating around campus, the Cal Poly cam-pus also faces some complications due to heavy rain.
Scott Loosely, the assistant di-rector of operations for landscape services, feels that Cal Poly is pre-pared, however, to deal with big storms.
“Prior to the rainy season, we go out and make sure all the catch
basins are cleaned out. We try to prevent in advance by staging sandbags in areas that are really prone to flooding to make sure that water doesn’t get into build-ings,” Loosley said.
Areas that have had issues with flooding within the past year in-clude Grand Ave. and the area by the Natatorium, where the street curves downward, Loosley said.
While the catch basins were cleaned out prior to Tuesdays storm, facility services received one complaint yesterday that Grand Ave. was flooding by the Vista Grande Restaurant.
“We went out there and saw that some water was overflowing into the street. The drain wasn’t clogged. It was just that the drain was completely filled up. It’s just the design of the street. Some-times on parts of the road that are really old, the pavement is uplift-ed,” Loosley said.
While street flooding is some-times out of the control of facility services, in the event that a build-ing floods, immediate action will be taken.
The campus is set up so that if one catch basin fills up, there is generally another catch basin further down the street for excess rainwater to flow into. If a build-ing floods, however, facility ser-vices are prepared to bring in wa-ter pumps and vacuums to remove the water from the building.
Regardless of inconveniences hat the rain has caused for students and the Cal Poly campus, Tuesdays storm will be looked back at as a test run for what could be a harsh winter with the arrival of El Nino in winter 2009.
“It’s fine the first few weeks, but after that, it gets to be a it much. The rain’s awesome if I get to be inside looking out at it,” Jar-rell said.
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Taliban strength in Afghanistan nears military proportionJonathan S. Landay and Hal Berntonmcclatchy newspapers
WASHINGTON — A recent U.S. intelligence assessment has raised the estimated number of full-time Taliban-led insurgents fighting in Afghanistan to at least 25,000, underscoring how the crisis has worsened even as the U.S. and its allies have beefed up their military forces, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The U.S. official, who requested anonymity because the assessment
is classified, said the estimate repre-sented an increase of at least 5,000 fighters, or 25 percent, over what an estimate found last year.
On Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry as-sured Afghans that America would continue to fight until “extremists and insurgents” were defeated in the war-torn nation.
The new intelligence estimate suggests such a fight would be dif-ficult. Not included in the 25,000 tally are the part-time fighters — those Afghans who plant bombs
or support the insurgents in other ways in return for money — and also the criminal gangs who some-times make common cause with the Taliban or other Pakistan-based groups.
The assessment attributed the growth in the Taliban and their ma-jor allies, such as the Haqqani Net-work and Hezb-e-Islami, to a num-ber of factors, including a growing sense among many Afghans that the insurgents are gaining ground over U.S.-led NATO troops and Afghan security forces.
“The rise can be attributed to, among other things, a sense that the central government in Kabul isn’t delivering (on services), increased local support for insurgent groups, and the perception that the Tali-ban and others are gaining a firmer foothold and expanding their capa-bilities,” the U.S. official said.
“They (the insurgents) don’t need to win a popularity contest,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a military analyst at the center-left Brookings Institution in Washington. “They are actually doing a good job in creating a complex psychological brew. The first part is building on frustration with the government. The second part is increasing their
own appeal or at least taking the edge off of the hatred that people had felt for them before. But on top of that they are selectively using in-timidation to stoke a climate of fear. And on top of that they have mo-
mentum.”James Dobbins, a retired ambas-
sador who served as the first U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, said
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“Did the rain change your routine yesterday?”
“I went to all of my classes, got my books wet. But I loved the rain. It was amazing.”
-Tricia Harlan, animal science junior
“No, (it was) no different from a regular day.”
-Andy Siver, aerospace engineer-ing junior
“I worked all day in the li-brary, so no. I was hanging out with Bob K.”
-Alicia Mooradian, business ad-ministration senior
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“Not really, because I had class all day. I didn’t go running or anything.”
-Lisa Banke, animal science se-nior
“Not really, because I still drove to class and walked to class.”
-Michael Mobley, aerospace engi-neering junior
“It did. I had to walk back and forth a lot changing classes.”
-Dana Harris, food science and nutrition senior
the new estimate shows how the war, which entered its ninth year this month, has been intensifying.
“It tells you that things are get-ting worse, and that would suggest that the current (U.S.-led troop) levels are inadequate,” Dobbins said. “But it doesn’t lead you to a formu-la that tells you what the adequate troop levels should be.”
The estimated increase in the insurgents’ ranks occurred as the numbers of U.S., British and other Western troops also increased, pos-sibly suggesting the growth in in-ternational forces is bolstering an impression among many Afghans that they’re under foreign occupa-tion.
The new estimate comes as the Obama administration debates its new strategy for Afghanistan amid public divisions between senior of-ficials and military commanders.
Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is seeking as many as 45,000 ad-ditional U.S. troops, which would bring the number of U.S. soldiers to more than 100,000. There are 39,000 forces from other countries and an effort is under way to dou-ble the size of the Afghan army to 134,000 by 2011.
Administration critics of Mc-Chrystal’s assessment – led by Vice President Joe Biden – are promoting a more limited strategy that would require far fewer U.S. troops.
Eikenberry’s remarks came at a ceremony honoring the more than 5,500 Afghan police and soldiers who have died since the war be-gan.
“We will continue to stand side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder with you and the brave members of your security forces,” said Eikenberry at a wreath-laying ceremony in a courtyard of Afghanistan’s National Assembly. “We will fight with you,
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AMMAN, Jordan (MCT) — Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh will meet in Washington with his US coun-terpart Hillary Clinton on Monday.
Talks will cover the Middle East peace process and regional issues, a ministry official said in a statement to The Jordan Times on Saturday.
The official added that dur-ing the meeting, Judeh will con-vey to the US administration Jor-dan’s concern over Israeli plans to construct more settlements in the West Bank, which “represent a ma-jor obstacle to peace negotiations”.
The talks will also focus on “the US administration’s efforts to re-solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, fore-most the Palestinian issue, through serious and direct negotiations be-tween all parties and at all levels, aimed at achieving a comprehen-sive peace in the Middle East on the basis of the two-state solution and in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative”, the official said.
• • •KHARTUM, Sudan (MCT)
— The Sudanese government down-played the significance of changes made to the new generation of Suda-nese passports that practically allows its bearer to use it to travel to Israel.
Khartoum quietly removed a statement on the Machine Read-able Passports (MRP) nullify-ing the validity of the document if used for Israel bound trips.
InternationalWASHINGTON (MCT) —
President Barack Obama will sign a $7.5 billion aid bill for Pakistan by week’s end, the White House said Wednesday, after lawmakers crafted a statement designed to as-suage Pakistani concerns that the aid comes with strings that infringe upon that country’s sovereignty.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chair-man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-author of the bill, insisted that it was being misinter-preted or misunderstood by some in Pakistan’s government and military.
• • •WASHINGTON (MCT) —
President Barack Obama urged Con-gress to provide an extra $250 each to some 57 million seniors, veterans and people with disabilities as the Social Security Administration pre-pared to announce today there would be no cost-of-living raise in 2010.
Social Security benefits are pegged to inflation, which has been negative this year. But by law, ben-efits cannot decline. This would be the first time benefits have not in-creased since 1975, when cost-of-living adjustments became automatic.
Obama’s proposal, announced Wednesday, calls for a one-time lump-sum payment sometime next year. It would be equivalent to about 2 percent of the annual benefit for the average Social Security retiree, senior administration aides said.
NationalSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.
(MCT) — The Central Coast’s first seasonal storm Tuesday ripped power from thousands of residents, threw trees and snarled branches into roadways and dumped more rain than the area has had in five years.
“I think it’s definitely one of the more severe storms we’ve seen,” said John Lindsey, a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spokesman in San Luis Obispo and a weather forecaster.
The CHP remained busy – re-sponding to at least two dozen ac-cidents as vehicles hydroplaned, skidded into guardrails and ran down embankments through-out San Luis Obispo Coun-ty’s slick roads and highways.
• • •SACRAMENTO (MCT) —
California’s First lady Maria Shriver apologized Wednesday after getting some heat for photos and a video that showed her driving while chat-ting on her cell phone – a violation of the law her husband signed that prohibits driving and talking on the phone without a hands-free device.
After the photos showed up Tues-day on the celebrity gossip Website TMZ, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger promised his Twitter followers he would take “swift action” in re-sponse to his wife’s repeat offenses.
But Shriver’s office remained mum on her law-breaking ways until Wednesday. Shriver is-sued an apology on the Web site.
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NEW YORK — As the U.S. stock market basked Wednesday in better-than-anticipated results from bellwethers Intel Corp. and JPMor-gan Chase & Co., some embraced the notion that the market’s worst fears involving disappointments in top-line growth might be past.
“Cost-cutting was necessary, but we need to see top-line growth for the market to take the next leg up,” said Brett D’Arcy, chief investment of-ficer of CBIZ Wealth Management.
The near-euphoria that came with the results from two components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average helped push the blue-chip index past 10,000 for the first time in more than a year.
“We’ll start to see improvement on the top line beginning this quar-ter and some indication that this will continue in 2010,” D’Arcy said.
The psychologically–important threshold could prove compelling to the “whole portion of the population
that walked away from Wall Street in the last couple of years, because of ev-erything that has happened,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Jef-feries & Co.
The Dow last closed above 10,000 on Oct. 3, 2008, a day that had it fin-ishing at 10,325.38 only to fall more than 18 percent over the following five days. The index had set its all-time high of 14,164.53 a year earlier, on Oct. 9, 2007.
Financial shares paced the Wednes-day gains as the major stock indexes surged higher, with the Dow reaching an intraday high of 10,027.7 before finishing up 144.80 points, or 1.47 percent, at 10,015.86, its first finish above 10,000 since Oct. 3, 2008. The S&P 500 Index climbed 18.83 points, or 1.75 percent, to 1,092.02. The Nas-daq Composite Index advanced 32.34 points, or 1.5 percent, to 2,172.23.
On Tuesday, Johnson & Johnson’s quarterly sales fell short of expecta-tions, with results from the health-care-products maker leaving investors with little to cheer.
But investor sentiment bright-
ened measurably after the market close Tuesday, with quarterly results from chip maker Intel exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
“Johnson & Johnson is a shining example of what we don’t want to see. Luckily, Intel has given us something to take our mind off it,” commented Hogan.
For equity analyst Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Re-search Inc., Intel’s results prompted a joyful cry: “Tech is back.”
Calling information technology his favorite of the S&P’s 10 sectors, with semiconductors his favored in-dustry in tech, Yardeni declared his reasoning “embarrassingly simple” in a research note.
“I believe that the global econom-ic recovery will be led by consumers, though not in the United States, but rather in the emerging markets. As they acquire some discretionary in-come, their first purchases tend to be electronic gadgets such as cell phones, PCs and flat-screen TVs,” he wrote.
The technology sector stands to be an “early-cycle beneficiary” of an
economic turn, and its companies generally “aren’t laden with some of the credit issues that others have,” said D’Arcy.
Health care is another sector “not subject to the credit needs of finance and manufacturing, but it is unfairly undervalued because of the legislative overhang,” said D’Arcy of the move to reform health-care insurance on Capitol Hill.
Hogan, however, cautioned against reading too much into results from a limited field of companies – with the current week a relatively light one, earningswise, despite results from six Dow components, which “always make a splash,” according to Hogan.
But the market this week hears from only 29 companies among the S&P 500, compared with 160 S&P is-sues next week.
“This may be the quarter where investors decide beating earnings es-timates by cutting costs is not enough to keep us going,” he said. “This is the week of the household names, but it’s too small a sampling to say it’s a vic-tory.”
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grieve with you, and build a fu-ture with you.”
Eikenberry is a former U.S. military commander who as am-bassador has taken a key role in the Obama administration’s efforts to partner with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to try to beat back the Taliban insurgency and stabilize the country.
However, the administration’s relationship with Karzai has frayed amid allegations of widespread cor-ruption in the Afghan government. In recent weeks, Karzai’s relation-ship with the U.S. has been further strained by mounting evidence of large-scale fraud on his behalf dur-ing the Aug. 20 presidential elec-tion.
Karzai didn’t attend Wednesday’s ceremony, and some of his recent public statements have reflected in-creased tensions with Western dip-lomats.
At a Sunday news conference, Karzai accused some foreign diplo-mats of trying to interfere in Afghan affairs. He also said his government
was investigating reports unidenti-fied foreign helicopters were fly-ing in insurgent-controlled areas in northern provinces.
Karzai never said what nation might be providing those helicop-ters, but his remarks helped stir speculation that somehow the U.S. was involved.
Eikenberry said Wednesday he had heard rumors and read articles the U.S. was secretly helping Af-ghanistan’s enemy with weapons and helicopters. He denounced those reports “as outrageous and baseless. We would never aid the terrorists that attacked us on Sep-tember 11, that are killing our sol-diers, your soldiers, and innocent Afghan civilians every day.”
A Karzai campaign team mem-ber said Karzai never meant to im-ply the helicopters were American.
“We believe what the American ambassador has said, and that the helicopters don’t belong to Amer-ica,” said Moen Marastyal, an Af-ghan parliament member who has worked on the Karzai re-election campaign.
The election has yet to yield a final tally as an electoral complaints commission, which includes three United Nations appointees, reviews
about 10 percent of the polling sites for fraudulent ballots. A final tally had been expected this week but it now appears those results won’t come until later this month.
In a preliminary tally, Karzai had more than 54 percent of the vote, and under Afghan electoral law, he would win the election outright if
his final tally remains above 50 per-cent. If it falls to 50 percent or less, Karzai would face a run-off with the second-place finisher, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.
As the vote review drags on, some Western diplomats have pro-posed Karzai and his main rival form a coalition government.
Marastyal said Karzai has been told he has two options: Either agree to form a coalition government or be forced into a runoff election as the final tally tosses out fraudulent votes. In contrast, Marastyal said Karzai is under pressure from his own supporters not to forge a co-alition government.
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She has short brown hair in the photograph. She’s wearing a white dress that reaches past her knees and she’s sitting in a new, red wheelchair — the first she’s ever had.
The photo of the girl, a 2-year-old from Oaxaca, Mexico, who was para-lyzed from birth, is part of the Mano a Mano, hand in hand, fundraising exhibit by the Cal Poly Wheelchair
Foundation opening tonight at the San Luis Obispo Art Center.
The exhibit is one of the closing events for the Foundation, which has given more than 4,000 wheelchairs to impoverished people in Africa, Asia, South and North America in the past eight years.
Business administration senior Helya Naghibi has served as project manager for a year.
“I never thought I’d have the op-portunity to impact someone’s life as
much and I’m very lucky to be part of it,” she said.
The project began in 2001 when Kenneth Behring, founder of the Wheelchair Foundation, spoke to a group of 230 Cal Poly students and offered them a chance to get involved. Marketing area chair Lynn Metcalf of the Orfalea College of Business, was at the presentation and saw the ben-efit for the Cal Poly campus.
It would let students learn and apply marketing skills while they
helped others, she said. “It offered us the opportunity to make an impact on people’s life.”
Metcalf started the Cal Poly Wheelchair Foundation with an ini-tial team of nine students. In the eight years that the Foundation has oper-ated, some 140 students have partici-pated in raising money and delivering wheelchairs to poor communities.
Raising awareness has been a fo-cus for the foundation and the group has looked to students and the greater community to spread the word.
The photographs taken by two students from the foundation’s trip to Oaxaca will be available for purchase at tonight’s free exhibit.
“I feel that by putting on this photography exhibit, we are spread-ing an awareness,” Sara Tollefson, one of the photographers, said.
Tollefson, an art and design senior with a photography concentration, tried to capture the everyday experi-ences of the people.
“There are people with lives much different than our own. These people do not have the many luxu-ries we have, such as running water,”
she said.Greg Smith, also an art and de-
sign senior with a photography con-centration, is displaying 20 of the 40 photos in the exhibit. Smith said he was surprised by the poverty.
“Everything people owned was with them,” he said, recalling a mar-ket the group visited.
The wheelchairs come in two versions, an all-terrain model with mountain bike tires and then a stan-dard model with hard, rubber wheels. The students, recognizing the pov-erty of the people, also provided a repair kit.
“The chairs come with self-repair tools that can take care of minor problems, if necessary,” Naghibi said.
The Foundation is planning a fi-nal trip to deliver wheelchairs. Mon-ey raised from donations and sales of prints will go to wheelchair dona-tions in Panama, Naghibi said.
Even though the Foundation is ending, its impact and lessons will continue, she said. “It has changed countless lives. Just because it is com-ing to a close at Cal Poly, doesn’t mean it will be forgotten.”
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This two year old girl is just one of many wheelchair receipients from the Cal Poly Wheelchair Foundation.
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Caution tape lines the win-dows of the Multicultural Center (MCC) in the University Union as club officers prepare for this year’s “Culturefest: Construction of Cul-ture” festival at Mitchell park on Oct. 8. Twenty Cal Poly student clubs and San Luis Obispo com-munity diversity groups will be holding booths, serving food and putting on performances to pro-mote both the ethnic and identity cultures and disillusion the com-mon stereotype San Luis Obispo has of being a predominantly white community.
The Multicultural Center has put on Culturefest for 12 con-secutive years, however this is the first year that the festival has been associated with Cal Poly’s home-coming events. Renoda Campbell, coordinator of Multicultural Pro-grams and Services, helps student leaders organize events and aware-ness campaigns that celebrate di-versity on campus.
“We are honored that the Cal Poly Alumni Association is includ-ing us in the large scale events during this special time for the university. This is the first and hopefully not the last of our col-laborations,” she said.
Biology senior Ian Serrano worked with Campbell and served as the event coordinator for the festival this year. After putting in a year’s work of collecting sponsor-ship money and recruiting perform-ers, he is looking forward to wear-
ing his construc-tion hardhat that Campbell ordered for club officers to play up the theme of the festival on Sunday.
Serrano wants students and community members to realize that there is diversity in San Luis Obispo, contrary to the common stereotype.
“A lot of people perceive San Luis Obispo as a very, very white community.” he said. “You don’t have to be of color to be part of a certain culture. What we’re pre-senting at Culturefest is the type of culture that we have here in our community.”
The interest groups participat-ing in the event are not all ethnic or religious groups. The Bucket
Busters, a group of young Central Coast drummers, will be banging on buckets at their Culturefest performance. Its group of percus-sionists identify with a culture of music rather than ethnic culture.
The cultural clubs on campus will also show their support. With three performances scheduled throughout the day, Cal Poly’s Pili-pino Culture Exchange club plans on having its dance team perform a traditional Pilipino dance called kasayahan and a modern hip-hop dance.
The festival originally was held on campus but since performances were held inside and club booths were set up outside, MCC decided to move to the Mission Plaza to make clubs feel more involved. Last year, MCC held Culturef-est at Mitchell park because they couldn’t reserve the plaza.
“It was a blessing in disguise,” Serrano said.
The response was overwhelm-ing last year. About 500 people at-tended throughout the day.
This year, the club has received a lot of support and sponsorships from the colleges and the San Luis Obispo community. Fundraising for the event used to be one of the most difficult things about putting on the festival, Serrano said. But with the success of last year’s festi-val came even more financial sup-port this year. The top five sponsors donating $1,000 or more includes the City of San Luis Obispo, the Cal Poly President’s Office, Wild 106 Radio, Popolo Rotisserie Café, and The New Times.
Serrano hopes that Culturefest visitors will be surprised to find the variety of cultures within the city.
“I want them to see that there is something in SLO that they can enjoy in terms of culture. We have some culture here, damn it. You just have to look around and be open about it,” he said.
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Are you bored with general fruits and vegetables lately? Do you want something a little more interesting then the average apple or simple salad?
Welcome to the world of unique fruits and vegetables, which offers you a great variety of hybrids and other fun foods. From a pomegranate to an artichoke to a tangelo there are so many out there that you should try them all. So stop peeling that orange, quit cutting that cucumber and expand your appetite to give your taste buds a real treat.
The pomegranate has its roots in the Middle East and India, and is a fruit whose seeds and pulp are the main attraction which makes it unique from many other fruits. Here’s a little Jewish fact — they supposedly contain 613 seeds which represent the 613 com-mandments. For those who love tangy and tart, this is the fruit for you.The seeds and pulp can be eaten on their own or baked into a dessert.
My favorite way to have a pomegranate is to have it in a smoothie or a juice. It is loaded with vitamins and has that extra kick that I am usually looking
for. The actual fruit along with its juice can be found at most grocery stores and they make a delicious smoothie called Pomegranate Par-adise at Jamba Juice.
Moving on to my favorite, the artichoke, a vegetable originating from Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. There are so many great ways to eat an artichoke. Try a great appetizer dip and n add artichoke hearts to a salad to add some extra flavor. Many restau-rants grill up artichokes and baste them with olive oil or provide you with a dipping sauce.
My favorite way to eat one is to wash it, and then steam it for 25 to 45 minutes. Then I infuse some butter with garlic and melt it to-gether, lightly salt and pepper the artichoke and dig in. The way to eat the petals is to dip the white fleshy side into the butter, place in mouth dip side down while gripping the other end, and pull through the teeth to remove the deliciousness. The heart can also be eaten but you should remove the fuzzy part called the choke and cut it up and dip it too. You can find them at most grocery stores and Farmers Market has a great deal for them as well.
Some of the most fascinating fruits are the hybrids — crosses between one or more types of fruits. For the citrus kick I recom-mend the tangelo, which is a cross between a tangerine and a pomelo or grapefruit and originating from Southeast Asia. They are very juicy and have loose skin which is easy to peel.
My favorite type of hybrid is one many students might not know: the olallieberry. This unique berry is a cross between the logan-berry and the youngberry which are crosses between blackber-ries, raspberries and dewberries. It originated in the United States and has become more and more popular as the years go on. You can make it into a pie or syrup but my favorite is the jam. My fellow food science majors and I actually make the jam here on campus and sell it at campus market and El Corral and it’s pretty good if you ask me.
Lastly I want to introduce the grapple which is not a hybrid fruit but rather an externally flavored fruit product. It is an apple which has been specially treated to make the flesh taste like grape. They’re pretty good and I have seen them at Costco and other grocery stores.
I hope this has opened your eyes to some of the more unique fruits and vegetables out there. Sometimes they are a nice change to fulfill the recommended five a day. So the next time you are hav-ing people over and you don’t know what to make for an appe-tizer or for dessert, instead of the usual chips and salsa or plate of cookies, try starting them off with an artichoke and ending the night with an olallieberry pie.
Bethany Abelson is a food science senior and Mustang Daily food col-umnist.
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The United States has fancied itself a protector of human rights for decades. According to the March 31 Washington Post article "U.S. to Join U.N. Human Rights Council", Secretary of State Hil-lary Clinton said that "Human rights are an essential element of American global foreign policy." She continued, "With others, we will engage in the work of im-proving the U.N. human rights system."
In fact, in the same article the Post reports that New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCul-ly freely withdrew his country's name to make a place for the U.S. on the Council, saying, "Frankly, by any objective measure, mem-bership of the Council by the U.S. is more likely to create posi-tive changes more quickly than we could have hoped to achieve them."
That's a rather hefty assess-ment of our government's dedica-tion to human rights, and it's an even greater responsibility since we did win that seat in the Coun-cil only a month ago. But while we uphold human rights as te-nets in our involvement overseas, does our government give human rights an equally essential place in domestic policy?
The notion of universal hu-man rights fell into public dis-course after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech in 1941, in which he pro-claimed that all humans every-where deserve freedom of speech and religion, and to be free from want and fear.
The Four Freedoms were then incorporated into the United Na-tion’s (UN) International Bill of Human Rights, and within this declaration is one of the most im-portant documents in history: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This beautifully written dec-laration lays out several rights al-ready guaranteed by the U.S Con-stitution, such as "the right to life, liberty, and the security of person", the right to a fair and speedy trial, and so on. It also includes several other rights that more specifically answer global issues by prohibit-ing "cruel, inhuman or degrad-ing torture or imprisonment" and "slavery in all its forms".
There are two additional trea-tises within the International Bill of Human Rights: The Interna-tional Covenant on Civil and Po-litical Rights and the Internation-al Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESR).
Given our proud support for human rights and our former
President's apparent involvement in developing the basic ideas for the Universal Declaration of Hu-man Rights, one would think that our government would be first in line to sign and ratify each piece of this historical, significant bill.
Nope.We signed the Universal Decla-
ration of Human Rights and both covenants, but although over 40 years have passed since its creation, we have yet to ratify the Interna-tional Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. With-out ratification, the covenant has no influence on U.S policies.
The Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr. and George W. Administrations, and even the Clinton Administra-tion failed to ratify the covenant.
Of course, this is also due to the political division of the Senate during their administrations since treatise must be ratified by a two-thirds majority. However, becaU.Se they have a two-thirds major-ity, current Senate Democrats have no excU.Se to delay ratifying this treaty—and neither does President Obama.
But it begs the question. What's so incendiary about the ICESCR? Look no further than Articles 11 and 12.
Article 11 commits all ratified parties to "recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing and to the continu-ous improvement of living condi-
tions." Article 12 commits all rati-
fied parties to "recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health."
Critics of the ICESCR took issue with the idea of the govern-ment being compelled to grant every person the right to health care and an adequate standard of living, which sounds oddly related to our current debate over public option health care.
And the members of the pea-nut gallery in 1966 still exist today. They call themselves the Repub-lican Party.
According to David Shiman, who wrote an article on the In-ternational Bill of Human Rights for Univ. of Minnesota's Human Rights Resource Center, "The Reagan and Bush administrations took the view that economic, so-cial, and cultural rights were not really rights but merely desirable social goals and therefore should not be the object of binding trea-ties."
That echoes current Republi-can sentiments against the public option. And so, their 44-year-old argument has been and perhaps always will be that while other indU.Strialized, democratic na-tions have decided that the right to health care is an important part of human rights, they simply view it as a good thing to have if it's something you can afford.
The explanation Shiman gives for the Clinton Administration's failure to pass the International Bill of Rights is especially poi-gnant for today's health care re-form debate. While Clinton was in office, he wrote, "The Clinton Administration has not denied the nature of these rights but has not found it politically expedient to engage in a battle with Congress over the Covenant."
It is my great hope that at the end of this 44-year-long health care debate, neither the Obama Administration or the Democratic Congress and Senate reverts to ideas that are "politically expedi-ent."
It's especially important for President Obama, Clinton and the UN Human Rights Council to be reminded that until public option health care and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights is passed, our government can only continue to be hypocritical in its advocacy for human rights.
Stephanie England is an English senior and Mustang Daily political columnist.
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Op/edThursday, October 15, 2009
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Online communicators of all stripes, whether they blog or tweet or befriend on social networking sites, are now supposed to tell you when they’ve received any money or freebies in connection with recommendations they post about products they’ve tried out.
That’s what the Federal Trade Commission decided last week, after months of gather-ing public in-put and
stroking its chin. And the response from the online commentariat — true, never a placid bunch — is an unusually powerful wave of indig-nation, splutter, fury and bile, in-cluding fierce denunciations from some of the most influential and most respected voices on the In-ternet.
“A dangerous federal interven-tion in social media” and “an at-tack on markets and free speech,” says Dan Gillmor, author of “We
the Media” and a major force for new-age
citizen jour-nalism.
“Truly terrible,” Jeff Bercovici says on his widely followed Daily Finance blog on AOL. “A monu-ment to unintended consequence, hidden dangers and dangerous assumptions,” says Jeff Jarvis of CCNY’s journalism grad school and a prominent shaper of online practices.
Blogger Ron Hogan on AlleyCat suggests the FTC will now have to monitor 27.9 million Americans.
Ryan Singel’s posting on Wired is headlined, “FTC tells amateur bloggers to disclose freebies or be fined,” and even Slate’s Jack Shafer, who is normally right about most everything, denounced “the FTC’s mad power grab” and declared: “Allowing these guidelines to take effect would be like giving the government a no-knock warrant to investigate hundreds of thousands of blogs and hundreds of millions of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter users for saying nice things about goods and services.”
I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I don’t agree with these people at all.
Let’s back up. The FTC is the principal regulator of the advertis-ing industry, which is some comfort to those of you who didn’t know the ad industry had a regulator. Ac-cordingly, it promotes standards of truthfulness in commercial speech.
The commission was revis-ing, for the first time since 1980, its general policies on product endorsements — endorsements from celebrities, “experts,” outside organizations and seemingly ordi-nary civilians — any advice to buy something from someone who ap-pears to be standing apart from the people who produce it.
One problem the FTC was ad-dressing is the bountiful supply of tempting marketing opportunities via online venues where people talk about things they buy and stuff they try. Marketers are aflutter over the possibilities of furtively seed-ing this cloud of independent and trustworthy commentators with payments and perks, so that they use their independence in trust-worthy ways — meaning, to gush about the things they’re paid to gush about, just like any other self-respecting shills.
Fine. But when an Internet-chat tech maven praises a gadget, should she also have to mention that it was provided to her free of charge or, by the way, that she was given a free trip to a Vegas trade show so she could road-test it in a suitable setting?
You bet, said the FTC. Any time we’re led to believe that the opin-ion somebody expresses is truly theirs and the credibility we at-tach to that person’s words would be altered if we knew that he had gotten the product for free (or got-ten something else of value from its producer), that’s something we should know.
What’s wrong with that? To be fair, the critics don’t quarrel with the desirability of disclosure; they revere transparency.
But they’re annoyed that the FTC treats, say, a book reviewer for a newspaper differently from a freelance blogger. The newspaper employee wouldn’t have to say she got books for free while the blog-ger would. The commission reasons that employees in an organization with a culture of editorial indepen-dence deserve different treatment, but I think the critics are right. There’s no principled reason for the distinction.
And they object to the sweep-ing oversight powers the commis-sion seems to be claiming: How on Earth is anybody going to police hundreds of thousands of possibly corrupt voices?
For its part, the FTC has made it clear its focus is not on bloggers but on advertisers, who are responsible for telling online commentators about these disclosure obligations.
That puts the burden where it belongs — on the people who seek to gain from what is, essentially, de-ception.
True, enforcement will be spot-ty. But then, we support speed lim-its even though we know that only a tiny fraction of the people who exceed them will ever be ticketed.
The challenge here is much the same. To make sure that standards are posted and understood. In this case, the FTC has taken a reason-able step toward safeguarding the future of honest communication online.
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Hate crimes, self-defense aren’t the same thing
Wednesday's article showed Nathan Tsoi is against one of the most American ideas in law today. Why would a man who wishes to return to fundamental values (see his article from two weeks ago) not want to support the reason the thirteen colonies were colonized in the first
place. Let me remind Mr. Tsoi that those who founded what became the United States were a minority fleeing from England to escape per-secution. Why wouldn't he support legislation protecting other minori-ties from persecution. Is persecution against homosexuals or any other so-called deviants (an extremely offensive term) at all different from persecution from the religious "devi-ance" of the 17th century?
Tsoi’s understanding of a hate crime does not fit with the standard one. The FBI defines it as a crime that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation,
or ethnicity/national origin. Slapping a flasher is not a hate crime because it is motivated by sexual assault. If a person enjoys watching urination, that is their right. As long as they have the consent of the urinator, there is no difference between this and consented pornography. Spying on a person urinating is a sexual as-sault, and thus not protected by hate-crime law. Don't you dare group together sexual assault and sexual orientation. Tsoi has been spewing lies and half-truths for three weeks, and that’s three weeks too long.
Guy Shanibiology senior
Free speech should be en-couraged in Poly community
Is it true that university hous-ing “prevents community advi-sors from talking to the Mustang Daily” (as reported in the 12 Oc-tober edition)? If so, why? Are we not supposed to be a university, where the free exchange of ideas, free speech, academic freedom — among other things — should be encouraged?
Brian Kennellyprofessor, modern languages & litera-
tures
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The irony that the commu-nication department is miscom-municating is hysterical. I do agree that getting less class for more tuition via tuition raises and mandatory furloughs are bad for students, however the professors are not getting any of this extra tuition we have paid. In fact, they’re getting a salary cut.
—JacobResponse to “How hard is
it to send an e-mail? Professors don’t go out of their way to inform
students”
Being a conservative writer is not easy; you will always be crit-icized, even if you say the sky is blue. Please improve you’re columns quickly, or stand aside for another conservative voice to take you’re place. Alumni, such as myself, like to know their values are still represented on campus. Please keep this in mind as you write you’re future columns.
—Ian NachreinerResponse to “Everyone should
be equal under the law”
Shouldn’t a college newspaper be discussing college football? Last I heard, those with an itch can still bet on college foot-ball. Doesn’t it make you mad that odds aren’t posted for FCS games, even when they are playing FBS schools?
—AnonymousResponse to “Tuesday Morn-
ing Quarterback: Bad Beats last Sunday”
I think people should be free to do what they want as long as it doesn’t negatively affect others. That also means taking responsibility for your actions. For instance, people can spend their money however they want — new cars, big house, tons of kids, fancy vacations — but don’t come knocking on my door when you have no money left. Like uncle Ben says in Spiderman, “with power comes responsibility.” If you want the power to make your own choices, you have the re-sponsibility to deal with the consequences.
—KateResponse to “Avoid Labels: Be
Your Own Person”
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alex kacik mustang dailyDefenseman Patrick Sigler (17) directs teammates before a first-half free kick. Cal Poly (5-7-1, 3-1 Big West) held off a second half rally in a 3-2 win against Cal State Fullerton (6-6-1, 2-2) at Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Wednesday night. Junior midfielder Junior Burgos scored all three goals for the Mustangs in the first half.
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So now the Dodgers will get a do-over against the Phillies in the first NLCS rematch since the 2004-05 seasons, when the Cardinals and Astros split their two late October meetings. This year, the Dodgers are seeking revenge for their five-game loss to the defending world cham-pions while the Phillies are fighting to become the first NL club to win back-to-back rings since Cincinna-ti’s Big Red Machine in 1975-76.
OffenseThe Phillies’ lineup is a minefield
for opposing pitchers. Jimmy Rol-lins and Shane Victorino are speedy pests that clog the bases for one of the most dangerous slugging trios in the sport: Chase Utley, Ryan How-ard and Jayson Werth. Howard went 6-for-16 with six RBI in the NLDS victory over the Rockies and Werth, coming off a career-high 36 hom-ers, went deep twice. For the Dodg-ers, Andre Ethier (31 HR, 106 RBI) and Matt Kemp (26 HR, 101 RBI) have outshined Manny Ramirez, who still had three doubles in LA’s three-game sweep. Leadoff man Ra-fael Furcal had a team-high six hits in the NLDS, with a triple and two RBIs. EDGE: Phillies.
RotationThe Dodgers probably still have
nightmares about Cole Hamels after what he did to them last October in the NLCS. Hamels, who takes the mound for tonight’s Game 1 in L.A., went 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA in two starts, including the Game 5 clincher, to earn MVP honors. And was there a better midseason trade than the Phillies’ acquisition of Cliff Lee? Lee was 1-0 with a 1.10 ERA in two NLDS starts and struck out 10 in 161/3 innings, but L.A. won’t see him until Game 3. Filling in the gaps between Hamels and Lee is likely to be J.A. Happ and Pedro Martinez, with Joe Blanton slotted for the bullpen. The Dodgers will lean on young ace Clayton Ker-shaw, who had a 5.23 ERA vs. the Phillies this season, as well as Hiroki
Kuroda, Vicente Padilla and Randy Wolf. Kuroda, who missed the first round with a sore neck, was the only pitcher to beat Philly in last year’s NLCS. EDGE: Phillies.
BullpenThis is the real strength of the
Dodgers, who love to scrape up an early lead and then gradually squeeze the life from their opponent. GM Ned Colletti made a great July swap to pry George Sherrill from the Orioles and the lefthanded reliever had a 0.65 ERA in 20 appearances for Los Angeles. He is also lethal against lefties, a key vs. Philly, hold-ing them to a .171 average. Hard-throwing closer Jonathan Broxton had 114 strikeouts in 76 innings with 36 saves in 42 chances. The Phillies were thrilled to see Brad
Lidge come around with two saves in the Division Series, but their ‘pen as a whole hardly has been lights out. Scott Eyre appears to be fine af-ter taking a hard fall in Game 4, but the Philly relievers still have much to prove. EDGE: Dodgers.
BenchNo one had a bigger moment in
the spotlight last October than the Phillies’ Matt Stairs, who drilled a pinch-hit, two-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning to beat the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLCS. Stairs swings for the fences every time he steps to the plate, he had five homers in 62 at-bats as a pinch hit-ter this season, but the Phillies don’t have much of a threat beyond him. As for the Dodgers, Colletti traded for Jim Thome at the July deadline
to give L.A. some pop off the bench, but Thome hasn’t been an immedi-ate hit. He was 0-for-2 as a pinch hitter in the NLDS with a strikeout. The X-factor off the bench could be Orlando Hudson, who could sit in favor of Ronnie Belliard. The Dodgers also have plenty of other reliable veterans with Juan Pierre, Mark Loretta and Brad Ausmus. EDGE: Dodgers.
ManagerCharlie Manuel has the most
recent World Series title on his re-sume, leading the Phillies to the championship last season. But Joe Torre won four rings with the Yan-kees (1996, 98-2000) and still carries the aura of being, well, Joe Torre. The laid-back Manuel seems to get the most from his players with his
grandfatherly style, one that instills confidence and leaves no room for panic. He also has won 14 of his last 18 postseason games. Still, it’s hard to discount Torre in any matchup, now that he’s showed that his suc-cess as a manager wasn’t just a prod-uct of the Yankees’ big checkbook. Getting the Dodgers to the World Series, and then beating his former team, would be the story of the de-cade. EDGE: Dodgers.
Prediction: The Dodgers cre-ate some problems for the Phillies, and even won four of the seven head-to-head meetings during the regular season. But Philly is stocked with clutch players that know what it takes to win in October after last year’s championship run.
The pick: Phillies in 7
mcclatchy-tribunePhillies have combined as a team for a .296 batting average through the first round of playoffs — the highest of the four remaining teams.
Cal Poly defeats Cal State Fullerton 3-2
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After a game in which the teams combined for 110 points a year ago, Cal Poly is set to host Southern Utah (2-3) in their homecoming game on Saturday in Alex. G. Spanos Stadium.
Cal Poly, which defeated the Thun-derbirds 69-41 last season, has battled through perhaps the most grueling four-game stretch in school history. In a gauntlet that included two teams from the Football Bowl Subdivision and two top-20 Football Champion-ship Subdivision teams, the Mustangs have mustered a 2-3 record in their worst regular season start since 2002.
Despite the slight speed bump the Mustangs have faced to open the sea-son, head coach Tim Walsh welcomes the challenge.
“That non-conference schedule has given us a great opportunity to know that we can compete in our conference and that’s where it all be-gins this week,” Walsh said.
The No. 19 Mustangs, who haven’t lost a regular-season home game since falling at home to eventual national championship runner-up Montana last Sept. 6, have won seven in a row at home excluding a playoff loss to We-ber State.
The Thunderbirds opened the year strong with a lopsided win against Di-xie State in their season opener, 36-7. The following three weeks, including two FBS teams, led Southern Utah to fall to 1-3, but the next week at home, the Thunderbirds were able to com-plete a huge win against then-No. 19 Texas State on Oct. 3.
The Mustangs and Thunderbirds will meet for the 23rd time this week-end, with Cal Poly owning the series advantage, 16-6. Last year the two teams combined for 1,138 yards of total offense.
Cal Poly’s offense, which hasn’t been shutout since 1998, is rolling off its highest scoring performance this
season, 25 points at Montana.Last year the Mustangs led the FCS
in scoring with 44.4 points and 487.5 yards per game.
This season it’s been a tale of two stories — a good running game and a bad passing game.
The Mustangs rushing offense ranks 27th in the FCS in total yard-age (878), and 17th in yards per game (175.6) this season.
Cal poly fullback Jordan Yocum led the ground attack last Saturday against Montana with 119 yards and a touchdown—the fourth time a Mus-tang running back has broken 100 yards in a game this season.
The Mustangs triple option ground attack remains the offensive workhorse, as it has been for years, but for every strength, there is a weakness.
Cal Poly’s passing offense has strug-gled to find its consistency this year.
With the departure of record-breaking receiver Ramses Barden last season, the Mustangs have yet to find a true No. 1 receiver. Their leading candidate, UCLA transfer Domin-ique Johnson, looked to be on his way to establishing himself, but has been sidelined indefinitely with a shoulder injury.
Barden made 12 catches for 217 yards and two touchdowns last year against the Thunderbirds.
Johnson is just one name that high-lights a packed disabled-list — one that includes junior quarterback Tony Smith and slot back Jono Grayson.
“We have a lot of guys that are pretty nicked up,” Walsh said. “The training room’s busy and hopefully we can get guys back as soon as we can get em’ back … the guys that get the opportunity to play will have the opportunity to help us win football games.”
If Smith doesn’t play, Walsh will call on redshirt freshman Andre Broa-dous. Broadous has played in two games this year, but has accumulated no passing statistics. He came in for
one series against Montana but was quickly pulled after fumbling a snap. His only stats are -2 yards rushing on four attempts.
The other quarterback on the depth chart that could see playing time is senior Harlan Prather, a ju-nior college transfer with two years of quarterbacking experience.
On the other side of the ball, Cal Poly has forced 15 turnovers this year and holds a plus-7 turnover margin. Junior cornerback Scottie Cordier is tied for third in the FCS with four interceptions and linebacker Marty Mohamed ranks 38th in the FCS in
total tackles (9.40 per game).But even with defensive playmak-
ers, Cal Poly may have a problem in containing the rolling Thunderbird offense.
“Our offense has a lot of confi-dence right now and in sports a lot of confidence can sometimes work against you, so we’ve got to stay hum-ble and realize what’s at stake,” Thun-derbird head coach Ed Lamb said in a statement. “We’ve had a [bye] week of extra preparation; we’ve got a team that’s getting hot at the right time.”
The Thunderbirds potent offense ranks 14th in FCS in scoring, led by senior quarterback Cade Cooper. Cooper has thrown for 250 yards or more in three straight games head-ing into Saturday’s contest. He ranks seventh in the FCS for passing touch-downs (13) and 19th in the FCS for passing yardage (1,275).
The top two receiving threats for Southern Utah, Fesi Sitake and Tysson Poots, have combined for 62 recep-tions this year, more than the entire Mustang receiving corps combined. In last year’s contest, Poots had 16 re-ceptions for 246 yards and a touch-down while Sitake added five grabs for 94 yards and a score.
Homecoming could mark an ac-tual trip home for some Thunderbirds, 19 hail from California.
Lamb also returns west this week-end. Two seasons ago, he served as spe-cial teams coordinator for the Univer-sity of San Diego. Lamb has churned a 6-10 record overall five games into his second season as Head Coach.
He is 0-1 against Cal Poly.Kickoff is set for 6:05 p.m. with ra-
dio coverage available on KCPR be-ginning half an hour prior to kickoff.
Alex Kacik contributed to this article.
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nick camacho mustang daily file photoCornerback Scottie Cordier (10) ranks tied for 3rd in the FCS with four picks on the season. Cordier and the rest of Cal Poly defense hold a very tough task in stopping the 14th-ranked scoring offense this Saturday.
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