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Volume LXXVII, Number 80Tuesday, March 12, 2013

SEMESTERSDespite recommendations by faculty, students and

President Armstrong himself, Cal Poly will convert to the semester system within the next decade as part of a CSU

decision for all schools to be on the same calendar.

al Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong announced that the school will likely

convert to semesters sometime within the next 10 years in a campus-wide email on Monday, despite recommendations to the contrary by the president’s Se-mester Review Task Force and Associated Students, Inc. (ASI).

“If all goes as expected, Cal Poly (will) begin the process of converting to semesters by the end of the decade,” Armstrong wrote in the email.

Though the decision may seem sudden, the road to ac-tual conversion is a long one.

Decision-making

Cal Poly first began discus-sion of switching to semes-ters at the beginning of the school year, when Armstrong created the Semester Review Task Force with the intent to examine how Cal Poly would theoretically convert to semes-ters, and the feasibility of such a decision.

In December, the task force concluded with a recommenda-tion to Armstrong for Cal Poly to stay on the quarter system.

Task Force chair Rachel Fernflores said the task force did everything it could to keep Cal Poly on its current calen-dar, but in the end, the deci-sion rested with the chancellor.

“All that the committee could do is study, know what would

be involved, and determine what the campus as a whole thinks about the decision,” Fernflores said. “I’m still di-gesting the decision, but we al-ways knew that semesters were a possibility.”

Soon after, Armstrong an-nounced he would continue to pursue exploration into se-mester conversion, prompt-

ing several open forums and a February ASI student ad-visory vote on the topic. The advisory vote revealed more than 89 percent of students favored sticking to quarters.

Armstrong, who has long been a proponent of semes-ters, then met with California State University (CSU) Chan-cellor Tim White and several other campus presidents to

discuss the implications of putting all campuses on one calendar system.

In an email to the chancellor on Feb. 9, Armstrong officially recommended Cal Poly stay on the quarter system, citing the Semester Task Force Re-view report and ASI’s recent advisory vote as main reasons.

“While I started the consul-

tative process with the view that Cal Poly should convert, today as a result of the exhaus-tive process Cal Poly has been through, I believe that it is not the right time for our campus to convert from quarters to se-mesters,” Armstrong wrote.

Despite this recommenda-tion, Armstrong said White decided this week to begin transitioning the entire CSU

system to a semester-based calendar, though the decision is still not an official one.

“The chancellor ... is mov-ing down a pathway toward a decision that all quarter campuses would convert to semesters on a phase-in ba-sis,” Armstrong said. “And this would mean Cal Poly, we would convert as well.”

According to Armstrong, this phase-in would begin once the CSU officially decides to con-vert the remaining quarter campuses (six, including Cal Poly). Because of the school’s strong opposition against con-version, Cal Poly will be the last CSU campus to switch, Armstrong said.

“In recognition of our Task Force Report, the student vote, the ASI Board of direc-tors vote, my recommenda-tion, the campus-wide vote of the students, the Academic Senate — all of those factors — we were given more time,” Armstrong said. “We do not have to begin this decision un-til the end of the decade. We have a good six to eight years to work though, and continue to focus on our goals.”

CSU Public Affairs Assis-tant Liz Chapin said no of-ficial CSU announcement of the plan will be made until the chancellor has finished meet-ing with all campus presidents

WORD ON THE STREET

“I’m not that surprised, but kind of disappointed that the students’ opinion wasn’t given more weight.”

•Lawrence Smith mechanical engineering senior

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Chris Blackmer @_huck@mustangdaily “...what is

best about quarters and retain those ...” Looking forward to

seeing how they fit 3 classes a year into 2 semesters!

Mike S. [email protected] can understand why bureaucratic officials would want to

simplify their lives and have the entire CSU on one calendar ... But it’s a real shame to hear Armstrong is going along with them despite the clear position of the enitre Cal Poly community. Come

on Armstrong, do your job and represent the students.

Kalei White Disappointed. Our

school should be try-ing to distance itself

from other CSUs in my opinion.

How do you feel about the semester decision?

“I think the quarter system is a defining trait that makes Cal Poly Cal Poly.”

•Chris O’Meara recreation, parks and tourism administration junior

Do you approve of

the CSUs plan to

convert all campuses to

semesters?

94 percent said no

6 percent said yes

MUSTANG DAILY POLL

— JEFFREY ARMSTRONGCAL POLY PRESIDENT

We do not have to begin this decision until the end of the

decade. We have a good six to eight years to work though, and continue to focus on our goals.

see SEMESTERS, pg. 2

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The transition is going to suck, but they’re not doing it to piss us off,

•Jessica Carter business administration sophomore

Men dominate Cal Poly’s Col-lege of Engineering. A whop-ping 81.5 percent of the college — some 4,410 students — are men. Despite being a minority on campus, female engineers have made the Cal Poly chap-ter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) one of the largest in the nation.

General engineering senior Cait Rahm is often the only woman in her engineering classes. When she walks into a class on the first day, she is greeted by strange looks that ask: Why is a girl here?

Instead, Rahm is asking: Why aren’t more girls here?

Through SWE, Rahm, the vice president of outreach, and other members are working to answer this question and in-spire growth in the next gen-eration of female engineers.

“A lot of young girls don’t think they’re smart enough to pursue engineering,” Rahm said. “They say, ‘Oh, it’s all math and science,’ or ‘Oh, it’s just for boys.’ They don’t have the con-fidence. But, when we go in as females and tell them it’s some-thing they can achieve, the ef-fect is really heartwarming.”

SWE is hoping to empower

the next generation of women engineers, from elementary to high school age, Rahm said.

The club, which has approxi-mately 250 members, was rec-ognized as an outstanding col-legiate section at the national Society of Women Engineers Conference in early Novem-ber and won best outreach series for its work with future female engineers.

Laura Harris, Cal Poly SWE president, said although the state of diversity in the work-place is improving, it is still important to stress the multi-faceted nature of engineering to younger girls.

“The stereotype of an engineer seems like a man job — people imagine this really industrial setting and heavy equipment, trains, robots,” Harris said.

SWE aims to dispel the stigma that engineering is math and science-based only, Harris said.

“There’s so much variety and creativity, in engineering,” she said. “People don’t know what all engineering includes, so we need to explain the variety of engineering out there.”

The national Society of Women Engineers awarded the Cal Poly chapter’s “High School Shadow” outreach pro-gram its highest honor.

During the spring High School Shadow program, approximate-ly 50 high school students who were admitted to Cal Poly came to campus and each admitted student spent a day in the life of a Cal Poly engineer. Approxi-mately 95 percent of program participants were female high school students.

When Harris participated in the program, she had a quiz in an engineering class, and her high school shadow was given a copy of the same quiz to try

out. Harris’ shadow ended up choosing Cal Poly.

“It’s cool to see people who shadow you come to Cal Poly and become members of SWE,” Harris said.

Once female engineers come to Cal Poly, SWE makes sure a support system is in place, Vice President of Member Relations and industrial engineering ju-nior Angela Asgekar said.

SWE tries to be an asset to its members, Asgekar said.

“It’s empowering and impor-tant to see other strong, smart women in engineering do-ing well,” Asgekar said. “SWE provides a support system for women in engineering at Cal Poly. We try to reach out to the younger generations, but we’re still very member-focused.”

The club awarded more than $25,000 in scholarships to 29 different recipients.

Funding for scholarships comes primarily from indus-

try sources. Accordingly, four of Cal Poly SWE’s top nine donors — Raytheon, Boeing, Chevron and Lockheed Mar-tin — were ranked in 2012’s Top 50 Employers for Work-force Diversity by “Workforce Diversity for Engineering & IT Professionals Magazine.”

Engineering might be a man’s world for now, but SWE is determined to break — or, at least, redesign — the glass ceiling.

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MDnews 2 Tuesday, March 12, 2013

and constituents.“The committee is moving

toward that decision, but there has not been an official deci-sion made,” Chapin said.

Semesters and reactions

Though it’s not official, the plan does have wide-reaching impacts at Cal Poly, where stu-dents, staff and faculty have voted multiple times to pre-serve the quarter system.

Shortly after the announce-ment, discontented shouts echoed throughout the cam-pus community.

For some, such as business administration senior Athena Fowler, the announcement was upsetting because some prefer quarters to semesters overall.

“I’m glad I’ll be graduated,” Fowler said. “They’re going to have to change all the curricu-lum, so that kind of sucks for all the teachers ... I really like the quarter system a lot, so that sucks for all the new kids coming in.”

Construction management sophomore Nick Carrera also said he liked quarters better than semesters.

“The quarter system was one of the reasons I chose to come to Cal Poly, and I think it’s kind of a shame that they’re decid-ing to switch,” he said. “But if

it’s more financially prudent and helps with registration, then I’m all for it.”

For others, it was the man-ner in which the decision seems to contradict campus recommendations made by ASI and the president’s Se-mester Review Task Force that was the most upsetting.

“I’m just surprised that after everyone voted, they went to semesters, even though every-one voted for quarters,” lib-eral studies freshman Maddie Wilmont said.

Psychology junior Nathan Honeycutt, who was a student representative on the task force as well as a current ASI Board of Directors representative, said he disagrees with how the decision goes against both or-ganizations’ findings.

“Eighty-nine percent of Cal Poly students said no to converting (in the ASI ad-visory vote), and look what happened,” Honeycutt said. “I know Cal Poly students will do well on whatever calendar system we have, it’s just the nature and caliber of students here. But it was clear students wanted to stay on quarters.”

The next 10 years

Despite strong feelings among campus members, Armstrong said the switch, which is ex-pected to occur before the end of the decade, is less of a loss to the school’s uniqueness, and

more of an opportunity to ex-amine what makes it excel.

Because Cal Poly will not switch for six to eight years, the school has time to examine ev-erything that makes it a success-ful institution and figure out the best way to implement these in a new calendar, Armstrong said.

“What are two things that are really special about quarters?” Armstrong said. “Pace and the variety of courses. We have time now to look at how we make sure the appropriate pace and the variety of courses can be em-bedded in a semester system.”

Armstrong said he realizes there are strong feelings about the conversion, but he hopes the campus can keep an open mind moving forward. And for anyone who still has questions, he encourages them to contact him personally, he said.

“I’ll be happy to talk to stu-dents, I’ll be happy to talk to parents, faculty, staff, abso-lutely,” he said. “I think that discussion is appropriate, I know there are other people in administration that will be willing to talk. ... My point to the people who have a dis-agreement with this is to take a deep breath, read it through again. If you have questions, you know, contact me, contact the office, we will be happy to talk to them.”

Kaytlyn Leslie, Sean McMinn, Sara Natividad and Laura Pez-zini contributed to this article.

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Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers breaks stereotypesARYN [email protected]

COURTESY PHOTO

This past week, the Cal Poly branch of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah to participate in SWE Region B Conference.

People don’t know what all engineering includes, so we

need to explain the variety of engineering out there.

LAURA HARRISCAL POLY SWE PRESIDENT

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MDnews 3Tuesday, March 12, 2013

How are you getting ready for finals week?

WORD ON THE STREET

“A lot of studying in the library.”

•Kaitlyn Maracle agribusiness freshman

“Sleeping in the library.”

• Jacob Brandt philosophy senior

“Taking them one at a time.”

•Mike Burns business administration senior

“Trying to get my sleep in now.”

•Christina Hulick political science senior

“Getting everything in order and finishing projects.”

•Matt Gordon industrial engineering senior

North Korea ends 60-year armisticeTOM LASSETERMcClatchy Newspapers

North Korea canceled the ar-mistice agreement on Mon-day that nearly 60 years ago brought a cease-fire to the Korean War, leaving a world of analysts wondering how far the secretive police state will go to show its displeasure with South Korea and its American ally, which still has 28,500 troops based here.

The move, reported by the official Rodong Sinmun news-paper, was anticipated — Pyongyang had said last week that it intended to do so in the wake of new U.N. sanctions over its nuclear weapons pro-gram. But the ramifications of the development — the papers cited a military spokesman as saying the armistice had been “scrapped completely” — are far from clear.

Pyongyang is infamous for

issuing dramatic but empty threats, such as turning its en-emies into an apocalyptic “sea of fire.” The North has also an-nounced on several previous occasions that it was pulling out from the armistice, most recently in 2009.

So on Monday evening, life appeared from the outside to go on as normal in South Ko-rea’s sprawling capital, which lies just 31 miles from the North Korean border. Lights twinkled atop skyscrapers, young men wearing hipster glasses waited for buses, and cars zipped across a lacework of urban roadways.

Yet this crisis has a graver cast than previous North Korean bombast. In December, North Korea launched a satellite into outer space, a step seen as an advance in its ballistic missile program. Then last month, the country conducted a success-ful test of a nuclear weapon.

South Korea said Mon-day that its calls to a hotline maintained between the two countries went unanswered. Seoul’s Ministry for Peninsu-lar Unification said that the North “seems to have discon-nected the emergency link,” according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

The last time North Korea disconnected the hotline, in 2010, the North killed four South Koreans when it shelled an island and was accused of torpedoing a South Korean naval ship, killing 46 sailors.

But Yonhap also reported that the North had not severed another North-South com-munication line, this one to a North Korean industrial zone where South Korean compa-nies operate.

South Korea’s new minis-ter of unification, Ryoo Kihl-jae, said Monday that despite the current strains, “holding

talks is critical.” Yonhap para-phrased Ryoo as saying that “depending on future devel-opments, South Korea can ex-amine ways to offer humani-tarian support to the North.”

Still, he noted, “It is hard to discuss other matters when the North is making military threats.”

North Korea has in the past week threatened to wage war against both the United States and South Korea. Judging the seriousness of those words is complicated by the clutter of past threats that have gone unfulfilled and the fact that North Korea is among the most opaque and unpredict-able nations in the world.

Still, there has been a notable ratcheting-up of tension since the December rocket launch-ing that the United States and others say marked a signifi-cant advance in North Korean missile technology.

Meanwhile, a statement by the North Korean military last week, carried by state press, threatened a nuclear exchange. “The U.S. imperial-ists seek to attack the DPRK even with nuclear weapons,” the statement said, using the initials for North Korea’s of-ficial name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Pyongyang, the statement threatened, “will counter them with diversified preci-sion nuclear strike.”

The North is not thought to currently have the capacity to launch such an attack on the continental United States, but its neighbors to the south were not pleased.

The South Korean mili-tary responded by “warning it would strike back at the North and destroy its ‘com-mand leadership,’ if pro-voked by Pyongyang,” ac-cording to Yonhap.

Boy charged with felonies for prank calls

ANDREW BLANKSTEINLos Angeles Times

A 12-year-old who allegedly made prank calls to police sent officers rushing to sites that included the homes of actor Ashton Kutcher and singer Justin Bieber, admitted to the allegations in a petition against him in juvenile court, authorities said Monday.

The boy, who is not being identified because of his age, was charged by the Los An-geles County district attor-ney’s office in February with four felony counts of mak-ing false bomb threats and computer intrusion.

His admission before Ju-venile Court Judge Chris-tina L. Hill on Monday was to two felony counts: mak-ing false bomb threats and computer intrusion counts related to “swatting.” A mis-demeanor was added to the juvenile petition Monday: falsely reporting an emer-gency in connection to a call at the home of Bieber.

The two other felony counts and the misdemeanor are expected to be dismissed at sentencing. Authorities said those felony counts and the misdemeanor can factor into the judge’s decision in sen-tencing and in setting resti-tution to victims in the case, which include the celebrities and law enforcement agen-cies, among them the LAPD and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Sentencing has yet to be set and Hill accepted a petition to transfer the case for sen-tencing to the county where the boy currently resides. Sources familiar with the case said the youth is from Riverside County.

The LAPD investigated the case with the Long Beach Police Department and FBI. Authorities said investigators have strong evidence linking the boy to several incidents

involving calls or electronic messages that were sent to police and prompted a tacti-cal response including call-outs of SWAT officers, hence the term “swatting.”

In addition to Kutcher and Bieber, the boy tar-geted several other victims, including local business-es, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said at the time of the arrest. Investigators do not believe that Miley Cyrus, whose residence also was targeted in a “swatting” hoax, was part of the boy’s alleged pranks.

In one of the incidents, on Oct. 10, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies received a report claiming a gun-man had fired shots and was threatening to harm police when they showed up. The message was received through a TTY device typi-cally used by the deaf to type text over the telephone.

Unaware it was Bieber’s residence, deputies arrived in force. They searched Bieber’s residence and inter-viewed people on the prop-erty, who told them no such call had been made and that the pop star was away on tour at the time of the inci-dent. They determined the incident was a hoax.

A week earlier, Los Ange-les police dispatched several units and tactical officers to Kutcher’s home on Ar-rowhead Drive after they received a report through a TTY device; it supposedly was from a woman who said she was hiding in a closet be-cause there was a man with a gun inside her residence, ac-cording to sources familiar with the case.

But after interviewing workers who were briefly held at gunpoint at the actor’s home, as well as contacting Kutcher himself, LAPD in-vestigators determined the incident also was contrived.

What your Facebook likes say about youJESSICA GUYNNLos Angeles Times

You are what you like on Facebook.

That’s the conclusion of a new study published Monday that says your Facebook “likes” re-veal a whole lot more about you than you might think — including how old you are, how you vote, whether you are liberal or conservative, if you have a high or low IQ, if you are an introvert or if you are gay, even if you use drugs.

The study was a collaboration of the Psychometrics Lab at the University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research Cambridge. Researchers analyzed data from 58,000-plus American Facebook users who had sup-

plied their profiles and “likes” through Facebook’s myPerson-ality app. Then they made some educated guesses about person-alities and behavior.

And that may not get a thumbs up from people who get click-happy on Facebook, indiscriminately liking ar-ticles, photos, status updates or any one of millions of pages for their favorite brand, celeb-rity, movie, TV show or pop star, never once stopping to think what this public infor-mation says about them.

Think about it: Last year there were some 2.7 billion new likes on Facebook. That’s an ever-expanding body of data for marketers to mine.

According to the study, Face-book likes that predict intelli-

gence include thunderstorms, “The Colbert Report” and curly fries. Low intelligence could be linked to likes of Sephora, “I love being a mom,” Harley Da-vidson and Lady Antebellum.

Gay men apparently like Mac Cosmetics and “Wicked,” the musical. For straight men, it’s Shaq, Wu-Tang Clan and “being confused after waking up from naps.”

The researchers say this kind of data has commercial poten-tial in the pitching and design-ing of products and services.

“For example, online insur-ance advertisements might em-phasize security when facing emotionally unstable (neurotic) users but stress potential threats when dealing with emotionally stable ones,” they said.

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4.7 earthquake hits RiversideFRANK SHYONGJOESPH SERNACHRISTINE MAI-DUCLos Angeles Times

Monday morning’s magnitude 4.7 earthquake in Riverside County was the largest temblor to hit the Los Angeles region in three years and has produced more than 100 aftershocks.

It caused no major damage, but it was felt over what seis-mologists said was an unusu-ally large area.

The quake was initially re-corded as three separate quakes because a foreshock tricked seismographs into recording multiple quakes of multiple sizes, said Susan Hough, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist.

Earthquakes of a 4.7 magni-tude are typically only felt about 120 miles away from the epi-center, but Monday morning’s quake traveled farther, shaking coffee cups as far as Los Angeles.

That’s because the quake occurred in the San Jacinto Mountains, which are com-posed of hard granite rock that transmits energy more efficiently, Hough said.

The quake occurred along the

San Jacinto Fault Zone, which runs through San Bernardino, San Diego, Riverside and Im-perial counties roughly parallel to the San Andreas Fault. It’s one of three fault zones that ab-sorb friction from the motion of the North American conti-nent and the Pacific plates rub-bing against each other.

“It’s capable of generat-ing moderate to large earth-quakes,” USGS seismologist Robert Graves said. “Today’s activity was not out of the ordinary. Actually, it’s pretty typical of the area.”

There is some evidence that the largest quake ever record-ed in the fault zone, a magni-tude 7, occurred sometime in the early 1800s, Graves said.

The fault zone has generated eight earthquakes of magni-tude 6 or larger in the last century, Graves said. Approxi-mately five earthquakes of sim-ilar size have occurred within 20 kilometers of the area with-in the past 20 years, he said.

The most recent large earth-quake in the fault zone oc-curred in 1968. The magnitude 6.5 Borrego Mountain earth-quake severed power lines in

San Diego County, cracked plaster in Los Angeles and rocked boats docked in Long Beach for five minutes, accord-ing to the California Institute of Technology’s website.

That quake struck just a few miles to the south of Monday’s.

“It’s a good idea to take it to heart and make sure you’re prepared,” Graves said. “We live in Southern Califor-nia, and we have lots of ac-tive faults; and every once in a while, it’s large enough to cause damage.”

Monday’s quake caused some items to fall to the floor at a lo-cal market in rural Anza. And it created some anxious mo-ments for people who felt it.

Holly Lawson was working in a campground kiosk at An-za-Borrego Desert State Park, approximately 60 miles south of the epicenter when the win-dows in her tiny kiosk began to rattle.

The rolling rumble lasted approximately six seconds, she said, and she could see a man outside in his truck as it swayed back and forth.

“The truck was actually phys-ically moving,” Lawson said.

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Sam Gilbert is a journalism sophomore and Mustang Daily health columnist.

It’s the week we’ve all been dreading since the moment winter quarter began. Yes, you guessed it: dead week.

In my opinion, the buildup to finals is almost worse than the actual exams themselves. The anticipation of what is to come and the thought of immense studying just kind of puts a damper on the fantasy of going to the beach in this beautiful 75 de-gree weather San Luis Obispo has provided for us.

However — not that it’s a big secret or anything — there is a way to make studying a little more bearable. Beneficial adrenaline and focus can come in the form of a study drug known as Adderall.

A lot of apprehension comes with taking the drug when it’s not actually prescribed to you. Is it safe? Will it really enhance studying and memory? Is it worth it to take the drug, even with its side effects?

First of all, we should all be

informed on what Adderall is. This drug contains both am-phetamine and dextroamphet-amine. Basically, they both stim-ulate the central nervous system and affect chemicals and nerves in the brain linked to hyperac-tivity and impulse control.

According to WebMD’s website, Adderall and am-phetamines are prescribed for narcolepsy, attention

deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression.

Although it seems obvious to stay away from drugs not specif-ically prescribed to you, it is also tempting to want to dabble to in-crease studying time and focus.

I’ll admit I’ve taken a leap of faith (or a few) with this stimulant. I’ll also admit I defi-nitely felt more focused, moti-vated to get everything done and studied for a longer time while under the influence of

this medication.According to the Slate ar-

ticle “The Adderall Me: my romance with ADHD meds,” approximately one in five college students has taken Adderall or Ritalin, a closely related drug, in order to in-crease studying habits.

Joshua Foer, the author of the article, performed a study on himself by taking the drug

for a week to see how he would be affected.

“I just felt more directed, less distract-ed by rogue thoughts, less d a y - d r e a m y,” Foer said.

However, Foer also admitted not

feeling like himself.A study was done by the Uni-

versity of Pennsylvania to see the effects Adderall has on cog-nitive and divergent thinking.

The results showed cogni-tive thinking was enhanced for those with lower-per-forming abilities, as well as those with higher-perform-ing abilities. Divergent think-ing, however, was only en-hanced for those with lower performing abilities and im-

paired for those with higher performing abilities.

“These medications allow you to be more structured and more rigid. That’s the opposite of the impulsivity of creativity,” Eric Heiligenstein, clinical di-rector of psychiatry of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, is quoted as saying in the study.

The most enticing part about taking these study drugs is the euphoric feeling you get, as well as the motivation to con-tinue studying.

The short-term effects, ac-cording to the dependency.net article “Amphetamine Depen-dence-Signs of Amphetamine Use Vs. Abuse, Tolerance,” in-clude alertness, lack of fatigue and a rise in blood pressure. The user becomes hostile, yet focused, as well as less hungry, tremulous and twitchy.

The worst part about tak-

ing a study drug is definitely the come-down feeling after the high.

According to the same ar-ticle, the user endures fatigue, exhaustion and depression. These symptoms can last up to two days and make the user yearn for more.

Basically, you feel incredibly drained, you want to sleep but you can’t, you have a slight headache, feel nauseous at the thought of eating and you be-come a little irritable. Not the best feelings, if you ask me.

What is even worse than the short-term effects, how-ever, are the possible long-term effects.

According to the depen-dency.net article, after sev-eral trials in using Adderall, possible effects include dan-gerously fast heart palpita-tions, breathing difficulties,

skin problems, malnutrition from not eating, exhaustion and seizures.

The most common effect that should be seriously con-sidered is dependency. Psy-chological and physical de-pendence on the drug begins after the first time using Ad-derall when it’s not specifi-cally prescribed to you.

Individuals start to think they can’t study without it and begin to lose focus when they haven’t consumed a study drug.

Although not everybody is affected in the long-term, it is important to be informed on what could possibly happen and how your body is process-ing Adderall.

Makes you think twice about how many cracked-out people there are in the library right now, doesn’t it?

The body after Adderall

“Deuce”

• PHOTO CREDIT David Jang •

wellness101

Is it worth it?I’ll admit I’ve taken a leap

of faith (or a few) with this stimulant.

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The love story of Joanne and Ross Currie steamed up over a bowl of clam chowder.

At the time, more than two decades ago, Joanne — general manager at F. McClintock’s Saloon — and Ross — who worked for Budweiser — would sneak off during their lunch breaks to Splash Café in Pismo Beach for a bowl of creamy soup by the beach.

During one of the couple’s routine romantic lunch breaks, Ross let the owners know he and Joanne were interested in purchasing the restaurant.

His phone rang the next day.“We were newlyweds, and we

just wanted to work together,” Joanne Currie said.

The Curries took ownership of Splash Café in Pismo Beach in 1991. Now, 22 years later, Joanne and Ross just welcomed their first grandchild, and they are about to welcome a third location to the Splash franchise.

This next location will join Splash Café in Pismo Beach and Splash Café and Artisan Bak-ery on Monterey Street, which opened in 2005.

“We’re still in the same boat,” Currie said. “We just really en-joy doing projects together.”

This time around, the Curries have their eyes on downtown.

The restaurant, which will be called Splash Café Seafood and Grill, plans to move into the space formerly occupied by Mondeo Pronto, which closed in late January after 17 years in the location.

Although the restaurant’s closing came as a shock to many San Luis Obispo resi-dents, Splash Café Seafood and Grill’s new neighbors are welcoming, Currie said.

“They’re really happy about it,” she said. “Chino’s and Pizza Solo seem very happy to have a vibrant, new business to bring more foot traffic to the Down-town Centre.”

Splash Café Seafood and Grill will continue the brand of the franchise with bright, bold

coloring — and the famous clam chowder.

Splash Café Seafood and Grill will serve all the signature foods Splash Café is known for, in-cluding the clam chowder, fish tacos and bakery desserts, but the emphasis is moving from the fryer to the grill.

“We will have all the signature items, but we will emphasize more fresh fish and grilled fish items,” Currie said.

Future patrons should ex-pect “fancy salads,” paninis and “healthier, fresher” cuisine.

Additionally, the bakery at Splash Café and Artisan Bak-ery on Monterey Street is cre-ating more gluten-free options for the new location. They’re even perfecting a recipe for gluten-free sandwich bread.

As for a new signature, a steakhouse salad is in the works for Splash Café Sea-food and Grill, and Currie has high hopes for the new menu item. Customers can choose steak or shrimp. The salad will be served in a sour-dough bread bowl, like the famous clam chowder, and the core of the bread bowl will be sprinkled with garlic and Parmesan cheese.

“I don’t know if it will actu-ally end up being a signature item, but it certainly will be yummy,” Currie said. “Menu development is definitely part of the fun.”

The current Splash loca-tions have strong sales, Cur-

rie said. Oftentimes, people are lined up out the door. The restaurant makes ap-proximately 40,000 gallons of clam chowder a year, Cur-rie said. And on a busy day, Splash Café and Artisan Bakery will make more than 2,000 bread bowls.

The Monterey Street loca-tion has been “steady as she goes,” Currie said.

She’s expecting the downtown location to get busy as well.

“There’s not really casual seafood downtown,” Cur-rie said. “It’s not like another burger place is coming; we’re something new.”

Earth sciences senior Nick Pisano said the new location is also more convenient for drivers.

“The parking here’s terrible,” Pisano said, motioning to the packed parking lot behind the Monterey Street location.

The Monterey Street location has made its impact on busi-ness administration freshman P.J. Gaur, who likes the clam chowder bread bowl topped with bacon.

Although the uptown loca-tion is closer to campus for freshmen like him, Gaur said, the downtown location lends itself to more of an outing.

“If I want to go someplace after, like Batch, I’ll go down-town,” Gaur said.

Splash Café Seafood and Grill will likely open mid-May, Currie said.

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The following is an editorial representing the Mustang Daily staff ’s viewpoint on the California State University system’s decision to con-vert Cal Poly to semesters:

It took one year of research, 23 task force members, a 685-page report and a vote from 7,250 students to realize Cal Poly would do well to stay on quarters. Call it overkill, but no one will say it wasn’t thorough.

And it shouldn’t have been for nothing.Cal Poly learned Monday about plans to move the campus from

quarters to semesters by the end of the decade. Though it was Uni-versity President Jeffrey Armstrong who told students, faculty and staff of the plans, the proposal itself appears to have come straight from the office of the California State University (CSU) Chancellor, Timothy White.

“Chancellor Tim White is moving down a pathway toward a decision that all quarter campuses would convert to semesters on a phase-in basis,” Armstrong told Mustang Daily. “And this would mean Cal Poly, we would convert as well.”

Though Armstrong faced criticism for how he went about review-ing semesters, he did eventually recommend White leave all quarter campuses untouched. Monday’s decision, Armstrong said, was a “compromise” between Cal Poly and the CSU: The campus will switch to semesters, but be the last campus to do so.

In a letter Armstrong wrote to White during early February, he introduced the Semester Review Task Force’s extensive work com-pleted in fall quarter as reason to stay on quarters. Among other arguments for quarters, Armstrong cited task force-estimated costs of more than $20 million and the loss of priceless opportunities for the university as it shifts resources to focus on switching to semes-ters. The president even admitted the Semester Review Task Force shook his own preconceived idea that semesters are generally a bet-ter system.

“Cal Poly has been through a careful and (in-depth) process con-cerning the subject of converting to semesters or staying on quar-ters,” Armstrong wrote to the chancellor. “My position is to support the thoughtful and overwhelming recommendation of Cal Poly stakeholders to stay on quarters.”

It’s understandable that White wants all schools on a common calendar. After all, the university system is attempting to trim ad-ministrative costs as it turns the corner from hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts during the past four years.

But spending millions of dollars more to convert campuses to semesters is not the answer to the CSU’s problems. And while Arm-strong claims the benefits of having all schools on the same calendar outweigh the losses Cal Poly will face, there is no available report by the CSU outlining exactly what these benefits are.

Not only this, but the CSU has agreed to pay approximately three-quarters of conversion costs. With tuition high and stagnant faculty pay still in effect, where will the university system find money to finance this? Armstrong said he doesn’t know, and the CSU won’t comment on semester conversion until plans are further along in the chancellor’s office.

So for now, Cal Poly is left with multiple questions after a wide consensus of the Cal Poly community demonstrated a pro-quarters stance. There appears to be little that can be done now, with Arm-strong resigned to White’s compromise and the system moving closer and closer to semesters.

But that system is running in a different direction than what the campus wants. And while Cal Poly is part of the system, it shouldn’t be married to it. If quarters are what have worked for Cal Poly, why not stick with it?

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MUSTANGS MONOPOLYSchlemer earns Player of the Year honors

Call it a four-peat.For the fourth consecutive

year, a Cal Poly women’s bas-ketball player has won the Big West Player of the Year award. This time around, junior cen-ter Molly Schlemer won the conference’s top honor after leading the Mustangs to a 13-5 record in conference play, 19-10 overall, and a No. 2 seed in the Big West tournament that begins later this week.

Former Mustangs forward Kristina Santiago won the award during the 2009-10 and 2011-12 seasons and guard Rachel Clan-cy took the honor in 2010-11 while Santiago recovered from a knee injury.

Schlemer led the Mustangs in scoring, averaging 12.7 points per game, while racking up 20 blocks and pulling down 6.8 rebounds per game. She shot 55.6 percent from the floor while establishing a dominant presence as the tallest player in the league.

“I was really excited for Mol-ly, but also for the team be-cause, in my experience with coaching, it’s the team that wins the award,” head coach Faith Mimnaugh said.

Schlemer’s breakout junior season followed two years in which she averaged fewer than four points per game while San-

tiago and Clancy took the bulk of the Mustangs’ scoring attack.

“We saw the spot open for somebody to take over, and me and (redshirt sophomore guard) Ariana (Elegado) came in as freshmen together and we al-ways talked about how we would be very successful by our junior year,” Schlemer said. “We took that and ran with it.”

This season, she put up 10

points or more in 20 of the Mustangs’ 29 games, includ-ing a 28-point performance against Big West regular sea-son champion Pacific in a tri-ple-overtime victory.

Schlemer credited her per-formance this season to solid play from guards Jonae Ervin and Elegado.

“This year has been great be-cause of the way our team plays

together,” Schlemer said. “The way the guards get me the ball, the way people are shooting out-side to get me open has been re-ally nice.”

Ervin finished the regular season leading the NCAA in assist-to-turnover ratio with 2.97 assists for every turnover. Elegado was the team’s second-leading scorer, averaging 12.1 points per game and connect-

ing on 67 of her 173 3-point at-tempts (37.8 percent).

Senior guard Kayla Griffin, along with Ervin and Elega-do, earned Big West honor-able mentions.

The Mustangs will face the second lowest remaining seed in the Big West tournament semifinals on Friday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Schlemer said after be-

ing held to four points against Long Beach State this past Sat-urday, she won’t let teams take her out of the game during the Mustangs’ push for a program-first NCAA tournament bid.

“I need to stay focused and stay confident and just finish all the shots that I get open,” she said.

Jefferson P. Nolan contributed to this report.

Junior center Molly Schlemer averaged 12.7 points per game in 2012-13 as the Mustangs earned the No. 2 seed in the Big West tournament.

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Eversley earns All-Big West first team honors

Forward Chris Eversley capped off a blazing Big West regular season performance by taking home All-Big West first team honors on Monday. Senior guard Dylan Royer, who earned a scholarship prior to his senior season at Cal Poly, was awarded Big West honorable mention.

Eversley was the only Cal Poly player to average double-figure scoring, posting 16.8 points per game and pulling down a team-leading 7.8 rebounds per game. He scored 30 points in a victory over Cal State Northridge on Jan. 26 and led the team in scoring in 16 games. He started 27 games this season, missing two contests to a lower leg injury.

“I’m obviously excited about it, but I think of awards as a sign of what you’ve done in the past,” Eversley said. “I’m already looking forward to Thursday.”

Royer was one of two players

to start all 29 of Cal Poly’s games in 2012-13 and emerged as the Mustangs’ 3-point specialist. He hit 75 of 182 attempted 3-point-ers (41.2 percent), including a game against UC Santa Barbara where he hit seven 3-pointers, one shy of the Cal Poly record.

The Mustangs face UC Da-vis in the first round of the Big West Conference Tournament at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday after-noon. The winner of the tour-nament earns an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“I wasn’t happy with the way we ended the season last year with the loss to UC Santa Bar-bara in the semis,” Eversley said. “It’s been a long time coming, 368 days since then, I’ve been keeping count of it. UC Davis is a great matchup for us. We matchup well with them at every position, so it should be a good game for us to test the waters of the conference tournament.”

Stephan Teodosescu contributed to this report.

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Junior forward Chris Eversley averaged 16.8 points per game this season, en route to a spot on the All-Big West first team.

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