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A waitlist formed during reg-istration for a new class based on conversations between students of different ethnici-ties, genders, sexual orienta-tions, religions or socioeco-nomic backgrounds.

The class is a well-estab-lished course that began at University of Michigan 25 years ago and has been of-fered as part of other classes at Cal Poly in the past, but was officially offered for the first time this spring. It got started at Cal Poly in a slight-ly different format this quar-ter, with three groups that discuss race and ethnicity, one of which doesn’t consist of racially diverse students.

“We ended up not being able to offer a third race dia-logue or a gender dialogue, we simply didn’t have the numbers,” former Associate Vice President of Inclusive Excellence David Conn said. Instead, the third group has all white students discussing race and ethnicity, Conn said.

When the groups follow the guidelines set by Michi-gan, they have six to eight students that identify with one social group — male, female, transgender, white, Hispanic — and meet with an equal number of students who identify with a different social identity. The groups meet together for the quarter to learn the difference be-tween debate and dialogue, and discuss timely issues from their various view-points, Conn said.

Psychology associate pro-fessor Jennifer Teramoto

Pedrotti, the faculty mem-ber in charge of the class, said students were asked to report their racial and eth-nic background for the Cal Poly version, as well as dis-close whether they felt they identified as a white person, a person of color, neither or both. After registration was complete, students were dispersed into the various dialogue groups as evenly as possible, she said.

Conn, who has been in-volved in running pilot ver-sions of the class and training facilitators, said the organiz-ers recognize that students

probably have more than one social identity, or even eth-nicity, they identify with.

“Very often in the course of the dialogue, the intersecting identities come up as well, and that’s encouraged,” Conn said.

Conn said mostly psychol-ogy students knew about the four-unit class (PSY 303) this quarter, which contributed to the fact that a diverse third discussion group could not be created based on race or gender this quarter.

“So I guess, somewhat in-evitably, we got a lot of white females signing up for this, even though we’re offering it beyond psychology,” Conn

said. “We’re hoping that once people get to know about this, there will be a lot of oth-er people coming in.”

The vision

The class, which has bind-ers of research and curricula supporting it and has won awards from the U.S. De-partment of Education and President Clinton’s Initiative on Race program, is open to all students and can currently be used as an upper division elective for many degree re-quirements, but Conn said he hopes it will eventually quali-

fy as a GE course.“My vision for this is that

every student who comes to Cal Poly should have at least the opportunity to take an intergroup dialogues course,” he said.

Cal Poly’s method of plac-ing all the students in the dialogues after they signed up differed from Michigan’s strategy and probably also contributed to the inability to offer a third race or gender group, Conn said.

At Michigan, only half the desired number of students are admitted during registra-tion, and after sorting them into the various social identi-

ties they indicated, the oppo-site groups are recruited for, Conn said.

“There’s some hesitance, I think legitimately, to plac-ing students based on social identity,” Conn said. “Or ad-mitting students to a course … based on social identity.”

Conn said though the all-white dialogue group has been tried at other schools, such as Skidmore College, the jury is still out on its ef-fectiveness at Cal Poly.

“Most white people, my-self included, don’t think about being white,” Conn said. “That’s one of the privi-leges we have, whereas most people of color have to think about it because our society forces that onto them.”

One of the goals of the dia-logue is for each student to learn about other social iden-tities, but also to learn how to communicate and work with people different from them-selves, Conn said.

Teramoto Pedrotti said it’s neat to see recent generations of Cal Poly students be more accepting and desire the op-portunity to communicate with people from different backgrounds than their own.

“I think (students) are wanting this kind of infor-mation and sometimes don’t know how to get it,” Teramo-to Pedrotti said. “Intergroup dialogues provides such a Learn by Doing approach to talking about race (and) talk-ing about gender. ... It’s really serving a need that I think students are feeling.”

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Cal Poly students and fac-ulty are keeping watch on the waters of the Central Coast to help control and reduce the presence of E. coli. While they collect and analyze all different strains of E. coli, it’s the half dozen strains that cause intesti-nal upset, illness and even death to watch out for.

Some 13 years ago, an oys-ter farm in Morro Bay had to shut down harvesting when tests revealed levels of E. coli above acceptable limits. Bio-logical sciences chair Chris-topher Kitts studied Morro Bay to identify the various sources of E. coli and assisted the oyster farm in finding new ways to reduce levels. It turned out that birds were the No. 1 source of E. coli pres-ence in the water, Kitts said.

“When I worked on it back in 2000, the issue was the oys-ter farms and the California Department of Health would shut down harvesting at the oyster farm every time the levels get up too high,” Kitts said. “I know that after our study, they changed the way that they set out the oyster bags so birds weren’t roosting on them; big difference.”

The San Luis Obispo Coun-ty public health department conducts weekly tests from Grover Beach up to San Simeon Bay, Kitts said. It also does some testing at the Mor-ro Bay oyster farm and the National Estuary Program has a volunteer-run water sample-testing regime.

In Morro Bay, it wasn’t a “bad” E. coli that caused the problem at the oyster farm, which was sold. Higher levels of E. coli indicated that there could be an increase of fecal contaminants in the water, Kitts says. Having more fecal matter in the water increases the chances of the presence

of other pathogens that can also cause illness.

There is no reason to worry about consuming contaminated seafood, Kitts says.

“I don’t consider Morro Bay to be a horribly contaminated area that I should avoid,” Kitts said. “I eat seafood a couple times a week.”

The public health agency and others like it take water samples and test them on a weekly basis, but they just count the number of E. coli, Kitts said.

“They can’t tell you where those came from,” Kitts said. “What I’ve been doing is try-ing to come up with simple ways to figure out where the bacteria are coming from so that you can go back and say, ‘Well it looks like in Chorro Creek, 50 percent of all E. coli in Chorro Creek are coming from cattle. Maybe we should do something about this.’”

While birds were a primary source of E. coli closer to the ocean, the creeks that drain into local beaches can get E. coli from domesticated animals, some hu-man sources and a lot of farm animals, Kitts said.

“A bunch of property owners that have ranches that border creeks or go into Chorro Creek did some programs of fencing the cattle out of the creeks to see if that would help,” Kitts said.

While the fencing reduced E. coli levels, the levels have been

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Terrorism is ‘part of life,’ poll findsDAVID LAUTERTribune Washington Bureau

The vast majority of Ameri-cans say that occasional acts of terrorism are “part of life,” and many doubt the govern-ment can do much more to prevent them, a new poll finds.

Approximately three-quar-ters of Americans said they agree that “occasional acts of terrorism in the U.S. will be part of life in the future,” ac-cording to a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Only about 1 in 5 disagreed.

The share of Americans who see terrorist acts as “part of life” has stayed high since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But the figure had declined a bit in recent

years, with people younger than 30 notably less likely to expect terrorist acts. Now, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, young-er people have joined their elders in saying that some terrorist actions can be ex-pected. The shift among the young has pushed the overall

percentage of those who feel that way back to its previous high point.

The survey, taken Thurs-day through Sunday, showed 60 percent of Americans say they think the government actions taken since Sept. 11, 2001, have made the country safer; 35 percent disagreed. Those surveyed were split almost evenly on whether there is “much more the gov-ernment can do.”Unlike so many other is-

sues on the public agenda, this one shows relatively little partisan division. Democrats and Republicans were about equally likely to say that ter-rorism will be part of the fu-ture and also equally split on whether there’s much more the government can do about

it. Republicans, at 69 percent, were more likely than either Democrats, 58 percent, or independents, 59 percent, to say government actions taken since Sept. 11 had made the country safer.

Although most Americans expect terrorist acts will hap-pen in the future, a relatively

small minority say they are “very worried” about the prospect. About 1 in 5 call themselves “very worried” — a level that has remained rela-tively stable through most of the last decade.

Approximately 1 in 3 call themselves “somewhat wor-ried” about terrorist attacks — a number that has dropped somewhat from earlier in the decade. Conversely, the num-ber saying they are not par-ticularly worried has risen to about 4 in 10.

And despite some promi-nent mistakes on the part of major news organizations, Americans give the media fairly high marks for covering the Boston bombing. Nearly three-quarters said the media had done either an excellent

(32 percent) or good (40 per-cent) job, compared with 14 percent who rated the cover-age as only fair and 8 percent who called it poor.

The Pew survey questioned 1,002 adults 18 and older us-ing land lines and cell phones. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 per-centage points.

Approximately 75 percent of Americans believe “occasional acts of terrorism in the U.S. will be part of life in the future.”

The survey revealed 60 percent of Americans believe the government actions taken since 9/11 have made the country safer.

Nearly 75 percent of those surveyed said the media had done either an excellent or good job covering the Boston Marathon bombing.

Twitter hack, stock market crashSALVADOR RODRIGUEZLos Angeles Times

The Associated Press’ main Twitter account was taken over Tuesday by hackers who

sent out a fake tweet saying two explosions had gone off at the White House, injuring President Barack Obama.

Within minutes, the real AP used other accounts at its dis-posal to tweet that the attack message was bogus, and Twit-ter shut down the @AP account.

“The (at)AP twitter ac-count has been hacked. A tweet about an attack at the White House is false. We will advise on acct. status,” the news agency tweeted from its @APStylebook account.

Twitter also suspended the news agency’s AP Mobile ac-count to prevent more false

news from spreading. A mes-sage on the agency’s AP Poli-tics account said all AP Twitter accounts would be suspended until the organization could be “assured of their security.”

AP reporter Mike Baker said on Twitter, “The @AP hack came less than an hour after some of us received an im-pressively disguised phishing email” (below).

Typically, phishing is when hackers send out emails with links to pages disguised to look like the logins for ser-vices. They are used to trick users into entering their logins and passwords. Baker

speculated that someone fell for the trick and the hackers used the information to ac-cess the AP account.

The fake tweet caused the Dow Jones industrial average to fall nearly 150 points in early trading, but it quickly re-covered after the message was revealed as false.

The Associated Press is the latest news agency to fall prey to the hands of hack-ers. Over the weekend, the Twitter account of CBS’ “60 Minutes” was hacked, and last week, several Twitter accounts belonging to NPR were taken over.

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THE BASIC INFO: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWs students walked through campus Tuesday wearing “Keep Calm, Wasta On” shirts, political science junior Daniel Wasta sat inside the Walter F.

Dexter Building and told the story of how he came to Cal Poly from Iowa less than two years ago. Then, he didn’t know a single person on campus.

Clearly, he said, things have changed.Wasta, who has held firm in his message

of promoting “spirit, sustainability and sup-port” at Cal Poly since developing the plat-form in February, said Tuesday he’s been busier than ever managing his campaign for Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) president. He is enrolled in a graduate-level political science course, working as a resident advis-er in Sequoia Hall and on track to graduate in three years.

“It’s a tough job,” he said. “I like to think I’m the most or-ganized when I have a lot on my plate, (but) this is obvi-ously the most I’ve ever had on my plate.”

All four candidates have managed to put aside their desire to win, Wasta said, and he’s been impressed by the campaigns’ fairness. He said each of the candidates has different ideas about how to run student government, but they are all running for the right reason: to improve Cal Poly.

Wasta said he unexpectedly met competitor Jason Co-lombini at a Cal Poly soccer game Saturday, leading to a 30-minute conversation that illustrates the candidates’ ca-sual relationship with each other.

Though the two did discuss campaign-ing — “the elephant in the room,” as Wasta called it — their conversation focused on how to improve the university. And their crazy schedules.

“We all want to see the best for Cal Poly, we all want to see Cal Poly move in the right

direction,” Wasta said.If Wasta wins, it would be his first ASI

leadership position. He’s repeatedly said coming from the outside of ASI leadership won’t limit his ability to govern, but will in-

stead give him new perspective on old issues.

The Wasta team doesn’t have any plans to celebrate a poten-tial victory Thursday. It’s a sce-nario, Wasta said, he’s been too busy to fully think about.

“Of course I’ve thought about it, but I’ve never gotten past the ‘Drum roll, please’ part,” he said. “I don’t know what I’d do if I heard my name.”

Though Wasta said he’s likely been outspent by his competitors, he remained confident Tuesday that all students will be able to connect with his platform.

As Wasta stood alone at his booth near Dexter Lawn Tues-day afternoon, Colombini left his own booth — buzzing with dozens of students — and hand-ed Wasta a hot dog.

Still, Wasta said he feels good about his chances.

“They’ve got food, and we’ve got a plat-form,” he said. “I just think we have a such a great platform. Everyone benefits from it. Our signs might not be the tallest and we might not have the most signs, and we were most likely outspent. But I like to think money won’t buy this election.”

ooking back on his campaign for the As-sociated Students, Inc. (ASI) presidency, psychology junior Nate Honeycutt says it’s been a time for learning and growth.

Honeycutt describes himself as a mild in-trovert — he’s never owned a cell phone, and he recognizes that his first few encounters with students were slightly awkward. But a week later, he was scooping ice cream for voters and explaining his “students-first” platform to anyone who would listen.

“I’ve really loved the whole campaign pro-cess,” he said. “There’s been so much I’ve learned about Cal Poly that I otherwise wouldn’t have been exposed to.”

The path to campaigning, Honeycutt said, began two years ago when students in the College of Science and Mathematics elected him to represent them on the ASI Board of Directors. Since then, he’s served as a College of Liberal Arts representative and worked with two other stu-dents on the Semester Review Task Force.

Despite his history with stu-dent government, Honeycutt said Tuesday he is confident a typical student can connect with him — he believes he’s carved out that particular de-mographic for himself among this year’s four-candidate vot-ing pool.

“I consider myself an aver-age student,” he said. “I’m paying my way through school. I work. I’m involved with clubs. And I know for me, simplicity rings true and really resonates.”

In addition to his work in ASI, Honeycutt is also a student employee at the Univer-sity Police Department. He said Tuesday he postponed his work with police during the election so he could spend more time reach-ing out to students.

Honeycutt said he has been impressed with all his competitors’ campaigns. He believes it’s still “anybody’s game.”

“Everyone’s pulling strong from different segments of campus, and everyone’s vision rings different with different people,” he said.

Unlike other candidates, Honeycutt said he has no plans to provide students with

computers to vote on during the election. He said it would be “awkward” to approach someone and ask them to vote on a provided tablet or laptop.

After learning his competi-tors are planning to use com-puters to help students vote, he said he would discuss the possibility of doing it himself with campaign leaders.

If Honeycutt wins, those cam-paign leaders could become nominees to top ASI positions. He said he would choose his appointees based on their vi-sion for Cal Poly, but also look at how much they helped him during the campaign.

There are 12 core members on Honeycutt’s team, accord-ing to campaign manager

and political science sophomore Joi Sullivan.Time will be cut short for the president-

elect if Honeycutt captures the presidency Thursday — he is leaving for Reno, Nev. in the evening to present at a psychology con-vention Friday.

But Honeycutt said there is one thing already planned if he wins: After avoiding it for years, he’ll finally need to purchase a cell phone.

PAST ASI PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?Kiyana Tabrizi 2011–12

Kiyana Tabrizi, the most recent ASI President, recently relocated to the Seattle area to work at Microsoft.

Sarah Storelli 2010–11

Sarah Storelli, an Eng-lish graduate, lives and works in the Bay Area at Voce Communications, a global communication and public relations firm.

Kelly Griggs 2009–10 Kelly Griggs moved to the Bay Area and has worked at Macys.com, first on market-ing strategy, and now as a user experience architect.

Angela “AK” Kramer 2008-09

AK Kramer, who lives in West Oakland, has created education programs including an outdoor education program for middle schoolers.

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WHO IS WASTA?Major:

Political science junior

Experience:Sequoia Hall

Resident Adviser

Campaign Slogan:“Keep calm, Wasta on.”

Platform:Helping

freshmen adjust to campus life,

increasing school spirit.

WHO IS honeycutt?Major:

Psychology junior

Experience:ASI Board of Directors College of Liberal Arts

Representative

Campaign slogan:“Put students first”

Platform:Increasing ASI

student outreach, semester

conversion

A L A F

DANIEL WASTAThe New Guy

NATE HONEYCUTTThe two-year vet

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THE BASIC INFO: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOWpproaching voters Tuesday, agribusiness junior Jason Colombini worked the line like a career politician. Never mind it was a hot dog line that drew his attention, or

that fraternity brothers — not Secret Service — flanked him. He kept himself busy, offer-ing to get lunch with one of the students in line, or even go on an early morning run if their afternoon schedules didn’t match up.

“If you don’t enjoy it, you shouldn’t do it,” Colombini said. “So I really enjoy being out there meeting people, sitting out on Dexter (Lawn) and talking to people.”

Colombini, with free water bottles and hot dogs in hand, was in the hunt for last-minute votes Tuesday — a position he’s grown accustomed to at Cal Poly. He’s run for elected office every year he’s been at the university, starting as Sierra Madre Hall Council president and now at the head of Inter-fraternity Council.

Today, he’s looking to win the Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) presidency.

“Whenever a Colombini comes here, we do something to make Cal Poly a better place for present students and future students,” Colombini said in an interview before open cam-paigning began. “The ultimate way I can do that is through ASI president, and I’ve been building up to it since Wednes-day of WoW Week my fresh-man year.”

Students on campus largely associated his effort with the “Call On Bini” slogan, a fact he joked about during an in-terview Tuesday. He said he’s heard people talking about it during class, wondering if they were sup-posed to vote for someone who’s last name is Bini.

A little explanation, Colombini said, typi-cally clears the confusion — and earns a few more votes.

Colombini cites three generations of Cal

Poly leadership as part of the reason he wants to be president. His grandfather was a resi-dent adviser and Mustang Daily advertising manager and his father served on the student senate, he said.

But the elder Colombinis will not be in the crowd if Jason wins Thursday — he’s not planning a celebration at all.

“If I win on Thursday, I’d relax a little bit and be glad the cam-paign is finally done,” he said. “I’d probably go to the gym for the first time this quarter and get some sleep, catch up on that. I don’t think there will be any major celebration for me.”

Looking back at his campaign, Colombini said one of his fa-vorite memories was going to the Pilipino Cultural Exchange. There, he gave his regular three-minute speech about what he would do as president, but was also asked to join in with the club’s traditional roll call, forc-ing him to think of a chant on the spot. Naturally, he turned to an old favorite:

“My name is Jason,” he said to the club.

“Yeah?” the members replied.“I’m not a weenie.”“Yeah?”“April 24…”“Yeah?”“Call on Bini!”

or Haley Houle, campaigning for Asso-ciated Students, Inc. (ASI) president is just one more hat.

The sociology senior said Tuesday she hasn’t asked for any special exemptions from her regularly frantic schedule to allow more time for campaigning. She’s still leading the ASI University Union Advisory Board, searching for a new ASI executive director, meeting with university administrators and attending classes — all while preparing to graduate in June.

“Sleep has been decent,” Houle said. “That’s definitely why I’m still sane right now ... and being around all the students all day reener-gizes me every single morning.”

Heading into the final hours of the cam-paign, Houle said encouraging students to vote is most important. She hopes to break an ASI record for voter turnout. If four candi-dates can’t break the record, she asked, who can?

“I want to really just encour-age students to vote and stress the fact that it’s important that every student vote,” she said. “Taking myself out of it, I think students need to see value in each vote. And that’s something, I think, falls on us as candidates to educate students.”

Since she’s finishing her degree in June, Houle will continue as a graduate student at Cal Poly in the fall — making her the first student since 2009 (when graduate student Jon McElroy ran against art and design se-nior Kelly Griggs) with plans to serve in presidential office while pursuing a master’s degree.

Houle has higher hopes for this year’s election than her first two years ago. Then, she lost a race for ASI Board of Directors and instead took a position on the University Union Advisory Board.

This race, she hopes, will give her a differ-ent result.

“I have done my absolute best so far, that’s

what I know for sure,” she said. “I have tried very hard to be at my booth and approach-able for all students.”

Houle’s family is coming to San Luis Obispo for the final voting announcement Thursday

morning.“I cant even grasp how I’ll

feel at that moment,” she said. “It will definitely be the proudest moment of my life. I don’t even think I can ex-plain it right now.”

In the meantime, Houle will be at her booths on campus, asking students to vote. She also said she wants to connect with some final clubs today, and reconnect with ones she spoke to in the past three months.

“The thought that tomor-row it’s up to every student to cast their vote is incredible,” she said. “That’s the only way I can explain it. And so right now … the next 36 hours are about conveying to students to just vote.”

ADVICE FROM CURRENT PRESIDENT KATIE MORROWLearn from everyone

around you. Every day will bring a new challenge, so accept

that you will have to ask for help often. You will be surrounded

by students, faculty and staff members who want your year as

ASI president to be successful, so ask plenty of questions. No

matter what happens, you want to make sure that you can look back on your term and say that

you worked as hard as you could and were led by your integrity.”

WHO IS COLOMBINI?Major:

Agribusiness junior

Experience:Former ASI Board

of Directors Representative,

Interfraternity Council President

Campaign Slogan:“Call on Bini”

Platform:Improving ASI

student outreach, increasing

transparency

WHO IS HOULE?Major:

Sociology senior

Experience:University Union

Advisory Board Chair

Campaign slogan:“Our team”

Platform:Better

communication regarding Student

Success Fee allocation, working

for the students

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MORE BASICSWith all the presidential hype, some can forget that an entire other group of students is angling for your vote

BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEEDS YOUR VOTES, TOO

The Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Board of Directors is one of several governing bodies within ASI, but it is the only one completely chosen by students.

The construction of the board is simple: Students from each of Cal Poly’s six colleges — the College of Engineering; the Col-lege of Liberal Arts; the College of Architecture and Environ-mental Design (CAED); the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES); the College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM); and the Orfalea College of Busi-ness — serve on the board as representatives, and throughout the year their goal is to best rep-resent the students within their specific colleges.

The makeup of the board changes each year, with some seats fluctuating between colleg-es as they enroll more students.

For the 2013-14 school year, though, the divisions will be the same as this year’s have been. The College of Engineering and CAFES, the largest Cal Poly col-leges, get the most representa-tives with five each. The College of Liberal Arts, COSAM and the Orfalea College of Business all follow with four representatives each, and CAED comes in last with two representatives.

The board is led by an elected chair and vice chair (currently agricultural science senior Kaitlin Harr and biological sciences junior Jordan Lippin-cott, respectively), which are chosen by the ASI Executive Board following representa-tive elections.

Board of Directors meet-ings, which are held on alter-nating Wednesdays through-out the year, take place in the Julian A. McPhee University Union at 5 or 6 p.m. Repre-sentatives from the university and Cal Poly Corporation are regularly in attendance.

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CAFES

CAED

Andrew BuiAmy CornellJack GraceStefan Hall

Brian Henson

David JuarezDaniel KochEmily MallettLuke McCue

Alissa Rogers

Rebecca RogersAlexxa TransueMichael Tseng

Charlie UmanskyKyle Williams

Bryson BrockmanAlexander Campbell

Michael FalconeRobert Garlinghouse

Sarah GriessBrady Hiob

Cameron JavierHenry Kozlowski

Myra LukensTanner Papenfuss

Connor PaquinNick Rodriguez

Alfredo Sanchez Brett Wagner

Michaela BaileyGabriel Bastomski

Hannah BrozekSam Canino

Kevin ColwellBrian Kawamoto

Hamzah RamadanAllison Rogers

Joi Sullivan

Nicolas CareraDominic GonzalesDaire HeneghanRachel KramerKristina Lam

Cary HernandezJordan LippincottDerek Majewski

Hilary Poff

Alexandra SpoonerClayton ThatchMegan Wookey

Cale ReidThomas Yusin

Nicole BillingtonMcGuire Gillan

Brea HallerTina Li

Lauren MattickJaymee McInereyTatiana PretininziRebecca Scanlon

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FUN FACT: Candidates running for College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences have the highest chance of getting a seat (at 62 percent), but running for a seat in the Orfalea College of Business has the least chance (26 percent).

FUN FACT: Once the election is over, the current ASI Executive Board will choose the Board of Directors chair from the winners, and that college’s missing representative will be chosen from the next highest vote holder.

FUN FACT: The College of Architecture and Environmental Design and the College of Liberal Arts are the most evenly split between male andfemale candidates.

FUN FACT: Of the nine College of

Science and Mathematics candidates, seven are

biological sciences majors.

The walls of the musty record store’s back room are a hodgepodge time-line, adorned with 12-inch album covers and moments of musical his-

tory frozen on posters. Spectators — roughly 6 years old to middle-aged — flood in and gather in front of the stage, ready for Josh Cody and Justin Hooper to perform.

Two guitars and two microphones stand on the rug-clothed stage, along with a mando-lin and a violinist to the side. But it’s a hard, gray Samsonite suitcase that draws attention, demanding a double-take.

“I kicked a hole in my suitcase,” Cody says, looking down at the old, battered case he uses as a kick drum.

Cody relies on the foot pedal attached to the suitcase for added percussion.

Within seconds of stepping onstage, Hooper mutters to Cody, explaining his now-bandaged finger he cut before the show.

But these misfortunes don’t affect the per-formance of the recent Independent Music Award nominees.

Cody, 25, and Hooper, 25 — together known as local alternative-folk band History of Painters — were the eighth performance for Record Store Day this past Saturday at Boo Boo Records.

The band opened with its hopeful, foot-tap-per, “Green Hills.” Throw in some whistles and the duo shouting “hey” throughout the song, and the room suddenly came alive.

That energy continued throughout the band’s set, ranging from mellow to upbeat songs honeyed with the harmonious duo’s vocals. The two’s organic chemistry breathed through the performance, as audience members clapped to the beat (granted, Hooper did ask for audience participation).

“They’re always fantastic,” Boo Boo Records manager Frank Hayes said. “Their harmonies are great, their song structures (are great). Those two are amazing.”

If The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons joined forces, it would sound a lot like History of Painters.

Typically, songwriters Cody and Hooper are accompanied by supporting musicians including a violinist and cellist to augment their sound.

It’s this dynamic that won them the nomina-tion in the 12th Annual Independent Music Awards for their 2011 EP, “Only What the Spring Can Bring.”

“The fact that it’s a worldwide competition is pretty cool that we were selected,” the soft-spoken Hooper said. “(We’re) pretty excited about that.”

The recognition hasn’t gone to their heads, though. With nearly 1,600 likes on Facebook and more than 7,700 plays on ReverbNation, the San Luis Obispo County natives stay humble.

TRUE COLORS

Based on their interactions, Cody and Hooper could pass for brothers.

“(They’re) just really honest, nice and

genuine people,” Hayes said. “They’re a little bit nerdy, a little goofy but a whole lot of fun. They are genuine. There is no agenda, they’re not trying to gain anything from being nice. I can’t say enough.”

The duo’s closeness — apparent in a bear-hug greeting and back-and-forth banter — grew over an eight-year friendship dating back to their senior year at San Luis Obispo High School.

“We met in choir,” Hooper said. “We were both baritones who couldn’t read music, so we bonded over that.”

Cody was playing in a four-piece group in high school and asked Hooper to join.

“We were playing together for a while,” Cody said. “Me and Justin have always clicked more musically and we kind of liked doing different things.”

The duo eventually decided to branch off and do its own project, Cody said. During this

time, the two started writing songs and discov-ering their sound.

Since the formation of History of Painters, Cody and Hooper have had the opportunity to perform at Live Oak Music Festival in 2011, as well as local venues SLO Brewing Co., Cal Poly’s University Union Plaza and downtown coffee shop Kreuzberg, CA.

Kreuzberg’s former location was home to the band’s first show as History of Painters on Dec. 4, 2010, Hooper said.

“It takes a little while to get super comfort-able,” the dark-haired, rosy-cheeked Cody said about performing live. “I think at that point we were feeling pretty good. It was really exciting, really fun.”

But that first performance didn’t come with-out minor hiccups.

“Our violinist actually broke her bow right before we went on,” Hooper said, steeping the tea bag in front of him, his aviator Ray Bans

hanging on his navy-gray V-neck.Luckily, the European-inspired coffee shop

had an old violin bow on hand. That show at Kreuzberg also featured the red, toy piano the band still uses today.

“I didn’t have a piano at the time, so my wife had gotten me this little, red toy piano as a birthday gift, and I was like, ‘Well — it has like 25 keys — I guess I can transpose my piano pieces onto this for the show.’” Hooper said. “It just kind of became part of our act after that gig.”

PREPPING THE PALETTE

Like the toy piano and Samsonite suitcase, History of Painters’ writing style and

sources of inspiration distinguish it from other indie bands.

“I think nature really does it in for me,” Cody said about songwriting inspiration. The nature

theme is evident in “Green Hills” and the title track from “Only What the Spring Can Bring.”

Hooper, however, musters creativity from his relationship with his wife and other passions.

“I like stories, history and music, so when-ever I can try to combine all three, (I) try do-ing that,” said Hooper, who graduated from Cal Poly in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies.

Hooper’s class notes even helped him write one of the songs on the band’s full-length “The World Is Greener.”

“(For) ‘95 Theses,’ actually, I used notes from my medieval history class at Cal Poly because I am a nerd,” Hooper said eagerly. “I actually recently gave my professor an album (and told him), ‘Just so you know, you helped inspire this song. Let me know what you think.’”

That professor was Matthew Hopper.“He was a truly exceptional student,” said

Hopper, an associate history professor. “I’m very proud of Justin. I think he’s very talented and I think this band has a big future.”

OFFSTAGE

Outside of music, Cody and Hooper devote time to their jobs and hobbies.

Cody works at Sally Loo’s Wholesome Cafe, went to school to be a firefighter and creates mu-sical compositions for wedding videographers.

Hooper teaches piano and guitar lessons throughout the Central Coast.

One non-music commonality the two have is reading.

“I’ve been obsessed with reading for the last couple years,” Cody said, tracing the corner of the “Harry Potter” book before him with his finger.

But these jobs and hobbies are a far cry from the six-month occupation the two held years ago.

While Hooper attended Cal Poly and Cody a fire academy, they worked as door-to-door paint salesmen — a period immortalized by the band’s name.

“We wanted to come up with a band name that had to do with something that we’d done in the past so that’s kind of like the ‘Painters’ part,” Hooper said. “The ‘History’ is kind of two-fold. Our songs are pretty autobiographi-cal, usually. I’m a little bit of a history nerd, so I like to write history songs every once in a while.”

One of their first gigs as History of Painters was at Boo Boo Records two years ago.

“They (are) very good musicians,” Boo Boo Records clerk JT De La Torre said after the band’s return to the store on Record Store Day.

ONLY THE INTRO

When asked what audience members can expect from a History of Painters show,

Cody was quick to respond.“Justin usually likes to streak around some,”

he said, laughing. “No, I’m just kidding.”Hooper added that he hates clothes.Jokes aside, Hooper said audiences can “hope-

fully (expect) a combination of songs that will get your toes tapping, but also ones that get you to think and get you inspired or give you a sense of hope. That’s our goal, at least.”

The band has no set recording plans, but Hooper said they’re in the middle of trying to book a show in May.

“Knowing me and Justin both, (making music) is something that we’re always going to be doing,” Cody said. “We’re just very thankful for all of our families and loved ones that have been supportive. I don’t think we’d have been able to do any of this this long without having that (support).”

Hooper said they’ll see where this life takes them.

“Whatever that looks like is up to God,” Hooper said. “I guess we’ll just take it a step at a time and let Him lead.”

History of Painters’ album “The World Is Greener” and EP “Only What the Spring Can Bring” are available on iTunes as well as at Boo Boo Records.

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Zachary Antoyan is a political science junior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist.

It has been two years and 17 days. Two extremely gruel-ing and violent years, spent in an attempt to oust a fami-ly that has kept hold of Syria for more than four decades.

What started out as peace-ful demonstrations and acts of politically motivated graffiti escalated into a full-fledged civil war, so far re-sulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 civilians. The lines appeared clearly defined: It was the authori-tarian regime against those who wished for freedom.

Riding the wave of the Arab Spring in 2011 that saw the call for more rights and free-doms throughout the Arab world, the Syrian uprising was supposed to pave the way for those changes. Instead, the fractured opposition poses just as much a humanitarian threat to the Syrian people as the old regime does and all the while has both sides scrambling for any advantage.

At first, it appeared to me the popular uprising was just an attempt to fight for a Syria with more freedoms. I dis-tinctly remember reading this phrase of someone within the conflict more than a year ago: “The situation is very tragic. We demand humanitarian corridors for medicine and food and clean water. We just want to live as half-humans, not even full human beings.”

The notion that things were so bad as a result of the vio-lence that people didn’t even consider themselves or want to be “full human beings” floored me. Why weren’t we, as a country or even as individuals, doing anything about this? Why aren’t we helping these people by aid-ing the opposition?

While I was in the region during this past summer, I met three refugees from Syr-ia. Two of them had defected from the Syrian Army, and the other had crossed the border with her family to find a safer place to live. They never once spoke of the cause of the op-position, and to them, the op-

position was no better than the regime that had oppressed them for so long.

Both sides commit atrocities, and neither has a mind to end the collateral damage that kills and displaces more than three million people. Amnesty Inter-national has consistently pro-vided evidence supporting the claims made by those I spoke to. There is no side that fights for the people in this war, only those who would seek to take advantage of a people and a bad situation.

It is at this point we must distinguish between the pop-ular uprising the Syrian civil war started as and the convo-luted mad-grab for power and influence it is now. With the numerous factions that make up the Syrian National Coali-tion consistently mired in a lack of direction and control,

getting aid to those who need it has become a nearly impos-sible task.

The United States has been giving non-lethal assistance to the opposition for some time now and is looking to double those efforts in the future. There are, however, many who would argue that what we give is going into the wrong hands.

The Al-Nusra Front, is one such faction of the coalition that many are wary of. With previous ties to Al-Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups,

foreign policy leaders are wor-ried the aid goes toward the setup of a state that harbors an anti-western sentiment. Of course, this is all speculation. But the threat of supporting a cause that ends up backfiring is something we know all too well (think: Iran).

So it is here we find our-selves in a difficult situation. On the one side, we wish to see an end to a brutal conflict and support go to those who need it within the country. But on the other, we must deal with the ramifications of supporting a cause that might turn against us, might not give that aid to the civil-ians and continuously disre-gards civilian casualties (all of this done in the name of a freedom for a people who are desperate for an end). World leaders have been meeting about the crisis, but a consen-sus on what to do, or who to support, has yet to be made.

If there is a way to reconcile this, then I do not know it. I can only hope those who are close to danger are delivered far from it, and done so soon.

This is Zachary Antoyan, thinking if he had to choose, he would totally be an Earth Bender. Have a good week.

The Syrian aid paradoxHow involved do you think the U.S. should be in foreign military aid?

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“I think when it comes to genocides, but otherwise, no.”

•Lauren Fanella biological sciences senior

“I think U.S. military aid should be moved in foreign countries only when necessary.”

•Ryan Holder agricultural sciences junior

“It depends how closely it would affect people in the U.S.”

• Justin Provencher biochemistry senior

“I don’t think we should be involved.”

•Kelsey Hemm materials engineering freshman

“It depends on the severity of the issue. Genocide, we should probably get involved.”

•Erica Jones environmental management and protection junior

rising. So Kitts and his team of faculty are in the process of following up to determine if the E. coli is still coming from cattle.

While E. coli can make people very sick, it is a good indication of fecal contamina-tion, Kitts said. It means there is likely to be other bacteria, viruses or parasites that are commonly associated with fecal contamination to watch out for, Kitts said.

“E. coli itself is really not all that bad, although you hear about different kinds like O157:H7, there actually are a whole bunch of different strains of E. coli,” Kitts said. “But there are only six that cause problems.”

Taking caution to not swal-low water when swimming in lakes or in the ocean will help reduce the risk of coming in contact with E. coli, Kitts said. It will also help prevent the spread of other bacteria and pathogens.

It’s not necessarily drink-ing water that is a concern; it’s more recreational waters, biological sciences Professor

Michael Black said.It’s important to be aware

of where sewage gets dumped because reduc-ing the levels of E. coli will make recreational waters safer and cleaner, Black said.

Chemistry and bio-chemistry professor Anya Goodman works alongside Kitts, Black, other faculty and students to further de-velop their current analy-sis and testing methods to make it a process that stu-dents can use.

“If there is environmental contamination of some sort, you try to figure out, ‘where did it come from?’” Good-man says.

Human feces are a con-cern because humans can contract bacteria and other pathogens, such as Hepa-titis A, from human fecal contamination in a water source, Black said.

“I see it getting worse, and I don’t think I’m a pes-simist, but as the human population continues to grow and as our demand for food and water con-tinues to grow, then I see we’re going to have more and more problems with that,” Black said.

the lecture, which include the difference between de-bate and dialogue, racism, racial identity and aware-ness, becoming an ally and other “hot topics” the stu-dents decide on themselves.

‘Seeing a new perspective’

Intergroup dialogues is a pro-gram that has been imple-mented at many other univer-sities, Health and Counseling Services psychologist Her-lina Pranata, who brought the original idea for the class to Cal Poly in 2008, said.

Pranata facilitated a dia-logue program similar to the Michigan-originated one during her postdoctoral fellowship and internship at University of California, Davis, and felt it had such a positive impact on students that she mentioned it in her job interview at Cal Poly as “one way of addressing di-versity issues on campus.”

“I have told myself that wherever I go, I’d like to bring such dialogue to cam-pus,” said Pranata, who start-

ed unofficial versions of the class in 2009, “especially if it can help bridge differences and build community.”

Cal Poly Human Resources Information Systems analyst Ethan Kuster, who helped lead pilot versions of this class in 2011 and co-facilitates one of the groups about race this quarter, said the dialogue group is a place where students can talk about issues they’d normally be afraid to bring up for fear of offending someone.

“It’s an open space where it’s OK to say the wrong thing,” Kuster said. “Nobody’s right and nobody’s wrong — it’s just seeing a new perspective.”

Conn said the low numbers of diverse students at Cal Poly don’t reflect the diversity of the state, and he hoped hearing other per-spectives in the dialogues would help ready Cal Poly students for life in a very diverse world.

“There’s no denying that Cal Poly, in terms of numbers, is not a very diverse campus,” Conn said. “And we’re acutely aware of the need to prepare all students, not just minority students or white students … to go out into a world where they are going to be faced with, and hopefully work productively with, people who are different from themselves.”

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Benjy Egel is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily sports columnist.

Forget the steroids stories and cheating scandals — sports are a good thing. From badminton to basketball, there are benefits in every game. Team sports in particular build physical, mental and emotional health.

Physical

Believe it or not, regular exer-cise produces a fit body. There’s a reason Robert Griffin III and Michael Phelps have unrivaled speed, and it’s not because they eat at Subway.

While weightlifting builds the most brute strength, rec-reational athletes should also participate in aerobic sports, kinesiology professor David Hey said.

“It’s continual movement, and you have to play for a long pe-riod of time,” he said. “So I’d say swimming, track and field and basketball (are the best).”

Hey played soccer in the 1970s before it became popular in America, and coached both the men’s and women’s teams at Milwaukee Pulaski High School to city championships in 1997.

Now Hey goes running or hits the Recreational Center almost every day, because a fat kinesiol-

ogy professor is as trustworthy as a skinny dessert chef.

He also offers extra credit to students who complete fun runs on the weekends, but those who jog on a treadmill receive only a high five. While the physical benefits of exercise are great, competition makes both the body and mind stronger.

Mental

Every athlete must endure days or even weeks when nothing is clicking. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, but sometimes you just miss 100 percent of the shots.

Sports teach that no mat-

ter how bad things get, the only winning solution is to bounce back. Cal Poly soft-ball pitcher Jordan Yates has learned to put her struggles in the rearview mirror.

“If I have a bad day, I just chalk it up to having a bad day,” Yates said. “When I go back out on the field, I know my teammates will pick me up.”

On the flip side, people with exceptional talent must learn to thrive in the spotlight. As successful young athletes move up the ladder, every new level of play reveals more intense competition.

While some boys and girls participate in “everybody plays”

soccer with team moms and halftime orange slices, their more skilled peers fight for rec-ognition on travel clubs stalked by college scouts.

“When you’re competitive, that’s a whole different deal,” Hey said. “That can actually create stress — in a good way, good stress.”

Though throwing a football in front of thousands of fans may be nerve-wracking, players who withstand the pressure face few-er fears in their everyday lives.

If a person can push their body to its limit and end an exercise covered in sweat, they are more likely to find success in other walks of life. It is easy to throw in the towel when tired, but fight-ing through and accomplishing a goal takes strength.

“If you can go out and run six miles, and do that consistently on a day-by-day, week-by-week basis, there isn’t a whole hell of a lot you can’t do,” Hey said. “Writing a term paper? That should be a snap.”

Emotional

Sports can serve as a form of therapy, providing relief from personal problems. The focus required in a game or practice leaves no room for outside thoughts.

Competitive athletes such as Yates learn to channel their frustration into positive perfor-mances. A close team can serve as a support staff, too.

“Softball’s kind of been like an outlet,” Yates said. “When things are going wrong outside of softball, I go to softball and I can just release everything, and it helps me grow as a person.”

Hey’s Kinesiology 255 (Per-

sonal Health: A Multicultural Approach) class discusses how unhappy, socially isolated peo-ple are more likely to have poor health, he said. By the same token, team players and indi-vidual athletes who love their sport will spend less time in the doctor’s office.

Young athletes need a kind, patient coach to get the most out of sports, Hey said. If the players aren’t enjoying themselves, the purpose has been lost.

“There’s some dads who are pushing their kids — boys and girls — at a young age,” Hey said. “It’s all about win, win, win, but it should be about having fun too.”

Exercise also releases endor-phins, which boost morale and can act as natural painkillers. A “runner’s high” is when the body releases so many endorphins that the brain is overcome with euphoric bliss.

Seeing good results in the mirror during or after a workout can improve self-es-teem as well. That’s why half of the Recreation Center’s weight room seems to be a male modeling competition.

Self-image is a combination of the three main advantages sports provide. Finding joy in earning a healthy body makes for a stronger being.

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“Softball’s kind of been like an outlet for me,” Cal Poly softball pitcher Jordan Yates (above) said. “When things are going wrong outside of softball, I go to softball and I can just release everything, and it helps me grow as a person.”

Benefits go beyond the lines