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Cal Poly Pomona agri-culture students can help restore a part of history by fi xing farm equipment used on the original Kel-logg Ranch.

“These pieces of equip-ment have been sitting in the back of a barn for [the] 34 years [that I’ve been here], so I want to try and restore some of it,” said Daniel Hostetler, chair of plant sciences and interim chair of food marketing and agribusiness manage-ment.

Though the majority of the restoration is done through the Western An-tique Power Association, fi ve or six students can experience fi rst-hand the work and satisfaction of re-storing century-old pieces of equipment.

“This is the lab for the students in agriculture,” said Hostetler. “It includes about 1,000 acres of land, trees and orchards, crops and animals and every-thing else.”

Before students can help, they must take a class on safety and get certifi ed. The next class will meet in April.

Certifi ed students and

WAPA workers meet on Wednesday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon in the tractor shop on campus to work on the equipment.

“In agriculture, you don’t get to take the summers off,” said Hostetler. “You don’t get to take Christmas day off, you don’t get to take vacations.”

WAPA and the students are in the process of restor-ing a 1920s-era sprayer and a 1931 John Deere D. Trac-tor, among other projects.

“There must be fi ve or six projects going at once at any given time,” said Kato.

The sprayer is one piece of farm equipment Hostetler said he hopes will be completely restored by the end of the school year.

“It’s priceless because this is something that was on the original Kellogg Ranch,” said Hostetler. “They sprayed a lot of the trees that Kellogg planted originally. They did a lot of spraying of walnuts, avo-cados – things like that.”

Four tractors that were also restored were shown off at the Pomona Christmas Parade on Dec. 11. The trac-tors carried carts of fruit from the Farm Store.

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Vintage steel with new appealKATHY NGUYEN

Staff Writer

Faculty weigh in on budget cuts

New dean of engineering announced

After conducting an ex-tensive nationwide search, the College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona will welcome its new dean in July.

Mahyar Amouzegar, as-sociate dean for research and graduate studies at California State Universi-ty, Long Beach, is looking forward to his new posi-tion as the dean of the Col-lege of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona.

“Cal Poly [Pomona] has a wonderful engineering program, faculty and stu-

dents,” said Amouzegar. “The reputation of Cal Poly [Pomona] is all over the states. As an engineer, both [Cal Poly Universi-ties] are the places to be.”

As dean of the College of Engineering, Amouze-gar has the chance to give back to the engineering community.

“Currently, I am an associate [dean],” said Amouzegar. “You get to a point in your career when you want to expand what you are doing. You want to do more for the engineer-ing community, so moving up to the dean position was a natural opportunity for

me able to bring my exper-tise from one college to the next.”

Amouzegar was cho-sen by an Academic Sen-ate search committee to replace the interim dean of the College of Engi-

neering, Don Coduto. The committee, which consist-ed of faculty, staff and ad-ministration, was chosen by Provost and Vice Presi-dent of Academic Affairs Marten denBoer.

“A national search was placed in journals, chronicles and websites for which the committee received applications for preliminary interviews,” said denBoer. “Typically, it takes about three to four months to consider a can-didate.”

After the committee re-viewed applications of potential candidates, two rounds of interviews took

place. “We had nine applica-

tions for the first round interviews,” said denBoer.

denBoer said the nine candidates were narrowed to four in the second round of interviews.

The candidates were then brought on campus for two days each, where they spoke with the presi-dent, faculty, students and stakeholders.

Amouzegar, who earned his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics at San Francisco State University and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at UCLA, has

On Jan. 10, Governor Jer-ry Brown released his pro-posed budget, which would cut $1.4 billion in state funding for California’s higher education system. Though the cuts are deep, two Cal Poly Pomona fac-ulty members believe they may be more reasonable than some might initially think.

“I think if you look at some of the polls that ask people ‘Do you think that the fi nancial crisis can be solved by cuts alone instead of increasing taxes’ they usually answer ‘by cuts alone,’” said Kenneth Stahl, the program coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Gen-eral Education Department. “But when they ask if Cali-fornia should make further cuts to different public ser-vices, they reply saying ‘oh, no more cuts.’”

The plan includes a $500 million cut for both the Uni-versity of California and the California State Univer-sity systems as well as $432 million in cuts to the state’s community college system.

David Speak, chair of the political science department and vice chair of the Aca-demic Senate, could also see the rationale behind the governor’s decision.

“The State Legislator should take a harder look at what could be done to cre-ate revenue for the state in the future, but realistically for now, this budget deci-sion is supportable,” said

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FARHEEN DAYALA

Staff Writer

AMOUZEGAR

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Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget to cut $500M from Cal State University System

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The American writer Jo-seph Campbell had a gen-eral formula for his students: “Follow your bliss.”

Wayne Rowe lives this philosophy everyday and has made a life of following his bliss: photography.

He is both a practitioner and professor of photogra-phy at Cal Poly Pomona and has been at the university

since 1990.With a career in the fi eld

that spans more than 35 years, he continues to fi nd new inspiration to pull from the craft he has been master-ing since high school.

“I am always excited about images,” said Rowe. “I like images. I like fi nding, look-ing for, discovering, creating and capturing images.”

Rowe grew up in Los An-geles and attended Los An-geles High School. It was during this time he acquired his fi rst camera, an Argus C-3, and started shooting photos.

He hasn’t stopped.After high school, he

went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts and a master’s de-gree in communication from UCLA. Later, he earned a Ph.D. in communication theory from USC.

Rowe’s interest in Zen began to grow during his years in college. He studied the idea of enlightenment through meditation and in-sight, read literature about it and understood what it was, but he had yet to experience it – or so he thought.

One day the two schools of study, Zen and photogra-phy, clicked.

“It dawned on me: That’s what I do when I do photog-

GREG TOUMASSIAN

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Wayne Rowe:Cal Poly Pomona professor makes a life of his passion

a life in focus

(Left ) Gus Lukrofk a and (right)David Paul from the Western Antique Power Association work on restoring old equipment from the Kellogg Ranch.

Lina Bhambhani / Th e Poly Post

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JASMINE LOWE

Correspondent

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POLICE BLOTTERPOLICE BLOTTERMEDICAL ASSISTJAN. 6, 2:28 a.m.Incident occurred at University Vil-lage where a 20-year-old victim who had been drinking, passed out. The subject was breathing.Disposition: Transported to Hos-pital.

DISTURBING THE PEACEJAN. 7, 3:28 a.m.Incident occurred at the Vista Del Sol Suite where a husband and wife were having a verbal argument.Disposition: Kept the peace - Advised.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCESJAN. 8, 3:48 a.m.Incident occurred at Alamitos Hall where a 18 to 19 year-old male Hispanic subject, wearing only basketball shorts, was wandering the hall and reportedly knocked on a female’s door.Disposition: Report Taken.

ASSAULTJAN. 11, 6:35 p.m.Offi cer initiated activity at parking lot C.Disposition: Assisted.

OTHER DRUG OFFENSESJAN. 11, 1:41 p.m.Incident occurred at University Village where a resident advisor has a bong in the community center for the offi cer to pick up.Disposition: Code 14 - Return to normal duty.

ASSAULTJAN. 11, 4:04 p.m.Incident occurred outside of Build-ing 1 where a disabled student was approached from behind, and there was an attempt to steal her bag. The student stumbled, and witness started yelling.Disposition: Information received.

ASSIST OTHER AGENCYJAN. 11, 7:08 p.m.An offi cer initiated activity occurred at Pomona Blvd./Temple Ave., Pomona where an offi cer wasinvolved in a fi ght.Disposition: Assisted.

REMOVE/TAMPER AUTO PARTSJAN. 12, 11:49 a.m.Incident occurred at parking lot K on Monday when a catalytic converter was stolen.Disposition: Report taken.

THEFTJAN. 11, 12:51 p.m.A coat was stolen from an offi ce.Disposition: Report taken.

FLOODINGJAN. 10, 1:56 p.m.There was a report of 2-3 inches of standing water in the barn. The recycled water drain mighthave been plugged.Disposition: Log note only.

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NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS IN BRIEFLecture honors MLK Jr.

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ren-ford Reese, professor of po-litical science, will be host-ing a forum on Wednesday at 6 p.m. on the third fl oor of University Library in the Grand Reading Room. Clips from the award win-ning documentary ‘Eyes on the Prize’ will be shown, af-ter which a discussion will follow about the American Civil Rights Movement.

The discussion will en-compass the evolution of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama

A feature of the discus-sion will be King’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

The letter is an important document in the American Civil Rights Movement and one of King’s most well known pieces of work.

Reese will lecture for about 40 minutes. He will create a connection between the past and present politi-cal climate. Reese said that we take for granted the trial and tribulations of the pio-neers of the past.

ASI Senate briefed on rec center

Representatives from the LPA, Inc. architecture fi rm expressed confi dence in the new recreation center’s de-sign at an Associated Stu-dents, Inc. Senate meeting on Thursday.

“One big thing that we’re very proud of is that we’re on budget and on schedule,” said principal designer Glenn Carels, a Cal Poly Pomona alumnus who graduated in 1984. “That’s something you don’t hear a lot of on as many projects.”

According to a September 2010 Polycentric article, the recreation center’s construc-tion is estimated to cost $58 million.

Carels told the ASI Senate that LPA, Inc. expected to be-gin construction in July 2012 and complete in December 2014.

ASI Director of Program Marketing, Barnaby Peake, said the architects’ presenta-tion to the ASI Senate was the same presentation shown to the California State Uni-

versity Chancellor’s Offi ce earlier last week.

Carels said critics at the Chancellor’s Offi ce were satisfi ed with the recreation center’s concept and design.

“This is a group of profes-sionals [who] critique proj-ects – this is what they do for a living – and they actually didn’t have anything bad to say,” he said.

As of this publication, the recreation center’s design has an energy effi ciency rating of 82 percent – surpassing the Chancellor’s Offi ce’s expect-ed rating by roughly 15 to 20 percent.

Armed with a roof of 500 kilowatt solar panels, the rec-reation center would supply 30 percent of its own energy. Extensive use of windows made from specialized glass would naturally illuminate and insulate the building.

The architecture fi rm, which markets its architects and engineers as “sustainable innovators,” designed the recreation center to qualify it for a LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Gold award, mean-

ing that Cal Poly Pomona’s recreation center would be among the most environmen-tally sustainable buildings in the nation.

LEED awards rank plati-num, gold, silver and bronze; highest to lowest. Each rank corresponds to a certain range of points awarded to usage of certain energy-effi cient mate-rials and design features.

According to a November 2010 CSU Chancellor’s Of-fi ce document entitled “The CSU Commitment to Sustain-ability,” 36 buildings through-out the CSU system have been LEED certifi ed. Six are gold and three are silver.

The CSU system’s push to-ward environmental sustain-ability was initiated in 2006 by Executive Order No. 987 by Chancellor Charles Reed.

EO-987 pledged to de-crease CSU energy consump-tion by the end of 2010, but results will not be made pub-lic until July.

Education Interest Council Senator-at-Large, Alejandro Pinel, said student reception to the recreation center is still hazy.

“It depends on who you talk to,” said Pinel. “Some are excited to see things hap-pen, others are neutral be-cause they know they won’t be around to use [the recre-ation center], and others who don’t understand how the budget works may see it as a negative thing.”

Even so, Pinel said stu-dents’ concerns about spe-cifi c aspects of the recreation center’s design were taken into account by the archi-tects, citing handicap accessi-bility and gender-neutral rest-rooms to include transgender students.

Peake said although the recreation center will be new to Cal Poly Pomona, the con-cept is not new to the CSU system as a whole.

“We will be the 15th of 25 [CSU] campuses to have a recreation center,” he said. “We are not pioneering any-thing new, but we’re going to learn from other campuses to offer Cal Poly Pomona stu-dents something great.”

Glenn Carels gives a presentation on the planning of the 2014 recreation center at an ASI Senate meeting last Th ursday.

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“They had oranges and stuff from the college farm on there so kids could take the oranges,” said Tom Millett, secretary of WAPA. “And they’d toss the oranges off and kids would eat the oranges while they were going down the parade.”

Although Kato said WAPA has only been col-laborating with Cal Poly Pomona for six months, WAPA has helped restore farm equipment at places such as Knott’s Berry Farm and the Orange County Fair.

WAPA was founded in 1925 and has a member-ship of approximately 125 members.

“Our main point is to ed-ucate the public of what we do, about farm life … what farm life was like before electricity [and] running water,” said Kato.

Kato said equipment can take anywhere from 60 hours to several years

to restore. However, that is no hardship for WAPA members.

“Where can you go and not have to pay to have so much fun?” said Kato. “We all have a lot of fun work-

ing on them.” WAPA members and stu-

dents volunteer their own time and effort without any compensation from Cal Poly Pomona.

“If the college doesn’t

get sick of us, we’ll be here,” said Millett. “We’re having fun.”

Th is tractor is just one of the pieces of farm equipment used on the original Kellogg Ranch that is being restored.

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Miss Pomona to be crowned

One Pomona resident will be named Miss Pomo-na this Saturday.

The Miss Pomona Schol-arship Pageant is open to unmarried junior and se-nior high school girls who are permanent residents of Pomona.

Eligible contestants must have at least a 3.0 grade point average. The pageant requires that contestants prove their involvement and commitment to the community in an essay and resume.

The remaining fi nalists are Jessie Gomez, Dani-elle Cruz Garcia and Mansi Patel.

The fi nalists will have to wait until 5 p.m. on Satur-day when they will deliver a speech about Pomona to a panel of judges in the Fox Theatre in Downtown Po-mona. Afterwards, one will be named Miss Pomona, and the other two contes-tants will become a part of Miss Pomona’s court. All three will be awarded scholarships and will have opportunities to appear at events representing the City of Pomona.

An annual asbestos sur-vey has been completed, confi rming the presence of asbestos containing build-ing materials in certain buildings on campus.

“It’s important that stu-dents and faculty are aware of the locations where as-bestos is located, but there is no reason to be unduly concerned,” said David Patterson, director of en-vironmental health and safety.

Asbestos is a mineral fi -ber that was used common-ly in a variety of building construction materials for insulation and as a fi re-re-tardant, according to www.epa.gov.

Danger only becomes an issue if students and fac-ulty are in close proximity to asbestos and inhaling the particles.

“If you aren’t breath-ing in asbestos fi bers, you can’t get sick,” said Pat-terson. “The majority of the asbestos is not in areas where people are exposed. You must have exposure to get sick.”

It has only recently been discovered that asbestos can cause disease if in-haled.

“By 1978 there were 6

million tons of asbestos in the United States that saved many lives,” said Patterson. “It was used as an excellent tool for fi re proofi ng and insulating material.”

Although an asbestos survey has been completed, asbestos has been in build-ings on campus for many years.

“Asbestos has been here on campus for a long time,” said Patterson. “It was fi rst discovered during testing about 25 years ago. Proce-dures for removal were set up and notices were sent out to students and faculty notifying them of the dis-coveries.”

Even though the asbestos on campus is not harmful

to students or faculty be-cause it is in unoccupied areas, steps are being taken to ensure everyone’s safety.

“At the present time, there are no particular areas where asbestos is particu-larly harmful,” said Patter-son. “If we are to discover an area where it becomes a danger to the public, we would have a licensed and

registered contractor come onto campus and remove the asbestos properly.”

Cuong La, a fourth-year biotechnology student, said he feels safer knowing there is no prevalent dan-ger to worry about.

“I had not heard about asbestos being on campus, but it makes me feel bet-

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GREG TOUMASSIANEditor-in-Chief

Get out while you still can

There is a lot of tension among students who are trying to get out of here as soon as possible.

Can anybody blame them?

There are good reasons why some students are in-tent on not having to spend an extra quarter – let alone an extra day – on campus.

One of the biggest issues is the cost.

At this point, one quarter could mean the difference between having to pay the fee increase approaching in fall quarter or escaping without having to shell out the extra cash, diploma in hand.

It will be the same edu-cation, just more expen-sive for those who stick around.

This doesn’t imply that a Cal Poly Pomona educa-tion is less valuable than an education from any other campus.

As with most elements in life, it’s what a person makes of it. However, for a school that was once an affordable alternative, the financial benefits are dwindling down.

Another benefit to get out of here as soon as pos-sible is the challenges that will come with an impact-ed budget.

For entering freshman, one can only wish these students luck and suggest that they speak with an ad-visor as soon as possible. The ride ahead may not be as smooth as it once was.

To those students who have a year or two left at Cal Poly Pomona, the changes will become ob-vious and act as a stark reminder of the economic climate.

That’s not to say the ride hasn’t had its ups and downs for the past few years.

As a person who will be stuck an extra quarter or two, it’s easy to get frus-trated over the whole situ-

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Asbestos is a known fi ber in building construction materials, including vinyl tiles. An annual report re-veals more than 50,000 square feet of asbestos containing vinyl tiles in Building 1.

Greg Toumassian / Th e Poly Post

Report confirms asbestos levelsERIN MOLL

Staff Writer

Taxing tobacco to fund cancer research

According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States.

In an effort to come closer to fi nding a cure for cancer, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Associa-tion of California and Ameri-can Heart Association have joined forces to put The Cali-fornia Cancer Research Act on the 2012 statewide ballot.

If passed, the California Cancer Research Act would increase tobacco taxes by $1 per pack and use the rev-enue to fund cancer research and tobacco prevention and enforcement programs. The current tax on cigarettes is 87 cents.

“The California Cancer Research Act will save lives and provide us with the fund-ing we need for research, education and enforcement,”

said Evan Saito, senior man-ager of the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.

The estimated revenue from tobacco tax on ciga-rettes and other tobacco prod-ucts is approximately $850 million per year. Supporters of the proposition estimate that if passed, the act will increase the funds from state and local sales taxes by about $600 million annually.

It is estimated that the ex-cise tax would then raise less revenue each year because cigarette consumption would decline.

“[The tax increase] is a good thing because it benefi ts smokers who want to quit,” said Minh Phan, a second-year aerospace engineering student at Cal Poly Pomona.

Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke cost $193 billion in health care costs and productivity losses annu-ally in the United States. Ac-cording to the American Can-cer Society, it also results in an estimated 443,000 deaths per year nationwide.

The American Lung As-sociation believes this tax in-crease is benefi cial for Cali-fornia because every year, nearly 40,000 people in the state die from tobacco-related illnesses.

If the act is passed, 60 per-

cent of the revenue will go toward research into cancer prevention and treatment, 20 percent will fund tobacco control programs, 15 percent will pay for research facili-ties and equipment, 3 percent will be used for tobacco law enforcement and the last 2 percent will pay for adminis-tration.

“All funds will be con-trolled by a nine-member citizens oversight commit-tee, chosen from among California’s leading medical schools, advocates for the prevention of tobacco-related illnesses and cancer survi-vors themselves,” said Janice Chow-Ng, community mis-sion manager of the Ameri-can Cancer Society.

Although the associations supporting the California Cancer Research Act believe increased funding for tobacco control programs will help more smokers quit, some smokers on campus disagree.

“I think deciding to quit smoking is based on the smoker,” said Phan. “They can do it themselves [without state-supported programs] if they make that choice.”

Fourth-year Anthropology Student Karina Alexandra said she does not think there needs to be a state-funded program to get someone to

quit smoking.Supporters of the proposi-

tion believe increasing the tax on cigarettes may also motivate smokers to quit smoking.

If cigarettes become more expensive, this can also pre-vent non-smokers from pick-ing up the habit.

“This will especially [af-fect] younger smokers or younger people who want to start smoking,” said Alex-andra. “$1 is not much [to current smokers], especially when cigarettes are already as expensive as they are.”

Both Phan and Alexandra admitted to trying to quit smoking cigarettes at some point but agree that an in-crease in cigarette tax would not motivate them to quit.

Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the American Cancer As-sociation in 2007 showed that 20 percent of high school students reported current cigarette smoking while 8.1 percent reported frequent cigarette use; 25.7 percent of students reported use of other tobacco products. It is estimated that for every 10 percent increase in the cost of cigarettes, there is a 7 percent decline in youth smoking.

According to the American Cancer Society, all cancers

caused by cigarette smok-ing can be prevented. Lung cancer accounts for the most cancer related deaths in men and women. In 2009, an esti-mated 12,700 people in Cali-fornia died from lung cancer alone.

Although tobacco preven-tion is an important part of the act, the largest portion of revenue will support the research on prevention, di-agnosis and treatment of all cancers. More than 140,000 Californians are diagnosed with cancer each year, and one in four deaths is caused by this disease.

The California Cancer Re-search Act would generate nearly $600 million annual-ly for cancer research and an additional $150 million for tobacco control. This mea-sure would make the State of California the second larg-est funder of research in the world, behind only the U.S. federal government. The an-nual funding would exceed the current combined total of research funded annually by the American Cancer Soci-ety, Komen For the Cure, the Livestrong Foundation, and Stand Up 2 Cancer.

Saito said the new fund-ing would also triple the level of funding for the state’s

ANDREA VARTANIAN

Correspondent

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Organizations attempt to push an act to increase the tax on tobacco and use the money to fund cancer research

plans to enhance the engi-neering program by adding new programs.

“I have had a diverse educational background, and I would like to expand the research and graduate program at Cal Poly [Po-mona],” said Amouzegar.

Expanding the research and graduate program was also a goal for den-Boer, who said the new

programs would create a stronger pathway for stu-dents to advance in their careers.

“Research capabilities provide more chances for students to be involved,” said denBoer. “[These ca-pabilities] show a benefit for students’ success.”

Amouzegar considers research and graduate pro-grams to be valuable not

only for students but for faculty as well.

“It is important [to ex-pand the graduate pro-gram] because faculty can work with students who are more advanced in their studies,” said Amouzegar.

He said students can do different kinds of research and have that one-on-one interaction that is rare at the undergraduate level.

“Cal Poly [Pomona] cer-tainly has the capability and expertise to advance studies and open oppor-tunities for our students to take the next step and get their master’s degree,” said Amouzegar.

Amouzegar has many goals as the future dean but does not plan to put any in effect without discussion with his colleagues.

“This is the general plan, but of course I need to have a long conversation with the faculty, staff and students,” said Amouze-gar. “You can’t be a dean on your own; you are a

dean of the college with everyone, together. It is a team effort.”

ter knowing that we aren’t in danger,” said La. “As long as faculty are making students aware, then I feel safe. I think students would appreciate knowing about the safety reports.”

The reports’ fi ndings in-dicate there is little cause for alarm, but there are still concerns that asbestos is located on campus.

“You can get cancer from inhaling asbestos,” said Elaine Nguyen, a fourth-year chemistry student. “It still worries me to know that there is asbestos on campus because the prob-lem could become worse.”

If asbestos needed to be removed, it would be handled very carefully and safely.

“First, we would relocate occupants in the building where asbestos is being re-moved, seal the area with plastic, and use a negative air machine with a high-ef-fi ciency particle air fi lter,” said Patterson. “Contrac-tors would be monitoring the air outside the building

to ensure that no particles would escape the space, and the material would then be bagged and taken to a licensed disposal facil-ity.”

Patterson encourages

students to keep up to date with safety notifi cations so they are always aware of what is going on around them.

“People should follow safety e-mails and can even

check the Environmental Health and Safety website, located at www.csupomo-na.edu,” said Patterson.

Patterson added that stu-dent and faculty safety is important.

“Protecting students and faculty is our number-one priority,” said Patterson. “Safety procedures are in place.”

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This Week:This Week:

Speak. “It’s probably best that the Brown administra-tion didn’t go after the most vulnerable programs that can’t absorb the impact as well as the higher education system can.”

Both Stahl and Speak agree: Although it’s diffi -cult for the students to get classes and pay higher fees, it’s reasonable to cut higher education because Califor-nia citizens are not willing to increase taxes in order to help fi x the state’s major defi cit.

The situation makes it diffi cult for lawmakers to fi x the defi cit while funding all of the state’s programs

without added revenue from increased taxes. There is a want for the lawmakers to pull money from where it does not exist and fi x the defi cit.

Brown said higher educa-tion, unlike health care ser-vices, could withstand the cut better because it’s not tied up in federal mandates.

The California State Uni-versity system has experi-enced severe cuts in recent years. Brown said these budget cuts to the state’s higher education system would be fully sustained on his plan.

Speak said that higher ed-ucation would struggle with

the hit as Brown tries to fi x California’s major defi cit.

“With the budget cuts, I would expect fee increases again as well as class size increases,” said Speak. “There would be a lack of fl exibility when it comes to meeting work and class schedules.”

Professors from other public California state col-leges believe the new state budget will most likely result with students being turned away from Califor-nia State Universities and community colleges next year and may cause a raise in tuition for the University of California system.

“[In] the fi rst round of budget cuts last year [Cali-fornia’s higher education] managed to get by without cutting that much,” said Stahl. “There would have been massive layoffs for the faculty members and possibly more programs from different departments on the list to be considered for cutting. [Former] gov-ernor Schwarzenegger re-stored the funds though and the worst case scenario was avoided.”

A similar outcome where funding for California’s Universities were cut be-fore, was seen during Brown’s fi rst term of gover-

norship from 1975 to 1983.“The short run has to be

addressed in order to make the long run better,” said Speak. “The reality of the politics right now is that Brown cannot get a reboot.”

For many decades Cali-fornia’s three-tiered system of higher education was known as a model for af-fordability.

The Master Plan for Higher Education opened college to all state residents and helped the state grow both technologically and economically.

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Wednesday, Jan. 1912 p.m.Zotero Workshop:The library will conduct a free workshop on Zotero, an online bibliography application that allows users to collect, store, cite and share research sources.Wednesday, Jan. 198 p.m. Pomona Powerhouse Comedy Night:A feature of both

upcoming and seasoned comedians. Wednesday night at Scoreboard Bar & Grill.Thursday, Jan. 2012 p.m.International Law Presentation:The University Library will host an International Law Presentation, which will cover topics such as WikiLeaks, the environment, health and travel.

Friday, Jan. 219 p.m.Da Ill Spot:The Noise Academy, in conjunction with Daillspot.com, presents an event at Aladdin Jr. restaurant and Cafe 2, hosted by MC Prototype, MC EWOK One, Madd Doc, Namek & Arkyve. $5.

Friday, Jan. 216 p.m.Silverstein Concert:Emo/Hardcore/Screamo band Silverstein will be playing the Glasshouse with Pierce the Veil, Miss May I, The Chariot and A Bullet For a Pretty Boy.Saturday, Jan. 229 p.m.Senses: Hear it. See it. Feel it:Disc Jockeys will be

playing Hip-hop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, House and Rhythm and Blues music.$10 at The Drink at Fox Theater.Friday - Sunday, Jan. 21-23All DayTattoo and MMA expo:Models, tattoo and piercing artists will be on hand at expo. 10-12 scheduled fi ghts on Sunday, 1 p.m.Pomona Fairplex. $25.

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ation.For someone who made

an effort to adhere to the four-year graduation pledge, it became clear that it was a wonderful idea marred by limited class space for essential courses.

Is it the end of the world to graduate later than ex-pected? No.

However, it comes back to the issue of money.

With the cost of school on the rise, it may be wise to buckle down and do everything possible to en-sure an efficient academic schedule.

At this point, it looks like the most challenging aspect of graduating will be attaining the last few credits necessary to finish up.

Instead of taking a few electives and breezing through my last quarter, it will be a challenge to the end to get all the classes necessary to graduate.

The most ironic aspect of this whole situation is that as students rush to graduate to avoid the ris-ing costs of education, the job market isn’t look-ing any better for college graduates.

All these challenges do not go without merit.

For those who can perse-vere and continue to push on past these tough eco-nomic times, the rest of the ride will be easy.

Besides, it’s nice to be part of the generation that can say “When I was a kid, a college education wasn’t handed to you – you had to earn it.”

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successful tobacco control program, funded at only 18 percent of the level recom-mended by the U.S. Centers of Prevention and Disease Control.

Many revolutionary treat-ments have recently been dis-covered in cancer research. Additional funding needs to be generated in order for state research facilities and biotech companies to continue fi nd-ing new cures and treatments for cancer.

“The state does not have a program which supports the biotech companies,” said Jacob Parseghian, executive vice president of fi nance of Immunotech Laboratories. “Like any other biotech com-pany, we are desperate for funding.”

Immunotech Laboratories

is a drug development com-pany specializing in fi nding treatments for autoimmune ailments including cancer.

“[The treatment] is based on autoimmune strengthen-ing,” said Parseghian. “It al-lows the body to fi ght off the cancer by directing the treat-ment to the diseased cells. This is unlike chemotherapy, which kills everything off.”

The company has already conducted cancer treatment studies outside the United States, which have shown promising results. It is in the process of receiving approv-al from the Food and Drug Administration for using the cancer treatment in the Unit-ed States.

Immunotech Laboratories conducted a double-blind study with UCLA medical

researchers for early detec-tion of ovarian cancer. The preliminary results were 100 percent accurate.

“Project CanScreen’s tech-nology platform is based on its Inactivated Pepsin Frac-tion novel molecule,” said Parseghian. “This protein molecule, patented by the company, has a strong affi n-ity to bind with glycoprotein gp96 of a cancer cell’s mem-brane.” “Based on its novel peptides’ mechanism of ac-tion, it has the capability to act as a prescreen cancer de-tection biomarker as well as detect specifi c cancer condi-tions.”

Although the pilot study has produced astonishing results, the company needs funding in order to gain FDA approval, which costs ap-

proximately $3 million. As of right now, the company receives all its funding from private investors.

Parseghian believes the Cancer Research Act is a great measure, but lacks clear direction as to who will get the money.

“It’s not clear who will be qualifi ed. If there is no straight strategy as to how the money will be dispersed, this will not go anywhere,” said Parseghian.

He suggests a better alter-native would be a state pro-gram that matches the amount of money biotech companies invest into research or loan-ing money that would be paid back later. This is a program Michigan has recently imple-mented.

“By doing this, you’re

creating jobs and a complete biotech industry in Califor-nia,” said Parseghian.

According to the Califor-nia Research Bureau, a typi-cal biotech company needs between $250 million and $500 million to fund develop-ment until profi tability. This suggests that the revenue al-located from the California Cancer Research Act alone is not enough to fund cancer re-search to its fullest potential.

Parseghian’s involvement with cancer prevention and research is a personal one. He is a thyroid cancer survivor of more than two years.

He was diagnosed with cancer in September 2007 and was given four to six months to live. He traveled outside of the country and began receiving Immunotech

Laboratories’ revolutionary treatment in November 2007. By February of the following year, he was cancer free.

“That’s why I’m here,” said Parseghian. “This is the most noble cause I have ever been involved in.”

If the California Cancer Research Act is passed and more funding is available for cancer research, it is possible that more lives like Parseghi-an’s could be saved.

“Cancer cells are vicious,” said Mary Weaver, vice presi-dent of the Colleges Against Cancer club at Cal Poly Po-mona. “We can all very well end up having cancer one day, so fi nding a cure for all cancers is key.”

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raphy,” said Rowe. “I always go by feeling. I feel there is a photo there, I can feel it, I want to take that picture. If it’s an image that hits me, I react to it. That’s when I re-alized, ‘Hey, this is Zen I am practicing.’”

In the late 1960s, Rowe was teaching communica-tion and moving toward the visual spectrum of the cur-riculum.

Rowe’s professional ca-reer would springboard after a series of photos he cap-tured in Europe grabbed the attention of a book publisher.

Since then, Rowe’s work has been featured in text-books for Harper & Row, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. and Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Publishers. He has done work for numerous formats including advertising, maga-zines, catalogs, calendars and posters – to name a few.

He went on to fulfi ll a ca-reer in education and pho-tography, intermixing the two disciplines. He spent 10 years teaching at Cal State Dominguez Hills and has been at Cal Poly Pomona for 21 years.

His presence – both physi-cally and academically – has not gone unnoticed.

“I think he is everything that when I was a kid and

said ‘What does a professor look like?’ It looks like Dr. Rowe,” said Lorena Turner, communication professor and photo advisor of The Poly Post. “It’s that guy. From his hair to the way he dresses.”

Rowe said there is no ad-vanced planning in his ap-pearance, and if there was any calculation it would be in his academic approach.

“I didn’t set out to cre-ate an image,” said Rowe. “It’s kind of like my hair is untameable. You know, it has a mind of its own and it just does what it wants. I go along for the ride. I don’t think I have calculated any kind of an image except to try to be there for students, to try to understand what they need, to try to give it to them, work with them, improve them. That’s my style.”

Turner said Rowe’s sig-nature academic style and technique has left a lasting impression.

“Out of all the places that I’ve taught and all the places that I have gone to school for photography, he defi nitely has a very unique mark on photography and the way that he looks at it and ap-proaches it is very unique in terms of academic pho-tography,” said Turner. “He

imprints that on his students in a way that I’ve never seen before, either. That’s really positive and defi nitely some-thing to learn from as an edu-cator.”

Rowe’s philosophy of Zen and photography, along with his academic approach, came together in the COM 280 course, Understanding and Appreciating the Photo-graphic Image.

Eventually, his teachings would be published through Rocky Nook, with the re-lease of “Zen and the Magic of Photography.” The text is now integrated with the COM 280 course.

Rowe said the lessons behind the course and the book explicate the idea of photographic intuition rather than the technical aspect of photography – something covered in COM 131 Pho-tography.

The photography course relies on black and white fi lm photography. Although the analog technology is fac-ing severe competition from the digital realm of photog-raphy, Rowe said it is impor-tant to sustain the fundamen-tal technique.

“I fi rmly believe in keep-ing our black and white lab at Cal Poly [Pomona],” said Rowe. “Knowing [fi lm pho-

tography] helps you in Pho-toshop. It gives you back-ground as to the history of photography for almost 200 years of fi lm. You deal with a lot of the same things.”

While Rowe respects the analog medium, he does not shy away from digital pho-tography.

“It has been a revolution,” said Rowe. “Ninety percent of my work has been done in fi lm … that’s the way I have always worked. I guess it started in the late ‘90s early and 2000s. Boy, fi lm got clobbered by digital because digital got good.”

Rowe didn’t make the im-mediate jump to the new for-mat; he waited until digital rivaled fi lm in early 2000.

Regardless of the techni-cal aspect, Rowe’s Zen ap-proach goes beyond photog-raphy.

“Enjoy what you are doing now,” Rowe said. “Don’t put off living, because all of us do that. I did it. I try to now enjoy what I am doing at the time – not thinking about the next thing where I will be happy or unhappy. Try to get into the moment and get the full enjoyment.”

Wayne Rowe has been teaching students photogra-phy at Cal Poly Pomona since 1990.

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For Shirley Wu, there is more to life than wor-rying about getting to class on time or hanging out at the trendiest areas.

Many people forget or are not aware of the ex-treme poverty people face every day.

Wu, a fourth-year chemical engineering stu-dent, is one person who has not forgotten.

She has taken the initiative to start the Pennies for Peace chapter at Cal Poly Pomona.

Her passion to help end global poverty start-ed after reading Greg Mortensen’s book “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School At A Time,” a chronicle of Mortensen’s mission to build schools in the most remote and dangerous regions of Afghani-stan and Pakistan.

Pennies for Peace is a program of the non-prof-it organization, Central Asia Institute, founded by Greg Mortenson in 1994.

Mortenson was inspired to start schools in countries where education is not offered to poor children when Westside Elementary School raised $623.40 to help him build his fi rst school in Pakistan.

The program is geared toward raising money for children, especially girls, in rural Afghani-stan and Pakistan. The main point of the program is to help others in need and educate people who are not impoverished.

Wu, an army veteran who was deployed to Iraq in 2008 as a medic, goes to different classes and club meetings on campus to raise money by shar-ing facts, statistics and her experiences with see-ing poverty.

The conditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan weigh heavy on Wu’s heart because it is worse than what she saw in Iraq.

“During Taliban rule [in Afghanistan] only 800,000 children were in school, and this is in the population of about 30 million, where half of

them are under age 18,” said Wu.There are 8.5 million children in school today,

and two million of them are girls. The female literacy rate in Afghanistan is 20

percent and 36 percent in Pakistan.Pennies for Peace member, Amina Razzak,

a third-year chemical engineering student, has been to Pakistan on numerous occasions.

“If a family is in poverty it generally affects everyone,” Razzak said. “It’s sad to see a little kid who doesn’t have his limbs out in the street begging for money when he could be going to school. It’s sad to see, because of the culture, a girl is not allowed to get a higher education, and she’s told that she has to just get married and raise a family.”

Razzak is working with Wu to cater presen-tations to certain audiences. According to their research, giving facts to engineering students

would more likely encourage them to donate. Telling a story to social science students would have the same effect.

Pennies for Peace coin boxes can be found in the chemical engineering and political science buildings.

One penny is worth one pencil in Afghanistan and Pakistan; 15 pennies will buy a notebook for a child; a teacher’s salary is $2-3 for one day; and an annual salary is $600.

This past December, a donation of more than $100, donated by Cal Poly Pomona students, was sent to Pennies for Peace. That is equivalent to more than 10,000 pencils.

“We have a choice whether we want to work after school or continue our education,” said Mi-chelle Chebeir, a third-year chemical engineer-ing student and a member of Pennies for Peace.

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Press hard on the brakes as the fi rst corner approaches.

The anti-lock brake sys-tem shudders angrily but keeps the wheels straight and true.

Downshift two gears. BRAP! BRAP! The engine barks twice as

the computer automatically blips the throttle.

Ease the steering wheel toward the corner apex and gently squeeze back onto the gas. Too much throttle! The back starts to wander. The traction control light blinks furiously as the stability sys-tem works to bring the chas-sis back under control. The car straightens out and the automated lap continues … no drama … no soul.

Is all of the technology be-ing poured into modern cars killing off the soul of the sports car? In many ways, yes.

Let’s fl ash back to the sports cars of yore: MG’s, Triumphs, Datsun’s Fairlady roadsters and Fiat’s Spider.

These cars were about the overall purity of driving and were about as bare bones as possible. They were about the “bugs in your teeth, wind in your hair” sense of the open road.

Air conditioning? Put the top down. Power brakes, steering or windows? Who needs them?

There is something so inti-mate about the feedback in a manual steering rack and the act of rowing through the

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Staff Writer

money for less-fortunate children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The organizationhopes to help fund education – every penny counts.

Dale Christopher doesn’t appear to be any differ-ent than other Cal Poly Pomona students: He’s a 23-year-old studying histo-ry trying to graduate, and at fi rst glance, his only distin-guishing feature is a brown cowboy hat that looks like a prop from the “Indiana Jones” fi lms.

However, Christopher has proven he’s more than a typical Cal Poly Pomona student when his fi rst novel was published last Decem-ber.

His eBook “Heroes of Their Time” has just been published in paperback last

week. The book, published fi rst via Kindle, contains 631 pages (the eBook is 894 kb) and tells the story of Brune Kolvas, a young man who survived a massa-cre that took out his village.

His story turns into a journey of self-discovery that chronicles his new life in the king’s court and his quest to end a curse that threatens to darken the sun.

Though the plot is fanta-sy, Christopher’s infl uences are more diverse.

“I really like Mark Twain, even though I’ve always been a critic of his work,” said Christopher. “But then again, who isn’t?”

Christopher also admires science fi ction writer Piers Anthony, novelist Stephen King and fantasy writer David Eddings.

He also said the novel was “very much in the vein of Tolkien.”

Though he did add that he found J.R.R. Tolkien’s books “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings tril-

ogy” to be slow, ashamedly preferring the movies.

“School and writing’s been kind of my life,” said Christopher in regard to making the book. “I think I’ve always had a motiva-tion to write – I’ve been writing since I was a little kid.”

Christopher often took night jobs at Target and a masonry in addition to his education and found time to write in “the space between spaces, the hours between midnight and daylight.”

The process of comple-tion took him four years: three to write the book and one to edit it.

Christopher’s family was initially skeptic of his hobby.

“They wouldn’t talk about it for a while,” said Christopher. “But now that I’ve fi nished the book, they’re very impressed.”

His professors were im-pressed as well.

“I’m quite proud of Dale,” said John Lloyd, one

CPP student tells the story of a heroSee PENNIES/Pg. 9

Dale Christopher has written a fantasy-themed book that took him four years of work and dedication

JOE MARTONE

Staff Writer

Dale Christopher plans to write another book, a sequel to ‘Heroes of Their Time.’

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(Left to right) Third-year Chemical Engineering students Jeanaye Mason, Amina Razzak, Michelle Chebeir and Shirley Wu collect coins for Pennies for Peace.

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School and writing’s been kind of my life.

- Dale Christopherauthor and CPP history student

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Arabian horse library soon to house collection

On the eighth fl oor of a building in the middle of Wilshire, Los Angeles rests the Peniche Studio.

With nothing more than a few white walls, a window, a black couch against the far end of the room and a few black and white photos, the studio gives off a simple yet professional ambience to clients who enter through its doors.

The room has an air of anticipation as it expects its next client: singer , songwriter, and producer Ray J to come in for a photo shoot by Jorge Peniche, professional pho-tographer and owner of Peniche Studio.

Peniche, a 2010 graduate from Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in communication, is a prime example of the college’ s “learn by doing” philosophy.

His involvement in photography dates back to his high school years and carried on in college.

He is now a professional photographer who has shot photos for many musical art-ists such as The Game, DJ Skee, Nipsey Hussle, the Black Eyed Peas and many more.

With photography equipment prepped and ready to go, Peniche awaits the arrival of his next client and his upcoming photo shoot while still working on other projects he has lined up.

“For the past two months, I’ve been working on this project with my busi-ness partner,” said Peniche. “His name is Nipsey Hussle. He’ s an up-and-coming artist, and we just worked a whole viral

campaign entitled ‘The Marathon.’ The past two and a half months, we’ve been working on a book shot in all black and white fi lm, documenting his experiences.”

But getting to where he is now wasn’ t a walk in the park.

For example, he would be turned down when he went to other aspiring and thriv-ing photographers for advice.

Although his college experience has taken him down a few routes, Peniche re-alized what he wanted to do with his life and did what was necessary to achieve his goals.

Originally a computer science student, Peniche ended up changing directions and switched to communication to pursue a ca-reer that better complemented his person-ality and one that he passionate about.

“It wasn’ t my plan from the get-go,” said Peniche. “Like most college students,

I didn‘t know what I was going to do, [but] I knew whatever I apply myself to, I’d do it well and try to be the best.”

It’s not the easiest thing to make a name for yourself in an industry where everyone is trying to one-up the competition.

Luckily for Peniche, he knew the right people and had connections to publicize his work.

He befriended DJ Skee after being intro-duced by a mutual friend.

Through Skee, Peniche met hip hop art-ist The Game and managed to or ganize a photo shoot with him.

The shoot got Peniche started on the right foot and earned him a name.

Most importantly, he had the know-how and the skill to make his photography stand out from the rest of the crowd.

His projects and assignments for pro-fessional magazines, such as Acclaim and

L’Uomo Vogue, has given him enough cre-dentials that other publications ask for him by name.

But for all of this to be possible, Peniche had to learn a few things about the art.

In order to do so, he enrolled in a couple of photography classes taught by Wayne Rowe at Cal Poly Pomona.

Peniche developed a sense of respect for Rowe describing him as “really soft-spo-ken, really smooth and just chill and that’s just him.”

Although he had already shot for big name artists while at Cal Poly Pomona, Peniche still found the knowledge and experience Rowe had to of fer surpass his own and valued what he gained from him.

When people used to ask him “what do you want to be when you grow up,” Peniche never considered “I want to be professional photographer” as an answer.

“I didn’t have any specifi c profession in mind,” said Peniche. “I knew whatever I was going to do, I’ll fi gure it out in due time. The reason we live, the reason we continue to exist and to be happy , is to know that we have purpose.”

Peniche had high expectations of him-self and worked his heart out to make his dream a reality.

Despite the hectic lifestyle – working on projects that last months on end and clients scheduling and rescheduling photo shoots – that came with his career, Peniche took a moment out of his time to give a bit of ad-vice to those who want to pursue the career of their dream.

“Quality over quantity ,” said Peniche. “That’s the most important thing. Let peo-ple know why you’re dif ferent and why you’re cut from a dif ferent cloth. And let your words speak for itself, and if you want to do it at a professional level, start as early as possible and start building rela-tionships.”

An empty 500 square-foot section in Cal Poly Po-mona’s University Library located on the fi rst fl oor behind Starbucks will be transformed to house one of the world’ s largest Ara-bian horse collections.

The collection includes the original W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch Pa-pers, which contains bills, blueprints, letters, maps and photographs and pro-vides insight on how the Kellogg Ranch in Pomona was operated.

Cal Poly Pomona is lo-cated on what used to be W. K. Kellogg’ s Pomona Ranch, where Kellogg bred and kept his herd of Ara-bian horses.

When Kellogg donated his Pomona ranch and hors-es to the state of California, it was done with a provi-sion requiring the state to maintain the herd of Ara-

bian horses. Included in the donation was a set of Arabian horse books main-tained by the University Library.

Unlike other Arabian horse libraries, Cal Poly Pomona’s collection is mainly composed of print-ed material.

The collection contains registries used to record the lineage of Kellogg’ s Arabian horses, books that discuss the different breeds of Arabian horses that ex-ist and other research ma-terials pertinent to Arabian horses.

The library also has a sizable number of artifacts from the original Kellogg Ranch including gifts, memorabilia and trophies.

Because most of the printed material are rare and out of print, the collec-tion was taken out of circu-lation and moved into the library’s special collections where researchers could access the catalog.

In 1997, the collection was moved into the stables, and only 10 percent of the collection was readily ac-cessible to the public.

The collection will be moved again this year to a permanent home, which will be constructed in the University Library.

“It’s always [been] the desire to build a home for this valuable collection,” said Ray Wang, University Library dean. “W e have this wonderful new build-ing, [and] we also have some space in the ground fl oor of the library . So to-gether with the campus’ s colleagues, we made a proposal to [the] Kellogg Foundation.”

Construction of the $2 million W. K. Kellogg

Arabian Horse Library is scheduled to begin in March and is scheduled to open sometime in August.

Kellogg Foundation seed money will be combined with private funds to pay for the project.

Wang said the new li-brary will not only house the valuable collection, but it will also serve as a hub for researchers, students and Arabian horse lovers,

Construction of facility for antique books in the University Library will begin in March

KIRK HEMANS

Staff Writer

The Cal Poly Pomona University Library has an extensive collection of antique books on Arabian horses in storage in the staff access-only Compact Shelving section of the library.

Lina Bhambhani / The Poly Post

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AARON BAGAMASPAD

Staff Writer

Alumnus applies lessons learned from Cal Poly Pomona in his work as a professional photographer

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Jorge Peniche, professional photographer and Cal Poly Pomona alumnus, has shot musical artists such as Th e Game and the Black Eyed Peas.

Courtesy of Jorge Peniche

gears on a manual transmis-sion.

The whole existence of this car genre was to fulfi ll the needs of the adrenaline-seeking enthusiast.

This type of car wasn’t for everyone, and honestly, it shouldn’t be.

Technology seeks to transform the sports car into

a more utilitarian form of transportation.

Driving aids like traction control and automatic rev matching cater to those who lack the skills to drive a con-ventional sports car.

Heel-and-toeing, a skill only attained by the most diehard of enthusiasts, is a dying art at the hands of

modern innovations such as dual clutch gearboxes.

Anyone who has ever driven on a local freeway has encountered a sports car owner that is utterly incom-petent behind the wheel.

As more and more tech-nology removes the driver from the car, this unfortu-nate phenomenon will be-

come more commonplace. There is no debate that all

of these technological ad-vances are making automo-biles faster than ever before, but they come at a price.

The meshing point be-tween man and machine is drastically diminished.

All of these electronic nannies numb the sensations

associated with driving. Traction control, as unnat-

ural as it feels, has undoubt-edly saved many a driver from an untimely, end and anti lock brakes have been the saving grace of inatten-tiveness time and time again.

For those chasing tenths of a second around the La-guna Seca or the F1 greats

battling wheel to wheel at Monaco, maybe technology is the answer.

But for the average enthu-siast enjoying the thrills of a deserted back road, I’ll stick to the purity of the conven-tional sports car.

to meet and conduct re-search.

He also anticipates host-ing Arabian Horse Center events in the new library.

Wang said the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library demonstrates to the Kellogg Foundation that Cal Poly Pomona cares about its heritage and remembers the history of the university’s founda-tion.

“It’s a way of saying ‘thank you’ to the Kellogg family,” said Wang.

For information on the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, visit www.csupomona.edu/~wkkahl or contact Special Col-lections Librarian Danette Cook Adamson.

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Wine and dine with the Collins College

With anywhere between 2,000 to 2,500 bottles of wine in stock, the Collins College of Hospitality Man-agement’s wine room has a type suitable for any pallet.

The wine room features two separate sections: one that the Restaurant at Kel-logg Ranch uses and a sec-tion used in the two wine tasting classes offered at the college.

When walking into the wine room, the fi rst hall-way-like room features the wine that is used in the Res-taurant at Kellogg Ranch.

A larger room around the corner stores bottles of wine used for classes.

Margie Jones, associ-ate professor at the Collins College, said the wine room is able to hold around 8,000 bottles of wine.

With so much wine be-ing consumed, the college needed a system to track the wine they sold and used throughout the year.

Lisa McPheron, director of communications and ex-ternal relations for the Col-lins College, said Jake Val-lens, a hotel and restaurant management student who graduated this past winter, began using a system track-er to keep “real time data on the wine collection.”

In the Collins College magazine titled Collins (produced by McPheron), an article tells how Vallens worked during the summer of 2010 in the wine room and inventoried the wine.

Not only was all of the wine inventoried, but the wines are now separated into different spots, depend-ing on which day they will be used.

According to the Collins article, a second barcode has been added to the wine.

The college can scan and have information on hand

about the wine, such as food the wine can go with, vin-tage, region and taste.

This barcode also helps show how many bottles of a certain wine are in the col-lection. The college has an extensive wine collection, including its own brand of wine called Horsehill Vine-

yards.The school grows one

type of grape and has two fl avors of wine available under Horsehill Vineyard, Zinfandel and Rose Zinfan-del.

Jones said that the rose wine uses zinfandel grapes that are not as ripe and that

the grapes tend to ripen un-evenly.

The making of the wine is a joint function between Cal Poly Pomona agricul-ture students, who grow and cultivate the grapes, and the Collins College students.

Since the school does not have the licenses to

make the actual wine at the school, they use Jon McPherson, the master winemaker at South Coast Winery in Temecula, as the offi cial winemaker of the college’s grapes instead.

“Jon McPherson is very willing to work with us,” said Jones. “He’s very dedi-

cated to the best quality wine, and the results are lo-cal.”

Since the wine is not made on campus, students from the Collins College usually go on tours to the winery each quarter with their wine classes in order to witness the entire pro-cess.

The grapes used for the wine have a long history – the bushes are more than 100 years old.

“The grapes come from Rancho Cucamonga, which is a city that had a long his-tory of being one of the top wine making places before Napa,” said McPheron. “Developments and hous-es came and started be-ing built. Houses make the land more expensive [than] grapes.”

The grapes come from De Ambrogio Ranch.

When the ranch was shut-ting down due to develop-ment, Don Galleano (the third generation to own the ranch) chose the 400 best cuttings and donated them to Cal Poly Pomona in 2001.

Horsehill Vineyards is also an award winning wine.

The 2008 and 2009 Rose Zinfandel won gold in the LA Wine and Spirits Com-petition at the LA County Fair, and the Zinfandel won bronze.

“We would like to grow the acreage,” said Jones. “We have three acres of grapes right now, and ide-ally, we would like to have 10. It would be a good idea to branch out into other kinds of wine, but with the market, Zinfandels do bet-ter.”

Jones said if all goes well, the 2010 Horsehill Vine-yards will be out by Valen-tine’s Day.

RACHEL WINTER

Staff Writer

The college’s extensive wine collection contributes to both the Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch and Cal Poly Pomona’s popular wine tasting classes. Horsehill

Vineyards, the Collins College’s very own brand, boasts two award-winning fl avors: Zinfandel and Rose Zinfandel.

(Top) The campus wine library holds over 2,500 bottles and has room for 8,000. (Left) Cal Poly Pomona partners with master winemaker Jon McPherson at South Coast Winery in Temecula to produce and bottle the rose wine. (Right) A bottle of Horsehill Vineyards’ 2009 Zinfandel Rose.

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In the action-comedy “The Green Hornet,” director Michel Gondry and writers Seth Ro-gen and Evan Goldberg revive the talk show radio characters from the 1930s and 1960s television show with their unique brand of comedy.

While there were good performances by its actors and actresses and unique action sequences, the fi lm is overshadowed by the overuse of action sequences and typical situ-ational comedy.

“The Green Hornet” stars Seth Rogen, Jay Chou and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz.

The fi lm tells the story of Britt Reid (Ro-gen), a spoiled playboy who inherits his fa-ther’s newspaper after his death.

Soon after, Reid realizes how much he hat-ed his father for trying to control his life.

In the company of his employee Kato (Chou), Reid decides to behead a newly made statue of his father by his grave.

During a journey to the statue, Reid and Kato encounter and interfere with a group of muggers about to attack a couple.

Thanks to Kato’s martial arts abilities and Reid’s help, the two are able to save the lives of the two victims.

After realizing what a good job they did, Reid and Kato decide to become masked vig-

ilantes pretending to be bad guys who fi ght crime in Los Angeles.

After discovering and fi ghting crime as the Green Hornet, Reid realizes what his father meant to the city.

Having director Gondry on board gave the fi lm an imaginative look that went well with the action.

In one of the action sequences involving the Green Hornet and partner Kato, elements such as slow motion and highlighting the weapons being used showed Gondry’s ability to think outside the box.

The character of the Green Hornet is re-stored through the eyes of writers Rogen and

Goldberg, who are both known for their sexu-al/drug-driven comedies such as “Superbad.”

The fi lm’s dialogue differs from their other works because it has fewer jokes about sex and more jokes about what is going on around the characters, such as an attack of a gang.

“The Green Hornet” is more of a situational comedy, having the main characters in out-of-the-ordinary events and their processes of fi nding ways out of trouble. During a scene involving Reid and Kato going out as vigi-lantes for the fi rst time, they joke about what they are about to do, embodying the situation-al comedy genre.

While the fi lm had its weaknesses, it also

had strong points to it, including Chou’s per-formance.

Chou’s performance as Kato gave the fi lm what it needed: positive help that improved the fi lm.

Being Chou’s fi rst American fi lm, the actor shows off his multiple talents, such as martial arts, singing and acting.

Because of the typical situational comedy and redundant action sequences, “The Green Hornet” can be skipped and rented instead.

Rating: 3/5

9The Poly Post www.thepolypost.comTUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011

“And these kids want to learn but they don’t have much [resources] to be able to.”

Chebeir met Wu and Raz-zak while attending her chemical engineering class-es and they came together last fall to form Pennies for

Peace at Cal Poly Pomona.Sally Kandah, a second-

year biology student, has been friends with Chebeir since high school. Kandah is the chair for Associated Student, Inc B.E.A.T.

Kandah, along with Wu, Razzak and Chebeir, is hop-

ing to show the fi lm “The Kite Runner” to Cal Poly Pomona students.

The novel-turned-movie, written by Khaled Hosseini, is about a boy who grew up in Afghanistan.

He left for the United States still in his youth and

then had to return to his country years later to help his friend.

The fi lm gives its audi-ence a glimpse of what people in Afghanistan have gone through and continue to go through.

“I wish for the world to realize that we are all broth-ers and sisters,” Kandah said. “Unity and love can

change the world. I wish for people to start thinking of others before thinking of themselves. We all need to realize that most evil in this world can end, starting with something as simple as a smile.”

Now that Pennies for Peace is on campus, stu-dents have the opportunity to change the lives of im-

poverished children: one penny at a time.

Students, faculty and staff may contact Shirley Wu at shirleywu@csupomona.edu for questions, donations and to request Pennies for Peace presentations at clubs or class meetings.

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‘Green Hornet’: sting lacks bite

ANTHONY SOLORZANO IICorrespondent

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(Left ) Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as crime fi ghting duo, Britt Reid and Kato, in Director Michel Gondry’s action-comedy ‘Th e Green Hornet.’

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With today’s release of “The King is Dead,” The Decemberists makes a successful return to its folk-rock roots – simple, indie and acoustic with help from some of music’s fi nest musicians.

Fans last heard from The De-cemberists back in 2009 when the band took on a new approach releasing the electric and concept-driven “The Hazards of Love,” deterring away from its uniform indie folk-rock sound.

In reference to the making of “The Hazards of Love,” The De-cemberists frontman and song-writer Colin Meloy said in the band’s press information, “Doing this album took a lot out of me, and I’m defi nitely curious what will come out now that I’ve got-ten it out of my system.”

What came next was The De-cemberists’ sixth studio album, “The King is Dead,” a beautifully simple yet musically rich compi-lation of folk, and at times, bor-derline country compositions, – capturing the true essence of the band’s musical abilities.

Since its 2001 self-released debut “Five Songs,” The Decem-

berists has released three studio albums under indie record labels and two on Capitol Records.

Although The Decemberists is now releasing “The King is Dead” as its third album under a

major record label, this fi ve-piece folk group has not lost its sense of true indie music.

Seven tracks on “The King is Dead,” including its fi rst single “Down by the Water,” feature

American folk favorite and Gram-my Award winning singer-song-writer Gillian Welch.

Tracks such as “Rise to Me” and “Don’t Carry it All” feature Welch’s soothing vocals, accentu-

ating those of Meloy to create a full and soulful sound.

Although its clever lyrics do speak to disastrous times, the mu-sic and vocals on “Calamity Song” with the help of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck are the furthest thing from a calamity, clearly drawing inspiration from Buck’s previous musical background with R.E.M.

Both drawing from nostalgia, “January Hymn” takes listen-ers back to heartbreaking winter days, while “June Hymn” warmly paints a vivid picture of a past summer.

The contrasting music and lyr-ics of these two hymns fl awlessly capture the two seasons’ cold and warm environments.

“The King is Dead” closes with “Dear Avery,” a bitter-sweet num-ber that focuses more on Meloy’s lyrics and the combination of his and Welch’s vocals than instru-mentation.

Through its combinations of harmonicas, banjos, fi ddles, ac-cordions, poetic lyrics and blues-esque vocals, The Decemberists have captured nothing but raw emotion and true musicianship.

Despite slight repetition on some of the tracks’ lyrics and slow tempos, “The King is Dead” showcases this band’s ability to turn the basic fundamentals of music into graceful and moving pieces of work.

Rating: 4.5/5

CECILY ARAMBULAStaff Writer

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Colin Meloy and company, Th e Decemberists, revisit their original sound with the band’s new-est release ‘Th e King is Dead,’ out on Rough Trade Records.

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BOOK: History student writes fantasy novelContinued from page 6of Christopher’s closest teachers in the history de-partment. “I think the nov-el, so far as I’ve scanned it, uses some historical el-ements. He’s blended his-tory and fi ction and we’re all very proud of him.”

The head of the depart-ment Amanda Podany was also beaming over Christo-

pher’s accomplishments. “Dale’s a great guy,”

said Podany. “The History Department is thrilled. No other history student has published a work of fi c-tion.”

Christopher chose to publish through Kindle be-cause, “It’s the new way of getting published.”

By releasing his work through Kindle, he’s found an outlet that connects him directly to his potential readers.

The fi nances are in his fa-vor as well – Kindle writers receive 35 percent of profi ts from eBook sales, whereas hardcover and paperback publishers earn 25 percent.

He preferred this route as opposed to dealing with publishers and agents, who he feels are only out to make money.

The book has been avail-able for over almost two months, and Christopher has made $105 as of this writing from the eBook sales.

“I’m not terribly pleased to be quite honest, but I’m glad the books are selling a little bit,” said Christopher.

When Christopher spoke of his favorite writers, Ed-dings in particular stuck out for him, and Christo-pher’s style does mirror that of his idol.

Eddings’ works were in-

creasingly serialized, and Christopher fully intends to continue his story.

“A trilogy is underway,” he said. “A sequel, ‘Siege of Stalwarts’ will be out by next summer.”

Decemberists return to folk roots

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Last month the Supreme Court agreed to consider tackling a sexual discrimi-nation lawsuit fi led in 2001 against the retailer, Wal-Mart.

If Wal-Mart gets away with discrimination this time, It will be years down the road before women get another chance to fi ght for their rights in the workforce

again.The Dukes v. Wal-

Mart lawsuit began when a 54-year-old California Wal-Mart employee decided to sue her employer claiming discrimination.

The employee said the discrimination was in terms of pay and promotion on the basis of her gender.

Wal-Mart was accused of preventing the employee and other females working for the retailer from getting

training that would allow them to get higher paying jobs.

But throughout the 10 years since the lawsuit was fi led, the confl ict between the single employee and the large retailer grew to in-clude more than 1.5 million women who were working for Wal-Mart across 3,400 stores in the US.

Today, these women are still being paid less than men for similar jobs and are

suffering by not being pro-moted as much as their male counterparts either.

The allegations against Wal-Mart have yet to be put to a trial, but the issues are left to the justices of the Supreme Court to de-cide whether the hundreds of thousands of female em-ployees working at Wal-Mart can join together as a “class” to be represented by a handful of named plain-tiffs.

Class-action suits are pretty much the only way for workers to receive jus-tice.

The women of Wal-Mart could never really win the lawsuit if they proceed with the anti-discrimination claims individually.

It’s really all left in the court’s hands to decide whether the women of Wal-Mart can stand a chance against the retail giant.

Letter to the Editor

VALERIE CHEN

Asst. Lifestyle Editor

My girlfriend and I have been dating since we wer e 16. After four years of se-rious dating, she cheated on me. She begged for forgiveness, and we start-ed dating again. For the past year , it’ s been back and forth. She wants to be single and date other guys, she doesn’t know what she wants and then she wants to be with me (and for me not to be with anyone else). She also has talked to and hooked up with people behind my back. I don’t know how much mor e I can take. I love her and can’t see my-self with anyone else. Am I holding onto something that’s not there? How can I move on and not get hurt anymore?

Everyone has his or her fi rst love. It is exciting and induces butterfl ies-in-your-stomach, especially at an age as young as 16 when relationships are new and unfamiliar.

But remember, you are in your early 20’s and still in-credibly young – there are so many people to meet, including another person to date and possibly fall in love with.

Although you may have fallen in love with your ex-girlfriend for a good reason, things can change. Unfortunately, she is not the same person you fell in love with.

Anyone who truly loves and cares about you is not going to treat you way she has been treating you.

It is not her lack of de-sire to be with you that is out of line. Rather, it is her insistence on stringing you along and continually giv-ing you false hope.

People are human and make mistakes. It’s inevi-table – no one is perfect.

It is up to the person who makes that mistake to learn from it rather than repeat it.

Thus, giving someone a second chance is fair, as long as the person is wor-thy of that chance.

When handing out chances becomes a reoc-curring and draining expe-rience, it is time to take a step back and evaluate if these distributed chances have a positive effect.

Not only has she cheated on you after four years of dating, but she also contin-ues to demean your trust – even after being allocated another generous chance and apparently unmerited forgiveness.

– Anonymous

A vicious cycle is hard to escape

See CHEN/Pg. 12

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2011 www.thepolypost.comCALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA

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Political banter too violentThe United States fi nds

itself amidst another tragic political event.

As a result, Representa-tive Gabrielle Giffords was shot and is now engaged in the battle of her life.

Prior to the shooting, Giffords’ congressional district was depicted on a political poster created by Sarah Palin.

The poster displayed crosshairs over 20 congres-sional districts in the Unit-ed States.

When Representative Giffords was asked her opinion regarding the post-er she responded, “When people do that, they’ve got to realize there are conse-quences to that action.”

The coincidence of the shooting and the poster’s existence is eerie to say the least.

Crosshairs have an obvi-ous and inherent associa-tion with fi rearms and vio-lence, and it is natural to draw a connection between the events of the shooting and the poster, but is such a connection valid?

Although no direct con-nection can be drawn to the solitary actions of a lunatic

and that of the Palin’s post-er, how toxic the American political environment is and the consequences of such can be assessed.

Since public uproar be-gan to surface, Saran Palin and her political action committee have been on the defensive.

Palin’s now infamous “Don’t retreat, reload” po-litical slogan has been re-placed.

Each side of the politi-cal continuum was quick to exonerate their connection with the tragedy.

Both parties were in a desperate search to fi nd feeble excuses to connect the other side directly with the tragedy.

Rather than grieve in uni-son and denounce the trag-edy, certain people have let their political stubbornness get in the way of the bigger picture.

Irresponsible political rhetoric in this country is detrimental and unproduc-tive.

There is no need for post-ers with crosshairs and slo-gans such as “Don’t retreat, reload.” Politicians should focus their attention on the issues that matter.

Politicians should not wait until another shooting to ad-

dress what is wrong regard-ing politics in America.

It should not have come to this – six dead and one congresswoman desperately clinging to life.

The events that took place are neither the fault of con-servatives nor liberals.

Neither side of the politi-cal spectrum wanted this to occur, but the sheer notion that a connection can be made and debated is alarm-ing.

Thankfully, events like the shooting rampage on Jan. 8

are rare. Americans can fi nd com-

fort and solace in the fact that not only is what hap-pened extremely uncom-mon, but when it did occur, it shocked and appalled us.

Americans have not be-come desensitized to horrifi c events.

As a country, we under-stand that when events par-allel the disconcerting nature of words, it is repulsive.

However, it is upsetting that the public spectrum has become so accustomed

to politicians spewing their spiteful political rhetoric.

Politicians are so con-sumed that they forget that words can have consequenc-es. These fi gures need to take responsibility for their words.

It is hopeful the events of Jan. 8 have led politicians to rethink their tactics and look deeply into what their rheto-ric means.

CARLOS AYALA

Correspondent

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Illustration by Aaron Castrejon/ The Poly Post

CSU’s mission of teaching must be protected The 18 percent ($500 million) cut to the

CSU comes after three years of cuts, with last year’s cuts around 10 percent and the previ-ous two years somewhat less. The accumulat-ed cuts amount to around 30-40 percent of the general fund budget to the university.

These cuts are partially offset by fee hikes for students that have increased 182 percent since 2002, but students get less for their fees than they used to.

They have trouble getting the classes that they need, and the ones they get are over-full, with the average class size rising and rising. Their professors and advisors are overloaded, so they have less to give individual students. Some administrative offi ces such as the Reg-istrar are under-staffed, so students get less prompt and even poor service.

Non-essential personnel must be cut before anyone directly involved in instruction.

In last year’s awful budget Cal Poly Po-mona executives did the very opposite of this and cut deepest into academic services, vig-orously defending the need to preserve their executive ranks when challenged on their bad policies.

The Chancellor’s Offi ce, which teaches no one anything, costs as much to run as a small campus. Administrators, though few in num-ber relative to faculty or staff, make a lot more money than faculty or staff.

Chancellor Reed, for example, gets a free house and car and makes more than twice what Obama makes.

None of the executives teach, though many of them are qualifi ed to do so. Send them back to the classroom, those that can and should teach, and abandon all their worse than use-

less monitoring, reporting, evaluating, sur-veillance, coordinating, planning, measuring, assessing, and other management projects they use to justify their existence, with faculty doing the actual make-work these executives generate.

The actual problem the state (and country) is experiencing comes from lack of revenue, not from bloated government programs.

Social and health services, the police and fi re departments are already at a minimum; infrastructure is dangerously ill-maintained; public services such as libraries, parks, muse-ums, department of motor vehicles, and other government offi ces are starving for fund-ing; public schools and colleges/universities are already teaching fewer subjects, offering fewer classes, laying off faculty and staff, and over-packing classes.

Unionized workers comprise 6 percent or less of the work force. Unions are not respon-sible for the budget crisis. Public employees likewise constitute a small percentage of the outlay of state funds. They did not create the recession.

Teachers do not make huge salaries or re-ceive giant pensions when they retire. They are not to blame for the economic situation. Tax cuts and governmental deregulation be-ginning in the 1980s for the very wealthy and for giant corporations led directly to the cur-rent budget crisis.

Cutting more from bare bones will not fi ll the state coffers. A few people would be hap-py to see government dwindle away to noth-ing and pay for everything out of their pock-ets; those people can afford it.

Why should rest of us buy into this terrible

scenario of more for the rich while the rest “can eat cake?”

We should tax rich people and corporations at much higher rates, just as they do in other advanced industrialized countries.

The U.S. is far outside the mainstream of industrialized nations with the largest gap be-tween the super-rich and the rest and not hav-ing fully publicly funded healthcare.

Families, students, and faculty need to make it clear through demonstrations and oth-er forms of public expression that our world-famous, excellent higher educational system must receive suffi cient revenue from the state, through taxation (e.g., AB 656), bond sale, and any other means at government’s disposal.

Last year a group of brave students were on the eve of a hunger strike protesting the budget cuts.

When word leaked out of their plans, Schwarzenegger hastily promised that he would restore the more than $200 million cut in last year’s budget.

The students’ strike shows the power of direct and/or collective action. Every dollar spent on California’s higher education pro-duces four times as much to the state’s rev-enue.

The goose that lays the golden eggs should not be sacrifi ced on the altar to greed.

Dennis LooProfessor of Sociology

Dorothy WillsProfessor of Anthropology

Women fi ght for their rights in the workforceJASMINE LOWE

Correspondent

See CLASS/Pg. 12

People love sugar and crave sweetness, so they are left to choose between the real deal or artifi cial sugars to get their fi x.

Although artifi cial sug-ars have gotten a bad rap because of rumors that they’re unhealthier than table sugars, they are actu-ally great alternatives for individuals looking to cut down on calories and avoid sugar-induced health prob-lems.

When table sugar is con-sumed, the body converts it to insulin. Insulin promotes the storage of fat, so when you eat foods that are high in sugar, you’re much more likely to gain weight and have elevated triglyceride levels. All of these condi-tions have been linked to cardiovascular disease.

Because there are numer-

ous artifi cial sugars on the market today, it’s impor-tant to know which ones are best.

The names of the fi ve U.S. Food and Drug Ad-ministration approved non-nutritive sweeteners are saccharin (Sweet n’ Low), aspartame (Equal), ace-sulfame potassium (Sweet One), sucralose (Splenda), and neotame (NutraSweet), according to medicine.net. These sweeteners are eval-uated based on safety, sen-sory qualities (clean, sweet taste, no bitterness, and that they are odorless) and stability in various food en-vironments.

One of the biggest woes for individuals skeptical about artifi cial sugars is the results from research conducted in 1977 which showed bladder tumors in male rats that had ingested Saccharin.

However, since then,

more than 30 human stud-ies have been completed and concluded that the re-sults found in rats did not translate to humans, mak-ing saccharin safe for hu-man consumption.

The reason for the blad-der tumors in rats may be a result of the amount of sac-charin given to the rats.

The dosage used was hundreds of times higher than “normal” ingestion for humans, according to medicine.net.

None of the side effects reported with artifi cial sug-ars have been confi rmed through scientifi c investi-gation, and they are abso-lutely OK in moderation.

Artifi cial sugars will not only save you hundreds of calories, but they can be helpful tools for indi-viduals looking to begin a healthier lifestyle and/or lose weight.

On the other hand, many

individuals who eat only or-ganic foods and are heavily focused on maintaining an all-natural lifestyle would probably prefer table sugar. Table sugar, sourced from sugarcane, is a completely natural substance.

Both artifi cial and table sugars are okay if con-sumed in moderation, but for people who struggle with weight problems and high blood pressure, artifi -cial is the best way to go.

If someone consumes three 12-ounce cans of Coke per day, he or she is ingesting a total of 117 grams of sugar and 420 empty calories –calories that have no benefi t to one’s health.

If this person had cho-sen diet soda instead, he or she would have saved all the sugar and calories and avoided a huge spike in blood sugar and insulin levels.

Both table and artifi cial sugars are viable options, but by choosing artifi cial sugars you will avoid weight gain resulting from high

sugar intake, sugar-induced headaches, and potential health risks later in life.

This case is so important because if the conservative Supreme Court dramatically narrows the criteria for de-termining what a class is, Wal-Mart will succeed and the victims of discrimina-tion in future cases will fi nd it even more diffi cult to fi nd justice.

Protecting Wal-Mart in this particular case will only hold women back in the fi ght for equality in the workforce.

As of today, there is still a wage gap between genders in the workplace as a whole – and there really shouldn’t be.

Women perform their du-ties just as well as men do in

the same positions. Women pay the same

amount for housing, utili-ties and food as men do, and women are not inferior to men.

And while single moth-ers get screwed over with less pay than single fathers, our “fi rst-world” country is completely fi ne with the fact that women earn only 77 cents for every dollar men make, according to the In-stitute for Women’s Policy Research.

The fi ght for equality should start right now with this case.

Right now, there is no limit on the size of a class, and I agree that there really

shouldn’t be a limit. The case involving the

women of Wal-Mart follows rule 23, which states that there is no confl ict of inter-est among the group and that there is a commonality in their complaints.

It’s not just a feminist idea that there shouldn’t be a wage gap between the gen-ders, but a civil rights idea.

There needs to be equal-ity in the labor force regard-less of gender, religion, race, sexual orientation or creed – and to be honest – I’m dis-appointed that we haven’t reached equality in 21st Century America.

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Having shared a long amount of time and thus, a vast amount of experiences with your ex-girlfriend, a relationship is bound to be diffi cult to let go.

It is easy to become emo-tionally attached to some-one when you let him or her into your heart.

However, by doing what-ever she wants to do with-out a second thought – such as being with other people while telling you she wants to be with you – your ex-girlfriend is being inconsis-tent and inconsiderate.

Furthermore, there is a selfi sh double standard: She can be with others, but you cannot.

It is time for the tables to turn – do what it is best for you.

No one deserves to have his or her feelings treated with absolute disregard.

Break the vicious cycle that she has created and you inadvertently encour-age.

It is not going to be easy, but time can eventually heal wounds.

In the meantime, keep busy. Enjoy the positive as-pects of being single, such as having more spare time and the freedom to do what you want to do.

Spend time with good friends and family, partici-pate in extracurricular ac-

tivities and focus on school, work and most importantly, yourself.

Put yourself out there. Step out of your comfort zone and refrain from mo-notony by visiting unfamil-iar places.

Take opportunities to meet new people.

Getting over an ex is never easy, but these are a few steps in the right direc-tion.

Don’t hesitate to ask me a ques-chen at formspring.me/askmeaqueschen or send an e-mail to opin-ions@thepolypost.com.

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ERIN MOLL Staff Writer

Photo illustration by Aaron Castrejon/ The Poly Post

Defense, effort and determination were the key components for a pair of victories this past weekend as the Cal Poly Pomona women’s basketball team beat Cal State Stanislaus, 80-57, and Chico State, 60-44, on Friday and Saturday night, respectively.

The Broncos extended their winning streak to four, improving their record to 9-2 overall and 6-1 in the CCAA. The Cal State

Stanislaus Warriors also plunged their record to 7-7 overall and 5-5 in the CCAA and the Chico State Wildcats dropped their record to 10-3 overall and 7-2 in the CCAA.

The Broncos moved from fourth place to third in the CCAA. At weekend’s end, the Warriors remained in sixth while the Wildcats fell from second place to fi fth in the conference.

The Wildcats proved themselves to be a physical and brutal team, with 29 fouls and a consistent player

like junior guard Courtney Harrison, who made 6 of 11 on her 3-point fi eld-goal attempts on her way to 19 points for the Wildcats.

Despite the brutality, the Broncos fought through bad calls, illegal screens and still put up good defense.

“The game was brutal,” said head coach Danelle Bishop. “It was physical and I think the way the offi ciating was, it was hard to adjust to. For the most part we kind of went ice cold, partly because [of] the physicality, especially in the second half.”

The Broncos trailed behind the Wildcats by four points in the fi rst few minutes of the contest but were able to gain back the lead, and consistently maintain it throughout the fi rst half. The Broncos fi nished the half leading, 34-21.

“That’s the best well offensive execution against another team that we’ve faced, so I think to hold them to 44 points, I’m pretty pleased with,” Bishop said. “During our drought, regardless of whatever reason the drought was for, we kept our composure and kept playing hard.”

Senior guard Reyana Colson earned 26 points, eight rebounds, two assists, and two steals against Chico State.

She surpassed the 600-rebound mark and is just fi ve points away from earning 1,500 points in her career at Cal Poly Pomona.

Colson now has 601 rebounds for her career as a Bronco.

“Colson got beat up

last night and she got beat up tonight,” Bishop said. “She’s still just keeping the team alive, hitting some big shots down the stretch. She’s a competitor and she’s fi erce and she’s going to fi nd a way to win.”

Senior forward La’kenya Simon West and junior Megan Ford earned eight and seven rebounds, respectively.

Despite an ice-cold performance from the fi eld in the second half, the Broncos made 18 of 26 attempts at the line, managing to outscore the Wildcats on free throws alone.

“They were knocking off shots but the good thing about it, we were able to get to the free throw line and maintain our lead,” Colson said. “Eventually, our offense began to fl ow, and we were able to extend our lead and make them lose hope.”

The Broncos beat the Cal State Stanislaus Warriors, 80-57, last Friday.

Ford hit a career-high 20 points and had eight rebounds as well. She also made 6 of 8 at the line.

Sophomore forward Rachel Porter pounded the glass for eight rebounds while Simon West and Colson each grabbed fi ve.

“We knew that we had to take advantage of one of the things we’re good at,” Bishop said. “We know that we’re a good rebounding team. Porter crashing the ‘O’[ffensive] boards was huge and just getting those second-chance opportunities that we eventually scored on was awesome.”

Overall, it was a

tremendous effort for the Broncos, as every player contributed to the game and earned points.

“I’m defi nitely impressed,” Bishop said. “But I think the natural coaching instinct comes out on the things we’ve got to get better at. I’m excited about the effort we gave. I think we fi nally shot the ball well, especially in the second half, which is something we have not been doing.

“There’s a lot of things defensively we’ve got to get better at, along with our free throws. We shot a lot of free throws, I know we won by a lot, but looking, trying to get better, we can’t afford to shoot 59 percent free throws.”

The Broncos will face the second-place Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes (11-1, 7-1) tonight at 5:30 p.m. in a crucial game at Kellogg Gym’s “Pack the Gym” event.

A win for the Broncos will not only knock the Coyotes out of second, but also bring the Broncos into sole possession of that spot, behind the fi rst-place Cal State Monterey Bay Otters (14-0, 10-0).

“We’ll get them,” Simon West said.

Cal Poly Pomona hits the road to face last-place Cal State East Bay (1-13, 1-9) and fourth-place UC San Diego (10-7, 8-2) on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.

Both games start at 5:30 p.m.

For the fi rst time this season, the Cal Poly Pomona reigning NCAA Div. II national champion men’s basketball team has won back-to-back games, beating the Cal State Stanislaus Warriors, 52-37, on Friday and the Chico State Wildcats, 82-68, on Saturday.

The wins brought the Broncos record to 6-6 overall and 3-5 in CCAA play. Cal State Stanislaus dropped to 5-9 overall and 3-7 in CCAA play and Chico State fell to 9-5 overall and 5-5 in conference.

While the Warriors and Wildcats each dropped one place in the conference standings to ninth and sixth, respectively, the Broncos climbed three places and now sit at eighth, making for the largest leap of the weekend in the conference standings.

“It feels good and we’re digging in a little bit,” said head coach Greg Kamansky. “We still got a lot of work to do obviously. Our effort tonight was great. The fi rst half was incredible.”

Junior forward Dwayne Fells, freshman guard Terrence Drisdom and senior guard Mark Rutledge all had double-digit scoring efforts in the 82-68 Chico State win.

Fells scored 20 points, including all six of his free throw attempts, to go along with fi ve assists, eight rebounds and a steal.

Drisdom had 15 points, making 4 of 4 at the line, and also had one assist, four

rebounds, one block and one steal.

“The coach said, ‘No matter how many shots you miss, you’ve got to believe that the next one’s going in,’” Drisdom said. “So I believed, so I was wide open, I took the shot.”

Rutledge scored 11, in addition to grabbing four rebounds and a steal.

The game’s second half was far more offensive than the fi rst half and showcased the Broncos leading by as many as 23 points with 18:47 to go in the game when Rutledge’s layup made the score, 45-22.

With 3:12 left to go in the game, however, a jumper by freshman guard Sean Park kicked off a 13-3 run, consisting of three 3-pointers, which cut the Broncos lead to 10 and made the score, 76-66, with 1:24 remaining.

Free throws by Fells at 1:21 left and all four of Drisdom’s cushioned the Broncos lead and brought it back into the teens, where it stayed for the rest of the game.

The game’s fi rst half was one of the Broncos best. They went 15-for-32 (46.9 percent) from the fi eld versus the Wildcats 9-for-29 (31 percent).

The game remained close for the opening fi ve minutes, but an 8-6 Bronco lead more than doubled when senior forward Donnelle Booker nailed a 3-pointer with 14:30 left in the half to bring the score to 11-6.

Later, the Broncos gained the momentum with a pair of 9-0 runs. The fi rst of which

was highlighted by senior forward Tobias Jahn’s one-handed dunk with 9:40 left in the half, making the score, 21-9.

On Friday, the Broncos defeated the visiting Warriors of Cal State Stanislaus, 52-37.

“We’re starting to get a lot more confi dence in our defense right now and understand how hard you got to work for 40 minutes,” Kamansky said.

Fells led the way again with 10 points, four rebounds, one block and a steal. He was the only Bronco to score in double digits.

“Since Humboldt, our mentality has changed completely,” Fells said. “We know that we’re a good team when we play hard and stick together as a team and we pretty much brought that to this game as well and it showed in the second half.”

For the fi rst time since playing a handful of minutes against Simon Fraser on Dec. 18, Jahn returned to action. He fi nished with seven points, four assists, six rebounds, one block and a pair of steals.

The Broncos emerged in the second half, scoring 37 of their 52 points.

The second half was highlighted by Rutledge’s back-to-back 3-pointers and steal in just 40 seconds, giving the Broncos a seven-point lead and a score of 29-22 with 15:34 left in the half.

“I knew that if we just keep grinding out and keep stopping them, then we’d eventually score points,” Rutledge said.

The Broncos fi nish their home stand tonight at 7:30 p.m. against third-place Cal State San Bernardino (8-4, 6-2) during Kellogg Gym’s “Pack the Gym” event.

“We need to compete harder than the next team,” Kamansky said.

This weekend, the Broncos begin a four-game road trip, their longest one of the

season, playing the fi rst two games against last-place Cal State East Bay (2-12, 0-10) and seventh-place UC San Diego (9-7, 4-6) on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.

Both games begin at 7:30 p.m.

Two weeks ago, the Cal Poly Pomona baseball team announced former UC Riv-erside assistant coach Ran-dy Betten as its head coach for the 2011 season.

Last August, Betten’s pre-decessor Mike Ashman re-tired after 15 seasons as the Broncos head coach.

After a nearly fi ve-month search, Betten became only the fi fth head coach in the baseball team’s 51-year his-tory.

Among the sports of-fered at Cal Poly Pomona in one-on-one format as of now (baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer and volleyball), there have been 31 coaching changes among the six sports.

Not including Betten and women’s basketball team interim head coach Danelle Bishop, who is in her fi rst season with the Broncos, there have been 29 “record-ed” instances and opportu-nities to determine whether a new head coach can im-prove a team’s record.

While there are many fac-tors affecting a team’s re-cord from year-to-year such as the arrival and departure of star players, injuries and the caliber of competition a team faces, I would like to focus solely on the change of a team’s record from one year to the next after a head coaching change has oc-curred at Cal Poly Pomona.

In the baseball team’s his-tory, four coaching changes have taken place. In every case, however, neither the overall nor the conference record for the head coach’s fi rst season improved.

That’s right! Even the late John Scolinos’ fi rst season record with the Broncos in 1962 was lower than the last season of his predecessor, Barney Anooshian, in 1961.

Anooshian’s second and last season with the Broncos ended with a 24-11 record. In comparison, Scolinos’ fi rst season with the Bron-cos ended with a 20-17 re-cord.

In Scolinos’ last season in the Independent league in 1966, the Broncos went 26-14.

During his fi rst season in the CCAA a year later though, the Broncos win-ning percentage fell again.

While the Broncos fi n-ished two games above .500 with a 21-19 record overall, their conference record was two games below .500 (8-10).

Putting things into per-spective, when the Broncos won their fi rst NCAA Div. II national championship with Scolinos at the helm in

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Sports Editor

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Men’s basketball team wins at homeERIK CARR

Sports Editor

Bronco freshman guard Terrence Drisdom goes up for the layup against senior forward Mactar Gueye (left ) and senior forward Travis Vanderwaal (right).

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Sophomore forward Rachel Porter goes up for the off ensive rebound in Friday’s 80-57 victory against Cal State Stanislaus at Kellogg Gym.

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Correspondent

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1976, the Broncos were 40-27-1 overall and 11-7 in the CCAA.

Scolinos coached his fi nal sea-son with the Broncos in 1991, in which the Broncos fi nished 27-26 overall and 18-12 in conference.

Chuck Belk succeeded Scolinos in 1992 and fi nished the year 23-30 overall and 16-13 in conference. It was his only losing season of his four as the Broncos head coach.

Following Belk, who fi nished the 1995 season 32-29 overall and 17-15 in conference play, was Ashman.

In his fi rst of 15 seasons in charge, the Broncos fi nished 13-40-1 overall, including their worst season-to-season conference re-cord drop yet, going only 5-27 against CCAA teams.

Upon the conclusion of the 2010 season, the Broncos were 26-27 overall and 18-22 in conference play.

This season, as well as all fi rst seasons for all head coaches in any sport, will be a test for Bet-ten and will determine whether the Broncos will defy past history or

continue the trend of a fi rst-year baseball head coach’ s overall and conference records’ being inferior to those of the previous coach’ s last season.

For other sports at Cal Poly Pomona when a head coaching change occurred, win-loss records from one year to the next have fared better.

Of those 26 coaching changes, 16 resulted in improved records overall the following year for that team, including fi ve in men’s soc-cer and four in both men’s basket-

ball and women’s soccer.Out of those 26 instances, 25

of those occurred with the Bron-cos in the CCAA and of those 25, the CCAA record in the new head coach’s fi rst season improved 12 times from the year before while there were four times in which Bronco teams matched their con-ference record from the year be-fore.

Baseball is the only sport at Cal Poly Pomona which has yet to im-prove its records upon making a coaching change.

The odds are against Betten in his fi rst season, but that’ s what was said about the Cal Poly Po-mona reigning NCAA Div. II na-tional champion men’ s basketball team’s chances of reaching the championship game after it lost three-straight games at this point last season.

The 2011 season for the Bron-cos baseball team begins at 2 p.m. on Feb. 3 at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

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Colson has goals in the field of accounting

Senior guard Reyana Colson is 10th in total points (1,495), ninth in total assists (295) and fi ft h in total steals (194) on the All-Time Bronco leader boards.

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The name Reyana Colson is very recognizable within the Cal Poly Pomona com-munity.

The senior guard from the Broncos women’s basket-ball team is known for being a leader, an inspiration and hits the books as hard as she works out on the court.

So far this season, Colson has averaged 20.4 points, made 44.3 percent of her fi eld- goal attempts, 44 per-cent of her 3-point fi eld-goal attempts and played 31.3 min-utes per game.

“It’s amazing,” said junior guard Rosslyn Beard. “She works harder than anybody I’ve ever known. She’s just a leader in and out. Our team is going to be so different with-out her next year. I don’t even want to think about it.”

With such a desire, it’s no wonder this fourth-year ac-counting student’s name is now etched on the All-Time Bronco leader boards.

Colson has 1,495 points, 601 rebounds, 295 assists and 194 steals in her career at Cal Poly Pomona.

Colson is 10th in total points, ninth in total assists and fi fth in total steals on the All-Time Bronco leader

boards. “She’s an outstanding

player for one and anybody who comes and watches her sees that,” said interim head coach Danelle Bishop. “She’s very recognizable, very easy, very quickly. From that as-pect, I think any coach would be excited to coach a player who could do so many things well.”

With a player like Colson, who is dedicated, motivated and confi dent, it’s easy for one to assume she’s been play-ing basketball ever since she could walk. However, basket-ball wasn’t always her main interest.

“When I was younger, I just played,” Colson said. “I just kind of stayed active and was always doing something, but I think it was my brothers who would always push me. They would kind of punk me around so I knew I had to get better than them.

“Eventually, I would be out in the schoolyard or my back-yard playing, practicing all the time. I just grew to love the game and I’ve been playing ever since.”

Colson’s statistics each game continue to impress the crowds and her teammates over and over again.

“She’ll take over games, almost every game,” Beard

said. “When things aren’t go-ing well, she’ll be the fi rst one to regroup us and say, ‘Hey, we got this; we’re okay.’ She’s a leader with how she plays, but also just as a teammate. She’s pretty special.”

Since the beginning of her career with the Broncos in the 2007-08 season, Colson has started almost every game she has played.

She has been named “Ath-lete of the Week” 10 times since January 2010 by Cal Poly Pomona and continues to shine in school while con-sistently improving in her bas-ketball career.

“She is smart, very intel-ligent and works hard in the classroom,” Bishop said. “To fi nd such an outstanding ath-lete as well as an outstanding student exemplifi es the type of athlete we’re trying to fi nd here at Cal Poly Pomona.”

It may be love and basket-ball for Colson, but basketball doesn’t defi ne her. Although her basketball career at Cal Poly Pomona is coming to an end, the Compton native has a lot in store for her future both on and off the court.

“After college, I have hopes of playing overseas, playing basketball professionally,” Colson said. “If not [basket-ball], I hope to get an intern-ship after the season this year

in accounting because that’s my major and just start my career off from there.”

Regardless of her future, Colson is grateful for all who have made her Cal Poly Po-mona career what it is today.

“I’m going to miss the peo-ple,” Colson said. “Of course, [I will miss] my teammates, the coaches, and also the administration, who’s been good to me over the past four years.”

In addition to her achieve-ments as a basketball player, Colson’s legacy will also be defi ned by both her understat-ed leadership and humility.

“Aside from basketball, what makes her special is the type of person she is,” Bishop said. “She has this quiet confi -dence that I really think makes her teammates around her bet-ter. That quiet confi dence that you want to be around. She’s also really funny, but you have to catch it.

“I think a lot of people who have the capability and tal-ents she has might take it to their head, where if you just see her walking on campus, you wouldn’t think she’s the best guard in our conference. That’s what makes her most special. The fact that she’s so humble about it.”

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Gonzalez an athlete among the CCAA’s best

You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but third-year Sociology student Luis Gon-zalez, a forward on the Cal Poly Pomona men’s soccer team, is one of the team’s big-gest talents.

“Luis has an uncanny knack to score goals; the team has changed dramati-cally since he arrived,” said head coach Lance Thompson. “If he’s considered our best player and our superstar, you wouldn’t know it because he doesn’t have that prima donna attitude.”

Raised in a soccer-lov-ing family, Gonzalez often watched his father play the game and started playing soc-cer at age 7.

“I played for my hometown Long Beach, until I was 12,” Gonzalez said. “I’ve grown up playing forward, and it’s my goal to score at least once in every game.”

Although scoring goals is nothing new for Gonzalez, who was All-American at Cerritos College two years in a row, his talent surprises both his teammates and opponents.

“He knows how to fi nd the back of the net,” said team-mate Justin Valashinas, a senior defender and a fi fth-year business management student. “He is able to score when nobody thought he could, at any angle.”

Gonzalez, who fi nished the season with 12 goals, nine as-sists and a shot percentage of .203, was selected to the Third Team of the 2010 NCAA Div. II All-American teams. He is the second person in Cal Poly Pomona’s 27-year history to earn this selection.

Even more impressive was how Gonzalez’s season stacked up with the rest of the conference as a whole.

For the 2010 season, Gon-zalez led the CCAA in points (33), points per game (2.06) and goals per game (0.75).

Gonzalez also had the sec-ond-most assists (9) and as-sists per game (0.56) and was tied for second in goals scored (12).

In addition, Gonzalez fi n-ished with the fourth-highest shots per game average (3.69) and fourth-most game-win-ning goals (3).

In the category of shots, Gonzalez fi nished the season with 59, making him sixth in the conference.

Gonzalez said watching videos of his favorite soccer player, Ronaldo Lima, helps him prepare before a game.

“He motivates me,” Gon-zalez said. “I watch his videos and that makes me want to work harder, score some goals and play hard.”

Gonzalez has a habit of scoring goals, but one game in particular is his most memo-rable.

“[In a game] in junior col-lege, I scored the last three goals and gave my team the win,” Gonzalez said. “We had a 5-4 victory.”

Gonzalez, who comes from a Mexican background, may have had memorable games at Cerritos College, but he knew Cal Poly Pomona was the right choice for him dur-ing the annual Dia de Los Muertos celebration.

“When I was being recruit-ed, the coaches were show-ing me around campus, and I came at night when [Cal Poly Pomona] was doing the annual Dia de Los Muertos

celebration,” Gonzalez said. “That was one of the things I really liked about Cal Poly Pomona. I had never seen that anywhere before.”

Thompson is pleased to have Gonzalez on his team.

“He was the lead in scor-ing second year in a row and ended up being the National Player of the Year for junior college,” Thompson said. “He was a special talent and we feel very fortunate to get Luis to commit to Cal Poly, and we knew it was a big accom-plishment in our recruitment efforts.”

Gonzalez’s teammates were also thankful to have him on board this season.

“[Gonzalez] is really down to earth, laid back and easy to be around,” said teammate Ty-ler Reinhart, a senior forward and a fourth-year kinesiology student at Cal Poly Pomona. “What really impressed me was his ability to play soccer because I had never seen that before; he gave our offense a spark that has been lacking for a few years.”

After his last season at Cal Poly Pomona next year, Gon-zalez has hopes of playing professional soccer.

“I have one more sea-son here,” Gonzalez said. “I would like to play profession-ally anywhere in the United States.”

Thompson believes Gon-zalez has what it takes to play professionally.

“For most student athletes who play in college, it goes through their heads ‘I wonder if I have the chance to play in the next level,’” Thompson said. “Luis has the chance to do it.” Junior forward Luis Gonzalez led the CCAA in points (33), points per game

(2.06) and goals per game (0.75) last season on his way to being selected to the Th ird Team of the 2010 NCAA Div. II All-American team.

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