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Peet’s Coffee & Tea closing in Poly CanyonCal Poly’s contract with Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a coffee shop lo-cated in Poly Canyon Village (PCV), will expire in June, and the restaurant will shut down that month as well.

The contract originally ex-pired in December 2012, but Cal Poly Corporation ob-tained a six-month extension in order to keep the opera-tion open for the remainder

of the academic year, Mar-keting and Public Relations Manager Yukie Nishinaga said. Peet’s Coffee & Tea is not as popular as the other coffee shops on campus, so the contract will not be re-newed, Nishinaga said.

“We are taking this oppor-tunity to review and improve

upon the portfolio of food ser-vices offered in Poly Canyon Village,” Nishinaga said.

The Inter Hall Council con-ducted a survey among stu-dents living on campus in or-der to assess the type of food students would like to have in PCV. More than 1,500 stu-dents responded to the survey,

and it was clear that Mexi-can food was their top food choice, Nishinaga said. Based on previous surveys and data collected, students clearly expressed they would like a concept similar to Tacos To-Go, a food stand located near

SARA NATIVIDADsnatividad@mustangdaily.net A Tacos-To-Go style restaurant will take the coffee

shop’s place, Cal Poly Campus Dining officials say

Kick off your bootsASI bans boots, stomping at Chumash line dances

Remember to leave your cowboy boots at home and to not stomp your feet next time you are line dancing at Chumash Auditorium.

Cal Poly’s Country Line Danc-ing Club hosts six barn dances per year at Chumash Auditorium, but new rules put in place by As-sociated Students, Inc. (ASI) have banned stomping feet and wear-ing cowboy boots to the event.

After January’s event, the club received a call from ASI con-cerning video footage it had

received of the University Store’s windows shaking as

a result of the dancing and stomping taking

place in the audito-rium above.

“If you have ever been there (Chu-mash Au-d i t o r i u m )

when there are a lot of people, the floor does bounce up and down,” Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey said. “Part of this rule is to protect the structure of the building and the other part is to make sure the floor is not damaged.”

ASI and the club have partnered to create a set of rules that would keep the event safe within the fa-cility, said child development se-nior Olivia Giorgi, the club’s barn dance coordinator.

Giorgi said while some may be disappointed by the boot and stomping ban, the club is trying to maintain the integrity of country line dancing as much as possible given the new safety features.

“The vibe will be change(d) a little,” Giorgi said. “It maybe won’t feel as country to our active mem-bers, but change is a difficult thing, and our dancers and officers will make the best of this change.”

Though the officers anticipate that

MUSTANG DAILY STAFF REPORTnews@mustangdaily.net

Rush deferment may soon be policy of past

GREEK LIFE

Deferred rush, which bans freshman males from rush-ing any fraternity until win-ter quarter of their first year, may soon change. Adminis-tration and several student groups are in discussions to come to a compromise on the policy’s future, which was first enacted in 2010.

The policy was a reaction to the 2008 hazing incident that left 18-year-old fresh-man Carson Starkey dead from alcohol poisoning, Fra-ternity and Sorority Life co-ordinator Diego Silva said. At that time, it was decided that a deferred rush for cam-pus fraternities would help encourage safer greek life.

“I think Carson Star-

key passing away definitely caused the university to re-think their role with frater-nities and sororities on this campus,” Silva said, “and in the long run to create the best possible environment we can for our students.”

The deferment, which has been in effect for three rush cycles now, is an attempt by the administration to give freshmen more time to ad-just to the college life while simultaneously protecting their health and safety, Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey said.

“Deferred rush provides the ability for someone to mature into their identity as a college student and be less likely to make high risk decisions to

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Fraternity raises $5,500 for Aware Awake Alive

Cal Poly fraternity Delta Sigma Phi raised $5,500 for the alcohol awareness organization Aware Awake Alive at the fraternity’s golf tournament philanthropy Friday.

“(It) was awesome because it was about $500 more than last year,” Delta Sigma Phi president Sam Tearle said.

In a post-tournament awards ceremony, Aware Awake Alive co-founder Julia Starkey received the check and shared the story of her son, Carson Starkey, a Cal Poly student who died in a Sigma Alpha Ep-

silon fraternity hazing inci-dent in 2008.

The philanthropy event was put on by the active Delta Sigma Phi fraternity members as well as Cal Poly Delta Sigma Phi alumni, and was the second annual golf tournament to benefit Aware Awake Alive.

Delta Sigma Phi alumni chairman Jim Larson said the event, held at Monarch Dunes Golf Club in Nipomo, was a huge success.

“This weekend was gor-geous,” Larson said. “And at the end of the day, we were able to increase the donation to Aware Awake Alive.”

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Dexter Lawn.After reviewing students’

wishes and considering the retail space allocation and design, Peet’s Coffee & Tea will be converted into anoth-er Tacos To-Go restaurant, Nishinaga said. The existing Tacos To-Go will remain in its current location, but PCV will gain the luxury of hav-ing a Mexican fast food res-taurant in the area.

The plan is to open the new Tacos To-Go this upcom-ing fall quarter, according to Nishinaga. The new restau-rant will accept all forms of payment, including dining credits for students who have meal plans.

The fast food restaurant will serve Mexican food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and will even operate during late night hours — a change

from the original restaurant which closes at 5 p.m.

PCV resident and agri-business sophomore Sarah Marchetti only went to Peet’s Coffee & Tea approxi-mately once every couple weeks, and said she does not see the need for a coffee shop in PCV.

Though she likes the idea of a restaurant having late hours, Marchetti said she doesn’t think adding an addi-tional Tacos To-Go is a good use of space.

“Cal Poly should try to di-versify and get a new type of

food instead of another taco place,” she said. “I’d rather see a pizza restaurant or a frozen yogurt place.”

Computer engineering sophomore Max Kellogg is also a resident of PCV, and he has never even entered Peet’s Coffee & Tea. Kellogg said he likes the idea of hav-ing a restaurant-type food place in PCV where stu-dents can purchase a whole meal, but price is really his No. 1 concern.

“The type of food does not really matter to me,” Kellogg said. “Cost is my main con-

cern. Tacos To-Go is pret-ty cheap for being campus, but not as cheap as I want.”

Kellogg said he would rather see an affordable fast food chain on cam-pus than a new Cal Poly restaurant, or a re-edi-tion of one.

“Tacos To-Go would be an OK option,” Kellogg said, “but I’d rather see Taco Bell on campus instead.”

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Cal Poly should try to diversify and get a new type of food instead of another

taco place.SARAH MARCHETTI

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attendees will follow the rules, they, along with ASI, will at-tend the dance and make sure the new rules are obeyed.

“We want to keep our club charter and stay on good terms with ASI and abide by the rules they have set up for us,” Giorgi said. “For the first offense, we aren’t going to kick you out, but if it becomes a problem, you may be asked to leave the dance.”

The club officers eliminated more than 15 dances in which choreography specifically said to stomp or jump, Giorgi said.

Despite this new rule, there are modifications in place that will maintain the structure of the line dances.

“The ones remaining are all steps, but some people like to add flare, so they stomp,” Gior-gi said. “It is going to take our attendees remembering that it is a step and not a stomp.”

The club officers initially looked into finding another location, but the 300-person

capacity level and convenience for students without cars make Chumash Auditorium an al-luring location, Giorgi said.

“Chumash is the most fea-sible option for us on campus,” Giorgi said. “The whole point is to bring line dancing to campus for those who can’t make it to The Graduate. Cost and acces-sibility are major factors for us.”

The next barn dance will be held this Friday at 7 p.m. in Chumash Auditorium.

Hillary Kaiser contributed to this staff report.

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impress a group,” Humphrey said. “There are hundreds of other organizations that stu-dents can become affiliated with on campus.”

The opposition

The policy has created some controversy among Cal Poly fraternities, however, because it can hinder matriculation for freshmen into fraternity life. In addition, freshmen who may seek leadership roles within their new house miss the chance to run for a posi-tion their first year because of deferred rush, business ad-ministration junior and Theta Chi fraternity member Cam-eron Randa said.

“Some fraternities are on a yearly schedule and some are on an academic schedule and this helps determine when fraterni-ties decide to hold elections,” Randa said. “If it is between the end of fall or during winter, the freshmen miss out and are un-able to run for a position.”

Randa also said he doesn’t think all fraternities should take the fall for one’s bad decision.

“The policy was put into place in response to (Starkey’s) death, but it doesn’t seem fair to me, just because one frater-nity didn’t practice appropriate risk management,” Randa said.

The solutions

The various opinions aside, student life and leadership, fra-ternity presidents and the In-terfraternity Council (IFC) are working toward a solution ac-ceptable to all involved parties, according to IFC President and ASI presidential candidate Jason Colombini.

“Now we are in the third year (of deferred rush), and we are hoping that with the way the IFC has been moving, and the direction and change in the atmosphere of greek life, (that this) is the direction the administration wants to see in order to come to that compro-mise,” said Colombini, an agri-business junior.

The compromise will not only be between the adminis-tration and greek life, but also

between the different fraterni-ties, Humphrey said. While each of the fraternities and administration unanimously agree on abolishing the policy, they all have different ideas surrounding the best way to do this, Humphrey said.

Though the administration will come to a decision on deferred rush within the com-ing months, any new policy change will take two or three years to implement fully, Humphrey said.

To help out, some fraternities have volunteered to test out potential policies.

One possible compromise is a delayed recruitment, which would allow fraternities to be-gin recruiting in week four or five of fall quarter, an interme-diary between the old policy of recruiting during week two of fall quarter and the current policy of deferred rush, Co-lombini said.

Though there is current un-certainty with where the policy reform is headed, Humphrey said it is important for students to get involved with organiza-tions on campus, including greek life.

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Larson said the event started years ago with the tradition of a Delta Sigma Phi alumni golf tournament every year during Cal Poly Open House, which turned into a philanthropy event two years ago when some alumni suggested they use the tournament to benefit a charity.

“We always had a golf tour-nament, but two years ago we decided to pick a char-ity and support that,” Larson said. “The guys just stumbled across the Aware Awake Alive initiative that Cal Poly had picked up, and they said that they would like to make this the house’s philanthropy.”

Both alumni and the active members of the fraternity were involved in choosing which charity to benefit. Lar-son said they chose to collabo-rate with Aware Awake Alive because of its relation to Cal Poly and because they found the issue of alcohol safety to be pertinent to the fraternity and to the school.

“The partnership has turned out well,” Larson said. “I know it’s a really big deal at Cal Poly about Carson’s passing.”

Thirty golfers participated in the tournament itself, but Larson said that altogether, approximately 120 Delta Sig-ma Phi alumni participated in the philanthropy by donat-ing or attending the awards ceremony and barbecue fol-lowing the tournament.

“We had probably 120 or so alumni as well as broth-ers and guests,” Larson said. “The active chapter went out

and really managed to get some activity going from the local community.”

The tournament raised mon-ey by having a sponsor for each hole of the golf course. Most of these were local businesses, but alumni and active mem-bers were also involved.

“Each hole of the golf tourna-ment was sponsored by either a local business, Delta Sigma Phi alumni or active brothers,” Tearle said.

Larson said the Delta Sigma Phi alumni were happy to see active members taking this initiative for the benefit of the philanthropy.

“It was great to have them not just talk about it with their mouths, but to go out and actually sponsor one of the holes to make a differ-ence,” Larson said.

The nearly 30 sponsors were made up of mainly San Luis Obispo businesses, whose do-nations ranged up to $1,000.

“Of course, the money comes mainly through the local spon-sors,” Larson said.

Larson said the two larg-est sponsors, each donating $1,000, were the national Delta Sigma Phi fraternity or-ganization and Plante Moran Financial Advisors. In ad-dition, local establishments such as Novo Restaurant Lounge, Enzo’s East Coast Eatery and Campus Bottle Shoppe became involved through donations.

Larson said Cal Poly Presi-dent Jeffrey Armstrong was also invited to be a part of the event because he is on the Aware Awake Alive board of directors, but was unable to attend.

Tearle said the philanthropy was a success not only in rais-

ing money for Aware Awake Alive, but also for spreading the word of alcohol awareness.

“We do care about the cause and we do care about the issue and we do want to make a dif-ference at Cal Poly and in San Luis Obispo, as well as nation-ally,” Tearle said.

Tearle added that he hopes this support of alcohol aware-ness has an impact on Cal Poly’s greek system as a whole.

“It was really awesome to see ourselves come together as a fraternity,” Tearle said. “We just really want to prevent any other instances so that we can retain the standard of our greek life here at Cal Poly.”

Delta Sigma Phi philanthro-py chair Soroush Sedigh said the philanthropy was a step in tackling the issue of hazing in greek life.

“As a fraternity, we are a huge supporter of the Aware Awake Alive foundation,” Sedigh said. “Alcohol hazing should not be an issue and in our eyes, the Starkeys have done a great job raising awareness, and we just wanted to do our part.”

Sedigh said even with this year’s success, the fraternity is looking to increase its support even more next year.

“Five-thousand five hundred dollars is great, but it would be even better if we raised $10,000, so we’re setting that as our goal for next year,” Se-digh said.

According to Larson, turning an annual entertaining event into a philanthropy to benefit such a relevant cause has suc-ceeded in the past two years in terms of funding and awareness.

“Having a good time and playing golf was just a side ef-fect,” Larson said.

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MDnews 3Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Boston bombs: weapons of mass destructionMICHAEL DOYLELESLEY CLARKMcClatchy Newspapers

The Justice Department on Monday publicly charged Bos-ton Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with using a weapon of mass destruction.

In unsealed court filings that shed new light on what investigators think happened before, during and after the lethal explosions on April 15, prosecutors charged Tsar-naev with one count of us-ing and conspiring to use a WMD resulting in death. The 19-year-old ethnic Chechen, a naturalized U.S. citizen, also was charged with one count of malicious destruction of prop-erty by means of an explosive device resulting in death.

If convicted on either feder-al charge, Tsarnaev faces the death penalty or life in pris-on. He also faces the possibil-ity of state criminal charges, as well, in connection with

the bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 200. Massachu-setts has no death penalty.

“Although our investi-gation is ongoing, today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston, and our coun-

try,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a pre-pared statement.

In a ceremony Monday, the FBI turned Boylston Street — which had been considered a crime scene — back to the city. A bagpiper played as the flag that flew over the finish line during the race was presented to Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

The street won’t be open to the public until buildings along it have been inspected for struc-tural damage, city officials said.

The charges against Tsar-naev, filed under seal Sun-day, were presented to him Monday in his room at Bos-ton’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he has

been listed in serious condi-tion since his capture Friday. FBI officials said Monday that Tsarnaev was wounded in the head, neck, leg and hand after two shootouts with law en-forcement officers.

“The government will always seek to elicit all the actionable intelligence and information we can from terrorist suspects taken into our custody,” said Carmen Ortiz, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

At the same time, rejecting calls made by congressional Republicans, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the administration would not des-ignate Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant. The designation would have permitted addition-al interrogation of Tsarnaev, but Carney said it was unnecessary.

“It is important to remember that since 9/11 we have used the federal court system to convict and incarcerate hundreds of terrorists,” Carney said.

The weapon-of-mass-destruc-tion charge is rooted in a fairly broad definition of the term. Under U.S. law, a weapon of mass destruction may refer to a chemical, biological or radio-logical weapon of any size. It also may refer to a bomb, mine or rocket, or similar kinds of “destructive devices.” The statute does not specify a cer-tain number of casualties for a weapon to be considered one of “mass destruction.”

Video reviewed by investi-gators appeared to show the Tsarnaev brothers carry-ing large knapsacks as they walked along Boylston Street about 11 minutes before the first explosion. Further video and still photographs report-edly show one of the brothers slipping off his knapsack in front of the Forum restaurant and walking away. About 30 seconds before the first ex-plosion, Genck recounted, video shows Dzhokhar Tsar-naev appearing to talk into his cell phone.

The charges were unsealed in federal court in Boston shortly before the usually bustling city calmed for a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m., the approximate time of the first bomb explosion a week earlier. At Logan Inter-national Airport, passengers paused for about a minute.

“A few seconds after he fin-ishes the call, the large crowd of people around him can be seen reacting to the first explosion,” Genck recounted, while Tsar-naev “virtually alone among the individuals in front of the restaurant appears calm.”

The video then shows Tsar-naev leaving his knapsack on the ground and walking away, Genck said. Ten seconds later, the second bomb exploded.

Investigators subsequently determined that both bombs were constructed from pres-

sure cookers, BBs and nails, a low-grade explosive and a fuse. A search of Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Mas-sachusetts at Dartmouth un-covered clothes that resembled those seen in the videos, as well a “a large pyrotechnic” and BBs, according to the affidavit.

“The mayhem they created is unheard of,” Menino said at a news conference Monday.

The first of the funerals for

the three who died in the at-tacks was held Monday. Mas-sachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Sen. William “Mo” Cow-an, D-Mass., were among those who attended the ser-vice for Krystle Campbell, 29.

Boston University was to hold a memorial service Monday night for graduate student Lu Lingzi. The uni-versity has set up a scholar-ship in her name.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (above) has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and one count of malicious destruction of property.

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Today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week

for the city of Boston, and our country.

ERIC H. HOLDER JR.ATTORNEY GENERAL

Saying goodbye

Hundreds gathered for the moment of silence (below) in Boston, Mass. on Monday in memory of the three people killed in the bombings. The first funeral for victim Krystle Campbell was also held Monday. Funeral plans for the other two vic-tims have not yet been finalized. Massachusetts Institute of Technology will hold a memorial service for Sean Collier, the campus police who was shot to death in the midst of the manhunt this past week.

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MDarts 4 Tuesday, April 23, 2013

When Darlene Howard went through chemotherapy in Or-ange County, she couldn’t keep any food down — except fro-zen yogurt.

But when Howard tried fro-

zen yogurt in San Luis Obispo, she got sick.

San Luis Obispo’s frozen yogurt options were “way too laden with chemicals,” she said.

So, on Jan. 13, Howard opened Dlish on California Boulevard.

But what Howard didn’t

know is that San Luis Obispo’s hottest competition is its chill-iest confection: frozen yogurt.

San Luis Obispo, a city with a population of approximately 45,000, has six frozen yogurt franchises within 3.6 square miles. With so many options in such a small town, compe-

tition has emerged for busi-ness and, most importantly, brand loyalty.

Tart competition

Only 15 years ago, Bali’s Soft Serve Frozen Yogurt and Frog-gie’s Café were the only frozen yogurt shops in town.

In 2008, Yogurt Creations ex-panded its franchise to down-town San Luis Obispo.

A year later, Snofari opened in the Laguna Village Center.

With the additions of Tea-berry, which opened the last week of 2011, and Dlish, which opened just more than a month ago, San Luis Obis-po’s frozen yogurt market is getting crowded.

Fighting to be the cream of the crop

Half of the frozen yogurt op-tions are grouped closely to-gether downtown.

Yogurt Creations and Teaber-ry Frozen Yogurt are the far-thest apart. They are 0.1 miles apart — a two-minute walk, ac-cording to Google Maps.

The closest together are Bali’s Self Serve Frozen Yogurt and Yogurt Creations at 174 feet apart, a 37-second walk.

To stand out, each frozen yo-gurt shop has its own strategy.

Bali’s customers are typically families and locals.

Bali’s Self Serve Frozen Yo-gurt was the first frozen yogurt shop in San Luis Obispo, and its customers come “to support the original,” employee Chel-sea Busso said.

Bali’s relies on long-time customers for its survival, Busso said.

On the other hand, relative newcomer Teaberry Frozen Yogurt is popular with the col-lege crowd, owner Tom Sten-nett said.

“We have 60 to 70 percent college students,” he said. “I think they say that frozen yo-gurt buyers are 60 percent fe-male in general and we see a lot of females, but our average consumer is really just the av-erage Cal Poly student.”

Although Teaberry is a “fro-zen yogurt” destination, on an average night, out of 10 flavors, about two are frozen yogurt; the rest are soft-serve gelato or custard.

While Teaberry features gelato and custard, Yogurt Creations owner John Bolton said Yogurt Creations is

sticking with high-quality frozen yogurt.

The shop welcomes the com-petition, Bolton said.

“We notice the competition of course, but we let our prod-ucts speak for themselves,” Bolton said. “We’ll put our strawberry against any other strawberry flavor from an-other shop in a blind taste test, and I promise you, ours will come out on top.”

Yogurt Creation also stays relevant by carrying flavors that appeal to the city’s demo-graphics, Bolton said.

Bolton said Yogurt Cre-ations makes sure to keep Euro-Tart in stock for the college students.

“The crowds in San Luis Obispo are as urban as you get in a small town because lots of the students come from cities, so they have more sophisticated palettes,” Bolton said. “In stores like the ones in North County, we don’t carry Euro-Tart be-cause it doesn’t sell. But we know that if we took it out of San Luis Obispo, there’d be riots in the streets.”

New kid on the block

Outside of the nucleus of downtown, Dlish Frozen Yo-gurt on California Boulevard targets Cal Poly students too, owner Darlene Howard said.

When a competitor’s frozen yogurt distributer came into Dlish, Howard said, they told her she was going to fail.

“He said, ‘You’ll fail. I know what you need to carry,’ but when he went to the bath-room, I saw he was trying to snoop through my stuff and see what I use,” Howard said. “I didn’t want to carry the same yogurt that everyone else did in town.”

Howard pushes organic in-gredients instead.

“A cup of yogurt didn’t make me all, ‘Oh my gosh, I had this frozen yogurt and now I’m all better’ after chemo, but, for a moment, it made my day better,” she said. “And if I can help the students here feel the same way by giving them a better, healthier option than that stuff with chemicals, I’m go-ing to.”

The store’s proximity to Cal Poly’s campus — 0.6 miles from Alex G. Spanos Stadium — helps bring in students.

But Dlish is still struggling

to convert the college crowd, she said.

“Kids here are very loyal to their old favorites, and I don’t think they understand that ours is the healthier choice yet,” Howard said.

Blair Buckley, a commu-nications studies senior and self-described “formerly faithful Yo-Cré person,” jumped ship when she dis-covered Dlish.

Now, Buckley is a Dlish ad-vocate who tries to limit her-self to only coming in every other day.

The other side of town

Snofari Frozen Yogurt also sees its share of regulars, own-er Teri Williams said, and the store touts easy parking as its biggest asset.

“People are going to go to a yogurt shop because it’s con-venient, not because it’s got better yogurt,” Williams said. “We mostly all use the same distributors anyway, but we’re more convenient with easy ac-cess parking.”

Snofari on Madonna Road also fills the void for a shop on “this side of town,” she said.

But, although Snofari is outside of downtown San Luis Obispo, it is not exempt from competition.

Froggie’s Café, which has been serving frozen yogurt for more than 15 years, is just 3.6 miles from Snofari.

Froggie’s frozen yogurt is soft-serve, but it isn’t self-serve, owner Bev Pratt said. Patrons pay according to sizes, which range from the kid-size “ribbit” to the quart-size “toad.”

“On a Friday afternoon, Frog-gie’s is a hotspot,” Pratt said. “If it’s a hot day, after school, we can get a line out the door of parents and their kids.”

On thin ice

Though there are six frozen yogurt franchises in San Luis Obispo, the number of shops will soon increase.

Yogurt Creations is opening another location at Cal Poly in the Julian A. McPhee Uni-versity Union around June, Bolton said.

For fledgling frozen yogurt shops such as Howard’s Dlish, it looks like a rocky road ahead because, in the city of San Luis Obispo, there’s not much room left for dessert.

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MDarts 5Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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

Ever heard a song on the ra-dio that reminds you of the past, so you melodramatically turned to look out the window with one elegant tear rolling down your cheek like you’re a character in a movie?

If so, don’t be embarrassed — well, too embarrassed — be-cause I guarantee approximately 90 percent of the people reading this have done the same.

Music evokes emotions unlike anything else. I’ll be honest, if anyone saw me at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last weekend during Of Mon-sters and Men, they’d agree. That’s why music is actually used therapeutically, for both mental and physical ailments.

Music therapy is a process in which a therapist uses music’s physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual assets to help improve or maintain a cli-ent’s health.

According to the American Music Therapy Association, therapists “assess emotional well-being, physical health, so-cial functioning, communica-tion abilities and cognitive skills through musical responses.”

These aspects can be addressed through music sessions in accor-dance to the exact problem using music improvisation, receptive

music listening, songwriting, lyric discussion, music and im-agery, music performance and learning through music.

Individuals of all ages can be helped through this process. However, most specifically, people with metal health needs (especially anxiety or depres-sion), developmental or learn-ing disabilities, Alzheimer’s dis-ease, substance abuse problems, brain injuries, physical injuries and acute or chronic pain.

When I first heard about this, I wondered why I would waste my money on a thera-pist when it seems like the real therapist is my iTunes library. However, what happens in the sessions actually appears to be an incredibly unique and ben-eficial experience.

According to Boyer College of Music and Dance’s website, a musical experience of some kind is incorporated into each session in order to focus on what needs to be changed.

For example, improvisation is used most often on cli-

ents in order to work on spon-taneity, creativity, freedom of expression, communication and interpersonal skills.

“Improvising enables these cli-ents to communicate and share feelings with others, while also helping them to organize their thoughts and ideas in a mean-ingful way,” the Boyer College of Music and Dance website states.

The website also notes that composing music is an inter-esting aspect to the therapy, as it is used “to learn how to make decisions and commitments, and to find ways of working economically and within cer-tain limitations.”

By creating a song or music, an idea is put down on paper and emotions can suddenly be addressed. This has been found to be a good way to discover underlying fears or feelings.

By actually playing an instru-ment, physically disabled pa-tients begin to improve motor skills and coordination. By also reading sheet music, clients can improve in visual and auditory

motor skills as well.By learning to play an instru-

ment, emotionally disturbed children can also work on be-havior by finding an outlet to control impulsivity.

I’ve never been seriously emo-tionally disturbed, but through my experience learning to play the guitar, I’ve found a way to release any bad feelings or thoughts by just playing the in-strument. It not only gave me goals to focus on by wanting to get better, but I also found sat-isfaction and achievement by continually playing and growing as a musician. Just saying.

The most interesting aspect of music therapy, in my opinion, is the listening portion. Therapists use this with clients to soothe

them physically, emotionally, in-tellectually or spiritually.

Apparently, there is a reason doctors’ offices usually blast Enya and Norah Jones — in or-der to ease the stress.

According to an article by U.S. News Health, discoveries about neuroscience and brain imag-ery revealed exactly how music affects the brain.

“Beyond improving move-ment and speech music can trigger the release of mood-altering brain chemicals and once-lost memories and emo-tions,” Oliver Sacks, a noted neurologist and professor at Columbia University, is quoted as saying in the article.

Music has also been found to positively impact those diag-

nosed with Parkinson’s disease, as well as people who experience a stroke. The brain is attuned to respond to rhythmic music and “it’s thought that the music triggers networks of neurons to translate the cadence into orga-nized movement,” according to the U.S. News Health article.

“Slow rhythms can ease the muscle bursts and jerky motions of Parkinson’s patients with in-voluntary tremors,” Concetta Tomaino, co-founder of the In-stitute for Music and Neurologic Function in New York City, is quoted as saying in the article.

If you ask me, this is the perfect excuse to buy an Out-side Lands Music and Arts Festival ticket. Hey, it’s for mental health.

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Venezuela’s National Elec-toral Council declared Nico-las Maduro, the handpicked successor of the late President Hugo Chavez, the winner in the presidential election re-cently. But it was a victory in a compromised system that tilted the table in his favor.

Now Maduro must deal with an economy that is a sham-bles. He has no clear mandate and lacks legitimacy in the eyes of nearly half the voters.

The numbers are telling. In the October 2012 election, Chavez won by more than 10 percentage points. If the Elec-toral Council figures are ac-curate, Maduro’s margin was 50.7 percent to 49 percent. He got just 230,000 more votes than Henrique Capriles, the opposition candidate.

Capriles demanded a recount, citing more than 3,200 irregu-larities. Maduro initially agreed and then changed his mind. He was quickly certified as the win-ner. Protests, charges of con-spiracy and violence followed, resulting in eight deaths.

So who really won and who lost on Sunday?

LOSERS

Nicolas Maduro. Maduro let a double-digit lead in the polls slide out of his grasp, receiving 686,000 fewer votes than Chavez had in October 2012. Capriles increased his vote by almost ex-actly the same number. Maduro lacked the charisma, communi-cations skills and magnetism of

Chavez. He came across as a sub-stitute trying to channel Chavez. Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, Maduro’s rival within the government, is calling for “profound self-criticism.”

Hugo Chavez. His dying wish was for his supporters to vote for Maduro. Nearly 700,000 voters ignored his in-struction. Inflation forced the devaluing of the currency by 30 percent in February. The resulting price increases cost Maduro dearly. Chavez spent so much government money on the October election that he left Maduro with empty coffers in April.

National Electoral Council. The Chavista-controlled Elec-toral Council ensured that the rules applied only to candidate Capriles. He got four minutes each day on national television. Maduro spent hours on TV in-augurating government projects in thinly disguised campaign events. Although all campaign-ing was required to end on April 11, the council raised no objec-tions when every TV and radio station carried a Maduro politi-cal speech on April 14, election day. In previous elections, the results were released quickly because the vote is electronic. On Sunday, the council held the results for hours, raising suspi-cion of fraud. The council also refused to invite international observers to watch the pro-ceedings. Had they done so, the observers might well have vali-dated Maduro’s victory.

Pundits and politicians. Many interpreted Chavismo as poor people striving for political and economic inclusion. They saw

the opposition as the wealthy, the white and the powerful. That distorted vision was upended by the opposition’s 49 percent share of the popular vote. Those 7.3 million votes span the social classes of the country.

THE JURY’S STILL OUT

United States. The U.S. lacks leverage to affect the actions of the Venezuelan govern-ment. By not responding ag-gressively to Maduro’s cam-paign charges of conspiracy, sabotage and assassination attempts, it avoided becoming a foil for the candidate. The Obama administration is care-fully and deliberately calling for a “credible and transparent process” to “reassure the Vene-zuelan people of the (election) results.” Meanwhile as produc-tion of U.S. and Canadian oil has increased, Venezuelan oil has become increasingly irrel-evant for the United States.

China and Brazil. These two nations supported Chavez, and now they support Maduro. They believed that Chavez’s Socialist Party was the natural party of power in Venezuela and put all their eggs in that basket. This paid off during the 14 years of Chavez’s presi-dency with huge increases in Brazilian and Chinese exports to Venezuela and in Chinese access to Venezuelan oil. Now China and Brazil may wish to reconsider their policies.

WINNERS

Cuba. As far as the Cubans are concerned, what’s important

is keeping free Venezuelan oil flowing to Cuba. Maduro’s vic-tory, however tenuous, assures that, at least for now. A UC San Diego colleague who just returned from Havana reports that Cubans — from taxi driv-ers to government officials _ heaved a collective sigh of re-lief Sunday night. They dodged a bullet.

Venezuelan opposition. The opposition coalition surprised itself. Even though its candi-date lost, it won. A leader is in place. The opposition is well organized. Its factions bur-ied their internal differences. The call for a recount and the ham-fisted responses by the government will keep oppo-sition forces energized. Al-though it may be premature to assume that the opposition is on the way up and Chavismo is in decline, the opposition has internalized an important lesson: Elections are won not in Washington or at the Inter-national Court of Justice but in Venezuela.

Henrique Capriles. In re-sponse to the election protests, the Chavista leaders and their bully boys have displayed an essential thuggishness in the streets and in the National As-sembly. There is great poten-tial for things to go from bad to worse as Maduro and his team try to hang on to power but without the savvy and po-litical instincts of the departed Chavez. Capriles has called for his supporters to “take a break” and avoid violence. He looks like the statesman, while Mad-uro asks himself, “What would Hugo do?”

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Ashley Pierce is a political science freshman and Mustang Daily conservative columnist.

After a long day of classes I al-ways try to make it to the gym — that, or I eat my feelings. On the days I do make it to the gym, I spend my time flip-ping through the three major news outlets: CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.Being conservative, yes, Fox

News is usually my main choice (that Greg Gutfeld is hilarious) and during com-mercial breaks I flip to CNN and MSNBC. CNN, I admit, I only ever catch during the Piers Morgan block and all I’ve learned from him is that he hates guns. He really, re-ally hates guns. I think that’s the only thing I’ve seen him speak on besides an interview with a woman who escaped the Westboro Baptist Church (which I was genuinely in-trigued to hear about).While I generally agree

with Fox News’ points on is-sues, I can get just as agitated watching a Fox show as when watching MSNBC. Fox al-most always has a liberal and a conservative commentator to present the two sides to each argument, giving con-servatives another side to hear out. While their anchors may generally have Republican beliefs, both sides are almost always presented and there are independent and liberal anchors such as Bill O’Reilly and Shepard Smith.The Pew Research Center

did a study that found Fox News is 55 percent opinion

and 45 percent factual re-porting. CNN is 46 percent opinion and 54 percent fac-tual reporting (good for them — though their opinions can lean left). Last but not least, MSNBC came in with 85 per-cent opinion and 15 percent factual reporting.Eighty-five percent opinion.

That would be like Mustang Daily running almost en-tirely opinion columns and then pretending it was actual news. If MSNBC was openly honest with the public that its station was mostly opinion — and a liberal leaning one at that — there wouldn’t even be a problem.MSNBC, however, contin-

ues to consider themselves a “news” station, even when less than a quarter of its out-put actually contains factual information. The station’s an-chors deny their bias repeat-edly even with a slogan of “Lean Forward” which hints of progressiveness: a com-

mon liberal ideal.Political commentators can

surely lean any which way they please, but that certainly is not the case with the news anchors or reporters.I acknowledge that Fox News

has an inclination to lean con-servative and has its own bias, but at least its entire program-ming isn’t opinion-based. When opinions are given, Fox almost always has a liberal and a conservative expert on screen who give their argu-ments for both sides of the issue being discussed. Not to mention, Fox remains one of the only news networks that isn’t leaning left. I don’t blame Fox for making up for the oth-er channels by leaning a little bit to the right.Normally I wouldn’t con-

sider this particularly worthy of an article, but consider-ing the blatant attacks I see on Fox News every single day, I couldn’t quite resist the chance to share the findings of

this study — as I bet they will be reported on very little by anyone other than Fox.Know what you’re watching

folks, understand that some-times news stations aren’t giv-ing you the full story. CNN did the best in the study with only 46 percent of its programming being opinion (though with Piers Morgan as its primetime host, viewers may be gaining more left-leaning bias than MSNBC programming).I encourage avid news

watchers out there to flip through the channels, at least. If MSNBC is your cup of tea, more power to you. But dur-ing the commercial break, try to take in some O’Reilly, Gut-feld or Morgan.Some of you will take noth-

ing from this and forever find Fox News or Faux News (as people lovingly like to call it) the most vile, polarized, brain washing news station out there. But just know — the facts are showing otherwise.

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On the first day of practice for the Cal Poly women’s tennis team, jaws dropped. The team knew Louise Oxnevad could hit, but she could also play.

“She came in on the first day, and when the girls saw how she hit the ball, they all said, ‘Wow,’” head coach Damon Coupe said. “She has this hu-mongous game. We knew she could do some special things if she continued to work hard.”

Now playing as the No. 1 starter for the Mustangs, the lefty tennis star is a winner. And she’s been winning long before she even thought about

picking up a tennis racket.A native of Queenstown,

New Zealand, Oxnevad grew up hitting the ski slopes of the mountains where the well-known “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was filmed. By the time was 14, she was ranked as the No. 1 ski racer in her country.

“I started off ski racing when I was about 2,” Oxnevad said. “It was my main sport until I was about 14.”

But her mother played tennis, and one day, Oxnevad picked up a tennis racket of her own.

She was a natural.

A budding architect

After dedicating herself to

tennis and competing around the world, Oxnevad wanted to attend a school that would support her dream of playing professionally. But the tennis star also wanted to pursue a second passion.

Growing up in a family of architects, designing houses was all Oxnevad ever wanted to do. She committed to Cal Poly in large part because of the school’s internationally ac-claimed architecture program.

“It runs in the family,” Oxne-vad said. “I just love looking through magazines and look-ing at the model homes.”

In her final year of high school, Oxnevad attended a graphic school and even de-

signed a home for one of her parents’ clients.

But like most freshmen, the transition to college was some-what of a struggle.

“I had (what turned out to be) two of my easiest classes on my first day, and I started freaking out,” Oxnevad said. “I said, ‘I don’t know how to do this.’ It was only Pre-calculus and Introduction to Environmental Design. I had a real tough first quarter; I didn’t sleep much.”

But after learning to balance tennis and her workload, Ox-nevad began to see results on and off the court.

‘Give it heaps’

With each forehand and serve, she grits her teeth in pain. Oxnevad suffers from a shoulder impingement (when the bone and the nerve are too close together). But while she is playing with pain, there are more than a few of her teammates who can’t even do that.

This season, the Mustangs have seen more injuries than they thought possible.

“It’s been an absolutely freak season with injuries,” Coupe said. “In the 11 years I’ve been coaching, I’ve never had injuries like this before. Through it all, the team has just kept a great attitude. We knew our backs were up against the wall.”

But after competing in in-dividual sports her entire life, Oxnevad has embraced the team ideology that differenti-ates college tennis from other levels of competition.

“Louise came in really not knowing how to be a part of a team,” said Haley Kepler, a freshman on the team. “But she’s done a really good job of figuring out how to be a part of it. She’s such a sweet, comfort-ing person and she’s become one of my best friends.”

And when Kepler is pitted against an opponent in her match, it is not uncommon for her to hear Oxnevad yell, “Give it heaps!” from her own court in her thick Kiwi accent.

The transformation

When the women’s tennis team piles in a van to embark on a road trip, Oxnevad cannot wait until a Taylor Swift song is played on the radio. It’s not that she has a passion for the sing-er-songwriter, she just knows her coach hates it. Naturally, she always sings at the top of her lungs.

But while Oxnevad brings a playful attitude to the team with her vocal performances and a few obscure New Zea-land phrases, within the court’s lines, the women’s tennis player is unrecognizable, even to her closest teammates.

“On the court, she becomes a totally different person,” Kepler said.

But when you’re a fresh-man pitted against the highest ranked seed in every match you play, a transformation may be required.

“I hate losing; I take losing very hard,” Oxnevad said. “I was probably the most com-petitive child to the point it was almost embarrassing. I’m trying to handle that a bit bet-ter, but you can’t get pushed around out there, especially as a freshman.”

Now, the Mustangs are fin-ished with conference play, and they are looking ahead to the Big West tournament, which commences on Thursday.

Oxnevad’s parents are mak-ing the 13-hour flight to watch their daughter compete in a Cal Poly uniform.

And for the budding archi-tect, it’s just one more reason for her to want to win.

Oxnevad finds

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