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Brenna Swanston@Brenna_Swanston

Stephan Teodosescu and Evan Morter@steodosescu and @CPMustangSports

Shaun Kaumann

see XXYYXX, pg 4. see MEN’S, pg 10. and see WOMEN’S, pg 9. see PIRACY, pg 3.

Electronic music DJ Marcel Everett (XXYYXX) took the the main gym of the Recreation Center by storm this past Friday for a free concert.

The 18-year-old one-man show’s performance was slated to begin at 9 p.m. to a gym full of community members. >>

Both the Cal Poly men’s and women’s basketball teams took down rival UC Santa Barbara on Saturday night. The men’s squad used a career-high 17 points from walk-on Anthony Silvestri to take down the Gauchos in Goleta for the first time since 2007. The women’s team pulled away from UC Santa Barbara in the second half of their game at home as senior center Molly Schlemer scored a career-high 37 points and senior guard Jonae Ervin became the program’s all-time leader in assists at the 10:54 mark of the first half. >>

News... 1-3 | Arts... 4-6 | Opinion... 7 | Classifieds... 8 | Sports... 9-10

Monday, Januar y 13, 2014 Volume L X X V III , Number 27 w w w.mustangnews.com

NO DRINKINGGAMES

NO HARDALCOHOL

COMPLETEGUEST LISTS

Handle pulls, vodka shots and beer pong — these would no longer be frat party staples under a recently proposed greek event registration policy. The policy could be passed this week, but fraternity and sorority presidents are hung up on other details in the

document. For now, greek organizations are sitting indefinitely on social probation.

GREEK SHUTDOWN

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

DOUBLE-DIP: Men’s and women’s hoops defeat Santa Barbara

Big business, not university, tracks piracy on campus

@BrookeSperbeck7Brooke Sperbeck

Special to Mustang News

Every student hears it from resident advisors and the administration: If you use Cal Poly’s network resources for file sharing, they will catch you.

The reality is that committing intellectual prop-erty theft on campus is nearly as easy, and risky, as doing it from home.

Housed within the Higher Education Opportu-nity Act — a 2008 reauthorization of a 1965 bill designed to improve financial aid eligibility — ex-ists a provision that requires universities to devel-op policies against online theft. At Cal Poly, every student is required to agree to the university’s in-formation technology responsible use policy upon enrollment.

But do you know how Cal Poly tracks you online? >>

PREVIEW

PREVIEW

PREVIEWDAVID JANG | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

IAN BILLINGS| STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER JOSEPH PACK| STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

As negotiations continue over a proposed party reg-istration policy for Cal Poly greek life, fraternities and so-rorities are now in a balanc-ing act between rescheduling events and working to reach a compromise on the policy with administrators.

“Until an agreement is reached, all Interfraternity Council (IFC), Panhellenic Council, and United Soror-

ity and Fraternity Council (USFC) chapters are on so-cial probation,” Coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Life Kathryn O’Hagan wrote in an email to IFC, Panhel-lenic, and USFC council presidents on Friday.

According to the email, an organization on social proba-tion is not allowed to conduct any social activities within its own chapter, nor with any

other student organization.“The chapter may conduct

any other activity that is not defined as social (i.e. brother-hood/ sisterhood, community service, philanthropy, meet-ings, alumni events, etc.) Alco-hol will not be allowed at non-social events or activities,” O’Hagan’s email explained.

Four fraternity events were cancelled this past weekend because of the pro-

bation, IFC President and business administration ju-nior Domenic Hjerpe said.

One event affected by the probation was a “formal party,” scheduled for Friday by Delta Sigma Phi, Chapter President and nutrition se-nior Gear McMillan said.

“We were going to have something on Friday, and now we cut it and we’ve al-ready rescheduled it for next

week, but if that doesn’t work out, we’ll just keep pushing it back, and then it might just end up getting X’d out all to-gether,” McMillan said.

Panhellenic President and business administration ju-nior Danielle Durante said she wasn’t aware of any soror-ity events that had been post-poned or cancelled this week-end, because most sororities had events planned later in the

month or in early February.Biological sciences sopho-

more and Gamma Phi Beta member Molly Fraser said her sorority did not have to cancel or postpone any events yet, and that everyone has been “OK” with the pro-bation so far. >>

see SHUTDOWN, pg 2.

ZACH MAHER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

When Matt Yoon was study-ing journalism at Cal Poly, he starting making short videos in his free time, never affili-ated with the school.

Seven months after his graduation, Yoon is the man behind the university’s newest public relations tool.

Since the beginning of the academic year, Yoon has re-leased eight professional-quality videos highlighting the school’s most impressive accomplishments. Cal Poly’s interest in Yoon’s work can be traced to an effort to digitize the school’s public relations, add some aesthetics to pro-motional content and present subjects in a favorable light.

“They’re doing print, writing newsletters and emails, but ... their focus has now turned to, ‘How can we tell a story with video?’” Yoon said.

It all started just before Yoon’s graduation in June 2013, when his promotional

video for Cal Poly Athlet-ics captured the attention of school administrators.

When Yoon received word Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong lost a bet and had to wear Fresno State clothing, he jumped at the opportunity to get involved with a high-level project. Yoon reached out to Armstrong with the idea for a video, then recorded him performing poorly in the Rec-reation Center as a modern-day Samson, weak without his trademark Mustang apparel.

As Armstrong shed his Bull-dog clothing and donned a Cal Poly shirt and shorts, he was able to bench press 225 pounds and dunk a basketball.

Yoon said Armstrong was happy the video made him seem down-to-earth and approachable, and recom-mended other departments take advantage of the recent grad’s skills.

“He said he felt like he could be comfortable,” Yoon said. “He wasn’t a stiff; he was himself.”

The video attracted Cal Poly

Marketing and Communica-tions employees, who commis-sioned Yoon for other projects, such as the announcement of a live mustang as a new univer-sity mascot.

Yoon said he thought Cal Po-ly’s emphasis on promotional videos is an embrace of the digital era. People often have shorter attention spans when online, but can be reeled in by videos with quick messages and flashy graphics, he said.

The College of Science and Mathematics’ public affairs and communications spe-cialist Rachel Henry echoed Yoon’s sentiment.

“There’s a definite popula-tion that’s more likely to click a link and watch a two-minute video than to actually read the information in printed mate-rial,” Henry said. “Things are consumed very visually these days, and I think that’s the ad-vantage (to videos).”

Music senior Ryan Waczek, one of Yoon’s friends, often provides background tunes for the videos. The two plan to team up throughout winter

and spring quarters for more university-sponsored projects.

“I can’t talk specifically about projects that they want to do, but they want to have me around for the next year,” Yoon said.

While Yoon has been heav-ily involved this year, Cal Poly wants more videos than one person can supply. University spokesperson Matt Lazier said individual departments are responsible for creating their own videos, including hiring a videographer.

“(International, Gradu-ate and Extended) Educa-tion, their video went entirely through their office,” Lazier said. “They used their own in-dependent contractor.”

Henry hired a local com-pany called Red Canary run by Cal Poly alumnus Todd Peterson for the College of Science and Mathemat-ics’ video celebrating the unveiling of the Warren J. Baker Center for Science and Mathematics.

The $4,000 video was in-tended to show the college’s

gratitude to all the build-ing’s donors, Henry said.

“We wanted something that would show off the Bak-er Center to all the people who had helped to create it,” she said. “I think it was a very collaborative effort.”

While Yoon sometimes doubles as director and cam-eraman, Henry assembled

a team of professors to plan out the Baker Center video before enlisting Red Canary.

The video’s focus on how the Baker Center will im-pact students clicked with donors at a celebratory din-ner, Henry said. The uni-versity’s goal of producing effective, stimulating visual messages had come true.

“I think that at least in our sorority, we’ve found that we can do other things that don’t entail going to a fraternity par-ty off campus,” she said. “It hasn’t really put a damper on the students at large, since greek life is so small.”

USFC also did not have to make any changes to events because of the pro-bation, though President and agricultural business junior Edward Yanez said he would consider mov-ing USFC’s exchanges, which they call “twisters,” to spring quarter.

“We want to give these organizations time to plan out these events, and if we stay on proba-tion too long, we don’t want organizations to be having socials later on in the quarter when things are getting tougher in school,” Yanez said.

The probation came af-ter IFC, Panhellenic and USFC presidents were un-able to meet their dead-line on a finalized draft of the party registration policy Friday afternoon. Both Durante and Hjerpe said the chapter presi-dents of their organiza-tions still expressed con-cerns over the latest draft of the policy.

In a draft version of the policy obtained over the weekend by Mustang News, more details came to light about what’s be-ing discussed between administrators and greek leaders. Among the re-strictions would be a ban on hard alcohol and drinking games, as well as requirements that greek chapters register their parties and provide the names of every attendee one day in advance.

In order for the policy to pass, 75 percent of IFC

presidents must approve the draft, though Hjerpe would prefer all presidents approve it. Durante said a majority of Panhellenic presidents must also ap-prove it in order for it to pass.

As of Friday, Panhellenic unanimously agreed they needed more time to make revisions, as did a majority of IFC fraternities.

According to both Du-rante and Hjerpe, the most concerning part of the pol-icy is the section that de-

fines a “fraternity party.”In the ninth section of the

policy, a social event is de-fined, among other things, as “anything a reasonable observer would associate with the chapter.” Accord-ing to Hjerpe, IFC presi-dents were not comfort-able with the definition and wanted a clarification.

“That is a very broad term, and they did not feel com-fortable passing the policy with how it is currently written,” he said.

Another concern from IFC includes the clause that re-quires fraternities to report guests’ birthdays at social events, McMillan said. Though he thinks it is rea-sonable to require identifi-cation from students 21 and

older who want to receive wristbands for alcoholic beverages, asking for every guest’s birthdate seems “a little overreaching.”

“People don’t want to share their personal infor-mation, and it just seems very odd,” McMillan said.

McMillan said his biggest concern is being locked into an agreement where “there’s going to be no give.”

Because USFC presidents don’t meet the first week of the quarter, they had not

yet voted on the policy as of Friday, but are planning to this week, Yanez said.

Though he hoped a deci-sion would be made by the end of the week, Hjerpe could not give a firm esti-mate on when a compro-mise would be reached. He plans to meet with Dean of Students Jean DeCosta and O’Hagan tomorrow to fur-ther discuss the policy, he said.

McMillan said he thought Wednesday would be an ideal date to hear back from De-Costa about the revised draft.

“I feel like it was really reasonable,” McMillan said. “We didn’t radically change anything, just the wording, which in a legal document is everything.”

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Administration rolls out professional videos

LARRY PENA | COURTESY PHOTO

MOVIE MAN| Matt Yoon has published eight videos.

Shutdowncontinued from pg 1.

One quarter after the creation of the Cross Cultural Centers, the work in progress has re-ceived vast support.

This past summer, the MultiCultural Center (MCC), Gender Equity Center and Pride Center joined forces to become the Cross Cultur-al Centers, which officially launched in fall quarter. Al-though each organization maintained its indepen-dence and physical space, coordinators have made an effort to support all aspects of a student’s identity — a change that students, staff and faculty have responded positively to.

“The best part about the new change is being able to meet students where they’re at,” said Adam Se-rafin, an assistant coordi-

nator for the Cross Cultural Centers who works with the Pride Center, “being able to support students in all of their identities, not feeling like when a student comes to us — who’s looking for support, who’s looking for community — that we need to give them an A, B or C option. It’s more of an A, B and C.”

Cross Cultural Centers as-sistant director Erin Echols, who oversees and works with all three organizations, said they have streamlined their communication pro-cess with faculty, so they are able to provide their stu-dents with opportunities to attend Cross Cultural Cen-ters events. They have also collaborated with more clubs on campus, Echols said.

Under the previous sys-tem, some students may have felt like they had to check certain parts of their

identity at the door, Sera-fin said. For example, for a queer student of color, the student might feel like he or she had to choose one organization — the Pride Center or the MCC — and not the other.

Now, the focus has shifted.This past quarter, the

Cross Cultural Centers be-gan hosting events that the three organizations collabo-rated on, providing a chance for students to embrace all aspects of their identity.

Instead of each organiza-tion hosting their own so-cial each quarter, the Cross Cultural Centers hosted a “welcome back” social in Fall — which was “packed,” Serafin said. He said the event’s turnout was the most tangible evidence of student support for the Cross Cultural Centers, al-though they have received many positive comments from students and faculty.

“We really haven’t heard anything negative from anyone,” Echols said.

Want the full story? Read more at MustangNews.net

New Cross Cultural Centers met with wide support

Kayla Missman@KayMissman

COMBINED|The Cross Cultural Centers now includes three previously separate entities.

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75PERCENT OF IFC PRESIDENTS THAT MUST APPROVE THE

POLICY DRAFT

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Imagine standing on the top floor of a skyscraper and staring down at densely pop-ulated city streets — that’s what Cal Poly does when it’s looking for copyright in-fringement on its network. You would be able to see where people gather in large groups, but wouldn’t be able to see what any particular in-dividual is doing.

In actuality, Cal Poly has no way of detecting most of the violations its policies prohib-it on its own. But so long as copyright holders are willing to go after students without holding the university liable for copyright infringement, they may not have to.

Before the implementa-tion of PolyLearn, Cal Poly had no systems in place to prioritize the university’s educational resources over the rest of the Internet on its network. At the time, piracy was so rampant that students were unable to access Black-board, the academic resource management system Cal Poly used at the time.

“Before PolyLearn, students in residence halls had difficulty accessing the network because so much of the bandwidth was being used for file-sharing,” said Mary Shaffer, Cal Poly’s electronic and information technology policy and compli-ance officer. “So bandwidth throttling was put in place.”

Bandwidth throttling in-volves intentionally slowing down the Internet to help alleviate congestion and re-duce the risk of service out-ages. It also limits the amount of bandwidth users have to upload and download files, stream video and use file-sharing applications. Traf-fic over Cal Poly’s network is monitored by Information Technology Services (ITS) in conjunction with University Housing, but they can only see aggregate bandwidth usage.

While bandwidth-heavy peer-to-peer applications work more slowly on Cal Poly’s network, they are still usable. In addition, network equipment such as routers, hubs, switches, airports and internal and external network

connections like BitTorrent, Alliance and Waste are usable on the network without detec-tion. Unless a copyright holder sends a complaint to the chief information officer (CIO), or university staff finds a forbid-den piece of equipment, ITS and University Housing re-main unaware.

“We aren’t looking for the problem,” said Carole Schaf-fer, associate director of housing. “We are notified by the CIO when there’s a prob-lem, and only then do we lo-cate the offending student.”

How the university finds youEach notice of infringement includes an IP address that ITS uses to locate the offend-ing machine and user. The user’s access to the network is then blocked and a notifi-cation is sent to the offender. The student is then required to meet with either University Housing or the Office of Stu-dent Rights and Responsibili-ties to demonstrate they’ve re-moved the infringing material.

Repeat offenders can be sub-ject to harsher penalties, in-cluding disciplinary probation, suspension or expulsion, ac-cording to Adrienne Miller, di-rector of the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities.

While Cal Poly is far from being a major piracy hub, it has received 520 official copyright complaints in the past three years from the likes of NBC Universal, HBO and the Motion Picture Asso-ciation of America (MPAA), Shaffer said.

“The RIAA (Recording In-dustry Association of Amer-ica) used to be our biggest complainant,” Shaffer said. “But with shows like ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Vampire Diaries’, music is less of an issue.”

Though no complaint has resulted in litigation or ex-pulsion, it should be noted that each violation was not discovered by the universi-ty, but by copyright holders themselves.

This is often accomplished through third-party digital rights management (DRM) companies that specialize in anti-piracy monitoring. These companies use meth-ods like torrent-trackers,

search engine removal and ad monitoring to disrupt illegal video on-demand (streaming) revenue models.

Most pre-litigation letters and take down notices are sent not by the copyright holders themselves, but by companies like these.

No safe harborAccording to a 2011 survey conducted by Princeton Re-search Associates and funded by Google, 70 percent of re-spondents 18 to 29 said they regularly engage in down-loading copyrighted material and only 52 percent believe there should be any penalty for doing so.

“I downloaded the second season of ‘Arrow’ because it wasn’t available on Netflix,” mechanical engineering soph-omore Kevin Jafarey said. “I’m already paying for a service, and since they didn’t have what I wanted, I shouldn’t be penalized since was forced to seek alternate means.”

But there are penalties. Recent decades have given copyright holders much more legal ammunition in the form of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Passed in 1998, the DMCA raised the penalties for on-line piracy, and made cir-cumventing access controls (cracking) a criminal offense, even if infringement hasn’t been committed. The law includes “safe harbor” pro-visions for Internet Service Providers, but universities don’t qualify for those pro-visions because they have what’s considered a “special relationship” with their stu-dents under current copy-right law. This means Cal Poly can be held liable for student piracy.

While it might appear the law would give the university an incentive to pursue student piracy more aggressively, it actually doesn’t. Developing written anti-piracy policies and forwarding infringement notices to violators is all Cal Poly legally has to do to shift liability to the student.

“We try to educate stu-dents,” Schaffer said. “A lot of this has to do with awareness. Ultimately it’s the student’s le-gal responsibility to know and understand when they’re vio-

lating copyright law.”Liability could still be an is-

sue for Cal Poly if current dis-ciplinary tactics fail to pro-duce positive results. But so long as the problem doesn’t grow and Cal Poly can show it’s in compliance with the DMCA, students will most likely be held liable, accord-ing to university legal coun-sel Carlos Cordova.

Are we all casual pirates?In 2011, the Netherlands-based DRM Company Irdeto acquired BayTSP, a copyright monitoring company head-quartered in Santa Clara, Ca-lif., that has done extensive research into piracy in Amer-ica. Using BayTSP’s research, Irdeto released what it calls the “piracy continuum,” a broadly defined spectrum of different types of pirates and why they steal.

Included in the continuum

are criminals, hackers, ca-sual pirates, frustrated con-sumers, confused consum-ers and consumers.

Unlike criminals, who steal for profit, or hackers, who commit theft for the raw in-tellectual satisfaction of being able to bypass online security, casual pirates steal for their own consumption. In addition to being the largest group, they are also the least likely to per-ceive any ethical wrongdoing.

Agricultural and environ-mental plant sciences senior Tommy Jue said he regularly torrents music, but doesn’t feel like he’s stealing.

“It’s not tangible, like steal-ing a piece of fruit,” he said. “The way I see music is that it’s not really a commodity, it’s something to be experi-enced and shared.”

Students at more than 80 universities have been sued by the Recording Industry

Association of American (RIAA) in the past 10 years, with many cases gaining na-tional attention. Casey Lentz, a 21-year-old former San Francisco State student was sued by the RIAA for down-loading 10 songs, which is seeking $7,500 in damages for each. At the time, the RIAA was suing so many students it had to set up a website just to help student infringers make payments.

Jue said he was familiar with some of the high-profile recording industry litigation, but he doesn’t worry because he only does it in modera-tion. Though Jue said he feels the occasional twinge of guilt, he said he’ll continue file-sharing.

“I don’t have a justification, it’s just that it’s free and eas-ily available,” he said. “Be-cause otherwise it costs mon-ey. Simple as that.”

Catch me if you canBig business, not university, tracks piracy on campus

Shaun KahmannSpecial to Mustang News

JOSEPH PACK | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

HACKING | Cal Poly has received 520 copyright complaints in the past three years.

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Minutes before the show, the main gym in the Recreation Center was a can of sardines. The venue was crammed — from the stage to the bleachers to the doors in the back — with loud, rowdy, dancing col-lege students. Thirty minutes after he was slated to take the stage this past Friday night, electronic DJ XXYYXX finally made his anti-climactic entrance.

XXYYXX stepped onstage, walked to the microphone and greet-ed his audience.

“It takes a very long time to get from Florida to Califor-nia,” he announced. “I learned that.”

He then flipped open his primary instrument, a Mac-Book. The laptop’s Apple emblem glowed white as elec-

tronic music filled the gym. XXYYXX hunched over the soundboard next to his laptop, frantically turning knobs and flipping switches and bobbing his whole body to the beat, while bass thumped through the floorboards and into the audience’s throats.

The DJ looked up from his soundboard and smiled at the crowd. Everyone was nodding their heads in sync with the music, many with closed eyes.Microbiology freshman Katie Laramore danced

enthusiastically on the sidelines with a group of friends. She had been listening to electronic

dance music for four years and was familiar with XXYYXX’s work.“It’s really fun to dance to,” Laramore said. “I’m ex-

cited to be seeing him tonight.”A few songs into his set, XXYYXX suddenly cut off all sound

and took the microphone again.“I have bad news,” he said. “Don’t be sad. I’m an idiot and I’m tired.

I’ll be right back. I have to go get my charger before my computer dies at the beginning of my concert.”

XXYYXX awkwardly left the then-silent stage and returned a few min-utes later, charger in hand, with some life advice for his audience.

“Don’t do drugs,” he said, after which he plugged in his laptop and resumed the concert.

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A new kind of musical enter-tainment will be kicking off this week downstairs in the Julian A. McPhee University Union (UU) this Wednesday. From 2 to 4 p.m., Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) is host-ing the first acoustic series that will feature solely stu-dent musicians.

“There are a lot of students who hang out, study and get Starbucks,” said Gage Mc-Ginnis, ASI events musical entertainment assistant and business administration se-nior. “We thought it would be good for students to be able to sit and enjoy some acoustic music, whether they are just passing by or sitting down and having a cup of coffee with friends.”

Student musicians who played at KCPR’s open mic during fall quarter were con-tacted about performing at the acoustic series this quar-ter. The first student musi-cian to perform is sociology freshman Nesrine Majzoub.

“I think it will be cool to have live music in the UU, switching it up, because there is always music playing, but it would be cool to have real music go-ing on,” Majzoub said. “It will be fun and hopefully brighten people’s days.”

Her stage name is Nesrine Faith. She recently released a five-song EP “The Summer in Between” on iTunes, with 50 percent of the profits pro-viding clean water to com-munities around the globe.

Majzoub has been playing instruments since she was young, under the instruction of

her two older siblings.“I started playing instru-

ments when I was younger, but then I ended up quitting because I got frustrated,” Majzoub said. “I picked all of the instruments that I used to play back up around mid-dle school and high school and I have been singing for as long as I can remember.”

Currently, she plays the acoustic guitar, banjo and mandolin. As much as she loves playing musical in-struments, writing her own lyrics is what she is most passionate about.

“Right now, I am kind of into singer-songwriter and indie folk, even if it sounds kind of cliché,” Majzoub said. “I am looking forward to explore new sounds be-cause I love working with other people musically. I am actually having a few other people play with me for the concert.”

Aerospace engineering freshman Zachary Davis is playing piano, harmonica and backup vocals with Ma-jzoub on Wednesday. The two musicians met in the residence halls.

“(Majzoub’s music) has a lot of emotional value to it,” Davis said. “A lot of the lyr-ics in her songs are story-based. It has an emotional message behind it, things that have actually happened in her life. I describe her music as really kind of eye-opening. Of course, the mu-sic behind it has really great flow, really deep resonating crazy fulfilling chords.”

Her lyrics and songwriting inspiration are molded not only by something that hap-pened in her own life, but by

various thoughts and creative ways that she views the world.

“Sometimes it starts with a metaphor I think of or something I see that is in-spiring,” Mazjoub said. “A lot of times, it is just about things that happen in life. A lot of it is also influenced by what I believe in and my faith. I think it is important that lyrics resonate with your audience and being able to spread a positive message through that.”

Not only will students in the UU get to experience Maz-joub’s original music that is on her EP, but she will also be doing acoustic covers of both older and popular songs.

“We are doing an acous-tic cover of Capital Cities’ ‘Safe and Sound,’” Davis said. “That’s one of my fa-vorite songs and to take an electronic song and to put an acoustic spin on it, it sounds really cool. I think that is going to be a lot of fun up on stage.”

Majzoub has performed at a variety of open mics, small shows, church gatherings and fundraising events. She loves the energy of playing in front of a live audience.

“I want to be able to spread hope and love some-how in other people’s lives,” Mazjoub said. “Whether it is through me being able to talk to them or being able to play music for them, that is what I hope for.”

While Mazjoub’s voice will be heard this Wednesday, two other student artists through-out the quarter will be playing to round out the series.

“I think (the acoustic se-ries) is a really cool, fun way to get students in-

volved playing music, es-pecially on campus,” Davis said. “When you have peo-ple like Nesrine and I, who really enjoy music and have been playing all of our lives, it gives us an opportunity to play for a lot of people.”

In all of the acoustic shows

this quarter, the music will be unplugged and raw.

“There is one thing that acoustic music has that elec-tronic doesn’t,” Davis said. “I guess it’s that warmth of the actual tone behind every-thing, because electronic mu-sic sometimes sounds kind

of harsh and cold. I like how acoustic music sounds warm, and all of the chords mix so well together.”

The other two acoustic se-ries performances will be on Jan. 29 and Feb. 19, fea-turing Alyssa Wigant and Kevin Hedgi, respectively.

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Unplug with ASI’s acoustic seriesKelly Trom

@kttrom

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“I want to be able to spread hope and love somehow in other people’s lives. Whether it is through me be-ing able to talk to them or being able to play music for them, that is what I hope for.”NESRINE MAJZOUB | SOCIOLOGY FRESHMAN

PRESS PLAY | Sociology freshman Nesrine Majzoub (above) will perform Wednesday.

Parker Evans is an eco-nomics senior and Mustang News music columnist.

Guitars aren’t cool anymore. The kids are picking up syn-thesizers instead of Stra-tocasters and rock’s main-stays have been displaced by dancepop and hip hop. Of course, rock has been un-der attack before and made it through to the other side, largely thanks to the cease-less work of its lord and sav-ior, Bruce Springsteen.

It wouldn’t be quite right to call High Hopes a return to form for Springsteen; his previous album, Wrecking Ball, was an underrated comeback aimed square at the heart of the Great Re-cession and much of that album’s spirit continues here, even if the themes are necessarily scattered.

High Hopes is a smorgas-bord of freshly recorded songs from the past decade

that never made it onto a full studio album. Most tracks are concert staples for Springsteen, whose live performances are still the stuff of legend, and the result is something in be-tween a fresh album and a collection of B-sides and covers. Many of the tracks might be familiar for seri-ous fans, but the effort and production put into the al-bum from start to finish make it clear that this is more than just an assort-ment of rarities or outtakes.

The massive opening ti-tle track leaves no doubt about The Boss’ contin-ued brilliance as a com-mander, deftly balancing the E Street Band’s punchy horns and energetic piano with collaborator Tom Mo-rello’s sharp, squealing guitar. Here and there, a lively choir pops up to back the gruff, familiar vocals, part of a holdover from the scrapped gospel project Springsteen was working on before Wrecking Ball. It’s a wonderful introduc-

tion to an album of creative odds and ends.

These tracks weren’t left out of the previous studio material due to any lack of quality, but because Springsteen (ever the vi-sionary perfectionist) felt they didn’t adhere enough to the albums’ themes. “American Skin (41 Shots)” was written in 2000 after the infamous police shoot-ing death of Amadou Diallo at the hands of NYPD offi-cers, but the song recently returned to Springsteen’s setlists after the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin.

Ultimately, High Hopes is a little bit too reliant on in-spirational Springsteen at the expense of the arguably superior frustrated Spring-steen and righteously an-gry Springsteen. The joy of “Frankie Fell In Love” is almost enough to make you forget “Rosalita” was more than 40 years ago, but Springsteen doesn’t let us forget he’s also the genius who penned “Nebraska.” On the sparse, somber Viet-

nam War memorial “The Wall,” he tiptoes on the line between melodrama and real pain.

High Hopes sags a bit in the middle, but it picks up with a new version of Spring-steen’s own “Ghost of Tom Joad” from the weak 1995 album of the same name. As it turns out, what the origi-

nal version was missing was Tom Morello, whose distinc-tive lead guitar lends the old song new life.

The album closes the same way his concerts do as of late — with a soaring, Springs-teenified cover of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream.” To hear it described, a Spring-steen concert is practically

a religious service and Pas-tor Bruce’s final call to ac-tion is a fine synthesis of his extraordinary career to date. As a fan, it’s a relief to hear High Hopes. The earnestness and soul never left, but the edge did, and to hear The Boss right again is to know that everything is right in the world.

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old Marcel Everett of Orlando, Fla. Only min-utes before his scheduled performance time, he sat in his small, designated lounge, devouring a bowl of potato chips, looking like any average teenager.

And, like any average teenager, Everett is not quite sure what he wants to do with his life. Having recently graduated high school, he is torn between going to college and com-

mitting full-time to his mu-sic, he said.

“I’m juggling both the idea of college and of music,” Everett said. “But I’m pret-ty sure I’ll be making music either way.”

After all, he was able to bal-ance his music career with his high school courses.

“Not that I ever showed up,” he said.

Everett began his musi-cal career at age 9, when he started playing guitar. He picked up piano at 12, joined his first band at 13 and en-dured his first band breakup

at 15. That year, he began dabbling in electronic music.

In the beginning, he put out his electronic music on Tumblr under the name “XXYYXX” simply because it was an available username, he said. Now, only three years later, Everett has made a mark on the electronic dance music scene, performed in venues as large as Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and has no intention of stop-ping here.

“I feel like making music is just a part of my person-ality,” he said.

Computer science junior Minnal Kunnan became fa-miliar with XXYYXX through other musicians of the same genre, so he attended the DJ’s Cal Poly concert.

Considering Everett’s young age, Kunnan was impressed overall by his performance, he said.

“I’m not the biggest fan of XXYYXX, but at 18 years old, I feel like he has huge potential and is doing pret-ty well,” he said.

Of all age groups, Everett enjoys performing for college students because they get

more into the music, he said.“When you perform at a

club, people are 26, 27,” he said. “They’re more con-cerned with how cool they are. They don’t really get down with the music.”

College students, howev-er, become more engaged with the performance.

“They’re younger,” he said. “They just want to do something and have fun.”

Everett has performed at University of San Diego, New York University and University of Florida, but he particularly looked forward

to performing in San Luis Obispo because he knew it was a fun college town.

“I wanted to stay and chill longer,” he said.

Although Everett had less free time in San Luis Obispo than he would have liked, he said the performance is al-ways the most important and enjoyable part of his trips.

“The energy bounces back and forth with the crowd,” he said. “When you have fun, they have fun. It’s dif-ferent than dancing alone in your bedroom. It’s a dif-ferent energy.”

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris-tie finally made a blunder. And he won’t hear the end of it for a long time.

After Christie’s top aides authorized a temporary closing of the George Wash-ington Bridge that connects New York and New Jersey, the media has taken aim at Christie. With evidence that the aides closed the bridge for political gain, Christie has been doing quite a bit of apologizing and explaining.

Because the bridge closure happened during election season and Christie was in full “campaign mode,” it’s entirely likely Christie had no knowledge of the closure. Still, no evidence has been found directly linking Chris-tie to the bridge closure. Christie issued a 108-min-ute apology speech on Jan. 9, stating innocence while pledging to get to the bot-tom of the situation within his administration.

The startling issue isn’t the bridge closure itself, but the media’s hypocrisy about the situation.

Christie’s bridge scandal directly parallels the Obama administration’s Benghazi scandal. However, most media outlets are quick to place blame on Christie over the bridge incident be-fore placing blame on Presi-dent Obama over Benghazi. American media’s left-lean-ing bias is another story in itself, but the Benghazi and “Bridgegate” events have been given incredibly un-even press coverage, espe-cially for their relative size and effects.

First of all, the attacks in Benghazi resulted in the loss of four American lives. The bridge closure resulted in hundreds of Americans maybe being forty minutes late to work. In the grand scheme of politics (and life), four deaths is quite a bit more important than a few days of being late to work. However, most of the main-stream media is not treating it this way. Whether it’s be-cause the bridge closure is Chris Christie’s first major

mistake or because Christie is seen as a major threat to the next Democratic presi-dential candidate, we may never know. But for now, the bridge closure coverage is out of control.

It’s also important to note that the Benghazi attacks were directly traced back to President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Both were aware of the situation as it was happening, but refused to authorize military ac-tion to protect the consul-ate. Unfortunately, that’s not enough evidence to sell the media on the mistakes made in Benghazi.

After each of these “scan-dals,” as the media has dubbed them, the responses by each politician are telltale signs of each one’s charac-ter. After Christie found out about the bridge situation and the news leaked to the media, he issued an apol-ogy. Christie didn’t blame Democrats. He apologized, promised to get to the bot-tom of it and moved on.

President Obama, on the other hand, didn’t stray much from his usual course. He blamed Republicans for trying to disrupt progress and undermine his adminis-tration, while failing to take

any responsibility for his actions. Clinton also contin-ued to deflect blame, even as she went through Con-gressional hearings over the attacks. Neither one would even concede the attacks were committed by terror-ist organizations until days after the event was leaked to the media.

Last week, the New York Times published a “tell-all” article on Benghazi. The ar-ticle conflicts with part of the Republican story, but also conflicts with Presi-dent Obama’s version of the Benghazi attacks. It’s tough to know if we’ll ever know the true story of what hap-pened in Benghazi.

Another hypocrisy of the parallelism between Benghazi and “Bridgegate” comes from the New Jersey Assembly. Many Democratic assembly-men claim that if the bridge closure can be directly traced back to Christie, they will try to impeach him. Although impeaching Christie would be difficult with his high public support, even initiating the process is very controversial.

While there are no grounds for impeachment over the Obama administration’s reaction to the Benghazi attacks, the results of his actions were far more seri-

ous than the results of the bridge closure. If the media truly wants to be consid-ered fair, unbiased or politi-cally central, more answers must be demanded from the Obama administration over the Benghazi incident.

I reiterate once more that Christie made a mistake. He let his own staff slip out of his hands, even if just for a little while. But these days, that’s all that it takes for the media to obsess over any politician (espe-cially a Republican). As a

conservative columnist at a university in one of the most liberal states in the country, there’s not much I can do to expose or change the media hy-pocrisy over these two is-sues. But I ask that every voting American look into every important issue and “scandal” before drawing a final conclusion. Re-member, the truth isn’t always what you read or hear; sometimes, the truth requires a little more digging.

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the right angle

The editorial board of Mus-tang News has taken a hard stance against some of greek life’s actions in the past. But when it comes to the ongoing discussions about a new par-ty registration policy, admin-istrators are forcing greeks to swallow policies that go be-yond what’s reasonable.

While demanding greeks to register parties is a pru-dent move that will likely curb out-of-control activity, rules also on the negotiat-ing table would ban shots,

drinking games and at-tendees from serving hard alcohol at greek events. Also included is a four-hour time limit on greek events with alcohol, as well as a midnight cutoff for parties and an 11 p.m. end-time for serving alcohol.

Forgetting for a moment the logistical challenges that will come from implement-ing these policies, they are extreme on their own. As all fraternities and sororities sit on indefinite social pro-bation until an agreement on this policy is reached, it provides both sides time to change the rules — and im-prove them.

Yes, greek life’s recent his-tory has been immature and, at times, dangerous. But their actions haven’t earned the crackdown administra-tors are envisioning.

Take, for example, one of the policies proposed: All names of party guests must be submitted to the univer-sity 24 hours before an event, and all their birthdays must be submitted in a follow-up guest list. Apparently it’s not enough for Cal Poly adminis-trators to know what parties are going on every weekend — they want to know exactly who’s going to be there and how old they are. There’s no reason for this invasive practice, especially for non-students and for individuals below the age of 21 who will not be drinking.

Then there are the rules on drinking games and hard al-cohol. Some Cal Poly greeks have made irresponsible alcohol choices in the past, but does that really call for an outright ban on anything stronger than wine? If a stu-dent of legal drinking age wants to bring whiskey in a flask and sip it responsibly throughout the night, the

university shouldn’t pro-hibit that. As for drinking games, they don’t always encourage “inappropriate drinking behaviors,” as the proposed policy says. Most college students have seen King’s Cup, Beer Pong and Flip Cup played in ways that — yes — get people intoxi-cated, but don’t fall into the category of “inappropriate.”

And when parties have to stop serving alcohol at 11 p.m. and close up shop at midnight, it will logically en-courage more unregulated partying after 12 a.m. — an early hour for college stu-dents. This policy isn’t com-parable to local rules, where bars stop serving alcohol at 1:30 a.m. and close at 2 a.m.

Logistically, these policies will be nearly impossible to enforce. With the amount of security required — and the need for greeks to now pay for additional University Police Department officers if the dean of students deems it necessary — greek mem-bers will be tempted to have off-the-books gatherings, which will be difficult for the university to police. If sober members are responsible

for enforcing the policies, it will be placing on a huge burden of enforcement on greek members who have a vested interest in see-ing their party restrictions remain loose. Unless Cal Poly dispatches a find-and-report-frat-parties team every weekend, the university could end up in the dark on what’s hap-pening off campus.

If these regulations were to be placed on another student group, it would be a clear overreach by ad-ministrators into the abil-ity of students to throw re-sponsible parties between them and their friends. And while greek life is a higher risk population, there are other measures that can be taken — such as strict party registration and ID enforcement — that would be effective and reason-able. This proposed policy is neither.

This represents the opin-ion of the Mustang News editorial board, which in-cludes J.J. Jenkins, Carly Rickards, Sean McMinn and Olivia DeGennaro.

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Monday, January 13, 2014 SPORTS|9

It was a night filled with mile-stones as two Mustangs broke personal and school records. Cal Poly defeated Blue-Green rival UC Santa Barbara 88-70 in the Mott Athletics Center on Saturday and moved to 2-0 in conference play.

Coming off a career-high 37 points on Wednesday, senior guard Jonae Ervin broke the all-time Cal Poly women’s basketball assist record, passing Laura Buehning (390) with 394 career assists.

“I just love setting up my teammates,” Ervin said.

Senior center Molly Schle-mer and senior guard Ariana Elegado produced 30 of the Mustangs' first 31 points of the game and 67 of the team’s 88 total points.

Schlemer recorded her eighth double-double of the season with a career-high 37 points and 15 rebounds. The Santa Maria native was suc-cessful in the paint against the Gauchos, making 16 of her 20 shots in the game.

“To do it against UCSB, our rival, just feels great,” Schle-mer said. “Credit to my team-mates for giving me the ball and recognizing that I was going to work inside, but it’s just unbelievable, 37.”

Prior to the game, the plan was to pound it inside with the height advantage that Schlemer brings, head

coach Faith Mimnaugh said.“She was great,” Mimnaugh

said. “Every time, she was money. Every time we gave her the ball she pretty much scored. She’s a load.”

Elegado led the team in scor-ing at halftime and finished the game with 30 points, one less than her career best.

Cal Poly shot an efficient 50 percent from the field and the defense kept the Gau-chos’ “big three” in check, Mimnaugh said.

“They’re some real great players to go against,” she said. “It took every single bit of effort that we had to try to neutralize them.”

The Mustangs led the Gau-chos 46-39 at the half, but they quickly separated them-selves from UC Santa Barbara in the second. The improve-ment in the second frame was a result of the halftime talk, Mimnaugh said.

“I didn’t feel we were as strong defensively as we need-ed to be,” she said. “I chal-lenged them to pick it up.”

In the second half, the Mustangs held the Gauchos to just 31 points and 30 per-cent shooting.

“I was really proud our team stayed with the game

plan,” Mimnaugh said. “Any-time we beat Santa Barbara it’s a feather in our cap.”

The Mustangs moved to 8-7

overall and 2-0 in conference play, and will travel to Cal State Northridge (5-10) for a Big West matchup on Thurs-

day looking to maintain sole possession of first place in the conference standings.

“We’re just going to keep

working at it, taking it one game at a time,” Schlemer said. “A championship is in the future.”

Women’s basketball rolls over UCSB

BUCK THE GAUCHOS | Junior guard Ariana Elegado scored 30 points in a 88-70 victory over UC Santa Barbara

At the end of the match, the demeanor on the Mustangs' bench said it all.

The majority of the wres-tling team looked on in si-lence as the Mustangs fell to Boise State 35-6 in a Pac-12 dual meet on Sunday in Mott Athletics Center. Cal Poly dropped to 2-3 with Sun-day’s loss.

Meanwhile, the victory for the Broncos was the only one in their California road trip as they improved to 2-3 on the year. They fell to Stanford 19-12 on Thursday and to Ba-kersfield 19-13 on Friday.

The Kastl brothers were the lone bright spots for the Mustangs, as Dominic and Blake were Cal Poly’s only winners on the day.

Blake Kastl, a redshirt freshman, won by a 3-2 deci-sion at 149 pounds by capi-talizing on a first period take-

down. Blake improved his record to an impressive 14-6 on the year.

His brother, junior Dominic, a former Pac-12 champion at 165 pounds, continued his su-perb season with a dominating 8-2 victory over Austin Dewey of Boise State, improving his record to 9-2 for the season.

Dominic entered the match ranked No. 20 at 174 pounds by Intermat, and wrestled for the first time in three weeks Sunday after sustaining an ankle injury in the Reno Tour-nament of Champions earlier in the season.

“I was looking to be more aggressive, since my op-ponent was unranked and I had the better record,” Dominic said. “This was a good match for me to come back after a setback from my injury. I look forward to working even harder than I have the entire season and hopefully inspire the rest of my teammates to put to-

gether a winning streak.”In the other matches,

Boise State dominated the Mustangs. Pins from 197-pounder Cody Dixon and 285-pounder J.T. Dixon propelled Boise State to an insurmountable lead.

However, the Mustangs didn't go down without a fight.

At 125 pounds, Cal Poly’s Britain Longmire battled to a 2-2 draw with Boise State’s Rami Haddadin, but ulti-mately fell on 1 minute, 43 seconds of riding time that Haddadin compiled.

Another highly-contested match was at 165 pounds as Boise State’s Steven Hernan-dez scored a takedown in the second period and held on for a 3-1 decision over Sohr-ab Movahedi.

Cal Poly looks to rebound from the loss when it hosts Menlo College for a non-conference dual meet Satur-day at 2 p.m. in Mott Ath-letics Center.

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SANTA BARBARA — More than a year ago, Anthony Silvestri was playing pick-up basketball at Cal Poly’s Recreation Center. Now, the junior walk-on is finding his groove with thousands look-ing on in NCAA gyms.

Silvestri scored a team-high 17 points in 15 minutes of play as the Cal Poly men’s basket-ball team (6-9, 2-0 Big West) knocked off rival UC Santa Barbara in Goleta for the first time since 2007 with a 72-64 triumph at the Thunderdome.

“The start at Delaware re-ally helped my confidence,” Silvestri said of the turning point for his season. “I hit my first shot of the game and

ever since then it seems like they’ve been kind of falling.”

Silvestri got his first-career start in a loss to the Blue Hens on Jan. 4 and led the team with a then-career-high 14 points. He bested that against the Gauchos with his 17 points to validate head coach Joe Callero’s an-nouncement at the begin-ning of the season that the San Francisco native had earned a scholarship for next year.

Then, on Saturday, Silvestri’s 3-pointer with 7:11 left in the first half gave Cal Poly a lead it would never relinquish.

“At the end of the day, you’ve got to put the brown thing in the round thing and he does that as well as anybody in the conference,” Callero said of Silvestri’s

shooting touch.Along with Silvestri’s dou-

ble-digit performance in which he sank five 3-point-ers, the Mustangs got 34 points from the bench and had four different players in double figures for the night.

But arguably the biggest sequence came from senior forward Chris Eversley in the waning moments of the Blue-Green Rivalry.

After UC Santa Barbara (9-5, 0-1) cut the Cal Poly lead to three points with 4:01 left in the game, Ever-sley hit a jumper and a 3-pointer on back-to-back possessions to pull away from the Gauchos.

“It’s definitely good to have those shots fall,” Eversley said. “I worked on it this summer and I was able to

knock down some shots at the end.”

With the win, the Mustangs halted a six-game slide at the Thunderdome. It was only the third time in the pro-gram’s Division I history that the Mustangs beat the Gau-chos on their home court.

“We always seem to strug-gle on the road, so it’s nice to get that first road win of the season against a really good team,” Silvestri said.

The Big West’s Preseason Player of the Year Alan Wil-liams led all scorers with 33 points, 22 of which came in the second frame for UC Santa Barbara. But the Mus-tangs’ defense shut down the rest of the Gauchos as only one other player scored in

double-figures.“We knew (Williams) was

going to get his and then it was that fact of containing everybody else … our game plan worked tonight,” Ever-sley said.

The Mustangs shot 45.3 percent from the field, in-cluding 11 for 18 from down-town compared to the Gau-chos’ 2 of 17 shooting from 3-point land.

Sophomore wing David Nwaba scored 14 points, in-cluding four free throws in-side 1:30 to go in the game that helped ice the victory. Everlsey added 13 and fresh-man guard Taylor Sutlive helped ignite Cal Poly’s bench as he hit three 3-pointers and scored 11 points.

“The way the bench played, it bought minutes for (the starters), it bought the ener-gy and gave us energy in that first part of the second half,” Callero said.

In its first two league games, the Mustangs have now defeated the top two teams in the Big West in terms of records entering conference play. Cal Poly beat Hawaii 77-65 at home on Thursday.

The Mustangs will re-turn home for their next two games with matchups against Cal State North-ridge on Thursday and Long Beach State on Satur-day. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. in Mott Athletics Center for both games.

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Men’s hoops wins in SB for first time since ‘07

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