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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 www.mustangdaily.netVolume LXXIV, Number 62
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Downtown San Luis Obispo businesses are facing difficult times in this economy. Sale signs and emp-ty stores are located on every street as businesses try to bolster their rev-enue and attract more customers.
Businesses in the downtown area have always come and gone; how-ever, the city’s single biggest source of revenue — sales tax — remains down. Compounding the issue, businesses are unable to get loans easily.
David Garth, president of the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Com-merce, said that it is difficult to tell whether it is solely the economy or other aspects that are hindering business.
“Due to seismic retrofitting, some businesses have been forced out of town because of higher rent prices,” Garth said. “These businesses nor-mally would have stayed around.”
Garth also said that the holiday
period was not profitable enough for several businesses, many of which still remain in a state of limbo between open and perma-nently closed.
In spite of the tough times, the number of business licenses in the city has increased.
Claire Clark, the Economic Development Manager, said there are more new businesses in small-er locations as many people have lost jobs and decided to start their own endeavors. Downtown, there are plenty of spaces available in units larger than 2,000 square feet because companies are downsiz-ing due to the economy. She said every business goes through a life cycle and the economy is bringing those cycles to an end for some stores.
In the downtown area, office space availabily have increased to between 6 and 7 percent when space availability has normally
Downtown businesses struggle to stay open
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Cal Poly’s improvement in sus-tainability efforts have improved in the last year, according to Green-ReportCard.org, but it is not neces-sarily reflective of maximum efforts, say environmental club leaders.
An annual report card is given to hundreds of campuses nationwide that evaluate and grade sustainabil-ity activities and progress for each campus. Cal Poly received a B+ this year, up from a B- in 2009. From the construction and deconstruc-tion of buildings to make them more environmentally friendly, to an increasing number of electric university vehicles and the diversion of 70 percent of campus waste, Cal Poly is making strides in progressive sustainability actions.
Cal Poly received higher marks than last year in five of the nine cat-egories graded, and was the only California State University campus
designated as a Campus Sustainability Leader.
“I think within the CSU system, Cal Poly is definitely seen as the lead-er,” said Dennis Elliot, Sustainability Manager of Facilities Services. “We have routinely garnered the majority of Sustainability Best Practice Awards from the annual UC, CSU and com-munity college statewide sustainabil-ity conference that has been going on since about 2004. In fact, last year in 2009, Cal Poly won four of the total six awards. Being recognized by the college sustainability report is a big deal for us.”
The grade shows Cal Poly has been progressing, but student envi-ronmental club leaders still feel real changes in sustainability can only happen with more commitment from the students.
The president of the Cal Poly Biodiesel Club, Mark Johnsonbaugh, feels Cal Poly is moving in the right direction, but without optimum stu-dent involvement, progress is limited.
“I think there’s a lot of really good things going on around campus,” Johnsonbaugh said. “There’s a lot of people who are interested in these ideas, and they want to participate in sustainability, but they just don’t know how to do it, or what to do.”
Tyler Hartrich, city and regional planning senior and vice president of the Empower Poly Coalition notices the gap between administrative efforts and student efforts.
“It’s definitely true that there’s a disconnect between students and what the administration is doing and what they’re pushing,” Hartrich said. “They have all these things going on, and the students have no idea. There is full disclosure about it, but it’s not like it’s on their website. How do stu-dents become involved? How do you bridge that?”
Both Hartrich and Johnsonbaugh feel the strain of the lack of student involvement in trying to accomplish
SLO City Council votes unanimously
Campus sustainability better, student efforts can improve
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President Obama wants to raise the bar for education by proposing $1.35 billion
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Proposed modifications to noise ordinance approved last nightMegan Hasslermustang daily
The San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously Tues-day in favor of Police Chief Debo-rah Linden’s proposal that would allow for stricter enforcement and administration of city noise violations Linden and Public In-formation Officer Ian Parkinson presented the council with rec-ommendations to amend the pro-cedures for residential noise regu-lations, the first of five strategies Linden and Parkinson first present-ed at a Sept. 29 council meeting.
Parkinson is a candidate for San Luis Obispo County sheriff.
Linden recommended that resi-dences in violation of noise regula-tions be placed on a ‘premises list’ after the first issuance of a Dis-turbance Advisory Card (DAC). DACs are the formal citation city residents receive when they violate city noise regulations. She also rec-
ommended that residences remain on the list for six months after the violation.
As of Jan. 19 there were 137 houses on the city’s premises list. Chief Linden said the number would drastically rise if the ordi-nance was adopted.
The number of noise com-plaints to the police department has dropped from 2,897 violations in 2007 to 2,700 last year. Howev-er, the number of DACs increased over the same time period.
The fine for a DAC is $350 for the first infraction. Tonight the council approved the option for first-time offenders to perform 35 hours of community service in lieu of the administrative fine.
Other municipal code changes included the creation of a process for property owners or tenants to apply for early removal from the premises list, the ability to hold residential property owners respon-sible for repeat noise violations and
to modify the notification process to property owners.
Council member Allen Settle motioned to pass the ordinance, amending the length of time on the premises list from six to nine months, which was approved by all council members.
Linden’s remaining four strate-gies dealt with unruly gatherings, a curfew for those under 18, regula-tion of property owners’ licenses and a safety enhancement zone or-dinance.
Associated Students Incorpo-rated President Kelly Griggs said she was disappointed in the deci-sion. It solidified the notion that this was targeted at students with the language of the ordinances and the nine-month amendment being determined by the length of the academic school year, she added.
“Students weren’t asked to par-ticipate in the beginning; we sort
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Approximately 70 people attended the San Luis Obispo City Council meeting Tuesday afternoon. The council approved changes to the city’s noise ordinance policy.see Council, page 2
their club goals.The Empower Poly Coalition is
a conglomerate of 27 environmental clubs, established spring 2007 to cen-tralize the energy and goals of all the different groups interested in sustain-ability. Its membership has doubled since the last report card, which may account for the grade improvement from B to A in the student involve-ment category.
The coalition is currently working on several initiatives regarding sustain-ability policies. One is The Green Ini-tiative Fund (TGIF), a policy which would add $5 to the College Based Fee that would go directly toward sustainability projects. If approved, the pool of approximately $300,000 would be delegated entirely by stu-dents for projects that would contrib-ute to improving the sustainability of Cal Poly. But getting students to vote for a fee increase of any sort is par-ticularly difficult, Hartrich explained.
“It’s totally doable,” he said. “And we’re not the only students doing it. In fact, we’re behind the times. UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Bar-bara all have TGIF. Just recently, UC Irvine and UC Davis passed it. The cool part is, though, we’d be the first state school to do it.”
If more students were in actively participating in accomplishing this and other initiatives, Hartrich added, efforts would be much more success-ful.
The Cal Poly Biodiesel Club is also having trouble in reaching their
goals without more student involve-ment.
“The club built a biodisel reactor and they lobbied Campus Dining to switch all of their diesel fuel vehicles to run on biodiesel,” Elliot said. “A mechanical system would take cam-pus’s waste cooking oil and convert it directly into biodiesel, on campus, to be used as fuel in our fleet vechiles
both for deliviry trucks and tractors in the (agriculture) area.”
Johnsonbaugh has been work-ing tirelessly to construct and get his new biodiesel reactor, also his senior project, approved by administration. The club’s ultimate goal — to even-tually have all diesel vehicles run on campus-produced biodiesel — can be accomplished easier if students would take advantage of the senior project
opportunities that come with his club’s initiative, Johnsonbaugh said.
“The best way to get to the next step is more student involve-ment,” he said. “The best way to get students involved is senior projects.”
Hartrich and Johnsonbaugh don’t deny the obvious interest in sustainability from the students; there are clearly enough clubs to join and enough goals to reach to advance Cal Poly’s presence as a campus leader in sustainability. But both are certain that knowledge, awareness and serious commit-ment are the keys to any sort of progression.
“I really think it’s just the fol-low-through,” Hartrich said. “It’s not that hard to type in ‘Cal Poly sustainability’ and find us. But a little bit of it is just a lack of com-mitment and will power to go out and to find these organizations. When I step back and think about how many students could be po-tentially interested in our organi-zation, it’s probably over half the school. But how do you get them in? In a perfect world, the best way to have students be a part of this is to have a center for sustainability.”
After a failed attempt fall quar-ter to revive the old campus pow-erhouse and convert it into a cen-tral hub for everything regarding campus sustainability, Hartrich is still hopeful that physically con-taining all sustainability efforts in one building will advance latent interest into active involvement and change.
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been around 3 percent Clark said.The redevelopment projects that
occurred downtown, including the Downtown Centre and the Court Street project, have helped the most to bolster success in the area. These improvements led to an influx of national retailers, which have made the city more of a tourist draw. Clark said that the pedestrian feel of downtown encourages shopping and dining in the area.
“Downtown has really benefited from the influx of corporate stores along with locally owned stores,” Clark said. “I hope to continue to see these smaller businesses staying because they give a nice breath to downtown.”
Despite some successes, the economy has forced businesses to head out of town. Deborah Cash, executive director of the San Luis Obispo Downtown Association, said two dozen businesses had to close or move for various reasons during the past year. Some of those businesses include Taste, Therapy and San Luis Surf Company. Cash said the econ-omy and the fact that more people are shopping on-line now have af-fected downtown businesses.
Restaurants, salons, women’s ap-parel, and specialty stores are doing the best in the downtown area, says Cash. She said their association is trying to revitalize the downtown areas through design, promotions, economic restructuring, organiza-tion, and by constantly searching for new ways to bring more people downtown.
The heart of downtown sees the most productivity in good times and bad among businesses, Clark
said, adding that businesses further away from the four-block area on Higuera Street between Nipomo and Osos are struggling to attract customers. She said the most affect-ed area right now is on Monterey Street from the mission to Morro where several storefronts are vacant due to seismic concerns and deci-sions of businesses to move to other locations downtown.
For the 2009-2011 financial plan, which was effective July 1, 2009, the city’s budget was cut by $10 million per year. Clark said the city’s largest revenue sectors, sales, and transient occupancy taxes were projected to decrease. At this time, she said rev-enues are on the decline but are still within the projected budget-ary constraints. However, the city is cautiously guarding against further downturn in revenues.
“The economy needs to improve and it is key that the downtown area remains attractive, safe and clean so people continually want to come to the city,” Clark said.
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In a perfect world, the best
way to have stu-dents be a part of this is to have
a center for sustainability.
— Tyler Hartrich vice president ,Empower Poly Coalition
of had to come in after the fact, so we were reacting rather than sit-ting down and collaborating be-forehand,” Griggs said.
Some Cal Poly students attend-ed the meeting and voiced their opinions.
“I feel that a lot of these actions and propositions are alienating the student population from the rest of the community. A true and effec-tive community is one that works together instead of being split like oil and water,” mechanical engi-neering junior Derek Brangham said.
While some saw the ordinance as a way of splitting the communi-ty, others saw it as a way to protect San Luis Obispo.
Community member Sandra Rowley said, “Most students are here for an education, unfortu-nately there are some that are here to party. Some think that because they are considered adults under the law, it means they are free to do anything they want, anytime they want, without consequences and without taking responsibility for their actions.”
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Group urges cancellation of Haiti debt; U.N. to increase troopsJoe Mozingo and Ken Elling-woodlos angeles times
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. forces fanned out in Haiti’s ruined capital Tuesday as part of a building global relief effort that still had yet to reach hundreds of thousands of needy residents a week after the devastating 7.0 earthquake.
In Port-au-Prince, aid workers, supplies and U.S. troops continued to flow in increasing numbers. A number of U.S. military helicop-ters touched down on the grounds of the damaged presidential palace Tuesday morning, dropping off more than 100 U.S. troops, ac-cording to wire-service reports.
Meanwhile, the world’s relief effort included a call Tuesday by the Paris Club of international creditors for wealthy nations to cancel debts owed by Haiti so that it can rebuild. And in New York, the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution to raise its own cap on the size of its peace-keeping mission in Haiti, increas-ing the number of troops by 2,000 and police officers by 1,500.
In Haiti’s capital, U.S. troops, in full combat gear, unloaded boxes of water bottles and food rations and appeared to be setting up a base at the palace, Reuters report-ed.
Haitians crowded the fence of the compound to watch, and some cheered as soldiers arrived, news reports said.
Several thousand more soldiers and Ma-rines began arriving on Monday as part of a U.S. mobilization that involved more than 10,000 troops. They will provide food and water and will work to repair the badly dam-aged seaport to permit the delivery of larger quantities of goods. Troops also were stand-ing by to help provide security amid scattered reports of looting and gunfire in the capital.
U.S. forces are al-ready running the city’s airport, which has been the main portal for thousands of tons of
emergency supplies and rescuers.Offshore, a growing flotilla of
U.S. vessels serves as a floating military base and airport for air-craft delivering goods. Some in-jured Haitians also have been air-lifted to the ships for emergency medical treatment.
The Paris Club, an informal grouping of creditor governments from industrialized countries
that meets monthly in Paris, said members agreed in July to cancel debts that at the time totaled $214 million. Tuesday, it called on other creditors to follow suit.
“Considering the financing needs that Haiti will face in re-constructing the country, Paris Club creditors call upon other bilateral creditors also to urgently provide full debt cancellation to
Haiti,” the group said in a statement.
The group estimat-ed that Haiti’s total public external debt stood at nearly $1.9 billion in September 2008.
The U.N.’s deci-sion Tuesday to raise the cap on the size of its peacekeeping mis-sion in Haiti brings the total U.N. force to 8,940 troops and 3,711 police officers on the ground to deal with the disaster. What is unclear is how soon the additional troops and officers will get there.
Radio Metropole, citing Haitian gov-ernment officials, re-ported Tuesday that the bodies of 70,000
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Soldiers with Charlie Company 1/325th avoid rotor wash as a Navy heli-copter lifts off from the lawn of the damaged Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. More than 100 troops were dropped off Tuesday morning.
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California moves to limit HMO long wait timesDuke Helfandlos angeles times
LOS ANGELES — Seeking to reduce the long waits many people endure to see a doctor, California regulators are imple-menting new rules that specify how quickly patients in health maintenance organizations must be seen.
The regulations by the Cali-fornia Department of Managed Health Care, in the works for much of the last decade, will require that patients be treated by HMO doctors within 10 business days of requesting an appointment, and by specialists within 15.
Patients seeking urgent care that does not require prior au-thorization must be seen within 48 hours.
Telephone calls to doctors’ offices will have to be returned within 30 minutes, and physi-cians or other health profes-sionals will have to be available 24 hours a day.
California says it is the first state to set time standards for HMOs, which serve nearly 21 million of its residents.
The managed health care department acted in response to a 2002 law that mandated more timely access to medical care. The law left it to state officials to work out the details, which became subject to protracted negotiations with HMOs, doc-tors, hospitals, consumer groups and other healthcare activists.
In all, it took seven years to finally reach agreement amid intensive talks, bureaucratic hurdles and a lengthy rule-writing process, participants said.
“It’s been a long time com-ing,” said Anthony Wright, ex-ecutive director of Health Ac-cess California, a consumer group that pushed for the 2002 law. “These regulations ... will not only get people access to care when they need it, but will reduce unnecessary use of the emergency room.”
The rules will be unveiled Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles and phased in over the next year.
The legislation came in re-sponse to complaints from HMO members of long delays in getting treatment, and it does not gener-ally affect people served by other healthcare plans.
HMOs cautiously support the new rules, even as some predict that they may drive up costs.
Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit HMO, said it would spend the next two months analyzing potential gaps in the de-livery of medical services to fulfill the requirements.
“We really feel the work we’ve done over the last several years has put us in a place to be in com-pliance,” said Patti Harvey, Kai-ser’s vice president for quality in Southern California. She declined to specify the company’s current wait times or to estimate potential costs.
The trade group representing California HMOs called the new rules a “reasonable compromise” but predicted higher costs as a re-sult.
“A regulation like this will cer-tainly add another challenge,” said Charles Bacchi, executive vice president of the California Assoca-tion of Health Plans.
California consumers have long complained about delays in get-ting care from HMOs and other health insurers.
One 2009 study that has been cited by state officials found that consumers in California’s two largest cities face extended delays when trying to get medical ser-vices.
People in San Diego wait an average of 24 days for a routine physical with a family practitioner, according to the survey by Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a national physician recruiting firm.
In Los Angeles, patients wait 59 days on average, the study found. Researchers said Los Angeles’ high cost of living, its vast poor popula-tion and low reimbursement rates from Medi-Cal drive family doc-tors away from the city or into
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Mark Silvatribune washington bureau
WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Barack Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch Tuesday for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature education plan, prom-ised to “raise the bar” on what is expected of public school teach-ers and students.
“Nothing will make as much of a difference as the way we educate our sons and daughters,” Obama said after meeting with schoolchildren at an elementary school in Falls Church, Va. “The countries that out-educate us to-day will out-compete us tomor-row, and I refuse to let that hap-pen on my watch.”
Under the Obama adminis-tration’s Race to the Top pro-gram, states are competing for a share of $4.35 billion in federal funding aimed at spurring public schools to make student achieve-ment the core of their programs. That potentially could include evaluating — and paying — teachers according to how well their students perform.
The initial funding was in-cluded in the economic stimulus act that the president signed into law in February, with the dead-line for states to apply for that money arriving Tuesday. There is not enough money to go around for the states that are interested, the White House says.
Obama plans to include a bid for another $1.35 billion for the program in the 2011 budget that he proposes next month. That will enable not only more states but also individual school dis-tricts to apply for some of the money, according to the White House.
Obama said Tuesday the ap-parent popularity of the “nation-al competition” is “a sign of how much states and schools believe this initiative will benefit them.”
By expanding the program, the president said, “we’re going to raise the bar for all our stu-dents and take bigger steps to-ward closing the achievement gap that denies so many students, especially blacks and Latinos, a fair shot at their dreams.”
The first winners of the first Race to the Top awards will be announced in April, with a sec-ond round of applications from states due in June and those grants to be awarded in September.
As a stage for the promotion of expansion of the program, the White House chose Graham Road Elementary School, one of the lowest-income yet highest-achieving schools in Virginia’s Fairfax County. Nearly 80 per-cent of its students qualify for free or reduced-price meals and 95 percent are black or Latino. In 2008, the White House says, all of the school’s sixth-graders met Virginia’s reading standards, and 96 percent met math standards.
Five years ago, Graham Road
started a program of tougher standards, testing, teacher evalu-ation and professional develop-ment aimed at boosting achieve-ment.
The federal program encour-ages the design and implementa-tion of “rigorous standards and high-quality assessments, by en-couraging states to work jointly toward a system of common academic standards that builds toward college and career readi-ness,” the White House says.
It also is intended to attract and retain “great teachers and leaders in America’s classrooms” with expanded support for teach-ers and principals and new meth-ods of teacher evaluation and pay.
The Department of Educa-tion says the program focuses on boosting academic standards, recruiting and keeping effective teachers, tracking student perfor-
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President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan meet with sixth grade students at the Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, VA. Following his meeting with students, the President will deliver remarks on his ‘Race To The Top’ program and his request for an additional $1.35 billion for the program in 2011.
Obama pushes $1.35-billion expansion of education plan
California prisoner-
release order on hold
pending rulingDavid G. Savagetribune washington bureau
WASHINGTON — The Su-preme Court Tuesday put off a de-cision on whether California must release more than 40,000 inmates to relieve overcrowding in its pris-ons.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had appealed a ruling of a three-judge panel last year that found prisoners were be-ing denied adequate health care be-cause of overcrowding. The judges then ordered the state to come up with a plan to reduce the prison population by more than 40,000 inmates. In his appeal, the governor said the judges had overstepped their authority under federal law.
But before the high court acted on that appeal, the state had filed a plan to comply with the judges’ order.
Tuesday, the justices dis-missed the initial appeal from Schwarzenegger, but noted that the judges’ order had been put on hold and would remain so “pending re-view by this court.”
Washington attorney Carter Phillips, who is representing the state of California, said he was pre-paring a new appeal that challenges the entire basis for the judges’ or-der. Tuesday’s action “largely affects the timing,” he said.
The justices will decide in a few months whether to hear the prison case, and the prison-release order remains on hold in the interim.
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A former day room is now used to house prisoners at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California.
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Word on the Street
“What do you think of San Luis Obispo cracking down on noise violations?”
compiled and photographed by jennifer titcomb
“It’s already pretty strict and very easy to get noise viola-tions. I don’t see why they need to make it any easier.”
-Chris Roland, chemistry junior
“I feel like they need to realize it’s a college town. With warn-ings, it makes you more aware and more courteous. But it will happen regardless.”
-Tessa Paneri, graphic commu-nications sophomore
“For some neighborhoods it’s good to show respect. I live down Grand Avenue, so it’s not too big of an issue. People should be more courteous though.”
-Sean Dawson, materials engi-neering junior
“I think the city needs to ac-cept it’s a college town. We need to respect each other. Students won’t act to the best of the situation every time but not because we want to harm anyone.”
-Carolyn Mescher, business ad-ministration senior
“I can understand if it’s a 2 a.m. complaint, but not 10 p.m. I think the students should have a say in it. If people in the area are all right, it shouldn’t be an issue.”
-Kevin Hicks, architecture se-nior
“I think they need to explain why they are making changes now. I’m sure it’s been just as loud other years.”
-Marie Heier, agribusiness sophomore
NEW DELHI (MCT) — De-fense Secretary Robert M. Gates, moving to deepen U.S. ties to India as a key partner in a turbulent re-gion, pushed Tuesday for expanded cooperation with New Delhi on a range of issues, from military tech-nology to cybersecurity.
Arriving for a two-day visit, Gates met with top Indian leaders, including Prime Minister Manmo-han Singh and S.M. Krishna, the external affairs minister. The trip comes after Singh traveled to Wash-ington in November in the first for-mal state visit hosted by President Barack Obama.
“This is a growing relationship between the U.S. and India,” said a senior defense official, briefing re-porters after the meetings and speak-ing on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic protocol.
• • •BAGHDAD (MCT) — The
banning of hundreds of mostly Sun-ni candidates from participating in Iraq’s upcoming elections is testing the limits of U.S. influence in Iraq even as American troops prepare to draw down later in the year.
U.S. diplomacy has shifted into high gear in recent days in an at-tempt to pressure Iraqi government officials into finding a way out of a crisis that many fear could seriously destabilize the country both before and after the election.
InternationalBOSTON (MCT) — In the
brave new electronic world that in-cludes such morality movies as “Av-atar,” it seems that anything is pos-sible. Even declaring a winner in the Massachusetts Senate race before the polls closed.
Boston.com, the Web site of the Boston Globe, briefly put up a map of the Senate results, about eight hours before the polls actually closed, according to the enterprising report-ers at the Boston Phoenix.
The post shows Democrat Mar-tha Coakley with a narrow victory over Republican Scott Brown.
Even before conspiracy theorists could flood media mailboxes with dark denunciations, the Globe apol-ogized for the error, blaming a test of a wire service feed that inadvertently went live.
• • •CHARLOTTE, N.C. (MCT)
— The most common and deadly form of brain tumor is not one dis-ease, but at least four subtypes, scien-tists at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and other institutions reported Tuesday.
Each type of tumor, called a glioblastoma, has distinct molecular features that possibly arise from dif-ferent causes. Knowing that should help scientists develop targeted treat-ments.
Currently, glioblastomas are near-ly always fatal, and the average sur-vival after diagnosis is about a year.
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— Cuesta College’s decision to drop its women’s tennis program over the summer has spurred complaints that could result in an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, as well as po-tential lawsuits.
Diane Milutinovich — a notable Title IX expert and former Fresno State University administrator who reached a $3.5 million settlement with the university after filing a gen-der discrimination lawsuit in 2006 — said she faxed a complaint against Cuesta to the Office of Civil Rights on Saturday.
Enacted by Congress in 1972, Ti-tle IX forbids gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. In sports, the law has been interpret-ed to require equal opportunities for male and female athletes.
• • •OAKLAND (MCT) — Tired
of years of public urination, assaults and vandalism, residents near the University of California-Berkeley’s southern edge on Tuesday sued doz-ens of the university’s fraternities.
The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court against more than 70 groups and property owners, claims the fraternities make life miserable for neighbors by en-couraging underage drinking, litter-ing sidewalks and streets, partying all night and shooting pellet guns at residents.
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“In addition to mandating wait times, there needs to be some strat-egy for increasing the numbers of doctors being trained in Califor-nia,” said Phil Miller, a spokesman for the recruiting firm.
After the rules are unveiled Wednesday, HMOs will be given nine months to submit plans that
meet the new guidelines, allow-ing for the fact that many HMOs will need to revise their contract agreements with physician net-works and other groups.
HMOs will be given until Jan-uary 2011 to comply; after that, the managed health care depart-ment will have the authority to penalize HMOs that fail to ensure timely care. People will be able to complain to the department about delays.
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Cal Poly grads open new yoga studio off Broad StreetJessica Barbamustang daily
A calm environment, accom-plished instructors, affordable classes and massage therapy are just some of the things m.BODY, the new yoga studio in San Luis Obispo, offers stu-dents looking to take a break from their studies. The studio will be of-fering free classes till the end of the month in order to create a customer base.
The new center will compete with yoga studios such as Smil-ing Dog and Bikram Yoga San Luis Obispo, located downtown. Owner and instructor Tawny Sterios said the skill level of Peter Sterios, the other owner and instructor, will set their studio apart and help establish it in the community. Peter Sterios is re-turning to San Luis Obispo after be-ing the first person to open a yoga studio in town 18 years ago and has taught for over 20 years.
For architect and yogi Peter Ste-rios, and Cal Poly nutrition graduate and yogi Tawny Sterios, there was much excitement in coming back to the city after two years of teaching in Santa Monica.
“The inspiration to move back to (San Luis Obispo) was more about feeling complete with what we set out to accomplish in (Los Angeles) and missing the Central Coast,” Taw-ny Sterios said.
To create m.BODY they trans-formed the warehouse for Mandu-ka, an eco-yoga products company owned by Peter Sterios, by putting down cork floors and planting a garden in the back so classes can be practiced indoors and outdoors.
The studio, which has jasmine flowing in the air, natural lighting, flowers and leafy plants in every room, is something you would never
expect given the surrounding loca-tion. A detailed mural commissioned by a local graffiti artist includes Ga-nesha, a hindu deity with an elephant head and four arms and is known as the remover of all obstacles, cov-ers the right wall you see entering the space that later opens to a small garden in the back. Despite being a small area, a kitchen about 3 feet by 6 feet to make tea placed adjacent from the massage room where a colorful Indian tapestry is draped on the ceil-ing adds to the atmosphere.
Energy generated from the envi-ronment and instructor are impor-tant factors for yogis in the commu-nity said earth science junior Anna Zeppelin who has practiced yoga for two years.
“I look for a welcoming environ-ment and encouragement from in-structors,” she said. “It is important for teachers to speak to you in a way that you can click into the mind set of positive energy and how to do yoga correctly, it’s a ‘glad that you’re here’ type of setting.”
The center offers a variety of classes to appeal to all of their cus-tomer’s needs, including hatha, a form of yoga focused on breathing, and vinyasa a technique of “connect-ing poses.”
An introductory class for those looking to try yoga for the first time is offered every Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. along with a dynamic class meant for experienced students looking to challenge themselves at 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.
While yoga may be a helpful stress relief on campus, for most students with limited budgets and looking to join a class, price can be factor.
“Sadly yoga isn’t one of the most affordable things especially on a stu-dent budget,” Zeppelin said.
As a way to still appeal to those with limited resources, on Sundays the center offers one class at half price as a “gesture of community goodwill,” according to the Web site. Classes are normally $10 each.
Peter Sterios who leads several of the classes has practiced yoga for over 30 years in the U.S. and India, and continues to teach at confer-ences and workshops throughout the country. He first began yoga when he took a class at Cal Poly’s Recre-ation Center when he was 18 to help the injuries he acquired as a semi pro rugby player.
Tawny Sterios took her first yoga class as a way to combat the stress of competitive sports when she was only 14-years-old. Then after seeing an ad on the Rec Center board to teach yoga she felt she had a call-ing, she said. Sterios is also a certified teacher in kundalini yoga, a unique practice which incorporates breath and movement.
“After seven years now of teach-ing I feel very grateful that I listened to that call and feel ready to open our center to a broader community,” she said.
m.BODY is hidden between small houses and sheltered from the busy traffic of Broad Street. While the location may make the studio difficult to find, the staff feel that its just one of the things that makes the studio unique.
“It’s like our little gem just hidden amongst the residential and industrial areas,” Karen Bullock, massage thera-pist and close friend of the Sterios, said. “From the outside you wouldn’t expect it to be a calming environ-ment but it’s almost like yoga that once you make the connection can transport you to somewhere else.”
Space is limited for classes so at-tendees are encouraged to come ear-
photos courtesy tawny sterios
Tawny and Peter Sterios have worked to transform an empty studio off Broad Street (above) into a yoga studio with outdoor garden (below).
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Most of us are familiar with the softened Disney version of fairy tales, but few of us have read any of the original Grimm’s fairy tales or anything like them. Many readers are also familiar with the standard coming-of-age story that inspires, however subtely, much of today’s literature. John Connolly, however, intertwines both these familiar and unfamiliar elements in his novel “The Book of Lost Things.”
Connolly’s main character, Da-vid, is a 12-year-old boy trying to cope with the loss of his mother after watching her slowly dete-riorate from her disease. Connolly depicts him as a vulnerable young boy who is losing all sense of pow-er and control in his life.
In order to regain some degree of control, David develops routines and traditions that give him peace of mind, a sense that he does have some control over his life. He de-velops patterns like getting out of bed a certain way, washing his hands a specific number of times and other idiosyncratic routines. David does these things because he believes it will help his mother in some way; he feels useful and help-ful by taking part in these daily routines. However, when his moth-er eventually dies from her disease, he feels as though he’s failed her and his routines have failed him. However, he’s unable to stop him-self from keeping them up.
When his father eventually re-marries, David and his father move into a new house, where David’s stepmother gives birth to a new baby boy. All of David’s efforts to stick with his routines begin to crumble as he is thrust into a set of events that neither David, nor readers, are expecting.
One night, after David has lost all semblances of normalcy and routine in his life, he hears a voice, a voice which he thinks will lead him to his mother and his old life that he misses so dearly. Unsure of what is happening, he follows the voice and ends up where he never thought possible.
He enters a hole in a gnarled tree in his backyard and is trans-ported to another world, where fairy tales come to life. The fairy tales, however, are not the sort that we are used to hearing — nor are they the sweetened versions that we as a modern audience are used to.
The first person David meets is a hunter who saves him from the “wolves” that prowl the forest. The hunter tells David about the King’s book, something the hunter thinks will help him get home and away from the dangerous forest. The rest of the book spins the story of Da-vid and his desperate quest to find the king and his book.
Elements of other fairy tales, including Snow White, the Three Billy Goats Gruff also appear.
Even though David is des-perately seeking safety, he has a strange sense of exhilaration over these new and exciting events. This is where the coming-of-age story comes into play. Although Con-nolly has created an amazing chain of events with the retelling of such classic fairy tales, the really unique aspect of “The Book of Lost Things” is that he also tells the sto-ry of a young boy who grows and develops throughout the novel.
His experiences help to shape him into a more mature young man who certainly becomes ready to handle nearly anything that can be thrown at him.
Whether it is the story of Da-vid’s growth that intrigues you or the retelling aspect of fairy tales, this book is certainly worth giving some of your attention. John Con-nolly writes in a style reminiscent of his 12-year-old protagonist that is surprisingly successful at con-veying a suspenseful and engaging story as well as creating complex and highly innovative characters. Definitely put this on your must read list.
Melinda Truelsen is an English graduate student and Mustang Daily book columnist.
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WASHINGTON — Funny how some projects evolve.
Take the new film “Creation.” Its director, Jon Amiel, insists he had no interest in making a mov-ie about the life of Charles Dar-win.
“Truthfully, I have to say my first reaction was ‘not interested,’” Amiel recalled, laughing. “Don’t want to make a movie about some crusty old fart with a big beard, don’t even like biopics, don’t like historical drama. ... I find mostly they’re reverential, dull.
“The fact that these people led interesting lives does not make them necessarily interest-ing movies, and chronology of a life is rarely plot. So I was deeply resistant for all of those reasons, until I started reading that book.”
“That book” was “Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daugh-ter, and Human Evolution” by British conservationist Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great-great grandson. “It’s such an intensely personal memoir, because Ran-dal had access to all the journals, letters, writings, objects of the Darwin family,” Amiel said. “His work is infused by something very different, a kind of heart and a very personal connection to the Darwins. ... I found these remote Victorians suddenly becoming absolutely real, living, moving people.”
So Amiel signed on with his friend, screenwriter John Col-lee, for “Creation.” It depicts Darwin’s struggle to produce his masterwork, “On the Origin of Species,” after being devastated by the death of his young daugh-ter, Annie — and the tension be-
tween Darwin and his devoutly religious wife, Emma. Paul Bet-tany (“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Le-gion”) portrays Darwin; Jennifer Connelly, Bettany’s off-screen wife, plays Emma. The film also stars Jeremy Northam and Toby Jones.
Amiel and Keynes spent a day last week at the National Acad-emy of Sciences in Washington, promoting the film and, by ex-tension, Keynes’ 2001 book (now being released in paperback as “Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin” to tie in with the movie).
“I’ve done much more com-mercial films with big movie stars, and there most of the ques-tions are about movie stars,” said Amiel, an Englishman whose re-
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LOS ANGELES — The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Fes-tival will bring a youth movement to the low desert this year. After several years of greybeard headlin-ers, California’s signature festival is going back to the future with younger acts including Gorillaz, Muse, Jay-Z, Thom Yorke, MGMT, Hot Chip, Spoon, Vampire Week-end and LCD Soundsystem at the very top of the bill for the three-day concert that begins April 16 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio.
There are some flashback acts, including Woodstock icon Sly Stone and the Family Stone, 1980s alt-rock outfit Echo and the Bun-nymen and reconstituted college-rock outfit Pavement, but they’re not leading the bill like Paul Mc-Cartney, Prince and Roger Waters were in past years.
The presence of rap superstar Jay-Z will raise the eyebrows of those fans who like to think of Coachella as an indie-music oasis on today’s live-music landscape; hip-hop stars such as Kanye West, the Beastie Boys, Lupe Fiasco and Kool Keith have performed at Coachella in the past but none of them tap into the same street im-agery and conspicuous consump-tion ethos that defines the $150-million mogul.
Jay-Z is also a somewhat unex-
pected booking because he has a performance — for which tickets are still available — at the Staples Center on March 26. The hip-hop star will close out the opening night of the fest on Friday, when other performers will be LCD Soundsystem, rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Specials and John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols experimental outfit Public Image
Ltd.Saturday night will be head-
lined by Muse, Faith No More, DJs Tiesto and David Guetta, MGMT, Hot Chip and Jack White’s The Dead Weather. Sunday will close with Gorillaz, Thom Yorke, Spoon,
Parisian electronic rockers Phoe-nix and dance veterans Orbital.
The desert event has won a rep-utation among fans for showcasing artists on the comeback trail, and rock acts such as the Pixies and Iggy & the Stooges made splashy returns at Coachella. Pavement, a staple of the ‘90s alt-rock scene, has been an expected Coachella head-liner since announcing its reunion at the end of 2009.
Gary Bongiovanni, the editor in chief of Pollstar, the concert-industry trade publication, believes Coachella doesn’t need a boomer-friendly headliner such as Mc-Cartney, who performed last year, or Waters, who closed the event in 2008. A package built around Pavement, Public Image Ltd. and hipper acts, he believes, might even hold greater appeal for Coachella’s target young audience.
“Pavement was never an arena headliner, but it lends some excel-lent buzz to the lineup,” Bongio-vanni said. “In a way, it’s like look-ing at what the Super Bowl had to do. They have The Who this year, and if you stop and think about it, ‘What’s the biggest act we can get that we haven’t already done?’ — it’s a tough question to answer. If you take all these little things and put them together it becomes a compelling bill. There’s not a reli-ance on one name.”
Pavement already has a his-tory with the event. Lead singer Stephen Malkmus has appeared at
Coachella with his post-Pave-ment band the Jicks, and Pave-ment split soon after appearing at the first-ever Coachella in 1999. The latter performance has gone down in alt-music lore as one that showcased the band unraveling on stage.
Lydon has gone on numer-ous comeback treks with the Sex Pistols, but this will mark the return of Public Image Ltd. after more than 15 years. The band, which experiment-ed with dance and electronic textures throughout its career, went through numerous line-up changes. The act that takes the stage at Coachella is not expected to feature original members Jah Wobble or Keith Levene, but will include one-time guitarist Lu Edmonds and drummer Bruce Smith.
Radiohead’s leader Yorke will be making a return to Southern California after sold-out dates in Echo Park and downtown in October. With Muse on the bill, he’ll be sharing the event with a band that’s long been compared to his showcase act, though Muse hasn’t reached the kind of sales success in the United States that it has over-seas. Bolstered by its presence in the first “Twilight” film, Muse has become an MTV staple, and its 2009 effort “Resistance” has sold 370,000 copies in the United States since its Septem-ber release, according to Niels-en SoundScan.
Synth rockers MGMT have a hotly anticipated album due in 2010, and the act will compete for best new artist at the Jan. 31 Grammy Awards. But MGMT won’t be the only act expected to bring new material to the event, as Damon Albarn’s ad-venturous electronic-rock out-fit Gorillaz has a long-awaited album expected to be released this spring.
Oh, and what about those question marks after Yorke’s name on Sunday’s text in the concert poster? No, that isn’t saving a spot for a Smiths re-union or U2 debut on the Coachella stage, it’s the way that Yorke presents himself as a solo star, the marquee at his Orpheum concert had the same punctuational flourish.
The big question heading into last year’s Coachella was whether the economy would take its toll on the festival, and the answer was a resounding no. Paid attendance topped 150,000, said Bongiovanni, and promoter Goldenvoice/AEG put overall attendance at more than 160,000.
Additionally, the festival’s gross reached $15.3 million, ac-cording to concert tracker Bill-board Boxscore. Those numbers topped such well-known des-tination events as Lollapalooza in Chicago and the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
Coachella also made some recession-friendly concessions, offering fans the opportunity to purchase tickets on layaway, which it is again doing this year. Three-day packages are $269,
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“Sommersby,” but who most recently has been associated with escapist action-adventure fare (“Entrapment,” “The Core”). “What’s been really nice about this is that we get a lot of ques-tions about the film and the issues it’s dealing with.”
“Annie’s box,” the catalyst for Keynes’ book, was the writing box used by Charles Darwin’s favorite child before her death at age 10 from scarlet fever. Keynes discov-ered it in a chest of drawers left by his grandmother to his father.
“I found photographs, letters, books, games the children played — everything like that, and then, in one corner, this little child’s writing case, which turned out to be the writing case which had be-longed to Annie ... and had been kept by Emma (Darwin) after her death as her private keepsake of Annie,” said Keynes, who also hap-pens to be the great-nephew of the iconic economist John May-nard Keynes. “She never showed it to anyone, never could talk to any of her other children freely about Annie. But she kept this little box.”
Keynes said he’s very happy with “Creation,” even though the film dramatizes only a part of his book.
“Randal’s book covers Darwin from childhood, his family context, his social and political context, and follows him all the way through to his death — and indeed, some of the repercussions after his death,” Amiel said. “So it was vastly too broad a canvas to be (made into) a two-hour film. What we had to do ... (was) to say ‘What’s the heart of this story? What actually would make a movie?’
“What we discovered very quickly was that if we focused on one year, the year in which he was writing “Origin,” and the enor-mous emotional turmoil that that cost him, and told other parts of the story in flashback, so we told the story in a non-linear way, we could actually make sense of the story in a way that a literal, month-by-month chronological account would not have done.”
Martha West makes her film debut in “Creation” as Annie. She threatens to steal every scene she’s in, even from such seasoned co-stars as Bettany and Connelly, who won a supporting-actress Oscar for her role in “A Beautiful Mind.”
“When I first met Martha, I was as smitten with her as I know every person who sees the film is. My fear was that she was too beautiful,” said Amiel, laughing. “I thought the screen is going to just love her, and is she going to look like a movie moppet, and not like this sort of robust, vibrant and earthy girl that Darwin de-scribed?”
“She’s very important to the film,” Keynes said. “Is this a sen-timental portrayal? Absolutely not ... She was fearless.”
“She does have the acting gene,” Amiel said. “Her father is Dominic West of (the acclaimed HBO series) ‘The Wire.’
“Dominic became the stage father, and would turn up at the rehearsal room and sit outside for hours, waiting for his daughter,” Amiel smiled. “It was an inter-esting turnaround, I’m sure, for
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The job fair this week encour-ages many of us to consider our fu-tures.
As Cal Poly students and soon-to-be graduates, we enjoy heavy re-cruitment and good job opportuni-ties. Much of the world however, is not so lucky. Justin Lahart of the Wall Street Journal reported last week that employers cut another 85,000 jobs last month, maintaining the 17 percent overall unemployment rate between November and December. The discrepancy between the wide-ly publicized unemployment rate of 10 percent and the overall un-employment rate mentioned above accounts for the many unemployed workers who have stopped looking for work.
You may recall that on Dec. 8, President Obama called for more money to fulfill the “urgent need to accelerate job growth.” He was right that the job market is doing quite poorly, and it seems logical to fix this problem, but is government spending the right solution? Just last Monday, the Associated Press re-ported that $20 billion, part of $787 billion from the Ameri-can Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act of 2009, spent on roads and bridges had “no effect on local unemploy-ment rates.” In light of the fact that this por-tion of the stimulus package was one of the most beneficial, it seems that more questionable parts of the package will have little, if any, impact on unem-ployment rates.
The stimulus package failed to improve unem-ployment. The
administration’s next move is not to fix the underlying employment problem through a myriad of other options, but rather to re-brand their broken strategy. William McGurn, vice president of News Corp., points out the word missing from the ad-ministration’s marketing of the $154 billion bailout passed in the last vote of 2009: stimulus. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has replaced the likely pejorative term “stimulus” with the delicately-worded phrase, “targeted ideas that he (Obama) believes and the eco- nomic team believe will have a positive impact on private sector hiring.” This elaborate ver-biage is irrelevant in light of the fact that unemployment re-mains at 17 percent after close to a tril-lion dollars, $941 bil-lion to be precise, has been squandered by the federal govern-ment in an attempt
to bring down this percentage.Targeted spending at the federal
level is a necessity of a functioning government. However, the cur-rent administration’s bailout strat-egy, which essentially forced every tax payer to fork over some of their hard-earned cash to cover for greedy Wall Street’s mistakes, is myopic. The U.S. national debt is currently at $12.3 trillion and growing. This equates about $112,395 distributed across all tax-paying Americans, the only people who would help pay off our debt. The federal government should take a hint from Wall Street and address this debt problem before it becomes unmanageable, if it has not become so already.
Though it seems novel, the best way to address a debt problem is to stop spending. Unemployment, though not the quality of life, could be improved by lowering or remov-ing the barrier of entry for employ-ers: the minimum wage.
The Federal Government needs to focus on the primary source of jobs, which is small business, and forget about keeping failed corpo-rate giants such as Government Mo-tors (GM) afloat. In any case, the re-branding of failed stimulus programs and exorbitant federal spending has little hope of bringing long-term fi-nancial success to the U.S. and no chance of improving the dismal job market.
Nathan Tsoi is a computer science senior and Mustang Daily political col-umnist.
Employment prospects meager for new grads
Job market shaky as economy floundersWe need to get money out
of politics. Simple (not easy). We need to overturn the Supreme Court precedent that granted personhood to corporations. That one goal will enable all of your other suggestions to happen. Oth-erwise, you’re just beating your head against the wall.
—AnonymousIn response to “Vote for freedom by
getting involved”
I appreciate your sense of sub-scribing to “diversity” and free-dom from discrimination, but it doesn’t work in realty.
When you apply for a job, employers profile you in hope of picking someone likely to succeed … it’s not different when picking people from a security line that are likely to blow up a plane.
—AnonymousIn response to “For added airport security, U.S. should take pointers
from abroad”
We don’t need profiling to identify Individuals like the Christmas-Day Bomber!
Virtually all media outlets are discussing whether we should be profiling all Arab Muslims; I will in one-page explain why we don’t need profiling. More than 15 years ago, we at the Center for Aggres-sion Management developed an easily-applied, measurable and culturally-neutral body language and behavior indicators exhibited by people who intend to perpe-trate a terrorist act.
This unique methodology uti-lizes proven research from the fields of psychology, medicine and law enforcement which, when joined together, identify clear, easily-used physiologically-based characteristics of individuals who are about to engage in terrorist activities in time to prevent their moment of commitment.
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I heard they still need to work on their Pho. Any one else have an opinion on this place?
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addition Chow”
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It’s a battle.”They train daily to earn a
trip to the Olympics, but their mother doesn’t let them forget that education is important too.
“My major is industrial tech-nology, but I have been thinking about doing a packaging minor,” Filip said. “I don’t know if I want to coach. I can’t see myself coaching kids, but maybe.”
Boris has his eyes on physical therapy or coaching a team after the Olympics, but has a harder time coming to terms with school.
“If I lived in Bulgaria, I wouldn’t go to school, I would be training for the Olympics,” Boris said. “If I don’t make the Olympics in America, I would try in Bulgaria.”
The brothers at this point are focusing on the PAC-10 cham-pionship as well as the NCAA championship, but count on the Olympics to come after school, even though Boris hopes they come sooner.
“Iowa made the world team. If I win Nationals, then I will think about the Olympics,” Bo-ris said.
Tim Lincecum asks for record-setting contractDaniel Brownsan jose mercury news
In what could be a record-setting arbitration case, represen-tatives for pitcher Tim Lincecum asked for a $13 million salary while the Giants countered with an $8 million offer.
Barring a breakthrough in ne-gotiations, an independent party will be asked to choose one of those figures as Lincecum’s pay-check for 2010. There are no comprises in arbitration cases.
The highest salary ever award-ed to a first-year eligible pitcher is $6.25 million, which went last year to Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon.
But there’s never been a situa-tion like this.
Lincecum, 25, is the first pitcher to win Cy Young awards in each of his first two full sea-sons. He is 40-17 with a 2.90 ERA in his brief career, and is coming off back-to-back Na-tional League strikeout titles.
Finding what arbitrators call a “comparable player” is virtually impossible and speculation about what Lincecum might ask for ranged as high as $23,000,001—one dollar more than C.C. Sa-bathia, the game’s highest-paid pitcher.
Neither Thurman nor Giants General Manager Brian Sabean could discuss the details of the arbitration figures exchanged
Tuesday. But around the major leagues, front offices were watch-ing.
“Mostly out of curiosity,” one executive said. “It’s not about prec-edent. Chances are your team isn’t going to have a first-time eligible guy who is a two-time Cy Young Award winner — ever.”
One executive expected Lince-cum’s camp to ask for even more. He interpreted the $13 million figure as a sign that Thurman ex-pects the case might advance to the hearing stage. (The vast ma-jority of cases get settled before reaching an arbitrator).
“Maybe they thought it’s a number they could defend if it ac-tually goes to a hearing,” the exec-utive said. “If you file an obscenely high number, say $20 million and the Giants offer $8 million, your client ends up losing real dollars. (The $13 million proposal) is still an incredibly high number, but if it’s realistic you give yourself a shot.”
A second executive said the key to the case is the midpoint be-tween the player and the team— in other words, $10.5 million. In a hearing, the executive said, Lince-cum’s camp will have to prove that “he’s worth $1 more than $10.5 million and the Giants will have to prove that he’s worth $1 less.” That’s the tipping point for the ar-bitrator.
“$10.5 million is the magic number,” the executive said.
Either way, Lincecum will get a massive bump from the $650,000 he made in 2009.
The arbitration process was established in 1974 as part of the collective bargaining agreement.
Lincecum barely qualified for the process this season as a so-called “super two.” His two years, 148 days in the majors cleared the ser-vice-time eligibility bar by nine days.
mcclatchy-tribuneSan Francisco Giants starting pitcher and two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum could soon hold a record-setting salary. The previous record for a player in his first year of eligibility off arbitration is $10 million, awarded to first baseman Ryan Howard in 2008.
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Whether it’s in Bulgaria or America, the Navachkov brothers have always been wrestling.
Filip and Boris Novachkov moved to California six years ago and since then have been consis-tently winning matches and are now ranked in the top 10 in the country for the Mustangs.
Cal Poly’s wrestling team cur-rently ranked No. 14 in the coun-try due in part to two Bulgarian brothers who want to compete and win in the Olympics.
“They are both good competi-tors,” Cal Poly head coach John Azevedo said. “If they lose, they don’t get all pissed off; they get over it quickly, move forward, de-termined to be better.”
Azevedo was one of the main reasons that Filip came to Cal Poly. He was originally looking at Stanford, but when he visited the Cal Poly campus, he realized he didn’t want to leave.
“When I met coach Azevedo and Matt Azevedo, his nephew, I knew I would improve my wres-tling because they used to com-pete in smaller weight,” said Filip, who competes at 141 pounds.
Boris came to Cal Poly a year later to follow in his brother’s footsteps, but he hasn’t always
been the follower. Boris was the one who wrestled first. At 9 years old, a friend invited Boris to join a wrestling club in his hometown of Radnevo, Bulgaria. Filip, involved with folk dancing at the time, soon traded dancing shoes for a singlet, and it didn’t take long for them to both realize they were good.
“I guess I like violence, I like blood. Bulgaria is close to Transyl-vania, you know,” Filip said laugh-ing at himself.
When they received an op-portunity to go to America, the
brothers had already been wrestling freestyle for four years and were interested to see what the United States would bring them. Coming
here, they soon found that Bulgarian wrestling was vastly
different. Folk-style is
what the
schools are required to use, mean-ing no dropping opponents on heads, and the point system is dif-ferent.
“It was hard at first to wrestle in Amer-ica, because there is no folkstyle in Bulgaria, it’s all freestyle, so we had to change
the way we played,” Bo-
ris said.
They adapted quickly and soon made names for themselves while competing for Fremont High School. Boris was a two-time state champion and a two-time Nation-al Freestyle Champion, while Filip was a high school state champion and took third in nationals his se-nior year. College brought more competition, more chances for improvement, but also a higher risk of injury.
“I have never been seriously hurt from wrestling, but I have had a few stitches,” Filip said knocking on his head to avoid jinxing him-self. “I would still wrestle, even if my legs were cut off.”
While he hasn’t had any inju-ries from wrestling, he’s had plen-ty from other sports, including a broken neck from surfing and a broken right arm that prevented him from competing in the PAC-10 tournament, a competition for West Coast schools that leads to the NCAA tournament.
The brothers found that their best wrestling partner was each other. Azevedo has seen the broth-ers wrestle each other and is pleased with their intensity as well as their competitiveness.
“It’s scary to watch. No one is giving each other slack,” Azevedo said. “I pray that no one gets hurt.
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Cal Poly’s women’s water polo club was named Women’s Col-legiate Club Team of the Decade (2000-2009) by the Collegiate Water Polo Association.
Cal Poly women’s water polo club team member, Erika Bigbie was excited when they received the title.
“It was awesome. It only adds to the athletes’ motivation and pushes us to work harder to maintain the title,” she said.
The team won five of the last 10 National Collegiate Club Cham-pionships and has been called the most honored women’s national collegiate club program in the history of the sport according to the CWPA site. The team earned championship titles in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009 and placed second in 2002 and 2007.
Sports Club administrator Ev-erette Brooks has seen a variety of club teams receive championship titles in the past.
“To be named team of the de-cade means they are really in a class of their own,” he said.
Cal Poly’s women’s water polo club have also earned eight Pacific Coast Division Championships (PCD) (2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009). Dur-ing the PCD championships in 2004, they finished third and won a bid to the then 12-team Nation-al Collegiate Club Championship as the host team. They became the only non-division champion in the history of the collegiate club championship to win the National Championship.
This year the team has been dealing with problems due to the construction of the recreation center where they used to practice and their inability to use the new Anderson Pool because the correct lighting needed for night practices and games has not been installed.
Brooks, who helps club teams arrange facility use time through out campus, said, “The pool situ-ation is a little delicate.”
According to team president Jessica Wilson, the team will also be forced to host the regional championships at Cuesta Com-munity College.
“We’ve been pretty much all barred from all uses of the pool (Anderson),” Wilson said. “We just can’t get any answers (or) pool
time.”For now the team has been
practicing everyday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Slo Swim Center. To af-ford renting a pool at $1,200 a month the team has been forced to hold more fundraisers and look for sponsorship through businesses interested in advertising on the team’s uniforms.
“All the frustrations have made us a stronger group by rallying us closer together,” Wilson said.
As a club team, the women must “pay to play,” Wilson said.
“We’ve been doing a boat load of fund raising,” she said “People are just not as willing to donate as they have been in the past.”
Wilson added that although they receive $4,000 for Associ-ated Students Incorporated, they still must pay for 90 percent of the funding needed to cover costs for equipment, travel expenses, and coach stipends.
The team has also had to drop out of some large tournaments such as an invitational held in Ohio due to funding.
“They are huge bonding expe-riences for the team,” Bigbie said. “At the Ohio invitational we get to see a lot of East Coast teams we don’t get to see ‘till nationals.”
Cal Poly’s women’s water polo is going to Santa Cruz this Satur-day to attend a scrimmage against UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.
Women’s water polo club team titled “team of the decade”
alex kacik mustang dailyThe women’s club team earned championships in 2003-05 and 2008-09. They placed second in 2002 and 2007.
