2012

BY THE NUMBERS

Overall record

Big West record

Goals scored

Goals allowed

2011 2010

LET’S MAKE IT FOUR

2013: History will be written again Friday night at 7 p.m. in Alex G. Spanos Stadium.

2012: George Malki slotted home the only goal, and Cal Poly swept the season series against UCSB.

2011: Trailing in the 79th minute, the Mustangs knocked in two goals to steal a win.

2010: Chris Gaschen brought fans on the field with a golden goal just minutes into overtime.

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Kinesiology senior Nick Larson and aerospace engineering se-nior Jake Devincenzi are Mus-tang News beer columnists.

The hardest part of anything is starting. Brewing beer is no exception. We talked for months about getting our brewing equipment until we finally researched every-thing we needed. Then, we made our way to Doc’s Cel-lar, the local hub for anything ‘home-brew.’

Doc’s has a pre-set starter kit with about everything you need to begin. In addition to the starter kit, we also bought a glass carboy, (which houses the beer during fermenta-tion), a 5-gallon pot and a pale ale starter recipe. The pot and carboy are necessary, and we’ll delve into the recipe situation soon.

There are alternatives to Doc’s online, but if you’re in SLO, it’s a great option as you don’t have to pay for ship-ping, and they can answer any questions you may have.

When it comes to picking your recipe, there are basically three options: Use a base reci-pe from a place such as Doc’s or any online vendor, find a “clone” recipe online of any beer you know you like or, if you’re feeling brave, make your own recipe from scratch.

We used the pale ale recipe from Doc’s our first time brew-ing. Long story short, it was our first time brewing and it was aw-

ful. It tasted like watered-down crap, or what we imagine that would taste like. It was great watching most of our friends and family trying to tell us it wasn’t bad, but we knew better.

Now, it was our fault, not the recipe’s. We made multiple mistakes through the process to get to that point. However, we tend to stay away from pre-made recipes, favoring the “clone” recipes which can easily be found online. We highly rec-ommend this method, as you can have an idea of exactly what your beer should taste like. It’s easy to obtain the contents of the recipe at Doc’s, where we walk in, tell them what they need and they put it together for us. Another benefit of this is having a reference point, as you’ll be able to taste the differ-ence between your beer and the one you attempted to copy. It’s a great way to gauge your skill (or lack of) as a brewer. This is the way we learned what we needed to improve on and what we were doing well — it’s a lot of trial and error at first.

Once you’re confident in your brewing prowess, you can start making your own recipes. We began by tweak-ing recipes of clones, and even at this point, we only have one recipe we have made fully from scratch. This method is for the brave, but it can pay off. It’s a very rewarding feeling to know you crafted something great.

Beginner’s guide to brewing

Much like any craft, brew-ing your own beer is half direction-following and half

ingenuity. And half funding. And half desire to consume copious amounts of alco-hol. Screw math. Basically, you could follow the best directions in the world, but without your own under-standing of the nuances of beer, your brews will taste like cardboard. Similarly, you could know all about beer’s secrets, but without the fundamentals of the brewing process, your beer probably won’t even qualify as beer. Throughout this year, we hope to educate you about the subtleties of the beer world we have come to love, but for now, let’s just go over the basics of the brew-ing process. Note that there are two types of brewing: all-grain and extract brewing. This will cover how to brew with liquid malt extract.

Sanitize your equipment

Brewing beer isn’t the most difficult thing in the world. Your 8-year-old little sister could brew a batch on par with Coors Light if given a list of instructions and per-mission to use the stove. However, no matter how much you know, if your brew gets contaminated, it will taste like crap. Invest in some good sanitizing solution (we recommend Star San) and make a 5-gallon solution of it to sanitize all of your brew-ing equipment. (By the way, the correct ratio is 1 oz of Star San to 5 gallons of water ... We didn’t know this our first time and, well, we don’t give away any of that batch).

Steep your grains

Add approximately 2.5 to 3 gallons of water to a 5-gallon pot and bring it to between 145 degrees and 155 degrees. “Oh, Jake and Nick, what if it gets out of that temperature range?” NO! Brewing beer is not a spectator sport. Monitor the temperature of your wa-ter as you steep your grains. Please. Once you reach 150 degrees (yes, that is Fahren-heit, for the less scientifically-inclined), place your grains in a grain sock, tie off the top of a sock and set the sock in the water. Let them steep for 30 minutes, and be sure to moni-tor that temperature.

Extract addition and the boil

For anyone who enjoys craft beers, this is where things get exciting. The boil is where you get to add all the tasty ingredi-ents that will make your beer yours. It’s also where hopheads like Jake get to enjoy the fresh aroma of nature’s air freshener. Once your 30-minute steeping is done, pour in your liquid malt extract (LME). As we noted ear-lier, there are two types of brew-ing: all-grain and extract. Basi-cally, extract brewing means the sugars of the grains have already been extracted into a caramel-like liquid, ready to be added to your wort (beer that has not been turned alcoholic).

As you pour in your LME, make sure your heat is turned off and you stir the LME so it does not burn. Failure to do so will result in burning. Remem-ber that first batch we brewed? We didn’t have this tip … It

tasted a little bit, shall we say, smokey.

Once the LME is mixed in, pump up the gas and bring your wort to a boil. This will take a while, so be patient. Bubbling means your wort is boiling and your boil time has started. Most boils last 60 minutes, and ingredients (hops, fruit, honey, etc.) are added at different times. Add your ingredients at the times denoted on the recipe, making note that the time is the time remaining, so 60-minute hops are added at the beginning, 15-minute hops are added 45 minutes in, and 0-minute hops are added as you turn off the heat (called flameout).

Freeze

After any tough workout, it’s important to ice. Your beer is no different. Cover your wort and move it to an ice bath, or some other cooling area. We usu-ally use a 10-gallon garbage can, filled with an ice bath solution of 40 lbs of ice. Be sure to cover the wort to prevent contamina-tion. Leave the covered pot in the ice bath until the wort has reached 72 degrees. Note that the faster you cool your wort, the less chance it has to become contaminated. If you elect an option other than an ice bath, make sure it is quick.

Let’s get alcoholic

Once your wort is properly cooled, you will need to transfer it to your fermenter. There are many methods to doing this, but we like to first transfer it to a bot-tling bucket, then use a funnel to

move it to the fermenter. Don’t forget to sanitize everything.

After your wort is added to the fermenter, you will add what is called the “top-up” wa-ter. Add additional water until your mixture equals 5 gallons. Since some of your initial wa-ter will have evaporated in the boil, we recommend marking off a 5-gallon level on your fer-menter. After you reach 5 gal-lons, cover the fermenter with sanitized aluminum foil, then shake it vigorously for five minutes. This will oxygenate your wort. Why do you want to oxygenate your wort? We aren’t scientists, but we believe the scientific formula is sugar + oxygen + yeast = alcohol. Pitch your yeast into the fer-menter, add your air-lock, let it sit for 30 minutes, give it a couple spins to activate the yeast and place your fermen-ter in a dark room for primary and secondary fermentation.

Finishing up

Congratulations! You have brewed your first batch. There are a lot of factors that go into the fermentation process, but they are specific to each recipe. Do some re-search and look up the fol-lowing things for your spe-cific brew:

- Fermentation time

- Fermentation temperature

- Dry hopping

And do not worry, we’ll talk about all of those in future columns.

guinness|dublin|Guinness draught

green flash brewing company|san diego, calif.|double stout

alesmith brewing company|san diego, calif.|speedway stout

It’s Guinness. ‘Nuff said.

This stout is phenomenal. The first stout I ever enjoyed, Green Flash, delivers yet again with this 8.8 percent alcohol by volume behemoth. Notes of chocolate and honey, coupled with the sweet alcoholic yeast taste make for a great introductory stout, worthy of a nod from any beer snob.

I may be a NorCal native, but I’ll admit that San Diego breweries make hella good beer. This stout is imperial, which is the classy way of saying “contains a truck-ton of alcohol.” It clocks in at more than 12 percent alcohol by volume, and will accompany any classy meal or fireside sitting.

samuel smith brewery|yorkshire, england|organic Chocolate stout

north coast brewing co.|fort bragG, calif.|old rasputin

clown shoes brew|ipswich, mass.|Porcine Unidragon

This may be the best-tasting set of recommendations I’ve had so far. This beer is amazing. It’s made with tons of chocolate, and after one sip that will be clearly apparent. The aftertaste is comparable only to chocolate milk, and for less than $5, it’s a steal.

I’ve had this Russian Imperial Stout on tap at a few places, including Eureka!Burger downtown, and it is delicious. It’s best when served on nitro, which makes it smoother and bar-none the best stout you’ll commonly find along the California coast. At 9 percent, it’ll start (or end) your night with a bang.

Perfection. Pure, dark, bourbon barrel-aged perfection. I’ve had this beer once, and will never pass on the chance to drink one. It’s a barrel-aged version of Clown Shoes’ normal stout, which allows the full flavor to come out. At 12.5 percent, it’s not for the faint of heart.

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STREAKING GAUCHOS SEEK REVENGE

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No Cal Poly sporting event gets so packed that students have to buy tickets before-hand. And rarely does an event sell out — well, except for one. And it can only mean one thing.

The Gauchos are coming.

Senior George Malki is no rookie when it comes to the Blue-Green Rivalry. The midfielder netted the win-ning goal last season when the Mustangs pulled ahead in the 77th minute. And, as he can attest, there’s some-thing special about this time of the year.

“There’s a buzz around cam-

pus,” Malki said. “All you hear is ‘Friday’s game, Friday’s game ... Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara. ’I just tell those who ask that we’re going to play our way and we’re just going to come out and compete. When we compete, it’s diffi-cult to break us down.”

But while the “buzz” is very much alive at Cal Poly, No. 21

UC Santa Barbara will return to Alex G. Spanos Stadium with bitter memories.

Cal Poly executed a full-season sweep of the Gauchos last season for the first time since 1997.

But believe it or not, the Mustangs' victory wasn’t what put the nail in the cof-fin of the Gaucho’s 2012 campaign.

After a more-than-disap-pointing season last year, Fri-day’s matchup can be consid-ered a “do over” for the UC Santa Barbara soccer team.

Just last season, the Mus-tangs hosted the Gauchos following UC Santa Bar-bara’s announcement that even if the team made play-offs, they would reject any opportunity to compete in postseason play.

Hopes for playoff conten-tion ended for the Gauchos when senior defender Peter McGlynn was handcuffed and escorted off the field fol-lowing an altercation with a referee in their game against UC Davis.

After a one-game suspen-sion was issued to head coach Tim Vom Steeg and McG-lynn’s dismissal from the team, UC Santa Barbara had nothing left to lose.

But the Gauchos believe in second chances.

“I think that they have a renewed motivation,” head coach Paul Holocher said. “They have a team that’s hun-gry and young, and they want to make life difficult for their opponents with their style of play. With their big team, they play a very direct, physi-cal style. They’re going to be looking to compete.”

Currently sporting their longest winning streak since 2010, UC Santa Barbara (11-4, 6-0 Big West) is coming to San Luis Obispo after win-ning its last seven matches.

Talk about a turnaround.Respectively, Cal Poly has

lost three of its last six confer-ence games — most recently tying UC Davis 1-1 on Tues-day night.

Now, Cal Poly will aim to bolster its postseason chances with a victory on Friday night.

For, as everyone on the team can admit, leading Division I in goals is great, but it doesn’t mean a thing when the wins aren’t coming.

UC Santa Barbara is "on a roll right now,” Holo-cher said. “They’ve won five games in a row. They’re a very, very good team. They’ve got a lot of good

players, they compete, so it’s a great challenge for us. They want to utilize their size, and we want to utilize our pass-ing game. So the styles are different, but it makes for an intriguing matchup.”

Senior forward Macken-zie Pridham, currently the Mustangs’ leading scorer, has also seen his share of the Blue-Green Rivalry. And, like Malki, the Big West Offensive Player of the Year can't wait to play in front of the mass of supporters once again.

“The hype behind the ri-valry and the crowd we bring with all the fans is pretty spe-cial,” Pridham said. “Hope-fully we’ll be able to come out at Santa Barbara with some fire and just play our game. We want to play for our fans and give them all a show.”

So on Friday night, the fans will clench their tortillas, the Mustang Manglers will blow their vuvuzelas and a solid portion of the crowd will sport their “Buck the Gau-chos” T-shirts as they cheer on their Mustangs in a game that has been called the best rivalry in Division I soccer.

And, as Holocher said, it’s a rivalry that can’t help but make for an interesting soc-cer match.

It’s 6:30 a.m. on a Sunday, and I’m standing in 45-degree weather across from Union Square with 30,000 other peo-ple. As a full moon descends behind us on Post Street, spotlights flash and Beyoncé’s voice floods the speakers. The emcee finishes his countdown and fireworks go off as a mob of runners makes its way past the start line.

More than a quarter of a mil-lion women (and a few brave men) from around the world have flocked to this scene in San Francisco during the past 10 years. Nike has rewarded finishers of the Nike Women’s Marathon and Half Marathon with Tiffany & Co. necklaces in lieu of medals and, more importantly, raised more than $134 million for the Leuke-mia and Lymphoma Society.

I ran my first half marathon

in San Luis Obispo in April, and was inspired to try anoth-er race to improve my time of two hours and four minutes. After hearing people rave about the Nike run — the big-gest women’s race in the world — I decided to see what all the hype was about.

Upon signing up for the half marathon, I discovered college students are guaranteed accep-tance into the race (normally you have to go through the lottery process) and pay a dis-counted registration fee.

This student perk likely ac-counted for the high number of college-aged women I saw running; 5,070 women aged 20-24 made up approximate-ly 17 percent of the runners. Although Nike wouldn’t re-lease the number of Cal Poly participants, at least 127 runners were from San Luis Obispo, according to the race results.

My training began in mid-

August, and I (loosely) fol-lowed a 12-week plan that I found on Hal Higdon’s web-site. One week before the race, I did my longest run of 10.5 miles and was sure I’d be able to complete the course without a problem. But I felt less confident that I could run a personal best on a course notorious for its brutal hills.

I drove to San Francisco on Saturday and met some friends at our hotel before going to Union Square to check out the race “expotique,” a.k.a. every female runner’s dream.

As we walked inside the red tent that covered Union Square, we were handed free-bies from sponsors such as Neutrogena, Luna Bar and Whole Foods. Special edi-tion Nike gear — in Tiffany & Co. blue, of course — was displayed in glass cases and a disc jockey played upbeat pop music from the stage. I

picked up my race packet and bib number and then went to load up on carbs at a nearby California Pizza Kitchen.

At 5 the next morning, my alarm went off. After a banana and Balance Bar, we walked a few blocks to Union Square where our nine-minute-per-mile pace group was lining up.

Any nerves I had vanished when I got to the starting area. Women of all sizes, skills and backgrounds were united in the dark streets of San Francisco to run togeth-er and support one another. It was inspirational to see so many strangers bonding over a common goal. One random runner even offered my friend Alex Kinnee, a Cal Poly history senior, a bagel as they stood together waiting for the race to start.

I started the run with friends, but I got separated from them and ran miles five through 13 alone. It wasn’t until mile six, in the face of a hill with an elevation gain of 175 feet over one mile, that I wished I had someone next to me to keep me motivated.

Kinnee, who ran the race with her roommate Pippa White-hand, a Cal Poly nutrition se-nior, said having a running partner made all the difference.

“Last year I ran it by myself, and it was really overwhelm-ing and scary because there are so many people that are running it,” Kinnee said. “I feel like I didn’t hit a break-ing point this year because we were running it together, and it’s really nice to have moral support.”

The beauty of the course it-self would have been a good source of distraction, if only I could have seen it. A thick fog blanketed the course, covering

the scenic marina and making it impossible to see the ocean. This left me with no choice but to look straight ahead and pray the hills would end soon.

Luckily, inspiration from fellow runners took my mind off my aching legs. As I was tempted to walk during mile 10, I thought of the woman with short hair I had seen earlier in the race who had a sign on her back that read, “This sucks less than chemo.” Seeing her and other cancer survivors running was the ultimate motivation, and pushed me to finish strong during the last few miles.

At mile 13, I could see the finish line only a tenth of a mile away. I knew from the timer on my phone that I was just under the two-hour

mark — reaching my goal. With my last bit of energy, I sprinted to the finish and was greeted by a firefighter with a little blue box, containing the silver Tiffany necklace I haven’t taken off since.

There’s nothing like the feel-ing of crossing a finish line, celebrating your accomplish-ment and knowing you de-serve to eat as many calories as you want that day. It’s safe to say I’ll be back at the Nike race next year and will be en-couraging everyone I know to join me. Whether you’re an experienced runner or just want to do it for fun, the Nike Women’s Marathon is an unforgettable weekend filled with empowering women, some bad blisters and a whole lot of jewelry.

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BROOKE SPERBECK@BrookeSperbeck7

The largest freshman class to date — totaling 4,800 — was welcomed to the Cal Poly community for the 2013-2014 school year. Although the numbers are not final, this is an increase of 1,100 fresh-men from last year, said James Maraviglia, the associate vice provost for marketing and en-rollment development.

This increase impacted the Cal Poly and San Luis Obis-po communities.

“Every time I have been to

Starbucks, Subway or Tacos To-Go there has been a line,” history senior Megan Man-ning said.

Students can see evidence of the increase in longer lines, but other community challenges aren’t as obvious.

Even with more freshmen, on-campus living needs have to be met. June Serjeant, the associate director of Univer-sity Housing, said they were able to accommodate all in-coming freshmen.

However, this affected trans-fer and returning students’

housing options. Serjeant said transfer and returning stu-dents who had already paid and applied to live on campus were turned away at the begin-ning of May.

“Housing Management worked out different plans to provide additional hous-ing spaces for the freshmen,” Serjeant said. “These plans in-cluded adding additional triple rooms to the North Moun-tain residence halls, convert-ing some of the Cerro Vista’s four-person apartments into six-person “suite-style” rooms

and using the Gypsum build-ing in the Poly Canyon Village (PCV) complex for freshman housing. Poly Canyon’s ‘design capacity’ is 2,660 students. This fall, 2,744 students live in PCV, with 472 of them in Gyp-sum — which is all freshmen.”

For returning Cal Poly stu-dents, seeing an entire PCV building house only freshmen was a shock.

“I think it’s silly that Cal Poly has to put the freshmen in there,” business administration

crescent carnival

A personal account: the Nike Women’s Marathon

see FRESHMEN, pg. 3

More students, more problemsKAIT FREEBERG@CPMustangNews

As I was tempted to walk during mile 10, I thought of the woman with short hair I had seen earlier in the race who had a sign on her back that read, “This sucks less than chemo.” Seeing her and other cancer survivors

running was the ultimate motivation, and pushed me to finish strong during the last few miles.

COURTESY PHOTO

After following a 12-week training program, Brooke Sperbeck beat her time of two hours and four minutes for a half marathon.

COURTESY PHOTO

College-aged women made up approximately 17 percent of the runners. College students were guaranteed acceptance into the marathon and received a discount on registration fees.

Cal Poly’s reputation for cutting-edge technology was one of the main reasons business adminis-tration freshman Ted Scranton accepted his admission.

Since coming to San Luis Obispo, though, Scranton has been greeted by snail-paced start-up times from the cam-pus’ Internet system, Secure Mustang Wireless.

“I’ve had problems connect-ing, especially in the big class-rooms,” he said. “(It takes) 10 or 15 minutes of just con-tinually sitting there, and then sometimes it’ll connect, then kick you off really quick.”

To fix this problem, Infor-mation Technological Ser-vices (ITS) switched its cam-pus authentication systems Wednesday morning.

ITS switched from Cisco Sys-tems, Inc. to Aruba Networks, which allows many more users to log on to Secure Mustang

Wireless at the same time.Aruba can authenticate more

than 300 devices per second, while the old system was limited to about 100 connections per second, Director of Enterprise Systems Paul Jurasin said.

When ITS sent out a school-wide survey in the first week last year, 6,000 wireless devices were reported. This year, the same survey showed 14,000 de-vices, including smartphones, tablets and computers.

“A single person might have an iPhone, an iPad and a laptop with them, and all three of those need to authenticate into the network,” Jurasin said.

Wireless devices cannot connect to Secure Mustang Wireless outside of school buildings. Every time some-one moves from one building to another, his or her devices must re-sync with the Internet.

“If you ever get wireless out-side, it’s just leaking in from one of the buildings that has wire-less,” Jurasin said. “When there’s

lots of people walking into a building that has wireless, all those devices are automatically logging in at the same time.”

Aruba’s login capabilities should improve Secure Mus-tang Wireless’ speed, Jurasin said. Bandwidth speed, often associated with slow Internet, is not much of a problem with the new system.

Cal Poly switched from Mus-tang Wireless to Secure Mustang Wireless last year to protect us-ers’ sensitive materials from be-ing accessed by others.

On Mustang Wireless, us-ers had to manually log in every time they wanted to access the Internet. Secure Mustang Wireless’ automatic connection causes devices to sync once being turned on, resulting in more simultane-ous connections and slower Internet speed.

Jurasin said Cal Poly hopes to implement an outside Wi-Fi network at some point.

“When wireless was first put

in on campus by the CSU … what was funded was to put wireless in the buildings,” he said. “It wasn’t funded to have wireless access outside in the open space, (but) we do plan to do that in the future.”

The residence halls’ Wi-Fi system, ResNet, has been using Aruba for years, but the largest freshman class in school history necessitated a campus-wide upgrade, which administrators didn’t expect.

ResNet is not without prob-lems of its own, Scranton said. The Wi-Fi in his residence hall only reaches devices on the first floor, he said, prompting some freshmen to set up their own routers.

While Apple’s iOS 7 update prevented students at other universities from access-ing campus Wi-Fi on their iPhones and iPads, Jurasin said the new software had little connection to Cal Poly’s Internet problems.

Though many students down-

loaded the update at the same time, Secure Mustang Wireless’ high bandwidth allowed devices to run smoothly.

ITS sent out a campus-wide email on Friday saying iPhone and iPad users must install the new mobile configuration pro-

files on Cal Poly’s website.Mac OS X and iOS users

should click “OK” if prompt-ed with the informational certificate “clearcampus-pass.” Windows and Android users should see no pro-gramming interruptions.

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Secure Mustang Wireless to run faster with new Internet system

senior Caitlin Martin said. “If they don’t have room for them in the freshman dorms, then they shouldn’t be admitted. It’s just adding to the impacting problem we already have.”

University Housing doesn’t have plans to accommodate more freshmen next year, but they do plan on keeping the current room conversions, Serjeant said.

There is only talk about building a new University Housing residence.

“As far as I know, there is preliminary discussion for a potential housing complex to

be built on the current Grand Avenue parking lot site,” Ser-jeant said.

On-campus housing was not the only entity affected by the increase in the new class. Off-campus entities, such as California-West, Inc. — a real estate management company — saw a difference in num-bers as well.

There is normally a fluctua-tion in the number of appli-cants that California-West, Inc. sees. From 2008 to 2010, the numbers were low, but they are picking up.

“We saw approximately a 15 percent increase in rental applications this past season, from April through August,” California-West, Inc. Presi-

dent Derek Banducci said.Lease renewals with the com-

pany and their residents were consistent in past years, but something changed this year.

“Many property owners did increase rents compared with the previous year,” Banducci said. “Typical increases were around 5 to 8 percent.”

The Cal Poly Recreation Center noticed changes as well. Greg Avakian, assistant director of Associated Stu-dents, Inc. recreational sports, said its busiest hours still re-main at noon, and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. However, he said there has been a notewor-thy increase in the number of people using the gym between 9:30 and 11:00 a.m.

To adjust to this increase, more staff members were added to the membership and front desk areas.

“We did process 3,960 new hand key registrations in the month of September,” Ava-kian said.

During Week of Welcome, the Recreation Center was open until 1 a.m. to accom-modate potential needs, Ava-kian said.

The Recreation Center’s busiest day in the first week of Fall Quarter was Tuesday, Sept. 24, with the entry num-ber reaching 6,591 people, Avakian said.

Robert E. Kennedy Library also saw increases in student visitors. In the first two weeks

of school, students entered the library more than 70,000 times, which is an increase from last year by 7,000, univer-sity librarian Anna Gold said.

Over the summer, more fur-niture was ordered to provide more seating for the third floor to accommodate the change, Gold said. The library also ordered more mobile whiteboards to provide col-laboration areas for students.

“One of our challenges this summer was to cre-ate new space on the third floor of the library for an ex-panded home for the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, which is cur-rently based on the second floor in the library,” she said.

“We moved over 200,000 books to achieve this goal, and we’re very pleased that we still gained seats for stu-dents in the process.”

Students can also expect to see more computers and seats in the 216B computer lab in November, Gold said.

The freshmen increase in the student body was not just by chance. There was a plan.

“Overall funding for Cal Poly, combined with in-creased graduation rates, provided more opportuni-ties for new student growth,” Maraviglia said.

Maraviglia also said that the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Engineering will see the most growth.

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Respondents to a school-wide survey reported 14,000 wireless devices — an increase from the 6,000 reported last year.

Zachary Antoyan is a politi-cal science senior and Mus-tang News liberal columnist. These views do not neces-sarily reflect the opinion or editorial coverage of Mustang News.

Dear New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie,

I’ve been hearing a lot about you from the other side of the country for a few years now. I can say that most of who I consider to be big names on the Repub-lican front frustrate me to some extent.

Your buddy John Boehner is all kinds of unorganized, Sarah Palin is both crazy and clueless, John McCain is so much of a war hawk that I’m afraid he is going to join the Bear Revolution and Michelle Bachman, I mean, have you seen her Time Magazine cover photo? It’s clear to me that your col-

leagues are radical, as they are so focused on hitting anger points and using aggressive political tactics to achieve their goals that they neglect their own responsibilities as government officials.

What I mean by this is that they would rather entrench themselves in their ideolo-gies and shut themselves off to differing points of view than pick their battles and actively seek new methods to see their goals realized. When people refer to Wash-ington as a “political arena,” I fear that your counterparts take this literally and ap-proach their daily lives with a kill-or-be-killed attitude. To an extent, this is under-standable. But when you start to act like John Cena versus Stone Cold Steve Austin, I think something may have gone awry. You understand this — it is clear that you un-derstand this — and that is why I admire your approach to governance.

You have succeeded in separating yourself from the stagnation and impotence

that has been so pervasive as of late. Your recent deci-sion to no longer pursue an appeal to a New Jersey law that legalizes same-sex mar-riage is an example of your ability to choose your path wisely. I can accept that you still oppose the measure, that is your prerogative, but you know your resources and attention can be fo-cused elsewhere.

Your stance is to not ret-roactively govern like those that share your ideological views. Not only do you pick your battles, but you under-stand that the people on the other side of the aisle, so to speak, are not your enemy. Skeletor from He-Man was always our enemy, but Dem-ocrats and independents are not, and your relatively high approval rating from the tra-ditionally liberal state of New Jersey is evidence of this.

Keep fighting the good fight. I’m rooting for you.

This is Zachary Antoyan, hoping that Chrisie reads this at some point. Have a good week.

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Once again, it’s here. Thousands of students will rush to Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Friday night in hopes of watching Cal Poly trounce UC Santa Barbara’s soc-cer team.

And though these thousands will be screaming their Cal Poly support, swearing at ref-erees and hoping for another storm-the-field victory, it will be nothing more than an an-nual anomaly at Cal Poly. Be-cause aside from one night in late October each year, sports at this university don’t receive the support they deserve.

Generous estimates from Cal Poly athletics say the av-erage football game draws 2,000 students and each soc-cer game brings in 1,300. As-suming those numbers are on point, only one in nine stu-dents bother to come out to a game.

Friday, we expect 11,075 at-tendees to be there. The vast ma-jority will be students.

Aside from its obvious impact on school spirit — an issue so lacking at Cal Poly one Associ-ated Students, Inc. presidential hopeful ran an entire campaign on it this past year — fan sup-port is an important factor when it comes to game play. Athletics Director Don Oberhelman told Mustang News earlier this week that head soccer coach Paul Ho-locher believes Cal Poly can win a national championship if only the stands fill up more regularly.

“We have to have the students there,” Oberhelman said. “They make the atmosphere; they make the energy. Students have the ability to impact the out-come of a contest. If they come en masse, support our programs, they can impact the outcome of a contest.

“One can’t do it, 50 can’t do it. Six thousand sure can.”

But it’s not just soccer that’s worth attending to.

In the past year, the football team won a share of the Big Sky conference title and earned a spot in the FCS playoffs. The women’s basketball team won the Big West tournament for the first time in history and traveled to the NCAA tournament. And the baseball team earned its sec-ond-ever bid to the postseason and won for the first time in the NCAA tournament.

Though each of those culmi-nating tournaments took place away from San Luis Obispo, each team provided quality play week in and week out on Cal Poly’s campus. Students came in force to some more notable games, in-cluding the baseball team’s series against Norte Dame, but often they deserve a better showing.

The men’s basketball team turned Mott Athletics Center — which generally sells out for its UC Santa Barbara game and fills stands for weekend matchups — into a formidable home because of the number of students who showed up. The team is currently riding a 14-game home winning streak in conference play.

When speaking with players after the more raucous events,

they leave no doubt that students in the stands can help turn the tide in the game.

That leaves only one question to be answered: Will students take a break from their studies and make that difference more

often across more sports?If you doubt how much fun it

is to cheer on your school with your most passionate peers, keep Friday night’s energy going for Saturday’s football game against Northern Arizona. You’ll see

what you’re missing.

This represents the opinion of the Mustang News editorial board, which includes J.J. Jen-kins, Carly Rickards, Sean Mc-Minn and Olivia DeGennaro.

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More than 11,000 fans will pack Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Friday night, but for the remainder of the year, many Cal Poly sports don’t receive the support they deserve.

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The 8,125 fans packed into Alex G. Spanos Stadium on a chilly night in 2010 remember Chris Gaschen’s right-footed dart that buried itself in the top corner of the net and sent the crowd into a frenzy.

But he doesn’t.“The thing I remember the

most was the moment after the goal,” Gaschen said. “I re-member being mobbed, but in all honesty, I don’t remember striking the ball at all.”

Immortalized in a YouTube video, a giddy head coach Paul Holocher led the charge from the sidelines to mob Gaschen on the field. He was soon joined by students pouring onto the field in spontaneous jubilation.

“It was just exciting,” Gaschen said. “I was like, ‘That’s a lot of people.’”

But, unnoticed by the com-motion, he slipped away from the celebration to collect his breath and walked past streams of revelers that failed

to notice the 5-foot-6 forward who had just changed Cal Poly soccer forever.

“In the moment, I didn’t re-ally care if I got recognition, because it wasn’t about me,” he said. “But for the next few months, people would come up to me and say ‘Hey, great goal.’”

Recently, a stu-dent stopped Gaschen and said the reason he came to Cal Poly was the at-mosphere he saw while watching Gaschen’s strike and the ensuing celebration on television.

Still, Gaschen wasn’t done torturing the Gauchos.

In the three years since his goal, the men’s soccer game against UC Santa Barbara has been named the best rivalry in college soccer and Spanos Stadium has sagged under

the weight of a sellout crowd each time the Gauchos came to town.

In 2011, the Big West Confer-ence moved the rivalry game from its traditional Wednesday night slot — which had forced

students to sprint down the hill after finishing midterms to attend — to a more fan-friend-ly Friday night matchup. The program was rewarded with its first sellout since a 1-0 loss to UC Santa Barbara in 2008.

The energy piercing through

the stands that night in 2011 was quickly zapped by the Gauchos when Sam Garza net-ted a goal to put UC Santa Bar-bara ahead in the 12th minute. Then Cal Poly's senior left back Wes Feighner suffered a knee

injury and was forced to the sideline in the 30th minute.

For more than an hour, the Mustangs desperately searched for a goal that looked as if it might never come. That was, until Cal Poly earned a corner kick in the 79th minute. Kyle

Montgomery flung the ball into the box where Cameron Walters met it with a vicious header that tied the game.

Gaschen, who had received an elbow from a Gaucho defender when Walters netted the equal-

izer, was on the sideline as his bloodied face was stitched up.

Returning to the field with less than 10 minutes to go, Gaschen found himself in a familiar situa-tion — over the ball in the attack-ing zone with the game on the line.

“He made a couple people dive in and at

the last minute he passed the ball off to Kyle,” then-center back Patrick Sigler said. “It was a great pass because he drew a defender in, which gave Kyle the opportunity to run at the last guy. … He beat the guy and the guy took him out.”

The referee raised his hand and pointed to the spot.

The coaching staff looked to the only man who would ever take a penalty in that situa-tion: Sigler.

“They got up and pointed di-rectly at me; they didn’t really say anything,” Sigler said. “I just nodded my head and didn’t talk to anyone as I went up.”

He picked his location and walked into the box in front of 11,075 onlookers.

“I hit my spot and the party was on,” he said.

The photo of Sigler running toward the sidelines with his arms raised like an airplane is now immortalized in a banner on campus.

“At the end of the day, it was like, ‘Did we really just come back in the last five minutes and win?’” Gaschen said. “It was sick.”

The following year, the Gau-chos came back to San Luis Obispo sensing the rivalry might be slipping away from them. For

the first time in 14 years, the Mustangs had gone into Goleta and defeated the Gauchos us-ing an equalizer from midfielder George Malki with a minute to go and a game-winner from Mackenzie Pridham to steal a win on the road.

The last time UC Santa Bar-bara won in San Luis Obispo was 2008.

In 2012, the game was dead-locked late, a familiar place for the two teams. Only one game in the past four years had been decided by more than a goal.

“It was a back and forth game, like they always are,” Malki said. “One team has mo-mentum, then the other team takes it away.”

The Gauchos began to pres-sure the ball in the 76th min-ute, center back Nolan Moore spotted Gaschen open upfield. Moore chipped the ball to Gaschen, but he was too close to the goalkeeper to place a shot on the frame and instead blasted the ball into the keeper, who couldn’t hang on.

“I was making a diagonal run from the right side and the ball just popped loose right to me,” Malki said.

He took a touch, then placed the ball gently into the far corner.

“And after that, it was the most unreal feeling I’ve ever experienced,” he said. “Unreal is the word; it was euphoria. I was on a high.”

The team closed out the final 15 minutes and sent fans on the field for the third consecu-tive year. It marked the first time since 1997 that Cal Poly had defeated UC Santa barba-ra twice in the same year.

Now with Sigler and Gaschen lost to graduation, Malki, senior defender Con-nor Drechsler and senior for-ward Chris Bernardi are the only players left who mobbed Gaschen after his wonder-strike in 2010.

But that doesn’t mean Gaschen’s advice can’t live on.

“Whatever works to get the goal,” he said.

Former men’s soccer forward Chris Gaschen ended Cal Poly’s seven-game winless streak against UC Santa Barbara when he scored a golden goal in the 2010 installment of the Blue-Green Rivalry. The Mustangs have now won three straight at home.

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‘Whatever works:’ the heroes of years past

I hit my spot and the party

was on.PATRICK SIGLER

FORMER CENTER BACK, MEN’S SOCCER

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MEET THE MEN ON THE PITCH

Connor DrechslerSenior defender

Mike HockerSenior midfielder

George MalkiSenior midfielder

Mackenzie PridhamSenior forward

Kody WakasaSophomore defender

Wade HamiltonSophomore goalkeeper

Ruben DuranSophomore defender

KIp ColveySophomore defender

Chase MinterSophomore midfielder

Ronald Medrano WilliamsSenior midfielder

Matt LaGrassaSophomore midfielder

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Daniel WelshSenior defender

Achille CampionSenior defender

Drew MurphyFreshman midfielder

Fifi BaidenSenior midfielder

Goffin BoyokoSenior midfielder

Ismaila JomeFreshman forward

Josh McNeelyFreshman goalkeeper

Kevin Garcia-LopezJunior defender

Nick DepuyFreshman forward

Paul EhmannFreshman forward

Peter SchmetzSenior defender

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1,123.That’s about 10 percent of

Alex G. Spanos Stadium’s cur-rent total capacity.

And that’s how many fans attended the Cal Poly soccer team’s home match against UC Santa Barbara in 2006. Paul Holocher had just taken the reins as head coach, and the newly renovated Spanos Stadium became the new home of Cal Poly football

and soccer.The Gauchos were victo-

rious in that mid-October match, extending their win streak against Cal Poly to 11.

Though that 1,123 atten-dance mark was Cal Poly’s highest in 2006, Holocher wasn’t satisfied.

He came to Cal Poly with a vision.

He wanted the community of San Luis Obispo to con-nect with Cal Poly soccer. He wanted to create an exciting environment around the ri-

valry. And importantly, he wanted to shatter the atten-dance records.

The Blue-Green Rivalry has existed since 1994, but it ex-ploded in 2007.

On Oct. 17, Cal Poly held a “Break the Attendance” record night against UC Santa Barbara.

“The former attendance re-cord for soccer was about 3,000 fans,” Holocher said. “That night we had over 7,000 people attend.”

7,143, to be exact. And for the first time in seven years,

Cal Poly won.Just 10 months after the

Gauchos claimed their first-ever NCAA Division I Cham-pionship, Cal Poly came out on top with a 2-1 victory.

“2007 was my second year at Cal Poly, and it was just an amazing feeling to beat them,” Holocher said. “Ever since that first day, the games had been incredibly competitive. One goal games. Overtime games. Rushing-the-field type games. There hasn’t been one of these games that haven’t been ab-solutely thrilling. There’s so much energy in the stands and so much adrenaline on the field.”

And the next year, that en-ergy was at capacity. For the first time in Spanos’ history, 11,075 fans filled the stands, marking the first ever men’s soccer sellout.

One of those spectators was Mackenzie Pridham, now the Mustangs’ leading scorer in his fifth season at Cal Poly. That 2008 sellout was Prid-ham’s first taste of the Blue-Green Rivalry; as a senior in high school, his official visit to Cal Poly happened to fall on the same day.

“It seemed to be like an-other realm of European-type feel to it,” Pridham said. “The entire student body was going crazy. Constant chants and cheering for the team and the soccer was obvious-

ly so intense as well. When I came in as a freshman I was so excited for that game.”

Since that night, Pridham has become a fixture of Cal Poly soccer. Last year, the senior forward became the first player in program history to earn Big West Offensive Player of the Year honors.

He’s also seen his fair share of UC Santa Barbara. Prid-ham scored a game-winning goal against the Gauchos last year to give Cal Poly its first victory in Goleta since 1998.

“I think they have a lot more respect for us now than they did back then,” Holocher said. “We were just the standard kid on the block back then. Now they realize that when they come up to Cal Poly, they’re coming into the lion’s den in a way.”

In his Cal Poly career, Prid-ham has played in or been on the sidelines for nine Blue-Green Rivalry games, but there’s been no loss of inten-sity through the years.

“The only way it’s changed in my eyes, is I feel I’ve become more of a crucial player in the game,” Pridham said. “Being able to step on the field and be there, the only way I can explain it is, once you get out there, you get the chills up your body from excitement and adrenaline.”

Midfielder George Malki feels that sensation from the time he rests his head the night

before game day. It takes Malki hours to fall asleep, and the time leading up to kickoff feels like an eternity.

“Once we get in that locker room, you don’t even need motivation; you have unlim-ited energy,” Malki said. “The atmosphere is so electric. The adrenaline takes over. You can’t really feel anything. If you have a knock, you don’t feel it. Energy is at an all time high. That day, I get goosebumps just thinking about it.”

But Malki’s favorite part of the Blue-Green Rivalry comes after the game, assuming Cal Poly is victorious.

For the past few years, the winning team’s fans pour onto the field and celebrate alongside the players.

“Never gets old,” Malki said. “In my four years here, it’s probably my favorite moment every year, getting that W against SB and all those fans rushing the field. It makes us as a team happy. We’re giving these fans what they deserve.”

CollegeSoccerNews.com ranked the Blue-Green Ri-valry college soccer’s num-ber one rivalry. With a game of that stature, it’s easy to get caught up in the noise.

“To be honest, on the field it’s hard to hear yourself,” Pridham said. “The stadium is just roaring, you can barely

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THE RIVALRY: A HISTORY

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see HISTORY, pg. 7

And Oberhelman credits soc-cer’s overall popularity increase to the annual home match against UC Santa Barbara.

“I think it totally has every-thing to do with (Holocher) and the job that he’s done in creating, masterfully, this ri-valry with them — in creat-ing this energy and this buzz around this one game,” he said.

But Holocher isn’t satisfied yet.“We hope, in the future, that

we can create even more ri-valry feels against UC Davis, against Northridge,” he said.

And in order to do that, he hosts marketing meetings once a week with the Man-glers, now an official Cal Poly club, and a group of stu-dent marketing interns.

President of the Manglers and biological sciences junior Kean Vaziry said those meet-ings consist of planning ahead and brainstorming outreach ideas with the coaches.

“(Holocher) is super pas-sionate about getting a large, loyal turnout to all the games,” Vaziry said. “He’s just like one of us; he’s excit-ed to be out there. He loves the sport, he loves the team, he wants the Manglers to personify all the happiness and love he feels.”

“We feel everyone is a po-tential fan of soccer,” Holo-cher said, revealing the logic behind his strategy. “At some level, everyone’s played the game. Maybe you played a

couple years of soccer grow-ing up. Maybe they just need to revisit the game and see more people out there to catch the bug.”

Oberhelman believes that assumption — “everyone’s played the game” — is an-other factor contributing to the rising popularity of col-lege soccer.

“What’s different now ver-sus 20 years ago is you all played soccer,” he said. “And, my generation ... very few of us played soccer.”

And the vibe on campus re-flects that.

That’s why, much to Ober-helman’s frustration, Cal Poly is often referred to as a “soccer school.” In a survey of 59 Cal Poly students, 52 — or 88.1 percent — wrote they consider soccer to be the most popular sport on cam-pus. Four said football and three said basketball.

“I don’t want to be associated with just one sport,” Oberhel-man said. “I want to be Cal Poly. And I don’t want to be pigeonholed into somebody thinking we’re only decent in one sport, because we’re pretty good across the board.”

Not only is it frustrating to Oberhelman to be “pigeon-holed” — it’s confusing. Both he and Associate Athletics Director Chris Baker are quick to point out football is still the lead in terms of stu-dent attendance.

On average, approximately 2,000 students attend each home football game, while 1,200 attend soccer games,

according to Baker. Those numbers, based on the 2012 season, were gathered by counting the number of stu-dent tickets distributed at the entrance of each game.

And while Baker has wit-nessed soccer’s popularity increase since Holocher took over, he believes the game against UC Santa Barbara skews the big picture.

“The student interest, for the most part, is based on one soccer game,” Baker said.

Of the 52 students surveyed who chose soccer as the most popular sport on campus, 18 of them cited the UC Santa Barbara game as proof.

Still, there’s a clash between the data collected from Cal Poly Athletics and the gen-eral feeling on campus. There are a number of variables that could contribute to the con-flict, including the days of the week each team plays, the number of games they have before students arrive on campus and the accuracy of the ticket-counting method.

The student attendance num-bers don’t peg soccer as the most popular sport on cam-pus, but the rise is undeniable.

In 2006 — Holocher’s first year as head coach — an av-erage of 486 people attended each home game. By 2012, that number increased by more than 500 percent to 2,709 fans.

“It was always a vision to increase the fan support,” he said. “I didn’t know that it would get this big.”

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talk to your players that are just five yards away. It’s a little hard to get too distracted be-cause of how much you need to focus. When a ball goes out of bounds — even when there’s a light break — walk-ing away and looking at all the people, it’s pretty special.”

And at the end of the day, the UC Santa Barbara game is one of 10 Big West Conference games for the Mustangs.

Holocher acknowledges the significance and admires the tradition of the rivalry, but re-mains focused on the game. His players assume the same level-headedness as well, he says.

“As a coach, every game is equally important,” Holocher said. “You can’t deny that the

game is special in its own right. I just enjoy the fact that this is a great memory for the stu-dents and for the community and for the players. We want to go out there and embrace the opportunity and embrace the passion that’s in the air.”

That passion will be in full force this Friday as the Blue-Green Rivalry’s next chapter is written.

Cal Poly has its first win-ning streak against UC Santa Barbara since the late 1990s, but the Gauchos are as strong as ever, posting a perfect 5-0 conference record and rank-ing at No. 3 in the NCAA Di-vision I RPI poll.

“Every game has grown in excitement and attendance,” Holocher said. “And, quite honestly, in the level of play as well. You’re looking at future professionals on the field. But,

more importantly there’s two great schools that are really clinging the spirit of what col-lege athletics are all about.”

Seven years ago, nearly 10,000 seats in Spanos Sta-dium were empty when UC Santa Barbara came to town.

This Friday, Cal Poly students and spectators alike will flood down South Perimeter Road into the depths of Spanos Sta-dium, filling it to the brim.

Fans will climb trees and scale fences, just to catch a glimpse of college soccer’s No. 1 rivalry.

“It’s grown into something even more than I originally envisioned,” Holocher said. “But not something I thought was impossible. I think now it’s truly an example at the national level of what college soccer can be as a spectator sport.

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It was always a vision to increase the fan support. I didn’t know that it would

get this big.PAUL HOLOCHER

MEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH

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Athletics Director Don Oberhelman can’t pick a fa-vorite Cal Poly sport — to him, it would be like a parent trying to pick their favorite child.

But he also can’t deny the obvious: Soccer is on the rise.

“And it’s going to continue to go; it’s going to continue to rise,” Oberhelman said of soccer’s increasing popular-ity among Cal Poly students — which he largely attributes to men’s soccer head coach Paul Holocher.

Holocher’s marketing tac-tics are near-famous on campus; a student who par-ticipated in a Mustang News survey about Cal Poly ath-letics wrote, “A lot of people don't realize that it is Coach Holocher who really puts in the effort to fill those seats at every game. It is really

because of his efforts ... that drives the popularity of our soccer team.”

During an interview with Holocher in his cluttered, bustling office (four people knocked on his door dur-ing the span of a 20-minute interview), a half-listening midfielder George Malki in-terjected only once — at the mention of Holocher’s mar-keting strategies.

“The best in town,” Malki said, nodding at his coach.

But Holocher, a former business major and profes-sional soccer player, doesn’t fit the archetype of a market-ing expert. He isn’t aggressive or pushy; in fact, he speaks softly and his sentences are full of thoughtful pauses.

“When I came here, there wasn’t a lot of fan support, may-be a few hundred people per game,” Holocher said. “So we saw a great opportunity to de-velop the product on the field,

develop the quality of play and also develop the fanbase.”

So he did.On Oct. 17, 2007 — 18

months after becoming head coach — Holocher and his team broke both the atten-dance record for Cal Poly soccer and a 12-match losing streak against UC Santa Bar-bara. More than 7,000 people showed up to that match, and the Mustangs won 2-1.

“The next year, we had 11,000 people,” Holocher said, mean-ing Alex G. Spanos Stadium was at maximum capacity.

According to both Oberhel-man and Holocher, the Blue-Green Rivalry was virtually nonexistent prior to that win.

“We lit the fire for that ri-valry,” Holocher said. “We were getting beat by them for 13 years and basically we said, ‘Enough of this. We can beat you. We can play with you.’”

see RISE, pg. 7

CARLY RICKARDS@CarlyRickards

THE RISE

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arts 9Thursday, October 24, 2013

Food Network star Alton Brown blends the art of cooking with the mechanics of science in a way that would make Walter White envious.

His Edible Inevitable Tour will showcase Brown’s droves of talents, including stand-up comedy, singing and, of course, culinary chemistry. He will stop by the Christo-pher Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Oct. 26, and it promises to be a food experience like none before.

This past year, Brown held a lecture on food science and a post-show meet and greet. Now, Brown’s performance is a “much larger production,” Cal Poly Arts Director Ste-ven Lerian said.

Brown’s Edible Inevitable Tour is a multi-course performance

showcasing an entree of culi-nary kookiness, a side of humor and a science lesson à la carte.

“There are effects, all this in-teresting lighting and lots of hands-on demonstration,” Le-rian said. “There’s also a poncho zone, which means there’s lots of things flying around. You may be splattered with water, food, whatever might be propelled from the stage.”

Architecture sophomore Car-men Muller, who attended Brown’s 2012 event, is a self-proclaimed fan of Brown’s.

“I didn’t really know what his show would be like, but I want-ed to go see him because I like his humor and that he brings science into cooking,” she said. “His show was very entertain-ing. It was different from any other type of show I’ve been to.”

Brown’s tour is a concert, a lecture, a comedy routine and a cooking demonstration

all in one.“(My tour) is a culinary variety

show,” Brown said. “It is a com-bination of two very large, very

strange food demonstrations that I promise no one has seen before,” he said. “There are pup-pets, there’s stand-up comedy, there’s a good bit of audience in-teraction and there’s four or five songs. So that will all go together to hopefully make an enjoyable couple of hours. There’s no danc-

ing or juggling, but other than that, we’ve got it.”

Though Brown is known as one of the primary faces of

Food Network for his long-running show “Good Eats” and as the host of “Iron Chef America,” food was not his first love. In fact, cooking be-gan as just a gimmick.

“(Cooking) was something that I really got into when I was in college as a hobby because

it helped me get dates,” Brown said with a chuckle. “Back in the 1980s, it was unusual for guys to cook, so it got me a little extra attention.”

Brown attended University of Georgia and studied cinema-tography and video directing. Having a career surrounding food, however, hasn’t dwindled Brown’s fondness for film — it’s enhanced it.

“I’ve never thought of myself as a chef,” Brown said, “I’m a filmmaker who makes enter-tainment products surround-ing food.”

And Brown, the inventive food-equivalent to Bill Nye the Science Guy, provided a quick solution for students on a budget and time crunch: a panini press.

“When I was a college stu-dent, I would steal food from the cafeteria, go home and cook the food in my panini

press,” Brown said. “You can cook anything in a panini press, including fresh vege-tables. I use one all the time, but I almost never cook pa-ninis in it.”

Outside of food, in Brown’s small amount of free time, he dabbles in a multitude of eclec-tic areas. A true renaissance man, Brown has penned several books, plays various instruments and has even piloted planes.

“Life is short,” he said. “You got to do everything you can do, and do it as well as you can do it. I put a lot of stock trying to innovate and be original with what I do and that just kind of keeps me driven.”

Never found without donning a bow-tie, Brown adds a dash of geeky genius to his craft that is not only intellectually stimulat-ing but also manages to appeal to all age groups. The show begins at 8 p.m.

Electronic duo Empire of the Sun will hit the Central Coast for the first time Saturday night at Avila Beach Resort as part of its larger tour promoting its new album Ice on the Dune. The Australian band is known for its first single “Alive” and the global hit “Walking on a Dream.” The band can be recognized by its unique electronic dance-style music as well as crazy costumes

that call to mind both ancient and futuristic civilizations.

Fresh off headlining the HARD Summer festival, the ec-centric duo will bring that same theatrical energy to the stage on the beach.

“Their whole experience is jaw-dropping visuals, danc-ing swordfish girls and worldly special effects,” Collective Ef-fort Events co-owner Tyrone Galgano said. “It is almost like a theatrical performance. There are costume changes through-

out the performance.”MTV Australia described

the band as a mixture be-tween the world of “Sparta” and the computer game “Tron” with back-up dancers from “Blade Runner.”

Audience members who are inspired by the band’s playful and dramatic vibes are encour-aged to dress up in costume, es-pecially since the concert is so close to Halloween.

“The music is very upbeat, so it is definitely going to keep

people on their feet and dancing throughout the night,” Galgano said. “One of their hit singles is titled ‘Alive,’ and everything is focused on that word itself.”

Chemistry junior Jenny Stenger-Smith first started lis-tening to Empire of the Sun in high school and is excited to at-tend the concert this weekend.

“I like their music because it is catchy and really fun to dance to,” Stenger-Smith said. “I’m most excited to have an amazing time danc-

ing to awesome music with the rest of the crowd.”

The opening act, indie rock band Basic Vacation, will be playing hits off of its self-titled debut album that was released this month.

The venue boasts a south-facing beach, a wide open grass lawn, a full bar and food avail-able for purchase. Seating is general admission, so audience members can move around the venue or even bring a lawn chair and sit in the putting area

toward the back.“If you want, you can muscle

your way up to the stage and be close to the stage and enjoy the concert from that view,” Otter Productions, Inc. owner Bruce Howard said. “Or if you want to get a beer or glass of wine, or just go and chill, you are not stuck in one place.”

Tickets are still available and Cal Poly students can re-ceive a $10 discount by buy-ing tickets at the PolyTix of-fice anytime this week.

Food Network’s Alton Brown to serve up a stop at PAC

TAYLOR STEINBECK@taysteinMD

I’ve never thought of myself as a chef. I’m a filmmaker who makes entertainment

products surrounding food.ALTON BROWN

FOOD NETWORK HOST AND CHEF

Empire of the Sun to take Avila by stormKELLY TROM @kttrom

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID ALLEN

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