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In homes for six months, whether or Jessica Barba Guevara said they have rented sev again. dustry experts say it’s difficult to say not they make payments, if they MUSTANG DAILY eral apartments to couples, and they “At least for me, I just really how many families are in that situ turn over their property deed. have never had any difficulties with wanted to live on my own, and liv ation nationally because only banks Such policies may partly reflect Kit Schimandle, a former Cal the partners trying to get out of ing with him was already like hav know for sure how many customers the fact that lenders can’t keep up Poly student, met her boyfriend their leases. ing a roommate, so it would be have stopped paying entirely. with all the foreclosures, some say. during the first month of school, and “Usually when that happens, like living with a friend rather than But Rick Sharga of Irvine, Calif., “The mortgage lenders are so by May they both decided it would they don’t get new roommates and someone random,” Axsom said. RealtyTrac data tracker notes that backlogged that some people are be a good idea to live together the they finish up the year. They are al They had been dating for a little the number of loans in which the able to slip through the cracks,” said following year. By June they had ways aware of their lease terms so over a year when they decided to borrower hasn’t made a payment in Kathryn Davis, a real estate agent at broken up but still remained friends, they don’t try to get out of it,” Gue live together. Santoianni said the 90 days or more but is not in fore America’s Real Estate Advocates in and for the next months, their rela vara said.“It is life, and not everyone idea came up casually, and despite Corona. tionship was on-and-off. stays together, but for the most part, having had a bad experience co closure is at 5.1 percent nationally, a That was apparently the case for “I started dating someone else we have had good experiences with habiting with another girlfriend, he record high. And yet the number of the Harrisons, who were told at so it was really awkward, and then 1 couples and no police have ever knew this time was going to be dif foreclosures last year was 2.9 mil various times that their house had brought a boy home and he got re been involved.” ferent. Axsom agreed. lion, below the 3.2 million that Re been sold, that it belonged to some ally pissed. I avoided it all fall quarter, The number of cohabiting cou “I was nervous at first ‘cause I’d altyTrac economists predicted. one else and that it was empty. but it was hard talking to my boy ples in 2007 was 6.4 million, a 22 never lived with a boyfriend, but for More evidence is provided by “It’s been frustrating, a real major friend with him around, and 1 didn’t percent increase from the previous our part it just felt natural just com another firm, ForeclosureRadar, pain in the buttocks,” said Eugene want to move,” Schimandle said. year, according to USA Today. Also, ing home, having him be there. It which says it now takes an average Harrison, a nondenominational They put two beds in the room the number of cohabiting couples made it a lot easier to have our sepa of 229 days for a bank to foreclose minister with a clipped mustache they shared in their Mustang Vil made 10 percent of all couples in rate lives ‘cause we knew we would on a home in California after send and a sudden laugh. lage apartment, but when the situa the U.S., including those married be coming home to each other,” ing a notice of default, up from 146 The Harrisons missed their first tion become too uncomfortable for and engaged. Axsom said. days in August 2008. payment in October 2008, shortly Schimandle, she asked her parents The data showed that half of the When asked if the couple had “For some reason, banks are be after Patricia Harrison, 57, lost her to pay for the rest of her lease and non-married couples now living any problems since moving in, she ing more lenient with homeown job as a healthcare aide and her hus moved into Poly Canyon. together had never been married said while they have argued, they are ers who are behind on their loans,” band’s part-time towing work dried “Now 1 don’t know why we previously and were under the age no different from any other couple. Sharga said. “Whether it’s a strategy up.They said they applied for a loan both thought it was going to last,” of 30. Santoianni said the biggest conflict to try and slow down the volume modification with Countrywide she said.“We never didn’t get along, Despite statistics and research the couple has faced was just decid of foreclosures or simply a matter and that’s why we are still friends done by organizations like Colum ing where to live. of the banks being able to keep Financial (since acquired by Bank today, but we weren’t working to bia University that show only 26 “I grew up in Morro Bay and up with volume is something that of America) but were told that they gether in a relationship.” percent of women and 19 percent she grew up in Los Osos, and 1 hat banks only know for sure.” couldn’t receive one until they were She said living together isn’t for of the men marry the person with ed Los Osos, but we moved to Los Lenders say the trend reflects three months behind on their pay everyone, and couples planning whom they were cohabiting, living Osos,” Santoianni said. their efforts to work with borrow ments. So they stopped paying. to move in together should have together is something that many Now as the couple prepares ers to modify loans to avoid foreclo In April 2009, they received a a back-up plan just in case things couples still consider. to move into a new apartment in sure. Bank of America “continues notice warning them that their don’t work out. After moving out and then back Morro Bay, Santoianni said living to exhaust every possible option to property “may be sold at a public After a couple breaks up, choos in with their families, C'al Poly jour with Axsom has worked out better qualify customers for modification sale." and in July, they were told their ing who gets the apartment be nalism senior Alisha Axsom and her than he had imagined. or other solutions,” spokeswoman house was a bank-owned property. comes the next issue. McNamara boyfriend Keith Santoianni were “I wouldn’t see it any other Jumana Bauwens said. 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Others pack extra blankets, food homeless campers and people from less, but he had to borrow a tent mer Marine who has been homeless and clothing in storage tents. the community who come to the from a friend. since October. “I’ve got one of the best fire pits The campers get their tents, camps with donations. At Miss Kitty’s camp, where Mi around,” Miss Kitty says proudly. sleeping bags, propane heaters and Charles Henry I )emers owned chelle Mead also lives, there’s also a Afternoon Arrives Miss Kitty and several other other accoutrements from a vari the blankets, Coleman stove and lot of sharing. “We all have to take care of each After lunch, some of the camp other. We share blankets and food,” ers head to Penrose Library to get said her 58-year-old neighbor, Earl. warm, read the paper and hop on “If we don’t watch out for each the computer to check e-mails or other, no one else is going to.” look for jobs. Bob says lie’s been plugging away The Day Begins at the library looking for a job as a mechanic but hasn't had any luck. From the moment they wake up, “You can’t let it get to you,” he many campers have one sure desti says. “You’ve got to keep positive.” nation in mind: the Marian House Mead says her job search is hin soup kitchen. Those with grills or dered by a lack of transportation. propane stoves might heat up some She's gotten bus passes from social instant coffee first or grab a snack service agencies, but said a person from whatever food they have has to have an appointment with stockpiled in their camps. a clear destination before getting a But most rely on Marian House pass. That means she can get a pass for their first real meal of the day, for a job interview, she said, but not and most will walk there regardless one to gather applications. of the weather. Another post-Marian House “I go there to get a balanced destination is the nearby Ecumeni meal," says Mead, w ho walks from cal Social Ministries, which is about her camp to the soup kitchen. the only place in town where peo The soup kitchen doesn’t open ple who aren't in shelters or long until 10:30 a.m. (8:45 a.m. on Sun term programs can bathe. But only days) so Mead walks her dog. Joker, two stalls are available, and the hours takes care ot some errands and puts are limited: (f a.m. to 3 p.m. Mon- in volunteer hours that are a re day-Friday. Even with a 15-minute- quirement for her food stamps. She per-person limit, the lines can get used to get up at 4 a.m. to look for long — especially in winter, because day labor jobs, “but there ain't no campers wait to shower until later work,” she laments. It’s a common in the day w hen temperatures warm refrain among campers. up. ESM officials say only about 34 Others have had better luck at people a day can grab a.$hov day labor centers. 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' ~ Briefs Spring cleaning State National International SAN LUIS OBISPO WASHINGTON (MCT) CHINA (MCT) — China made easy (MCT)— A Niponio man was The Obama administration finds announced Thursday the smallest sentenced Thursday to IS years to itself in the uncomfortable posi increase in its defense budget in life in state prison for the molesta tion of considering whether to years, in an apparent attempt to Cleaning house without the garbage, tion of his niece over the course of reverse its politically-charged pol assuage international fears that its three years. icy on where to try Khalid Sheikh military is growing too powerful. finding new uses for old things The girl told her mom what was Mohammed, the alleged master Coming after almost two de happening, and Lealcalderon told mind of the 9-11 terror attacks. cades of double-digit increases, Amanda Kwan involved in reusing an object, I’d say sheriffs investigators that he may Ever since the announcement the relatively modest 7.5 percent ASSOCIATED PRESS don’t do it,” Baird said in an e-mail. have penetrated the girl twice when that Mohammed would be tried increase m the budget to $78 bil For everything else, repurposing they were playing “horsey,” but said in a civilian court in New York lion also highlights the Chinese Springtime is here again, and often requires a little washing up and he didn’t rape her, according to the City, the administration has been leadership’s stated commitments with it the annual tradition of clean a touch of imagination. The next 1 district Attorney’s Office. caught between irate Republi to channel funding to social pro ing house. But that doesn’t have to time you’re contemplating giving Prosecutor Clreg Devitt negoti cans, who argue that a military grams. mean bag after bag of garbage. something the old heave-ho, here are ated the plea agreement that led to trial is more appropriate, and hu • • • Given fears of a recession and 10 tips to give it new use. the sentence with defense attorney man rights activists, who praised CHILE (MCT) — The Chil worries about overflowing landfills, 1. OLD DISHES, NEW PLANT Michael Adams Lealcalderon plead administration officials for fulfill ean government said Thursday there’s new incentive to find second ER ed no contest to the felony crimes ing their pledge to do what they that correcting errors in tabulat lives for many household items. Filling large outdoor planters of committing a lewd act on a child considered to be morally right. ing the victims in Saturday’s dev “We can’t afford to keep living with soil for a small plant can be younger then age 14 and sexual • • • astating earthquake may reduce disposable lives,” said Lori Baird, a costly. Pieces of a broken clay pot or penetrating with a child younger NEWYORK (MCT) — New the death toll, even as a second, co-author of “Don’t Throw It Out: ceramic dish help drainage and prop then age 10. York Gov. David Paterson, his unrelated temblor shook north Recycle and Reuse to Make Things up undersized plants. Place shards at • • • confidence apparently buoyed by ern Chile. Last,” a compendium from Yankee the bottom of a large pot until almost FRESNO (MCT)— A trial be a show of support from influential President Michelle Bachelet magazine. “It makes sense for all of half the pot is full. 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Rhiannon Montgomery major. the wine business, Onysko said. facility, where he started as a cel val April 24 at the Santa Margarita M USTANG DAILY Anthony Youton, Davis’ former He said teachers have the knowl lar-rat after graduating. Ranch. classmate and the owner of Kinero edge to take students from “grapes He isn’t alone in finding suc Graduates like You Cal Poly wine and viticulture Cellars wine, said Cal Poly’s intern to glass.’" Davis, Youton and Ony cess outside the box in the short ton and the Davis students are working to keep the ship requirement gives students a sko said they believe the hands-on time since he graduated from the brothers give cel- ancient celebration of fermented leg up in the industry. Fie said the experience and connections are program. Davis said he and fruit alive. university gets support from local what make the program special. co-owner Brian (also The relatively new program has wineries like Orcutt Road Cellars Youton and Davis said they his twin brother) took turned students from ‘cellar-rats' where Cal Poly wine is made. took those connections and the a chance to find their into successful winemakers rival “You hit the ground running. learn-by-doing philosophy with niche in the industry, ing programs at Fresno State and You can walk into the winery them and used it to start their own so they could be stand University of California, Davis. knowing how to do everything," businesses. They both said they outs. Nick Davis. 2007 wine and viti Youton said. didn't have the capital to be tra With more than culture graduate and co-owner of The programs' three concen ditional wineries. There's a saying 1.2(H) facilities TWINPOMS wine, said with the trations encompass all aspects of m the industry that it takes a large making wine in connections to the local industry. wine production and manage fortune to make a small fortune. C a 1 i to r n i a Cal Pole otters unique opportuni ment. Etiology is about the science They are blazing new paths in ge t - ties in the wine-making business. of winemaking, viticulture focuses the business to side-step the capital rats like “Cal Poly will be the top-notch on the vineyard and the agribusi issues. These small start-ups don't facility in the next few years be ness concentration highlights the have their own wineries, tasting something cause of the experience opportu ins and outs of working m the rooms or major distributors. They nities,” 1 )avis said. wine industry, left Onysko is vice buy their fruit from growers and forw ard Davis said the programs at Fres president of the Vines to Wines make the wine at established to after no and U.C. Davis don't have the club and a wine and viticulture crushing facilities. local trade to support a large num senior. He said the program em Youton said he still keeps his ber of students looking for work phasizes what it's like to be in the day job as winemaker at Dernier ing the or internships. There are more real-world industry. Cellars, but was able to start Ins than 4(H) wineries in San Luis Part of that real-world experi own label in the summer of 2008 Obispo County, giving students ence conics from learning from when a friend at Villa Creek of C )nvsko the opportunity to work in their professors who have worked in fered to let him make wine at their aid w as ver\
M m r im pressed i f ' when he re ting cently met with customers Youton. to buy a new Onysko said he wants product isn't easy. to be a winemaker and Youton and the Davis’ don't believes the program will wait around to be discovered. play a huge part in fulfill They take their wines out for ing that goal. tasting and work their connections “I would love to make to get their labels recognition. some wine, have people en TWIN POMS will be a part of joy it and, of course, make m m m the upcoming Cal Poly wine festi- money,” Onysko said.
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Measurements if you’re buy- MReal Estate c Nand Property a m Management a r a ter bedrooms, Roellchen said. brazi lheights@charter. net 390 Higuera Street San Luts Obispo CA 93401 Customers want casual draperies see Drapes, page 19 M ustang D aily ; A rts ; When he was recruited to 1 )uke, he Dorms insisted on living with his family in a continuedfrom page 17 dorm, in an attempt to recapture the experience he had as an undergrad at since she was 12. She lives there Harvard, where faculty members live with her parents, Hob and Kathryn, in “houses” with students and act as and their dog, Oshie, a friendly mutt advisers. The idea is to eliminate bar named for a Swiss lake. riers between faculty and students and For Maeve, 1 )uke dorm life was enhance the academic experience. a dramatic change from the subur “I figured this would be the most ban bliss of Annapolis, Md., where efficient way to learn this new uni the family lived before Bob Cook- verse,” he said. “1 learn a whole lot Deegan was recruited away from more about the students hanging out a Stanford University program in with them and then eating breakfast Washington. She left a neighborhood with them.” where her best friend lived next door The faculty-in-residence model is For Breakfast, and moved into a cramped room at not common at Triangle universities, the back of the Cook-Deegan com though N.C. State started a program Lunch, & Dinner pound, a retrofitted apartment fash this year aimed at bringing a faculty ioned from several standard dorm member to live in a residence hall. Daily Happy Hour Specials rooms. Broad St. Foothill Blvd. The apartment is long and narrow, Round-The-Clock Job 805.541.9154 805.541.8591 with a spacious kitchen, a cozy living In exchange for free housing, utili room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms ties and wi-fi, Cook-Deegan is both and a giant dog bed for Oshie. a formal and informal adviser to the For Maeve, life has been one slow 120 students who live in Alspaugh. The formal: He helps organize dorm BURRITO SPECIAL DINNER BURRITO transition. When she moved in at age 1-7pm 12, she got funny looks from students events, outings and educational ac Regular Burrito . K • Regular Burrito tivities, though he has no official who may have mistaken her for a CHICKEN, Bill, OR PORK • r m f r chicken, beef, or pork residents little sister. As she grew, she disciplinary duties. The informal: Fie w/alt the fixings cJxi!’ includes becomes a crisis counselor on occa began to fit in more. Now 17, she’s CHIPS & SALSA W/SODA RICE, BEANS, ALL THE FIXINGS just a year or two younger than the sion when an overstressed student bangs on the door in the middle of (sAvt $ 3 .0 0 ) students. $ 5 . 5 5 'must bring this coupon $ 4 . 2 5 *must bring this coupon Still, she doesn’t mix with them the night. much. In fact, the most interaction It’s an arrangement he likes. He she has with students is during fire routinely chats with his students, and drills, which often come on weekends when they camp out in Krzyzews- or late at night. kiville for weeks to score coveted “This year hasn’t been so bad,” said basketball tickets, he brings them cof BREAKFAST SPECIAL BURRITO SPECIAL Maeve, who will enroll at the Uni fee and doughnuts. But while he’s a Buy One Burrito familiar enough presence in the dorm Breakfast Burrito versity of Andrews in Scotland this t > & Get the Other fall. “They’ve learned how to use the that students refer to him simply as , r ¥ Z ' w/FREE COHtt OR SODA “BCD,” there are boundaries. w /all the fixings HALF OFF microwave.” (ri< e, beans, eggs, cheese, potatoes) Dorm life can be frustrating at “I’m not one of the gang,” he said. CHICKEN, BEEF, OR HQRK times. It’s hard to direct friends to her “There’s a definite disconnect be $ 2 . 9 9 ‘must bring this coupon 'must hung this coupon dorm, which is tucked away in the tween the student and the faculty. Ev back of the campus. And when they ery year, I do have very close friend do visit, they risk a parking ticket ships with students, but it’s not the from the campus cops. expectation.” Connie Chai lived in Alspaugh as a A Few Suite Perks freshman and enjoyed having a facul There are bonuses, though, such as ty member living among the students. campus arts events, use of the campus Chai, now a senior, said it was nice to gym and the quiet that comes with have an adult adviser close by,and see winter break. That’s when Maeve has ing a professor outside the classroom the run of the place, so she and her set students at ease. friends can enjoy the rec room and its “You’re seeing him in a different flat-screen television — and pool and setting, and you meet his family and foosball tables. his dog,” she said.“We’d be eating piz Bob Cook-Deegan is a pub za in the common room, and Oshie lic policy professor and director of would come in and try to get a piece Duke's Center for Genome Ethics. of pizza.”
up per panel): Designed to be as Drapes tall, lined and pleated as you want continued from page IS and in any fabric. Open & Delivering • ing ready-made draperies. Making it Personal i i A M “ 2 A M (Thurs - Sat) till a m (Mon - W ed) til 1 2 a m (S u n ) Interior designer Sherry Worth Prices found inexpensive ready-made — Ready-made ($20 to $100 draperies she loved at Ikea. The per panel): Selection of panel col problem: to reach the floor, they ors and patterns, styles and sizes needed to be more than 10 feet MARCH MADNESS vary from store to store. long. Because 124-inch panels W atch the A ction H ere in HD! —Semi-custom ($100 to $150 weren’t available,she found a coor per panel): Hundreds of fabrics dinating fabric she liked and sewed and styles to choose from but lim it to the Ikea panels. To conceal F a v o r i t e ited sizes. the seams, she added bullion fringe d Cal Poly's m z a . —Custom (typically $250 and trim. 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Price easier said than done MUSTANG DAILY to flowers.” and personal budget was a common World Market offers decor from factor that students took into con Moving out of the parents’ Thailand, Indonesia, China, India sideration when purchasing items house means a blank slate. A whole room, or house open for interpreta tion is exciting, but a lot of house decor can be expensive. From Ross to World Market, this is a guide to I like to be a year behind in decorating on a budget. Students and non-students go stuff, I don’t want to be with the through a process of gradually ac cumulating items throughout the Jones’. I’d rather buy items when years. From old roommates’ fur niture to the mirror found on the I generally like them, not when street with a “free” sign, picking up random items is inevitable. Mak they are cool. ing the random work to create a cohesive living room, or an eclec — Fritz Light MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNF. Owning a pet in college is often hard for students. Dogs such as this tic bedroom can depend on a few Cal Poly graduate student good pieces to tie them all together. German shepherd are often hard to keep due to their large size. There is a wide range of shops in Erin Hurley the move from the dorms to off- San Luis Obispo. There is the ex and many other countries. From for their rooms. MUSTANG DAILY campus housing, many of them are pensive World Market, and there is rugs, pillows, candles to lighting, the Environmental management excited at the chance to own pets, the less pricey Ross. market has one of the most thor sophomore Christina McAdams Some Cal Poly students feel which is forbidden in the dorms. Starting with World Market, ough selections to choose from. Cal said that she prefers to go to Bed that a house just isn’t a home Many house and apartment leases, which is located off of Madonna Poly double master student Fritz Bath and Beyond for items, but without a pet. however, do not allow pets either. Road, there is a wide array of de Light said he likes to shop at World only when she can afford it. However, having the comfort Some students will accept the cor from couches to candles. Store Market after a holiday or sale. “I go to Ross because I can still manager Gillian Mote said that “I like to be a year behind in get decent stuff at a good price,” of a pet is often easier discussed condition so they can move into World Market tries to have a wide stuff. I don’t want to be with the McAdams said. “But if I’m looking than obtained. Many San Luis the house or apartment they want. variety of eclectic pieces to choose Jones’. I’d rather buy items when I for something specific, then I have Obispo houses and apartments do Others get more creative. from. generally like them, not when they to spend more money.” not allow renters to own pets, and If students really want to own “We shop the world so custom are cool,” Light said. Ross is one of the most inex students usually have to choose a pet once they move off-campus, ers can enjoy the product and feel Light, who is double mastering pensive stores in San Luis Obispo between giving up the pet or giv they can try to make other ar- like they are on vacation,” Motes in biology as well as agriculture, ing up the house. When Cal Poly students make said. “Unique, authentic, affordable. said that budget has a lot to do with see Decorations, page 23 see Pets, page 22 2 2 M ustang D aily Friday, March 12, 2010 www.mustangdaily.net ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ " ■■ - A r ts — hidden. If a landlord discovers that does allow pets, but they must Pets renters are keeping a pet in secret, weigh less than 25 pounds. The complex also charges renters an continued from page 21 they may terminate the lease and leave the renters without a place extra fee for keeping pets. Jaco- Being a good rangements. Sometimes renters are to live. petti has known 1 )e Tolosa rent willing to discuss the possibility Keeping a pet off-campus can ers who owned a puppy that was of small or well-behaved pets, but be extremely rewarding, but it can under 25 pounds at the time they others refuse to consider any kind also prove to be costly. 1‘ets need first rented their apartment, but tenant requires of pets. This motivates some stu many of the same things as stu the puppy soon grew too large, dents to try to keep pets without dents: food, shelter, medical care and they were forced to move.Ja- the renter knowing. and social contact. Students with copetti is hesitant to make a com Molly Wagman, a nutrition se hectic lives packed with classes, mitment that could threaten her nior, was willing to make sacri- sports, jobs and social activities living situation. common sense tices to keep her beloved cat. In can find it hard to give pets what “The rules for owning a pet Raquel Redding ter it is for you.” her search for a house last spring, they need. Many students also do are a little extreme, and I’d really MUSTANC. DAILY Getting the deposit back is an in not have much extra money for like to have a pet, but personally, Wagman began by only looking at centive to be a good tenant because pets after groceries, rent and other 1 wouldn’t break the lease rules houses with leases that allowed pets. Being a good tenant can mean a the damages done to the apartment costs unless I really wanted that kind of This severely limited her choices, lot of things, like paying rent on time will come out of the deposit. Baker According to PetEducation. pet," Jacopetti said. but she finally succeeded in find and being quiet, but there are other said a good tenant communicates well ing a house on Buchon Street that com, the initial cost of buying a Owning a pet is also a con qualities that are sought by renting with the manager and keeps them in allowed her to keep her cat. How puppy can he up to SI ,000,and the cern for students who are about to companies. To rent a place, whether formed of what's going on. ever. Wagman said she would not costs of taking care of and raising make the move off-campus. Envi it’s an apartment or a house, there are “It there is something wrong with have let a restrictive lease keep her the dog for an average lifespan of ronmental mangement and pro certain things to keep in mind in or the apartment, let them know so we cat out. 14 years can range from $4,000 to tection sophomore Molly Nilsson der to be a good tenant. can fix it," Baker said. “A leak under “1 would have been w illing to almost $39,000. The cost of own is in the midst of searching for a While these are not exactly rules, the kitchen sink could turn into mold hide my cat if I hadn’t found a ing a cat over an average lifespan of place to live off-campus next year. it may be helpful to follow these or rot out the wood, which would lease that allowed pets. 1 definitely 14 years can range from $4,300 to Nilsson said that owning a pet guidelines. Mustang Village general turn into a major repair that could choose my cat first!" Wagman said. over $18,000. would depend on the lease. manager Kathy Baker said being a have been prevented. Give manage Sometimes hiding a pet works, One Cal Poly student had an “ If the lease allowed pets, I'd good tenant goes beyond paying ment a chance to fix a problem.” and sometimes it doesn't. A small unusual experience with a pet. definitely consider a cat,” she rent, although that certainly helps. California-West, Inc. property pet can be easy to hide from a Journalism junior Alexandra Jaco- said. “If it didn't, 1 don't know if i “Be respectful of those who live supervisor Ellie Malykont said she landlord, but a more conspicuous petti lives in the 1 )e Tolosa com would go to all the trouble of tak around you and the impact your ac expects a certain amount of respect pet like a cat or a dog that needs plex on Tonini Road near Los ing care of a pet and hiding it. It's tions have on others. For example, from the students when it comes to more space can be difficult to keep Osos Valley Road. The complex a lot of work.” from having a party and being loud, the apartments or houses being rented to a guest using parking spaces, can out. affect other tenants,” Baker said. "We forget those kind of things sometimes, 441 MARSH STREET, 3910 BROAD ST, STE. # 3 these niceties.” Have a good San Luis Obispo, CA SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA Baker is not alone in emphasizing respect for neighbors and other peo system. Take care (805) 544-9161 (805) 544-9161 ple. Child development senior Heath er Hiramatsu said to be conscientious of things. Do the of others, and be proactive about the space you're living in. basics. “If on the top floor, don’t make a lot of noise or jump around, and if — Heather Hiramatsu you have to use the stairs, don’t look Child development senior into other peoples apartments,” Hira- matsu said. “Have a good system.Take “A good tenant pays their rent on San Luis Obispo care of things. Do the basics.” time, complies with the rules of the The basics, according to Hira rental agreement, is responsible and matsu and fellow student, mechanical considerate to their neighbors and engineering sophomore Jorge Angel, doesn't cause their property manager Realty and Property are cleaning and being clean — for any grief,” Malykont said. “I expect example, taking out the trash when my tenants to live in their apartments it’s full. Angel currently lives at Boly or houses the same way they would Canyon, and he said one of the big live at their parents’ house.” Management gest concerns for him is noise. . For Malyknot, respect is something “Produce low noise levels at night, that goes both ways in the renting because people could be studying or process. She said 90 percent of their going to bed,” Angel said. tenants are students and Cal-West Bothering neighbors is not the tries to treat all their tenants with re THE LARGEST INDEPENDENT REAL only thing that Angel worries about. spect as well. Since Boly Canyon comes furnished, At some point in their lives, most ESTATE OFFICE IN SAN LUIS OBISPO he said that taking care of the furni people will have to rent a place to live. ture is something that also makes a As Baker said, renting is a part of liv good tenant. ing in the real world, so you might as “Taking care of the apartment and well have a good renter’s history. making sure not to disturb any of the “Basically, if you don’t give us a furniture or walls,” Angel said. “The reason to come after you, you’re a better you leave it at the end the bet good tenant,” Baker said. 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Ross Softlines it’s cheaper than buying from a Manager Julie Woosley said Ross store.” memorable performance in has many students in the store Another store that offers a buying anything from sheets to do-it-yourself as well as already- towels, the basic necessities. made decor is Beverly’s, located “Ross is great because you downtown. Beverly’s is a fabric “Alice in Wonderland cannot find anything we have and craft store with a wide selec cheaper anywhere else,” Woosley tion of furniture. Beverly’s cashier rage. said. “If you have something spe Carly Schneider said that she sees Depp remembers reading the cific in mind though, chances are all types of students come into the Lewis Carroll classic when he was you are not going to find it; you store, from fraternity and sorority a boy, and had just re-read it be have to have an open mind.” members to students buying post fore getting the call from Burton Having an open mind comes ers and paint. for the latest film version of“Alice easily for some more than oth “We have a lot of students come in Wonderland.” ers, but architecture junior year in here to create their own things,” “What I took away was these Brendan Eberhardt defines what it Schneider said. “Canvas and paint strange, cryptic nuggets he threw means to be open to ideas. Eber is a big buy, but it’s not every day in there. I became fascinated by that we sell the furniture.” them because they were asking hardt said that he mainly does From the inexpensive do-it- questions that couldn’t be an things himself .naming Home yourself to the authentic, yet more swered or making statements you Depot as one of the stores he fre expensive, each store has some quite don’t understand,” Depp quents for his home. thing different to offer. says. “I like to make my own things, MCCI.ATCHY-TRIBUNE New Arrivals Johnny Depp stars as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s latest film, D aily! “Alice in Wonderland,” released March 4. Rick Bentley (Burton), I thought they were go Come in Mi l l M< MY \ l WNI’AI'hRN ing to cut me offat the point. 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They no lon was founded by another Californian ger seem Mexican, but American, who brought with him a tortilla says Jeffrey Pilcher, a press and the knowl- ■ ■ University of Min e d g e ... t \ how to use it. U.S. Where we find housing com pa nies adtf- ed to the about g lo b al “ P 1 a n e t ization, For Students, By Students Taco” on w i t h Tuesday. O 1 d I n d e e d , E the taco revolu Paso www.CollegeHuts.com tion spread globally as the — and extraterrestrial^ leader. After — via entrepreneurial Americans all. you need and U.S. companies, not Mexicans. the ingredients if a dish is to be That might explain why, in part, the come popular. rest of the world looks at that over- Bv 1 ‘>72.1 )iana Kennedv. a cook stuffed hard-shell taco spilling over ing authority on Mexican food, was with lettuce, tomato and Cheddar pooh-poohing Tex-Mex food as not cheese and thinks “American.” authentic. (Not so incidentalh. Mexicans “We forget that Texas was part oi migrate almost entirely to the Unit Mexico, hut really it was just anoth Shop Goodwill ed States. Pilcher noted If Ameri er region of Mexico.” said Pilcher. cans hadn't traveled with their tacos, In a 1980 study, Wilbur Zalinsks he savs, he would be offering a ver\ mapped ethnic restaurants across the different history lesson.) United States, showing that Mexi Fifty sears ago, Mexican food can food clearly was expanding could he found only in M exico, across the nation. California or the Southwest, includ 1 )iscovery of authenticity ing small roadside stands where tacos Soon Rick Bayless, a Chicago ^ s w H y o u > ^ n e e ( ( were sold. Los Angeles phone hooks chef and now TV cooking star on from 1950 reflect the abundance all things Mexican, and Mark Miller, of these taco spots. These were the a restaurateur in Santa Fe, N.M., very early days of food franchises. brought serious culinary attention Clothing (Ray Kmc started the Mcl )onald s to Mexican food, even as fajitas be chain in 1954.) gan sizzling in restaurants across the Furniture Glen Bell, the founder of Taco United States. Bell and a fellow Californian, had Fajitas were a lower-class food in Accessories an idea. Today we think of tacos as Mexico, made with lean meat from the lowest common denominator of a different breed of cattle that could Mattresses Mexican food — well, maybe that withstand tropica! temperatures. would, or should, he nachos — hut Not marbled, the beef needed to he Linens he was cutting-edge at a time when cooked either quickly (as in fajitas) the rest of America was dining on or slowly (for mole). By the early tuna casserole, mac-and-cheese and ‘70s. fajitas were served in Laredo. g o o d w i l l cream of tomato soup. Texas, before the recipe headed Today foodies may sniff their across the country. noses and think “Taco Bell ruined Then there are nachos, found in Store Mexican food.” but. Pilcher says, the theaters in Russia or at hallgames m Voted It1 Thrift chain simply franchised it. As for all Anywhere. USA. Reader's Poll for more than 10 years! those arched eyebrows and com Why does this matter as we nib Wmncr ments that Tex-Mex isn’t real Mexi ble on our stuffed taco? can. well, the taco shell came out “People will forget that tacos are TAX FREE EVERYDAY of the Mexican community — the Mexican just as pizza is from Italy.” original taco machine was patented said Pilcher, who specializes in food 10% STUDENT DISCOUNT by a Mexican — and it was adapted history and earned his doctorate to local foods in tiie United States, while eating his way through Tex- sun . & ruts. as so often happens when immi Mex food m Fort Worth, Texas. 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And food, too.” Friday, March 12,2010 M ustang D aily ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ www.mustangdaily.net : A r ts i Roger Ebert gives tea parties thumbs down Scott Collins Some experts say the time may I OS ANUfcl l:S I IMI S be ripe to rethink such restric tions. LOS ANGELES — Who’s the "In an era in which newspapers biggest scourge of the tea party are in decline, any journalist who movement these days? It might be attracts attention in any area should film critic Roger Ebert, who lately be welcome,” said Paul Levinson, a has been tossing brickbats at Sarah professor of communication and Palin and other right-wing politi media studies at Fordham Univer cians in between rendering verdicts sity who is also an active Twitter SLO’s Favorite Coin Laundries on the latest movies. user. "Distinctions that keep re Over the last few weeks, Ebert porters penned into a small area has used his busy Twitter page to never made much sense.The great PARKER STREET LAUNDRY give the tea party belittling nick est journalists and writers were al 2020 Parker Street, SLO (across from Smart & Final) names, predict it will quickly fade ways Renaissance men and wom and opine that “a loud movement is en, able to do many tasks.” not the same as a mass movement." Andrew Breitbart, publisher “I write about the TeePees be of several influential conservative cause it's so sad how they've been blogs including Big Hollywood, O P E N 7 DAYS A W EEK AT 8 AM manipulated to oppose their own defends Ebert the new-media user *last wash starts at 9 p m best interests,” Ebert said in an e- while attacking Ebert the political mail, using his latest epithet for the thinker. Breitbart says that Ebert's tea party followers. ‘"I am a liber Twitter posts reveal a patronizing al.” view of tea party adherents that $1 7 5 WASH His thoughts have earned him serves as a “caricature of the liberal o T f - ^ Every Tues, Wed, Thurs scorn from conservatives who ac mind-set” and that the critic brims MAYTAG NEPTUNES ONLY cuse him of elitism and trashing with “raw contempt for Middle BETTER WASH • BETTER DRY * BETTER VALUE ordinary Americans. More notable America.” than the political spat, though, What especially irked some is what it says about the rapidly conservatives was that Ebert used evolving media and Ebert's place a nickname for tea party follow FREE WI-FI among them. Because of his de ers that has also long been slang for cades ofTV appearances, including a sexual act. When Ebert tweeted with his late partner Gene Siskel, that he was unaware of the term’s Ebert is perhaps the only critic in pornographic connotation. Big LAUREL LANE LAUNDRY America who really has a house Hollywood countered that he had 1279 Laurel Lane, SLO (next to Tacos de Acapulco) hold name. referred to such a context in past But due to complications from movie reviews. cancer surgery in 2006, he has been But Breitbart adds that the cur unable to speak.The story ofhis re rent fracas ultimately proves how . covery battle, along with a jarring much power has tilted to new The Family Care Network's 7th Annual portrait that revealed his surgicallv media and away from mainstream ravaged jawline. recently appeared outlets such as newspapers, where in Esquire. Tuesday, he appeared on Ebert has reviewed movies for miracLe miLes For “Oprah" to unveil an electronic more than 40 years. device that gives him back some- "1 am a proponent of Roger vocal function. Given the fact that Ebert using Twitter to express his Primary Sponsor: California Highway Patrol tor years Ebert was never far away point of view," Breitbart said. “It s a from a microphone, there's irony in testament to the new media.Where 10K Wolk/Run benefiting foster & nigh-needs children & families the fact that his-current battle with is he having a bigger impact, in the the tea party followers is conducted Twitterverse or doing his reviews in text only, with bite-sized tweets of movies?” and blog posts. Ebert admits he was slow to ap Now the f>7-year-old reviewer preciate Twitter but is now a fan. April 17, 2010 finds himself at the center of the "It's an art form,” he said in an debate over whether and how e-mail interview with The Times. mainstream journalists — who “It encourages minimalism, almost Register now at have typically labored in silos of like a word game. specialization and avoided any “Having said more than once ‘I www.FCNI.org thing that called into question a will never be a twit,’ 1 now feel it pose of objectivity — should mix is a splendid discipline ... I link to or call . it up in the woolly world of social great writing on the web. I also like 805 781.3535 media. Many large news-gathering to link to the unique, the beautiful, organizations, including the Los the weird. Angeles Times, have rules govern “That day is a sad day," he said, ing reporters' and editors' use of “when a newspaperman fears to Facebook.Twitter and other appli tweet.” cations. nor my life." Kelly Brownell, direc C a lo ries tor of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale Univer continued from fntgc 26 sity. says the same attitude prevailed when food manufacturers put nu J*?r people are doing so far with the in trition information on grocery store formation or how that might change items, and vet shopping patterns did when calories and tat grams appear change with time. right in your face on the menus in “But the bigger benefit probably 2011, when the second part ot the OM will be.that restaurants will offer California law takes effect. Many Morro Rock to Cayucos Pier lower-calorie (dishes),” says Michael people, like Elizabeth Rubien, din lacobson, executive director ot the ing on a recent day at Coco's in Cul • . CM . Fee: $30 if registered by March 17th consumer advocacy group Center ver City, aren't very interested. z' • ^ $45 March 18fh - Aprill 1th for Science in the Public Interest. “I’m not going to study nutri | 4 $50 Race day walk-up registration tional information when 1 go into They may also decide to provide a restaurant," she said, “and I already meals lower in salt and saturated fat. Fee includes: Race entry, timing tag, lunch; know' pretty well what’s healthy. I he says, and trim calories w herever t-shirt, goody bag, and post-race party featuring don’t care how many grams of fat they can from items already on their live music, a vendor fair and an award ceremony! are in something. Grams of fat are menus. 26 M ustang D aily Friday, March 12,2010 www.mustangdaily.net ; A rts ; Dining out may contribute to increased calorie intake Jeannine Stein grilled chicken Caesar salad has begun to create lower-calorie items Applebee’s has its new “Under consumer advocacy group Center I OS ANOELES TIMES 1,210 calories, far more than the or are highlighting their existing 550 Calories” menu, offering grilled for Science in the Public Interest patty melt, which comes in at 750 more-healthful items. Restaurant shrimp and island rice, asiago pep years ago for its heavy sauces and Americans are eating out more calories. At Baja Fresh, a chicken executives stress that this has been percorn steak, and grilled dijon fatty, meat-centric entrees, but since and more: According to the Na tostada has 1,140 calories and 14 prompted by customer preferences chicken and portobellos. Chief Executive Brad Blum came tional Restaurant Association, 49 grams of saturated fat. and shifting dining trends, not by Starbucks lately began touting its on board in 2008, the chain has percent of every food dollar in the If you figure that the average existing or pending menu labeling “skinny” drinks, which are less than cleaned up its act. U.S. is now spent in restaurants, up person needs 2,000 calories a day, legislation. (Some nutrition experts 100 calories, such as the skinny va Yes, the Alfredo is still there (the from 25 percent in 1955. it’s sobering to learn that more suspect that new laws and the pos nilla latte and the skinny cinnamon sauce alone is 610 calories and 31 What that means is we have than half that amount can easily be sible federal mandates waiting in dolce latte, plus its new under-400- grams of saturated fat), but so is a less and less control over just what consumed in a restaurant breakfast the wings are more influential than calorie hot panini sandwiches. honey balsamic chicken at 540 cal goes into our food — and the alone. And don’t forget sodium.The companies want to admit.) Cheesecake Factory has a few ories and 3 grams of saturated fat numbers, now available per laws in recommended daily limit is 2,400 The Cor ar Bakery Cafe re “weight management” dishes that (side dishes included) and a scallop states including California, a r e milligrams a day (1,500 milligrams cently listed 100-plus combinations are lower in fat and calories, and and spinach salad at 360 calories and sometimes shocking. for those who are middle-aged, are of menu items that come in at less the company recently introduced 4 grams of saturated fat that in Even healthful-seeming in certain ethnic groups or have than 600 calories, such as an Asian a small plates and snacks menu, cludes the dressing, and polio selections can pack a conditions such as high blood pres wonton salad and cheddar broccoli with smaller-portioned items such caprese pasta at 550 calories calorie-, tat-, salt- or sure). Many restaurant dishes con soup, or a tuna salad sandwich and as mini corn dogs, shrimp scampi and 5 grams of saturated fat. sugar-laden punch. tain more than you should have in a Caesar salad. crostini, arugula salad and crispy Some favorite dishes have Salads, long touted whole day. fried cheese — not all .of those, limmed down: eggplant as a virtuous choice, however, are low in calories. parmigiana went from 1,270 are a prime example. Romano's Macaroni Gril calories to 800. At IHOK chain was dinged by the It’s not clear what t h see Calories, page 25 V ' •• - 5 C HRIS VAN FS NEWSARI C F ll A fi n T E X T B O O K B 0YBACK March 11 - 22,2010 • 4 Locations! S. 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Fans Her favorite part of softball, the are filling the seats and the game is mental aspect, took its roots long starting in a few minutes, but she before she started playing for Cal doesn’t feel quite ready. Something Poly. is missing. She turns on her orange “I think I was four and my dad iPod nano and selects the four-song was playing wiffle ball with me on playlist that has become essential to the front lawn — they always tell every pre-game warm up tor the me this story because they think last four years. it's hilarious. My mom asked me, Through her earphones, Lu- 'What position do you want to dacris tells her to shake her money play?’And I said,'Matter!'... I love to maker, and three songs later, it’s hit. I think because hitting has a lot game time. of the mental aspect.” Krysten Cary says she only feels Away from the plate Cary plays comfortable stepping on the field first base, where she says she relies after listening to the “cheesy” mu solely on instinct. sic line-up she created her freshman "You get to to think about it at year. practice, but when you’re in game “It's part of my routine now,” she situation, it’s all reactionary and I said. 'It's like, 'OK, now I'm ready love it," she said. to play.’” Cary has created a strong con Last year, Cary led the Big West nection to pitcher Anna Calm, who with 14 home runs and a .619 slug is going into her third year on the ging percentage, all are statistics that team. Calm said this connection has mean little to her. brought them closer both as team “I don’t look at numbers; I don’t mates and as friends. keep track of that kind of stuff. “She’s been there to help me Whatever 1 can do to help the team calm down if I’m not doing too is what I'm most concerned about. well,” Cahn said. If that means getting a walk, that Now in her last season of Cal MUSTANG DAILY FILE PHOTO means getting a walk. Or if it means Poly softball, Cary feels like the First baseman Krysten Cary led the Big West with 14 home runs and .619 slugging percentage last season. making a play, throwing it to first — “mama duck” as the oldest member Her 14 home runs rank as the second-highest single-season total in school history. if that’s what they need me to do, of the team that is largely made up that’s what I’m going to do.” of underclassmen. Cahn said Cary’s she says San Luis Obispo possesses, Cal Poly’s proximity to the coast, fit for her. At the beach, she and Cary’s mother, Vicki, has sup leaderships qualities and quiet con which is different from her home in Cary says, was an important factor her friends stay active with volley- Orange County. that made the university a perfect ported her daughter through her fidence have been very important see Cary, page 28 long-term commitment to softball after losing last season’s seniors. and said she admires the focus she “She’s really been there and she’s dedicates to whatever she wants to someone that you can come and accomplish. talk to if you have a problem,” she “Physically, she has the skills,” said. “She’s also an amazing softball Vicki Cary said. “Some people are player and just all around a really just natural athletes, but more than great person.” that I think it’s the hard work she’s As an outgoing, friendly, fun put in. 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I love it here, and I mates, usually of Mexican food. love the team.” “We always do family dinners After graduating in June with as much as possible, which sounds a degree in kinesiology, the exact so funny because you’d think that route of her future is undecided, APARTMENTS doesn’t really happen with college but said she knows softball coach students since we're always on the ing will undoubtedly be a part of [email protected] run,” she said. “But, as soon as I it. 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"We're not considered million contract with $9 million the big-ticket items in unrestrict Dumervil can solicit offers from Scot McCloughan isn't losing any to be a big free agency team, any guaranteed. ed free agency, Carolina defensive other teams to bring back to Den sleep over what will likely be a way. It's not going to change our A year ago, they spent big to end Julius Peppers and Arizona ver. The Broncos can either match dramatically different NFL finan spending one way or the other." retain cornerback Nnamdi Aso- linebacker Karlos Dansby. the offer or accept first- and third- cial landscape. The Raiders, meanwhile, are mugha (three years, $45.3 mil The talent pool thinned con round draft picks in return. Teams with older stadiums and silent on the matter, but they are lion) and punter Shane Lechler (a siderably because of changes in The 49ers retained linebacker smaller revenue streams, such as operating much the same as they contract nearly identical to that of free agency resulting from the Ahmad Brooks with a second- the Raiders and 49ers, could in did last year when a $128 million Janikowski). uncapped year. Instead of play round tender and kept David Baas, theory, be outspent by teams with cap was in place. Going with known commodi ers being eligible for unrestricted a guard and center, with an orig deeper pockets. 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Teams could employ a of what's going 011, the unrest, I stricted free agent a contract big strategy of' making a scheduled think people will be cautious," ger in the first year than the one bonus payment during a poten Jim Peltz roughed up for four runs in four in New York Giants general man the departing player received. tial work stoppage, at which point I OS AN< IF.LES riM F S nings. New York went on to win the ager Jerry Reese said. San Diego, Baltimore, Arizona they wouldn't have to pay. series, four games to two. Other issues relating to free and Dallas also must lose a free It's a good time to dump bad rEMOE, Ariz. — Scott Kazmir Losing the series hit Kazmir es agency in an uncapped year: agent to sign one, but they are al contracts. spoke m a voice soft and low, but the pecially hard because the Angels The final eight teams re lowed to pay one unrestricted free No cap, no more bonus accel feelings his words revealed were un “traded for me to contribute at that maining in the postseason will agent a salary of S3.5 million or erations. In past years, signing bo mistakable. time, during that time, and it didn’t probably be watching from the more in the first year of the deal. nus money was spread out over tlie “It was very frustrating, very frus happen." he said. When the playoffs sidelines. While there is 110 salary cap, length of the contract even though trating," the Angels starting pitcher started, he said,"everything felt great, New Orleans, Minnesota, there is also no floor. Teams can it was paid immediately. Remain said of his sub-par performance in I was ready to get out there for the Indianapolis and the New York spend as little as they want 011 sala ing years were counted against the last year’s American League playoffs. postseason. It didn’t turn out the way Jets can't sign an unrestricted ries. cap if a player was cut before the And after the Los Angeles Angels I wanted it to.” free agent unless they lose one Teams may be reluctant to pay end of the deal. of Anaheim lost to the New York So Kazmir, already armed with a Yankees in the AI Championship 04-mpli fastball and a well-regarded Series, "I came into the off-season slider, went back to work to bolster bitter, frustrated,” the 26-year-old his overall strength to get more pop left-hander said as the Angels pre and consistency with his pitches. Full Menu of Pastas, pared to open this year's spring- “1 felt like my velocity was kind Seafood, Chicken, & Veal training season Thursday against the of touch and go,” Kazmir said. "It Chicago White Sox. “I felt like I let was there, it wasn’t there. Gourmet 11 bod hired Pizzas the team down.” “I changed quite a few things in But that frustration lasted only the off-season by how I approached Patio Dining & Private Parties a couple of days, Kazmir said, after my workouts and prepared for this Delivery Through Cafe Runner which he decided to devote the season. I’m a lot stronger. I'm more rest of his off-season to a redoubled focused. It's going to help me out F u ll B a r & O p e n L a te work regimen aimed at preventing repeating my delivery, getting more another such letdown. torque, more strength, have a little It was a decision that "was almost bit more on my fastball.” immediate,” even before the Yan Kazmir said, “It’s not like I never kees had finished off the Philadel did anything during the off-season, phia Phillies in six games to win the I worked out. But nothing like this, World Series, he said. “I felt like, in nothing where 1 was really on a strict certain situations, if I had done what regimen every single day.” I was capable of doing, it would have "Sometimes I’d do almost two been a different outcome." 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It makes pitching so much Aug. 28 to acquire Kazmir, an All- easier.” Star in 2006 and 2008, from the Kazmir is getting help from An Tampa Bay Kays. gels pitching coach Mike Butcher, He then made six regular-season who also guided Kazmir in 2006 starts for the Angels and, despite a when Butcher was pitching coach record of only 2-2 in that span, his for Tampa Bay. earned-run average was a stellar 1.73 “Bart of the process of pitching is as the Angels wrapped up the AL feeling good about what you did in West crown. the off-season,” Butcher said.“If you “He was a big part of why we feel good about what you did, you led the world in pitching for the last, put the hay in the barn, so to speak, probably, five weeks of the season," now you go out there and perform.” Manager Mike Scioscia said. And Scioscia said there’s no harm Then came the playoffs. in using last year’s playoffs as an in In a start against the Boston Red centive to try harder. 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