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M u s t a n g d m l y 1916 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERS FY 2006 TODAY’S WEATHER Jon Lovitz brings Mustangs, Gauchos ready High the flinny to Poly 67 for rivalry match Low 52 IN SPOTLIGHT, 4 IN SPORTS, 8 Volume LXX, Number 26 Friday, October 13, 2006 www.mustangdaily.net Students, stores hit the Happy birthday SLO! runway in the name o f AID S Joshua Krane MUSIANCi DAllY A local group and clothing stores around San Luis Obispo are getting together for a fashion show' this Sunday to raise money for AIDS support and awareness. Fusion, a male gay and bisexual support group comprised mostly of C'al Boly students, will host the event at the Veterans Hall, on the corner of Mill and (irand streets. Local stores like The Sub, Avanti, Apropos and others will display their clothes and accessories on the runway. “AIDS has changed everything in relationships. People need to be aware of that and alst) need to be taken care of when they get it,” said Stacey Korneg.iy, manager of I'he Suh. “(The fashion show) seemed like the right thing to do and we also get to have fun with the clothes,” she said. All proceeds will go to the AIDS Support Network, a nonprofit organization based in San Luis C')bispo. The organization extends support to those infected with HIV through housing benefits, food hanks and other areas. ASN, founded in 1984, also provides pre vention workshops and HIV test ing. “People who live with HIV live with a myriad of hardships, from NICK COMACHO MUSTANG DAILY medical, emotional and financial. Fanners’ Market was the site of celebration for the city’s sesquicentennial on Thursday night. The Madonna Inn provided enough cake to We work to alleviate some of those feed 1,000 people, the County Band serenaded passers-by and special booths were set up to commemorate SLO’s 150 years of history. hardships. We also have the preven tion aspect that educates people and encourages people to practice Strain safer sex and community with R coli that tainted spinach linked to Calif, catde ranch their partner,” said Josh Parker, outreach education coordinator for Andrew Bridges Nevertheless, Reilly called the property, they said. break in lettuce or spinach since ASN and a member of Fusion. ASStX:iATEI) PRESS match an important finding. “There’s lots of wildlife and lots 1995. Fusion coordinator Brian There are still many unanswered of potential for breakdown in the • The find marks the first time that Takeuchi said the show, in its first WASHINGTON — The same questions and the probe is continu fencing,” Reilly told reporters. investigators have identified a possi year, will be more youth-oriented strain of deadly bacteria that sick ing, said Dr. Robert Brackett, direc The strain of pathogenic E. coli ble source for an E. coli outbreak in than a traditional fashion show. ened dozens of people nationwide tor of the FDA’s Center for Food 0157:H7 was found in three cattle the region, Reilly said. has been found at a cattle ranch in Safety and Applied Nutrition. fecal samples collected at the ranch, The produce company that “It’s not going to be your tradi California’s Salinas Valley within a “It’s our expectation that no farni one of four under investigation, the processed and packaged the spinach tional wine-and-cheese fest,” he mile of spinach fields, investigators should feel they are off the hook,” officials said. It matched the strain at the center of the outbreak inves said. said Thursday. Brackett said. found in sick patients and in bags of tigation has repeatedly asserted its All models are volunteers from Investigators still can’t be sure if Investigators stiU do not know recalled spinach. factories are blameless and pointed the community. The night will fea the E. coli found in cow manure how the feces could have contami Investigators continue to look at to the fields where the greens are ture music from emcees Natasha contaminated the fields, but said the nated the spinach implicated in the agricultural runoff, irrigation water grown as the potential source of the Chamille and Ethelena Cannes. find warrants further investigation. bacterial outbreak. They also do not and the hygiene of farm workers as problem. The runway will be opened for “We do not have a smoking cow know if the ranch used manure from potential sources of the bacteria. “This definitely reinforces our dancing after the fashion show. at this point,” said Dr. Kevin Reilly, the cattle to fertilize its fields. Nor is The recent outbreak of E. coli in belief that the source was environ Fusion meets weekly from 7 to 9 deputy director of the Prevention there evidence that livestock entered spinach killed three people and mental,” said Samantha Cabaluna, a p.m. at the Ludwick Center, on the Services Division of the California the spinach fields on the ranch. sickened nearly 200 in half the spokeswoman for Natural Selection corner of Mill and Santa Rosa Department of Health Services. However, wild pigs roamed the states. It was the 20th such out Foods. see Runway, page 2 N ew s editor: Kristen Marschall • tmisuvij^dailyrwu's^i^uMl.com M u s t a n g D a il y Friday, October 13, 2006 www.mustangdaily.net = N e w s= Runway continued from page I College students blocking out life via iPods streets. The group, which has Chelsea Whitman-rush “Sorry,” Wheeler said, glancing cross the street.” seen on MySpace.com, which pro around eight members, discusses THH l.ANTF.RN (OMK) SIAM U.) up quickly as she gathered herself Jacob Halley, a sophomore in motes an anti-iPod day. The head issues m the gay and bisexual and ducked around the student. Her pharmacology, said he saw a girl get line of the page simply reads, COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Ohio community and promotes safe eyes quickly went back to her iPod. hit by a bike “because she was so “IPODS SUCK.” State University Kimberly Wheeler sex and healthy relationships. Wheeler, a senior in political sci into her headset.” On his Web site. Jack Curtis, ambled otT to class, her eyes were “We want to give a chance “1 do it too,” Halley said. “People founder of Anti-iPod.co.uk, said the focused on the tiny round dial on ence, said she often finds herself for guys to get together outside always say that 1 don’t say hi to iPod is “warping the minds of it’s the front of her iPod. Her head was distracted by the small box she of the bars and get a more sup them (when I have my iPod on) users,” who he calls “iPeople.” The down as she twisted the small white keeps tucked in her pocket. portive community,” barker because 1 am in my own little Web site also claims the “tiny and circle clockwise with her thumb “1 get so caught up in my music said. insignificant box of memory chips” and she came to a jarring halt as she that 1 forget to watch where I’m world.” The show begins at 2 p.ni. renders its users “incapable of com collided with a male student, whose going,” she said, laughing.“! see stu Ohio State students aren’t the and doors open at 1 p.m. There head was also down as he intently dents doing it all the time, but a lot only ones who have joined the munication.” is a suggested donation of $3. scrutinized his own music selection. of them don’t even look before they ranks of iPod users. White said it bothers him when According to a quarterly report he sees fellow students using their released by Apple, over 8 million iPods in class, although it’s hard to iPods were sold between April and tell how many are using them July 2006. exactly because the mini-jukeboxes Come check out the new “Most of the iPods we sell are to are easy to hide. younger people, but a lot of people History professor Alan Gallay said over 40 see their kids using them although he thinks cell phone use A O Girls... and end up buying one for them while driving is more dangerous, it’s selves,” said John Mucci, a sales rude to use iPods during class. associate at C'ompUSA. “If somebody is trying to teach, Despite their fanatical following, he or she has prepared this lecture. many students and professors s.iv If you don’t want to listen, don’t iPod use can create rude situations. come to class.” Flalley said. Focused more on their iPods than iPods, however, may soon be the world around them, students improving their image m the eyes block out life beyond the music in of faculty. their boxes. A recent issue of Newsweek “1 see people watching TV and magazine reported universities such cartoons (in class on their iPods),” as Duke, Stanford and Drexel have said Bradley White, a senior m instituted “course casting,” a means communications. “In a big lecture, for students to download lectures it’s hard to monitor.” directly tti their iPods.Tins techiiol- The disconnect caused by the og\’ would enable students to listen multi-colored boxes has been to a greater range of guest speakers noticed by people outside of OSU’s and lectures regardless of location, campus. Anti-iPod sentiment can be according to the article. SU I d o I ku WELCOME TO THE GIRLS OF ALPHA RHO! Complete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box We look forward to our many memories! contains every digit from I to 9 inclusively.