ww.mustangdaily.calpoly.edu CALfFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO rs & CULTURE, page 5 Monday, October 27,2003 /ehraheacJ srahead's third album c from the hand you’ve never heard of INION, page 4 lort security watchout Today's weather Volume LXVIll, Number 35,1916-2003 High: 90° 9 I T' • # J f ' Low: 51 ° m n ii ^ Full forecast, page 2 DAIL? H oi|ggflßing HOMECOMING 2003: THE SPIRIT OF CAL POLY The Cal Poly List of this week's events. band plays at Student Spirit Hour M onday during What: Banner Contest. Clubs will Homecoming Week 2002. have an opportunity to design a This year's banner to be judged.The banners events theme is will be moved to the stadium on 'The Spirit of Saturday. Cal Poly.' When: Judging begins at 7 a.m. Where: UU Plaza kick off 1 0 * Viti COURTESY PHOTO/ MUSTANG DAILY Tuesday tlfc,! What: Laugh Olympics. today Outrageous events to test club teams on their speed and creativi­ ty- • Clubs will display When: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. artwork to be judged Where: Mott Lawn for the banner Wednesday What: Blood Drive. Donate blood contest in UU Plaza to the Tri-Counties Blood Bank By Kendra Hodges ever seen, and we Itxik forward to McCollum, alumni director and When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER heating that record this year.” homecoming adviser. Where: M ott Lawn Cal Poly is working hard to pro­ Though there may be no slime, W o rd It is time for Mustangs to show vide events not only for students teams can compete in events like on What: Mock Rock. Lip-sync contest off their schixil pride this year dur­ hut parents, staff, faculty and the the Mount Your Mackerel contest, the judged on costumes, creativity and ing Cal Poly Homecoming Week, San Luis Obispo community. which involves piggyback teams Street overall performance. which begins today and continues _________ Many of the upetim- slapping each other with fish. Students speak on campus issues When: 7 p.m. throughout the week. u aii j ing activities are great Wednesday is a chance to watch Where: UU Chumash Auditorium Events conclude when Student for schcx>l organizations students strut their stuff at McKk Do yo*u plan on partici­ the Mustangs take on the clubs and and clubs to participate Rtxk, a lip sync and choreographed pating in Homecoming? Thursday Southern Utah organizations are in because they are dance show, taking place at 6 p.m. What: Spirit Hour."Battle of the Thunderhirds in the j group-oriented. at Chumash Auditorium. "Yes I'm Homecomins f.xnball encouraged to Sexes" game, Mock Rock, pumpkin Starting Monday, Students are als<T encouraged to participat­ game Saturday. participate in carving, Homecoming Court nomi­ teams pool together take an hour of their time earlier in ing. What nees, football players and school This year’s theme, “TlTe as many o f the their creativity in the the day to participate in the Tri- else is it Spirit of Cal Poly,” rings spirit. 1 / iT activities as student banner contest. Counties bUxxl drive from 10 a.m. for?" mie ascLHTrdinators tor the The banners will be to 4 p.m. at Mott Gym. When: 11 a.m. — Dano event anticipate bringing pOSSlolC. judged for artistry and UU Spirit Hour, with a “Battle of Where: UU Plaza Sears, together traditional stu- S te p h a n ie Ikel best conveyance of the the Sexes” competition, will take biological dent activities such as the homeCOming Homecoming theme. place on Thursday. Other activities sciences junior What: Powder Puff Football Game. annual downtown All banners will be include MiKk Rexk entertainment, Second annual female student committee chair Homecoming Parade and hung in the University pumpkin carving and appearances game. new activities that tie in ----------- Union Plaza and then by the Homecoming court, the ftxrt- "I would When: 4 p.m. with the Halloween weekend. moved to Mustang Stadium for the ball team and head football coach go, but I Where: Sports Complex “All student clubs and organiza­ homecoming game. Rich Ellerson. have tions are encouraged to participate Tuesday, Cal Poly brings the 19th Thursday night, the second annu­ class." Saturday in as many of the activities as pt>ssi- annual Laugh Olympics from 11 al ptTwder puff fiXTtball games will — Missy What: Homecoming Parade. hle,” homecoming committee chair a.m. to 1 p.m. on Mott Gym Lawn. kick off at the Rec Sports Qimplex Brasko, Student floats, bands and honored and journalism senior Stephanie “It is a series of obstacle courses fields. Games begin at 4 p.m. business alumni lead procession in down­ Ikel said. “In 2002, Cal Poly had the similar to (the kids T V show) administration town San Luis Obispo largest celebration the schcxil has Double Dare,” said Nikole junior When: 10 a.m. see HOMECOMING, page 2 Where: Main grandstand on the corner of Garden and Higuera streets Protesters fill Listening Post for discussing life What: Mustang Corral Tailgate Barbecue. Enjoy a pre-game feast streets of By Michael Cervantez Poly. They exist as clubs formed by this quaner with Santa Maria style barbecue, MUSTANG DAILY STAFF WRITER students. “We have these 19 campus min­ unlimited drinks and live enter­ San Francisco Other universities around the istries, and we all do very different tainment. Cost is $15 for Cal Poly Cal Poly’s Interfaith Campus nation have also had listening pxists. things and even have different the­ By Mielikki Org Alumni Association members. Council is offering students a chance “It’s been really effective and ologies that we come with,” ASSOCIATED PRESS When: 1 p.m. to speak about their troubles by helpful for students at other schixils Schofield .said. “But this is some­ means of a listening post situated in to just be able to talk abtiut things thing that we all really could agree Where: Bldg. 3 Lawn, Rose Garden SAN FRANCISCO — the University Union Plaza. going on in their life, in their minds on.” ■ Thousands of anti-war protesters Spiinsored by 19 of the campus’s and hearts, and struggles academical­ The ministries involved in the What: Homecoming Football from around the state tcxik to the ministries, the Listening Post pro­ ly,” said Jana Schofield, pastor of Mt. post and Interfaith Campus Council Game. Cal Poly vs. Southern Utah sun-drenched streets of San vides students a place to express Carmel Lutheran Church and coor­ include Christian, Jewish and When: 4 p.m. Francisco Saturday, snarling traf­ their anxieties over life, school, dinator of the Listening Post. Islamic organizations. Where: Mustang Stadium fic to protest the U.S. occupation dilemmas or religion without fear of This is not the first time the Although the Listening Post does of Iraq and urging President Bush being converted to any particular Listening Po.st has been at Cal Poly. offer confidentiality, students should What: Choir Fall Concert. to bring the trtxips back home. religion. Last year, it was run on Dexter Lawn be aware that the Listening Post is Polyphonies, The University Some protesters took a mid­ “None of the representatives are but a short turnout of students can­ in a public setting. Confidentiality Singers, Cal Poly Vocal Jazz and Cal night bus from Burbank to make it allowed to talk about their reli­ celled the project. does not extend to cases of suicide, Poly Barbershop Quartets perform to San Francisco in time for the gion,” Ken Barclay, director of Having it out in the UU Plaza, pLitential harm to others or in cases selections in a variety of styles. morning gathering. Bill Nelson, Student Life and Leadership and Schofield said, has definitely been of abuse. Any student showing signs When: 8 p.m. 30, made that trip with his moth­ commencement committee chair­ more effective because people see it. of these natures will be recommend­ er, Anna May Nelson, 67. Where: Performing Arts Center man, said. “They cannot doctrine Each week, one of the campus ed to Health and Counseling “We feel it’s very important to their theology.” ministries takes the Listening Post Services. keep our voices heard because we For more information on With the issues of separation of and supplies a person to sit and listen The Listening Post is set up want our troops home,” said Bill Homecoming activities go to church and state, the Interfaith to student concerns. Monday through Friday, excluding www.homecoming.calpoly.edu or Campus Council and the Listening The program is run quarterly with Thursdays, at the UU Plaza from 11 call Nikole M cCollum 756-2586. see PROTESTS, page 2 Post receive no funding from Cal seven ministries in charge of the post a.m. to 1 p.m. 2 Monday, October 27,2003 News Mustang Daily Banners troops. Bring them home.” from last PROTESTS Then the crowd grev\ to as many year's continued from page 1 as 5,000 by 2 p.m. PDT, by some ^^f\?arSh a r Homeco police estimates, and marched ming down the middle of Market Street 5 - Day Forecast week Nelson, a Burbank bookstore to a city park about a mile away. hang in owner. “We want the money here Once there, the crowd heard from TODAY theUU for health care and jobs, not a mil­ speakers including Vietnam veter­ high: 9 0 ° / low 51° plaza. itary industrial complex.” an Ron Kovic, the author of “Born Nelson’s mother said her mes- on the 4th of July” who likened the COURTESY sage to the Bush administration TUESDAY PHOTO/MUSTA war in Iraq to the military conflict high: 84°/low 49° NG DAILY was “stop supporting Halliburton that left him paralyzed from the and Bechtel,” two companies that chest down.