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TOMORROW: S u n n y High 647Low 47* Mustangc:a l i f o k n i a pc :>lytec :h n i c st a t e daily u n iv e h ^sity / Songs o f Obama works Softball team Berlin” come to secure $83.4 plays conference- to the PAC. billion in special leading Long rjjr-; war money. Beach State. IN ARTS, 5 IN NEWS, 3 IN SPORTS, 12 Volume LXXII, Number 121 Friday, April 10, 2009 www.mustangdaily.net Students honor Chavez’s life, activism Genevieve Lx>ggins status as non-U.S. citizens. MUMANd DAIIY Luis Magallon, president of M.E.X.A. and civil engineering senior, asked students in the Students marched to celebrate Mexican- University Union to sigi the act. American labor activist O sar C'havez in the “This event holds personal sigiificance to University Union Plaza yesterday as the band myself especially since both my parents are field Los Coyotes de Clal l\aly performed. workers, and we need to raise awareness around M.E.X.A, a club promoting Xicano cultural campus to inform more students of people like identity, sponsored the event. Students met on C'esar Chavez,” Magallon said. 1 )e.xter lawn where a priest from the Newman iisc:’ — This year, Los C'oyotes de Cal Poly per C^itholic C7*nter said a prayer before the student formed songs to promote “cultural diversity,” march, said professor and event organizer Gloria and it was the first time Associated Students, Velasquez. r Inc. had the stage available for the event. The V J "Social justice has always been very inipor- band ended its performance with“De Colores,” tint for the C'hicano movement,” Velasquez '•t.t meaning of “color”, to signify the importance said. “This day is very important to honor our of diversity, Velasquez said. hero and to ;ilso discuss issues such as the 1 )ream “Songs were an important vehicle of social Act and a Cesar Chavez petition to make it a protest, and music was an important component national holiday.” o f Cesar C'havez s farm workers struggle,” she After the march, students gathered in the said. “So it was very important for me to have plaza chanting phrases including “Viva Cesar music being played today.” NICK CAMACHO Mll.SlANG DAILY C'havez” and held sigis that read “C'al Poly for Students marched from Dexter Lawn to the University Union plaza to honor the activism “1 think its imporunt that we reach out to immigrants,” “Si se puede,” “Obama be a man other groups of individuals from other cultures of farmwork Cesar Chavez and to raise awareness of issues such as the Dream Act. of your word, pass Dream Act now.” and promote diversity among everyone,” said Llanet Ciomez, civil engineering major and Hayley Maynard, lead singer of Los Cxiyotes. vice president of M.E.X.A..addressed the crowd Maynard, an agricultural business senior, with a prayer for the farm worker struggle by writes and performs her own music primarily CT'sar Chavez, who she said “read every time he promoting cultural diversity. went on a march, strike or boycott.” I think it s important that we reach out to other M.E.X.A. is a political and cultural club on C'h.ivez. born in Yuma, Arizona, was a farm campus that holds a lot of events, including the worker famous for his leadership in promot groups of individuals from other cultures and Xicano youth conference; its main gials are ing better labor conditions in California. He empowering the younger generation to higher dedicated his life to Latino civil rights groups, education, Magillon said. coordinated voter registration drives and con promote diversity among everyone. “ Its very important to raise .iwareness on ducted campaigns against racial and economic issues about diversity on our campus which is discrimination. something that we have been concerned about. —Hayley Maynard The Dream Act is bipartisan legislation that (This event) is also about creating a social con would enable young students to ftirther their ifcAD sin <;fj< o f Los C oyotes sciousness, and using critical thinking in our ac education after high school despite their parent s tions,” Velasquez said. US warship watches Somali pirates with US hostage ASVM lAIEJ) WKW WRITFRS of the pirates, but Phillips, 53, surren The Bainbridg* had arrived earlier dio the lifebcTat was out of fuel and the scene. dered himself to the baiulits to safe- in the day near the Alabama and the “dead in the water.” (ien. I ).ivid Petraeus, head of the N A IR O hl, Kenya (AP) — Somali guaal his men. and four of the Somalis lifeboat. Maersk shipping company The U.S. Nav'y sent up P-3 Orion U.S. O n tral Caimmand, said more pirates ,uid their hostage American sea fled with him to an enclosed lifeboat, spokesman Kevin Speers told AP Ra surv’eillance aircraft and had video of captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thurs the relatives said. see Pirates, page 2 day off the Horn of Africa, shadowed Phillips has a radio and con by a U.S. destroyer with more w'arships tacted the Navy' and the crew' of the on the way in a U.S. show of force. Alabama to say he is unharmed, the The U.S. brought in PHI hcYstage Maersk shipping company said in a negotiators to work with the military statement, adding that the lifeboat is in trying to secure the release of C'apt. within sight of the USS Bainbriiig*, Kich.ird Phillips of Underhill, Vt. An the n.ival destnwer that arrived on the official s.iid the bandits were in tilks scene earlier Thursiiiy. with the N.ivy about a*solving the The Alabama began sailing toward standoff peacefiilly. the Kenyan port of Mombasa — its As the high-seas drama stretched original destination — and was ex ^ f'»' into a second tlay, the friMghter that pected to arrive Saturday night, said was the targ't of the pirates steamed Joseph Murphy, a professor at the aw.iy fmni the lifeboat under armed M.is,s.ichusetts Maritime Academy M A E im U.S. N.ivy giard, with all of its crew whose son, Slune Murphy, is second s.ife — except for the captive captiin. 111 coinmand of the vessel. The elder » F i* » . The pirates tried to hijack the Murphy said he was briefed by the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama on shipping company. Wednesdiiy, but Phillips thwarted the A U.S. official, who asked not to PHOTO COURTESY OF MAFRSK I.INF ITO. takeover by telling his crew of about lx.’ identified because of the sensitiv This undated photo provided by Maersk Line Ltd. shows the Maersk Alabama. Somali pirates are holding 20 to lock themselves in a mom, the ity of the situation, said a Navy team the captain of the ship hostage, a day after bandits hijacked the U.S.-flagged vessel for several hours before 20 crew told statesiile relatives. of armed giards was aboard the Ala crew members overpowered them. The hijacking took place Wednesday .several hundred miles off the coast of The crew later overpoweresl some bama. Somalia. News editor: Rachel Cilas; News designer: Omar Sanchez M u s ia n c D a iiy tmistangdailynews(a gm ail.coni Friday, April 10, 2009 www.mustan);daily.net : N ews : United States will take w hatever steps vessel to be hit by pirates in a week. “I’ll guarantee you that if they get got nowhere to hide him, they’ve got Pirates are needed to protect U.S. shipping After the pirates came abo.ird the all the ports closed, which they prob no w.iy to ilefeiul themselves effec interests against pirates. Alabama, Phillips told the rest of his ably do. I’ll tell you it’s pmbably lOO tively against the military who are continuedponi page I 1 B1 spokesman Richard Kolko crew by radio to lock themselves away degrees in there, lui air How, there’s no on the w.iy and they are hundreds of sliips would be sent to the ariM be described the bureau s host.ige negoti in a room, according to the wife of toilet,” he said. miles from Somalia,” he said. cause "we want to ensuie that we ating team as "fully engaged” with the Ken Quinn, a second mate on the Phillips’ family in Vermont said he Other analysts s.iy the U.S. will be liave all the capability that might be military on w.iys to retrieve Phillips. vessel. surrendered himself to the pirates to reluctant to use force as long as one needed over the ct)u.rse of the coin File pirates were holding talks "1 le said the pirates were desper secure the safety of the crew. of its citizens remains hostage. French ing days” with the N.ivy about a peaceful reso ate,” said Zoya Quinn of Bradenton, “What 1 understand is th.it he of commandos, for example, h.ive The additional ships are a show lution, said a U.S. official who spoke Ida., who spoke to her husband via fered himself as the hostage,” said Gina mounted two military operations ot force in response to a rise in the on condition of anonymity because phone and e-mail. " Iliey were go Coggio, 29, h.ilf sister of Phillips’ wife, against pir.ites once the ransom had nuinber of attacks and the first one he w.is not authorized to speak on ing all cner the stairs, back and fiirtli, Andrea, (aiggio said she believed been paid and its citizens were safe.