■•“S UM M ER M u s t 2 0 0 5 c: A L I F O K N 1 A O L Y 1 E C H N I C STATE U N I V E R S I i, WEEKEND WEATHER RODEO Absinthe and Saturday Mustangs ride to victory the little green f / in individual National fairy make a 72/ 49° co m eb a ck Sunday Cdiainpionships 70/ 5()° IN SPORTS, 8 IN A R T S & E N T E R T A l T, 4 :e: ' '-riiKJune 23 - June 29, 2005 Mu«tangdaiIy(^calpoly.edu ROTC Vandalized same page, survey says“ Erick Smith “The door is always open for stu­ MUSTAN(. DAILY dents to come in and make sugges­ I will never accept defeat ■ ml tions about how to improve student 1 he first part i f this two-part series life on campus,” Middlestadt said. focuses on a I'iewofASl from the student Middlestadt, wlio was elected as I will never quitX ••• fH’rspectwe. next year’s ASI president, also said he hopes that during his term he can Associated Students Inc, a student- empower the students to have their I Will never leave a fallen* based program funded by student fees voices heard on campus. He acknowl­ is not entirely understood by the stu­ edged that over the past year, only 10 dent community a recent survey to 15 students approached him dur­ found. ing the year to ask for help regarding In a small field survey of nine C'al ways ASI could better serve the stu­ Poly students, results came back dent community. showing that five of the nine were The varying, and often unsure, idea unsure about what AS I does and how about ASI is something Middlestadt ROTC officers came it helps students. C')f thtise students aspires to change during his term but in to work Friday who understocxl ASPs contributions if he is to help stu­ morning and saw a to the students on hanful of posters van­ dents learn about campus, most either ustangdaily ASI, he faces stu­ dalized in what they participated within believe is a protest of 2-PART SER1F.S dents who have sim­ AS I or h.we dealt M the war in Iraq. ilar opinions about with the program by way of club sup­ These effected posters the student government program, were re-displayed port. such as industrial technology senior post-vandalism. Í.F One student who knew how ASI Nick Battaglia. .(ini ami Hemiv helped students was art and design “I have been at Poly for five years NICK H(K)VtR junior I )iana Madsen who serwd on Ml'SIAN«. UAIIY and in that time I’ve had very little the ASI executive stiff two years ago. interaction with ASI,” Battaglia said. Having been part of the organization, He did .idniit: “I think they do the Erick Smith make it the right way," Maj. Loren was commissioned fmni the ROTC' she said students must understand it is best job they can." MUSTAN(. DAIIY Weeks s.iid. “Writing on a poster is program within the past two years a corporation for students, by stu­ Regarding the limited action not the correct way to gti ab<iut it.” and while serving in Iraq was killed dents. Students are not entirely aware between some students and ASI, Posters hanging within the halls of The vandalized posters were in action. In reference to the soldier of everything within the program Middlestadt said making the relation­ the Militiry Science building, which found by C',iptain Heidi Bn>dmarkle mentioned. Weeks said students because ASI fails to explain what it ship function is a two-way street. is home to C'al Polys RC'ITC' pro­ on Friday morning and have since should not simply focus on the stu­ does and what projects are, Madsen Students must pursue the members of gram, wea* vandilized with markers been taken dow’n and replaced. She dent deaths resulting from military said. student government while everyone when faces of soldiers wvr* crossed said there was no clear motive for the service because there are thousands Architectural engineering senior, in ASI must also approach students. or scribbled out and words wea‘ damage to the posters, except as a of other deaths both nationally and and ASI Vice President Tylor Therefore, people in elected or changed to reflect the vanilals opin­ protest to the ewnts taking place in iocallv which result fn>m contmllable Middlestadt echoed part of Madsen s appointed positions within ASI are* ion of the military action in Iraq. Iraq. events other then war, and as an statement when he was approached capable of understanding students’ “If somelxxly is going to make a Accompanying the crossed out example he sighted acts of stupidity about students’ lack of understanding political statement then they need to faces, was the name of a cadet who sec ROTC, page 2 as to what ASI offers. see ASI, page 2 Students thinking about Saddle up at Swanton Ranch afterlife in recent survey Megan Alpers m ustank ; daily Elizabeth Engeltnan with death, how then would you live A group of students will experience MUSTANO DAILY out the next two weeks?” a WLYrking cattle ranch first-hand this Mtist of the answers fixused on summer, thanks to a program created * In a servey put out by C'ampus family hut others were inventive. in 1987 by Cal Poly alumnus A1 Crusade for Christ where approxi­ “Clharge my credit card,” and Smith. mately 3,000 students where ques­ “Assassinate President Bush and Smith, creator of the Orchaixl tioned, 79 pereent responded by then flee the country” were two Supply Hardware chain, graduated in saying they believe in an afterlife. responses. the 1940s with a degree in crop sci­ “1 was excited for the idea for stu­ To get people interested in the dents to start discussions about the ence and then returned years later to topic, C'ampus Ousade first put afterlife,” agribusiness senior obtiin a teaching credential in agricul­ large Ixianls on I )exter Lawn and in Jonnalee Henderson. “People tend tural education. the University Union to get people to ignore the subject and put it off For mere than 40 years. Smith thinking about what they believe. for later in life but college is really btnight parcels of land 12 miles north The question asked, “Where will the perfect time to talk about it.” of Santa Cruz, which eventually you he in 10,(HK) years?” The survey was written by Brian became the 3,2(M)-acre Swanton Weins and ('aitlin Dizinno, and con­ Answers ranged from “Surfing in Pacific Ranch with irrigated farm­ sisted of nine questions ranging from Heaven” to “Still at C'al Ptily.” land, forests and grazing land for cattle. yes or no format to multiple choice. “Our society along with more Smith believed that hands-on expe­ The last question was open-ended specifically our generation, tends to rience was invaluable to students, and COURTESY PlUmi and asked,“If you knew that in two stigmatize death and what happens worked with C'al Poly to create the Students are shown at Swanton Ranch, where they will handle the daily weeks you would he confronted see Crusade, page 2 see Swanton, page 2 tasks of mainting the ranch. NEWS 2 June 23 - June 29,2005 will never leave a fallen citizen.” fi>r two quarters last year. "There are ROTC Of the vandalism Weeks’ said : Swanton not that many times when you have ASI continued from pagp 1 “(This) doesn’t make a political continued from page 1 the opportunity to gather cattle near continued from page 1 or drinking. statement valid. People should do opportunity for internships and class t.he ocean." perspective on campus and commu­ Another target taken aim at by things and use proper channels such trips to the ranch. Marie Kooman recently finished nity issues, Middlestadt said. those who wrote on the posters w'as as voting if they want to make a Since the program began, hun­ an internship and enterprise on the In some aspects it does appear that the casualties of Iraqi citizens, main­ point or see change.” dreds of students from various majors ranch and said she would "go back in ASI has enlightened some students ly women and children which have Opinions of other members of have benefited from Smith's dream to a heartbeat." to the potential assistance ASI has to come as a result t>f the war. One ref­ the staff seemed to concure with see this place kept intact and natural, "Any major that could be con­ offer the student community. Cavil erence was made, on a poster show­ that ofWeeks in it seemed universal a lab and a classroom for the nected to the ranch could benefit engineering senior Matt Arellano ing the head of lion, which said: that the officer’s support people who Collegeof Agriculture for 'Learn-by- from going there, whether it be just said he was unaware of what ASI “Do lions kill Iraqi babies, like you?” used their rights to pmtest the war, Doing'forever. on weekends or an internship," could offer students until the swing Yet, on another poster to contin­ however they do not support van­ When Smith died in 1993, he left Kooman said. "It is one of the most club, which he is a member of, ue with the theme of casualties dalism as a way to protest. the ranch to C'al Eoly in his will.