STUDENT PRESS OF CAL POLY POMONA UNIVERSITY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 VOL LXXVI NO. 2 WWW.THEPOLYPOST.COM ASI Board 7 additional CPP students test positive of Directors initiates for COVID-19 from off-campus sorority fee relief Zeta Tau Alpha have not faced any university imposed sanctions discussion By NICOLAS HERNANDEZ Copy Editor The ASI Board of Directors began discussing three student fee relief options for the fall semester during its Sept. 26 meeting. The discussion follows two community planning sessions where the organization presented and sought to gauge student opinion on the three relief possibilities. ASI Vice President Manshaan Singh and ASI Executive Director Liz Roosa Millar presented board members with the same presentation Singh and ASI President Lucy Yu gave to attendees at the two community planning sessions, outlining the three allocation options for approximately SARAH HAN | THE POLY POST $2 million dollars in See COVID-19 / Page 2 savings identified by ASI. Option one would redistribute the savings into both ASI and New chancellor-select addresses Black university basic needs programs. Programs highlighted as possible student underrepresentation, student fees beneficiaries of this By BLANCA Black made up only 3% large number of PhD option included The GONZALEZ of the campus’ student students and graduates Poly Pantry, an ASI Staff Writer population — a rate them and they’re basic needs scholarship, that remained steady becoming more and the university’s Basic from 2010 to 2017. more diverse and I would Needs Emergency California State In his introductory like us to be in a position Grant and the Career University Chancellor- interview, Castro where we inspire those Center’s Clothes Closet. select Joseph Castro mentioned that he graduates to join our Option two would addressed concerns believes it is important faculty, and I think allocate the savings to about a wide range for students of all that that’s a really nice “ensure ASI’s future of issues affecting backgrounds to be potential synergistic financial health,” the 23-campus able to relate to their relationship between according to Singh. This system – including professors and advisors the two large public would mean keeping underrepresentation in authentic ways. university systems.” the savings in the five of Black students and “It’s extraordinarily Another important ASI Reserve accounts to student fees – in a press important, in my issue at CPP involves fund current and future conference organized by opinion, that our faculty the continued payment ASI projects as well as the Cal State Student become more diverse in of student fees for ASI retirement funds. Wire on Sept. 30. ways where our faculty services and facilities While ASI’s pension Questioned by student really understand that are currently fund is currently funded journalists throughout our students’ lived closed to students. at 82.3%, Singh noted the CSU, Castro spoke experiences because When Castro was that the other post- on issues of concern to Courtesy of The Office of the President they’ve walked similar asked about addressing employment benefits the Cal Poly Pomona CSU Chancellor Joseph Castro will be the first Mexican paths and they’re able to student fees he said, fund, which includes community. In addition American appointee. inspire the very best in “I don’t yet have a benefits like health care to Black student our talented students,” full awareness of all for retired employees, enrollment and student at the strategies that take steps to address said Castro. the different kinds of is only funded at 28.1%. fees, the chancellor we’ve used in the past this so that over time To address the need campus fees across The first two options also responded to and presently and we can increase the for diversifying faculty, the system, but I have been pitched to questions concerning continuously ask, ‘Are representation of Castro said, “One idea can tell you that students and board virtual instruction. these the right strategies African American I have that I plan to philosophically, here at members alike as options When asked how he going forward?’ and students and also work discuss with University Fresno State, we have that can be implemented planned to increase ‘What more can we do harder to retain them of California President tried to make sure that relatively easily and the Black student to increase the number and help them graduate.” Michael Drake, is how the fees that we do even combined together. population on CSU of, in this case, African According to available the UC and CSU can charge are appropriate.” The third option, a campuses with low American students data from CPP’s work in this way. Castro added that fees partial reimbursement representation, Castro who attend the CSU?’... Academic Research The UC educates a such as the ones that of the fall semester’s ASI responded, “I think I think that all of us and Resources office, facilities and operation that we need to look need to look at that and students who identify as See CHANCELLOR/ Page 3 See ASI / Page 3 NEWS Page 3 A&E Page 4 OPINION Page 6 SPORTS Page 7 WWW.THEPOLYPOST.COM CPP introduces Club bridges ACB poses a danger Athletics creates new @THEPOLYPOST COVID- 19 class professional gaps to women’s rights racial subcommittee NEWS 2 THE POLY POST Tuesday, October 6, 2020 University provides students safe ways to vote in election Kellogg Arena to serve as ballot drop off By CHEYENNE is also working with ASI to THOMAS provide nonpartisan infor- Staff Writer mation and communication Amid national safety con- on election issues as well as cerns about voting during the importance of voting. the COVID-19 pandemic, Leading up to the elec- Cal Poly Pomona students tion, The ASI Instagram Courtesy of Lawrence Lawrence Anderson Photography will have three options to account will be providing vote in the Nov. 3 general information on how the election, including casting voting process works and Alumni celebrate national their ballots on campus. will post videos on topics Student have three related to voting, according recognition for housing design options. The first is mailing to PolyCentric. in their ballot that all regis- Nicole Stai, ASI offi- tered voters in Los Angeles cer of civic engagement, By ALEXANDRA WILDER Before HMC, Sink worked on proj- handed them a pen and they drew what County will receive begin- was contacted, but did not Staff Writer ects ranging from designing a Catholic a shower would look like for them.” ning Oct. 3. The second respond to inquiries before church to an airport terminal but when The students drew a shower with a is dropping off their mail deadline. The Cal Poly Pomona Student Hous- he started working in higher education changing area behind a closed door. Orr ballot at the university’s Another way students ing and Dining Commons has received projects, Sink found it was the most cre- and Sink included 250 changing rooms voting center in Kellogg can retrieve information the National Award of Merit in the Edu- ative outlet for himself. exactly how the students drew it into Arena. The last is voting is by following the CPP cational Facilities category from the “Housing told us that they needed the building. on campus, in person at the Bronco Advocates Twitter Design-Build Institute of America. 980 beds and a dining hall,” Sink said. “When we think about connectivity Kellogg Arena. account. The project, designed by two CPP “Everything else we built and con- to the environment and sustainability, “The goal is to pro- The account is run by the alumni, is now a nominee for the structed around that was based on we also need to think about universal vide students the tools to Office of Government and National Award of Excellence in the our experience and based on what we design,” Sink said. “That means design- be active participants and External Affairs and posts Educational Facilities category with the knew would work well for student ing for everyone inclusively. That night make choices for their own information such as how to winner set to be announced on Oct. 29. engagement.” was transformational for us in how we lives,” said Frances Teves, check a voter registration The creative minds behind the Early in the planning stages, the do our work.” assistant vice president in status and how to become recently added residence halls, Secoya two toured residence and dining halls Will Chaverin, a second-year busi- the Office of Government better informed on a can- and Sicomoro, are James Sink (’99, across the country and discussed with ness marketing student, moved and External Affairs. didate’s platforms. architecture) and Jonathan Orr (’11, President Soraya Coley what the CPP into the residence halls last spring. Teves identified increas- Another popular platform master’s in architecture). Together, the landscape needed most. “The location of the new dorms are per- ing civic engagement and is TurboVote, a tool that two work for architecture firm HMC “President Coley talked about Cal fect,” Chaverin said. “The suites were educating students on became available to CPP Architects within its higher education Poly transforming into a metropolitan right across the street, so we got to meet issues present on the ballot students in late August. This studio and served as the two executive destination,” Sink said. a lot of people.” as the main objective for the system helps students reg- architects for CPP’s housing project, a “She spoke about the campus really Chaverin’s old dorm in Alamitos Hall Office of Government and ister to vote and provides project that was 10 years in the making. differently and we were really inspired was unkempt and on the opposite side External Affairs.