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Cal Poly Pomona is situated in Pomona, a largely suburban city that is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The city of Pomona is located in the eastern portion of Los Angeles County and borders the neighboring county of San Bernardino to the east. The university’s 1,725 acres (698 ha) campus make it the second largest in the California State University system, a figure which includes various facilities scattered throughout Southern California such as a 53-acre (21 ha) ranch in Santa Paula, California, 25-acre (10 ha) campus at the former Spadra Landfill(now known as "Spadra Ranch"), and the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The university is currently negotiating the transfer of the 302 acre Lanterman Developmental Center from the State of California. The land is to be used for academic purposes and expansion of the Innovation Village and also shared by the California Highway Patrol, the California Air Resources Board and the California Conservation Corps. The transfer of the land is part of the Governor's 2015-2016 Proposed Budget.

Although part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the university is in close proximity to two other large metropolitan and culturally-defined regions, the Inland Empire and Orange County. The university has a tier 1 area, defined as a geographical admissions region surrounding the campus, roughly bounded by the San Gabriel Mountains to the north, the city of Chino Hills to the south, Interstate 605 to the west, and Interstate 15 to the east. Cal Poly Pomona's campus buildings vary in age and style from the Mission Revival Kellogg Horse Stables and the Kellogg House (suggesting the Spanish colonial architectural heritage of Southern California) built in the 1920s; the modernist box-like portion of the library completed in 1969; to contemporary dormitories, engineering, science and library-expansion facilities completed in the early 21st century.

Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County. He was the first political opponent of Richard Nixon, who defeated Voorhis for re-election in 1946 in a campaign cited as an example of Nixon's use of red-baiting during his political rise. Voorhis was born in Kansas, but the family relocated frequently in his childhood. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University (where he was elected to the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa) and a master's degree in education from Claremont Graduate School. In 1928, he founded the Voorhis School for Boys and became its headmaster. He retained the post into his congressional career. In the House of Representatives, Voorhis was a loyal supporter of the New Deal and compiled a liberal voting record. His major legislative achievement was the Voorhis Act of 1940 requiring registration of certain organizations controlled by foreign powers. After being re-elected by comfortable margins four times, he faced Nixon in 1946 in a bitter campaign in which Voorhis' supposed endorsement by groups linked to the Communist Party was made into a major issue. Nixon won the Republican-leaning district by over 15,000 votes and Voorhis refused to run against Nixon in 1948. During a writing career spanning a half-century, Voorhis penned several books. Following his defeat by Nixon, he retired from politics and worked for almost twenty years as an executive in the cooperative movement. He died in a California retirement home in 1984 at the age of 83.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (video game)

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Developer(s)	Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)	Atari Domark
Series	Star Wars
Platform(s)	Arcade (original) Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum
Release	NA: 1984
Genre(s)	Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player
Cabinet	Upright, cockpit

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a 1984 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and the sequel to the 1983 Star Wars arcade game. The game uses raster graphics, rather than vector graphics which were used for the first and third Atari arcade games based on the Star Wars franchise. Home ports were released by Domark for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST,[1] Commodore 64,[2] and Amiga[3] in 1988. The game is included as an unlockable extra on Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike for Nintendo GameCube. This game used a cabinet design that is very similar to other dedicated Atari classics like Firefox and Major Havoc. Decals of Luke Skywalker on a speeder bike and Darth Vader's helmet are on the upper section of the cabinet that contains the monitor, and there is no artwork on the lower section of the cabinet.

A capture shot of one of California's Redwood forests

Redwood forest that inspired Return of the Jedi and its video game counterpart

Story

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi takes a few elements that are from main plot points from the movie. The setting is set on the planet Endor after Luke Skywalker rescued Han Solo from Jabba the Hut on Tatooine. Three stages are presented to the players in chronology of the three major standpoints from Return of the Jedi film. The stages that follow the plot are the speeder chase scene, the battle over Endor, Chewbacca controlling an At-St near the shield generator bunker on Endor, and the piloting of the Millenium Falcon within the Death Star. The first stage is a pivotal point for both this game and the film as the environment is heavily inspired by the redwood forests of California. The rest of the game follows a similar chronology of events that happened in the film version, but the game gives more control over how players choose to progress through the story.

Gameplay

The player takes control of three different vehicles in stages based upon the Return of the Jedi film. Gameplay is from a 3/4 isometrically projected perspective and is broken into several stages. In the first stage, the player pilots a speeder bike to the Ewok village based on the exact scene from Star Wars Return of the Jedi film. The next stage involves piloting the Millennium Falcon to destroy a reactor followed by another speeder bike stage. The final stage involves piloting both an AT-ST and the Millennium Falcon in rapid succession in a fight against a star destroyer. After players have completed the final stage, an accomplishment ceremony plays where Yoda will tell the player that they are a true jedi knight and give the player a golden star next to their name on the scoreboard. After the player inputs their name next to their high score, the game will restart at the first chapter with a higher difficulty.

Reviews

The Atari Times rates the video game a 80/100 based off a random statistical group.

Category	Description	User Score
Gameplay	How well the game mechanics work (player controls, game action, interface, etc.)	3.2
Graphics	The quality of the art, or the quality/speed of the drawing routines	3.2
Personal Slant	How much you personally like the game, regardless of other attributes	3.2
Sound / Music	The quality of the sound effects and/or music composition	3.5
Overall User Score (5 votes)		3.3