The Cal Poly women’s tennis team won its first Big West Conference match this season after the team beat Pacific 5-2 on Sunday. For the first time since the team’s Feb. 12 loss to UC Davis, every Mustang was healthy enough to compete. Head coach Damon Coupe said he was pleased to see his team […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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Books for Africa
Cal Poly professor Stuart Styles and his son, alumnus Brandon Styles, are working to improve education in Gambia — a country located in West Africa — through the distribution of more than 40,000 donated books to libraries and classrooms. Brandon, who graduated in 2009 with an agribusiness degree, is the director for campus operations for […]
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Kastl wins Pac-12 championship, Novachkov and DesRoches fall in final
Despite second place finishes from top-seeds Boris Novachkov and Ryan DesRoches, the Cal Poly wrestling team earned four automatic bids to the NCAA National Championships held March 15 to 17 in St. Louis. Novachkov and DesRoches will be accompanied by Dominic Kastl and Ryan Smith — in addition to any wrestlers who earn the at-large […]
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Paying it forward
It’s the end of February and (I know probably everyone has said this, but it needs to be said once more) I don’t know where the time has gone. I have no idea when or how we got to the point where next quarter and next year are already on our minds almost every day. […]
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What is an advisory vote?
As a part of the rapidly approaching Student Success Fee vote, the advisory vote will distinguish what the next step will be. “An advisory vote is just that, advisory, versus it being binding,” associate vice provost for systems and resources Kimi Ikeda said. Some choices on campus are made directly by the administration, the university president […]
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Israeli scholar's lecture raises issues of free speech
Chumash Auditorium was nearly full. Many of those waiting were simply students hoping to pick up a few extra credit points. But others were angry. Some had survived the Holocaust and were not ready to hear criticisms of the state of Israel. Some were Jewish students not sure what to expect of a man incorrectly […]
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History repeats itself as fee proposal comes to students
Less than three years after voting to increase College Based Fees, Cal Poly students will once again be asked to advise the university president on a school-wide tuition increase come Wednesday. The Student Success Fee brings up uncanny similarities to a proposed fee increase in 2009 that was approved by student voters but shot down […]
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Club rugby snaps Cal's 63-game win streak
The Cal Poly club rugby team defeated the defending national champion and broke Cal’s 63-game winning streak as senior Matthew Varga completed a game-winning conversion on Saturday. It was the biggest win to date for the team’s new head coach David Burnett, who previously coached rugby in Australia for 10 years and was hired by […]
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'Better to tread water than to drown'
We were there for the first forum, the one with only one student in the audience as well as one of the final forums yesterday. Starting when former Cal Poly Provost Robert Koob proposed it in November, the Mustang Daily has closely followed the Student Success Fee. We’ve met with Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong, […]
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Middle class scholarships to help decrease CA tuition
California State Assembly speaker John Perez introduced legislation which would cut the rising price of attending public college in California by thousands of dollars per year, but not all are convinced it will pass and become law. The Middle Class Scholarship Act would decrease the cost of California State University (CSU) tuition approximately $4,000 per year […]
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SLO Five-0 2/20-2/26
Monday, Feb. 20 4:18 a.m. A commercial burglary occurred on the 200 block of Elks Lane. 11:01 a.m. An assault occurred on the 900 block of Industrial Way. Tuesday, Feb. 21 12:39 p.m. Fraud occurred on the 1200 block of Southwood Drive. 7:05 p.m. A bicycle was stolen at Mustang Village. Wednesday, Feb. 22 1:38 […]