The Cal Poly softball team began its regular season with five games in three days, at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz., Feb. 10 to 12. Competing against nationally-ranked schools such as Arizona State and Georgia Tech, the Mustangs (1-4) won just one game at in the tournament — a 3-0 victory over Texas Tech. The […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
Posted inFeatures
From chair to center stage
In the weeks leading up to their annual show, the dancers of Cal Poly’s dance company, Orchesis, spent 16 to 18 hours a week in Alex and Faye Spanos Theatre polishing their choreography. Orchesis dancer and biological sciences senior Misty Moyle spent these weeks watching her fellow dancers from the wings of the stage in […]
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ASI Board of Directors meeting roundup
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Board of Directors met Feb. 22 for its biweekly meeting in the University Union (UU) room 220. Topics discussed included: Chair of the board Katie Titus reported: • California lieutenant governor will visit Cal Poly Friday and meet the leadership team and one representative from each college. ASI President Kiyana Tabrizi […]
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Coulter's visit a victory for intellectual diversity
From the initial “vanishing” stakes to the “revised” posters (and subsequent “poster wars”), it seems as though the left is doing everything in its power to stunt the success of Ann Coulter’s speaking engagement on Feb. 28. Meanwhile, alumni have whined, and professors have moaned in anticipation. Boo-hoo. Liberals are the first to ridicule Coulter’s […]
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Coulter's visit is a colossal miscalculation
Ann Coulter is a relic, a bigot, a mystery, a firebrand, a slipped disc, a wrenching gear, a fountain that does not trickle but rather vomits apoplectic sarcasm and such impossibly acidic bile that one wonders how such a substance could ever be contained by a creature of — as best as we can tell […]
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Stunt team heads to Florida for championships
Cal Poly’s stunt team will head to Florida for the National Cheerleading Association (NCA) Collegiate Championships, the largest collegiate cheerleading competition in the nation, on April 10. The team placed third, fourth and fifth in past competitions, according to stunt team coach Annette Laron-Pickett. Last year, they placed second in the United Spirit Association Nationals in […]
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Keeping what's yours, yours
With senioritis in full swing for some, and spring break right around the corner for all, you’re hopefully already making plans to go somewhere fun and exciting during the week off. But before you leave for whatever exotic location you might have in mind — during which time you’ll probably/hopefully only remember about a third […]
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Lucky straight seventh win for Mustangs
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team — the same one that lost seven straight games in December — won its seventh straight game against UC Riverside on Saturday. Cal Poly (13-12, 9-3) looks poised to defend its 2011 Big West league championship, playing its best basketball at the most critical point in the season. “We’re […]
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Friends-turned-rivals debate Cal Poly vs. UNC
J.J. Jenkins (JJ) is a Cal Poly business administration sophomore and Jordan Doucette (JD) is a University of Northern Colorado journalism sophomore. They attended high school together in Denver where they wrote a column entitled “Quadruple J: Question of the Day” for the school newspaper. The Big West and Big Sky conferences matched up in […]
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Documentary details coming out at Cal Poly
Elizabeth Chamberlain remembers transferring to Cal Poly in 2008 not knowing how to come out to her roommates, or what she was supposed to say or do. Coming out is so much more complex than people think, and there are not a lot of resources available at Cal Poly to help with the process, architecture […]
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Armstrong: presidency is 'dream job'
He’s the big man on campus. But judging from his attitude as he walks back to his office from lunch at 19 Metro Station, it’s a title he could do without. Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong greets nearly every other person he walks by — whether he knows them or not. Some students share a nervous […]