The Cal Poly men’s basketball team was tabbed to finish sixth by Big West Conference coaches and eighth in a media poll at the Big West media day in Irvine on Wednesday.
Both polls selected Cal State Northridge to win the conference, with UC Santa Barbara as the runner-up in each.
The Race California State Assembly District 33 encompasses all of San Luis Obispo County and 44.25 percent of Santa Barbara County. Last updated in 2001, assembly records show 219,200 registered voters. The Candidates Sam Blakeslee He is a Republican, the incumbent and President of the investment firm Blakeslee & Blakeslee.
Cal Poly students and parents had the chance to see another side of campus when the MultiCultural Center hosted its 11th Annual Culturefest on Sunday, coinciding with Parent’s Weekend.
The theme for this year’s event, held in San Luis Obispo’s Mitchell Park, was “USS Culturefest: Sea of Diversity.
Cal Poly’s fourth annual Constitution Day lecture had a timely edge this year as voters prepare to pass judgment on Proposition 8. The California state ballot measure would amend the state’s constitution to define marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
Cal Poly students uneasy with the news that an attempted robbery and sexual assault allegedly took place at an apartment on Leff Street Tuesday should remember that Cal Poly is one of the safest campuses in the California State University system, according to University Police Chief Bill Watton.
Cal Poly business junior Nikole Mackenzie’s studying paid off this summer, not by gaining a degree, but by becoming the winner of an award showcase on “The Price is Right”.
Mackenzie organized a trip with 20 friends to CBS Television City in Los Angeles with the intent of making it onto the program.
Cal Poly’s Technology Park, a building that will house commercial firms for collaborative research, is several steps closer to becoming a reality. At their Sept. 16th meeting, the CSU Board of Trustees approved the $4.5 million design-build proposal submitted by the San Luis Obispo firm, Rarig Construction.
There may be more to the Earth’s magnetic field than commonly thought, says Cal Poly physics professor emeritus Kenneth Hoffman.
New research published in the weekly Science Magazine, by Hoffman and geochemistry professor Bradley Singer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggests there is a second source of energy in the Earth’s magnetic field.
This story was posted at 12:40 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 5. The Cal Poly volleyball team claimed first place in the Big West Conference on Saturday night against Pacific. The Mustangs swept the Tigers 25-23, 25-10, 25-21 at Mott Gym. The match was memorable for Mustangs head coach Jon Stevenson as both his 100th at Cal Poly (9-6, 4-0 Big West Conference), and his 23rd sweep there.
Morro Bay’s first ever outdoor Hip-Hop concert, featuring headliners Sean Kingston and Shwayze, rocked the Embarcadero on Sunday.
The event, billed as the first annual Back to Skool Orientation concert, took place in the parking lot at 714 Embarcadero Blvd.
Garden Grille, the made-to-order salad, sandwich, pasta, and hamburger restaurant that came to Cal Poly in 2005, is gone. The garden-themed restaurant was replaced over the summer with the modernized, train and subway-themed 19 Metro Station.
The change was just one of many recent dining renovations which include the facelift of Baja Sol, previously named Veranda Café, the replacement of Tapango’s by the Dexter lawn with Rockin’ Bar-P-Q and the opening of Starbucks in the University Union.
