One booth stands out from all the rest at the San Luis Obispo Farmers’ Market on Thursday nights. Phil Hurst’s homemade T-shirt stall lights up, transforms into a trailer and towers higher than any other booth at the market. Hurst graduated from Cal Poly in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering. He said the skills […]
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Swords and shields collide at Santa Rosa Park
Approximately 20 people meet at Santa Rosa Park every Saturday to play Amtgard, a live-action, medieval weapon game. The Barony of the Seven Sleeping Dragons, as they call themselves, is the San Luis Obispo chapter of the internationally played game.
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Chicano theater group to offer political satire
From rising gas prices to terrorism, Chicano theater group Indigenous Chaos will discuss controversial topics using comedic poetry, songs and skits in Philips Hall on Friday. The group — comprised of three generations of the same family — formed in 1999 after its members spent years working with El Teatro Campesino, the acclaimed theatrical segment […]
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2012 Great Donut Massacre
The 2012 Great Donut Massacre competition, a Greek Week event, raised money for Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County’s Head Start program. Contestants from different sororities and fraternities competed in four categories: men’s and women’s powdered doughnuts, and men’s and women’s devil cake doughnuts.
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Poetry contest open for submissions
Cal Poly’s Academy of American Poets Contest began accepting submissions Tuesday. The Academy of American Poets is a national organization that promotes poetry writing for people of all ages. English professor and published poet Kevin Clark, who coordinates the contest at Cal Poly each year, said the organization holds poetry contests at hundreds of universities across the […]
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Record Store Day brings bands, deals, releases
Locally rooted record shops band together nationally one day each year to honor an act some might consider dated: buying music from a store. The fifth annual Record Store Day on Saturday will offer different kinds of incentives for people to visit any of the 1,700 independent retailers participating nationwide. The event started as a celebration of […]
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Photographer captures 'juvie' life
Richard Ross, photographer and UC Santa Barbara professor, spoke at Cal Poly’s Philips Hall on Friday, April 6. His latest project, “Juveniles-in-Justice” documents juvenile detention centers across the country.
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A declaration of interdependence
After an elaborate swapping of roles in the newsroom, I landed at the assistant news editor’s desk. This means that I, essentially, make page three (the wire page) of the Mustang Daily from scratch four days a week. I also gather quotes and headshots for the paper’s Word on the Street section, and see that […]
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Cal Poly grad now 'monster of folk'
He has secured his role as a champion of modern folk music, has collaborated and been nominated for a Grammy alongside Hollywood heartthrob Zooey Deschanel and is poised to drop a much-blogged-about new album April 10. The successes of Matthew Stephen Ward — or M. Ward, as fans know him — are old news to many students. […]
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ATOG goes hip-hop with new poet
The MultiCultural Center (MCC) will host a celebration of diversity and words Wednesday night with the return of its popular poetry event, Another Type of Groove (ATOG). The event offers open mics to attendees before and after showcasing a notable poet hired by the MCC; it usually takes place the first Wednesday of every month. […]
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Blind luck doesn't justify picking a major as an 18-year-old
Do me a favor: Look at a picture of yourself in the “throes” of your senior year in high school. Then think of yourself, as you are, in the (actual) throes of your college career. What about you has changed since that picture was taken? If you’re like me, it’s almost everything. How, then, does […]