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Two days after his team’s season came to an end, Cal Poly football head coach Rich Ellerson voiced appreciation for what he praised as an extraordinary senior class.
The Mustangs, who were ranked third in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) for seven consecutive weeks before Saturday’s 49-35 first-round playoff loss to Weber State, lost 17 seniors.
A less-gory version of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, “Sweeney Todd,” will slice its way through the Central Coast with a new minimalist interpretation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical this Thursday night at the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center.
I first discovered Toni Morrison by chance when a friend lent me “The Bluest Eye.” I did not expect to be completely enraptured by the writing. In fact, I put off reading it for a few weeks. I am glad that I uncovered it later though because it proved to be one of the most powerful novels I have ever read.
I’ve yet to visit Mumbai, but I’ve heard it’s an inebriating, glistening city of street vendors and flashy cars, a colorful metropolis where saris and business suits rub shoulders and where Indians and foreigners alike come to have their fortunes told and made.
Looks like not all plumbers are simply average Joes (sorry, couldn’t help myself). You don’t need to be a licensed pipe technician to learn how to save thousands of gallons of water a year and hundreds of dollars in the process. According to an article by Matthew Green of the East Bay Express, a league of “plumbing activists” are putting their technical skills to work combating California state codes that inhibit the widespread use of water-saving greywater systems.
The students of the poinsettia agriculture enterprise project will be spreading holiday cheer across Cal Poly in the form colorful poinsettias.
The poinsettia agriculture enterprise Project poinsettia sale will begin Dec. 1 at the Poly Plant Shop and continue through the middle of the month, featuring 30 varieties of plants.
Attracting Latinos to the agricultural industry, promoting diversity and higher education and providing a home away from home for students is all in a day’s work for Cal Poly’s Latinos in agriculture club.
“If you look back historically, agriculture has not been high on the list of career opportunities for Latinos,” said club advisor and agricultural education and communication department head Robert Flores.
Run a mile as fast as you can: 135 beats per minute. Ride a rollercoaster: 153 beats per minute. Peruse the Internet for new shoes: 70 beats per minute. Sit in a desk chair two minutes before class enrollment: 200 beats per minute.
Cal Poly’s class registration, since I’ve been here, has gone from bad to worse.
The fury over Prop 8 involves two equally strident, equally passionate camps; one that wants government to define marriage to allow people of the same sex to marry and another that seeks to restrict marriage to mean a legal union between a man and a woman only.
For months, defenses had tried to get the ball out of the hands of the Cal Poly football team’s offense.
To say they failed would be something of an understatement.
Cal Poly entered its Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) first-round playoff game against Weber State leading the FCS in both yards (481.
The Cal Poly women’s basketball team routed Idaho 77-60 Saturday to finish the Courtyard by Marriott San Luis Obispo Holiday Beach Classic 2-0.
The Mustangs (4-2) were led by senior forward Megan Harrison’s 17 points. She also contributed four assists.
Cal Poly trailed for just 22 seconds before a 3-pointer by sophomore guard Rachel Clancy gave the Mustangs the lead for good six minutes into the contest.
