Attendance at the latest Student Success Fee forum increased to 28 students on Wednesday — a marked increase from the lone attendee at the previous forum. Although a portion of the audience was made up of students required to attend for a class, associate vice provost Kimi Ikeda said the increase was due to better […]
Author Archives: KaytlynLeslie
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iJournalist, hear me text
Looking around the newsroom today I noticed something: every Mustang Daily nightly staff member has an iPhone, except me. How this happened, I have no clue. One day I’m sitting around and everyone has all their different non-smart phone cells out, and the next everyone is playing Scramble with Friends. With the shiny white phones […]
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Administration intimidation
I have a healthy fear of authority. This can definitely get in the way when you’re in journalism, so most of the time I just squash it down, and stash it somewhere quick before someone with any authority notices. But every once in a while it will pop up again, especially when we have VIMWVIPs […]
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It's no wonder I live on coffee
Just a note: This was written before Thanksgiving break because I’m a bit of a slacker some weeks, so enjoy the pre-holiday stress 🙂 I failed to write a blog last week (and the week before) for the very same topic I’m writing about this week: being a student AND a Mustang Daily employee is […]
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Word on the Street: Bucket List Edition
What’s on your bucket list? Cal Poly students tell what classes every student should take, what sporting events they shouldn’t miss and more.
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Rules are made to be … followed
I’m not a rule breaker at all. There’s no question about it. Jaywalking across a street stresses me out so much that I generally need an entire bottle of Valium afterward — I’m that neurotic about rules. But for all you rebels out there, rules are made to be broken, right? If you’ve read my […]
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Mustang Daily goes to Florida
Last week, the managing editor and I, accompanied by our advertising coordinator Stephanie Murawski, traveled to Orlando for the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention. Here we learned about some awesome design, inventive reporting and a couple of new ways to manage a newsroom, all while still managing to take a break from midterms and chill […]
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Do Mustang Daily editors dream of newsprint sheep?
I remember my first Mustang Daily dream: I was sitting at my desk, specifically reserved for the news editor, focusing on the computer intently. On the screen were that day’s pages, which I was laying out. And that was it. That was the entirety of my dream. I was laying out a page, with two […]
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Who you gonna call?
Alpha phi. Yes, we’re all talking about it (or at least those of you who managed to get ahold of a newspaper today before they all disappeared). The school starts an official investigation into a freshman female going to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, and suddenly, Cal Poly greek life gets massively talkative on the […]
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Comments welcome
OK, so it’s amazingly ironic that in my last blog post about mistakes, I had the unfortunate luck to have written “countries” instead of “country’s.” And thank you to the commenter who mentioned it. I actually do appreciate it when our mistakes are pointed out because, unfortunately, sometimes that is the only way we learn. […]
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miSt@kes happpen … but we fix them
So I’m not the best blogger in the world. Actually, I’ve never really blogged before this exact moment, so sitting down to write this is a little daunting. First off, I’d like to say, “Hi” to everybody (and anybody) reading this. Thank you for being the kind of reader who spends time on our website, […]