Nick Coury After I returned from winter break, I headed back to San Luis Obispo anticipating another great quarter at Cal Poly. I got back to my house on Dec. 29, and for the first two days I was back, it rained and poured like nobody’s business. Being the nature lover I am, I headed […]
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ASI brings the fun back to campus
Nick Coury Pulling an all-nighter usually includes drinking massive amounts of coffee and being on the verge of hallucinating due to lack of sleep, but on Thursday, Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Recreational Sports plans to change all that. ASI will be hosting the first annual “Dusk ’til Dawn” event in the Rec Center from 8 […]
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The party is a no-show
whitney guenther Mardi Gras weekend was exactly what San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deborah Linden wanted. “We’re really hoping you will be bored stiff all weekend,” she told an estimated 350 policemen at a briefing on Friday night at Santa Rosa Park, the field operations headquarters for the weekend. Linden and her staff, comprised of […]
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City plans for no party like last year
nick coury The party is still over. At least this is still the mantra of the San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) for this year’s Mardi Gras, which starts this weekend through Fat Tuesday on Feb. 28. In 2004, drunken crowds in big numbers threw bottles and rocks at unarmed police causing mass rioting with […]
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SLO Film Festival looks to revive film industry
San Luis Obispo gets its yearly dose of cinema culture for the week of March 7 for the first SLO Film Festival. This year expects to be promising with the premiere of Morgan Freeman’s newest film “Lucky Number Slevin.” It promises to be a must-see, especially with a resume like Freeman’s. (That excludes “Chain Reaction” […]
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Nothing to wine about
Nick Coury “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” This famous line from “Silence of the Lambs” describes wine culture at its finest. San Luis Obispo is located on the California Central Coast with an abundance of wineries and vineyards ranging in all tastes, from the Cabernet Sauvignons of Paso […]
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Students Vote on IRA Wednesday and today
nick coury Lauren Mount, a communication studies freshman, votes for the IRA fee referendum upstairs in the University Union on Wednesday evening. Voting was steady since noon on Wednesday, and trailed off after 6 p.m., said Trudy Jarratt, the president of The League of Women Voters. “I voted ‘yes,’ because it helps a lot of […]
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Poly student dies in car accident
Cal Poly freshman Sheri French died in a car accident on California State Route 121 near Napa Valley in the late afternoon on Saturday Feb. 18. French, 19, a business administration major, died along with her boyfriend, John Matteron, 20, when their Dodge Neon collided with a sport utility vehicle driven by a 31-year-old San […]
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Hidden tales and sworn secrets of the Mustang Maniacs
It’s late evening on a Friday in October. You and that special person are wrapped in scarves, walking towards the football stadium at Cal Poly. Although no alcohol is allowed, the cheering crowd is getting drunk on something else: mustang spirit, driven in large part by the Mustang Maniacs. “Our goal is to promote pride […]
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Sherwood sings and 'keep going'
Nick Coury “A lot of people don’t even know we are from San Luis Obispo (SLO), and I think that people in SLO don’t even know we exist,” said Nate Henry, singer and bassist of the indie-pop rock band Sherwood. Downtown Brew will be hosting the first stop of Sherwood’s national co-headlining tour with friends […]
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Police go door-to-door to promote a safe Mardi Gras
nick coury The San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) joined forces with the Cal Poly and Cuesta campus police departments on Tuesday, Feb. 7 to promote their “Party is Still Over” campaign for Mardi Gras. The three police agencies met at the SLOPD office on Walnut Street for a briefing that concerned handing out door-hangers […]