University is the place where most of us first taste true freedom. Freedom from curfew, from supervision (mostly), from decent home-cooked meals, from you name it. Yet, in the midst of all this novel independence there are typically two chains of dependence that stubbornly remain unbroken.
Neither major party is pro-choice in the true sense
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The handy-dandy score kit
Everyone needs one. For those playing the game, it would actually increase the possibility of scoring. I’m not talking about an amazing jump shot, a gorgeous golf swing, or a 50 million foot vertical. What I’m referring to is something I would like to call a Handy Dandy Score Kit.
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Movie night to raise funds for Wheelchair Foundation
Cal Poly’s student chapter of the Wheelchair Foundation hopes to raise at least $90,000 at a movie night fundraiser tonight at the Fremont Theatre. The foundation, which will be selling $5 tickets to a showing of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” will generate money to help send wheelchairs and provide cataract surgeries for needy residents of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Jonathan Dally: The No. 1 option
Without a doubt, Jonathan Dally has one of the strangest “personal” entries of any player biography in the 2008 Cal Poly football media guide.
Most list activities like surfing, watching movies or playing video games among off-field pursuits.
Then there’s Dally’s.
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ASI offers fun from Dusk 'til Dawn
It’s time for another night of free games, food and live music at the Cal Poly Recreation Center.
The fourth annual Associated Students Inc.- sponsored event, Dusk ’til Dawn is taking place Thursday from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.
“It’s grown into kind of a phenomenon of excitement for students,” ASI Programs Coordinator Michelle Curro said of the event.
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Entrepreneurs compete for capital
What do Google, Starbucks and Nike all have in common? For starters, the founders had an idea with enough potential to draw money from investors that, in turn, allowed them to obtain unlimited success as well as a global popularity.
The Orfalea College of Business and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) is holding its annual Ray Scherr Business Plan Competition, a three-stage contest that seeks to help provide funding and networking for campus-affiliated entrepreneurs and their business ideas.
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Letters to the editor
Taxpayers aren’t responsible for your health and happiness
Dustin Stone, did you read what the definition of a right is in the article you cited? The right to life means that nobody can take someone’s life away! That in no way means that the government (read: taxpayers) are responsible for paying for the health care of others.
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Green is good but blue is better
Throughout history, consumer movements have been central to revolutions. The French Revolution was brought to a boiling point over the demand for bread. On Feb. 1, 1960, four African American students made history by sitting at a segregated lunch counter at a North Carolina Woolworth’s store in the seats reserved for white customers.
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Joe Meno brings variety, creativity to new collection
I discovered Joe Meno rather accidentally when I was lured toward a green novel with a picture of a pink spiky hairdo on the front. I’ll admit I read it solely because of the amazingly cool cover, but more importantly, I discovered a fresh writer who incorporates life’s hilarity with just the right amount of depth.
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Polycon puts social face on gaming
Those who want to assume the role of an Elven wizard who employs spells to defeat the Paladin of Tyranny or lead an army of orcs into battle can find themselves at home at PolyCon, Cal Poly’s gaming club, which provides a relaxed setting for gamers to satiate their alter egos by participating in a variety of games and activities.
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Back-to-back goals lift Gauchos over Mustangs
The UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer team had a pair of players score twice Sunday evening to lift the Gauchos to a 4-2 win at Cal Poly in Alex G. Spanos Stadium.
Kailyn Kugler scored in the 30th minute on a penalty kick, and in the 43rd on an assist from Genelle Ives.