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.
Polycon puts social face on gaming
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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.
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Cal Poly eliminated at Northwest Championships
The Cal Poly women’s doubles team of juniors Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Championships at Stanford on Sunday.
Blalock and Wong, seeded fourth, were defeated by eighth seed Jana Juricova and Marion Ravelojaona of Cal, 8-5.
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Poly grads design "White House of the future"
Four Cal Poly architecture alumni competed in an international design competition where they were asked to redesign a modernized White House, called White House Redux, and they answered in a big way.
The team of Jeff Frost, David Iseri, Justin Kruse and Laura Sperry, all of whom have left San Luis Obispo for the busy New York City life, won second place.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Prop 8 does not equal religious freedom
Do you go to Farmers’ Market or drive by the Republican office downtown? Have you seen the signs people are walking around with that say “Prop 8 = Religious Freedom?” This is a deviant and deceptive way to sway uninterested voters to vote yes on it. Is that what it’s come to? So I can walk around farmers then, with a sign that reads “Prop 8 = Drinking babies blood”?
Proposition 8, for those of you who don’t know, is a proposition to add the words “between a man and a woman” into the state constitution with regards to the definition of marriage.
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Political columns are unconvincing
I could spend all day writing why Ian Nachreiner’s column makes
absolutely no sense, but I think I would be preaching to the choir and the unconvertable. I just want to know if there are any “independents” out there who actually read these columns and have their opinions on the issues swayed? Everyone I know either doesn’t read them, or they read the conservative one just to laugh at it.
Posted inOpinion
Today's the day: make sure your voice is heard
As I hope you have already heard, today, Oct. 20, is the last day to register to vote. It is the last day to make sure your voice is heard in this election. This election is the most important in at least a generation. The outcome could very well determine how much debt you accumulate during your time in school and the kind of jobs you’ll have access to when you graduate.
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Drink, debate and vote for whoever you want
In commemoration of the death of voter registration 2008 and Cal Poly’s “Democracy Week,” I have an idea. An idea that I believe will shake our political system to its core. It is a plan that I think students at Cal Poly can get behind and embrace. It is based on what I have seen on-campus, what I have seen off-campus, and most importantly what I feel in my heart.
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Is patriotism partisan?
Does patriotism have a political party? Some might say so. Last Thursday night at a fundraiser in Greensboro, N.C., Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was quoted as saying that “we believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation.
Posted inFeatures
Poets and singers bring 'Flor y Canto' to SLO
The smell of incense filled the room as the crowd rose and turned to face the four walls of the building Saturday night during “RAZA Speaks: Flor y Canto,” an open mic night sponsored by Cal Polyís Multicultural Center. The audience was participating in a traditional Native American custom of thanking the four directions, which kicked off a night of Native and Hispanic song and poetry at the Steynberg Gallery in downtown San Luis Obispo.
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Shakespeare Press Museum: a hidden treasure
On the ground floor of the Graphic Arts building lies a little-known secret that takes you back to the 19th century, to a time where printing was done by hand and considered an art. Cal Poly’s Shakespeare Press Museum looks just like a printing office from the 1800s and is run entirely by students.