The No. 6 Stanford women’s volleyball team edged Cal Poly 25-17, 23-25, 26-24, 25-10 Saturday in front of a Mott Gym regular-season record crowd of 2,917.
The No. 19 Mustangs (5-6), who won their first set against Stanford in 22 years, were led by Kylie Atherstone’s 17 kills.
After two season-opening games decided by last-minute field-goal attempts, the Cal Poly football team put itself in a less suspenseful finish Saturday.
The Mustangs, who topped San Diego State 30-28 Aug. 30 before falling 29-27 Sept. 6 to Montana, sprinted to a 28-7 lead at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, La.
When students return to class for the fall quarter, new classes are not the only things that will be starting on campus. Here is a list of 10 Cal Poly athletes to keep your eye on this fall:
Men’s soccer – Eric Branagan-Franco
The senior goalkeeper owns a bevy of school records including save percentage, goals-against average, shutouts in a season and career shutouts.
Until the end of time, coaches will always harp the cliché that the most important game is the next game. But we all know that’s not really true, right? Everyone circles one date or another on the calendar, depending on what they’re looking for. Here are 10 such dates in Cal Poly sports for the rest of the fall season that we at the Mustang Daily recommend circling, in chronological order:
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There is a stark contrast between today’s San Luis Obispo and the city it was a century ago. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was home to one of the largest Chinatown districts outside of San Francisco. Yet today, few remnants of old Chinatown remain and even fewer know the story behind what’s left.
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Students returning from summer vacation might find a few unexpected changes on campus this fall, the largest of them being related to the opening of the brand new Poly Canyon Village.
To accommodate the foot traffic of thousands of new residents, Via Carta, next to the Campus Market has been permanently closed to vehicle traffic, or as Mark Hunter, Cal Poly’s executive director of facility services, prefers to call it, “the opening of a new pedestrian mall and bikeway.
Location, location, location. the real estate mantra seems to have worked for Bella Montaña, the Cal Poly Housing Corporation’s faculty housing development just west of campus. With 81 percent of the two and three bedroom homes now sold, the development at the intersection Highland Drive and North Santa Rosa Street is meeting its original goal, 20 months after sales first started.
When Alexandra Kirkpatrick graduated from Cal Poly’s forestry program in March 2007, she never thought she’d come back for more.
But, now, Kirkpatrick is just one of the more than 750 graduate students enrolled at Cal Poly.
“I honestly wasn’t sure that I was going to go to graduate school while I was in college,” said Kirkpatrick, a forestry science graduate student.
Astronaut Greg Chamitoff is in a class of his own. A Cal Poly alumnus, he has spent the last two months as the American representative aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Before conducting a live telephone interview with Scott Rourke of Cal Poly’s alumni magazine, Chamitoff took a moment to don a Cal Poly T-shirt which he brought aboard in his limited allowance of personal articles.
What’s in a beginning? Every year thousands of students walk into their first year of college at Cal Poly, wide-eyed and excited for the next chapter in their lives to begin. As ASI President, I am honored to welcome each of you, new and returning, to a new year.
These are the things I know about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, in the order I learned them:
1) She is John McCain’s running mate though no one had heard of her two months ago
2) She is the governor of Alaska
3) She was a beauty queen and was recently on the cover of Vogue
4) Her husband works in the oil industry
5) Her 17-year-old daughter is having a baby
6) She is socially conservative (more so than McCain)
Politicians are now given a paparazzi-high level of celebrity status; this relatively unknown woman was thrown into the spotlight and can no longer have the luxury of a private life.
