Jim Seimas of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported Friday that Robbie Erlin, a left-handed pitcher from Scotts Valley High, recently verbally committed to play in 2010 for Cal Poly. Erlin, a 5-foot-11, 170-pounder entering his senior season, went 4-2 as a junior, boasting a 1.41 ERA and striking out 81 while walking just 11 in […]
Poly's pitching staff getting a shot in arm?
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Roller hockey club prepares for tryouts
The Cal Poly roller hockey club team may not have the most visible fan base or an on-campus rink – but that doesn’t keep its members from doing what they love, and doing it well.
Last year, the Mustangs went 10-5-3 before falling in March at the Western Collegiate Roller Hockey League Regional Championships at the Roller Hockey Center in Irvine.
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Big West has new king: Fullerton's Bobby Brown
It wasn’t the way Bobby Brown had envisioned things.
Several months prior, the Cal State Fullerton guard was flirting with the NBA, working out with the Phoenix Suns (twice), the Clippers and Lakers of his hometown Los Angeles and attending the pre-draft camp in Orlando.
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Budget delay won't hurt CSU employees
California State University employees can expect to see full paychecks during the state budget stalemate, despite the governor’s recommendation to cut back pay to $6.55 an hour.
Because California’s new budget is already 31 days past its deadline, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Thursday in an attempt to free up state money until legislators can reach an agreement.
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'Edible wall' provides food for poor
Low-income residents of Los Angeles’s Skid Row can now thank a group of dedicated Cal Poly students for an endless supply of garden-fresh vegetables available literally right outside their doors in the form of an “edible wall.”
In collaboration with the international group Urban Farming and a company called Green Living Technologies, Cal Poly students spent the last three months growing the plants that are now encased in 180 steel panels filled with soil.
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A thousand coming to Poly to talk green
The seventh annual UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference will be held at Cal Poly this weekend, the first time the conference will be hosted by a California State University. The conference includes representatives from all three public higher education systems in California: the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU) and California Community College (CCC) systems.
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Saudi Arabia contract signed
Although Cal Poly signed the contract that would essentially develop and implement a new engineering program at Jubail Unversity College (JUC) in Saudi Arabia, nothing has been finalized and the contract still remains private. Cal Poly signed the controversial contract in early July, but still waits for JUC to sign its portion, said Susan Opava-Stitzer, dean of Research and Graduate Programs, in an interview last week.
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Living the American dream… sorta
Becky Hammon wanted to play basketball for her country at the Olympic Games, but her country didn’t want her. So Hammon did the next best thing: she joined a new country. It just so happens that the two countries have quite a checkered past. Hammon, who was born and raised in South Dakota, will play under the Russian flag in the Olympics this summer, sparking a trend that has disturbed many and influenced people to name her a traitor.
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Multimedia: Tres Gatos Concert
Click the image below to see a multimedia slideshow of local band Tres Gatos at Concerts in the Plaza at the Mission in downtown San Luis Obispo.
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War as a business: serious or satire?
A war is fought in large part by a company of hired mercenaries in the Middle East for a government that is unable to explain its motives completely. Sound familiar?
This isn’t the story of the American landscape today, but of John Cusack’s latest comedy, “War, Inc.
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Local kitchen studio has grand opening
The Garden’s Kitchen Cooking Studio in San Luis Obispo will open its doors to the public in a grand opening doubling as a charity fundraiser Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Ashleigh Hutchison, the kitchen’s owner and operator, said she came up with the concept of the studio after having lived in, and been exposed to, the food culture of San Francisco and Hawaii.