On a Thursday spring morning in Paso Robles, Aurora William drives into a dirt lot by a hotel to a familiar sight: four other volunteers equipped with bags of supplies, from breakfast burritos to Fentanyl test strips. For the past four years, William and other community members from local churches have met here each week […]
On the frontlines: San Luis Obispo’s Fentanyl crisis response is changing
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Cal Poly Baseball Alum Brooks Lee to make Major League Debut
Former Cal Poly shortstop Brooks Lee has received the call that he will make his major league debut with the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday. Lee was the No. 8 overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, the highest any Mustang had been drafted in program history. The 23-year-old was on the injured list for the […]
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What you need to know about Cal Poly’s SLO Days
Mustang News is Cal Poly’s award-winning, student-run media organization, which covers Cal Poly and the local San Luis Obispo community. For future news and information, follow Mustang News on: Cal Poly SLO Days begins every incoming student’s integration into Cal Poly. In July and August, incoming freshmen and transfer students participate in Student Life Orientation […]
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Cal Poly Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach Samba Johnson named to Silver Waves Media’s Most Impactful Assistants list
Cal Poly Women’s Basketball Associate Head Coach Samba Johnson was named one of the 50 Most Impact Assistants in women’s college basketball by Silver Waves Media on June 25. Johnson completed his second season with the women’s basketball program, where he reached the Postseason WNIT for the first time in a decade. Johnson was hired […]
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The aftermath of dorm damages: Students experience physical and financial dangers
This story was originally published in the June print issue of Mustang News. It has been updated to include details about the St. Fratty’s Day incident and the resulting damage costs. It was April 2023. Computer science junior Adi Gottumukkala descended the stairway to Estrella’s fifth floor apartments in Poly Canyon Village (PCV), excited for […]
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‘Weekends are not a thing’: Meet the students who live year-round at Cal Poly’s agriculture units
Luke Somma didn’t think he’d spend his junior year at college living in a trailer. But unlike most trailers, this one has an official name: Cal Poly Building 18-L—the Dairy Science Residence Trailer. And Somma, the dairy unit’s student maintenance manager, can’t beat the 30-second commute to work. “I just roll out of bed and […]
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Cal Poly’s Davis Bove Narrowly Misses US Olympic Trials Semifinals
Cal Poly graduate student Davis Bove competed in the first round of the men’s 1,500-meter at the U.S. Olympic Trials and was just .01 seconds away from qualifying for the semifinals on Friday. In order to advance to the semifinals, competitors needed to finish in the top seven in one of three heats or have […]
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Cal Poly’s Davis Bove qualifies for US Olympic Trials in Men’s 1,500
Cal Poly graduate student Davis Bove has earned a bid to the US Olympic Track and Field Team Trials after setting back-to-back personal best finishes in the 1,500-meter race. He will compete in the first round on Friday, June 21 at 5:22 p.m. Bove qualified for the trials through his lifetime best performances in the […]
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Growing together: Meet the team behind Cal Poly’s Organic Farm
Most Cal Poly students navigate the bustling concrete campus, weaving through crowds and clanging bells to get to class. Environmental management and protection senior Moe Lee’s schedule looks a bit different. Their usual route is along a lengthy gravel path, past endless rows of fruit trees. After walking through a fence, Lee arrives at their […]
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Cal Poly student celebrates third wedding anniversary with her late best friend
Lainey Cauffman has worn a thin, silver ring on her right ring finger every day since she was 17, when she became a wife and a widow. At that age, Cauffman experienced loss like never before, one that would follow her for the rest of her life. As their junior year of high school came […]
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Unjudging Someone: The Human Library at Cuesta College
It was 1949, and behind the closed doors of a small hospital room in San Luis Obispo (SLO), a doctor held up a newborn baby. This child was born with a condition called Klinefelter syndrome, which causes a person to have ambiguous genitalia. She was born with two X chromosomes and an X and a Y chromosome.