New Year’s trumps Christmas by far. A school day lasts from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., not including homework. Parents are the ultimate deciders, even when they are wrong. And girls and boys rarely touch, although drinking is permitted in celebratory occasions as early as age 10.
Students come from far and wide to attend Cal Poly
Posted inNews
Student-run radio station plans to move on up
This year, Cal Poly’s radio station, KCPR 91.3 FM, will upgrade its studio and expand its coverage area. The station, which began broadcasting in 1968, is one of the only nonprofit college radio stations and is completely run by student volunteers.
The current studio is located on the second floor of building 26 and will be moved to the third floor next to the CPTV room.
Posted inNews
From agriculture to architecture: a look at Cal Poly's seven colleges
College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences
The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, formerly the College of Agriculture, is the fourth largest undergraduate agriculture program in the nation. The college includes over 3,500 students in 18 majors, and awards 650 baccalaureate degrees each year, launching students into the No.
Posted inFeatures
Alcohol: how much is too much?
I was in Puerto Rico last week, laughing and sipping drinks with friends and family, when a man got up on a nearby table and started dancing, spilling his drink all over himself.
He then dragged his companions up with him and urged onlookers to do the same until, eventually, everyone was dancing on their tables, drinks in hand.
Posted inFeatures
'Snakes on a Plane' slithers its way into box office success
Every so often a movie is made that shatters Hollywood pretenses and leaves audience members with a feeling of awe and inspiration. “Snakes on a Plane” is not one of those movies. What “Snakes” does do, however, is combine an over-the-top plotline with fantastically terrible dialogue to create one of the most ridiculously amusing movies of the summer.
Posted inSports
Author's performance brings fictional characters to life
A poetic cockroach and his friends will make their appearance at Linnaea’s Cafe Sunday night, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. Gale McNeeley, a Santa Maria resident, presents a one-man show as “Archy, the Poetic Cockroach,” and “Mehitabel, the Toujours Gai Alley Cat” and other characters created by Don Marquis.
Posted inSports
Beck leads former Mustangs in NFL
Jordan Beck is making the most impact so far this preseason of any of the four former Cal Poly football players currently in NFL training camps.
Beck, a backup middle linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons, has recorded five tackles in two games. He also had a pair of stops on special teams Aug.
Posted inSports
Soccer, volleyball teams ready to go
Three Mustang teams kick into action Aug. 25, marking the beginning of the volleyball and soccer seasons.
Cal Poly’s women’s soccer team will open its season by hosting San Diego State in a free game starting at 7 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Cal Poly Sports Complex.
Posted inSports
Poly ranked 11th-best golf school
Both the Cal Poly men’s and women’s golf teams were granted major bragging rights when Golf Digest ranked each team No. 11 nationally for academics and golf in the magazine’s September 2006 issue.
The magazine said the list was “for juniors who are excellent students first, golfers second, these schools provide the absolute best education and an opportunity to play.
Posted inOpinion
Cable news resembles tabloids, not journalism
Tonight on cable news: a bunch of stuff you really don’t need to know.
So that may not seem like a breaking story, but it’s certainly becoming more and more true.
With about 1,056 minutes to fill every day, cable’s three main news channels – CNN, Fox and MSNBC – have evolved into entertainment broadcasts rather than informative sources.
Posted inOpinion
JonBenet case exposes beauty pageant problems
This whole JonBenet Ramsey ordeal is weird. It’s been weird for 10 years and it keeps getting weirder. The newest addition came with the arrest of former Sonoma substitute teacher John Mark Karr, who has admitted guilt in what he said was a failed kidnapping attempt.