The Cal Poly Floral Design Team missed first place at the National Floral Design Competition in Washington, D.C. by only two points. The team beat out 11 other campuses for the second place honor.
“(The judges) picked the team with the highest average, and Mississippi was only two points above us,” Lynch said.
For most of us, drinking a glass of milk is just that, sipping down milk. The in-depth thoughts about the milk and its contents never really cross the mind unless that mind belongs to professor Phil Tong.
Tong, director of the Dairy Products Technology Center, has been in the dairy industry for over 20 years, and some of his recent work has earned him an International Dairy Foods Association Research Award.
Some students enjoy road trips or relaxing family vacations over their summer break. But Cal Poly student Matt Ishler has a different idea of summer traveling.
Ishler, a kinesiology junior, skateboarded from San Luis Obispo to his hometown of Santa Monica in three days, a 230-mile-long journey.
In order to combat late-night double parking issues, the San Luis Obispo Police Department has designated taxi zones throughout the downtown area.
The new taxi zones are a way of ensuring the safety of both nighttime pedestrians and taxi drivers, according to police.
The Information Technology Service Department is making changes to the way students using laptops can access the internet on campus for the upcoming fall quarter.
Beginning Sept. 9, Cal Poly students will be able to easily access wireless networks throughout campus for the first time without having to register laptops through the ITS office.
Any student can be a elementary school teacher in three quarters of college.
Cal Poly professor Len Davidman on Aug. 30 will hold a meeting in Building 2, room 101 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m., to discuss how any one student can begin an exciting career in teaching.
I was not much of a wine drinker until lately. The other night I felt the urge to just curl up on the couch with a bottle of vino and watch a little television.
My experimentation with sophistication began with a bottle of pinot noir. My show of choice: college rodeo.
Tom Petty’s new album “Highway Companion” is a smooth blend of toe-tapping music and sing-along vocals. Listeners will find themselves singing the lyrics after hearing the album only once.
The third album of Petty’s solo career is a perfect combination of slow and upbeat songs.
The San Luis Obispo Little Theatre is celebrating its 60th season in show business this year, making it one of the longest continuously-running community theaters in the nation.
In the theater’s six-decade lifespan, more than 375 productions have been staged in over 21 locations around the county.
It’s a place where friends are rivals and rivals are friends. Huh?
There is a new Web site called FanSpot (www.fanspot.com) geared toward the sports fanatic.
FanSpot is organized similarly to MySpace, where patrons sign up for membership to design a Web page of their own.
Blocking and tackling was a bit louder Aug. 14 when the Cal Poly football team practiced in full pads for the first time during training camp.
Head coach Rich Ellerson said the Mustangs had already been doing roughly 80 percent of the drills seen during Monday’s practice, which lasted nearly three hours at the track and field facility.
