nick camacho Long Beach State scored seven times in the first two innings and coasted to a 13-4 victory in a key Big West baseball game on Sunday. With the win, the 49ers (25-19, 9-2 Big West) kept a slight lead over Cal State Fullerton (34-12, 11-4) in the race for Big West supremacy. Meanwhile, […]
Playoff chances fading quickly
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Defense stings Mustangs in series loss
nick camacho Chelsea Green was overwhelmed with emotion Sunday when she took right field for the last time at Bob Janssen Field. The Cal Poly senior cleanup hitter is the highest active player on the Mustangs’ all-time list of hits’ leaders. She was 1-for-3 Sunday in Cal Poly’s 4-2 Big West Conference loss to Cal […]
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What did you pay?
Jennette Ballas and Aliza Elbert Dilemma: I was recently looking into buying a new pair of running shoes and comparing prices online between different Web sites. When I told a friend the prices that I found, he went to the sites and for the same exact pair of running shoes, his price was lower than […]
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Professor to teach summer arts program at Fresno State
Kendra Deutsche mustang daily Cal Poly students can take advantage of various classes being offered at a discounted rate to California State University students in the Summer Arts program at Fresno State this summer. Susan Duffy, Cal Poly professor and liberal studies department chair, will be overseeing a class entitled “Expand Your Repertoire: Opening Doors […]
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Speaker discusses a world without oil
Imagine the American countryside laden with millions of useless automobiles. A society in a state of shock and void of growth, the result of a civilization that had its foundation crumble as they ran out of their precious resources. Caltech physicist David Goodstein, author of “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil,” […]
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ASI announces election results
Kristen Marschall The 2006-07 Associated Students, Inc. President Todd Maki and 25 members for the board of directors were announced unofficially on Thursday, May 4 after a 22.5 percent voter turnout. Maki defeated opponent Anne Giapapas with 2,746 votes to 958 and will assume the role of ASI president on June 12, the Monday after […]
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Rascal Flatts: The gang's back and better than ever
Kendra Deutsche Rascal Flatts’ newest album, released April 4, continues to top the national Billboard Top 200 chart for the third week in a row. They also debuted in the No. 1 position on the Top Country Albums chart. Their fourth album, “Me and My Gang,” is perhaps their best yet with their strong lyrics […]
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Billbored for the week of 5/8
PEDAL yourself to the Community Bike Happening and Bike-In Movie on Friday, May 12 and help celebrate National Bike Month. Meet at the Mission Plaza at 7 p.m. Bikers will head to Meadow Park and will watch “The Triplets of Belleville” and be greeted with refreshments at 8:30 p.m. Don’t forget your helmets and bike […]
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Helping the homeless in San Luis Obispo
The man on the street corner holding the “Why lie I need a beer” sign is probably homeless, but he’s not the only one. Far from it. Yet, it is his face that’s in the public eye and, therefore, it is his face that the general public associate with homelessness. If only the issue were […]
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Sony might wind up in last place in the console wars.
Is the world coming to an end? Before E3 I was worried that Sony might not pull into first place in the console wars, but now analysts are forecasting third, behind the cult lover box known as the Nintendo Wii? Thankfully, however, I haven’t listened to analysts ever since the unbeatable quote “video games will be extinct by the year 2000.
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When speech becomes a crime
You can imagine my embarrassment when I came across a San Francisco writer’s commentary on the assault on free speech our country has faced in recent years and saw my alma mater as an example of Orwellian like thought control. (SFGate.com “When Speech Becomes a Crime” by Cinnamon Stillwell, June 28, 2006)
I missed the 2003 story of College Republican Steve Hinkle being found guilty by Cal Poly for “disruption” for the crime of putting up a flier advertising a black conservative speaker.