Chris Gunn When I think of human impact, I think of places like Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Big cities with big populations, huge landfills and air that some day might cast their populations into hospitals with lung problems similar to lifetime smokers. I don’t mean to be melodramatic, but when I think […]
Rain, runoff and hepatitis
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Mustangs second best at Pac-10 meet
sheila sobchik Cal Poly wrestling finished second at the Pac-10 championships for the second time in three years as defending champion Arizona State successfully defended the title, despite the Mustangs’ Chad Mendes winning the Pac-10 championship at 125 pounds. The Mustangs led the tournament into the final session, but the Sun Devils overtook Cal Poly […]
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So much for Party Gras
Julianne Byer You know it’s pretty bad if you can practically count the number of arrests last weekend on all your fingers and toes. Bad for the cops who stood around in the cold and cost the city almost $350,000; pretty good for all of us hiding out behind closed doors and keeping the music […]
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The challenges of commuting to campus
brennan angel At 7:30 a.m., Cal Poly student Crystal Matthew leaves her house and hops on her bicycle for the often cold, and sometimes rainy, commute to campus. She dons no special apparel for the outing, just her regular flat tennis shoes and school clothes. And Matthew never wears a helmet. “I know I should,” […]
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ASI brings the fun back to campus
Nick Coury Pulling an all-nighter usually includes drinking massive amounts of coffee and being on the verge of hallucinating due to lack of sleep, but on Thursday, Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Recreational Sports plans to change all that. ASI will be hosting the first annual “Dusk ’til Dawn” event in the Rec Center from 8 […]
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Ingram missed the point
In Jack Ingram’s commentary on the conservative obsession with abortion, he made it seem like opposition to abortion is an arbitrary stance based on taste, comparable to my personal conviction that mushrooms should remain a fungus, not a food. The problem with this is that it completely divorces the issue from morality. We all agree […]
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San Luis Obispo under siege
I moved here five months ago from San Francisco to attend graduate school at Cal Poly. Never in my nine years living in San Francisco did I ever feel as threatened and paranoid to be outside than I experienced this past weekend. If anything, San Luis Obispo seemed to be under military occupation for the […]
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A thank you to students
Recognition is in order for the Cal Poly student community related to reports of a safe and disturbance free weekend. I want to acknowledge that any success in avoiding the problems associated with past celebrations during Mardi Gras is due largely to your response and efforts to represent the Cal Poly community a positive way. […]
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Few thoughts about last weekend
Thanks to SLO police officers for a really quiet weekend. In fact, this weekend was even more quiet than any other normal weekend. I do not even want to go out with three or four cops driving around my house. Maybe this is what police want to see, all college students will be locked in […]
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Rocky rises above
Mariecar Mendoza Pain is passing, but Rocky Votolato is permanent. The eloquent Texan singer-songwriter (formerly of the emo-tastic Waxwing) just released his fourth album “Makers,” on Barsuk Records, and it is a gorgeous offering of delicate folksy harmonies, passionately galvanizing lyrics and catchy melodicism. He’s really something special. I saw him live in 2003 and […]
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Frankly Speaking 3-1-06
Frank Stranzl California Polytechnic State University of San Luis Obispo will win its first ever men’s basketball national championship this year. Not only that, but Derek Stockalper will be named the tournament’s most valuable player and coach Kevin Bromley will be selected the Associated Press “Coach of the Year.” Here’s how the next five weeks […]