Douglas B. Bruzzone and Michael Matzke “Two Classy Gents” is a humor column. Chuck-chuck-bo-buck, fanana-fanna-fo. . .we all know how this little children’s ditty ends. As you may or may not know, faithful Mustang Daily reader, the current Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder is Chuck Liddell – local celebrity and enormous woman. For those not familiar […]
We're calling you out, UFC champion
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Sounding Off with Garrett Leight 1-13-06
For football fans, 2006 has started off with an astronomical bang. The Bowl Championship Series was not only the best of recent memory, but the best series of college bowl games I have ever seen. From the athletic plays of Ted Ginn Jr. and the Ohio State Buckeyes to the incredible blown kick battle between […]
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Big West: A big fall down
michael mullady O’ how the mighty hath fallen. University of the Pacific and Cal State Fullerton were the consensus pre-season picks to top of the Big West, but early conference upsets have thrown the standings into upheaval. Cal Poly (4-10, 2-2) and UC Riverside (2-12, 2-2) entered Big West play as the proverbial long shots […]
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Students applaud budget proposal
Graphic Design by Louise Dolby The California State Student Association (CSSA) praised Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal that he announced Tuesday would eliminate fee increases at California colleges and universities. The proposed budget provides nearly $2.8 billion in state general fund revenue to the California State University (CSU) system. This represents a 7.3 percent increase […]
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Stand up and be heard
It is not unusual to be the only woman in many of the engineering classrooms at Cal Poly, or in the industry, a position many of these women have not faced until coming to Cal Poly to be an engineering student. “I came to Cal Poly from an all- girls high school where I was […]
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Cal Poly Arts features Eth-Noh-Tec
michael mullady Cal Poly Arts presented Eth-Noh-Tec, Asian Treasure Bag of Stories, in the Spanos Theatre Sunday as part of the Family Event Series. Eth-Noh-Tec is a young people’s theatre that includes Asian mythologies, folktales and urban legends with Asian American sensibilities in lyrical and storytelling performances. Founded in 1982, the folktales and myths are […]
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A downtown research study
Joe Sargent I am starting a new research field and anyone who wants to join me can feel free to contact me. What study you ask? It is the study of the migratory pattern of the downtown drinker. If you have drank downtown you have probably witnessed this occurrence; drinkers roaming the streets moving from […]
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No, you da ho
Janice Edman I shifted uncomfortably in the passenger seat, and then toyed with the heat controls for a minute, hoping one of those buttons would cause my mother’s question to vanish instantly from my mind, instead of hanging over our heads in the silent car on an errand run over break. Moments earlier she had […]
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The tale of Jimmy Stewart and the banana penis
Daniel Gingras The first time I really sat down and thought about how sexually charged our generation has become was at a Cotillion Club dance in high school. Members of the Cotillion Club were upperclassmen only (juniors and seniors) whose privilege was to attend regular banquet dances at a fancy hotel. There were three extremely […]
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Sports Balk 1-12-06
Bradford Applin As I sit here tanning in the faint glow radiating from my computer monitor, eating stale Oreos and contemplating cracking open my textbook for the first time this quarter, several possible New Year’s resolutions come to mind. What will mine be this year you ask? Lose weight, exercise, improve my grades? Not exactly […]
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Long Beach dominates in win at Pyramid
Karina Figueroa scored 18 points as Long Beach State sprinted to a 19-point first-half lead and coasted to a 78-58 victory over Cal Poly in a Big West Conference women’s basketball game Monday night at The Walter Pyramid. Jeannie Saunders added 15 points while Jayme Connors contributed 10 points and 16 rebounds as the 49ers […]