michael mullady The birth of businesses can be a mystery for some students. While some have ambitions to open a business, they feel that they don’t have enough experience to establish a strong foundation. Nevertheless, various companies continue to spawn from Cal Poly alumni. Left Coast T-shirt Company, The Morro Bay Surf Company (MBSC) and […]
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Club offers fair trade solutions to holiday shoppers
With less than a month left until Christmas, many are struggling to figure out what to buy friends and family members. The Cal Poly Fair Trade Club is offering a suggestion: coffee – and a little piece of mind. Since Nov. 15, the Cal Poly Fair Trade Club has sold its holiday gift packs, a cellophane-wrapped package full of LaDonna’s Coffee Co.
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Put down the pens and come out swinging
Put down the pens and come out swinging So I was sitting on my couch the other day reading the letters to the editor section of our Mustang Daily. I was quite annoyed by the amount of space devoted to personal attacks on the authors of past letters in previous editions, who had differing political […]
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Take your purse off
In response to Brad Scholten’s letter to the editor “Girls never go for the good guys”: Brad, if you whine a little more about it, girls will definitely see the error of their ways. When you’re done crying yourself a river, build a bridge and get over it. P.S. Roll up this newspaper and slap […]
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Tips on how to look cool without freezing your boots off
brennan angel During the two months a year that San Luis Obispo gets a little chilly, it can be difficult to shelve the Rainbow sandals and T-shirts for something a bit warmer. This winter season, some of downtown San Luis Obispo’s best boutiques offered some fashion advice for those who think 60 degrees is FREEZING. […]
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Searching for a better deal
Khaled Hal Saad The price of a product is only one component of its overall cost. A “search cost” is the cost of finding the product you want at a competitive price. Search costs comprise of the time and resources it takes to figure out the fair price and true quality of a product. The […]
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Cal Poly Women's Basketball 2005-06
brennan angel With more than 75 percent of the Cal Poly women’s basketball players being upperclassmen, this is the year the team hopes to make a move in the Big West. The Mustangs are coming off a losing season in which the team finished with an overall record of 11-16 and 5-13 Big West; a […]
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Volleyball wins final regular season match
mustang daily staff report The women’s volleyball team closed its season with a convincing sweep of UC Davis. The Mustangs won 30-24, 30-15 and 30-13 to improve to 19-6 overall. The Mustangs concluded Big West Conference play last weekend, losing in four games to the University of the Pacific and in third place. The team’s […]
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"Harry Potter" is rushed, but still enjoyable
Ryan Chartrand In my first column of the year, I asked Cal Poly a question that leads up to this very day: have you ever read a book that quenched your thirst for life so much that you went and saw its film adaptation only to be disappointed? This week marked the fourth time that […]
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Sport or Not?
Bradford Applin This past Tuesday I watched as a world champion was crowned on ESPN. For months ESPN had its hype machine (TV, magazine, and online) in overdrive shoving this event down our collective throats. The message was clear: this is an epic competition filled with drama and excitement. Apparently I was supposed to feel […]
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Diablo ruling angers environmentalists
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved a controversial measure that will cost ratepayers an estimated $706 million for the replacement of several failing steam generators at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, according to a news release. Due to defects in the current steam generators, PG&E, California’s largest utility provider, was granted the use of […]