Bonnie Lowry sits at a table in Sierra Vista hospital discussing the pros and cons of her prosthetic. She is young and tall with very long and thick red hair. While she talks, she pulls at the sides of her scalp and slowly removes her hairpiece. She is completely bald.
Smiling through hard times
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Kinko's founder offers advice to students
Kinko’s founder and Cal Poly enthusiast Paul Orfalea visited Cal Poly yesterday to speak to students about business and his advice on how to live life to the fullest. “Every day you need your soul to catch up to your body,” Orfalea said near the end of his speech in the Alex and Faye Spanos […]
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I heart beer
Joe Sargent I have been 21 for exactly three months and five days. I spent my birthday in Las Vegas with my four best friends drinking, gambling and not sleeping. Since then, I have attempted to pack 20 years of sobriety into a very short span of time, and I have loved almost every minute […]
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Lions and tigers … and one funny zebra
Tonya Strickland Clusters of students in groups of twos, threes and fours filled the rows of plastic chairs, while others pushed the seating aside to make room for their pillows and blankets on the floor of Chumash Auditorium Tuesday night for the showing of “Madagascar,” the first in a series of six free films dubbed […]
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Men's soccer drops game to UC Irvine 2-1
kiel carreau Cal Poly lost a Big West Conference match against the UC Irvine Anteaters 2-1 at Mustang Stadium Wednesday. Cal Poly falls to 4-7 overall and 0-3 in conference play. Cal Poly now has consecutive Big West losses to UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Northridge and UC Irvine. UC Irvine improved to 5-3-2 overall […]
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Men's golf finishes last in Club Glove Intercollegiate
The Cal Poly men’s golf team slipped into last place following the final round of play Tuesday in the Club Glove Intercollegiate hosted by Pepperdine University at the Saticoy Country Club. Coach Scott Cartwright’s Mustangs carded a four-person final-round 326 total on the par-72, 6,985-yard course, finishing with a 963 total, six strokes behind 11th-place […]
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Men's soccer plays the Anteaters tonight at Mustang Stadium
If there will ever be a must-win situation for the Cal Poly men’s soccer team this season, it’s tonight’s match against UC Irvine at Mustang Stadium at 7 p.m. The Mustangs (4-6-0) are coming off two consecutive losses to Cal State Northridge and UC Santa Barbara, making them 0-2 in Big West Conference play. The […]
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Frankly Speaking 10-5-05
Frank Stranzl Last year at this time I was still getting acquainted with the simple things San Luis Obispo had to offer. I didn’t know where Bishop’s Peak was, I had no idea what street Woodstock’s was on and I couldn’t tell you about Cal Poly athletics. How many teams compete for Cal Poly? What […]
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Cal Poly's band of brothers
Tom Sanders Sibling rivalry seems to consume every aspect of life when we are younger. Whether it is fighting about getting a smaller serving of potatoes or not wanting to clean the windows, it is a part of everyday life. But in sports, it seems rivalry becomes automatic. Luckily, with age, rivalry blossoms into support. […]
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Fundraising goal set at $1 billion
Raised fees and increased fundraising to accommodate higher enrollment were the central issues presented at the first meeting of the Academic Senate Monday afternoon. Cal Poly President Warren Baker has announced an overall fundraising goal of $1 billion. The president’s office referred to the official close of Cal Poly’s Centennial Campaign and will move to […]
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Professors to aid developing nations through agriculture
Living on foreign lands, working in underdeveloped cities and rural villages, lending a hand through knowledge they’ve gained; Professors from Cal Poly and four other California State Universities will step out of their university classrooms and pool their resources to aid agricultural in developing nations. In recent months, Cal Poly, Chico, Fresno, Humboldt and Pomona […]