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MADISON, Wis. – The words “Cal Poly” were about to enter sports fans’ collective consciousness right next to “Appalachian State.”
Just like in the Mountaineers’ season-opening shocker over Michigan last season, the Mustangs’ attempt to stun Wisconsin on Saturday night came down to a kick.
From a distance they appear as packs of ghosts walking the dry yellow hills and valleys of San Luis Obispo on a dim Saturday morning. But as the sun lit the horizon, the camouflage on the Army combat uniform slowly became apparent.
The Fighting Mustang Battalion, representing Cal Poly’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) in the annual Ranger Challenge was hosted this year by the University of Santa Barbara and held at National Guard base, Camp San Luis Obispo.
Chances are you’ve shared a class with at least one of them.
Sometimes they sit hunkered down over a book in the library, brows focused and intent on learning the material, and most of the time aloof to the clucking pack of sorority girls or hooting fraternity boys that just walked by.
For many nearing the end of their scholastic career, the senior project is a moment to shine, a chance to show just what that Cal Poly education was really worth.
It is also an opportunity to establish a business, something that Cal Poly business graduate Jessica Gibbons, 23, did with Hungry Student Catering.
Although the term geographic information systems (GIS) may sound foreign to most, chances are, they’ve used GIS in the last week or even day.
The software program responsible for the popular Google Maps and Google Earth, as well as Cal Poly’s campus map, can also be utilized in countless ways for students and professionals alike.
Cal Poly communications senior Steven Wolf stood astounded in an aisle of the textbook section of El Corral Bookstore. He could not believe the textbook for his speech communications class cost $72.75.
As the shock faded, Wolf remembered that the week before he had seen the same book on Buy.
Jorge Montezuma, a Cal Poly undergraduate, doesn’t live his life like the average college student, in their own world of text messaging, iPod listening and sporting the latest “Go Green” T-shirt that only gives off the image of being “environmentally aware.
Like a soldier’s camouflage in dense undergrowth, they are hard to spot among their student peers. With only a handful studying here, they’re easy to overlook on campus.
As of fall 2008, the Office of Academic Records reported 51 students who were or are still active in the armed forces and collecting veteran educational benefits such as the G.
Six local beaches that recently lost funding to test for disease-causing bacteria have been put back in rotation.
The State Water Resources Control Board restored funding for the state’s testing program from which San Luis Obispo County had been receiving $26,600.
Cal Poly English professor Kevin Clark’s first recollection of the peace symbol dates back to the days when he watched horrific, graphic scenes of the Vietnam War repeatedly headlining the evening news in the mid-1960s. Despite his conservative upbringing in the suburbs of New Jersey, the images deepened his already growing connection with the protesters who frequented the evening reports, holding the peace symbol to protest the war and promote a new social consciousness.
