The defending Big West Champions enter the 2026 season with high expectations and a target on their backs. After capturing the conference title in 2025, ending a 21-year drought, the Mustangs will return this season looking to achieve even greater milestones.
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Cal Poly Volleyball set to appear on ESPNU for the second time in program history
Every year, Cal Poly Volleyball takes on its conference opponent, UC Santa Barbara, in the Blue-Green rivalry match. However, the stakes are higher this year as the match will be nationally televised on ESPNU.
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Cal Poly housing expansion relies on $3.3 million in prison-made furniture
Every day Mike Seward would look up at Bishop Peak from the yard at the California Men’s Colony where he was incarcerated in 2012. “The first thing I wanted to do when I got out was hike it,” he said. Back inside the prison, Seward worked in the California Correctional Training and Rehabilitation Authority, or […]
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Seven Cal Poly players selected in 2026 MLB Draft, most since 2008
Seven Cal Poly Baseball players heard their names called in the 2026 MLB Draft, the program’s most in a single year since 2008, when eight Mustangs were selected. Four players were selected within the first 10 rounds of the draft, the most since 2014.
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Cal Poly semester conversion erases programs, leaves students scrambling
Craig Arceneaux opened his inbox one morning to a message from his chair: The global politics minor he oversees would no longer exist under Cal Poly’s new semester catalog. “Sometime last quarter, our chair and assistant chair just had contacted me to let me know that that had happened,” Arceneaux said. “It took me by […]
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Christian faith runs deep among Cal Poly students. Some let it seep into their political beliefs
The stress was intolerable. As the thought of college, relationships and jobs surfaced all at once in his mind, Andrew Jones was overwhelmed behind the driver’s wheel one night. He turned off the radio in his car, and began to speak to the one person he could rely on most in his life: God. As […]
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‘It’s the wild, wild West right now’: Local hospitals race to keep up with AI
In the chaos of monitors and rolling gurneys, an unstable patient is rushed in and Dr. Scott Bisheff has only seconds to decide which tools to reach for. One of those tools is now off-limits. On April 6, Adventist Health’s board of directors restricted publicly available AI from internal use across its Central Coast hospitals. […]
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‘We’re All Earthlings’: Victor Glover returns to Cal Poly with a message beyond the moon
Two months after NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover splashed down off the San Diego coast from a 10-day mission past the moon, he returned to the campus where his own journey began. For Glover, the mission wasn’t just about reaching the far side of the moon. Despite joining a group of the […]
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‘It’s such a bucket list thing for me:’ SLO Native and country star Dasha set to take the California Mid-State Fair stage
The California Mid-State Fair is a staple for San Luis Obispo County residents — and award-winning country singer and San Luis Obispo native, Dasha, is no exception. “Growing up, Mid-State Fair, every summer. Highlight. Oh my god,” Dasha said. Dasha is a country artist who grew up in San Luis Obispo and is […]
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Cal Poly Social Justice Teach-In makes comeback after two-year break
Cal Poly’s Social Justice Teach-In returned after a two-year hiatus, featuring presentations on academic freedom, censorship, Palestine, immigration, and student activism, with the goal of creating space for conversations not always reflected on campus.
Posted inGrad 2026 Print
🎙️THE ROUNDUP: The Exit Interview
For the final episode of The Roundup podcast, Archana Pisupati and Fiona Hastings, this year’s Mustang News Editor-in-Chief and KCPR News Director, sat down with all of the student managers from the 2025-26 school year for the Exit Interview. Find some of the words this year’s manager’s used to describe their year working in MMG! […]