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sheila sobchik The Mustang Daily advertising and business staff took three top awards at the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers (CNBAM) Convention held March 8-11 in Philadelphia. The annual contest was judged by professionals working for newspapers across the country, including the San Luis Obispo Tribune. The Mustang Daily took first place for “Best […]

Holly Burke In 2005, between 10,000 and 20,000 women and children in Vietnam were kidnapped and sold into slavery. The numbers however, are inexact since the business of trafficking humans is deeply rooted underground. Cal Poly students will have the opportunity to learn about the human trafficking in Southeast Asia on Saturday, March 11, and […]

nick coury The final session of the eight-week Wildland Fire Studies seminar, provided by Cal Poly’s forestry resources department, led to some controversy Monday over free speech rights and expression on campus. The seminar was primarily geared toward students with a concentration in wildland fire and fuels management. Monday’s session was led by Dale Bosworth, […]

Months of student work and planning were thwarted when an event put on by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was cancelled Monday by Ken Barclay, Director of Student Life and Leadership at Cal Poly. The Fraternity Fight Night event was to be held Saturday, March 11 in Mott Gym. The event was to feature 30 […]

Jennifer Hall Construction on the new Poly Canyon Village housing project at Cal Poly is set to begin on March 17. The housing project will provide 2,700 beds for Cal Poly students who want to live on campus. The project will be the nation’s largest on-campus student housing complex and will be ready for students […]

Spanish-speaking prospective Cal Poly students can now access information and get answers to questions online. “Respuestas EMT” allows prospective students to type in questions in Spanish on the online server and receive answer posts in Spanish. The service received over 200 questions on the first day, according to James Maraviglia, assistant vice president for admissions, […]

sheila sobchik The Mustang Daily took home four awards, including second place for “General Web site Excellence,” from the 2006 California College Media Competition. The competition was judged by representatives from the Fresno Bee, LA Weekly, Orange County Register, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News and LANG. The California College Media Association offers a statewide […]

A Danish newspaper’s editorial cartoons sparked reactions in many Cal Poly students. In September, a series of cartoons were published in Jyllands-Posten that were deemed offensive to Muslims around the world. The most disrespectful cartoon depicts the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban. The response to the cartoons has been portrayed by the […]

The Cal Poly greek system is growing again with the addition of two new fraternities, Sigma Pi and Delta Tau Delta. Sigma Pi held informational sessions this week and last week and had a booth in the University Union for the last two weeks. They are planning to colonize this Friday. “We had a good […]

Paul Bittick It’s illegal, but they do it anyway. Half past midnight lurches by as three hooded silhouettes slink their way into the Cal Poly University Union Plaza. Moving cautiously through the dimly lit arena, the three prowl the area with light-footed stealth, surveying their surroundings with the utmost intensity. Something is going down in […]

Nick Coury Pulling an all-nighter usually includes drinking massive amounts of coffee and being on the verge of hallucinating due to lack of sleep, but on Thursday, Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Recreational Sports plans to change all that. ASI will be hosting the first annual “Dusk ’til Dawn” event in the Rec Center from 8 […]