California Gov. Jerry Brown released his yearly budget proposal last Thursday, introducing the possibility of additional cuts to the California State University (CSU) system. The proposed cuts come less than a month after a December trigger cut slashed $100 million from the CSU budget. That, combined with reductions in funding earlier last year, totaled $750 […]
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Smith's upset can't save wrestling
Ryan Smith’s late match heroics weren’t enough to save the Mustang wrestling squad on Friday night as American University defeated Cal Poly 25-13. The 197-pound Smith faced No. 14 Daniel Mitchell who pinned the Mustang over Winter Break in a match Smith said he was not mentally prepared for. That changed on Friday as Smith […]
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Mustangs play nice with social media
Collegiate athletic programs across the country are weighing the pros and cons of allowing student-athletes to use Twitter and other social media websites. Some critics are even calling for a NCAA-wide ban against such media. In 2011, respected universities such as UCLA, Mississippi State and Syracuse have learned the damaging effects that come with athletes’ […]
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Rose float team carries on tradition
Dozens of Cal Poly students spent last week in a state of “organized chaos” while preparing for the 123rd annual Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, Calif. With the largest number of students working on the project in recent history, 37 Cal Poly Rose Float team members worked from Dec. 26 to Jan. 2 in what […]
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New man on the job: SLO chooses new police chief
The City of San Luis Obispo has selected a new police chief to replace retiring chief Deborah Linden. Stephen Gesell, a 22-year law enforcement veteran, served the community of Atascadero as interim police chief in 2011, and will take office as San Luis Obispo’s new police chief on Jan. 17. San Luis Obispo had more […]
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Bumpy break gives way to Big West play
The 2011 holiday break wasn’t as merry as it could have been for the Cal Poly men’s basketball team which, after falling to UCSB to start the new year, owns a 9-5 record overall and 0-1 in Big West play. Dec. 23 at DePaul A 13-0 run surrendered midway through the first half proved too […]
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Wine country possibly shrinking
Global warming could hurt Cal Poly and other premium winegrowing regions of California in the next 30 years, said Noah Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor of environmental Earth system science at Stanford. Diffenbaugh and other Stanford University climate scientists said by 2040, the amount of land suitable for growing wine grapes could shrink by 50 percent […]
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5 things you didn't know about the new Rec center
When the Recreation Center Expansion Project opens in mid-January, students for the first time will be able to see what Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) started working on in 2008. Mustang Daily went on an early tour of the facilities in and around the Recreation Center in late November and found several features that haven’t been […]
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VP of Student Affairs reassigned
Cal Poly Vice President of Student Affairs Cornel Morton will no longer be in his current position come January, the university announced Thursday. He will instead be working as Cal Poly’s first senior advisor to the president for outreach. Morton, who has been the vice president of student affairs since 2002, will now be working […]
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Officers respond, patrol around campus
Cal Poly University Police Department (UPD) officer Jason LeClair knew he was going to be a policeman. Despite the fact that no one in his family was involved with law enforcement, it became his passion from an early age. “I’ve always wanted to be in law enforcement, since I was a little kid,” he said. While […]
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Basketball bonds over holiday traditions
Men’s basketball head coach Joe Callero grew up as one of 16 children. Now that he’s stepped into head coaching spotlight, he said he enjoys playing the father role for the family that is his team. Every year, the Cal Poly men’s basketball schedule requires that it plays through the holiday season — this year […]