Underneath a wet and dreary Northern California sky, the Cal Poly football team saw its hopes of reaching the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs slip away. The Mustangs were defeated by UC Davis 24-17 and, as a result, can no longer reach the recommended seven Division I wins in order to qualify for the FCS […]
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Transfer credits ≠ Poly math classes
A new state law will make it easier for community college students to get into Cal Poly, but it could also weaken Cal Poly’s mathematics degrees. The five math classes in an associate’s degree would count for the same as eight math classes in the first two years at Cal Poly. This doesn’t match up, […]
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It's the 'Alpocalypse': Weird Al brings funny back to the PAC
On a nationwide tour for his 13th studio album, “Weird Al” Yankovic, 52, wanted to do something special for the sold-out crowd at the Christopher A. Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) Wednesday, Nov. 2. “I don’t know how relevant these lyrics are anymore, but 30 years ago they were hilarious” Yankovic said, introducing a song […]
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Harder to win
The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos ended the Mustang men’s soccer team’s season on Friday night. The Gauchos delievered a 2-0 knockout blow to Cal Poly which scored just one goal in five games after defeating UCSB on Oct. 14. The Mustangs haven’t won at Harder Stadium in Isla Vista since 1998. The match set a […]
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Student hit by van while walking to class
A Cal Poly student was hit by a white van in a restricted driving zone while walking to class today at 8 a.m. Mathematics junior Sarah Ortiz said she was crossing the street from the path that runs along the edge of the University House to her class in the Construction Innovations building when she […]
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Brains battle it out
Six of Cal Poly’s best and brightest computer programmers are preparing for the Southern California Regional “Battle of the Brains” competition on Nov. 12. The competition is a chance for participants to advance to the contest’s World Finals next year in Warsaw, Poland. The IBM-sponsored Association for Computer Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC), which […]
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Soccer falls to UCI, fails to make playoffs
The Cal Poly men’s soccer team (6-8-3, 3-5-1) was eliminated from contention for the 2011 Big West Conference Tournament after falling to No. 9 UC Irvine 1-0 Tuesday night in its home finale at Alex G. Spanos Stadium. The team, which has never missed qualifying for the conference tournament in its three years of existence, […]
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No place like home
When Ali Shaban arrived in class on Feb. 20, he did not know whether his family was alive or dead. Shaban, an electrical engineering professor at Cal Poly, grew up in Libya before moving to the United States to earn his doctorate in electrical engineering. For more than 40 years, Libyan civilians were under the […]
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San Luis Obispo caught between local and large chain stores
San Luis Obispo’s downtown area makes up the well-traveled center of the city and is home to dozens of locally-owned businesses, as well as larger national chains. Retail centers, such as the downtown area, make up the backbone of San Luis Obispo’s economy, with nearly $1 million in sales tax revenue in the second quarter […]
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Help 'em out, 'Turn Em Out'
Make sure to “Turn Em Out” to support Cal Poly’s Green Campus November Awareness month. Turn Em Out is an awareness campaign, promoted by Green Campus, encouraging students to turn out their lights and other electric appliances when they are not in use to help reduce Cal Poly and its students’ carbon footprints. Green Campus […]
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MCC holds DREAM Act discussion
The MultiCultural Center (MCC) held an open forum yesterday morning in the Julian A. McPhee University Union to promote discussion on the California Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Governor Jerry Brown signed the act, which allows undocumented residents to receive state financial aid for college, into law last month. The act […]