The blocks finally went Cal Poly’s way Friday night as the women’s volleyball team halted UC Davis’ 11-match winning streak and earned its first victory in Big West Conference play. The Mustangs continued their momentum on Saturday with another sweep, this time against Pacific, moving their record to 2-2 in the Big West. Sophomore middle […]
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Fight for wrestling at Madonna Inn
Cal Poly’s most famous fighter might be Chuck Liddell, but another set of former Mustangs and San Luis Obispo natives are taking center stage at the Madonna Inn Expo Center this Saturday in fights to save wrestling. Faced with budget cuts, only two public universities in California have wrestling programs: Cal State Bakersfield and Cal […]
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Soccer upsets No. 7 Anteaters
The bounces finally went the Mustangs way on Wednesday night as the men’s soccer team defeated No. 7 UC Irvine. It was the first time Cal Poly defeated the Anteaters away from home since Nov. 3, 2004. Three days after the team hit the crossbar three times in a 3-1 loss to Denver, Patrick Sigler […]
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Chase bank opens new branch in UU
Chase opened a new branch of its bank on Cal Poly’s campus Friday with a ribbon cutting ceremony on the first floor of the University Union (UU). The ceremony featured Chase executives, Cal Poly administrators and Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) leaders. Branch manager and Cal Poly alumnus Jonathan Krumholz opened the morning’s events with a […]
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Deborah Read is new VP of university advancement
A yearlong search for a new vice president of university advancement ended with the selection of Deborah Read, current vice president of university of advancement for the University of Dayton in Ohio. Read will take over the vice president of university advancement role, which was filled in the interim by provost Robert Koob after the […]
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Sara Lancaster: More than a freshman
Twin extra-long mattresses, Vista Grande’s fine dining, getting sick the first week of school and utter confusion as to why building 33 is located next to building 1 symbolize most freshmen students’ feelings the first week at Cal Poly. While these situations also describe her first week of the quarter, graphic communication freshman Sara Lancaster has […]
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First provost candidate comes to Cal Poly
The Cal Poly Consultative Search Committee kicked off its provost candidate forum Tuesday morning by introducing the first of four finalists for the position: Cheryl Schrader, the associate vice president of research at Boise State University. Schrader spoke about herself and fielded questions from a group of mostly faculty and staff in the Advanced Technology […]
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Catch a SLO ride
San Luis Obispo residents and visitors now have a safe, reliable and cheap way of getting home after a night of partying: SLO Safe Rides. After officially starting the business at the beginning of this summer, SLO Safe Ride Founders, English senior Michael Linn and San Luis Obispo resident Trevor Freeman passed the trial stages […]
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Cal Poly makes Forbes list, fourth consecutive year
Forbes Magazine ranked Cal Poly among the best colleges in the nation for the fourth consecutive year. Cal Poly placed 230 out of 650 total schools, and 43rd in top colleges of the West. It was also ranked ninth of all California public universities, and 28th of all California public and private colleges. Cal Poly […]
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Football face-off: The sports editor exchange program
In advance of this past weekend’s football game at the Northern Illinois University (NIU), Mustang Daily decided to do a mini-sports editor exchange program with the Northern Illinois Star, the competition’s newspaper. In a style the Star calls “Face-off” NIU sports editor Jimmy Johnson and Cal Poly sports editor J.J. Jenkins went toe-to-toe in a […]
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SLOMA brings a breath of 'Plein Air'
Artists, bystanders and the great outdoors will converge during the 10th Annual Plein Air Festival, produced by the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA). The festival will feature a host of events and highlight the different style of each participating painter, beginning Oct. 3 and lasting through Oct. 9. Joli Beal, an artist and former […]