Mustang News Staff The death of Cal Poly student Giselle Ayala is officially ruled as an accident. Santa Barbara joggers discovered Ayala’s body on a beach near UC Santa Barbara in April. In a coroners report obtained by KSBY News, her cause of death is listed as blunt force trauma. Ayala suffered serious injuries, including […]
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Video: Students and staff mourn Giselle Ayala
Students filled the University Union Plaza at 6 p.m. on Monday to remember Giselle Ayala, who died in Santa Barbara more than a week ago. Speakers included Associated Students, Inc. President Katie Morrow, who read a letter from the deceased sociology freshman’s family, and close friends of Ayala.
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Cal Poly community gathers to remember Giselle Ayala
Kaytlyn Leslie news@mustangdaily.net Family and friends of Giselle Ayala gathered in the University Union Plaza on Monday to remember the life of the deceased sociology freshman, who died in Santa Barbara more than a week ago. During the memorial, which began as the sun set over campus, speakers described Ayala as a kindhearted “giver” — […]
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Ayala’s death one of ‘many enormous tragedies’ this school year
Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net Sociology freshman Giselle Ayala’s death two weeks ago marks the most student deaths at Cal Poly in a fiscal year in the past six years. Ayala became the fifth student death of the 2012–13 fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30, when she allegedly fell from a cliff at Deltopia, an […]
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Ayala remembered as ‘sweet,’ great listener
Sara Natividad snatividad@mustangdaily.net Members of the Cal Poly community will gather Friday evening to light candles for sociology freshman Giselle Ayala, whose death left many friends and acquaintances recalling memories of a smiling, happy 18-year-old this week. Ayala, who went missing while partying with friends at the annual spring break party Deltopia this past weekend, […]
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Freshman found dead in Santa Barbara
Mustang Daily Staff Report news@mustangdaily.net UPDATE 5:52 p.m.: The body found on a Santa Barbara beach on Saturday was confirmed to be Cal Poly sociology freshman Giselle Ayala, officials say. According to a sheriff’s office press release, a jogger found the body of a college-aged female in the waterline at 8:20 a.m. on Saturday at […]