Story: Anne Knapke Graphic: Kacy Tachibana Graduating seniors: Don’t put away your party hats just yet. The traditional 6 a.m. bar crawl before commencement is still an option for students, despite the letter sent by Cal Poly administration and City of San Luis Obispo officials to downtown bars asking them to not serve alcohol until […]
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City Council member comes out against VP Humphrey, Mayor Marx on pre-commencement drinking
Dan Carpenter said that he thinks it is “a bad idea” to recommend when businesses should and should not operate.
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'We understand the sacrifice': Cal Poly VP and SLO mayor's pre-graduation request of downtown bars
“All too often, the commencement ceremonies are overshadowed and become unsafe due to the conduct of intoxicated students who have visited city bars prior to the ceremonies.”
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Cal Poly aims to stop pre-commencement drinking
Bar crawling on the morning of graduation might not be a possibility this year, if Cal Poly and the City of San Luis Obispo have their way.
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City Council vets call for cooperation between Cal Poly and City Council
A petition signed by 28 past city council members arrived at City Hall on April 16 with the message: the San Luis Obispo City Council and Cal Poly need to collaborate more on the consideration of the future 1430-bed student residence hall.
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Mardi Gras, Cal Poly and the ‘biggest celebration west of the Mississippi’
Brian De Los Santos bdelossantos@mustangdaily.net The first thing Graham Updegrove heard was screaming. Then the entire crowd started running. “I didn’t even look back, I just kind of started running as well,” Updegrove said. “I took a couple of steps and got hit.” That moment may have been one of the ugliest San Luis Obispo […]
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SLOw election results ahead as votes counted
Victoria Billings vbillings@mustangdaily.net Residents in the 24th congressional district (San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County and a sliver of Ventura County) were prepared for a long wait to learn the final tally of the highly-contested district seat, but were surprised when Republican contender Abel Maldonado conceded defeat to Democratic representative Lois Capps shortly after […]
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The Businessman who’s running for mayor
James Corbett jamescorbett.md@gmail.com Upon entering mayoral candidate Steve Barasch’s office, it’s difficult to miss the large stuffed life-size doll bearing a resemblance to Robin Williams in the film “Mrs. Doubtfire.” According to Barasch, the doll serves as a token of good luck, which he’ll be hoping is on his side when local residents cast their […]
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Getting to know the SLO mayoral candidates
Victoria Billings vbillings@mustangdaily.net San Luis Obispo voters face three choices for mayor this election season: current mayor Jan Marx, local architect Steve Barasch and modern-day Don Quixote rebel Don Hedrick. The Incumbent The most well known of this year’s mayoral choices is probably Marx, San Luis Obispo’s mayor for the past two years. Before being […]
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New path open for SLO bicyclists
After three years of fundraising, construction and waiting, San Luis Obispo bikers finally have their “missing link.” Officially titled the Rotary Conner-Cletsoway Link of the Railroad Safety Trail, the 500-foot stretch of paved trail along California Boulevard now connects the bike trails of Cal Poly with those of San Luis Obispo. “I love it,” local […]
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SLO named bike-friendly community
The League of American Bicyclists awarded San Luis Obispo the Silver Level Bicycle Friendly Community status for its efforts to welcome bicycle traffic. San Luis Obispo was one of 190 cities in the country to receive the Bicycle Friendly status out of the nearly 500 that applied, said San Luis Obispo Mayor Jan Marx. The […]