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Cal Poly’s Russian Literature Club: Why read Hemingway, when you could read Dostoevsky?

by Olivia Meis January 30, 2021January 29, 2021

“If you want to be happy —be” Leo Tolstoy wrote. And if students are inclined to explore Russian writers like him, Cal Poly’s Russian Literature club says, do!
What began as four friends’ late-night chats and sporadic meetings in the library blossomed into Cal Poly’s first Russian Literature Club.

Features

“On the Road” Scroll coming to SLO at request of Cal Poly faculty

by Samantha Spitz September 20, 2018August 29, 2022

The single-scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s famous novel “On the Road” will be featured in SLO’s librart for two months.

Arts

American Summer

by DavidLiebig June 4, 2013August 29, 2022

The house did not belong to them, but the dream was all their own.

Arts

War Story

by MD Correspondent April 17, 2013August 29, 2022

Rhiannon Kelly is an English freshman and Mustang Daily fiction contributor. The only thing he knew for certain was that he was dying. It seemed so long ago that he’d somehow found himself at the base, running through a battery of tests designed to evaluate his pumping heart, steady his shaking hands, and build his […]

Arts, Multimedia

A poet, an engineer, an author — but above all, he is himself

by Allison Montroy March 13, 2013August 29, 2022

Allison Montroy amontroy@mustangdaily.net “When I was born, a pack of wolves was brought to its knees.” He takes a deep breath. “Frosted fur, whistling in the blizzard, they nosed at the mural painted by my mother’s blood and whimpered something beautiful … “ The words read like familiar friends — comfortable, worn, steady as they […]

Arts

Faculty and students to share love poems

by HannahCroft February 10, 2013August 29, 2022

Hannah Croft hannahcroft.md@gmail.com Cal Poly students and community members can start Valentine’s Day early this year. The annual Loverspeak poetry reading comes to campus on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. Loverspeak is a fundraiser for “Byzantium,” Cal Poly’s literary annual, and the proceeds go toward the production process. English senior and “Byzantium” editor Claire Marshall […]

Arts, Columns

Sometimes it’s not so easy to “Love the One You’re With”

by jon October 11, 2009August 29, 2022

He loves me, he loves me not. If you love something, set it free. You only hurt the one you love. Love conquers all. We’ve all heard these clichés a million times.

Arts

Memoir reveals life of an abandoned foster child

by jon September 22, 2009August 29, 2022

In her memoir, “Three Little Words,” Rhodes-Courter reveals the realities and failings of life in foster care in a harshly honest tone.