If you thought your life was hectic, try living Stephen Field’s.
The agricultural business senior, who is nearing the end of his time at Cal Poly, was recently married and coaches throwing for the track and field team at Arroyo Grande High, his alma mater.
The Cal Poly men’s cross country team will travel to Terre Haute, Ind. for the third straight year for the NCAA Championships after receiving an at-large bid Sunday.
“We’re relieved and excited to get to go back,” said Mustangs head coach Mark Conover, who has taken the team to the national meet six out of the last nine years.
A distinctive beep signaled that she had just received a text message. With a quick flick of the wrist, Megan Nitz flipped open her phone and read the message displayed on the screen. With the instinct of an animal, she began a high-speed thumb choreography, fingers bouncing off the buttons like hot oil in a pan.
Looks like another crisis is ripe for the political harvest. Last month it was the banks that needed Uncle Sam. This time it’s Detroit automakers. A variety of arguments in favor of the bailout present themselves. They are endorsed by some of the loudest and most respected voices in Washington and the media, and, unsurprisingly, they receive a lot of airtime.
Diversity is more than ethnicity I think we can all agree that the incident at the crops house was unfortunate, but is anyone else getting tired of the suddenly overblown emphasis on diversity? Don’t get me wrong, I believe that skin color has absolutely no relation to a person’s individual value or qualifications to attend Cal Poly.
Wrapping up a game in college sports usually means an athlete takes off his or her jersey and heads for the showers. Once the jersey is off, most athletes blend right in with the masses. At Cal Poly, though, many black athletes say their student peers always see them with a jersey on.
Death is usually not the most comfortable topic to think about, or, say, talk about, with friends. It just isn’t. Death can be traumatic and sad, and if you were forced to put your finger on exactly what death is, the definition may elude you. Death is when something ceases to live; the act of dying, according to the dictionary.
“Have the day you want,” the motto of Central-Coast based Joebella Coffee Roasters, conveys the business’ desire to maintain an ethic of social responsibility in the midst of the competitive world of coffee.
Joebella Coffee Roasters sells both organic and Fair Trade coffee in San Luis Obispo County.
Climate foresight is a valuable strategy, both for helping direct our efforts toward coping with climate change and for helping us fully grasp the seriousness of the crisis. Although we won’t know the future until it arrives, climate futurism takes an educated guess at what the planet and society might look like decades from now, and helps us anticipate the end results of our choices today.
We can’t just “move on” when discrimination still exists Cynthia Kona, do you realize the hypocrisy in your letter to the editor “Forgive each other and move on” on Nov. 12? I don’t even feel the need to get into my own liberal viewpoints on Prop 8 and the crops house incident; I just want to address the dysfunction and appalling “points” you made.
Like a soldier’s camouflage in dense undergrowth, they are hard to spot among their student peers. With only a handful studying here, they’re easy to overlook on campus.
As of fall 2008, the Office of Academic Records reported 51 students who were or are still active in the armed forces and collecting veteran educational benefits such as the G.