Congresswoman Lois Capps visited Cal Poly’s engineering plaza Wednesday to meet with teachers and students regarding alternative fuels research projects that are being carried out on campus.
Multimedia: Sustainability Conference
“Putting Sustainabililty to Work” | July 31- Aug. 3, 2008 Each year, the California State University, University of California and California Community College join for a state-wide sustainability conference for the state’s higher education system. This was the first year the conference was hosted at a CSU.
Multimedia: Siko Concert
Local band Siko was this week’s headliner for Concerts in the Plaza at the Mission in downtown San Luis Obispo. Event coordinator Christy Tiaga said that, because this week is “jazz week” at the Midstate Fair, it’s usually slow, but there was a surprising turnout of about 2,000 people.
Mustangs open preseason practices
After waiting all spring to get back out on the field and compete, the Cal Poly football team finally got its wish Wednesday.
The Mustangs returned to the field for the first time since they played their annual spring game in early April.
“It feels good getting back on the field, seeing all the guys again,” said senior running back James Noble.
Olympics a family affair for Donovans
John Donovan is no longer the jealous child who once sat on the bench while his sister dominated the basketball court. Now, the Templeton resident and brother of Anne Donovan – Team USA’s women’s basketball head coach – has a deeper understanding of what it means to have a champion in the family.
Cal Poly grad an Olympian in eventing
Cal Poly alumna Gina Miles can thank the flu and a chance meeting for giving her a shot at representing the U.S. equestrian team in this year’s Olympics.
Miles, 34, who graduated in 1997 with a degree in crop science and a minor in agricultural business, met her horse, McKinlaigh, when his co-owners (Laura Coats and her husband Thom Schulz) brought the Irish sport horse to Creston from Ireland.
Miles wins silver in equestrian eventing
Cal Poly alumna and U.S. Olympian Gina Miles won an individual silver medal in equestrian eventing on Tuesday night in Hong Kong.
Miles (a 1997 graduate in crop science) and her horse McKinlaigh finished with 56.1 penalty points, trailing Germany’s Hinrich Romeike, who rode Marius and finished at 54.
Anteaters end coaching search
UPDATE: Apparently it’s official. David Carrillo Pe’aloza of the Daily Pilot wrote of UC Irvine athletic director Mike Izzi being on vacation, “Wherever Izzi was Monday, he knows the program is further away from becoming a contender in anything than…
Poly's pitching staff getting a shot in arm?
Jim Seimas of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported Friday that Robbie Erlin, a left-handed pitcher from Scotts Valley High, recently verbally committed to play in 2010 for Cal Poly. Erlin, a 5-foot-11, 170-pounder entering his senior season, went 4-2 as…
War as a business: serious or satire?
A war is fought in large part by a company of hired mercenaries in the Middle East for a government that is unable to explain its motives completely. Sound familiar?
This isn’t the story of the American landscape today, but of John Cusack’s latest comedy, “War, Inc.
Living the American dream… sorta
Becky Hammon wanted to play basketball for her country at the Olympic Games, but her country didn’t want her. So Hammon did the next best thing: she joined a new country. It just so happens that the two countries have quite a checkered past. Hammon, who was born and raised in South Dakota, will play under the Russian flag in the Olympics this summer, sparking a trend that has disturbed many and influenced people to name her a traitor.