After watching last year’s team of editors deal with the incident of a freelance cartoonist plagiarizing one of his cartoons for the Mustang Daily, we hoped to begin this year with a fresh slate. Sadly, plagiarism has come to haunt the Daily again. And again, we’re apologizing to you, our readers, for unknowingly publishing plagiarized material.
City conducts DUI warrant sweeps
San Luis Obispo County law enforcement agencies are sweeping the area for individuals who have outstanding warrants for their arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The warrant sweep is part of a grant that was issued to the county under the AVOID the 14 project, during which officers physically go to the homes of DUI offenders, arrest them, and force them to adhere to the consequence of their violation.
UPD officer named in wrongful arrest suit
The Cal Poly University Police and San Luis Obispo Police Department are facing a lawsuit by a local man alleging they assaulted him, violated his civil rights and placed him under false arrest last July. According to the lawsuit filed June 13 in San Luis Obispo Superior Court, Jeffrey Mark Milne, 53, arrived at his home on Christina Way after a hike on July 15, 2007 around 8:30 p.
Bed tax hopes to wake up tourism
Tourists coming to San Luis Obispo will soon help pay for the city’s tourism promotion thanks to a unanimous vote by the city council for the new 2 percent assessment known as a ‘bed tax’ on hotel rooms. The city already has a 10 percent transient occupancy tax on the lodging industry, but hoteliers championed the new ordinance, known as the Business Improvement District (BID), to control where the money is spent.
In ASI, perks pay for hard work
A typical day in the life of an Associated Students Inc. officer usually starts around 9 a.m. and ends after 5 p.m. – but that’s not including classes, campus involvement or personal time.
“We have a lot of meetings. A lot of meetings. A lot,” ASI president Angela Kramer said.
Summer heat to continue, terrorize crops
Summer on the Central Coast may be warmer than usual and local farmers are feeling the heat.
There is cause for alarm among farmers and ranchers on the Central Coast as the Climate Prediction Center predicts a 33.6 percent chance that the median temperature will be eclipsed and an 8.
Cal Poly refrains from issuing online policies for athletes
With the rise of social networking Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, all it takes is one incriminating photo for a student athlete to potentially lose a scholarship or be kicked off a team. And it’s not just hypothetical. There are numerous examples of athletes being punished for pictures or words published on the Internet, depicting misdeeds ranging from hazing to underage drinking.
Great West expansion to be announced
An all-sports division under the larger umbrella of Cal Poly’s Great West Football Conference will likely be announced today, according to conference and school officials.
South Dakota – reportedly one of 11 independent schools GWFC commissioner Ed Grom previously told the Mustang Daily the conference has discussed the division with – has announced a 1 p.
Mustangs sixth in USA Today rankings
The Cal Poly football team was ranked sixth in the USA Today Sports Weekly College Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Preseason Top 25 released Monday.
The Mustangs will play three teams ranked in its top 14 this season, hosting No. 3 Montana and traveling to No.
Great West becomes all-sports conference
As expected, the Great West Football Conference to which Cal Poly belongs officially announced Thursday its addition of an all-sports division.
Fourteen sports and six schools – Houston Baptist, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas-Pan American and Utah Valley – make up the division, Great West commissioner Ed Grom declared.
Monson brings on monsoon
As early Big West Conference men’s basketball schedules get released, Long Beach State’s looks the toughest so far. The 49ers, who went 6-25 last season under first-year head coach Dan Monson, have assembled what the Long Beach Press-Telegram calls one…