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All you need is love (and dancing)
Love was in the air at the Cal Poly Pavilion Saturday night when the Cal Poly Pride Center hosted the Pride Prom. The prom, the final event of Pride Week, was Cal Poly’s second annual Pride Prom. The event is designed to give the LGBT community, as well as allies (straight students who support the community), the kind of prom they never had in high school; it’s also an opportunity to socialize with each other.
19-year-old local veteran honored for tour in Iraq
Central Coast veterans of all ages were honored for their service Friday in a casual gathering organized by local assemblyman Sam Blakeslee, with San Luis Obispo mayor Dave Romero also in attendance. Spotlighted at the gathering was San Luis Obispo native Lance Iunker, 19, who was the youngest veteran honored at a May 7 State Assembly meeting in Sacramento.
Day sets heptathlon record
Cal Poly senior Sharon Day broke the Big West Conference heptathlon record while winning the title Saturday afternoon at Cal State Northridge.
Day’s 5,642 points not only earned her a third career individual title at the conference meet and automatically qualified at the NCAA Championship level, but edged Idaho’s Manuela Kurrat’s 2005 conference total of 5,614.
Mustangs win finale but miss out on playoffs
Sarah Iwata and Robyn Kontra went out in style.
The two seniors led the Cal Poly softball team to a 5-2 victory over UC Riverside during its Senior Day and season finale Saturday afternoon at Bob Janssen Field.
Iwata drove in the pivotal runs to put the Mustangs ahead, and Kontra scattered just five hits in a complete-game effort.
Cal Poly uses six pitchers in loss
Despite hitting three home runs to rally from a 7-2 deficit and tie the game, the Cal Poly baseball team failed to capitalize Sunday afternoon at No. 12 Cal State Fullerton’s Goodwin Field, dropping the conclusion of a Big West Conference series 12-9.
Although the Mustangs compiled 15 hits, they committed a season-high five errors resulting in six unearned runs.
Lacrosse run for national champs ends
A seven-year run as U.S. Lacrosse Women’s Division Intercollegiate Associates national champions came to an end Saturday for the Cal Poly women’s lacrosse club team, which lost the WDIA National Championship at Invesco Field in Denver to Colorado State, 8-5 in overtime.
Think about the young mothers this Mother's Day
Mother’s Day is different this year.
For me, the Hallmark holiday used to be about
Port O'Brein's anthemic album
Port O’Brien’s “All We Could Do Was Sing” turned me back into a 16-year-old holding a copy of Weezer’s “Pinkerton.” I can’t be a hipster about it;
I can’t feed you a bunch of hyped-up bullshit. I’m just entirely embracing it as the best album of the year with fervent, off-putting love.
Police crack down on Poly parties
Cal Poly students can expect to see a host of new police measures designed to crack down on
Holiday without the history
By the time you read this, most of you will be finished nursing your Cinco de Mayo