So you’re out on a date with the cutie from your history class. You order a steak. He/she orders the vegetable pasta. You ask if he/she eats meat and he/she says no. Do you:
A. say, “that’s cool,” and resume your previous conversation
B. ask why and have a civil discussion about regarding the pros and cons of vegetarianism
C.
Rich Ellerson didn’t want to single anyone out. The Cal Poly head football coach hesitated, shifted his weight and tried to pick his words carefully. But in the end, he couldn’t resist voicing the obvious: Quentin Greenlaw stands out.
“As heavily recruited as Quentin was, that meant a lot to us,” said Ellerson, asked if any one or two of the 16 signings the program announced Wednesday were particularly sought after.
This was no college house party, but things got hot and heavy on the dance floor nonetheless, as long legs and little red dresses went flying across the floor at the second annual Mustang Ball.
Saturday’s ballroom dance competition seemed to prove that dancing with rules is just as sexy, if not more so, than the informal versions of the activity found in downtown bars and college apartments.
The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team’s coaching staff hung back, calm and collected, talking amongst themselves while their players were left alone to relax on the bench in the face of pressure. About 50 feet away, Cal Poly head coach Kevin Bromley time and again urgently invested himself into impassioned instruction at the center of a close-knit huddle trying to learn on the fly.
The Cal Poly softball team went 2-3 at the Cathedral City Kick Off in Palm Springs over the weekend, bookending its five outings with victories over No. 2 Texas A&M on Friday and New Mexico State on Sunday.
In the season-opening 5-1 win over the Aggies at Big League Dreams Sports Park, sophomore pitcher Helen Peña went the distance, allowing her only run in the last inning.
A former Cal Poly quarterback was named the head coach of an NFL team over the weekend. Well, kind of. The Washington Redskins named Jim Zorn as their head coach Saturday night. He is perhaps best known as the former…
Still sizzling from the success of last year’s competition, the Cal Poly Ballroom Dance Club is hosting its second annual Mustang Ball dance competition Saturday.
The dance floor is expected to heat up with both first-time nerves and seasoned talent as the event has now expanded to six different levels of competitions, ranging from newcomer to open-level.
In this week’s Fast Break: Cal Poly football signs 16 new players, Dawin Whiten’s injury changes men’s basketball’s season and softball season about to start.
The Cal Poly women’s tennis team will play its first Big West Conference dual matches of the season this weekend, visiting UC Irvine at 11 a.m. Saturday and Cal State Fullerton at 10 a.m. Sunday. “It’s going to be really competitive against those two teams,” Mustangs head coach Hugh Bream said.
In the early ’90s, Time Magazine nominated her as one of America’s 50 most promising leaders under the age of 40. Since then she has worked as a board member for Greenpeace USA and ran as Ralph Nader’s vice president in 1996.
Environmentalist, feminist and internationally-known Winona LaDuke will be the spotlight speaker for the Provocative Perspectives series with a talk entitled: “A New American Identity for the Millennium” Thursday morning on campus.
From recent sewage spills in Morro Bay to unmanaged water testing in Pismo Beach, local surfers and beach goers are worried about the current state of our oceans.
At Cal Poly, a group who cares about these issues is now voicing their concerns in the officially chartered sub-chapter of the San Luis Bay Surfrider Foundation.