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Mustang men's tennis team gets fresh start

It is a season of changes for the Cal Poly men’s tennis team.

With a new freshman player, a new coach and only two remaining seniors on the team, the Mustangs have a new outlook.

Saturday marks the resumption of Cal Poly men’s tennis for the 2006-07 season.

New exhibit hopes to stir a powerful 'Reaction'

Brace yourselves for a whole new kind of art show coming to Cal Poly.

“Emergent Reaction,” a digital media art exhibition, opens Friday in the University Art Gallery. All exhibits in the show were created using computer technology.

“It’s definitely a show where you’ll really be stretched to believe that it’s art,” said Paradise Osorio, an art and design senior.

Erickson leads Poly women's tennis team

Cal Poly senior tennis player Carol Erickson was hardly afraid to take on the defending NCAA singles champion last Saturday.

In fact, Erickson took third-ranked Cal junior Susie Babos to three games at the Cal Winter Invitational. Babos wound up a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 winner, but Erickson feels that making each set competitive in the two-and-a-half-hour match bodes well for the rest of the season.

Brady just a winner

Legends are born on Sundays, but in Tom Brady’s case, legendary status was earned two years ago when he won his third Super Bowl in four years. Last Sunday against the Chargers was just a little more icing on his cake.

San Diego Chargers fans are still in disbelief over how they just gave the game away.

'The Sweet Escape' not so sweet

You have to hand it to her: Gwen Stefani has balls (metaphorically speaking, of course). With the release of her new album “The Sweet Escape,” Stefani definitely pushes the limits of normalcy. But fans of her previous and first solo album, 2004’s “Love. Angel.

Soldier drug use increases

By now, everyone knows about the “surge” into Iraq. However, I will spare you from having to read another editorial about this decision. Instead, I want to focus on a growing trend in Iraq, which no one is talking about: the increase in drug use by U.S. soldiers to cope with stress.

Affirmative action harmful

As college students, we have had a long history of filling little boxes in on tests. I remember that every year through grade school, high school, and college, I was most confused about the ethnicity box. See, I’m exactly half Asian-American and half European-American, and unfortunately, no such box exists for this particular mix.

Cal Poly custodian arrested for attempted murder

A Cal Poly custodian hit a supervising custodian with his car on the morning of Jan. 6 and remains in jail on suspicion of attemped murder.

James Reynolds, a custodian at Cal Poly for more than 25 years, unsuccessfully attempted to run over his co-worker at about 4 a.

Poly faculty protest for higher salaries

Cal Poly faculty members picketed Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in protest of stalled California Faculty Association meetings regarding contracts with the California State University system.

The CFA is concerned with the lack of resolution between its 23,000 members and the CSU system.

What about Bob?

I briskly made my way across campus after class let out last Thursday night.

It wasn’t the cold that had me in a hurry, though.

It was game night, and I was intent on sitting down in Mott Gym before the halftime buzzer sounded.

The scoreboard showed a predictable 14-point Cal Poly lead against UC Davis.

Poly women's hoops squad battles injuries

The Cal Poly women’s basketball team is in the middle of a nine-day break in between games and a 14-day gap in between Big West Conference contests.

It couldn’t come at a better time.

Injuries keep mounting for the Mustangs (5-11, 1-3 Big West), who have lost eight of nine following a 4-3 start that included wins over Oregon State and two West Coast Conference teams.