For three winter sports teams at Cal Poly, it was hardly a restful break. And while the women’s and men’s basketball and wrestling teams all competed over winter break, the swimming and diving team jumped back into action Saturday. That wasn’t all that happened over the last three weeks.
Laundry fire causes hotel to evacuate guests
A small fire broke out at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Madonna Road early Monday morning, causing the fire alarm and sprinkler system to go off. No one was injured.
“The fire started in the laundry room when a commercial dryer overheated,” said Tim Billing, the hotel’s general manager.
Poly men's hoops squad at halfway point
Fourteen games are in the books and 14 games remain for the Cal Poly men’s basketball team.
At least until the Big West Conference Tournament, which the Mustangs likely must win if they are to reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.
20 years later means a whole new world
“Children of Men” is a film in which its premise alone is enough to keep you talking for hours. When it comes to actually executing that premise, however, is it enough to deliver it solely through a restless visual experience?
Director Alfonso Cuaron (“Y Tu Mama Tambien”) believes it is, and his latest visually enthralling sci-fi film doused in delightful pessimism could prove it.
Starting the year off right
Last Saturday brought Boy’s Night Out which meant a noise rock show at the Steynberg Gallery. Strangely enough, the crowd was rather decently sized as Indian Jewelry headlined the show coming off of an extensive tour. Additionally surprising was that this was one of the best shows that I’ve seen in a while.
Making sense of recycling
In recent years, recycling has become an important part in city waste management programs to help protect our earth. Despite the millions of dollars spent by governments and corporations in efforts to increase public awareness of recycling, there remains a lack of general public understanding.
Winter graduates face life after college
Graduation from college is a major event. Graduation evaluations, countless meetings with advisors, checking, double-checking, triple-checking, even quadruple-checking units taken, all for a piece of paper that says you did it. You jumped through all the hoops Cal Poly threw at you, and now you’re ready for a solid, 9-to-5 job.
SLO has a merry little Christmas downtown
Santa Claus arrived at Mission Plaza in a stylish convertible on Nov. 24 to set up shop until Christmas Eve.
He was greeted with a festival at Santa’s House that kicked off the Christmas season. The 50-piece San Luis Obispo County Band performed concert music and local shops Uptown Espresso and Sweet Shoppe provided refreshments.
New state laws to affect students
As soon as the clock flashed midnight on Jan. 1,
fireworks weren’t the only things set off in
California. Several new laws took effect too and some
will benefit students.
Perhaps the most sweeping good news for students is
the 75 cent rise in the state’s minimum wage.
Shotwell wins Buchanan Award
One day after taking home the Buck Buchanan Award as the top defensive player in Division I-AA, Cal Poly senior linebacker Kyle Shotwell was just as relieved as he was excited.
“I was kind of relieved because I wasn’t the guy who broke the tradition at Cal Poly,” Shotwell said Friday in a phone interview.
Christmas movies for guys who like movies
With finals around the corner, it means that Christmas vacation is on the horizon (fine, “holiday vacation” for the P.C.). If you’re not working during this break then you’ll be sure to find yourself reuniting with that comfortable indentation on the living room couch, hanging out with your favorite holiday buddy: the television.