Mr. Fraternity should be Chris Barksdale’s middle name. At first glance, he may seem like the typical frat boy, but he has a lot more on his plate than most.
Barksdale is not only the president of his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, but he is also Cal Poly’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) president, where he represents the 18 social fraternities on campus.
Look around campus on any given day (except during midterms or finals) and you will have visual confirmation that love does indeed exist at Cal Poly.
There’s a couple I see every other morning walking hand-in-hand on their way to class. Another couple frequents The Avenue, and the young man sits rapt by his beloved’s effusive expression.
The San Francisco 49ers were limping out the second-to-last leg of a 2-14 season.
It was Week 16 of the 2004 NFL campaign when the Buffalo Bills – who were 9-7 that season – hammered San Francisco 41-7 as 49ers fans booed and heavy winds from the Bay at Candlestick Point whirred trash about the field.
One day after the Cal Poly football team’s crushing 51-14 loss at North Dakota State, head coach Rich Ellerson was back in San Luis Obispo already breaking down game film of the Mustangs’ final opponent Sunday. Cal Poly, which fell from No. 9 to 16 in The Sports Network’s Division I-AA poll Monday, closes the season at 1 p.
Garrison Keillor is arguably the radio show host who is most connected to his roots.
Keillor, probably best-known for his popular public radio show “A Prairie Home Companion,” will be bringing his gentle voice to the Performing Arts Center Jan. 24 at 8 p.
“We started how any band starts. in a shitty garage,” business senior Kyle Dozeman said.
Dozeman sings for Play It By, a band of Cal Poly students that describes its show as a “Rock Carnival.”
“We really want our show to be more of an entertainment thing,” said Danny Pozzan, a wine and viticulture senior and bassist for Play It By.
Promoting shows for independent artists makes me feel like a used car salesman. Basically, I feel like I’m trying to sell everybody something that most people already believe sucks without having seen or heard. Used car salesmen have resigned themselves to being sleazy because they know their cars suck.
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Long time patrons of Bull’s “Traditional, Not Trendy” Tavern were surprised Saturday night when they stumbled knee-walking drunk into the cowboy watering hole to order a round of infamous Bull Sweats and found that owners had replaced the rummy fare with newly concocted “Bull Shits.
Cal Poly may soon join a growing number of CSUs that are utilizing iTunes U, an innovative software that allows professors to produce podcasts of items such as lectures, campus news, and class notes that students can readily download to their iPods.
By utilizing the iTunes software, developed and hosted by Apple Computer, Inc.
Cal Poly students who recently tried to get a little action online were rejected en masse. The Web sites in question weren’t MySpace or facebook. The usual suspects were replaced by partypoker.com, pokerroom.com and fulltiltpoker.net.
The reason for the denial was the recent passage of the Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006, which was signed into law by President Bush on Oct.
Cal Poly’s University Advancement division has appointed Allison Jones as its first scholarship coordinator in order to increase the number of available scholarships and improve student-donor relations.
In an effort to improve scholarships, internships and endowments, Jones will coordinate donor relations and will develop and maintain the scholarship-giving Web site.