A run-in with a train cost psychology student Ryan West his right foot early Saturday morning.
Union Pacific Railroad contacted the San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) at 1:16 a.m. to notify authorities that a pedestrian had been hit, authorities said.
Forty minutes and 17 seconds.
That’s how long the North Dakota State football team possessed the ball in its 51-14 rout of Cal Poly on Saturday. The loss in front of 14,706 fans at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D., ends both the Mustangs’ Great West Football Conference title and Division I-AA playoff hopes.
One would think that coming off an election year we would be very well-informed about our government’s plan to deal with the Iraq puzzle. Sadly, after being force-fed abundant campaign slogans and talking points from both political extremes, Americans are left thinking in terms of only two heavily-flawed strategies for dealing with Iraq: “Cut and Run” and “Stay the Course.
I couldn’t help but overhear the following on election night: “Yes, we won! It’s about time.”
I find myself confused. About time for what? I presume change, but what change will we see over two years? Certainly the media’s grandstanding will dominate the headlines for the next few weeks, but once their ratings drop and they again begin to report on the “news,” what REAL change can we expect?
Will the fighting in Iraq suddenly come to an end? Will the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites realize that the Democrats are now in control and set aside their differences? Are the troops on their way home? Are the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants making a mass exodus back across our open and unguarded southern border? Have the “working poor” found better jobs and moved up the social ladder to join the rest of society? Do we suddenly have a comprehensive and complete national health-care plan?
In so many words, no.
With a dominating performance Friday night in front of 1,427 fans in Mott Gym, the Cal Poly volleyball team clinched its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2000.
The Mustangs swept visiting Northridge 30-15, 30-20, 30-14 to secure at least a share of their first conference title since taking the Pacific Coast Athletic Association crown in 1984.
To screw or not to screw. Shakespeare had it wrong all along. They screw you on parking, on tests, at financial aid, at work, even looking for an elliptical machine at the Cal Poly rec center. In a world where you get screwed left and right…do you really want to get screwed when you’re relaxing? Well, some of us actually screw to relax.
Hollywood’s latest cruel joke about how ignorant and disconnected America is with humanity might be starting to depress some of you. If the joke hasn’t blissfully socked you in the face yet, however, “Babel” is certainly a great start.
Using the growingly popular form of film writing known as nonlinear storytelling, “Babel” is told through four different cultural stories, all centering on a theme of being lost and disconnected.
We Americans consume far more than our fair share of the world’s resources. According to the AAA Atlas of Population and Environment, the world’s top energy consumers are the U.S. and China. We are way ahead at 25.32 percent of the world’s consumption while China is at 9.
By the time this column is published, I should be curled up in a tight ball whimpering like I just got kicked in the balls. Why? Because between a quiz, midterm, 2 papers, a long interview for one of the papers, writing this column, a report on a court case and a “stalking assignment,” I barely even had the time to breathe this week.
The smell of tar was thicker than the air in the room where music senior David Hora sat, waiting to go to his next class.
“A whole bunch of people have headaches, but it’s still the same schedules in the same rooms,” Hora said.
Construction on the roofs of the H.
A plan to improve the economic and aesthetic viability of South Broad Street will be introduced to the community tonight at a public meeting at the Grange Hall.
The South Broad Street Corridor Plan seeks to implement traffic improvements that will make the one-mile stretch of road between High Street and Orcutt Road safer through the addition of pedestrian refuges, crosswalks and signals.