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Local salon and day spa turns 20, changes location

The Bladerunner Salon and Day Spa is now in its new location at the corner of Monterey and Morro streets. It’s also celebrating their 20th anniversary, and is inviting the public to come to the open house and grand reopening tonight from 6 to 9 p.m.

The new space at 894 Monterey St.

Mustangs look for first win over I-A school since 2003

There is one thing sophomore tailback James Noble hasn’t done in his already storied career at Cal Poly – play against a Division I-A school.

That will change Saturday when the Mustangs visit San Diego State at Qualcomm Stadium.

“It’s a lot of excitement, but I’m going to try to treat it as another game,” Noble said Thursday after practice.

Students donate dollars to fight disease

A group of six Cal Poly political science students are capping off a week-long campaign of collecting donations today in order to provide vaccinations for the millions of children affected by the measles virus in Africa.

Begun on Oct. 21, the Measles Dollar Drive is headed by students from the POLS 325, global political issues class working in conjunction with Doctors Without Borders, a nonprofit, international humanitarian organization.

Real women (and men) have curves

In our society, weight is a sensitive issue. People are not comfortable with their bodies or size. That is a widely accepted concept.

All body types are great. The problem I have with our society is the inability to accept our sizes. I don’t understand how a person who wears a size 13 jean can buy a size nine and comfortably wear them.

Get your freak on at the next fire drill

Did anyone hear about the rave Cerro Vista Apartments threw last Wednesday, Oct. 18? It started a little earlier than I am used to, but I still loved it. It came complete with strobe lights, loud sounds and cops. Even the fire department showed up! The timing was a little unfortunate however; I was in the middle of studying for midterms.

How to Pick a Wingman

Batman has Robin. Woody has Buzz Lightyear. Johnny Carson had Ed McMahon. To each man, their counterpart was not just there to fight crime, fight for stuffed animal rights, or to yell ridiculously loud but they were there for one other reason: to be the wingman.

New Poly baseball schedule features two of last three national champions

The Mustangs will host three-game series against both former national champions Oregon State (2006) and Big West foe Cal State Fullerton (2004).

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Cal Poly’s 2007 baseball schedule, announced Tuesday by head coach Larry Lee and director of athletics Alison Cone, features three-game home series against a pair of Pacific-10 Conference schools, including defending College World Series champion Oregon State, and 2004 national champion Cal State Fullerton.

Poly men's golf team ties for 8th at invitational

Cal Poly settled for an eighth-place tie with Portland and Santa Clara in the final round of the Santa Clara Colby Invitational on Tuesday at the Silver Creek Valley Golf Course in San Jose.

Coach Scott Cartwright’s Mustangs, in seventh place after Monday’s two rounds, carded a four-person 302 total on the 6,926-yard, par-72 course, led by junior Brycen Wagner with a 71, his 10th career par or under-par round.

Poly readies for new challenge: Division I-A San Diego State

Moments after a 29-28 loss to South Dakota State last Saturday, members of the Cal Poly football team were already pointing ahead to their next obstacle – a date at Division I-A San Diego State on Saturday.

The Mustangs don’t have time to mourn their stunning Great West Football Conference defeat last week.

Johnny in the Box

To act dishonestly or practice fraud.

This is the definition you will find when looking up the word “cheat.”

This is a word that has gone hand-in-hand with professional sports over the last several years. This weekend, we may have hit a new low when discussing cheating and how it relates to professional sports.

Learning a lesson on personal space the Italian way

I wake up each morning to several reminders that I’m living in a foreign country. I look out my shutter-lined window and see the Mole Antonelliana, probably the most famous symbol of Torino. I lace up my shoes, as the regular flip-flops have been completely ditched since my arrival to Italy, and begin my trek to school.