Edgar Richard Viernes, an electrical engineering junior, died Friday as a result of a car accident on Foothill Boulevard near O’Connor Way. He is the fifth Cal Poly student to die in the last three months.
“He was just a great person, really easy-going,” said Alex Aldama, an electrical engineering senior who was friends with Viernes.
It might not be strewn across TV screens and newspaper headlines every day like the pictures of Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but right now poverty is a bigger threat to the health and stability of this world than the “Axis of Evil.” Every day 30,000 people die because they are too poor to afford food or medicine.
The Cal Poly men’s basketball team opened its 2006-07 season with a noon practice Saturday.
Head coach Kevin Bromley returns 11 letterwinners, two transfers and a redshirt freshman from last season’s squad and welcomes one true freshman.
Returnees are highlighted by All-Big West Conference First-Team selection and senior Derek Stockalper.
Before the start of the volleyball season, Cal Poly sophomore middle blocker Jaclyn Houston set a goal for the team to go undefeated in the Big West Conference.
That was kept possible Saturday night, when the 20th-ranked Mustangs swept visiting rival UC Santa Barbara by scores of 30-17, 30-22, 30-27.
The Cal Poly men’s cross country team had a strong showing Saturday at the NCAA Pre-National race with an eighth-place finish at an event hosted by Indiana State in Terre Haute, Ind.
The Mustangs placed above five teams ranked ahead of them in the national polls.
It was “Saturday Night Live” all over again at the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center on Saturday night. The reason? Former “SNL” cast member Jon Lovitz was in town. The veteran of 30 films including “A League of Their Own” and “Benchwarmers” regaled the crowd with his thoughts on everything from his own sexuality (he’s not gay but Bob Saget is another story), to his religion – he wants everyone in SLO to know he’s not a Jew, he’s Jewish.
So, you’re hanging out with your friends who you endearingly call “wine-a-holics” and you’re discussing your favorite wines. Everyone is quick to name their favorite red and what seems to be the “in” varietal at the moment. All of the sudden your mom walks in on the conversation and drops her opine.
In the last few years, the future of the American energy industry has been a subject of constant discussion. Those with their ears to the ground have probably heard that hydrogen is expected to play an integral role in powering the America of tomorrow. President Bush recently allocated funds for hydrogen fuel cell research.
College is here. You’re busy making new friends, hanging out with old ones, battling large amounts of homework from the first few weeks of classes. The last thing on your mind is your waistline.
Now, it is a few weeks into the quarter, you get up for an early class and pick out a pair of jeans you got back home.
I whole-heartedly agree with Ms. Pearson and the others who have voiced their support for dating … to a point.
To all the guys out there, man up and tell a girl you like her instead of going the wimp’s way and leaving it for her to figure out.
And girls, stop with the vague hints and clues; if the guy you like won’t ask you out, do it yourself.
In our continuing segment of “The Greatest Sites,” we were able to hook up an interview with Streeter Seidell from www.collegehumor.com.
Mustang Daily: Would you mind telling us a little about yourself and how you became involved with CollegeHumor?
Streeter Seidell: Yeah, I’m the front page editor for College Humor which means I take care of all the updates on the main page and I choose which Web sites to hot link among other little things here.