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Meet the neighbors

Whether you’re a Cal Poly alumnus and have lived in San Luis Obispo for 35 years or you’re a freshman and have lived in the dorms for three weeks, the city of San Luis Obispo is your home.

Working with the city and neighborhood associations, we’ve come up with a way to allow students and long-term residents alike to spend time together without much of the anticipated awkwardness.

The Wild Pitch

College football is a beautiful thing, even when the game is ugly.

It mesmerizes us with well-orchestrated drives, awesome physicality and unlikely comeback victories.

But when Cal Poly edged Great West Football Conference rival UC Davis 23-17 Saturday night, perhaps the best pageantry had nothing to do with what happened between the hash marks.

Poly football team rises in poll

Following its 23-17 Great West Football Conference win over visiting rival UC Davis on Saturday, the Cal Poly football team moved up one spot Monday to No. 4 in The Sports Network’s Division I-AA poll.

The Mustangs (5-1, 2-0) were ranked a program-best No.

Pryor receives national honor

Cal Poly junior linebacker Wes Pryor, who blocked a UC Davis punt early in the third quarter to spark a Mustang rally against UC Davis, has been named Special Teams Player of the Week by The Sports Network.

Pryor also earned Great West Football Conference Special Teams Player of the Week honors.

Found Sound

It’s no secret that the bars downtown have been in an all-out Pint Night war. And so far, the whole scene has leveled off with equity. Rather than maintaining a steady clientele, each bar is subject to the drift of patrons from watering hole to watering hole.

The Bunion: Deemed Unsafe by City Council, Student's Homemade Doghouse Condemned

September 28, 2006
San Luis Obispo- After a hearing Monday marked by filibusters and mawkish cries of concern from party-goers that stretched on for twelve 12 1/2 city tax-dollar backed hours, the San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously to condemn 9th year architectural engineering student Frank “The Tank” Bossman’s doghouse on the grounds that it was structurally unsound and aesthetically unpleasing.

Freshman a victim of robbery, assault

A Cal Poly student was a victim of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon on Friday night.

Ryan Alcaraz, 18, was found unconscious on the sidewalk near the corner of Monte Vista Road and California Boulevard, according to a San Luis Obispo Police Department press release.

Reading between the lines at El Corral

It is nearly impossible to begin a quarter at Cal Poly without the inevitable and horrible trip to El Corral. From long lines to high prices; you are guaranteed a stressful shopping trip. However, even worse than the lines and prices is El Corral’s Buyback Program.

Mustangs edge rival Aggies, 23-17

Matt Brennan called it redemption.

The sophomore quarterback had every right to after helping the Cal Poly football team to a 23-17 Great West Football Conference win Saturday night over visiting rival UC Davis in front of 8,435 fans at Alex G. Spanos Stadium.

20th-ranked Cal Poly volleyball team stays perfect in Big West

Sophomore outside hitter Kylie Atherstone led all players with 17 kills and No. 20 Cal Poly failed to trail at any point Saturday evening in remaining perfect at Mott Gym courtesy of a 30-22, 30-21, 30-26 victory against Cal State Fullerton.

Big West Conference-leading Cal Poly (13-4, 5-0), off to the second-best league start in program history, hasn’t dropped a game at Mott Gym in 2006 following sweeps of UC Davis (Sept.

'The Departed' raises the bar for crime drama

“Heaven holds the faithful departed,” will be the last line going through your mind before “The Departed” departs on one of the most painfully satisfying storylines you will ever experience. ÿ

What is painful satisfaction? Imagine being thrown into the middle of the street by a husky Russian only to be flattened by a magical school bus (the satisfaction being that Samuel L.