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SLO Outdoor Adventures 10-12-05

Brennan Angel For those looking for a new place to skate, the Los Osos skatepark has something for everybody. The park is concrete with a large open center that connects different sections; grind rails and boxes on the flats, two…

Deep waters doesn't seem to stop shallow TV

The bull died right in front of us. Hooves to the sky, daggers lodged in bleeding flesh. The poor creature received one last stab to the head and rolled over. The crowd cheered maniacally as the matador shimmied to blaring…

If covering the posters was the right thing to do, there's a lot more work to be done

  First, let me start off by saying that I am not a member of CP Salsa, nor do I know any of the 200-plus members of that club. Heck, for a while there I thought the Salsa Club was…

New engineering buildings under way

kali bills The area next to the library, which used to be a parking lot, is now being transformed into Engineering IV, a 104,000 square foot state-of-the-art building scheduled to hold classrooms and offices for the engineering department. Construction began…

First Constitution Day coming

Louise Dolby Cal Poly’s College of Liberal Arts will hold its first ever Constitution Day Thursday in the business rotunda (building 3, room 213) from 11 a.m. to noon. A recent bill authored by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia)…

From the big screen to the not so big screen

Ryan Chartrand You’ve most likely read a book that quenched your thirst for life so much that you went and saw its film adaptation only to be disappointed. In this massively technological “Year 2000” world we now live in, the…

Frankly Speaking 10-12-05

I nearly shed a tear Tuesday night as the Yankees were banished from the 2005 Major League Baseball playoffs. Derek Jeter, the Yankees poster-boy shortstop who is the master of making playoff opponents grimace with his clutch performances, will be…

Students warned not to drink and drive

Tom Sanders The days of drivers breaking DUI laws have yet to go by the wayside. On Sep. 23, the San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLOPD) conducted a DUI checkpoint at the intersection of Santa Rosa and Oak streets. Between…

Graphic Communication department awarded

Brittany Ridley The Xerox Printing Innovation Award was originally a competition for professional printing companies throughout the country. But three years ago, Cal Poly’s graphic communication department (GrC) decided that it had the resources and the talent to compete with…

Collision under investigation

An investigation is underway as to what caused a fire truck to run a red light and crash into a car carrying two Cal Poly students on Friday. The collision injured the car’s driver, biology junior Athena Norton, fracturing her…

California Faculty Association sued

The Right to Work Committee, based in Virginia, has sued the California Faculty Association alleging that the CFA has been using non-member agency funds for political action. “Money coming from non-members is not spent on politics,” CFA Communications Director Alice…