Benjy Egel benjyegel.md@gmail.com Early in the season, the one run games were falling in favor of the Mustangs. Now, they’re not. With their second one-run victory over Cal Poly in just as many nights, the Fighting Irish celebrated Saturday after…
Mustangs struggle offensively, fall to Notre Dame 1-0
Brian De Los Santos bdelossantos@mustangdaily.net The offensive struggles looked to be behind them. But after scoring six runs in their series opener against Notre Dame, the Mustangs put up nine zeroes through nine innings and fell 1-0 to the Fighting…
‘Math anxiety’ has roots in elementary school
Math anxiety starts early. It can be traced as far back as elementary school, mathematics assistant professor Amélie Schinck-Mikel said. In Schinck-Mikel’s MATH 227 class, Mathematics for Elementary Teaching I, students’ first assignment is to write an autobiography of their…
UPD escorts man watching porn from library
Mustang Daily Staff Report news@mustangdaily.net Police escorted a man from the third floor of the Robert E. Kennedy Library on Saturday after a student notified them of a suspicious individual viewing pornographic material on a library computer. The male was…
Sequester 101: breaking down the cuts
Sean McMinn smcminn@mustangdaily.net The sequester: a scary word for some, simply confusing for others. The end of the world, maybe, or a political dance move. Somewhere between political exaggerations and party blaming lies the truth about exactly what effect the…
Mustang Wireless secure, but difficult to access
Laura Pezzini lpezzini@mustangdaily.net Students logging on to wireless Internet on campus have noticed some changes in the network. Starting in fall, Information Technology Services (ITS) began implementing a more secure wireless network, but not without complaints from students. ITS Director…
Sexual assault report filed near campus
Mustang Daily Staff Report news@mustangdaily.net San Luis Obispo police are investigating a report of sexual assault near Cal Poly’s campus earlier this month, but the department is reluctant to release information because of the involvement of a minor. Police received…
Society of Women Engineers breaks stereotypes
Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net Men dominate Cal Poly’s College of Engineering. A whopping 81.5 percent of the college — some 4,410 students — are men. Despite being a minority on campus, female engineers have made the Cal Poly chapter of the…
Cal Poly to move to semesters by end of decade
For nearly a year, the Cal Poly community has scrutinized the question of quarters vs. semesters. On Monday, University President Jeffrey Armstrong announced mounting pressure from the California State University forced him to accept semesters will come to Cal Poly by 2020.
STORIFY: Cal Poly to convert to semesters within decade
President Jeffrey Armstrong’s announcement on the CSU plan to convert all quarter campuses to semesters by the end of the decade hit the Cal Poly community hard this morning. Here is a sampling of several Twitter and Facebook responses @mustangdaily has been seeing:
Armstrong: Conversion to semesters by end of decade
Mustang Daily Staff Report news@mustangdaily.net University President Jeffrey Armstrong confirmed in a memo to campus today that after discussions with California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White and presidents from other CSU campuses, Cal Poly will begin the process of…