Twenty years after this spoof ad ran in a humor edition of the paper, sightings of President Warren Baker are still rare for most students. The Mustang Daily recently caught up with the president of 28 years to ask him some of those tough questions:
Mustang Daily: When students say that they don’t know their university president, how do you address that?
President Baker: I try as often as I can.
Last month Poly Reps turned 21 years old. Since its founding in 1985, the group has done its best to promote all that is good about Cal Poly to those interested in coming to the university.
“It started as a group of people talking and realizing that Cal Poly needed to be represented from a student perspective,” said Poly Reps President Lana Smith.
It took only minutes for the intersection of California Boulevard and E. Foothill Boulevard to completely fill with revelers. As a reporter for the Mustang Daily, this was the place to be, right in the middle of the mayhem. Armed with a camera, I was ready to get the story.
After 1990’s violent riots and the cancelation of all Poly Royal events for the following years, the weekend of Mardi Gras became the new party for Cal Poly students and out-of-town visitors.
But in 2004, Mardi Gras also got out of control and riots resulted in over 200 arrests and $500,000 in damages, causing the cancelation of all Mardi Gras events.
From 1992 to 1993, when I served on the Mustang Daily staff under editor Peter Hartlaub, we had a wealth of news – budget cuts,ΓΏ fatal accidents and a big scandal on the baseball team. Some animal-rights activists even liberated a good many frogs from a science lab one day, sending them hopping all over Poly.
On my office wall in Chapel Hill hangs the last front page of the Mustang Daily that I designed during my tenure as 1993-94 editor. On that page, at three columns wide, is a photo featuring a Daily editor’s naked ass.
It’s not mine, naturally. That’s the luxury of being the editor.
Kristin Denise Smart had been missing for five days when this story was printed on May 31, 1996. It’s been over a decade since that issue was in the newsstands, but very few people have forgotten Kristin Smart. The national media focused their attentions on the local disappearance, making it a high-profile case for a long time.
Too much has happened in the last few years (let alone the last 90) for us to squeeze it all onto one page. So we took a scattering of some of the biggest stories to rock Cal Poly.
Who could forget Scott Peterson, the Cal Poly alum who was sentenced to death for killing his wife Laci (also a Poly grad) and their unborn son?
In better news, the Cal Poly football team reached the NCAA 1-AA playoffs for the first time ever last fall.
San Luis Obispo County residents put Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the spot Thursday at the Madonna Inn with questions about four of the eight propositions that will appear on Tuesday’s special election ballot.
Despite his intention to rally support, Schwarzenegger’s visit pulled in hundreds of local protesters who picketed outside the inn, waving signs and chanting “SLO says no” as cars drove by, many of them honking in approval.
Stephen Schulte is the kind of Cal Poly student who goes to the store to buy “a couple brews” and then plays golf with his buddies on a late Monday afternoon. He’s also the kind of brother and best friend who will drive to Petaluma to practice with his best friends and younger brother for their band.
A recent study indicates that the United States is falling behind in the global race to educate young adults and workers.
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released its fourth report in the biennial series, “Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education,” in early September of this year.