Being the newbie in the newsroom

Hello there. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jennifer Young, and I am this year’s news editor for the Mustang Daily. My job and goal is to give the readers of the Mustang Daily the news. Sounds simple…

Cal Poly makes Forbes list, fourth consecutive year

Forbes Magazine ranked Cal Poly among the best colleges in the nation for the fourth consecutive year. Cal Poly placed 230 out of 650 total schools, and 43rd in top colleges of the West.  It was also ranked ninth of…

Football face-off: The sports editor exchange program

In advance of this past weekend’s football game at the Northern Illinois University (NIU), Mustang Daily decided to do a mini-sports editor exchange program with the Northern Illinois Star, the competition’s newspaper. In a style the Star calls “Face-off” NIU…

Turkeys take up residence in education building

Cal Poly has two new residents in the form of a mother turkey and her baby, who have made the Cotchett Education Building their new home. The turkeys, who were first spotted Monday morning, have been rotating their way through…

Farmer's Market is a must for SLOcals

Let’s face it, San Luis Obispo is a pretty awesome place to live and go to school. For those of you who are new to the area, welcome. It won’t take long for you to see how special this place…

Cal Poly 'Cool Kids' take first in engineering design competition

A team of Cal Poly engineering students took first place in an international competition with their senior project, a design for a heating, refrigerating and air conditioning system for the Drake Well Museum in Titusville, Pa. The American Society of…

Mustangs programs gear up for weekend games

School is back in session, and Mustangs athletics is approaching conference play as men’s soccer, women’s soccer, football and volleyball are all in action this weekend. Women’s Soccer The women’s soccer team is 9-3-1 in its last 13 matches dating…

GrCI ships business building techniques via UPS

When UPS wanted to reinvent its printing program to bring itself into the digital era, it turned to Cal Poly.

Cal Poly ranked "Best in the West"

This year Cal Poly was named one of the “Best in the West” for the nineteenth straight year in U.S. News and World Report’s annual college guidebook. Cal Poly ranked seventh among western schools that offer full undergraduate and master’s-level programs but few…

Study resources? Cal Poly's got you covered

With a brand new school year starting up, Cal Poly students are heading back to class and back to the books. Soon enough, the hectic pace of academia will have hold of Mustangs once again. But Cal Poly students aren’t alone…

Cal Poly: After the assaults

In the wake of a spring quarter marred by sexual assault, the question of how to safely pursue sex and alcohol in college life was asked at the end of spring quarter. It is a question that will continue to…