Kelly Cope Many nonprofit groups native to San Luis Obispo received a welcome surprise last fall in the form of $10,000 in donations and gifts-in-kind after students in PSY 351, group dynamics, took them on as part of a group…
Mustang Daily advertising collects three top national awards
sheila sobchik The Mustang Daily advertising and business staff took three top awards at the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers (CNBAM) Convention held March 8-11 in Philadelphia. The annual contest was judged by professionals working for newspapers across the…
Event to shed light on human trafficking in Vietnam
Holly Burke In 2005, between 10,000 and 20,000 women and children in Vietnam were kidnapped and sold into slavery. The numbers however, are inexact since the business of trafficking humans is deeply rooted underground. Cal Poly students will have the…
Fire speech sparks concern with PSA
nick coury The final session of the eight-week Wildland Fire Studies seminar, provided by Cal Poly’s forestry resources department, led to some controversy Monday over free speech rights and expression on campus. The seminar was primarily geared toward students with…
Fraternity Fight Night knocked down and dragged off campus
Months of student work and planning were thwarted when an event put on by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was cancelled Monday by Ken Barclay, Director of Student Life and Leadership at Cal Poly. The Fraternity Fight Night event was…
Poly Canyon Village to relieve housing crunch
Jennifer Hall Construction on the new Poly Canyon Village housing project at Cal Poly is set to begin on March 17. The housing project will provide 2,700 beds for Cal Poly students who want to live on campus. The project…
Online admissions tool helps to break language barrier
Spanish-speaking prospective Cal Poly students can now access information and get answers to questions online. “Respuestas EMT” allows prospective students to type in questions in Spanish on the online server and receive answer posts in Spanish. The service received over…
Mustang Daily wins in statewide contest
sheila sobchik The Mustang Daily took home four awards, including second place for “General Web site Excellence,” from the 2006 California College Media Competition. The competition was judged by representatives from the Fresno Bee, LA Weekly, Orange County Register, Sacramento…
Muslim Student Association responds to cartoon controversy
A Danish newspaper’s editorial cartoons sparked reactions in many Cal Poly students. In September, a series of cartoons were published in Jyllands-Posten that were deemed offensive to Muslims around the world. The most disrespectful cartoon depicts the Prophet Muhammad wearing…
New fraternities plan to come to Poly
The Cal Poly greek system is growing again with the addition of two new fraternities, Sigma Pi and Delta Tau Delta. Sigma Pi held informational sessions this week and last week and had a booth in the University Union for…
The Underground Passion
Paul Bittick It’s illegal, but they do it anyway. Half past midnight lurches by as three hooded silhouettes slink their way into the Cal Poly University Union Plaza. Moving cautiously through the dimly lit arena, the three prowl the area…