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Fifty Years Later, Plenty of Pain Lingers From Cal Poly Plane Crash
By John Walters - AOL NewsWho lived, and who died, was as random as a pregame coin toss. Just minutes after 10 p.m. on Oct. 29, 1960, a twin-engine World War II-era cargo plane carrying the California Polytechnic College football team began to taxi down the runway at Toledo Express Airport. That afternoon, the Mustangs had been pummeled by Bowling Green, 50-6. Now, entombed in a fog so thick that all taxi service had been suspended in Toledo for the evening, the Arctic Pacific Airlines flight accelerated blindly into the night. Fate hinged on a row number. Sometimes less. Bill Dauphin, a 19-year-old sophomore ...
A Bum Steer: Big Beef Throws Its Weight Around at Cal Poly
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyBig Beef has a bone to pick with Michael Pollan. And who can blame it? After all, Pollan, a professor of journalism at University of California at Berkeley and a critic of industrial agriculture, almost got away with delivering a lecture last week to students at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. How dare he?! Pollan had been invited by the university's Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium, a faculty-run group that works to make sure students are exposed to alternatives to conventional agricultural practices. Apparently Big Beef decided to get mad -- and get ...
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