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sedan Jones was driving sustained “major body damage” during the accident. According to the report, the collision damaged six feet of wall. Green, 20, worked as a prep cook at the Cal Poly on-campus restaurant, but he left the job earlier this month, current Vista Grande manager Margi
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Braden said. Braden described Green as a “really outgoing, really friendly guy.” “I saw that picture of the car and was just shocked,” Braden said. As of press time, San Luis Obispo police are investigating the cause of the accident. The report said alcohol was not a factor in the collision. Sean McMinn contributed to this article.
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Visiting students lined up to speak with International Space Station astronaut Daniel Burbank Tuesday.
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“I’ve never really talked to an astronaut before, and when I first heard about this, I was really excited because I was like, ‘Oh, I get to talk to an astronaut who’s actually on the space station,’” Stern said. “It was really cool getting to hear the response.” While O’Neal said the club had a vague idea of when their conversation with Burbank would be, they got the final date and time from NASA a week
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ed a Vespa Piaggio scooter, which is currently on display in the window of El Corral. Cal Poly Corporation partnered with SLO Vespa, a local scooter store, to offer the prize, Nishinaga said. “We wanted to run this contest, and we wanted to provide an exciting prize to the winner,” she said. Some students have already noticed the Vespa in the window of El Corral, and considered names, though it’s harder than it seems, computer science freshman Timothy Vo said. “I actually thought about (entering), but I didn’t think of a name,” Vo said. Vo said he didn’t think the name El Corral needed much changing, except for dropping the “El.” Other students, though, agree with Davis that the El Corral name is outdated. Child development sopho-
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ago. Organizing the publicity and room reservations was “sort of a lastminute scramble,” he said. But the results made the work worth it for him. “It went really well,” O’Neal said. “For Cal Poly’s very first radio contact with the International Space Station, I’m really happy.” The event also included a presentation by the PolySat club and a discussion by aerospace engineering professor Kira Abercromby about the space station. Other groups including the Cal Poly branch of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers and the Estero Radio Club also had a chance to talk with attendees after the conversation with Burbank. Since the radio conversation was short, the Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club wanted to make sure to add more aspects to the event to make it worth coming onto campus, O’Neal said. Bill Fageol of the Estero Radio Club and the San Luis Obispo Emergency Communications Council said this was the first conversation of this kind for him, but he thought Burbank was well-prepared and the ques-
tions were good. “It’s amazing what you can do with radio,” Fageol said. “I’m part of the amateur radio group here, and we use radio to talk around the world but very rarely we talk away from the world, which is what you do when you talk to the space station. It’s really neat.” O’Neal is graduating this year, so he won’t organize another conversation such as the one with Burbank, but he said if someone else in the club wanted to organize a similar talk next year, he’d be willing to help out. “It was a lot of fun,” O’Neal said. “Definitely worthwhile.”
more Natalie Neach said El Corral Bookstore on campus no longer makes sense on Cal Poly’s campus. “It doesn’t resemble Cal Poly,” Neach said. “It has nothing to do with it.” A better name would utilize the name Cal Poly’s Mustang mascot or the school’s polytechnic focus, Neach said. The contest runs from March 26 through April 15. After that, a committee of students, staff and El Corral will be assembled to select the best name. The winning suggestion will be announced after several weeks, but there is no definite date. “Because this is a bigger renaming process, it may take two to four weeks,” Nishinaga said.
Students can enter the contest via email at renameelcorral@ calpoly.edu
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Cal Poly students can enter the contest until April 15.