Emmy Scherer

Apr 19, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Emmy Scherer

A chase has begun. Dust begins to fly. Veering off to the right and picking up speed, the dark blue work truck rips across a lush, green cornfield, plowing down any stalk in its path. Its side windows are almost entirely obstructed by the corn stalks whipping against them, with just glimmers of sunlight flickering through. “You could feel the corn coming around the side of you as the truck is hitting them,” Nathan Gollay, liberal arts and engineering studies (LAES) senior said.

Apr 12, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Emmy Scherer

“I want to go to college at Cal Poly so that I can work with you,” Luna Larsen’s 6-year-old son, Nate, said to her one day. Larsen, the Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies (LAES) program coordinator at Cal Poly and current grad student at San Jose State University, was filled with joy at the idea of her little boy attending Cal Poly alongside her. At the same time, though, she knew that dream wasn’t likely.

Apr 8, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Lauren Emo |Sarina Grossi |Emmy Scherer |Alina Jafri

When kinesiology junior Luke Hansen walked into the first day of his Human Anatomy and Physiology I class (BIO 231), he expected it to be like any other science class he had taken at Cal Poly. Then, the professor began reading the syllabus. Hansen would soon be hands-deep in a human cadaver, and a few quarters later, dissecting a human neck to remove the whole head.  Hansen’s interaction with the cadavers wasn’t supposed to happen until week six.

Mar 2, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Lauren Emo |Emmy Scherer

Nano’s Coffee, a family-owned coffee company known for producing its own coffee beans, recently opened its second location on the ground floor of the Summit SLO apartment complex at 790 Foothill Blvd. The shop is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Fridays. The new shop follows the success of their original drive-through location in Paso Robles, where the Nano family first started serving their specialty coffee beans to the Central Coast.

Feb 15, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Emmy Scherer

ASI Intramural Sports will host its first-ever hobby horse competition in collaboration with ASI Events on Feb. 23. According to ASI’s website, the event will be held in the Cal Poly Recreation Center Main Gym (BLDG 43) from 7 to 9 p.m. and is free to attend for students with a PolyCard. The hobby-horsing event will consist of various competitions using prop horses, free food and “lots of fun prizes,” according to the Rec Center interim assistant director Nick White.