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Watch: A look inside Cal Poly’s annual CultureFest
Cal Poly hosted its annual CultureFest event on October 22nd. CultureFest is an opportunity for students to celebrate diversity in different cultures at Cal Poly. The event features many of Cal Poly’s cultural clubs and organizations coming out and selling traditional foods to share their culture with the Cal Poly community. Students also showcase pieces […]
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Watch: San Luis Obispo plans to improve downtown parking, bike transportation
Finding the perfect spot to park in downtown San Luis Obispo can be a long and stressful process on some busier days. However, the city is in the works of remapping their Parking and Access Management Plan, a plan which hasn’t been updated in more than a decade. The plan has been revised to make […]
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Cal Poly’s dining hall gets a new name
The dining hall that housed 805 Kitchen and The Avenue will be called 1901 Marketplace when it reopens in a little over a year. The name references the year Cal Poly was founded. Cal Poly Corporation is putting $30 million, about 38% of its $80 million renovation budget, toward 1901 Marketplace. The new dining facility […]
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Here’s what Spanos Stadium’s multi-million dollar renovation will bring
Cal Poly’s Spanos Stadium is currently under a $3.2 million renovation project as an initiative to improve the quality of the field itself. The project’s goal is to replace the natural grass field with a turf field that can be used for more events and programs. The renovation began in December and has been ongoing […]
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Here’s why the Cal Poly P was painted red this week
Students painted Cal Poly’s P on the hill red in honor of National Veterans Awareness Week this week. The P’s color was changed from it’s usual white on Sunday by the Center for Military Connected Students (CMCS) and the Student Veterans and Dependents (SVD) Club. The color red was chosen in dedication to the campaign […]
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Semester switch: here’s what it means for students and professors
California State University (CSU) Chancellor Joseph Castro expects Cal Poly to transition to semesters by the start of the 2025-26 academic year, according to an email sent out by University President Jeffrey Armstrong. “Almost a decade ago the CSU Chancellor’s Office asked all quarter-calendar campuses to transition to a semester calendar,” Armstrong said in an […]