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“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.”
The famous rhyme may hold true in some cases, but what if those words were published for thousands of people, including fellow classmates, to read?
The Web site JuicyCampus.com allows students to post anonymous gossip.
Cal Poly men’s soccer head coach Paul Holocher has sharply criticized the unruly behavior at Alex G. Spanos Stadium during Friday night’s 1-0 loss to UC Santa Barbara. He has reason to. Several bottles were thrown onto the field from the south bleachers, stopping play for several minutes before UCSB scored the game-winner moments after […]
Cal Poly’s student chapter of the Wheelchair Foundation hopes to raise at least $90,000 at a movie night fundraiser tonight at the Fremont Theatre. The foundation, which will be selling $5 tickets to a showing of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” will generate money to help send wheelchairs and provide cataract surgeries for needy residents of Oaxaca, Mexico.
University is the place where most of us first taste true freedom. Freedom from curfew, from supervision (mostly), from decent home-cooked meals, from you name it. Yet, in the midst of all this novel independence there are typically two chains of dependence that stubbornly remain unbroken.
It’s no secret that few women study engineering at Cal Poly. The most recent statistics released by the school showed that women make up only 15 percent of engineering majors.
The National Science Foundation’s Advance program recently awarded four Cal Poly professors nearly $200,000 to study the experiences of female faculty in fields including engineering.
“Going green.” It’s the new catchphrase thrown around by people these days to symbolize their newfound care for the environment. For Brandon Borene, going green is a lifestyle choice that means more than just recycling old plastic bottles. He is taking it a step further by bringing his vision of the future of restaurant industries to San Luis Obispo.
It sure didn’t feel like a regular-season game.
The national broadcast by Fox Soccer Channel pushed the match’s start back an hour further into the night. The Alex G. Spanos Stadium sellout crowd of 11,075 was the third-largest regular-season audience in college men’s soccer history.
I discovered Joe Meno rather accidentally when I was lured toward a green novel with a picture of a pink spiky hairdo on the front. I’ll admit I read it solely because of the amazingly cool cover, but more importantly, I discovered a fresh writer who incorporates life’s hilarity with just the right amount of depth.
Throughout history, consumer movements have been central to revolutions. The French Revolution was brought to a boiling point over the demand for bread. On Feb. 1, 1960, four African American students made history by sitting at a segregated lunch counter at a North Carolina Woolworth’s store in the seats reserved for white customers.
Taxpayers aren’t responsible for your health and happiness
Dustin Stone, did you read what the definition of a right is in the article you cited? The right to life means that nobody can take someone’s life away! That in no way means that the government (read: taxpayers) are responsible for paying for the health care of others.
What do Google, Starbucks and Nike all have in common? For starters, the founders had an idea with enough potential to draw money from investors that, in turn, allowed them to obtain unlimited success as well as a global popularity.
The Orfalea College of Business and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) is holding its annual Ray Scherr Business Plan Competition, a three-stage contest that seeks to help provide funding and networking for campus-affiliated entrepreneurs and their business ideas.
