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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.
It’s time for another night of free games, food and live music at the Cal Poly Recreation Center.
The fourth annual Associated Students Inc.- sponsored event, Dusk ’til Dawn is taking place Thursday from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.
“It’s grown into kind of a phenomenon of excitement for students,” ASI Programs Coordinator Michelle Curro said of the event.
Without a doubt, Jonathan Dally has one of the strangest “personal” entries of any player biography in the 2008 Cal Poly football media guide.
Most list activities like surfing, watching movies or playing video games among off-field pursuits.
Then there’s Dally’s.
The Cal Poly women’s doubles team of juniors Brittany Blalock and Steffi Wong was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Championships at Stanford on Sunday.
Blalock and Wong, seeded fourth, were defeated by eighth seed Jana Juricova and Marion Ravelojaona of Cal, 8-5.
The UC Santa Barbara women’s soccer team had a pair of players score twice Sunday evening to lift the Gauchos to a 4-2 win at Cal Poly in Alex G. Spanos Stadium.
Kailyn Kugler scored in the 30th minute on a penalty kick, and in the 43rd on an assist from Genelle Ives.
On the ground floor of the Graphic Arts building lies a little-known secret that takes you back to the 19th century, to a time where printing was done by hand and considered an art. Cal Poly’s Shakespeare Press Museum looks just like a printing office from the 1800s and is run entirely by students.
The smell of incense filled the room as the crowd rose and turned to face the four walls of the building Saturday night during “RAZA Speaks: Flor y Canto,” an open mic night sponsored by Cal Polyís Multicultural Center. The audience was participating in a traditional Native American custom of thanking the four directions, which kicked off a night of Native and Hispanic song and poetry at the Steynberg Gallery in downtown San Luis Obispo.
In commemoration of the death of voter registration 2008 and Cal Poly’s “Democracy Week,” I have an idea. An idea that I believe will shake our political system to its core. It is a plan that I think students at Cal Poly can get behind and embrace. It is based on what I have seen on-campus, what I have seen off-campus, and most importantly what I feel in my heart.
Four Cal Poly architecture alumni competed in an international design competition where they were asked to redesign a modernized White House, called White House Redux, and they answered in a big way.
The team of Jeff Frost, David Iseri, Justin Kruse and Laura Sperry, all of whom have left San Luis Obispo for the busy New York City life, won second place.
It’s no secret Cal Poly senior receiver Ramses Barden is attracting more and more NFL Draft attention as the season progresses. Some sites have even moved him up into the second round, such as NFL Draft Dog, which projects him going to the Dolphins (whose fans, apparently, want him at No. 98 overall). Here’s an […]
A little-known secret at Cal Poly is the historic Shakespeare Press Museum. The museum, located on the first floor of the graphic arts building 26, contains 12 vintage printing presses that are stitll regularly used to print posters and cards. The press museum is open Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
