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With recent approval from the Academic Senate, the Cal Poly Aerospace Master’s Program will now offer a specialization in space systems engineering.
The new specialization will focus on the complex systems of space and launch vehicles, and will be less research-based than the traditional aerospace masters, said aerospace engineering department chair Jordi Puig-Suari.
Following a nationwide search, Cal Poly President Warren Baker announced the permanent appointment of Sandra Ogren as vice president for University Advancement earlier this month.
Ogren, 59, came to Cal Poly in 2004 as the interim vice president for Advancement, hoping to fill the position permanently, but with the expectation that a national search would follow, she said.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) of the Central Coast kicked off its 10th annual week of pride events last Sunday with an interfaith service celebrating diversity at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
Events will take place daily as part of Pride 2006, all leading up to the a RuPaul performance on Sunday, July 9 in Mission Plaza.
Pending the involvement of the Record’s Office, Cal Poly’s policy on culminating experience graduate courses will be modified. As the policy now stands, graduate student projects and theses are recorded as a Report in Progress (RP) grade for three years, after which they are recorded as No Credit (NC). However, each graduate student is given […]
Katie Hofstetter As a graduating senior, there is one question that I hate above all else. It’s the dreaded, “What are your plans for next year?” Each time I hear it, I have to pause for a minute, allowing the “Dodgeball”-style bit of throw-up that has entered my throat to subside, and forcing back the […]
Katie Hofstetter Senior architecture student Joseph Lyman is expanding the uses of cardboard, and his bank account while he’s at it. As part of a competition for the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), Lyman created a chair solely comprised of corrugated cardboard that was placed in the top six designs at the AIAS Chair […]
nick coury Over 20 students marched from Dexter Lawn to the University Union Tuesday chanting “What do we want? Civil Rights! When do we want them? Now!” The demonstrators, lead by Cal Poly Pride Alliance student coordinators Angela Kramer and Morgan Leckie, cheered as they demanded equality for homosexuals. The route included Via Carta and […]
whitney guenther Jesus, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joan of Arc were all super paranoid, but in the best possible sense of the word – at least that is the premise of English professor John Hampsey’s book “Paranoia and Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought.” The book reintroduces the idea of pre-Plato Greece that paranoia can […]
Katie Hofstetter The latest study released by Cal Poly’s Career Services indicates a strong job market for recent Cal Poly graduates. The study, based on surveys completed by over half of Cal Poly’s 2004-05 graduates, showed 73 percent holding full-time jobs with another 21 percent enrolled in graduate school. “The economy right now is very […]
sheila sobchik This year’s CommUnity Pride Week will be the biggest and best ever if the event organizers have anything to say about it. Cal Poly’s Pride Alliance, with support from Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals United (GLBU), have planned six days “chock-full of pride events” to mark the fourth year of CommUnity Pride Week, also […]
The California State Students Association (CSSA) combined forces with the California State University to back an assembly bill promising to increase California’s allotment of financial aid. Assembly Bill 2813, authored by Assembly member Hector De la Torre (D-South Gate), seeks three core modifications in the Cal Grant Program. AB 2813 proposes allocating financial support to […]
