This is a black-tie event–but not the kind you’re thinking of. “Five, six, seven, eight!” Seina Haruta, president of MERGE, shouts as she counts the dancers in with music bumping against the walls of studio 2. Black ties lay across dancers’ chests, draping over their leggings and Nike sports bras, as they prepared for Illuminate […]
Author Archives: Lauren Yoon
Lauren Yoon is news reporter and journalism major. She got involved in journalism because she always loved writing and wanted to use that skill and passion to do something productive for society. She especially wanted to join MMG because she wanted to report for the community I'd be living in for the next four to five years. Her favorite past time is cooking for friends and family! She also collect CDs and her favorites are The Bends by Radiohead, Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast and CTRL by SZA. She believes that if anyone feels underrepresented on this campus the way she did when she first got here, there is someone on the MMG team that will fight to have your voice heard. You can contact her with any story ideas and work together to create a more informed, socially aware environment at Cal Poly.
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On the picket line: CFA prepares for a strike as negotiations with CSU near a close
Laura Quinn splits her weekdays between Cal State San Bernardino, the University of Redlands and her 12-year-old child. Quinn teaches for ten hours on Tuesday and Thursday and from nine until seven on Monday and Wednesday. “My schedule is crazy,” she said. Quinn is among the many CSU lecturers who have to work a second […]
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Community marches through downtown SLO in support of Palestine
Several people gathered at Mission San Luis Obispo this Saturday to march in support of Palestinian civilian lives during the recently declared Israel-Hamas war.
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The women reinventing college engineering
Among the recipients for the Society of Women Engineers 2023 awards are General Engineering Program Director Lizabeth Thompson, CENG Dean Amy S. Fleischer and Cal Poly’s Women’s Engineering Program (WEP) Director Helene Finger.
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How Cal Poly celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day with the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe
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Cal Poly Equine Center urges visitors to avoid trespassing in livestock areas
Multiple incidents of the Cal Poly and greater SLO communities trespassing onto the Equine Center’s private land have caused livestock experts to push for animal safety awareness on campus. Over the summer, a horse from the Equine Unit was badly injured by a fishing lure that was left behind by someone fishing in the reservoirs […]
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Cal Poly looks toward a campus fully run by 5G networking
As Cal Poly campus data and network traffic ever-evolves, Wi-Fi and Ethernet capacities on-campus are slowly losing their ability to carry new information without stealing bandwidth from classrooms that need it, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Bill Britton said. Wi-Fi can’t carry the amount of data traffic that Cal Poly is […]
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Cal Poly student brings a taste of home to San Luis Obispo with his own taquero-style catering business
Sevastian Juarez bought a small red pickup truck with the help of his grandpa at 17. He didn’t celebrate the purchase of his first car by driving friends around, but started his own business instead. It was the summer before his junior year of high school in 2018 when Juarez got the inspiration for his […]
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Cal Poly Pride Center hosts first ball: ‘Spaces like these are our liberation’
For Agustin Garcia Badillo, a coordinator for the Pride Center, holding Cal Poly’s first ‘house ball’ was a time for BIPOC and queer communities in San Luis Obispo “to feel more than just tolerated.” The Pride Center Ball on March 16 marked a first for the Black and Brown, queer, trans and nonbinary communities on […]
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SLO County sees up to an inch of snow due to ongoing storm
For the first time since 2006, Atascadero resident Laurie Kershner woke up Thursday morning to snow in SLO County. Running out with her dog to catch the “giant snowflakes,” Kershner said she sent a video to her daughter, and reminisced about waking her up to see the snow all those years ago. This week’s winter […]
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Cafe in Downtown SLO gives the formerly incarcerated a support system
Jason Hunter has opened a new cafe downtown as head chef — less than a decade after facing a 12-year sentence in the San Luis Obispo County Jail. After leaving the military in 1998, a serious PTSD diagnosis led him down a “dark path” of drug and alcohol addiction, which resulted in his arrest and […]