The driver of an allegedly stolen Chevy Blazer crashed on campus early Thursday morning, prompting students to attempt to detain him until police arrived on the scene. No one on the scene was injured. At approximately 2:45 a.m., Jose Contreras of Paso Robles, who police say was intoxicated and driving without a license, sped down […]
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Computer science aiming for more female students
Computers are everywhere: on our desks, next to our beds, in our TVs and in our pockets. In a business that infiltrates almost every aspect of our lives, it is hard to believe nearly half the population is not represented, simply because of gender. This is the case, though, in the computing industry, where men […]
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High customers, higher sales
San Luis Obispo businesses may have found the holy grail of consumer markets: “stoners.” Marijuana-users have long used “420” as a code for cannabis and celebrate the date as a high holiday every April 20. This year when the “holiday” came around, many San Luis Obispo businesses geared up to capitalize on the buzz. “I’d […]
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Cal Poly contributes to computer research
A Cal Poly research team is working on one of the final steps to build the world’s first large-scale quantum computer. If the results turn out as expected, physics assistant professor Katharina Gillen’s research could be the missing key. “It would just be awesome if somehow I could provide one piece of the puzzle,” Gillen […]
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LED LunaLight brightens Kenyan lifestyles
Five Cal Poly engineering students are finding a way to bring light to rural Kenya, turning hours of darkness into hours of opportunity. Families in Kenya currently use kerosene lanterns as their source of light. The engineering senior project used this information to create an LED, solar-powered LunaLight that is a less expensive and safe […]
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Kennedy Library app-ears on smartphones
Robert E. Kennedy Library’s hours, contact information, staff chat, catalogs, search engines and computer availability maps are just a finger tap away. The library ‘s”Kennedy Library” mobile website was added to the Cal Poly app more than a month ago and has been available since Summer 2011, although many students don’t know about it. Analyst […]
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Library braces for finals week
The word “busy” can be found in the dictionaries at the Robert E. Kennedy Library. Or, students can always just look around to see the word in action because winter quarter finals are coming, and the library staff is preparing for the rush. University librarian Anna Gold has seen the action firsthand. “During dead week […]
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VITA cuts tax season confusion
Bryan Yatsui has never had enough income to file taxes himself, yet he fills out four to five tax returns a week. Yatsui, a business administration senior with an accounting concentration, works at Cal Poly’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. VITA offers free tax help for people whose gross annual income is $49,000 or […]
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LGBT making allies
The Pride Center is working to break down stereotypes that are keeping the queer and greek communities apart, said psychology senior and Pride Center AmeriCorps VIP staff member Brittni Kiick. The Pride Center hosts Ally Training to help bridge the gap and educate Cal Poly’s campus about the queer community, Kiick said. Having more fraternities […]
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Freshmen demonstrate principles of sustainability
It’s a sunny day when materials engineering freshmen demonstrate their first sustainability project: a solar powered water heater. The water heater demonstrates how sustainability is integrated into the materials engineering curriculum at Cal Poly, materials engineering professor Linda Vanasupa said. “It’s like we’re addicted as a global society to a toxic substance, and that toxic substance […]