Craig Waltz’s passion for designing skate parks is unstoppable — his professors told him it was unrealistic because the skate park business was difficult to get into, but he continued to design them. Today, he’s a project manager at Wormhoudt Inc., a firm specializing in designing skate parks, and he’s wrapping up the construction documents […]
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Udderly broke: Cal Poly dairy deals with unstable economy.
Cal Poly’s Dairy Science Department has begun to put more emphasis on the postproduction of dairy because of the current economic hardships facing the dairy industry. Dairy prices are unstable, and the price of feed has increased, according to Cal Poly faculty and industry experts. Dairy science professor Stanley Henderson said he watched the decline […]
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Pride Center looking for more elbow room
For the first time since SESLOC Federal Credit Union moved out last year, there will be a vacant room in the University Union (UU). UU Advisory Board (UUAB) vice chair Solomon Reda said Poly Escapes will relocate to the new Recreation Center, so the current room will be empty by winter quarter. The Cal Poly […]
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Back in bees-ness
Cal Poly would be a different place without honeybees: no more blueberries, raspberries, avocadoes or almonds, horticulture and crop science lecturer and instructor of beekeeping Scott Jeffreys said. This is a fate Cal Poly just recently avoided — narrowly. “We had over 200 hives in 2005 to 2006,” Jeffreys said. “We then lost all but […]
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Class sizes increase, writing practice decrease
English department budget cuts have led to a 400 percent increase in class size, and an almost 100 percent decrease in writing in some courses. Some English course sections have increased from 30 to 120 students, which makes formal writing assignments impossible, department chair Kathryn Rummell said. It changes the curriculum to a point where […]
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Transfer credits ≠ Poly math classes
A new state law will make it easier for community college students to get into Cal Poly, but it could also weaken Cal Poly’s mathematics degrees. The five math classes in an associate’s degree would count for the same as eight math classes in the first two years at Cal Poly. This doesn’t match up, […]
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Lost in translation: tech age limits learning languages
Smartphones are making language translators more accessible to everyone, but one Cal Poly professor says he doesn’t expect students to stop studying modern languages and literatures any time soon. Despite the rise in popularity of translation applications, such as Ortsbo and Vocre, Cal Poly Spanish associate professor Fernando Sanchez said learning a second language is […]
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Civil engineers still in demand
Despite the current economic downturn, the demand for Cal Poly civil engineers still looks good, according to department chair of civil and environmental engineering Rakesh Goel. He said President Barack Obama’s infrastructure plan to create more jobs for civil engineers could be one reason why. “There is a pretty even demand for civil engineers,” Goel […]
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A run to remember
Christina Kaviani and Katie Purdom are working to get people thinking about sexual assault and relationship violence. To accomplish this, they will commemorate victims and work to help end sexual assault with the ninth annual Run to Remember on Wednesday. Run to Remember is a 5k fundraiser for Sexual Assault Free Environment Resource (SAFER) and […]
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Putting the 'Al' in 'alumnus': Weird Al at the PAC
Grammy Award-winning legend “Weird Al” Yankovic, the biggest selling comedy recording artist of all time, will return to his alma mater, Cal Poly, for his Alpocalypse Tour on Nov. 2 in the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center. Yankovic graduated from Cal Poly in 1980 with a B.S. in architecture, but found that architecture wasn’t in his […]
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Smart Meters Video
Check out this video about the controversial new smart meters that are appearing on an increasing number of San Luis Obispo County homes.