San Luis Obispo’s annual EarthFest celebration featured live music, educational booths, and activities promoting climate solutions, with the SLO Climate Coalition encouraging community members to take action for climate initiatives.
Author Archives: Sam Fickett
Sam Fickett is the ASI beat reporter and general assignment reporter with Mustang News. She is also a third-year Journalism student with a Global Politics minor at Cal Poly. She strives to produce trustworthy political journalism that unites audiences across the world. She is from the Los Angeles area and focuses her writing on politics, campus life, the environment, and more. In her free time, Sam enjoys exploring the Central Coast, reading, and watching Studio Ghibli movies.
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GUIDE: Here are this year’s candidates for ASI Board of Directors
Cal Poly students are voting for their Board of Directors and ASI President, with candidates focusing on increasing diversity, transparency, mental health and access to resources.
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Names of students reveal underlying enrollment trends around gender and race
Cal Poly has a near-even gender split, but individual colleges have stark gendered divides, with women making up the majority of two-thirds of College of Liberal Arts and men accounting for nearly two-thirds of enrollees in the College of Engineering.
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Get to know the two students running for ASI president
Tanner Schinderle and Caleb Shick are the two candidates running for ASI President, with Schinderle focusing on affordability, resources, community and advocacy, while Shick focuses on club freedom, cutting student costs, creating a student platform and increasing campus unity.
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SLO spends more than $100K on St. Fratty’s police enforcement, exceeding last year
The City of San Luis Obispo spent nearly $136,000 on police enforcement for St. Fratty’s festivities, an increase from last year, but there were less arrests and citations over the event.
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Abnormally high temperatures to hit San Luis Obispo this week
A heat wave advisory has been issued for San Luis Obispo and parts of Santa Barbara County, with temperatures expected to reach 85-95 degrees Fahrenheit, 20-30 degrees higher than typical for this time of year.
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‘Taste of the World’ brings international flavors to Baker lawn
Baker lawn transformed into a global epicenter for food last Wednesday during the International Center’s 10th annual Taste of the World event last. The event was sponsored by Semester at Sea, Cal Poly Student Affairs and Latin American Studies. The event was a collaborative effort featuring approximately 2,800 servings of international cuisine, served at five […]
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One Hour of Red: Cal Poly’s Astronomical Society hosts a lunar eclipse viewing event at 2:30 a.m.
Cal Poly students observed the total lunar eclipse, commonly known as a “blood moon,” on Baker Lawn, using telescopes provided by the Astronomical Society, and some were able to receive class credit for the experience.
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Learn By Adapting: recent federal funding cuts reshape student research work
Cal Poly history lecturer Cameron Jones waited nearly six months to receive the $150,000 federally-funded research grant awarded to his team’s project, AfricanCalifornios.org, when a two-sentence email hit his inbox and changed everything. Federal officials stated in the email that the grant was “administratively withdrawn,” canceling the grant and preventing Jones from filing a complaint. […]
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San Luis Obispo urges residents to coexist with mountain lions after recent sightings
Several mountain lions were sighted near Laguna Lake and in the Irish Hills Open Space, according to the City of San Luis Obispo. City Biologist Freddy Otte reminded residents that San Luis Obispo is mountain lion country and that the hills are their natural habitat, according to the press release. What should you do if […]
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ASI and Campus Health & Wellbeing launch grocery shuttles
Cal Poly’s ASI and Campus Health & Wellbeing have launched a free grocery shuttle service to transport students between campus and local grocery stores, running every Friday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.