Hungry families, tourists and locals visited Cal Poly’s Chick-fil-A on Wednesday to eat the restaurant’s signature chicken sandwiches and express their support of Chick-fil-A president and chief operating officer (COO) Dan Cathy’s public stance against gay marriage. “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” was announced last week by former Arkansas gov. Mike Huckabee after Cathy’s opinion on gay marriage was made public in […]
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Fairgoers take a Journey through rock history
Few generations have rocked as hard as people rocked in the ’80s. It was a decade of smoke machines, guitar solos that never ended and voices that seemed bigger than the very bodies they came out of, or so I’ve gathered from VH1 specials. And Tuesday night at the Midstate Fair, those same rockstars came […]
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Where there’s smoke…
A fire that at one point spanned more than 750 acres in size is currently burning east of Santa Margarita, according to CalFire’s Public Information Officer Tina Rose. The fire began last Monday around 11:30 a.m., Rose said, and quickly spread from 300 acres to more than 750 acres by the mid-afternoon. CalFire and the […]
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New regulations to curb raucous behavior downtown
New bars and restaurants in downtown San Luis Obispo will face additional regulations, following the San Luis Obispo City Council approval of new use permits in June. The use permits will require that, among other things, new establishments serving alcohol have a manager on site after 11 p.m., provide extra training to staff serving alcohol […]
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The new dean's list
Two new faces are set to join Cal Poly’s deans this fall: Christine Theodoropoulos and Douglas Epperson will replace College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) dean Tom Jones and College of Liberal Arts (CLA) dean Linda Halisky, respectively. Both Theodoropoulos and Epperson were selected after year-long searches following Jones and Halisky‘s announced retirements last year. Both candidates were selected […]
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Graduate gets sheepish with ice cream business
What’s better on a hot summer day than a cold bowl of ice cream … made of sheep’s milk? The College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) Center for Sustainability (CFS) celebrated sheep’s milk ice cream last weekend at the Seventh Annual Taste of the Future Fundraiser when they honored Cal Poly alumna Alexis Negranti […]
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New College of Liberal Arts dean selected
Cal Poly’s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has found a new dean in Douglas Epperson, the current dean at Washington State University. Epperson was selected after a yearlong search to replace Linda Halisky, who is retiring from her position after eight years to return to teaching. According to Halisky, Epperson was chosen in part because […]
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Grads take downtown in the a.m.
People fill the streets as the sun is rising. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters are all there to celebrate. It’s graduation day, and the traditional 6 a.m. celebratory bar crawl is underway. For two days, families will line up as early as 5:30 a.m. to be the first inside when bars and pubs downtown […]
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Disability Resource Center struggling with budget cuts
A 20 percent funding cut to Cal Poly’s Disability Resource Center (DRC) is forcing the center to conserve resources this summer. The DRC, which provides note-taking, counseling, transportation and other services for students with disabilities or illnesses, is facing a cumulative cut to its funding of approximately 35 percent over the past four years, DRC […]
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Two national sororities to join Poly
Greek life’s Panhellenic (PHA) will have two new additions next year, in the form of sororities Kappa Kappa Gamma and Alpha Epsilon Phi. Kappa Kappa Gamma was invited to start a chapter at Cal Poly after PHA decided greek life needed another sorority due to high interest, while local Jewish-interest sorority Alpha Epsilon is joining the […]
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Student arrested after chase
The Avenue turned into the setting for a police drama Wednesday, as a student ran through the campus dining facility with a police officer on his heels. Police originally stopped the student for skateboarding on campus, University Police Department (UPD) Chief Bill Watton said. The student allegedly gave the officer false information, and when the […]