Six Cal Poly students will host the fourth annual Flavor of SLO, a food, wine and beer tasting event in downtown San Luis Obispo on Sunday. The event will raise funds for United Way of San Luis Obispo County, an organization which provides education, income and health support to community members. Communication studies seniors Lisa […]
Taste the town with Flavor of SLO
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SLO reaches for the Top Shelf
Top Shelf, a band that plays multiple genres with an emphasis in reggae and rock based out of Ukiah, will play at Concerts in the Plaza today. The band’s Cal Poly performance will be its first show of a month-long international tour. Normally when you hear someone say top shelf, they’re talking about the highest […]
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Celebrate superheroes with Free Comic Book Day
Independent comic book stores are opening their doors Saturday and letting the customers be the heroes by giving away free comics for the 11th annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) aimed to create more interest in comics. More than 3,500 U.S. and European comic shops, including local stores Captain Nemo Games and Dr. Cain’s Comics […]
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Faculty votes to strike
The California Faculty Association (CFA) announced voter approval of a potential strike Wednesday after 12 days of voting throughout the California State University (CSU) campuses. CFA President Lillian Taiz, a history professor at California State University, Los Angeles, said at a press conference Wednesday that 95 percent of members who voted approved of the strike, […]
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Political scandals are a zero-sum game
Last week, in a week which presented a multitude of so-called scandals within the Obama bureaucracy — one of which, perhaps, even meriting the designation of actual scandal — what must be the right’s first opportunity for a lucrative argument against the administration’s competence has already been soured by the idiotic rhetoric of the typical […]
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Cal Poly sends thousands to Wildflower
This year marks the 30th annual Wildflower Triathlon this weekend at Lake San Antonio, where more than 900 Cal Poly students will volunteer and support the Cal Poly Triathlon team. The Avia Wildflower triathlons consist of three races — the long course, mountain bike and olympic distance triathlons — and three days of festivities and […]
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Quiet down, San Luis Obispo
The City of San Luis Obispo has been a bit quieter than in years past, according to city law enforcement. This is due to two recent modifications of the city’s noise ordinance, approved two years ago by the San Luis Obispo City Council, which have helped reduce the number of noise complaints around the city, both […]
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Alumna wins Teacher of the Year
A Cal Poly graduate received one of the highest educational honors in the country last week when she was named the 62nd National Teacher of the Year. Rebecca Mieliwocki, who studied as an undergraduate in Cal Poly’s communication studies department in the late ’80s and early ’90s, before receiving her teaching credential from California State University, […]
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ASI Board of Directors meeting roundup
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Board of Directors met May 2 for its biweekly meeting in the University Union (UU), room 220. Topics discussed included: ASI upcoming events: Top Shelf performing at Concerts in the Plaza. Sprout performs next Thursday. Doug Benson Late Night with ASI on May 11 at 9 p.m. Jeffrey Armstrong, university president: Presented […]
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Chicano theater group to offer political satire
From rising gas prices to terrorism, Chicano theater group Indigenous Chaos will discuss controversial topics using comedic poetry, songs and skits in Philips Hall on Friday. The group — comprised of three generations of the same family — formed in 1999 after its members spent years working with El Teatro Campesino, the acclaimed theatrical segment […]
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Saving the sea one shirt at a time
It all began in sixth grade, when Caine Fair started a skimboarding competition to save the sea. That skimboarding competition lasted until he was a junior in high school and went on to raise $6,000 for the Surfrider Foundation, an organization dedicated to protecting oceans, the business administration junior said. Growing up in Laguna Beach, […]