In the wake of California’s deepening financial crisis and the $300 million cut from the CSU budget last year alone, Cal Poly administrators and deans of the university’s various colleges are proposing another increase in student fees beginning in spring of 2009.
Poly considers raising student fees
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The shoes heard around the world
People used to duel to resolve their grievances. One man would hit the other with a glove, rules were set and everything was carried out quite politely despite the savage nature of dueling.
Nowadays, it seems that people would rather throw a shoe at world leaders to get their points across – even if it doesn’t work.
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A double dose of the Mondays
You know the feeling: the weekend has come to a close and the alarm ringing on the bedside table is a constant reminder that maybe drinking on a Sunday night was not the best of ideas. You open your eyes and the thought of the impending day of classes is almost enough to make you want to pretend that all of this is just a horrible, very realistic dream.
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Cal Poly should ‘focus the nation’ all year
Will Cal Poly prepare you for California’s growing green collar economy in solar, wind, cleantech, nanotech and biotech? Cal Poly “graduates in several majors will be prepared for sustainability-focused careers,” according to the Draft Strategic Plan for 2009 through 2014.
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Photographic look at grain that feeds the world
Landscape photographer, book designer and part-time Cal Poly and Cuesta College fine art instructor Patty Arnold has found new respect for the little grain that feeds the world.
Integrating a mixture of agricultural, recreational, environmental, political and historical research, her “Season of Rice” documentary photo exhibit of eastern and western rice farming is on display at the San Luis Obispo Art Center.
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The hand job: is it going extinct?
Something happened in college. All of a sudden the classic baseball-sex analogy of rounding the bases no longer applied. What ever happened to the standard kissing, hand stimulation, oral and sex pattern we all were familiar with?
Well, in college, the game changed.
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Faith rewarded
The 3,245 fans who’ve filed into Mott Gym this season to take in 10 Cal Poly women’s basketball games have seen considerably more winning than the 17,594 who’ve watched the men. Through 20 games, the women are 13-7 — tied with perennial power UC Santa Barbara for the best overall record in the Big West […]
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Swimming teams defeat UCSC
Students and community members crowded the stands of the Sinsheimer Park swimming pool Saturday to cheer on the Cal Poly men’s and women’s swimming teams as they overwhelmingly defeated the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs 183-104 and 170-118.
Cal Poly freshmen Amy Morales, Lacey Buck and Kylie France won two races each on the women’s side contributing to the Mustangs lead.
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Women’s tennis | Cal Poly 7, Cal State Northridge 0
Cal Poly had a dominating performance at home against the Cal State Northridge on Saturday with a decisive 7-0 victory.
The Mustangs (2-0, 1-0 Big West Conference) won all six singles matches and two out of three doubles matches. At No. 1 singles, junior Suzie Matzenauer easily defeated Evgeniya Vertesheva 6-2, 6-0.
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Mustangs fall to Cal State Northridge
It’s back to the road for the Mustangs (5-13, 2-6 Big West Conference) after losing to Cal State Northridge (9-10, 6-3), in a lopsided 79-68 nationally televised game Saturday night.
The Mustangs came into Mott Gym with two consecutive away victories, but were put away by the Matadors led by Josh Jenkins’ 18 points.
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Drinking debate educates, stimulates student discussion
More than 100 students and community members assembled in Chumash Auditorium last Thursday to hear a debate that involved each and every one of them: The Drinking Age Debate. John McCardell and James Fell spoke about the pros and cons a lowered drinking age would have on society.