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Tucked away behind local businesses, San Luais Obispo has its own secret garden which few know about. This hidden hideaway is the organic herb shop owned by Cal Poly graduate Kirstin Sherritt.
Located down a small alley off Garden Street, The Secret Garden is an outdoor shop that sells organic herbs, spices, specialty teas and is home to several local plant varieties.
‘”Hooking-up” is the most confusing word to ever grace Cal Poly’s campus. To most people it means kissing, to others it means a little more than that and to some it means sex. To confuse matters more, hooking-up can also be some sort of dating term, like a precursor to an official boyfriend-girlfriend title.
She smiles and people catch the wonderful disease and smile back. She laughs and the whole world lights up. Whether or not she’s aware of her positive impact on people, Cal Poly agricultural business senior and recording artist Hayley Maynard is loving life.
Led by a career-high 29 points from sophomore forward Kristina Santiago, the Cal Poly women’s basketball team defeated Cal State Bakersfield 76-67 at the Icardo Center.
The Mustangs (12-7) were without the services of junior guard Tamara Wells who was out with a groin injury.
She has played for the Republic of Ireland National basketball team since age 13, captained the national team at the U-16, U-18 and U-20 levels and received Basketball Ireland’s National Under-20 Player of the Year award two seasons in a row (2004-2005 and 2005-2006).
A new Global Positioning System (GPS) self-touring device called the GPS Ranger has been introduced by the Cal Poly admissions department as a supplement to the Poly Reps tours. Cal Poly is the first college or university in the nation to use GPS Ranger technology to provide campus tours to the public.
Students have the opportunity to meet with representatives from over a hundred companies today and tomorrow at the Winter 2009 Job Fair.
The two-day event, which seeks to connect job-seeking students with prospective employers, will be held in the Chumash Auditorium.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics announced an increase in the national unemployment rate from 6.8 percent in November to 7.2 percent in December.
CNN reported that more than 11,500 jobs were cut on Jan. 27 alone adding to the nearly quarter-million jobs cut so far in 2009.
An accurate understanding of the Bill of Rights has been severely lacking lately. The sheer number of people affected by this deprivation is tragic enough, but it is especially adverse when higher members of the political class are among the most ignorant of this document’s most elementary concepts.
President Barack Obama has been criticized by the press for not being strong enough, demanding enough, or even mean enough. These critics continue to find certain flaws, searching for anything and everything to prove that he can’t be perfect. Is it all too good to be true that we finally found a man with such brilliance, sincerity, determination and impeccable manners?
Some may think he is too na’ve, over confident or perhaps complacent.
Cal Poly and the Central Coast will see its first-ever Science Café in the Robert E. Kennedy Library this Wednesday afternoon.
Several of these discussion cafés have already sprung up in coffee houses, bars and other libraries around the Bay Area, Los Angeles and the rest of the country, but none in the Central Coast until now.
