Cal Poly and the rest of the CSU system has decided to postpone payment of spring term fees for all students facing delayed grants from the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC).
Since California lawmakers are currently unable to agree on a budget, the CSU system is not receiving the necessary cash flow to cover all students receiving Cal Grants A and B.
After suffering from an eating disorder at the end of her freshman year of college, Cal Poly communications junior Jamie Engelhardt decided to to start a club to help prevent others from going through the same thing.
Engelhardt took a year off so she could fully recover from anorexia nervosa and since returning to school has been in the process of forming the Coalition for Health, Wellness and Body Appreciation club.
In response to letter to the editor, “Hope is Not an Empty Message”:
“Hope” is entirely empty rhetoric if the reason for hope is not substantiated.
Should we have hope that our future financial situation will be better than it is today? Sure we should, because we’ve seen it better in the past.
Economists predict that the current recession will continue through at least July 2009 (with recovery effects lasting the rest of the year or longer), making it the longest period of economic downturn since the Great Depression. The economic crisis will not only transform finance and business, but the way we think and behave.
“Debunking the Myth: N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk, The Race Show,” will present hip-hop, slam poetry and real life stories tonight as part of a show designed to reduce racial tension. The event will take place tonight at 8 in Chumash Auditorium.
The show’s performers and co-writers Miles Gregley, Rafael Agustin and Allan Axibal use comedy and entertainment to tell stories from their personal ethnically diverse backgrounds with the hope of deconstructing the racial stereotypes in America.
Poet and editor of nationally known Solo Café magazine, Glenna Luschei was the featured reader last Friday night at the first annual Winter Celebration Reading. The evening was a showcase of local poets reading works from Luschei’s publication as well as poems by the Plein Air Poets of San Luis Obispo.
Women’s basketball Cal Poly 64, UC Davis 60 Spurred on by senior guard Lisa McBride’s season-high 20 points and a defense that held the Aggies to just two field goals in the final 11 minutes, Cal Poly (11-7, 4-3 Big West Conference) defeated UC Davis on Saturday night in Mott Gym.
California’s deteriorating economy and budget crisis continues to affect Cal Poly faculty and students as administrators wait to receive the Chancellor’s Office evaluation of the 2009-10 operating budget.
Next year, Cal Poly expects a budget cut of at least $500,000 if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal is approved by the legislature.
When Jessica Gregory began pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering in 2004, freshmen women only accounted for 11.8 percent of the entering class. She was often the only woman in her major courses. However, due to several programs focusing on increasing female enrollment in engineering, Gregory’s experience may no longer be the norm.
In regard to Ian Nachreiner’s column on January 22: You speak from the most uneducated platform, and I don’t mean as an agriculture major, but as a close-minded individual who cannot swallow his pride to hope for a better tomorrow.
“I am referring to latching on to an empty message of hope” you state in regard to Obama and his presidency.
I don’t have one particular religion. I can’t say I’m Christian, Jewish, Buddhist or Muslim. You could say I have experimented with the idea of belief; I’ve tried several delicacies from the smorgasbord of religions. But I guess if I had a gun to my head, I would have to worship the retail god of materialism.
