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It’s no secret that few women study engineering at Cal Poly. The most recent statistics released by the school showed that women make up only 15 percent of engineering majors.
The National Science Foundation’s Advance program recently awarded four Cal Poly professors nearly $200,000 to study the experiences of female faculty in fields including engineering.
First, I’d like to say that I most certainly agree with you, Ms. Newman, that drinking and debating politics should never be mixed. I’d also like to add that publishing an article about your drunken political conversation should be a big college “no no” as well.
As we make painfully slow progress towards a final outcome in the American presidential elections, let us pose some rhetorical questions for intellectual reflection. Does our unique American electoral process have to be the way it is now? Should we consider reform of our electoral protocols to devise a more streamlined process with a much shorter time cycle and reduced campaign expenditure? Would the streamlined process used by most democratic nations around the world work well for us too? Our current system does eventually elect a president but does it really secure the best leader ? Other leaders from around the world very effectively make their pick with a much shorter electioneering period.
University is the place where most of us first taste true freedom. Freedom from curfew, from supervision (mostly), from decent home-cooked meals, from you name it. Yet, in the midst of all this novel independence there are typically two chains of dependence that stubbornly remain unbroken.
Everyone needs one. For those playing the game, it would actually increase the possibility of scoring. I’m not talking about an amazing jump shot, a gorgeous golf swing, or a 50 million foot vertical. What I’m referring to is something I would like to call a Handy Dandy Score Kit.
Cal Poly’s student chapter of the Wheelchair Foundation hopes to raise at least $90,000 at a movie night fundraiser tonight at the Fremont Theatre. The foundation, which will be selling $5 tickets to a showing of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” will generate money to help send wheelchairs and provide cataract surgeries for needy residents of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Without a doubt, Jonathan Dally has one of the strangest “personal” entries of any player biography in the 2008 Cal Poly football media guide.
Most list activities like surfing, watching movies or playing video games among off-field pursuits.
Then there’s Dally’s.
It’s time for another night of free games, food and live music at the Cal Poly Recreation Center.
The fourth annual Associated Students Inc.- sponsored event, Dusk ’til Dawn is taking place Thursday from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.
“It’s grown into kind of a phenomenon of excitement for students,” ASI Programs Coordinator Michelle Curro said of the event.
What do Google, Starbucks and Nike all have in common? For starters, the founders had an idea with enough potential to draw money from investors that, in turn, allowed them to obtain unlimited success as well as a global popularity.
The Orfalea College of Business and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) is holding its annual Ray Scherr Business Plan Competition, a three-stage contest that seeks to help provide funding and networking for campus-affiliated entrepreneurs and their business ideas.
Taxpayers aren’t responsible for your health and happiness
Dustin Stone, did you read what the definition of a right is in the article you cited? The right to life means that nobody can take someone’s life away! That in no way means that the government (read: taxpayers) are responsible for paying for the health care of others.
Throughout history, consumer movements have been central to revolutions. The French Revolution was brought to a boiling point over the demand for bread. On Feb. 1, 1960, four African American students made history by sitting at a segregated lunch counter at a North Carolina Woolworth’s store in the seats reserved for white customers.
