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Workshop prepares students for job fair

Students looking to brush up on their career skills need not wait for an appointment with their career adviser. The Cal Poly graduates behind the Web site WiHire.com are here to help.

WiHire.com, which helps students and recent college graduates acquire internships and jobs, is sponsoring a career workshop today to help students prepare for the fall job fair, taking place today and tomorrow.

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New clubs question religious influence on campus

Two new clubs on campus will offer students an alternative way to think about religion and spirituality with the Secular Society and the Cal Poly Brights coincidentally popping up at the same time.

“There needs to be a campus-wide discussion because there are so many religious groups,” said Nick Sagan, the Bright’s treasurer and computer engineering senior.

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Mayor, city council candidates debate

Students and staff had an opportunity to fill both their bellies and minds on Tuesday at the San Luis Obispo mayoral and city council debate, Associated Student Inc.’s first “Soup and Substance” event of the year.

With the election approaching, Student Life and Leadership and ASI teamed up to host this debate as part of Democracy Week.

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New law protects journalism advisers

High school advisers and college journalism programs no longer have to fear retaliation from administrators because of controversial student work.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill into law Sept. 28 that protects students and employees from being penalized for student speech.

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Letter to the editor: Vote!

Florida recount, Katherine Harris, “Bin Laden determined to attack within the U.S.,” “Bush Doctrine,” no WMD, the “last throes of the insurgency,” “Mission accomplished,” no post-invasion planning, George Tennet’s “slam dunk,” Rumsfeld’s five month war, their Medals of Freedom, corruption, Tom DeLay, fake journalist Jack Gannon, Jack Abramoff, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Ted Stevens, scandal, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, secretive government, Rove, Cheney, rendition, secret prisons, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Halliburton, Blackwater, KBR, signing statements, recess appointments, John Bolton, stove-piping information, “Kenny Boy” Lay, Enron, John Yoo and the “quaint” Geneva Accords,” legalizing torture, Harriet Myers’ and Rove’s refusal to testify, “executive privilege,” belief in a “unitary executive,” the “disappearance” of administration e-mails, Terri Schiavo, unsigned Kyoto accord, obstacles to stem-cell research, denial of global warming, systemic incompetence, Hurricane Katrina, “heckuva job” Brownie, telecom surveillance of citizens and immunity for spying, suspension of habeas corpus, political firing of U.

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Boycott downtown cover charges

From that first public urination ticket while stumbling through bubble gum alley to the 100th drunken attempt at picking up someone you had no chance with, downtown provides memories that run the gamut of human emotion.

The one constant thing that fuels the creation of those memories is money.

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