Holly Burke Students and faculty from Cal Poly’s landscape architecture and city and regional planning departments returned Monday from Copan, Honduras, where they worked to conserve and protect the Mayan ruins and its surrounding environment. The project, funded by the World Bank, is in collaboration with students from Honduras’ Centro De Diseno, Arquitectura y Construccion […]
Students conserve, protect Mayan ruins in Honduras
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Haikus from the Desk of an Engineer
Caitlin Donnell Midterms are starting It is time to study hard Instead we party. Soon the clock hits twelve Then I’m off to my next class Anything but this. This teacher is bad No one can understand her Ugh engineering. I’m an engineer There are girls all around me Thank God for GE’s. – Brandon […]
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'It's Better Live!' and it's cheap too
Brennan Angel For students looking for a classy night out on a budget, the San Luis Obispo Symphony’s “It’s Better Live! 2 for $25” ticket offer provides an affordable opportunity to attend the group’s performances. The specially-priced tickets encourage students and community members to experience something new and attend one of the Symphony’s four remaining […]
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Smart eating on campus
Jessica Dean and Robin Rodriguez So you’ve made it to Cal Poly and you’re living in the dorms away from friends, family and, most importantly, Mom’s home cooking. While it may seem like it’s your time to go all out and eat what you want, think again. All those late night trips to Taco Bell […]
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Disappointing finish for men's cross country at Pre-Nationals
Garrett Leight The Cal Poly men’s cross country team placed 11th at the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind. over the weekend, but fell short of the team’s expectations. The team entered the race ranked 10th in the nation in the Mondo Cross Country Poll, and placed 11th behind nine ranked teams and one unranked. […]
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Homegrown runner leads women's cross country
michael mullady As a San Luis Obispo native, cross country runner Rachel Valliere didn’t think she would stay local for college, much less race after high school. Now a junior (but a sophomore eligibility-wise after redshirting last year), Valliere has become the leader of the women’s cross country team. She was the highest placed Mustang […]
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Fabulous furniture
michael mullady Cal Poly students took home honors last Friday at the Vellum/College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) second annual design exhibition. The exhibition encouraged CAED students and faculty members to craft original furniture designs to be judged by a panel of experts on function, individuality, beauty and production characteristics. Architecture major Nitsan Yomtov […]
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Poly professor co-edits book
George J. Peterson, a professor in the College of Education, recently co-authored and co-edited a book providing a wide spectrum of research in the education field, not only based on his expertise, but the expertise of seven other hand-picked scholars. Petersen and fellow scholar Lance Fusarelli, associate professor at North Carolina State University, came up […]
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Advising Awareness Week is coming
michael mullady For any Cal Poly student looking to graduate on time, pay attention. The Advising Awareness Week, Oct. 24 to 28, will include a campus-wide fair for all students to talk to their advisors and visit the Career Center and the Office of Academic Records in an attempt to help students graduate on time. […]
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Climate Challenge raises environmental awareness
tom sanders The California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) sponsored the second annual Energy Action’s Campus Climate Challenge on Dexter Lawn Wednesday. The event, held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., asked the question, “Is the environment getting in the way of our lifestyle or is our lifestyle getting in the way of the environment?” More […]
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Students raise funds for education in Kenya
Tonya Strickland Broadening life perspective, supporting education and encouraging travel abroad are some of the ideals that back the Cal Poly chapter of Student World Assembly (SWA). The organization is pulling in funds to send directly to Kenyan schools via travelers who will document their excursion on video to show in fall 2006. “It will […]