Community members marched, performed, lit candles and supported survivors of sexual assault and gender-based violence at this year’s Take Back the Night gathering on Thursday, April 25 on Mission Plaza. An international event with history as far back as the 1970s, Take Back The Night’s message is to raise awareness about sexual, domestic and gender-based […]
Students and community members gather for survivors at Take Back the Night
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On-campus parking is going permitless
Beginning Fall 2019, Cal Poly will implement permitless parking through technology that scans license plates to determine if a permit was purchased. The new License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology was approved by campus Information Technology Service March 6, and is slated to be tested during Summer 2019 so it can be implemented in the […]
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Women’s Golf’s Elizabeth Scholtes wins Big West Freshman of the Year award
One of Cal Poly Women’s Golf’s top performers, Elizabeth Scholtes, won the Big West Freshman of the Year Award after an impressive collegiate debut season. “It’s motivating me to do better next year,” Scholtes said. “I feel like I had a really good start to my college career and hope that it only goes up […]
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Skipping classes and spending hundreds: How music festival season affects students
The sun is out, and music festival season is upon us. But just what kind of toll does attending a three-day concert take on students’ academics, as well as their bank account? And what are professors being told by students who miss class?
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LIVE Mustang Gameday: Cal Poly vs University of Southern California
Mustang Gameday anchors Sydney Brandt and Sydney Finkel have all the pregame coverage for Cal Poly baseball’s non-conference game versus USC.
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Cal Poly National Society of Black Engineers wins best chapter award
Last month, the Cal Poly National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) chapter took home the regional award for chapter of the year at the 45th Annual NSBE Convention in Detroit. The best chapter award win was the club’s first since 1987. Cal Poly’s NSBE chapter aims to “increase the number of culturally responsible Black engineers […]
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Here’s what’s happening in SLO this weekend
Thursday, April 25th Cal Poly Earth Week Festival 2019 More than 30 clubs and organizations will gather for a festival celebrating the preservation and wellbeing of Earth. Dexter Lawn 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Safer’s Take Back the Night Created to support victims of sexual violence, the annual Take Back the Night event includes an […]
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UCSB defeats Cal Poly in first “Dye is Life” beer die tournament
The blue green rivalry moved beyond traditional athletics last weekend as Cal Poly and UCSB went head to head in an intense beer die tournament April 21 in Goleta, Calif. Cal Poly fell to UCSB with one win and 11 losses at the inaugural competition between the two schools on the Gauchos’s home turf. The […]
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Cal Poly donor charged after killing freshman Jordan Grant while crossing Highway 101 at El Campo
A driver who allegedly made an unsafe left turn causing a crash that killed Cal Poly computer science freshman Jordan Grant has been criminally charged. Driver Richard Giuli was charged with a single count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence. If convicted, Giuli faces a fine of $1,000 and a maximum of six months […]
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ASI President Jasmin Fashami sworn in as a U.S. citizen
Jasmin Fashami is Cal Poly’s Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) President; as of Tuesday, she is also a United States citizen. On Tuesday, April 23, Fashami was at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown LA with almost 4,000 others getting sworn in as American citizens. “It was such an empowering moment, because you can see […]
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ASI Student Government voter turnout reaches historic low at 14 percent
Voter turnout in Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Student Government elections has been increasing over the past 10 years, but took a sharp turn this year with only 14.7 percent of Cal Poly students voting, according to an ASI press release.