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App to Assist Customers with Disabilities Wins 24-Hour Hackathon

The idea for Mobell, an application meant to service customers with disabilities, won the Poly Hacks 24-hour hackathon on Friday, Jan. 18. The event took place at the Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, also known as the HotHouse. The minds behind the winning pitch are graphic communication senior Katy Barnard, graphic communication juniors Linnea […]

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Rain and winds hammer San Luis Obispo

Winter returned to California as a powerful storm slammed into the state, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. Cal Poly’s weather station recorded nearly two inches of rain since Wednesday, Jan. 31. High winds overnight were recorded at 15 mph with gusts reaching 20 mph.  A larger portion of an eucalyptus tree fell onto a […]

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Cal Poly and other colleges keep losing students — only Cal Poly doesn’t know why

Schools lose students every year. “Financial stress,” “personal reasons” and “academic matters” are a few reasons students cite. Normally there’s a trend – the spike in dropouts acting as a sort of bittersweet red flag that allows institutions to diagnose one of their problems and fix it. Cal Poly is like a lot of those schools, […]

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