Most Cal Poly students navigate the bustling concrete campus, weaving through crowds and clanging bells to get to class. Environmental management and protection senior Moe Lee’s schedule looks a bit different. Their usual route is along a lengthy gravel path, past endless rows of fruit trees. After walking through a fence, Lee arrives at their […]
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Cal Poly student celebrates third wedding anniversary with her late best friend
Lainey Cauffman has worn a thin, silver ring on her right ring finger every day since she was 17, when she became a wife and a widow. At that age, Cauffman experienced loss like never before, one that would follow her for the rest of her life. As their junior year of high school came […]
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Unjudging Someone: The Human Library at Cuesta College
It was 1949, and behind the closed doors of a small hospital room in San Luis Obispo (SLO), a doctor held up a newborn baby. This child was born with a condition called Klinefelter syndrome, which causes a person to have ambiguous genitalia. She was born with two X chromosomes and an X and a Y chromosome.
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Cal Poly leopard tortoise colony looks to build new home
At the top of Cal Poly’s campus at the poultry center lives a colony of leopard tortoises. These seventeen tortoises are taken care of and studied by students in ASCI 290, the reptile husbandry enterprise class. Offered every quarter – including over the summer – the class typically consists of fifteen students, each with three […]
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‘We’re graduating together’: Cal Poly student celebrates with kids by her side
When Ruby Ramirez found out she was pregnant at 17, she didn’t know what to do. The thought of figuring out how to be an adult and a mother all at once was terrifying. Ramirez decided to keep the baby and continue with school, pushing herself to build a better future for her family. Now, […]
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Reaching New Heights: Cal Poly Student Becomes Youngest to Conquer Washington’s 100 Peaks
Along the Bonanza Dark Traverse route, Andrew Okerlund hung in the air with nothing below. A rope was tied between him and a crack in the wall of rocks. Suddenly, he heard his climbing partner, Kevin Hsu, yell. His eyes widened as he saw his partner quickly slipping from the snow and falling backward. Fortunately, […]
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Empowering Latinx Voices: Inside Cal Poly’s Spanish-Speaking Debate Program
Alejandro Valentin comes from a family of migrant workers. He himself has spent some time under the beating sun, working the fields. Valentin grew up in Salinas to descendents of the Bracero program, a now-extinct migrant farm worker program that facilitated the migration of Mexican farm laborers into the United States from 1942 to 1964. […]
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Cal Poly senior launches podcast, ‘Learn & Listen: A Latine Podcast Mini Series’
For communication studies senior Liliana Rivas, she was unsure of what a senior project entailed, but knew she wanted to center it around Latine culture and the experiences of Latine people.
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Alternative to Violence Program paves new paths and fosters connection among inmates
AVP is a worldwide phenomenon, but has a strong network though the prison system in California. According to their website, “Through an international network of local chapters, AVP facilitators — all trained volunteers — offer workshops in prisons as well as in the community for all who would like to reduce the level of unresolved conflict in their lives and the lives of those around them.”
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Including the excluded: Inside Cal Poly’s Gender Inclusive Gaming
Fitting in and feeling comfortable has never been easy. Struggling to find an identity, surrounded by people who just do not understand, always feeling like the odd one out – it’s a challenge to find a place of true belonging.
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A guide to post-graduation pathways
Students about to graduate are often asked the inevitable question, “What are your plans for life after graduation?” With endless options post-college options for graduate programs, job opportunities, dreams of traveling abroad, volunteering, internships, research projects and the choice of a possible gap year or more, students can be overwhelmed and lost when it comes […]