After months of ideating, sketching and stitching, Cal Poly student designers brought their visions to life in front of a packed audience on Sunday. The annual spring fashion show, hosted by Cal Poly’s Fashion, Innovation, Trendsetting, and Styling (FITS) Club in collaboration with the Sustainable Fashion Club, returned to campus, highlighting student creativity and design. […]
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Soundings: Where dance meets uncertainty and music paints in color
In a softly lit studio, ambient sounds wash over the room like a gentle tide. Eyes closed, minds open, students begin moving their pencils across paper, becoming dancers of their own, sketching not faces, but feelings. A self-portrait filled with abstract shapes, lines, and symbols that represent their essence. In professor Diana Stanton’s contemporary repertory […]
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Exhibición chicana “Memorias del futuro” en el Museo de Arte en San Luis Obispo
Con pinceladas tentativas e intenciones conmovedoras, la exhibición de “Memorias del futuro” por Esteban Cabeza de Baca demuestra las experiencias y desafíos históricos de la comunidad chicana. Con piezas culturales como “Golondrinas” hasta las de activismo como “La marcha a Sacramento,” Cabeza de Baca pinta una historia en cada una de sus piezas artísticas. Su […]
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50 Years of Design Village: Students face the elements with ‘Nexus’ theme
“What began in 1975 as a weekend experiment in structural ingenuity has evolved into a hallmark Learn-By-Doing tradition that challenges each new generation of students to conquer theory and application,” according to Cal Poly archival records. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this year’s Design Village theme was “Nexus,” meaning “a link or series of links connecting […]
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Toad leaps to Shabang’s Cuesta Ridge stage on Saturday
This is a cross-published piece with KCPR, more information can be found here. Toad, the ‘25 San Luis Obispo Battle of the Bands winner, is preparing to take the stage at the Shabang Music, Arts and Camping Festival on May 3. Before claiming victory at Free the Youth’s annual Battle of the Bands tour stop in […]
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Cal Poly Engineering students create device to aid visually impaired marching band
As a high school senior in Minnesota, Emma Merriman was flipping through a Cal Poly engineering magazine when an article about the club EMPOWER caught her eye. Since fall quarter, the mechanical engineering sophomore has led a small team of students in building a device that will help people who are visually impaired compete in […]
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Melody Gist steps into the spotlight as Cal Poly Rodeo Queen
Melody Gist, a biochemistry freshman at Cal Poly, was crowned Miss Cal Poly Rodeo 2025 and will serve as the program’s representative in and out of the arena until April 2026, while also competing in barrel racing and goat tying events.
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Fetching happiness: How more Cal Poly students are adopting and fostering pets
Here’s how Cal Poly students are finding comfort and responsibility by adopting or fostering pets to cope with stress and loneliness.
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Turning a dream into a barbershop
Christopher Rose and Santino Cattaneo are co-owners of SLO Barbers in downtown San Luis Obispo. They opened the barbershop to be a place for the community to come together and to create a safe space. The barbers have worked together for three years and decided to open their own shop last fall. After Rose and […]
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40 Prado’s kitchen doesn’t just serve daily meals, it changes lives
About a year ago, Tyson Wynne left Los Angeles’ Skid Row and boarded a train headed north with little more than his ticket. He said he had been living in the alleys of Hollywood, consumed by drugs and alcohol, with no support system to sustain him. He stumbled off at the last stop — San […]
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Conectando con las raíces culturales a través del Folklórico en Cal Poly
Read the English version here. El 23 de febrero, varios grupos de danza en Cal Poly participaron en Illuminate, una competencia de danza a nivel nacional. Muchos grupos, como el club de danza folklórica, aprovecharon esta oportunidad para traer cultura y tradición a la comunidad universitaria. En Cal Poly, la danza folklórica sirve como un […]