The Cal Poly Drag Club recently hosted its first-ever Drag 101 workshop, offering students a hands-on introduction to the art of drag. Attendees learned how to block their brows, experimented with makeup, and explored different outfits and wigs. Reporter Lauren Quijano spoke with attendees and teachers about the workshop.
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Pokémon, Power Moves, and Prizes: SLO Breakers host jam battle
The SLO Breakers hosted a Pokémon-themed jam session to celebrate the breaking community. Reporter Lauren Quijano spoke with the SLO Breakers’ presidents to learn how the event was put on.
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Cal Poly Multicultural Center celebrates its 27th Culture Fest
Cal Poly’s Multicultural Center hosted its annual Culture Fest on Saturday, Oct. 26. The festival invites multicultural clubs and organizations to booth in the University Union to connect with students, often with food and music. Mustang News reporter Kat Orozco speaks with dance coordinators to learn how each dance team prepared for the event.
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Cal Poly Winery faces unique harvest season
After wine grapes were named the highest-value crop in San Luis Obispo in 2023, this year the Cal Poly Winery faces a lower-yielding harvest, except for a new grape varietal to Cal Poly. Reporter Izzy Romero visits the Wine and Viticulture department to learn more about their unique harvest.
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The 2024 SLO Pickle Festival
Pickle lovers gathered at the inaugural San Luis Obispo Pickle Festival on Oct. 5, 2024. Mustang News Reporter Jessica Carp takes us through the festivities.
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Taming Cal Poly’s turkeys
Turkeys are both loved and feared at Cal Poly. Reporter Jessica Carp introduces us to Benjamin Broudy, the student who’s taken on the challenge of training these notorious campus birds, while others share their run-ins with the wild flock.
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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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How Cal Poly Handles 200,000 Packages a Year
Ever wondered how your packages reach you at Cal Poly? Join reporter Jessica Carp for an exclusive look at Cal Poly’s award-winning mail delivery process.
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Photo: Design Village returns to Architecture Graveyard
Design Village is an annual event in which competitors flood Cal Poly’s Architecture Graveyard to construct temporary structures to camp in for the weekend. This year’s event, with the theme of “Modular,” took place from April 26-27. In the only group of seven in their studio, architecture freshmen Sophia Gonzalez and Serena Cree said they chose […]
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Student filmmakers debut on the big screen: Here’s what to expect
Nine years ago, when Filmmaker Randi Barros was a new professor at Cal Poly, she was approached by the former Director of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, Wendy Eidson.
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Cal Poly’s 82nd Annual Poly Royal Rodeo Wrangles Student Excitement
Student night on Wednesday, April 10th, kicked off the 82nd annual Poly Royal Rodeo Weekend. Cal Poly and Cuesta students flooded into Cotton Rosser Rodeo Complex to watch Rodeo team members showcase some of the events they will be competing in that weekend. Mustang News reporter Natalie Levesque tells us the work it took for […]