Country music icon Dolly Parton died at age 80, prompting several San Luis Obispo businesses to honor her legacy through tributes and charitable acts.
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Cal Poly restores water access to multiple buildings after pipe repair
Multiple Cal Poly buildings lost running water Tuesday afternoon due to a broken pipe near the Student Services Center, with repairs completed and service restored by Wednesday evening.
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Cal Poly plans campus memorial honoring Kristin Smart
Cal Poly and the Smart family are creating Kristin’s Grove, a memorial on campus near Dexter Lawn, to honor the memory of Kristin Smart who disappeared in 1996.
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Cal Poly proposes hotel, senior living on campus lemon grove
Cal Poly administration proposed a new hotel conference center and housing project on nearly 40 acres of agricultural land, sparking significant backlash from students who argue the development compromises the university’s educational mission.
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Cal Poly housing expansion relies on $3.3 million in prison-made furniture
Every day Mike Seward would look up at Bishop Peak from the yard at the California Men’s Colony where he was incarcerated in 2012. “The first thing I wanted to do when I got out was hike it,” he said. Back inside the prison, Seward worked in the California Correctional Training and Rehabilitation Authority, or […]
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Cal Poly semester conversion erases programs, leaves students scrambling
Craig Arceneaux opened his inbox one morning to a message from his chair: The global politics minor he oversees would no longer exist under Cal Poly’s new semester catalog. “Sometime last quarter, our chair and assistant chair just had contacted me to let me know that that had happened,” Arceneaux said. “It took me by […]
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Christian faith runs deep among Cal Poly students. Some let it seep into their political beliefs
The stress was intolerable. As the thought of college, relationships and jobs surfaced all at once in his mind, Andrew Jones was overwhelmed behind the driver’s wheel one night. He turned off the radio in his car, and began to speak to the one person he could rely on most in his life: God. As […]
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‘It’s the wild, wild West right now’: Local hospitals race to keep up with AI
In the chaos of monitors and rolling gurneys, an unstable patient is rushed in and Dr. Scott Bisheff has only seconds to decide which tools to reach for. One of those tools is now off-limits. On April 6, Adventist Health’s board of directors restricted publicly available AI from internal use across its Central Coast hospitals. […]
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‘We’re All Earthlings’: Victor Glover returns to Cal Poly with a message beyond the moon
Two months after NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover splashed down off the San Diego coast from a 10-day mission past the moon, he returned to the campus where his own journey began. For Glover, the mission wasn’t just about reaching the far side of the moon. Despite joining a group of the […]
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‘It’s such a bucket list thing for me:’ SLO Native and country star Dasha set to take the California Mid-State Fair stage
The California Mid-State Fair is a staple for San Luis Obispo County residents — and award-winning country singer and San Luis Obispo native, Dasha, is no exception. “Growing up, Mid-State Fair, every summer. Highlight. Oh my god,” Dasha said. Dasha is a country artist who grew up in San Luis Obispo and is […]
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Cal Poly Social Justice Teach-In makes comeback after two-year break
Cal Poly’s Social Justice Teach-In returned after a two-year hiatus, featuring presentations on academic freedom, censorship, Palestine, immigration, and student activism, with the goal of creating space for conversations not always reflected on campus.