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“Putting Sustainabililty to Work” | July 31- Aug. 3, 2008 Each year, the California State University, University of California and California Community College join for a state-wide sustainability conference for the state’s higher education system. This was the first year the conference was hosted at a CSU.

Local band Siko was this week’s headliner for Concerts in the Plaza at the Mission in downtown San Luis Obispo. Event coordinator Christy Tiaga said that, because this week is “jazz week” at the Midstate Fair, it’s usually slow, but there was a surprising turnout of about 2,000 people.

UPDATE: Apparently it’s official. David Carrillo Pe’aloza of the Daily Pilot wrote of UC Irvine athletic director Mike Izzi being on vacation, “Wherever Izzi was Monday, he knows the program […]

Jim Seimas of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported Friday that Robbie Erlin, a left-handed pitcher from Scotts Valley High, recently verbally committed to play in 2010 for Cal Poly. Erlin, […]

Although Cal Poly signed the contract that would essentially develop and implement a new engineering program at Jubail Unversity College (JUC) in Saudi Arabia, nothing has been finalized and the contract still remains private. Cal Poly signed the controversial contract in early July, but still waits for JUC to sign its portion, said Susan Opava-Stitzer, dean of Research and Graduate Programs, in an interview last week.

The seventh annual UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference will be held at Cal Poly this weekend, the first time the conference will be hosted by a California State University. The conference includes representatives from all three public higher education systems in California: the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU) and California Community College (CCC) systems.

Low-income residents of Los Angeles’s Skid Row can now thank a group of dedicated Cal Poly students for an endless supply of garden-fresh vegetables available literally right outside their doors in the form of an “edible wall.”

In collaboration with the international group Urban Farming and a company called Green Living Technologies, Cal Poly students spent the last three months growing the plants that are now encased in 180 steel panels filled with soil.

California State University employees can expect to see full paychecks during the state budget stalemate, despite the governor’s recommendation to cut back pay to $6.55 an hour.

Because California’s new budget is already 31 days past its deadline, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Thursday in an attempt to free up state money until legislators can reach an agreement.

Ben Bolch of the L.A. Times recently had an interesting chat with Cal Poly men’s basketball assistant coach Tim Murphy in Las Vegas. Murphy’s admission of not going after ‘four-star,’ […]

The Cal Poly football team’s predicament as one of just four Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) teams in California may not change any time soon, but some Cal State […]

Fans of the Mustangs will no longer be able to get a Budweiser at home games come the 2009 baseball season.