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Before the start of the San Luis Obispo City Council meeting Tuesday evening, the room was filled with the low chatter of community members in anticipation of the possible council decision regarding the proposed construction of a new parking lot behind the Senior Center located in Mitchell Park.

Palate fatigue: It’s been the scourge of wine tasters for years. Many tasters just cannot distinguish different wines after tasting a few; the flavors begin to blend together. But two Cal Poly graduates have created an innovative new product they say will take all the confusion out of a tasting experience.

There will be 24 exhibits and 24 different ways for Cal Poly students to see democracy – though not quite in 24 hours.

Democracy 24 will be on display in the Kennedy Library between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. today.

“It is 24 exhibits about how different Cal Poly students view democracy, modeled after a clock and the hours in the day,” liberal arts and engineering studies senior Justin Alvarez said.

An electrical engineering sophomore was found unresponsive by his roommates around 7 a.m. this morning and has since passed away.

A Cal Poly freshman died Tuesday morning after being found unresponsive in a local home. He had spent the night at the residency after attending a Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity party there Monday night, according to a Cal Poly press release.

After discovering him unresponsive at approximately 6 a.

The holiday shopping season kicked off last Friday with an estimated 25 million more consumers heading to the stores on Black Friday than last year, according to a National Retail Federation study and San Luis Obispo saw its share of shoppers lining up to get the first picks of this year’s hot items too.

Six years ago, before liberal arts engineering studies senior Bill Trammel became a Cal Poly student, he had an epiphany while sitting at his mahogany desk at home. “What would this desk look like if Q from James Bond designed it?” he asked himself. He pictured a desk with a sliding screen, a finger print recognition system and video conferencing – all from his single, sedentary unit of space.

Cal Poly English major Jonnie Reinhold was traveling on a train from Nice, France to Florence, Italy when suddenly the train stopped. After three hours at a standstill, the check-in time came and passed for the hostel she had previously booked. At 1 a.m., Reinhold and her companion found themselves off the train and on the empty, dark streets of Florence, Italy with no place to stay the night.

JOSH AYERS/MUSTANG DAILY Compared to others in the county, the Cal Poly Pier is a monster. A good monster though. One that has facilitated the marine experience for Cal Poly students and recently other regional schools as well as marine-related industry. “The pier is administered through the College of Science and Math but it’s really a campus-wide resource and even bigger,” said pier facility manager Tom Moylan.

While most were riveted to their television sets watching the Southern California fires rage two weeks ago, firefighters were called to San Luis Obispo to fend off yet another potentially devastating fire.

Caused by electricity from arching power lines connecting with the dry grass in the hills behind El Cerrito Court above Flora Street, the fire started about 8:30 a.

In the days following Andrew Gardner’s three missed extra points during the Cal Poly football team’s 36-35 loss to Wisconsin, he’s become a topic of some local and national negative attention. There’s nothing too surprising about that. It was bound to happen. But what’s interesting is to see what the reaction has revealed about today’s […]