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On Saturday Musty the Mustang will soar off a platform, plummet 30 feet into water and only to be decapitated in front of a crowd of thousands. Red Bull Flugtag is the name of the game and five Cal Poly students will head to Tempe, Ariz. to compete against 30 other teams with contraptions that […]

Bright, colorful and informative fliers calling for students’ attention are sprouting up along frequently-traveled roads and walkways on campus this week, announcing the return of the annual ASI student government elections. Though voting does not begin until May 3, candidates are not wasting any time in getting their faces noticed and their voices heard. Advertisements […]

Katie Hofstetter An awards ceremony Thursday will mark the end of Greek Week and honor the sorority and fraternity teams that earned top points in the week’s series of events. “It’s a time for the whole greek system to come together and show everyone the good things we do and also for us to compete […]

The Cal Poly Latino fraternity, Lambda Theta Phi, got a surprise during a banquet they hosted this past Saturday when it was announced they had been awarded 2005-06 California Sector II (Northern California) Chapter of the Year. “At the end of every quarter we’re required to turn in a packet that pretty much outlines everything […]

tom sanders Ninety Cal Poly students and San Luis Obispo community members took part in an important and moving presentation about the country of Burma on Sunday afternoon. The presentation, “Freedom From Fear: Stories of Resistance, Refugees & Resettlement in Burma,” was part of a Cal Poly senior project by Phyusin Myint, a communication studies […]

tom sanders Students from all over California spent the weekend in Poly Canyon as part of the 33rd Annual Design Village Competition, hosted by Cal Poly during Open House weekend. The competition has become one of the largest events during Open House. This year, 53 teams and 229 participants from 15 colleges in California competed […]

tom sanders Hillel, Cal Poly’s Jewish cultural club, will be remembering the Holocaust with many on-campus events throughout the week which began Monday with a display in the University Union to educate people about the Holocaust. Today the club will celebrate National Holocaust Remembrance Day on Dexter lawn and in the UU Plaza with the […]

Cal Poly’s Beyond Shelter is hosting Homelessness Awareness Week from April 23 to 29 in hopes of raising awareness of San Luis Obispo’s homelessness problem. Among the events scheduled for next week, there is a walk to fight homelessness starting at Santa Rosa Park that will continue downtown on Saturday, April 29. The walk starts […]

To cap off Liberal Arts Week, two Cal Poly professors envisioned what their final lecture would entail in “The Last Lecture Series.” Inspired by similar programs at other universities, the College of Liberal Arts Student Council brought the series to Cal Poly last week and asked art and design professor Mary LaPorte and English professor […]

The San Luis Obispo League of Women Voters named a Cal Poly student one of San Luis Obispo’s Action Heroes on March 11 for his extensive service in the community and his on-going role as coordinator of the campus conference “Change the Status Quo.” Graduating business senior York Shingle, along with four other young adults from the San Luis Obispo area, received honors along with a $500 scholarship from the league.