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A memorial honoring the lives of five San Luis Obispo women was held by the Cal Poly Women’s Center Monday night at Luna Cafe in San Luis Obispo. The memorial is the first in a string of events scheduled for Remember Week, which began on April 10 and runs through April 14.

Katie Hofstetter As a way to say “thank you” for coaching the university’s track and field athletes for the past 14 years, Terry Crawford has been selected as the grand marshal for this year’s Poly Royal Parade. “We wanted to choose a grand marshal that was related to athletes in some way,” said Nicole Stivers, […]

sheila sobchik The Cal Poly community is playing host this week to events dedicated to the awareness of sexual assault and violence against women. Presented by Cal Poly Women’s Programs through Student Life and Leadership, Remember Week, as it is called, involves events both on and off campus. The events began with a memorial Monday […]

tom sanders Cal Poly computer engineering and computer science students developed proposals on effective ways to use the Learning Commons in the Kennedy Library as part of a class project during winter quarter. These proposals are being exhibited in the Learning Commons from April 10 through May 12 during regular library hours. Students and faculty […]

Katie Hofstetter World-renowned environmentalist Peter Raven encouraged Cal Poly students and staff to inform the public about global sustainability in his lecture “Biodiversity, Sustainability and the Modern University” on Friday night. Raven, who was named “Hero of the Planet” by Time magazine in 1999, came to Cal Poly in preparation for Earth Day on April […]

Ronnie Meehan When Cal Poly business students Lance Brandenberg and Ryan Reyes started screen printing, it was only a weekend hobby. However, this weekend hobby has now blossomed into their own screen printing shop in San Luis Obispo called Mediums. “Ryan and I did it just for fun and never thought long term,” Brandenberg said. […]

brennan angel The University Union Plaza was busier than usual on Thursday during UU Hour. Booths with names of streets in San Francisco bordered the Plaza while students listened to the live music, filled out scavenger hunts and got free food in celebration of the new Honda, the “Fit.” The event, “Life in the City,” […]

Jennifer Hall Freshmen Cal Poly students ranked highest in the recent California State University 2005 annual report in mathematics and English proficiency and high school grade point average for entering freshmen. The study, published on March 15, 2006, analyzed freshmen students’ readiness for college based on three components. Cal Poly students ranked the highest among […]

Jen Boudevin While lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his big, blue ox Babe are characters of myth, the sport of logging is no tall tale. The Cal Poly Logging Team knows this firsthand, carrying on the legacy of traditional forestry field skills on campus. The coed team has been a part of the natural resources management […]

Brigette Barbosa Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture has selected its first assistant dean of advancement and external relations. Tanya Kiani, current director of advancement for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, will officially join the College of Agriculture on May 15. College of Agriculture Dean David Wehner made the announcement on March 23. “She […]