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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A new era begins for Cal Poly Men’s Soccer in the Pac-12 Conference
After winning the last two Big West Conference regular-season titles, Cal Poly Men’s Soccer’s season outlook looks a little different as the team prepares to make its debut in the Pac-12 Conference this fall, a new change after 25 years of competing in the Big West.Â
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Former Cal Poly pitcher and San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow announces retirement
Giants broadcaster and Cal Poly Alumni Mike Krukow has announced his retirement. After over 30 years in the booth, the end of this Major League season will be his last as a broadcaster, but his time in the world of baseball has been much longer.
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Cal Poly Women’s Soccer seeks second straight Big West title
The defending Big West Champions enter the 2026 season with high expectations and a target on their backs. After capturing the conference title in 2025, ending a 21-year drought, the Mustangs will return this season looking to achieve even greater milestones.Â
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Cal Poly Volleyball set to appear on ESPNU for the second time in program history
Every year, Cal Poly Volleyball takes on its conference opponent, UC Santa Barbara, in the Blue-Green rivalry match. However, the stakes are higher this year as the match will be nationally televised on ESPNU.
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Cal Poly housing expansion relies on $3.3 million in prison-made furnitureÂ
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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Seven Cal Poly players selected in 2026 MLB Draft, most since 2008
Seven Cal Poly Baseball players heard their names called in the 2026 MLB Draft, the program’s most in a single year since 2008, when eight Mustangs were selected. Four players were selected within the first 10 rounds of the draft, the most since 2014.
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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. […]