In 2018, the City of San Luis Obispo found Cal Poly significantly violated the Wastewater Pretreatment Standards mandated by the city. All of the wastewater generated on campus is treated at the city’s Water Resource Recovery Facility, and because Cal Poly is categorized as a Significant Industrial User of the city’s water, they have the […]
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Meet the students helping advise Cal Poly administration on diversity issues and initiatives
Cal Poly made national news in Spring 2018 after the alleged blackface incident. In the emergency town hall meetings that followed, many students said the incident was a stark example of Cal Poly’s need for a more diverse and inclusive climate. With an almost 55 percent white-identifying student body, Cal Poly is the least diverse […]
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Shake Smart sells limited menu due to conflicts with other campus dining options
Shake Smart has 13 locations across the country, but the shop in front of the Recreation Center has slight variations in the menu due to non-compete agreements with Campus Dining. The Shake Smart website features four different varieties of oatmeal bowls, breakfast and lunch wraps and cold brew coffee that are available at the majority […]
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New Insomnia Cookies on Foothill delivers as late as 3 a.m.
“Other stores can try to stay open as late as we do, but they can’t deliver as late as we do,” Insomnia Cookies’ Marketing Manager Alfonzo Jones said. “If you hop online at 2:45 a.m., we’ll be there.”
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App to Assist Customers with Disabilities Wins 24-Hour Hackathon
The idea for Mobell, an application meant to service customers with disabilities, won the Poly Hacks 24-hour hackathon on Friday, Jan. 18. The event took place at the Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, also known as the HotHouse. The minds behind the winning pitch are graphic communication senior Katy Barnard, graphic communication juniors Linnea […]
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Rain and winds hammer San Luis Obispo
Winter returned to California as a powerful storm slammed into the state, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. Cal Poly’s weather station recorded nearly two inches of rain since Wednesday, Jan. 31. High winds overnight were recorded at 15 mph with gusts reaching 20 mph. A larger portion of an eucalyptus tree fell onto a […]
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Men’s Basketball breaks five-game losing streak with dominant win
Strong shooting lead Cal Poly to a 71-45 win over UC Riverside, breaking a 20-game road losing streak.
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Team hopes to continue winning streak as students cast Cal Poly’s 2019 Concrete Canoe
A concrete canoe might seem like an oxymoron, but Cal Poly’s civil engineering students are employing the laws of science and looking to row their way to another national championship. The Cal Poly team participates in the The National Concrete Canoe Competition where they build canoes out of concrete and race them in the water. […]
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What’s up, SLO? Here’s what’s happening this weekend
Rain may be in the forecast, but San Luis Obispo still has plenty of events this weekend to keep you busy. Here’s a preview of what’s happening this weekend.
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More wet weather ahead this weekend for Cal Poly
After seven days of warm temperatures and clear skies, Cal Poly will see the return of rain on Wednesday night. Although the Central Coast is not feeling the pinch of the Polar Vortex like the rest the country, the region will experience some winter weather of its own until Feb. 4. Two new storms are […]
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Cal Poly and other colleges keep losing students — only Cal Poly doesn’t know why
Schools lose students every year. “Financial stress,” “personal reasons” and “academic matters” are a few reasons students cite. Normally there’s a trend – the spike in dropouts acting as a sort of bittersweet red flag that allows institutions to diagnose one of their problems and fix it. Cal Poly is like a lot of those schools, […]