The Cal Poly Food Pantry offers a free resource of ingredients for students to make cheap, filling and easy meals like muffin tin scalloped potatoes.
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Student workers now earn $16.90 after Jan. 1 minimum wage boost
California’s minimum wage increased by 40 cents to $16.90 per hour on Jan. 1, reflecting the state’s annual wage adjustments to accommodate rising inflation rates, with many Cal Poly students relying on this wage increase to cover their expenses.
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Cal State University system partners with Adobe to offer students free Creative Cloud access
Cal Poly students will receive the entire Adobe Creative Suite for free starting on Oct. 31 as part of an agreement between the Cal State University system and Adobe.
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Cal Poly will add an A+ to the grading scale starting next fall
Cal Poly is adding an A+ to the grading scale, to be given at any professor’s discretion. The hope is that students applying to grad school will benefit from a potential GPA boost. All nine schools in the University of California system and four Cal State universities, including Cal Maritime, already employ an A+ grading scale.
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Tikkun Olam Makers empower Cal Poly students
Opening the medicine cabinet, grabbing a toenail clipper and putting your foot over the toilet to trim your toenails is a universal experience and often overlooked. Yet, for local resident Janie McInturff who was born with one arm, this is something that is not possible. Now with the help of Tikkun Olam Makers on Cal […]
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ASI portal crashes during A Boogie ticket sign-up, sells out in 11 minutes
Cal Poly students hoping to register for tickets to the A Boogie Wit da Hoodie concert were met with a website crash shortly before registration opened at noon Wednesday. The ASI Access Portal, where students were instructed to reserve tickets, returned an “Error establishing a database connection” message shortly after noon, rendering the event page […]
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Pro-Palestine career fair protestors arraigned this week
Eight protestors, including three Cal Poly students, appeared in court for the first time Tuesday morning since their arrest at the January career fair protest that escalated into a violent encounter with police.
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How the Sikh Student Association is providing a community for Sikh students on campus
Since the university didn’t have an organized Sikh student community, he decided it was time to establish one. Through the Sikh Student Association, Harvir Kalkat was able to turn this deficit into an opportunity to create community and representation for the Sikh students of Cal Poly.
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Art and design students push for art history minor
“Art making is not about just technical skills, it’s thinking about society and culture and…larger history of art making,” art history professor and minor advisor Allison Myers said. Cal Poly’s art history minor falls within the art and design department, and offers students a curriculum based on surveying and analyzing art from a variety of […]
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Students memorialize Palestinian civilian lives with candlelight vigil
On Wednesday evening in the University Union, Cal Poly’s South West Asia North Africa Club (SWANA) hosted a candlelight vigil to honor the lives of Palestinian civilians killed during the Israel-Hamas war. The war began when the militant group Hamas attacked and killed more than 1,400 people in Israel on Oct. 7, according to CNN. […]
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Watch: Students react to the Kristin Smart verdict
26 years after Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart went missing, Paul Flores was found guilty of first degree murder. Shortly after news of the verdict came out, Mustang News reporter Ethan Telles spoke with students on campus about the case.