On Monday morning, Mustang News received a photo of Architecture and Environmental Design Rm. 225 using several garbage cans to collect water. The photo came from construction management senior Carlin Cook who said there have been trash bins collecting water from leaks in that building for years. Cook told Mustang News that there have been […]
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Cal Poly keeps campus open on Tuesday despite flood watch
Cal Poly’s campus will remain open on Tuesday despite the flood watch issued by the National Weather Service and atmospheric river throughout San Luis Obispo County. All class campus operations will continue as scheduled, the Cal Poly Department of Emergency Management informed students via email. The university encourages students and faculty to remain flexible with […]
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Cal Poly Farms Hosts U-Pick Orange Picking
Cal Poly Farms hosts seasonal U-Picks throughout the year. From now until June, the orange orchards are open to the San Luis Obispo community. The U-Pick events take place on Saturdays in the Cal Poly citrus groves. Students and families can go out and pick a variety of citrus fruits including oranges, lemons, and limes. […]
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MN Now: March 12, 2023
Mustang News reporter RJ Pollock brings you the top stories from this week…
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Meet the four-legged companions of Cal Poly’s rodeo team
Four cowboys, two horses and Winston the Jack Russell terrier. These seven stand at the far end of the rodeo arena, waiting for a calf to break loose from the bucking chute so the cowboy and horse can corral it. In nearly ten seconds, the calf is released and tied up by its hooves, and […]
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How Kimberley Bhunu’s tennis journey brought her from Zimbabwe to Cal Poly
Opportunity is a word that is thrown around a lot. However, for graduate tennis player Kimberley Bhunu, the word has profound meaning. Opportunity brought her from Harare, Zimbabwe to France to Cal Poly through tennis. While here, she has earned an education that has helped her create a non-profit to give those same opportunities to […]
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Despite expected atmospheric river and SLO County’s state of local emergency, Cal Poly continues campus operations
Due to the forecasted storm and atmospheric river, the Cal Poly Department of Emergency Management informed students and faculty to be flexible about potential travel delays or obstacles. Classes and campus operations on Friday are scheduled to continue as usual. The storm conditions are forecasted to start Thursday night and continue through Saturday, with San […]
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‘I decided I wanted to be that voice’: Student creates motivational podcast “Spilling Tea with a POC”
Coming to Cal Poly, communications sophomore Jasmine Phipps said she would wonder, and hope, that she’d see another Black student in one of her classes. “[That] bothered me to the point where I was like, ‘Okay, I wanna share what I am experiencing because I know it will help other people,’” Phipps said. Then, in […]
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MNTV Best Of Show: Your Top Stories From Fall 2022
On this episode of MNTV, see how Cal Poly students are involved in weighing pumpkins at the Great Giant Pumpkin Competition, hear from the artist behind the new mural on Via Carte, plus see some of the highlights from the Cambria Scarecrow Festival. All that and more on this special edition of MNTV. *This episode […]
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MNTV 15 Minute Update: Veteran’s Day Celebration
On this MNTV 15-minute update, watch how the people of Pismo Beach celebrated Veteran’s Day plus, we take a look at the new ‘La Casa’ center opening on campus. This episode of MNTV originally aired live on November 15, 2022
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Beyond Beethoven: Cal Poly’s music department brings diversity into classrooms and concert halls
Music professor Alicia M. Doyle was only in high school when she first was hit with a realization that her exposure to music was very limited and devoid of diversity. In her music classes, Doyle was really only being exposed mostly to composers that were white, male and deceased. It may seem like nothing more […]