After a long day of work, I came back to my Poly Canyon Village apartment with the intention of getting comfy and going to bed. Little did I know, the universe would have more in store for me on the Saturday night of Oct. 23. It started just like any other Saturday night: a friend […]
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Cal Poly students win top prizes in Elevator Pitch Competition
Two Cal Poly students took home cash prizes in this year’s Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) 12th annual Elevator Pitch Competition. Cal Poly’s industrial engineering senior Surya Venugopal and business administration junior Sara Dada won $1,000 and $500, respectively. This year’s competition was held at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center on […]
Student band Couch Dog releases first EP “Bad and Better than Ever”
Siga aquí para leer este artículo en Español. Student indie-surf-rock band, Couch Dog, released their first EP, “Bad and Better than Ever,” on Nov. 5. Mechanical engineering senior Tasha Lee, business administration senior Pablo Acosta, computer engineering sophomore Josh Cheruvelil and manufacturing engineering senior Max Ferrer ’s original music is now available for streaming on Spotify […]
Banda estudiantil Couch Dog lanza el primer EP “Bad and Better than Ever”
El artículo fue originalmente escrito en Inglés. La traducción en Español fue hecha por Mieke Esparza. La banda estudiantil de indie-surf-rock, Couch Dog, lanzó su primer EP, “Bad and Better than Ever”, el 5 de noviembre. La música original del estudiante de ingeniería mecánica del último año, Tasha Lee; del estudiante de administración de empresas […]
Students respond to Cal Poly Corporation’s sustainable transportation campaign
Physics senior Katarina Brekalo steps outside the door of her apartment to the bus stop where she is picked up 15 minutes before the hour. She hops onto what is usually an empty bus. She then takes this 3B bus route for just under ten minutes to Cal Poly’s campus and arrives with five minutes […]
La Historia de Lanzando Tortillas
El artículo fue originalmente escrito en Inglés. La traducción en Español fue hecha por Blas Alvarado. El calor de los estudiantes aumentaba al agruparse en la sección de estudiantes del estadio Spanos, teniendo poco espacio para moverse y aún menos para encontrar sus asientos. Emoción estalló en todas las secciones del estadio mientras los aficionados […]
Q&A: Cal Poly Police Chief talks about new nighttime shuttle service
Editor’s note: This story discusses themes including sexual violence. The sun had already disappeared behind Madonna Mountain, and Van Nguyen, a software engineering sophomore, waited in the dark across Kennedy Library eager to get home after a long day of school. In her first year living on campus, Nguyen said she isn’t entirely comfortable walking […]
Increase in academic integrity violations reported during 2020-2021 academic year
With in-person classes comes in-person test-taking—something many Cal Poly students have not experienced in over a year. The challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic put pressure on students and faculty to transition to an online learning format. Students said this change allowed increased flexibility in test-taking, and despite learning difficulties, overall GPAs increased over the […]
Here’s why the Cal Poly P was painted red this week
Students painted Cal Poly’s P on the hill red in honor of National Veterans Awareness Week this week. The P’s color was changed from it’s usual white on Sunday by the Center for Military Connected Students (CMCS) and the Student Veterans and Dependents (SVD) Club. The color red was chosen in dedication to the campaign […]
“A love letter to them:” Native and Indigenous Cultural Center brings visibility to the Cal Poly Indigenous community
Between September 2011 and September 2020, 710 Indigenous people from Wyoming were reported missing, according to a Statewide Report from Wyoming. Their names rarely made national news. Yet on Sept. 11, a 22-year-old white woman from New York disappeared in Wyoming. The next day, Gabby Petito’s name was already making headlines. Soon, her name became […]
Growing number of students have stopped completing daily symptom screener
Since the beginning of fall quarter, a growing number of students have stopped filling out Cal Poly’s daily symptom screener, meaning less students are reporting whether they have COVID-19 symptoms to the university. Over the first five weeks of the fall quarter, the weekly count of completed daily symptom screeners fell by 32% — from […]

