Cal Poly College of Engineering is offering $35,000 in prize money to upperclassman student teams that participate in the first Change the World Challenge, a competition aimed at addressing the world’s pressing issues and promoting holistic thinking amongst students. For the first installment of this challenge, this year’s theme is “Solutions for Living in a […]
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Cal Poly students help people in need of tax dispute assistance through Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
When it comes to tax conflicts, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic volunteer Megan Van Ruler wants taxpayers to know that “one mistake isn’t going to define them.” Van Ruler, a business administration senior, is one of the 15 Cal Poly students providing free tax dispute services for their class, Senior Project: Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (BUS […]
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Cal Poly students are showing solidarity with sexual assault survivors through these events held today
Editor’s Note: This article contains references to sexual assault and violence. Cal Poly campus organizations are hosting events Wednesday, offering a space for students to show solidarity with sexual assault survivors. These events come after two on-campus sexual assaults that students have been notified of in the past month. A Cal Poly Standing with Survivors […]
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Safer hosts dating violence action month during October
Throughout the month of October, Safer has been hosting “Dating Violence Action Month 2021: Our Vibrance Breaks the Silence.” The action month itinerary includes a variety of booths on campus, Instagram Lives with campus partners and events for the Cal Poly community. Safer is Cal Poly’s resource for addressing sexual assault, intimate partner violence, domestic […]
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Students petition for women and nonbinary Recreation Center hours
Cal Poly students are petitioning to create Recreation Center workout hours for women and nonbinary students only — a fight against “feeling uncomfortable and over-sexualized on campus,” according to the petition. The petition, started by business administration senior Lydia Dasari, interdisciplinary studies senior Shauna Sweeney and biomedical engineering senior Melissa Martinez, became an idea after […]
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Man enters Cal Poly residence hall claiming to be a student and poses safety risk
A 20-year-old non-student man who claimed to live on campus entered a residence hall on Oct. 13, according to reports made to Cal Poly Police Department by students. At around 2:30 a.m., campus police received a call from Muir Hall that a man had entered through a door that had been left open. The man […]
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“Divest the CSU”: Student body calls for fossil fuel divestment
Cal Poly has been recognized as a leader in sustainability, but one factor taints this title — fossil fuel investment. The fight against fossil fuel investment is spreading across San Luis Obispo and the California State University (CSU) system, as a group of students are calling for these universities to divest from fossil fuels. Months […]
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On Campus, but on Zoom: Cal Poly students navigate online classes while on campus
Backpack? Check. Notebooks for class? Check. A nearby outlet in a quiet location? That one is a little harder to attain. That last checklist item is proving to be the most coveted for students that are having to take online classes on campus since they are scheduled either right before, right after or in the […]
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Cal Poly students win award at NASA’s Ice and Prospecting Challenge
A group of Cal Poly mechanical engineering students and alumni took home the “Most Accurate Digital Core” award from NASA’s Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge. The team of eight competed Sept. 23-25 and won the award from NASA thanks to their robot prototype “STYX and STONES.” The competition is centered around the discovery of […]
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“We want to grow”: WOW’s Cross-Cultural Experience is for more than the minority identity groups on campus
One month after Cal Poly hosted its Week of Welcome (WOW) orientation program for its incoming class, students reflect on the program’s Cross-Cultural Experience (CCE) option — one that students say is underadvertised yet impactful. The CCE program, a branch of WOW, launched in 2018 to give a comfortable space to Cal Poly students from […]
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Cal Poly plans to switch to semesters
Cal Poly is set to be the final California State University campus to switch to semesters, despite years of pushback from the campus community. Calling it an “eventual transition,” University Spokesperson Cynthia Lambert said Cal Poly is still finalizing plans with the CSU and has yet to make an official announcement. President Jeffrey Armstrong told […]