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tom sanders Ninety Cal Poly students and San Luis Obispo community members took part in an important and moving presentation about the country of Burma on Sunday afternoon. The presentation, “Freedom From Fear: Stories of Resistance, Refugees & Resettlement in Burma,” was part of a Cal Poly senior project by Phyusin Myint, a communication studies […]

To cap off Liberal Arts Week, two Cal Poly professors envisioned what their final lecture would entail in “The Last Lecture Series.” Inspired by similar programs at other universities, the College of Liberal Arts Student Council brought the series to Cal Poly last week and asked art and design professor Mary LaPorte and English professor […]

The San Luis Obispo League of Women Voters named a Cal Poly student one of San Luis Obispo’s Action Heroes on March 11 for his extensive service in the community and his on-going role as coordinator of the campus conference “Change the Status Quo.” Graduating business senior York Shingle, along with four other young adults from the San Luis Obispo area, received honors along with a $500 scholarship from the league.

Cal Poly’s Beyond Shelter is hosting Homelessness Awareness Week from April 23 to 29 in hopes of raising awareness of San Luis Obispo’s homelessness problem. Among the events scheduled for next week, there is a walk to fight homelessness starting at Santa Rosa Park that will continue downtown on Saturday, April 29. The walk starts […]

Incoming student opinions regarding the Greek system at Cal Poly are usually extremely mixed, and many start their freshman year with preconceived ideas regarding the topic. Either way, the best way to find out about the Greek community at Cal Poly is to research it first-hand. Kyle Robertson is an agricultural business junior from Tracy, […]

Poly Escapes, the outdoors and recreational club on campus, ensures Cal Poly students never have to worry about a weekend with nothing to do. At Poly Escapes, outdoor rentals are available, including kayaks, backpacks and tents all for reasonable prices. Poly Escapes also offers low-priced trips almost every weekend, open to students, which include backpacking, […]

sheila sobchik mustang daily Cal Poly’s campus population will temporarily swell this weekend as thousands of prospective and admitted students and their families come to learn more about the university and what it has to offer. The weekend will present many opportunities to explore the campus, but exploration is only one of the many activities […]

The annual Poly Canyon Design Village competition where students build structures to live in for Open House will have more participants than it has had in many years. About 200 students from about 15 schools throughout the state of California will make up the 46 teams entered in this year’s event, almost doubling the size […]

This year the Open House Committee wants to remind people that the weekend is not just for alumni and prospective students – it’s about the kids too. “I remember going to (events) with my siblings and it was kind of boring,” said Serena Bruce, an ecology and systematic biology junior who promises this year’s Open […]

Deeply rooted in tradition, 2006 marks the 13th year of Cal Poly Open House, a university celebration that has been around for more than a century. The event started in 1904 as Farmers’ Picnic, a celebration that attracted 200 visitors to the campus for new building tours, a BBQ and agriculture shows. Then, in 1933 […]

nick camacho In August 2005, construction began on the 70-year-old Mustang Stadium to build a newly-designed Mustang Memorial Plaza where Week of Welcome events, commencement ceremonies and football and soccer games will continue to be held. The stadium, which sits on the west part of campus between the business building and campus offices, has a […]