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Nick Coury Pulling an all-nighter usually includes drinking massive amounts of coffee and being on the verge of hallucinating due to lack of sleep, but on Thursday, Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Recreational Sports plans to change all that. ASI will be hosting the first annual “Dusk ’til Dawn” event in the Rec Center from 8 […]

brennan angel At 7:30 a.m., Cal Poly student Crystal Matthew leaves her house and hops on her bicycle for the often cold, and sometimes rainy, commute to campus. She dons no special apparel for the outing, just her regular flat tennis shoes and school clothes. And Matthew never wears a helmet. “I know I should,” […]

Holly Burke Cal Poly construction management students have, for the second year in a row, earned first place in the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) Student Competition in Orlando, Fla. The Polytex team developed a proposal for a 10-acre, 175-unit condominium in Addison, Texas. The students spent more than 300 hours on the project. The […]

nicholas camacho Just imagine, you just got out of your 9 a.m. class, you’re hungry and the sun is shining. You head to Lucy’s Juice Too and order your favorite smoothie, The Travis, and relax on Dexter Lawn before your next class. As you’re sitting there reading over your notes, you start to wonder who […]

nick coury Lauren Mount, a communication studies freshman, votes for the IRA fee referendum upstairs in the University Union on Wednesday evening. Voting was steady since noon on Wednesday, and trailed off after 6 p.m., said Trudy Jarratt, the president of The League of Women Voters. “I voted ‘yes,’ because it helps a lot of […]

sheila sobchik The $10 IRA fee increase proposal passed in an overwhelming fashion Thursday night in the UU with Provost Robert Detweiler announcing the 73 percent approval of the referendum. Voter turnout was just under 2,000 with a total of 1,974 votes cast. Of this total, 1,447 voted “yes” and 527 voted “no,” according to […]

Justin Fivella The Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) committee is asking students to vote on a proposed $10 per quarter non-athletic increase in student fees. IRA programs are activities that are at least partially sponsored by an academic discipline or instructional department and that are integral to its formal instructional offerings, according to the IRA press […]

Regardless of the student vote for the proposed Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) fee referendum, Cal Poly President Warren Baker has ultimate control over student fees. According to the voter pamphlet, the fee is a Category 1 fee, which, in the California State University system, must be paid in order to apply to, enroll in or […]

Caitlin Donnell Mustang Daily As students and faculty may have noticed, Cal Poly’s e-mail service, Oracle, was down throughout Wednesday and has been experiencing technical difficulties for some time. In an open letter to the campus community, Tim Kearns, the vice provost and chief information officer for Cal Poly’s Information Technology Services (ITS), explained that […]

For the first time in several years, a case of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, was reported in Sierra Madre dorms early last week. San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department diagnosed a male freshman with the highly contagious respiratory infection. According to Vice President for Student Affairs Cornel Morton, the student’s friends called […]

michael mullady With the winter’s rain and the past few weeks’ warm weather, flowers have unexpectedly began to bloom throughout the Central Coast. Along Via Carta, colorful displays of nature have unearthed in a variety of shapes and sizes. Mike Stiles, a biology technician, spent his Monday afternoon collecting samples of the chasmanthe plant for […]