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Though the recent weather has made many forget that the holiday season is just a few weeks away, the Cal Poly Fair Trade Club hasn’t forgotten it’s the season for giving. This year the Cal Poly Trade Club is beginning what they hope will be an annual fund-raiser to benefit fair trade certified cocoa bean […]

Joe Sargent Cal Poly students have found artifacts from thousands of years ago while doing archeological research for the Los Osos sewer project. The students excavated around Los Osos to find if the project would disrupt any historical sites. The research was extensive because of the scope of the sewer project, according to Brian Codding, […]

tom sanders Finals are on the horizon and that means students will turn to mass amounts of caffeinated beverages like coffee and Red Bull to find enough energy to pull through the all-nighters. Students may think the amount of caffeine consumed during finals week will not leave a lasting affect on their body or mind, […]

tom sanders The newest engineering building located on the corner of Highland Drive and California Boulevard was named after the prominent alumnus Grant Brown on Monday. The “Grant M. Brown Engineering Building” is most commonly known as the building with the solid glass wall that faces Highland Drive just past the railroad underpass. “Some of […]

Thao Tran Cal Poly students won thousands of dollars after appearing on television’s hit game show “Wheel of Fortune.” Twenty-year-old business finance and accounting senior Mike Matzke won $17,700 and a cruise to the Caribbean valued at $4,448 after an appearance on Wheel of Fortune several months ago. Theatre senior Chris Elliott, 21, won $18,800 […]

“What the (expletive) happened to my leg guys?” Those are words Jesse Golden said he will never forget as he remembered hearing rescuing a fellow surfer off the coast of Shell Beach last Monday. Golden, a Cal Poly forestry and natural resources sophomore, and his surfing buddy James Matthew of Cuesta College were catching waves […]

Thao Tran The international studies department will launch a new program of study in South Africa and Ghana. The South Africa and Ghana programs, designed to give students a new outlook and perspective for developing countries, will be available in 2006. Students interested in studying in Ghana will attend the University of Ghana in Legon […]

paul meissner Cal Poly’s International Education Week hosted Afghan Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad, who spoke in Chumash Auditorium Thursday. Jawad, a native of Afghanistan, is working to improve women’s education in Afghanistan. Jawad said that Afghanistan is the seventh poorest country in the world. “A lot of Afghans, boys and girls, are eager to go […]

kiel carreau Chumash Auditorium was politically split Monday night when writer Nonie Darwish, an American woman of Middle Eastern descent, spoke about how politics and religion divide the Jewish and Muslim communities and how both groups can overcome that division. In her speech, “The Importance of Building Respect, Trust and Peace in the Middle East,” […]

sheila sobchik Cal Poly students had a unique chance to gain insight into a different way of herding when Maasai warrior Samson Parashina visited campus on Tuesday. Parashina – who prefers to be called Samson – has traveled to the United States from Southern Kenya, East Africa, to educate himself on resource and rangeland management. […]

In response to many natural disasters that have plagued the globe in recent years, Cal Poly’s city and regional planning department organized an international symposium to discuss ways to build disaster-resistant communities and to educate people on how to provide assistance for victims of these disasters. Professors, planners and engineers from Japan to Venezuela gathered […]