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“Homecoming 2005: Forever Green & Gold” will give spectators the chance to see a female student eat a sundae out of a male student’s mouth and watch others slip and slide on mustard. Homecoming starts today and will finish Sunday with the All-Alumni breakfast in Chumash Auditorium. “Alumni, students, parents and the community are invited […]

Seven Cal Poly students, including ASI President Tylor Middlestadt, traveled to Long Beach Thursday to participate in a rally to oppose the latest CSU fee increase. Despite the presence of over 200 students representing all 23 California State Universities, the CSU Board of Trustees voted 13-1 to pass an 8 percent fee increase for 2006. […]

Winter quarter enrollment is underway and students are frantically studying their degree requirements to find which classes they need to take. Unfortunately, many students are unsure what courses they need to graduate on time. “One of my problems is that the old guides are not up, so it’s hard to know what I have to […]

The CSU Board of Trustees approved an average 13.7 percent salary increase for all CSU presidents, bumping Cal Poly President Warren Baker’s salary up by more than $33,000 to $286,896 annually. Some Cal Poly faculty members were angered over the board’s decision, especially in the wake of an 8 to 10 percent student fee increase. […]

Holly Burke The Academic Senate began accepting nominations for the Distinguished Teaching Award Oct. 24 and will continue to accept nominations through Dec. 2. The award honors student-nominated professors for excellence in teaching and began at Cal Poly in 1964. Some students, like kinesiology junior Vanessa Farrer, are eager to nominate their favorite teacher. “I […]

sheila sobchik California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson gave a speech in the University Union Friday encouraging Cal Poly students to participate in the upcoming special election on Nov. 8. McPherson, a Cal Poly alumnus, stressed the importance of voting to the student body. “In particular, for the 18 to 24-year-old vote in California there […]

brennan angel The Cal Poly Alcohol Awareness Symposium was held Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The “iParty Responsibly” event, sponsored by Peer Health Education, attracted nearly 60 people and raffled off free iPod Shuffles. Keynote speaker Randy Haveson gave a candid speech about his history of addiction. Haveson began drinking at the age […]

Tiffany Dias Two Cal Poly landscape architecture graduates received a $1,000 prize after winning the 2005 national Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design competition. Kathryn Hergenrather and Joshua Circle-Woodburn presented examples of how “landscape architecture and licensing affect life,” according to a news release issued by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. The competition was […]

Tonya Strickland Through a business consultation project, two Cal Poly professors brought top-notch graphic arts concepts to the Middle East in September and came back with unparalleled first-hand experience in working with another culture. Employed by the Graphic Communication Institute at Cal Poly (GrCI), an “outreach arm” of the graphic communications department (GrC), professors Kevin […]

Tonya Strickland In raising funds for the student-produced literary annual “Byzantium” Cal Poly English faculty members Todd J. Pierce and Lisa Coffman may gratify those who crave literary indulgence at “A Night of Poetry and Fiction” this evening. “We have very talented faculty within the English department,” said Jessica Barba, English senior and “Byzantium” co-editor. She […]

sheila sobchik There is a chill in the air as dairy science senior Aimee Trout pulls her car into the dimly lit parking lot. She arrives at the dairy sporting a pair of fluffy slippers, which she trades for a pair of tall, rubber boots. It is 5:45 a.m. Of the five students working this […]