At around 3 am on Thursday morning, residents of Cal Poly’s Yosemite Tower 6 were evacuated after an electrical fire took place in one resident’s room. Mustang News Reporter Ava Kershner talks to students from the halls about how they…
Cal Poly’s modern-day segregation
Cassandra Garcia is a journalism freshman and Mustang News opinion columnist. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Mustang News. Imagine living in a dorm where maintenance problems are a constant norm and there is no community center…
Broken pipe causes water outage for Cal Poly residence halls, dining facility
Cal Poly students in six residence halls were left without water on Saturday due to an emergency water outage. The outage left the yak?it?ut?u, Sierra Madre, Yosemite, Tenaya, Muir and Trinity residence halls without water. The Vista Grande dining facility…
Ten on-campus residents released from COVID-19 isolation yesterday
This story was updated Oct. 28 with additional information about students recovered from COVID-19 and students isolated and quarantined on campus Ten students living on-campus who tested positive for COVID-19 have been released from isolation since Saturday, Oct. 24, according…
Eleven students test positive for COVID-19
Six students living on-campus and five students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 72 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated Monday afternoon. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing, which has performed 291…
Ten students test positive for COVID-19 in one day
Two students living on-campus and eight students living off-campus have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to Cal Poly’s coronavirus dashboard updated this afternoon. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing. Campus Health and…
More than one-third of county’s new COVID-19 cases are Cal Poly students
Thirteen more students have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated this morning. One of the students lives on-campus and 12 live off-campus. This is the second day in a row…
More than 200 University Housing residents are quarantined-in-place
Three students living on-campus and ten students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated this afternoon. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing. The dashboard does not…
Student tests positive for coronavirus in Tenaya Hall
Update on Oct. 2: Vice President for Student Affairs Keith Humphrey shared in a document that a student tested positive for a communicable disease, not the coronavirus.  A student has tested positive for the coronavirus in Tenaya Hall, according to…
Eight students test positive for COVID-19 in one day
Three students living on-campus and five students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard. Thirty-eight University Housing residents were ordered to quarantine-in-place within the last 24 hours, bringing the total…
Living alone in the dorms: How freshmen are coping in isolation
Other than those living in the Cerro Vista and Poly Canyon Village apartments, freshmen live alone in double, triple and quad rooms. In the South Mountain, yakʔitʸutʸu, Yosemite, Sierra Madre and North Mountain dorms, students share communal bathrooms by floor or cluster. Rooms are separated by gender.