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 number of students quarantined-in-place to 173, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated this morning. […]
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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.
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Single rooms only in University Housing
University Housing will only offer single rooms in the fall, Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey wrote in a campus-wide email. Freshmen students can defer their housing to winter quarter in the housing portal before Wednesday, August 26 at 11:59 p.m. Transfer students can defer their housing to winter quarter by Friday, August 28 […]
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RA’s adapt to COVID-19
Residential Advisors (RA’s) who decided to stay in the dorms during the shelter-at-home order saw a shift in responsibilities. Jordan Bouskos, a second year psychology major, is an RA in PCV who chose to stay on campus for the remainder of the year. At the start of spring quarter, Bouskos’s floor buzzed with 86 students. […]
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Students can retrieve belongings from the dorms in May and June
After two months of waiting, students can now retrieve the remainder of their belongings from on-campus housing during a scheduled pickup date between now through June 14, according to an email from University Housing. In their housing portal, students can reserve a date and time specific to their dorm to retrieve their belongings, with 12 […]
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“They’re my kids” — John Tiedemann is more than a custodian to North Mountain residents
While he only cleans 20 of the bathrooms in North Mountain, he said he makes a point to reach out to everyone who lives there.
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University Housing adds beds to 170 rooms in yakʔitʸutʸu
While initially intended only for double and quad occupancy, there are now 170 rooms with three beds, according to University Housing Marketing Coordinator Julia Bluff.
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New student living community is move-in ready
The final touches are being added to Cal Poly’s newest addition, the yakʔitʸutʸu living community, which is set to be ready for students to move in by Sept. 14. Cal Poly worked with the Northern Chumash to create the yakʔitʸutʸu community, which includes seven residence halls ranging from three to five stories, all named after […]
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Students lead campaign to add AEDs in every residence hall
Jack Pawela and Miles Henry hope to have AEDs in every residence hall by the end of the academic year.
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PolyCultural Weekend: A way for students to find their niche
Polycultural Weekend is all about the students finding their niche.
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Tau Phi’s reign short-lived in Sierra Madre
As a freshman, getting into fraternity parties (if not already a member) is challenging for men, but one Sierra Madre Residence Hall found a way to beat the system during the first few weeks of school. The men’s floor of Sierra Madre Tower 5 found its solution after a few nights of hanging out in […]