TOMS Campus Club and Coalition will host TOMS shoes’ Style Your Sole Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. in downtown San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly students might remember the event from previous years when it was held on Dexter Lawn or at the University Union. This year, the event is expected to draw more interest […]
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Kristina Santiago is a go for 2011 season
Everything seems to be falling in place for the Cal Poly’s women’s basketball team to have a historic season. The team is coming off a regular season Big West title and signed a talented recruiting class that includes University of Nevada, Reno transfer Brittany Woodard. Maybe the biggest reason for Mustang fans to be optimistic this […]
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Students AIDing with awareness event
The quarter-long work of five Cal Poly students will culminate this Thursday with World AIDS Day in the University Union (UU) plaza and throughout San Luis Obispo. Recreation, parks and tourism administration (RPTA) students worked with the San Luis Obispo AIDS Support Network (ASN) to produce the day’s events as part of their RPTA 210, Introduction […]
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"Bikini experiment” turned Cal Poly sponsor
Enrique Sanchez-Rivera said he has always been entrepreneurial and always wanted to own his own business. He never thought his business would be a fashion brand though. He began La Isla 13 years ago, when a trip back to his home country of Colombia revealed his sister, Ana Luisa, was making bikinis and giving them […]
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Jeff Johnson takes aim at Major Leagues
A fire-throwing, former Cal Poly baseball closer is looking to add his name to a list that includes Major Leaguers Jered Weaver, Troy Tulowitzki, Barry Zito and Evan Longoria. What do they all have in common with Jeff Johnson, Cal Poly’s devastating ninth inning man last season? Each played in the Big West Conference with […]
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Entrepreneurs on display at Cal Poly
The Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship held its bi-quarterly entrepreneurial event Nov. 16 in the Performing Arts Center Pavilion. Hosted by the center’s co-founder and Cal Poly entrepreneurship professor, Jonathan York, the entrepreneurship forum featured the finals of an elevator pitch competition, as well as a panel discussion about the future of entertainment […]
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Cross-country races to national finish line
The Cal Poly men’s cross-country team finished in 28th place with 680 points last Monday at the NCAA Cross-Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. On the women’s side, individual qualifiers Leanne Fogg and Meghan Breadmore finished 105th and 146th, respectively, at the championships. After finishing in a surprising third place at the NCAA West Regionals, […]
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New fee proposed for 'student success'
A newly proposed “Student Success Fee” would help Cal Poly students get the classes they need and finish their degrees on time, Cal Poly vice president for finance Larry Kelley said. The fee was proposed as a solution to state funding cuts that have forced Cal Poly to create larger class sections or cut sections entirely […]
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Women fall to Fresno State in tight game
Senior forward Kristina Santiago’s 27 points and career-high 23 rebounds weren’t enough to save the Mustangs Sunday, as Fresno State outlasted the Cal Poly women’s basketball team 79-76 in Mott Gym. After 18 lead changes, Fresno State guard Madison Parrish sunk two free throws with 11.9 seconds left to put the Bulldogs (2-2) up by […]
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Professor files workload complaint
The second formal grievance hearing in Cal Poly’s history, which focused on excessive workloads given to professors in the electrical engineering department, was held Nov. 16. Electrical engineering associate professor Bryan Mealy said he was subjected to an excessive workload from Winter 2010 through Spring 2011. Mealy asked for fair-weighted teaching units and compensation for the […]
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Provost denies privatization
Questions arose about Cal Poly’s future as a public university after a talk given by Cal Poly Provost Robert Koob last Wednesday at a retired faculty and staff luncheon. Koob discussed increasing cuts to funding and tuition hikes as signs that change is necessary in order for Cal Poly to continue offering students an education […]