Campus Dining has introduced some major changes this quarter by extending hours for various venues, as well as additional food choices and new meal plan programs. These changes were implemented to increase the variety of options around campus and respond to customer demand, according to Cal Poly Corporation Marketing and Public Relations director Yukie Nishinaga. […]
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Select styles in the stores of SLO
Cal Poly attracts many different kinds of people to its campus, and consequently, many different personality types. Students often choose to represent their unique personality with their “style” and express themselves through their clothing (unless that expression says he or she just rolled out of bed). The challenge for clothing stores in San Luis Obispo […]
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Mustang football to play Eastern Washington for last home game
Cal Poly football will play Eastern Washington University on Saturday. A win would close out the season with a perfect home game record. Though the Mustangs lost to UC Davis at their last game on Nov. 5, head coach Tim Walsh said the team has “dealt with it really well” and is focusing on the […]
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Obama’s plan will help grads with loans
President Barack Obama had good news for students with education loans when he announced changes to federal policy concerning student loan payments on Oct. 25. The changes will take effect in 2012. The new legislation, referred to as “Pay as You Earn,” will cap student loan payments at 10 percent of a graduate’s yearly discretionary […]
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'Turf toe' can't keep Asa Jackson off field
Normally, punt returns are some of the most exciting plays in football, but they can also be the most frightening. Homecoming night, in a game against Southern Utah earlier this season, Asa Jackson found himself on his back clutching his foot when two Thunderbirds tackled him after fielding a punt. The electric atmosphere at Alex […]
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SWEet Victory
Cal Poly Society of Women’s Engineers (SWE) brought home its eighth Gold Award as the nation’s top Outstanding Collegiate Section at the Annual Conference for Women Engineers on Oct. 15. The annual Women’s Engineers Conference was held in Chicago from Oct. 13 to 15, and attendees had the opportunity to develop professional skills, network with […]
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Faculty rally after strike announcement
Cal Poly members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) marched outside of the administration building Tuesday as part of a California-wide picket by the association. The picket followed a CFA vote Monday to organize a one-day strike on two California State University (CSU) campuses. Glen Thorncroft, president of the local chapter of CFA and mechanical […]
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Back in bees-ness
Cal Poly would be a different place without honeybees: no more blueberries, raspberries, avocadoes or almonds, horticulture and crop science lecturer and instructor of beekeeping Scott Jeffreys said. This is a fate Cal Poly just recently avoided — narrowly. “We had over 200 hives in 2005 to 2006,” Jeffreys said. “We then lost all but […]
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Social media can make or break job search
Students soon to enter the professional world can either help or hurt their chances of finding employment by implementing social media into their job search, according to Cal Poly career counselor Amie Hammond. Hammond said Jobvite, a recruiting platform for the social media era, found in an annual survey that 89 percent of U.S. companies plan […]
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County sees slight drop in unemployment
San Luis Obispo County’s jobless rate is beginning to decrease, after reaching a yearly high in July, according to the latest preliminary data released by California’s Employment Development Department (EDD), which tracks and documents unemployment rates in California. In September, the unemployment rate dropped to 9.3 percent, which is 0.6 percent less than the numbers reported […]
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Don’t judge a couch by its cover
The Cal Poly Architecture Department and Robert E. Kennedy Library have joined forces for this fall’s art exhibit: “Assembly Required: An Exhibition of Polytechnic Furniture Artists and Vellum Design Winners.” The exhibit allows students to interact with literature in a brand new way, architecture professor Thomas Fowler said. His third-year design students were tasked with […]