In South America, long days take pause as people stop to enjoy the cultural tradition of sharing a yerba mate gourd (a cup made of dehydrated vegetable shells) with friends.
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Cal Poly author and professor to share mission music history book
Kassi Luja kassiluja.md@gmail.com Cal Poly author and music professor Craig Russell will share his new book “From Serra to Sancho: Music Pageantry in the California Missions” at Robert E. Kennedy Library on Jan. 25 as part of the library’s “Conversations with Cal Poly Authors” event series. Russell will discuss his book that explores the history and culture of California mission music. […]
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The perks of Banned Books Week
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” author Stephen Chbosky is coming to campus next Friday for a Q&A session and book signing in honor of Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week is an American Library Association sponsored event. Library Academic Services employee Kristen Thorp has been working to raise awareness about the week for the […]
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Kennedy Library kicks off exhibit celebrating Book Club of California's centennial
This coming April, Robert E. Kennedy Library will host its spring exhibit, “Pressing Forward: The Book Club of California at 100.” In honor of the Book Club’s centennial, the traveling exhibition will host various activities including talks from a professional bookbinder and woodcut artist. “Our mission is to promote fine press printing related to the […]
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Annual ‘Banned Book Week’ reaches final chapter
Banned Books Week came to its close Oct. 1. The event opened the floor for library patrons to discuss why certain books would be censored and to talk about the ideas that made those books controversial in the first place.
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Professor raises questions on science fiction becoming reality
Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at Cal Poly presented on “Accelerating Evolution: The Ethics of Human Enhancement” at Kennedy Library from 4:30 to 5:30 last night. Brought to the second floor by the Science Cafe, Lin spoke to a packed cafe with an audience of 135 individuals.
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Speaker voices the science behind risk-taking
In the faintly sunlit cafe of Kennedy Library at dusk on Wed., Zambrano, associate professor in the Department of Economics at the Orfalea College of Business, discussed what it means to take individual risks, how to measure those risks and how people envision risk differently.