Lisa Diaz Mustang News reporter Lisa Diaz shows you how Cal Poly is celebrating International Education Week.
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Mustang Minute: Cal Poly celebrates Dia de los Muertos
Christina Favuzzi UU Plaza was more colorful than usual on Thursday. The Multicultural Center hosted a Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebration. For Latino American students, the day was an opportunity to share their culture with Cal Poly. Christina Favuzzi checks out the celebration.
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First ATOG of the year remembers Rhodes
The year’s first Another Type of Groove — a monthly spoken word event organized by the MultiCultural Center — began on a somber note Wednesday.
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Cross Cultural Centers: a collection of identities
Industrial technology junior Rotem Drori is an immigrant from Israel. Drori comes from a family of mostly Orthodox Jews. And Drori is gay.
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Year’s last ATOG proves ‘poetry is contagious’
Kelly Trom ktrom@mustangdaily.net The sound of snapping, whoops of agreement and resounding “Word!”s filled Chumash Auditorium as the final Another Type of Groove (ATOG) of the year unfolded Wednesday evening. Organized by the MultiCultural Center, the spoken word event gave the opportunity for any student to show off his or her talent in an open mic […]
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The changing face of Cal Poly
Amanda Margozzi amandamargozzi.md@gmail.com The total number of applications submitted to Cal Poly reached an all-time high in Fall 2012. There were 45,796 transfer and first-time freshman applications, which was an increase of 10.9 percent from the previous year, according to the Cal Poly Fall 2012 Fact Book. With the number of enrolled freshmen reaching an […]
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Behind the scenes: MultiCultural Center
When the MultiCultural Center opened its doors Jan. 15 — Martin Luther King Day — in 1981, it was initially only supposed to function as a lounge where minority students could hang out. “Students of color didn’t have a place to meet and talk,” coordinator of MultiCultural Programs and Services Renoda Campbell said. “They wanted to see […]
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ATOG goes hip-hop with new poet
The MultiCultural Center (MCC) will host a celebration of diversity and words Wednesday night with the return of its popular poetry event, Another Type of Groove (ATOG). The event offers open mics to attendees before and after showcasing a notable poet hired by the MCC; it usually takes place the first Wednesday of every month. […]
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Women's HERstory
Student Life and Leadershiphas put together a campaign called Women’s HERstory Week to honor the progress and history of women’s issues from March 5 to 9. The week leads up to today, International Women’s Day. The weeklong series of events is put on by Cal Poly’s MultiCultural Center (MCC), Gender Equity Center and Pride Center. As a whole, the event […]
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Award-winning poet returns to ATOG
Joaquin Zihuatanejo brings his “life in the barrio” to Cal Poly.
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Minorities bond across cultures
He was the only black student in most of his classes and his dorm. As a minority, Smith (not his actual name, see editor’s note below) found himself isolated from Cal Poly by his race. Monday, he will bring together others who share that sense of separation. Smith, architecture sophomore, moved from Chicago to Cal Poly, […]