Cal Poly Theism, a new religious studies club, became an official club on campus winter quarter.

The Cal Poly club Raise the Respect rallied at the Universal Heath Care Lobby Day in Sacramento on Wednesday.

Students joined from across the state to kick off the reintroduction of the California Health Insurance Reliability Act, a bill to provide all Californians with health insurance coverage.

A local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers donated 164 olive trees to a group of American soldiers in Iraq this holiday season.

Master Sgt. Patricia Marsano from the United States Army Reserves contacted the California Rare Fruit Growers and asked for a donation of olive trees to plant around their base.

Cal Poly received a record 34,173 applications for the 2007-08 school year, an 11 percent increase from 2006.

This is the 13th year in a row that Cal Poly has had a record number of applicants.

Since 1993, Cal Poly’s application pool has tripled, and has increased 60 percent since 2000.

A mattress caught fire in a Stenner Glen apartment Monday night, prompting 150 students to evacuate three buildings in the complex. No one was injured.

The San Luis Obispo City Fire Department responded to the call at 11 p.m. from a resident adviser and found flames in a first floor, five-bedroom suite.