By the time you finish reading this editorial, another one of your fellow students or two will have been slandered on the Internet’s newest college-aimed Web site, their names trashed for any of their peers to see.
The words may be true, they may be not – it really doesn’t matter because the people who post are completely anonymous and unaffected.
When I applied to schools my senior year of high school, my dad advised me to make a list of the pros and cons for every school I applied to. While compiling information about the size of the towns and friendliness of the students, I came to the conclusion that there was only one negative on my list for Cal Poly: deciding my major.
Going against the protests of some students, Cal Poly’s on-campus food waste composting program was removed last Tuesday, along with the manure compost, leaving many students questioning the reasoning behind the College of Agriculture’s decision. Andy Thulin, interim farm operations manager and department head for the animal science department, said he made the decision to remove the compost windrows from the Cal Poly Organic Farm because the food waste and the manure waste were in too close in proximity to each other, among other reasons.
Does the media really influence votes? Find out at the next Associated Students Inc. True Life Series event on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. in Chumash Auditorium.
Cliff Kincaid, editor of conservative watchdog organization Accuracy in the Media, and Norman Solomon, founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national association of policy researchers and analysts, will debate the topic, “Does the media sway votes?”
“The True Life series is really just an event that provides students with the information and education to make up their own minds about controversial topics,” said ASI Program Coordinator Michelle Curro.
Sure, there was a chill sharp enough by California standards to force the shirtless, chest-painted fans in the Alex G. Spanos Stadium student section to cover up, and enough fog to make out-of-state observers assume San Luis Obispo was adjacent to either Los Angeles or San Francisco, not somewhere in between.
Students, intramural teams and sports clubs at Cal Poly will soon be able to play all year round on the new turf fields currently being installed at the Upper Sports Complex. The fields are part of the Recreation Center Expansion, which was approved by 75 percent of students who voted last year.
After Cal Poly men’s soccer team’s loss to Santa Barbara on Oct. 17, the talk should have been about a classic game that renewed a rivalry between two powerhouse teams. But attention was averted from the 1-0 double-overtime defeat to the unruly Cal Poly fans that made a scene on national television.
Not long ago, Robert D. Koob, who replaced Bill Durgin in early October as Cal Poly provost, was enjoying his retirement so much that it took some time and a lot of thought for him to accept the position.
“I was retired and I hoped to stay retired,” Koob said.
In between classes, Cal Poly students and faculty often peruse a free copy of the New York Times for in-depth political commentary or global issues. But in lieu of recent budget cuts, the New York Times Readership Program may be the first thing to go.
The program supplies copies of the paper to campuses nationwide for 50 cents each, ASI President Angela Kramer said.
With no definite end in sight for the global economic crisis, concerned community members and students turned away from the political punditry on TV and to a local panel of experts on Friday afternoon to answer their questions about the financial future.
Several hundred people showed up in the Performing Arts Center’s Philips Hall, many with notebooks and pens in hand, ready to take notes and ask questions at the town-hall style forum sponsored by the Orfalea College of Business.
The Cal Poly football team’s game against Southern Utah was one that would make John Madden proud. The school’s most well-known football alumnus is famous for his series of video games that feature electrifying big plays and high scoring. Neither team disappointed there.