Classes aren’t always the most difficult part of a student’s day at Cal Poly – sometimes just getting to classes on time with one’s sanity intact is the hardest part.
And since Cal Poly has almost 20,000 students enrolled with just 6,621 parking spaces available, not everyone can drive to school.
Eighty-six-year-old Arlene Chandler still has plenty to be proud of when the city is swarmed with incoming students at the start of each school year.
In 1961, as director of student activities, Chandler was one of the founders of the very first “Welcome Week,” as it used to be called.
Cal Poly’s policy that all students must declare a major upon applying has been a long-standing unique aspect of the school. There are mixed opinions, however, as to whether this policy is more hindering than helpful.
Some think the policy gives Cal Poly students an edge in the job market, associate director of admissions and recruitment Walter Harris said.
1. Go to a free local concert
2. Find “your” coffee shop hangout
3. Go to the Sycamore Hot Springs at Avila under a starry sky
4. Sit on the sidewalk and eat fresh fruit and tri-tip sandwiches at Farmers’ Market
5. Get lost in the “spider building”
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Though most college students begin their term of higher education with the best intentions, it is true that no amount of optimism can prepare students for the worst, and as many headlines everyday inform us, “the worst” can happen to anyone. So how do you safeguard yourself against little things like getting a cold, to larger things such as an arrest or injury? The key term in prevention in this case is awareness.
A 21-year-old local woman died early Monday morning after being struck by the car of a 23-year-old Cal Poly student.
According to the police report, Tayna Maree Moore was lying in the roadway at the intersection of Santa Rosa Street and Foothill Boulevard wearing dark clothing when she was struck by Frederick Gonzalez’s vehicle.
View photos and a timeline about the history of Cal Poly’s orientation, Week of Welcome.
While many universities feel pressure to create new, “easier” majors for student athletes to remain eligible, Cal Poly shies away from such a practice.
“Some athletics is big business now, and you find ways around certain things, and we don’t do that here,” said Cal Poly Athletics’ director of academic services Shannon Stephens, who used to work in the same capacity at UCLA.
Bobby Hodges started driving well before other kids his age. In fact, he was just 11 years old when he really started putting the pedal to the metal.
But then, while other kids were at the age when they would be putting away their toy plastic racecars, Hodges was behind the wheel of a real little racecar, careening down the track and beating his competition.
Competition is the source of inspiration for all athletes, but downtime is what’s pushed Eric Branagan-Franco even more.
As the co-captain and starting goalkeeper for the Cal Poly men’s soccer team, Branagan-Franco was ready to help propel the Mustangs to the playoffs last season when, with two games left, he suffered a devastating blow.
This story was posted at 8:58 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16. Days after his football team’s Saturday game at McNeese State in Lake Charles, La. was canceled due to possible consequences of Hurricane Ike, Cal Poly head coach Rich Ellerson was surprisingly whimsical at the school’s news conference Monday afternoon.