The seventh annual UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference will be held at Cal Poly this weekend, the first time the conference will be hosted by a California State University. The conference includes representatives from all three public higher education systems in California: the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU) and California Community College (CCC) systems.
'Edible wall' provides food for poor
Low-income residents of Los Angeles’s Skid Row can now thank a group of dedicated Cal Poly students for an endless supply of garden-fresh vegetables available literally right outside their doors in the form of an “edible wall.”
In collaboration with the international group Urban Farming and a company called Green Living Technologies, Cal Poly students spent the last three months growing the plants that are now encased in 180 steel panels filled with soil.
Budget delay won't hurt CSU employees
California State University employees can expect to see full paychecks during the state budget stalemate, despite the governor’s recommendation to cut back pay to $6.55 an hour.
Because California’s new budget is already 31 days past its deadline, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order Thursday in an attempt to free up state money until legislators can reach an agreement.
Big West has new king: Fullerton's Bobby Brown
It wasn’t the way Bobby Brown had envisioned things.
Several months prior, the Cal State Fullerton guard was flirting with the NBA, working out with the Phoenix Suns (twice), the Clippers and Lakers of his hometown Los Angeles and attending the pre-draft camp in Orlando.
Roller hockey club prepares for tryouts
The Cal Poly roller hockey club team may not have the most visible fan base or an on-campus rink – but that doesn’t keep its members from doing what they love, and doing it well.
Last year, the Mustangs went 10-5-3 before falling in March at the Western Collegiate Roller Hockey League Regional Championships at the Roller Hockey Center in Irvine.
Murphy recruiting in Vegas
Ben Bolch of the L.A. Times recently had an interesting chat with Cal Poly men’s basketball assistant coach Tim Murphy in Las Vegas. Murphy’s admission of not going after ‘four-star,’ ‘five-star’ blue chips may be sandbagging a bit considering some…
Cal State Fullerton talks football
The Cal Poly football team’s predicament as one of just four Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) teams in California may not change any time soon, but some Cal State Fullerton students would like it to, apparently. Associated Students Inc.…
The bat is back in black
Christopher Nolan’s new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” has had more than just a veil of buzz surrounding it, and for good reason. This movie is amazing. It touches base with so many different emotions that to place it in just one genre would be a crime.
That’s right, this film may be an interpretation of an action-packed comic book, but matching pace with all of the explosions and shootings is a deeper plot and one hell of a cast.
Post your style
Welcome to chictopia.com, where Facebook experiences a head-on collision with Vogue. On this site you can upload pictures of yourself in your favorite outfits and view other users’ photos.
The site is geared primarily toward college-aged individuals looking to find deals on fashionable clothing, and see the way their favorite styles will actually look on their bodies.
WALL-E and reality not far apart
The references were hard to ignore. An iPod here. A Mac start-up noise there. Pixar’s
Algae to biofuel: new energy frontier
When Ilhami Yildiz came to Cal Poly in January 2007 with a vision for expanding his renewable energy research, he never expected things to fall into place so fast.