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College of Liberal Arts adds new department based on gender

The Cal Poly Women’s Studies Program will implement two big changes effective next quarter: It will officially become its own department and will change its name to be more indicative of its objective.

The soon-to-be women’s and gender studies department will be the 17th department in the College of Liberal Arts.

Guide to student apartment complexes

Sure, on-campus housing comes with perks, but what if you need a break from campus food? What if you like biking to school? What if you can only take so much of the busy Cal Poly atmosphere?

That’s where the San Luis Obispo Off Campus Student Housing Association comes in; it is a group of eight housing facilities that accommodate a variety of students who wish to live near, but not on, campus.

Mustangs score nine runs in fifth inning while blasting Gauchos

UC Santa Barbara baseball fans cheered from the bleachers of Cal Poly’s Baggett Stadium Tuesday night when six of their players trotted past home plate in the eighth inning.

Those runs were the Gauchos’ only ones of the game, though, in the Mustangs’ 15-6 win.

Birth control price hike affects female college students

As if taking birth control didn’t come with enough side effects, here’s a new one: empty wallet syndrome. Since January 2007,

Billiards club: Cue stick connoisseurs

Ask them to teach you some English and you won’t get much help with your literature

Steppin' it up

I have to admit, before I watched “Stomp the Yard” I was expecting the step version of “Bring It On,” chock-full of phrases like, “This isn’t a democracy. It’s a step-ocracy.”

Instead of the fifth installment of the played-out cheerleading movie fluke, “Stomp the Yard” delivered somewhat decent entertainment.

C-SPAN buses politics to Poly

A national campaign to educate students and community members about the presidential election is coming to Cal Poly in the form of a 45-foot tour bus.

C-SPAN’s “Road to the White House” bus will be on Mott Lawn today from noon to 2 p.m. to give students the opportunity to interact with key representatives from both parties after taking a 15-minute tour through the multimedia vehicle, which will be running educational videos about the election.

Two comedians, two different sets

Tom Papa and Marc Maron may have stood on the same stage Saturday night, but that’s where the similarities end.

The two very different comedians performed for more than 500 audience members at the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center, garnering a mixed response.

Student art exhibit 'focuses the nation'

For those who constantly wonder how they can do more for the environment and the global warming crisis, one exhibit has the answer.

The Sustainability Art Exhibit, put on by the environmentally-conscious Focus the Nation (FTN) event, allows artists and FTN members to show off how they help the environment.

Society of Women Engineers works on Disney coasters

Several roller coasters at Disneyland just got a little bit smoother, thanks to Cal Poly’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

A team of roughly 24 SWE students recently took home first place and $5,000 at the national Boeing Team Tech Competition by designing a very useful tool for the world-famous amusement park.