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Students make bill-splitting easy

Bills. No one likes them. They creep up, steal your money, and then do the same thing 30 days later. Throw some roommates into the equation and paying bills can get downright nasty.

Luckily, two Cal Poly students have developed a software program that will make paying bills easier.

Salinas family donates $1.5 million for new building

The Cal Poly College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences is $1.5 million closer to having the proposed Agriculture Technology Center built thanks to the Oreggia Family Foundation.

The donation was made to help start the construction of the center, which will provide faculty and students additional lab space to conduct applied research and work on senior projects.

Student dies during orientation week at Montana de Oro

Enrique Jimenez would be starting Cal Poly this week. He would be experiencing those freshman butterflies and scurrying to find his classes for the first time.

But while attending an event at Montana de Oro for orientation week, Jimenez died three days before his freshman year officially started.

Boogie woogie the night away

Ronnie Meehan If you are itching to boogie woogie the night away then Cal Poly’s Jazz Night on Saturday will give you the beats to do so. The Blues and Boogie Big Band – also known as Cal Poly’s Jazz…

Billbored for the week of 5/8

PEDAL yourself to the Community Bike Happening and Bike-In Movie on Friday, May 12 and help celebrate National Bike Month. Meet at the Mission Plaza at 7 p.m. Bikers will head to Meadow Park and will watch “The Triplets of…

Bertoni leads Mustangs to Big West golf title

In what was a dominating performance, the Cal Poly men’s golf team won the Big West Championship Tournament. Three mustangs finished in the top-10, including star Travis Bertoni who finished in second place behind Long Beach State’s Ryan Panichpakdee. Bertoni…

'STANGS READY FOR BIG WEST FINALE

The Cal Poly men’s golf team will try to build on its fifth-place finish at last week’s Merrill Lynch Invitational when the Big West Conference Championship kicks off in Mission Viejo on April 24-25. The tournament will mark the last…

DiFranco 'not so soft'

Ronnie Meehan While other artists were playing benefit concerts and riding the wave of patriotism that swept the country following the 9/11 attacks, fem-rocker Ani DiFranco took the stage in April 2002 at New York’s Carnegie Hall to express her…

Mediums in the making: Students start local business

Ronnie Meehan When Cal Poly business students Lance Brandenberg and Ryan Reyes started screen printing, it was only a weekend hobby. However, this weekend hobby has now blossomed into their own screen printing shop in San Luis Obispo called Mediums.…