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Cal Poly wins team competition at Wildflower

About 1,000 Cal Poly volunteers watched nearly 7,500 athletes compete with enthusiasm inspired by their remarkable dedication and vigor – or with languor inspired by 80-degree heat and no shade – at this year’s Avia Wildflower Triathlons over the weekend.

The courses sprawled around Lake San Antonio in Bradley, along various roads lining the lake, and including hills that competitors had a hard time with.

Wildflower begins this weekend

People have been partying at Wildflower for 26 years, but does everybody know what they’re celebrating?

As one of the largest triathlons worldwide, the Wildflower races, or Avia Wildflower Triathlons, held at Lake San Antonio, draw upward of 7,500 athletes and 30,000 spectators and volunteers annually – including 1,200 volunteers from Cal Poly, according to sponsorship coordinator Colleen Bousman.

Lema's platform pushes better access to student services

Long years of showing animals through Future Farmers of America and 4-H are not all that shaped Associated Student Inc. presidential candidate Melissa Lema’s work ethic and desire to be involved.

Lema, a dairy science junior with an agribusiness minor who plans to graduate in fall 2009, has a wealth of experience with ASI.

Graduation checklist for the student in need

Your days may be swamped with homework and other activities, but don’t lose sight of the ultimate goal: graduation. If you don’t keep track of your coursework and other requirements, you may end up with a rejected graduation evaluation and angry parents with useless hotel reservations.

Does your busyness have a purpose?

With every busy quarter that passed, I longed for my final quarter at Cal Poly, which I

Prisoner uses Web site as a creative outlet

If you have ever harbored interest in learning about prison life, here is your chance to do so through the online and on-air creative workings of an inmate doing 25 to life for conspiracy to commit murder.

Prisoner David, a 37-year-old former inmate at the California Mens Colony, describes himself as a comedy sketch writer.

Exhibit embodies struggle for Chicano identity

ChismeArte Magazine was a Los Angeles-based work that ran in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Students use silence to show LGBT support

Students across campus held their tongues Wednesday, not in spite or shame, but rather in protest of LGBT oppression.

Senior Prom benefits Alzheimer's Association

More than 300 Cal Poly students and San Luis Obispo senior citizens attended the second annual Senior Prom – twice the number of last year’s attendees – and helped raise more than $3,500 for the Alzheimer’s Association.

The three-hour event, hosted by Cal Poly’s Student Community Services, was held Sunday at the Manse on Marsh, a senior living community at 475 Marsh St.

Meet Cal Poly in only five minutes

If you fall into the majority in every category of enrolled students at Cal Poly, you are probably a 21-year-old Caucasian male engineering major from the San Francisco Bay area . at least that’s what the statistics say.

Figures found in the past year or two show that certain trends prevail among Cal Poly students, especially as far as majors, ethnicity and region of origin go.

Pilipino Cultural Exchange celebrates in live action

The 19th annual Pilipino Cultural Night is coming back to Cal Poly after playing in Arroyo Grande last year – and it’s coming back in live action.

The event, more frequently referred to as PCN, is a production celebrating Pilipino culture through the dancing, singing and writing talents of the members of the Pilipino Cultural Exchange club (PCE).