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Proposal lets first-year grad students teach

An Academic Senate proposal by the Senate’s Faculty Affairs Committee has prompted discord over the concept of allowing graduate students to teach regular courses.

The proposal made Nov. 2, 2007 was accepted and became a resolution on evaluation of teaching associates.

Delta Sigma Pi hosts charity golf tournament

Business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi wants people to tee off not just for a trophy, but for a couple of good causes in its fifth annual Charity Golf Tournament for Local Charities.

This year’s tournament benefits local chapters of The Work Training Program, Inc.

Grand theft avocado

Two men are going to jail after taking a guac on the wild side when they attempted to steal avocados from a Cal Poly orchard.

Braulio Franco and Alejandro Sanchez of Santa Maria were sentenced to 60 and 45 days in the San Luis Obispo County jail, police said.

Commentary: Vogue cover offensive to some

LeBron James = King Kong?

I saw the cover of the “shape” issue of Vogue magazine, which features model Gisele Bündchen and LeBron James as examples for the story “Secrets of the Best Bodies.”

Initially confused after seeing the cover, I had to read an article by Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock to grasp how one could consider the cover racist.

Children's Center gets large cut of ASI budget

It may be alarming for some students that the campus Children’s Center receives around 40 percent of the Associated

Silva striving to reach Olympic trials standard

Need inspiration? Meet Christine Silva, who has overcome a broken wrist from a year ago to become one of the top pole vaulters not only in the Big West Conference, but in the entire country.

The 5-foot-5 Silva won the UCLA Invitational on March 8 with a clearance of 12 feet, 9 « inches – an improvement from her 12-8 ¬ mark at the Husky Invitational in Seattle on Feb.