Victoria Billings vbillings@mustangdaily.net University Housing is asking for students’ input in a new survey sent to Cal Poly students via email this week. The survey is one of the first steps University Housing is taking to improve the on-campus experience…
‘Super senior’ fee decision POSTPONED
Laura Pezzini lpezzini.md@gmail.com The California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees has postponed making a decision on a plan to place fees on retaken classes, course loads more than 17 units and “super seniors.” The plan was originally devised in…
Subway grand opening Friday
Victoria Billings vbillings@mustangdaily.net Students may have been stuffing their faces with tasty subs for several weeks now, but they will get a chance to revel in Subway’s “eat fresh” philosophy this Friday. Cal Poly’s first and only on-campus Subway is…
Semester survey sent to Cal Poly students
Sean McMinn smcminn@mustangdaily.net Cal Poly took the latest step to deciding on the possibility of semester conversion this past week by launching a survey to gauge the campus’ attitude about semesters and quarters. The Semester Review Task Force has discussed the survey,…
Students make trash green
Laura Pezzini lpezzini@mustangdaily.net When general engineering junior McKinnley Workman realized Cal Poly lacked a reasonable composting system, she took matters into her own hands. Workman is one of the founders of Cal Poly Composters, a group that aims to make…
Department looking to improve math scores
Some 10 percent of freshmen fail their math midterms and start scrambling to save their sinking grades before finals, Cal Poly mathematics professor Adrienne Riley said. But the math department has tools and resources to keep them afloat. Midterms in…
FLASH cleaning: health study examining data
The FLASH team, which studies health and habits of college students, is “cleaning up” the data it started collecting with the class of 2009, program manager and graduate student Adam Abudra said. The team is working on examining 1,571 physical…
Prop 30 narrowly passes, CSU avoids budget cuts
Sean McMinn smcminn@mustangdaily.net Cal Poly students went to sleep Tuesday not knowing if Proposition 30’s outcome would bring a tuition increase or a tuition rollback come January. Hours later, they woke up to learn it would be the latter. It…
Materials and deadlines
Industrial technology senior Audrey Egan is getting a taste of business as an operations manager for a lab class offered at Cal Poly. Students in Applied Business Operations (IT 407) must think of an idea, invest in materials, manufacture and then…
School of Education stays offline
Cal Poly’s School of Education is not jumping on the online education bandwagon any time soon. Instead, the school is teaching students to teach in a traditional classroom setting with face to face methods, rather than face to screen instruction.…