With just one day left before the advisory vote on the proposed Student Success Fee, 20 students attended the last of the administration-sponsored open forums Tuesday. University Union Advisory Board member and agricultural business sophomore Jason Colombini was among…
Students to travel 10,000 miles to start “Recolution”
With tuition costs climbing steadily and state funding for public higher education being slashed, students are paying more every year to complete their degrees. A new group, the Cal Poly Recolution of Education Club, hopes to raise $30,000 to travel…
'Ultramarathon Man' tells Cal Poly students secret to success
The audience wore running shoes — as if by unanimous decision — last Thursday when “Ultramarathon Man” and Cal Poly alumnus Dean Karnazes spoke at Cal Poly. Karnazes, who gave an hour-long presentation in the Business building, covered everything from…
Women's tennis battles through injuries
The Cal Poly women’s tennis team won its first Big West Conference match this season after the team beat Pacific 5-2 on Sunday. For the first time since the team’s Feb. 12 loss to UC Davis, every Mustang was healthy…
Kastl wins Pac-12 championship, Novachkov and DesRoches fall in final
Despite second place finishes from top-seeds Boris Novachkov and Ryan DesRoches, the Cal Poly wrestling team earned four automatic bids to the NCAA National Championships held March 15 to 17 in St. Louis. Novachkov and DesRoches will be accompanied by…
What is an advisory vote?
As a part of the rapidly approaching Student Success Fee vote, the advisory vote will distinguish what the next step will be. “An advisory vote is just that, advisory, versus it being binding,” associate vice provost for systems and resources…
Israeli scholar's lecture raises issues of free speech
Chumash Auditorium was nearly full. Many of those waiting were simply students hoping to pick up a few extra credit points. But others were angry. Some had survived the Holocaust and were not ready to hear criticisms of the state…
History repeats itself as fee proposal comes to students
Less than three years after voting to increase College Based Fees, Cal Poly students will once again be asked to advise the university president on a school-wide tuition increase come Wednesday. The Student Success Fee brings up uncanny similarities…
'Better to tread water than to drown'
We were there for the first forum, the one with only one student in the audience as well as one of the final forums yesterday. Starting when former Cal Poly Provost Robert Koob proposed it in November, the Mustang Daily…
Middle class scholarships to help decrease CA tuition
California State Assembly speaker John Perez introduced legislation which would cut the rising price of attending public college in California by thousands of dollars per year, but not all are convinced it will pass and become law. The Middle…
SLO Five-0 2/20-2/26
Monday, Feb. 20 4:18 a.m. A commercial burglary occurred on the 200 block of Elks Lane. 11:01 a.m. An assault occurred on the 900 block of Industrial Way. Tuesday, Feb. 21 12:39 p.m. Fraud occurred on the 1200 block…