Electrical engineering senior Juan Galindo is an international transfer student from El Salvador. Electrical engineering senior Juan Avelar is an international transfer student from Colombia. Each Juan is 23, each Juan left their respective Central American country on a student…
Cal Poly women talk sex
Some learned from older brothers and sisters. Others from movies such as “Titanic.” But the majority of the 27 women at Let’s Talk Sex said they learned about sex in fifth and sixth grade via a sex education class. Caitlin…
Brown pulls trigger, more budget cuts
California Gov. Jerry Brown released his yearly budget proposal last Thursday, introducing the possibility of additional cuts to the California State University (CSU) system. The proposed cuts come less than a month after a December trigger cut slashed $100 million…
New laws mean new protections for students
A new year means new resolutions, a new calendar and a whole bevy of new laws taking effect. More than 40,000 new state laws went into effect throughout the U.S. at the start of 2012, with 747 new laws in California…
SLO Five-O
What crime happened in San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly throughout the week? Check back here each week to find out. Monday, Jan. 2. Hit and run. A hit and run collision occurred on the 1100 block of Morro Street…
Rose float team carries on tradition
Dozens of Cal Poly students spent last week in a state of “organized chaos” while preparing for the 123rd annual Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, Calif. With the largest number of students working on the project in recent history, 37…
Teaching left behind
The Cal Poly professors who educate future teachers are hoping the state will apply for a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which would allow California’s teachers to bring art, music, history and physical education (PE) back into the…
New man on the job: SLO chooses new police chief
The City of San Luis Obispo has selected a new police chief to replace retiring chief Deborah Linden. Stephen Gesell, a 22-year law enforcement veteran, served the community of Atascadero as interim police chief in 2011, and will take office…
Controversial Higuera renovations begin
Downtown San Luis Obispo will soon see changes following the City Council decision to approve a beautification plan for a two-block area of Higuera Street between Morro and Garden streets. After a series of public comments both for and against…
Student creates support group
Kirsten Mortenson’s life was irrevocably changed three weeks before her first quarter at Cal Poly when her father was diagnosed with stage-four kidney cancer. Mortenson, now an environmental management and protection senior, said she was left to battle not only…
Wine country possibly shrinking
Global warming could hurt Cal Poly and other premium winegrowing regions of California in the next 30 years, said Noah Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor of environmental Earth system science at Stanford. Diffenbaugh and other Stanford University climate scientists said by…