Mountains with 85 percent of current snow. Twenty-year droughts in the Southwest. Collapsing aquifers and economic losses.
Speaking their truth: Thousands attend San Luis Obispo Women’s March
Thousands gathered at Mitchell Park and marched through the streets of downtown at the “Truth to Power” San Luis Obispo Women’s March (WMSLO) Saturday, Jan. 19.
Students plan another career fair Raytheon protest, calling “Cal Poly is complicit in war”
While most students prepare for Cal Poly career fairs by printing out resumes and practicing elevator pitches, students from SLO Peace Coalition and Students for Quality Education have other priorities. The student activists will be going over chants and making…
Cal Poly donor and energy provider PG&E files for bankruptcy
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced Monday, Jan. 14 it will be declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy later this month, after not being able to pay billions of dollars in liability claims from the past two years of wildfires, according to…
The college gender gap: more women are graduating from Cal Poly than men
In 2018, 86.4 percent of females graduated, while 78.7 percent of males graduated from Cal Poly.
Cornel West talks government shutdown, Black Lives Matter, Kanye at Cal Poly fireside chat
Cal Poly community members filled the Performing Arts Center Pavilion Wednesday evening to listen to activist, philosopher and author Cornel West in a moderated question-and-answer-style “fireside chat.” West discussed hard-hitting topics ranging from the government shutdown to sustainability, as well…
Cal Poly sophomore launches two “Moustronauts” into space
One small feat for man, one giant leap for mousekind.
Flight cancellations kick off Winter 2019: Cal Poly community comes together
How Cal Poly parent’s helped students affected by weather-inflicted flight cancellations. One parent flew with her daughter and friend to rent them a rental car, others rented a 12-seater van to help stranded students make the drive from San Francisco.
Now in day 26, students see the effects of the government shutdown firsthand
Trump’s decision to partially shutdown the government has stirred up many emotions in the country and the effects have stretched to Cal Poly’s campus. Environmental management and protection junior Shelby Littleton visited a few national parks over winter break and…
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Kathleen Enz Finken announces retirement
“I’ve come to understand over the years that there is never a ‘perfect’ time to step aside from a position such as this,” Provost Kathleen Enz Finken wrote her retirement announcement. “There is never a time when everything is done, the work is completed, and one can move on knowing ‘it’s all set.’ If that time ever came, it would mark the end of progress, growth, and change for the betterment of the institution, our students, and society.”
Cal Poly sophomore wins district assembly position for the Democratic Party
A political science sophomore was backed by the San Luis Obispo County Progressives and won a seat as an Assembly District delegate for Assembly District 35.