New diversity initiatives underway

In response to last quarter’s crop house incident, new university initiatives are under way aimed at improving Cal Poly’s diversity and increase multicultural awareness in the curriculum.

Cal Poly seeks student feedback in online survey

Students have the opportunity this week to take an online survey that could benefit their learning experience at Cal Poly and provide the university with information to make improvements.

Students win sole U.S. award in Italian flower competition

Horticulture and crop science students traveled to Sanremo, the flower capital of Italy, in January and received the “Best Historical and Iconographic Research” award at the 2009 Festival dei Fiori.

Lewis slamming into Cal Poly’s future

Even though the Cal Poly men’s basketball team has struggled through a 7-17 season and may miss the Big West Conference Tournament, the year hasn’t been a total loss for the Mustangs. In their 75-73 loss to UC Davis on…

Travel the world in a falling economy

As the economy worsens and college costs continue to augment, students like Benjamin Thompson are finding methods to travel cheaply through trains and hitchhiking.

Barden clocks under 4.6 seconds

Recently graduated Cal Poly receiver Ramses Barden ran an unofficial 4.57-second 40-yard dash Sunday at the NFL Draft Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. It would figure to be a mild success for the 6-foot-6, 229-pound Barden, who was estimated by most…

Campus laptop theft increases

Like most Cal Poly students peacefully studying in the bowels of Robert E. Kennedy Library, Michael Toole didn’t think he had anything to fear besides doing poorly on a test.

He’d been on the second floor overlooking the entrance for a couple hours that afternoon last February, and had already gone to the bathroom and returned to all his belongings safely resting as when he left.

CENG associate dean Sullivan loses brief battle with cancer

Edward Sullivan, associate dean of engineering for research and graduate programs, died Monday from complications relating to cancer. He was 64.

“Ed was an outstanding scholar, teacher and humanist,” said Daniel Walsh, associate dean for the College of Engineering.

Two Poly grads develop U.S. government system

Accessing government documents should now be easier thanks to the work of two Cal Poly graduates at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington D.C.

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) unveiled its Federal Digital System (FDsys) Jan. 15, an electronic database designed to provide easier access to government documents for the general public and the more than 1,250 libraries that participate in the Federal Depository Library Program.

Combine nears for Barden

Judgment day has come. Well, not really. But recently graduated Cal Poly receiver Ramses Barden is about to compete at the NFL Draft Scouting Combine, held in Indianapolis. It runs from Wednesday through Tuesday and is televised by the NFL…

Big West assists leader hospitalized after wreck

Cal State Northridge senior point guard Josh Jenkins is “resting in stable condition at the California Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering injuries in a single-car accident” Saturday night, according to the school’s Monday news release. The driver was…