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If you fall into the majority in every category of enrolled students at Cal Poly, you are probably a 21-year-old Caucasian male engineering major from the San Francisco Bay area . at least that’s what the statistics say.

Figures found in the past year or two show that certain trends prevail among Cal Poly students, especially as far as majors, ethnicity and region of origin go.

Robots face off in annual CENG event

Cal Poly’s Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society will host the 14th annual Roborodentia contest Saturday, a hectic competition in which autonomous robots face off in a quasi-table tennis match.

“This is one of the biggest events that the College of Engineering puts on during Open House,” said John Seng, a computer engineering professor and faculty adviser to the IEEE Computer Society.

The club behind the Open House weekend

When you think of Cal Poly’s 15th annual Open House weekend, what probably comes to mind

Poly professor tries politics

After 13 years of teaching at Cal Poly, English professor Adam Hill has a new calling

Street preachers ignite debate

An impromptu debate broke out in the University Union Wednesday when two street

Goodbye Oracle, Hello Zimbra

As Cal Poly’s five-year contract with Oracle comes to an end in September, students can

Greek Week in full swing at Poly

Greek Week is in full swing at Cal Poly. The week kicked off Thursday at University Union

Students question Saudi Arabia program

The well-publicized proposal for a collaboration between Cal Poly’s College of

Budget forces fewer students

Other than rising student fees and shrinking job pools, most students may not feel many effects of California’s nearly $20

Proposal lets first-year grad students teach

An Academic Senate proposal by the Senate’s Faculty Affairs Committee has prompted discord over the concept of allowing graduate students to teach regular courses.

The proposal made Nov. 2, 2007 was accepted and became a resolution on evaluation of teaching associates.