College is all about being curious, coming up with assumptions and challenging the conventional way of looking at things.
This is exactly what lecturer Craig B. Smith did Thursday, as he explained his theory of how the Great Pyramids of Giza were made.
The lecture was held in the Performing Arts Center.
Hip-hop may seem like just spoken words with a beat, but it goes far beyond that, if you ask the Cal Poly chapter of Hip Hop Congress.
Not only does it strive to cultivate the original four elements of hip-hop – breakdancing, graffiti artistry, deejaying and, of course, emceeing – but it also seeks to break down misperceptions and unite people.
Sixteen years ago, the Cal Poly community lost a beloved architect, artist and professor.
Since Vern Swansen passed away, Alpha Rho Chi, a professional fraternity in the Cal Poly College of Architecture and Environmental Design, has preserved and curated about 4,000 of his paintings, including a decades-old mural adjacent to Backstage Pizza.
A national touring panel shared its opinions about hip-hop, youth vote activism and how they relate to the 2008 presidential election on Tuesday night in Fisher Science room 286.
While much of the forum, “Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop,” centered on how Americans ages 35 and under have come to be defined as the so-called “hip-hop generation,” other hot topics included the prevalence of race consciousness in American society as well as voter apathy.
Two men are going to jail after taking a guac on the wild side when they attempted to steal avocados from a Cal Poly orchard.
Braulio Franco and Alejandro Sanchez of Santa Maria were sentenced to 60 and 45 days in the San Luis Obispo County jail, police said.
It may be alarming for some students that the campus Children’s Center receives around 40 percent of the Associated
There’s nothing like filling up your gas tank and watching your available balance disappear. With no end in sight to rising prices, the Central Coast is one of the most expensive places for gas guzzlers in the entire country.
California has the highest prices in the United States, and three of its 15 highest-priced stations are located on the Central Coast, according to californiagasprices.
A Bakersfield man was arrested on April 4 around 9 p.m. at The Cliffs Resort in Pismo Beach for the attempted murder of his
As the sun goes down and night draws near, a small percentage of the San Luis Obispo population prepares for the rush that is about to hit. The mass of people who have left the “underage” category flock to the bars downtown while the bartenders stand ready.
The Cal Poly Women’s Studies Program will implement two big changes effective next quarter: It will officially become its own department and will change its name to be more indicative of its objective.
The soon-to-be women’s and gender studies department will be the 17th department in the College of Liberal Arts.
Computer engineering freshman Francisco Diaz plead no contest Wednesday morning to felony charges after he was accused of sending threatening e-mails to more than 50 Cal Poly students and faculty in October 2007. The plea bargain, while technically not a guilty plea, means Diaz neither admits nor disputes the charges of criminal threats and unlawful access to a computer and fraud.