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Cal Poly has several visitors from Mexico this week, hoping to learn a little bit about the university’s students and even more about American architecture. Four architecture students and three faculty members from Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in Puebla, Mexico are participating in activities on and off campus as part of an exchange program with Cal Poly’s architecture department.

Members of PG&E and the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee held a public meeting Wednesday to discuss a wide variety of issues concerning the Central Coast’s nuclear power plant.

From 8:30a.m. to 7:00p.m. on Oct. 18, members of PG&E representing Diablo Canyon relayed current findings and updates to members of the DCISC during three separate meetings open to the public in the Embassy Suites Hotel near the Madonna Plaza in San Luis Obispo.

Arianna Huffington will bring her provocative perspective to Cal Poly on today at 7 p.m. in Spanos Theater as the opener for the speaker series, “California’s Challenges: Provocative Solutions for Compelling Problems.”

The Provocative Perspectives series has opened with well-known speakers for the past three years, said Pat Harris, retired assistant director of the Department of Student Life and Leadership.

Cal Poly administrators, students and past and present Mustang Daily reporters and editors gathered on Wednesday afternoon in the newsroom to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the newspaper’s publication. A special edition of the newspaper was printed for Wednesday in which articles and ads from the last 90 years were reprinted along with commentaries by the reporters that covered the events.

Finding cheap, fun activities to do with friends can be somewhat of a hassle for Cal Poly students. No matter where you go in San Luis Obispo when you leave the house, there always seems to be an admission fee or cover charge.

Associated Students Inc. (ASI) aims to change all that by hosting Dusk ’til Dawn, an all-night extravaganza to be held today in the Cal Poly Rec Center.

The Peace Corps co-sponsored a barbecue at Cal Poly’s Ag Circle Wednesday, hoping to recruit agriculture students and promote HIV/AIDS awareness.

Alpha Zeta, the agricultural leadership fraternity, co-sponsored the event with the Peace Corps.

Alpha Zeta chancellor and agricultural communications junior Kelly Bishop said the chapter wanted do the barbecue as a fundraiser, as community service and to shed light on the Peace Corps’ presence on campus.

Chances are that every female student who attends Cal Poly has either experienced sexual assault firsthand or at least knows a friend, roommate or acquaintance that has. It is also true that every male student at Cal Poly probably knows someone who has been affected by sexual assault, or has maybe even experienced it himself.

The year is 1916.

All male Cal Poly students have to wear military uniforms in the dorms and train during the day in case their services are needed for the war in Europe. Only three academic departments exist: agriculture, engineering/mechanics and household arts.

The first issues of the Polygram were hardly the type of newspapers we see today. For instance, the front page (above) of the first four-page paper contains no actual news – just a short story.

Subsequent early issues mostly featured similar stories, jokes, announcements and personals.

As the first World War rumbled across Europe, many Cal Poly men committed themselves to serving for the United States armed forces. In total, 147 students participated in relief efforts, causing enrollment to drop at California Polytechnic School over the course of several years.

The “P” that resides on Poly Hill has become a popular legacy at Cal Poly, but it may come as a surprise that it began as a prank pulled off by high school students in 1919.

A group of Cal Poly students living in the dorms first noticed an “H” written on the mountain with whitewashed rocks, presumably by San Luis Obispo High School students, and rushed up to reclaim their mountain, according to Cal Poly Land’s Web site.