Students walking to 8 a.m. classes on Thursday were greeted by a strange sight. More than 100 of their classmates were camped out on the cement in the University Union for the night. Wednesday night was “Sleep Out to End…
From press to the people: Alumnus sells homemade T-shirts
One booth stands out from all the rest at the San Luis Obispo Farmers’ Market on Thursday nights. Phil Hurst’s homemade T-shirt stall lights up, transforms into a trailer and towers higher than any other booth at the market. Hurst graduated from…
Cal Poly's road woes in Davis, Santa Barbara
With less than a month remaining in the spring athletics season, the Mustang baseball, softball and track and field teams hit the road during the weekend. Baseball Cal Poly baseball walked off with a win against Pepperdine on Tuesday night…
Appointed committee to begin Success Fee spending
The team assigned to spend the money gained by Cal Poly’s Student Success Fee is set to begin a month-long process that will potentially end with more classes for students. The 11-person group, which includes seven students, held an initial meeting…
Celebrate superheroes with Free Comic Book Day
[box]BANG! POW! Batman clobbers the Joker in the face! ZIP! CRASH! Robin swings in and gives a henchman a stiff kick to the gut. The Caped Crusaders are once again the heroes of Gotham City.[/box] Independent comic book stores are…
Faculty votes to strike
The California Faculty Association (CFA) announced voter approval of a potential strike Wednesday after 12 days of voting throughout the California State University (CSU) campuses. CFA President Lillian Taiz, a history professor at California State University, Los Angeles, said at…
Quiet down, San Luis Obispo
The City of San Luis Obispo has been a bit quieter than in years past, according to city law enforcement. This is due to two recent modifications of the city’s noise ordinance, approved two years ago by the San Luis…
Alumna wins Teacher of the Year
A Cal Poly graduate received one of the highest educational honors in the country last week when she was named the 62nd National Teacher of the Year. Rebecca Mieliwocki, who studied as an undergraduate in Cal Poly’s communication studies department in…
Saving the sea one shirt at a time
It all began in sixth grade, when Caine Fair started a skimboarding competition to save the sea. That skimboarding competition lasted until he was a junior in high school and went on to raise $6,000 for the Surfrider Foundation, an…
CSU unit cap to begin in fall
Thousands of students registering for Cal Poly classes next fall will see first-hand a new result of California’s budget woes: a 16-unit registration cap. A California State University (CSU) memo issued in early March will standardize a unit cap for…
Club water polo heads to nationals
The Cal Poly women’s water polo club team anticipates winning a fifth consecutive national championship in May, attributing its accomplishments to a close-knit and easygoing team environment. The Mustangs won their eighth consecutive division championship April 15, earning the first…