Cal Poly Society of Women’s Engineers (SWE) brought home its eighth Gold Award as the nation’s top Outstanding Collegiate Section at the Annual Conference for Women Engineers on Oct. 15. The annual Women’s Engineers Conference was held in Chicago from…
Faculty rally after strike announcement
Cal Poly members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) marched outside of the administration building Tuesday as part of a California-wide picket by the association. The picket followed a CFA vote Monday to organize a one-day strike on two California…
Back in bees-ness
Cal Poly would be a different place without honeybees: no more blueberries, raspberries, avocadoes or almonds, horticulture and crop science lecturer and instructor of beekeeping Scott Jeffreys said. This is a fate Cal Poly just recently avoided — narrowly. “We…
Social media can make or break job search
Students soon to enter the professional world can either help or hurt their chances of finding employment by implementing social media into their job search, according to Cal Poly career counselor Amie Hammond. Hammond said Jobvite, a recruiting platform for…
County sees slight drop in unemployment
San Luis Obispo County’s jobless rate is beginning to decrease, after reaching a yearly high in July, according to the latest preliminary data released by California’s Employment Development Department (EDD), which tracks and documents unemployment rates in California. In September, the…
Don’t judge a couch by its cover
The Cal Poly Architecture Department and Robert E. Kennedy Library have joined forces for this fall’s art exhibit: “Assembly Required: An Exhibition of Polytechnic Furniture Artists and Vellum Design Winners.” The exhibit allows students to interact with literature in a…
Football's four-game win streak snapped in Davis
Underneath a wet and dreary Northern California sky, the Cal Poly football team saw its hopes of reaching the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs slip away. The Mustangs were defeated by UC Davis 24-17 and, as a result, can no…
Transfer credits ≠ Poly math classes
A new state law will make it easier for community college students to get into Cal Poly, but it could also weaken Cal Poly’s mathematics degrees. The five math classes in an associate’s degree would count for the same as…
It's the 'Alpocalypse': Weird Al brings funny back to the PAC
On a nationwide tour for his 13th studio album, “Weird Al” Yankovic, 52, wanted to do something special for the sold-out crowd at the Christopher A. Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) Wednesday, Nov. 2. “I don’t know how relevant these…
Harder to win
The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos ended the Mustang men’s soccer team’s season on Friday night. The Gauchos delievered a 2-0 knockout blow to Cal Poly which scored just one goal in five games after defeating UCSB on Oct. 14. The…
Student hit by van while walking to class
A Cal Poly student was hit by a white van in a restricted driving zone while walking to class today at 8 a.m. Mathematics junior Sarah Ortiz said she was crossing the street from the path that runs along…