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Faculty votes to cut its own wages by 10 percent
In a nearly split vote, about 8,800 California Faculty Association (CFA) members decided to cut their own wages by 10 percent this week.
The California State University (CSU) and the CFA finalized agreements Wednesday on two-day per month faculty furloughs in the vote that passed by 54 percent.
As a Cal Poly lecturer of 12 years, Sherrie Amido had to decide between the possibility of her job being cut or everyone’s salary being reduced. Continue reading
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Cal Poly on track for full Web accessibility by 2012
Looking into Laura Weiss’s piercing blue eyes, you’d never guess that she’s blind.
Although she sometimes returns the gaze — a habit she picked up from the first 30 years of her life when she still had vision — all Weiss can see now are faint blurs in her peripheral vision. Continue reading
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“Power Wheels guy” takes senior project to the streets
A picture of a student sitting in what appeared to be a children’s Power Wheels vehicle being ticketed by three San Luis Obispo Police Department motorcycles and one University Police Department SUV gained viral popularity on Twitter last week and was plastered on the front page of the Mustang Daily with a headline that read “Little wheels cause a big deal.” Continue reading
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Cal Poly refrains from issuing online policies for athletes
With the rise of social networking Web sites like Facebook and MySpace, all it takes is one incriminating photo for a student athlete to potentially lose a scholarship or be kicked off a team. And it’s not just hypothetical. There are numerous examples of athletes being punished for pictures or words published on the Internet, depicting misdeeds ranging from hazing to underage drinking. Continue reading
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Chain-stores and downloading threaten the future of the independent record store
When Morninglory Music, a record store in downtown Santa Barbara, recently closed its doors for good, owner Stan Bernstein attributed the decision to the growing number of people who download music illegally online. But in San Luis Obispo, independent record stores see another problem: commercial retailers. Continue reading
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Harsh economic times hit SLO
When local hotels didn’t sell out for graduation in June, the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce saw its first signs of an economic crisis.
“For the first time ever, we had hotels calling us with availability,” said Lindsey Miller, marketing director at the chamber of commerce. “Usually they sold out in January.” Continue reading
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Students design high-tech desk of the future
Six years ago, before liberal arts engineering studies senior Bill Trammel became a Cal Poly student, he had an epiphany while sitting at his mahogany desk at home.
“What would this desk look like if Q from James Bond designed it?” he asked himself.
He pictured a desk with a sliding screen, a finger print recognition system and video conferencing – all from his single, sedentary unit of space. And the idea for his senior project was born.
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