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Search for Kristin Smart’s body at Cal Poly

Written on 6 Sep, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 45 comments

More than 20 years since the disappearance of Kristin Smart, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department is excavating a hillside near the Cal Poly “P” in a search for Smart’s remains. Smart, a native of Stockton, was nearing the... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly offering more transgender housing

Written on 16 Aug, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

Transgender students and their supporters can now live together starting the moment they arrive on the Cal Poly campus. By expanding the university’s transgender housing program, Cal Poly officials met one of the demands issued by a protest group that... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly seeking to build 18.5 acre solar farm

Written on 12 Jul, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

By John Lindt, Sierra 2 the Sea Cal Poly is seeking to build a five-megawatt solar farm on their land located on the east side of Highway 1 near the California Men’s Colony. Plans are for the solar farm, with... (Continue reading)

Former Cal Poly football player sentenced to five years in prison

Written on 12 Jul, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

A former Cal Poly football player was sentenced to five years and two months in prison for trying to rob a San Luis Obispo fraternity house at gunpoint. The former wide receiver faced a minimum sentence of 4.5 years and... (Continue reading)

SLO residents rally to have their voices heard

Written on 3 Jul, 2016 in Featured, Opinion | 19 comments

OPINION by ALLAN COOPER On Tuesday, July 5, at 5 p.m., a group of residents will be standing on the San Luis Obispo City Hall steps with signs reading “Resident Voices Matter.” Why? Because over the past two years our... (Continue reading)

Former Cal Poly star pitcher loses right eye

Written on 1 Jul, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Former Cal Poly ace and current minor league pitcher, Matt Imhof, lost his right eye Tuesday, four days after a freak accident during a stretching exercise. It is unclear whether his baseball career will continue. The accident occurred on June... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly police arrest Santa Maria men, chase biker

Written on 15 Jun, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Cal Poly police made three arrests in a span of less than five hours Sunday night and early Monday morning. One of the arrests followed a police chase involving a motorcyclist on a stolen bike. [KSBY] At around 10 p.m.,... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly football walk-on injured in pool accident

Written on 11 Jun, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Jake Javier, who was to walk on with the Cal Poly football team in the fall, was injured in a pool accident Thursday night, one day prior to his graduation from San Ramon Valley High School in Danville, according to... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly alcohol sting nets 20 arrests

Written on 7 Jun, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

A Cal Poly University Police Department operation conducted during an on-campus concert Saturday ended with 20 arrests. The operation targeted underage drinkers. [KSBY] As Cal Poly held its Spring Stampede concert, officers checked for fake IDs at local bars and... (Continue reading)

Gay Cal Poly student accuses Mike Winn of homophobia

Written on 27 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

Cal Poly professor and former and Nipomo CSD director, Mike Winn, told a queer student and diversity activist that gay marriage is a “grave moral mistake” and that gay people suffer in the afterlife, according to a Title IX discrimination... (Continue reading)