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Kristin Smart story to go national on Monday

Written on 16 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

The case of Kristin Smart, the Cal Poly student missing for the last 15 years, gets national exposure Monday night, thanks to a television show on the Lifetime Channel. Smart’s story will be the subject of next week’s episode of... (Continue reading)

Google pays $10 million for Cal Poly startup

Written on 13 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 15 comments

Google has purchased the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo student startup Punchd, which started as a senior project, for $10 million, the founders of Punchd announced. Hatched by a pair of Cal Poly students, the company helps connect... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly professor gets Harvard grant

Written on 8 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Victor Valle, a professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at Cal Poly who was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team of reporters at the Los Angeles Times, has been named a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study... (Continue reading)

Parkinson pledges to reopen Smart investigation

Written on 15 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson renewed his pledge Tuesday night to reopen the investigation into missing Cal Poly student Kristin Smart. [KSBY] Parkinson made the comments at a public forum in Cambria, one in a series of recent... (Continue reading)

Make Cal Poly 2.0 a reality

Written on 10 Jun, 2011 in Opinion | 7 comments

OPINION By ROGER FREBERG Universities across the country are beginning to experience the pain of decreasing expectations. No longer able to meet demand by increasing student fees and by using bail out funds – I mean “stimulus money” – administrations... (Continue reading)

Tapes provide details of alleged Cal Poly rape

Written on 8 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

The Cal Poly student accused of rape said he had consensual sex with the alleged victim, while the woman said she woke up the next day naked with severe pain and scratches, according to two search warrants filed by San... (Continue reading)

No charges for Cal Poly rape suspects

Written on 24 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

Police will not be pursuing criminal charges against two suspects who are accused of raping women at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in two separate incidents because of a lack of evidence. Cal Poly University Police have... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly fraternity reaches settlement in hazing death

Written on 23 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

The parents of a California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo freshman who died while rushing Sigma Alpha Epsilon have reached a settlement with the national fraternity. Carson Starkey, 18, an Austin Texas native, died after obeying a Sigma Alpha... (Continue reading)

Kristin Smart still missing 15 years later

Written on 22 May, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 24 comments

Cal Poly officials seek to confront the latest wave of problems arising from alcohol abuse and sexual assaults as Wednesday marks the 15th anniversary of the greatest unsolved mystery on campus: Whatever happened to Kristin Smart? Smart, a native of... (Continue reading)

Blogger wins free speech battle, Cal Poly dean loses

Written on 21 May, 2011 in Uncovered SLO | 16 comments

The former Cal Poly College of Engineering dean who filed a defamation lawsuit against numerous defendants and the university loses round one and is ordered to pay a defending San Luis Obispo blogger nearly $17,000 on the grounds of freedom... (Continue reading)