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<title>Team Heading to Campus Looking for Feedback on the Future
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/February/WASC.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly is hosting a visiting team from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) on campus Wednesday through Friday, Feb. 10-12. Three open forums are set for feedback from students, faculty and staff.
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<title> Search for New Cal Poly President Kicks Off on Campus Tuesday
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/search.html</link>
<description> The first meeting (and only public meeting) of the CSU committee searching for a new president for Cal Poly is set to take place from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in the Pavilion in the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center.
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<title>Faculty, Staff, Students Asked for Feedback on the Future This Week </title>
<link>http://www.wasc.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Wednesday through Friday (Feb. 10-12), Cal Poly will host a visiting team from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The team has set up three workshops seeking feedback from faculty, staff and students. </description>
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<title> Summer Session 2010 is On
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/February/summer.html</link>
<description>Despite state cutbacks in funding for higher education, Cal Poly Summer Term 2010 will feature expanded class offerings. Registration starts in April. </description>
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<title>Architecture's Hearst Lecture Series Continues Friday with Forsyth 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/hearst.html</link>
<description>Cornell University Architecture Professor Ann Forsyth will speak Friday on the social aspects of physical planning and urban development. </description>
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<title>Accreditation Team Reviewing Cal Poly in February </title>
<link>http://www.wasc.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>A team of reviewers from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) will visit Cal Poly in February. </description>
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<title>Presidential Search Committee Launching Feb. 9 on Campus </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/search.html</link>
<description>The first meeting of the search committee will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in Cal Poly's University Union. This is the first meeting of the search group, and the only meeting that is an open meeting. </description>
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<title> Free Tax Prep Help for Low Income Filers Starts Saturday
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/VITA.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business will again provide free help with tax return preparation for individuals and families with incomes less than $50,000 year. </description>
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<title>Publisher, Ambassador to Speak on the West Tuesday </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu//news_releases/2010/January/Lane.html</link>
<description>William "Bill" Lane Jr. – conservationist, philanthropist, former U.S. ambassador to Australia and former publisher of Sunset magazine – will speak Jan. 26 at 11 a.m. in Chumash Auditorium. The public is invited and admission is free.</description>
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<title>Men's, Women's Water Polo Teams Both Named 'Team of the Decade' 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/water-polo.html</link>
<description>With nine national championships between them in the last decade, Cal Poly's Men's and Women's Water Polo squads are now also the "Teams of the Decade," according to the Collegiate Water Polo Association. </description>
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<title>Architecture Professor Receives National Recognition
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/Fowler.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly architecture professor Thomas Fowler has received a creative achievement award from a national architecture education group.</description>
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<title>Late Night's Craig Ferguson Coming to PAC Feb. 13
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<link>http://www.pacslo.org/events/viewevent.php?event=931</link>
<description>Scottish-American stand-up comedian Craig Ferguson, host of CBS's "The Late, Late Show," will perform at the Christopher Cohan Center Feb. 13. </description>
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<title>It's International Printing Week on Campus </title>
<link>http://www.grc.calpoly.edu/printweek/tuesday.html</link>
<description>This year, International Printing Week workshops outline practical and intellectual twists shaping the future of the industry - including web design and packaging.</description>
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<title>Biotech Lab Aiding Wounded Vets is Topic of Filming 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/QL-filming.html</link>
<description>The new QL+ Center at Cal Poly and its founding alum are being filmed on campus this week. The biotech center does research and development of prostheses for men and women who have been injured in battle.</description>
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<title>Former Sunset Magazine Publisher, U.S. Ambassador Bill Lane to Speak Jan. 26
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/Lane.html</link>
<description>William "Bill" Lane Jr. – conservationist, philanthropist, former U.S. ambassador to Australia and former publisher of Sunset magazine – will speak Jan. 26 at Cal Poly.  </description>
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<title>Kiplinger's Names Cal Poly a 'Best Value' University 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu//news_releases/2010/January/Kiplingers.html</link>
<description>Washington, D.C.-based business publication Kiplinger's Personal Finance names Cal Poly as one of its "100 Best Values in Public Colleges 2009-10" in its February magazine. </description>
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<title>Pick Mandarins, Lemons, Kiwis and More at Cal Poly Orchards 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/u-pick.htm</link>
<description>Come pick fresh delicious Cal Poly mandarin oranges, lemons, walnuts and kiwi  Wednesdays from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. through February. (Rain cancels.) </description>
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<title>Tickets On Salefor April 12 Elvis Costello Concert 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/Costello.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly Arts presents rock icon Elvis Costello performing in solo concert at the Performing Arts Center on the Cal Poly Campus Monday, April 12.
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<title>Cal Poly Rose Float Takes Home Two Trophies
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2010/January/Float.html</link>
<description>The Cal Poly Rose Float took home two trophies New Year's Day - the Bob Hope Humor Award and the Viewers' Choice Award. See the float construction, decoration and parade photos. </description>
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<title>Fresh Photos - See 2010 Cal Poly Rose Float Taking Shape </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/rose-float-volunteers.html</link>
<description>See the 2010 Cal Poly Rose Float taking shape in SoCal - thanks to fresh photos from Cal Poly Rose Float Club student photographers. More photos added as they arrive... </description>
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<title>Photo Slideshow: December Commencement 2009
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/mid-year-photos.html</link>
<description>While the rain poured outside, some 800 students graduated in three mid-year commencement ceremonies in Mott Gym Saturday, Dec. 12. See photos. </description>
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<title>WANTED: Volunteer Rose Float Decorators 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/rose-float-volunteers.html</link>
<description>The Cal Poly Rose Float Club is looking for volunteers to help decorate the 2010 Rose float during week before New Year's Day in Pasadena. Get sticky, hang out with students, have fun - and help the Cal Poly Rose Float motor to victory. </description>
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<title>December Cal Poly Update E-Newsletter is Out 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2009/December.html</link>
<description>Mustang Mentoring Day's success, dog sledding in Alaska, the Holiday Card and an alum for Lt. Gov -- it's all in the December edition of Cal Poly Update e-newsletter, online today. </description>
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<title>President Baker Announces His Retirement </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/wjbaker_retirement.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker announced today (Dec. 7) that he is retiring after more than 30 years. President Baker says he will stay on at the university until his successor can be in place sometime in 2010. </description>
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<title>Mid-Year Commencement is Saturday </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Nearly 600 Cal Poly students are expected to graduate this Saturday (Dec. 12) in three ceremonies during the university's annual Mied-Year Commencement.
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<title>Memorial Service Set for Monday for Cal Poly Student Charles Tamae </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/Tamae-service.html</link>
<description>A memorial service for Charles Tamae, the Cal Poly Landscape Architecture student who passed away this week, has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, in the center section of Chumash Auditorium. </description>
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<title>University, City Police Searching for Missing Student </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/Tamae%20Missing.pdf</link>
<description>University and city police are searching for Cal Poly Landscape Architecture student Charles Tamae. The 20-year-old was last seen on campus attending a lab Monday afternoon. Tamae has not been seen or heard from since. </description>
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<title>Poly Receives Record Number of Applications </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/record_aps.html</link>
<description>The university received a total of 40,904 applications for fall 2010, up 12.1 percent from last year.</description>
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<title>Cal Poly Magazine Winter '09 Edition is Online Now </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/Winter-09/index.html</link>
<description>Hands-on student and faculty research projects, a wildfire learning 'lab,' WWII portraits and more - it's all in the Winter '09 Cal Poly Magazine edition online now. </description>
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<title>Mid-Year Commencement Set for Dec. 12
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/December/midyear_commencement.html</link>
<description>Nearly 600 Cal Poly students are expected to graduate in three ceremonies Dec. 12 at the university's annual Fall Commencement. 
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<title>Cal Poly Architecture and Design Ranked No. 3 in the Nation
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/CAED%20Rankings.html</link>
<description>The 2010 Designintelligence Survey ranked Cal Poly's Architecture Department ranked third in the nation for undergraduate programs.
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<title>Annual Cal Poly Poinsettia Sale On Now
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/Poinsettia.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's annual poinsettia sale starts Tuesday and runs through mid-December at the Poly Plant Shop on campus. This year's sale features more than 2,500 student-grown plants with 30 varieties and colors. </description>
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<title>University Recognizes Simpson Strong-Tie with Named Materials Lab
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/Simpson.html</link>
<description> Cal Poly has recognized a critical partnership with a longtime supporter by the naming of the Simpson Strong-Tie Materials Demonstration Laboratory in the new Construction Innovations Center.</description>
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<title> Starbucks, Disney, IBM Execs Speak on Sustainable Biz
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/Panel.html</link>
<description>Hear executives from Starbucks, IBM and Disney speak from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, Nov. 19 in Philips Hall at the Performing Arts Center. Free and open to the public. </description>
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<title> Students Share Ideas on Central Coast Climate Plans</title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/climate.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly students will present their ideas for the future of transportation in the city and county of San Luis Obispo Thursday afternoon.  </description>
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<title>Cal Poly, Defense Department to Partner at St. Louis AFB Lab 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/KML-Center.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly students and faculty, representatives of information technology companies, and government researchers will work in a new center outside St. Louis to streamline and improve the process of delivering equipment and supplies to U.S. military around the world. </description>
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<title>Graduation Rates at All-Time High </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/grad_rates.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's graduation rates increased to an all-time high with the graduating class of the spring of 2009. </description>
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<title> Hear the 'Pride of the Pacific' at Bandfest Saturday
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Bandfest.html</link>
<description>You'll hear "A Whirlwind of Color and Sound" at Saturday's Bandfest 2009 in the Performing Arts Center. Listen to the Cal Poly Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Mustang Band. Showtime is 8 p.m.  </description>
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<title> SciMath Professors Launching, Training on Remote Submarine in Avila</title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/sub.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly professors are launching and receiving training on the use of the REMUS 600 unmanned underwater vehicle today (Nov. 10) in Avila Beach. Cal Poly is the first academic institution in the U.S. get the remote ocean drone, which will greatly enhance the university's ability to do research. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly Tackles Davis in NorCal Saturday
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>The Cal Poly Mustangs will tackle the U.C. Davis Aggies Saturday in Davis. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. in Aggie Stadium. Can't get to there? Catch audio and video streaming at www.gopoly.com. </description>
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<title> Architecture Student is Digital Design Queen
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/November/arch-award.html</link>
<description>A Cal Poly architecture student was recognized for her inhabitable library design at the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture conference in Chicago.</description>
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<title>Professor's Study on Obesity's Surprising Link to TV Making Headlines
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/weight.html</link>
<description>Successful weight-losers have more exercise equipment and fewer TVs in their houses than obese people. That's one of the surprising findings in a newly-released study led by Cal Poly Kinesiology Professor Suzanne Phelan.
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<title>Comment By Friday on Cal Poly Self-Study  
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<link>http://www.wasc.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Tell the university where you think it is now -- and where it should go in the future. Cal Poly wants YOU to comment on the university's self-study by Nov. 6. The self-study is part of the current review by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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<title> SWEet - Society of Women Engineers Makes History
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/SWE-awards.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly Society of Women Engineers (SWE) took home four first place awards at the SWE National Conference.</description>
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<title>Poly Named No. 2 in the Nation as Source for Best Aerospace and Defense Engineers
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/aerospace.html</link>
<description> Aviation Week and Space Technology has named Cal Poly second in the nation for industry workforce recruiting - just behind No. 1 Virginia Tech. </description>
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<title>Burn off That Candy at Hands On Health Events This Halloween
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/HandsonHealth.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's 'Hands on Health' celebration is offering a series of free fun events Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31. Events include a 5K Fun Run, a Monster Dance Children's Costume Contest, a performance by Big Daddy's Blues Band, and more. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly Corn Maze Haunts Again Friday Night</title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/maze.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's popular Haunted Corn Maze will start the fright on schedule Friday night despite recent rains. The Cal Poly Crops Club Haunted Corn Maze is set to run Oct. 30 from 5 to 9 p.m. Families with younger children can take advantage of family hour -- with less fright -- from 5 to 6 p.m. 
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<title>Comment Now on the University Self-Study  
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<link>http://www.wasc.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Tell the university where you think it is now -- and where it should go in the future. Cal Poly wants YOU to comment on the university's self study by Nov. 6. The self study is part of the current review by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
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<title>Tuesday Kennedy Library Science Cafe Asks 'Is it Still a Book?'
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/book.html</link>
<description>Cozy up to a Kindle and explore beautiful, bound books as students and professors discuss "What is a Book?" The event is free and open to the public. It's an informal discussion (plus refreshments!) on everything bookish. From 4:30 to 6 p.m.
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<title> More than 2,000 Expected for Parents' Weekend Saturday
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Some 2,250 parents and family members are expected on campus this Saturday for Cal Poly's annual Parents' Weekend events. </description>
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<title>NFL's Ramses Barden Launches Drive for Mustang Football
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Barden.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly Alum Ramses Barden announced this week that he is going to donate a minimum of $7,500 back to the Mustang football program this season. The NFL player says that he'll donate $1,000 for every Cal Poly Mustangs football victory and $500 for every touchdown he scores this season for the New York Giants. He's challenging everyone to match him.
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<title> Dairy Herd Gets Reprieve Thanks to Alumni, Supporters
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/dairy_herd.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly announced Tuesday that it is putting a plan to reduce the size of its dairy herd on hold thanks to offers of help from alumni and dairy industry supporters. </description>
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<title>Parents Coming to Campus This Weekend 
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<link>http://calpolyparent.calpoly.edu/parentsweekend.asp</link>
<description>Thousands of family members will be on campus this Saturday for Cal Poly's annual Parents' Weekend. The schedule of events includes a Parents for Philanthropy reception, the Mustang Tailgate BBQ, Oktoberfest, a football game vs. Dixie State, the Cal Poly Choirs’ concert and Deyo Dances.</description>
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<title>Omnivore Author Pollan and Panel Pack the PAC for Agriculture Talk Thursday 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/pollan2.html</link>
<description>Harman Hall's 1,300 seats were packed and the crowd of listeners spilled out into the Christopher Cohan Center lobby and surrounding Performing Arts Center Plaza at Cal Poly Thursday, Oct. 15 for a panel discussion on agriculture. </description>
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<title>Winemakers on Video, Tea in TIME, Campus Forecast and More </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2009/October.html</link>
<description>The October edition of Cal Poly Update e-newsletter is online. Read it for the video interview with gold-medal student winemakers, plus news and photos on a multi-million dollar alumni company that made TIME Magazine for making tea and saving the rainforest and more. Didn't get it in your e-mail Wednesday? Click through above to read and subscribe to get it next month. </description>
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<title>Grad Greening The National Record of Congress
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Congress.html</link>
<description>Under the direction of Cal Poly alum Bob Tapella (B.S., Graphic Communication, 1991), the U.S. Government Printing Office has produced the daily Congressional Record using 100 percent recycled paper for the first time. </description>
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<title> 'Rock Star' of Silicon Valley Speaking on Campus Thursday
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/fibre.html</link>
<description>Kumar Malavalli, considered one of the originators of high-speed Fibre Channel computer networking technology, will speak at Cal Poly on Thursday, Oct. 15 as part of the Orfalea College of Business Distinguished Guest Speaker Series. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly Earns Top Grades for Sustainability 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/sustainability.html</link>
<description>GreenReportCard.org has named Cal Poly a Campus Sustainability Leader for 2010 for its ongoing efforts in sustainable campus practices -- making Cal Poly the only California State University campus to earn the award. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly and Partners Get $12M Grant to Improve K-12 Education 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/grant.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly is partnering with CSU Monterey Bay and CSU Bakersfield in the grant program, which will focus on high-needs schools in Central California. </description>
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<title> Engineering Students Take Silver in National Aircraft Design Competition
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/October/Aircraft.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's Hummingbird Aeronautics student design team took second place in a national competition for its design of the Tersus, a 150-seat "environmentally compatible” transport aircraft.
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<title> Read Fall Cal Poly Magazine Online Now
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu//magazine/Fall-09/index.html</link>
<description>The Fall 2009 edition of Cal Poly Magazine is online now -- complete with stories and video of students testing satellites in zero gravity thanks to NASA, a new video scoreboard in Spanos Stadium, the latest 'hands on' learning at a Central Coast lighthouse, and more. </description>
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<title>Watch Top Students Get Graded on Opera Performances</title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/Voice.html</link>
<description>Six of Cal Poly Music Department's leading voice emphasis music majors will perform and be critiqued by a UCLA music professor Oct. 13. Come watch, listen and learn about opera in the free master class.
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<title> Student Club Wins National Gold for Community Service
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/NSCS.html</link>
<description>The Cal Poly chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars has received the gold award from its national group for recruitment, induction and community service efforts. </description>
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<title> Alums' Company is Topic of TIME Magazine Article
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/Guyaki.html</link>
<description>TIME Magazine's Sept. 14 edition (online and print) featured a story on Guayaki Yerba Mate - the "Tree-Hugging Tea." The company was started by Cal Poly friends and alumni Alex Pryor (Food Science and Nutrition, 1998) and David Karr (Business, 1996). </description>
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<title> New Crop of Top Freshmen, Transfer Students Start Tuesday 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/new-students.html</link>
<description>Fall Quarter starts Tuesday, Sept. 22, and Cal Poly is expecting to see a little more than 3,800 new freshmen and 750 transfer students. As usual, they're the cream of the crop academically. </description>
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<title> Finance Major To Receive Prestigious 2009 Hearst Scholar Award
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/Hearst.html</link>
<description>Phong V. Dang, a finance major in Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business, is the 2009 California Polytechnic State University recipient of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst CSU Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly, SLOPD Cracking Down on Alcohol Abuse, Underage Drinking
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/alcohol.html</link>
<description>Concerned about a recent spate of alcohol-related incidents and injuries, Cal Poly officials on Wednesday announced a series of aggressive short-term steps aimed at discouraging excessive partying and promoting responsible student behavior. </description>
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<title>STOP and Check Out Campus Road, Traffic Changes 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/traffic.html</link>
<description>If you haven't been campus for a while, get ready for these auto access changes: South Perimeter Road is officially closed to vehicle traffic, and there is now a STOP sign for incoming traffic at the California Boulevard entrance to Cal Poly at Campus Way. </description>
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<title>President Baker Outlines Progress, Challenges in Coming Year </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/baker-remarks.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker outlined progress and challenges facing Cal Poly during the opening of Fall Conference Monday. </description>
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<title>WOW! Faculty, New Students On Campus 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Some 4,200 new students are here this week for WOW, Cal Poly's annual student orientation program. Faculty returned to campus this week as well for Fall Conference. </description>
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<title>Wine Tasting, Astronauts, Best in the West and More - Cal Poly September News Update is Here
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/update/2009/September.html</link>
<description>Find out about fall wine tastings, alumni in space (right now), top rankings for Cal Poly, professors in the Wall Street Journal and Sacramento Bee, and more in the September edition of Cal Poly Update, the e-newsletter for university alumni, parents and friends.</description>
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<title>Cal Poly's On YouTube </title>
<link>http://www.youtube.com/calpoly</link>
<description>Catch up with Cal Poly on YouTube - subscribe at www.youtube.com/calpoly. Check out videos made by the university - and some of the university's favorite student-made videos. </description>
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<title>Management Professor Published in Wall Street Journal 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/wsj.html</link>
<description>Business Professor Dawn Chandler co-authored an article in the Wall Street Journal -- and was interviewed on WSJ Video. The topic? How to be a smart protege. </description>
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<title>Ag Professor Offers Prescription for San Joaquin Delta</title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/delta.html</link>
<description>Professor Charles Burt, Director of Cal Poly's Irrigation Training and Research Center, wrote a Sacramento Bee guest column on the future of the San Joaquin Delta. </description>
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<title> Cal Poly Engineering Team Wins National HVAC Competition
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/September/HVAC.html</link>
<description>Students from Cal Poly's College of Engineering took first place in a national collegiate competition involving designing heating, air conditioning and ventilation (HVAC) systems. </description>
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<title> Cal Poly Takes a 'STRIDE' Towards Healthier Lifestyles
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/STRIDE.html</link>
<description> Cal Poly's COPE (Center for Obesity Prevention and Education) has a new name but the same mission for nutritional health.</description>
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<title>Collegians Alumni Big Band Swings Out this Weekend
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/collegians.html</link>
<description>It's a tradition worth keeping: dance to the Big Band sound of The Cal Poly Collegians from  7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Madonna Inn. </description>
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<title>Floral Design Team Takes Silver at National Competition 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Floral.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's Floral Design Team took second place in the student competition at the American Institute of Floral Designers National Symposium. </description>
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<title> Best in the West for 17 Years Straight
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/US_News_2010.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly was ranked Best in the West among public master's universities for the 17th year straight by U.S. News and World Report. The university also moved up to 6th place from 10th in the magazine's overall rankings of best public and private universities in the West.</description>
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<title>Swanton Pacific Ranch is Haven for Four-Footed Fire Evacuees 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Swanton3.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's Swanton Pacific Ranch served as a haven for Santa Cruz horses displaced by the area's Lockheed Fire over the past weekend. </description>
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<title>UPDATE: Winds Shift Wildfire Onto Swanton Pacific Ranch - Students, Staff Animals Safe at Shipping Corral
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Swanton2.html</link>
<description>Winds shifted and a Santa Cruz wild fire burned on parts of Cal Poly's 3,200-acre Swanton Pacific Ranch there Friday afternoon. Four Cal Poly staff members and seven student interns remain at the ranch corrals with all ranch animals, and are safe outside the evacuation area. </description>
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<title> Swanton Pacific Ranch Evacuated as Wildfire Burns Nearby
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Swanton.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's 3,200-acre Swanton Pacific Ranch in Santa Cruz County was briefly touched by the Lockheed Fire on Wednesday and has been evacuated. </description>
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<title>College of Business to Study Feasibility of MBA Program in Santa Barbara </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/OCOB_Feas.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business will study the feasibility of offering graduate business degree programs in Santa Barbara beginning in fall 2010. </description>
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<title>Superlawyers, Word Wizards, Awards and More  </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Increase your university news power by reading the August edition of Cal Poly Update, the monthly e-newsletter for university alumni and friends. Find out who's in the newest crop of NorCal Superlawyers, who was interviewed by the New York Times, and more. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly Among Among Best in Nation in Architecture, Agriculture Degrees to Minorities 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/diverse.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly is among the Top 10 schools in the nation in granting degrees to Hispanic, Asian and other minority students in agriculture, architecture and engineering.  </description>
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<title>Forbes Magazine Names Cal Poly Among Nation's Best Colleges
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/Forbes.html</link>
<description> Cal Poly has been named one of America's top colleges and universities by Forbes magazine. The list, released this week, puts Cal Poly at No. 201 out of 600 colleges and universities. Cal Poly is the highest-ranked California State University campus on the Forbes list. 
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<title>Dairy Students Take Awards at National Competition
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/dairy.html#students</link>
<description>A Cal Poly Dairy Science team took second in the American Dairy Science Association Student Activity Division Quiz Bowl. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly Work on Delano, Benicia Projects Wins Awards
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/August/CRP-Awards.html</link>
<description> Cal Poly's City and Regional Planning Department has won awards for work on community projects in Delano and Benicia.</description>
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<title> Professor Tong Named President of American Dairy Science Association
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Phillip Tong, dairy science professor and director of Cal Poly's Dairy Products Technology Center, has been named the 93rd president of the American Dairy Science Association.</description>
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<title>Country Legend Merle Haggard in Concert Sept. 30 
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<link>http://www.calpolyarts.org/performances/performanceadded.php?id=56</link>
<description>Cal Poly Arts has just added country legend Merle Haggard to its fall concert lineup Sept. 30. </description>
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<title>National Youth Choir of Britain Performs Aug. 3</title>
<link>http://www.pacslo.org/events/viewevent.php?event=772</link>
<description>All the way from the UK, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain is coming to the Christopher Cohan stage for an inspiring evening of song Monday, Aug. 3.</description>
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<title>Faculty Association Agrees to Furloughs
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/faculty-furlough.html</link>
<description> The California Faculty Association announced its members voted to agree to furloughs, meaning professors will take two days per month without pay along with the rest of Cal Poly employees.</description>
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<title> Cal Poly Begins Furloughs, Looks at Layoffs Due to State Budget
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Furloughs.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly announced today the start of furloughs for employees, layoffs and other measures to deal with $33.7 million in state budget cuts to campus. </description>
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<title>State Budget Cuts Hit Cal Poly
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/budget-cuts.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly leaders outlined the impacts of the state budget cuts in an e-mail to all campus employees Wendesday morning, July 22. Read the full e-mail. </description>
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<title>Cal Poly Education Still Top Value In Wake of CSU Fee Increase
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/calpoly-value.html</link>
<description>With Tuesday's latest CSU student fee increase, Cal Poly fees will be 29 percent lower than the current average for the University of California system and still among the lowest in the country.
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<title>A New Blend: College of Science and Mathematics, College of Education </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/</link>
<description>Cal Poly's College of Education merged with the College of Science and Mathematics on July 1. The move means a cost savings for the university, as well as better math and science training for future teachers.</description>
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<title>Longtime Professor Recognized for Work on Ethics in Accounting
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/armstrong.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Mary Beth Armstrong will receive a national award in August in New York recognizing her years of work teaching and pushing for high ethical standards in public accounting. </description>
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<title> Senior Project on SF Quake Center Wins National Mention
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Glabe.html</link>
<description>June architecture grad Rachel Grabe's senior project - a design for a quake-safe seismology center in San Francisco -- has received national mention.  </description>
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<title>SLO Saturday Night Aug. 8? See Lyle Lovett at the PAC
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<link>http://www.calpolyarts.org/performances/performancedate.php?id=43</link>
<description>There's still a chance to get tickets for Grammy-winner Lyle Lovett and his Large Band at the PAC Aug. 8. </description>
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<title> Students' 'Spider Tower' Design Wins Architecture Award
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/arch-award.html</link>
<description>"Spider Tower" and "LA Skyscraper" are the first student designs ever to receive awards from an American Institute of Architects Central Coast chapter. See the designs by Cal Poly Architecture students.</description>
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<title> Cal Poly July News - Rodeo Cowboys, Wine Discounts, Baja Whoppers and More
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu//update/2009/July.html</link>
<description>Think you got all the news about Cal Poly? Think again. The July edition of Update, the Cal Poly E-Newsletter for university alumni and friends, just went online. Check it out for news on Mustang Red, rodeo cowboys, 40-lb. fish and more.</description>
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<title> Last Day to Take Cal Poly Magazine Survey - And Chance to Win $25 Gear Giftcard
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/magazine/Summer-09/index.html</link>
<description>It's the last day take the online Cal Poly Magazine reader survey.  Check out the magazine and fill out the survey to help us plan future editions and get a chance to win $25 in Cal Poly gear.</description>
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<title>Cal Poly Wines Capture Medals in San Francisco, SLO
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Wines.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly's student-made Mustang Red won the double gold medal at the prestigious San Francisco International Wine Competition; the university's Syrah and Pinot Noir also earned medals in a Central Coast judging. </description>
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<title>New Scholarship Fund Set Up in Professor's Memory </title>
<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Rosen.html</link>
<description>The family of Arthur 'Art' Z. Rosen has set up a memorial scholarship for Cal Poly Physics Students.  </description>
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<title> High School Students Learn the Fun of Engineering this Week at Cal Poly
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/July/Epic.html</link>
<description>Some 140 high school students are on campus this week for the Engineering Possibilities in College (EPIC) summer camp, an outreach program that focuses on exposing young women and economically disadvantaged students to engineering. </description>
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<title> Cal Poly President Recognizes Campus Leaders for Diversity
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/June/pres_div_award.html</link>
<description> Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker recently presented the President's Diversity Award to the Multicultural Engineering Program and to Delta Lambda Phi fraternity.</description>
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<title>Rep. Lois Capps Holding Press Conference at Cal Poly 
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/June/Capps.html</link>
<description>Cal Poly professors and students will join Congresswoman Lois Capps at a press conference this afternoon(July 2) outlining federal stimulus funding awards to the university.</description>
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<title>Cal Poly Facing Furloughs, $33 Million in Campus Funding Cuts
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<link>http://www.calpolynews.calpoly.edu/news_releases/2009/June/budget.html</link>
<description> While no details have yet been set, discussions will continue with the CSU Board of Trustees at a special meeting July 7. The trustees will then use their regularly scheduled July 21 meeting to adopt an action plan that will be implemented systemwide.</description>
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