Lauren Emo

May 23, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Chloe Lovejoy |Lauren Emo

Update, 10:21 a.m.: Dean of Students Joy Pederson was seen talking with protestors. At 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, pro-Palestine protestors gathered along the crosswalk at the California Boulevard entrance to campus, blocking and diverting traffic coming in.

May 2, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Lauren Emo |Abby Gorman

Student and faculty protestors gathered on Dexter Lawn Wednesday morning for a “die-in” demonstration in support of Palestinian students and educators. A “die-in” is a type of protest where participants lie on the ground and pretend to be dead for a designated period of time, according to an Instagram post from the Cal Poly Social Justice Coalition. Anthropology and geography senior Kylee Zinnen attended the protest and participated in the die-in after finding out about it through social media.

Apr 10, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Lauren Emo

Whether it was every weekend at the YMCA basketball court or in a small alleyway between condos, starting at the age of five, a little Annika Shah was out for hours, basketball in hand, alongside her father Bijal and brother Devan. “I think part of those memories is somewhat of my ‘Why,’” Shah said.

Apr 8, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Lauren Emo |Sarina Grossi |Emmy Scherer |Alina Jafri

When kinesiology junior Luke Hansen walked into the first day of his Human Anatomy and Physiology I class (BIO 231), he expected it to be like any other science class he had taken at Cal Poly. Then, the professor began reading the syllabus. Hansen would soon be hands-deep in a human cadaver, and a few quarters later, dissecting a human neck to remove the whole head.  Hansen’s interaction with the cadavers wasn’t supposed to happen until week six.

Mar 2, 2024 | mustangnews.net | Lauren Emo |Emmy Scherer

Nano’s Coffee, a family-owned coffee company known for producing its own coffee beans, recently opened its second location on the ground floor of the Summit SLO apartment complex at 790 Foothill Blvd. The shop is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Fridays. The new shop follows the success of their original drive-through location in Paso Robles, where the Nano family first started serving their specialty coffee beans to the Central Coast.