Junior industrial engineer major, Heather Cooper has been working hard in her major at Cal Poly to one day achieve her goal of working for the U.S. Department of Defense.
This summer she will get one step closer to her goal with her internship at Viasat in San Diego where she work in the quality engineering department.
Right in the University Union at the heart of campus Mustang Lanes provides a fun bowling and gaming experience. It is the only bowling alley in San Luis Obispo is attracting people from all around the area.
Mustang Lanes is a place to bowl, play games and enjoy pizza from Mustang Station. They have 10 lanes all with bumper to accommodate all different levels of bowlers. Their arcade offers a variety of games and billiards.
For Cal Poly students it is $17 per hour per lane or $3.50 per game per person, along with $3.00 for shoe rental. On Monday’s Mustang Lanes offers Pizza Bowl from 6 to 9 p.m. for $20 per person.
Check out Mustang Lanes for a fun bowling experience!
Author and assistant professor at Princeton University Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor spoke about black politics, social movements and racial inequality at the Performing Arts Center on Feb. 21.
Taylor is the author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.” According to Associate Dean for Diversity and Curriculum Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, the Political Science Department recommended Taylor to be the event’s signature speaker because of her reputation as a renowned public speaker and the topics her works explore.
https://soundcloud.com/user-245937210/dr-taylor-speech/s-RmEJk
When I told people I was going to do the February Whole30 diet they were shocked because I live in a dorm with a little tiny kitchen shared between a whole building of people, a mediocre dining hall and fast food.
Knowing it would be a challenge I took it on anyway because I wanted a cleanse for my body and the added energy from eating the foods it was meant to eliminating processed foods from my diet. So I decided to stick to it, 30 days no added sugars, no carbohydrates, no grains and no dairy.
My photo story is documenting my experience so far half way through the month cooking and modifying campus dining foods.
So far I have focused on meat, vegetables, potatoes, almond butter, fruit and nuts and working out four to five times a week and I have never felt better.
First year English major, Neha Kaul is also doing the February Whole30 and has found the experience to be extremely beneficial to her health and wellbeing.
“I didn’t necessarily do it to lose weight,” Kaul said. “It was important for me to feel healthy and have a healthier lifestyle and train my body to crave healthy food.”
While there are many temptations like other friends eating pizza or other tasty foods around you, the official Whole30 website explained that eating foods that are good for your body, fuel, is not hard.
“Fighting cancer is hard. Birthing a baby is hard. Losing a parent is hard. Drinking your coffee black. Is. Not. Hard,” The Whole30 program website said. “You’ve done harder things than this, and you have no excuse not to complete the program as written. It’s only thirty days, and it’s for the most important health cause on earth—the only physical body you will ever have in this lifetime.”
Follow @eatingwhole30 on instagram to see my journey and check out https://whole30.com/whole30-program-rules/ for more details about the program rules. To see other peoples experience after finishing all 30 days visit, https://www.health.com/nutrition/whole30-diet-experience.
Many of you may heard the word Norovirus being talked about amongst students in your classes, your living environments, or maybe you’ve seen people wearing masks or posting snapchats making fun of the virus. Either way the plague is coming and it is ruthless.
What is Norovirus?
According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus is a very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. You can get the virus through direct contact with an infected person, consuming contaminated food or water and touching contaminated surfaces and then putting you hands in your mouth.
The CDC also reported that people with the illness can shed billions of norovirus particles, yet it only takes a few particles to make other people sick.
The issue with on-campus housing.
As you can see an fast spreading virus is not conducive to dorm and apartment environments where you are living feet away from your roommates and sharing bathrooms sometimes with entire floors of people.
Along with the fact that no one wants diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain for any sort of prolonged period of time, it is even worse in the college environment putting students behind in the quarter system and with no place for them to be quarantined off in dorms.
My experience
About a week ago, the news broke that two students in my dorm had the virus and we all panicked. We immediately got to work washing everything in our dorm rooms, researching things to do to prevent it, calling our moms in panic, avoiding contact with anyone from the infected floor and contemplating if we should order hazmat suits.
Yes, looking back this seemed a little extreme, but imagine being in a triple dorm room in the red brick dorms puking your guts out along side your roommates and everyone else in your hall for multiple days. Thank you, next.
This virus became the talking point of all conversations and turned into many jokes and memes that turned the panic into a slightly lighter topic. However the fear of the virus still lingered in all of our minds especially anytime someone complains of being nauseous.
In fact last week, I threw up solely because I subconsciously convinced myself that I had the virus. I think I just ate some bad Red Radish but my roommates were not messing around. They disinfected the room about 10 times and told me I could not come back into the room unless I hadn’t thrown up for hours.
My roommate even said, “I wish there was a way I could boil my entire body.”
Things to do to prevent the virus
While the university has been making a conscious effort to clean dorms and spaces around campus that infected people had been in, it is still important to take the CDC’s advice when it comes to protecting yourself and others from the norovirus.
To protect yourself for norovirus you should:
Good luck and stay safe Mustangs!
Check these out for more information:
https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/index.html
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article224577725.html
http://mustangnews.net/one-student-diagnosed-with-norovirus-others-are-showing-symptoms/
It’s week four Mustangs and we all know what that means…midterm season. This week in between your long hours of studying, take a break and attend some local events both on campus and in the community.
It is important to be involved in your community and participate in local events in San Luis Obispo as well as on campus.
This week, go to farmers market or attend a presentation regarding issues that are important to you.
Check out these events on Twitter to find your perfect study break event.
https://twitter.com/lauryn_luescher/status/1088501136284299264
Follow Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo Events on social media accounts to stay up to date on what is going on.
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“You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.”
-Michelle Obama
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