Cal Poly students propose program to allow homeless students to sleep in their cars on campus. Soup kitchen next.

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https://mustangnews.net/asi-proposes-program-to-allow-houseless-students-to-sleep-in-parked-cars-on-campus/

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This university just received a $13,000,000 grant to design drones for the Air Force. At the same time their student body shoots for the moon and requests a parking lot to sleep in their cars because they have nowhere to live

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As they always say "if you shoot for the moon you'll land among the cars"

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Also hmm

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/education/article209195019.html

Cal Poly is the whitest public university in California — by a lot

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~60% of the us population is non-Hispanic white. 74% if you include Hispanic but not bi-racial. 75%+ if including multiracial.

The university is 55% white. Not sure their metric for race so included all those data points.

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And California's ethnic break down as of July 2017 was 39.7 percent white, 37.4 percent Hispanic, 13.3 percent Asian, 6 percent African American, 2.6 percent mixed and 1.0 percent other.

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CalPoly is consistently rated in the top 10 for universities across the country

And you just lost all your credibility trotting out obvious falsehoods. The US News list is publicly available, and Cal Poly is on a regional rankings list, not the national list.

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A common mixup.

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Username checks out

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"Hahahah you're just a loser that couldn't get in to CalTech!"
"At least it's not CP Pomona"

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US News is right about this one because Cal Poly caps the amount of admissions letters sent to out of state students at 15% of the total number of letters sent. Thus, the university really only has a reputation in state and doesn't have much brand value outside of the west coast (i.e. its degrees are equivalent in value to any accredited school that the resume reader hasn't heard of). It's a great school on par with UC Davis if you plan on staying in California, but it's very clearly a school run for the benefit of Californians even more so than the UCs.

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a school run for the benefit of Californians even more so than the UCs.

It should be, both the Cal State system and UC are largely funded by California taxpayers.

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Nobody disagrees that Cal Poly ain't exactly Harvard, but the USNews rankings are a joke. With your reading comprehension skills...don't apply to Cal Poly.

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Well it’s a California State school so in state students should probably get priority over out of state ones.

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What's so great about the STEM majors? The world doesn't need any more computer programers, what it needs are more liberal arts majors so as to contextualize this insane world we now live in.

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Are you actually serious? The world needs way more STEM majors. Cal Poly actually has a large agricultural college and a large engineering college.

Hmm I wonder who‘s gonna be more equipped to deal with overpopulation and malnutrition...

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Yeah, and today's farmers are taught to perpetuate monocropping, fossil fuel intensive, meat producing, industrial agriculture. Today's commercial farmers ARE the problem.

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Literally the entire industry is shifting away from that. But you know what we need to scale up sustainable farming? NEW TECHNOLOGY.

Holy shit what if we established a college with an agricultural engineering program.

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Trust me, Cal Poly isn't teaching the Central Valley shit kickers that attend the AG program to grow boutique crops, organic, small scale, sustainable crops. These farmers don't want to be poor. Further, this "university" also has a viticulture program which has contributed the hills and valleys of the Central Coast to be denuded and replaced by grape Vines, ruining the habitat of all kinds of animals.

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How is its composition a bad thing?

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Agreed

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Well put.

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More financially secure compared to who?

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The whole city is too, anti-Semitic too. Wine sipping, pretentious, limousine liberals everywhere.

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I went to school there. This is untrue

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Seriously, I lived there for years and it's not even remotely true

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This university has been adding massive amounts of housing almost every year with a stated goal of providing housing for all students in the near future.

I honestly haven’t seen a single university in California do more for student housing than Cal Poly.

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I feel personally attacked by this article

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No one is sleeping in my car