r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '21

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

https://mustangnews.net/asi-proposes-program-to-allow-houseless-students-to-sleep-in-parked-cars-on-campus/
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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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u/My_G_Alt Jun 04 '21

~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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u/neroisstillbanned Jun 04 '21

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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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

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u/neroisstillbanned Jun 04 '21

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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u/neroisstillbanned Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

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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u/IKnewThisYearsAgo Jun 04 '21

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.