Apparently, the SLO City Council didn't get the Black Lives Matters (BLM) and Cal Poly Students for Quality Education (SQE) memo about defunding the police.
A local student coalition is celebrating commitments on Cal Poly s part to provide resource centers for students of color and additional advocates for students who have experienced sexual violence. But Cal Poly isn t budging on the group s demands to disarm and divest from the campus police. click to enlarge File Photo By Jayson Mellom
DEFUND Cal Poly SQE is one of several groups in SLO County pushing for divestment from policing. Alejandro Bupara is a member of Cal Poly Students for Quality Education (SQE), a local chapter of a statewide organization that aims to address issues of racism, sexism, and classism on campuses in the California State University system. For years San Luis Obispo s SQE has been pushing for increased diversity at Cal Poly through improved support services for the students of
–Naval Commander Victor Glover is on the International Space Station for six months. The 44-year-old astronaut arrived at the space station in November.
Glover graduated from Cal Poly in general engineering. While he was at Cal Poly he tutored math and science at Flamson Middle School in Paso Robles. That was about 25 years ago. He says tutoring middle school students taught him about facing the challenges he faced as an engineer, Navy test pilot, and ultimately, an astronaut.
Recently, Glover conducted an interview with Cal Poly Students who were members of the National Society of Black Engineers. When he attended Cal Poly, Glover was president of the group. He graduated from Cal Poly in 1999.