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"Sign Or Get Out": Academic Freedom At The University Of California And Cal Poly In The Mccarthy Era, Cameron J. Coyne Apr 2018

"Sign Or Get Out": Academic Freedom At The University Of California And Cal Poly In The Mccarthy Era, Cameron J. Coyne

The Forum: Journal of History

No abstract provided.


Acoustical Damping For Poly Canyon Village's Music Room, Jayvee Martir Apr 2018

Acoustical Damping For Poly Canyon Village's Music Room, Jayvee Martir

Construction Management

Poly Canyon Village was a project by Clark Construction and Architect Niles Bolton Associates that was completed in 2009 that provided housing for upcoming and continuing students. One of the buildings, labeled “Aliso” has constructed the music practice room for students to either play their musical instruments or have it become a convenient area to record, with one particular band “Tin Kitty” having problems with being too loud. Even so, there is potential for this music room to become much more than what it currently is. This paper is a research paper that covers the various materials and methods of …


Urban Design Visions For Riverside, Paso Robles, Vicente Del Rio, Hemalata C. Dandekar Mar 2018

Urban Design Visions For Riverside, Paso Robles, Vicente Del Rio, Hemalata C. Dandekar

Focus

Following the CRP Department's tradition of community-oriented projects with real clients, the authors discuss their studio work for the City of Paso Robles Community Development Department. The students explored development scenarios and urban design ideas for the area between the Salinas River and the railroad tracks, including more memorable, walkable and livable spaces, and stronger connections to the downtown and the rest of the city.


Sketching In The Crp Department, Vicente Del Rio Mar 2018

Sketching In The Crp Department, Vicente Del Rio

Focus

In this article, Vicente del Rio reflects on the importance of sketching for planners and urban designers, and reports on an elective offered in the CRP department in 2017. Sketching is understood as a skill and a tool to help observe, analyse, represent, and conceptualize spaces and places, as well as to communicate with other professionals, the clients, and the public.


Deconstructing Howard Through The Lens Of Hall: Lessons From The Garden City Reformer, William W. Riggs Mar 2018

Deconstructing Howard Through The Lens Of Hall: Lessons From The Garden City Reformer, William W. Riggs

Focus

In this provocative essay, William Riggs discusses the lasting legacy of Ebenezer Howard's and Sir Peter Hall's work and who it challenges us to think our solutions and deal with familiar issues like protecting green belts, equitable jobs and housing. The author notes that the resurgence of a stronger focus on physical design and the sustainability and eco-towns movements will help us move towards a Howard-inspired "Peaceful Path to Real Reform".


Urban Economics By Design: Thinking From Down Under, Kobus Mentz, Susannah Goble Mar 2018

Urban Economics By Design: Thinking From Down Under, Kobus Mentz, Susannah Goble

Focus

Based on their experience in Australasia, Kobus Mentz and Susannah Goble discuss how, by considering urban economics, urban design, and local governance concurrently, greater efficiency, prosperity and social equity can be delivered at differing levels of city scale. The authors are, respectively, director and planner of Urbanismplus, one of New Zealand's most respected and awarded planning and urban design private firms.


To Be The Golden Girl: Disordered Eating Within Figure Skating, Giulia Christine Thomas Mar 2018

To Be The Golden Girl: Disordered Eating Within Figure Skating, Giulia Christine Thomas

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.


A Gender-Non-Conforming Method: Trans* Methodologies For Trans* Subjects, Ilia Forkin Jan 2018

A Gender-Non-Conforming Method: Trans* Methodologies For Trans* Subjects, Ilia Forkin

sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies

This paper analyses the methodology of sociological studies on gender-non-conforming (GNC) subjects in the context of prominent critiques by GNC theorists who have asserted the necessity of centering the needs, perspectives, and cultural work of transgender (trans*) and GNC academics and subjects. The paper explains how studies which favor an interactionist model of sociology prioritize notions of gender which uphold heteronormativity and erase the lived-experiences of the subjects they concern. As a solution to this obstacle, this paper proposes strategies to assist in the creation of participatory models of sociology which engage with gender in a way which reflects the …


A Forbidden Act: Illicit Sex And The Colonial Heterosexual Matrix, Rain Tiller Jan 2018

A Forbidden Act: Illicit Sex And The Colonial Heterosexual Matrix, Rain Tiller

sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies

This paper will discuss the cases in which illicit sex becomes mechanisms of disruption. The first section will explore the theoretical underpinnings of sex and the body as an access point to politics and normative critique. Then, I will discuss the examples of illicit sex in the novels Women of Sand and Myrrh and Woman at Point Zero. It is important to study the role of sex in literature to expand the symbolic understanding of sex and sexuality. It is also necessary to bring an analysis of colonial dynamics to sexuality studies in order to fully critique the racial and …


Poly Spotlight Control, Ryan P. O'Neill, C. Oleg Frandle, Anthony T. Lombardi Dec 2017

Poly Spotlight Control, Ryan P. O'Neill, C. Oleg Frandle, Anthony T. Lombardi

Mechanical Engineering

When this project began, The Cambria Center for the Arts Theater used a manually-operated spotlight. The sound created by the fans, along with the sheer size of the spotlight, required that it be housed in an attic room above the theater and shined through a closed window. This trapped a lot of heat in the room and involved some risk with climbing into and out of the attic room. This project sought to remedy those issues by mounting a pair of newer LED spotlights inside the theater. Doing this required a method for remotely controlling and actuating the angular position …


Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/31/2017, Academic Senate Oct 2017

Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/31/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 10/10/2017, Academic Senate Oct 2017

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 10/10/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/10/2017, Academic Senate Oct 2017

Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/10/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 10/5/2017, Academic Senate Oct 2017

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 10/5/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Crp 463: Active Transportation Plan For The City Of Paso Robles, William W. Riggs, Alex Chapman, Kristan Anaya, Eric Sindel, Joel Ingrassia, Jason Mas, Dillan Murray, Tanya Ramirez, Maribel Covarrubias, Dan Losey, Sam Ricklefs, Colin Patterson, Kyle Finger, Chistopher Luu, Crp 463 Senior Project Professional Practice Jun 2017

Crp 463: Active Transportation Plan For The City Of Paso Robles, William W. Riggs, Alex Chapman, Kristan Anaya, Eric Sindel, Joel Ingrassia, Jason Mas, Dillan Murray, Tanya Ramirez, Maribel Covarrubias, Dan Losey, Sam Ricklefs, Colin Patterson, Kyle Finger, Chistopher Luu, Crp 463 Senior Project Professional Practice

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

As a part of CRP 463 led by Dr. William Riggs, this report provided an analysis of the bicycle, pedestrian and transit travel in the City of Paso Robles and produced a draft Active Transportation Plan for the City.


Romberg Tiburon Center (Rtc) Theater Repurpose 2017, Thomas Fowler, Iv, Kevin Dong Jun 2017

Romberg Tiburon Center (Rtc) Theater Repurpose 2017, Thomas Fowler, Iv, Kevin Dong

Architecture

The team that worked on San Francisco State University’s Romberg Tiburon Center (RTC) for Environmental Studies was composed of a talented group of undergraduate and graduate students. We thank the RTC and John Kern for providing the opportunity to research and redesign this Building 54 Theater Project. The Project will restore the historical theater, provide RTC with an inspiring presentation space, and commemorate the history of the site.


Eighteenth Century Women And The Business Of Making Glass Music, Kate M. Hepworth Jun 2017

Eighteenth Century Women And The Business Of Making Glass Music, Kate M. Hepworth

History

During the relatively short period from the mid-to-late eighteenth century when glass musical instruments were manufactured and gained popularity, several women made names for themselves in the realm of avant-garde musical performance. The lives of three female glass instrument players: Anne Ford, Marianne Davies, and Marianne Kirchgassner, show how these successful performer-entrepreneurs operated in an age of emerging feminine public identity. Their journeys reveal much about the gender dimensions of the age, the role of music in the modern era, the consumption of it, and their approach to business. The financial opportunities presented to women looking to challenge the limitations …


Multispectral Identification Array, Zachary D. Eagan Jun 2017

Multispectral Identification Array, Zachary D. Eagan

Computer Engineering

The Multispectral Identification Array is a device for taking full image spectroscopy data via the illumination of a subject with sixty-four unique spectra. The array combines images under the illumination spectra to produce an approximate reflectance graph for every pixel in a scene. Acquisition of an entire spectrum allows the array to differentiate objects based on surface material. Spectral graphs produced are highly approximate and should not be used to determine material properties, however the output is sufficiently consistent to allow differentiation and identification of previously sampled subjects. While not sufficiently advanced for use as a replacement to spectroscopy the …


Shakespeare Reading Paul: Heavenly Fraud In The Winter's Tale, Steven Marx May 2017

Shakespeare Reading Paul: Heavenly Fraud In The Winter's Tale, Steven Marx

English

No abstract provided.


Executive Committee - Agenda 4/25/2017, Academic Senate Apr 2017

Executive Committee - Agenda 4/25/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Agenda, 4/18/2017, Academic Senate Apr 2017

Academic Senate - Agenda, 4/18/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 3/14/2017, Academic Senate Mar 2017

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 3/14/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Agenda, 3/14/2017, Academic Senate Mar 2017

Academic Senate - Agenda, 3/14/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


“Sign Or Get Out”: Academic Freedom At The University Of California And Cal Poly In The Mccarthy Era, Cameron J. Coyne Mar 2017

“Sign Or Get Out”: Academic Freedom At The University Of California And Cal Poly In The Mccarthy Era, Cameron J. Coyne

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

The administering of loyalty oaths in America attained a certain controversy in late 1949 and into 1950 when the state of California and the University of California Board of Regents implemented loyalty oaths that explicitly demanded that all employees declare that they were not a member of the Communist Party. A crisis ensued, as many academics, faculty, and state employees were given the choice between the constitutional right to free speech and job security. Many of these individuals chose integrity in the face of losing their job, their reputation, and their livelihood. This paper will examine the consequences of implementing …


Got Culture? The Lack Of Diversity On Cal Poly’S Campus And The Attempts To Raise Cultural Awareness, Alice Jang Mar 2017

Got Culture? The Lack Of Diversity On Cal Poly’S Campus And The Attempts To Raise Cultural Awareness, Alice Jang

Cal Poly's History: Student Research Reports

In this paper, I will argue that the community of minorities at Cal Poly has been the driving factor in recruiting diverse students to the university. Despite lack of encouragement and assistance from the school, various ethnic student organizations have independently hosted events and programs to spread culture onto a predominantly white campus. After analyzing various cultural organizations and their activities on campus, Cal Poly’s cultural clubs have clearly made a bigger impact on the lives of minorities than the university administrators have. This paper will focus on Asian-American organizations because they make up the majority of the ethnic student …


Fire And Life Safety Evaluation Of Christopher Cohan Center, Mishuk Datta Mar 2017

Fire And Life Safety Evaluation Of Christopher Cohan Center, Mishuk Datta

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

A prescriptive and performance-based fire and life safety evaluation for Christopher Cohan Center is performed. The results and findings of the evaluations are conveyed in this report. Christopher Cohan Center was built in accordance with California Building Code (1992 Edition) and California Fire Code (1992 Edition). The current version (2015) of International Building Code is consulted for prescriptive evaluation. The protection requirements set forth in IBC are intended to limit the threat from stage fires to an audience, to reduce the likelihood of a large fire in the stage area and to reduce the possibility of irrational mass response. These …


Fire And Life Safety Evaluation Of The Christopher Cohan Center, Joakim Midtun Larsen Mar 2017

Fire And Life Safety Evaluation Of The Christopher Cohan Center, Joakim Midtun Larsen

Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports

This project is an academic exercise, as part of the MS Fire Protection Engineering program of California Polytechnic State University. The project is a culminating report with regards to life safety analysis of the Christopher Cohan Center of Cal Poly, which builds on the fundamental and applied courses of the program. The analysis is twofold, where the first part is a Prescriptive Analysis of the building and its features, followed by a Performance Based Life Safety Analysis. Both parts are performed in accordance with NFPA 101 Life Safety Code 2015 edition, Codes/Standards references within NFPA 101, and supplemented by methods …


Academic Senate - Agenda, 1/24/2017, Academic Senate Jan 2017

Academic Senate - Agenda, 1/24/2017, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 12/6/2016, Academic Senate Dec 2016

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 12/6/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Agenda, 12/6/2016, Academic Senate Dec 2016

Academic Senate - Agenda, 12/6/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.