Former Gators return to SF State for annual softball alumni game
SF State to remove baseball field, tennis court
Carlos Trujeque Leal and Olivia Tabron pick up SF State player of the week honors
Gators offense struggles against no. 1 UC San Diego
Gaming club gets complete overhaul, along with a new president
About a hundred protesters, including students, teachers and members of Occupy SF, gathered at the California State building before 3 p.m. in support of the Day of Action for Education. Participants wanted to bring awareness to the lack of funding for education, but were disappointed more people did not participate. Protesters held different signs with ...
After a number of delays, Ike’s Place is opening tomorrow, March 1, exactly one year after the sandwich shop was scheduled to open on campus. A soft opening for Ike’s Place will be held tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the lower recreation and dining area, according to Cesar Chavez Student Center Marketing ...
Once a fitting title for a day-long demonstration, this year’s Day of Action for Education in California has expanded into a week-long affair. This is a result of networking, promoting and organizing efforts intended to ensure that it will achieve different results. The rally will start at 11 a.m. March 1 in Malcom X Plaza ...
Roughly 1,000 people took a plunge into San Francisco’s frigid bay as part of the third annual Polar Plunge. Families and costume-wearing participants filled the bleachers at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park, where they waited patiently to rush into the water in support of the Special Olympics of Northern California. San Bruno native Jack Torres, 5, suffers ...
It was a last-minute and devastating loss for the SF State men’s basketball team in the last game of the season against Cal State LA. The Gators’ home game also honored the four seniors of the team prior to the game, which ended 70-75. The game was bittersweet for seniors Chad Delaney, Griffin Reilly, Tyler ...
The SF State women’s basketball team lost their final game of the season against their California Collegiate Athletic Association opponent Cal State LA, 72-55, despite freshman Farrah Shokoor’s game-high 17 rebounds. The Gators, who were already eliminated from the conference tournament, ended the season 1-6 in the final seven games. They finish their season 8-20, ...
Commuters tired of BART’s carpet-lined compartments have a lot to look forward to in the coming years as the transportation service begins shopping for a firm to build new trains, though the consideration of foreign firms to construct the cars has caused some controversy. The 40-year-old train car fleet will be completely replaced by one ...
Student fee increases are nothing new, but this semester a newly-approved fee requires students to pay for a campus recreation center that will not be completed for several years after most students have moved on from the University. The $35 per semester fee was approved for fall of this academic year, effective this academic year; ...
The SF State men’s basketball game against the visiting Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros Wednesday, Feb. 22 proved to be a highlight of the Gators’ season. The victory marked the first time since 2005 that the team has beaten the opponents. SF State won 70-66 in a tightly-contested game against the seventh-seeded Toros. The Gators ...
The SF State women’s basketball team managed to steal a victory from Cal State Dominguez Hills, 39-35, despite shooting 25 percent in the California Collegiate Athletic Association home game. The win breaks the team’s five-game losing streak and improves SF State’s record to 8-19, going 7-14 in CCAA so far. Yet, even with the win, the Gators ...
San Francisco is one of the most expensive places to live in the world, and consequently has one of the country’s highest minimum wages, but due to an exemption in state labor law, many students working at SF State make significantly less than the $10.24 an hour mandated by the city. CSU students now pay ...
While President Robert A. Corrigan’s new pet project, “Student Voices,” enjoyed front-page publicity last week in the San Francisco Chronicle as a way for students to voice their frustrations about CSU fee increases, another forgotten conflict over fees quietly continued its path through student pocketbooks. The Student Recreation and Wellness Center, a student-funded project that ...
Maintenance staff responded to a flood in the south wing of the Humanities building caused by a ruptured water pipe Sunday Feb. 19 at around 5:30 p.m., after a student reported the flood to the University Police Department, according to SF State Media Relations Assistant Director Nan Broadbent. The flooding affected approximately 30 rooms, including hallway areas, ...
Morgan Shingling knew she had a big problem on her hands when her apartment on the first floor of a two-story building started leaking from the ceiling the Saturday before classes started at SF State. “It just started with a leak,” said Shingling a sophomore sociology major. “It was coming down through the light fixtures ...
UPDATE: The upper westbound deck of the Bay Bridge reopened more than a day earlier than scheduled Sunday. The successful completion of the bridge was due to “a combination of efficient teamwork, led by prime contractor, MCM Construction, and clear weather enabled crews to complete the work 34 hours ahead of schedule,” according to a ...
Power has been restored to SF State at 11:15 a.m. after a power outage affected the campus for approximately half an hour. According to a phone and email alert sent out by the University, PG&E has indicated that there may be intermittent power outages until 1:15 p.m. today. Some classes were dismissed early while others ...
Significant changes will be coming to financial aid and student loans next year including tougher GPA requirements and limited funding. The new 2012-2013 budget proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown aims to increase the GPA requirements for the Cal Grant, the financial aid program administered by the State of California and the California Student Aid Commission. ...
In the U.S., the new year is celebrated with drinking, raucous behavior and lasts a day. In China, the Spring Festival celebration lasts at least two weeks, even up to a month. One of the largest worldwide celebrations of its kind outside of Asia, the Chinese New Year festival in San Francisco is two-weeks long, ...
Before people moved to San Francisco and covered the hills and wetlands with apartments and parking lots, the exposed topsoil absorbed rainfall. But today that topsoil is hidden under the concrete crust of the city, and San Francisco is facing a drainage problem. All of the rainwater collects on streets and rooftops, gathering trash and ...
The announcement by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that Proposition 8 had been ruled unconstitutional drew hundreds to the courthouse in support of gay marriage. Demonstrators chanted “marriage equality” and held signs with quotes from Harvey Milk as they waited to hear the court’s decision. Some supporters stood up to address the entire crowd, ...
The California State University Board of Trustees will begin searching this month for a new SF State president. The committee will hold an open meeting on Monday, Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Seven Hills Conference Center on campus. This forum will be the only open meeting of the committee during the ...
A federal appeals court ruled today that a California voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled 2-1 that Proposition 8 violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law to all U.S. citizens. Judges ...
Occupy SFSU had its first General Assembly Meeting of the new year Feb. 2, in front of the library. The only large items the group approved were the creation of a work committee to plan SF State’s actions for participating in the March 1 Day of Action protests and to create a support group to ...
Garret Davis, beloved father, devoted police officer and SF State alum, died tragically Jan. 21 when his patrol car was rear-ended and burst into flames, according to the Honolulu Police Department. He had stopped his car on Interstate Hawaiian I to help a couple in a stalled vehicle. He was 28 years old. The 41-year-old ...
In a tranquil apartment in Hayes Valley, a small side table topped with perfectly-folded T-shirts packed carefully away in a plastic container serves as a daily reminder that more than 7,000 miles away in Japan, daily life for many tsunami survivors is anything but peaceful. While the international spotlight may have faded from Japanese relief ...
An accident near SF State, involving a bicycle and a car, left one student injured Monday at about 1 p.m. A blue Toyota Prius driven by Jesse Vicario, 22, a pre-nursing student, was pulling into a parking spot on Arballo Drive when he abruptly stopped, causing 19-year-old journalism major Rosie Linares to fly into the ...
Cheers to the Freakin’ Weekend What better way to celebrate the end of winter break than having a few drinks in the Student Services building? That’s what one thirsty, underage college student did before a police officer cited her Jan. 21. Apparently, the excitement of a new semester was too much to bear and she ...
SF State is preparing to undergo a major change it has not seen the likes of in 24 years. The University is officially looking for a new president. President Robert A. Corrigan announced in August 2011 that he would retire at the end of the year. Corrigan has been in this position since 1988 and ...
A shooting occurred in Parkmerced Wednesday night leaving one person injured. The victim was waiting on the 300 block of Arballo Drive for a friend at 9:20 p.m. when an unknown male approached and shot the victim in the leg, according to the San Francisco Police Department. The victim was taken to UCSF Medical Center ...
More than 5,000 customers lost power on the west side of San Francisco this evening after a car hit a pole on the 300 block of West Portal Avenue, according to PG&E. The outage began at 9:15 p.m. and originally left 5,557 customers without power according to PG&E spokesperson Jana Morris. It is unclear whether ...
Nine seems to be the magic number for next year’s 2012-2013 academic budget. A nine percent tuition increase was passed 9-6, with nine of 24 trustees missing from the meeting. Since when is nine of 24 a majority? It’s just not right. The tuition increase added more fuel to the fire spreading across college campuses ...
The Occupy SFSU encampment has been cleared from Malcolm X Plaza after an immediate dispersal order was given by the university early this morning. The order came from the University at 12:15 a.m. stating that the students were to leave the plaza immediately. If students did not leave they would be subject to a “Dispersal ...
In recent months, as the Occupy movement spread across the nation and world, thousands of people have become supporters or participants of protests and marches against corporate greed. SF State criminal and justice major, Lalo Gonzalez, became involved with the Occupy movement in San Francisco shortly after it all began in late September. A long ...
Red drapes line the stage walls, where about 50 current members of the SF State wind ensemble sit on stage, instruments poised, their heads turned away from their sheet music to look up at a video projection of Edwin Kruth teaching his music class from a time before they, and even some of their parents, ...
