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Gator Groceries helps students combat living expenses through free groceries
November 18, 2022
David Blakeley, Staff Reporter
After over a year of requesting a prayer room, Muslim Student Association expresses frustrations at Associated Students board meeting
November 17, 2022
Zackery Stehr, Campus Editor
Black Residents United in Housing’s Soulsgiving provides a safe space for students who remain on-campus for the holidays
November 17, 2022
Alexis Alexander, Staff Reporter
SF State’s greenhouse showcases a wide array of rare, exotic plants
November 17, 2022
Jack Davies, Staff Reporter

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Condom kits lay on a table inside the Health Promotion & Wellness office at SF State on Nov. 14, 2022. HPW provides kits for students to pick up, which include condoms as well as lube. (Ashley Hayes-Stone / Golden Gate Xpress)

A guide to free sexual health resources at SF State

November 16, 2022

Twitter CEO Elon Musk holds a birdcage with Twitter birds flying away. Even with Musk’s acquisition of the company, many students at SF State have decided against leaving the app. (Illustration by Juliana Yamada / Golden Gate Xpress. Photo courtesy of Duncan.Hull, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.)

SF State students and faculty say they will stay on Twitter, no matter who owns it

November 15, 2022

Liberal and Creative Arts adviser Steven Cochrane (left) and student assistant Juliana Rodriguez (right) review the advising appointment schedule in the Liberal and Creative Arts Advising Resource Center (ARC) in SF State’s Humanities Building on Nov. 14, 2022. The ARC’s advisors are fully booked for Advising Week. (Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State’s student advising process to change in Fall 2023

November 14, 2022

Jonathan Flores plays the piano inside the Cesar Chavez Student Center at SF State on Nov. 2, 2022. (Ashley Hayes-Stone / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State’s classic piano continues to fill Cesar Chavez Student Center with music

November 10, 2022

A&E

SF State actors Amanda Schaer (left) and Kenna Tanaka (right) on the set of “Dealing Dreams,” for its first showing on Nov. 3, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Richard Mayer)

SF State’s first play of the semester steps into the spotlight

November 4, 2022

Students from SF State’s School of Theatre and Dance perform Peace of Mind during rehearsals for Paradox on Oct. 19, 2022 in the Little Theatre. Paradox is the School of Theatre and Dance’s first student-choreographed show of the semester. (Juliana Yamada / Golden Gate Xpress)

‘Paradox: New Moves Student Choreography Showcase,’ illustrates 10 student experiences through dance

October 21, 2022

Nathan Burns, the coordinator and a top judge for the Superfest film festival, holds up a “torch” labeled Superfest inside the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability on Oct. 12, 2022. The torch was given to the Longmore Institute in 2013 by the organization Culture Disability Talent when production for Superfest was taken over by the Longmore Institute. (Miguel Francesco Carrion / Golden Gate Xpress)

Filmmakers with disabilities showcase their work at Superfest

October 18, 2022

Opinion

Protesters advocate for better wages, labor practices and benefits for university faculty members. (Illustration by Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State faculty union supports UC-UAW strike

November 16, 2022

An illustration of a blonde person whispering into a brunette persons ear. (Illustration by Myron Caringal / Golden Gate Xpress)

Between the Issues: Newsroom secrets and SF State confessions

November 5, 2022

An illustration of a horror movie character escaping a TV. (Illustration by Myron Caringal)

An Xpress Halloween special: A discussion on minorities in horror films

October 28, 2022

Sports

SF State Women’s volleyball team middle blocker Chloe Henning stands for a portrait in front of Don Nasser Family Plaza during a portrait session on Oct. 4, 2022. (Abraham Fuentes / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State volleyball player Chloe Henning excels on the court and in the classroom

October 25, 2022

Midfielder Samantha Shim (31) of SF State runs the ball at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, CA on Oct. 2, 2022. (Jesus Arriaga / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State women's soccer team earns a gritty 1-0 victory over rival Cal State East Bay

October 3, 2022

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Ruqaiyah Angeles voices her and other MSA members frustrations with prayer room allocation during SF State’s Associated Students board meeting at Jack Adams Hall in the Cesar Chavez Student Center on Nov. 16, 2022. (Zackery Stehr / Golden Gate Xpress)

After over a year of requesting a prayer room, Muslim Student Association expresses frustrations at Associated Students board meeting

The Financial Aid Office in the Student Services Building at SF State is pictured on Nov. 4, 2022. Financial aid services are available all weekdays for students in need of assistance. (Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)

A revamped Middle Class Scholarship aims to support more students

Volker Langbehn poses inside his office in the Humanities building at SF State on March 16, 2022. Langbehn is the German program chair at SF State. (Bianca Heredia / Golden Gate Xpress)

German, Italian programs in jeopardy as student majors decline

An illustration of money from the HEERF Grant changing hands. (Miguel Francesco Carrion / Golden Gate Xpress)

Students approved for recent HEERF grant will be notified starting Nov. 10

Protesters advocate for better wages, labor practices and benefits for university faculty members. (Illustration by Tatyana Ekmekjian / Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State faculty union supports UC-UAW strike

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The Condom Cart is a program that gives students t

The Condom Cart is a program that gives students the opportunity to make a “sexy bag” with their choice of condoms, lubes and other safe sex supplies.

This semester, the cart has been brought out on a bi-weekly basis, rotating between two locations: outside of City Eats and the Gymnasium.

Future Condom Cart location information will be made available on the HPW website starting in Spring 2023. Sexual Health Education Coordinator Taylor Davies also hopes the cart will be brought out on a weekly basis by then, as the campus expects more students.

Students can visit the Condom Cart for its final appearance of the fall semester on Nov. 28 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. outside of City Eats. But the cart is always filled and set up inside their office for students to put a bag together anytime.

✍🏼 by Jenna Mandarano
📸 by @xofilmbum

On the bottom floor of the Cesar Chavez Student Ce

On the bottom floor of the Cesar Chavez Student Center, students quietly line up in front of the makeshift Gator Groceries market. Many of them clutch tote bags, eagerly awaiting their 1 p.m. reservations to pick up their box of groceries. Boxes of fresh produce sit atop tables, along with refrigerators stocked with meat, eggs and milk.

Gator Groceries began in 2016 to provide SF State students with free groceries, but with the limited amount of supplies, there is competition to obtain a grocery reservation.

Students begin their online reservations by selecting either a standard box, which includes meat and dairy, or the veggie box, which only includes vegetables.

Gator Groceries is run by the Associated Students of SF State, and they currently have 10 volunteers working the makeshift market.

“We are always open to volunteers for the program,” Ramos said. “We want to expand the program so we can feed more students over more hours, as well as get more space to do so.”

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank currently provides the groceries for the program and, according to Ramos, drops off a large delivery of food every Tuesday.

“We have our students break down the pallets of groceries delivered to us,” Ramos said. “The items are then brought down to the fridges, organized and prepped to be picked up by students the following day.”

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✍🏼 by David Blakeley
📸 by @miguel.flcarrion

Members of the Muslim Student Association and Gene

Members of the Muslim Student Association and General Union of Palestine Students voiced their frustrations about SF State’s failure to provide a prayer room at Associated Students’ board meeting on Wednesday.

During the meeting’s open forum, MSA member Ruqaiyah Angeles spoke about her experience as a Muslim student at SF State and the continued disappointment she and other MSA members felt after more than a year of advocating for a prayer space.

“I would just like to say that as a Muslim student on campus, I do not feel supported or included or anything of that sort of priority when it comes to university staff,” Angeles said at the board meeting.

Angeles said that MSA is not advocating for an office space or its own personal prayer room, but a prayer room for SF State’s entire Muslim population. She added that not only were they promised a space by SF State President Lynn Mahoney more than a year ago, but they were also promised a Muslim Student Life Coordinator who has yet to be hired.

“To sit here and explain and educate every person on why it is important to have a dedicated, safe, clean respectful space to pray my five obligatory prayers every single day on this campus, for a campus that thrives off of our diversity, is disappointing,” Angeles said.

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✍🏼 & 📸 by @s._zackery

Thanksgiving break can be a period of rest and rel

Thanksgiving break can be a period of rest and relaxation for students before the last hectic weeks of the fall semester. Many students travel home to spend the holiday with friends and family but this is not the case for all.

Some students have to stay on campus to work, some may not have a home to return to and others are foreign exchange students that cannot afford to travel.

During the break, SF State’s dining hall for students living on campus, City Eats will be closed from Nov. 18 through Nov. 27, leaving students without their main source of food.

In an effort to provide a food resource to students who remain on-campus, SF State’s Black Residents United in Housing will host Soulsgiving on Nov. 23. The gathering will offer students dinner as well as a place to play games and watch movies.

SF State senior and BRUH President Ibory Moore believes students deserve access to on-campus resources during breaks.

“I find it very odd that us as students pay so much money for food swipes, but during Thanksgiving break the campus shuts down leaving students who stay here without food for a week,” Moore said.

Moore’s organization created Soulsgiving to meet student needs as they may face food insecurity while attending college.

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✍🏼 by @alexisssceciliaa
📸 by Jenna Mandarano

Elliot Levin walks through the greenhouse admiring

Elliot Levin walks through the greenhouse admiring his favorite plants. The space is alive with colors and smells, as thousands of plants occupy every inch of the room.

Levin is the manager of SF State’s Greenhouse, a place for students to learn about diverse and exotic plants. He believes it isn’t being used to the extent it should be, as it is currently used primarily by biology students.

“It’s massively underutilized, a lot of this just sits here,” Levin said. “I would love to see more interdisciplinary stuff, I’d love to be able to help other departments, but currently, under how the funding works, I don’t know what the possibility of that is.”

Levin believes there are several ways for students who aren’t in biology courses to use the greenhouse, such as to study the social implications of having plant collections, evolution, ecology, conservation science, or even by art students to design pots.

There are over 2,000 plants in the greenhouse. They are divided into three rooms — the arid room, which features dry region plants, the tropical room, which includes plants from tropical regions, and the highland cloud forest room, featuring plants from cooler climates.

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✍🏼 by @jackdav1es
📸 by @julianayamadaphoto

Located in the Village at Centennial Square near C

Located in the Village at Centennial Square near City Eats, Health Promotion & Wellness has promoted student health since 2016. It offers students free supplies, resources and services.

🔗 Tap the link in our bio to read about the Condom Cart, Condom Dispensers, Condom Kits, Menstrual supplies and STI testing can.

✍🏼 by Jenna Mandarano
📸 @xofilmbum

On Nov. 14, nearly 48,000 academic workers affilia

On Nov. 14, nearly 48,000 academic workers affiliated with UAW at the 10 campuses of the University of California went on strike, which is scheduled to last the entire week. This strike for a FairUC is organized by workers from three separate units currently engaging in bargaining with the university, UAW 2865 and SRU-UAW, which represents graduate student instructors and researchers respectively, and UAW 5810, which represents postdocs. Together these locals garnered over 36,000 yes votes to strike making this the largest strike in higher education in US history.

The CFA-SFSU chapter, which represents faculty, librarians, coaches and counselors in our university has come out in full support of the strike. Our union has made a donation of $500 to the strike and hardship fund and is organizing delegations of SF State faculty members to join the pickets daily in solidarity. We are also encouraging all union and community members to make individual donations. Other chapters of the CSU are making similar statements and donations as well.

As union members, we see the struggle of academic workers in the UC as deeply intertwined with ours at SF State and in the CSU. We understand that their open-ended strike for fair bargaining to get a COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment Increase). The union is asking for a 10% increase for this year, and a minimum of 7% each year for the next coming years, which is key. So far the UC is only offering 7% this year and 3% for consecutive years.

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✍🏼 by Blanca Missè
🎨 by @tatyek

“The bird is freed,” was billionaire mogul Elo

“The bird is freed,” was billionaire mogul Elon Musk’s first Tweet after becoming the new owner of Twitter on Oct. 27.

So far, Musk has fired the majority of the staff and high-ranking officials, implemented a $7.99 monthly subscription fee for verified accounts and allowed formerly banned users to return.

Public figures such as Gigi Hadid, Mick Foley, Toni Braxton, Shonda Rhimes and various others people said they left the platform.

Activist Shaun King has gone as far as to leave the platform and make his account private. And President Joe Biden called out Musk for buying a social media platform that “spews lies all over the world.”

While many people have expressed growing tired of Musk, some SF State students and faculty say they don’t care about who owns the platform.

Ivan Ornelas, a lecturer at the Metro College Success Program, said the 2016 election didn’t drive him off Twitter, so all of the controversy caused by Musk won’t stop him from using the app, but it will continue to influence how he navigates the space.

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✍🏼 by Luis Cortes
🎨 by @julianayamadaphoto

SF State’s advising model will be altered in an

SF State’s advising model will be altered in an attempt to make the process more efficient in Fall 2023. Students will no longer be automatically required to meet with faculty advisers for course planning.

In mid-Feb. 2023, all advising centers will move to the Administration Building. SF State aims to assign students one general adviser for their first two years, then give them the freedom to branch out to other advisers.

General advisers will help students on degree advising, while faculty advisers will take more of a career mentorship role.

According to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Kimberley Altura, the decision to change the model was based on student feedback that said the current model is confusing.

The advising department saw more success with a newer advising model that was introduced to freshmen in 2020, where the students were assigned an adviser.

“This new model just means that they will have the faculty advisers they can speak with and they’ll also have the advisers in that one stop center, and those advising teams will all be getting training directly from the academic departments,” Altura said.

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✍🏼 by @matthew_cardoza_writes
📸 by @tatyek

The piano in the Cesar Chavez Center is a place fo

The piano in the Cesar Chavez Center is a place for students to gather and listen to the melodies played on the piano or express themselves by playing the piano.

Since 2020 this piano has lived across the Depot Stage but, this is not the first piano to make an appearance at the Cesar Chavez Center there has been a piano in this building as far a 20+ years ago. This specific piano was was donated by the Creative Arts department.

As overwhelming season of finals starts to creep up, costing the piano might be the place that could help you study, decompress or just simply jam out.

Have you visited the piano yet? 🎹

🎥 by @opalmanic

One of the many things make SF State students stan

One of the many things make SF State students standout is their fashion sense. @sfsufitss has become a popular instagram page that highlights the unique style we see on campus everyday, and we wanted to ask to show off what exactly they’re wearing. Xpress Multimedia Editor @firstplacerene did just that.

Whose outfit did you like the most?

🎥 by @firstplacerene & Aiden Brady

As the constant chatter and restaurant clamor fill

As the constant chatter and restaurant clamor fill the upper levels of the Cesar Chavez Student center, the sounds of a piano fill the lower levels of the building.

The melodies of Satie, Mozart, Bach, Chopin and Tchaikovsky travel past pint glasses around The Pub to the pool tables of Rack-N-Cue.

The walk through the Cesar Chavez study lounge has become a tunnel that leads to the music. And the beeps of the communal microwaves are the only complementary instrument to the piano.

According to Associated Students Senior Director of Productions and SF State alumnus Horace Montgomery, there has been a piano at the Cesar Chavez Student Center for as long as he can remember.

Montgomery believes it is essential for students to have spaces on campus where they can hangout and unwind.

“It is important to give students a space, so we try to have creative spaces,” Montgomery said. “As a student, I was a big supporter of these spaces.”

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✍🏼 by @opalmanic
📸 by @xofilmbum

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SF State Political Science professor Jason McDaniel talks to students during an department-held Election Night watch party in the Humanities Building on Nov. 8, 2022. (Miguel Francesco Carrion / Golden Gate Xpress)

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