Golden Gate Xpress

Prop C motivates students to vote on campus

November 12, 2019

Census data shows young adults are notorious for low voter turnout, but despite this trend, SF State students still came out to the on-campus polling place at Towers to cast their vote Nov. 5 for the ballot measures that mattered ...

Ex-Striker Hosts Poetry Reading during Ethnic Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration

Briana Battle, Art Director

October 15, 2019

The school hosted a week of events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the College of Ethnic Studies. Ernie Brill, one of the students involved the 1968 strike, emceed a poetry reading on Tuesday night, featu...

Tours of new cultural flavors of SF

Briana Battle, Art Director

October 7, 2019

Chuy’s Fiestas It’s no secret that San Francisco’s Mission District has a surplus of Mexican food. It’s nearly impossible to walk a few blocks in the Mission without coming across one of its many Mexican restaurants....

Students travel abroad to produce documentaries in China

Briana Battle, Art Director

September 23, 2019

Each summer since 2010, Professor Wiemen Zhang and a group of students spend three and a half weeks abroad, creating short documentaries about the locals. This past summer, 15 students went to China and created four different documentari...

Copycat Exhibit showcases art

Briana Battle, Art Director

September 23, 2019

Many artists take several days or weeks, sometimes even years, to create a piece. But students who took Language of Observational Painting last semester were given just three hours to create paintings that are now on display in the ...

Student rapper balances school and music

September 13, 2019