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Students and faculty gather in the quad for a press conference regarding demands for SF State, President Wong on the eighth day of the  hunger strike on Monday.  The hungerstrike is led by the Third World Liberation Front 2016, a name used to pay homeage to the 1968 strike.  (Aleah Fajardo/ Xpress)

Policy limits free speech, access

Lorenzo Morotti May 7, 2019

Students and faculty gather in the quad for a press conference regarding demands for SF State, President Wong on the eighth day of the hunger strike on Monday. The hungerstrike is led by the Third World...

Proposed study abroad program to Palestine garners excitement

Lorenzo Morotti Feb 12, 2019

*Correction at bottom XXX A proposed two-week study abroad trip to Palestine review process is being prolonged by administration, according to Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas studies professor...

Arab and Muslim Ethnicity Diaspora studies director Rabab Abdulhadi speaks at the 11th commemoration of the Edward Said mural at SF State on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018.

Professor files discrimination lawsuit against top-ranking administrators

Lorenzo Morotti Jan 29, 2019

A tenured professor filed a lawsuit against SF State President Leslie Wong and other top-ranking administrators on Jan. 14, alleging discrimination based on her race, health and political activism. Arab...

Orlando Harris, Director of Career Services and Leadership Development, has his portrait taken near Malcolm X Plaza at SF State's on Sept. 10, 2018. (Oscar Rendon/Golden Gate Xpress)

Career Services aims to bolster reach, hire counselors

Lorenzo Morotti Dec 18, 2018

The office of Career Services and Leadership Development, which provides career counseling for students looking for employment or internships, has only two certified counselors for a campus population...

‘Transphobic’ crime bulletin leads to demands for apology, action

‘Transphobic’ crime bulletin leads to demands for apology, action

Lorenzo Morotti Dec 12, 2018

A recent SF State Student Affairs crime bulletin describing a knife-wielding suspect as “a transgender female” led to accusations of transphobia and demands for the term to be removed from the statement. Anonymous...

Argument leads to assault with deadly weapon

Argument leads to assault with deadly weapon

Lorenzo Morotti Dec 4, 2018

An unknown suspect allegedly assaulted an SF State student with a 6-inch to 12-inch machete after a verbal altercation in the Centennial Village at 12:30 a.m. on Monday night, Dec. 3, according to a university...

Elizabeth Marc, 42, Paradise wildfire survivor, feeds her daughter Isabelle, 4, spoonfuls of cottage cheese as the rest of her family eats dinner in their temporary rental home on Nov. 23 in Orland, Calif. The Marc family — Elizabeth, Isabelle, Paul, 50, and Francis, 17 — lost their home of two years when the most deadly fire in state history broke out on Nov. 8. (Lorenzo Morotti/Golden Gate Xpress)

Camp Fire evacuees cling to each other

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 27, 2018

As firefighters smothered the last embers of the Camp Fire over Thanksgiving weekend, the evacuees who lost all their material possessions clung to what’s truly most valuable — one another. Among...

Dean Wisely, 53-year-old Chico resident, cries on Nov. 16, 2018 near his tent set up in the Walmart parking lot in Chico, Calif., as he recounts his experience with homelessness on and off throughout his life and the devastation the Camp Fire has wrought on the community. (Lorenzo Morotti/Golden Gate Xpress)

[Update] Devastated community sets up temporary shelters in parking lots

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 17, 2018

CHICO—Hundreds of evacuees from the most deadly and destructive fire in state history continue to live out of their vehicles and tents in parking lots and fields. Evacuees of the Camp Fire that...

California Gov. Jerry Brown, right, attends a press conference during a visit at the Camp Fire incident base at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. (© 2018 Joel Angel Juárez. All rights reserved.) (Special to Golden Gate Xpress)

Gov. Brown lauds community unity in wake of wildfires

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 15, 2018

CHICO—California Gov. Jerry Brown announced a six-part executive order to help the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by what is becoming the most destructive and deadly fire season in state...

Chico residents wait in a line for pizza and other food at The Neighborhood Church in Chico on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (Christian Urrutia/Golden Gate Xpress)

Fire victims recount devastation in Paradise

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 12, 2018

CHICO — The wind-fueled Camp Fire that started near Paradise, California around 7 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 has become the most destructive fire in California’s history. On Friday Nov. 9, narrow streets...

Death toll rises as wildfire spreads in Butte County

Death toll rises as wildfire spreads in Butte County

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 12, 2018

CHICO — The wind-fueled Camp Fire that started near Paradise, California around 7 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 8 has become the most destructive fire in California’s history. By Monday morning, 31 people...

SF votes to support homeless

SF votes to support homeless

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 9, 2018

A corporate tax to help homeless people passed with nearly 60 percent of the vote on Tuesday Nov. 6, surprising many San Francisco residents who expected that an opposition campaign with massive corporate...

Tachelle Herron Lane, 38, who is earning a teaching credential in social studies, speaks about inviting self-proclaimed white nationalist Brian Cofield to a UA meeting at a University Affairs  - a board comprised of elected Associated Students officials - at SF State on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. The UA passed a motion to invite Cofield to a closed-session University Affairs meeting. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/Golden Gate Xpress)

University Affairs to meet with self-proclaimed white nationalist

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 7, 2018

The Associated Students Inc. University Affairs Council wants a self-proclaimed white nationalist to explain why he is enrolled in race and resistance courses at SF State. During a meeting on...

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit last week against Arab and Muslim Ethnicities Diaspora professor Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/Golden Gate Xpress)

Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging anti-Semitism against SF State and professor

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 7, 2018

A drawn out court battle alleging that an SF State professor was encouraging anti-Semitism came to a final close on Thursday, Oct. 29. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Arab and Muslim Ethnicities...

Damion Square has his portrait taken at SF State on Thursday November 1, 2018. © (Oscar Rendon/GoldenGateXpress)

Africana studies major finds activism in music

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 7, 2018

The SF State strikers in 1968 sought to include more diversity in a whitewashed curriculum and to pressure the university to hire more professors and administrators who represent marginalized communities. Fifty...

Cannabis dominates Bay Area ballots

Cannabis dominates Bay Area ballots

Lorenzo Morotti Nov 1, 2018

From the South Bay to Contra Costa County, this year’s midterm elections is all about cannabis. Communities throughout the Bay Area are organizing to pass or trash gross taxes on recreational marijuana...

Safety concerns lead to event cancellations in wake self-proclaimed nazi student revelations

Safety concerns lead to event cancellations in wake self-proclaimed nazi student revelations

Lorenzo Morotti Oct 31, 2018

Recent revelations of an ethnic studies student’s hateful, racist and threatening social media posts have led to the cancellation of the remainder of that course's public events, according to professor...

Maloney Field and the tennis courts are set to be replaced by an eco-space, consisting of a large grassy recreation area, a creek and an amphitheater by 2035 according to the campus master plan. (Travis Wesley/Special to the Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State to remove baseball field, tennis court

Lorenzo Morotti Oct 16, 2018

SF State plans to replace its baseball field and tennis courts with a new “eco-space,” leaving the baseball team to move to a high school stadium. The plan, which appears in the Future State 2035...

Self-proclaimed Nazi enrolls in race and resistance studies class

Self-proclaimed Nazi enrolls in race and resistance studies class

Lorenzo Morotti Oct 16, 2018

An SF State student’s hateful ideology was exposed on Tuesday, Oct. 9 when flyers were posted anonymously warning the student body that “a violent Nazi” was in their midst. The flyers read “Alert!Alert!...

Indigenous Peoples’ Day shifts historical perspective

Indigenous Peoples’ Day shifts historical perspective

Lorenzo Morotti Oct 10, 2018

While many universities across the nation closed their campuses to honor Christopher Columbus, SF State students, faculty and administrators didn’t take a day off to celebrate a slave trader. “It...

Rafael Vazquez, National Park Service education and outreach ranger, answers a question out of the Golden Gate National Park Conservancy information truck on Sept. 26, 2018 in front of the Student Services Building. (Lorenzo Morotti/Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State students can get cash, academic credit with Golden Gate National Park Conservancy internship

Lorenzo Morotti Sep 27, 2018

The Golden Gate National Park Conservancy is offering paid, academic internships to underrepresented students through an ongoing partnership with SF State. Mariajose Alcantara, community outreach and...

The vending machine between the Administration Building and the J. Paul Leonard Library undergoes maintenance at SF State on Sept. 26, 2018. (Oscar Rendon/Golden Gate Xpress)

Campus vending machine temporarily shuts down

Lorenzo Morotti Sep 26, 2018

Students' only option for late-night and weekend snacks is shut down, but fear not, the campus vending machine is going to reopen "any time now," according to Chris Farmer, The University Corporation director...

Various mobile homes line the streets of Winston Drive and Lake Merced Boulevard near SF State on Aug. 29, 2018. (Lindsey Moore/Golden Gate Xpress)

Parking shortage burdens people living in vehicles

Lorenzo Morotti Sep 17, 2018

First, they couldn’t find affordable housing. Now they can’t find hassle-free parking. People living out of their vehicles amid San Francisco’s housing crisis are finding it increasingly difficult...

A backhoe demolishes student housing along Tapia Drive on Sept, 5. (Sylvie Sturm/Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State project to transform Tapia Drive into pedestrian-only quad

Lorenzo Morotti Sep 13, 2018

The new Liberal and Creative Arts Building currently under construction is just phase one of a four-phase SF State Master Plan that will eliminate Tapia Drive altogether and turn it into a quad, according...

Juan Martinez, who moved to San Francisco from Brazil, smokes cannabis inside his motorhome parked on Lake Merced Boulevard on Monday, Sept. 3. Martinez is one of many who are living out of their vehicles, either by choice or who are forced to, because of the lack of affordable housing in the Bay Area. (Lindsey Moore/Golden Gate Xpress)

Housing crisis drives students to live in vehicles

Lorenzo Morotti Sep 12, 2018

The lack of access to affordable housing on and off campus has pushed some San Francisco State University students to live out of their vehicles. Between 20 to 30 vehicles parked on Lake Merced Boulevard...

Graffiti is visible on the west side of the Humanities Building at SF State on Aug. 29, 2018.   (GoldenGateXpress/Oscar Rendon)

Graffiti rages against SFSU construction, lack of student housing

Lorenzo Morotti Aug 31, 2018

Profanity-laden graffiti denouncing the demolition of student housing units appeared overnight last Wednesday at the construction site located at the Tapia Drive Triangle and the Humanities Building. The...

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