Cyclists on cellphones may soon pay the price if Senate bill is passed
Cyclists on cellphones may soon have to pay a fine for their multitasking ways. A bill going through state Senate hearings would fine bicyclists a flat fee of $20 for first time cellphone…
SF State students fight to meet with professors as class sizes grow
As budget cuts widen the chasm between student and faculty populations, some students may be struggling more than others for a little face time with their full-time instructors. In 2010, some SF State…
SF State restructures departments as part of college merger
While last year’s college consolidation involved a considerable amount of restructuring, more extensive department reorganization looms in the distance. Turning some departments into programs whilst merging others is the University’s next step to…
VIDEO: What would compel you to become more involved in student politics?
Most students at SF State know that their status as a commuter school has resulted in low participation rates in campus activities. Associated Students Inc., the campus student government, has famously held elections…
UPAC college merger savings falling short of projected $1 million
If last year’s complex college merger has saved the SF State $1 million, it is unclear where that money came from, or where it ended up. To date, the University has not explicitly…
Benefits of SF State college merger still not apparent to some
One year ago, SF State traded an eight-college structure, two deans and two assistant deans for six colleges and a projected $1 million in savings. But a year after the fact, the merger…
VIDEO: Mr. San Francisco Leather competition about more than just chaps and straps
On any other night, the sight of a man dressed in nothing but leather chest straps, a matching thong, and loin cloth sauntering under the chandelier-lit lobby of the Hotel Whitcomb might have…
Apple product sales at an all-time high, labor practices at a dangerous low
The next time you’re slinging angry birds across the glass expanse of your iPhone screen, think about the dead laborers caught in the fray during manufacturing. Apple knows their products are made on…
Day of Action rally draws diverse crowd
Protesters of all professions and ages spoke, sang, chanted and marched while waving brightly-colored signs in English, Spanish and Mandarin during a rally for education and social service funding in front of City…
New BART cars being made overseas is no surprise to experts
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…
Muni to add new streetcar route for America’s Cup
The San Francisco Municipal Public Transportation Agency plans to extend public transportation to funnel the influx of foot traffic during the America’s Cup races summer 2013, with test runs of the new lines…
SF State hosts memorial service for late professor
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…
SF State: are we prepared for a major earthquake?
It could happen at anytime, anywhere. It starts with distant rumbling followed by the subtle sway of the ground beneath, the superficial evidence of a tumultuous tectonic tumble seething underground. San Francisco has…
Turkey-abstinence on Thanksgiving a humane way to spend the holiday
There is a stuffed bird carcass lying headless in the middle of your dining room table. It’s the only remains of an animal whose lifetime was spent immobilized in disease-ridden confinement, force-fed antibiotics and…
Proposition H will limit opportunities for children, schools
San Francisco’s Proposition H cleverly disguises an elitist agenda as a policy “for the kids.” Yet the prop has potential to reintroduce class-informed boundaries into the local education system, and must not be voted…
Number of “super seniors” on the rise as obtaining a degree becomes more difficult
Robert Jackson was 18 when he entered college as a freshman and 35 years old when he finally received his bachelor’s degree in Spanish last spring, 17 years since he enrolled in his…
VIDEO: SF State event spotlights Tokyo kimono school, Japanese culture
A Japanese student in a bright red kimono teetered into the Humanities Symposium on black, glossy 24-centimeter tall platform sandals Tuesday, as one of the sights to behold at the Kimono Show at…
SF State creative writing professor selected to edit poetry anthology
Hearing the word “poetry” might put some to sleep, but post-modern American prose isn’t anything like Emily Dickinson. SF State’s creative writing professor Paul Hoover was selected by publishing giant W. W. Norton…
Republicans: a look at political minority at SF State
In a campus that is home to students of different religions, races, ages, ethnicities and classes, there is one group whose absence is palpable. If Republicans do in fact exist at SF State,…
Ocean Beach coastline might disappear due to beach erosion
The next time you’re at Ocean Beach, make sure to take a picture for the grandchildren, because it might not be there much longer. According to a study published by SF State economics…
Women often outnumbered in engineering
In every engineering classroom Ingri Lopez has stepped inside, she routinely finds herself as the lone female in an area of men. While female students outnumber their male counterparts at SF State by…
Students turn parking spaces into parks for PARK(ing) day
Students who drove to SF State Thursday might have noticed the campus was a few metered spaces short due to temporary gardens, beds and benches erected in their place for the school’s third…
Dream Act will aid rather than deter economy
The second part of the California Dream Act has shimmied past the state legislature and now awaits Governor Jerry Brown’s promised stamp of approval. Though the law is long overdue, not everyone is…
SF State engineering department and PG&E team up for alternative energy project
In one of the back alleys near Hensill Hall, a newly unveiled winding steel contraption lurks behind a weather-proof window pane. The building, previously an old boiler room, now houses a fuel cell…
