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Two-Day Strikes to Limit Harm to Students This week, nearly a hundred SF State faculty members sat down for a session billed as another opportunity to gather information directly from the faculty union's state leaders about why contract negotiations have stalled and why a strike may be necessary.
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Tuesday, Feb 13 2007 9:14 PM

Gators Win on the Road, Lose at Home Despite winning one game on the road over the weekend, SF State's women's basketball team suffered a tough loss Feb. 6 against CSU Monterey Bay at home. Tuesday night's 85-73 loss to was the latest edition in a recent pattern of playing well in the first half and then playing poorly in the second half.
[ Story by Greg Chapman ]
Monday, Feb 12 2007 1:21 PM

So Long, Darts The game is beer pong. The "sport" has become a popular substitute for most traditional forms of drinking games at house parties in the college community. Although the rules change from household to household and from college to college, the concept stays the same: throw the ball, land it in the cup, the other team drinks the beer.
[ Story by Courtney Durso ]
Sunday, Feb 11 2007 11:45 AM

CSU Faculty Plan Informational Picket Line Students at the California State University�s 23 campuses will be greeted with more than just new classes and teachers on the first week of next semester. California Faculty Association members are planning informational picket lines to inform students about troubled faculty contract negotiations.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Tuesday, Dec 12 2006 2:47 PM

Graduation Routed in Rituals As you don your cap and gown this graduation day you may wonder what an unflattering polyester muumuu, square cardboard head gear, and long speeches have to do with academia. As it turns out, they may have more to do with America's traditional British roots than anything else.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Friday, May 12 2006 9:54 PM

British Health Outweighs US The assumption could be made that Americans would be at least as healthy as their British counterparts considering that we spend twice as much on per capita health care. Instead, wealthy middle-aged white Americans are about as healthy as the poorest Britons.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Thursday, May 11 2006 8:52 PM

Pledges For Paychecks Your professors are revealers of knowledge, harbingers of truth and protectors of the United States and California constitutions. This may be a lot for one person to take on.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Tuesday, May 9 2006 5:28 PM

Connecting Spiritually with Inner Personalities Ayurvedic physician Vasant Lad, a practitioner from New Mexico, considered to be the pre-eminent expert in his field, presented an in-depth lecture on Ayurveda and specifically how certain techniques are utilized to cope with and eliminate stress.
[ Story by Courtney Argo ]
Tuesday, May 2 2006 9:33 AM

Walking For Cancer More than 150 students walked 24 hours in length around the Lowell High School track to raise money and awareness for a disease that never sleeps, and one that will infect one in three Americans in their lifetime.
[ Story by Safiya Ruffin ]
Monday, May 1 2006 9:19 AM

Cuban Hip-Hop Debuts at SF State More than 100 students gathered in HSS 135 to witness the SF State debut of a documentary that explores the role of hip-hop in Cuba, an often misunderstood and socially isolated nation.
[ Story by Safiya Ruffin ]
Saturday, Apr 29 2006 10:25 AM

The Generation Gap Most parents want to be able to look their child in the eye and say, honestly, that they can be anything they want when they grow up: president, astronaut, CEO of a multi-national conglomerate.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Thursday, Apr 20 2006 8:58 PM

Losing fear of AIDS Success stories have become more common, but some health experts said the flip side of that coin is that the killer disease image of HIV and AIDS may be waning, possibly leading to a less fearful attitude among the public.
[ Story by Courtney Argo ]
Thursday, Mar 23 2006 8:48 PM

Third parties shake off ‘spoiler’ image Out of 20 gubernatorial candidates, five are from third parties. While the presence of third-party candidates may seem like evidence that diverse voices are being represented and the electoral system is open to all, those candidates face monumental uphill battles.
[ Story by anne greifenstein ]
Thursday, Mar 16 2006 3:45 PM

Highlighting the Ties Between Iraq and Iran Public backing for the war and Bush’s presidency has continued to dwindle, as justifications for waging war have been discredited and death tolls continue to rise. Poll numbers from the last year show that between 50 percent and 60 percent of Americans think the war was a mistake.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Thursday, Mar 9 2006 5:07 PM

Feds Say Grads May Not be Literate Enough Members of a federal commission on higher education are looking at standardized testing as a possible way to measure the effectiveness of colleges and universities. But faculty and administrators at SF State think that high-stakes standardized testing of graduating college seniors is the wrong answer.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Thursday, Feb 23 2006 7:13 PM

Student Voters Size Up CSA Candidates About 50 students attended a meeting that showcased four candidates running for the California State Assembly and the California State Senate.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Wednesday, Feb 22 2006 12:18 PM

Student Voters Size Up CSA Candidates About 50 students attended a meeting that showcased four candidates running for the California State Assembly and the California State Senate.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Tuesday, Feb 14 2006 5:48 PM

Mayoral Candidates Score Partial Public Funding SF State student activists scored a major victory on Tuesday when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 to approve a measure that will provide partial public funding to mayoral candidates for the upcoming 2007 election.
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Thursday, Feb 9 2006 8:24 PM

Partial Birth Abortion Ban Under Question When President Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 he vowed to vigorously defend it against any legal challenges. Less than an...
[ Story by Anne Greifenstein ]
Saturday, Feb 4 2006 7:41 PM