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Earth Day for the Eco-conscious Used books, toys, and clothes donated by eco-savvy students drew other students to an environmental fair and gave them a chance to find a good home for stuff that would otherwise end up in the dump.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Thursday, May 11 2006 7:50 PM

Gore Warns About Warming A documentary about a semi-retired politician giving a slide show about global warming may sound boring, but more than 500 enthusiastic people filled a theater in the Sony Metreon Monday night to watch an advance screening of “An Inconvenient Truth, and to briefly hear from the movie’s star, former Vice President Al Gore, and director Davis Guggenheim.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Tuesday, May 2 2006 1:30 PM

Queer Alliance Variety Show Turns Raunch Into Gold The sixth annual '7-Inch Heels and a Microphone' variety show brought drag queens, stand up comedians, and punk rockers together to raise money for the Queer Alliance and the Cindy Kolb AIDS Foundation, which provides additional college funds to SF State students with HIV.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Sunday, Apr 30 2006 6:08 PM

Earth Day Festivities Get a Rain Check Due to concern about the record-breaking rainstorms that have flooded the Bay Area in recent weeks, a group of Environmental Studies student group, Ecostudents, has postponed their campus Earth Day events until May.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Friday, Apr 21 2006 7:38 AM

San Francisco Remembers '06 Quake Sirens wailed on Market Street as a horse-drawn fire truck made its way through a crowd of thousands at 5:12 AM on April 18, one hundred years after the “Big One” hit and sparked fires that left San Francisco in ruins.
[ Story by Jacob Holub and Kelly Tabor ]
Tuesday, Apr 18 2006 11:18 PM

Robbery in Creative Arts Building A rack-mounted sound mixing board was stolen from a studio used by jazz students in the Creative Arts building.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Monday, Mar 27 2006 7:37 PM

Getting Tested - The Fears of AIDS Testing Many of you have not had a recent HIV test. Though very accurate at determining when HIV-reactive antibodies are not in the blood, HIV tests can turn up as many false positive results as real ones. Here is the story of one student's false-positive scare.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Thursday, Mar 23 2006 8:34 PM

Physics Club Brings Students Together To many students, the words "Physics Club" don't exactly bring to mind a fun, social organization that does humanitarian projects. The students of SF State's Physics and Astronomy Club are out to bust some myths and stereotypes.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Thursday, Mar 16 2006 10:58 PM

Student Weather Forecasters Let You Know What's Up Posted in the hallways of Thornton Hall are forecasts provided by Gator Weather, a student chapter of the American Meteorological Society. A team of ten student atmospheric and oceanic science majors and a few others taking classes in meteorology learn about public weather forecasting by working in a weather simulation laboratory here on campus.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Thursday, Mar 9 2006 8:30 PM

SF State Must Permit Military Recruiters on Campus The Supreme Court ruled unanimously this Monday to uphold the Solomon Amendment, a law that denies federal funding from universities that do not provide military recruiters the same access that other job recruiters get.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Tuesday, Mar 7 2006 3:45 PM

Robot Sumo Wrestlers Compete at SF State As as recruiting tool for the School of Engineering. SF State sponsored a mini-robot sumo wrestling competition for local high school students last Friday.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Saturday, Feb 25 2006 11:29 PM

Batteries Classified as Hazardous Waste California’s Universal Waste Rule has classified batteries and many household electronic items as hazardous waste. The law became effective in 2002, but for the last four years, small businesses and households have been exempt. As of Feb. 8, you may face fines or imprisonment for throwing away batteries, fluorescent light bulbs, cell phones, and other electronic equipment.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Thursday, Feb 16 2006 7:33 PM

Professors React to Muslim Cartoons Controversial caricatures of prophet Muhammad, published in the Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September, have sparked outrage in many Muslim nations from Afghanistan to Nigeria.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Thursday, Feb 9 2006 8:56 PM

Coretta Scott King remembered Coretta Scott King, a lifelong dedicated social activist and champion of human rights and the wife and widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was laid to rest Tuesday next to her husband at the King Center in Atlanta.
[ Story by Jacob Holub, Kelly Tabor contributed to this story ]
Saturday, Feb 4 2006 5:56 PM

Campus Controversy Over Military Recruitment SF State is at the forefront of educational policy, protesting controversial issues surrounding military recruitment on college campuses. Click here for multimedia feature.
[ Story by James Adamson ]
Monday, May 16 2005 8:27 PM

Team America No teachers were available this year to teach the Model United Nations course, forcing the International Relations department to withdraw funding and cancel the annual trip to New York. Coached by 21-year-old International Relations major Denis Rajic, five students prepared on their own to serve as the American Delegation to the Model United Nations of the Far West, hosted in San Francisco.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Friday, Apr 22 2005 4:17 PM

Attack of the Clones: Wondercon Draws Costumed Fans, Artists Wondercon is an anual convention in San Francisco featuring Comic Books, filmaking, and other popular graphic arts. Wondercon 19 took place between February 18th and 20th, 2005 and broke attendence records from previous years.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Wednesday, Mar 16 2005 2:38 PM

Caretaker, Historian Brings Life to History Cemetary Emmitt Watson is the caretaker, gardener, historian and tourguide for the San Francisco Columbarium, and has learned a lot about death, life and family in over 20 years working there. Click here to hear his story in a multimedia feature.
[ Story by Jacob Holub ]
Monday, Feb 28 2005 11:37 AM

SF State Students Imagine the Dream Class SF Student's discuss what their dream class would be and who the ideal teacher would be.
[ Story by Jennifer Newbold and Jacob Holub ]
Wednesday, Feb 9 2005 7:00 PM