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All Aboard the "Crazy Train" SF State cinema major Sean David Christensen is taking charge of getting his short film, Crazy Train, into the hands of viewers by making it into a DVD and sending it off to independent film festivals.
[ Story by Stephanie Farebrother ]
Tuesday, Nov 8 2005 9:12 PM

Schiavo Paying Price of Political Debate Battle between political left and right leaves Schiavo in the middle.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Friday, Apr 1 2005 5:46 PM

Battlebots Prepare to Invade Few SF State students expect to find spinning buzz saws, radio-controlled flame-throwers or soccer-playing robot dogs hanging out at school during spring break recess. But on March 24, a small army of weapon-wielding battle bots and other artificial athletes will invade campus, as the international RoboGames competition descends on San Francisco.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Mar 17 2005 8:16 PM

Muni Fare Increases: Just Say 'No' According San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Authority (MTA), Muni service in the city is nearly out of gas. Deeply in dept by a reported $57 million, MTA officials voted 4-2 on Monday to approve a 25 cent increase to jump-start the agencies' ailing finances and public transportation running in the city.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Mar 10 2005 12:02 PM

USOC Threatens SF State over name 'Olympics' Last week, U.S. Olympic Committee attorneys sent SF State officials a letter that may force the university to cancel the RobOlympics, an on-campus international robotics competition with hundreds of mechanical contestants from across the globe.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Saturday, Mar 5 2005 1:52 PM

Dept. Chairman says Photojournalist's Arrest was "mishandled" Photojournalism major Omar Vega said last week he was exercising his First Amendment rights when he took photographs of an alleged burglary that has resulted in his arrest and eviction from the dorms and could get him expelled.
[ Story by Lemery Reyes ]
Thursday, Feb 17 2005 12:46 PM

Classroom Technology Fails to Deliver SF State's classroom performance system consistantly underperforms.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Tuesday, Feb 15 2005 6:11 PM

Journalism Dept. Says Case "Mishandled" The chair of SF State’s journalism department held a press conference on campus this afternoon defending the First Amendment rights of a photojournalism student arrested for photographing an alleged burglary.
[ Story by Lemery Reyes & Richard McKeethen ]
Friday, Feb 11 2005 4:00 PM

Semester's First Academic Senate Meeting Bodes Poorly for California Studies Administrators in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) contend that no student has ever graduated with a minor in CAS since the program began in 1995, making continued support questionable during a time of budget cuts and increased enrollment in other, more popular programs.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Feb 10 2005 11:58 AM

SF State Student Arrested on Burglary Charges Officers from the SF State Department of Public Safety and a San Francisco sheriff’s deputy arrested photojournalism student Omar Vega, 18, Wednesday on misdemeanor burglary...
[ Story by Lemery Reyes and Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Feb 10 2005 9:17 AM

Love and Science Scientists claim that the feeling of love is a mere byproduct of evolution, complete with biological components - not a mystery beyond our grasp.
[ Story by Layne Karafantis ]
Tuesday, Feb 8 2005 4:24 PM

Matt Gonzalez Runs, but Not Too Far Matt Gonzalez is a politician and a lawyer, but unlike many of his high-profile peers, he doesn’t seem motivated by money or power, which makes him unpredictable. One thing is clear about the man and his politics– Matt Gonzalez makes things interesting.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Wednesday, Feb 2 2005 6:52 PM

What Makes a Tsunami? Could a tsunami like the one in the Indian Ocean affect people here, in earthquake-prone California?
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Monday, Jan 31 2005 3:45 PM

Shakespear Comes to Life at SF State In room 134 of the Creative Arts building, on a foggy Thursday morning just after 9:30 a.m., a group of 34 SF State students listen intently as their instructor excitedly expounds upon Shakespearian classics from generations long since past.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Saturday, Nov 20 2004 1:32 PM

Israeli Deputy Consul Talks To Students at SF State On Nov. 15 at 10:15 a.m., in room 349 of the HSS building, Israeli Deputy Consul General Omer Caspi spoke for about 40 minutes, detailing the history of the peace process and discussing Israeli hopes for a new Palestinian peace partner now that Arafat is dead.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Monday, Nov 15 2004 3:37 PM

Students React to Arafat's Death After nearly two weeks of rumors and speculation regarding the deteriorating health of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Palestinian officials announced late Wednesday, Nov. 10 that the 75-year-old leader had died in a military hospital outside of Paris.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Wednesday, Nov 10 2004 12:57 PM

SF State Students Research Rank-Choice Voting While voters packed polling places in San Francisco on Election Day, about 100 SF State students canvassed the city’s precincts to assess ranked-choice voting.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Tuesday, Nov 2 2004 3:51 PM

Suicide Second Leading Cause of Death Among College Students According to recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), suicide now ranks as the third leading cause of death among men and women aged 15 to 25. Among college students, suicide climbs to the number two spot, second only to accidental deaths as a measure of fatalities. But for every student that succeeds in taking their own life, an estimated 200 attempt and fail.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Oct 21 2004 7:19 PM

Ralph Nader Speaks Out Monday Night Presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his vice presidential running mate, Peter Camejo,Speaking spoke to an audience of over 700 people in a packed McKenna Theater at SF State on Monday, Oct. 11.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Tuesday, Oct 12 2004 1:58 PM

Student Taken to Hospital Thursday Morning This morning paramedics and campus police responded to a 54-year-old student complaing of heart problems as students and staff watched anxiously at the entrance to SF State’s Student Health Center.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Oct 7 2004 1:57 PM

The Big "O" Debate Sex education is a good starting point for enhancing orgasms
[ Story by Lemery Reyes & Richard McKeethen ]
Friday, Oct 1 2004 7:48 PM

Budget Woes Strike Again Facing budget pressures, staff shortages, and two new state laws, SF State’s Gerontology department volunteered to a temporary program suspension last week, leaving classes intact for current students while closing the doors for new students.
[ Story by Holly English and Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Sep 23 2004 7:25 PM

Academic Senate in Session SF State Academic Senate Holds First Fall Meeting
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Thursday, Sep 16 2004 4:00 PM

One Journalist's Revelation To put it simply, I needed a job, and I needed it fast if I hoped to eat and keep a roof over my head. My salvation, as it turned out, was in the hands of a leader in the small Muslim community in Orange County, and his name was Seghir Aslam.
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Wednesday, Sep 15 2004 10:53 PM

SF State Professor Helps Find Planet A team of astronomers including SF State professor Debra Fischer finds the first Neptune-sized planets outside our solar system
[ Story by Richard McKeethen ]
Friday, Sep 3 2004 7:30 PM

Israeli Consul General Speaks to Tough Crowd Yossi Amrani, consul general of Israel, spoke to an international relations class on March 15, explaining and defending Israeli policy before a tough crowd of more than 50 students.
[ Story by Jaime San Felippo ]
Monday, Mar 29 2004 2:22 PM