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For what it's worth: California needs to get up to speed on transport
On Monday the price for a barrel of oil reached $130, with some industry analysts predicting it could hit $200 by as early as next year. So for those students commuting, visiting family over the summer or flying across the...
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Chris Wybenga
May 8, 2008 1:05 PM |
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Plans for pesticides halted
In February, a group of citizens met in Oakland to express their concerns about pesticides scheduled for the light brown apple moth, or LBAM. Over a month after this meeting, the state halted the spraying.
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Saira Masood
May 5, 2008 12:45 PM |
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SF State digs idea of eco-friendly housing
About 15 students living in campus housing this fall will get the chance to grow their own food, reduce their energy consumption and make healthy social connections in a new green cooperative. Four adjacent town houses in University Park South—601...
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Adam Loraine
May 1, 2008 1:34 PM |
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Too bee of not to bee: bee populations decline across nation
Plant a sunflower, watch it grow and count the bees on it. It sounds simple, but the information that can be gained when thousands of people participate could help scientists across the country get a better understanding of how this...
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Heather Mack
May 1, 2008 1:33 PM |
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Exploring Titan
Although it’s a frigid near-300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero on Titan, to the science world, Saturn’s largest moon is hot right now. So hot, in fact, that SF State Geology Professor Leonard Sklar, SF State graduate students and colleagues from...
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Heather Mack
April 17, 2008 12:58 PM |
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Smart classrooms a problem for many SF State professors
Though offered extensive and well-organized training opportunities, both in person and on the internet, many members of SF State faculty waste class time struggling to use computers and other technology in the school's electronically enhanced classrooms. Before every semester, the...
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Eric Gneckow
April 10, 2008 3:22 PM |
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Campus works to cut the cord and go fully wireless
The slowly evolving presence of SF State’s wireless network will get a big boost this summer after the installation of 100 new antennas, according to the Division of Information Technology’s Julianne Tolson. An [X]press study of SF State’s wireless Internet...
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Eric Gneckow
April 3, 2008 2:14 PM |
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Academy beginning to show its greener side
Architectural renovations take an exhausting amount of time and effort to complete. The fruit of thoughtful concept, precise realization and plain hard labor come together only in their final stages, amounting more anticipation—and pressure—for the ultimate day when ribbon and...
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Domingo Antonio Robledo
March 20, 2008 10:00 AM |
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Business and Technology briefs
Tech companies bid billions for radio and TV waves The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it had completed a $19 billion radio spectrum auction, hearing offers from participants like AT&T, Verizon and Google, according to the New York Times. The...
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Eric Gneckow
March 20, 2008 9:47 AM |
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Going book for book
In December 2007 the SFSU Bookstore formed a partnership with Eco-Libris, a company determined to bring sustainability to the book industry. The company plants a tree for every dollar you donate. You can also rent books from chegg.com, a textbook...
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Chris Wybenga
March 20, 2008 9:17 AM |
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Virtual Lost and Found Pound
Identification microchips, which are about the size of a grain of rice, are a helpful way of identifying a pet if they get lost.
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Nadine Caouette
March 13, 2008 6:47 PM |
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Bookstore slow to implement green measures
Though the SFSU Bookstore began advertising last week that it would start recycling batteries, cell phones, fluorescent light bulbs and ink cartridges, it is not yet ready to accept them all. Signs for the new recycling program—modeled after one that...
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Adam Loraine
March 13, 2008 10:30 AM |
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Companies need to learn from past failures
Has Napster taught corporations nothing? Hasbro and Mattel, the owners of the Scrabble license are demanding that Facebook.com take down the Scrabulous application based on copyright infringement, and legal action could follow according to news.com. Groups like “Save Scrabulous” have...
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Chris Wybenga
March 13, 2008 10:27 AM |
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Buzzsaws for Bayview—just don’t call it shop class
An SF State sponsored shop class of sorts is giving high school students in the embattled Bayview neighborhood the chance to build something with more than just power tools. Going beyond simple woodworking, the Industrial Design Outreach program, held at...
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Heather Mack
March 6, 2008 2:40 PM |
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Web site offers alternative to buying textbooks
Students struggling with fees, housing and other university expenses have a chance to save up to 80 percent on the cost of textbooks. Chegg.com is a textbook rental Web site that offers students an alternative to buying used or new...
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Chris Wybenga
March 6, 2008 2:37 PM |
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SF State urges you to compost, not fill up the trash cans
The effort to save food waste from landfills at SF State will expand Monday to the student center's West Plaza, but students will need to think before they throw for the effort to succeed. Trios of collection bins similar to...
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Adam Loraine
March 6, 2008 2:33 PM |
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‘Green-collar’ jobs benefits workers
A study by a SF State professor shows how blue-collar jobs in green business provide significant job opportunities for the hard-to-employ. As the Bay Area and California continue to lead the nation in efforts to reduce emissions, build green and...
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Heather Mack
February 28, 2008 1:44 PM |
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University’s Web Project unrolls new site design
Visitors to SF State’s various Web sites will encounter a new, uniform look as the university gradually implements its improved web template, according to members of the university’s Web project. The main page is still under construction and is expected...
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Eric Gneckow
February 28, 2008 1:41 PM |
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New course focuses on SF State’s carbon footprint
After five classes, students in SF State’s new Campus Sustainability course are still defining their roles in the university’s pledge to dramatically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. But a unique partnership between environmentally conscious students, Facilities staff and UC Berkeley’s...
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Adan Loraine
February 28, 2008 12:51 PM |
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Students bring green supplies to Bookstore
Kerry Davis believes in the power of environmental awareness —and that change starts with a single, newspaper-wrapped pencil. Davis, a 23-year-old environmental studies major at SF State, is the CEO of O’BON, a school supplies company that uses recycled materials...
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Allie Schratz
February 21, 2008 9:32 AM |
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Student center brings back compost program
A project to divert compostable food waste from the garbage returned Monday to the Cesar Chavez Student Center’s main dining area after a yearlong hiatus. The center’s staff, student volunteers and the City of San Francisco hope it is the...
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Adam Loraine
February 21, 2008 9:22 AM |
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Congress asks universities to help prevent piracy
Although a recent bill passed by the House Committee of Education and Labor gives students much to rejoice about, it does contain a tiny provision that may make students think twice about updating their iPods. In addition to addressing the...
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Heather Mack
February 21, 2008 9:20 AM |
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Telescopes represent greater vision
Two state-of-the-art telescopes will soon join SF State’s scientific repertoire, each capable of being controlled with a computer from miles away, according to project members in the astronomy department. The first, the Automated Planet Finder, is nearing completion at the...
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Eric Gneckow
February 7, 2008 10:17 AM |
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Focus the Nation draws attention to the environment
Two thousand SF State students joined hundreds of thousands across the country last week in brainstorming solutions to global warming. Focus the Nation, a nationwide teach-in on global warming solutions, ran from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Jan. 30 and...
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Adam Loraine
February 7, 2008 10:12 AM |
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Sending a message of SF State commuters
Cancelled classes cost serious time and money for some of SF State’s most traveled commuters, insulting dedicated globetrotters with a taped-up notice amid the rising cost of fees, tuition and transportation. With the integration of current campus technology, SF State...
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Eric Gneckow
February 7, 2008 10:10 AM |
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Governor proposes cuts to California State Parks
Getting away from it all in the Bay Area may prove more difficult, less safe and require more travel by the end of this year. Along with education, health care and the state’s prison system, the massive California State Parks...
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Heather Mack
January 31, 2008 9:25 AM |
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Environment would suffer from biofuel
Many presidential candidates are driving the United States down a dangerous road. For weeks leading up to the Iowa caucus, candidates were talking ethanol. Ethanol can be used to fuel cars and is one of the upcoming alternative fuels to...
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Chris Wybenga
January 31, 2008 9:21 AM |
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Big Bang theory has holes in it
Some of the most widely accepted scientific theories are in for a shake-up, according to Manjira Samanta-Laughton M.D, the young, sassy and perhaps revolutionary, U.K author of Punk Science, who spoke at SF State as one stop on a her...
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Kelly Terr
December 13, 2007 7:52 PM |
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SF State students create drills of steel
David Calkins, robotics instructor at San Francisco State University, runs the robotics lab where he and his students have created a robot soccer team. Calkins started the soccer team to get students more involved in robotics and experience how to...
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Anna Karlsson
December 10, 2007 3:38 PM |
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Halo 3 takes off downtown and worldwide
“Halo 3 Line Starts here,” read a hand-written sign placed on the ground. Daniel Krug, 18, garnered a lot of attention as the first person to line up at EB Games on Powell Street near San Francisco’s Union Square....
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Chris Laddish
October 1, 2007 12:12 PM |
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IT the future for SF State Students
On September 10, 2007, armed with a PowerPoint presentation, U.S. Army General David Petraeus presented Congress with his case for continuing the U.S. war in Iraq. Using PowerPoint generated graphs and spreadsheets, Patraeus argued that the presence of U.S. troops...
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Louis Bohan
September 28, 2007 3:18 PM |
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Professor helps connect Iraq, US medical centers
Doctors and nurses in war-torn Iraqi cities and the United States can reconnect through sattelite once again, with federal funding restored to a non-profit organization founded by an SF State professor. Just seven months after it launched, the non-profit organization...
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Ali Tabatabai
September 28, 2007 3:11 PM |
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Defense of the dark arts for computer science
This generation of computer science majors is being taught the dark arts of hacking and virus writing, under the premise: to win one must know thine enemy well. Universities throughout the digital world are wrangling with the idea of offering...
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Louis Bohan
September 28, 2007 3:07 PM |
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The new digital classroom
In the fall of 2003, Dr. Bruce Robertson was supposed to teach his Principles of Marketing course to 300 SF State students in a rented movie theater at the Stonestown Mall. Everything was set for the class to begin, but...
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Perry Shirley
September 20, 2007 10:26 PM |
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Dude, where's your computer?
Modern college students are digital students, their studies now and seemingly forever tied to computers and other electronics. Today, many universities are blurring the line between recommending computers and requiring them—consider what format instructors expect students to turn in assignment;...
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Perry Shirley
September 20, 2007 10:23 PM |
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The Art of Fire
The National Park Services has been trying to ban bonfires on Ocean Beach since 2002. It has been a struggle to keep the fires under control and the beach clean. The Park Service, in partnership with Burners Without Borders, the Ocean Beach Foundation and the Surfrider Foundation of San Francisco came up with a creative idea in hopes of extinguishing the controversy. [X]press explores what it takes to create these pits and those who strive to make even more.
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Michelle Dapper
April 19, 2007 4:51 PM |
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Healing the Whole
For three decades the Institute for Holistic Healing at SF State has invited students to learn alternative lifestyles and remedies to global problems. A wide variety topics on healing the mind, body and soul are taught through classes like Chinese Mind and Body Energetics, Holistic Health and Human Nature, or Art as Healing.
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Sheri Broussard
and Kelly Terr
April 18, 2007 6:30 PM |
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Concerns About Climate Change
On the eve of the release of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's first of four reports on the phenomenon, SF State students voice their concerns about America's actions in the face of this global threat.
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Dashiell Collins
and Carolyn Schroeder
February 5, 2007 9:01 AM |
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Students Provide Somethin' Fresh to Bayview
A group of young women has found a way to bring healthy alternatives through volunteer work to a community with limited access to fresh fruit. With the help of Chris Mittlelstaedt, founder and CEO of Fruitguys, a fruit delivery service...
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Michaela Domer
and Dana Ullman
December 14, 2006 7:17 PM |
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Contributing to Conception
Egg donation is becoming more and more popular among prospective parents around the world. Egg donors are well compensated for their time and effort, making an attractive option for many cash-strapped college students. One SF State student, who prefers to...
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Katie Cox
and Tiffany Hearsey
December 7, 2006 4:02 PM |
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Germs Pose Hidden Threat for Students
Most students go to the gym to get healthy, but they may not realize that there are hidden bacterial dangers where they work out. A warm environment full of sweating bodies and exposed skin makes the gym a haven for bacteria and fungi growth. And with the approaching cold and flu season, healthy habits like hand washing become even more important.
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Claudine Morgan
October 27, 2006 10:10 PM |
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Haunted Health Fair Informs Students About Services
On an ordinary day in the Student Health Services, students would not be greeted by a fairy or led through a haunted house where Madame Sphincture reads their tarot cards. But on Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Student Health Services held its annual open house and Haunted Health Fair, offering free services and an opportunity for students and faculty to learn about what the SHS has to offer during the school year.
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Claudine Morgan
October 19, 2006 3:39 PM |
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Creative Condom Displays Encourage Safe Sex
Each semester the Biology 327: AIDS: Biology of the Modern Epidemic, 322: Human Sexuality: Integrated Science, and 330: Human Sexuality class projects are displayed along the walkway between Burke Hall and Student Health Services.
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Katie Peoples
October 18, 2006 5:13 PM |
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New HIV Guidelines Raise Questions For SHS
According to the Center for Disease Control and Preventions Web site, the CDC now recommends that patients in all health-care settings be notified that an HIV test will be performed unless the patient declines, which is called opt-out screening.
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Claudine Morgan
October 2, 2006 10:33 PM |
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SF State Students Adjust to Campus Diet
Moving away from home for the first time can be tough, and nothing makes students want to go back home more than for a dish of home cooking. Now faced with the responsibilities of choosing and sometimes paying for their own meals, some SF State students are learning the reality of fending for themselves.
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Michaela Domer
September 28, 2006 5:30 PM |
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