Spring Break
I know every Sacramento State student could not contain his or her excitement when the school issued the new OneCards in November.
I dashed off to the old bookstore to get my new card, knocking people over and screaming with excitement.
I was surprised, however, to see a bunch of Wells Fargo suits with clipboards and cheesy smiles signing people up for checking accounts. I was shocked, dismayed and saddened.
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After being bombarded by a cornucopia of turkey, mashed potatoes and pie, the thought of going back to school must seem as appealing as having a root canal while watching Kenny G in concert.
But school goes on. It's inevitable.
It's easy around this time of year to just go into auto-pilot and hope the grades you received earlier in the semester will translate into a passing final grade. Oh, in a perfect world…
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In a move that will surely boost enrollment at private schools in the area, an Illinois eighth-grader was given two days detention for hugging. Mascoutah Middle School handed down the sentence to 13-year-old Megan Coulter for giving two friends a squeeze before parting ways for the weekend. (0) comments
In the past 100 years, women have gained an unprecedented amount of equality. Women now have the right to vote, and in the workplace, women continue to make advances toward equality. But I can't help but notice that women have left out some key responsibilities in the quest for equality, mostly in the area of relationships.
It might just be me, but I don't see women fighting aggressively for the right to ask a man out as much as they are fighting for an equal paycheck. Lots of women out there think there's nothing wrong with asking a guy out. Be honest, how many of you women have actually asked a guy out? Women love shows that celebrate their sexual independence. Shows like "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex and the City" portray women with sexual freedom. So why don't you ladies follow their lead?
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It's that time of the year again. As the old semester fades away in a smog of final projects and exams, the new semester is already on the horizon. The new semester means hope and promise for some. And for everyone, it certainly means one thing: paying tuition.
At Sacramento State, a fresh semester for undergraduates right now will set you back $1,779. Tuition is likely to rise again next year. For those not keeping track at home, that means increases to tuition fees which have already doubled over the last six years.
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Earlier this semester, I bought my first MP3 album. It was an unsatisfying experience.
Don't get me wrong, the process itself was pleasant. Within minutes of finding an album by the obscure Welsh post-punk band Datblygu, I owned the thing. Cheap, fast, secure. It was kind of awesome.
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Newspapers have the smallest margin for error of any of the media sources we turn to for information. Writers have time to research and gather sources and then their work goes through any number of levels of editing and scrutiny before it hits newsstands. Inevitably, errors and omissions occur in newspapers; however, it isn't often that outright lies, plagiarism and fabrication of sources happen.
There have been several high-profile cases in the past few years of journalists fabricating quotes, people and places. Stephen Glass, a former writer for The New Republic, Jayson Blair, a former writer for The New York Times and former Sacramento Bee writer, Diana Griego Erwin, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for public service for the Denver Post, all fabricated numerous people, places, events and quotes in their articles and columns.
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The Thursday groundbreaking for the new student residence halls is one of the first few steps in President Alexander Gonzalez's plan to transform Sacramento State into more than students' "backup" choice and a commuter campus.
Clearly, the president wants to stray away from this.
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Have you ever found yourself in a conversational encounter where you couldn't understand the person you were trying to communicate with? Because our society is so diverse, these circumstances are not uncommon. Today we live in an environment that allows us the opportunity to learn secondary languages and interact with different cultures, enabling us to break down language and cultural barriers.
Language barriers have placed the instruction of foreign language at an educational priority. At all levels of academic curriculum from elementary to college, language is a primary subject. According to the California State Board of Education, since 1994 teachers in grades as low as Kindergarten have been required to teach students English subjects. In addition, students in high school are required to complete both four years of English studies, as well as two years of foreign language studies.
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