The payment of tuition and fees is the bane of many a student and the Cougars of CSUSM are no exception.
As a paying student myself, I understand and commiserate with the dismayed reactions of many students and administrators when news broke of CSUSM Extended Learning Dean Michael Schroder’s...
If you walk on campus at night, it sure seems like the cost for light is at a premium.
But if you walk on the pathway towards the sprinter station and even towards the student housing and parking structures available on-campus, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking that the cost for light...
Lights-out on campus is way too conversative.
That’s right, I said it: CSUSM needs to tone down their power-saving platform.
I completed my undergraduate degree at my alma mater San Diego State University (SDSU), where the lights did not automatically get switched off...
Tania Ortiz, Assistant Opinion Editor
• October 10, 2019
We all have our opinions of our professors throughout the semesters we’ve spent at CSUSM.
Thinking about past professors can either bring good or bad memories to mind. Every professor on campus is different and creates different dynamics for each of their sections.
Some may provide an effective...
Tania Ortiz, Assistant Opinion Editor
• October 10, 2019
Mass shooting after mass shooting,t has become a new normal in American society and prayers won’t help stop them. They can occur anywhere at this point: schools, places of worship, your workplace, concerts and even the grocery store. There isn’t really a way you can be prepared for this type of...
Save the trees. Save the Amazon. Think about the sea turtles.
You might have heard these phrases in the past couple of months, all of them concerning the environment and the sustainability of the place we call home. Advocating for and spreading the word concerning this issue has spread in a multitude...
Humans are social animals. The only problem is that we aren’t taught how to be effective at being “social.”
Regular social interaction is key to a healthy life. Thanks to technology and social norms, however, many of us lack such regular interactions.
I am one of those...
In the age of technology, we find ourselves on our phones interacting with people online more than we do in person.
We’ve become attached to our phones, treating them as if they are an extension of our bodies, so attached that we begin to panic when we lose our phones for a split second.
This...
New CSUSM students have a hard time finding the right Science Hall at first.
Granted, being lost appears to be more of a familiarity issue more than anything else at first glance. New students are making mistakes as to where they and their classes are and learning from those mistakes as...
Summer vacation is over. I know, it hurts writing that sentence just as much as it hurt you to read it.
Are you one of those stu- dents who can’t shake the “summer vacation”-mode mentality right away once the semester starts?
If you said no, good for you! But if you said yes... well,...
Being biracial or multiracial has become increasingly common now than it was a few decades ago. Now there’s a new issue that’s arising and it’s the identity crisis that comes with being multiracial.
To start, being biracial entails that you identify with two races, while being multiracial...
Sunshine. Tans. Family bonding. Time with friends. Parties. Fun.
All these words and more describe the typical spring break.
Spring break means a time to relax from work. A time to recharge and let loose. A time to not worry about anything other than enjoying yourself, or...
