Reflect on your first year at CSUSM. Perhaps you were a commuter, like me, eager to find ways to engage with campus life and connect with new friends. Or maybe you lived on campus, in the QUAD or UVA, and found yourself consistently searching for activities with friends or places to relax outside your...

Imagine if past CSUSM students voted no on building the USU or the Sports Center. What would our experience be like here today? Would we even choose to go here? This time it is our turn to leave a legacy for our campus. Challenges & Solutions We, along with various other students, have been working...

Students have long advocated for better wellness and recreation services on campus. According to Campus Recreation, “when surveyed in the fall of 2023, 91% of students indicated that a new facility should be a high priority for CSUSM.”  Last semester, the “Be Well. Be You.” campaign proposed...

For those who have been following this series on Campus Rec, you have likely learned a great deal about Campus Rec but still have more questions. In the past couple months, I’ve talked with many different people at CSUSM, from professors to students to admin and the main theme the campus community...

Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom, vetoed Assembly Bill 2586, a decision that strikes at the heart of many undocumented students' aspirations.  As someone who has personally experienced the uncertainty surrounding higher education opportunities, I can not help but feel like this veto is yet another...

For the sake of this article, I will use trans to mean trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse students and gender-neutral bathrooms to also mean all-gender bathrooms.  CSUSM’s gender-neutral bathrooms are not doing their job because they’re difficult to find for the people they’re designed for:...

Living in San Diego, renowned for its inflated cost of living, is already challenging. Now, recent hikes in immigration application fees have added another layer of burden, particularly for students navigating the complexities of immigration processes. The impact of these fee increases reverberates deeply,...

From Martin Luther King Jr. to Mahatma Gandhi, great leaders tend to become the personal embodiment of historical movements. In both our textbooks and our popular historical memory, a leader’s name can become synonymous with the achievements of a movement. The case of Cesar Chavez is a stark example...

On April 9-11, CSUSM students will be eligible to take part in a campus-wide vote on a proposed increase to their student fees. This fee increase would support the development of a Wellness and Recreation facility. Students have long voiced their desire for better wellness and recreation facilities....

In recent years, there has been a shift in the way that people celebrate love and friendship around Valentine’s Day. While we still hold the traditional way of celebrating, for example, couples getting together for a romantic dinner. We also see the rise of people, especially women groups, getting...

Mainstream media’s portrayal of the upcoming 2024 presidential election is seriously flawed. Right now, there is a dire need for the press to stop covering the election like business-as-usual.  Democratic backsliding is not contingent upon Trump’s reelection. Fascism has already spread throughout...