By Gloria Mallaganes
Assistant Opinion Editor
Viri Guzman is a senior at CSUSM. She is double majoring in Political Science and Sociology with a minor in Spanish. After five long years as a student here, she will be graduating in May, the first in her family to do so.
From first glance,...
By Tanya Camacho
Contributor
In January, President Obama proposed free community college for low-income Americans. But there is a catch: one must have a grade point average of 2.5 and have graduated from high school.
This becomes problematic when aligning college and low-income communities....
By Nate Honeycutt and Logan Honeycutt
“CSU Executive Order 1068”: a seemingly harmless document that when enforced as official California State University (CSU) policy has brought nothing but despair, frustration and isolation to many venerated student organizations affiliated with CSU campuses.
CSU...
By Pat Gantt
Contributor
Three years ago, Gov. Brown launched a four-year program of gradually increased budgets for the University of California and the California State University systems, contingent on keeping student fees flat.
Sounds pretty good, right?
The problem is, such small...
By Anne Hall
Senior Staff Writer
A Letter to the Editor was submitted Fall 2014 by Alexis Santiago, a Human Development major at CSUSM, in order to help her peers in finding awareness of challenges she’s had to face dealing with Financial Aid and trying to make it through paying for college on...
By Alhijaz Althigafi
Contributor
Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit? Anywhere it wants to. Ba dump bump.
It's one of the oldest, corniest jokes in the world….except when it's not funny. Because there is an 800-pound gorilla on every college campus in the United States. We all know it's...
By Daniel Magos
Contributor
There is an oppressive practice taking place among our pride (or pack?). While CSUSM stands for justice and equality, the Parking Enforcement Department continues to ignore the pleas of students for fair treatment.
On May 8, 2014, Anderson Gould shared his story...
Victoria Richmond
Contributor
Enrollment for fall semester has already begun, and as I was enrolling in classes I started to have concerns because I realized there are not enough classes listed in my Visual Arts Major and Dance Minor.
I was not happy to see that there weren’t a lot of available...
By Joshua D. Copeland
Staff Writer
Homophobia is not a real disease.
At least not according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition
(DSM-5), where the term is nowhere listed. Yet many homosexuals today face discrimination,...
By Alex Maravillas
Arts and Entertainment Assistant Editor
My sexual orientation still makes people feel uncomfortable. That is why I am comfortable being alone.
I have family. However, sometimes it is difficult to be out with family members that are not particularly accepting. That is why identifying...
By Jeff Kennedy
Contributor
You want to get to know a man? Look at how he treats his mother. If he doesn’t treat his mother right, he likely won’t treat you right.
Let’s be honest, a lot guys are cordial towards women because they want something out of them. That’s why cordiality often...
By Rodger D’Andreas-Wahl
Contributor
I grew up in a small Texas town, a place where men were defined by their love for football, hunting, womanizing and beer drinking.
It wasn’t a safe place to come out as gay in the 1970s when I was coming into awareness of my sexuality. I saw no queer...
