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...
By Melissa Derr
Contributor
Analysis - the Webster’s dictionary defines this as: “the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.”
We have been told as liberal arts undergraduates to analyze a given situation from every...
By Kat Diltz
Staff Writer
One of the greatest lessons that I have learned is to not judge a book by its cover. Upon starting my first year at CSUSM, I kept an open mind when meeting new people, because who a person is on the inside is worth a thousand times more than their physical exterior.
Everyone’s...
By Preston Witchell
Contributor
Recently, I have seen an increased push to create LGBT bookstores, coffee houses, churches and theaters to replace bars as centers of community, places to meet people and LGBT rites of passage.
Some agree with this suggestion from a standpoint of exclusion of...
By Katlin Sweeney
Editor-In-Chief
I have been very fortunate during my time at CSUSM to have become friends with people that exemplify what it means to be a role model. Meeting Robert not only heightened my desire to make social justice a priority in my career, but he shows me on a daily basis...
