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The Cougar Chronicle

The independent student news site of San Marcos, California

The Cougar Chronicle

The independent student news site of San Marcos, California

The Cougar Chronicle

Tyler Abrahams

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor

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CSUSM community learns about the greenwood massacre

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor March 27, 2018

Dressed in black attire, attendees walked around the Black Wall Street event observing several information booths on the terrible tragedy of the 1921 riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, before the main event began. On...

Barack Obama by Kehinde
Wiley, oil on canvas, 2018. National
Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead
donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and
Kent Whealy
; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia

History professors discuss former President Obama’s legacy

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor March 15, 2018

On Feb. 22, students and community members joined history professors Dr. Jill Watts and Dr. Kimberly Quinney in Markstein 214 to discuss the meaning of Barack Obama’s presidency to observe Black History...

Understand the ineffectiveness of 10 cent straws

Understand the ineffectiveness of 10 cent straws

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor March 7, 2018

During the month of February, Associated Student Incorporated (ASI) implemented a strategy to stop the use of plastic straws at CSUSM with the goal of reducing plastics in the oceans. While the initiative...

Satellite image over the new campus area where the new parking structure and Extended Learning building will be.

Extended Learning Building and parking structure project approved

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor February 7, 2018

The CSU board of trustees have given a green light to a six-story, $81.4 million building and a parking structure that will house the Extended Learning department and offer 709 parking spaces. The project,...

Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, shares about the organization and subsequent movement.

Black Lives Matter: From a Facebook post to an activist movement

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor December 8, 2017

Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Alicia Garza of Oakland, California, came to CSUSM to share how she turned a hashtag into a social justice movement. In the USU Ballroom on Nov. 29, Garza...

Activist protesters chant in unison as they make their way towards Kellogg Library.

Students walk out for Clean Dream Act

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor November 27, 2017

Individuals dressed in salmon colored shirts and carrying bright posters gathered in front of Markstein Hall shouting rally cries, “We want justice! You say how? Pass the Clean Dream Act now!” On...

Dr. Chris Kaczor speaks to the audience about abortion on Oct. 25 in the Arts building 240.

Students for life presents pro-life talk

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor November 10, 2017

On Oct. 25 The CSUSM Students For Life club hosted pro-life talk in the Arts Lecture Hall that featured a guest speaker Dr. Chris Kaczor, a philosophy professor from Loyola Marymount University, a private...

President K. Haynes supports CSUSM’s DACA students.

President Haynes continues to support Dreamers at CSUSM

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor October 26, 2017

Cal State San Marcos has joined lobbying efforts to protect Dreamers -- those undocumented people brought to this country as children. University President Karen Haynes joined officials from about...

Student participants during the ”T” with Me event held by Gender Equity center on Oct. 3.

Gender Equity Center’s ‘T’ with me

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor October 12, 2017

Ideas are being exchanged everyday on CSUSM and the Gender Equity Center is doing their part assisting with the discourse. On Tuesday Oct. 3, the Gender Equity Center hosted “T” With me at U-hour...

New California bill to protect DACA students

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor October 12, 2017

The California legislature won’t wait for Congress to create new legislation for DACA recipients. Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill on Oct. 5 to protect undocumented students from federal...

Cougars have mental health conversation

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor September 27, 2017

Suicide is preventable and yet 1,100 college students will end their lives each year instead of making it to graduation. On Thursday, Sept. 21 in the USU ballroom an event titled “Life After Trauma:...

Dreamers executive order to end

Tyler Abrahams, Assistant News Editor September 15, 2017

The CSUSM dreamers have an uncertain future. The Trump administration on Sept. 5 announced via Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the DACA policy is set to expire in six months unless Congress can...

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