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Scholarship opportunity for Latin@ students

Scholarship opportunity for Latin@ students

Nicole Holman, Community News Editor September 30, 2015

  A seminar on scholarship opportunities for Latin@ students at CSUSM will highlight the various scholarship opportunities for Latin@ students. It will also explain the criteria of for receiving awards, some of which is based on factors related to students’ ethnic backgrounds. The event...

Yom HaShoah event to be held for Holocaust Remembrance

Yom HaShoah event to be held for Holocaust Remembrance

April 21, 2015

By Nicole Holman News Assistant [author title="About the Author" author_id="257"] Holocaust Remembrance Day will be honored at CSUSM with an event that will allow students to experience the history of the Holocaust in an effort to keep these issues alive within the minds of people across the...

LGBTQA students release first publication on campus

LGBTQA students release first publication on campus

April 21, 2015

By Nicole Holman News Assistant [author title="About the Author" author_id="257"] The LGBTQA Pride Center at CSUSM recently held a release party for its very first edition of a new publication entitled The Queery, a magazine that intends to reach out to the LGBTQA community. The Queery, which...

April/May Calendar of Events

April 21, 2015

By Nicole Holman News Assistant [author title="About the Author" author_id="257"] As the semester comes to a close, CSUSM is still holding many events both on and off campus. Looking for a study break? Come check out some of these exciting activities! April: ∙CSUSM Baseball vs. San Diego...

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Why Jane Austen: Novel to Film is my favorite class

April 8, 2015

By Nicole Holman Assistant News Editor This spring semester I enrolled in the Jane Austen: Novel into Film course (LTWR  336E), and it has quickly become one of the most enjoyable classes I’ve taken at CSUSM. The class meets on Tuesday nights to discuss whichever Austen novel has been assigned...

Campus events to spotlight LGBTQA community

April 7, 2015

By Nicole Holman News Assistant [author title="About the Author" author_id="257"] The month of April- charmingly dubbed “Gaypril”- will bring a plethora of events to campus that serve to highlight the LGBTQA community. On Tuesday, April 7, a discussion about marriage equality will be...

Cougar Chronicle editor to debut book at Gender Equity Center event

Cougar Chronicle editor to debut book at Gender Equity Center event

March 22, 2015

By Nicole Holman Assistant News Editor The Cougar Chronicle’s very own Editor in Chief, author and student Katlin Sweeney will be holding a discussion about her second book entitled Angry Young Women. The event will provide students with an opportunity to preview Sweeney’s book.  Angry...

Film screening sparks emotion amongst students

March 17, 2015

By Nicole Holman News Assistant [author title="About the Author" author_id="257"] The Gender Equity Center, HOPE and Wellness Center and Office of Diversity recently hosted a film screening that raised awareness for societal gender norms and urged students to question these issues. On Thursday,...

Gender, race and money lecture provides eye-opening insight

March 4, 2015

[author title="About the Author" author_id="257"] By Nicole Holman Assistant News Editor CSUSM recently hosted a lecture event that provided students with insight to important social issues and emphasized the need for students to take action. On Wednesday, Feb. 18, the Arts and Lecture event...

RAD Instructors demonstrate self-defense techniques.

Self-defense training provides women with necessary tools for safety

February 4, 2015

By Nicole Holman & Jasmine Demers Assistant News Editor & News Editor CSUSM students are learning how to fight back against domestic and sexual abuse through a hands-on campus training program. Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D), the world’s largest self-defense program, is dedicated...

Cultural appropriation is not fashionable

October 25, 2014

By Nicole Holman Contributor  Cultural appropriation is the process by which a member of a dominant culture takes or uses aspects of another culture (often a colonized culture) without any understanding of the deeper, cultural meanings behind the appropriated item. It is often disrespectful...

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