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Students, activists and community members set up camp in front of SJSU's Smith-Carlos Statue Wednesday evening to raise awareness for a national cause with local roots. The event was held by the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project, a movement started at SJSU to create 100,000 living-wage jobs for hurricanes Katrina and Rita survivors to rebuild their own communities. (2) comments
Associated Students unanimously passed a resolution in hopes of making advising more accessible to students with disabilities. Right now, the resolution is only an A.S. endorsement for future improvements, and it still needs to go through a few steps before it will go through completely, said Lennon Protho-Jones, the director of campus advising affairs, during Wednesday's A. (0) comments
More than 58, 000 gallons of fuel oil leaked into the San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 as the Cosco Busan container ship swiped one of the western anchorages of the Bay Bridge, said Karen Benzel, Public Affairs Director for the International Bird Rescue Research Center. (1) comment
The California State University system's board of trustees voted to approve its budget proposal on Wednesday, said CSU spokesman Paul Browning. "The CSU will need $73 million for the upcoming school year," he said. "Student fees and state funding are our only sources of revenue. (2) comments
In the early 1960s, a high school teacher asked his class if anyone smoked. One fourteen-year old student raised her hand and was asked to smoke a cigarette in front of the class while the teacher monitored her heart rate and blood pressure. At the time, the dangers associated with smoking were not well understood, said Michele Mashburn, an SJSU masters student in sociology, whose mother had volunteered to be the class guinea pig. (1) comment
Anti-Semitism has seen a "spike of incidents" on college campuses in the past few years, said Kenneth Marcus, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Marcus spoke to a small audience of faculty and students Wednesday night as part of a public-education campaign about anti-Semitism on college campuses. (3) comments
Students gathered near the Student Union on Thrusday, Nov. 15, to learn about recycling and play games to win recycled prizes. Members of the Environmental Resource Center and the environmental studies club talked to passing students about what they can do to make the campus a more environmentally aware atmosphere. (0) comments
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