Manuel Medrano, a political science senior, will graduate thisMay. His biggest challenge after graduating may be paying off hisdebts. The average college student will leave school $12,000 in debt –$2,500 will come from credit cards — according tocollegecreditcounseling.com, a non-profit organization to helpstudents with all types of debts. The site states the average undergraduate student [...]

About 50 students from an on-campus organization are supporting aSan Diego man’s fight for human rights. In February, Benjamin Prado, 26, coordinator of the Raza RightsCoalition, was arrested while monitoring border patrol activity in adowntown trolley station. The day after his arrest, members of Movimiento EstudiantilChicano de Aztlan joined community members, activists, professionals,teachers and political [...]

BySusan HaineSenior Staff Writer If you walk into the office of Student-to-Student Director LouiseStanger, you are bound to notice dozens of plaques on the walls. But until yesterday, the award-winning program was facingcancellation due to budget cuts in the School of Social Work. It costs the school between $20,000 and $26,000 each year to keepthe [...]

Hello, today I was on campus and I was walking down centennialwalkway and I was suddenly bombarded by tons of people handing outfliers for the current school elections. I was in shock of how rudeand annoying these candidates were. They would ask me if I had voted,and I would give them “No” for an answer, [...]

By Hubert VigillaSenior Staff Writer The seven-year senior is nothing out of the ordinary, especiallyat SDSU. Everyone knows one, some people are one or are destined tobecome one and now there’s another National Lampoon’s movie aboutone. Van Wilder is director Walt Becker’s second film and draws itsinspiration from movies like Animal House, Fast Times at [...]

BRMC’s frontman gets third degree 1) If you could write the soundtrack to a book, what would itbe? Old Man and the Sea. 2) What song do you never want to hear again? I don’t want to think about it, because then I’ll remind myselfof it. 3) What is your favorite song to cover? “El [...]

Not a girl: Britney Spears will never be accused of bringing thehouse down, but she is pretty good at burning it down. Spears, whocan add “plays with fire” to the list of habits that are a badinfluence on kids, started a fire in her New York City apartment lastweek when she went clubbing, leaving candles [...]

Collegelife may harm learning potential By Jason WilliamsManaging Editor This is the brain on college: taxed at one end by the rigors ofacademia, while taxed at another end by the staple behaviors ofcollege life. Adolescents travel the world to attend universities, and theirmotivations for doing so are as diverse as the students themselves.The shared trait, [...]

By Leslie HackettStaff Writer It is an event that has grown with each passing year. The first San Diego Crew Classic, held in 1973, featured 300competitors in 12 races. Since then, the regatta has expanded toinclude more than 3,000 competitors in more than 90 races. Dependingon the weather, the event has been known to draw [...]

By Dan Hayes and Jared QuientSports Editor and Assistant Sports Editor Oh, what a ride it was. What began in a little oil town in West Texas with 12 individualplayers losing to Bobby Knight and Texas Tech, ended with thegreatest San Diego State men’s basketball team in recent memory,playing in the 2002 NCAA Championship. So, [...]

By Joel SartanSenior Staff Writer Hits? We don’t need no stinking hits! San Diego State (21-9) scored seven runs on eight hits Tuesdaynight against CSU Northridge (18-10). But only three of those runscame as the result of a hit. Regardless, SDSU won 7-2 in front of 1,005 fans at Tony GwynnStadium. Right-hander Rob Harrand got [...]

Unless you scan your morning sports section with the religiousfervor of the posters on Aztec Talk, you may have missed this one. SanDiego State volunteer assistant Tony Gwynn was recently hired by ESPNas a color commentator for Major League Baseball broadcasts, where hewill be in direct competition with Kevin Kennedy of FOX Sports forthe title [...]