For San Diego State students looking to spend their Spring Break helping people, there is a choice available right on campus.

Last year, SDSU alumnus Jimmy Camacho started a new chapter for the nationwide organization called Global Brigades. In its inaugural year, Camacho took a handful of SDSU students to Honduras during Spring Break to team up and help solve water issues in the area.

The Water Brigades aided a small rural community in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.

What’s $27,266 among friends?
If you’re Jay and Dana Hagan and a few of your closest friends, it’s the amount needed for an overnight stay at venerable Hearst Castle on California’s central coast.
The Kentfield couple and four other couples ponied up that much to win an auction last year for a two-day extravaganza organized as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Friends of Hearst Castle.

The Federal Communication Commission’s recent push for net neutrality principles acknowledges the challenges of the Internet and its role in society. With the adoption of new principles, citizens will be able to secure their right to the access of information.

The scene was all too familiar: a one-goal lead stolen away in the final minutes of regulation, forcing overtime against a nationally ranked team because of a controversial call.

Chris Wolfinger had just made it. He was playing in his first college hockey game as a freshman against UNLV for the San Diego State ice hockey team. But when the game was finished, so were at least the next couple of months for Wolfinger.

Even though he graduated last spring, Phill Guarnotta still has strong ties to San Diego State.

Guarnotta, who is a surf instructor at the Mission Bay Aquatic Center, has taken advantage of an Associated Students policy that allows recent graduates to stay employed by A.S. for up to six months.

Sarah Grieco wrote that SDSU’s changes in admission policy are “necessary, not to mention positive,” in her column “Good call, Weber” on Sept. 29. While I agree that changes are necessary, I respectfully dissent from her adamant stance that the changes will prove to be positive. The measures taken by President Weber and his administration will damage one of SDSU’s redeeming qualities: student body diversity.

Oct. 10 &- Police arrested a man after he allegedly threatened a student at Tenochca Residence Hall. San Diego State Police Lt. Lamine Secka said 25-year-old Cervin Morris was arrested after allegedly pinning a student against the wall and threatening him. The victim, who said he knew the suspect, was asked for money. Morris, who is not an SDSU student, was arrested and transported to jail on suspicion of attempted robbery, false imprisonment, criminal threats and battery.

All freshmen at San Diego State should immediately be awarded undergraduate degrees. Sure, they haven’t actually completed any units, but I hope this recognition inspires them to do great things in the future.

Does this sound ridiculous to anyone? Well, this is essentially the logic employed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in awarding President Barack Obama this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. And it is this methodology that has driven the once-prestigious award into irrelevancy, which is now nothing more than a means of advancing a particular political ideology.

Increase in Unemployment Increases Military Recruitment
Increase in Army enlistment: 4% to 6%?
Member recruitment goal sent to active training for the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force 2009 fiscal year: 164,000?
Total active duty recruits sent to training for the U.S. Army Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force in 2009 fiscal year: 169,000
Number of National guard and reserve forces that sent recruits to training: 128,000

San Diego State men’s basketball sophomore forward Tim Shelton has never been a wristband- or headband-wearing guy. He’s always preferred a more humble basketball game attire.

But now that SDSU’s Viejas Arena has a new, state-of-the-art scoreboard 8212; which will make Aztec players more visible than ever &- Shelton has had to rethink some parts of his on-court style.

“Maybe I’ll make sure I shave a little bit more,” Shelton joked.