Dr. Henry L. Janssen comes to work at campus nearly every day, hikes in the Sierra Nevadas and has sampled more than 100 types of scotch. He is also 89 years old.

With spring break just around the corner, students are starting to dream of tropical landscapes and lazy days lounging on vacation. While the usual hot spots such as Las Vegas and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico are always popular choices for Aztecs, an alternative vacation option beckons.

Recent graduate Mike Lopez, the current Aztec Warrior, has donned the uniform and blown the conch shell for three years, but he is now prepared to pass his shield on to the next Aztec Warrior.

San Diego State’s president of the past 15 years, Dr. Stephen L. Weber, remembers a psychology experiment based around ring toss. The experiment, which meant to analyze achievement motivation and risk-taking probability, found that individuals matched their distance from the peg with their perceived ability to successfully throw the ring around it. Then, as their [...]