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The Delta Xi Chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity at San Diego State has been put on interim suspension pending an investigation by Student Life & Leadership. According to the San Diego Sigma Chi Alumni Chapter website, this is because of “actions that include an alleged hazing incident.” While Assistant Director of SLL for Greek Life [...]

I’m a privileged white kid who’s been given every convenience and opportunity since the day I was born, and now I’m about to be cast out into the dark, spiraling abyss that is the real world. Help. That’s right fellow seniors, graduation is upon us; although if you’re graduating, I don’t need to tell you [...]

The eight San Diego State alumni on the NASA team that designed the most recent—and most ambitious—Mars rover, Curiosity, visited SDSU on Friday to illuminate the challenging, innovative work they performed during the last decade. Each alumnus worked separate aspects of the Curiosity mission, which began in 2000. The eight former Aztecs attracted a large [...]

Yesterday, in the aftermath of the explosions that went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, The Daily Aztec’s Features Editor, Lauren Yap, started a trending hashtag on Twitter, #SDSUlovesBoston. Yap said she did this to send a message to the victims in Boston that there was an entire community on the other [...]

Deep in the dark back room of Olive Oil Organic Cafe, three sinister men with crooked backs and twisted mustaches connived in secret during spring break. Since their on-campus vegan and vegetarian restaurant was well-received on San Diego State’s campus, the owners were ready to phase in their true plan. “Now that we’ve got those [...]

Last month, The Daily Aztec hosted a debate between the two candidates running for the Associated Students Vice President of Financial Affairs for the A.S. elections. During the debate, The Daily Aztec asked a question tweeted by a member of the A.S. Finance Board regarding the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center. We asked for each [...]

There aren’t many artists touring these days who make me feel like a giddy preteen girl at a Beatles concert. But when Kurt Vile and the Violators bring their loud, sedated grunge pop to The Casbah tomorrow, there’s no question where you’ll find my giddy, preteen self Friday night. Vile just released his fifth studio [...]

Yesterday afternoon, the San Diego State’s University Senate passed a resolution outlining a plan to create a tobacco-free campus. The potential comprehensive smoking ban will now move to SDSU President Elliot Hirshman’s office. If approved, the ban could go into effect as early as the next academic year. The plan for a tobacco-free campus, created [...]

On the final weekend of spring break, a sizable crowd overtook San Diego State’s Exercise and Nutritional Sciences 700, the field south of the music building, transforming it into something far from the ordinary: a Native American powwow. Put on by SDSU’s Native American Student Alliance, the 42nd annual Iipay Tipay Mateyum Powwow and Bird [...]

Associated Students recently published the results of an online survey guaging student opinion regarding on-campus tobacco use. The survey included input from roughly five percent of the student population and portrayed a student body overwhelmingly populated by nonsmokers. According to the survey results, approximately 82 percent of the student body doesn’t smoke, and 65 percent [...]

As the country slowly climbs its way out of the biggest recession since the ‘30s, many aspects of the government—both federal and local—have been slow to recover. Both the San Diego Police Department and the San Diego State Police Department have felt significant constraints because of budget cuts, and the city is now faced with [...]

The Associated Students debates begin today. For the next three days, candidates running for an executive position on A.S.’s newly established board of directors will debate in front of Hepner Hall on Campanile Walkway. These students will represent the interests of San Diego State students on campus and abroad for the next academic year. Student [...]