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Nika entrepreneur inspires students
Nika Water company co-founder Jeff Church visited San Diego State to speak about social entrepreneurship on Monday. Church spoke at SDSU for the 14th annual L. Robert Payne Distinguished Entrepreneur Lecture Series. Church was welcomed by SDSU President Elliot Hirshman. The event was an opportunity for students, faculty and community members to meet Church and [...]
Construction Beat
Construction workers began filling out the outer steel frame of the future San Diego State Aztec Student Union during winter break by setting up metal inside the structure. Associated Students Marketing and Communications Manager Lorena Nava Ruggero said after the completion of the interior framing, work will begin on the building’s roof. Decorative wood trusses similar to those [...]
Israeli Consul discusses Middle East affairs
Ambassador Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general of New York, visited San Diego State yesterday as a guest lecturer in a religious studies class. During the hour-long lecture held in Nasatir Hall, students listened to the ambassador speak about general misconceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Religious studies and lecturer Lori Stewart said the ambassador’s [...]
Donor invests in business school
San Diego State College of Business Administration, one of the largest business schools in the nation, with nearly 5,000 students, ranked among the top 25 entrepreneurial graduate programs in the U.S. News and World Report. Leonard Lavin, founder of Alberto Culver—a Fortune 1000 company that includes products such as TRESemme, Noxzema, Nexxus and St Ives—has [...]
Parking citations rise as semester closes
In the final days of the fall semester at San Diego State, the Department of Public Safety has seen a rash of parking citations and complaints in the parking structures on campus. Between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3, more than 40 parking citations and complaints were distributed to SDSU students. The majority of the citations [...]
Grant helps researcher find autism brain patterns
A San Diego State research assistant professor of psychology will receive $600,000 in grant money from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the brain development differences between youth with and without autism. Inna Fishman and fellow SDSU psychology professor Ralph-Axel Müller will study the relationship between the two brain networks that are responsible [...]
IV campus seeks to restore trust
In early October, faculty members at the San Diego State-Imperial Valley campus voted no-confidence in their school’s dean, David Pearson. SDSU-IV faculty members sent out a statement of no confidence saying Pearson allegedly created a campus-wide atmosphere of fear and retribution. SDSU Senate Chair William Eadie and Vice Chair Julio Valdes had a chance to [...]
Aztecs come together for Kwanzaa
The Afrikan Student Union hosted a Kwanzaa celebration on Monday, bringing students and community members together to present the history, traditions and meaning of the holiday. As African drums thumped in the background of conversations about food and finals, the event promptly commenced at 7 p.m. in the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center ballroom. Each [...]
Campus extends hours for finals
Students in need of a study getaway during finals week can find it at Love Library. Beginning this Friday at 7 p.m., the entire dome area will remain open 24 hours a day until midnight on Thursday, Dec. 13 in an effort to accommodate the “finals rush.” For safety purposes, students will need to show [...]
Aztecs empower immigrant youth
Members of the Youth Empowerment Program at San Diego State will begin to work as mentors for undocumented children that migrated to the U.S. unaccompanied. Each year, children, mostly from Mexico and Central America, travel to the U.S. without a parent or a guardian. In October 2011 through April, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 13,416 [...]
CSU system struggles to accomodate applicants
Despite numerous budget cuts the California State University system has experienced in the past few years, the Fall 2013 application cycle is on track to set another CSU record for applications received. The CSU system received 368,157 at the halfway point of the application process, an increase of about 7 percent from the same time [...]
Peabody’s brings noise
San Diego State students are having various reactions to the recently-opned coffee stand in the 24/7 Study Area in Love Library. On Nov. 15, Peabody’s Organic Coffee opened its fifth coffee cart on campus. While some students are finding the new location in the library convenient, others have complained about the noise it creates while [...]
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