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The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor
Sacramento State alumnus Collin Poseley, right, and his business partner Eric Foust, left, play the table top game they both created, Craft Beer the Board Game, during a live stream event.
(Photo by Joseph Daniels)

Craft Beer the Board Game is no innocent Monopoly

Joseph Daniels December 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Sacramento State alumnus Collin Poseley invented a board game that puts players in a race against one another to be the first to brew their own craft suds — an idea derived from the...

Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan, speaks about the plans of the presidential nominees regarding the Islamic State group at a lecture at Sacramento State on Tuesday. (Photo by Joseph Daniels)

Trump and Clinton Middle East proposals criticized at Sac State lecture

Joseph Daniels October 21, 2016

As Iraq began operations to take back Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday, an American professor and commentator on the modern Middle East spoke on Sacramento State’s campus to discuss...

Jeff Raimundo, one of the co-authors of Game Changers: Elections That Shaped California spoke to a packed room in the Sacramento State Library Gallery. He compared the upcoming presidential election to past campaigns that took place within the state of California. (Photo by Joseph Daniels)

Political author and alum puts election in perspective

Joseph Daniels September 19, 2016

“(People say) that this is the most brutal election we’ve ever had. … Nah, not even close,” former Sacramento State student and political author Jeff Raimundo told a packed crowd during an Author...

Sacramento State alum Andy Kotko teaches his first grade class. Kotko met President Obama on Sept. 8 after receiving a national award for teaching.

Sac State alumnus wins national award, meets with President Obama

Joseph Daniels September 8, 2016

A Sacramento State alumnus went to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama on Sept. 8 after being named one of the country’s best math teachers. Andy Kotko, a first grade teacher at Mather...

(Courtesy of Jessica Vernone/Sacramento State)

President Nelsen doubles down on graduation rates in fall address

Joseph Daniels September 2, 2016

Sacramento State President Robert Nelsen doubled down on his plans to improve the school's 4-year graduation rate during his fall address on Aug. 25. The school's goal for it's six-year graduation rate...

Group gathers at State Capitol to protest police shootings

Group gathers at State Capitol to protest police shootings

Joseph Daniels August 18, 2016
As similar demonstrations were sweeping the country, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the State Capitol Friday in response to the recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. Chanting the phrases “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” and “I can’t breathe,” the demonstrators marched twice around the perimeter of the Capitol before holding a moment of silence for Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, as well as the police officers who died during a shooting in Dallas on Thursday.
Before the demonstration began, Occupy the Dream representative Kevin Carter urged that those who did not know how to protest peacefully step aside. Near the beginning of the rally, protesters were confronted by a lone woman with a sign, who, according to demonstrators, argued that Black Lives Matter is a violent movement.. Sacramento State student Faith Thomas said that it was painful for her to think that they are regarded this way because of race. “It is sad that there was a generation before us that [already protested] like this, but it’s still a problem,” Thomas said. At one point during the peaceful protest, tensions flared as a woman shoved a man who seemed to be counter-protesting the rally. “He really was supporting [the rally], but they were using it in another way,” Carter later said in the man’s defense. “We don’t want divisions of color come into play, because we are all here together: black, white, Asian, Hispanic, we’re all here, Pacific Islander, everybody’s here.” Protester G. Williams said that the efforts had to go beyond the march, and demonstrators have to vote with both their ballots and their dollars. Williams said there needs to be more black businesses so that black communities could pay for police protection. “We don’t have the resources to garner that support, so therefore, we’re like low hanging fruit,” Williams said. Another demonstration circulating on Facebook is scheduled to take place at Crocker Park on Monday at 4 p.m.
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