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The State Hornet

The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor
(Illustration by Pierce Grohosky)

EDITORIAL: Don’t feed the trolls

State Hornet February 23, 2017

Conservatives on campus deserve better representation than the childish trolling that the Sacramento State College Republicans have had to offer over the past several weeks. This all started on Feb....

Roughly 10 percent of the school’s fountains and sinks remain untested for lead and the school has not been forthright about a timeline for doing so. (Photo by Kameron Schmid)

EDITORIAL: Campus deserves answers on lead

State Hornet February 15, 2017

Ten percent of Sacramento State’s fountains and sinks remain untested for lead, and the administration and its hired consultant have been avoiding answering questions about when they will be tested and...

Letter to the editor: Hate speech ‘must be shut down’

Letter to the editor: Hate speech ‘must be shut down’

State Hornet February 13, 2017

To the Editor: I was not surprised that the editorial “Don't become an enemy of free speech, no matter how hateful it is” ended with a quote from Winston Churchill, a man whose white supremacist...

The American River flooded the bike trail causing students who live in the College Town area to hike the muddy, slippery hill in order to get to class on Wednesday morning.

Photo of the day: Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017

State Hornet February 9, 2017

Rioters in Berkeley, Calif. forced the University of California, Berkeley to shut down a planned speech by so-called alt-right provocateur and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017.
(Photo courtesy of Pietro Piupparco / Flickr / CC-BY 3.0)

EDITORIAL: Don’t become an enemy of free speech, no matter how hateful it is

State Hornet February 9, 2017

The president of the Sacramento State College Republicans demanded that school President Robert Nelsen and ASI President Patrick Dorsey resign if they did not denounce a riot that broke out at UC Berkeley...

Letter to the editor: Sac State protesters must ‘persist’ in opposing Trump

Letter to the editor: Sac State protesters must ‘persist’ in opposing Trump

State Hornet February 6, 2017

An open letter to the State Hornet, At Thursday’s demonstration I saw the best of what our country and campus can be. As I stood among the demonstrators in the library quad, I saw individuals from...

Letter to the editor: College Republicans should also condemn ‘bigotry and hate’

Letter to the editor: College Republicans should also condemn ‘bigotry and hate’

State Hornet February 4, 2017

Mason Daniels, You quoted a great man at the end of your statement directed at Patrick Dorsey and President Nelsen, but ironically so. Mr. Daniels, allow me to say that quoting a man who led the Civil...

Letter to the editor: Nelsen, Dorsey should condemn Berkeley riots or resign

Letter to the editor: Nelsen, Dorsey should condemn Berkeley riots or resign

State Hornet February 3, 2017

President Nelsen and ASI President Dorsey, During the last couple of months both of you have been very vocal on political events across this nation. You have stated your own opposition to: President...

(Illustration by Pierce Grohosky)

EDITORIAL: Colleges and students must resist Trump’s actions

State Hornet February 2, 2017

The nation has gone from “we’ll see what happens” to “what do we do now?” After President Donald Trump signed a ban on all refugee admission, as well as travel from seven predominantly Muslim...

(Photo from The Blue Diamond Gallery)

EDITORIAL: Time is running out on Obamacare

State Hornet January 30, 2017

A cloud of uncertainty hangs over the future of affordable healthcare as the country waits to see what President Trump and a Republican Congress have planned for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Sacramento...

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