#SacStateSays: What do you want to see added to campus?
October 18, 2017
Sacramento State is currently undergoing a large amount of construction on multiple projects — Science II, Parking Structure V, Housing II and the Union Expansion — all expected to be a completed within two years, which costs a total of around $235 million. We asked students what additions they wo...
$20 million short for Science II
October 17, 2017
According to Sacramento State officials, the CSU Chancellor’s Office has allocated approximately $71 million to fund construction of the new Science II building leaving the University responsible for the remaining $20 million, which will likely come from private donations and, if necessary, the campus...
Sac State professor loses home in North Bay fires
October 17, 2017
Multiple fires broke out and spread quickly in the North Bay Area the night of Oct. 8, leaving dozens dead, hundreds homeless and thousands to evacuate, according to Cal Fire’s latest numbers. The effects of the fires extend beyond the reach of Wine Country, however, including to one Sacramento...
Alumna jailed after attempting presidential run in Rwanda
October 11, 2017
Sacramento State alumna Diane Shima Rwigara was arrested in Rwanda on charges of tax evasion, forgery and inciting “insurrection” after she attempted to run against Paul Kagame in the presidential election earlier this year. Rwigara attended Sac State from 2002 to 2004 and obtained her degree in busine...
MLK at Sac State: 50 years later
October 11, 2017
Filed under Featured, MLK 50th, News
(Go to StateHornet.com/MLK50CSUS for more related stories) On Oct. 16, 1967, more than 7,000 people gathered on the grass field at Sacramento State’s Hornet Stadium and watched as civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his thoughts on what the future of the civil rights movement would...
#SacStateSays: What civil rights progress still needs to be made?
October 11, 2017
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(Go to StateHornet.com/MLK50CSUS for more related stories) “We still have a long, long way to go before the problem of racial justice is solved in our nation,” said Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech at Sacramento State in 1967. In honor of the 50th anniversary of his visit, we aske...
White nationalist group posts propaganda on campus
October 10, 2017
Flyers and stickers displaying a turquoise and white triangle were found across campus recently in promotion of the white nationalist group, Identity Evropa. Mariana*, a psychology major at Sac State, saw the flyers and stickers around campus on Oct. 1 and quickly took action, biking around campus ...
Students use social media to report hit-and-runs on campus
October 10, 2017
The last thing any Sacramento State student wants to deal with after rush hour traffic and increasingly crowded parking lots is grazing another vehicle while trying to park. While some students would leave a note with a name and number, others would continue on to class. Now, social media are playi...
The Faces of DACA at Sac State
Kameron Schmid and Joseph Daniels
October 5, 2017
Filed under FacesOfDACA, Featured, News
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or DACA, has been rescinded and will soon expire; the last extensions are being accepted until tomorrow only. As of last semester, Sacramento State was home to around 1,000 undocumented immigrants, 65 of whom were DACA recipients, according to the university. Th...
Student preacher draws crowds with controversial remarks
October 4, 2017
Among the shouting and snickering of students taking pictures, passersby in the Sacramento State Library Quad Sept. 20 saw a black sign with painted flames that read: “Repent or perish.” Engineering major Slavik Chiley, a student driver on the Hornet Shuttle Gold Line bus employed by Univers...
