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The State Hornet

The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor

Elizabeth Ramirez, Author

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Males struggle to maintain body image

Elizabeth Ramirez
December 6, 2012

When you type the word “women” in the Bing images search engine, photos of women in bikinis showing their flat stomachs and overly made faces appear. When you type in the word “men” in Bing images,...

ASI President reaches out to students

Elizabeth Ramirez
November 13, 2012

Associated Student, Inc. President Monica Cortez took the podium at Sacramento State’s University Union for to inform students about the passage of Proposition 30 and giving them the opportunity to ask...

More diversity needed in Disney

Elizabeth Ramirez
November 8, 2012

Disney princess checklist: Caucasian princess…check, a Native American princess…check and Latina princess….che… It was recently reported that Disney had created the first film to feature a Latina...

Gov. Brown holds telephone conference with CSU student journalists about Prop. 30

Elizabeth Ramirez
October 31, 2012

Gov. Jerry Brown held a telephone conference with 16 California State University student journalists Tuesday informing them what would happen if Proposition 30 does not pass on Nov. 6. “If we don’t...

Pay inequality still a problem for women

Elizabeth Ramirez
October 31, 2012

Despite living in the 21st century, we are still seeing inequality at the workplace. Women are still being paid less than men, but women are not taking a back seat anymore. Female Wal-Mart employees across...

The Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation is not accepting donations from porn website Pornhub.com.

Tainted donations from porn website

Elizabeth Ramirez
October 24, 2012

It’s great to donate money to charities. It feels good and you know it’s going to those who need it the most. However, there can be times when you question the source and even the motive for donating...

Mission success with ‘Argo’

Elizabeth Ramirez
October 17, 2012

Rescue missions are no easy task. This is best reflected in Ben Affleck’s “Argo.” Based on a true story, the film depicts the rescue of six Americans during the Iranian Revolution. The six Americans,...

Degrading songs hurt women

Elizabeth Ramirez
October 10, 2012

When we hear a Pitbull, Snoop Dogg or Kanye West song blasting on the radio, we might think of them as musicians with ground-breaking music. These artists have songs everyone can dance to until they have...

Women’s magazines need important subjects

Elizabeth Ramirez
October 3, 2012

In most grocery stores, one of the last things you see before the checkout counter are those pretty, glossy magazines. The magazines generally give women beauty and relationship tips or celebrity gossip,...

PSY helps promote korean music

Elizabeth Ramirez
September 26, 2012

Get ready to dress classy and dance cheesy for a long time. PSY, whose real name is Park Jae-Sang, has taken the U.S. by storm with his horse-like dancing and his eccentric antics in his catchy music video...

El Grito is important

Elizabeth Ramirez
September 19, 2012

Que Viva Mexico! Que Viva Miguel Hidalgo! Que Viva Cinco de Mayo! Que…. Oh wait… it is El Grito, Mexico’s Independence Day, not Cinco de Mayo. Que viva la Independecia! El Grito, the scream of independence,...

Vagina cream not needed

Elizabeth Ramirez
September 12, 2012

Some women have the perfect hourglass-shaped body, baby smooth skin and a pearly white smile, but they are still missing something. A company in India said not every woman in the world has a perfect vagina...

Rape can not be categorized

Elizabeth Ramirez
September 5, 2012

Congressman Todd Akin seems to have decided to re-define rape for the nation. Apparently, a raped woman can prevent pregnancy if it is a “legitimate rape.” And this is when everyone might say, “Whaaat?”...

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