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The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor

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Track and field competes at conference championship today through Saturday.

Dan King
June 1, 2009

The Sacramento State women's outdoor track and field team is the favorite among conference coaches to repeat as champions at this weekend's Big Sky Conference Championship, with the men hoping for...

NCAA APR report

Dan King
May 14, 2009

A year after being penalized the most out of all other Division I schools for academic performance, the Sacramento State athletic department improved in almost every program. In the May 6 NCAA Academic...

Trying to make the grade

Dan King
May 6, 2009

The stereotype of the dumb jock - the ones only on campus to entertain the "real" students while skating through jock-classes - is a difficult icon to kill. The NCAA has been implementing steps to ensure...

Auditor’s Narrative: Center Joint Unified School District

Dan King
April 23, 2009

Sharon Hally, executive assistant to the board, supplied me with copies of the 700 reports to look at in her presence. I asked if I could take the copies with me, and she said no, that isn't allowed. I...

Auditor’s Narrative: Twin Rivers Unified School District

Dan King
April 23, 2009

Sharon Hally, executive assistant to the board, supplied me with copies of the 700 reports to look at in her presence. I asked if I could take the copies with me, and she said no, that isn't allowed. I...

Auditor’s Narrative: Elverta Joint School District

Dan King
April 23, 2009

Receptionist Sharon Anderson asked who I was because they weren't going to give out copies of the 700 reports to just anyone. I told her my name and she asked my affiliation. I said I was a Sac State student...

SPORTS: NBA heads south looking for a stimulus package

Dan King
April 8, 2009

SANTIAGO de CUBA -- One of the Cold War anecdotes was that President Kennedy only signed the Cuban embargo after having press secretary Pierre Salinger procure over a thousand H. Upmann Petit Corona Cuban...

Our way of soccer needs a makeover

Dan King
March 25, 2009

Once again the soccer gimmick of getting an international superstar to come to the United States to build the game looks like a failure. David Beckham has decided to stay in Europe when the Los Angeles...

Sac State rowing prolongs its strong start, wins five out of eight races

Dan King
March 19, 2009

The Sacramento State women's rowing team continued their strong early season form, winning five out of eight races at the Sacramento State Invitational on Saturday. On a cold and windy morning, Sac State...

Track ready for outdoor season

Dan King
March 18, 2009

Sacramento State has turned into a track and field powerhouse in the Big Sky Conference. In 2007 and 2008, the team won three of the four men's and women's championships and will be looking to add to that...

Interest turns to career with blog

Dan King
March 18, 2009

Professors often have outside interests that would leave their students taken aback. Your organic chemistry instructor might do local theater in his spare time. Your existentialism professor might like...

Marriage debate, talks to continue

Dan King
March 12, 2009

The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday from attorneys on both sides of Proposition 8, the ballot measure passed in November defining marriage as only between a man and a woman. History...

Gay marriage and domestic partnerships; the rights are the same

Dan King
March 9, 2009

Call it marriage or morriage; if the rights are exactly the same, it doesn't matter. The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday on the constitutionality of Proposition 8: the ban on...

Jerry Brown’s Prop. 8 gamble

Dan King
February 28, 2009

Nine days before he will be making a similar argument before the California Supreme Court, the state's senior assistant attorney general tried out his risky argument in favor of overturning Proposition...

Court rules cheer as a contact sport

Dan King
February 18, 2009

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in a decision late last month that cheerleading is a contact sport, and therefore the participants assume the same risks as athletes in sports such as football and basketball....

Professor publishes WWII book

Dan King
February 4, 2009

Click here to read the review of the book. War is hell. Most Americans understand that as a concept, if not a reality. There are a small number of Americans that understand the concept well beyond the...

Women’s track team voted No. 1 in Big Sky

Dan King
January 30, 2009

The Sacramento State women's indoor track and field team starts its spring season with the respect of the rest of the Big Sky Conference, but also with a giant target on its back. The Big Sky Conference...

Review: Professor’s book dispels myths of World War II

Dan King
January 29, 2009

Click here to read the story. The myth of the United States serviceman in Western Europe during World War II is that they fought for mom, Chevrolet and apple pie. They fought bravely, defeated the Nazis,...

Fixing the budget requires fixing Sacramento

Dan King
September 24, 2008

The current dilemma with the California state budget demonstrates how broken Sacramento has become. Humorist P.J. O'Rourke could have been describing California politics when he said "giving money and...

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