“Every girl crazy ‘bout a sharp dressed man.” ZZ Top said that. For those that don’t know, the members of ZZ Top don’t look like they should be sharply dressed. They’re rarely seen without...

A fight among students at Sacramento State occurred Thursday as a group of men wearing red Make America Great Again hats with a Blue Lives Matter flag accused The State Hornet of inciting violence in its...

Sacramento State students, journalists and religious leaders were among the confirmed 84 arrested at Monday night’s protest in response to the recent decision not to charge the two police officers who...

Sparked by an anonymous email and others that followed, Sacramento State’s Greek life has faced investigation, scrutiny and even international attention since late January. Fraternities and sororities...

Sacramento State’s Pi Kappa Alpha chapter is no longer under investigation after university officials discovered the video sent to The State Hornet Tuesday was part of a previous investigation. The...

In the wake of allegations of misconduct in university Greek life, a second anonymous video was sent to The State Hornet showing a man said to be a pledge of Sacramento State’s Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity...

A second anonymous email sent to The State Hornet contains a video described to show the hazing of a current member of Sacramento State’s Delta Chi chapter. The video is said to show a current member...

After an anonymous email was sent to university officials, Sacramento State's investigation into allegations of hazing against the university’s chapter of the Delta Chi fraternity is ongoing. The...

A former member of Sacramento State’s Delta Chi chapter says a photo he is in — one that has sparked an investigation into the fraternity — was deliberately misinterpreted as evidence of hazing by...

Forgive me, readers. Forgive me if this is too trivial for you to care about at the moment. And forgive me if I am taking this too seriously in the following 421 words. But why can’t parking permit...

After a handwritten note making violent threats was found on its campus, California State University, Northridge canceled classes and moved finals off campus. According to The Sundial, CSU Northridge's...

If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it’ll happen soon enough. It’s a rite of passage for college-aged people; someday, somewhere, someone will invite you to an improv show. As someone who has invited...

After announcing last semester that it would permanently cancel winter commencement ceremonies, Sacramento State has announced that the upcoming spring commencement ceremony will be one day longer to accommodate...

Sacramento State will be closed again Friday due to poor air quality in the region caused by the Camp Fire. Campus has been closed all week thus far — Monday for Veterans Day — because of the fire’s...

A line of Sacramento State students wrapped through and outside Modoc Hall Tuesday as they waited to cast their votes — many for their first time. Some students came by briefly to drop off already...

I’m happy to be a Sacramento State student. It’s true. I’ve lived in Sacramento since my freshman year of high school, and have always liked the city. I love trees, I like my major and I think...

The old college stereotype about food is well-known; ramen, a lot of take-out, and mandatory attendance at every event that offers free food. But financial insecurity — including access to food —...

If students are having trouble getting into courses they need to finish their degree, here’s a new option: taking online courses at other California State Universities through CSU Fully Online. CSU...

Now that we all know the highly anticipated Parking Structure V will not open until May 8 at the earliest, Sacramento State and University Transportation and Parking Services have to deal with the wake...

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[su_dropcap style="flat" size="5"]I[/su_dropcap]t’s been almost five years since I was last homeless. In that time, I’ve forgotten plenty of the details and the stories I accrued over a year and a...

When President Donald Trump was both elected and inaugurated, the Sacramento State campus was a close representation of how many other college campuses and cities nationwide reacted: with protests calling...

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A friend of mine on Facebook recently posted a status about the #TimesUp movement and Aziz Ansari that pissed me and many other of his friends off. I’ll call him Leonard. Leonard has since deleted...

Sacramento State has a few reputations it would like to shake off. Foremost among them is "Slack State," but following that is likely the notion that it is a "commuter campus." According to 2016-17 data...

A viral video shared on Twitter and Facebook appears to show a Sacramento State student drinking alcohol behind the wheel of a moving car in the Bay Area. According to the user who posted the video,...

(Go to StateHornet.com/TheFoodIssue for more food-related stories) Munch Madness is over, and Round Table Pizza takes the crown. How did we get here? In Rounds 1, 2 and 3, I tricked myself into thinking...

(Go to StateHornet.com/TheFoodIssue for more food-related stories) We’ve almost reached the end of Munch Madness, and I feel changed. I laughed in Round 1, I cried in Round 2 and I gained 15 pounds...

(Go to StateHornet.com/TheFoodIssue for more food-related stories) Round 1 of Munch Madness seems so long ago; each day is a blur. We’re moving along at breakneck speed and with not enough time to...

The announcement that Sacramento State had decided to end its winter commencement ceremonies fifty years after holding its first — did not go over well with students on social media. We asked students,...

Sacramento State’s announcement last week that the upcoming 2017 winter commencement ceremony would be the last held, marking a permanent switch to spring-only graduations, could not be accurately described...

Condoms, monthly birth control prescriptions and emergency contraceptives are offered at The WELL and will soon be available in a 24-hour access vending machine located on campus. So what do students at...

(Go to StateHornet.com/Guns for more related stories) Were there to be an active shooter on a campus of over 30,000 students, with thousands of faculty, staff and administrators as well, Sacramento...

(Go to StateHornet.com/Guns for more related stories) Amid heated debate over gun control, four State Hornet editors with varying experience with guns set out to understand the appeal. RELATED: ...

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...

An inordinate amount of calls, emails and internet buzz began since the end of the last spring semester centered around one question: the good ol’ olfactory system, also known as your sense of smell,...

The presence of unknown fumes in Eureka Hall resulted in a number of early morning classes being cancelled Wednesday as students became “visibly ill,” according to one professor. The fumes were...

Sexual violence. Alcohol abuse. Hazing. Falsifying evidence. Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Over the span of two years, Greek organizations at Sacramento State have racked up a litany of violations. A...

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he would rescind the executive order by President Barack Obama issuing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), leaving it up to Congress to legislate...

(Go to StateHornet.com/SSLead for more information) The issue of Sacramento State’s drinking water containing dangerous amounts of lead continues, as work done over the summer by a campus research...

In the nearly five months since the CSU chancellor Timothy White announced that all campuses would ban tobacco use by Sept. 1, almost no details on implementation and logistics have been announced for...

Sacramento State’s baseball team beat the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros 8-6 Saturday to complete a three-game sweep in its last home series, the second series sweep of the Hornets season. Sac State...

Lanea Florence:  Mrs. Dalloway: II. Mrs Dalloway: In The Garden by Max Richter “Really, anything by Max Richter is my go to music for studying. There are no lyrics so I don’t get distracted and his...

By Kameron Schmid and John Ferrannini As the 2016-17 academic year comes to a close, we looked at our online analytics to find out what stories our readers were most interested in this year. It has...

UPDATE: May 9 at 1:44 p.m. — This story has been updated to include new comments from Steve Leland, the university's director of environmental health and safety, and information on an open forum to...

Testing of all of Sacramento State's drinking water sources for lead contamination is completely finished, and full release of the results will be available in a couple of weeks, according to Steve Leland,...

Results of the comprehensive testing of Sacramento State’s drinking water sources for lead contamination will come in May, not April, because of multiple factors, said an official involved in the testing...

Missing Sacramento State alumna Janet Mejia was found dead from a gunshot wound in South Placer County Thursday. Her body was discovered around 7 p.m. Thursday off the road near the intersection of...

The second comprehensive test for lead contamination in Sacramento State’s drinking water sources is underway and should be completed in April, according to school officials. The current round of...

After Friday’s rainout, Sacramento State’s softball team got some extra work in, going 17 innings over two games against Weber State in Saturday’s doubleheader, which the two teams split 1-1. The...

UPDATE: March 16, 2:42 p.m. — Sacramento councilman Steve Hansen, who represents the district in which Golden 1 Center is located, said in an email to The State Hornet that he supports the idea that...

California Assembly Democrats introduced a bill Monday that, if passed, would establish state-sponsored scholarships aimed at eliminating student debt and assisting the increasing number of students who...

A throng of children in the K-12 range came to Sacramento State’s Engineering and Computer Science Exposition Saturday to find 21 different student groups offering activities reflecting different disciplines...

(Slide through timeline for more information on the lead problem on campus) The issue of water contaminated with lead coming from Sacramento State’s drinking fountains and faucets goes back...

We've been reporting on the potential tuition increase for all CSU students, and it's likely that the CSU trustees make it official in March. Unless the California legislature decides to increase the funding...

Sacramento State officials are aware of which water sources on campus remain untested for lead contamination, but are choosing not to tell the campus community out of reluctance to release information...

Among all the things said during last week’s protest on campus, only one has been verifiably proven to be incorrect multiple times in America’s history. “Your hate speech isn’t protected here,”...

A consultant has been hired to help Sacramento State address the problem of the 58 drinking water sources currently shut down after excess lead was detected in a series of tests over winter break. Alex...

Several water sources on the Sacramento State campus were found to have excess levels of lead, according to a new study, and some water sources still remain untested as the university waits for direction....

Sacramento State President Robert Nelsen and Associated Students, Inc. President Patrick Dorsey spoke about the current political climate, efforts to improve the university and the forthcoming battle against...

Approximately 50 students came to an open forum on Monday afternoon hosted by Associated Students, Inc. and centered around the topic of a potential tuition increase across the entire California State...

The California State University Board of Trustees is weighing the option of raising tuition costs for students, but won’t yet make its decision, pushing the vote to March 2017 as students protested the...

(Story continues below video) On the morning of Oct. 26, lecture room 2002 in Solano Hall was standing room only, and even more students overflowed into the hallways to listen to criminal justice...

The Sacramento State men’s soccer team is now 2-1 in conference-play after beating Big West opponent Cal State Fullerton at home on Thursday due to a heads up score in the second half by senior forward...

(Story below video) Crowds were overwhelming Thursday night, as not even Sacramento State’s biggest room on campus could contain the amount of people ready to hear Cornel West — philosopher,...

When she first heard about the recent grass fire near Cal Expo, Sacramento State environmental studies professor Michelle Stevens “went crazy,” but was sure that it wouldn’t get too close to the...

After graduating from John F. Kennedy High School, a young Cornel West left Sacramento and went on an odyssey that would eventually place him in the foreground of the philosophical conversations concerning...