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The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

The student news site of Sacramento State University

The State Hornet

Student news without fear or favor

Matt Wagar, Author

All content by Matt Wagar

How to cheat UTAPS

Matt Wagar
May 15, 2002

I can?t keep it in any longer. I?ve been screwing University Transportation and Parking Services since Feb. 27 of this year?And no, I don?t feel bad. Feb. 27 was the last day I actually purchased a daily...

Recalling the riots

Matt Wagar
May 8, 2002

The 10-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots passed last week and I initially didn?t think much about it. It wasn?t until I watched Spike Lee?s film "Do the Right Thing" in preparation for a film class...

The ‘bobblehead’ phenomenon

Matt Wagar
May 1, 2002

Why is it that in our society we place value upon things that are totally meaningless? Case in point: those goddamn bobble head dolls of the Sacramento King?s players at Carl?s Jr. Driving by a Carl?s...

Sac State should honor genius poet

Matt Wagar
April 16, 2002

Lenny Bruce died 35 years ago defending his art instead of practicing it. After many years of talking to crowds at sold out nightclubs, he was forced to begin talking to judges in courtrooms, defending...

Hornet problems overblown

Matt Wagar
April 10, 2002

I was reading through last week?s paper and I came across some interesting items. First of all, President Donald Gerth and The State Hornet Publication Board cannot agree on something as symbolic and meaningless...

Censorship scare at bookstore

Matt Wagar
April 3, 2002

Is censorship alive here at Sac State? Apparently so. I recently learned that a book by Sac State Professor Doug Rice that is sold in the Hornet Bookstore had a word in its title blocked out by a sticker....

Florida, here I come

Matt Wagar
March 20, 2002

I know it?s not manly to admit you miss your parents, but I do. It has been about five months since I last saw them in November, before they packed up their wagon and moved to Florida. I?ll be seeing them...

Watch films in the discomfort of your own class!

Matt Wagar
March 13, 2002

It?s now time for the obligatory, "I hate mid-terms column," because they suck, Let?s face it, they are a pain in the ass. It?s absurd that we really have to remember all the things our teachers say. I...

Senator on Coke

Matt Wagar
March 5, 2002

State Senator Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento) thinks that soda, a sugar based carbonated beverage, is responsible for obesity in children. It couldn?t possibly have anything to do with a lack of exercise...

Executions needed

Matt Wagar
February 27, 2002

The news of the fate of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl finally arrived on Friday, and I feel sick. It?s been reported that he is dead and that his captors slashed his throat and decapitated...

Sacramento: Try a real city

Matt Wagar
February 20, 2002

We are now into the fourth week of school and now it has become clear to me why I dislike school so much. It is almost impossible to maintain what resembles a normal life. I envy the people who work nine...

Pedestrians not speedbumps

Matt Wagar
February 13, 2002

The accident involving a male pedestrian who was hit while crossing the street last Thursday, next to the Hornet Bookstore, should be a wake-up a call for all the students who tear down State University...

No: Grads right to leave Bee publisher speechless

Matt Wagar
January 28, 2002

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every man has a right to knock him down for it." -Dr. Samuel Johnson, english author, lexicographer. The verdict is in, and the mainstream media...

So Long Ken Kesey

Matt Wagar
November 14, 2001

Author Ken Kesey died Saturday morning from liver cancer in Eugene, Ore. at the age of 66. I found out Sunday around noon and it felt like someone had hit me in the chest with a hammer. In all fairness,...

Net cops shut down Union computer

Matt Wagar
November 13, 2001

A computer in the University Union was shut down last week after anInternet watchdog group alleged that it was providing access tocopyrighted sound files. University Computing and Communications Services...

Representation out of control in ASI board

Matt Wagar
November 7, 2001

I?d like to congratulate Associated Students, Inc. representatives Luke Wood and Calvin Davis for further complicating the disaster that is the ASI board. As if things aren?t bad enough already, Wood and...

Senator works to track foreign students in CSU system

Matt Wagar
October 16, 2001

Although Sen. Dianne Feinstein has backed off from her proposal for a six-month moratorium on student visas, she is still working closely with the California State University?s Chancellor to implement...

Fountain memorial to Joe, Isabel Serna

Matt Wagar
October 2, 2001

Retired Art professor Esteban Villa remembers the late Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna and his wife, Isabel Hernandez-Serna as a modern day Romeo and Juliet. "Joe was born in Lodi, from poor farm worker parents,...

Students in favor of U.S. retaliation

Matt Wagar
September 26, 2001

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have forced many Sacramento State students to confront the reality of war for the first time in their adult lifetimes. Sac State...

Sac State Muslims not immune to prejudice

Matt Wagar
September 18, 2001

No one expects to be spit at while walking through the corridor between the Library and the University Union, but that?s what happened to one of Basma Marmosh?s friends last Thursday. In the aftermath...

Sac State Web site gets facelift

Matt Wagar
September 12, 2001

Sacramento State students logging onto the university?s Web site, www.csus.edu, may or may not have noticed the site?s new look. The re-design was a collaboration between Paul Nozicka, university webmaster,...

CSU receives funding to review alcohol policies

Matt Wagar
August 29, 2001

Over the summer at its July meeting, the Board of Trustees of the California State University approved $1.1 million to fund committees that will evaluate alcohol policies on each campus. Shirley Uplinger,...

ASI election heats up

Matt Wagar
April 18, 2001

The three slates involved in the upcoming Associated Students, Inc., elections re-enforce the old adage: If you want a friend in politics, get a dog. Over the course of the last two weeks, the Vision and...

What the WPE means to me

Matt Wagar
March 28, 2001

The Writing Proficiency Exam that all students of this school are forced to take is a failure on many levels. The WPE is worthless and a plague to students because it is a standardized test (which really...

Sacramento State to host 2004 Olympic Track and Field Trials

Matt Wagar
February 28, 2001

USA Track and Field officials announced Thursday that Sacramento State will host the 2004 USA Olympic Track and Field Trials. The main factor in Sacramento being awarded the 2004 trials was the success...

Hannibal is back and hungry for flesh

Matt Wagar
February 23, 2001

Hannibal is back in the third installment of the "Silence of the Lambs" trilogy, "Hannibal." It's been ten years since we last caught up with him and he' s attempted to curb his appetite for flesh, but...

Notes from the nation’s capital

Matt Wagar
November 15, 2000

It was chaos as soon as I stepped off the plane into a world of lecherous politicians and thieves...I was in the District. Cab rides down side streets of the nation's capital, walking through the streets...

Alleged rape in Desmond Hall reported Monday

Matt Wagar
November 8, 2000

A forcible rape occurred in Desmond Hall early Saturday, Oct. 28 according to John Hamrick, investigator for campus police. Hamrick said that the suspect met the victim for the first time on Friday night...

Microphone Check: Green Day

Matt Wagar
October 27, 2000

Green Day has re-invented itself yet again, as middle-aged punks trapped pondering their success as rock stars?and I am sure that most people will be upset to finally learn that Green Day has feelings....

A Blair Witch that does not put out

Matt Wagar
October 25, 2000

SAN FRANCISO ? If you?re expecting some answers from this sequel to last year's smash hit, "The Blair Witch," you better pack up your bags and head to Burkittsville, Maryland and do your own research....

Mayoral candidates face off to gain student support

Matt Wagar
October 10, 2000

The two Sacramento mayoral candidates destined to clash in the Nov. 7 run-off election debated in the University Union Ballroom Monday in attempt to attain the support of potential voters. Councilwoman...

Transfer agreement between Los Rios colleges and Sac State modified to increase access

Matt Wagar
September 27, 2000

Sacramento State and the Los Rios Community College District signed a modified transfer agreement Monday, Sept. 18, in hopes of increasing the transfer and graduation rates of students from Los Rios Colleges...

Case of man charged with attacking Sac State Professor dismissed

Matt Wagar
September 27, 2000

The charges against the man arrested for the attempted robbery of a Sacramento State Chemistry professor last semester have been dismissed due to lack of evidence. Russ Dietrich from the Sacramento County...

Serna’s memory honored

Matt Wagar
September 6, 2000

On Thursday at Sacramento State, the National Electrical Contractors Association Chapter of Greater Sacramento, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 340, and the Plumbers and Pipe...

Causeway incident trial postponed until July

Matt Wagar
June 5, 2000

The long awaited trial of two men arrested at the Sept. 18 Causeway Classic football game was delayed again on May 9. Miguel and Gustavo Chavez trial has been postponed until July 11 because of scheduling...

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