California State University System

Cruise Ship Terminal Finances Terrified Port Director

The news that the city's nascent cruise ship terminal could well lose the city boatloads of money is disturbing -- but hardly unanticipated. Last year, SF Weekly obtained a January 2012 e-mail from Port of San Francisco Director Monique Moyer to members of her staff lamenting the proposed cruise shi ... More >>

CopperWire: How Jam Sessions in Ethiopia Became a Hip-Hop Space Opera

CopperWire is a new hip-hop trio featuring S.F. R&B singer and prodigy Meklit Hadero, rapper Gabriel Teodros, and producer-rapper Burntface (government name: Ellias Fullmore). The group comes with its own mythology: Its debut album, Earthbound, tells the story of three renegades in the year 2089 who ... More >>

Rick Santorum: Don't Know Much About History

It's a shame the "Shit X says" meme is dying out, because Rick Santorum is on a roll. In related news, the "Rick Roll" meme seems to be dying out, too. Shame, that. It was American philosopher George Santayana who famously noted that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." B ... More >>

California Colleges Are Not Medical Marijuana Friendly

​For some, cannabis and college may go together like ... well, beer and college, or massive debt and college (and if you manage to show up to 8 a.m. lectures reeking more of Cypress Hill than frat row, points for diversity, anyway).  This is not the case in California, at least not when talki ... More >>

SF State Contract Fraud: Investigation of Alleged Corruption Continues

Robert Shearer​In August, when we wrote about an investigation into potential contract corruption at San Francisco State that could potentially cost the cash-strapped university hundreds of thousands of dollars, the California State University police told us they were in the "final stages" of the ... More >>

SF State's Hazardous Waste Cleanup Cost Millions More Than It Should Have

NCAA, UC, Sued By College Football Players

City College could have plenty of Favres in the making ​A San Francisco football player is suing the NCAA, Cal State, and the University of California, claiming they are keeping him and other junior college athletes from playing Division I sports. Reginald Davis, a full-time student at City Colle ... More >>

Tony Material? Play at SF State to Dramatize University Budget Cuts

In which the cheer coach makes off with the club's money and goes to Vegas.​Any playwright or screenwriter searching for their next big idea should consider the bizarre case of the San Francisco State cheerleading coach who embezzled the team's money to go to Las Vegas. We're thinking Kirsten Duns ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Supporter Sends Leland Yee Death Threats

Wanted an apology, but got death threats instead.​State Sen. Leland Yee received death threats after the San Francisco Democrat asked conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking the Chinese language in his radio show last week.Yee's staffers said the messages came via fax th ... More >>

Court Rules Undocumented Students Can Pay In-State Tuition. Great, But a Job?

Waiting tables, Ben. Waiting tables. Wave of the future. ​ The California Supreme Court upheld a law yesterday that allows illegal immigrants who've attended California high schools for at least three years to pay in-state tuition at the state's public universities. Well, that's great news for the ... More >>

Sarah Palin Costs Released by CSU Stanislaus -- Sort of

How much did CSU Stanislaus really spend to accommodate Sarah Palin? ​Responding to a public records request from SF Weekly, the California State University system has sent along an "event accounting summary" of June's controversial appearance by Sarah Palin at CSU Stanislaus. Yet the one-page sum ... More >>

School District Requirements for College-Ready Students Don't Meet College Standards

Wait a minute! This doesn't add up! ​This year's going-back-to-school story has been that San Francisco public high schools are now requiring all incoming ninth graders to complete the 15 courses required for admission to the University of California or California State University systems. Known i ... More >>

The Education Trap

In California, many undocumented immigrants are offered cheap college tuition, only to find they can’t get jobs after they graduate.

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican Cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

Leland Yee's Sarah Palin Crusade Strikes 'San Francisco Gold'

For Sen. Leland Yee, Sarah Palin has proven to be the perfect foil​For the record, Sen. Leland Yee has always claimed that his ongoing Sarah Palin crusade is not a politically motivated operation. If some other figure with a penchant for charging $100,000 per speech were slated to appear at Califo ... More >>

CSU-Stanislaus Administrators Accused of Shredding Sarah Palin Documents They Claimed Did Not Exist

Sarah better run ... because Leland Yee is chasing down her finances​ Did Sen. Leland Yee just evoke Watergate in his ongoing quest to discern how much California State University-Stanislaus will pay Sarah Palin for a forthcoming speech? You betcha. When it was last month announced the former Repu ... More >>

Porn Queen, NYU Grad Student Lorelei Lee Proves S.F. State Is No Loser School

Rick HallLorelei Lee, left, seen here with fellow porn star Bobbi Starr, has put her San Francisco State undergrad degree to good use already​ In 1995, San Francisco State professor Geoffrey Marcy, and his student, Paul Butler, created an ingenious optical device allowing them to detect evidence o ... More >>

'Bedlam' at San Francisco State: Desperate Students Pack Classes -- and Must Request Library Books 48 Hours in Advance

If college is intended to brace young people for the real world, consider San Francisco State students well prepared. They're paying more, receiving less, and coping with conditions most Americans thought were more likely to plague a university where classes are occasionally canceled due to rocket a ... More >>

"What Do They Do About That Broccoli That They Didn't Actually Eat?" -- Gavin Newsom, on the Challenges Facing Education in SF

Raising teachers' self esteem through massage - and other "education" moments from Gavin's enormous State of the City Address. By Benjamin Wachs Every now and again, Gavin Newsom finds his moment. In the last State-of-the-Citysode, it was a brief minute when he was talking about why the Laguna ... More >>

UCSF Is First Hospital in California with a Musician in Residence

Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

Queen's Nails Annex Hires Tony Labat for a 'BULK' Perpetual Art Opening

Adams vs. Glass

Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

Quannum Mechanics

The amazingly true tale of the Bay Area's greatest hip hop success story

Ethnic Warfare

A bitchy academic fight within SFSU's College of Ethnic Studies puts the future of the program in question

Learning to Compete

Executives involved in outsourcing U.S. jobs should also become involved in sponsoring CA schools

Reps Etc.

SOUL Trainers

A nonprofit school known by the acronym SOUL is working to undermine The System with The System's own money. But does SOUL teach anti-capitalist subversion -- or how to sell out?

Bad Vibes

Warning: Meditating may be hazardous to your health

Misplaced Priorities 101

Amid a drastic budget crisis, why is the California State University system spending $400 million on computers? And where is the money coming from?

Festivals/Fairs

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

The Perfect Crime

As we're now finding out, Gov. Davis may be the only one who won't have to pay for his mishandling of the energy crisis

More Is Moore

Frank Moore's Cherotic All Star Band provides nudity, music, cerebral palsy, and, perhaps, art

House Of Tudor

Angoras, Ricardo Lemvo, Knoxville Girls

Off the Books

A school district administrator's extracurricular foreign recruiting prompts investigations in two countries

The Doctor, the Transsexual, the Bed-Shooting and the Lawsuit

The stormy relationship between a transitioning transsexual and a well-known sex counselor raises questions about the growing field of sexology

Booty Call

Wherein a handful of politicos, a party that's trying not to be a laughingstock, and the singer in a '70s disco cover band unite to rewrite San Francisco politics or try to, anyway

City of Angles

How Curtis Hanson brought James Ellroy's epic crime novel L.A. Confidential to the screen

The DA's Svengali

Earlier this year, the District Attorney's Office was flirting with farce. Then Terence Hallinan called in David Millstein.

Double Take

Mare Winningham fuses her two careers in Georgia

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