Communication Key to Checking HIV/AIDS

on Sep 30, 2004 in Early Writings | 0 comments Scantily dressed actors and actresses with bulging breasts and cut abs prance along primetime television programming on a regular basis. Images of sex are everywhere. Advertising with overt and subliminal sexual content is plastered on roadside billboards, entrenched in song lyrics, boldly displayed on t-shirts and dominates the pages of newspapers and magazines. Ironically, however, sex is seen...
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Bush Planted In The White House

on Sep 30, 2004 in Early Writings | 0 comments This story was reported from the following: SF State, Dallas and Cleveland. A steady line of SF State students snakes around isles and isles of bookshelves at the J. Paul Leonard Library, as hundreds of registered voters wait a minimum of two hours to cast their vote for either Sen. John Kerry or President George W. Bush in today’s presidential election. With civil rights organizations and...
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Mysophobia: A Students Struggle with Germs

on Sep 24, 2004 in Early Writings | 0 comments There is good reason why I refrain, as much as diplomatically possible, from shaking hands with fellow members of the human race. Upon entering a stall in the HSS building, I experienced shock and awe at the sight of used and unused seat covers on the floor, urine stains on the toilet seat, toilet paper on the floor, sanitary items sticking out of the disposal box and other restroom faux pas. My...
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Fighting for the Future – Staffer Thinks Newsrooms Need Diversity to Adequately Cover Communities

on Sep 24, 2004 in Early Writings | 0 comments As a student of journalism, I am required to take classes that encourage and mandate a dialogue about diversity. My colleagues and I are instructed on the paramount nature to the future of journalism that we openly discuss race and ensure the hiring of more people of color. The general public’s attitude toward the media will continue to be skeptical and distrustful we are told, unless...
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Thieves Steal Indentity

on Sep 16, 2004 in Early Writings | 0 comments Given the nationwide increase in cases of identity theft, some SF State students are concerned that their personal information is not prudently safeguarded on or off campus. A student’s social security number is directly linked to everything from employment and credit history to bank and academic records. So students wonder why SF State does not implement a safer method of identification,...
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