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Crime Blotter: Chubby, maybe-Asian man snatches iPad

The suspect, who stands at a towering 5′ 3″, snatched the iPad right out of the hands of a unsuspecting woman in the HSS building this morning. She was sitting adjacent to the bathrooms on the first floor watching a movie when the suspect forcefully grabbed the not-quite-a-laptop, no-longer-an-iphone device and took off running (obv not very […]

Crime Blotter: Crazy Taxi

San Francisco police are still searching for the man who stole a taxi and lead police on a high-speed chase before crashing at SF State and escaping on foot early Friday morning, according to ABC 7. Police say video obtained from the dashboard camera will help them to identify the thief, but what they don’t […]

SF State’s live alligator mascot

SF State had a living, breathing, death-rolling alligator as the football team’s mascot 50 years ago. Yeah I know, it’s crazy. I know it was a different time but I just can’t believe it either — we used to have a football team. The alligator, named Al, was “usually muzzled during his stays (at SF […]

Don’t you dare dorm!

Things, people, and places change over time. It’s inevitable.  As a campus, we have, and continue to change dramatically over time. But, it’s hard to see or understand those changes without taking the time to look back at the way things were. That’s why I want to share this Golden Gate Xpress article from 50 years […]

Wong Shakes It Despite Controversy

It’s official: President Wong will be shaking it out with SF State students in a Harlem Shake video this Friday at 2 p.m. After I wrote a post half-jokingly challenging Dr. Wong (and his fancy Ph.D. in Educational Psychology) to come out of his office and dance among us lowly debt-ridden students, he fired back […]

Drunktweeting SF Beer Week

Kristen Martz, A&E reporter, wrote an excellent piece in last week’s Golden Gate Xpress on SF Beer Week and how SF State students can best enjoy the experience. Complete with an infographic, it has lots of valuable information in there for students looking to navigate through the roughly 400 events this week. Do you know how […]