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Out To Lunch: Kasa Indian

Type: Indian (duh!) Location: Outside of Hensill Hall Price: $$ Speed: Of actual food, pretty fast. The line, on the other hand…. Variety: Choice of kati roll or rice plate with 5 options: chicken tikka masala, gobi aloo (vegetarian), and 3 daily specials. Combos, samosas, and beverages available. Vegan/gluten-free options. Payment Methods: Cash, card Disclaimer: We’ve […]

The Girls’ Room: Spelling

Advice from your peers via bathroom stall graffiti, briefly analyzed by five snarky female journalists every Tuesday. This week’s location: Humanities third floor bathroom near room 312, used mainly by journalism majors. —— Kristen: “Yourselve” – did you just forget an S or did you fail high school English class? I would say something about site […]

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 […]

10 Confessions from the author of the SFSU Confessions page

It seems as you look around school, everyone is trading their favorite “SFSU Confessions,” posts from the page where students share gems like “I wipe my roommate’s toothbrush on my balls,” and “Having a fuckbuddy in college is way easier than having a relationship.” In honor of our new weekly feature showing the top ten […]

Crime Blotter: Dorm Room Drug Bust

There were reports of people doing cocaine at the Towers at Centennial Square on Feb. 13. When officers responded and made contact with the tenants — who probably had to pause “Scarface” to respond to the knocks on the door — the tenants complied with officers to search their room. The Swamp wasn’t there in […]

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 […]