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Casino Night is returning to SF State on November 9th! Come play blackjack, roulette and poker from 9pm-1am in Seven Hills Conference Center.

Last year the popular event had X amount of people show up and people won over 100 prizes including Beats Headphones and a Nikon Camera! This year it could be you, so come beat the odds.

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It would help if mental health services were as easily accessible as guns.

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Gingerbread House.

Music by Leslie Ngo

Man In The Park- Dolores Park patrons share some of their craziest stories from the popular park.

#jour226

October 19, 2012 in the Financial District of San Francisco

#sf #san francisco #photography #street

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Most college students can remember what moment had them sold on the university they attend. For some it was getting the acceptance letter to a back up school or when they got a generous scholarship. For others it's a little moment that sells you on the school completely.

For William Barthe it was being called out and embarrassed by a Professor at San Francisco State. I sat down to talk with him about his most embarrassing moment, which coincidentally led him to decide that San Francisco State was the school for him.

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In honor of National Coming Out Day, Cristian King, a Residential Assistant in Mary Ward Hall at SFSU, tells me about his 'coming out story'.

Cristian is a Junior at San Francisco State and has been openly gay since middle school. He talks with me about what the struggle of coming out at such a young age was like. He also tells me about his family's reaction and how his coming out has shaped who he is now.

#closet #come out story #coming out #coming out story #digital news gathering #lgbt #lgbt gay #national coming out day

If you where on campus on Thursday October 11, you probably saw the rainbow streamers flowing through Malcolm X Plaza. While you where grabbing lunch or running to class, SF State was busy celebrating National Coming Out Day in style. Drag Queen Pearl Tease gave a performance of a life time, before Ryan Cassata took the stage to perform his original music. EmCee Brian Sharber introduced the organizations involved including; PEACH, The SAFE Place, Queer Alliance, CEASE and The Student Success Program.

It was a truly inspirational event. If you stopped by and enjoyed it, or wish you hadn't missed out, don't fret! Coming up this month there are two more events you should check out:

1. Walk A Day In Her Heels - Wednesday 10/24/2012

2. National Transgender Visibility/Awareness Day- Monday 10/292012

#sfsu #student life #national coming out day #san francisco #coming out #pride #lgbt #gay #lesbian #transgendered

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Here’s the latest white woman to petition the Supreme Court to affirm that she was denied admission to college because of black people. And in her very first news interview, with Adam Liptak of the Times, she says “I probably would have gotten a better job offer had I gone to U.T.” Imagine that! And sure, yes, a plaintiff has to demonstrate injury in order for the court to establish justiciability, but really, from what dark, sequestered, fucked up inner reaches of our national psyche can someone find it in herself to say with a straight face that the reason she didn’t get a better job offer is because she went to one state university instead of another and that because of this highly tenuous leap of reasoning we should therefore dismantle an entire legal framework put in place to ensure that ours isn’t a country where the only people afforded the opportunity to attend college in the first place—and then wonder if they wouldn’t be even better off if they’d been accepted elsewhere—are privileged white people.

Anyway, fuck you lady!

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Yes. At a school where over half the students are white, despite being in a state where only 45% of the state is white, it’s the poor white children who are being unfairly discriminated against. Poor, poor white children.

Keep in mind that at the University of Texas, 75% of students are automatically admitted on the top 10% law. In Texas, students in the top 10% of their classes are automatically guaranteed admittance into state schools. UT was given a special reprieve from the law because so many top 10% students applied and were given admission—only 75% of applicants are from the top 10%, and UT starts admitting at top 1%, then works their way down. Fisher was not even in the top 10% of her class (she had a 3.59 GPA), her SAT score was an 1180 out of 1600 which, while not bad, isn’t stellar either. Her extracurriculars were cello and soccer. That was it. No leadership positions. No academic clubs.

I know people will find this hard to believe is the case at a state school, but if you aren’t in the top 10% of your class (and actually, it’s more like the top 8%), and you are competing for the remaining quarter of spots at UT where over half of applicants are rejected, you’re going to need better than a 3.59 GPA, an 1180 on your SAT, and soccer and cello barely occupying any space at all on your application. It’s cute that you think just by virtue of doing a couple of things and making A’s and B’s you deserve admission into one of the most competitive public universities in the country, but no.

Good lord. You just weren’t good enough. This child probably wasn’t even within sniffing distance of admission, and even though I’m sure she heard her whole life that she was a special, gifted, precious snowflake who’d gain admission to UT because it was a state school that caters to special Texas girls like herself, the truth is, the school is fucking competitive, and compared to most of the non-top 10% people I knew at the university, this girl is a total underachiever. People like this float around thinking the world owes them something, then throws a tantrum when they aren’t given something they think they deserve but don’t.

The sad thing is, this little deluded girl will probably win her case, Grutter v. Bollinger will probably be overturned, and the result will be that access to top schools for black and Latino students will fall off the fucking map. All so that Abigail Fisher—who didn’t have a special snowflake’s chance in hell in getting in to UT to begin with—can console herself that the real reason she didn’t get what she wanted is because black and brown people somehow have an unfair edge over her that she didn’t already get over them from her wealthy suburban public school. Not that, you know, she actually just didn’t cut it with her weak ass application.

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Conor Oberst - Hardly Strictly Festival 10.5.2012

We Are Nowhere, And It's Now

#bright eyes #conor oberst #we are nowhere and it's now #hardly strictly #video

In with the Intro and Out with the Old

Hello! Hello!

If you enjoy feminism, news and politics, you have come to the right place. My name is Kate O'Neal and I am a photojournalism student at SF State.

I picked up my camera about the same time that I came into news. I was placed in Drama I as a freshmen in high school and immediately went to the office in an uproar. I don't act. I can't even lie to my mom about staying out past curfew. I never have, I never will and I was not about to get on stage and lie for an entire year. My options where slim: Journalism or Music. I picked journalism, knowing I don't have a musical bone in my body.

Writing for that paper was boring at first, and I cheated a lot and quoted my friends, but then I learned that journalism was the ultimate truth telling. I'm all about telling the truth and this appealed to me off the bat. Staying with the paper and quickly becoming the layout editor, I got the feeling of adrenaline to meet a deadline. Combining the feeling of laying complete honesty on print paper, the adrenaline of putting that together and the adrenaline of people reading what you have to say. That's what it's all about.

It was halfway through my time on the paper that I picked up a camera and learned that I could see the world in a way that some people would never get the chance to.

Now 6 years later, I still feel I see the world a little different than others. I am now fueled by my growing feminism, pessimism and sense of humor. Surrounded by amazing journalism students, with similar points of view, it is now that I realize that each perspective is important.

So enjoy my perspective.

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male privilege is “i have a boyfriend” being the only response that might actually stop a guy from coming onto you, because he respects another man more than he respects your actual opinion/lack of interest.