Ever since its birth last semester, the Multicultural Center has had a difficult run. Not by its own fault, but due to the lack of a permanent director and funding that vanishes and reappears like one of Norman Ng's magic tricks. Poor MCC, where is t...

The Second Annual Bookstore Buy-Back Break In was just as big a hit on campus as it was last year. What it lacked in pomp and -replace two armed gunmen with one masked burglar and -it certainly made up for in circumstance. The perpetrator managed to magician h...

Pretend for a moment that Sonoma State University is a Rohnert Park house party. For any house party, there are certain requirements for getting in. Maybe you have to know somebody who lives there, or bring money for beer. The more fun and attractive y...

Beginning on Wall Street many months ago, the Occupy movement soon spread to cities across the nation. Protestors are banning together in front of government buildings, parks and universities to take down the one percent. At this point in time, the S...

It's back: the dreaded, and highly unpopular, 16 unit cap. It makes sense in theory. The average student needs 120 units to graduate. If the plan is to graduate in four years, that's 30 units a year and 15 units a semester. Sixteen units is more than...

It's the same old story. The CSU out to get its students, overcharging us for a poor quality education, continuing to raise our tuition while resources dwindle and classes are cut. What any of us wouldn't do to have a go at the CSU ourselves, to stick ...

What's the best part about college? The football games? The wild parties over at Greek row? So then, what is the best part about attending Sonoma State? The commuters? The general sense of apathy? The lack of school spirit at Sonoma State is both f...

One minute, you're on your way to class; the next, you're surrounded by angry protestors screaming their accusations of sin and eternal damnation. It's not everyday you see students in shouting matches with Christian extremists. A campus protes...

Tokers and potheads were jolted out of their purple kush-induced slumbers recently to discover that medicinal marijuana may be a thing of the past, and very soon. This could be a good thing. Maybe it will finally force 30 -year-old Joe to hand in his...

Last Tuesday, the Associated Students Inc. spent much of their three hour and forty minute meeting debating the details of a smoking ban that President Ruben Arminana may or may not approve. ...

There are many things wrong with our educational system. It seems like a no-brainer that the way to save ourselves from the economic slump is to invest what little money we have into our future. The CSU is the future of California, and with the governm...

'There's nothing to do here.' It's one of our favorite things to complain about when it comes to our college years here at Sonoma State. Rohnert...

The way a university receives and distributes its funding is a process shrouded in mystery. It's not because anyone won't tell us, in fact almost anyone from our administration or student government would be happy to sit you down and explain it. No...

Welcome back Seawolves. For the freshman and transfers joining us for the first time, welcome. It's going to be a rough year. Last semester was bad enough. What with the threat of losing our...

Tuition increases, election controversy, roosters, death, natural disasters, budget cuts. It's been a rough semester here at the STAR and at Sonoma State. ...

We see the Public service announcements. We hear it in the news. But for many of us, suicide is something that rarely hits close to home. Last month, Sonoma State lost one of it's own in one of the most horrible ways possible. A student took his own li...

For years the registration process has been a giant headache. Every semester, you can find students ripping their hair out in a worried frenzy as they attempt to sign up for classes. Frustrations have been voiced over unit caps, small classe...

A government 'shutdown' is when the government ceases all services deemed unessential. If you are not directly employed by the federal government, you may not notice the government shut down at first. Unless of course, you are trying to ...

To the Republicans in Sacramento, Thank you. Your decision to stop a special election in June has denied California citizens the right to vote for an important tax extension, one that could greatly reduce the amount of money withheld from higher ed...

Finally. The Donald and Maureen Green Music Center will be completed within a year. Many of us thought this day would never come. We thought it would be in a constant state of construction and chaos for many more years to come. And why s...