After a year of construction, CSUSB's newest building is open and available for use. Students are already eating, studying, and socializing in the building's large shaded plaza. The building contains 24 classrooms with the newest state-of-the-art technologies. Many of these classrooms are supplied with interconnected smart boards, smart screens, and smart carts, giving the professor more ease and control. The larger lecture halls come with pre-installed "catch boxes" which are Bluetooth operated microphones designed to be passed around a classroom, giving more ability for group discussion. The Center is the new home for the College of Extended and Global Education, which handles the … [Read more...] about Opinions: Students have mixed feelings over newly opened Center for Global Innovation
LGBTQ+ students share their stories at Coming Out Monologues
CSUSB’s LGBTQ community gathered on October 9 for the annual Coming Out Monologues open mic event. The Santos Manuel Student Union’s Queer and Transgender Resource Center hosted the event to participate in National Coming Out Day. Multiple students got up to tell their stories at the SMSU theater. The event provided a space for the LGBTQ community to provide support and insight to one another through sharing their struggles with coming out as queer and/or transgender. Some told their story spontaneously, others had prepared monologues, and one student even shared a long emotional poem describing his history of abuse, loss of father, and difficulty accepting his … [Read more...] about LGBTQ+ students share their stories at Coming Out Monologues
San Bernardino Mayoral Candidates Take Questions
Mayor Davis responded to the public's questions with his current plans of action which are already in place, while Valdivia promised that he would fix the city's problems faster and more effectively than Davis has. The running theme of Valdivia's answers was that the city is in need of real leadership, which he can provide. He said that the council he sits on is the one that makes all of the tough decisions. Davis responded to this with a list of controversial votes which Valdivia abstained from in City Hall, stating that he does not have the ability to make the tough decisions he claims to. "We have some serious issues when it comes to leadership," said Charlie Pagan, a … [Read more...] about San Bernardino Mayoral Candidates Take Questions