By Cherae Hunt |Staff Writer| Three of this years' California State University graduates were awarded $10,000 scholarships to celebrate three million living alumni. The winners of the scholarship are Paul Gomez of CSU Los Angeles, Gordon Jones of CSU Northridge and Dana Stemig of San Jose State and CSU Stanislaus. They were randomly selected from thousands of entries on CSU’s digital Class of Three Million Yearbook, according to an article in The Sun. “Wow that’s amazing! I am graduating this year and it is really exciting I’m going to be one of those three million alumni,” said student Cecily Blisten. Scholarships may be used for furthering their education, the award can be used … [Read more...] about CSU alumni scholarships awarded
Cherae 2015
Water cuts erode farmers’ livelihood
By Cherae Hunt |Staff Writer| California is suffering through the worst drought in over 100 years and CSUSB is doing its part to deal with the water crisis. “We have been in multi-year droughts and extended dry periods a number of times in the past, and we will be in the future. In periods like this there will be shortages, of course, but the state as a whole is not going to run dry in a year or two years,” said Ted Thomas, a spokesman for the California Department of Water Resources according to Los Angeles Times. Gov. Jerry Brown claimed that “this historic drought demands unprecedented action,” while standing on a patch of dry, brown grass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains that is … [Read more...] about Water cuts erode farmers’ livelihood