By Erica Wong |Foreign Correspondent| As online dating gained popularity in recent years, some people have begun to exploit their services for reasons other than just finding their significant other. Last spring, we covered the growing ‘mutually beneficial arrangement’ dating industry with the ‘sugar’ dating site Seeking Arrangements (SA) and interviewed student Annabelle (her pseudonym) about her life as a sugar baby. Annabelle has had three sugar daddies in the past year. While she’s still in school and trying to stay on top of her bills, her current sugar daddy now provides her $1500 per visit. As SA’s popularity has grown, now with over 3.6 million members, other dating sites … [Read more...] about Sugar isn’t always so sweet
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California has the highest tuition increase in the nation
By Kara Dement |Staff Writer| California once was considered to have the best-value public universities in the world according to Justin Pope of the Associated Press. California has seen the highest tuition increase in the nation while the CSU’ system has specifically gone up 21 percent; which is the largest in any state according to a source on calstate.edu. The CSU Board of Trustees raised the CSU tuition for this fall by 12 percent . This increase went into effect for not just CSUSB but the remaining 22 CSU schools as well. The average annual cost was raised for full-time undergraduates by $588 to $5,472 which is more than triple what students used to pay. Pope reported … [Read more...] about California has the highest tuition increase in the nation