By Brittanie Gutierrez |Staff Writer| Food insecurity is a topic that is rarely brought up, often excused by the thought "not happening to me, so it must not be happening." But it's more common than we think. According to the California Association of Food Banks, one out of eight Californians suffer from food insecurity, that's 5.4 million people that do not know where or when they will be getting their next meal. The DEN is CSUSB's very own food pantry that provides students who are going through food insecurity with food and hygiene products. “Our food bank is unique in that it is almost exclusively stocked by the campus. When we look at other campuses, they have external … [Read more...] about The DEN: fighting food insecurity
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Ending Student Hunger on CSU Campuses
By Brittanie Gutierrez |Staff Writer| College can be—and is—expensive. Students often have to sacrifice certain things in order to afford their education, but food should never be one of them. Assembly Bill 453 (AB-453) was presented to CA Legislature to fight student hunger among California State Universities by requiring campuses to implement a meal plan donation program on April 25. AB-453 was introduced by Assembly Member Monique Limón after Assembly Bill 214 (AB-214), a bill that "would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reduce the incidence of hunger and homelessness among college students in California [...] provide definitions of “on-campus … [Read more...] about Ending Student Hunger on CSU Campuses
CSUSB Snack Attack Champions
Emily Anne Espinosa | Staff Writer | CSUSB won $2,500 as a first place prize from The National Peanut Board’s Snack Attack Competition, which will go toward The Den food pantry.The Office of Community Engagement (OCE) at CSUSB competed with 24 other universities with campus food pantries in The National Peanut Board’s Snack Attack competition, where positive messages about peanuts as a healthy snack were to be promoted through social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram. CSUSB beat out larger universities such as Pennsylvania State University, Diane Podolske, director of OCE, sent an email to campus expressing how she wasn’t expecting to win stating, “our campus food … [Read more...] about CSUSB Snack Attack Champions