Student employees at USF have had  recent trouble receiving paychecks on time.       Many students go to pick up paychecks only to be turned away by the administration because either paper work has not been filed on time or checks did not arrive when they were supposed to.    There are some student employees, including some [...]

A C grade on a report card is not exactly the mark most students aspire for, especially in a class they worked hard in. Yet this is exactly what happened to USF when “The College Sustainability Report Card” gave USF a C on their environmental sustainability. The CSRC is a survey published by the Sustainable [...]

USF Director of Public Safety Dan Lawson spoke to the ASUSF Senate at their weekly meeting on Sept. 30. Lawson, there to address the state of safety at USF, gave an overall positive report and stated that thefts were the main problem being reported by students. Student senators questioned Lawson after his presentation, focusing heavily [...]

Students squeezed in with reporters and TV news cameras to hear a panel of economists explain how the U.S. economy reached its current financial state, with many banks teetering on the edge of collapse and the economy flirting with recession amidst a liquidity crunch, falling housing prices and extreme investor pessimism.  The USF Economics Department hosted [...]

On Monday, Sept. 29, the University of San Francisco hosted a book signing and business lecture by Tim Sanders, Yahoo’s Chief Strategy Officer, New York Times best-selling author, and the most in demand keynote business speaker on the lecture circuit, in Maier Hall.   Sanders’ new book, “Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals [...]

Monday night was big for campus media at USF: crowds of enthusiastic students gathered at two different events being hosted on campus by both USFtv and the Ignatian Literary Magazine. In Crossroads Café, USFtv was hosting their season premiere party. In only their fourth year, the young organization was showing signs of growth and vitality. A [...]

A small audience of students gathered to hear Felicia Redus and Brad Murdock of the Avon Foundation speak at the Breast Cancer Tea, an awareness-promoting event that was the result of a collaboration between the Black Student Union and the Delta Sigma Theta sorority’s Tau Tau chapter. Amid rustling tea dresses and the soft clinking of [...]

Even with the recent addition of Kalmanovitz Hall to campus, office space is still a hot commodity and remains elusive for some faculty. Adjunct faculty, in particular, have had difficulty obtaining offices and office equipment. Two of the departments that have been inconvenienced by the space issue are the theology and modern languages departments. [...]

Invoking memories from gym classes of days past, the Associated Students of USF (ASUSF) and the Foghorn are sponsoring a kickball tournament. In an effort to join clubs together and have fun while doing so, student body president Alex Platt and Vice President of Public Relations Casey Atud are collaborating with Foghorn advisor and media studies [...]

Being at a liberal arts college means to be well rounded in the classes you take. One of those classes required by USF is a theology class. I will not hesitate to say that I was less than excited to take this class and learn about something that usually makes people feel uncomfortable when talking [...]