As I look forward to graduating next semester, I have begun to ponder over my journey through college as a financially independent student. Two-and-a-half years at USF and five figures in student loan debt have raised the inquisition of whether it has all been worth it. Has it been worth it? For me, it most [...]

We’ve all been exhausted by images of smiling five year-old faces plastered across the news, only to be reminded that these were the hopeful and innocent faces that were caught in the crossfire of spewing bullets, shot from a weapon of mass destruction that releases three bullets per second. It should not have taken 26 [...]

I completely support finding sustainable, renewable ways of producing energy for human use, but I cannot agree with what Fossil Free USF calls for. On April 18, 2013, the Foghorn published an opinion advocating a fossil fuel divestment strategy promoted by the student group “Fossil Free USF.” In summary, the students would like the University [...]

A “Homeless Bill of Rights” is being considered in California’s legislature must pass to help defend the state’s neediest people from local ordinances which, in the words of the bill’s backer, “infringe on poor peoples’ ability to exist in public space.” Last week, Assembly Bill 5, sponsored by state assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, [...]

In three weeks time I’ll be getting one of those pieces of paper that says I’ve completed my degree in Politics and African Studies at the University of San Francisco. You may be wondering how someone with that academic background became the online editor of the school paper and let me assure you, I’m still wondering [...]

This is a call for all my fellow University of San Francisco peers — the younger, the better  — to listen to a senior’s final plea to all undergraduates. I am weeks away from walking towards an unknown future, wearing a cap, gown and crammed with information from various professors, PowerPoint presentations and books. But [...]

When we flip on the light switch, charge our phones, or do the laundry, we generally do not give it a second thought. But the amount of energy required to fuel our lives is astonishing. Most of the energy in the U.S. is not derived from renewables. Around 82 percent of our energy comes from [...]

The legacy of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who died last week, is imperialism, deregulation, and capitalistic neoliberalism. It is a legacy which sadly, still persists in British politics. In true British imperial fashion, Thatcher’s government was a strong ally of the apartheid régime in South Africa. Thatcher referred to Nelson Mandela and [...]

The high costs of living here means those who are not wealthy will find it hard to share in an environmental dream. It is an environmental injustice that living in San Francisco has become and remains out of the reach of middle- and low-income people, not just an economic one. April 22 will mark the [...]

Written by Foghorn Staff  Neema Jyothiprakash Eric Schroer Professor Anthony Fels, in his Foghorn opinion piece “Letter: Be Proud of Being Colorblind” argues that pride, rather than white guilt, should be the basis for relationships in a racially integrated world. We respond that being proud of one’s accomplishments and being proud of the civil rights [...]