Posted on 04 February 2009
The current financial state of USF has forced the school to strictly enforced their policy of dropping students from classes for failing to pay tuition on time.
Posted on 04 February 2009
The Foghorn website has gone through some major renovations in order to transform the website from a weekly newspaper to an interactive forum where the USF community can debate issues.
Posted on 04 February 2009
Politics professor Stephen Zunes raises questions about Nanci Pelosi's stance on the war in Gaza. Stephen Zunes is a USF politics professor.
Posted on 13 November 2008
There are still some people who have not given up on the 2008 Presidential Election. One Pennsylvania attorney in particular is questioning the constitutional legitimacy of President-Elect Obama under article II of the constitution which states that, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time [...]
Posted on 13 November 2008
By mid-October Christmas commercials invaded our airwaves and San Francisco started putting up Christmas decorations. There was the occasional advertisement for Halloween candy, but since Halloween ended, Christmas is being drilled into our minds as if it will be here in three weeks.
I’m getting excited for the Christmas spirits to come out, the trees [...]
Posted on 13 November 2008
Whether its in the caf, on Lone Mountain, fair trade or regular trade, any real USF coffee drinker knows that coffee on this campus sucks. It even sucks at Crossroads where it’s sold under the Peet’s label. Why Peet’s allows Crossroads to serve its coffee at such a substandard level escapes me.
But thankfully, we have [...]
Posted on 13 November 2008
USF students come from all over the country, but mostly from other parts of California. Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento natives make up a large portion of the USF population.
Can any of you Southern, Central or far Northern Californians imagine living in your home city while still going to USF? This won’t [...]
Posted on 06 November 2008
“Saying ‘I love you’ is the most unoriginal thing we can say to another” the genderless narrator of Jeanette Winterson’s “Written on the Body” tells the reader. “Love makes the world go round. Love is blind. All you need is love.
Nobody ever died of a broken heart. You’ll get over it. It’ll be different when [...]
Posted on 06 November 2008
Everyday at USF I feel like I’m risking my life. Not by trying the new mystery meat special at the Caf or walking through the Tenderloin, but by crossing the street at Turk and Roslyn Terrace. No matter what time of day, I am terrified that a car may choose not to stop, and sometimes [...]
Posted on 06 November 2008
An argument could be made that the Nobel Prize committee tried to influence the US election by giving the award to Krugman. Krugman deserves the prize but the timing looks suspicious. The Nobel Prize committee could have waited a year and given the prize to Krugman. There are plenty of great economists to choose from. [...]