As if college students didn’t have a hard enough time affording life in San Francisco, let’s add and an economic crisis on top of it all. And, with the holiday season in full bloom, it seems as if students everywhere are in an uphill battle against the financial blues. However, because we are all going [...]

Casey Farmer, a USF alumna, poses with two students on the day of their high school graduation. Farmer is working as a Teach for America teacher in Oakland. (Hunter Patterson|Foghorn) USF students are drawn to Teach For America, the prestigious program that places recent college graduates as teachers in under performing schools around the country [...]

Since the beginning of this semester, delays in paycheck distribution have been affecting hundreds of student employees campus-wide. Few are aware of why they have been missing paychecks, but many have had problems, ranging from dissatisfaction to financial difficulties. Amanda Keating, a USF senior who is employed in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, [...]

USF has not been immune to the effects of the financial crisis impacting the U.S. and the world, and necessary budget cuts are being made in order for the university to stay afloat in these trying economic times.  However, Vice President of University Life Margaret Higgins and Vice Provost of Academic Affairs Salvador Aceves claim [...]

Jenny Williams, 19 English student Maybe it was the warm weather that had USF swarming with fashionable individuals last Thursday. Jenny Williams was one of the many fashionistas cruising down the sidewalk outside Harney. She wore jeans that she purchased from a garage sale with a hand-sewn patch on the ankle. The cloth for the [...]

It has been over a year since the freshmen living-learning community, the Garden Project, was created at USF. The garden, which only a year ago was a barren patch of weeds, is now a fertile plot complete with an orchard of apple, persimmon, peach, and lime trees, an herb spiral that includes thyme and oregano, [...]