Mark your calendars and let the one-week countdown to the most stressful event of the school year begin. This event many include tears, frustration and anxiety, so come prepared.
Registration at Sonoma State University can be one of the most terrifying and overwhelming experiences a college student may face. It seems that the general education classes fill up almost immediately, so if you don’t have a good registration time then good luck.
Sonoma State University officially went smoke free July 1, and the campus community has been trying to adapt ever since. The policy includes smokeless tobacco and e-cigarette products, such as vapor cigarettes, and extends to off-campus sites under university ownership or control, which includes Sonoma State’s nature preserves.
The beginning of the semester brought many changes to the campus; however, the alteration of alcohol distribution in Lobo’s is causing many students to speak up. Lobo’s is the only University restaurant that has a license to serve alcohol on campus. The restaurant is no longer serving pitchers of beer, and is also enforcing each student to a maximum of 2 glasses per visit. In the previous semesters since Lobo’s first opened, pitchers of beer were available to students and there was not a limited distribution. Students in Lobo’s were asked their opinion of the new regulation.
An email was sent on Sept. 3 notifying Sonoma State University students of the breach of security of the service provider We End Violence. The program was designed to teach students of the repercussions of sexual assault, and was required to be completed before registering for classes in the 2015 spring semester.
Sonoma State University’s Recreation Center is currently being remodeled, however, the student body can look forward to the end of the renovation. The Rec Center, which opened in 2004, was in much need of a new floor, particularly in the Fitness Center - otherwise known as the open weight room. The floors of the weight room were starting to become unsafe due to 11 years of continuous use. According to Rec Center staff, the flooring was beginning to form bubbles due to the large number of weights being repeatedly dropped.
Two Sonoma State University fraternities have had their charter revoked from the university. An email sent last Friday by university President Ruben Armiñana notified all faculty and students of the cause of the revocation, stating it was “due to recent and past violations of the Student Code of Conduct.”
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