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Sonoma State Star

The Student News Site of Sonoma State University

Sonoma State Star

The Student News Site of Sonoma State University

Sonoma State Star

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New Sustainability Club hosts recyclable gift-wrapping

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer December 9, 2014

Sustainability, community engagement, awareness and policy transparency are all things the new Sustainability Club at Sonoma State University plan to bring to campus in the spring.

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Plenty of fresh produce available

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer November 18, 2014

Food lovers across Sonoma County united at the Santa Rosa Farmers Market on Wednesday morning to gather fresh and local produce.  

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Experience, enrich, emerge into ME SPA

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer November 12, 2014

New guests walked into a relaxing room, where they were handed a cup of hot mint tea, sat in a chair with a warm wrap around the neck and prepared for either a manicure and pedicure, or a facial and massage.  This was just the beginning of what is offered at ME SPA in Santa Rosa.

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Bollywood film highlighted

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer November 4, 2014

Students have the opportunity to take a virtual trip to Bollywood in a new course available next semester called  LIBS 209: Bollywood and Globalization.  

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Tributes volunteer for Hunger Games

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer October 28, 2014

Students will be able to channel their inner Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in Sonoma State University’s first ever, Hunger Games. In order to raise awareness about National Hunger and Homelessness Week, students all over campus are encouraged to compete in the Hunger Games put on by Join Us Make Progress on Nov. 21.

REC*It: the new, upcoming app

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer October 21, 2014

The newest app to hit the social media scene specifically for Sonoma State University  students is REC*IT.  

Bring civility to campus

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer October 14, 2014

Students and faculty members enjoyed homemade soup and good conversation on Wednesday in the HUB.  The title of the meeting “Soup and Substance” provided an environment to discuss building a more civil and inclusive community at Sonoma State University. 

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Buy-A-Phi money can buy it all

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer October 7, 2014

At Phi Delta Theta’s 14th annual Buy-A-Phi Auction on Friday over 80 girls walked into Ballroom A of the Student Center with money in hand ready to buy their gentlemen of choice. 

Grocery shopping on a budget

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer September 30, 2014

College presents students with the opportunity to learn a variety of skills beyond academics.  Most college students learn how to grocery shop on a budget.  

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Oh, the places you’ll go

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer September 23, 2014

Our 20s is the time in our life when we can be selfish and do the things that, later in life, we won’t have the opportunity to do. Studying abroad is the first thing that comes to mind as far as opportunities go. 

Beware of shallow dating app

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer September 16, 2014

If the Tinder app is an unfamiliar concept, let me break it down. “Are you an appendix? I don’t know how you work, but I have a feeling I need to take you out.” That was just one of the many creepy pick-up lines I received while I had a Tinder.

#SmallSchoolProblems

Megan Minturn, Staff Writer September 10, 2014

With a little over 9,000 students at Sonoma State, the feeling of a bustling university doesn’t necessarily exist. In fact, you’re most likely going to run into the last person you want to see. When that happens, the open walkways between the new Student Center and Stevenson Hall do not provide any help in escaping that awkward confrontation.

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