Don't shoot the cook
Chilaquiles and cochinita in downtown San Diego
Barbarella Fokos 3:47 p.m., June 26
SDSU Stories
SDSU’s very own bulldozer city?
State university system’s uncannily-timed call for real estate talent
Just as the San Diego city council was disposing of the controversial SoccerCity development in Mission Valley on Monday, June 20, the California State University system, proprietor of San Diego State, issued a call for ...
Queen of the double-dippers
Roush collects from San Diego State University
As a retiree, San Diego State University’s former vice president of business and financial affairs Sally Roush has done well by the taxpayer-funded state university system. After stepping down from her $301,957 a year position ...
San Diego State pays Francisco Sousa damages for false accusation bungling
SDSU will send campus police for more detailed training on sex assaults.
A former San Diego State University student who was falsely accused of sexual assault has settled his lawsuit against the university. As reported by the Reader, Francisco Sousa was accused of sexual assault on a ...
No comments, please, we’re SDSU
Opinionated viewers are invited to use Twitter and Facebook
San Diego State University’s KPBS broadcasting operation is suddenly slamming the door on website comments, some of which have questioned the political direction of the station whose newsroom is named after billionaire Democrat contributor Irwin ...
SDSU’s big birdies’ tab
High-dollar public employees at KPBS
San Diego State University, its future clouded by a brewing fight for control of Mission Valley’s Qualcomm Stadium site, along with the imminent departure of president Elliot Hirshman for greener financial pastures at Maryland’s Stevenson ...
SDSU area mini-dorm group sues city of San Diego again
Family homes and yards vs. low-income students
The City of San Diego's efforts to prevent the proliferation of mini-dorms near San Diego State University is under attack, this time from a group calling itself the College Area Students, Tenants, and Landlords Association. ...
SDSU to pay $95K for severed finger
Gate latch caused injury to Duke tennis player during match
A Duke University tennis player whose left index finger was mangled and partially severed after getting caught in a broken gate latch at San Diego State University's Aztec Tennis Center has agreed to settle his ...
Return of the Gold Dust Woman
Stevie Nicks and Pretenders pack the house at Viejas
Stevie Nicks fans waited in anticipation for months after an extension of Nicks's 2016 tour was announced last fall. When her show arrived in San Diego at SDSU’s Viejas Arena on March 2, the performers ...
SDSU’s fleeing faculty
Student-faculty ratio increases explained — "is cause for concern"
While San Diego State president Elliott Hirshman and California State University trustee vice-chairman Adam Day jockey behind closed doors for a costly new football stadium in Mission Valley, statistics aired last week at a meeting ...
Take your tongue on a side-trip to East Africa
By way of Burundi
"Whooo! Whooo!” This is Mary Beth and her friend Jef. Waving their arms, pointing their fingers, whooping like werewolves, doing a dance in place here in row 32 at SDSU’s Viejas Arena. Confession: This is ...
Hirshman hit for ducking ex-Soviet deal signoffs
Federal money tied to U.S. intelligence backs SDSU campuses
San Diego State University president Elliot Hirshman — also called the $492,000 man in honor of his salary, the highest of all state university presidents — has by some accounts been busy behind closed doors, ...
Big Fletcher donors behind MLS venue grab
Ex-Qualcomm exec, hedge-fund manager to unveil stealth stadium deal
When it comes to disposing of city-owned Qualcomm Stadium, it appears that San Diego taxpayers are the last to know. As reported late Sunday (January 22) by KNSD’s Derek Togerson and others, an "investment group" ...
County claims no record of Chargers stadium subsidy offer
U-T fans stadium flames as tax-money hype burns bright
With the Chargers on the brink of departing San Diego for Los Angeles, some local politicos have reportedly been busy proffering sizable gifts of public money to entice the team to stay in town. But ...
Through the eyes of Judas
Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert at SDSU
In 2014 San Diego State University’s School of Theatre, Television, and Film combined with the School of Music and Dance for an epic concert of Les Miserables. Over 200 musicians, singers, and performers roared into ...
Charity starts at home
KPBS and the state’s pension fund
How much do retired executives of KPBS, the San Diego State University–run, tax-funded public broadcasting operation that spins local news in ways seen by critics as benefiting the university’s donors — including the ultimately failed ...
Audit hits SDSU interest conflicts and illegal faculty discounts
Campanile Foundation repeatedly broke federal and state accounting rules
An extensive list of financial irregularities and transparency transgressions committed in the name of in-house charities has been uncovered at San Diego State University by auditors for the California university system, raising a series of ...
SDSU’s six-figure club
It's bonus time at San Diego State
It’s November, extra cash time for executives at San Diego State University, where bonuses are being handed out by California State University trustees for “established goals met.” Provost and senior vice president for academic affairs ...
Electrified fence for Adobe Falls — not happening
SDSU students seek solutions to prevent trespassing
Adobe Falls is a class project for the 64 San Diego State University graduate students in professor Eric Frost’s Homeland Security 602 class. Students are working on solutions to issues that include trespassing on land ...
SDSU and the big-money politics behind Lilac Hills Ranch
Tax-funded university tied to developer with secrecy-shrouded $3.5 million war chest
A San Diego State University-affiliated website has weighed into the big-money controversy over North County's proposed Lilac Hills Ranch housing development, going after what it says are undisclosed campaign contributions from an alleged "dark money" ...
No four-story wall on Cresita Drive
Capstone settles suit of dormlike nondorm
A lawsuit brought by the College Area Residents Association to stop the construction of a 91-unit quasidorm in a neighborhood of single family homes settled quietly at the end of September, according to court records ...
SDSU’s digital humans
The country’s first research-oriented digital humanities program focused on human and global diversity
San Diego State University may be more noted for sports than the humanities, but school higher-ups are currently looking to hire what they call a Digital Humanist. Not a robot, but “a humanities scholar who ...
Discount textbook shop forced out at San Diego State
When your competitor becomes your landlord
Taxpayer-subsidized Aztec Shops buys the land under their book-selling competitor.
SDSU's Coach Burns refused to remain silent
Fired soon after a 27-win season
On August 26, Beth Burns — San Diego State University's longtime women's basketball head coach who is suing the university for wrongful termination — will get her day in a different type of court than ...
Adobe Falls trespassers keep trespassing
Residents, officials seek end to "cat-and-mouse game"
Residents at the July 28 Del Cerro Action Council meeting voiced concern about people trespassing in their yards to go to Adobe Falls, which is in a canyon south of homes and north of westbound ...
Stage sick — Flight of the Conchords
Music-comedy duo use the sore throat for comedic effect
Musical-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords didn’t care that several fans in the front row had brought small children to their sold-out gig at San Diego State: nothing was going to stop them from boasting ...
Valley soccer fever
SDSU expansion depends on pro sports
Who will actually determine the fate of a much-talked-about plan to expand San Diego State University onto the Mission Valley land currently occupied by Qualcomm Stadium? Judging from last month’s minutes of the school’s Campanile ...
The Fight for $15 wages on SDSU's doorstep
“President Hirshman would pay you $2 an hour if he could.”
Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning (April 14), approximately 100 people rallied in front of SDSU's East Commons and next to the offices of Aztec Shops in protest of student and other workers’ pay on ...
Money for helmets, not for books
Say goodbye to Lexis-Nexis
Money for college sports at tax-funded San Diego State University has been growing at a rapid clip. Not so, the school’s library funding, according to a dire State of the Library report presented April 5 ...
$35 tab for Moores dog-and-pony SDSU stadium show
Scandal-beset university benefactor may try again for "public-private" real estate deal
Taxpayers eager for information on the behind-the-scenes machinations regarding a downtown Chargers stadium and expanding San Diego State University to Mission Valley will have to fork over at least $35 for the privilege. That's the ...
Scripture served warm
Pastor Darin Johnson answered the call
Membership: 34,000+ (entire SDSU faculty, staff and student body) Pastor: Darin Johnson Age: 49 Born: Sioux Falls, SD Formation: Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago; Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, IA Years ...
War rages on against apartment project
City poised to rely on irrelevant environmental study
The proposed College Avenue Apartments is essentially a dormitory in an apartment building’s clothing, says a group of residents in a newly filed lawsuit against the City of San Diego, San Diego State University Foundation, ...
Joshua Oppenheimer brings The Look of Silence to SDSU
One-night screening on Tuesday, February 23
Award-winning documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer brings his Academy Award–nominated film The Look of Silence to the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union Theatre for a one-night screening on February 23. Oppenheimer was gracious enough to speak at ...
SDSU's high cost of finding there there
$2.58 million sought "so people can know that they are at San Diego State"
San Diego State University president Elliot Hirshman, known as the $420,000 man for his record-setting salary, is getting closer to his long-held dream of building an array of costly "gateways" to set the school apart ...
Thirdhand smoke? Oh, brother.
SDSU researchers warn of long-lasting toxins left by cigarettes
While the public has long been aware of the dangers of smoking and passive exposure to secondhand smoke, researchers at San Diego State University are raising a call for vigilance regarding the perils posed by ...
Students teach the lessons in Circle Circle dot dot’s site-specific LGBTQ+ On-Campus
"Change begins with starting a conversation"
Circle Circle dot dot’s “LGBTQ+ On-Campus” was a site-specific examination of queer life at San Diego State University. In collaboration with the university’s Pride Center, this performance was a two-hour rotating installation project inspired by ...
Mention of "shooting up the office" at SDSU?
Student's threat at university not considered criminal
In September at San Diego State University, campus police responded to a report of an alleged threat of physical violence made by students toward a university employee. Captain Joshua Mays of the (SDSU) department of ...
The strings attached to SDSU's Confucius cash
Iron lady of Chinese government calls tough shots in education war
Buried in next week's agenda of the California State University’s board of trustees meeting is a $4 million item that could fuel an ongoing national controversy about the role Chinese big money is playing at ...
SDSU does poorly with the poor
Study notes recruitment and graduation of low-income students lacking
In a new study, the Institute for Higher Education Policy says some large universities, including San Diego State, get low grades for the enrollment and graduation rates of low-income students. The measurement was based on ...
SDSU offers a craft beer education
Certificates train future employees and executives
In fall 2013, San Diego State University began offering a Business of Craft Beer certification. Rather than train people to brew, the program teaches different aspects of working in the craft beer industry, whether starting ...
Space-age gunslinger rocks SDSU
My Morning Jacket's generous set
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James looked like a space-age gunslinger on this evening at SDSU’s Open Air Theatre. He sported a black leather trench coat throughout the show. It was outlaw badass and the perfect ...
SDSU has been under-reporting campus crime
San Diego State University’s lying stats
San Diego State University, rattled by a wave of sexual assaults and other violent incidents, has been under-reporting campus crime, says a September 28 audit by the California State University system. “The process to tabulate ...
University of California's skewed take on Title IX
Judge in Northern California says officials botched sexual assault hearing
Administrators at University of California campuses throughout the state continue to struggle with following protocol while investigating and adjudicating Title IX sexual misconduct cases. On September 22, 2015, a Yolo County Superior Court judge found ...
SDSU rock-and-roll anthropologists dig deep into campus music history
Ella was a badass
“Jaime and I have become rather obsessed with the history of live music at SDSU,” says Seth Mallios, professor of anthropology at San Diego State and co-author of Let It Rock!, a five-volume book series ...
My morning walk with Jim James
My Morning Jacket frontman talks Waterfall, recording gizmos, and walking for inspiration
In late 2013, My Morning Jacket set up camp north of San Francisco in Marin County to begin recording the collection of songs that became The Waterfall. The band selected a new studio called Panoramic ...
San Diego universities botch sexual assault investigations
Campus police impotence — just the tip of the iceberg
“Judges are starting to realize that maybe schools shouldn’t be handling these types of sexual assault cases.”
Like SDSU, like Faulconer?
Does school’s decade-long environmental impact fight portend mayor's stadium fate?
How sticky can a legal battle over an environmental impact report get? Plenty, based on an August 3 ruling by the state supreme court against San Diego State University that may be regarded as a ...
Is SDSU chief really hurting for a fatter raise?
Hirshman pay nudged to $420,000 with more possible
San Diego State president Eliot Hirshman, formerly known as the $400,000 man, is likely about to get yet another bump in his annual base pay, making him the newly minted $420,000 man. According to an ...
Young Goodman Gano
Violent Femmes frontman talks religion and rock with the Reader
If you don’t know of the Violent Femmes, you surely know “Blister in the Sun,” so popular I once heard a frat-boy chug-a-lug singalong with it at my college — which doesn’t have frat boys. ...
This underbelly isn't pork
Restaurants' illegal salary practices in the daylight
Wage theft is a pervasive problem in the local restaurant industry, according to "Shorted,” a report released Tuesday (June 16) by San Diego State University Department of Sociology and the Center on Policy Initiatives. More ...
SDSU announces plan to cover cost of proposed stadium rent hike
Higher (priced) education
The Citizens' Stadium Advisory Group report on the new Chargers stadium includes a plan to increase the San Diego State University Aztecs' rent for use of the facility from $500,000 per year to $1.25 million ...
Combat boots storm campus
Docs, vintage style, and trendy takes on the durable classic
Fashion always recycles itself as evidenced by the proliferation of high-waisted pants and the return of stonewashed denim. It’s no surprise that the 90s grunge-girl staple — the combat boot — has resurfaced in a ...
Cultural acne cure-all
Name-changing has become a busy business at San Diego’s two state-sponsored universities. At UCSD it’s been announced that the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies is being renamed the UC San Diego School of ...
