The 2007-2008 school year was a tumultuous one for University President John D. Welty. (more...)
University President John D. Welty revealed exclusively to The Collegian on Tuesday morning that he has decided to accept the Campus Fee Advisory Committee’s recommendation to increase student fees by $52, with $20 going to academics and $32 going to athletics. The increase is down from the $70 Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) fee increase that (more...)
Just a generation or two ago, the face of Fresno State’s student body was predominantly white. In the last twenty years alone, the ethnic face of Fresno State has changed dramatically. (more...)
Bloodshed on campus may seem like a very real possibility these days. But the University Police Department wants Fresno State students to know they are in good hands following the Feb. 14 shooting at Northern Illinois University (NIU) that killed six students, including the gunman. (more...)
A year from now, television as America knows it will be gone forever. On Feb. 17, 2009, in accordance with legislation passed by Congress, the analog signal that has been used to transmit TV since its invention will be turned off, and all TV stations will begin broadcasting its programming using a digital signal. (more...)
The auditorium was abuzz at Fresno State’s Student Recreation Center on Friday afternoon in anticipation of the arrival of some famous guests for a rally supporting presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. (more...)
The area behind the Fresno State sorority and fraternity houses may have been nicknamed “Sin City,” but residents of the neighborhood – actually called El Dorado Park – demonstrated on Saturday that hope is still very much alive for them. (more...)
I’m a Republican, and I want a certain Democrat to be president. It isn’t Barack Obama or John Edwards. It certainly isn’t Hillary Clinton. The Democrat I would desperately wish into the Oval Office is Jed Bartlet. Okay, so he’s a television character. I can’t help it. In an election year where my only choices (more...)
As a child, Fresno State alumnus Robert Gauthier was fascinated with the photos in newspapers his mother had lying around the house. (more...)
Between ever-increasing tuition fees, new textbooks for the spring semester, rent and record-high gas prices, paying for prescription drugs can seem impossible for a sick college student with a part-time job. (more...)
It’s that time of year again: traffic at River Park is gridlocked as thousands of shoppers scramble to get the latest cell phones and “Guitar Hero III,” accumulating hundreds in credit card debt in the process. (more...)
There is a structure-damaging earthquake scheduled to happen on Fresno State’s campus early next year. (more...)
THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN.
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at my desk in The Collegian’s office when I noticed a CNN story on the TV behind me about a photograph showing presidential hopeful Barack Obama with his hands at his sides as those around him held their hands over their hearts. (more...)
Student choreographers Kensington Stettler and Anthony De La Paz tested lighting cues and directed dancers with the ease of professionals as they rehearsed their respective pieces for the theatre arts department’s show, “Emerging Choreographers 2007.” (more...)




