California State University System

SoCal Sorority Girls Dress As 'Cholas'

A Southern California sorority was under fire this week after members posted photos on social media showing some sisters dressed up as cholas and throwing fake gang signs. One thing you don't want to do on the streets of SoCal is throw up fake gang signs. Lucky for the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, di ... More >>

Online Alternatives For Packed UC, CSU Classes Proposed By Calif. Sen. Darrell Steinberg

Some classes in California public higher education are both required and sometimes impossible-to-get. And as tuition continues to rise at UC and Cal State campuses, students looking to wrap it up in four years are caught up in a waiting-list world of education. No longer. Not if Senate President P ... More >>

Cramming For Tests Doesn't Work, Says UCLA Study

As legions of new freshman launch their college careers at USC, California State University campuses and other schools this week, they are beginning their higher education during a time of unprecedented access to knowledge. It's at their fingertips -- on their laptops, iPads and iPhones. The answer ... More >>

Why Dianne Harrison Struck It Rich at CSUN

$324,000 may be just the beginning

CSU to Vote on Presidential Pay Raise, One Week Into Student Hunger Strike

Awkward timing: Almost one week into a student hunger strike across the California State University system, in which 12 students are drinking only vegetable juice until CSU presidents lose their "housing and car allowances" and see their salaries "reversed to 1999 levels," the university's Board of ... More >>

California Public College Students to Be Asked if They're Gay or Straight

Next year aspiring UC and Cal State students will probably be asked, along with requests for age and ethnicity, if they're gay or straight. Why, you ask, is that any business of theirs? It's not, entirely: Whether or not you answer, as with the question about ethnicity, will be optional. But a n ... More >>

Villaraigosa's Washington Aspirations Noted by New York Times

If you're a lame-duck mayor who has pretty much accomplished only disappointment in Los Angeles, we wouldn't blame you for wanting out. And it's clear to just about anyone within earshot of Antonio Villaraigosa that he's been angling for a job in President Obama's cabinet. As the newly appointed ch ... More >>

Occupy Affiliated ReFund California to March on Cal State Trustees, Wells Fargo in Long Beach Today

ReFund California​Updated at the bottom with blood, pepper spray and a clash between protesters and police. First posted at 7 a.m. The Occupy-affiliated protesters who scared the UC Board of Regents into cancelling their big meeting this week will be at the Cal State Board of Trustees meeting ... More >>

Free Lunch For Needy UCLA Students: Are Things Really That Bad?

Cup Noodles / Nissin Foods​The whole idea behind state schools like UCLA and Cal State campuses was that anyone could get a world-class education -- you didn't need to be a Vanderbilt (or, to be more current, a Vanderpump). But as the state budget has constricted education spending and flowe ... More >>

Facing the Past, Artfully

Daniel Orona: Marijuana Dispensary-Adjacent Shooting in Lincoln Heights Claims Life of 25-Year-Old

Google MapsThe Valley Boulevard block of the attack.​A man who was shot outside a Lincoln Heights pot shop last week has died, the LAPD said today. The attack in the 5400 block of Valley Boulevard not far from Cal State L.A. happened about 12:25 p.m. last Tuesday and appeared to be gang-relat ... More >>

CSUN: 'Day of Action' Protest at Cal State Northridge Today; LAPD Sends Out the Troops (Just in Case)

Activist Student CoalitionSigns of the times for students.​The kids will be all over the street today, and school's not even out for summer. No, it's the annual Day of Action protest to decry those massive hikes in state college tuition and fees that make gas prices look friendly. And althoug ... More >>

UC Students Get Early Holiday Gift: 8 Percent Tuition Increase At UCLA, Other Campuses

U-C-L-A: pay-pay-pay!​Hey kids. You know the whole California state budget problem that's been festering since you were in diapers? It's all your fault! And now, of course, you'll pay. That's the message Thursday from the UC Regents as they followed their counterparts at the California State ... More >>

Some Illegal Immigrants Down With A Discount At California Colleges

​Yeah, you heard right: Illegal immigrants who went to K-12 school in California are still eligible to be treated as "residents" -- and thus will pay in-state tuition fees at state colleges instead of the exorbitant prices charged out-of-staters and foreigners. But aren't they foreigners -- i ... More >>

Cal State Fees To Go Up 10 Percent: Students Protest In Long Beach

Cal State Long BeachStudents get ready to pay more for your education.​Update: The board of trustees on Wednesday approved the two-tiered hike, including 5 percent for mid-year and 10 percent for next school year. First posted at 6:31 a.m. Angry students protested outside the meeting of the C ... More >>

Marine Veteran Joel Francis Challenges Billionaire Charles Koch to Debate Over Big Oil-Funded Prop. 23, Will Fly to Kansas if Tycoon Ignores Him

Power VoteCal State L.A. senior Joel Francis​Marine veteran and Cal State L.A. senior Joel Francis wants to go mano-a-mano with billionaire Charles Koch. Yesterday, Francis challenged the wealth tycoon to a debate over Proposition 23, the controversial November ballot measure that seeks to s ... More >>

Hey Santa Monica College, LACC, Pierce College, Pasadena City College: Students Can Transfer To Cal State Without Getting Screwed On Credits Under New Law By Sen. Padilla

Santa Monica College​Besides the cost of car insurance, realizing you're probably not going to get that Ferrari by age 30, and having to wait in line to get into clubs, you know what really sucks about being young? Going to a California community college for a couple years only to have to start ov ... More >>

College 'Transfer Reform' Passes In California Legislature, Aims To Fast-Track The 'Six-Year Degree'

​How many thousands of students went to community college for two years only to learn that they practically had to start over again after transferring to a Cal State or University of California campus because many of the classes they took didn't count at the big-league schools? (We don't know ... More >>

East Los Angeles Hit Man Trained by Mexican Cartels

A cunning American boy grows up to execute his friends and family

Mayor V. Has 'Best Year' Ever (If You Close Your Eyes And Ignore Reality)

​They say that sometimes a leader's job is to will optimism in the darkest of times, like a Federal Reserve chairman saying the economy's alright, a president saying wars are going swimmingly or newspaper CEO claiming that print will make a comeback in 2010. As such Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Laramie Project Ten Years Later

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Parade at the TaperINTERVIEW with Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize TheronTHE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF​Photo courtesy of Ipenema Theater Troupe and the Electric Lodge TheatreCheck back here Monday afternoon for reviews of Moliere's The ... More >>

Decision in Long Beach: State University Tuitions to Rocket Upward

How's this for your cost of living adjustment? The board of trustees for California's state university system voted today in Long Beach to increase student tuition by 20 percent -- even though the fees had been raised by 10 percent only two months ago. In addition, out-of-state tuition will rise alm ... More >>

Students Prepare for Budget Protest

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.As LAist and TV/radio reports are noting, students are already gathering today ahead of tomorrow's protest at California State University, Long  Beach. On Tuesday the Cal State system's board of trustees will convene on the Long Beach ... More >>

U.S. Grant to Speed Cops' DNA Logjam

Cal State L.A. announced today it will receive a $1 million federal grant to help clear the backlog of DNA samples that have been stored for pending rape cases. That's a bit of good news following Sheriff Lee Baca's recent declaration that the budget crunch will force his department to halt the head ... More >>

Branford, Bob Bain, Will Bernard with John Medeski

Stage Raw: Tartuffed

TARTUFFED A culturally provocative misunderstanding occurred over the weekend during a preview performance of Josh Chamber's "re-envisioned" Tartuffe, opening on Saturday at Theatre @ Boston Court. I'd arranged for a group of university students from Cal State, where I teach a world theater c ... More >>

Raiford Rogers' Modern Artistry

Contemporary spirit mixed with polished ballet training

High-Energy Street Dance: Groovaloo's Moving Stories

Mixed with personal dramas, show heads down to OC

Groovaloo

Top of the Bop

Brick's jazz picks

Backhausdance

They Could Be Heroes

Ghosts

Premature Exhibitionism

Pictures from a Gone World

Color Theory

“Fade” to black

No New Taxes

Except on students

In From Out There

How Pete Wilson inadvertently politicized a generation of young Mexican immigrants

Dutch Metal

The Leonardo of pinstriping

Made in America

With pride and ambivalence

Break Time

Taking on L.A.’s health-care workers’ union

Not Necessarily the Usual Suspects

Jill Yip, 1972–2001

Ancestral Spirits

Yusef Lateef and Randy Weston’s Africa/America

Of Wasps and Wind

James Newton loves the wrong notes

Oh Unlucky Luckman

Why A Noise Within is without a venue

Vows of Peace

Messing with those who want to leave gang life

A Jovial Buddha

Duane Ebata, 1950–2000

Futurama

Post-millennial déjà vu at Luckman Fine Arts

Welds Apart

Who’ll pay for L.A.’s shaky skyscrapers?

Roll Over, Beethoven