College of Liberal & Creative Arts

Student Arrested

907614011 — Fri, 24 May 2013 21:07:11 +0000

May 24, 2013

NBC BAY AREA -- White is currently enrolled in 19 units at SFSU as a Communication Studies major. As of Friday morning, the university was not aware of the charge against White.

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Alum Spencer McCall Directs 'The Institute'

907614011 — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:10:14 +0000

May 23, 2013

EAST BAY EXPRESS -- The Institute, a new film by San Francisco State University graduate Spencer McCall, pulls back the curtain just a little bit on the San Francisco alternate-reality project started by Oaklander Jeff Hull — but it also seeks to replicate the experience the Jejune Institute initially set out to create. Long before launching Jejune, Hull had founded Oaklandish, the “covert street-art campaign” designed to highlight Oakland history and local treasures through various subversive public-art stunts. But once Oaklandish began blossoming into the broader civic and arts organization it is today, Hull realized he wanted to extend its original premise even further.

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Professor Cherny Comments on Urban Mayors

907614011 — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:08:42 +0000

May 23, 2013

CROSSCUT -- One would think that a century or so after its incorporation Seattle would have raised a home-grown, web-footed contingent of pols to call Hizzoner (or Herzzoner in the case of Bertha Knight Landes). Professor Robert Cherny, urban and political historian at San Francisco State University, guesses that since the mid-1890s, probably half of San Francisco’s mayors have been from that city. He notes, however, that their current mayor, Edwin Mah Lee, is a Chinese American from Seattle (Beacon Hill). Cherny says that widespread population mobility caused by the Great Depression and World War II is probably a factor in keeping the place-of-origin pot well stirred. “Literally anybody can run for mayor of San Francisco,” he says.

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