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According to learning and teaching experts on campus, Zoom is the future. Here are nine ways to help navigate online classes for the remainder of the school year.

Zoom etiquette: Nine tips to keep in mind during the next school year

Marisa Martinez, Digital Editor September 16, 2020

While Cal State LA students will be spending most of their time on Zoom this academic year, some might find it hard to connect with their peers appropriately on the internet.  The Center for Effective...

Meet the Fall 2020 Editors | Time to Talk – Ep 9

September 14, 2020

On this week’s special edition of Time to Talk, the University Times assembles the Fall 2020 editors to speak on their time in quarantine, answer some fun questions and give some hot takes.

CSU Chancellor, Timothy P White, at the California State University Board of Trustees meeting in 2015.

BREAKING: CSUs to stay online for spring semester

Joshua Letona, Editor-in-Chief September 10, 2020

In a press release on Monday, Chancellor Timothy White announced all 23 CSU universities will remain online for the Spring Semester. Spring semester remained a question mark when the chancellor’s...

Assembly Bill 1460, now signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, will require CSU to offer ethnic studies courses by 2021-22, so students can complete their three-unit course in ethnic studies.

Newsom’s ethnic studies requirement changes CSU curriculum

Rosio Flores and Meghan Bravo September 10, 2020

The California State University “Ethnic Studies & Social Justice” requirement was recently trumped by Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of Assembly Bill 1460 into law on Aug. 17, according to Mike...

Summer Szeto sits at her work station in the Cal State LA dorms. With no family around, it’s the only place she can call her own in the state of California. Photo courtesy of Summer Szeto. This photo was coached by the reporter Joshua Letona.

Homeless student fights to stay at Cal State LA

Joshua Letona, Editor-in-Chief September 2, 2020

Summer Szeto made a hard choice as the summer break came to a close. She’s already paid $2,500 out of pocket to stay at Cal State LA to avoid being homeless this semester.  Szeto, originally from...

Time to Talk – Ep. 8

August 26, 2020

This week University Times Managing Editor, Tahiti Salinas and Golden Eagle Radio Station Manager and UT Digital Editor, Marisa Martinez sit down with Associated Students Incorporated President, Diana...

UT Editors' Picks. Illustration by Lauren Dahncke

UT editors’ picks: Video games

Tahiti Salinas, Managing Editor August 4, 2020

Our first “safe-at-home” summer is coming to end. While we haven’t been able to see people in-person, video games have brought together many friends and families. In the continuation of this series,...

A police motorcycle and a vehicle parked at the Public Safety lot.

BLM protests leave some Cal State criminal justice students questioning the system

Ethan Axtell, Staff Reporter July 17, 2020

As she follows news of violence by police around the country, recent Cal State LA graduate Salma Lopez is torn about her major and career path: criminal justice. “I just got my bachelor’s in criminal...

Picture of housing in California State University of Los Angeles, taken by the University Times

ICE mandate rescinded: Cal State LA international students here to stay

Tahiti Salinas, Managing Editor July 16, 2020

Before the international students mandate was rescinded, second year student Ma Ledi Ham Loot faced being sent to the Philippines unable to get home to her province. “I would have to take the international...

Attendees can line up at the Welcome Center Kiosk and follow the path to the Food Bank at Parking Lot 5.

Free drive-thru food bank to set up at Cal State LA

Joshua Letona, Editor-in-Chief June 23, 2020

Cal State LA will host a free drive-thru food bank this Thursday, June 25, by partnering with the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Los Angeles County Board Supervisor, Hilda Solis. The first 2,700...

Time to Talk – Ep. 7

June 15, 2020

On this week's episode of Time to Talk, we're talking with freelance photojournalists who have been covering the recent anti-racism protests that have been sparked by George Floyd's death earlier this...

Protestors march in Downtown Los Angeles in support of the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality. The recent protests were sparked from George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, Minnesota where we died due to a police officer pinning him down to the ground with his knee on his neck for close to nine minuets. Photo courtesy of Corinne Baptiste.

Cal State LA students show up to protest, despite threats of police violence and coronavirus

Joshua Letona and Marisa Martinez June 9, 2020

Some of Cal State LA’s very own have joined in on the protests against police brutality in LA County. In the weeks since George Floyd’s death, worldwide outrage has sparked protests to end social injustice...

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