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Hello Hornets!
Spring is in the air and events around campus are ramping up as the end of the semester draws closer. This week’s newsletter features coverage of last week’s protest over the upcoming tuition increase, the impact of librarian Ántonia Peigahi on the campus, results from the ASI election and a gallery from the 13th annual Out of the Darkness campus walk.
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Students for Quality Education’s student intern Michael Lee-Chang leading protesters toward Sacramento Hall Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Protesters rallied outside the building before dropping SQE flyers at President Luke Wood’s office. (Photo by Jenn Galinato)
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Students for Quality Education held a strike across campus to protest against the 34% tuition increase approved by the California State University Board of Trustees last semester on Wednesday, April 10.
Protesters were holding signs containing phrases, such as “freeze the fees” and “stop the 34% tuition increase,” and later hosted a few student speakers.
The Board of Trustees met to discuss a tuition increase proposal and officially passed it on Wednesday, Sept. 13. The proposal consisted of raising tuition rates by 6% each year for a collective five years and is set to begin in the fall 2024 semester.
Read the full story by Analah Wallace here.
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Attendees to the Antiracism and Inclusive Campus Plan showcase discuss at a roundtable in the Union Ballroom Monday, March 25, 2024. The group was instructed to talk amongst the group to formulate ideas and address concerns from the action plan. (Photo by Alyssa Branum)
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Ántonia Peigahi, Sacramento State’s humanities and child development librarian, said her life would be radically different without education.
“My philosophy is that education is a liberatory practice,” Peigahi said. “Education really allows us to be change-makers within our own lives.”
Peigahi said she believes that education has the potential to move an individual beyond the path predetermined by their circumstances, family or society.
Peigahi has held multiple jobs and leadership roles, such as faculty senate chair, parliamentarian and a position in the office of the president, throughout her 21 years at the university. She earned Sac State’s Women of Influence award in 2020.
Read the full story by news staffer Micah Yip here.
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The Associated Students, Inc. holds a results party for the student government elections in the Terrace Suite of The WELL Thursday, April 11, 2024. Family and friends of the candidates were able to come out to the event and show support. (Photo by Kai Arellano)
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Results for the Associated Students, Inc. election were announced after a two-day voting period on Thursday, April 11.
The elected student positions on the ASI board consist of the president, four vice presidents and nine directors. Total student voter turnout was 3,821 out of the 29,422 total eligible student voters, which is a 13% voter turnout, according to ASI Associate Director Harbir Atwal.
Current ASI President Nataly Andrade-Dominguez ran unopposed and won reelection alongside her new running mate Executive Vice President Gabriel Conejo Gallegos.
Read the full story by news staffer Michael Pepper here.
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Students, administration, faculty and members of the campus community came together to participate in Sacramento State’s 13th-annual Out of the Darkness campus walk at The WELL Thursday, April 11, 2024. The Out of the Darkness Walk Campus Walks Greater Sacramento Area chapter and Pacific Clinic members led participants around campus. (Photo by Jose Diaz)
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Over one thousand students and participants joined together in front of The WELL for Sac State’s 13th-annual Out of the Darkness Campus Walk for suicide prevention awareness, according to the event’s Instagram page on Thursday, April 11.
Out of the Darkness was hosted in partnership between Student Health, Counseling and Wellness Services from The WELL and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention of Sacramento. The event had many students, staff, volunteers and community members come out to show support and the significance of what the campus walk means to them.
Erica Brown has served as the area director for the Sacramento and Central Valley Chapters of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention since September 2021. She is a Sac State alumna who enjoys being involved and putting on community events such as the campus walk.
“When I became a staffer, the process made me a lot stronger,” Brown said. “I want to be a beacon of hope for other adults and anyone that has gone through that dark difficult time in their life.”
Read the full story by Arts and Entertainment staffer Ismael Martinez Castillo here.
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Questions? Comments? Pitches?
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That's all we have for you this week. Visit The State Hornet to stay up to date on all our coverage.
Thank you for reading,
Michael Pepper
news staffer
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