Toros complain about long delays in receiving financial aid. Spend any amount of time on Reddit—the CSUDH subreddit, specifically—and users will find thread after thread of Toros asking questions or complaining about not receiving their Middle Class Scholarship (MCS). The scholarship provides low- to middle-income undergraduate students with financial aid to pursue their bachelor’s degree […]
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Busy schedules, commuter life challenge club engagement
Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on campus life lingers as organizers attempt to attract Toros. Parking lots at CSUDH fill up early and empty fast most days. As a commuter campus, students are constantly making a circuit between home, work, and classes. Usually, that doesn’t leave too much time for extracurricular activities. An estimated 14,200 students […]
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Dodgers fandom meets complex history of Chavez Ravine
Historians and Toros reflect on Los Angeles’ role in displacement of Latine families. Los Angeles is a baseball town, and on any given day at CSUDH, you see Toros showing off their pride for the Dodgers. As the team made their play for another World Series Championship last month, the campus was awash in Dodger […]
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Blue-collar drama ‘Sweat’ to close out Fall season at University Theatre
Pulitzer Prize-winning play highlights working-class identity amid industry collapse and change. The shuttering of an industrial plant is the central conflict of “Sweat,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of playwright Lynn Nottage. The play, set to premiere Dec. 3 at the University Theatre, will close out the Theatre Department’s fall season. Set in the industrial town […]
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Trading ink for aid to support Gaza relief
Student uses tattoo art to raise funds and awareness of humanitarian crisis. After two years of doomscrolling through images of devastation caused by Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, Ariana Marquez felt she had to do something to support relief efforts. Confronted with a constant stream of bloodied bodies and burned-out buildings, she put […]