Xpress Magazine • 20th May 2024

Community Keeps Transit Safe

Riding public transit can sometimes come with uncomfortable situations that can’t be helped, like being packed into a train or bus, encountering the smells of the city or just having to endure unexpected delays. But when it comes to verbal and non-verbal harassment in transit, it can be a jarring and dangerous situation to navigate even if it’s not happening to you.

A study conducted by the San Jose State University Research Institute found that at least 63% of their students had experienced so

Xpress Magazine • 14th December 2023

Not-for-profit Music

On the corner of Mission and 30th streets, sits a record shop — the door and outside window filled with collages of stickers and posters. Inside, the space is filled with even more stickers, posters and other graffiti on the walls and ceilings. The store is stocked with vinyl records of various genres, along with CDs, VHS tapes and DVDs. On weekdays, music is played for customers, but on weekends the music stops as just below the shop local bands begin to tune up and perform.

Thrillhouse Record

NLGJA Connect Student Journalism Program • 9th September 2023

As coverage of the trans community increases, journalists work to get it right

Legislation attacking the rights of transgender people has kept the community in the news cycle almost constantly this year.

Trans journalists and advocates say the increased newsroom focus on accurately covering the community has led to better stories. But it hasn’t always been that way.

Kae Petrin, one of the co-founders and president of the Trans Journalism Association said that in 2019 Trans coverage was a lot different then what we’re seeing today. TJA was founded in 2020 to connect Trans

Xpress Magazine • 10th May 2023

SF State’s Finest in Fashion

Zitlali Ramirez measures Maddie Acino’s upper body in the Burk Hall at SF State in San Francisco Calif., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Her next steps are taking note of the new measurements and changing accordingly. (David Jones / Xpress Magazine)

Zitlali Ramirez walks into the J. Paul Leonard Library dressed in head-to-toe black: baggy bondage pants detailed with chains and white lace, a hoodie with silver studs and platform Dr. Martens with black laces. Ramirez, a senior at SF State, wears he

Xpress Magazine • 23rd April 2023

Shop Secondhand

What to look for and where to get it.

Olivia House puts a shirt against her brother Austin House’s back to check if the item fits at Wasteland on Haight Street in San Francisco, Calif., on March 26, 2023. (David Jones / Xpress Magazine)

While not a new phenomena, thrifting and secondhand shopping have been in style for the last couple of years. From Emma Chamberlain’s thrift haul videos to the thrifting episode of Netflix’s newest season of “Next in Fashion,” fashion has challenged us to look

Xpress Magazine • 14th April 2023

Between the Issues: Mid Semester Check In

Two newspaper-plastered classrooms filled with tired, yet eager reporters sit side by side on the third floor of SF State’s Humanities Building. These are the magazine and newspaper production rooms, and the single door separating the two finally opened last semester.

Welcome to Between the Issues, the very first collaborative podcast between the Golden Gate Xpress newspaper and Xpress Magazine.

In our second episode of 2023, editors Andrea Sto. Domingo and Zackery Stehr discuss the revival of

Xpress Magazine • 24th March 2023

Dyslexia in Higher Education

College is a time for students to explore their academic interests. For those with dyslexia, additional support can sometimes be a key factor in the quality of education.

Multiplication tables with rows and rows of numbers sit in front of me, from 1×1 to 10×10. Ms. Smith announces the challenge: finish the test within three minutes without any errors. Before we even start, I’m out. I consider my options: act like I don’t desperately want that vibrant, sweet blueberry Jolly Rancher or feign illn

Xpress Magazine • 21st December 2022

Home Away from Home

Fashion major and stylist London Deutsch shares her experiences transferring and how she got to SFSU.

It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday as London Deutsch’s classroom starts to fill with smoke and the smell of burning chemicals. Today, her class is testing different fabrics’ reactions to flames. Students are sporting white lab coats, and each table is lined with trays of candles, tweezers, and a glass dish.

On London’s Lab paper is a doodle of herself and her lab partner with “Bad Bitch” written abov

Golden Gate Xpress • 17th November 2022

After over a year of requesting a prayer room, Muslim Student Association expresses frustrations at Associated Students board meeting

Members of the Muslim Student Association and General Union of Palestine Students voiced their frustrations about SF State’s failure to provide a prayer room at Associated Students’ board meeting on Wednesday.

During the meeting’s open forum, MSA member Ruqaiyah Angeles spoke about her experience as a Muslim student at SF State and the continued disappointment she and other MSA members felt after more than a year of advocating for a prayer space.

“I would just like to say that as a Muslim stud

Golden Gate Xpress • 17th October 2022

SF State Muslim students unhappy with shared prayer room, fight for their own space

A member of SF State’s Muslim Student Association took off their shoes and entered the designated prayer room at Rosa Parks Conference Room F in the Cesar Chavez Student Center. This is their usual after-class schedule.

As they entered the room, they noticed three students to their right. They were facing the corner with their shoes on, one laying on a prayer mat, the others with their knees on the mat and upper body leaning on chairs.

They said this is just one of the many incidents that have

The Express • 11th December 2021

Out with the old and in with the new: 5 Sips Coffee & Tea

As my sister Ellie and I walk into 5 Sips Coffee & Tea, I am hit with a wave of nostalgia that only this specific spot can call upon. It’s a Saturday, and the café is filled with local patrons running in and out with coffee and pastries in hand.

Many of us City College natives knew the now 5 Sips Coffee & Tea as Espresso Metro prior to the pandemic. The last day Espresso Metro was open was May 31 2020; 5 Sips opened the following day, June 1, according to its owner, Michael Mansour.

While open

The Express • 9th December 2021

Checking in on how City College is doing with the vaccine mandate

As the second anniversary of the coronavirus disease approaches, the Los Rios Community College District still has one last hurdle: vaccinations.

As of Oct. 1, any student wishing to use on-campus facilities must show evidence of having received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, according to the district’s vaccine requirements webpage.

The district is encouraging all students to get the vaccine. In September, the district offered $100 for all students who could show proof of at least one sho

The Express • 18th November 2021

Homecoming: Students return to campus

As I pull into the City College parking lot on a Monday morning, I have an easy time finding a spot. There are a total of five cars in the parking lot. It’s just me and the tumbleweeds as I walk toward the campus.

Since the campus opened back up this fall, not much looks different from when it was closed in March 2020. As I continue through the almost ghost town, I see my first sign of life: the College Store.

Emily Wildemann is a team member at the College Store, eagerly awaiting a customer t