Platform Provides Jobs
Rather than scouring bulletin boards for job listings or incessantly searching the internet, college students looking to make extra spending money now have a tool that enables them to find odd jobs in the Bay Area.
Campaign Support Goes Viral
With the help of their recent music video featuring bright-colored vests and socially conscious hip-hop, the Fossil Free SCU divestment movement has gained the attention of the Santa Clara community and beyond.
Integrated Strategic Plan to Broaden University Diversity within University
Students with an objective of improving Santa Clara’s cultural landscape participated in a facilitated conversation on Tuesday night.
Proposal Submitted to End Water Bottle Use
After several month-long campaigns to raise awareness about the negative impacts of bottled water, the Office of the President is now in support of initiatives aimed at reducing the sale of plastic bottles water on campus.
Application Rates Continue to Plummet
When the economic recession hit in 2008, thousands of corporate lawyers found themselves scrambling for work, and the legal profession found itself in a tailspin.Six years later, the damage from the recession continues to negatively affect enrollment rates at the Santa Clara School of Law.
Fence Highlights Various Border Injustices
Santa Clara organizations are collaborating to raise awareness about immigration issues through a week of events and a mock border wall on campus.
Group Not Recognized as Oppressed Minority
Members of the Portuguese American Student Union took offense after the Multicultural Center denied their request to join the Chartered Student Organization.
Department Welcomes New Supervisor
Lulu Santana will be taking the place of Jack Treacy, S.J., as the director of Campus Ministry. Treacy, who has held the position for eight years, chose to step down from the position at the end of June and will begin work for Alumni Relations starting in January.
Intoxicated Pupils Initiate Dorm Flood
According to a Campus Safety Services report, two students living in Swig had left the faucet in their room running after clogging the sink with vomit as a result of ingesting alcoholic beverages. The two students fell asleep with the faucet running, and the flood was discovered several hours later on the carpeted hallways of Swig early Thursday morning.
Rescue Practiced in Mass Casualty Incident
Uniformed students raced around the lawns surrounding O’Connor Hall and Alviso Street assisting dozens of “injured” students after a mock earthquake on Sunday afternoon.
Campus Organization Reacts to Racial Profiling
The Multicultural Center hosted a rally Wednesday afternoon in response to an off-campus incident that involved discrimination against three African-American males, one of whom is a current Santa Clara student.
Students Aided
One pressing question on any college student’s mind is often whether or not their major will lead to stable employment in the future. In response to this question, MajorsToCareers was built to help guide recent graduates in the right direction.
Campaign Season: Cast Your Ballot Now
Flashing screens and chalk drawings across campus indicate election time has arrived yet again at Santa Clara.The campaign season, which lasts only a week, began on Monday with a “Meet the Candidates” forum.
App Weighs Right and Wrong
Fourteen hundred people have downloaded Santa Clara’s new iPhone application, which helps users make ethical choices in everyday life.The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics’ new app is designed to aid users in the decision-making process, allowing them to analyze every ethical aspect of a potential judgement.
University Surpasses Fundraising Goals
Over 2,000 individuals donated to Santa Clara’s first ever one-day giving challenge on Wednesday, raising over $200,000 with more than 1,001 benefactors contributing gifts to the university in the first 150 minutes of the launch.
Renewable Energy Heats Up in South Bay
San Jose, Calif., is now ranked as the nation’s fourth-best solar city, according to the Shining Cities report released last Thursday. The report, which measures the top 20 American solar cities by total installed solar capacity at the end of 2013, ranks Los Angeles as the nation’s top solar city, with San Diego, Calif., Phoenix and San Jose behind it.
Student Promotes Philanthropy for Disease
In memory of his father, senior David Guibord helped raise over $20,000 for the Santa Clara chapter Hilarity for Charity U, a fundraiser aimed at colleges across the United States to support Alzheimer’s research.
Former Presidential Council Member Visits Campus
Eboo Patel spoke on campus Wednesday, April 10, about how to integrate the positive aspects of religious diversity into society today. Patel, an interfaith leader and member of President Barack Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships, tackled the current problems with the existence of a variety of religions.