So what are your thoughts about the Sac-Joaquin Section holding the Division I, II and III football championship games this season at Sacramento State’s Hornet Stadium?
One of the games will be played on Friday, Dec. 3, the other two as a doubleheader on Saturday, Dec. 4.
Personally, I think it will be a huge upgrade and long overdue.
Sac State is much better facility than run-down UOP, where the past 19 D-I finals have been held.
With seating for nearly 22,000, it’s also a lot bigger than Folsom High (which seats about 5,000), where the D-II playoffs have been played the last six years.
The following is an excerpt drawn from the new book Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco, by Teresa Gowan. Gowan will be giving a talk and signing books tonight at University Press Books in Berkeley, CA, and tomorrow night at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco. Find more event info on our website.
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No One Loves a Loser
Willie, a lanky, gravel-voiced white man with a stoop, came from a hard-drinking “hillbilly” family in Stockton. His mother ran off when he was seven, leaving him with his biker brothers, who beat him frequently and taught him to skip school. On New Year’s Eve, 1973, fifteen-year-old Willie witnessed one of his brothers killing a man in a drunken rage, smashing his head with a heavy chain. Overwhelmed by fear and disgust, Willie left home early the next morning and caught the bus to Fresno, the nearest sizeable town. There he slept rough for a few weeks while looking for work. Lying about his age landed him a mediocre job in a rubber goods factory, and he soon found an apartment to share with a couple of other young men. He ne Full Post…
Minneapolis — The cost of a year college now averages more than $20,000. That’s forcing students to become financial problem-solvers of sorts. They piece together a patchwork of funding from their parents, scholarships, loans and part-time jobs.
And now students are increasingly turning to their grandparents for help in paying for college, according to a new survey.
Recent graduate Andy Post is typical of those students. Post (no relation to reporter Tim Post) graduated this spring with a degree in marketing from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
He paid his way through four years at the U of M with funds from several sources. He got money from his parents, he took out private and government loans, he earned scholarships, and he worked a part-time job.
The rest came from his grandparents — both sets of grandparents. One set co-signed a loan, the other gave him as much as $10,000 over four years.
“My grandparents helped me pay for the place where I lived, they helped me pay for things outside of school like food, housing, stuff like that,” he said. <
Why would you study design if you weren’t planning to become a designer? Especially if you were a high school student in a depressed rural area of the United States, like Bertie County, one of the poorest counties in North Carolina, where 80 percent of students live in poverty, and your best chance of employment will be a low-skilled job in agriculture or biotechnology.
Why indeed? Yet all 16 teenagers in the 11th grade at the School of Agriscience and Biotechnology at the Bertie Early College High School have committed to attending an experimental design course, Studio H, for three hours every day in the new school year. An abandoned car body shop behind the school has been converted into a classroom, studio and workshop for the course. By the end of it, the students will have designed a community project, a farmers’ market to sell locally gown produce, and will then be paid to build it over the summer.
Because of Bertie County’s poverty, “very few of these kids will become designers,” said Emily Pilloton, founder of the humanitarian design group, Project H, who recently moved to Bertie County from San Francisco to run Studio H with Project H’s project architect, Matthew Miller.