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12/22/2025

On the latest episode of The Chomp, San Francisco State University senior wrestler Brayden Concepcion joins us to discuss wrestling, academics, his time at SAAC and his future aspirations.

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🎙️: Paul Singh ()

12/22/2025

Happy Holidays, Gators! Follow along GGX staff photographers Lindsey Hoang and Jolie Wilson as they visit three fun and festive must-go spots in San Francisco!

📹: Lindsey Hoang () & Jolie Willson ()

12/16/2025

While down 70-68 late in the game against the Seattle Pacific University Falcons, the San Francisco State University Gators’ bench stood up and the crowd waited in anticipation after a steal from junior forward Bricen Buciak, who passed it to junior forward Mason Harris for a last-second 2-point shot attempt. The shot, which would have sent the game to overtime, was unsuccessful.

The Gators still have only one win on the season, but this loss on Sunday was their closest in the last three games. The Gators can still hold their heads up high, as the Falcons recently beat the No. 10-ranked team in the nation, Point Loma Nazarene University. The game was close after the first half, with the Gators only down by eight. In the second half, they outscored the Falcons 32-26, but the effort just wasn’t enough.

Head coach Vince Inglima talked about the Gators’ improved defensive play, which kept them in the game and was a highlight for the team.

“We defended considerably better than we have been in the previous weeks,” Inglima said. “I was really pleased with that.”

The Gators garnered four steals, zero blocks and just three turnovers while the Falcons had no steals, one block and 11 turnovers overall. The Gators’ only fault came at the rim, as they snagged just 24 rebounds, considerably less than the Falcons’ 41.

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✍️: Dominic Clima ()
📸: Haley Abarca ()

12/16/2025

The Duffer Brothers have been blessing Netflix with their terrifying sci-fi monsters and ‘80s nostalgia since 2016. This holiday season, they are finally wrapping up “Stranger Things” with a final season consisting of two volumes of episodes and a series finale.

The first four episodes, released on Nov. 26, gave fans plenty of time to mull over new revelations from the Upside Down and speculate for the finale.

As a fan of the show since its premiere nine summers ago, I have anticipated this conclusion since they teased its final season back in 2022. Unfortunately, the first four episodes did not live up to my expectations, but it’s not too late to turn it around.

So far in the season, the main crew has gotten back to their old antics of sticking their noses in interdimensional business, as the military presence in Hawkins increases. Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) targets the Wheeler family’s youngest, Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher), by kidnapping her via Demogorgon, landing Karen (Cara Buono) and Ted Wheeler (Joe Chrest) in the hospital while Eleven “El” (Millie Bobby Brown) and Jim Hopper (David Harbour) embark on a rescue mission in the Upside Down to save Holly.

The show’s writing has become increasingly cringeworthy, with Robin (Maya Hawke) being the pinnacle of my complaints. The Duffers and co. have forgone her carefully crafted critical quips for clunky and awkward lines that don’t make sense for the character.

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✍️: Maya Latz ()
📸: Netflix

12/15/2025

Nicholas Cook is in his last year of completing his Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts degree at San Francisco State University. Cook is currently living the regular student life with the ambition to pursue sports broadcasting after college. What some people don’t know is how different this new lifestyle is for Cook.

After playing baseball for 17 consecutive years, Cook’s baseball career was prematurely cut short after the SFSU baseball program was cut in the Spring 2025 semester. Cook is the last remaining player from the team who is still attending SFSU.

Cook recalls a moment from last season, walking out from the Gators’ dugout to pinch hit for catcher Derek Laferriere, against California State University, San Bernardino, staring at a 0-1 pitch count.

After mistiming a fastball down the middle on a 3-1 count, Coyotes pitcher Riley Ricken and Cook battled to a full count. Cook hit the 3-2 pitch out of the ballpark. With his family in attendance, the Southern California native hit his first and only collegiate home run, one he’ll remember for the rest of his life.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I hit that really good,’” Cook said. “The next thing I know, it clears the wall by 30 feet…the whole dugout went nuts, it was one of my coolest moments. That was kind of the whole process. Don’t strike out and end up hitting the homer.”

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✍️: Diego Camargo ()
📸: Jolie Willson & Vanden Harris ()

12/11/2025

On the latest episode of Gator Talk, Zoe Thompson and Diego Huerta discuss how budget cuts have affected them throughout their time at the university, and what they are doing to make a change for the future.

🎥: Jaiden Forey ()

12/11/2025

The Q***r and Trans Resource Center hosted a study break social with hot cocoa, coloring, snacks and a place to destress during finals. Join GGX staff reporter Jaiden Forey to hear from the organizers.

🎥: Jaiden Forey ()

12/10/2025

As the construction of the Moscone Center changed the landscape of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood during the late 1970s and early 80s, photographer Janet Delaney captured this period of urban renewal in the city. 
Originally from Southern California, Delaney moved to the Bay Area to attend San Francisco State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. While pursuing her master’s degree at the now-defunct San Francisco Art Institute, she lived in the SoMa area and began to take note of the neighborhood’s changing character.

During an intense moment near the Bay Bridge in 1979, Delaney had an epiphany about the neighborhood in which she lived.

“I decided to photograph because I was held up at knife point and I realized I really needed to know more about where I was living and who I was living near, so that I could meet my friends and feel like I was surrounded by familiar faces,” Delaney said. “I started introducing myself to my neighbors and taking pictures.”

SoMa’s working-class demographic and the construction sites of the Moscone Center were the main subjects in Delaney’s photos.

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✍️: Klyde Java (.java)
📸: Courtesy of Janet Delaney

12/09/2025

On Saturday evening, the Gospel Gators hosted their first event of the semester in Annex 1. Fourteen members took the stage, matching in red and black, showcasing the songs they’ve been working on all semester.

The group took the stage at 7:30 p.m. and began singing as a collective, with solos following. The audience was filled with around 40 family members and friends of the ensemble. Those who were seated were encouraged to clap and dance along while the group sang, engaging the audience in the routine.

Through their weekly rehearsals leading up to their big night, students and members developed a deeper understanding of what the gospel is and the roots of gospel music.

“This group is so important to me. I love singing,” said Sherrell Teague, the organization’s president and theatre arts and public health student. “I grew up in foster care and went through a lot of stuff, and honestly believe I wouldn’t have gotten through any of it without God.”

The club operates as a one-credit class at San Francisco State University, EXCO 301.23: Singing the Gospel. The course isn’t a traditional class, as it is student taught, and meets on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.

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✍️ & 📸: Jaiden Forey ()

12/08/2025

Grace Witcher was the leading scorer for her team in the first tournament match against the hosts, the California State University, Stanislaus Warriors, in which the Gators won the match in five sets. As a freshman, she witnessed her teammates place the “San Francisco State” sticker on the California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament bracket board. But when she got the chance to be the one to place the team’s sticker on the board, she felt gratefulness, an emotion she will always carry with her.

“Even if I wasn’t the one putting the sticker on the thing, I would have still been so excited and happy,” Witcher said. “I was just so grateful, not only for my performance in that game — it really was a team effort, and we needed that win to get us through.”

Witcher began her journey at Norris Middle School in Bakersfield after being a gymnast in the early years of her life. She had the support of her parents, who also played sports at the collegiate level. Her mother, Janae Witcher, spiked the ball at the University of Southern California in the late ‘90s. Her father, Josh Witcher, was a catcher for the University of Oklahoma Sooners around the same time her mother played volleyball at USC.

“They hear the good things, the bad things and more,” the Witcher’s daughter said. “If I need a motivational talk, I’m calling my dad. When I’m dealing with anything else, I’m calling my mom and my grandma; they both go hand in hand. They’ve seen me at my highest and my lowest points in my life. I can never thank them enough for everything that they do for me.”

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✍️: Gibran Beydoun ()
📸: Lindsey Hoang ()

12/08/2025

The San Francisco State University men’s basketball team looked outclassed as they suffered their worst loss of the season to California State University, East Bay, 86-46.

The 40-point loss has the Gators sitting in last place with two conference losses, tied alongside the California State University, San Marcos Cougars and California State University, San Bernardino Coyotes.

“It’s tough, but this is a journey; it’s a long season,” head coach Vince Inglima said. “We knew there was going to be ups and downs. We know we’re capable of a lot more, and it’s a matter of keeping their heads up.”

The Gators finished with 15 made baskets, four fewer than the number of turnovers they had in the game.

“We laid an egg tonight,” Inglima said.

Early in the first half, SFSU got off to a 10-3 lead to start the game with the help of five points from junior guard Milandev Chatha following the first time stoppage. But the undefeated Pioneers quickly responded and got back into it with an 11-0 run.

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✍️ & 📸: Daniel Archuleta ()

12/06/2025

On Thursday, dozens of academic student workers at San Francisco State University bundled up and marched across campus, demanding higher wages, paid sick leave and stronger protections for international employees.

The demonstration, organized by the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America chapter 4123, representing over 10,000 student workers at SFSU, began at 1 p.m. in Malcolm X Plaza. Organizers made impassioned speeches through megaphones while demonstrators held handmade signs. The energized protest was loud with chants about workers’ dissatisfaction with the California State University administration. The march drew attention from students but remained peaceful as marchers proceeded to the Administration Building, where organizers presented more than 2,600 petition signatures.

Sam Silva, a graduate teaching associate at SFSU and one of the event’s organizers, said student workers are becoming frustrated by stalled negotiations and administrative decisions they see as dismissive of their contributions. Silva led chants about a stalling administration during the march.

“We’re the ones in the classrooms and labs making the learning experience happen,” Silva said. “We deserve to be recognized and compensated fairly.”

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✍️: Alex Zuñiga ()
📸: Seamus Geoghegan ()

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