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2008

Hardy hikers brave the cold for solar rarity

12/22/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - Mesa College student Bobby Gonzalez of San Diego watched the sun rise on the first day of winter from Cowles Mountain...

Two of four men accused in stabbing free on bail

12/11/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - The our defendants – Núñez, Garcia, Ryan Jett, 22, and Leshanor Thomas, 19 – are accused in the Oct. 4 stabbing of Luis Santos, a 22-year-old Mesa College ...

Benefit to help student join Antarctic expedition

12/6/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - Mesa College students will hold a fundraiser in Clairemont tomorrow to help a paralyzed student participate in a March expedition to the ...

4 slaying suspects plead not guilty

12/5/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - The four men stand accused in the Oct. 4 slaying of Mesa College student Luis Santos. They found it Oct. 4 when they got into a fight that left a Mesa ..

Former Speaker's son to be arraigned

12/4/08 -- abc7.com - He and his friends got into an argument with 22-year-old Luis Santos, who was a college student at San Diego Mesa College, and his friends...

October

Changing ways of commuters
10/31/08--San Diego Union Tribune - United States
At San Diego Mesa College, car poolers are entitled to rock star parking...

Muslim Student Association Student Sees Election as a Vote against...

10/30/08 -- Family Security Matters - Group of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at San Diego Mesa College on October 14th. In his post, "The Issue of Voting," Akbari delves into the election...

USD soccer always reflects fiery McFadden

10/22/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - McFadden briefly continued his football career at San Diego Mesa College before transferring to San Diego State, where he became an all-American defender...

What's Wrong With A Few College 'FAGS?'

10/8/08 -- EDGE Boston - But Frye, who presides over the group both at San Diego College and Mesa College, said that school authorities at the former school told the group not to ...

Gay clubs fight for raunchy acronym

10/8/08 -- United Press International - Jason Frye, president of The Fellowship of Associated Gay Students & Straight Allies at both Mesa College and San Diego City College, told the San Diego ...

Colleges' gay clubs clash with officials over name

10/8/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - At San Diego Mesa College, Frye said, the club was told during Rush Week to remove a poster from its booth. Frye stands by the use of the acronym for the...

Father wants son's killer to come forward

10/8/08 -- United Press International - Luis Watson Dos Santos, 22, a student at Mesa College in San Diego, was fatally wounded during a fight early Saturday after leaving a party with friends...

Father hopes son's killer to surrender

10/7/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - By Pauline Repard, Sherry Saavedra and Mark Arner The father of a Mesa College student fatally stabbed at San Diego State University said he wouldn't want ...

Student dies in fight at SDSU

10/5/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - The Medical Examiner's Office identified the man who was killed as Luis Felipe Watson Dos Santos, a Mesa College student from Concord...

June

Alternative high school's Class of 2008 raises the bar
06/15/08--San Diego Union Tribune - United States
The Class of 2008 is the first to graduate from the small, unorthodox high school tucked away on the Mesa College campus. “Alternative high schools have a ...

Suspect in killing returned to San Diego

4/25/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - Maldonado fled to Mexico to live with relatives shortly after Mesa College student Leah Tadeo was killed with a shotgun during an argument at a Logan Avenue...

They've had a bellyful

4/16/08 -- San Diego Union Tribune - But the Mesa College student is 6 feet 5 inches and 240 pounds, and said, “I've never been full in my life.” Competitive eating has now reached the college...

March

Young male leadership summit spells out reality
03/13/08--San Diego Union Tribune - United States
“I'm not going to make that percentage go higher,” he said from the Mesa College gymnasium, where 500 black and Latino middle and high school students ...