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Jamba Juice Hires 500 Bay Area Youth

Emeryville-based Jamba Juice is hosting its second National Hiring Day initiative Tuesday in stores nationwide. The company will hire 500 Bay Area youth, with a total of 3,500 positions nationwide looking to be filled.

DMV Arrests Crew in Registration Scheme

A scam lasting more than two years was put to an end as a crew of people were arrested for allegedly submitting fraudulent paperwork to the Department of Motor Vehicles, turning over a huge sum of cash for themselves.

Stanford First University to Raise $1 Billion in Single Year

Stanford University became the first institution ever to raise over $1 billion in a single year, a nonprofit announced this week. The Council for Aid to Education said that Stanford has been the top fundraising institution for 14 out of the last 30 years.

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Study: Alameda County Food Bank in Dire Straits

East Bay food pantries are distributing more food now than ever before and report a higher need for community support, according to a study performed by Alameda County Community Food Bank.

SFPD: Doughnut Shop Shooter, Stabbed

Police on the lookout for a suspect who fled a San Francisco doughnut shop early Monday morning who they say hit and shot a person.

Berkeley Man Fights Against Diabetes on Twitter

This Valentine’s Day a Berkeley man is using social media to encourage people around the country to save the money they would have spent on flowers and donate them instead to help fight diabetes.

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Spotlight Interview: Santiago Ortiz, Visualizing Possibilities

Exclusive iCharts interview with data visualization expert, Santiago Ortiz

Spotlight Interview: Jeff Sheehan on the Power of Social Media Marketing

B2B and Sales entrepreneur Jeff Sheehan shares his insight on the most powerful marketing tools available online

Spotlight Interview: Mortiz Stefaner's Intersection of Truth and Beauty

Information visualizer Moritz Stefaner tells us his philosophy of work and where he believes the data industry is headed in the future

Spotlight Interview: Manuel Lima, Passion is a Magnet

Nominated as one of the 50 most creative minds of 2009, Manuel Lima talks about his day job at Microsoft Bing and the freelance data visualization products he produces on his website Visual Complexity

Spotlight Interview: Ben Hosken's Vision of Data

Founder of data visualization site Flinklabs, Ben Hosken shares his top 3 favorite projects and talks about this emerging field in Melbourne, Australia

Spotlight Interview: Visualizing Data with Benjamin Wiederkehr

Benjamin Wiederkehr tells us about his time studying in Zurich and how this led to his design studio Interactive Things, in an exclusive interview with iCharts

Spotlight Interview: Alexander Howard on Technology and Change

Data journalist Alexander Howard shares his experience editing the Radar and Stratablog for O'Reilly Media

Spotlight Interview: Joseph Kelly on All Things Data and Hip-Hop

Infochimps president Joseph Kelly talks about his real inspiriation for creating data visualization services; a long-stemming passion for hip-hop

Spotlight Interview: Pioneering Data Journalism with Simon Rogers

Editor of the Guardian's Datablog and Datastore, Simon Rogers talks about the different ways that journalists can tell a story using numbers, and how this can make all the difference in the news

Spotlight Interview: Bridging the Gap with Satya Krishnaswamy

Social analytics expert Satya Krishnaswamy shares his insight into solving the disconnect between social and traditional CRM channels in the first part of iChart's spotlight feature

Spotlight Interview: In Conversation with Personal Branding Guru Karen Kang

In one of three spotlight interviews on Karen Kang, she shares the topics covered in her recently published book, BrandingPays, and talks about the influence of personal branding both for a company and for an individual

News: Homelessness Issues Raised This Week

SCU celebrates its first ever Homelessness Awareness Week, while the organizing students share their inspiration for the creation of this event and how various departments in the school is getting involved

News: Classes Help Returnees

A new class is being offered during winter quarter, when many students return to Santa Clara after studying abroad. The class aims to ease their adjustment and provide an outlet to creatively and analytically reflect on their experiences.

News: Shuttle Service in Works for Off Campus

A recent survey sent out by SCU's Associate Student Government shows a high demand for an off-campus shuttle service that would take students to local entertainment and shopping venues for a small fee

International Foodie Column

Original recipes from around the world

Choosing a New Pope

The Pope in Social Media Rumors

A New Era for the Vatican, Jesuits, and Latin Americans Everywhere

A String of Tragedies: Recovering from the Boston Explosions

My Time in Rome

What Has My Catholic Education Done for Me?

News: Swap Donations

Santa Clara University's third annual "Swap for Good" event benefits local women and children's shelters and helps raise awareness for domestic violence

News: Hunger Pains Bay Area

Cold winter months increase the need for volunteers, taking a look at a recent Hunger Study that shows 1 in 6 in Alameda County go hungry every day, students trying to address this need

Scene: Celebrating Mardi Gras Madness

A look behind the scenes at what Mardi Gras means to some students, what the celebration is really like in New Orleans, and how the Santa Clara community will celebrate this year

Scene: CollegeHumor Provides Comic Relief

Three comedians from Boston-based CollegeHumor visited the SCU campus to do stand-ups that ranged from college-appropriate topics of sex, drugs, and challenges in flirting with girls

A Year of Service, a Lifetime of Gratitude

Remembering Lima

Children as the Faces of Poverty

Giving Tuesday: The Newest Holiday

The Jesuit Approach to Helping Victims of Sandy

Technology and Reflection

Materialized Socialism

An academic research paper produced for a course in Magazine Journalism; this piece was published by one of my most helpful interviewees, Dr. April Benson, an expert in the phenomenon of retail therapy who hosts a website to help people end their overshop

ENGL 153: Tactical Media Project

A website created using Kompozer that displays various writing samples and ties together the overlying theme of my background and interest in environmentalism, social justice, and preventing drunk driving