Since its opening in October 1975, the Cesar Chavez Student Center has been a space for student life at San Francisco State University, hosting student organizations and events throughout its history, and serving as the center of student gatherings and protests in honor of its roots in reform. Public access to the building started exactly 50 years ago on Oct. 29, 1975, according to Zenger’s, a newsletter produced by the Associated Students in the ‘70s.  Initially named Fenneman Hall after radio presenter and SFSU alum George Fenneman and renamed for activist and farm worker union organizer Cesar Chavez, the student center is housed in a university with a long history of activism. Students from the Third World Liberation Front and Black Student Union held the longest student strike in U.S. history from November 1968 to March 1969. The strike sought to bring more representation of students and faculty of color at the university, both in enrollment and course materials. This led to the c...