THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO SINCE 1965
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Vol.l LI, V LI No. N 3
MONDAY, MONDAY FEBRUARY FE 2, 2015
MyCoyote upgrade: The lives of Black Butterfly cast yes or no?, pg. 5 fellow Coyotes, pg. 8 ascends, pg. 11
Men’s basketball on the rise, pg. 15 CCBriefs: By MARVIN GARCIA Staff Writer
CSUSB community service earns President’s Honor Roll By JORGE CAMPOS Staff Writer CSUSB’s community service earned President’s Honor Roll status and received national recognition for the eighth year in a row. In 2006, the President of the United States started recognizing higher institutions who provide community service that improves the health, education and surroundings of the community. The Honor Roll’s Presidential Award is the highest federal recognition an insti-
tute can receive for their commitment to serving the community, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service. “The CSUSB volunteers have spent over 82,000 hours of community service,” said CSUSB’s Director of Community Engagement Diane Podolske. CSUSB offered over 145 learning course sections, taught by 91 faculty members, with nearly 2,000 service learning students addressing community needs, work-study programs in the community of San Bernardino.
“From 2013-2014, more than 1,370 0 CSUSB students participated in the uni-versity’s 145 course selections that offered d a service learning component,” said Podol-ske. CSUSB also participates in more than n 500 partnerships with local non profit,, school districts and government organiza-tions. Faculty takes part in community ser-vice by developing opportunities for com-munity engagement including servicee learning fellowships and community-based d Continued on Pg. 3
Counselor program among best in the nation By DANNI YBARRA Staff Writer
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The CSUSB counseling program has been recognized for its efforts to educate.
The CSUSB Counselor and Guidance Graduate Program has been named one of the top 25 in the nation. Graduateprograms.com, an online graduate studies guide built for students, ranked CSUSB against over 1500 other schools such as USC, Loyola University, and Boston College, as having a leading counselor education program. “I was impressed, not surprised, and very pleased”, said Dr. Lorraine Hedtke, head of the program.
“We expanded our program m about two years ago, so that we’ree no longer just training counsel-ors for educational counseling butt we’re also training counselors forr general counseling degrees and d I think that’s what put us on thee map”, continued Hedtke. The program focuses on both h academic guidance and therapeuticc counseling which allows studentss to be well versed in those fields. Data used to rank the schoolss was collected from Sep. 1, 2012 2 to Sep. 30, 2014 and was madee up of research on current graduatee student’s scholarships and sociall media patterns, according to gradu-Continued on Pg. 2
From boiled to unboiled (Jan. 23) Researchers at UC Irvine have found a way to reverse a hard-boiled egg to its original state. According to ChemBioChem, a peer-reviewed chemical biology journal, this is an innovation that could reduce costs for cancer treatment, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry. For example, there will be further research on protein production, pharmaceutical companies will be able to advance in cancer antibody development by reforming proteins, and farmers will able to achieve more bang for their buck. Pet rises from the dead (Jan. 27) A Florida cat who seemed to have been hit by a car, and found in a pool of blood, clawed his way out of his buried grave, earning the name “zombie cat.” “I open the door and my neighbor’s standing there with the cat in her hand. She said, ‘Bart is not dead,’ and he then responded, “The is impossible! We buried Bart,” said Hutson. The cat was rushed to the animal hospital, where Bart was treated for injuries, which resulted in severe head trauma, a broken jaw, and a dead eye. Anti-gay proposal threats with arrest (Jan. 25) Oklahoma state officials will be prohibited from issuing marriage licenses to straight and gay couples if a proposal by state representative Todd Russ passes. According to the Huffington Post, politicians opposing equal marriage are also threatening to ban all marriage licenses if the Supreme Court rules in favor of gay union. Student assaults professor over use of phone (Nov. 26) A New Jersey high school student was charged with assault after having tackled his physics professor for taking his cell phone. A video shows the student wrapping his arms around the professor and throwing him onto the desk where they wrestled before the professor was slammed to the floor. The student was suspended and arrested on Jan. 16 at his home and charged with third-degree aggravated assault. Birth control can cause rare brain tumors (Jan. 22) A rare form of brain cancer known as Glioma is said to be caused by the frequent use of hormonal contraceptives. According to CBS News, a Danish study revealed that five out of every 100,000 Danish women between the ages of 15 and 49 developed the condition after using birth control pills.