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CSU needs to further address bottleneck courses Students, beware: registration appointments are lurking.

As students prepare to select classes for next semester, those who need to take bottleneck courses, classes that are needed for graduation but are often struggling.

Acur iew cording to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the Cal State University has 1,294 bottleneck courses throughout its 23-campus system.

Reasons for the high number of bottleneck courses include a lack of veteran professors and high enrollment demands, according to the Press-Telegram.

In addition, students retaking courses they had previously failed sons for the high bottleneck course numbers.

Approximately 36 percent of all bottleneck courses are in the science, technology, engineering and

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How can students graduate on-time when courses necessary Given that graduation rates are linked to a student’s ability to successfully complete bottleneck courses, we are concerned with the limited number of courses available.

To help students get these necessary classes, more sections of bottleneck courses should be made available, and in order to do that, more faculty — especially tenure-track faculty — must be hired.

Instead of allowing the problem to affect more students, the state

should provide more funding to the CSU to hire additional faculty.

If more faculty were hired, more sections of courses would be offered.

To combat this problem of bottleneck courses, the CSU has started offering more online courses to meet the increasing demand.

Although the online courses may help some students, we wonder if they alone can resolve the problem.

After all, online courses lack the face-to-face interaction with

professors and students, which, in our opinion, could mean lowerStudents are paying thousands of dollars to attend these classes.

Perhaps online courses can provide a temporary solution to address bottleneck courses.

But to fully eliminate the issue, the CSU needs to offer more inperson sections of these courses.

Letter tO the editOr October is Mental Health Awareness month.

Though one in four people currently live with a Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM5), the diagnosis can be highly stigmatizing and even traumatizing.

Major depression, panic disorder and mental health disorders arising from anxiety typically yield more understanding and compassion than other severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

All of these conditions are the result of a lapse in mental health.

The exact cause of mental illness still eludes science and has been narrowed to the complex product of genetic and environmental factors.

The fact is that mental illness can affect anyone.

We are a group of social workers earning our master’s degrees with a specialization in mental health here at Cal State Long Beach.

Our goal is two-fold.

Daily 49er Kristine McGowan Editor in Chief eicd49er@gmail.com (562) 985-7998 Courtney Tompkins Managing Editor Rabiya Hussain News Editor Crystal Niebla Asst. News Editor Joann Row Asst. News Editor Daniel Serrano City Editor Donn Gruta Asst. City Editor Andrew Spencer Asst. City Editor Shane Newell Opinions Editor Asst. Opinions Editor Jovanna Madrigal

We want to investigate the interplay between mental illness and substance use and implement a community intervention that highlights our research.

After a review of academic literature and a series of interviews among people experiencing mental illness, community members and mental health service providers, we found that more than half of all people with a mental illness will develop a substance dependence in their lifetime.

We observed that community members often overlook the pre-existing mental illness and fail to see drug use as a possible coping mechanism, but rather as the cause of mental deterioration.

We uncovered the constraints that bind agencies when treating a person for whom substance use and mental health are a debilitating issue.

New, recovery-based mental health agencies, designed to assist people who are experiencing psychological distress and an often accompanying substance dependence, need support and funding.

Sadly, many people struggling with the dual

diagnosis of a severe mental illness and substance abuse are denied service when seeking treatment.

The mental health agency wants the client to usually with powerful antipsychotic medication.

Auditors positioned higher in the mental health bureaucracy will confront agencies as to why their services are not producing a desired, documentable outcome.

The future of agencies is often tied to clients’ compliance with programs; as a result, intake is complete the program successfully and not necessarily by the acute need of the dually diagnosed person.

Currently, the largest public mental health facility is the Los Angeles County Jail, where mental distress is likely to escalate while incarcerated.

Also, ninety percent of suicides are associated

with a mental health condition.

People with a severe, but treatable, mental illness die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness.

Fifty percent of youth with a mental health condition in special education will drop out of school.

We hope for a sweeping change in the way we think about mental health and illness. We need a human shift in attitude, understanding and compassion.

Funds allotted to mental health provisions would make an enormous difference in the entire community. New mental health agencies would not bring crime, drugs and prostitution but would attitudes and voices will shape the future world in which we live and, more importantly, the way we live with one another.

Noemi Alsup, Alisa Aslanyan, Jimmy Cabrera Jr., Melissa Chan, Jenny Moon and Scott Senger are graduate social work students at CSULB.

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Campus Voice Have you been impacted by bottleneck courses at Cal State Long Beach? If so, how?

“I get early registration. I’ve never had any trouble.”

- Kirsten Anderson, senior criminal justice major

“I’m in the University Honors Program. That would suck [if the courses I needed were impacted].”

- Clara Chang, freshman pre-nursing major

“This is my first year. I haven’t really thought about registration at all.”

- Stephanie Khoeun, undeclared freshman

“For me, my major is small. If a class fills up quickly, you’re pretty much screwed. If you get behind, you stay behind.”

- Todd Marcus, junior engineering technology major

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