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Academic Senate, California Faculty Association petition to ‘Rebuild the CSU’
Coyote Hills development causes mixed reactions throughout community
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On the northeast tip of the densely populated city of Fullerton lies 582 acres of natural habitat. The preservation of this land, known as Coyote Hills, remains a key issue to local Fullerton residents, causing mixed emotions throughout the community. Coyote Hills consists of 510 acres of open space and a 72-acre nature park. The remaining acreage is what is left of an oil field owned by the Chevron-Texaco Company. This year, Pacific Coast Homes, a company owned by the Chevron-Texaco family, will build a 160-acre planned community in Coyote Hills. The plan, known as West Coyote Hills, consists of 760 housing units and 350 acres of open space. Don Means, a Chevron Land & Development contractor, said that this is part of the Coyote Hills master plan that was approved by the city in 1977. The West Coyote Hills planned community has been in the works for several years now and still may undergo some changes. “Our original plan, 1,100 housing units, was reduced to 760 housing units in order to preserve a significant amount of open space,” Means said. “This plan will not have any affect on the 72-acre nature park. We plan on building eight miles of trails for mountain biking and horse back riding. We also plan on setting aside five of the highest points of open space for trails to a gazebo so residents can enjoy the view.” Local mountain bikers are concerned that the popular trail, the Fullerton loop, will be affected by the West Coyote Hills plan. “We are going to expand Fullerton loop by adding some additional trails,” Means said. “The city also asked us to fix it up the trail by adding some design work.” Business management student Russ Gramstad, 23, an active mountain biker, has mixed emotions about the new West Coyote Hills development. “As a mountain biker I’d be happy to see Chevron open up the land to allow access for trail users, but as a Fullerton resident I don’t think it’s worth it to have more houses built,” Gramstad said. “It will just add to the traffic and population.” Although many prospective homebuyers are in favor of the West Coyote Hills plan, there are Fullerton residents who are unhappy about the new development plan. The Coyote Hills Organization is the key group in opposition to the plan. According to the Coyote Hills Organization Web site, “it is imperative that the last existing native habitat areas be given the complete and total protection and restoration that they must have in order to remain healthy and selfsustaining.” The Web site said that west Coyote Hills is scheduled to be “destroyed” by homes and development. It also said that west Coyote Hills is the last remaining natural area in Fullerton and its surrounding communities. The Web site adds that West Coyote Hills is the home to over 130 different forms of wildlife, including some endangered species. Despite strong opposition the West Coyote Hills plan is still on the agenda for 2005. “They [the Coyote Hills Organization] have the right to voice their opinion,” Means said. “I don’t have one particular feeling or another.” Means said that Chevron is setting aside a financial endowment for restoring the open space and its natural habitat. “We are looking at all sides and trying to find a balance,” Means said. “We want to satisfy the large amount of people who want to buy a home, but save a significant amount of open space.”
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As of 1998, the Higher Education Act disqualifies all students who have had minor drug convictions from receiveing financial aid, whereas people who have been found guilty of rape or murder are still potential candidates.
Over the last three years, the California State University system’s budget has been cut by more than $500 million. The chancellor of the CSU system agreed to the budget cuts proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in order to help fund other necessary California programs. In exchange for this agreement, the Governor promised to increase funding to CSUs in future years. At last week’s CSUF Academic Senate meeting , CSUF Sociology Professor Gangadharappa Nanjundappa presented a petition to all senate members to “Rebuild the CSU.” He submitted the petition on behalf of and as a member of the California Faculty Association, a group that represents the interests of the CSU faculty. His appeal to the senate requested that they join the lobbying effort with fellow faculty in order to ask the governor for more system funding. “This is to let the governor know that these budget cuts can’t continue,” said Nanjundappa. “He needs to honor the master plan to allow us to provide quality, affordable education.” The governor recently agreed to allocate funds as part of the chancellor’s “Compact on Higher Education” and the CSU system expects a modest increase in its budget for the
2005-06 school year, said Clara Potes-Fellow, spokesperson for the CSU. “The battle now is to make sure the legislature accepts the governor’s budget that was signed by the chancellor,” she said. According to the CFA’s Web site, over 15,000 potential students were denied admittance to CSU campuses in 2004-05 due to limited funding. Even with the proposed increase in budget for next year, it’s expected that 25,000 more students will not be accepted. According to the Web site, it would take four years of increases just to get back to the same funding level prior to the budget cuts. “Our primary concern is access,” says Nanjundappa. “Ideally, all eligible students should be able to attend a CSU.” The budget cutbacks affect many aspects of CSU campuses. Both new and current students may feel the impact. The governor’s CSU budget for 200506 includes an estimated $25 million in new student fees, and another estimated $75 million in tuition increases for current students. “The budget affects the CSU’s ability to attract and retain students,” said Diana Guerin, a CSUF child family and community service instructor who is also a member of the CFA. “We’re worried about how long we can keep up campus quality and access with declining funding.” She said that the budget has affected CSUF directly. In one way, decreased funding reduces the number of custodians, groundskeepers and maintenance staff.
Felons qualify for aid, drug users don’t Athletes exposed to the severity of sexual assault Amendment to Higher Education Act affects 160,000 students By Julie Kim Daily Titan Staff
Rapists, murderers and other convicts qualify for financial aid, but students – including ones at Cal State Fullerton – with even minor drug arrests are ineligible, according to a 1998 amendment in the Higher Education Act. The drug provision, authored by Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana, states that convicted first-time drug possessors are banned from receiving aid for one year, second-time possessors and first-time distributors for two years and third-time possessors and secondtime distributors for an “indefinite” time. “About 160,000 students have been affected by this provision since it went into effect,” said Tom Angell, communications director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a non-profit organization that educates on some of the harms caused by the war on
drugs. He added that the number excludes those who didn’t apply at all because of question No. 31 on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which asks whether the “student [has] ever been convicted of possessing or selling illegal drugs.” The amendment to the HEA, also known as subsection (r) of Section 484, does allow students to re-qualify prior to their ineligibility period if they pass two random drug tests and go through rehabilitation. But “people who can’t afford tuition definitely can’t afford private treatment,” Angell said, adding that the law doesn’t fund rehab. The Higher Education Act passed in 1965 and was developed to help low to middle-income families. Critics, however, say the amendment takes away from HEA’s ability to help underprivileged students. “They’re denying aid to smart kids that are trying to get their lives together,” said David Guard, associate director of Drug Reform Coordination Network, an organization that promotes open debate on drug prohibiaid
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‘One in Four’ educates male students about lasting effects on female rape victims By Carolina Ruiz Daily Titan Staff
Members of the program “One in Four” talked to Cal State Fullerton’s male athletes to educate them on sexual assault, the psychological effects of these acts, and how they can help the victims of sexual assault. The video was held last Tuesday night at the Pollak Library. “One in Four” is a program sponsored by NO MORE, the National Organization of Men’s Outreach for Rape Education, with the purpose of showing men how to help a female friend in the case of rape in order to create a “One in Four” chapter at every campus they visit. “One in Four” was named after the statistic that one out of four college women are raped. The four male graduates from William and Mary College in Virginia that make up this group have been to 25 college campuses in dif-
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ferent states in order to educate young men. The presentation’s highlight was a 20-minute video in which a police officer described the fictitious rape of another policeman by a man. The all male audience is asked to put themselves in the shoes of the victim. In the video, the rape is described vividly, detailing how the male officer is forced to perform oral sex on a second assaulter. The video emphasized how even a strong man can be threatened and frightened through the use of violence. The agent also described how painful and embarrassing the recovery of sexual assault is. At the end of the video, a parallel is made between the raped police officer and women who are raped. “The video was very vivid and eye-opening,” said Steve Nelson, 18, from the track ad field team. “It was really hard to imagine [myself in that situation], but I did imagine.” “One in Four” members listed six ways a man can help a female victim: by helping her get medical care, avoiding violence, listening to her, believing her, helping her regain control assault
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Campus welcomes alumnus art show Former student wrestler seeks alternate career after suffering shoulder injury By Noura Al Anbar Daily Titan Staff
A group of art lovers gathered around large ceramic and clay sculptures and paintings in the California State Fullerton Visual Arts Center to celebrate the opening of a retrospective featuring artist Jesse Standlea’s past five years of work. The showcase will remain open through March 11 and will then be shown in Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-five-year-old Standlea was formerly a CSUF student interested in wrestling. He said that after he hurt his shoulder and couldn’t wres-
tle anymore, he dropped out of school and that’s when his art career started to bloom. “I wanted to be ready to go into the world, so I slowly took classes. I dropped out of school when I couldn’t wrestle anymore,” Standlea said. “I’ve been painting ever since I was a little kid. Both my aunts were painters. But I got serious about it when I wasn’t able to wrestle anymore.” Standlea said that since 1999 he has traveled to France, Japan, Thailand, Italy, Australia and China to work on his paintings and sculptures, and is the featured artist at the Co-Op Gallery in Costa Mesa. “We try to get exposure and experience for emerging art students without a lot of experience working with galleries,” said Stephen Crout, the director of Co-Op. “Immediately, people started noticing Jesse’s sculptures and it just brought another life to the environment.”
Standlea recently created a public sculpture for the city of Santa Ana and said from time to time he conducts workshops for different colleges. “From what I’ve noticed, there is a lot of energy,” said Alex Herrerah, executive director of Co-Op. “It shows in the way he carries himself, it shows in the way he executes his artwork and the way he puts together his exhibition.” Most of Standlea’s paintings and sculptures seem to have been influenced by Asian culture. Some of the art displayed included clay and ceramic sculptures of sun goddesses, paintings of colorful geisha girls, temple girls and temple paintings. “The Asian culture interests me so much, maybe because of the immigration coming in to California from Asia,” Standlea said. “It’s part art
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Alumnus artist Jesse Standlea said he doesn’t limit himself to one kind of medium at his show in the Exit Gallery Saturday.
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Begin pullback in Lebanon MDEIREJ, Lebanon – Syrian soldiers loaded trucks with furniture and other supplies and drove east from the Lebanese mountain posts they have held for decades, the first signs of a redeployment to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley announced Monday. But no deadline was set for their complete withdrawal, and Washington rejected the pullback as insufficient. Lacking a timeline, the plan also was unlikely to satisfy the Lebanese opposition and the international community, which have demanded that all 14,000 Syrian soldiers leave the country.
Insurgent attacks in Iraq leave 33 dead BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi insurgents set off bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at military convoys, checkpoints and police patrols in a spate of violence Monday that killed 33 people and wounded dozens. The terror group Al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Abu Musab alZarqawi, claimed responsibility for much of the bloodshed.
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Proposals to increase minimum wage fails WASHINGTON – The Senate defeated dueling proposals Monday to raise the $5.15-an-hour minimum wage – one backed by organized labor, the other salted with pro-business provisions – in a day of skirmishing that reflected Republican gains in last fall’s elections. Both plans fell well short of the 60 votes needed to advance, and signaled that prospects for raising the federal wage floor, unchanged since 1996, are remote during the current two-year Congress. “I believe that anyone who works 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year should not live in poverty in the richest country in the world,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., arguing for the Democratic proposal to increase the minimum wage by $2.10 over the next 26 months. Republicans countered with a smaller increase, $1.10 in two steps over 18 months, they said would help workers without hampering the creation of jobs needed to help those with low skills. “Wages do not cause sales. Sales are needed to provide wages. Wages do not cause revenue. Revenue drives wages,” said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo.
Bolton tapped to be next U.N. ambassador WASHINGTON – John R. Bolton, a tough-talking arms control official who rarely muffles his views in diplomatic niceties, was chosen Monday by President Bush to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Senate Democrats immediately assailed the nomination, arguing that it didn’t make sense for the president to pick a diplomat who has sometimes been critical of the world body at a time when mending fences with the international community was imperative. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Bolton’s selection sent “all the wrong signals.” Syrian Troops
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Jackson accused of showing children porn SANTA MARIA – The younger brother of Michael Jackson’s accuser described for jurors in graphic detail Monday how he twice saw the pop star grope the child while the young boy lay sleeping in Jackson’s bed at his Neverland Ranch. The brother also testified that Jackson showed them Internet sex sites, gave them wine, slept in bed with them and appeared before them naked and sexually aroused at the pop star’s Neverland ranch. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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MIAMI - A former stripper once cleared of battering a customer with her enormous breasts sold one of her silicone implants on eBay to the same company that recently bought a grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary. Internet casino company GoldenPalace.com won the bid for the infamous implant at $16,766 on Saturday, according to the eBay Web site and the seller, known professionally as Tawny Peaks. She advertised a 69-HH bra size before her implants were removed in 1999. There was no word yet on what the online gambling company planned to do with the implant. Last year Golden Palace paid $28,000 for a 10-year-old, partly eaten grilled cheese sandwich with an image many likened to the Virgin Mary. The company sent the sandwich on a national publicity tour, encased in clear plastic. Peaks has retired from the entertainment business, and put one of the implants up for auction last week. She said she was overwhelmed and exhausted by the flood of e-mailed bids.
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“The physical appearance of the campus is starting to show its age. The bathrooms could be cleaner, some sidewalks are crumbling, printers in certain labs don’t work,” she said. “We feel good about the overall quality of the campus, but we’re concerned about the nearfuture.” Students may notice construction going on around campus. But, Guerin said, the new structures come from different pots of funding. State allocated money for capital
New law mandates no B.O. in San Luis Obispo SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - A new county law aims to keep readers from reeking. Libraries in San Luis Obispo County have had their own rules banning offensive body odor since 1994, but the policy became law after the Board of Supervisors last month adopted an ordinance that lets authorities kick out malodorous guests. Visitors to 14 libraries and a bookmobile also could be asked to leave for fighting, eating, drinking, sleeping, playing games, and printing or viewing illegal materials on library computers. “The point is to make the library a comfortable, safe place for everyone to use,” said Moe McGee, assistant director of the San Luis Obispo City-County Library. A strict code of conduct, officials argue, is needed to ensure one patron’s right to use a public library doesn’t infringe on the rights of another. Yet the law can raise tough questions for librarians, said Irene Macias, Santa Barbara’s library services manager. “What is bad odor?” Macias asked. “A woman who wears a strong perfume? A person who had a garlicky meal?”
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Support the CSUF Geography Club by going to Jojo’s Pizza Kitchen at 20355 Yorba Linda Blvd. today from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.. Download a flier at http://geography.fullerton. edu/club/club.htm and help out the club by purchasing a pizza or calzone to-go or dine-in.
Refreshments will be served at the International Women’s Day “Women Hold Up Half they Sky” exhibit today. The event will take place in the West Gallery of the Visual Arts Center from noon to 2 p.m. Need help with your resume? Head to LH-210G and learn “How to Write the Perfect Resume”. The seminar will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. today. If you are graduating this semester, go to LH-210G for “Adjusting to the 8 to 5 World: Surviving Your First Year on the Job” to prepare yourself for a full-time job, today from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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The American Red Cross is holding a blood drive at the El Toro campus today. The drive will take place from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the TSU lounge. The blood mobile will be located outside University
improvement, such as new campus buildings, sometimes proves insufficient. The new arts and business buildings have been re-engineered with cheaper designs than originally planned because by the time the projects were actually approved by the state, the price of steel and other costs had risen outside of the proposed project budget, Guerin said. Cheaper designs saved some money, and the difference is obtained through other means, like fundraising. Other projects are paid for with student fees, such as the increase in parking permit costs, which provided funding for the new parking structure.
The CFA’s petition is to request additional funding. According to their Web site, the budget outlined in the compact falls short of meeting CSU budget needs. Those who support the petition effort hope to gain additional money for a 1.5 percent increase in enrollment growth, a 1.5 percent increase in the CSU base budget, reduced class size and student-faculty ratio and an end to next year’s scheduled campus-wide tuition increase. The governor’s proposed CSU budget increase is $110 million. The CFA aims to add $181 million to that figure through this lobbying effort.
Police. Students can sign up in the Student Affairs room 101. Walk-ins welcome. A CSUF professor emeriti will present “Russian History” today in the Mackey Auditorium at the Ruby Gerontology Center. The program will take place from noon to 1 p.m. No registration is necessary and the event is free and open to the public. There will be a variety of lectures today in the Mackey Auditorium at the Ruby Gerontology Center. “The Best of the Eclectics” will take place from 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. No registration is necessary and the event is open to the public free of charge. Sing your heart out in the TSU Pub today. If you don’t feel like singing you can read poetry or recite your favorites jokes. From noon to 1 p.m. the TSU is holding its Open Mic Series. The “Titan Pride” Bowling League begins today. The league lasts for 8 weeks and costs $13.25 each week. The event is open to anyone. Every Tuesday in the TSU Undertground from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. the winners are awarded cash prizes. All events are free and on campus unless otherwise indicated. If you would like to have a specific entry put in the calendar section, please send an e-mail to news@dailytitan.com.
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Assembly Member Liu introduces several bills to increase funding By Stefanie Franklin Daily Titan Staff
Assembly member Carol Liu says she cares about higher education in California, and she’s recently introduced several bills she says prove it. In December, Liu introduced AB 23, which pertains to community college finance. Essentially, the bill would replace the existing Donahoe Higher Education Act, which mandates that community colleges provide certain remedial and adult instruction. Liu’s proposed bill would lift the mandate and let community colleges decide to offer those classes if there is sufficient funding.
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of her life and being aware of his own limitations. There are different reasons why the program targets young males. “Ninety-nine percent of rape offenders are males,” said group member Matt Roosevelt, citing a U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey. “Ninety percent of the rape survivors are women.” Roosevelt added that 80 percent of the time, women are raped by a man they’ve known for more than
The bill outlines three goals for community colleges. The goals are to increase lower-division instruction for students transferring to four-year schools, provide job training and occupational courses, and to offer additional adult literacy classes. State funding would be allocated to these programs. Currently, community college funding is determined by full-time equivalent (FTE) student attendance counts, per district. AB 23 proposes a different funding approach, where districts get similar allocations based on the number of community college facilities within each, including the total amount of students. “Community colleges have historically differed in the amount of funding each district receives,” said Scott Lay of the California Community College League. “Another inequity [with the current funding system] is that it caps the number of students that the districts
can admit to the schools.” Candice Chung, press secretary for Assembly member Liu, said community colleges are treated as an extension of the K-12 system, and the current program funds them as such. “Assembly member Liu’s bill would establish funding for community colleges on par with UC and Cal State schools,” she said. Another of Liu’s bills, AB 196, was submitted in January and aims to update current higher education accountability policies. The language will now explain that the California Postsecondary Education Commission will need to provide detailed reports to the state regarding educational statistics from each community college. These reports will provide “a method for evaluating each segment’s progress toward meeting specific goals, objectives and benchmarks,” as noted in the proposed AB 196 text.
Liu comments on her website, “The current policy has contributed to uneven and inadequate funding for our community colleges, effectively limiting access to higher education for Californians throughout the state. We need to recognize the important role that community colleges play in the higher education system and make sure they are adequately funded.” There are five specific goals that AB 196 outlines to measure accountability by. The bill will monitor schools’ ability to provide accessible education to all Californians, which should be affordable and provide equal enrollment opportunities for a diverse population. Student success will also be measured, in addition to the community’s benefits from the school, and cost-effectiveness. Provisions will create the ability for the state to examine school performance. One particular provision reads that one intent of the bill
is the “improve participation rates of students from all income level, improve the transfer of students between institutions and improve graduation rates,” from the text of AB 196. AB 473 is a piece of legislation that was introduced a few weeks ago regarding community college student fee policies. It would guarantee no further community college tuition fee increases through the school year of 2006 to 2007. For any alterations to the tuition schedule, the decision would have to be made early in the school year and communicated to students by the summer before the new semester. Per AB 473, any exceptions to the new tuition increase guidelines would need to be authorized by the district’s governing board, and the additional money would be required to go back into the district for education. Liu’s bill would change the fee
system for course audit requests from a set fee to a percentage. Liu also intends to enforce provisions in the California Constitution with this bill that would provide reimbursement to community colleges for fees charged to them in their budget that were mandated by the state. On Feb. 22, Liu introduced AB 1315. It proposes a new plan for helping students pay for textbooks: have the community supplement the costs. As a pilot program, community college students would gain textbook cost assistance from local revenue sources within the community they reside. Last year, Liu passed another textbook bill, which targeted skyrocketing textbook prices. She writes on her Web site that college costs are rising and students are having a difficult time paying for tuition, trying to find available financial aid, and dealing with outrageous book prices.
a year. After seeing the presentation on sexual assault, the men are less likely to commit any form of sexual assault, said Nick Reiter, 22, a member of the group. The presentation is intended to help erase rape myths that many men believe. Some men think women are lying when they say they were raped since the assaulter is someone they know, Reiter said. Also, many men believe women invite men to rape them when they dress provocatively, he said. Group members say the presentation has an affect on the males that
see it. “The group presentation raises empathy for [rape] survivors,” John Mallory said. “Men can understand the severity of rape and understand they can do something to stop it,” Roosevelt said. All male athletes were required to attend to this presentation as part of their semester seminar, said Karyn Magno, acting director of Athletic Academic Services. This presentation served to raise awareness and help males know how to respond if a woman who has been raped asks for their help.
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is trying to repeal the amendment, argued that Souder was just “putting up a smokescreen” because there are so many opponents – even those that originally passed the drug provision. “There was no recorded vote or debate on it,” Angell said. “[Mark Souder] is just a drug warrior with his own agenda. He doesn’t care about making college safer.” One problem of the amendment is that financial aid ineligibility singles out drug-related offenses but not felonies. Additionally, the provision doesn’t differentiate between habitual substance abusers and those trying drugs for the first time. “Judges have always had the ability to take away financial aid for drug convicts,” Guard said. “It [Higher Education Act] wasn’t supposed to be a punishment.” Souder said the drug amendment acts as a deterrent for would-be users. Not true, said Jane Warner, executive director of the California chapter for Partnership for a DrugFree America, adding that the provision doesn’t work because most
students aren’t aware of the law. Although the group takes no official stance on the matter, Warner said that taxpayers’ money probably shouldn’t go to educating active drug users, but that there “should be different options for…those caught with a joint for the first time.” Students have several options other than dropping classes or working more hours to pay for school. At CSUF, rehabilitation is covered through the Student Health Insurance, executive assistant of Associated Students, Inc. Cathy Busby said. She added that students may go through a five-day maximum in-patient treatment and also have benefits of 12 outpatient visits. In addition, the John W. Perry Fund was established to help students who were denied aid. There is no deadline to apply, and applications are available at www.raiseyourvoice.com, Guard said. “Pulling students from school does nothing to stop them from doing drugs,” Angell said. “Education is the best deterrent.”
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tion. CSUF sociology junior Marisa Garcia, who was ticketed for possession of a marijuana pipe in 2000, agreed that students who have been punished already by the law shouldn’t have their rights to pursue an education taken away. Even the amendment’s author admits the policies are harsh. Souder told National Public Radio that the Clinton administration and the U.S. Department of Education misinterpreted his law. The drug provision, he said, was intended for students who received convictions while in school. Martin Green, Souder’s press secretary, declined to comment for this story because of his “distrust of student newspapers,” but told the San Francisco Chronicle that because of the representative’s evangelical Christian background, he’s against punishing people who have corrected their wrongs. But Angell, who along with other organizations such as the NAACP,
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WASHINGTON – The White House said March 7 it was “absurd” for Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to charge that U.S. military forces may have deliberately targeted her car as she was being rushed to freedom. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the car carrying the released hostage was traveling on one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq, to the Baghdad airport, when
it was fired upon. An Italian intelligence officer in the car was shot and killed. Responding to Sgrena’s statement that the car may have been deliberately targeted, McClellan said. “It’s absurd to make any such suggestion, that our men and women in uniform would deliberately target innocent civilians. “That’s just absurd,” McClellan repeated. He said the airport road “has been a place where suicide car bombers have launched attacks. It’s been a place where regime elements have fired upon coalition forces. It is a dangerous road and it is a combat zone that our coalition forces are in. Oftentimes, they have to make split-
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second decisions to protect their own security.” “And we regret this incident,” McClellan added. “We are going to fully investigate what exactly occurred.” Bush called Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on March 4, the day of the shooting, to apologize and to promise a full investigation. In Rome, hundreds of people packed a church March 7 to pay their last respects to the slain intelligence officer, Nicola Calipari. Sgrena, the former hostage whose life Calipari saved, said it was possible they were targeted deliberately because the United States opposes Italy’s policy of negotiating with kidnappers.
Sgrena, 56, left Baghdad in an Italian government plane and was met at the Rome airport by Berlusconi. She was carried off the plane and taken to a hospital. Sgrena had been abducted in Baghdad on Feb. 4. Berlusconi, an ally of the United States who has kept Italian troops in Iraq despite public opposition at home, has demanded an explanation from the United States for the shooting. In Baghdad, U.S. Col. Bob Potter said coalition forces were “aggressively investigating the incident.” The press watchdog group Reporters Without Borders called for a U.N. investigation. A statement by the head of the Paris-based group, Robert Menard,
said the investigation must not be carried out by the U.S. Army, which would risk “exonerating the military.” The circumstances of Sgrena’s release from a month in captivity were unclear. Soon after she was freed, a U.S. armored vehicle opened fire on the car carrying her to the airport. Calipari likely died trying to protect her, she said. The U.S. military said the car she was riding in was speeding as it approached a coalition checkpoint in western Baghdad. Soldiers shot into the engine block only after trying to warn the driver to stop by “hand and arm signals, flashing white lights and firing warning shots,” the military said.
Sgrena, who was interviewed by prosecutors at the Rome hospital, denied that the car was speeding, news reports said. About 200 foreigners have been abducted in Iraq in the past year, and more than 30 of the hostages were killed. Florence Aubenas, a veteran war correspondent for France’s leftist daily newspaper Liberation, and her interpreter, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi, were abducted Jan. 5. Aubenas, 43, pleaded for help in a video that surfaced March 1, saying she was in failing health. The video was the first firm word on the fate of the journalist who previously covered Kosovo, Algeria, Rwanda, and Afghanistan in her 19 years with Liberation.
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Schwarzenegger seeks funds from Manhattan, despite opposition The Associated Press
NEW YORK – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hounded by criticism of his fund-raising methods, on Monday added Manhattan to his traveling fund-raising campaign, flexing his political muscle for a crowd of Republicans with big wallets during a dinner and promising protesters they would have no effect on his plans. “When the special interests push me around, I’ll push back,” Schwarzenegger said to cheers and applause from more than 500 people at a $1,000-a-plate dinner. The event, at a midtown hotel, raised more than $500,000. Schwarzenegger said the protesters who follow him from event to event these days are proof that special interest groups and unions are scrambling because they are upset with his agenda, including plans to privatize the pensions of public employees.
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Janice Hatzfeld creates a glass rose at her glass blowing stand Tuesday at Cal State Fullerton.
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of our culture here. It influenced me a lot.” Standlea’s showcase read like a timeline of paintings, revealing the artist’s experiences throughout his travels. Some of the paintings were not only of people, temples and
“I love that,” he said of the unrest he has unleashed. He called 2005 “the year of the reforms.” “The people of California deserve it,” he said. “America deserves it.” The California governor, aiming to raise at least $50 million this year to promote his ideas to change state government and prepare for a possible re-election run in 2006, spoke after speeches by New York Gov. George Pataki and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Schwarzenegger’s methods are being challenged by a Sacramentobased group, TheRestofUs.org, which has asked the California Fair Political Practices Commission to probe whether it is proper for him to raise donations of unlimited size. The California governor is restricted under state law to collecting no more than $22,300 from each donor, but committees can raise unlimited amounts with ties to the governor. Schwarzenegger has repeatedly said he cannot be bought by special interests. His current fundraising trip, which began Friday in Cincinnati, also will take him to Washington, D.C. objects, but of words that were added to some of the paintings. creating more meaning and enlightenment in the artwork. “It’s interesting making this kind of retrospective show,” Standlea said. “I have been able to categorize all these events in my life; the important events.” The exhibit is on display through March 10.