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Volume 123 / Issue 31
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Humanities, Social Sciences dean resigns STEPHEN GREEN Editor-in-Chief The dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences has signed his letter of resignation, according to university officials. Provost Dr. Jaimie Hebert said the long-time professor and dean John de Castro, Ph.D. will no longer be dean effective Aug. 31. Hebert said de Castro stepped down because “he’s ready” and it was the right time for he and his family. De Castro gathered his staff
to tell them and turned in his resignation l e t t e r immediately before his trip to China on university business. Hebert said de Castro DE CASTRO “won’t be easy to replace.” Hebert and his staff are currently contacting faculty to find an interim dean until a proper search can be conducted. De Castro is the third dean to
resign in the last year. Genevieve Brown, Ph.D., stepped down as the dean of the College of Education in preparation for her reitrement. Roberta Sloan, Ph.D., resigned after only six months as the dean of the College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication due to personal reasons which were never disclosed. The search for the new CHSS dean will begin in August after a committee is put together. Currently, the education dean search is still ongoing. Ronald Shields, Ph.D., will take over the College of Fine Arts and Mass
Communication effective July 1. De Castro earned his B.S. in psycology from Northeastern University in 1969 before earning his doctorate in experimental psychology from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 1974. He was a professor at Georgia State University from 1974 to 2003. He then moved to El Paso where he served at the University of Texas brach as the chair of the department of psychology before being hired by SHSU in 2006. Hebert said de Castro will not be done at the university though. He will continue on as a faculty
member in the deparment of psychology. The CHSS encompasses the departments of communication studies, english, family and consumer sciences, history, psychology and philosophy, political science, sociology, and foreign languages. De Castro has served on several committees and projects on behalf of the university including serving on several dean search committees including the one that chose Shields where he served as chair. The interim dean is not chosen.
Politics
Obama loses big because on controversy KOLBY FLOWERS Contributing Reporter President Barack Obama’s approval rating dropped 8 percentage points over the past month, to 45 percent, the lowest rating the president has received in more than a year and a half, according to a new national poll. The poll, conducted by CNN/ ORC International, was released Monday morning after several controversies have rocked the White House over the past few weeks and put the Obama administration on the defensive. The decline stems from the president’s reaction to a massive government surveillance program, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of tea party and other conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, the handling of last September’s attack in Benghazi that left the US ambassador to Libya and three other American’s dead, and the Justice Department’s secret collection of journalists’ phone records as part of a government investigation into classified leaks. For the first time in his presidency, half of Americans say they don’t believe President Barack Obama is honest and trustworthy, the poll shows. Americans are split on the controversial National Security Agency’s anti-terrorism program to record metadata on phone calls made in the United States, but they support the NSA program that targets records of Internet usage by people in other countries. Six in 10 polled believe that government is so large and powerful that it threatens the rights of freedoms of ordinary
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ROUGH FEW MONTHS. Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, US President Barack Obama and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend a media conference regarding EU-US trade at the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
Americans. The number of Americans who think Obama is honest has dropped nine points over the past month, to 49 percent. Fifty-seven percent of those questioned say they disagree with the president’s views on the size and power of the federal government, and 53 percent say he cannot manage the government effectively. Despite these numbers, fifty-two percent
say the president is a strong and decisive leader. The president’s approval rating stands down from 53 percent in mid-May. Up nine points from last month, 54 percent of Americans say they disapprove of how Obama is handling his job. Nearly half of the public says that the Obama administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties to fight terrorism,
with over a third saying the administration has been about right. 17 percent say it has not gone far enough. With regards to the current NSA program, fifty-one percent say gathering phone records is the right thing to do. Just eight percent of all American’s think the government has collected their personal data and is using it to investigate them. More than half
say they think the government has collected their data and stored it somewhere without analyzing it with a third who believe the government has not collected and stored any of their personal phone or Internet records. The poll was conducted on 1014 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
Didn’t find Hoffa, yet A backhoe arrives on the scene as Robert Foley, center, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit division, addresses the media with Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, right, in Oakland Township, Mich., Monday where officials search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy
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Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team survey an area . The search follows claims made in February by reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli, who told Detroit TV station WDIV that he knew where Hoffa was buried.