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The Sustainability Fund Allocation Committee has selected 13 student-created sustainability projects for the spring semester, rewarding $68,914. For the entire fiscal year, 18 projects were awarded $79,586. Some of the projects chosen were off-campus endeavors, including the improvement of the pre-existing Adventure Outings Yurt, a small dwelling structure located in Butte Meadows. One planned on-campus project is the creation and distribution of ceramic water filters, which will eventually be shared with a community in Honduras. The Sustainable Engineering and Environmental Health for Development student group is attempting to connect with communities abroad regarding the project. Additional funding will also go to the annual This Way to Sustainability conference which will be held March 2012.
DECISIONS Chico State President Paul Zingg interviews at San Diego State Thursday for the position of president at the southern California school.
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The California State University Board of Trustees will announce next week whether Chico State President Paul Zingg beat out the competition for the San Diego State presidential vacancy. The other finalists for the position are Elliot Hirshman, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and
Steven Leath, vice president for research and sponsored programs in the University of North Carolina system. The three candidates will take turns touring the campus this week, with Zingg’s tour scheduled for Thursday, according to an update released by the board. The trustees will then announce a final decision for the position. The CSU Board of Trustees reached out to Zingg with similar offers in the past.
Campus reacts to Osama bin Laden’s death
Baldrick’s Foundation
Ben Mullin STAFF WRITER
source: Student Announcements
Students intent on graduating in spring 2012 must submit their graduation applications and pay their application fee by May 15. Those who submit their applications after this time are subject to a late fee. Failure to pay the fee may result on a hold on accounts. If there are any issues with an application the evaluations office will send notice to the student’s Wildcat email address. Submit the application to http://www. csuchico.edu/evaluations/
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BALD IS BEAUTIFUL Jaypinderpal Virdee [left], sophomore communications major and A.S. commisioner of community aff airs, Juan Blanco [middle], residential community coordinator of north campus, and Suzanne Perrin, junior agriculture education major, all went bald for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
Shaving heads while saving lives Allison Weeks
source: Campus Calendar
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Twenty-three people shaved their heads to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation Saturday. St. Baldrick’s is a non-profit organization that raises the second-most amount of money for childhood cancer research, behind only the federal government, said Price Peterson, event coordinator, Sutter Hall RA and senior journalism major. The event was put on by Sutter Hall resident advisers along with resident advisers from different communities, he said.
Catch the last few days of the 56th annual Student Exhibition, ending Sunday, May 15 in the University Art Gallery in Taylor Hall. The exhibition includes a variety of student pieces selected by Kevin B. Chen, artist and program director for the Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Twenty-one pieces by 17 artists were chosen. Fifty-four student artists submitted 80 pieces into the exhibition. Different media were included such as ceramics, printmaking, photography, sculpture and digital media. The pieces that showed the most diverse approaches and concepts were selected. For more information about the gallery, visit http:// www.csuchico.edu/art/ galleries/univgallery.html
“I was encouraged to interview shortly after the position was announced late last fall, but I declined,” Zingg said. “Someone, and I still don’t know who, went ahead and nominated me anyway, which I found out in March.” After the nomination, Zingg consulted friends for advice and chose to follow through, he said. Zingg is attracted to San Diego State more for its similarities to Chico State than its >> please see ZINGG | A7
“By shaving our heads, we show solidarity not just to kids who have cancer, but just people in general who are fighting cancer,” Peterson said. Before the event, the Sutter Hall RAs raised $4,300, more than the $3,000 goal, Peterson said. “For St. Baldrick’s, you have to be a little more outgoing and kind of have to be more aggressive when it comes to your fundraising tactics,” he said. Calling and emailing people was necessary to fundraise, but like Up ’til Dawn, contacts are limited to friends and family, >> please see BALD | A6
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The world’s most wanted terrorist is dead. Somewhere in between the spokes of the 24-hour news cycle lie the thoughts and opinions of Chico State students. To the veterans and Middle East natives at Chico State, Osama bin Laden’s death does not represent the conclusion of a war or the beginning of a backlash — just the end of one criminal. For A.S. President Amro Jayousi, a senior political science major who immigrated to Chico State from Palestine, bin Laden’s death was not cause for elation, but reflection on the legacy of a man who popularized nonproductive, violent protest. “Hardly ever is the murder of someone a reason to celebrate,” Jayousi said. Jayousi, who joined the speech and debate team and wrote an opinion column on related topics for The Orion, was able to articulate and defend himself from people who discriminated against middle easterners following al-Qaida’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, he said. “I was armed with the history and the tools to speak about it,” he said. Students from the Middle East who cannot speak English very well do not have the same luxury, Jayousi said. “The average Middle Eastern student who’s powerless, who can’t respond when his nation is called terrorist — that’s the person I have sympathy for,” he said. Some Middle Eastern students, like Hussain Alkhalifah, who have endured bigotry because of bin Laden’s legacy of violence, were relieved to hear bin Laden had died. “A lot of people, especially people from Saudi, were happy,” Alkhalifah said. Many of Alkhalifah’s Muslim friends went from trusted members of the community to social outcasts overnight, he said. “It’s just hard to believe how this whole thing turned their lives upside down,” Alkhalifah said. >> please see OSAMA | A6
Students have misconceptions about Meriam Library usage Teresa De Luz A SST. NE WS EDITOR
source: Campus Announcements
Students may be judging a book by its cover when it comes to the homeless and other nonstudent community members who visit Meriam Library. The misconception about the campus library is that it’s only for students and that nonstudents don’t have the right to the library, said Kathleen Purvis, student personnel and building manager of Meriam Library. It is true some homeless community members come to sleep
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or read books, she said. “We have community members who visit the library, who are regulars, and they pretty much keep to themselves,” Purvis said. Community members are welcome in the library, and those who may not look like students are not necessarily homeless, she said. “We don’t make distinctions if they are homeless or not, but if anyone, student or otherwise, are causing problems or we see someone who we are uncertain of, we will do something about it,” Purvis said.
Because Meriam Library holds government documents for reference, it is required to be open to the public, she said. Members of the general public are allowed to apply for a library card if they are a local resident, over the age of 18, have a Social Security number and a valid driver’s license. Complaints by students about homeless people in the library are rare, said Natalie Adams, junior environmental health science major and circulations reserve student supervisor who works in the library.
“I have only had one complaint so far about someone feeling uncomfortable about a homeless person, but no one really seems to mind,” Adams said. While there have been few complaints about distracting behaviors, some students have noticed outside community members but don’t mind them, said Marissa Madrid, junior animal science major who frequents the second floor of the library. Last Monday, Madrid was studying with a friend and noticed what she thought was
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an older student sleeping. “It was really silent and he let out this loud snore that woke himself up and he realized he was a distraction, I think, but he packed up his stuff and left,” she said. The man’s appearance led Madrid to think he was homeless. “It was kind of weird to see, but they never do anything bad or cause trouble,” she said. “It’s just a quiet place to come chill out and read.” Teresa De Luz can be reached at tdeluz@theorion.com