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Thursday March 22, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Union Authorizes Faculty To Strike A total of 8,129 (81 percent) of union members cast a ballot in the beginning weeks of March, with a 94 percent majority voting in favor of a strike. Tallies for each campus were not available. “We are still in hopes of reachBy yvonne villarreal Daily Titan Staff Writer ing a settlement,” Travis said. news@dailytitan.com “But the vote demonstrates a faculty that is fed up and a faculty ready to walk off the job.” After weeks of voting across CaliThe labor negotiating period, fornia State University’s 23 campus- required under state law, ends es, California Faculty Association Monday—ten days after the factmembers overwhelmingly voted in finding report favor of a series was issued. The of two-day rollreport contains ing strikes if a recommendaI call upon Chancellor contract settletions by an inment fails to be Reed to return to the dependent mereached. table ... and settle this diator on how to Results were resolve the concontract. announced tract dispute. We d n e s d a y – Gloria Romero “In the name at Cal State Professor of psychology and of higher eduDominguez Hills union member cation … I call after the Los Anupon Chancelgeles chapter of lor Reed to rethe League of turn to the table Women Voters counted and certified … and settle this contract,” said the ballots. Gloria Romero, union member John Travis, president of the and professor of psychology. union, deemed the event a “historic A two-day rolling strike, where day for faculty” since it marked “the campuses will strike at different first time they [faculty] have voted on whether or not to conduct a strike.” SEE STRIKE - PAGE 3
Rolling strikes could begin as soon as April if negotiations fail
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SILENT SUPPORT - Cal State University students and faculty listen to a press conference at Cal State Dominguez Hills which announced that 94 per cent of Cal State University faculty members voted to hold a two-day rolling strike sometime in April. The strike will be the first in CSU history.
Conference Builds Bridges Between Educators and Community Speakers stress focusing on social worlds rather than ethnicity By colleen barrett
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Cal State Fullerton hosted the first-ever California Latina/o Mental Health Conference to address issues
specific to mental health workers in the Latino community. The theme of the conference was “Building Personalismo (personalism), Simpatia (sympathy), and Competence among Mental Health Providers Serving the Latino Community.” CSUF, the California Latino Psychological Association, the California Psychological Association and Pepperdine University sponsored the conference, which was held March 17 in the Titan Student Union.
“We are trying to capture values within the Latino community that are very important and I think we are really trying to build a bridge between providers and the Latino community,” said Olga Mejia, assistant counseling professor at CSUF and California Latino Psychological Association president. “Quite often there are researchers, there are educators, there are clinicians, and there is the community; and there isn’t a bridge connecting all of us together, so that is what we really wanted to
capture.” The conference began with a keynote address from Steve Lopez, professor of psychology, psychiatry, and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. Lopez discussed a shift from looking at culture as simply ethnicity to instead looking at people’s social worlds. “I encourage you all to challenge yourselves and to challenge your colleagues about cultural notions and about cultural attributions; and to go beyond ethnic labels and really grasp the individual experience,” Lo-
Biology Students Get Research Experience By daralyn schoenewald Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Southern California Ecosystems Research Program is offering undergraduate biology students at Cal State Fullerton a unique opportunity: an independent research project. Director Bill Hoese said SCERP is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology program. “The program is designed to give students research experience and an introduction to the field of ecology and environmental biology. It really helps prepare them for graduate work in those fields,” he said. There are three major components of SCERP, Hoese said. SCERP scholars must complete a summer field course wherein three different types of Southern Califor-
nia environmental habitats are studied, he said. The summer course involves learning about those habitats and ecosystems, then using that knowledge to investigate a short research problem, Hoese said. “One project we did was at Newport Bay. We had to get there really early during low tide. It was hard, but it was also a lot of fun,” said Cory Castro, 24, a biology major and current SCERP scholar. In the fall, SCERP scholars work with one of 13 professors to develop, design and run a research project. They will collect the results of their research, analyze it, present their results at meetings and conferences and write a senior thesis, Hoese said. The third component of the program involves a weekly meeting where issues such as career development and graduate schools are discussed. “We invite researchers to come in
for Latinos. Eduardo Morales, Founder and Executive Director of AGUILAS, an outreach program for gay and bisexual Latinos, hosted the workshop on “Changing the HIV Epidemic.” Morales discussed a new approach to HIV prevention by working “from the ground up” in the community, using tools like the El Ambiente program that specifically targets HIV SEE LATINO - PAGE 3
The Benefits of Even Higher Education By Orior Tippens
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PHOTO COURTESY OF CSU SCERP
LOOK CLOSELY - Amy Arispe, a student with the Southern California Ecosystems Research Program, uses an instrument called a pressure bomb. and talk about their work, we invite to know your professors really well graduate students to talk about their because you build a working relaexperiences and we work on person- tionship with them. Before SCERP, al statements that are used for grad I’d never go to a professor’s office school applications,” Hoese said. hours to ask for help. But after, I’d Leslie Buena, 25, was a SCERP go often,” she said. scholar in 2004. She said she was After completing the two-year torn between dental school and program in a year, Buena gradu studying ecology before applying to the program. SEE SCERP - PAGE 3 “When you join SCERP, you get
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pez said. The conference also offered six workshop sessions with speakers from the Latino mental health community. The sessions included Cultural Themes in the Contemporary Latino Family, Indigenous Healing in Chicano/Latino Mental Health, How Gang Culture Masks Bipolar Symptoms in Latino Gang Members, Migration as Trauma, Outreach and Engagement from a Cultural Perspective, and Changing the HIV Epidemic: New Strategies
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For many students at Cal State Fullerton, graduating does not mean the end of a college education. According to CSUF’s Department of Institutional Research and Analytical Studies, 1,131 students were enrolled in the fall 2005 academic semester seeking a master’s degree. In addition, 556 graduate students worked on other post-baccalaureate/ credential programs. The most popular among the graduate programs are the College of Humanities and Social Services’. During the 2005-2006 school year, 384 students were enrolled in the College’s graduate program. “You only go through college to get a real experience on life after you finish, and you might as well get the most out of it,” said Alex Peralta, 21,
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an electrical engineering major undergraduate who plans on returning to the CSUF campus after graduation for further education. Out of the 2,356 graduates on campus during the 2005-2006 academic year, only 999 previously attended CSUF, while the other students previously attended another college. “Many of them are individuals who have been out of a university for two or three years, and quite often they want a more professional position or a change in employment. They often discover the importance of a master’s degree, especially if they seek a high management position,” said Ray Young, associate vice president of academic programs. The U.S. Census Bureau shows financial success for students who SEE DEGREE - PAGE 3
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