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Office of the Chancellor / Public Affairs
December 10, 2004
 
CSU/Campus News
 

No major effects reported as CSU grad students strike, Riverside Press-Enterprise/AP
California State University graduate students staged a one-day strike Thursday, alleging unfair administration tactics as the two sides negotiate their first contract.

Cal State graduate students hold strike, San Diego Union-Tribune
California State University graduate students staged a one-day strike yesterday to protest what union leaders characterized as the administration's unfair labor practices.

Boomers back in school, checking on their college kids, San Francisco Chronicle
Michelle DuBord is one of an emerging breed of American college officials who tend to moms and dads. As San Diego State's coordinator of parent programs, DuBord handles a telephone hot line and e-mail service just for parents, including many who are eager to help their children deal with the hassles of campus life.

Cal State Teaching Assistants Strike, Los Angeles Times
The one-day action comes during union's first contract talks with the university system.

One-day strike has little impact on campus, Chico Enterprise-Record
A one-day strike against the California State University, that apparently had little impact on the system, was just short of invisible at Chico State University.

Students' strike remains peaceful, Chico Enterprise-Record
CSU campuses report few disruptions during demonstration.

CSU student workers stage a one-day strike, Ventura County Star
A handful of pickets gathered in front of the Bell Tower at California State University, Channel Islands, Thursday in a one-day strike to protest what CSU student union workers statewide say are unfair administration tactics as the two sides negotiate their first contract.

Student teachers hit the picket lines at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Tribune
Cal Poly student teachers and teaching assistants participated in a strike Thursday, joining colleagues at the 22 other California State University campuses to bring attention to their efforts to gain their first-ever collective bargaining agreement with the CSU.

CSU graduate students strike, Press-Telegram/AP
California State University graduate students staged a one-day strike Thursday, alleging unfair administration tactics as the two sides negotiate their first contract.

Union pickets CSUSM over contract deadline passing, North County Times
About 20 members of the United Automobile Workers picket in front of Craven Hall at Cal State San Marcos on Thursday to protest the passing of a deadline for reaching a contract agreement.

A university tradition gets sliced, San Jose Mercury News
It's a long tradition at rural universities -- the holiday cheese gift pack, produced with the help of college students in the campus creamery and sold to alumni and friends at this time of year.

CSU student workers picket, Daily Review
Pockets of picketers marched on California State University campuses Thursday during a one-day strike by student employees over contract negotiations, but no classes were disrupted, and finals proceeded as scheduled.

 
UC News
 

UCD patient data disclosed in survey glitch, Sacramento Bee
Nearly 200 patients at UC Davis Medical Center had private medical information made public last weekend after answers to an online customer satisfaction survey were accidentally shared with other respondents.

Supporters urge tenure for outspoken professor, Oakland Tribune
Dozens of supporters of a University of California, Berkeley assistant professor at the center of a tenure battle delivered a clear message to campus administrators Thursday: Don't let the environmental science class Ignacio Chapela taught Thursday be his last.

 
California News
 

Palomar teachers may get 17.4% raise, San Diego Union-Tribune
Tentative accord for the full-timers would cover 4 years.

Community colleges majoring in growth, San Diego Union-Tribune
The next few years for the San Diego Community College District will bring millions of dollars worth of new buildings, more classes and potentially new revenue sources.

Educators push to restore funding, Contra Costa Times
As Sacramento politicos prepare for a new budget cycle, the state's Education Coalition called on legislators to restore school funding to its constitutionally guaranteed level.

Last chance to make the grade, Press Democrat
Ross was expelled from Rancho Cotate High School for fighting, and considers her enrollment in Petaluma's Community School a chance to concentrate on her education.

 
National News
 

The Best Ways to Make Schoolchildren Learn? We Just Don't Know, Wall St. Journal
The U.S. spends some $400 billion a year on K-12 education. Yet unlike other big-ticket items such as defense and health care, "education does not rest on a strong research base."

Pennsylvania State U. Advises Computer Users on Its Network not to Use Microsoft Browser, Chronicle of Higher Education
Worried about persistent security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, officials at the Pennsylvania State University system have taken the unusual step of recommending that students, professors, and staff members stop using the popular Web browser.

Va. Grants Aim to Reduce Financial Barriers to College, Washington Post
U-Va. Advisers for Low-Income Applicants Get Bulk of Nearly $1 Million.

PeopleSoft clients tell Oracle 'No', Oakland Tribune
Almost two-thirds of PeopleSoft Inc. customers said they will cancel their software-support contracts if Oracle Corp. buys PeopleSoft and stops enhancing its programs, according to a survey by AMR Research Inc.

 
Editorials/Letters/Opinion
 

Dan Walters: Capitol's own 'Tory reformer' takes another shot at the status quo, Sacramento Bee
The term "Tory reformer" arose in Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, describing politicians with impeccable establishment credentials who were, nonetheless, eager to make changes in the status quo that would be politically poisonous to those lacking their social stature.

Opinion: A look into CalPERS, Press-Telegram
A little more light is being shown on the semisecret workings of the nation's biggest public pension fund, CalPERS (the California Public Employees' Retirement System). Taxpayers won't like what they'll see.

 
Politics
 

Ensuring trust in secretary of state, San Francisco Chronicle
2 proposals would turn the job into a nonpartisan post.

Suit filed to block state pension bonds, Sacramento Bee
A conservative legal group on Thursday sued to block the sale of nearly $1 billion in bonds to help pay state pension obligations, in a move that would derail a pivotal component of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2004-05 budget if successful.

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