New student union will rise at CSUDH in Carson, Daily Breeze
Sacrifice of higher fees and 20 months of inconvenience will result in more space and a new center.

University's Bookstore Is Seen as a Campus Bully, Los Angeles Times
Critics of Cal State Fullerton's shop say it's trying to kill off a competitor.

CSUB fraternity makes breakfast for the needy, Bakersfield Californian
You can't end world hunger with 300 chorizo and egg burritos. But Thanksgiving morning, Cal State Bakersfield fraternity Delta Zeta Tau members set out to make a dent in it by preparing and delivering breakfast to homeless folks in the community for the second straight year.

Report: Minority students fall between the cracks, Daily Bulletin
Some reports sit on a shelf gathering dust. But not the one released Monday by Cal Poly Pomona and Southern California Edison, which has already paved the way for roughly $7.5 million in grants.

CSUSB Republican club president won't resign, San Bernardino Sun
The president of the Cal State San Bernardino College Republicans will continue his crusade against a class he's deemed "pro-homosexual.'

Lucas donates $100,000 to CSULB, Press-Telegram
Famed filmmaker George Lucas has donated $100,000 to Cal State Long Beach's Department of Film and Electronic Arts for scholarships and equipment.

Two named to investigate Williams case at Cal State, North County Times
A literature professor at Cal State San Marcos and a retired career law enforcement officer from Fresno have been named to investigate a student's charge that campus police roughed him up and unfairly jailed him because he is black, the university announced Monday.

San Jose State fair shows off innovations, San Jose Mercury News
What separates good entrepreneurs from regular humans is their ability to think up stuff the rest of us didn't know we wanted.

Hopes run high for UC Merced, Sacramento Bee
At a former Air Force base in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, the economic engine known as University of California, Merced, is starting to rev.

Solar project blacked out indefinitely, Chico News & Review
Butte College has found itself between a Rock and a hard place. In what will surely be an ongoing issue, work on a Butte College solar-panel project has been suspended while a challenge to the college's negative declaration plays out in court.

Foes cast shadow on plans for Stanford dormitories, San Jose Mercury-News
A plan to build housing for 600 graduate students has angered many faculty members and undergraduates. They say the four or five proposed new buildings will cast deep shadows over adjacent undergraduate housing, submerging the dorms and nearby paths in darkness for much of the winter.

Charter school chiefs held in finance probe, San Francisco Chronicle
3 ex-officials accused of embezzling funds for defunct academy.

Giving Poor Children a Chance to Study Hard, Long and Late, New York Times
Largely affiliated with Roman Catholic religious communities, the Nativity schools intend to serve the poorest of the poor - families that cannot afford even the relatively modest tuitions of urban Catholic schools.

A Tool for Scholars Who Like to Dig Deep, New York Times
With a new service called Google Scholar (scholar.google.com), a one-stop shop of scholarly abstracts, books, peer-reviewed papers and technical papers intended for academics and scientists, articles professor Jordan has had trouble finding may now be close at hand.

Violent school crime cut in half over 10 years, government says, USA Today/AP
Violent crime against students in schools fell by 50% between 1992 and 2002, with young people more often targeted for violence away from school.

Appeals Court Overturns Law Penalizing Colleges That Bar Military Recruiting, Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges that bar military recruiters from their campuses because the armed forces discriminate against gay men and lesbians cannot be penalized with the loss of federal funds, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled on Monday.

A test of how far Title IX protections reach, Christian Science Monitor
The Supreme Court Tuesday considers the case of a fired coach who had railed against conditions for female athletes.

A drug kids take in search of better grades, Christian Science Monitor
Dubbed "kiddie coke," Adderall is being used - and abused - by increasing numbers of high school and college students on campuses across the United States.

Reading More Into First Grade, Washington Post
Push for Early Literacy and Requirements of Standardized Tests Change Approach to 6-Year-Olds.

Campuses May Bar Military Recruiters, Los Angeles Times
A federal appeals court rules that universities' free-speech rights are incompatible with the Pentagon's policy on gays and lesbians.

Jay Mathews: Hard Studying for a Class Ring, Washington Post
Christin Roach still remembers the day at the end of her sophomore year at Mount Vernon High School in Fairfax County that she absolutely decided to go for the International Baccalaureate diploma.

Dan Walters: Tort lawyers are smart folks, but not when it comes to politics, Sacramento Bee
Lawyers who make their livings - very handsome livings, for the most part - by suing businesses large and small must be, by definition, intelligent beings.

State Pension Chief Expects to Be Axed, Los Angeles Times
The CalPERS head, an advocate of corporate reform, has alienated big business. Unions, retirees and consumer groups want him to stay.

Report: CalPERS president likely will be ousted from board, Orange County Register/AP
The president of the nation's largest pension fund believes he will be ousted from the board after waging a corporate reform movement using its $177 billion investment portfolio as leverage, according to a newspaper report.

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