Cal State Table of Contents On Campus EDITORIAL BOARD Scholarship award recipients ....................................................... 1 Dan Bridges Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Alumni Association News Kyle C. Button Vice President for Institutional Advancement Alumni Spotlight: Susan De Pietro .............................................. 15 Sean Kearns Class notes ............................................................................16-17 Director of Media Relations Nancy Miron Get involved/chapter news ....................................................16-17 Executive Director of Public Affairs Randi Moore University News Executive Director of Alumni Relations Collette Rocha New University-Student Union ...................................................... 2 Assistant Vice President for Fulbrights/one campus ................................................................. 3 University Development President Rosser’s accomplishments/awards ............................. 3 Published by: Office of Public Affairs Forward inquiries and submissions to: Features Cal State L.A. Office of Public Affairs Art and social activism ................................................................. 4 5151 State University Drive Los Angeles, CA 90032-8580 Partnering with the courts ............................................................. 5 Phone: (323) 343-3050 Teaching for a change ..............................................................6-7 Fax: (323) 343-6405 E-mail: [email protected] Bridges to the future ................................................................... 10 www.calstatela.edu Digging up the past ...............................................................12-13 Managing Editor Nancy Miron Becoming a poetry hub .............................................................. 11 Associate Editor/Writer Shayna Chabner L.A. murals project ....................................................................8-9 Contributors Paul Helms • Margie Low • Natalie Smith Sports Graphic Design Adam James • Yuri Watanabe Athletics: Omonikee Kotey ......................................................... 14 Photography Stan Carstensen • Bernard Kane POLICY ON THE PROHIBITION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT California State University, Los Angeles will take action Inside – Eliseo Silva’s “A Golden History, A Golden Legacy” mural in Echo Park to prevent and eliminate sexual harassment, as mandated by the Chancellor’s Executive Order No. 917. is one of 32 works of art featured this month in a Cal State L.A. student photo- Sexual harassment is conduct subject to disciplinary action, including termination. Sexual harassment* documentary exhibit that reflects street art in Los Angeles. Details on page 8 … includes but is not limited to: • Unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. • Any act which contributes to a workplace or learning environment that is hostile, intimidating, offensive, or adverse to persons because of the sexual nature of the conduct. • Conditioning an act, decision, evaluation, or recommendation on the submission to or tolerance of any act of a sexual nature. Although this policy focuses on the treatment of persons lacking or holding lesser authority by persons possess- ing greater authority, it does not preclude the possibility that sexual harassment may also be perpetrated by persons lacking or holding lesser authority, e.g., employee, student, or applicant. In determining whether conduct constitutes sexual harassment, the circum- stances surround the conduct are considered. The prohibition against sexual harassment applies to all transactions of University business, whether on or off campus. Individuals with supervisory authority are responsible for reporting a formal complaint about sexual harassment to the Office for Equity and Diversity. Failure to do so may lead to appropriate administrative action. Specific rules and procedures for reporting charges of sexual harassment and for pursuing available remedies are available in the following locations: Human Resources Management; Office for Equity and Diversity; Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs; University Counseling Center; and Women’s Resource Center. Jennifer Avila Morgan Chew ’07 Graduate student, English ITS consultant 2008-09 Sally Casanova 2002-03 President’s Scholar Pre-Doctoral Scholarship The University’s diversity By giving me the opportunity gave me a broad, cultural to network with experts in perspective to think of the the (athletic and academic world in. It’s really an example motivation) field, Cal State of what California is all about. L.A. is providing me with the tools to teach and be part of any doctoral program that I want to do. Arturo Torres ’03 Chingasiyeni Nduna Social worker/Teacher Junior, TV/Film Richard Lewis Scholarship 2008-09 Nathaniel R. and Cal State L.A. helped me Valerie Dumont Scholarship understand the social You can explore whatever problems in our community your passion is here. I get to by teaching me about the be on stage, I practice public root causes and larger speaking, I work for ASI and impacts. Now, I have a get to meet more students better understanding of and be out in the community. the people I serve. Lorraine Tsui Kimberely Suarez Sophomore, Business Junior, Nursing Administration/Marketing 2008-09 William R. Hearst/ 2007-08 President’s Scholar CSU Trustees’ Award for Every class has been Outstanding Achievement important to me. Every The nursing lab we have here class has given me skills is great. It allows us to do to apply to my career. I am hands-on work on dummies, learning how to help market so I am more prepared when my parents’ company. I go into the hospital. I feel more relaxed and confident. Anthony Shogren Julio Celada Graduate student, Music Senior, Mechanical engineering 2008-09 Sally Casanova 2007-08 Engineering Family Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Support Scholarship Cal State L.A. has helped The faculty helped me get an me create a larger voice internship at JPL and a full- for myself and expanded time job at Pratt & Whitney my horizons. My career Rocketdyne. Working for was as a performer and NASA has always been my a drummer. ... Now I am dream, so I guess I have also a music composer. already fulfilled that. 1 University News New Year, new University-Student Union opens Hundreds of alumni, and students turned out for the grand opening The University community celebrated the opening of the union on Jan. 9, 2009, with live music performances, food and a ribbon-cutting ceremony. New additions come in pairs From new degrees to buildings, Cal State L.A. students have double the opportunity today • Places: Both the University-Student • Faces: Students were welcomed • Programs: Two new master’s pro- Union and the first wing of the Wallis back to campus with two new deans. grams are piquing student interest Annenberg Integrated Sciences College of Business and and making news. Complex opened this year. Economics Dean Phillip In the spring, the College of Nat- The Wallis Annenberg Complex is Romero came from the ural and Social Sciences launched named in honor of a $5 million grant University of Oregon, a Master of Science program in given by the Annenberg Foundation. where he served as environmental science. And in With the opening of La Kretz Hall, the dean of the Lundquist the fall, the College of Arts and first wing, in fall quarter, students College of Business. Letters welcomed its first class of studying the sciences now have 23 students in an interdisciplinary access to state-of-the-art laboratories College of Natural and MFA (Master of Fine Arts) program and high-tech equipment. Social Sciences Dean in television, film and theatre. The Designed to be the hub of student James P. Henderson graduate students were selected activities and programs, the new served as vice chan- from 80 applicants, with degrees 93,000-square-foot U-SU features a cellor for student suc- from universities as diverse as CSU Alumni Center, modern fitness center, cess and enrollment Dominguez Hills to Japan’s Osaka a 200-seat theater and much more. management at the University of the Arts. University of Colorado. 2 Ahead of the class KUDOS... • Extending their reach: Five Cal State Cal State L.A. students and alumni have continued to make a L.A. professors will – or have already – made their mark abroad in research name for themselves and the University, garnering the spotlight and teaching this year through the this year for achievements in every field from accounting to music. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Professor Mohammad Auwal taught Great account for inspiring others and conducted research in Qatar, Hassan M. Rezaie Boroon worked Eric Fox, an accounting graduate of Cal State L.A., was recently in Togo, Elliot L. Oring is in Iceland, named as the inaugural recipient of a national inspiration Marguerite Ann Snow is in the award for accountants. Mediterranean this winter, and Susan Mason heads to Japan this spring. Fox, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business Cal State L.A.’s five-scholar Fulbright administration in 2008, was awarded the Medal of contingent is one of the largest in Inspiration Award from the American Institute of Certified the country. Among the roughly 425 Public Accountants. colleges and universities nationwide The award, which included a $5,000 cash stipend, recognized Fox’s with Fulbright scholars this year, only six universities have more than Cal academic success despite