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CAL STATE L.A. SPECIAL CAMPUS EDITION THE NEWS OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES SPRING 1999 John F. Kennedy Dolcini University- Memorial Library Caffe Student Espresso Union Parking 1998 Structureand II Women’s Soccer Luckman Team Complex Management class University Times GradFair Music student practicing French horn Memories in the Making: A Year at Cal State L.A. Factoids: Cal State L.A. Inaugurates the Cal State L.A. President’s Scholar Award: statistics you Ten scholarships to be given this Fall can’t do without... A special merit-based scholarship has been established for academically high-achieving students entering Cal State L.A. The Cal State L.A. President’s Scholars Program will provide annual assistance of $5,000 per student per year, priority registration and academic support services for selected full-time The best! Cal State L.A.’s faculty boasts 12 recipients students. The program is intended to help Cal State L.A. recruit more of the best and brightest students of the California State University system’s prestigious from its feeder institutions. Funding for the President’s Scholars Program has been gathered from the Trustees’ Outstanding Professor–more than any other generous gifts made by alumni, staff, faculty, parents and friends to the Cal State L.A. Annual Fund, from CSU campus. gifts solicited by the University-Student Union and granted by its tenants, and from other undesignated The (minds and) student bodies: Cal State L.A.’s cash gifts made to the University. exceptional academic community includes more than This year, eight first-time freshmen will be nominated by their high school principals to become the 19,000 students, nearly 600 full-time and more than 400 inaugural President’s Scholars. Associated Students, Inc. has approved funding to sponsor two additional part-time faculty. ASI President’s Scholars from recruitment to the time they receive their degrees in 2003. In future years, These degrees are hot: out of 3,088 degrees earned in upper-division transfer students will also participate. Kyle Button, vice president for Institutional 1997-98 (2,367 bachelor’s, 721 master’s), Child Development Advancement, commented: “This program is an excellent use of donors’ dollars because everyone benefits. led the list (232), followed by Business Administration- It directly assists students and at the same time advances the University toward meeting the goals of its Accounting option (191). Greatest number of master’s strategic plan. A concomitant goal of this program is to strengthen ties with our feeder institutions by degrees granted? Educational Administration (120). involving high school principals, guidance counselors and teachers in the recruitment process.” Hot walk: if you lined up Solar Eagle III Hotwheels end to end on the Main Walkway, it would take more AT ST E U than 7,000 of the Mattel toys to reach from the beginning IA N N IV R I 4 E O 9 7 R F of the Luckman Street of the Arts to Circle Drive south S I I L T Y A (2,000 feet). C L O S S E We have the world: Cal State L.A. is home to 5,298 AN GEL international (visa) students representing more than 125 countries around the globe; 107 full-time faculty members attended universities in 34 countries. That’s a latte coffee: we consume more than 330,000 First Faculty Alumni Award to be cups of coffee just from Eagles’ Landing and on-campus catering services each year. Presented at May 18 Alumni Gala Hello? There are more than 2,000 phones on campus, and more than 3,000 phone lines for fax machines, modems and telephones. he 26th Annual Alumni Awards Gala honoring distinguished faculty and students who have Variety is the spice of life: the Eagles’ Landing (cafeteria) T has 168 items to choose from on its menu on any one day. graduated from Cal State L.A. will have a new twist this year. Eleven alumni will receive laurels on May 18 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, including A thousand points of light! It takes 1,000 light bulbs nursing professor Judith L. Papenhausen ’71, ’72, who will receive the first-ever Distinguished to light up the outdoor campus at night. Faculty Alumnus Award. Got space? There are now nearly 7,500 parking spaces Papenhausen, chair of the Nursing Department, earned her B.S. at Cal State L.A. in 1971, followed on campus. by her M.S. with high honors in 1972, just before being hired by the Riding the rails: we are the only university in Southern University as an associate professor. California that has a Metrolink rail station on campus; In 1995, Papenhausen, now a full professor, was granted a year off to 295 commuters catch the train 100 yards from our complete her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. She was co-founding southernmost building, Bungalow W. editor of Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Professional Nursing. Nationally known as an expert in nursing care management of the Stairway to workout: if you climbed the 159 steps of “Cardiac Hill” four days a week from the fall to the end chronically-ill elderly, Papenhausen has made numerous presentations of spring quarter, you would have walked up 20,670 stairs. across the country and in Mexico. “I’ve grown up here at Cal State L.A. both as an educator and a student,” It’s easy being green: there are 5,000 trees on said Papenhausen. “I’m doubly honored to receive this award. I didn’t know campus, and the Biology Building greenhouses contain more than 140 types of plants. I was the first, so I’m even more honored.” Judith Papenhausen ’71, ’72, will Nursing care management anticipates a trend in which health care will receive the first Distinguished Wins and losses: in 1978, Cal State L.A. dropped increasingly shift from hospitals to the community, where health workers Faculty Alumnus Award. intercollegiate football, but won the NCAA Division II will help chronically-ill patients reduce their need for outpatient care, Track Championship. Papenhausen notes. She adds that it pleases her to know that quality Cal State L.A. students will be Close encounters: it would take a crowd of 18,000 at the forefront of such a movement. to completely fill the athletics field, standing! “I’m proud to say there’s no hospital I’ve gone to where I haven’t found a graduate of this Go for the gold: Cal State L.A. boasts 40 Olympian alums university,” Papenhausen said. in Track and Field–1 Bronze, 10 Silver and 4 Gold Medalists. The night’s celebration of alumni who have brought honor to the University will include a county prosecutor as well as an advocate for Los Angeles’ homeless. Stephen L. Cooley ’70, head deputy Drop in the bucket: if every Angeleno (3.5 million) put one cup of water in the campus swimming pool, district attorney for Los Angeles County, will be presented the Outstanding Alumnus Award; Larry we’d still have to ask nearly 1 million visitors to L. Adamson ’74, president and CEO of the Midnight Mission Corporation, will receive the Alumni contribute a cup to fill the 268,000-gallon pool. Award of Merit. This year’s celebrated alumni range from award-winning newspaper editor and journalism educator Relax! You can sit on 100 outdoor benches around Stan Abbot ’65, to the director of the Los Angeles Zoo, Manuel A. Mollinedo, who earned his B.A. at campus. Cal State L.A. in 1970, then returned for his M.A. in 1973. P.E. mural: “Olympic Fantasy,” the mosaic mural (P.E. Also recognized will be Sami A. Siddiqui ’76, president and general manager of the Citicorp building west wall) designed and executed by artist North American Cards Division; Pervaiz Lodhie ’71, founder and president of Ledtronics, Inc.; Bernard William Granizo in 1984, contains more than 2,200 J. Luskin ’61, chairman and CEO of Luskin International; and Gerard J. Libaridian ’69, an international glazed ceramic tiles. affairs consultant. Still standing and delivering! The oldest building Students will also be honored at the Gala. Diane Lewis, who will receive an M.A. in psychology on campus, Bungalow W, built in 1955, is still used for this year, will be presented the Outstanding Graduate Student Award and Louise Ghandi, a Class of Shipping and Receiving today. ’99 history major, will receive the Outstanding Senior Award. Cal State L.A. centurion: in 1973, the University In addition, 15 Cal State L.A. students will be awarded alumni scholarships. honored alumnus and novelist Joseph Wambaugh The entire Cal State L.A. family is invited to help honor these exceptional alumni on this special ’60 B.A., ’68 M.A., English, with its first Outstanding night. “The Alumni Association hopes that faculty, staff and especially students—our future alumni— Alumnus award. Wambaugh’s first novel, The New will join us at this once-a-year event,” said Linda Wah ’85, ’89, president Alumni Association Board Centurions, the first of his many best-selling books, took of Directors. For ticket information, call the Alumni Association at (323) 343-4980. the nation by storm in 1970. A pleasant spot: in 1973, the Alumni Association established the John A. Greenlee Fountain and Grove, named for the University’s fifth president. Nation’s most famous math teacher: in 1987, the successes of Garfield high math teacher and Cal State Editor: Carol Selkin L.A. alum Jaime Escalante ’73 & ’77, M.A., Education, Contributing Writers: Hector Becerra, Margie Yu became known across America when Edward James Copy Editor: Linda Trevillian Olmos, who attended Cal State L.A.