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Following a new federal law, many US minors will find their CREDIT DENIED By STEVEN BROWN repay debts incurred by the applicant. “I would find someone, hopefully my Staff Writer According to the bill, those who don’t parents, to co-sign the application with me meet the requirements may obtain a credit because I need to build my credit,” said Tyler redit cards will be unattain- card if financial information is submitted, in- Henderson, a 19-year-old CSUSB freshman. able to American’s under age dicating sufficient income to cover obliga- “Without a credit card, I won’t be able to pur- 21, effective Feb. 22, 2010, tions set by the applicant and creditor. chase my school necessities, especially when Caccording to the new Credit A fact sheet released by the White House I don’t have a full-time job. I don’t have the Card Accountability Responsibility and Dis- state the bill bans unfair rate increases, pre- steadiest income, but I can afford to make closure Act of 2009. vents unfair fee traps, adds protection for stu- more than the minimum payments on a card, The federal law passed by Congress and dents and young and restricts penalizing card and I feel that if I can make the payments, I signed by President Barack Obama last May holders who pay bills on time. The bill states should be able to have a credit card for nec- states consumers under 21 are unable to a creditor shall provide a written notice of an essary purchases.” apply for a credit card unless the application increase in an annual percentage rate (APR) A recent study by student-loan company is cosigned by a parent, guardian, spouse, or 45-days prior to the effective date of the Sallie Mae said 84 percent of undergrads any other individual that has the means to change. See Credit, pg. 3 Famed activist speaks at CSUSB By PAUL DUDLEY Staff Writer Angela Davis doesn’t care if she is fa- mous, but she does want to be a radical. She thinks that change is only achievable if there is hope, imagination and struggle. Davis, an icon of the 1960s radical movement, inspired her audience Thursday, Feb. 25 at CSUSB with her lecture on educa- Coyote Chronicle tion, freedom and change. More than 300 students, alumni and community members packed into the Santos Manuel Student Union Events Center to hear the controversial author, activist and educa- tor. “I saw an article that said I was a 'famous Sean Black | Special to the Chronicle radical',” Davis said jokingly. “I don’t really Angela Davis, long time activist and former Black Panther, speaks to CSUSB students about reform and community struggle. care about the famous part. But what I really hope is that I continue to be radical.” “To change the world we need hope, we that allowed Dr. King to emerge as a major Davis is undeniably a radical. need to imagine and we need to recognize spokesperson was organized by women.” She was a member of the Black Panthers that change is indeed possible. The most sig- According to Davis, the people who are in the 60s and was placed on the FBI’s most nificant change is accomplished through most responsible for change are community wanted list in the 1970s for her connection to community struggle and is not in just one per- members involved in some sort of struggle. the abduction and murder of a judge, for son,” said Davis. “Oftentimes we think that “We don’t even know their names, [or] which she was later tried and acquitted. How- the Civil rights movement was just Martin contributions, but their activism is something ever she didn’t lecture about her past, instead Luther King and maybe Rosa Parks but, in all that is not to be forgotten,” Davis said. she lectured about future and change. seriousness, we don’t realize that the boycott See Davis, pg. 3 New art exhibits surprise By AMBER DOUGLAS Staff Writer Students can expand their minds thanks to Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum's two new exhibits, showing now through May 13. Artist David Olivant's visual art is featured in "Studio Leitmotifs," inspired by what he describes as "the development of a personal mythology, whose characters seem to exude archetypal significance, but also the searing Dionysian emotional extravagance which always seems to well up from depths of the unconscious mind." "I use the interface between the illusory forms of the two dimensional picture surface and the sculptural forms that interact with it as the fulcrum for exploring the apparent at- tempts of archetypal figures to transcend their status as mental or illusory images," Oli- vant said. "Studio Leitmotifs" is a part of the "Timeless Enchantment" series at the museum. The other is the "Ends and Means" exhibit by artists Dylan Palmer and Colby Bird. The modern works are intended to make the observer consider “consequentialism” as it relates in various forms and materials. Volume XLIII "Things end, a thing ends," according to art critic Shana Nys Dambrot. Number 14 "Any material is defeated by the mere passage of time if nothing else. But what do Richard Bowie | Chronicle Photo things mean? The question of what a material means is in constant flux, made immortal [email protected] “Studio Leitmotifs” boasts freakish, beautifully crafted pieces. by a theoretically never ending cycle of re-contextualization. The search for significance (909) 537-5289 outlasts the thing's half-life, enduring beyond when 'it' ends." Chronicle Page 2 News Monday, March 1, 2010 A continuation: Continued from Pg. 1: Hables Ingles? Davis on the prowl for change By STEVEN BROWN Staff Writer Proposition 227, approved in 1998 by 61 percent of California voters, is an English-learning initiative funded by the Community-Based English Tutoring (CBET) commissioned by the California Department of Education (CDE). The initiative appropriates $50 million per year over 10 years for funding of English instruction for individuals pledging to provide personal English tutoring to children in their community. Michal Kohout, an Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Stud- ies at CSUSB supports the legislation. “The funding for CBET is not mandatory but approved each year by the Gov- ernor and the state legislature,” Kohout wrote in a letter to the Chronicle. The proposition “provides initial short-term placement, not normally exceed- Sean Black | Special to the Chronicle ing one year, in intensive sheltered English immersion programs for children not Davis also lectured about education. fluent in English,” according to the documentation provided by the initiative. According to Davis, California used to have the best education in the country, by now According to Kohout, the money does not have to be spent on adult education she questions who gets to go to university and who gets to go to prison. and education administrators can spend it in any way they want, including teach- According the Davis there is no freedom without education and no education without ing children English. Kohout said since the inception of the program in 1998, the freedom. However she has worked extensively in the prison system and many prisoners are program costs dropped from $2000 per student in to $250 seven years ago. some of the hardest-working people she has ever taught. “[Prisoners] are some of the best students I have ever had. Of course they have more time,” Davis said with a laugh. “But many of them realize that if they do not focus on learning, their reading, on their writing, on their knowledge there is no life for them to lead,” Davis added. Davis finished her lecture off with ideas of freedom. According to Davis freedom is a never-ending process. Coyote Chronicle. “When we first see freedom we see it with a narrow conception, and then it grows and continues to grow,” said Davis. I believe it will always grow. I don’t believe we will ever reach the point where we will Editor in Chief Ken Dillard all have freedom. 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