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C LIFOR STATE I E 51 www.csusm.edu/pride/ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18,2003 VOL.lO NO.l9 Student Lounge ASI V.P. Patel Soul Food Breakfast Feeds Face Lift Marred Removed By Burglary the Souls and Bellies of Many e And Vandalism By HONEE J FOLK einstated ~ Pride Staff Writer cu ~ Controversy Centers ....... During the development of the QJ QJ CSUSM student lounge upgrade, Around Dismissal Of u <( theft and vandalism intruded on Student Rep For Same L.. the creative plans last Tuesday ~·c: Reason Last Fall c: morning. The burglary forces .....QJ the process to slow its pace; it By GAIL TARANTINO > News Editor ..c places the future of the lounge in ....0 0 jeopardy, and it causes Associated ~ Q_ Students Inc. (ASI) to change its On Jan. 24, Arti Patel, Associ policies in an effort to protect the ated Students Incorporated (ASI) improvements that are made to the executive vice president, was asked student lounge. to resign from her position by ASI president and CEO Jocelyn Brown, The Burglary for missing a mandatory retreat due to a family emergency. At 12 noon, on Tuesday Feb. 11, John Gehris, a member of the ASI ASI bylaws state that all retreats programming board, responded are mandatory and any member who to an emergency call made by misses a retreat will be removed students. Gehris pushed through from the board and be subjected to the double doors of Commons an appeal process, at which time 201, encountered a dangling silver the ASI Board of Directors (BOD) CSUSM Celebrates Black History Month with Annual Soul Food Breakfast '' •• \ock..~D~ fEom. ~ 'o\a£.\5;. ~' decides ifreinstatement is appropri By JENNIFER ACEE are intellectual engagement, performance. that encased the money for the ate. Feature Editor community, integrity, inno Marvel Capcom video game, and vation and inclusiveness. Jones delivered a speech discovered that a thief had stolen An ASI retreat was scheduled for As raindrops pelted the entitled "Passion and Strate $318 in coins. the weekend of Jan. 25, but on Jan. At a few minutes past 9 gic Action: Continuing the drenched ground on the morn See LOUNGE, page 2 23 Patel was called out of town due ing of Friday, Feb. 14, words a.m., guests with plastic Dream." He quieted the room to a death in her family, and she was of inspiration resounded plates and forks lined up with a strong voice and pow unable to attend. through the CSUSM Dome as to sample the "Soul Food" erful words as he invoked the Gradshirt Design the annual "Soul Food Break breakfast of eggs, grits, fried concern,thelaughte~andthe Patel explained that the purpose of fast" took place. potatoes, gravy, sausage, applause of his audience. Contest the eight-hour retreat was for BOD bacon, and fruit. But it was By ADRIAN CUNDIFF members to reevaluate the goals that The event, which was A total of 150 advanced not just the food that was Pride Staff Writer they set during the summer retreat, reservations were received for feeding the souls of folks that meant to celebrate Black and to organize themselves in order History Month, was not the free breakfast, which was morning. Students get your pencils out and to better serve the students for the limited to the celebration or sponsored by the Associated start drawing, because Cal State study of African Americans. remainder of the year. Students Incorporated (ASI) In her welcome address, San Marcos' Alumni Association Jones offered advice and Programming Board. Lura ASI President Jocelyn Brown has given power to students who are As dictated by ASI guidelines, encouragement to any mar Poggi, assistant executive observed, "We have a beau interested in designing this year's Patel was asked to resign from her director of ASI, estimated the tifully diverse group here ginalized group or individual. grad shirt to be sold at Gradfest and position on Jan. 24. Patel submitted Racism, sexism, homophobia turnout at over 160 people. today: faculty, staff, students, at the commencement ceremony. her appeal the same day. "It's exciting for the campus and community members." and heterosexism, ableism, See ASI VP, page 2 to come together. By their Guest singer LaVeda Willis self doubt and self sabotage According to Heather Manley, presence here today, people proceeded to sing the Black are all "alive and well and director of Alumni Relations, this we need to be successful" are showing their commit National Anthem, and the year is the first that the students emphasized Jones, as he chal INSIDE: ment to the core values of keynote speaker, Steven at Cal State San Marcos will this institution," commented Jones, a national consul lenged, "Given the reality that determine the gradshirt design. these -isms are not turning to Poggi. The core values she tant for diversity, strategic She urges all students who are referred to, which are listed change, leadership, and self -wasims anytime soon... how interested to submit their design to in the university catalog, esteem issues, followed her do we move forward?" the Office of Alumni Relations in See SOUL FOOD , page 3 Craven Hall 5308A. The Father of Black History The Alumni Association is look By CHRIS MARTIN ginia in 1875, to two former he earned his bachelor's and ing for creative and innovative Arts Editor slaves. As a boy he attended master's degree in 1907 and designs from students, rather than school when he could, but 1908 respectively. Driven by having the Alumni Association a seemingly unquenchable To many, black history because of the family's poor design it on their own. month is a reminder of economic state, he was forced thirst for knowledge Wood the social and economic to help work on the farm. son then earned his Ph.D. All designs must be submitted by struggles faced by the Afri He was largely self-taught, from Harvard in 1912 and Friday, March 7, on an electronic can-American. In actuality it and by the age of 17 he was also studied at the Sorbonne copy on disk and a color hardcopy. is the culmination of the life off to Kentucky in search in Paris. long crusade to rewrite his of higher education. He The winner's name of the grad Page 7, the Korean tory. Dr. Carter G. Woodson attended Berea College and Throughout his extensive shirt contest will appear on the used his intellect, determina worked in the dangerous coal education, Woodson became 2003 grad shirt and the winner will National University of tion and questioning nature mines _to pay for his educa increasingly curious about also receive a brand new shirt, as Arts Dance Company to make this a reality. tion. Shortly thereafter he the apparent absence of well as an undisclosed prize pack left Kentucky to attend the blacks in American history. from the Alumni Association. performs at cal State Woodson wa born in Vir- University of Chicago where See HISTORY, page 4 San Marcos 2 Tuesday, February 18, 2003 NEWS THE PRIDE ASI V.P. Removed Then Reinstated from page 1 The BOD met on Jan. 31 to not going to attend the retreat retreat because of an out of because the only body that meets to give details explaining that discuss and vote on the issue of originally because she was going town wedding, and that Brown over the summer is the executive she "wanted to respect Shannon's Patel's reinstatement. Patel, in to attend a wedding. Although changed the dates of the retreat to committee. Brown added that the privacy." Brown added that she a brief statement to the BOD, Roper admitted that his informa- accommodate Tweed. executive committee makes all was hesitant to discuss Shannon's admitted missing the retreat due tion could be considered hearsay, of the decisions until the BOD case because a lot of the discus- to an unexpected family emer- he felt that Tweed's subsequent Tweed explained she missed begins to meet in the fall. sion between them was done pri- gency and asked to be reinstated. family emergency didn't justify the retreat anyway because her vately in closed sessions. Brown The vote to reinstate Patel was [Tweed's] reinstatement because grandmother died right before Tweed claims she didn't get a did reiterate that the situations of unammous. she was going to miss the retreat finals. According to Tweed, chance to appeal for reinstate- Tweed and Patel were unrelated. anyway. she left town right after finals. ment, and that Brown agreed to Last spring, Shannon Tweed, a Tweed said she knew she would notify Tweed when she could When Tweed was asked if human development major, was When asked what she thought be removed from the BOD and appeal. According to Tweed, she Patel should have been denied elected to the BOD as the College of Roper's statements at the claims that Brown assured her didn't hear from Brown until reinstatement, she said, "No. I'm of Arts and Sciences representa- BOD meeting, Tweed, who was she could appeal to be reinstated a Sept. 17, 2002, email, which glad they kept Arti. [Patel] works tive, also missed a retreat due to a in attendance at the recent BOD when she returned. When asked informed her that her appeal was hard and deserves her position." death in her family, and she was meeting, replied that she was if she submitted a written letter denied and that applications for Tweed explained that she felt removed from her position on the "shocked," and added that even of resignation Tweed said no, that Tweed's vacated position were she was treated differently from BOD.