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California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Cal State San Bernardino: News for Alumni and Special Collections & Archives Friends of the University Spring 1991 Spring 1991 - 1992 CSUSB Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/alumni-mag Recommended Citation CSUSB, "Spring 1991 - 1992" (1991). Cal State San Bernardino: News for Alumni and Friends of the University. Book 55. http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/alumni-mag/55 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections & Archives at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cal State San Bernardino: News for Alumni and Friends of the University by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRING 1991-92 CALIFORNIAB^NORAMA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNAROINO INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Three Stories on Working at Life How Two Live..................... 4 How We Work................. 8 How One Survived the Want Ads.................. 20 No ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY. LEADING A CONFERENCE IN SCORING NEVER IS. NOR IS EARNING A COLLEGE DEGREE. DEVELLE HAS REACHED THE FIRST GOAL. HE'S DRIVING TOWARD THE MOST IMPORTANT. BOTH TAKE HARD WORK. AND DETERMINATION. AND DEDICATION. AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CSUSB ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION FUND. YOUR SUPPORT MEANS MORE THAN A SCHOLARSHIP TO DEVELLE AND ATHLETES Athletic Association LIKE HIM. YOUR SUPPORT MEANS A GOOD SHOT AT LIFE. IT FUND DRIVE ALSO TELLS ATHLETES THAT A FAN WANTS THEM TO SUCCEED V APRIL - MAY 1992 AS MUCH AS THEY WANT TO. THAT MESSAGE MAY BE JUST THE Make gifts payable to: CSUSB Athletic Association Department of Intercollegiate Athletics INSPIRATION THEY NEED TO EXCEL IN THE CLASSROOMS AS California State University, San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397 WELL AS ON THE COURTS AND FIELDS OF PLAY. (714)880-5011 Develle Walker, junior, criminal justice major, leading scorer (22.9 points per game), California Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division II ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- PANORAMA Observations PANORAMA is published by the office of University Relations at Calilornia State University, San Bernardino lor alumni, friends and colleagues. It is produced triannually at the beginning of each academic quarter in September, January and April. This issue is printed Visionary Voters Set the Pace for Higher Education Facilities with non-state resources, including a grant from the Cal State Alumni Association. Opinions expressed in Panorama do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the You can't miss the spectacular, sweeping new classroom building. University editors nor represent the official policy of California Slate University, San Bernardino. Editorial and alumni Hall, at the foreground of the campus as you drive up to Cal State, San Bernardino. It's information and photographs should be sent to the Panorama Editor, CSUSB Public Affairs, 5500 University quite a sight for people who haven't been on campus during the past couple of years. Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407. Good quality B&W Even to those of us who currently work and study here, it is an impressive photographs are welcome; Polaroids or photographs printed on textured paper are not accepted. state-of-the-art facility that provides much-needed space for classrooms, laboratories Editor: and faculty offices. A monumental symbol of progress. University Hall is an indication Cynthia Pringle of the momentum at this thriving campus. Art Director/Designer: Jay Wampler Yet, if it had not been for the foresight of California's voters four years ago, when Production Assistants: the monies for University Hall were secured with approval of The Higher Education Jason Groom Gary Jackson Facilities Bond Act of 1988, this building and many others around the state would not Editorial Assistant: be serving the needs of citizens today. Cal State, the San Bernardino Valley College Sam Romero District, Riverside Community College and UC Riverside all have benefited from the Photographers: voters who have made informed choices—voters who have understood that the state's Dan Moseley Larry Rose economic well-being is tied to the ability of colleges and universities to provide skilled, educated workers. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Here in the Inland Empire, the fastest growing region in the state, civic leaders and residents alike know that the area's future quality of life is dependent upon building Features: for the next generation. That's why it's important for you to know that this June, The A Dance Between Body Higher Education Facilities Bond Act of 1992 will provide more than $46 million in AND Soul................................. 4 construction funds for Cal State, San Bernardino alone. If approved, the bond issue John and Christy Discover That would enable Cal State to build two new classroom facilities for the social and behav Where There Are Limits, There Are No Bounds ioral sciences and the visual arts by the mid-'90s, when the student population here will It Takes Work to Get Along . 8 exceed 15,000. Some Advice on the Importance Opponents of bond issues for higher education facilities in the past have been of Improving Your Relationships concerned about increasing the state's long-term indebtedness. They have suggested on the Job that construction should be paid out of money already set aside for public education. The Melodramatic Adventures However, if the bond issue is defeated this June, Cal State, San Bernardino will OF A Newly Degreed, have no foreseeable means of starting construction on these projects, which already nderemployed esperado U D . .20 have been delayed by two years. Without the facilities, the university will not be able to accommodate enrollment growth. Departments: With more than half of Cal State's enrollment hailing from the San Bemardino- Observations............................ 1 Riverside County area and approximately 80 percent of the university's graduates Cal State Update....................... 2 Calendar................................ 12 residing in the region, chances are you will know someone whose educational future Coyote Paws.......................... .14 may be affected by the university's ability to provide an optimal learning environment. Gift Rap................................. 16 Those students and the state's system of public higher education are relying on voters Alumni Periscope.................... 22 with vision to make an informed choice on The Higher Education Facilities Bond Act Alumni Notes..........................24 this June. Cover: For the nearly 2000 students who will graduate in 1992, the "happiest day of the year" will arrive June 13, when Commencement occurs on campus. David DeMauro Photo taken by Greg Schneider. Vice President for Administration and Finance PANORAMA . SPRING 91-92 1 AL STATE UPDATE Psychologist Secures Outstanoing Professor Award and made several recommendations to improve safety. Several strategies were implemented and reported in the fall 1990 issue of the Panorama. Since then campus crime statistics have been reported at intervals in the student newspaper and the university's faculty-staff newsletter, along with crime prevention information from the Office of Public Safety. The following chart reflects criminal incidents reported and investigated by Public Safety during the past three years. CRIME ON CAMPUS 1989 1990 1991 Murder 0 0 0 Rape Dr. Gloria Cowan (right foreground), whose teaching has haen honored with the Outstanding Professor Award, lakes pride in 1 0 0 her work with students. Assault/Battery 5 3 5 Psychology Professor Gloria national and regional psychological Petty Theft (<$4) Cowan's selection as the campus' associations, Cowan serves on the Board 54 82 84 Outstanding Professor for 1992 brings to of Directors for the Riverside Rape Burglary four the total of psychology faculty Crisis Center. 42 87 30 who've secured the honor since the Auto Burglary* campus began participating in the annual Campus Crime Statistics Reported N/A N/A 31 California State University system FOR Three Years Grand Theft (>$400) program in the early 1980s. Concerns for the personal safety of 15 12 8 With academic areas of expertise in students and employees on university Auto Theft social psychology and women's studies, campuses have received heightened 13 22 18 Cowan has focused her research activities attention with the passage of congres Auto Theft Recovery in recent years on issues in pornography. sional legislation mandating regular 8 13 12 Her latest study attempts to discover public information reports about campus Total Dollar Loss "what people can agree on as degrading" crime. The law (known as the Student $138,587 $174,838 $153,721 in pornography, she explains. Right-to-Know, and Crime Awareness Total Dollar Recovery (including auto) Cowan's effectiveness as a teacher and Campus Security Act) was passed in $ 58,900 $ 78,300 $25,500 also is exemplary, as demonstrated by the 1990 and is expected to be implemented award, which she calls "gratifying. by September 1992. *This is a new reporting category. All types "In my teaching experiences. I've Meanwhile, many universities, of burglaries previously were combined into worked with individual students and including Cal State, have stepped up one category for this crime. helped them get... involved in research. crime prevention activities and educa I've also worked hard