November 10Th 2008

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Address www.coyotechronicle.com C A L F 0 R N V E R S T y S A N B E R N A R D CALIFORNIA COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION AWARD WINNER Serving the CS USB campus for 42 years Monday November 10, 2008 Vol. 42, Issue 5 Cut meets dissent Chancellor Reed's decision is scrutinized by the CFA Youth vote significant in Obama Biden win Michaellannolo Staff Writer • xit polls across the na- tion show that the E youth vote may very well be the reason President-elect Barack Obama won the popular vote. Exit polling showed that 66 percent of voters 18-29 years-old \ supported Obama/Biden, while 32 percent supported McCain!Palin, Turnout too according to the Center for Infor mation and Research on Civic late: Page 7 Learning and Engagement (CIR- CLE). ' This is the highest share oft~e CSU funds have been broken into and many find give-backs unfair._CSUSB is prepared for such drawbacks (Lauren Padia/ClJronicle). youth vote any candidacy has re ceived since exit polls began re Lauren Padia Among the chief opponents of the economy, this cutback has hit Taking measures that could cause porting results by age categories in Copy EditorjStaffWriter the give-back is the California Fac the CSU particularly hard. tuition and fee increases can only 1976. ulty Association (CFA). "We worked hard to mitigate harm students. The overall popular vote he CSU may have "This is the latest in a long line as much damage to the university as "The CSU budget is the last yielded 53 percent support for honored Gov. of bad decisions by Chancellor possible in this difficult. economic thing that should have been cut, be Obama/Biden and 46 percent sup T Schwarzenegger's re- Reed," CFA Communications Spe period and we met with some suc cause public higher education is a · port for McCain!Palin. quest in returning $3 1.2 million in cialist Bria.n foe:guson said. cess. The Alliance won $97.6 mil- solution and not the problem. Any That 13 percent difference be funds, but that doesn't mean every One of the lion for , the cuts will also cut services, classes . /d. tween young voters and their older one is supportive of the decision. mam / Isap- ·csu," accord and students will be hit hardest and counterparts is extraordinary con In light of the state's recent pointments re "This is the latest in ing to the CFA that's the wrong direction," CFA sidering that the youth vote has deficit, Gov. Schwarzenegger garding the a long line of bad website. Vice President Kim Geron said. stayed within 1.8 percent of the ac called upon CSU Chancellor Reed give-back was TheCFA . CSUSB President Dr. Albert tual outcome every year since I 976 to return funds to help offset the that the public decisions by believes that Kamig was prepared. - young voters basically supporting deficit. was "deceived" Chancellor Reed." other measures He has already proposed sev the same candidate that older voters It averages to approximately by should have eral solutions for the give-back, s,o support. $1 .2 million per CSU campus. Reed into been taken, our campus will not be hit as hard The youth vote represented 18 'fhe CSU system, along with thinking that the give-back was rather than making it more difficult as other CSU campuses. percent of the electorate this year, CSUSB has been cooperative in re mandatory, although it was com to get a degree at a public univer However, other campuses will according to CIRCLE. turning the funds. pletely voluntary, according to the sity. not do as well. That figure is up 2 percent However, Chancellor Reed's CFA. In a time of economic crisis, "We know that several cam- Continued on Pg. 2 decision has met scrutiny. In light of the recent state of students are hurting financially. Continued on Pg. 2 Inoculate Students unite to witness history now: Page 4 Albert Sabate The two enormous screens Staff Writer flashed Obama as the winner promptly at 8 p.m. as the polls Breshone Christmas closed on the West coast. Staff Writer Instantly, the hundred or so students who had arrived early t was emotional. The stu froze to stare at the screens. dents were ecstatic. "Is that it? It's over? That was I Barack Obama had won so fast! " students said to each the election. The results elated the other. 350 s tudent~ in the CSUSB Santos Once the reality sunk in, stu Manuel Student Union during Elec dents began shouting, jumping and tion Night. embracing each other. "We made history! We made To many students it was a truly history!" students cheered. moving moment to witness the re AST neatly sults. divided the "I could room in half shed a tear," representing the "We made history! ASI Vice Presi two major par dent of Finance ties. We made history !" J o hn at h a n One side of Billinger said. the · room had "I've voted blue balloons three times [in and MSNBC projected onto the my life], but I really felt lik~ I was wall on the far left. Equally, Fox voting for something this time." Milius talk: News and red balloons decorated "I just have so many emotions. the right side. I wish my grandparent~ , who grew Page 3 The only thing uniting both up in the South, could see this," Several hundred students gathered Nov. 4 to witness one of the most historic elections. Sentiments varied sides were the free hotdogs and second-year student and Chicago amongst party supporters (Courtesy of Venezia Avina). hamburgers in the center. Continued on Pg. 3 ' I I I ·CHRONICLE PAGE 2 NOVEMBER 10, 2008 · Students will feel crunch come fall'09 Co ote Spotlight 'Garret Tedesco · tions exceeded 400,000 opposed to cation," CSU Chancellor Charles B. Y :Staf!Writer last year where the CSU system Reed said. "You might have to · was under the 400,000 mark. work a little harder, you might have he country is in an economic disaster, the Last Year, out of the approxi- to borrow a little bit more money, mate 400,000 applications, the but in the end it will be worth it in California State ·University (CSU) enroll CSU system accepted 54,000 new every way because it will be paid T: ment is going through the .roof, while at the students. back to _YOU many, many times Ninety-one percent of CSUSB over." '-:same time the CSU budget is getting cut. This creates a seniors reported that their experi The budget provides no fund .dilemma for CSU officials. ence at this institution contributed ing for enrollment growth, intensi to their understanding of people fying a trend that began in 2005-06, The CSU system received from last year, but the total amount from other racial and ethnic back in '.Vhich student enrollment grows _38, 141 online applications during of applicants is not out of the past grounds, according to CSU's Chan faster than state funding, according 'ltte first month of emollment for ranges. cellor's office. to the CSU. :t)ll 2009, nearly 50,000 ofthose in "I transferred from a school Enrollment is not the only fac In response to the budget, the the first 12 days of open emollment where most of my classes had 300- tor that will effect CSUSB students. CSU campuses are increasing class ;according to the CSU website. 900 students emolled. I rarely met "The budget is $215 million size, opening more course sections , The number of applications is my professors and they never had below CSU's with temporary Kathie Pelletier is a new assistant professor at CSUSB (Courtesy of ;up 17 percent, according to the any idea who I was. Therefor~ , the operational faculty appoint Kathie Pelletier). CSU system. Out of the 138,141 fact that CSUSB has small classes needs for 2008- ~~ .. small classes is ments and cam applications, 102,249 were first is something I appreciate. I hope the 09," according puses will Greg McKinley with her mother prompting her to time freshman. school can find a way to keep small to the inflation something I attempt to slow Staff Writer emoll or any of the other ways most "For the third year in a row, ap classes so that all students can ex and enrollment appreciate... N down enroll people would expect, but with her :proximately three-quarters of four perience a small classroom envi growth calcula ment growth by athie Pelletier has mother attending class. year colleges and universities romnent," CSUSB student Sheena tions from the closing · the years· of experience Her mother attended a reported an increase in the number Martin said. Governor's De- freshmen appli K dealing with bad woman's psychology class at of applications from the previous With the rise of incoming partment of Finance. cation period for fall 2009 earlier in management, both in private and CSUSB at a time when the field · year," according to the National As freshman and transfer students, the "I know that there's a possibil the cycle, according to the CSU.

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