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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO SINCE 1965 CCoyoteoyote ChronicleChronicle COYOTECHRONICLE.NETNET Vol.VlLIN LI, No. 2 MONDAY,MONDAY JANUARY JA 26, 2015 Assisted suicide stirs Celebrity worship Geographer makes it U.S. Soccer team controversy, pg. 5 epidemic, pg. 9 quake, pg. 12 takes hit, pg. 14 CCBriefs: college students By DAVON DEAN Staff Writer Cal Fire and emergency medical graduate without response team will be sued (Jan. 21) Cal fi re will be sued by the City of out of San Bernardino due to the agency not 4 1100 coming to an agreement with the city. workforce skills City offi cials had no choice but to By MARVIN GARCIA tice, or colleges focusing too much on social aspects and less on pursue a lawsuit against Cal Fire, forc- Staff Writer academic criteria. ing the agency to come to a decision to Moreover, the subject is also related to college graduate un- bid on providing fi re and EMS services New college graduates are entering the workforce unpre- employment, where a recent study by the Economic Policy Insti- for the city. pared. tute revealed that about 8.5 percent of graduates between the ages Police fi ght to get no-knock war- This is affecting their eligibility for white-collar jobs based of 21 and 24 are currently unemployed and about 16.8 percent in rant approved (Jan. 21) on study results collected by the Council for Aid to Education or- the same age range are underemployed. Controversy rose on whether or not ganization (CAE). Another survey commissioned by the Association of Ameri- the “no-knock warrant” will be benefi - The CAE did this through their Collegiate Learning Assess- can Colleges and Universities found about 91 percent of employ- cial for residents and law-enforcement ment Plus test (CLA+). ers fi nd the capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and offi cials. According to The Wall Street Journal, the CLA+ is intended solve complex problems is far more imperative than a candidates’ According to Carrie Mills, a retired to measure the intellectual quality gained by students throughout undergraduate major. Atlanta police offi cer who is currently a their four-year college learning, and refl ect the student’s level of According to a Wall Street Journal report, Jassalyn K. James, union rep for the international brother- critical thinking, analytic reasoning, document literacy, and writ- who oversees the CLA+, said that even when students have prov- hood of police offi cers, feels that based ten and verbal communication profi ciency, en remarkable growth during their four-year college learning, they off her experience with warrants this one CSUSB Public Relations Professor Donald Girard believes fall on a low-point start where they may not be profi cient in such will be most benefi cial for law-enforce- there is some truth in the situation, and added that students should skill sets by the time they graduate. ment offi cials. treat the educational process as a two-fold enterprise where they This is especially true with important transferable skills that “No-knock warrants helped close a are given the knowledge in their fi eld to succeed in their chosen are applied nowadays in many white collar jobs. lot of cases while I was an offi cer, if we profession and to prepare them for the highly competitive nature Girard has continuously built writing standards into each of knocked and announced, all evidence is of today’s job market. his courses and stresses the benefi t of going to the Writing Center going to be destroyed,” said Mills. In a similar report by Ryot News, there are several assump- in University Hall, for further improvement. Man beats girlfriend with puppy tions about the reasons for recent graduates, which includes the Students at CSUSB see things differently when judging their (Jan. 21) current status of the economy, this generation’s work ethic prac- educational quality. A man who struggles with prior as- “The quality of education I receive here is good. Everything sault charges injured his girlfriend and so far in my time here has been great for what I need to know and killed their three-week-old dog. do for my fi eld [P.E. instructing] and I will be able to use it once I The girlfriend, Monique Thomas, get my job,” said student Christian Lara. tells CBS she feared for her safety after Student Melanie Marcias expressed her satisfaction with the her boyfriend was given six months of education offered here and is confi dent that she will be able to jail time for beating her and killing their retain and be profi cient in the skills required to obtain as well as dog. succeed in whatever career she chooses to set her sights on. “All I did was walk behind him, and “My marketing professors relate a lot to the real world corpo- all of a sudden I turned around and I’m rations, and they apply lots of concepts from the books, and that being thrown up against the closet wall, has helped me in narrowing my choice on what I want to be once the closet door,” Thomas said. I get out,” said Marcias. Scientists slow light to below light The CAE is committed to helping educational institutions speed (Jan. 22) aiming to improve the learning outcome of students. A team of Scottish scientists have slowed photons—individual particles of Out of the 31,652 college students who were tested, they were ranked into three categories based on the skills they showed within the test: below basic, basic, and profi cient or higher. light—below the speed of light by send- ing them through a special mask. The mask forced the photons to change shape, which is what caused By JOCELYN COLBERT them to slow. Staff Writer Everyday practical use of the dis- Students covery has yet to be discovered. On Dec. 18, 2014, a brand new My- U.S. offi cials claim 6,000 ISIS Coyote portal was launched at CSUSB. fi ghters have been killed (Jan. 22) E-mails notifying the campus commu- U.S. diplomatic offi cials have respond to nity about the revamped program were sent claimed that approximately 6,000 ISIS out before the launch. fi ghters have been killed. “The university has begun the process Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel of planning for a complete redesign of the wouldn’t confi rm the exact number, MyCoyote csusb.edu website. The process will take merely stating that thousands were 18-24 months, will be pursued in phases, killed. resulting in a complete redesign of the U.S. intelligence estimates that ISIS website that will be dynamic, user-friendly has access to 9,000-18,000 fi ghters but changes and focused on prospective students, par- can draw on thousands of other soldiers Jocelyn Colbert| Chronicle Photo Continued on Pg. 4 CSUSB student attempts to learn new MyCoyote program. from allies according to CNN.com. News Chronicle Page 2 Monday, January 26, 2015 State of the Union coverage • The New York Times - President Obama claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defi antly told his Repub- lican adversaries in Congress to “turn the page” by supporting an expensive domestic agenda aimed at improving the fortunes of the middle class. • The Guardian - When Barack Obama looked out into the au- dience of his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, he was met with a truly historic sight. No Democratic president in the last century has addressed a Congress dominated by so many Repub- lican lawmakers. • The Wall Street Journal - President Barack Obama on Tues- day night declared an end to the U.S. economic crisis as he made the case to Americans, and a skeptical Congress, that now was the time to focus on resolving the most stubborn impediment to a full-fl edged recovery: lagging progress among the middle class. • Los Angeles Times - President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday didn’t contain any surprises, but it did unveil the clearest picture yet of the strategy Obama has adopted for the fi nal two years of his presidency. • The Chicago Tribune - President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious State of the Union agenda steeped in Dem- ocratic priorities, including tax increases on the wealthy, educa- tion and child care help for the middle class and a torrent of veto threats for the GOP’s own plans. THE GREATEST SUMMER OF YOUR LIFE! 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