2008 Woodie Awards
Chancellor speaks on budget cuts
Nov. 21, 2008
The California State University system will limit admissions numbers, while keeping some unfilled faculty positions open due to the $97 million in potential cuts, the CSU Chancellor said Friday. Though the state Legislature hasn't approved $97 million cuts, Chancellor Charles Reed sees the money as already gone, he said during a conference call Friday.…read more0 Comments
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Street closed as firefighters help injured construction worker off roof
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Nov. 20, 2008
Firefighters and police helped get an injured construction worker off the roof of the Wildcat Recreation Center, leaving West First Street blocked off for more than 30 minutes Thursday morning....read moreCity Council bans disc golf in Upper Bidwell Park
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Nov. 19. 2008
A split City Council voted to ban disc golf in Upper Bidwell Park Tuesday night. After hours of debate and public discussion, the council voted 4-3 in favor of not allowing the sport, sometimes called Frisbee golf, in the park. ...read morePraise the turkey
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Nov. 20, 2008
On Saturday, the turkeys will be the guests of honor at the Farm Sanctuary in Orland, not as the centerpiece on the table, but as beloved and respected animals....read more
News
$100 million cut may hurt CSUs
1 CommentsUniversity departments plan to take a 5 percent hit in anticipation of the $100 million in possible cuts to the California State University system put forth by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The potential midyear cut would come on top of the budget that was $215 million below the CSU system's needs for the fiscal year, according to a CSU press release....read more
Opinion
Meaning of holidays not lost, merely transformed
0 CommentsThe winter holiday season, as we know it, has grown past the point of salvation. But it's nothing to worry about. The cycle of mass consumerism has become almost comforting. Promptly after Nov. 1, obnoxiously cheery Christmas music is piped through the speakers of retail establishments and candy canes - which now come in an array of colors - line the shelves. Love it or loathe it, that's the way things are. The only dilemma bigger than the obligation to buy a gift for everyone we've ever met remains in how to pay for it all - paper or plastic. ...read more
Sports
Volleyball team sweeps into postseason
0 CommentsThe women's volleyball team capped off the 2008 regular season on the road with back-to-back 3-0 sweeps against Cal State Monterey Bay on Friday and San Francisco State on Saturday. This was the second time the 'Cats swept the teams back-to-back this season, the first was on Oct....read more
Entertainment
Students get trashy with art to save planet
0 CommentsA man in a lavender shirt walks down the hall on the second floor of Bell Memorial Union. He, much like a lot of other people, is going about his day with little awareness of his surroundings. Resource depletion, environmental anarchy and the lack of self-awareness run rampant while he steadily walks by dozens of other predisposed students too busy to understand bigger issues....read more
Features
Home nostalgia uprooted by change, remodeled rooms
0 CommentsMany students return home for the holidays not to the comfort of an untouched version of their high school bedroom, but to a construction zone transformed into their parents' latest project. The workout room that dad will never work out in or a storage unit for the mounds of mom's scrapbooking supplies occupy the space students spent their youth in....read more
