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MAGAZINE
Honor
Bound
Freshman Justine Yang
is part of Sac State’s new
honors program
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Are high schools
making the grade?
pg. 10
Heavy lifting
Building a better student-athlete
pg. 20
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From the President
S
acramento State’s ambitious Destination 2010 initiative features the goal of
becoming a destination campus. And, especially during an election year,
Sac State is the place to be.
As the only comprehensive four-year university in the state’s capital, the University
is in the midst of many of the events that shape California. The political process is
evident and practiced at almost every level from students through the governor’s
race—and even into national politics.
Student elections mirror and practice the best politics has to offer by designing
campaigns, and debating and discussing the challenging issues that face our campus
and education in California. Classroom discussions explore issues, ethics and political
strategies. Student internships place hundreds of students each year in government
agencies where they learn leadership by working with California’s most influential
leaders. And many graduate students work as full-time, paid staff through the
prestigious Capital Fellows Program.
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The campus has been alive with discussion and debate about state and national
politics. Programs such as LegiSchool hosted televised town-hall meetings between
high school classes and state leaders. University professors were regularly featured in
media interviews about California politics and issues. And in October, we hosted the
year’s only gubernatorial debate. Our students are actively engaged in the processes
that will shape the future of California.
This fall, Sac State launched a new “e-advocacy” program for our friends and supporters. It is a simple, yet powerful new way to advocate on behalf of Sac State and
the CSU system. It features action alerts on how to help with legislative priorities of
the CSU, contact information for elected officials and media, a tell-a-friend feature
and much more. To find out more or to join, visit www.SacramentoState.kintera.org.
The political season has been exciting on campus and is representative of the
kinds of programs, energy and expertise that truly make Sac State an important and
exciting destination.
Alexander Gonzalez
President
If you have questions or suggestions about Sacramento State, the President’s Office may be
reached at (916) 278-7737. Please keep us updated about your activities and achievements
by sending updates to [email protected].
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Contents
Sac State Magazine is published by the Office
of University Advancement at California State
University, Sacramento for alumni & friends
of the University.
president
Alexander Gonzalez
vice president
Carole Hayashino
university advancement
editorial staff
editor
Laurie Hall
writers
Ryan Bjork
Ted DeAdwyler
Robyn Eifertsen
Kim Nava
graphic design
Candy Carson
Claire Harding
Emily Smith
photography
Steve McKay
Mary Weikert
Sam Parsons
Bob Solorio
Dawniela Hightower
Linda Scott
Alumni Relations
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From the President
features
Across Campus
Research Notes
Back in the Classroom
Sports Preview
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Are high schools
making the grade?
Highlights from the 2006
Envisioning California conference
Class Notes
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On the Quad
Honor bound:
Mark Your Calendar
Sac State Magazine Advisory Group
Sac State welcomes its first
class of honors students
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Caring for a community
New program focuses on the needs of the
Sacramento region’s Southeast Asian community
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Heavy lifting
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Missy Anapolsky
Angela Arriola
Manuel Barajas
Brian Berger
Doug Curley
Gary Davis
Shari Gonzales
Dawniela Hightower
Julio Ortiz
Vince Sales
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contributors
departments
Amador and Rosalie Bustos
Across Campus
‘Patient’ aids nursing students
PHOTO BY MARY WEIKERT
Nursing students
the experience, instead
are attending to
of hearing about it in
a new patient this
a lecture. It gives them
semester.
valuable clinical experiHis name is Larry,
ence, and they can
and he’s been
make mistakes without
through a lot. Lying
doing the patient any
on the table, he
harm.”
occasionally groans, “I
After the students
don’t feel good.” He’s
administer care and
been poked, prodded,
the simulated patient is
stabbed, had wounds
stabilized, they gather
dressed, gone into
around a white board
cardiac arrest and was
for a debriefing of the
situation. The strengths
administered CPR. His
and weaknesses of the
resilience, however,
treatment are analyzed,
is due in large part to
and the students dishis manufacturer. He’s
a life-size, high-tech
cuss what could have
been done differently
simulated patient
Nursing students (left to right) Melissa Johnson, Kathleen Cabe and Sherena
to provide better care.
mannequin known as Edinboro tend to SimMan, the Nursing department’s simulated patient.
The simulated patient
SimMan.
is
new
this
year
due
to increased
Nursing professor Debra Brady conducts
ago it was Mel Gibson.”
funding to admit more students and
clinical classes in which her students work
Brady can, with a click of a mouse,
enhance their lab experiences. The
directly with the simulated patient.
have Larry say things such as, “No, I don’t
nursing program is highly competitive
“SimMan’s name changes daily,” says
have diabetes,” or “I am not allergic to any
and has an exceptional graduation
Brady. “Today his name is Larry. A while
medications.” His chest rises and falls with
rate—95 percent.
each breath he takes.
Larry, for one, appreciates the excel“It’s a highly effective teaching tool for
Total undergraduate Fall enrollment
lent
care he gets from the students.
the
students,”
Brady
says.
“My
teaching
(in thousands)
“Thank you,” he says. “That helped.”
time is really maximized because they live
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Fall enrollment up
More students
are making Sac
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The University
has nearly 600
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this year than last
year for a total fall
enrollment of 28,529. “The biggest increase we saw was with
the lower-division transfer students,” says Larry Glasmire, director of special programs and enrollment analysis in the Office of
Academic Affairs. “We saw a 116 percent increase in that student population.”
One reason for the increase in first-time freshmen and lower-
division transfers may be the University’s streamlined admission
processes and stepped-up recruitment efforts. They included
using Sac State students to stay in touch with students who
were applying, letting them know what the next steps were so
they were ready when they arrived, and increased outreach to
high school and community college counselors.
The campus took advantage of web-based technology to
encourage attendance at Sac State and make the application
process as streamlined and user-friendly as possible. The recruitment website was also enhanced with interactive features such
as a student message board and student blogs which chronicle
the experiences of a number of students.
And Sac State also took its message to the airwaves with its
first sustained radio ad campaign.
» www.csus.edu/admissions
across campus
campus
»» across
GREEN&GOLD GALA
who recently placed second in the Metropolitan Opera Western regional auditions. Chan sang “Bella Siccome un Angelo”
from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale.
University President Alexander Gonzalez also used the
Gala to announce several new gifts:
• A $3 million bequest intention from an anonymous
donor that will endow undergraduate scholarships,
awards and programs.
• A $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation to provide scholarships for 20 re-entry students
annually. Sacramento State was one of only five universities
nationwide to receive these funds.
• A $400,000 gift from Paul and Renee Snider to begin
program planning for a new Museum of Natural History
adjacent to the planned Science and Space Center.
• A $150,000 commitment over three years from the RCA
Community Fund of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation to establish a new scholar in ethics.
• A $150,000 gift from Vision Service Plan for the Broad
Athletic Facility. In recognition, a meeting room in the
facility will be named for outgoing VSP President and
CEO Roger Valine.
The evening also included numerous acknowledgements of
the generosity of Sacramento State donors, including a video
tribute to Eli and Edythe Broad.
Mark your calendars—next year’s Gala is scheduled for
Oct. 5, 2007.
» See photos: www.csus.edu/pa/galagallery
Mark your calendars—next year’s Gala is scheduled for Oct. 5, 2007.
PHOTOS BY STEVE MCKAY AND MARY WEIKERT
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An event billed as “an
evening of art, music and
the unexpected” delivered with performances
by student artists and
the announcement of
nearly $5 million in gifts
during October’s Green
and Gold Gala.
The annual event in the
University Union Ballroom
honored philanthropists and
arts patrons Eli and Edythe
Broad who contributed $2 million to build a new field house,
named the Broad Athletic Facility.
It also celebrated the University’s 60th
year of instruction and prominently featured Sacramento State student artists.
In front of a crowd of more than 500
guests, current and former students gave a variety
of performances, beginning with a saxophone version of
“America the Beautiful” by jazz studies sophomore Joe Berry.
Artist Hiromasa Ichihara treated the audience to his creative
process performance by painting a 4- by 4-foot oil and acrylic
work during the cocktail reception.
And the dinner course featured an operatic performance
by music graduate Eugene Chan, an accomplished singer
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(above left) Eli Broad, (above middle) after-dinner dancing, (above right) emcees Christopher Cabaldon and Cristina Mendonsa
Across Campus
AP PHOTO
Vets on campus
Arnold Schwarzenegger (left), Stan Stathen andd Phil Angelides during the debate
held in Capistrano Hall.
Open for debate
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The campus in the capital city was again in the campaign spotlight as
Sac State and the California Broadcasters Association co-hosted the only live
statewide debate between gubernatorial candidates Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Treasurer Phil Angelides. The one-hour event took place
on Oct. 7 in Capistrano Hall.
The debate was available by satellite to all California radio and television
stations and included simultaneous Spanish translation and closed captioning.
Major networks carried the debate live and hundreds of media representatives
were on campus to cover the event.
Hosting gubernatorial debates is nothing new to the campus. Sac State and
the California Broadcasters Association hosted the 2003 Recall Debate featuring
the five leading candidates—an event that attracted worldwide attention. And in
1998, they also hosted a debate featuring Gray Davis and Dan Lungren.
» See photos: www.csus.edu/pa/debategallery
The expanded GI Bill is bringing military veterans—including many who have
served in Iraq or Afghanistan—to the Sac
State campus in numbers not seen since
the Vietnam War. The number of veterans
using educational benefits this fall, both
active duty and reservists, has increased 25
percent to more than 500.
Under the GI Bill, veterans can potentially
earn benefits in excess of $1,000 a month as
full-time students, plus extra financial incentives. The historic 1944 GI Bill provided education benefits to millions of veterans returning
from the war.
Sac State is also part of a “Troop to College” initiative made up of representatives
from the UC, CSU and community college
systems, which helps veterans make the
transition from the service to college.
“The campus can seem overwhelming
with all the offices from financial aid to academic advising. The University is a different
world than the military,” says Jeff Weston,
coordinator of the Veteran Affairs office
on campus. “Like many students about to
enter college, veterans are a little apprehensive.”
Weston said another wave of veterans
may be headed to Sac State. Last year
Congress authorized reservists—who have
been called up to serve in Afghanistan
and Iraq since 2001—to take advantage of
newly introduced benefits.
» More: www.csus.edu/admr/vets
Students offer direction
On foot. By bicycle. In the car. Whichever way you travel around campus, it’s
now a lot easier to navigate courtesy of
a major upgrade to the signage and bike
trail systems.
After nearly two years of work by
design students, faculty and staff, Sac
State has about 100 new signs, ranging
from large signs for directions to smaller
ones to identify buildings.
Students from Sac State’s Department
of Design looked at existing signage,
studied campus traffic patterns, checked
out the signage systems at places like
hospitals and shopping malls, and
sought input from
students and various campus offices
such as Public Safety
and Services to
Students with
Disabilities.
A campus committee selected the final
design plan.
The new signs will be soon visible to
bicycle enthusiasts taking advantage of
a more comprehensive bike path system
that will encircle most of the
campus.
An existing bike path is being
widened along State University
Drive West, and bicycle lane markings and signage will be added
along State University Drive South,
State University Drive and State
University Drive East to improve
bike circulation. Additional bike racks and
lockers will also be installed.
The $700,000 bicycle project is funded
through grants from Caltrans and the federal government.
» across campus
Record year for private support
Strong community support helped fuel
a banner fundraising year for the University. Public contributions in 2005-06 totaled
$16,239,897—the largest amount in Sac
State history.
“This was truly a landmark year in private
support for the University. Private funds
allow us to provide a level of excellence
beyond what is possible with state funding,”
says Carole Hayashino, vice president for
University Advancement. “We are extremely
grateful to the donors who gave so generously to our students and programs. Their
interest in the University speaks highly of the
value of a Sacramento State education.”
The California State University system
expects each campus to raise private support equal to 10 percent of its general fund
allocation. Sac State’s goal for 2005-06 was
$14.8 million.
Many of the gifts were in support of
the Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex. They
funding for it in order for the fee increase to
included the first $1 million of a $2 million
go into effect.
leadership gift from philanthropists Eli and
Edythe Broad to build the Broad Athletic Facil» For information on giving a gift to
ity and $5 million of the $10 million that Alex
Sacramento State, visit www.csus.edu/
G. Spanos pledged for the complex.
giving.
Other gifts included a
$250,000 contribution from the
2005–06 Philanthropic
Rumsey Community Fund to
Productivity by Gift
support activities in the Native
American Studies program
Purpose
including an endowed scholarship, and an anonymous donation to support Asian American
Scholarships
Studies.
(17%)
Academic Programs
The public support for the
& Other Restricted
sports complex was a key to
(28%)
making it a reality. President
Alexander Gonzalez promised
students, who voted themAthletics (1%)
selves a fee increase to build
the new facility, that he would
Library (1%)
raise $25 million in non-state
Capital (53%)
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Then and Now
The Theatre and Dance department,
headquartered in Shasta Hall, turns
50 this year.
(left) Shasta Hall, circa 1956.
(below) Shasta Hall, Fall 2006.
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D
oug Rice hears voices in his head.
But that’s not a comment on his
state of mind—the voices come
from characters in his next book.
Rice, a professor in the English Department and
author of three published novels including Skin
Prayer, says his writing process starts with a single
character saying a single line. In an instant, he
knows the nature and complexities of his novel’s
protagonist.
“By the time the character has uttered the first
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driven
And the
PHOTO BY MARY WEIKERT
Character
bore our partners
with every single
detail of the day. I
don’t do that when I
write either. I include
in the story the
moments that matter,
because those are
the instances that
change who my characters are as people.”
And what if he
runs into a boring
character or situation? “Luckily, art isn’t
exactly like life,” Rice
says. “I get to orchestrate what happens,
so if I find my characDoug Rice
ter in a situation that
doesn’t matter, I can ‘fast forward’
sentence, I know its entire life story,”
through that and move on to someRice says.
For Rice, character development
thing more significant.”
So how does Rice know when a
comes ahead of a storyline. “When
I start to write a novel, I don’t know
story is finished? “Total exhaustion,”
what the book will be about. I put the he says.
character in a situation that causes
“I know when I’ve pushed a story
complications in his or her life, and sit as far as it can go. When I get to the
back and watch how the individual
point of suffocation, there isn’t any
behaves in that particular situation.”
language left in me to tell the story,”
He also does his best to strike
he says, adding that the ends of his
minutia from the story. “In our everynovels never tell the whole story. “I
want the readers to be able to proday lives, we don’t go home and
vide their own ending.
That way, the story
doesn’t just belong to
me. It belongs to the
reader as well.”
survey
says...
PHOTO BY MARY WEIKERT
Amy Liu
I
t is not easy to get
someone on the phone
at home in the evening
to answer more than 70
questions about the state of
affairs in the Sacramento area.
But the students of Sociology Professor Amy Liu do it
year after year. Last spring
they conducted more than
1,100 interviews for an annual
survey that generates widespread media interest.
COURTESY PHOTO
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J
ennifer Piatt has captured global attention. The
International Paralympic Committee invited the
therapeutic recreation professor to this year’s
Paralympic Games in Torino,
Italy as a guest and observer—a
visit that Piatt hopes will lead to
future collaboration between
the committee and Sac State.
COURTESY PHOTO
Jennifer Piatt, right,
with sled hockey
bronze medalist
Lonnie Hannah, and
Laura McLachlin of
CSU Chico, at the 2006
Paralympic Winter
Games in Torino, Italy
Piatt and co-researcher Laura
McLachlin of Chico State hope to
act as catalysts in mainstreaming
the games into the American
sports culture. None of the
Torino 2006 games were telecast
in the United States. In contrast,
the games were shown live on
television throughout Europe.
If their research is approved,
the pair hope to conclude their
study after attending and reviewing the 2008 Paralympic Games
in Beijing.
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Piatt is now applying to conduct research on how to increase
the visibility of the Paralympics,
the Olympic Games for athletes
with limited physical abilities.
“I think awareness is really important,” Piatt says. “These are truly
‘Para-Olympian’ athletes. They are
Hockey Team
The 2006 U.S. Paralympic Sled
elite athletes. They have been training for years and these sports are their careers.”
abilities. For example there are
The committee invited Piatt after reviewing her recent
Super G skiers who are visually
research. That study concluded those with limited physical
impaired and amputees who are
abilities were more likely to participate in sports if recreation
track competitors. Piatt hopes to
staffs and organizations focused on encouraging lifelong
change the misconceptions.
athletic opportunities.
The Paralympic Games were
Everyone should have the same access to sports and recrefirst held in 1948 for World War II
ation opportunities, Piatt contends. “Playing and competing
veterans with spinal cord injuries.
in sports is the human right of every person,” she says.
They soon grew to include athThe Paralympic Games exemplify her findings, she says, by
letes with varying abilities, and
demonstrating that sports can be part of one’s life despite
began coinciding with the Olymphysical challenges.
pic Games. The Paralympic events
Piatt says that for too long the Paralympic Games have
are held two weeks after the
been seen as a sporting event held specifically for paralyzed
Olympics in the same venues.
athletes. But the games are held for athletes with a range of
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Building on the
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with the issues in their communities,” Liu
says. “For instance, one student was very
involved in affordable housing and so we
asked questions about the issue on last
year’s survey.”
In addition to students, Liu seeks input
from her colleagues and she stays on top
of local and national issues as well. For
her next survey, Liu is already considering
questions on issues such as construction of
the Auburn Dam. “We formulate questions
that will provide good, accurate information on how the public feels about issues.
The surveys are helpful to policymakers
who often have no other information on
how the public feels,” Liu says.
Last spring, for example, Liu’s students
interviewed 1,122 Sacramento Region
residents on subjects ranging from a proposed arena in Sacramento to the Iraq War.
After collecting the data, Liu and her students analyze it and write a series of survey
reports, broken down by topic. Each of
the students then writes a research paper
based on the survey work.
“The students are always very proud that
they have been a part of work that has so
much value to the region,” Liu says.
»View the reports at www.csus.edu/
ssis/annual_survey.htm
www.csus.edu
“The success of the surveys would not be
possible without the outstanding and very
professional work of our students,” Liu says.
Working through the University’s Institute for Social Research, Liu has been
conducting “The Annual Survey of Public
Opinion and Life Quality in the Sacramento
Region” since 2002. It is the key project of
two courses required for sociology majors:
Research Methods and Data Analysis.
Planning for the survey work begins
early in the fall semester in the Research
Methods class where Liu gets her students
thinking about current events and possible questions. “The students are in touch
Are
high schools
making the
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grade
Highlights from the 2006
Envisioning California conference
Each year, the Center for California Studies holds its Envisioning California
Conference—a statewide discussion of issues affecting California. Past
conferences have looked at e-democracy, the politics of power, the impact
of the defense industry and the legacy of Proposition 13. For this year’s
conference, the topic was “How Well are We Preparing Our Young People
for Life after High School?”
Introduction to conference Keynote address
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It is not coincidental that the great common
school movement in America occurred in the
1830s, the same period of time of Andrew
Jackson and the democratization of so many
American institutions. It’s no coincidence
because schools, teachers and quality
education are essential to democracy.
As John Stewart Mill once said,
‘You can write a democratic
constitution but the only way
to create a democratic
people is through education.’ —Tim Hodson,
director, Center for
California Studies,
Sacramento State
We have to truly think globally…We have to
have a culture of high expectations and high
standards for all of our students. I truly believe
that it’s not only a moral obligation, it is today
an economic obligation.
We need to increase the rigor in our curriculum, and we really need to bring what I call a cultural change so that every student and teacher
believes that he or she can reach a higher
level…We’re clearly seeing positive trends. But
we need to do a better job in terms of that culture change. I know it’s a slogan but we’re still
‘leaving too many students behind.’
—Jack O’Connell, superintendent,
California Department of Education
PHOTO BY DON NAHHAS
Retention rates: Why are so many young men
disappearing from our schools?
Every kid in middle school just wants to be
accepted…So if you are a black kid this is your paradox: If you choose to be ‘black’ you’re going to be
popular with your black friends but you won’t assimilate. You’re not going to take education seriously…On
the other hand if you assimilate, you’re going to move
on and be educated, but not going to be considered
‘black.’
There is another choice. There have to be positive
role models for African American males, people they
can relate to. We need older African Americans who
can go back to these kids and say you can still be cool,
you can still be popular and you can still assimilate.
—Brian Coaxum, Franklin High School (Elk Grove)
graduate and UC Merced student
The adult impact—whether we say it or not—about
who is smart and who isn’t is huge, who is college
material versus who isn’t, who gets to go into AP class
versus ‘Well, we don’t want to hurt their feelings, it’s
really hard work,’ is huge. And those are all adult issues.
It changes the dynamic among adults when they
can’t pick out by skin color, by language, who the
‘good kids’ are. In fact, they begin to shift and say all of
our kids have this potential. In my opinion that is the
most important cultural shift, the adults being able to
reinforce that whoever you are, whatever your background, you are college material if you choose that,
and I will give you the support. —Granger Ward,
California state director, AVID (Advancement
Via Individual Determination)
African American and Latino cultures have always
valued education. It’s a myth that these populations
don’t value education.
For young boys of color their first experience with
school is generally negative…All children enter school
with a positive attitude, but early on boys of color see
school as a place to be seen as inferior. They don’t see
role models. The teachers don’t reflect them. Maybe
the janitors reflect them. But the teachers don’t.
One of the benefits of segregation was that in
the insular environment within black communities,
children were buffered. People were vested in the
well-being of those children…With integration they
weren’t always put in classes where they had the best
interests of the students in mind. —Lisa William
White, professor, Bilingual/Multicultural Education
Department, Sacramento State
The high school exit exam: Is it a valuable measure
of our students’ abilities?
PHOTO BY STEVE MCKAY
www.csus.edu
The achievement gap must be reduced as soon as
possible. It must be mitigated, it must be eliminated.
We must have the same standard for all students no
matter what they bring through the door. The way you
can do this is with data. When we administer the same
test across the board in the same language we can make
comparisons we never had before. We wouldn’t have
had this discussion if we had escape valves, if we had
alternatives. —James lanich, president, California
Business for Educational Excellence
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If you are to have an exit exam, something that has
such an extraordinary penalty attached to it—not
getting out of high school—all students who are
going to be tested on that test must be taught all of
the material that is going be tested. And number two,
the students who are going to take that test must be
taught that material by teachers qualified to teach
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it. California can’t say we’ve done this, and therefore
California hasn’t reached a point where they can fairly
or constitutionally keep diplomas from students who
are otherwise qualified.
The state hired a consultant who showed progress
as well as continuing deficits and gaps in the exit
exam. Remediation is still quite spotty…If we do want
a system, we need to do it in a way that is fair to students and doesn’t undermine our goals of improving
the quality of education for all students, particularly
in eliminating some of the ongoing inequality in the
state. —Johanna Hartwig, attorney, Morrison &
Foerster, LLP, firm that brought lawsuit representing students who didn’t pass the 2006 exit exam
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How could we endorse an assessment that punishes many black and brown students at a significantly
higher rate than their more advantaged peers? More
black and brown and poor kids passed than those in
the field suggested they could…Students have defied
our wildest expectations.
It’s tragic it came to this. Poor kids get less of everything…The exit exam shined a bright spotlight on our
failing high schools. Kids were leaving without skills,
woefully under-prepared…If we don’t believe students can learn at the highest level, we don’t institute
the practices and policies to make it happen. Their
diploma was not a ticket to higher ed. It was a ticket
to the unemployment line or an urban or rural street
corner. The most inspiring part of all of this is that that
piece of paper means something.
—Russlynn Ali, executive director, Education
Trust-West
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My two-word description for education
policy is ‘hopelessly politicized.’ A lot of the
literature out there is dominated by think
tanks that appear to have an agenda. Scholars can’t even agree what the problem is.
Conservatives tend to focus on studentcentered explanations. People on the left
focus on systemic or school-centered
explanations. What has emerged is a policy
stalemate. Conservatives argue for the
implementation of market forces to improve
schools, such as vouchers and charters.
People on the left argue ‘throw money at
the problem’…What has emerged politically
is the illusion of reform, with its emphasis on
standardized testing and structural reforms.
While standardized tests and structure are
important they tend to devalue critical
thinking and writing skills—promoting rote
memorization instead, depriving teachers of
creativity in the classroom.
What is most unfortunate is that this focus
on reform and structure and testing allows
politicians to claim credit for reorganizing
school districts, rising test scores and other
reforms without having to engage the
population in a discussion of the far more
complex root causes of educational failure,
such as poverty, social inequality and structural changes to the economy.
—Tom Hogen-Esch, director of policy studies, Center for Southern California Studies,
CSU Northridge
The state legislature and the governor run
education in California and the school districts
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Schools as
political terrain
get to mess around with what’s left over.
There are three kinds of areas in California: urban, suburban and rural, and they’re
different. I think if you’re on a committee
on education, before they let you vote you
should have taken a look at small districts,
middle districts and you ought to look at
large districts like Los Angeles or Fresno or
San Jose, so that when you vote you have
an idea about how that vote affects them…
We pass a lot of whitewash laws that apply
to everyone. There are different needs.
—Bill Lambert, director of government
relations, United Teachers Los Angeles
The ways education is politicized are so
numerous it’s very hard to list them. Ever since
crime became a secondary issue, education
became a primary issue, in some ways with
the same type of politics. The competition
was no longer who could propose the stiffest sentencing for burglary or whatever, the
competition was who could propose the
stiffest testing standards…Certainly education becomes a political plaything for a lot of
people in Sacramento and Washington.
To what extent has education reform
improved things, and to what extent has
it messed things up more? Most teachers
will agree we’ve changed things so much
so often that there’s no consistency over
time. We don’t have patience to sit out any
particular set of problems. Politicians want
to say something is not working as well as it
should, so let’s change it, let’s do something
different. The main thing is to be steady on
the course…Keep in mind, this is like anything else—like crime, like health—there’s
no fine, permanent fix, that’s just not the
way things work. —Peter
Schrag, columnist, Sacramento Bee
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We went through a
whole series of major,
major architectural
changes to public
schools…The dollars used
to come from the local
community. When it comes
from the local community,
people can get involved in
who gets elected to local
school boards and whether
or not your local school
board can take money out
of your pocket, and people
care about that. Now that it comes from the
state budget it reinforces the golden rule of
the political process—whoever has the gold
makes the rules. And the state of California
controls the purse strings, therefore, the legislature and in the governor’s office is where
the policy debate happens…
We need to look at what it costs to
achieve the outcomes we say we want. My
hunch is that number will be much higher
than people expect. And once we get the
answer we’ll have to step back and say we
either have to come up with that level of
investment, or we have to scale back our
expectations. If that‘s what it costs for every
student to be at a level of proficiency, and
we’re not prepared to put up that money,
we have to be willing to say as a state that
we’re prepared to not have all our children
achieve that level of proficiency. —Rick
Simpson, deputy chief of staff for Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez
Measuring success in
our high schools
We need to be very careful about what
numbers we use. The data available is still
primitive. For example, we’re still debating
graduation rates. We have very weak methodologies for assessing what works. One of
the worst is ‘best practices.’ Unless we compare both low- and high-achieving schools,
and are sure the bad performers aren’t
doing the same thing as the high-achievers,
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Education
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all-star professors—without the final exam
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it is hard to make inferences.
Where we don’t know, we must be willing
to run experiments. We must be willing to
randomly try one thing with some students
and one thing with other students and see
if it makes a difference. That’s the only way
you can tell if the things we’re talking about
really matter. —Ted Lascher, professor, Public
Policy and Administration
Department, Sacramento State
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Lisa William-White is a professor of bilingual multicultural education at Sac State. She holds bachelor’s degrees
in journalism and English from Humboldt State University, a master’s degree in education from the University
of San Francisco and a doctorate in education from UC Davis.
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How well are we preparing students for life
after high school? If you look at the data, we’re
not doing good enough, especially for those
who are underrepresented in some of our
most rigorous courses. We have a moral obligation to increase opportunities for academic
success, especially for those who have not
been successful in our school system.
Do we have the will to educate all children?
Those of us who went into education knew
we weren’t going to be multimillionaires
in terms of dollars. But knew we would
become trillionaires in terms of life-changing
experience for the children for whom we’ve
had the opportunity to touch their lives.
—Odie Douglas, associate superintendent,
Lodi Unified School District.
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Achieving a shared vision:
Creating an environment
of success
hile growing up in East Palo Alto, Calif.,
surrounded by neighboring communities
of affluence, the phrases “educational equity”
and “social justice” were not a part of my lexicon. Yet
on a visceral level, I understood that my school experience as a black female was different from the dominant
group at my suburban high school.
Lisa William-White
There, I learned that Caucasian and upper middleclass were normative conceptions of what it meant to be a Bear—our school mascot.
And those Bears were the ones who overpopulated honors and advanced placement
courses. They were the student government officers. They matriculated to universities
at impressive rates. Those students were also able to look at the faculty of the school,
and at the stories and images embedded in the textbooks and see their cultural backgrounds reflected and affirmed.
My “California distinguished” high school inadequately prepared large numbers
of black and Latino youth for four-year colleges. Interestingly, my alma mater has
consistently been ranked as one of the top public high schools in the United States.
But I recall a culture where I, and a host of other “minorities” from my neighborhood, was relegated to low-level, tracked courses. I often found myself longing for
a curriculum that both challenged me and was relevant to my life. I also longed for
teachers who looked like me, who understood my interests and goals, and saw value
in my community.
Looking for an ally in “Bear Country” was an elusive goal.
It wasn’t until I was in graduate school that I learned that there were educators,
proponents of multicultural education, who dared to speak against injustice in its
various forms. Scholar Bell Hooks reflected my convictions in Teaching Community:
A Pedagogy of Hope: “We need…citizens of this nation to uphold democracy and the
rights of everyone to be educated, and to work on behalf of ending domination in all
its forms—to work for justice, changing our educational system.”
I needed critical educators in my life. Those who understood that multicultural
education was more than voyeuristically reading literature about people of color, or
bringing a dish to school that reflected my heritage for “Cultural Appreciation” Day.
Who understand that education is a form of liberation, where one can name their own
experiences and work towards social justice and equity. Within the scholarship of multicultural education, I discovered an educational ideology and philosophy to articulate
my journey through the K-12 education system.
Today, I am fortunate to work in a program that prepares future teachers to work
within this equity framework. And I work with students who share stories that reveal
the challenges they experienced related to language, class or ethnicity, as more than
75 percent of our credential students are of color or bilingual. The adversity that many
of my students have experienced has spawned a passionate cadre of educators who
desire to transform schools to challenge racism, classism and linguicism.
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Sac State welcomes its first
class of honors students
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liberal-arts college experience with
large metropolitan university opportunities. Who says you can’t have it
both ways?
When Sac State launched its brand-new
honors program this semester, it found 58
bright, motivated students eager to take part.
With its academically challenging environment, small classes and extracurricular
activities, the honors program is designed to
fill a gap, says history professor George Craft,
who helped develop it. “Numerous programs
have been created for student-athletes and
disadvantaged students but not for students
looking for something like this.”
In addition to a curriculum created especially for them—with a culturally
rich, worldly emphasis—the
program’s first students found
a built-in social and academic
network and their own
home-away-from-home
in the form of a student lounge.
The students
come from all
over California
and—in the
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Griesse—overseas, and are pursuing a variety of majors. Unlike the honors programs
at some other universities, Sac State’s is
general education-focused and will fulfill
most of the University’s general education requirement. For each of the first four
semesters, students will take sets of three
courses followed by an upper-division
component of nine to 12 units. The classes
are structured to provide a global perspective, which faculty members hope will
encourage study abroad.
This semester featured an honors math
course, a world civilization course and the
first of a four-semester seminar course on
“great books.” The topics make for lively
classroom conversations.
Student David Hills became interested in
the Honors Program’s small class offerings
during orientation. “The open-discussion
type studying interested me more than sitting in a large lecture hall,” he says.
For Karissa Horton, who considers herself
an aspiring evangelist, the discussions have
helped her embrace others’ beliefs. “We all
get to learn from each other,” Horton says.
“The class discussions make me stronger
or Justine Yang the
theater adage “break
a leg” is a familiar one.
Her first onstage faux
Hometown: Pasadena pas was while performing a commercial skit at
her high school in which she said the wrong line,
a controversial one that had been ripped from
the script. Instead of urging customers to enjoy
Coca Cola, Yang touted “Old Gold Cigarettes.”
She soon corrected herself on stage. But for Yang
the mistake was “exhilarating.”
“I discovered I could mess up but I could save
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myself immediately,” she says. “I learned that if
things go wrong, I know I can survive.”
Yang is the social chair of the Honors Program’s Honors Committee. She hopes her performing experience helps her pursue a career
in broadcast journalism.
Along with drama she is interested in how
others approach their lives, having traveled
the world with her Taiwanese mother. “I like to
think that I am willing to try new things,” Yang
says. “Traveling has opened my mind to different cultures.”
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pl. David Hills knows the value of education.
He protected the reconstruction of the school
system in Iraq as an infantryman, providing security for engineers and contractors refurbishing
schools in the Kurdish region during his 2003–04
tour of duty.
“Education is the foundation for all the good
things that can happen in a country,” says Hills, who
hopes the schools he helped secure allow a new
generation of Iraqis to become educated.
Hills’ father and both grandfathers served in the
military, but it was the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that
solidified his decision to join the Army.
While in Iraq, Hills also patrolled roadway checkpoints, conducted raids on homes of suspected
insurgents and trained Iraqi National Guard soldiers.
“I kind of understand that there is more in life than
just going to school,” says Hills, who now uses his
Army field bag as his backpack. “I realize that there is
more to an education than getting an ‘A’ on paper.”
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David Hills
because I am able to think about different
points of view.”
Semester two will feature a second world
civilization course and courses in speech/
rhetoric and in philosophy as well as the
continuation of the great books seminar. The
second year includes honors courses in biology, government and ethnic studies.
Because of the small classes and ample
opportunities for discussion, Honors Program
Director Roberto Pomo says the relationships
between the honors faculty and the students
are as much about mentoring as teaching.
“And the mentoring that goes on in the
classroom is equally important to what
occurs outside the classroom,” he says.
The students have regular social events
almost every Friday, which have included
workshops on topics such as time management skills, library research tools and health
issues. There is also a film series where students view classic movies by legendary directors such as Otto Preminger’s Laura and Mike
Nichols’ The Graduate, and discuss them with
Sac State professors.
Groups of students have also attended
the University’s Green and Gold Gala and the
gubernatorial debate the campus hosted in
October.
Between classes, the students often
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And an upcoming Honors Program journal
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“It’s given me a sense of community,” says
Roberto Torres, who chairs the Honors Committee. Before coming to Sac State, Torres
was enrolled in Richmond High School’s
Law Academy and says the Honors Program
is “just like being in my academy in high
school.”
Pomo says one of the goals of the program
is to develop a strong association with the
campus. In addition to regular visits to each
class, program staff will assess each student
at the conclusion of each semester.
Plans call for a new “class” each year—
the students come in as a group and stay
together through the years that follow.
Currently, the student groups are incoming
freshmen, but Pomo hopes that someday
they will be able to offer an honors program
to transfer students.
“We have had requests from sophomores
who have been in community college
honors that want to be in an honors program
when they transfer to Sac State,” he says.
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former dorm room in Foley Hall. The Honors
Lounge is open from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
every day. Students can study, work on projects, do homework, or just hang out.
“It’s a wonderful space and they really are
taking advantage of it. It’s like Grand Central
Station—in a good way,” Pomo says. And it
has benefits for the program staff as well. “It
keeps us in the loop. We can ask them, ‘How
are you doing?’ As a director, if a student
wants to talk, I don’t go home. In many ways
it’s the most important part of the job.”
Pomo’s involvement with the program
was what helped draw Justine Yang. She
initially came to Sac State for the theater
program and to attend Pomo’s classes. “I was
interested in the Honors Program and when
I found out Dr. Pomo was in charge, everything fell into place,” she says.
The lounge is one of the responsibilities of
the Honors Committee. “We want students
to be involved with community work in
service to the Honors Program,” Pomo says.
“The students take care of the social
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Roberto
Torres
Hometown: Richmond
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oberto Torres has
experienced the divide
between rich and poor.
And someday he hopes to
close that gap.
“I’ve seen so many injustices by the government
that it’s made me want to
do something more than just
protest,” says Torres, an aspiring U.S. Senator.
Torres worked as a summer
intern in the Oakland District Attorney’s office and as
the chair of
the City of Richmond’s Youth Commission. As chair he
organized
an anti-violence conference that led to plans for a safe
and fun
recreational “youth café” now under development in
the city.
Torres’ mother has been his inspiration to pursue law
and
public service. An immigrant from El Salvador at 18, Torres
’
mother quickly learned English and landed a position
at a law
firm. Throughout any hardships, he says, “She’s handle
d it so well.
I hope that when I go through something (difficult) that
I can be
like her and stay strong.”
Torres is hoping to join Sac State’s debate team and partic
ipate
in student government through Associated Students.
Recruitment for next year has already begun and Pomo hopes
to continue to increase representation among all groups of students. “Usually honors programs are viewed as being a bit elitist,”
Pomo says. “At Sac state our mission is to be all-inclusive.
“We want to attract prospective students from a wide variety
of regions and school districts. It’s what Sacramento is about, it’s
what the state of California is about and it’s what this university
is about.”
In addition to recruitment, part of Pomo’s responsibilities
include raising additional funds for the new program for things
like scholarships, books and faculty research that will impact
teaching. He also hopes to send honors students to conferences
with faculty and bring in guest speakers with national and international reputations.
Support these Sac State scholars
Sacramento State’s Destination 2010 initiative calls for an enhanced
commitment to academics. We recently established a General
Education Honors Program for highly motivated students, providing
talented first-time freshmen a challenging and invigorating liberal arts
education in small class settings. Honors Program students experience
individualized attention and interaction from faculty members in
and out of class. Can you help Sacramento State offer the very best
academic experience to these promising students?
To give, please contact University Development at (916) 278-6989,
or e-mail [email protected].
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erman ballerina Chrissy Griesse may
be graceful when she lands a perfect
pirouette, but she is anything but demure
when presenting a new business idea.
When she was just 17, auto giant Volkswagen awarded her a special prize for her
daring entry in its annual business plan
competition—usually reserved for the
“over-30” entrepreneur crowd.
Griesse is part of a new generation of
Germans pushing for recognition of the
value of young entrepreneurs. She hopes to one
day establish a business
organization for teens in Germany similar to Future
Business Leaders of
America.
Griesse’s father introduced her to business while
running his dental
practice. “I used to job-shadow him at his business
and whatever I didn’t
like I started criticizing,” she says. Now as a barist
a for Java City, she has
ideas for expediting service and increasing reven
ues there: “They would
be so much more effective if they rearranged the
design of their shops.”
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Caring for a
community
Student Dao Fang speaks with clients
Lee Cha Vang, Yeng Lao and Xay Lao,
refugees who arrived two years ago
from the Wat Tham Krabok refugee
camp in Northern Bangkok, Thailand.
by Ted DeAdwyler
Meeting the special needs of the Sacramento Region’s Southeast
Asian community is the focus of new program in Social Work.
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orking with women at the Hmong
Women Heritage Association, Sac
State student Dao Moua Fang is
being introduced to what it takes to become
a good social worker.
Closely following the guidance of social
workers in the association’s Kashia Health
Program, she conducts educational workshops for cancer support groups and provides case management for Hmong cancer
patients. These projects are part of a new
program aimed at preparing social workers
to work primarily with the Southeast Asian
community.
It’s giving students like Fang a new way
of looking at the experiences of others. And
Fang says she feels that she’s becoming
more than just a by-the-books social worker.
“Dual perspective is a very powerful tool
when working with ethnic communities
such as Asian Americans, because they seek
help within their own community before
going to human service agencies for assistance,” Fang says.
Fang, who is of Hmong descent, is part
of a graduate social work program that is
believed to be one of the only such programs of its type in the country.
“These students are very dedicated to the
field of social work and to the communities
they intend to serve,” says Serge Lee, coordinator of the program and a noted social work
researcher.
And social services agencies are more
than grateful. Other Sac State students do
assessments, crisis intervention and ongoing therapy for children and families in the
mental health program at La Familia Counseling Center in Sacramento.
“The students have been very helpful,” says David Nylund, who is a clinical
supervisor at the center and a professor of
social work. “One of our students, due to
his Hmong background, is able to use his
cultural knowledge with Hmong clients.
This helps with La Familia’s multicultural and
diversity focus.”
A Sac State study found that Southeast
Asian ethnic groups in the Sacramento
Region have the highest poverty rates and
the greatest need for social services.
In addition to economics, Lee says, other
factors make the social work program
vital to the Southeast Asian community in
Sacramento. “Many Southeast Asians are
still assimilating into the mainstream of
American society and adjusting to life in the
United States,” Lee says.
Students in the program study subjects
required of all social work majors along with
18 specialty seminar sessions that allow
them to learn more about the life-changing
experiences of groups who escape from
their native countries, become refugees
in other countries and ultimately settle in
America.
Fang hopes to gain the skills she needs
to aid Hmong women, many of whom were
traumatized by the war in Laos and also may
have lost a spouse or child in the conflict.
“Hmong have no concept of mental health.
Many of these women can’t tell the difference between emotional pain and physical
health problems and often attribute their
poor health to physical and spiritual causes,”
Fang says. “I feel that if there are more
Hmong social workers working together
with a psychiatrist to deliver responsive
mental health services and coordinate culturally sensitive support groups for these
women, then they will be able to overcome
their trauma.”
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After posting the best overall record in
its Div. I history (1991-present) and setting numerous program records last
year, the program has one goal in mind:
winning its first-ever Big Sky Conference championship. After reaching the
Big Sky Tournament each of the last four
years, the Hornets will enter the season
with seven returners.
The team is working to improve its
record for the third consecutive season
under head fourth-year coach Dan Muscatell. He welcomes the largest incoming class of his tenure, while also returning six letter-winners from a year ago.
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After winning six league championships
in the last seven seasons, expectations
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Senior shot putter David Nichols will
look to become an All-American for the
third straight season this spring. Senior
Roshena Duree will lead the way for
the women after being named the
conference’s Field Athlete of the Year last
season. In June, Sac State will serve as
host for the NCAA Div. I Outdoor Track
and Field Championships for the third
straight year.
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After being crowned the Big Sky
Conference’s co-regular season champions last season, the team will return
four players in 2007. In addition, the
team welcomes a recruiting class that
was ranked the 18th-best in the nation
among Div. I teams by the Tennis
Recruiting Network.
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The Hornet women will be one of the
favorites to win the Big Sky Conference
championship. Last season, Sac State
placed third but the team returns the
core of its lineup. Head coach Adam
Pohll continued his rebuilding of the
men’s golf program. A talented group
of young players will guide the team
during the spring.
—Sports Information
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Sac State enters its second year as an
affiliate member of the Western Athletic
Conference with an elevated pitching
staff, a talented incoming class of freshmen and junior college players, and a
solid group of returning position players.
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Despite a roster that featured six freshmen last season, the Sacramento State
women’s tennis team was able to win its
fifth-consecutive Big Sky Conference
title. Sac State enters the season having
won 34-consecutive matches against Big
Sky competition, a streak which dates
back to 2002.
After winning last year’s Western
Intercollegiate Rowing Association
championship for the first time since
2001, the rowing team will look to repeat
as conference champions in 2007. The
Hornets welcome back 26 studentathletes this year.
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One season removed from a 35-20
overall record and a 14-6 mark in the
Pacific Coast Softball Conference, Sac
State will look to post its fourth straight
season with at least 30 wins. The Hornets, who finished just one game out
of first place and narrowly missed a
selection to the NCAA Regionals, return
13 players from last year’s team, which
posted the most victories since 1995.
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for the team will once again be high.
Last season, Sac State claimed the
Western Athletic Conference title and
advanced to the NCAA Championships
for the second time in school history.
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lifting
Building a better
student-athlete
by Laurie Hall
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o on, call them muscle heads.
But today’s student-athletes are
embracing concepts of smart strengthconditioning that are helping them
build both brain and brawn.
Modern approaches to intercollegiate athletics incorporate weight training as an essential part of an overall fitness regimen. The goal is to build
not just muscle but power and explosiveness.
“We’re here to build better athletes, not better bodybuilders,” says Director of Strength and Conditioning Gary Uribe, who joined the Hornet athletics program this summer from the perpetual sports powerhouse University
of Southern California. “I don’t call the plays, I don’t diagram the offense or
defense. But I can make them better athletes.”
Athletes who are strong and fit are more likely to be better competitors
and less likely to get injured, he says. And keeping athletes from getting
injured can be as important to their success in the classroom as it is on
playing field, court or track.
“Injury prevention is the primary goal of strength training because an
injury can inhibit a student-athlete’s ability to continue to practice and play
at a high level,” says Professor Harry Theodorides, who works with graduate
students in the strength and conditioning option through the Kinesiology
and Health Science Department.
Strength and conditioning is not an old profession compared to other
facets of coaching, Uribe says. “As in any sport, there’s a psychology to it
and no ‘one size fits all.’ Athletes come in a plethora of personalities and it’s
important to learn how individual athletes respond. It’s one thing to train the
body. We want to work the mind as well.”
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PHOTO BY MARY WEIKERT
When the new Broad Athletic Facility
opens it will be double the size of the current
setup, Uribe says, large enough to house all
the teams under one roof.
Theodorides sees the weight room as a
learning lab, where students in the kinesiology program learn about the value of
strength and conditioning programs as
they learn to be strength and conditioning
coaches. “The students will get the opportunity to work with the head strength coach,
student-athletes and latest equipment at the
collegiate level in the new Broad facility.”
And it will help the ultimate goal—more
competitive student-athletes.
“We’re here to help the teams get better,”
Uribe says. “Then we get to sit back and
watch them compete. It’s the best thing
about being a strength coach. Your reward is
seeing athletes go out and be successful.”
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Lindsay Haupt
Sacramento State is building a
sleek new field house to house its
intercollegiate teams. The Broad
Athletic Facility features a state-ofthe-art strength and conditioning complex, sports medicine
rooms, team offices, locker rooms and more. Currently under
construction, the facility opens in late winter 2008.
Make your mark on Hornet Athletics with a generous gift toward
the Broad facility. Naming opportunities exist at all giving levels for
rooms, benches and equipment.
For more information on supporting Hornet student-athletes,
please contact University Development at (916) 278-6989 or
e-mail [email protected].
www.SpanosSportsComplex.com
www.csus.edu
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conditioning so that when the athlete is ready
to return, there is not a lot of catching up to do.
How the training staff deals with injury
depends on the program and the type of
injury, of course. But Theodorides says it typically involves a team approach that could
include the athletic trainer, physical therapist,
team doctor and sports psychologist.
Uribe says that as a strength coach, he
needs to know how the athlete is limited by
injury so that he is able to address that in conditioning. For example, a “throwing” athlete
such as a pitcher or a quarterback might need
to back off on shoulder exercises if an injury
occurs. But the student can still can do alternative exercises to work the same muscle group.
A player with a torn labrum would have a hard
time doing overhead lifts such as a shoulder
press but could do shoulder-shrugs.
“For most the part there’s an alternative
as long as it’s a temporary injury,” Uribe
says.
Both Uribe and
Theodorides see a
huge upside for student-athletes in the
new athletic facilities
being built on campus.
Uribe says the larger
space and advanced
equipment will allow
them to be functional for all team
sports. Today, athletes have to come to
the weight room in shifts to lift.
Beginning at 6 a.m. most mornings until well into the evening,
each of the campus’ 20 sports
teams take turns coming in for
workouts at two separate facilities. And large
sports teams such as the 85-person-strong
football and track teams can’t all be in at once
and have to split up even further.
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Sac State subscribes to a movementbased program, which incorporates free
weights and non-weighted activities to
improve athleticism. The idea, Uribe says,
is to go for overall strength and fitness
and then become more sports-specific, working on functionality for each
athlete’s position in his or her sport. It’s
important to duplicate the movements
of the position the athlete will play—
standing on one leg, twisting, pushing.
“The old school of strength and conditioning was weightlifting alone, with
a focus on ‘big,’” Uribe says. “That’s not
enough within competitive sports that
are multidirectional. You have to be able
to do more than one move, because if
after one move you’re done, and the
other guy can do two or three moves,
you’re not going to be successful.”
Uribe actually starts by working outside the weight room on foot speed
and agility.
“All collegiate strength and conditioning
programs do the same thing as we do—
the same squats, the same bench presses,”
he says. “But we also focus on spending as
much time on movement outside.”
Those movements may include agility
drills such as the speed ladder, after which
the athletes come inside and use weights.
Other drills work on change of direction and speed. The athletes also do
strength and power moves that don’t
use weights, focusing on the “core,” the
area around the trunk and pelvis.
“We place a premium on training the
athlete’s core, because a stronger core
enables the athlete to move more efficiently,” Uribe says. Theodorides adds
that a strong body and core may help
the student-athlete perform better and
limit injuries.
But if an athlete does get injured, Uribe
says it’s important he or she keeps up with
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Amador and
Rosalie Bustos
The influence of Spanish-language radio mogul
Amador Bustos and his wife Rosalie reaches far
beyond the airwaves.
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The Bustoses—among the most prominent Hispanic couples
in Sacramento—are devoted philanthropists. Their efforts are felt
throughout the area artistically, culturally and educationally.
At Sacramento State, they contributed to the Joe and Isabel Serna
Center. And they are members of the President’s Circle, providing President Alexander Gonzalez with insight on the area’s emerging issues.
Amador Bustos is thankful he can give back to the University. “We
have received the benefit of several employees who were graduates
of Sac State,” says Bustos, who—during the rise of his first broadcast
company—admired and worked with the late mayor and professor
Joe Serna.
Amador Bustos, listed by Hispanic Business in 2005 as one of the
100 most influential Hispanics in the country, made his fortune by
expanding Spanish-language broadcasting. He began in the industry by selling advertising for a San Jose radio station while Spanishlanguage radio was just beginning to emerge. In 1992, he started
Z-Spanish Media in Cameron Park with one radio station, 92.1 FM. In
only eight years, Z-Spanish Media grew to include 32 stations. Bustos
sold Z-Spanish in August 2000 for reportedly more than $450 million.
He now owns Bustos Media LLC made up of 25 radio stations and
two television stations in 10 markets.
In 1996, the couple established the Bustos/
Lopez Family Fund that awards $5,000 scholarships
to Hispanic high school seniors each year. So far
they have helped 50 students attend college.
The President’s Circle was established in 2004 to recog“I feel like I am one of their cheerleaders,” says
nize some of Sac State’s most generous annual donors. This
Rosalie Bustos, who takes a personal interest in
essential group of benefactors—composed of alumni, friends,
each student and corresponds with them every
faculty, staff and business and community leaders—provides
semester. “These kids are so intelligent. They just
critical private support to the University in fulfilling its mission
need the financial assistance to get where they
to students and the community.
are going.”
President‘s Circle gifts promote access, quality and excelShe is also the vice president of the Mexican
lence in education and support special projects, programs
and events that involve alumni and friends in the life of the
Cultural Center of Northern California.
campus. In addition, members provide advice and assistance
Amador Bustos sits on the boards of Broadfor President Alexander Gonzalez in achieving short- and longcast Music, Inc. and American River Bank, and
term goals for Sac State, playing a pivotal role in bringing the
is a member of the Investment Committee of
University closer to the community and integrating it in effecHispania Capital Partners, a Chicago-based
tive ways with the Sacramento Region.
investment fund.
Individuals may become members of the President’s Circle
He credits his own personal work ethic for his
with a minimum annual gift of $1,500 to the President’s Circle
success. “Don’t be pushy. Be ‘pully,’” he advises
Fund. Corporate memberships start at $2,500. For information
students. “Pull work toward you, do not push
on how to join this group of supporters, contact Jody Policar,
it away. Pull people to you instead of pushing
director of Annual Giving Programs, at (916) 278-4168.
them away.”
President’s Circle
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Cary Williams-Nunez
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hile she was studying botany at Sac
State, it is unlikely Cary Williams-Nunez
(Environmental Studies ’96) ever envisioned
she would trade in her garden gloves for
boxing gloves. But soon after graduating she
found herself captivated by the sport.
Now as one of only a handful of female
boxing promoters in the world, WilliamsNunez is the CEO of Sacramento-based
Prime Time LLC, the parent company of
Prime Time Boxing and Fitness, and Prime
Time Productions, businesses she cofounded.
In July, she promoted “Rumble at Raley
Field,” the biggest professional boxing
event ever held in the Capital Region.
Fourteen boxers competed in seven fights
with special guests including the 1996 IBA
World Super Heavyweight champ Eric “Butterbean” Esch, and famed referee Richard
Steele. And she brought a decidedly female
perspective to the event by including
female bouts and male ring cardholders.
Not afraid to step into the ring herself,
Willams-Nunez earned her Level IV Olym-
pic Boxing coaching certification in 2001.
As a coach, her petite frame and ladylike voice is deceiving. “Everyone keeps
expecting me to be this large woman
who looks like a man. That’s unfortunate,”
she says. “I think strength can be looked
upon as a feminine trait.”
And there is no doubt that WilliamsNunez is tough. “I was taught to get up and
brush myself off (if I fell down),” she says.
And when she falls, she falls hard—such
as the time she fell 40 feet into a Santa
Monica lake as a competitor on NBC’s
“Fear Factor.” “I basically got pulled on a
speeding raft with a helicopter overhead,
reached up and climbed a rope as far as I
could,” she says of her 2004 appearance.
Williams-Nunez is also a fitness expert
and model. She appeared on the cover of
Muscle & Fitness Hers in August. And she
is working on a “Knocking Out Obesity”
campaign by developing boxing programs for kids. “Boxing,” she says, “is a
life-changing experience.” And she would
know.
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KIMBERLY ELLIOTT, ’81, B.A.,
English, has been named marketing director for the Nevada
Commission on Economic
Development after being
interim marketing director
for the first part of 2006. She
previously served as prospect
manager for the agency and
was on the front line for business relocation and expansion calls. Elliott
will be planning, directing and implementing the agency’s marketing communications activities for print and electronic
media. In 2004, she took on the Made in
Nevada program, the official state program
designed to market Nevada-made products
and artisan crafts. Under her stewardship,
the membership-based program has grown
more than 30 percent each year.
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1970s
DAVID FREELAND, ’73, B.S., Environmental
Resources, will be retiring the first of the
year from the U.S. Forest Service capping
a 34-year career in public service. As the
Kern County District Ranger for the Kern
River Range District in the Sequoia National
Forest, Freeland has been responsible for
the administration and management of
nearly 665,000 acres of forest and up to 300
employees. Freeland and wife Debbie live in
Bakersfield and have two grown children.
JAY REIDY, ’72, B.A., ’82, M.A., Government/
Journalism, is an instructor with the Mt.
Baldy, Calif. National Ski Patrol. As a patroller, Reidy is part of the largest winter rescue
organization in the world, composed of more
JOE D’ALESSANDRO, ’78, B.A., Italian, was
than 28,500 members serving more than 600
recently named to head the San Francisco
ski patrols including volunteer, paid, alpine,
Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to
snowboard and Nordic patrollers throughout
coming back to California, D’Alessandro
the United States and at certain military
directed the Oregon Tourism Commission for
areas in Europe. He teaches the Outdoor
five years and then the Portland Visitors AssoEmergency Care course which is the training
ciation—a far cry from his first job working in
that an EMT gets, except that it emphasizes
the food concession at the Sacramento Zoo.
cold-weather and high-elevation illnesses
and injuries. Before joining the patrol,
Reidy taught skiing to blind athletes.
He is a life member of the Alumni
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KEITH JACINTO, ’72, B.S., Environmental
Studies, teaches science and social studies
as a fourth-grade teacher at Erma Reese
Elementary in the Lodi Unified School
District. He is involved with the Solar
Olympics, an annual contest among
schools to use solar power to build cars or
model houses. Reese Elementary won the
Solar Olympics in a regional contest and
was awarded a solar panel to help with
campus electricity bills. Jacinto supervises
students in an after-school Homework Club
and tutors several days a week. He is also
the site coordinator for the art display for
Lodi Unified’s Visual and Performing Arts
program every year.
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RICHARD CATHCART, ’72, B.S.,
Physical Education, has been the
director of athletics and a teacher
and coach at Bret Harte Union
High School in Angels Camp. He is
the current coach of the boys’ and
girls’ golf teams. He has taught
for 34 years at the high school
from which he graduated, in the
town where he was raised. Cathcart attended Sacramento City
College, played football, and then enrolled
at Sac State where he earned his degrees in
biology and physical education.
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Chester “Chet” Shelden
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somebody to embody its school spirit.
Shelden’s newfound role was rare at the
time. Only a few California teams had mascots, including Humboldt State’s lumberjack.
Shelden played his role in Sac State history
the
elk—as
the
school
mascot
on
Dec.
5,
1947.
His attire was made of crinoline, a stiff
(Though no record exists, the name Herky is
through 1957.
mesh material nothing like the elaborate
believed to be short for “Hercules.”) It wasn’t
After graduating, he taught in Costa
plush of today’s costumes.
Mesa for 18 years before moving to Siskiyou
until 1953 that the new university fielded its
“My costume may not have been as fancy
County where he taught in a one-room
first football team. And it wasn’t until 1955,
and nice as they have now, but it was fun,”
when Shelden volunteered during one fateful
school. Shelden retired in 1989, but then
Shelden says of his uniform, which was made
rally committee meeting, that the team had
taught as a substitute for the San Juan Uniby friends. “Basically it was made up of a
big head, leotards, tights and a long
COURTESY PHOTO fied School District. For the past 13
stinger. We painted my black eyes on
years he has been a music specialist at
and I wore the crinoline costume and a
Greer Elementary School.
little pair of wings. And it got cold out
Shelden says he looks back fondly
there in November, I’ll tell ya.”
on his years as mascot. And he espeShelden recalls leaping around the
cially misses the close-knit school spirit.
field and getting the crowd going
“(As a mascot), I think you have to
with the school’s cheerleaders. “I
be dedicated to the idea that you are
didn’t have any famous moves,” he
there not only to support the team,
says. “But I had a lot of school spirit.
but the school as well,” he says.
You can’t be a mascot and be inhibShelden and his wife Eudora,
“Dora,” (Elementary Education, ’57),
ited. You have to be a little crazy.”
have four children and eight grandThe student council and the athletChet Shelden and his wife, Dora, with Herky.
ics department chose a hornet—over
children.
hat the initial Herky the Hornet mascot may have lacked in flash he made
up for in substance, according to Chet Shelden (Elementary Education,
’57). And Shelden should know. In 1955, he became the first to sport a green and
gold hornet costume for Sac State.
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PAM KINDIG, ’82, B.S., Business and Physical Education, has been elected to her sixth
term as Napa County’s auditor-controller.
She is responsible for internal audits,
assessment roll changes and accounting
functions, as well as financial reports to the
county, state and federal authorities. She
establishes budget revenue and expense
limitations and maintains budget controls.
CHRISTOPHER J. OLSEN, ’84, B.A., Business
Administration, has been a Certified Financial
Planner for 22 years and is the senior financial
advisor with Olsen & Associates in Lodi, a
financial advisory practice of Ameriprise, Inc.
Olsen is also president of the Financial Planning Association of San Joaquin Valley.
TIMOTHY J. MEEKS, ’86, B.S., Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, has been selected as
the new administrator of the Western Area
Power Administration and will start his new
position in January. Western is a part of the
United States’ power and related services
within a 15-state region, including California.
Meeks received his master’s degree in
engineering from the University of Colorado
in 1997 and he is currently completing a
master’s degree in counseling psychology
at the University of Colorado at Denver. A
registered professional engineer in California,
he is a member of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers and Tau Beta Phi
Engineering Honor Society. Meeks and his
wife, Tena, have two sons, Joshua and Ethan.
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LAURA BEMIS, ’89, B.A., Education, before
opening her own company Fine Focus
Photography, was the main photographer
for the Elk Grove Citizen for 22 years. She
now specializes in sports, parties, outdoor
activities, portraits, scenic images and
general events. Her first photography show
just closed at Infinity Photographics.
CLAIRE GOLDSTENE, ’90, B.A.,
History, ’95, M.A., Anthropology, a doctoral candidate in
history at the University of
Maryland, College Park, has
been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History.
She will conduct research at the
New York Public Library. Her
project title is “America was
Promises: The Hopes and Limits of Equal
Opportunity, 1877-1910.” Goldstene participated in the California State Executive
Fellowship Program, was the Coordinator
1990s
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MARK OUTLAND, ’87, B.A., Government/
Journalism, ’92, Teaching Credential for
Severely Handicapped, has been teaching
in the Independent Living Skills program
at Calaveras High School for the past six
years. His latest project has been to develop
a program, and gather materials to help
students who are thriving academically but
whose poor social skills keep them from
making friends.
for the Graduate School Colloquium at
the University of Maryland, and was the
Graduate Student Representative on the
University of Maryland History Department
Graduate Committee.
CHRISTOPH N. JENSEN, ’94, B.S.,
Construction Management, never thought
while he was a student in the Department
of Engineering in the ‘90s that one day
he would be back at Sac State overseeing
building projects for McCarthy Construction
that would change the landscape of the
300-acre campus. After helping wrap up the
data center project, Jensen is now the project
manager of the new parking structure in Lot
7 due to be completed in early 2007.
MARC D. MOMSEN, ’94, B.A., Environmental
Studies, was recently hired as a civil engineer
by LandDesign, an urban planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture company, in its Charlotte, N.C. office. Previously,
Momsen worked with Mackie Consultants
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Don Currier
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hether serving in Iraq or working for a high-profile governor,
U.S. Army Col. Don Currier
(Criminal Justice, ’84) says he manages to
stay grounded.
“I know how things will play out in the
field,” says Currier, who began his dual
career as both a cop and an Army private. “I
have enough experience to know the way
things are in reality.”
For 25 years Currier has influenced
criminal justice decisions at the city, county,
state, national and even international levels
while remaining close to the fray. And he
will continue to do so following his recent
appointment by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to be the chief legal counsel for the
California State Lottery. Before leaving for
Iraq this past summer, Currier worked as
Schwarzenegger’s deputy cabinet secretary
on emergency services and military issues.
“Don was a dedicated member of my
staff and I know he led his soldiers with that
same zeal and integrity,” Schwarzenegger
says. “I’m pleased to know he is home safe
and willing to serve California again.”
In Iraq, Currier commanded 4,000 military
police as they trained
150,000 Iraqi police
officers in Baghdad.
He says citizens are
struggling to find faith
in the country’s new
justice system which
lacks clear cooperation
between law agencies,
and firm jurisdictional
boundaries. Despite the
challenges, Currier says
he is “proud of the gains U.S. Army Col. Don Currier
we made in training
in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm and
police officers.”
working as a military police company comCurrier’s civilian career has included stints
mander during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
with the California Commission on Teacher
Though accustomed to positions of influCredentialing, the Governor’s Office of Criminal ence, Currier strives to ensure that governJustice Planning under Pete Wilson, the State
ment officials make realistic decisions, just as
Assembly Committee on public safety, the Sac- he does of his soldiers.
“When I tell a soldier to do something, it
ramento County District Attorney’s Office, and
isn’t something I wouldn’t do,” Currier says.
the Sacramento City Police Department.
“And chances are it isn’t something I haven’t
His military assignments have included
already done.”
operating an enemy prisoner of war camp
in Rosemont, Ill. LandDesign employs about
100 in Charlotte and about 230 systemwide
in North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Florida,
Tennesee and China. Momsen and wife
Kathleen have a daughter and two sons and
live in Waxhaw, N.C.
CAROLE ROBERTS, ’01, M.S.W., Social Work,
a licensed clinical social worker, has practiced
medical social work for 15 years. She is
now with Hill Country Community Clinic
in Round Mountain in Northern California.
Prior to working at Hill Country, she spent
four years in health and human services care
management seeing HIV and AIDS patients,
something she continues to do. After raising
four children who earned higher education
degrees, Roberts returned to school and
earned her master’s degree at Sac State.
2000s
STEFANIE JORDAN, ’99, M.S., School
Psychology, after interning in the Winters
Joint Unified School District, was employed by
the Mill Valley School District. She is now the
school psychologist at Prestwood Elementary
in the Sonoma Valley Unified School District.
She is the mother of two small sons.
SHEREE PALMA, ’01, Health Services, ’04, M.A., Nursing, has spent
26 years as a school nurse and
for the last 10 has worked in the
Loomis School District, at Franklin,
Placer and Penryn schools in particular. She is also health advisor to
the special education team and is
a board member of the California
School Nurses Organization.
Palma’s passion is to make sure all children are
properly immunized and she conducts scoliosis
JEREMY SIEMILLER, ’04, B.A., History, was
on the Hornet football team in 2002, and
following graduation is now employed as
a math teacher at Los Banos High School.
His other sports outlets include golf, flag
football and softball.
LAUREN DAVID, ’05, B.S., Kinesiology, is
working on her master’s degree in physical
therapy at Sac State and is the new bride
of ED JOHNSON, ’06, B.S., Recreation and
Leisure Studies, who graduated in May and
is employed by the Sacramento City Parks
and Recreation Department.
MICHELLE SWEENEY, ’05, B.A., Marketing,
has been named director of business
development for Westlake, Grahl & Glover,
a Roseville branch of Ameriprise Financial.
She handles media and community relations, fosters new business and manages
client appreciation.
ANGELA SILVA, ’06, B.A., Communication Studies, after a 10-month internship, has been named communications
coordinator for the city of Elk Grove. Her
duties include assisting in event planning,
handling finances for the communications
department and working with the public
information officer. Silva is applying for the
master’s program in the fall of 2007.
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tests on all seventh- and eighth-graders. She
enjoys snow skiing, mountain biking, gardening
and tennis.
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CINDY NELSON, ’98, B.A., Music, after
fronting various rock bands and being featured in musicals and operas, headed back
to school and graduated cum laude in the
top 10 of her class with a degree in music,
major emphasis in voice. Since graduating, Nelson has had a successful career,
writing, recording and teaching. Now, as
an international BMI recording artist, she
has just released her latest song, “Running With Scissors,” based on Augusten
Burrough’s best-selling book of the same
name. A movie starring Annette Bening and
Gwyneth Paltrow, and featuring Nelson’s
song, was released in October. The single
climbed to the Top 10 on many of the
Internet radio stations and her album Hello
which includes “Running With Scissors,”
has been remastered and distributed in the
U.K. and Europe.
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PHOTO BY STEVE MCKAY
On the
Quad
Getting to know
today’s students
Warwick Foy
HOMETOWN: Wellington, New Zealand.
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MAJOR: Business. Plans to graduate in Fall 2007.
BACKGROUND: Recruited to Sacramento State for the men’s tennis
team. Played tennis on the junior world circuit and was ranked 300th in
high school. Received the Student Athlete of the Year award last year.
INFLUENCES: “A lot of the guys on the team have been good influences—they’re good athletes and good students. You have to know
when to have a good time and when to be serious and work hard. The
coaches discipline you but you have to learn to discipline yourself. I think
college in general teaches you how to grow up.”
HIGHLIGHT: “Probably meeting so many cool people. I know if I was
back in New Zealand I would still be with the same group of friends.
Over there you don’t really go out of your comfort zone but here you are
able to make connections and network.”
PROUDEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: “Last year I won the Student Athlete
of the Year—it was quite a shock. Usually it’s given to seniors and I was a
sophomore at the time.”
DESTINATION: “It would be fun to travel and play the professional circuit for a while. I’d like to work here—there are so many more opportunities. I’d like to start a business like a tennis academy where young kids
who want to become good athletes could train.”
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PHOTO BY BOB SOLORIO
mark your calendar
06-07
Commencement
Athletics
Theatre & Dance: 50th Anniversary
Sac State
Winter /Spring
DECEMBER
EXHIBIT. African Art Collection
of Paul LeBaron Thiebaud, Dec. 1,
2006–March 17, 2007, University
Library Gallery. (916) 278-2368.
EVENT. Winter Commencement,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Dec. 21–23, University Union
Ballroom and Arco Arena.
(916) 278-4724 or www.csus.
edu/commence.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
EVENT. Of Montreal, indie
rock, Feb. 12, University Union
Ballroom. Tickets at Sacramento
State Ticket Office at (916)
278-4323 or Tickets.com.
EVENT. Lenaea Festival,
high-school drama competition,
Feb. 2–4. (916) 278-6702.
DANCE. Sacramento Black Art
of Dance, directed by Linda
Goodrich, Feb. 22–25 and
Feb. 28–March 4, Dancespace,
Solano Hall 1010. Tickets at
Sacramento State Ticket Office at
(916) 278-4323 or Tickets.com.
MARCH
EVENT. Alumni Month. Monthlong celebration of Sacramento
State alumni. (916) 278-6295 or
www.calendar.csus.edu.
EVENT. Distinguished Service
Awards, April 12, Alumni Center.
(916) 278-6295.
EVENT. Festival of the Arts,
concerts, exhibits, performances
and more, April 11–14, various
campus venues, (916) 278-2787
or www.calendar.csus.edu.
27
EVENT. “An Evening with Carol
Channing,” April 27, University
Theatre. Tickets at Sacramento
State Ticket Office at (916) 2784323 or Tickets.com.
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THEATRE. Suessical the Musical,
play by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen
Flaherty, directed by Richard Bay,
March 9–11, 14–18 and 21–25,
University Theatre, Shasta Hall.
Tickets at Sacramento State
Ticket Office at (916) 278-4323
or Tickets.com.
APRIL
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ATHLETICS. Men’s Basketball vs.
Montana, Big Sky Home Opener,
Jan. 4, Hornets’ Nest. Tickets at
Sacramento State Ticket Office at
(916) 278-4323 or Tickets.com.
MUSIC. Sacramento State
Symphonic Wind Ensemble,
Feb. 21, Music Recital Hall in
Capistrano Hall. Tickets at
Sacramento State Ticket Office at
(916) 278-4323 or Tickets.com.
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