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A pioneering expert on hurricane forecasting says he may soon lose funding due to his skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle. Dr. William Gray, who once said that pro-global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children," claims that Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his controversial views. Gray complained in a memo to the head of Colorado State’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences that "this is obviously a flimsy excuse and seems to me to be a cover for the Department's capitulation to the desires of...

Court challenge prompts CSU to drop civility code for students To the relief of a campus Republican group, the 417,000 students at California State University's 23 institutions no longer face the possibility of discipline for failing to be civil to one another. The change was part of a settlement approved by a federal magistrate in Oakland this week in a lawsuit by the San Francisco State College Republicans, whose members were subjected to a disciplinary hearing after some of them stomped on two flags bearing the name of Allah during an anti-terrorism rally in October 2006. The flags represented the...

OAKLAND - The 417,000 students at California State University's 28 campuses are expected to be civil to one another, the university says in its policy manual. It sounds innocuous - but a federal magistrate says it's an unconstitutional restriction on speech when the policy is used to investigate or discipline students, such as the College Republicans whose members stomped on two flags bearing the name of Allah during an anti-terrorism rally at San Francisco State last year. "It might be fine for the university to say, 'Hey, we hope you folks are civil to one another,' " U.S. Magistrate Wayne...

On Sept. 21, 2007, the editorial board of the Colorado State University student newspaper decided to publish a four-word editorial. Apparently finding the traditional mode of expressing ideas -- arguing a case in a few hundred words -- too demanding, they instead wrote four words: "Taser this … F--- Bush." Needless to say, they spelled out the F word. The "Taser" referred to the police using a stun gun on a student at the University of Florida who refused to relinquish the microphone to other students at a speech at the university given by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. (How George...

Upset over a college newspaper editorial about President Bush that used an obscenity, conservative students at Colorado State University have started printing their own newspaper. A group calling itself the CSU College Republicans on Monday distributed the Ram Republic, which they are calling the “Conservative Voice of Colorado State University.” Editor Bobby Carson said the group had already been thinking about starting a journal when the campus’s main publication, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, published a four-word editorial that directed a four-letter word at Bush

Colorado State University is still experiencing the fallout from a profane editorial that ran in the college's student newspaper two weeks ago. CSU police investigated a threat that was called into The Rocky Mountain Collegian last week. Advertising in the newspaper and other student- run media organizations remains down. And at least one parent of a CSU student might withdraw her daughter from the school. "It's true. We are reconsidering schools," said Casper resident Cathy Ide, whose daughter, Holly Loucks, is a sophomore construction management major. The school's alumni relations and admissions offices have also received calls and e-mails concerning...

For some, it was a matter of protecting free speech. For others, it was about punishing the editor of a campus newspaper, who they believed damaged the credibility of Colorado State University nationally when he decided to publish the F-word in the school newspaper. "Our university will take a hit for the poor choices of one student," said Chelsea Penoyer, chairwoman of the College Republicans at CSU. Penoyer was one of more than 300 students and members of the staff and community who attended a hearing Wednesday night of CSU's Board of Student Communications, the governing body that will decide...

FORT COLLINS — The student newspaper that stirred up a hornet's nest when it dropped the F-bomb last week drew more fire Monday. (snip) College Republicans at Colorado State University collected more than 300 signatures calling on CSU's Board of Student Communications to fire Editor in Chief David McSwane. (snip) Asked by CNN if the editorial could be characterized as vulgar or sophomoric, McSwane said he "wouldn't entirely disagree." "We wanted people to understand that free speech is something we should talk about," he told CNN. "We felt that this campus, for one reason or another, has been really apathetic....

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Colorado State University's student newspaper is dealing with fallout for using a four-letter word in an editorial yesterday on President Bush. The Coloradoan reports that the Rocky Mountain Collegian has lost $30,000 in advertising and had to cut student employee pay and other budgets by ten percent. Editor-in-Chief J. David McSwane says the newspaper's advisers had no idea it planned to run the editorial. CSU President Larry Penley says he expects readers to make their viewpoints known and that the newspaper will answer to its readers. The university, through its ten-member faculty-student Board of Student...

The Colorado State University student newspaper is under fire after publishing a two-word editorial statement about President Bush. The Rocky Mountain Collegian published the editorial on its Sept. 21 opinion page, saying "Taser this .. (expletive) BUSH." University officials released a statement explaining their concern for response to the editorial, and that it has no control over its student media. “While we understand (the editorial) is upsetting and offensive to many people, CSU is prohibited by law from censoring or regulating the content of its student media publications,” CSU said in a written statement. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief wrote a letter...

A four word editorial with a four letter word in it is sparking a spirited discussion on free speech at Colorado State University. The Rocky Mountain Collegian published an editorial on page 4 of the paper Friday which read "Taser this ... F*** Bush." The expletive was spelled out. The last two words were in bold type, larger than most headlines. A caption below said, "this column represents the views of the Collegian's Editorial Board." "I think they went over the line a little bit, but it's free speech and they're allowed to write what they want," one student told...

The Colorado State University student newspaper is under fire after publishing a two-word editorial statement about President Bush. The Rocky Mountain Collegian published the editorial on its Sept. 21 opinion page, saying "Taser this .. (expletive) BUSH." University officials released a statement explaining their concern for response to the editorial, and that it has no control over its student media. “While we understand (the editorial) is upsetting and offensive to many people, CSU is prohibited by law from censoring or regulating the content of its student media publications,” CSU said in a written statement. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief wrote a letter...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A four word editorial with a four letter word in it is sparking a spirited discussion on free speech at Colorado State University. The Rocky Mountain Collegian published an editorial on page 4 of the paper Friday which read "Taser this ... F*** Bush." The expletive was spelled out. The last two words were in bold type, larger than most headlines. A caption below said, "this column represents the views of the Collegian's Editorial Board." "I think they went over the line a little bit, but it's free speech and they're allowed to write what they...

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A labor showdown between the California State University system and its faculty union was averted Tuesday with a tentative accord on a new contract that provides a guaranteed pay hike of 20.7 percent over four years for professors, lecturers, coaches and librarians. Negotiators for the CSU administration and faculty reached the agreement after 23 months of labor talks and mediation, as well as a series of threatened strikes on the system's 23 university campuses. The California Faculty Assocation plans to put the proposed contract to a vote of its 12,000 dues-paying members later this month, union president John Travis told...

WASHINGTON: A $ 2 million gift in 2000 to Cleveland State University, where he had earned an MBA, and which named a six-story, 120,000 square feet business school building after him, wasn't good enough for Monte Ahuja to thank America for what it had done for him. On Tuesday, in one of the biggest philanthropic acts by an Indian immigrant in the US, the 60-year-old entrepreneur wrote down a whopping $ 30 million for Cleveland's University Hospitals to build what will be called the Ahuja Medical Center -- a full service hospital. The contribution dwarfed the $ 18.5 million that...

Solix Biofuels Inc., a startup company based in Boulder, is working with Colorado State University engineers to commercialize technology that can cheaply mass produce oil derived from algae and turn it into biodiesel - an environmentally friendly solution to high gas prices, greenhouse gas emissions and volatile global energy markets.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah...

In December 2001, as the investigation into the U.S. anthrax attacks was gathering steam, coalition soldiers in Afghanistan uncovered what appeared to be an important clue: a trail of documents chronicling an attempt by al-Qaeda to create its own anthrax weapon. The documents told of a singular mission by a scientist named Abdur Rauf, an obscure, middle-aged Pakistani with alleged al-Qaeda sympathies and an advanced degree in microbiology. Using his membership in a prestigious scientific organization to gain access, Rauf traveled through Europe on a quest, officials say, to obtain both anthrax spores and the equipment needed to turn them...

Legislation designed to control and eradicate tamarisk was signed into law by President Bush Wednesday night, U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., announced Thursday... creating funding for a large-scale effort to control tamarisk, also known as salt cedar... "The tamarisk is causing severe problems throughout Colorado and the West," said Allard. "The President's signing of this legislation marks a major milestone in the ongoing effort by Congress and this administration to provide critical resources for the removal of this destructive and invasive species." The tamarisk has invaded the margins of streams, lakes and wetlands throughout the Western United States. An individual...

THOSE who have a problem with workers’ representatives occupying half of German companies’ supervisory boards can blame the British. The British instituted the current scheme after World War Two. The requirements providing trade union bosses with boardroom seats were first enacted in Berlin’s British Zone in the late 1940s. The German law which underpins its current system of Mitbestimmung, or “co-determination”, turned 30 last month. Chancellor Angela Merkel was on hand to help celebrate the edict, which gives workers’ representatives half the seats on supervisory boards at some 750 German corporations, including almost all the companies listed on the main...

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez on Tuesday called for a legislative audit of California State University after revelations that the nation's largest public university system had secretly paid millions of dollars to outgoing campus presidents and top executives. "I'm deeply troubled by allegations that former high-level CSU officials have been given dubious positions after their tenures, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to do no discernible work while students have seen their tuition rise almost 30 percent in the past three years," Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said in a statement. An investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle showed that at least seven...

When Barry Munitz quit as chancellor of the huge California State University system in 1998, he walked away with a separation agreement promising him a generous one-year paid sabbatical and other benefits should he ever return. Now, eight years later, he's back -- and the terms of his departure deal, including a $163,776 one-year salary, are under attack by CSU faculty and at least one angry state lawmaker.... Under the terms of his CSU separation agreement, Munitz is entitled to become a "trustee professor" with a one-year salary of $163,776 -- significantly more than the $112,548 earned by CSU's highest-paid...

A U.S.-based Saudi professor and former U.N. fellow says he agrees with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust is a "myth" and says America eventually will collapse like the Soviet Union. Abdullah Muhammad Sindi, who has taught at four American schools, told Iran's Mehr News Agency Dec. 26, "I agree wholeheartedly with President Ahmadinejad."

Catholic League Denounces Cal State Dept. Head's Holiday Décor Ban(AgapePress) - The Catholic League is criticizing an administrator at California State University - Sacramento who informed her department that decorations for holidays such as Christmas and the Fourth of July are now banned from the office because they "represent discrimination" and "ethnic insensitivity."The Catholic League recently obtained the memo sent out by the school's Director of the Office of Services to Students With Disabilities, Patricia Sonntag. Sacramento State verified that the holiday decorating ban exists in Sonntag's department; however, the university called her memo "well intentioned, but misguided."But Kiera McCaffrey,...

University Administrator Declares Christmas 'Forbidden' By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Correspondent December 16, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - An administrator at California State University, Sacramento has banned decorations pertaining to Christmas and the 4th of July, among other holidays, from her office because they represent "religious discrimination" and "ethnic insensitivity." "Time has come to recognize that religious discrimination, as well as ethnic insensitivity to certain holidays, is forbidden," Patricia Sonntag, director of the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities, stated in the directive she e-mailed to members of her staff on Dec. 9. Cybercast News Service obtained the directive from the non-profit...

Tuesday, October 25, 2005Intimidation of Jewish Students on American College Campuses Sympathy for the Palestinians is pretty easy to understand. It is normal and natural for any liberal, open minded, compassionate person to feel empathy towards people who are poor, downtrodden, and oppressed. Yes, many of us know, intellectually, that much of the Palestinian's suffering is self-inflicted, as in the case of the destruction of greenhouses in Gaza (see my post of September 29th) which could be providing food, employment, income and hope to the people of Gaza, or by their own leadership (see my post of September 8) in...

On May 2, 2005 Ward Churchill was welcomed by a crowd of around five hundred at California State University, Monterey Bay with applause and a standing ovation, concluding to even more thunderous clapping and another, grander ovation. His rant, “Perpetual War: U.S. State-Sponsored Terrorism and the Limits of Academic Dissent,” was part of MEChA’s (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán [Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán]) event, Semana de la Raza [Week of the Race]. This year’s Semana de la Raza, a weeklong series of events, was titled, “Revolutionizing the Globe: Cultra [sic], education y paz [and peace].” The lecture was cosponsored...

Schröder could stay as chancellor until poll in new yearThe chances of Angela Merkel becoming Germany's next chancellor suffered a setback yesterday when the Greens appeared to rule out joining a coalition with her conservative CDU party.With the country in political gridlock after Sunday's inconclusive general election, speculation was growing last night that the chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, would try to force new elections early next year. A day of political horse-trading left Europe's most populous country facing months of confusion. No government is likely to emerge until November at the earliest. Both the main party leaders announced that they had...

CLEVELAND -- A laptop computer containing the personal information of more than 44,000 Cleveland State University students and applicants was stolen from its admissions office. The university issued a statement Friday, a week after the computer was taken. Information on some of the students included addresses and Social Security numbers. "We're thinking it's a crime of opportunity where someone just saw the computer and ran," Cleveland State spokesman Brian Johnston said. "We don't believe it was stolen for the information on it." Cleveland State will notify the affected students in writing, Johnston said. The university will provide them with information...

Personal Data of 59,000 People Stolen By Associated Press March 22, 2005, 9:08 AM EST CHICO, Calif. -- Hackers gained personal information of 59,000 people affiliated with a California university -- the latest in a string of high-profile cases of identity theft. California State University, Chico spokesman Joe Wills said nearly all the current, former and prospective students, faculty and staff who were affected have been notified of the theft, which happened about three weeks ago. Hackers gained access to the victims' names and Social Security numbers. "We still have no indication that the information was used for anything other...

LONG BEACH -- More than half of California State University incoming freshmen last fall needed to brush up their English or math skills, or both, before they were ready to tackle college, according to a report released Tuesday. The proficiency rate for the 38,859 incoming freshman at CSU, the nation's largest public university system, was essentially unchanged from the previous two years and was below previously set proficiency rate goals for 2004. However, officials noted there has been significant improvement since 1998, when CSU adopted a policy to increase proficiency in English and mathematics, and said they are hopeful that...

Colorado Campus Bans Beer Sales at Stadium 2 hours, 53 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado State University, plagued by drinking binges that led to the death of a student and a weekend of rioting, has banned all beer sales at the football stadium starting with the homecoming game this weekend, officials said on Friday. The university in Fort Collins also completed the creation of a task force to study alcohol abuse on campus. "In naming this task force and in moving to suspend beer sales at the stadium, we are establishing...

<p>May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's main opposition parties have a 23 percentage-point lead over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats in voting intentions for the June 13 elections to the European Parliament, an opinion poll showed.</p> <p>The Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, would get 48 percent of the vote, with the Social Democrats receiving 25 percent, according to the survey by the Berlin-based Forsa polling company for Stern magazine and RTL television.</p>

FORT COLLINS -- Madeleine Albright will speak at Colorado State University at 8 p.m. March 31 in Moby Arena as part of Bridges to the Future. The statewide project is co-sponsored by Colorado State and the University of Denver to encourage exploration of American history and values. This year's theme is "Nation Building -- Global and Local Challenges." Albright's speech will be followed by a book-signing and is free and open to the public. Her lecture is sponsored by the Monfort Family Foundation as part of the Monfort Lecture Series. Required advance tickets are available online at www.bridgestothefuture.colostate.edu, by calling...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- California State University trustees on Tuesday reviewed painful potential budgets cuts that could force the 23-campus system to raise fees as much as 40 percent and turn away tens of thousands of students. The budget proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would slash $240 million, or 9 percent, from CSU's funding. The governor's proposal would require the system to reduce enrollment by nearly 20,000, including about 10 percent of incoming freshman, or 4,200 students, who would be redirected to community colleges. Programs developed to help disadvantaged high-school students prepare for college would also be eliminated. The CSU...

Attack on first amendment at Colorado State University By Darren Morrison I work at C.S.U. in housing operations management. Today I was reprimanded because I gave several students little calendars that had my church and the address of my church on them. I was told by my supervisor that that was pushing my religion and it was illegal for me to do so. Well There was no pushing religion here it was only a simple calendar no doctrine was mentioned it is no different that a calendar from a bank or an insurance agent. It simple had my church’s name...

Rock music played lead in giving Hungarian baby boomers the resolve to bring down their country's totalitarian regime, says one of those reformers who today is a government official. Andras Simonyi, Hungary's ambassador to the United States, spent an hour Saturday night discussing the impact of Western songs on Eastern European politics before an invitation-only audience of 250 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Simonyi, 51, was a devoted fan of the Beatles, Cream, Traffic and Jimi Hendrix when their releases weren't officially permitted in Hungary. Records and tapes sometimes were smuggled in or recorded from foreign radio...

From the original (in German) The [Christian Social] Union conservative [Peter] Gauweiler attacks the USA: The International Criminal Court should concern itself with the Americans [and] require them to pay for damages in the Iraq war. SNIP " The state which is responsible for a wrong against Human Rights, must, as much as possible, make good on those wrongs." wrote Peter Gauweiler on Monday in Bild Zeitung . The Christian Social Union (CSU) is one of our so-called "friends" in the German Government. This shows once again that the Germans are bound and determined to undermine the efforts of the...

<p>TURLOCK -- At what is known as Freedom of Speech Rock on the tree-dotted quad at California State University, Stanislaus, a handful of anti-war activists led a protest Friday that swelled to, at most, 30 people. Signs attached to the trees read "Books not Bombs" and "Hell No! We won't go. We won't fight for Texaco."</p>

Backing for Schröder's party slides to historic low By Haig Simonian in Berlin Published: January 25 2003 4:00 Support for Germany's ruling Social Democrats dropped to an historic low yesterday in a clear signal to chancellor Gerhard Schröder of popular frustration at the government's broken election promises and perceived drift. With two important regional elections next month, the German leader had tried to use opposition to war against Iraq at a rally this week to boost his flagging support. But his ploy, which worked so well in the German elections last September, has failed to impress a public growing impatient...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The impact of the state's staggering budget deficit hit many California college students Monday when the University of California and California State University approved substantial fee hikes at meetings here and in Long Beach. Beginning next term, UC students will pay an additional $405 a year in fees -- an increase of more than 11 percent. At CSU, undergraduate fees will climb by $144 a year for undergraduates, a 10 percent jump. Graduate students will pay an extra $228 a year, a 15 percent rise. Faced with large and unusual midyear cuts proposed by the governor, university...

The Bill of Rights at Colorado State By Rosco Thorndyke. Colorado State University view on the Bill of Rights. Almost a year ago a man was asked to take the bill of rights down from his door. The Bill of Right was there for over a year and there was never a complaint about it. There was in fact several positive comments made to this custodian concerning the Bill of Rights. Both liberal and conservative students could find comfort in at least parts of the document. But last year at the beginning of the new school year this custodian was...