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Congress defeated a bill for the second time in two weeks that could have potentially allowed California to support 37,300 edu-cation jobs.
The Senate voted down a $35 million piece of President Obama’s $447 billion American Jobs Act on Thursday. The bill was 60 votes.
The bill was voted 51-49 on Oct. 11, also falling short of the required votes.
After the first defeat, Obama said he would break up the bill into pieces to get it passed.
“For the second time in two weeks, every single Republican in the United States Senate has chosen to obstruct a bill that would create jobs and get our economy going again,” Obama said in a statement this week. “That’s unacceptable. We must do what’s right for the coun-try and pass the common-sense proposals in the American Jobs Act.”
The $447 billion bill was cre-ated in response to an over 9 percent national unemployment rate. The bill includes extensions of a payroll tax cut and unem-ployment benefits as well as spending on public works proj-ects, including $175 billion to be spent on repairing roads and schools.
The other objective of the plan is to pour money into states to help prevent firefighters, police and teachers from being laid off.
The bill would invest about $36 billion to prevent 280,000 teachers from being laid off nationwide, according to the White House, and it could save or create up to 400,000 jobs in education by giving states money.
Congressional Republicans said they are against the bill because of how much the gov-ernment would spend and have called it a temporary solution, according to the website repub-lican.senate.gov, an organization
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Construction workers work on the rockwall located in the new Student Recreation Center, which is set to open in Spring 2012 semester.
Student recreation center almost ready
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The red ring court in the new Student Recreation Center features three basketball courts, all lit by natural lighting brought in by solatubes.
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There are only a few months until the new Student Recreation Center (SRC) opens, and the facility is undergoing its ‘punch list’ phase, when the building is inspected.
Associated Students heard a special presentation Tuesday that gave last details of the center, scheduled to open Jan. 26.
“You’re going to want to be there, it’s going to be amazing,” said Shannon Krajewski, asso-ciate director of marketing and programs.
The SRC will have yoga, car-dio kickboxing and pilates class-es, and house a rock climbing wall.
“There is something for every-one, it isn’t only a gym,” Krajew-ski said.
The center is estimated to fin-ish $8 million under budget, a feat for a non-state project to com-plete, Krajewski said. A quarter
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At first, it was a pipe dream, but the decision to move from Loui-siana to California came easily for Ashley Samson.
“I’ve always loved California and how it has so many outdoor activities,” Samson said, an assis-tant professor in the kinesiology department. “During my job hunt, it so happened this position opened up. An added bonus – it was in California.”
This past summer, Samson moved almost 2,000 miles away from her native Louisiana to join the CSUN faculty.
She studied psychology at North-western State University, but that was not her final education stop.
Samson moved to Dallas for two years and attended the University of North Texas, where she pursued a master’s degree in sports psycholo-gy. After Texas, Samson moved back to Louisiana and earned a Ph.D from Louisiana State University (LSU), in kinesiology, with an emphasis in psychology.
“I went straight through school and remained active,” Samson said.
She kept a persistent role in stu-dent involvement. At the time, she was part of the rowing team, ran four marathons, and rode horses.
Born and raised outside of New Orleans, Samson spent most of her life growing up in a very active setting. She ran cross country and fell in love with riding horses at a young age.
“The big thing is how therapeutic and relaxing horseback riding is,” Samson said. “It’s a stress reliever and I enjoy it at the same time. Also, I’ve learned (that) to be good at your
job, there must be a balance.”Samson finds that balance by
exercising her body and mind, including conducting research.
“It helps you to become a bet-
ter professor when you’re always looking into studies and engaging students in what you have learned,” she said.
While at LSU, Samson oversaw a group training for a marathon as part of research and study. She said the athletes participated in surveys, interviews, and studies focusing on their self-confidence, moods, and concentration.
For about five months, Sam-son captured their experiences and discovered as training got harder, moods and self-efficacy would fluc-tuate.
“When they raced, it became a positive experience for them to tack-le an event like this in their lifetime,” Samson said.
Samson hopes to conduct more research now that she’s found a home at CSUN.
“(I have) ideas for some studies, and I want to get more involved at a university level by participating in committees that work with students,” said Samson, who is co-adviser for the kinesiology club.
Between work and fun, Samson finds time to take pictures with her Nikon D70 camera and telephoto lens, capturing black-and-white images of unique objects she may come across.
“My favorite photo I’ve shot is one of a rusted fence, decorated with the fleur-de-lis,” Samson said. “This photo reminds me of home.”
Drawn to CSUN by California dreamsKinesiology professor moves 2,000 miles for career and research opportunities, and, oh yeah, great weather
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assistant professor ashley Samson in one of the kinesiology classrooms. Samson has lived in Cali-fornia for a month now and says “the weather is great. ... Meeting people has been fun and everyone is so nice.”
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of Senate Republicans.The “Democrats’ sole pro-
posal is to keep doing what hasn’t worked — along with a massive tax hike that we know won’t create jobs,” Sen-ate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said in a statement last Tuesday.
California and Texas would receive the most money, because of their large teacher populations.
If the bill is passed, Cali-fornia will receive $3.62 bil-lion, which would support 37,300 jobs, said Micheal Spagna, dean of Northridge’s education department.
“This is long past due that the nation as whole recog-nizes that we have basically eviscerated public education by allowing for layoffs to happen throughout the whole United States,” he said. “How devastating is that as a pro-fessional when every year you’re getting a notice that you may not have a job next year?”
Early childhood and elementary school teachers would benefit most from the bill, which is crucial, Spagna said.
“They’re some of the best people in the profession,” he added.
But Nancy Virts, CSUN’s economic department chair, was more skeptical of the plan.
“I think it’s probably more
directed by political pressure than economic pressure and it probably won’t have much effect in the long run one way or the other,” she said. “It’s not an issue for government. It’s an issue for taxpayers. How much are you willing to pay for education?”
Spagna said the bill is a necessity for teachers, adding that students in the educa-tion department have been worried about graduating and finding jobs.
“The job market is really staggered,” he said. “A lot of teachers before would have been guaranteed getting jobs, particularly in the Los Ange-les Unified School District, but that’s not an option.”
Spagna cited the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Emergency Grants, which he said currently helps teachers. The grant allows teachers that have been laid off to come back to Cal State schools and sharpen their teaching skills.
They would not earn another credential, but it would still benefit them, he said.
“It’s an incentive to get them back to a university to deepen their knowledge,” Spagna said.
Just like those that voted down the bill, Virts remained unconvinced at this point of how effective it could be.
“It may have political effects, but whether it will have economic effects, I’m not too sure,” she said.
joBSContinued from page 1 Campus voice Mary PhaM / daily sundial
What do you want to see Congress do to improve the economy?
MaRITza GaRCIaChiCanO studies
“i would say an improvement in employment, an increase in job opportunity, especially for
graduating students.”
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“Personally, i think that there should
be no more deductions in the education fund because education is a necessity. the better our people are educated, it overall leads to an
improved enconomy.”
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“Budget cuts and putting more money into the education fund instead of
spending towards the military. i believe education is necessary for our society
to keep on running.”
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“it would be great to see improved policies and programs for immigrant workers. Whether it’s their ability to work in the u.s. and have more
opportunities or programs that can help them towards reaching
temporary or permanent residency.”
Mekaela ClaRkCtVa
“a balance in the money spent towards education and a better
focus on where the money is going and the percentage being invested
into the educational fund.”
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“less budget cuts and no more increases in tuition. right now i work two jobs and i’m a student full-time at Csun. the effects on education are important to me.”
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One of the most valu-able lessons I learned while in Istanbul about being a journalist was that I have to be flexible. Journalism isn’t something I can plan and doesn’t always cooper-ate. My first assignment in Istanbul taught me that.
My first assignment was to profile a person. I decid-ed, long before I arrived in Istanbul, that I wanted to do my profile on a street child. It didn’t take much research for me to realize that I had picked a topic that might not want to cooperate with me, but I was determined to try.
My first few days of reporting were spent walk-ing the streets with my inter-preter, looking for a child who was either begging or working on the streets.
From my research I learned there are approxi-mately 30,000 kids living and working on the streets of Istanbul, and all I needed
was one who would be will-ing to talk with me – a task that seemed easy enough until I actually tried.
I found a handful of kids over the first few days but they were either too scared to talk to me or unwilling to talk openly with me about their lives.
As the days passed, I found myself feeling defeat-ed and frustrated. I began to wonder if I had picked an impossible topic. I had already started brainstorm-ing new topics, when I finally caught a break.
One of my classmates, who knew I was struggling, emailed me a link to a web-site for a small local non-profit organization called Children of Hope Associa-tion.
The website was in Turk-ish, but I was able to discern, with the help of my inter-preter and Google Translate, that this organization was dedicated to taking kids off the streets and helping them integrate back into society.
This was the break I had been looking for.
A few days and several phone calls later I found myself sitting across from Ferat Şahin, the program’s director. Şahin grew up on the streets and is now an advocate for Istanbul’s street kids. I knew after meeting him that he was the person I needed for my profile.
Our first interview lasted several hours. He told me he had grown up in an abusive home, that his parents’ mar-riage was falling apart, and that his father had lost his job and would often become angry and violent. Şahin decided to run away when he was 7-years-old.
At the time he was work-ing at a train station sweep-ing platforms. One morning he packed a bag, went to work and got on a train heading to Istanbul. Sahin spent the next 14 years liv-ing on the streets.
He stole money and food to survive, became addicted to drugs, was arrested sev-eral times and was often the victim of violence. Interest-ingly enough, Şahin looks back on those times with fondness.
Today, Şahin works with kids who are facing the same struggles and hard-ships that he once faced. He understands these kids, treats them like they’re his family, and does anything he can to help them.
“When I look back, I
think the best thing I’ve ever done was run away from home and live on the streets because it brought me here (to Children of Hope Asso-ciation),” he said during our second interview.
Şahin and I became friends quickly. We spent a lot of time together over the next few weeks talking and interviewing. We drank tea, played backgammon and got to know each other. He introduced me to the kids living at CHA and I was able to talk to them and hear their stories. I fell in love with the place, the organiza-tion and the work they do.
When I look back on my experiences with Chil-dren of Hope Association, my heart fills with grati-tude. Had I remained rigid and attached to my origi-nal story idea, I might have never had the opportunity to meet Şahin and “his kids.”
I learned then and there that journalism needs room to breathe, to evolve and tell the story it is meant to tell.
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After defeating UCLA for the first time at Drake Stadium Saturday night, CSUN (7-7-1, 3-3 Big West) is back home for a three-game homestand, starting with a rematch against UC Irvine Wednesday night.
“Back to business,” Matador midfielder and co-captain Rafael Garcia said after Saturday’s match. “(Beating UCLA is a) huge confidence booster for us. It just lets us know that we can compete with the best in the nation.”
The Anteaters (13-4, 5-2) are tied for first place in the Big West Confer-ence with UC Davis, while CSUN dropped to fourth place after UC Riverside’s 3-2 victory over UC Santa Barbara Saturday night.
The Matadors’ first meeting with UCI on Oct. 8 did not go as planned. Garcia still hasn’t forgotten what happened during the 2-0 loss to the Anteaters.
“We’re looking to bounce back against them,” he said. “We know we
didn’t play the best game at their place, so they should definitely expect a battle from us.”
CSUN assistant coach Peter Bomar has a plan laid out for the team, hoping the match will end in its favor the second time around.
“We know (UCI’s) strengths, we know their weaknesses, so we’ll play to that,” Bomar said. “Last time, it was unfortunate that we gave up two own goals against Irvine. So in our eyes, they didn’t beat us, we just lost.
“(The game against UCLA) is good for con-fidence, but Wednesday against Irvine is going to be more important than this.”
The upcoming match against the Anteaters is key for CSUN. A victory against UCI will keep the
Matadors in the hunt for a spot in the Big West Tour-nament, said Northridge goalkeeper Michael Abalos.
“If we can get three points, we’re right back in the mix,” he said. “We want to be up there at the top.”
Though the Matadors stunned UCLA on its home pitch, the team has to con-tinue forward and take this momentum into the next match, CSUN forward Brian Behrad said.
“We’re going back into the Big West, so it’s going to be a lot harder, tough-er game,” Behrad said. “There’s going to be a lot more pressure, but we have to keep our heads up, espe-cially after a big win like this. We have to stay hum-ble and bring it to the Big West because that’s where it counts.”
Edwin Rivas, the CSUN forward who netted the game-winning goal against the Bruins, said the win at UCLA was a statement victory.
“We came in as the underdogs,” Rivas said. “They thought they were going to take it at us easy,
but it wasn’t that easy, because we were not going to let down like that. And they’re ranked, so hope-fully we put our name out there now that Northridge is back.”
Behrad, who scored the equalizer in Saturday’s match, said the team cannot
wait until Wednesday night to get back to business.
“We’re hungry. We don’t like losing,” he said. “Every single one of us on this team does not like losing. And because we lost to Irvine, we really want to get back at them and just take it to them and just beat them.”
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The Denver Broncos’ 2010 first-round pick, quarterback Tim Tebow capped off a surging vic-tory against the winless Dolphins Sunday when he threw two touch-downs in the fourth quarter to rally his team from a 15-point deficit to force overtime and set up Matt Prater for a game-win-ning 52-yard field goal.
Tebow, who’s been riding the bench behind Kyle Orton for the majority of games since 2010, finally got his first start of the season against Miami and showed why the starting role should be his.
Permanently.Orton has been struggling as of
late, and he’s shown the Denver organization time and time again
that he’s clearly not the quarter-back it needs. Why they elected to start him over Tebow for so long still remains a mystery.
In 2009, after a trade that shipped Jay Cutler to the Bears, the newly-acquired Orton led the Broncos to a blazing 6-0 start, but they lost eight of their last 10 and missed the playoffs. Next year, the Broncos finished an abysmal 4-12 as Orton ended his season early after 13 games with 3,653 yards, a ho-hum passer rating of 87.5 and a pair of bruised ribs that allowed Tebow to start for the remainder of the season
As a starter, Tebow showed promise. In the three games he started in Orton’s absence, he threw for 651 yards and five touchdowns with three intercep-tions, completing 50 percent of his passes to finish with an aver-age of 217 yards-per-game and a passer rating of 82.1.
So what gives Tebow the edge over Orton if their passing num-bers are similar?
It’s simple: Tebow is a pro-lific rushing quarterback capable of putting up Michael Vick-like numbers.
To put the difference into per-spective, Tebow has rushed for 264 yards and seven touchdowns in just four career starts while Orton has run for 278 with three TD’s in his six-year career. Fur-thermore, Tebow has a career rushing average of 5.3 yards per carry compared to Orton’s 2.3.
Tebow’s rushing expertise is something the Broncos desper-ately need after having ranked 26th in rushing yards per game in 2010. They haven’t fared much
better this year, ranking at a below-average 19th.
With their running backs Knowshon Moreno (hamstring) and Willis McGahee (hand) banged up with injuries, the Bron-cos’ ground game needed a boost, and Tebow came through by net-ting 102 yards and a touchdown in only 14 rushing attempts in their last two games. He’s averag-ing 7.3 yards per carry.
Running statistics aside, Tebow has shown he is superior to Orton in two other ways: the ability to throw deeper, and the determination to grind out wins.
Orton is known for being a conservative short-yardage passer and was averaging a mere 6.3 yards per completion before being benched in favor of Tebow, who’s averaged a whole yard more per completion as a starter.
Lastly, Orton is a well-known loser. With Orton under cen-ter, the Broncos have a dreadful record of 12-22. While they’re only 2-2 with Tebow as a starter, both of those wins have been come-from-behind victories led by Tebow’s astounding play in the clutch.
It’s quite clear: Orton is not what the Broncos need, and it was baffling to see him continue to start last year as the losses piled up.
He may be a veteran quar-terback with playoff experience from his days with the Chicago Bears, but he’s led his team into a rut the past two and a half seasons, and maybe, just maybe, Tebow will be able to pull them out and save this once proud, ail-ing franchise.
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in four career starts, Broncos quarterback tim tebow has a 2-2 record, including a comeback win over the Dolphins on Sunday.