Political Science Department Hosts Forum on California Recall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 10, 2003
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
Political Science Department Hosts Forum on California Recall
On Wednesday, Sept. 17, California State University, Chico’s Department of Political Science and the students of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, will sponsor a forum on the California Recall Process.
The forum–The California Recall Process: The Process, The Target, The Replacement–will take place at 7 p.m. in Ayres Hall 106.
Participants on the panel will be Bruce Lang, former news director of KHSL TV; Charles Turner, assistant professor of political science; James Gregg, professor emeritus of political science; and Charles Price, professor emeritus of political science.
The panel will discuss issues that have led to the recall effort of Governor Gray Davis and offer insights into the outcome and consequences of the gubernatorial recall election of Oct. 7.
Admission is free and open to anyone interested in an informed and lively discussion about the recall process in California politics.
Lang is a long-time local journalist, political observer, television news director and reporter who produced public affairs and news programs for KHSL TV.
Turner teaches state government in the Department of Political Science. He has been a member of the faculty since 2000 and is widely published on subjects related to American Indian policy in Congress. He is the faculty adviser to the award-winning campus chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, and he is a co-author of an introductory text in American government.
Gregg was staff secretary for education to Governor Edmund G. Brown in the mid 1960s and special consultant to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles from 1977 to 1978. He served as dean of the CSU, Chico Graduate School and has been a professor of political science since 1966.
Price has been a member of the Department of Political Science since 1965. He is an expert on direct democracy in California as well as California state politics. He is the author of a widely used text on California government and politics, “California Government Today,” and he has been a prolific author of articles and books on the initiative, recall and referendum processes in California. He is a former director of the California Assembly Fellowship Program, and he served for nine years on the Board of Editors of “California Journal.”
For further information, contact Byron Jackson, chair, Department of Political Science, at 530-898-5301.
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