CSU, Chico News

California State University, Chico's president, Paul J. Zingg, has the spotlight for the University's 12th Founders Week, as his inauguration and other inaugural events are a focus for the annual campus celebration. The inauguration, featuring an address by Zingg and other festivities, will take place Monday, April 18, at 10 AM in Laxson Auditorium. Three other inaugural events-two panel discussions and a campus barbecue-will be held later in the week. Full Story

The Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, California State University, Chico, will offer a series of four forums this spring, beginning on Feb. 16 with "Steroids, Professional Sports and Getting Ahead." The series, free and open to the public, will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm, PAC 134. Full Story

California State University, Chico's KCHO radio has been given the distinction in a recent study by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) of "soaring" in financial health and audience service. Full Story

Vice President for Student Affairs Jim Moon announced today that Chela Patterson has been selected as the new director for the Educational Opportunity Program at California State University, Chico. Patterson is currently the activity fee director for the Associated Students. Full Story

The next travel program with the College of Humanities and Fine Arts will be a trip to Mexico from January 11 through 20, 2006. The tour includes five nights in Mexico City, two in Jalapa and two in Papantla. The faculty-in-residence is history professor Steve Lewis, whose specialties include Chiapas, the Mexican revolution and post revolution, and official Indian policy in Mexico. Professor Lewis teaches classes on the history of Mexico, colonial and modern Latin America, and social revolution. For those interested in receiving college credit, 1-3 units in history or Latin American studies are available. Full Story

Pacific Gas & Electric's Mike Travis presented Dan Ripke, director of the California State University, Chico Research Foundation's Center for Economic Development (CED), and CSU, Chico President Paul Zingg with a grant for $15,000 to support CED's effort in creating an online community in California. The project, developed by Ripke, will be a Web site providing economic developers throughout California with access to a large, well-developed user-created online community of information, resources and expertise. The presentation was made on June 7. Full Story

The Center for Entrepreneurship at California State University, Chico has selected four student-authored business plans as winners of the Spring 2005 Student Business Plan Competition. The six students with the winning business plans were awarded $10,000 total in investment capital. The winners were selected from a field of 19 applicants by a panel of faculty from CSU, Chico's College of Business and local community members. Full Story

California State University, Chico's student newspaper, The Orion, one of the country's most honored collegiate newspapers, has won the 2004 Mark of Excellence National Award for Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Full Story

In their ninth consecutive trip to the national steel bridge competition, CSU, Chico's steel bridge team placed 8th in a field of 45. The 45 bridges, winners of regional competitions, represent the best bridges from a pool of 200 civil engineering schools. Full Story

President Paul Zingg, California State University, Chico, has accepted the recommendations of the Greek System Review Task Force. The task force is one of four study groups on campus life commissioned by Zingg in response to several incidents within the Greek community over the past academic year, including the February hazing-related death of student Matthew Carrington. Full Story