 Wolfe accepts award for service program
Aleta Wolfe (photo, right), a career experience counselor with Career Services, received the service College Internship Program Award for the Fresno State Scholars Service Grant (SSG) Program. The SSG is a community service program that enhances academic study with civic engagement opportunities in the university and community. About 100 students participate each semester, volunteering over 6,000 hours each academic year.
Fresno State leads Valley’s Kids Day effort
About 975 students from 55 campus organizations participated in Kids Day 2007, raising a record $24,000 by selling copies of The Fresno Bee to benefit Children’s Hospital Central California. As it has been, Fresno State was the largest single fundraiser for the Kids Day event throughout the central San Joaquin Valley, which this year totaled around $400,000.
Wearing jeans on April 25 promotes awareness
The Women’s Resource Center’s Violence Prevention Project is promoting participation in an international awareness campaign about violence toward women by encouraging people to wear jeans to work on April 25. Denim Day began in 1999 as protest of an Italian Supreme Court decision to overturn a rape conviction because justices reasoned the jeans-wearing victim must have helped her attacker remove them, implying consent. For more information, call the Violence Prevention Project at 278.5696 or the Women’s Resource Center at 278.4435.
Farm Bill gets university scrutiny
Fresno State participated in a workshop sponsored by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities to discuss on the 2007 Farm Bill Reauthorization and potential land grant status for Hispanic-serving institutions. The Fresno State delegation to the workshop was composed of Dennis Nef (Undergraduate Studies), Charles Boyer (Agricultural Sciences and Technology), Mechel S. Paggi (Center for Agricultural Business), Bruce A. Roberts (Agronomy/Plant Sciences), Ganesan Srinivasan (Agricultural Operations), Lonna Torrico (Central Valley Ag Literacy Program), Jenny R. Robledo, (Educational Talent Search Program), Carlos Pérez, (Chicano and Latin American Studies) and Ramon Sanchez (Chicano and Latin American Studies).
 A ‘peachy’ time at Fresno State
Faculty, staff and students had a big hand in welcoming to campus 5,127 students, plus parents and teachers from elementary schools from throughout the central San Joaquin Valley for the 49th annual Peach Blossom Festival. The two-day event is staged to help children learn about oral interpretation and to expose them – and the parents and teachers who accompany the youngsters – to our campus. Among this year’s highlights were Bulldog student-athletes signing posters and athletics mascot Timeout entertaining the young campus visitors.
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