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CSU chancellor endorsed keeping Palin documents secret | California Watch

CSU chancellor endorsed keeping Palin documents secret | California Watch

CSU chancellor endorsed keeping Palin documents secret

Secretiveness over Sarah Palin’s fee for a speech at a state university in Turlock reached the top of the California State University system, e-mails made public by a state lawmaker show.
On March 31, Charles Reed, longtime chancellor of the CSU system, signed off via e-mail on keeping secret a copy of the contract that Palin signed with CSU Stanislaus for a June 25 black-tie fundraising event, according to the e-mails.
State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, had been pushing for a copy of Palin’s contract, saying its disclosure was required by the state’s Public Records Act.
But in an e-mail interchange with Bernie Swartz, president of the speakers’ bureau that represents Palin, Chancellor Reed said he believed that making the information public would just mean more bad publicity

CSU Fullerton weighs costs, benefits of satellite campus

In the face of crippling budget cuts, some faculty and staff at CSU Fullerton have questioned whether the university should continue to run its Irvine branch campus when the college's lease expires in 2011.
The student-run newspaper, the Daily Titan, reports that a campus task force has reasoned that the satellite campus is a revenue-generator and should survive.
CSU Fullerton's Irvine branch campus sprang up in 2002 on the old El Toro Marine base as a small campus extension with big dreams.
The LA Times reported that officials envisioned a "sprawling satellite merging education and recreation" that