Today, The New York Times ran a letter to the editor by J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami, highlighting the support in the American Jewish community for resolving the conflict – for both Israeli and American interests. To the Editor: President Obama’s understanding of the link between resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and America’s own national security interests finds broad support among American Jews

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Jeremy in NY Times: Resolving Conflict in Israeli and US Interests

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Kelly Servis, Gateway Museum Intern 530-524-5486 Rachel Teasdale, Gateway Science Museum 530-898-4121 Museum Without Walls Lecture Wednesday: Patrick Schlemmer of the San Francisco Zoo The Gateway Science Museum and the College of Natural Sciences at California State University, Chico present “Top 20 Questions I Get at the Insect Zoo,” a lecture by Patrick Schlemmer of the San Francisco Zoo on Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.

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Museum Without Walls Lecture Wednesday: Patrick Schlemmer of the San Francisco Zoo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Timothy C. Heinze, Finance and Marketing 530-898-6090 CSU, Chico Students Place at Regional Sales Competition In addition to hosting the Western States Collegiate Sales Competition on Saturday, April 17, California State University, Chico business students placed second as a team in the competition, and two individual members received awards.

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J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement as Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day): J Street proudly celebrates the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, joining with the Israeli people in honoring the country’s founders and marking its innumerable achievements and successes. We also invoke the incredible sense of joy that was felt in 1948 as the State of Israel was recognized by the world and specifically on behalf of the United States by President Harry Truman. There has been so much to celebrate in the intervening 62 years as the people of Israel built a nation and stepped to the forefront in a wide range of fields, from technology and communication to culture and agriculture

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J Street Celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut

J Street joins with Israel and Jews all over the world in honoring the memory of Israel’s fallen soldiers today on Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance. As we honor the men and women who have given their lives in defense of Israel, we hope and pray for the day when Israelis and all the peoples of the region can live in true peace, security, and prosperity, free from violence and terror.

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J Street Honors Israel’s Fallen Soldiers on Yom HaZikaron

On Tuesday, April 6, 300 students, staff, local industry representatives and music fans gathered at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis to celebrate women in music. The evening featured a panel of accomplished women in the music industry who shared their professional insights and advice, and culminated with a performance by Vanguard recording artists, the Watson Twins.

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Celebrate Women in Music Event a Huge Success

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Steve Irving, director Student Employment Office 530-898-5256 CSU, Chico Names Student Employees of the Year As part of National Student Employment week, California State University, Chico has named two students as co-winners of the 2009/2010 Student Employee of The Year.

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CSU, Chico Names Student Employees of the Year

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement following a flurry of right-wing attacks on President Obama’s Mideast policy: The politicians and Jewish communal leaders attacking President Obama’s Middle East policy these past few days have made a glaring omission: their failure to acknowledge the strategic importance of a two-state solution to Israel and the threat that the unsustainable status quo poses to Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic home. The current Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, calls the effort to achieve a two-state solution the single greatest challenge facing Israel today. The failure of those on the attack, such as Eric Cantor and Ron Lauder, to mention the need to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is both telling and disappointing.

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Good gravy, time is just flying by! If you have not done so, I want you to read the Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. In it, he shares a valuable concept that college students can learn from: the 10,000 hour rule. The idea is that to gain mastery of a subject or “expertise” one must spend at least 10,000 hours working, applying, and studying this subject

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J Street founder and Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami met today for the first time with Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. The conversation, which took place at the Israeli Embassy, lasted approximately one hour and covered a wide range of topics, including the peace process, the US-Israel relationship and Iran

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Join our team or make a donation to help us reach our goal! The Woodbury campus of Globe University is participating in the American Cancer Society 2010 Relay for Life of South Washington County on June 4-5. Help us reach our fundraising goal of $1,000 by visiting our team website: http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY10MW?team_id=709509&pg=team&fr_id=23081&fl=en_US&et=6yRrUCBA85vlbJQIeRsabw..&s_tafId=440865 Our team, the Globe Trotters, will camp out overnight at East Ridge High School and take turns walking around the track to raise money and awareness to help the American Cancer Society save more lives from cancer

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Globe University-Woodbury Joins Relay for Life

A unique night of music and industry information celebrates women in music and presents the Los Angeles duo and their band, The Watson Twins Tuesday April 6 th at the Fine Line Music Café.

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Campus energy projects are costly, even with rock-solid paybacks, and colleges of modest means often need to find creative ways to pay for them. A suite of financing options from third-party contracting agreements to revolving loan funds are making this work easier, but looking off campus doesn't always work out the way facilities directors hope. The San Diego Community College district in California, hoping to increase the percentage of its energy portfolio that comes from clean sources, is using a method called a power purchase agreement, in which a third-party company will install solar panels on ground owned by the district, sell the power to the college at a reduced rate, and sell any extra electricity to a local utility.

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Cash for clean tech

Rachel Lerner, Associate Executive Director of the J Street Education Fund, issued the following statement today in response to the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s “Breaking Down The Walls” report: J Street is troubled by “Breaking Down The Walls,” a recent report from the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Middle East Study Committee. We were particularly surprised to find J Street’s name mentioned in the report’s “Letter to our American Jewish friends.” J Street was never approached by the Committee, nor have we had any conversations with PC (USA)’s leadership about this or any other study

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 CSU, Chico Alumni Once Again Rank High Nationally for Salary Earnings California State University, Chico has once again been rated highly in a ranking of earnings by alumni of U.S. colleges and universities. In a study by PayScale.com, which looked at the earnings of college graduates with at least 10 years of work experience, CSU, Chico ranks 28th in the nation in 2009 among all public universities for the median salaries of its graduates

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CSU, Chico Alumni Once Again Rank High Nationally for Salary Earnings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Melissa McGowan Regional & Continuing Education 530-898-6105 CSU, Chico American Language & Culture Institute Offers Conversation Partner Opportunity California State University, Chico’s American Language & Culture Institute (ALCI) welcomes a new group of international students from around the globe to campus this week. These students will be participating in a program of intensive English language instruction, and a variety of social and cultural activities. One important opportunity for the international students is ALCI’s Conversation Partner program.

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CSU, Chico American Language & Culture Institute Offers Conversation Partner Opportunity

Students at the Globe University-Madison East campus will present a community film series this Friday, March 19, from 7-9:30 p.m. The event is organized as a service-learning component of the students’ global citizenship course. Three films will be shown to raise awareness of different societal issues.

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Globe University–Madison East Presents Community Film Series March 19

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Melissa McGowan Regional & Continuing Education 530-898-6105 CSU, Chico to Host the California Transition Alliance Regional Conference California State University, Chico Center for Regional and Continuing Education, in partnership with California Transition Alliance, presents the first regional Transition Alliance Conference to promote communities of practice and building quality transition alliances. The conference will be held Thursday, March 18, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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CSU, Chico to Host the California Transition Alliance Regional Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Redesign Web Site For CSU, Chico Debuts A redesigned Web site for California State University, Chico debuts today, March 15, after more than a year of work by a large group of participants from across the campus community. The Web site http://www.csuchico.edu/ includes a number of photos and stories about CSU, Chico, a task bar of the most commonly used links and a “Discover Chico” feature for people who want to learn more about the campus and community. A campus Web site redesign project was initiated in 2008 and participants began gathering data on best practices and audience preferences

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Redesign Web Site For CSU, Chico Debuts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 ‘Modern Dying’ Topic for Award-winning Literary Critic Award-winning professor, literary critic and poet Sandra Gilbert will be speaking at California State University, Chico on “Modern Death, Millennial Mourning” in Ayres 120 on Wednesday, March 24 at 8 p.m. Her talk is part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme “Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins.” A reception will follow the talk in the Humanities Center Gallery, Trinity 100.

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‘Modern Dying’ Topic for Award-winning Literary Critic