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VouXClX i«9 CSU-Fresno a^J . 9,19911 Simpson "bull-headed" about success By Adam Breen StaffWriter Carole Simpson received the key to the city from Fresno Mayor Karen Humphrey last night, but she said she has encountered many locked doors to opportunity in her career as a journalist She spoke at the Satellite Student Union as part of die University Lecture .Series. Simpson's father was a mail carrier and her mother took in sewing while she was growing up in Chicago. Neither went to college. She became interested in journalism in high school after being encouraged to work for the school newspaper by her teachers. "I wanted to be a colored Lois Lane or Brenda Starr," she said. "My mother thought that was ridiculous. She said 'get that teaching degree and then try journalism'. - "Back then, teaching, nursing and social work are what girls aspired to, but I was determined, even bull-headed." When Simpson applied at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the admissions counselor "patted my hand and said he was going to level with me." y'H^told me it was more sensible to go to Chicago Teachers College and become an English teacher," she said. She would eventually become a part- time faculty member at Northwestern. "I always told my students that I wasn't good enough to go there, but I was good enough to teach there." Simpson was the only black graduate from her University of Michigan class in 1962 and the only person out of 60 not to have a job upon graduation. "I had three strikes against me; I was black, I was a woman, and I was inexperi¬ enced," she said. "I couldn't change any of these things. Tsaid 'damn it, I've prepared ^ myself, I'm going to make it'" After teaching journalism at the Tus- kegee Institute in Alabama, Simpson went to graduate school at tlie University of Iowa. In 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement, she said news organizations began to realize that black people would have an easier time covering stories in the ghetto than white people who were unfa¬ miliar with the environment "My color and sex, which had been lia¬ bilities, suddenly helped me receive numer¬ ous job offers," said Simpson, who became the first woman — black or white — to broadcast news in Chicago while working for WCFL radio. She begged for the hard news^lories, she said, but she only got to cover them when die male reporters were busy. "Guys I worked with said I was a good lady reporter," she said. *T wanted to be known as a good reporter who happened to be a lady." While covering die "Chicago 7" con¬ spiracy trial that resulted from riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, die pregnant Simpson battled morning sickness and Please see SIMPSON, page 4 Carole Simpson .„■ - Quorum broken over senatorial GPA requirements *^T By Mike Palmer Staff Writer Sen. Maurice D. Castillo walked out of the final Associated Students, Inc meeting of the semester, forcing it to adjourn rather than adopt a 2.5 grade point average re- quirerrttnt for future .Senators. Castillo defended his action by saying that to raise the current 2.0 rcquwpnent would "create an elite group to run for office." His action came about halfway through the Senate's published agenda forcing an early adjournment of the meeting. He .said it was clear to him that the change would pass. President Marci C. Demings also argued to retain die existing grade requirement while Sen. Michele L. Meiring said, If a person can't get at least a 2 5 grade point average he or she should reconsider the time allotted to be an ASI Senator." In other business, die Senate again de¬ clined to take action on the budget provision requiring The Daily Collegian to pay S4,000 in accounting fees. The matter was ref erred back to the Legal and Legisla¬ tive Committee. Demings pre¬ sented the Senate with .advertising bills from The Daily Colle- gian going back to 1990 and totalling about $700. Chris Volkerts, a member of the gallery, said that The Daily Collegian had been "stealing money from the AS I" since 1989 J ■ by charging for advertising it was supposed to trade-off for the accounting fees. He said that "since The Daily Collegian didn't do its share of the bargain by giving -v^ JneeadstotheASI, why should the ASI pay die ac¬ counting fees." Publications mm , Commission f h Chairman Tom ;" Uribes said, "two wrongp don't make a right" He encouraged the Senate to correct what is existing but conceded that no great harm would occur by postponing a decision until next semester. In a previous report to die ASI Senate, John H. Cagle, CSUF Academic Senate • Parliamentarian termed the Senate budget action "null and void" because proper pro¬ cedures weren't followed. He suggested the Senate restore The Daily Collegian's funds or President John H. Welty or Dean Wil¬ liam Corcoran could. Ultimately he said than any interested party could go to court to restore the money. The Senate almost voted to pay the fees at its meeting last week, however, Demings requested a written rather than an oral report from the Legal and Legislative Committee. The Senate did approve die use of $16,000 from The Daily Collegian's capital reserve to pure hase three new Apple Macintosh II Ci computers, three new monitors and a laser (jet printer. J Pi EASE SEE SENAtE, PAGE 5 a
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Publication Date | 1992 |
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Title | December 9, 1992, Page 1 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1992 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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Full-Text-Search | VouXClX i«9 CSU-Fresno a^J . 9,19911 Simpson "bull-headed" about success By Adam Breen StaffWriter Carole Simpson received the key to the city from Fresno Mayor Karen Humphrey last night, but she said she has encountered many locked doors to opportunity in her career as a journalist She spoke at the Satellite Student Union as part of die University Lecture .Series. Simpson's father was a mail carrier and her mother took in sewing while she was growing up in Chicago. Neither went to college. She became interested in journalism in high school after being encouraged to work for the school newspaper by her teachers. "I wanted to be a colored Lois Lane or Brenda Starr," she said. "My mother thought that was ridiculous. She said 'get that teaching degree and then try journalism'. - "Back then, teaching, nursing and social work are what girls aspired to, but I was determined, even bull-headed." When Simpson applied at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, the admissions counselor "patted my hand and said he was going to level with me." y'H^told me it was more sensible to go to Chicago Teachers College and become an English teacher," she said. She would eventually become a part- time faculty member at Northwestern. "I always told my students that I wasn't good enough to go there, but I was good enough to teach there." Simpson was the only black graduate from her University of Michigan class in 1962 and the only person out of 60 not to have a job upon graduation. "I had three strikes against me; I was black, I was a woman, and I was inexperi¬ enced," she said. "I couldn't change any of these things. Tsaid 'damn it, I've prepared ^ myself, I'm going to make it'" After teaching journalism at the Tus- kegee Institute in Alabama, Simpson went to graduate school at tlie University of Iowa. In 1965, at the height of the civil rights movement, she said news organizations began to realize that black people would have an easier time covering stories in the ghetto than white people who were unfa¬ miliar with the environment "My color and sex, which had been lia¬ bilities, suddenly helped me receive numer¬ ous job offers," said Simpson, who became the first woman — black or white — to broadcast news in Chicago while working for WCFL radio. She begged for the hard news^lories, she said, but she only got to cover them when die male reporters were busy. "Guys I worked with said I was a good lady reporter," she said. *T wanted to be known as a good reporter who happened to be a lady." While covering die "Chicago 7" con¬ spiracy trial that resulted from riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, die pregnant Simpson battled morning sickness and Please see SIMPSON, page 4 Carole Simpson .„■ - Quorum broken over senatorial GPA requirements *^T By Mike Palmer Staff Writer Sen. Maurice D. Castillo walked out of the final Associated Students, Inc meeting of the semester, forcing it to adjourn rather than adopt a 2.5 grade point average re- quirerrttnt for future .Senators. Castillo defended his action by saying that to raise the current 2.0 rcquwpnent would "create an elite group to run for office." His action came about halfway through the Senate's published agenda forcing an early adjournment of the meeting. He .said it was clear to him that the change would pass. President Marci C. Demings also argued to retain die existing grade requirement while Sen. Michele L. Meiring said, If a person can't get at least a 2 5 grade point average he or she should reconsider the time allotted to be an ASI Senator." In other business, die Senate again de¬ clined to take action on the budget provision requiring The Daily Collegian to pay S4,000 in accounting fees. The matter was ref erred back to the Legal and Legisla¬ tive Committee. Demings pre¬ sented the Senate with .advertising bills from The Daily Colle- gian going back to 1990 and totalling about $700. Chris Volkerts, a member of the gallery, said that The Daily Collegian had been "stealing money from the AS I" since 1989 J ■ by charging for advertising it was supposed to trade-off for the accounting fees. He said that "since The Daily Collegian didn't do its share of the bargain by giving -v^ JneeadstotheASI, why should the ASI pay die ac¬ counting fees." Publications mm , Commission f h Chairman Tom ;" Uribes said, "two wrongp don't make a right" He encouraged the Senate to correct what is existing but conceded that no great harm would occur by postponing a decision until next semester. In a previous report to die ASI Senate, John H. Cagle, CSUF Academic Senate • Parliamentarian termed the Senate budget action "null and void" because proper pro¬ cedures weren't followed. He suggested the Senate restore The Daily Collegian's funds or President John H. Welty or Dean Wil¬ liam Corcoran could. Ultimately he said than any interested party could go to court to restore the money. The Senate almost voted to pay the fees at its meeting last week, however, Demings requested a written rather than an oral report from the Legal and Legislative Committee. The Senate did approve die use of $16,000 from The Daily Collegian's capital reserve to pure hase three new Apple Macintosh II Ci computers, three new monitors and a laser (jet printer. J Pi EASE SEE SENAtE, PAGE 5 a |