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Film by CSUSB alumnus, lecturer, begins production in January
Deadline
Jan. 14, 2025

“The Avalanche” from filmmaker Johnny Coffeen, a 2010 graduate of CSUSB and lecturer in the communication studies department, will begin principal photography in January. Described as a psychological horror, the film follows two former lovers forced together by an avalanche that cuts them off from the world. Coffeen won a Student Academy Award in 2016 for his experimental piece, “The Swan Girl.”

CSUSB’s Diane Vines honored by Desert Healthcare District & Foundation
Uken Report (Palm Springs)
Jan. 24, 2025

In an article prior to the Jan. 25 event: Diane Vines, a CSUSB Palm Desert Campus nursing faculty member and executive director and principal investigator of the CSUSB Nursing Street Medicine Program, was scheduled to be honored at the annual Palm Springs Health Run & Wellness Festival. She was to be recognized for the program’s outreach to the Coachella Valley’s unhoused population and other vulnerable residents in need.

CSUSB professor participates in discussion about first week of Trump administration
ABC News/538
Jan. 24, 2025

Meredith Conroy, professor of political science and a contributor to 538, was one of the experts who discussed in an online chat the first week of President Donald Trump’s second term.

“Right out of the gate, the Trump administration is testing the degree to which the other branches are willing to exercise their constitutional obligation to check executive power and authority with the flurry of executive orders he issued,” Conroy said.

“As we noted earlier this week, in terms of sheer number of executive orders, it's more than any modern president has issued on their first day, and in one of those orders he rescinded 78 that were signed by former President Joe Biden. Executive orders can run the gamut from what are effectively toothless press releases to major policies that are quickly actionable, and it looks like there is a mix of that among Trump's. Notably, a few are obviously unconstitutional or conflict with existing statutes (e.g. the law banning TikTok), so the extent to which the newly GOP-controlled Congress or this Supreme Court, which has been friendly to Trump on a number of issues, are open to ceding their power is being immediately tested.”

CSUSB history professor Jeremy Murray reviews three books for LA Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books

Jeremy Murray, professor of history, recently reviewed three books for the Los Angeles Review of Books: “On Dangerous Ground: America's Century in the South China Sea,” by Gregory B. Poling; “The Struggle for Law in the Oceans: How an Isolationist Narrative Betrays America,” by John Norton Moore; and “China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order,” by Isaac B. Kardon. All three are about the United States’ failure to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Retired CSUSB professor comments on man pardoned for Jan. 6 crimes getting a ‘hero’s welcome’ at Temecula church
The Press-Enterprise/Southern California News Group/Bay Area News Group
Jan. 26, 2025

Brian Levin, professor emeritus at Cal State San Bernardino and founding director of its Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article about a man, among the 1,500 people pardoned for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, who was given a “hero’s welcome’ at a Temecula church on Jan. 26.

Levin said via email that he “fully and unequivocally support(s) the First Amendment right of others to be cringe-worthy wrong for celebrating those in the self-proclaimed ‘DC Brigade’ whose participants were duly convicted of multiple insurrection felonies.”

“I do have a question,” Levin added. “Doesn’t forgiveness, let alone celebration, elementally require acknowledgement of proven wrongdoing? A grace noticeably and condemnably lacking here.”

Former CSUSB professor turned homeless advocate discusses work
School for Startups Radio
Jan. 24, 2025

Glen Dunzweiler – a former theatre arts faculty member who is now a filmmaker/producer, public speaker, video coach and homeless advocate – was a guest on the Jan. 24 podcast to discuss his work since leaving CSUSB in 2015. His documentary “yHomeless”? is available on Amazon Prime and his new book,” A Degree In Homelessness? Entrepreneurial Skills For Students,” can be found on Amazon Books and glendunzweiler.com.  

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