September 26, 2003

At Cal State's Behest, Lawmaker Kills Proposal for Increased Scrutiny of Computer Purchases

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Officials at California State University have engineered the demise, for now, of a proposed state law that would have increased scrutiny of the university's information-technology purchases.

At the system's request, the information-technology bill was rewritten this month to tie its fate to that of a separate law on faculty ethics. Then, after the State Senate had approved the information-technology bill, the author of the ethics bill shelved his legislation, again at the university