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LOS ANGELES -- A student group says a dozen California State University students have ended their hunger strike to protest fee hikes and administrator raises after 10 days.  A spokesperson for Students for Quality Education says students who ended their fast were cheered by State Senator Ted Lieu's call for Chancellor Charles Reed's resignation.

In California now, efforts to ban a form of psychotherapy that claims it can make gay teens straight is now in the state's Senate. Supporters say the treatments don't work and can cause harm. Conservative religious groups say the ban interferes with parents' rights.

State Senator Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) wrote the bill and American Prospect's Gabriel Arana underwent this sort of therapy in 1998 in California. Arana says, it did not change his sexual orientation, and in fact he's now married to his same-sex partner.

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By Erin Sherbert

By Don Frances

The practice known as “conversion therapy” -- in which gay or bisexual people, usually teenagers, are “converted” to becoming heterosexual -- is that much closer to being banned for all minors in California thanks to a state lawmaker from Torrance.