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October 10, 2011
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Voice editor met with protest Students and other organizations speak against BackPage.com JESSICA RUBIO Daily Titan
More than 15 protesters stood outside the Golleher Alumni House Thursday night chanting “No sex trafficking” in light of a speaker who was invited by two Cal State Fullerton alumni chapters. CSUF’s College of Communications Alumni Chapter and the Hispanic/Latino Alumni Chapter hosted the OC-NYC Alumni Event at the Golleher Alumni House to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, featuring Tony Ortega, editor in chief of Village Voice, a weekly newspaper based in New York. Ortega was welcomed to CSUF from both alumni chapters and alumni guests not affiliated with the chapters; however, he was not welcomed by protest organizer Phil Cenedella, activists from various anti-human trafficking organizations and students from Chapman University and CSUF. Students and activists protest Ortega’s affiliation with BackPage.com, a site they contend is a marketplace for human trafficking and prostitution.
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California Faculty Association threatens strike A one-day strike could occur if CFA and CSU do not reach an agreement on salary increases CAMYRON LEE Daily Titan
ROBERT HUSKEY / For the Daily Titan Sophomore Bre Moreland (number 22) watches as senior Jennifer Edmond (number 18) dives for a ball during a loss to Long Beach State at Walter Pyramid Saturday.
Volleyball falls to Long Beach Fullerton women drop to rival 49ers and slip out of first place in the process BLAKE FOGG Daily Titan
Cal State Fullerton turned in a woeful display on the road, losing to rival Long Beach State 3-1 (25-20, 25-21,21-25, 25-11) Saturday night at Walter Pyramid. Senior outside hitter Caitlin Ledoux returned to lineup after missing six matches due to injury and led LBSU (10-6, 4-2) with a doubledouble performance over conference-leading CSUF (8-9, 3-2). The loss drops CSUF to fourth in the conference. The 49ers hit .328 in the match, led by Ledoux and sophomore middle blocker Haleigh Hampton who each had 17 with 13 kills, respectively. Hampton also had a big night defensively in front of the net with 10 total blocks for her second double-double of the season. LBSU junior Janisa Johnson had a solid game and recorded a double-double with 12 kills and 10 digs. Senior Jennifer Edmond and junior Kayla Neto led the Titans in attack with 13 kills each, but hit at a low .122 hitting percentage. Junior libero Gabrielle Dewberry led
the Titans in digs with 15, and senior setter Andrea Ragan and Neto each had 10 digs, giving them double-doubles for the match. In the first set, kills from Ledoux and Johnson as well as a big block from the towering Hampton put LBSU ahead early at 10-7. The Titans found it hard to push back with the 49ers extending their lead to five points at 16-11. Neto had a hard time getting kills late in the set, getting blocked by both Hampton and freshman Alma Serna, and the 49ers took the first set 25-18. CSUF committed eight attacking errors in the first set and 20 during the match. “We made a lot of stupid errors. We needed to clean that up and we would have been it,” said Ragan. CSUF was down by three points quick in the second set and battled back to take the lead at 6-5 with kills from Neto, Edmond and senior Leah Maurer. But Ledoux would take over from there with four kills, taking LBSU to an 11-8 lead. The Titans were in touching distance at 21-19 after an ace by Ragan, but Hampton won a joust with senior Leah Best and finished it off with a kill, and LBSU took the second set 25-20. CSUF didn’t fare well in the attack in the set, hitting .086 to LBSU .265. See VOLLEYBALL, 6
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The California Faculty Association (CFA) has called for concerted action against the CSU over unpaid salary increases that were negotiated in 2007. “The faculty are angry about much more than just this tiny raise. We believe we have a responsibility to take action to preserve our ability to provide quality education and to protect our students. We feel like it is time for us to stand up for ourselves and our students, and now the time has come to fight back,” said Lillian Taiz, a history professor at Cal State Los Angeles and the CFA Board of Trustees president. The concerted action or job actions would involve a one-day strike should the CSU bargaining team refuse to pay previously
negotiated salary increases. The bargaining teams for the CSU and CFA will be meeting four times in the month of October in an effort to resolve this issue. If a compromise is not reached, the CFA has given notice that a strike will be held Nov. 17 at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State East Bay. In addition, informational picketing will take place Nov. 8 or 9 on all CSU campuses. “We want to prepare not only faculty, but also our students that this could be as dramatic as a strike where faculty would not teach that day. We don’t want to hinder students, but we feel like we are at the breaking point,” said Kim Geron, a political science professor at Cal State East Bay and vice president for the CFA Board of Trustees. “(We are) planning on having a very visible display of faculty. We will be there from morning to eve-
ning.” The CSU faculty have been working under an expired contract that ran from May 2007 to June 2010. The contract stated that eligible Unit 3 CSU employees– which include faculty, librarians, counselors and coaches–would receive annual salary increases in 2008, 2009 and 2010. These salary increases were dependent upon a predictable amount of funding that was promised by the state to the CSU. In the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which was agreed upon by both the CSU and CFA, these increases were subject to renegotiation should the state funds promised to the CSU be reduced. The CSU faced massive cuts to the 2009-10 budget. In 2009, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger approved a budget that cut $584 million from public higher edu-
cation. Due to this extensive cut, the CSU chancellor reopened the contract for negotiations and subsequently refused to increase the salaries of CSU faculty. “Our position is, we have established the status quo in regards to 2009 salary increases. We are not going to go back and say that we are going to give you (faculty) salary increases,” said Mike Uhlenkamp, director of Media Relations and New Media for the CSU Public Affairs office. Although the unpaid increases were part of the 2009 budget, should the chancellor approve previous increases, the money would be coming out of the current year’s budget, which according to Uhlenkamp is just not available. See CFA, page 2
App Market brings in money Two CSUF students discover alternative income by building apps for smartphones ANIBAL ORTIZ Daily Titan
Chad Bailey sat four or five rows up on the left side of a lecture room in Steven G. Mihaylo Hall while using his smartphone when he felt a tap on his shoulder. “Hey,” said the stranger. “I made that.” Jared Rummler, an accounting and information systems and decision sciences major at Cal State Fullerton who is known as jrummy16 in the Android Market, was sitting behind him in class and noticed Bailey was using one of the phone applications he created, and the two began talking. The next semester, the two shared a class for a second time and Rummler, in need of an extra hand, hired Bailey, a marketing major, as his assistant. Rummler, 26, began making applications and ROMs, what he described as aftermarket operating systems, less than a year ago. “Eventually I made enough to quit my job and just work from home,” said Rummler with a smile. He said he’s made about $100,000 since he began building apps and ROMs, and had no prior experience. Bailey, 23, who also had “zero experience,” never considered the Android Market as an option for income. Both of their journeys began only after purchasing their Android smartphones. “All that it takes is someone that is genuinely interested and someone to learn from,” said Bailey. Bailey mentioned that the Android community is big and has many people willing to help. In his case, it just happened to be Rummler, the guy sitting behind him in his class.
ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan Jared Rummler has made enough money in the Android Market building apps that he was able to quit his job and is now teaching his fellow classmate steps to succeed like him.
“More than anything, he’s been patient with me,” Bailey said. “Programming seemed like gibberish to me.” The Android Market is built on an open-source platform allowing users to create and manipulate the system files, the apps that run on it and in some cases, the entire operating system itself. See APPS, page 5