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Arboretum hosts annual nEVENT: This weekend’s “Green Scene” featured speakers who gave advice on landscaping and decorative uses with fish By Michael Del Muro
Daily Titan Staff Writer Plants, plant advice, snails, worms and big garden gold fish. These are what were offered during this weekend’s 28th annual “Green Scene” taking place at the Arboretum presented by Friends of the Arboretum, the caretakers and fundraisers of the Arboretum. Janet Van Diest, the spokeswoman for the Arboretum said “Green Scene” brought in more than 10,000 visitors and raised more than $70,000. She said the money from the event is used to help fund the Friends of the Arboretum and any money left over is given back to the 26-acre botanical garden. Fullerton resident, Jan Vallely and Placentia resident, Susan Powers said they attend “Green Scene” every year. “We circle the dates on our calendars,” Vallely said. “I always like to see the unusual things and the crafts.” The garden show had at least 120 vendors selling plants and other garden-related items. Booths full of plants and gardening information lined the paths of the arboretum. There were more than 20 clubs and societies who were educating the gardeners on things such as natural pest control, garden colors, and working with clay soil. People of all ages attended this event. “This is the largest outdoor plant sale in California,” Van Diest said. “People can get everything ready for their spring garden.” There were guest speakers giving a number of gardening tips beginning at noon on Saturday and Sunday. Van Diest said that “Jungle” Julie Hunt, the garden director for the
Laguna Beach Ritz-Carlton Hotel, was the most popular speaker throughout the weekend. Hunt, who spoke on both Saturday and Sunday, gave a talk titled “Four Steps to a Fabulous Garden.” Van Diest said at least 100 people attended each talk. There was a Children’s Garden with many activities for the young ones, including planting a marigold and hiding in a vine-covered teepee. Nishiki Club presented their “Young Koi Show,” throughout the weekend. The young koi are large, brightly colored garden fish that are smaller than two feet. The Nishiki club had an auction Sunday at 2 p.m. where they were selling koi and other water gardening and pool supplies. There were not only plants at the weekend event. A number of food stands were placed around the arboretum including a number of ice cream and drink stands. The mobile Kettle Corn truck was selling their sweet popcorn. In front of the Heritage House, the smell of beef flavored the air as the local Knowlwood Restaurant brought barbeque pits and were cooking their hamburgers for a long line of hungry customers tired from plant shopping. The sponsors of the event were Kellogg Garden Products, Bayer/ Pursell, and Wienerschnitzel, who also had a food stand at the event. All the vendors and sponsors contributed to the Arboretum. More people attended “Green Scene” Saturday, Van Diest said. She said that the trails were completely filled with people and it was hard to get through. “We always have a larger crowd on Saturday,” Van Diest said. “People are hungry to get their
nLEGISLATURE: This year’s budget will finally allow for paid membership in the California State Student Association By Sara Stanton Daily Titan Staff Writer
their data,” Swisher said. “We get ours from the campuses.” Another argument the CFA is using to back their plight is that the CSU is signing up fewer faculty members for tenure. Tenure is a benefit that all but guarantees a professor’s job security with their university. “We’re facing mass retirements and we’re simply not replacing tenure faculty,” Meisenhelder said. The Chancellor’s Office disagrees. Swisher claims that the system has replaced all of the 2,000 tenure members whom have retired in the last five years and added another 214 to the privileged group. Despite the continued push-pull between employer and employee, the CFA is still optimistic that peo-
Very rarely are students informed of where their money is being spent. Students often demand to know the hows and whys of their fee increases and less frequently do administrators and student leaders have the answers. Well have no fear, for part of the student’s money is actually going somewhere that will lobby for student’s interests. For the past few weeks, the Associated Students Board of Directors sat on edge through their annual budget deliberations, divvying up student-generated funds to different campus groups and organizations. Included in this year’s budget, which the board approved last week, $17,000 of student’s money was allotted for dues to the California State Student Association (CSSA), an organization that advocates and lobbies issues plaguing many of the Cal State Universities, such as parking and housing. Elliot Sacks, director of statewide affairs for AS, said that CSSA has paid representation from all but two of the 23 CSU campuses. As of this year, Cal State Fullerton has not been a dues-paying member, meaning that CSUF had no vote over important pieces of legislation, Sacks said. And in order to vote, AS has to pay. “The dues were calculated on a per-student basis,” Sacks said. He also said that AS paid 60 cents per full-time enrolled student to the CSSA. CSUF’s involvement in the statewide organization will increase greatly, now that $17,000 has been handed over as a means to have a greater voice statewide. AS President Mary Grace Cachuela said that as the fastest growing and the third largest campus in the CSU system, CSUF’s non-representation in CSSA was futile. “Without being able to vote, it’s hard,” she said. Cachuela said that AS’s proactive decision to pay dues to CSSA would allow the student administrators to see that their voice and vote do make a difference. “A lot of [state] legislators listen to this organization,” she said. “They see that these are young
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Sam Houston plays wind chimes at the 28th Annual “Green Scene” at the Fullerton Arboretum.
CSU pay increase lobbied at nMONEY: The California Faculty Association dubs what they see as uncompetitive salaries for CSU faculty members the second “crisis in By Kelly Mead
Daily Titan Staff Writer This week about 200 California State University employees gathered in Sacramento to lobby for faculty pay increases. The California Faculty Association (CFA) attendees, who included many from Cal State Fullerton, were asking the legislator to amend the CSU system’s budget to provide more money for faculty salaries. “We feel we have to be up here to remind them of the CSU system,” said Susan Meisenhelder, the president of the CFA. The CFA is claiming that the payroll problem stems from the booming enrollment the CSU system is
facing. The CFA went to Sacramento this weekend worried that CSU faculty salary issues are being overshadowed by the energy crisis. The weekend was caustically dubbed, “There’s More Than One Crisis in California.” Despite the state senate’s focus on other issues, Meisenhelder feels the week has been successful in making the legislators aware the CFA’s grievances. However, even if the Senate takes notice, there are still many obstacles the CFA has to face. For one, the CSU administration disagrees with many of the CFA’s arguments. Although the CSU system has made
financial gains in the budget over the past couple of years, CFA feels the teachers still aren’t getting the salaries they deserve. “We have gotten more money, but we’re also getting more and more students,” Meisienhelder said. One complaint the CFA has about faculty salaries is that teachers are getting short-changed on summer pay. According to the CFA, during the summer faculty receives only 80 percent of the money the state gives the schools for salaries. “We don’t know exactly where it is going,” said Meisenhelder when referring to the extra 20 percent. Despite the CFA’s loud voice in the capital this week, many people that work on the campus have a different perspective of the budget. Ken Swisher, a representative from the Chancellor’s Office, feels the CFA isn’t considering all the fac-
tors involved in summer session. “It may be a different faculty makeup during the summertime,” he said. Swisher noted that summer classes may be taught by more part-time faculty or perhaps the teachers are lecturers rather than professors. The CFA is also claiming that CSU pay is not competitive. The CSU system is losing quality faculty to areas where the cost of living is higher. Swisher, however, has seen statistics that show the CSU system is actually raising their faculty salaries at a faster rate than the rest of the country. According to the Chancellor’s Office, faculty salaries have increased 23.5 percent in the last five years. Nationally, collegiate faculty salaries have risen 14.9 percent. “I don’t know where they get
Expansion plans underway eTitan xtras nCAMPUS: Increased enrollment has created the need for larger student health facilities By Jennifer Punt
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Counseling offices in Langsdorf Hall will move to the new center.
Plans for the new Student Health and Counseling Center have finally gotten underway again. After three months of revising their bid, project plans for the Health Center opened for bids on April 19. The building project was originally put out in December 2000,with bidding opening January of this year. But the design and construction office on campus was uncomfortable because some criteria had not been contained in the bid
specs. The office recommended canceling the entire bid and redoing it. Now, after more than a year of planning, the design and construction office is in the process of trying to award a bid. Though the bid has changed, plans for the center have remained the same since the original designs were approved by the chancellor’s office in February 2000. The Health Center, which is now about 25,000 square feet will add 7,000 square feet. The new building will be built on the east side of the current center. The building will have two departments including Counseling and Psychological
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services, and Physical Therapy. It will not offer any new services but will provide a more spacious environment and a nicer facility for staff and students. The Physical Therapy department now works out of roughly 700 square feet. It will expand to around 2,000 square feet. The counseling offices, which are now housed in Langsdorf Hall, will also move to the new building. “Several of the folks in counseling and Student Affairs feel that we need more counselors given the rising enrollment here,” said Thom Sloan, executive director for the Student Health and Counseling Center.
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