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Students cook up defense nFUND-RAISER: The “No Fee Increase” campaign has a goal to collect 2,000 signed letters to help stop a rise in tuition in fall 2002 By Theresa Salinas
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John Migliarini (left) barbecues a cheeseburger for Brian Smith at Tuesday’s fund-raiser.
Members of the Associated Students Lobby Corps held a barbecue fund-raiser Tuesday to help bridge the $17.5 billion shortfall in the state budget.
Hot dogs with relish sold for $360,000. Freshly grilled hamburgers went for $500,000. Chilled water bottles were on sale for $200,000. About 50 students stopped by the luncheon, which was held in front of the bookstore, but no one bought the pricey cuisine. Instead, free food was given to those who signed letters in opposition of a student fee increase that could be used to offset the state deficit. “Many of the students were sympathetic and had heard about the issue,” said Dante Gomez, AS director of statewide affairs. “Some came because there was free food. If they don’t have money to buy lunch, then
obviously they don’t have the money for a fee increase.” Young Kim flipped burgers during the event. Kim, a graduate student, said he opposes tuition hikes because students already pay costly fees. An increase could deter people from enrolling at state schools, he said. “If they raise the fees, it will be harder for people to go to school,” Kim said. “This is not the time to raise fees.” Student Simon Rantisi was drawn to the event by the succulent scents that wafted from the grill. He said he is glad that student leaders are trying to inform students about the measures that legislators could take to fix
the budget shortfall. “I don’t want [the increase],” he said. “I don’t want to pay more. We already pay enough for things like parking and books.” The barbecue marked the start of the lobby corps’ “No Fee Increase” campaign. The campaign, which urges state legislators to keep university tuition at current levels, is sponsored by a coalition of hundreds of UC, CSU and California Community College students. Coalition members are asking students across the state to sign letters that will be sent to legislators in coming weeks.
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Price of parking to increase
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nCAMPUS: To fund the construction of the new structures, permits will rise from $54 to $99 next semester By Theresa Salinas
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Cal State Fullerton executes a near-perfect evacuation drill Tuesday at approximately 3:30 p.m. The drill lasted about 15 minutes in which all individuals were evacuated into designated safe zones. “In previous drills it was difficult to get the students to evacuate,” said Judi King, CSUF police chief. “This year, the building marshals did an excellent job. The drill was phenomenal, everyone did a really good job.” While some students complained of the inconvenience others were ecstatic that some professors postponed exams.
Parking permits will be more expensive and harder to attain next semester, university officials said. During Associated Students Board of Directors meeting Tuesday Joe Ferrer, director of parking and transportation, said 3,000 to 4,000 additional parking spaces need to be created on campus to curb current traffic congestion. To accomplish this goal, the university will build two parking structures by 2005. The first is an $18.7 million structure located in Lot D. It will add 1,600 spaces and is slated to open in January 2004. The second is a $14.6 million struc“Students ture located in Lot B. It will add 1,419 parking spaces and is sched- need to know uled to open in January 2005. Student parking fees will finance about the construction. Ferrer said fees will increase from the current rate of changes so $54 per semester, to $99 in fall 2002, then $144 in fall 2004. However, hundreds of parking that it’s not a spaces will be lost during construction. shock come The university will cut the number of parking permits it sells to next fall.” coincide with the number of available stalls. The university typically sells 21,000 parking permits per Edgar year. Zazueta, During construction it will only Associated sell 19,000. Officials are still trying to determine how the permits will be sold. AS Executive Vice President Edgar Zazueta urged the board to implement a public information campaign before the parking changes are implemented. “We need to be proactive in the latter part of this semester,” he said. “Students need to know about the changes so that it’s not a shock come next fall.” In other business, the board is preparing to enter budget deliberations. Students pay an AS fee of $54 per semester. About $14 of that money goes to athletics’ programs, $8 goes towards the
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Children celebrate Cesar Chavez nHONOR: Elementary school students learned about the activist and other heroes in their lives By John Paul Gutierrez Daily Titan Staff Writer
Cesar Chavez’s face was adorned in maroon on beige screen-printed T-shirts that several children wore. Tuesday afternoon he became imprinted in the minds of hundreds of elementary school students thanks to Cal State Fullerton student mentors. “We want them to learn about the life
and work Cesar Chavez did,” said Isaac Cardenas, the chairman of the Chicano Studies program. “About service to community because service begins in the home and community.” The Cesar Chavez Heroes Project brought together students from Ruby Drive and Hurley elementary schools to celebrate Chavez’s life and close a project that has inspired and informed elementary students with Chavez’s granddaughter Julie Chavez Rodriguez. The CSUF Office of Service Learning and the Governor’s Office on Service and Volunteerism created the six-week program that matched university students with 420 third, fifth and sixth grade students to mentor and teach them about
Chavez and his remarkable impact on California. In the orchard of the Arboretum, easels supporting the collages elementary students made of their own personal heroes surrounded a white tent with red, white and black balloons, the colors of the United Farm Workers, the union Chavez founded in 1962 that advocates for farm workers. Ruby Drive student Daniel Pirali displayed pictures of his mom and dad, who he said were his heroes. “My dad goes to some hospitals and gets blood samples and takes them to a lab to test it,” Pirali said.“My mom is a bus driver and gets the children safe to their homes. [My dad] helps people a lot,
[my mom] helps people a lot too.” Letting the children interpret their heroes was one of the project’s goals. Thomas Klammer, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science, said one of his favorite parts of the event was the displays of pictures representing the children’s heroes. Jorge Herrera, a CSUF Chicano theater major, agrees. “I think it is really important for them to have someone to relate to,” Herrera said. “It gets them to look at the heroes in their community.” After the children were called to the tent, they sat and listened to the poems that their classmates had written about
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Elementary school children learned about the life of Cesar Chavez, the farm workers rights activist, in the Arboretum Tuesday.