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nFINANCE: The ASI Board is still in deliberations to pass the final draft, which has been postponed By Theresa Salinas
Daily Titan Staff Writer‑ The Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors approved the $4.4 million Titan Student Union operating budget Tuesday, bringing the document one step closer to final approval. The TSU Governing Board and the ASI Finance Committee also have reviewed the 2002-03 budget. It will be forwarded to university officials, then to the Chancellor’s Office for final consideration. Cal State Fullerton students pay an $84 TSU fee and a $20 recreation fee each semester. The fees are collected and used the following fiscal year for bond repayments, maintenance, construction, operating expenses and reserves. “Students TSU Director Kurt Borsting said the TSU will receive about need places $4.4 million in 2002-03 to cover operating costs. Funding comes from 13 different areas, where they including $2.9 million in fees, $607,647 from Rec Sports and can take $4,210 from Mainframe. “The TSU is very financially sound right now,” Borsting a break ... said. The TSU will spend the $4.4 There’s not million on 16 categories, which include administration, building engineering, public relations too many on and graphic services. The biggest disbursement, campus. ” 22 percent of the total budget, goes to “general services.” The TSU will spend an estimated Christina $997,958 on general services, including $369,930 on utilities; Gonzalez, $586,407 on contracts, fees and rentals; $16,781 on insurance; and $11,477 on printing and advertising. The Art Gallery gets the smallest allotment – about $25,320 or .005 percent of the total budget. Expenses include $13,000 for part-time employee salaries; $5,500 for contracts, fees and rentals; and $3,825 for printing and advertising. Student Christina Gonzalez said she thinks the university should focus on small operations, like the gallery and Mainframe instead of pumping thousands of dollars into salaries and marketing. “Students need places where they can take a break,” she said. “There’s not too many on campus.” In other business, the board postponed the final phase of ASI budget deliberations for one week because Adnan Raza, ASI vice president of finance, was absent. Raza is familiar with the proposed budget and with issues that could surface during deliberations, board chair Christina Machado said. “It would be best to wait until next week so that we can get his input and he can guide us through the process,” Machado said. The board also passed a resolution opposing recent revisions to CSU Executive Order 792. The order allows
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DJ Linda Kimmer, who has a show called “Lunch with Linner the Spinner,” had no knowledge of the “Silence for a Day” protest of Internet radio.
Internet radio silenced for a day nPROTEST: To boycott paying royalties, online stations in the United States are remaining quiet By Esmeralda Sosa
Daily Titan Staff Writer Those who tune in to their favorite Internet radio station expecting to hear music today, will only get silence. Internet radio stations throughout the United States will remain silent in a stand against the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), which is recommending to impose a royalty rate to Internet-only Webcasters or Internet radio stations. On Feb. 20, CARP presented a report with recommendations to the Library of Congress imposing a royalty rate of onefourteenth of a cent per song, per listener, to all Internet radio stations to pay record
companies. Wayne Overbeck, professor of communications law, said that $1.40 per 1,000 listeners per song has to be paid retroactive to 1998. To show disapproval for this proposal, Internet radio stations will remain silent on Wednesday in order “to prove and show what life would be without Internet Radio,” said David Landis, founder of Ultimate-80s Internet radio station. Landis said that terrestrial radio has never paid royalties to record companies because radio is considered free promotion for them. Even with this proposal, the rate that terrestrial radio will have to pay is only half of what Internet radio stations will be forced to pay. Ultimate-
80s will be one of the many Internet radio stations that will be affected by the proposed rate. In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is a law that gave record companies the right to collect royalties for the copyrighted works that were played by digital media. It also included Internet radio stations and satellite radio. Titan Internet Radio, although it is a college station, also will have to pay royalty fees in order to continue Webcasting. It also will have to pay the retroactive royalty fees. “We will be paying or we will be sued,” Overbeck said. Daniel “Rocky” Millhouse, a TIR DJ for the rock show “Noise Pollution,” said that to his knowledge TIR would not be participating in the silent protest. AM/FM stations also have to pay
royalties to companies such as ACAP and BMI. “They are two agencies that collect money from radio stations, or anyone that plays music to pay the composer, not to the record companies,” Overbeck said. The royalty rate was not determined until last February when CARP recommended one-fourteenth of a cent per song, per listener. The Library of Congress has until May 21 to review, accept or reject the proposed rate. It also can increase, lower or keep the rate the same. Until then, the future of Internet radio stations depends on whether they have the money to pay the rate being imposed. Even if the rate were raised, the majority of Internet radio stations, including TIR would be able to pay the rate.
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Late pedestrian crossing may equal citation eTitan xtras Pedestrians crossing the intersection of Nutwood and Commonwealth avenues may be cited if they start walking across the street five seconds after the light turns green. RYAN HOPPE/ Daily Titan
nFINE: People must begin walking across the street within five seconds or they can receive a violation By Scott Leeds
Daily Titan Staff Writer Timing is everything. Students have five seconds before they may receive a citation, and walking through the crosswalk too late may equal a ticket. According to California vehicle code section 21456 (a), a pedestrian facing the signal may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal as long as the “WALK” symbol is showing. The diagonal crosswalk at the corner of Nutwood and Commonwealth
avenues allows pedestrians five seconds to “proceed across the roadway.” If they do not enter the crosswalk in time, according to this law, they could receive a citation. “I always make it in time,” said Steven Dang, an information system decision science major. “I think the time is sufficient.” Preventing a citation is all about doing the math. The amount of time allotted to enter the crosswalk is determined by the distance pedestrians have to travel the intersection divided by four feet per second (an average pedestrian walking speed), said Dave Lagstaff, assistant traffic engineer for the City of Fullerton. He also said that in a city like New York, where there could be up to 50 pedestrians trying to cross the roadway, city engineers would allow more time to enter a crosswalk. Lagstaff added that there is suf-
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ficient time at this crosswalk based on the surveys done by the city engineers. “I think that would kind of suck if you had crutches or if you’re in a wheelchair or something like that,” said Karen Palacio, a communications major. “It’s not posted anywhere to tell you that, so they should make a posting if they’re going to do that.” The second part of the vehicle code states that no pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of the signal, while the “WAIT” or “DON’T WALK” symbol is flashing or steady. The violation’s minimum fine is $77, but it may vary due to how many citations a person might have received over the past three years. Additional citations add more money to the minimum fine, according to the North County Court in Fullerton. It also
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