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87 teachers receive raises President approves about half of requests for salary increases By MATT BALLINGER Daily Titan Copy Editor
Teacher salaries at Cal State Fullerton are considerably lower than those at comparable schools throughout the nation, studies show. But an effort to boost teacher pay may relieve some of the strain that puts on faculty morale. CSUF President Milton Gordon announced last week the results of a review of 170 faculty membersʼ applications for equity increases – raises meant to bring salaries
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in line with cost of living, with what other faculty members earn, and with pay at so-called comparison institutions, schools such as Arizona State University, USC and the University of Connecticut, that have similar salary characteristics. Eighty-seven of the requests, or about 51 percent, were approved. G. Nanjundappa, president of CSUFʼs faculty union, said more needs to be done. “It is a small step toward bridging a large faculty equity problem,” he said Wednesday. Nanjundappa said heʼs disappointed that more requests werenʼt approved, especially for fulltime professors. Just 12 percent of full professorsʼ requests were
granted, yet according to a study by the California Postsecondary Education Commission, the salary increase needed to equate the pay of full professors at CSU schools and full professors at comparison schools is more than 25 percent. “We had many excellent faculty members who were turned down because their salaries were already in line with newly hired faculty members in their departments,” Gordon said in a news release. “Itʼs important to understand that weʼre looking at equity based on what colleges, and in some cases departments, are paying.” Gordon said that even with money coming from the state budget, when he deals with how to
spend money, he has to weigh competing needs. “As president, I have to keep a balance for everyone at the university,” he said in a telephone interview. “I wish there was more money for everyone,” Gordon added. Ephraim Smith, vice president of academic affairs, said the raises address a problem that has been brewing for some time. The salary equity issue is not new, “but because we have not had raises in three years, itʼs become a bigger issue,” Smith said, referring to a 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase approved for all faculty members in October. Another complaint administra-
tors and union leaders have been hearing is that newly hired teachers were brought in with higher salaries than teachers hired three or four years ago. “Recently, junior faculty members in multiple departments have contacted … [union] leaders regarding emerging discrepancies between their salaries and those offered to incoming faculty,” reads a resolution passed by the board of the teachers union – the California Faculty Association Fullerton Chapter – in May. “Discrepancies exceeding 25 percent have been described.” That resolution encouraged all SALARIES 4
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Speakers will present information at residence halls Wednesday about rape and how to thwart attacks By JENNY STAR LOR Daily Titan Staff
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The CSUF women’s soccer team celebrates winning the Big West Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament on Sunday. The Titans beat UC Riverside, 4-1, to finish the regular season with a 17-3 record. See story Page 8.
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Presses to stop at Cal State Dominguez Hills The Bulletin to be shut down due to budget restrictions By COURTNEY BETH PUGATCH Daily Titan Staff
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Cal State Fullertonʼs Housing and Residence Life will host a Rape and Domestic Abuse Program on Wednesday at the multipurpose room in the residence halls. “Letʼs Talk About All The Good Things and All The Bad Things Sex Can Be” will touch on topics about rape and sexual assault, the role of alcohol, assertiveness and ways to avoid an attack. Event speaker Dawn Foor, a CSUF alumna and supervisor of Community Service Programs Inc. Sexual Assault Victims Services, has spoken on campus about preventing rape before. “This is important because rape is an epidemic,” Foor said. “People are comfortable in denying it until it happens to someone we know.” According to statistics obtained from the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, more than 94,600 women and girls nationwide were victims of forcible rape in 2004. The figure has increased 0.8 percent since 2003 and has risen 4.9 percent since 2000. But the cases of forcible and non-forcible sex offenses at CSUF are small. The campus crime statistics on the University Police Web site show that there was one forcible sex offense on campus in 2004. Officer Iris Cortes-Valle of University Police will be one of the speakers Wednesday. Head of the Rape Aggression Defense program at CSUF, Cortes-Valle plans to talk about how the program is an effective tool to teach women how to defend themselves. She said statistics taken from Foor show that Community Service Programs took 3,289 cases of rape in 2004 in Orange County. Of these, only 276 cases were reported to various police departments and agencies as crimes. “The astounding difference in numbers has many reasons,” Cortes-Valle said in an e-mail interview. “Victims choose not to report sometimes due to embarrassment, shame or because they do not want the attacker to not have criminal charges filed against him or her.” The Rape Aggression Defense program is a series of three, free, self-defense clinics that aims to empower
Cal State Dominguez Hills could be the only CSU campus without a student-run newspaper when publishing of the Bulletin is terminated in December. Garry Hart, the interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said the paper has “just become too much for the College of Liberal arts to pay for.”
Cal State Fullerton has a Communications Department and requires journalism students to take the Daily Titan class to graduate; Cal State Dominguez Hills only has a liberal arts program that includes journalism classes. The students who work on the Bulletin are volunteers who want to be a part of the student-run paper. “For the last three years the paper has been on the budget, and questions have been raised about whether or not to fund it,” said Cathy Risling, the Cal State Dominguez Hills Bulletin advisor. “In the past, it has been up to the college of liberal arts to pay
for. Without the funding, itʼll be shut down after the last issue and students, faculty and staff wonʼt be getting the news necessary for campus events.” The annual cost of producing the newspaper is about $75,000 – that includes the printing of seven issues each semester and staff salaries. However, the paper only receives about $7,000 each year from its student government. To compensate for the lack of funding, the newspaper uses advertising revenues to pay for supplies, issues, equipment, and salaries, Risling said. Risling also mentioned that she
was surprised that many of the students and faculty members donʼt realize the implications the termination of the paper can bring. “Our paper is a living history and a way to document the progress and events of our campus,” she said. “How will important things like the ASI budget, events on campus and other events be publicized and archived without it? CSU Dominguez Hills is like a community, and the students need a way to make sure theyʼre informed at all times of what happens within our campus community.” Instead of funding the paper, the liberal arts department plans to
create six sections of classes that students have a hard time getting into. “Having these classes so that students could get through the graduation process faster is more important than having a student newspaper,” Hart said. He said Cal State Dominguez Hills is operating on a budget that is $1 million less than previous years. However, Hart also acknowledged the absence of a student newspaper probably wonʼt sit well with students. NEWSPAPER 3
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French president promises public order PARIS – President Jacques Chirac promised Sunday to restore public order across France as unrest spread from suburban Paris to cities south and north, with rioters battling police, throwing Molotov cocktails and ramming a car into a housing project during an 11th night of mayhem. About 10 police officers were injured – two were seriously hurt – during clashes with hundreds of young people in Grigny in the Essonne region south of the capital, the Interior Ministry said.
Today thru Nov. 18: Titans can save up to 25% by trading in apparel from other universities during the Titan Pride Closet Takeover. Today thru Nov. 29: Faculty, staff, students and friends are invited to bowl for eight weeks every Tuesday to win cash prizes in the Titan Pride League. Email recgames@fullerton.edu or call (714) 278-2144 to reserve a spot.
Bush calls for defense of democracy BRASILIA, Brazil – In a clear jab at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush called on Latin Americans on Sunday to boldly defend strong democratic institutions and reject any drift back to the days of authoritarian rule. Bushʼs remarks came after Chavez, the leftist leader and a friend of Cubaʼs Fidel Castro, spent the past two days hurling criticism at the United States at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina.
Tuesday: Polls are open for the Special Statewide Election from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on eight propositions that may affect state laws. Propositions 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 and 80 are on the ballot. For more information, visit easyvoter.org
Nation Tornado kills 22 in Kentucky, Indiana EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A tornado with winds exceeding 158 mph tore through western Kentucky and southern Indiana as residents slept early Sunday, reducing dozens of mobile homes to splinters and turning entire blocks of buildings into piles of rubble. At least 22 people were killed, and 200 others were injured. Rescuers who arrived at the Eastbrooke Mobile Home Park shortly after the tornado struck reported seeing children wandering in the debris, looking for their parents, and parents searching for missing children. Childrenʼs bicycles and other toys were strewn amid mattresses, chairs and insulation.
Tuesday: Maria Marin, author of “Secrets of a Confident Woman,” will discuss the art of negotiation at a dinner workshop sponsored by CSUF. For more information or to make a reservation, call (714) 278-4182. Thursday thru Dec. 15: Titans can donate toys to children as the Camp Titan Toy Drive starts. For more information, call (714) 278-2468.
Local Gas prices drop to pre-Katrina levels CAMARILLO – Retail gas prices plunged an average of 23 cents nationwide in the past two weeks, marking a return to pre-Hurricane Katrina levels, according to a survey. The weighted average price for all three grades declined to $2.45 a gallon on Friday, said Trilby Lundberg, who publishes the semimonthly Lundberg Survey of 7,000 gas stations around the country.
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Jim Tesio smooths a bead of caulk Wednesday as he prepares the Performing Arts Building for painting. The campus has been marked with construction and maintenance projects throughout the semester.
Activists question police shootings RIVERSIDE – At least half of all shootings involving police officers and sheriffʼs deputies in San Bernardino and Riverside counties involved animals, mostly dogs, according to a review of records from four agencies. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reviewed five years of records from the sheriffʼs departments in those counties, as well as Riverside and San Bernardino city police. Law enforcement officials defended their record, saying in nearly all cases the officers or deputies felt threatened by animals. Some pet owners and animal-rights groups, however, questioned the high number of animal shootings. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Oct. 31, 1:49 a.m. An officer arrested a driver at Chapman Avenue and North State College Boulevard. Information about the reason for the arrest was not available. Oct. 31, 8:18 a.m. The driver of a white Mercedes left a child unattended in the vehicle in Lot A. An officer issued a warning. Oct. 31, 9:17 p.m. An officer arrested a shopper at the Target store on Deerpark
Place in Fullerton. Information about the reason for the arrest was not available. Nov. 2, 9:52 a.m. A vehicle was reported stolen from Lot A on North State College Boulevard between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. A witness saw someone by the vehicle. Nov. 2, 9:53 a.m. A female student refused to leave the Humanities Building. This was the second time police had received a complaint about this student. Nov. 2, 10:42 a.m. A fire started at the ATM by the Titan Student Union. Information as to what started the fire was not available.
Nov. 3, 2:15 p.m. A possible burglary occurred at the Irvine Campus. An officer took a report. Nov. 4, 3:16 a.m. An officer arrested someone for sleeping in the hall by the entrance to University Hall. Nov. 4, 10:42 a.m. A flat-screen monitor was reported stolen from the Computer Science Building. An officer took a report. Nov. 5, 7:46 p.m. Several men were playing basketball in the dark in the upper and lower levels of the Kinesiology Building. An attendant asked them to leave but they refused. An officer checked the building and took a report.
Friday: CSUF students and Rec Sports members can compete in the Intramural Sports Coed Flag Football Tournament. Entry forms are due to KHS 159, in the Kinesiology Building at 5 p.m. The cost is $10 per team, and players must have a valid TitanCard. For more information, call (714) 278-4382. Friday: Erin McNally stars in “A Day Just Like Today,” a one-hour cabaret. The event is at the Grand Central Theatre located on campus. Tickets cost $15. For more information, call (714) 5677235. Saturday: CSUF and the Latino Advocates for Education are teaming up to honor veterans, past and present, at the ninth annual Veterans Day Celebration: A Tribute to Mexican American Patriots of World War II. The event starts at 11 a.m. For more information, call (714) 225-2499. All events are free and on campus unless otherwise indicated. To have a specific entry added to the calendar section, please send an email to news@dailytitan.com.
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Titans communicate on Facebook School-minded Web site provides students source to make friends By CHRISTINA SCHROETER Daily Titan Staff
First there was Friendster. Then came MySpace. Now, Facebook is taking over the nation, one college student at a time. Unlike most other networking sites, Facebook is a Web site where students, faculty, and college alumni can network with each other within a given school – instead of one giant network like MySpace and Friendster. CSUF students can have “friends” at other universities, but they are not networked to people through friends at other schools, only through their friends at Fullerton. This creates smaller, more personal networks. “Itʼs a great site. It lets you stay in touch with friends and make new friends at school,” political science major Mikey Khamis said. “Itʼs especially good for CSUF students because we are a commuter school.” Like other online communities, Facebook members create profiles, send messages and post pictures of themselves and their
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“Every CSU school has a student newspaper,” Hart said. “Some schools even have a daily newspaper. If Dominguez Hills doesnʼt have one, then students might acquire a negative attitude toward the school.” Leonard Lee, the chairman of the communications department, said he was surprised that Cal State Dominguez Hills doesnʼt hold funding for the student newspaper as a line budget item. “I think weʼre only thinking about the budget,” Lee said. “Weʼre not looking at the significance and the value of having a paper on campus.”
friends. The popular community does have some unique qualities that many other networking sites donʼt have. Members can “poke” each other, which basically doesnʼt do anything but notify a person that someone has poked them. Students can list the classes they are enrolled in to link to other Facebook members with the same classes. Campus clubs and other organizations can purchase ad space at relatively low prices to notify students of events at that school. Instead of handing out fliers for a party, students can post an online party invitation for students at their college. “In general, the site is popular because itʼs versatile. People are logging on for a variety of reasons – for example, to screw around in those five minutes of downtime before an appointment or to match a face with a name that comes up in conversation,” Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes said. “In general, people are returning to the site to find information on their peers, to make connections with friends and acquaintances, and to communicate with one another.” The Facebook phenomenon has hardly made an impact at CSUF, which has only 3,611 members.
Roughly 17,100 UCI students, than drunk dialing. I have sent 4,700 Cal State Long Beach stu- some of the most mortifying dents, and 25,000 UCLA students Facebook messages while intoxiare members of Facebook, and cated.” Oliver has close to 200 friends many have adopted it as a means on Facebook and claims to log on of communication. “Itʼs a great way to network up to five times a day, while many and find people that are in your CSUF students have less than 20 classes, or live near you, or look Facebook friends. “I hardly ever log on to up peopleʼs birthdays,” UC Santa Barbara student Lindsay Oliver Facebook,” art major Cassie said. “Itʼs really amusing to look Lockhart said. “If I get an e-mail saying someone for cute boys sent me a mesand see who It’s really amusing sage, then Iʼll their friends are log on. I hate and find out how to look for cute to say it, but I youʼre connectboys and see who ed and what heʼs go on myspace. their friends are interested in.” com a lot.” and find out how Many students Perhaps at you’re connected at Facebooka commuter and what he’s popular schools school like (such as UCSB CSUF, students interested in. with its 17,970 donʼt feel the Lindsay Oliver members) have need to meet UC Santa Barbara student acquired an people at school addiction to because they the site, even already have greater than the local friends, addictive demons at Myspace but Hughes said he hasnʼt noticed and Friendster. The small net- a trend at commuter schools. works allow closer ties to familiar “It is also difficult for us to faces. know which schools are com“You meet someone at a party, muter schools on the network,” they interest you. You go home he said. The Facebook phenomena and Facebook them,” Oliver said. “Itʼs kind of sick, and itʼs worse began when Mark Zuckerberg
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created a site for himself and other Harvard students to network within a small online community. ”He revamped the idea of the original college Facebooks—the books of bad freshman-year ID photos and boring information— by putting them online and giving students the control over the information they wanted to share with others,” Hughes said. When 6,000 students signed up within the first three weeks, Zuckerberg opened the online community up to more and more schools until many of the countryʼs colleges —and selected schools in other countries—were a part of Facebook. Facebook has recently redesigned its site and added a high school version of the college site, which will run independently from the college version. “Weʼll be adding new functionalities and features in the upcoming weeks and improving our usersʼ overall experience on the site,” Hughes said. “I canʼt give you any more details than that, but I can promise you that there are quite a lot of things in the works.” Facebook receives about 200 million page views a day, and “ranks 10th in terms of overall traffic on the Web,” Hughes said.
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•3,611: Number of Cal State Fullerton students registered on Facebook •35,040: Number of students enrolled at CSUF this semester •8.3 million: Approximate number of Facebook members •138: Number of schools in California that have access to Facebook •200 million: Total number of page views a day for Facebook •Number 10: Ranking in terms of traffic on the World Wide Web •6,000: Number of students who signed up in the first three weeks after Facebook launched •2: Number of Facebooks; the creators recently launched a Facebook for high school students •17,000: Approximate number of Facebook members at UC Irvine •4,700: Approximate number of Facebook members at Cal State Long Beach •25,000: Approximate number of Facebook members at UCLA •18,000: Approximate number of Facebook members at UC Santa Barbara
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Youth votes still lacking
The results, announced last week, of the equity increase evaluations (by teacher rank) applications denied applications granted
Elusive demographic no longer targeted by candidate campaigns
Until young people have a respectable voting track record, most candidates are not going to aim campaign efforts at them. Many organizations have developed in the past decades By KRISTEN ALTO trying to improve that track For the Daily Titan record. Rock the Vote, founded Propositions 73, 74, 75, 76, in 1990, is one example. Rock 77, 78, 79 and 80 are on the bal- the Vote claims on their Web site lot for Tuesdayʼs special elec- that it is designed to encourage tion in California. These are the young people to change their propositions most students, and world. Students can usually young people in general, prob- count on seeing the Rock the ably will not be voting on, even Vote along with MTVʼs Choose though a couple of these issues or Lose campaign throughout directly affect young adults. the months before presidential Since 1972, when 18-year- elections. But those only come olds were able to vote for the every four years. first time, there M a r k has been a Redhead, professor of politsteady decline If the choices ical science, in the numbers are ‘vanilla and said he thinks of youth votFrench vanilla,’ ing. And despite there may be a then why random spurts different reabother? son for the lack like the 10 percent rise in votes of youth votes. from people “Perhaps the Mark Redhead ages 18 to 29 in issue isnʼt apaCSUF professor thy but lack of the 2004 presidential election, real choice,” it seems the numbers will con- he said in an e-mail. “If the tinue to decline unless some- choices are ʻvanilla and French thing is done to get votes from vanilla,ʼ then why bother?” the youth. One more option to get more One theory to help raise votes votes out of young people and is that political candidates need students is to make it easier. to speak more to youth to entice Alana Northrop, a political scithem to vote. According to PBS ence teacher, believes thatʼs Online NewsHour, candidates possible. “Making it easier to vote can donʼt speak directly to young people and this is why young increase voter turnout,” she people think their vote doesnʼt said. “In Europe, election days are often national holidays, and matter. “Candidates can be blamed one can show up [on the day of to a point,” said Stephen election] and vote without prior Stambough, political science registration.” If that doesnʼt work, CSUF professor at Cal State Fullerton. “But are you going to push those student Lelah Boone has anothwho have never thought about er idea. “Pay us,” she said. “Iʼd go voting before or those who vote consistently in every election?” vote if I got five bucks.”
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women and provide tools they can use in dangerous situations. The program, broken up into three sections, starts off with bookwork and lectures about safety. This section provides safety tips, indicators and ways to avoid an attack. The second section of the program is more hands-on. Women who attend the program will learn self-defense techniques. The third section will put all the knowledge the women acquire to test. Police officers in padded gear will simu-
late attacks. “Any tools a female can use will always be to her advantage,” said Cortes-Valle, an officer for six-years. “The program is about being safe and being prepared.” Explaining that many victims simply feel that they were somehow responsible for what occurred, Cortes-Valle also said many victims organizations try to help women empower themselves through self-esteem and confidence building. Community Service Programs, a nonprofit organization, is the only rape crisis center in Orange County. It provides services from San Clemente to Los Alamitos,
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faculty members to apply for equity increases. And Nanjundappa is encouraging those who did not apply to do so and those whose requests were denied the first time to apply again. Smith said he sent a letter last month announcing a second round of raises. The applications are due Nov. 14, and administrators plan to announce the results in March. The salary issue also affects the universityʼs ability to hire and retain new teachers. “Because of the salary gap situation, there have been difficulties for us to hire well qualified faculty from other parts of the country, and it has been difficult to retain them after we recruit them,” Nanjundappa said. Housing prices, the cost of living and transportation expenses are some of the financial concerns that teachers moving to Orange County have. “They get nervous on what it will cost them to live here,” Smith assisting more than 80,000 people a year, according to the organizationʼs Web site. Foor hopes that students who attend the event will leave with a lot of knowledge regarding rape and sexual assault. “I hope it will instill a little fear,” Foor said. “Because being afraid will make you cautious.” Wednesdayʼs program is being put on by sophomore resident advisor Adam Poarch. “I hope they gain insight into what rape and domestic violence can be,” Poarch said. “The next time they hear about a rape, realize that it could be anyone thatʼs close to you.”
enough faculty to advise students, said of potential new teachers. In coming months, hiring com- supervise projects … develop mittees may be hearing more of curriculum, participate in shared that concern. Gordon recently governance of the university,” announced a program to hire 45 to Nanjundappa said. 50 new teachers each year for the The new hiring program will next five years. bring about 250 faculty members “The net on the to campus. hiring simply has “Itʼs going to not been keeping up require an awful Because of the with the increasing lot of work,” salary gap situagrowth weʼre expeGordon said. tion, there have riencing,” Gordon And heʼs been difficulties said. committed to the A study prepared task of strengthfor us ... ening instrucfor an Academic tion, he said. Senate retreat in G. Nanjundappa At an October August showed Teachers union president meeting of the that since the fall of Associated 2000, only about 70 tenure-track instructors have been Students Inc., Gordon said he was added to CSUFʼs teaching staff asked why more money isnʼt spent (when accounting for retirements, on maintenance, on keeping the resignations and other instances of campus clean. He told the students tenured and tenure-track teachers that money for maintenance would have to come out of the instrucleaving the university). Yet the number of full-time stu- tional budget. dents at the university is steadily “Our priority is to protect instruction,” Gordon said. “Weʼve always rising. “If you lose more and more maintained academic instruction as permanent faculty, there are not the number one budget to protect.”
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•Salary equity increase: A boost in teacher pay based on the market for teachers of similar rank, salaries within the same discipline, and other considerations, such as job offers at other institutions. (For more, see Article 31.23 of the collective bargaining agreement at www. fullerton.edu/far/cba/article31.htm.) •Comparison institution: According to the California Postsecondary Education Commission, salaries at CSU schools can be evaluated by comparing them with those at schools across the nation, including Rutgers in New Jersey, North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado in Denver. (The commission’s complete report about faculty salaries at California public universities is available at www.cpec.ca.gov /completereports/2005reports /05-04.pdf.) SALARY INEQUITY For the 2004-05 academic year, raises of the following percentages would have brought average faculty salaries at CSU schools in line with average faculty salaries at comparison institutions. •Professor: 21.4 percent •Associate professor: 7.1 percent •Assistant professor: 9.7 percent •Instructor: 0.3 percent –Information according to a California Postsecondary Education Commission report on faculty salaries at California public universities More about the equity increases is available at http://campusapps.fullerton.edu/news /dateline/2005/salary.html.
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Compassion over cliques It really is a cliché-ridden question, but why canʼt we all just get along? That one inquiry has probably plagued all our minds at one point in our lives, whether at the workplace, at school or in pretty much any social setting. Unfortunately, cliques are an annoying part of life. Although we have to deem ourselves as a part of something and though we have to isolate people in our lives that may not belong to a specific clique, we continue to box ourselves in a bubble world filled with acceptance and selfishness. Though some of us might deny it, we all belong in a clique; it is all around us. For example, in the workplace, we have to make sure to choose the right people to gossip with; at school, we only converse with the “cool” kids and do whatever needs to be done to get in with the group that ensures success. What about the people who like everyone they work with and do not want to pick a side? What if they enjoy the cool kids but the nice nerds give them a chuckle? What if they just want
to be friends and kind to all the people who are around, people who might not even be in their immediate social group? Sorry folks, but life is not an episode of “Sesame Street.” This is the real world and the real world is all about choices, whether that decision is to hang out with certain types of people or not hang out with anyone at all. But while we at the Daily Titan urge people to accept the natural association that is being part of a clique, also refuse to become obsessed and narrow-minded with that obnoxious term. After all, itʼs great to have dorm buddies, volunteer club pals and carpool comrades. On the same note: Do not forget about the other thousands of students on the Cal State Fullerton campus just waiting to be spoken to and forge new friendships. Itʼs OK to have a familiar group of friends to turn to but to also step out of the comfort zone and talk to new people. It is called compassion, being a friendly human, and the word clique does not have to play any part in that.
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Letters to the Editor On propositions:
Dear Editor, Calling a special election with propositions that will only be noticed by special interest groups is a travesty of the
On the president: Dear Editor, As I watch the president nominate our next justice of the Supreme Court and view these talking heads argue about who is more liberal or conservative, I wonder why do all these socalled conservatives stand on the side of President Bush, a president that is so against big government and liberalism?
On objectification: Dear Editor, I have to say that I wait eagerly and patiently every Wednesday for [Daily Titan Humor Columnist Jeff Klimaʼs] column to come out. Sometimes I laugh; sometimes I donʼt agree. But this past Wednesday, he wrote about women being objectified [“Objectification is a two-way street” published Nov. 2, 2005]. Although I believe in womenʼs rights and equality, I
On Halloween: Dear Editor, Dianika Abbottʼs [“Halloween celebrates evil acts of the world” published Oct. 31, 2005] couldnʼt seem to decide which argument it wanted to make; or it wanted both without the work.
democratic process. The people who have called for this election realize they have lost the intellectual and moral arguments, so they resort to trickeries to get their radical views voted into law.
Politicians should stop distorting election procedures to disrupt our duly elected representatives from running our government. Propositions that reform the government should only be presented during a gen-
eral election to ensure the greatest possible citizen involvement in our government. In protest, I have voted no on every item.
But in actuality, he creates more programs and spends more money than any democraticelected president. A liberal is someone who believes that the government is here to look after and protect the less fortunate with either programs or money. Bush has spent a ton of money on a war to protect the rights of a less fortunate group, the Iraqis. And now he proposes $7.1 billion for a flu protection plan.
As our schools decay more and more and our economy slides, this president shows himself to be a liberal for all the wrong reasons. He is a bleeding heart for all the drug and oil companies. As poor blacks drown in the aftermath of his foul-up, he proposes money to fight a flu strain that shows no threat to the United States. As poverty rises here in the states, he proposes to
spend whatever it takes on his war. He may carry a Bible and stand against abortion, but deep down, our conservative president is just a confused liberal in disguise. Republicans and conservatives: Enjoy the next two years.
have to thoroughly agree with you. Women donʼt like to be objectified – they love it. Why else would we spend so much time shopping, doing our hair and make-up, and everything else we spend so much of our time and money on? I, like Klima, believe myself to be an “equatist,” but Iʼm also a realist. If, for example, America – or any part of the world, for that matter – were truly equal and free to all, then it wouldnʼt be a problem if scantily clad girls
dressed in 5-inch heels and 3inch-long skirts went to any nightclub. But we are not equal. It is expected to get a response from the opposite sex. Thatʼs what we want, right? I thought so. So, for those women and men who read Klimaʼs last article and were appalled by his lack of respect for women, they should ask themselves, “Have I ever attempted to dress a certain way for attention?” We all have. I would be lying if I said I got up in the morn-
ing, got dressed for school and didnʼt think to myself, “I look good. Others are sure to notice too.” Everyone is so quick to pass judgment on Klimaʼs articles; I personally think itʼs due to a lack of being open-minded and the inability to read between the lines and extract what he is really saying. Keep them coming, Jeff!
She starts by calling the conventions of Halloween foolish, gives some background on the origins of the holiday, then in the final paragraphs gives a Bible quote and states that Christians who celebrate Halloween canʼt call themselves Christ-like. The author, at no point, makes it
clear why a tradition with roots in the brutal past canʼt be endured in a benign fashion today – perhaps because being a Christian, this would be a difficult point for her to make. It would mean using logic and persuasive phrasing, other methods that are time-consuming and just hard.
Surely, the Christian student body on campus is capable of better than this. Make a real case against Halloween or at least put something forward that is less brain-damaged. This is a university. Jeff Fries, senior Linguistics
Bruce W. Johnson, alumnus Buena Park
Brian Thomason, senior Radio-TV-Film
Dayse Morales, senior Sociology
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the mound for the Titans from 1983 to 1986, shared her memofrom page 8 ries as a child when her mom used to follow her around with a bottle but decided against it after a long of Geritol. conversation with his coach. LeFebvre-Wyman won 100 Bunch, who announced he was games in her career at CSUF, the donating $25,000 to the Titans best in school history. She also during his induction speech, led led the team to the NCAA chamthe menʼs basketball team in 1978 pionship in her senior season to their most successful season while pitching 34 complete games in school history when they went and pitching 894.2 innings, both to the NCAA tournament and school records. She had also won reached as far as the Elite Eight. the Broderich Award that year, “It is a tremendous honor to the equivalent to the Heisman be sharing the evening with other Trophy. former student athletes,” Bunch The final inductee was Garrido, said. “The fact now the head that it is the coach of the inaugural hall University of ...It is an honor that of fame inducTexas baseI accept in behalf of tion ceremony ball team, who every staff member … Iʼm overcame on stage and every player. I’ll whelmed.” and cracked There were everyone pick up the trophy, many others up with his but it’s about who felt the witty sense of everyone. same as well. humor. Dunkle, a threeDespite the Augie Garrido time Kodak Alllight-hearted Former Titans Baseball Coach American and a atmosphere of silver medallist the ceremony, Olympian for a lot of inspithe 1976 U.S. ration was womanʼs basketball team, was drawn from the greatest players to teary-eyed during her speech. ever put on a Cal State Fullerton “Although Iʼm honored by this Titans uniform. award,” she said. “I am humbled Former CSUF students, like and grateful for everyone who baseball player Chad Cordero made it all possible.” – who plays for the Washington Dunkle is viewed by many as Nationals – an current students, a legend, fellow inductee Miller- like softball player Marissa Marza Rycraw said. Dunkle, who played hope to one day be one that same for the Titans from 1973 through stage. 1978, paved the way for future “Thatʼd be cool,” Cordero said. stars like Miller-Rycraw, who “If I was inducted, thatʼd be a great played for the Titans a decade honor, it means I did something after Dunkle. great for Cal State Fullerton.” Miller-Rycraw, now an assisWhen asked if she ever thought tant coach for the Titans, was about being inducted, Marza also selected onto the Kodak All- replied, “Oh definitely, I think all American team in 1991. During players do.” her time at CSUF, she was honCurrently, there are plans to ored the Big West Player of the extend the Titan Gym to build a Year in 1990 and was the Big room designated to honor Hall West Tournament most valuable of Fame inductees. The selection player in 1991. committee will choose a new class And while some cried tears of every two years, but nominations joy, others laughed as they recol- can be made by anyone. lected the memories they made For more information contact along the way. Pamela A. Jones-Tintle at (714) LeFebvre-Wyman, an ace on 278-4407.
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Junior midfielder Lauryn Welch elevates over four Pacific defenders to bang a header past a diving Tiger’s goalkeeper in the 85th minute of Friday’s 1-0 win at Titan Stadium to advance to the finals on Sunday. Welch was named MVP on Sunday for scoring three goals on the weekend.
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“I really focused on the goal and where I wanted to place it.” Welch said. Welchʼs second goal of the game, came on a header following a pass from Titansʼ defender Marlene Sandoval to give Fullerton a 2-0 lead they would not relinquish. Although the Titansʼ scored five goals in the tournament it was Fullertonʼs defense that was again responsible for goalkeeper Karen Bardsley having an easy game. She faced only three total shots,
none of them on goal, in the first Titans allowed in the tournament. Titan seniors Kandace Wilson half. and Kellie Cox “It takes a whole each scored a team to score and goal to increase takes a whole team This was payback the Titansʼ lead to stop the goals,” ... Every goal and put the game Sandoval said. “Itʼs scored today was out of reach of not one person or for every year we the Highlanders, two or three, itʼs the could not score on who were the last whole defense.” team to defeat The Highlanderʼs [UC Riverside]. the Titans, 1-0, only goal in both the Marlene Sandoval on Oct. 2. game and the tourFullerton defender nament came at the “This was payback,” Sandoval 46:47 mark, scored said. “We have by forward Renee not scored on UCR in four years.” Scachetti, her 13th of the season. This was also the only goal the “Every goal scored today was for
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every year we could not score on them,” Sandoval said. With the NCAA bid on the line, both teams played it safe and kept their regular starters on the field longer. “The idea was that the group that got you here, let them carry you all the way” Khosroshahin said. The NCAA selection process will be televised on ESPN News today at 2 p.m. The tournament will begin on Friday. “Itʼs overdue,” Khosroshahin said of his teamʼs first appearance. “Itʼs nice to take care of business the way we took care of business this season.”
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Athletic greats in spotlight Standout athletes and NCAA baseballʼs top coach inducted into CSUF Hall of Fame By HENRY TRUC Daily Titan Asst. News Editor
Cal State Fullerton Athletics has had a rich history, with 12 national championships in 17 sports programs and hundreds of All-Americans. On Saturday, the university acknowledged the best of the best by honoring six former student athletes and a prominent coach Saturday during the Inaugural Titan Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony at the Titan Student Union. Former players Greg Bunch (menʼs basketball), Nancy Dunkle and Eugenia MillerRycraw (womenʼs basketball), Tami Elliott-Harrision (gymnastics), Susan LeFebvreWyman (softball), Tim Wallach (baseball) and former coach Augie Garrido (baseball), were inducted as the first class into the hall of fame. “This is about everyone that I have ever been [with] associated here at the university and it is an honor that I accept on behalf of every staff member and every player,” Garrido said. “Iʼll pick up the trophy but itʼs about everyone.” As the ceremony started, CSUF President Milton A. Gordon and Director of Athletics Brian Quinn spoke about the history and future of the universityʼs sports programs. “For me, I see this as another sign of the greatness of the California State University of Fullerton,” Gordon said. The ceremony offered many entertaining stories including when Garrido recounted the baseball teamʼs first trip to the College World Series in 1974, where “Itʼs a Small World After All” was played as the teamʼs fight song because of the schoolʼs location, and the 1979 season when Wallach led the team to win CSUFʼs first national title. Wallach, who announced that his son Matthew had committed to the Titans in his induction speech, was the star of the 1979 team as he drove in 102 runs and won the Golden Spikes award and was named The Sporting News National Player of the Year. He went on the play 17 seasons in Major League Baseball. There was also the story about how a conversation between a father and a coach sitting in a truck while downing a couple six-packs decided the college destination of the top gymnastic recruit in the nation. Elliot-Harrison, a 10-time AllAmerican at CSUF in only three seasons and a five-time member of the USA national team, was recruited all the way from Virginia. A stranger story may be the one about how Bunch almost quit the basketball team to work for the postal service,
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The No. 1 seeded Titans celebrate after their 4-1 win over No. 2 seeded UC Riverside at Titan Stadium, clinching the Big West title for the first time in the five-year history of the Big West Tournament. The team’s next destination is to play in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Friday.
Champs of the Big West Fullerton crowned Big West champions and earn NCAA playoff berth with 4-1 win By JUAN ACEVES Daily Titan Staff
In a season of firsts for the Titans, a NCAA tournament appearance can be added to that list. The Titans defeated the UC Riverside Highlanders, 4-1, in front of a crowd of 617 at Titan Stadium, Sunday, to fulfill their pre-
season goal of advancing past the conference tournament and moving on to the NCAA tournament. This seasonʼs team is the first to win 17 games, have a nine-game winning streak, and win a game in the Big West Tournament. Now the Titansʼ goal is to make a mark in the NCAA playoffs. “We donʼt just want to get there,” Fullerton Head Coach Ali Khosroshahin said. “We want to go there and do something.” After the victory, the head coach huddled the Titans up and repeated, “This is only the beginning.”
“These ladies need to start believing that they are great,” Khosroshahin said. Sundayʼs game showed how balanced the offensive and defensive attack can be for the Titans. About the only thing that could stop Titansʼ forward Lauryn Welch from registering a hattrick was herself. Her chance was foiled when her third shot on goal attempt sailed just over the goal post, keeping her at eight goals on the season. The junior scored twice in the first half and led the Titans to a 2-0 lead going into half-time.
For her efforts, Welch was named Big West Conference tournament MVP, leading all players with three goals. With the game knotted in a scoreless tie, Welch broke away from two defenders and gave the Titans a quick 1-0 lead over the defense-orientated Highlanders, who have allowed 0.69 goals per game this season. “I really didnʼt think about it when I had two defenders on me,” Welch said. “When I passed them, I just looked up and saw the keeper on me.”
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3-0 loss the third in a row, twelfth of season for struggling CSUF By FORREST SHERMAN For the Daily Titan
The Cal State Fullerton menʼs soccer team played a strong first
half at Titan Stadium Saturday afternoon, yet still lost 3-0 to Cal State Northridge. The Titans played a strong defensive game against the Matadors. Fullerton continually headed and kicked the ball back across the mid field line, keeping the Matadors at bay. Northridge had four shots on goal in the first half, but none
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Jose Barragan, left, goes for the ball with the Matador’s Derek Hanks
found the net. “I think the teamʼs effort was alright, but itʼs not where it should have been,” senior forward Jose Barragan said. “Youʼre never satisfied with your effort. You can always put out more.” Barragan was presented a yellow card for his aggressive playing about 20 minutes into the game and teammate German Moreno earned one about nine minutes later. Early in the second half, Fullerton junior goalkeeper Bobby Armstrong lost the ball to an unseen opposing player as he looked up field for a teammate. Northridgeʼs Alec de Mattos scored his teamʼs first goal, assisted by Zach Feldman at 52:52. “It was too late, no one really saw him,” Titan freshman midfielder Florian Wolff said. The second goal against Armstrong came at 66:59 by Matadors forward Ryan Rossi, assisted by forward Willie Sims. About half way through the second half Titan freshman Kevin Puder replaced Armstrong in the goal. Northridge scored its final goal at 88:23 by Matadors midfielder Devin Deldo, assisted by midfielder Gianni Facio. The Titans played a good game but shut down once the first goal was scored Barragan said. The Fullerton loss put the Matadors into first place in the Big West Conference making them (12-2-3) for the season. Fullerton is now (4-12-1) for the season. “I think we had a good effort the first half. The other team was frustrated which is a sign we did a good job,” Wolff said.
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Titans get swept by first-place Gauchos VOLLEYBALL – Janine Sandell tallied 21 kills and hit .386 as the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos downed the Cal State Fullerton Titans in three straight games Saturday night on CSTVʼs nationally-televised Big West Conference volleyball match at the Thunder Dome in Santa Barbara, Calif. It was the first time the Titan volleyball program has been on national television in the schoolʼs history. Fullerton dropped their second match in a row (19-30, 22-30, 23-30) and fall one game below .500 at 12-13. The loss also drops them to 3-8 in conference
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play. Santa Barbara improves to 15-8 overall and 10-2 in the Big West. Three Titans and Three Gauchos hit for double-digits in kills, but the Gaucho offense just proved too strong as they out-hit the Titans .336 to .181. Alyssa Opeka (13), Brittany Moore (10) and Danielle Hitzeman (11) all collected ten-or-more kills on the night with Opeka leading the team by hitting at a .344 clip. Moore added two block assists to lead the Titans. Fullerton managed to hit .419 in game one, committing just one attacking error but dipped each game thereafter, finishing in game thee with a .039 percentage. Santa Barbara also got worse with each game, but started at a whopping .588 clip, dipping to just .246 in game three. Information provide courtesy of Fullerton Media Relations at www.Fullertontitans.com.
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