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SPORTS: Cross country hopes for a running start into Conference, page 17 FEATURES: Cunning ways for students to save some extra cash, page 11
Daily Titan
Monday August 27- September 2, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND Classes helping with grad check Titan Degree Audit workshops will be available for juniors and seniors anticipating graduation Workshops will be hosted Tuesday and Thursday. Get a jump start on planning next semester’s schedule before the deadlines pass. Workshops will be held in UH 123 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m on Tuesday. Thursday’s session will take place from noon to 2 p.m. For more information contact the Academic Advisement Center at 714-278-3606. E-mails can be sent to acadvise@ fullerton.edu.
By John sakata
Daily Titan Asst. News Editor news@dailytitan.com
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Cooke is no Ozzie, but he is close
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) – A Northern Ireland man bit off the head of his girlfriend’s pet snake during a fight and remarked that it “tasted lovely,” lawyers testified Friday. Shane Cooke, a 33-year-old bricklayer, was arraigned in Belfast High Court on charges of assaulting his girlfriend, Coleen McGleenon, and fatally torturing her royal python Aug. 4. McGleenon’s lawyers said he headbutted her twice and picked up her pet, put it in his mouth, and threw its severed head at her. “Your snake tasted lovely,” he was quoted as saying. Cooke’s lawyer, Adrian Higgins, said his client admitted both offenses and had attacked the snake because he knew his girlfriend loved it. He said Cooke had been consuming alcoholic drinks for several hours before the attack.
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The main things we want our music to do are to groove and be something you can really feel. I don’t think the new stuff we’re writting now is going to sound anything like the old stuff. – JohnPaul Trotter, The Dialectics
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YOUTUBE: Harry Potter Puppet Pals
Harry and his pals put on a disturbing puppet show, complete with an annoyingly catchy tune whose lyrics comprise of little else than the characters’ names, all in time to a “mysterious ticking noise.” Duration: 2:06
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CSUF faculty hit the road with a new film IMAGES Courtesyof Chuck Grieb The protagonist of the 3-D animated short “Exact Change Only” faces his adivisory, a big truck driver. The film united the talents of not only Cal State Fullerton art professors Cliff G. Cramp and Chuck Grieb, but also alumna Rebecca Norris, who composed and produced music included in the film.
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o matter how nice a person is, everyone who reaches a tollbooth has to pay the toll. In “Exact Change Only” an otherwise perfect day is interrupted when Mr. Nice Guy, Lyle Delb, finds himself with a red and white striped barrier in front of him, a line of very angry motorists behind him and no money in his pockets. While tensions mount, Lyle seems to be lacking friendly faces and only sees the frustrated face of a monster truck driver in his rearview mirror. The 3-D animated short is slated to start its own tour of
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six film festivals this fall, including a September stop at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival and a break at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival in October. “Exact Change Only” is the most recent creation in a long line of memorable pieces for Cal State Fullerton assistant professor Chuck Grieb. Grieb has also worked on programming for Disney and Nickelodeon.
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Carroll has become a jack-of-all-trades He fills executive assistant position to help President Milton Gordon By Urmi RAHMAN
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
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Tuition to increase 10 percent
A 10-year-old void has been filled at Cal State Fullerton by Anaheim’s Patrick D. Carroll who has worked on campus for the past five years as university counsel. The 58-year-old attorney was hired as the executive assistant to President Milton Gordon of CSUF. Judith Anderson filled the role in the early ‘90s, and is soon to retire as the executive vice president. “The executive assistant to the president Carroll position, which I had from 1992 to 1997, is a fascinating position that requires a university wide perspective,” Anderson said in a phone interview. Carroll served in the CSU system as university counsel since 1997 and came on-campus five years ago. He has also helped with the CSU Special Games – Kathleen E. Faley
Memorial for 12 years. “I go out, volunteer and help anyway I can,“ he said. One of the Faley brothers, Tim, is his brother-in-law. “For a couple of years I was involved in the kitchen starting at 7 a.m.” He helped pack 600 brown lunch bags in a short time. “It’s a process [but] to see these kids with disabilities having a fun day is special,” he said. During his time at Fullerton, Carroll worked extensively with university construction and signed off on contracts. He advised the Office of Human Resources on employment issues, handled litigation and represented the university at hearings. Of over 50 applicants who applied for the position, Carroll’s on-campus experience set him apart, explained Dr. Robert L. Palmer who headed the Search Committee. “Some of Pat Carroll’s major strengths as determined by the Search Committee were extensive California State University experience working on a variety of issues both at the campus and the system level, solid experience working with the President and other senior officers on a variety of sensitive issues and excellent communication skills,” Palmer, the Vice President of Student Affairs, said in an email interview. The committee interviewed three final candidates and found Carroll
to be the strongest based on several criteria. “The candidates were evaluated on several criteria: level of education, scholarly and professional activity, academic experience, management style, writing abilities and policy development and monitoring,” Palmer said. Carroll explained his enthusiasm lays in representing the university at different capacities. “My role is pretty broad [as executive assistant to the president] since the campus has grown so much. I’m kind of a back-up to him. He just can’t get to everything. I’ll be helping the other vice presidents without getting in their way and helping the president,” Carroll said. Carroll also worked with Palmer during his five-year tenure in Fullerton. “He exhibited an understanding of the role of the position in working with the President, as well as an understanding of the responsibility inherent in working with broad-based campus constituents,” Palmer said. Carroll is preparing himself for his wide range of duties and looks forward to his position, knowing it could be a challenge. “The Executive Assistant to the President assists the President with a wide range of complex and sensitive executive and administrative duties and is responsible for staff supervision
and effectiveness in the Office of the President. “On behalf of the President, [he] coordinates the work of others on high-priority university initiatives and handles assigned projects and issues,” Palmer said. He serves as chief liaison with the president and works with a variety of constituencies. Apart from his broad duties as the executive assistant, Carroll also looks forward to meeting students around campus and at Fullerton’s 50th Anniversary celebration, which will take place from Sept. 14-16. Carroll is aiming to help the president make the university a better place. He also looks forward to working with faculty, the Academic Senate and 20 new President’s Scholars. “I enjoy talking to students [and aides in the Office of the President]. They tell me about Facebook and YouTube,” Carroll said with a laugh. “I try to go to some basketball, baseball and soccer games,” he said. He felt his biggest challenge would be “getting to know the faculty and working with them.” “In my five years on campus, I’ve gotten to know a lot of people. Fullerton has a lot of good administration people. Particularly the president, he is a thoughtful education administrator,” Carroll said. “I look forward to working with the president.”
Students still reeling from the onerous costs of college better be prepared to reach in their pockets and find more than a handful of change and book receipts a year from now. For the sixth time in seven years, returning students should brace themselves for a 10 percent tuition increase starting next fall. “When you look at expenditures we have, we do get money for enrollment growth but then there are labor contracts and (other expenditures),” said Clara Potes-Fellow, director of media relation for the CSU system. The operating budget for the systems 23 campuses and 417,000 students is funded by a general fund allocated by the state and through tuition, Potes-Fellow said. Following the pending passage of the state budget yesterday, students could have potentially been spared the extra cost only if the needed funds produced by the 10 percent tuition increase had been bought out by the legislator or governor. But with a budget deficit looming over California, the fate of CSU students was sealed weeks in advance as Assembly and California Senate Republicans advocated for cost reductions in the budget, all but guaranteeing no relief for CSU students. The tuition increase could force Donavan Houston, a business major, into getting a second job. A student assistant for the Pollak Library, Houston does not receive more than 20 hours a week. Houston said he has been saving since he was 14 — his parents have been saving even longer. “It is a big deal because it is coming out of my pocket so I have to find another job or do something else to pay for my tuition,” Houston, 19, said. The CSU system signed a six-year compact with the governor that potentially could have saved students from facing higher tuition costs, Potes-Fellow said. The six-year deal guarantees the CSU system a certain amount of money during a time when the system’s budget could have been vulnerable to steep cuts. Republicans forced Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut $60 million from the budget, according to an article in the L.A. Times. This was partially money that could have been removed from the CSU system. Two weeks ago, months of hard work put into ratifying a deal between the California Faculty Association (CFA) and the CSU system last semester were put in limbo after potentially being tapped for prospective cuts, said CFA Fullerton Chapter President G. Nanjundappa. A cut in the CSU system budget could have forced the CSU system and CFA back into renegotiating contracts after last years tense negotiations. “When there was serious talk about deep cuts in the assembly budget, ours was one of the plausible places to cut,” Nanjundappa said. “When the possibility came to light… we got on the phones and encouraged our colleagues to call their assemblymen and senators.” Still, while professors were given a chance to exhale, students will have no such relief — more augmentations are likely to come in the years ahead and students should expect more tuition increases. “Nobody has a crystal ball about the budget,” Potes-Fellow said. “It looks like we are going to be in a similar situation next year.” Students like John Margaretis, 30, an international business major, may have to rethink their budgeting for the next year. Margaretis has relied on a job as a bartender and school loans to navigate past school expenses. The tuition increase will not hurt him but he was preparing to have excess free time to further his career. “I was planning to do an internship,” Margaretis said. “So any little cost is going to be a big difference.”