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Daily Titan
Tuesday September 4, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND So. Cal heat wave strains power grid LOS ANGELES (AP) – Parts of Southern California sweltered in triple-digit temperatures Monday as a heat wave stretched into the seventh day and contributed to power outages that left thousands without air conditioning. Temperatures soared in the San Fernando Valley with Woodland Hills reporting 102 degrees and Van Nuys at 99, according to the National Weather Service. Downtown Los Angeles also was expected to see temperatures climb above 100.
Going Green George Horton leaving CSUF to make $400,000 a year at the University of Oregon
By John sakata
Daily Titan Asst. News Editor news@dailytitan.com
By SHawn Trondsen
Daily Titan Sports Editor sports@dailytitan.com
British kids take fish, leave chips LONDON (AP) – Please sir, we don’t want any more! Naked Chef Jamie Oliver’s push for healthier foods to replace greasy french fries, chicken nuggets and turkey twizzlers on British school menus is in a twist. Apparently, the students aren’t anxious to try it. The celebrity chef has led a nationwide campaign to improve the quality of food served in schools, demanding more money for meals and a ban on junk food. His TV series “Jamie’s School Dinners” exposed how cafeteria menus relied on prepared foods like chicken nuggets or the turkey twizzler – a corkscrew of mainly reconstituted turkey scraps and preservatives. Such meals, usually served with piles of fatty french fries, could cost as little as 66 cents.
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I feel like I have found a home, something that’s secure, stable. I feel like it’s a blessing.” – Joshua Meyer, on his transfer to CSUF soccer
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Correction Due to a reporting error, the source from the CSU chancellor’s office was misidentified in last Monday’s article entitled “Tuition to increase 10 percent.” The speaker was actually Claudia Keith, assistant vice chancellor in the Public Affairs office. The Daily Titan regrets this error.
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Titans’ baseball Head Coach George Horton will be wearing green and yellow the next time he dresses for a game. The CSUF alumnus shocked Orange County baseball fans and accepted the head coaching position at the University of Oregon on Saturday. “It’s tough to see him go,” senior outfielder Jared Clark said. “He was a great coach for us and he is a good man.” Horton addressed his team in a closed-door meeting Friday at Goodwin Field. He told them he had not decided yet, but was likely considering the offer from Oregon. “He was very emotional,” Clark said. “It was pretty sad. [He told us] ‘I’m sorry for bailing on you guys.’” Horton’s contract with Oregon is for five years. It includes a base salary of $150,000 annually. He will garner an additional $250,000 in guaranteed income from radio and television contracts with the Oregon Sports Network and shoe and apparel agreements from Nike. Oregon has not had a baseball team since 1981 and has been looking for a head coach to revive the program for the 2009 season. Senior outfielder Chris Jones said he understood why Horton took the job. “The opportunity for him to start his own program was most enticing,” Jones said. “That much money is life changing.” Jones said Horton told the team that he would for
See HORTON, Page 2
Growing enrollment numbers add to perennial back-to-school headaches at Cal State Fullerton By Elisabeth donovan
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
As the blazing sun beats down on Cal State Fullerton, students face another hectic beginning to the semester. Besides paying fees and waiting in lines, students fight for parking spots and the chance to register. Brandon Ferin, an art major, is fed up with CSUF’s parking issue. “The structure was extremely chaotic the first day of school. I was here for only five minutes and some girl backed into my car,” he said. “That was an awful way to begin my senior year. It sucks we have to deal with that.” CSUF has nearly 36,000 students enrolled in the institution, up from 32,702 last spring. While climbing enrollment numbers bring diversity to the campus, they also bring problems with overcrowding.
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While this may help students attempting to log in, it can create problems for those searching for open classes. “I dread the first week of classes,” said Natalie Mir, 23, a child and adolescent development major. “I know I’m going to sit at the computer forever to log into TITAN Online. Even when I do log in, it takes so long for the page to change, I get kicked out again. It’s too much of a hassle when you need a class.” Amir Dabirian, the chief information technology officer for CSUF, assures students that the department has found a solution. “The load of students attempting to access TITAN Online is growing alongside enrollment,” he said. “The mainframe constantly reaches its full capacity. Beginning April 2008, the CSUs are switching to a program called PeopleSoft. This program is more modern than the IBM mainframe we use today.” PeopleSoft should help TITAN
Online with technical glitches and allow more people to log on at the same time. This new program is just one indicator that the problems students deal with on a daily basis at the beginning of every semester are only here for a short while. Kandy Mink Salas, Dean of Students, said the situation will become better as the semester wears on. “The parking structures and TITAN Online will both lighten up in a couple weeks,” she said. “I know there are many freshmen who are here for the first time and it’s hard for them to adjust. My advice would be to hang in there.” Salas said students should begin any school-related activities early, whether it be parking or registering, to help alleviate stress. “Students should treat college like an 8 to 5 job,” Salas said. “This is what life will be like after students graduate. It’s good to become accustomed to it.”
CSUF ranks among the Top 10 schools By Christin davis
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Every semester, Parking and Transportation Services issues approximately 24,600 student parking passes, but there are only 11,414 parking spots across campus, leaving a huge discrepancy. In response to the problem, parking enforcement is cracking down. Almost 2,000 parking tickets were issued in the first week alone. But while parking is a major hazard in the beginning of the semester, it is certainly not the only problem students face. TITAN Online remains a hassle for students hoping to register or petition new classes. The Portal, which provides both registration and financial services, is notoriously difficult to access the first few weeks of classes. With so many people logged on to the site, it often reaches its maximum limit. The Web site will also kick students off if they have remained inactive for three minutes.
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Cal State Fullerton is ranked as the 10th best public university in the West among public institutions that award master’s and bachelor’s degrees, but few doctorates. In the broader category that includes 127 public and private institutions in the West, Fullerton is ranked
37th — all as part of the 2008 edition of the weekly news magazine’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” list. “Being in the top 10 for the seventh year in a row definitely makes the university more distinguished on the West coast,” said Paul Rumberger, Associated Students, Inc. vice president for finance, in a phone interview. “We’re still a young school at only 50 years but have developed such quality programs. This proves our quality and
commitment to education.” The “America’s Best Colleges” list ranks 574 universities throughout the nation in four geographic regions. In the “Top Schools” category, which includes only universities with doctoral programs, Princeton University is ranked first on the list. The rankings are based on “widely accepted indicators of excellence,” according to U.S. News & World Report.
Advocate of faculty rights dies
Categories for each university’s overall score factor in both objective and subjective quantifiers including peer assessment at 25 percent, graduation and retention rates at 25 percent, faculty resources at 20 percent, student selectivity at 15 percent, financial resources at 10 percent and alumni giving at 5 percent. “The peer assessment is important,” said Ephraim Smith, CSUF See TOP 10, Page 2
G. Nanjundappa could have retired last year but he wanted to work through the implementation of a contract he helped acquire for his fellow faculty members. Born in India but a man who found a home at Cal State Fullerton as a sociology professor for 35 years, Nanjundappa died early Monday morning of heart complications at a hospital in San Diego, according to family friend and faculty member Mahamood Hassan. President of the CSUF chapter of California Faculty Association for six terms, he was pushed into the spotlight last year on campus as he rallied professors to strike following contentious NaNJUNDAPPA contract negotiations between the CFA and CSUs. “He was able to persuade a large number of the faculty in the spring to consider going on strike, a very strong action on the faculty,” said chemistry Professor Richard Deming, a colleague of Nanjundappa for 30 years. “He was able to frame the arguments in ways that were very straight forward and fairly obvious so the faculty could make a decision.” During his tenure as CFA president, Nanjundappa advocated reform centered on better benefits for part-time faculty, increased sabbatical leave and equity salary for professors, according to colleagues and friends. Throughout the process, professors praised Nanjundappa for keeping them informed of events as they transpired during the difficult period. Faculty were continuously updated through e-mails. “I received an e-mail from him last week with an update on the contract negotiations,” Tony Fellow, communications chair, said. “He was continuously updating the faculty so we knew what was going on.” Deming said Nanjundappa’s work as a sociologist probably helped him. “He was a very careful thinker. He analyzed data, information very well. As a social scientist, he was used to dealing with rather complex data,” Deming said. “He seemed to have that as a strength. He was very much oriented with looking at the numbers and making an argument with those.” This was supposed to be Nanjundappa’s final year before retiring, according to Jack Bedell, a former member of the Academic Senate and chair of the anthropology department. Nanjundappa had been battling diabetes and he had a triple bypass in January 2004. “He has not been well for years,” Bedell said. “We encouraged him to take full retirement last year but he wanted to be there for the implementation of the first year of the contract and he was supposed to retire this coming year.” Nanjundappa came to the United States in 1968 and earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Georgia in 1976. He taught classes spanning a widearray of subjects that included population problems, human ecology and social research methods. The author of numerous published studies that covered migration, demographics and socio-psychological factors associated with health and family violence, Nanjundappa forged a strong reputation in his field after graduating with his B.A. from the University of Mysore and his M.A.
See NANJUNDAPPA, Page 2