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Monday September 24, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Angels clinch sixth A.L. West title ANAHEIM (AP) – John Lackey and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim gave their fans another reason to wave those rally monkeys. The Angels clinched their third A.L. West title in four years Sunday, with Lackey leading them to a 7-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners. After losing two in a row to the Mariners, the Angels clinched in their final home game of the season. Wearing red and roaring, a sellout crowd was on its feet to see manager Mike Scioscia’s team return to the playoffs after missing out last season. Macier Izturis and Casey Kotchman homered in the third inning and that was enough for Lackey (18-9). The Angels ace held Seattle to two runs in seven innings. Francisco Rodriguez, who was a rookie star with Lackey in the Angels’ drive to the 2002 World Series title, pitched the ninth for his 38th save in 43 chances. The Angels’ 92-64 record gave them an insurmountable 8 1⁄2game lead over the second-place Mariners. Lackey allowed seven hits and struck out seven as he beat Seattle for the fourth time this year. He hadn’t allowed a run all season against them until Jose Lopez’s RBI single in the fifth. The Angels have one regularseason goal remaining – earning home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs by finishing with the league’s best record. They’re currently bunched near the top with the Indians, Red Sox and New York Yankees.
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– Scott Spitzer, CSUF political science professor See News, page 3
YOUTUBE: CARLIN RIFFS ON SPORTS
The ever-hilarious and always acerbic George Carlin delivers his views on the differences between baseball and football in this clip from his 1990 HBO special. Carlin’s mastery of comedic timing and the English language are on full display as he expresses his clear preference for football without ever saying a disparaging or positive remark about either sport. He points out several differences between the two sports, including their objects and in what venue each is played. Duration: 4:48
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CSU execs get raises, Gordon up $30,000 a year CSUF President Milton Gordon said students do not pay for the increase By Christin Davis
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Cal State Fullerton President Milton Gordon will receive a raise of nearly $30,000, making his annual income $295,000, as part of a sweeping series of raises for CSU executives. “The students are not paying for this increase,” Gordon said. “Money for salary is set aside at the beginning of the year. Student fees go to every aspect of the university.” California Faculty Association Fullerton chapter President Mougo Nyaggah said executive pay increases should be postponed because of other issues pressing the CSUs, including overcrowded class sizes. “This is a time when California is facing severe budget pressure,” Nyaggah said. “This is not a good time for administrators to be getting a salary increase.”
The CSU Board of Trustees approved an average compensation increase of 11.8 percent for campus presidents and executives. California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed discussed the 2008-09 CSU budget during a teleconference Thursday. “The quality of a university is judged by the quality of the l e a d e r s h i p ,” Reed said, defending the decision of the trustees. – The trustees represent an independent group appointed by the governor and approved by the state senate. “Their only interest is in equitably compensating the presidents and in recruiting and maintaining the best possible people,” Reed said. Reed will receive a nearly $45,000 per year salary increase. “If you’re going to have good uni-
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versities, you have to have good leadership and be able to compete in the national marketplace,” Reed said. “Since I have been here, I’ve been turned down by good leaders multiple times because of the low compensation in California.” Reed pointed to an independent compensation studies group, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, which compared CSU salaries last year to 20 other universities naMilton Gordon, tionwide and CSUF Executive concluded the salaries of CSU President executives were far behind their peers’ income by some 46 percent. Salaries lagged by 12 percent when adjusting salaries to include retirement benefits and other perks. Reed said he hopes to close this salary gap by 2010. “It is never an easy decision to compensate people at that level,” Reed
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said. “There is never a good time to raise executive compensation but we need to treat our leadership fairly and be part of the national marketplace.” Gordon echoed Reed’s statements. “I’m beginning my 18th year as president and at some point, I’ll retire,” Gordon said in a phone interview. “If we want quality people at that point, we have to have good compensation packages.” Nyaggah said money should be put towards having enough faculty to offer more classes so students can graduate on time. He said student fees have increased roughly 94 percent since 2002. This salary increase comes six months after the trustees approved a 10 percent tuition increase for CSU students. “The 1960 Master Plan for public education in California calls for affordability for all students to receive a quality education,” Nyaggah said. “These continued fee increases will mean low-income students will not be able to attend.” Reed said he hopes CSU students realize “they pay the lowest fees in the U.S. and receive a high quality education.”
Issues discussed by CSU chancellor By Christin Davis
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed also addressed student fees, enrollment and the introduction of a CSU doctoral program during the teleconference Thursday. He said enrollment in the CSUs is higher than it has ever been, taking in more first-time freshmen this year than ever before. He also said student retention rates increased this year. Reed said seven CSU schools launched doctoral programs this year, marking the first time since 1964 a CSU school has offered such a program. He said four more schools will add doctoral programs next year.
Television’s 2007 Fall Lineup
Shows may see early grave, but it’s that time again By Richard Tinoco
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
A lot can change in a year. Say the word “Heroes” a year ago and nobody would bat an eye. Say the word “Heroes” now and a discussion among friends will most likely pop up. “Heroes” was one of the few new shows that premiered last year and flew straight into a second season. Other hot commodity projects weren’t so lucky. “The Class” was dismissed. “Runaway” ran to an early grave. “Six Degrees” was separated into the canceled bin and the list goes on and on. It’s a tough business, but starting Sept. 24, the official start of the new fall season, the networks are going to give it another whirl. NBC is down, but not out. After a fourth place finish in the 2006-2007 season, the network is optimistic after a big-rated summer, highlighted by demographic winners like “America’s Got Talent” and “Last Comic Standing.” “We have a little momentum going into the fall,” said Vince Manze, NBC’s president of Program Planning and Scheduling. “We are trying to regain our mantle of quality television.” The peacock studio is off to a good start, renewing critically acclaimed, but low-rated underdogs like “Friday Night Lights”
Pushing Daisies
and recent Emmy winner for Best Comedy, “30 Rock.” Each series was on the bubble for renewal, but NBC said the series will catch on with viewers in the coming weeks. In the landscape of television, there is no safe place to open a new show without it facing an established show like “Grey’s Anatomy” or “CSI.” After “Heroes” exploded on the scene, NBC suspiciously launched a lot of sci-fi shows lined-up on Monday, like the quirky-actioner “Chuck” and the time traveling “Journeyman.” But the network isn’t trying to strike gold twice in the same vein. “I don’t think we just develop around a particular genre, even if it’s successful,” said Manze. “[NBC] always goes for what we think are interesting projects ... We have a terrifically balanced schedule.” Maintaining a top position is difficult, like in the case of ABC. After “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” took over the network in 2000-2001, ABC’s over-reliance on the game show led to low ratings until “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” in 2004 helped change that. But now, even those shows are starting to show age and ABC is finding new ways to stay on top. “We tried to develop shows that were a little lighter in tone See TV, Page 4
ABC—Bryan Fuller created “Dead Like Me,” a show about grim reapers who lived among the mortals. Fuller also created “Wonderfalls,” a show about a young woman who heard inanimate objects talk to her. “Pushing Daisies” is the latest series from the colorful creator and it might just be his most grimly romantic series yet. Series tells the story about a young man named Ned (Lee Pace) who can bring back the dead with a single touch. When he hears about the death of a childhood love, Chuck (Anna Friel), he brings her back to life to find out who killed her. Weird enough yet? Premieres Oct.3 at 8p.m.
Bionic Woman
NBC—Executive-produced by David Eick (“Battlestar Galactica”), “Bionic Woman” is a re-imaging of the ‘70s camp-tastic show with a dark twist. Instead of the sunny Lindsay Wagner, this update features U.K. newcomer Michelle Ryan as the brooding Jaime Sommers. After a horrific car accident, Jaime’s boyfriend enters her in a top secret governmental experiment – two new legs for fast-speed running, a arm for super punching, and a new eye to wink at you. But bionic abilities don’t come cheap, so Jaime will have to struggle between doing good and paying off her debt. Premieres Sept. 26 at 9p.m.
Back To You
FOX—“Back To You” is the fall’s supergroup, bringing together an array of star power in front and behind the cameras. Starring Kelsey Grammer (“Fraiser”) and Patricia Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), the series is executive-produced by Christopher Lloyd (“Fraiser”) and Steven Levitan (“Just Shoot Me”) and directed by James Burrows (“Will & Grace”). The comedy centers around a hotshot Los Angeles news anchor named Chuck Darling (Grammer), who after a YouTube mishap, is sent back to a smaller market in Pittsburgh. Once there, he must reunite with a brief fling, who is now his co-anchor, and adjust to the differences since he’s been gone. Series airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
Stabbing victim’s brother may be connected to the murder By Jade Lehar
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Fullerton Police arrested a man who allegedly stabbed someone over what police described as “disrespect.” Sgt. Linda King confirmed that James Jeffrey Cordero was stabbed several times by Ceasar William
Galvez, 27, and later died from the stab wounds. The stabbing occurred after the victim and his friends traveled to their second party for the evening, King said. Cordero was standing in the 500 block of South Lawrence in Fullerton around 1:24 a.m. on Sept. 16. A group of people drew near him
and a fight erupted. King said Cordero was not a student and that this is a situation where the circumstances escalated from one party to the next. “There are other people in custody who are considered an accessory after the fact,” King said. Coincidentally, Cordero’s brother was in a similar fight during the night
that may have been connected to the stabbing, King said. Even though Galvez is in custody and being held on one count of murder in the Fullerton City Jail with bail set at $1 million, King said more witnesses are needed and more investigating is to be done. “There were a lot of people at the first party who knew what the argu-
ment, or disrespect, was about. [There are] people at the second party that saw the stabbing in the street that haven’t come forward yet. We have to track down a whole lot more people,” King said. If you have any information about the case please call Fullerton Police Department at (714)7386573.