INSIDE: THE BUZZ
A young professor expresses himself in photos, an interview with the ‘Bionic Woman’ and transsexuals in Hollywood Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 17
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Thursday September 27, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND Reconstruction planned for Gilbert
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A portion of Gilbert Street will be closed to through traffic Saturday for reconstruction. The closure, which will run from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., will extend from Castlewood Drive in Fullerton to West Risner Way in La Habra. The nearly $225,000 project is part of Fullerton’s continuing effor to upgrade and improve the city’s infrastructure. For more information about this and other street closures, contact the city of Fullerton Engineering Department at (714) 738-6870.
Furious resident slices home in two HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) – A man angry that he wasn’t going to be sold a house is accused of using a power saw to turn the abode into a convertible. Rodney Rogers apparently thought an acquaintance was going to build a house and sell it to him, and he was living in it while it was being completed, Highland County Sheriff Ronald Ward said Wednesday. After the acquaintance refused to complete the sale, Rogers used a power saw last week to make a lateral cut through the walls and siding at about chest level, authorities said. He cut all the way around the house, Ward said. Only one thing was keeping the top half of the house in place on the bottom half. “Gravity,” Ward said. Rogers remained free pending a court appearance on Thursday.
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texas hold em players anti-up as playing begins in third annual asi tournament
Royal Flush
Straight Flush
Four of a Kind
Full House
Three of a Kind
The is the highest hand in Texas Hold Em and when a player has this, they know the pot is theirs. The hand consists of the top five consecutive cards, 10 through ace, all of the same suit.
A straight flush is a hand that has five consecutive cards of the same suite. An ace can be the low card before a two. It is the second-best hand in poker, behind the royal flush.
An impressive hand on its own, four of a kind isn’t easy to get. It requires four out of the five cards dealt to be all of the same value. In the rare case of two four of the kinds, the hand with the highest quad wins.
A term more closely related with the hit sitcom that debuted the Olsen twins, a full house in Texas Hold Em is a hand that consists of two cards of the same value and three cards of another value.
This hand is exactly what it sounds like, three cards of the same value. Also known as trips, when two hands have three of a kind, the pot goes to the player with the cards of the highest value. See NEWS, Page 3
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The California Faculty Association responded to recently announced pay raises for California State University executives at a time when student fees continue to increase. CFA President Lillian Taiz said she was struck by the anger of students and faculty from the CSU campuses over the increases in salary for university presidents and CSU Chancellor Charles Reed while, she said, CSU tuition has doubled over the last five years. “We believe there is a climate of arrogance and a lack of meaningful oversight,” Taiz said during the Tuesday afternoon telephone conference. Taiz said the CSU Board of Trustees are resolute on the issue of raising salaries for CSU executives. “They seem to have an obsession with executive salaries,” Taiz said. “There are a lot of problems the CSU faces, but this seems to be the only one they are determined to work on.” Chancellor Reed has defended the pay raises saying that there is a lag between the salaries of CSU executives and executive salaries around the country. But Taiz is skeptical about the taxfunded study, which CSU executives cite. “There is some question about the underlying data,” Taiz said. “This study was not made public to state policy-makers.”
Taiz said the added perks that CSU executives enjoy were not considered in the study. “As the Lieutenent Governor pointed out to them, even the folks who did the study for them recognized that if you include their perks, the gap closes considerably,” Taiz said. CFA Communications Specialist Brian Ferguson said these perks include a $50,000 per year housing allowance and a $1,000 per year car
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We believe there is a climate of arrogance and a lack of meaningful oversight.
– Lillian Taiz CFA President
allowance. Ferguson said the CFA has done research and found out that many of the CSU executives already own homes and cars and pocket those allowances. “That’s just pure cash on top of what they already make,” Ferguson said. Taiz pointed out that the extra $50,000 perk is more than an incoming assistant professor usually makes. With his raise, Chancellor Reed will make more money per year than the head of the more selective and prestigious UC system. Though there are 23 CSU cam-
puses and only 10 UC schools, Taiz said the UC presidents have bigger responsibility with law schools and hospitals. “He makes more than the President of the United States,” Taiz said. But the biggest issue is not that executives are getting raises, it’s that they are coming during a time when money is tight in the CSU budget. Cal State Fullerton anthropology Chair Jack Bedell said last week that he is bracing for cuts in funding for programs in his department. Bedell said he expects to lose more than $40,000 in funds, while enrollment continues to increase. “We have a responsibility to give students access,” Bedell said. “But access to what?” Bedell said students should get access to the classes they need. “You want to be giving them access to a quality experience,” Bedell said. “You don’t want to give them access to a physical dump.” Taiz said students are getting less, but paying more, and reiterated disapproval of the trustees’ decision to raise salaries while the quality of CSU students’ education declines. “It’s the unseemliness of doing this sort of thing at a time when they’re raising student fees,” Taiz said. “The additional monies that they’re putting into executive paychecks we could use for more classes. Students are not getting what they should be getting.” The CFA also announced the roll out of a Web site supporting AB1413, a bill that the CFA says would prevent the Board of Trustees from “taking actions that are politically embarrassing to state lawmakers.”
something to watch for One case in Orange County is enough to alert the OC Vector Control
lymph glands. WNV can be spread by infected mosquitoes or dead birds that may have been bitten, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. By Jade Lehar WNV action is up ahead from last Daily Titan Staff Writer year, and the nation’s human infecnews@dailytitan.com tion rate is four times the rate it was Liz LaBonte recalled slapping a a year ago, according to the Orange mosquito on her arm during her trip County Vector Control District, to California about two weeks before which leads researchers to believe she became sick with a flu-like ill- that people could be in for a huge ness, but didn’t think much about it. epidemic. There has Unfortunately it been one case rewasn’t merely the ported in Orange flu that LaBonte, County. and several other I can’t believe one litAnd with all victims, were tle bug can make you this confusion dealing with. over the cause “I can’t believe so sick. and cure of this one little bug infection, many can make you so students at Cal sick,” LaBonte, – Liz Labonte State Fullerton 41, told the DuWest Nile Virus victim might be wonrango Herald dering what about her battle measures the with the West university is takNile Virus. The West Nile Virus (WNV), ing to ensure their safety. Over at the Arboretum, WNV is which affects certain animals and humans alike, is found in both definitely on the mind of director tropical and temperate regions. It is Greg Dyment. “The WNV is already here in a potentially serious illness that acts up in the summer, and continues [Southern] California; we limit the watering, so we don’t get puddles of throughout the fall. Victims of the virus usually ex- water,” he said. “Stagnant puddles of perience no symptoms or very mild water incidentally attract mosquitoes symptoms that go unnoticed. Most which can carry the disease.” Mosquitoes do not seem to be a of the common symptoms experienced are headaches, body aches, problem over at the Arboretum, Dyskin rash, fever and/or swollen See WEST NILE, Page 3
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Correction
Due to a reporting error, one of the sources was misidentified in the Sept. 25 issue in the article entitled “Doctorate program takes flight at Cal State Fullerton.” The source was Louise Adler, director and chairwoman of the Fullerton Department of Educational Leadership. The Daily Titan regrets this error.
A tax funded study to justify the salary raise is scrutinized by the group
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No matter where he lands, it is only a matter of time before Milton Bradley loses his temper and creates havoc for his team. This season, Bradley had it out with a first base umpire and had to be restrained by his manager. In the process, Bradley was flung to the ground, tearing a major tendon in his knee and ending his season. The umpire has since been suspended by the MLB for his actions towards Bradley leading to the altercation. Duration: 1:36
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