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Volume 96 Issue 22
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
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Dana Loewy, Ph.D., a business communications professor, marches with other CFA members Wednesday. The rally saw students and faculty marching across campus to protest stagnant wages and difficult working conditions for CSU faculty.
Faculty rally for better pay Union wants 10 percent raise JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan “What do we want? A fair contract! When do we want it? Now!” Faculty members chanted and picketed Wednesday during a rally to engage the campus to their cause of remedying stagnant wages and increasing workloads. The collective bargaining agreement between the CSU Board of Trustees and the California Faculty Association for 2012 through 2014 expired on June 30, and after seven months of failed negotiations, the contract was extended. Last week, the contract again expired with little movement toward resolution. Current deliberations concern a contract that will span three years. The CSU has proposed a general salary increase of approximately 7 percent over three years, while CFA wants a 10 percent increase over the same period. The proposed 7 percent increase has not satisfied the CFA delegation. Since 2008, none of the collective bargaining agreements between the CSU and CFA has included an increase in wages, though University of California and CSU faculty members did receive a one-time $80 per month salary increase in 2013 as a result of the passing of Proposition 13. The CFA bargaining team argues that inflation, increased workload and class sizes, the cost of living and six years of stagnant salaries make a 10 percent raise viable. SEE FACULTY
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One of CFA’s complaints include the fact that faculty wage increases have not kept pace with inflation.
Students stand by CFA CESAR GAMBOA Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) got support from students yesterday when the CSUF chapter of Students for Quality Education (SQE) joined them during a protest of stagnant faculty wage. Faculty and students marched through the walkways between University Hall and McCarthy Hall chanting, urging CSU and CSUF leadership to correct an inequity in faculty wages. The contract in question is the collective bargaining agreement between CFA and the California State University. The current proposal from the CSU includes a 7 percent wage increase over three years. CFA is asking for 10 percent. The contract affects over 23,000 professors, librarians, counselors and coaches who work in the 23-campus CSU system. Negotiations on the contract have been drawn out over nine months. The most recent deadline for contract approval passed on Sept. 30 without agreement between the groups. SQE issued a letter stating their support for CFA, said Sean Washburn, a member of SQE and graduate student at CSUF. The group is using that letter with other materials to drum up student support for a largely faculty-focused issue. SEE STUDENTS
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Student earns jiujitsu champion title Richard Arreola was the bluebelt victor at the World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship
RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan Inside the Student Recreation Center is the classroom of a jiujitsu instructor—an unlikely world champion. Richard Arreola, a kinesiology major at Cal State Fullerton, had to battle emotional and physical pain before earning the victory at the World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship on Saturday. An amateur wrestler since age 14, Arreola stopped competing after high school. However, he maintained a connection with the wrestling community by training other high school wrestlers in his early 20s.
“At the time, I was working a dead-end job and I was coaching wrestling. And when I was coaching wrestling, I realized that that’s what I want to do with my life: I want to be a wrestling coach,” Arreola said. At 27 years old, Arreola enrolled at Santa Ana College and soon found himself competing on the wrestling mats once again. His college career, however, was cut short after a car struck Arreola when he was 29. The accident left him with a compound fracture. Then, the eight-year relationship with the woman whom he was going to marry came to an end. “I was dealing with the reality that I was never going to wrestle the same again, so
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that added insult to injury,” he said. He spiraled into depression until a friend convinced him into giving jiujitsu a try. “When I did it, the love just grew from right there,” Arreola said. “It saved my life.” Success was not immediate, however. He got choked out twice in his first tournament, but he steadily improved, winning various white-belt tournaments en route to the 2013 Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship. “When I walked in there, I thought, ‘Holy cow, what did I get myself into?’” Arreola said. “I probably had no business winning that tournament.” SEE JIUJITSU
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