Monitor 2016-4-14

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THURSDAY

APRIL 14, 2016 Vol. LI No. 7

Student art on exhibit. See story on Page7

FREMONT, CA OHLONEMONITOR.COM

CSU system, union reach agreement to avert strike

BREAKING GROUND

BRIANNE O’SULLIVAN News editor The California State University system and its faculty union reached a tentative labor deal Friday that averted a strike scheduled to begin this week. In February, the CSU faculty union announced that it would hold a system-wide strike in April if the union and CSU system failed to reach an agreement over salaries. The strike was planned for April 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19. Cal State employees were asking for a 5 percent raise, but the CSU administration had only been willing to offer 2 percent.

An independent fact-finding report concluded that CSU faculty members were being paid below the market rate. According to CSU Chancellor Timothy White, this prompted the two sides to reach a three-year agreement. The tentative agreement includes three general salary increases: 5 perent on June 30, 2016, 2 percent on July 1, 2016, and 3.5 percent on July 1, 2017, and an additional 2.65 percent service salary increase in 2017-18 for certain faculty members. It is reported that the tentative agreement also doubles the Continued on Page 3

First Asian American panel coming May 4

LAURA GONSALVES / MONITOR

Above, from left: Trustees Greg Bonaccorsi and Vivien Larsen, college President Gari Browning, Board Chair Richard Watters, Trustee Teresa Cox and student Trustee Rahul Patel celebrate the groundbreaking of Ohlone’s Academic Core Project by tossing a ceremonial shovelful of dirt Wednesday afternoon on the Fremont campus.

VANESSA LUIS Editor-in-chief As part of its Colloquium series, the Communication Studies department will host the first Asian American Panel at Ohlone to celebrate Asian Pacific American History Month. The event is free and will be from 1 to 2:30 p.m. May 4 in Room 7101 on the Fremont campus. The panel will include four members. The first two are UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Ling-chi Wang,

Right: Watters opens the groundbreaking ceremony.

recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award and founder of Chinese For Affirmative Action; and San Jose State University Professor of American Studies Funie Hsu. The final two are Ohlone’s own dean of Language and Communication Studies, Mark Lieu, and dean of Counseling and Student Services, Wayne Takakuwa. Panelists will share their personal stories and discuss Continued on Page 3

STEP Up walk supports mental health RISHABH SINGHAL Staff writer

Pierluigi Oliverio

Oliverio outlines plan This is the second of five profiles of the candidates for the 17th Congressional District, which includes the Ohlone campus. graduating from college, he BRIANNE O’SULLIVAN worked in the semiconducNews editor tor and software industries, San Jose City Councilman significant private sectors Pierluigi Oliverio is running in CD-17, for more than for Congress in the 17th 20 years. As a City Council District. I spoke with him member, Oliverio has never recently about his qualifica- missed a single meeting in tions, the race, and his stance 10 years, balances a $3 billion budget every year, and on issues. Oliverio was born and personally replies to all the raised in San Jose. After Continued on Page 3

Ohlone students and staff took part in the sixth annual Out of the Darkness Walk at the Newark campus on Wednesday. The walk aims to raise funds and awareness for mental health treatment and suicide prevention. The annual event is organized by STEP Up Ohlone and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and is part of a series of health center events this week. The annual walk began “six years ago after the suicide of (campus safety) officer Stewart Dawson sent the whole campus into a crisis of shock and sadness,” said Rosemary O’Neill, coordinaContinued on Page 4

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Ohlone staff and students take part in the sixth annual Out of the Darkness Walk at the Newark campus on Wednesday.


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