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THE NEWSPAPER OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1913 VOLUME 99, ISSUE 49
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
CSU Chancellor requests pay cut state
Ana Ceballos Assistant News Editor
Incoming California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White recently requested to have part of his state-funded salary reduced by 10 percent, which would add $41,500 to the CSU budget. Amid budget constraints in the California educational system, CSU presidents and chancellors have been criticized for compensation policies, which increased executive pay while raising tuition and rejecting eligible students into universities. San Diego State President Elliot Hirshman is currently the highest paid president in the system. His salary is 2.4 percent less than White’s newly adjusted salary. “By changing the dialogue on my compensation, I hope to send a clear signal to the public at large, elected officials, the business community and families: Public higher education matters to all of us, and that we each must play a part in the rebuilding effort,” White wrote in a letter to the CSU Board of Trustees. White was supposed to receive the same annual salary as his predecessor Charles Reed: $421,500 plus a $30,000 supplement from CSU Foundation sources. White will still receive the $30,000, in addition to a $1,000 monthly ve-
hicle allowance and free housing at a presidential estate, according to The Associated Press. “I join the faculty, staff and students who have experienced cuts, salary freezes and increased fees, I too must do my part,” White said. “This is the basis of my request to reduce my own compensation to contribute to the rebuilding of this great university.” According to CSU Media Relations Specialist Erik Fallis, the Board of Trustees does not have sole power to decrease executive pay for CSU presidents. “Chancellor White acted on his own desire to show good leadership and recognition of the financial issues that the CSU is currently dealing with,” Fallis said. “Although the gesture is important, we shouldn’t overplay the importance of $41,500 in our state budget’s deficit, that money doesn’t change the challenge.” While White’s request was honored by the board, a few members disputed the request saying, “the chancellor is sufficiently underpaid when compared to people doing this kind of work throughout the country.” White, who also took a pay cut as chancellor of University of California, Riverside, will assume his role as chancellor of the 23-university system on Dec. 31.
Aztecs flush the Trojans men’s basketball
Matt Kenyon Staff Writer
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Newly appointed CSU Chancellor and former UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White requested a 10-percent salary reduction.
Students put their USD revokes invite, green thumb to work deals with backlash campus
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Michele Pluss Staff Writer
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Women’s studies major Erin Whitford picks peppers at the gnome garden in her free time. Students volunteer at the herb garden behind the SDSU Faculty-Staff Club.
Arturo Garcia Staff Writer
Members of the Student Nutrition Organization at San Diego State volunteered time to nurture the campus herb garden. “I walk by the herb garden and it’s such a great addition to campus,” communications freshman Grace Diaz said. “It adds beauty while students make their way to classes, so I was glad I had the opportunity to help.” The garden, located behind the SDSU Faculty-Staff Club, grows an array of different herbs, including thyme and basil. According to Associated Students Sustainability Commission-
er Morgan Chan, these students would like to see more classes that focus on agriculture and offer hands-on gardening work at SDSU. “I think it is important to have agricultural-focused classes to extend awareness of agriculture to students and to widen the options students have for classes to choose from,” Diaz said. The campus herb garden is not the only community garden SDSU is involved with. The College Area Community Garden is a joint partnership between College Area community residents, SDSU faculty and staff and A.S. Chan said. GARDEN continued on page 2
The University of San Diego has received heavy backlash after rescinding an invitation extended to British theology professor Tina Beattie after she signed an open letter supporting same-sex marriage. In August, Beattie, along with 26 other prominent Catholics, signed a letter to The Times of London stating “not all Catholics share their hierarchy’s stated views against proposals to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples.” The letter continued by stating, “the submission by the Catholic bishops of England and Wales to the Government’s equal civil marriage consultation indicates a growing understanding about legislating for same-sex unions, compared with its 2003 position, when it firmly opposed civil partnerships.” On Oct. 27, a little more than two months after the letter was published, USD President Mary Lyons issued an official letter to Beattie revoking her invitation to the institution. In her letter, Lyons stated USD’s “primary mission, consistent with the intentions of those who have financially supported the Center, is to provide opportunities to engage the Catholic intellectual
tradition in its diverse embodiments …This would include clear and consistent presentations concerning the Church’s moral teachings, teachings with which you, as a Catholic theologian, dissent publicly.” USD students demanded an apology from Lyons and on Nov. 13, USD’s academic assembly in the College of Arts and Sciences passed a no-confidence vote against Lyons. San Diego State religious studies professor Pam Kuhlken expressed her displeasure with USD’s decision.
USD’s academic assembly in the College of Arts and Science passed a no-confidence vote against Lyons.
The Aztecs have never beaten the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, until Sunday night. SDSU made history as it defeated the Trojans at home 66-60 at the Galen Center. Junior guard Jamaal Franklin scored 17 points, including six of the Aztecs’ last nine points, to go along with nine rebounds. Although he struggled shooting, going 4-of-15 from the field, Franklin converted all eight of his free throws. Senior guard James Rahon also had 17 points on the evening, including going a perfect three-for-three from beyond the arc. Redshirt senior forward Eric Wise led the Trojans with 14 points. The Aztecs started the game in a dominating fashion. “Out of the gate, we were sensational with our defense,” SDSU head coach Steve Fisher said. “Our defense created offensive opportunities.” MEN’S BASKETBALL continued on page 4
Movember comes to an end features
Crystal Tellez-Giron Staff Writer
In the last days of the popular tribute to men’s health awareness, students take a look at the meaning of No Shave November
“I hope USD has a few activists who will reach out and try to find sympathetic students on campus in order to reach their parents, because tuition is the key lobbyist,” Kulhlken said. “Any civil rights student organizations should be appalled by this discrimination—the rejection
“I mustache you a question, but I’m shaving it for later,” is a catch phrase you might have heard frequently throughout the month of November. The question, however, is do you support men’s health? If the answer is yes, you may be interested in the Movember Foundation, which encouraged millions of men globally to grow mustaches and refrain from shaving for 30 days to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer. So don’t be alarmed if you begin to notice more scruffy-looking men with
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