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August 29, 2011
Students protest against budget hikes Led by members of CSUF’s ASI, students across the CSU campuses fight the fee increase at the Chancellor’s Office in July ANDERS HOWMANN Daily Titan
Shouts and chants penetrated the walls of the California State University Chancellor’s Office when over 100 students protested the tuition hikes at the Board of Trustees meeting July 12. Among them were students from CSUs Los Angeles, Pomona, San Bernardino, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton and San Diego State University. The press conference and rally was organized and led by members of Cal State Fullerton’s Associated Students Inc. Members of the executive staff spoke out against the tuition hike that was passed by the Board of Trustees and the state budget passed by the legislature in Sacramento. While students from organizations such as Students for Quality Education, Lobby Corps and WE! were unable to sway the Board of Trustees’ decision to increase student fees, their voices were heard by members of the board. “I think during the event as a whole we were expressing deep disappointment and frustration toward the enacted state budget,” said Jessie Frietze, ASI chief governmental officer and senior political science major. “As a consequence of the budget that the governor and the legislators proposed, the CSU chancellor and trustees (were forced to) increase fees.”
Prior to the event, ASI Lobby Corps had planned a lobbying campaign for the tax extension, which would have raised California’s sales tax by 1 percent and DMV registration fees by a half percent in order to help pay for public higher education. “The day of our event, Gov. Brown withdrew the tax extension and pulled it off the table,” said ASI President Eric Niu. After Frietze heard about the withdrawal of the tax extension from the budget at 4 a.m., she scrambled to reorganize the event. “We kind of went into emergency mode. We didn’t have the event because there would be no point to go and pressure (Sen. Harman) to vote for the tax extension if the extension had been taken off (the budget),” Frietze said. Instead, ASI hosted a meeting in the Titan Student Union Legislative Chambers with organizations such as ClueOC, Cal State San Bernardino, SQE, OC Dream Team, ASI Programs and CSUF students. They set their sights on the Board of Trustees meeting July 12, where they knew members of the board would be voting on how to manage the cuts. CSUF’s ASI spearheaded the press conference at the Board of Trustees office in July. The speakers included Greg Washington, president of the California State Student Association,
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...Continued from page 1 Although X said CSUF would probably not be attacked, the possibility of an attack on the school’s network has students like Jessica Gonzalez worried about her personal information held within the school’s servers. “I would imagine they could do anything they wanted with (my information), and that kind of terrifies me ... It’s kind of like computer terrorism,” said Gonzalez, 26, a liberal studies major. CSUF, according to Boyer, “sustains millions of network and email attack attempts per year.” “All security threats, regardless of origin, should be considered valid and addressed. The Anonymous group has gained notoriety because of its technical ability and dedication to assure a successful attack. Cyber security is no different than any other area of security, where, given a dedicated, driven and resourceful person or group, there will always be a high percentage of success,” Boyer said. He would not discuss specific methods used to keep school and student information secure.
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Police chief retires after 12 years
University Police successor has large shoes to fill WES NEASE Daily Titan
Courtesy of Jessie Frietze Police barricade the doors of the Long Beach Chancellor’s Office as members of Students for Quality Education and WE! yell and chant in protest of tuition hikes.
HACKERS: Anonymous speaks on Fullerton Police threat
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CSUF students, ASI President Niu and ASI Vice President Jay Jefferson. “I was glad to see that we had such an audience that really wanted to hear what we had to say because it is an important issue and I was glad that they were (covering) it,” said Jefferson. “I felt inspired; I felt encouraged.” As the fall semester begins, educating the student body and advocating against further cuts will be the primary project for ASI this semester, said Niu. Lobby Corps is also working on ways to make advocacy feasible for even the busiest student. “We’re trying to find new ways to make it easy to be an advocate,” Jefferson said. “A lot of students are commuters, they live 30 miles away from campus or they have to work full time (while taking) five classes.” According to Jefferson, student unity is the only way to affect real change. “We really need the students to stand with us. We are here for the students and the only thing that we ask for is that the students stand with us because we can’t do it without them. We can hold all the press conferences in the world but if the students don’t show support, then those efforts will not be successful. At the same time, it’s on our end to be a driving force in educating our student population and providing the resources that they can use to get involved,” Jefferson said.
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Anonymous publicized a list of demands directed at the Police Department on YouTube, launching what they call “Operation Fullerton.” “We will begin to treat the web assets of the police, city government and any other targets we deem in support or a cause of this incident with as much mercy as was shown to Kelly Thomas,” the message said. “And if our demands are still not met, we will widen the circle to include many other websites and organizations in Fullerton.” “That to me is not something that we should take very lightly and I feel like I would like to know that they’re doing something to protect us instead of just taking it as an idle threat,” Gonzalez said. “These people sound like they’re pretty serious and that they have the skills and the technology to do something like that.” The most specific threats include initiating “rolling street protests and occupations of public space,” as well as “removing” the Police Department’s website and spamming the email addresses of city staff. “It is a credible threat, we’re taking it seriously and we’re taking all necessary steps, of course,” said Sgt. Andrew Goodrich, police public information officer. He declined to comment fur-
ther.The Los Angeles Times reported that Goodrich said they had not yet detected any attack to the police website. X, on the other hand, said Anonymous took down the police website the day they launched Operation Fullerton. “And we may well take it down again,” he said. Anonymous also took responsibility for hacking the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit website Aug. 14 in response to BART shutting down cell phone service in underground stations. BART passenger information, including names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers, were posted on Anonymous’ Twitter feed. Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks were present at a rally for Kelly Thomas Aug. 20. The masks are Anonymous’ trademark images. The Anonymous group’s demands include the prosecution of the officers involved in the incident, the immediate resignation of the chief of police, and that the city pay a settlement of at least $5 million to Thomas’ legal survivors. The city offered Thomas’ father $900,000 to settle, but was declined. “The chief is already gone, on indefinite medical leave. That’s pretty much demand one,” said X. “They will eventually give Kelly Thomas’ father a great deal of money, so that’s demand three.” “That leaves demand two, that they prosecute these murderous cops. And yes, we expect that demand to be met as well. Just ask Mayor Buddy Dyer in Orlando how relentless we can be. He still needs a donut cushion to sit down on after our visit to his fair city,” X said, referring to an attack on Orlando, Fla.’s city website in June, which Anonymous claimed credit for.
For more than 12 years, Judi King has served as the chief of police for the Cal State Fullerton University Police. She made a lot of positive changes during her time with the University Police and many say her retirement leaves something to be desired. “She’ll be missed,” said Lt. John Brockie. “It’s going to be big shoes to fill for the next chief, and it’s an exciting time and at the same time it’s sad. We’ll see what happens.” Her role on campus not only helped to foster a safe environment for students, faculty and staff, but it also developed the University Police into one of the most readily recognized campus police departments of the CSU campuses. “CSUF was just very, very lucky to have a chief of police of her caliber,” said Aissa Canchola, chair of the ASI Board of Directors. In the time King has been working on campus, she has increased the police force from 14 officers to 24, instituted a two-officer minimum for all patrols and set new standards for police policy and administration. “She instituted a two-officer minimum on duty. That may seem like not a big deal, but it provides a level of safety for the officers and the community that we serve,” Brockie said. “That was huge for us, huge for the officers and for the community. If there’s two of you, you can handle things differently and it’s actually safer for the person we’re contacting,” he said. “Another significant thing (she did) with patrol operations was instituting active shooter training,” Brockie said. Active shooter training is meant to train officers for the possibility of an armed individual attacking students and faculty on campus. This drill is conducted in the Pollak library. Officers who participate practice close-quarter-combat and hostage rescue scenarios. “We train very seriously with Active Shooter Drill. It’s something that, in our estimation, is worst-case scenario for what could happen on the campus,” King told the Daily Titan in an interview in January. “We always have to train for what is worst-case scenario and then hopefully we never have that situation. But should we have it, we want to be as prepared as possible to respond,” she said. King’s proactive stance on campus safety wasn’t limited to patrol operations, though. She also worked diligently to implement the kind of policies and procedures that have earned the University Police a position as a flagship agency for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement, or CALEA. “I would venture that none of us, when she got here, knew what CALEA was, because I know I didn’t,” Brockie said. “It is a process where you are exploring your own policies and making them better. It just brings a level of professionalism to the department.” CALEA establishes a management model for public safety services that allows CEOs like King a regular means of streamlining the use of resources and procedural output. “(That’s) 100 percent. It’s a perfect score, and that has put things in place like … different reports where we continually examine what we’re doing, how we’re doing things,” Brockie said. In the time since King’s official retirement June 20, the university has continued the national search for her replacement. A search committee has been formed, made up of administrators, faculty, students and police officers. “I know that the committee is doing the most it can to make sure that we have a chief that’s going to come in and make our campus as safe as it’s been and just make sure that students at CSUF are in a good environment,” Canchola, a student on the search committee, said. Once the search committee makes its selection, CSUF President Milton Gordon will swear in the new chief of police just like he did for King in 1999. dailytitan.com/news