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SOFTBALL: Titans take three of five in Kia Klassic. See Sports, page 6.

T U E S D AY

VOLUME 66, ISSUE 22

MARCH 24, 1998

TO FEE, OR NOT TO FEE?

Survey indicates close vote

What will we be voting on?

Daily Titan Executive Editor

By NATHAN ORME

What students really think about the fitness center will be made evident tonight after the votes are tallied. In the meantime, the Daily Titan has tried to gauge general opinion to see which way the vote might go. In its first survey conducted two weeks ago, the Titan interviewed 64 students, 40 of whom said they would vote no, 12 who said they would vote yes and 12 who were undecided. The survey was conducted by reporters walking around campus and asking students randomly. A second survey was conducted last week with closer results. Reporters interviewed 115 students, 54 of whom said they would vote against the proposed fitness center and $150 fee increase. Another 42 said they would vote

If you propose to build it, will they vote? That question will be answered today in a special election that will decide whether Cal State Fullerton students are willing to pay an extra $150 per semester to fund the construction of a new $41 million fitness center. The proposed center, put forth and supported by the Associated Students Executive Office, would contain a 5,000 seat arena, modern workout facility, racquetball courts, child care facilities, locker and shower rooms, a gymnastics center, climbing wall and a host of other features. The proposed site for this building is where student parking Lot B currently sits between Titan Student Union, Public Safety and the Physical Education building.

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General Student Population

Student Athletes

A total of 170 students polled .7% of student non-athletes

A total of 60 students polled 18% of student athletes

Hate crime prevention

Royalties not allowed

Violent acts addressed as part of the Intercultural Relations Conference.

votes to eliminate the collection of royalties from self-authored supplements.

n CONFERENCE:

By LAURIE SCHULTZ Daily Titan Staff Writer

It is a type of crime that has not only one victim. Instead, an entire group of people who identify with that victim are also victimized. It is hate crime. Experts, practitioners, leaders and policy makers who deal with hate violence spoke Saturday morning at Cal State Fullerton as part of the Intercultural Relations Conference. They described hate crime, expressed their views on prosecuting it and shared their ideas on how to prevent it. Edward Dunbar of UCLA, who hosted the symposium, said 55 percent of hate crimes can be attributed to race and ethnicity, 37 percent can be attributed to sexual orientation, seven percent to religion, one percent to disability and one percent to gender. The Orange County Human Relations

Commission reported earlier this month that hate crimes and incidents dropped significantly in Orange County last year. However, Todd Rubenstein of the Los Angeles District Attorneys Office Hate Crime Suppression Unit, said these crimes are underreported and very likely will increase in the future. He said 75 percent of hate crimes involve great bodily injury, a condition where a victim may need to be hospitalized or may suffer broken bones. "Hate crime is an extremely violent crime," he said. "We have slides of cases where there is gasping, bludgeoning, bleeding and killing with claw hammers." Rubenstein added that hate crime parallels domestic violence. "In domestic violence, a slap is a prelude to murder. In hate crime, a slur is a prelude to murder," he said. Therefore, he said, hate crime must be dealt with harshly and severely in its early stage. He talked about a 28-year-old man who scribbled ethnic slurs on a clinic used by African Americans and Jews. Usually, when people spray graffiti on a building,

police give offenders a “slap on the wrist” and ordered them to clean it up, he said. This man was charged with a felony and his

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CSUF receives ‘new’ equipment

n DONATION: Local company

donates electronic equipment worth over $12,000; some are skeptical as to its real value. By MELISSA MORRIS Daily Titan Staff Writer

Keyboards, monitors, hard-drives, printers and other expensive computer equipment were strewn across the walkway. Faculty members took turns eyeballing the goods—gifts from Printrak International given to Cal State Fullerton's University Advancement. The equipment was hardly old, hardly new, but faculty were anxious to get their hands on it. “We’re really hungering for technology in some places on campus,” Mary Ann Spraic, director of development of science and technology for University Advancement said.

In early February, Spraic faxed campus departments a notification of equipment coming from Printrak that would be free-ofcharge and available on a first-come, firstserve basis—and they responded. Printrak, an automated fingerprinting identification company, began donating computer and electrical equipment to CSUF in 1996. Printrak’s Director of Operations John Velker, said last year's donations totaled a $400,000 value. This semester, the company valued the donation at $12,500, Velker said. But Joel Robinson, technician for the School of Communications, said the equipment is worth a lot less. “Most of it was junk,” Robinson said of the equipment he saw, which was not the entire donation. The company gave away equipment worth thousands of dollars for one reason:

n POLICY : The Academic Senate

By JOAN HANSEN & MARYANNE WARDLAW Daily Titan Staff Writers

MATT LEWIS/Daily Titan

Jesus M. Reyes of the Hispanic Leadership Project speaks at the Intercultural Relations conference.

The demise of Anaheim's Grand Hotel played to a packed audience Sunday morning. The Walt Disney Co. demolished the hotel to make room for parking.

A policy to stop professors from earning royalties from self-authored material was approved by the Academic Senate on Thursday. Debate over amendments to the policy is expected to continue at future meetings before a final version is submitted to President Milton Gordon for approval. The issue, which was raised by a move at the state level to make collecting such royalties illegal, revolves around abuses by faculty members who have earned as much as $3,000 a semester off the sale of supplemental course packets. Last fall, Titan Shops Custom Publishing cut 64 checks to CSUF professors who authored their own course material. While most of those were for less than

$100, some 25 faculty members received around $200 and several checks reached $600. The highest paid professor, who was from the Management Science department, received $3,077 between January and June 1997. “Any royalty over $100 is abusive,” said Academic Senate chairman Vince Buck. Theater professor Bill Meyer spoke for many of the senators Thursday, saying: “What we’re deciding is who’s going to get money from students.” Offering required material as close to cost as possible, and avoiding “the appearance that personal financial interest has motivated their assigning course material,” are the primary concerns of the proposed statement. Although the majority of senators agree with this, not all want royalties banned entirely. Senator Donald Finn objected to removing an incentive to produce work for specialized classes that might not have suitable alternatives, and suggested an ethics committee be formed to watch for abuses. The policy was nearly amended to give deans the power to OK the collection of royalties on works they deemed necessary. The

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Make room for the Mouse

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