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VOLUME 66, ISSUE 42
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Negotiations hung up over part-timers’ status
n CONTRACTS : Faculty
association claims parttime instructors are treated unfairly. By JOAN HANSEN Daily Titan Staff Writer
The California Faculty Associa-
tion and the CSU Board of Trustees remain at odds in contract negotiations and “a settlement is unlikely by the end of the semester,” said G. Najundappa, CFA president for the Fullerton chapter. Chancellor Charles Reed and the union clash at almost every turn, and negotiations between CSU’s new
chancellor and the union may be an uphill battle. Reed’s previous employer, the Florida State University system, took steps to “dislodge the traditional role of the faculty.” Translated, that means more and more part-time faculty were hired with shorter contract lengths, replacing tenured faculty,
whose contract guarantees them lifetime employment. On his aroundthe-state campus tour, Reed had much to say about his goals for the faculty. He envisions the faculty as “directors of learning” and said that parttime instructors are an “efficient use of resources and can be utilized to
fill in when needed.” Reed is scheduled to speak to Cal State Fullerton’s Academic Senate May 14. Part-time teachers make up 50 percent of CSUF’s faculty, Nanjundappa said, most of whom work on year-to-year contracts. Holding the record at 26 years,
Tom Reins from the History Department has worked full-time at CSUF under part-time status. Part-time faculty member Craig Bowman, who holds a Ph.D, has carried a full-time schedule for 13 years. Bowman, a psychology instructor, cringes at Reed’s analysis of part-
n EVENT : A record num-
Jack Faley, founder and executive director of the games, attributed the large number of volunteers to people just wanting to get involved with a good cause. “It’s infectious,” Faley said. “Once they (past volunteers) spread the word, every kid wants to get involved.” Fullerton High School sendt the most volunteers with 180 students. Faley said the turnout shows how much kids want to be involved in something special and that they do not mind spending a day away from school to be involved. “The kids don’t get hurt academically, but it is an academic experience,” Faley said. Vivian Taggart, an instructor at Jorden School of Secondary Learning, said she brought over 50 students to participate in the games,
Special Games comes to CSUF
ber of volunteers and participants turned up for the annual event for the developmentally disabled. By ANNETTE WELLS
Daily Titan Assistant News Editor This year’s 13th annual Cal State Fullerton Kathleen E. Faley Memorial Special Games delivered just as it was promised Friday, bigger than previous years. Over 1,800 developmentally disabled athletes took part in the annual event which provided a day for children and adults to participate in sporting events ranging from basketball to baseball. It was deemed the biggest because 1,500 volunteers—the highest total in its 12-year history—provided support to the athletes.
drums during Monday’s Aztec dance presentaRight, Elvira Ortega of Tenochtitlan dances
nected can connect students and faculty with the wrong people.
Belen Ruiz, left, of the Mexican folkloric dance troupe Tenochtitlan, accompanies dancers on
n INTERNET : Getting con-
tion in the Quad.
during the pre-Cinco de Mayo celebration.
By Beth Spangle
Top, Brian Urrutla’s head dress is a recreation
College Press Service
of traditional Aztec ceremonial garb.
Photos by Frank C. Diaz
Bill targets higher education preferences version of a bill by Rep. Frank Riggs would overthrow affirmative action in colleges. By Christine Tatum College Press Service
WASHINGTON - A Republican congressman from California who wants to end affirmative action in
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Universities fight computer crime
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n LEGISLATURE: An updated
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college admissions nationwide amended his controversial proposal this week to make it more appealing to people who might have voted against its original version. The House of Representatives has delayed until early next week consideration of Rep. Frank Riggs’ bill, which would bar colleges from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their gender, race or ethnicity. Riggs’ bill, as originally writ-
ten, would have required private women’s colleges to admit men and private colleges in general to drop their affirmative action programs. In the revised version, Riggs proposes that the legislation affect only public institutions. (There are no more public, single-sex colleges in the United States now that the Citadel in South Carolina and Virginia Military Institute accept women.) The updated version also includes a section stating that it is the “pol-
icy of the United States” to encourage more women and minorities to seek higher education. The amendment does not prohibit schools from aggressively recruiting those students, as long as they do not grant special treatment to those applicants during the admissions process. In a statement, Riggs said the change makes his bill similar to California’s Proposition 209, which “has been tested by the higher courts in
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At the University of Delaware in Newark, 300 student websites were vandalized by a pornographic image, posted by a hacker. A 22-year-old student allegedly used his job in the student life office at Glendale Community College in Arizona to get access to students’ Social Security Numbers—the same numbers they use to log on to school computers. He is accused of posting child pornography on 45 students’ e-mail accounts and has been charged with 16 counts of computer fraud. “When I first noticed it, I just freaked,” said A.J. Wolters, a sophomore at Glendale who received the pornographic transmissions. “I didn’t know what to do.” Faculty privacy at Indiana Univer-
photo illustration by College Press Service
sity in Bloomington, Ind. was severely compromised after a list of instructors’ names, phone numbers and social security numbers were posted on the Web after a Pennsylvania man found an unsecured university file. Computers are an integral part of university life. As more schools offer online services and become computerdependent, universities are more vulnerable to attacks from people who gain unauthorized access to their computer systems. Many students don’t take hackers as seriously as they should, and underestimating them can be dangerous, computer experts say. Computer crime, in some cases no more than lewd e-mail,
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Wind Ensemble tour to Japan gets underway n MUSIC : The ensemble mem-
bers will spend 10 days sharing their music and soaking up the culture. By CHRISTOPHER LAMB Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Christine Houser, a biology major, practices flute with the Wind Ensemble in preparation for the tour to Japan.
Next stop: Nemnosato, Japan. The Cal State Fullerton University Wind Ensemble is leaving for Japan May 6 to perform at the annual AllJapan Directors Clinic. They will be performing with Japanese musicians, touring cultural sites and visiting a music factory. “It’s exciting—a different culture, new foods, new people,” said junior
Art Pacheco. “It’s the other side of the world.” The 46 members of Wind Ensemble and director Mitchell Fennell will be gone for ten days, staying with Japanese families for the first three days, visiting a Japanese high school and cultural points of interests. “I’m a little nervous, we are going to be ambassadors for Cal State Fullerton,” junior Gabriel Cobas said. Fennell said the group will be guests of the Yamaha Corporation and tour its new musical instrument factory. “The excitement grows every day. As part of the trip we are doing a gift exchange at every concert, plaques and things,” said Fennell. “A lot of pressure, a lot of last minute things to get done.”
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Fennell said money from Associated Students and the Music Department was set aside to help pay for the trip. A fundraising event was held last November also to help with the cost. The band performed a concert, featuring the music of John Philip Sousa. Still, members of the ensemble have to pay $1,300 out of their own pocket. “It’s not expensive really. In the long run it’s cheap,” senior LeeAnn Saxton said. “We get to see new standards of music from other countries, share concert with new musicians. In a way I am nervous about how good they are.” The Wind Ensemble will perform four concerts before going to the convention, Fennell said. At the convention they will have two full-length programs.
Fennell said each program runs about one hour and 90 minutes. They will be performing 25 pieces of music on tour. Fennell said it will be a combination of music from composer John Phillips Sousa and requests of popular music such as “When You Wish Upon a Star.” Fennell said two CSUF students will be performing solo accompanied by the rest of the Wind Ensemble. Rob Covacevich will play “Derivations For Clarinet and Band” by Morton Gould; graduate student Nelson Ojeda will play “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gerswin. “I’m excited not nervous about performing,” said Ojeda. “We have done it before at Cal State, I think our goal is to bring American music to them and having fun on this trip.”