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Females increase in the workforce, nPOPULATION: This semester women make up 60 percent of the university’s population and are being hired more than ever By Emily Roberts
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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The City of Brea has been under reconstruction for 11 years and are re-opening the heart of downtown Brea with the help of CSUF.
Brea celebrates with CSUF nPARTNERSHIP: The university’s seven colleges will participate in presentations for the Brea community By Yvonne Klopping
Special to the Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton students and faculty members will provide the entertainment for the month-and-a-half long opening celebration of Brea’s newly reconstructed downtown. CSUF has been planning Celebrate the City since the end of June. All seven colleges are involved in arranging a variety of presentations for Brea community members, CSUF students and children. “It’s a celebration of how important
Cal State Fullerton is to Brea and North Orange County,” said Susan Georgino, a redeveloper for the city. “And also to show off the new street.” The city of Brea has been under reconstruction for 11 years. Private investors have put in roughly $150 million and the city itself has invested $50 million dollars since the beginning. Birch Street, where the celebration is being held, and the area around it, is the heart of downtown Brea. Although buildings like the Virgin Mega Store, are still under construction, the event is commemorating the end of the decadelong project. Part of the city’s plan was to completely demolish and rebuild Birch Street. Four years ago the first business, Edwards Cinemas, moved on to the new street and since then, construction has been constant. The new street is painted with pastel oranges, greens and yellows. The VIP opening festivity for the
individuals involved in planning this event is taking place today, featuring a performance by CSUF’s Theatre and Dance Department entitled, “ One Hundred Years of Broadway.” The official opening day for the public is on Saturday, Oct. 21. Starting at noon, the celebration will include a performance by the Titan Dance Team and the CSUF Jazz Ensemble. CSUF’s Grand Central Art Gallery will present the opening of “Six Degrees of Cal State Fullerton Artists,” by five alumni and one graduate student from CSUF’s Visual Arts Department. “Represented by the CSUF Grand Central Art Center, these artists are a sampling of the exceptional talent that has been developed through CSUF,” Lea M. Jarnagin, assistant dean for Student Affairs, said. The exhibit, “Six Degrees of Cal State Fullerton Artists,” will be open for the entire month of the celebration until Nov.19. “The exhibition of emerging and
established artists brings a wide array of contemporary styles to the city of Brea,” Jarnagin said. Besides the dance, music and theater performances and the gallery exhibit, the Pencil Mileage Club, made up primarily of animation students, will have a booth at the Farmers Market on Tuesdays. The animation students will be drawing characters on sight. Brea’s sculpture program in the downtown area demonstrates the city’s long commitment to art. Larry Johnson, chair of the Visual Arts Department, said that CSUF’s work is representative and inspirational and it shows the quality of what learning is all about. Along with the College of the Arts, CSUF’s various colleges are providing a variety of activities. The Athletic Department has planned gymnastics demonstrations;
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More than 36 years after the Equal Pay Act provided for equal pay for equal work, women make only 72.2 percent of what men made in 1999. Michelle Stewart, a senior marketing major, said that she thinks this will change in the next 10 years. “I still think there’s some degree of a double standard in business, but I think it’s changing as more women go into management,” Stewart said. According to the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau, women accounted for 45.1 percent of all managers in 1999. Since 1994, women have made up 46 percent of the total labor force and this number is projected to increase to 48 percent in 2008. A main reason for this projected increase is the rise of women attending college. Women made up 56.1 percent of undergraduate students in all degree-granting institutions in 1997, according to the Fall Enrollment survey published in November 1999 by the Department of Education. Females account for 60 percent of Cal State Fullerton’s population. Educational attainment is a reliable predictor of labor force participation, according to the Labor Department. The higher the level of education, the more likely the person is to be in the labor force. Renae Bredin, assistant professor
of Women’s Studies, said that as more women enter the job market, they can voice their concerns and be a part of combating pay discrepancies. “Women shouldn’t take the first offer,” Bredin said. “Women need to negotiate. Men learn to negotiate, but women don’t,” she said. Bredin said that women can also fight for equal pay by constantly upgrading their skills and not being afraid to talk about money. Another form of pay discrimination that is harder to fight is discrepancies of pay between jobs that are predominately held by females and those predominately held by males, Bredin said. According to the Labor Department, the leading occupation held by women in 1999 was teaching, followed by manager-related occupations and secretarial work. “When a profession becomes feminized, salaries tend to go down and when it is masculinized, salaries go up,” Bredin said. Bredin said this is due to longterm cultural assumptions about female competency. “We tend to value male work more than female work,” Bredin said. Stewart said she thinks this is changing, as evidenced in the attitudes of the men in her business classes. “They don’t see me as a girl, they see me as a fellow business major,” Stewart said. Stewart, who hopes to work up to a managerial position when she graduates, said that she thinks as more women move up to CEO positions, the salary discrepancies will change. “Once women are in salary-creating positions — maybe 10, maybe five years down the road — I think this will change,” Stewart said. “It’s just around the corner.”
Sorority, fraternity lend a helpful nCAMPUS: Alpha Delta Pi in collaboration with the fraternity Phi Sigma, carved pumpkins for the Ronald McDonald House By Camille Jones
Daily Titan Staff Writer Laura Snodgrass says that when some students think of a sorority, they think of thin, blonde girls in a house squabbling and throwing constant parties.
Snodgrass, a kinesiology major and president of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, said that she knows some people have this image because that is what she thought before she joined one. Snodgrass said that this description of sorority sisters is not an accurate way to describe the different members of Alpha Delta Pi. As an example of Alpha Delta Pi’s diversity, Snodgrass pointed to the girls sitting cross-legged in the backyard of their sorority house. “Our members do not fit the typical image of sorority girls. We have every kind of build and shape,” Snodgrass said. Members of Alpha Delta Pi and the fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa were
Reported Crimes
Much of the dispute about reporting campus crime has to do with activities done outside of campus. For the most part, campus crime was lower in 1999 than it was in 1998. The only significant increase during that span was non-forcible sex offenses.
(Number of cases per year) Crime Non-forcible Sex Offenses Robbery Aggravated Assault Burglary Motor Vehicle Theft Arson Alcohol Law Violations* Drugs Law Violations Illegal Weapons Possession Hate
*2 DUI’s not included
‘97 4 1 2 19 24 1 18 13 4 0
‘98 2 0 2 21 23 0 17 27 10 0
‘99 12 0 2 9 27 0 15 8 2 1
Source: Judicial Affairs Report
in the backyard of their sorority house Wednesday night, not drinking or partying, but carving pumpkins that were going to be donated to the Ronald McDonald House of Orange. The Ronald McDonald House Charities consist of 206 houses in 19 countries and is the main philanthropy of Alpha Delta Pi sororities nationwide. Ronald McDonald Houses provide a place for the families of sick children to stay for free if the families are unable to pay. Without the Ronald McDonald House, it would be difficult for many low-income parents to stay close to their hospitalized children. In addition to the Ronald McDonald
House, Alpha Delta Pi also raises money for Camp Titan, which is Cal State Fullerton’s philanthropy. CSUF sororities and fraternities raise money for Camp Titan by getting donations from businesses, CSUF alumni and from Greek Week. The camp was created for underprivileged students who might not otherwise have the opportunity to go to camp. In addition to helping to raise funds for the camp, about eight members of Alpha Delta Pi also serve as counselors at the week long camp. Vice President of Alpha Delta Pi, Erin Hoch explained that they are a non-profit sorority and all they col-
nCRIME: The Orange County Register may have mis-reported the number of sexual assaults on campus
the police. King was responding to claims made in a Orange County Register article, “ published Oct. 15. Associate Dean of Judicial Affairs Sandra Rhoten, has been in that position since July of 1999–before that, there was no full-time judicial officer on campus. “The statistics were available but had never been put into the correct format,” King said. “When Sandy passed on her statistics for the Judicial Affairs Report, due to the difference in classifications, five sexual harassment cases were brought to her attention, all of which were resolved and did not require further action, were subsequently listed under
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Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Sigma Kappa help raise money for charity.
Campus officials accuse local paper Titan extras of mistake in covering crime report online
By Terry Jolliffe
Daily Titan Staff Writer “Absolutely not true!” said California State University Fullerton Director of Public Safety Judith King, in response to allegations that the university has failed to report all assault and sexual crimes to
http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu
non-forcible sexual offenses.” There was only one aggravated assault and eight simple assaults, which we are not required to report. All nine, however, were listed under the category of aggravated assaults. When different crimes are listed under one heading, it can be very misleading. “But,” King said, “we’re in the process now of revising that as we speak. “We need to make clear the difference between the two,” King added. “Sandy went back as far as 1997 of the files of her predecessor and found no offenses reported to her of a criminal nature. She has been busy formatting the statistics for
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