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Dot-com jobs still attracnEMPLOYMENT: Jobtrak survey finds students are still open to online career opportunities By Rita Freeman
Daily Titan Copy Editor With many dot-com companies on the market going out of business, many people worry that finding a job online is risky. But in a recent poll by Jobtrak. com, several college graduates showed that they would still be interested in working at a dot-com. Of more than 1,000 people who voted, the majority of those polled said they would be interested in working for a dot-com company. “We put the poll online and asked with the current market conditions
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regarding the dot-com companies who would be interested,” said Keri Resh Kraft, public relations manager at Jobtrak.com. “I was surprised at how high the amount of interested students there were, because of all the media news regarding many dotcom’s going under.” The poll was released Tuesday and was based on Jobtrak.com’s tracking reports. According to the majority of the traffic at the Web site, the bulk of the traffic came from the .edu domain. “Looking at the statistics, this is not what people are looking for,” Kraft said. “Two years ago, nobody would have been interested because they would not have known what was going on.” Because so much of the dotcom industry is plummeting, Kraft advises users to research the corporation, its products and what makes it so unique before looking for a job online.
“Many of these students are growing up with technology and they are not ready to limit themselves,” Kraft said. “There were too many companies and because a lot are going under, you have to find out about the company before jumping into it.” Many students said that they have doubts and would research the business before applying for a job. “I don’t think that there is any job security when working for a dotcom,” said Enrique Pedraza, a child and adolescent studies major. Katie Degener, another child and adolescent studies major, said that she would want something more stable. “I think that some advantages for a dot-com is that because there are so many, it will give a chance for someone to put something new on the market,” Degener said. But to keep the company open for how long, I don’t know. You might think that the product you have would
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sell, but then others might not.” Economics professor Morteza Rahmatian said that many dot-com businesses provided false promises. “Two years ago, every one was saying that all the malls were going to close and all doctor’s offices would close,” Rahmatian said. “When someone was sick, he or she would go to drcooper.com for medicine. With all the hoopla, reality set in and most [dot-com] companies are not very bright.” He compared the dot-com trend with the situation with the biotechnology craze in the 1980s. “Twenty years ago several biotechnology companies were claiming to have the cure-all to many different diseases, and now where are most of them?” he said. “Now all the dot-coms are popping up all over the place and few will stay.” Some of the companies that are plunging are eToys.com, Pets.com, Furniture.com, Garden.com and
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MotherNature.com. Rahmatian said that many of the businesses ignored basic fundamental pricing issues. “They ignored these issues and they are now paying the price,” he said. “But now that much of the industry is going down, they are paying more attention.” Jobtrak.com was recently acquired
Faculty caters to religious nPOLICY: Though instructors are encouraged to accommodate students for holidays and observances, they are not required to do so By Amy Rottier
Daily Titan Staff Writer “In God We Trust.” It sounds simple enough. But since freedom of religion was the main purpose of the First Amendment, hundreds of gods are worshipped in thousands of different ways. With the influx of foreign students, Cal State Fullerton is being exposed
more and more to unfamiliar customs and forms of worship. The university cannot take every religious holiday off of the school calendar for observance but faculty is encouraged to accommodate students in any way that they can. Although faculty is urged to allow students to make-up tests or assignments missed because of religious reasons they are not required to. Norma Morris of the president’s office does not think that accommodation to student’s religious needs will be made mandatory any time in the near future. The importance of the situation must be decided when answering questions of absence, Morris said. For the most part, faculty seems to be flexible, according to Assistant Vice-President for Student Affairs Kandy Mink. Chair of the Comparative Religions department Ben Hubbard thinks that
the issue is handled well on campus. However, there is always room for improvement. Students need to handle the situation responsibly. “Students should talk to their professors about the issue at the beginning of the semester,” Mink said. “The earlier, the better.” Hubbard is not sure to the extent that most religions would interfere with class, except night classes may clash with night worship. “Many holidays exist on the Catholic calendar but the population does not take off an entire day from work or school to observe most of them,” Hubbard said. However, Christianity is so permeated into American culture that some of their major holidays are observed. Christmas is not only a Christian holiday but a national holiday as well.
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nACTIVITY: Deans meet with organization representatives at the “Dessert with the Dean” event Thursday
By Taylor Goldman
Daily Titan Staff Writer Although only two percent of Cal State Fullerton’s campus student community is a member of a sorority or a fraternity according to Shari Scott, Assistant Coordinator for Greek Life, the campus is aware of their presence and most people have an opinion about them. The question is are these opinions based on facts or have they been created as a result of stereotypes. Cherina Betters, a senior at CSUF, was always told by her family not to join a sorority. Betters views sororities as organizations for people who have an excess of time, and she thinks that they are designed to aid people with a lot of money. Betters has also noticed that strings have been pulled for sorority members simply because they were members of the same group, not because these girls necessarily had the most experience. “I don’t think that they have a purpose, they aren’t there to empower people,” Betters explained. Attending a commuter school, Betters finds that she has even less time than the average college student, and chooses to spend that time on her studies. “You hear about drinking and parties,” Betters said. She has attended a few of the parties herself and described them as “cool.” “I’m not gonna pay dues to wear a shirt and get into a party for free,” Betters said, “Sororities have no focus or agenda, and members are just there to get drunk and have fun.” She sees sororities as promoting people to become one homogenous mass, suppressing each individual member’s identity. Betters plans to be a leader of society, and said that sororities teach members to be a part of the masses. “We’re taught to be the masses or to lead the masses,” Betters said. “When I do events for my sorority I see myself as my chapter,” said Jenni Adams, a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and the Panhellenic President. However, she also said that she has learned to be a leader through her involvement in her sorority, and has served as the president of her sorority and now leads Panhellenic. Adams joined Zeta Tau Alpha five years ago because she was not meeting people on campus. “Now Greeks are the only people I hang out with,” Adams said. Scott, is an alumni member of a sorority. She said that girls in sororities are not simply buying their friends. Scott said that any club or group on campus has dues that must be paid.
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Discussing hot topics over ice cream, student organizations and the deans of Humanities and Social Sciences had their first “Dessert with the Dean” meeting Thursday. The Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) looking to make themselves more accessible to H&SS student organizations and their concerns hosted the open conversation over caramel and fudge sundaes. “It’s just a group of people still getting comfortable with one another,” said Michael Paul A. Wong, assistant dean for Student Affairs for H&SS. In attendance were representatives from organizations like Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society, Associated Students and the Departmental Associations Council (DAC). Kurt Swanson, chair of Foreign Language and Literature, and Alan Saltzman, chair of Political Science, Criminal Justice, and Public Administration were also in attendance. After ice cream, Wong gave a tour of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ new offices. Comparing the new offices to their previous ones, Wong said, “It’s better because we are all in one
office together.” After touring the new facilities, issues concerning new summer tuition, new DAC bylaws, and future events dominated the conversation. New summer tuition funding, which is effective this summer, will be state funded where previously, funding was supported mainly by student tuition. For undergraduates, fees for the first three units will be $315. Unit four will cost an additional $99 dollars, and units five and six are free. All additional units will cost $75 dollars at a maximum cost of $714. Graduate students will pay $330 for the first three units and $438 for six units. The maximum fee for graduate students who enroll in more than six units will be $735, according to a memorandum. “The main change is that fees will go down for students,” said Thomas P. Klammer, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Other concerns expressed were the possibility of Year Round Operations. A “tri-mester” system was also discussed where the lowering of summer tuition cost may influence their decision. Keith Boyum, associate vice president of Academic Programs, said the reasons for lowering summer tuition cost for students was to encourage students to get their degrees faster. He added that it will also “help us accommodate more students and that is something we are looking to do because we are growing very
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Curly Dalke frequently greets students with ‘Jesus loves you.’