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Stop the Comcast merger Titan women to host LBSU The merger between Time Warner and The women’s soccer team welcomes Comcast would create a monopoly Long Beach State 49ers Thursday. Opinion 6 Sports 8 Thursday October 9, 2014 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 96 Issue 22 WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN Dana Loewy, Ph.D., a business communications professor, marches with other CFA members Wednesday. The rally saw students and faculty marching across campus to protest stagnant wages and difficult working conditions for CSU faculty. Faculty rally for better pay Union wants 10 Inflation rate CSUF faculty pay increase Students ‘03-’04 0% percent raise ‘04 3.3% stand by CFA JAMIE CORPUZ ‘04-’05 0% CESAR GAMBOA Daily Titan ‘05 3.4% Daily Titan “What do we want? A fair contract! When do Cal State Fullerton members of the Cali- we want it? Now!” ‘05-’06 3.5% fornia Faculty Association (CFA) got support Faculty members chanted and picketed ‘06 2.5% from students yesterday when the CSUF chap- Wednesday during a rally to engage the campus ter of Students for Quality Education (SQE) to their cause of remedying stagnant wages and ‘07-’08 4% joined them during a protest of stagnant fac- increasing workloads. ‘07 4.1% ulty wage. The collective bargaining agreement between Faculty and students marched through the the CSU Board of Trustees and the California ‘08-’09 5.7% walkways between University Hall and McCar- Faculty Association for 2012 through 2014 ex- ‘08 0.1% thy Hall chanting, urging CSU and CSUF lead- pired on June 30, and after seven months of failed ership to correct an inequity in faculty wages. negotiations, the contract was extended. Last ‘09-’10 0% The contract in question is the collective bar- week, the contract again expired with little move- ‘09 2.7% gaining agreement between CFA and the Cal- ment toward resolution. ifornia State University. The current proposal Current deliberations concern a contract that ‘09-’10 0% from the CSU includes a 7 percent wage in- will span three years. The CSU has proposed a ‘10 1.5% crease over three years. CFA is asking for 10 general salary increase of approximately 7 per- percent. cent over three years, while CFA wants a 10 per- ‘10-’11 0% The contract affects over 23,000 professors, cent increase over the same period. ‘11 3.0% librarians, counselors and coaches who work The proposed 7 percent increase has not satisfied in the 23-campus CSU system. Negotiations the CFA delegation. Since 2008, none of the collec- ‘11-’12 0% on the contract have been drawn out over nine tive bargaining agreements between the CSU and ‘12 1.7% months. The most recent deadline for contract CFA has included an increase in wages, though Uni- approval passed on Sept. 30 without agree- versity of California and CSU faculty members did ‘12-’13 0% ment between the groups. receive a one-time $80 per month salary increase in ‘13 1.5% SQE issued a letter stating their support for 2013 as a result of the passing of Proposition 13. CFA, said Sean Washburn, a member of SQE The CFA bargaining team argues that inflation, ‘13-’14 0% and graduate student at CSUF. The group is increased workload and class sizes, the cost of ‘14 1.7% using that letter with other materials to drum living and six years of stagnant salaries make a up student support for a largely faculty-fo- 10 percent raise viable. BERENICE ASHIKIAN / DAILY TITAN cused issue. One of CFA’s complaints include the fact that faculty wage increases SEE FACULTY 3 have not kept pace with inflation. SEE STUDENTS 2 Student earns jiujitsu champion title Richard Arreola was the blue- “At the time, I was work- that added insult to injury,” belt victor at the World Jiu-Jit- ing a dead-end job and I he said. su No-Gi Championship was coaching wrestling. He spiraled into depres- RUDY CHINCHILLA And when I was coaching sion until a friend convinced Daily Titan wrestling, I realized that him into giving jiujitsu a that’s what I want to do try. Inside the Student Recre- with my life: I want to be “When I did it, the love ation Center is the classroom a wrestling coach,” Arreo- just grew from right there,” of a jiujitsu instructor—an la said. Arreola said. “It saved my unlikely world champion. At 27 years old, Arreola life.” Richard Arreola, a ki- enrolled at Santa Ana Col- Success was not immedi- nesiology major at Cal lege and soon found himself ate, however. He got choked State Fullerton, had to bat- competing on the wrestling out twice in his first tour- tle emotional and physical mats once again. nament, but he steadily im- pain before earning the vic- His college career, how- proved, winning various tory at the World Jiu-Jit- ever, was cut short after a white-belt tournaments en su No-Gi Championship on car struck Arreola when he route to the 2013 Pan Jiu-Jit- Saturday. was 29. The accident left su Championship. An amateur wrestler since him with a compound frac- “When I walked in there, age 14, Arreola stopped ture. Then, the eight-year I thought, ‘Holy cow, what competing after high school. relationship with the wom- did I get myself into?’” However, he maintained a an whom he was going to Arreola said. “I probably connection with the wres- marry came to an end. had no business winning tling community by training “I was dealing with the re- that tournament.” other high school wrestlers ality that I was never going MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN in his early 20s. to wrestle the same again, so SEE JIUJITSU 5 The jiujitsu champion teaches the martial art in the Cal State Fullerton Student Recreation Center. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 OCTOBER 9, 2014 THURSDAY NEWS Students: DTBRIEFS Arrest made SQE protests in Anaheim CONTINUED FROM 1 SQE and CFA to show their displeasure with how the CSU murder “We’re getting petitions administration is responding An Anaheim man was signed from students and fac- to faculty needs, said Elyse arrested Tuesday for ulty, and we’re going to hand Rickard, sociology major and the suspected murder them over to (CSUF President SQE member. of transgender and im- Mildred) García to show that “This is our way of getting migrant rights activ- the students of this campus are the word out, saying ‘Hey, the ist Zoraida Reyes, CBS concerned with the way their administration isn’t doing a reported. faculty are treated,” Washburn fair job. (Chancellor Timothy Randy Lee Parker- said. P. White) isn’t doing his fair son, 38, was arrest- Washburn expects actions job,” she said. ed for the murder of to be taken so CFA members Rickard said the current Reyes, 29, who was can have improved working system leaves students unable found dead behind an conditions and higher pay. The to reach the few full-time pro- Anaheim Dairy Queen in constant cuts and freeze on fessors available to them. June. raises for faculty translate into “I have a lot of professors Reyes was a leader in poorer learning conditions for and almost all of them are ad- the LGBTQ community, students, he said. junct. The ones who are full and was a member of “It’s a fact that our profes- time usually teach about six the transgender Latina sors are overworked, and this to seven classes,” she said. “I support group in Or- translates into student learn- usually don’t have time to go ange County, according ing conditions,” Washburn talk to them because they’re to the Orange County said. “If our faculty can’t either at a different campus or Register. give us more energy because they’re busy with other classes AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN Police have not re- they’re overworked, then we’re they have at that time.” leased whether or not not going to learn as much Similar protests took place The Fullerton Fire Department presented their plans to raise awarness and funds for breast cancer research at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Parkerson knew Reyes, as we could if they were not across multiple CSU campus- but they have not ruled overworked.” es, with more scheduled to the murder to be a hate The protest allows both take place Thursday. crime. Parkerson is being FOR THE RECORD Firefighers step held on $1 million bail. It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors printed - CYNTHIA WASHICKO in the publication. Corrections will be published on the subsequent issue after an error is discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on the Opinion in to fight cancer page will be corrected on that page. Corrections will also be made to the online version of the article. 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