CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON INSIDE Ray Charles performs at the 8 n PERSPECTIVES: A young boy dons House of Blues the robes of a monk for the summer —see Detour page12 21 n SPORTS: Women’s soccer wins a 2-1 exhibition against Cal State Bakersfield Volume 72, Issue 1 TUESDAY August 28, 2001 Harassment suit disputed by universi- nCOURT: Professor still plagued by a hostile ter could result in her termination. who initially rejected her appeal to and permitting appropriate research passing during a February 1998 field Because Banack claims she did remove the letter from her file and and field activities. Banack must trip to Carbon Canyon. working environment after winning a settlement nothing wrong to prompt the first authorized the appeal to the court. go through the committee to collect John Chappell of the IACUC letter, she took the university to As for the harassment, Banack animals for her studies. claimed that a student reported the By Amy Rottier hostile working environment. Even court to protect her job. says that she has survived so far and The harassment began with the trespassing. Daily Titan News Editor after the court decision, the harass- Atwell could not comment due to this semester will be no different. committee continuously requiring The “whistler blower” policy ment continues, Banack said. university policy prohibiting the dis- Banack became a victim of Banack to resubmit protocols, which on campus that protects those who After losing a $311,000 sexual The suit was prompted by a letter cussion of personal information. harassment shortly after she began were capriciously rejected as unac- report wrong-doings prevented harassment suit, Cal State Fullerton of reprimand that the court found to The university recently informed working at CSUF in the fall of ceptable, according to the lawsuit. Chappell from producing a witness. decided to retaliate against the assis- falsely accuse Banack of violating Banack that the letter would be 1997. Banack said that members of Vickie Langille, who then worked Through the court it was found tant biology professor with an appeal her Department of Fish and Game removed from her file, although the Institutional Animal Care and for the IACUC, told Banack that out that the information came from rather than stop the harassment. permit by trespassing during a field they previously refused to do so in Use Committee on campus aggres- she and the other members planned a student who heard from anoth- Out of fear for her job, Sandra trip in February 1998. spite of the court’s decision. sively went after her reputation and to treat Banack differently than the er student that trespassing might Banack filed suit against CSUF in Margaret Atwell, associate vice Banack felt the university han- ultimately her job. IACUC over- male professors and that she had have occurred,”, said Keith Walden, March 2000 for several years of president of Academic Affairs, dled the situation poorly, all the sees animal research on campus better watch out, the lawsuit said. Banack’s lawyer. sexual harassment that created a informed Banack that a second let- way up to President Milton Gordon and is responsible for determining Banack was later accused of tres- BANACK/ 3 CSU in need of full-time faculty n ty to retirement, said Ephraim Smith, EDUCATION: vice president of academic affairs at Instructor recruitment CSUF, “we are doing all right.” The universities automatically make new suffers due to heavy positions as they grow so a constant teacher/student ratio remains, Smith workload and lack of said. The reason CSU has a difficult time competitive salaries hiring faculty is because salaries are By Amy Rottier not competitive and the workload is very high, according to the CFA. A Daily Titan News Editor study by the California Post Secondary Education Commission found salaries The future of faculty and students in the CSU system to be eight percent hangs in limbo as bargaining between below salaries of comparable schools. the California Faculty Association and CFA is asking administration to CSU has hit a wall. make salaries attractive enough to Unable to come to an agreement, recruit faculty. the two groups have entered into To fill positions that cannot attract mediation in attempt to move forward full-time faculty, more and more for the benefit of all. A strike may loom part-time faculty members are being in the future of CSU if the mediation hired. This becomes a problem for stu- and fact-finding process cannot find a dents because part-time faculty is not common ground for the groups, said around to mentor students after class G. Nanjundappa, president of CFA’s or supervise projects, Nanjundappa Fullerton Chapter. said. “These are the essential things Since 1994, CSU has increased we need to do to ensure education is by about 35,000 students and imminent,” he said. The universities Nanjundappa claims that the net total need more permanence because the of new tenure-track faculty hired is increase of part-time faculty is detri- ADAM BYRNES/Daily Titan one. The system has many more posi- mental to the students. Opening the celebration of Pakistani Independence at Cal State Fullerton, AnamAli recites passages from the Quran. tions than can be filled, he said. Bentley-Adler disagrees. She This year, Cal State Fullerton hired believes that most of the part-timers about 52 new tenure-track employees. are very dedicated to the students. However, that doesn’t fill the gap In the latest compensation bud- made by faculty who have retired or get, salary and benefits for faculty CSUF opens nation-wide event left, Nanjundappa said. were reduced from four to two per- “Hiring 52 people looks good, but cent, according to the CFA. The Thousands participate in the sixth annual celebration hoping to educate and spread cultural aware- it is not enough,” he said. The 52 have Chancellor’s Office received an eight ness among California’s largest Pakistani population filled some vacant positions but not percent increase. all, many more need to be hired. Nanjundappa says that that they By Kathleen Gutierrez know the money is in the budget New York and San Francisco run a close for future members of PSA. While Nanjundappa is claiming Daily Titan Detour Editor only one new tenure-track faculty somewhere to increase money for sal- second and third, respectively. They have yet to “We are trying to bring families together to ary and compensation. match the CSUF’s attendance, which reached teach children about our culture since we live member has been added in the last It is one of the most expansive minority five years, the Chancellor’s Office has But the budget has been provided nearly 10,000 attendees in one night. Farouk so far away,” said Shazia Peshimam, CSUF by the state and money cannot be events in Southern California. Yet, those who said that out of respect for the three celebra- student and current PSA president. different numbers. reside outside the circle of Pakistani-American Colleen Bentley-Adler, director of taken away from one group and given tions, the other two cities schedule their obser- Part of the cultural awareness is based on to another, Bentley-Adler said. There culture may never hear of the Independence vance on different days, giving Pakistanis the publicity. It is not known whether the mass Public Affairs for the Chancellor’s Day celebration held annually at Cal State Office, claims that over the past five is only so much funding. chance to attend every ceremony. CSUF is Orange County society knows how strong the The CFA is not looking for all the Fullerton. always first. presence of Pakistanis really is, especially in years CSU has hired 23,000 new ten- The event, which occurred on Aug. 11, is now ure-track faculty members making the money right now, but a commitment Farouk, a Pakistani national, studied in the Fullerton. to bridge the gap in two or three years, in its sixth year according to Wajahat Farouk, United States at CSUF and received his master’s Local media tend to ignore the event, while net gain 241. outgoing president of the CSUF Pakistani Although this statistic is substan- Nanjundappa said. degree in Advertising this past May. He actively local Pakistani-Americans spread the word. Other issues on the table include Students Association (PSA). participated in the last three Independence Day If the entire county knows about them, it is tially higher, the ratio still seems lack- “This is the first of the three nation-wide ing at 241 faculty added for 35,000 getting faculty the same amount of festivities and moved back home to Pakistan okay, Peshimam said, but it appears that the money for participating in year-round events for Pakistani Independence Day and it is just after this year’s celebration. students. the largest of all,” he said. PAKISTANI/ 4 Although it is a struggle to keep up operations, such as teaching summer He left a strong legacy of cultural awareness when the system is losing senior facul- MEDIATION/ 19 TITAN e x t r a s Parking woes contin- nCAMPUS: High thousands of students drove down “That would’ve been more people online designated paths to search for the elu- that were just circling.” expense fees aim to sive parking spot. Like ants march- This semester Bill Barrett, associ- n Check out the alleviate the crunch as ing back from a picnic, one by one ate vice president for administration, Daily Titan online the cars filed down each aisle until approved using the Performing Arts this year at http:// CSUF’s crowded lots there was no more room.