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- Volume 49 • Number 29 Since 1957 Tuesday,October 24,2006 sundial.csun.edu A financiallyindependentstudent newspaper Big Show 6 estimated Artist at work overbudget by $30,000 SAM WOMACK meeting, SPACE fought to retain DAILY SUNDIAL the unused money for the fall Big Show. here were more than 5,000 Santos said that including the people at Big Show this $30,000 from the previous year, T year, as compared to 2,100 the A.S. Senate allocated $.10,000 last year. and the individuals for this year's Big Show. involved at Associated Stude~,,' Bills are still coming in from division of Student. Product! n the Big Shew, but Santos esti- and Campus Entertainment a e mates the total cost at approxi- extremely proud. / mately $130,000. This year's Big Slio~vid- There were 2,321 tickets sold at ed many firsts for the on-cam- $10 each, and half of the proceeds pus concert series. It was in the will go to SPACE and tbe other fall semester, tickets were $10 for half to the A.S. Ticket Office (the non-CSUN students, and Titket- ticket office charges SPACE for master was used for advertising. their services). In the past, Big Student Production and Campus Show was a free event for students Entertainment (SPACE) director and the community, but Santos Jennifer Santos said these three said she felt that charging non-stu- things helped make Big Show such dents for tickets helped raise the a success. attendance. "The Big Show was a phenom- Having the entire summer to enal success because of the people plan Big Show was a difference who contributed their .hard work, thai Santos said she thinks will CUITLAHUAC GONZALEZJ SP£Cw. TOTHE CAlty SUN~l and the student turnout made it affect the event's placement next Art major Jason Travers touches up his latest work of art In between dasses In the art departMent, Oct. 16. even better," said Nathaniel Stiles, year. According to Santos, Big lead back stage for Big Show 6 Show has been traditionally held and A.S. Chief of Staff. at the end of the spring semester Big Show 5 was held in Spring as a sort of farewell. 2005. There was no Big Show in "It was the last show, then CSU Employees Union deadlocked Spring 2006 because of budget and finals, then graduation," Santos financing issues, so it was moved said. SAM WOMACK salaries and benefits are still in negotia- for 4 percent, 6 percent and 8 percent to the fall semester. In the 2005- The 12-memher SPACE board DAIT.YSUNDIAL tions. over the next three yean; to be broken 2006 annual budget, SPACE was spent six months-planning for this In the last three years, student fees up into various programs," Dillan said. allocated $112,000, bUI there was year's events, meeting twice a early every year, tuition and have gone up and tuition was raised, but CSU employees say that each year no funding for the Big Show. This week and four times specifically student fees are raised in the technica1 support, clerical and admin- with no raise or low raises has signifi- year's budget provided $130,000 to plan Big Show. Santos said NCalifornia State University istrative support, operntion specialists, cantly affected their buying' power due for all SPACE events. it would not have been possible . system Every time contract renewals and healthcare workers received no to the rising costs of living . According to Santos, last spring to meet that often if the students come along, CSU faculty and employee increase from 2003 to 2005. "People have to work two jobs to the senate had allocated $30,000 also had to deal with a full school unions say they have to fight for decent Chancellor Charles Reed has made make ends meet and attempt to keep for the Big Show, hut since the schedule and a job. salaries. a semi-proposal offering a 3:64 percent up with costs of living," said CSUN's event was postponed, the unused "Having it the first month of This year the California State Uni- raise this year, 5.25 percent next year employee union president 1. B. Ducasta money would have been swept school was a great way to jump versity Employees Union has been in and approximately 6 percent the' year "They're nickel and dirne-ing us on into the unallocated reserves fund. start involvement and keep people contract negotiations since March. Ten- after, according to CSUEU Vice Presi- raises." and the capitol and technological tative agreements have been reached dent of Representation Dennis Dillan. reserves fund. In a July senate See BIG SHOW, page 3 with easier, non-economic issues, but "However, we're currently asking See CSUEU, page 3 Reza AsIan kicks off Traffic worse Tuesdays and Thursdays MELISSA CHUA at the lower level of the B3 parking junior business major. "You have to lecture series DAlLYSUNDIAL structure. wait for people who are leaving and "After the first week of school, hope to get their spot. If I had a later Author speaks on Danish newspaper in Sept of 2005. nTuesday and Thursday morn- Monday and Wednesday traffic imme- class that started at 10 a.m., I would Asian began the first of the "Speak ings, even halfway through the diately corrected itself," Fernandez have to worry about finding parking religion and politics Your Mind" lecture series by making Osemester, trnffic continues to said. "There's a usual trend that Tues- because I usually get here 15 to 20 the clarification that terror is a tactic and . be a real problem especially in the B3 days and Thursdays are very busy, but minutes before my class starts." YOLANDA BECERRA 001 an enemy. He made the point that parking structure. the trnffic congestion was much more The later students come to find park:- DAlLY SUNDIAL whether one agrees with it or DOl, it is There's always extra traffic control severe. ntis semester lasted longer ing to re..ach their 10 or U am class on still is a successful tactic, during the first few weeks of school, (than prior semesters)." a Tuesday or Thursday, the longer it Speaking on the future of Islam last He stressed that the notion about thC but traffic congestion has continued "The busiest times are when people will take them to find parking. night at the Plaza del Sol performance ''waron terror" needs to be re-analyzed, particularly on Tuesdays and Thurs. are rushing to get to an 8 or9 am. class," By around 9:30 am to 10 a.m., hall, Reza Asian, author of "No GOO but considering that the war is being waged days, said Alfredo Fernandez, captain said Joshua Foulks, a motorcycle police students have two options, Fernandez God" and CBS Middle East political on an abstract concept. He drove the of parking and transportation services. officer for the CSUN Police Depart- said. analyst, offered a new perspective on point home by asking, "How's the war At the beginning of the semester, ment. 'The rest of the afternoon is They could park on the top of lot the Iraq war, cleared up misconceptions on poverty doing, and we won the war CSUN -police officers and parking fine." B3 or easily find parking in lots FlO or aboutlstam, and spoke OU! against the enforcement officers were stationed at "After 9:30 am .. it's harder to controversial cartoons that appeared ina See LECTURE, page 6 the corner of Darby and Prairie and find parking," said Jonathon Fonacier, See TRAFFIC, page 3 INDEX OPINION SPORTS TODAY'S WEATHER A series of school " Women'svolleyball Opinion 7 Daily Spotlight 8 shootings bring concern~~ drops two games Classifieds .9 & 10 'if Sports II & 12 Partly cloudy SEE PAGE 7 ' #J SEE PAGE !2 HIGH 79 LOW 52 2 • DailySundial· CSUN •Tuesday,October 24, 2006 • -NEWS BRIEFS $1 billion LAX transportation light rail line considered LOS ANGELES CAP) - Transportation officials are considering B $1 billion light rail line directly to Los Ange- les International Airport. The line would run along Crenshaw Boulevard and Florence Avenue between Exposition Boulevard and the airport. Metropolitan Transportation Aurhoriry planners said it could be up and running by 2015 if they get fund- mg. The Green Line along the Century Freeway from Nor- walk to EI Segundo was initially supposed to terminate at the airport, but the LAX connection was scrubbed by the MTA because of budget problems. "Obviously, Crenshaw is very heavily traveled. It meets all the criteria for a good line. It goes through commercial areas. It goes near schools," said SUpervisor Yvonne Brath- waite Burke, an MTA board member. Transit officials said the Proposed Crenshaw rail line would record an eSlimated 43,400 daily boardings by Student recieves information from solicitors in one of the free speech areas located '''QUIELlN''in the SierraaUDA Quad.I ONcrSUNDIAL 2025. Solicitors allowed only in some CSUN areas Mojave Desert Army base m-ay where you see organizalions Distribution students to listen to what he phlcts. Those who want to see more troop maneuvers trying 10 gel your attention had tQ say, including giving the most, it is because Sierra post information about a of literature students compliments. certain event sometimes do FORT lRWlN, Calif. (AP) - The U.S. Army may Quad and the Bookstore are "My, you look gorgeous enlarge the II th Armored Cavalry Regiment and Fort Irwin Ihe two places on campus this without campus approv- allowed today,' VanBuen said as a al. This type of act is not and increase annual troop maneuvers at the Mojave Desert where flyers are allowed to female student walked by.

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