California State University, Northridge TOMORROW IN OPINION ALSO IN NEWS Campus construction A.S. presidential debate Volume 45 • Number 96 Since 1957 Tuesday,April 1,2003 A financially independent student newspaper Rally against war's impact on education By DAVID TUCKMAN dents by not only increasing tuition, SUNDIAL STAFF but in layoffs of faculty members; Pimentel said. he California Faculty Associ- "California has a heavy budget ation urged the Associated deficit - a crisis equivalent to the TStudents last Tuesday to sup- shutting down of seven CSU campus- port a CFA rally against the war on es - approximately $27.5 billion," April 3 at the Oviatt Library from Pimentel said. 12:30 p.m. to I:30 p.m. "Usually, when a state is in a CFA voiced strong oppogttion budget crisis. the federal govern- to the war on Iraq because of the ment has reserves to bail the state impact they believe it has on out, bUI since all the federal gov- financial aid, student programs ernment's money is focused on the and the quality of education across war in Iraq, we have a crisis," the country, Pimentel said. "Across the country, state and local A.S. hopes to help budget cuts in governments are nearly bankrupt and ways other than a tee increase. scrambling to provide healthcare, edu- "The A.S., in our resolution, cation and other quality public servic- says we are opposed to a tuition es," said Joe Pimentel,the CFA student increase and in our Movement representativeat CSUN. Against Fee Increases Adminlstra- "We are protesting the war and its tion campaign, we have given impact on all of you - on all of us- alternative ideas on how to save Dreamcateber: Mediocre with increased class size and tuition. money and cut budget costs, such I strongly encourage the A.S. to sup- as CUlling the PeopleSoft system, horror flick. port the rally and get involved," cutting staff, faculty and adminis- Seepage 9 Pimentel said. "For this to really trative salaries by 2 percent, and work, we need the students and facul- cutting their budgets including ()PI'..:«)-""; ty to work as one." travel and hospitality," A.S. Presi- The Rally for Quality Education & dent Josh Lodolo said. Peace in the Middle East is designed to The CSU administration is spend- make students aware of the current SHANNON SINDORF I o.Ill.Y WNOIl<l. educational situation and how they joe Pimentel, CSUN's California Faculty Association student represerea- believe war has a direct impact on stu- See CFA, page 5 tive, urged A.S. to get invotved in a rally against war's impact on education. Air Force academy pays Budget cuts may be deeper than expected lip service to charges. See page7 By STEPHEN BOAKYE repair at the California State Library to wentunfilled.According 10 lawmakers, sales tax by one cent, increasing SUNDIAL STAFF a permanent deferral of $1.1 billion in many of the reductions are not cuts ar levies on tobacco and raising the !--INDEX:-- spendingfor K-12 schools.Water-qual- aU, but instead are funding shifts that income tax rate for high earners. News I ,3 ducationwill take its hardest ity programs will also be put on the allowspending delays. However, according to the LA. blow in California, as Gov. Wire 2 back burner this year, as will coastal The bills the governor signed also Times, Senate Republicans have EGray Davis finalizes the preservation and emergency-service allow the state to "borrow" $100 mil- called instead for rolling a large part A&E 8,9 budget for the 2003-04 fiscal year, earthquake programs. lion in transportation money to help of the state's debt into 2005, enacting Opinion 7 signing last Tuesday a new $3.3-bil- A large portion of the funds being close the gap, provided the funds will a spending freeze and cutting all Classifieds 14 lion package of more detailed pro-- cut in those and other areas were allo- be replaced later. gram reductions. cated for this year, but went untouched Davis has proposed $8.3 billion Sports 5-16 Last month, The Sundial reported because the jobs they were to pay for in new taxes, including raising the See BUDGET, page 5 that Gov. Davis cited the state's = deficit as the premise for increases in CONTACT California State University students' Easy on the salt, please THESUNDIAw tuition, while cutting student outreach and teacher recruitment. The bill Manzanita Hall 140 package represents the first signifi- 181I I Nordhoff St. cant decision that lawmakers have Northridge, CA been able to make on the deficit esti- 91330-8258 mated 10 be as large as $35 billion through spring 2004. FAX The cuts signed last week include a (818) 677-3638 $2.3-billion reduction in education INTERNET spending. Lawmakers say they targeted education first because it accounts for http://sundial.csun.edu nearly half the state budget,and if fund- EDITORIAL ing is nee reduced before summer; they (818) 677-2915 would be forced to raise education [email protected] spending substantially next year. Proposition 98, the education fund- ADVERTISING ing formulas enacted, bases the mini- (818) 677-2998 mum allotment the state must give to [email protected] schools on education spending in the prior year. CLEMENS WESTER .. OF I D.oUl.YWNDIAL The bills include hundreds of items, This CSUN snail crawls along oblivious to major world events and unhindered by the ongoing ranging from holding off on a $1.000 construction on campus. 2 • The Daily Sundial· CSUN • Tuesday,April 1,2003 VVire New female officer named / AIR FORCE ACADEMY, that anyone who does come A day earlier, Jumper and amnesty for-victims to ensure Colo. (AP) - One of the new forward will have an advo- Air Force Secretary Jamcs they don't gct punished for female senior officers at the cate right off the 001," said Roche announced five top infractions such as drinking Air Force Academy will Jumper. the highest-ranking officers at the academy were when they report an assault. watch over future sexual- officer in the Air Force. being reassigned and that var- Jumper said that in the assault cases to ensure they In past years. cadets could ious policies were changing. past, victims often didn't find are handled properly. an Air opt to report assaults by anony- The announcement fol- out what happened to their Force official said. mously calling the lowed an internal investi- allegations and attackers Col. Debra Gray, the cadet-staffed pro- gation after dozens of because of how privacy rules incoming vice commandant gram CASIE, or women said they were were interpreted. of cadets and a 1980 academy Cadets Advocating assaulted or-raped at the "That tells me that we've graduate, is to arrive next Sexual Integrity and Edu- academy and then punished. got a system that first of all month, Gen. John Jumper, the cation. Because no names were shunned or ignored for doing has gotten bad advice from Police kiD suspects in Serbian prime Air Force chief of staff said. involved, some cases were so. The Air Force said 56 lawyers," Jumper said. "To minister's assassination. "Her job will include never prosecuted, Jumper said. women have reported sexual say that Ican't come back and ombudsman type of duties The Air Force's top gener- assaults over the past 10years. communicate with you the al was at the academy Thurs- status of the investigation that BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Two main where she will have a staff Changes will include "clus- you've gotten started is, to suspects in the assassination of Serbia's prime minister that includes medics and day to auend a memorial tering" women cadets in coed lawyers, first responders, so service for a retired general. dorms, stricter donn rules, and me, silly." were killed in a shootout with police, authorities said. Investigators believe Milan Lukovic and Dusan Spasoje- vic were leaders of the Zemun Clan, a crime gang that allegedly arranged the killing of Prime Minister Zcran Djindjic on March 12. Central Park victim speaks out The gang members had been hiding for days in the Belgrade suburb of Barajevc, armed witla machine guns NEW YORK (AP)-The ordeal and her recovery. In it, least three-fourths of her Reyes, a man serving time for and hand grenades, authorities said. As officers tried to woman at the center of the she recounts the trial of the blood and spent two weeks in murder and serial rape, arrest them Thursday night. they "opened fire. forcing the Central Park jogger case is five teenagers who were orig- a coma, doctors said. She has claimed that he was the officers to respond," police said in a statement Friday. breaking her l4-year silence inally convicted in the case, no memory of the attack. attacker, and DNA evidence The government did not specify what role the two and revealing her identity, and and her reaction when' anoth- Five teenagers, Yuscf linked him to the crime. The allegedly played in the assassination. A police official she says the reopening of the er man said last year he was Salaam, Raymond Santana. five men's convictions were speaking on condition of anonymity said they organized and case in the past year made her the culprit. Antron McCray, Kharey Wise thrown out at the district financed the plot. live the horror as never before. "I was living lhehor- and Kevin Richard- euomey's request. Police did not say whether any other suspects were Trisha Meili, 42, is com- ror as Ihad nollivcd it son, were arraigned The police department said involved in the shootout.