California State University, Fullerto n AILY ITAN M o n d a y N o v e m b e r 7 , 2 0D 0 5 www.dailytitan.comT Volume 81, Issue 3 8 Inside This Issue 87 teachers receive raises Sports President approves in line with cost of living, with granted, yet according to a study spend money, he has to weigh tors and union leaders have been what other faculty members earn, by the California Postsecondary competing needs. hearing is that newly hired teach- Soccer wins about half of requests and with pay at so-called compari- Education Commission, the salary “As president, I have to keep a ers were brought in with higher son institutions, schools such as increase needed to equate the pay balance for everyone at the uni- salaries than teachers hired three or conference for salary increases Arizona State University, USC and of full professors at CSU schools versity,” he said in a telephone four years ago. By MATT BALLINGER the University of Connecticut, that and full professors at comparison interview. “Recently, junior faculty mem- Daily Titan Copy Editor have similar salary characteristics. schools is more than 25 percent. “I wish there was more money bers in multiple departments Eighty-seven of the requests, or “We had many excellent faculty for everyone,” Gordon added. have contacted … [union] leaders Teacher salaries at Cal State about 51 percent, were approved. members who were turned down Ephraim Smith, vice president regarding emerging discrepancies Fullerton are considerably lower G. Nanjundappa, president of because their salaries were already of academic affairs, said the raises between their salaries and those than those at comparable schools CSUFʼs faculty union, said more in line with newly hired faculty address a problem that has been offered to incoming faculty,” reads throughout the nation, studies needs to be done. members in their departments,” brewing for some time. a resolution passed by the board of show. But an effort to boost teacher “It is a small step toward bridg- Gordon said in a news release. The salary equity issue is not the teachers union – the California pay may relieve some of the strain ing a large faculty equity problem,” “Itʼs important to understand that new, “but because we have not had Faculty Association Fullerton that puts on faculty morale. he said Wednesday. weʼre looking at equity based on raises in three years, itʼs become Chapter – in May. “Discrepancies CSUF President Milton Gordon Nanjundappa said heʼs disap- what colleges, and in some cases a bigger issue,” Smith said, refer- exceeding 25 percent have been announced last week the results of pointed that more requests werenʼt departments, are paying.” ring to a 3.5 percent cost-of-living described.” a review of 170 faculty membersʼ approved, especially for full- Gordon said that even with increase approved for all faculty That resolution encouraged all applications for equity increases time professors. Just 12 percent money coming from the state bud- members in October. – raises meant to bring salaries of full professorsʼ requests were get, when he deals with how to Another complaint administra- SALARIES 4 Eye on the prize Program Titans defeat UC Riverside, 4-1, to claim Big West offers tips Conference championship 8 to avoid Opinion sex assault Speakers will present information at residence halls Wednesday about rape and how to thwart attacks By JENNY STAR LOR Daily Titan Staff Letters to the Cal State Fullertonʼs Housing and Residence Life will Editor: Student host a Rape and Domestic Abuse Program on Wednesday cheers columnist at the multipurpose room in the residence halls. “Letʼs Talk About All The Good Things and All The for honesty about Bad Things Sex Can Be” will touch on topics about women’s dress rape and sexual assault, the role of alcohol, assertive- 5 ness and ways to avoid an attack. Event speaker Dawn Foor, a CSUF alumna and supervisor of Community Service Programs Inc. Sexual Assault Victims Services, has spoken on campus about News preventing rape before. “This is important because rape is an epidemic,” Facebook fans Foor said. “People are comfortable in denying it until it poke friends, click happens to someone we know.” According to statistics obtained from the Rape, the time away in Abuse and Incest National Network, more than 94,600 online community women and girls nationwide were victims of forcible rape in 2004. The figure has increased 0.8 percent since 4 2003 and has risen 4.9 percent since 2000. But the cases of forcible and non-forcible sex offens- es at CSUF are small. The campus crime statistics on the University Police Surf Report Web site show that there was one forcible sex offense on campus in 2004. Huntington Officer Iris Cortes-Valle of University Police will 2-3 ft. knee - to be one of the speakers Wednesday. Head of the Rape waist-high and Aggression Defense program at CSUF, Cortes-Valle fair conditions. plans to talk about how the program is an effective tool to teach women how to defend themselves. She said statistics taken from Foor show that San Clemente Community Service Programs took 3,289 cases of rape 1-2 ft. ankle - to in 2004 in Orange County. Of these, only 276 cases were reported to various police departments and agen- knee-high and cies as crimes. fair conditions. “The astounding difference in numbers has many rea- Compiled from www.surfline.com sons,” Cortes-Valle said in an e-mail interview. “Victims choose not to report sometimes due to embarrassment, shame or because they do not want the attacker to not DAVID PARDO/For the Daily Titan have criminal charges filed against him or her.” Weather The Rape Aggression Defense program is a series of The CSUF women’s soccer team celebrates winning the Big West Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament on Sunday. three, free, self-defense clinics that aims to empower Today The Titans beat UC Riverside, 4-1, to finish the regular season with a 17-3 record. See story Page 8. RAPE 3 Mostly cloudy 71º/56º Tuesday Presses to stop at Cal State Dominguez Hills T-storms 64º/48º Cal State Fullerton has a for. Without the funding, itʼll be was surprised that many of the stu- create six sections of classes that The Bulletin to be Communications Department and shut down after the last issue and dents and faculty members donʼt students have a hard time getting Wednesday shut down due to requires journalism students to students, faculty and staff wonʼt realize the implications the termi- into. take the Daily Titan class to gradu- be getting the news necessary for nation of the paper can bring. “Having these classes so that Morning showers budget restrictions ate; Cal State Dominguez Hills campus events.” “Our paper is a living history students could get through the only has a liberal arts program that The annual cost of producing and a way to document the prog- graduation process faster is more 63º/49º By COURTNEY BETH PUGATCH Daily Titan Staff includes journalism classes. The the newspaper is about $75,000 ress and events of our campus,” important than having a student students who work on the Bulletin – that includes the printing of she said. “How will important newspaper,” Hart said. Thursday Cal State Dominguez Hills are volunteers who want to be a seven issues each semester and things like the ASI budget, events He said Cal State Dominguez Sunny could be the only CSU campus part of the student-run paper. staff salaries. However, the paper on campus and other events be Hills is operating on a budget that 71º/50º without a student-run newspaper “For the last three years the only receives about $7,000 each publicized and archived without is $1 million less than previous when publishing of the Bulletin is paper has been on the budget, year from its student government. it? CSU Dominguez Hills is like a years. terminated in December. and questions have been raised To compensate for the lack of community, and the students need a However, Hart also acknowl- Friday Garry Hart, the interim dean of about whether or not to fund it,” funding, the newspaper uses adver- way to make sure theyʼre informed edged the absence of a student Sunny the College of Liberal Arts, said said Cathy Risling, the Cal State tising revenues to pay for supplies, at all times of what happens within newspaper probably wonʼt sit well the paper has “just become too Dominguez Hills Bulletin advi- issues, equipment, and salaries, our campus community.” with students. 74º/50º much for the College of Liberal sor. “In the past, it has been up to Risling said. Instead of funding the paper, NEWSPAPER 3 Compiled from The Weather Channel arts to pay for.” the college of liberal arts to pay Risling also mentioned that she the liberal arts department plans to 2 Monday, November 7, 2005 www.dailytitan.com [email protected] • (714) 278-4415 Gettin’ caulky Calendar News NOV. 7, 2005 Today: Historical artifacts will be displayed in the Latino IN BRIEF Veterans Exhibit at the TSU Atrium Gallery. For more infor- mation, call (714) 278-3915. Today: The Indianapolis Colts World play the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football in the TSU. Kickoff is at 6 p.m. French president promises public order For more information, call (714) PARIS – President Jacques Chirac promised Sunday to restore public 278-2144. order across France as unrest spread from suburban Paris to cities south and north, with rioters battling police, throwing Molotov cocktails and Today thru Nov. 18: Titans ramming a car into a housing project during an 11th night of mayhem.