Students love to blog A&E SAY NO TO TUITION HIKES! Relieve stress with a massage ONLINE The Collegian’s editorial exhorts CSU to not raise costs A return to Standard Time FEATURES MONday Issue NOVEMBER 8, 2010 FRESNO STATE COLLEGIAN.CSUFRESNO.EDU SERVING CAMPUS SINCE 1922 UPD DEALS WITH Online effect POTENTIAL LAWSUIT on office PARKING INVESTIGATION decided to stop paying the fee, prices to accommodate that tail end of coming to some and as a result the university ten dollars,” Huerta said. type of understanding regard- By Megan Morales is now being asked to make “Here we are today with a fund ing the situation to help pre- The Collegian up for the missed payments balance that is just enough to vent a lawsuit. hours which Huerta said could operate and do some things “We could get out of this The University Police potentially be an excessively with.” much cheaper by reaching a By Christian Walker Department at Fresno State is large sum. Huerta said the department mutual agreement,” Huerta facing a possible lawsuit from & Leonard Valerio “We never raised our ticket and Fresno County are at the said. “We’re going to have to The Collegian Fresno County for unpaid fees go back a few years and owed to them. have to catch up on the With resources such as Fresno State Chief money that is owed to the e-mail, Blackboard, Twitter of Police David Huerta county.” and Facebook, faculty office said the department’s Regardless of the finan- hours may not be as important legal issues with Fresno cial issues the department to students anymore. County are still unsettled is dealing with, Huerta According to Section 338 of and have been for years. said they remain focused the Teacher’s Policy Manual, “There’s a law that says on correcting the situa- each full-time professor at that universities are obli- tion and moving forward. Fresno State is required to gated to pay the county “We’re going to have have at least five office hours for county construction to settle this amount,” each week. costs,” Huerta said. “We Huerta said. “Then we’re When visiting office hadn’t been paying that going to have to recover hours were the easiest and for a number of years from it.” quickest way of contacting because of some legal The department didn’t teachers, office hours were opinions, and we were give an estimated date of strictly enforced. Dr. Robert finally advised we needed when the issue would be Maldonado, a professor in to do that. So we’re cur- resolved. the philosophy department, rently working out negoti- In addition, requests said that teachers used to be ations with Fresno County directed to the police checked on to make sure they to resolve that matter.” Parking Ticket department regarding were in their offices. Huerta said ten dollars how parking citation “They used to actually of every parking citation money is actually being check more because it used to issued at Fresno State is used have also not been be the case that if you put ‘by required to go to Fresno met. appointment,’ they didn’t like County. Sometime before that,” said Maldonado. “They Huerta began working for don’t seem to be policing it the the university, someone See FUNDS, Page 3 way they used too.” Illustration by Michael / The Collegian The policy states: “All full- time faculty shall schedule and maintain at least five office hours per week in their assigned offices. The five- hour requirement shall be a Tuition fees to increase minimum amount of time, specifically posted, when stu- By Andrew Veihmeyer dents know that the professor The Collegian is available for consultation without an appointment.” The CSU Committee on In a random sampling of Finance and the Board of teacher’s office hours, 80 per- Trustees will be meeting on cent of teachers were in their Tuesday and Wednesday to office during posted times. approve tuition increases for “I’m actually not so sur- the next two semesters; 5 per- prised,” Maldonado said of cent for spring 2011 and anoth- the results. “The majority of er 10 percent by fall 2011. faculty want to help and want The meeting, which will be to be available.” held at the Chancellor’s Office Students seem to have in Long Beach, California, mixed feelings about the mini- will also include a request mum amount of office hours. from the CSU to the legisla- Senior marketing major, ture to buy out the 10 percent Albert Tello, doesn’t feel his increase for the fall 2011-12 teacher’s office hours fit into academic year. his schedule. Tello said it is “[The success of the buy- difficult to make time to meet out] is really unknown,” said with teachers while balancing Fresno State President John a full load. D. Welty. “We’ve got a new gov- “I never use the instruc- ernor, a number of new legis- tor’s office hours. I feel like lators, and it is projected the their office hours are not set current budget is not really up well. They typically always in balance. If there’s a huge conflict with the rest of my deficit, obviously they’ll have classes,” said Tello. difficult decisions to make Kinesiology major, Lorenzo about what new funding they Ana Mendoza / The Collegian Llorente has mixed feelings can offer.” Natalia Kasianenko (left), signs a student petition to stop tuition increases. Rebecca Asami (right), intern for Students about office hours. “Some The Board of Trustees for Quality Education, oversees the table in the Free Speech Area on campus. teachers seem to have enough acted in June to increase fees office hours and others seem for the current year, Welty There will be 30,000 stu- tional students and provide costs in tuition. to never be there when you said, and since the legisla- dents added to the CSU’s in the classes, the fee revenue is Pedro Ramirez, president actually need them,” Llorente ture did not buy out all of the the spring and more courses necessary,” said Welty. of Associated Student, Inc, said. planned increase in fees, the added, he said. He also said that a third said it was unfortunate that Some students prefer avoid- board would need to deal with “I support the recommenda- of the fee increase will go these fee increases may be ing officer hours all together the issue in November. tion that’s being made to the to financial aid, and said it implemented. and use other means of con- “And that’s what they’re Board of Trustees because would help financially needy doing,” said Welty. if we’re going to enroll addi- students to avoid the steeper See FEE HIKE, Page 3 See HELP, Page 3 The Collegian THATʼS WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING... “T hese people on Facebook..they’re not your friends. That’s all.” Opinion – William Shatner, Jimmy Kimmel Live PAGE 2 OPINION EDITOR, ANNA JACOBSEN • [email protected] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2010 EDITORIAL ONE-FINGER Culled each week CSU: Don’t raise tuition from discussions alifornia State University received from the American Recovery of-the-art library that cost tens of mil- in The Collegian’s Chancellor Charles B. Reed, a and Reinvestment Act. lions of dollars, and seven years after SALUTE newsroom. Cmuch-maligned fellow in the This, more than $365 million in completing the Save Mart Center, a eyes of many students, is proposing a 5 funding for the CSU system, should be huge arena which cost tens of millions percent tuition increase for students in plenty for CSU trustees and Chancellor of dollars more. All of these are wor- the upcoming semester, on top of which Reed to work with. thy expenditures that are beneficial Thumbs up: would be a 10 percent increase starting The CSU should concentrate on both to students and the community, Veteran’s day fall 2011. cutting spending in innovative ways but the timing of these must be ques- CSU officials will meet tomorrow to rather than reflexively raising tuition tioned. begin discussing these two measures, or instituting furlough days. The new state legislature must work A break from school is great, but let’s not though it seems that some sort of There is much waste in the CSU with California’s new governor, Jerry forget who we’re honoring—the men and tuition hike will be agreed upon. system. A front-page story in The Brown, who campaigned on improv- women who have served in our nation’s If the two proposals are enacted, Collegian today points out that Fresno ing California’s higher education, to armed forces. undergraduate students fund the CSU system with would pay $2,220 for the the appropriate amount of spring semester and money, whatever that may $4,884 for the 2011-12 be. Thumbs down: school year. aising tuition for students yet again is an egre- Simply throwing money Professional plagiarists According to The gious act by an out-of-touch, arrogant elite.” at higher education will Fresno Bee, the CSU sys- “R not solve anything, but Cook’s Source Magazine lifted an enitre tem has raised tuition giving schools their funds column from the Internet and printed it in four times since 2007. with no strings attached their publication without permission. When The school system, which would help them allocate the original author complained and asked for touted itself as “tuition- the money in the best ways compensation, the magazine requested the free” in its 1972 Master Plan, has found State potentially owes a great sum of they see fit.