CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON INSIDE From the cre- ators of Cirque 3 n NEWS: Black History Month lecture series concludes with a discussion of white privilege Du Soleil, comes a comedy that is 6 n SPORTS: Meet the 2002 Titan baseball more than horsing team, en route to a hopeful return to Omaha around —see Detour page 5 Volume 74, Issue 5 THURSDAY February 28, 2002 Culture Professors fight for their rights taught nFACULTY: Arguing for salary increase and better health coverage, teachers take a stand By Erick Fierro Martinez process ended, Sekelick said President by trip Daily Titan Staff Writer of the CFA Susan Meisenhelder con- tinued fact-finding at an informal level The California Faculty Association as of last Monday. nEDUCATION: Israeli met Monday with Cal State Fullerton’s After Caraway publishes his find- faculty members in an effort to explain ings, it remains confidential for a group seeks to give where contract negotiations stand and period of 10 days. When the report the possibility of a faculty strike. becomes public, the current contract Jewish students a The CFA argues that professors will expire and the faculty will have deserve a 2.5 percent general salary the legal right to strike if an agreement chance to learn more increase, step increases based on their cannot be reached. However, since about the Holy Land length of employment, department fact-finding continued at an informal chair increases, expanded lecturer level for several days, Caraways find- By AnnaLiza Ganchingco health insurance and counselor salary ings may not become a part of public conversion. Daily Titan Staff Writer record for several more days. According to the California A strike authorization vote has After a successful winter program, Postsecondary Commission, a salary been set for CSU faculty members Birthright Israel is now accepting gap for CSU faculty will be more than on March 17-28. Faculty at CSUF applications for spring and summer 7 percent for the 2001-2002 fiscal will vote from March 25-28. The trips. year. vote will either allow for the faculty Birthright Israel is a partnership The purpose of the meeting was to accept the Chancellor’s Office last between local Jewish Communities, to inform and discuss with faculty and final offer, or to reject the offer the people of Israel, the Israeli govern- members the broader issues and the and to authorize the Board of Chapter ment and leading Jewish philanthro- seriousness of the CFA’s negotiations Presidents, upon recommendation of pists. with CSU. the bargaining team, to declare a strike. The partnership offers what they However, fewer than 20 faculty The ballot will also allow for faculty to call “the gift.” The gift is a free 10-day members made the effort to attend. recommend a strike for no stated dura- trip to Israel with an educational peer “Make no mistake, we are involved tion or for a limited duration. group. If selected to go, the gift will in a fight,” said CFA Associate Vice Fortunately for CSUF students, the President Mark Sekelick. “We have first week of a possible strike will be cover the person’s roundtrip airfare, JEANNE HOFFA/Special to the Daily Titan hotel, transportation and other related sat at the bargaining table for two during spring break, and will likely In San Francisco, Sam Casas (right) and Abel Macias give Chancellor Charles B. Reed an earful. expenses. years and all they (CSU) say is – no.” not affect the academic semester. A Registration began in early February Professors, lecturers and part-time strike will most likely force both sides rable institutions,” said CSU Manager additional evidence that faculty already versities similar to CSU. and already an overwhelming number faculty members have been in con- into finding common ground within a of Media Relations Clara Fellow. enjoy competitive salaries. In response to faculty workload, of people have applied for this pro- tract negotiations since last spring. In few days. Contrary to her previous statement, In the Web site, the administration the CFA argues that the parties should gram, said Joe Wagner, a spokesman July, the CFA declared an impasse The negotiations have been plagued Fellow acknowledged inadequacies also argued against any need to reduce establish tenure-track faculty hiring for Birthright Israel. and entered into mediation over the with protests by faculty, students and within the system. faculty workload. goals for each contract year that real- Birthright Israel works closely with fall. Last week, the CFA and CSU labor representatives up and down “CSU is committed to hiring, 1200 It is the belief of CSU that fac- istically hold the prospect of increasing trip organizers in coordinating all air concluded the final statutory phase California. additional tenure professors to correct ulty has a smaller workload than other the ratio of tenure track to lecturer hir- travel, setting high educational stan- of the bargaining process known as The largest of these demonstra- the inefficiencies of the system and to public comprehensive institutions in ing in CSU. dards, procedural guidelines and secu- fact-finding. tions took place at the San Francisco ensure there is adequate faculty for the the country. The main supporting data “Students should have the oppor- rity policies. Trip organizers are put The fact-finding hearings took place Marriott while the Chancellor of CSU universities,” Fellow said. were national figures used to suggest tunity to establish relationships with through a rigorous process to insure Feb. 13-15 in Sacramento. Each side Charles B. Reed spoke before the According to the CSU Web page, that CSU patterns are in line with the their professors, which would pro- the safety of the participants. provided the neutral fact-finder, John American Council on Education. More www.calstate.edu, the CSU admin- national average for the use of tempo- vide the student the opportunity for a The program is eligible to all Jewish Caraway, with written documentation than 800 protesters joined assembly istrator’s presentation to fact-finding rary faculty. somewhat more stable environment,” young adults from the ages 18 to 26 for the oral arguments presented. Ed members and others in protest of the argued that the two percent general- The commission also states that fac- Sekelick said in response to a build up who have not been to Israel. In a peer Purcell, representing the CFA, and chancellor’s apparent failed leadership salary increase for faculty compensa- ulty salaries would have to increase by in bureaucracy in CSU. group of about 40 people, they will Sam Strafaci, representing CSU, pre- and anti-faculty attitudes. tion provided by the 2002 California more than 10 percent in 2002-2003 to tour Israel, create new friendships and sented arguments. “The workload at CSU is similar to State budget is sufficient and offered achieve parity with colleges and uni- have a better understanding of their Although the formal fact-finding or less than the workload at compa- culture. It is neither a political or reli- gious based trip. “It is a bonding experience for the young Jewish people,” said Wagner. Their Web site describes it as “an AS Web page hooks students up to cam- experience that involves all of the Jewish community, here in the states n even use the new features. working on the redesign. He looked ings. It also has a calendar of AS events faculty,” said student and marketing as well as all over the country.” INTERNET: The Soon, he will get his answer. at the design, which consisted mostly for the entire semester. assistant Jimmy Maglio. “All they “I have become the groupie of updated site has links The revamped Web site, www. of mundane text blocks, and created a Information on AS officers, commit- have to do is click and they can see Birthright Israel,” said Rabbi Michael asi.fullerton.edu, debuted in early new, more engaging template. tees, elections and bylaws can be found everything that’s going on, on campus, Melchoir, deputy foreign minister for to recreational sports, February. With most of the site up and The student designer used input on the ASI Leadership link. on one given day.” Israel and chairman of the Birthright running, AS officials are busy promot- from staff and students. He also looked The recreational sports section has AS plans to add more amenities Israeli steering committee. Children’s Center and ing the new venue and bracing for what at other student government Web sites information on intramural, aquatic and to the site as the semester progresses. Melchoir said that it is a visit Titan Student Union they hope is a positive response from and implemented his own designs. youth programs. A weekly prize contest will be held, that in many ways can change their the public. The result is an artsy, interactive Information about on-campus child- using entry forms found on the site. life. Seeing the participants brings By Theresa Salinas In early January, government offi- Web site that provides information care and downloadable applications A sponsor section may be added that encouragement to the Israeli people, Daily Titan Staff Writer cers decided to redo the Web site, in on AS leaders, Recreation Sports, the can be found at the children’s center would feature coupons for local eater- he added. hopes of enhancing communication Children’s Center, the TSU and other link. ies. A chat room could be added in the Though growing tension between between students and AS, AS President AS programs. The TSU page has links to informa- future. the Israelis and the Palestinians may Web designer Alberto Ruiz recently Alex Lopez said. They were looking “I’m pretty happy with it,” Ruiz said tion on a barrage of services offered at “I would encourage students to check be of some concern to participants, spent about 120 hours upgrading the for a medium that would allow them with a grin.