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Protesters make a ruckus on campus but was an impact made? page 4
OPINION:
DAY OF OPPOSITION
LA studentnewspaper faces cuts
LA City College admin-istration has cut their stu-dent newspaper’s budget
BY PATRICk COWLESDaily Titan Asst. News Editor
The Los Angeles City College stu-dent newspaper, the Collegian, lost 15 percent of its printing budget this year due to cuts, its 80th year in continu-ous production.
However, Rhonda Guess, assistant professor of journalism and faculty ad-viser to the Collegian, said her depart-ment chair, Daniel Marlos, initially said the cut would be 40 percent of their budget, despite an agreed 15 per-cent cut with Shared Governance.That supposed 40 percent cut came from President Jamillah Moore’s office.
“It just didn’t make sense,” Guess said.
Guess said she found out about the 40 percent cut last Wednesday, Sept. 23, while walking past her chair’s of-
fice going to lecture her Journalism 101 class in the morning.
“He called me over and handed me a budget,” Guess said. “He said, ‘Your budget has been cut.’”
The Collegian’s $25,000 printing budget had been cut to $15,000, a 40 percent decrease.
Marlos told Guess the $10,000 cut was counter to what was agreed to by Shared Governance. Marlos, along with Dean of Academic Affairs Alli-son Jones and Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs Kimberly Perry,
agreed to a 15 percent cut, not 40 per-cent.
“We were all, many departments, to give back 15 percent, but the Colle-gian will be giving back 40 percent of its printing budget,” said Guess.
The 40 percent printing budget cut came from a Contract Request Form with a period of services from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2014, with News-Type Services, Inc., LACCs long time printing vendor said Marlos.
BY GILBERT GUTIERREz IIIDaily Titan Staff Writer
Wednesday September 30, 2009
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Students react to demonstrators
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“I think it’s a little pointless for their purpose because they’re complain-ing that we’re not having class, yet they’re going to walk out of the classes they do have.
– Christian Nall,
English major
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“I think it’s a good thing because [the cut-backs are] affecting a lot of people, so I’m glad they’re fighting for it.
– Hannah Peltzer,
Liberal studies major
See LACC, Page 2
http://www.dailytitan.com/2009/09/CSUF-protest
For a video news package on the protest at Cal State Fullerton, includ-
ing interviews with students, ASI vice president Joe Lopez and vice president of Student Af-fairs Robert L. Palmer, go to Dailytitan.com/csuf-protest
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James Goebel, a philosophy major, marches in protest against the budget cuts and furlough days on campus at CSUF on Sept. 29.
BY JOHN WAYNE MAIORIELLO/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Library sit-in: A student activists who asked to remain anonymous sits on the floor handcuffed to the reception desk of Pollak Library, while other demonstrators protest at 9 p.m. in the lobby. When the Associate University Librarian Elizabeth Housewright came back to the library the student unlocked the cuffs and left when she finished speaking.Students last night protested in Pollak Library and demanded that a campus administrator answer questions. They refused to leave when the library closed at 9 p.m. until their questions about the budget cuts were answered.
BY ANI kELLOGG/For the Daily Titan
Students, fac-ulty, alumni and staff
joined forces to shout pas-sionately about the California
State University’s economic turmoil.Tuesday at Cal State Fullerton just be-
fore noon, the group began it’s march and tore through the Titan Student Union, Becker Amphitheatre, Pollak Library, the Quad and along Nutwood Avenue to protest student fee increases, faculty furloughs and enrollment re-ductions.
President Milton Gordon witnessed the protest when the pack traveled to Nutwood Avenue.
“The students have a great opportunity to protest, and I agree with them. I think they should. I too disagree with the way the state has acted, but you know we were all cut $584 million, and for this cam-pus alone it’s going to be reduced over $38 mil-lion,” he said.
Students inside the Humanities-Social Sci-ences Building stood out on the balcony to look down as the flock ended their tour to rally and show their collective sup-port.
Lauren Vondracek, a senior in women’s studies, shouted to the crowd, “We need to fight back for the faculty that teaches us.” The crowd erupted with clap-ping and cheers. “We are tired of having fee increases and faculty cuts,” Vondracek said. “We are fighting for students’ rights as well as those that cannot afford to go to school because of fee increases.”
The crowd came together at noon to march around the Quad and yelled at the top of their lungs to get the attention of the students and faculty on break: “Hell no, furloughs! Hell no, furloughs!” “No cuts, no fees, education should be free!” and “They say cutbacks! We say fight back!”
“Today it’s kind of a very impromptu cam-paign to get the message out that students, faculty, staff, everyone, we are sick and tired of being the open wallet to the state’s misman-agement and the CSU’s mismanagement,” said professor of social justice Jarret Lovell.
“(Students) have got to get involved,” he added. “There’s a line over by the TSU; it’s called the free money line that ASI is putting out. You want your free money, you’ve got to come here and fight for what’s yours. If they think that people are just going to hand out free money, they’ve got another thing coming
to them. People in power don’t give things away, they have to be taken; and for too long faculty, students, staff have been willing to sacrifice for higher education, and we’re not getting any-thing in return. How do you pay 32 percent more in student fees, and get 10 percent less professors, less classes, it doesn’t make sense.”
At 12:15 p.m. after yelling out their chants to the cars passing by, which gained supportive honks, the demonstration marched down the Titan Walk.
In a line, the group entered the TSU lobby to the surprise of the students in the lounge area. TSU lobby-employees did not wish to comment about the protesters’ disturbance.
Immediately after, the congregation took the stage of the Becker Amphitheatre where the Associated Students Inc. was holding its fall fashion show.
Joe Lopez, ASI vice president, said that he was glad to see a group come together at CSUF, but there’s nothing in the works as far as a col-laboration with the student activists. He would be pleased if the students used ASI’s open door policy to express their grievances.
The crowd then quietly moved through the Pollak Library, but their num-
bers clogged the entrance and exit security gates. Students stopped working to stare as the crowd continued its pro-test.
Professor Mougo Nyag-gah, chapter president of the California Faculty Asso-ciation, said, “CFA is join-ing the students here who are protesting the tuition increases. It went up 32 per-cent this year, and that will keep off very many students from accessing a university education,” Nyaggah said. “For every one dollar the state invests in educating a student, they stand to get $4.41 down the road in
revenue and taxes generated by that person in the future. So it’s a good investment to put money in to educating students in Califor-nia. And it is important to keep the access available to the students, and this cannot be done by continued increases of the fees for the students.”
Nyaggah said that the most important thing is for the people who are concerned about the budget crisis to tell the state, “not
to balance the budget on the backs of the stu-dents.”
Despite some of the protesters dwindling away after an hour, dozens stayed to spread the word throughout the day.
Psychology major Jamie Lynne Hunt said that her father was recently released from CSUF after 15 years of service. “He’s not ex-actly fired, but his job is placed on the back-burner for now,” she said.
The group also has a demonstration planned for Oct. 13.
(Greg Lehman contributed to this article.)
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IN oTher NewSINTerNaTIoNaLBritain’s Brown defends record as labor increases
LONDON (MCT) - Prime Minister gordon Brown attempted to rally a bat-tered Labour Party Tuesday, defending the government's handling of the eco-nomic crisis and vowing to pursue policies that will benefit Britain's "hardwork-ing majority."
Brown said the Labour government's decision to come to the aid of the bank-ing sector last fall served as a model for similar rescues around the world, while other measures boosted small businesses and helped save 500,000 jobs that would otherwise have been lost.
But Brown vowed that the banks would repay the British people and pledged to continue a crackdown on bonuses in the financial sector and regulation of financial markets.
"Markets need what they cannot generate themselves," he said. "They need what the British people alone can bring to them. I say to you today, markets need morals."
Brown vowed the government would make tough decisions on public spend-ing in future years and reiterated a pledge to implement a fiscal-responsibility law that will require cuts in the budget deficit.
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STaTeOwners offer $1 million reward for missing art
PEBBLE BEACH (MCT) -Two Pebble Beach residents say thieves made off with $27 million of artwork Friday from their private collection – a fine-arts haul that included works by rembrandt, Van gogh and Jackson Pollock.
angelo Benjamin amadio said he and his housemate, dr. ralph Kennaugh, a Boston radiation oncologist, returned to their rented Sunridge road home about 6:50 p.m. to find 13 pieces of art and other items stolen.
amadio said Monday they were offering a $1 million reward for the return of the artwork. They issued a prepared statement with the reward offer and a list of artists whose pieces they said were taken.
Monterey county Sheriff’s office spokesman cmdr. Mike richards said: “we are investigating. hopefully, we are going to get some information.”
amadio said they put out the reward offer on advice of their attorney and oth-ers who felt “the critical window had passed to recover the art.”
The Sheriff’s office said the burglary and theft apparently occurred between 1p.m. and about 6:50 p.m. Investigators are “exploring possible suspect leads,” deputies said.
deputies ask anyone with information to call detective Mark Stevens.
CHICAGO (MCT) - after less than two hours, jurors on Tuesday found James degorski guilty of the 1993 slayings of seven people at a Brown’s chicken restaurant in Palatine, Ill.
relatives of one victim wept openly as prosecutors displayed photos of each victim on a giant video screen.
during closing arguments, prosecutors focused primarily on the cred-ibility of their two star witnesses – anne england and eileen Bakalla, who in 2002 broke open the case that had been unsolved for more than nine years.
But prosecutors reminded jurors that each woman was unequivocal in their recollection of degorski’s confession in the days following the January 1993 murders, and each had specific details that only the killers could have revealed to them.
Neither woman, prosecutors argued, had a motive to lie.
UnitedHealth gives grant to nursing departmentBy Portia Bode
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California State University Fullerton’s nursing program receives a donation of $2 million from United Healthcare Tuesday, Sept. 29.
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cal State Fullerton’s depart-ment of Nursing hosted an awards ceremony to celebrate a $2 million grant from Unitedhealth group on Tuesday.
The grant will help fund cSUF department of Nursing’s $3.5 mil-lion expanding healthcare access through a nursing project, which is “aimed at boosting the number of yearly graduates from the cSUF nursing program and provid-ing more highly educated nurses for undeserved and low-income communities, stated a joint press release from cSUF and United-health group.
chandra Torgenson, senior vice president and chief nursing officer of Unitedhealth group, explained that california, as well as the na-tion, has a shortage of nurses. “Unitedhealth group wanted to demonstrate the value of nurses by giving them this grant so they can grow their technology and get bet-ter equipment for their skill’s lab,” Torgenson said.
“Because nursing education is
both labor and resource intensive, there is always a gap between the normal state reimbursement rate and the actual costs incurred by the university in operating the nursing program,” stated President Milton gordon in the press release.
despite a shortage of nurses, there has not been enough funding for colleges to admit more students into their nursing programs, stated the press release. This grant was awarded to cSUF to help alleviate the problem.
“The grant will allow admission of about 124 students over the next four years,” said cindy greenberg, chair of the department of Nurs-
ing. It will also “help to maintain equipment, support faculty and provide adequate facilities.”
“It will provide a great opportu-nity for nursing students who are applying and for those already in the program,” said Sara Barnes, a second cohort entry Level Masters of Science in nursing.
The nursing program has official-ly named its new training facility, funded by Unitedhealth group, the “Unitedhealthcare Nursing Skills Lab,” stated the press release.
“The lab is like a hospital unit with mannequins that students practice on,” which is safer than working with live patients, green-
berg explained. There are different types of mannequins for students to practice on to give them diverse hands-on experience in their field.
“The support of the lab gives us the opportunity to do hands-on stuff to take the knowledge and ap-ply it. It’s the closest thing to the real thing,” said Boudsakhone Sun-dara-Nunez, nursing grad, third class.
Barnes quoted clay P. Bedford as she spoke at the ceremony and said: “You can teach a student a les-son for a day, but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning pro-cess as long as he lives.”
from page 1LaCC: Funding cut 40 percent sounds ‘death knell’
The contract was prepared and signed by Marlos on Sept. 8, with a budget of $25,000. however, the president’s signature is dated on Sept. 22, with a pen mark through the $25,000 figure and $15,000 handwritten above.
Perry stated this contract was a mistake and another has been prepared. She did not know why $10,000 had been reduced from the budget.
however, Marlos said he submit-ted two duplicate contracts, the sec-ond with an understanding that the vice president needed to reduce the budget by 15 or 16 percent. Marlos submitted the first on Sept. 8, and the second request one week later af-ter no response came from the presi-dent’s office. Marlos went to the dean and the vice president, both did not know where the contract went.
“Time was running out, and we needed the contract done so we
could come out on schedule,” Mar-los said. The collegian could not be allowed to print without a renewed contract because printing funds are encumbered in advanced each year, added Marlos.
with a printing contract that had expired June 30, Marlos needed the contract renewal finalized so the col-legian could continue printing.
when Marlos finally received the contract from administrative Ser-vices, he noticed that resubmission was not written across the top, which meant that the original contract had been signed, not the duplicate.
That contract had a note attached which stated, “For your files, please note the total amount was reduced to $15,000 per dr. Moore.”
“So the president took the $25,000 request and lined through it and did not consult me, did not consult the dean, did not consult the vice presi-dent … the 40 percent came from me doing the math, nobody ever
said 40 percent to me,” Marlos said. “and to the best of my knowledge, this was a unilateral decision.”
“Now the story we’re getting is this was a miscommunication,” Mar-los said. The president was apparent-ly not aware of the other contract, added Marlos.
“But there is no explanation why this time-sensitive contract sat around for two weeks without getting a sig-nature,” Marlos said. “There was no indication on why this amount was selected, and there was no input on behalf of any interested parties.”
For a biweekly newspaper, that miscommunication could have forced the paper to run weekly, cut circulation drastically, or constrict the amount of pages the students could publish, said guess.
Based upon the service dates of the contract, the fallout would last five academic years.
“I was absolutely frantic,” guess said. “The last person it goes through is the president. what kind of mis-take is that?”
So frantic, guess drove to Los an-geles Mission college, approximate-ly 22 miles away, to address the cut which she believed to be a retaliation against incidents between collegian staff and President Moore from last year at the Los angeles community college district Board of Trustees Meeting. at that meeting the Board listened to guess, but said that this was something that the board was unable to take up.
Mars Melnicoff, a broadcast jour-nalism student with the collegian, also spoke at the Board meeting, de-scribing an incident at a Town hall Meeting she covered on campus.
during that meeting, which she recorded with her iPhone, Moore singled out and embarrassed Melni-coff publicly simply for recording a public meeting on public property, which is protected under law.
“People have a right to know if they are being recorded if they want that information released,” said Moore during the meeting.
however, administrators of a pub-lic college are “state figures” while on campus, and their personal rights to privacy are transparent regarding ad-ministrative matters, said guess.
even though the collegian will print $21,250 per year given 15 percent, guess projected the paper, which students have filled anywhere from eight to 14 pages, will adhere strictly to eight pages. She also men-tioned the circulation may have to drop from 5,000 copies per issue to 4,000.
The Board also addressed a pro-posal by the Shared government council to shift the collegian from academic affairs to student affairs, making the paper a co-curricular ac-tivity.
That proposal came from Tammy robinson, chair of the english and eSL department and member of the Budget Task Force within Shared
governance, during an Lacc ad-ministrative meeting Thursday, Sept. 24, attended by Marlos and guess.
But for a college on accreditation probation trying to regain its accred-ited status, faculty have been per-plexed as to why the administration would attempt such a drastic reorga-nization of the collegian when the student journalists have continued to win awards for their work.
Under student affairs, the college administration would be responsible for the student media. academic dis-cipline would no longer apply to the collegian staff.
also, the Media arts department may not be able to offer courses numbers 217, 218 and 219: publi-cation laboratory, practical editing, and techniques for staff editors re-spectively, said Marlos.
“we would not have those classes if we did not have a newspaper,” said Marlos. “we would be basically cut-ting an academic program.”
essentially, the collegian would be in the same realm on campus as the math team and debate team, and therefore, susceptible to nonequiva-lent budget cuts.
however, a college newspaper is not a club, said Jean Stapleton, chair of journalism district discipline and chair of the Journalism department for east Los angeles college.
“The paper is part of a degree granting department,” added Staple-ton, “and the students get college credit for it, so it has no business be-ing outside of the academic depart-ments.”
during the meeting last Thursday, guess was told by earic Peters, dean of Student Life, she was responsible for students in the classroom and that given the paper is a “co-curric-ular” activity, student journalists out on campus are the responsibility of the student services, not the academ-ic faculty.
Yet Perry said the Shared govern-ment council for Lacc proposed the shift to save the budget by con-solidating certain programs into dif-ferent spheres of revenue, those pro-grams are the math team and debate team, not for the purpose of shifting a “co-curricular” activity out of aca-demic affairs.
Under academic affairs, the paper brings revenue to the college as a Full Time equivalent Student program, the paper would lose that revenue for the college under student affairs, said Marlos. although there would be more fund potential under stu-dent affairs for the paper, none have been proposed since the administra-tion has only been discussing budget cuts, added Marlos.
“I think our budget is safer un-der academic affairs where it is than going into student services,” added Marlos.
For the oldest community college publication in La, the advent of cam-pus life under student affairs,“will be the death knell of the paper,” said guess.
September 30, 2009 3FEATURES
Seeing the world one living room at a time
Imagine spending the upcoming furlough days partying in Miami or laying on a beach in the Caribbean.
No, the recession has not ended, but couchsurfing.org has arrived.
CouchSurfing.org is an enormous database of people from all over the globe who are willing to lend their couches, or even rooms, to travelers for free.
Founder Casey Fenton, with the help of friends, Daniel Hoffer, Leon-ardo Silveira and Sebastien Letuan, started the Web site in 2004.
Fenton, a proclaimed child of hip-pies with a love for traveling, came up with the idea after deciding to travel to Iceland on a whim.
With nowhere to stay, Fenton decided to access the University of Iceland’s student directory to ask people if he could crash with them. To his surprise, his inbox was soon filled with many “yeses” to count.
After a long plane ride, an amaz-ing adventure and plenty of new friends, Fenton decided there was no other way he would rather travel, and couchSurfing.org was born.
CouchSurfing.org just may be the
solution to traveling on a college stu-dent’s budget; and many Cal State Fullerton students have jumped on board or, at least, would like too.
Edgar Escobedo, a criminal jus-tice major, can’t wait to use the sit after hearing about it. “I’ve been wanting to travel since airfare is low, but couldn’t because hotels are really expensive. Now I’m deciding where I want to go first.”
Fellow CSUF student James McKenney has used CouchSurfing.org and had great experiences.
“As a new traveler, I thought in-viting people in, or staying with peo-ple I didn’t know was either unsafe or just unappealing, and just a way for dudes to get traveling ladies into their living rooms,” he said. “But money got tight, and I decided it wouldn’t hurt to sign up. I decided to host a French-Canadian duo. It was an awesome experience, and we stayed up all night talking about whatever … You can learn some-thing from everyone.”
For those who also may be hesi-tant about letting a stranger sleep on the couch, CouchSurfing.org has created a way to ensure the site is safe through a verification process.
The site has a way for members to post references, as well as a vouch-
ing system in which only members who have met in person can vouch for each other.
For those who are still afraid to camp out with someone they just met, there are other options.
CSUF student Andy Surman en-joys the many options the site has to offer.
“I don’t have a big enough place to let people stay the night, but I like meeting up with people and show-ing them around. It ’s a great way to make new friends.”
Being a member also means get-ting invites to the monthly events as well as other events happening in the area.
This month’s event is “One-Dol-lar Taco Tuesday.” Some past events include a Pajama Barhop, art walks and club night.
Couch surfing is a great way to make new friends. According to the Web site 1,613,972 friendships have already been created.
McKinney perfectly sums it up by saying, “The best part about couch surfing is the people involved. It’s a network of professionals, students, travelers, gypsies, hippies, and any-thing else you can think of, all with a shared passion for meeting people and living life to the fullest.”
Andrew Rivlin has made his couch (here converted into a bed) available to couch surfers and has done some couch surfing around the world himself, including China and India.
PHOTO COURTESY MCT
BY CHRiSTina ZiEMERFor the Daily Titan
September 30, 20094 OPINION
It only took six weeks of school, two fee increas-es, three scheduled and three unscheduled furlough days, classes cut during the first week of school and zero future students admitted until next fall to get Cal State Fullerton students to mobilize and make their voices heard. The fact that 200 plus students joined the protests against the California State University-mandated fee increases is an impressive feat.
Though it pales in comparison to the 35,000 stu-dents that attend CSUF, it is an admirable effort nonetheless. If yesterday’s protests had not gone as well as they did, we planned on writing this editorial calling out the students for their incessant whining coupled with a lack of drive to do anything about it. But with only roughly 200 students joining in the march around campus, it seems there is still room for that to be said.
The protesters made an impact. They made an im-pact when they gathered in the Quad and chanted, “They say cut back, we say fight back.” They made an impact when they marched around the campus and rallied more students to their cause. They made an especially impressive and respectful statement when they marched through the Pol-lak Library, but re-mained silent while they protested inside the building.
One of the most powerful statements made by the group, other than the fact they were actually able to coordinate that many students, was when they marched through the Becker Amphi-theatre while Asso-ciated Students Inc. was holding its fall fashion show. While the group was not as polite as it had been to those in the library, an equally powerful statement was made.
Over the past week, thousands of
students from the UC, CSU and community college systems organized protests regarding budget cuts, tu-ition increases and furlough days at the request of the student organization: “Students Fight Back.”
Cal State Long Beach’s mock funeral last week for the death of California’s “master plan” brought a crowd of hundreds, including faculty and students, while “700 UCLA students and faculty walked out of classes, along with thousands at UC Berkeley, hun-dreds at UC Riverside, UC Irvine and elsewhere,” stated the “Students Fight Back” flyer distributed throughout various public colleges and universities, including CSUF.
The number of students who complain about the new changes implemented on CSU campuses did not mirror the crowd that walked through the campus yesterday. It is not enough to sit back and complain about the current educational economic downfall; you must be able to backup your words with actions.
Close to 40 students met in the quad at 8:30 p.m. yesterday. They entered the library with one purpose: to get answers from someone in charge; and they suc-ceeded, to a degree. Associate University Librarian
Elizabeth House-wright was the one to answer the call, she spoke with the students and an-swered their ques-tions. At least they got results.
This movement can be something more than what we saw yesterday.
True change can be attained if all members of the CSUF community band together for this purpose. It is bigger than one student, one group or one school.
This issue affects all of us, and we all need to do more than just sit back and watch as our school crumbles around us.
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Students rally for rights, where were you?
Waitresses, servers, cashiers, even the weird lady at my laundromat all tell me to “Have a nice day.” And I used to fall for it, every single time.
When I first got here, I would get really excited anytime I went out, and I would call my parents and friends back home and tell them, “Americans are so friendly! Every-one tells me to ‘Have a nice day!’ It’s great!”
Gone was the stereotype I had about gruff Americans who hated the weird foreign exchange student.
I even got really excited when I would get checks after dinner be-cause all the cute waitresses would write their names and a little heart or smiley face on my check. I would think, “Hey, she likes me!”
It was all a sham; people weren’t being nice to me to be nice to me.
I eventually realized that the rea-son for this is very simple, and sadly non-altruistic: they just wanted my money. I won’t tell you how long it took me because it’s longer than I’d like to admit, but I eventually did get with the program.
Service industries cost a lot in America. A professor on campus told me that his plumber made more than he did in a year. My hairdresser charges about $40 for a haircut (I stopped going there, though, be-cause it was too far, I was too broke and they kind of messed it up one
Alien in America“From the inside looking out”
‘Have a nice day’by Isa GHanI
Daily Titan Multimedia [email protected]
time), and waiters can make more than double their basic monthly sal-ary in tips.
Paying people for their service and time in America isn’t cheap, as opposed to where I’m from.
In California, minimum wage is $8.50 per hour.
Exchange rate included, waiters in Malaysia make exactly USD $1.428 per hour and in there are no tips.
Instead of a tipping system, we charge an extra 10 percent to the bill and call it a “service” charge. That money is then used to help pay the waiter’s wages; i.e. their monthly paycheck. I know all this because I used to be a waiter, and when you don’t get tips, believe me, you don’t really care to be nice to people.
That’s why I’m used to indifferent service in restaurants, where wait-ers yell out orders across the room, plates are unceremoniously dumped onto your table and you better not ask for that second glass of free ice water unless you want some bubbly spit in it.
It was a rare occasion when you would find a nice waiter or waitress who was not only polite, but helpful too (because one without the other is pretty useless). But it was kind of nice to get that “no-nonsense” ap-proach. You come, you order, you eat, then you get the hell out of the restaurant because someone else wants your table.
Here, everyone is really friendly. But that’s because they want more than the usual 15 percent from you.
Waiters know if they are rude, un-helpful or slow, they will not get as big a tip from you that night. But if they are friendly, helpful and ef-ficient, they might get a couple dol-lars extra.
Oh, and it helps if they are beauti-ful and flirty too. Call me a sucker, but hey, that approach works on me.
It’s kind of nice when waiters go out of their way to be nice to you, from writing smiley faces on your checks, to checking on you through-out your meal. But being used to the no-nonsense approach, there are times when it can get annoying.
It annoys me when waiters bring the check early, before you’re fin-ished with the after-meal chitchat.
It bugs me when waiters come in to take my plate or drink before I am actually completely done with it (that last piece of rib-eye was there for a reason: I was saving it for last).
And I absolutely hate it when your server drops by your table every five minutes to ask: “How is every-one doing tonight? Is everyone okay? Can I get you anything else?”
I usually just want to reply, “We’re fine. Can you just leave me alone now?” But I know better than to mess with the people who bring you food.
When people in restaurants tell you to “Have a nice day,” they usu-ally don’t mean it, which I find a little depressing. But when I say it, I actually mean it.
So really, have a nice day.
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Women’s rugby club President Vanessa Kelly works on techinique.By Randy odhiamBo foR the daily titan.
By BRandon angelDaily Titan Staff Writer
Women’s rugby revivedWomen’s rugby at Cal State Ful-
lerton is returning for the first time in 21 years.
recruitment has been difficult according to club president Vanessa Kelly and marketing and fundraising coordinator randy odhiambo, who spearheaded the effort of bringing back women’s rugby to CSUF for the first time since 1988.
According to Kelly, a huge prob-lem is that most women on campus are unaware that there is a women’s rugby club being formed to begin with.
“I work out at the student fitness Center and ask other women if they would be interested in playing rugby on campus,” Kelly said. “Most of
they go running in the opposite di-rection, but I believe that it’s cool and refreshing to see a girl get hit and roll around and get down and dirty in the dirt without a skirt.”
Freshman Marin Jensen, a fel-low rugby club member, just wants women on campus to give it a shot and look past the stereotype that it is a man’s game.
“My mom hasn’t exactly come around to me playing rugby,” Jens-en said. “But my dad on the other hand, told me to go for it. He said ‘if something happens to you we’ll just take you the doctor and get you fixed.’”
As of right now there are only 16 women on the team.
Ideally, Kelly would like to see 22 women on the team because that is the amount of jerseys she has avail-able.
It takes 15 to play a game, but with only one sub available, Kelly won’t have much to work with. In rugby, once a player is substituted, the player cannot return to the game.
“realistically, it will be hard to get 30 to come out, but if I could get 28 women to come out, that would be great,” Kelly said. “If I could sub one squad for another squad I would be ecstatic.”
Kelly knows that recruiting more women for rugby is going to be a dif-ficult process, but she insists she is up for the task.
As a freshman at CSUF, she will have four years to build the rugby program into what she hopes will become a permanent mainstay here on campus.
“I’ve always believed that you have to do what drives you and be pas-sionate about what you do,” Kelly said. “When I graduate from CSUF I want people to be able to say that rugby isn’t just a man’s sport, it’s a woman’s sport too.”
The women have begun practic-ing in preparation for the league, which starts in January. The team practices on Mondays and Wednes-days in front of the Student Health Center on campus.
the time I get a surprised look, and a look of ‘women play rugby here at CSUF?’”
rugby has been a sport played by men up until the 1970s. A U.S. Women’s National team was formed in 1987, so the sport is relatively new to women in the U.S.
The stereotype that only men play rugby has been part of the reason why it has been difficult for Kelly to get more women to come out and play.
Another reason why women re-fuse to play is because rugby is a rough game. In rugby there are no pads, unlike in American football. Kelly insists that although rugby is a physical game, it is an intelligent, skilled and technical game as well.
“A lot of women are afraid to play because men play the sport,” Kelly said. “When the girls see no pads
Titan juniors tabbed as top 25 college draft prospects
By juan saucedoDaily Titan Staff Writer
Cal State Fullerton baseball in-fielders Gary Brown and Christian Colon share similar mindsets when it comes to approaching the game – work hard and good things will happen.
But that’s not where their simi-larities end.
Brown and Colon, both juniors, were selected as freshman All-Amer-icans during their first year with the titans; they both played in the infield last season and they’re also roommates.
Now the duo shares one more distinction by being selected as two of the top 25 college draft prospects for next year’s 2010 Major League Baseball Draft by Baseball America, one of the premiere baseball publica-tions.
Brown and Colon joined Univer-sity of Arkansas’ Brett Eibner and Zack Cox as the only schools to have multiple players on this year’s list, according to the CSUF athletics Web site.
“It’s huge for the pro-gram to have two guys on the list,” Co-lon said, also adding that he thinks they have the great-est coaches in the country on their side.
Colon, who has a hitting average of .343 in his career at CSUF, said he is delighted to be chosen as a top prospect, but that he’s not going to let it get to his head.
“We still have to go out there and perform,” said Colon, who was
named this year’s summer league player of the Year by Baseball Amer-ica.
Brown, a .319 hitter with eight homers and 67 rBI’s in his career at CSUF, acknowledged that making the top 25 is an honor but he feels that the list is just someone’s opin-ion. It doesn’t guarantee that they’ll make the MLB.
“obviously I feel good, but it’s not something that I’m worried about right now,” said Brown, add-
ing that he’s more focused on trying to prepare for the upcoming season.
However, Brown did find it excit-ing that he was picked a l o n g s i d e Colon, who played beside
him for most of last season.“He has been my closest friend,”
Brown said. Colon, who is rehabbing from a
broken leg which he suffered near the end of summer league, said his parents were really excited when
they heard the news. This is just a small step towards his ultimate goal of playing professionally.
“My goals were always to play in college and then in the MLB,” Co-lon said.
Mike Greenlee, assistant media relations director for baseball and women’s volleyball at CSUF, said the primary focus of publications such as Baseball America is to evaluate talent at all levels.
Greenlee said he sees the whole thing as an infinite cycle: having a player being considered a top pros-pect facilitates the program’s recruit-ing, which helps the team get better players year in and year out.
talented players definitely help the team do well during the season, which leads to some of these stu-dent-athletes being considered top prospects.
to have Colon and Brown being selected as two of the top prospects this year demonstrates the high cali-ber of student-athletes at the school, he said.
“CSUF strives to go out there and find talent that they could turn into extraordinary talent,” Greenlee said. “We continue to provide, in and out, year by year, talent that competes at the highest level.”
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“CSUF strives to go out there and find talent that they could turn into extraordinary talent.
– Michael Greenlee, CSUF Media relations