Faculty demand more fight and accountability from CSU Trustees

(CSULA--UT) Faculty mem-bers from throughout the Cali-fornia State University system traveled to Long Beach on Tuesday to make their case to the CSU Board of Trustees about how to pull the system out of its worst financial tur-moil ever. The CSU system faces $584 million in budget cuts and trustees are expected to take drastic action in late July at the next board meeting concerning the deficit.

Meanwhile, after several weeks of opposition, the CFA Board of Directors voted on Tuesday to put the Chancellor’s pro-posal for a two-day-a-month furlough (equivalent to a 9.5 percent reduction in pay dur-ing the 2009/10 academic year) to a vote of the CFA membership. CFA is mak-ing no recommendation to its members on how to vote. “We urge all members to weigh in on this difficult decision,” said CFA president Lillian Taiz.

Taiz said, “After a great deal of back and forth, it is now clear that the CSU Chancellor has rejected CFA’s demands that his furlough proposal include a proportionate reduction in the faculty’s workload.”

The CSU furlough proposal was made to save classes and jobs. But the Chancellor has declined CFA’s demands to guarantee further class or job cuts.

Voting will be conducted on-line beginning on Monday, July 13 and ending at noon on July 20. All active CFA mem-bers will be eligible to vote in this election.

Faculty who attended the Tues-

day trustee meeting addressed the board with an open letter calling on them to take a clear and unequivocal stand against cuts in the education system.

The letter argues that CSU board members have been making statements to the ef-fect that CSU budget cuts are a foregone conclusion instead of speaking out against these cuts. “Statements like these are profoundly dishearten-ing to the faculty, staff, and students of the CSU,” the letter said. “Moreover, they are statements that signal ev-eryone—elected leaders and the broader public—that it is ‘okay,’ even ‘reasonable,’ to cut the CSU to shreds. They are statements that hasten and in-deed facilitate the process.”

CFA members also asked the trustees to support two legisla-tive proposals that increase ed-ucation funding and account-ability

They said they are mystified at the reluctance of the Board of

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Hey-o everyone, hope ya’ll are having a good week. You might not be if you already knew about all the ridiculous stuff going down around you.

First and most disgusting-ly, we have Michael Jack-son’s funeral. You would think that he had been a president, a pope and a su-perhero what with the city of LA paying for his Sta-

ples Center tribute. $4 million for it. That’s right, our tax dol-lars footed the bill. Also, they closed

off the 5 freeway and the 134 freeway for his funeral procession, at 9am on a work day. So add the mon-etary loss of productivity and that $4 million jumps higher. We don’t know about you, but any funeral that gives out press passes seems a little hinky to us.

We get he was famous, and we get that appar-ently nothing else has hap-pened at all in the entire world since he died (or so it would seem) but this is just exploitative and gross.

But hitting closer to home than that is the impending closure of Dolcini’s café. Look, we are barely a real university. Our food court closes at 8pm, our library closes at 10pm, and the campus is closed for the most part on the week-ends even though we have dorms. If you went to any other college and heard how ours works, you’d laugh and assume CSU-LA is a community college

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Senator Leland Yee has proposed legislation to make CSU foundations’ finances more transparent

SCANDAL FOLLOWS UC CHANCELLORIncoming UC Davis Chancellor under fire over admissions cor-ruption at former job

(CSULA- UT) The incom-ing chancellor at UC Davis, Linda Katehi, is probably not enjoying her vacation in Greece.

Katehi is scheduled to take over the reins as chancellor at UC Davis next month, but an admissions scandal at her former job at the Uni-versity of Illinois is threat-ening to derail her position.

For several months there have been reports of cor-ruption within the admis-sions process at UI, with hundreds of “clout admis-sions” given to unqualified applicants who had influen-

tial parents or family friends.

“Investigation found that hundreds of applicants over the past five years received admissions to the Univer-sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign despite weak academic records after in-fluential people sent emails and placed calls on their be-half,” the Chicago Tribune reported. Katehi is currently the provost at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and oversees the admissions department.

The United States Attor-ney’s Office has launched a formal investigation and issued subpoenas asking for all paperwork and commu-nication records that took place between the Univer-

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday defended his propos-als to reform welfare and other social programs as negotiations over closing California’s $26.3 billion deficit remained frozen.

Democrats are upset that Schwarzenegger has demand-ed the reforms as part of any budget-balancing deal, saying such issues should be discussed separately from the state’s annual spending plan. The governor’s office says his reforms will save taxpayers $1.7 billion a year, a figure disputed by advocates for the poor.

At a Wednesday news confer-ence, Schwarzenegger stood by his proposal to drop welfare re-cipients if they cannot show they are training or looking for work.

“We’ll give you the bootstrap, but you have to pull yourself up,” the governor said.

Administration officials said California’s policies have allowed poor people to stay on welfare longer than the federal five-year cap.

John Wagner, director of the state Department of Social Ser-vices, said lax sanctions have led to a high number of welfare re-

cipients in California. He said California is home to 30 percent of all welfare families nationwide who are receiving federal cash assistance, compared to 3 per-cent in Texas and 7 percent in New York. California accounts for 12 percent of the nation’s to-tal population.

Schwarzenegger said his pro-posed policy changes would match sanctions already imposed by other states when families fail to meet work requirements.

The governor’s office says the proposals would save money by eliminating support services for families not meeting work re-quirements and reduce the time a family can receive cash assis-tance to two years, down from the federal maximum of five years.

He also would require those fam-ilies not meeting work participa-tion rules to see a caseworker ev-ery six months.

Schwarzenegger said the Demo-cratic-controlled Legislature has put off such reforms for far too long.

“It’s always important to have a safety net ... but not to abuse the safety net,” the governor said.

Wednesday – June 1711:45 a.m. Engineering and Technology BuildingStolen department laptop from room C163 in the E/T Building. Case suspended.

Friday – June 2610:03 a.m. Golden Eagle BuildingPetty theft from inside the building. Case sus-

pended.

Monday – June 29Time Unknown - Off CampusFalse representation to an officer. Case closed by ar-rest.

Monday – June 297:42 p.m. Parking Lot 7Vandalism with aerosol paints. Case closed by ar-rest.

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sity of Illinois officials.

In her defense Katehi released an email stating that she had “no knowledge of the corrupt admissions process and that such decisions were handled at a higher level in the institu-tion.”

However an examination of the records show that Katehi’s signature was found at least 50 times on documents relating to the so-called “Category 1” student applicants that were given preferential treatment.

On Monday Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) repeat-ed his call for the UC Regents to re-think the appointment and said that Katehi should admit her involvement in the scandal.

When the details of her job package was announced in May, Sen. Yee introduced a State Constitution Amend-ment (SCA 21) that would put the autonomy of the Regents before the voters of California on the next state-wide ballot.

“There is absolutely no justi-fication for such a bloated sal-ary,” said Senator Yee in June.

The Regents approved a com-pensation package for Katehi that included a $400,000 sal-ary, University housing, a $9,000 annual automobile al-lowance, relocation expenses now and when leaving the position, a guaranteed fac-ulty position after leaving the Chancellor’s office (that comes with a low-interest home loan) and a pension and health care benefits.

In an email sent to UC Presi-dent Mark Yudof from her Grecian holiday, Katehi reiter-ated her innocence, saying in part “All I did was inquire as to the status of (one) student’s application. I took no action and made no effort to alter, influence, or interfere with the admissions decision of this ap-plicant.”

On Monday, Regent Yudof told the San Francisco Chron-icle “At this point, I haven’t seen anything that would cause me to lose confidence in Dr. Katehi.”

GOV. DEFENDS WELFARE REFORM PLAN

EXCHANGE STUDENT CLUB’S 1ST ANNIVERSARY

On June 6, 2009, more than sixty students faculty and guests gathered together in the Golden Eagle Ballroom 2 to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the United Exchange Students Club at CSULA. The tables were decorated with beauti-ful centerpieces, and miniature national flags from around the world. Carrie M. Grice, the President and founder of the Club, welcomed students, faculty and guests. She intro-duced the history and goals of the organization. She pointed out that the idea of establish-ing the Club came out spontaneously in Fall 2008. The welcoming speech was followed by the recognition ceremony, led by Ms. Jennifer Amaya, Adviser for Study Abroad & Exchange Programs. In her inspiring speech she stressed the importance of International Programs and Services (IPS) in everyone’s life pursuing high goals in career and educa-tion. Ms. Amaya explained the great importance of being global citizens of tomorrow. She congratulated the Club for its anniversary wishing success and hoping that such celebra-tion will become a tradition. She also announced the names of the 2009-2010 outbound international and national scholarship winners.

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TAKE NOTE“The Art of Chess: The Munitz Chess Collection”

The exhibit features selections from the 52 fine chess sets and more than 350 volumes of chess literature do-nated by Cal State L.A. Trustee Profes-sor and former CSU Chancellor Barry Munitz to the University Library Special Collections.

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Gay frat promotes tolerance

(CSULA- UT) There are only 19 campuses, out of some 2,000 colleges, throughout the United States that currently have a chapter of the Delta Lambda Phi, the only na-tional gay fraternity that provides a safe place for homosexuals to be openly gay in the Greek commu-nity, according to a recent article in U Magazine.

Apparently, the idea of living together in one fra-ternity house with one’s fellow “brothers” can be overwhelming for those who are first-timers in the community, especially when one may be attracted physically to another male.

“We’re not just a house for gay men, we’re a place for progressive, open-minded men,” says Delta Lamb-da Phi member, Joseph Criswell, a junior at East-ern Michigan University. “We are the only nation-wide fraternity that does not discriminate on the ba-

sis of sexual orientation.”

According to UMagazine, most studies say that 10 percent of the population is gay and that statistic hold true for the Greek sys-tem as well. “In fact, gays may be the minority group most fully integrated into the Greek system-and the most alienated.”

Not only is the issue of homosexuality among fra-ternity brothers not wide-ly discussed in the Greek community, it is also a dif-ficult conversation to have for incoming pledge mem-bers. It makes the decision to be a Greek and gay an uncomfortable and com-promising one.

UMagazine profiles Ryan VanMeter, a college fresh-men from a small, Mid-western town, who de-scribes the difficulty of joining a fraternity and “coming out” to his fellow fraternity brothers.

In his freshmen year, Van-Meter joined the Delta Chi fraternity. One of his big-

gest concerns was trying to inform his fellow brothers that he was gay. VanMe-ter said that on two occa-sions he tried to inform his fraternity brothers of his sexual orientation. One brother accepted him, while another, said VanMeter, “tried to save him” from his ways. This ultimately caused VanMe-ter to move out and leave the fraternity in his junior year.

“So many of our activi-ties are heterosexually based,” says VanMeter. “How would [my fraterni-ty brothers] react if I were to bring guys to parties? When they’re kissing their girlfriends on the dance floor, how would they react if I started kissing a guy friend? I don’t think that there’s a place for gays in the Greek community.”

Many suggest that frater-nities should not only deal with the issue itself but also promote tolerance and acceptance of people with “different sexual ori-entations.”

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and a lame one at that.

But now, they want to close the ONE single thing that isn’t some corporate con-glomerate? I guess this should come as no surprise seeing that the campus has a Pepsi/Frito leadership office in the library, but couldn’t the school be a little more subtle about being corporate shills?

Our favorite part is where University Auxiliary Servic-es, the people who make the decisions on who gets shut down, said that Dolcini’s may be turned into a place for students to relax and study. Yeah, we hate to break it to you UAS, but that’s what Dolcinis is already.

No, they want to replace Dolcini’s with Astroturf and ugly uncomfortable metal tables, like they did by the Physical Sciences building. Having a hard time remem-bering what were talking about? Maybe that’s because not a single damn person uses those. They are stupid, garish and are another blem-ish on the bruised and beaten face of the campus.

If the ear seems unusually negative this week, we apolo-gize. It’s just, a sense of hope-less futility seems to have that effect. People signed petitions and vocalized their unhappi-ness, and it has fallen on deaf ears. The bottom line is this school could care less about what its students want.

The bottom line is MONEY.

And I guess Starbucks has enough to pay UAS to shut down its competition. It’s like the Mafia.

The only way things change is if we demand change. We have been told that this is how the school works, and there is no other way. As Orwell wrote in 1984, peo-ple don’t rebel if they never knew I time in which things were better than they are to-day. Well, this school doesn’t have to be a cheap dime-store imitation of a real uni-versity. We could have every-thing we want, but first it has to start somewhere. Why not start with fighting to keep the mom and pop café that most of us have come to love? De-mand change.

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work by developing a free operating system that will attack Microsoft Corp.’s golden goose — its long-dominant Win-dows franchise.

The new operating system will be based on Google’s 9-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community of open-source pro-grammers to develop the Chrome operating system, which is expect-ed to begin running computers in the second half of 2010.

The early versions of the Chrome operating system will be tailored for “netbooks,” a breed of low-cost, less powerful laptop comput-ers that are becoming increasingly popular among budget-conscious consumers primarily interested in surfing the Web.

That is a direct challenge to Mi-crosoft, whose next operating sys-tem, Windows 7, is being geared for netbooks as well as larger computers.

The vast majority of netbooks al-ready run on Windows, and that is unlikely to change unless Google can demonstrate the Chrome operating system is a significant improvement, said Forrester Re-search analyst Paul Jackson. He pointed out that many customers had returned the original net-books that used open-source al-ternatives to Windows.

“It was not what people expect-ed,” he said. “People wanted Windows because they knew how to use it and knew how applica-tions worked.”

Google struck a confident tone in a blog posting late Tuesday night announcing its operating system. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company believes it can stream-line the operating system to im-prove speed and reduce security threats.

“We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — com-puters need to get better,” wrote Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product manage-ment, and Linus Upson, Google’s engineering director.Microsoft hadn’t responded to requests for comment through Wednesday.

Investors seemed to be betting on Google Wednesday as its shares rose $6.82, or 1.7 percent, to $403.45 in afternoon trading while shares in Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft fell 29 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $22.24.

The success of the Chrome oper-ating system will likely hinge on its acceptance among computer manufacturers that have been loy-al Windows customers for years, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst for the research group Directions on Microsoft. “Most people, when they get a new operating system, they get it with their PC,” he said. “I don’t think most people think much about their operating sys-tems.”

If enough computer manufac-turers embrace the Chrome op-erating system, it could weaken Microsoft while opening up new avenues for Google to persuade consumers and businesses to use its suite of online applications and other Internet services, generating more opportunities for Google to

sell lucrative Internet ads.

Getting consumers and businesses to switch to computers powered by a new operating system won’t be easy, as Google has learned from the introduction of Chrome. Google says about 30 million people are using Chrome, a small fraction of the Web surfers who

rely on Microsoft’s market-lead-ing Internet Explorer.

Microsoft’s Windows operating system has been even more domi-nant for a longer period time de-spite challenges from Apple Inc. and various systems based on Linux, the same type of open-source software that Google plans to use.

“It’s going to be tough,” Standard & Poor’s equity analyst Scott Kes-sler said of Google’s foray into PC

GOOGLE’S REACH OVER COMPUTERS CONTINUES TO GROW WITH NEW OS

operating systems. “The reality is that as the importance of a device or task increases, people have a much lower inclination to con-sider a change.”

Businesses will be especially reluc-tant to abandon Windows because, on average, about 70 percent of their applications are designed to

run on that, said Gartner Inc. ana-lyst Michael Silver.

“This is going to generate a lot of hype, but it will probably be three to five years before it has any noticeable impact on the market,” Silver said.

Consumers are likely to be more tempted to experiment with the Chrome operating system be-cause it probably will decrease netbook prices even further. Mi-crosoft’s operating system typi-cally adds $50 to $100 to a com-puter’s price, Silver said.

If the Chrome operating sys-tem gains market momentum, it could raise antitrust concerns, depending on how Google ties the software with its other prod-ucts, including its dominant In-ternet search engine. Microsoft had faced such complaints in the U.S. and Europe in packaging Windows with its now-dominant Internet Explorer browser.

Chrome will run on the same x86 microprocessors that now power Windows and Apple Inc.’s Mac computers, as well as ARM chips used in smart phones.

Google has already introduced an operating system for smart phones and other mobile devices, called Android, that vies against various other systems, includ-ing ones made by Microsoft and Apple.

The Android system worked well enough to entice some computer

makers to begin developing net-books that will run on it. Acer Inc., the world’s third-largest PC maker, said last month it would begin offering Android netbooks, saying it would cut costs and like-ly help computers start up more quickly.

Google, though, apparently be-lieves a Chrome-based system will be better suited for netbooks.

The duel between Google and Microsoft has been steadily esca-lating in recent years as Google’s dominance of the Internet’s lu-crative search market has given it the means to threaten Microsoft in ways that few other companies can.

Google already has rankled Mi-crosoft by luring some of its top employees and developing an online package of computer pro-grams that provide an alternative to Microsoft’s top-selling word processing, spreadsheet and cal-endar applications.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been trying to thwart Google by in-vesting billions of dollars to im-prove its own Internet search and advertising systems — to little avail so far. In the past month or so, though, Microsoft has been winning positive reviews and picking up more users with its search upgrade, Bing.

Now Google is aiming for Micro-soft’s financial jugular with the Chrome operating system.

Microsoft has drawn much of its power — and profits — from the Windows operating system that has steered most personal com-puters for the past two decades.

Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, and its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have not concealed their disdain for Windows.

Schmidt maintains Microsoft sometimes unfairly rigs its oper-ating system to limit consumer choices — something that Mi-crosoft has consistently denied doing. Google fears Microsoft could limit access to its search engine and other products if Windows is set up to favor Mi-crosoft products.

Schmidt and Brin are expected to discuss Google’s new operat-ing system this week when they appear at a media conference hosted by Allen & Co. at the Sun Valley resort in Idaho. They had not arrived at the conference Wednesday afternoon as other participants finished up their lunch and set out for a whitewa-ter rafting trip.

The new logo for Google Chrome, Google’s first foray into Op-erating Systems. Designed to look like an all-seeing eye.

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Dealing with the death of a legend

Musical Chart top-pers all gathered last weekend at

the historic Shrine auditori-um for The 9th Annual BET Music Award Show. Usually a highly energetic show, this year it proved to be a meet-ing of the hearts. With the passing of Michael Jacksons on June 25th, BET changed the production of the show. Artists Beyonce and Kenye West, among others, gath-ered to pay their respects to the man who inspired and contributed to their careers.

From the red carpet to the stage, artist, actors and fans alike were compelled to ex-press their deepest emotions for the “King of Pop”. Some were unable to contain their tears. Musical artists Jamie Foxx and Neyo wore a repli-ca of the iconic jacket, shiny glove and socks in commem-oration of Jackson. After a series of artists performed a number of Michael Jack-son’s hits, a teary eyed Janet Jackson spoke of the grati-tude that she and her fam-ily have for Michael Jackson fans. She ended her speech by simply saying, “to you, he’s an icon, to us he’s fam-ily.” Joe Jackson, Michaels father also made a rare ap-pearance.

Jackson died in his Holmby

Hills mansion at the age of 50. At 12:30 pm, LA fire Department responded to a 911 call that “a man was un-conscious.” Paramedics ar-rived to find the pop star not breathing. CPR was admin-istered at the scene and Jack-son was rushed to UCLA Medical Center where they were unable to revive him. As of date, the cause of death is unknown.

Jackson’s funeral was held Tuesday, July 7th at Forrest Lawn Mortuary in Holly-wood Hills. A memorial was held for the singer on Tues-day at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where just two days before his death, he was recorded rehearsing for what would have been his 50-city tour, due to begin in July in London. Fans of Michael Jackson registered to attend the memorial through a web site run by Staples Center. Chosen randomly by lottery, 11,000 tickets were distribut-ed to the general public free of charge.

The memorial not only shed light on Jackson as an en-tertainer but also the type of person he was in his per-sonal life. Friends and fam-ily recounted funny stories about Jackson and expressed how deeply they will miss him, ending with Jackson’s daughter, Paris, saying “he was the best dad you could ever imagine.”

TRIBUTES TO MICHAEL JACKSON

Michael Jackson had an extensive yet tarnished career that spanned decades.

Trustees to support AB 656, a bill that would create a dedi-cated funding stream for the CSU by taxing oil revenues. “Although CFA presented in-formation about AB 656 at two Trustees meetings and pro-vided numerous opportunities to learn about it, CSU leaders have yet to schedule even a dis-

cussion of the bill, much less endorse it,” the letter said.

CFA also complained about lobbying by CSU against Sena-tor Leland Yee’s proposed leg-islation to extend transparency to CSU auxiliaries. “It is always unseemly for a public servant to spend taxpayer dollars to cam-paign against accountability to those same taxpayers,” the let-ter said.

Earlier this month an investiga-tive reporter exposed improper loans were being made by a So-noma State University founda-tion to one of its trustees. The article has touched off a storm of complaints about CSU foundations’ handling of funds. Below we reprint Nathan Halv-erston’s inverstigative article on Sonoma State University’s cur-rent troubles.

Developer was member of endowment’s board

The Sonoma State Uni-versity Academic Foun-dation stands to lose

hundreds of thousands of dollars on a $1.25 million loan it made to Clem Carinalli, a former SSU foundation board member who announced in May he is unable to pay some of his creditors.

The loan was one of more than two dozen loans made by the foundation to individuals and businesses during the 1990s and the early part of this decade.

Carinalli’s company, Sonoma Mortgage & Investment Co., ar-ranged more than two-thirds of those loans, according to mort-gage documents filed with the county.

The projected loss on the loan made by the foundation to its for-mer board member comes at a time when the university is facing sharp cuts in state funding and an endowment fund devastated by the losses on Wall Street.

The university expects it will have to reduce the number of scholar-ships awarded in the 2010-2011 academic year as a result of the losses in its endowment fund.

Carinalli is Sonoma County’s largest individual land owner with properties valued at $65 million, according to county tax records, but he is working to avoid bankruptcy after the real estate downturn left him unable to make payments to some of his lenders.

University officials were unable to answer Wednesday how a for-mer foundation board member and his company arranged and received personal loans from the organization. Nor were they able to answer if Carinalli was a board member when the loans were made.

SSU President Ruben Armiñana declined to comment for this story.

The nonprofit foundation was es-tablished in 1974 to receive and invest donations made to the uni-versity. Its $31million endowment fund is used to pay for hundreds of university programs, ranging from scholarships to on-campus exhibits and studies.

Two outstanding loans made to

Carinalli represent almost 5per-cent of the university’s endow-ment fund, which already de-clined about 25 percent between June 2008 and March 2009 due to Wall Street losses.

The smaller endowment fund is expected to result in fewer schol-arships for the academic year be-ginning in fall 2010, said Patricia McNeill, SSU’s vice president for development and president of the foundation’s board.

“There will be some impact,” she said.

The foundation has postponed making any decisions on how it will change its distribution of funds given its smaller endow-ment, McNeill said. Scholarships represented about 30 percent of the $1.9 million distributed by the endowment last year.

The university is already facing significant cuts in state funding, which will have a greater impact on the university than its dimin-ished endowment, McNeill said.

The foundation is legally struc-tured as a separate organization from the university, but it has no full-time employees. It hires an outside firm to manage its in-vestments, but the private loans would have been approved by the foundation’s officers and board members, McNeill said.

Its officers are all SSU executives, including Armiñana, SSU Chief Financial Officer Laurence Furu-kawa-Schlereth and McNeill.

Foundation board members must approve any private loans made to individuals, McNeill said.

But McNeill was not able to say how that process worked, be-cause she has been working with the foundation only for the past two years, during which time no private loans were made, she said.

The last private loan made by the foundation was in 2003 to vintner and vegetable grower John Bal-letto, a longtime business partner of Carinalli’s. Balletto repaid the $1.5 million loan in 2007, ac-cording to county records that track any loan secured with land located in Sonoma County.

Like most of the 26 private loans made by the foundation between 1990 and 2003, Carinalli’s com-pany arranged Balleto’s loan from the foundation, according to the land records.

Sonoma Mortgage arranged its first SSU foundation loan in 1994 for Wade and Pamela Olson and Florence Porter. It was only the fourth time the foundation had made a private loan, according to county records. That $300,000 loan is still being paid off.

Carinalli used his company to ar-range a loan for himself the next year, 1995. Armiñana was presi-dent of the university at the time.

By the late 1990s, the foundation was issuing several private loans a year, according to county records. Carinalli received six of the 18 loans arranged by his company.

Two of Carinalli’s loans from the foundation are still outstand-ing — one for $1.25million and another for $232,500, according to McNeill and the foundation’s most recent annual financial fil-ing.

This spring, Carinalli informed the university’s foundation he would cease making interest pay-ments on the larger loan, accord-ing to the university. So far, he has continued to make payments, university officials said.

In a closed-door meeting ar-ranged by Carinalli on Tuesday, he told lenders it would take three to four years until he might be able to repay the principals of his loans and that he could not pay any interest.

If that holds true, Sonoma State’s foundation is expected to lose be-tween $262,500 and $350,000 in interest payments it will not col-lect. It will lose more if Carinalli isn’t able to repay the loan’s prin-cipal amount in full.

The foundation was told the smaller loan would continue gen-erating interest payments total-ling $22,087 annually, McNeill said.

She was unable to clarify why one loan was still receiving inter-est payments while the other was not.

Carinalli did not return a phone call requesting comment. He has consistently declined comment regarding his financial troubles.

Nathan Halverson can be reached at nathan.halverson@pressdemocrat.com.

Reprinted with permission from The Press Democrat

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Burns To Make Start For Brew-ers; Morales Begins Pro Baseball Ca-reer

LOS ANGELES – While Issac Morales got his pro-fessional baseball career off to a promising beginning last month, another former Golden Eagle pitcher made his first Major League Base-ball start on Thursday, June 25. Mike Burns, who earned All-California Collegiate Athletic Association honors twice for CSULA in 1999 and 2000, started for the Milwaukee Brewers against the Minnesota Twins. Burns, originally drafted by the Houston Astros in the 30th round in 2000, has

made 46 Major League appearances for Houston, Cincinnati and Boston – all in relief. He signed with Mil-waukee in the off-season. Burns pitched four score-less innings for the Brewers earlier this month, but has spent the bulk of the 2009 season with the Triple-A Nashville Sounds, where he is 7-2 with a 2.55 earned run average in 12 starts. He was recalled by the Brewers on June 24 to make the start on Thursday, June 25. “I’m really excited,” Burns told MLB.com. “I’ve spent all my time (in the Majors) in the bullpen, so it’s going to be fun.” Burns, who began his CSU-LA career as a shortstop, earned 13 wins as a pitcher over his final three seasons with the Golden Eagles. He was 5-3 with a 3.26 earned run average in 1999 as a ju-nior and was 5-5 with a 3.44 earned run average as a se-nior in 2000. He made his Major League debut for the Astros in 2005 and he also made relief appearances in 2006 for the Reds and Red Sox. He pitched in the Cubs’ minor league system in 2008 and was signed by the Brewers in January. Morales, who recorded a 24-8 record in his just-com-pleted four-year CSULA career, tossed two scoreless innings on Tuesday, June 23 for the Gulf Coast League Marlins. Morales, who fin-ished his collegiate career

with more wins than any pitcher in the program’s history, was selected by the Marlins in the 34th round. He came on in relief and allowed one hit, walked one and struck out five in his first two innings of work. Travis Tartamella, mean-while, has reported to the Johnson City Cardinals and is awaiting his first playing action. He was taken in the 19th round by the St. Louis Cardinals after a brilliant season as catcher for the Golden Eagles. He earned All-CCAA and All-West Region honors for CSULA Henry Contreras, another CSULA catcher who was drafted in 2008 by the Se-attle Mariners in the 24th round, is back with the Ari-zona League Mariners. He hit .345 for the club in 2008. Derrick Loop, who was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in 2006 and signed by Boston after pitching in an independent league in 2008, is having a solid year with the Salem Red Sox. He is 3-3 with a 2.30 earned run average and appeared in the Carolina League-California League All-Star game earlier this week in Lake Elsinore. Two other Golden Eagles, Darrick Hale and Dustin Birosak, are currently with Golden Baseball League teams. Hale is playing for the Chico Outlaws, while Birosak is with the Long Beach Armada.

Golden Ea-gles Pick Up Three All-Academ-ic Track Awards

NEW ORLEANS – CSU-LA’s women’s track and field team had three student-athletes named to the 2009 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic team, the USTFCCCA an-nounced on Monday. Vivien Wadeck and Shi-

anne Smith, who both earned All-America honors in outdoor track and field and Franziska Dobler, who earned a provisional quali-fying mark in indoor track and field, were among 250 student-athletes represent-ing 73 Division II programs to make up the 2009 All-Academic team. To qualify for the USTF-CCCA All-Academic team, a student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met the NCAA Division II Indoor or Out-door automatic or provi-sional qualifying standard in their respective event. Wadeck, a junior from Glendale College, finished second in the nation in the 5,000 meters in outdoor track and field and earned her second All-America award of the academic year. She also earned All-Ameri-ca honors in cross country after finishing eighth in the country. Wadeck was also the Cali-fornia Collegiate Athletic Association individual champion in cross country and she also won confer-ence titles in outdoor track in the 1,500 and 5,000.

She was named the CCAA Newcomer of the Year in both cross country and out-door track and field. Smith, a senior from Ber-muda Island and Long Beach City College, earned a pair of All-America hon-ors in outdoor track and field. She finished sixth in the nation in the heptathlon and was part of the Golden Eagles’ 4x100 relay team that finished third in the country. Smith also earned a provi-sional qualifying mark in indoor track and field but did not compete in the na-tionals. She was the CCAA New-comer of the Year in track and field in 2008. Dobler, a sophomore from Tubigen, Germany, achieved a provisional qual-ifying mark in the 60 meters in indoor track and field with a time of 7.71. She also did not compete in the nationals. CSULA’s women’s outdoor track and field team finished seventh in the NCAA Divi-sion II and picked up seven All-America awards at the nationals.

Former Golden Eagle Mike Burns in his Milwaukee Brewers uniform.

CSULA’s Golden Eagles Women’s Track Team.

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After the sad announce-ment made by Univer-sity Auxiliary Services last quarter about Dolcini’s losing their lease, suspi-cion began to grow about Starbuck’s involvement in the decision. Now, UAS has made several more an-nouncements that seem to support this accusation.

According to UAS, Johny ‘s Kitchen, Kikka Sushi, and Rice Garden will all have to close at the end of the month, because of their leases ending. This news comes at the same time Starbucks is an-nouncing it will now be serving Pizza, hamburg-ers, Persian food, Chinese food and Japanese food.

“UAS has no say over what cer-tain restaurants choose to serve,” Said Jean Kelling, Vice President of UAS Corporate Partnership, who announced the end of those restaurants’ leases. “The fact that those places are going to be closed right when Starbucks decides to change its menu is just a coincidence.”

When asked how she ex-pected people to believe that excuse when her title is VP of Corporate Part-nership, she sighed exas-peratedly, stumbled over some softly spoken mum-bles and then had us forc-ibly removed from her of-fice.

When UAS said they were going to close Dolcini’s, they said that it would be replaced with an open en-vironment for students to

relax and do homework. Many people have tried to point out that that is exact-ly what Dolcini’s already provides, but their cries have so far gone unheard.

According to Kelling, Johny’s Kitchen, The Rice Garden and Kikka Sushi will be turned into “any number of other things. Possibly some sort of cof-fee and pastry establish-ment.”

Two days after our loud confrontation with Kel-ling, it was announced that certain other University services will be changing.

All business classes will be altered slightly so that they train students to work in “coffee shop manage-ment” the giant eagle stat-ue in front of the student bookstore will be turned into a giant bronze cup of coffee, and the University Times may possibly be re-placed by “some sort of place for students to relax and possibly purchase pip-ing hot beverages that may or may not be coffee.

“We are going to start a let-ter writing campaign and a picket line and a petition to stop UAS from handing over our entire school to this corporate machine!” yelled Kim Massioni, a senior Philosophy Major. “We need to storm the UAS building and march into the president of Cor-porate Partnership’s office

and demand that these ludicrous changes not be made!”

By this time, a crowd of impressionable students caught up in the fervor of the moment and not even knowing what they were protesting took march en masse to the UAS building.

After thirty minutes of ask-ing “Wait, where the hell is UAS anyway?” the teem-ing mass finally found it and charged in, ignoring the cries of the secretar-ies. Finally, the mob, drunk on passion, confusion and liquor, found the office of

Ken Floute, Presi-dent of Corporate Partnership. They kicked open the door and the sight they saw before them struck horror in their hearts.

Sitting cross-legged on the floor was Floute, sitting in front of a craven idol in the shape of the Starbuck’s mermaid. A hun-dred candles were lit around the room and in front of the idol sat a book,

bound in human flesh. It was the book of the necro-nomicon.

“You fools!” Screamed Floute, “Don’t you under-stand!? I am raising the great old god. The crea-ture whose name can only be pronounced by the hu-man tongue as Star-Buck! He is a twisted writing beast with a million gaping maws gnawing at the fab-ric of reality. He has cho-sen me and Cal State Uni-versity Los Angeles as his vessel! I will be the moth-er-father of a new unholy world!”

The mob then ran from the room screaming in terror and revulsion. As of yet, the Lovecraftian demon Star-Buck has yet to escape its crystalline prison in the outer starscape.

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According to a local tattoo shop, several UAS employees have been in to get this design tattooed on their faces.

(CSULA-UT) CSULA Grad-uate Desi Burt is getting ready to contend in this years’ IAAF World Championship. Hon-ored for many awards and ac-complishments, Burt has com-peted in hurdles, high jump, long jump, triple jump, javelin, and the 4X 100m, 4X 400m relay events.

After graduating this year, Desi Burt plans to become a college counselor, as well as becoming a finalist in the 2012 Olympic Decathlon. A graduate of Sierra High School, Burt has competed in numerous individual and team sports. He was distinguished as a two-time San Diego Sec-tion high jump champion and named “Most Valuable Play-er” in basketball during the CIF State quarter finals.

Desi Burt graduated from CSULA in Spring 2009 with

a degree in Rehabilitation Services. He holds numerous athletic titles including four-time All America performer in the high jump, and two-time NCAA West Region Athlete-of-the-Year.

As one of the US’s most prom-ising young track stars, Burt traveled to Eugene, Oregon to represent Team USA in Ber-lin, Germany this August at the IAAF World Champion-ships, the first major interna-tional track and field event in the Olympic stadium since the 1936 Olympic Games.

With a combined mark of 7646, and qualification for the nationals, Burt may be a po-tential part of the Team USA roster for the 2009 Interna-tional Association of Athletics Federations World Outdoor Championships.

Golden Eagle Track and Field star Desi Burt

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I hesitate to write this letter, but I feel that violations of pol-icy that affect students’ rights should be exposed. I am a student at Cal State LA, and I wish to show the follow-ing:

I signed up at least a month in advance for the current summer class of Al-gebra 102, section 01, taught by Professor Ro-dolfo Tamez. It is not a re-quired course for me, but even though I have successfully completed courses in calculus, my lack of a foundation in al-gebra affected my progress in these courses and would stand in the way of my future en-deavors.

In gross violation of Cal State code , Professor Tamez sum-marily disenrolled me from this class on June 24, with the irrelevant reason that I did not

need the course owing to my success in the previous math courses, and he thereby gave my chair to a latecomer. He made this change while being fully apprised that my finan-cial aid is contingent upon my carrying a load of at least 12

quarter hours and that be-ing dropped from the

class put me below the required 12 hour

minimum. And fur-thermore, it is irrelevant

whether I need this course or not; this is an educational es-tablishment that has among its purposes to satisfy intellectual curiosity.

My view is that this act was not simply a violation of code policy, but that it was a blatant example of discrimination, and such behavior does not speak well for our institution.

Desire RoseCSULA Student

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Students and Credit Cards

Sallie Mae has released a re-port this year about under-graduates and maxed out credit cards. Undergrads are in record high credit card debt according to the report. Since 2004 the un-dergrad average amount of debt has increased by 46 percent, reaching $3,173. Sallie Mae also found that 60 percent of undergrads were surprised how high their credit card balance had reached and 40 per-cent said they charged things knowing that they had no money to pay it back. Many of the under-grads received their first credit cards while still in high school and because of the accrued interest rates reach their credit limit at alarming rates.

California Emissions Waiver

The Environmental Pro-tection Agency has granted California a waiver from federal automobile emis-sion standards, allowing the state to enforce stricter emission standards. Cali-fornia has had these emis-sion standards in place since 2004, but because of

the Bush administration’s position on global warming policies, was not allowed to implement them. Presi-dent Obama was quick to criticize the stand Bush’s administration took The new emission standards require cars and trucks to reach an average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, an increase of 40 percent compared to the current 25 mpg.

Increase in Cigarette and Tobacco Tax

California’s budget deficit will be lowered thanks to an increase in tobacco and cigarette tax that was sur-prisingly supported by both Republicans and Demo-crats. More than seven out of ten voters, both Repub-lican and Democratic, sup-port a $1.50 tobacco tax as a way to address the states budgets deficit. Voters also believe that tobacco taxes are fair and more prefer-able to other potential tax increases. When asked to choose between a tax in-crease on the wealthy, oil companies, alcoholic bev-erages and tobacco, all po-litical parties had tobacco as their top choice. The $1.50 tax increase will also be used to fund tobacco prevention programs and

research on tobacco related diseases.

Obesity in the States

The nation’s annual obe-sity rankings have come out and the results are not good. According to the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood John-son Foundation, more than one in four adults are obese in 31 of the 50 states. Obe-sity increased in 23 states, but the results showed little to no decrease in any state. Mississippi is the state with the highest adult obesity rate for the fifth year in a row at 32.5 percent and Al-abama was second with an adult obesity rate of 31.2 percent. Colorado has the lowest adult obesity rate at 21.8 percent.

Programs Could Be Dropped Due To Bud-get Cuts

South Carolina State Uni-versity is deciding whether they will start dropping programs with low enroll-ment. You read correctly, programs, not classes. Uni-versity statistics revealed that 41 percent of all de-gree programs had five or

fewer graduates during the 2007-2008 academic year. The low enrollment is mainly due to S.C. State having trouble getting stu-dents to enroll in certain majors, but the economy and budget cuts are also playing an important role in the final decision. An-other solution that S.C. has come up with is getting rid of old majors and adding newer ones. Job demand and efficiently using declin-ing resources will be the main factors in deciding which majors will be taken out and which ones will be added.

Textbook Lending Grows In Popularity

Although textbook rental companies have been uti-lized for years, as of late they have been growing in popularity. Chegg, a company that offers book rental service to students has seen a huge demand for rented scholastic books. A company officer said that the company took in more than $10 million in revenue in 2008. The New York Times reported that Chegg took in as much this past January alone. When the company began it branded itself as “the Netflix for col-lege textbooks.” Textbooks

are mailed to students for a 125 day period with an offer to purchase the book. The company’s website says Chegg has saved stu-dents more that $40 mil-lion on their book costs. In addition to Chegg there are companies that sell, rent, and buy textbooks as an alternative to dealing with the college bookstore. Some colleges have also started to rent books to stu-dents to try to save them money.

Former Principal Alters Stu-dents’ Test Scores

A suburban Atlanta prin-cipal has resigned from his position after it was uncovered that he had al-tered student test scores according to the Macon Telegraph. The former principal at Atherton El-ementary school has been charged with altering pub-lic documents, which is a felony. Doretha Alexan-der, the school’s vice prin-cipal, turned herself into authorities and is currently being investigated by the district This is all a result of a statewide investigation that uncovered at least four schools in the state that had altered scores to boost their performances. UT

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