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Re: Daily 49er - CSULB community not ‘starving’ due to cuts

PickledPink — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:25:28 -0000

I believe the front-page furlough article was right where it belonged because it is news and it does concern just about every person on campus, along with the families of the staff, faculty, administrators and students who have to also deal with the burden of a state legislative problem. My tuition is higher, my parking expenses are greater, my books aren't any cheaper and my hours at work have been decreased. My non-tenured professors are doing their best and the most professional on campus are doing everything not to use the furloughs as a way to punish students while blaming the state and university administration for the lack.
EM9's rant boils down to a simple ad hominem attack on the 49er, for whatever purpose he or she harbors against their journalism. The attack does absolutely nothing to add or subtract from the issues of what belongs on the front page or what belongs elsewhere.

Re: Daily 49er - Student sexually assaulted on campus

PickledPink — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:09:22 -0000

This is an argument winner against a male student who despised seeing video cameras on campus, even over the dark and dangerous pathways of the northeast campus. I'm not necessarily voting for the Big Brother eyes-in-the-skies but I've found that many men want their privacy protected at the cost of women's safety. Predation happens. Kudos to the University Police and to the students' intervention, and best healing wishes to the victim.

Re: Daily 49er - Professors: The budget could have been balanced without direct cuts to education

PickledPink — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:33:45 -0000

The ASI’s Week of Welcome is not a platform to alienate students from the administration. ASI’s budget is allocated from student fees, and each club must work to match their ASI grant money with their own fundraisers. WOW is to encourage students to find and participate in organizations that will support their emotional, physical, and spiritual needs and to feel a part of campus life. Find another venue for your self-serving muckraking.

Once the staff and faculty get back their days at The Beach rather than on the sand, the students' tuition and book fees will still continue to rise and it'll be back to business, as usual. Faculty won't give a damn about tuition and much of the in-class waste-of-time credit hours will be outsourced to distance on-line educators.

How many students believe that their professors won't assign research projects on those furlough days? How many faculty and staff believe that a 'blue flu' day won't end in 'pink slip' day. That's one way to save more money in the budget.

As a student, I believe it is in the best interest of the students, the university administration, and the state legislature if the university curriculum could cut back on at least half of the upper division general education requirements. Once a student is certified in one set of general ed requirements at a community college, it's redundant to require, for example, engineering students to take a "Women in Sports" class just to meet another G.E. credit count. The state would save millions, students wouldn't waste an extra two or more semester's tuition when they could actually finish a four year B.S. or B.A. in four years, without having to attend winter/summer sessions to work on their core requirements, as well.

Of course, having less G.E. classes would also cut more than a few redundant professors.