Huffington, Carhejo and Bustamante fielded questions from minority-oriented publications Downtown yesterday
By KEVIN MERICKEL
Assistant City Editor
Gubernatorial candidates Arianna Huffington (Ind.), Peter Camejo (Green) and Lt Gov. Cruz Bustamante (D) spoke at a debate Tuesday at Patriotic Hall in downtown Los Angeles and discussed minority affairs, the budget crisis, energy crisis and Proposition 54.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), Tom McClintock (R) and Governor Gray Davis (D) were invited to participate but declined.
The candidates fielded questions by reporters from minority group publications La Opinion, Filipino Television, Univision and KTSF, a Mandarin language station, on issues relating to racial disenfranchisement The Greenlining Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to public policy initiatives for racial minorities, and The New California Media, an organization dedicated to minority reporters, sponsored the event
The economic disparity of impoverished California cities was of particular importance to the panel.
Economic disparity is a social construct of America, and there is need for economic development Bustamante said.
"People work all week and take care of their family, they
shouldn’t have to worry if their kid is sick," he said.
Camejo and Huffington shared similar views on the economic degradation of minorities.
The government needs to rehire teachers who were affected by state budget cuts and other offices that stemmed from economic restrictions, Camejo said.
Economic preservation is fundamental to the Green party stance. Camejo proposed the development of a program that uses renewable energy to not only clean the environment, but also create jobs.
“We don’t have level playing fields," Huffington said while addressing the tax disparity between the upper and lower classes of society.
Lower dasses of society pay more in taxes than upper dasses, she said.
The disparity in tax payments is more prevalent in indoctrinated immigrants, Bustamante said.
When Bustamante was growing up in the San Joaquin Valley, 70 percent of all workers were immigrants. These workers performed the tasks that the rest of society did not want to do, he said.
“They work hard and pay $1,400 more in taxes than they receive," Bustamante said.
Davis signed legislation to allow indoctrinated immigrants the ability to obtain drivers licenses last week. The candidates heatedly debated the issue.
“People who work hard and pay taxes must have a drivers license to go to work." Bustamante said.
Camejo agreed with Bustamante and took the issue a
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Creative writing classes crowded
'(The) popularity of out program outstrips our (upacity ♦
WILLIAM HANDLEY director undergraduate students in the English department
Department hopes to hire new full-time faculty to remedy large class sizes
By RACHEL GALLEGOS
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The creative writing department is lacking in full-time professors and students outnumbei available spaces in the workshop classes, said the professors and students in the department.
There are plans to hire at least one full time professor tins year, but
unsuccessful recent attempts and lowered class sizes have caused prob lems for students who wanted to join the workshops this semester.
Instead of being taught by full time professors, these upper-level courses have adjunct or part-time professors to cover the number of students who need to take these dasses for their major.
The creative writing department has “not really been addressed fairly in terms of hiring," said Carol Muske-Dukes, an English professor who teaches creative writing work shops
William Handley, director of undergraduate studies in the English department and an associate profes soi, said that the English department has hired some additional part-time staff for this semester's workshops and is hoping to hire more professors for the spring to prevent any waiting lists.
Creative writing is a departmental major in the English departmgftt.
The main problem, however is the lack of full-time faculty for the number of students that are in the creative writing program.
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School Overview
Median class size: 1019 Student/faculty ratio: 10:1 Full-time faculty: 1,351 Tenured faculty: 422 Undergraduate students: 5,175 Graduate students: 1,500 Total number of students: 6,675 Creative writing professors: 5 Creative writing students: 300 English professors: 33 English students: 500
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Senate discovers excess student funds
For the second year in a row, Senate finds nearly $100,000 in unused fees
By BRIAN REED
Staff Writer
Student Senate recently discovered that almost $100,000 that students had paid in programming fees last year had gone unaccounted for up until just recently, Christopher Ward, Senate treasurer, announced Tuesday night.
Although the $98,750 was never lost or missing, Senate did not know the funds existed until it balanced its accounts after the end of Matt Weirs 2002-2003 administration, Ward said.
This is the second time in two years that Senate has realized it collected more money from the undergraduate student body than it nad originally expected.
An excess of about $90,000 was also found in Senate coffers at the
end of Hema Patel’s 2001-2002 administration.
While in both cases Senate did not lose the money, it had not been able to allocate the money to student groups, special events or scholarships because it did not realize the funds existed.
Some senators are concerned that the discovery of more unallocat ed funds threatens Senate credibility.
This is a very serious issue because it involves student money, Robert Kashfian, a commuter Senator said.
“It’s going to look like Senate is not taking it seriously,” Kashfian added.
Andrew Ritter, a Greek Senator, agreed.
“Honestly, this looks terrible,’’ he said.
The reason Senate had never incorporated the $98,750 into last year’s budget was because the budget was based on estimates of student enrollment rather than the actual fig-
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USC teams up with Vanderbilt University for new aircraft technology
By CALVIN J. CRAWFORD
Contributing Writer
The USC’s School of Engineering Information Sciences Institute (1SI) has teamed up with Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) to develop a new software system designed to facilitate the monitoring of military operations and training with Marine aircraft
Both teams collaborated to create Charlie Alpha Charlie Echo, known as CACE, which is designed
for military aircraft, including the new Lockheed Joint Strike Fighter.
CACE is a “comprehensive package (that) allows military aviators and operations to respond to changing situations, and manage the risk of activities engaged during military operations and training,” Robert Neches, division leader of IS1, said.
Neches worked with ISI project leaders Mike Orosz and Pedro Szekely, along with retired military experts and a Vanderbilt University associate professor, to contrive CACE.
“It looks at all the things that go into creating the day’s operations," Eric Mankin, public information director for ISI, said.
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Smile. Gubernatorial candidates Arianna Huffington and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante spoke to the media Tuesday.