Online Forty Niner: v8n1: What you might have missed

The Belmont Shore rapist has been tied to an attack last month in Huntington Beach, according to the Long Beach Police Department, the first time the serial rapist has been linked to an attack outside the city of Long Beach.

LBPD spokeswoman Jana Blair said physical evidence linked the June 11 sexual assault to at least six others in Long Beach over the past three years.

Several occurred in the Belmont Shore and Belmont Heights area of Long Beach.

As in previous attacks, the Huntington Beach assault involved a man entering through an unlocked window or door. According to Blair, the man entered the victim's home in the Pacific Trailer Park through a window shortly after 1 a.m.

Huntington Beach Police Department spokeswoman Suzie Wajda said the victim told officers the man appeared to be dark-skinned and 6-foot tall with a medium build. LBPD has not released a description of the rapist because descriptions have varied, Blair said.

Blair said people should lock their doors and windows at night and immediately report any suspicious or unknown persons in their neighborhoods to Long Beach police, including solicitors who appear suspicious or seem to be checking out the neighborhood.

Long Beach residents seeing suspicious persons should contact the LBPD at (562) 435-6711; Huntington Beach residents can contact HBPD at (714) 375-5066.

July, 6, 2000
Union debate over data

By Jason Kosareff
Summer Forty-Niner

The union representing teachers in the Cal State University system has accused the administration of systemwide discrimination of minority and women teachers, said Jim Smith, union spokesman.

The California Faculty Association alleges discrimination on every campus in the CSU system, Smith said.

However, vice president of academic personnel at Cal State Long Beach, Gary Reichard, said, "I see nothing that would indicate discrimination against women."

"It's been a complete boondoggle," said Susan Meisen-helder, president of the CFA.

The union and the Office of the Chancellor are locked in a dispute over whose analysis of the data from the last round of pay raises is correct.

The National Education Association conducted the preliminary analysis of the data for the union, while the CSU is doing its own analysis, officials from both sides said.

All the campuses in the CSU system have turned in all or most of the data from the last round of merit increase program pay raises to the Office of the Chancellor, said Sam Strafaci, senior director of employee relations.

However, union officials bitterly complain that the CSU is recalcitrant about turning in data to the union.

"We've had a terrible time getting data from them," Meisenhelder said.

June 22, 2000
CFA, CSU near stalemate

By Jason Kosareff
Summer Forty-Niner

The California Faculty Association and the Cal State University system are heading toward a stalemate in negotiations over salary if the two sides cannot agree on how to implement faculty raises, said campus and CFA officials.

"It's not looking good," said Robert Maxson, Cal State Long Beach president. "I hope everything works out, but I think it's headed right for an impasse."

CFA, the union that represents teachers in the CSU system, wants to scrap the Faculty Merit Increase program, said Hamdi Bilici, president of the CSULB chapter of the union. The union is asking for a moratorium on the program until 2001, Bilici said.

The merit increase program is a method of evaluating faculty for raises, where faculty annually submit a report on their work to college deans in order to get a raise.

The union feels that the policy is not defined clearly enough and that deans and administrators are making some decisions about who gets a raise arbitrarily, said union representatives.

However, the union agreed to the terms of the merit increase program in the current contract it has with the university and should keep up their obligation, said Samuel Strafaci, senior director of employee relations for the Office of the Chancelor.

"They're trying to avoid living up to the contract," Strafaci said.

July 27, 2000
CSULB reassures American Indians

By Mike Kilroy
Summer Forty-Niner

Responding to a report that Cal State Long Beach may develop student parking and housing on land belonging to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the university strongly assured American Indian tribal representatives Monday that it has not committed to any plans.

Keith Polakoff, associate vice president for academic affairs, asserted the university did not have designs on the Patients' Garden in particular, a site at the medical center dedicated to patient physical rehabilitation and therapy.

Veterans and area American Indians have expressed concerns regarding a report in the Summer Forty-Niner that the site might be developed.

Pointing to the June 15 story that was accompanied by photograph of a veteran working in the garden, Polakoff said, "I haven't even been able to find anyone who knows anything about this garden or where it's located."

Polakoff made his remarks in Brotman Hall at the monthly committee meeting of tribal representatives working with the university to "repatriate," or give back, American Indian artifacts and burial remains excavated by faculty in the 1950s and '60s.

Sam Dunlap, spokesperson for the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe, said he was satisfied with Polakoff's response.

Polakoff said the university has been in discussions with the medical center regarding a joint parking lot on land located across Seventh Street.

What you might have missed

August 3, 2000 Shore rapist linked to another attack

July, 6, 2000 Union debate over data

June 22, 2000 CFA, CSU near stalemate

July 27, 2000 CSULB reassures American Indians

August 3, 2000
Shore rapist linked to another attack

July, 6, 2000
Union debate over data

June 22, 2000
CFA, CSU near stalemate

July 27, 2000
CSULB reassures American Indians