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Audit: FundsMismanagedBy Officials

BY MAGGIE HAUSERDaily Titan Staff Writer

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According to an audit conductedby the CSU Board of Trustees thatwas released on Oct. 11, there wereseveral instances of waste, abuse andmismanagement of funds at CalState Fullerton between Jan. 2001and Dec. 2004.

e Office of the University Au-ditor called for the audit on Sept.16, 2004, in response to allegationsmade by made by certain membersof the [CSUF] campus of impropergovernmental activities, disregardfor regulations and CSU policy, al-lowance of abuse of authority, con-tinuous improper suppression of ir-regularities, and acts of retaliation,according to a letter from universityauditor Larry Mandel to CSU Chan-cellor Charles B. Reed.

e audit found instances of waste and abuse and insufficientkeeping of budgetary records withinCSUFs Enterprise Computing of-fice. It also confirmed instances ofwaste and abuse within the Businessand Financial Affairs office.

More specifically, a husband andwife who were directors of the En-terprise Computing and Businessand Financial Affairs were accusedof a conflict of interest. e auditfound that the wife spent more than

$100,000 in university funds to buyand maintain software created by acompany affiliated with a corpora-tion her husband had retired frombut still owned stock in.

e Daily Titan was informedof the names of the individuals in-volved in the incident, but could notconfirm the identities of the peopleinvolved at press time.

CSUF President Milton Gordonsaid that within a month of admittingto improprieties, the husband wasfired and that the wife later resigned.

In response to the other allega-tions, Gordon said that correctionshad been requested long before theaudit was conducted.

ere were inappropriate ac-tions by those involved, Gordonsaid. ere are no excuses. I thinkeveryone would agree that we dideverything we could.

According to the audit itself, thepresident and other key adminis-trators responded positively to theallegations by making various orga-nizational and operational changesas the investigation went on.

Since the incidents came to light,Gordon said that he has assembled acommittee to handle the CSUF fi-nances and budget, and that he per-sonally met with them on a weeklyand biweekly basis before referringthe committee to university VicePresident Willie Hagen. Gordon alsosaid that new staff has been hiredand new positions have been createdto compensate for the staff that leftfollowing the allegations.

is is not the first time CSUFhas faced accusations of financialmisconduct. An audit concludedin 1999 charged the universitywith mismanaging funds, spendingscholarship money on meals andentertainment and using preferentialtreatment in awarding contracts.

Another report from 2001 alsofound that thousands of dollars wereimproperly spent on items such as

wedding and baby showers and cel-ebratory staff dinners.

e university concurred witheach of the 55 recommendationsmade by the Board of Trustees in theaudit, and university spokeswomanPaula Selleck said that no criminalinvestigations are currently under- way in any of the allegations con-tained in the report.

Investigation findsinsufficient budgetingrecords on campus

Director, Professor and Sometimes Janitor

EXPERT - George Giacumakis, director of CSUFs Irvine Campus, has beenwith the school since 1963. An expert in Middle Eastern studies, he is able toread several foreign languages and has helped translate a version of the Bible.

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When George Giacumakis beganteaching at Orange State Collegein 1963, the entire college of about3,000 students operated out of one

building now known as McCarthyHall.

After earning his doctorate atBrandeis University, he was hired bythe small California college nowCal State Fullerton as the MiddleEast history professor. With his wifeand child, he left his home state ofPennsylvania. He said he had no de-sire to move to Southern Californiaand did it as a favor to his mentor atthe time.

Forty-three years later, hes stilla CSUF history professor and hasheaded the universitys branch cam-

pus since 1989.During this time, Giacumakis has

written books, toured and taughtinternationally, translated the BiblesNew Testament into English hesstill working on the Old Testament and raised four children in his 46years of marriage.

Hes one busy person, saidMarilyn Conklin, assistant directorto Giacumakis and co-worker at theIrvine branch campus for 15 years.Conklin said that has been the case

since shes known him.Giacumakis, born in 1937, de-

scribed his role as director the sameway he said he explained it to his sonmany years back: When no one elsewill empty the waste basket, I haveto. e buck stops there.

According to Arleene Parsons, thefacility coordinator at Irvine, Giacu-makis fills this description.

Once he gets out of his car, ittakes him a while to get up to hisoffice because he will go and check

George Giacumakis aliving encyclopedia inMiddle Eastern studies

Looking to the Ancients toGuide Modern Academia

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Work hard and be nice, ad-vised Shi Liu to over 100 Chi-nese-speaking Cal State Fullertonstudents, faculty and staff at thePollak Library on Oct. 19.

During the Chinese Scholar-ship: Tradition and Moderniza-tion workshop, Liu, professorof Chinese from Tsinghua Uni-versity in Beijing, China, quotedConfucius while applying tradi-tional values to modern academiclife.

e workshop was organizedto promote intercultural aware-ness and to celebrate the growingChinese program, said Jie Tian,associate librarian.

Shi, who has authored andedited nine books on Chinese lit-

erature, art and civilization, stoodat a podium and displayed slidesof Chinese classical works. His1.5 hour discussion, which wasdelivered in Mandarin Chinese,was periodically interrupted withapplause and laughter.

Yugeng Peng, a senior study-ing international business, saidhe laughed when Shi describedhow Chinese people spend theirleisure time.

He said they watch birds,they watch TV and they sleep,Peng said.

As part of an international del-egation to CSUF from Shanghai,Sun Ying found Shis readingsfrom Analects, a book that con-tains the personal observations ofConfucius as written by his dis-

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Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerpunveiled the Armys new recruit-ment campaign, Army strong,before 40 cadets and officers dur-ing his visit to Cal State Fullertonon ursday.

e campaign features soldierscarrying out strenuous activitiesagainst a backdrop of orchestralmusic.

Van Antwerp said since the

Army became an all-volunteerarmy in 1973, it has had to rely onmarketing campaigns in the mediato get new recruits.

Today, we spend $250 millionon advertising, he said.

Van Antwerp, during the pre-sentation, displayed several olderads from previous campaigns, one

of which depicted a man sayinggoodbye to his many girlfriendsone at time throughout a period ofseveral months because he had de-layed his enlistment for a year andhad not told any of them.

e most well-known market-ing campaign was the be all youcan be campaign, which Van Ant-werp said ran for 18 years and waswidely popular in t he Army.

e most recent advertisments were part of the Army of onecampaign, which Van Antwerpsaid was not popular at all.

e new campaign includes atagline that says strength to com-mand. Van Antwerp said the tag-line is geared toward recruitingnew cadets.

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something that was a single truthabout the Army, he said.

Cadet Bernice Rivas said she likedthe new campaign 10 times betterthan the previous Army of onecampaign because it united the past,present and future of the Army.

It reminds me of unity, Rivassaid.

After the speech Van Antwerpoversaw a demonstration of theROTCs flight operations. eCSUF lacrosse team was escorted offTitan Field as the Armys Blackhawkhelicopter landed in field.

Cadets had an opportunity to takea 15-minute flight on the vehicle.

It was one hell of an experience,Cadet Gina Roh said.

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One Psycho Party

BY RACHEL DOUGLASSDaily Titan Staff Writer

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Cal State Fullerton organiza-

tions held an evening of Hallow-een games, pumpkin carving anda screening of Alfred Hitchcocks1960 thriller Psycho Fridaynight to raise alcohol awarenessand offer a safe alternative todrinking.

e event was a collaborationbetween GAMMA and the PeerHealth University Network, theStudent Health Center, the Deanof Students Office and the Resi-dent Student Association.

Carrie Boone, president of thehealth network, and Natalie Alvi-drez, president of the GAMMA,organized the event.

Event was put together

to show that alcohol-

free parties are fun too

Plans for the event began lastsummer.

I thought of it and then it wasmodified with GAMMA, Boonesaid. I just came up with this ba-sic idea we wanted to give peoplean alcohol-free alternative.

e groups looked over an aca-demic calendar and decided thatHalloween would be the perfecttime for such an event, she said.

e goal was to target studentsthat go out on Friday nights, said Alvidrez. Although the eveningwas put on by Greek-life groups, itwas open to all students.

e educational programs arefor the whole campus, said Alvi-drez.

Beth Borchert, GAMMA repre-sentative for Alpha Delta Phi, saidthat each on-campus sorority hasGAMMA representatives. Eachsorority put together their ownbooth with games or food. AlphaDelta Phi set up the pumpkin-carving table. All the pumpkinsthat were carved during the eve-

ning are going to be donated tothe Brea Boys and Girls Club.

Alisa Bowen of Alpha Delta Phisaid it was nice to have another op-tion besides drinking.

Were here to show that it canbe fun not to drink, said MichelleWray of Alpha Delta Phi.

Alvidrez, 22, has served as presi-dent of GAMMA for two termsand said the organization helped

her grow up a lot in regards to al-cohol consumption.

It has helped me grow up so Ican help other people, she said.

Alvidrezs duties as GAMMApresident include helping withevents such as the Halloween al-cohol awareness evening, regulat-ing fraternity parties for alcoholcompliance and helping to educateyoung people on campus.

I wanted to go and make a dif-ference in the Greek community,she said. e fraternities are reallyrespectful and 90 percent of thetime they are in compliance of theregulations.

things to see if everythings in order,she said. I see him picking up trashall the time.

Besides double checking for well-maintained campus grounds,Giacumakiss noticeable curiosity forthe world around him has led himto double-check history as well aslanguage throughout his academiccareer.

For instance, Giacumakis, who is

a Christian, was a board member ofthe Lockman Foundation, which inthe 1960s created the New AmericanStandard Bible. Today, he is working with scholars on developing a newtranslation of the Bible, called theInternational Standard Version.

Even something done 10 yearsago language changes in that time so you have to continually work atit to make it contemporary, Giacu-makis said.

He said his goal for the new ver-sion is to capture the cultural aspectsdocumented in biblical literature,but make it understandable in con-temporary English.

Hes a stickler for historical ac-curacy, said William P. Welty, whoworks on the board of directors forthe new version with Giacumakis.

Welty, who said he first met Gia-cumakis when he studied at CSUFin the early 70s, described him as anold-school academic and said heholds an encyclopedic knowledgeof all things old.

Welty recalled reading the approx-imately 3,000-year-old biblical book

of Joshua, which briefly references anolder book, called Jasher, as a sourcedocument. Without any knowledgeof Jasher,Welty phoned Giacumakisand asked him about it. Welty saidGiacumakis answered with a com-plete executive summary on Jasherand brought him a copy of the bookfrom his personal bookshelf.

I cant recall a time when I askedGeorge a question and he couldnt

answer off the top of his head, Wel-ty said.

When Giacumakis studied NearEastern and Mediterranean studiesat Brandeis, he said he learned toread five languages: Arabic, Hebrew,Greek, Babylonian Assyrian andEgyptian hieroglyphics.

Believe me, my hair got grayquick, he said.

It was this knowledge of languagethat allowed Giacumakis to compe-

tently confront his passion for bibli-cal translation and Middle East his-tory.

Giacumakis grew up in a Greekfamily and got an early start learningGreek around the house. He said his

mother made him attend Greek lan-guage classes three afternoons a weekduring grade school.

I thanked her later for that, hesaid.

He also attended cake decorat-ing classes as a youth. He said hisfather, who immigrated to America

from Greece and worked as a profes-sional baker, prepared him to pursuea career in either baking or business.But Giacumakis told his father thatMiddle East history interested himmore.

ough Giacumakis still admitsto loving pies, he walked away frombaking and instead chose a path ofacademia and teaching.

Maybe its because I love t o talk,

he said.After more than 40 years of teach-

ing history, Giacumakis still talksabout ancient civilizations with thefervor of a graduate student.

Im dealing with an area whereat least three world religions devel-oped, Giacumakis said in his office.

e room is decorated with Egyp-tian papyrus prints and 19th-centurysketches of Jerusalem and Mt. Sinai.

e earliest civilizations came

from that area of the world and itsalways exciting to see its develop-ment, especially in the contempo-rary situation.

Part of Giacumakiss knowledgeof the Middle East, especially withinthe Arab-Israeli conflict, resultedfrom a six-year term as president andexecutive director at Jerusalem Uni-versity College, in Israel, from 1978to 1984.

ose were the only years since1963 that he worked apart fromCSUF.

Shortly after his return in 1989,the university opened its branchcampus in Mission Viejo with Gia-cumakis as director.

irteen years later, CSUF movedthe branch operation to Irvine, where he again taught in a one-building campus with close to 3,000students, as he did in 63.

As director, he hopes to expandthe Irvine campus to facilitatearound 15,000 students, which re-quires more land, buildings andmore parking spaces.

Yet, Giacumakis knows his time

at CSUF is nearing a close.My hope is to get [the Irvine

campus] fixed and going and thenhand the reins over to somebodyyounger, he said.

But at 69, age doesnt keep Giacu-makis from pushing the limits.

If theres a new rollercoaster, Igot to try it, he said. Maybe its be-cause theres still a bit of a daredevilin me.

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CHINA: WORKSHOP PROMOTESINTERCULTURAL AWARENESSciples following his death, to be themost relevant part of the workshop.

Shu Fu Liu, a graduate studentin political science, said Shi gavegood advice as to how to become ascholar. e advice included how to

study and how to be an example toothers.

Chinese culture is a really richand valuable resource. Liu said.While we cant return to the pastwe can learn much from our Chi-

nese heritage.Shi uses ancient literature to en-

courage Chinese people to do theirbest, said Li Liu, monitor of the in-ternational graduate students in po-litical science.

As Chinese scholars we also try

to build up a kind of moral examplein the society, that is our duty, saidJing Hui Liu, Chinese program co-ordinator.

Laichen Sun, assistant professorof history, asked Liu about academic

corruption in China. Sun asked ifanything could be done to reduce oreliminate it.

ere was a 10-second pause priorto Shis response.

His response indicated that hisposition is moderate regarding this

academic corruption, Sun said. Ithink it is more than that, but I thinkthat he basically agrees with me.

Shi stressed that in ancient timesscholars were eager to learn andmaintained a high moral standard,Sun said.

It is relevant to our society today,no cheating, dont plagiarize, thatsa very basic principle. It should betrue of every scholar and every stu-dent, he said.

Shi went back to the writings ofthe ancients for truth and inspira-tion due to the widespread academiccorruption in China today, Sun said.Shi wanted to see what the ancientssaid and how their world could beused for the Chinese people to re-gain the high moral standard thatwas lost.

I think he is very responsive tocriticism from others who have beentraveling to mainland China, Sunsaid.

If theres a new roller-coaster, I got to tryit. Maybe its becausetheres still a bit ofdaredevil in me.

G GDirector of Irvine Campus