By Jorge Campos |Staff Writer| California State Universities (CSU) relied on more part-time professors than full-time ones last academic year. Across all 23 campuses in the CSU system, faculty consisted of 51 percent part-time faculty during the 2013-2014 academic school year, according to The Sacramento Bee. Part-time professors, unlike full-time ones, can be hired each semester/quarter as needed and cost considerably less. CSUSB Communications Professor, Donna Gotch, was a part-time professor last year, and believes the students who are concerned about part-time professors not having enough time for their students are the same students who don’t put in effort to communicate … [Read more...] about More part-time professors
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American beauty is exemplified through song translation in different languages
By Marlyn Rodriguez |Staff Writer| The Coca-Cola Company created an advertisement for the Super Bowl that has stirred up a lot of unnecessary controversy based on ignorant views of the makeup of our country. The commercial consisted of “America the Beautiful” sung in different languages. The advertisement includes the Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin, Hindi, Hebrew, Keres, Senegalese,French and Arabic languages. As soon as the commercial debuted the backlash began. People started tweeting hateful remarks such as, “Nice to see that coke likes to sing an American song in the terrorists’ language.” Another said, “We speak ENGLISH here IDIOTS.” Soon the hashtag #SpeakAmerican began … [Read more...] about American beauty is exemplified through song translation in different languages
Professor evaluations forms receive scrutiny
By Caleb Gasteiger |Staff Writer| Many if not all students have filled out a professor evaluation form at least once without any knowledge of where their suggestions, criticisms and compliments end up. CSUSB student Kathryn Wall doesn’t understand who gets evaluated and why. “I had [to do] 3 [evaluations] on Tuesday and I was wondering why my fourth teacher didn’t get evaluated. I’ve also had teachers that I didn’t like... and I never got the chance to evaluate them,” said Wall. Jessica Villanueva, a senior in psychology, said, “I know it affects their job, but after that, I don’t know.” The consensus of students interviewed agreed that they have given some bad reviews as well … [Read more...] about Professor evaluations forms receive scrutiny