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Audit: Funds
Mismanaged
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BY MAGGIE HAUSER
Daily Titan Sta Writer
news@dailytitan.com
According to an audit conducted
by the CSU Board of Trustees that
was released on Oct. 11, there were
several instances of waste, abuse and
mismanagement of funds at Cal
State Fullerton between Jan. 2001
and Dec. 2004.
Te Oce of the University Au-
ditor called for the audit on Sept.
16, 2004, in response to allegations
made by made by certain members
of the [CSUF] campus of improper
governmental activities, disregard
for 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 university
auditor Larry Mandel to CSU Chan-
cellor Charles B. Reed.
Te audit found instances of
waste and abuse and insucient
keeping of budgetary records within
CSUFs Enterprise Computing of-
ce. It also conrmed instances of
waste and abuse within the Business
and Financial Aairs oce.
More specically, a husband and
wife who were directors of the En-
terprise Computing and Business
and Financial Aairs were accused
of a conict of interest. Te audit
found that the wife spent more than
$100,000 in university funds to buy
and maintain software created by a
company aliated with a corpora-
tion her husband had retired from
but still owned stock in.
Te Daily Titan was informed
of the names of the individuals in-
volved in the incident, but could not
conrm the identities of the people
involved at press time.
CSUF President Milton Gordon
said that within a month of admitting
to improprieties, the husband was
red and that the wife later resigned.
In response to the other allega-
tions, Gordon said that corrections
had been requested long before the
audit was conducted.
Tere were inappropriate ac-
tions by those involved, Gordon
said. Tere are no excuses. I think
everyone would agree that we did
everything we could.
According to the audit itself, the
president and other key adminis-
trators responded positively to the
allegations by making various orga-
nizational and operational changes
as the investigation went on.
Since the incidents came to light,
Gordon said that he has assembled a
committee to handle the CSUF -
nances and budget, and that he per-
sonally met with them on a weekly
and biweekly basis before referring
the committee to university Vice
President Willie Hagen. Gordon also
said that new sta has been hired
and new positions have been created
to compensate for the sta that left
following the allegations.
Tis is not the rst time CSUF
has faced accusations of nancial
misconduct. An audit concluded
in 1999 charged the university
with mismanaging funds, spending
scholarship money on meals and
entertainment and using preferential
treatment in awarding contracts.
Another report from 2001 also
found that thousands of dollars were
improperly spent on items such as
wedding and baby showers and cel-
ebratory sta dinners.
Te university concurred with
each of the 55 recommendations
made by the Board of Trustees in the
audit, and university spokeswoman
Paula Selleck said that no criminal
investigations are currently under-
way in any of the allegations con-
tained in the report.
Investigation finds
insufficient budgeting
records on campus
Director, Professor and Sometimes Janitor
EXPERT - George Giacumakis, director of CSUFs Irvine Campus, has been
with the school since 1963. An expert in Middle Eastern studies, he is able to
read several foreign languages and has helped translate a version of the Bible.
BY IAN HAMILTON/Daily Titan
BY JOEY T. ENGLISH
Daily Titan Sta Writer
news@dailytitan.com
When George Giacumakis began
teaching at Orange State College
in 1963, the entire college of about
3,000 students operated out of one
building now known as McCarthy
Hall.
After earning his doctorate at
Brandeis University, he was hired by
the small California college now
Cal State Fullerton as the Middle
East history professor. With his wife
and child, he left his home state of
Pennsylvania. He said he had no de-
sire to move to Southern California
and did it as a favor to his mentor at
the time.
Forty-three years later, hes still
a CSUF history professor and has
headed the universitys branch cam-
pus since 1989.
During this time, Giacumakis has
written books, toured and taught
internationally, translated the Bibles
New Testament into English hes
still working on the Old Testament
and raised four children in his 46
years of marriage.
Hes one busy person, said
Marilyn Conklin, assistant director
to Giacumakis and co-worker at the
Irvine 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 same
way he said he explained it to his son
many years back: When no one else
will empty the waste basket, I have
to. Te buck stops there.
According to Arleene Parsons, the
facility coordinator at Irvine, Giacu-
makis lls this description.
Once he gets out of his car, it
takes him a while to get up to his
oce because he will go and check
George Giacumakis a
living encyclopedia in
Middle Eastern studies
Looking to the Ancients to
Guide Modern Academia
SEE GIACUMAKIS - PAGE 4
BY KEVIN COLE
Daily Titan Sta Writer
news@dailytitan.com
Work hard and be nice, ad-
vised Shi Liu to over 100 Chi-
nese-speaking Cal State Fullerton
students, faculty and sta at the
Pollak Library on Oct. 19.
During the Chinese Scholar-
ship: Tradition and Moderniza-
tion workshop, Liu, professor
of Chinese from Tsinghua Uni-
versity in Beijing, China, quoted
Confucius while applying tradi-
tional values to modern academic
life.
Te workshop was organized
to promote intercultural aware-
ness and to celebrate the growing
Chinese program, said Jie Tian,
associate librarian.
Shi, who has authored and
edited nine books on Chinese lit-
erature, art and civilization, stood
at a podium and displayed slides
of Chinese classical works. His
1.5 hour discussion, which was
delivered in Mandarin Chinese,
was periodically interrupted with
applause and laughter.
Yugeng Peng, a senior study-
ing international business, said
he laughed when Shi described
how Chinese people spend their
leisure 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 readings
from Analects, a book that con-
tains the personal observations of
Confucius as written by his dis-
BY ROBERT MORAN
Daily Titan Sta Writer
news@dailytitan.com
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp
unveiled the Armys new recruit-
ment campaign, Army strong,
before 40 cadets and ocers dur-
ing his visit to Cal State Fullerton
on Tursday.
Te campaign features soldiers
carrying out strenuous activities
against a backdrop of orchestral
music.
Van Antwerp said since the
Army became an all-volunteer
army in 1973, it has had to rely on
marketing campaigns in the media
to get new recruits.
Today, we spend $250 million
on advertising, he said.
Van Antwerp, during the pre-
sentation, displayed several older
ads from previous campaigns, one
of which depicted a man saying
goodbye to his many girlfriends
one at time throughout a period of
several months because he had de-
layed his enlistment for a year and
had not told any of them.
Te most well-known market-
ing campaign was the be all you
can be campaign, which Van Ant-
werp said ran for 18 years and was
widely popular in the Army.
Te most recent advertisments
were part of the Army of one
campaign, which Van Antwerp
said was not popular at all.
Te new campaign includes a
tagline that says strength to com-
mand. Van Antwerp said the tag-
line is geared toward recruiting
new cadets.
When we went looking for this
new tagline, we were looking for
A New Slogan for New Army Recruits
CADET
FLIGHTS -
Above: U.S.
Army Sgt.
Tanker Roncal
services the
blades of a
Blackhawk
helicopter
after landing
at CSUF on
Oct. 26.
Left: U.S.
Army captain
and CSUF
graduate
William
Fitzgerald
reminisces
with base-
ball head
coach George
Horton about
Williams
playing days.
Three-star general reveals new ad campaign
Army Strong during visit to Cal State Fullerton
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something that was a single truth
about the Army, he said.
Cadet Bernice Rivas said she liked
the new campaign 10 times better
than the previous Army of one
campaign because it united the past,
present and future of the Army.
It reminds me of unity, Rivas
said.
After the speech Van Antwerp
oversaw a demonstration of the
ROTCs ight operations. Te
CSUF lacrosse team was escorted o
Titan Field as the Armys Blackhawk
helicopter landed in eld.
Cadets had an opportunity to take
a 15-minute ight on the vehicle.
It was one hell of an experience,
Cadet Gina Roh said.
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GIACUMAKIS: PROFESSOR SPEAKS
FIVE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
One Psycho Party
BY RACHEL DOUGLASS
Daily Titan Sta Writer
news@dailytitan.com
Cal State Fullerton organiza-
tions held an evening of Hallow-
een games, pumpkin carving and
a screening of Alfred Hitchcocks
1960 thriller Psycho Friday
night to raise alcohol awareness
and oer a safe alternative to
drinking.
Te event was a collaboration
between GAMMA and the Peer
Health University Network, the
Student Health Center, the Dean
of Students Oce and the Resi-
dent Student Association.
Carrie Boone, president of the
health 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 last
summer.
I thought of it and then it was
modied with GAMMA, Boone
said. I just came up with this ba-
sic idea we wanted to give people
an alcohol-free alternative.
Te groups looked over an aca-
demic calendar and decided that
Halloween would be the perfect
time for such an event, she said.
Te goal was to target students
that go out on Friday nights, said
Alvidrez. Although the evening
was put on by Greek-life groups, it
was open to all students.
Te educational programs are
for the whole campus, said Alvi-
drez.
Beth Borchert, GAMMA repre-
sentative for Alpha Delta Phi, said
that each on-campus sorority has
GAMMA representatives. Each
sorority put together their own
booth with games or food. Alpha
Delta Phi set up the pumpkin-
carving table. All the pumpkins
that were carved during the eve-
ning are going to be donated to
the Brea Boys and Girls Club.
Alisa Bowen of Alpha Delta Phi
said it was nice to have another op-
tion besides drinking.
Were here to show that it can
be fun not to drink, said Michelle
Wray of Alpha Delta Phi.
Alvidrez, 22, has served as presi-
dent of GAMMA for two terms
and said the organization helped
her grow up a lot in regards to al-
cohol consumption.
It has helped me grow up so I
can help other people, she said.
Alvidrezs duties as GAMMA
president include helping with
events such as the Halloween al-
cohol awareness evening, regulat-
ing fraternity parties for alcohol
compliance and helping to educate
young people on campus.
I wanted to go and make a dif-
ference in the Greek community,
she said. Te fraternities are really
respectful and 90 percent of the
time they are in compliance of the
regulations.
things to see if everythings in order,
she said. I see him picking up trash
all the time.
Besides double checking for
well-maintained campus grounds,
Giacumakiss noticeable curiosity for
the world around him has led him
to double-check history as well as
language throughout his academic
career.
For instance, Giacumakis, who is
a Christian, was a board member of
the Lockman Foundation, which in
the 1960s created the New American
Standard Bible. Today, he is working
with scholars on developing a new
translation of the Bible, called the
International Standard Version.
Even something done 10 years
ago language changes in that time
so you have to continually work at
it to make it contemporary, Giacu-
makis said.
He said his goal for the new ver-
sion is to capture the cultural aspects
documented in biblical literature,
but make it understandable in con-
temporary English.
Hes a stickler for historical ac-
curacy, said William P. Welty, who
works on the board of directors for
the new version with Giacumakis.
Welty, who said he rst met Gia-
cumakis when he studied at CSUF
in the early 70s, described him as an
old-school academic and said he
holds an encyclopedic knowledge
of all things old.
Welty recalled reading the approx-
imately 3,000-year-old biblical book
of Joshua, which briey references an
older book, called Jasher, as a source
document. Without any knowledge
of Jasher, Welty phoned Giacumakis
and asked him about it. Welty said
Giacumakis answered with a com-
plete executive summary on Jasher
and brought him a copy of the book
from his personal bookshelf.
I cant recall a time when I asked
George a question and he couldnt
answer o the top of his head, Wel-
ty said.
When Giacumakis studied Near
Eastern and Mediterranean studies
at Brandeis, he said he learned to
read ve languages: Arabic, Hebrew,
Greek, Babylonian Assyrian and
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Believe me, my hair got gray
quick, he said.
It was this knowledge of language
that allowed Giacumakis to compe-
tently confront his passion for bibli-
cal translation and Middle East his-
tory.
Giacumakis grew up in a Greek
family and got an early start learning
Greek around the house. He said his
mother made him attend Greek lan-
guage classes three afternoons a week
during grade school.
I thanked her later for that, he
said.
He also attended cake decorat-
ing classes as a youth. He said his
father, who immigrated to America
from Greece and worked as a profes-
sional baker, prepared him to pursue
a career in either baking or business.
But Giacumakis told his father that
Middle East history interested him
more.
Tough Giacumakis still admits
to loving pies, he walked away from
baking and instead chose a path of
academia and teaching.
Maybe its because I love to talk,
he said.
After more than 40 years of teach-
ing history, Giacumakis still talks
about ancient civilizations with the
fervor of a graduate student.
Im dealing with an area where
at least three world religions devel-
oped, Giacumakis said in his oce.
Te room is decorated with Egyp-
tian papyrus prints and 19th-century
sketches of Jerusalem and Mt. Sinai.
Te earliest civilizations came
from that area of the world and its
always exciting to see its develop-
ment, especially in the contempo-
rary situation.
Part of Giacumakiss knowledge
of the Middle East, especially within
the Arab-Israeli conict, resulted
from a six-year term as president and
executive director at Jerusalem Uni-
versity College, in Israel, from 1978
to 1984.
Tose were the only years since
1963 that he worked apart from
CSUF.
Shortly after his return in 1989,
the university opened its branch
campus in Mission Viejo with Gia-
cumakis as director.
Tirteen years later, CSUF moved
the branch operation to Irvine,
where he again taught in a one-
building campus with close to 3,000
students, as he did in 63.
As director, he hopes to expand
the Irvine campus to facilitate
around 15,000 students, which re-
quires more land, buildings and
more parking spaces.
Yet, Giacumakis knows his time
at CSUF is nearing a close.
My hope is to get [the Irvine
campus] xed and going and then
hand the reins over to somebody
younger, he said.
But at 69, age doesnt keep Giacu-
makis from pushing the limits.
If theres a new rollercoaster, I
got to try it, he said. Maybe its be-
cause theres still a bit of a daredevil
in me.
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HALLOWEEN PARTY - Girls from Alpha Delta Pi play at one of the many fun booths that were setup on
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CHINA: WORKSHOP PROMOTES
INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS
ciples following his death, to be the
most relevant part of the workshop.
Shu Fu Liu, a graduate student
in political science, said Shi gave
good advice as to how to become a
scholar. Te advice included how to
study and how to be an example to
others.
Chinese culture is a really rich
and valuable resource. Liu said.
While we cant return to the past
we can learn much from our Chi-
nese heritage.
Shi uses ancient literature to en-
courage Chinese people to do their
best, 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 example
in the society, that is our duty, said
Jing Hui Liu, Chinese program co-
ordinator.
Laichen Sun, assistant professor
of history, asked Liu about academic
corruption in China. Sun asked if
anything could be done to reduce or
eliminate it.
Tere was a 10-second pause prior
to Shis response.
His response indicated that his
position is moderate regarding this
academic corruption, Sun said. I
think it is more than that, but I think
that he basically agrees with me.
Shi stressed that in ancient times
scholars were eager to learn and
maintained a high moral standard,
Sun said.
It is relevant to our society today,
no cheating, dont plagiarize, thats
a very basic principle. It should be
true of every scholar and every stu-
dent, he said.
Shi went back to the writings of
the ancients for truth and inspira-
tion due to the widespread academic
corruption in China today, Sun said.
Shi wanted to see what the ancients
said and how their world could be
used for the Chinese people to re-
gain the high moral standard that
was lost.
I think he is very responsive to
criticism from others who have been
traveling to mainland China, Sun
said.

If theres a new roller-

coaster, I got to try
it. Maybe its because
theres still a bit of
daredevil in me.
Gioici Giacuxaxis
Director of Irvine Campus