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Chancellor's Office a/k/a "Long Beach": Central administration for the universities in the California State system. With 350,000 students, 18,000 faculty and 18,000 staff at 23 campuses from Eureka to San Diego, it is the biggest university system in the US and quite possibly the biggest in the world.

The CSU Auxillary (aka the "puppet foundation") would be a "charitable" tax-exempt foundation owned by the CSU. (Assuming the IRS allows this under its new ruling guidelines, which is doubtful.) Directors would be chosen from a consultative commission handpicked by the Chancellor's office. The Auxillary would carry out CETI operations on campus, while the LLC would be off-campus. (So if you cross a street, you work for a different company?) The Auxillary would also own about 25% of CETI, even though the CSU is barred by law from doing so, on the theory beloved by education bureaucrats that you can always do indirectly that which you may not do directly.

Further details are obscure. The contracts between the CSU and the puppet foundation, and between the puppet and the CETI LLC are key documents, but only fragments have been made public, and the answer to every important question is "To Be Arranged". If you can't negotiate a good deal with your own puppet, who can you negotiate with?

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The CETI Limited Liability Company: This is the new entity that would manage the entire project. Ironically, the name "CETI" is already taken, so the public relations people will have to find a new name.

Microsoft: Why are so many people afraid of Microsoft? According to Bill Gates it only sold four percent of all software in the world last year. ($10 billion out of $250 billion.) Business Week, February 2, 1998
 

(from the Martindale Hubble Legal Guide)

RUTAN & TUCKER, LLP
A Partnership including Professional Corporations
611 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1400
P.O. Box 1950
Costa Mesa, California 92626
(Orange County)
Telephone: 714-641-5100; 213-625-7586
Telecopier: 714-546-9035

Email: rutan&tucker@mcimail.com
Web-Site: http://www.rutan.com

 (MAIN OFFICE)

STATEMENT OF PRACTICE:
General Civil and Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Municipal Law, Real Estate, Corporate, Securities, Employment and Labor Relations (Management and Public Sector), Taxation, Estate Planning, Trust and Probate, Environmental and Land Use Law, Municipal Finance, Water Rights, Education Law, Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights.

FIRM-PROFILE: Firm founder, Alexander Rutan, began practicing law in Orange County in 1906. In 1936 he formed the firm of Rutan & Tucker with former Utah Superior Court Judge James B. Tucker. Today, with more than 100 attorneys, Rutan & Tucker is the largest Orange County, California based law firm. The Firm's practice extends throughout the United States and includes both the representation of foreign companies doing business in the United States and domestic companies engaged in activities abroad

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  "No net cost to the CSU": The misleading idea spread by CETI advocates that the project somehow involves free money or charitable gifts. It's like the telephone company giving you a "free" telephone as long as you pay $1 for every call. If CSU doesn't have enough money now, how will mortgaging ("leveraging") the future help? 

Build Date 2/9/98            Robert H. Daniels            Back to Anti-Ceti