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“Thursday” is back, and his Web site ?” www.csusresistance.org ?” is chock-full of criticism directed at Sacramento State officials and policies. Sac State alumnus and graduate student, James Banyai, or “Thursday,” manages and contributes to the anti-establishment CSUS Resistance Web site.

The site’s newest criticism takes offense with University Enterprises Inc.’s decision to build subsidized housing for faculty and staff, and its financial largess toward Sac State President Alexander Gonzalez.

The site notions that University Enterprises, labeled by the resistance as the “shadow corporate entity of CSUS,” is flawed for planning to build university-owned housing and twisting survey results to indicate more interest in the project ?” known as University Village ?” than what actually exists.

The resistance claims that only 19 percent of faculty and staff participated in the poll and, when including nonparticipants, only 4 percent are interested in what the site describes as the “employee ghetto.”

In fact, the site claims that 64 percent of survey respondents have little or no interest in such housing, which strikingly contrasts the assertion made in the Sacramento State Bulletin that nearly 70 percent expressed interest.

Furthermore, University Enterprises is called to task for seeking to profit from the housing project, despite its status as a nonprofit entity.

The resistance also skewers University Enterprises for donating $102,953 to spruce-up Gonzalez’s office and making loans of almost $250,000 to the president for “relocating” expenses.

The site’s main complaint about this loan program is that University Enterprises treats Gonzalez more “kindly” than other people.

According to the site, the loans are available to attract new faculty and staff, and retain quality instructors. But the site argues that Gonzalez is the only recipient of any loans.

University Enterprises declined to comment for this story.

Frank Whitlatch, associate vice president of Public Affairs, while acknowledging that the site is “clever and creative,” said it appears to him that “someone learned about Marxist critiques of capitalism and wants to experiment.”

Other reading material on the site include criticism on low faculty salaries, Gonzalez’s house, ROTC on campus and The President’s Circle of donors.

For more information, visit www.csusresistance.org.

Norm Erickson can be reached at [email protected]