Despite pouring rain across most of the state, California State University faculty members hit the picket lines Monday morning on the first day of a planned five-day strike. In downtown San Jose, about 60 to 70 faculty members gathered around the perimeter of San Jose State University. They rang bells, blew whistles and beat drums while pacing with signs that read “faculty working conditions are student learning conditions.” At the cross section of Fourth and San Carlos streets, the Queen and David Bowie hit “Under Pressure” blared from speakers. Sabrina Pinnell, a senior lecturer in the Depar…