The Daily Titan - March 22, 2012

March 22, 2012

Vol. 91 Issue 29

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES VOTES ON PAY RAISES

STATE | Spring admissions

Budget cuts threaten CSU’s 2013 admissions Cuts depend on Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax initiative MICHAEL MUNOZ Daily Titan

ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan Incoming President Mildred Garcia will receive $324,000 in base pay, housing and a $12,000-per-year car allowance. She will effectively become president after June 1.

Garcia to earn more than Gordon Official said salary decisions are made considering policy rather than public relations LANCE MORGAN & ERINN GROTEFEND Daily Titan

The California State University Board of Trustees voted on executive pay raises Tuesday, which included the salary of Cal State Fullerton’s incoming President Mildred Garcia.

She will receive a base salary of $324,500, which is exactly 10 percent more than former President Milton Gordon, who had a base salary of $295,000 in 2011.

The increases for new presidents’ salaries has recently been capped by the CSU Board of Trustees at no more than 10 percent higher than the previous president.

Decisions are being made on public policy grounds and not on public relations grounds, said

Erik Fallis, media relations for CSU. “It is very difficult to talk about searches and hiring of new presidents during tough budget times,” Fallis said.

Fallis said they are not talking about raises but about hiring decisions. He said the word raises is very lightly tossed around by individuals who like to “play up the drama.”

“We are talking about people who are coming in new to a particular campus and, in the case of Fullerton, you are talking about someone who is coming into that position as the second largest campus we have in our system,” Fallis said.

The California State Student Association (CSSA) has been monitoring the bills that have been introduced in Sacramento regarding executive compensation, said Miles Nevin, CSSA executive director.

“The board has decided to take a position of watch on all of those bills, as opposed to supporting or opposing any of them in particular,” said Nevin.

Nevin said the board feels like it is an issue they should observe and see how it plays out.

But it is not an area they are really interested in getting involved with in terms of taking a particular position.

“The board wants to remain focused on what they feel is the primary issue right now, which is the fact the legislature has repeatedly and quite dramatically reduced the CSUs funding,” Nevin said.

Running for Associated Students, Inc. president is Brenda Lopez and her running mate Jessica Hernandez. One of the main focal points in their campaign is to strengthen the communication between the administration and students on campus.

Lopez said students’ voices are not being heard because the leaders are not voicing those opinions and not stressing the issues to the administration.

Potential increases in state budget cuts will threaten spring 2013 enrollment as California State Universities announced plans to freeze admissions for spring, and cut an additional 20,000 to 25,000 seats for the 2012-2013 academic year.

This plan is tentative and is contingent of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax initiative that will be on the ballot in the November election. If the proposal is shot down by voters then the plan to freeze spring admissions could happen. The freeze on next spring’s enrollment could add increased pressure on voters.

The CSU announcement comes after the state has already cut over $2 billion in funding for community colleges and universities in California. For the CSUs, which have already seen $750 million in cuts, another $200 million in trigger cuts can be expected if the proposed tax initiative fails to gain voters.

The $1 billion of non-support funds has resulted with the CSU’s proposed plan of freezing admissions.

Miles Nevin, executive director

See SALARY, page 3

Cole brothers lead Titans over WWU to extend winning streak to 10 games Cameron and Chris Cole combined for seven goals and two assists in the victory

Courtesy of MCT After former Fullerton Police Officer Vincent Thomas Mater arrested Dean Gochenour for a DUI, Mater allegedly smashed his digital audio recorder in the Fullerton Police Department.

Ex-Fullerton police officer charged with destroying evidence

Officer in question said he broke digital recorder in frustration

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CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton lacrosse player charges toward the goal and evades defenders during the 12-7 win over Western Washington University Wednesday afternoon at Intramural Field.

in the period and sent WWU packing for its long trip home.

The victory was the Titans’ 10th in a row after starting 0-3.

Head Coach Kyle Morrison attributes the

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LOCAL | Tampering with evidence

SPORTS | Lacrosse

The Titan lacrosse team (10-3) put everything together in the last quarter to pull away from the Western Washington University Vikings Wednesday afternoon at Intramural Field, winning 12-7.

In what was a tight game for most of the game, CSUF managed to find another gear in the final period as it went on to score four goals, while shutting out the Vikings in the fourth quarter with strong defense and goaltending.

The brother combination of freshman Chris Cole and junior Cameron Cole were all over the field Wednesday, as Cameron had five goals for the day, while his brother Chris had two goals and two assists.

The last quarter began with the Titans up by just one goal, 8-7, but leading scorer Cameron Cole added a quick point after a nice assist by Jeff Lyon to increase the lead to 9-7.

Chris Cole then drove into the front of the net to score on a deep pole shot with a smooth assist coming from Richard Morrison.

CSUF would go on to score three more times

of the California State Student Association, said the announcement of the potential withholding of admissions is not surprising, but is still rather unfortunate. He said the freeze is another broken promise from the state, which has failed to do something they were required to do.

“This governor has not mixed words on this topic and he did the same thing last year,” said Nevine. “The budget is built on the assumption that those tax increases will pass, and then the CSU … can get their funding. If it doesn’t pass, we will get that trigger cut pulled and … we will see those enrollment reduction rates take place.”

Michele Siqueiros, executive director of the Campaign for College Opportunity, said attention needs to be paid towards the state for its role of repeated budget cuts that have resulted in the CSU making such a drastic move.

“The CSU has already reduced operation costs, laid off faculty, cut courses, increased fees. There’s not a lot left on that list of things you could do as an institution,” said Siqueiros. “A billion dollars is a lot of money — you just can’t continue to serve the same number of students.”

victories to both the teams good play and the fact that this has been the easy part of their schedule.

See LACROSSE, page 10

Former Fullerton police officer Vincent Thomas Mater was charged with one misdemeanor count of vandalism and one misdemeanor count of destruction of evidence for allegedly crushing his digital audio recording device (DAR) after an inmate’s suicide.

Brock Zimmon, deputy district attorney in the Special Prosecutions Unit, said Mater was charged with a misdemeanor, not a felony, because under California law, vandalism of any property that results in damage less than $400 is a misdemeanor. A felony constitutes $400 or more in damage.

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said in a press release that if convicted, Mater could face a maximum sentence of one year and six months in jail. Mater’s arraignment

is scheduled for Monday at the North Justice Center in Fullerton.

On April 14, 2011, Mater stopped Dean Gochenour and conducted a driving under the influence (DUI) investigation on him, according to the press release.

After determining that Gochenour was under the influence of alcohol, Mater transported him to Fullerton City Jail, where he was booked.

Zimmon said it does appear that the inmate was under the influence of alcohol when he was arrested.

When making an arrest for someone under the influence, Zimmon said there is not a specific protocol, but it varies for each department.

“During a DUI investigation, after an officer observes someone under the influence, they arrest them and have them complete a chemical test to determine their blood alcohol content in the field or in jail,” Zimmon said.

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March 22, 2012

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Harassment hits Troy High School Eight students were suspended in wake of team hazing incident AJAI SPELLMAN Daily Titan

Troy High School has cracked down on its policies regarding overnight school events after a hazing episode committed by members of its wrestling team earlier in the school year.

Over winter break, the varsity wrestling team attended an annual wrestling tournament in Lake Arrowhead. On the trip, senior team members “initiated” new team members by hazing and harassing them, said Scott MacIntyre, Troy’s assistant principal.

“In doing so … they (made some members of the team) stand outside in the cold (and) eat a little bit of cat food,” he said.

During the tournament, which took place Jan. 6-8, members of the wrestling team had directed nine of their peers to stand outside their cabin in the cold at 2:30 a.m.

Each boy was commanded to stand in a bucket of water for five minutes and eat a can of cat food.

“A parent heard about it from

someone else (and) called (to) say you should know about this … as soon as we heard about it we immediately jumped on it. We brought our S.R.O. Police Officer in, we did an investigation (and) interviewed all of the students involved. We found out that eight students were the perpetrators of this (incident),” MacIntyre said.

District Superintendent George Giokaris said eight students from the team were suspended for five days for violating the school’s policies.

“They were all suspended for five school days, which is a very severe suspension that goes on your college record, to your counselors; one of them missed three individual matches … they did take a personal hit in terms of their participation in the wrestling program,” MacIntyre said.

MacIntyre said the school has never tolerated any acts similar to hazing and, because of the January hazing episode, policies have been heavily enforced and tightened up over the past few months.

“It has always been a rule, it has never been OK to harass, haze, initiate or anything of those things.

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ALLAN XU / Daily Titan Eight members of Troy High School’s varsity wrestling team were suspended for five days after hazing fellow teammates at a tournament. The school’s administration has a zero-tolerance policy on bullying, hazing and harassment.

communicate that. We have stepped up those efforts since then to the best of our abilities to ensure that it doesn’t happen again, but kids are kids and sometimes they just do dumb things,” MacIntyre said.

Harrison Toy, 20, a biochemistry major, said hazing is only OK if it’s making the person who is being hazed stronger.

“I think hazing is cool if it makes the person stronger, (for instance), making them do a hard workout or intimidating them so that they have more respect for you, but not doing anything weird like eating s*** or drinking p***, that’s kind of stupid … those types of things (don’t) benefit anybody,” said Toy. Andrew Tock, 19, a photocom-

munications major, is not a big fan of hazing.

“In general, I don’t promote hazing, but if they have good intentions I would support it. For example … if it’s fun or it really isn’t harming anybody, that’s OK, but to make someone eat cat food … I think it’s really inhumane…” said Tock.

“Personally I feel as if the students who were involved in the incident should be given more punishment … what they did was way too extreme and beyond disrespectful.”

Due to Troy’s zero tolerance for bullying, the administration has taken the initiative to further advise that there will be severe punishments for students who take part in any form of bullying, hazing or harassing

other students.

MacIntyre said memorandums have been sent to all members of the faculty that can be used as a guide for them to go about explaining to their students what bullying is and what the consequences will be if they are involved in any form related to the matter. “(Hazing) happens every year, sometimes in colleges and universities, and sometimes high schools model that behavior, and it’s not OK there or here. That’s the message that we want to come away with,” MacIntyre said.

He said the best thing for other schools to do to combat hazing and bullying is to act as quickly as possible and treat the acts as seriously as possible.

OFFICER: Mater charged with two misdemeanors ...Continued from page 1 Gochenour committed suicide by hanging himself in a cell at the jail at approximately 11:30 p.m., according to the press release. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) was contacted to investigate the custodial death.

Mater said he turned on his DAR when he first made contact with Gochenour at the traffic stop, according to a death investigation report by prosecutors. Mater told OCDA investigators that he turned off his DAR when he brought Gochenour into the jail.

After the death of Gochenour, Mater said he attempted to download his recordings onto the Fullerton Police Department’s computer system, per the department’s policy, according to the report.

After several unsuccessful attempts to download the recordings, Mater said he became frustrated and threw his DAR at a metal door and damaged it. His audio recordings were not downloaded.

Police Captain Alex Bastreri said all Fullerton patrol officers wear the DARs and Mater was not an independent case.

“The purpose is to record the interaction of our officers with suspects and other members of the public for the preservation of evidence for possible

court appearance, for quality control, for the officers’ protection and protection of the members of the public,” said Bastreri.

The prosecution is accusing Mater of destroying his DAR by crushing it and removing the motherboard and circuit board. Due to the damage, the recordings could not be recovered according to the press release.

Rackauckas said the evidence would have been relevant to the OCDA’s custodial death investigation.

Due to personal issues and potential litigation, the police department cannot comment on the specifics of the Gochenour case.

Joel Sedano, 21, questioned what else the radio device had on it and if the recordings could lead to something else.

“That’s suspicious because why would you have to destroy this radio which could be evidence to something,” said Sedano.

FPD has had multiple cases in the news that show their department in a negative light. Sedano said police officers are supposed to make citizens feel safe, but beating a homeless man (Kelly Thomas) or destroying a radio does not have anything to do with keeping us safe.

“I don’t see them as protective people. Police officers are basically criminals with a badge and title,” Sedano said.

CORRECTIONS For the record: The brief “Civil War Exhibit in Arboretum,” published March 20, incorrectly stated that a Civil War and civil rights exhibit in the Arboretum would be open April 27-May 30. The exhibit actually opened April 27, 2011.

For the record: In the article “Master’s program ranked top 10 in California colleges” published in the Daily Titan March 20, it is stated that the Communications Department was the program that was honored. It is the Human Communication Studies degree program that was honored. The Communication Studies degree program in the Human Communication Studies Department was honored and was not ranked in the top 10. Both bachelor’s and master’s programs were recognized based on faculty productivity. Also, the scope of recognition was for North America, not just California. The degree was mistitled “speech communication master’s degree.” It should be titled communication studies. The name change went into effect fall 2011.

The owners of several Southern California Arco and Thrifty gas stations filed a suit against BP and Thrifty Oil Co. to keep them from not renewing their leases, putting the gas stations out of business.

More than 40 owners are claiming that the companies did not give them proper notice in July 2010 about not renewing their master lease with Thrifty Oil Co. The owners are asking the federal court for a temporary restraining order to the stop them from being forced out of their property. BP alerted that they would have to leave the stations starting in April.

David A. Schiller, the lawyer for the franchises, argues that BP might have known it was leaving the California gas market as early as 2001, but never told the franchises.

They are asking for $1 billion in damages.

BP filed a separate suit last week in anticipation of the lawsuit. They have asked the federal court to recognize that they followed the rules of letting the stations know they were not renewing the lease and lawfully terminated the franchises.

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Explosions in Suspect’s Home Three explosions occurred at the apartment of a man accused of going on a shooting spree at a Jewish school in France, according to the Associated Press.

Mohamed Merah, 24, said he brought France “to its knees” after he carried out an Al Qaeda-linked killing spree, gunning down seven people.

Hundreds of police surrounded the five-story building in Toulouse where Merah had been hiding since before dawn.

The explosions were heard and bright orange flashes lit up the night sky at around midnight.

The shooter was a French citizen of Algerian descent and had been to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he claimed to have received training from AlQaeda.

He told negotiators that the reason he killed “a rabbi and three young children at a Jewish school on Monday and three French paratroopers last week “was to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children.” He said he also did it in protest of the French military’s involvement in Afghanistan and the French government’s ban on wearing veils last year.

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ENROLL: Budget cuts might leave incoming students with minimal options in prospective schools ...Continued from page 1 Siqueiros sees the drastic budget cuts as a disservice to both the students in the CSU and towards the future of rebuilding California’s economy.

“Unfortunately, this will discourage students from applying, and I think it’s obviously a tragedy because we have more young adults who are eligible to be admitted and, unfortunately, deep state budget cuts are limiting access to students who we should be sending to college,” Siqueiros said. “It’s a huge step backwards. It’s clear California thrives on its educated workforce, and we know we already need an additional million college graduates by 2025; we are certainly not going to get there by limiting admissions.”

The Campaign for College Opportunity is a California nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure that incoming generations of California students have the opportunity to attend college and keep the workforce and economy strong. To keep with their mission, Siqueiros encourages both students and parents to speak out against Brown and his continuing increase of college cuts.

“We are urging students and families to call the governor and the legislature and demand that higher education budget cuts stop, and demand that they restore funding to higher education as soon as possible … and obviously many are already doing that,” Siqueiros said.

The CSU’s plan to freeze admissions will affect all 23 Cal State campuses in the spring 2013 semester. Only eight campuses will still be accepting applicants at a limited basis,

We are urging students and families to call the governor and the legislature and demand that higher education budget cuts stop.

Michele Siqueiros Executive Director of the Campaign for College Opportunity

and Cal State Fullerton is said to be one of those campuses. The other 15 campuses will completely freeze all admissions under the plan.

For April Painter, 24, a transfer student and human services major at CSUF, the lowered admission rate for spring will negatively impact the college experience for those who are trying to attend college and better their lives.

“It’s going to make going to college or trying to get into college a really tough thing,” said Painter. “I, at one point, was on a year stand still not knowing if I was going to be getting in CSUF or not, and so I had to look into other options … I couldn’t really go anywhere because in the state of California, CSUF was the only one who offered a nationally accredited program for my major.”

Just like Painter, the wait list will not leave many students with various options, which the CSU was able to provide. Nevine said the students seeking enrollment into CSUs do so because they are not able to afford other university costs. The community colleges have become so impacted that there won’t be many options left for student education.

SALARY: November election to decide cuts ...Continued from page 1 “I will definitely stand up for the students and stand by the students in order to voice those opinions that students have and keep pressing our administration in order to make those changes,” said Lopez.

Mougo Nyaggah, chapter president of the California Faculty Association (CFA), said the chapter’s view about the increases for new presidents’ salaries is the same as the CFA statewide.

“These are difficult times, and it is not the right time to increase executives salaries when students’ admissions are severely cut and tuition is increased,” said Nyaggah.

She added that the overall CSU budget has been cut by $750 million and is facing a potential $200 million cut if the governor’s proposed budget plans are not passed in the November election.

Faculty has not received a salary increase for the last two years. Nyaggah said the negotiations for a new contract has dragged for 18 months without any progress. This lack of an increase is affecting professors in multiple areas.

“It makes life very difficult especially for parttime lecturers and newer tenure-track assistant professors,” Nyaggah said.

Most professors make less than one-fifth ($60,000) of the average CSU president’s salary Nyaggah said. CFA statewide leaders attended the Board of Trustees meeting and voiced their reasons to not increase presidents’ salaries at this time.

CFA is planning to vote on whether or not they should hold two-day rolling strikes on any of the 23 CSU campuses.

“CFA does not want to strike but we will to protect the rights of the faculty, students and the future of California’s economy,” Nyaggah said.

The CSU Board of Trustees continues their plan to privatize the CSUs, according to a press release by CFA. The for-profit higher education

These are difficult times, and it is not the right time to increase executives salaries when student admissions are severely cut ...

Mougo Nyaggah Chapter President of the California Faculty Association

model will result in quality education being more expensive, higher executive pay, holding down costs and eliminating the assurance of access to a higher education.

Abandoning the promise of a quality higher education for Californians, the board announced enrollment caps that will result in tuition, which has already been increased for fall 2012, and a more selective admissions process, according to the CFA press release.

CFA responded by issuing a white paper that describes how the board plans to change the CSU into a for-profit college system. According to the press release, the white paper includes how changes are developed and implemented by outside consultants hired by the CSU Chancellor’s Office.

Jeffery Benson spoke on behalf of himself and his running mate, Robert Perez, about what they plan to change if elected as ASI president and vice president. Preston said they are concerned about the direction the CSU is headed, in particular the raise granted to Garcia.

“This shouldn’t be happening at this time of a recession,” said Benson.

The running mates have proposed to cut their own salaries by 25 percent in order to send the message to the CSU and the administrators in Long Beach that it is time to change their ways of handling business.

“You can’t have skyrocketing salaries during a recession,” Benson said. “This is a culture and a history that has to be stopped.”

ALLAN XU / Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton might be one of the eight campuses that will continue to accept applicants, but on a limited basis. The other 15 campuses will not be admitting new students, causing students to look for alternative universities.

Assembly bill puts Fullerton redevelopment projects on hold City funds get shut down in an effort to raise money for state-funded education EZEKIEL HERNANDEZ Daily Titan

The city of Fullerton is contending with shuffling its public funds after the state of California ordered a shutdown of redevelopment agencies. In a meeting Tuesday, the city council and the mayor addressed the issue of future redevelopment plans.

Before the shutdown, many cities in California relied on redevelopment funds to finance construction projects on shopping centers, housing and other large renovation projects.

As of Feb. 1, state law calls for dissolution of all local redevelopment.

Funds that used to go to the city will now be dissolved into a state fund. According to proponents of Assembly Bill 26, the intention is to raise money for statefunded education.

The law has created a major issue for Mayor Sharon Quirk-Silva and the city council. In 2005, Fullerton’s redevelopment received a $75-million bond. However, a large fraction of that money went unspent, so there is a unwillingness to hand the money over to the state.

Jane Rands, a candidate for city council, approached the podium in Tuesday’s meeting and voiced concerns about the city’s compliance with the new law.

“I’m curious why there’s a redevelopment staff budget of $1.7 million for six months when redevelopment is legally gone,” said Rands. “I’m just curious if we’re still just treading along as if redevelopment still exists.”

City Manager Joe Felz said the city still has projects that have been signed on and

still need funding. The city, as a successor agency, must report to the California Department of Finance the kind of work that is still on the city’s books.

“Our obligation to be safe in this matter is to put everything on the list,” said Felz.

He said that the city will be working in compliance with the new law.

According to the treasurer’s report, the city of Fullerton received $75 million in bonds specifically for redevelopment.

Because of delays, much of that money has gone unspent and is in danger of falling into the state’s hands with AB 26.

Charles Kovak, a project manager for the successor agency, said the state is trying to get at the leftover money, which could compromise bondholder’s stakes.

Originally, it was expected that the state was only going to start diverting local tax revenue rather than going after current city accounts.

“All the bondholders are going to be up in arms because they’ve had commitments when they bought the bonds … It could be investment houses back east or typical Bob Smith down the street; it could be anybody,” said Kovak.

If the state seizes the current pool of bond money, the state may cut the bonds short.

“It could cause not just delays, but absolute terminations of the project,” Kovak said. He currently has a project for a 250-unit complex for affordable housing that is being put on hold.

Quirk-Silva said in the council meeting that it will be a difficult process because many different cities with redevelopment funds have unique situations.

“I think that the frustration here is that we had a clear decision made Feb. 1. What cities are left to do is unwind. Many of the scenarios that cities are involved with are not as clear as we would expect them to

be,” said Quirk-Silva. “Whether it was a good use of our tax dollars remains to be debated, maybe for decades. But I can tell you we will move as quickly as we can to do what the law says.”

Recently, a new hope has emerged that, if enacted in the state senate, could allow cities to retain some of the money for affordable housing, a primary function of redevelopment.

“There’s a lot of legislation in Sacramento that’s in the works and all that to allow some of the cities to retain portions of the money that they currently have, specifically housing money, affordable housing money,” Kovak said.

Any amendments to AB 26 are still in preliminary stages.

Some of Fullerton’s redevelopment projects include apartment complexes, the Fox Theatre, the Community Center and the Boys and Girls Club.

“I want to remind everyone that it does not increase taxes, but it brings back property taxes that we all pay,” said Don Bankhead, a councilmember, during the meeting.

Kovak and Bankhead said the College Town project at Cal State Fullerton was originally planned to be financed by redevelopment.

Kovak, who used to manage redevelopment in Fullerton, said that the funding for College Town is secure because an agreement was reached before the law was passed.

Councilman Bankhead supports the development of College Town, but said its fate might be in limbo because of this law.

“We still strongly support it, but I’m not too sure the redevelopment funding is still available. I hope that it is; I strongly support College Town. I think it would be a great project for the city and for the university,” Bankhead said.

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Three-year accreditation for campus health center Nonprofit organization awards highest term of certification to center RICARDO GONZALEZ Daily Titan

The Student Health and Counseling Center (SHCC) at Cal State Fullerton announced its facilities achieved accreditation March 6 for another three-year term from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).

This is the highest term of accreditation awarded by the organization. The SHCC and its staff want students to know this means student health is in capable hands.

“It shows we care about the quality of care we give to our students and that we meet nationally-recognized standards for giving good care,” said Kathy Spofford, associate director of the Student Health and Counseling Center, in an email. “If anyone sees the accreditation symbol, they can be sure that an outside, third-party agency has done a review of our services and has recognized us as providing great counseling and health care according to their high standards.”

The AAAHC is an outside agency and nonprofit organization founded in 1979. It accredits more than 5,000 organizations across the United States. These include ambulatory surgical centers, dental group practices, military health care facilities and many more.

“We were the first CSU health center to be accredited by them,” said Misti Osmialowski, executive assistant at the SHCC. Osmialowski said CSUF has held a continuous accreditation with AAAHC since 1980, part of an executive order for the university’s Student Health and Counseling Center.

The process of accreditation is otherwise completely voluntary and at the discretion of the facility.

SHCC is one of only three facilities in the city of Fullerton to hold a AAAHC accreditation.

“We’ve consistently met these very high standards for care,” Osmialowski said.

High standards are important, too. Part of student fees go toward insurance provided to all students through Anthem Blue Cross.

Elba Palomo, 22, a music major, uses SHCC services regularly, but it’s more than just the affordability of

services that are important to her.

“They actually listen there,” said Palomo. “They don’t make you feel stupid.”

Ensuring quality of care is part of the process employed by the AAAHC. That process involves analysis from the organization, whose surveyors compare a facility’s services, policies and performance against a national standard. It also requires verification of compliance in all services that the health facility provides.

There are typically eight core chapters that require AAAHC approval. These include rights of patients, governance, administration, quality of care provided, quality management and improvement, clinical records and health information, infection prevention and control safety, and facilities and environment.

On top of this, if a facility provides additional services, they may have to meet additional adjunct standards to reach accreditation.

Because of the nature of the SHCC, that number was far larger than eight, Spofford said.

“We needed to have significant compliance in about 16 different areas as we offer many additional services at CSUF,” Spofford said.

This does not account for changes and updates that the AAAHC makes to various standards.

These are listed in a requirements handbook released yearly, but the organization also employs various practices to enforce these standards on accredited facilities.

“AAAHC has just started to do surprise visits as well to keep clinics on their toes,” Spofford said. “You never know when they could show up.”

This leads to a demanding level of self-assessment, which is something the AAAHC mentions as part of its own goals regarding voluntary accreditation by the staff to keep the health center consistently well maintained.

“We go through the whole handbook and analyze everything we do,” Osmialowski said. “We have many meetings … we review every aspect of our care to make sure that we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing according to the (AAAHC) standards.”

Despite the myriad standards and practices required for accreditation, Spofford said the SHCC’s most recent marks were the highest she had seen in her 17 years of healthcare administration. She hopes students and the community will recognize the hard work the facility and its staff go through to provide excellent services.

“Our accreditation status shows how much we care by voluntarily going through this rigorous process every three years,” Spofford said.

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Panelists attend ASI cookout The Associated Students Inc. hosted panelist for the first time to answer student questions SEPIDEH NIA Daily Titan

The Associated Students, Inc. Cookout had a political twist Wednesday when panelists came out to answer questions on the upcoming elections.

This was the first time ASI collaborated with ASI Productions, ASI Olympics, ASI Elections, ASI Lobby Corp and Government Relations for the cookout.

ASI Chief Communications Officer Trina Tan said the cookout was planned a few months ago, but planning for the panelists started about a month ago.

“We felt like it was a good season to bring the issues here on campus, and also it was a really great opportunity to have a collaboration with government relations who were able to collaborate with these two panelists and bring these two perspectives of liberal/ conservative to the campus,” said Tan. The two panelists were Gustavo Arellano, a parttime lecturer in Chicana and Chicano studies and a self-proclaimed Democrat, and Jon Fleischman, a CSUF alumni and the founder and publisher of FlashReport.org.

Arellano and Fleischman brought ideas from two sides of the political spectrum, but they seemed to agree on some of the issues brought up during the panel discussion. Discussion points included the Republican presidential candidates, women in the political arena and state issues.

Students were also given a chance to ask the panelists their own questions. Those that did received an ASI Lobby Corps recycled bamboo

flash drive.

Jackeline Alarcon, 19, the ASI Lobby Corps Strategic Communications coordinator, thought that the collaboration was successful.

“I definitely think that the collaboration is needed just because it brings different aspects of the student body,” said Alarcon. “It represents different regions; you know we also have ASI here and we have those who are interested in politics and we do have the voter registration table for lobby corps, and of course food brings everyone in.”

For many students, like Alex Choing, 19, an undeclared major, the main reason for attending the cookout was for the free food.

“I’m here for food and kind of watch the events because one of my friends is running for (ASI) president,” he said.

Although food was a big deciding factor for many students, the tables were filled with students listening to the panelists.

Carlos Navarro, 20, a Spanish major, came to see the panelists.

“I would like to stay informed on not just what our campus is doing, but also what’s going on nationwide. So I thought that this was great opportunity for me to get a different perspective on not just campus events or campus elections, but also on our national elections, which are in this upcoming year,” said Navarro.

Maria Camberos, 18, a first-year child and adolescent studies major and member of the ASI Productions Street Team, did not know there was going to be a panel discussion, but thought it was a good idea.

“We do, as students, have a lot of questions and we hear a lot of rumors and we hear a lot of ‘he saidshe said,’ and it’s better to just get the answers from the source,” said Camberos.

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Vincent Mak and Midori Kameya squeeze condiments on their hot dog at the ASI Cookout.

Current ASI President Eric Niu, and ASI Vice President Jay Jefferson cooked hot dogs for hungry students while members of the ASI Executive Board, ASI Lobby Corps and ASI Productions helped set up drinks and chips.

“I think it was executed pretty well. It was the first time they’ve done this, an event like this having not just a cookout but actually having an informative cookout,” said Navarro. “People seem to be listening and asking questions, so I think overall it was a pretty good event.”

The Quad was filled with students from noon to 1 p.m. Many of them stayed to watch the panelists.

With the elections coming up, Tan said she hoped the event shed some light into the current political issues going on in the U.S. “With this event, we just really want to encourage students to educate themselves, educate the community, and make an educated vote and most importantly, to vote and make their voice heard,” Tan said.

Eateries committed to reducing food waste Campus dining is moving towards greener pastures MARK PAYNE Daily Titan

For the abundance of food in the United States, it has been estimated that about 40 percent of it goes to waste.

A big contributor to the food waste on university campuses are cafeteria trays. They are being removed from almost every campus across the U.S., enabling universities and food service companies to reduce food waste, lower energy costs and make college campuses more environmentally sustainable.

“Dining facilities on campuses take up to five times more water, five times more energy, five times more waste per square foot than the dorm,” said Monica Zimmer, a spokeswoman for Sodexo, a food service company that serves approximately 600 U.S. campuses.

Removing food trays helps keep the consumer from gathering more food than they would actually eat, therefore they make their selections more carefully. That saves on food and means less to wash, saving water and energy.

STEPHEN McGLADE / Daily Titan Campus restaurants employing doing several techniques to minimize waste, like not using trays and preparing food made to order.

Drew Chesen, the associate director of Dining and Conference Services for Student Affairs, which manages the Gastronome, said they have no trays in the dining hall and leftovers at the end of the day are less than 2 percent.

“We have no trays in the dining facility at all, so students can come in and they’re welcome to eat as much as they want ... because they don’t have a tray, they can’t just walk around and load up,” said Chesen.

Another way they control the amount of food waste is by making the portion sizes smaller to begin with.

“We also control the portion sizes … the portion sizes might be a little

smaller than they would get at a buffet restaurant,” Chesen said. “So instead of an eight-ounce portion of chicken or eight ounces of beef, they get about a four-ounce portion … If they want second portion, by all means, if they want a third portion, they can absolutely help themselves to it; there’s no stopping that. But by limiting the portion sizes at any one time it also decreases the food waste.”

A campus can cut back on food waste by adopting this policy. According to a July 2008 report released by Aramark Higher Education Food Services, a dining company that serves about 500 schools nationwide, students can waste 25 to 30 percent less food when they aren’t carrying a tray.

Tony Lynch, the director of Campus Dining Services at Cal State Fullerton, is in charge of the eating establishments in the food court. He said very little

food is lost because most of their food is prepared fresh and made to order.

Lynch emphasizes the use of Just In Time (JIT) production methods, which is also referred to as lean production. Rather than producing goods and supplying customers from stock, the JIT process focuses on producing exactly the amount required at exactly the time customers require it.

This helps cut down on food waste, Lynch said.

“We pride ourselves on being very aware about food production and the importance of JIT production,” he said.

The food court also makes an effort to get any food that might be usable to food banks.

“Yes, we actively support the Women’s Transitional Living Shelter in Fullerton,” Lynch said. “We also have worked closely with the Orange County Food Bank and Second Harvest.”

March 22, 2012

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Disney girl in the real world These movies are a little too influential — and not in a good way AJAI SPELLMAN Daily Titan

Disney movies and the messages they instill in children, particularly young girls, have been the talk of the town for decades.

But the unmistakable fact that these culturally popular and heavily sugar-coated animated films strongly influence society’s younger generations can be a petrifying acknowledgement to come to grips with for many parents.

Suffice to say, I, personally, am a product of Disney’s hypnotizing cinematic mechanisms.

I grew up on Disney films like Cinderella and Pocahontas. I find myself on numerous occasions acting out scenes of my life similar to the ones I’ve seen take place in Disney films and taking on the perspectives of the Disney characters in these films.

My mom married again when I was at the tender age of 11.

I can remember crying during the wedding ceremony because I dreaded having a “wicked stepfather.”

Weeks after the ceremony, my stepfather and stepsister moved in with me and my mother. I just knew they were bad news, according to Disney.

I spent most of my time locked in my room, dodging as much conversation as possible, because I refused to be treated badly by my so-called “evil stepsister.”

Anything that was said by my stepfather was taken out of context and overanalyzed by me because I had already been trained into thinking that mixed families didn’t work well together and

I am just beginning to form a real genuine relationship with my stepsister and stepfather. I look back and realized that … I wasted so much time avoiding them. never would.

Fast forward to today, 12 years down the road — I am just beginning to form a real genuine relationship with my stepsister and stepfather.

I look back and realized that because I wasted so much time avoiding them, I missed out on so many positive memories that could have been acquired.

I’ve come to learn that my stepsister is a fun, beautiful young woman and an awesome role model to live by. I can go to my stepfather for advice on anything and I’ve grown to find that he loves me just as much as he loves his own children, if not more.

Damn you, Cinderella. This is all your fault.

Next on the list is Pocahontas, the Native American princess gifted enough to be able to “paint with all the colors of the wind.”

According to NewInt.org, “Disney became interested in the idea of ‘multiculturalism’ and made Pocahontas in 1995. This movie mixes Disney’s favorite story of the ‘princess in love’ with a real story from Native American history.”

The website further states this “is a problem because Pocahontas was a real woman, and she was very different from the Pocahontas that Disney invented. To give only one example: in real life, Pocahontas was a child when she first met the

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‘hero’ John Smith, and there was no romance between them. When Pocahontas met Smith again years later, she called him ‘father.’”

As far as Rapunzel is concerned, I can honestly say that it can be a tad bit misleading for young children as well.

In the Disney film Tangled, based on a Grimm fairy tale, Rapunzel sits around and waits on her prince charming to come to the rescue her while she slacks off — taking part in activities like singing, waltzing around and drawing all day.

For this reason, my aunt cannot get my little cousin to do anything around the house. All she does is stay locked in her room listening to music, watching Disney movies and drawing.

When my aunt tells her that she needs to learn responsibility

around the house, my little cousin’s response is, “Why? My Prince Charming will take care of me. I don’t have to do anything, just like Rapunzel.”

My little cousin thinks that life is all about being swept off her feet by a man, and that the man will be the sole provider in any given circumstance.

Wrong!

To make it anywhere today, depending on someone else to get you to a point of success is not the way to go about thinking.

These multiple types of discombobulating literature can hinder a child from differentiating fantasy from reality.

“I grew up on Disney movies, unfortunately … They feed you lies. Like Lion King and writing it to fit (the story of ) Hamlet; I’m pretty sure there is a lot

of philosophy and psychology behind it. For it to be in a kid’s movie, I think that’s pretty cool, but the fact that they severely alter it isn’t,” said Marlene Garcia, 20, a radio-TV-film major.

Disney is a household name, and their characters are universally recognized. It’s inevitable that the Walt Disney company will remain one of the most powerful monopolies in the world.

However, it should instill more realistic points of view so children know how to deal with real-life situations.

Children should know that not every stepfamily member is going to be wicked, a man is not going to always ride in on a white horse to save the day, and that fantasy is far different from reality. The line between fact and fiction is not as fine as they’ve grown to believe.

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Patting down dignity A lesson in humanity, not invasion of privacy, should be taught to TSA RICHARD ANDERSON Daily Titan

How would you feel if you had never done anything wrong and yet you still received an invasive pat-down solely based on your physical limitations?

That’s what happened as demonstrated in a video gone viral to a clearly physically disabled, wheelchair-bound toddler in 2010, when the boy received a pat-down from Transportation Security Administration, solely because he was in a wheelchair.

It could be that my brother is in a wheelchair, or that I was raised around wheelchairs and other children with disabilities. Or maybe it’s because my best friend is in a wheelchair.

It could even be that I’m mildly, physically disabled. Maybe that’s why I’m so sensitive about this subject.

Or maybe not.

Who wouldn’t think the actions of TSA lately are deplorable?

Just because a wheelchair sets off a metal detector, TSA pats him down like he’s a terrorist.

That’s not even the sad part.

TSA is so terrified of terrorist attacks that it has done pat-downs on innocent people like this for years.

“There is another human being putting their hands on my child,” said the boy’s father, Matt Dubiel, in an interview with CNN. “That is not acceptable. If he was putting his hands on my child at McDonald’s or anyplace else, we would immediately have him arrested and call the police.”

Sure, you can make the argument that Dubiel could’ve planted something on the boy himself, as is the custom of a suicide bomber.

However, it would’ve been a lot easier to plant something on a wheelchair that’s clearly three times too big for him instead of putting it on him.

So why give him the pat-down?

Why not check the wheelchair, which the TSA agent failed to do?

TSA has gone too far and needs to be reeled in.

This isn’t the first case an innocent person received a patdown either.

According to CBS News last year, TSA required a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper,

thinking if it wasn’t, terrorists could start using diapers to their advantage.

In another humiliating case, 56-year-old Claire Hirschkind couldn’t go through airport metal detectors because she had a pacemaker-like device.

She tried to board a plane at an airport in Texas. After telling TSA she had the equivalent of a pacemaker in her chest, she was sent to a female agent for a patdown.

When she requested to not have her breasts examined, the agent insisted. When the woman refused, she was thrown to the floor, arrested and banned from the airport.

She told Austin news station KVUE-TV she is a rape survivor.

And as such, it’s understandable why Hirschkind would feel strongly about her treatment by the TSA. However, what’s not understandable is the compassionless way she was treated and the way TSA handled the situation.

Last year, in a story published

by Fox News, a severely mentally disabled man was forced to undergo a pat-down.

Because he had the mental capacity of a 2-year-old, he had difficulty understanding agents’ orders.

When his father attempted to explain the man’s disability, the agents said, “Please, sir, we know what we’re doing.”

The agents also confiscated a 2-inch plastic hammer, which the man had carried with him for 20 years for comfort.

The agents told the father that it was a security threat. They tapped the wall with it and said, “See, it’s hard. It could be used as a weapon.”

The family would have to have the little hammer shipped in order to keep it.

Later, TSA issued an apology, saying the hammer should’ve never been confiscated.

Of course it shouldn’t have been confiscated. The hammer was the man’s crutch and a toy.

Furthermore, while I can understand that it is possible terrorists would maybe use a wheelchair or a diaper in an attack, I’ve personally never heard of it happening.

I’m in favor of increased security, especially post-9/11, but if TSA feels like it needs to do patdowns on people with disabilities, then maybe things have gotten a little out of hand.

ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan We’re ecstatic to have Mildred Garcia (right) leave the dark side that is Dominguez Hills and join our Titan family. Let’s just hope her significant salary increase doesn’t ruin our excitement.

Our loss to be Garcia’s gain

New CSUF president Garcia gets spoiled by the Board of Trustees, and we get left behind

policy implemented in January. In a baffling and contemptible statement reported in the Los Angeles Times, trustee Roberta Achtenberg said, “I’m just sorry we can’t pay them more because of the policy we adopted.”

If you read that quote and felt a bit sick to your stomach, then you’re not alone. Despite widespread anger over extravagant executive compensation in our public education system, the appropriate tough questions are simply not being asked. Without further ado, I will dispense with the pleasantries and proceed in this publicspirited examination of CSU executive pay.

To begin, who the hell believes that public university presidents deserve $324,500, free housing and a vehicle allowance?

Surely there is no legitimate, merit-based reason to throw hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars at this particular breed of public employee just because they pursue doctorates in education rather than doctorates in subjects like physics, political science or business.

As Gov. Jerry Brown recently suggested, any number of people could do the work of a college president. It’s not like the work of a college president is rocket science or brain surgery; incidentally, Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers suggest that incoming president Garcia will rake in approximately $99,100 more than the average surgeon and $225,500 more than the average aerospace engineer.

Secondly, why would the CSU leadership increase executive salaries while simultaneously freezing enrollment and preparing for more fee

PETER CORNETT For the Daily Titan

In the bloody aftermath of a newly announced plan to freeze enrollment at most of the California State University campuses, the CSU Board of Trustees approved the compensation package for incoming Fullerton President Mildred Garcia, placing her total salary at $324,500 — nearly $100,000 more than the salary of the vice president of the United States of America.

On top of approving Garcia’s increased salary, the CSU Board of Trustees voted to provide both housing and an additional $1,000-per-month vehicle allowance to the incoming president.

Compare this to the average salary of a fulltime faculty member and the presidential salary appears grotesquely unjustifiable.

According to the 2010 Profile of CSU Employees, the professionals who are actually doing the educating earn a mere $78,916. As we can see, there exists an inexplicable disparity between the pay of educators and the pay of the facilitators at the top of our bloated education system.

At the recent CSU Committee on University and Faculty Personnel, the salaries of Garcia and incoming CSU East Bay President Leroy Morishita were increased by 10 percent more than that of their predecessors, which is the maximum increase allowable, according to a

A case of the teenage prison blues “Cruel and unusual” does not have a set, precise definition JOHN SOLLITTO Daily Titan

Teenagers serving time in jail is hard enough to believe as it is, but teens — human beings much younger than us — serving life sentences without parole is even harder to believe.

These individuals have had the rest of their lives taken from them for the horrible crimes they have committed.

However, it is hard to argue that these young men and women should be given the possibility of parole when they are the perpetrators of crimes that snatch lives, innocent or not.

When it comes down to the basic facts, murder is murder. No shades of gray there.

Think about the adults we do this to — the people we as a society find so disgusting that we deem it necessary to lock away from the rest of the world because of the danger they pose.

We’re taking their lives away from them too, but no one objects because they’re adults and should have spent the first 18 years of their lives being taught better.

But when a young adult does the same thing, people are up in arms because they still see them as children.

The Supreme Court in 2010 ruled that life without parole is “cruel and unusual punishment” for a teen offender.

However, the ruling stated there

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Cost of living increases are occasionally cited to justify the salary increases, but I would very much like a CSU representative to explain to me why someone with a $300,000 salary (not to mention taxpayer-funded housing and transportation) would require constant cost of living adjustments.

Moreover, if the exorbitant salaries and royal benefits are somehow intended to magically attract talent, why then is this same logic not applied to the salaries of our educators? I fail to see why the explanation of market competition is applied only to managers and not to esteemed members of our faculty.

And finally, I will appeal to the reason and humanity of our illustrious incoming president.

The biography posted on the website of Garcia’s previous university of employment points out that her research “has concentrated on equity in higher education.”

While I understand this research is concerned with issues of ethnicity and culture, I dearly hope she will act equitably (in the interests of students, faculty and taxpayers as a whole) and scale back her ridiculous salary to a more sustainable level.

But if we are to be realistic, there is no reason to believe that incoming CSUF President Mildred Garcia will surrender any portion of her enormous salary. After all, she’s not accountable to us.

So when you receive that inevitable email announcing a new tuition increase, you know who to approach for a loan.

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was nothing wrong with keeping them for their entire lives. It was just necessary to offer them a chance to redeem themselves with the option of parole.

What’s the difference? They’ve already been told that they’re going to be in jail for the rest of their lives. Why give them that tease or that goal if many of them won’t even get it?

The idea of providing that “parole” clause seems to be just a way of appeasing outraged citizens on paper, while the judicial system has no obligation to actually offer the individual parole since it will be the final decider on the matter in the first place.

But honestly, why is the punishment considered “cruel and unusual?”

Allowing someone young and impressionable to learn that if he does something heinous enough to warrant a life sentence and telling him it will all be okay if he’s good in jail and he gets parole seems to be a failure in the justice system.

It is the equivalent of bad parenting.

When a child does something wrong, the parents ground him or her for months at a time, but as soon as they get a few good grades and play well with others they are able to go back out again.

What is the point of that?

There’s a reason we distinguish between criminals who have the possibility of parole and those who don’t.

Perhaps a concession should be made to an extent.

I would think giving anyone below the age of 16 a sentence like this might be harsh, but not cruel

and unusual.

Think about it. At 16, people are considered old enough to make careful and conscious decisions to drive carefully and take the lives of others into their hands while transporting them.

If they have that much responsibility and that great level of trust, then shouldn’t they be punished to the full extent of the law?

According to the Furman v.

Georgia case, cruel and unusual punishment was defined as anything resembling torture, a punishment that is handed out in an “arbitrary fashion,” a punishment “clearly and totally rejected throughout society” and a punishment which is “patently unnecessary.”

As long as these guidelines are followed when sentencing a teen to a life sentence without the possibility of parole in his or her dark and gloomy future, who is to say that it is in fact “cruel and unusual?”

If the individual is found, by a jury of citizens, to be a great danger to the public and one that should not be out on the street ever again, then there seems to be a clear decision.

A jury may feel that this individual is not that large of a danger, or was a victim of circumstance or environment and, given enough time, might rehabilitate.

If so, then it is up to them and the lawyers to make the case for the appropriate kind of punishment for the teen. That is what our justice system is for and why we have lawyers and juries.

March 22, 2012

FEATURES

Passion and determination beget success Eight CSUF dance students will perform at the Kennedy Center MAEGAN CASTRO-FLORES Daily Titan

It takes a special type of person to become a dancer. They devote their time to become a model of strength and focus.

With so much sacrifice, the payoff can be tremendous.

For eight students in Cal State Fullerton’s dance program, their dedication has landed them an opportunity to perform in the American College Dance Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. “It was a huge, huge honor,” said Gladys Kares, director of the dance program at CSUF. Thirty schools were selected through 11 regional conferences.

CSUF — along with Stanford University — was chosen from the western conference to perform.

Kares and fellow faculty members, Debra Lockwood and Debra Noble, will be accompanying the students for the dance festival.

As the dancers prepare for the Kennedy Center performance, the mixed emotions start to set in.

“I feel very honored to be one of the few that has the opportunity to represent our school at a national level,” said Elyse Mottaz, a dance major. “I am also very nervous and anxious to go. As a group, we have been working for several months to make sure this piece was competition worthy and it seemed that our hard work paid off.”

While in Washington, D.C., students will be able to take classes in ballet and modern dance from

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I am really, really proud of our students. Even the teachers at the festival remarked on their spirit and their talent.

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guest artists from around the country. Classes will start in the morning and last until the evening.

There will be public concerts every night and a gala concert performed on the last night. The performers in the gala concert will be chosen by a panel of judges.

On top of the rehearsals for the Kennedy Center, the students also have their regular dance curriculum workload.

“The better you are, the more you are involved in the program,” Kares said. “Their first class is at 9 a.m. and they usually leave at 11 p.m. We don’t let them stay later.

The door is hitting their butt at 11 p.m.”

Melanie Hansel, a dance major, knew that dance would be involved in her life and make her the person she is today.

“I always knew that, through one manner or another, I would need to keep dancing throughout my entire life. I decided that pursuing a career in dance would help to fulfill my passion and desire to express myself freely in ways that are challenging, yet all the worthwhile,” said Hansel.

The dance program is different from other departments and degrees offered at CSUF. The dancer’s life is one of auditions.

In order to become part of the program, a student must audition.

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Perfection can only be accomplished through determination and countless hours of practice in the dance studio. (Clockwise from top right) Lauren Zimmerer, Tracy Bernardo, Devin Oshiro and Mary Angeline Medenas, front, and Melanie Hansel, back, all work on improving their modern technique.

To move up one of the four levels that the program offers, they must audition again.

“It’s a class. At least all the fulltime faculty will be watching and (will) give feedback. It’s pretty intense … it’s like a huge final,” Kares said.

Students in the program are taught everything from the history of dance to kinesiology.

The program wants to encompass something that the students can take with them after they graduate.

Sarah Mottaz, a dance major,

wants to continue in the field of dance and continue to hone her dance skills.

“I plan on auditioning for dance jobs and companies in the area and to always continue my technical training. Other students want to possibly go back for their master’s (degree) in dance,” Hansel said.

While friends and acquaintances are made, the Theatre and Dance Department carries a special relationship that goes beyond just being classmates.

Tracy Bernardo, 21, another

dance major, said, “I think the best thing about the department is the connection within the department and the family feeling everyone feels ... We go through so much together, and I feel so lucky to be apart of this department.”

Special connections seem to resonate through all the dancers and their appreciation of classmates and faculty members.

“The teachers are fantastic.

They really make the effort to help each student understand fully and improve personally during

their journeys at the school … and the fact that I have gotten the opportunity to perform at so many different places has been such a blessing,” Hansel said.

Kares feels only pride when she speaks of her students.

“I am just really, really proud of our students. Even the teachers at the festival remarked on their spirit and commitment,” she said.

Bernardo believes this program wouldn’t be the way it is without the support of the department’s teachers and faculty.

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Paperbacks are in the past E-readers and tablet PCs are becoming a commodity at CSUF TIM WORDEN Daily Titan

Daily Titan File Photo Most of the undergraduate students in Cal State Fullerton’s Engineering Department are men. The Society of Women Engineers at CSUF encourages women to join the field.

Trading dolls for drills Female engineers lead the way in a field dominated by men ANDREA AYALA Daily Titan

Hard hats, heavy boots and clunky tools in hand — not exactly the first image that comes to mind when the word “woman” is mentioned.

According to Ed Sullivan, assistant vice president for Institutional Research and Analytical Studies, 88 percent of the undergraduate students in Cal State Fullerton’s Engineering Department are men.

However, a few women are trailblazing a new path into the field of engineering.

Beena Ajmera, 21, and Suzanne Moubayed, 21, both civil engineering students, practically began their engineering careers in diapers.

Ajmera’s father was an engineer and she spent much of her childhood at construction sites.

“The first toy I remember is not a doll, it’s an electric drill,” said Ajmera with a smile.

Amjera said her mother was not pleased to discover the drill and her father eventually took the gift back.

Moubayed, whose father was also an engineer, enjoyed playing with both gears and dolls as a child.

This may be why Moubayed and Ajmera opted for the rough, challenging field that is engineering.

According to Moubayed, when it came time to decide her career, she was interested in pursuing architecture, but chose to challenge herself with engineering instead.

“I like the feeling that I made it, I designed it — not just drew something pretty,” said Moubayed.

A reason many women might not be opting for the profession is a lack of interest.

Dr. Melinda Blackman, a professor of psychology, said, “It is not that females would not be competent in this profession, but the majority are simply not interested in the subject matter.”

According to David Cheng, of electrical engineering, people consider engineering to be “hard” and “cold.”

“Engineering is logical. It’s about definite results and profit.

It’s about getting ‘the right answer’ to the question. There isn’t any ambiguousness to it like in the social world. Women tend to like exercising their verbal and social skills,” said Cheng.

Ajmera is involved in the Society of Women Engineers at CSUF, which encourages women to study engineering.

“We continuously try to get more women involved,” said Ajmera.

Moubayed and Ajmera said, at times, it’s difficult to encourage women to pursue engineering.

“It’s kind of hard when they’re not that motivated from high school or junior high because they’re scared of math or science,” Ajmera said.

“I think it’s just the fact you look at a field and say ‘OK, well there’s a whole bunch of males … I don’t have anyone who basically understands me.’”

For now, being the only woman in a room full of guys can still be a challeng for these aspiring engineering students.

“When you’re in the lab, the guys are always like ‘you’re never going to be able to lift that thing,’’’ said Ajmera.

According to Ajmera, the men in her classes tend to try to give her the easier parts of projects because she is a woman.

Both Moubayed and Ajmera plan to go into geotechnical engineering in the future, and said they hope more women become involved in engineering as the years progress.

“I think, for most of the students, if they just see that there’s more females, if the proportion of females continues to increase, they’re going to be more inclined to want to do it,” Ajmera said. “It would be nice to have more female representation.”

For now, both women must get used to doing things their own way in a male-populated world.

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The e-book business has developed into a lucrative empire over the past decade.

Last year, revenues reached $3.2 billion and it is predicted that the industry may multiply to $9.7 billion by 2016.

E-readers are devices that read e-books. Popular versions include the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook.

Tablet PCs, such as the iPad 2 and Kindle Fire, also function as e-readers. Last holiday season, the number of adults owning e-readers and tablets nearly doubled.

The jump is evident around campus at Cal State Fullerton where e-readers and tablets have become commonplace. Students use them for reading textbooks, surfing the Internet, taking notes and recording lectures. Naturally, they also allow for an entertaining study break with their Angry Birds and Facebook apps.

“I like e-books, it’s a great idea,” said Chris Sipes, 22, a business finance major who uses an iPad 2.

“It’s all right here instead of having to lug all the books (around) with you.”

Sipes, who has had his tablet since December, uses it to work on assignments, play games, read his finance textbook manual and take notes in class.

“The only time I touch paper is when I turn something in,” he said.

Kyle Myrick, 25, an environmental studies graduate student, also uses his iPad 2 in class. “(I like) its ability to take notes

and record lectures at the same time,” he said.

He is also using his tablet for a far more important reason.

“I’m writing my thesis on it,” said Myrick.

Myrick uses a Bluetooth keyboard to write his thesis, which is evaluating desert plants’ ability to change sex over time.

E-readers are beginning to transcend generations. Myrick allows his 3-year-old son to use his iPad — with supervision.

“My son doesn’t know anything other than reading a magazine on an iPad,” Myrick said.

According to Myrick, his son uses apps for tracing numbers and letters and putting puzzles together.

“Anything other than watching YouTube videos is pretty good on there. But he’ll have to deal with a lot more distractions. Because when you’re sitting down with a piece of paper you can’t do but one thing, write on it. But if you have an iPad in front of you, you can do a multitude of things that can distract you from what you’re supposed to be doing,” he said.

According to librarian Joy Lambert, the Pollak Library at CSUF provides students access to more than 50,000 e-books.

“In the last, I’d say two or three years, libraries, in general, have been really proactive in working with e-books and providing access to e-books,” she said.

Lambert said the library has been working with e-books for about 10 years. “(E-books are) something libraries definitely have to familiarize themselves with because people like using them and ... from what we can tell, our students are using our e-books quite a lot,” she said.

According to Lambert, the future

TIM WORDEN / Daily Titan The popularity of E-books is on the rise at Cal State Fullerton, where students have access to more than 50,000 e-books. Sightings of tablets are also on the rise on campus.

of libraries will include more e-book collections.

“There’s much more emphasis on keeping up with technology and trends, and in a lot of libraries too. (Physical) space is a concern,” Lambert said.

Many people see the benefit of both media forms.

Brandon Le, 18, a freshman computer engineering major, uses his iPad 2 to read CNN articles and books like Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

But, once again, iPads facilitate distractions.

“I prefer regular textbooks because when you’re using online textbooks,

you’re more available to more options of Internet usage and they can distract you more easily,” he said.

So what’s next for e-readers and tablets?

Apple released its iPad HD last week and Microsoft will release a Windows 8 tablet platform this year.

“The important things about books is the information that they contain and connect people to ... I don’t think e-readers are a detriment to society. I think anything that people can use to access information and help them in their studies or just with personal development is good,” Lambert said.

TRAVEL STORY | Crossing Europe

Never dismount the plane without a map On a journey through Europe, two travelers learn that every country holds different merits MATT ATKINSON Daily Titan

There’s a romantic attachment with the idea of getting lost in Europe.

One imagines ambling down endless twisting streets, revering the beautiful traditional buildings that line the road — perhaps stumbling upon a small, family-owned restaurant where all the meals are made from scratch with fresh ingredients.

One doesn’t imagine wandering, confused, through dark, dirty streets traversing the bad part of town at 1 a.m.

But that’s what can happen when your flight arrives in Athens, Greece at midnight, where you don’t have a good map, and you don’t know where you’re staying for the night.

This wasn’t the most developed plan, but it was certainly an adventure worth taking. Regardless of the initial pleasantness of the situation, there is still something to be said about getting lost — it forces

people to think on their feet.

It was just me and my cousin — our first travel experience by ourselves. No supervision. No plan.

No room reservations. Just two college students starting in Athens, and knowing we had to finish in Marseille, France in three weeks.

At this late hour, as two college kids with big backpacks who don’t speak any Greek, we stuck out a bit.

Eventually, we found a hostel where we could spend the night, but not before wandering for hours, trying to avoid the attention of the less savory side of the city’s populace.

Saying Athens isn’t pretty is an understatement.

While the ancient town in the center of the city is truly amazing, the rest of the place looks like it was poured from a concrete mold. Getting back from our tour of the city the next day, we would find police conducting a drug bust on the dilapidated building across the street.

Although our trip started badly, things eventually started to look our way.

Each city we arrived in was different in beauty and size, but similarly marked by our initial disorientation as we bumbled around looking for a place to stay.

It was all part of the experience, however, and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. The thrill of exploration became part of the adventure.

Rome would prove to be similar. A late evening stroll through a busy city in the middle of an Italian summer can be stressful, to say the least. This wasn’t a family vacation, and it didn’t feel like a structured tour, routinely going to each safe stop. It was thrilling.

And still we trekked on, up through Italy, into the Tuscan hills to the cities of Siena and Florence — speckled with lush vineyards, beautiful Renaissance architecture and streets that fit that romantic ideal of what Italy should look like.

This is where the magic happened.

Traveling down a quiet street in Siena led us to the small Italian restaurant with the freshly-made food.

I enjoyed the most delicious pasta I had ever eaten, served with real Tuscan wine, which was as close to liquid joy as one can imagine.

It’s essential for everyone to experience this sort of travel at one point — ­ to experience uncertainty and make solutions happen.

That’s why it’s worth it to get lost. As many times as they might find themselves out of their element, it’s worth it for the experience and adventure.

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SPORTS

Titans host Oral Roberts in first series since 2009 CSUF has won 11 of its last 15, looks to improve 9-3 home record JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ Daily Titan

ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan The Titans softball team gathers in their traditional huddle in a game this season. CSUF is 12-16 heading into Big West play with their first conference series against Cal State Northridge March 30-April 1. The Titans were ranked in the preseason to finish third in the league.

A look at the Big West GREG WOODSON Daily Titan

With the opening of softball’s conference play just a little more than one week away, there is one thing for certain — the Big West is wide open for anyone to win. For Cal State Fullerton, the goals are set high as the Titans prepare to try to win its first conference title since 2006.

Already more than halfway through the regular season, the Titans have a 12-16 overall record while playing through a tough nonconference schedule to begin the season.

Ashley Carter leads the way for the Titans thus far, batting a team high .365, while sitting atop the hits category as well with 35 in the season. Morgan LeMond is not far behind, batting .345 with 20 hits — including six doubles and one home run. Nicole Johnson and Anissa Young have provided the power for the Titans, combining for nine home runs and 30 RBIs. Adri Martinez, Eliza Crawford and newcomer Emily Vizcarra have also provided a spark for the Titans. Crawford is batting .316 with 17 RBIs, Martinez .296, while Vizcarra is hitting .291 and has been a great attribution to the infield at second base, only making four errors this season.

Titan pitchers Desiree Ybarra and Aly Fascetti have combined for a 12-15 record in the circle this year and have gained much-needed experience at the collegiate level.

Now here’s an in-depth look at the rest of the 2012 Big West Conference: Pacific University (14-10) The Tigers were ranked in the preseason conference polls tied to finish first and are the only team in the league to hold a winning record to start the season against nonconference opponents. Nikki Armagost leads the Tigers with 31 hits and a .383 batting average and is also one of the team’s top pitchers.

UC Riverside (12-14) UCR has been the most surprising team in the league to start the 2012 season after being selected to finish last in the Big West Conference race.

Alexis Pickett, who is batting .369 with 24 hits, leads the Highlanders.

Long Beach State (12-18) Also a preseason favorite along with the Tigers to finish first in the Big West, the 49ers will begin conference play at UC Santa Barbara with a threegame series against the Gauchos on March 31. Erin Jones-Wesley (12-9) has been superb in the circle for LBSU this season.

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UC Santa Barbara (12-19) Jessica Soria, who bats .294, leads the Gauchos. UCSB also has five players with at least one home run in the season. Allison Taylor will look to continue her latest hot streak, as she was recently awarded Big West Player of the Week honors.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (7-13) The Mustangs’ Kim Westlund and Nora Sobczak are both batting over .300 and will be leading the way for SLO into Big West Conference play.

Head Coach Jenny Condon recently got her 200-career victory and will have to continue to add to that total in order to finish at the top of the league standings when it’s all said and done.

UC Davis (10-20) The Aggies finished 7-14 in conference last season, but don’t count them out this year. UC Davis will open up league play against UCR March 31.

Heather Zimmerman is amongst the team leaders on defense and offense for the Aggies. Zimmerman is batting .300 and only has one error in the season.

Cal State Northridge (5-19) The Matadors have had a rough start, but it doesn’t mean that they won’t finish strong. CSUN will begin league play March 31 against the Pacific Tigers.

The No. 12 ranked Cal State Fullerton baseball team (12-7) will take on the Oral Roberts University (ORU) Golden Eagles (9-10) Thursday at 6 p.m.

This begins a three-game homestand against ORU with the next two games Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 6 p.m.

This will only be the second meeting ever between the two teams.

The first happened in 2009, with the Titans sweeping ORU at home in a three-game series.

The Titans are coming off another three-game homestand, taking two of three nonconference games from rival Long Beach State (6-13).

The series took place at Goodwin Field from March 16 to March 18, which included a doubleheader on the 16th.

The Titans took both games of the doubleheader, 2-1, behind dominating pitching from starting pitchers: junior Dylan Floro and freshman Kenny Mathews.

Game three of the series was a different story as Long Beach was able to get 12 hits and 7 runs off four different Titan pitchers, handing freshman pitcher Koby Gauna his first loss of the season.

The team from Tulsa, Okla., ORU dropped the last three of four games against Missouri State University (16-6) March 15-18.

In the latest game, freshman infielder Jose Trevino hit two home runs, but it was not enough as they lost 3-2.

All-American outfielder and closer, Michael Lorenzen, leads a strong pitching team with an overall 3.23 ERA. Lorenzen has allowed no earned runs and has seven saves as a closer.

Mathews has a 2.25 ERA with 25 strikeouts; Floro has a 2.83 ERA with 20 strikeouts.

Another leading pitcher is junior Dimitri DeLaFuente who has a 0.73 ERA with ten strikeouts.

Lorenzen is not only one of the leading contributors as a pitcher but on the offensive end as well with a .312 batting average, 15 runs, and 11 RBI. Another big contributor to the Titans’ offensive attack is junior first baseman, Carlos Lopez, who has a .357 batting average, 10 runs, and 12 RBI. Junior infielder Richy Pedroza is tied with Lopez for most RBI with 12 and has a .281 batting average.

For ORU, All-American junior infielder Cam Schiller leads the team with seven home runs, 20 RBI, and a .269 batting average.

Jared Schlehuber, senior first baseman, leads ORU with a .328 batting average along with five home runs and 10 RBI this season.

The Titans come into the series having won 11 of their last 15.

In addition to their series win over Long Beach, they also defeated No. 13 ranked Texas A&M in Texas from March 9 to March 11.

The Titans also have a strong 9-3 record at Goodwin Field.

LACROSSE: Titans pull away in the fourth period ...Continued from page 1 “We were ready to go. We looked fresh,” said Morrison.

“Everyone had the weekend off, so we didn’t practice Friday, Saturday or Sunday, took three days off. We had a couple of guys sick, but I guess they got through it.”

The Titans struck early in the first period after brother Cameron scored with an assist from Chris.

Chris then got on the board with a nice shot between two defenders and through the legs of the goalie, and Cameron came right back to put another one of his five goals in the

net, making the score 3-0 Titans.

“They were defending the ball real well, and everyone got me on the backside,” said Cole. “We were moving the ball on offense and everyone was on the same page so it made it pretty easy.”

The Vikings turned the momentum in their favor as WWU’s Joe Stafford scored twice and led the Vikings back into the game as they pulled to within a single goal late in the third quarter, 6-5.

But that would be the end of WWU’s push to make it a close game.

Trevor Burns was again good

in goal in the fourth period, setting up what could become the trademark of his confident play at the end of games.

The Cole brothers led the Titans to their stellar fourth period performance and the win, but graduate student Charles Castanzo stood out as another Titan who brought his A-game today, despite being sick.

“I was a little winded this week, and, actually, my lungs weren’t feeling that good,” Castanzo said.

“But when I got on the field, I was feeling pretty good. It felt good to finish off some plays with some good goals.”