Daily Titan October 11, 2010

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Vol. 88 Issue 22

October 11, 2010

Playboy relations

WHAT’S INSIDE

managed by Titans

OPINION Hippie Health: The truth about beer bellies ....................................... 4

Titan Public Relations Group helps organize charity event at the Playboy Mansion

Obama’s Progress

SPORTS Women’s volleyball claims weekend over Big West foes ........................................5

President Barack Obama given letter grades on recent policies and promises See REPORT CARD, page 4

FEATURES Day Tripper: Downtown San Diego ........................................6

See PLAYBOY NIGHTS, page 8

evaluated in report card dailytitan.com The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

State budget passed

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After much debate the state legislature passes 2010-11 fiscal budget LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ News Director

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A real barbershop, to the Negretes, is one that includes hot towels, palm-held massagers, warmed shaving cream and straight razors. It includes a feeling of brotherhood between the client and stylist and a welcome environment with sports on television and beer kegs kept chilled. Located in Downtown Fullerton amidst the wild weekend bar scene, offering free beers to customers only seems fitting, as does the risk of happy hour goers drunkenly requesting offbeat haircuts. “We’ve actually gotten people in here drunk at nine in the morning,” said Sanchez, no longer fazed by it. What still fazes him, however, are some of the strange hairstyles people want.

The state legislature passed the state budget Friday, 100 days after it’s constitutional deadline of June 15. It is the latest budget in state history in which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut 23 line items from the $87.5 billion general fund budget that had been passed by the legislature, according to the Los Angeles Times. Despite the adoption of a budget, a multibillion-dollar deficit is set to await the next governor to take office. California State Universities will receive the monetary assistance promised, totaling $365 million. Along with this, enrollment will be increased. About 30,000 more students will be enrolled into the CSU system, which places pressure upon every Cal State to meet the quota for the winter and spring terms. According to a press release by Chancellor Charles B. Reed’s office, the allocation of funds the CSU will now receive includes $199 million to restoration and $60.6 million for enrollment growth. This will increase the CSU funds from $2.35 billion to $2.62 billion. “We thank the governor and the legislature for their commitment to reinvest in higher education, and appreciate the increase in state funding support for the CSU,” Reed said. “Like the rest California, the last two years have been extremely challenging for us, but our mission is to educate the future workforce of the state, and despite these ongoing challenges the CSU will continue to provide both access and service to students.”

See BARBER, page 8

See BUDGET, page 2

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No three-day weekend for Columbus FRANCINE RIOS

JONATHAN GIBBY / Graphics Editor

Staff Writer

While certain parts of the nation are celebrating Columbus Day today with a day off from work, school and city-wide parades, today is just another Monday for Cal State Fullerton students and all other California residents. According to the Pioneer, the newspaper of Pierce College; California, Hawaii and Nevada do not recognize Columbus Day as a public holiday. “I don’t think it’s a big deal,” said Ben Schulze, a 23-year-old business major. “Yeah it’s tradition to celebrate, but it’s so old school. It’s not like people will actually go home and celebrate Columbus Day.” Apparently Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t think so either. See COLUMBUS DAY, page 2

Jesse Negrete, manager at Classic Barbers, trims the hair of Mario Martinez, 20, a Disneyland employee, while discussing his favorite UFC fighters with the other barbers. The barbershop caters to men with the goal of providing a small “man’s world” with its atmosphere.

Classic Barbers snip in style KATIE EVANS Asst. Features Editor

Vintage poster-sized photos of men trimming beards and cowlicks hang framed on the walls. Interlaced between these images are pieces of tattoo artwork, family photos and shelves of pomade. The soft whirring of a hair trimmer coincides peaceably with noise from the street. The scent of smoke drifts indoors, but not in a trashy way. Adversely, each of these sensory stimulants at Classic Barbers serves as a throwback to the homey feel of the 1950s, a time of true barbershops, complete with a spinning red, white and blue barber pole. “We wanted to make it a man’s world in here,”

said Jay Sanchez, 21, barber. Throughout the day, men and young boys filter through the doors, most of them familiar faces and repeat clients. A sense of acquaintance and companionship washes over each customer as they realize that not only are they in trained hands, but friendly ones as well. “Some clients are quiet, and we all try to socialize and get them to laugh,” said Jesse Negrete, 26, manager at Classic Barbers. Maria, the shop owner and mother of Jesse and his brother Joe, was once a farm worker when her sons were young. They could not afford a babysitter, so the boys played in the fields as she worked. A strong bond formed between the three of them that is still evident today. They run the business as they feel a real barbershop should be run.

Long Beach State halts CSUF in tournament JOSEPH SZILAGYI Staff Writer

ALLY BORDAS / Staff Writer Professor of history Steve Jobbitt facilitated the Roundtable discussion and recognized the need for business majors but rejected cuts in the humanities, sciences and global arts.

Democracy in humanities ALLY BORDAS Staff Writer

The Fullerton Marriott at Cal State Fullerton hosted the Southern California History Symposium. The lecture “Why Democracy Needs the Humanities” occurred last Friday afternoon with students and professors from CSUF in attendance. The basis of this discussion centered on the book by Martha Nussbaum, Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, which was just recently published. According to the info packet that each attendee received, the

purpose of the Roundtable discussion was to “address the importance of history and the humanities to the education of a well-rounded, empathetic and critically-engaged citizenry.” The University conference room at the Marriott hotel hosted the Roundtable discussion which was mediated by CSUF history professor Dr. Steve Jobbitt, who has been teaching for two years. Jobbitt opened the discussion by reminding everyone of the work the students, faculty and staff did to fight against the budget over the past two years. See DEMOCRACY, page 3

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team lost in the weekend-long Fall Intercollegiate Tournament after no players made it past the quarterfinals and were eliminated before the last day of competition. The tournament, which CSUF hosted, had a singles and doubles bracket with players from CSUF, Long Beach State, Cal State Northridge, UC Riverside, Cal State Bakersfield, Loyola Marymount University and Portland State. Despite the diversity of players from several schools, only Long Beach State had women competing in Sunday’s championship games for both the singles and doubles draw. Of the nine CSUF women playing singles, only three survived the tournament’s first day. Junior Leslie Bollock, who dominated her opponent in the first round with her backhand and stellar defense, was unable to keep up the momentum in her second-round match, losing to Long Beach State senior Debbie Armstrong 6-1, 6-0. “I had a hard time staying focused,” Bollock said. “I have to keep my head straight next time.” Each player that did advance to the second day had similar results in the tournament by making it to the

MARK SAMALA / Photo Editor Titan senior Kavina Akhmedova swings her racket in response to Roadrunners’ rally during a doubles match.

third round after having first-round byes. Freshman Morgan McIntosh stormed into day two after a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Portland State junior Kylea Gleason. “I felt good out there,” McIntosh said of her performance. Titan sophomore Tiffany Mai

easily overpowered UCR sophomore Jamie Raney 6-1, 6-1, and sophomore Malorie dela Cruz defeated Cal State Bakersfield senior Ashlee Thorneycroft 6-3, 6-0. As the three women returned Saturday to compete in the third round, only McIntosh was able to proceed to the quarterfinals by de-

feating CSUN sophomore Anna Yang in straight sets 6-2, 6-1. McIntosh, who made it the furthest in singles of all CSUF women, eventually fell in her next match to Long Beach State junior Anais Dallara 6-1, 6-1. See TENNIS, page 5


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