Vol. 90 Issue 34
October 31, 2011
The Haunted Garden gives visitors a good scare The 8th annual Haunted Garden at the Arboretum featured a spooky walkthrough where families were frightened by ghouls, ghosts, zombies and more!
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All hallows cafeteria
Gastronome celebrates Halloween with costume contest and activities
MARIBEL CASTAÑEDA Daily Titan
The Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton was converted Oct. 27 into The Ghostronome for the night in honor of Halloween. The staff decided to spice things up and celebrate Halloween early with students with costumes, music, food and contests. With decorations of a ghost and a hanging scarecrow, students were invited into the Gastronome with a promise of a good time. The windows, covered with black tarp to block out the sunlight, darkened the cafeteria, enhancing the chilling effect. The walls were decked out with spider webs, giant spiders and creatures. No station was left untouched with decorations. Even the temperature in the room created goosebumps. Excited students lined up for the new menus and laughed at the names. The regular deli station now served “pizza from hell,” such as witch hair (cheese pizza), hairy mole goo (pepperoni) and stinking garden slop (veggie). The salad bar was renovated into a cemetery with rotted corpses looming above with their usual entrees, plus “spooky soups,” which consisted of intestine bile with cow’s stomach (menudo), road kill stew (albondigas) and fish guts (potato chowder). MARIBEL CASTAÑEDA / Daily Titan Dan Hagerty, 21, dressed up as Superman for the costume contest at The Gastronome, which was converted into a spooky cafeteria.
Scaring away cancer
Advice from ESPN pros
‘Haunted’ maze put on by Yorba Linda resident raises funds for the American Cancer Society, more than one thousand dollars raised for
CSUF is one of 12 colleges targeted
SEAN VIELE
STEVEN YUAN
Daily Titan
A “haunted” maze put on by a Yorba Linda resident raised $1,144.32 Saturday and even more Sunday. The event, which was the third annual Scare Away Cancer Haunted Maze, was a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. The donations will be matched by the maze organizer and donated to the American Cancer Society. In the last two years, more than $18,000 has been raised for the American Cancer Society through Yorba Linda resident Joe Ramirez’s event. The first year it drew in a little over $500 and Ramirez matched it. The next year the donations really took off. He said if it gets any bigger, he will have a tough time matching the donation total. “I don’t know if I’m going to keep matching what we get in donations. It’s going to get to a point where it’s like, ‘OK, this is bigger than me and bigger than my check book,’” said Ramirez, 37. Ramirez said he does plan to match this year’s donations and see what happens from there. No matter how much bigger it gets, he plans to continue running the maze each year around Halloween time for the worthy cause of fighting a terrible disease. The atmosphere in the front yard was friendly, with people of all ages quietly talking and waiting their turn to proceed through the maze. From inside came the sounds of screams mixed with laughter. On a table there was a jar that was marked for donations and on the garage door there were pictures of loved ones who had lost their battles with cancer. The event attracted a number of people from the community over the weekend. More than 150 people walked through the maze on the first night. “We have a lot of people showing
up,” said Erica Rosas, one of the 35 volunteers who helped make the event possible. “It’s been going smoothly.” The maze was quite elaborate, filled with eye-piercing lights, a blast of confetti that covers victims from head to toe, creepy clowns, crying children, werewolves and other hidden ghoulish characters that jump out at unsuspecting visitors. Ramirez and his crew of volunteers began building the homemade maze the first week of October and they laid the finishing touches on the project Saturday morning. Enclosed in black tarps, the maze covered the entire backyard. The friendly hosts provided refreshments for waiting visitors to enjoy before the spooking began. Not knowing exactly what to expect inside the dark corridors of the maze, the people waited. The gracious hosts would lead groups into the entrance of the maze to the awaiting monsters and ghouls, played by the many volunteers. They had a G-rated version for the youngsters and what they called “ultra-scary” for whoever so desired. “I think it’s fun. I think they do a good job of setting up,” said Sara Cook, who walked through the maze with her husband Gary Cook. Sara learned about the event through a friend and attended last year. She decided to bring her husband along this year. “There’s a lot of sensory deprivation– things going on–which made it very freaky,” said Gary. But the real reason behind the fun of the maze was never forgotten. “It’s an awesome reason to do all this work,” Sara said of the fundraising for the American Cancer Society. “Yeah, it’s fun and it’s for a good cause,” Gary added. Ramirez lost his mother to cancer in March of 2009, and in her memory and to raise money to donate to the American Cancer Society, he and friends have set up the haunted maze the last three years.
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Students expressed disappointment after attending a Spanish informational meeting hosted by ESPN at Cal State Fullerton Thursday. On the other hand, students in the English informational meeting did not express the same concerns. The series of information sessions targeted CSUF students and recent graduates interested in a future with their company. The ESPN representatives met with different student groups throughout the day, including Delta Sigma Pi, the Entertainment and Tourism Club and MBA students. There was also a Spanish-language session in Mihaylo Hall’s O’Brien Innovation Center. Viviana Sarrade attended the Spanish-language session, which
attendees had to reserve a spot for. “The Spanish-language session was ironic because only one of the panelists, Domingo, spoke Spanish,” said Sarrade. Jose Kerch, another Spanishspeaking student and broadcast journalism major, had an issue with the Spanish-language session. “I’m from Venezuela and speak fluent Spanish. Don’t sell me ESPN, tell me what I need to do. I feel like the majority of panelists weren’t able to sell or guide the individuals in Spanish,” said Kerch. The information sessions were made possible by CSUF’s Career Center. For the past three years, CSUF has hosted a representative from ESPN to speak with statistics students. This year, CSUF is one of 12 colleges targeted by ESPN on its college recruiting tour, which began at Connecticut State University in September. See ESPN, page 2
ANIBAL ORTIZ / Daily Titan Maria T. Solis watches a film Sunday at the International Indigenous Film and Video Festival.
Culture at CSUF
Festival will continue Monday starting at 8 a.m.
YVETTE QUINTERO For the Daily Titan
The first International Indigenous Film and Video Festival began Sunday and will continue to be held in the Titan Student Union Pavilions from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday. The “Mirando Desde Nuestra Raiz/View From Our Roots” is showing a variety of films produced and directed by American Indians and indigenous
ALLAN XU / Daily Titan Joe Franco was among a few speakers at informational sessions Thursday. The sessions were intended to give students insight on how to land a job at network stations like ESPN.
people of the Americas. “We’re showing indigenous films and we’re trying to make everyone aware about the struggles,” said Anna Tiger, Inter-Tribal Student Council president and art major. “(There are films) about the assimilation of Native Americans within the United States, as well as films about contemporary Native Americans in our society showing how they’re struggling through life,” she said. The film festival was organized jointly by the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) and the Inter-Tribal Student Council, with initial participation from CineArte directors. After a series of changes, however, CineArte directors withdrew from their role in the planning process. “They were trying to do a lot of the work on campus for us. We told them, ‘We’ll do the work on campus,’” Tiger said. “We had to make it clear to them that this is a student collaboration.” As for attendee turnout, the festival attendance Sunday had surprised organizers. “As it’s gotten later on in the day, more people have started showing up, more than we expected on a Sunday, especially since it’s Halloween weekend,” said Edgar Sanchez, MEChA president and a radio-TV-film major. “We think it’s a pretty big turnout considering it’s a busy weekend.” In addition to the films shown Sunday, visual and performance art incorporating American Indian culture are being showcased. “We had Aztec performers and a hoop dancer. We also had an opening ceremony, and we had a Gabrielino representative come and do a prayer for us. It’s a blessing for us,” Tiger said. The festival event Monday will showcase the same films, dancers and artwork. See INDIGENOUS, page 3