Vol. 90 Issue 53
December 8, 2011
CSUF Parking Woes effect Fullerton Residents
Spark of love Looking for something to do during the holiday break? Why not give back to the community. There are several volunteer opportunities within Orange County. The OC Toy Collaborative is one.
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Renovating ROSS WATTERS Daily Titan
Heritage and culture–these are values the people on Fourth Street in Santa Ana pride themselves on. From restaurants, to shops, to art centers, to open marketplaces where different fruits and vegetables are sold, it is embedded with authentic Latino culture. However, many are looking to renovate this area and bring in new stores to pick up struggling businesses and “clean up the area.” Fourth Street in Santa Ana has been the hub of Latino business and culture for decades. Here most business signs are in Spanish. They sell authentic clothing, food and art that represent Latino culture. But with pressure from the economy to bring the imminent threat of “gentrification,” many long time Latino businesses are being forced out. See GENT, page 2
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Canchola is driven to succeed Holidays welcome back NBA season
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Don’t smile. She laughs and questions, “How can anyone take a picture without smiling?” Her desk is covered with photos of family and friends. Post-It notes expressing love, kindness and humor from loved ones and professionals stick above her desk. Titan pride stickers and fliers, pinned, are included in her collage. She wears a white top with ruffles running vertically down the front center, tucked into a gray pencil skirt, topped off with a light purple cardigan accenting the combination. Her shoulder-length, dark-brown hair, pulled back, accentuates her eyes, attracting eye contact from passers-by. With a vanilla latte in her hand, you think she’s a typical student walking pass you on her way to class and, like most students, you think she doesn’t know what Associated Students Inc. is all about. But Ya-Ya, a nickname derived from the difficulty of pronouncing her name by little brother Kevin Canchola, is better known as Aissa Canchola, 22, chair of ASI Board of Directors. With a double major in political science and American studies and a minor in sociology, Canchola’s fifth year at Cal State Fullerton encompasses an internship at the Office of Government Relations, five classes and ASI meetings. As if these responsibilities weren’t enough, her position requires her to be so involved that she is also the chair of California State Student Association and the ASI representative
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economics and labor law to a much larger degree than your average Cal State Fullerton student. Why talk about BRI and the luxury tax when we can talk about Kobe Bryant and Blake Griffin? Southern California will always be Laker territory, but the Clippers, led by Griffin, their 22-yearold star, are making a run not only at relevance, but prominence as well. Rumors have them making a push for New Orleans point guard Chris Paul.
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Thank goodness that’s over. When the NBA and its players skipped their Black Friday shopping to hammer out a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, they shared many of the same sentiments as the bustling shoppers outside New York City who passed by the law firm where it all went down. Get ready for Christmas. I’m not going to bore you with the details of the agreement, which have been picked apart and analyzed by those who understand
See NBA, page 8
Students share their plans for winter break
MARK SAMALA / Daily Titan Aissa Canchola balances her heavy involvement in ASI, an internship, five classes and her position as chair of California State Student Association. When she graduates, she wants to start a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.
of the College of Social Science and Humanities, not to mention a senator on the Academic Senate. “She always has determination and drive, always asked why and how can we do things better,” said Jaqueline Valencia, 22, her best friend. Driven. This is Canchola. “Her personality and drive make ASI run at a different level and that makes everyone else want to push yourself,” said Matt Badal, 20, ASI
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vice president of finance. But Canchola needed to build a backbone. She had fears of being walked over in the politics of the real world. “I’m most afraid of getting in there and being torn to shreds,” Canchola said. “And even experiencing politics on a small level on campus, you need to have a backbone. “I used to sit in the corner and cry, and that’s something you can’t do,”
she added. Canchola was handed down the “drive” from the fact that she is the first to attend college in her family, her curiosity, her roots, her mother and most respectfully, her father. When her father died, Canchola became self-aware from soul searching and inner exploration. See AISSA, page 4
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