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APRIL 24, 1998

TESORO WINS, SIGMA NU WINS AGAIN

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ELECTION RESULTS

Tesoro wins the AS president’s seat, extending Sigma Nu fraternity’s winning streak to six years.

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Christian Tesoro defeated Eric Pathe by 308 votes in the Associated Students Presidential election, giving Cal State Fullerton its first new president in three years.

Tesoro, the current vice-chair on the AS Board of Directors, captured 58 percent of the vote while his opponent received only 42 percent.

The election marks the end of Heith Rothman’s three-year term as AS president. Tesoro, a fraternity brother of Rothman, gives Sigmu Nu a student government president for the sixth straight year.

Although Tesoro denied that his candidacy was part of a “good old boys club” the victorious crowd marched the hall chanting “six-peat” in reference to his fraternity Sigma Nu’s six straight presidential wins.

Tesoro’s running mate, Kristine Buse, current director of advancement on the AS exexcutive staff, will become AS vice-president in the fall.

The winners were announced to an abundance of cheers in a jam-packed meeting room in the Titan Student Union early Friday morning.

“I’d like to thank my team for campaigning all day,” said an excited Tesoro in an interview after the meeting.

“The volunteers worked extremely hard and that makes me very, very proud of everyone. I couldn’t ask for anything more from them. They all put in a 100 percent,” Tesoro said.

Tesoro’s running-mate was equally excited about the victory.

“This was definitely a team effort. I believe this is the beginning of something awesome for Cal State Fullerton,” Buse said.

The triumph apparently could not have come at a better time for Buse who was also celebrating her 20th birthday.

“This is the best birthday present I ever got, by far,” Buse said.

Rothman, who backed Tesoro’s candidacy, lauded the outcome.

“I think they will do a great job. I think they won because they ran a positive campaign. Their opponents ran a negative campaign,” Rothman said.

Pathe left immediately after the announcement and was unavailable for comment but earlier voiced an opinion on election outcomes.

“Leaders don’t win or lose, they just lead. They do what’s best and if they fall at least they knew it was their own two

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A victorious Christian Tesoro celebrates with his friends as it is announced that he has won the Associated Students presidential election.

Six players, seven winners n BOARD OF DIRECTORS: While most candidates ran unop-

posed, the one contest in the School of Natural Sciences was not particularly close and a couple of write-ins won seats in schools with no declared candidate.

By KEITH MASON

Daily Titan Opinion Editor

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AS presidential candidate Eric Pathe was somber amongst a cheering crowd moments after defeat.

Six students declared their candidacy for the Associated Students Board of Directors. Seven students won.

Two schools—Business Administration and Economics, and Human Development and Community Services—had no declared candidates, and students voted in characteristically low numbers.

But there were write-in candidates.

Manuel Doblado, a write-in candidate for the School of Business, won 11 votes and a seat on the board.

Of 474 total ballots cast in the School of Business Administration and Economics for which there was no declared can-

didate, 391 voted for AS president only, and an additional 72 voters entered random names.

The School of Human Development, which also had no declared candidate, wrote-in Carmen Gonzalez as their next representative with a tally of 92 votes.

In the only contested race, Jared Brummel outpaced Mike Bourdaa as representative for the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics by a score of 116 to 68.

“I feel really good,” winner Brummel said. “I’m looking forward to it.”

Brummel said he was glad to finally get the results.

“What a relief. It’s such a load off my shoulders,” he said.

Meantime, loser Boardaa said the stu-

Students could vote in AS elections, but why should they? n ANALYSIS: This election

seems to say AS is a “good old boys club,” but it isn’t too late to save CSUF student government.

The students speak again.

Not. How much is the student government Nathan at Cal State Fullerton screwed up? Let me count the ways.

Eric Pathe and Christian Tesoro spent hours battling the sun and apathetic students in their efforts to gain votes. Was their effort worth the time and sunburns?

Rough counts say that 2,089 students turned out to vote.

Good effort guys, but it will take more than a little aloe vera to take the sting out of that one. Even if that is a “normal” turnout, it is still pretty sad. That’s a slam on the students, not the candidates.

It is impossible to know for sure, but there were probably a lot of mislead Greeks voting. Lost in the yelling, scream-

ing, frolicking and bickering that always accompanies Greek Week, was the fact that the organizing committee decided not to give spirit points for voting—a fact which seems to have not made it out to the average Greek. Members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and Delta Zeta sorority were of the impression that writing the name of their house on their ballot would win their organization points in this annual noiseOrme making event.

Ryan Alcantara, the Greek Advisor, and Rosa Aceves, the AS Elections Commissioner, both said that the ballots would not be handed over to the Greeks to count up for points. It was discussed, Alcantara said, but no system was devised.

Alcantara said that points were awarded a couple of years ago, which certainly had noble intentions. But considering how important this yearly competition is to Greeks, it could lead to an inordinate number of them voting, skewing the proportional representation of the already miniscule percentage of voters. Participation is welcome (though rare), but it would

be better to see a more representative small vote than a vote where a specialized group takes over the voting outcome not for the sake of exercising its democratic right but for the sake of having its name on a trophy.

Not to mention that the political campaigning this time around has been pretty bogus. There, as usual, was some stupid mudslinging. Some group calling itself “Students For Quality Leadership” put out a brochure stating 10 reasons not to vote for Pathe and running mate Josh Kurpies. Christian Tesoro and (finally) ex-President Heith Rothman said they didn’t know where it came from. Pathe’s fraternity brother, Jim Hudgens, decided to muster some support from, as he put it, “people who didn’t support either candidate,” and try to get votes as a write-in candidate. Pathe and Kurpies accused AS of being a “good old boys club” where friends give jobs to friends.

It may not be a “good old boys club” based on Greek affiliation, but AS is definitely a clique. But so is the Daily Titan or any other group of people who work together closely. The difference is that people who work for the Titan or other organizations don’t leave a legacy. The Rothman dynasty has made

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dents’ voice was heard—at least the 184 students who voted.

“If you don’t vote for who you want, you get what you deserve,” he said.

Boardaa said some candidates run on platforms they cannot support.

“Everybody says they want parking, and they want to keep fees low,” Boardaa said. “The question is, how are they going to do this?

“I would love to get stuff for free ... but there are no give-aways in life,” he said.

Boardaa attributed his loss to a lack of student participation.

“Nobody gave a damn,” he said. “Se la vie. That’s life.”

Kristin Donner was re-elected to the School of the Arts with 127 votes.

“I was not terribly surprised as I was unopposed,” she said.

Donner said she intends to improve

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Today in Sports

The Titan baseball team goes on the road—or rather the freeway—this weekend to face Long Beach State.

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BRIEFS

Fullerton Transportation and Cirulation Commission The Fullerton Transportation and Circulation Commission currently has vacancies, with three other positions being vacant in December. The commission provides input to Fullerton City Council on issues dealing with transportation and facilities, policies, plans and programs within the city.

Applications for the positions may be obtained on the first floor of the Fullerton City Hall in the City Council office. Applicants must be residents of Fullerton.

The deadline for applications is May 14 at 5:30 p.m.

For more information call the City Council office at 738-6311.

French novelist to speak at Chapman University Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist, filmmaker and distinguished writer for the 1997-98 academic year at Chapman University, will be giving a lecture on May 5 at 8 p.m.

Robbe-Grillet will give a speech entitled “The New Novel and the New Autobiography,” and there will be a screening of his latest film, “Un Bruit Qui Rend Fou,” (A Noise that Drives you Crazy) at 3 p.m.

Following the showing, there will be a question-and-answer period.

Tickets are $5 and may be purchased at the door or by calling the Chapman box office at 9976812.

CSUF MBA Program Offered in South County Working professionals can earn and complete an M.B.A. program without stepping foot on the campus through a new program offered by the School of Business Administration and Economics.

Beginning April 28, students or professionals may take eight-week courses at the Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., in the Irvine Spectrum, with six terms offered per year at $651 per class.

Each class is held for three hours, two evenings per week with the first class in the curriculum being “Financial Accounting 510.”

Two general programs are offered, beginning in June: one for students with little or no previous courses in business administration, and a specialist program for students with undergraduate degrees in business administration.

The program can be completed in two-and-a-half years by attending one class per term.

Those interesterd in enrollment should contact Ligaya Lim in the School of Business Administration and Economics at 278-3010.

The Friends of the Fullerton Aboretum present the 25th Annual Green Scene Garden Show, beginning today and running through Sunday. Exhibitors will display garden products and services as well as plant sales.

A flower show themed “Wedding at the Aboretum” will feature patio vignettes and table setting competition from the bridal shower and bachelor party to the honeymoon destination. On Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m., Betsy Clebsch, author of “A Book of Salvias: Savages for Every Garden,” will speak about native and Mexican Salvias.

The Garden Scene began in 1973 as a plant center, but has turned into an annual garden show drawing over 10,000 garden enthusiasts.

Admission to the Garden Show is $5; children age 17 and under are admitted free. For more infor-

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Vanities,” a comedy exploring the friendship of three southern women, starts tonight in the Performing Arts building. For more information contact the Performing Arts Center at 278-3371.

William Labov, the father of Sociolinguistics, will host the 7th annual Symposium on Language Varieties starting today. The symposium begins at 9 a.m. and lasts until 4 p.m. in Titan Student Union Gabrielino Room. Admission is free. For more information contact Dr. Angela Della Volpe at 278-2024 or Kathye Martinez, CSUF Linguistics Program at 434-2944.

Immigration is the subject of

a discussion today from 1:30-3 p.m. in the Ruby Gerentology Center-Mackey Auditorium.

George J. Borjas of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University will lead the discussion. The talk is sponsored by the Economics Department and the Division of Political Science and Criminal Justice. For more information contact Eric J. Solberg at 278-2237.

The Mens Choir will hold a festival concert on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Titan Student Union Pavilion. The program will feature a range of music from the men’s choir, the Pacific Chorale and the festival chorus, which includes specially selected high school and collegiate men. For more information contact Eliza-

beth Champion, School of the Arts at 278-2334.

School of the Arts presents “Romeo and Juliet,” April 27May 3 in Little Theatre. Admission is $8 ($6 with advance Titan Discount). For information on running times, contact the Performing Center Box Office at 278-3371.

Attorney Christopher Darden will hold a discussion on the legal profession Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Education Classroom Building, room 32.. For more information contact Angela Rochester of the Pre-Law Society at (562) 924-6470 or Susan Metzler-Katsaros at 278-4854.

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matics presents a panel discussion on teaching mathematics in high school and middle school on Wednesday from 4-5 p.m. in LH-402. For further information, call Dr. Bonsangue at 278-2728.

Mid-year Economic Update is scheduled Thursday at 7:15 a.m. at the Sutton Place Hotel in Newport Beach. The discussion will cover the Southeast Asian financial crisis, the decline of unemployment and the rapid growth in housing. IThe cost is $30 per person (includes parking). To make reservations call Ginny Pace at 278-2566.

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the AS waters stagnet. If politicians get too complacent in their jobs they start to take advantage of their positions. If Tesoro is really interested in keeping AS from not becoming an exclusive club— which he already fails at in that he is the third consecutive AS president that also happens to be a member of Sigma Nu fraternity—he will seriously consider pushing for some sort of term limits.

And it was nice to see Rothman spending his time helping his frat bro Tesoro with his campaign. It’s good to know he has time to kill, considering his executive staff is two positions short and two of the schools are without representation on the Board of Directors.

You would think that with having to take care of the finance committee and public relations all by himself, not to mention that pesky master’s program he is enrolled in, he wouldn’t have time to hand out flyers. Hopefully he wasn’t getting paid during the time he was out there.

The Titan could certainly be criticized for not covering these issues before students voted. We focused on the usual parking issue and the fitness center debate, issues which are relevant but are certainly not the whole story.

But like many of CSUF students, Titan reporters didn’t care about the elections because AS has done little to make us care. I don’t see my board representative working for me or my AS president asking me whether I want a new fitness center. After I am gone this semester, let’s hope Tesoro, Rothman (you can bet he will still be here) and others step back and take the time to create an AS students might actually want to vote for.

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Campus news from around the nation College Press Service

Hepatitis A infects six at Stanford

Celebrating life in the

Far East

(left) Members of the Vietnamese Student Association perform a Vietnamese Folk Dance at the quad as part of the Asia Week Celebrations. (above) Students Vray Tes and KC Cheng (far right) and the Cambodian Student Association perform a Cambodian Coconut dance in the Quad on Thursday afternoon.

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feet they fell over. If they jump high at least they know it was their own two feet that made them jump high,” Pathe said.

His running mate Josh Kurpies expressed dissappointment at the loss.

“We’re disappointed but we’re glad

the whole thing’s over with. We’re also dissapointed there wasn’t a better turnout. 2000 people is not very many,” Kurpies said.

Reflecting past contests, less than 10 percent of approximately 24,000 CSUF students voted during the two-day election, which was held Wednesday and Thursday. Tesoro garnered1144 votes to Pathe’s 836.

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communication between the herself and her constituents next term.

First-time candidate Thomas Kim won election to the School of Humanities with 348 votes, by far the largest turnout among the schools.

Pulled from his celebration with the winning Christian Tesoro/Kristine Buse presidential camp inside AS offices, Kim beamed and declared his excitement.

“It is an awesome feeling that the students wanted me in there,” he said.

He said he plans to represent the school as best he can.

“I hope the school gets what they

deserved,” Kim said.

Elsewhere, Darin Schnitzer earned 207 votes for the School of Communications seat over write-in candidate Sherine Gonzalez, who managed to get 11 votes. Andrew Meshreky won the seat for the School of Engineering and Computer Science with 92 votes.

STANFORD, Calif. - Health officials are trying to determine how a professor and five students at Stanford University contracted Hepatitis A. They are looking at one of the university's dining halls as a potential source for the illness.

The first case surfaced about a month ago, the latest on April 7. All six victims are recovering, and school officialsdecline to say whether any needed to be hospitalized.

Hepatitis A, commonly spread by contaminated food and utensils, attacks the liver. Its symptoms include appetite loss, fatigue, jaundice and stomach aches.

The illness is typically treated with rest and fluids and leaves a victim's system during an incubation period of anywhere from 15 to 50 days.

Activists pledge to fight mascot URBANA, Ill. - Several members of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, including Chairwoman Susan Gravenhorst, skipped a recent meeting with activists who want them to kill the university’s mascot, Chief Illiniwek.

“I’m not surprised because they have shown disrespect for our presence before,” Paula Ostrovsky, a member of the Alumni Against Racial Mascots group, told the Associated Press.

Activists who find the mascot offensive have asked the board to attend a round-table discussion in May. Chief Illiniwek—a student dressed as an American Indian for sporting events - has his supporters. Many say the image, is a tradition that pays tribute to Native Americans.

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Brown adopts ‘No Sweatshop’ code for its merchandise n PROTEST: Continuing a recent trend, Brown University

takes a stand against companies manufacturing merchandise in inhumane conditions.

By Brian C. Jones

Knight-Ridder Newspapers PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University has adopted a tough new “code of conduct,” requiring companies that supply university monogrammed clothing and souvenirs to reform sweatshop-style factories that may be making the goods.

The code came after four months of negotiations with students concerned that athletic uniforms, T-shirts, stationery and other items using university logos and names be produced in humanely and legally run factories.

At least $1.5 million worth of goods, supplied by 100 vendors to Brown, will be affected by the code, which calls on suppliers to make sure factories—including those overseas—pay acceptable wages and operate safely.

“Though it is a small institution, Brown has a loud voice, and we intend to use that voice,” said E. Gordon Gee, Brown’s president, in a statement read at a campus rally on Wednesday about the issue.

Brown is hoping that other colleges and universities will adopt similar standards, and that their collective efforts will force improvements, as well as provide funds to monitor conditions in the factories.

The Wednesday rally featured two young workers from a 2,000-employee factory in the Dominican Republic that produces baseball caps sold to Brown and other universities by Champion Products Inc. of Winston-Salem, N.C. One of the workers, speaking through a translator, said she and other women were forced to take pregnancy tests before they were hired to make sure pregnancy wouldn't interfere with their ability to work, and that she was slapped by supervisors to the point where she cried.

Francesca Gessner, a Brown senior and one of the organizers of the drive to produce a code, said she was shocked to learn Brown baseball caps purportedly were made under the kind of conditions being targeted.

It was only last week that UNITE, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial

and Textile Employees, issued a report on the factory, then sponsored visits to universities around the country where the baseball caps are sold, she said.

The union report said the caps generally sell for $19.95, of which universities and colleges receive at least $1.50, but workers only get 8 cents in wages per cap. The report said workers were struck, fired if injured on the job, or fired when they talked about unionizing.

“It was quite embarrassing when the news came out,” Gessner said.”The workers who spoke held up baseball caps, and said that ‘I make these every day,’ and described horrible working conditions.”

Gessner said she and the other 25 members of the Student Labor Alliance didn’t know before their drive for

a code that specific products sold at Brown had come from problem companies.

Nancy Young, a spokeswoman for Champion, told the Journal-Bulletin that the company had found none of the problems described by the workers or UNITE when it sent inspection teams to the Dominican Republic factory. The latest inspection was on Monday, she said.

“It’s one of those situations where we’ve looked at it—looked at it announced and unannounced—and have not seen those situations,” Young said, and said the company was one of the better contractors inspectors had seen.

But for “business reasons” unrelated to the union allegation, Champion has decided to remove its business from that plant.

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Using factories around the world for more than 20 years, Champion has its own code of conduct and standards for subcontractors, she said. And she added: “We certainly never would do anything to put our brand in jeopardy. It's not good business.”

According to the students who pushed for the Brown code, the university’s standards are not intended to force companies to leave subcontracting companies—something they feel would hurt workers—but instead to first try to improve them.

The standards apply to companies that have licenses bearing the university’s name and symbols, saying the firms should make sure factories that produce their goods operate legally and are environmentally responsible.

Opinion

Friday, April 24, 1998

Two height-sensitive people square off Short people have real problems.

Try reaching the gas pedal in a car.

Tall folks are worse off than short people. Try buying long pants.

Maryanne Wardlaw

Keith Mason

he time has come to throw away the platform shoes and get on with life.

I’m coming out of the closet. This is how I was born; I have nothing to be ashamed of.

My name is Maryanne, and I am vertically challenged.

Now normally, height isn’t something I draw attention to. There are plenty of so-called “friends” who do that for me. But there comes a time in everyone’s life to accept who they are, regardless of what people think. It’s a time to say “I love me the way I am, and if you have a problem with that then I don’t like you either, so watch the short jokes or I’ll sue you for discrimination.”

My time came, quite unexpectedly, when I discovered that a person of height was writing a selfserving column complaining about the trials of being tall. In defense of short people everywhere, I told him we have way more to complain about.

Anyone who thinks it’s rough being tall when we all spend the first 20 years of our lives praying for just one more growth spurt must have their head in the clouds.

So maybe tall people do run a higher risk of decapitation. Big deal. Are they ever handed child’s menus? Do people laugh at them if they call shotgun in a crowded car? Do siblings ever compete to be the shortest in the family? No. This society simply is not friendly to the height-challenged.

Even the clothing industry, which has been able to mass-produce useless items like leg warmers and bell-bottoms, can’t sell a decent line of petite clothing. “Petite,” for some reason, is actually a euphemism for clothing designed for Nancy Reagan. If it fits, you’re underweight. If it actually

don’t want to be tall anymore.

Oh sure, it’s nice to be visible at the mall at Christmas while the rest of the world screams for their friends. And I can’t deny the fact that I was always picked first for the basketball team in high school physical education.

But other than that this height thing really stinks.

For those of you not in my predicament, imagine going for a nice Easter or Passover car ride with the family. Since you are either at work or school approximately 24 hours a day and you have not seen your family since Thanksgiving, you figure the picnic at Big Bear will be a nice break.

So you get in the car. Any car. Your head smacks first the doorframe, and once inside the car, you bang your head against either the rear window (if your family owns a compact car) or the ceiling (if your family owns a nice two-door coupe).

But of course, as a tall person, you have been uncomfortable all day.

You woke up with cold toes because your socalled full/queen comforter does not cover your feet and neck at the same time.

Then you duck into the shower where you carefully apply today’s first bruise by way of the shower head which, although recently raised ten inches, apparently is two inches shy of your cranium.

So after your shower you skip back to your bedroom to dress so that your mother can remind

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suits you, odds are you’re an underweight First Lady.

Everything from benches to cars are made for people of height. (For the record, I have never needed to sit on a phone book to see over the steering wheel. Those little square pillows are much more comfortable.)

Then there are the height jokes, which for some reason have fallen short of political incorrectness.

Many open-minded people understand and pity the plight of this oppressed minority. But even

they can be unintentionally hurtful, saying things like, “You know, guys like short girls.” (Personal experience suggests these nice people are, unfortunately, pathological liars.)

So it’s time. Time for short people to stand up, look tall people in the navel, and say: “Can you reach that for me?”

you how short your jeans are. Unfortunately leading department stores do not stock clothes for tall, skinny people, so you walk around displaying your tri-color socks.

Bacon and eggs beckon you to the breakfast table. In your haste to delve into those cheesy eggs you whack your right knee against the table leg, followed shortly thereafter by an episode of leglocking with your father who can’t find anyplace to put his legs, either.

So goes the morning. Flash to Monday morning.

“Hey tall guy, how’s the weather up there?”

Uh...pretty much the same temperature and relative humidity as down there.

“Play ball do ya?” Uh-huh. If I could learn to dribble, shoot, play the D, hit the O, and sit on the bench without falling off, then man I could own the court! But until then I am just another college guy trying to make my way through school without the aid of an athletic scholarship.

I do get my exercise, though. Like at work.

“Play ball do ya?”

Uh-huh. If I could learn to dribble, shoot, play the D, hit the O and sit on the bench without falling off, then man I could own the court!

Any time anyone needs something off the top shelf, it’s Keith to the rescue. Never mind that I, too, will require the assistance of a ladder and I stand a good chance of dropping the dagnab thing to the ground.

My biggest pet peeve is the short guy complaining about his personal space on the airplane.

At least he has personal space. My legs are cramped against the seat in front of me before takeoff, and when Mr. Personal Space reclines his seat 10 minutes into the flight, well let’s just say the lady in the window seat is not going to the restroom anytime soon.

But other than that, and maybe in spite of it,

USA should coordinate This might be the television generation national Spring Breaks MARYANNE WARDLAW is the Daily Titan production manager.

but we still remember reading the classics cup o’ joe

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Joe Florkowski

ave we become a TV generation? To what extent does TV influence our writing, our style, our mannerism, and yadda, yadda, yadda?

Are we Americans neglecting our education? I ask this because Wednesday marks the beginning of National TV-Turnoff Week, which lasts until next Tuesday.

Apparently, some organizations are advocating turning off the television for the week and going outside and joining reality. I can’t go outside and join reality! I put reality on hold until summer because that’s when repeats are usually scheduled.

Besides, it’s not as if television affects us that

much. I did well in school even as I spent school nights watching “Seinfeld.”

“Seinfeld” also enhanced my social skills because I could then talk with my peers the next day and rationally discuss “The Contest” episode. Had I not watched “Seinfeld” I would have become a social outcast.

I do not think television limited my education. I remember classic works of literature vividly.

Another beloved favorite of mine was “Aesop’s Fables,” written by Greg Aesop.

“Aesop’s Fables” is filled with many tales of animals that teach us morals about ourselves.

In one such story, Tom chases Jerry repeatedly and never stops. Tom is shocked, run over, and crushed, yet he never gives up. The moral of this story? Mice are extremely clever.

Another favorite of mine is “Robinson Crusoe”

Are Americans neglecting our education? I ask this because Wednesday marks the beginning of National TV-Turnoff week.

by Daniel Defoe. In “Robinson Crusoe”, Robinson gets stuck on a desert island. He’s left alone for a while, until one day a man named Gilligan comes along. Robinson tries to get off the island but Gilligan constantly fouls Robinson up. Robinson kills Gilligan.

Another favorite of mine is “The Scarlet Letter.”

Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter after she has an extramarital affair. She is forced to wear an “A” for adultery. Now Amanda, who has slept with just about everyone in the village from Billy to Peter, should actually be wearing the letter, but just because she owns the village that everybody lives in she can get away with anything she wants.

Still fresh in my mind is Ernie Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” In this novel, Captain Stubing battles a giant fish for several days until at least two couples on board the ship fall in love.

There’s also a boy, I think.

Oddly enough, with this firm grasp on the classics, I have yet to take an English class on campus. I think I’ll enroll right now. Just as soon as “Friends” is over

JOE FLORKOWSKI is a Daily Titan staff writer. Get your fix every

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Cindy Jimenez

ou can always tell when spring is finally here. The warm air turns bare trees into splashes of orange, white and pink blossoms. Dodger Stadium and Edison Field come alive with sounds of anxious baseball fans and players, and Spring Break gives students, if lucky, a time off from their studies.

I got to experience, or I should say endure, three weeks of Spring Breaks this year: My Spring Break was the week of March 30, my 15-year-old son’s was April 4, and my two daughters and stepsons had their breaks the week of April 13.

You may think it was fun for my family to have so much time off, but think again after I share my dilemma.

The week of March 30 I hung around the house trying to catch up on reading assignments and housework I always seem to neglect. I played a few rounds of golf but I couldn’t go out of town , even for the day, because my kids were still in school. So much for Palm Springs.

The week of April 6 I was back in class.

My oldest son, who lives in northern California, started in on Spring Break and wanted to spend it with me and his sisters.

Sounds great, but unfortunately we can’t really spend that much time visiting because I have class every day except Friday and his sisters are still in school. We managed to play golf on Friday, but

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I left him at the course with a friend so I could pick up his sisters at school. My son gets only Saturday to spend with his sisters. He flew home Easter Sunday.

The day after Easter my daughters and stepsons started their week of Spring Break. I had classes all week but didn’t find a sitter for my daughters on Monday. It is hard to find childcare for just one week. So, I did what I needed to do — I took them to “mommy’s school” for the morning.

My daughters got to experience the newsroom for a few hours but I skipped my afternoon class. I didn’t think it necessary to subject my two young girls to a Social Psychology lecture on aggressive behavior, even though I probably could have given my own example of it by then.

The next day I came to realize I’m not the only one forced to take their kids to school. During the week I noticed frazzled-looking parents pulling their small kids through the halls of the Humanities building. My newspaper staff advisor even had his son in the newsroom for a couple of days. Thank goodness for computer games.

After enduring three weeks of fragmented and hurried schedules I came to the conclusion that there must be a simple solution to the problems created by staggered Spring Breaks. The obvious solution would be to have one uniform week designated for all students statewide.

I don’t think the breaks are staggered because of a possible burden on the local vacation areas or amusement parks. These family-fun destinations seem to survive each summer; I am perplexed as to why the school systems can’t agree on a mutually convenient time.

If anyone knows the reason behind the state’s scheduling madness, please let me know and help me alleviate my frustration with the powers that be.

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Looking Ahead

Friday, April 24, 1998

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athletes qualify to compete in the highly competitve Cal/ Nevada meet.

Weekend baseball series will determine No. 1 team in the confererence

Titans take on the 49ers after Wednesday’s sweep over Loyola Marymount.

Track hits the road as the team competes in the Cal/ Nevada Championships in Fresno.

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Daily Titan Assistant Sports Editor The Big West Conference Championships is a month away, but Titan Track will have a preview of post-season competition when its top athletes compete this weekend.

Cal State Fullerton will compete in the Cal/Nevada Championships on Saturday and Sunday in a meet which Titan Head Coach John Elders promises to be one of the most competitive meets of the season.

“The meet features the cream of the crop in track competition,” Elders said.

“It’s basically like the California Collegiate Championships.”

Elders said all California four-year universities are eligible to compete, so athletes from Division I to NAIA schools will be represented. Some of the best track schools on the west coast will make appearances, including USC, UCLA and Stanford.

In order to qualify for the events, the meet accepted the top 27 athletes who applied for the field events and the top 36 athletes in the running events.

On Saturday, preliminary competition will begin in all events with the exception of the 3000-meter, 5000m and steeplechase.

The top nine athletes in each event will advance to the finals on Sunday.

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teams are tied for first in the conference. The showdown starts Friday.

By LANDON NEGRI

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The Titans will face Long Beach State in the biggest series of the year for Cal State Fullerton.

Long Beach State is only a short drive down the freeway, but Cal State Fullerton’s baseball team may still be booking hotel rooms for this weekend.

The Titans — those road warriors who fare better in away games (15-3) than at Titan Field (18-8) — are looking straight in the face of an important Big West showdown with Long Beach State this weekend. With both teams tied for the South Division lead, the

series will likely determine the ultimate winner.

So Horton wants to make sure the Titans (17-4 in conference, 33-12 overall) really feel like they’re on the road.

“Some major league teams do that,” Horton said. “It’s a way to keep the team together and keep the focus together.”

CSUF will need all the focus it can get for the 49ers (17-4, 26-16), who possess the second highest batting average in the nation at .363. Two 49ers batters (Jason Berni and Chuck Lopez) have hitting streaks of more than 10 games.

But CSUF catches the 49ers at a good time. First, the team received

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National team brings gold medal’s to CSUF n SOCCER: National wom-

en’s soccer team to play at Titan Field.

By ERIN WHITESIDE

Daily Titan Sports Editor Students walking by Titan Stadium on Friday night may come across something very unusual.

A sellout crowd.

Cal State Fullerton is hosting a women’s soccer game between the US National team and a team from Argentina. No empty seats are expected, as the remaining 1000 available tickets will probably sell at the gate, saidMichael Leddy, who is in charge of ticket sales for this game.

The only tickets left for the 7:30 p.m.

game are general admission seats, which sell for $11 for adults, and $9 for youths.

CSUF will receive part of the gate receipts, although Leddy said he isn’t sure what the exact figure will be.

The game is a rare opportunity to see the national team in action, as it does not make many appearances in its home country.

Titan Head men’s and women’s soc-

cer coach Al Mistri said he is very enthusiastic about the upcoming game.

“What you will see here tonight is not just the U.S. National team in itself,” Mistri said. “The big thing is this is the best our nation can produce and what we can say about this team is that it is the best in the world. You can’t say that about the men’s team. But this team is

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some good news on Thursday, learning that shortstop Chad Olszanski didn’t break his jaw when a high fastball struck him in the face during the fourth inning of the Titans’ 19-5 victory over UCLA on Wednesday night.

“His jaw isn’t broken,” Titan Assistant Coach Rick Vanderhook said. “There was a lot of swelling, and it looked like it was broken at first. ... It’s just bruised.”

Vanderhook added that Olszanski probably won’t miss any time because of it, either.

Secondly, the 49ers have struggled as of late. They dropped two of three to Nevada and split with Loyola Marymount.

It is quite the opposite for the Titans as they are coming off a 19-5 thrashing of UCLA Wednesday night.

The Titans scored 12 runs in the fourth inning and rattled off 19 straight runs after falling behind 5-0 to the Bruins.

As expected, the Titans saved their best pitchers for this series.

Benito Flores (9-0, 3.13 ERA) goes Friday against Long Beach State’s Caleb Balbuena (4-1, 4.76). Greg Jacobs (3-2, 2.18) gets the call on Saturday against Jeff Leuenberger (4-2, 5.32). Erasmo Ramirez (6-5, 3.68) starts Sunday against Berni (5-4, 4.88).

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the best in the world.”

The U.S. team playing tonight is regarded as the top women’s team internationally, and is coming off a gold medal-winning performance in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Mistri said it will be a good opportunity for his players, especially the women’s team, to see the game and learn from the best.

The team has a great skill level and tremendous competition,” Mistri said.

“The US jumped the gun on this one.

They have such a high level of athleticism and dedication.”

With the rise of women’s sports in America, this soccer team is coming into the spotlight at just the right time. The market is ripe for women’s sports as the WNBA and ABL have already proved.

Mistri said he thinks the soccer team will have the same kind of impact on women’s sports in America.

“Women’s sports in the U.S. has been focused around traditional basketball, softball and volleyball,” he said. “There has been a tremendous explosion in soccer. I think women’s soccer will do for women what football did for men.”

This is the second time that the national team has appeared on this campus.

Two years ago the team played a game versus China, however, this may be the last time to see the team here at CSUF, as it may be getting too big for the 10,000 capacity Titan Stadium.

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rently riding a four-game winning streak.

By JEFF HOWE

Daily Titan Staff Writer While Cal State Fullerton has battled inconsistency and a less-than-stellar performance in the Big West Conference, Long Beach State, on the other hand, keeps rolling along and is looking to challenge for the conference title.

These two area rivals will face off at Long Beach State tomorrow afternoon in a doubleheader of great meaning for both teams.

While CSUF’s playoff hopes look thin, the 49ers are holding on to the third spot in the conference, a game and a half behind leader Cal State Northridge.

The Titans have a chance to either be a spoiler for Long Beach State or to pick up some ground in the conference, while the 49ers could further distance themselves from the pack.

“We have to come out ready to play and be really aggressive,” said Titan

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The 3000m and steeplechase will be run on Saturday and the 5000m will be run on Sunday.

CSUF qualified eight women and 11 men in events across the board.

Elders said it is an accomplishment in itself to qualify for the meet, but now each Titan needs to work hard to advance.

“Their next goal is to get to the final,” Elders said. “We’re hoping to advance as many people as possible to that level of competition.”

catcher Dara Marzolo.

CSUF wasn’t able to gain any ground this week on Long Beach State as both teams swept Loyola Marymount University.

“They (CSULB) don’t have the big hitters, they just play solid ball,” said Titan Head Coach Judi Garman. “They win a lot of one-run games. They may not have the hitters we do, but their pitching is strong.”

The Titans are in the midst of a fourgame winning streak with sweeps over Utah State and LMU. Long Beach State (31-12, 12-7 in conference), before beating LMU April 21, defeated Furman 40 at the Lady Vol Spring Invitational in Knoxville, Tennessee on April 17.

CSUF has seen a rebound in offensive performance as of late. With 21 runs against Utah State, and 16 against LMU, the Titan offense has been putting up some big numbers.

But Garman is optimistic with teams like Fresno State and Pacific coming to town later this month—both ranked teams.

“Those are all teams we can play with

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