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CA is scaring minorities away from higher ed

n DIVERSITY: The end of

affirmative action in California universities promises significant decline in underrepresented minorities.

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unteer program helps students decide what to choose as a major.

By KAREN BRANDON Knight Ridder Newspapers

By JEREMY SCHERER Daily Titan Staff Writer

Mike, an 11-year old boy, did not have anyone that he could count on as a big brother. Thanks to a new program sponsored by the Cal State Fullerton First Year Introduction Team, Mike now has someone to take him to the tide pools or an Angel game.

Some 125 students have decided to donate their time in similar ways to Mike’s new big brother.

In a brand new pilot program, incoming freshmen have a chance to go out into the local communities and volunteer their time to organizations and people that needed help. The FFYIT thought that this new program would help students decide at the beginning of their college career what they wanted to do with their intended major.

Kandy Mink, assistant to the vice president for Student Affairs, said, “This whole project underscores how CSUF students are contributing to the community in a way that assists in the students learning.”

Mink also said that the program gives students a chance to examine their choices for their majors.

Josey Mangahis, a program participant who wants to be a teacher, said, “I think I gained a lot. I learned about the career path I wanted to go into. You saw the reality of going into classes.”

The participants in the program were chosen through a mailer that was attached to their acceptance letters asking whether or not they would be interested in giving up their time to help others out. Mink said about 250 students expressed interest in the program. Enrollment was restricted to 125 students for the program’s first semester, but with interest in the program so high, there

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Huy Nguyen gets some studying in ahead of time for finals in the Titan Student Union on Thursday afternoon. Finals week starts Tuesday after the Memorial Day Weekend and finishes up Friday night.

LOS ANGELES — In another sign of the effects wrought by the end of California’s affirmative action policies, the number of black, Hispanic and American Indian students planning to enroll this autumn at the state’s most prestigious campuses has plummeted, according to reports released Wednesday.

At the same time, more of these under-represented minorities said they would enroll at the least selective campuses, leading some University of California officials to express fear that a segregated university system could develop in the nation’s most diverse state.

“The most devastating possible outcome . . . is that the University of California becomes a segregated system in which students of color are clustered in a few campuses, and Asian students and whites cluster in other campuses,” said Theodore Mitchell, vice chancellor for external affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Only 131 black students are planning to enroll at UCLA, the smallest number in the freshman class in the 25 years since the university began tracking such statistics. A year ago, UCLA reported 219 black students were planning to enroll. “Resegregation on any grounds is unacceptable to us,” Mitchell said.

The number of under-represented minorities who plan to register at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses, along with Los Angeles the most coveted of the University of California’s eight sites, also declined sharply.

At Berkeley, the number of underrepresented minorities fell by 52 percent compared to similar figures for spring 1997. The sharpest decline was for the number of black students, down 63 percent. By contrast, the Riverside campus, which has the UC system’s least rigorous admissions requirements, saw the number of minority students rise, with an enrollment increase of 39

percent for blacks and 48 percent for Hispanics.

Wednesday’s figures represent the number of students who have submitted a $100 deposit and statements of intent to register. While the statistics do not offer a definitive profile of the incoming class, in previous years some 97 percent of students who submitted the deposit and registration form enrolled in the fall.

University of California officials sought to put the best face on the news of the likely makeup of the university system’s 1998 freshman undergraduate class, the first since affirmative action was ended nearly three years ago.

Officials expressed relief that the declines were not as large as they might have been. All campuses, they emphasized, showed an increase in the percentage of under-represented minorities (blacks, Hispanics and American Indians) who accepted an offer of admission.

In recruitment drives, officials sought to show that the university still wants minority students, despite the change in affirmative action policy.

“Our message evidently has been heard,” said Carla Ferri, University of California director of undergraduate admissions, “Yes, we want them and they are coming.”

Throughout the system, the numbers of under-represented students in the incoming freshman class declined from 17.5 percent in 1997 to 15.2 percent for 1998. University officials were unable to say when the figure had last fallen to that level.

The release of the numbers came at the close of recruiting drives by the system’s most select campuses, which enlisted alumni, administrators, professors and students to try to persuade minority students to attend the school.

Tasceaie Barner, a senior at Westchester High School in Los Angeles, is one of UCLA’s 131 incoming black freshmen. “I got three calls a day every day saying, ‘Are you coming to our school? We really want you to come to our school,’ ” she recalled.

She is concerned about what the campus will be like with fewer incoming black students, but said that, in the end, it was a decision between a UC

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students walk away with awards for research into materials that reinforce earthquake-damaged structures.

By MELISSA MORRIS Daily Titan Staff Writer

If an earthquake hit today, it could make pebbles out of buildings all over Orange County.

Six School of Engineering and Computer Science students from Cal State Fullerton have tested materials that may impact the strength of structural design. Thanks to their work, buildings may someday have the sturdiness to remain standing, even after the hardiest of shakes.

The six students won the CSU 1998 Student Research Competition Awards in Chico earlier this month. The May competitions marked the first time CSUF engineering and computer science students competed in the statewide competitions, which recognized

their research into material that reinforces earthquake-damaged structures.

The tested material looks like fiberglass, but is stronger than steel. In fact, after applying the material to a ruptured structure, the durability of the building increases beyond its original strength.

They returned to campus winners.

“It means a lot to us because we haven’t got a lot of university recognition (from the CSU),” Acting Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science Richard Rocke said.

Undergraduates Cesar Barrera, Lupe Jurado, Nimesh Parikh, Tewodros Mekuria, Vartan Matrosof, and graduate student Ernest Lau, earned the award for excellence in engineering and computer science research. The students were awarded at CSUF’s 1998 Research Competitions in April, before proceeding to competitions in Chico.

A $250 cash prize and a certificate of recognition was presented to each winning student in support of their research efforts. The students used the money to help pay for their plane tickets to Chico,

Mosallam said.

“It’s not baby work. It’s very tough,” he said of the student work displayed at Chico.

Undergraduates labored for nearly a year on their research projects. Lau, who began his graduate research project at the start of this semester, also worked with the earthquake reinforcement materials.

“It’s really horrifying to think of an earthquake in Los Angeles—all these buildings are going to fall,” Lau said.

Not only was Lau the winner of the CSUF and CSU awards, he also won an award for outstanding graduate research from the Engineering and Computer Science department at an awards banquet held May 16.

At the competitions held in Chico on May 2, Lau gave a ten-minute presentation to a three-person panel consisting of professionals from engineering and/or related fields. Lau said,”I think we have started something we’ll see a lot more people doing work on in the coming years.”

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growing differential between women

that education plays a who have skills and training and those who do not. crucial role in the wages “Education is one of the most powerwomen receive—over other ful determinants of wages in the labor women and men.

By CAROL KLEIMAN Knight-Ridder Newspapers

In real estate, it’s location, location, location.

And in today’s labor market, women who try to pull out of a cycle of welfare and low-wage jobs are finding what matters most is education, education, education.

While the wage gap between women and men is well-known, there’s also a growing wage gap between highly educated and poorly educated women.

Francine D. Blau, a labor economist in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., is one of the experts studying this

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market,” said Blau, who has a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.

“The widening wage gap among women is the result of a big increase in demand for skilled workers, the technological revolution and international trade. Today, low skills mean low income.”

Her research shows that in 1995, women with fewer than 12 years of education earned 73 percent of what high school graduates made. Those with college degrees earned 75 percent more than women who had high school diplomas.

The impact of the wage gap hits women who head families especially hard. “Women without high school diplomas make up 25 percent of single heads of households, compared to only 8 percent of women who are college graduates,” the economist said.

Women with college degrees increased their real wages 20 percent

in the 25-year period Blau studied.

Those with high school diplomas had an increase of 8 percent. “But high school dropouts saw a decrease of 2 percent,” she said.

Blau, one of the first economists to explore how low-wage women are “losing out in the labor market because of a lack of education,” says it’s increasingly difficult for untrained women to get jobs, an extreme hardship for poor working women facing a deadline to get off welfare.

“It’s never been easy for women who don’t complete high school to get a job, but today it’s a recipe for disaster,” the economist said.

Carol Faber is program director of WINGS (Women Investigating New Goals and Services) at Broward Community College, which has its main campus in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Her organization offers low-income women 40 workshops a year, covering how to get a high school diploma and conduct a job search, as well as train-

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7th Annual Orange County Herb Faire

The Fullerton Arboretum will hold it’s annual Herb Faire on June 6 and 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.. The two-day celebration will feature over 30 exhibitors, lining the winding paths of the 26-acre botanical garden, from all over Southern California. Each exhibit will display a wide selection of herb products, services and ideas for visitors own gardens.

Speaking at the Faire will be Mary Lou Heard of Heard’s County Gardens, Los Angeles Times food section writer Barbara Hansen, curator of the Herb Collection at Huntington Botanical Gardens Shirley Kerins, cooking instructors Margaretha Allebes and Sherrie Priebe, and author Joyce Ellenbecker.

The Faire will also include an Herb Dips & Salsas Competition featuring area restaurants’ and caterers’ favorite recipes and food samples.

Admission for the Faire is $5; children age 17 and under are admitted free. For more information call 278-3404.

Business Course Offers A European Taste Irene Lange, professor and chair of marketing will teach an international business seminar in Europe, from May 25-June 18.

Lang, who is also the coordinator of the university’s International Business Program, was recently honored as the first woman to receive the honorary doctorate from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania.

The course, Marketing 450, will go through the University Extended Education program and will offer students the opportunity to learn about business by actually visiting

companies in England, France, Germany, Austria and Italy.

The cost of the trip is $4,436 including airfare and ground transportation, room and continental breakfast, as well as scheduled cultural activities. The fee for the course is $411.

For more information contact Dr. Lange at 278-2705.

Immunity Documentation The Health Center requires that students born after January 1, 1957 submit proof of immunization.

If you have been contacted you must provide records of immunization of measles (Rubeola) and German measles (rubella).

Documentation of immunization to both after 1969 and your first birthday needs to be photocopied and presented in person to the Health Center. A waiver may be obtained for medical (from CSUF Health Center, Medical Director) or religious reasons (CSUF Vice President of Student Services).

Free vaccinations are available in the Health Center on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

You will not be allowed to register for fall semester, 1998 until the requirement has been met.

This only applies to those students who have received warning about immunization.

All Night Study Program The Titan Student Union is currently extending hours to help students prepare for upcoming spring semester finals.

The program will run through 11 p.m. next Friday. During this time, several lounges and study areas will be available for individuals as well as study groups to work on projects and prepare for finals.

For more information contact the Titan Student Union’s assistant

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS End of the year pizza party for the Teaching Ombudsman Action Program today at noon in Humanities room 123.

A Gay Pride Dance will be held in the Titan Student Union Pavilion A on Saturday from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Special guests attending are Jason Stuart, comedian and Anna Rex-C, performer. College identification is required.

Pacific Symphony Institute Orchestra is featured in a concert on Saturday, at 4 p.m. in Little Theatre. The concert will be conducted by Elizabeth Stoyanovich and John Alexander. Admission is $13 ($7 with advance Titan discount).

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campus with a $20,000 scholarship or the University of Southern California, a private school. “The price difference was my main concern,” she said.

Edward Brown, another black senior at Westchester High, had to decide whether to enroll at UCLA, Cornell University or Northwestern University.

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will be storming the stage of Curtis Theatre through Saturday.

Evening performances are today and Saturday at 8 p.m. Ticket prices range from $13-$17 for adults; $11-$15 for seniors; and $7-$9 for children. The Curtis Theatre is located at the Brea Civic & Cultural Center.

Hatpins, an exhibit exploring feminine fashions in the early 20th century, runs today through May 31 in the Atrium Gallery, University Library. Exhibit hours: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.

Beach Central Library, Room B, at 6:45 p.m. The following candidates will speak: Wallace Wade, Candidate for Orange County District Attorney; Paul Walters, Candidate of Orange County Sheriff; Mike Carona, Candidate for Orange County Sheriff; Dr. Dave Sullivan, Candidate for Orange County Supervisor. The meeting is open to the public.

The Democratic Club of West Orange County will meet on Wednesday, at the Huntington

The Southern California Genealogical Society will host its 29th annual Genealogical Jamboree at the Pasadena Center from 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. on May 30 and 31. The event is $10 for one day and $15 for both.

More than 10 nationally known speakers will be in attendance and door prizes include the grand prize of a one-week stay at the

UCLA called him regularly, and one official even suggested he could get a scholarship. In the meantime, the other schools reminded him that it was possible that their campuses would be more diverse, in the wake of the University of California’s policy change.

In the end, Brown chose Northwestern, but affirmative action had nothing to do with his choice, he said.

“It was just that gut feeling,” he recalled. “I just based it on academics

and environment.”

Sergio Rivas, a Hispanic senior at Garfield High School, turned down UCLA and two scholarships totaling $40,000, to go to Yale University, where he also won scholarships. “I just wanted to get away from home,” he said. His decision was based on the opportunities he knew would be available at Yale, he said.

He does think the ban on affirmative action affected him, however. “I had

Spring 1998 Finals Schedule

Monday May 25

Exam Study Day Memorial Day Campus Closed

Salt Lake Plaza Hotel. For more information call 818-843-7247.

Golf Tournament to Benefit Students will be held at the Dove Canyon Country Club in Trabuco Hills, June 22. The cost is $275 for individual golfers, foursomes and sponsorships.

The tournament is sponsored by the School of Business Administration and Economics. All proceeds from the event will assist students by underwriting scholarships and upgrading student computer labs. For more information contact Ginny Pace at 278-2566.

applied to UC Berkeley, and I didn’t get in,” he said.

Julie Neilson, a college counselor at Garfield, the Los Angeles high school portrayed in the movie “Stand and Deliver,” said students were fearful about what the changes would mean to them. “I told them that they had to look at this as a blessing, because nobody now could ever say that they only got in because they were minorities,” she said.

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Godzilla stomps into theaters

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POMONA, Calif. — Members of the Gay and Lesbian Faculty Staff at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona say they’re happy that Zimbabwe’s President Robert G. Mugabe won’t be speaking at the school’s June 13 graduation ceremony.

Mugabe, a vocal opponent of homosexuality, cancelled the engagement because of a scheduling conflict, a school spokesman said.

Members of the organization had criticized the university’s decision to invite Mugabe to speak and to receive an honorary degree.

Dennis Pope, a 1967 graduate of the university and chief executive officer of a virtual-entertainment software company, will speak during the ceremony.

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An inflated Godzilla looms over Big Newport Theaters in Newport Beach Thursday afternoon. The big-budget flick hit the big screen on Wednesday afternoon, though the crowds this day were not proportional in size to the hype.

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fessors who teach in the United States would be prohibited from receiving visas until Oct. 1 when the limit is lifted.

By CHRISTINE TATUM College Press Service

The U.S. Senate on Monday approved a bill that would increase the number of foreigners allowed to work in academic and other industries under the conditions of temporary visas.

The country’s thriving economy has driven several U.S. companies to recruit employees - particularly those in technical fields - from abroad. Business’ rising demands have made it more difficult for professors, postdoctoral researchers and

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will be 150 to 175 students next fall.

The students began volunteering in February, donating 30 hours of their time at the organization of their choice. A large number of students volunteered at the Fullerton Boys and Girls Club, but some went with organizations like the Children’s Bureau of Southern California or the Project Together program.

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ing in various fields.

“A good percentage of the 500 women we work with each year are on or have been on welfare or are in low-paying, dead-end jobs,” said Faber. “I am a great believer that at this point, education is the all-time equalizer, that it makes the difference in whether or not you stay on welfare and whether you are able to move beyond a minimum-wage job.”

“Not so long ago, women could get by with a few basic skills, such as being able to talk well, answer the phone and type,” Faber said. “Today, that’s not enough.”

The problem Faber sees with socalled welfare “reform” is that “it doesn’t give women on welfare the tools nor the time they need to get enough education to get beyond minimum-wage jobs. Instead, they’re right back where they started - but without the safety net.”

Faber, who has been with the program since 1980, encourages all women “to get out there and learn. Otherwise, you’ll always be caught in the circular motion of low wages.”

Her advice: education, education, education.

other academics to enter the country - a group that typically receives 10 to 15 percent of temporary visas awarded each year.

Further complicating matters is a 1990 law that prohibits the government from granting more than 65,000 temporary visas annually to foreigners wanting to work in the United States for up to six years.

This month, the Immigration and Naturalization Service announced it had reached that cap with four months remaining in the fiscal year.

If Congress fails to raise the limit, the government can’t issue visas until Oct. 1 - which will prohibit hundreds of foreign professors from entering the country in time for the fall semester.

The Senate’s legislation would raise the ceiling to 95,000 foreigners this year, drop to 85,000 admissions from 1999 to 2002 and then

revert to 65,000 admissions in 2003.

The House of Representatives has proposed a similar bill, which would also prohibit employers from laying off American workers with comparable skills and duties 90 days before, and six months after, hiring a temporary visa holder.

The Clinton Administration, backed by many Congressional Democrats, has threatened to veto the Senate bill because it is concerned that admitting too many foreigners into the country will take jobs away from Americans. Democrats also argue that the government should improve job training for U.S. workers, rather than encourage employers to fill vacant positions with foreigners.

To quell their criticism, the Senate bill’s sponsor, Sen. Spencer Abraham, a Republican from Michigan, added provisions that would

Students volunteered an average of about four hours per week.

One student that gave his time was Ken Peterkin. Peterkin was not interested in volunteering in a large group environment. He said, “I wanted to help on a oneon-one basis to see how kids in Orange County are growing up.”

Peterkin joined Project Together, a big brother program. Peterkin was assigned an 11-year-old boy named Mike. Peterkin said of the sixmonth program, “It has been one

of the greatest experiences of my life. I have gotten a chance to see how I was when I was a little kid.”

The Project Together experience has also taught Peterkin something. “I realize that I am a role model and the things I do and say influence other people.”

When a few students were asked if they would suggest this program to other students they all said “Definitely.” Shavon Rice said, “Stick with it. It’s worth it at the end.”

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increase federal spending on job training in several highly skilled fields.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — After a sevenday vigil outside the president’s office, several dozen Ohio State students have won their fight to halt university efforts to restructure the Office of Minority Affairs.

Students claim the reorganization would add more bureaucracy and prevent them from having direct access to university leaders. Their protests, which have included around-the-clock sit-ins outside the president’s offices, have received state and national attention.

On Monday, OSU President Richard Sisson said he would appoint a student advisory board in the fall that will be responsible for helping university leaders reorganize the office and hire a new vice provost for minority affairs.

Until the new vice provost is hired, interim Vice Provost Barbara Rich will continue to serve in the position. Students have demanded Rich’s ouster because they claim she was an ineffective liaison between students and university leaders during talks about restructuring issues.

KENT, Ohio — Three Kent State students and one former student were

arrested last week for trespassing after they refused to leave the president’s office.

The students told school officials they wouldn’t leave until they got a chance to air their grievances about the university’s plans to move student organizations to a new location. The organizations are being moved to a different floor within the university’s Student Center to make way for the office of the vice-president of student affairs.

Police said the protesters refused to wait in an area designated for visitors, preferring instead to sit in the office of President Carol A. Cartwright. School officials said they told the protesters repeatedly that Cartwright was out of the building.

The three students were released on their own recognizance, and the former student was released after posting bail.

CHICAGO - Both the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Polytechnic University in New York could be $100 million dollars richer if they prove that Mildred Othmer’s will is accurate.

Othmer, who died last month of heart disease, pledged nearly $450 million to various causes, including the two universities in her 1988 will. Her niece, Mary Seina, claims she revoked that will three years ago because she wanted to leave more money to her family. Seina is contesting the will in an Omaha County court. If she wins, she will increase her inheritance from $2 million to $200 million, and the universities won’t receive a cent.

The courts must decide whether Othmer, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, was competent to make financial decisions in 1995, when Seina claims the will was changed.

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Frank Sinatra was a musician’s musician n TRIBUTE: Sinatra was

America’s Chairman of the Board; his sense of cool was unmatched.

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Knight-Ridder Newspapers There are no sound-alikes who really sound like Frank.

Some have captured the speech pattern, others the walk or the half-hoarse Hoboken shout. But none convincingly evokes the song stylings of Frank Sinatra, whose death has ended one of the most influential epochs in the history of popular music.

The Chairman of the Board—for whom singing sometimes seemed an annoying distraction from the high life —was often parodied. The Rat Pack, his rambling Grammy speech in 1994, his 1990 feud with Sinead O’Connor after she refused to sing “The StarSpangled Banner,” and his rants on the deficiency of rock 'n' roll culture brought him ridicule at the hands of comedians, who had no trouble lampooning his exaggerated mannerisms.

But for musicians, it was different.

Vocalists worked to match Sinatra's offhand croon, his casual demeanor.

Scores of instrumentalists aspired to his sense of cool, if not his unerring pitch. Yet even the ones who got the notes right and mimicked the phrasing nuance by nuance missed the essence.

It wasn't just about notes or where, in the lazy ring-a-ding-swing scheme, this former band singer put them: It was about attitude. His “babe” was like no other. His entreaty to Lady Luck was suffused with desperation.

His rueful explorations of lost love elevated heartbreak to high art.

The self-professed "saloon singer" cared about the characters of his songs.

And he found ways —little things, like a thinly disguised sneer or a swallowed word, for he was obsessive about details—to let that concern seep into his interpretations, making them imita-

tion-proof.

Many of his recordings, particularly those made during his tenure with Capitol Records (1953-1962), are neardefinitive: This is how these long-old songs will always be remembered, the way they're supposed to sound.

Sinatra defined a way to sing, an aura and assertiveness that prevailed no matter what the surroundings. For more years than anyone might have expected, he was the authority in American popular song, the A-number-one phrasing coach. With a fedora and a halo of smoke, playing to both big-band brass and brooding strings, Sinatra made romance to precise factory specifications.

His gift was never exclusively technique or God-given pipes: It was an ability to transform ordinary songs into rich human testimonials. He did it with torch songs, bossa nova (his 1967 collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim remains a classic), hard-driving swing and flip show tunes.

A Picasso among street-corner portrait artists, he put his listeners in touch with the hurt, despair and ecstasy that are every songwriter's stock in trade.

As Bono, lead singer of U2, said when he introduced Sinatra for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1994 Grammy ceremony, Sinatra's legacy is as a singer “who makes other men poets.”

Scores of composers consider Sinatra's versions of their songs the definitive renditions. In his 1972 study, “American Popular Song,” composer and author Alec Wilder cited Sinatra's treatment of Gershwin's “I've Got a Crush on You” as an example of the singer's gift for melody.

“I am quite certain that five notes were changed by Sinatra in his recording, one in the very attractive verse and four in the chorus,” he wrote. “I believe (the new notes) are better than the original ones. So enormously powerful were Sinatra's interpretations of songs that even now, looking at the

sheet music, I find it impossible to disassociate the printed notes from my memory of his singing.”

Just about everyone who heard Sinatra - singers and instrumentalists, rockers and rhythm-and-blues stars learned something from his ballad stylings, his themed recordings, his patient phrasing. Even Miles Davis, never generous with praise, cited Sinatra three times in his autobiography, and noted that he applied some of Sinatra's technique to his trumpet playing.

Sinatra taught singers the importance of timing. A master of syncopation, he believed that the careful placement of individual words brought them new meaning, and he demonstrated this constantly, on up-tempo tunes such as “I Get a Kick Out of You” and

more languid pieces, where his ability to caress and finesse a melody shone.

Subtract Sinatra's coy and knowing delivery from “Strangers in the Night” and you've got a string of sorrowful cliches set to an overworked melody.

To the musicians who accompanied him, Sinatra was also a peerless instrumentalist. In the liner notes to the 1962 small-group masterpiece “Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris,” released by Reprise Records in 1995, guitarist Al Viola recalled that - though the sextet used outlines of Sinatra's by-thenestablished big-band arrangements the results were hardly predictable.

“Some of the things I thought he'd do, he changed,” Viola said of their astonishing “Night and Day” session.

“When he sang one word in the lyric,

the word ‘under,’ he held it and it's almost like an instrument. To me, it’s almost like a jazz tenor player. The guys in the band thought of Frank as our tenor man.”

Sinatra was the first vocalist really to understand amplification. There was no need to shout as his predecessors, such as Al Jolson, had. He caressed the microphone like an object of seduction, and every line he fed it came slowly, gently, gingerly. He was a psychological singer - he wanted you to process what he was saying, to drink in the dimensions of this particular despair.

Pennsylvania State University English professor Leonard Mustazza, coeditor of 1995's “The Frank Sinatra Reader: Seven Decades of American Popular Music,” maintains that Sinatra

did more than change the approach: “He not only created the natural style of singing, but he took it to its conclusion as well. It ends with him.”

Sinatra played glib, but he was a perfectionist. And though he had dropped lyrics in live performance for years, perhaps the most troubling sign of his decline was his 1993 and 1994 “Duets” volumes with singers from the rock era, including Bono, Luther Vandross and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde. To his credit, he insisted on using the classic Nelson Riddle arrangements rather than modernized ones, but he didn't spend much time in the studio, and he never sang faceto-face with any of his partners: Their voices were electronically spliced together.

“There's plenty of evidence that Sinatra (hadn't) been happy with his recorded output since about 1977,” said Mustazza. “He abandoned the double album devoted to songs (that featured) ladies’ names when he heard the playbacks. That was common. He was never a one-take artist.

“If the Sinatra of the Capitol period heard that ‘Silent Night’ with Cyndi Lauper, he'd be killing projects right and left.”

Still, Mustazza continued, even at that low point, there were glimpses of Sinatra's greatness: “You listen to his duet partners, they have more vocal control, but he's got the energy.

Chrissie Hynde singing ‘Luck, Be a Lady’—she’s just whining through it, and he's punching out what sounds through and through like a jazz song.”

That was Sinatra. No matter how far down he was, no matter how his voice failed him, no matter how awkward the setting, he managed to light up the music. Students may copy his phrases, but they'll never replicate that.

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Do we really need Windows 98? A vote for cup o’ joe

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can’t believe Windows 98 is coming out in June. It seems like just a few years since Windows 95 came out, and now Windows 98 is being shipped out. I worry that pretty soon Bill Gates will start coming out with newer and faster versions of Windows, such as Windows Next Week and Windows Here It Comes and You Just Missed It. However, all is not well in Gates’ Microsoft land.

Billionaire bad boy Gates is running into problems with the government due to his plans to package Microsoft’s Windows 98 exclusively with— here’s a surprise—Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The federal government doesn’t like this and, along with 20 states, is suing Gates. Gates has retaliated by buying 11 of the 20 states and placing hotels on both Park Place and Boardwalk. Or am I confusing this with the game of Monopoly?

The government wants Gates to either take Internet Explorer out of Windows 98 or also include a browser made by Microsoft’s rival, Netscape. Microsoft contends that the browser is too tightly interwoven with Windows 98 to be taken out. The government contends that Internet Explorer is just an added feature and can be taken out rather easily.

A rumor floating on the Internet says Attorney General Janet Reno and Gates plan to step into the ring in a grudge match, man to man, to settle the matter once and for all.

I doubt the Reno-Gates match will take place, though, so it will probably have to be dealt with in court, which is not as fun. Much of the debate rages over the growth of the Internet, which remains possibly the most powerful force in the world, other than that stupid “Titanic” song.

For those who don’t understand the technical jargon and want to know what a “browser” is, let me explain. A “browser” allows you to explore the Internet, making it easier to look at naked pictures of the cast of “Baywatch,” but not David Hasselhoff, because that would definitely be against the law.

How much further can we go with computers?

Do we need the few extra benefits Windows 98 will give us? Already, several advances have been made that allow us much more ease in our daily lives.

Without computers wee wood have too do spell-checks bye hand. And you know how difficult it can bee sometimes to proofread

youre paper and try too check spelling errors.

Fortunately, spell-check allows us too knot worry about hour spelling and concentrate on the point were trying two make.

Computers also come in very handy when you need to yell at something other than traffic. How many times have you been sitting at the computer and something has gone wrong and you’re forced to yell out cuss words that will come up as errors when you run spell-check?

I don’t think Windows 98 will take the world by storm as did Windows 95. I certainly don’t need it. I don’t think Cal State Fullerton is going to upgrade to the new program. The Macintosh I’m typing this on certainly doesn’t need it since, besides being a completely different kind of computer, this particular Macintosh is a piece of -SYSTEM ERROR-

JOE FLORKOWSKI is a Daily Titan staff writer.

Prop. 227

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Jason Silver

hen you vote on the controversial Proposition 227, which will virtually eliminate bilingual education in favor of a one-year immersion program, the one question you should ask yourself is, “will the affected children learn more English?”

I believe the answer is yes.

It is obvious that the current system of bilingual education is not working. Statistics from the Los Angeles school board indicate that fewer than 8 percent of the district’s bilingual students learn enough English to exit the program annually.

This is not enough. We live in an English-speaking society and learning the dominant language is a prerequisite for success.

By not doing something about the continuing problem of children that get through school without learning enough English or dropping out of school because they can’t keep up, we doom these children to a life of poverty.

The problem will never be solved if we as a society don’t make an attempt to change the system. Passing this proposition could be the first step.

Also, bilingual education costs taxpayers $330 million a year. That’s a lot of money spent on a failing system.

Opponents of the initiative say the law is too inflexible but there are provisions that say some children could get waivers or aides to help them in class.

Although the proposition might not be perfect and is a little vague, it is the start of an important change, and those kinks can be worked out.

For one-year immersion to work, a test needs to be designed to make sure children will be able to understand their teachers before they enter the regular classes.

If the students fail such a test they should be forced to repeat the course, much like holding a child back a grade. This may be a tough rule for the students, but strong measures need to be taken, and determined students should be able to succeed.

This is the time to make a stand to help this neglected part of our society that could contribute greatly to the society in the future. Change can only help.

Men who play with balls need protection What has this world come to when the traffic cadets start ticketing parked cars?

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oday on Oprah...Women having babies out of wedlock and the filthyrich athletes they slept with once who are now expected to support them...”

It is the juiciest story in sports right now (well except maybe for the recent trade of Dodgers catcher Mike Piazza to the Florida Marlins). Just look at the cover of this week’s “Sports Illustrated” magazine. Adorning the cover is a cute little boy holding a basketball looking up into the camera lens, a forlorned, yet adorable image that makes the reader want to read on. The story inside said he is the son of...

Wait. No, I’m not going to use names in this article. This is going to be a generic tale of women loved (and I use the word ‘love’ loosely) and left behind, pregnant and on their own to raise their “love children.”

This week Oprah Winfrey hosted a show about young women who cried foul after becoming pregnant with the babies of superstar athletes.

They claim the men they slept with have neglected their responsibilities by not getting involved in their children’s lives. What this amounts to, basically, is not handing over the bucks.

I’m sorry but it is hard for me to muster up any sympathy for these women. They are not victims of rape and were not promised wedding bells or futures with these men. Did they really expect these guys just to lay down and roll over? Oh yeah, they already did that. But why blame just the men for the deed?

Feminist attorney Gloria Alred was interviewed Tuesday about this most gossipy situation and her question was, “why didn’t the guys just wear condoms if they didn’t want the women to get pregnant?” OK, that’s a legitimate question.

Unless their intention was to become pregnant,

my question is, why didn’t the women take responsibility for their own bodies and use some kind of birth control? Duh! Hello! Like, maybe if they used their brains instead of their legs....

This is not news to athletes, however. On an Oprah broadcast last year, Scottie Pippen was talking about what male athletes have to put up with from groupies because of the men’s star status. Pippen mentioned that women are always calling them and “try to get pregnant by them.”

If the athletes know what the game is, maybe they should change their game plans and plan to wear the appropriate uniforms - condoms - if they don’t want to take the chance of leaving trails of babies at every court.

During a news segment on Tuesday a male reporter for an east coast publication said, “This is not just an athlete thing but a man thing.” Maybe if the man had protected his thing viewers would not have to watch these scorned women on any future witch hunts.

CINDY JIMENEZ is a Daily Titan staff writer.

voices: what will you do this summer?

“I’m going to Arizona to visit some friends.”

-Curly Dalke, Speech Comm.

“Vacation...party and a vacation.”

-Michelle Madrigal, Psychology (left)

“I’m going to Nevada to visit my parents.”

-Veronica Villanueva, Psychology (right)

“Should I work? No, I think I’ll take the vacation!”

-Yula Perez, Business (center)

“I’m going to Germany.

It’s an experience that I wouldn’t pass up.”

-Renee Anderson, Liberal Studies

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have once again been bitten by the traffic cop bug. It is a bite that is both painful and expensive. It’s a pretty big insect. This bug tends to attack harmless prey, who simply wish to park their cars in front of their respective homes.

One recent morn, I skipped and hopped to my pretty red dragster, which was tightly perched next to the curb. To my immediate blood-boiling, bile-eschewing chagrin, I discovered two disgustingly familiar white slips violating my windshield.

Last year I received three parking tickets in four days for merely parking in front of my apartment complex. One could guess that I was a tad perturbed at the prospect of throwing $60 away into an ominous city slush fund.

My protest letter was tossed aside and I ended up coughing up the dough to avoid having two sharp-dressed goons beat me up (Fullerton wants to make sure it gets “its cash”).

When I moved to a house near Chapman Ave. and State College Blvd., I figured my troubles with the traffic cadets—that’s what Fullerton Mayor Don Bankhead calls them—were over.

But alas, I was wrong.

Similar to my previous tickets, it took almost four months of me parking in front of my

bedroom window for the traffic cadets to take notice. At 2:30 a.m., this one did twice. As many of you hard-working students may already know, Fullerton has these absolutely ridiculous overnight parking laws which outlaw cars on certain streets from 2 a.m.-5 a.m. What sinister action goes on between these three seedy hours, is what I want to know.

What eats at my intestines is the nerve of the city to unleash these beady-eyed leeches on its peaceful law-abiding citizens. A law may be a law, what is the noble intent in scoping out quiet neighborhoods to turn residents into local threats?

I marched down to a recent council meeting to voice my concerns. The council members, namely Bankhead, did not seem interested in pointing to me a single benefit of this inane rule.

Why is overnight parking allowed on a busy thoroughfare like Placentia Blvd., but not a quiet cul-de-sac like mine? The only retort given was that voters supported this parking measure twice. Given voters’ track record on local measures (you know, Prop. called A or B), I’d be willing to bet that most Fullerton adults have little or no recollection of such a referendum.

In true Rage Against the Machine fashion, I have grown rather cynical towards these predatory traffic. . .umm. . .people. Tack on an ultra-lame “no front license plate” ticket, and that’s a $96 tab I must pay to a money-hungry cash cow.

Can a city fairly and compassionately serve its residents when it’s only serving its own interests by collecting more taxes in the form of trivial tickets? Perhaps, not.

STEPHEN RUBIN is the Daily Titan news editor.

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Track heads to Boise, Idaho to compete in the Big West Conference Championships.

Story on page 7.

Christy Robitaille from Woodbridge High School, one of the nation’s top softball recruits, signs with CSUF. Story on page 8.

Friday, May 22, 1998

CSUF takes first game n BASEBALL: Titans take

Harvard with ease in first regional game, defeating the Crimson 16-1.

By LANDON NEGRI Daily Titan Staff Writer

Jon Smith couldn't have picked a better time for his grand return.

Neither could have Cal State Fullerton's baseball team.

Making his first start since March 7, Smith pitched four solid inningwhile Steve Chatham and Ryan Owens each added three-run home runs as theTitans ripped Harvard, 16-1, in a South II Regional game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

With the victory, CSUF advances to a second-round game today against Tulane.

It was only Smith's second appearance since shutting down from a sore throwing shoulder.

On May 10, he pitched two innings of relief against UC Santa Barbara. It allowed CSUF to save its best starters --- Erasmo Ramirez and Benito Flores --- for later games in the double-eliminationtournament.

"It was a little bit of a calculated gamble by us," Titan Head Coach George Horton said. "We had to use four starters (this weekend) anyway.

“We elected to do it in this game, and it didn't hurt us. In fact, it puts us in a good position.

"The most significant thing for us was that he gave us four innings," Horton added. "That was real beneficial."

Smith pitched four innings of shutout ball, striking out three andwalking two. He led CSUF to an improved

RANKINGS

Collegiate Baseball Top 25 1. Miami Fla

46-9 2. Stanford

4112-1 3. Wichita State

55-5 4. Florida

42-15 5. Louisiana State

42-17 6. Southern California 40-15 7. Rice

45-15 8. Cal State Fullerton 44-15 9. South Carolina

42-16 10. Florida State

49-18 11. Auburn

43-16 12. Texas A&M

43-18 13. Alabama

43-16 14. Oklahoma

40-18 15. Washington

39-15 16. Tulane

47-13 17. Arizona State

34-21 18. Clemson

42-14 19. Georgia Tech

38-20 20. Long Beach State

37-20-1 21. Baylor

40-18-1 22. Minnesota

45-13 23. Oral Roberts

44-18 24. Delaware

43-8 25. Texas Tech

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Titans offense returns strong against Harvard University, as the pitching staff allows only one run in Cal State Fullertons’ 16-1 thumping of the Crimson. The Titans play Tulane today at 5:30 p.m. PDT. showing after it exited the Big West tournament last week in the semifinals.

He was also successful at holding Harvard baserunners --- the vaunted Harvard running game didn't attempt a stolen base.

Smith's performance led the Titans in a much-improved performance fromlast weekend, when CSUF exited the Big West tournament in the semifinals. Early, by its high standards.

But as Horton explained, the

Titans seemed to now have a sense of urgency.

"I didn't have any lingering effect from the Big West tournament," Horton said. "It was a whole different environment and a whole different mind-set.

“There's no doubt in my mind that we'll be focused for this because there is no tomorrow."

The second-seeded Titans (45-15), who had a season-high 20 hits, scored four runs in the second inning, then

racked up 12 runs in their final four at-bats.

Marco Hanlon (5-2) relieved Smith and pitched three innings for the win.

Harvard drops to 34-11.

Along with Chatham (1-for-3, three runs scored) and Owens, Greg Jacobs also added a home run, his sixth of the year.

The Titans started quickly, using a four-run second inning and never looked back.

1. Miami (21) 46-9 2. Stanford (5) 41-121 3. Wichita State (7)

55-5 4. Florida

42-15 5. Southern California 40-15 6. Louisiana State 42-17 7. Alabama

43-16 8. Auburn

43-16 9. Rice

45-15 10. Florida State 49-18 11. Texas A&M 43-18 12. Cal State Fullerton 44-15 13. Washington 39-15 14. Clemson 42-14 15. Texas Tech 43-18 16. South Carolina 42-16 17. Tulane

47-13 18. Oklahoma 40-18 19. Baylor

40-18-1 20. South Alabama 39-17 21. Arkansas 37-19 22. Minnesota 45-13 23. Mississippi State 37-20 24. Wake Forest

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make the cut to board plane to Boise.

By KERRY MURRAY

Daily TitanAssistant Sports Editor Some coaches tell their athletes to leave it on the field.

Titan Head Coach John Elders is telling his athletes to leave it on the track.

The Cal State Fullerton track team boarded the plane early Thursday morning to depart for Boise, Idaho for its final competition of the season — the Big West Track Conference Championships.

There are no more meets, no more invitationals, no more 1998 track competition. Therefore, Titans track athletes are being asked to leave it on the track.

“We’re not expecting to score big as a team,” Elders said. “But I do think we can turn out some solid individual performances.”

In the Big West Challenge, which was held in April, both the Titan men and women placed last as a team.

Elders said that the Challenge was a good preview for conference competi-

tion, so CSUF will most definitely not come out with any conference titles.

Leading the Big West is the University of Idaho for both the men and women and Utah State and the University of Nevada for the women.

But, Titan hopes are not entirely crushed.

To get to the final meet, the CSUF athletes had to be selected by the Titan track coaching staff and Elders said he is confident that the team he selected can end the season on a positive note.

For the Titan women, Erin Remy and TreShawn Banford top the track charts for the CSUF squad.

Remy, currently ranked second in the 10000-meter race, is expected to finish strong in the women’s field. Remy is also ranked eighth in the 5000m race.

Although Remy has been bothered by a nagging heel injury, Elders said she had a good week at practice and should be ready to run her final collegiate race in her career.

Banford, the Titans’ record-breaking jumper, is expected to score big in the triple jump. Banford is also ranked second in the conference, a mere foot away from the No. 1 jumper from Utah State.

Banford took the week off from

practice with an injured back, but was cleared Wednesday for weekend competition.

Also in women’s distance, the strong leg of the team, Sarah MacDougall and Alison Livermore are also ranked in the top positions in the conference 5000m.

MacDougall is ranked third and Livermore is ranked seventh.

In high jump competition, Loren Gualco and Deanna Mendibles are ranked fourth and sixth respectively in conference.

A total of 16 CSUF women will compete in the meet.

In men’s competition, Francisco Vasquez leads the Titans with his third place ranking in the 10000m.

Adam Loo will compete in the steeplechase, Omar Anderson will race in the 400m hurdles and Dave Picha will compete in both the 800m and 1500m to carry CSUF in distance and running events.

Phil Sitner also holds a sixth place ranking in the 1500m to give the Titans more points on the board.

Gary Charles, who has battled hamstring injuries throughout the entire season, will run the 100m and 200m.

Elders said Charles is not ranked very

EDGARD AGUILAR//Daily Titan Deanna Mendibles, above, receives instruction from her coach. Mendibles will compete this weekend in the high jump at the championship meet.

high since he missed the majority of the season, but noted that his times have improved steadily since his recovery.

Dominick Sturz will lead the Titans in the high jump, currently ranked fourth in the conference, and Gary Van Sluis will compete in the pole vault.

Quincy Simms also should fare well

in the final meet of the season since he is ranked third in the triple jump.

Despite all of the high individual rankings, Elders said there is absolutely no chance for any of the Titans to advance to the national meet because of times and marks.

“We’re just hoping to come out of

this meet with some top individual performances and a few conference champions,” Elders said.

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A rising star A highly recruited player, Woodbridge High School senior Christy Robitaille dropped all other offers to stay near home.

By Jeff Howe n Daily Titan Staff Writer It is rare to find an athlete who early on demonstrates the ability to succeed in a sport.

Christy Robitaille is just such a player.

“We’ve been watching her for two years,” Cal State Fullerton Head Coach Judi Garman said.

But this star pitcher, a senior at Woodbridge High School in Irvine, caught the eye of coaches even before she could drive.

And now she is on the road to CSUF to anchor the pitching staff.

“We had tracked Christy when she was in grade school,” said her current coach at Woodbridge, Allan Dugard. “We saw her pitch in travel ball.”

Robitaille gained experience with her travel ball team, the USA Athletics, based in Garden Grove, but that is not where it all started.

“I began playing softball when I was about six or seven,” Robitaille said. “I haven’t always wanted to be a pitcher. When I first started, I wanted to be a catcher, but I wanted to be able to go anywhere so I switched.”

This switch proved to be the most successful for Robitaille.

Very successful.

Over her four years at Woodbridge, she has amassed 83 wins, tying her with Cheryl Longjoy for the career victory record. And beyond that, she has racked up some amazing statistics this year alone.

Entering CIF play, Robitaille pitched a total of 152.3 innings.

In that time, she allowed only 48 hits and 19 runs. What is most impressive is that only four of the runs were earned, giving Robitaille an anemic 0.18 ERA. And if those numbers are not enough to put a scare in even the most potent lineups, Robitaille only walked 27 batters while striking out 188.

“She’s always been what you’d call a competitor—a very hard thrower,” Dugard said. “She has good control.

“She pitches to the person,” Dugard continued. “She has a very good concept on how to set up a batter.”

Robitaille relies on a number of pitches, among them a curve and a change-up that raises the eyebrows of coaches.

“She has an awesome change-up—incredible,” Garman said.

“People know it’s coming and sometimes it bounces, but hitters still swing.”

Dugard agrees. “Her change, she can throw any time. It is the pitch that sets up a lot of strikeouts.”

All of the accolades, the strikeouts, the impressive statistics have not only drawn the attention of Garman and the other Titan coaches, but also from coaches around the country.

Robitaille received offers from Oregon State University, UNLV, the University of Florida and Long Beach State. While all these schools have good softball traditions, it was something that money can’t buy that convinced Robitaille to become a Titan.

“It mattered what had the best academics and sports—where I fit in,” Robitaille said. “(CSUF) was the most consistent in recruiting me and I knew some players who went there. My parents left it up to me.”

The campus also appealed to Robitaille.

“I like their coaching staff and the environment,” she said. “I spent a day walking around school and sat in a class and talked with some of the other players.”

Garman added that she is still receiving congratulatory calls from other coaches.

“She’s what you call a franchise ball player,” Garman said.

MATT LEWIS//Daily Titan

Woodbridge senior pitcher Christy Robitaille will look to bolster the Titan pitching staff.

Women’s Basketball

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Missy Bynon/Villa Park HS Mark Murphy/Glendale, AZ Heath Bell/Santa Ana College, CA Christy Robitaille/Woodbridge HS, CA Anna Doty/Merced HS, CA Heather Cunningham/Irvine Valley College, CA Brandon Campbell/Cardinal Ritter, MO Wes Chisnall/Etiwanda HS, CA Monica Lucatero/Mater Dei HS, CA Montiqua Sargent/James Logan Ada Lake/Sierra College, CA Mitch Deve’/La Cueva HS, NM Matt Mortimer/Oakmont HS, CA Tosha Thomas/Bakersfield HS, CA

Matt Donahue/Etiwanda HS, CA Nick Neugebauer/Arlington HS, CA Michelle Burk/King’s HS, WA

Josh Helbig/East Belleville HS, IL Sean Bischofberger/Granite Hills HS, CA Teresa Vega/San Gorgonio HS, CA

Robert Guzman/Lemore HS, CA Jennifer Martin/Norco HS, CA

Brett Kay/Mater Dei HS, CA Larry Leach/Fresno CC, CA

Shawn Norris/Alta HS, UT

Rudy Simpson/Etiwanda HS, CA

Chris Stringfellow/Rancho Buena Vista HS, CA

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