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nSERVICES: Brief relief is offered for teens and parents at residential respite.
nTRAVEL: Alan Kaye visited Saudi Arabia last January through July
By Terry Jolliffe
Daily Titan Staff Writer Take a single parent, with or without an amicable divorce, add children of adolescent age, who are still dealing with the divorce and the breakup of the family. Add to that, a new stepparent or love interest coming on the scene and there could be a potential recipe for major discord within the home. Enter AMPARO, which means safe place in Spanish, and is a residential co-ed respite care/family, conflict resolution program. “The program is geared toward teens, ages 13 to 17,” said Ron Walden, program manager and graduate of Cal State Fullerton. “Where we can really have an impact is on the 13-year-olds. By the time the kids are 17, there’s not as much motivation.” Walden also received his master’s
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AMPARO offers rooms for teens who who have trouble at home due to divorced parents and other family problems. at National University. “We don’t accept kids with a history of violence,” Walden said. “If there’s major mental illness, the teen belongs in a psychiatric treatment facility. We’re involved with anger management, because sometimes the parents can be as troubled as the kids.”
He went on, “Lots of families have trouble just being a family — there’s no normal family interaction.” “When dissension in the home has escalated to the point where separation and intervention are warranted, we offer a brief [two-to-six-week] respite for teens and their families,”
said Kevin Meehan, executive director of Orange County Youth and Family Services and criminal justice professor at CSUF. “Our focus is to get the kids back home,” Meehan said. “Their time at AMPARO is structured. The kids are required to attend Horizon Alternative school; they are dropped
off and picked up. If they have any extracurricular activities, every effort is made to accommodate them.” Every night there’s an activity, be it anger management or discussing future plans. The kids receive approximately 10 hours of therapy
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Research to educate students nHEALTH: The goal of the campaign is to change the perception of drinking on campus By Debra Santelli
Daily Titan Staff Writer The Health Center and the university are conducting an experimental research project this year. The project is called the Social Norms Marketing Research Project (SNMRP) and is sponsored by the Federal Department of Education and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in conjunction with the Golden Key National Honor Society. Jennifer Villines, the health educator at the university, is heading the campaign. “The purpose of this campaign is create a norm, a different norm,” Villines said. “The perception that college students have of how much their peers drink to what the reality is very different.”
Villines stated the media and movies have contributed to this perception. The media portrays college life as one big party when in reality it is vastly different. CSUF has one of the lowest percentages of college students that drink when they go out, said Villines. “The average drinks consumed by three out of four students is zero to three drinks per night,” Villines said. The zero to three drinks is what will be used in their ad campaign. Of all the students, 79 percent don’t drink at all; but the SNMRP hopes to make this number even less through the campaign. The SNMRP plans to use marketing strategies and different media sources on campus to see what works best. So far, flyers with the logo 0-3 in bold has gotten the most response. The project also plans to advertise on the shuttle buses. Villines said that with students being exposed to the reality of how much their peers are drinking, the perception on campus will become more accurate. The University of Arizona has the
campaign in progress and promotes their ads with “5 or less drinks when students go out”. The general perception on UA’s campus was 10 or less drinks. Again the perception of how many drinks were being consumed is different when compared to the reality, added Villines. Thirty-two campuses are involved in the project and 16 are considered experimental campuses and 16 are considered control. CSUF is an experimental campus, which means they can implement their own campaign within certain guidelines. The control campuses do not implement a campaign. They administer surveys and collect data, then in three to four years can create a campaign. The experimental campuses are then compared against the control campuses to see which approach changes the perception to reality faster. The last survey conducted on campus was during the Spring 2000 semester. “I hope this project increases the
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Alcohol consumption is predominant among college students.
Political science professors engage in debate over national nEVENT: More than 300 retirees attended the debate in the Ruby Gerontology Center By Raul Ascencio
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Professors debated on both Democratic and Republican platforms in the Mackey Auditorium at the Ruby Gerontology Center.
Two political science professors convened at Mackey Auditorium offering their presidential election expertise to an eager audience of more than 300 retirees Thursday afternoon. The event entitled “Who’s You’re Candidate and Why Vote for Your Party?” featured Republican Barbara Stone and Democrat Raphael Sonenshein in a friendly debate over candidate objectives, pivotal issues and prognosis for a victor.
Traveling by camel up and down the sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Professor Alan Kaye learned about native dialects and the importance of a comfortable saddle. The linguistics professor visited the country last January through July, studying regional language and teaching and lecturing at the King Saud University in the capital, Riyadh. Whether by car, bus, foot or even camel, Kaye also traversed the country observing the Bedouin language and traditional way of life that is rapidly disappearing. “I’m pretty used to traveling on camels,” he said, noting that he rode the animals on prior trips to Chad and Sudan. “The most uncomfortable thing is the saddle must fit properly, or you’ll be sore for a few days. “But there’s really no other way to travel over sand, they’re [camels] made for it,” Kaye said. While studying the Bedouins, a nomadic people that preserve traditional speech patterns and ways of life, Kaye found a sharp contrast to the everyday lives led by big city dwellers. “You can tell a Bedouin as soon as he opens his mouth,” he said. This recognition is natural for Kaye, as fellow linguistics professor andAssociate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Angela Della Volpe was effusive about his knowledge of the Arabic language system. “He’s an expert in Arabic and has an incredibly good range of knowledge,” Della Volpe said. “He’s written an Arabic etymological dictionary which is an extremely important accomplishment.” With an understanding of the language’s historical background, Kaye recognized archaic words used by the Bedouins that have persisted in the absence of outside influences like television. There is little interaction with urbanites, which allows them to main-
Stone led the exchange of ideas by providing the audience with a disclaimer. “Our goal here today is not to change people’s minds, we want to raise political awareness among all voters despite affiliation,” he said. Stone quickly delved into the campaign issues, expressing disgust for a recent trend of “foreign policy voter ignorance.” She said this could be injurious to a Republican agenda, because foreign policy has been and is a major component. “This is one of the positions, where the president has the most freedom to have an extensive impact on our nation, but unfortunately today no one votes [based] on foreign policy,” she said. Stone remained on the topic of
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foreign policy, addressing what she perceived to be Democratic “blunders” under the Clinton administration. According to Stone, “blunders” were a characteristic of “inefficient” Democratic military operation, which Vice President Al Gore was an integral part of. “Clinton and Gore went into Kosovo, dumped hundreds of millions of dollars in military support and left the people in an unimproved state,” she added. Her Democratic counterpart Sonenshein, contended that the effectiveness of the Kosovo ordeal was “immense.” “We went in, and prevented a genocide, which was our objective,” Sonenshein said. Sonenshein then highlighted some
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