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nTECHNOLOGY: Vice President Linda Luna wants all students to have equal access to computers By Marlayna Slaughterbeck
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‘Evolution’, starring David Duchovney, finished filming in the Ruby Gerentology Center over the Thanksgiving break.
Showing no signs of post-turkey burnout, Associated Students’ Board of Directors returned from Thanksgiving break to tackle a loaded agenda with vigorous force. The board put several items to a vote, approving funding for, among other things, a new recycling program as well as revising the budget for the Children’s Center’s federal grant project. Of particular interest, Vice President Linda Luna took advantage of the apparent end-of-semester momentum to introduce a computer laptop rental program she hopes to implement on campus. Working to advance the concept, Luna spoke with authority. “Technology doesn’t wait; it’s here,” Luna said. “It’s knocking at the front door.” The program, still in its early stages, focuses on providing students with the opportunity to rent laptop computers from the university on a daily/weekly basis. “The basic goal is to provide a necessary service to students,
to make technology more readily available and accessible to them,” Luna added. Luna began developing the concept earlier this semester when she became aware of programs currently in place at Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State San Jose campuses. Modeled on the success of these two programs, Luna said that, although the particulars have not been hammered out, Cal State Fullerton’s program would likely focus on providing laptops with a PC platform rather than the lesspopular Macintosh counterpart. Additionally, similar to those programs, the cost for a weekly rental would probably range between $15 and $25. Expanding on the program’s tentative features, Luna explained that under the proposal, the laptops would operate within the TSU computer mainframe and would be checked in and out by student employees. The rentals would be available to all enrolled students on a firstcome-first-serve basis and students would be required to sign a release assuming personal liability for the computers. Luna pointed out, however, that the finer details would be determined largely by the results of a campus-wide survey that will begin today. Luna hopes to generate student interest and support by distributing the survey to as many students
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Holocaust survivor remembers her past nPROFILE: Helen Freeman remembers her life during World War II By Magda Liszewska
Daily Titan Staff Writer A tiny earring hidden in the lining of a worn-out shoe was Helen Freeman’s connection to her family and her past. The number on her left arm reminds her every day of the atrocities she has seen and survived. The reality of war hit then 18-year-old Freeman as fast and with as much impact as the German bomb, which destroyed the house next to hers. It was 1939 and Germans were attacking the Polish city of Radom. “I don’t want to stay here, let’s go away,” she told her mother.
Although the family went to friends’ house, it was no escape from the Nazis. The Germans did not waste time. They closed down local businesses and schools, deprived people of their beautiful apartments, took away the furniture and moved the inhabitants to the ghettos — where 10 families crammed each apartment, not always equipped with a bathroom. Twenty-five thousand people were forced to occupy three square miles. “Why can’t I go back to school?” Freeman kept asking her mother. Freeman’s mother tried to calm her daughter, reminding her that Poland had been temporarily occupied by Germans and Russians before and this was not going to last long either. “I guess she didn’t expect what kind of plans the Germans had,” Freeman said. The Germans had been lying from the beginning to avoid mass panic, she said. They told people they would be sent
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to the east to work for the army while they actually sent them to work at death camps. The execution of the Nazi plan was systematic. They got rid of community leaders so that the ghettos remained filled with confused, scared people who were disappearing without a trace. During the first random selection, Freeman lost her younger brother and sister-in-law. “My brother was about 11-years-old and my oldest brother was already married, so they took away his wife. My grandmother, who was 76-years-old, remained,” Freeman said. She still believed at this point that her family members were taken to work and she would eventually see them again. Freeman stayed with the rest of her family in the ghetto, where their lives were filled with tension and fear. The ghetto was surrounded with
barbed wire and going outside required a permit. All the Jews had to wear white armbands with a David star. The food supplies were running out quickly. People stood in long lines in front of bakeries until there were no more ingredients to make bread. The ration system was introduced but the portions were inadequate. Freeman’s family tried to sell off whatever they could, including clothes and her mother’s jewelry to be able to buy some food from Polish people who lived on the other side of the fence. Every day Germans came in to look for people to work or to humiliate them and break their spirit. One day, Freeman was walking down the street when German soldiers came up to her and told her to go with them. She followed them, terrified. “I didn’t know what they were going
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Holocaust survivor, Helen Freeman, looks at pictures from her youth before she was interned in a concentration camp.
AS,TSU go green with new program nCAMPUS: Associated Students’ program focuses on recycling in and around the TSU, with plans for eventual campus-wide expansion By Marlayna Slaughterbeck Daily Titan Staff Writer
The grass is soon to be a little greener on Associated Students’ side of the fence thanks to a new recycling program approved unanimously by its Board of Directors. The program, formulated by AS’s recycling ad hoc committee and co-sponsored by the Titan Student Union, cleared its final hurdle at Tuesday’s board meeting and will be introduced to students in an information campaign set to begin immediately. Remarking on the program’s personal significance to him, Elliot Sacks, Director of Statewide Affairs and ad hoc committee presenter, expressed his appreciation for the
show of support. “This has been one of my goals since I first became involved with AS,” Sacks said. The program serves as a somewhat early response to Gov. Gray Davis’ mandate, signed into law last year, requiring all large state sites and facilities to recycle 25 percent of their total waste product by 2002, and 50 percent by 2004. With an implied wink, Sacks noted that the date the bill was signed into law, serendipitously coincided with his own birthday. Although the TSU currently has a recycling program in place, it is fairly narrow in scope and, despite its modest approach, is somewhat unsuccessful. The program’s few receptacles, for example are often overflowing as the company that collects the recycled goods, does so on a voluntary basis and its schedule does not allow for more frequent pick ups. The new program promises to expand on the old and improve upon its shortcomings. “I have full confidence that this program will be a success,” Sacks said. “I would even go so far as to say that at some point http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu
in the future, the program will actually make money.” Viewed by the ad hoc committee as having an aggressive, but realistic timeline, the next step in the process will be to finalize the program’s details in December, and secure approved funding from various campus organizations. The pilot program will then be implemented next semester. “We will hopefully have the containers all in place before the start of next semester,” Sacks said. The committee plans to have the actual pilot program up and running, with the official kick-off celebration slated to coincide with Earth Day in April. The final phase of the program is scheduled to begin next summer, when the ad hoc committee will review bids submitted by various companies to collect the recycled materials. Barring unforeseen circumstances, by fall of 2001, the program should be a lean—but friendly, not mean—green machine.
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BRIEFS Holiday open house set at senior center The holiday season will get off to an early start at Fullerton Senior Multi-Service Center Thursday, Nov. 30, when the center hosts its annual open house. The festivities will take place at 10:30 a.m. until noon, and will include holiday caroling by a barbershop quartet and homemade refreshments. A visit by Santa Claus is also on the schedule. The event is open to the community in hopes that visitors will take time to tour the center and discover the variety of programs, activities and services it offers to the public. Further information about the open house may be obtained by calling the center at (714) 7386305. Persons requiring special accommodations to attend the open house are asked to notify the center staff prior to Nov. 30.
Nursing Department expands program In an effort to keep up with the region’s demands for nurses, Cal State Fullerton has launched a Master of Science degree in nursing and a partnership with Kaiser Permanente of Southern California. As part of the new graduate program introduced this fall, students may choose from nursing administration or nurse anesthiest concentrations. Enrollment in both concentrations totals 56 students. The nursing administration concentration prepares nurses for middle management and executive positions. Students have the option of pursuing a one-year full-time program or a two-year part-time program to complete 42
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units of course work. The Health Care Association of Southern California recently conducted a statewide survey regarding management positions. The forecasted numbers were off the scale noted, Chris Latham, chair and professor of nursing. Students in the administration concentration take courses in human resources management, the economics of health and administrative strategies. They also complete internships with nursing administrators in the region. At the end of the program students are required to prepare a thesis or a project. The nurse anesthetist concentration is a partnership with Kaiser’s School of Anesthesia. Kaiser has been partnering in such programs for the past 28 years and receives applicants from around the nation. Kaiser and the university formed the partnership to increase regional accessibility to the program, particularly in counties of Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego. This concentration requires students to complete 72 units by combining lecture and clinical experiences. Over the course of two years, students complete courses in theory, research, decision making, health care policy and specialty areas, and choose either a thesis or project option. Students’ clinical experiences are gained at Kaiser facilities. “This is an exciting venture into academic/corporate partnerships to meet community needs,” Latham said. “This type of program is able to address the rapid changes in the health care system and fosters high levels of nursing care and patient outcomes.” For more information, call Latham at (714) 278-2291.
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news CAL E NDAR VE NTS CALENDA R OF E OF EVEN TS Campus “Dynamite Boy” will be playing a free show at the Becker Amphitheater at noon. Jose Galvez, Pulitzer Prize winner and internationally known photographer, will be making an appearance at a 4 p.m. photo exhibit to lecture and sign books at the CSUF Pollak Library. A reception will be held at 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. with an introduction by President Milton Gordon in the North Wing, room 303. Refreshments will be provided. Visit the exhibit “A Salute to Orange County Journalism,” now open through Feb. 25 in the Atrium Gallery of the Pollak Library. Featured is a working newsroom of the past, a Linotype typesetting machine and Teletype machine.
Also see a special collection of photographs by photojournalist Patrick O’Donnell, CSUF photographer and Orange Coast College Professor. For more information, call Dave Reid at (714) 278-3355 or e-mail dreid@fullerton.edu. This exhibit is free and open to the public.
p.m. at the China Happy Garden Restaurant (formerly Lotus Court), on 181 East Commonwealth Avenue in Fullerton. Admission is $16 for dinner, which includes tax and tip. For more information, contact Nancy Carson in the History Department at (714) 2784376.
For information on the Nov. 29 California Venture Forum in the Titan Student Union, please contact physics professor Roger Nanes at (714) 278-2188 or the Physics Department at (714) 2783366.
“Kelly and Du,” a serious and thought-provoking drama surrounding the issue of abortion, will be opening on Friday Nov. 17 and will run through Dec. 16 every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. at the Vanguard Theatre Ensemble on 699A S. State College Blvd. in Fullerton. General admission are $15, with $2 discounts available for students and seniors. Opening night audiences are also invited to attend the Gala Champagne Reception immediately following
Community The History Department presents History Professor Jocelyn “Jolie” Olcott, who will speak on “The Cultural Politics of a Mexican Activist.” This event will begin at 6
the Nov. 17, with tickets at $17. For more information, call (714) 526-8007. Enjoy “The Velvet Hammer: A Peep at the Neo-Burlesque Show,” through Jan. 21 at the Grand Central Art Gallery in Santa Ana. For more information, call (714) 567-7233 or visit http://www. arts.fullerton.edu/events/ The Bowers Museum presents “Egyptian Treasures from the British Museum,” open through January 2, 2001. This exhibit will cover a timespan of over 3,000 years. Among the items displayed are stone sculptures of pharoahs and dignitaries, bronze statuettes of the gods, and jewelry in gold and other precious materials. The Bowers Museum is located on 2002 North Main Street in Santa Ana. For more information, call
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to do,” Freeman said. “I didn’t say goodbye to my parents, my family didn’t know what happened to me.” Freeman was taken to the outskirts of Radom and later to a work camp in Wolanow, where she fixed German army uniforms. Her life was bearable under the circumstances until a typhus breakout, an infectious disease that can cause pneumonia. The camp was closed and all the women were quarantined. However, rather than receiving medical attention, the women had to run to the men’s camp every day and back to prove they were healthy. Failure to pass the test meant immediate death. When one of Freeman’s roommates got sick, she helped her as much as she could and became infected as a result. To hide it from the Germans, Freeman got dressed with the help of her roommates and sat behind a big table pretending to sew. She still found enough strength to go through the daily run, but her energy was quickly diminishing. “I got more sick, the fever got higher and I felt that this is going to be the end of me so I wrote a note to my family, not knowing where they are,” Freeman said. She passed the note to a Jewish policeman who found Freeman’s brother. He planned his sister’s escape from the camp. Unfortunately, the plan did not work out and they were all caught and sent to the police station where they awaited execution. While they waited for their final hour, a miracle happened. The German officer in charge was in a good mood and spared their lives. Freeman was taken to a hospital where, with no medication, she eventually got her health back. Later, her brother helped her regain her strength. Throughout that time they had to periodically hide in the attic from the Germans. They sat silently until they could hear the sound of soldiers’ boots fading away. During one of those times, Freeman met her boyfriend, Joseph. After the liquidation of the ghetto, Freeman was transferred to work at a weapons factory outside Radom. Later, she worked as a clerk at a German warehouse where — surrounded by unimaginable atrocities — she encountered rare acts of kindness. She worked as a baby sitter, helping the warehouse supervisor’s wife raise
their children. She even had dinner with the family, an unthinkable act for a Jewish woman during the war. “He was very nice even though he was a Nazi,” she said. In 1944, when the men and women’s camps closed down, Freeman and other male and female prisoners were sent on a march to Tomaszow. During their eight-day march in the middle of July, the prisoners did not have enough food or water and many of them died on the way. They stayed in Tomaszow for the night while the soldiers prepared a cattle train to transport them to Auschwitz. The next day, men and women were separated and crammed into the cattle train. When they reached Auschwitz, the men remained on the train while the women were told to get out. The prisoners entered the camp through a gate with the slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (work makes freedom) above it. “I thought at the time it was paradise,” Freeman said. “It was so beautiful. The grass was kept so beautiful and the orchestra was playing and the Nazis have been so kind.” The soldiers told the prisoners not to worry. They would take them to the showers to get comfortable after their trip. Freeman saw an aristocratic-looking man who pointed his finger dividing the newcomers into two groups. “Just by waving his finger he decided who should live and who should die,” Freeman said. The group on the right went to take a shower and never came out. When they entered the shower room, deadly gas came out instead of water. The group on the left, with whom Freeman was sent, was told to remove all their clothing and give up any personal belongings. The soldiers shaved some of the women’s heads and took their shoes and gave them wooden clogs instead. Freeman did not have to give up her own shoes because they did not have soles. Then soldiers tattooed the prisoners. From that moment, Freeman became known as A-24490. While she was giving up all her personal belongings, including pictures of her loved ones, Freeman kept thinking about her family, whom she never said goodbye to. “It was scary for me, so I took away one earring and I pushed it in the lining of the shoe inside and I was hoping they don’t notice,” Freeman said. The earring was not worth a lot of
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from as many different majors as possible. Emphasizing the importance of student awareness and interest, Luna said she is counting on feedback. “We really need to know what students think,” Luna said. “Right now, that’s basically the sole factor determining whether the program lives or dies.” The survey covers such topics as student opinion regarding the current availability of computers on campus, how much each would be willing to pay for the laptop service and what type of computers and software would be most appealing. The surveys must be completed and turned in to the AS office in the TSU by Tuesday, Dec. 5 to be considered in the final decision-making process. While most considered the concept with enthusiasm, AS Director of Administration Evan Mooney stepped up to commend Luna for her hard work and to congratulate her on the concept. “I think it’s great,” Mooney said. Reflecting on such victories as AS’s successful IRA campaign earlier in the semester, Mooney added that board members should take note of the considerable strides the board has made throughout the semester. “This is a really exciting time,” he said. “These are programs that benefit all of us.”
money, but it was Freeman’s connection with her family. The Germans took her shoes and put them in the water to make sure she was not hiding anything. Had they found anything, Freeman would have been shot instantly. The earring remained in the shoe. “I was so happy it did not come out,” Freeman said. “I was lucky. If not, they would have killed me.” Freeman kept the earring during her time at the camp and whenever she felt depressed, hungry and hopeless, she remind herself of her family with her keepsake. “I touched the shoe and I felt the connection with my mother and this kept me going,” Freeman said. The earring and prayers to God was all she had. Life at Auschwitz was miserable. The prisoners slept on boards, locked in the barracks. Their food rations consisted of a thin slice of bread, liquid reminiscent of coffee and watery soup. During the day they were forced to carry bricks from one side of the camp to the other. The smell of burning flesh constantly lingered in the air. The Germans did medical experiments on the prisoners, including male and female castration. They also used prisoners’ blood when they needed it for transfusions for the soldiers. Freeman was in Auschwitz from July until November 1944. In November, she was moved to Czechoslovakia to work in a Siemens factory. On May 8, 1945, Russian soldiers came to tell the prisoners the war was over, but after being lied to for so many years, they had a hard time believing it. Americans had to confirm the Jews’ freedom when they believed they were being lied to. Freeman returned to Radom to look for her family. She wandered the streets confused when she saw a man. It was her boyfriend, Joseph, who was looking for her. “I will never leave you,” he said. They married and immigrated to the United States and have been together ever since. After losing her parents, brother, grandmother and sister-in-law, Freeman considers herself lucky compared to other survivors. Her husband lost his entire family. She has kept the earring for many years after the war. When her three daughters grew up, she took it apart and put stones from it into three rings, which she gave to her children.
The 1999 valedictorian of her class at the University of Notre Dame, Jennifer Ehren, had her pick of plum jobs. Among other options, the chemical engineering major could have made a $50,000 starting salary at a major pharmaceutical firm. Instead, the Barrington High School graduate took a minimumwage job teaching science and math at a Catholic high school far from home, on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Like scores of other Notre Dame graduates who might never have otherwise considered teaching, Ehren was drawn to the university’s increasingly popular Alliance for Catholic Education program. The ACE program is a kind of Peace Corps for the nation’s Catholic schools, a system in crisis because of teacher shortages and financial woes. An effort with modest initial goals when it was launched six years ago, ACE has succeeded beyond expectations by appealing to students intrigued by doing volunteer work before taking a permanent job. Today, 8 percent of Notre Dame’s senior class applies to ACE; only one in three is accepted. The program has attracted many top students who now are mulling over education as a lifelong career. What Ehren and many other participants didn’t realize at first was that a program designed to help the schools would have such a deep and lasting impact on their own lives. “I never thought I’d be challenged so much,” Ehren said of her first year of teaching. The experience, she said, has changed her. “Service will be a part of my life no matter what,” she said. Even the program’s founder, the Rev. Thomas Scully, vice president and senior associate provost at Notre Dame, has been surprised by the widespread response to his idea. Initially, he figured a small but passionate group of students could be lured into a tuition-free master’s degree program in education involving a two-year teaching commitment in needy Catholic schools. The living stipend would be $1,000 per month. The program now boasts 300 alumni and 150 current participants. Applicants have included some of the school’s best and brightest students. Eighty-three percent of last year’s ACE graduating class stayed in education, either by remaining as teachers or by pursuing further education to become school administrators or professors. “I figured if we could get 10 or 20 percent [to remain teachers], I’d be thrilled,” Scully said. “I didn’t expect these young people to stay.” The success of Notre Dame’s program has also inspired interest from Catholic universities across the United States, eight of which are creating similar programs based on the Notre Dame model. Many teachers on the front lines of ACE say working in under served Catholic schools can be a wrenching and emotional experience, no matter how bright or enthusiastic they are about the program’s goals.
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Ehren found that out the hard way. From the moment she arrived, she felt the entire school was whispering about how smart she was, that she would never be able to relate to her students. But Ehren plunged in. In all three of her classes — chemistry, physics and advanced math — she hit students like a bomb from the first day, pounding them with questions, demanding them to think through their answers. The students, and their parents, quickly rebelled. Students said she pushed too hard, that her expectations were way above their level. Ehren kept pushing. “I tried to keep showing them that the only thing I have up on them is determination and a passion for learning,” she said. “They think I’m this big brain, but I just want them to try.” Ehren, 23, grew up fast in the face of all that resistance. She learned she wasn’t willing to back down, and she worked to convince the students and parents that she had their best interests in mind. But she felt incredibly alone. “In October of last year, I felt like such a failure,” she said. “I just had too much on my plate. I was trying to do everything perfectly, and it was really hard to balance everything.” Even though Ehren expects to stop teaching high school, she’s still interested in pursuing a doctorate and possibly teaching at the college level. Her principal, Sister Jacqueline Howard, feels lucky to have her, even for a short time. Over the past several years, she’s had 13 ACE teachers. “First of all, these ACErs change us,” she said. “Those of us who’ve been in education a long time can get very satisfied with the status quo. They come in asking, ‘How come you do it this way?’ And they have truly tried to take our kids and their education and really challenge these kids to reach a different level.” While Notre Dame concentrates on recruiting its own undergraduates and students at a smattering of other Catholic schools, professionals have also applied. Among them was Dave Wartowski, who was making more than $50,000 as a health care consultant at Ernst & Young, a professional services firm in Chicago. Despite his comfortable life on Chicago’s North Side, Wartowski said a couple years of service work had allure. After a summer of training, Wartowski began teaching at St. Cecilia’s High School in the heart of South Central Los Angeles this fall. Among his students are children whose mothers are drug addicts and alcoholics and students with learning problems who struggle to get through the most basic lessons. “I thought it would be a nice way to help the world,” Wartowski said of teaching. “Never did it occur to me how hard it was going to be.” That’s a reality that surprises him because his own mother was a teacher, and he never considered her work especially challenging. As a child he was a top student and so figured a teaching career wasn’t right for him. “I guess I thought teaching might
be too easy for me,” he said. “Now I realize how wrong I was.” Wartowski is now talking about a career change. He now believes no profession is nobler nor more important than teaching. Like Wartowski, Katie Baal was surrounded by relatives who were teachers while she grew up on Chicago’s Southwest Side. She never figured she would follow in their footsteps. She applied to ACE in her senior year at Notre Dame because it was a chance to do service work before applying to medical school. But after two years teaching at a Catholic high school in Baton Rouge, La., she was hooked. Now Baal teaches math and science at her alma mater, St. Ignatius College Prep on Chicago’s Near West Side. While the pay at St. Ignatius is higher than at many Catholic high schools, Baal still struggles with a salary in the mid-$30,000 range. It’s hard on her, she said, to meet people with similar backgrounds who make almost double the money at public schools. For a while, she took a second job at Crate and Barrel and later moved in with her parents to make ends meet. But she’s still committed to Catholic schools. “ACE has made a lot of people believers in Catholic education,” she said. “There really is something unique about this. It’s a way of giving back what I was given, and it really develops that spiritual side again.” For some ACE participants like Sean McGraw, the transformation has been especially dramatic. Scully, the program’s founder, had taught McGraw at Notre Dame, and the two kept in touch after McGraw went to the London School of Economics for his master’s degree in European politics in 1992. He returned to Notre Dame after his year in London and was considering work on a doctorate in political science. But first he was persuaded to help Scully get ACE off the ground. For several months, he toured the country with Scully, stopping in small Southern towns to talk to superintendents about their desperate need for energetic new teachers. Prior to that time, McGraw had never thought about the priesthood, or even teaching at the elementary level. He dated regularly, had an active social life and expected to marry and start a family. But after serving as director of ACE in its beginning years, his perspective started to change. “I was working with Father Scully and a few others, both priests and lay people, and the more I hung around, especially the priests, the more I liked what I saw,” McGraw said. “They were faith-filled people, very educated, hard working and full of life. They were living out their faith in ways I thought were really exciting.” Now a deacon working toward his ordination in April, McGraw is teaching social studies to freshmen at Notre Dame High School in Niles. The person who succeeded him as ACE’s director has also decided to become a priest.
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Story by Peggy Gomez • Photos by Michelle Gutierrez
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Native American Legend states that if someone whispers a wish onto a butterfly it will come true. Since butterflies make no sound and are unable to repeat the wish, they can only fly the wishes into heaven to the Great Spirit where the wish can be granted. Butterfly gardening has become a fascinating trend. People are creating butterfly gardens for a number of reasons. Many bird watchers have included butterfly watching into their hobby. People also create butterfly gardens for the joy of watching the beautiful vibrant creatures in their living space. Butterfly friendly gardens are fairly simple to create. “Fall is really the time to begin a butterfly garden,” local entomologist Robert Allen said. During the fall months, native plants lose their leaves. Around the November and December, the roots wake-up and begin absorbing water and nutrients to grow from. Plants and flowers serve three purposes. Plants are the food source for growing caterpillars. Flowers provide nectar, for adult butterflies to thrive on. Both provide shelter for growing and transforming immature butterflies. Allen pointed out that along with the destruction of native plants and flowers, the butterfly life cycle suffers. In order to produce a complete butterfly garden, it is in the best interest of the environment and butterflies to have a garden that encourages all stages of butterfly metamorphosis. “The goal is to promote both aspects of butterfly watching and gardening,” Allen said. There are four transformation stages a “butterfly” goes through before adulthood. The first stage is the egg stage. Female butterflies glue eggs onto food plants that are favored because of fragrance, taste, shape or color. This stage lasts five to seven days. During the second stage caterpillars hatch from their eggs. Caterpillars have jaws to chew their meals. They may not stay on the plants they were originally placed on. Finicky caterpillars may move to plants that are more fulfilling and tantalizing. While the caterpillar is growing it also sheds its skin. The molting process ordinarily occurs four times before stage three. The third stage is the chrysalis stage, otherwise known as the pupa. Pupa transform in a shell like cauldron. This stage is very mysterious because very little is understood about the chemical and physical changes that occur in the chrysalis during its two to three week resting stage. Right before the fourth stage, the chrysalis turns transparent. The transparent pupa shows the butterflies’ wings. The fourth stage begins when the butterfly starts to emerge from the chrysalis. Usually the butterfly presents itself head first, then it crawls out. Initially the butterfly is limp and wet. Its’ body is swollen with stored fluid. The butterfly contracts itself so fluid can be pumped into the veins. This bolsters the tiny shriveled wings to a voluminous expansion. This is generally a two-hour process when ample sunlight is available to help dry the wings for flight. Reproduction and feeding are the goals of the final adult stage. Unlike caterpillars, butterflies do not have jaws to chew. A coiled tube like tongue called a proboscis, is used to suckle nectar from its food sources. Flowers are the new primary food source. Almost every culture has its own version of butterfly ancestry. The ancient Greeks called butterflies “psyche,” meaning soul. It is said that they believed, when the human soul left the body it was sent to heaven as a butterfly. According to Allen, there are some180,000 lepidoptera [moths and butterflies] species in the world. This classification of species includes butterflies as well as moths. Worldwide there are 14,500 butterfly species, 679 of which are in the United States. There are 236 native species of butterflies in California.
Chris Barnhill, the Arboretum nursery manager, holds a Monarch caterpillar.
The United States classifies their native butterflies into six families. The Hesperiidae family is commonly known as “skippers.” According to Allen, skippers are often mistaken for moths, because of their fat bodies. They are a group of fast flying butterflies, that generally fly low. The first food source for the immature skipper caterpillar is grass. Adults get nourishment from purple flowers and lantana. The hairstreaks, coppers, and the blues are the three groups that make up the family lycaenidae. This group of caterpillars feed on plants from the pea family, including sweet pea, and deerweed. The Mourning Cloak and Powell’s Admiral are popular butterflies from the nymphalidae, brush-footed family. A group of butterflies closely related to this group is the family Danaidae. These groups have similar leg and wing structure, as well as larval features. The larvae favor willow, birch, hackberry, elm and oak. Adults enjoy sucking sap and rotting fruit. These butterflies have pro-legs that are capable of scratching a potential food source, and with chemical receptors determining its feasibility. Family Papilionidae, are recognized by their teardrop shaped wings that resemble tails. This group of caterpillars enjoys citrus trees, sycamore and willow. Adults prefer lantana, milkweed and lilac. Whites, yellows and sulfurs belong to the Pieridae family. Some of these butterflies have orange tips on the wings. This group of caterpillars enjoys mustard plant. The Riodinidae family is generally known as the metal marks. Most are rust colored and are very small. These caterpillars relish on California buckwheat. “These groups are very general and there are many exceptions,” Allen said. Many adult butterflies can thrive off of the same plants they ate from as caterpillars. It is also possible to raise different species in a garden. “Butterflies go crazy over passion flowers,” said Arboretum nursery manager Chris Barnhill. For instance, The Buckeye butterfly nectars from milkweed flowers, and the Monarch caterpillar eats milkweed. Some plant and flower variation can bring many species into a garden. According to Barnhill, monarch caterpillars and butterflies that e a t milkweed retain poison that prevents t h e m from being eaten by predators. This plant is also dangerous to humans if ingested. “We have lots of different plants and trees, throughout the year there are tons of butterflies and caterpillars on the grounds,” Barnhill said. “You’ve got to plant California native plants for the butterflies to come,” he continued. There are other ways of welcoming butterflies into a specially created garden. Butterflies are cold-blooded insects and need sunlight and warmth. An area that receives about six hours of daily sunlight is optimal for an active butterfly garden. Stagnant water is also appealing to butterflies. Many gather ingroups to enjoy puddles.
Western Tiger Swallowtail (female)
A great source of nutrition is overly ripe fruit. The strong smell attracts adults that wish to suck on its liquid. According to Allen, mesh butterfly houses are alternate options for enjoying the butterfly life cycle, if they are properly cared for. “Free roaming is better for the butterflies, they get to eat what they want to and mate when they wish,” Allen said. The California state insect is the California Dogface butterfly part of the Sulfur family. The reason it is called this is because of the dog face profile on each wing. “It is a very beautiful and colorful butterfly,” said Allen. The California Dogface caterpillar eats false Indigo, a plant that will do great in gardens. As a butterfly, it enjoys purple flowers and fresh manure. Plants and flowers are available at the Arboretum starting at $5.50 and up for a one gallon pot. The Arboretum nursery is open from 10
Monarch wings showing through a transparent chrysalis right before emerging as a butterfly. Courtesy of Robert Allen
Wednesday, November 29, 2000
Titans drowned by the Waves at home, 82-61 By Fermin Leal
Daily Titan Executive Editor
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Titan guard Kevin Richardson shoots over a defender. Richardson scored 14 points in CSUF’s loss to Pepperdine.
A defensive wave drowned the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team in their home opener Tuesday night. Pepperdine stormed in and completely shut down the Titan offense en route to a 82-61 victory in front of 1,053 in Titan Gym. As expected, the Waves implemented their full-court press defense. To counter the press, Titan Head Coach Donny Daniels began the game with a smaller, quicker line-up. Freshman Chris Smith started at point guard, moving the junior Kevin Richardson to forward. The move did little to prevent Titan turnovers. The Waves forced 12 in the first half and 18 for the game. Pepperdine started with a hot hand shooting, making five of its first six baskets and taking an early 18-6 lead. That would be as close as the Titans
would get. “Pepperdine is a top 25 team. They can play from inside and outside,” Daniels said of the Waves’ performance. “We lost our focus when they got up big.” The Waves grabbed virtually every rebound—something that has plagued the Titans in this still-early season. It seemed that for every basket the Titans made, the Waves would counter with a three pointer. Pepperdine shot 40 percent from behind the arc for the game. Guard Brandon Anderson led the Waves with 17 points, while forward David Lalazarian added 16 points. The Waves had a balanced attack with five players scoring in double figures. “We’ve done a real good job,” said the Wave’s Head Coach Jan van Breda Kolff. “We have a lot of guys that can step up.”
Daily Titan NFL Poll
1.Oakland (10-2, two first place votes) last poll 4 Silver and Black not only on top in DT but have one-game edge in homefield advantage for AFC playoffs 2.Minnesota (10-2, two first place votes) last poll 5 Superfreak Randy Moss leads the way as Vikes have become Super Bowl favorites in the NFC 3.Baltimore (9-4) last poll 9-4 Where did these guy came from? Two of Ravens final three against 1-11 Chargers and 3-9 Cardinals 4.Tennessee (9-3) last poll 2 Field goals need to be made to win games 5.Miami (9-3) last poll 3 Dolphins on top of the pack in a tight AFC East race 6.Tampa Bay (7-5) last poll 8 Bucs not guaranteed playoff berth but looking like a playoff team 7.New Orleans (8-4) last poll nr Saints show Rams that there’s two contenders in NFC West 8.St.Louis (8-4) last poll1 Stiff drop for the Rams but get Kurt Warner back this weekend against Carolina 9.Denver (8-4) last poll nr If the Broncos were injury free this season, they would be much higher then this spot 10.Philadelphia (9-4) last poll nr Eagles beat Redskins in key NFC East matchup get tough matchup with Titans on Sunday
For the third straight game, Richardson led the Titans in scoring with 14 points. Sophomore forward Babacar Camara also scored 14 points and added 5 rebounds. Senior Ike Harmon dressed for the game for the first time this season. Harmon made his season debut half way through the second half. He played only six minutes and had two points. Earlier in the week, Harmon was reinstated to the team after being suspended for violating team policy. Daniels originally said Harmon would not play until the team’s next game because the three time All-Big West Conference player did not have enough practices under his belt. “He still has to get his feet wet,” Daniels said. CSUF will hope to pick up its first victory of the season against the College of Notre Dame Saturday at 7:05 p.m. in Titan Gym.
Women falter at CSUN By Raul Ascencio
Daily Titan Staff Writer‑ The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team could not maintain their composure under the persistent press of the Cal State Northridge Matadors on Tuesday evening, as they were dealt their fourth straight loss of the season Tuesday night at the CSUN Matadome. From the initial whistle the Titans found themselves bombarded by an aggressive defensive squeeze helmed by CSUN Head Coach Frozenna Jerro. The maneuver proved to have a tremendous impact on the Titan game plan, causing the perturbed Titans to turn the ball over a total of 30 times. The abundance of turnovers enabled the Matadors to gain the offensive upper hand and at the half the Titans found themselves down by 10 at 32-22. As the second half began the Matadors commenced their defensive intensity, but allowed some of the focus to shift to the hoop, as they sent their home crowd into a frenzy with an onslaught of precision passing and net-finding jumpers. Leading the second half charge for UCSN was guard Shatasha Allen, who contributed with a game-high 19 points. As the clock dribbled down to triple 0’s, the Matadors had erected an 84-49 win and improved to 2-2 while the Titan went home with a dismal 0-4 record. Despite a sub-par team effort under heavy defensive scrutiny, Titan forward Heather Hansen seemed immune and unshaken as she put forth an exemplary individual effort that included 18 points and six rebounds.