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Unbound from inequality nEVENT: UC Santa Cruz professor Judy Yung speaks of the history of Chinese-American women in the San Francisco area By Darleene Barrientos Daily Titan News Editor
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Judy Yung speaks about the experiences of Chinese women in America and China.
For the final event of Women’s History Month, Dr. Jill Anderson of the American Studies department was interested in wrapping up the Women’s Studies’ department’s theme “Women’s Odysseys: Journeys Through Space and Time,” with someone specializing in immigrant women.
Particularly interested in having a lecturer focus on Asian American women because of the diversity among Asians, Professor Judy Yung, “just popped into my head,” Anderson said. Yung, Professor and Department Chair of American Studies at UC Santa Cruz, enthralled an audience of over 80 people, including 14 faculty and staff members, with her presentation of the histories and slideshow of eight Chinese American women of the late 18th century and the early 19th century. Her lecture took place Thursday morning, where an ethnically diverse audience of students, faculty and staff filled all the available chairs, lined the walls and sat close to the front on the remaining floor space of the Pollak Library Oral History Room. Her most recently published book,
“Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco,” is a followup to her book “Unbound Feet.” “Foot binding is a metaphor for the lives of women in the 19th century,” Yung said. Author of several books concerning Chinese first-wave immigrants, Yung detailed the lives of women, ranging from her own great-grandmother — the wife of a merchant who eventually returned to China with her American-born children — to a garment worker union member, to a 1.5 generation (born in China, immigrated to America) scholar educated at Mills College in Northern California. Yung touched on several different issues that affected the Chinese woman in San Francisco during that era.
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Fox inaugurates Mexican trade cennBUSINESS: Cal State Fullerton is one of the major partners for the international center By Rita Freeman
Daily Titan Copy Editor Outside the new International Business Center on 900 N. Broadway Ave. in Santa Ana, citizens gathered around the railings that surrounded seats and the stage as guests sat, straining to catch glimpse of him. Young children pushed and scrambled their way to the front to see the new president of Mexico Vicente Fox Quesada. Blackand–white signs in both Spanish and English stating “Gov. Davis, I want my driver’s license” engulfed the air. Drums pounded as Aztec dancers moved to the music. In the distance, Santa Ana city council members followed by other members of the government walked onto the stage. A roar from the crowd erupted as Fox walked onto the stage along with Gov. Gray Davis, Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans and Mexico Secretary of Human Development Offices Juan Hernandez and other members of government. “MEXICO, MEXICO, MEXICO…” chanted the people. In a return visit to Orange County, Fox introduced the
International Business Center and the first Mexican Trade Center in California in Santa Ana Thursday evening, of which Cal State Fullerton is a partner. An estimated 1000 people joined Fox as he commemorated the building. Fox, a former Coca-Cola president and the former governor of the state of Guanajuato, said he wants to promote more trade establishment between California and Mexico. He added that his focus was to increase the revenue for small-to-medium businesses in both areas. “Vicente Fox had several challenges for the offices of the Mexicans abroad,” Hernandez said. “One of them was to make sure we were able to create economic development that was needed especially in the regions of Mexico, the descending regions — the regions with highest migration.” Many business people who attended the event said they wanted to improve ways to import Mexican products. “I do business investments here and I’m waiting to see what we can do together,” said Juan Jimenez, employee of Jimene’s Food Inc. in Paramount. “I hope that both gov-
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Mexican President Vicente Fox stopped in Santa Ana to promote more international trade between Mexico and California.
Students prepare for spring break
400 parking spots gone by next week
nVACATION: Plans for the week ahead show a mixture of business and pleasure
nCONSTRUCTION: Five separate fourstory housing units will be built on the north end of lot E
By Celeste Navejas
Special to the Titan Ah, spring break — a time to relax and unwind. With Spring Break just around the corner, students prepare to replace books with relaxation. For some students, the recess is a tribute to all that is fun and wild. To others, it is a time to relax or get work done. This week students are getting ready for break and are looking forward to planning and doing different activities. “It depends — if you’re a partier, you’re going to party, if you are the studious type, you’re going to study,” said Joe Trozera, a 21-yearold TV/film major. “I will probably go snowboarding at Snow Summit,” said Thai-Tan
Nguyen, 20. Nguyen added that he is looking forward to a relaxing time. Spring Break is a cultural tradition among college students who want to claim some fun for all the hard work they’ve put in throughout the semester. Twenty-four-year-old political science major Claudio Gallegos is trading in his books for fun in the sun in San Felipe, Mexico. “Students take it as a time to relax before the long stretch before finals,” Gallegos said. “I’m just going to hang out and spend time with friends.” Amy Soest, a campus travel consultant for Council Travel, said they have been pretty busy with phone calls. The most popular destination is Mexico. Most students are off to Cancun, although those with less money head somewhere closer, such as Rosarito. Council Travel offered spring break packages to destinations including Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, Sonora Bay, Mexico and to Costa Rica, among others.
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Many CSUF students will go to local beaches for spring break. The past week the only spring break package left was a Club Med package to Sonora Bay at $699, for seven nights. “I have actually been there myself and would definitely pay this price to stay there again,” Soest said. Andrea Tessman, a 23-year-old business major, will be having fun without shelling out too much cash. She and some friends from UCI are headed for Rosarito. “It’s a lot of fun for little money,” Tessman said. “I’ve had two mid-
terms the past week — I need Rosarito!” While some students plan to lie out in the sun all week, others plan to catch up on schoolwork or have work obligations. “It’s a time to get things done,” said Karina Simental, a 22-year-old liberal studies major. The majority of students plan to stay local during spring break because of work or the high expense
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Finding a parking space at Cal State Fullerton will be even more difficult once spring break arrives, when plans for construction of new dormitories begin Friday. The construction of the foundation for five separate four-story housing units is scheduled for tomorrow and will displace hundreds of parking spaces. “Although the parking problems will be terrible, it’s a necessary evil,” said freshman resident Brandon Roberts. “We house 385 people on campus out of roughly 28,000 that attend, that’s about 1.4 percent – not enough.” The construction zone will stretch from the Jewel Plummer Cobb Residence Hall to the driveway of the Ruby Gerontology center in the
northern end of the E parking lot. The project will remove 400 parking spaces. An additional 100 spaces will be temporarily removed during the 18 months of construction. Director of Housing and Residence Life, Darlene Stevenson, is sure that the positive results of additional housing will outweigh any temporary disruption like parking. In a letter she sent to each dorm resident, she described the event as “history-making” and after the “three years it took to get this off the ground,” she is looking forward to the construction. Most of the demolition work to prepare the site will occur during spring break and nothing will be disrupted in the nearby Arboretum, Stevenson said. Construction noise will stop after 10 p.m., and there will be efforts to curb noise during finals week, she said. The new dorm will house 440 and be ready for occupancy in August 2002. The styles of the new and current residence halls will differ slightly. The apartment-style suites will open
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BRIEFS Business Expo/Trade Show seeks to establish connections The 16th quarterly regional Business Mixer/Expo will be held in the Irvine Toyota Center located in Irvine. The Relationship Building Network is a professional organization sponsored by the Orange County Business Connection. The aim of the event is to assist in facilitating connections with businesses and people interested in business-oriented careers. The event has been the site where businesses and people who won’t normally have the chance to cross paths meet and establish relationships. The features of the Expo include vendor booths and displays. Those interested in attracting attention for their business is welcome to rent a booth. Table displays run at the rate of $195, and include a six-foot table, tablecloth, two chairs and four admission tickets. Entertainment will also be provided – music, prizes and food. At least 400 businesses are expected to attend. The event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, April 5 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Although no RSVP is required, those interested in renting a booth need to inform RBN as early as possible. Admission is $15 at the door and $10 for RBN members. For additional information, please call (949)830-5776.
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Tobey Maguire. Those interested will be cast in the movie as an “unpaid spectator” for scenes. The scheduled days for filming are today and on Monday, March 26. Those interested can get more information by calling (323) 653-4105, or by logging on to www.BeInAMovie.com. Aside from being in the movie, added bonuses are free food, door prizes, seeing actors in action and getting tips on how to get paid as an extra.
“The Last Picture Show” a tribute to Hollywood history Gegory Lukow will be showcasing his photography collection in the Hollywood Entertainment Museum. Lukow is a historian and photographer whose interest in film history and urban architecture led him to chronicle what was left of the old cinemas that once served to show the marquis of each new film. Some of these structures have given way to supermarkets and other everyday buildings. He has taken approximately 2,000 pictures of theaters in more than 7,000 photo images. Among the images on display are the El Capitan Theater in San Francisco, the Rex Theater in Hayden, Ariz., and the empty Alamogordo Theater in N.M. The exhibit will be open from Thursdays to Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $4.50 for senior citizens, $4 for children 5-12 and free to Museum members and children under 5.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Campus Opportunity Drawing Day is scheduled for today in the Titan Student Union Mainframe Lounge. This is an all-day event. TSU Games and Recreation will host a Billiards Tournament today in the TSU-underground at noon. Recreational Men’s Softball League roster’s are due Tuesday, March 27 by 2 p.m. in P.E. 121.
Cal State Fullerton Tennis Championships will be held on March 31, and April 1, 7, and 8. All entrants must show a current USTA membership card at their first match. Entries must be received by Monday, March 26, at 5 p.m. For more information call (714) 278-3053. The Fullerton Arboretum will be presenting a gardening class on Cycads:200 Million Years in the Making on Saturday, March 31 at 10 a.m.
The California Faculty Association Fullerton Chapter is presenting history professor Lawrence de Graaf to speak on April 3 at noon in LH 210G. The topic is “Highlights of CSU Fullerton as seen in its buildings.” For more information call (714) 278-2829.
Community The Cal State Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Mama
Drama,” through March 25 at the Grand Central Theatre in Santa Ana (125 N. Broadway). Celebrate all the joys and anxieties of being a mom with this collage of sketches, songs and revelations. For more information call (714) 2783538. God’s Favorite will be performed through March 24 at the Garden Grove Playhouse. Tickets are $10. For more information call (714) 897-5122.
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Boys don’t have to be nSPEAKER: Harvard criminal psychologist William Pollack traces the roots of male aggression By Deanna Lucci
Special to the Titan----------American boys receive so many mixed messages from society. They feel lonely and disconnected, which can result in domestic violence, according to William Pollack, author of “Real Boys: Rescuing our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood.”In the half-day conference “Boys, Bullies & Batterers,” keynote speaker Pollack, a criminal psychologist at Harvard University, discussed the links between male gender socialization and domestic violence. The conference was hosted by the Cal State Fullerton / Western State University, a joint task force on domestic violence, at the Titan Student Union Thursday. Pollack spoke alongside a panel of counselors, professors, and an author.Before a large audience of students, teachers, and professionals, Pollack
selves from girls as much as possible, they “annihilate” them.- She said that our society is very comfortable with “making girls into boys,” such as encouraging them to play sports that used to be reserved for boys, but our society is very uncomfortable with “boys being girls.” Panel member David Shepard, from the CSUF counseling department, added that boys have many opportunities to feel ashamed in today’s society, and they respond to that shame with violence.According to Shepard, boys who are bullied at school feel ashamed, then they respond to that shame by bullying others and the cycle continues. Pollack finished the discussion by saying that we need to have empathy for troubled boys, to try to understand them rather than punish them.In response to a question from the audience, Pollack said it is never too late for a man to become empathetic.- He said that empathy is not taught, it is learned by opening up to it.- “Empathy is something we are born with, but some of us lose the opportunity to develop it,” Pollack said. The CSUF Women’s Center will host a workshop and discussion on the information presented in Dr.
explained some key points from his research of boys and his book.According to Pollack, boys in this country are emotionally silenced after age five, when they are told through the media, friends and their community that “real men” hold in their feelings.- He said boys call each other “sissies” and “wimps,” and are told by parents and coaches to “suck it up” when they are upset.Pollack said that because boys feel like no one will listen to their problems, they react in the only way that is socially acceptable, through aggression and violence.- Pollack offered many solutions to this problem, such as talking with boys about their feelings, and encouraging tears instead of fists as ways to deal with pain. -He encouraged parents and anyone who works with boys to give them undivided attention and to always tell them that real men do cry and speak from the heart.The panel members responded to Pollack’s comments and helped answer questions from the audience.Kristian Miccio, a law professor at Western State University and co-founder of the CSUF/WSU joint task force on domestic violence, agreed with Pollack’s comments, and expanded on one of his points.- She said boys not only separate them-
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William Pollack, criminal psychologist from Harvard speaks about aggressive male tendencies.
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up to an interior hallway and each floor will have a study room.-Each fully furnished suite will contain two bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room and living room. Unlike the current dorms, the suite will house four students and each resident will have a single room. Stevenson expects rent to increase $100 to $225 per month to live in the new dorms. The housing administrative and maintenance offices will be moved from Cobb Residence Hall to the new dorm building. Stevenson said that the extra space will be used to expand the current laundry room and computer area, and change the location of the weight room. She said she hopes that by keeping these amenities in the current building, interaction will occur between the two residence halls.Any CSUF student can have the opportunity to live in the new dorms but priority will be given to current dorm residents.
of an out-of-state trip. “It’s usually the upper-class that head for the big destinations like Cancun or Florida,” Gallegos said. In a recent poll from CNN’s Travel site on what students were doing over spring break, 62 percent of those who voted online responded, “What vacation?”
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An artist’s rendering of what the future dorms will look like in 2003.
Sophomore Shannon Ramsay is happy to know she would be given priority. “I want to move in right now! Where do I sign up?” she said. Sophomore resident Steven Valenzuela is also “ecstatic” about
the dorms. He has a car but rarely moves it so he’s not worried about the parking problem. Valenzuela is willing to pay the extra amount each month to stay in the new dorms. Some residents don’t plan to stay
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in the dorms beyond their sophomore year. Freshman Ben Case said, by the time construction is finished, “hopefully I’ll have an apartment where I won’t have to clean for inspections during midterm week.”
The next majority, at 15 percent, said they were heading to the beach. “It depends on the school. For the big schools, spring break is a big thing — but for a commuter school like us — it’s not a big thing,” said 23-year-old sociology major Denise Cota. The popular spring break spots among college students include San Padre Island, Texas; Daytona Beach and Panama City in Florida; Baja and Cancun, Mexico.
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Interest in egg donation on campus is nTECHNOLOGY: Southern Center for Reproductive Medicine provides in vitro fertilization for women with problems conceiving By Peggy Gomez
Daily Titan Staff Writer Southern California Center for Reproductive Medicine (SCCRM) in Newport Beach is offering $5000 for the donation of female oocytes, or female reproductive eggs, for in vitro fertilization. Of the seven colleges that the cen-
ter advertises in, women related to CSUF have had the most interest. “In the last month we have seen more calls, and we receive the most calls from [CSUF],” said Amy Stewart, office manager for SCCRM. The center provides in vitro fertilization for patients that have experienced fertility problems like endometriosis, Hodgkin’s disease or ovarian cancer. “We have a patient that had Hodgkin’s when she was 18, and now she’s 28 and wants to have a family,” said Sheryl Anderson, registered nurse and egg donor coordinator. Women that want to donate are screened physically and psychologically. -
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Advanced techniques are used to extract oocytes from its donor.
“We have the women screened by the psychologist to make sure they understand the full ramifications of what they are doing,” said Anderson. Initial health screens are performed to rule out past gynecological complications and any other personal or familial dynamics that may eliminate them from being donors. “We want to know their real motivations for doing this, other than the money,” said Anderson If donors are accepted for the program, they are placed in a donor book. A donor book has a profile and some photos of the donor. Although there are photos and a profile of the donor provided, they still remain anonymous. -No personal information of residence or security is provided to the needy couples unless both parties are in agreement. When a donor is chosen, she is contacted and the process begins. -The donor must self-inject prescribed natural hormones to stimulate the production of egg follicles. -Hormones to control ovulation are also injected, so the eggs are not prematurely released before being taken by the physician. Blood tests and ultra sounds are done every other day to determine the progress of the hormone treatments. When the eggs are ready to be removed, the donor is put under anesthesia and the eggs are removed. -The procedure to remove eggs takes approximately 20 minutes. “Ideally we would like to get ten to 20 eggs,” said Anderson. After the procedure, the donor must return for a check-up and will then be compensated. “That’s a good way to get the women back in for the check-up, we
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Young fertile women are paid thousands of dollars to donate their eggs.
have their compensation checks at that time,” said Anderson. The couple, who will receive the eggs, has all rights to the eggs after the procedure is completed. -Some are used for fertilization, and the rest are stored. “We have a 90% pregnancy rate,” said Anderson. The women who hold the fertilized egg through pregnancy become the mother. They are responsible for all of the prenatal care and in most cases can breast-feed the child they gestate.
“It’s their child, and it is so nice to see these couple so happy,” said Anderson. The remaining eggs, belonging to the couple may be used for other pregnancies. “Couples want this option because the children are true siblings,” Anderson said. If the couple chooses not to use the remaining eggs, they may authorize to have them donated for research toward stem cell and Parkinson’s disease, given to another needy couple or discarded.
According to psychology professor Nancy Segal, in vitro children have no more emotional or psychological issues than a child who is adopted. “They may want to know who they look like or where they get their personality quirks from, but that is it,” said Segal. She said that as with any child, if they are reared in a good home, how they were created should not cause any emotional problems because the children are deeply wanted.
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Online program a link to professional opportuninSTUDENTS: As the baby-boomer generation departs, plenty of employment positions are available to graduates and job-seekers By Elana Pruitt
Daily Titan Staff Writer Cal State Fullerton is the land of the restless, as most students balance hectic schedules that include work, families and a social life. Yet, time should also be spent preparing for a career using the university’s support system. Actively placing an internship and campus or community involvement also needs dedication, said Monique Habib, the program coordinator for the Center for Internships. Habib also said that getting started during a student’s freshman year will prevent stressful energy from arising during his or her senior year. The last year of school won’t have to be so demanding because students will then have sufficient experience
WOMEN n from page 1 She detailed the dilemma of merchant class women — the only women allowed to immigrate during a time when laws were designed to exclude Chinese women — who arrived in America with bound feet. Their bound feet made moving around painful and next to impossible. Yung also addressed the issue of Chinese prostitution and the demand that had transported thousands of girls to America, whose mothers believed they would be wives of “Gold Mountain” men — men who had traveled to
in their major when applying for a professional position. According to a recent survey on Jobtrak.com, 30 percent out of more than 1,000 college students and recent graduates expect to have four or more job offers by the time they graduate. “The economy is starting to stable off,” the Web site’s Public Relations Manager Keri Kraft, said. “As the baby boomers are retiring, there is not enough positions being filled leaving many job openings for college students.” Jobtrak.com virtually connects with CSUF’s Career Planning and Placement Center, which is located on the second floor of Langsdorf Hall. “It is the back office provider of service,” Director Jim Case said. “The Web site provides the technology to market students to employers.” Case described Jobtrak.com as the tool for students and employees to get together, which is convenient for both parties who have to juggle busy schedules. Students can connect to the Web site and virtual job fairs through the online Titan Connection. Case is the official liaison in notiAmerica to strike their fortunes on the gold rush — or honest-working house workers. The issues of matriarchy and patriarchy and of institutional discrimination against Chinese women in particular played a big part in Yung’s own family history. Yung’s great-grandmother had returned to China with her three sons and two daughters, all born in the U.S. But while the three sons were allowed to marry Chinese girls and return to America, the two daughters, including Yung’s grandmother, were expected to marry Chinese men and stay in China, despite their citizenship. When it came time for Yung’s mother to decide whether or not to stay in China or go to America, Yung said her
fying students when there is an open position that coincides with the students posted resume. An off-campus placement for interns has been Enterprise Rent-ACar of Montclair. Jamie Catchpole, the recruiting manager of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, described the anticipated qualities of interns as those that are able to balance schedules, have good communication skills, leadership skills and a competitive spirit. Catchpole also said that with resources on campus, such as job fairs, career centers, Web sites and application workshops, a student's job search should not be too difficult. Seventy percent of internships are paid ranging from minimum wage to $10.20 an hour, Habib said. An extra income may also alleviate pressure and the need for a full-time job. “The typical student has very high expectations,” Case said. He continued to mention that busy schedules stunt job searching which makes it a consistent challenge. The career-oriented program at CSUF, the Center for Internships, is home base for Habib. It offers academic credit that many majors mother did not have much of a choice because she could not come back, even though her grandmother was a citizen. Her grandmother, by marrying an alien, had in effect renounced her American citizenship. And besides that, derivative citizenship, according to immigration laws at the time, could only pass through her father. Yung’s mother, who wanted to go to America, found that her only way was through a “Gold Mountain” man. But this was a decision that Yung’s mother later came to regret. “In interviews that I’ve done with my mother after her retirement, she told me, ‘In marriage, a bamboo door should be paired with a bamboo door; a wooden door with a wooden door,’” Yung said, referring to problems her parents had
require before graduation. The focus differs from the Career Planning and Placement Center that is based on employment ability and earning an income, while both are rooted in preparing a student for a professional job. The latter program, located on the first floor in the Humanities building, allows walk-in appointments and orientations twice a week. Course work is the following requirement for placement. Habib explained that student interns are a step above inexperienced students because they are already getting a hands-on experience and being motivated by professionals. “Employers will also benefit in students employment,” Habib said, “because of their fresh ideas brought from the university.” As procrastination enters students’ senior year, Habib said that many times it is too late for the center to help students find an internship. In agreement with the longevity of locating an open position, Case said that it generally takes six to eight months with good effort. As employers are becoming choosier in the hiring process, it is necessary that students approach positions encountered because of the different classes that Yung’s mother and father had belonged to. Yung’s presentation included her recollections of interviews with women in China waiting for their husbands to come back, whom she called “virtual widows,” as well as the secondgeneration women who had to deal with conflicting American ideals of individualism and Confucian values of subservience and obedience. The audience laughed, groaned and sighed in sympathy in time to the stories that Yung told about of women she interviewed in China and of women she interviewed in San Francisco. One “virtual widow” Yung elaborated on elicited sighs of sympathy when Yung related that the woman had died without
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From campus to the workforce, finding a career can be tricky. How many people enter the field in which they studied and is there a such thing as “working up the corporate ladder.” According to the Office of Student Affairs, approximately 88% of CSUF alumni entered their career realm.
Job was step toward career 19%
Job was possible step 13%
Job was not related to field
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in a more aggressive manner, Case said. Technical skills and leadership capabilities along with an initiative drive are qualities that students should strive for in the competitive professional world. Although Habib and Case are focused on academic internships and
employment goals for interested students, the overall involvement with the campus and the community are considered equally important. “The goal for a student should not just be about getting a degree,” Case said. “It should be about getting an education.”
seeing her husband for 40 years, even though she had waited and even though Yung had been able to locate him in the United States. “His son said that he had no plans to go back — so I decided to leave well enough alone,” Yung said. Another woman Yung spoke of was Jane Kwong Lee, a woman who had immigrated to America in 1922 with a student visa to attend Mills College. Lee had graduated Mills with her master’s degree in economics and sociology, but could not find a job in her fields, outside of Chinatown in San Francisco. All of the eight women that Yung detailed were trailblazers in their own rights, but Professor Thomas Fujita Rony of the Asian American studies department said that Yung was being
modest. “Judy is one of the first holders of an ethnic Ph.D.,” Fujita Rony said. “She’s a trailblazer herself.” Millie Peralta, a junior political science major, found that she learned a lot from the lecture. “I’m from up north, and I’ve always wondered why there were so many Asians in San Francisco,” Peralta said. “She answered a few of my questions.” Arthur Hansen, the director of the Oral History Program, was excited to have Yung speaking at CSUF, especially in the Oral History Room. “When you combine the two [Women’s studies and Asian American studies] the stereotype is quietude,” Hansen said. “But it is really that they speak out – their feet and voice really do
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Elderly keep limber and healthy in nCOMMUNITY: Senior citizens can attend free classes sponsored by the North Orange County Community College District By Heather Blair
Daily Titan Staff Writer Shopping, cleaning and walking to the car are things that most people take for granted, but the aging process is not kind to the body when it comes to doing the little things. Immobilization is a fear of many, and although there is an abundance of activities, surgeries and medications that can slow down the process of aging, most still face the fear of stagnation. To those who are interested, there is help for those in pain through the city of Fullerton. People over the age of 50 can attend one of many free classes offered by the Fullerton Senior Multi-Service Center. The North Orange County Community College District sponsors many classes for the elderly, which focus on strength, flexibility, mobility and balance. To keep seniors flexible and their joints limber, the center offers an “Early Risers Exercise Class” on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Deena Sellens, a therapist and fitness instructor, teaches a group of 20 students on any given Thursday. Vickie Wiles, the Adult Education programs coordinator, said the class must have at least 20 participants to maintain the on-going program. “This class is good because it is open-ended,” Wiles said. Wiles said the average age of the class is between 65 and 75-years-old. “This class is for people who are 50 years and older, but we don’t check IDs,” Wiles said. The class ranges from beginning
FOX n from page 1 ernments can help together.” During the first year that the offices will be open, 12 representatives from 12 states will occupy offices on the 10th floor. In three years, trade representatives from the 31 Mexican states and the federal district will operate the Mexican Trade Center. Eventually, more offices will be constructed throughout the United States. During his speech, Fox said that since he had the opportunity to
levels to intermediate levels so participants who are stronger can advance to the next step. From chair exercises to warm-ups to stretching, Wiles said Sellens ends each class with a health topic of the day, which focuses on issues that are pertinent. Another class offered through Cal State Fullerton is headed by Debra Rose, professor of kinesiology and health promotion, is “Balance and Mobility.” It is geared to the elderly population, and accommodates many people’s needs for better balance as they age. The class, which is on Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., utilizes students in a mentoring program, Wiles said. “Students can get involved in volunteer work with the center if they want to,” Wiles said. “It may be difficult for some instructors to have an assistant or a mentor, because most of the instructors are in a self-supported, structured class, but volunteers are part of the program for the Balance and Mobility class.” She also said students could find out more information about volunteer work if they come in to the center. But Roberta Rikli, the department chair for kinesiology and health promotion, said she thinks it is a great idea for people to get involved and work with senior citizens in the community. Rikli also said that she is happy that there are more programs for senior citizens. “Despite popular belief that you don’t need to exercise as much as you get older, it is probably one of the attend school while many others he grew up with did not have the same chance he did, “it was something that hit me in the heart.” He added that he wants to provide scholarships to children who have the drive to succeed. For those who had the drive but did not have the resources, he would provide that for them. One Santa Ana resident said that part of his speech impacted him the most. “Hearing that it hurt his heart because others did not have the opportunity, I think he wants all to be equal,” said Jose Alcantar.
Senior citizens work on their bodies to stay limber and healthy at classes sponsored by the city of Fullerton.
best medicines there is to keep people active in the later years,” Rikli said. “[Exercise] helps more people operate independently, and be able to do their own shopping or cleaning.” Rikli, who has worked at CSUF for
29 years, said students could apply their knowledge that they have learned in the classroom through the Lifespan Wellness Clinic at CSUF. In working at the clinic, students study the actions of the elderly.
“Many of us have to come here to make [a better living]. He’s trying to say that it’s not necessary to leave [Mexico] to make it,” he added. However, not many people were happy with Fox’s visit. Teens who saw the event said they saw many protesters waving signs stating for Fox to return to Mexico. “I didn’t like the fact that so many people were protesting him,” said Jazmin Sanchez, a 20-year-old Santa Ana resident. “Just by him coming here shows that he cares,” she said.
Concluding the event, Fox, Davis, Hernandez and Pulido signed a proclamation stating the inauguration of the International Business Center and the Mexican Trade Center. “He’s going to bring changes in the Mexican government,” Sanchez said. “I brought a group of 16 teenagers here tonight. We took a survey and they chose to come here instead. I think if [Fox] is going to come here, then we should give some support.”
The clinic offers fitness classes for senior citizens. “For a modest fee for classes people can participate in high-level or lowlevel exercising programs,” Rikli said. According to the MayoClinic.com,
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“Exercise is probably the most important thing you can do to age successfully.” They also said exercise could help to manage stress, maintain good sleep and enhance people’s moods.
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Gray Davis and Vicente Fox discuss the opening of the center.
Weekend, march 23, 2001
Titans and 49ers square off in round two of rivalry nBASEBALL: CSUF and LBSU set to battle in another installment of one of the west region’s tightest series BY Damian Calhoun
Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor The Cal State Fullerton Titans and the Long Beach State 49ers will renew their longstanding rivalry tonight at Blair Field with the opening game of a three-game non-conference series. The teams have already played once this season. In the final game of the Kia Baseball Bash, March 4, the 49ers (13-8) outlasted the Titans 13-11. However, both teams have played much better since then. “This is one of those series where records do not mean anything,” CSUF Head Coach George Horton said. “Even though the first game and this series isn’t on the conference schedule, it is still Long Beach and Fullerton. This isn’t just another game.” It is also a series where the two teams are evenly matched. Since 1989, when current LBSU Head Coach Dave Snow left CSUF to take over the LBSU program, LBSU leads the series 29-26. During that span, the Titans are 15-12 at Blair Field. The two teams will conclude the regular
season at Goodwin Field, March 18-20. “This rivalry is special because of location, the Big West Conference and because of the mutual respect that both programs have for each other,” Horton said. “The players on both teams are also friends through years of competing against each other, whether in high school or in junior college.” Since the first meeting between the two teams, LBSU has won seven of its last nine games and CSUF has won five of its last six, making this an interesting series, to say the least. “Both teams are similar,” Horton said. “Both teams got off to a slow start and both teams have gotten better as each week of the season has progressed.” Long Beach has rebounded from its slow start due to the reemergence of All-American shortstop candidate junior Bobby Crosby. Crosby was in the midst of deep slump when the teams first met and his batting average had dipped as low as .083. Now, Crosby has his average up to .286 and is tied for second on the team with 18 RBI. Senior outfielder Jeremy Reed is the hottest hitter on the 49ers. Reed is batting a teamhigh .366 and is currently in the midst of an eight-game hitting streak 49er catcher Bryan Kennedy will look to continue his success against Titan pitchers. The senior has a .344 career average against CSUF with 21 hits and 17 RBI. The opening mound match-up of the series pits Jon Smith (5-0, 1.94) for the Titans against left-hander Chad Bentz (1-2, 8.59) for
the 49ers at 7 p.m. In the second game tomorrow at 6 p.m., CSUF will send freshman right-hander Darric Merrell (1-2, 1.77) to the hill against fellow freshman right-hander Joey Pace (2-0, 6.48). The series concludes with a Sunday afternoon tilt between Kirk Saarloos (5-2, 1.09) and Matt Paz (4-3, 6.78). Paz survived the teams’ first meeting and picked up the win. Paz pitched five innings for the, but didn’t fool anyone, as he was shelled for eight hits and seven runs, (three earned runs). In his last outing on March 20, Paz pitched eight innings and scattered six hits and two runs in the 49ers’ 7-2 victory over the San Diego Toreros. But unlike CSUF, pitching has been the 49ers’ major problem area. Only three pitchers, Bob Cramer (1.46), Josh Alliston (2.50) and Sunday’s starter Matt Paz (3.78), have an earned run average less than 4.00. As a whole, the staff’s ERA is a whopping 5.55, the highest in the Big West Conference. In stark contrast, the Titans’ staff ERA is 2.81 and CSUF boasts five pitchers with an ERA less than 4.00. Numbers are one thing, but in this rivalry, numbers do not mean a thing and Horton knows this. “What’s surprising about this rivalry is that there isn’t a lot of ragging, disrespect and bad blood between the teams,” Horton added. “That’s amazing, especially with the adrenaline running so high.”
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If David Bacani can find his way home, then the Titans should be in good hands.
CSUF begins quest for another Big West crown nSOFTBALL: Sacramento State series is the Titans’ first step up the ladder to possible backto-back conference championship titles By Caesar Contreras
Daily Titan Copy Editor
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Gina Oaks has been consistent firing piston in the Titans’ engine.
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A number eight national ranking, three tournament victories and a 27-8 record. The feats accomplished by the Cal State Fullerton softball team have been remarkable this season, but now with the majority of its non-conference season completed, the Titans face a new task. Defending their Big West title. Last year, the Titans won their first Big West conference title since the 1993 season by compiling a 45-15 record including a 19-5 record in the Big West. This season, CSUF enters conference play on a seven-game winning streak and has seen its ranking in the USA Today/National Fastpitch Coach
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Search for the golden grail leads to softball By James Reynosa
Special to the Titan I’m new here at California State Fullerton and upon arriving in a new town, some people visit museums. Other people find the theatre; or they go off in search of whatever the local or college newspaper says is the best restaurant in the area. I have one friend who haunts clubs, collecting exotic dancer’s phone numbers the way some collect roadside reptile farms. As for me, I seek out the arena or ballpark. Even after years of traveling to games, I still listen for distant cheering and look for the glow of lights above the near horizon. I am a sucker for a Big Game. Which is not necessarily the same as a Championship Game. It is not necessarily the same as an Important Game, as defined by television or newspaper writers. A Big Game is more than that. It is a piece of living history, a theatre of the generations with an outcome more compelling than theatre of any other kind. Thousands of actors have played Hamlet, but Hamlet always dies. Thousands of players have played in a CSUF-Long Beach State game, and very few of them have the same story to tell. If all the elements are right, and if history has aligned correctly with the emotion of the moment, I would rather be at a Big Game than anywhere else in the world. So, here I am at CSUF looking for such a game. I can’t find it. I know it’s here, somewhere. But take a look at the sports I have to choose from. Men’s and women’s basketball had a combined record of 6-49. That’s a winning percentage of 8.
I can’t find a big game here. The only Big event happening with one of these sports is if they are able to keep the loss under double-digits. What about men and women’s soccer? I hate to say it, but the guys aren’t that bad. Heck, this year they had a record of 15-6-1 (6-0-1 in the Big West). But it’s soccer and no on seems to care. I still believe that soccer is a sport that you play before you are old enough to play football. And please don’t respond with letters about it being the WORLD’S GAME. I’ve seen a few World Cup games and a 1-0 score can not be deemed a BLOWOUT, it’s a boring hands-off display of feverish running around with a piece of round leather. How come the World Game’s has a trophy smaller then something I can put on my key chain? The real Big Game sport around here has always been Baseball. And why not? They have won three National Championships, have had dozens of players make the Major Leagues and have made a name for our campus. But this year is a little different. Their record is a non-Titan-like 13-9, but they are led by, Kirk Saarloos, who has an anemic earned run average of 1.09 after 58 innings. But despite all of his heroics, the student body must not be aware of what is happening. There are not too many students going to games. The average attendance is around 1000 people and the last time I went to a game half of the “spectators” had either a stopwatch or a radar gun. Softball is where my Big Game pursuit might end. The woman sluggers are ranked eighth in the nation with a record of 27-8. They have outscored their opponents 196-89 and yet they average only 390 people in the stands? The Big Game is near, you just have to go
Association Top 25 rise all the way to eighth. The sudden hot streak has Titan Head Coach Michelle Gromacki very optimistic about her team’s chances to repeat as they begin conference play on the road tomorrow against Sacramento State. “I’m extremely confident about our chances to repeat this season,” Gromacki said. Even Gromacki’s Big West counterparts feel the same way as they voted CSUF to repeat as conference champions in the preseason poll. The Titans took seven of the eight first-place votes with Long Beach State taking the other first-place vote. “I truly believe that Fullerton has earned the right to be the team to beat in the conference,” Pacific Head Coach Brian Kolze said. “They won 45 games last season, they have many of the
components from that championship team and they added one of the top hitters in the country, Jenny Topping.” Kolze’s Tigers were one of two Big West teams to beat CSUF last season as they took two of three from the Titans. Long Beach State was the only other team to beat CSUF last season as they swept the Titans at Fullerton. UOP is currently 24-5 and ranked 22nd in the latest USA Today/NFCA poll, the Tigers may pose the biggest threat to CSUF’s chances to repeat. “Pacific has a tough team and Northridge always plays us tough,” Gromacki said. Cal State Northridge is currently 1512 and ranked 24th. Kolze feels that CSUN will have a major impact on what happens in Big West play: “I believe Northridge will have a serious bearing on what happens in conference, they have an excellent team and have beaten some very good teams this season.” The Titans will not see UOP until April 13 and 14 while they face CSUN on April 28 and 29 at Northridge.
The Hornets come into this weekend’s series with a 9-14 record and have lost eight of their last 10 games. Pitching and fielding have hurt the Hornets as their team earned run average of 3.42 is second to last in conference and their fielding percentage of ..943 is at the bottom of the conference. One bright spot for the Hornets has been the play of junior center fielder Cathy Coupar. Coupar’s batting average of .412 currently stands second in the conference while her on-base percentage of .471 stands third in the conference. The Titans will counter with the bat of infielder/catcher Jenny Topping. The sophomore has a batting average of .430, 10 home runs and 42 RBI. Her numbers not only lead the team in almost every major offensive category but in Big West play as well. CSUF will begin the series on Saturday with a doubleheader beginning at noon and the series will conclude Sunday at noon. Last season, CSUF swept the Hornets in three games and stand 8-8
Track preps for first quadnTRACK & FIELD: Squad
anchored by stellar sprint teams and long-jumpers By Raul Ascencio
Daily Titan Sports Editor The Titan track and field team will not be performing to attain its normative ribbons amidst 500 competitors this weekend, but for the first time this season, they will compete collectively for points, in a quad-meet at Sacramento State Saturday. The long-awaited meet, proceeds a one and a half month-long stint of six nonscoring invitationals participated in by the Titans. “We utilized the half dozen invitationals to prime our skills and technical aspects of our abilities,” said head coach John Elders.
“But, nothing can duplicate the atmosphere of a scoring meet and our guys are prepared to work harmoniously to grab the points.” One Titan, whom Elders will look to be a major point-contributor is junior Nick McCullom. The junior darted out to a third place 200m (21.81) finish and a formidable fourth in the 100m (10.90), among California’s most premiere athletes in the March 10th Benny Brown Invitational. “Nick has earned a position as one of our top speedsters and he will carry the brunt of the workload this weekend in Sacramento,” said Elders. Also earning a position among CSUF’s finest at the Benny Brown was sophomore Rich Adams, who dismantled a school record in the 400m hurdles (52.11). On the women’s side, the Titan tandem of senior sprinters Gina Daniels and Carla Battle, are expected to be a mainstay means of point-production for CSUF.
“The pair are the top two female sprinter’s in the Big West Conference and will be a rich source of our team’s overall success,” Elders said. Daniels, Battle, and their Titan teammates will be confronted by one of the most prominent track schools in the nation, Fresno State. “Our most fierce competition comes in the form of Fresno State, they are a solid program and we hope to stay on their heels in point totals,” said Elders. The two remaining teams comprising the Saturday’s quad-meet are Portland State and host Sacramento State. Coach Elders offers a promising prognosis for his fleet of 95 athletes trekking up north for Saturday’s competition. “We feel extremely confident about our field of athletes and all of our top athletes in optimal condition,” Elders said. “We are set to deliver some serious damage to opposing teams.”
CSUF Spring Break Schedule Baseball
wTonight-Sunday March 25 At Long Beach Statew 7 p.m., 6 p.m., 1p.m. wTuesday, March 27w vs USC 7 p.m. wFriday, March 30-Sunday, April 1w At Miami 4 p.m., 4 p.m., 10 a.m.
Track and Field
wTodayw at Sacramento State vs. Fresno State & Portland wSaturday, March 31-Sunday, April 1w At Portland Invitational
Softball
wTomorrow, March 24w At Sacramento St. (DH) noon Sunday, March 25 At Sacramento St. noon wTuesday, March 27 At Fresno St. (DH) 6 p.m.w wSaturday, March 31 w vs Cal Poly (DH) 1 p.m. wSunday, April 1w vs Cal Poly 1 p.m.
Gymnastics
wTonight at Santa Barbaraw Big West Championships 7 p.m.
Weekend, March 23, 2001
Sexual bias plagues society and should be remeBy Melanie Bysouth Men and women will never be equal. Men will always be the strongest and the fastest. Let’s not forget that men have always earned more than women and it is doubtful that this will change any time in the near, or distant, future. Yet men are not the only ones with advantages to their gender. Women are free to show their emotions without fear of social ridicule. And since women are the ones who become pregnant, it is their final decision whether or not to keep the child. Men and women are very different from
one another yet that does not make one gender more valuable or more right than the other. To those of you who strive for equality between the genders, stop. Your time would be much better spent fighting against something: gender bias. It has recently been brought to the attention of the Cal State Fullerton student body that cross country and track runner, Leilani Rios, lost her athletic status simply because she works as an exotic dancer. Rios, who was given an ultimatum by her coach, chose to walk away from the sport she loves rather than give up the job which provides her with the time and money needed for her to attend college. Wondering how the coach found out about this? Rumors spread through the athletic depart-
Farewell to work safety By Mike Del Muro During the final month of his presidency, former President Bill Clinton signed into effect an ergonomics bill that had taken 10 years prior to research and design. Ergonomics is a set of regulations that keep workers safe from having workplace injuries. Special interest groups (business owners) were quick to lobby against the bill saying it would cost them too much. It took the republican-controlled congress less than two months to bow to the special interests and use a new presidential review to override the bill and make it useless. Congress is hurting more than 1.6 million workers who would have been protected by this bill. The business lobbyists are wrong. The bill was not too demanding. Instead, it simply created more breaks and better work conditions for people who do repetitive jobs such as typing or sewing. The fact is congress acted like cowards. They gave in to the pressure of the lobbyists and the fear that these same businessmen would not make any more campaign contributions if they allowed the bill to take effect. The bill would save companies millions of dollars keeping their workers healthy and in turn wouldn’t require them to pay for health or chiropractic fees, which are the result of repeti-
tive motion jobs. Research for worker protection began 10 years ago under the elder George Bush, as then-Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole began the push for a better workplace environment. Clinton later finalized their efforts. In a time of supposed bipartisanship, the Republicans are not cooperating very well. The override of the bill was a slap in the face, not only to Democrats, but also to the millions, a majority of who are women, that work in repetitive work conditions. When the bill was passed it signified a step in the right direction. It showed that the U.S. government was actually willing to do something to protect workers. It is an absolute shame that congress does not care about the seamstress who works long hours hunched over her sewing machine or the secretary who works tedious days getting paid minimum wage typing letters for her multimillionaire boss. Repetitive stress injuries are a major health problem in the United States today. Something must be done to counteract congress’s poor decision. I give credit to Bush’s Labor Secretary, Elaine Chao, who did not hesitate to say that she would not abandon the need for strong ergonomic regulations.
ment, and eventually reached her coach, just one month after students, wearing CSUF baseball sweatshirts and baseball hats, were seen by Rios at the club where she works. If it is wrong for her to be at the club, why is it not wrong for the guys? What is the difference between being a dancer and watching a dancer? The coach cited a line in the CSUF athletics code of conduct stating that, off the field, a Titan must “give everyone who sees them a positive image of Titan student-athletes.” Let’s assume for a moment that being in a strip club is presenting a negative image of Titan student-athletes, who knew Rios was a CSUF athlete? She was not on stage wearing anything that connected her to the university. Yet the students who came to the strip club did so wearing
clothing that blatantly showed their school of origin: Cal State Fullerton. So why is her presence a problem? Simply put, gender bias. If you don’t think that’s the reason, consider this. Former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin pled no contest to felony cocaine possession and, after a five-game suspension, came back to play four more seasons. Mike Tyson was convicted of one count of rape and two counts of deviate sexual conduct and, after spending three years in jail, returned to the sport of boxing. They committed a crime. They remained in their chosen profession. Yet after it was discovered that Vanessa Williams posed naked for Penthouse Magazine, she was forced to resign her Miss America crown.
Our society is one that is littered with examples of gender bias. Men sleep around and they’re heroes. Women sleep around and they are whores. And when the police make efforts to keep prostitution off the streets, it’s the prostitutes that are most often arrested for their behavior while the men soliciting them are usually set free. For final thought, consider this: Leilani Rios was at the club in order to make money to pay for her education. The guys were there for, well, I think we all know why the guys were there. — Bysouth is a Daily Titan Staff Writer and any response can be sent via e-mail to dailytitan@yahoo.com
Bush adjusts tax cut plans
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Name decisions arise with marriage — one can change it, leave it or amend it n Traditional gender roles need to evolve and adapt to modern times By Debra Santelli Traditions, America is full of them. Condescendingly telling us what the proper rolls of men and women should and should not be. A practiced example in America is the institute that surrounds marriage — that men should be the ones to ask women to marry and be the givers of the traditional engagement ring. That the father of the bride should be the one to pay for the wedding, women should wear white dresses, and men sport the traditional tuxedo and of course, one can’t forget to live happily ever after. Then to top of the anticipated day, she gets the glorious honor of giving up her name. My-o-my, aren’t women so lucky! For the record this is not going to be a “burn your bra” venting column. I just feel that America and the greater part of the developed countries, pride themselves on evolving. Evolving with technology, science, modern day conveniences, just about everything seems to be on the road to evolving except, the area of the “supposed” roles of men and women — which hasn’t seem to evolved that much. Sure, women have risen up from the days of being barefoot and pregnant, but I pose the following question — why are women the ones expected to drop their last names when they marry? Justice Maule, in the case of Thomas Hall, a laborer convicted of bigamy in 1845, stated that, “any property that a women possessed before her marriage automatically becomes her husband’s.” Well, we have come a long way from the above statement, but the preconceived notion that the woman should be expected to take on her future husband’s last name is still rapidly practiced and very old school mentality. It saddens me that a woman can grow up identifying herself through her last name for a significant amount of years, then just bye-bye, as if she never were that person. To paint a fuller picture of what I’m trying to say, let me pose the following example. Your first name is May. May is an American name or it can be a Chinese name, sometimes spelled, Mai. Your last name is Smith, typical American name. So before marriage you’re identified throughout your youth basically as an American – May Smith. You marry a Chinese man whose last name is Chin. You take his last name, now all of a sudden you have a Chinese name, May (Mai) Chin. People that see your name on paper are constantly surprised when they see you, making comments like, “I thought you were Chinese, not an American.” You feel your cultural identity changing before you, you the only you, you have known all your life has metamorphosed into another person due to a last name change. We all change with time, well hopefully most of us; but to be thrown into a whole new ethnic identity due to a name change, seems a bit much. America in the past has been referred to as a melting pot. It is popular, but it’s inaccurate to describe the United
States as a cultural melting pot. True, multicultural identity is not created in a melting process in which all identification of the prior components is lost, said Joseph Barndt, in his book “Dismantling Racism.” A more acceptable image is a salad bowl of cultures in which the ingredients retain their identity; or a cultural stew in which the flavors of all the ingredients become intermingled, creating a new flavor, but still retaining the integrity of each ingredient. This theory can relate to marriage. When women marry they should mix with the components of their husband’s prior, but retain all of theirs as well. Many people interracially marry, but just because you love your husband, does not means you have to become him and his ethnicity. Love him, marry him and have kids with him, whatever makes you happy, but why are women expected to be identified through his last name? I was recently at a wedding where at the end of the ceremony it was said that the couple was Mr. and Mrs., … using his first and last name. Whatever! Five seconds after marriage women are identified through their husband’s name. Our society practices monogamy —one man, one wife. This means two separate people coming together and forming a partnership. Not a woman marrying a man to be identified through him. Different societies set up their standards of marriage differently. Some do not adhere to monogamy, but in America we do. Some of the basis behind monogamy relationships is to keep equality amongst the two individuals. When gay marriages are legally practiced throughout all of the United States, what then? Two men marrying – is one of them going to drop their last names – doubt it. But women are just expected to through their maiden names in the trash, to be no more than a faded memory. Would if you’re the only child, why should it be assumed that that’s the end of your last name if you marry. Equality would be naming your child the women’s last name and if there was another child, giving her or him the father’s last name or hyphenate the two last names together. The options are endless, but it just seems none are really explored. This topic is posed just for thought — why do most of us just follow the norm? To hell with the norm — evolve, change and test the boundaries. Remember that there was a time when the white man didn’t rule. But to change, all the other people, which is a larger percentage of the world has to be courageous and evolve.
n Rhetoric is useless and only causes mayhem from the beginning By Alex Douvas For most women, the tradition of taking their husband’s last name is an accepted one. A lot of my friends have recently married, and I have yet to see the part of the ceremony where the bride-to-be is given a sledgehammer and reluctantly smashes her maiden name into oblivion, then brands her husband’s name onto her forehead with a red hot iron. However, from the way the tradition is being portrayed by some feminist types, you’d think this is exactly what is being asked of young women who want to get married. Traditionally in the U.S. the wife takes her husband’s last name when they marry. This wasn’t a problem for most women, until NOW (National Organization of Women). They started calling the tradition a sexist cultural relic that reduces women to patriarchal property. Ninety-nine percent of women are still smart enough to see past such ridiculous rhetoric. However, life would be much too simple without that other 1 percent of women who live in a state of perpetual victimhood and suspicion of men... And that is the reason why God put them here, along with taxes, to make life more difficult and confusing than it needs to be. These women’s tireless efforts to help young brides throw off the oppressive chains of their husbands have spawned a new list of options to replace the old tradition.
Here are some of them: Wife hyphenates both names: In this arrangement, Jane Smith marries Steve Brown and becomes Jane SmithBrown. This maintains the woman’s name and identity, while adding the husband’s. Hillary Rodham Clinton christened this method, which to her credit is the least ridiculous of all the possibilities. The only downside is that the woman must always use the hyphenated name, or she runs the risk of having her name slowly slip away, which would entirely defeat the purpose of the statement she was trying to make in the first place. On the plus side, hyphenated names make great fodder for Jay Leno’s Headlines segment. Wife uses birth name as middle name: This is similar to the hyphenated last name; only the woman makes her maiden name her middle name (Jane Smith Brown). Again, this seems to go against the principle of keeping her original name, because then her old middle name is replaced by a new middle name anyway. If you’re going to do that, you might as well take your husband’s name, keep your middle name and save yourself the trouble. You’re going to lose one no matter what. Husband and wife keep their own last names: That makes you still Jane Smith and your husband still Steve Brown. Unless you are a movie star, your first name rhymes with your husband’s last name, you have no good reason to do this. If you still insist on keeping your maiden name intact, let me warn you of what awaits you. People will STILL call you by your husband’s last name, because they assume that’s what your name is too. Then you will have to stop and explain to them that you have a different last name, and if you are not one of the above, rumors will start to fly. Husband takes wife’s name: Now ladies, performing micro surgery on your own last names is well within your rights, but this is taking it way too far. Your kids will get beat up, your in-laws will hate you and people will make fun of your husband ALL THE TIME. If you’re going to go this far, you might as well go all the way and just cut off his penis. It’s essentially the same thing. Husband and wife both hyphenate their names: So now you’re Jane Smith Brown and Steve Smith Brown. Sounds fair enough. Who gets to have their name be the last name though? If the wife has already taken her name-fetish this far, I doubt she will let her husband get the top spot on the marquis, and either way, your kids will be schizophrenic. Here’s my point ladies… you love your husband-to-be and he loves you. Just because you take his last name doesn’t mean you are property, so don’t get your eternal wedded bliss off to a bad start by messing around with a time honored tradition in the name of progressive experimentation. — Douvas is a Daily Titan Staff Writer and any response to this column can be sent via e-mail to dailytitan @yahoo.com