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Job Soapbox overrun by demonstramarket secure nEMPLOYMENT: Despite slipping economy, seniors can still find opportunities if they do the homework

By Kelly Mead

Daily Titan Staff Writer For graduating seniors, getting out into the work force can be difficult.

The task doesn’t become any easier when some experts are reporting a good job market while others are predicting doom.

“There’s a lot of data out there and its quite frankly conflicting,” said James Case the director of the Career Planning and Placement Center at Cal State Fullerton.

Despite recent losses on the stock market, many experts say seniors shouldn’t lose faith in the game just yet.

“There’s no need to despair and go off and live in the woods while you’re waiting for the economy to improve,” Case said.

Unemployment, for example, has been at a record low. In March, California’s unemployment rate was at 4.7 percent.

According to the Employment Development Department, this statistic is down three points from March of last year. In February 2001, unemployment was lower than it had been since December of 1969.

Anil Puri, the dean of the College of Business Administration and Economics, said that the job market isn’t currently bad, just bad in comparison to what Californians are used to.

“For the last seven or eight years the job market has been extremely good,” Puri said.

Even with the low unemployment rate, the job market may still be difficult for people newly entering a field.

This year’s slow-down started with plunging technology stocks.

Many companies have been failing or struggling. The fear of plunging stocks flowed into the rest of the economy. To be safe, many companies are recruiting employees with more discretion.

Because the slowing economy is due to technology companies, places like the Bay Area, where many of these companies are based, are getting hit the hardest.

“While technology is an important part of the economy, (OC) is much more diversified than Silicon

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nABORTION: Pro-life group, ‘Survivors,’ upsets the students with disturbing photographs of fetuses

By Elana Pruitt

Daily Titan Staff Writer “Soapbox” Wednesday turned into a heated fight of words, as the forum for free speech transformed the Quad into a passionate demonstration against pro-life propaganda.

Students immediately stopped in their tracks as the sunny afternoon turned into a dark day. Everyone within earshot heard loud, angry student voices during the early afternoon.

Their challenge was directed toward a group of anti-abortion activists.

Passing out self-titled pamphlets and newspaper advertisements for “lovematters.com,” the non-student, pro-life organization is called the “Survivors.” This organization calls abortion “America’s Holocaust.”

Rhianne Bergado charged at the opportunity to speak in support of student stress and against unnecessary campus interruptions.

“We don’t even need this,” she said. “Women are just trying to get by and this is literally hurting students.”

Bergado, 22, is chair of the student union. She said that the emotional confusion in showing poster-sized photographs of enlarged mutated fetuses found her as the sympathetic shoulder for other girls to cry on.

Trying to prove their personal view of a controversial issue, representatives held the pictures with pride. The stages of a “partial birth abortion” were displayed as black, bold-faced letters blazed at the bottom of the graph, titled “America’s

Anjana Khanna walks past graphic anti-abortion propaganda in the Abortion.” have died from abortions.

As the orange-red, half-fetus was But after a loss of words, he needcategorized as “pro-choice,” a healthy, ed validation about his factual statewhite baby was held symbolically as ment. the “pro-life” demand.

Another anti-abortionist speaker “We’re just trying to educate those stepped in to support him. that don’t know about abortion,” said “We hope to encourage those that promoter Jason Conrad. “Even the don’t agree with us,” Dan McCullough medical association says it’s a baby.” said.

Conrad, an 18-year-old high Statements giving they’re reasonschool graduate, said that this group ing for using such descriptive pictures is Christian-based. In comparing the to get their point across is listed in Jewish Holocaust to abortion, he said their pamphlets. it is proven that 40 million babies “Much in the same way that pic-

Quad Wednesday, which spurred tures and video footage of bodies mangled in automobile accidents are used to teach us of the perils of drunk driving…These photographs cut through the pro-choice rhetoric that abortion is a woman’s choice,” the pamphlets declared.

In accordance with the message that abortion is murder, a request form is included for donations that range from $25 to $500, to “continue to stand for the pre-born and to educate the younger generation about the true horror of abortion.”

Five senses satisfied at International nEVENT: Anaheim will bring the culture of its residents together in the form of food, music and speakers

By Veronica Hagey

Special to the Titan The City of Anaheim Community Services Department will hold a free International Festival at the Pearson Park Amphitheater on Saturday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The focus of the festival is to educate the community in diversity and

multiculturalism through entertainment, food, and speakers from various cultures.

“The celebration has a very festive atmosphere for the community, very relaxing,” said Julia Rosas, from the City of Anaheim, and organizer of the event.

She has coordinated the event since its inception three years ago. She said the sponsors and times of the festival change each year.

“Last year it was at night with lots of lighting,” Rosas said. “When we find the perfect time, we’ll keep it there.”

Regardless of the time of day, Rosas said the event is always a celebration of cultures.

The City of Anaheim will have

information tables staffed with personnel to answer questions about the programs and services they offer.

The festival will be co-sponsored for the first time by the (INS) Immigration and Naturalization Services Los Angeles Asylum Community Outreach Program.

“It is a special emphasis program which recognizes cultural diversity,” said Douglas J. Davis, black affairs program manager at the INS Anaheim Asylum office.

The INS will have two or three tables supplied with information and staffed with experienced government personnel to answer questions regarding citizenship, naturalization, NACARA, LIFE, immigration programs, political asylum and other

types of services offered.

Douglas said that many people receive second-hand information, which is usually misinterpreted.

“It will be an opportunity for people to get first-hand information,” Davis said. “The INS program also wants to promote cultural awareness.”

The festival’s entertainment will include cultural dance performances representing traditional American Indians, Bangladesh, Korea, Mexico, Bolivia and many other cultures.

Speakers from within the community will address the cultural heritages of the dance performances and speak on ways of promoting diversity and cultural awareness in the community.

There will be various ethnic foods and refreshments for sale at the festi-

By Deanna Lucci

Special to the Titan To remind her of the reason she’s in her position, Associated Students President Mary Grace Cachuela has a framed sign at the computer in her office that reads, “I am a student first.”‑ With only two months left in her presidential term, Cachuela is still hard at work with meetings, events and student outreach.‑‑ Cachuela, 22, a business administration major with an emphasis in finance, managed to maintain a “B” average last semester despite her endless presidential

schedule. Many days, she stays on campus from 6 a.m. to 11: p.m.‑This semester, Cachuela is also juggling classes with her presidential duties as she nears graduation in May.‑ “I only have a year [as AS president], so I’m putting as much time and effort into everything that I do with this position,” Cachuela said. “I spend ridiculous amounts of hours at it, but it’s because I have so much fun here, too.”‑‑ Spending as much as 60 hours on campus per week doesn’t leave much time for a social life, but Cachuela doesn’t seem to mind.

“I do have a life, I do have a balance,” she said.

Considering the amount of hours Cachuela puts into her job, her $12,000 salary isn’t much. But the president has no complaints.

“You can’t put a dollar amount on the experience that I’ve gained,” she said, “I’ve learned so much

about myself, it’s Raised as unbelievable — I Christian by her parwould do this for ents, Cachuela prays the rest of my life often.‑ if I could.”‑‑ Cachuela said that Although she is the people she works one of Cal State with have made it Fullerton’s busiest more enjoyable for and most public her. students, Cachuela “I work with the manages to mainbest people in the tain perspective.‑ world,” Cachuela “I live a fastsaid with a big paced life, and it’s smile.‑ really important Her fellow board for me to be as members seem to grounded as I can feel the same way CACHUELA be,” Cachuela said. about her.‑ “In this position, it “She [Cachuela] is so easy to be self-serving, so easy has made so many connections, and to forget about who or what is impor- her personality is so warm, she gets a tant, and so easy to get busy.‑Because lot of respect that way,” said Christina of my faith, because I’m surrounded Machado, AS board chair. by people who keep me grounded, I Harvey McKee, executive director can’t go wrong.” of AS, said he has learned a lot from http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu

val. Rosas said that along with seeing and hearing from different cultures, there will be opportunity to taste the foods from these cultures.

According to a press release from the City of Anaheim, the following restaurants will be represented: Hatam Restaurant (Peruvian), Happy Panda Buffet (Chinese), La Casa Garcia (Mexican), Korea Barbeque House (Korean) and Mali’s Catering (Sri Lanka).

Partial proceeds from the food sales will be donated to the Anaheim Community Foundation.

The International Festival is open to all ages. Rosas said plenty of free parking would be available. The Pearson Park Amphitheater is located at Lemon and Sycamore in Anaheim.

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intense emotions on campus.

As most students were shocked at such expressions that seemed to intentionally spark debate, others were not affected by this protest.

“I don’t know why everyone gets so mad,” Stephen Igue said. “These people are just promoting their cause.

The pictures show us reality.”

The 22-year-old bystander emphasized “wise decisions” rather than what is right and wrong.

“Just don’t put yourself in certain positions that you can’t get out of,” he said.

Cachuela.

“She has done so much for the credibility and public relations of Associated Students this year, she will be a hard act to follow,” McKee said. “She has built a lot of bridges to leaders at the university, and as a result, we have really opened up many new lines of communication with the administration.”

Being president has already reaped benefits for Cachuela. After graduation, she will begin working for the non-profit organization Indus Entrepreneurs.‑ As a full-time operations executive, Cachuela will be involved in helping immigrants from the Indus area (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India) network to start their own businesses in America.‑Cachuela was attracted to this job because her parents are immigrants from the Philippines who

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BRIEFS Golf tournament held to support Latino students Cal State Fullerton will be holding its 14th annual Hispanic Scholarship Golf Tournament to help support incoming students on campus.

It will be held on Friday, April 27 at the Sam Joaquin Golf Course in Irvine. Its sponsors include the American Golf Corp., Tecate Imported Beer and the Tlaquepaque Restaurant located in the city of Placentia. There is an entry fee for those interested in participating as players. At $125 per person, it includes the green fee, a golf cart and dinner courtesy of Tlaquepaque Restaurant.

The money raised from the event will go toward the funding of scholarships that will be awarded to Latino freshmen. Each scholarship will be $1,000.

Since starting the golf tournament, it has raised over $250,000 and has helped support 250 CSUF students.

Those interested in the Hispanic Scholarship Golf Tournament can get more information by contacting Dean Harris at (7114) 278-2784 or Gail Matsunaga at (714) 278-4851.

Cal State Fullerton professor chosen as new Haynes Fellow The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation has chosen CSUF professor Raphael Sonenshein as the next Haynes Fellow.

The 18-month tenure seeks to consolidate the foundation’s relationships to individuals in the social science field and policy-makers in Southern California.

Sonenshein teaches political science on campus and has been doing so since 1982. His book “Politics in black and White:

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Sonenshein’s experience cover a range of public involvement, from his participation in Maxine Waters’ run for State Assembly in the 1970s to directing two charter reform movements while he served as executive director of Los Angeles.

Sonenshein is currently in the process of writing another book with funding from the Haynes Foundation that deals with Los Angeles Charter reform and urban democracy.

His tenure will begin on July 1, and will overlap for six months with a professor of history from USC.

CALENDAR C ALEND AR OF OF EVENTS EVENTS Campus Lawrence Arms will perform today in the Becker Amphitheater at noon.

A.S. Rec Sports Men’s and Women’s Bowling Singles Tournament registration is due today at 2 p.m. The tournament is on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning April 24 with the championships on May 10.

A free film will be shown in the TSU – Titan Theater on Thursday, April 19 at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

A Web Design Workshop will be presented on Saturday, April 21 in the TSU-Mainframe

Lounge at 2 p.m. Learn how to build your own web page.

An Earth Day Celebration will be held on Monday, April 23 in the Quad at 10 a.m. A second celebration will held on April 24 in the Quad at 2 p.m.

The College of the Arts is presenting “Street Scene — A Broadway Opera” on April 20 through 29 at the Little Theatre, Performing Arts Center, Cal State Fullerton. For more information call (714) 278-2434.

The College of the Arts is presenting “Prints” from the Cal State Fullerton Collection on April 21 through May 26 in the Main Art Gallery. The opening recep-

tion is on Saturday, April 21 at 6 p.m.

The 10th Annual CSUF Linguistics Symposium will meet on Friday, April 27 from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the TSU. The featured guest speakers include Dr. Larry M. Hyman from UC Berkeley and Dr. Russell M. Schuh from UCLA. For more information call (714) 278-3722.

Community The 14th Annual HIV/AIDS on the Front Line Conference will be held today at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Mesa. For more information call (714) 456-2249.

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Digital Expo comes to Los Angeles The Digital Horizon Conference & Expo will be coming to Los Angeles on April 30 and will last until May 1.

Taking place at Los Angeles’ Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel, the expo seeks to provide a forum for business owners to get education on the technology emerging today.

The conference doesn’t just put new products on display, but participants will also get the opportunity to learn Web strategies and technology solutions to streamline business efficiency. It is also a chance to gain insight on how to raise Internet sales and select the proper office devices. Hiring techniques will also be covered, along with e-commerce management.

The show will feature more than 25 workshops, digital exhibit hall, keynote luncheons and product giveaways.

For more information visit www. digitalhorizonexpo.com or call (310) 858-5522.

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The College of the Arts is presenting “Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll” by Eric Bogosian on April 19 through 22 at the Grand Central Theatre (125 N. Broadway, Santa Ana). Explore pop culture through riveting, hilarious and often disturbing monologues. For mature audiences. For more information call (714) 278-2434.

“Stars of Magic” featuring the best of international magic, comedy and illusions will be presented on Saturday, April 28 in the Plummer Auditorium, Fullerton at 8 p.m. For more information visit www.arts.fullerton.edu/events/

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CSUF forensics team brings home national nCOMPETITION: Veteran member Marcus Omar Bowman took fourth and sixth place in two categories

By Alex Douvas

Daily Titan Staff Writer Members of Cal State Fullerton’s Forensics Team earned a place at the winner’s table at the 2001 American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament (NIET), which took place during early April, at George Mason University in Fairfax,

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Places like Orange County have felt a softer blow.

Case said The Career Development Center has seen hiring cut back by roughly 10 percent.

Next Wednesday, the annual Internship and Job Fair will take place on campus.

Last year 215 companies sent recruiters to the CSUF campus, this year Case expects to have around 200.

Despite a cutback in hiring, many of the employers that will be attending next week’s Internship and Job Fair said their hiring hasn’t been greatly effected.

Both Cintas Corporation, a company that produces flame resistant clothing, and Mercury Insurance Company have participated in job fairs at CSUF for more than a decade. Representatives from both companies said that they are hiring more people this year than last year.

“Despite the economy, we’re growing,” said Dana Taylor, a recruiter for Mercury Insurance Company.

Cintas Corporation plans on hiring as many as four people next week,

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now have their own successful business.‑ “My parents are really good role models for me,” Cachuela said, “They embody the entrepreneurial spirit.”‑ One of Cachuela’s main goals as president was to open the lines of communication between the student body and AS.‑Cachuela is responsible for the new “Pizza With the Presidents” event, the second of which will be held this Thursday at noon in the Titan Student Union courtyard.‑ This event offers free pizza for students and gives them a chance to voice their concerns with university President Milton Gordon and AS President Cachuela.‑More than 100

VA. The students do not conduct crime scene investigations or collect fiber samples, confusion often made between “forensics” and “forensic pathology.”

Forensics actually deals with public speaking, either debating or presenting a speech from one of several styles or categories.

Competing at NIET, which team member Carrie Hyde described as “the mother of all forensics competitions,” is the culmination of a year’s worth of success at almost 20 forensics tournaments in the regular season.

Hyde said, to even qualify, a student must place in the top third in at least three of the tournaments.

“Qualifying for Nationals is not an

easy thing to do,” Hyde said.

Only four-year institutions that have a forensics program can compete at NIET, and of thousands of such schools, about 600 students represented only 137 colleges and universities from across the country, Hyde said. CSUF was represented by Hyde, who is a speech communication major, as well as fellow speech communications major Marcus Omari Bowman and history major Sheldon Ogata. Also included was communications major Kimberly Pierceall, one of the few freshmen to qualify for and compete at the event.

“It was a shocker that I even qualified,” Pierceall said. “When we were at district finals and I found out, I couldn’t believe it because I qualified

said Howard Jacobson the director of recruitment. Last year Cintas did not hire anyone from the fair.

Jacobson claims that the slowdown has actually benefited the company by bringing better candidates.

“Now it’s balanced out. Before, employers were having trouble finding people,” Puri said.

Experts in the field, along with Puri , believe that while the economy is having trouble now, it should be back up by the end of this year.

Some professions are feeling the slow down more than others are. Case said that the center has seen communications and technical professions slim down their hiring, while education and accounting are only being affected moderately.

Regardless, Case said that students should do their homework. His advice includes finding out about the company they are applying to, having the ability to articulate their skills, knowing what they want in a job, and sending out resumes early.

“No matter how good or bad the market is, you only need one job,” he said. Then Case added, “In the end, how well the market is doing should only have a minimal impact in terms of how you organize your job search.”

University deals with traffic probBy Leslie Brooks Suzukamo Knight-Ridder Tribune

Last spring, alarm bells went off at the University of Minnesota when technology administrators discovered students had overwhelmed school computer networks with digital-music downloading off the popular Napster Web site.

The students had gobbled more than half the networks’ informationcarrying capacity or “bandwidth” with their pastime, threatening to bring the university’s high-priced, high-speed networking infrastructure to a virtual standstill.

This spring, though, Napster and Napster-like downloading is consuming less than 10 percent of the university’s bandwidth.

The difference? The university has made peace with its bandwidth bete noire instead of futilely trying to banish it.

for my prose interpretation, which wasn’t my strong point.”

Once in Fairfax, the team constantly worked from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. everyday for five days. Though each of the day’s three competitions only lasted about 20 minutes each, Pierceall said that significant amounts of time and energy were expended not only in the events themselves, but also in hours of practice in between.

“When we got there, I was sort of taken aback,” Pierceall said. “I had no idea how huge and intense it was going to be. When we weren’t competing, we were practicing like mad, and it was really overwhelming and exhausting. By the second or third day, we had literally spent all of our adrenaline and were dragging pretty

Institutions of higher learning across Minnesota and the nation have absorbed the same lesson. After unsuccessfully trying to block access to Napster and similar music-downloading Web sites last spring, many colleges and universities this academic year are harnessing technologies that manage their Internet traffic much like freeway ramp metering does during rush hour.

While students still get to download music, this recreational use gets low priority during the day when professors, staffers and students log on to campus networks for exchanging e-mails, looking up Web sites and conducting research. MP3-music files must be content to crawl in the slow lane.

But at night, when non-students have logged off and workday traffic subsides, the music-downloading students can put the pedal to the metal.

Colleges and university students are

students packed the TSU for the last “Pizza With the Presidents” event held in February, and Cachuela is expecting even more this week.

Adeline Kim, AS director of public relations, said Cachuela has stayed true to her campaign promises.‑ “She’s keeping it real, it wasn’t just a slogan to get people to vote for her, she’s really trying to reach out to students,” Kim said.‑ Cachuela is not publicly endorsing any of the presidential candidates in this week’s election, but she does have advice for whoever wins.

“Keep it real,” she said, referring to her campaign theme from last year, “Stay true to yourself, and you will be happier in the end of everything, and listen to your heart.‑ Don’t look at what everyone else before you has done, it’s all you.”‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑

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among the most voracious consumers of Napster-like services because their high-speed Internet access allows them to download songs in seconds or minutes instead of hours.

Given this fact, student outrage about recent on-campus Napster braking might seem inevitable. But such cyber-traffic management has been accomplished with little complaint, University of Minnesota officials claim.

They call this practice “rate limiting” — the ability to restrict a particular kind of online activity to a set amount of network bandwidth.

“If any entertainment application seems to be hogging Internet resources, we can throttle it back to a reasonable consumption level,” said Steve Cawley, associate vice president and chief information officer for the university.

The university has limited Napster and its ilk to 10 percent of its band-

ished fourth in Prose Interpretation and sixth in Poetry Interpretation.

For Bowman, the NIET was what he called “the big dance”, his last competition to cap a four-year career in collegiate forensics.

“Looking back, I’m more than satisfied with all I’ve accomplished in the last four years,” Bowman said.

“Forensics has benefited me in a big way. In terms of growth, I’ve really learned how to communicate with people. I used to be a shy person.”

Bowman, Pierceall, Hyde and Ogata, along with the CSUF Forensics Team will host their “Forensics Showcase,” a presentation of their award-winning events on Tuesday, April 24 in the Titan Theatre.

width after finding students had consumed an estimated 57 percent last year. This startled school officials at the time, considering the massive amount of university bandwidth that was available.

A run-of-the-mill high-speed T1 line transmits 1.5 megabits of information per second, while a faster T3 line speeds along 45 megabits. But the university uses something called OC3 that transmits 150 megabits of information, or three times that of a T3 line.

The university also is plugged into the so-called Internet II, a new network that connects research universities nationwide and transmits information at 600 megabytes per second, smoking even the hyper-fast OC3 lines.

Put another way, the University of Minnesota-managed Internet connection point sends and receives the equivalent of a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica every three seconds.

“It’s a wonderful playground for our students,” Cawley said of the broad bandwidth. “So in one respect, we want to encourage (Internet usage).

These are our future scientists and our future artists. We want them to take advantage of the resources that the university has to offer.”

But some universities think students are taking advantage of this bandwidth bonanza, monopolizing too much of campus computer networks with recreational music downloading.

Part of the problem stems from the “bursty” nature of Napster-like music-file transfers, meaning the files gobble whatever bandwidth is available to send themselves as quickly as possible. It’s like a giant semi-tractor trailer barreling down the information superhighway, shoving aside smaller vehicles such as e-mail messages and Web-page downloads.

College students aren’t the only ones who have given administrators bandwidth-related migraines. Non students away from the campuses are a big part of the problem, too, because

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bad.”

The first round of the tournament began with all 600 competitors participating in one or more of their chosen events. Each competitor was evaluated by two judges and was given a score of one through five, one being the best. In order to advance, a competitor usually needed to place first or second in that round.

The race was then narrowed down to 24 competitors in the quarter-final round, and the number of judges evaluating them increased to five. Here, Bowman placed for Programmed Oral Interpretation, and Hyde placed for After-Dinner Speaking, said Dr. Jon Bruschke, co-director of forensics.

Only six competitors were left in the final round, where Bowman fin-

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Los Angeles may have elected first Latino

By Karen Brandon and V. Dion Haynes Chicago Tribune

LOS ANGELES — In an election that underscored the growing political clout of Hispanics in the nation’s second-largest city, Antonio Villaraigosa captured the most votes among 15 candidates in the primary election for mayor here.

Since no candidate captured a majority of the votes, Villaraigosa will face second-place finisher James Hahn in a June 5 runoff.

Tuesday’s election presented a dramatic example of how profound demographic changes in Los Angeles are beginning to alter the political landscape.

“This is a window into the new politics of Los Angeles,” said Jaime Regalado, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University Los Angeles. “You have this city in great demographic transition and flux. The coalitions of old won’t

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they use services such as Napster to grab music tracks right off the hard drives of college students. That’s how these “peer-to-peer” music-sharing systems work.

With such big pipes connecting students’ computers to the outside world, it’s no wonder colleges and universities figure among the top download destinations for non students looking for their favorite music.

Research institutions such as the University of Minnesota routinely crack the Internet’s top-60 lists of most popular URLs to visit, with more files exported out than imported, Cawley said.

That’s why some schools are considering whether to charge for Internet access.

Clemson University in South Carolina, for instance, is looking at restructuring the way it provides all telecommunications services, including phone, video conferencing and voice mail as well as Internet access.

“And to the extent that Internet is becoming the mode of communication that everyone wants and uses, it might make more sense to charge for that and provide the other services ‘free,’” says spokeswoman Cathy Sams.

The University of Minnesota already builds high-speed Internet access — at

necessarily carry anyone to victory.”

In Los Angeles, where recent census figures show Hispanics have recently become the largest ethnic group, a Hispanic has not been mayor since 1872.

On Tuesday, the Hispanic vote increased to 21 percent from 8 percent in 1993, when Mayor Richard Riordan was elected, according to Los Angeles Times exit polls. Meanwhile, the percentage of white voters dropped to 52 percent from 68 percent eight years ago, when the last open mayoral election was held.

The share of African-American voters and Asian voters remained fairly stable, at 14 percent and 4 percent respectively, the exit polling showed.

“This confirms that there is a Latino empowerment,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, senior scholar at the University of Southern California’s School of Policy, Planning and Development. “For the first time in history, the percentage of Latinos in this electorate mirrors their percentage among the registered voters.

It is astonishing.”

To a considerable extent, the June contest will be between the old face of Los Angeles politics and the new one.

In the old political mathematics, a coalition of African-American voters and liberal voters on the city’s west side meant victory. For 20 years, Tom Bradley, the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city, turned that equation into victory.

But now, the African-American voters are being eclipsed by Hispanics.

“There’s a shift in political power, and the old coalition is not enough,” Bebitch Jeffe said. “The hill is steeper than it was for Tom Bradley.”

Villaraigosa’s first-place finish, with 30 percent of the vote, surprised many political analysts, who expected the largest share of the vote to go to Hahn, who captured 25 percent. The third-place finisher, wealthy real estate dealer Steve Soboroff, trailed with 21 percent.

In Los Angeles, and throughout California, there is a vast gap between

the ethnic makeup of the population and the ethnic makeup of the electorate. Hispanics in Los Angeles represent nearly half of the city’s residents, but only one-fifth of its registered voters because many of them are too young to vote, or are not citizens.

Because no single ethnic group can deliver a victory to a candidate, the winning politician will have to stitch together many diverse populations. Nearly half of the voters in Tuesday’s election voted for someone other than the two men who will be in the June runoff.

Villaraigosa has strong support from Hispanics while Hahn has strong support from African Americans. But it is a paradox of multi-ethnic Los Angeles that the outcome of the election may be determined by white voters, many of them Soboroff supporters. “It’s a different role,” Bebitch Jeffe said. “The old guard is the swing vote. It isn’t the coalition upon which the foundation has been built.”

Villaraigosa, 48, has momentum

behind him. Charismatic and telegenic, he is a Los Angeles native, born to poor Mexican immigrants. He dropped out of a public high school and was kicked out of a private high school before going on to college at the University of California Los Angeles and later completing a law degree elsewhere.

But during his six years in the state Assembly, the last two as speaker, he gained a reputation for reaching out to constituencies beyond his liberal base.

“I don’t want to be the first Latino mayor,” he said Tuesday night. “I want to be a mayor for everybody.”

Hahn, 50, is also a Los Angeles native and the son of Kenneth Hahn, a respected politician who was the county supervisor for 40 years. Hahn has considerable support in the African-American communities, the legacy of his father’s reputation for supporting the black communities where the family once lived.

Hahn, who received a bachelor’s degree and law degree from Pepperdine University, was city controller for four

years and has been the Los Angeles city attorney since 1985. He campaigned on the breadth of his experience.

Though Villaraigosa closed the campaign with the backing of California Gov. Gray Davis, Hahn’s record as more of a moderate may make him more appealing to conservative voters whose favored candidates are no longer in the race.

“I consider it wide open,” said longtime Democratic political analyst Joe Cerrell. “I put the nickel on Villaraigosa because of his momentum, but Hahn has the potential. When you eliminate the natural bases for these people, what you’ve got up for grabs are women, the gay community, Jews, Republicans, seniors, and those are just the ones I can think of right now.”

a flat rate of about $20 per month per room — into its student housing fees, just as it does for telephone services.

Other Minnesota schools don’t charge anything for Net access, however.

“Students consider free access to the Internet an entitlement. It would be like charging for drinking water,” said James Koenig, director of Information Technology Services at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, which share resources.

Both colleges, near St. Cloud, originally tried to block Napster access and failed when students easily outmaneuvered the system. So the schools became among the first in Minnesota to go with the flow this fall by using a device called a Packet Shaper.

The Packet Shaper, made by Silicon Valley-based Packeteer, can dip into the scramble of Internet traffic and differentiate among e-mail, Web pages, music, photographs and other types of digital information. It then allows administrators to assign different amounts of bandwidth to each type of file.

Koenig considers it a life-saver. “It makes the difference between being in business and not . . .. These kids would just eat us alive without it.”

Packet Shaper and other Web-traffic-management appliances can’t actually tell if bits of digital information are songs or e-mails.

Instead, they look at where the information is going, judging its makeup by

what “port” — akin to a television channel — it uses to enter the university’s computer system. Each type of information usually uses the same port, allowing information to flow to the right spots.

Napster was good as “port hopping,” however. If schools tried to ban the service via port blocking, it simply found another. So devices like Packet Shaper also look at the block of messages exchanged just before a file transfer, called “framing messages,” says John Burke, director of network services in the Computing and Communications Services Department at the University of St. Thomas.

Such framing messages are practically Victorian in their stiff formality.

For instance, an Internet user might send Napster a message that says, essentially, “Give me all the locations where I can find all the Britney Spears’ “Oops, I Did It Again’ song on the system.” Napster would reply, “Here is our response to your request,” followed by, “Here is a list of computers carrying the Britney Spears song.”

Then the user would send a request to one of the computers carrying the Britney Spears song. That computer would respond, “Here is my response to your request.” It would then send the song as a separate response.

In computer jargon, this exchange is called “protocol” and never varies.

The rigid rules allow Packet Shaperlike traffic-management devices to

figure out what kind of information is being sent without actually ascertaining its content in any great detail.

Protocol is so distinct that it allows universities even to tell the difference between Napster traffic and that of rival music-sharing applications such as Gnutella, which don’t use centralized servers as Napster does.

System administrators such as St. Thomas’ Burke haven’t tried to systematically distinguish between recreational and academic traffic on their networks, a difficult task. That’s why some kinds of traffic may be difficult to identify.

St. Thomas’ system, for instance, has recently shown a rise in a new but unidentifiable type of computernetwork use.

“We’re not that curious about it as long as it doesn’t swamp our system,” he said.

St. Thomas’ network restrictions consist largely of prioritizing traffic — giving top priority to anyone accessing the library catalog system the school shares with other area colleges, for instance — while giving low priority to traffic that is clearly Napster-like.

When Concordia University in St. Paul turned on its Packet Shaper last fall, “Boy, it was an eye-opener,” recalled Eric LaMott, vice president of information and technology. Napster and other music-swapping services were consuming up to 80 percent of

the school’s bandwidth.

Concordia, which allows laptop networking among its 1,800 students and 120 faculty, considers the boxy device a good investment even at $10,000 because the school would pay between $12,000 and $15,000 to add more network bandwidth. Packet Shaper could well spare the school that expense for several years, LaMott believes.

Packeteer has sold Packet Shapers to businesses such Pepsi-Cola and Domino’s Pizza, but it is keen on targeting schools.

Its devices already manage Internet traffic at 177 colleges and universities across the nation, including the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Air Force Academy, spokeswoman Jennifer Geisler says.

Packet Shaper is popular in Minnesota, installed at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Concordia College in Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, St. Olaf and Carleton colleges in Northfield, and the College of St. Catherine and Macalester College in St. Paul.

Schools may be getting a handle on their bandwidth now, but the demands on their networks will continue to grow.

The University of Minnesota has seen traffic on its systems double every year since 1991, although this

may be the first year that doesn’t happen, thanks in part to its rate limiting.

St. Thomas upgraded its system this January from several T-1 lines carrying a total of 6 megabytes per second to a T-3 line carrying 9 megabytes, but by March it already was bumping up to its limits.

“If demand continues to climb the rest of the semester, we may hit September where we are now or worse, and if that happens, we’ll start to feel a pinch,” Burke said.

Napster itself may not survive its bitter fight with the recording industry, but schools are seeing increases in other types of bandwidth- ravenous traffic — pirated copies of movies such as “American Beauty” began showing up in dorm rooms this year at St. John’s and St. Benedict’s.

And more and more college students are using their desktop computers to upload files to personal Web sites.

The way colleges and universities manage their bandwidth might hold lessons for businesses, particularly providers of residential high-speed Internet access that require neighborhood networks to share bandwidth, Cawley said.

“I think they will try to do much the same things we’re doing here — trying to manage a shared resource without trying to police the contents of that resource.”

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Plastic surgery an option to improve selfBy Taylor Goldman

Daily Titan Staff Writer Kari Garcia knew that she was intelligent and that she worked hard, but she felt that one thing was holding her back.

Her nose.

Kari’s nose was bumpy and slightly crooked, a small flaw with which she was slowly becoming obsessed.

Kari knew that if she looked good she would feel good about herself, so she underwent plastic surgery to straighten her nose.

Kari, who has lived in West Covina all of her life, will be turning 22 in May. She doesn’t remember her father ever praising her when she was a little girl.

He would never sit me down and tell me that I was beautiful she said.

In school, children would tease Kari and pick on her because of her appearance.

“The straw that broke the camel’s back was that I knew it was true,” Kari said.

Kari remembers that she used to be friendly. An extroverted little girl, she loved to make friends.

However, as she matured, her nose influenced how she would deal with others. She especially had trouble making friends with attractive people.

“I felt resentful of pretty girls because they didn’t have anything wrong with their face,” Kari said.

She found herself thinking about her nose constantly as she would interact with others.

At the age of 13, she determined that she would one day get a nose job. Her sister told Kari that surgery was a good idea, but all her friends said that Kari’s nose was fine. Kari began to secondguess herself, leading to more indecision about her appearance.

Eventually, Kari began to visit a therapist regularly because of family problems.

Her therapist said that Kari had low self-esteem, and that a nose job would help alleviate this problem. When Kari’s mother inherited a large sum of

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money she offered to pay for the surgery Kari had always dreamed of, Kari accepted and vowed to one day repay her mother.

Prior to Surgery Kari’s therapist had once had a nose job, and gave Kari the name of the doctor who had performed her surgery.

The doctor Kari first contacted was located in the southern United States, but he recommended three local doctors.

Kari called the only female on the list, thinking that this woman would have a better understanding of her desires. She placed Kari’s image on a computer screen, manipulating it to show how her face would appear after the surgery was finished. The doctor quoted $11,000 for the procedure, but Kari was not satis-

fied with the images that she saw because the doctor was unable to make her nostrils smaller.

The second doctor Kari contacted — Rollin Daniel — had been practicing medicine for a longer amount of time than the previous doctor.

Daniel had invented a tool for forehead reconstruction, and gave Kari the impression that he was competent and knew what he was doing.

She knew he would give her the nose she wanted— not the nose that he wanted her to have.

Daniel began by asking Kari what she didn’t like about her nose. He listened to her describe her problem areas, and said that he would be able to give her the image she desired. In addition, he suggested that she have a chin implant to give her a stronger chin to complement her nose.

He also suggested performing liposuction underneath her chin to remove baby fat that he said would never go away. Daniel quoted a price of $5,000 to Kari.

At first Kari didn’t want to have a liposuction performed on her body.

“I don’t believe in going to get lipo(sic) — I could burn the fat off myself,” she said. However, she decided that as long as she was having a surgery performed, she would get everything done at once.

During Kari’s second consultation with Daniel, her surgery was scheduled.

She was given a list to follow two weeks prior to the surgery.

She used a special soap and shampoo that removed bacteria from her hair and

body, preventing infection.

The evening before surgery Kari could not eat any food after midnight so that she did not have a bad reaction to the anesthesia.

Under the Knife

On the day of her surgery, Kari woke up at 6:30 in the morning. She was not allowed to wear any jewelry or make-up to the doctor’s office.

Kari said that she felt 5 percent nervous and 95 percent calm that morning.

“I just wanted to get it done and start the healing process as soon as possible,” Kari said. She was anxious to see her new nose.

When Kari arrived at Dr. Daniel’s office in Newport Beach, a nurse put a tourniquet on her arm so that her vein popped out. Kari said that this was the most painful moment of the entire procedure. The nurse then rubbed Kari’s skin with anesthetic, numbing her arm. An intravenous tube was then inserted into Kari’s arm to regulate her body during surgery.

Next, the doctor marked Kari’s face with a purple pen, outlining the areas to be treated. He showed her where the incision lines would be made, indicating that her nose would be given a straighter bridge. After that, Kari remembers nothing.

When Kari woke up she wasn’t in any pain. She had ice packs placed over her eyes so she couldn’t see, but she could hear the rustle of nurses moving around and could hear their voices.

Her first sensation was that her throat was dry and she wanted something to drink.

She felt a momentary state of panic,

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and began to tap her fingers against the bed rail to gain the attention of the nurses.

A nurse informed Kari that she couldn’t have any water because it would make her vomit, but she fed Kari an ice chip. Kari swallowed the first ice chip and squeezed the nurse’s arm in alarm.

Kari’s was given about an hour to lie in the hospital bed and recover.

Recovery After the hour was up, Kari put on a button-down shirt that would not disturb her face, and was pushed in a wheelchair to her mother’s car.

Kari found the week after surgery frustrating.

She was told to turn her neck as little as possible so that she did not stretch the

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scar under her chin.

Her entire face was swollen and nobody could understand what she said.

As a result of her forced immobility, she could not do things for herself.

She sucked up pudding through a straw and lay on the couch watching movies throughout the week with a cast on her nose and a bandage on her chin.

After six days of healing, Kari returned to Daniel’s office and her stitches were removed. “I expected to be all beautiful, but my face was all swollen — I looked like a Klingon,” she said. Underneath the bandages her skin had broken out. At first she was very disappointed.

Each night she had to tape her nose to reduce the swelling and apply vitamin E to her skin so that her scars did not grow.

On the seventh day of her recovery, Kari was able to work again, returning to her old routine.

Reactions: Kari said that everyone had different reactions to her new face.

Responses varied from “Wow, you look great!” to, “It still looks the same.”

“People aren’t bowing down to me and saying I’m a beautiful goddess,” she said. But she said that each day she looks a little different and that it will take a year for all of the changes in her face to take full effect because so much was done underneath her skin.

“Now when I touch my face it feels different,” Kari said. She is pleased because now her new nose feels straight.

She used to look at herself in the mirror and dream of the day that she would get her nose fixed. Kari, who used to always focus on her nose, can now concentrate on other things in life. Now she can talk to guys without worrying about her appearance.

She is considering one day undergoing additional surgery to balance out her new nose. She mentioned one day getting her lips reshaped.

But for the time being she feels her self-esteem improving.

Kari said, “I used to feel resentful

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Pressure too intense for the jump to NBA nSPORTS: Seduced with million-dollar contracts, more and more college basketball players are leaving to professional leagues at a younger age

By Skip Myslenski Chicago Tribune

This story could well start with DePaul coach Pat Kennedy.

Last spring he lost underclassmen Quentin Richardson and Paul McPherson to the NBA draft and now he could lose sophomore center Steve Hunter and junior forward Bobby Simmons to the pros as well.

“It’s scary. We look like a runaway train,” Kennedy says of this migration that is gutting teams across the country.

Or it could just as easily start with Tom Izzo, the Michigan State coach. His Final Four team has been shredded not only by the expected loss of five seniors, but also by the early defections of sophomore Jason Richardson and freshman Zach Randolph.

“I’m not against kids who are good enough to go. But what’s good enough?” Izzo said. “Now it seems if they don’t go after their first or second year, it’s a test of their manhood, and they’re failures. That’s ridiculous.”

While the coaches who are losing players drive home points telling enough to start this story, they are not as strong as the admission of Michael Wright.

As a junior forward, he started for Arizona as it played its way into the recent national championship game against Duke.

But now he, as well as the three other underclassmen in the Wildcats’ starting lineup, has declared that he is leaving school early.

“I think,” he said when making this announcement, “that we are all working toward the goal of being professionals, and I think this is my time to go after it with all my energies.”

Wright’s statement cuts to the very heart of this phenomenon that is robbing the colleges of its very best players and transforming the NBA into a developmental league. Education?

The college experience? The boundless opportunities which come with that experience?

All through the season just ended, Duke senior Shane Battier philosophized on those subjects, and was heralded for both his insight and his decision to spend four years in school.

But he is an exception to the current trend.

“I think people need to understand that in today’s culture, the elite basketball kids coming to college are here for a purpose,” said Arizona assistant coach Jim Rosborough.

“That purpose is to make a career out of basketball. For some of them it’s not unrealistic.”

“But for every (Kevin) Garnett and Kobe (Bryant), there are 20 kids going the other way,” Izzo said. “Those kinds of stats won’t be out for four, five years. Like I said, I’m not against kids who are good enough to go.

But an NBA guy told me agents have told about 30 kids they’re going to be lottery picks.

I have contacts in the league and I can’t find out where my kids are going, so how do they know? It’s amazing and it’s affecting all of us in some way.”

It has most certainly affected his Spartans, who are now down to five players and the three recruits Izzo signed up last fall. “I asked our walkons if any of them are declaring,” he says with a rueful chuckle. “Do you know we’ve decided to change our uniforms next year? We’re going to wear diapers with an “S’ on the back.

We’ll be Dick Vitale’s true diaper dandies. I don’t know if we’ll be dandy, but we’ll belong in diapers.”

And it has affected national runner-up Arizona, which was decimated while head coach Lute Olson was vacationing in Mexico with his family.

The Wildcats are down to four players, five recruits and wavering sophomore guard Jason Gardner, who—like Simmons—has declared for the draft but remained in school and not retained an agent.

“Five of our 10 or nine players will be freshmen,” Rosborough said. “If

we have an injury, then we have no subs for practice. Will we shorten up on practice?

Possibly.

It’s not fair to do a good job coaching kids, lose them to the NBA and sit here with nine players.”

And it has trickled all the way down to affect even struggling DePaul, which appeared headed for a resurrection when Kennedy corralled a recruiting class that included Richardson, Simmons and Lance Williams.

“When I took a look at those three, I said, ‘Wow, what a tremendous run they can have together,”’ Kennedy said, and then he is recalling a similar group he had at Florida State.

It included future pros Charlie Ward and Sam Cassell, Bobby Sura and Doug Edwards, and in the three years they played together, they advanced from the Round of 32 to the Round of 16 to the Round of Eight in the NCAA tournament.

“This group could have done the same thing,” Kennedy said. “But with Q’s departure, that evaporated quickly. That’s the thing. In the old days, you could say, ‘Man, great.’ But now that opportunity is taken away.”

Two years ago, Duke lost a similar opportunity when underclassmen Elton Brand, Corey Maggette and William Avery left school early and entered the draft. But that doesn’t effect Duke.

They snap their finger and have three McDonald’s All-Americans,” says Izzo.

But what of Villanova, which will be looking to rebuild under new coach Jay Wright? It has already lost junior center Michael Bradley. And what of Temple, which has lost junior center Kevin Lyde; and Seton Hall, which has lost freshman forward Eddie Griffin; and Charlotte, which has lost freshman forward Rodny White; and Notre Dame, which may lose junior forward Troy Murphy, who, like Simmons and Gardner, is testing the waters?

What, even, of Michigan State and

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College basketball players like Luke Walton and Mike Dunleavy may be tempted to leave college early.

Arizona? lutely and unfailingly, we have been at guard was embarrassed when all of “It will be interesting to see how our best as underdogs,” Rosborough his teammates declared and that this good those team are,” Kennedy said. said. “When people discount Lute’s is the only reason he put his name in “Those two have been as hot as any- teams or characterize them as down the draft. body but Duke, and if they can’t sur- and out, those teams are typically at “I feel bad for the kids,” Izzo said. vive, if they all of a sudden become their best.”

“There’s so much pressure on fourth- or fifth-place teams, it will “We’ll survive,” echoes Izzo. “We them. You hear so many of them have a huge effect on a lot of teams. would have been a good team, but say they’re going when they have With the coaching carousel the way I’m dumb enough to think we’ll be no business going. They’re going it is now, it will leave coaches very back.” only because their buddies are going. vulnerable. For the young coaches, As for the current trend, Izzo talks That’s ridiculous.” the effects could be interesting.” of Arizona’s Gardner.

“In my 21 years with Lute, absoIzzo said he was told the young

arts & entertainment April 19, 2001

Thyming is

Laguna Beach restaurant puts a refreshing spin on traditional dishes

By Debra Santellli

Daily Titan Copy Editor A chef once told me that thyme fixes all — the herb that is. Anastasia, in Laguna Beach has done exactly that — fixed all the flavor of their dishes by taking the ordinary and adding ingredients such as thyme sauce, garlic aioli, creamy dill weed dressing and chantilly creams as foundations to their menu.

Nowadays, inventing something completely new is damn near impossible, and when it comes to the world of food – well you’ll have better luck growing wings and flying. Point being, most restaurants take something that’s already been done, put a new spin on it and hope for the best.

From the looks of Anastasia – their efforts paid off.

The restaurant side is funky and airy, with lots of citrus colors, stainless steel shelving and 70s plastic egg-looking chairs. The other half provides a woman’s trendy boutique in the spirit of “runway hippie meets platinum card,” and is surrounded by a sidewalk café veranda. The aesthetic of this place is, for lack of a better word – sleek.

I met my friend, Mr. Laguna, for

brunch on a picture-perfect California day. In we went—bellies growling, in need of coffee, as he assured me that the food would please and my hunger would dissipate.

At the time my biggest decision was breakfast or lunch? Well, we got both and that solved that dilemma.

Our first selection was the “California,” omelet – and in true tradition of the name, it was healthy, fresh and savory. Egg whites only, arugula, tomatoes and onions served with sliced tomatoes sprinkled with thyme, fresh fruit and ciabetta bread ($7.95), all laid out with an artistic eye to detail.

I couldn’t help but notice what the people at the next table over were eating — one of their poached egg creations. They say we eat with our eyes, and that we did to their Eggs Laguna. Two poached eggs placed on country bread, towering upward with fresh basil, avocado and tomatoes, then glazed with thyme sauce ($6.95), art in the making.

Mr. Laguna’s longstanding favorite is the Aubergine sandwich ($6.95).

Eggplant sautéed in balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil, with arugula, diced tomatoes and feta cheese, on ciabetta bread alongside an exotic

salad blend, comprises this beauty. The menu describes the eggplant as being sautéed in vinegar, but the flavor that graced my taste buds led me to believe that there’s some careful marinating prior to the cooking process. Whatever Anastasia’s does, a pungent addictive flavor is the end result.

The Anastasia Green Salad, which is a mixture of baby greens, sprinkled with French goat cheese, golden apples, candied walnuts and celery with nonfat creamy dill weed dressing ($5.95), was so attractive and yummy we almost forgot we ordered it for its nutritional benefits.

For dessert, I went completely untraditional — Pain Carmel Toast ($5.75), and Mr. Laguna went with his weekly chocolate chip cookie that they save especially for him ($1.60).

The caramel toast is basically fancy French toast served with a caramel sauce, candied walnuts and powdered sugar. Oh my, this was good stuff — that is if you’re a caramel lover.

This dish is decadent, velvety and rich beyond belief. The toast holds up well considering the amount of sauce and candied molasses walnuts it supports.

Pure heaven. As for the chocolate chip cookie, it’s not too sweet and it’s packed with chips — what else can I

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With a special twist on common cooking, inventive dishes at Anastasia satisfy customers’ taste buds.

say about a chocolate chip cookie?

Beautiful plate presentations and a special twist on the old shine here.

The owner, who was born in Iran and raised in France, picked up quite a culinary eye — or should I say palate?

If you take the menu items — mainly southern Italian — and compare them to his heritage – they don’t match. But then again, that’s so American – fuse and create. No boundaries here, just

Anastasia,

470 Ocean Ave. Laguna Beach, (949) 497-8903 open daily: 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., serving breakfast and lunch.

5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., serving dinner Friday and Saturday — call to see if open for dinner due to rolling blackouts Breakfast and lunch range from $4.95- $9.95 and dinner is a $25 fixed menu.

Beer and wine served Visa, MC, American Express and Diners accepted

Play takes on unique disStory skillfully portrays life through the eyes of a 15-year-old whose disease makes her look 70

By Deborah V. Germinaro Special to the Titan

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Delinquent Habits go round and round about their habits on their latest album, “Merry Go Round.”

Sex, drugs and Spanish rap Band adds Spanish accents to its rap music

By Michelle Maurer Special to the Titan

Delinquent Habits, a group that may not be so old, but perhaps also not so well known, has actually been around for a while. Their newest release, “Merry Go Round,” is not even a month old. And although the band’s popularity level may not be one of the highest, they have a lot to say through their music.

The group name fits perfectly with the theme of this album. Sex, drugs, gangs and violence all play the center stage within the songs, and these “delinquent habits” are portrayed as a big part of these rappers’ daily lives. The track “No sense” tells a tale of life that doesn’t make any sense. The basic message is that when you take one step forward, you’ll take two back. Life is hard and the bad habits don’t make it any easier. Regret seems to be a characteristic of their personality, but it doesn’t add to the overall quality of the album.

The feature song, “Merry Go Round,” also talks about how life is a merry go round and how/they love that sound/.

For the members of Delinquent Habits, life seems to be a big ongoing circle of the bad intermingling with the good.

Smoking and drinking, blended in with their form of expressive music, makes their world turn and is what gives the group its meaning.

The group members seem to be very proud of their Hispanic culture. In various songs such as “Return of the Tres,” “Boulevard Star” (featuring Michellé), “Que Vuelva” (featuring Michellé) and “Temptation” a lot of Spanish is used instead of English and a lot of references seem to go back to their roots in the barrio or “hood.” Michellé is also featured in most of these songs. Her smooth yet powerful voice gives a little added touch to the constant flow of rap that is heard, and is very appealing to the ear. Michellé

also sings in Spanish, which again gives reference to the desire to reflect on the band’s culture and to make others aware of where they come from.

The group seems to pride themselves, if not brag upon, their music within this release. In the songs “Feel Good” and “The Kind,” they place their music on the highest standards, and claim that Delinquent Habits have the sounds that will make you feel good and /the kind that if your mama turned it off, it will make you real mad/. On a personal note, I don't feel this to be exactly true but it is up to the listeners to decide.

There isn’t much variety within the songs. They have the same basic theme and the background is fairly constant throughout each track. To describe an uneasy and demented circus background would be a perfect way to describe the scenes of each song. Even the inside flaps of the CD insert paints a pretty picture of a clown that you might not want your 5-year-old to meet. All the songs carry the same type of tune and there is not much to be left to the imagination.

One song lets you know what to expect in the next and virtually what to expect throughout the whole CD. As rap artists, they wouldn’t be the top choice on the list, but they do have potential. There is a lot of work to be done, but they have qualities that may be valuable to them in the future. They mix the rap style of music with a little Spanish decent, some actual singing vocals, and a personal style that can be kept strong. The overall presentation of the CD keeps you kind of wondering what's going on, yet perhaps this is what they are trying to do.

After all, the more you wonder, the more you’ll want to come back for more. There definitely is a lot of work to be done but I believe the band has the same potential that every other rap group holds in their beginning stages.

Delinquent Habits seem to be more

South Coast Repertory’s latest comedy set in New Jersey, Kimberly Akimbo, is cleverly scripted and brilliantly acted out.

The main character, Kimberly Lavaco, 15, has a disease called Progeria that makes her look 70years-old.

Kimberly’s blue-collar family includes her obnoxious, self-centered, hypochondriac, pregnant mother, Pattie; her alcoholic, gas-station attendant father, Buddy; and her scheming, homeless, ex-con aunt, Debra.

The cast also includes Kimberly’s only friend from high school, Jeff.

Jeff isn’t exactly the most popular kid in school either, but he proves to be more mature and understanding than Kimberly’s own family.

The play centers around what Kimberly must endure having a rare and devastating family and disease.

Pattie is obsessed with being miserably pregnant because this time she wants a "perfect baby."

As the show opens we see Pattie sitting in her orange and brown plaid kitchen speaking to her unborn child in a tape recorder.

This is symbolic of how her whole world revolves around the anticipation of her "new" baby.

Kimberly just wants to be a teenager. She wants to talk about school, boys and music. She also wants to be accepted, loved and noticed by her family.

Marylouise Burke who played, Kimberly, is captivating. The first time you see her, it throws you because you see an old woman, but within moments she convinces you that she a

lovable 15-year-old who has Progeria.

Her face had a youthful glow and her eyes seemed to sparkle with childlike innocence. Burke simply became the character without any of the typical over-the-top stereotypes attached to teens. She was warm and believable and you can’t help but fall in love with her.

Ann Dowd, who played Pattie, was as obnoxious as her character. Her character was a whole lot of heavy eastern accent and not enough depth.

She played angry very well, but that was all. By the end of the play you are annoyed with her, but that is how her family sees her too so she does her job.

Steven Flynn, who played Buddy, was a bit more multidimensional. He played a nice balance between the guy whose manhood has been stripped by his overbearing wife and the guy who loves and means well for his daughter, even though living with Pattie makes it difficult to show.

You had a lot of empathy for his character and you kept rallying for him to grow a back bone and tell the bitch to "shut up!"

Joanna P. Adler who played, Aunt Debra, chose movements that were over dramatized and too big for the style of this play. Her accent was also exaggerated. Adler had some interesting levels when dealing directly with Kimberly. She showed that she did care about Kim, but just a little bit more about herself.

John Gallagher, Jr., who played Jeff, was adorable and sweet. He was the perfect nerd. He had levels that showed his hurt by being teased in school and his disappointment by not being accepted by his own dad.

He found a kinship with Kimberly’s character that really showed through

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From left, Marylouise Burke (Kimberly), John Gallagher Jr. (Jeff) and Steven Flynn(Buddy) in “Kimberly Akimboo. in his acting. opment of this production. I would However lacking some individual highly recommend seeing this play. performances, this cast was a true It is really interesting to see someone ensemble. They really worked togeth- play a Progeria sufferer. “Kimberly er and became a family. You could Akimbo” is delightful, funny, moving see the heart that went into the devel- and thoroughly entertaining.

Thug life image does not work for Yukmouth Half of the Bay Area duo, Yukmouth aims to show that he can make it in the music business on his own

By Damian Calhoun

Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor Yukmouth, one-half of the famed Bay Area duo, the Luniz, returns with his second solo album, entitled “Thug Lord: The New Testament on Rap-ALot Records.”

The Luniz haven’t released an album since their 1997 sophomore project Lunitik Muzik, so Yukmouth ventured out on the solo tip again.

Yukmouth, as a member of the duo, that dropped the classic track “I Got Five On It,” sets out to show that he can survive on his own name, even though, seven of the 15 tracks are collaborations with some of the biggest names in the rap and hip-hop industry.

Some of the help on this album include The Outlawz, Kool G Rap, C-Bo, Kurupt and Nate Dogg. The tracks that these artists appear on, are some of the best on the album.

This is Yukmouth’s second solo project. His first album was released in

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Yukmouth maintains the thug life image on his latest album.

1998. The hottest track on “Thugged Out: The Albulation,” Yukmouth teamed with the proteges of the late Tupac Shakur, the Outlawz, to produce the hot track “Still Ballin’,” a

tribute to the slain rap star.

Yukmouth again teams up with the Outlawz on the track “We Gone Ride.” Ever since Yukmouth came out, fools have been saying that he sounds like and acts too much like Tupac Shakur.

On “We Gone Ride,” he clears up all of that insinuation with a telling rhyme: “N***** think I act like Pac, B****N***** I don’t rap like ‘Pac, I just get dap like Pac, Get love like ‘Pac, Bring the West back like ‘Pac.” Yukmouth is out to keep up the thug tradition that Tupac personified.

On this project, Yukmouth sends out a threat to all player haters, player fakers and all of the non-believers. From the introduction with Mac Minister to the end of the album, Yukmouth does a solid job of setting fools straight. As Mac Minister states in the introduction: the Game God sent the world a Five-Star Thug in Yukmouth.

The first single to hit the streets is “Clap Yo Hands” and that would be the weakest tracks on the album

if it wasn’t for “Hi Maintenance” with Lil Mo. Yukmouth lays down a tight track with legendary rapper Kool G Rap on the track “Thug Money.” Both of the rappers possess a very distinctive style and that is what makes this track on of my favorites.

Kool G Rap is one of East Coast’s perennial storytellers and he doesn’t diverge from this on this track.

By far the hottest track on the album is “So Ignorant,” with West Coast riders Kurupt, Nate Dogg and Kokane.

Another of the album’s highlights is “Smile” with C-Bo and CJ Mac. The track is a little laid back with a flow that has West Coast production written all over it.

The album is a little better than the first one, but not by much. Yukmouth seems to be to intent on maintaining the “Thug Life” image that Tupac personified. There are some phat tracks and there are some wack tracks, but overall the album isn’t that bad. But if I had spend $15-$17 for this album, I wouldn’t.

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Revelling with Ani Musician consoles listeners with a sultry mix of jazz, folk and soul

By Elana Pruitt

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Courtesy of Righteous Babe Records

With straight to the point lyrics and emotional music, Ani DiFranco appeals to her fans.

I remember my high school English teacher’s words of wisdom. He would give the kind of immense speeches that made me lost in thought.

Time would pass by as my chin rested on the palm of my hand. My brain would overflow with emotional fixation on its meaning.

That’s exactly what Ani DiFranco will do for you. She will intimately touch you in places that could use some consoling.

As virgin ears to her music, I was not ignorant of her existence.

I remember seeing this musician on the cover of SPIN magazine and reading feature articles about her unique style of music. Sometimes she would have green hair, be bald or even dreadlocked. Her identity always seemed questionable, yet exciting.

So, I jumped at the chance to review her most recent, doubleCD titled “Revelling/Reckoning,” because it was about time that I figured out what all the hype was about.

Now I am completely hooked on her voice and her style of blended jazz, folk, soul, and everything in between.

DiFranco is not a mainstream artist and she probably doesn’t ever intend to be.

With most of her songs focused directly on the themes of love, regret, self-discovery, heartbreak and soul rejuvenation, I am pleased with her underground feel.

On the “Revelling” CD, DiFranco keeps spirits high with nicely tuned saxophone, trumpet, flute, drum and guitar. Her opening song “Ain’t that the way” breathes funk.

“I gotta beeline double/leave my home sweet home for your honeycomb/then I show up steady, ready and proud/and I’ve forgotten how to talk out loud.”

With back-up singer, Maceo Parker, DiFranco seethes “I love you” as the chorus line. Their combined sultry sound is enough to move your hips, make your body groove and involuntarily smile in the mirror.

She is a true poet, as well as singer and guitarist. In the song “Heartbreak Even,” also on the “Revelling” CD, she admits that situations do not always go as planned. Complications arise in the eyes of this woman, on the verge of breaking.

“You try not to let your emotions show/but it ain’t a balloon you can just let go/it’s an ice cream cone dripping in the sun/sticky hands/ sticky arms/ sticky situation.”

On the “Reckoning” CD, DiFranco mellows out in a folk trance. It is quite somber and may even sprout some tears in vulnerable eyes. But

the beautiful sound of raw, light singing against only the acoustics of guitar is wonderful.

In “Your Next Bold Move,” DiFranco sings of her distrust in politics and the shifts in society, relating to her personal power of faith.

“Yes, the left wing was broken long ago/by the slingshot of cointelpro/and now it’s so hard to have faith in anything.”

The design of the CD package nicely illustrates feelings of cold emotions in a dark night, as well as windy thoughts circulating life.

The “Revellations” pages is surrounded in a snowy feel, with barren trees standing alone, while the “Reckoning” CD features a dimly lit, sandy beach.

If there is one song from this genius gift of thoughts, it is the song “So What.” I probably listened to this song about 20 times. I cried and I laughed. Although it could be difficult to listen to such deep thoughts during a break-up, her simple and straight to the point lyrics make you feel better.

“Who are you now/and who were you then/that you thought somehow/ you could just pretend/that you could figure it all out/the mathematics of regret.”

Ani DiFranco has a gift. If you need the support of poetry and soft songs about hard love, check her out.

With her own label, Righteous

Thursday, April 19, 2001

The end is better than the start as Titans beat UCLA nBASEBALL: Sparked by unlikely heroes, CSUF comes back from eight runs to win in extra innings

By Damian Calhoun

Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor

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Brett Kay prepares to tag Bruin Josh Canales in yesterday’s game at Goodwin Field.

The Cal State Fullerton Titans had to go to extra lengths and innings to extend their winning streak yesterday against the UCLA Bruins.

CSUF (28-10) and the Bruins battled for 14innings and five hours and 54 minutes before the Titans edged the Bruins 11-10 to increase their winning streak to 14 games.

Freshman right fielder Shane Costa’s single off of Mike Castillo in the bottom of the fourteenth inning scored Chris Stringfellow to extend the winning streak.

“I think it was a fastball,” Costa said. “I’m glad that we came back. It was a well-fought game.”

The Titans almost had the entire game to prepare for their contest. UCLA scored six runs against Titan starter Wes Littleton and three more against reliever Nick Lovato to take a 9-1 lead in the fifth inning.

CSUF finally woke up in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Titans scored six runs thanks to home runs by Aaron Rifkin and back-to-back home runs by Chris Stringfellow and Matt Belfanti.

Trailing 9-7, the Titan relief core shut down the Bruin offense. Travis Ingle, Shane Waroff, Chad Cordero and Kirk Saarloos pitched 5 and 2/3 of scoreless baseball to allow the offense to scratch and claw its way back into the game.

CSUF tied the game in bottom of the ninth inning on Mike Rouse’s fifth home run of the season. That sent the game into extra frames.

“I felt that we could come back on them,” CSUF Head Coach George Horton said. “All we had to do was find the pitchers to stop them.”

As the game wore on, the Titans found the pitchers to stop the Bruins. Then the game came down to only one pitcher left in the bullpen for the Titans, sophomore Sean Martin.

Martin entered the game having only pitched 10 innings all season.

Martin (1-0) pitched five innings for his first victory of the season, but no means was it easy.

“He made the pitches when he had to,” Horton said of Martin. “He fell behind to some hitters, but he battled. He threw 92 pitches, which is more than twice as much as he usually

does. He gave us an extended effort.”

Martin seemed to pitch out of trouble in each of his five innings. In his first inning, the 10th, he allowed a leadoff double, in his second inning of work, he allowed a leadoff walk, in his third inning, he allowed a go-ahead home run to Eric Reece, but through it all, he battled and came out on top.

“For a brief second, I thought that I had lost the game,” Martin said of Reece’s home run.

“But our offense kept coming back. I knew that if I could keep the game at one run, then that would give our offense a great shot at winning the game.”

Trailing 10-9 in the 12th inning, CSUF cashed in a leadoff walk by Robert Guzman to tie the game and prolong the contest. UCLA and CSUF combined to use 13 pitchers, 43 hits and 41 runners left on base.

After a scoreless thirteenth inning, the Titans opened the fourteenth inning with two consecutive outs, but ended the game with Costa’s single alluding a diving Christian Lewis.

“Games like this shows our toughness,” Martin said. “Maybe early in the year we may have lost a game like this, but now we refuse to lose.”

CSUF treks out onto road for three meets in four nTRACK: The trio of non-scoring events will prep Titans for upcoming conference play.

By Raul Ascencio

Daily Titan Sports Editor The Cal State Fullerton Track and Field team will practice their version of divide and conquer over the next four days as they splinter off to compete in a trio of San Gabriel Valley venues.

CSUF will begin their athletic escapade today at the two-day affair, labeled the California Invitational. The event

is an exclusive heptathlon and decathlon competition, featuring some of the most prolific university and track club performers in Southern California.

Titans Steve Reh and Byran Snow will be among the elite and hope to reach the 7,000-point pedestal. “ Their goal is 7,000, and they definitely are capable of achieving that,” said Head Coach John Elders.

Reh nearly attained this accolade earlier this season at Occidental when he posted a sterling 6,415 points. The feat earned him the second Big West ranking among decathletes.

White has posted comparable numbers, but has lately experienced trouble in the pole vault event. “If Bryan could get over that pole vault bar, he should

do extremely well and should be neck and neck with Steve,” Elders said.

As the Titan duo compete in their second day of events in Azusa, their Titan teammates, split into two groups, will be warming up for their respective events, the Mt. Sac Relays (Walnut, Ca.) and Pomona-Pitzer Invitational (Claremont, Ca.), both of which are in a 12-mile radius of the California Invitational.

The Mt. Sac Relays, labeled “where the best come to compete” has yet to falter in its assertion and every year attracts pristine performers of Olympic, professional, and collegiate caliber.

Among the qualified CSUF representatives venturing out to compete at the world-renown event, and greet

the challenge of high-velocity heats, are the stellar 4x 400-meter men’s and women’s relay teams.

One hundred-meter speedsters Junior Nick McCullom and seniors Carla Battle and Genia Daniels were also granted access to the event, and round out CSUF’s participation in speed events.

Partaking in the long distance events for the Titans will be a pair of sophomores - Byrce Lighthall in the 5,000meters and Vikram Mahan taking on the 10,000.

The duos’ efforts will be complimented sternly by the Titan female mid-range distancers, junior Kara Walker (3,000-meters) and senior Kira Horvath (1,500-meters), who should

substantially carry the workload on the women’s side.

Also set to make appearances is the heavy Big West favorite in the long and high jumps, Brandon Campbell.

Campbell will be accompanied by triple jump teammates, junior Ana Doty and Joe Thomas.

As Doty and Thomas descend into the sandpit, the bulk of their Titan comrades will be conducting calf stretches 12 miles away at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational in Claremont.

It is here, where all who do not compete at the Mt. Sac Relays and California Invitational will come to prime their skills alongside other collegiate athletes in a non-scoring event.

“There are no qualifying marks at

Pomona [Pitzer], therefore all of our athletes who had not got a taste of action earlier will get an opportunity to showcase their talent.”

All that are healthy will run, jump, or throw over the four-day span and according to Elders, the team will utilize the trio of competitions to prep for the upcoming conference championships.

“These series of competitions are exciting and hectic.” said Elders. “But since they have no conference implications, they will give our athletes a chance to strengthen their personal bests before we enter the Big West Championships.”