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Safety officer stabbed, shots nVIOLENCE: Gang members crash Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house party, four suspects were detained By Heather Baer
Daily Titan Staff Writer The Campus police department were dispatched to the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house (also known as the Barn) last weekend in response to a call that shots had been fired and one person had been stabbed. The campus dispatcher received a cell phone call from an off-duty Community Service Officer (CSO), who said that
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gang members from Anaheim had walked into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house to crash the party. Detective Tom Gehrls said it was the CSO who was stabbed at the party Saturday night. “According to reports, a student who works for us (campus police) called to request assistance, then he stopped talking and the dispatcher could hear a commotion,” Gehrls said. “She then heard about four or five shots fired and also heard somebody say ‘they stabbed him.’” Police units from Cal State Fullerton and the City of Fullerton arrived at the scene. Gehrls said that when police got to the Barn the fraternity members were very helpful in giving the police information.
According to a report by Officer Blanpied when CSUF officers arrived at the crime area, a man ran to them and pointed to a suspect fleeing on foot and said to officers, “they have guns.” Police caught the suspect who was fleeing on foot, heading eastbound on Yorba Linda Boulevard toward a church. Three other suspects were taken into custody, when while fleeing in a black car, officers ordered them to stop and the suspects put their hands outside the window of the car where officers could see them. “When police stopped the car, one of the suspects in the car was the stabber,” Gehrls said. “The off-duty CSO who had been stabbed was taken to the hospital, where he was checked out and sewed up with no major damage done,
to my knowledge.” A total of four suspects have been detained, although officers believe that there were more than four gang members at the party. “Currently the case is with Fullerton police not campus police,” Gehrls said. “It is under their jurisdiction.” According to police reports all of the suspects were males with shaved heads, and they all were in possession of a handgun. Although the dispatcher heard shots fired, nobody was injured by gun shots. Frank Soria, president of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity said that he will be meeting with Milton Gordon, university president, and will not be able to comment until he has met with the president and received all reports on the event.
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nEDUCATION: A series of lectures in October seeks to inform women how to stop the cycle of abuse
nSECURITY: Several universities released privileged student information upon the government’s request
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Daily Titan Staff Writer Records protected by the student privacy law have been recently released to the government without student consent because of the emergency state of the nation. FBI and other government agencies are turning to college student records as part of their investigation on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The government began looking to college student records after it discovered some alleged hijackers and their accomplices were in the country on student visas. University officials seem divided on the controversy of protecting student privacy and cooperating with the investigation. Six of the 23 Cal State Universities have released information from student files. Such information found in the files can include schools attended, areas of study within a major, and academic history. Personal information only extends to what is on the student’s application. The FBI seized a Cal State Fullerton applicant’s file last week, according to Colleen Bentley-Adler, director of public affairs for the CSU system. “All requests for information are being done case-by-case. So far, there hasn’t been a blanket request,” said Chuck McFadden, a spokesman for the UC Office of the President. “The universities do not take this situation lightly.” McFadden added that the Bush administration is now in the process of passing several anti-terrorism laws, including a new law that would be equivalent to the current request for student files. Bentley-Adler said, “The requests are to specific students, mostly international students and those whose names sound Middle-Eastern.” She said Immigration and Naturalization Services, the FBI, or other government agencies have contacted all college campuses across the nation. Neither McFadden nor Bentley-Adler would provide details on information requested. Some students said they are skeptical and feel the inquiries are discriminatory. Senior Regina Vega, an English
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The Cal State University Fullerton Women’s Center will hold a Domestic Violence Awareness Series for National Domestic Violence Month in October. The lecture series wants to reach physically-abused students and open their eyes to a way out. Educating women on abuse might encourage them seek help before an incident occurs. “The information that we give, might help them before something happens,” said PattyArambarri, coordinator Women Center Joint Task Force on Domestic Violence for CSUF and Western State University. “They don’t realize that the longer they wait before getting help something just might happen. “We just want to give them options,” she continued. It is for the abused women that the series could have a profound life changing effect. “This is an opportunity to educate the campus community. This goes on in all socioeconomic scale,” Arambarri said. Rosalina Camacho, the coordinator of Women of Color Resource in the CSUF Women’s Center, has spoken to sororities on the subject and found that many students know of friends who are CSUF students being abused. “Campus sororities have expressed that things are going on that people just aren’t aware of,” Camacho said. “I heard about one girl who her friends were afraid for her safety. The guy got her to move out of the sorority to move in with him. The abuser made it sound like it
would be great to get out there, on their own.” Camacho also said that friends of the abused are ready to give up trying to help their friend see the abuse going in their relationship. “I tell them that it’s when you are really frustrated with your friend that she needs you the most,” Camacho said. Characteristics of an abuser include possessive, harassing, threatening and jealous behavior. They exhibit drastic mood changes, show anger in public and are often alcohol or drug users. Some of the characteristics may be born out of the need for control, which is masterfully disguised by the abuser. Camacho said that abusers would go shopping for hours with the women, seeming to be caring and attentive. But it’s only after coming to grips with the physical abuse that women realize that all the clothes he bought her didn’t reflect her but reflected what he wanted. “We tell people, look for signs like your friend dressing totally different than she used to. Some guys like to dress the women like a ‘hoochie’ or it can go the other way, where the guy has the women all covered up, dressed in baggie sweats,” Camacho said. When the physical abuser’s level of control is threatened, more incidents occur. “In the spring, just as graduation rolled around, the Women’s Center had an increase in the number of students coming in that either knew someone in an abusive relationship or were being abused themselves,” Camacho said. Although the Women Center staff doesn’t have documented proof, they rationalize why the increase took place. “The theory is that toward the end of graduation, the abuser doesn’t want them to be independent,” Camacho said. It’s the abusers insecurities that come into play and can’t allow for such a move away from his tight control.
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Survivor affected by terrorist attacks nREMEMBRANCE: Film producer Dean Crago recalls Sept. 11 as the day that altered the way he sees life By Tiffany Powell
Daily Titan Staff Writer The images of the attack on the World Trade Center are hardly erasable in his mind. The screams, cries for help, visions of jumpers and muttered prayers have been branded to memory, captured by camera and scripted into history.
“I am constantly startled by loud noises,” said Dean Crago, a New Jersey film producer.. “When I walk down the street and hear a taxi honk I nearly jump off the curb.” Crago’s train had just pulled into the basement of the South Tower when the first plane hit. This was a typical day for him. He regularly takes the train to the WTC, then continues into town for video shoots at least twice a month. September 11 was different. It was not long after he stepped off the train that he became a witness to history. He often took the train from his home in Morristown, NJ to Hoboken. “I did not think anything of it when I put in my $1.50 and headed toward the
WTC for a regularly-scheduled video shoot,” Crago said. It was approximately 8:35 a.m. as the train pulled into the basement of the WTC. At this time, Crago got off the train and walked toward the escalator. When he arrived at the first level, he first noticed the smoke. “I really did not think much about the smoke, it really is not unusual for New York,” Crago said. By the time Crago reached the next floor, he noticed that the entire lobby was filled with smoke. At the time he thought that it could be a store fire: Police officers were yelling at everyone to evacuate the building. Crago, still in disbelief that he was in
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harm’s way, walked outside into heaps of glass and falling debris. Skies that were clear only thirty minutes earlier were now filled with flying papers and falling debris. “I looked up and saw fire, smoke and a gaping hole, at the time I thought it was a bomb,” Crago said. Still too close for comfort he walked across the street. It was only moments after standing in the park gazing at the tower in disgust that he witnessed people beginning to jump. “That was the worst. To see people jump 80 or 90 stories, knowing that they had to make the decision between fire and jumping,” Crago said. At this point he was forced to look
away. He picked up his cell phone and began to call home to speak to Sue, his wife of six years, only to get a busy signal. Just as he was hanging up the cell phone, the second plane hit the North Tower. He looked up just as it entered the building. Huge balls of flames were coming out the other side. Everyone was frantic. It all happened so quickly, screams were heard in all directions. Everyone began running in terror. “We could not move fast enough, people were trampled on. Some were stopping to help, thank God,” Crago said. It was not until he was two blocks
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