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Tax courses available at Irvine camnEDUCATION: CSUF satellite campus will provide classes to earn an MBS for the College of Business

By Sabrina Sakaguchi

Daily Titan Staff Writer Earning a master’s degree in business recently got a little easier for south Orange County’s working executives, thanks to Cal State Fullerton’s Extended Education program.

Located in one of the hubs of Orange County’s professional soci-

ety, the College of Business and Economics (CBE) now offers in Irvine courses for a master’s of science in taxation.

Extending to Irvine was a matter of necessity, said accounting professor Tom Johnson.

He said that 75 percent to 80 percent of Orange County’s accounting firms have offices located within five to eight miles of the Extended Education facility.

“Orange County is a congested place,” Johnson said. “A number of potential students were discouraged to come to Fullerton and slog their way through traffic.”

According to the Extended Education Web site, www.takethe lead.fullerton.edu, Irvine has around 2,000 firms with an estimated 35,000

employees.

Faculty Coordinator and Accounting Professor Michael Moore said most of the students enrolled in the Irvine program are accountants or business professionals who want to improve their knowledge of taxation.

He said, through the Irvine program, “they get a fairly broad knowledge in taxation.”

Courses cover almost every area of taxation a business professional would need to know, focused mostly on tax planning and practice, he said.

Unlike other educational programs, the taxation program gets a second spring break during the tax season.

Currently, only one course

is being offered for the program.

The 40 enrolled professionals are focused on helping their clients file tax returns before the April 15 deadline.

“We geared the program for students,” Moore said. “There is a hiatus during March and most of April.”

Moore said the field of taxation has gained a growing interest from the business professional field.

He said professionals who work in taxation are not only interested in taxes, but like learning about American laws.

There are an infinite amount of issues and problems that arise with taxation, but Moore said finding solutions to these problems is what taxation professionals enjoy doing.

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“They like the challenge of dealing with a lot of uncertainty,” he said. “They like to play games and find some answers to things that solve their clients’ problems.”

Included in the courses offered and required for the taxation master’s are taxation of corporations, partnerships and state gifts.

Students also learn about tax research, taxation planning and how U.S. taxation changes with international trade.

The 10-course program in Irvine follows the same guidelines and requirement as its parent program at CSUF, Johnson said.

In addition to south Orange County tax practitioners, many of the same full-time faculty will be teaching the primarily evening

courses at the Irvine location.

“This is an effort to serve the professional accounting community,” Johnson said.

The Irvine program is housed in the Irvine Spectrum along with a number of research, development and manufacturing companies.

The facility’s Web site boasts of comfortable classrooms, a computer lab and an abundance of free parking.

Other CSUF classes and certificate programs being offered at the Irvine location include: Survey of e-Business Practices, eMarketing Strategy & Techniques, e-Public Relations, e-Government, Marketing to the Hispanic Consumer, Java Programming, Web Page Development and Microsoft Access.

Dept. mourns CSUF alumnae nOBITUARY: Claire Ihara, wife of Asian American studies chair loses battle with advanced myeloma

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showed support and was very involved in the [Asian-American studies] program, even though she didn’t have to,” Fujita Rony said.

J. Michael Russell, chair of the department of philosophy, described Ihara as an articulate woman who had a real interest in people. He got to know her through Craig Ihara, who is also a professor in philosophy.

By Afni Adnan “The most common feature is visual Daily Titan Staff Writer — the curiosity and sparkle in the way she would make eye contact,” Russell Claire Ihara, a Cal State Fullerton said. “She would look at you in a way graduate and wife of Craig Ihara, chair that would make you feel she was really of the Asian-American studies program, interested and really liked you.” passed away on Feb. 25 from plasma cell Friends remembered Ihara as a gentle leukemia, an advanced form of multiple soul who conducted herself with grace. myeloma.

“I do not recall her ever raising her Not one to surrender to self-pity, she voice or expressing herself with any boldly fought the illness harshness,” Russell said. for more than a year but “No doubt she did so, continued to help others. but that is not part of my She was 56. image of her.”

Ihara was born in She married Craig in Chicago on Sept. 25, 1968 and the couple spent 1945, not long after her their first year of marriage family left an internment in Hong Kong. They camp in Colorado. relocated to Los Angeles Ihara’s parents, Misao and spent four years there and Isao Harada, moved before settling in Yorba back to California to farm Linda in 1973. when she was an infant.

The Iharas were a wellShe attended San Jose traveled couple, having Ihara City College and San Jose visited and lived in Asia State University, where she and Europe, as well as other majored in art. She earned her bachelor’s parts of the U.S. degree in photojournalism at CSUF in Over the years, Ihara worked as a 1974. bookkeeper, a photo lab technician, a Friends described her as quiet and video store manager and even managed reserved, but comfortable to be around. and owned an apartment complex. But “She had a great sense of humor,” said more than anything, she was a caring and Thomas Fujita Rony, a professor in the supportive wife.

Asian-American studies program.

Ihara’s memorial service was at the He also said that she made him feel Orange County Buddhist Church in welcomed to the relatively new program, Anaheim last Friday. In lieu of flowwhich was established about six years ers, donations can be made to the ago. The Iharas also helped establish an Ihara endowment through the CSUF endowment fund for the Asian-American University Advancement. and philosophy study programs.

She is survived by her husband, Craig, “She wasn’t an academic, but she and her brother, Chris Harada.

Students take on beach cleannENVIRONMENT: As part of a project, 45 people gathered in Long Beach for two hours to pick up trash

By Laila Derakhshanian Daily Titan Staff Writer

Tubes of chapstick, bottles of plastic and glass and various articles of clothing were some items people gathered as they cleaned up Alamitos Beach, Saturday.

As part of “Project Earth,” monthly volunteer services coordinated by students, to help clean up the environment, 45 people gathered for the beach cleanup at the shoreline and ocean in Long Beach.

During the two hours of cleanup, 52

bags of trash were collected. Other pieces picked up were markers, cotton swabs and cigarette butts.

“I found cups, knives, spoons and Gatorade bottles,” said Melinda Brown assistant director of Residents Life for Shenan Doah University. “Enough stuff for a picnic.”

Individuals from all over the nation, including some that had never seen the ocean, came together to help.

“It’s my first time in California,” said Scott Nelson, a graduate student at Central Missouri State University. “I’m just trying my best wherever I go.”

Before everyone started collecting trash, Mike Murphy a speaker for the Surfrider Foundation, briefed volunteers about the destruction of beaches.

“The behavior that we engage inland has a profound effect on our beaches,” Murphy said. “We are protectors of the coast.”

Murphy said cigarette butts have

become a major issue because marine animals mistake the butts as food and often feed the butts to their offspring blocking their digestive track, making them ill or even starve to death.

“It’s just another reason to not smoke,” said volunteer Mike Espinoza.

Sabrina Sanders, coordinator for Volunteer Services, and Victor Lopez, program director for Project Earth, helped organize the event.

Sanders said that a group usually picks up trash from Huntington Beach. They provided bags, rubber gloves and refreshments for the volunteers as well as motivation to all that attended.

“This is a significant environmental cleaning,” Sanders said. “We picked up a lot of glass. We have to keep our environment clean and make sure that it stays clean.”

Toward the end of the event, volunteers gathered around the CSUF table and discussed their experience and what

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they found.

“There’s stuff out here that you don’t think about,” said junior Christy Stewart.

“A bird was debating whether or not to eat a piece of rope. It’s a scary thought.”

Despite the wind, it seemed that the layers of trash hidden in the sand never ceased to appear. Most said they were surprised at what they found or didn’t find.

“I thought I’d find more people helping out here,” said Jensen Omana, a nursing student at Cypress College. “These beaches should be cleaned up more. In less than two hours I found beer bottles, zig-zags (tobacco rolling papers) and a syringe.”

The majority reflected that they felt that they had made a difference.

“This has created a more conscious awareness for these people,” Sanders said. “Hopefully it will change lifestyles.”

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A woman cleans up trash at Alamitos Beach on Saturday.

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BRIEFS CSUF gets new auditor Appointed by President Milton Gordon and effective on March 11, Alexander G. Tzoumas, a certified internal auditor, became director of internal audit for Cal State Fullerton.

Tzoumas, a former manager of the internal audit for the University of Colorado at Boulder, will manage and provide oversight to the university’s internal audit program.

The purpose of the audit program is to improve university operations, maximize revenues and reduce cost.

Tzoumas will report to the president and act as a liaison for audits conducted by external auditors, including the state controller, state auditor and the California State University Office of the university auditor.

While at the University of Colorado, Tzoumas oversaw the financial, operational, compliance and departmental audits for the university. He also performed all fraud investigations and assisted with the development of a fraud policy for the university.

Prior to the University of Colorado, Tzoumas was the director of finance at Humana Health Care in San Antonio.

Tzoumas has also served as assistant vice president for auditing and loan review at Santa Barbara Bank Trust and was audit section chief for the state of Texas.

Tzoumas is a member of the Association of College and University Auditors Board of Directors. Beyond being a certified internal auditor, he is also a certified fraud examiner and information systems auditor.

Tzoumas holds a MBA from Golden Gate University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting

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American studies professor named Fulbright scholar As one of approximately 2,000 recipients of Fulbright scholar awards, Leila Zenderland, a professor of American Studies, will travel to Germany to conduct research and to teach courses at the University of Bremen.

The Fulbright Program, which seeks to “build mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and the rest of the world,” has enabled 88,000 Americans who have studied, taught or conducted research abroad and 146,000 students, scholars and professionals from the other countries to exchange their knowledge since establishment in 1946.

Recipients of the awards are selected based upon their academic or professional achievements and demonstration of substantial leadership potential in their fields.

While at the University of Bremen, Zenderland will teach courses on “American Culture Through Social Science” and “The Culture of the American South” from March through July.

Zenderland will also conduct research on the comparative history of the social sciences in Germany and the United States in the decades between World War I and World War II. Zenderland is the second Cal State Fullerton faculty member selected for an award for the 2001-2002 year.

Zenderland holds a doctorate degree in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the CSUF faculty since 1981.

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CAL E NDAR OF E NTS C ALEN D AR O F EVE VENTS Community The Placentia Founders Society presents the Da Capo Players at the Bradford House in Placentia, March 24 at 3 p.m.

For more information, call (714) 993-2470.

The Fairplex in Pomona presents the KM Showerks Doll and Craft Show in Fairplex 4, March 22-24. For more information, call (909) 623-3111.

The Santa Monica Playhouse will have acting workshops for young people ages 6-14 during spring break. For more information, call (310) 394-9779.

The Grand Central Art Center presents the play “How I learned to Drive” March 14 to 24 at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 with advance Titan discount. For more

information, call (714) 278-3371.

The Pomona Arts Colony presents “Unwearables,” a ceramics exhibit by Nina Jun, March 9 through April 6, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the SCA Galleries in Pomona. For more information, log on to www.geocities.com/scagallery.

The Garden Grove Playhouse presents the comedy “The Nerd,” March 8 through 30, with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and a Sunday matinee March 20 at 2 p.m. Ticket prices are $12 for general admission and $11 for students and seniors.

For more information, call (714) 897-5122.

The Fairplex in Pomona presents a show by the Millard Sheets Gallery Tuesday through Sunday until March 31.

This is its second post-fair exhibit and it will include a sculp-

ture of Carl Milles. For more information, call (909) 865-4262.

Campus The Department of Music presents the Symphonic Band March 20 at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 with advance Titan discount. For more information, call (714) 278-3371.

The TSU presents the Titan Pride Bowling League every Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. starting March 20. This event is open for all faculty, staff and students and the cost per week is $9. For more information, call (714) 278-2144.

Counseling and Psychological Services will have a workshop on anxiety screening March 19 at 1 p.m. and March 21 at 2:30 p.m. in LH 210 G. For more information, call (714) 278-3040.

The College of Business & Economics will have an alumni mentor program March 20 at noon in the Alumni House. For more information, call (714) 2783295.

The Department of Music presents guest violist Minor Wetzel March 19 at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 with advance Titan discount. For more information, call (714) 278-3371.

The Career Planning & Placement Center will have a workshop on resume writing March 19 and 20 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call (714) 278-3121.

The Arboretum will have a gardening class for children ages 6-9, March 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Fee is $3 per child.

For more information, call (714) 278-3579.

CAL ECNDAR F E VE NTS OP BL O OTTER Monday, March 11

At 8:03 a.m., police responded to parking lot E to a non-injury call involving a burgundy Camry and a blue Daewoo.

Police responded to a call at 9:53 a.m., from the Science Lab Center where there were multiple activations with the smoke alarms in the building. No fire and no smoke were found and officials advised the dean’s office of trouble with the smoke detectors and a watch was done every 30 minutes.

Tuesday, March 12

At 10:43 a.m., a police officer was called to the computer lab in the library during closing time to help with an ongoing situa-

tion. A couple of days ago, a suspect physically shoved a student assistant who advised the suspect that the library was closing. The SA felt he was hacking into a computer. The suspect, in turn, shoved the SA and turned the computer off in time. Police responded and the suspect was described as a very thin, white male with balding grey, curly hair, wearing glasses.

He was suspected to be around 45 years of age and enters the library everyday from 2 p.m. until closing. Police have advised to be informed when suspect comes in again.

Campus police responded to parking lot A at 7:33 p.m., to a possible burglar. The suspect was described as stocky, 5’6”, wearing a dark jacket and dark

pants.

Wednesday, March 13

A forged decal was spotted in parking lot G at 11:03 a.m., on a black Chevy truck.

Campus police were called to another possible forged decal at 11:33 a.m. on a Toyota truck.

The decal was later confirmed as a stolen one.

At 3:46 p.m., a man was hit in the head by falling lumber while leaving 2600 E. Nutwood Ave. Police responded to the scene and the victim was taken to St. Jude.

Thursday, March 14

At 3:56 p.m., campus police found a red Cadillac with a forged

decal in Parking Lot I. Campus police responded to a vandalism call to parking lot C where a Saturn vehicle had been keyed.

Saturday, March 16

Police responded to West Campus Drive at 5:53 p.m., where a female in a maroon Sedan was not feeling well and had asked for medics. Her mother was called.

Campus police pulled a blue Isuzu Rodeo over and cited the driver for driving on a suspended license near Gymnasium Drive at 11:08 p.m.

Police got a call at 10:02 p.m. from Cypress Hall. A female stated she was receiving threatening

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History lecture rounds up ideas of Old nISSUES: American Studies professor Allan Axelrad spoke about American-Indian fiction and its theories

By Deborah Germinaro Daily Titan Staff Writer

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Allan Axelrad spoke about the Old West and its theories Friday in the Ruby Gerontology Center.

Cal State Fullerton American Studies professor Allan Axelrad teaches a course about the myth of the American west. It is a subject he said he takes very seriously.

On Friday, students from the Continuing Learning Experience (CLE) had a chance to listen to Axelrad and his theories on the subject.

He presented a slide show and gave a lecture entitled “James Fenimore Cooper and the Myth of the American West” in the Ruby Gerontology Center.

“The myth of the West and the history of the West are very different and we understand little if we confuse the myth with the reality,” Axelrad said.

The lecture took an in-depth look at Cooper’s series of novels about an imag-

Drinking surveys may mislead facts nCSU: Many college students reported that they do not consume as much alcohol as several studies show

By Chris Dunn

Daily Titan Staff Writer CSU Chancellor Charles Reed takes action on CSU campus drinking, but most students say they don’t drink as much as some studies report.

Last February, Reed signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that outlined seven steps toward reducing dangerous practices involving students and alcohol. CSU, along with six state agencies, addressed the consequences of high-risk drinking and loss of potential students.

“Alcohol abuse on university campuses continue to threaten the health and academic success of students, and has a negative impact on the campus and surrounding communities,” Reed said.

The MOU, now in effect, has

brought a broad spectrum of activities, including educational efforts, prevention programs and activities both on and off the campuses.

Some strategies that are included in the MOU are collecting campus alcohol data every two years and reporting the findings to the chancellor; training faculty and resident advisers, coaches, peers and student-affairs professionals to understand and spot drinking problems in students; informing new students and their parents of alcohol policies before they arrive on campus.

This, according to the MOU will impact a positive awareness of oncampus drinking.

The extent of the involvement of the MOU will vary from campus to campus, depending on the assessed needs of each university.

Within the last three years, there have been three reported alcohol deaths at CSUs across the state— including most recently Chico State University and San Diego State University.

“It’s (the MOU) bringing attention to alcohol and drug issues and will unify all CSU campuses,” said Susan Cohen, director of health promotion for the Campus Coalition on Substance

Abuse. “While it will unify the system phenomenally, it’s unfortunate it had to come out of a person’s death.”

Opposed to what Reed and other CSU faculty said, student drinkers said they are not consuming that much alcohol. An excessive drinker has five or more drinks in one night, according to Harvard University's School of Public Health.

“It’s an opinion on how many drinks makes an excessive drinker,” said Sergio Rivas, a communications major.

According to the nationwide study, Harvard School of Public Health conducted by Henry Wheschler, 65 percent of college students are binge drinkers according to the definition.

Among men, 50 percent are labeled as binge drinkers; among women the number is 39 percent.

Statistically, there could be some misconception to these results and results of binge drinking at CSU, according to BACCHUS (which used to stand for boosting alcohol consciousness concerning the health of university students) Peer Education Network.

“Surveys are often misinterpret-

ed by the overestimation of drinks consumed by college students,” said Drew Hunter, executive director of the BACCHUS Peer Education Network.

Polls of college students who drink versus those who do not are not properly surveyed. For instance, asking students if they drink or do not drink, researchers would go to local bars rather than the campus library to find an accurate measure of drinking.

“This misrepresents the non-drinking and drinking community,” Hunter said.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the age span of 18 to 21-year-olds account for the heaviest period of alcohol consumption for most drinkers in the United States – although in California and the rest of the United States, it is illegal for anyone to drink under age 21.

Alex Mensour, a graduate student, said drinking in moderation should be acceptable.

“If you do want to drink just limit it to one a day, if you need it relax,” Mensour said.

inary Indian named Leatherstocking.

The books include: “The Pioneers,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” “The Prairie,” “The Pathfinder” and “The Deer- Slayer.”

Taken together, Alxelrad said these novels narrate America’s first coherent mythology and America’s first great fictitious hero. The slideshow included artwork drawn primarily from the 19th century.

They depicted native life and the plight of the American Indians. The slides also elaborated on the ultimate demise of a once rugged and untamed wilderness through technological expansion.

Reading a passage from “Landscape and Memory” by Simon Schama, Alxelrad said, “Of one thing at least I am certain: that not to take myth seriously in the life of an ostensibly disenchanted culture like our own is actually to impoverish our understanding of our shared world.”

In his book, Schama addresses a pessimistic view that the West treated the earth primarily as an obedient machine, engineered to satisfy their wants.

One idea Axelrad said he was trying to get across is that while myth and reality need to be kept separate in the

literal sense, it is important that individuals understand the myth comes out of the foundations of truth and historical actualities.

“I chose to come to this lecture because it is one of my favorite periods in American history,” said former history teacher and CLE student Don Fallis.

Axelrad spoke about two characters from “The Last of the Mohicans” that fall in love but are killed before they can marry — Cora Munro, who is part white and part black, and Uncas, who a is Mohican Indian.

Axelrad said that in the novel, Cooper acknowledged that it is a great American tragedy because the two characters represent the possibility of bringing together the different races, but by killing them the idea of separatism and racism continues.

Axelrad liked lecturing to CLE because those students would have a better perspective of the material than his college students. “[The CLE students] are more likely to have read the novel ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ and my students are more likely to have seen the movie with Daniel Day Lewis,” Axelrad said. “The movie destroys the message that Cooper

Binge Drinking on College Campuses

Is it serious?

• College presidents agree binge drinking is the most serious problem on campus.

• In 1999, Harvard University’s School of Public Health College Alcohol Study surveyed students at 119 colleges. Here are some of the findings:

Who binges?

• Forty-four percent of U.S. college students engaged in binge drinking during the two weeks before the survey.

• Fifty-one percent of the men drank five or more drinks in a row • Forty percent of the women drank four or more drinks in a row • Students more likely to binge drink are white, age 23 or younger, and are members of a fraternity or sorority. If they were binge drinkers in high school, they were three times more likely to binge in college.

• The percentage of students who were binge drinkers was nearly uniform from freshman to senior year, even though students under 21 are prohibited from purchasing alcohol.

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Free legal advice offered at Fullerton nCOMMUNITY: The ‘I-CAN!’ database is a resource for individuals who need help in small claims court procedures

By Conchita Viado

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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The I-CAN! system allows people to look for free legal advice at the Fullerton Main Library branch.

Local residents are now able to receive free legal advice from the Fullerton Main Library.

The Interactive Community Assistance Network or I-CAN! is a small claims adviser designed for litigants using small claims courts in the surrounding cities in Orange County. The service is available to all citizens. However, its intent is to provide greater access to legal services for low-income residents. “(I-CAN!) is a legal resource on an online database that deals with small claims and other legal issues,” said head librarian Tim Mountain. “It’s geared towards the average person so that they can do a lot of self-help in the legal area.”

The library offers two forms of the

I-CAN! system. The basic system is located on the desktop and allows users the ability to receive information on simple legal services such as where to file claims, directions to courts, how to request a restraining order and how to amend a claim. It also gives general information regarding small claims procedures, assists users on how to prepare a case and it provides definition of legal terms.

In addition to basic legal services, the I-CAN! system located on the Internet provides specific information on more complex legal issues. It includes information on how to file paternity tests, how to attain custody or visitation rights, how to sue over bad checks, legal fee waivers, eviction defense and how to file for the services of a district attorney. It also provides the necessary pre-and posttrial forms.

“The [good] thing about it is that it has some really cool features,” said librarian Kyle Samudio. “There’s an audio-visual tutorial that basically tells you what to do.”

The library is also in the process of upgrading the system so that it will include more than basic legal services. This upgraded system will

allow access to more databases aside from small claims. By next month, it will also include headphones that will allow users to hear the interactive tutorial.

The basic I-CAN! system can be accessed on the desktops of computers in the lobby area. More specific information can be found on Internetcapable computers. Both systems are located on the sit-down workstations in the Fullerton Main Library.

Mountain said he is hopeful that people will take advantage of the system. However, he said he feels that because of lack of publicity, the system has not been heavily used. The library is in the process of promoting the system so that more people will know of its availability.

A sponsorship from an Orange County organization allows public facilities the opportunity to give citizens free access to the system. Also, in an effort to better serve people, the basic and Internet systems are available in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. “[The I-CAN! system] is a great resource for local legal matters,” said librarian Kurt Keesling.

Online Renowned researcher becomes dean nutrition course coming nPROMOTION: Roberta Rikli will take charge of the College of Human Development and Community Service

By Maria Ragas

nINTERNET: The new class will teach the benefits a vegetarian diet can have on an individual’s lifestyle

By Veronica Hagey

Daily Titan Staff Writer Imagine taking a course this summer without leaving your house. Do the work at your convenience, whenever you have time.

A vegetarian nutrition course offered through the University of Alabama over the Internet, begins this summer. The course is offered to anyone who has access to a computer.

Adjunct instructor Brie TurnerMcGrievy, a registered staff dietician with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), will teach the course.

PCRM is a national health organization founded in 1985 and is based in Washington, D.C. According to PCRM, although the course is geared toward nutrition, medical and health students, it is open to anyone interested in health and nutrition.

The course will cover the benefits of a vegetarian diet including how a plant-based diet can benefit an athlete’s lifestyle.

The course will also cover how to achieve and maintain a healthy weight through a vegetarian-based diet, and outline how the diet can provide a base for optimal health. Skill development, menu planning, diet evaluation and client counseling techniques will also be taught throughout the online course.

The course may appeal to people who don’t have access to such a course, those who are homebound or those who have time constraints.

The attraction to an online course is its convenience, students said.

“Online courses can be taken anytime and I could fill in the gap between certain classes,” said Annette Arnesen, a political science major. “I have a daughter and the Child Care Center on campus closes by 7 p.m. I could fit an online course in between classes.”

Not all online courses are taught the same way. A sample lesson is available on the Web site.

“I’ll usually have a lesson plan that I’ll put up on the Web site twice a week, like on Tuesday and Thursday,” Turner-McGrievy said. “Then the students would have a week to complete the activity and turn it in.”

Avoiding parking problems is another appeal of online courses.

“Taking an online course means I wouldn’t have to deal with finding parking,” said Danielle Willison, a theater arts major.

Enrollment has been set up through the University of Alabama’s distance learning and can be accessed through two Web sites, www.vegetarian course. org or bama.disted.ua.edu/goals.

There are no pre-requisites for the college level course.

The class will be taught in summer 2002, from June 4 through July 6.

Tuition is $410, which includes a $20 registration fee.

Additional information and registration is available on the Web sites.

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Growing up in a small Oklahoma farm community taught Roberta Rikli what she needs to be successful in her new position.

“To work hard, to be fair and honest, how to deal with the good times as well as the bad, to stay positive, to not whine or blame others and to be nice to everyone,” Rikli said about her lessons learned.

President Milton Gordon appointed Rikli — a researcher, professor of kinesiology and health promotion — as the dean of the College of Human Development and Community Service, effective July 1.

Gordon said what made Rikli stand

out over the other candidates was her experience and her degree of success.

“She has good plans and ideas about moving the college into the future,” Gordon said. “The confidence that her fellow workers have toward her is really impressive. Everyone really believes that she will move everything forward.

Without any doubt she is going to be a positive addition.”

As dean of HDCS, she will lead a college that includes the Division of Child, Family and Community Services; Department of Nursing; the School of Education; the Division of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, which she currently chairs; the Military Science Program; the Center for Successful Aging; and the Center for Collaboration.

“I’m thrilled to have been selected for this position and look forward to all that lies ahead,” Rikli said. “All my life I’ve thrived on new challenges and expect that this one will be equally challenging and equally rewarding.

“Most of all though, I look forward to working with the dedicated and talented faculty and staff in this college. Together, I’m convinced we will move forward regardless of the challenges faced and,

hopefully, will have fun doing so.”

Rikli said her main priority is to recruit and retain quality faculty and staff. She hopes the college will increase the ethnic diversity among faculty.

“With world populations becoming less and less isolated, it is important that our graduates be prepared to communicate and operate effectively within many cultures,” she said.

She said the main contribution a dean can make is to help facilitate department level goals and activities. Over the years, Rikli received international recognition for her research in aging and mobility.

She served as an officer in International Society for Aging and Physical Activity and was president of two organizations, one being for the National Council and Aging.

Rikli has also been recognized by organizations such as the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).

Following a nationwide search for the dean position, Thomas Klammer, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences headed the nine-member committee that recommended Rikli for the appointment.

“The college faces many challenges,” he said. “Of all the candidates we considered for the position of dean, Dr. Rikli was most persuasive in presenting a compelling vision for its future.

Her experience and energy will galvanize and inspire HDCS faculty and staff. I expect her to lead her college to a new level of accomplishment during this decade.”

In addition to being a teacher, researcher and fund-raiser in her field, she was involved in many campuswide activities. She served on university committees such as Academic Senate Executive Committee, Faculty Personnel Committee, the University Planning Committee and Budget Committee. “[Rikli] will bring extensive experience and deep knowledge to the job, but she will also take a fresh perspective in leading the college,” Klammer said.

Potential contributory factors regarding her aging and mobility field give Rikli the motivation to better serve society.

“As we are finding out, it’s becoming more, not less, important as we age in later years,” she said.

To her knowledge, Rikli developed

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the first fitness and aging class in the mid- 1980s. She published her first work in the late 1980s.

Nearly 40 years ago, Rikli was a teacher and a tennis coach in a New York high school.

Her first college teaching job was at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. This first college job motivated her to go back to school and earn her doctorate.

Rikli received her bachelor’s degree in Health and Physical Education from Phillips University School in Oklahoma and her master’s degree was obtained at Indiana University in Bloomington.

She received her doctorate in higher education with an emphasis on measurement and research design from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1972.

That same year, Rikli joined Cal State Fullerton as an assistant professor.

She said the school came highly recommended from colleagues before she even accepted the job.

“After I got here, I found out it was a special place to work and was fortunate to be in such a supportive and friendly environment,” Rikli said with a smile.

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Student conference

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nCAMPUS: The event will focus on proper manner techniques in both professional and social surroundings

By Theresa Salinas

Daily Titan Staff Writer‑ The next time the Dalai Lama visits Cal State Fullerton, students will know how to greet him.

Susan Katsaros, a certified corporate etiquette and international protocol consultant, will teach students how to mingle, shake hands and greet leaders during the “Developing Leaders for a Changing World” conference Friday.

Katsaros, a CSUF public affairs associate, and dozens of faculty members and community leaders, will pass on vital business etiquette tips to students during the day-long conference, which takes place in the Titan Student Union.

“If you don’t use business etiquette guidelines, you can sabotage some of your business chances,” Katsaros said. “But the environment has changed. People are not learning

about the importance of good manners anymore.”

For the first time, the conference is only open to CSUF students. In years past, the event was open to community members and local community college students.

Speakers also had to submit proposals this year, detailing what they would speak about. Juanita Razo, conference coordinator, reviewed the proposals to determine if they were interactive, engaging and relative to leadership. About 30 people submitted applications and 28 were accepted.

“The changes were made so that we could focus on the needs specific to Cal State Fullerton,” Razo said. “I wanted to be able to present topics at the conference that are current and happening now.”

The conference, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., will be split into six sessions. Topics include “Celebrating Diversity on Campus,” “Passionate Leadership,” “Your Attitude Will Determine Your Destiny,” “How to Connect to People” and “Are You a Global Leader?”

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ing leaders (those beginning to develop their leadership skills), intermediate leaders (students who are involved with campus or community activities) and advanced leaders (student leaders who want to refine their skills).

“Students are going to learn great skills,” Razo said. “They’ll be getting information that will help them learn more about themselves and the types of skills they need to affect the community.”

Applications are available in the Dean of Students Office, TSU 235.

The cost is $10. Scholarships are available for students with financial hardships.

The event is sponsored by the Dean of Students Office, which holds a leadership conference each March.

CSUF alumnus Octavio Corona said that the conference presents vital, useful information for students. Corona graduated from CSUF in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He now works for the City of Santa Ana. “In business, you have to interact with people in a certain way,” he said. “It would’ve been helpful to know how to do that before graduating.”

Science teacher is given $530K nGRANT: Barbara Gonzalez receives a new faculty career development award for chemistry study The National Science Foundation recently honored an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

Barbara Gonzalez, who specializes in science education at Cal State Fullerton, will receive the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award­– NSF’s most prestigious award for new faculty members.

Gonzalez will also receive a five-year $530,000 grant to pursue research that is designed to aid students in their study of chemistry.

“This is a wonderful award for professor Gonzalez” said Kolf Jayaweera, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. “It recognizes her potential to make a significant contribution to enhancing curriculum design and the art of teaching science.”

The program is open to educators who have received a doctorate within the last five years. Gonzalez was the only faculty member in the CSU to receive the honor and one of 10 science educators to get the award in any category.

Gonzalez’s NSF-funded research will address a problem experienced by students who learn chemistry, connecting visual and mental representations of molecules and atoms for easier understanding. Recipients of the award are selected on a basis of career development plans integrating research and education. The program acknowledges and supports early career development activities of teacher scholars.

Gonzalez started teaching at the university in the fall of 1999. She earned her doctorate from UCLA in 1998 and received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from USC. She spent 15 years teaching chemistry, science and mathematics in high school throughout Southern California.

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Wheelchair does not disable her spirnSTRENGTH: CSUF counselor accepts her degenerative disease and continues to build a future for herself

By Elana Pruitt

Special to the Titan “I can drive- just get in,” she urged her father. It was five years ago and right after the doctor told him to resist any strenuous activity that could do him in for good. The disagreement between Lisa Thies and her father almost led them to disaster. He persisted to prove to his 41year-old daughter that his coordination was better than hers, but if they fell to the ground Lisa’s structure would crack and her father’s heart would stop pumping. She knew that her father would be embarrassed to witness a three-and-ahalf foot adult crawl into the driver’s seat, even as his own body was failing him.

Unable to resist his force, Lisa realized that her independence as a disabled person lost meaning when confronted with a shameful father.

They both have it, she thought; osteogenesis imperfecta – the disease that brittles bones and weakens the human form, so why does he think he’s healthier and more “normal?” Because Lisa chose to live life on wheels, her parents resent that she’s different and comfortable with her lifestyle. But living on the other side of the country and away from the slow-moving Indiana keeps Lisa’s spirits from breaking. What used to be loving support, now makes her shudder.

Her mother’s recently developed bipolar

condition mixed with her father’s “we wanted Lisa to be self-sufficient but she took it too far” mentality, has changed her forever. She will never return home.

Viewing herself as average among those with congenital osteogenesis imperfecta, she places herself on middle ground. The disease ranges in degree from the mild condition like her father’s foot pain to those with weak skeletons that shatter with a simple touch.

Elementary school, junior high and high school did not discourage Lisa from challenging the medically set boundaries telling her she could never walk. Trying to walk among taller society, the brownhaired rebel braced metal poles for her dear life. But her frequent accidents of falling down only frustrated her with trying to fit in to what was supposed to be normal. At 17 years old, she finally told her parents: “I’ve made the conscious decision to permanently sit down,” and did so with a manual wheelchair. As her maternal grandmother tried to keep Lisa on her feet, she only stayed rooted in her resolution. When college shadowed upon Lisa, she turned to the motorized and powerful chair because of its accessibility and a predicted busy schedule.

Lisa proudly grew to be self-reliant.

From early on, Lisa knew that she wanted to pursue a higher education.

And with perseverance, she was determined to prove to herself and the Thies family that she would not be less than a success. Although she did not arrive in the sunny land of California until 1985, she still managed to be on her own in college while she lived in Indiana.

At Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, Lisa received her bachelor’s degree in speech pathology, embarking on a leadership position in the “Student Life” office on campus. The supervi-

sor told Lisa that the “support services were not that extensive” and welcomed the student’s help. Responsible in many areas of counseling and answering questions, Lisa oversaw the disabled student group, which helped her relate to others with similar conditions. But most of all, the role in guiding others toward self-acceptance interested her to study psychology in graduate school. She completed her master’s degree at Judson College in Illinois and graduated in love with the ideal of guiding others towards success. Originally entering grad school in Illinois to track down a man she was interested in, she ended up uniting with his friend Ken who is now her husband of 18 years.

“Wanna race?” “No speeding!”

Lisa’s usual annoyances with the closed-minded sector of society diminish everyday, as she has chosen not only to ignore insults, but does not acknowledge negativity. She has moved on, owning a strict policy about curiosity.

Children, ages two through four, are fine in asking Lisa questions about her disease, after all the younger ones’ judgment level is hardly developed leaving them innocently interested. But when the five to seven-year-olds stare at her with critical eyes, then look away from her as if she is the disease rather than a person living with a medical condition, the blame is solely on the parents.

“It’s OK if you have questions, but staring is rude and shows that you are ill mannered,” Lisa continuously tells to parents and children alike.

The story about a young girl who rose to be a free thinker and an independent woman has slapped her parents in the face – she has become the daughter of critical and prejudiced parents. An allof-a-sudden resentment toward Lisa’s

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accomplishments by her parents bewilders Lisa everyday – she was raised to be “normal.” But with her parents experiencing their own threatening, health problems – a look at Lisa’s life is unimaginable to them and embarrassing.

Scared of having children after Lisa, her parents chose to keep Lisa as their single pride and joy. A maternal aunt and her Indianapolis cousin, David, now keep Lisa’s spirits high, as she realizes that a once familiar home has turned into a barely unleashed nightmare.

Living everyday to its fullest, Lisa turns negative drawbacks into positive days of daily activities. Meeting with students at Cal State Fullerton as the counseling coordinator of the student support services, helping with sign language interpretation in classrooms and past responsibilities of utilizing the adaptive computer lab that supports brail, e-text and large-printed textbooks, Lisa is on two new missions. Working with Bob Emery on the deciding committee, Lisa is in support of installing a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD) in classrooms, where students hard of hearing can contact administration with questions or emergency necessities.

Also on Lisa’s agenda for CSUF is to help build a minor for disabled students, because the lifestyle crosses disciplines and cultures- history, sociology, anthropology and politics.

Maintaining the same positions at CSUF for 12 years, while also taking part in the Fullerton First Year Program for two to three years during her stay, Lisa’s experience on campus has proven to be worthwhile and comfortable. She has only encountered respect from students.

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Tanning beds have potential to be as harmful as sunlight nCANCER: Artificial tanning still exposes the skin to harmful ultraviolet rays that create melanoma cells

By Ryan Hoppe

Daily Titan staff writer The American Cancer Society recently published a study on skin cancer, at www.cancer.org linking ultraviolet rays emitted by the sun and indoor tanning devices to most types of skin cancer.

The Web site stated that ultraviolet radiation could be separated into two types.

Ultraviolet B is associated with sunburn while Ultraviolet A is recognized as a deeper penetrating radiation.

According to the ACS, the sun along with ozone layer deterioration and pollutants in the air, contain both types of ultraviolet radiation.

Due to its harmful effects on the skin, modern tanning beds are specifically built to filter out UVB, leaving only UVA radiation, the Web site stated. This process keeps customers from getting sunburn, but does not necessarily reduce the risk of skin cancer.

The ACS study also showed an association between UVA radiation and malignant melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. While tanning beds reduce the risk of cancer from UVB rays, they are ineffective when it comes to UVA radiation.

“It’s all bad for the skin,” said Misty Jones, an esthetician at the Burke Williams Day Spa in Mission Viejo and at West Dermatology in San Clemente.

As a skin care specialist, she applies face peel techniques and acne extractions to repair a patient’s skin. She

said that tanning under the sun and using a tanning bed are equally bad for your skin.

While studies have shown that UVB radiation can cause certain types of carcinoma and melanoma, UVA can also cause skin cancer. Jones said that it could also cause other skin problems such as liver spots, freckles, and premature aging.

Olivia Ochoa has never gone to a tanning salon. She doesn’t agree with the risks involved in tanning.

“I would just buy the lotions,” she said. “It’s easier to use.”

She said she would only use a tanning salon that had sunless tanning for a reasonable price.

Even though it has UV radiation, sunlight in the right amount is can be healthy.

“You can’t live in a cave,” Jones said.

When going out into the sun, Jones recommends wearing sunscreen with a Sun Protection Factor of 15.

“You can still get color if you wear SPF15,” she said. “The wisest thing is to protect yourself.”

There are two different types of sunscreen. Chemical sunscreen is absorbed by the skin and blocks UV radiation at the skin level. Physical sunscreen stays on top of the skin and stops UV rays from touching the skin.

Both are effective at blocking dangerous radiation.

Sunlight can also be a healthy thing.

Often, dermatologists use light therapy on patients to increase health. The body also requires a certain amount of sunlight to produce necessary amounts of vitamin D. Sunlight can brighten moods, Jones said.

“If you go outside and it’s a bright sunny day, you want to smile,” Jones said.

Sun Facts You can get sunburn even on a cloudy day.

Fresh snow reflects about 85% of sunrays.

You can burn while swimming.

Sun Protection: Use at least SPF 15 when outdoors.

Use a sunscreen that provides broad-spectrum protection from both UVA and UVB rays.

Who is at risk?

Those who have a personal or family history of pigmented skin blemishes or melanoma.

Fair complexion Freckling Severe childhood sunburn.

Large pigmented skin blemishes.

The ABCDs of Melanoma: Asymmetry: Melanoma lesions are typically irregular in shape.

Melanoma lesions often have Border: uneven boarders.

Melanoma lesions often contain Color: many shades of brown or black.

Diameter: Melanoma lesions are often about the size of a pencil eraser.

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Arboretum helps residents recynCSUF: A legislative bill requiring cities to keep compost out of landfills gets a hand from Titan’s facility

By Lisa Sleigh

Special to the Titan The Arboretum with its rolling green hills, flower gardens and pumpkin patch is not just a pretty face on the Cal State Fullerton campus. The Arboretum is helping local cities to comply with Assembly Bill 939, that requires the cities to cut down on waste and implement a recycling program.

Located on the northeast corner of CSUF, the Arboretum is a surprisingly quiet and tranquil slice of paradise. The 26 acres contain a botanical cornucopia — housing rare plants from around the world as well as indigenous plants of Southern California.

Its beauty acts as a perfect backdrop for residents of surrounding communities to receive educational classes.

As part of its charge and service to the community, the Arboretum schedules a variety of educational classes and events geared to both adults and children.

“The Arboretum is fulfilling its mission by providing education both in history and environmental horticulture,” said Janet Van Diest, Arboretum public relations and marketing spokeswoman.

Most every Saturday at 9:30 a.m. are the ongoing children’s gardening classes. On April 6, a class for adults entitled “Wild Flowers of the USA” will cover the impact that wild flowers have on the country. Bill Tidwell, associate professor of environmental studies and wildflower specialist, will teach the class.

Van Diest said the Arboretum selects classes on the basis of variety, availability of guest speakers and the surveys of those who attend the classes, to get an idea of what they would like to see in the future.

Van Diest said the most popular class is basic composting. It teaches residents to recycle green waste into what they call black gold.

“The class is so well-attended because the cities use us to satisfy their requirement of educating the community on the reuse of green waste,” Van Diest said.

Participating cities are Brea, Fullerton, La Habra, Orange and Santa Ana. In compliance with state bill AB939, the City of Fullerton started a program called the Backyard Home Composting Program said Virgina Viado, the city’s recycling coordinator.

The program allows local residents to attend the Arboretum’s compost class for free. As an additional incentive to actually get people actively participating in the program, a coupon is given to help cover the cost of a compost bin.

“Although we have curbside green waste pick up, the program does help to cut down on green waste going to the landfills,” Viado said. “The green waste that the disposal company picks up is used for non-nutritive cloth covering on the landfills preventing birds and rodents from overrunning those areas.”

The bill that passed in the late 1980s stated that Californians disposed of more than 38 million tons of solid waste, which is about to 1,500 pounds of waste per person.

Foreseeing no end to a growing waste problem, legislature declared in the bill that the management of the problem was to be shared by the state and local governments.

The goal of compost education is twofold: city compliance and the desire on the part of cities to cut down on the amount of waste going into local landfills.

Green waste containing leaves, grass clippings and even kitchen food scraps can be reused as a natural fertilizer in the home that it came from.

Van Diest said as long as meat scraps are not mixed in, it won’t even smell.

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The Daily Titan Our Voice Close off Nutwood Avenue Imagine a Cal State Fullerton where having a car plow into you as you walk from College Park to campus, isn’t an option. There would be no car because there would be no street.

The university has plans to close off Nutwood Avenue from the Marriott hotel to State College Boulevard and make it a pedestrian walk.

Of course these plans are in a very infant state. Paul Dudley, the director of development services for Fullerton, said it would take 18 to 24 months until city officials convene to approve or reject the idea. That meeting even depends on whether the traffic gods approve.

CSUF will soon pay traffic experts to determine whether or not closing the street would cause a violent vehicular insurrection because of angry drivers. Meanwhile the “traffic experts” should camp out on the side of the freeway where the 57 meets the 60 and where the 10 East meets every freeway known to man – solve

those traffic-ridden messes and then they may call themeselves experts.

Even if the traffic studies prove the project possible, Jay Bond, associate vice president for facilities management, said that two or three years is still “pretty quick.”

A year to wait for the new parking structure, a couple more for the new recreation center, a few more for the performing arts center…patience is not a virtue found in most college students.

Forget the traffic study and just shut down the street. Put up some concrete barracades on either end of the street tomorrow.

If you build it, they will find other routes to get where they need to go.

The school would still have at least three exits and entrances, and the students would have a fun frolic-filled pedestrian zone.

We can only dream the red-tape was that easy to cut.

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Mr. Zinni goes to the Middle East

By Benjamin Becker Special to the Titan

All the world is a stage and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the United States are making their dramatic debut this week.

Their roles? Sharon is acting like he welcomes United States mediation, Arafat is acting like he will agree with American-drawn plans for peace, and the United States is actually acting like it cares.

Being notified that U.S.-envoy Anthony Zinni would be arriving in a few short weeks to broker peace among Israelis and Palestinians, Sharon deployed 20,000 soldiers to the West Bank last week to get as many Palestinian fatalities in as he could before his war toys were taken away.

This is someone who is anticipating the peace talks?

In just these past few weeks, the number of fatalities has reached the highest in Israel’s last three decades as Sharon stepped up the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called Israel’s military action “illegal occupation” and reviewed vague plans for creating two separate states for Israel and Palestine independent of each other. Even President George W. Bush has criticized Israel’s attacks saying that they “weren’t helping matters.”

Arafat has not exactly been cooperative in past peace attempts either. Not only has he refused peace plans and cease-fires in the past, but his group first initiated the 18-month-long conflict after Palestinians began rioting after Sharon visited the Temple Mount, a holy Muslim site.

Arafat wears his policies and plans like a chame-

two groups?

And this, his third attempt, is preceded by the bloodiest fighting in Israel yet.

Zinni’s goal is to enforce the Tenet plan – a cease-fire plan drawn up by CIA director George Tenet last May – and assist the United Nations in smoothing things over among the two groups.

The United States seems awfully interested in helping IsraeliPalestinian matters now more than ever. Perhaps it’s because, while Vice President Dick Cheney is touring the Middle East to gather Arab support for invading Iraq, U.S. support for Palestine would surely rouse Arab interest and applause, which is tantamount to a “green light.”

“Go for it America,” the Arab world will say. “Bombs away in Iraq!”

It’s admirable what America is trying to do, but it isn’t practical. They may have forced Sharon Matthew Sedlar/Special to the Titan to withdraw Israeli tanks from Palestinian refugee camps, but once leon wears its skin – constantly changing to adapt to Zinni leaves the war-torn country, its surroundings. He can appear as an ascetic to his tanks will be en route to Ramallah, the Palestinian people, a man of principle, dignity and resistance, capital. or as an open and peaceful man, dastardly misunDo not mistake my skepticism for pessimism but derstood by the world and compliant with Western the retired U.S. general simply will not erase the intervention. His flexibility has now bent him conflict. beyond recognition.

This tangled web of confusion and violence Contorted leaders, distress and mayhem. The contains a myriad of problems that does not require Middle East is in dire need of mediation and rehabili- a “quick fix.” The Middle East has yet to put any tation. Who will nurse the wounded region? effort forward in resolving these fickle disputes of Did the United States just say Anthony Zinni? land and religion.

Zinni who, although considered an expert in Middle No outside power will magically untie the knot East relations and policy, has already failed twice in that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. the past four months at brokering a peace among the The knot needs to be undone by those who wear

Rosie O’Donnell’s “brave” ploy for publicity

By Melanie Bysouth

Daily Titan Sports Editor Bravery. It is a word that has been redefined for centuries.

People Magazine has redefined it again.

In a recent cover story, the magazine called Rosie O’Donnell’s declaration of homosexuality a “Brave Step.”

Is this how we are defining bravery now?

To admit to your parents that you are something they have always spoken against in church, is brave.

To stand up to your classmates and tell them the truth about your sexual orientation is brave.

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To move to Laramie, Wyoming and proudly declare your homosexuality is brave.

But the way Rosie O’Donnell is doing it just isn’t brave.

First of all, she may not have as much cash as Bill Gates but she could surely afford to not work for sometime.

Second, she is currently promoting her new book and any publicity is good publicity.

Finally, in May, the “Queen of Nice” will be ending her six-year run of “The Rosie O’Donnell show.”

What perfect timing.

No chance for the Midwest viewers to boycott and crash the ratings.

No chance for the advertisers to pull out and collapse the show.

No chance for the network to threaten cancelling the show.

What is brave about coming out now?

If it meant that much for her to be honest and prove she is not ashamed of her sexual orientation, why did she not do it sooner?

If someone has nothing to lose, how can they be considered brave?

Then there’s the book tour.

Much like Dennis Rodman in a wedding dress, Rosie has proven that celebrities will stop at nothing to make a sale.

She has taken what is quite often the most difficult moment in a person’s life and reduced it to a publicity stunt.

But what better way is there to get on “PrimeTime Live” and the “Today

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Show” than to shock the country with news most of us have known for years?

She may say that she is only doing this “for the children” but gay couples have been fighting for adoptive rights long before O’Donnell decided to come out. Why wait until now to step up, and out, and help?

She may be claiming her actions are for others but it is obvious that she is thinking only of herself.

She may be coming out because she feels it is time to do so, but the timing is too perfectly connected to the end of her show and the beginning of her book tour.

And though she may be claiming to be unashamed of her homosexuality, she should be ashamed of herself.

Tuesday, March 19, 2002

Topping’s dramatic blast ends nSOFTBALL: CSUF extends win-streak to 18 after 7-0 tournament finish

By Brian Thatcher

Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor The bus ride home from the 2002 Kia Klassic was a tough one for those who faced the Cal State Fullerton softball team.

The No. 9 Titans dominated the tournament, going a perfect 7-0. A 2-0 victory over the University of Texas secured Fullerton’s second-straight championship at the Kia and improved their unbeaten streak to 18.

In the first five games of the tournament, CSUF (27-9 overall, 3-0 in Big West) played virtually perfect on both offense and defense. They outscored their opponents, including No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 10 Fresno State, by a combined score of 36-2. In that span, the Titans committed only two errors and their pitchers combined for 46 strikeouts.

“I kept waiting to make a speech after a close game that we weren’t going to win big all the time,” Titan coach Michelle Gromacki said. “But the girls played well every game.”

The most dominant performance of the tournament came from All-American junior Jenny Topping. She went 16-23 on the tournament, including six home runs and 13 RBIs. She either knocked in or scored CSUF’s first run in every game of the tournament, including two firstinning home runs.

Where the Titans cruised through the rounds leading up to championship Sunday, they had to fight to pull out the final victories.

In the semi-final game, against No. 8 Arizona State, Fullerton ran the score to 7-2 through six. But the Titans let their

guard down.

They got two outs in the seventh but proceeded to allow three quick runs.

Starting pitcher Jodie Cox (8-4) looked tired and, with the winning run coming to the plate, got a rare visit to the mound from Gromacki.

The coach didn’t come out to chastise her team or to let them know the mistakes they had made. Instead she came out, threw her arms around her players in the huddle and asked a simple question.

“I asked Jodie if she could go,” she said. “I wanted to hear it from her. She said she could and I told her to do it.”

The talk seemed to work. Cox retired the next batter and the Titans won the game, 7-5.

But the fight for the title was just beginning.

Against Texas, Fullerton faced a starting pitcher, freshman Cat Osterman, who did what no other pitcher in the tournament could do, shut down their offense.

She had a no-hitter through six and two-thirds until Topping sent a 2-1 pitch back up the middle to break it up.

It was the second time this season the Titans faced Osterman. Back on Feb. 10, CSUF roughed up the freshman for six runs on eight hits, including three home runs, in just two and two-thirds innings of work.

But this time around it seemed as if she was a different pitcher all together.

“The difference today was her,” Gromacki said. “She’s a freshman and that was her first tournament. She got hit pretty well that weekend, but she made some adjustments and pitched great today.”

The Titan defense had another error-

CSUF ‘perfect’ over weekend

free game but starting pitcher Gina Oaks (13-2) allowed a double to start out the top of the fifth and looked like she was beginning to wear down. With the score tied at 0, Gromacki went to her bullpen and called on senior Christy Robitaille (6-3).

Robitaille retired the next three batters to end the inning.

It was a game Robitaille could very easily have started but was better suited in another capacity.

“My strength is coming out of the bullpen,” Robitaille said. “We knew this game was going to be a battle and we wanted to have a fresh arm to come out and stop any problems. They had their chances, but our defense held up. That’s the stuff I live for.”

And Texas did come close.

They had a runner in scoring position in the eighth and the bases loaded in the ninth but failed to push a run across.

In the bottom of the ninth, Osterman found herself in a jam of her own.

She walked Oaks with one out and brought Topping to the plate.

Topping proceeded to send a 1-0 pitch deep over the left field fence to end the game and the tournament.

“I have struck out to her many times throughout my career,” Topping said.

“So after striking out in my first two at-bats, I knew I had to shorten up my swing. She was pitching me over the outside part of the plate all day, so I made the adjustments and drove it.”

Fullerton next sees action when they return to Big West play, hosting Cal State Northridge Saturday, March 23. The first game of a doubleheader will begin at 1 p.m.

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The Texas’ infield combines to put out Titan third baseman Amy LaRocque in Fullerton’s 2-0 victory.

Two-year streak comes to an

nBASEBALL: Shortened series leaves Fullerton with a 13-9 overall record and a devasting loss

nGYMNASTICS: Fullerton completes regular season with record-setting meet in Titan Gym

By Maria Ragas

Daily Titan Staff Writer The Cal State Fullerton women’s gymnastics team made history Friday night when Joanna Hughes and Theresa O’Gara posted the first perfect 10s in the program’s 26-year history.

Fullerton’s 195.000, their secondhighest score of 2002, was more than enough for a first-place finish over Utah (192.825) in the Titans’ final home meet of the season.

“I think we really stayed together as a team, traveled together as a unit,” senior Megan Berry said.

“It was an all or nothing thing tonight.”

With only five competitors on the uneven bars, the Titans were forced to count their one fall. But that did not stop Hughes from earning herself a first place finish and CSUF their first-ever perfect 10.

Hughes said that it was a very good evening and a perfect way to finish up at home.

“I really wanted to get a 10 but I tried not to put too much pressure on myself,” she said. “I was so happy, [I] couldn’t ask for a better finish.”

Taking second, with a new career high of 9.925 was Berry. Utah’s Kirra Seeley came in third with a score of 9.875.

The Titans, for whom the balance beam has proven to be the most challenging apparatus of the season, had an near-flawless night, boasting

no falls and nabbing the top three spots.

Junior O’Gara’s performance earned her wild applause from the crowd following her record-breaking routine. Her perfect 10 was the first ever in her collegiate career and the second of the night for CSUF. Junior Kelly Mathiasen followed with a score of 9.900 and freshman Annette Reyes, scoring a 9.800, took third.

Knight said she thought the gymnasts did a phenomenal job on the beam.

“As the season goes on, [the girls] get more experienced in front of the judges,” she said.

All five CSUF gymnasts hit their vault routine, allowing senior Andrea Boggs the opportunity to not compete.

Boggs is currently recovering from a back injury and the rest may allow her to perform at the conference finals.

Boasting a 9.850 and taking first place was Hughes. Second belonged to Mathiasen with a score of 9.775 while Utah’s Jessenia Abrego finished third.

Knight said the girls performed well on the vault but she thought the judges were giving slightly lower scores. Hughes agreed.

“I was very happy with my performance but I wish the score had been a little higher,” she said.

The Titans’ last rotation of the evening was the floor exercise where

By Ricardo Sanchez Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer

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Senior Joanna Hughes’ bar routine made history Friday night.

Mathiasen’s performance earned her she is looking forward toward the first place and a score of 9.900. conference championship meet in Abrego of Utah took second with a Utah March 23rd. score of 9.850. Berry came in third Knight said it will be a dogfight with a score of 9.825. and the team will have to hit every“Honestly, I thought it was one of thing if they want to win. my best routines ever, even though Berry agrees and is looking forthe judges didn’t think so,” Berry ward to the meet. said. “I was very proud.”

“I don’t think we peaked yet as a After Friday’s victory, Boggs said team,” she said. “I want the team to

When leading a ball game after seven innings, the Cal State Fullerton baseball team hasn’t loss in 60 tries, not since March 7, 2000, to the University of Nevada.

As the Wolf Pack was there for the beginning of the streak, so were they there for the end and Saturday they stopped the Titans’ two-year run.

Fullerton traveled to Nevada over the weekend and came away with a split of two games, winning 5-4 Saturday afternoon, but losing 8-7 earlier in the day giving up a threerun lead in the eighth at Peccole Park.

The earlier meeting was a continuation of Friday night’s game, which was postponed in the fifth due to snow. Sunday’s game was snowed out and postponed with no make-up date scheduled.

The pitching of Darric Merell and the resurgence of Shane Costa’s offense helped the Titans hold off the Wolf Pack in the afternoon game.

Merrell struck out a season high seven batters and retired 13 over one stretch to improve to 4-2 on the season. He scattered seven hits and walked just one in 8.1 innings, but did allow two-run homers to catcher Craig Markel in the third and Tony Cappuccilli in the ninth. However, closer Chad Cordero picked up the final two outs in the ninth for his fifth save.

Costa nearly hit for the cycle

in the game but a five-run fourth inning was all the Titans needed to seal the win.

It started with a two-run shot

by Titan sophomore Richie Burgos.

Freshman Kurt Suzuki drove in a couple of runs with a soft single to center field and junior Jason Corapci chopped an RBI-single to left for the fifth run as the Titans collected six hits in the inning off losing pitcher Mateo Miramontes (2-3).

Friday night’s game started off with another quick offensive outburst by the Titans. They jumped all over Wolf Pack starting pitcher Darrell Dasner to lead 5-0.

After Corapci scored, Chris Klosterman laced a sinking line drive past left fielder Mike Hass for a two-run triple and Suzuki and Chris Stringfellow blasted consecutive run-scoring singles for a 5-0 edge–all with two outs But the Titans’ defense has deserted Wes Littleton since he went on a three-game win streak earlier in the season.

The Wolf Pack burned Littleton for three unearned runs in the third after shortstop Smyres was charged with a throwing error on a doubleplay ground ball.

Nevada closed the gap to 5-4 in the fourth then completed the comeback the next morning for the split.

Long Beach State will visit Goodwin Field this weekend for a three-game series beginning Friday at 7 p.m.

Titans practice patience on the tennis nVICTORY: Fullerton boasts win over Amherst College, 4-3, after four-hour competition at home

By Deborah Germinaro Daily Titan Staff writer

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Michelle Arndt (above) serves during her doubles victory Monday.

History repeated itself as the Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team beat Amherst College, matching last year’s score of 4-3.

This was a welcome victory after Friday’s disappointing 6-1 loss to Colorado State.

“I knew it was going to be close,” Titan coach Bill Reynolds said. “It all depended on who was going to rise to the occasion. [Close matches] put the girls on the spot, but as a team they stepped up to win it.”

Reynolds said that although this was a team victory, Adriana Hockicko could have easily said “the heck with it” and given up in the third set when the score was 13 but she fought back and won the next five games to claim the match and earn CSUF the much needed singles point.

Heather Hohenstein, even though she lost her match, also displayed the fighting spirit, coming back in her second set losing only 5-7.

“The first set all the games were really close, but I couldn’t win,” Hohenstein said. “I just wish I could have won. Once I got warm I started playing better. I basically just had to try to hit one more shot than she did because she got everything back.”

However, the then-pending CSUF victory rested on the shoulders of Ioana Sisoe as she played out the last singles match while teammates gathered and encouraged the Romanian sophomore.

Four hours after the meeting with Amherst began, Sisoe ended the match at 6 p.m., beating her opponent 6-2 in the third set.

The overall theme of one of the longest matches this season seemed to be patience as three separate

Titans made individual references to the word. “[My opponent] was lobbying everything, so it took a lot of patience,” said freshman Caroline Freeman.

Number one CSUF player Carla Rocha also said that today was all about patience and Reynolds agreed.

“Great playing today, I don’t think I’ve ever seen (Rocha) play that patient or that steady,” Reynolds said.

Among the teammates clustered together to watch Sisoe’s final match was fellow countrywoman Ana Iacob, who was playing No. 1 for CSUF until injuring her back weeks ago.

“It’s hard to be out here and not being able to play, I miss it,” Iacob said. “I am here encouraging my team. I am very proud of them,

they’re playing awesome. They gave everything they had. I am just sorry I am not there helping them in doubles and singles. I hope I’ll get better soon.”

CSUF is a division one team and Amherst is a division three team so Amherst was realistic about their chances for victory.

“We were not exactly expecting to win,” said Amherst player Elizabeth Libert. “We are not used to playing outside in this weather, we’ve been training in Massachusetts where it’s cold and gross.”

The triumph over Amherst brings an improvement of 6-8 to the Titan’s season record.

March madness continues as CSUF gets ready for two more matches this week.

Fullerton plays Nebraska Wednesday at 2 p.m. and Portland Friday at 1 p.m.