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F U L L E R T O N CSUF track and field runs to a second-place finish in a home meet over the weekend.

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Students can live, learn in England nEDUCATION: The American Institute for Foreign Study is now offering a chance to study in London

By Michael Matter

Daily Titan Staff Writer On a day off from class, imagine riding a double-decker bus or standing next to a palace guard.

Imagine attending the Cal State

Fullerton fall 2002 semester in London instead of Fullerton.

Colin Speakman, senior vice president and director of programs for the American Institute For Foreign Study, said he wants to make the dream a reality. On Thursday, Speakman addressed a group of students interested in attending the fall 2002 semester in London.

“I was at Long Beach State earlier and San Diego State yesterday,” Speakman said. “I obviously saved the best for last.”

Speakman’s company has a lot of experience transplanting academic curriculum from Fullerton to London. The

AIFS program has been providing CSUF students the opportunity to study abroad since 1982. The semester in London begins Sept. 12 and ends Dec. 15. It is an academic program organized by CSU and taught by both CSU and local British faculty. It is a broad-based humanities program that offers coursework tied to both England and Europe and students can earn CSU credit.

Ed Trotter, communications professor, made the trip last semester. He and his group were in London on Sept. 11.

“We had students who, because of what had happened, were meeting with the queen, the prime minister and visiting

with parliament,” Trotter said. “It is like you are over there but you are here – you are going to school here but over there.

It is a very special experience that will give students a greater appreciation for the world.”

Students can live in suburban London homes and commute to the city each day like a typical Londoner, or they can reside in apartments closer to the University of London’s student union.

Speakman said that the school is in the very center of inner London.

“This is a very special year in England – the Golden Jubilee that commemorates the queen’s 50-year reign,” he said. “This

trip will give you a different view of America. While you may feel rushed all the time back home, we take things quite a bit slower here. We have preserved a lot of things from the middle ages.”

They are also firmly planted in the present. They offer a computer lab with 20 personal computers, e-mail and Internet access to visiting students. The AIFS program includes course field trips, visits to London’s theaters and walking tours of the city.

The company also offers two additional tours to other places in Europe. The first is a tour that visits Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. The second is a mid-semes-

ter tour that goes to Prague.

Travel support services, medical insurance and general trip advice are available from AIFS staff offices throughout Europe.

Angela Della Volpe, associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has coordinated the study abroad program for the last six years.

“As a student at CSUF it seems you never get a chance to get outside of your own skin,” Della Volpe said. “Going abroad for 13 to14 weeks is like being out of your skin. You are a different person and when you return home and climb back into your own skin it seems

Hotline helps people in debt nFINANCES: People who are overwhelmed by bills sometimes see suicide as the only alternative

By Sabrina Sakaguchi

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nTRAINING: A day of paint-ball combat helped CSUF cadets with tactics and procedures for a fiveweek camp in Washington

By Laura L. Gaghan Special to the Titan

Cal State Fullerton Military Science cadets got dirty and not just from crawling on the ground.

They dodged paint balls, got sweaty and received welts on their arms, legs and neck Friday morning, for the once-a-semester paint-ball-training operation at the Tombstone Paintball Park in Corona.

The main instructors in charge of this training operation were Major Christian Taddeo and

Major Mark Seagrave.

“We build leaders for the military,” Seagrave said.

Through paintball-combat training, cadets were put into stressful situations. They used the special tactics, techniques and procedures they were taught in the classroom and put them into action on the field.

This training will also help prepare them for a five-week camp at Fort Lewis in Washington State that will be a final test evaluation that will possibly lead to a leadership position in the U.S. army, said Sgt. Dutch Garner.

For the operation, all the cadets were separated into squads.

Each squad had a squad leader that kept its team under control during combat, making sure there was communication between the groups, and that each lane was cleared in the quickest, but safest execution.

The squads rotated through approximately

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A Fullerton cadet surrenders during a exercise at the Tombstone Paintball Park in Corona.

Small two-inch by three-inch plastic demons burn growing holes in numerous students’ pockets as each monthly bill arrives in the mail.

According to the Web site nodebt. org, there are 1.3 billion credit cards in circulation in the United States.

However, because of debt due to credit cards, loans and other financing can wreak havoc on a person’s life.

For some, this havoc can be so unbearable that suicide may seem like the only alternative.

However, organizations like the National Consumer Council (NCC) are attempting to make efforts to shed light on the more positive alternatives, Executive Director and President Harvey Warren said.

“For many people, it’s about relieving their pain,” Warren said.

The NCC is a non-profit organization dedicated to “returning America to a debt-free standard of living.”

As a consumer advocacy organization, NCC offers financial counseling and aid to people facing debt.

In a recent one-week period, the NCC received two separate phone calls from distraught people in need of financial assistance, Warren said.

Although the callers never specifically said they were planning on committing suicide, NCC representatives said the callers seemed suicidal from the sound of their voices and conversation focuses.

Although the NCC representatives knew the callers needed help beyond the financial solutions NCC could provide, they had no resources to refer to.

Concerned for the potential growth of depression and suicide as a result of extreme debt, Warren arranged for Jay Nagdimon, a division director with the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, to brief NCC representatives recently on handling sui-

cidal callers.

“We needed to respond to the public and field these calls,” Warren said.

According to the March 2002 NCC newsletter, 13 percent of American families have credit card debt that exceeds 40 percent of their income.

Of the debtors NCC assists yearly, Warren estimated that 5 percent were college students.

“People feel trapped,” Warren said. “Like there is no exit.”

According to the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in Americans. More teen-agers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and chronic lung disease combined the organization stated.

Nagdimon, who is also involved with the Suicide Prevention Hotline (SPH), said that primarily people who have high debt feel hopelessness.

SPH is a 24-hour hotline, also known as the Crisis Line, dedicated to providing direct and confidential telephone counseling to suicidal individuals or their concerned friends and family.

In general, Nagdimon said suicidal people have a feeling of “pressure or urgency to rid themselves of everything that’s tormenting them.”

He said they are focused on a bleak future and have a belief of low self-worth.

Nagdimon estimated of the 16,000 Southern California calls the hotline receives annually, about 10 percent to 15 percent are callers facing debt.

College students contemplating suicide make up 10 percent of the annual count, Nagdimon said.

There were no statistics available for suicidal college students with debt however.

Warren said the simplest and easiest solution to credit card debt for college students is, “cut the cards up.”

For more information about NCC’s services, log onto www.thencc.org or call (800) 990-3990.

The Crisis Line can be reached at (310) 391-1253.

Cesar Chavez celebration comes to university nPLAY: “Going Toward the Light,” is a musical that protrays the life of the historical figure who fought for farmworkers

By Ricardo Sanchez

Daily Titan Staff Writer Sometimes a story is better told with a song behind it.

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Shannon Anderson’s “Chavez: Going Toward the Light.” It is a musical based on the life of Cesar E. Chavez brought to campus by the Independent Latino Student Association in conjunction with Gily Productions.

The performance takes place in the Titan Student Union Pavilions A & B Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Making its first performance on campus, Gily Productions produces many musicals about historical figures. Other shows include the life of Dr. Martin Luther King.

The show will highlight Chavez’s life, but will focus on the many con-

tributions he made during his fight for the rights of farm workers.

Isaac Cardenas, professor of Chicano studies, is excited about the performance and hopes the musical aspect will create a different experience for students.

“It’s a very informative production,” Cardenas said. “Plus with the singing and the drama, it’ll make [Chavez’s story] very interesting.”

One of the reasons to bring the musical to campus is to celebrate his birthday, March 31. It will also give students a chance to peer into the life of a man who many consider a great

civil rights leader.

“It is an opportunity to commemorate and cultivate the legacy he left behind. It will highlight his history and contributions for students to appreciate,” Cardenas said.

Liz Sanchez, president of ILSA, recognizes the purpose of the event.

“People who don’t know about all the good he did for our community will hopefully learn something from this show,” Sanchez said.

The TSU Pavilion A& B will be set up to seat 600 people, however it is not certain how many will actually be in attendance.

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“I hope we get a big turnout,” Sanchez said.

Chavez was born March 31, 1927 near Yuma, Ariz. He quit school after the eighth grade and went to work full-time in the vineyards in San Jose. Because of low wages and poor working conditions, Chavez began to fight for the rights of migrant workers in California in 1952. He joined the Community Service Organization (CSO) and started to rally MexicanAmericans to register to vote.

Chavez left the CSO and brought national attention to the migrant workers’ cause when he created the National

Farm Workers Union in 1962. It was later renamed United Farmer Workers in 1965. Chavez began leading strikes with grape-pickers to demand better wages.

He also urged the American public to boycott grapes to show their support.

The strike lasted five years and caught the attention of Robert Kennedy who gave Chavez his total support.

Chavez died April 23, 1993. Seven years after his death Gov. Gray Davis declared his birthday a day of remembrance for the struggle of immigrant field workers in California.

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BRIEFS State Assembly passes new measure The California State Assembly passed AB16 on March 21, a measure that would allow the building of new schools.

The measure, which passed with a vote of 71 to 8, places a series of education bonds before the California voters in the November 2002 and March 2004 elections.

The bonds, if enacted, will authorize $25.3 million for new school construction and will proceed to the State Senate for consideration.

Assembly Republican Leader Dave Cox said in a statement that the vote was a victory for California’s children.

He said the measures would also benefit the needs of community colleges, universities and charter schools.

The bonds will provide money for higher education facilities as well as 40 percent of higher education funds for community colleges.

Cox added that the measure was important because community colleges serve more than 1.6 million students, many of which come from low-income families and have limited options for higher education.

Community Services Bureau has new leadership Sgt. Ron Gillett, a 27-year veteran of the Fullerton Police Department, will become the head of the department’s Community Services Bureau.

Gillett, 47, will oversee the department’s community outreach and crime prevention programs as well as the Drug

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Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program that teaches substance abuse prevention to elementary school children.

Gillett will also act as the department’s media liaison.

He joined the Fullerton Police Department as a cadet in 1973.

Gillett became an officer for the department in 1975 and was one of Fullerton’s first K-9 officers.

As a native Californian, Gillett has an associate of arts degree in police science from Fullerton College, a bachelor’s degree in public service management from the University of Redlands and a master’s degree in management information systems from West Coast University.

Gillett, his wife Vicki, and 15-year-old son, Derek, live in Fullerton.

Aging course offered at Senior Center The Fullerton Senior MultiService Center is offering “Aging with Flair,” a course on how to age successfully, on April 8.

Being taught by registered nurse Evelyn Perlman, the class will reveal the secrets to successful aging.

Perlman, also an educator and consultant, will share concepts and information to help participants learn how to channel their skills and capabilities as older adults to help themselves and to help others as well.

The program is free and registration may be completed in class.

For more information or to obtain directions, contact the Fullerton Senior Multi-Service

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CALE NDAR N TS CA LEND AR OF OF EVE EVEN Community “Riverdance” plays at the Orange County Performing Arts Center from March 26 to March 31. For more information, call (714) 556-2787.

The Fairplex in Pomona presents the “Keep It Hopping Rabbit Show” March 30 in the Grandstand Pavilion from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (909) 6857645.

KKBT The Beat’s “Steve Harvey Morning Show” will be at The Grove of Anaheim, March 29 from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. The event is free. For more information, call (714) 712-2760.

The musical “Mark and

Barbara Frog” plays in Los Angeles through April 29.

Admission is $10. For more information, call (310) 586-0114 or (323) 653-4848.

The Grand Central Art Gallery in Santa Ana hosts an exhibit on Auction Portraits-Photography through April 28. For more information, call (714) 567-7233.

The Grand Central Art Gallery hosts an exhibit on Charting the Paths of Color through April 14.

For more information, call (714) 567-7233.

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

visit www.geocities.com/scagallery.

Campus The Department of Music presents Gregory Wait, tenor & Burton Karson, piano, March 26 at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall.

Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 with advance Titan discount. For more information, call (714) 278-3371.

Counseling & Psychological Services will have a workshop on understanding depression March 27 at noon in LH 210G. For more information, call (714) 278-3040.

TSU Underground will have a billiard tournament March 26 at 1 p.m. The competition is free

to all students, faculty and staff.

For more information, call (714) 278-2144.

The Titan Tusk Force meets every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in TSU 259. For more information, call (714) 278-2468.

The Women’s Center & Adult Re-entry presents “Psychology of Middle Eastern Women,” March 27 at noon in UH 205.

For more information, call (714) 278-3889.

The Independent Latino Student Association presents “Chavez: Going Toward the Light,” a dramatic musical based on the life of Cesar E. Chavez, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the TSU Pavilions A & B. The event is free. For more information, call

CALECNOP BLO DAR OFTTER EVE NTS Monday, March 18 Police responded to an illegal parked white Honda SUV at Langsdorf Drive at 11:22 a.m. that was blocking the entrance. The vehicle was then towed.

Police were called to Parking Lot S where a student returned to the car at 3:05 p.m. and the parking noticed the decal was missing.

All doors were locked on the gray Nissan truck and thought someone must have reached through the window. The student was then referred to parking and transportation to get a new parking decal.

A student called campus police at 7:09 p.m., from Parking Lot K,

row 2 where he or she realized their parking decal was missing.

Tuesday, March 19

Campus police responded to the south end of Tropical Hill of the Arboretum at 8:28 a.m., after receiving a call that a seed cone was taken over the weekend.

The cone contained 20 seeds that were approximately between $5-$10 each.

A non-injury traffic accident was reported to campus police at 5:29 p.m., in Parking lot A involving a 4-door red Toyota.

Wednesday, March 20 At 8:29 a.m., campus police responded to the Physical Education Building where a 55-

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Police responded to a call from Parking Lot K, row 2 at 9:15 a.m., where a decal was reported stolen.

victim was taken to his residence at College Place.

Thursday, March 21

Police responded to the east side of the North Library, at 8:01 a.m. A delivery truck hit a light post, which is now slightly leaning.

Vandalism was reported to campus police at 3:47 p.m., from the Computer Science Building.

People have been vandalizing the dot matrix printers.

A hit and run was reported to campus police at 4:33 p.m., in Lot E involving a white Saturn.

Campus police responded to a call of a male fainting, but now conscious at 9:26 p.m., in Langsdorf Hall.

He was advised that he had too much caffeine.

No medics were called and the

Campus police responded to a call in the Physical Education Building at 6:20 p.m. A wallet was stolen during a competition.

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Coffee war nACTIVISM: Students campaign for decaf and espresso beverages to be ‘fair-trade” certified in places like Starbucks

By Jake Batsell

The Seattle Times BELLINGHAM, Wash. - The papers in Colin McDonald’s satchel provide a glimpse into a piping-hot campus cause, one that links the well-being of indigenous coffee farmers to good, old American purchasing power.

McDonald pulls out sheet after sheet of names scrawled in black, red, pink and purple. This winter, he and other students at Western Washington University have gathered more than 2,000 signatures on a petition urging campus food-service officials to re-examine where the university’s coffee comes from.

Starbucks serves fair-trade certified drip coffee on campus through Sodexho, the food-services vendor. But with the school considering bids for a new 10year food-services contract, McDonald and the group he leads, Students for Fair Trade, are pushing for all coffee including decaf and espresso drinks - on campus to be fair-trade certified. To be certified, third-party monitors must have confirmed that farmers were paid a fair price for their beans.

Western is one of a growing number of campuses to take up the cause. In the

past year, student groups at the University of Puget Sound in Washington, the University of Washington and the UCLA, have successfully prodded coffee companies and school officials to brew more fair-trade coffee on campus.

“We’re not rallying against [Starbucks] - we’re not trying to stick it to the man or anything,” said McDonald, a sophomore at WWU’s Fairhaven College. “We just want the best coffee for people and the environment on campus.”

Students who support the fair-trade cause don’t have to take part in marches or sit-ins to make their voice heard. They can simply choose to buy coffee that bears the fair-trade certified label - or not to buy it if it doesn’t.

“This is easy activism,” said Matt Warning, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Puget Sound who advised students in their effort last year to persuade Fonte Coffee to switch to fair-trade coffee at the campus cafe.

“A big part of this to me is the political activism, but you also have to recognize the power [students] have through market demand,” Warning said. “They are buying a lot of coffee and they’re saying, `If you can’t accommodate us, we’ll find another roaster.’”

A glut in the worldwide coffee market has sent prices tumbling in recent years.

In coffee-producing countries such as Nicaragua, beans that once sold for $3 a pound now go for less than 50 cents a pound, translating to paltry wages for many farmers.

With fair-trade coffee, farmers are guaranteed a minimum price for their product, currently $1.26 a pound for

gourmet arabica beans.

As activists have spotlighted the issue recently, specialty coffee retailers - including Starbucks, Seattle’s Best and Tully’s - have increased their fair-trade offerings in the United States.

At Western, Students for Fair Trade is pressing school officials to pick a vendor that will serve fair-trade decaf and espresso drinks, so all coffee served on campus is fair-trade certified. A decision on the food-services contract is due in April.

McDonald said his group has asked Sodexho and Starbucks to provide fairtrade decaf and espresso, but they aren’t available on campus. In January, students threw a “coffee fair” on campus, collecting signatures and inviting eight roasters to brew fair-trade coffee for students.

The fair-trade campaign has resonated with students - the 2,123 signatures on the petition amount to more than one-sixth of Western’s student body of 12,409. As a comparison, about 900 students voted in last spring’s student-body elections.

Starbucks spokeswoman Audrey Lincoff said Starbucks is working on a decaf version of one of its shade-grown coffees­– which, while not fair-trade certified, are bought at comparable prices, she said. Once Starbucks begins selling shade-grown decaf, perhaps as early as this summer, the company will make it available to Western.

Last fall, Starbucks said it would encourage college accounts to convert to fair-trade drip coffee by allowing them to switch at no price premium.

(Fair-trade coffee is often a few cents more per cup than regular specialty blends.) So far, 46 have converted, bring-

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Chaitra Keshan, a master’s student, enjoys her daily cup of coffee from the Nutwood Cafe. ing Starbucks’ tally of fair-trade college accounts to 105 .

A rising number of student groups across the country are mobilizing around fair-trade coffee. Oakland, Calif.-based TransFair USA, which works with U.S. coffee companies to verify that farmers have received fair-trade wages, has teamed up with Boston-based Oxfam International to publish a fair-trade resource and action guide for campus organizers.

“I think it’s a natural fit, when they

understand the situation of farmers, for students to want to do something,” said Kimberly Easson, TransFair’s marketing director.

Warning, the University of Puget Sound professor, said students at the Tacoma campus gathered 700 signatures in three days last spring, representing more than one-fourth of the school’s 2,500 students.

Last fall at the University of Washington, after a group called Students Advocating for Global Equality

approached Seattle’s Best Coffee and school food-service officials, Seattle’s Best came to campus for a pair of promotional fair-trade samplings. The company now offers its fair-trade drip coffee on campus.

“A lot of (students) turn to the fairtrade coffee thing as something concrete that they can do that’s not just anti-corporate, but it’s also pro, a positive step that they can do,” said Deborah James of Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based activist group.

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CSUF reacts to nTHOUGHTS: Campus community commented on the night’s highlights such as Halle Berry’s win and the 9/11 commemorations

By Heather Hampton

Daily Titan Staff Writer The 74th Annual Academy Awards not only recognized Hollywood stars but was also a time of reflection on the events of Sept. 11.

Many viewers said they liked the ambiance of the awards but added that it was very appropriate to remember those lost in the attacks.

“I thought it was actually just the right level,” said Matt Jones, a lecturer for the Math Department at Cal State Fullerton.’

They weren’t running it into the ground.”

Tom Cruise opened the show with a commentary about whether entertainment has a place in a post-Sept. 11 America.

Included was a film short of supposedly “average movie fans” talking about their favorite film moments.

Mixed in with the no-name actors were many well-known faces, which inspired laughter, sadness and reflective thought regarding a true-to-life movie message — that life does go on.

“I thought it was appropriate,” said Janice Salenga, biochemistry major at CSUF, regarding the Sept. 11 references.

“They didn’t drill it in. That’s a good thing.”

Wendy Badgett, a liberal studies major, said she liked the fact that everyone took a moment to remember all those lost

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five different lanes.

For every lane a team maneuvered through, there is an instructor watching how they moved. Those instructors evaluated them informally at the After Action Review, which took place Monday.

The AAR goes over the training event as a group and an open discussion of what was good or bad with the training and suggestions are made on how to improve. The cadets used five different lane settings or obstacles.

The first lane was a jungle background. It had planted brush everywhere so the cadets could find plenty of places to hide in or behind. Another lane used empty plastic and wood barrels, boxes and pipes to duck around.

Other lanes had unfinished house

in the World Trade Center, referring to Kevin Spacey’s request for a moment of silence from the packed Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

“They were really supportive of New York,” Badgett said.

Director Nora Ephron put together a series of film clips celebrating the magic of New York in films, which played early on in the four-hour ceremony.

Fellow director and New Yorker Woody Allen presented the segment.

Even Whoopi Goldberg, the host of the Oscars, came dressed for the occasion, wearing a cloak that commemorated the New York Fire Department, Police Department and Port Authority.

Cathy Misa, a biology major, said she liked Goldberg’s outfit.

“I miss Billy Crystal but Whoopi is pretty good,” Jones said.

Although Sept. 11 played a big role in the awards ceremony, drama and excitement still dominated as many of Hollywood’s stars took center stage to claim their Oscars.

Actress Halle Berry made history with her win for “Monster’s Ball,” as the first black actress to win for a lead role.

Those who saw her acceptance speech had mixed reactions about the ecstatic Berry who screamed and cried on stage.

Misa summed up Berry’s speech into one word– emotional.

“I think it was even more emotional than Julia Roberts last year,” Jones said. “It was a very ‘Hollywood’ response. Everybody reacts in their own way.”

Jones said he recalled an awards ceremony a few years ago when Roberto Benigni, the star of “Life is Beautiful,” made an even greater scene than Berry.

Begnini climbed over chairs and jumped up and down with excitement as he headed

frames or logs.

“I enjoy this because these men and women will be the future leaders of the military,” Seagrave said.

The trainees said they enjoyed the event.

“I look forward to getting some good training by using the book skills I have learned and putting them into action,” said Cadet Jason Canty.

Cadet Ruben Rodriguez was placed as the officer-in-charge of the training.

He briefed the cadets once they arrived at the park and geared up with face masks, guns, and paint pellets. Rodriguez explained to the cadets what the lanes were and where each squad would start and continue throughout the day.

Squad leader Eric Wang said he wants to employ the lessons that have been stressed in his classes.

Garner said some of the techniques Wang learned included theories of how

towards the podium “He went nuts in two languages,” Jones said.

But Jones said he wondered when Berry was going to finish her speech. Badgett agreed.

“I thought she kind of rambled on,” Badgett said.

Badgett said it looked like someone was telling her to stop talking but she wanted everyone to hear what she had to say.

Salenga said Berry’s speech might have been rehearsed.

“I kind of felt like she was acting,” Salenga said. “Don’t they already know who wins?”

Salenga also commented on how calm and collected Denzel Washington appeared after he won the coveted award.

“Denzel was cool about it,” Salenga said.

Other individuals heard about the winners but were not able to watch the ceremony.

“I was too busy to watch it,” said Trung Nguyen, a computer science major. “I saw it on the news.”

But Washington and Berry weren’t the only ones receiving the attention at the Academy Awards.

“A Beautiful Mind,” won best picture and Jennifer Connelly won best supporting actress for the movie.

The “Lord of the Rings” also pulled an Oscar for best original score.

“They got what they deserved,” Salenga said. “ [But]‘Pearl Harbor’ and ‘Black Hawk Down’ were better.”

And as for the length of the show, which ran almost four hours, people didn’t have too much gripe about it. It didn’t seem to bother Jones that much.

“It was pretty long enough for me,” Jones said “It didn’t go until midnight.’

to operate through movement and directional guidance help through a navigation process “I want to have fun by learning and playing at the same time,” Wang said.

“Once the action starts to happen the key is to stay in control. It is harder then it looks. For us we are training to be leaders.”

One squad in the first lane did not communicate well, Garner said.

“They went out slow in the beginning by not shouting out their directional movements and moved indecisively, but they ended faster with more fire and low casualties,” said Garner.

Toward the end of the day all the instructors and senior cadets teamed up against the freshman, sophomore and junior cadets to have an all out paint ball combat.

“It’s pay back time,” Wang said. “I want to take out some seniors.”

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U.S. continues peace nWORLD: Israel is opposed to Arafat’s travel to Lebanon to discuss the cease fire

By Warren P. Strobel and Steve Thomma

Knight Ridder Newspapers JERUSALEM - The United States pressed Israel on Sunday to allow Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to travel to Lebanon this week to discuss an Arab peace plan for the Middle East, while the Bush administration continued its push for an IsraeliPalestinian cease-fire.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon resisted freeing Arafat from his virtual house arrest, but U.S. officials argued that an Arab League summit in Beirut is more likely to succeed if the Palestinian chief is permitted to attend.

At the centerpiece of the summit is a U.S.-favored Saudi initiative for peace between Israel and the Arab states.

Drafts of a summit declaration circulating Sunday say Arab nations, in return for an Israeli withdrawal from lands occupied after the 1967 Six-Day War, are ready “to declare an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict and to draft a treaty to establish that between them and Israel,” Reuters news agency reported.

Without Arafat’s presence, Bush administration officials fear the Beirut session beginning Wednesday will degenerate into a forum for rhetorical

attacks on Israel and on Washington for its support of Israel and its drive to overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

“As a general proposition, we believe it would be better for him to be there than to not be there,” said Vice President Dick Cheney.

But Cheney also said his own offer to meet Arafat separately is on hold until Arafat acts to end violence against Israel.

Sharon has said Arafat should remain confined to his headquarters in Ramallah until he lives up to past commitments to end such violence and to implement a cease-fire plan worked out by CIA chief George Tenet Palestinian officials said Arafat was preparing to leave Monday for neighboring Jordan, although it would be virtually impossible for him to do so without Israel’s approval.

The sparring over whether Arafat will attend the summit came as President Bush’s Middle East envoy, retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, brokered cease-fire talks between Israeli and Palestinian security officials. Talks ended Sunday with no agreement, but they were scheduled to resume Monday.

Israeli officials, including Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, have expressed optimism that the two sides could soon issue a cease-fire declaration and begin implementing the Tenet plan.

But as the diplomacy continued, so did the violence that has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians and 350 Israelis in the last 18 months.

At least eight Palestinians and two Israelis were killed Sunday. In the deadliest incident, Israeli forces, acting

on a tip from Jordanian authorities, shot and killed four armed men who had crossed the border from Jordan.

The main sticking point in the cease-fire talks is how quickly the sides should move from purely security matters to political negotiations on a future Palestinian state.

Palestinian negotiators want to move as rapidly as possible to such negotiations, as laid out in a blueprint by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell.

Israelis first want certain proof that the 18-month Palestinian uprising is over.

A cease-fire declaration would give significant momentum to the Arab summit as leaders debate the Saudi peace initiative.

The draft summit declaration, which recognizes Israel’s right to exist, is “very positive” and “could be an important step forward,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday. But Powell, traveling with Bush in Central America, acknowledged there are several serious obstacles, including the final borders of a Palestinian state and the fate of Palestinian refugees from Israel’s 1948 war for independence.

Both Powell and Cheney said Arafat needs to act quickly to suppress Palestinian attacks on Israelis.

“I think the chairman has to speak out more loudly and in Arabic and on radio and television - not just whenever an incident occurs, but on a regular basis - to tell the Palestinian people that this kind of violence and terrorism is destroying their dream for a Palestinian state and, at the same time, killing innocent Israeli citizens,” the secretary of state said.

“He is capable of doing much more than he has, but up to now he has not

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City of Fullerton hosts ‘Spring Fling’

By Conchita Viado

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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Parents gather to watch t heir children hunt for multicolored Easter eggs at the “Spring Fling.”

Commencement speakers named

During Cal State Fullerton’s commencement ceremonies this summer, CSUF alumnus and Congressman Edward R. Royce (R-Fullerton) and Congresswoman Lauretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) are scheduled to deliver the commencement speeches.

The ceremonies will begin at 8 a.m. on the lawn north of the Gymnasium.

Sanchez will speak June 1 and Royce is scheduled for June 2.

Royce, who received a bachelor’s in business administration accounting at CSUF in 1977, chairs the Subcommittee on Africa and he also serves on the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific. Royce is now in his fifth term in Congress.

He also serves on the House Financial Services Committee as a member of the subcommittees on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises; Domestic Monetary Policy, Technology and Economic Growth; and Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.

Royce was the legislative author

and campaign co-chair of California’s Crime and Victim’s Speedy Trial Initiative approved in 1990.

Royce visited CSUF as a guest speaker in February to discuss the financial aid availability to students.

Sanchez is a member of the House Armed Services Committee on Education and the Workforce. She began her third term in Congress in 2000. She is a member of the Hispanic Caucus, the Blue Dog Democrats and the New Democratic Coalition.

Sanchez earned a bachelor’s degree from Chapman University in 1982 and a master’s degree from the American University in Washington.

Before she was elected to Congress, she was assistant vice president at Fieldman Rollap and Associates, a financial manager at the Orange County Transportation Authority.

Royce and Sanchez were guest speakers at previous commencements at CSUF.

Spring was in the air at the Brea Dam Recreational Area when the City of Fullerton hosted its third annual Spring Fling, Saturday. Children and adults of all ages were invited to this event to celebrate the spring season.

“This [event] is for the families of the City of Fullerton to have an Easter egg hunt,” said Matt Savala, a member of the Community Services Staff. “Some kids don’t get to have that. We do this every year [for them].”

This year’s Spring Fling included carnival-style games such as a Frisbee throw, ring toss, a football throw and a Moon Bounce.

In addition to the games, the children were invited to be creative with various crafts.

“For the spring carnival we try to incorporate bunnies and what not, obviously you can’t get religious,”

said Debra Guyton, another member of the Community Services Staff.

Every year, the staff offers easy and complex crafts.

This year the staff chose paddleball as an easy craft for younger children.

Each of the paddles was individually decorated with chicks, bunnies and ducks.

The complex craft was a windsock that consisted of an open-ended sleeve with streamers on the bottom.

When hung, the windsock blows in the air and allows wind to pass through.

There was also a prize table where children could trade-in the pink tickets they won at the carnival games for various items such as bubble blowers, yo-yo’s, Frisbees, lollipops, stickers, regular and super-long pencils and small stuffed toys.

The highlight of the event was the egg hunt.

Multicolored plastic eggs littered three areas that were sectioned off by according to the children’s age groups.

Each egg contained small surprises such as candy or toys.

However, two eggs in each section contained a piece of paper.

The children who found these papers were given the grand prize; a large stuffed toy.

Green tickets were sold to allow children to play the carnival games.

They were 25 cents each or five for $1. “[The money] goes to other events that we do such as Snow Day. We had [the dam area] full of snow that the kids could play in. And it goes to other events, like stuff for the city,” Savala said.

This year’s Spring Fling boasted an estimated 250 to 300 people.

Children and adults said they had a wonderful time as they played games, made crafts and hunted for multi-colored eggs.

“I liked the bean bag [throw] because if you throw all three and they go in, you can get a prize,” Janiellie Sagldo, 8, said.

Stephany Silva, 7, and her sister Tainya, 8, said they liked the Frisbee throw and the football throw because “it’s easy to do and you get a lot of prizes.”

Newcomers to the event Gloria Ceja and her son were very happy with the turnout of the event.

“We usually go to the one in Anaheim when they had one there.

[My son] liked it. It’s a good thing for the kids because they get to play around and interact with the other kids,” Ceja said. “I would come back next year. The kids like it. I think it’s very entertaining.”

Labs compete to design HnNATIONAL: The Bush Administration is advocating the building of nuclear weapons that destroy targets

By Dan Stober

Knight Ridder Newspapers

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Pentagon and the Energy Department have directed the nation’s nuclear weapons laboratories in Livermore, Calif., and Los Alamos, N.M., to compete for the chance to design a hydrogen bomb that could destroy targets underground.

To the dismay of arms-control proponents, the Bush administration is advocating such weapons - which would slam into the earth at high speed and then explode underground - as a means of attacking command bunkers or biological and chemical weapons facilities possibly buried in such places as Iraq, Iran or North Korea.

Work on preliminary designs for the weapon – known as the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator – begins next month at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in northern California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Scientists at both labs will propose modifying weapons rather than designing a new bomb from scratch.

That distinction plays a role in armscontrol debates in the post-Cold-War era.

Arms-control advocates say designing

and building new weapons provokes other nations to follow suit, at a time when the fear of “”rogue state’’ nuclear weapons is growing.

The Bush White House, like the Clinton administration before it, says it has no plans for new nuclear weapons designs. But critics charge that extensively modifying an existing weapon for a new purpose is equivalent to a new design.

“If I take my Honda into the shop and it comes out a Ferrari, that’s not a modification, it’s a new car,’’ said Marylia Kelley of Livermore, who leads Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment.

She and other opponents argue that producing such weapons blurs the line between nuclear and conventional weapons, increasing the chances that nuclear weapons will be used.

Proponents maintain that nuclear weapons could reach some buried targets that could not be destroyed by conventional bombs. Energy Department officials also say the preliminary design contest will help maintain the skills of scientists at the labs, 10 years after explosive testing of weapons in Nevada came to an end.

Lawrence Livermore’s candidate is the B83, a hydrogen bomb designed for the B-1 bomber. Los Alamos will work on the B61, which already has been modified 11 times, including for earthpenetrating use.

The initial design work, officially called feasibility studies, was requested by the Nuclear Weapons Council, a coor-

dinating body of military and Energy Department officials. The three members are Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Pete Aldridge, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics; and John A. Gordon, the administrator of the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

The Air Force, which would drop the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator from its airplanes, is also involved in the studies, which are to begin in April after Congress is notified.

“They would lay out the relative advantages or disadvantages of each,’’ including cost, said Lisa Cutler of the National Nuclear Security Administration, a branch of the Energy Department. The decision to actually convert the weapons and build the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator has not yet been made, she said. But if the program goes forward, the next step would be to chose one of the two competing laboratories to design the weapon.

Lawrence Livermore officials said they could not comment on its feasibility study, the second step in the seven-step process to design and produce a nuclear weapon. Modification of the weapon would keep the nuclear explosives portion of the bomb - known as the “physics package” – largely intact. But the bomb’s casing and interior supports would be strengthened.

The Bush administration nuclear weapons policy, laid out in January in the Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review, de-emphasizes strategic nuclear weap-

ons but promotes the development of “advanced concept’’ battlefield weapons such as the earth penetrator.

Earth-penetrating weapons are built long and thin to smash through earth and rock at high speed. In some non-nuclear tests the weapon’s exterior casing has melted from the friction. In tests to date, weapons have penetrated only a few dozen feet.

The B83 is 12 feet long and 18 inches in diameter. It was developed at Livermore in the 1980s and has the advantage of already being built to withstand impact.

It was designed as a “lay down’’ bomb, one that is dropped from an airplane at low altitude and high speed. It is constructed to smash into buildings, knock down trees or careen into cars, and still work. Its detonation is delayed to provide the plane time to clear the area; otherwise, the crew would be flying a suicide mission.

Livermore scientists have studied the B83 as a potential earth-penetrating weapon since the 1980s. Both the B83 and the B61 have a feature known as “dial-a-yield’’ in which the bombs’ explosive power, or yield, can be adjusted. The maximum yield is more than a megaton, the equivalent of a million tons of TNT, a mountain of conventional explosives. At high yield, the B83 would produce an explosion more than 2 million times more powerful than the “bunker buster’’ bombs the Air Force has used against Taliban and al-Qaida caves in Afghanistan.

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Tooth fears calmed nPHOBIA: Advances in dental treatments are helping patients lose their anxiety of sitting in the examination chair

By Barbara Isaacs

Knight Ridder Newspapers LEXINGTON, Ky. - For many patients, a trip to the dentist’s office is a reclining white-knuckle ride with a side of fluoride.

There’s the scary specter of sharp instruments and needles in the mouth, the high-pitched whine of the dental drill, the gagging on X-ray film, the scraping, the flossing.

“There’s almost nothing that goes on at a dental office that doesn’t make somebody nervous,” said Timothy Smith, a University of Kentucky psychologist who has treated hundreds of patients with dental fear.

Dental fear includes everything from moderate anxiety to full-blown odontophobia, better known as the major fear of all things dental.

In nearly 20 years in the field, Smith has done numerous surveys and sunk his teeth deeply into research on the subject.

One finding that has stayed constant: more than an estimated 20 million Americans have anxiety about visiting the dentist.

But for those who haven’t seen the dentist in a while, advances in treatment are helping patients rest easier.

That was good news for Malvery Ross, 62, who was never particularly comfortable, especially not after she actually lost consciousness while in her dentist’s chair about five years ago.

Her hometown dentist was reluctant to treat her - at least not without a doctor present, “in case I needed to be resuscitated,” Ross said with a rueful laugh.

But the Batavia, Ohio, woman recently broke a tooth and was in desperate straits.

So Ross took a seat in the dental chair of Ted Raybould, a long-time University of Kentucky dentist and director of Adult Special Patient Care at UK, a clinic specializing in treating patients with severe dental fear or other complex cases. He often teams with Smith to deal with particularly frightened patients.

Ross thinks her loss of conscious-

ness in her previous visit was related to lidocaine, a common dental anesthetic. This time, she got the anesthetic, without epinephrine, which also sometimes causes interactions.

Whether her previous problem had to do with drug allergy, stress or another factor, no one knows. But Ross didn’t have any problems during her dental visit at the university.

“I can’t tell you, I’m so thrilled,” Ross said. “I get to have my teeth fixed like a normal person.”

The broken tooth was extracted and a nearby filling replaced, and Ross plans to return soon for more work.

“I really desperately needed to get it done,” Ross said. “But I also thought that I didn’t want to die getting my teeth worked on.”

After 20 years in dental practice, no one has died in Raybould’s chair.

“But,” he said, “I don’t think anyone really likes to come see me.”

For people who have long avoided the dentist, there are plenty of new options for dental treatment, especially in pain control.

For many patients, simple empathy does the trick.

Just having a dentist who will listen and carefully explain the procedure is enough for about 25 percent of Raybould’s patients.

“I try to re-empower the patient - I put the patient in control,” he said. “If they say ‘stop,’ we stop.

You can’t do assembly-line dentistry on these patients. I’m not a dictator, I’m a facilitator. We find out what the problem is and we find a way to work it out.”

Raybould, a former fearful dental patient himself, said he’s heard plenty of dental horror stories - including rare instances of dentists slapping patients or calling them “big babies.”

Not only should patients expect kindness from their dentists, they can even expect good pain relief.

The state of the art in pain control is called “conscious sedation.”

There are various levels, starting with inhaled nitrous oxide, otherwise known as laughing gas, which helps those who simply need the edge taken off.

The next level involves a sedative to relax the patient; many dentists use Halcion, a benzodiazepine in the same family as Valium. Intravenous sedation, given through a needle in the hand, also can be used, though it’s rarer.

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any, memory of the procedures.

“Amnesia can be a good thing,” said Fred Schroeder, a Lexington dentist in private practice who advertises: “We Cater to Cowards.”

It also allows dentists to work on patients far longer than they’d be able to tolerate otherwise, so more can be accomplished on each visit.

“We have had appointments that lasted as long as seven hours,” said Dr. Anthony Feck of Lexington’s Corporate Center Dental Care, who not only caters to fearful patients, but instructs other dentists on how to sedate patients.

Such hands-on care is not cheap.

Feck charges $300 for sedation dentistry, which covers the time involved, medication and monitoring, though not the dental work that’s performed.

Dental insurance in general doesn’t pay for sedation-related costs. Even Feck is surprised how willing people are to pay for comfort.

“It’s almost universally accepted,” he said. “Many of these people are ecstatic that there’s someone to help them.”

I’m fine about going now,” said Nanci Molloy, 53, one of Raybould’s patients. “Because I know I’m not going to feel anything.”

She generally doesn’t have any memory of what happened during the procedures.

Raybould estimates 1 percent of his patients undergo general anesthesia in the operating room, for various reasons, including allergies to traditional dental painkillers and a severe gag reflex.

Ironically, these dentists see many patients who have withstood months or even years of tooth and mouth pain to avoid dental work.

“I’m always amazed at that,” Raybould said. “But they’re in control of that pain – and they know what it is.”

Because toothache pain tends to come and go, people often try to gut it out.

Dentists say that once they get up the nerve to see a dentist, patients are often surprised their teeth aren’t a lost cause.

“There are sometimes those who have waited too long,” Raybould said. “But more often than not, they’re salvageable.”

But dentists hope that with the new advances, patients will show up more often, comfortably.

“Some people go from crisis to crisis,” Schroeder said. “It’s a rough way to go. It’s much more expen-

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Student count rises in nINTERNATIONAL: Despite enrollment boost at universities overall standards of education is declining

By Michael Dorgan

Knight Ridder Newspapers

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After deliberating for less than an hour, Andrea Yates receives a life sentence for drowning her five children in the family bathtub.

Yates’ verdict stirs emonREACTION: Faculty and students express mixed feelings about the jury’s decision of a life sentence

By Shannon Gladys

Daily Titan Staff Writer After deliberating for only 35 minutes, a jury of eight women and four men recommended a life sentence for Andrea Yates on Friday, March 15.

The following Monday, she was formally sentenced to life in prison. She will be eligible for parole in 40 years.

Yates could have been sentenced to death.

A week prior to the sentencing, a Texas jury found Yates guilty on three counts of capital murder for drowning her five children.

Reactions from students and faculty at Cal State Fullerton were mixed. Some said the decision was deserved while others said her sentence was unjust.

“I was shocked. I think the woman is sick,” said Linda Lui, from the College of Communications.

“I don’t think she knew what she was doing.”

The case angered family members, women’s groups and others who said prosecutors showed no mercy in bringing a capital murder case against a mentally ill woman overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood.

Michelle Busak, 20, a graphic design major, said she doesn’t agree with the insanity plea.

“The insanity plea is too far reaching. It’s too late. Isn’t that supposed to happen in the first couple of months?” Busak said.

“To me, capital punishment is a

more fitting sentence for what she did.”

Keith McKay, 21, a public relations major, also doesn’t agree with the insanity plea.

“If you’re insane, but can kill all 5 kids, that’s a process. I wouldn’t buy it as a judge,” McKay said.

“She said she knew what she was doing.”

Several Orange County mental health clinics could not comment due to confidentiality.

During the three-week trial prosecutors seemed to have convinced the jury that though Yates was mentally ill, she understood at the time that killing her children was wrong.

On June 20, 2001, Yates systematically drowned all five of her children at her home in Harris County, Texas.

Police responded to her phone call the morning she confessed to killing her children - Noah, 7; John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and Mary, 6 months.

When officers arrived they found four of the wet bodies under the covers in a bed and the fifth, Noah, floating in the bathtub.

When police officers arrived at the home they said Yates seemed composed and rational.

Prosecutor Kaylynn Williford said investigators found Yates’ hair in John’s fist, suggesting that the 5-year-old had fought back. Yates also dragged her oldest son, Noah, from the hallway into the tub.

Williford later added: “She made the choice to fill the tub. She made the choice to kill these children. She knew it was wrong.”

Her husband, Russell Yates, gasped “Oh my God!” under his breath after the verdict was read.

When Hill told spectators to rise as the jury left the courtroom, her husband remained seated with his head buried in his hands.

He later muttered, “unbeliev-

able,” then left without comment as his mother followed, sobbing.

Some said they felt Russell Yates has been strangely calm in light of his wife’s actions.

On Wednesday, March 20, Conway and Steckler, a popular talk radio show, held discussions on the Yates tragedy.

Conway half-jokingly said, “I believe that Russell Yates is not from this solar system. He has just been inhuman in his reaction to the loss of his children.”

After Andrea Yates’ two suicide attempts in 1999, a doctor told the couple that she likely would suffer from Post-Partum Depression again if she had another child.

But Russell Yates said the couple loved children, wanted more and thought they could “nip it in the bud” by getting treatment if Andrea started feeling depressed again after childbirth. He blames doctors for not prescribing the same medicine that helped her after her suicide attempts. He said he knew she was depressed and sought help for her but never thought she was a danger to the youngsters.

Although Russell Yates was not present during the sentencing due to a morning appearance on the “Today Show” in New York, he said he is considering suing some of her doctors. He contends that “she was never diagnosed, she was never treated and they didn’t protect our family.”

Brian Kennedy, Andrea Yates’ brother, called Russell Yates an “unemotional” husband inattentive to his sister’s needs.

“I think that any man and woman whose spouse was that severely down, confused, that sick, that I would do whatever it would take to make sure my other half would get the help that was necessary,” Kennedy said.

Yates defense attorney claimed

she was suffering from the most severe form of Post-Partum Depression.

The case has prompted national debate on how mental illness is perceived.

According to the Pacific Post Partum Support society, an estimated one out of every six women experiences troubling depression or anxiety after the birth or adoption of a child.

They may feel a range of emotions from numbness and sadness to irritability, confusion and anxiety.

PPD is often characterized by despondency, emotional instability, tearfulness, feelings of inadequacy and the inability to cope.

It may occur shortly after the arrival of a new baby or many months later.

For some women, symptoms may begin during pregnancy.

PPD is not to be mistaken with the transient “blues” experienced by many women following childbirth.

The “blues” usually only last about three to seven days, and may disappear without treatment.

However, PPD is more than a depressed mood and it continues for an extended period of time.

As one of the major physical, psychological, and social stresses of a woman’s life, childbirth is gaining growing recognition as a major risk factor in the development of mental illness, according to www.obgyn.net.

Russell Yates said he doesn’t know whether he will remain married to Andrea or how often he will visit her in prison.

He said he misses the companionship of a wife and may like to have more children.

“I think her husband is partially to blame,” Lui said. “I don’t think the husband helped. He is also guilty.”

BEIJING - Zhang Ying’s years in college have convinced her that bigger is better.

Since she enrolled in 1999 in a three-year pre-law program, Haidian University has been on an expansion binge that has nearly doubled the numbers of new students and new faculty members and more than doubled classroom space.

The net result, in Zhang’s view, is that almost everything about her university has improved, including the quality of instruction.

“Even the food is better,” said the 22-year-old, who hopes to enroll in a law school after receiving her associate degree in July.

If Zhang’s experience were the norm, China indisputably would have taken a great leap forward in education over the past few years.

But while university and college enrollments across the nation have more than doubled since 1998, many experts remain unconvinced that the increase has led to an overall improvement in quality.

“Generally speaking, as the number of students has increased, the standards have declined,” said Ma Luting, an official with the Ministry of Education’s National Center for Education.

Ma’s assessment, shared by many, underscores a major challenge facing China as it rushes to develop.

The nation of 1.3 billion citizens has an inexhaustible reservoir of human resources, yet many lack the education and skills to participate fully in a modern industrial economy.

China devotes less than 3 percent of its gross domestic product - the total value of goods and services produced - to education, according to a recent study by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.

That compares with 4.8 percent in Brazil, a country at a roughly comparable stage of development; 7.4 percent in South Korea, one of China’s neighbors and economic competitors; and 6.4 percent in the United States.

Part of China’s problem is that its government lacks money to spend on education because it collects so little in taxes.

Tax revenues total only about 12 percent of China’s GDP, about half of what other countries at a similar stage of development collect.

But money is not the only problem.

Even many who are lucky enough to go to college leave unprepared for the world they enter when they graduate.

Educators say that the quality of instruction is often low and that many

colleges and universities decide what courses to offer based on the expertise of their faculties rather than on the interests of students or the needs of the marketplace.

A government newspaper complained a year ago that “some universities keep enlarging enrollment in some majors whose employment rate is less than 5 percent.

Unemployment, according to Ma, was a major factor in the central government’s decision several years ago to rapidly pump up college and university enrollments.

Concern over unemployment was two-pronged, he said: The government needed to prepare the nation’s youth for gainful employment and to delay their entry into the job market because there were so few jobs available.

“The economy was not good, and some economists encouraged the government to expand enrollments to ease employment pressure,” Ma said.

New quotas set by the Ministry of Education produced impressive results, at least on paper. Enrollments at universities and colleges - not including adulteducation programs - more than doubled over three years, from 1.08 million in 1998 to 2.6 million in 2001.

But while lowering the unemployment rate for high school graduates, the expanded college and university enrollments may have merely delayed the disappointment for many.

Only 70 percent of last year’s college graduates were able to find jobs within three months, according to Ma. And he said the unemployment rate for new graduates is certain to rise in coming years because of huge increases in the numbers of graduates.

Eager to protect the reputations and standards of China’s 100 most prestigious colleges and universities, the Ministry of Education has not required them to expand as much as the nation’s 1,100 lesser colleges and universities.

Still, Peking University, one of China’s finest, increased freshmen enrollment from 2,410 in 1999 to 3,313 last year.

Among the new graduates most likely to find jobs will be those with degrees from Haidian University, a private university with 20,000 students on five campuses.

Zen Yuhong, vice director of enrollment at the university, said 99 percent of last year’s graduates found jobs.

That’s partly because 90 percent of the students are legal residents of Beijing, which has a booming economy.

But Haidian graduates also have a high employment rate because they have studied subjects geared to the modern, industrial job market.

Haidian pre-law student Zhang, for example, is studying a field that is growing in China after decades of domination by communist doctrine and control over the courts.

China is trying to develop its legal system as it works to attract foreign investment and foster business growth.

Haidian, which is funded almost exclusively by student fees, offers threeyear associate degrees in 112 majors in five categories, including high technol-

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The Daily Titan Our Voice Oscars, welcome to reality It is about time.

Hollywood touts itself as being a liberal entity, a land where all are welcome- – the ego-maniacal, the moody thespian, the reality television darling, the freaks, the geeks, white, black and everything in between.

Why then did it take the academy 74 years to award a black actress the best actress award?

Why did it take ten years since “Malcolm X” and a mediocre movie for Denzel Washington to be recognized as a best actor?

Hollywood wasn’t quite as liberal as it thought it was.

But with Sunday night’s Oscars’ ceremony, the academy may have finally vaulted itself into the 21st century.

In what seemed like a perfectly scripted evening, Sydney Poitier received an honorary Oscar 38 years after being the first black best actor winner.

He was the only black best actor winner until Sunday.

In all those years between 1963 and today, only a handful of academy awards were given to black actors – Whoopi Goldberg in 1990 for her supporting role in “Ghost,” Cuba Gooding, Jr. in 1996 for his supporting role in “Jerry Maguire,” Louis Gossett, Jr. in 1982 for his supporting role in “An Officer and a Gentleman” and the best actor himself – Denzel Washington – in 1989 for his supporting role in “Glory.”

Plenty of support, but no leading roles.

Until Sunday.

We are not living under Jim Crow’s asinine laws or debating segregation. We no longer think in

separate colors.

Or at least we shouldn’t.

We had supposedly moved past our racist history, to a point where no one should be judged by the color of their skin.

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever," said Martin Luther King Jr. Not that Hollywood actors are oppressed. Will Smith and Oprah Winfrey are some of the highest paid entertainers in the business with the world literally within their grasp.

But for an organization like the academy to have never awarded a best actress statue to a black woman until now, 2002, is appalling.

Think of Angela Bassett in “What’s Love got to do with It” or Whoopi Goldberg in “The Color Purple.”

It isn’t as if the male acting pool has been dry either – Danny Glover in “The Color Purple,” Laurence Fishburne in “Othello,” Samuel L. Jackson in “Pulp Fiction,” etc.

Sunday shouldn’t have been a historical night. "Black actor" and "white actor" shouldn’t have even been words evoked. They are all actors – nothing more, nothing less.

But since change comes gradually, the 74th Academy Awards will indeed be a signal that the Oscars are no longer for "whites only."

It will no longer be heralded as a victory to have two black men nominated at the same time for best actor nor a black woman to win best actress.

It will be expected, a sign that true change has indeed occurred.

It’s about time.

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SPEAK- SCREAM - YELL-WRITE

By Deborah Germinaro Daily Titan Staff Writer

If Whoopi Goldberg were any less funny as host of this year’s Academy Awards, she would have been embarrassing.

Comments like “the race this year is tighter than some of the faces,” were totally inappropriate.

The Oscars are supposed to be about honoring the actors and actresses, not making fun of them.

They get slapped with enough judgmental insults all year long with tabloids and cheap shots on late night talk shows.

Can we please stop making references to Ana Nicole Smith on nationwide television with millions of viewers watching?

Negative publicity is still publicity.

Her name belongs nowhere near the Academy Awards ceremony.

Goldberg made reference to her when she joked

about the Oscars being 74 years old – almost old enough for Smith.

Goldberg proved to be a low-brow stand-up comedian at a high-brow event.

Besides the hosting, there were some brilliant and touching moments.

Tom Cruise gave a moving speech at the beginning of the show about what movies mean to audience members and if they are even important in these times of post-terrorist tragedy.

The performance by Cirque du Soleil was captivating and flawless.

Kevin Spacey’s introduction of the memorium video included a request for a moment of silence for all those lost in the tragedy of Sept 11.

This was a very powerful few moments since it is not often you see that many people gathered together on national television in complete stillness and silence.

There is a certain dignity and stage presence about

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Spacey that made him the perfect person for such an introduction.

Sidney Poitier’s lifetime-achievement award acceptance speech was beautiful and pure poetry.

He spoke with eloquence, poise and conviction.

The overall theme viewers took from this year’s Oscars was that this was the year of the black artist.

“This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll...it is for every nameless, faceless woman of color who now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened,” Halle Berry said.

People are going to remember occasions where history is made and they will remember this year’s Oscars for the first black woman winning for best actress.

“This is for 74 years, I need to take some time here,” Halle Berry said when they attempted to cut her acceptance speech short.

It took 74 years, but it will never be forgotten.

I would like to clarify some points regarding your article “Lecture chronicles the feminist ideas” by Scott Leeds, which appeared on Wednesday March 17.

You state that I spoke about the “position of women in Iraq and how they have very little access to education and paid employment.” Actually, the point of my presentation was to show that women made significant gains in access to education and paid labor in the period 1950-1990.

Also, you quote me as saying “Islam obviously discriminates in favor of men and against women.” What I said is that while Islam clearly favors men against women, it is difficult to blame the traditionally disadvantaged position of women on Islam. This is because women historically did not receive even that which Islamic teachings entitled them to receive. For example, even though women are entitled to half the male’s share in inheritance under Islamic law, they have historically not received even this. That is, societies often neglected Islamic teachings to the disadvantage of women.

I wonder if your reporter was actually there, or did he prefer to hear what he wanted to hear.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

-Bassam Yousif CSUF economics professor

Tuesday, March 26, 2002

Pula breaks record nTRACK: Fullerton finishes in the middle of the pack during a meet at home

By Katie Cumper

Daily Titan Photo Editor

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Hassan Dickerson (left) hands the baton to his brother Kassemin during the 4X4 Saturday.

The cold wind that blew east across the Titan track on Saturday felt more like it belonged back at Wichita or Sacramento State– the two competing schools at the track meet – rather than at Cal State Fullerton.

“I can’t even tie my shoelace,” Darius Bastani said after finishing the 5000-meter race in fourth place during the tri-meet.

“It’s hard to move. The wind just blows your body around when you run into it and you have to give more effort for the same work.”

Orenda Talton, who finished first in both the 100 and 200 with times of 12.16 and 25.11 seconds respectively, only felt the rush of a good race.

“I didn’t feel the wind,” she said. “It felt great to win the 100. That’s the fastest I’ve run in a long time – since high school.”

CSUF’s tri-meet was originally slated to include Fresno State, but due to budget issues they were unable to attend. Wichita State, who filled in for Fresno, finished first at the meet with 155.5 points on the men’s side and 150 for the women. CSUF was second with team scores of 132.5 for the men and 123 for the women. Sacramento finished third with scores of 102 and 120.

Edmund Pula broke a school record in the hammer throw, originally set by George

CSUF sweeps 49ers for first time

nBASEBALL: Wes Littleton records first career shutout and complete game as the Titans and 49ers met in a series before Big West play begins

By Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer

The Big West Conference show down between the No.17 Long Beach State 49ers and the No. 15 Cal State Fullerton Titans had major implications.

“This [series] is one you identify as a big one,” Titan head coach George Horton said.

But as this was a non-conference series, the games will not affect the BWC standings.

This was, however, a statement series between two rivals who wanted to create momentum and establish themselves as the top team in the Big West.

For the weekend, at least, one team emerged with that title.

The Titans used a shut out (6-0), a dramatic come-from-behind win (7-6) and a hit-fest (8-7) to complete the three-game sweep of the 49ers at Goodwin Field.

It was the first time since 1991 that the Titans swept the 49ers at home.

The last time they swept the “Dirtbags” was on the road at Long Beach in 1998.

The Titans amassed 34 hits in the series, including 15 Sunday, as they

abused Long Beach’s ace pitcher Abe Alvarez, who was 6-0 with a 1.44 ERA coming into the game.

“We made a concerted effort to swing the bat more. There was a plan to be more aggressive,” Horton said.

Senior Chris Stringfellow responded with a two-run home run Saturday and two hits Sunday.

“I’ve been telling these guys to just swing the bat,” Stringfellow said. “That’s what I’ve been trying to do.”

Stringfellow wasn’t the only one swinging away. His teammates continued to supply the Titan pitching staff with a large cushion of runs.

Shane Costa had a monster series prompting one Long Beach radio broadcaster to label him a “Dirtbag killer.”

He was 8-13 in the series, hit a triple in Sunday’s match-up and had the game-winning single to cap off a four-hit game on Saturday.

The Titans rolled for the sweep and found a new sense of energy.

“It’s a good feeling,” Horton said.

“Certainly the teams mind set has to be really good and it will be my job to keep the team focus and maybe use this as a spring board.”

Stringfellow reinforced that idea.

“I think we have a new attitude,”

Evans in 1999. He launched the hammer 179 feet, nearly 15 feet farther than the former record.

“The last four weeks I have broken the record by about four feet each time,” Pula said.

Saturday’s throw was witnessed by many of Pula’s relatives, who came from as far away as the island of Samoa.

“I call it the invasion of the island nation,” Pula said. “I’ve got about 40 relatives in the stands and today was the first time my parents have seen me throw.”

Many of his relatives were in town for a church function that just happened to fall on the same weekend as the meet. This was the last chance they would have had to see him compete at CSUF since no more track meets will take place on the Titan field this year, and also since Pula is graduating in June.

“It’s the seniors last meet on this track,” he said. “For me, it’s a good way to go out – win the competition and break the school record again.”

Pula is now ranked No. 8 in the line-up of 27 top throwers in the NCAA, but should move up after Saturday’s throw.

Derek Brown, Kassem and Hassan Dickens and David Ortega left the three Sacramento State 4X4 meter relay teams blowing in the wind when they out ran on every leg of the 4X4 meter relay. Their combined time was 3:15.71.

The Titan women also beat the competition in the 4X4. Tesha Wright, Talton, Lakeysha McClenton and Pam Roque worked together to bypass Sacramento for their first-place time of 3:58.85.

Casey Jones and Brandon Campbell both had first place finishes on Saturday – Jones in the triple, Campbell in the high jump.

Campbell also placed second in the long jump with a leap of 25-00.75 in one of the longest and most competitive events at the meet. Randy Lewis of Wichita State took first in the event with a distance of 25-4.50.

Both Campbell’s and Lewis’ jumps broke the Titans’ stadium record.

In the throwing events, Ryan Gill hurled the javelin 198-05 for second place at the meet and Randy Billingsley was third in the discus. Sara Noriega placed second with her 127-00 hammer throw.

Other highlights for the Titans included Yahvoh Totimeh’s second place finish in the 200; Pam Roque’s first place win in the 800; Anna Doty, who placed second in the long jump and third in the triple jump; Bryce Lighthall’s and Eric Loudon’s No. 2 and 3 finishes in the 5000 and Chris Monachelli’s second place steeplechase finish.

Kelly Thomas placed sixth in the 400meter hurdles but was lucky to finish the race after a nasty fall over the second-to-last hurdle of her race.

“I’m fine,” she said. “I’ve got to get that

Women claim regional berth

By Maria Ragas

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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Chris Stringfellow avoids a pick-off attempt Sunday. he said. “We haven’t been consistent throughout the year so this was a good win for us.”

The Titans came into the weekend at 13-9 – a record identical to that of the 2001 team after 22 games.

Last year’s team went on to sweep Miami and eventually earn a third place finish in the College World Series.

“In any successful season you have a period of time where you look back and say ‘that was when we turned it around.’ Last year it was Miami,” Horton said.

This year’s turning point could very well be Long Beach.

“We’ve been having talks all year,” Stringfellow said. “I think everyone is starting to listen to what coach has been trying to say and we’re just doing it. It’s a good time to start listening.”

Long Beach rode an eight-game win streak into the series, but Wes Littleton’s 6-0 pitching gem Friday night put it to rest.

It was the first time the Titans had shut out the 49ers since 1987, but that wouldn’t be the only first of the night.

Littleton (4-2) recorded his first career shutout and pitched his first complete game as a Titan.

“I had a lot of adrenaline pumping,” Littleton said. “You probably couldn’t see it because I was trying to keep it inside.”

He kept his composure and went on to strike out six on the night, allowing five hits and two walks in a 100-pitch effort, lowering his ERA to 1.44.

“It’s always fun to beat Long Beach,” Littleton said.

Saturday’s dramatic win came after Kurt Suzuki laid down a bunt with two outs in the eighth, trailing 6-4, and beat out the throw to first.

Kyle Boyer followed with a double to put runners in scoring position.

Closer Josh Allison came on for Long Beach but walked Justin Smyres and Stringfellow to force in a run.

Costa then lined a single to left field scoring two runs giving the Titans the lead, 7-6, and the win.

The Titans will next see action as they begin conference play Thursday against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

The first game of a three-game series at Goodwin Field will begin at 7 p.m.

The Cal State Fullerton women’s gymnastics team came in fifth at the five-way Western Gymnastics Conference championship Friday night in Logan, Utah. Yet their score of 193.250 was enough for the team to qualify for the NCAA regionals.

Denver University nabbed first place overall with a score of 195.825.

Southern Utah took second with a 195.575, Utah State came in third with a score of 195.550 and Boise State’s score of 194.900 was good enough for fourth.

The floor exercise rotation was unusually tough for the Titans.

Southern Utah’s Sandi Crosby took first in the event with a 9.950 and Utah State’s Jessenia Abrego nabbed second with a 9.925. Top Titan finisher Latoya Milburn’s 9.800 was only enough for 17th place.

“We had to count a fall and two out of bounds,” CSUF coach Julie Knight said. “We just had some silly mistakes.”

CSUF had their strongest showing of the night on the uneven bars.

Junior Kelly Mathiasen led the Titans with a score of 9.925 and earned a tie for first place with Utah State’s Katie Rutherford. Third place went to Breanne Holmes of Boise with a score of 9.900.

Hughes, who only competes on the bars and vault, had been extremely ill and had stayed in bed until Friday’s competition.

CSUF had only five gymnasts competing on the vault and were forced to count one fall.

Utah State’s Nicole Kilpatrick

took first place with a score of 9.925.

Denver’s Karyssa Ancellotti placed second with a score of 9.875. The Titans highest score of the event was a 9.650, reached by both Hughes and Annette Reyes.

Andrea Boggs, who had been on the injured list, came back just in time to compete on Friday and took 23rd with a score of 9.600. “[Boggs] came through great,” Knight said.

Mathiasen, who fell on the balance beam, placed third in the event with a score of 9.850. The fall was something of a surprise to her coach.

“It’s an unusual fall on the beam for her,” she said.

Boise’s Heidi White took first with 9.925 on the beam and Jamie Johns came in second with 9.875. CSUF’s highest score in the event came from Kristin Parker who scored a 9.825, good enough for a four-way tie for fifth place.

Knight said although they had to count a fall on the beam, the rotation went well.

Mathiasen’s fall on the vault dropped her to No. 6 in the all-around competition with a score of 38.775.

Coming in first overall was Boise’s Johns, who scored 39.425. Southern Utah’s Ashley Schible came in second with a score of 39.325.

“We are still fifth in the region,” Knight said.

Despite Friday’s fifth-place finish, the Titans will travel to Tempe, Ariz. for the South Central Regional April 6. The top-two overall teams and top-two all-around competitors will continue on to the NCAA Championships, April 18-20 at the University of Alabama.

Softball extends its home winning streak to 21 nLADIES: Team remains undefeated in Big West Conference play as they sweep Cal State Northridge in a three-game series at the Titan Softball Complex, improving to 30-9

By Brian Thatcher

Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor Another series. Another sweep.

For the Cal State Fullerton softball team, the road to the College World Series is being paved in a dominant fashion.

The newest brick in that road came as the No. 7 Titans took all three games in last weekend’s series with the Cal State Northridge Matadors, 5-3, 3-2 and 10-2.

CSUF (30-9 overall, 6-0 in Big West) has a 21-game win-streak dating back to March 1.

“What we focus on as coaches trickles down to the players,” Titan coach Michelle Gromacki said. “We aren’t even thinking about the amount of games we have won.

We are playing in the present and concentrating on getting better. You can’t do the little things like take an extra base or capitalize on an opponent’s error if you’re thinking about the past.”

This series almost saw an opponent capitalize on a Fullerton error in game one when CSUF did something they haven’t done since going on this tear – relinquish a lead.

Fullerton got the scoring started in the bottom of the first when leftfielder Yasmin Mossadeghi launched a two-run bomb to make the score 2-0.

The Titans’ starter, Gina Oaks (14-2), let the Matadors get on the board after loading the bases in the top of the third. She forced home Northridge’s Summer Richardson after the first baseman was hit by a pitch. Catcher Janice Grund smacked a two-run single in the Matadors’ next at bat to give CSUN the lead 3-2.

The score stayed the same until the bottom of the fourth when Amy LaRocque hit the Titans’ second two-run homer of the game, running the score to 4-3.

Fullerton added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth off an RBI groundout from right fielder Jodie Cox and Oaks held the Matadors scoreless in the top of the seventh to pick up the win.

In the nightcap, CSUF was pushed to extra innings but prevailed in the eighth when AllAmerican junior Jenny Topping looped an RBI single to right, scoring shortstop Amanda Hockett and the win 3-2.

Senior Christy Robitaille (6-3) got the nod as starter and pitched six strong innings. She allowed two runs on four hits while striking out seven and walking two. Cox (10-4) relieved her in the seventh with the score tied at two and held CSUN scoreless in two innings of work to pick up the win.

The Titans scored early and often in the

final game of the series to win 10-2 and invoke the mercy rule in five innings.

After the Titans scored a run in the bottom of the first, they exploded for four runs on five hits in the bottom of the second, including four doubles, to take a commanding 5-0 lead.

Cox, who got the start, gave the Matadors two runs back in the top of the third, but did not allow another run all game. She struck out four while only walking one in five innings of work.

The Titans continued to give her more runs than she needed by adding three in the bottom of the fourth off three consecutive singles.

The game ended when Hockett took a 1-1 pitch deep over the left field wall in the bottom of the fourth.

Fullerton will look to continue down their winning path when they travel to Logan, Utah to take on the Aggies of Utah State (3-23 overall, 0-3 in Big West). The teams will play a doubleheader Friday at 1 p.m. and a single game Saturday at noon.

“From here on out we need to focus on playing consistently,” Gromacki said. “Utah State is not a very strong team, but as long as we play to our potential and not go down to anyone else’s, we will continue to get better.”

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Jenny Topping (left) looks for the ball as the Matadors’ Christen Bedwell scores Saturday.