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Parking permit forgery increasnCRIME: There have been more reported cases of fake decals to Public Safety this term than in prior semesters By Allison Wells
Daily Titan Staff Writer Public Safety not only has to handle fender benders, theft, disputes and indecent exposure cases, but now they are dealing with the
growing problem of forged parking decals. Officials said there were 20-30 forged-decal cases reported in the last academic year. There have been more reported cases in spring 2002 than in past semesters, said Tony Prince, Parking and Transportation Services supervisor. Prince said he thinks this increase is due to the enrollment boost. With fewer parking spaces, the greater chance of forged decals is probable. An increase in the enrollment is not the only possibility to blame
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on the numerous amounts of forged decals. The parking structure that will be completed in January 2003 is assumed to take up 400 parking spots while under construction and officials are preparing for forged decal cases to increase again. Prince said the decals only take a couple of minutes to make, which is why many students try and make these on their own. But original decals have a unique hologram where the phony decals do not. One anonymous student explained the process he went through to create
his imitation decal. “I went to Kinko’s and colorcopied my girlfriend’s decal on both sides. Then we glued the sides together and got the decal laminated. It wasn’t that hard and it looks just like a real one.” Although some students choose to forge their decals, they may not realize the cost of the fine. Prince said the fine is $106. Police don’t prosecute criminally for this kind of action, they just issue large fines. Prince said what many students fail to realize is that the parking and
transportation officials can detect a forged decal immediately. “As we patrol the lots we go up to each vehicle and look at the permit. A bell rings in our head when we see something that looks strange about a decal,” Prince said. Detective Robert Botzheim said another indication of a forged decal is suspicious looking numbers. A parking service worker would then run the numbers to see if it is indeed a forged decal or not. Nights are an easier way to detect forged decals with a flashlight, Prince said.
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nREVISIONS: Effective April 2003, changes will be made to the MCAT and the GRE to increase difficulty Trying to enroll in a graduate program might be difficult for students, as changes have been made to the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), according to the Kaplan Test Prep. Many graduate school programs require the GRE exam as well as the MCAT for admission. The GRE exam, which is about a two hour and 45 minute test, consists of a verbal, math and analytical reasoning multiple-choice section. As of October 2002, the new GRE exam will include a new analytical writing section, which will be replacing the multiple-choice analytical reasoning part of the exam. Students interested in obtaining a master’s degree in economics at Cal State Fullerton must take this test in order to be admitted in the program, according to the College of Business Administration and Economics Web site, business.fullerton.edu. Another test that will face changes is the MCAT exam. This exam is to be taken by those students that want to enter a graduate medical program. It is a standardized multiple-choice exam that helps medical schools predict the success of students entering medical graduate programs. Since 1991, when the MCAT exam was last modified, this is the first time that the MCAT exam faces major changes. As shown in the MCAT exam Web site, www.aamc. org, the MCAT exam is a six-hour test that consists of a verbal reasoning, a biological science, a physical science and a writing sample. Bonnie Eissner, public relations manager of Kaplan Test Prep, said the MCAT exam will have three new biological section questions that will focus on DNA. It also will have a shorter verbal reasoning section. The physical science section, which previously was after the biological section, will now be before the biological section.
When walking through the parking lots, the officials use flashlights to shine on the decals and the holograms on the originals reflect, and the imitations do not. Forged decals are found not only in student parking lots, but the faculty and staff parking lots as well. Cal State Long Beach has a different approach to parking decals. The decals are done in a way that is difficult to forge. Ignacio Carrillo, associate direc-
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“You’ve got too much mail.” There is a plethora of ways for someone to have an email address. For example, one can get them through any Internet provider such as Hotmail, Yahoo!, AOL or the one Cal State Fullerton offers. “Out of the 47,000 available student accounts, about 6,000 are active users, and only a few hundred of them are getting up to the five-megabyte limit,” said Mike Marcinkevicz, director of Network Applications. That’s 13 percent of student’s using the e-mail address given out by the college. On Jan. 29, student e-mail services were moved to a new set of Dell servers, running the new Microsoft Exchange 2000 software. This action provides increased capacity, more robust service, new capabilities and increased security for students, according to the Information Technology Department. The department also said that with this upgrade, users would gain the benefits of increased system stability and enhanced e-mail features, including compatibility with the new “My CSUF Portal.” The change is supposed to be virtually undetectable. Students will be able to access e-mail on the new system exactly as they did on the old system. Student e-mail addresses, logins and passwords have not changed. However, the student e-mail addresses have a fivemegabyte limit. Marcinkevicz said they used existing equipment and that the expenses for the change were minor. He added that even though the users are minimal they are not losing money, because it’s a referral service that faculty can use to get information out to students if they want. “The campus is moving in the direction of using e-mail rather than U.S. mail to communicate information such as: financial aid, admissions & records and student financial services,” said Susan Kachner, director of Administrative Computing. Someone can choose to have e-mail from the campus sent to an on-campus e-mail address or have it forwarded to an off-campus account. The campus will send electronic messages to just one account, according to Titan Online. “I think the on-campus e-mail addresses are pointless,”
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Chavez’ life shown through musical nHISTORY: The story of the labor activist and his fight for farm workers’ rights were celebrated in the TSU By Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer
Cesar E. Chavez lay on the ground exhausted and dehydrated. He hadn’t eaten in 25 days and could not move without assistance. Covered in ethnic garb, he collected himself in front of 8,000 farm workers and supporters at a mass and broke bread. His fast started Feb. 14, 1968 to rededicate the farm workers movement to non-violence. When he finally ate on March 10, his wife and U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy were at his side. Kennedy called Chavez “one of the heroic figures of our time.”
Supporters and the media watched history unfold. Students, faculty and the general public witnessed the scene develop once again Wednesday night at Cal State Fullerton in Nyna Shannon Andersen’s “Chavez: Going Toward the Light,” a musical based on the life of the historical figure. Hosted by the Independent Latino Student Association in conjunction with Gily Productions, approximately 450 students trickled into the Titan Student Union Pavilions A & B to witness the event in honor of his birthday, March 31, which is now a holiday in California. “Cesar Chavez represents a life of service to others, working with the poor and commitment to the community,” said Isaac Cardenas, chair and professor of Chicano studies. Cardenas said he pushed for the show to arrive and was excited about the musical aspect. The show’s music also drew the attention of senior Chicano studies
major Juan Fonseca. “I was wondering how they would incorporate his life story in a musical,” he said. “To actually see it in a musical, it was interesting.” Although people recognize Chavez, many are unfamiliar with the trials and tribulations he went through to make a name for himself and create significant change among farm workers and Chicanos as well. “I wanted to see how everything got started. I really didn’t know his story,” Gerardo Sanchez, a junior civil engineering major, said. “I liked it.” If those in attendance arrived with a minimal knowledge of Chavez, they left with a more intimate look into his life. “[The musical] gave a personal perspective of what the internal struggle was for him,” said Jeannie Kim-Han, director of Service Learning at CSUF. “Because you see a lot of him in terms of the media, you see the television coverage and it’s always been external and never internal.”
Yliana Meeker, a junior psychology major, agreed. “It was more of the personal side and sometimes humorous look into the events that Cesar Chavez had to deal with,” Meeker said. The play began with Chavez quitting school after he was teased and called a “dumb Chicano” by his peers. He went to work in the fields but his mother made him promise to not give up on his education. Chavez then meets his future wife, Helen. He later inspires his fellow Chicanos to get out and vote and eventually gathers their support to take on a fight for the rights of farm workers in California. All of this with Latin beats and classical overtones intermixed in the background gives the multiethnic cast a channel to sing about the historic figure. It also gives the audience a different experience on how Chavez’ story is usually told. “I thought it was a really effective
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Rich Andersen and Jose E. Maronon depict one of Chavez’ plights. way to tell a story. Not just lecturing about it,” Meeker said. Andersen wrote the play in 1991 after an official of the Diversity Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District convinced her there was not enough plays about Latino leaders and she should consider writing one about
Chavez. Andersen obliged and later felt a bond with Chavez upon its completion. “I never met him but I feel like I know him,” Andersen said. “He’s a tremendous role model and humanitarian. He’s right up there with Gandhi, Jesus and Martin Luther King.”
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BRIEFS City Hall changes hours Due to Daylight Savings Time that begins on April 7, the hours for the public counters at Fullerton City Hall will be expanded to 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Friday hours will remain the same with City Hall being closed on alternate Fridays. The city’s Maintenance Yard also will not be affected by the time change. Emergency service is still available after hours. No employee time will be used to cover the counter during open hours, but employee shifts will be staggered to accommodate the new schedule. For more information about City Hall hours, call the city’s Public Information Office at (714) 738-6317.
Fullerton Library hosts book sale The Friends of Fullerton Public Library will be hosting the 41st year of its bi-annual “Extraordinary Used Book Sale” beginning on April 1 and ending on April 14. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the library and is done as a service to the people of Fullerton. Books will be categorized for easy selection and the holding areas have been expanded. There is also a speedy checkout for customers with a limited number of books. On the last day of the sale, it will be a “Buck-a-Bag” sale where all books will be half off. During the morning on April 12 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., all sales will be reserved for customers with current membership cards, which can be purchased or renewed at
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Stephanie Lomibao, a president’s scholar and Fullerton resident has been named one of five finalists from California for a Truman Scholarship. Lomibao, a public and business administration major with a concentration in marketing, will be going to Denver as part of the final round of competition that began with 590 candidates nationwide. The finalists will be competing for $30,000 scholarships awarded annually by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The Truman Foundation seeks to identify students with the potential and will to “make a difference” in society. Finalists were chosen on their commitment to careers in public service, leadership potential, academic record and communication skills. Up to 80 scholarships will be awarded to junior-level students at four-year colleges and universities for completion of their senior year of study, plus a graduate degree. Lomibao said that in the future she would like to sit on a governmental board of directors as an appointee or run for state legislature.
CALENDAR C ALEN DA R OF OF EVENTS EVEN TS Community The Pacific Symphony Orchestra presents “It’s a Royal Flush,” April 3- 4 at 8 p.m. at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available at the TSU Information and Services Desk. For more information, call (714) 278-2468. In honor of the Fullerton Civic Light Opera’s 30th anniversary musical theater, greats will come together in two spectacular performances April 6 -7 at 2 p.m. at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. For more information, call (714) 879-1732. The Old Courthouse Museum in Santa Ana hosts an exhibit called “Audubon of the West,” through May 6. Admission is free. For more information, call (714) 834-4691. The CSUF Pair Celebrities Series presents “Beguiled Again,” April 5 at 8 p.m. at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. The ticket prices range from $13 to $37. For more information, call (714) 2783371. Spring ESL classes will be offered at the Brea Community Center between April 8 and June 26. Morning Sessions will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and evening sessions will be held from 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Registration is required. For more information, call (714) 9907150. “Riverdance” plays at the Orange County Performing Arts Center through March 31. For more information, call (714) 5562787.
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 called “Auction PortraitsPhotography” through April 28. For more information, call (714) 567-7233. The Grand Central Art Gallery hosts an exhibit called “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, log on to www. geocities.com/scagallery. The Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana will host the exhibit “Gentlemen’s Club” by Jean Low through April 28. For more information, call (714) 567-7233. The Garden Grove Playhouse
presents the comedy “The Nerd” 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 Bowers Museum in Santa Ana is hosting “The World of the Etruscans” through April. For more information, call (714) 567-3600. The Fairplex in Pomona presents a show by the Millard Sheets Gallery Tuesday through Sunday through March 31. This is its second post-fair exhibit and it will include a sculpture of Carl Milles. For more information, call (909) 865-4262. The Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana will host an exhibition of paintings, automobiles and mixed media images by Kenny Scharf through April 28. For more information, call (714) 567-7233 or log on to www.arts.fullerton. edu/events.
Campus The Main Art Gallery hosts the exhibit “Definite Ambiguities: Films and Paintings by R.T. Pece,” April 7 to May 9. Admission is free. For more information, call (714) 2783262. The Student Diversity Program is looking for talented students for the upcoming talent show May 1. Participants can win money. For more information, call (714) 2787546. A Holocaust Remembrance Event will take place April 11 in the Library North, Room 130 from 1
p.m. to 2:15 p.m. The TSU Center Gallery presents a student art show April 8 to April 12. The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call (714) 278-2468. The TSU Underground has free bowling every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The shoe rental is $1.50. For more information, call (714) 278-2144. The TSU Underground has a family night March 30 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, call (714) 278-2144. The Career Planning & Placement Center will have a Teacher Job Fair April 4 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the TSU. For more information, call (714) 2783121. The Titan Tusk Force meets every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in TSU 259. For more information, call (714) 278-2468. The Spanish Student Association will have a friendship dinner and dance April 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the TSU. Tickets are available before March 28 for $22 in H- 323 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. Guests will participate in a raffle. For more information, call (714) 278-4192. The Pollak Library will host the exhibit “Kimono: The Wearable Art of Japan” through May 18 in the Atrium Gallery. The TSU presents the Titan Pride Bowling League every Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. This event is open for all faculty, staff and students and the cost per week is $9. For more informa-
Fifth anniversary of Sigma Phi Epsilon Celebrating five years of Cal State Fullerton’s chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, the fraternity is hosting its Founder’s Ball at the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim on April 6. The keynote speaker will be the Robert Schuller of the Crystal Cathedral.
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Stress lingers in 9/11 afternHEALTH: The trauma and memories of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are a reality By Heather Hampton
Daily Titan Staff Writer Millions stood in front of their television screens with jaws wide open as they watched the events on Sept. 11 unfold before their eyes. Six months have passed since the day that changed the American way of life forever. Now people are coming out of shell shock and inhaling the bitter reality. There is no more “What if?” No more “How can this be?” Only reality remains. Along with reality comes stress – one type in particular. Many Americans across the United States are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder due to the attacks. “It is a result of stress that has developed during a traumatic incident, that remains in the body (post) following that trauma (post-traumatic),” said Babette Rothschild, a
licensed clinical social worker and author of “The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment.” Rothschild said it is a problem in approximately 25 percent of people who experience a traumatic event. Sept. 11 is etched in the minds of Americans from children to adults. “Many people were traumatized by Sept. 11 from watching the events unfold on TV,” Rothschild said. “On the television we witnessed the attacks again and again.” While the distress may have slowly melted away for many Americans, the traumatic images remain a continual reminder for those who have lapsed into post-traumatic stress disorder. Results from a recent study of people in Manhattan was released Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the study of 1,008 adults interviewed, 7.5 percent said they have current symptoms consistent with the post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis. Among those who lived south of Canal Street (near the World Trade Center), 20 percent reported having post-traumatic stress symptoms. This is about twice the normal U.S. rate, the study said. “The events of Sept. 11 were very distressing for everyone, traumatizing
for many,” Rothschild said. The disorder does not require someone to be a primary witness in catastrophic event. The person can be miles away and still have the same symptoms as someone who was in the Twin Towers. “You don’t have to be there to have experienced it,” said Jinni Harrigan, a clinical psychology professor at Cal State Fullerton. A single picture or the slightest whisper pertaining to Sept. 11 can make someone with post-traumatic stress disorder replay all the events of the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. “You keep reliving the events,” Harrigan said. Harrigan said that people with posttraumatic stress disorder may become anxious, hyper-alert or startled at the slightest thing. Rothschild said some other symptoms include sleep disturbances, hyper-vigilance, difficulty concentrating, flashbacks (like reliving the trauma over and over again), disassociation (feelings of unreality, inability to remember) and/or feeling distanced from one’s body or emotions. “Normally the nervous system becomes aroused to prepare the body for fight or flight,” Rothschild said. “When those are not possible, the
body will freeze like a mouse that goes dead when caught by a cat, or a deer that becomes paralyzed in headlights. “When the trauma is over, the body usually returns to its pre-trauma state. With post-traumatic stress disorder, the brain continues to alert the body to danger, causing it to continuously prepare for fight, flight or freeze.” There is no telling how long the disorder may last. Harrigan said that some Holocaust survivors are still experiencing symptoms 50 years later. Vietnam veterans also still experience symptoms. But most people with the disorder know they have a problem and want to be normal again. “They have a lot of symptoms [that are] very unpleasant and painful,” Harrigan said. This is where therapy comes in. Many post-traumatic stress victims are seeking the help of doctors who can help them overcome their disorder. “People are often benefited by getting treatment for [the disorder],” Harringan said. Rothschild said several methods of psychotherapy are being used. She said that in extreme cases certain drugs are helpful. Recovery for New Yorkers and
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Facts The disorder occurs after a major event and can be delayed by more than six months. When the disorder occurs, it resolves after three months. Some suffer a long-term form of the condition, which can last for years. The condition alters the body’s response to stress by affecting stress hormones and neurotransmitters. People with the disorder may have recurrent distressing dreams and recollections of the traumatic event. They may also become distressed around anniversaries or other reminders of that event. Symptoms of PTSD include flashback episodes, sleeping difficulties, difficulty concentrating, lack of interest in normal activities, feelings of detachment and a sense of guilt about the event. There is no test to diagnose the disorder. However, the diagnosis is made based on a certain set of symptoms that persist after a history of extreme trauma. Information compiled by Yahoo! Health
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many across the United States is not impossible. “Everyone has the potential to overcome tragedy,” Rothschild said. “What is most importance is utilizing and developing adequate resources and finding a meaning for the experience that helps you make sense of it.” Those with post-traumatic stress
do not usually overcome their disorder using their own will power. They need the help and encouragement of those who are close to them. “Be accepting. Listen. Support. Find ways to help them feel safer,” Rothschild said. “Do not shame them.”
faculty and staff does. Student passwords have a tendency to be more secured. “Student passwords are more difficult to figure out because they are mostly numbers,” Reed said. “The staff is logged on to more information and some of them might be using passwords that are too obvious.” Anti-virus and anti-hacker information is available for students at various Web sites on the Internet or at the student stores on campus. But guides to building and sending viruses also can be readily accessed. Such information can be found throughout the Internet, but also at bookstores like Barnes and Noble. One book, “The Little Black Book of E-mail Viruses” is promoted on a hacker Web site, declaring that Microsoft has not done enough to protect security of its users. The Web site suggests that it is up to the consumers to learn about
viruses to protect themselves. “That’s terrible to have that kind of information out there,” Jonathan Bellows, an undeclared major, said. “It encourages people to build viruses and hurt others.” Bellows, who uses a computer frequently, has received viruses through downloading music from the Internet. “For awhile, I stopped downloading music because I was afraid of getting another virus,” Bellows said. “But now I started doing it again. I try to keep up-to-date on viruses and security.” As users of the Internet gain information about the threats to their personal information, changes are constantly made. Even in the past few years, banks have increased security for their customers that shop on the Internet. It is a process that may never conclude. “It’s like the good versus evil,” Ryu said. “It’s an endless war.”
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which the highest points to score are 13 and 14, also will be affected. After the changes are put into effect, the verbal reasoning part of the exam will be scored with 14 and 15 being the highest scores. Eissner said the changes are being made to better assess the students. The changes for the MCAT exam will be effective as of April 2003.
Campus fights endless war on hackers, virusnINTERNET: The Information Technology Department helps to protect students and faculty from identity theft By Beth J. Passarella
Daily Titan Staff Writer The use of the Internet and computers have become just as much a part of Cal State Fullerton students’ daily lives as brushing their teeth. But many become so comfortable with this technology that they often forget about the threat of hackers obtaining private information or circulating viruses throughout the World Wide Web. “Many people associate in-depth computer technology with power,” said Tae Ryu, a professor of computer science at CSUF. “People fantasize about this — even those as
young as middle school try to hack into holes in security systems.” Hacking into computer systems and personal information has been a problem that has existed as long as computers have been a part of society. Viruses can potentially destroy computer systems at home, as well as for those who work with them professionally or on campus. “We fix viruses all the time,” said John Reed, who works in the Information Technology Department. “We usually get a bunch of calls from students all at the same time. But it’s really not so bad. We’ve stayed on top of this pretty well.” Most viruses are sent through e-mail. The information technology department blocks most viruses from reaching student and faculty e-mails by looking at attachments sent to e-mail accounts. The university uses a firewall system that selectively lets files through the system using a software bar-
ricade. “We try to encourage students not to open attachments on e-mail unless they have some idea of what it is,” Reed said. “They should be wary of opening attachments from someone they don’t know.” Reed said CSUF students should feel safe using the campus computers as long as they do not reveal their passwords to others. An e-mail was sent Wednesday to faculty and staff regarding passwords and security. Mike Parker, vice president of information technology, advised them to change their passwords frequently and to avoid using common or short passwords. “We haven’t had any problems with people getting passwords, but we wanted to stay on top of it before anything happens,” Reed said. Students were not told to constantly change their passwords because they do not have the same access to university information that
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Spring-breakers ignore rich culture of Mexico
nVACATION: Binge- By partying by students is welcomed by some locals and detested by others Matthew Brown
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) By day he’s Luis Carlos Gonzalez, 27, father of a 6-monthold boy, college graduate, son of a Guadalajara engineer. By night he becomes “Pipo,” purveyor of pint-sized daiquiris and other cocktails, facilitator of widespread drunken chicanery at a bar known as Senor Frog’s. As Pipo, “They’re Gonzalez sees young rude. They adults on spring drink all b r e a k in their the time; prime and at their drugs, sex... w o r s t , as they descend They act on Cancun f r o m like we have a r o u n d the United no rules, no States for week-long no-holdslaws.” barred indulJorge Diaz, gence. Since tour booker moving here five years ago, he’s made far more money off them and other visitors to this Yucatan resort than he might have made elsewhere, he said. And it’s fine by him if the “crazy students” don’t care to stop partying long enough to join more sedate tourists in exploring
the area’s ancient cultural heritage. “They’re on vacation. They can do anything they want,” he said of the students who flock in to take advantage of the 18-year-old drinking age. And if they have a good time, “They may be our future customers.” Tour booker Jorge Diaz, who has worked here for 25 years for Caribe Maya Tour Co., has a more jaundiced take: “The only thing spring-breakers book are bar packages - wherever there’s drinking. They don’t care about culture like the Europeans do. They only think about their next conquest, their next affair with a girl. “They’re rude. They drink all the time; drugs, sex. Do they do this at home? They’re supposed to be getting an education. They don’t seem very educated. They act like we have no rules, no laws. We have rules.” Mexicans tend to be cautious when asked to size up American tourists. But their vantage point definitely seems to be a one-way mirror: The spring break scene in Cancun is one infatuated with itself, with Mexico merely the exotic stage upon which the fantasy plays. When Eric Schmeltz of William Paterson University was asked if he or his eight companions had any plans to leave the “Zona Hotelera” - Hotel Zone - and taste the unique Yucatan culture, he looked genuinely surprised by the question. “No, not really,” he replied. “I hadn’t thought about it. No, probably not.” Then he returned to craning his neck to catch a glimpse of the next participant in a well-attended wet T-shirt contest, staged on the beach behind one of Cancun’s estimated 65 large hotels. An overwhelming majority of students who come here never even make the short journey over the bridge separating the Zona Hotelera from its lively and colorful city
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Anthony R. Evans checks his e-mail on a library computer. technology most student’s already have an e-mail address.” The Information Technology n from page 1 Department realizes that the e-mails said Mike Lynch, a business major. they give to students may not be the “The college has to take into consid- personalized e-mail they are lookeration that with the escalation in ing for.
proper, where thousands of the bar, restaurant and hotel workers live. Fewer still visit nearby Mayan ruins such as Chichen Itza or Tulum, considered two of the most spectacular examples of that ancient culture’s great architecture. The spring equinox was Thursday, and during the week - in an enduring reminder of the Mayans’ savvy view of the heavens - the shadow of a giant snake descended the steps of one of Chichen Itza’s massive pyramids. The serpent image, created by light and shadows cast from parts of the Mayan structure, appeared to slither down the steps as the sun dropped lower in the sky, reaching the bottom at sunset. It is a ritual that has been repeated every spring and fall for more than 1,000 years. So, while the serpent was descending the steps at Chichen Itza, the shadows of spring-breakers were cast at the front of the hotel zone’s bars, as they lined up for a “foam party” in which participants dance and drink in an indoor sea of artificial foam. “Chichen Itza is amazing,” said Manuel Alarcon Mujica, a former hotel zone restaurant manager who now drives a taxi downtown. “The equinox is something that everyone must see. The Mayans were an amazing people, they knew everything about astronomy.” Mujica said he spends much of his day trying to lure Americans on out-of-town excursions, but that he rarely succeeds. A steady trickle of students do visit the flea market just beyond the hotel zone, but Mujica said in his six years as a taxi driver, only a handful have wanted to go farther. “When you don’t see a place, you don’t know it,” he said. The spring equinox also made for a national holiday Thursday, and downtown, children celebrated the day off from school by playing in the streets. In the section of town leading to the hotel zone, those streets are wide and paved. The pavement
“We want to protect their privacy, which is why we assign the e-mails we do,” Kachner said. Students do have the option now to change the e-mail addresses given to them by the college. “Students should be aware that they can use Titan Online to specify a more personalized oncampus e-mail address or tell us their off-campus e-mail address so that we can automatically forward campus e-mail to their off-campus e-mail,” Marcinkevicz said. If students plan to use their oncampus account, they may choose their own personal account name and change it as often as they like; or they may continue to use the campus-assigned account name. “I do use my on-campus e-mail address,” said Angela Hooks, a psychology major. “It’s effective for anything that has to do with school like checking grades, financial aid and using Titan Online.”
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A vendor waits for customers in Cancun, Mexico. She will see little profit from students on break. gives way to pockmarked and rocky dirt lanes as you get farther away, toward where hotel service workers - paid as little as $5 a day - live in the row upon row of five- and six-story apartment blocks that make up the Corales, Lombardo and Doncelles 28 neighborhoods. Indeed, like other parts of developing Mexico, Cancun proper is a mosaic of rich and poor. Some of the neighborhoods are downright destitute, with ramshackle cement houses and barefoot kids struggling to fly kites assembled from scraps of trash. Others are prosperous, with muchacclaimed seafood restaurants and newly painted houses with SUVs parked behind gated entrances. Those diverse neighborhoods are where vendors sell traditional tamales, peanuts sprinkled with salt and lime and chicharons - fried pork skins. Meanwhile, scrawny dogs roam everywhere. Besides tourism, the only other work seems to be in the service sector and on the fishing boats up the coast. This time of year is for the flood of spring-breakers to Cancun, but other tourism streams continue to flow in the area. About 15 members of the Rutgers Scuba Diving Club, for example, are in nearby Cozumel to explore coral reefs.
They’re spending a week in one of the world’s premiere diving spots. Spring break is just a fragmentary part of the vacation world created symbiotically by the Mexican and American tourist industries. Many of the American-based chain hotels and shops lining the 22-kilometer-long Kulculcan Boulevard - the main avenue of the Zona Hotelera - pre-date the student visitors. From Chili’s and TGI Fridays, to the Gap and the Hilton, the resort section is Americanized to an extent that far exceeds the total economic clout of 75,000 spring-breakers expected this season. Also, the American students are leashed by their tour-booking companies. Most are hooked into “allinclusive” packages with meal plans and pre-paid, all-you-can-drink entrance to particular bars. Meanwhile, back at Senor Frog’s, Gonzalez was about to assume the role of Pipo for another night. He would work from 4 p.m. until well into the morning. “To us it’s very important” to have such customers, he said. “The life here is quiet, and you make a lot of money. “Well, it’s not quiet here,” he said as students poured in for another night of Cancun, American-style.
Cancun Facts Price for a night at the Ritz-Carlton hotel: $379. Minimum wage earned by many hotel workers: $5 a day. Modern Cancun’s age: 32 years. Duration of Mayan empire: 1,850 years (300 B.C.-1541). Mayan authorities took power again from mid-1800s until 1901. U.S. Consulate estimate of number of spring-breakers this year: 75,000. Estimated resident population of Cancun: 500,000 to 800,000. Distance from Cancun to Chichen Itza Mayan ruins: 128 miles. Distance from Fiesta Americana Grand Hotel to Bulldog Cafe: 147 paces. Height of Kulkulcan Pyramid: 11 stories. Height of J.W. Marriott
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tor of Parking and Transportation Services at CSULB, said they’ve only seen two cases of forged decals in the last year. CSULB uses electrostatic cling decals that cling to the windshield. These are difficult to duplicate and include features such as reversed printed translucent numbers and a hologram imprinted in the cling. The permit comes in a holder and when you look through the windshield, that’s when you see the numbers. “With these features, we don’t see many forged permit cases,” Carrillo said. As of now, CSUF police and parking and transportation do not have leads or suspects. Botzheim said he thinks constant fining is the best way to prevent this problem on campus from continuing.
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The Daily Titan Our Voice Let Spring Break begin! A week-long break?!? An entire week without midterms leading a person to break out in sweats during late-night study sessions. An entire week without cursing the parking gods for making you spend an hour squatting in an aisle territorially waiting for your pre-destined parking space. An entire week without The Daily Titan to fulfill your curious need to know. An entire week without work! Oh wait. The majority of students will be spending their “break” at their respective places of work (various retail establishments, Disneyland, and more.) Sure a select few will be living it up in exotic Mexican locations like Cancun with scantily-clad members of each sex. But how close to reality is the world of Carson Daly and MTV’s “Spring Break?” Not very. Sure there are the individuals who have worked hard saving enough cash to fund a week-long hedonistic romp in a tropical locale. Kudos to you! But for the 70 percent of students who work full-time in addition to being a full-time student, the week- long break is more like a cruel label for all they will not be doing – sipping on a fruity margarita or frolicking with semi-nude fellow-20somethings. So for those of you who won’t be partaking in the MTV experience, here are some possible ways to enjoy your “break.” Sleep.
When the other students arrive to campus groggy and in a state of hang-over next Monday, you will be refreshed and ready to academically achieve. Who is going to graduate on time? You are! Calculate the number of STDs you could have contracted had you enjoyed the ideal crazy “Spring Break” and take comfort in the fact you had no opportunity to catch even one. Curse Carson Daly and the rest of the over-enthusiastic MTV dancers. Releasing bitterness by verbally shouting at other people having fun can be cathartic. Create your own wild beach spring break. Transport an army’s supply of liquor to any of the Orange County beaches, drink profusely until your brain feels like its literally sloshing in alcohol and collapse on the beach waking up to a painful sunrise and a mouthful of sand. Woohoo Spring Break! Toss some colorful lawn ornaments (flamingos, gnomes, oversized daisies) into your pool and slap on the scuba mask. Free some goldfish in the pool (if un-chlorinated) for more realistic measure. But if none of these suit you, simply relish in the fact that for one single week you won’t have to race to class and hustle into the back row of your lecture hall. For an entire week you won’t have to be approached by people trying to sell you magazines so they can go on a trip to Cancun. But, alas, you can always show up to classes a couple days early. You’ll be assured a parking spot.
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By John Phillips
President George W. Bush signed the Campaign Finance Reform Bill into law Wednesday. ::yawn:: The kicker is that Bush barely let the ink dry in his presidential pen before hopping into Air-Force One for a two-day trip to the South to – get this – raise money for campaigns! Bush was never an ardent supporter for the finance measure but for at least two more years he remains the figurehead of the American political system. His actions are tantamount to one of your parents leaping head-first from a bridge. “If everyone was raising millions of dollars from corporate sponsors, does that mean you would too?” In two days, Bush raised $3.5 million for other Republicans running in the November Senate race. If the man can do that in two days imagine what he could do if he did that all day every day! He doesn’t need to partake in real presidential duties like signing bills, meeting with heads of state or pushing his domestic agenda. If he campaigned like that regularly, he could fund the entire war on terror from his back pocket and use government funding for valuable domestic programs. I, dare I say it, would vote for Bush in 2004 if that were the case. But alas, it is not. “These Senate races are very important for me. I want the Republicans to take control of the Senate,” Bush said. Blatant self-interest. Bush doesn’t only want to win the war on terror, serve the head of Osama bin Laden on a platter at his next state dinner and be remembered as the greatest resident since George H.W. Bush – he wants to take over the world! World domination manifested by leading a Republican House AND Senate to pass whatever legislation he desires. An easier solution than frantically raising money for candidates before the Nov. 5 campaign finance law takes effect, might be for Bush to learn to negotiate. What a novel idea! The Republicans are one member away from having a majority in the Senate and there is no way he, in all his presidential influence, can’t sway a few moderates to his side for his domestic agenda? If he can’t do that the Republican senators might as well leave “gone to lunch” signs on their desks. Your president thinks it’s a futile fight anyway. Strom Thurmond, the living dead senator from South Carolina, isn’t returning for his millionth term come this November, so Bush wants Republican Lindsey Graham elected. “Frankly it’s in my interest that he get elected…because I’ve got a lot I want to do,” Bush said. Good to know, a little scary, but good to know. Does Graham have a lot he needs to do also since he is the one actually being elected to office? The only thing that would solve this situation would be to thwart Bush’s plans and toss his rich corporate donor cash to the wind. Elect Democrats! He’ll wish he would’ve pocketed the $3.5 million he fund-raised.
Singer Meredith Brooks has Congresswoman Maxine Waters (DLos Angeles) down cold. She’s a bitch, she’s a lover, she’s a child, she’s a mother (though in Maxine’s case, mother is only the first half of the word.) However, all hell has broken loose over Mad Maxine allegedly being labeled Brooks’ first observation – a bitch. More specifically, the congresswoman’s supporters are saying the insult came from the lips of Rick Caruso, president of the Los Angeles Police Commission. But, as true as the allegation is, it’s not even clear if he actually said it. Caruso’s alleged comment was brought to the public’s attention in an anonymous letter written by a person who claims to have attended a February meeting between Caruso and several top LAPD officials. For this, the congresswoman and about 100 supporters showed up to Parker Center demanding Caruso’s resignation. Some of them carried signs that read “Rick Caruso! Is This How You Refer to Your Wife?” and “Bold, Bodacious and Brilliant, but Not a Bitch.” As much as they take issue with Caruso allegedly referring to her as a bitch, I take issue with them referring to her as “brilliant.” This is a woman who once said, “I don’t have time to be polite.” She referred to the 1992 L.A. Riots as a “rebellion.” And then went on to characterize the violence that erupted from the thugs as “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration.” She described the looters as if they were modern-day Robin Hoods, saying “there were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes.” Her long and infamous history of spewing race-baiting demagoguery goes on, and on and on. I don’t have the space to tell you about how she danced in the streets with the Crips and Bloods gang members. Or when she visited the home of Damien Williams – the rioter who voiced his “frustration with the system” by smashing in the skull of white truck-driver Reginald Denny. To think someone could consider this pillar of high society a bitch! What’s next? Will someone accuse Rosie O’Donnell of being fat? Or Kathy Lee Gifford of being annoying? The madness has to end somewhere. The tragedy about Waters is that she is not dismissed as an idiot by the power brokers in the Democratic Party – she is revered as a leader. For all you Democrats out there, you know that deep down you believe she is right. Why don’t you just go ahead and indulge yourselves. Nominate her for president in 2004! If you did that I’m sure President George W. Bush would be more than willing to do the electric slide with the Crips and Bloods! All the way to the White House.
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Catholic Church is avoiding the issue incidents on their own to authorities. Why is the church willing to be deceitful? How could the church turn its back not only on its members but also on everything it set out to teach? And finally what should the church do to restore confidence? Ironically, the church believed that being deceitful would save them from damnation. The clergy involved in all By Erick Fierro Martinez incidents of abuse should have been Daily Titan Staff Writer immediately let go and turned over to As the Catholic Church enters into the authorities. this Easter weekend, many have called The confidentiality agreements into question their faith and devotion should have never been an option. The to the church in light of an increase church should have stood up and corin recent child molestation charges rected its wrongs right away. against priests. But all things become political and Some leaders from within the a hidden agenda emerged. Roman Catholic Church have chosen For several years now, the Catholic to minimize the “unfortunate scan- Church had difficulty recruiting memdal,” while others have bers to live the lives of agreed to cooperate with “But as in priests and nuns. Difficult authorities. for one reason – celibacy. History, especially in Celibacy is out of politics, recent years, shows that touch with society and scandal should be stared church. If the Catholic the same is the in the face and dealt with Church were to drop this truthfully and justly. requirement it would true of But as in politics, the immediately resolve same is true of religion many of its current prob– there are conservatives lems. Priests would probreligion and liberals. ably be less inclined to On the West Coast the fondle young children. – there are liberal appears. Cardinal While at the same time it Roger Mahoney of Los would bring a new image conservaAngeles claims that to the church that would “confidentiality agreebe in sync with its teachments don’t mean much tives and ings of respect for family any more in any kind of values. jurisprudence.” The church has done liberals.” He claims that in incredible work for the these cases the church interest of the whole, as has notified authorities Erick Fierro have many other faiths. and that they have long Much can still be Martinez, been involved and will accomplished. The acts Daily Titan continue to do so. by a few must not demise staff writer On the East Coast, the interest of the entire the conservative lingers. church. Cardinal Edward Egan But the church must beware whom of New York offered a more elusive they hire. response to the charges. Egan said that “A hired man, who is not a shepherd he is confident that the Bridgeport, and whose sheep are not his own, sees Conn. diocese (the diocese that is at the forefront of the church’s scandal,) a wolf coming and leaves the sheep acted “appropriately,” in addressing and runs away, and the wolf catches a series of sexual abuse cases in the and scatters them.” (John 10:12) 1990s. He also said that the church The church saw the wolf, and fled. will urge victims of abuse to report the
nRELIGION: As Lent finishes, the Catholic Church hasn’t solved the issues relating to molestation charges.
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ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’ – one pathetic man, 25 scary women nREALITY TV: Can no one get married without involving a major network anymore? One man spends six weeks auditioning women to be his wife
By Laura L. Gaghan
Special to the Daily Titan This show is demeaning in so many ways and the women are pathetic. FOX reality series, “Temptation Island” makes more sense then this does. Single women will meet with one single man, “The Bachelor,” in hopes to earn his love and be his future wife at the end of the six weeks. Alex is our bachelor. He is 31 and is originally from the East Coast. He was a swimmer in high school, student body president and homecoming king. He went to Harvard and then to Stanford for a masters degree in business administration. He currently works as a Management Consultant. This guy sure seems to have his life in order so it might be odd that he hasn’t been nabbed by the opposite sex yet. “He hasn’t found the right combination in a woman that he wants yet,” said his friend on the show. To be on this show though one must have some idea of what they want in a mate. “I’m ready to find the person with whom I am going to form a partnership with,” Alex said. Leave it to a businessman to make a relationship sound like a contractual agreement. “She has to be what I find beautiful,” said Alex. Alex might not have any problems looking for what he wants. In the choices of women there are two doctors, two lawyers and 10 women have their masters degrees or are in the process of getting it. There is also a singer, an actress and an NBA cheerleader from the Miami Heat.
Talk about your pick of the litter. The first episode gave the bachelor an opportunity to mingle with all the women. As the first episode draws to the end, Alex is isolated in the “deliberation room” to ponder which 15 women he will keep with him for the next round. While in the chamber, Alex does confess that he already has some favorites. His top favorites, which he does not hesitate keeping for round two are Amanda (Ms. Busty), Kim (girl next door), Trista (Rah, Rah, Rah) and Kathy (all American). The 15 women will now move into a huge Malibu mansion with him and spend the next few weeks gawking, swooning and crying over the man they believe might be their soul mate, brought to them by the producers at ABC. If you are looking into getting married soon this may or may not be the show for you, but if you’re anyone just interested in adding another reality series to the list you watch already, check out “The Bachelor.”
By Abigaile C. Siena
Daily Titan Staff Writer How far would a person go to get their 15 minutes of fame? It seems that in this day and age, people would probably go through anything and I mean anything to get their moment in the spotlight. There were too many people who auditioned for “realitybased” television shows such as the “Survivor” series that sent network executives into a feeding frenzy for ideas and thoughts of their target audience. ABC ventured into this programming phase two years ago with shows like “The Mole,” “The Mole 2,” the much-hyped but never released “The Runner” and “Making the Band.” ABC has yet to offer its first reality show “success.” This is where the new television show “The Bachelor” comes in. As part of the network’s brutal attempt to compensate for their lowest Oscars rating, “The Bachelor” helped the network achieve its highest “reality show” rating of 9.7 million viewers. Still a far cry from viewer ratings for “Survivor” The womens’ occupations ranged from graduate students, professionals and Hooters waitresses while their body types range from slender to even more slender. A definite sign that a superficial society still reigns supreme. Alex, the bachelor, makes his rounds listening to endless reasons why and how each woman reached the “ultimate” decision to join. The games should be called “Pick me! I’m desperate!” and “Cha-Ching!” If this scenario sounds similar to “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” then you’re not dreaming. The same company that introduced us to the infamous one-day wedding and honeymoon of “millionaire”/bad comedian Rick Rockwell and Darva Conger
produced “The Bachelor.” These people must have figured out that everyone has completely forgotten about the worst “reality-based” television show in the world. Whatever happened to the good old days of walking up and introducing yourself to someone you like? Why would these women risk public humiliation by appearing on television? Wait a minute…it (the show) is on national television. Maybe someone would pity the unwanted ones and make them into cast members of a new reality show called “Rejected” or another one of those B-movies. In “The Bachelor,” Alex chooses 15 out of the 25 contestants by giving each lucky girl a long-stemmed rose. The rest who do not receive the crucial rose get eliminated from the game. For those 10 women who did not receive their long-stemmed roses, there’s always a flower shop at a corner near you. This process is comparable to the well-known “Tribal Council” only well dressed and in an upscale bachelor pad. The discarded hopefuls have to leave the place after bidding the host farewell. This process will be repeated for the remaining five weeks until Alex finds his one true love, unless one of the women rejects his proposal. People find this show entertaining? This is the most boring, disappointing and pathetic show since X-treme Football was introduced to the public. It lacks substance and it made me realize how capable people are of humiliating themselves. ABC should have known better than to have involved itself in the race to bring the rest of modern society to a screeching halt just to watch TV. That’s what televised car chases are for.
Friday, March 29, 2002
Angels hope their uniforms the only thing that’s After stocking up on pitchers and unloading a deadbeat, Anaheim looks to the 2002 season as they try to forget the past up the middle of the infield this season. Eckstein provided a major spark for the Angels last season with his hustle and enthusiastic play. The knock on Eckstein is his size (5 feet 8 inches) and his relatively weak arm. The Angels plan to move him over to his regular position of second The Anaheim Angels have a more devilish look this year as red has become the predominate base next season. color of the team and the “Big A.” That is, unless Kennedy can perform like he did two years ago. Last season he struggled with And along with the aesthetic changes during the off-season, the team also underwent the bat and glove, but is determined to keep his starting position. With a team-high .456 batting several personnel changes. average this spring, Kennedy is primed for a career year. The most noteworthy departure came when overweight first baseman Mo First base is the one position the Angels did not successfully address during the off-season. Vaughn’s trade wishes were granted. Throughout his three unproductive Scott Spiezio, while a very versatile player, is not in the caliber of a Jason Giambi or a Todd seasons with the Halos, Vaughn endlessly pined (or whined?) for the faster- Helton. Heck, he is not even in the same class as the Dodgers’ Eric Karros. The Angels were paced East Coast. Surprisingly the Angels were able to pick up a quality hoping for a platoon at first base with Spiezio sharing the duties with Shawn Wooten, but pitcher from the New York Mets in return for this injury-prone cancer. this plan quickly went awry as Wooten separated a joint in his thumb and will be out for four Right-hander Kevin Appier brings stability to a young pitching months. staff which, while promising, lacked veteran leadership last season. Behind the plate and also hoping for more production out of himself is Bengie Molina. Appier’s 3.57 ERA in 2001 was the lowest among the Angels’ cur- Molina is an above-average catcher who demands respect from the pitching staff, but his hitting rent five starting pitchers. could use a little work. Only batting .262 last season, and spending a good chunk of that on The signing of free-agent right-hander the disabled list, Molina looks to add a little more offense to his resume. If Aaron Sele is another welcomed addition to 2002 Starting Lineup he can do this and develop good chemistry with Appier and Sele, Molina the pitching staff. Sele, who has more wins could develop into one of the better catchers in the American League. than any other American League pitcher over One pitcher Molina does not have to worry about is closer Troy the past four years, brings quite a track record with 1. David Eckstein/ SS Percival. With 39 saves last year and a new contract under his belt, Percival him from Seattle. Going 15-5 last season for the AL is primed for another outstanding year. 2. Darin Erstad/ CF West Champion Mariners, Sele also brings playoff expeLast season, Percival anchored one of the best bullpens in the league 3. Tim Salmon/ RF rience to an Angels team that hasn’t reached the playoffs and this season should be more of the same. Despite losing setup men since the Reagan administration. Shigetoshi Hasegawa and Mike Holtz to intra-division rival Seattle and 4. Troy Glaus/ 3B With the arrivals of Appier and Sele, the Angels now Oakland respectively, Anaheim feels they have restocked this season. 5. Garret Anderson/ LF boast one of the most formidable rotations in the league. The Taking over the setup roles this season are right-handers Al Levine and two should mesh well with youngsters Jarrod Washburn, 6. Brad Fullmer/ DH Ben Weber and left-hander Dennis Cook (who will open the season on Ramon Ortiz and Scott Schoeneweis. the DL). 7. Scott Spiezio/ 1B Washburn is scheduled to start the season-opener on Although Anaheim is optimistic about the upcoming season, there are 8. Bengie Molina/ C March 31 against the defending American League Central still major roadblocks in their way. Playing in possibly the toughest divichampion Cleveland Indians at Edison Field. 9. Adam Kennedy/ 2B sion in baseball, the Angels could finish with 90 wins and still wind up in Despite the additions of two veteran pitchers, the Angels pickthird place. up of designated hitter Brad Fullmer could turn out to be the steal Seattle, owners of 116 wins last season, is confident that they can repeat of the season. Traded from Toronto for minor league pitcher Brian as AL West champions. With Freddy Garcia and Jamie Moyer anchoring Cooper, Fullmer brings much needed performance from the DH position. Last season, the pitching staff and sophomore phenom Ichiro Suzuki causing opposing teams nightmares, the Angels boasted a major league low from this position with a combined .212 batting the Mariners will be tough for the Angels to top. average and a pathetic eight home runs. Fullmer batted .274 with 18 home runs and 83 The Oakland Athletics aren’t too far behind the Mariners and are arguably the second-best RBI and will become the Angels first full-time DH since Chili Davis. team in the AL. Despite losing key free agents, including MVP Jason Giambi, speedy center Along with Fullmer, Anaheim hopes the lineup will return to its former fielder Johnny Damon and closer Jason Isringhausen, the A’s boast one of the finest young self this season. Outfielders Darin Erstad and Tim Salmon, normally pitching staffs in all of baseball. Right-hander Tim Hudson and lefties Barry Zito and Mark consistent, had the worst seasons of their careers in 2001. Salmon Mulder combined for a record of 56-25 last season and are just entering their prime. The offense nursed a shoulder injury and Erstad suffered from back and knee might not be as strong but the A’s still have shortstop Miguel Tejada, outfielder Jermaine Dye problems that went along with a divorce. and third baseman Eric Chavez, who hit 32 home runs and drove in 114 RBIs in only his second Both plan to make major contributions this season big league season. and showed during spring training that they While they have been offense-heavy and pitching-challenged in years past, the Texas Rangers were healthy and ready to go. think they have what it takes to climb out of their former home (last place) and slip ahead of the The most consistent Angel over the Angels. While they do have possibly the best player in the game in Alex Rodriguez, there are past several years is left fielder Garret Anderson. still too many question marks. Like, who is going to pitch besides Chan Ho Park? The Rangers Last season, he hit .289 and drove in a team-high 123 brought in a small army of pitchers for tryouts this spring but none of any quality to note. Their RBI. Anderson’s supporters say his best asset is his ability clubhouse also will be a lot more colorful this season with an all-star lineup of flakes: noted to stay healthy while dissenters argue that he doesn’t play hard racist John Rocker, head-butter extraordinnaire Carl Everett and – tryout permitting – infamous enough to get injured. Nonetheless, you can pretty much count on glove stealer, Ruben Rivera. similar results from him this season. So the Angels will have their hands full this season, but look for a more exciting team to The infield is probably the weakest part of the team with the exception be playing at the “Big A” this year. With the departure of their periwinkle uniforms and their of third baseman Troy Glaus. Glaus had another stellar performance last injury-prone first baseman, Edison Field should be a lot more attractive this season. season hitting 41 home runs and driving in 108. He continues to put fear in the hearts of opposing pitchers and should do so for years to come. Shortstop David Eckstein and second baseman Adam Kennedy shore
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Strong team effort produces victory nBASEBALL: Despite two errors, the Titans came together for a win against Cal Poly SLO By Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer
nCOMMENTARY: He has offered much to the Lakers but his courtside tenure needs to end By Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer
The man who invented many of the terms used during basketball broadcasts – “slam-dunk,” “finger roll” and “air ball” – will soon return to the booth and begin calling the game he loves. Chick Hearn, the legendary voice of the Los Angeles Lakers, starts another run on April 9 with a game against the Utah Jazz at Staples Center, much to the excitement of Lakers fans worldwide — with the exception of one. I hold the purple and gold close to my heart, but let me be the first, and probably the only, person to say Chick, you’ve had a phenomenal career, but it’s time to hang it up. Hearn, who hasn’t announced a game in three months, will attend a home game Friday for the first time as a fan and not a broadcaster. It should remain that way. He’s given us many great one-liners over his 42 seasons behind the microphone. We’ve recycled those quirky punches in conversation time and again — but now he must move on. No more yo-yoing up and down the court. Forget about doing the bunny hop in the pea patch. Start cleaning the popcorn machine. And, hey, the mustard’s off the hot dog. Convincing people of this argument is like throwing up a prayer
and hoping it’s answered. But before you start pumping your fist in outrage and gather the village people for a lynching, think about it for a minute. The man is 85 years old. He is recovering from the open-heart surgery he underwent in December and hip surgery after a nasty fall last month. Sometimes he’s perplexed on the air, not knowing the score, or forgetting a person’s name. I’ve heard him confuse Shaquille O’Neal for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. “Worthy” and “Cooper” have left his mouth a few times during recent simulcasts and they haven’t suited up for a decade. Kobe Bryant isn’t Magic Johnson, and if there was a stat kept on the times Stu Lantz has helped Hearn recover from his foul-ups, he’d lead the league in assists. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed “Chicky Baby” for the past 13 years. I was 9 when I started watching the Lakers. The man is a living legend. He’s been the voice of the Lakers since 1961. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991 and the American Sportscaster’s Association Hall of Fame in 1995. His streak of 3,338 consecutive games set on Dec. 19, 2001, his last Lakers broadcast, may never be broken. Granted, some of his mistakes make him unpredictable and fun, but to see him degenerate before the
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Chick Hearn has been the voice of the Los Angeles Lakers for over 40 years and his 3, 338 game streak may never be broken. eyes of the basketball community He should and will be remembered would be a tragedy. He shouldn’t as arguably the greatest basketball wait until it’s too late to leave. announcer in the history of the Similar to a great aging player, game. But in coming back, he risks sometimes it’s smart to walk away leaving a bad taste in the mouths of on your own terms and not because his supporters by slowly becoming your abilities have deteriorated. something other than what we’ve When Hearn was released from grown to love. the hospital after his surgery, he Hearn’s temporary replacement, waddled up to the podium with Paul Sunderland, handled the presthe help of a walker to address the sure of filling his shoes well and media. It was evident this great man he continues to excel. Of course, was struggling and past his time. people don’t like change, but don’t Yes, he was smiling and appeared worry, no one can ever replace optimistic. However, the question Chick Hearn. arises— How much longer can he This one’s in the refrigerator. You keep it up? I don’t want to find out. know the rest.
The rain quietly falling on Goodwin Field suddenly stopped prior to the first pitch of Thursday night’s Big West conference opener between No. 14 Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Wes Littleton then ran to the dry mound, protected by a blue tarp and continued his recent dominance over batters. Chris Klosterman, along with Justin Smyres, made some outstanding defensive plays and an unlikely source in P.J. Pilittere provided the offense as the Titans went on to beat the Mustangs 4-1 in front of 828 fans. Pilittere went 2-for-3 bringing in Kyle Boyer with a bunt squeeze play in the fourth and a single up the middle in the seventh. The Titans laid down bunts repeatedly on the damp grass to advance runners. “It’s hard to play the ball of this grass when it’s wet. Coach stressed that,” Pilittere said. Big West Player of the Week and National Hitter of the week Shane Costa continued his tremendous pace as well with two singles to right field. “I don’t know what’s going on,” Costa said of his team leading 3.82 batting average. Littleton, who allowed only one earned run in the last 21.1 innings, went into the seventh in control but then gave up consecutive hits causing pitching coach Dave Serrano to bring in closer Chad Cordero. He entered the game in the eighth and retired five straight batters to collect the save. Cordero, with seven saves,
already has half of last seasons’ total and leads the Big West in that category. Littleton leads the conference with a 1.27 ERA. Although the Titans committed two errors, much to the dismay of Titan coach George Horton, Klosterman played well, snatching two line drives. Sitting the bench for most of the season Klosterman has responded defensively during his stint in the starting lineup. “He’s been a good spark for us,” Horton said. “He sat the bench and was patient and it’s a tribute to himself for doing so well.” Klosterman is satisfied with his current role. “I kept plugging away everyday in a practice,” he said. “I just try to do my best to help the team.” The Mustangs sent their best pitcher Tyler Fitch, 4-3 with a 4.53 ERA, to the mound. With a 15-17 record, the Mustangs were the first opponents the Titans faced this season with a losing record and only the third opponent not ranked in top 25. The scoring began when Smyres singled to right-center to start the bottom of the third. The bench called for a hit-and-run and Costa swung as Smyres broke for second. He connected and sent a slow bouncer between third and short into left field allowing Smyres to reach third. Jason Corapci lifted one to deep left to make it 1-0. Friday’s game will begin at 7 p.m. with sophomore Darric Merrell on the mound. Titans lead the all-time series with Cal Poly 28-3.