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nRESULTS: About 1,800 students voted this year, 1,200 less than the organizers expected

By Theresa Salinas

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Students exercise their right to vote in the Associated Students, Inc. elections Thursday in front of Langsdorf Hall.

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Associated Students, Inc. President Alex Lopez will lead Cal State Fullerton’s student government for the second straight year, after garnering 63 percent of the votes cast in this week’s spring 2002 ASI election.

Lopez and running mate L. Matthew Martinez received 1,143 votes, compared to 646 garnered by opponents Jeremy Harrison and Melinda Crawford. Write-in candidates received 25 votes.

Lopez and Martinez said in 200203 they will expand programs like the Titan Tusk Force and the Alumni Mentor Program. They’ll also tackle the ongoing parking problems.

“We’re going to continue what we started,” Martinez said. “A lot of times, new administrations come in and erase programs. We have good ideas and we’re going to keep them going.”

Harrison and Crawford promised to bring new, fresh perspectives to student government if elected.

“I needed to be there for the people,” Harrison said. “Those 600 people who voted for me actually wanted someone other than Alex to win. That’s why I ran.”

Seven students also were elected to the ASI Board of Directors.

Drew Wiley, who ran unopposed, will represent the College of the Arts.

He garnered 165 votes. Thirteen votes were cast for write-in candidates.

Benjamin Gold will represent the College of Business and Economics.

Gold received 186 votes, incumbent Aaron Terreri received 105 votes, Mohamed Al Kamalee received 129 votes and 16 votes went to write-in candidates.

John D. Bernal will represent the College of Communications. Bernal garnered 141 votes, Mary Lawrence received 100 votes and write-in candidates garnered three votes.

Incumbent Christina Machado will represent the College of Human Development and Community Services. She ran unopposed, receiving 130 votes. Write-in candidates received 10 votes.

Mimi Su will represent the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Su won 216 votes, incumbent Courtney Patterson won 149 votes, Rolando Soriano won 92 votes and write-in candidates won 16 votes.

Linda Solorio will represent the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics. Solorio received 59 votes, incumbent Trevon Owens received 53 votes and five votes were for write-in candidates. ‑ Victor Vega will represent the College of Engineering & Computer Science. Vega, a write-in candidate, garnered 36 votes. Write-in candidate Kenara Ly garnered four votes.

About 1,800 students voted in the election – 1,200 less than organizers hoped for.

“Turnout has been slow,” said Jennifer Wagner, who manned the

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Rallying for Palestinian support

The Muslim Student Association held a rally to inform students of injustices facing Palestinians Thursday at the Becker Amphitheater

nPOLITICS: Students marched silently in a protest sponsored by the Muslim Student Association

By Sandra Ascencio

Special to the Titan ­ Poster board signs waved in the air with wording such as, “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel,” “Invest your money on Israel…you will get a return of blood…with 0 % interest from you …,” and “Attention: Read all about it! Israel taking over U.S…right under their noses!!!”

A student read a passage from the Koran and a silent march around the Becker Amphitheater followed thereafter.

Focusing on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) sponsored a rally Thursday. This was the first of its kind organized by MSA here on campus. Approximately 12 students participated in the silent march with green ribbon strands

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wrapped around their arms to show solidarity, and to grab attention of onlookers as the rally began.

The student group hosted the rally to show media bias and inform others of injustices involving Palestinians.

“We feel the media is biased, that the association wanted to inform about injustices and who in fact is oppressed and who are the oppressors,” said Maryam Dadabhoy, Cal State Fullerton student and member of MSA. Around 60 students gathered at the Becker Amphitheater to listen to what the club’s message was.

Ra’id Faraj, public relations director for the Council on American Islamic Relations, briefly discussed historical events that surround the current situation within the Middle East and led to the military occupation that currently restrains the

Palestinian people. “[It is] hard for all of us here to understand the feeling of waking up every morning and asking ‘how am I going to get to work today,’ ‘will I be able to express myself today,’ or ‘will I have a job?’” Faraj said.

He discussed the Palestinian and Israeli differences such as yearly salaries.

“Israeli’s are making $18,000 yearly in comparison to the Palestinian average yearly income of $1,500,” he said. “Palestine is dependent on the Israeli economy, not allowing a chance of growth or productivity.”

Faraj expressed his view to the audience of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being a one-sided war because only “one side has weapons and the other only oppression that is rooted out from the military occupa-

tion and economic hardship.”

Faraj finished his discussion by asking why people should care. His answer was simple – “to educate us, and fight ignorance,” he said.

CSUF student Jason McBeath asked how suicide bombers should be handled.

Faraj said that suicide bombers are not justified but if there were no military occupations, such atrocities would not take place.

“Oppression, no future and no dreams put people in this situation because of having no options,” Faraj said. “This is why we need to address issues as to why they do it.”

One audience member shouted out “You can address them but not by blowing up people.”

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Entertainment feature reporter knows nWRITER: Celebrity journalist Cynthia Wang gives CSUF students a few pointers during a Comm Week lecture Thursday

By John Paul Gutierrez

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Rosie O’Donnell, John Travolta, Michael J. Fox, Apolo Anton Ohno – Cynthia Wang has covered them all.

Thursday morning, she brought her expertise to Cal State Fullerton and spoke to students during Comm Week about the ins-and-outs of feature article writing.

For 10 years, Wang worked her way up from a fact checker in New York for People magazine to Associate Bureau Chief in Los Angeles, again for People.

Along the way, she interviewed celebrities, came to understand the magazine business and learned the finer art of dealing with publicists.

Wang sat on the table in front of the room waiting patiently for more people to show up. Once enough

people arrived, she asked the reluctant crowd to move up into the first four rows, which were completely empty.

She passed out papers with different examples of writing on them, and asked the students if they could match the articles with the audience it was aimed at and what publication it came from.

Silence.

“I expect completely blank stares,” Wang said. “The more you ease them into what you’re doing the more you get participation.”

Knowing the industry was a big part in her lecture.

“Do you think much about the magazines you pick up?” Wang asked. “You have to really study People (magazine). I know it sounds absurd but figuring them out makes you a more effective writer. The most effective free-lancers can tell

you backwards and forwards what is in a magazine.”

Wang went on to tackle interviewing.

“Here’s an easy trick,” Wang said.

“Go up to someone and ask them directions to places you know how to get to. You’ll feel comfortable and you’ll know if they’re lying.”

She also stressed the importance to checking on the facts of an interview.

“You don’t know how many times celebrities lie about their age and don’t think we’ll ever check on it,” Wang said. “We have a little saying at People, if your mama says she loves you, check it out.”

Several public relations students asked her about the relationships between journalists and publicists.

“Conversations between publicists and writers are never personal,” Wang said.

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A lot of publicists will get angry when the writer is not doing exactly what they want, she said. Being calm and collective is the key to handling the situation.

“Some people like to climb Mt. Anger,” Wang said. “Let them climb, be calm yourself, because once they climb there’s only one thing they can do and that’s get off.

If they don’t, then hopefully they’ll take a Prozac and be better next time you see them.”

At the end of the lecture, students stormed to the front of the room and asked her an onslaught of questions.

Michelle Conry, a senior communications major, said she was pleased with the information she had not learned before in any of her classes.

“Two things really stood out,” Conry said. “The part on interview-

ing was really helpful, and so was the part on how to submit to publications. That’s something that you don’t hear.”

Communications professor Andi Stein said she also was very pleased with the event.

“When I talked to [Wang] on Monday I told her what the students were having trouble with,” Stein said. “She did a good job addressing the problems that they needed to know.”

Whether it is a highly respected magazine, or a fun underground newspaper students strive to be a part of, hard work can get them anywhere.

“Anyone can aspire to write in these publications,” Wang said.

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A guide to what’s happening

BRIEFS CSUF enrollment reaches new high

Senior center to host table tennis tournament

Reaching the highest mark in Cal State Fullerton’s history, spring enrollment reached a record of 30,445 this semester.

Following a trend of increase that has spanned the last six semesters, the university is now in the process of closing admission for the fall to almost all prospective students except those inclined to register for classes at the new branch campus in El Toro.

This spring’s enrollment figure is 88 students higher than the fall count of 30,357, according to the university’s offices of Admission and Records and Institutional Research and Analytical Studies.

This makes the third consecutive spring semester where spring enrollment has surpassed the fall count.

This spring’s full-time-equivalent students, those taking 15 units, also reached a record-high of 22,053. This is nearly 50 higher than the fall figure and 1,050 higher than last spring’s number.

CSUF is still accepting applications for fall admission from those seeking to enroll at the El Toro campus and in engineering and nursing degree programs at the Fullerton campus.

Prospective graduate students are encouraged to apply immediately and via the Web at www. csumentor.edu, since the closing of some of those programs is imminent.

The elementary education teacher credential program is already closed.

Applications for spring 2003 will be accepted after Aug. 1.

For more information, contact the Student Affairs Research office at (714) 278-2591.

The Fullerton Senior MultiService Center will host its first “Women’s Singles Table Tennis Tournament” beginning at noon on May 1.

The competition, which is open to women 50 years of age or older, will last until 4 p.m. and the top four players of the tournament will receive trophies and prizes.

Entry into the tournament is $2.50 per person and pre-registration is required. Registration may be completed at the center or by calling Jay Williams, the center’s volunteer table tennis coordinator at (714) 870-6586.

The center’s table tennis group meets at noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and players of all skill levels are welcome. Beginners can also attend special coaching sessions at 11 a.m. Fridays.

For more information about the tournament or the table tennis group, contact the center at (714) 738-6305.

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CALENDAR OF CALENDA R O F EVENTS EVENTS Community The Grand Central Theatre in Santa Ana presents “The Hide and Seek Odyssey of Madeline Gimpel,” a play for young audiences, April 27 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Tickets are $5. For more information, call (714) 2783371.

Chamber Music in Historic Sites presents the Freiburger Barckorchester April 28 at 4 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Tickets are $30 and $35. For more information, call (213) 477-2929.

As part of “A Night in Fullerton,” the First Christian Church and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will present the Orange Empire Chorus of the North Orange County Chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America April 26 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. For more information, call (714) 7386575.

The CSUF PAIR Celebrity Series presents the “Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival” April 27 at 8 p.m. in the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. Regular price seats are $20 and $25. Students or senior citizens get $2 off with advance Titan discount. For more information, call (714) 278-3371.

“A Night in Fullerton,” the annual free celebration of art, dance and music, will take place April 26 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

For complete schedule information, call (714) 738-6545.

The Grand Central Theatre in Santa Ana presents the play “Aristophanes’ Women in Congress” through May 5. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 with advance Titan discount. For more information and show times, call (714) 278-3371.

The Boys & Girls Club of Orange County will host their annual Youth of the Year Awards Dinner April 26 at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden Grove at 7 p.m. For more information, call (714) 528-8140.

The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana hosts an exhibition called “Gems! The Art and Nature of Precious Stones” through September. Ticket prices are $15 for general admission and $10 for students. For more information, call (714) 567-3600.

Campus The Arboretum will host a “Green Scene Garden Show,” an outdoor plant sale, April 27 and 28. Admission for children 17 and younger is free. Regular admission is $6. For more information,

Medicare seminar offered The Fullerton Senior MultiService Center will be the host of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP), a volunteer-supported program that provides counseling, education and assistance in Medicare and health insurance issues, on May 1.

The seminar will address topics regarding Medicare and HMOs like eligibility requirements, benefits and election limitations when considering switching health care plans.

For more information on the seminar or the HICAP program, contact the center at (714) 7386305.

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The Women’s Center & Adult Re-entry will have a presentation called “What are Men Thinking” April 30 at noon in UH 205. For more information, call (714) 2783889.

The Association of Intercultural Awareness and the Associated Students, Inc. will sponsor the Multicultural Rainbow Festival April 29 from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

This free event will take place in the TSU Pavilions A, B and C. For more information, call (714) 278-2468.

The TSU Underground will have a billiards tournament April 30 at 1 p.m.

The competition is free for all CSUF students, staff and faculty.

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

The 11th Annual Linguistics Symposium will be held April 26 from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the Pollak Library Room 130. For more information, call (714) 2783722.

Counseling & Psychological Services will have a workshop called “Guided Imagery — A Powerful Mind-Body Connection” April 26 at noon in Commons (bookstore). For more information, call (714) 278-7089.

The Department of Theatre and Dance presents the musical “Grease” April 26 through May 5 in CSUF’s Little Theatre.

Tickets are available at the CSUF Performing Arts Center box office.

They are $16 for general admission and $13 with Titan discount.

For more information, call (714) 278-3371.

The Main Art Gallery hosts the exhibit “Definite Ambiguities: Films and Paintings by R.T. Pece” through May 9. Admission is free.

For more information, call (714) 278-3262.

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

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.

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New York City building nDAMAGE: The blast may have been caused by a transfer of volatile chemicals from one full barrel to an empty one

By Darleene Barrientos Special to the Titan

The façade of Kaltech Industries’ building, a sign company in Manhattan, collapsed after an explosion in the building’s basement on Thursday.

Thirty-two people were injured; 12 who remain hospitalized. Six were reported to have been trapped, but were rescued right away.

The approximately 80-year-old building is located on 19th Street between 6th and 7th avenues in the

Chelsea neighborhood. The building suffered damage most visibly on its first and second floors and littered the sidewalk in front of it with bricks and cement.

The incident was initially blamed on a boiler explosion, but according to NY1, New York’s 24-hour news channel, the blast came from the transfer of volatile chemicals from a full barrel to an empty barrel using electrical tools in the building’s basement. In a media briefing nearby, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was emphatic that the incident was just a serious accident and not terrorist-related.

“There is no reason to believe that there were any suspicious tenants in this building,” he said. “All points to it just being a serious accident.”

The explosion was heard at approximately 11 a.m. for blocks around, causing the surrounding office buildings to evacuate its occu-

pants and shut some businesses down for the day.

“It sounded like scaffolding fell off one of the tall buildings,” said Santa Monica, Calif. resident Candice Poindexter, in town for business.

Dwayne Wilborne, an instructor at the Apex Technical School adjacent the explosion site, said the entire building shook.

“I saw one of my students at the window when the window popped out and thought that he did something to pop it out,” he said.

Scott Aronsen, the maintenance man at the Metropolitan Pavilion, opposite the building where the explosion occurred, heard it as he stood on the loading dock.

“I ran outside, saw the debris. I grabbed people and laid them down in the loading dock to give them first aid,” he said. The people he spoke of were workers in the building.

Medical personnel later came in

and took over.

Reports of possible terrorist-related activity aimed toward financial institutions the previous week lurked in the minds of residents and workers as they evacuated. The explosion and its aftermath ripped open the neighborhood’s tender, Sept. 11 wound, which is close to where the World Trade Center once stood.

Maria Gobo, a security guard at the pavilion, heard the explosion clearly from near the back of the building.

She immediately ran toward the exit because she had thought the explosion came from her building.

“I was very nervous,” she said.

“I was thinking, ‘Thank God I’m alive.’”

Officials reassured the press that the building structure appeared to be sound but that only authorized personnel would be admitted until all falling debris could be cleared.

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An explosion rips through the facade of a building in New York.

Panel to discuss Middle Eastern conBy Martin Merzer, Warren P. Strobel and James Kuhnhenn Knight Ridder Newspapers

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An Israeli sniper points his rifle toward Bethlehem’s Nativity Square.

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Confronted by a new controversy, the Israeli government hurriedly dispatched legal experts Wednesday night to the United Nations to discuss the mandate and composition of a U.N. fact-finding mission to the Jenin refugee camp.

The panel will investigate allegations that troops massacred Palestinians in the camp during Israel’s military campaign against terrorists in the West Bank. Despite Israeli complaints, U.N. investigators are scheduled to arrive Saturday in Jenin.

Meanwhile, the standoff continued at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Israeli troops shot two Palestinians inside the compound Wednesday, and one of them died.

Two others surrendered and were taken away by Israeli troops who have encircled more than 200 Palestinians and others still inside the compound. A second day of negotiations failed to resolve the stalemate, now more than three weeks old.

The dispute over the Jenin factfinding mission comes as President George W. Bush meets Saudi Crown

Prince Abdullah on Thursday to discuss ways of reviving peace talks and ending 19 months of IsraeliPalestinian violence.

Abdullah will urge Bush to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into withdrawing his forces from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah compound and the city of Bethlehem and to express Israel’s willingness to negotiate with the Palestinians on the basis of land for peace, a senior adviser to the crown prince said Wednesday.

“Our view is Sharon has to be restrained. Israel has to pull back its forces,” Adel al-Jubeir, Abdullah’s top foreign policy adviser, told Knight Ridder Newspapers.

While al-Jubeir said U.S. and Saudi goals in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are nearly identical, he acknowledged differences over the means to get there.

Bush has frequently sided with Sharon, while demanding that Arafat do more to end violence.

In the Saudi view, that is unrealistic while the Palestinian leader’s compound is surrounded and the Palestinian Authority’s infrastructure decimated.

Abdullah will tell Bush that the ongoing violence and Washington’s inability to stop it are undercutting support in the Muslim world for the

war on terrorism and endangering both U.S. and Saudi interests, alJubeir said.

“He’ll convey to the president the danger to the region from the continued spiral of violence in the Palestinian territories,” he said.

The two men also will discuss proposals for an international peace conference on the Middle East. Bush has not decided whether to give the plan his backing, however, and the Saudis are lukewarm to the idea unless Israel declares its willingness to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Bush will press Abdullah to end private Saudi contributions to Hamas and other violent Palestinian groups, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

“It’s going to be tough love on a lot of sides,” said a State Department official, who requested anonymity.

“It’s not going to be the kind of meeting where either side walks away satisfied.”

Under Abdullah’s peace proposal, Israel would withdraw fully from the West Bank and Gaza and dismantle Jewish settlements in the territories, creating a Palestinian state.

In return, Arab countries would give Israel full diplomatic recognition.

In Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell made it clear the Bush administration wanted an indepen-

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dent body to investigation what happened when the Israeli military occupied the Jenin refugee camp.

“We were encouraging the Israeli government to make Jenin accessible quickly to representatives of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) or other organizations that would get the facts and find out what really happened, as opposed to these stories and anecdotes that were floating out there,” Powell said.

Powell said American officials have seen no evidence of a massacre in Jenin, but the United States supports the U.N. fact-finding mission.

“We now have both sides talking to one another directly to lay out their concerns,” Powell said during testimony to a Senate subcommittee.

Palestinian officials said that as many as 500 people, many of them civilians, were killed in Jenin.

Israel said several dozen Palestinians died there, most of them gunmen. About 45 bodies have been recovered so far.

Powell said Assistant Secretary of State William Burns visited Jenin for three hours and discovered “a great deal of destruction that took place from the ground with bulldozers.”

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Size matters to journalist

nSPEAKER: A veteran Los Angeles Times reporter teaches students how to think big

have to be wordsmiths – they must be able to construct sentences in a way that readers understand.

“Wordsmiths see things creatively The sports editor of the Los Angeles and in a special way,” Dwyre said.

Times warned his Comm Week audi- “People who can turn a phrase bring ence they could be maksomething extra to the ing a big mistake by table.” thinking too small.

The best wordBill Dwyre suggestsmiths do their writ“The copy ed thinking big. ing in a different way “There is nothing – they are able to sepadesk of a wrong with small papers rate themselves from but they are small for a the others. major newsreason,” Dwyre said.

“Jim Murray was Instead, he said a bigthe greatest sportswriter ger paper can accelerate paper is for who ever lived,” Dwyre a writers’ learning curve said. “He had no ego, and that a foot-in-thetough guys. he loved writing and door position at a big he was a master of the paper can lead to rubwritten word.”

If you let bing elbows with proMurray penned what fessionals worth learnDwyre considers the them, they ing from. most famous sports colDwyre said good umn ever written about writing contains three would spit on his beloved wife who key elements. died of cancer in 1984.

The first is being That column reached the floor.” able to write with your the Times’ copy desk eyes, to see and make on a Monday; just two the proper judgment Bill Dwyre, days after her death. about what a story will “The copy desk of Los Angeles Times focus on. A 23-year-old a major newspaper Sports Editor reporter in Sheboygan, is a place for tough Wis., did just that many guys,” Dwyre said. years ago. While cover“If you let them, they ing a high school track meet, Dwyre would spit on the floor. They were decided to write about the loser rather all tearing up and I knew something than the winner. [special] was happening.”

“There was no story in who finPublic relations major Joni ished first,” Dwyre said. “The drama Kleschka of the 2002 Comm Week was in who finished last.”

Task Force and communications The second key element is curios- professor Tom Clanin co-hosted the ity. event.

“If you don’t have curiosity, don’t “Our scheduling and logistics comget into the communications busi- mittee aligns certain professors and ness,” Dwyre said. speakers together by both curriculum Times’ sports writer Bill Plaschke and schedule,” Kleschka said. was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize Clanin attended with many of his this year when his curiosity about a editing and design students. persistent e-mailer in rural Texas led “I thought it very interesting that him to a story about a severely dis- Dwyre talked about the humanity of abled, wheelchair-bound woman who the people in sports rather than the had designed and set up an Internet games themselves,” Clanin said. “It Web site devoted to the Los Angeles doesn’t quite fit the mold of my class Dodgers. but having professionals talk about The third element is that writers what they do at this point in their edu-

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Lecture is worth its weight in gold nGEOLOGY: Former CSUF faculty member discusses the role two scientists played in the California development

By Mike Dellachiara Special to the Titan

If it were not for two historical geologists, California might be known solely for its beaches.

Stephen Testa presented these issues and more Wednesday in McCarthy Hall to students and faculty in his lecture, “Josiah D. Whitney and William P Blake: Conflicts in Relation to California Geology and the Fate of the First Geological Survey.”

Testa is a former part-time faculty member of Cal State Fullerton and is now the editor of Environmental Geological Sciences Journal. He has studied Blake and Whitney for 15 years.

The topics of his lecture focused

on the lives of Whitney and Blake, our land’s first geological surveyors, and how their geological views of California differed greatly.

“Blake is credited with discovering the gold region of California,” Testa said. “His discoveries also described the mining and processing methods.”

Whitney believed no gold was present in California, especially in the town of Bodie, Testa said. Blake proved Whitney wrong, as Bodie became one of the best gold strikes in the West.

In the post-gold era of California, state legislation was looking for new ways to boost the economy. Testa said oil became one of the major issues during the 19th century.

“Whitney, along with the United States Geological Survey, claimed that there was little or no chance of oil in California during the 1860-74 geological survey,” Testa said. “By 1885, California oil production exceeded 200,000 barrels annually.”

Blake, among others was the first to notice bitumen, an element used in laying asphalt, seeping from the ground

of California. His findings were the exact opposite of Whitney’s but turned out to be correct and beneficial to the economy of California.

Gold and oil played major roles in California, but earthquakes cannot be forgotten.

Earthquakes are a major part of California geology and were in the 19th century as well. The two geologists disagreed once more on the activity of the land, Testa said.

“Whitney said California is not in the way of heavy shocks,” Testa said.

“Blake, on the other hand, said that quake activity was so common on this coast.”

Blake proved Whitney wrong once again as earthquakes are extremely common in California.

Whitney thought Blake was a poor scientist. Whitney became disgusted with the people and the state legislature because no one believed him any longer, Testa said. His findings no longer held any value.

“Blake understood the states needs during this time,” Testa said. “He

wasn’t wrong very often, and that is what made him so successful. He is unique because he is undervalued.

Whitney comes out in the bad light because he was plainly wrong in so many ways.”

The ideas and observations of Blake were precise and correct. His outcomes were ideal to their California Geological Survey. Whitney’s contributions were not what the survey had in mind when they appointed him in charge. “[Blake] was such a keen observer, educated in literature and used a lot of geological analogies,” geology major Dolores van der Kolk said. “Something I’ll strive to use as a scientist.”

Whitney has a mountain in California named after him in honor of his contributions. Blake, however, has nothing.

“It would be nice to have something named geologically in California after Blake because of all his contributions,” van der Kolk said.

Students exposed to more than books nCRIME: Public Safety filed three incident reports this semester regarding lewd acts aimed toward women

By Chris Dunn

Daily Titan Staff Writer Students beware. On campus this semester, there has been a surge of lewd and indecent acts of exposure on campus. The Pollak Library is the target area the exposure seems to be aimed at young college women.

On three separate occasions, police reports say the exposure is perpetrated by anywhere from one to a few suspects.

On Feb. 20, Public Safety responded

to one call reporting that a man was in the library revealing himself to a student. The suspect began masturbating before leaving the scene.

On March 8, unusual behavior was reported to Public Safety.

A man wanted to pay women to take part in a flatulence survey, a survey regarding excess gas in one’s digestive track.

Senior anthropology major Natasha Gilmo understands why women would be a target at a school library.

“If it happened to me I would probably run,” Gilmo said. “A guy can easily sneak up to a girl in the older side of the library because of the dim censor lights.”

According to California law, it is illegal for any person to expose “private” body parts, such as the genitals, anal region and female breasts in public.

This type of behavior, more commonly known as “flashing,” is often directed toward women, although not exclusively. The possible motivation for such behavior is complex and varied, but possibilities may involve sexual gratification, self-humiliation or a desire to threaten, according to the section code law.

The crime is deemed a misdemeanor.

On March 26, another police report filed claimed a man driving a white truck offered a female student a ride to her car in the school parking lot. While walking to her car, a man in a dark full-size truck approached the female and she thought the driver wanted her parking space.

When the driver came closer she noticed the man was naked and masturbating.

Public Safety officials gave a general description of the man having rusty-brown, curly hair and in his late 30s or early 40s.

“There’s little you can do about it,” Gilmo said. “I would never take a ride from someone like that, it’s just not safe. Even if he did offer me a ride to my car.”

CSUF Police are not alarmed by this situation.

Every semester there are some reported cases of indecent exposure.

Indecent acts are not new a phenomenon at CSUF, said Justin Banderas, library information attendant.

“It’s not the first time and I am sure it won’t be the last,” Banderas said.

“Not just this library, but most libraries seem to bring out the weirdos.”

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Taking lead at close of Comm nADVICE: Orange County Register writer Tom Berg gives tips at one of the last talks of the week-long event

Tom Berg advised students on how to write a good story .

By Michael Matter

Daily Titan Staff Writer Never lead a story with a person’s name.

However, using an anecdote is a good way to grab a readers’ attention.

This advice was given to a Comm Week audience by Orange County Register reporter Tom Berg.

“People will follow you to hell and back if you have a good lead,” Berg said. “Any lead that does not start with a name is better than one that does.

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ing lead I just stop reading. Reading is work. Stopping is easy. Do not give readers the opportunity to stop.”

Students had the opportunity to listen to the reporter talk about writing a good story Wednesday at the Titan Student Union.

Berg said a writing style to avoid is inverted pyramid because it is drab and boring.

Emotion is what captures the reader and is the engine that drives the story.

“When interviewing, don’t be satisfied with a bad answer,” Berg said.

“Ask the same question again in different form over the course of an interview until you get a great quote. You can’t ask for emotion often enough.”

Berg also said that reporters should ask questions because some answers that sources will give are something that they may not even tell their family.

“You are like a psychoanalyst, getting people to open up and talk

about their emotions,” Berg said.

“Articulating emotions is difficult for everyone. The ultimate goal of an interview is to get them to tell you things that they didn’t even know about themselves. They enjoy it and come away thanking you because they didn’t realize how they felt about certain things. This makes for a great story.”

People experience several emotions simultaneously and a good reporter asks questions about all of them.

“We all want to look good in print,” Berg said. “People tell you about the emotions that make them look good. It is vitally important that you get them to talk about their fears as well as their strengths. People recognize truth.”

Public relations major Stefany Wilson, a member of the 2002 Comm Week Task Force, and communications professor Carolyn Johnson cohosted the event.

“As a P.R. major it helped me a

lot to hear from a working journalist about how to write short, sweet and to the point,” Wilson said.

Johnson attended with students from her feature article writing class.

“I recently began reading Tom in the Register and discovered how very much I like his style,” Johnson said.

“I can’t really label it but I know that I like it.”

Berg said being a reporter brings him pleasure.

“One of the great joys I have is that through writing I have the opportunity to change the world. It’s nice to know that you can make that big a difference — it’s special.”

One thing that inspires Berg is a great effort.

“Great effort over a long period of time is transcendent,” Berg said. “It is what makes human beings great. It is what all of our heroes have always done whether they were recognized or not.”

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Weighing facts on America’s expanding obesity nSOCIETY: Lack of daily physical activity and poor eating habits are factors contributing to the growing problem

By Heather Hampton

Daily Titan Staff Writer Obesity is on the rise in the United States. Reports last week said that 80 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese.

“We are digging out graves with our forks, and at a younger and younger age,” said Ada Schulz, a nutritionist and wellness counselor at Cal State Fullerton.

Schulz said the United States spent a record $33 billion last year on nutritional and diet products that she said did not work.

“We are fatter than ever, and throwing away our collective health as a result,” she said.

Yet, Americans may not know the difference between obesity and overweight.

Schulz said overweight is defined as an excess of body weight that includes fat, bones and muscle.

According to the Institute of Medicine, obesity is an excess of body fat.

Overweight and obesity are measured using the body mass index, which estimates total body fat for most people.

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defines obesity as 30 pounds over one’s ideal body weight for height or a body mass index of 30 or higher which is a common measure used to express the relationship of weight and height.

Because obesity statistics are swarming in numbers, there is concern that eating habits and sedentary lifestyles play a role in many of the top killers in the United States.

“All three of the top 10 killers in our country – heart disease, cancer and diabetes, could be greatly reduced if we could manage out weight and health,” Schulz said.

Schulz said the statistics for those overweight and obese are alarming.

“People younger and younger are being afflicted with deadly diseases in record numbers,” she said.

Schulz added that today’s inactive lifestyle is compromising the health of the American public of all ages. She said that the surplus of overweight and obese youngsters is the biggest concern.

“Schools back East are now sending home obesity reports to parents, as well as reports on such basics as eye and ear health,” Schulz said. “This is offending, but ignoring the ‘obesity epidemic’ is not going to make it disappear.”

Barbara Ainsworth, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and exercise science and director of University of Southern Carolina Prevention Research Center said she is concerned about the “obesity epidemic,” as well.

“Obesity has increased to epidemic

proportions in the past five years without effective changes in population levels of physical activity,” Ainsworth said.

Ainsworth said that there are many factors that may contribute to the “epidemic” of overweight and obesity.

She said some of the factors include increased dining in restaurants with larger portion sizes, increased snack-food consumption, lower amounts of fruit and vegetable consumption and reduction in daily physical activity.

“Obesity is related to many conditions to include type-2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, gallbladder disease, hypertension, colon cancer and arthritis,” she said.

Ainsworth said that overweight and obesity occur when the calorie intake exceeds the calorie output, resulting in a positive calorie balance.

The concern lies with prevention.

“Prevention of obesity is the best strategy since losing weight is very difficult,” Ainswo­rth said.

College students should take this into consideration and realize what they are eating does have an effect on their health.

Carina Sandoval, a senior business major said that although she used to exercise, she doesn’t anymore.

“I don’t have time,” Sandoval said. “I go to school full-time and I work. I have homework.”

Because Sandoval has no time to exercise and her workload is in over her shoulders, she doesn’t have time to eat healthy either.

Sandoval said she eats fast food at least five times a week.

“I get home from work and that’s the easiest thing,” she said. “ My mom doesn’t cook.”

Although Sandoval realizes that she needs to exercise, she just can’t seem to find time now.

She knows that obesity is a huge problem and that her cholesterol is high but she loves sugar and isn’t worried about her weight right now.

She said that she’s not overweight.

“I worry about getting fat but I figure I’ll exercise when I get out of college,” she said. “Hopefully the damage isn’t too bad.”

But Teeraphol Kasemlonnapa feels a little different about exercising and eating healthy.

Kasemlonnapa, who runs at least once a week said that exercising is very important for your body.

“When you exercise, you’re relaxed.

You’re not stressed,” he said.

Kasemlonnapa doesn’t consider fast food an eating option either. He prefers to eat meat and vegetables at home.

He is worried about becoming overweight or obese but he said he’s not too worried because he exercises.

“Students can focus on eating smaller portion sizes, eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, reducing the amount of sugar-containing drinks consumed, and trying to reduce the amount of snacking,” Ainsworth said.

Ainsworth said that students should try to get at least 30-60 minutes of regu-

lar physical activity per day to increase energy expenditure.

“A study by Ralph Welsh at the University of South Carolina showed students walked over a mile a day between classes and while running errands on campus,” Ainsworth said.

Schulz also said that exercise was important and many college students do not have the basic working knowledge of what their bodies need for basic survival, much less optimum performance.

“Filling our bodies with foods that are nutritionally dense, rather than calorie dense, is what we need,” Schulz said.

“But for many, that thought has never even occurred to them to consider what their bodies actually need.”

Schulz said that exercise and healthy eating go hand-in-hand to fuel bodies to good health.

“Surviving on fast foods, cooked with the least healthy fats, loaded with salt, sugar and artificial ingredients is robbing us of our health, and this is a choice each person makes,” Schulz said.

Schulz said that students should eat five-to-six miniature meals, nutritionally dense foods that are not empty calories.

“Pay attention to portion control,” Schulz said. “Drink lots of water (eight to 10 glasses per day).”

She said people should add more fruits and vegetables, fish, beans, complex carbohydrates, healthy fats like olive and canola oil.

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Prince angered by U.S.-Israeli alliance nWARNING: Saudi head of state voiced disapproval of George W. Bush’s support for Prime Minister Sharon

By Ron Hutcheson

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Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah warned President George W. Bush Thursday that U.S. support for Israel is undermining the war on terrorism and destroying U.S. credibility in the Arab world.

In a blunt face-to-face talk at Bush’s Texas ranch, Abdullah urged Bush to step up his efforts to end Israel’s retaliatory raids on Palestinian areas. The meeting came at an unusually tense time in U.S.-Saudi relations, but Saudi officials denied reports that Abdullah

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Langsdorf Hall poll Thursday afternoon. “I heard that people didn’t stop to vote yesterday because of the rain.

They just wanted to get to class.”

ASI Elections Commissioner Suzette Escobar attributed the low turnout to bad weather, and a lack of high-profile, contested races.

Some students said it didn’t matter who ran for office, they voted simply to exercise their right to vote.

Junior Divine Reyes said she voted for Lopez because of his actions while in office.

“He worked on starting the Alumni Mentor Program, which I thought was beneficial for students,” she said. “It also seems like he’s fighting to save students money on parking.”

Faraj politely stated that he understood the difficulty citizens of the United States have in understanding the Palestinian desperation.

Reactions following the rally were mixed. McBeath said the event provided important facts and information, but an Israeli representative should have been present.

“It seemed very propagandized, and it should have been more objective because it was onesided,” he said.

While the rally was created with the purpose of exposing many of the injustices Palestinians face, Faraj said, however, there is only one solution to the present conflict – “to stop violence,” he said.

would consider withholding oil shipments or shutting down U.S. military bases in his country if Bush refused to heed his advice.

“Saudi Arabia made it clear, and has made it clear publicly, that they will not use oil as a weapon. I appreciate that,” Bush said.

Even so, Abdullah and members of his entourage firmly voiced their displeasure with Bush’s Middle East policies and his support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

After the meeting, Bush praised Abdullah for rallying Arab nations behind a peace plan crafted by Abdullah that would recognize Israel’s right to exist if Israel in return for creation of a Palestinian state.

Bush also urged the de facto Saudi leader to speak out against Palestinian suicide bombings and questioned him about a recent government-sponsored telethon that raised $100 million for Palestinian martyrs. Saudi and U.S. offi-

cials said Abdullah assured Bush that the money will not be used to reward terrorist attacks or to fund future bombings.

Although Abdullah’s five-hour visit to Bush’s Texas home symbolized the close ties between their two countries, the encounter lacked some of the friendly informality of Bush’s earlier meetings with other foreign diplomats. The visit came against the backdrop of continuing violence in the Middle East, a wave of anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and tension over Bush’s plans to expand the war on terrorism to Iraq.

World oil prices rose Thursday because of fears of a rupture in U.S.Saudi relations, but Saudi officials forcefully denied a New York Times story that the royal family would consider using “the oil weapon” to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East. Abdullah, 77, took effective control of his oil-rich country in 1995 when his half brother, King Fahd, suffered a stroke. Although

friendly toward the United States, he is a passionate advocate for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“We’re not here to defend the U.S. position. We’re here to present our view on what’s going on,” Nail al-Jubeir, Saudi spokesman said. “The message is, Sharon has been acting up, and the U.S. government needs to rein him in.”

He said Abdullah also warned Bush that anti-American sentiment is spreading throughout the Arab world, fueled in large part by television images of the damage inflicted by Israeli raids on Jenin and other Palestinian areas. Many Arabs blame America for supplying Israel with arms as well as diplomatic support at the United Nations.

“As more and more pictures of Jenin show up, it’s more difficult for friends of the U.S. to standup for the U.S.,” he said. “We have to bring the bloodshed to an end.”

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Art directors set design nLECTURE: A panel of Hollywood insiders gave students do’s and don’ts of the film and TV world

By Chris Dunn

Daily Titan Staff Writer Three of Hollywood’s most acclaimed set and design directors told their secrets of movie success to an eager room filled with radio/TV/ film students and faculty Thursday in the Titan Student Union.

“If the director clutched his chest and died right there on the set the only one comfortable enough to take his place is the production designer,” said production designer Peter Wooley.

Wooley, who worked on the set of “Blazing Saddles,” was a comedic delight for the students. His exclamation of “Lets keep it light” proved settling for the intrigued audience as they laughed at his stories and examples.

Wooley said, “If we say something interesting you ask us a question.”

“Blazing Saddles,” Wooley’s first major motion picture served as his visual pallet to tell his story.

In the comedy, the subtle color of browns and explosive reds visually expressed the sense of rustic comedy on film.

Wooley said a set designer must know the color scheme of the movie and share it with the other designers.

This gives a visual sense of design adding effects to aid the story.

The production and art designers are the most important directors of the film during pre-production.

Finding locations and setting a design that can fit into the budget of the film is the most difficult part of the job.

“The hardest thing in our job is to tell the story visually,” said Tom T. Taylor, set designer of the HBO drama series “Six Feet Under.”

The dramatic television show was a breakthrough as far as set design and lighting, Taylor said. His use of color allusion and set imagery made “Six Feet Under” one of HBO’s most visually dramatic series.

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Taylor told the audied with a gas stove ence the best experience and a light bulb.

“This is one in the movie industry is Wooley gently to actually learn hands-on cracked a light bulb training in comparison to exposing its filament of the less the classroom setting that and used the natuCal State Fullerton students ral gas to ignite an sought after explosion with a turn receive.

Communication is also of a switch. very important for an art or Peter Washington, positions production director. Taylor set designer of the said he believes through his dramatic film “Life in film experiences, the only way as a House,” broke a story will sync within all down the business of aspects — visually, writwhat a set designer because ten and production — is is like. to communicate the idea “This is one of it is so each director is thinking the less sought after and developing. positions in film, Wooley described it best because it is hard,” hard .” in his anecdote about the Washington said. cheapest way to blow up an “We are the people apartment. Not all things that work the hardest Peter can be learned in a classbefore a movie even Washington, starts to film.” room.

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to find the proper location. Each location must be examined and every detail must be scrutinized so it can be tailored to the director’s request.

“Set budget, preparation, these are things that us as set designers need to fight for so we can tell our stories,” Washington said.

Faculty jumped into the discussion panel with a question asked by radio/TV/film professor Shirley Jenkins.

“What is the downside of being a set director?” Jenkins asked.

Wooley quickly quipped, “Not having a job for three months.”

He explained in the business of moviemaking that one never knows that their last completed movie may be their final production as a director.

Comm Week host Jennifer Gonzalez said the collaboration of these set directors have brought more than 30 years of experience and countless attributes to many films.

This event gave the CSUF Comm Week audience a glimpse of what they will be in store for as future filmmakers, she said.

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The Daily Titan Our Voice Pres wins when 1,143 vote Not even the allure of free faculty parking passes to seven lucky Cal State Fullerton drivers was enough to entice more than 2,000 students to vote on Wednesday and Thursday.

Faculty parking passes!! What more could possibly inspire a voting frenzy on campus?

Only 1,814 students voted for ASI president and the most votes a college representative received was Mimi Su with 216 votes for Humanities and Social Sciences.

The apathy is so rank it could peel the paint off McCarthy Hall...oh wait, the paint is already peeling off McCarthy Hall.

Granted, students have a lot more issues on their mind than ASI elections – reams of papers to write for various classes, Comm Weeks to attend, Internship and Job Fairs

to network at, graduations to plan, parking to find, etc – but taking a moment, literally two seconds, to slide your Titan card through the sensor and choose the best possible choice for office isn’t difficult.

You even had the option to take it a step further and write in absolutely anyone you think would fit the job role (25 voters wrote in a candidate for ASI president and vice president).

But alas, no. Elections are events where quantity definitely overrides quality. No matter how active or campus oriented the 1,814 students who voted are, there are still 28,000 of us who chose to let the powersthat-be decide who won.

If anything, tell us or tell ASI. Why didn’t you vote and what would change that? It’s worth changing.

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Don’t drink and jump...off a bridge

By John Paul Gutierrez Daily Titan Staff Writer

Remember when your mom told you, “If Mikey jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?” Well it happened.‑ On April 12, Cal State Long Beach senior Ryan Quintrell plummeted to his death after he jumped off the Davies Bridge in Long Beach.‑ Two of his friends also took the jump but survived.‑ What prompts students to jump off bridges? In this “...drink and case: alcohol and good grades – a deadly combination. talk, drink But the most troubling thing about the whole tragedy is not the consumption of alcohol but the inclinaand eat, tion to celebrate by jumping off bridges.‑ Supposedly, jumping from bridges in Long Beach is a common thing, almost like a tradition.‑ It brings on a whole drink and new view to peer pressure.‑ I remember simpler times when jumping off drink, bridges wasn’t a pastime of any sort, but more of something you tell someone whom you want to leave drink – just you alone.‑ But I say enough is enough.‑ It’s time to educate kids about the dangers of jumping off large stationary don’t jump objects.‑ Along with everything else, we had to wait for someone to die.‑ Now we will have to have prooff bridges.” grams and public service announcements on Channel 4, sweeping legislation and a newly posted sign in Long Beach saying to not jump off the bridge.

John Paul I would like to do my part by providing options for Gutierrez, celebrating.‑ Daily Titan Staff Some alternatives: drink and talk, drink and eat, Writer drink and drink, drink – just don’t jump off bridges.‑ No good could come from jumping off bridges.‑ As another helpful tool, I’ve consulted Huntington City Beach lifeguard John Deakers on the finer points of diving from high places.‑ “First you have to jump away from the object you’re on,” Deakers said.

“What you want to do is enter the water at a 45-degree angle with your feet in front so that you enter the water shallow and flatten out underwater so you won’t hit the bottom.”

Besides safety in jumping, we can’t forget that we lose lives when we are careless. And careless things hurt more than the person doing them. Now we are without a life because college kids being stupid, succeeded.

It’s a fact that college kids will get drunk and do stupid things. Except there has to be some voice of reason in groups. We can’t just blame this on alcohol.

These are choices people made, and regardless of how drunk you are, you still know when something is wrong or dangerous. Half the time you’re drunk and you’re doing something dangerous, whether it be driving or hitting on a girl who just looks so good. But responsibility is something that doesn’t go away when the bottle is empty.

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Daily Titan Opinion Editor He’s back from the loser abyss! The man who retreated from the political pulpit and hid behind a Unabomber beard, the man who didn’t “invent” the Internet but helped it flourish in its inception, the man who spent too much time reconfiguring his wooden image into something that resembled cork – the man who didn’t start fighting until the race was already done… over, finito, won by the other guy and his cronies in the Supreme Court.

And Al Gore (after a brief silent sabbatical) is back with some new fighting words for Bush.

In an editorial for The New York Times on April 21, Gore wrote, “under the presidency of George W. Bush, the environmental and energy policies of our government are completely dominated by a group of current and former oil and chemical company executives who are trying to dismantle America’s ability to force them to reduce the extremely dangerous levels of pollution in the Earth’s atmosphere.” ::whew:: Run-on sentences aren’t quite as evil when what is being said is worthy of a lengthy rant.

In the editorial, he accuses the White House of listening to oil giant ExxonMobil, who reportedly sent a memo to the administration recommending they fire the leader of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, Robert Watson. Instead, Gore said ExxonMobil supported Rajendra Pachuri of New Delhi because there would be less environmental change with him in office. Gore described Pachuri as the “let’s drag our feet” candidate.

Nothing like Earth Day to rile up an environmentalist.

Gore wrote “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,” an environmental manifesto, his first year in the White House and has since made his love for Madam Earth well known.

“Just as Enron needed auditors who wouldn’t blow the whistle when the company lied about the magnitude of its future liabilities, the administration needs scientific review that won’t sound the alarm on the destruction of the Earth’s climate balance,” he wrote.

Ouch, he evoked the painful Enron reference. How does it feel to have someone (Gore no less) poking you in the eye, President Bush?

“How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt. But with folks wearing bikinis in Boston in the middle of April and with the massive melting of ice at both poles and in nearly every mountain glacier on Earth, public awareness and concern are growing rapidly,” he wrote.

Sharp…jabbing…pain…in…eye.

Even though Gore’s editorial and recent speaking appearances (including an Earth Day speech at the same time as Bush’s environmental address) are blatant attempts to re-emerge as the Democratic hopeful in 2004, his rhetoric rings of passion – a commodity his 2000 campaign was entirely devoid of.

Because of that, I’m feeling myself being sucked back into the optimism and the promises this presidential challenger could offer the country.

There is so much more to America than war, and there is so much more passing through the White House than we could possibly know. Secret meetings, corporate leadership, gross overspending. It has to change.

One can hope…only two more years.

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By Matthew Sedlar

Daily Titan Copy Editor When I saw the ads for the “Sink or Swim: Internship and Job Fair,” I was a happy puppy. My current job (at an amusement park that will remain nameless) has given me little motivation to remain sane for the remainder of the semester.

Nevertheless, I showed up on Wednesday in my best interview ensemble with my resume in hand.

Maybe I should add that I am a print journalism major with a minor in political science. Knowing that information will help you understand why I was incredibly disappointed with “Sink and Drown.”

Maybe saying that I was disappointed is wrong; frustrated and extremely dangerous is a better description.

The internship and job fair that was being held during Communications Week lacked (go figure!!) communications job opportunities. Only a couple of employers were actually close to that area of interest.

KABC-7 had internships available for broadcast journalism majors; however, the booth was swamped with applicants.

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were represented by a cold sandwich on a paper plate and a brochure for Cal State Fullerton.

Walking through the circus, I caught several conversations that confused me more than George W. Bush’s foreign policy. One Sears representative told a student that starting pay for a retail position would be $7 per hour. A fellow communications student asked a Macy’s representative whether they had any public relations positions open. The representative informed her that she could “sell things.”

Where were all the real jobs?

This was an Internship and Job Fair for college students!

I understand that many students (like myself) are forced to hold minimum-wage positions in order to feed our textbook habits. It is understandable that many employers target us for that reason. The job fair was advertised as an opportunity to get our name out there in the professional circuit.

As a senior, I want to say that I have done my time in the minimum-wage positions. I’m hoping to move up to those low-paying professional positions!

I am proud to tell you that Albertsons, Sears and Hot Topic will not be seeing my resume.

Job fair important

By Afni Adnan

Daily Titan Staff Writer Now that college is over, the real world awaits.

As a prospective graduate, the reality of having to find a job is terrifying to me, but that’s the way life goes. Rent needs to be paid and my student loans need to be paid back.

Fortunately, I have been able to utilize the different resources being offered to students such as the Internship and Job Fair, which was held Wednesday in the Quad.

Representatives from different companies and organizations were on hand to answer any questions students might have. As I walked from booth to booth, I had the opportunity to talk to professionals and get input on what I needed to do to get a head start on my career.

Not only did I make contacts and networked, I also got a nudge in the right direction.

Even though these resources are provided for students, it will only help those who are motivated enough to actually go out and make things happen for them. These fairs are merely a stepping stone.

Students themselves have to take

the initiative and take advantage of these opportunities.

Some might even say that these internship fairs are just a waste of their time. That may be true, if you don’t know what you’re looking for. But to those who have some sense of direction of where they want to go in life, the fair was the perfect place to mingle and make an impression.

As college graduates go out in search of their dream career, they can easily feel overwhelmed.

Competition is tighter than ever and good jobs are hard to come by, so graduates need to go the extra mile to sell themselves. The job market is constantly growing, but because so many people are qualified, expectations are high.

Now that graduation is just around the corner, I am beginning to feel the pressure of finding a job.

College has always been a safety net, a secluded world of classrooms. But now that my college career is coming to an end, I have to face the future head on, armed with nothing but a well-rounded education and fierce ambition.

After becoming bored in their effort to clean up Gov. Gray Davis’ electricity crisis, Democrats in the state legislature are back to doing what they do best: controlling the excruciating minutia of our daily lives. Now they think soft drinks are making Californians just too damn fat. But alas! Like every other problem since the beginning of time, liberals have a tax increase that will surely save the day.

The proposed tax, SB 1530 is being pushed by California state Senator Deborah (‘I’ve got a really slow metabolism, OK?’) Ortiz.

If the portly lawmaker gets her way, the state would raise the tax on sodas and other sweetened drinks by about two cents per 12-ounce can. Ortiz claims the tax is necessary because, “one soda a day causes a 60 percent increase in obesity.” (I guess, the “it’s my body, so I can do whatever I want to it” argument only goes so far as to protect your right to drop acid and have abortions on demand – drink a Dr. Pepper and you’re going way beyond what John Stuart Mill ever envisioned).

If you have a problem with it, the Sacramento Democrat has no sympathy.

When confronted by local radio talk-show hosts about the ridiculousness of the tax, Ortiz sniffed, “I think you guys can afford two cents a can.”

The stupidity of this logic is baffling. Sure we could afford the tax increase…just like we could let Ted Kennedy watch over the keys to our liquor cabinet. But we don’t, because we aren’t stupid.

I wish I could say the same for Ortiz.

In fact, suppose she is right and Californians are fat. Don’t we have the right to be? Ortiz certainly does.

If I woke up tomorrow morning and decided to smoke my breakfast, drink my lunch and eat five sides of bacon for dinner, I’m the one that has to live with the consequences, not my neighbor.

If you’re thinking, “yeah, but fat people are a big drain on the tax-payers because they are always having health problems,” then by all means do something about repealing the welfare state. Don’t let the do-gooders in Sacramento take away your right to have Coke with your lunch without paying their fat tax.

Besides, if legislators in Sacramento are so hell-bent on whipping the state into shape, they should lead by example and start with themselves. (Trust me, they aren’t exactly built like the cast of “Baywatch”).

But in all fairness to them, their spare tires and double chins aren’t entirely their fault. When many lawmakers took the jump from the highly ethical legal profession into politics, they lost out on a large portion of their exercise routine. (You’d be surprised how many calories you can burn chasing after ambulances).

If they spent half the amount of time worrying about the state’s pressing issues (i.e., the budget deficit, the electricity crisis and our crumbling infrastructure) and less time promoting the sin-tax flavor of the month, we would be in a lot better shape.

Besides, Californians are taxed enough as it is.

I think it’s about time we throw some heavily taxed Nestea into the ocean to remind them of that fact.

– Phillips is a freelance columnist majoring in political science at Cal State Fullerton.

Asians upset by Abercrombie and Fitch

By Abigaile C. Siena

Daily Titan News Assistant In the United States, the current population enjoys freedom of speech, freedom of expression and the right to pursue happiness. But what happens if one day, someone finds humor in century-old stereotypes and refers to it as a clever marketing strategy? More brisk sales and prayers of not being chastised by the masses are the only two things that come to mind.

Feast your eyes on the latest spring fashion courtesy of Abercrombie and Fitch.

In an effort to boost sales and “appeal” to the Asian American community, A&F flaunted five T-shirt designs depicting Chinese caricatures, stereotypes that were similar to those that appeared in 19th century pop culture.

The casual clothing company labeled the shirts with slogans such as “Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White,” “Wok-NBowl-Chinese Food And Bowling,” “Rick Shaw’s Hoagies And Grinders. Order By The Foot: Good Meat. Quick feet” and “Buddha Bash-Get Your Buddha On The Floor.” The last mentioned was accompanied by two smiling figures in conical hats.

Sure enough there were boneheads who found the shirts so unique and humorous that the items were flying off the stores’ shelves like Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync merchandise. It’s the latest from Abercrombie and Fitch…and it costs $25.

People coughed up $25 for these “entertaining” shirts? That’s a clear waste of money! I’d rather strap myself to a chair and listen to severely untalented karaoke singers than separate myself from two of my favorite guys, A.J. and A.L. (Andrew Jackson, $20 and Abraham Lincoln, $5).

Abercrombie and Fitch pulled the shirts off their stores and Web site after nearly two weeks of availability.

The company justified itself by saying it had poked fun at just about everybody: women, Irish Americans and sports fans and was most likely hoping that Asian Americans would find the offensive shirts amusing. I guess the phone complaints, angry e-mails and protests in the Bay Area told them otherwise.

Despite their claims of poking fun at everybody, the company should not produce shirts depicting this kind of humor and they should not be singling out Asian Americans for a possible multi-million dollar

profit either.

Asian Americans as well as other nonwhite immigrants went to great lengths just to gain their freedom and to shed more than a century of stereotypes. It’s the 21st century, not the 19th century, so grow up!

To those who purchased the items, I’d really think thrice before giving these out as gag gifts to anyone of Asian American ancestry.

To the people who think that these shirts were humorous, wake up! The world is not naive when it comes to racism and you shouldn’t be either.

I often wonder what kind of people thought up these slogans. I’m certain that the “brainiacs” behind the slogans are as ignorant and immature as the decision-makers who thought that Asian Americans would fall on their hands and knees because they were laughing too hard at the slogans.

Does A&F not realize that there is more to a slogan than just mere words? The message a slogan generates can make the difference between life and death.

The famous axiom “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is a complete farce. Many people can be hurt by words.

These T-shirts are no exception.

Friday, April 26, 2002

Doing what they can to A Fullerton mother-and-daughter duo are true sports fans that attend local sporting events because of their love for the games

By Brian Thatcher

Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor There has been a fixture at most Cal State Fullerton athletic events for the past three seasons, and it hasn’t been Tuffy Titan.

It has been Fullerton residents Cec Hedrick and her daughter, Sonja Potter.

The two ladies, who are not alumni of CSUF, first started coming to Titan games after talking to their neighbor.

“We love watching sports and our neighbor knew that,” Potter, 58, said. “She told us that her daughter used to play softball for Cal State Fullerton and we should go to some of the games.”

The duo finally did when, in 1999, they noticed that the lights of Goodwin Field were on.

“I told my mom that I wanted to find out what was going on,” Potter said. “She said she wanted to come too, so we went.”

Since then, they haven’t limited themselves to just Titan baseball or softball.

“We used our senior discounts and have bought season tickets to baseball, basketball, softball and pretty much everything else here at Fullerton,” Hedrick, 77, said. “We do whatever we can to support the team.”

Another way they support the team is through the CSUF sweatshirts, which they purchased at one of the concession stands and wear to all of the games. They have made it a tradition to go to as many games as possible, and that doesn’t mean they just come here to CSUF. “We have season tickets to all of the UCLA sporting events and go to Lakers and Dodger games,” Hedrick said. “In fact we went to the Brea Olinda (high school) baseball game last Wednesday. We go to all of the games because we love sports and it’s cheaper than bars.”

Potter, who was born in South Dakota and raised in the state of Washington, always had a love for sports. That love was nurtured by the early exposure she got through her mom and dad.

“Sonja has always been around sports,” Hedrick said. “When she was a baby, we had season tickets to the Rainiers, which was a Pacific Coast League (baseball) team. We used to take her to the park and let her fall asleep.”

The family moved to Fullerton in 1959. It was Potter’s freshman year of high school, and she was a member of the first graduating class of Sunny Hills.

Because the school was so new and the teams were inexperienced, the Lancer athletic teams didn’t give her much of an outlet to cheer.

“We were pretty bad,” Potter said. “Our football team never won a game. Our basketball team never won a game. No one ever won a game.”

It wasn’t until after she graduated that Potter started attending games.

“After high school, I started going to UCLA baseball games with my mom and dad even though none of us had gone to the school,” she said.

“I also went to a lot of Dodgers and Angels games. But, when I got married, my husband didn’t like sports, so I stopped going.”

The fan in Potter never stopped loving sports and, after her divorce, she began going to games with her mom. Her dad passed away in 1983.

This time though, they didn’t exclusively go to high school or college events.

“One day I was walking my dog past Tri-City Park and I noticed a girls youth softball team playing,” Potter said. “I stopped to watch the girls play and noticed some of my neighbors.”

Watching the games became a regular occurrence and something Potter did as an outlet.

“It was just one of those fun

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Cec Hedrick, left, and her daughter, Sonja Potter, cheer in their season seats during a recent Titan baseball game at Goodwin Field. things to do,” she said. “It started It was then that we found out about support their players. I just wish more So as the mother and daughter taking longer for me to walk the dog Cal State Fullerton and decided to go Cal State Fullerton fans and stu- juggle their time between all of their and my mother asked me about it. I because it was so close.” dents would come out to support sporting events, they have an attitude told her and she started coming with Since the two have been going, their team.” that most students don’t have. The me.” they have seen many memorable One thing they have noticed over students’ apathy is evident by the The two came to more and more games, but it was a series of games the years is that at Titan events, there small crowds at Titan sporting events, games and began to get requests from at the Titan Softball Complex this often are youth and junior colleges but they could take a cue from these some of their neighbors to come see season that are the most memorable teams, such as Mt. SAC, that attend two ladies. their kids play. for them. in large groups.

“I hope to heck that we can go to “We had a few neighbors invite “The Kia [Klassic] and the Worth “I am always very impressed with wherever the [Titan softball] regionus to come see their daughters play [Invitational] were great,” Hedrick that,” Potter said. “Its good to see Cal als are,” Hedrick said. “We want to softball,” Potter said. “Then, we got said. “It was great to see all of those State Fullerton having a relationship do whatever we can to support the invited to watch a boy in Pop Warner. fans come from different states to with the younger players.” team and we hope that a lot of people

Titans defeated in nTENNIS: Ladies come up short in the Big West tournament and finish the season at 8-15

By Deborah Germinaro

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Michelle Arndt, left, and Jessica Martin compete in a doubles match at home earlier this season.

Daily Titan Staff Writer The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team said goodbye to another season Thursday in Ojai as No. 9seeded Utah State beat No. 8-seeded CSUF in the first round of the Big West championships tournament with a score of 5-2.

The mild upset saw Fullerton lose all but one singles match while they picked up the doubles point by beating the Aggies in two out of three doubles matches.

The Titans ended the season with a record of 8-15 overall, and a 1-5 record in the Big West.

“They were better than we expected,” junior Jessica Martin said. “The whole atmosphere up here is differ-

ent. There is a lot more people up here, more pressure.”

The Titans earned their two points through doubles victories by No. 1 team Ana Iacob and Carla Rocha and No. 2 team Michelle Arndt and Ioana Sisoe and by No. 2 player Rocha’s three-set singles win.

Rocha, the only Titan with a singles victory, played a 28-game match.

She won her first set 6-4, lost her second 2-6 and came back to win her third set 6-4.

“It was nice to end the season with a win,” Rocha said. “I am happy with everything. I think we played well, we tried our best. I’m excited for next year.”

The team is staying overnight in Ojai and plans to go to the remainder of the tournament tomorrow and watch some of the matches.

Martin said there are no teams in particular that CSUF is planning on watching.

Now that the season is officially behind them, team members are taking time to reflect on one of the most

memorable matches of the year.

“The Riverside match meant a lot because it was our last match of the regular season,” Martin said. “I know I fought really hard in that match. I had a chance to go down a lot, but I didn’t.”

For Arndt, the only senior on the team, this is more than just the end of the season, it is the end of her college tennis career.

“This year was by far the best in terms of the team and my playing,” she said. “Today was a really good way to end even though we lost.

Everybody fought really hard and I know I fought really hard. It was really cool. I’m really happy.”

Arndt admitted she was a little choked up during the last team practice, but now that the season is over, she is full of positive energy.

“I am more happy and excited than anything else,” Arndt said. “I don’t know, it was just really awesome.”

Cordero invited to USA tryCal State Fullerton sophomore right-hander Chad Cordero is among the first 19 collegiate players who have been invited to participate in the 2002 USA Baseball National Team trials in Tucson, Ariz. from June 18-23.

Cordero, the Titans' All-American closer, is 4-1 with 11 saves and a 2.23 ERA. In 24 appearances this season, he has struck out a team-high 56 and walked just 13 in 40.1 innings.

The USA National Team will be selected from a pool of approximately 35-40 players, of which an additional 1621 have yet to be deter-

mined. The official team roster will be announced on June 24.

Team USA will play 30 games this summer.

Fullerton has had nine players make the Team USA squad, including Bob Caffrey (1984), Phil Nevin and Jason Moler (1992) and Mark Kotsay and Brian Loyd (1996).

Kirk Saarloos was the most recent Titan to don the red, white and blue uniform when he served as the team's closer during their 2000 summer tour.

-Information courtesy of Athletic Media Relations.

Angels play is too painful for some fans to nCOMMENTARY: After signing key free agents in the offseason, the ballclub still seems destined to

By John Paul Gutierrez Daily Titan Staff Writer

Certain things hurt my eyes – bright lights, blue eye shadow, Japanimation and the Anaheim Angels. They hurt them, they really do.

It seems that the Angels just never seem to get better. They are the lovable losers that aren’t so lovable.

I went to opening day at Edison Field because I’m a closet Angels fan.

I always have been, but I’m just too embarrassed to tell anyone. One of the reasons is because if I’m home watching the game, I don’t want to hurt anyone else’s eyes.

They welcomed the Cleveland Indians in the first game of the 2002 season. Why Major League Baseball chose the Angels for this honor, I

do not know. The game was to be nationally televised on ESPN, but it got bumped to ESPN2 because ESPN televised the Women’s NCAA championship basketball game instead.

I know now that it was a good thing.

From that day on, I knew this team was in a heap of trouble. And that is evident by the players on the team. Let’s go position by position.

Among the starting pitchers, the combined record is 4-11. The two big-name pitchers they acquired in the off-season, Kevin Appier and Aaron Sele, are a combined 1-3.

Appier’s mechanics look horrible.

He flails his arms out, kicks low to the ground and finishes with his right foot high on the follow through. It is really difficult to watch. The only way to explain his strong outings is that his motion must hurt the batter’s

eyes.

Among the relief pitchers, I have a word association. When I hear the name “Ben Weber,” my immediate reaction is “the worst pitcher in baseball.”

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Weber, who is a right-hander with a herkyjerky delivery, get out of an inning without giving up a run.

I can just see the Angels front office right now. They are all huddled over some Disneyland rock candy thinking what a great idea it would be to let Shigetoshi Hasegawa (who is 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in Seattle And their replacement, Weber, is forced to wear glasses because he must have hurt his eyes by watching tapes of himself pitch.

I don’t want to add insult to injury, but I asked my team of Little Leaguers who the worst pitcher on the Angels was and without hesitation they said Weber.

At catcher, there is Benjie

Molina.

Molina seems to be a nice guy, but he can’t run.

No seriously, he can’t run.

I guarantee that he will not hit a triple all season.

That is unless he hits one in the gap and both outfielders collide while collapsing on the ball, rendering each other unconscious.

Then, the third outfielder will have to go into cardiac arrest and also fail to get the ball. If all that happens, he just might barely eke out a triple.

Holding down first base is no one because there is no everyday first baseman.

This is because at first base, it is too difficult on the eyes to actually face the infielders as they throw the ball to throw out runners. That’s why manager Mike Scioscia has to platoon there.

The second baseman, whose position is traditionally known for defensive contributions rather than offen-

sive, is Adam Kennedy.

Kennedy, who is under the delusion that he’s a power hitter, strolls up to the plate while the loud speakers blast hip-hop music. He takes huge cuts and loves to fly out.

Everyone better put your cell phones down when they announce the third baseman because you may never hear this again. All-star Troy Glaus, is hands down the best player on the team. But even he missed oneand-a-half games due to contact lens problems. Do I even have to write anymore?

When I think of the shortstop, I would just like to say “bless little David Eckstein’s heart.” He is always running around out there like a rabbit on speed. He truly wants to be out there and I’m just really happy that the Angels are looking to local high schools to fill their mammoth hole at shortstop.

In the outfield, leftfielder Garret Anderson is lazy.

Centerfielder Darin Erstad is one of the smartest players on the team.

He dives headfirst into walls and suffers mild concussions for the team.

But all that hustle doesn’t mean he can hit. I want to know what happened to the career year he had a few seasons back. He was a lot more fun then.

In right, there is Tim Salmon. Oh dear, Tim Salmon. It’s just sad now. I am greatly troubled by his deterioration as a ball player, because he hurts my eyes most of all.

Apparently he hurts the coaching staff’s eyes as well because he has been benched for Jeff DaVanon.

I’m not asking for a World Series.

Hell, I’m not even asking for a Wild Card berth.

All I’m asking for is that the Angels stop hurting my eyes. They have already broken my heart.

I just don’t want to be blind as well.