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Festival displays rainbow of culnCELEBRATION: Diversity is portrayed through a colorful array of traditions and backgrounds Monday By Afni Adnan
Daily Titan Staff Writer A burst of color lit up the Titan Student Union’s Portola Pavilion Monday night. Music blared from
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the speakers as students came to celebrate the Multicultural Rainbow Festival. The event celebrated diversity and a gathering of cultures, a place for attendees to mingle and better educate themselves about other cultures. The diversity of Cal State Fullerton was apparent at the three-hour event, which brought out many international students and different student organizations and clubs. Attendees strolled around the booths and asked questions about
the different cultures represented on campus. Not only were the booths cluttered with poster boards filled with information, but there were also displays of traditional artifacts. Attendees also feasted their eyes on the array of colorful costumes and exhibitions presented at the event. The different booths offered information ranging from membership to more serious issues like race and religion. The Families Across CulturesIntroducing My Culture (FAC-IMC) booth passed out information about
the club’s activities to those interested in attending their meetings. The Muslim Student Association displayed information about Islam to better educate people about the religion’s true teachings. Alex Lopez, president of the Associated Students, Inc., emphasized the importance of a diverse student population. He said the conversations he’s had with different students has played an important role in helping him as the student body president. “Embracing each other and learn-
ing from one another is important,” he said. Those who took part in the festival got to see various performances such as Florea de Reata (“Rope Tricks”) and multicultural dances from India and Cambodia, among others. The festival also offered cultural foods to those who wanted to put their taste buds to the test. Mexican and Indian delicacies were just a few of the dishes students savored. Yu-Hsin Wang, an international student from Taiwan attended the
event to lend support to her friends and to also learn more about other cultures. She said it gave her the chance to mingle with other international students. “I learned about diversity,” she said about the event. “[International students] are so fortunate to be at CSUF. Walking around campus you don’t feel like you’re different.” Wang also said that she has been surprised by the support shown by her peers and professors.
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nTURNOUT: Students said poor advertising and lack of knowledge were the reasons they did not cast a ballot By Theresa Salinas
Daily Titan Staff Writer Six percent of the student population voted in last week’s Associated Students Inc. election, leaving some candidates and organizers wondering what went wrong and what can be done to improve next year’s turnout. About 30,000 students could have voted in the ASI election on April 24 and 25 – but only 1,814 voters made it to the polls. Some blame the low turnout on poor advertising. Others said that Wednesday’s rain kept voters away from outdoor polling stations. Still others pointed out that voter apathy is common at commuter colleges like Cal State Fullerton and cannot be fixed. “It was partly because of the rain and partly because it was a low-key election,” said ASI Election Commissioner Suzette Escobar. “Because there were only two presidential candidates, people probably felt that their vote wouldn’t matter much.” Graduate student Darcy Clarke said she didn’t know about the election; and even if she did, she wouldn’t have voted. “I’m only here for one semester, so I have a vested interest,” she said. Presidential candidate Jeremy Harrison said that the elections were not advertised enough. Like Clarke, thousands of students didn’t know about the elections, he said. “Our campaign was all about increasing student involvement,” he said. “It’s ironic that nobody voted. We just wanted to get people involved.” But ASI President Alex Lopez said that ASI did all it could to advertise the election. Banners announcing the election were posted throughout the university. Presidential debates were held the week before the election. Polls were also placed at four prominent campus locations – the Titan Student Union, Langsdorf Hall, McCarthy Hall and the Humanities Building. ASI even tried to entice students by holding a lottery this semester in which seven voters were selected at random to upgrade their Fall 2002 student-parking permit to a staff permit. The winners are: Jesse Knowles, Arthur Jones, Adam Byrnes, Viola Chiu, Jonathon Tarnow, Frank Gonzalez and Mary Diaz. ASI spends about $20,000 per year to promote student elections. The Spring 2002 election budget includes $1,245 for student wages, $150 for supplies, $650 for printing and advertising, $200 for repairs and maintenance, $700 for personnel services, $9,580 for contracts,
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Effects of L.A. riots still felt 10 years later nANNIVERSARY: Memories are still strong a decade after the tragic events of beatings and lootings By Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Smells of burnt rubber filled the air and singed storefronts greeted those who traveled through the streets of Los Angeles a week after the worst civil uprising in the city’s history. The riots, which started April 29, 1992 due to the acquittal of the four police officers involved in the Rodney King beating, lasted three days. It resulted in at least 58 deaths, 2,283 injures and more than 7,000 reported fires. A decade has passed since violence took over the city. Pastor William Johnson recalls driving through the streets of Compton when the riots broke out. He was trying to convince people to stop looting and starting fires, but
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did not experience much success. Johnson is the founder of the Harambee Economic and Community Development, a non-profit organization based in Compton, that among other things helps restore old homes for the community. Now 10 years later, most of the burned-down buildings have been replaced with booming businesses like Starbucks and Home Depot. “There are some things that have changed since then, but there are still things that have not,” Johnson said. A new Chevron, a Hollywood Video and different restaurants have popped up throughout the city, but social conditions, such as the high rate of unemployment and gang shootings, have not really progressed, Johnson said. The day of the anniversary, Cal State Fullerton students and faculty looked back at those three days of confusion and chaos. Jeremiah Moore, director of Student Academic Services, remembers how people in surrounding cities, like his hometown of Pasadena, initially didn’t realize how much this affected people’s lives. “We were under the delusion that we didn’t have the problem L.A.
had, ” Moore said. “‘Just don’t go to L.A.,’” was the attitude people shared.” Moore had to pick up his son who was arriving from school in Tennessee at Los Angeles International Airport. All the streets were blocked off, and it took hours before he finally got to the airport. “I think a lot of good came out of it,” Moore said reluctantly of the violence. “The police department is more sensitive and there is more diversity, as far as African Americans and Hispanics.” Tyeshun Brown, a senior child development major, lived in South Central Los Angeles, close to where Reginald Denny was nearly beaten to death by rioters. He said he noticed a change in the community he grew up in. “There’s tolerance now between the races,” Brown said. “Now in certain neighborhoods, blacks, Koreans, Hispanics, they’ve gotten to know each other.” King’s now infamous quote, “People…can we just get along,” called for this understanding between cultures.
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BRIEFS CSUF Jazz Singers to perform at Little Theatre Presented by the Cal State Fullerton Department of Music, Jazz Singers under the direction of Cindy Bourquin will be performing at the Little Theatre on Wednesday, May 15 at 8 p.m. The ensemble composed of mostly vocal music majors, will be performing the songs “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” arranged by Damon Meader, “Everything Must Change” and “Pick Yourself Up” arranged by Phil Mattson, “Morning” composed and arranged by Clare Fischer, “Caravan” an arrangement by Vijay Singh, “Gotta Get You Into My Life” arranged by Roger Treece as well as other songs. Tickets are $8 for regular admission and $5 with Titan discount. They are available at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at tickets.com and one hour prior to the performance. For more information, contact the box office at (714) 278-3371.
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Rocky and Diego to appear at Recital Hall Presented by the Cal State Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance, Rocky and Diego will be performing at the Recital Hall on May 17-18 and 22-25 at 8 p.m., May 18-19 and 25-26 at 2 p.m. and May 26 at 6 p.m. Written by Roger Cornish and directed by Donn Finn, the play takes place during the Depression where a young Nelson Rockefeller, portrayed by Logan Sledge, works hard at creating an ambitious new complex called Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller appoints Diego Rivera, portrayed by Brian Rickle, to paint an enormous welcome mural, but finds out that Rivera started painting pictures incorporating the famous communist Lenin in a celebration of class struggles. Cast members include Annie DiMartino as Frida Kahlo Rivera, Rob Hahn as Mr. Todd and Sarah Petty as May Bliss. Ann Sheffield designed the set. Abel Zeballos, Nathan Jones, Sarah Opstad and Kendra Roberts served as costume, lighting, make-up and sound designers respectively. Tickets are $9 for regular admission and $7 with Titan discount. They are available at the Performing Arts Center box office, online at tickets.com and one hour prior to the performance. For more information, contact the box office at (714) 278-3371.
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CAL E NDAR OF E VE NTS CALENDAR OF E VENTS Community The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man,” in Segerstrom Hall from April 30 to May 5. Tickets are between $20 and $55. For more information on tickets and show times, call (714) 556-2746 or log on to www.ocpac.org. The Brigham Young University (BYU) Theatre Ballet presents “Goldilock’s Adventure” in the Barclay Theatre in Irvine, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. Regular tickets are $18 and $12 for children and students. For more information, call (949) 854-4646. 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 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. The Garden Grove Playhouse presents “The Woman in Black,” the ghost play by Stephen Malatratt, through May 10. Ticket prices are $12 for general admission and $11 for
seniors and students. For more information, call (714) 8975122.
Campus There will be a blood drive from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room 011 of the Engineering Building. For more information, call Ron Hall at (714) 875-9658. The TSU Center Gallery presents art works by Kozue Imamura through May 24. The Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There is no charge. For more information, call (714) 278-2468. The Women’s Center & Adult Re-entry will have a discussion called “Body Image, Eating Disorders, and the Influences of Culture,” May 1 at noon in UH
205. For more information, call (714) 278-3889. The Department of Music presents a “Chamber Music Honors Recital,” May 1 at 8 p.m. in the Minor Hall of the Performing Arts Center. The performance is free. For more information, call (714) 2783371. 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) 278-3889. 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.
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At 2:09 a.m., a mother reported to police that her daughter missing. The daughter was supposed to be working in the ceramics room of the Visual Arts Building. Her parked vehicle was located.
Police and medics were called at 7:30 p.m. to McCarthy Hall. A student suffered a possible broken ankle, but refused treatment.
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In Lot B, a habitual parking offender was spotted at 11:09 a.m. On South Campus Drive in 30-minute parking, police spotted a habitual parking offender at 2:30 p.m. Tickets totaled $240. A non-injury traffic accident was reported to police at 3:11 p.m., in Lot E Row 6. A silver Honda and a gray Chevy van
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At 9:40 a.m., police spotted a habitual parking offender on South Campus Drive. The driver had seven outstanding tickets totaling $280. Petty theft from the Performing Arts Building, Room 146D was reported to police at 2:40 p.m. Someone took a woman’s
purse that she left unattended. Petty theft of an unattended purse was reported to campus police at 2:52 p.m. from the Engineering Building, Room 100G. A silver Honda Accord and a brown Plymouth were involved in a non-injury traffic accident in Lot E at 5 p.m. Police were called to the Physical Education Building at 7:46 p.m. A student suffered a twisted knee received while riding a skateboard. No medics were requested.
Friday, April 26 Petty theft from an off-cam-
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pus location was reported to Public Safety at 10:27 a.m. Police responded to a call from University Hall at 11:24 a.m. A female reported falling down the stairs on Wednesday.
Saturday, April 27 Police responded to a call from the Titan Stadium at 3:20 p.m. A white male in his late 70s had wandered away. He was described as balding, wearing a light green jacket and light brown pants. A traffic accident in Lot A was reported to police at 7:32 p.m. A blue Oldsmobile had a run-in with a tree.
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Campus wages war on drinking nCAMPAIGN: Some studies show the use of alcohol is becoming an increasing problem for college students
say. “There’s something going on somewhere every night of the week, it seems,” said Fallan Hess, a 20year-old junior from Coral Springs, as she and 30 friends caught a ride to downtown Bar Orlando one night recently. Meanwhile, the number of UCF students charged with violating stuBy Scott Powers dent-conduct codes involving alcoThe Orlando Sentinel hol has more than tripled this year. The number of students ordered ORLANDO, Fla. — A yearlong into alcohol-education programs has crackdown on illegal drinking at more than doubled. So have drunkthe University of Central Florida is en-driving arrests on campus. moving the party off campus, often “I don’t want to be the Grinch to bars here aggressively marketing who stole fun out of college. I know themselves to students. college kids should UCF has joined a have fun,” said UCF nationwide war on colPresident John Hitt. lege boozing, launching “But darn it, fun “I don’t want or beefing up its alcoshouldn’t all involve hol-education programs, drinking.” alternative activities and to be the Nationwide, law-enforcement sweeps, researchers and health stings and patrols. Grinch who officials have been Efforts to suppress calling loudly for a drinking on campus have against drinking stole fun out war been effective, but are not on and near college stopping students from campuses, where most traveling miles away of college. I students are too young to bars and nightclubs to drink legally. promising college nights, The National know college cheap drinks and 18-andInstitute on Alcohol up admissions. Abuse and Alcoholism kids should released a report two In some cases, distant bars are even sending weeks ago blaming charter buses to campus college-student drinkhave fun. to haul students in and ing for more than keep them there until the 1,400 deaths, includBut darn it same buses provide rides ing drunken-driving back to campus after the accidents; 70,000 last call. fun shouldn’t rapes and sexual “The kids come in assaults; and 500,000 here to dance and have injuries annually. involve a good time,” said Greg That followed simiPeters, general manager lar ominous studies drinking.” of Mako’s, which does in March from the not send out such a bus, American Medical he said. Association and The bar features scantHarvard University ily clad women on School of Public swings, bartenders who Health. pour drinks into patrons’ At UCF, several mouths and a new weekly promotion students have died in alcohol-related aimed at UCF students. crashes in recent years, including a It’s all about fun, the students
University of Central Florida students line up for a chartered bus that takes them to bars in Orlando, Fla. 20-year-old business student who lost control of her truck last fall while driving back from a UCF football game at the Florida Citrus Bowl. She had been drinking at several tailgate parties, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. Five passengers were injured. No UCF students are known to have died from an alcohol overdose, the kind of death, at the University of Maryland in February, that usually draws harsh public attention to student-drinking excesses. The campus had plenty of drinking-related problems, though. A survey commissioned in 2000 found 42 percent of students acknowledged driving while intoxicated; 27 percent said alcohol had contributed to an injury; and 61 percent said they had drunk to the point of nausea or vomiting. What’s more, 42 percent of students said they had missed classes, and 33 percent did poorly on tests because of drinking. Student victim-services advocate Kim Williams said that in 2000,
the last year for which reporting is complete, her office assisted 26 apparent sexual-battery victims and another nine women who suspected they were raped but could not recall clearly. Similar cases have been reported in the past two years, the vast majority of them involving alcohol, she said. Worried by such numbers, Hitt and his staff have declared drinking to be a threat both to campus safety and academics. They have concluded that excessive partying is a primary reason many students struggle or fail in school. In addition to starting its alcoholeducation programs, the campus is searching nationwide to hire a highlevel alcohol-policy coordinator. And UCF will host a national conference next fall on college drinking problems. UCF is not interested in zero tolerance toward underage drinking or other alcohol abuses. Instead, the idea, adopted by many universities but scorned as permis-
sive by others, is to convince students that excessive college drinking is less prevalent than they think, so they don’t need to drink to excess either. Meanwhile, campus police joined with law-enforcement agencies throughout Central Florida to make drinking much harder for underage students. Last fall, UCF police and other agencies, including the Orange and Seminole county sheriff’s offices and the Orlando, Oviedo and Winter Park police, created “Operation Knightwatch.” They have raided tailgate parties, fraternity socials, off-campus keg parties and various bars and stores. In eight operations, they arrested 174 people, including 40 store or bar managers, clerks or servers. Students say the message has been heard. “It has cut down a lot. We went out three nights ago, and there were cops all over the place,” said Michelle Wride, a 21-year-old criminal-justice major from Destin, while enjoying a drink with friends at Roxy nightclub,
a popular college bar near Orlando Fashion Square. Students such as Wride say they have to go elsewhere if they can’t party around campus. Distant nightclubs such as Roxy are happy to oblige. “I think what’s making the local kids come down here and be a part of this is atmosphere,” said Charles Sifontes, general manager of Bar Orlando. With the downtown scene taking off as a college spot, “I think people see the success we’ve had, and other people have noticed it as a good market to go after.” Bars that admit underage patrons insist they pay careful attention to ID cards when serving drinks. Many hire off-duty police to watch the doors, where IDs are checked and students typically receive colorcoded wristbands. Some also use machines that can read drivers-license magnetic strips, to guard against fake or altered IDs. “If someone is caught even sipping a drink, they are immediately thrown out,” said Mako’s Peters. “We have zero tolerance for under-
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Jimmie Johnson, racer of Car 28 and winner of the NAPA Auto Parts 500 California Speedway in Fontana, does doughnuts after his victory Sunday.
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NASCAR fever drives Southland residents nRACE: Roaring engines and squealing tires brought a rush of adrenaline to the Fontana audience By Darla Priest
Special to the Titan Race fans, blue skies and warm weather welcomed NASCAR auto racing to Fontana Sunday. Rookie Jimmie Johnson, driver of the 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet Monte Carlo, captured a victory in the NAPA Auto Parts 500 – finishing
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“The tolerance shown by faculty members and other students is great,” she said. “You feel accepted. They understand the difficulties we go through and they’ve helped us, and that means a lot to us.” One of the highlights of the fes-
with the fastest winning speed for a Winston Cup race at the California Speedway. “Deep down inside it feels good to accomplish what we did today,” Johnson said. “To be this competitive in Winston Cup racing has been a dream of mine.” This is Johnson’s first Winston Cup victory in only 13 starts, moving him into fifth place in overall Winston Cup point standings for 2002. “You always think you have the ability to come out here and be competitive,” Johnson said. “But you just don’t know until the right situation presents itself and you can showcase your talents.”
Johnson is the first rookie and native Southern Californian to win a Winston Cup race at the California Speedway. “I always dreamed of racing in the big-time and here we won in our own home state,” Johnson said. His team owner Jeff Gordon, who has two previous wins at the speedway, is from Northern California. Gordon said he knew Johnson had the talent and skill to win. “His life is going to change from this point on,” Gordon said. Johnson is now the top finishing rookie in six of the last 10 races this season, leading the Raybestos rookie standings by 26 points over Ryan
tival was the “Parade of Cultural Dress.” Students from various cultures donned their colorful traditional garbs accompanied by an explanation of the history behind each of the costumes and what they represent to its respective culture. Robert L. Palmer, vice president of Student Affairs, said he is proud of the diverse community that exists
at CSUF. “A diverse student population presents unique opportunities to learn and grow,” he said. “I take a great deal of pride when we organize events like these.” Palmer also hopes that the festival will become an annual event. “I kind of like the notion of this being the first of a tradition,” he said. “That would be pretty special.”
Newman. Critical team decisions and fast pit stops played a vital role in the last minutes of the race. In the final laps, crew chief Chad Knaus made the call for “gas only” in Johnson’s last pit stop. Other cars were taking two tires. “We did it with no tires and just fuel, to pull it off was pretty special,” Knaus said. The extra time it took to put on tires cost teams valuable time needed to obtain a good track position. Kurt Bush, driver of the 97 Rubbermaid Ford Taurus, finished second after taking two tires. “It’s tough we lost by pit strategy
because we had the best car,” Busch said. “I made the call for two.” Ricky Rudd, driver of the 28 car, finished third. “We took on two tires on that last stop and our car just got to pushing the front end,” Rudd said. “Again, we had the track position and we were in the spot to do it, but we just got too tight.” The NAPA Auto Parts 500 weekend included the NASCAR Busch Series on Saturday. In much cooler temperatures than Sunday, Scott Riggs, driver of the 10 Nesquick Ford, won his second career NASCAR Busch Series race. His last victory was in April at
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Nashville. The California Speedway in Fontana is a very fast and wide track, only three other tracks in the Winston Cup circuit are larger. This big two-mile track is notoriously hard on engines. With the advent of NASCAR’s one-engine rule, teams are limited to only one engine per race. Teams can no longer use one engine to qualify and another to race. Johnson blew-up his motor while showing off for the fans after his victory. “I wanted to do some doughnuts and boil the tires off this Chevrolet,” Johnson said.
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Student pours her heart into volunteering for youngnCOMMUNITY: Amery Monson is one of five youth leaders and has become very close to “Wyld Life” children By Margie Rivera
Special to the Titan It’s 7 o’clock Thursday night and the “Wyld Life” group, composed of junior high school students, is anticipating another crazy time. Meanwhile, a sweet-faced woman with cascading long blond hair patiently tunes her guitar. “Aunt Mary,” as the youths nicknamed her, is ready to get down and rock the house. “Playing the guitar, singing and serving is her joy,” said Kristin Appleford, “Aunt Mary’s” longtime friend. She is Amery Monson, a junior at Cal State Fullerton, the group’s ver-
sion of Jewel and one of the its five leaders. “I want to give these kids some leadership and a good role-model figure in their early lives,” Monson said. Every week, she plays her guitar and outrageous games, like Gag in the Bag and Cricket Spitting, with the teens. She also took a small group of girls under her wing and meets with them after school to talk openly about boys, home and life issues that they’re facing as teen-agers. “Amery is like an adult friend,” said Michelle Clark, a volunteer leader at Young Life. “She’s really amazing with the girls.” But a week before Christmas, one may find “Aunt Mary” away from her friends and home as she visits the Santa Marta orphanage in Ensenada, Mexico. Her purpose of “lending a helping hand” drives her to take a genuine interest in the welfare of others, even of those who reside south of the bor-
Runners prefer outside to gym nATHLETICS: The outdoors offer a more challenging terrain, fresh air and a sense of one with nature By Bob Condor
Chicago Tribune Last spring Susan Lewandowski decided to break out of her usual routine. “I was mostly an indoor athlete,” said Lewandowski, a 27-year-old corporateevents planner who lives in Chicago. “I worked out a lot at the health club. My cardio routine was an hour on a treadmill, elliptical trainer or stair climber.” Then Lewandowski enrolled in a triathlon training class at the Lakeshore Athletic Club in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. She did not know what to expect on the bike and swim portions, because she had never pursued either activity for fitness. But Lewandowski figured the run segment would be easy enough based on logging plenty of treadmill miles. The open road turned her thinking inside-out. Like many exercisers who venture back outside this time of year, Lewandowski found what she could do
on a machine did not exactly match up with nature. “Your feet feel heavier,” Lewandowski said. “The knees and joints take a pounding.” Even as a seasoned triathlete — she finished impressively in her age group at last summer Mrs. T’s Triathlon in Chicago — Lewandowski said the indoors-to-outside transition remains difficult this spring. “It still surprises me now,” she said. “It really takes a lot more effort to run outdoors.” Same goes for biking and swimming in the open water. There is no one scientific formula to calculate the equivalent of an indoor workout while exercising outside. Most experts and recreational athletes estimate that going two to three miles inside translates to about a mile outdoors. “Class members have told me, `Gosh, I tried to run two miles outside and I could barely make it,’ “ said Libby Hurley, triathlon instructor at the Lakeshore Athletic Club and founder of Together We Tri coaching service. “They’re disappointed because they were doing five miles on the treadmill.” Karyn Esser is an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an avid recreational athlete who has completed marathons. She knows enough to iden-
der. “Amery has gone several times with her youth group to work with the children from the orphanage,” her mother, Laurie Monson, said. “She dresses like a clown and every year when she returns, the kids vividly remember her and that makes her happy.” But she does more than “sharing stories to the youngsters” since the industrious group also builds and restores houses and barns for the needy locals. “Being around the kids and helping tile a floor and build or paint a house, makes me think about what really matters,” Monson said. The orphanage experiences have greatly impacted and molded her life. Monson boasts not about what she has unconditionally given to her impoverished brethren – long hours, hard work and comfortless days – but she cherishes what she has learned from them, a sense and realization of what life is all about at the end of the journey. tify treadmills as more valuable than no workout, but not up to the gold standard of outdoor running. “During a recent business trip I used the fitness center in my hotel,” she recalled. “I know my own pace (roughly eight-minute miles). I finished my run, looked at the mileage and thought to myself, `No way I went that far.’’’ Nonetheless, Esser said, there is “no biomechanical data” to support that running outside is more difficult than treadmill workouts. One hypothesis is that the treadmill is easier on the body because the hip-flexor muscles are less taxed, getting help from the rotating motorized belt. But research shows running form is typically consistent indoors or out, Esser said. The biomechanics usually are different when comparing cycling. When riding a stationary bike, exercisers might read or watch TV. They might not keep their hands on the handlebar or stay in proper riding alignment. Riding outdoors requires more work to stay balanced and safe. “People have to know their joint angles for the most efficient riding position,” Esser said. Checking revolutions per minute is a must for serious fitness cyclists, Hurley said, while indoor exercisers “don’t look at RPM too much.” Most of all, environmental factors make the outdoors more challenging. The more obvious contributors, including hard surfaces and strong winds, are joined by more subtle changes, such as slowing down to avoid another person. Some outdoor factors are indisputable, such as taking safety precautions on your bike. Wear a properly fitted helmet, of course, and do your best to see who is in your way. Even with that,
Nevertheless, the energetic 20year-old is not much different than her peers. Monson is a sports enthusiast who enjoys outdoor activities. She is an avid surfer who heads to the beach everyday during the summer. “I love to surf in San Onofre,” Monson said. Besides surfing, Monson jogs regularly, works out at the gym twice a week and plays soccer on occasion. Although she has work, school, and home responsibilities, the Newport Beach native makes time to help youth in her community and abroad. In the last State of the Union speech, President George W. Bush urged Americans to volunteer 4,000 hours of community service during their lives. Long ago, Monson wholeheartedly embraced this call and decided “to serve others in love,” making it her mission and golden credo to live by.
Lewandowski’s training was delayed last summer when she broke her arm in a biking accident. There is no question that risk of injury is much lower for indoor workouts, especially on bikes and treadmills. Stationary-bike rides eliminate the threat of other cyclists, runners, pedestrians, cars, dogs — you name it. Treadmills are easier on the knees, which often are vulnerable joints among runners and exercise walkers. There are simply more things to handle during outside workouts. Any one of us who has navigated a busy bike path can empathize. “The body has to make corrections for differences in surface, especially in the legs and torso,” said Cedric Bryant, chief exercise scientist for the American Council on Exercise. “There are a number of `terrain coefficients’ that researchers have calculated to show the extra work for muscles. Another difference is there is much less of what we call `ground reaction or impact force’ when you are running on a treadmill or cushioned track.” Bryant said that although “indoors is thermally neutral,” the challenges of wind and temperature are tangible. For example, running, biking or rowing into a crosswind can make your body feel like it is carrying four times its weight. On hot days, you will be sending blood and oxygen not only to muscles but also the skin. Blending science with reality, Bryant said, attention span is one of the best explanations for why outdoor workouts trump indoor training. “You are more engaged in feedback outside,” he said. “It fights the boredom on a treadmill, stationary bike or pool. That’s a good thing, but because a major deterrent to long-term exercise adher-
TV-Film Award Nominees Below is the list of nominees for the fourth annual TV-Film Awards and Banquet. The banquet will be May 11at 5p.m. at Dave and Busters at the Block of Orange. Nominees will receive one free ticket to the banquet.Their ticket will be “will-call” at the door. Additional tickets for the banquet may be purchased from any TVFilm Society officer including Michael Goss, Naomi Ulici, Shelby Toro, Diana Salgado, Katie Henderson, Sabrina Coleman, Alphonso McAuley or Shelly Jenkins. The campus screenings of the nominees will be today from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in H-110. Best Picture -The Street: Edgar Ahel Muniz -The Last Laff: Rene Hernandez -Cell Mates: Jeff Wilson -How Beautiful: Pete Weiss Best Actor -Erik Michalak -Bryan Dentici -Alphonso McAuley -Michael Samluk Best Actress -Briana Alamen: Bre’s Friend -Samantha Leigh: How Beautiful -Susan Smythe: How Beautiful -Danielle Frederico: Who’s the band Best PSA/Commercial -Time Travel: Mohsen Eletreby -Got Milk?: Lollie Girard -More TV: Barbara Ishida -What Men Want: Tina Olsen Best Animated Short -Tempting Root: Sandee Chamberlain -Breakfast: Michael Blyleven -Wood: Justin Ridge -Something Smells Like Fish: Peggy Wang Documentary -5 Short Videos: Lauren Gabriele -Mexican Gold: Edgar Abel Muniz -Swap Meet: Justin Banderas Music Video -Cool: Steve Hernandez -Decisions: Collin Miller -Portable Music Video: James Rodriguez -Street Spirit: Julian Abalos Avant Garde -Intimate Tragedy: Pete Weiss -Garbage Sculpture: Jim Davis -Baby’s Breath: Noah Bello -Breathe: Damien Smith Studio Drama -Top Roman: Tara Wingo -Elevator Panic: Jeremy Kientz -Choices: Diana Salgado Audio: -Brian Boyle: Trailer Park World, Radio Program -Frank Aceves: Teen Contraception, PSA -Christina Olson: Save a Pet, PSA -Justin Banderas: Meals on Wheels, PSA Interactive: -Patrick Renfro: The Luchador, Flash -Jonas Stolpe: The Ghost, Flash -Josh Krolak: Eyes, Flash -Vanessa Rosella: A Star Is Born, Flash Best Full-Length Screenplay will be announced later this week.
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Leno celebrates 10 years as host nENTERTAINMENT: The tireless comic who replaced Johnny Carson now has a place in TV history By Stephen Battaglio New York Daily News
Did you hear the one about the standup comic who tried to fill the shoes of the legendary king of latenight TV, Johnny Carson? The tenacity of Jay Leno, who next month will celebrate 10 years behind the desk of NBC’s “Tonight” show, has kept that question from ever becoming a gag with a punch line. Leno stumbled early on in his transition from frequent guest host to Carson successor, and most critics still express a preference for his rival, CBS’ David Letterman. But with more years on “Tonight” than Steve Allen and Jack Paar combined, Leno has solidified his place in late-night television history. Later this month, NBC will mark his 10th anniversary with its first prime-time “Tonight” special since he took over the program. While a lot has been written about the so-called late-night wars, it has been a one-sided affair in terms of ratings. Leno’s “Tonight” has been No. 1 for seven of the nine years that it has gone head-to-head with “The Late Show With David Letterman.” Being on the network that created late-night television has helped. But according to a former NBC executive, Leno’s style has proven more suitable to an audience that wants to be comforted at the end of the day. “Do you want to drift off with an amicable, easygoing, friendly nice guy or do you want to drift off with someone who is kind of cynical and dark?” the executive asked. “You can argue about Letterman being more creative and innovative, but I’m not sure that’s what late-night television is about.” (Leno’s ratings dominance over Letterman doesn’t translate to a bigger paycheck, though. Leno earns about $17 million a year; Letterman’s new pact pays him $31.5 million annually). Leno, 52, has helped himself by creating an image of a regular guy who has a tireless work ethic and enjoys tinkering under the hoods of his cars. Warren Littlefield, the former NBC Entertainment president who chose Leno to take over “Tonight,” remembers how his new host once tried to negotiate for less vacation time. “If the network said, `Jay, work five nights a week, 52 weeks a year,’ he’d say, `OK,’” Littlefield said. It’s not unusual for Leno to leave the Burbank studio where “Tonight” is taped in the early evening and fly to Las Vegas to do an hour of standup at a hotel. After the show, he’ll hop back on a plane and return to his office, where he works on the next show’s monologue and comedy
routines until 3 a.m. Leno has been amazed at how comedians have underestimated the difficulty of grinding out original comic material for a television audience every day. “When Chevy Chase got his show, I congratulated him and asked, `Why are you doing a late-night show?’ “ Leno recalled. “And he said, `Well, I live in L.A. and I can take my kids out on the boat in the morning and go fishing and come in the afternoon.’ I said `Omigod,’ it’s not 24 hours a day, but it’s a good 16 to 18.” Leno said he knew he had another late-night contender licked when he saw him on TV sitting courtside at a Lakers game “on a school night.” “You have to write 11 minutes’ worth of jokes every single day,” he said. “It’s Thanksgiving Day. It’s Christmas Day. It’s the day your uncle died.” During Leno’s era, “Tonight” has shifted emphasis to the monologue and prepared comedy bits and away from celebrity guests whom viewers have likely already seen on other programs. “In the old days, the only place you’d see a star let their hair down would be on a late-night talk show,” Leno said. “Now they do it on ‘Oprah,’ ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and ‘Access Hollywood.’ By the time they get to you, they (viewers) have heard the story.” So Leno goes on the road a few nights a week to test material and get a sense of what his TV audience will laugh at. “When you do a joke in Oklahoma, Texas or Boston and it gets a laugh, then it will probably get a laugh on ‘The Tonight Show,’ “ he said. “Audiences tell you when it is OK.” Leno was the first to joke about O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, the kind of subject that might have been off-limits in Carson’s day. Lately, Leno has been milking laughs from the Catholic Church’s sex scandal. Clearly, he feels the audience is ready to see the humor in a seemingly sensitive subject. “You don’t change anybody’s mind with comedy,” he said. “You just reinforce what they already believe. I did a joke the other night: ‘Well, it looks like white-collar crime is up and that’s just in the church.’ Right away, there was a sense of tremendous relief from the audience. It’s the hypocrisy of all this that really gets to people.” With 10 years behind the desk, Leno, whose anniversary show will air April 30 at 10 p.m. EDT, does not give any thought to when he will pack it in. “I’ll do it as long as they want me to do it,” he said, referring to NBC. But unlike Carson, who has been content to leave performing behind after “Tonight,” Leno will always want the connection with an audience that he gets from standup comedy. “If I walk into a room and there is a pile of magazines on the left and a group of people on the right, I gravitate toward the group of people,” Leno said. “It’s what I like to do.”
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Uncomfortable feeling in comfort of home nOPENING: The Studio Expanded class displayed art installation involving space rearrangement By Laila Derakhshanian Daily Titan Staff Writer
The sweet sense of safety delivers a feeling of familiarity from the comforts of home – “home sweet home.” The old couch that perfectly molds to every crevice of the body, photographs of a beloved past, a handed-down quilt and a reminder on the coffee table that ‘life is just a bowl of pork chops.’ However, an aching whirlwind of torrential sound, behind the darkness of a window, collapses every impression of security that the picture perfect setting depicts. “Uncomfortably Comfortable,” an installation by Chris Cargo, Lauren
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fees and rentals and $100 for employee benefits. Most organizers said the voter turn out depends on election issues and candidates, not the amount of funds or publicity poured into a campaign. “More voters turn out for contested races than for uncontested races,” said Sandra Rhoten, associate dean of Judicial Affairs. “Spring elections draw more voters because that’s when they vote for a presidential team.” Organizers hoped that at least 3,000 students (or 10 percent of the population) would vote in the election. They wanted to surpass last spring’s election in which 2,941 students voted. The highest turnout in recent years was in Spring 1999, when 3,480 students voted.‑ The lowest turnout ever came in Fall 1998 when 351 students voted. Voter apathy is common at universities across the country. According to Student Leader magazine, five to 15 percent of the student body typically votes in student government elections. The publication recommends that universities use online voting and hold debates and informal gatherings in highly populated areas. Junior Mimi Pham said that these preelection activities give voters a chance
Gabriele, David Michael Lee, Jamie Nolte, Anne Rumberger and Bill Repke depicts the mixture and stark contrast of home and the dark void that surrounds it. “They did a good job creating an atmosphere. It’s a good use of space,” said Mina Behn, art major at Cal State Fullerton. The artist’s statement hanging on the wall outside of the Exit Gallery states, “Existent within each person is an innate fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar and the strange …But this fear is the craving of human nature that motivates one to provide one’s self with a sense of security and comfort. Moreover, this desire is most profoundly exemplified in the place that a person calls home.” The intent of the project, for the Studio Expanded class, involved a complete rearrangement of space. “Uncomfortably Comfortable,” began with the concept of building a wall. Once the wall was constructed, the issue of comfort was suggested. to learn about campaign issues and candidates. “This semester I was busy,” she said. “But last semester I went to the TSU a lot, so I knew about what went on in the elections.” Over the years, ASI has implemented measures to help boost voter support. It began using online voting in Fall 2001. By logging on to vote.fullerton. edu, students can vote from campus polls or campus computers using their student ID number or e-mail address and pin number. The online system replaces the outdated process of hand-tabulating votes. ASI leaders thought that more students would vote if they could participate at their leisure. Freshman Elaine Binueza said she thinks that online voting is a good idea. “I didn’t have time to vote this semester,” she said. “But in the future, I’d use online voting because it doesn’t take up as much time.” In the end, many students and organizers say there’s not much more ASI can do to combat voter apathy. Voter turn out is largely determined by the race. “I’m not surprised by the turnout,” Lopez said. “This year’s campaign was fairly quiet. There was no controversy. We did everything we could to advertise.”
Another artist in the group wanted to employ sound. The combined ideas formed a living room, similar to what most people would consider home. Another issue dealt with in the installation deals with fear. The sound projected in the small rectangular room starts off as a low drumming beat that becomes loud, harsh and uncomforting. It’s the sound of demons, monsters in the dark rummaging through the remnants of their prey, it’s the call of evil, it’s what we all dread to hear in the comfort of our homes. “It’s like a cursed house. It feels isolated, closed off from the world as if a disaster happened,” said John Paras, animation major. “The darkness outside the window represents the unknown. You don’t want to know what’s out there.” A space that challenges sanity, where one can only hang out for so long before reality and surrealism risk surging into the same entity. The exhibit will be displayed through
May 2. A reception is Wednesday, May 1 at 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. “We’re pleased that it turned into a hang out space as opposed to the feeling of a gallery,” Lauren Gabriele, creative photo graduate student. The room almost seems like it could have been duplicated from a picture that may have been previewed in a 1970’s catalog from Ikea. Dealing with the issues of comfort, a red lava lamp, books, hanging garlic and paintings are a few articles that add to the dependability of the “Uncomfortably Comfortable” set. “It’s what our homes looked like when we were children,” said David Michael Lee, a graduate student studying for a master’s in fine arts with an emphasis in painting and drawing. “What people describe the void as is their own fear and what makes them uncomfortable. The installation represents largely how people identify themselves with the things that they collect.”
Number of students who voted in ASI elections: 1,814 - Spring 2002 826 - Fall 2001 2,941 - Spring 2001 1,868 - Fall 2000 3,250 - Spring 2000 934 - Fall 1999 3,406 - Spring 1999
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Israelis stay in nWORLD: In return for six Palestinians, Yasser Arafat may be free to leave his compound under a U.S. proposal By Sudarsan Raghavan and Daniel Rubin Knight Ridder Newspapers HEBRON, West Bank - The Israeli military said Monday it could remain in Hebron for several days to search for an estimated 300 suspected Islamic terrorists, despite U.S. opposition to the incursion, which killed nine Palestinians and wounded about 20. The latest disagreement over Israeli military activity came as British intelligence officials met with Palestinians in Ramallah to work out details of a U.S. proposal to end Israel’s month-long siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s compound. Under the deal, U.S. and British security officials would supervise the imprisonment of six Palestinians, five of whom are wanted in connection with the assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi, while Arafat would be freed to leave the compound.
The United State’s willingness to use its officials in security operations in the area marks a departure from a longstanding reluctance to get directly involved and put U.S. soldiers or other officials at risk. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the exact mechanics for incarcerating the Palestinian suspects now penned up in Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah were still being worked out. Boucher said that the U.S. and British security experts would not have direct responsibility for guarding the suspects, but that they would be monitors whose main task would be ensuring that the men were not released by the Palestinian Authority. “It’s basically a monitoring function, a supervisory, supplemental warden-type system where there are people from the U.K. (United Kingdom) and U.S. who will be present to make sure that the incarceration is maintained,” Boucher said. Officials in Arafat’s office said the Palestinian leader could be allowed to leave his Ramallah headquarters within a couple of days. Israel’s Defense Minister Benjamin BenEliezer said that Israeli troops surrounding Arafat’s compound would pull out later this week. Despite the deal to free Arafat, Israel’s continued military operation appeared far from over. “We are only in the beginning
of the mission,” said Col. Moshe Hager Lau, deputy field commander of the Israeli forces that pushed into the Palestinian sections of Hebron following a weekend attack at the nearby Jewish settlement of Adora that killed four people, including a 5-year-old girl. “We will continue until we finish off the list of all those that we want,” Lau said. Abdulaziz Rantiesie, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said that one of the men the Israelis killed in Hebron, Tarek al-Dufashi, was a mastermind of Saturday’s attack on Adora. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack. Boucher said the United States opposed the Israeli action and called on Sharon to complete the withdrawals of Israeli troops from all of the Palestinian-ruled areas of the West Bank that they had assaulted. On Monday, columns of Israeli tanks roared past gutted cars and a mangled electricity tower, snaking through the eerily quiet streets of Hebron, where a 24-hour curfew was imposed. Israeli soldiers guarded mosques and occupied Palestinian Authority office buildings, conducted doorto-door searches for militants and surrounded a hospital where 15 Palestinian gunmen were allegedly holed up. Palestinians said they did not resist the Israeli incursion in order to avoid
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Students fight for immigrants’ rights nMOVEMENT: Campus community joins a national union to push for a “living wage” for blue-collar By Kim Vo
Knight Ridder Newspapers A conversation with her dormitory housekeeper sparked Meghana Reddy’s passion for the labor movement. The housekeeper told Reddy that her children were vegetarians because the family was too poor to buy meat. The disparity between stately Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and the lifestyle of those who maintain it jarred Reddy, a doctor’s daughter who is now a leader among an influential group of student activists. The students in the Stanford Labor Action Coalition are working with a national union to pressure Stanford to improve the lot of janitors, cooks, maintenance workers and other bluecollar employees who work on campus, some for as little as $8.50 an hour, less than $18,000 a year. The student-union alliance to push for better pay a “living wage” and to protect university employees from being replaced by subcontractors reflects a national trend occurring at campuses such as the University of California, San Diego; Louisiana State, and Harvard. Jose Alavez is grateful for the trend. The Stanford Hospital housekeeper, who earns $12.72 an hour, or $26,500 a year, fears he will be replaced by a lower-paid subcontractor. Alavez lives alone in Redwood City, Calif., and says his co-workers, family men, are even more anxious. “They are worried because they don’t see any future,” he said. They tried to impress their concerns on hospital administrators, Alavez said, but didn’t get far. SLAC, however, was able to secure a meeting with President John Hennessy to relay the workers’ concerns and press for policy changes. “In the end, students have more say than workers do,” said Molly Goldberg, a freshman who handles the group’s publicity. “Without students, workers aren’t getting much of a voice.” Unions know that and have been
fostering relationships with students across the nation, offering jobs, internships and hosting summer camps for would-be labor activists. In each other, they have found ideal partners. Students have latched onto a cause that addresses poverty and immigrants’ rights issues. And unions have discovered a group of eager volunteers who can gain publicity and access to the president’s office. “Students bring moral outrage and clarity,” said Stephen Lerner, a division director of the national Service Employees International Union, which has 1.5 million members. “And universities have a different relationship with students. Students are who they’re catering to.” For the past year, SLAC’s 30 members and many supporters have been a constant presence on campus, including rallies at Parents Weekend and Community Day, and a hospital sit-in that led to six arrests. “I think they have done a very important job in raising the issues,” said Chris Christofferson, Stanford’s manager of facilities and operations. “Just as I think we have done something very significant responding to it.” Stanford administrators argue they pay competitive wages and that subcontracting is fiscally prudent. There also are concerns that, by ignoring economics and focusing only on social justice, some of the students’ proposals are “naive and unreasonable.” But no one is denying the group has political pull. One of SLAC’s former members, who was arrested in November’s hospital protest, was just elected as next year’s student body president. Working with the SEIU, which represents a quarter of Stanford workers, SLAC inspired the university to adopt a “living wage.” Stanford now requires its major subcontractors to pay their employees at least $10.10 per hour with medical benefits and $11.35 without benefits. It’s the same living wage set by the San Jose City Council. “This would not have been an issue if SLAC had not raised it as such,” said Eduardo Capulong, a Stanford law school lecturer who informally advises the group. Now, SLAC is pushing Stanford to expand its living wage policy to every employee and raise the rates, perhaps to $11.75 or $14 per hour. No one’s arguing that $14 per hour, $29,000 a year, guarantees much of
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a living on the Peninsula, where the average home sells for $650,000 and some Stanford professors can’t even afford houses, but it’s a substantial increase for some workers. Nationwide, living wage campaigns have slowly built momentum on college campuses, often evolving from the anti-sweatshop campaigns of the mid-1990s. Unions reminded students that while they fought for overseas textile workers, many on their own campuses earned low salaries. “The labor movement is trying to refocus itself as the civil rights movement of the century,” said Gary Chaison, an industrial relations expert at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. Students are “seeing unions not as special-interest groups but as broader voices for working men and women.” The campaigns have met mixed results. The most notable success story is Harvard, where a three-week sit-in and national publicity prompted administrators to agree that janitors’ salaries will gradually rise to $14 per hour and that 60 percent of the janitorial staff be hired full-time. Harvard students and union members are now on a national tour to galvanize living wage campaigns at other universities. Most campaigns have hatched only committees to study the issue, Chaison said. With its living wage policy for subcontractors, Stanford has done far more. The reaction to Stanford’s policy, though, underscores a key obstacle in the campaign. The administration called it historic, and said it could cost Stanford up to $2 million a year. Students complained that Stanford could afford to do more, without cutting programs or raising fees, including the $35,884 tuition and board. “These costs are real. The laws of economics have not been suspended,” Stanford’s Christofferson said. “I admire that the students feel passionately about this, but what we’ve done is an extraordinary thing.” Students argue that the policy affects only 100 nonunionized subcontractors and should apply to all of Stanford’s 8,000 employees and an unknown number of subcontractors. How would Stanford pay for that? “You’ve got to figure out where the money comes from. That’s your job,” Reddy tells the administration. “But we’re going to keep putting on the pressure. We’re talking about a fundamental issue: survival.”
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The Daily Titan Our Voice LA riot had a lasting impact Ten years ago the City of Angels burned. College freshmen, including those at Cal State Fullerton, may have only been 8 or 9 years old when it occurred. To understand the depth of the L.A. riots at the age of 8 or 9 is to understand trigonometry in elementary school. With the event’s re-emergence in multiple retrospectives for the anniversary, we can gain some perspective on where L.A. and the rest of the world stands in race relations 10 years later. Is the chance for another riot rare? Have race relations in the United States improved in last decade? CNN asked the latter question for an Internet poll, and 60 percent of those who responded said yes, relations have improved. That leaves 40 percent who think we still have a long walk ahead. That is 40 percent more than there should be. The riot ensued after four police officers were acquitted of any wrong doing in the beating of Rodney King. After three days and three nights of L.A. unrest, over 50 people had been killed and more than 2,000 were injured including Reginald Denny who was dragged from his semitruck and beaten bloody while TV cameras in helicopters watched.
We watched. And now the City of Los Angeles has another situation brewing with some people claiming LAPD Chief Bernard Parks was refused a second term in office because he is black. Former-LAPD Chief Daryl Gates – the same Gates who led the LAPD during the riots – said he plans to submit his application for the vacant position. “…the Los Angeles Police Department was beaten over and over and over again, called all kinds of things,” Gates said. Beaten – an interesting choice since the word rings of so much more relating to the riots. “And when I look back, I really believe – and I think anyone who would look at the Los Angeles Police Department in those days would say – it was the best police department in the world. We had one incident. We had the Rodney King incident,” he said. One incident doesn’t spawn a fiery fatal riot, it’s the result of built up frustrations from many events. Could a riot happen again? Signs point to yes and it will turn into a neon flashing sign if Gates were to ever hold the post of LAPD chief again.
Sept 11. spawned silence By Michael Del Muro Special to the Titan
It’s been more than eight months since that fateful September morning when Americans experienced for the first time the senseless killings of a few thousand people. And Americans remain scared – scared to say what they really feel. Sept. 11 caused more than destruction to the World Trade Centers and serious damage to the Pentagon. Sept. 11 caused the disembowelment of American courage to speak one’s mind. That, in turn, has caused more horror and devastation throughout this country and the world. It’s time that we, as Americans, start protesting American actions, and start blaming the real culprit for the American hatred felt by many throughout the world and resulted in that fateful Tuesday morning – ourselves. It’s well known throughout the world (except in the United States) that the world’s most vicious terrorists are not Arabs, members of al-Queda or Osama bin Laden. The world’s most infamous terrorist at any given moment is whoever sits in the Oval Office at the White House – whether it is Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton or George W Bush. In Iraq, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of innocent men, women and children have died and continue to die because of American sanctions designed specifically to kill innocents. After the Gulf War, the first Bush implemented sanctions that cut off chlorine, something Iraqis desperately needed to purify their water. American officials knew this would cause massive sickness and violent, inhumane death, but didn’t care. They felt that if
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memories. And each instance of U.S. terrorism taken individually is greater than 100 Sept. 11s combined The days of silence are over and we need to stop this senseless killing and attempt peace. We must admit our faults and attempt to change them.
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enough civilians died, the remainder would rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Needless to say, it didn’t happen. In 1998, after two U.S. Embassies were bombed in Africa, Clinton ordered the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan. He claimed it was a biological weapons plant – it wasn’t. Hundreds died in the attack. And millions of others have died as a result of the lack of medication. Clinton, under the urging of Al Gore, sent U.S. “peacekeepers” to Yugoslavia, in order to bring about “peace” in the region. The way to do it, they decided, was to bomb the hell out of the city, killing soldiers and civilians alike. And if I’m not mistaken, there is still no peace in Yugoslavia. After months of the so-called “War on Terrorism,” more civilian Afghans were murdered than the whole of those who died on Sept. 11. Plus, the language George W. used to perpetrate the war on terrorism has allowed Israel’s leaders to use all means available in order to eradicate the Palestinians. And their Machiavellian military philosophy, which mirrors the American policy (and ironically bin Laden’s policy) has allowed for the murder of thousands of innocent Palestinians who have already been robbed of their lands and are kept in extreme oppression. I have sympathy for those who were murdered on Sept. 11. But because one life is equal to another, no matter who they are or where they live, I have an equal amount of sympathy for those innocent Afghans who died since the war in Afghanistan commenced. I can go on for hours about all the governmentsponsored terrorism this country has committed over the years, but these few are still fresh in most
People driving on the freeway in the fast lane going approximately 75 mph, looking for something on the floor of their car, swerving all over the lane, speeding up and slowing down...that really irks me! Tuesday at about 10:30 a.m. on my way to school, I was driving in the fast lane behind a woman who slowed down. I noticed her head popping up and down, as if she was searching for something in her car. This went on for about two minutes, which seems like an eternity when a person is driving fast on the freeway. She needed to have her license
taken away immediately! Maybe the rules on driving have changed without my knowledge. How can people do such stupid things while driving? When a person drives, they are supposed to pay attention to their driving. Not eat a hamburger and fries. Not search for something on the floor of their vehicle. Not put on lipstick or mascara. Not look in the backseat to talk to people. These things should not be done, especially on the freeway where people are usually driving at drastic speeds. The 2001 report from the California Highway Patrol for car accidents in the state said there were 6,145 fatal accidents.
Not paying attention caused 249 – such as playing with the radio, which caused six. Cell phone use and attending to children both caused three each. Accidents that involved injuries totaled 396,730. Of those, 26,127 were due to inattention. Cell phone use came out on the top with 402, playing with the radio or CD player at 275, eating 102 and attending to children 143. Notice how drivers that do things like this drive in the fast lane, slow everyone down and switch lanes without even paying attention, causing others to step on their brakes. They are potentially causing accidents. They don’t even notice when they cut someone off.
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After driving behind the woman, I switched lanes and passed her up. I glanced in my rearview mirror and I saw her spin out all over the freeway as she went from the fast lane all the way to the third lane. She probably started looking for something in her car again and wasn’t paying attention to her driving, which caused her to lose control of her vehicle. She caused others danger because she didn’t know, or maybe didn’t want to know, what her priorities were while driving. Knowing that others could have been badly hurt made me sad, but also relieved. Relieved because if I would have stayed behind her for only 30 seconds more I could have been hurt too.
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Titans enjoy a near-perfect week-
nSOFTBALL: Fullerton is dominant on both offense and defense as they rebound from a record-ending loss at Pacific with a series sweep of UC Riverside at home By Brian Thatcher
Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor
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Titan ace Gina Oaks pitches earlier in the season at Fullerton’s Kia Klassic, this weekend she was a hit and an error away from a perfect game against UCR.
Coming off a series in which the Cal State Fullerton softball team scored just four runs and dropped two of three games to the Pacific Tigers, the coaching staff tinkered with the top of the lineup to improve the team’s offensive output. It worked. The No. 9 Titans took out their pent-up aggression on the hapless Highlanders of UC Riverside, sweeping the three-game series by a combined score of 31-0. “We took two steps backwards last week to take a whole bunch of steps forward,” Titan coach Michelle Gromacki said. Fullerton (44-11 overall, 16-2 in Big West) had won 32 straight games prior to the Pacific series. Something that didn’t need improvement was the Titans pitching staff. Fullerton’s starting three combined to allow just one hit in the three games. Senior Christy Robitaille (10-3) and junior Jodie Cox (15-4) both pitched no-hitters in their starts and junior Gina Oaks (18-3) took a perfect game into the top of the fifth before UCR got their lone hit. It was announced Monday that Robitaille picked up Big West Pitcher of the Week honors for the first time this season on the strength of her performance. Oaks, who has picked up the pitching honors four times
this season, was awarded Big West Player of the Week honors as well. Oaks went 4-for-6 (.667) last week with six runs scored, four RBI and three walks. She went deep twice, with the first tying the single-season team home run record of 54, set in 1999. Fullerton went on to shatter the record by slugging five home runs on the weekend to give them a season total of 58. For Robitaille, the 13-0 win, which came on senior day, was her first career no-hitter. The game, which was the last regular season game for the Titans, could also be the last time Robitaille pitches at the Titan Softball Complex. Robitaille could suit up at home again if the Titans are selected to host an NCAA regional at the end of the season. Even though it was a milestone for the hurler, Robitaille had mixed feelings about the occasion. “It felt good, but it was very emotional,” Robitaille said. “You just know that one day it’s all going to be over and it can be a little overwhelming when that day actually comes.” Fullerton gave her a comfortable cushion with a four-run first and an eight-run third and they added a final insurance run in the bottom of the fourth. Robitaille, who walked only two Highlanders on the day, struck out eight. “It is expected of our staff to put us in a position to win every game,” Gromacki
said. In game one Saturday, CSUF sent as many batters to the plate in the first inning, 17, as the Highlanders had all day. Fullerton saw 11 of them score to give Oaks all the offense she would need as she won 12-0. Oaks struck out nine and didn’t allow a walk. The second game of Saturday’s doubleheader saw Cox throw her fifth career nohitter, and the second in as many starts to pick up the win, 6-0. The Titans gave Cox three runs in the bottom of the first highlighted by a two-run triple from senior Yasmin Mossadeghi and three runs in the bottom of the second. CSUF also got an idea where they stand against the rest of the West region as the NCAA released its first Division I women’s softball biweekly regional poll last week. Fullerton was placed at the top of the West region ahead of Fresno State (41-14) and Pacific (36-13). The Titans have two more Big West series remaining this season, against UC Santa Barbara this weekend and against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo the following weekend. Neither of the schools are the high quality team Fullerton will face in the postseason. Even so, Gromacki doesn’t want the Titans to treat the games as merely preparation. “We don’t tune up,” she said. “If we do
Not the series they had hoped nBASEBALL: Titans fall out of first place in the Big West after being swept in three games by Northridge
COMING SOON The 2002 Cal State Fullerton baseball team will again host a free clinic for the Challenger Little League of Yorba Linda. The event will be begin at 5:30 p.m. May 1, at Goodwin Field and will conclude with a pizza party for the players and youngsters. The clinic for the physically challenged youngsters has become an annual tradition for the Titan program. Children and their parents are hosted on the field by the entire roster of players and coaches. The Little Leaguers have become some of the collegians' most loyal fans over the years. Assistant Coach Rick Vanderhook coordinates the program for the Titans.
By Ricardo Sanchez, Jr. Daily Titan Staff Writer
Titan assistant coach Dave Serrano made the reason why his team fell to the No. 16 Cal State Northridge Matadors very clear. “Every aspect of the game you can break down, they outplayed us in,” he said. And just the way the No. 18 Cal State Fullerton baseball team swept their way into first place a week ago, they were swept out. The Matadors took a threegame series at Goodwin Field over the weekend, 2-1, 8-6 and 12-7, dropping the Titans to a 29-15 record and 10-5 in conference play. The season opening series against Stanford in 2000 was the only other time the Titans have been swept in George Horton’s five-plus years as head coach. Long Beach State was the last team to sweep the Titans at Goodwin Field in 1993. Leading Cal State Northridge by one game going into the series, the Titans now find themselves two games back of the Matadors, who hold sole possession of first place in the Big West. The clash between these two top 25 programs fizzled out in Sunday’s 12-3 sleeper, but the first two games lived up to the hype. After a pitchers’ duel in Friday night’s game against Wes Littleton and Bill Murphy Saturday, the drama unfolded with two would-be comebacks
Titan first baseman Richie Burgos looks to pick off the Cal State Northridge runner at Goodwin Field that fueled the crowd. in Saturday’s game. Geoff Comfort “Last year we went into Miami, Down 4-0 in the bottom of the went 3-4 and spanked a three-run swept them, outplayed them…and eighth, the Titans reeled off four- home run, breaking the drought. they went on to win the National straight runs to tie the game. But In both close games, there were Championship,” Serrano said. “So the Matadors scored four more, many opportunities the Titans failed this team will realize…what just including Jason Allec’s three-run to capitalize on. Yet the Matadors happened to us, and we’ll get on home run in the tenth off closer would not let their chances slip track and do the work that we need Chad Cordero. away. to do.” This forced the Titans to stage “They took advantage of our That is a positive way of looking yet another comeback attempt in mistakes. We weren’t as good at the losses since CSUF will face the bottom of the inning only to offensively and they out played most of the top teams in the confercome up short. us,” Horton said. ence in the upcoming weeks. Shane Costa saw his 22-game The first-place Matadors, who “Our next four weekends are cruhitting streak, the longest by a Titan have won seven consecutive games, cial to the success of this team and in three years, end on Friday night. improved to 32-13 overall and 12-3 the rest of the season,” Serrano said. After Jason Corapci’s home run in conference play. “We got kicked. We got knocked in the bottom of the first in the Serrano tried finding a “silver down. It’s just a matter of us seeseries opener, the Titans were shut lining” to the series, comparing ing that this team gets off the mat out for 15 consecutive scoreless this sweep to the Titans’ sweep of and bounces back next week with innings before the four run spurt Miami last season. a win.”
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Friday. Next weekend doesn’t get any easier. The Titans face UC Irvine on the road. The Anteaters, who swept the Long Beach State 49ers over the weekend, will have no sympathy as they look to increase their half-game lead over the third place Titans. “Northridge doesn’t feel sorry for us and the other teams in the league don’t feel sorry for us, so we can’t feel sorry for ourselves,” Serrano said. Seems like some of the Titans aren’t too worried. “[The sweep] is not going to hurt us,” Costa said. “We’ll be back on it. We’ll be all right.”
NEXT UP FOR THE TITANS The Titans face another challenge next weekend when they travel to second-place UC Irvine for a three-game Big West Conference series. The Anteaters, who have resurrected their program after a nine-year hiatus, swept Long Beach State over the weekend to move a half-game ahead of Fullerton in the standings. In their Division I history, the Titans are 50-11 against the Anteaters. Fullerton has won its last 12 three-game series against Irvine. – Information courtesy of CSUF Athletic Media Relations
Individuals stand out at
nTRACK: Edmund Pula, Jennifer Clarke, Sean Shull and the men’s 4x100 relay team boast a strong performance at the two-day meet in San
By Katie Cumper
Daily Titan Photo Editor The last the thing the UCLA men’s 4x100 sprinters saw on the track Saturday was the first thing in front of them as they crossed the finish line in second place. At UC San Diego, Cal State Fullerton sprinters Nicolas McCullom, Fred Williams, Derek Brown and Brandon Campbell combined times of 40.51, equaled a first-place finish over the Bruins and UC Irvine – yet their pace was not enough to rival their school record performance last week at Mt. SAC. “It was by no means our best time,” assistant coach Ron Kamaka said. “It was at least 4/10 of a second slower. What we failed to do successfully is to properly make a clean exchange. I suspect we will
have a much better time at the Steve Cook Invitational this weekend.” Williams produced a season best in the 100 meters at the meet with a time of 10.72. He tied for second in the race with unattached runner Babatunded Ridley. Paul Felix of USC clocked the fastest time with a 10.52. Williams also placed third overall in the 200 with his time of 21.67. Not his fastest time this year, “but a good race for him,” Kamaka said. Campbell took second in the high jump with his backward leap of 6 feet 10 inches. During Saturday’s invitational, pole-vaulter Valerie Biggs met the 11-foot standard to compete at the Big West Conference this season, alongside teammate Jennifer Clarke. Biggs mark of 11 1/4 is the highest
this season for the Titan women pole-vaulters. In the men’s discus, Randy Billingsley had a season and lifetime best throw of 143.5. Sophomore Sean Shull also came away with a season best in the discus with a 139.7. Edmund Pula competed Friday in the hammer for the Titans and managed a seventh place position with his 181.9 throw. Men and women long and triple jumpers took the week off and did not compete in the UCSD Invitational. On May 5, CSUF’s track team will ride the bus to UCI to compete in the Steve Scott Invitational. The all-day event begins at 9 a.m. with the throwing events.
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Fred Williams runs in the 100-meter dash at Mt. San Antonio College earlier this season.