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nFINANCE: The ASI Board is still in deliberations to pass the final draft, which has been postponed By Theresa Salinas
Daily Titan Staff Writer‑ The Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors approved the $4.4 million Titan Student Union operating budget Tuesday, bringing the document one step closer to final approval. The TSU Governing Board and the ASI Finance Committee also have reviewed the 2002-03 budget. It will be forwarded to university officials, then to the Chancellor’s Office for final consideration. Cal State Fullerton students pay an $84 TSU fee and a $20 recreation fee each semester. The fees are collected and used the following fiscal year for bond repayments, maintenance, construction, operating expenses and reserves. “Students TSU Director Kurt Borsting said the TSU will receive about need places $4.4 million in 2002-03 to cover operating costs. Funding comes from 13 different areas, where they including $2.9 million in fees, $607,647 from Rec Sports and can take $4,210 from Mainframe. “The TSU is very financially sound right now,” Borsting a break ... said. The TSU will spend the $4.4 There’s not million on 16 categories, which include administration, building engineering, public relations too many on and graphic services. The biggest disbursement, campus. ” 22 percent of the total budget, goes to “general services.” The TSU will spend an estimated Christina $997,958 on general services, including $369,930 on utilities; Gonzalez, $586,407 on contracts, fees and rentals; $16,781 on insurance; and $11,477 on printing and advertising. The Art Gallery gets the smallest allotment – about $25,320 or .005 percent of the total budget. Expenses include $13,000 for part-time employee salaries; $5,500 for contracts, fees and rentals; and $3,825 for printing and advertising. Student Christina Gonzalez said she thinks the university should focus on small operations, like the gallery and Mainframe instead of pumping thousands of dollars into salaries and marketing. “Students need places where they can take a break,” she said. “There’s not too many on campus.” In other business, the board postponed the final phase of ASI budget deliberations for one week because Adnan Raza, ASI vice president of finance, was absent. Raza is familiar with the proposed budget and with issues that could surface during deliberations, board chair Christina Machado said. “It would be best to wait until next week so that we can get his input and he can guide us through the process,” Machado said. The board also passed a resolution opposing recent revisions to CSU Executive Order 792. The order allows
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Internet radio silenced for a day nPROTEST: To boycott paying royalties, online stations in the United States are remaining quiet By Esmeralda Sosa
Daily Titan Staff Writer Those who tune in to their favorite Internet radio station expecting to hear music today, will only get silence. Internet radio stations throughout the United States will remain silent in a stand against the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), which is recommending to impose a royalty rate to Internet-only Webcasters or Internet radio stations. On Feb. 20, CARP presented a report with recommendations to the Library of Congress imposing a royalty rate of onefourteenth of a cent per song, per listener, to all Internet radio stations to pay record
companies. Wayne Overbeck, professor of communications law, said that $1.40 per 1,000 listeners per song has to be paid retroactive to 1998. To show disapproval for this proposal, Internet radio stations will remain silent on Wednesday in order “to prove and show what life would be without Internet Radio,” said David Landis, founder of Ultimate-80s Internet radio station. Landis said that terrestrial radio has never paid royalties to record companies because radio is considered free promotion for them. Even with this proposal, the rate that terrestrial radio will have to pay is only half of what Internet radio stations will be forced to pay. Ultimate-
80s will be one of the many Internet radio stations that will be affected by the proposed rate. In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which is a law that gave record companies the right to collect royalties for the copyrighted works that were played by digital media. It also included Internet radio stations and satellite radio. Titan Internet Radio, although it is a college station, also will have to pay royalty fees in order to continue Webcasting. It also will have to pay the retroactive royalty fees. “We will be paying or we will be sued,” Overbeck said. Daniel “Rocky” Millhouse, a TIR DJ for the rock show “Noise Pollution,” said that to his knowledge TIR would not be participating in the silent protest. AM/FM stations also have to pay
royalties to companies such as ACAP and BMI. “They are two agencies that collect money from radio stations, or anyone that plays music to pay the composer, not to the record companies,” Overbeck said. The royalty rate was not determined until last February when CARP recommended one-fourteenth of a cent per song, per listener. The Library of Congress has until May 21 to review, accept or reject the proposed rate. It also can increase, lower or keep the rate the same. Until then, the future of Internet radio stations depends on whether they have the money to pay the rate being imposed. Even if the rate were raised, the majority of Internet radio stations, including TIR would be able to pay the rate.
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nFINE: People must begin walking across the street within five seconds or they can receive a violation By Scott Leeds
Daily Titan Staff Writer Timing is everything. Students have five seconds before they may receive a citation, and walking through the crosswalk too late may equal a ticket. According to California vehicle code section 21456 (a), a pedestrian facing the signal may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal as long as the “WALK” symbol is showing. The diagonal crosswalk at the corner of Nutwood and Commonwealth
avenues allows pedestrians five seconds to “proceed across the roadway.” If they do not enter the crosswalk in time, according to this law, they could receive a citation. “I always make it in time,” said Steven Dang, an information system decision science major. “I think the time is sufficient.” Preventing a citation is all about doing the math. The amount of time allotted to enter the crosswalk is determined by the distance pedestrians have to travel the intersection divided by four feet per second (an average pedestrian walking speed), said Dave Lagstaff, assistant traffic engineer for the City of Fullerton. He also said that in a city like New York, where there could be up to 50 pedestrians trying to cross the roadway, city engineers would allow more time to enter a crosswalk. Lagstaff added that there is suf-
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ficient time at this crosswalk based on the surveys done by the city engineers. “I think that would kind of suck if you had crutches or if you’re in a wheelchair or something like that,” said Karen Palacio, a communications major. “It’s not posted anywhere to tell you that, so they should make a posting if they’re going to do that.” The second part of the vehicle code states that no pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of the signal, while the “WAIT” or “DON’T WALK” symbol is flashing or steady. The violation’s minimum fine is $77, but it may vary due to how many citations a person might have received over the past three years. Additional citations add more money to the minimum fine, according to the North County Court in Fullerton. It also
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BRIEFS Chronic illness management classes offered The Fullerton Senior MultiService Center is offering a sixweek course to teach those suffering from chronic illnesses how to live fuller, happier lives, beginning May 8. The course is for people suffering from illnesses like diabetes, arthritis, heart disease and respiratory problems and is designed to help people manage and control the symptoms and conditions of their diseases, allowing them to live normal lives. Topics to be covered during the course will include working with doctors, relaxation techniques, personalizing a fitness program, setting weekly goals, effective problemsolving and other life-enhancing solutions. The classes are at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and free to the public and open to anyone with a chronic disease as well as friends and relatives who help care for people with chronic illnesses. Pre-registration is required and people needing special accommodations to attend the class are asked to notify the center staff in advance. For more information on the course, call (714) 783-6305.
Brea to host Western Fine Arts Festival As part of Brea Downtown’s monthlong salute to the culture of the American West, the Western Fine Arts Festival will be presented on May 4 and 5. Taking place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the event will feature 90 artists and craftsmen from Arizona, Nevada and California. All artwork exhibited at the outdoor show will be original, one-of-akind works created by the artist with nothing manufactured, imported or
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Volunteers sought for Memorial Day preparations The City of Fullerton is seeking volunteers to participate in placing nearly 3,000 crosses and flags at the graves of veterans at Loma Vista Memorial Park in preparation for the 64th Annual Fullerton Memorial Day Observance on May 27. Volunteers are needed at 8:30 a.m. on May 25 to place a small cross and American flag at the grave of each veteran buried at the park and on May 28 to remove the flags and place them in storage. This year’s Memorial Day program, sponsored by the non-profit American Veterans Memorial Association and the City of Fullerton, will feature a special salute to nurses in the military. The event’s special guest speaker will be Brig. Gen. William T. Bester, chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and deputy chief of staff for operations, health policy and services at the Pentagon. For more information about the event or on how to volunteer, contact the City of Fullerton Public Information Office at (714) 7386317.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS CA LEN D AR O F EVENTS Community Jose Hernandez presents “The Nation’s Premier Mariachi, Sol de Mexico,” for a Cinco de Mayo celebration, May 3 at 8 p.m. at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. Ticket prices are $45 and $50. To order tickets, call (562) 9449801 or (714) 994-6310. The second annual “Taste of the Bowl,” features a free daylong event with live entertainment and gourmet food, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl. For information about this event or Hollywood Bowl 2002 concerts, call (323) 850-2000. The Grand Central Art Gallery in Santa Ana presents the internationally recognized artist Charles Krafft in an exhibit that consists of more than 100 works, May 4 through July 7. For more information, call (714) 567-7233 or (714) 567-7234. The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man,” in Segerstrom Hall through 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 Theatre Ballet presents “Goldilock’s Adventure” at 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 South Coast Repertory presents the play “Getting Frankie Married and Afterwards,” through May 5 in Costa Mesa. Tickets prices are $23 and up. For more information, call (714) 708-5555. 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) 897-5122. The Getty Museum will have an exhibition focusing on the work of a 17th century Holland painter through July 7. Admission is free. Parking is $5 per car. For more information, call (310) 440-7360. The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach will host the exhibition “Situaciones Humanas/ Human Conditions” by Dominican artist Jose Garcia Cordero through July 21. Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for seniors and students. Admission is free on Fridays. For more information, call (562) 4371689. The Old Courthouse Museum in Santa Ana hosts an exhibit called “Audubon of the West,” through May 6. Admission is free. For more information, call (714) 834-4691. Spring ESL classes will be offered at the Brea Community Center between April 8 and June 26. Morning sessions will be from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and evening sessions will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Registration is
required. For more information, call (714) 990-7150.
Campus The Department of Music presents “The Mikado,” May 2 through May 5 in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $13 for general admission and $7 with advance Titan discount. For more information, call (714) 278-3371. The Arboretum will have a gardening class for children ages 3-5, May 4 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Parent participation is required and the fee is $3 per child. For more information, call (714) 278-3579. The Arboretum will have a workshop called “Mrs. P’s Pressed Flowers Workshop,” May 4 at noon. The fee is $30 and includes all materials. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (714) 278-3579. The Department of Music presents Hee Jeong Gweon, a graduate recital, May 3 in Thorsen Hall at 8 p.m. For more information, call (714) 278-3371. 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) 2782468. 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 UH205. For more information, call (714) 278-3889. The Department of Music presents a “Chamber Music
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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) 278-3371. The Department of Theatre and Dance presents the musical “Grease,” through May 5 in the Little Theatre. Tickets are available at the CSUF Performing Arts Center box office. Tickets are $16 for general admission and $13 with Titan discount. All tickets are $16 at the door. For more information, call (714) 278-3371. The TSU Underground will host the “Women’s Bowling Singles,” through May 9 at 4 p.m. Games are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, call (714) 278-2144. 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 Student Diversity Program is looking for talented students for the upcoming talent show on May 1. Participants can win money. For more information, call (714) 278-7546. 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. This event is open for all faculty, staff and students and the cost per week is $9. For more information, call (714) 278-2144.
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Falun Gong shares ancient knowledge nORGANIZATION: The forbidden spiritual movements from China relax students and bring inner peace By Veronica Hagey
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Bright yellow pinwheels spun in the wind atop the pictorial review brought to Cal State Fullerton by the Falun Gong club this week. Alice Li, the club’s president, said Falun Gong, also referred to as Falun Dafa, is a body, mind and spiritual movement that came from ancient China. “For me, it purifies my mind and improves my health,” Li said. “I want to use the club to expose the campus to compassion, truthfulness and tolerance to the club.” Li said those three characteristics are what the club is all about. The Falun Gong emblem is a combination of a T’ai Chi symbol and a swastika. The swastika has no association with World War II according to the Falun Gong pictorial, the symbol dates back more than 2,500 years and symbolizes good fortune. Yan Zou, an electrical engineering
graduate student at CSUF, also is a club member. “I practiced on my own, but then I met some club members when they were practicing at a park and I’ve been in the club since last year,” Zou said. The group has only been at the campus for one year. Li founded the club and said followers of Falun Gong hear about it through word-of-mouth. “Usually friends tell friends or family teaches family,” Li said. “My dad introduced me to it.” More than 40 countries use the spiritual movement, Li said. However, people who practice Falun Gong in China are persecuted for it. Zou said her parents live in China and have to practice in the privacy of their home. “When I talk to my parents in China on the phone, we can’t talk about Falun Gong,” Zou said. Linda Slupski is a practitioner of Falun Gong in Los Angeles, but she also helps the club with its pictorial. She has literature on the practice of Falun Gong and the persecution of Falun Gong members. Slupski said she has trained in the practice for more than four years. She said the pictorial review is meant to bring the persecution to the public’s attention. “The people being persecuted maintain their tranquility even when being persecuted to death,” Slupski said. Slupski said she came to know about
Falun Gong through the Internet. She said she found it had everything for her, that it’s something that helps her be a better person. Although Slupski found Falun Gong through the Internet, she said she has found that e-mail sent to China containing information about the exercise never arrives. Slupski said there are blocks on any media containing Falun Gong information. The pictorial review shows the foundation of Falun Gong with text and also has diagrams of some of the movements used by practitioners. Protesters around the world also are pictured, from Sweden to Washington D.C. “Look at the protests, all are peaceful protests,” Li said. “But the number of persecutions have increased since 1999.” Li said that the Chinese government has passed legislation against Falun Gong, calling it a cultist organization. She added that Chunyan Teng, a clinic supervisor of Oriental medicine in New York, is currently being detained at the Beijing Police Bureau. She says Teng is in jail for exposing the Chinese government’s persecutions of Falun Gong practitioners to a western reporter. The Falun Gong club has many examples of the types of persecution going on in China and detailed information about the Falun Gong practice included in their pictorial review located at Titan Walk. The review continues through Friday. “I want to expose the evils from
Pakistani president seeks new By Ken Moritsugu
Knight Ridder Newspapers ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, seeking to give legitimacy to his determination to remain in power, secured five more years in office in a nationwide referendum Tuesday whose outcome was never in doubt. Opposition political parties questioned whether enough people voted to make the results meaningful, so the real battle was over turnout. Pakistan’s information minister, Nisar Memon, predicted a 30 percent turnout as polls closed. Opposition leaders said Musharraf should step down if he couldn’t do better than that. Earlier, they had predicted a turnout of around 5 percent. In early counts of those who did vote, Musharraf won the support of more than
95 percent. Final results from Pakistan’s 87,000 polling stations are not expected before Wednesday. Musharraf, a general who took power in a 1999 coup and declared himself president last year, called the referendum to try to legitimize his rule and extend it beyond parliamentary elections scheduled for October. Under the Pakistani Constitution, the national and provincial legislatures are supposed to select the president. The vote raised questions about Musharraf’s commitment to return Pakistan to civilian rule by October, as the Supreme Court ordered in 2000. Musharraf has implied that he will intervene if he thinks the new parliament is not doing a good job. Musharraf’s uncertain commitment to democracy presents the Bush administration with a dilemma.
The Pakistani strongman has made his country of 140 million people a key ally in the U.S.-led effort to root out al-Qaida and Taliban forces from neighboring Afghanistan. American aircraft have been flying out of Pakistan in support of the anti-terrorism operation and a small number of U.S. special forces have begun accompanying Pakistani troops seeking al-Qaida and Taliban fighters hiding on the Afghan border. But Bush also has made democracy a pillar of his foreign policy and a virtual condition for foreign aid. In Washington, State Department spokesman Phil Reeker said the United States expects Musharraf to go ahead with the October parliamentary elections. “Whatever the results of the referendum, we think that’s an important next step,” Reeker said. The referendum revealed the con-
flicted feelings of many Pakistanis about democracy after a long era of corrupt democratic governments. “I like democracy, but the democratic forces in Pakistan always work against the common man,” said Mohammed Ihsan, 26, a beauty shop owner who voted in favor of extending Musharraf’s rule. “Musharraf may be a dictator, but his policies are much better than any democratic government.” Mainstream political parties responded that the courts should deal with individual corruption cases, instead of the military abolishing the government. “A solution to the corruption does not lie in dictatorship,” said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for the Pakistan People’s Party. “I’m not saying there are no corrupt people among politicians. By the same token, there are corrupt people among the generals.”
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Drama depicted in relationnDISCUSSION: An hour-long role-playing lecture depicts the thoughts of a couple during an argument Jenn Stewart
Daily Titan Staff Writer In David and Sue’s marriage things usually run smoothly, until he requests that she stay home from his company’s‑upcoming Christmas party. When Sue realizes that Jill is going to be there, the accusations begin to fly. This role-play was part of a lecture given by David Shepard, professor of counseling and Sue Passalacqua, associate director of the women’s center. The noontime program, “What are Men Thinking,” was an hour-long glimpse into the mind of a married man. During the couple’s argument, Shepard would pause the role-play and tell the audience what was going on inside his mind, regardless of what he was telling his wife. Sponsored by the Women’s Center, the discussion attracted more than 20 women between the ages of 18 and
48. The performance commanded cheers and jeers from the vocal audience. The mock argument started out blandly enough; David merely wanted to attend the Christmas party without his wife. About this time, Shepard pauses the role-play and adds: “Let’s make this simple enough. Let’s hope I get away with what I want to get away with.” To justify his appeal, David tells his wife that the party is going to be “strictly business,” that the office is “cliquey” and he could “work the room better” without her. While he’s making up excuses as to why he is asking Sue to stay home, he skirts around the real reason as to why the lion wants out of his cage – Jill. Being the astute wife that she is, Sue finally catches on. When the fictional wife brings up her husband’s cute and overtly flirtatious co-worker, David takes the defense. “Right now [he’s] thinking, ‘she’s on to me,’” Shepard said. The audience roars with laughter as David tries to weave his way out of this tangled web, but it’s too late. Sue has the seed of jealousy already planted. As her psuedo-husband digs a deep grave for himself, Sue begins to ques-
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David Shepard and Sue Passalacqua “argue” during a role-play marriage for an audience during their lecture Tuesday.
tion his motives. “I want to know why you didn’t want me to go; I want you to be honest with me,” Sue said. While she begs for a little empathy, he grabs for anything that can save his sinking ship. And in a hope for appeasement, David settles on a half-truth. “I really did hope I could have fun with Jill in a really innocent way,” the sinking husband explains. This sets an already insecure Sue on a downward spiral and she begins to fear the worse – her husband is really having an extramarital affair. Although David is not having an affair, the fact that he has even considered having one implicates that he committed adultery in the eyes of many women. “The emotional affair is more
serious then the sexual,” said Janice Matheson, a child and adolescent studies major at Cal State Fullerton. Most of the women nodded in approval. “It’s worse if he is thinking about it, because he’s already crossed that line,” Matheson said. “He might as well sleep with her now.” At this point, David begins to panic. “How can I tell the truth, protect myself and not make her angry and upset with me?” Shepard explains David’s train of thought. “I depend on her psychologically.” At the end of the presentation it all comes down to communication. Men and women think differently, they communicate differently and they have different values. Simply explained, relationships
ST. PAUL, Minn. _ The sweater is 100 percent cotton, but the care label says to dry-clean. Should you follow instructions, or try to save yourself a costly dry-cleaning bill? Throwing that sweater in the washing machine is probably worth the risk: Studies show that up to 30 percent of garment-care labels are more conservative than necessary – meaning, the instructions say to dry-clean when the item would come through the wash without harm. That’s been the finding of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, in several tests of clothing-care instructions. The Federal Trade Commission requires clothing manufacturers to provide one method of safe care for a garment. But that makes some labels misleading. “Many of us in the testing end feel manufacturers are trying to protect themselves,” said Pat Slaven, a textiles expert for Consumers Union. If a consumer does not follow care-label instructions, the manufacturer is not responsible for damage. But Jane Rising of the International Fabricare Institute said consumers should assume manufacturers are providing what they believe to be the
best method of care. “I don’t think most consumers can recognize the difference between crepe silk and a standard plain-weave silk fabric,” said Rising, manager of training and instruction for the garment-cleaning industry’s trade group. Rising acknowledged that some labels just don’t make sense. A men’s 100 percent cotton dress shirt will probably say “machine wash warm, tumble dry low, cool iron if necessary.” “There’s nothing wrong with that label,” Rising said. “But would you wear that shirt? Probably not.” A recent amendment to the carelabel rule could eliminate some confusion by requiring that care instructions apply to the entire garment rather than to individual components. The IFI wants all care instructions to be tested before labels are written, but the government has not made that a requirement. In the coming months, you’ll likely find more care labels written in symbols, rather than words. The circles, squares and lines will take some getting used to, but the intent is to provide more detail. If you want to avoid dry cleaning, shop for washable fabrics. Even leather and suede now come in washable forms, and Slaven said they came out beautifully in tests.
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Shooting in Germany Women learn defenis reminder of Allaway sive techniques in nANALYSIS: Some CSUF students and faculty say Friday’s shootout stems from previous U.S. violence By Heather Hampton
Daily Titan Staff Writer Six months after he was expelled, 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser, dressed in black, walked onto the Johann Gutenberg High-School campus in Germany Friday and shot to death 13 teachers, two students, a police officer and then turned the gun on himself. According to Reuters news agency, Steinhaeuser was a loner who trained to become a marksman at two gun clubs. He never got the chance to retake a school-exit exam he failed because we was expelled from the school in October for forging an absentee note and not attending class. The school shooting has not only left those in Germany saddened but also has brought back memories of past school shootings in the United States as well. “On behalf of all Americans, I want to express our deepest sympathies to the families, friends, classmates and colleagues of the teachers and students who were senselessly murdered today,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Ron Paige in a statement Friday. Paige said that the tragic event is another sad reminder that the pain of youth violence knows no borders. “Tragedies such as these are precisely why we work with our colleagues worldwide to share best practices and research on how best to prevent and respond to violent incidents,” he said. According to data from the Justice Policy Institute, school-associated violent deaths and youth crime in the United States continues to decline. They have dropped by 72 percent
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stated that one extra violation adds $17 to the minimum fine. The Fullerton Police Department said pedestrians cannot enter the crosswalk while the “DON’T WALK” symbol is flashing or steady. They added that once a pedestrian is in the crosswalk within the allotted time, they have as much time
since 1992 from 2000, from 55 to 16. However, the data also showed that gunfire kills 16 children every two days in the United States, and 16 children die at the hands of their parents or guardians every three days. George M. Dery III, associate professor in criminal justice at Cal State Fullerton said Steinhaeuser’s reason for killing so many teachers is because the former student was upset with the school administration, and added that he had no idea what was going through Steinhaeuser’s mind. Dery said that the shooting has left him with three reactions; “fear, worry and disgust.” Dery said CSUF students should also be worried about gun violence on campus. “We should be concerned about violence in any setting,” he said. Patrick Channita, business administrations major at CSUF agrees. “With all the hot tempers flaring, especially with road rage and impatience, I think someone could get mad and go ‘looney’ no problem,” she said. Channita said he would still attend school if such a tragedy happened. CSUF had its share of gun violence when custodian Edward Allaway shot and killed seven people in the basement of the university library on July 12, 1976. According to the Crime Victims Bureau, Allaway phoned his estranged wife, reportedly telling her that it was his “last day to live.” He then drove to CSUF and parked near the library. He walked downstairs to the basement level carrying a .22caliber semiautomatic rifle and went on a shooting rampage. “I went berserk down at Cal State Fullerton and I committed a terrible act,” Allaway told police. Allaway pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. John Bendell, professor of sociology and acting director of the faculty department center said he remembered the 1976 incident. “His sister was our secretary. He
came to department events,” Bendell said. “He was always polite and well- mannered.” Bendell said he had no idea that Allaway would then murder seven of CSUF’s own faculty and staff. “It was a total surprise that this mild-seeming man could perpetrate such horror,”Bendell said. “You never know what might be going on in someone’s mind.” As for school shootings in general, Bendell said there may be underlying problems that lead to such violent crimes. “They have no frustration control,” Bendell said. “They have observed violence and have seen people get away with it, maybe even in their own homes. They feel deprived and seek their own view of justice. Some are just flat-out evil people.” Bendell said that Steinhaeuser had specific reasons for killing his victims in Germany Friday. “I see it as a view that he was poorly treated and deserved better,” he said. “This makes sense to him but obviously his methods were inappropriate.”
as they need to cross the street and vehicles have to yield the right-of-way to them. The Fullerton Police Department did not know how many tickets have been issued since the diagonal crosswalk had been put in. The Automobile Club of Southern California publishes safety rules for pedestrians. Some of its rules include, always using a crosswalk when it is available, but remember that the painted lines cannot stop cars. Other
guidelines state to use the “push” button when possible and cross with the “WALK” sign only, and wear or carry something white at night to help drivers see pedestrians. Besides looking both ways before crossing the street, pedestrians might want to make sure the “WALK” symbol is showing. “The time that is displayed is a misconception,” said Kalonji Saterfield a graduate student in communications. “The time shown makes you think that
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nPREVENTION: The program empowers female participants by showing them how to escape danger By Alma Castillo
Daily Titan Staff Writer Self-defense against an attacker is not the only aspect a woman will learn in a Cal State Fullertonhosted class for the next four Fridays. Women also will learn techniques on how to act or react when they encounter an offensive situation, such as rape or robbery. This will be the second year that the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) program will be conducted. “[It] is simply a great service, a program that allows women to get self-defense and to make them aware of the situations
that are dangerous,” said Kenna Schoenherr, a safety trainer for CSUF and an instructor of the RAD class. The class will be available to all women that would like to participate and learn how to defend themselves. “This program is to help a person become aware of their risk,” said Iris Cortés-Valle, an instructor of the RAD class and a police officer for CSUF. “It helps them not to become a victim,” she said. Any woman can attend the RAD class; they do not have to be strong in order to participate. The only aspects that will be considered are injuries or back problems. This class will teach selfdefense movements and what to say in an unpleasant situation. “This class teaches you vocal techniques and it also helps to keep you from panicking,” said Collen Wilkins, a former student of the RAD program and an environment health and safety
VIOLENCEfacts According to data from the Justice Policy Institute, school-associated violent deaths and youth crime in the United States continues to decline. They have dropped by 72 percent since 1992 from 2000, from 55 to 16. By comparison, the data showed that 16 children are killed by gunfire every two days in America, and 16 children die at the hands of their parents or guardians every three days in America.
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students to sit on academic appeals committees, but prohibits them from voting on grade changes. In the past, they were allowed to vote. The ASI resolution opposes the change and urges Chancellor Charles Reed to reconsider. “We feel that students should have the right to vote on an academic appeals board,” said Geoffrey Roberts, ASI director of administration. “This (revision) is not fair to the students in the Cal State system.”
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officer. Women who participate in RAD will have the opportunity to participate in a simulation attack at the end of the session. This will occur with the help of three police officers called, “The Red Men,” that will dress in red, padded suits, pretending to be attackers. “A simulation is to empower the student during an attack,” Cortés-Valle said. While doing the simulation, students will be filmed so they have the opportunity to watch themselves later. They also can choose not to be taped. At the end of the class, students will receive a certificate of completion from the RAD program. The cost of the class is $12.50 for students and faculty of CSUF — this is for the cost of the textbook. If anyone not attending CSUF wishes to take the course, the cost is $10. If a student wants to take the class anywhere else in the country, she can take it for
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Story By Brian Thatcher Photos Courtesy Thatcher Family
Ties that bind Wendy gazes at her birthday cake with amazement and anticipation.
While most pass his sister by without a second thought, Brian Thatcher has learned how great his special sibling is and the value of his family
“Retard.” To most people, this word is simply a punch line or a mean thing to call someone. But to me, it’s as dirty as a four-letter word because of my sister, Wendy. Being separated by a decade in age (Wendy is 33 years old while I am 23), I was not around for many of her formative years. In fact, for the majority of my life, I have not lived with Wendy under the same roof. Nonetheless, the bond between she and I is a special one. She was born with Rubella Syndrome. The disease, which occurs when a pregnant mother has Rubella, which is also known as German measles, meant that Wendy had a hole in her heart and cataracts on her eyes that would eventually cause her to lose one eye and be partially blind in the other. Her speech also was affected and Wendy still has never formed more than one or two words at a time. “We learned of her condition when we took her in for her two-week examination,” said our mother, Gail Thatcher. “When I found out that Wendy had a hole in her heart and could be blind, I felt like the whole world was falling in on top of me. They told us that any and all of her organs could be affected and that we wouldn’t know about problems until they arose.” Because of her condition, Wendy needed special assistance almost 24 hours a day. But with the extra care came extra rewards for all that were around her- especially her mother. “I had to do daily exercises with Wendy to strengthen her muscles so she could sit up,” Gail said. “The first time she sat up by herself, I burst into tears.” As she progressed in her learning, Wendy began attending schools that could help with her with her needs. Though unable to communicate through speech, like most children her age, Wendy demonstrated that she still was capable of comprehension and humor. “At age 3, Wendy attended a special school. Each day the teacher would tell Wendy to get her name tag and bring it to her.” Gail said. “Wendy would bring back anything but her nametag and hand it to her teacher with a giggle. After several times, the teacher would say firmly ‘no Wendy, you get the name tag,’ and it was then that she would.” But, as she got older, Wendy’s school was unable to accommodate someone with needs as great as hers. So after many conferences with doctors and experts in the field, it was decided that Wendy would need to be relocated
to Sonoma State Hospital so they could better meet her needs. It was a decision that my mom had a hard time accepting at first. “In the beginning, I wouldn’t agree to her moving there because it was a state hospital,” Gail said. “I had heard that they were cruel to the developmentally disabled patients in state hospitals. Wendy was in one hospital for four days and when I came to take her home, I saw her in a room in which the patients were basically unsupervised. Several years later, that particular hospital lost its accreditation for using cattle prods on some of its patients. After extensive research, my mother found that Sonoma didn’t group together all of its patients. Wendy would have some privacy and she would be able to enjoy a life similar to the one she had at home. “When I found out that Wendy would be living in a cottage on the grounds and she liked it there, I was able to accept it,” Gail said. Wendy adjusted well to Sonoma and generally visited home every other weekend. Our family knew it was right to move her to Sonoma. “When it was time to go Sonoma, I would tell Wendy that it was time to get ready,” Gail said. “No matter what she was doing, she would get right up in a chair and let me brush her hair without a fuss.” After a year of this, our family planned to move from Northern to Southern California. It wasn’t easy for Wendy, who had to be placed in a home. My mom contacted Regional Center, the state agency that provides and funds services for the developmentally disabled, and they began looking for a transfer. But because the transfer wouldn’t come for a year, Wendy was forced to be hundreds of miles away from her family. “It was terribly hard to be away from her,” Gail said. “But I had a very close friend who would visit her on weekends to make sure everything was okay, and I got to fly up occasionally.” After the transfer was approved, Wendy moved into a group home named Villa Woods with five other “clients.” It was here that Wendy finally got back to the family atmosphere that she grew up with and she began getting the individual attention that she needed to progress her learning. At the time of the move, Wendy age was beginning to pose a challenge and my mother knew that they were working against a deadline.
“I was told that if we didn’t reach W endy, at 6 m her by age 21, she would never be onths old, p oses for th able to learn,” Gail said. e camera. With the help of some of the staff at Villa Woods, Wendy proved the experts wrong when she began putting together simple puzzles at the age of 26. It was when she moved into Villa Woods that I began to develop my bond with Wendy. She moved in when I was 5 and I started going with my mom on weekend trips to see her. The favorite thing we would do is take Wendy to Jack in the Box to eat french fries. It became something of a tradition for the three of us. I loved seeing my sister laugh and giggle as she ate her fries as fast as we could put them on her napkin. But as a young child, I would let those feelings foster into anger. I became very sensitive when people merely said the word “retard.” When I was in sixth grade, a girl in my class called someone a retard and it took about 20 of our classmates to restrain me from attacking her. I have since come to understand that most people aren’t trying to be malicious or hurtful by using the word and I don’t have the same reaction when I hear it. And while the word still sounds filthy to me, for Gail, it means something entirely different. “Wendy almost didn’t qualify for services when she was young because I didn’t want to say she was retarded,” my mother said. “When you say someone is retarded, it’s like putting them in a box and saying that that is all they are going to be and that they can’t progress. But Wendy can’t be put in a box because she has proven that she can progress. She comes out of the box kicking and fighting.” Wendy has taught me so much about not settling for what you are supposed to be like. And she has done this without ever saying a word to me. Most of the time, I don’t even know if she watch recognizes who I am. nd Steve a y d n mile. e But what I do know is that underneath all of while W ob just s B p d la n ’s a m m Mo rs To her physical handicaps, there is an intelligent, ng on my er brothe th o y funny, talented woman who refuses to accept I’m sitti m ; grapher that she is somehow limited to a certain fate. the photo I feel about her the same way my mother does.
One of my favorite memories of Wendy is when we went to Disneyland last August and rode the Dumbo ride, we had so much fun.
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nFIGURE SKATING: Marie-Reine Le Gougne and federation officials are banned from their sport for their roles in the Olympic scandal and barred from 2006 Games By Philip Hersh
Chicago Tribune CHICAGO - In a decision that was surprising only because of its severity, the International Skating Union on Tuesday handed three-year bans from all ISU activities to a French figure skating judge and the president of the French Ice Sports Federation for misconduct in the pairs event judging at the 2002 Winter Olympics. The punishments given to judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne and federation President Didier Gailhaguet also bar them from participating in the 2006 Winter Olympics, nearly a year after the suspensions end April 30, 2005. Most previous ISU judging suspensions have been for only two years. Attorneys for Le Gougne and Gailhaguet said they intend to appeal. The decision came after a two-day, closed-door hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the 11-member ISU council, of which Gailhaguet is a member. He participated only as a defendant and now has been suspended from the council. “We are more than confident we took the right decision,” said ISU President Ottavio Cinquanta. Sources have told the Tribune the International Olympic Committee pressured the ISU to sanction Le Gougne and Gailhaguet. “I think there were pressures operating on the ISU to justify the result in Salt Lake City,” Max Miller of Salt Lake City, one of Le Gougne’s attorneys, said Tuesday night from Paris. Gailhaguet and the defendants’ attor-
neys left Lausanne before the decision was announced. “Mr. Cinquanta made the unilateral decision of a dictator,” Gailhaguet said by telephone from Paris. “He asked the IOC for permission to award a second gold medal because there was cheating, and he had to find someone guilty. “I am not inclined to be a martyr. I do not accept this decision, and now we will go to a real court.” The first appeal must be to the ISU appeals commission. The case could then go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an independent tribunal based in Lausanne. Le Gougne was one of five judges on the nine-judge panel who placed Russians Elena Bereznaia and Anton Sikharulidze first in the decisive free skate. Four days later, after hearing testimony that Le Gougne said she was pressured by Gailhaguet to vote for the Russians, the ISU decided to give a second gold medal to Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier. Le Gougne later recanted, saying she accused Gailhaguet under duress after being physically and psychologically threatened by other judges and skating officials. In the statement announcing its decision, the ISU council said it sanctioned Le Gougne for choosing the Russians on Gailhaguet’s instructions, “although in her opinion the pair Sale/Pelletier from Canada presented a better program,” and for not immediately reporting that Gailhaguet had told her to do so. Le Gougne has maintained she chose the Russians on merit. Gailhaguet was sanctioned for
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instructing Le Gougne to vote for the Russians, a charge he denies. “I will swear before the Lord I never did that,” he said. Several French judges recently have written the ISU to say Gailhaguet similarly pressured them in the past. Excerpts from a letter Gailhaguet wrote to three French judges in 1993, outlining strategies to gain favor for French skaters, was published in the Feb. 28 edition of the French magazine Vsd. Le Gougne’s attorneys contend the ISU hearing was stacked against her because of problems with disclosure of evidence and witnesses. While the ISU called the hearing “a disciplinary procedure ... under the same procedures as ordinary ISU council meetings,” it paid travel expenses for 12 witnesses who testified against Le Gougne and Gailhaguet. It did not compel the four other judges who voted for the Russians to testify, nor did the ISU pay for defendants’ witnesses, only one of whom came to the hearing. Miller cited the testimony of pairs event referee Ron Pfenning of Hyannis, Mass., as typical of the disclosure issues. “He showed up with a letter we had never seen in which he accused the five judges who voted for the Russians of being `not honest,”” Miller said. “(Pfenning) used abusive and insulting language about those judges.” Miller said a witness against Le Gougne, Jon Jackson of San Francisco, “entirely fabricated his testimony, in my opinion. Three people testified he was not (in a position) to hear what he testified to.”
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Canada's pair skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier perform at the figure skating exhibition program at the Salt Lake Ice Center in Utah, Feb. 22, 2002.
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