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Arboretum may add eaternPLAN: The dining area is designed to be more like a Chinese tea garden rather than a food court By Jenn Stewart
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The final draft of a tentative building plan may house a 2.1-acre dining area in the Arboretum.
With Cal State Fullerton’s student population booming, it is inevitable that campus growth will expand into less-populated areas. The final draft of CSUF Master Plan includes building a dining area over 2.1 acres of the Arboretum. Located in the Northeast corner of campus, the 26-acre Arboretum is a botanical garden displaying various landscapes and
foliage. “The basic goal would be to create a strategy and control growth,” said Jay Bond, associate vice president and campus architect. “Currently we are maximum capacity of full-time equivalent (FTE) students.” The Master Plan, designed by CSUF Facilities Management is a tentative building plan designed to address growth accommodation, and functional and aesthetic enhancements. The plan, last updated in 1993 to support 20,000 FTE students, has been debated and revised at a series of public-held hearings in recent months. With the current growth rate expected to bring 27,000 FTE students in the next 10 years, parking, housing and dining are all issues being discussed by the Facilities Management. “As a campus we need to grow,” Bond
said. “People like to gather where food is present.” The location being debated is a small piece of underdeveloped land in the southeast corner of the Arboretum. Bond said that a dining area located in the least developed part of the Arboretum will attract students and community members. “The face the Arboretum shows to the campus is barren and guarded by an 8-foot chain-link fence,” Bond said. “A food court could be a nice link to the campus.” Bond envisions a small area modeled after a Chinese tea garden. Many opponents fear that a food court will destroy the ambience of the Arboretum. Richard Foster, a city of Fullerton appointed member of the Fullerton Arboretum Commission, expressed his opinion about the food court proposal. “It is extremely difficult for me to envi-
sion a food court on top of the current use by the Arboretum of that area,” Foster wrote. Foster also points out that the Arboretum is technically state-owned land that is leased to the Fullerton Arboretum Authority. “If you attempt to (build a food court) you will be challenged in court by the Fullerton Arboretum Authority,” Foster stated. “You proceed with this plan at your peril, and at the risk of permanently damaging the reputation of the current university administration in the eyes of the greater Fullerton community. Foster feels that a mutual benefit for the Arboretum and the campus is possible if the Master Development Plan includes a clause giving the Fullerton Arboretum Authority power over design. “I think if it can benefit the Arboretum
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nFUNDS: About $3,300 in surplus will be taken from the travel budget to purchase much-needed supplies By Theresa Salinas
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Several friends play their old-school Nintendo while waiting for the grand opening of “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” at Fashion Island’s Big Newport Edwards Theater. They have been camping out in front of the venue since May 12 in anticipation of George Lucas’ next flim.
The Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors on Tuesday agreed to transfer almost 60 percent of its travel budget to its supply budget, to purchase much-needed supplies. Board chair Christina Machado and vice chair Courtney Patterson introduced the legislation, after the board was left with a surplus in designated travel funds. The 2001-02 ASI budget allots $3,355 for board members to travel to various conferences and meetings throughout the spring 2002 semester. Members usually travel to California State Student Association meetings, which are held monthly at CSU campuses. Few board members attended the meetings this semester, resulting in unused travel funds. The board will use $2,000 of the budgeted travel funds to purchase supplies, such as a new printer. “We can purchase things that we wouldn’t have had the money to buy otherwise,” Patterson said. “We didn’t send as many members to conferences as we would have liked to. At least we can put this money to good use.” In other business, the board tabled a proposal to create an ASI Research Grant Committee. ASI gives research grants each academic year. The maximum grant is $450. According to the proposed policy, the committee would review grant applications and forward recommendations to the board. It would be comprised of, at most, 15 members. One would be a faculty member while the others would be students, preferably one from each college. Some board members were hesitant about approving the proposal. Board member Christine Terrisse disagreed when someone suggested that the ASI president appoint committee members. “I am personally uncomfortable with that,” she said. “There could be room for favoritism. Mixing academics and student government roles could be dicey.”
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Spanish Club celebrates with nCULTURE: The group organized the event to expose the CSUF community to Mexican traditions By Veronica Hagey
Daily Titan Staff Writer Maracas shook, skirts twirled and feet stomped Monday at the second Acuarelas de Mexico, featuring performances by Yostaltepetl, a Mexican folkloric dance group, Groupo Calisco, a four-member singing group and a mariachi band. Aurelio Rodriquez Jr., president of
the Spanish Club, said he wanted the event to be educational and he wanted to expose the community, specifically younger people, to the culture and traditions of Mexico. Audience members ate pan dulce (Mexican sweet bread) and drank lemonade as they awaited the dance performances in the Titan Student Union, Pavilions A, B and C. Acuarelas de Mexico, which translates to watercolors from Mexico, featured performances representing eight states in Mexico. The event was organized by the Spanish Club. The first number, called Ofrenda Azteca, featured a group of 14 dancers and a man dressed in a gold ceremonial Aztec costume. Dressed in cream-colored tunics, the
female dancers encircled a male dancer, who was dressed in a gold wrap and a headdress made of peacock feathers. The barefoot performers stomped their feet to the beating drums, dancing back and forth in a circle as the man picked up a girl lying in front of him and lifted her toward the ceiling, as though offering her as a sacrifice. “I thought it was great,” said Vern Nhean, an ethnic studies major at Cal State Fullerton. “The sacrificial ceremony was [my] favorite, there was lots of pulse in the music,” Nhean said. Nhean doesn’t speak Spanish but said he understood a little bit of the music. Another highlight of the show was the Mariposas Monarcas group, repre-
senting the Mexican state of Michoacan. Six girls floated on stage wearing fluorescent orange and yellow, circular, strapless dresses. They fluttered across the stage, flapping their skirts like butterfly wings. The performance wound down as a butterfly catcher chased them around with a large yellow net, eventually chasing them off the stage. Groupo Calisco provided the background music for some of the dance numbers and also performed on their own, singing sarcastic lyrics, forcing laughter from the audience. The grand finale represented the state of Jalisco. It included dance numbers performed to a live mariachi band. The finale brought all the performers
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Acuerelas de Mexico, which translates watercolors from Mexico, featured dances representing eight states from the country.
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BRIEFS Council to host open house To unveil the newly remodeled City Hall Council Chamber and administrative offices, the Fullerton City Council will host an open house on May 21 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., prior to the start of the evening city council meeting. The $1.3 million project is the first major renovation to the council chamber and administrative offices since the current City Hall opened in 1963. Improvements to the chambers include the addition of a remotecontrolled, four-camera, broadcast system for televising council meetings to the public over the city’s government cable channel. Other improvements and additions are visual equipment for presentations of agenda information, individual computer screens for council and staff, improved lighting, acoustical balancing of the room to deaden echoes and improve the overall quality of sound, spaces to accommodate wheelchairs and retrofitting the entire area to meet current building code requirements. The renovations also included enlarging the council’s office space and adding a private conference area where citizens can meet with their elected officials. For more information, contact (714) 738-6311.
Bereavement Support Group program offered The Fullerton Senior MultiService Center is hosting a Bereavement Support Group program that began this week to help people cope with the challenges of losing a loved one. Meeting every Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for eight weeks, the program will explore all aspects of the grief process and topics like
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life after loss, coping with depression and loneliness and positive transitions. Offered by Vitas Innovative Hospice Care, membership in the group is free and pre-registration is required. For more information about registration, contact Vitas Innovative Hospice Care at (714) 921-2273. For all other information, contact (714) 738-6305.
Fullerton hosts its annual toilet giveaway The city of Fullerton will host its fifth ultra-low-flush toilet giveaway program at Fullerton College on June 15. The giveaway will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., or until supplies run out, in Parking Lot 5 of the college. Co-sponsoring the event are the Orange County Sanitation District, the Orange County Water District, the Municipal Water District of Orange County and the Metropolitan Water District. The ultra-low-flush toilets being given away use only 1.6 gallons of water per flush as opposed to the 5-7 gallons used by older toilets. Each fixture can save between 10,000 and 25,000 gallons of water annually according to the manufacturer and can reduce household water bills by as much as 25 percent. The giveaway is open to all Orange County residents and residents can claim up to two free toilets by bringing their latest water bill and photo identification. Customers will have two weeks to install their new toilets and will then be asked to bring their old toilets back to the college on June 29 so they can be recycled. For more information, contact the United Conservation Management Corp. at (866) 373-
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CALENDAR C ALE NDA R OF OF EVENTS EVE N TS Community The Opera Pacific presents “The Barber of Seville” at the Irvine Barclay Theatre through May 19. Ticket prices range from $45 to $65. For more information, call (949) 854-4646. The Fullerton Civic Light Opera presents the musical “Camelot” through May 26 at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton. Tickets range from $16 to $40. For more information, call (714) 879-1732. The 44th Annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival with the theme “A Salute to Those Who Protect and Serve” takes place on Memorial Day weekend, May 24-27 at the Village Green, between Main and Euclid in downtown Garden Grove from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, call (714) 638-0981 or visit www. strawberryfestival.org. Cypress College will host the 13th Annual Juried Student Photography Exhibition, through May 25 at the Anaheim Museum. For information, call (714) 778-
3301. The Grand Central Art Gallery in Santa Ana presents internationally recognized artist Charles Krafft in an exhibit that consists of more than 100 works through July 7. For more information, call (714) 567-7233 or (714) 5677234. The Department of Theatre and Dance presents two productions of “The Preeminents,” “America Sings & 100 Years of Broadway,” May 16-19 and “Songs for a New World,” May 23-26. Both productions will be in the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 in advance with Titan discount. For more information, call the Performing Arts Center box office at (714) 278-3371. The J. Paul Getty Museum has 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. Spring ESL classes will be
offered at the Brea Community Center through 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 TSU Mainframe will host a Web Design Workshop on Friday, May 17 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Admission to the workshop is free to students, faculty, staff and the community. 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. Admission is free. For more information, call (714) 278-2468. The TSU Underground has free bowling every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. 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. The TSU Underground has a Video Game Extravaganza May 20-31 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Play various video games to win prizes. All participants must be CSUF students to take part in the event. The Department of Music presents student and faculty jazz combos at 8 p.m., May 21, in the Little Theatre. Tickets are $8 and $5 with Titan discount. For more information, call the Performing Arts Center box office at (714) 278-3371. TSU Mainframe hosts Free Printing Friday on May 24 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Students can print their term papers for free in
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Fullerton bar has classic vibe nHISTORY: The Continental, built in the 1920s, reopened to provide an old-time hangout for the city
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nCRIME: The historic landmark was undergoing revitalizations when headstones were damaged after being knocked over
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Daily Titan Staff Writer Two young entrepreneurs are tapping into an old taste of tradition to bring downtown Fullerton’s oldest drinking establishment, the Continental Lounge, back to life. Sean Francis and Carlo Terranova, friends since high school, also are co-owners of the Hub and Coffee Café in Fullerton. Now, Terranova and Francis are taking back the classic feel of old Fullerton with its “Italian Renaissance”-style martini bar, Francis said. “The style of the Continental when we sketched it out reminded me of a ‘60s cocktail lounge, hip and Italian style, you know,” Francis said. “It looks like we took it out of a magazine.” Before the duo owned the 75year-old bar, it had a line of owners. The bar was built in 1925 and was called Beldon & Long Billiards. The term “bar” was not included the name because it was originally a speakeasy built in the days of prohibition. Speakeasies were used for the illegal distribution of alcohol. The alcohol was stored in a high-ceiling brick room with no windows and a metal safe door, which is now used as an office. Terranova and Francis bought the Continental in 1999 from its previous owner, Juan Ybarra. Ybarra had owned the bar since the late 1970s, where it mostly served the older Latino community of Fullerton.
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For decades, friends and family have been gathering at what is now the Continental Lounge. Downtown Fullerton is filled with buildings that have been standing since the 1920s and ‘30s, a time of prohibition. Examples include the now-closed Fox Theater, which opened in 1924 and the Chapman Building, which was constructed in 1923 and was home of the Chapman/ Wickett Department Store. However, the Continental offers a touch of history that not many bars in the city are known for. “That bar has many memories that are important to me,” Ybarra said. “It was like our hangout for years. People who I have known
would come in there every week, we were friends, a family.” After nearly a half-million dollars and three years of renovation, downtown Fullerton’s oldest bar is back in full swing, giving a new look to the Fullerton bar scene. The ambience of the bar is a refreshing beatnik style. The 1,650-square-foot venue has lavish woodwork and glassstain design. The bar itself is long and smooth with mahogany leather stools. Terranova and Francis think of success when it comes to taking on
new business ventures. Terranova said everyone will try something once and when they keep coming back, that’s when you know it is successful. They have been open for three months and the bar has developed its share of regulars. “It’s a nice change from the other bars in Fullerton,” Fullerton resident Frank Dubious said. “I like the atmosphere here, its not like going to just a club with a lot of loud music, I can hang out here.”
Twenty to 25 headstones at a historic cemetery in Yorba Linda were vandalized over the weekend for no apparent reason. The Yorba Cemetery dates back to 1858, when Don Bernardo Yorba, whose father was one of the first land grantees in Southern California, set aside land for a cemetery. There are about 500 graves at the site and some belong to descendants of the Yorba family. Employees at the Historic George Key Ranch, where the cemetery is located, were disturbed by the acts of vandalism. “I think that’s kind of a morbid,” said Paula Fields, a groundskeeper at the ranch. “You’re supposed to respect the dead and to me, that’s wrong.” She thought the vandals were “sick in the head” because of the great lengths they went to to reach the location. “They had to jump over a fence and cross a stream just to get
to the headstones, so obviously something is wrong with them,” Fields said. Many of the headstones were being revitalized in an effort to bring a more aesthetically pleasing look back to the historic cemetery. Maintenance workers used old photographs of the cemetery as guides during the facelift. “There were pictures of the cemetery long ago, so I guess they were putting it back to how it was back then,” Fields said. The name Yorba dates as far back as 1769 when Jose Yorba was part of a Spanish expedition exploring the area now known as Orange County. In 1809, Yorba petitioned the King of Spain for a land grant and was awarded 62,000 acres of land which came to be known as Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. In 1907, Jacob Stern, a Fullerton resident and owner of portions of the former Yorba lands, sold a large area to the Janss Corporation. The corporation subdivided this property and named the new town
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Of the 25 headstones vandalized in the Yorba Cemetery on Saturday, some were reported to be irreplaceable.
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Bounty hunter Jango Fett, played by actor Temuera Morrison, aims his blaster at a group of Jedi in the upcoming “Star Wars” movie.
Boba Fett has his 15 minnMOVIES: In “Star Wars”, the baddest bounty hunter in the universe is still a favorite among fans By Stephen Lynch
The Orange County Register Who’s the bounty hunter that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? Fett. Who is the man who will risk his helmet for the Jabba man? Fett. Can you dig it? We’re talkin’ `bout Boba Fett, the baddest mother (shut your mouth) in the “Star Wars” universe. The only man to look tougher than Darth Vader. The only man who could capture Han Solo. The man who made “bounty hunter” a career choice for 12-year-olds everywhere. The whipcord-firing, blaster-shooting, jetpack-flying Victor the Cleaner of science fiction. Improbably, considering he had only about five minutes of screen time in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, Boba Fett is one of the series’ most popular characters. There are dozens of Web sites devoted to him. An official fan club. There are Boba Fett collectible plates. Key chains.
Backpacks. Pajamas. “Star Wars” conventions are full of people who dress in his armor. All this for a character who had just four lines in two movies: “As you wish.” “What if he doesn’t survive? He’s worth a lot to me.” “He’s no good to me dead.” “Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.” But Boba Fett was a legend long before that. His first appearance was in a 1977 “Star Wars” Christmas special, where he helped Luke, Leia and Han in a short animated adventure. This uncharacteristic jaunt on the light side of the Force is dismissed by fans as apocryphal, or maybe — as one fan speculates — simply Fett getting into the Christmas spirit. George Lucas apparently considered including him in the original “Star Wars,” because Fett was one of the first action figures released. Kids were playing with him before they even knew who he was. They learned in “The Empire Strikes Back” when Boba Fett showed up among a group of bounty hunters Darth Vader commissioned to track Han Solo. “No disintegration,” Vader warns him. “As you wish,” Fett replies. Disintegration. Dude, he uses disintegration. But it was Boba Fett’s armor that made him an icon. Fans who read books or the back of toys figured
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out it was Mandalorian battle armor (whatever that is), but the name was beside the point. It was battered, chipped, loaded with weapons. Totally bad ass. With one nod of the head, Fett, with his T-shaped visor helmet, packed as much menace as a sneer from Clint Eastwood. Jedi had light sabers. But Fett was Fett. For young fans, Boba Fett was their first anti-hero. Sure, he was working for the Empire. But unlike Darth Vader, who you wanted to lose, Fett introduced strange, contradictory emotions. No, of course you didn’t want Han Solo to die. But couldn’t Fett win, too? The bounty hunter is so popular that when Lucas commissioned a “special edition” of the original trilogy, it was Boba Fett who got the most new screen time. All he does in “Star Wars” is walk across the screen, half turn, then keep on going. The audience roared. In “Empire” we get to see more of his snail-shaped flying fortress “Slave 1.” In “Return of the Jedi” we see the softer side of Fett, flirting with slave girls in the palace of gangster Jabba the Hutt. There you have it: No matter what he’s doing, Fett is getting some action. But it’s “Episode II — Attack of the Clones” where we finally get under the helmet. We meet Boba Fett as a young boy, and his father,
Jango, who shows Fettphiles the full potential of the armor (which, being more new, has a nice coat of blue, not green, paint). Jango shoots the rocket in his jet pack and even uses the flame thrower. Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn’t have a chance. We also learn that the Fetts are more pivotal to the Empire than was previously suggested. And that Jango’s son will probably grow up to look just like him (hint hint). Perhaps Lucas planned this all along — but I suspect he, like young fans everywhere, just thinks Fett rocks. Anything that gets him to use that wrist blaster is a good thing. Which makes Boba Fett’s demise all the more annoying. After nearly vaporizing Luke, he’s hit accidentally by Han Solo and crash lands in the Sarlacc, a toothy pit in the middle of the desert, where he will slowly digest over thousands of years (perhaps longer with the armor). In the comic books, he comes back, the Sarlacc having found him unpalatable. But in the movies he warrants only a scream and a burp. It’s an ignominious end to an infamous nemesis. Yet Boba Fett fans hold out hope. Perhaps there’s a special special edition in the works — one where he can be regurgitated to look cool another day.
The doctors and nurses who provide gynecological care say they’d much rather answer the question “Will the exam hurt?” than “Am I pregnant?” That’s why they encourage young women to seek gynecological care before they have a problem. But at a time when more women are becoming sexually active at younger ages and chlamydia is reaching epidemic proportions, few young women are following that advice. A survey last year by Seventeen magazine and the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only three of every five sexually active 15- to 17year-olds had sought sexual health care or information from a doctor, hospital or clinic. Fewer than a third had received information from a health-care provider about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases or sexual assault or abuse. Only a third had had a gynecological exam, and only one in 10 had been tested for STDs. Not seeking care can have permanent effects. “The consequences of no treatment can be life-threatening and fertilitydestroying,” said Travis Stembridge, a Wichita, Kan., obstetrician-gynecologist. At the Wichita Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri clinic, “We have seen a steady increase in the number of patients that we serve between the ages of 15 and 24,” said Julie Burkhart, director of community affairs.
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and the school it would be great,” said Greg Dyment, director of the Arboretum. “We have so many visitors all the time, I think it would be nice to have somewhere for them to eat.” Dyment also acknowledged that the drafting of these plans has been going on for about a year and a half.
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The majority, she said, are seeking birth control or emergency contraception. Though the clinic doesn’t ask whether a client has had gynecological care before a visit for birth control, “the odds are that they probably have not,” Burkhart said. Another Kaiser survey showed that 67 percent of sexually active 15to 17-year-olds don’t consider themselves at risk for sexually transmitted diseases. But about 3 million teens a year — or about one in four sexually active teens — get an STD. Stembridge and Burkhart said women should seek a “well-woman” exam before becoming sexually active. “We really do like people to be able to take preventive measures and to act early in terms of reproductive planning,” Burkhart said. “We feel that the preventive scenario is best, for individuals and our community.” Current guidelines from medical groups say that a woman should have a gynecological exam when she becomes sexually active, when there’s a gynecological problem such as irregular or missed periods or vaginal discharge, or when she reaches age 18. She should have a follow-up exam once a year. An exam should include a breast exam, a pelvic exam and a screening for cervical cancer, using the Pap test. A sexually active woman also should be screened for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and human papilloma virus, or HPV. Stembridge also recommends screening for hepatitis.
Bond said that the plan is still tentative. “At this point the food court is just an idea,” Bond said. “We want to create a facility that would benefit both the campus and the arboretum.” “There’s no question that construction would displace a small number of plants…we would plant more trees then we displaced,” Bond said. There is no date to begin construction and all sides emphasize that the Master Plan is only a draft. There is
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Star gazing at the universe of nFILMMAKER: Despite achieving remarkable success, the movie billionaire still is not smiling By Carrie Rickey
Knight Ridder Newspapers SKYWALKER RANCH, Marin County, Calif. - There’s a snake in George Lucas’ garden, an actual slitherer and a symbolic one. Two of the 250 employees at his 2,600-acre compound near San Rafael quickly assure Lucas that the filmmaker’s pastoral of scrub oak and eucalyptus has been invaded by nothing more than a garter snake. If only they could promise that the symbolic serpent - the media horde for whom their boss has just previewed “Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones” - is as benign. The press-shy filmmaker, now a gray beard in blue jeans, is hedging his bets on the fifth installment in the six-part “Star Wars” saga, which opens on Thursday, two days after his 58th birthday. “The media perception is that `Phantom Menace’ was a failure,” Lucas says dourly of his 1999 film, “Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.”
Critics were, to put it mildly, underwhelmed by the return of the saga after 16 years. But what did they know? The “Star Wars” faithful, and the 8-to-12year-olds who Lucasfilm executives call the series’ target audience, turned “Phantom” into the fourth-highest-grossing movie of all time, with $923 million in earnings worldwide. “Clones” - which moves the teenage Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker a few steps closer to the dark side - is unlikely to top that, Lucas humbly concedes. The early consensus on “Clones,” an elegantly staged space opera, is that it’s better than “Phantom.” But it’s not generating “Spider-Man” heat. And simple arithmetic dictates that it will have a weaker opening than “Spider-Man’s” record-breaking $114.8 million last weekend. “We’ll be on 5,800 screens, (`SpiderMan’) is on 8,000,” Lucas said. Yet even when the Star Warrior loses, he wins. “Spider-Man” - like “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter,” to name but three of Hollywood’s current spate of trilogies - were all made possible by technological advances that Lucas has wrought. When his competition makes money, so does Lucas, who owns Industrial Light + Magic, responsible for the effects in “Jurassic Park,” “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and the forthcoming “Signs,” M. Night Shyamalan’s latest sci-
fi thriller, shot in Bucks County, Pa. George Lucas is the master of his medium, a proud single father of three, and a success beyond all dreams of avarice. So why isn’t this man smiling? Twenty-five years after the release of “Star Wars,” the billionaire ruler of movie franchises and special-effects empires less resembles daredevil rebel Luke Skywalker than he does the wary dictator Palpatine. Instead of a crown, Lucas wears a silver pompadour as he strolls stiffly about the grounds of his Victorian clapboard corporate headquarters like “Shrek’s” Lord Farquaad. (Lucas doesn’t actually live in this sterile Eden but in nearby San Anselmo.) He may be the most guarded man in the movies. When he conceived “Star Wars” about 30 years ago, the filmmaker now renowned as a perfectionist was the rebellious son of a conservative father. Now that maverick, who was mentored by Francis Ford Coppola, is a father - of Amanda, 20, Katie, 13, and Jett, 9 - and a mentor to a new generation of filmmakers including David Fincher (“Panic Room”). “Being older obviously gives one a different perspective,” reflects the man who re-imagined “Oedipus” as a mythic war between fathers and sons armed with light sabers. “Now I’ve seen and lived and experienced emotions of both
Padmie Amidala and Anakin Skywalker walk as R2-D2 rolls along in “Attack of the Clones.”
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onto the stage dancing and the mariachi band performed in front of the stage. The music moved the audience in their seats, as they danced and clapped along with the performers. The dancers came offstage dancing in the aisles, giving the audience a close-up view of their vibrant costumes. Some of the performers pulled people from their seats to dance with them in the aisles as the show came to a close. “They were all incredible,” said a
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ASI Executive Vice President Edgar Zazueta said he wants clarification on the number of committee members allowed to serve from each college.
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smiling Yolanda Serrano in Spanish. Serrano said she came to see her friend’s daughter perform but she enjoyed all the dancers. After the show, many dancers went out to the audience to talk to friends and family. “Performing to live mariachi music is my favorite,” said Lucy Ledezma, one of the Yostaltepetl dancers. “It is the best feeling in the world. I get anxious to start, not nervous.” Ledezma said she is even more energized after performing. “The celebrating afterwards is the fun part.” One of the younger performers, 7year-old Manuel Guerra, said he doesn’t get nervous because he’s been dancing
“a long time.” “I have my boots that make me dance good,” Guerra said, pointing to his cowboy boots. Rodriquez said it took him about three months to organize the event. “There was so much pressure to get it all together but I had the support of family and friends to get me through it,” Rodriquez said. The event was sponsored by the Association for Intercultural Awareness and funded by the Associated Students, Inc. Rodriquez said the free pastries, made by My Bakery, were bought at a discount. He ended the evening saying he looks forward to next year’s
“I would be uncomfortable with leaving it this vague,” he said. The board will review the proposed policy at its next meeting. The board also allowed ASI executive staff members to use student fees off campus for their annual end-of-the-year banquet Thursday at
the Embassy Suites Hotel in Brea. Zazueta said that ASI leaders opted to hold their event off campus because they couldn’t find a large, available room in the Titan Student Union.
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Anakin Skywalker, Padme Amidala and Obi-Wan Kenobi survey the crowd in the Geonosis arena.
sides.” He’s sensitive to how social context colors his movies. Lucas began thinking about “Star Wars” during the `60s, the decade that provided the setting for his first hit, 1973’s lighthearted “American Graffiti.” “It was a time when the acceptance of the status quo fell apart. The social structure was unraveling,” he observes. With its optimistic kids battling intergalactic evil, “Star Wars” held out the hope that youth could mend the hole in the social fabric. “Today we’ve gone in the opposite direction,” he says. “People disagree with the status quo, but we don’t hear from them.” Not coincidentally, the original trilogy was about the making of rebel hero Luke: The prequels are about the anatomy of Luke’s dark side father, Darth Vadar, the former Anakin, whose un-Jedi-like taste for revenge is becoming apparent. In the run-up to the release of “Clones,” Lucas has been working on the script for 2005’s “Episode III,” in which Anakin completes his transformation. The director is finding inspiration by rereading “Oedipus” and biographies of Napoleon. Sooner or later, everyone who works closely with Lucas says the same thing: It’s never about money, it’s always about control. His high standards have inevitably led the artist and techno-visionary - who, like Walt Disney, is both a factory owner and factory worker - to money. Thanks to his request in 1977 that theaters playing “Star Wars” install Dolby sound systems, Lucas pioneered the
revolution that made monaural theaters obsolete. He subsequently made a fortune selling his THX sound system to exhibitors. Thanks to Lucas’ desire to create universes he saw in his mind’s eye, the CGI (computer-generated imagery) industry was born. His interactive software subsidiary, LucasArts Entertainment, leveraged the “Star Wars” franchise to develop an array of video games, including the popular “Star Wars”-themed Dark Forces and Rebel Assault. And “Clones,” which was shot digitally, is considered the first volley in yet another technology revolution, which will bring crisp images to movie theaters worldwide. “This morning there were 18 theaters in the U.S. with digital capability,” Lucas said on Thursday. “By the time `Clones’ comes out … there will be 80.” When “Episode III” is ready, that number will be radically higher. Filmmakers as well as audiences are the beneficiaries of Lucas’ digital charge. Comparing shooting on film and shooting digitally, the director says, it’s like “the difference between fresco painting and oil painting. With fresco, you need five people mixing the paint and you have to paint real fast on plaster before it dries.” With oil, he says, there are no time constraints, not to mention more flexibility and mobility: “The paints are premixed and you can go anywhere.” In the original “Star Wars,” Yoda was a Muppet. “I couldn’t shoot him below his waist, couldn’t move him more than two or three feet. … I wanted Yoda to
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do physical things. I needed a “digital Yoda.” The computer-generated Jedi sage in “Clones” flies on a Frisbee-like transport, has a range of facial expressions and, in one remarkable sequence, proves to be a most nimble duelist. When he talks tech, Lucas is fast and loose. When the topic is personal, he’s slow and stilted, measuring each word like droplets of anti-venom. Now that he’s closing in on 60, does he have plans concerning the dispersal of his fortune? “I’ve thought about it,” he says. After “Episode III,” when he’s out of the “Star Wars” business, he says he plans to do “personal movies,” but refuses to elaborate. “I’m going to move the company around. … I have an educational foundation. I give money to philanthropic causes.” He admits to having regrets. “If I had it to do over, maybe I wouldn’t have been so tough on my parents,” says the scholastic underachiever from Modesto, Calif., who nearly lost his life in a car accident the week before high school graduation. “Now that I have teen-agers I think, `Wouldn’t it be nicer if they lightened up?’ “ But, he adds, ruefully, “However bad my kids are, I was five times worse.” George Lucas is raising kids he describes as “good human beings.” His successes are phenoms. Even his critical failures are box-office gold. His technology has transformed movie production and exhibition. One leaves Skywalker Ranch wondering what galaxies, far away or near, are left for him to conquer.
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Karla Alvarez starts the process of pranic healing whereby she trys to get rid of Anglea Avelar’s ailments by using her own body energy.
When traditional western medicine fails, people are now starting to look to specific herbs and pranic healing to alleviate their ailments Story
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Traditionally when people get sick, the first thing they do is make an appointment with their doctor. For many, doctors are like guardian angels whose main duty is to save peoples’ lives. When somebody has pain and goes for an examination, they expect their doctor to listen to them and understand them. Many get angry when they end up spending more time in the waiting room than meeting with the doctor. Some people tired with traditional forms of western medicine are opting for something different. Maria Cañongo, a Santa Ana resident, suffered from uterus infections for five years. She had been under medication that would only minimally help her control them but wouldn’t make the infections fully disappear. Cañongo was tired of taking medication after medication and not feeling any relief. She didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford the high cost of prescriptions. Her only option was to travel to Tijuana, Mexico, where the medicine was affordable. Her twice-per-month appointments cost about $500, and after five years, her doctor decided to remove her uterus. She was willing to go through with the surgery. It was then that Cañongo was introduced to herbal medicine. She was recommended to an herbal medicine consultant. The treatment that she was given from Nature’s Sunshine, a worldwide organization that produces herbal products, cured what traditional medicine couldn’t. Within two months of taking herbal products, Cañongo’s infections faded away. “I didn’t believe what was happening,” she said. Since that day she has not returned to see a doctor. She was so amazed to see all of her health problems disappear that she became involved in the sale of herbal products and is now a certified consultant for Nature’s Sunshine in Santa Ana. Gene and Kristine Hughes established Nature’s Sunshine. Gene suffered from continuous stomach problems and was advised to take cayenne pepper to ease the pain. Although doctors forbade him to eat, the pepper, he followed the advice he was given. Surprisingly the advice worked; Hughes started feeling better after each dose. However, eating pepper was not easy. Kristine had the idea of putting the pepper in a gelatin capsule, making it easier to swallow. It also eliminated the taste. That one idea was the beginning of a company that would change the lives of many people, like Cañongo’s.
At that time, people were unaware of the benefits of herbs. The use of herbs for medicinal purposes goes back to ancient civilizations such as the Aztec, Inca and Chinese. The demand for natural products as well as other holistic practices such as acupuncture, aromatherapy or homeopathy has increased. Herbs that may cure health problems can be found in one’s kitchen. According to the Herb Research Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1983, garlic is said to help lower cholesterol levels, blood pressure, risk of stomach and colon cancer, treat infections and enhance the immune system. However, not many people know the benefits that garlic has. Another herb used in Asia for more than 5,000 years is ginseng. Ginseng improves the body’s resistance to stress, mental performance, it normalizes blood pressure and blood sugar. It also improves health and vitality. Ginger root is a plant that is used for gastrointestinal problems. It helps the body eliminate wastes. To strengthen the respiratory, immune and digestive systems noni plant is recommended. The list of herbs and its benefits is endless. But the use of herbs is not the only alternative that people have. Pranic healing, for example, is another way that people have to cure illnesses with the use of energy. Grand Master Choa Kok Sui developed pranic healing; he developed this system based on the use of energy to heal the body. According to the pranic healing Web site www.pranichealing. com, It does not utilize prescription medicine. It uses “prana” which means “life force,” the vital energy that keeps the body alive and in good health. Pranic healing teaches people how to activate their palms, which are referred as “chakras” to feel the energy of others. Karla Alvarez, executive assistant for the pranic healing office in Chino Hills, has been practicing pranic healing for six years. Alvarez originally started performing healing with family members. She continued to do healing after she noticed that her family members felt better. Alvarez said that anyone is able to do pranic healing. “It doesn’t matter what background you have, whether you know anything about healing or not you could easily learn how to do this,” Alvarez said. “We had doctors, nurses, lawyers and
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
They’re two of a kind Together since their freshman year of high school, Fullerton pitchers Jodie Cox and Gina Oaks have always been more than just teammates
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For Titan pitchers Gina Oaks and Jodie Cox, college began with a pact. “When we were recruited out of high school, we knew we wanted to go to the same school,” Cox said. “We told each other that we would go wherever the other one went. That was the deal.” Over the last three seasons, the duo has not only shared that decision; they have virtually shared statistics. Oaks has amassed a 20-3 record this season with a 0.74 ERA and 177 strikeouts, while Cox has gone 19-6 with a 1.41 ERA and 162 strikeouts. For their careers, Oaks has a 53-14 record with 493 strikeouts, while Cox has gone 52-14 with 462 strikeouts. Titan catcher Jenny Topping, who affectionately calls the pair “The Princesses,” said their dominance has increased thanks to things that aren’t necessarily related to their physical ability. “They aren’t like other pitchers who are all about themselves and their own stats,” Topping said. “They’re roommates and best friends. They’ve got each other’s backs.” The pair first met during their freshman year of high school as members of the FlashD’Gold travel ball team, playing together on the team for four years. Even though Oaks lived in Rancho Cucamonga and Cox in Lancaster, about an hour and 45 minutes apart, the two managed to keep in touch. “We would see each other at practice and we would talk on the phone regularly,” Cox said. “We became best friends because we were so much alike. The fact that we played the same position and we were both so competitive brought us closer together.” As was the case on the field during games, when it was time to choose colleges the two looked to each other for support. “Jodie and I took all of our recruiting trips together,” Oaks said. “We liked Oklahoma and Utah, but the plane rides and layovers were too much. We knew we wanted to stay close to home, so Cal State Fullerton was perfect.” The duo were a big piece of the rebuilding process for CSUF softball, which was coming off a year in which it was absent from the postseason for just the second time in the
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programs’ history. “Schools always need pitching,” Oaks said. “If Jodie and I went to the same school, we hoped we could help them win.” Since the aces started putting on the blue and orange, Fullerton has become dominant yet again. The school has won three-straight Big West titles, has a 143-45 overall record and a 60-9 mark in conference play. “They were a big part of a strong recruiting class,” said Titan coach Michelle Gromacki, who became head coach the year the pitchers were recruited. “They were part of a new set of philosophies here at Fullerton.” Besides their dominance on the field, the pair have consistently contributed to the team’s positive morale. They are always together, they play off each other’s differences and they keep the team laughing. Oaks seems to be the more animated of the two and is the spark plug for the team throughout the game. She often can be heard by fans in attendance, leading cheers in the dugout. After the game, you can rarely find her without a smile on her face. “It’s partly because she was a cheerleader in high school,” Cox said. “She’s always up for everything. When she brings that to the field, it transfers to the team.” Cox, while a bit more stoic than Oaks, brings a dominance to the field that few other players can match. “Of all the players I have ever caught, there is no one who has a more dominant single pitch than Jodie,” said Topping, who has been a member of two national teams. “She can throw her drop curve over and over during a game, and teams will never come close.” Cox has used that pitch to throw five no-hitters and one perfect game as a Titan. She struck out a career-high 16 batters in one game earlier this season against Rutgers. With all of the similarities in their personalities and pitching styles, one glaring difference has arisen this season. Oaks was honored as one of 60 players from around the nation to tryout for the USA Softball National Team. It is an honor that, based on sheer numbers alone, could just as easily been offered to Cox. But Cox let pride for her friend win over any disappointment she had about not receiving an invitation of her own. “When Gina was invited, I felt like they had asked me because I was so proud of her,” Cox said. “Yeah, I would have liked to have been invited, but I was so happy for her that I was beside myself. I never had a ‘what about me’ feeling. I am someone that believes that if it is meant to happen, it will happen.” Cox has been there for her roommate in the good times and the bad. “It has always been a dream of mine to play for the National Team and I had a pretty good chance of making the tryouts last season,” Oaks said. “But when I didn’t make the team, I was very upset and
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me.” T h e amount of time Oaks and Cox will be able to play on the same field together is getting shorter with every game. After this year’s postseason, the duo will have only their senior season remaining. While Oaks hopes to continue on with her softball career through collegiate coaching, Major League Softball or possibly the Olympics, Cox would be very satisfied to see her playing days come to an end. She does, however, leave one avenue open. “If the National Team calls me, I would play,” Cox said. So the two are once again forced to stay in touch through the telephone as Oaks, Topping, Monica Lucatero and Yasmin Mossadeghi travel to the ARCO Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. at the end of May to try to represent their school and their country. “It’s going to be such a fun experience,” Oaks said. “I’m excited
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