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ASI gets ‘healthy’ budnFINANCE: The 2002-03 budget will provide thousands of dollars for student activities and clubs By Theresa Salinas
Daily Titan Staff Writer Student leaders approved the Associated Students, Inc. $1.8 million operating budget last week, doling out thousands of dollars to dozens of student activities and organizations. The ASI Board of Directors unanimously approved the budget on May 7, ending several weeks of deliberations
by the board, executive staff and the ASI Finance Committee. University officials should finalize the document within one month. “This year’s deliberations went pretty well,” said ASI Executive Vice President Edgar Zazueta. “There was nothing controversial. Sometimes the deliberations drag on and there are battles over line items.” ASI will receive about $3 million in student fees during 2002-03. About $444,000 goes to the Children’s Center Building Fund and $802,00 goes to athletics, leaving $1.8 million for operating costs. Legislators said the deliberations went smoothly because of ASI’s positive economic situation. Student enrollment is expected to rise next year, providing the organization with additional ASI student fees. The Rec Sports program was relo-
SAT I tests may change nEDUCATION: Some new additions to the exam may include a writing component and reading passages By Beth J. Passarella
Daily Titan Staff Writer High school students planning to attend college may soon have to take a new SAT I test. The proposals for the changes were addressed at a meeting Wednesday to the University of California regents. The changes have been under review for a few years and would start with students who will be college freshmen in 2006. “Nothing’s been decided yet,” said Kristin Carnahan, associate director of Public Affairs for the College Board. “The main changes would include the addition of advanced math and a writing component. We are also looking at the replacement of analogies with reading passages.” The SAT I is designed to measure students’ aptitude for college by studying their ability to think and reason. Last year, 1,276,320 high school seniors took the SAT I, according to the College Board, which is scheduled to consider the proposed changes in June. “We want a better test with clear expectations,” said Hanan Eisenman, media coordinator for admissions at UC. “We’ve done testing and research on this and by studying high-school students’ grade-point average, SAT II and SAT I scores, we found that the current SAT I didn’t tell us anything more about the applicant than the other two elements.” UC is concerned with creating a SAT I which tests more on subject matter that is taught in the classroom and is a clear link to college preparation. Some schools like Fullerton Union High School are awarded grants to contract with companies like Princeton
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Review to provide a SAT I preparatory course free of charge to students. Any changes to the SAT I would be incorporated in the teachers’ curriculum as well as the preparatory courses for the test. “We’re not too worried about the proposed changes,” principal Steve Roderic said. “We’ve had tremendous improvements from the prep courses that will not be affected by this.” The addition of the writing component of the test has critics saying non-English speakers will be at a disadvantage. “This is being explored extensively,” Carnahan said. “We will be doing lots of field testing to be sure that it won’t have a severe impact on one group.” The current SAT I is graded completely with scantron computers. However, the new writing portion will have to be graded by trained readers. “The essay portion won’t be as reliable as the multiple-choice portion,” Carnahan said. “But with a combination of the two, scores will be more accurate.” The board will be testing the reliability of the test to see how well it will hold up. The field testing will be very labor intensive, as they must get a large sample of schools under secure conditions. The board must also offer some incentive to those who take the test, such as payment, since they cannot offer the students an official score of the field test SAT I. The board also will be trying to keep the cost of the test down to about $25. “It’s our responsibility to update the test, so we will try not to raise the price of the test for the students,” Carnahan said. “I think the new test sounds better,” said Ashley Forshee, a junior at El Dorado High School, who recently took the SAT I. “The students will have to take harder classes, though. If they want to test us on trigonometry we’ll probably have to take more advanced math classes earlier in high school. Most students take that class their senior year and I think it would be better to take it a year earlier to prepare for the test.”
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cated to the Titan Student Union operating budget, freeing up funds in the ASI budget and contributing to its $95,110 surplus. Student leaders said the surplus allowed them to fund new programs and expand others. During deliberations they trimmed few proposals and fully funded most of the requests they received. In some cases, they increased individual budgets. “It’s a healthy budget,” said ASI President Alex Lopez. “Next year, there will be increases. That’s something we didn’t have in the past.” For example, ASI Productions will receive an extra $27,000 in the 2002-03 budget. ASIP sponsors events throughout the year, such as concerts, movie screenings and poetry readings. Like other groups slated to receive extra funds, it will use the money to hold
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and promote events. “I think it’s a great idea,” said graduate student Kelly Reich. “Events will get more exposure. It will probably get the community more interested in what’s going on.” Legislators also provided funding for four new inter-club councils. The Sports Club ICC will receive about $18,800; the Humanities and Social Sciences ICC will get about $39,100; the Human Development and Community Service ICC will receive about $9,300; the Arts ICC will get about $17,600. “Whether directly or indirectly, students will be impacted by the budget,” Zazueta said. “Because of the increased budget, students will see more programs. ASI programs will be more visible.” For example, the Titan Tusk Force
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AICA $78,711 Arboretum $10,571 ASI Accounting and Administration $228,539 ASI Board of Directors $14,568 ASI Computer Services $58,294 ASI Executive Offices $269,124 ASI Elections $14,335 ASI General Services $105,220 ASI Human Services $136,353 ASI/TSU Office of Program Support $51,101 ASI Productions $124,440 Arts ICC $17,636 BICC $28,051 Camp Titan $50,322 Children’s Center $281,807 CICC $19,686 Contingency $39,124
College Legal Clinic $9,500 Departmental Association Council $19,505 ECS ICC $26,487 HDCS ICC $9,386 Honor Society Council $ 6,755 HSS ICC $39,186 IFC $12,670 Mesa Cooperativa $5,375 Mission Viejo Campus $7,845 NSM ICC $16,736 Panhellenic $12,566 RSA $15,655 Sports Club ICC $18,872 Total: $1.72 million Projected non-directed student fee income: $1.82 million Surplus: $95,110
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nOUTLET: To help students relax for finals, a video game extravaganza will be at the TSU Underground By Mark Migrino
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The end of the fall semester can be a very stressful period for Cal State Fullerton students. ‑ With term papers to write, final projects to complete and exams right around the corner, many students are seeking an outlet where they take a break in the middle of all the madness.‑ From May 20 to 31, the Titan Student Union is offering that needed outlet, which they hope will give students a final energy charge heading into the end of the semester. The TSU Underground will be hosting its fifth “Video Game Extravaganza.” Students will have a chance to compete in four pre-selected games and the player who accumulates the top score will receive a prize for the game that they mastered. ‑ The player who racks up the most total points on all four games will be the recipient of a prize. “Students get stressed during study time,” said Scott Poddig, the TSU games and recreation manager. ‑“We offer this so they can relax and take a stress-relief break.” The contest will follow a “pay as you play” setting. ‑This means that any CSUF student can pump some spare change into an arcade game and use their video game skills to earn the highest score. Once a high score has been reached,
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Studies show violence increases after graduanRESEARCH: Reports state that relationships can turn abusive when people complete their college education By Afni Adnan
Daily Titan Staff Writer Graduation is one of the most momentous occasions in a student’s life. It’s the first step to independence and freedom. But to some people, that independence can come at a cost. Research has shown that domestic violence increases during graduation
time, and that women in particular, are victims of the abuse. “Once they start declaring a real independence, the abuse escalates to violence in the relationship,” said Patty R. Arambarri, coordinator of the Joint Task Force on Domestic Violence. “These relationships are about power and control, and when the woman becomes more powerful and well-educated, the abuser escalates the behavior in order to control the victim.” Arambarri said that cases of abuse increase when the men start feeling like they’re losing control over the women, and that can be when the women graduates, goes to school or gets a job. “Graduation is a risk factor [for
abuse],” Arambarri said. “Pregnancy is also a risk factor, which is very surprising to a lot of people, especially to the women involved. The abuser seems to be threatened by the child because she’s giving a lot of attention to the unborn child.” Arambarri also said that once the abusive person finds out their partner is leaving, the violence worsens. Therefore, women need a safety plan and understand what their options are. However, for women who decide to go into a shelter, going to school may be risky. “The partner could follow her from school to the shelter,” Arambarri said. “So she (the victim) feels like she’s really stuck.” Nearly one-third of American
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women reported being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey. Jerri Freeman, the domestic violence instructor for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Training Academy, said that many women stay silent about the abuse because they are in denial. “In a lot of cases, it’s hard to believe that this is really happening to them,” she said. “This is someone who is professing their love to them.” When the abuse becomes violent, the victim could file a restraining order. But Freeman said a restraining order can only do so much.
“A restraining order is a piece of paper,” she said. “It doesn’t stop bullets, it doesn’t stop knives, it doesn’t stop a fire. We have to make sure victims know that and that they have to protect themselves.” Arambarri said women are ashamed of the abuse and feel like it’s their fault. They think that no one is going to believe them and they can handle it themselves. She also said that the abuse is gradual, but it worsens as the abuser becomes more threatened and less secure. “It starts off with really subtle things like possessiveness and jeal-
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BRIEFS Anaheim Museum to host fund-raiser The Anaheim Museum is currently selling Club Loge seats for the Angels vs. Reds baseball game on June 8 at Edison Field. The tickets will sell for $20 each where normally they are $24 a piece. The museum is selling the tickets to raise additional funds to refurbish the Anaheim Room, the history exhibition at the museum. Seats are limited and every ticket earns a free Angel souvenir beach towel. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the museum at (714) 778-3301.
Camp Fire USA to host forum Costa Mesa teen-agers from “Speak out!,” a Camp Fire USA Orange County Council teen advocacy program, will be hosting a community forum today at the Costa Mesa Senior Center from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Speak Out!” is a program funded by the California Wellness Foundation and consists of teenagers advocating for the prevention of teen pregnancy. The forum is taking place in an effort to create a dialogue among Costa Mesa community members about the issue of teen pregnancy. The program also is an effort to unify the community around the issue of teen pregnancy prevention to work together to help Costa Mesa teen-agers and the entire Costa Mesa community. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, Costa Mesa had 66 teen births per 1000 births. The arena will be an opportunity for teens to voice their
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Interactive workshop on healthy dining offered The Brea Community Center will host the “Healthy Dining 2002,” an interactive workshop and exhibit on May 29 from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Susan Goldstein and Anita Jones, leading experts and co-authors of the trend-setting Healthy Dining book series in Orange, L.A. and San Diego Counties, will be sharing information on the subject. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to learn the “fat and skinny” facts on restaurant dining in Orange County and will also have a chance to sample a variety of healthy foods from local Healthy Dining restaurants including El Torito Grill, Jamba Juice, The Old Spaghetti Factory and Red Lobster. Cardiologist Robert Zelman will also be on site to lead a discussion on coronary heart disease prevention, risks and symptoms. All participants will receive a copy of the Healthy Dining in Orange County book, which is $19.95, retail price. The book comes complete with “nutrition labels” to hundreds of menu choices, chef’s recipes, extensive dining tips and valuable restaurant coupons. Seating is limited and preregistration is $15 and $20 at the door. For more information on the workshop or to register, contact the center at (714) 990-7100.
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The Cal State Fullerton Department of Music presents the University Singers and Chamber Singers, May 19 at 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Santa Ana. For more information, call (714) 278-3371. The Air Museum “Planes of Fame” in Chino will host “United We Stood, United We Stand,” a spectacular event that will showcase the aircraft of the American/ British alliance, May 18 and May 19. For more information, call (909) 597-3722. The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles hosts an exhibit called “Voyages of Discovery,” through Aug. 11. For admission prices and more information, call (213) 763-DINO or log on to www. nhm.org. Cal State Fullerton’s Department of Music presents the Women’s Choir and the Men’s Choir May 17 at the Red Hill Lutheran Church in Tustin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $8 for general admission and $5 with Titan discount. For more information, call (714) 278-2434.
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 2427 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 more information, call (714) 778-3301.
The Pacific Symphony Orchestra presents the 2001-02 Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Classics Series “An Alpine Symphony,” May 22 and May 23 at 8 p.m. at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Tickets are on sale at the TSU Information and Services Desk. For more
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) 5677233 or (714) 567-7234. 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.
Campus The Arboretum will host its Herb Weekend May 18 and May 19. The event will feature a class and a tour about herbs and herb -related items for sale. For more information, call (714) 278-3579. The TSU Underground will have a family night May 17 and May 20 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will feature bowling and billiards discounts. For more information, call (714) 278- 2144. The Performing Arts Center presents the play ”Rocky and Diego” through May 26 in the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center. Ticket prices are $9. For more information, call (714) 2783371. The Arboretum will have a gardening class for children ages 6-9 May 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The fee is $3 per child. For more information, call (714) 2783579. The Department of Music presents Josh Bowman in a senior recital, May 18 at 6 p.m. For location and more information, call (714) 278-3371. 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 Underground will have a Billiards Tournament May17 at 1 p.m. The competition is free to all students, faculty and staff. For more information, call (714) 278-2144. 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 videogames to win cool prizes. Participants must attend CSUF to take part in the event.
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Couple combines love with art nEXHIBIT: Recently married couple Kozy Imamura and Dan Kitchen are displaying their work in the TSU By Michael Matter
Daily Titan Staff Writer This is a classic cultural love story where Eastern girl meets Western boy in the Cal State Fullerton Fine Arts Department. After three years of being best friends and sweethearts, they married - the fairy tale romance of Kozy Imamura, an aspiring artist from Tokyo. About five years ago, she enrolled at Cal State Long Beach and then transferred to CSUF after two years. She met Dan Kitchens, an aspiring artist from Orange County. Now the newlyweds are graduating-senior illustrators and create art together with a bright and prospering future. Unique, unusual and indescribable are words to describe the eyepopping illustrations on display at the CSUF Titan Student Union’s Center Gallery “Kozyndan presents: Big Pictures” exhibition running through May 31, located next to TSU Mainframe. Kozy and Dan co-produce each of
the show’s illustrations. Sophomore Janette Hinahon tracks attendance, answers questions and keeps a watchful eye on the art for each revolving monthly show at the gallery as part of her new job with the graphic-services department. Ironically, Kozy has been employed in the same department for the last two years. “When the show first opened I didn’t know who did it,” Hinahon said. “She came up and asked me how I liked it, she’s very shy. I met her husband Dan when he spoke to an art class that came to the gallery.” Hinahon said she thinks the collection has impressed its mostly college-age audience. “It’s cool and has a modern appeal, a lot of people are asking about buying prints,” Hinahon said. “They think they are different and unique.” Kozy and Dan began collaborating on panoramic illustrations last July. She previously worked making accordion books, which open into panoramas. They called their show “Big Pictures” because that’s what panoramic illustrations are, approximately 1-foot high by almost 3-feet wide. There are four large digitally produced panoramic illustrations in the exhibition and a separate collection of smaller prints. Most are digitally produced but the pair also work with watercolor and acrylic.
Each panoramic piece in the collection has a small plaque with the couple’s logo, a combination bunny rabbit/robot that is so unique they have hidden their off-campus G34 apartment number in its design. Their titles are “Around the House,” “Domo Arigato Mr. Nakamura,” “Wasteland” and “Naze Niwatori wa Michi wo Yokogittanoka,” which loosely translates to “Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?” Kozy preferred that Dan speak for them both. He talked about the artistic philosophy and the life they share. They chose the bunny/robot logo for two reasons. Kozy loves bunnies, they keep two at home, and Dan has an interest in robot technology that he traces back to his childhood. “The blending of the bunny and technology are at odds and seem contradictory, yet at the same time they work well together,” Dan said. “I think that what we like to do with a lot of our illustrations is to take something that is easily recognizable and then inject something into the drawing that is totally out of place.” They like to hide things in their pictures that people won’t catch the first time they see them, but eventually find. They do not like to inject too much meaning into the work, they prefer the work be irreverent and more than a little bit off-thewall. Dan has been exposed to Asian
culture since high school because most of his friends at Villa Park High were Asian. He has always been interested in robot technology. He has turned an interest in Giant Robot Magazine into a recently completed commissioned work he and Kozy will have published in the 8-year-old magazine’s next issue. He designs DVDs for a company in Hollywood that is located near the West Los Angeles Giant Robot Store, owned and operated by the publisher of Giant Robot Magazine, Mr. Nakamura. In the Domo Arigato panorama, the Domo Arigato reference comes from an old song by the rock band Styx, in which the band sings repeatedly “Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto.” “This is our second showing of these pieces, the first was at Gallery 23 in Costa Mesa,” Dan said. “We’re doing a lot of illustrations, a couple of shows, we’ve had our Web site up for two months and we’re working our jobs. “We get most of the response off the Web site from word-of-mouth advertising in our business, from designers and artists. We want to do a little bit of everything, freelance illustrations, T-shirt designs and magazine illustrations.” By successfully marketing themselves, they have impressed both peers and teachers. Richard Pose is a graduating entertainment art major who works for graphic services and knows them both.
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Newlyweds Dan Kitchen and Kozy Imamura show their panoramic “They’ve made huge strides in terms of getting people to notice their work, they’ve impressed me with their professionalism,” Pose said. “It is rare to find students reaching their level. When they find their niche, and it might be an underground niche, but when they find it they’re going to be huge...they’re just a lot of fun.” Finding a professional niche is more difficult today because most large companies do not have art departments anymore, said Cliff Cramp, assistant professor of illustration. “They are finding their own niche market, which is important to do today in commercial art,” Cramp said. “You have to have that ‘wow’
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factor in your portfolio, show them something different that they’ve never seen before. Kozy and Dan are excellent illustrators and designers.” What does the future hold for the newlyweds? Relocating to somewhere other than Los Angeles eventually, perhaps even Japan, where he and Kozy visited her parents outside Tokyo. “I was fascinated by the complexity of the urban centers in Japan, the sensory overload and the feeling of structure,” Dan said. “We think we are lucky to have found our soulmates at such a young age. We’re inseparable; we go everywhere and do everything together. We’re addicted to each other.”
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Difficult existence with nHEALTH: Children who suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome may have trouble with everyday activities Second in Three Series Second in Three PartPart Series By Heather Hampton
Daily Titan Staff Writer Friends are hard to find for a child who has fetal alcohol syndrome. “I am the adoptive parent of an alcohol-exposed child. He is immature and socially inept,” said Diane Kerchner, a fetal alcohol syndrome special educator. Kerchner said her son has autistic tendencies and does not have a friend in the world. “He is a lonely guy, and it is heartbreaking to watch,” she said. But the child is not to blame. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, when a mother drinks alcohol, so does her unborn baby because alcohol crosses the placenta freely. Each time a pregnant woman drinks, the unborn baby struggles to stay alive long enough to take its first breath. The fetus can be damaged in many ways that will affect the child for the rest of its life. “The developing brain of the fetus becomes pickled in alcohol and may never grow to its maximum potential size,” Kerchner said. This may cause prefrontal brain
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a staff member will record the highest points for that game. Poddig said that the games they will select during this contest will include two fighting titles, a pinball machine and a shooting game. Winners will be notified either by telephone or by email by the TSU Underground staff. ‑ Poddig also notes that the prizes that the champions will win are all items that students would want. ‑ “There are students in here already playing and the prizes are just an extra added bonus,” Poddig said.
damage, which Kerchner said may result in the loss of executive function of the brain. “In severe cases, infants may have physical changes to the brain, the brain stem and other portions of the brain itself,” Kerchner said. Yet this is only the beginning of the lifelong struggle for parents whose children have fetal alcohol syndrome. Edward Riley, Ph.D., a psychology professor and director for the Center for Behavioral Teratology at San Diego State University, said children with fetal alcohol syndrome have lots of behavioral problems. “While their IQs vary, in general they are mildly retarded,” Riley said. Riley said he doesn’t understand why a person would knowingly put their developing (child) at risk for lifelong problems with behavioral difficulties, perhaps retardation. Mary O’Connor, Ph.D., director of the Fetal Alcohol and Related Disorders Clinic at UCLA’s School of Medicine, said that children with fetal alcohol syndrome suffer from much more. “They are socially immature, have poor planning skills, are socially naïve, are more likely to drop out of school, are more likely to be in trouble with the law and more like to have mental health problems,” O’Connor said. O’Connor said that fetal alcohol syndrome is a lifelong disability and that studies on intervention for the central nervous system deficits are currently underway. “Animal studies suggest that motor functioning can be improved with early intervention,” she said. According The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome Web site, www.nofas.org, there are keys to successfully working with fetal alcohol syndrome children. Some techniques include structure, consistency, variety, brevity and persistence. “Because these children lack internal structure, caretakers need to provide external structure for them,” the site reported. The Web site also said that it is important to be brief in explanations and directions, but also to use a variety of ways to get and keep their attention and it is important to repeat what it is the caretaker wants them to learn over and over again. The job is never-ending for the parents and caretakers of a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. Each day is a constant battle. Kerchner said taking care of her son is a full-time job. “We have no one who wants to take on that type of responsibility for another human being,” she said. Kerchner said that they have to live “by key” in their home. “We lock up all knives, scissors and even crayons every night to prevent accidents,” Kerchner said. “We lock up our pantry to prevent a nighttime raid. It is frankly more trouble than most people want to give themselves.” Yet, Kerchner is even more worried when the day comes that she and her husband will no longer be there to take care of their son. “My son will in all great likelihood never be able to become independent,” Kerchner said. “We will have to support him all his life. When my husband and I die, who will become his guardian?”
The idea for the “Arcade Extravaganza” was developed almost eight years ago when one of the video game vendors thought it would be a good idea to spruce up a tent in the TSU Underground with balloons and have an arcade within an arcade. “We want to make it kind of like a tournament, “ Poddig said. The games and recreation manager and some of the staff said they were surprised that only a small crowd was on hand the last time the even took place. ‑ “Not a lot of people knew about this last semester,” said Heidi Vion, a desk attendant at the TSU Underground. In an attempt to draw a larger crowd
this semester, Poddig said that he will choose more popular games that students can play. ‑ He hopes that arcade smash hits like Tekken will bring in more competitors to make the atmosphere livelier. ‑ He also said that the posters and signs his staff put up should get wordof-mouth going about the event and increase attendance. Poddig said he hopes the “Arcade Extravaganza” delivers a refreshing break to CSUF students. “We just hope that students have fun while they play and have good finals,” Poddig said. ‑“The most important thing is that they are just relaxed.”
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nMESSENGER: David Wilcox visits Southern California cities spreading words to inspire thought By Erick Fierro Martinez Daily Titan Staff Writer
Dressed in his lightly faded blue jeans, a pale green T-shirt and topped with a cowboy hat painted white, David Wilcox sits on the corner of Imperial Highway and Associated Road with a message that questions life’s importance. “I’m not important, the message is,” Wilcox said. Wilcox says with failure comes experience and the opportunity to teach. The road is the only place where he can be free to speak his mind. “This is the only way to reach people who are never going to be reached except for when they drive through this intersection,” Wilcox said Over the past 18 years, Wilcox has visited cities throughout Southern California, from Escondido to Hollywood, to spread a message that will inspire thought. Wilcox says he spends 50 days at
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will receive about $10,000 in the 200203 budget. The program was created this fiscal year by the ASI executive staff. It’s comprised of a coalition of students who promote tradition, unity and pride on campus. “It’s expensive,” junior Azumi Kurokawa said. “But I think we need
each new intersection from 6:30 a.m. to 9p.m. Sometimes called the “nagging conscious of Southern California,” Wilcox hopes not to be seen or even heard but to have his daily message read. For years, reporters have tracked the movements of Wilcox, who never moves more than two miles from his previous location. But Wilcox pays little attention to the reporter’s message that has labeled him with many nicknames including “the sign guy,” and the “display model.” “The articles are about a somebody who isn’t even a me anymore,” he said. The only thing that is important is the message painted in bold black letters across a large white board with messages like “Your fate depends on knowing what you know” and “Why am I asking your questions?” Each day, Wilcox says that the number of motorists who read his sign increases. Wilcox questions the media and accuses
it.” In an attempt to regulate the budget, legislators also imposed a student-leader wage cap on all inter-club councils. ICCs now have $4,536 to dole out among its student leaders. In the past, the ICCs fixed their own student-leader wages. Legislators said they proposed the change after they received proposals asking for too much, or not enough, money for student wages. “That was the only fair way to do it,”
reporters of utilizing it as an instrument to spread a perceived truth. Wilcox tells the story of his life sparingly, giving few clues as to what his past includes. He mentions that he was a part of the peace movement back in the ‘60s until he realized that holding a sign on the side of the highway was more effective. The political parties, in Wilcox’s view, no longer represent the values that they once proclaimed. Once a supporter of the Democratic party, Wilcox said the old Democrats would never have given power to corporate entities like the Republican party has today. Throughout his days at the intersection, interruptions occur frequently . One day two young men drove by in a Ford Explorer and shouted profanities, but the comments, Wilcox says, are “expected.” Wilcox said his message has to start in a place that most people think foolish. “They label you crazy,” he said. But his only response comes in the
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form of a sign the following day. Some support Wilcox by bringing him gifts. One young woman once drove by with a child in the vehicle and ran up to him yelling “God bless you,” with a bag of Taco Bell. “I like what he does. These signs are good for provoking thought because of their cleverness,” said one area resident who wished to remain anonymous. “Somebody feels threatened by a guy sitting on a street corner that’s just holding a sign. They must have a problem. It’s not [Wilcox’s] problem, it’s their problem.” Over the years, Wilcox has been arrested several times for minor incidents like blocking a public sidewalk. But for the most part, authorities have been sympathetic and have provided materials for his mission. He believes that if one can grow up into maturity then darkness will fade away with evil. If people can begin to ask questions again, creativity can be
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ousy. Young women especially, say that it felt good because it meant that he really loved them.” But isolation will start to develop and the partner starts enforcing unrealistic demands, such as forbidding the victims to socialize with other people. Even though the partners don‘t give the women an ultimatum, they will set the women up to fail. They’ll have an all-night scream fest the night before she has a test or a final. Both Freeman and Arambarri work at the Women’s Center and have talked to women who have experienced domestic violence. “Quite often, [the abuse] starts at the lower end of the spectrum, where it may be verbal or emotional abuse, but it will lead to pushing and shoving and then end up being full-out beatings,” Freeman said. Children who are exposed to the abuse are affected by it, and some are also predisposed to modeling these behaviors.
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“For the little boys, they see how to be in a relationship, how to learn to be men and how to be a dad. “They’re learning these behaviors from someone whose conflict resolution skills include punching holes in walls and pulling hair.” Freeman stressed the importance of educating the young about domestic violence. “We need to educate [the children] from a very small age, so that they know that this is not appropriate behavior,” she said. Many women want answers on how to change their partner’s behavior, but Arambarri said that there isn’t an easy solution. “I don’t think that there are any words she can use to change him,” she said. “The only thing she can do is to make healthy choices and a safety plan for herself and for her children.” Ultimately, it is up to the woman to take charge and change her situation. “The woman has to make up her mind herself and make the first move, because it doesn’t work if she doesn’t.” Arambarri said.
changes sound interesting, but many CSUF students are admitted on their GPA, not their SAT scores. “The primary concern of educators is not necessarily a test score, but the knowledge students possess after leaving high school.” We want the SAT I test to be on track,” said Les Axelrod, education research and evaluation consultant. “But regardless of the test or how they are accessed, we want students
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Right price paid for the life of gameshow voice nENTERTAINMENT: The announcer for CBS’s “The Price is Right,” recovered recently from cancer By Maria Ragas
Daily Titan Staff Writer “Come on down” booms an enthusiastic and energetic voice over the speakers. Dressed in a colorful, flashy jacket, he calls down the next contestant. The famous voice of “The Price is Right” belongs to Rod Roddy, who is in his 16th year on the long-running daytime gameshow. Recovering from colon cancer, Roddy is spending most of his energy on the show and encouraging every man and woman over the age of 50 to have regular screenings for the disease colon cancer. He said if he had a colonoscopy earlier, his cancer would have been detected and possibly prevented. His Sept. 11 surgery took seven-anda-half hours and the doctors recovered a tumor the size of a large orange. However, Roddy said he did not miss too many shows. He returned to television in December. “We missed him a lot while he was gone, he livened it up when he got back,” said Claudia Jordan, a “Barker beauty.” Completing radiation and chemotherapy successfully, the diagnosis is good. “He is energetic, full of pure energy,” Jordan said. “No matter how tired he is, he gets everyone going.” Roddy’s friend Ah Song, who makes jackets out of Thai silk, made Roddy’s signature colorful jackets in Bangkok, Thailand. Roddy travels all over Southeast Asia looking for the material. He wants every jacket to be better than the last. He owns more than 600 jackets. Roddy said the first year he was on the show he wore dull colors, then in 1986 he went to Bangkok and came back with pastel colored jackets. “Bob Barker said, ‘gee those are interesting,’” Roddy said. From that point on he began search-
ing for different colors and styles. Jordan said Roddy’s jackets are a nice change and balance Bob Barker’s plain style. She said people go nuts when they see the flashy jacket because they know that Roddy is coming. Jordan said Roddy gets the audience hyped up and ready for the show. “He does a great job of it,” she said. Roddy said he enjoys working with people because they have energy and college students are great fans. He also said he is grateful to Barker. “He is a great guy to work with and he is the best and I think the ratings reflect that,” Roddy said. Roddy began on “The Price is Right” after the passing of Johnny Olsen in 1985. Kathy Grecko, associate producer of the show, said Roddy auditioned along with people like Bob Hilton and Gene Wood. “We thought he was the best suited for the show,” Grecko said. Roddy said he also worked on “Press Your Luck” and “Love Connection” at the same time for four years. “It’s been a good decision, it’s been a great fun show,” Roddy said. He said he loves the money, the people, giving money to people and meeting people he would not otherwise meet. His favorite “Price is Right” game is “In the Bag” and his least favorite is the clock game, which has been around longest. Roddy said they tape “The Price Is Right” Monday through Thursday and receive three weeks off during the summer and two weeks off during the winter. As for the rest of the year, they get time off every so often. Jordan said Roddy is a sweetheart and very generous. “It’s like he is happy to be there, even after 16 years,” she said. Roddy was born in Fort Worth, Texas on Sept. 28, 1937. Along with being an announcer and sidekick to Barker, he is a TV entertainer, actor and voice-over artist. Roddy said he began when he was 9 years old by calling out Bingo when his parents went out to play the game. He went to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and majored in radio and TV. When he was in sixth grade be began to take photos. He said he realized
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there was a lot of money in the business. He shot portraits and wedding pictures. Realizing photography was a lot work, he went into radio at the age of 16. He began in the early days of radio and the first days of rock ‘n’ roll, when Bill Haley and his Comets and Elvis Presley were popular. Roddy spent 16 years in radio as a disc jockey and executive. During his radio career, he was known as Hot Rod Roddy and he hosted both music and talk shows on stations in several cities such as Orlando, New Orleans, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. But he wanted to be on TV. His break came in 1977 when he became the narrator on ABC-TV’s comedy series “Soap” that ran for four years. Then he got into game shows. First was “Whew” on CBS in 1979, “Battle of the Stars” in 1981, “So You Think You’ve Got Troubles, Hit Man” on NBC and “Press Your Luck” on CBS in 1983. Roddy was the original announcer on “Love Connection” before he started on “The Price is Right” in 1985. In 2001, he was the voice of Mike in “House of Mouse.” He did one movie, “Posse From Heaven” with Fannie Fox. Roddy said it is not easy to be on TV and make big money. He said it is difficult to be an actor and that it takes a lot of luck to get a good part. During July 2001, slot machines manufactured by International Game Technology featuring Roddy as the announcer, were installed in six Nevada casinos. Today, people can hear the voice and animated likeness of Roddy all over the country. When he is not taping “The Price is Right,” Roddy loves to travel all over the world, meet people and see interesting places. Roddy said his favorite places are Buenos Aires in Argentina, Bangkok, Chaing Mai, the beaches of Punta Del Este in Uruguay and the beach south of Thailand, Phukat. He said the only place he has not been that he really wants to visit is Egypt to see the Pyramids and the art. Roddy plans to travel more in the future but as for now he is working hard on staying healthy.
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If you had the uncanny power to stop something horrible from happening, would you? Apparently the FBI, CIA and White House didn’t have “spidey-sense” a few weeks before Sept. 11 when warnings of an attack by Osama bin Laden didn’t set off blaring alarms in their heads. Nearly eight months after four airplanes were hijacked and flown into the trade centers, Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, the White House has admitted knowing about the threats. While staying at his Crawford, Texas ranch for an extended three month summer vacation, President George W. Bush was notified on Aug. 6 that al-Qaida terrorists might hijack commercial airliners. National Security Adviser, Condaleeza Rice, said the administration remained silent because it didn’t want to risk shutting down the airports for a “general warning.”
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By John Phillips
The folks on Capitol Hill usually decry the negative influence the movies have on society. Their philosophy: if a kid sees an actor on-screen poke his eye out with a stick, the same kid will go home and immediately poke his own eye out with a stick (or fork, whatever is handy…point being, he’ll do it because he saw it done in a movie)! If this philosophy is true, then even politicians who watched movies, like the “Star Wars: Episode II,” might be influenced by what they see. Practically the first words out of Obi Wan’s (Ewan McGregor) mouth in “Episode II” were “Politicians are corrupt.” Enough said, the audience can go home now. No point for them to further pursue a career in Washington D.C. But alas, George Lucas defended the profession by making Queen Amidala into the model of political perfection as Senator Amidala. She votes…on important stuff and apparently does little else. If Jar Jar can be a senator, pretty much anyone can. Lesson learned: run for office, it’s not time-consuming and/or difficult. You may even be able to fall in love with one of your Secret Service/security guards during your spare time. The senators in “Episode II” also tend to panic during times of uncertainty such as when they hand over all their “emergency power” to Senator Palpatine ::cue Darth Vader theme:: so they can fight the war against the emerging dark side. All the bills passed immediately following Sept. 11 ring true of this actually occurring. Lesson learned: Beware the shadow government lurking behind each administration (President George W. Bush is equal to Senator Palpatine? … yeah, I’ll get some letters for that allusion). Not that the administration is tantamount to the dark side, but it did indeed create a hand-picked (rather than elected) shadow government to take control of the United States if anything happened to the present administration and stored them in a secluded, secure mountain location. More evidence that the administration resembles a mild form of the dark side (I say mild in hopes that Bush has yet to approve a “clone army” in the defense budget – one Donald Rumsfeld is quite enough) is the White House’s blatant involvement with Enron, or the “evil trade federation” as in “Star Wars” (nevermind that one of Enron’s strategies to bilk Southern California residents out of their energy was aptly named “Death Star”). Enron made it look like Southern California needed more energy than it truly did by delivering power into already congested areas on purpose. The state then unknowingly payed Enron to alleviate the congestion. One big cycle all in the name of power and greed, that came with no admonition from the government since Ken Lay helped appoint several people to the national energy commission. “Here is a company that was as ribald, as brash, as swashbuckling and as unethical as any company I can possibly conceive of,” Senator Diane Feinstein said of Enron. Someone hand Feinstein a lightsaber. This battle might be better than the dark side’s duel with Yoda.
When they’re not beating their wives, blowing up hotel ballrooms or cheering on Muslim terrorists for killing 3,000 innocent Americans, “peace-loving” Palestinian activists are hitting the airwaves – asking for your support in their effort to destroy Israel. Their cause was taken up by about 100,000 frothing-at-the-mouth agitators during a recent march on Washington. The event was billed as “a march against war and racism (a euphemism for ‘a march against Jews and anyone who doesn’t hate them’).” As speaker after speaker denounced American support of Israel, the crowd would occasionally break out into poisonous chants, such as: “Long live Palestine! Long live the intifada!” and “We don’t care what you say! Intifada all the way!” In addition, protesters carried signs that featured Israeli flags, with the Star of David replaced by a blue swastika. Words like “holocaust,” “genocide,” “Nazis,” “terrorists” and “Adolf Hitler” were used by the speakers to describe the Israeli government. Their hypocrisy is laughable. I don’t recall Ariel Sharon being a 2-and-a-half foot tall, anti-Semitic dictator. But wait a minute! I know of someone who is – Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Let’s face it– if Hitler threw a dishtowel on his head, ditched his Benz for a camel and refused to bathe for weeks on end, he could pass as Arafat’s twin. There was one point that the activists did describe accurately. That came when Jennifer Wager of the IFCO Pastors for Peace announced that “Youths are at the forefront of this movement.” Wagner is exactly right. Strapping dynamite to 10-year-old children and sending them into cafes on suicide missions is right at the top of the Palestinian playbook. Fortunately, President George W. Bush isn’t giving into their campaign of lies, intimidation and terror. He is standing by our friend, closest ally, and only democracy in the region: Israel. As former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu correctly points out – the terrorist tactics employed by Muslims in the Mideast could become a daily event in the United States if we don’t squash it immediately. The former, and hopefully future prime minister explains, “Israel and the United States are today fighting the same battle, waging the same war, confronting the same evil. Like the United States, Israel did not seek this war. It was forced on us by a savage enemy that glorifies in a culture of death, a culture where murderers are called martyrs and where suicide is sanctified.” Terrorists aren’t our friends. Yasser Arafat isn’t our friend. As former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mier once said, “There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews.” Don’t count on that happening anytime soon.
Some important people must be feeling quite foolish. The FBI had two internal memos, one from a Pheonix agent who warned of suspicious Arab activity at flight schools and the other from a Minneapolis agent that said Zacarias Moussaoui (arrested in August) planned to “fly something into the World Trade Center.” The question eight months later is, did Americans have a right to know about the threats? When Gray Davis warned Californians post-Sept. 11 that bridges may be attacked, he was criticized by law enforcement officials and the White House. No bridges were attacked. One could speculate that the warning worked. Keeping Americans in the dark about the al-Qaida threat didn’t work as well for the Bush administration.
Letters to the Editor The “loony left” isn’t so crazy
I never thought that I would ever be caught defending The Daily Titan, but amidst all of these accusations, I simply feel compelled to. Do not get me wrong, I do share some of the concerns that “concernedtitan” is flaunting all over campus in his/her leaflets on the fallen state of our beloved periodical. But, at the same time, there is too much fraudulent skepticism and emotional sensationalism in the opinion pieces. The May 10 weekend edition, for instance, features two brief letters that are nothing if not blatant ad hominem fallacies. Thomas Lopez, for example, chooses to throw his arms up in desperation and call Michael del Muro a “total idiot” who does not “understand politics,” – needless to say, I disagree. First of all, the author commands his readers to “Stop Blaming America for World’s Ills.” This is impossible. To assume that America remains a largely isolationist state of the pre-WWI-flavor and can very capably command the world’s awe and subordination through fancy “gun-boat diplomacy” (something Bush is trying hard to do) would be a great delusion. I have been following almost all of Michael del Muro’s arguments since Sept.11 (and long, long before) and will say that he provides some of the most objective, considerate, educated perspective one is liable to find on our great happy-go-lucky conservative campus. Which brings me to the next point: the fight over “left and right!” For someone vain enough to place academic credentials (BA 1972, MBA 1979) on an opinion piece, John Jaeger is ghastly faulty in his assumption that the “universities today [all of them, mind you, if you follow the argument] like CSUF, are overwhelmingly liber-
al…” Very well, Mr. MBA, what is a university? What is liberal-ness (look for this one in the dictionary, and maybe you’ll find it under the section entitled, “How new words such as ‘donator’ find their ways into languages”)? And what is your strife? Don’t you see, dear Mr. Jaeger, that it is precisely this flight of fancy which distracts you (and all poor “politicians” like you) from ever even thinking of real problems, or better yet, abandoning them altogether. So long as you have a scapegoat, be he Mike Del Muro, or Ms. Pierceall, or “Pinko-commies” or the gross disregard for rules of grammar one is likely to find within The Daily Titan, you are very aptly diverted from thinking about what matters: change. Rather than pour forth alternatives, or carefully weighed perspectives into a carefully writ opinion piece, the trend of the Mr. Jaegers and Mr. Lopezes of the world is to give voice to their precious safe feelings. That may work in poetry but not in an opinion piece. I could very well have told Mr. Lopez to go back to his thespian brotherhood and sing some more broadway scores, or told Mr. Jaeger to tattoo his MBA degree onto his forehead so as to concretify his ofso-objective-unbiased take on the world, but I will NOT! I choose to end this letter on a positive note – a commendation to Michael Del Muro for his moreor-less responsible, justified journalism over the past year, and bid him success in the years to come. Thank you for not forgetting that the “Education President” is not all most have been led to believe. - Borisio del Toro English major
Battle of the Bands review off RE: Detour May 9 “The Sound and the Fury of Music” Well Laura Gaghan – after reading your article on the results of the battle of the bands it seemed the level of accuracy is less than adequate. If you didn’t like the music, that’s fine. Taste is taste – cool. Even if people hated us – that’s acceptable. I know we sell out in L.A. and that Orange County clubs and journalists such as yourself have proven to be plagued with the inability to recognize anything new and interesting – a thin, regional mindset indeed. But as you venture off into the world of rock journalism my dear, it might behoove you to take into consideration that poor listening skills and fictional observations combined with the inability to scribble down “who said what” is a point of contention when the interviewees catch wind of it. Quoting people inaccurately can make the people that you are interviewing very, very wrinkled around the edges. I never said, “We wanted something for free.” That is a ridiculous statement. I DID say however that we wanted to establish a solid relationship with the radio station. You should know also that Martin Brown from Live Magazine is a crooked bastard who is still har-
boring disdain for not being able to bully us into buying a $500 space on a compilation CD he was putting together. He has shunned us every step of the way since we rejected his offer to put one of our songs on some political/activist CD compilation during a Live Magazine promotional event at The Galaxy Theater. If he disliked us so much, why would he want to put our music on a CD about which he felt so impassioned? 1979 – really. God – crap like this all makes me so sick to my stomach. Billy Corgan said in an interview “if your audience is scratching their heads after you finish your set then you are right on track.” I guess the silent/damp wet rag/deer caught in the headlights – type of reaction we garnered from everyone (including yourself apparently) just goes to show that Orange County will always be Orange County – that politics, ignorance and fear of anything new and creative will always rest at the core of the white bread and milkshake swilling masses. And suburbia just keeps on growing... - Chris Cas Lead singer for Daycare for Dave
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Airports aren’t safe and so much chaos, that the officers turned their backs as two or three people walked through the detector While returning from a trip to the unnoticed. The National Guard troops are East Coast, I couldn’t help but notice the tightened security situations at our intimidating, but they just stand there with their M-16’s. Why don’t they do national airports. Effective security checks? I think the security inspections? They seem more qualified to me. Instead, the not. They looked more like last-minute government chose to employ federal workers as airport secuattempts to deter a terrorist rity. It’s a last minute from boarding the plane. “The govern- attempt to boost the Of course, security is airline economy and doing its best with what ment has American trust. they have. Unfortunately It doesn’t work. The they don’t have the greatest employees are still the equipment to work with. talked of same but now they have The X-ray machines used label. for carry-on bags looked placing fed- a federal There’s no way to as if they were made in the fully control the safety 70s. Even in this day of eral agents of commercial flights. technology, guns and other The only thing that can weapons still seem to pass mysteriously through the on planes ... be done is attempt to deter it. The governdetectors as if they didn’t exist. Airports are shutI don’t want ment has talked of placing federal agents on ting down routinely due to planes. It’s a bad idea; security X-ray mishaps. bullets flyI don’t want bullets flyAfter the X-ray, the next ing on my plane. Even step in the security process ing on my the pilots want guns. brought me to a friendly Flying is not a right, man who compared my it is a privilege. The license with the name on plane.” airlines need to crack the boarding pass. He down on their policies. glanced carelessly over If people don’t like it, Mike my friend’s license and pass. He turned to me and Dellachiara, oh well. It’s our duty as checked my information Special to the Titan citizens to follow whatever security guidelines closely. It almost seemed the airlines mandate. random in the way he matched the names. It only takes one The excuse that the airlines are violatto slip by. People have been known to ing passengers’ rights is getting old. The right to live is the most important board under different names. After walking through the metal right. So while people continue to comdetector and retrieving my bags, there was one more step. A man holding a plain, the airlines look for ways to metal detector was waiting patiently. loosen security policies so people The man, however, randomly checked don’t feel violated. It’s a move in the people as they walked into the termi- wrong direction. As millions of travelers, including nal. Why check randomly? If you’re going to check one, then check the myself, continue to fly the friendly next. That is the only way to feel com- skies, and invest our trust in the airlines, one can’t help but ponder: is pletely safe on a five-hour flight. On my way home, I missed the flight there any way to make this flight safer because security was more intense. It with updated equipment? Could secutook almost one hour to complete rity be stricter? All of this is valuable the whole process. Everything was information when flying 35,000 feet double-checked and verified. My only in the sky. The more prepared we are as freeconcern was the crowd. In such a big crowd, several people must slip dom-loving citizens, then the greater through every day. In fact, I saw chance there is of living in a terror-free one. There were so many people country.
By Mike Dellachiara Special to the Titan
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Look who isn’t talking nTECHNOLOGY: The advent of new modes of communication destroyed traditional conversation By Kathleen Usher
Special to the Titan We have witnessed the first casualty of the “information age” – communication. The act of talking with a live person either face to face or at the very least on a telephone has become a lost art. We page, e-mail, fax and leave voice mail. We have made our lives easier, but at what price? The sacrifice of human contact for easier and quicker messages has made people more isolated. We see people all day, but remain isolated because we fail to talk with them. Questions can be e-mailed, information faxed and messages left on voice mail. All this new technology has left us as a society unable to communicate with each other. We remain isolated with computers as our only contact to the outside world.
I’m not facing a window, but rather a computer screen with a beach motif as a screensaver. The longer this trend of isolation continues, the harder it will be to break out. The longer we allow the chains of computer communication to hold us, the more unable and unwilling we are to hold an actual conversation with people. The difference between a conversation between two intelligent people and computer communication is the emotion that can only be conveyed through voice and face to face conversation. When we have lost emotion in our communication, then we have lost what makes us human. The ability to have a dialogue with someone allows us to learn more about both ourselves and the other person. When we fail to have this contact we hide a piece of ourselves that we cannot find anywhere else. Computers have brought us many conveniences, but there are limitations to what they can do. There will never be a computer that can stimulate another person. Maybe the Y2K bug wasn’t such a bad idea.
Friday, May 17, 2002
CSUF pole vaulters enjoy a different kind of wake-up
nTRACK AND FIELD: Along with their teammates, Titan high-fliers look to Big West championships
By Katie Cumper
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Pole vaulter Jennifer Clarke shows off her talent earlier this season.
The average person knows what kind of day it is going to be when they wake up in the morning. For the average pole vaulter however, getting up on the wrong side of the bed usually determines how high they will fly and how hard they will hit the mat when they land. While coffee may remedy a bad morning for some, a charging run down a narrow path ending with a flight through space over a 1inch rod is the only thing that can brighten the day of a high-flying track athlete. Caffeine just doesn’t do it for them. “I swore I’d never do it,” Titan pole vaulter Valerie Beggs said of the sport. “My coach in high school was always trying to get me to try it – and I finally did. Now it helps me get the stress out.” Although the thought of being flung from the top of a pole as long as 11 feet and sailing through space between two vertical poles doesn’t really sound like a tension reliever, freshman Jennifer Clarke said once the commitment to advance down the path has been made, all anxieties
disappear. “It’s not as scary as it looks,” she said. For teammate Beggs, it is all about being in the moment. “It’s OK to think about other things before you vault,” Beggs said. “But while you’re vaulting, you have to be focused. It’s 99 percent mental.” This is why pole vaulters don’t like the traditional track clap that is sometimes heard at meets when an athlete sprints down the runway to high jump, triple jump or pole vault. The clap, performed by other athletes and the crowd at the meet, starts out slow and begins to get faster as an athlete charges toward his or her destination. It is at its peek when the athlete leaps. Subsequently, it can break the rhythm of a pole vaulter. “We have enough mental issues in the sport without the clap,” freshman Joanne Rapadas said with a laugh. Rapadas is red shirting this year because of a shoulder injury that she will have surgery on this summer. Taking the season off has given
her time to “step back and think and improve mentally” in the sport of pole vaulting. She says that although it has been difficult to not compete, watching her teammates and helping at the meets has given her a chance to really analyze the sport. “It’s a complex event,” she said. “It has more components to it than the whole entire track meet put together. We have to think about wind standards, pole drop, and weight of the pole – just to name a few. Most people think that the bigger the pole the higher we go, but actually it’s the weight.” After all of the pole issues are resolved, the fun begins – soaring over the 11-foot-plus horizontal pole without touching it. It helps to have a background in gymnastics like Titan Lisa Ravalli. “I don’t jump as high as everyone else on the team,” she said. “But I am the handstand champion.” Beggs’ jump at the Claremont Classic last weekend of 11 feet 11 1⁄2 inches brought her into the 5th- place position in the Big West Conference. Clarke is 12th on the
list with her mark of 11-05 3⁄4. Titan Estelle Naito, currently 14th in the Big West, just missed the cutoff mark to compete today at the Big West Conference Championship held at UC Irvine. Beggs and Clarke will have one last chance this season to improve their marks. The first three positions in the conference in the women’s pole vault are held by Erin Curtis of UCI, Shae Bair of Utah State and Claire Parker of Cal State Northridge. Next year, the conference will adopt a qualifying meet at the regional level, which will give each track athletes another chance to better their marks. “More athletes will go to this postseason meet – about 40 percent more,” coach John Elders said. “[The new regional meet] will create more drama and anticipation before going to the Big West Conference.” An extra meet also will mean one more chance to really get the “hang” of pole vaulting. This is good news for Clarke. “It’s near the end of the season when I finally get it,” she said.
Titan softball begins NCAA regional play with a shut Cal State Fullerton junior Jodie Cox (Lancaster, Calif./Quartz Hill HS) threw seven strong innings and senior Yasmin Mossadeghi’s RBI fielder’s choice in the sixth jumpstarted a three-run inning as the topseeded Titans opened 2002 NCAA Regional play with a 3-0 victory over the sixth-seeded Evansville Purple Aces on Thursday afternoon at Bulldog Diamond. Fullerton improved to 51-11 overall and advanced in the win-
ners bracket to face an opponent to be determined Friday night at 7:30 p.m. The Titans have now won their last 10 consecutive games, and 42 of their last 44 contests, since dropping a pair to Pacific in late April. Evansville fell to 34-26 overall and played in an elimination game against the loser of No. 2 Stanford– No. 5 Pacific. Cox (18-4) scattered four hits in the complete game effort en route
to her seventh shutout of the season. She also walked just one batter and struck out five in the victory. Evansville freshman Katie Markle (19-12) pitched a gem of a game in the loss, allowing three runs (only one earned) on four hits and walking two. With their bats stymied through five innings, the Titans finally got something going in the sixth. With one out, Cox helped her own cause by singling up the mid-
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dle and advanced to second on a walk to Jenny Topping. Senior Monica Lucatero then drew a walk on four straight pitches to load the bases and bring up Mossadeghi. On a 2-1 pitch, Mossadeghi looped a little routine fly ball into foul territory behind the first base bag, but it was dropped by the second baseman, allowing Mossadeghi to remain at the plate. She promptly hit a sharp ground
ball to the shortstop, whose only play was to get the force at third and allowed Cox to cross the plate for the eventual winning run. After a wild pitch moved runners to second and third, Fullerton added two more runs as junior Amy LaRocque singled up the middle on a full count to bring Topping and Mossadeghi home for the 3-0 lead. Joni Woods singled with two outs in the seventh to snap a streak of 11 straight batters retired by Cox, but
the Titans were just too tough as Cox got Nicole Chatman to strikeout swinging to end the game. Four different Titans accounted for their hits as Topping and Krista O’Hanian each added a hit on the day. Four different players also had hits for the Purple Aces. – Information courtesy of CSUF Athletic Media Relations
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