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Lights not Out for Gray Davis nELECTION: California governor wins a second term, narrowly defeating Bill Simon By Benjamin Becker
Daily Titan Staff Writer Californians officially spoke yesterday, re-electing Gov. Gray Davis for another four years in office with 47.6 percent of the votes. Davis’ opponent, GOP candidate Bill Simon, received 42.2 percent of the statewide vote, while Green Party candidate Peter Camejo Governor received 5.3 percent, according Lieutenant to California’s Governor official government Web site at press time. Secretary of Davis, whose State campaign platform focused on Attorney issues such as General energy, education and the budget, is serving his 72nd second and final Assembly term as governor. District These last few weeks have seen Control of him promoting the Senate his pro-choice philosophy and promising to Control of enforce stricter the House gun control. N a t i o n a l l y, Republicans dominated the gubernatorial races, down two seats from last election settling at 25 state leaders, while Democrats gained four seats finishing with 19 (6 races were still in contention during press time), according to the CNN Web site. Democrat Cruz M. Bustamante was re-elected as lieutenant governor with 49.7 percent of the votes while Democrat Kevin Shelley was elected secretary of state with 46.5 percent, according to the CNN Web site. Camejo and all seven candidates for secretary of state have visited Cal State Fullerton within the last month. In local elections, Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher (R-72) beat her opponent, CSUF professor G. Nanjundappa, for the 72nd State Assembly District (which covers Fullerton, Brea
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Water, Kids, CSUFWin Key Measures nPROPOSITIONS: California voters passed five out of seven ballot items on Tuesday
Prop 46
YES The proposition will provide emergency shelters for battered women, affordable housing for seniors and low-income families and shelters with social services for the homeless by selling $2.1 billion in the state’s general obligation bonds.
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YES Will provide $13.05 billion to fund education facilities including Cal State Fullerton. The funds would be used to upgrade and build new classrooms at California community colleges, California State Universities and the University of California. The proposition would appropriate money from the State General Fund to pay off the bonds. CSUF will receive $17.3 million of the $13.05 billion. ASI recently signed a formal resolution in support of the proposition’s passage.
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Prop 48
YES Proposition will amend the California Constitution to delete references
to municipal courts. The consolidation of superior and municipal trail courts into unified superior courts have made these references obsolete. The change will come at no cost to the state.
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Prop 49
YES A r n o l d Schwarzenegger and supporters of Prop 49 won $26.2 billion (to be paid over 30 years) for before- and after-school programs. The proposition will increase state grant funds for before and after school programs which provide tutoring and homework assistance. The proposition provides for priority funding for schools with predominantly low-income students.
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YES Proposition will authorize $3.4 billion in general obligation bonds that would be repaid with money from the state’s General Fund to fund a variety of water projects. The projects include protecting and restoring costal wetlands near urban areas and providing grants for desalination and drinking water disinfecting projects.
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and Placentia, and portions of Anaheim, La Habra, Yorba Linda and Orange). Daucher, who received 67.8 percent of the votes, also beat Nanjundappa for the same position in 2000 and has focused much of her campaign on the public school system with more than 13 years of experience on school boards. Her campaign Gray Davis platform focused on improving California’s budCruz M. get and allocatBustamante ing proper public Kevin school funding. Shelley N a t i o n a l l y, the Republicans Bill Lockyer swept congress, gaining control of the Senate Lynn with 50 seats Daucher (three races were still in contention during Republicans press time) and remaining in control of the House Republicans with 226 seats (8 races were still in contention during press time), according to the CNN Web site. The last time the Republicans controlled both the presidency and Congress was during the beginning of the Bush administration before Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords defected from the Republican Party on May 24, 2001. He defected to the Independent party, leaving Democrats in control of the Senate. Concerning California, Democrat Steve Westly was elected controller with 45.6 percent of the votes while Treasurer incumbent Democrat Philip Angelides was re-elected with 49.6 percent. Incumbent Democrat Bill Lockyer retained his position as attorney general as he was re-elected with 51.7 percent of the vote. All statistics were accurate as of press time at 1:30 a.m.
(Some) CaliforniansVote nTURNOUT: Only 28 percent of Orange County residents exercised their democratic right to vote By Alex Yeo
Daily Titan Staff Writer Nearly 1.3 million Orange County residents are registered to vote and in yesterday’s general election only —percent of those actually voted. California elections have shown a steady decrease in voter turnout since 1960. According to the California Secretary of State’s Web site, in the 2000 general election 66 percent of the registered voters in Los Angeles cast their votes. In 1998 the lowest voter turnout was recorded with only 53 percent of the registered population voting. The primary election received an even lower percentage of voters when compared to these mid-elections. In the 2000 primary election 48 percent of L.A. registered voters came to the polls and in 1998 the elections were 10 percent lower. When compared to other countries, the United States ranks last in voter turnout. According to the Center for Voting and Democracy, Mexico had 60 percent of its registered population vote in recent elections, Denmark had 83 percent, Great Britain had 69 percent and France had 60 percent. Cal State Fullerton students have different opinions when it comes
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Voters in Orange County took to the polls on Tuesday. down to voting. “I don’t vote because I really think that one vote doesn’t make a difference,” said junior Radio/ TV/Film major Ana Lilia Raya. She also believes that different presidents or state governors don’t change her personal life because she still has the same job, same boyfriend and goes to the same school no matter who is in gubernatorial office. On the other hand, senior RTVF major Ruby Bates, who is a manager at The Gap, said, “Voting affects me in every aspect of my life. My father is a dockworker and is on strike because of Bush. The merchandise my dad processes is the clothing that I am waiting for at work.” Many studies show that people between the ages of 18 and 25 have a dismal turnout at polls. Women generally represent over 50 percent of the votes, according to the Bureau of the
Census. Measures have been taken to increase voter turnout, including the ability to vote before election date. Absentee voting is open for people that are unable to go vote on the day of the elections. Absentee ballots are available 29 days prior to each election and need to be mailed or turned in to the Registrar’s Office before voting polls close at 8:00 p.m. on election day. Another measure that is being put into effect is same day voter registration with Proposition 52. Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wyoming and Wisconsin have sameday registration and have shown a 5.1 percent increase between 1996 and 2000, according to the Committee for the Study of American Electorate.
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BRIEFS CSUF Sponsors Professor for a Day Nearly 130 business professionals returned to the classroom yesterday and today to share their expertise during the ninth annual “Professor for a Day,” sponsored by Cal State Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics. Most classes will be held in the Langsdorf Hall today and a schedule of events is available upon request. For further information, contact Public Affairs at (714) 2782414.
Brea Salutes Local Veterans The City of Brea, the Brea Downtown Owners Association and the Orange County Veterans Advisory Council for are collaborating for Brea Salutes Veterans. The event will take place in Downtown Brea at Birch Street on Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. to honor local veterans. The day will include a myriad of patriotic activites with military songs and music from different eras that will be performed by Frank Amoss’ big band, professional swing dancers, keynote speaker William C. Maines, Chairman of the Orange County Veterans Advisory Council, and special recognition of veterans. For further information on the event, call (877) BREA-FUN.
Cal State Fullerton Holds Event Honoring Latino Veterans
Patriotism and heroism will be the themes of the sixth annual “Veterans Day Celebration: A Tribute to Mexican American Veterans of the Korean War.” The event is sponsored by Cal State Fullerton and Latino Advocates for Education and will be held at the CSUF campus on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aztec skydivers will parachute onto the Performing Arts lawn, military vehicles and classic cars will be on display and attendees will be able to meet war heroes. Those billed as honored guests include Brig. Gen. Gus Hernandez of Montebello, a Silver Star recipient, and over 200 Korean War veterans. There also will be relatives of other decorated veterans who fought in World War II and the Korean War. “Our goal is to promote patriotism, to recognize the contributions,” said Orange County Superior Court Judge Frederick P. Aguirre, president of Latino Advocated for Education. “If a patriot is defined as a person who gives his life for his county, then Mexican Americans are ‘super’ patriots.” The event is free. For further information, contact Public Affairs at (714) 2782414.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS On Campus Nov. 6 Ramadan begins. ASI Elections start and carry on through Nov. 7. Complete your Titan experience by voting, or something. “Orange County 2050: A Community Dialogue,” a discussion that will address beach pollution, health care and other things leading to the demise of our society, or something. 7:30 p.m. in the TSU. “Women & Investing: Striking a Balance in Your Personal and Financial Life,” a lecture by Rosa Dalia Hernandez, a financial consultant from Salomon Smith Barney, will help you get your stuff together, or something. 12 p.m. in University Hall Room 205. Nov. 7 Film Series kicks off November with one of the best trilogies of all time, or something, “Back to the Future.” Fun should be had by all. 6 p.m. in Titan Theatre. Go bowling, or something, because it’s free in the TSU Underground, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Russia’s Post-Communism: Old Wine in New Bottles,” sorry this isn’t about delicious merlots. Instead the lecture covers the birth of the Russian
Republic, or something. In the Ruby Gerontology Center’s Mackey Auditorium. 10 a.m. The Cello Choir will perform under the direction of Bongshin Ko, or something. Tickets are $10 or $5 with advance Titan discount. 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center’s Recital Hall. Woodrow Wilson is an often misunderstood president, or something. But learn more about our 28th president from a great film. 1:15 p.m. in the Ruby Gerontology Center’s Mackey Auditorium. Amy Pietz, actress from “Caroline in the City” and “Ally McBeal,” will be speaking at the TV/Film Society’s meeting, or something. 4 p.m. in the TSU Ontiveros AB. Non-TV/ Film Society members are welcome. Nov. 8 This should be fun, or something. Men’s and women’s over-the-line tournament at the intramural fields from 11:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. Table tennis rules, or something, so catch a glimpse of it at the TSU Underground’s tournament from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Women’s volleyball versus Utah State. The Big West Conference match starts at 7 p.m. in Titan Gym. For more information, call (714) 278CSUF.
Women’s soccer versus UC Riverside. The Big West Conference match starts at 7 p.m. in Titan Stadium. For more information, call (714) 278-CSUF. Jane Austen’s “Emma,” will open in the Performing Arts Center’s Arena Theater. The play runs until Nov. 17. Tickets are $9 or $7 with advance Titan discount. 8 p.m. “Is There a Brain Food,” a lecture, or something, by our good friend Shvonne Striklen. She’ll learn you good. 10 a.m. in the Ruby Gerontology Center’s Shapiro Wing C/D. Nov. 9 Women’s volleyball versus Idaho. The Big West Conference match starts at 7 p.m. in Titan Gym. For more information, call (714) 278CSUF. Men’s soccer versus Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The Big West Conference match starts at 7 p.m. in Titan Stadium. For more information, call (714) 278-CSUF. Nov. 10 The French Film Series features Leos Carax’s, “Boy Meets Girl” and “Les Armants du Pont Neuf,” or something. 5:30 p.m. in Humanities Room 110. The sixth Annual Veterans Day Celebration will take place
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in the TSU at 10:30 a.m. Three Medal of Honor recipients will attend. The day will close out with a classic car show and skydivers. Nov. 11 Veterans Day. Campus closed. Free karaoke, or something, at the TSU Pub from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Chicana/Chicano Studies department will host a slide show titled, “La Frontera: Indian Sovereignty, Drug Trafficking, Death & Life Along the U.S./Mexico Border.” 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Pollak Library North Room 130. Light refreshments will be provided, or something.
Community Nov. 9 Sleep in. Nov. 10 The Fenians will rock the most yuppie crowd in Orange County at Muldoon’s in Newport Beach. 2 p.m. 202 Newport Center Drive. Please note: If you do not know where this is, it is right across the street from Fascist Island.
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ASI Candidates
College of Business and Economics
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Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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Humanities and Social Sciences
Katherine Garcia Sophomore International Business major
Samanaz Kapadia Junior Business Administration with concentrations in marketing, management, and entertainment and tourism
Jonathan Lee Smith Junior Mathematics major (info from ASI Elections Web site)
Jason Thompson Sophomore
Karen McCord Junior Psychology & American Studies
1. Why are you running for this ASI position? I am running because I am a qualified individual, and I think that I would be an excellent representative-for CBE.-My desire is to be more involved with school activities and make sure that the students’ voices are heard. Being on the board would provide an excellent opportunity for being-a leader and representing others. -2. What CSUF issues will you focus on if you get elected?
Why are you running for this ASI position?
I have been in this position for the past year and would like to continue to serve the CSUF business committee ... I would also like to give the students of CSUF, being such a commuter campus, a greater voice to not only student government, but to the university itself.
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What issues will you focus on if elected?
As a leader in other organizations and in the community, my goal is to inform the students in NSM of upcoming decisions and major events that will have some impact on them. Often, students operate on a daily basis uniformed. By utilizing my expertise in civic and campus leadership, my goal is to serve as a bridge of information whereby students in NSM can operate daily in an environment of knowledge.
Why are you running ? The main reason that I chose to run for the board of directors for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is because I feel that the students of my college deserve better leadership which will result in a better learning environment. Since I have been a student at CSUF I have not noticed any real improvements to my college. That’s why I have chosen to step up and try and give the students of my college the leadership and voice they deserve.
Why are you running ? I am running for ASI board position because I have already had a positive effect for HSS students. I helped start the new HSS Inter-Club Council and worked many hours last semester as well as over the summer to get it up and running. I helped establish an effective working relationship with the HSS assistant dean and worked closely with him and my co-director to hire the new ICC Chair, vice chair and director of administration. I have served and took initiative on the statewide affairs
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Human Development and Community Service Philip Vasquez Junior Human Services major (info from ASI elections Web site) Why are you running? I am running for the ASI Board of Directors so that I can assure quality representation of our college.
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Mary Lawrence Junior Communications major
Jeroll Rodgers Sophomore Speech Communications major, Christian Studies minor (info from ASI elections Web site)
George Abou Zeid Senior Electrical Engineering major
Why are you running? I would like to represent the needs and issues of the communications students at CSUF. What issues will you focus on if elected?
My main goals in ASI is to have students in our college become more involved in leading roles on our campus as well as
I would like to promote and expand alumni involvement as they offer so much in regards to knowledge of the various communication professions not
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Why are you running? My goal is to get elected and contribute with the growth and representation of the college. I was an orientation leader this past summer and I went through the EMBRACE program last year. Currently I am the campus tours assistant and hope to further move on with my campus involvement as a member of the board of directors.
Why are you running ? I am running for this ASI position because ASI is an extremely rewarding experience. One can learn so much and meet many members of the campus community. And I definitely want to keep a good thing going. What issues will you focus on if elected?
I plan to focus on multicultural issues as well as appropriately allocate money to all groups requesting to be part of the bud-
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What issues will you focus on if elected? I plan on continuing to campaign for the CBE to ASI. Last year I achieved a $2000 increase in funding for the Business Interclub Council (BICC) and hope to use my experience to get more funding. I would also like to concentrate on the Alumni Mentor Program... What are your qualifications ? I have had leadership experience not only as serving in this capacity for the last year but also with the clubs and organizations I am affiliated with. I am a member of two business clubs, SAM and AMA, and have gotten to know not only leaders within the college of business but students in all my classes. Through my work on several university committees, I have worked with our dean of students and our vice president of student affairs, Dr. Palmer. I believe that my acquaintance with them allows me to be in a better position so that the concerns my constituents have will be addressed directly to those who are in the greatest position to affect change.
Parking is obviously a great concern with many students...I am currently involved with the Business Inter-Club Council (BICC) and would hope that more student participation and involvement would be an integral part of representing business students. I would try and make the best-in helping out with events that affect them and their futures, like the Career Fair and Industry Night. This is a commuter campus so more student involvement and awareness is one of my goals. What are your qualifications? I am a President’s Scholar and Honors student. I am a very responsible individual and have high goals. I am the BICC representative this year for AIESEC and hope to go on serving on the council next semester for ASI. I am also the historian for University Honors Society (UHS) and am part of ASI committees like IRA. I maintain a high G.P.A. and am involved with several on campus and off campus activities, such as school organizations and church activities.
THOMPSON What issues will you focus on if elected? ...I will fight for better parking, better climate controlled classrooms, and better guidance counseling so students can create an efficient schedule that will satisfy their needs. Lets face it, there is room for BIG change in the college of humanities and social sciences, and I am prepared to tackle the issues that the incumbent simply ignored or just wasn’t able to fix. 3.What are your qualifications for this position? ...I currently assist Associated Students Inc. as assistant to the ASI president ... In addition to working with ASI I also sit on the Board of directors for the CSUF Foundation, as a student representative ... My job is to represent students and act in the best interest of students and the university as a whole. My student leadership extends far beyond ASI and the CSUF Foundation, I am one of eight men who sit on the Executive board of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, and I am a member of the Young Americans Foundation which is a
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committee and represented HSS with a strong voice for low tuition fees and uncapped registration. I have worked hard and diligently on the scholarship committee ensuring that every applicant gets a fair chance to receive what they deserve according to their achievement.
What issues will you focus on if elected? If I get elected my focus will be establishing an interrelationship with HSS students and the ASI corporation by incorporating HSS students on all levels into committees, helping them enrich their resume and education. As the budget review comes up once again I will be dedicated to ensure effective use of the allocated student money within the ASI corporation. I will also focus on the enhancement of the symposiums and major events for all the schools within the college of Humanities and Social Sciences. If elected I will be a major representative for HSS by publicizing and advocating the allocation of corporate money and support to clubs and departments.
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gain more exposure for our college. What are your qualifications? During my time here at CSUF I have served in various committees of the Resident Students Association as well as becoming a Resident Advisor my sophomore year. This past spring and summer (2002) I was trained and served as a New Student Orientation Leader. This allowed me to complete my EMBRACE (Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment) certification through our campus’ Student Leadership Institute. I am currently a Titan Ambassador and Information Specialist in the Dean Of Students office and recently started my undergraduate fellowship with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). I hope to bring my networking opportunities to the table to make our college the best here at CSUF.
ZEID get. Most importantly, take a part as I already did in finding the appropriate solutions to the parking problem as well as help keep students fees as low as possible. What are your qualifications? I am dedicated to serving students and representing the under represented ECS and International students. I also hold the presidency of the Peace
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Daily Titan Staff Writer After-school programs, community colleges and Cal State universities will receive a boost in funding thanks to voters yesterday. With 93.7 percent of the precincts reported, voters placed their stamp of approval on two propositions, which will provide more funding for after-school programs, community colleges and California universities. Proposition 47 received 59 percent of the vote and Proposition 49 received 56.6 percent of the vote. Voters also approved Proposition 50, a measure that will provide grants to protect
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LAWRENCE to mention the career opportunities for students they have to offer. I also would work for more funds to be allocated to student organizations and clubs and also to those students needing financial aid. I also would like to see scholarships given towards sending students to various conferences or internship opportunities that pertain to their major as many students do not participate in these because of the costs involved. What are your qualifications? I am currently on the executive board of my sorority, Gamma Phi Beta. I am serving as the public relations vice president, and while in this office have planned various events that have raised numerous funds for organizations such as Camp Titan and CampFire USA. I am also the Greek Week 2003 Co-chair for CSUF’s National Panhellenic Council. These positions have taught me many aspects of leadership, such as time management, reliability, enthusiasm, teamwork and the importance of maintaining a positive attitude. International Club here at CSUF, which together with my hectic schedule and Board position has helped me develop my organizational, time management and managerial skills. I served on the scholarship committee to ensure applicants will be treated in accordance with their efforts, and now I am serving on the Finance committee to ensure a healthy expenditure of students’ moneys. Additionally I have already served two semesters on the board of directors, and currently I am serving as the vice-chair. General Fund programs and not only transportation-related purposes in and around the state.
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NO Legally eligible voters will not be allowed to register to vote on election day at their polling place and restore coastal wetlands and the California water supply, with 55.3 percent of the vote. Proposition 48 also met with voter approval and received 72.6 percent of the vote. Funding for all of the propositions is expected to come out of the State’s General Fund. The total cost to voters is estimated at a little more than $17 billion. Voters rejected two of the seven propositions placed before them yesterday. Proposition 52 was slated to get huge support among young voters, but it only received 40.8 percent of the vote. Proposition 51 also failed to gain enough votes to pass it received 41.5 percent of the vote.
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Creative Play Gets Creative nMEMORABILIA: A collectible store in Costa Mesa boasts a unique blend of sports and art By Shannon Gibson
Daily Titan Staff Writer Creative Play in Costa Mesa is no ordinary baseball collectibles store. Framed pictures containing famous sport figures are hung neatly on the wall, with bobble heads and flags scattered throughout, and of course, thousands of baseball cards labeled and organized inside glass shelves and drawers. At Creative Play, owner Lonnie Voss turns ticket stubs, photographs and newspaper clippings into an eyecatching memory. Not only does the former art major turn sport memorabilia into a work of art, he can also make displays or frame events, weddings, a favorite pet, grandparents, grandchildren and any other kind of memory into a lasting keepsake. I love art and I love sports and I’m able to put the two together to tell people how to enjoy what they have,” Voss said. “It’s exciting because you’re doing something different every day.”
The sport collecting and framing store specializes in Plexiglas, custom designing, framing and engraving. Throughout the store, Voss pointed out the “Yankee Lumber,” a framed collection of all the greatest Yankees players. Another example is the “Greatest Yankees Players of All Time” with their former pinstriped jerseys. Some of the cards are worth $200 to $300 apiece. Recently, one of Voss’ clients came into the store and wanted Voss to create a three-dimensional design so he could see the front and back of an autographed Lakers jersey. So, Voss created a triangle-shaped box that acted as a reflective mirror and can be viewed both ways. Another invention Voss designed for a client was a Plexiglas box containing a sword with a slide feature that allows it possible to retrieve the item. “I like challenges,” Voss said. “There’s never a dull moment.” Voss also makes desktops – plaques of sport players or family pictures that
accents a home or office. They range from in price $35 to $79. At one time, Voss was a display coordinator in five major department stores where he designed store layouts. He said he takes his former ideas into creating little miniature windows. “The whole idea is to take collectibles that people collect instead of burying them in a box,” Voss said. “Everybody has a favorite whether, it’s a player or a team.” Voss gives advice and instructions to collectors on how to appropriately care, frame, design and “make it a one-of-akind collectible.” Recently, Voss donated an arranged Rally Monkey display to Angels’ announcer Rex Hudler’s charity auction for Down syndrome children. The display featured an Angels program, a Rally Monkey sign at the bottom of the box, a ball and a bat, a helmet, pin and three Angels’ player cards. And with the Angels’ recent World Series championship, Voss and his
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employee, Garret Peterson, 20, are taking Angels newspaper clippings and adding an ultraviolet protective coating that laminates a “partical board,” a stiff cardboard that prevents fading or yellowing the paper. They use 60 different edge colors to choose from to accent the mounted realistic piece. Peterson explains his position in the store as “an assemblyman.” The projects are arranged in sequential order and are all ready to go for Peterson. “I basically take it and piece it together,” Peterson said. Not only does the full-time Orange Coast College student arrange pictures, he also enjoys seeing the after-school rush of kids come in. “They’re actually kind of cool. It’s a lot of fun,” Peterson said. “I spend part of the day playing with kids and putting pictures together.” While kids flock the baseball store, so do grown-ups. Paul Cuomo of Newport Beach is a regular customer at Creative Play. He’s been an avid baseball card collector since 1990. He found his son’s baseball cards when he was cleaning his house and his son handed him over four cardboard boxes of cards. Cuomo mentioned how his daughter-in-law didn’t want her husband to “[keep] that junk,” Cuomo said. Little did she know that her fatherin-law had some cards valued at $1,600 to $1,800. “I took the real valuable cards,” Cuomo said. Cuomo said that he would return them some day to his son. “Since then I’ve collected maybe 15,000 to 20,000 cards,” Cuomo said. “I went nuts. Everything I saw I bought.” Some of his prized cards are two Nolan Ryan rookies, each worth about $700, a 1954 Ted Williams worth around $600 and one basketball card of Michael Jordan, one time valued around $1,600, now it’s valued at approximately $700. His enthusiasm for this hobby is passed on to other family members. “I love to give my cards to my grandsons, neighbors and friends,” Cuomo said. “I try to give kids cards that are worth something. Not just a common box of cards but something that’s worth
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Garret Peterson mats a piece of sports memorabilia. $10 to $15. It gets them kind of excited,” he said. In addition, Cuomo promotes care for cards by putting them in plastic and avoiding rubber bands because they cause dent marks. Also fortunately, today gum is no longer found in the packaging. Cuomo reflects on his childhood memory when he said he was causal about caring for baseball cards. “I can remember when I was a kid I put them in my bicycle to hear the sound of the spoke when you turned the wheel,” Cuomo said. “I wonder how many Mickey Mantle cards might be worth $100,000 today that got chewed up in a bicycle spoke.” While Cuomo is more involved in card collecting, he has a Nolan Ryan display and also a Dodgers display that features the “dramatic” 1988 Kirk Gibson home run with the nine Los Angeles starters from that night. “Lonnie is a kind of an icon around here,” Cuomo said. “He’s very nice to the kids that come in. When a mom buys a card for a kid, he makes them say thank you to the parent.” Voss’ store has millions of baseball cards to choose from, offering single and arranged-set cards. Purple represents basketball cards, red represents hockey, green represents football and orange represents baseball. Another element in the store is the baseball wheel consisting of all the base hits, a foul ball and a “pack puck,” a built-in golf hole in the store. Each time a customer makes a minimum $5 minimum purchase, they receive a batting card that they fill out. When a customer gets 10 runs, he receives a free spin. “When you score up to 10 runs, you get a $20 gift certificate with each 10
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runs accumulated. Everybody wins,” Voss said. Along with donating to charities, Voss also designs displays for sports bars and restaurants. While the cost of the displays range from $5 to $5,000, he can fit the customer’s budget and create it to their satisfaction. And his store is 30 percent less than Michael’s or Aaron Brother’s. “It allows us to be creative than most of the frame stores because we have a huge inventory right at our finger tips to work with,” Voss said. “I think we’re the only store in the country that has a frame shop inside the sports memorabilia shop,” he said. This advantage allows the workers to assemble quick on-site gifts. They can pull together their resources and put together a frame with a sports logo, a card and the team’s logo. Creative Play is 2,100 square feet, one of the largest shops in Orange County. Already Voss has produced between 60 to 100 Angel frames for clients this fall. He is predicting a busy rush of Christmas Angels memorabilia items due to the Angels 2002 success. During the holidays, the deadline to place an order is between Dec. 6 to 10. The turnaround time is usually six to 10 days. Since most of the owner’s business is word-of-mouth, he uses little advertising. “It’s like a billboard on people’s walls in their homes,” Voss said. “And that’s what makes it an unique business because it’s word-of-mouth.” “We call it Creative Play because there’s a play in every sport and creative is what we are. It’s the only common denominator that I could find, plus play means to have fun,” he said.
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Woolly Mammoth Unearthed nARCHAEOLOGY: Construction site exposes untouched fossils from the Pleistocene period During Orange County’s 150-million-year geological history the layers of sediments have preserved an extensive fossil record that represents a variety of creatures that have found their way into the 20th century through land development. At a construction site of 91 single-family homes, less than two miles northwest of Cal State Fullerton, the fossil remains of a woolly mammoth, a giant ground sloth and numerous other mammals and sea life were unearthed. Before the actual building begins, the soil must be graded, and during this process the remains were discovered. Stephen S. King, executive vice president of Van Daele Development, said when the mammoth was found, all grading of the area ceased so that the paleontologists could remove it. “We kept quiet about the find so that the public wouldn’t interfere with the
removal of the mammoth,” King said. “It took them two full days to uncover it.” The process to remove such fossils is time-consuming and requires the careful creation of a jacket that encloses the remains and surrounding soil. The area around the fossil is cut out and the liquid plaster is poured into the crevasses to form the mold. Then it can be safely removed. The woolly mammoth and the giant ground sloth are representative of ice-age animals that lived during the Pleistocene time period, which stretched from 2 million to 10,000 years ago. Lisa Babalonia, a paleontologist, said “Orange County has a rich fossil record, so finding these remains isn’t rare.” Babalonia is the on-site paleontologist at the Ralph B. Clark Regional Park where the Van Daele collection has been donated. Although the mammoth and sloth are what would be expected to have lived in Orange County so long ago, rare fossil
will expire and decisions will be made whether the gate will be controlled by the city or if the sheriffs will continue watching their posts, he said.“Our landlord who is the U.S. Navy, does not want people wondering,” said director George Giacumakis. “If I wanted to jog across the runways here, I can’t. If I tried to take a ride around the base, they would stop me and bring me back.” In 1993, the announcement came that the 4,700 acre El Toro Marine Base would be shutting down CSUF’s president and the chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District, which oversees Saddleback and Irvine Valley College, made a proposal to locate a branch of CSUF at the Marine base, Giacumakis said. “The planning of the south county campus goes back to the early ‘80s,” Giacumakis said. “We opened the first branch campus in fall of ’89 at Saddleback. Right away we saw that we would be maxed out of space, because the buildings were temporary.” College officials looked at several locations for a future campus. Old hospitals, vacant business buildings and
abandoned shopping malls were considered, but in all those there was one huge thing missing, a lot of parking space. “We have about 6,000 students that come up to Fullerton from south of the 55 Freeway,” Giacumakis said. “It’s getting very tight as far as space goes on main campus. “This site was chosen for the campus branch because El Toro Marine Base has a lot of parking space, and this building is capable of being refurbished,” he said. Orange County had been planning to put an international airport where the Marine base used to be and any proposals that were made about choosing a future site for the branch campus were turned down because the building would be in the way of a future terminal, Giacumakis said. “This was Wing Command Headquarters of the United States Marines Western States,” he said. “This is where the generals of the pilots were based and where all the communication took place.” There are about 15 lessees that currently occupy some of the buildings on
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Daily Titan Staff Writer The giant ground sloth lived during the ice age some 10,000 years ago – this herbivore was found recently at a construction site two miles from CSUF.
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This 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth was found at a local park. discoveries have occurred. During the construction of the San Joaquin transportation toll road in Laguna Niguel, the entire remains of a 27-foot whale, named Joaquin, was discovered. John Cooper, a former CSUF professor and paleontologist, said Joaquin is special because he was found in one piece. Babalonia said, “Everything fossil-
izes to a different degree depending on how it was buried in the environment. Sometimes remains are solid, while others may have been exposed to environmental conditions that don’t allow them to completely fossilize.” The park is home to an interpretive center that will display this collection and many other fossils that have been found in surrounding areas once the building renovation is complete.
the site of the old Marine base. These include a Montessori school, a golf course, stables and a fire station. “Until last year the county was hurting because it was costing them a lot to just maintain this base,” Giacumakis said. “The base was not meeting those costs from the current rentals. They offered us this one because it is one of the bigger buildings.” A measure that appeared on the ballot last March asked voters if they wanted a park or an airport. Voters agreed that a park would be better for the area and part of that agreement includes an educational facility, Giacumakis said. “We are on the corner of that educational quadrant,” he said. “We are hoping to spread up Trabuco Road and get all of the educational acres.” There is an animal conservatory on the base and the U.S. Navy will eventually sell everything except that. The Department of Interior will keep this for its private uses. There are gun ranges up against the hills in this fifth quadrant and this area is currently being used by the FAA to train air marshals. When the rest of the Marine base is sold, the buyers will have to abide
by the city’s rules and one of those includes having an educational facility. Developers will not be allowed to build on the educational quadrant he said. “Cal State Fullerton decided to take a gamble,” Giacumakis said. “Our lease only goes up to 2005, we put $1.5 million in this building and we are on the educational quadrant. We are on the grounds, and the developers will have to deal with us.” There is still some small construction going on at El Toro campus. El Toro Café is scheduled to open soon. It will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with coffee, soft drinks and other snacks. “We want to put on dinners for various functions of the university, and the food service, in conjunction with the university, will cater those,” he said. “We are isolated here and this will be an opportunity to let people see what goes on here.” The El Toro campus will host several events including visits from other CSU branch campuses on Dec. 10, an open house to the surrounding community on Jan. 18 and an emeriti faculty dinner
BackTrackingThrough South Orange County Campus nEL TORO: Machines of war and helicopters once surrounded the new Cal State Fullerton satellite school By Justyna Korczynski Daily Titan Staff Writer
Tucked away behind strawberry fields and tomato groves is Cal State Fullerton’s new satellite campus, one of 10 that belongs to the CSU. This fall the new building opened its doors in El Toro to 2,400 students that attend Cal State Fullerton. -“I like that it’s small, quiet, close to my house and the parking is wonderful,” said Tammy Holtzclaw, a liberal studies major.-“All my major classes are offered here, the only thing is that they are offered only at one time. I would like for them to be offered multiple times during the day.” Driving along Sand Canyon, one would not guess that there is a university somewhere behind the eucalyptus
trees. Newcomers to the area would never suspect that only four years ago there was a full-functioning Marine Corps base that trained combat pilots during World War II. However, not everyone is granted admission to the base. Until the City of Irvine takes over policing the premises, sheriffs stand guard at the checkpoint and if visitors are not on official business they will be asked to leave the premises. To enter, an ID from the university or a parking decal is required. -“If students don’t have their ID’s we will escort them to the Cal State campus and from that point they are the responsibility of the university,” said Terry Hicks, Sgt. supervisor in charge of the base. “There are many facilities on the base that still can be vandalized. Some of the houses still have washer and driers and the buildings have generators. We haven’t had major problems with students, but sometimes they don’t understand that we are here for their protection,” he said. Orange County sheriffs will be guarding the gate until the beginning of July. This is when their contract
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Cadets navigate the confidence course, involving balancing exercises designed to increase an individual’s coordination.
“It’s the thing about serving your country, after doing it there’s a lot of pride. We’re all Americans here. You give back to your country, and not everybody can say that.”
fight CSUF cadets spent a weekend out on the field, improving leadership skills, building confidence and learning the importance of looking out for the soldier in front, next to and behind them – always.
Photos By Ronald Paul Larson and Eugene Park
MS-II cadet Heather Alojado, left, catches a few ZZZ’s while MS-III Roland Breden checks the sight on his M-16 rifle while waiting to go to the zeroing range.
– Atip Viskul MS-iii Cadet
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urry up and wait. One of the U.S. Army’s best-kept secrets is their motto of rushing to a goal and waiting there f o r long periods of time. -That seemed certainly the case for the Cal State Fullerton Army ROTC cadets on Oct. 25, 0600 hours. Having been rushed out of bed, the 86 cadets prepared for a five-hour bus ride to Fort Hunter Liggett. The cadets would participate in a field training exercise, or FTX, testing them through various fieldwork challenges for a weekend. The film “We Were Soldiers” played for cadets who got bored on the ride. While passing through the heart of California, rolling hills, sun-cracked ground and shimmering golden fields of grain whizzed by – a land of nothing but dirt roads and rest stops. However, this landscape would be the training ground for future soldiers. The FTX instills confidence in soldiers, but more specifically, trains them for the National Advanced Leadership Course at Fort Lewis, Wash. After their third year in the ROTC, cadets are sent to the Advanced Camp to be evaluated on their leadership skills from paperwork to fieldwork. “Advanced camp is one of the steps to be commissioned into the Army,” said Master Sgt. Takacs, senior military science instructor. “They must use all the skills they learn here through continuous training.” The FTX is required of all cadets, from MS-Is (military science first-year cadets) to MS-IVs (fourth-year cadets). It would be easy to say that the bus would be taking them to their destiny as soldiers, but that isn’t the whole story. Central California is the armpit of the United States, and the FTX weekend would be long, tiring, restless, smelly and worst of all, have lots of hurrying and waiting. The true challenge for the cadets liad in finding their destiny beneath the dirt and sweat.
Day 1: A Darker Sense
At approximately 1200 hours, the cadets arrived at Hunter Liggett. As soon as they arrived at the barracks to have their bags taken in, they rode another half-hour to their first exercise of day-land navigation. Two other schools joined the CSUF Battalion in the FTX: Claremont McKenna College and University of California, Santa Clara. The cadets had 2 hours and 45 minutes to navigate where they were dropped in, littered with inclined slopes, wild hogs, skunks and coyotes. Using a compass, protractor, pencil, paper and map, they had to navigate through five checkpoints, writing down the number and letter combination posted at each location. But first they had to do various checks and more waiting. “A pace count check is to see how many paces does it take to reach 100 meters,” said MS-III John Gelineau, platoon sergeant of the Ranger Challenge team. “Then we have to do a compass verification, to check if our compasses are in working order.” MS-Is and IIs were in teams, while MS-IIIs worked individually. “This exercise instills confidence in the individual, having them navigate from point A to B and not get lost,” Takacs said. “Well … hopefully not.”
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MS-IV cadets, having been through Advanced Camp, coordinate the different exercises, including land navigation. Problems like missing starting points and cadets mired the first operation, and the cold chill sent a warning that night would fall soon. Accountability of cadets took about an hour, while the hot food delivered from the barracks sat idly. By the time it was dark, accountability finished and the cadets went to get their chow. Cadets poured over their food while the cold made some shiver. “Hey can I put my hand up your ass,” MS-III Leonard Cruz asked a male cadet. “It’ll warm up my hands and put some feeling back into them.” Nobody laughed. “A darker sense of humor sometimes feels necessary,” Gelineau said. “To tolerate these kinds of conditions and long waiting, it’s good to have a sick sense of humor sometimes.” The night land navigation commenced at around 2000 hours. The same rules applied, except the only light provided to the cadets were red flashlights, glowsticks attached to each checkpoint and their natural night-vision. The cadets didn’t return to the barracks until around 0130 hours the next morning. They would get about three hours of sleep.
Day 2: Too Much Adrenaline At 0500, MS-IVs ran up and down the halls of the barracks yelling for the cadets to get up. Some found the time to shower. Others sacrificed hygiene for a couple more winks of sleep. “I haven’t had that little sleep in such a long time,” said MS-I Jeremy Goebel of Ranger Challenge. “The FTX mirrors what the real Army does and it also shows you how much sleep you really need.” After formation (the organizing of the ROTC company) breakfast was served and it was the only hot meal they would have for most of the day – the most intense of the weekend. The cadets would soon be shuttled to the training area, which consisted of an obstacle course, a confidence course, a rappelling tower and an M-16 shooting range. Cadets from all three schools were mixed into gold, black and ranger challenge platoons. They would go in a rotation between the four exercises, checking in with a base camp to avoid confusion in where and when to proceed. The obstacle course consisted of 19
different obstacles including rope climbing, crawling under barbed wire and a wall climb. Each obstacle develops a soldier’s quickness, endurance and agility. “My favorite thing was the obstacle course,” said MS-III Atip Viskul, who also has prior service in the 82nd Airborne. “It was the most physically challenging and good training.” The confidence course is a more elaborate obstacle course that caused cadets to rely more on teamwork, support and coordination rather than raw strength. Some of the obstacles ask cadets to balance, swing on a rope over a log, get over a swinging log and navigate monkey bars. “The confidence course is interesting because it has cheering on of other cadets giving confidence in the individual,” Takacs said. The confidence course, unlike the obstacle course, is not run against time. “C’mon J.D. that’s great,” cheered Goebel’s Ranger Challenge teammates as he slowly but surely made his way across a log. “You should be in the circus selling cotton candy.” Thick fog began to roll down the hills and encircled the 70-foot rappel tower further down the road. It is a large structure of metal and wood, and cadets must lower themselves down by kicking away from the wall, supported only by rope. Under a shade near an outhouse, MSIV Eugene Kim tied what looked like a rope thong on another cadet. Called a Swiss seat, it is tied around the waist to hold the rope being slide down. Being a single rope, it’s much cheaper than a more comfortable seat. “These hurt. It feels like you’re not going to have kids anymore. It hurts so bad,” Kim said. “If you tie it the wrong way, oh man…” Kim said the fun of rappelling overtakes the pain and discomfort. “It’s not comfortable, but once you get up there it’s fun,” Kim said. “There’s just too much adrenaline that you can’t feel it.” Kim said that some cadets have come from the rappel tower with rope burns along their waist. Female cadets had an easier time with the seats. To rappel, a belay man would hold the rope being rappelled with. If the cadet were in danger of falling, the belay man would pull on the rope to stop the fall. But falling should be impossible as long as the cadet has his or her brake hand on the small of his or her back. “The fist on the small of your back
will save your life, that is the brake hand,” said Sgt. 1st Class Robert Cisneros from the top of the rappel tower. The other “guide” hand holds the rope in front of the cadet. Climbing the back of the tower to the top was made worst by the wind, but mostly because of the unstableness caused by the bodies slamming into the wall, making the tower sway, each creak threatening the tower’s collapse. Sometimes a cadet could be heard crying that it couldn’t be done. The difference between the thud of bodies and legs was distinct – one sounded a lot more painful. First-time rappellers took baby hops down the tower, while veterans like MSII Heather Alojado rappelled in only three simple bounds. Some cadets hung upside-down as they held a death grip to the rope. Some of the more experienced cadets still found difficulty. “Go! You Air Assault dawg!” Cisneros yelled at an MS-III. “Slam your face into this wall, and I’m going to rip that badge off of you!” The position of the legs is crucial in a successful rappel. They would have to be at a L-shaped angle, with knees bent kicking away from the wall. “Close your legs when you rappel,” Cisneros yells at another cadet. “You must be screwing some pretty big women to have your legs that wide.” Cisneros, who was a drill sergeant, had an explanation for his unique way of encouragement. “I try to find the middle road between humorous and harsh so cadets can realize the seriousness of things,” he said. “Sometimes it’s easier to make them laugh about something and it’ll help them get the point. If you’re too harsh, they’ll shut you off.” Takacs agrees that threatening and yelling at cadets isn’t effective. “If anybody needs to be correct, we give them what we call verbal counseling,” Takacs said. “Sometimes laughing keeps them ahead. We just want them to be motivated.” At the rappel site, the distant echoes of M-16 A1 gunfire rang throughout the fog-ridden valley fields. Cadets were later issued M-16 rifles and moved to the zeroing range where they ensured the accuracy of their shot by adjusting the sight and rear aperture on their rifle. Cadets could not get on any of the ranges without a ballistic helmet and earplugs. Sgt. Captain of Claremont McKenna, an 82nd Airborne soldier and qualified sniper, stressed the importance
teamwork, outside of cheering, is necessary for the confidence course. Cadets have to navigate up and down a tower, helping each other physically and spiritually.
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Left: MS-I Cadet Jeremy Goebel applies camouflage face paint for day land navigation. Skin, light or dark, reflects light because of natural oils. Below: A cadet rappels off a 70-foot tower, descending it in short, controlled bounds supported by a belay man securing the rope on the ground.
Cadets gather for instructions on how to tie a Swiss seat. It involves a combination of doubleoverhand lay, half-hitch and square knots. It attaches to the rappelling clip that holds the rope. of safety. “Personally I will smack you before I let you shoot somebody,” Captain bellowed. “If you feel a sharp pain on the back of your head, it’s 230 pounds of Sgt. Captain climbing on it. And I’m not afraid to do that. I’m not afraid to do that.” There were several delays with the zeroing, mostly because cadets had difficulty adjusting their rifles. Cadets found every downtime an opportunity to eat their Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs. MREs are pre-cooked vacuum-sealed food with a shelf life of more than 10 years. They usually include a main entrée, side dish, dessert, crackers and spread, candy, a beverage base and accessory packet, with matches, spoon and toilet paper. A Snickers bar wrapper’s “best eaten by” date was around 1992. The seals ensure that the food is preserved no matter how old. MREs are heated by a chemical reaction from water-activated flameless pouches. Just add water, soak up the chemicals, slip it under your meal, prop it up against a rock and watch it smoke. Once the smoking stops, you have a hot meal ready during a disaster, or when you’re a half-hour drive away from the barracks. “The MREs were a little bland, but it was different,” Goebel said. “I was really surprised to see Skittles in there.” Once the cadets had a chance to zero in their rifles, they moved to the qualifying range, which helps to develop speed in target engagements. Cadets were given two magazines of 40 5.56 mm rounds and needed 23 points to be a qualified M-16 shooter. As evening began to set in, time was running out and there was too much ammo left at the zeroing range. It would’ve been too large a hassle to return unused ammo because every round had to be accounted for. Instead, the MS-IVs lined up with rifles set on burst fire and unloaded on the targets. From a distance it sounded like the Fourth of July. “This is why I joined the army, just for the shooting,” said 2nd Lt. Dan Kanouse. “Not shooting people, that’s no fun. But you get to play with a lot of cool guns.” After dinner at the mess hall, cadets assembled at the barracks for weapons cleaning at 1900 hours. The purpose of cleaning the M-16s is to ensure its future use by removing the carbon from the casing left over from the ammo. FTX Battalion Commander Timothy Gillette said there’s a game they have the cadets play during this time. “It’s called, ‘The weapons are never clean,’” he said. Cadet Captain Judith Martinez said that despite the cleaning, the cadets still found time to enjoy themselves. “I’m really surprised and impressed. All
the cadets are happy and jittery,” said Martinez, who spent four years as an Army Reservist. “It’s not as fun, but it gives a lot of time for unwinding.” Cadets found ample time after cleaning to shower and sleep. The females were on the third floor, while males were on the second. Every time a female needed to pass through the second floor, they would have to yell “Female on the floor” as they came down. “We’re in here,” male cadets quipped from the showers. The cadets went to bed before 2300, giving about seven hours of sleep to the weary future soldiers.
Day 3: The World’s Best Leadership Program At 0500, the cadets woke up, had their breakfast, and cleared the barracks. Today would be the Field Leadership Reaction Course, which evaluates leadership and teamwork skills within squads. Squads must demonstrate initiative, common sense and teamwork to negotiate the difficult objectives and obstacles. Dangers of the day included dehydration, falling off high structures and slipping due to the small drizzle of rain that blessed the already cold morning. “The FLRC is a test for our juniors. We give them a problem and they must come up with a creative solution,” Gillette said. “We evaluate leadership skills, not whether they complete the mission.” Some scenarios included rescuing a downed helicopter pilot over makeshift landmines, navigating under trap-laden barbed wire, and getting ammunition from one end of a field exercise to the other without touching strategically placed tape and beams. There were eight challenges in total. “They have about 30 minutes to organize their squad, go through troop leading procedures with nine steps,” Gillette said. “Then we have what we call an After Action Review, where we look at their improves and sustains, or what they did right and wrong.” Gillette’s mission consisted of receiving enemy intelligence vital for a future battle, but without touching certain beams, and having only two cadets climbing on top of the V-shaped structure. The ammo was within a circle. There is a 15 second violation if any of the rules are not followed. “Some have tied Swiss seats and lower themselves to pick up the ammo,” Gillette said. “Others have just jumped over the beam and used their physical strength to get back up. It can be done any way.” MS-III Paul Morton had his squad lower a tiny female cadet to pick up the ammo. “This was easy, but some missions
are impossible to complete given the time,” Morton said. “The point of the exercise is to get you moving, thinking as a team.” Some squads weren’t able to do all the missions, because the minute noon hit, the buses came to take the cadets back to their respective schools. But the FLRC was indicative of the overall exercise, as well as the entire ROTC program Gillette said. “Everything we do here prepares us for Advanced Camp,” Gillette said. “It’s extremely important that they do well at camp if they want to get the branch they want, and by branch I mean infantry, armory and artillery.” Lt. Col. Mark Seagrave, the executive officer of the Titan Battalion, said that each cadet is evaluated in 21 different dimensions, including the MS-IVs who planned the training. “This is a hands-on practice for the real thing,” Seagrave said. “This is when we take it from the classroom to the field.” Despite the delays and minor problems they experienced during the weekend, everything still went according to plan because the cadets gained new experiences. “If it doesn’t go right, that’s OK because this is a learning forum,” Seagrave said. “Hurry up and wait” was a motto that was lived out most of the weekend, but Takacs has another motto that is less known. He has a personal distaste for the “Army of One” motto, which stresses individuality rather than teamwork. “‘One Team, One Fight’ is what I suggest to the Army Times as our motto,” Takacs said. “You need to look out for your fellow soldiers, and the army must move as one unit, together. There is no ‘I’ in Army.” Takacs stressed the importance of the Army being the world’s best leadership program, perfect for those who want to experience new things. “It’s the thing about serving your country, after doing it there’s a lot of pride,” said Atip Viskul. “We’re all Americans here. You give back to your country, and not everybody can say that.” The cadets arrived back on campus at 1700 hours on Sunday, except for the Ranger Challenge team, which stayed for more training. Formation was held and an after action review was done for the entire weekend. The freeways back home would be packed, so the drive home would be more hurrying and waiting. “It’s sort of weird being back in civilization,” Goebel said. “When you see people back here, there is no unity in civilian life. There is no commonly shared problem. It’s hard to go back to
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Andrea Adams, left, and Audrey Taylor show their ball-handling skills.
PLAYER PROFILE
Audrey Taylor Position: Point Guard Year: Freshman Age: 18 High school highlights: 2002 graduate of Lynwood High School. Team captain her junior and senior seasons. Nominated for AllAmerica honors her senior season. Four-time all-academic team honoree. This season’s stats: Scored seven points to go along with five rebounds and two steals in 24 minutes as a starter during the Titans’ first pre-
Audrey Taylor, left, and Andrea Adams would like to show their opponents this view all seaon, with the exception of the smiles. They are used to being head and shoulders above the rest, leading Lynwood to a perfect 33-0 record last season en route to being named the No. 1 ranked team in the nation according to USA Today.
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Andrea Adams “Both of
Position: Shooting Guard Year: Freshman Age: 18 High school highlights: 2002 graduate of Lynwood High School. As a junior, named to the Best of the West All-Tournament team and earned all-league honors. As a senior, averaged 19.5 ppg, 5.0 steals per game and 6 assits per game. This season’s stats: Scored seven points and had one rebound in five minutes during the Titans’ first preseason game Saturday.
these players are looking to come in and build a program, that’s what they did at Lynwood.” Ellis Barfield, Lynwood High School women’s basketball coach.
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After building Lynwood High into a dynasty, Audrey Taylor and Andrea Adams have now set their sights on CSUF By Jared Kiemeny
Daily Titan Staff Writer They had been preparing for this moment for years. There they were, playing basketball at Arco Arena in Sacramento for the state championship. Andrea Adams and Audrey Taylor had been playing together since the seventh grade, and now, in their senior year at Lynwood High School, they were playing together in the backcourt for the state title. “All the girls were really committed their senior year,” Andrea’s mother, Norma Adams said. “They weren’t gonna let anything get in their way.” Nothing did get in their way. In fact, they took their team all the way. Adams led Lynwood with 20 points in a 74-55 victory over Sacramento Kennedy in the state championship game. The pair had directed the Lynwood Knights to a perfect season, 33 wins, no losses. Not only had they won the state championship, but Lynwood finished the year ranked as the No.1 team in the country. All their hard work had paid off. They were not only state champs, but national champions as well. “At the postgame press conference I couldn’t even talk,” Adams said. “I just started crying, I couldn’t believe
it.” The city of Lynwood threw a parade for their national champions. “We felt like the Lakers,” Adams said. “It was awesome.” Fast-forward seven-and-a-half months. Now the duo is at Cal State Fullerton, hoping to do for the Titans what they did at Lynwood. “We had to go from the bottom to the top in high school,” Taylor said. “Hopefully we can do the same thing here at Fullerton.” Ellis Barfield, Taylor and Adams’ coach at Lynwood, believes they can take their winning tradition to the college level. “Both of these players are looking to come in and build a program, that’s what they did at Lynwood,” Barfield said. “I strongly believe they can do the same thing at Fullerton.” While the duo is happy to do as much as they can to help CSUF, they are just as happy to be close to home. “I came to Fullerton because I’m a baby,” Adams said. “I would get homesick if I went far away. I definitely wanted to stay close to my family.” After a 4-24 record last season, Titans’ coach Barbara Ehardt knows the importance of bringing in such a pair of talented freshmen. “I’m ecstatic that the two of them are here and I feel honored to have them,” Ehardt said. “Now that they’re
here we’ve got a purpose out there and we’re going to get things done. “I think the two of them are going to enable us to take the next step,” she said. “To really turn a program around you need a couple of young ladies out there that others can look to and say, ‘Wow, look at that, Audrey and Andrea went to Cal State Fullerton. I think I can do that too,’” Ehardt said. “You just need a couple of good recruits and that can open up the gateways for others. I think we’re extremely fortunate to have them.” Though they’ve been playing together for years, the pair never made plans to attend the same university. Taylor and Adams said they just “ended up here together.” Each of them made individual decisions to come to CSUF. But now that they’re here together, they plan on making people take notice. “If we’re playing to our full potential, we can make a huge impact,” Taylor said. “If you put Audrey and I at the top, it’s over,” Adams said. “The ball will not get past halfcourt.” Yet the duo knows it won’t always be that easy. “It’s a process,” Taylor said. “I’m willing to take the steps to go through the process. I hate losing but I’m willing to take the losses to get to the wins.”
The wins are something Taylor and Adams are used to, no matter who they play against. In the summer before beginning high school, the two played in the Lynwood Development League, a league for boys entering high school. The pair played on a team of 10 girls, playing against boys teams. They finished second. “It was funny cause there would be nobody in the stands before our games,” Adams said. “Then they’d fill up when we played.” Although she played in Lynwood, Taylor grew up in Watts. She had been playing with and against boys there since she was 10 years old. She says playing with boys is what made her play with as much heart as she does now. “When Audrey played, they wondered where she got her speed from,” her mother, Debbie Taylor said. “They’d say, ‘where’d this girl come from?’” “When I’d go to play with the boys, they’d be like, ‘oh, they got a girl on their team,’” Taylor said. “They’d think you’re weak, but then I’d make a boy look bad and the crowd would be yelling. It was pretty cool.” Now they’re in college, playing against the big boys … uh, the big girls. Taylor is the point guard, the team leader. She captained Lynwood dur-
ing her junior and senior years. “I’m the director on the floor. I’m telling people where to go.” Taylor said. “I’m a good defender too. I’m out there stopping their top scorer, putting fear in their hearts.” Her long-time backcourt mate has come to appreciate what Taylor brings to the game. “She’s a great leader,” Adams said. “She’s always set the example out there for me and motivated me to work harder.” Ehardt has seen the fire that Taylor plays with and she knows it will be a great asset to the team. “When you see your freshman point guard all over the other player, working her heart out, you’re willing to work through the freshman mistakes they may make,” Ehardt said. “But it’s really exciting to see that effort.” That effort is matched by Taylor’s backcourt mate Adams. Adams is the two in this 1-2 punch; the 2-guard that is. A prolific scorer and defender, Adams was named to the All-CIF first team in her senior season. “She’s a scorer, a shooter,” Taylor said. “When she’s hot, give it to her and she’ll knock it down.” Adams’ also the one keeping everyone on the team in good spirits, keeping the mood light. “She’s crazy, she loves to have
fun,” Norma Adams said. “She definitely brings the good out of everybody.” The pair hopes to bring plenty of good to the Titans. “This team is really good and they have a lot in them,” Adams said. “I really like this team.” Ehardt is pleased with how well the pair has fit in with their new teammates. “I’m as pleased as I can be watching them out there in practice,” Ehardt said. “Not just what they bring but how well they’ve meshed with their teammates.” Don’t get her wrong, they do bring a lot. “I think the biggest thing they bring is their winning attitude and their tenacity,” Ehardt said. But Adams hopes to bring more than that. “While I’m here I want to make sure we win one or two Big West championships and get to the NCAA Tournament,” Adams said. “We want to help set Fullerton on the map for women’s basketball.”