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nACADEMICS: For the first time, students went to Germany to participate in the Model United Nations conference By Afni Adnan
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Five Cal State Fullerton students got the opportunity to try out their skills as officers of diplomacy when they attended the Bonn International Model United Nations (BIMUN) conference in Germany last week. It was the first time CSUF students attended the international event, which was organized by the University of Bonn. The theme of this year’s conference was “Human Rights – Reaching the 2015 Goal.” Six committees were formed and all the activities were based on the framework of the theme, which were human rights issues. One of the students who was selected
to go was S. Billie Kim, a graduate student majoring in political science. Kim said that the fact this year’s theme was on human rights prompted her to apply for one of the slots. James Day, a double major in political science and criminal justice, also attended the conference. He represented the Republic of Ireland in the U.N. Security Council. “Overall, the conference was fairly good,” Day said. The council talked about issues such as the war on Iraq and weapons disarmament. As a member of the council, Day also worked with prestigious, international figures and doctorate candidates from schools like Oxford and Cambridge. The students participated in workshops and discussions ranging
from woman’s issues to water, the most basic human right. “[Water] is a human right,” said Kim, who represented Belarus in the Commission on Sustainable Development. The commission discussed issues such as access to drinking water, sanitation and resource management. The conference also organized a simulated international criminal court where participants tried a war criminal from Angola. Choudhury Shamim, an associate professor of political science at CSUF, served as a guide to the students. He has been the faculty adviser of the Model United Nations club on campus since 1990 and was also a U.N. delegate at
the 1979 General Assembly. Shamim hoped to accomplish three things during their trip to Germany. The first was to get international exposure, the second was to win a few awards and the third was to get invited to another U.N. conference. “I feel we have achieved all three of our aims,” he said. Not only did Day win for best speaker for the U.N. Security Council, the delegation also got invited to the Cairo International Model United Nations conference next March. Shamim also said the conference was the ideal place for international networking. More than 150 participants from all over the world, such as Croatia, France, Switzerland and Italy, participated in
nARTS: The women’s choral group will sing in Russian while the men’s group will sing folk music
PERSPECTIVES: Losing a family member can be hard, losing a pet can be just as rough – and a writer learns this when her dog dies
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A Dreyer’s ice cream truck flipped over on the 57 Freeway Tuesday, causing a major traffic jam during the morning rush hour. No further information was available regarding the health of the driver or others involved in the accident.
File Sharing Still Popular at School nTECHNOLOGY: Network security on campus has slowed down dorm resident downloading By Christyan Lopez Special to the Titan
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“I share, therefore I am.” This is part of a strong philosophy held at Sharman Networks, owners of the Kazaa Media Desktop program that has become well known for peer-to-peer sharing of files. According to the Web site, KMD facilitates the searching and downloading by allowing individual users a direct connection to each other, without need for a central point of management.
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The use of such controversial programs has grown like wildfire ever since the now-infamous Napster became popular among music gatherers. Students across the United States are among the many who use programs like Kazaa to obtain music and movies without having to pay for them at retail locations. Many are doing it from campus computers and don’t see, or don’t care, about the ill effects to the university. Mike Marcinkevicz, director of Network Computers and Security
at Cal State Fullerton, said that the university has to respond to complaints from the entertainment industry when they feel their copyright laws have been violated. Marcinkevicz and his team monitor campus network usage and are well aware when downloading is bogging down the network. “If it’s students, it’s usually the dorms where it comes from,” Marcinkevicz said. “We’ve done a lot to block the dorms; we don’t intend to stop but to slow down the usage. We are concerned about the
network performance. Dorm population was pretty small, we haven’t had a whole lot of problems, but it has grown because of the population growth. We don’t want it to affect registration or regular business of the university.” Marcinkevicz said that copyright laws are pretty clear. They state that illegal collection or distribution of copyrighted material is strictly prohibited. “This is more interesting to
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The Cal State Fullerton Music Department will present the men’s and women’s choirs in a concert tonight at 8 p.m. The two choirs will conduct their performances at the Little Theatre in the Performing Arts Center. The women’s choir, which is under the direction of Vance D. Wolverton, is comprised of 95 members, ranging from freshmen to seniors and 80 percent music majors and 20 percent of the members are from other concentrations. The women’s choir performance, which will last about 35 minutes, includes five soloists and a suite of an eight-piece acappella number. The piece starts off with one voice, then to two voices and so on up to a total of eight voices. “The eight-piece number is a very difficult piece to sing and our ladies sing it very well,” Wolverton said. All numbers sung in the performance will be in Russian, with translations available. The setting of all songs will be in psalms text with the theme of the performance being “My Heart is Ready” by Yuri Yukechev. The choir sang earlier in October with the University Wind Ensemble, and this performance marks the second and last one of the semester. “The women’s choir performance is very sophisticated and very beautiful,” Wolverton said. The men’s choir, which is directed by Jesse Knowles, has 44 members also ranging from freshmen to seniors with 75 percent of the group being music majors. “My goal was to choose different styles of music from all over the world and from all periods of time,” Knowles said. The performance styles include pieces from the early Renaissance, late contemporary, a barber shop quartet
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Center Collects‘Boxes of Love’ nSERVICE: Volunteer operation on campus sent about 50 boxes of food to the Canning Hunger project, which hopes to feed $15,000 families By Anna Buss
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SPORTS: Last Saturday marked the 10-year anniversary of that fateful day, when President Gordon gave the ax to Titan football
the conference. Each of them chose a country and role to represent. They also got the chance to discuss different issues going on in the world today such as funds allocations. “We debated over how to allocate money – will developed countries help give money to developing countries?” said Kim, who is also the president of the Model United Nations Club on campus. Three of the other delegates were Leilani Dicato, a theatre arts major, who represented Italy in the U.N. Security Council; Katie Ricketts, a political science major, who served as “Trial Judge No. 3” in the International Crime Court;
Closer to the holidays, Cal State Fullerton students can volunteer to help feed the homeless, drop off toys to orphans and needy children, and even crochet blankets for hospitals. The Volunteer and Service Center founded the “Box of Love” only last year, but “this is a big and popular project in other campuses,” said Mary Nguyen, a student volunteering for this program for the first time.
The “Box of Love” is part of the Canning Hunger project, which is a nonprofit agency working to extinguish hunger in Orange County for the last 12 years. This program was designed to help over 15,500 poor families of Orange County. On Monday, the last day to drop off all the boxes, different sororities, fraternities and clubs and organizations of CSUF collected about 50 boxes of food, which included cans of beans, corn, chicken noodle soup and 13 other canned products. Each box
had enough food for families of six to eight people. This year the project was wrapped up earlier because the boxes had to be categorized and then taken to the Canning Hunger Office. As a result, the program did not accomplish the expected mark of filling 100 boxes. Other volunteer programs are also available. Yvonne Felix, the coordinator of “Blanket of Love” started this program in September. “I’ve done
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Thi Vu helps assemble the “Boxes of Love” for the food drive.