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Al-Qaida linked to second beheading Web site posting claims another U.S. hostage killed in Iraq By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaidalinked group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed Tuesday to have killed the second of two American hostages – back-to-back slayings
that have notched up the Jordanian militantʼs ruthless campaign of terror. The claim, posted on an Islamic Web site, could not immediately be verified. Al-Zarqawiʼs group, Tawhid and Jihad, kidnapped two Americans – Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong – and Briton Kenneth Bigley on Thursday from a home that the three civil engineers shared in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood.
Al-Zarqawi beheaded Armstrong, and the militants on Monday posted a gruesome video of the 52-year-old manʼs death. The new posting followed the passing of the militantsʼ 24-hour deadline for the release of all Iraqi women from prison, and after anguished relatives in the United States and Britain begged for the lives of Bigley, 62, and Hensley, who would have marked his 49th birthday Wednesday.
“We do not have confirmation as of now that the body that has been found is Jack Hensley. We are still hopeful at this time that Jack Hensley is still with us,” Hensleyʼs wife, Pati, said in a prepared statement read by family spokesman Jack Haley outside the familyʼs home in Marietta, Ga. “The nationʼs zealous sons slaughtered the second American hostage after the end of the deadline,” the first statement said.
It was signed with the pseudonym Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, the name usually used on statements from alZarqawiʼs group. Claims on this Web site have proven to be accurate in the past. The brief statement did not give the name of the hostage killed. Several hours passed on Tuesday after the initial announcement with the promised video proof failing to appear. On Monday, by contrast, the
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video of Armstrongʼs killing was posted within an hour of the initial statement claiming he was dead. Late Tuesday, an expanded version of the statement saying a second American had been killed appeared DEMOCRATS 3
U.S. gives Israel El Toro looks to super-size smart bombs
ETC would be 39 acres larger than CSUF if expanded
Allies strike one of the largest weapons deals in years
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The Cal State Fullerton El Toro extension campus might be going from small to extra large. It all depends on the pending land sale of the former El Toro Marine base in Irvine. Whether or not a buying developer wants to cooperate with CSUF will determine whether the campus expands or not. If events go according to organizerʼs plans, the overall site of the ETC will be larger than that of the main campus. Judith Anderson, CSUF executive vice president, said the deal will likely turn out in the collegeʼs favor. “We are very optimistic,” she said. The ETC would cover the 275 acres of “parcel one” that has been designated for education, making it 39 acres larger than the main campus. The whole territory, which is still owned by the Department of Defense, totals 4,700 acres. ETC Director George Giacumakis said the federal government will retain 1,000 acres and give the rest to the city of Irvine. Irvineʼs share will be quartered
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The Cal State Fullerton El Toro campus, located in Irvine, may be small now but is set to expand in the future if plans go in CSUF’s favor. into parcels and a developer can bid for one or all of them, but their purchase has a clause: A stipulation in buying the parcels is that the Great Park of Irvine, which was voter-approved over an international airport in 2002, must be included in development plans. CSUFʼs largest campus would then neighbor Californiaʼs largest city park. “It would be a wonderful location for our campus, and a wonder-
ful location for the community,” Anderson said. It all comes down to how the developer wants to develop the land, but they will most likely work with Fullerton because it would be the most efficient option for them, Giacumakis said. “A developer is interested in buying it, developing it and selling it. A corporation has to make money on its investment,” he said. “If Cal
CSUF offers health services Center provides shots, immunizations, tests and minor surgeries By ALICIA ELIZARRARAS Daily Titan Staff
The cost of health insurance can be pricey for students, but there is a resource on campus that students might not be utilizing to its full potential. The Health and Counseling Center has services available to any Cal State Fullerton student, and most of the services are either free of charge or only require a small fee. “Each student pays a fee each semester which entitles them to all these free services, so they have
State Fullerton is already there and paying $48,000 a month to be there, it would be in their best interest to continue the lease.” The campus is attractive to them because it is an established revenue source ensuring some immediate investment return after they put millions of dollars into purchasing the land, he said. “There would be continuity,” EL TORO 3
JERUSALEM – The United States will sell Israel nearly 5,000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years, Israeli military officials said Tuesday. The deal will expand Israelʼs existing supply of the weapons, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Israelʼs announcement came after the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible military sale to Israel worth as much as $319 million. The agency said in a June 1 press release that the sale “will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that has been and continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.” The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday that funding for the sale will come from U.S. military aid to Israel.
Disclosure of the deal comes amid escalating Israeli worries over Iranʼs nuclear development program. Israel and a number of Western countries fear that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for generating electricity. Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons. The Israeli military officials would not say whether the bombs might be intended for use against Iran. But they ruled out the possibility that they could be used against Palestinian targets. Israel drew heavy criticism after a one-ton smart bomb meant for a senior Palestinian militant also killed 15 civilians in an attack in the Gaza Strip in July 2002. The bombs Israel is acquiring include airborne versions, guidance units, training bombs and detonators. They are guided by an existing Israeli satellite used by the military. As part of the deal, Israel will receive 500 one-ton bombs that can destroy two-yard concrete walls, 2,500 one-ton bombs, 1,000 half-ton bombs and 500 quarter-ton bombs, the military officials said.
Faculty to fill senate seats Academic Senate special election to be held in October By ASHLEY HEGLAR Daily Titan Staff
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The Student Health & Counseling Center receives most of its business from MMR and hepatitis B shots, said Pat Brown, nursing supervisor. actually already paid for them in advance, and right now itʼs $25 each semester that students are paying,” said Grace Johnson, administrative and business director of the center. Although the center might be a good deal for students, they are making money from students. “That $25 fee allows students to use the facilities but by no means does that fee in total cover the whole cost of this facility,” said Dr. Richard Boucher, the centerʼs chief staff physician. “It costs a lot more to run this facility than what the fee is,” Boucher added. Exactly what services are these
fees paying for? Well, students might be surprised because it is a lot more than just the basic flu shot. Some of the standard services provided to students include treatment of any kind of illness or injury as well as administering blood pressure checks and immunizations, Johnson said. “There is a very high usage of the immunization service, such as hepatitis B, tetanus shot, flu, meningitis and TB testing, as well as minor surgeries like mole removals,” Johnson said. A big part of what the center offers is gynecological services, HEALTH 3
Faculty members will let their voices be heard in a special election that runs from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7 that is intended to fill 10 seats in the Academic Senate. Normally there are two elections every year; in March there is a statewide senate election and in May thereʼs an all-university election. The reason for this special election is due to both a sudden death of a faculty member and a resignation. Senator Irene Matz has been chair of the Academic Senate Elections Committee for two years and said only full-time faculty members can vote. Although voting is a faculty privilege, students and staff are strongly encouraged to become active in the standing committee Administrative AnalystSpecialist Erika Bakken has been active in the senate for five years and said, “We are always looking
for students to serve,” adding that the senate gives scholarships to students who are active. A relatively new electronic ballot process has proven to be convenient for faculty members when voting. According to figures provided by Matz, in 2003, 619 faculty members had their voices heard and in 2004, 676 voted, making it the highest voter turnout ever. According to the Academic Senate bylaws, a representative is required from each college on the general committees. The senate added an at-largecategory to the Faculty Research Committee on Aug. 2, 2004. This means that a representative is not from a particular college, yet is still able to make decisions with the rest of the senators. The College of Education was set up in July, therefore it needs a representative to be elected to the University Personnel Committee, the Professional Leaves Committee and the Faculty Research Committee. Hallie Yopp Slowik was elected as the College of Human Development and Community Service representative on the University Personnel Committee
but now represents the newly created College of Education, which leaves a vacancy in the HDCS. With Sorel Reismanʼs resignation and Gus Vargasʼ death, there are two empty seats in the atlarge constituency, making one seat open in the Faculty Personnel Committee and one in the Faculty Research Committee. Other vacancies within the Faculty Personnel Committee are in the College of Communications and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In the Faculty Research Committee there are available seats in the College of Arts, College of Business and Economics, College of Engineering and Computer Science, and the College of Education. “I think itʼs very important for students and faculty to be a part of their university,” said Philippe Perebinossoff, radio-TVfilm professor. “This includes getting informed and voicing oneʼs opinion, via voters, for example, after studying the facts.” The special election begins Monday, Oct. 4 at 7 a.m. and concludes Thursday, Oct.7 at 10 p.m. Votes will be submitted electronically.
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World Haiti death toll hits 691 after storm
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GONAIVES, Haiti – The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691 Tuesday, with 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless. Waterlines up to 10 feet high on Gonaivesʼ buildings marked the worst of the storm that sent water gushing down denuded hills, destroying homes and crops in the Artibonite region that is Haitiʼs breadbasket.
New participants in the Student Leadership Institute meet today in TSU Titan Student Union Gilman AB for orientation, from noon to 1 p.m. and subsequently in TSU AB from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A third meeting takes place in TSU Gilman AB from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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UNITED NATIONS – President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the countryʼs struggling government and said the proper response to spreading violence “is not to retreat, it is to prevail.” The countryʼs prime minister, Ayad Allawi, offered an upbeat assessment after Bushʼs speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, saying, “We are winning, we are making progress in Iraq, we are defeating terrorists,” even as insurgents claimed they had killed a second American hostage in two days.
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Midwest Airlines cancels flight MILWAUKEE – Midwest Airlines canceled a flight, carrying 118 passengers, ready to take off for San Francisco after a passenger found Arabic-style handwriting in the companyʼs in-flight magazine and alerted the crew. The writing was in Farsi, the language used in Iran, said airline spokeswoman Carol Skornicka. She said she didnʼt know exactly what the writing said but was similar to a prayer, “something of a contemplative nature.”
Airlines told to turn over passenger data WASHINGTON – Everyone who took a commercial flight within the United States in June will have travel information turned over to the government so it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists, federal officials announced Tuesday. The Transportation Security Administration unveiled details for its previously announced “Secure Flight” program, its second attempt at finding a better way to screen passengers without infringing on privacy.
Local Man arrested in ʻ9 to 5ʼ bank robberies ARCADIA, Calif. – Authorities have arrested a man in the so-called “9 to 5 bandit” bank robberies, FBI officials said Tuesday. The robber is so named because he shows up at banks wearing a dress shirt and tie, giving the appearance heʼs dropping by on a free moment from his office. The man was arrested Monday evening. The robber is believed to have hit a half-dozen banks in Temecula, Covina, La Verne, Whittier, Pasadena and Burbank since July 2. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Sunday, Sept. 19
1941: A Nazi decree requires all Jews in Germany ages 6 and over to wear the Star of David on their lapels at all times. 1970: “The Mary Taylor Moore Show” debuts. 1988: Israel launches a military spy satellite.
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1968: Mickey Mantle hits his 536th and final career home run. 1970: Jim Morrison is found not guilty of lewd behavior. 1985: Walt Disney World gets its 200 millionth visitor.
Tuesday, Sept. 21
1937: J.R.R. Tolkien publishes his book, The Hobbit. 1953: Allied forces form the city of West Berlin.
Wednesday, Sept. 22
1950: Ralph Bunche becomes the first African-American to win the
Nobel Peace Prize. 1968: Iraq adopts a new constitution. 1979: Israel performs nuclear testing in the Indian Ocean. 1985: A major earthquake hits Mexico, killing 2,000.
Thursday, Sept. 23
1806: Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after completing their survey of the Northwestern United States. 1862: Lincolnʼs “Emancipation Proclamation” is published in northern newspapers. 1957: Buddy Holly and the Cricketsʼ single, “Thatʼll Be The Day,” hits number one on the charts. 1962: The ABC cartoon, “The
Jetsons,” is ABCʼs first television series broadcast in color.
Friday, Sept. 24
1990: The Soviet Union gives the approval to go from communism to the free-market. 1991: Television character Doogie Howser loses his virginity. 1993: First Israelis are killed by Islamic fundamentalists since the signing of the PLO peace accord.
Saturday, Sept. 25
1968: “60 Minutes” premieres on CBS. 1990: Saddam Hussein warns that the United States will repeat the Vietnam experience.
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on a different Web site and warned that Bigley would be the next to die. It did not contain any new deadline, and its authenticity was not known. Tawhid and Jihad – Arabic for “Monotheism and Holy War” – has claimed responsibility for killing at least seven hostages, including another American, Nicholas Berg, who was abducted in April. The group has also said it is behind a number of bombings and gun attacks. A host of militant groups have used kidnappings and bombings as their signature weapons in a bloodsoaked campaign to undermine interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawiʼs government and force the United States and its allies out of Iraq. The violence has already persuaded companies to leave Iraq, hindered foreign investment, led firms to drop out of aid projects, restricted activities to relatively safe areas and forced major expenditures on security. The violence continued unabated Tuesday. A car bomb wounded four U.S. soldiers on the road to Baghdadʼs airport and two Marines were reported killed in earlier attacks west of the capital, underscoring the inability of American forces to control key parts of Iraq 17 months after starting operations here. President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq, telling a subdued U.N. General Assembly session Tuesday that the war launched without U.N. approval delivered the Iraqi people from “an outlawed dictator.” On the sidelines of the meetings, Bush told Allawi, “We will not allow these thugs and terrorists to decide your fate and to decide our fate. “ Allawi said: “The barbaric action of yesterday is really unbelievable.” Al-Zarqawi, standing alongside four other masked militants clad in black, personally cut off Armstrongʼs head, the CIA confirmed after analyzing his voice on Mondayʼs footage.
Armstrongʼs body was discovered only blocks from where he lived, officials and witnesses said. Rick Gamber, Armstrongʼs cousin, told NBCʼs “Today Show” that the family doesnʼt want revenge. “Our family feels a great deal of grief,” he said. “We hope the criminals are brought to justice, but we certainly donʼt want people to overreact and do something foolish.” In a video posted Saturday, Tawhid and Jihad had threatened to kill the three men unless Iraqi women were released from two U.S.-controlled prisons, Abu Ghraib and Umm Qasr. Abu Ghraib is the prison where American soldiers were photographed sexually humiliating male prisoners, raising fears about the safety of women detainees. In Mondayʼs video, al-Zarqawi announced that Tawhid and Jihad was taking revenge for female Iraqi prisoners and called Bush “a dog.” The U.S. military says women are not held at either facility but has acknowledged it is holding two female “security prisoners” elsewhere. They are Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, a scientist who became known as “Dr. Germ” for helping Iraq make weapons out of anthrax, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a biotech researcher known as “Mrs. Anthrax.” Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abdul-Jabbar, a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars, conservative Iraqi clerics who oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq but have interceded in the past to win the release of foreign hostages, questioned the claim of only two female prisoners in U.S. and British custody. Abdul-Jabbar told Al-Jazeera pan-Arab satellite television there were “tens, perhaps hundreds of Iraqi women prisoners in the occupationʼs jail that were supposed to be released before this tragedy.” In London, Bigleyʼs son urged British Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet the captorsʼ demands. “I ask Tony Blair personally to consider the amount of bloodshed already suffered,” Craig Bigley said in a videotaped statement. “Please
meet the demands and release my father – two women for two men. ... Only you can save him now.” Blair called the family Tuesday afternoon, but a British Foreign Office spokesman said the government would not give in to the kidnappers. Foreign Office official Dean McLoughlin later went on Arab television station Al-Arabiya to say “not even one” female prisoner was under Britainʼs control. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemned the taking and killing of hostages in Iraq. But he also said Iraqi prisoners had been disgracefully abused, an implicit criticism of the U.S. treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib. “No one is above the law,” Annan said. “Again and again, we see fundamental laws shamelessly disregarded – those that ordain respect for innocent life, for civilians, for the vulnerable – especially children.” More than 130 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq, and at least 26 of them have been killed. Many more Iraqis have also been seized in the chaos since Saddam Hussein was ousted last year, in many cases for ransom. The Turkish VINSAN construction company announced Tuesday it was bowing to the demands of militants and halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 kidnapped Turkish employees. Another Turkish hostage, seized Aug. 5, was released after his company, Atahan Lojistik International, withdrew from Iraq, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. Tahsin Topʼs abductors had also demanded a $45,000 ransom. It was not clear if money was paid. But Turkish state TRT television reported the body of another Turk, identified as Akar Besir, was found early Tuesday near Mosul. The station said Besir was employed as a driver for a firm working for the U.S. military and was kidnapped on Saturday. Associated Press reporter Sam F. Ghattas contributed to this story from Cairo, Egypt.
Change could reduce eligibility for all ethnic groups By MICHELLE LOCKE The Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. – University of California officials have retooled a proposal to tighten admission standards, recommending raising the required grade point average to 3.0 instead of 3.1. However, the change appeared unlikely to mollify critics, who say itʼs not necessary and could hurt admissions of black and Hispanic students. UCʼs governing Board of Regents is scheduled to vote Thursday on the change, which would take effect for students entering in the fall of 2007. The GPA proposal stems from a recent report that found 14.4 percent of California high school students are meeting UC requirements. Under state educational policy, UC is supposed to serve the top 12.5 percent of graduates, designing its admission standards to capture that group. In July, regents voted to make a number of small, mainly technical changes to admissions that were
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he said. “The lease money goes into the developerʼs coffers.” Since bidding wonʼt start until the end of this year or early 2005, the cost-per-acre is yet to be figured. Giacumakis said land from the Tustin Marine Helicopter Base was being sold in 2002 for over $1 million an acre and could be an indication of what El Toro property might cost. If that figure holds true, the ETC would be on a $275 million chunk of land, but, Giacumakis said, the college wonʼt have to pay that amount back in order to own it. How developers are required to work with educational entities, paired with the likely profit they will earn in the developing process, will probably lead to a transfer – not sale – of developed areas back to CSUF, he said. Anderson is heading negotiations with potential developers, but wonʼt reveal any names or other particulars. She said that itʼs too early for precise development plans, but one idea in consideration is building faculty and staff housing. “Itʼs an immediate need,” she said. “This allows us the opportunity to have affordable faculty and staff housing.” Charles Moore, ETC director of enrollment services, said the area would be better suited for hands-on science activity than the main campus would be, and that he would like to see more science classes and general education courses offered once the expanded facilities can handle them. Anderson said that the ETC offers no general education courses
expected to drop eligibility to 13 percent. But the board postponed raising the GPA. Initially, the proposal had been worded to raise the minimum from the current 2.8 to as high as 3.1, depending on how the new SAT, which comes out next March, affects eligibility rates. The revised proposal is more straightforward, setting the minimum at 3.0. “We believe this particular approach is reasonable because it gives students substantial notice of the change, it emphasizes achievement in high school and it has the least negative impact on individual groups of students of any of the proposals we looked at,” said UC spokesman Brad Hayward. The GPA change is a moot point for most students, since 75 percent come in with an average of 3.5 or better. Additionally, students at the minimum 2.8 would have to post relatively high test scores to qualify. Still, the changes would reduce eligibility for all ethnic groups, including blacks and Hispanics, who are already underrepresented at UC. Under the admissions changed approved in July, it is estimated that 5.2 percent of black high school graduates are UC-eligible. Raising
the minimum GPA to 3.0 drops that number to 5 percent. For Hispanics, the decline is 5.7 percent to 5.6 percent; for AsianAmericans the drop is 29 percent to 28.5 percent and for whites the number goes from 14.7 percent to 14.5 percent. UC officials say that other approaches to reducing eligibility, such as raising required scores on the SAT and other entrance exams, would have resulted in even fewer underrepresented minorities qualifying. Opponents of the change say it undermines educational improvements that have resulted in more students meeting UCʼs current standards. They also question the reliability of the study finding more than 12.5 percent of students are qualifying and say the proposed GPA change will erode gains in black and Hispanic eligibility. Critics were expected to speak against the proposed changes before regents vote this week. Changing the GPA minimum “sends the message to hard working high school students that UC is changing the rules in the middle of the game,” Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, wrote in a letter to the board.
and is open only to upper division students, but she would also like to see that change. Moore and Giacumakis are two of the ETCʼs few administrators, but will likely be two of many when their plans come to fruition and the campus goes through its growth spurt. Giacumakis said the idea of a big ETC has been in play long before they first moved there in 2002 from Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo. “We were planning this for 10 years because we knew we were running out of space,” he said. “We had been negotiating for almost a decade. We were going to try and work with the airport, but Orange County turned us down.” The ETC is a little over an acre in size before figuring in its 600 parking spaces. The one building it occupies is a renovated army building and employs 30 staffers and has 180 faculty members teaching. Giacumakis said about 3,400 students frequent the campus every week, mostly between 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. from Monday to Thursday. For many, an extension campus would be a welcomed change of pace to the gridlock of the main campus, a sentiment shared by Jim Carlos, a senior majoring in public relations. “I like it here; itʼs more kick back,” Carlos said. “I hate going up to main campus.” Carlos also works as an ETC student consultant, spending much time in the easier going atmosphere. “I guess itʼs inevitable, but it wonʼt become the urban mess that the main campus has become,” he said.
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reproductive health and contraception services, which, Johnson said, includes pregnancy testing and examinations. But students should not go running to the center thinking it is giving away free contraception or prescriptions. Through a contract with the state, the center is able to offer contraception to students at a very low cost, Johnson said. In order to take advantage of this service and the pharmacy, Johnson said, students do have to be seen by a provider on campus. The center also has its own pharmacy, laboratory, X-ray department and also offers nutrition and wellness counseling. Nutrition and cooking classes are offered through health and wellness programs and, Johnson said, these services are very helpful to those who live in the dorms. The center has also partnered with the College of Optometry to bring affordable eye care to students on campus, Johnson said. “They give our students a 50 percent discount off eye exams and an additional 20 percent off frames and lenses,” she said. The center also has a way of helping those students in need of help with their personal lives or with their relationships. “We have a unit called CAPS (Counseling And Physiological Services), they do individual counseling, couples counseling and group therapy,” Johnson said, adding that they have groups on selfesteem, anxiety, eating disorders and all kinds of great meetings that students can attend throughout the day. The center provides athletic examinations, as well as routine physicals for athletes, Johnson said. With all of these services offered, some students may be surprised at how convenient and affordable the center actually is. “I would use the Health Center more if I didnʼt have insurance, but I think itʼs good for students to be able to go there and find help with anything they need, and even though Iʼve never been, I should go check it out,” said Maria Gomez, a liberal studies major. With so many services, students might wonder if there will be a long wait or if they need to make an appointment. Each doctor sees approximately 20 to 24 patients for brief visits each day, Boucher said. “It depends on the service as to how long it will take to get an appointment, if youʼre ill, the appointments are generally within a week,” he said.
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Israeli activist seeks peace in Middle East Journalist-political activist Keller says peace is common goal By VIRGINIA TERZIAN Daily Titan Staff
Despite the constant unrest in the Middle East, journalist Adam Keller has dedicated the last 20 years of his life working to create peace between Palestinians and Israelis. As a second-generation Israeli, he said he feels that the best method of creating peace is to create “two separate states with one future,” giving everyone a chance to find peace and to stop the years of bloodshed. “If there is a person who personifies the potential for peace and justice for historical Palestine itʼs Adam Keller,” said Professor Stephen Simon on Tuesday while introducing the activist, journalist and cofounder of Gush-Shalom, or “peace bloc” as it translates in English. The Gush-Shalom is a grassroots organization that seeks to create peace between Palestine and Israel. The group is opposed to the occupation of the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem
and the West Bank and advocates the creation of a truly independent Palestinian state. Keller is one of the speakers for the University Honors and Scholars Speaker Series. Addressing two audiences at Cal State Fullerton, first at 11:30 a.m. and then again at 7:30 p.m., Keller spoke of his college years and his beginning in political activism against the Israeli government and its actions toward the Palestinians. “I entered university in 1977 after finishing serving in the military for three years,” Keller said as he explained that, according to Israelʼs constitution, all citizens must enter the military between the ages of 18 and 21. Keller said that 20 percent of Israelʼs population is Arab and although they are citizens they are not treated as equals compared to Jews. “Very often in universities it is the first time Jews and Arabs are together. Schools are taught in Hebrew and Arabs have a hard time getting in,” he said. “[Israel] is very segregated and Jews and Arabs will live in different towns or villages or in separate neighborhoods.”
Jews can go their entire childhood never meeting an Arab and vice versa, Keller said. While at the university, Keller joined an activist group called “Campus,” which was formed by two groups that had joined together. “Campus” worked to create peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. “Most Jews and Arabs did political action together,” Keller said. “Many of us took in the abstract idea that Jews and Arabs are equals.” In 1984, Keller became a “refusenik,” or someone who refused to go to war because of his political feeling about the Lebanon war. Keller is a man in an unusual position, being an Israeli who continually stands against the Israeli government. “It was nice to see an Israeli and a Jewish person speaking about whatʼs going on in Israel and [who] is against the governmentʼs actions,” said Mona Shadia, a junior broadcast journalism major who attended the speech. “Heʼs saying the truth that no one sees.” Political activist Keller said that Israelis and Palestinians have the
Tribe could receive land House committee debates bill to give 990 acres to Pechanga By ERICA WERNER The Associated Press
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Political activist Adam Keller addresses an audience at Cal State Fullerton on Tuesday at the Titan Student Union. desire for peace in common. “When 50 Jewish students and 50 Arab students could get together,
eat, drink and dance and not talk about politics, thatʼs very much a political act,” Keller said.
Prisoner to pay $5,000 for possible punching Statewide task force aims to discourage officer assaults The Associated Press
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – An inmate must pay a prison guard $5,000 as the result of a small claims lawsuit, a tactic by a statewide task force designed to eliminate assaults on correctional officers. Inmate Renaigius Flores, who is
accused of punching Sgt. Daniel Gonzalez in the face at the California Rehabilitation Center, was ordered by a judge Friday to pay damages. The ruling was hailed by the California Staff Assault Task Force, an organization formed last year to eliminate inmate assaults on officers by suing them in civil court. It was the second time the task force has helped an officer prevail in court. But critics contend the practice is unfair because inmates have limited ability to defend themselves in small
claims court. “Whatʼs unfair is that these guys are spitting on my officers, throwing feces at my officers, and stabbing my officers,” said Lt. Charles Hughes, task force executive director and correctional officer at California State Prison, Los Angeles County. Nearly 10 correctional officers are assaulted each day in California, Hughes said. “A lot of times, inmates are not held accountable, and there is nothing we can do about it,” Hughes
said. “So we take them to civil court. Five-thousand dollars is like $1 million to an inmate who makes about $20 a month.” Inmate defendants can hire an attorney, send a representative to court or write a letter in their own defense, but they are dependent on the California Department of Corrections to transport them to court, Hughes said. If the department wonʼt take them to court, the hearing proceeds without them. Flores wasnʼt able to
attend Fridayʼs hearing. “There is something patently unfair about it,” said Dorsey Nunn, program director of Legal Services For Prisoners With Children. “Theyʼre suing in a venue where they know the person canʼt show up and defend themselves, and they call it a victory when itʼs actually robbery.” Flores is also facing a criminal charge of battery on a corrections officer for the incident, which occurred last year.
Former rock star causes plane delay Flight diverted after passenger Cat Stevens found on watch list The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – A London-toWashington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam – formerly known as singer Cat Stevens – was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said. United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration. The plane was met by federal agents at Maineʼs Bangor International Airport around 3 p.m., Melendez said. Homeland Security Department spokesman Dennis Murphy identified the passenger as Islam. “He was interviewed and denied admission to the United States on national security grounds,” Murphy said, and would be put on the first available flight out of the country Wednesday. Officials had no details about why the peace activist might be considered a risk to the United States. Islam had visited New York in May to promote a DVD of his 1976 MajiKat tour. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Islam, 56,
was identified by the Advanced Passenger Information System, which requires airlines to send passenger information to Customs and Border Protectionʼs National Targeting Center. The Transportation Security Administration then was contacted and requested that the plane land at the nearest airport, that official said. Melendez said Islam was questioned by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Another federal official, who is in law enforcement and spoke anonymously because of agency policy, said that after the interview, Customs officials decided to deny Islam entry into the United States. Flight 919 eventually continued on to Dulles after Islam was removed from the flight. Islam, who was born Stephen Georgiou, took Cat Stevens as a stage name and had a string of hits in the 1960s and ʼ70s, including “Wild World” and “Morning Has Broken.” Last year he released two songs, including a re-recording of his ʼ70s hit “Peace Train,” to express his opposition to the U.S.led war in Iraq. He abandoned his music career in the late 1970s and changed his name after being persuaded by orthodox Muslim teachers that his lifestyle was forbidden by Islamic law. He later became a teacher and an advocate for his religion, founding a Muslim school in London in 1983.
WASHINGTON – The House committee that sets environmental policy appears poised to add 990 acres to the Riverside County reservation of Californiaʼs wealthy Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians. Tribal chairman Mark Macarro and federal officials said at a House Resources Committee hearing Tuesday that the Bureau of Land Management property has no commercial value or development potential, and the tribe is better equipped to maintain it than the federal government. “Protecting the sanctity of these lands through conservation and resource management is of the highest priority for the tribe,” Macarro said. Pechanga is one of the stateʼs wealthiest tribes, with a popular casino in Temecula on reservation land that abuts the parcel in question. The anti-casino group Stand Up for California accused the tribe of seeking the land to pave the way for a second casino, but Macarro denied that. He said the tribe wanted to add the land to its existing, 5,500-acre reservation to preserve more of its ancestral territory, gain greater ability to fight fires and ensure access to drinking-water runoff from the rocky terrain in the proposed new territory. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, who sponsored the bill to put the land into trust for the tribe at no cost, also said he was satisfied no changes would be made to the remote area. “Theyʼve agreed to do anything they need to do to assure that itʼs going to be maintained in perpetuity as it has been maintained by BLM, except clearly Pechanga, at least at this time, has far more revenues for ensuring fire protection, habitat, water conservation and so on,” Issa said in an interview. “The only concern is the standard concern, they have a casino, will they do more casino, and this does not enable or change anything, the California compacts are what enable the casinos and thatʼs Gov. Schwarzeneggerʼs job,” Issa added. Stand Up for California director Cheryl Schmit distributed a letter to Issa and Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo opposing the bill. “This legislation grants the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians additional exemptions in state and federal environmental law, opportunity for gaming expansion and expanded reserved water rights,” the letter said. Macarro dismissed Schmitʼs concerns, noting that any commercial development of the land would be contrary to tribal zoning for the area. “There are cultural resources, rocks and rock carvings as well as rock paintings on this property, we believe cultural resources that exist nowhere else,” he said in an interview. “The amount of drainage off that mountainside drains into our recharge area, so itʼs a key part of our water quality and our water supply.” The Resources Committee is set to vote on the bill Wednesday. Issa said he expected the legislation would pass the full House and Senate before Congress adjourns for the year.