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Afghan election fraud investigated Commission will examine candidatesʼ protests over polls By DANIEL COONEY The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan election officials agreed Sunday to create an independent commission to probe opposition charges of fraud
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in this nationʼs first-ever presidential poll, while ballot-boxes stuffed with the aspirations of the people of this war-ravaged land started to stack up in counting centers. International officials met privately in an effort to end a boycott of the ballot by opponents of U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai, a heavy favorite to win. Tallying of the votes had initially been expected to start Sunday, but
with ballot boxes coming in from some remote areas on mules, U.N. officials said the process wouldnʼt start for three to four days. Final results are not expected until around Oct. 30. A day after all 15 challengers announced they would boycott the electionʼs outcome, two backed off, saying they wanted a commission to rule on whether the voting was fair and indicating they would accept
its decision. A few hours later, their demand appeared to have been met. “There is going to be an independent commission made to investigate it,” electoral director Farooq Wardak said. “There could be mistakes; we are just human beings. My colleagues might have made a mistake.” There was no immediate reaction from the challengers, but a senior Western official said many of the 15 had decided to back down and sup-
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Visitors at Mack’s Apples in Londonderry, N.H., selected their pumpkins early this year and got a peek at two enormous pumpkins on display at the countryside pumpkin patch.
‘New Yorker’ meets CSUF Art editor speaks on publicationʼs history and controversy By KYM PARSONS Daily Titan Staff
Itʼs often said one shouldnʼt judge a book by its cover, but thatʼs exactly how magazines are judged. Since its inception in 1925, New Yorker magazine has always kept up with the current political and social issues of the time and has maintained a solid reputation for its controversial covers. Whether serious, sarcastic or humorous, its covers have added to the success of the magazine. During a presentation for members of Cal State Fullertonʼs Pencil Mileage Club last Friday, Francoise Mouly, the art editor for New Yorker magazine, talked about the impact magazine covers can have on a publication and about the fearlessness the New Yorker has developed toward controversy. “To be relevant is to be controversial and to get people to discuss it,” Mouly said. “Even if people hated it, it was important to have it talked about.”
When the New Yorker began publication, Mouly said, it appealed to mainly upper class citizens. “Over the years, the New Yorker remained in existence and it acquired the reputation of being the best magazine in the world because of its serious journalism and its illustrations,” Mouly said. By 1992, however, people did not pay as much attention to the magazine, Mouly said.
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Francoise Mouly, art editor of New Yorker magazine, spoke in Visual Arts 117 on Saturday. “It was the job of the editor at the time to revitalize the magazine and
return it to its roots and readdress the new generation of the times,” she said. The editor asked Moulyʼs husband to create an image for the magazine, she said, and the illustration he created portrayed a white man kissing a black woman. “The image was published on the cover and got enormous amounts of attention and reaction,” Mouly said. “Not just because the image was published, but because it was published on the cover of the New Yorker.” Mouly said it was exactly what the editor was looking for to help rejuvenate the magazine because “by making people talk about the image they would pay more attention to the magazine.” Shortly after the illustration ran on the cover of the New Yorker, Mouly was hired by the magazine to help publish graphics that, she said, no one else was willing to publish. At the age of 19, Mouly moved from France the United States, where she met her husband Art Spiegleman. “Along with her husband, [Mouly] NEW YORK 3
people to vote more than once. International election observers said the complaint did not justify calling for the vote to be nullified. The U.S. International Republican Institute accused the challengers of trying to make up excuses for why they were likely to lose. Electoral officials said turnout looked extremely high – a victory in itself in a nation with no experience at direct elections.
LGBA comes out with pride Students share their stories of coming out during on-campus rally
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Over half a million college students become targets of discriminatory slurs or physical assaults every year. At least one hate crime occurs on a college campus every day. And every minute, one college student witnesses a racist, sexist, homophobic or other biased words or images. “We all have to say something — to speak out,” Cal State Fullerton Professor Carol Ojeda-Kimbrough said. “If we donʼt, itʼs as if we are condoning it.” Ojeda-Kimbrough has worked with the Asian-American community for over 30 years and was appointed commissioner of public social services for the city of Los Angeles. She believes the first step toward stopping hate crimes is for people to become aware. Last month, she invited Ismael Ileto to speak to the Cal State Fullerton community about hate crimes. Iletoʼs brother, Joseph “JoJo” Ileto, was the Filipino-American postal carrier who was shot nine times by a white supremacist in the summer of 1999. After Buford Furrow opened fire and wounded five people at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. Furrow shot and killed Joseph Ileto because Ileto looked either Hispanic or Asian. “Itʼs quite something else when you lose a loved one from a heinous hate crime that makes no sense,” said Ismael Ileto, whose father died of a heart attack months before his brotherʼs murder. “People think, ʻIt doesnʼt happen to us,ʼ or ʻIt doesnʼt happen in this neighborhood,ʼ” said Ileto. “But it does.” Ileto said his family prays that no one else would have to go through what they did. “Itʼs very hard to think about a loved one being killed that way,” said Ileto who remembers his brother as someone who was always thinking of other people. “We always think about how we didnʼt have a chance to say goodbye,” said Ileto. “He died alone on somebodyʼs driveway.” The familyʼs grief, however, intensified as a result of how Joseph Iletoʼs death was initially treated by the media and public officials, said
port the investigative team, which would consist of about three foreign election experts. In Washington, U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice predicted that “this election is going to be judged legitimate.” The opposition complaint is focused on allegations that the supposedly indelible ink used to mark votersʼ thumbs in some polling stations could be rubbed off, allowing
discriminated against same-sex marriages was passed in 1993. Every year, Carusone and a group of same-sex marriage supporters travel to different states across the country applying for marriage licenses as a sign of protest. They were shocked, Carusone said, when they went to San Francisco and received the licenses they were so used to having rejected. Carusone looks ahead to the future of state marriage laws and stressed the importance of the California Marriage License NonDiscrimination Act, which would change the stateʼs marriage laws to be non-gender based. The act was not that successful the first time it
In a dark room filled with close to 60 students, Cal State Fullertonʼs Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance held an emotional and fun-filled event Thursday night in the Titan Student Union in celebration of National Coming Out Day. The LGBA, with 150 enlisted members, has been celebrating the annual event, which is officially Oct. 11, for over five years. The celebration began at 7 p.m. and featured guest speaker L.J. Carusone, an assistant manager of the California Freedom to Marry Coalition, an organization that advocates same-sex marriages, and a Marriage E q u a l i t y SIERRA F. WEBB/Daily Titan California rights Students celebrated National Coming Out Day with activist. Bert and Ernie, leis and rainbow flags on Thursday. “I call myself a social justice advocate and not a gay rights advo- was introduced, Carusone said, but cate,” Carusone said. will be reintroduced on Dec. 6. Carusone spoke about his own “In 2006, we can expect some realexperience coming out and the impor- ly nasty anti-gay measures on the baltance of legalizing same-sex mar- lot,” said Carusone. “The Republican riages after a brief video was shown legislators have never supported gay about the controversy and events that legislature…itʼs important to get suptook place in San Francisco this past port because we donʼt have it.” February with issuing same-sex marLGBA Chair Alex Faris, a senior riage licenses. at CSUF and 4-year member of the “Gay and marriage are not cou- group, began the Coming Out Day pled in such a way that people just ceremony by sharing about his own laugh; itʼs a reality now,” Carusone experiences coming out to his friends said. He started his own campaign and family, inviting anyone who for same-sex marriages by co-found- wanted to talk to come up on stage ing Marriage Equality California, a and tell their own stories, whether chapter of Marriage Equality USA, COMING OUT 3 in 2000 after an amendment that
Community efforts pay off for student volunteers Cal State Fullerton Titans give time, receive scholarships By NICHOLAS COOPER For the Daily Titan
Students who volunteer for community service are to be rewarded with educational scholarships by Students in Service, a new program on campus this semester. The program began in 1997 as Higher Education Learning Partners and is funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
It is an Americorps program that is also sponsored by the Washington Campus Compact in partnership with campus compacts in the states of California, Hawaii, Montana, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho. The educational scholarship is awarded by the National Service Trust in Washington D.C. The Volunteer and Service Center is organizing this new program. Those involved said they want to encourage students to get involved and make a difference in their communities. Students may serve two Americorps terms of service. “This program is for students who
are involved in unpaid community service with a non-profit agency or through neighborhood organizations or leadership activities,” said Sabrina Sanders, coordinator for the center. Fifteen students are currently taking advantage of this program on campus, doing service for organizations involved with education, human needs and service, public safety, homeland security and the environment. One student taking advantage of the program is Eric Trinidad, a history major and a second-semester transfer student who recently
enrolled in the program. “I originally got involved in this program for the scholarship,” Trinidad said. “But I gained so many new experiences.” Trinidad mentors junior high youth through Titan Partners, a program on campus that helps younger students with the transition from elementary school to junior high. According to the Students in Service Web site, the amount of the scholarship Trinidad sought depends on how many hours of service that a student commits to during a year. A student is eligible for $1,000 for 300 hours of service, $1,250 for 450
hours and $2,363 for 900 hours. The scholarship can be used to pay for the cost of attendance at a qualified higher educational institute. It can be used to pay off a previous loan or held for up to seven years and applied toward a graduate degree, trade school or study abroad program. Students must spend 80 percent of their committed hours volunteering for a non-profit agency or an academic service through campus such as student leadership. Time spent tutoring for a federal work-study VOLUNTEER 3