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Political activitist speaks to Cal State San Marcos students By TROY BARDY For the Daily Titan
The Associated Student Inc. at Cal State San Marcos raised $40,000 of privately funded money to bring Michael Moore and his Slacker Uprising Tour to the Del Mar Fairgrounds last Thursday. After the controversial filmmaker was previously denied permission to speak at the university, Mooreʼs supporters were forced to raise independent funds. For many, Moore is no longer viewed as solely a filmmaker after the release of his movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.” To some, Moore is now an influential political figure too. Because of Mooreʼs anti-Bush sentiments, Cal State San Marcos officials said they were legally obligated to not to welcome Moore and his liberal views without any rightwing representation. “They succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. They were able to
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bers. Leon quickly recognized that the men were not Delta Chi members, Cheng said, and asked them to leave. As the men were escorted out, the situation erupted into violence. By ANDREW STRETCH “It was louder than a cap gun, Daily Titan Staff but not by much,” said Josh Brown, Shots rang out in the early hours a Cal State Fullerton alumnus who of Saturday morning on Fraternity was outside at the time of the shootRow leaving one Sigma Phi Epsilon ing. “People started running around member wounded and an assailant the street. You didnʼt know if it was going to happen again.” at large. Duree, a CSUF Chris Duree, student, was trans21, was shot in ported to UCI the chest after an Medical Center People started altercation broke running around and was in critical out in front of the street. You yet stable condithe fraternityʼs didn’t know if tion, according to residence locatit was going to University Police. ed at 2116 Terri happen again. “Iʼve seen Place. things like this At the time Josh Brown before,” Brown of the incident, witness said. “But I never the Sigma Phi thought something Epsilon fraterlike this would nity was hosting happen at Cal a party in which State Fullerton, many Delta Chi especially on the fraternity members were at as well. Pi Kappa Phi president Julian row.” Members of the Sigma Phi Cheng was outside shortly after the Epsilon fraternity had no comment, shooting. “Eddie Leon [the Delta Chi fra- but did state they are working with ternity president] ran up to me and the university and their national told me what had happened,” Cheng headquarters to resolve the situation. said. University and Fullerton Police Leon refused to comment, but Cheng said Leon told him he was are investigating the incident, but asked to identify three men claim- have not found the suspect or his ing to be Delta Chi fraternity mem- accomplices.
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Castles, sea creatures, pumpkins and cars lined the coast at Corona del Mar’s 43rd annual Sandcastle Contest last Saturday. The competition, usually held in September, was rescheduled for October this year because of Corona del Mar’s centennial celebration. Contestants young and old came out for the event. All Photos by SEAN ANGLADO/Daily Titan
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Smokers banned from OC beach Cigarette butts create majority of litter in sand
Sen. Clinton visits CSU campus Former first lady focuses on health care, economics By DESDEMONA BANDINI For the Daily Titan
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Some Newport Beach residents hope that from now on the only butts on the beach will be those of surfers, swimmers and JOSHUA SCHEIDE/Daily Titan sun worshippers. On Oct. 15, the city Daniel Stanton watches Daniel Bui use a fishnet council passed a law to pick up cigarette butts at the beach. forbidding smoking not only on the sand, but on the pier and trash and cigarette butts, and last April the team took the 13,000 cigaboardwalk too. A cigarette butt can take up to 12 rette butts they had collected and years to biodegrade, according to presented them to the city council planetark.com. with pride. Members from Cal State Fullertonʼs Members of the foundation said Volunteer and Service Center have they attended every city council joined forces with other volunteers meeting to ensure the beach would to collect as many of these un-biode- be smoke-free. graded cigarette butts as they can. “The people who are smoking Briana Lewis, youth project coordi- and throwing their butts out are not nator for Earth Resource Foundation, the ones picking them up,” Lewis said she gives all the credit for the said. “Itʼs 16-year-olds who should removal of discarded butts to the be having fun on the weekend and students. [instead] theyʼre donating their time The organization holds beach to come and clean up other peopleʼs cleanups the third Saturday of every messes.” month in different cities in Orange Lewis said they will use the numCounty. ber of cigarette butts collected from “I think itʼs really important that the clean up to compare with future people know about the environment clean ups. By doing so they will be and know whatʼs going on and what able to see what effect, if any, the they can do to fix it,” Lewis said. law has had. Together, the volunteers collect BEACH 3
Democratic supporters, seemingly ready to vote for Sen. John Kerry, flocked to Cal State Long Beach for the “Get out the Vote” and “Celebrate Woman” rally with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Tickets were free on a first-come, first-serve basis and went quickly to the almost 1,200 democratic supporters who attended the event. Other democratic women in attendance included Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, who lectured on “Changing the Face of Diversity” the previous day at Cal State Fullerton. “If you want to know how things are going, just ask a woman,” Sanchez said. Clinton wasted little time during her 45-minute speech, immediately addressing topics such as education, womenʼs issues, health care, the budget deficit and social security. “Women get paid 86 cents on the dollar and Hispanic women, 54 cents on the dollar,” Clinton, a former first lady, said. Yvette Nunez, a Loyola Marymount political science major, said she went to Cal State Long Beach for the speech that was “a combination of things” and said Clinton was articulate and interesting. “Clinton covered a lot. She touched on the gender gap and the glass ceiling women face in the workforce,” Nunez said.
Nunez added that “she talked about how Bush was the first president to give a tax break during war.” Clinton said Bush was undoing everything in the last four years that she and former President Bill Clinton had done. “This election is a turning point in our history,” she said. Clinton also said that “if you turned back the clock to the last century, [this is the first time] the federal surplus has been used as petty cash.” Clinton also mentioned the losses after Sept. 11 and the energy crisis that followed. “We must make it work,” Clinton said. “We know what it means to have President Bush. What does it mean to have President Kerry?”
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Sen. Hillary Clinton speaks at Cal State Long Beach on Oct. 17. Clinton addressed women’s issues and voting this political season.
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Senator discusses Patriot Act, partisan beliefs, college costs By DESDEMONA BANDINI For the Daily Titan
Courtney Patterson, Cal State Fullertonʼs director of statewide affairs, has spent most of the semester thinking of creative ways to encourage students to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election. Her latest efforts include distributing voter registration cards in the Quad, printing shirts, buying condoms that say “vote” and arranging for Sen. Joe Dunn (D-Garden Grove) to speak on campus and take questions from students last Thursday.
Pattersonʼs worries of student attendance to hear the senator were set aside when Dunn took the stage and interested students, mostly political science majors, started to trickle in on Saturday. “There are two basic principles in our Senate. It is not black and white between Democrats and Republicans. The two founding principals of our nation are liberty and justice. If you are a Republican, your main concern is liberty,” Dunn said. “If you are a Democrat, your priorities center around justice. Both of these principals are what makes our country great.” Dunn said there is a choice to be made and “you have to decide what is more important to you when making decisions in the Senate, liberty
or justice.” “That is where it can get complicated. Not everyone in the Senate votes exactly down the party line. It depends on the issue at hand whether liberty or justice should prevail,” Dunn said. Dunn cited the Patriot Act and gave the example of FBIʼs authority to go into anyoneʼs email box and spy as an issue many Democrats and Republicans are not completely comfortable with. Both parties would like to see components of the Patriot Act repealed.
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