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Professors discuss politics and issues of Bush-Kerry election By ASHLEY HEGLAR Daily Titan Staff
A post-election forum took place last Thursday in the Titan Theatre, with Jack Bedell, chair of the Academic Senate, taking the Republican position and Professor Raphael Sonenshein taking the Democratic side. The debate began at around 1 p.m. and some of the issues discussed were about the strong and weak aspects of the presidential election, the roles of the candidates and the issues concerning their destiny in politics. The audience of around 30 to 40 students, professors and alumni listened to the representatives agree that it was good to see the election come to an end. “[George Bush] presented his message simply,” Bedell said. Both representatives said that in the long run all the voters knew where Bush stood on foreign policy and social issues. Sonenshein, in a departure from the Democratic party line, described Kerry as “a wimp and afraid of war,” later adding that he didnʼt “think it would have mattered who ran for the Democrats.” Bedell said that he supports Bush,
but did not firmly describe his opinion of Kerry. Sonenshein said that Bush is “arrogant and incompetent,” and said he “is the only president besides Nixon that looks at the other half (Democrats) as subjects; not citizens.” One of the questions asked of the representatives was if being in the war helped Bush in the election, and both Bedell and Sonenshein responded with facts as to why that could be possible. In the past, they said, most elections that occurred during a war didnʼt change the president in office. Hope Yang, president of Phi Sigma Alpha, introduced the representatives in the beginning of the debate and his thought of the event was that “overall all the questions were answered fairly in my opinion.” He also agreed the questions asked dealt with current and future issues of presidential elections. Martin Boyer, who received his masterʼs degree at Cal State Fullerton in 1972, said the debate was not equally balanced, because he believed that Sonenshein took the point of view of a Democrat, but Bedell was more of a moderate Republican and agreed with Sonenshein on most of the questions. Although he was not there for the entire time, Boyer said it was obvious that most of the audience was Democratic, and that it is unfair for “these liberal Democratic professors” to put far left views into studentsʼ undeveloped minds.
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along with giving 120 hours of their time. Within those 120 hours, student trainers must complete 30 hours devoted exclusively to personal training, physiology, muscles and program design, she said. Wittwer said she believes everyone can benefit from the personal training in some way. “We can teach people how to work out correctly and efficiently,” she said. So what exactly goes on in a personal training session? “In your first session, they interview you and do a body composition analysis and talk about goals,” Wittwer said. “Then you work through your first training regimen.” This is the third semester that personal training is being offered and Wittwer said the response has
WASHINGTON — Buoyed by a clear-cut election victory, President Bush is pledging to make permanent the sweeping tax cuts of his first term and to simplify the nationʼs tax laws. The price tag on making the tax cuts permanent is more than $1 trillion, a daunting number in an age of record budget deficits. At the same time, efforts to enact ambitious proposals to overhaul the tax system often fall victim to a ferocious assault from Washington lobbyists determined to protect special breaks for their clients. While not discounting the challenges ahead, Bushʼs supporters are betting that the president will end up getting much of what he wants with the help of bigger Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate. “Tax reform is a politically dangerous road to travel with a lot of corpses,” said Stephen Moore, head of the Club for Growth, which supports an aggressive tax-cutting agenda. “But the president is very serious about this. He wants to make a major push for overhauling the tax system,” Moore said. Moore and others expect Bushʼs model will be Ronald Reaganʼs successful effort to enact the 1986 tax overhaul, one of the broadest rewrites of tax law in history. It dramatically lowered tax rates and paid for those reductions by eliminating or scaling back tax deductions. So far, Bush has disclosed little about how he wants to simplify the current system, which he has called a “complicated mess.” He first stated his tax overhaul goal in his August acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. He promised that if re-elected, he would create a bipartisan advisory panel to come up with a “simpler, fairer, pro-growth system.” The idea did not attract much attention during the campaign against Democratic Sen. John Kerry. But last week, Bush put the idea front and center again, telling reporters at his first postelection news conference, “We must reform our complicated and outdated tax code.” Bush said any plan should be “revenue neutral,” meaning the overall changes would not increase taxes or cut taxes. He also said the proposal should be viewed as fair without tax loopholes for special interests. Bush indicated he favored protecting “certain incentives” such as deductions for mortgage interest rates and charitable contributions. “Itʼs going to take a lot of legwork to get something ready for a legislative package,” Bush said. He gave no hint about when he planned to appoint the members of his tax advisory group. The expectation is that none of the proposals
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On a sunny afternoon, with a slight chill in the air, Andy Balian, a senior finance major, takes a giant leap off a diving board at the Titan pool in order to achieve a perfect canon ball.
Campus needs to boost enrollment numbers Funding requirements open admission to those who were denied By ISAAC FABELA Daily Titan Staff
Over the past three years, state budget constraints have made it increasingly difficult for prospective students to be admitted to Cal State Fullerton. Ironically, after years of limiting the amount of students accepted to the university, an unexpected increase in state funding has turned the table on school administrators and they are now faced with the
dilemma of not having enough students. The additional state funding will only be realized if the university can get the additional students to fill the seats. The new development has allowed the college to consider lowpriority applications that werenʼt even looked at as recently as last semester. Upper- and lower-division transfer students, first-time freshman and students applying to receive their second bachelorʼs degree are some of the students now being accepted for the spring 2005 semester that traditionally werenʼt. Jim Blackburn, director of Admissions and Records, has been
busy trying to accommodate the new need for students. “There has been a shift in supply and demand,” Blackburn said. “In the past there have been too many students and not enough room. This increase in funding has made it so that there are not enough students to fill the sections we have to offer.” The need for more students has forced the university to go out and recruit students who are currently in high school or community college. “We are making a push at the community college level,” Blackburn said. “We want to get students in here that are ready to work and get their degree.” Adding to the need for more stu-
ROTC student recognized Senior earns medal for academic and leadership talents Daily Titan Staff
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William Golembiewski, part of Cal State Fullerton’s ROTC program, is the recipient of The Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement. awarded to Golembiewski early ROTC program. Golembiewski this October. He was one of said there is one cadet per 1,000 three cadets nominated for this who are given this distinguished award out of 23 universities in honor and it has not been bestowed the Western region of the United upon a CSUF cadet in at least States, according to a CSUF news three years. bulletin. “I was honored and it is great The award is given to cadets to be able to represent CSUF,” who have excelled in academics ROTC 3 and leadership skills within the
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I don’t think it’s right that they can ignore us all this time and now want us to go to their school. Ashley Rowe Riverside Community College student
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Titans getting buff on an anemic budget Rec Sports provides personal training for discounted price
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William Golembiewski always wanted to be in the Army. He said that when he was young, he remembered thinking about what he wanted to do when he grew up. “You know how when youʼre little and want to become a rock star or doctor?” Golembiewski asked. “But I always would think, ʻI want to be a doctor in the Army or an engineer in the Army.ʼ” And after being in the ROTC program for almost four years, he has become a model cadet with a recent award for academic excellence. The Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement was
dents, Blackburn said CSUF graduated 600 more students than the year before, leaving even more desks to be filled with new people. Some students at the community college level said they find it interesting that the state college that didnʼt want them last semester are now trying to recruit them. “I donʼt think itʼs right that they can ignore us all this time and now want us to go to their school,” said Ashley Rowe, a second-year student at Riverside Community College. “But there is nothing we can do. We need those classes and donʼt have much of a choice.” Another student, Damian Townsend, tried to get into CSUF
Workout sessions with a personal trainer can get pricy, especially on a student budget, but now anyone can afford to workout like a celebrity. Rec Sport, located in Room 272A of the Kinesiology and Health Science Building, offers personal training by appointment, Monday through Friday. There are currently three personal trainers working at Rec Sport, all of who are students majoring in kinesiology who signed up for an internship, said Allison Wittwer, assistant director of programs at Rec Sports. Wittwer said the student trainers are required to have taken exercise physiology and anatomy classes