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Global slave trade still in existence Francis Bok visits CSUF to expose his struggle for freedom
spoke of its prevalence around the world. “Global slave trade is the second largest crime enterprise in the world,” Calvert said. According to United Nationsʼ statistics, there are approximately 27 million people who are enslaved worldwide, the majority of whom are women and children. On May 15, 1986, in the village of Nymala, Bok, at age 7, witnessed the brutal massacre of his family as well as other members of his village. “I have never, ever witnessed such evil like that before,” Bok said. “I didnʼt know what to do. I had never even witnessed a dead person
before.” Bok was then captured, enslaved and dragged by camel up North where he would later be sold to an Arab family. “I witnessed one girl get shot on the way because she was screaming that she had seen her mother get shot in front of her eyes,” Bok said of his journey to his unknown future. “One of the militiamen told her to stop crying. But she couldnʼt stop crying and the guy just took her out of the group and shot her in the head, just to keep a kid quiet.” Bok took note of what the militiamen were capable
semester, said James Blackburn, director of Admissions and Records at CSUF. “I am not really passing the class even though I study hard. The professor goes off his notes for the tests so I canʼt rely on the book,” said Jessie Hernandez, a business major. “Also, he has limited office hours so whenever I go there is always a long line.” The penalty for a D or an F is much higher than a W, but Blackburn said not only do students lose out on the money they spent on the class, but taxpayers do too. “Students pay less than one-third of the total tuition, the rest is paid by the taxpayers,” Blackburn said. According to the request for withdrawal form, a student must provide a serious or compelling reason to withdraw. Poor attendance and aca-
Additionally, the professor, demic performance are not considered serious or compelling. department chair and associate dean However, Blackburn said depart- must sign the withdrawal form in ments might have order for it to be different ways of approved. enforcing the rules. “It is a ʻno goʼ if Withdrawing not “ Wi t h d r a w i n g one of those three only denies you not only denies you people doesnʼt the benefit, but the benefit, but it sign,” Blackburn it also denies also denies another said. another student student who wanted Reasons for who wanted to to add the class,” withdrawals can add the class. Blackburn said. include health James Blackburn Nevertheless, problems, perDirector, CSUF Admissions students with busy sonal tragedy and Records lives donʼt always and employment get to put their class circumstances, loads first. Blackburn said. “I have family “I was working responsibilities and living in L.A. a lot less at the beginning of the makes it really hard for me to get semester, but then they got shorthere on time for class,” said Nancy staffed so I started working five to Hernandez, a CSUF student. six days a week,” said sociology
major Eddie Duran. According to Academic Advisement, students normally come in and ask for assistance in deciding whether to withdraw from a course. “We usually explain policies for withdrawing and see if it is a realistic idea based on their major,” said Sean Slusser, an adviser for Academic Advisement. “But we leave it up to them to figure out what to do.” Less than 10 percent of students withdraw from a class, Blackburn said. “I lost my job and I had to get a new job all in the process of moving,” said Ray Marquez, a political science major. Blackburn said those who decide to grant withdrawals try to be understanding, but “the death rate for grandmothers is really something.”
Institute offers certification in different leadership tracks and is free to all students. E-mailed tips from CSUFʼs Career Planning and Placement Center emphasize that one of the most important qualities employers look for when hiring employees is their ability to work well and communicate with others. SLI certification gives students training through scheduled seminars to fine-tune those skills and documentation to boot. Four leadership tracks are avail-
able, some with concentrated areas. The Career Leadership track focuses on skills students will need to enter the workforce and is collaboratively taught through SLI and the center. The EMBRACE track, short for Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment, is a very important part of todayʼs multicultural and multinational environment, according to volunteers at the center. The Public Service and Non-Profit Leadership track prepares students
“To achieve goals, think about where you want to go and consistently check to make sure you are on the right track to get there,” Wong said. “Realizing dreams requires vision, passion and work and suggests creating a vision in your mind of where you want to be.” Margaret Puentes, a CSUF student, is on the Public Service and Non-Profit Leadership track. “This is my third workshop, but
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Francis Bok, an escaped slave from Sudan, takes a moment to tell Mercedes Parker about his educational goals here in the United States while he signs a copy of his book.
Having witnessed the atrocities of modern-day slavery in Sudan, former child slave Francis Bok and abolitionist Tommy Calvert spoke out against slavery in the Titan Student Union Pavilions on Tuesday. During a time when much of the world believes slavery is a forgotten part of history, Calvert and Bok
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Campus Students ponder withdrawing from classes to receive “ network upgrade Nov. 12 marks last day to drop courses with grade of W By LAURA PELTAKIAN For the Daily Titan
Telecommunications system to be revamped throughout university By CASEY RITTENHOUSE Daily Titan Staff
Cal State Fullerton will undergo technological changes because of the Telecommunication Infrastructure Upgrade Project, which will be installed throughout campus buildings. The project began Nov. 1 and is due for completion in December 2005, according to a letter from Willem Van Der Pol, director of the Physical Plant. The projectʼs purpose is to make telecommunication easier for users throughout the campus by upgrading its data system. Dick Bednar, the senior director of Information Technology, said the project would consist of installing pathways and hangers inside the walls and through the ceilings of campus buildings. “The goal is to keep this [telecommunication system] maintained for years to come,” he said. The devices used to transport data throughout campus will be wired in a neat fashion so that Information Technology Help Desk consultants can easily deal with any changes in the system, Bednar said. A blue wire will be added to existing data jacks in every office or classroom. During construction, the project might appear as an interference to CSUF faculty, staff and students because the installation will go through the entire campus, Van Der Pol said. “The project will be an intrusive one because we have to tear up roads and go through offices,” Van Der Pol said. “We want to try to be as clean as we can. [The Physical Plant] will notify [faculty and staff] before we enter their room.” Installers are scheduled to work between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. as to not disturb anyone in their offices. A telecommunication room, also known as a “hub” or electrical closet, is typically on every floor of each building, Van Der Pol said. UPGRADE 3
To withdraw or not to withdraw — that is the question facing many Cal State Fullerton students as Friday, Nov. 12, the final day to withdraw from classes, rapidly approaches. “I am debating whether to withdraw because I might get a D and I need a C in the class because it is my major,” said Michelle Martinez, a psychology major. The reason students get a W on their transcripts is because there needs to be some consequence for students who decide to drop a course after the first two weeks of the
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Organization promotes leadership among Titans Student Leadership Institute offers tracks to career success By DESDEMONA BANDINI For the Daily Titan
Cal State Fullerton offers free leadership training and certificates to all students interested in gaining skills and impressing employers. Sponsored by the Dean of Students office, the Student Leadership
interested in advocacy, civic service and active community involvement, as well as a scholarship opportunity. The last track is Peer Education with the option of emphasis in a general track, peer health certificate or tutoring student-to-student certification. Michael Paul Wong, assistant dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, teaches the “Vision and Goal Setting” workshop and said he wishes he had eight more hours to teach it because the program is that important to the formula for success.
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State’s flood protection system Get to know Gordon in danger of failing, officials say Lack of funding for repairs could affect Californiaʼs homes The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — Millions of California residents and billions of dollars worth of homes and businesses are located in flood plains protected by century-old levees that are in danger of failing, the stateʼs two top flood control officials warned Tuesday. “Our current flood management system is broken,” said Lester Snow, director of the California Department of Water Resources. “If we donʼt fix it, weʼre going to have disaster after disaster after disaster.” The system is underfunded, has a potentially deadly backlog of repair problems, is encouraging entire subdivisions in flood-prone areas, and
likely faces more pressure as climate conditions change, Snow and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Col. Ronald N. Light told several hundred water managers. Moreover, recent court rulings on liability will cost taxpayers millions of dollars and could bankrupt some local reclamation districts, they said at a two-day conference sponsored by the nonprofit Water Education Foundation. “Circumstances have changed dramatically since the system was conceived and constructed,” said Light, who heads the corpsʼ Sacramento district. “Today we have a system that is stressed, deteriorating and in danger of failing.” The 1,600 miles of levees that permitted much of the development in the Central Valley was built to protect farmland, not cities. Levees were often poorly constructed of sand and gravel dredged from rivers
that had filled with sediment washed down from the Sierra Nevada by gold miners. Yet that haphazard lacework now protects 2.5 million people, 2 million acres of farmland, and $47 billion worth of homes and businesses while encouraging even more construction in flood plains, Snow said. Construction techniques didnʼt improve until the 1950s, Light said. Only now is the corps retrofitting some of the most vital old levees with expensive footings that sometimes can extend 90 feet deep to prevent seepage and undercutting by flood-swollen rivers. The corps has a backlog of 185 sites in need of $230 million worth of repairs, even as federal financing is shrinking, Light said. Snowʼs estimates were higher: 200 projects costing $600 million. Both said the lack of money is the biggest problem.
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Arafat clings to life as condition worsens PARIS — A deeply comatose Yasser Arafat clung to life Tuesday after suffering another downturn, his major organs still functioning but his survival dependent “on the will of God,” the Palestinian foreign minister said. Palestinian leaders made preparations for Arafatʼs eventual death. They said they would bury Arafat at his sandbagged headquarters in the West Bank and turn the site into a shrine.
Nation Ashcroft, Evans resign from Bush cabinet WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft, a fierce conservative who generated controversy with his tough tactics in the war on terror, and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one of President Bushʼs closest friends, resigned Tuesday, the first members of the Cabinet to quit before the start of a second term. Ashcroft and Evans have served all four years of Bushʼs administration, which has been marked by little turnover. Ashcroft said he would remain until a successor is confirmed, which could take months. Evans said he would stay well into January.
Airlines agree to drinking water tests WASHINGTON — The government and a dozen airlines struck a deal Tuesday requiring sanitation improvements and increased testing of drinking water aboard aircraft after officials found evidence of harmful bacteria in the water of one in every eight planes tested. At the same time, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would perform random water quality tests on 169 domestic and international passenger aircraft at 14 airports throughout the United States and publish the results by the end of the year.
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Manya Ettner, a senior illustration major, takes time to look at various art on display at the TSU Center Gallery located on the main and lower levels. The student art show will end this Friday, Nov. 12.
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State Juror removed in Scott Peterson case REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A juror in the Scott Peterson murder trial who apparently did her own research on the case was removed and replaced with an alternate Tuesday, and the judge ordered the panel to start all over again with their deliberations. “Weʼre going to send you back. Start all over again and keep in touch,” Judge Alfred A. Delucchi told the panel on the fifth day of deliberations.
Aquarium vandals torture, kill animals LONG BEACH — Vandals tortured and killed a shark and a ray, and another shark was critically hurt, at the Aquarium of Pacific. The vandals struck sometime between 6 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday, when the aquarium was closed, authorities said. A 3-foot-long nurse shark named Michelle and a cownosed ray were already dead when they were discovered outside their tank. A bamboo shark, which measures about 18 inches, was found barely alive and is not expected to survive. Aquarium workers were on their usual early morning walkthrough when they make the gruesome discovery, said Perry Hampton, director of animal husbandry. The dead shark and ray were dragged from their touch tanks and tortured, officials said. A $2,500 reward was offered for information that can lead to the arrest and conviction of the person, or people, responsible. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building. 1793 The Louvre in Paris opens. 1939 A failed assassination attempt is made on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich. 1960 John F. Kennedy (Sen-DMass) beats Vice President Richard Nixon (R) for 35th U.S. president. 1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California. 1889 Montana admitted as 41st state. 1991 Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV.
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1888 Jack the Ripperʼs fifth and last-known victim, Mary Jane Kelly, is found. 1906 Theodore Roosevelt is the first president to visit other countries — Puerto Rico and Panama. 1938 Crystal Night – Germans break windows owned by Jews. 1980 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against
Iran. 1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial “3 Servicemen” completed. 1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died.
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1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling. 1960 Senate passes the landmark Civil Rights Bill. 1969 “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV. 1951 First long distance telephone call placed without operator assistance. 1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner. 1945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald liberated by United States.
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1942 During WWII, Germany completes its occupation of France. 1983 President Reagan became first U.S. president to address Japanʼs legislature.
1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinciʼs “Codex” for $30,800,000. 1972 Dow Jones Index moves above 1,000 for first time. 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of “2 Virgins” album. 1647 Massachusetts passes first U.S. compulsory school attendance law.
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1927 The first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, which connects New York to New Jersey, opens. 1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional. 1970 Scientists perform first artificial synthesis of a live cell. 1989 Brazil holds first free presidential election in 29 years. 1955 Date returned to in “Back to the Future” & “Back to the Future II.” 1933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken.
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In the Nov. 8 issue of the Daily Titan, it was incorrectly reported that activists working to save the Fullerton Fox Theatre were $100,000 short of their goal. As of Tuesday afternoon, they still needed to raise $638,724.
Come see the NHOI, the selfproclaimed “most talked about band throughout the last few years,” as they bring their power-pop act to the Becker Amphitheater today at noon. The event is sponsored by ASI Productions. For more information, call (714) 278-3501.most talked about band t “Women and Men in the 21st Century: The Worst of Times; The Best of Times,” a lecture exploring current research on menʼs and womenʼs communication styles will take place today at noon in University Hall, Room 205. Barbara McDowell, from the CSUF Womenʼs Center, will challenge contemporary societyʼs thinking that women and men are as different as night and day. The lecture is sponsored by the Womenʼs Center and Adult Reentry. For more information, call (714) 278-3928. Come show your school spirit and support the CSUF soccer team tonight at the Titan Stadium as they face off against UC Irvine. The fun begins at 7 p.m. For information or tickets, call (714) 278-CSUF. All events are free and on campus unless otherwise indicated. If you would like to have a specific entry put in the calendar section, please send an e-mail to news@dailytitan.com.
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of. “When I saw that happen, I learned to be quiet because I didnʼt want to get killed and I didnʼt want to get hurt,” Bok said. Throughout Bokʼs story of experiences, he emphasized not only the cruelty he endured for 10 years, but also the sorrow of knowing that people in Sudan still suffer. When Bok arrived at his destination, he was introduced to his master, Giema Abdullah, and the family he would be with for a decade. Bok endured daily beatings, slept in the barn with animals and was forced to eat rotten or uncooked food. According to Bokʼs autobiography, “Escape from Slavery,” he was called “abeed,” which means “black slave,” and the day he was introduced to the Abdullah family, the wife told Bok that if he looked at her, she would have him killed. Bok tried to escape twice before his 15th birthday, being returned to his owner both times. After severe beatings, Bok was warned that if he attempted to run again, he would be killed instantly. He spent the next three years working harder than ever to lower the guard of his brutal owner. At the age of 17, Bok made his final attempt to freedom, only to be imprisoned in two different cities for nearly nine months. Released in 1996, Bok took what strength he had left and traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where he spent the next three years attempting to enter the United States. According to his biography, the United Nations relocated him to North Dakota in 1999. He later joined the American Anti-Slavery Group in
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This means that there is no way for faculty and staff to avoid their space from being worked on. “Workers will basically enter every space on campus,” Van Der Pol said, adding that personal items
Violence kills 10 American troops, 2 Iraqi security members The Associated Press
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Francis Bok, a former slave from Sudan, signs copies of his autobiography, “Escape from Slavery,” after speaking in the Titan Student Union Pavilions on Tuesday. Boston, where he met Calvert. Calvert, an AASG spokesman, described the different types of slavery throughout the world. Calvert described slavery as “forced labor with no pay under the threat of violence.” “Slavery is hard for people to talk about, but we have to,” Calvert said. He explained that today there are more people enslaved in the world than at any other time in history. Within the United States alone, slavery in the form of sex slavery is still a major issue, with women being forced into prostitution. Those who resist face beatings, rapes and
possible death. During his speech, Calvert displayed graphic photos of both women and children who had physical abnormalities due to beatings. In one photo, a young boy had his nose, one eye and top lip sliced off by a knife. “The photographs that were shown spoke louder than words,” said one member of the audience. Calvert, a devout Baptist, used references of historic slavery since the days of Moses. “It really opens up your eyes to what is going on,” said Christine Underwood, a senior sociology
major. “You realize how large a problem slavery is in the world.” Calvert said the greatest atrocities of the events within Sudan are the refusal by the government to acknowledge these acts as genocide. “Issues of race, gender and religion are factors of slavery today,” Calvert said. In an effort to abolish slavery completely, Calvert and Bok said they will continue to educate the world on the issue of slavery. “Being here in the United States is a great opportunity,” Bok said. “It gives me time to think about how to help those who were left behind.”
and important forms should not be left out for them to be susceptible to being lost or misplaced. Notifications will be sent to CSUF faculty and staff before construction workers do their jobs, Van Der Pol said. “[Staff and faculty] need to make sure information is secure,” he said. Such information can be documents
and papers that contain confidential information. Calls from concerned faculty and staff will more than likely go to Information Technology, where J.P. Marquez, a CSUF graduate, has worked for three years. He said during the installation of the project there could be some interesting calls for Information Technology consultants to handle, mainly as to why a personʼs office desk was moved around. Although calls may flood in as to why certain changes have been made to an office area, Marquez said he sees the project as a great advancement for CSUF telecommunications. “It will be exciting to move forward because the data will be more reliable and fast,” he said. Instead of contractors, Information Technology employees should set up the wires in order to have more know-how when they have to fix a data problem, Marquez said. “If we let the contractors do it, it would be easier,” he said. “But if we do it ourselves, it will show weʼre committed to our work.” The toughest building to tackle will be the Computer Science Building, Bednar said.
Unlike the ceiling hangers where data wires will go inside other buildings, the floors of the Computer Science Building must be torn up because all of its wiring is underground. Bednar said there are plans for the building to be completely shut down over winter break in order to achieve their goal. A life safety project, which will put more blue emergency phones on campus, is also in the works, Bednar said, and the athletic fields have also been uprooted to set up for the emergency phones. Helix Electric and its sub-contractor Netversant will be in charge of rigging the wires and equipment needed for the project, Bednar said. Construction began this week at the Health Center because it is a lesspopulated area than a place like McCarthy Hall. The contractors wanted to see how things would pan out before they moved on to a larger area or a building that needed special attention, Bednar said. A project like this was done eight years ago and CSUF was considered the most technically advanced of the CSUs, Van Der Pol said. But now with the rapid motion of evolving technology, other universities are ahead of the game and CSUF is in need of an update. Although the project may take a long time to finish, Van Der Pol said, the outcome will be worth all the work. “[The new telecommunication system] will make life easier once it is [installed],” Van Der Pol said. “After a while, things begin to bog down. That is why weʼre [installing the system], so we can better serve the campus.”
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq — U.S. troops powered their way into the center of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Tuesday, overwhelming small bands of guerrillas with massive force, searching homes along the cityʼs deserted, narrow passageways and using loudspeakers to try to goad militants onto the streets. As of Tuesday night, the fighting had killed 10 U.S. troops and two members of the Iraqi security force, the U.S. military announced. The toll already equaled the 10 American military deaths when Marines besieged the city for three weeks in April. U.S. officials issued no estimate of insurgent casualties, but one American commander said his battalion alone had killed or wounded up to 90 guerrillas. As the offensive moved into a second full day, up to eight attack aircraft — including jets and helicopter gunships — blasted guerrilla strongholds and raked the streets with rocket, cannon and machinegun fire ahead of U.S. and Iraqi infantry who were advancing only one or two blocks behind the curtain of fire. Small groups of guerrillas, armed with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine guns, engaged U.S. troops, then fell back. U.S. troops inspected houses along Fallujahʼs streets and ran across adjoining alleyways, mindful of snipers. Some U.S. military officers estimated they controlled about a third of the city. Commanders said they had not fully secured the northern half of Fallujah but were well on their way as American and Iraqi troops searched for insurgents. U.S. and Iraqi troops captured two key landmarks Tuesday — a mosque and neighboring convention center that insurgents used for launching attacks, according to a Los Angeles Times reporter. “Iʼm surprised how quickly (resistance) broke and how quickly they ran away, a force of foreign fighters who were supposed to fight to the death,” Lt. Col. Pete Newell, a battalion commander in the 1st Infantry
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ʻVision and Goal Settingʼ is my favorite so far,” Puentes said. “I liked [Wong] because he was really upbeat and enthusiastic. I am learning new ways to think about my time.” All tracks offer possibilities and the certification is free to all CSUF students. Students are given two semesters to complete their pre-designated track and each track consists of 15 to 24 hours of required workshops. Students do not have to repeat workshops that overlap tracks when completing several tracks at once. Cecilia Davila, a CSUF sophomore, is working on two tracks, both the Public Service and Non-Profit
Division, told CNN. Newell was quoted on CNNʼs Web site as saying his battalion had killed or wounded 85 to 90 insurgents. The move against Fallujah prompted influential Sunni Muslim clerics to call for a boycott of national elections set for January. A widespread boycott among Sunnis could wreck the legitimacy of the elections, seen as vital in Iraqʼs move to democracy. U.S. commanders have said the Fallujah invasion is the centerpiece of an attempt to secure insurgentheld areas so voting can be held. In Fallujah, U.S. troops were advancing more rapidly than in April, when insurgents fought a force of fewer than 2,000 Marines to a standstill in a three-week siege. It ended with the Americans handing over the city to a local force, which lost control to Islamic militants. This time, the U.S. military has sent up to 15,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops into the battle, backed by tanks, artillery and attack aircraft. More than 24 hours after launching the main attack, U.S. soldiers and Marines had punched through insurgent strongholds in the north and east of Fallujah and reached the major east-west highway that bisects the city. “The enemy is fighting hard but not to the death,” Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, the multinational ground force commander in Iraq, told a Pentagon news conference relayed by video from Iraq. “There is not a sense that he is staying in particular places. He is continuing to fall back or he dies in those positions.” Although capturing or killing the senior insurgent leadership is a goal of the operation, Metz said he believed the most wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had escaped Fallujah. Before the major ground assault that began Monday night, the U.S. military reported 42 insurgents killed. Fallujah doctors reported 12 people dead. Since then, there has been no specific information on Iraqi death tolls. The latest American deaths included two killed by mortars near Mosul and 11 others who died Monday, most of them as guerrillas launched a wave of attacks in Baghdad and southwest of Fallujah. It was unclear how many of those died in the Fallujah offensive, but the 11 deaths were among the highest for a single day since last spring. Leadership track and the Career Leadership track. She has attended CSUF for one year, but only recently learned of SLI certificates. “It looks good on applications and I wanted to get involved. I [knew] before I entered CSUF that I have the goal to be the ASI president some day,” Davila said. “A lot of things [Wong] talked about helped me realize that my time management plans are on track and how to realize them. Plus it is a good way to meet people and learn more about campus activities.” The Student Leadership Institute offers a variety of workshops on topics like dealing with difficult people, event planning, leading and managing a diverse workgroup and what employers want.