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Trustees highlight CSU success Report shows CSUF is the leading employer in Orange County By ALI DORRI Daily Titan Staff
The California State University Board of Trustees was presented with a report on Tuesday outlining the prolific impact of CSU
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graduates on Californiaʼs economy. The boardʼs finance committee members then approved an agenda item that will allow all trustees to vote today on the schematics of constructing a second Cal State Fullerton parking structure. According to data compiled by ICF Consulting, a Washington state-based firm hired by the CSU system, the earnings of CSU alumni support over 527,000 California
jobs and CSU-related expenditures create over $13 billion annually, supporting more than 207,000 state jobs. The report also indicated that in 2001-2002, more than 80 percent of those employed in the fields of education, criminal justice, social work and public administration are CSU graduates with bachelorʼs degrees. Presenter Ted Egan said the
study proved the CSU system does a good job of retaining the stateʼs talent and is a great self-sufficient force in the economy. “The fiscal output of the CSU exceeds what the state invests into it,” he said. “A large share of California high school graduates would not attend California universities if not for the CSU.” Chancellor Bill Reed said the statistics will serve as a good com-
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I find a conflict of interest when two of this board’s members are on the list of students going on this trip. Erin Dolbey ASI representative, College of the Arts
” Ambassadors Club and a representative for communications for the Associated Students Board of Directors. Kilgo appealed to ASI for $3,830.08, which would go toward plane tickets and lodging for seven members of the club. “Put feet under our legs and help us run,” Kilgo said when asking the board to approve funds. He stressed the fact that ASI was the last stop for the club to attain the funds needed for the trip because the clubʼs fund-raising activities had only yielded a little over $100. The Ambassadors Club, which was recognized as a club in September, has been struggling for affiliation with a college in lieu of the cancellation of a universitysanctioned Model United Nations course. “The Model United Nations is associated with a class we teach in political science,” said Tom Klammer, dean of the College of ASI 3
Benjamin Hale performs a dance in the Quad Tuesday afternoon to raise awareness of National American Indian Heritage Month. The performance was sponsored by the Inter-Tribal Student Council.
Dancers showcase culture Troupe celebrates National American Indian Heritage Month By DAVID BARRY Daily Titan Copy Editor
With colored chalk, a group of students wrote on the concrete surface of the Quad while others looked around, checking their watches, confirming that it was noon. The wind blew a few yellow leaves from the mostly green trees encircling the rectangle of concrete. From McCarthy Hall, a troupe of dancers, three male and one female, approached the Quad. Making his way to the performance area, one of the male dancers hunched over and coughed heavily, his decorative costume shaking unceremoniously.
A young woman introduced herself as Leya Hale, a junior radio-TVfilm major and president of the InterTribal Student Council. Then, she introduced the Eagle Spirit Dancers. The dance troupe performed eight traditional and contemporary dances as part of Native American Awareness Week, which is celebrated annually in November as part of National American Indian Heritage Month. Dancer Benjamin Hale introduced each dance with brief histories. Hale also introduced the other Eagle Spirit Dancers: his father Henry Hale, brother Kevin Hale and daughter Tawny Hale. Speaking to a crowd of over 100 students, Hale emphasized the importance of dancing in Native American culture, which relied on a verbal tradition of sharing knowledge with each new generation.
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“Many people still have the vision of Indian people of the past, like a caricature, like a pirate, something that no longer exists in our world today,” Hale said. “We canʼt go to the oceans and find that pirate ship and find a man with the patch on his eye and the peg-leg. That was something of the past. But here we are, American Indians, standing before you, wearing our traditional clothes, cherishing our songs.” Hale expressed gratitude to other tribes for sharing their culture with him and for the opportunity to share it before the campus audience. The first dance performance, a warrior dance from a tribe near Omaha, Neb., is still used today to welcome home family members returning from military service, Hale said. DANCERS 3
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A panel of six Democrats met Tuesday to discuss where the Democratic Party will go from here and how it can achieve success. Michael Meurer owns a marketing communications firm and was a precinct captain for both the Clinton and Gore campaigns. He said Democrats ran a “campaign of compromise” in trying to cooperate with everyone. “If thereʼs any future to the Democratic Party, we need to play by our own rules,” said Michael Faulkner, a working actor and a dean delegate to the Democratic National
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Communications Professor Nancy Snow moderates a discussion on the future of the Democratic Party. Convention for Californiaʼs 33rd District. Faulkner said the Democratic Party
should have pointed out that “safety means more than bombing brown people in a foreign country.” The Democrats need to be true to their own mission and realize that campaigning isnʼt necessarily about being simple, Faulkner said. “There are ways of framing our messages that make them sound sexy,” Faulkner said. People should realize that if they donʼt like the way a campaign is going, they have the power to go out and change it, Faulkner said. “The people that donʼt get it keep yelling and keep writing,” he said. Anne Smith, a member of the Kerry Southern California Swing State Committee, said many of the issues the Democrats discussed were topics that were really important, but werenʼt problems the people were interested in. “The big flaw of the Democrats is always talking about the safe issues,” she said. Most people polled said they didnʼt care about gay marriage and that Kerry should have just set the issue aside and focused on more important things, Smith said. “The Democratic Party has been taking cues from the media,” Smith said. Philip de Vellis, the regional volunteer director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, said Democrats didnʼt understand how important the gay marriage bans actually were. “The Republicans are much better at the mechanics and tweaking them to their advantage,” he said. Just because the party didnʼt win the election doesnʼt mean they did everything wrong, de Vellis said. He DEMOCRATS 3
U.S. homelessness rising By ASHLEE ANDRIDGE
From the heights of McCarthy Hall, ROTC Cadet Cathy Aboy repels herself down the building on Tuesday. The exercise was a way for cadets to display their training while seeking new recruits.
social effects are based on the number of graduating minorities and on reports claiming that more than 185,000 CSU students perform an average of 33.36 million hours of community service per year. “Many of our students are the most needy students. It means that students are giving back to this state more than anyone else,” he
Party plans future tactics Democrats discuss Kerryʼs campaign, needed adjustments
Student government allocates thousands to Ambassadors Club
After much debate, Associated Students Inc. voted 6-4 in Tuesdayʼs meeting to allocate nearly $4,000 to seven students for the American Model United Nations conference in Chicago. While ASI also voted unanimously to approve $1,650 for the ASI Elections Committee to have walkie-talkies, the majority of their weekly meeting focused on a disagreement between ASI Vice President of Finance Ross McCollum and David Kilgo, a copresident for Cal State Fullertonʼs
munication platform for the CSU and will bring it well-deserved notoriety. “CSU is the most underrated institution that I know about in California,” he said. “The impact that we have culturally and on the business community is in the broadest sense. The CSU is the backbone of the state in applying well-prepared people for jobs.” Reedʼs emphasis on cultural and
Hunger and homelessness are on the rise in major American cities, according to the U.S. Conference of Mayors-Sodesho Hunger and Homelessness survey of 2003. Each year, The National Coalition for the Homeless and The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness join together the week before Thanksgiving and co-sponsor National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week to make people aware of the facts of homelessness. Michael Stoops, the community coordinator for The National Coalition for the Homeless, said the
event attempts to educate people on the growing problem of homelessness. “Weʼre still trying to make Americans aware of something they should already be aware of in the first place,” Stoops said. Stoops said that 75 percent of the events happening during the week are connected to a high school or college, adding that he thinks it is important that students are educated about homelessness. “Community service work is an important part of anyoneʼs education,” Stoops said. He also said the organization assists with housing and applications for disability benefits. Veronica Ramos, the event coordinator for National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on campus, said homelessness is rarely discussed among students and that the homeless are often misunder-
stood. “I think it is important, for students especially, to be aware that the homeless are regular people just like us,” Ramos said. “We need to embrace the homeless and help them instead of shunning them away.” The Volunteer and Service Center is collecting food, clothing and money through Nov. 20 and hope to raise $500. “Drives such as these may not be extremely effective in the grand scheme of things, but if it can put food on the table of at least one family, it is all worth it,” Ramos said. The drives wouldnʼt be possible without volunteers and it is important that students get involved, Ramos said. “By spreading awareness in the community, students have the precious tool of educating others on the HOMELESS 2
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Aid worker Hassan believed slain in video BAGHDAD, Iraq — Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker kidnapped after decades of helping Iraqis, is believed to have been murdered by her captors, a British government official said Tuesday, based on a video that showed a hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi troops fought to crush the spreading insurgency in Iraqʼs third largest city Tuesday, recapturing police stations and securing Tigris River bridges as they battled to oust fighters who had moved into Mosul as a distraction to the Marine offensive in Fallujah. Troops met “very little resistance” in securing several of the dozen or so police stations that had been captured by insurgents, the U.S. military command said. Nineveh provinceʼs deputy governor said militants blew up the Zuhour police station ahead of the U.S. advance, but the U.S military denied any stations were destroyed.
Shooting in Iraq mosque angers muslims BAGHDAD, Iraq — The fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed man in a Fallujah mosque by a U.S. Marine angered Sunni Muslims in Iraq on Tuesday and raised questions about the protection of insurgents once they are out of action. International legal experts said the Marine may have acted in self-defense because of a danger that a wounded combatant might try to blow up a hidden weapon; a key issue was whether the injured man was a prisoner at the time.
Nation Bush appoints Rice top U.S. diplomat WASHINGTON — President Bush on Tuesday picked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who once tutored him on global affairs, to be his top diplomat, saying her foreign-policy experience and struggle against racism uniquely qualified her to be Americaʼs “face to the world” as secretary of state.
Iraq, U.N. sent money to bomber’s kin NEW YORK — Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-forfood program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel, say congressional investigators who uncovered evidence of the money trail. The former Iraqi president tapped secret bank accounts in Jordan — where he collected bribes from foreign companies and individuals doing illicit business under the humanitarian program — to reward the families up to $25,000 each, investigators told The Associated Press.
Local Man threatened Sanchez, pleads guilty GARDEN GROVE — A man accused of making a bomb that detonated outside the campaign headquarters of Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Anaheim, last year, pleaded guilty in connection with the explosion. The bomb seriously injured the man, but there were no other victims. Hai Duc Le, 36, initially was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction but pleaded guilty Monday to reduced charges. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Oscar Castaneda takes a break from welding on Tuesday afternoon. Castaneda works for Electrolurgy, a business that is constructing a wheelchair-friendly ramp onto the south side of College Park. He uses small strips of solder to join the sections of handrail and his coworker follows up by sanding the areas smooth.
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1939 Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check. 1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington, D.C., against Vietnam War. 1993 Joe Buttafuoco sentenced to six months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher.
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1955 Johnny Cash makes his first chart appearance with “Cry Cry Cry.” 1982 Space Shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight.
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reality of homelessness” she said. “Students have the ability to spark awareness in others which leads to compassion, which ultimately leads to taking action in the form of helping those less fortunate.” The proceeds and donations are given to the Community Action
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1917 Lenin defends “temporary” removal of freedom of the press. 1973 President Nixon tells AP “... people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, Iʼm not a crook.” 1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel. 1991 First TV condom ad airs (FOX-TV).
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1805 Explorers Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean. They were the first Americans to cross the continent. 1950 South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions. 1964 J. Edgar Hoover describes Partnership of Orange County Food Bank, which then distributes the donations to non-profit organizations that feed the needy, Ramos said. She also said students should get involved because it may lead them to discovering other interests in volunteer opportunities. “Students will not only be helping those less fortunate, but they will also be gaining a greater appreciation for
Martin Luther King as “most notorious liar.” 1989 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court gives states the right to do so. 1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution.
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1953 Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi. 1959 Ford cancels production of its infamous Edsel. 1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons from Cuba, 1979 Chuck Berry released from prison after serving time for income tax evasion. Compiled from Brainhistory.com
all that they have,” Ramos said. Jennifer Hecker, the organizing director for The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, said hunger and homelessness are prevalent problems and that this week gives people the opportunity to impact their community. “To me, there are problems that we can just eradicate,” Hecker said. “These are issues everyone should be concerned about.” The organization is hoping to mobilize over 3,200 people to volunteer across the country this year, Hecker said.
“Piquant or Savant: Evolutionary Trade-Offs Between Chemical and Cognitive Predator Defenses,” a presentation by William Wright of Chapman University will take place at 4 p.m. in McCarthy Hall, Room 513. For information, call (714) 278-2606. Native American Cultural Night featuring traditional and pow wow social dances at 7 p.m. in the TSU Titan Theatre. For more information, call (714) 278-7366. This week is National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week. Learn more from the Volunteer and Service Center in the Titan Walkway from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free Concert: Future Pigeon in the Becker Amphitheater from noon to 1 p.m. El Toro Campus Art Show featuring artist Maria-Lisa Flemington in the TSU Lounge on El Toro Campus from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. 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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said. “These people receive a piece of the American dream. No other system in the country does so with so much value.” CSUF President Milton A. Gordon said that the report is valuable to CSUF because it shows the university as an economic entity as opposed to a costly state burden. “For a while we were not thought of as an economic advantage,” he said. Besides the ICF report, Gordon said CSUF has made its own reports over recent years that have shined light on the campusesʼ contribution to Orange and surrounding counties, noting what he said is the little-known fact that CSUF has become Orange Countyʼs leading employer. Gordon said that these new numbers will further enhance the universityʼs standing in the community and open the door for future ventures with those outside the CSU system. He compared it to the cooperation with the campusʼ Marriot Hotel that has contributed funding to CSUF athletics and the construction of the Titan Gym. If things go as expected, trustees will approve financing for a second parking structure that should be completed by May 2006, according to a report given to trustees. The structure will cost an estimated $20.7 million and will provide 1,601 new spaces over what is now Lots B and K located just north of the Titan Student Union. The structure is necessary because of the expected construction of new campus recreational and day care centers, Gordon said. “We hope that all three will be built by 2007,” he said. Student Trustee Eric Guerra said the design of the new structure and its three glass-backed elevators is impressive, but he also hopes that the CSU system uses the need for additional parking as a way to promote other forms of transportation. “We also need to look at formalities of alternative forms of transportation,” Guerra said.
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High school students GEAR UP for college Program encourages youth to reach higher levels of education By ASHLEE ANDRIDGE Daily Titan Staff
Anaheim High School seniors will be searching the mail for their college acceptance letters as GEAR UP comes to an end. The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program was instituted in 1999 to give students a chance to get into college. GEAR UP is aimed at assisting students who may have a hard time entering college. “GEAR UP schools have to be low economic, high minority schools that are underachieving but have the potential for success given the additional support that GEAR UP can provide,” said David Pagni, the GEAR UP director.
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During the second dance, Hale and his brother Kevin circled each other confrontationally, clashing spears and shields in ritualized combat. A third dance, a “swan dance” from Yakima, Wash., featured a solo effort by Haleʼs daughter, Tawny. Her grandfather, Henry, kept time on a hand-held drum and chanted through the microphone. Tawny, who has performed nationally and overseas, danced as photographers clicked away with oversized cameras and lenses while a backhoe from campus construction noisily dug into the sidewalk near the Pollak Library no more than 50 yards away. After the seventh dance, the public was invited to form a circle and join the Eagle Spirit Dancers for a “friendship dance.” After the circle was broken, Kevin carried the two colored-feather “bustles” that he had worn on his upper and lower back. A coughing spell
GEAR UP began with seventhgrade students at Sycamore Junior High School and has focused on getting students to think about college. Through tutoring, parent workshops and summer programs, the program provides students with many opportunities to succeed.
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” “We have discovered that many of the students in the cohort were
unaware of college and what was required to get there,” Pagni said. Patricia Alvarado, the project coordinator, said GEAR UP was created to be a longitudinal study enacted during the Clinton administration. Since the program is six years long, this is the first time they will be able to see what effect it has since “this is the grand finale year,” Alvarado said. Although they are not quite done with the program, Pagni said he already sees the impact it has had on the students. “We have seen a positive effect with respect to student awareness of college, achievement in mathematics, development of leadership skills and hopefully, an increase in the college-going rate for that cohort,” Pagni said. “We are currently helping students with their online applications to the UC and CSU [systems].”
Each year Cal State Fullerton students, usually math majors, are chosen to tutor students at the high school campus. Alvarado said she thinks these tutors make the program much more successful because students donʼt look at them as adults trying to tell them what they should do. “They create way better relationships with them,” Alvarado said. Silas Abrego, the associate vice president for Student Affairs, oversees GEAR UP and said it is important that they start educating students about college early so they can fulfill the necessary requirements. “The federal government has provided students with financial aid to offset the cost of attendance, but making financial aid available is not enough to ensure equal educational opportunity for all students, particularly those who are economically and educationally
that had visited him before the performance returned as he made his way toward McCarthy Hall. Audience member Tatiana Bookbinder, a junior music major, wore some of her selfmade jewelry, including minidreamcatcher earrings. Bookbinder picked up some of her other jewelry at powwows, where different DAVID PARDO/Daily Titan tribes gather from Tawny Hale, 20, daughter of Benjamin Hale, performs the Fancy Shawl Dance, otherwise known across the coun- as the Butterfly Dance in the Quad on Tuesday. try to socialize. Members of Inter-Tribal Student said she plans to petition CSUF to will end with an evening of traditionCouncil, including Stephanie offer more Native American studies al and contemporary social powwow Herbert, said they hope such events courses. dances tonight in the TSUʼs Titan Native American Awareness Week Theatre at 7 p.m. raise campus awareness. Herbert
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Humanities and Social Sciences. “There isnʼt a Model U.N. this semester but there will be one next semester.” The Ambassadors Club is different from Model U.N. because it is not an academic club and it does not require the prerequisites required of political science students who opt to take the course offered through the department, Kilgo said. “We were tired of seeing international issues on this campus not
being addressed,” Kilgo said. Kilgo said he took his idea to Klammer, who neither favored nor opposed Kilgoʼs vision. “[Kilgo] is very interested in Model U.N. but I donʼt actually know about the club,” Klammer said. “We might have been OK with [the club] but we werenʼt telling him what to do or what not to do.” In the current course catalogue, Political Science 361 requires that students have prior Model U.N. experience or the consent of an instructor in order to join the course, which are requirements that
Kilgo said he has a problem with. “[Model U.N.] is run by advisers, not by students,” Kilgo said. “The Ambassadors Club is made up of 40 to 50 members with a majority of history, communications and English majors. Not all of the people are political science majors.” An issue occurred when members of the student government disagreed when it came to funding the clubʼs trip. “I find a conflict of interest when two of this boardʼs members are on the list of students going on this trip,” said Erin Dolbey, an ASI representative from the College of the Arts. Dolbey said Kilgo and Walter Ruigu, a College of Engineering and Computer Science representative, were biased in their presentation of the issue. “We are students before we are ASI Board of Directors and we canʼt be here unless we go to this school,” Ruigu said. “Both Kilgo and I are abstaining from
disadvantaged,” Abrego said. Of the original cohort, 70 percent will attend a college or university, Abrego said, adding that many of the students participating in the program are first-generation college students. “Participating in this program gives them the opportunity to academically prepare themselves for the rigors of higher education, meet higher education eligibility requirements and become familiar with higher education experience,” Abrego said. In order to break the cycle of poverty, Abrego said, a college education must be seen as important. “Education is the pathway to a better life for many of our firstgeneration low income students,” Abrego said. “Education provides them the opportunities to achieve their dreams and educational goals.”
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also said that Christians can be liberal and emphasized the importance of the Christian vote. “People who go to church every Sunday are on the rise in this country,” he said. Becca Doten, the chief of staff for author and columnist Arianna Huffington and coordinator for the Grassroots Summit, argued that if Jesus were alive today he would be a Democrat and added “George Bush is not a good Christian.” Doten said the Democratic Party recognized the separation between church and state and that people should be voting based on sensibility rather than religion. Nancy Snow, a communications professor, organized the event held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Pollak Library and said she now has more hope for the future of the party. “They had exceptional points of view,” Snow said of the panel members. this vote.” Adamantly opposed to the clubʼs request, McCollum added to Dolbeyʼs sentiments by asking the board to vote against the funding, stating that the issue was not in ASIʼs jurisdiction. The board turned to Anthony Ragazzo, the program coordinator for both ASI and the Titan Student Union, for clarification. “Academic organizations can access funds through the inter-club council,” Ragazzo said. “But, for non-academic clubs, the options are to fund-raise or come to the Board of Directors.” After nearly an hour, the board approved the funds for Kilgoʼs club to take its trip to a conference being held Nov. 20 to Nov. 23. “Weʼre currently working with the European Studies Club to host a debate on the trans-Atlantic alliance,” Kilgo said after the clubʼs victory. “After Chicago we plan on taking these skills and experiences gained and disseminate them to the population.”