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Ann Long dismissed amid controversy over First Amendment By Noura Al Anbar Daily Titan Staff
A student’s freedom of speech, credibility and professionalism as a journalist were in question and her job as editor in chief at her high school newspaper was threatened following the publication of a controversial article. The dispute began when Ann Long, editor in chief of Fullerton’s Troy High School newspaper, The Oracle, published a story about the sexual orientation of three students, one of which was a minor, without receiving parental permission. Long is accused of violating ethical standards and the state educational code, and was fired from her job last week. Supporters of her firing said she violated code and did not do her job as a journalist, whereas others see it as a misunderstanding because Long said she wasn’t aware she was violating any codes. “She really didn’t violate [the code] because she didn’t know she needed permission,” said Carolyn Johnson, a communications ethics professor at Cal State Fullerton. “It was the adviser’s role to warn her, that’s the important role an adviser in a newspaper has.” However, because the educational code can be interpreted in different ways, some say it applies and some say it doesn’t. Section 51513 of the California Education Code reads, “No test, questionnaire, survey, or examination containing any questions about the pupil’s personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion … shall be administered to any pupil in kindergarten or grades one to 12 … unless the parent or guardian of the pupil is notified in writing.” Legally, some believe the education code Long had supposedly violated doesn’t apply to her or student journalists at high school newspapers in general. These people argue it applies to teacher and student interactions, not necessarily student to student interactions. “The law doesn’t apply and it doesn’t say anything about student to student interaction. They know the law doesn’t apply. I’m ashamed of that high school,” Genelle Belmas, media law professor at CSUF, said. Some say the unfortunate part about the Ann Long controversy is the fact that she took on all of the blame and was accused of not doing her job when she was not aware she was violating any codes. Most experts say it’s the teacher’s responsibility to warn and teach the student or journalist about the educational codes and rules before publishing any article, especially if it’s a controversial article being published in a high school newspaper. “I doubt the student knew the educational code and as an adviser, I don’t expect my students to be experts on the educational code.” said Danielle Dupont, El Dorado high school newspaper adviser. “For something as controversial like that, I go to the administrative office and look at the educational code to see if it’s appropriate.” Long’s journalism teacher, Georgette Cerrutti, worked with Long Troy 3
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Alicia Keys accepts the award for best R&B album for The Diary of Alicia Keys at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Keys took home four Grammys including one for best R&B performance by a duo or group with Usher. Ray Charles, the sentimental favorite, was the night’s biggest winner taking home eight awards including record of the year and best pop album. U2 had three awards. Green Day won best rock album for American Idiot.
“Vagina” was the word at three sold out performances of the 2005 Campaign Benefit Production of “The Vagina Monologues” this past weekend at the Titan Student Union. The Obie-Award-winning offBroadway play by Eve Ensler is based upon a series of interviews with hundreds of women from all over the world. The stories from these women are expressions of female sexuality meant to glorify and empower women everywhere. The production was part of the annual celebration of V-Day, “a global movement to stop violence against women and girls,” according
to www.vday.org. “This is a good cause and I think everyone has grown from it,” said director Katie Owen, a senior women’s study major who said she experienced many sleepless nights in preparation for the show. The all-female cast representing a variety of majors and backgrounds had been rehearsing since December. V-Day shirts with the slogan, “Until the Violence Stops” roamed freely and Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” played through the sound system on Friday as the cast prepared for opening night. Just outside the main entrance, spectators were greeted with information about sexual violence and abuse. Volunteers, soliciting donations, handed out buttons and fliers. “It’s just awareness, people can feel comfort,” said a worker from Planned Parenthood wishing only to be identified as Maria. “Saying Vagina 3
Greeks stake claim during CSUF Discoverfest Titans browse through over 90 campus clubs and organizations By Carolina Ruiz-Mejia Daily Titan Staff
Cal State Fullerton’s Discoverfest took place last Wednesday and Thursday in the Quad, providing students with the opportunity to explore the 94 official campus clubs open to them, and possibly add a little excitement to their academic experience. “Discoverfest is a two-day event organized by Student Life Programs and New Student Programs, so that CSUF students can find out what services, events and activities are avail-
able to them,” Coordinator of Student Life Carmen Curiel said. Curiel said there are two dimensions to Discoverfest: the student organizations and the campus departments. Student organizations are created and led by students, while CSUF employees run the campus departments, she said. Discoverfest is also intended to welcome current and new students, Quynh D. Lu, coordinator of New Student Programs said. Lu also mentioned that student turnout is low in the spring semester compared to the fall semester, because there are a lot more new and transfer students in the fall. Boaz Carmi, 23, a computer science and engineering major at CSUF and president of the newly formed
political organization, Titans for Israel, said Discoverfest is a great event. “Discoverfest gets the word out, I’m alive not just on paper,” said Carmi. “It helps for publicity.” Carmi said he created Titans for Israel to show the Cal State Fullerton student body that Israel has “positive aspects” and to defend Israel’s Zionistic political actions that are seen as negative. Whether or not Discoverfest gets the message out for CSUF’s clubs depends on who is being asked. “I really thought that Discoverfest would help but it hasn’t,” said Arleen Berberoglu, 18, chair of the newly formed Armenian Club and a business administration major. “All the sororities have the best spots.” In three hours, only 7 people
Campus and community passion rewarded with ASI scholarships Fall awards presented, spring application deadline March 18
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ASI Vice President Mona Mohammadi (standing center) and five of the six ASI scholarship recipients pose for pictures outside of the TSU, Tuesday. said. “There were a record number of applicants this semester and they were all great, amazing people.” Sirikulvadhana said she first heard about and applied for the scholarship on the encouragement of several ASI members, as well as to help pay for her school and HIV/ Aids research work in Thailand. “It’s awesome to see students who have a financial need and be able to reward them for getting so involved in their campus and community,” Mohammadi said. “They don’t get paid for what they do.” Mohammadi said ASI is encouraging more students to apply for the Spring 2005 semester, considering that the application process is easy and can result in a $1000 scholar-
ship. A total of five $1,000 scholarships will be offered by ASI each semester as well as 35 book loans from the Titan Shops Book Loan Program. “That’s awesome,” said Mike Morabito, a junior Political Science major. “It seems like a fantastic way for students to advance to higher education.” Each scholarship has unique criteria to suit the different achievements of the diverse student population found at CSUF. Students have until noon on March 18 to turn in scholarship applications to ASI Executive offices in Titan Student Union, room 207. Additional scholarship information is currently available in TSU207.
ties set up in the open spaces in front of McCarthy Hall and the Humanities Building. The sororities and the campus departments are always placed in the same spots, Curiel said, adding it was set up that way even before she started working for Student Life Programs four years ago. Curiel said she never questioned why sororities are placed in the open spaces, much less does she have an idea of why it was set up that way. She later said that safety could be a reason why the sororities are placed in higher traffic areas. “The Greek sororities have big letters and if they were placed in the middle section they would obstruct Discover 3
Students help local charity serve poor Volunteers donate morning to pack food for hungry
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Five students who set a standard for academic excellence, community passion and leadership were rewarded at last Tuesday’s meeting of Associated Students Inc. Mona Mohammadi, ASI executive vice president, said each of the scholarships presented were awarded to students who have demonstrated a true passion for their campus and community. One of the scholarships, the William G. Pollack Scholarship, was given to Laura Sirikulvadhana, a health science major, for her involvement in the Peer Health Education Program and Student Health Advisory Committee. While taking part in the Peer Health Education Program, she was certified by the Orange County Health Department and taught tobacco sustainment courses at CSUF. Sirikulvadhana also worked on HIV/Aids research at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, as an affiliate of the Minority International Research Training program in the summer of 2004. Despite all of her accomplishments, Sirikulvadhana said she didn’t expect to win. “I was shocked when I found out I got the scholarship,” Sirikulvadhana
approached the Armenian Club table, said Berberoglu. More students walked by the open sections of the Quad where the sororities were
In the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones spends the entire movie trying to bring home the magical Ark – battling Nazis and every special effect then known to Steven Spielberg – only to have it cruelly, anonymously shelved away in a government warehouse. The warehouse scene at Orange County Food Bank in Garden Grove is more hopeful. In a building space of roughly 46,000 square feet, 12 Cal State Fullerton students and 32 local high school students donated their Saturday morning to pack boxes of canned food for lowincome residents of Orange County. With a portable stereo spilling out loud tunes, and discarded pieces of cardboard creating brief, random flurries, the volunteer crew forms an assembly line of orderly chaos. Some of the hip, wageless slaves opt to wear their adhesive nametags on their bare upper arms. Others abandon the assembly line briefly to bat-
tle their friends with discarded broomsticks – in mock martial combat. However, in just a few hours this disarmingly efficient crew packs 1,440 boxes of canned goods onto 45 pallets, enough to nearly fill two tractor-trailers. Each box holds 40 lbs. of food – including soup, cereal, fruit, vegetables, juice, peanut butter and evaporated milk. This food arrives in the Garden Grove warehouse via the Commodities Supplemental Food Program, overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Jerry Sanders, CSFP program manager for Orange County Food Bank and its parent organization, Community Action Partnership, said that the food bank could not do its work without volunteer efforts, such as Saturday’s effort by the CSUF and high school students. Sanders estimated that OCFB distributes roughly 23,000 boxes of food each month to low-income seniors, women and children. Not all of this food comes from big government programs with unmemorable acronyms. Some of the donations come to the warehouse via canned food drives undertaken by churches, Pack-a-box 4
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Shiites, Kurds winners in Iraq election
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Clergy-backed Shiites and independence-minded Kurds swept to victory in Iraq’s landmark elections, propelling to power the groups that suffered the most under Saddam Hussein and forcing Sunni Arabs to the margins for the first time in modern history, according to final results released Sunday. But the Shiites’ 48 percent of the vote is far short of the two-thirds majority needed to control the 275-member National Assembly. The results threw immediate focus on Iraqi leaders’ backdoor deal making to create a new coalition government _ possibly in an alliance with the Kurds and on efforts to lure Sunnis into the fold and away from a bloody insurgency.
Don’t procrastinate, today is the last day of late registration, but be prepared to spend $25 to do so. It’s also the last day to drop classes with a grade of “W.” Sweaty palms? Worried about landing the perfect job? Don’t be nervous, just head down to LH 210G between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. for Campus Interview Orientation and meet working professionals willing to help give you the after-college job boost you may need.
Sharon orders crackdown on extremists JERUSALEM – Responding to death threats against government ministers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered law enforcement agencies Sunday to crack down on Jewish extremists opposed to the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Cabinet ministers said the charged climate is reminiscent of the period before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was in peace negotiations with the Palestinians. One minister warned Sharon himself could become a target. Extremists have put up posters across the country that say Rabin and the prime minister’s deceased wife, Lily, are “waiting for Sharon.”
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Man said to seek suicide pacts for years PORTLAND, Ore. – A man who used an Internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine’s Day had been trying to persuade women for at least five years to engage in sex acts with him and then kill themselves, a sheriff said Sunday. Gerald Krein is charged with solicitation to commit murder, and prosecutors are expected to add an attempted manslaughter charge Monday, said Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger.
Gunman opens fire at N.Y. mall, 1 injured KINGSTON, N.Y. – A lone gunman opened fire with an assault rifle Sunday inside a crowded mall in upstate New York, wounding one person before running out of ammunition and being subdued by employees, authorities said. The gunman began shooting inside the Hudson Valley Mall shortly after 3 p.m. in Kingston, nearly 90 miles north of New York City.
State Public meetings on shooting scheduled LOS ANGELES – City officials will host a day of public discussions to respond to community concerns over the police shooting of a 13-year-old suspected car thief. The meetings will be held at fire stations across the city on Feb. 26, Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas announced Saturday. The Los Angeles Democrat is organizing the discussions, which will include details of the ongoing investigation into the killing of Devin Brown.The shooting happened when Brown crashed a 1990 Toyota Camry that was reported stolen. His 14-year-old male passenger ran away. The Camry then backed into a patrol car, damaging it. After a pursuit, an officer fired 10 rounds at the vehicle, killing Brown at the scene.
California GOP endorses Schwarzenegger SACRAMENTO – Although Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has not revealed whether he plans to seek re-election, the California Republican Party agreed Sunday to endorse him 17 months ahead of when party rules ordinarily would have allowed. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Vehicle parking was not a problem for a U.S. Army Huey helicopter, as it landed on the CSUF soccer field last Thursday. The Military Science Department arranged the landing as a static display and provided educational helicopter rides to ROTC students.
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the word ‘vagina’ can actually be empowering to people.” Monologues ranged in topic and tone eliciting a variety of reactions from an engaging audience. Stories of hope, desperation and humor told by college performers came to life provoking laughter and at times silence. The evening hit a serious note when Devin Glenn, a grad student majoring in music gave her personal testimony of a sexual assault that happened in the Performing Arts Building last fall. “When we share our stories, we are not strangers anymore,” Glenn told the silenced audience. The audience seemed to enjoy themselves as they laughed, chanted and cheered for the empowerment of women. American Studies graduate Matt Betts, who was at Friday night’s performance in support of a friend on stage, said he felt a little out of his comfort zone. “It was a different perspective than the things I’m used to,” Betts said. “It’s always nice to get a different view.” Sociology graduate Gabriel McGowen said he was glad he had the chance to attend. “I like the overall honesty of the performers,” McGowen said. Overall, the performance seemed to strike cords with many. “We all bonded. I was willing to be vulnerable,” biology major and
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the student traffic,” Curiel said. “It could be a possible and reasonable explanation of why the sororities are placed in the open sections.” Presentation, not location is what generates interest, Curiel said. Some clubs came out with a very positive attitude and a very good packaging, including big-letters, fliers, pictures and posters. Other clubs might not have the resources and that is why they were not well prepared, she said. Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, for example, had a lot of educational information, posters and pictures, said Curiel. The Third Wave Feminist Club, the Hispanic Scholarship and the Lesbian Gay
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Dressed in black lace and leather boots as “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy” Laura Lesher directs “the moaners” during the Vagina Monologues at the TSU Friday night. performer Panicha Kittipha said. She also said she hoped the performance might be an inspiration to women everywhere. First-time monologue performer Veltria Johns-Richardson, a contract student from Hope International University, said she would love to perform the show again. “It was a very liberating experience,” said Johns-Richardson. “I’m
not a girl who talks about vaginas. It was great having an audience.” V-Day began seven years ago and is now in 76 countries throughout Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and the Caribbean. The non-profit corporation has raised over $25 million, according to the organization’s website. The Cal State Fullerton chapter of the Third Wave Feminist
Club sponsored the production and proceeds will benefit the Sexual Assault Victims Services Prevention Programs as well as Human Options. Both groups offer support services for sexually assaulted and abused women. “[‘The Vagina Monologues’] is powerful and it’s life changing,” said Kittipha. “I encourage anyone to see it.”
Bisexual Alliance were also well prepared, she said. “Discoverfest boosts membership,” said Alex Faris, chair of the LGBA. “Half of our fliers are gone.” Just in the first day of the event about 90 people stopped by the LGBA table and 30 joined, he said. “Students are more concerned about the sun than about the location,” Curiel added. A colossal banner with Armenia’s flag colors, red, white and blue and big and bold print, water and information about the Armenian club decorated their table, Berberoglu said. “I am aware that the Greek sororities are bigger organizations and that they have a long history at Cal State Fullerton, and that could be why they get the main sections,” Berberoglu said.
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controversial issues, but at the same time the education code also gives student journalists the right to exercise their first amendment rights. A balance can sometimes prove elusive. The California Education Code (Section 48907) guarantees “students of the public schools shall have the right to exercise freedom of speech and of the press including, but not limited to, the use of bulletin boards, the distribution of printed materials or petitions, the wearing of buttons, badges, and other insignia, and the right of expression in official publications.” The only exceptions are for material that is “obscene, libelous, or slanderous” or “which so incites students as to create a clear and present danger of the commission of unlawful acts on school …” Some believe after the Long issue, some high school journalists might feel intimidated to report on controversial issues. Valerie Swayne, president of the CSUF chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, said, “After such an incident, someone working on another issue such as racism or anything outside the norm may not be willing to take that risk for fear of consequences.”
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for more than a month on the story and didn’t inform her that she needed prior parental consent. Some believe Long’s advisor should be held accountable as well since it was obvious she knew Long wasn’t aware she needed parental consent. “I was very angry when I read the article in the L.A Times. I was outraged that the advisor did not stand with the student and stood with the administration side instead,” Belmas said. Similar cases in the past have shown that First Amendment rights play a different role in high school newspapers than in universities, allowing high schools to censor some
From his self-professed ordinary beginning as a “red-headed, lefthanded farm boy from the Midwest,” Robert Young has seen a lot of change. He has lived in the isolated desert of Arizona, helped aspiring child performers to fly (literally), held workshops on city planning, and following his recent appointment as associate vice president of academic programs at Cal State Fullerton, he now has one more hat to add to the rack. It’s a new hat that his peers say he will wear well. “He’s got some chops,” said Michael Paul Wong, assistant dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, who worked very closely with Young in the Humanities department. He tells the story of when the whole department had to be moved from the Education Classroom Building to McCarthy Hall and how Young undertook the massive task of deciding who went where and how to orchestrate the whole event. He describes Young as “sharp,” explaining that Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest college with the most courses, students and faculty. Colleen Wilkins, a former student of Young’s, describes him as “warm, funny and approachable – everything you would want in a teacher,” which is where the story of Young’s career actually begins. “Teaching has always been my passion,” said Young, who started out as a fifth-grade elementary teacher in Arizona. In a school that was 62 miles from the nearest supermarket, he began his teaching career with his wife, who taught 1st grade at the same school. His daughter has kept the family legacy going by becoming a fifth-grade teacher last fall. Despite his busy schedule, Young finds time for his hobbies, which includes singing in a barbershop quartet with his son and volunteering with his wife at the Fullerton Children’s Reparatory as a flier (one who works backstage enabling actor to “fly” across the stage). Young said he is proud of the high standards of excellence in education
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Robert Young is CSUF’s new Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. CSUF has. He described the campus as “student-centered, not professorcentered – an amazing goal for such a large university,” a goal he said he will continue to work for. He said another goal is “bridging the gap between the campus and the community,” with newly expanded graduate programs that now fall under his responsibility. One example of this is the nursing program, which is now connected to actual hospitals through a web system. That program is something that hadn’t even been dreamt of when Young arrived on campus in 1976. He said he has seen the campus approximately double in size and is excited about the growing diversity of the student population and the different set of experiences they continue to bring. “It’s what makes the university healthy – change,” he said. A lot has changed. His red hair has turned to gray. Sitting behind his stately desk in his neatly pressed navy suit, one could hardly call him a farm boy. However, some things haven’t changed. For one, he’s still lefthanded. More importantly though, a pleasant smile still works its way to his face when he speaks of CSUF’s dedicated students and available faculty and he still firmly believes that, “If you focus on student learning, you don’t have to worry about the rest. That’s what makes the difference.”
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Spouses met while working on 2000 Presidential campaign By Carolina Ruiz-Mejia Daily Titan Staff
The Democratic Party may have lost the 2000 Presidential Election, but at the Santa Ana 69th District, two people found their “soul-mates” while working for the campaign. “There is no other couple like them, they are unique,” said Magdalena Suarez Perez about her son and daughter-in-law. “They get along so well, they love each other so much.”
When they first met, this couple never imagined they were going to marry. “We were co-workers and we became friends,” Janeth Perez, 23, a Cal State Fullerton Chicano studies major said. “It took me two months to ask her out,” her husband Jairo Perez, 22, also a Chicano studies major at CSUF, said. Jairo started at Fullerton as a freshman and Janeth transferred in the fall of 2003. Since both share the same major, Janeth said, it has been easy to take the same classes. The couple has taken half of their classes together since Janeth transferred.
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The couple dated formally for a year and married soon after. Since both are currently college students and did not have the financial means to have a big wedding, they decided instead to celebrate with friends and family over a barbecue, but are planning to have a big celebration on their 10th anniversary. They said it is important to not focus so much on the celebration, but rather on the relationship at hand. “I think it’s better to have a real commitment,” said Janeth. “A boyfriend and girlfriend living together is not a real commitment.” It was hardly love at first sight, they said.
“As we dated, our feelings escalated and we fell in love,” Janeth said. Balancing time between work, school and a baby has been the hardest challenge in four years of marriage, they said. Both are full-time students; Jairo works full time and Janeth works part time for CitiBank, and they have an 18-month-old son, Giovanni J. Perez. What does this young couple say is the key to their successful marriage? “We have 100 percent trust. It is a necessary foundation,” said Janeth. “We don’t fight over money, or waste our breath on insignificant things.” “Our focus is work, school and our
baby,” she added. “We want to raise our baby to be a good citizen.” Their little Giovanni bonded them more as a family. “Now we take family portraits,” said Janeth. “I can’t imagine our lives without our baby.” The couple is living the American Dream. They both will graduate in May and they just bought a house. “We are maturing together,” Janeth said. In three words, Jairo describes his wife as respectful, beautiful and caring. Loving, hard working and helpful is how Janeth describes her husband.
“Janeth is a sweetheart as a mom,” said Suarez de Perez, who baby-sits her grandson. “Once the baby was sick and Janeth left crying because she didn’t want to leave him.” “Jairo is a really good father too,” said Suarez de Perez. “He strives to give the best to his son.” The Perez family will have a Valentine’s Day for three. “We always celebrate Valentine’s Day,” said Janeth. “We’ll go out to dinner as a family.” “It’s a beautiful marriage and it’ll last for life, not like the present-day marriages that soon divorce,” said Suarez de Perez.
Fleeing suspect gets hit in crosswalk Police chase man into Commonwealth and Nutwood intersection By Lisa Chung Daily Titan Staff
While fleeing from police, a young male pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in the intersection of Nutwood and Commonwealth avenues at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Feb. 7. Lieutenant Will Glen of campus police said that at 4:00 p.m. the station received complaints about magazine solicitors on campus and at 5:30 p.m., Sergeant Carl Jones and Corporal Justin Hendee approached the suspects in front of Langsdorf Hall. Glen said the officers realized one of the young men was a suspect in a prior assault in which a cup of water
was thrown in the face of a student, adding that when they approached him, the suspect fled The suspect ran into the intersection against a red light and was struck by a vehicle traveling eastbound on Nutwood Avenue, Glen said. After being struck, he got back up and continued to run until police detained him on the southeast corner of the intersection, he said. The suspect was then taken to St. Jude’s hospital where doctors determined that he had no broken bones, just a few bruises. After that, he was brought to the Orange County Jail on charges of assault, assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, Glen said. Glen said the young man was a member of the Alliance Service Company, a soliciting group based out of Illinois that travels around
the country trying to sell magazine subscriptions. He was one of eight people who were illegally soliciting on campus. Kevin Hermansen, a 21-yearold political science and philosophy major, was driving the vehicle that struck the suspect. He said that the light had just turned green and that he went approximately five feet before he was startled by the sudden accident. “When I hit him, he fell and rolled and looked up at me with this dazed look and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh! I just hit a pedestrian,” Hermansen said. The young man got up and started running again, Hermansen said. Almost immediately, he said he saw police running after the man and thought of how much worse this situation could have been.
“What would have happened if the car next to me had hit him? Could I have hit the cops,” he said. Luckily, Hermansen did not hit the police and the man that he did hit was not seriously injured. “I was so scared. I mean, I’ve never hit a human before,” he said. This type of incident is a unique one to the Nutwood and Commonwealth intersection, as pedestrians have been hit before, but never while fleeing from police. Christy Elliot, a 21-year-old communications major, who arrived on the scene just minutes after the accident took place, had her own take on the ordeal. “He probably should have looked before running into the intersection. Maybe this is just a new form of solicitor population control,” Elliot said.
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CSUF students, along with other volunteers pack boxes for the less fortunate at the Orange County Food Bank in Garden Grove on Saturday.
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schools and businesses. Ramiro De Loza, Warehouse Manager at OCFB, proudly points out orange colored plastic bins full of canned goods from customers of Knott’s Berry Farm. Patrons of the locally owned theme park received discounted passes to the theme in exchange for their donations. De Loza said that over 300 nonprofit agencies such as churches and soup kitchens visit the food bank to “shop” for food that is in turn given out to those in need. At noon, the volunteer powered production line stops. As the students prepare to leave, OCFB employees buzz the warehouse floor, counting pallets and fork lifting them into orderly rows. The radio now silent, and the younger students shuffling off to their respective carpool vans, the CSUF student volunteers form a circle just outside the warehouse. Sheena Danesh and Mayerling Villanueva, community service leaders from CSUF’s Volunteer & Service Center, prompt a group discussion on the morning experience. Afterward, Danesh and Villanueva hand out t-shirts and announce upcoming volunteer events such as a March trip to Baja, Mexico. Danesh said that although 12 CSUF students participated in the morning event, she had a goal of attracting 50. When asked about the how the morning went, Danesh and Villanueva turn out their forearms, scraped up a bit from contact with the many cardboard boxes. “It’s all worth it though,” said Danesh. The Orange County Food Bank’s parent organization, Community Action Partnership offers a variety of services to qualifying individuals including free tax preparation. Program Manager Sanders said that many low-income families are not aware of how to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit, and often lose out on thousands of dollars. Potential volunteers can find out more about the non-profit group, Community Action Partnership and receive more information or make donations at (714) 897-6670, or www.capoc.org.