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voted for the guy, but he’s turned out to be just another politician,” adding that due to a lack of funds, the William Kettler Elementary School in Huntington Beach will be closing. “Parents are very upset and kids are very upset,” he said. At a small table in the upscale Hyatt Regency lobby, pro-Schwarzenegger volunteers Sharon Sherwood, of Anaheim Hills, and Stephen Sanford, of Huntington Beach, collected signatures for petitions to get the education and pension issues on the November ballot. “He’s going to take it to the people,” Sherwood said. Sherwood, whose husband was inside the fundraiser’s ballroom, said that those in attendance would probably be served “political chicken.” She said that despite the high cost of these fundraising functions, they usually serve chicken. Attendees at the governor’s fundraiser paid up to $100,000 per plate according to the Orange County Register. Sherwood said she received more signatures than usual from Schwarzenegger supporters who expressed a negative reaction to the protestors. Linda Hendren, a Cal State Fullerton alumna and a teacher in
had personally approached him and given him specifics on the process. “They never asked me to do a budget proposal,” Caranza said. “They may have e-mailed me, but I’m not the type to check my email.” Kevin Hermanen, former associate director and current executive director of CLC, said there was no possible way that Caranza didn’t know he was supposed to prepare the budget. “There was a folder with his name on it in the CLC office with details about the budget,” he said. “He knew it was there; it sat there for two months.” Hernanen said that during the months of January and February, there wasn’t much communication between him and Caranza, but he
assumed that everything was fine. “It seemed like everything was going great,” he said. “I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.” After three weeks of unreturned phone calls and e-mails, Hernanen took the issue to the CLC board. “I left over 20 messages on his cell phone,” Hernanen said. “He basically disappeared for two months. Despite missing the deadline, the CLC may still receive funding next year. Buzan said that there was no reason that the CLC shouldn’t get approved for next year’s budget if the CLC had a valid appeal. Buzan said there are three reasons the ASI can make exceptions to funding and budget rules: if there was an act of prejudice, excessive
jurisdiction or fraud. Buzan said the CLC’s case was based on a fraudulent act. “Caranza led the CLC board on,” he said. “I was flatly a victim of fraud.” Buzan said they would file a civil suit against Caranza if legally feasible. He said they are investigating to see if Caranza left an evidence trail, proving that he never intended to do his job. “We are going to pursue this to the limit of the law,” he said. Hernanen said that if a civil suit were filed, it would be because Caranza did not work for two months, but remained on salary. “He basically was paid for two months and didn’t do anything,” he
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Nurses, teachers, firefighters and representatives from their respective unions protested Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fundraiser at the Hyatt Regency Irvine Tuesday night. Protestors decried the governor’s budget cuts to education and nursing and reductions to state employee pension plans. “We want safe staffing in the hospitals … we want to retain our pension plan and we want to keep giving good education for our students,” said Dinorah Williams, a labor representative for the California Nurses Association. Huddled together in the rain, some with umbrellas, some without, the crowd shouted in unison for Schwarzenegger to be recalled by the same special election process that got him in office. “It was very peaceful, and cooperative,” said Dave Mihalik, deputy chief with the Irvine Police, who estimated the crowd at 2,000. Signs and banners read vari-
ous messages including “Teachers Lose, Students Lose”; “Fully Fund Education”; “Oust the Educator”; and “Our kids are not small interests.” Via megaphones and loudspeakers the crowd chanted various slogans such as “We will win,” and “Heyhey, ho-ho, Schwarzenegger’s got to go.” Representatives from Schwarzenegger’s office could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Chris Mowrer, a spokesman from California Assemblywoman Lynn Daucher (R-Brea), said that while protesting was a constructive way of airing different perspectives, the current budget presented some difficult choices. “It’s all part of the dance. I don’t mean that to be flippant at all,” Mowrer said of the budget protests. “It’s all part of the process every year, and for change there are going to be people who, for whatever reasons, are afraid to go there.” He said Daucher, vice-chair of the education committee, remained dedicated to keeping education as a top priority. Dan Shepard, a protestor with the West Orange County United Teachers, said he was upset that Schwarzenegger was not funding schools as he had promised last year. “I think the governor needs to keep his word,” Shepard said. “I
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CSUF grad shares struggles as child of unmarried mother
Cal State Fullerton alumna and author, Gloria De La Torre-Wycoff, 73, shared her experiences as a child born out of wedlock and as an adult returning to school to an audience of about 70 people at the Pollak Library Tuesday afternoon in an event sponsored by the Women’s and Chicano Resource centers and the university’s Educational Opportunity Program. In her memoir titled “Scarred by Scandal — Redeemed by Love: The Triumph of an Unmarried Mother,” the former CSUF student told about her mother’s struggle as a single mother. “This memoir is dedicated to my mother. Unmarried, banished, left to care for, nurture, and bear responsibility for her three children,” wrote De La Torre-Wycoff in her book dedication. “It is also dedicated to other unmarried mothers and their children.” De La Torre-Wycoff’s book was born out of anger, she said. A year after her mother’s death, the family still gossiped about her mother’s love affair with a brother-in-law. “My mother loved my father until the day she died,” the author said. The author and an older brother were born out of this “scandal.” The love affair led to Maria being ostracized from her family. Despite all the obstacles, an immigrant woman, a single mother raising three children with no family support, Maria overcame the odds with strength and courage, De La Torre-Wycoff said. The author, who described her mother as loving, intelligent and generous, said her mother never said anything negative about her father, and at age 77, still attended adult school because she loved to learn. Additionally, she held many different jobs to support her children. As a result of her mother’s life story, De La Torre-Wycoff said the fact that single mothers are usually blamed for pregnancy bothers her. “[Single mothers] bear shame and burden,” she said. “It shouldn’t be a shame to raise children alone.” The number of births for single mothers in the United States rose from 90,000 in 1940 to 400,000 in 1970, De La Torre-Wycoff said, citing the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2002, the births to unmarried mothers numbered to 1.6 million, she said. De La Torre-Wycoff said she felt like an outsider because she was born out of wedlock. She said she never felt as though she was a part of a true family. To her, a family included a father, a mother and children, as taught in school, she said. De La Torre and her family often moved and also lived in boarding and foster homes, she said, adding that she has lived in 18 different places. It was not until she was in her 40s that De La Torre-Wycoff accepted what her mother had gone through, she said. As part of this acceptance and a desire to honor her mother, the author changed her last name, Moreno, to De La Torre, her mother’s last name. In 1977, at age 46, De La TorreWycoff enrolled at CSUF and in 1980 received her bachelor’s degree and the EOP Outstanding Graduate award. While a full-time student,
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Tawny Hale participates in a Dakota Sioux modern dance for the Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness exhibition in the Quad on Tuesday. Her sister, Leya Hale, is president of the Inter-Tribal Student Council on campus. Tawny is a member of the American Indian Dance Theatre.
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ASI approves legal clinic’s late budget request College Legal Clinic seeks funding, blames employee for fraud By Jaimee Fletcher Daily Titan Staff
Cal State Fullerton’s College Legal Clinic issued an appeal at Tuesday’s Associated Students Inc. meeting in an attempt to be included in the current year’s budget. The CLC said they missed their budget proposal deadline in January because of the failures of their former executive director, Gerardo Caranza. ASI approved the CLC’s late request for budget approval but inquired as to what happened. Bert Buzan, political science pro-
fessor and board member of the CLC, said the clinic did not present a budget proposal, and ultimately received no funding, because Caranza did not do his job. Buzan said he asked Caranza numerous times if he had prepared a budget proposal, adding that Caranza told him he had. The board, however, recently discovered that a budget had not been passed, and the CLC is currently not in the budget for next year. Buzan said he felt betrayed by Caranza. “He looked in my face and lied to me. I’ve never had that happen before,” Buzan said. Caranza shrugged off any responsibility for the failures, saying he didn’t do anything wrong. He said he knew it was his job to present a proposal, but that no one
Titans raise scholarship funds for children’s stuttering center Jo Jo’s Pizza donates half of proceeds to campus speech clinic By Virginia terzian For the Daily Titan
With the vision of a future where a child who stutters doesn’t become an adult who stutters, the Center for Children Who Stutter, a non-profit speech clinic located on campus, will be having a fundraiser Wednesday March 23 at Jo Jo’s Pizza Kitchen in Brea to help earn money that will aid in funding scholarships for children in the program. Two Cal State Fullerton honors students, Ashley Mains and Andrea Wagner, both senior public relations majors, are organizing the fundraiser as part of their honors project. “Our project is running a public relations campaign for the center,” Wagner said. The pair is working in conjunction with the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association, a club that has coordinated several fundraisers to help support the center.
“NSSLHA is a group that always works to help the center,” Wagner said. The group hopes to earn at least $200 through the fundraiser, however its greater goal is to inform people of the CCWS. “Not a lot of people know that the center exists, so part of our goal is to get their name out. They’re right here
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We will use every dollar earned to assist the families who cannot afford therapy. Sherry Wolff CCWS Director
” and no one knows about it,” Wagner said as she pointed to the door near Nutwood Café in College Park. The center was founded in 1995 by Glyndon and Jeanna Riley, Robert Emry and Elizabeth Mechling; four individuals working with graduate students and faculty members in
Communicative Disorders. The center’s current director, Sherry Wolff, was one of the first workers at the center when she took her position in 1999. “There are very few clinics in California that specialize in stuttering,” Wolff said. “We are also unique in that we offer therapy using a sliding scale, meaning families receive therapy for a very low fee.” Main said that the cost for a child to engage in the program is roughly $2,500, yet with scholarships the cost for families can be much less. “The center offers a worthwhile goal, and the program works to help people who otherwise couldn’t afford this program,” Mains said. “The majority of the children at the center are on scholarship,” Wagner said. The fundraiser will take place all day at Jo Jo’s Pizza Kitchen. To take part in the fundraiser, supporters must mention the CCWS when ordering their food and Jo Jo’s will donate 50 percent of all pizza and pasta sales to the center’s program. “We will use every dollar earned to assist the families who cannot afford therapy,” Wolff said.
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At the Off Campus Pub, Anthony Fabrizzi (right) and Rick Contreras watch CSUF lose to Georgetown in the NIT tournament on Tuesday. For full story, see page 6.