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Animals delight youngsters in TSU Large Sea World Adventure Tour visits CSUF to promote, entertain, educate children By Jaimee Fletcher Daily Titan Staff
“Mammals have hair! Birds have feathers! Reptiles have scales!” The children were screaming the saying at the top of their lungs and clapped their hands together with each word. They stared in awe as each animal paraded before them and they squealed with laughter when one of the animals came too close. Children from Cal State Fullerton’s Children Center were special guests at Sea World’s Animal Adventure Tour in the Titan Student Union Friday afternoon. In addition to preschoolers; local families, CSUF faculty and staff and a few students crowded into the small lobby of the TSU to catch a glimpse of Sea World’s hairy, feathered and scaly friends. The audience “oohed” and “ahhed” when Thurston the owl twisted his head in curiosity, staring at the children with an almost menacing look. They held out their arms trying to signal Rudy, the South American scarlet luse, to land in their hands. When the baby kangaroo hopped onto the CSUF floor, they reached out their hands to gently pet his head. When Pete the penguin took the stage, a sea of camera flashes flooded the lobby. These animals, along with an alligator, a lemur, millipedes and a parrot, entertained
and educated the audience at Friday’s show. Pamela Skawin, manager of information and services for CSUF, said the event was a success that benefited both Sea World and the children of the center. “This was both promoting Sea World and educating the children,” she said. “It was amazing to see the faces on the children and how they just lit up.” This is the second time Sea World has done a show on the Fullerton campus in the last five years, and on this tour, it is the only school Sea World will visit. “We have a nice rapport with Sea World,” Skawin said. “Since we sell tickets, they picked us up for the show.” Shannon Anchaleechamaikorn/Daily Titan Photo Editor Because CSUF is one of Sea World’s top ticket dis- Kaleb Orozco, age 4, a student from CSUF’s Children’s Center, shares a moment with a 9-month-old tributors, Susie Campbell, Australian Red Kangaroo named “Drover,” which is Australian slang for “cowboy.” Sea World trainers senior representative for Sea and educators held a free interactive exhibit with the children in the Titan Student Union on Friday. World, said she is happy to visit the campus. “We love Cal State Fullerton,” she said. “The tour is also about our conserva- offer, as well as spread the word about the “You guys sell lots of tickets and that tion fund,” Faucher said. “We were never conservation fund. helps us out.” able to take donations because we are a “We’ve been visiting malls, airports, But Friday was not just about ticket for-profit organization so we set up the credit unions and even AAA,” she said. sales or promotion. Gary Faucher, an ani- conservation fund so people can make Sea World’s tour ends in two weeks, mal trainer for Sea World, said the tour is donations to protect wildlife.” but for those children, faculty, staff and also about letting communities know how Campbell said Sea World has been trav- students that missed Friday’s exhibition, they can contribute to a fund that will help eling all over the Western Region to try to the Animal Adventure Tour will be at the save animals across the world. educate people about what the park has to Main Place Mall in Santa Ana on May 7.
crowd for life festival Over 1,500 people come out to raise awareness, gain support for organ donations By Leeann Morrissey Daily Titan Staff
Over 1,500 people showed up on campus on Saturday to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation at the annual Donate Life Run/ Walk Family Festival. The crowd packed the lawn in front of the Health Center with people of all ages enjoying activities and music. The event was a 5K/1K Run/Walk that benefited the Donate Life California Organ and tissue Donor Registry. The final number of participants wasn’t determined by the day of the race, but the large crowds indicated strong support for the cause. “[There are] well over 1,000 pre-registered,” said committee member Carol Hostert of the event. She estimated the crowd at between Run/Walk
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Daily Titan wins ROTC students prepare for war prestigious awards Student newspaper earns regional honors to add to trophy case By Laurens Ong Daily Titan Staff
Producing a newspaper is not only a way for Cal State Fullerton students to get their news, but also a reflection of the communications/ print journalism program. On April 16, the Daily Titan received five honors in four categories for its work published during the 2004 calendar year from the Society of Professional Journalists Region 11 2004 Mark of Excellence awards. According to their Web site, there are awards for 45 categories for print, radio, television and online collegiate journalism. “One factor in determining a good job is being able to be judged by an outside organization,” Daily Titan Adviser Tom Clanin said. “Winning helps in showing that we are maintaining a level of excellence [at the Daily Titan] and it makes you proud of the efforts of the [Daily Titan] staff.” Former Daily Titan staff writer Robert Rogers placed second in editorial writing, while also receiving an honorable mention along with current Daily Titan Executive Editor Marti Longworth and former Managing Editor Lynn Penkingcarn. Former Daily Titan staff writer Tommy Purvis’ five-part feature story, “Battle For the Border,” garnered a second place finish for in-depth reporting, while another story by Rogers, “Remembering a Brave Marine,” written for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, received an honorable mention in general news reporting. “It took a lot of Tommy’s time,” Longworth said. “He hooked up with all of his contacts, including talking to Coyotes along the border who obviously didn’t want to be identified. He and [photographer Lisa Hart] showed a lot of initiative
and I think his story should have placed higher.” Besides the Mark of Excellence awards, in February of this year, the Daily Titan garnered a second place finish for best daily newspaper from the California College Media Association’s Best of Show Awards, only falling short of the UCLA Daily Bruin’s effort. “I’m proud of the staff and take vicarious pleasure in celebrating through them,” Clanin said. The Daily Titan also finished second to UCLA in the Best of Show Awards, for best college newspaper Web site. “One simply has to walk past the trophy case on the first floor of College Park to see how far back our students have been excelling in print journalism,” Department of Communications Chair Wendell C. Crow said. “And we now continue this tradition with online journalism.” Longworth said it is important to be able to maintain an online presence and it is definitely crucial as far as what the Daily Titan is trying to do as a paper. “The [printed] paper is finite and temporary. It only lasts for 24 hours,” Longworth said. “The Web is infinite.” In addition to the editorial awards, the advertising department won five awards at last month’s College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers, Inc.’s 33rd annual conference, held in New Orleans. “The top College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers association awards won by the Daily Titan’s business staff show that the paper is very well supported in it its efforts,” Crow said. “All these achievements continue a long tradition of excellence for the paper.” In the best media kit/marketing packaging category with a circulation less than 40,000, the advertising department finished in second place. They finished in third place in both Daily Titan 3
Simulation is designed to better equip future officers for service By Araseli Cuevas Daily Titan Staff
Their lives are ruled by numbers; the time on the clock, the amount of steps they take for each 100 meters, the elevation marks in their maps and the number of rounds left in the magazines of their rifles. This is the life of a soldier, and it is the life that some students at Cal State Fullerton have chosen. This weekend, the Titan Reserve Officer Training Corps, along with the ROTC of San Diego State and the University of Southern California, participated in a three-day training camp at Camp Pendleton in order to become better soldiers once they join the Army. Cadet First Lieutenant and CSUF senior Christina Rios said this trip was an exceptionally great experience for the Military Science One and Two students because they will be learning new things. The students are called MS 1,2,3 and 4 according to the number of years spent in the program. “They will be doing whole night missions,” Rios said. “For many
cadets, this is the first time sleeping outdoors in this kind of environment.” The first day began with a simulated ambush on the Fullerton ROTC students. “We put them in a situation where they can’t see the enemy, they will be confused because they think they are walking up to their camping ground,” CSUF senior Kyle Luoma said. “We need to see how they react, we are not looking for winning or losing, we want to show them what to expect in guerilla warfare.” After the shooting began, the students quickly ducked and waited for orders from their superiors. “You’re looking like scared quell on the side of the road!” yelled Captain Scott Murphy. “You are being attacked! You just got ambushed! What are you going to do?” After the battle, Murphy led the troops to their first location to recap before moving on to the next activities. “It was confusing wasn’t it? Well, it’s gonna be that way and you just can’t shoot to be shooting,” he said. “The more you delay on the plan, the more time you give your enemy to attack.” Murphy reminded the students to always remember their chain of command before complimenting them
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Matt Flores, CSUF freshman, recalibrates his rifle before moving on to a shooting activity at Camp Pendleton during an ROTC three-day pre-training camp on Saturday. on a job well done and dismissing them to their next activities. Then, they were separated by experience as the MS3’s went out in the field for land navigation while the MS1 and 2’s stayed behind to take four different classes taught by their fellow MS4’s. The activities included various field training exercises, ranging from crawling
techniques to how to treat different kinds of heat injuries and learning how to recognize different land features on a map. The coordination for these activities and the entire trip takes six months of planning and a whole lot of communication with the Marines rotc 8
Online group unites young people on reform Mobilize.org strives to achieve common goal among diverse views By Ishell Linares Daily Titan Staff
An organization that unites young people with different ideologies to work towards a common cause seems almost like an impossible feat, but that is what Mobilize.org strives to achieve. Still a fairly young organization, Mobilize.org has managed to expand from a group of college students at the UC Berkeley campus to a national
organization since forming in 2001. “Mobilize.org is a national nonprofit organization that works to get young people involved [in political issues],” said David Smith, founder and executive director of the organization. A current topic for members of Mobilize.org in California is the redistricting reform Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed in January. Currently, partisan legislators divide voting districts and the reform looks to take that power away and give it to a panel of independent judges. Smith said this approach is tackling the problem from the root.
“Young people feel that elected officials are not responsive to them, don’t speak to them, don’t listen to them and do not represent them,” Smith said. “The goal is that the panel of judges would be more concerned with the interest of the people than the legislators currently are.” For the past month, the organization has been collecting signatures in California in support of the reform, said Kalin McKenna, the national outreach coordinator. On March 1, The Los Angeles Times reported that legal experts said that redistricting between census periods might not be such a good idea because the new districts would have to be determined on information
based on the 2000 census data. The population of California is said to have grown 2.6 million since the last census. Mobilize.org promotes the reform as beneficial to all regardless of party affiliation. Because of this concept they have been able to unite youth from different ideological groups in support of the governor’s proposed reform. Mobilize.org has tackled other issues in the past that concerned youth. The organization started as a group of 150 UC Berkeley students who organized a trip to Sacramento to mobilize 3