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Officer hospitalized after crash By MATT BALLINGER Daily Titan Staff
An accident sent a motorcycle police officer and a La Habra man to the hospital Monday, and Fullerton Police blocked off about a mile of Chapman Avenue for the investigation. Senior Officer Wayne Dale was traveling east on Chapman when Ruben Sanchez, who was driving a green, Dodge Neon, pulled into the intersection of Chapman and Mountain View Place, police said. It wasnʼt clear if he was turning or going straight, Police Sgt. Linda King said. The officer broadsided the Neon and was thrown about 35 feet. Daleʼs shoulder was broken; he had a large laceration on one arm, and he had broken ribs and a punctured lung, King said. Three windows on the Neonʼs driverʼs side were broken: the front driverʼs side, the rear driverʼs side and the rear windshield. The carʼs airbags were deployed, and paramedics had to use the Jaws of Life to pry Sanchez from the car. A spokeswoman at UCI Medical Center in Orange said Sanchez, who is in his mid-30s, is in fair condition. Senior Officer Wayne Daleʼs motorcycle was totaled, King said. Its front wheel was mangled, and pieces of the bike were strewn about the intersection. Dale was thrown off his bike and slid several feet before coming to a stop in the middle of Chapman Avenue, King said. As officers investigated the crash, Daleʼs helmet lay in the street. Bullets from his magazine – which is made of plastic and likely broke as he slid, King said – were marked with spray paint. The investigation is ongoing, police said. Amanda Pennington, entertainment editor, also contributed to this story.
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A Fullerton police officer looks over Officer Wayne Dale’s mangled motorcycle after Dale and a Dodge Neon collided on Chapman Avenue on Monday. Police blocked off nearly a mile of Chapman Avenue to investigate the accident.
Anthropology students OC questions to take on basket task dam breakage, flood dangers By KARI HAMANAKA
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A darkened museum. Empty chairs pushed neatly into a table. Black scrawling on a whiteboard that reads: • Raw materials. • How/Technology/Production Sequence. • Types/Functions. • Museum of Man. This was the scene in Room 424 of McCarthy Hall where eight Cal State Fullerton students met last month to start their Anthropology 498 project. The goal of the class, a museum practicum, is to create a museum exhibit that will be unveiled at the start of the spring semester. The eight student curators donʼt know what will be on display, only that it will include baskets. “[The exhibit] has to be done in such a way that grabs people in,” said Jared Anders, a junior anthropology major in the class.
“You can show the unusual aspects [of baskets] or the process you donʼt normally see, maybe a unique design.” Instead of people seeing only baskets as they pass through the fourth floor of McCarthy Hall in the spring, Anders said he hopes the final project he and his classmates create will prompt people to say, ʻOh, wait a minute, whatʼs that?ʼ Each year, the class is responsible for the execution of an exhibit in the anthropology departmentʼs teaching museum: 1,000 square feet of what could be considered the ultimate real-life practice on how to curate an exhibit. “The class is exciting,” said Susan Parman, chair and professor of anthropology. “It depends upon collaborative work, how the students work together.” Not only do the students come up with the subject matter for the exhibit, but they must learn to write grant proposals and press releases, as well as work with outside museums to borrow items for display. Much of the planning takes place throughout the fall semester. Afterwards, during the winter break, the actual exhibit is put together for the opening in
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the spring. Still in its early stages, the 498 class brainstormed ideas on potential sources for borrowing items to display, as well as coming up with the exhibitʼs main theme. Coming up with a statement that is not too complex and that covers a broad area is the biggest challenge the group faces, Anders said. The classʼs instructor, Nancy Jenner, an archaeology curation technician, said she hopes one of the lessons the class learns over the course of the semester is “to really think about how do you make something accessible to a museum visitor.” The museumʼs first exhibit opened in 1999, after the Anthropology Department received approval for a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation in 1994. The money transformed what used to be chemistry labs into what is now the museum. Sitting alongside this teaching museum are newly constructed labs, a conference room and offices in MH 426. Past exhibits included last
Scientists, officials address possibility of local water hazards By CARMELLIA MUNGUIA Daily Titan Staff
As cleanup continues along the Gulf Coast, some California residents are questioning whether a similar disaster could happen here. In Californiaʼs past, communities along the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and in the Santa Ana Riverʼs flood zone have suffered catastrophic damages. After a 1938 flood in Southern California that wiped out all the bridges on the Santa Ana River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started building concrete flood channels to control the direction of the river. The diversion caused large boulders carried by a natural riverbed to settle along the path, and the river changed course. Jeff Knott, a Cal State Fullerton
geology professor, who has an interest in environmental and engineering geology, said Orange County has the most managed basins in the world. “Built concrete channels and debris basins have reduced the hazard significantly,” Knott said. “They are designed for large events.” John Fleischman, a spokesman for Orange Countyʼs Offices of Emergency Services, said the county prepares for flooding. According to Fleischman, if the Prado Dam – which prevents flooding of the lower Santa Ana River – broke, only a few houses would be in jeopardy. The water held by Prado Dam is periodically released to avoid any overflow that may occur during heavy rainfall. But Lake Perrisʼ dam, in western Riverside County, concerns local officials who say studies indicate that a strong earthquake could cause the top of the dam to fail. Officialsʼ concern about the conFLOOD 4
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Karen Wong, right, visits the Avalon Assisted Living Community to show Janice Koller how to use her new television remote control, which is specially designed for people with vision loss.
The alarm in Karen Wongʼs Fullerton apartment goes off at 6:45 on Monday mornings. Then itʼs into rush-hour traffic to make it to the Dayle McIntosh Center in Garden Grove by 8 a.m. Thatʼs where sheʼs working on an internship for her masterʼs degree in gerontology. She works there till 3 oʼclock; then itʼs back on the road to get to class by 4 p.m. When class ends at 7 p.m., itʼs time to go home and study. Tuesday begins much the same as Monday: Wong leaves her apartment to be in Orange by 8 a.m. – sheʼs helping a friend whoʼs started a business there. Then itʼs back to Fullerton for her teaching assistant duties in Joe Weberʼs sociology of aging class till 7 p.m.
Wednesday begins at an optometry office in Baldwin Park, followed again by teaching assistant duties till 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday sheʼs in Mission Viejo at an ophthalmology office. Sundays are usually spent with family in West Covina and doing homework. Then it starts all over again with that 6:45, Monday-morning alarm. How does she keep it all straight? “It doesnʼt feel like a lot,” Wong said. “It just feels like youʼre having a good day.” Wongʼs schedule is all over the map, and it doesnʼt leave much “me time.” But she says she works with kind, flexible people, and that makes it all OK. She also loves what she does. “Itʼs not like taking classes… Itʼs quite fun,” she said. Thatʼs probably because sheʼs found her niche. Wong has specific interests: aging and vision loss. And through her masterʼs program in gerontology and her internship at the Dayle McIntosh Center, sheʼs able to stimulate both. The Dayle McIntosh Center is a nonprofit organization that helps aging
people become more independent. For people who have trouble seeing, vision-loss specialists will assess a personʼs needs and often make a house call to set up equipment, such as a talking clock or a phone with inch-square buttons. One of Wongʼs first trips was to the home of a legally blind woman who had fallen – she couldnʼt get up for two days. The Dayle McIntosh Center provided a system so she could call 911 with the push of a button. “Thereʼs a lot of people out there that donʼt know such a thing exists,” Wong said. But itʼs not just that people donʼt know about programs such as those at the Dayle McIntosh Center. Wong said that as people – especially baby boomers – age, they often have difficulty adjusting. “We live in a young world, where everyone is trying to ignore the aging factor,” she said. But aging is inevitable, and often there are physical changes – to hearing, vision, muscles, bones, joints INTERN
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