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The state Alcohol and Beverage Control Board has granted the Fullerton Police Department $80,000 to pay an officer to focus on bringing down the number of alcohol related incidents - both in the downtown area and the city of Fullerton as a whole. Garry Mancini, the ABC liaison officer, stated that there are 259 businesses
that have ABC liquor licenses in the city of Fullerton - including both on-sale and off-sale locations like bars and grocery stores respectively. “We want to educate [the public business owners] on their responsibilities for selling alcohol,” Mancini said. The new program funded by the grant has set up 3 1/2 hour training sessions where business owners come and learn about what they will be held accountable for. “They need to know that they are responsible,” Mancini said. “Having an ABC [liquor] license is a privilege.” The program also entails other training sessions for the officers that will help Mancini.
These sessions, called Train The Trainer, will involve five FPD officers and one Cal State Fullerton campus police officer. They will be given ABC enforcement manuals and specific training on how to carry out enforcement of ABC rules and regulations in the city of Fullerton. The CSUF police officer will then train campus police on prevention methods. “Theyʼre involving us [in the program],” said Lt. Will Glenn of CSUF campus police. “We deal with education and prevention.” As part of the liaison program are sub-programs such as the Minor-Decoy ALCOHOL
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Local Muslims voice worries about possible ties between threat and former area man By BELAL SIMJEE Daily Titan Staff
A man draped with a black scarf across his face comes on to the television screen. “Yesterday London and Madrid, Tomorrow Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing,” the scarf-draped man said in an American accent. This is a typical video to incite terror, but not the typical type of person conveying the message. The video, which is reportedly eight days old, was viewed by state and federal officials as being a weapon used by Al Qaeda to incite fear in Americans because of the relative proximity to the date of Sept. 11. Santa Ana Police Department watch commander Lt. Carlos Rojas said he was not authorized to comment about the video but the Islamic Society of Orange County (ISOC) suspects the man on the tape to be Adam Gadahn, formerly Adam Pearlman, a resident of Santa Ana. and frequent visitor to the ISOC in TERRORISM
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LONG BEACH – While statistics illustrate that the Early Assessment Test Program – which is designed to prepare 11th graders for college – has been successful, some members of the California State University Board of Trustees are concerned that the statistics arenʼt enough to help students earn a baccalaureate degree faster. “[High] schools have too low of expectations. We are trying to get the teachers to raise [those] expectations, because if you raise them, kids will do better,” CSU Chancellor Charles Reed said. “I am glad to see that increase in number, but I want
to raise that even higher.” The Fall 2005 incoming freshmen set a milestone in the CSU system by becoming the first class to participate in the Early Assessment Program when it was first administered in 2003, said Keith Boyum of CSU Academic Affairs. Boyum, who provided statistics at the Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday, explained that the program is based on results of a voluntary math and/or English test given out at the end of the school year. In addition, CSU continues to work hand-in-hand with K-12 teachers to better prepare them to teach students about college expectations. In comparing 2004 and 2005ʼs 11th graders, the number of students who volunteered to take the assessment test and the number of students who show college proficiency at the end of the year have increased exponentially.
However, Boyum said the number of students who receive the “signal” that they need to improve their skills during 100their senior year is more important 100 100because it gives students the opportunity to assess their proficiency80level and make necessary improvements. 80 80 “We remember this is a whole year in advance 60 to coming to college and a student 60 60 who is not yet proficient is not off track. But if [theyʼre] ready at4011th grade, thatʼs great,” Boyum said. 40 40 Evelia Miramontes, Cal State 20 Assessment Fullertonʼs Early 20 Program coordinator, said that 20 among 3,900 freshmen, only 12 0 percent took the programʼs English Math 0 test and were successfully exempt 0 Math Math from taking the English Placement Test, which CSU administers for automatic placement in collegelevel classes. That number is significantly lower than the 30 percent success rate of the math program.
Ballot initiative intends to increase penalties, modernize old statutes By PHILIP FULLER Daily Titan Staff
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“We are heading north, and north English is where we want to go,” Boyum English English said. However, not all of the board members think that the statistics are convincing. Board members are concerned that not enough students are eli-
gible to volunteer to take the test. In 2005, less than half of the students were eligible to take the programʼs math test. Out of the eligible students, 14.5 percent took the test. Boyum disagreed, saying that TESTING 3
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A man driving the car above spun out when turning from Commonwealth Avenue onto Nutwood Avenue on Monday, said Fullerton Police Officer Dan Heying. This week’s summer storms made road conditions dangerous. Once out of control, the vehicle hit an electrical box near the College Park parking lot. The driver declined to comment or give his name.
Identity theft has become so widespread that one in 30 people had their identities stolen in 2004. Last week, in an effort to curb the identity theft epidemic, assemblyman Charles Poochigian, R-Fresno, began circulating petitions to curb identity theft. The petitions are an attempt by Poochigian to circumvent the state legislature by putting his California Identity and Personal Information Protection Act to a public vote in the November 2006 elections. “The ballot initiative is a collection of bills that failed to pass in the legislature,” said Matt Rexroad, who is managing the ballot campaign. He is coordinating the effort to “collect 360,000 signatures to get the initiative in the November election.” The ballot initiative would increase the penalties for identity theft, as well as modernize the stateʼs criminal statute on it. “The overarching goal is to adapt the statues to the times,” said Debra Gonzales, who helped with the
language of the initiative. “Right now, will overwhelmingly pass. if you steal someoneʼs social security “Everyone in California is hungry card youʼve committed a felony, but if for reform,” she said. you steal 500 social security numbers, Opponents of the initiative worry youʼve only committed a misdemean- that it would needlessly jail people for or.” The determining factor of the life through Californiaʼs Three-Strikes crimes seriousness is weather the thief Law. possesses the social security card. “Identity theft will be the crime of The bill also has special provisions this century,” said Sgt. Tom Gehrls for identity theft against children, mil- with the campus Police Department. itary personnel, and seniors. It would In his office, the floor was littered raise the fine for identity theft against with identity thiefʼs notebooks, filled these people by with various stolen $1,000. information. Other than a loss Another goal of “Other than a loss of of life, identity the ballot initialife, [identity theft] is tive is to create a going to cause the most theft is going to fund for forensic harm to a person, their cause the most computer invesfamilies and livelihood, harm to a person tigations. The because everything is initiative would stolen,” Gehrls said. Sgt. Tom Gehrls increase fiscal Students on campus CSUF campus Police penalties against should be wary of identity theft. perpetrators of “What we used to see, identity theft, and use the money collected to grant for instance, is that someone steals smaller counties access to the forensic a backpack and uses the credit cards inside to go shopping, which is a investigations. This initiative would not incur any simple theft. Now weʼre seeing that start-up costs, as it just provides better a driverʼs license is more valuable funding for resources already in place. because someone can order credit It would also classify trafficking in cards and assume that personʼs identipersonal information as a criminal ty,” he said. “Weʼre usually on a pretty gang activity. ID THEFT 3 Gonzales is sure that the initiative
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Sept. 21 to 30: The ASI office is accepting donations for the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. Sept. 21: CSU Board of Trustees will hold its second and final day of meetings in Long Beach at 8:30 a.m. More information available on the CSU Web site, www. calstate.edu.
U.S. military deaths top 1,900 in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq – The war in Iraq passed a sobering milepost Tuesday when U.S. officials reported 10 more Americans were killed – six of them members of the armed forces, raising to more than 1,900 the number of U.S. service members who have died in the country since the invasion. A Diplomatic Security agent attached to the U.S. State Department and three private American security guards were killed when their convoy was hit by a suicide car bomber Monday in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said. The four were attached to the U.S. Embassyʼs regional office in Mosul.
Sept. 21: More than 200 employers will be present at the Fall Internship and Job Fair. For more information call (714) 278-3121.
Karzai wants end to U.S.-led operations
Sept. 21-22: Take a guided tour through various haunted digs in Fullerton. Explore the Plummer Auditorium, the basment hallways of the Fullerton Police Department and other scary haunts. Cost is $12. For more information contact the Fullerton Museum Center.
KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday challenged the need for major foreign military operations in Afghanistan, saying airstrikes are no longer effective and that U.S.-led coalition forces should focus on rooting out terror bases and support networks. His call for a new approach to tackling militants came despite the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces invaded in late 2001, with more than 1,200 people killed in the six months leading up to Sundayʼs historic legislative elections.
Sept. 22: Guitarist of the World Series presents Margarita Escarpa, guitar at the CSUF Performing Arts Center. Recital starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10, $5 with advance Titan discount. For more information call (714) 278-3371.
Footage identifies London bombers
LONDON – The suicide bombers who struck Londonʼs transit network did reconnaissance ahead of time and used peroxide-based explosives that took skill to assemble, suggesting the deadly attacks were carefully planned, police said Tuesday. Closed-circuit television footage taken June 28 shows three of the four bombers following the same route they took on the day of the bombings, which killed 56 people including themselves.
Sept. 22: The seventh-annual ASI ʻHawaii O-Fiveʼ block party will highlight the programs and services available to students through ASI. Music, food, giveaways and outdoor entertainment will be provided. For more information call (714) 278-5870.
Nation Forecasters fearful of Hurricane Rita KEY WEST, Fla. – Rapidly strengthening Hurricane Rita lashed the Florida Keys on Tuesday and headed into the Gulf of Mexico, where forecasters feared it could develop into another blockbuster storm targeting Texas or Louisiana. Thousands of people were evacuated from the Keys and low-lying areas of northern Cuba. On the far side of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, Galveston started evacuations and officials made plans to move refugees from Hurricane Katrina who had been housed in the Houston area to Arkansas.
Lousiana levees break for second time
NEW ORLEANS – The Army Corps of Engineers raced to patch New Orleansʼ fractured levee system Tuesday and residents were forced to decide yet again whether to stay or go as a new, rapidly strengthening hurricane threatened to flood the city anew. “First it was come back, then it was go,” said Karen Torre, who returned to her uptown home Tuesday to haul away debris and clean rotted food from her refrigerator before leaving again. “Weʼre just trying to do what they tell us and get a few things done in between.”
Generic versions of AIDS drug OKʼd
WASHINGTON – The FDA has approved the first generic versions of the AIDS medication AZT, a move that could reduce the expense for people in the United States being treated for the disease. AZT, an antiretroviral drug that is also known as Zidovudine, helps prevent the AIDS virus from reproducing in the body. It is often used in combination with other medications to treat an HIV infection. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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IN HISTORY
9/18 1851: The first issue of the New York Daily Times appeared. Six years later the word daily would be dropped from the name to become the New York Times. 1970: Rocker and guitarist Jimi Hendrix died of drug-related causes in London, England. He was 27. 9/19 1928:
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beloved “spokesrodent” for Disney maked his first animated appearance in an animated short “Plane Crazy.” He would later star in the first animated film with synchronized sound “Steamboat Willie.” 9/20 1519: Ferdinand Magellan commanded five vessels to sail from Spain in an attempt to circumnavigate the world. He was killed in the Philippines. One ship completed the voyage in 1522. 1884: The Equal Rights Part, formed to advocate womanʼs rights, nominated Belva Ann Lockwood for president of the United States at
a convention in San Francisco. 9/21 1937: “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien was published for the first time. 1989: The U.S. Senate confirmed President George Bushʼs appointment of General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. 9/22 1862: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states to be freed on Jan. 1, 1863
Sept. 24: Further Seems Forever will be performing an acoustic show at the Anaheim Chain Reaction. Dead Letter Diaries, Takota and The Color Turning will also be performing. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. For more information please call (714) 6356067. 9/23 1846: The eighth planet, Neptune, was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. 1952: U.S. Senator Richard Nixon answers charges that he used an improper expense fund in the nationally televised “Checkers” speech, in which he mentions his dog, Checkers. 9/24 1991: Theodor Suess Geisel, known to his fans as Dr. Seuss, died in La Jolla, Calif. He was 87. Compiled from encarta.msn.com
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Program where the department uses cadets who look like minors. In the Minor-Decoy Program, they send an underage cadet to try and buy alcohol from randomly picked bars or liquor stores. If a bar or liquor store sells them the alcohol, they get a criminal citation with a $100 fine and are assigned to 20 hours of community service. Mancini and Fullertonʼs Sgt. Linda King said that they try to make it fair on the business owners. They donʼt send in underage cadets who look 30 years of age to
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Garden Grove. Muslims in Orange County started to grow wary of the potential of public backlash that videos like these conjure up. “When the media shows Gadahn used to come here, people automatically think weʼre a part of what he is doing,” said Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, director of the ISOC. “We do not support any groups involved with terrorism.” Gadahn, who grew up under the name of Adam Pearlman, moved to Santa Ana in 1995 to live with his grandmother following a fall out with his parents. He chose to come to the ISOC in hopes of learning more about Islam and to get a job as a security guard. Once he became Muslim, Gadahn was less than a model employee, Siddiqi said. “He had an altercation with our imam here, [Haitham] Bundjaki, when he found Gadahn sleeping on the job,” Siddiqi said. “When confronted again by [Bundjaki], Gadahn struck him. Thatʼs when we
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small scale here…but the Internet is going to be the biggest vehicle for this crime.” Gehrls is skeptical of the initiatives prospective impact on cam-
try and buy alcohol, they said. “The decoy that we use looks obviously under the age of 21,” King said. “We have to use underage cadets. You have to really have a baby face to get the job done.” The cadets - ages 18 to 20 hope to be police officers in the future, King said. So far, two businesses have sold to minors. Mancini said that he couldnʼt name the businesses, but that they were definitely picked at random. Mancini also performs full inspections of businesses all over Fullerton that have liquor licenses. “Theyʼre friendly inspections,” Mancini said, adding that [the offi-
cers involved with the grant-funded program] “just want to go out there and educate” the business owners of ways to prevent alcohol related problems such as serving alcohol to minors and serving alcohol after 2 a.m. Part of the grant-funded program is to work with the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control and to work closer with ABC enforcement, Mancini said. He also said that residents of Fullerton, along with business owners and Fullerton police officers, were “glad” that they have an ABC liaison officer. “Weʼre getting a good and positive response,” Mancini said. “And everything is working out well.”
“Nowhere in our religion does it called the police and asked him to leave. We never heard from or saw say, ʻIf you blow yourself up youʼll go to heaven,ʼ” 13-year-old Sono him again.” Muslims are discrediting Gadahn, Ghori said. “Islam means peace and saying he is a man trying to fit in and does not promote terrorism. Anyone who thinks so is mistaken.” has no agenda than to be accepted. For most “The man is Muslims in disillusioned and Orange County, it a bit out of place,” Nowhere in our seems as though ISOC attendee Ali religion does it Islam does transIrshad said. “It is say, ‘If you blow late to a peaceful safe to say he does yourself up, you’ll existence - just not reflect the idego to heaven.’ ologies upheld by like every religion most Muslims, in the world. Sono Ghori even those fervent “For those carFollower of Islam rying on terrorism in their fight for of any sort, be it Islamic influence political or not, [and preservation] merely take the name of Islam to in the West.” With news of car bombs explod- gather support,” Irshad said. “They ing in Iraq daily, and the never-end- are nothing more than vile persons ing shots of angry Muslims chanting with selfish interests, a frustrated on the streets of the Middle East, stance on their quality of life.” mainstream Islam is trying to do its The ISOC has been reaching out best to deviate from acts of terror- to the community, along with several ism and killing innocent civilians. Orange County mosques, through As children were released from interfaith meetings and holding an school for the day, they have been open house to the public. echoing the same message that the The SAPDʼs public information ISOC and its members have been officer, Sgt. Lorenzo Carrillio, was imploring. unavailable for comment.
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pus life, however. “As in increasing the penalty for any crime, you hope it persuades the honest person to remain honest,” he said. Naomi Goodwin, vice president of Administration and Finance, assures students that CSUF is doing everything it can to protect
students from electronic identity theft. “Itʼs an issue we take very, very seriously here. Some of our sister CSUʼs have had information stolen, but we have been very fortunate and have not…weʼre doing everything we can to safeguard our information,” Goodwin said.
Campus community project looks to help against alcohol abuse By JORDON MASTAGNI Daily Titan Staff
It is inevitable that students attending Cal State Fullerton will become stressed out at one or more points during the semester. Some choose to deal with stress by going to movies or sporting events. Some like to go to the beach or workout at the gym. Yet, there are those who like to spend their evenings binge drinking to the point of blackout, only to awake the next morning in a pile of vomit with no recollection of what happened. The Campus Community Alcohol Management Project feels this is a problem. Consisting of faculty and staff of CSUF, UC Irvine, and the County of Orange Health Care Agency, the group met last week to discuss issues of safety and well-being of students by educating them about the harmful effects of high-risk consumption of alcohol. The project is targeted at people aged 18-24. They are working hard to combat the issue and assist students who have drinking problems by providing guidance to students veering off the path of success. In 2003, the project was awarded the State Incentive Grant dispersed by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to gather data
of student behaviors and drinking patterns through random sampling done by the Prevention Resource Center in Berkeley, Calif. The first step of the project is planning and gathering resources and information from many organizations that are involved and then collaborate ideas to generate solutions. The next two phases of implementation and evaluation of the project will be put to action with workshops on campus and surrounding areas. Many students have little or no spare time because of school or long hours working to pay the bills. “I couldnʼt handle going out more than one night a week and drinking. I have no energy the next day and I usually always have something going on - whether it be work or school,” speech communications major Greg Richardson said. Richardson occasionally goes out for a drink and feels that his colleagues, for the most part, donʼt drink too often. “It doesnʼt seem like anyone in my classes ever talks about going out and getting trashed at a party. I would say that it is not really a problem on campus,” Richardson said. Most students are too busy to go out to drink every night, said Kandy Mink, dean of students at CSUF. “Students who attend CSUF are usually carrying 12-15 units on top of working,” Mink said. CSUF is a commuter school and has low on-campus residency with the mean age of students being 25 years old, said Mary Herman, a
director of Health Education and Health Promotion at CSUF. “CSUF drinking rates are substantially lower than the national average for hazardous drinking and drinking in general,” Herman said. The project addressed issues including social access to alcohol by students who are minors, high-risk drinking and related problems at both on and off campus residential settings, alcohol related problems at retail establishments and information about alcohol use behavior patterns among multicultural populations. When the funding runs out, the programs will remain intact with the help of fraternities and sororities, athletics and residency hall advisors in which the project has been working with for the past year. Reports from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism based on college students across the nation between the ages of 18-24 state that about 1,700 students die each year from alcoholrelated unintentional injuries including motor vehicle crashes. About 696,000 are assaulted by another student whoʼs been drinking; about 97,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape; about 100,000 have reported having been too intoxicated to know if they consented to having sex; and about 25 percent of college students report academic consequences of their drinking, which includes missing class, falling behind, doing poorly on exams or papers, and receiving lower grades overall.
attention and she has been researching the photo extensively. Although Louis Plummer, early superintendent of the Fullerton Joint Union High School, is thought to have been identified in the photo. Although research for this particular photo is still being conducted, Thomas is confident that she will be able to provide the details of the contents. “I like to use the Los Angeles Public Libraryʼs databases,” Thomas said. A high percentage of the material is donated from Fullerton residents because of a lack of staffing to solicit outside works, she said. “We really are dependent on our citizens who bring in all kinds of wonderful materials,” Thomas said. Sylvia Palmer Mudrick, public information coordinator for City Hall, has worked with Thomas on many projects. “She is an absolute treasure because of the enthusiasm she has for the cityʼs history,” Mudrick said, who is responsible for presenting the photo to Thomas, “we [at City Hall] like to use Cathy for a reference when we find old material.” Thomas started doing volunteer work at the library 10 years ago and when one of the librarians in
the Local Launer History Room retired, Thomas was offered the job because she was familiar with the collection. She began working part-time until she was given the position of librarian/curator for the Local Launer History Room. Thomas received her degree from Cal State Fullerton in history. She came to Fullertonʼs public library, after workin in Anaheim, in 1995 and has been working there ever since. The history room also houses one of the Olympic torches that came through Fullerton in 1984 because the firm that handled security for the torch-running was a company in Fullerton, who donated it. “The third-graders get a real kick out of the real ostrich eggs we have,” Thomas said. Photos of old homes are popular among potential homebuyers who are interested in looking at old pictures of homes they might be purchasing to check for originality or authenticity. Also on file are old telephone directories dating back to the early 1900s.“I call her the history detective,” said Melinda West, librarian at the Fullerton Public Library. “She is very tenacious in finding research and information for people.”
that the statistics did not show how many California high schools are participating in the program. Moctesuma Esparza, a board member, added that the numbers may be misleading when it comes to the effectiveness of the program because the statistics do not account for schools that do not offer the assessment program. Esparza said board members must know the total number of California students who are in the 11th grade, the total number of students who are not eligible to take
the tests and the number of students who should be in the 11th grade but have dropped out of school. “We really need to know [the statistics] because this is rosy. I like [the program], itʼs good, but I want to know what the real story is,” Esparza said. Boyum said that the more CSU builds up the numbers of students taking the test, the better it will be for the system – “period.” “Measuring the improvement though, is the kick in the pants we will need,” vice chair Roberta Achtenberg said. “However, with the additional information we will get a better idea how to move it forward.” James Rosser, president of CSU Los Angeles, said that he and some public school superintendents are also trying to make the program mandatory. The Garden Grove School District is one of the few districts that have made the program mandatory for its students. Boyum said that he would provide the numbers Esparza had requested in the November Board of Trustees meeting.
Local librarian ‘sleuths’ old pictures and artifacts Fullerton history buff shares discoveries of the cityʼs rich history By JORDON MASTAGNI Daily Titan Staff
Recently, a mysterious photograph - taken around the 1920ʼs - of a large group of people sharply dressed, wearing ribbons on the outside of their clothing, was discovered. The purpose of this photo remains a mystery. Maybe these people are part of a secret society or cult; maybe they are gangsters; or maybe this is just a simple portrait taken at a family reunion. Who knows? Fullerton Public Libraryʼs “super sleuth” is one tenacious lady, and is responsible for researching and providing information of photos like these to the public. Cathy Thomas, librarian for the Fullerton Public Library and curator for the Launer Local History Room located there, comes across many interesting photos and artifacts that deal with the cityʼs history. The photo, discovered in the Utility Serviceʼs Division in Fullerton City Hall, came to Thomasʼs
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the board must keep in mind that CSU looks at the top 33 percent of seniors to draw up its incoming freshmen each year; but the total number of students who are eligible to take the test exceeds 33 percent. This may give the system a larger pool to pick from for its incoming freshmen. “Thatʼs gratifying. Thatʼs progress,” Boyum said. The board was also concerned
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Titan cheer tryouts kick it up a notch New program another step closer to reality, 36 enter second round By DIANIKA ABBOTT Daily Titan Staff
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The newly formed CSUF lacrosse team practices on the Rec Sports field Monday. Although their inaugural season won’t start until the spring, the team will play in several tournaments this fall. The team’s first game will take place at UC Irvine in October.
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Out of 100 students, only 36 hopeful young women will enter their second round of tryouts for Cal State Fullertonʼs new cheerleading squad today in the Titan Student Union Pavilion C. This cheerleading squad, which started as an endeavor to promote team spirit for the menʼs and womenʼs basketball team, is the first attempt to bring cheerleading back to CSUF since 1991. Andi Sims, co-chairman and advisor of the Spirit Committee, said that the cheerleading squad was developed from a vision of Robert Palmer, the vice president of Student Affairs. Palmer, who traveled with the menʼs basketball team when it advanced to the third round of the National Invitational Tournament last season, noticed the cheerleaders and mascots supporting the other teams and realized CSUF
sity on our campus,” Sims said. had no one cheering them on. In the second round, candidates Sims said that Palmer challenged the athletics department are expected to complete a short and Dean of Students Kandy Mink quiz testing their basic knowledge to do something about the lack of of basketball and perform original support and team spirit. material for the judges and Titan Mink then developed the Spirit Tusk Force. Committee, which is a commitThis tryout will test the candidates crowd tee of five staff motivation members who skills as well as are in charge of You really miss out their ability to the cheerleading on the [college] perform under squad. experience when pressure. “The squad is you just go to school Carol May, basically designed and go home. who is in to support our charge of the basketball teams technical look and to motiChristina Arent vate and include of the squad CSUF Sophomore CSUF community and a member to get involved in of the Spirit the games,” Sims Committee, said. said that the committee is not Over 30 students will get the looking for a squad of perfect opportunity to tryout for the sec- cheerleaders. ond round in hopes of attain“We are looking for [people] ing position as the CSUF mascot who are truly dedicated, have and members of the cheerleading school spirit and people who are squad. really enthusiastic and can get the “We are looking for men and crowd going,” May said. women who can motivate the The candidates are really excitcrowd, have good cheerleading ed about the second round of try skills and will represent the diver- outs.
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“You really miss out on the [college] experience when you just go to school and go home,” said Christina Arent, a sophomore child and adolescent major. “Thatʼs why Iʼm really excited about the squad because it will give me the opportunity to meet new people and network.” Senior Daniel Hayden, a business administration major and candidate for becoming a mascot, is also very excited about the new efforts to support school athletics. “I notice a lack of school spirit in our school and I really want to be a part of increasing that spirit,” Hayden said. He also believes that crowd participation can contribute to raising the teamʼs morale. “I went to a game against Pacific last year where we packed the gym. The crowd was going wild the whole time and it really helped the team because we stood toe-to-toe until the very last shot of the game,” he said. The CSUF cheerleading squad will make its first appearance in the Nov. 20 menʼs basketball game against Hope International University.
The man behind the glass of Titan Stadium Metz Lets Loose He gets to campus before many of us even get up. While our eyes are still adjusting , filtering in the light of another day, his are scanning Kevin Metz the Fullerton Daily Titan athletic fields Sports Editor with the professionalism and dedication he commands from the athletes he trains. The sheet of paper taped onto the wall of Andy Williamsʼ press box window-office reads “Creating a winning environment: identify what you want to achieve, be able to com-
municate your ideas to your group, [and] be able to turn those ideas into reality.” Just a daily reminder from Marty Schottenheimer. Working under the former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs for two years was one of many stops in his 10-year carreer that found its way to Cal State Fullerton last October. He always uses a yellow notepad. He says he keeps his brain on its pages. He certainly keeps his job there. Team-specific workout regimines fill the lines with phrases like “Alt. DB (dumbell) rows 4x20” and “3 Pos HCI +F/Sqt + press x 2.” What appears to be a complex math problem from hell (at least for journalists like me - we donʼt deal with numbers too well) is a sec-
ond language for the athletes who endure Williamsʼ workouts multiple times a week. The philosophy behind Fullerton Athletics strength training is simple enough for anyone to grasp: prevent injury, enhance your skills as an athlete (ie speed, strength, power, flexibility, and fitness), and make it fun. Both the Tuesday and Wednesday practices for the womenʼs soccer team this week start with “300 abs” on the top line. Now that sounds like a lot of fun to me ... but Williams and his assistant, CSUF graduate student Erick Contreras, have clearly found a way to make it happen. After all, the Titans did upset No. 25-ranked Utah to win the Four Points University Plaza Arizona
Soccer Classic in Tucson, Ariz over the weekend. I suppose the solid coaching and Kandice Wilson, who is really coming into her own at the forward position for the Titans, had alot to do with it, but I bet all those crunches didnʼt hurt anything, either. Williams stresses the importance of all athletes, regardless of the sport, building and maintaining a strong core to prevent injury and maximize their future workout potential. Workouts then become the experimental design of Williamʼs knowledge, a coachʼs game plan, and an athletes set of personal goals. “We are here to train functionally strong athletes,” he said. That means keeping athletes healthy. It means optimizing their bodies for peak performance on the
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Fullerton coach Andy Williams’ office overlooks the soccer field in Titan Stadium, where many of the athletes he trains perform. field. It means teaching them to be accountable off the field. It would be easy to overlook people like Andy Williams, the professionals behind the glass overlooking Titan Stadium. But it is impossible
not to appreciate the impact of their work on the playing field. Kevin Metzʼ column appears weekly. Contact him at: Kmetz@dailytitan.com
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Where’s the beef? Think that prohibiting the sale of “junk foods” in public schools will cure the U.S. obesity epidemic? Fat chance. Last Tuesday, the California Assembly voted 50-29 in favor of the School Food Sales Bill, which, if signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, could permanently terminate the sale of junk foods legislators believe to be in direct competition with stateapproved lunches. Non-nutritional foods would no longer be freely available in K-12 public schools, but 28 percent of Californiaʼs kids would still, for all intents and purposes, be fat – at least, according to a study by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. In fact, the same study even put two Orange County cities – Santa Ana and Anaheim – on the top of its list for overweight children. The assault on junk food is just a scapegoat for societyʼs inability to encourage a diet and exercise regimen that advocates lifelong health and wellness of our children. Itʼs a scapegoat for those parents who permit their children to idly lounge away afternoons in front of the television set, lifting – if anything – only their thumbs while they slump down and play the latest version of Halo, interacting with play pals through headsets and the Internet rather than face-to-face. Itʼs a scapegoat for lawmakers who have starved the budget for nutritional education in public
schools, forcing the downsizing of physical fitness and health programs that used to teach our children about healthy lifestyles. At least we know this much is true: Foods that are high in sugar, fats or sodium are unhealthy and, if consumed without moderation, can ultimately lead to obesity. But so will lack of action and a lethargic lifestyle. Why are state legislators, along with politicians in over 12 states, so quick to fight the battle of the bulge by trashing junk food like sodas and so slow to implement any sort of meaningful, effective solution? Californiaʼs Superintendent of Public Instruction has already admitted that an “unacceptable percentage” of school children have not met the stateʼs minimum fitness requirements, according to the California Department of Education. Instead of trying to force-feed bills and regulations to unknowing students, lawmakers need to do more than take away menu options. Cutting the empty calories on campus lunch menus is like eating that tiny, weight-conscious piece of the pie: Simply not enough. It may be tough to swallow, but legislators, too, need to be proactive by re-establishing effective physical fitness programs that educate our children about healthy eating habits and encourage our children to live a mobile lifestyle. Letʼs exercise some common sense.
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Do you do anything to stay healthy?
“I like to play beach volleyball at least once a week and try to eat right. I actually like to play volleyball at the beach in this kind of weather [cloudy] because you get less sweaty.” –Lauren Hoy Senior, psychology
“I bike-ride four times a week and play racquetball two times a week. But I kill myself with cigarettes and coffee.
“I stay away from pork and red meat. When pork isnʼt cooked right, it has worms. And red meat takes three days to digest so it basically rots in your stomach.”
–Jae Estrada Graduate student, business administration
–Irisini Davis Senior, business administration
“I do try to keep healthy. I get up at six in the morning and take out my dog for a walk for an hour. My dog [a Chihuahua-pug] is superhyper … It knocks me out for the rest of the day.” –Steve Clark Senior, religious studies
Titans don’t smell like school spirit Jeff cares School spirit. The fact that the previous sentence is an incomplete sentence does not escape me; rather, I Jeff Klima Daily Titan Columnist put it there on purpose. It is meant to be a half-assed metaphor about how half-assed our school spirit is. Granted, a few of you get excited come baseball season, but overall, our school spirit is worse than Cal State Long Beach. You know why they call it Cal State Long Beach, donʼt you? Because California State Penitentiary was taken! If you didnʼt laugh at that, you are seriously lacking in the aforementioned school spirit. Come to think of it, I didnʼt laugh at that either. More importantly though, how does one recover from lack of
school spirit? The answer canʼt be found on a T-shirt or on a banner hanging in the Quad. It isnʼt on any sports team or in any honor society. Nope, the answer to the unification of our campus and the bolstering of our school spirit can only be found right here in this column. Arenʼt you lucky you decided to read the newspaper today? So what is the answer, you ask? What will bring us together like nothing has so far? It is quite simple, really. Make a porno. Before you roll your eyes and cast this column aside in search of something more puritanical, indulge your dark side a moment and read on. Why a porno? Pornography, or at least sex, is the most instantly-bonding activity two or more people can engage in. While making a porn may not be the most romantic of endeavors, weʼre not out for love; weʼre out for cohesiveness. Another key aspect of filming a campus-wide porno over, say,
building a campus-wide kite, is that porno has a sordid element to it. Porn isnʼt an accepted sell in civilized society; therefore, it is a challenge. What could possibly bring a campus together in spirit better than an incredibly intimate, slightly embarrassing, challenging group project? Agreed? Iʼm going to assume you said “yes.” If you said “no” or just kind of looked around awkwardly, stop reading. School spirit obviously isnʼt for you. There. Now that we all understand “why porno?” we must understand “how porno?” This is the best part. Weʼre in college, damn it. We are in a mini-economy all its own. We are surrounded by future doctors, professors, opinion editors, scientists, directors, Jai-Alai instructors. We have all the tools for pornography right at our fingertips (tee hee). Weʼll get the film students to film the thing, and the drama kids to “perform” in it. The English majors can come up with good, solid dialogue while the communications majors
can advertise it. Art majors can design the packaging; business majors can be the sales force. The health and science kids can swab for herpes; the poli sci majors can provide catering; history majors can tell boring stories to keep premature ejaculation in check; and the eggheads in the math department will buy the damn thing. Everyone else can be a fluffer. The only thing we have left is to determine what our porno, which I have named “Co-ed Thunder,” is about. And I think I have that covered. Get this: I am a robot of some kind, one with a magic robot penis of some kind. And I want to be human. But the only way I can become human is to have sex. Lots of it. Filming starts Tuesday. Jeff Klima is a Cal State Fullerton senior majoring in communications and radio-TVfilm. His column comes out every Wednesday in the Daily Titan. To contact him e-mail opinion@dailytitan.com
Real heroes are hard to come by nowadays
By ANNA LOUSTAUNAU For the Daily Titan
COURTESY OF KING FEATURES SYNDICATE
When it comes to establishing a heroic act in modern American society, the term “hero” typically
represents a protagonist who has just lost 30 pounds for a film role, eaten a live snake, or scored the winning home run in the afternoon baseball game. But rarely praised are those
“true heroes” who are willing to go the distance by telling the truth about a political scandal or by working three jobs to give their child an education. For example, instead of recalling activist Rebecca Aldworthʼs extreme battle with Newfoundlanders for the safety of baby harp seals – all during the deadly, annual crusade for white seal fur – ABC News idealized Britney Spearʼs “heroic,” emotional scuffle with her thenhusband, who was reported to be cheating on her. Another instance of mistaken valor was when FOX News ignored news on the growing number of single male fathers contentedly making sacrifices for their childʼs education. Instead, it enthusiastically reported about Renee Zellwegerʼs recurring weight gain for the film “Bridget Jonesʼs Diary.” Now, while getting an annulment and rapidly gaining 30 pounds are admirable – yet mindless – features, they do not classify one to be a true hero. According to Free-Definition. com, a hero is a man or woman willing to commit an extraordinary beneficial deed, not only of the body but of the mind as well. If it were possible to call every person who put on weight and dated a cheater a hero, what word could be used to describe the strong fireman who saves a kitten from a burning building or a girl battling cancer? Hopefully, it would be a more credible association than one that classifies Roseanne Arnold and Howard Stern in the same category of heroism. Real courage is more than just an amazing act and an intelligent brain; itʼs the ability to stand alone, while being slightly timid of any consequence that comes with the act at hand. In a nutshell, heroes are people who literally change the world one step at a time. With this extended definition
in mind, Helen Gurley Brown – founder of Cosmopolitan magazine – is a model of ethics. Brown was a woman who was determined to teach other females to be independent and sexuallyliberated in a time of conservative, patriarchal values – regardless of any potential negativity in her path. The result? The most successful and enlightening feminine magazine of the 20th century, according to communications giant The Hearst Corporation. On the other hand, several people are dealt their obstacle and must find courage to face the fear on their own, some incidences including the self-discovery of a physical illness or disability. One such story is sweet 7year-old Ashlyn Block, who is completely unable to feel pain or extreme temperatures because of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis (CIPA). After battling with the inconsistency to feel her burns, fire ant bites, and slammed fingers, Ashlyn is now currently learning to play in a safer environment and understanding the importance of self-empowerment. Being classified as a hero should be both an earned privilege and an honor to all men and women. So why is the word used more frequently than a Tic Tac at an adolescent game of Spin the Bottle? To put it briefly, contemporary Americaʼs synopsis of heroism appears rather artificial than alluring. The term bounces endlessly around Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anistonʼs divorce rather than focusing on our great soldiers in Iraq. And that is a darn shame to all our historical heroes and selfsacrificing individuals, who we may one day encounter during a time of need and just as quickly forget.