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Learning to speak through therapy
Giving women another option
On-campus Speech and Hearing Clinic trains future therapists, changes lives
USC student may have not known about alternatives to abandoning newborns
By BRYAN BARNETT
By DANIELLE TORRICELLI
For the Daily Titan
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Three years ago, Covina resident Carly Pritchard, 28, fell into a coma when a nurse accidentally administered a second dose of morphine. After blowing out her knee playing soccer, she was rushed to the hospital where she quickly received treatment and a heavy dose of morphine for the pain – standard procedure for that kind of accident. Pritchard would be OK. That is, until a second nurse came by her bed to make sure she had gotten her daily morphine dose. Seeing no mark on the form attached to her bed indicating that she had already been drugged, the nurse proceeded to administer a second dose that sent Pritchard into a long coma. “They said she would never walk or talk again,” said Tiffany Bertolini, 20, a friend who helps Pritchard with her daily routine. “But sheʼs gotten a lot better since the accident.” The aftermath of the incident gave way to a whole new Carly Pritchard. She had just graduated from Long Beach State, and she had plans to complete her masterʼs degree in English at UCLA – plans that would have to be put off forever. “This is Carlyʼs second year coming to the [Speech Language and Hearing Clinic],” Bertolini said. Unbeknownst to many students, a speech and hearing clinic resides in College Parkʼs first floor at Cal State Fullerton. The clinic helps children and adults alike who have experienced severe trauma, as in Pritchardʼs case. Bertolini comes with Pritchard to the clinic twice a week for her 50-minute speech class with clinician Melissa Dawa, who is pursuing a masterʼs degree in communicative disorders at CSUF. “You focus in on a lesson plan for that afternoon and develop some activities to do,” Dawa said. “For any client that comes in thereʼs a full diagnostic assessment, looking at reading, writing, comprehension, their speaking ability and trying to figure out what is most important to them, what motivates them to be here, and what you can work on in terms of therapy.” After years of speech therapy, Pritchard, although slower than the average speaker,
Services and proState law helps save infant lives grams on the Cal State See dailytitan.com Fullerton campus assist pregnant women in making decisions for their future. With the recent turmoil of a USC student abandoning of her newborn baby, the effectiveness of safe harbor laws permitting newborn babies to be anonymously turned over to local hospitals and fire departments are being questioned. The Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services and the Womenʼs Center offer physical and psychological assistance to young pregnant women. “We help [the young women] fill out all options, but primarily provide counseling,” said Barbara McDowell, Womenʼs Center director. “Thereʼs a lot of anxiety involved.” If a woman decides to keep her child the center helps her find housing, McDowell said. The Womenʼs Center gets about four inquiries a year from pregnant women. The Health Center is geared more toward pregnancy prevention, said Mary Hermann, director of health promotion and education. The Health Center offers medical services to pregnant women, she said, but refers students to other medical centers for prenatal care. Free urine pregnancy tests are available at the Health Center. “If the test is positive, we provide a pregnancy resource guide that goes over the options [that the young woman has],” Hermann said. The Health Center will refer pregnant students to the counseling services available on campus. The services offer free and confidential counseling to students who face any crisis. The serviceʼs psychologist, Deborah Edelman-Blank, said that in her four years of counseling experience, she has seen an average of three to five women with unplanned pregnancies each year. “Pregnancy can bring about all sorts of reactions,” Edelman-Blank said. “College students are already overloaded, so [becoming pregnant] is a big crisis.” Depression, panic, suicide and determination are some of the reactions a woman can have
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Freshman Mike Rossi registers to vote during a debate on Proposition 75 Wednesday at the Quad. The inititative allows the state to decide where labor union monies go.
Union tax initiative causes much debate Campus event sheds light on positives, negatives of Novemberʼs Propostion 75 By BELAL SIMJEE Daily Titan Staff
Proposition 75 has many Californians, who are a part of state labor unions, rethinking whether they want the state to have union dues set aside for political contributions. A debate on the hotly contested ballot initiative was held in front of about 50 people, Wednesday afternoon in the Quad at Cal State Fullerton. Participants included Costa Mesa Mayor Alan Mansoor and the coordinator for the Alliance for a Better California, George Woods.
Monsoor said that giving union dues to political causes he did not support was unfair, but that the proposition addresses that. “Proposition 75 requires permission from employees before their union dues go to pay for anything political,” said Mansoor, a former Orange County Sheriffʼs Department deputy. “The state of California needs to look for alternative revenue sources.” Mansoor pointed out that 48 percent of the public unions employees are Republican but 90 percent of the money collected from union dues went to support Democratic nominees in California. However, Woods said the status quo allows state employees to prevent having their dues go to political contributions. “These people that support Proposition
Titan spends a day in a monsterʼs shoes for Halloween festival
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Reporter Lisajoyce Vergara prepares for her stint as a monster in the Woodland Hills Fright Fair - one of many Halloween mazes in the area.
Welcome back readers! The last time I left off, I was auditioning to be a monster-for-the-day at Fright Fair in Woodland Hills. Last Sunday, I was able to partake in the event by working at the Haunted Trail, inside a real-life corn maze. Before the event, I was able to talk with actors to see what they would be like at the fair. Shaun Carberra, an actor, dressed as an undertaker with a zombie-like face for the theme, Creatures of the Corn.
“Iʼm [6 feet 4 inches], but when the corn maze to take our posiyou put me on a platform looking tions. I had my scare buddy Sue like this – costume and makeup – it starts to be more ominous,” OʼFerrell, who was dressed as an old scary woman. Carberra said. “Itʼs Our scare spot a lot of fun to come had a little shack down and see the Our cue was when in it. It was a show. Just donʼt the chainsaw went great place to expect not to be off. Every time hide or at least scared.” use as a decoy Sarah Utso, we’d hear that so our victims another actor, was sound our victims would assume dressed as a bloody would be in something was zombie in a red velour area. vet dress. going to pop out “Basically, we of there. monsters donʼt let Our cue was out. We scare you and scare you.” when the chainsaw went off. Every said Utso. “We are consistent, weʼre time weʼd hear that sound our victims would be in our area. good every night.” My scare buddy and I made stratIt was a little after 7 p.m. and the monsters were ready to scare. We HALLOWEEN 3 formed a line and headed toward
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