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Rosa Parks dies at age 92 Civil rights activist succumbs to natural causes; nation mourns By DIANIKA ABBOTT Daily Titan Copy Editor
Rosa Parks, the seamstress who changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, died
of natural causes Monday at her home in Detroit. Although Parks did not know her act of civil disobedience would be the driving force for a revolutionary change in American history, she is now revered as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” In the 1950s, when Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in restaurants, hotels, public restrooms, buses and trains, blacks had to pay
their bus fare on the front of the bus, get off and sit in the back of the bus. Jesse Owens Smith, an AfroEthnic studies professor, said that the conditions in the South were harsh. “We couldn’t talk to white girls, go to white schools, or drink from fountains that were [designated] for whites,” Smith said. “As long as you stayed in your place, you
had no problem.” Parks, then 42, was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white male on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Parks was jailed and fined $14. While false reports said Parks deliberately sat in the front of the bus and refused to give up her seat because her feet hurt, Parks said that she was tired of the way blacks were treated.
“I made up my mind that I would not give in any longer to legally imposed racial segregation,” said Parks, according to the Academy of Achievement Web site. Wacira Gethaiga, chair and professor of the Afro-Ethnic Studies Department, said Parks was the catalyst that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. PARKS 3
Local wax museum takes curtain call Buena Parkʼs vintage Movieland to close after four decades
Women’s soccer: high hopes for strong showing in last conference game
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More than 300 Movieland Wax Museum figurines, such as Judy Garland’s from “The Wizard of Oz” (above), will be moved to the Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf next week. The Buena Park museum, will close Oct. 31, and entrance fees have been reduced to $5 until then.
Cal State Fullerton alumna PNhut deLeon-Cacal has worked with the likes of Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Selleck, Julia Roberts and even Greta Garbo – at least the wax figures of them. For the past 20 years, deLeonCacal has called the Movieland Wax Museum her second home. Her 35 co-workers have been a second family. But now, after 43 years, the one-story building – which serves as home to its employees, and more than 300 wax figures placed in 150 sets – will close Oct. 31. “We kind of saw the economy decline and we knew it was a matter of time,” said deLeon-Cacal, the current manager who first started as a cashier. “But the decision was so
SPED teaches self-help Special Education program equips pupils with real life skills By ASHLEY MAJESKI Daily Titan Staff
Beatriz Vega knows the routine well. “First I put on the butter, then the garlic, then the parsley and last I put the cheese,” the special education student said. Making garlic bread for the Titan Grill is one of the first paying jobs for Vega. She and many other special education students are given employment through the Transition Program, which has been at Cal State Fullerton since 1997. The program, which serves students ages 18 to 22, helps give Fullerton Union High School Special Education students vital job and life skills in a college setting. Students also partake in recreational activities, such as bowling, swimming and exercising. “We provide them with training that allows them to function as independently as possible,” said
Charlotte Dobyns, who is in charge learn independence. of the program. “This program is “They need to make money just so incredibly beneficial to these like anyone else, and need to be students.” able to make it on their own,” Dobyns said that most special Dobyns said. “Having a job is great education students stay in high for their self esteem and they’re so school until age 22. proud of themselves.” By participating in the program, Vega, indeed, is proud to be able they are able to interact with non- to take care of herself. disabled students in “I go to my a more age-suitable work independently. Nobody setting. I go to my work has to tell me to “Just like any independently. go to my job. I other high school Nobody has to tell go by myself,” student, they me to go to my she said. don’t want to stay job. I go by myself. Erin Brownon campus for ing, a student four more years,” teacher in the Dobyns said. “This Beatriz Vegan program, said is a continuation of CSUF Student that many of their high school these students do experience but in a very well in their jobs because they college setting.” The students, who range from are happy to be working. Many students involved in the mild to severe handicapped, are taught subjects like grooming, pro- program currently work on camfessionalism and the importance pus, in places such as Round Table of good behavior while on the job. Pizza or Carl’s Jr. Some are even The program also offers training placed off campus in locations on nutrition, community safety and such as Goodwill Retail stores and socialization. The main goal for the PROGRAMS 3 students, however, is for them to
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sudden. Iʼll miss it tremendously. It really just breaks my heart.” With the competition of amusement parks and other attractions in the area, deLeon-Cacal said that people just did not budget or plan on visiting Movieland. Its business has been declining in the past years. DeLeon-Cacal first began working at the Wax Museum at Fishermanʼs Wharf in 1979. When Thomas L. Fong bought the Buena Park Museum from Movielandfounder Allen Parkinson in 1985, deLeon-Cacal moved to Southern California to manage it. “All the other museums donʼt even compare to us. We donʼt just place our statues there for people to see. Instead, we place them in sets that replicate the movies they were in,” deLeon-Cacal said. “Itʼs very much different. You donʼt just look at the figures; itʼs like youʼre entering the movie.” As you turn one corner, you can find Gene Kelly swinging from a lamppost and singing in the rain. At another, you walk down a yel-
low-brick road that leads you to Judy Garland, who is dressed as Dorothy and surrounded by her friends from the “Wizard of Oz.” For Fullerton resident Lorraine Mayes, returning to Movieland after all these years is a reminder of how talented the artists were. “I used to take my grandchildren here when there were artists who sat and drew pictures of you,” Mayes said. “The artists of my day were precise and got every angle of the actors.” Mayes said Tom Selleckʼs wax figure was among the best sheʼs seen. Selleck, like many of the actors, visited Movieland and posed with their look-a-likes. DeLeon-Cacal said Selleck not only took a picture with his twin but also with every fan that was there that day. “The weirdest thing for me in all my years of working here was meeting Michael Jackson at 2 a.m. so he could see his newly unveiled WAX 3
National reporter comes to CSUF Correspondent from Fox News speaks on campus to Titans By MARIE O’NEIL Daily Titan Staff
She started off in Washington, D.C., where she worked under David Brinkley at NBC and began a successful journey to Los Angeles, the city her heart was in. Anita Vogel has worked for ABC in Erie, Pa., NBC in Sacramento and Jacksonville, Fla., where she covered local news as a reporter and fill-in anchor. For the past four years she has been a correspondent for Fox News out of Los Angeles. Vogel spoke to a room filled with Cal State Fullerton students Monday to tell them about her experiences.
It took her nine years to get to her current position with the cable station that competes with CNN cable news. “Itʼs sort of a friendly-spirited competition,” Vogel said. “Not everyone is friendly but most [news people] are.” It was valuable to start off in a small market of news, she said. “I wouldnʼt trade it,” Vogel VOGEL 3
New York Times reporter stirs up controversy Judith Miller revered by some, scrutinized for practices in field By AARON BONK Daily Titan Staff
The controversy surrounding Judith Miller, the indicted, jailed and now freed New York Times reporter, continues to swell as her image shifts, for many, from First Amendment media martyr to journalistic outcast. After publishing a long promised account last week of her run-in with federal prosecutors, investigating the leak of CIA agent Valerie
Plame’s identity, Miller’s first-person analysis has raised more questions than answers. Miller, who was jailed for 85 days because she wouldn’t appear before a grand jury investigating the identity leak, was released in September and has since testified. The CIA agent’s identity was revealed to the media just after her diplomat husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, challenged the Bush administration on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The investigation is now largely focused on Karl Rove, President Bush’s top advisor, and I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s
chief of staff, and their conver- administration’s attempts to silence sations with reporters regarding Wilson, a vocal critic of the war in Plame. Iraq. Rove may face To Miller legal troubles for critics’ chagrin, the article not confiding in the The Times needs does not offer grand jury about his to review Ms. an apology nor talks regarding Plame Miller’s journalist does it explain with Time Magazine practices as soon why she was not reporter Matt Cooper. as possible ... fired from the Libby’s problems paper, despite stem from inconsistencies between his her unwillingByron Calame ness to share and Miller’s testimoNew York Times editor nies. her grand jury Miller’s story, testimonies published last week in the New or notes with editors. Still, others York Times, outlined the reporter’s believe Miller should have been dealings with Libby, and the Bush fired long before, when her errone-
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ous reporting of the existence of weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq war all but shamed the “paper of record.” Critics like Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher magazine, argue that Miller should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism. Other critics contend that Miller, who had reportedly received a waiver from Libby authorizing her to speak up and avoid jail time, deliberately disregarded the note as ambiguous and coerced, thus welcoming a high-profile jail stint. Media pundit Arianna Huffington argues that Miller’s “faux martyrMILLER 3