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DAILY TITAN
Monday October 31, 2005
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Students protest fee hike CSU Board of Trustees sided with tuition increase despite creating additional obstacles By PHILIP FULLER Daily Titan Staff
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As the sun rose Thursday over the waters of Long Beach, students from Humboldt State awoke on the bay-front lawn of the California State University Chancellorʼs Office. They had driven 12 hours the night before to join students from 23 CSU campuses in urging the Board of Trustees to vote no on a proposed 8 percent tuition hike for undergraduate students. The proposal also included a 10 percent hike in graduate tuition. More than 200 CSU students and members of the California Faculty Association shared passionate pleas with the trustees on the hardships of student life and the difficulties of financing an education. But to no avail. The board voted, 13-1, in favor of a tuition increase for CSU students. The tuition increase marks a milestone in CSU costs: Tuition has gone up 90% since 2002. Student board member Corey Jackson, who had originally planned on voting to approve the increase, cast the only vote against it. He decided to stand against the board because of the student presence at the meeting. “I was the only one here who was going to vote no,” Jackson said. “Iʼm interested in what we can do together. Me, who represents the students, and everyone else: What can we do to make sure we donʼt get a fee increase? ... Iʼm not interested in symbolism. Iʼm interested in doing something that makes a difference.” TUITION
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Debra Burger and Kay Mc Vay of the California Nurse’s Asscation speaking against prop 75 Thursday Oct. 27, 2005.
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Successful women speak at conference celebrating achievements in equality By VALERIE SWAYNE Daily Titan Staff
While a large group of protestors picketed outside in opposition of Proposition 75, Californiaʼs First Lady Maria Shriver on Thursday welcomed more than 11,000 women gathered inside the Long Beach Convention Center for the 19th annual California Governor and First Ladyʼs Women and Families Conference. “It takes a huge amount of courage to be a woman in todayʼs world,” Shriver said. “So many of us have trouble recog-
nizing courage in ourselves, whether itʼs to fulfill a dream or cope with an illness or aging,” she said. She acknowledged her bipartisan marriage and the increasing criticism of her husband. “The truth is, I am the Kennedy that married the Republican,” she said. “People are screaming at me to denounce him on one side, while people are screaming at me to support him on the other.” NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw moderated a panel discussion featuring a diverse group of influential women, including journalist Barbara Walters, writer-producer Linda Ellerbee, journalist-author Isabel Allende, and former athlete Billy Jean King. Each shared their personal experi-
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media portrays as just a violent conflict, said Frank Romero, a campus organizer for Middle East Fellowship. “What we donʼt hear, what the media chooses not to report and By ERIC SANDERS chooses not to televise, are the Daily Titan Staff images of nonviolence,” Romero The occupation means that your said before introducing the speaklife, at any time, is under control, a ers. The first speaker, Jonathan Palestinian speaker at Nonviolent Resistance to the Separation Wall Pollak, one of the founders of the Israeli group told an audience at Anarchists Cal State Fullerton on Against the Wednesday. What we don’t Wall, started The event was part hear ... are the with a short of a national speakimages of nonvioing tour about the historical Palestinian and Israeli overview of lence. nonviolent movethe Israeliment that was initiPalestinian conflict. ated by International Frank Romero “Iʼll really Solidarity Movement Middle East Fellowship do my best to and co-sponsored by do 100 years other grassroots organizations that collaboin ten minrated in bringing the tour to the Los utes,” Pollak said. “But please bear Angeles and Orange County areas. with me because itʼs so in-depth.” It featured two major figures After the brief history lesson, from the nonviolent struggle he discussed Israelʼs 2002 conagainst Israelʼs military occupa- struction of a security wall and its tion, in an effort to challenge the WALL 3 dominate narrative of what the
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ences attaining personal successes in their careers. “We have come a long way. Women are running big companies,” Walters said. Breakout sessions in the morning and afternoon – held by such guest speakers as Ellerbee, TV personality Leeza Gibbons, and motivational speaker Dr. Stephen Covey – focused on topics such as family, business, health and wellness. Walters, hailed by Brokaw as the “godmother of TV journalism,” spoke with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OʼConnor in a historic one-on-one lunch interview. OʼConnor recalled her career, first struggling to find a position as a lawyer,
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Titan baseball players head to the locker room after practicing with the rest of the team at Goodwin Field on Friday.
Author discusses religion’s role in pop culture CSUF students talk with columnist about Christian reformation By DIANIKA ABBOTT Daily Titan Copy Editor
In a talk held at Cal State Fullerton and sponsored by Associated Students, Inc., Humanities and Social Science Inter Club Council and the Comparative Religion Student
Associations, author and Orlando Sentinel columnist Mark Pinsky declared Friday that there is a major intersection of between religion and popular culture emerging. Pinsky, author of “The Gospel According to The Simpsons” and “The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust,” said evangelical Christians are learning how to adapt and adopt the modalities of popular culture. “As the emerging market of
people defining themselves as evangelical Christians has grown politically and culturally, the commercial producers of secular popular culture have recognized this and has then integrated religious plots, motifs, characters and ideas into what was once secular popular culture,” Pinsky said. Historically, Christians are mistrustful about all forms of popular cultural. In fact, many fundamentalists thought commercial popular culture was evil, over sexual-
ized, toxic and violent. Pinsky said that Fundamental Christians would not allow their children to take part in any form of popular culture. “Fundamentalists said ʻDonʼt go to movies; donʼt listen to music; donʼt play musical instruments because itʼs of the devil,ʼ” he said. As time progressed, parents realized that their children lived in the real world and that popular culture is inescapable. Pinsky said that many reli-
gious people then grappled with whether they should reject popular culture, shun it or find a way to use it. As a result, evangelical Christians have developed an alternative for every form of popular culture, including books, music, movies, radio, stand-up comedy and even theme parks. Pinsky said that the secular culture has discovered and has begun to use Christian content in EWLIGION 3