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From Franz Joseph Haydnʼs Concerto No. 2 in D major for cello and orchestra to a jazz impromptu, Cal State Fullertonʼs Cello Choir practiced during their final rehearsal last week. Various musical selections will be performed during the groupsʼ one-time, on-campus performance Thursday at 8 p.m. Under the direction of Bongshin Ko, an associate professor of music at CSUF, students will perform the pieces theyʼve been working on since the beginning of the semester. “They are all music majors here,” Ko said. “Itʼs not required, but itʼs like a cello gathering. We meet once a week.” This cello gathering includes two graduate students and a mix of freshman, juniors and seniors. This weekʼs concert will test the studentsʼ abilities and the many hours of practice. All the students have been playing for a very long time. Freshman Drake Price, who will be heading the jazz impromptu during the performance, said he has played the cello for 13 years “I got into cello because I really wanted to play the bass, but my mom didnʼt want to carry it [since] I was so little. So, celloʼs the next largest. It turned out to be my love,” he said. Price, who loves the celloʼs “voice,” will also have two solo performances during the concert. Freshman JaeYun Kim also picked up the cello when he was young. Korean cellist Han-Na Chang inspired him. “I started when I was 10 years old,” Kim said. “I was watching TV and Han-Na Chang played the cello. [After I heard it], I begged my parents for three months.” Traditionally, boys in Korea are encouraged to study, so it took awhile for his parents to let him play an instrument, Kim said. For these students, the cello is a big part of their lives. Kim said he practices for 15 hours a day. “I eat, sleep, play the cello and I eat again,” Kim said. The performers have mixed feelings about the upcoming concert. Senior Esther Baek, who is a featured soloist in Haydnʼs Cello Concerto, said she will enjoy playing her part of the songs in front of the audience. CHOIR 2
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Nurses representing the California Nurse’s Association gather in opposition against Proposition 75 outside the Long Beach Conference Center Thursday, Oct. 27. As voting time draws near, many protests are springing up in support and opposition of many propositions, such as Proposition 76, which will cut funding to public education.
Governor may gain more power by 76 State initiative intends to limit school funding By KARI HAMANAKA Daily Titan Staff
Spending and education are among some of the top concerns with Proposition 76, the initiative that limits state spending and school funding. Slated for the Nov. 8 special election, the proposition – known as the “Live Within Our Means Act” – will budget state expenditures based on
the average revenue growth of the previous year or as far back as the last three budget years. The initiative allows the governor more power to control budget expenditures without the legislature and subjects provisions for K-12 education spending to annual budget changes. Proponents believe state spending can be controlled by the passage of this measure. At the center of the proposition debate is K-12 spending, which critics say will negatively affect schools.
Campus offers help to manage stress CSUF organizations provide focus, help to troubled sudents By CRISTINA RODRIGUEZ For the Daily Titan
Itʼs that time again! Students are frazzled and professors are handing out those exams. Yes, thatʼs right itʼs time for midterms. As the semester is well under way, many students are beginning to feel the pressure.
“Girlsʼ only” club serves as fun escape for older women
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Take for instance MaryRose Dealing with the stress of a full load of classes is enough, Cachola, a junior at Cal State Fullerton, but add jobs and who found other responsibilities into the mix that taking Aside from and life becomes a full course studying, there even more comload wasnʼt is homework and plicated. as easy as she other assignments. thought. Juggling homeIt’s like what do you work, finances “Itʼs kind do first? and a social life of hard to can often lead study for midMaryRose Cachola terms,” she to feeling overCSUF Student whelmed. said. “Aside The simfrom studying ple thought of there is homestudying can make any student work and other assignments. Itʼs cringe. like what do you do first? Itʼs
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just horrible.” Some students find it difficult to keep up; others sail smoothly. Freshman Rachel Kerley seems to enjoy school and is not experiencing any midterm stress. “I figure if I study enough Iʼll be fine,” Kerley said Students may want to deal with their problems on their own, but sometimes it helps to be heard. CSUFʼs Womanʼs Center is the place where students, not only female, can turn when they MIDTERM 3
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Critics say the proposition undermines guarantees for education spending dictated by Proposition 98, which voters passed in 1988. “Proposition 98 set a minimum guarantee, which was intended as a floor,” said Mary Perry, deputy director of the nonprofit and nonpartisan education research group EdSource. “There are a lot of people who feel that [Proposition 98] has set a ceiling or cap. On the flipside, itʼs at least maintained a base.”
About 81 members of the campus community were able to receive flu shots Tuesday at the Titan Student Union. While, meningitis shots were offered, no one received the immunization. “We were expecting to give about 150 flu shots and maybe 75 meningitis shots,” said Tesha Gluhak, administrator for Maxim Health Systems. Maxim Health Systems provides the most flu shots to different communities and organizations. “It is important for everyone to get the vaccine,” said Gabriela Atherton, a nurse for Maxim Health Systems. President Bush outlined a $1.7 billion strategy Tuesday to prepare for the danger of pandemic influenza outbreak, saying he wanted to stockpile enough vaccines to protect 20 million Americans against the current strain of the avian flu. The president also said that the United States must approve liability protection for the makers of these lifesaving vaccines. He said the number of American vaccine manufactures has plummeted, since the industry was hit with a flood of lawsuits. Atherton said the flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by the influenza virus. The virus spreads in respiratory beads caused by coughing and sneezing. The president pointed out that the 1918 pandemic killed over a half
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Red Hat Society founder Sue Ellen Cooper dons her group’s traditional colors.
She sits among a sea of purple shirts and red hats lining the walls of the store she works in, easily blending in with her surroundings. Blink and you might miss her. A purple dress clings to her small frame, and a red hat sits atop her head while she relaxes on a burgundy couch in the middle of the store. Occasionally a customer will
enter the store, eager to purchase something with royal red and purple hues. For Sue Ellen Cooper, a Fullerton native and Cal State Fullerton alumna, this is just an average day working at the Red Hat Society Store; sheʼs the Queen of the Red Hat Society, the popular “girlsʼ only” club for women over 50. Cooper, 61, doesnʼt look a day past 50. “Weʼre not dead and done,” Cooper said with a playful smirk spreading across her face. “The Red Hat Society was created to show that women can still have fun when they reach 50.” The now famous group was created in 1998 after Cooper read Jenny
Josephʼs poem, “Warning.” The poemʼs first two lines – “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesnʼt go and doesnʼt suit me” – inspired Cooper to purchase a red hat and gave a copy of the poem to a friend as a birthday present. “It was meant to be a joke about getting older, and I expected the hat would be hung on a hook with the poem nearby somewhere in her house,” Cooper said. She thought back to the event for a few moments, a smile spread across her face and she let out a laugh. “I had no idea that our other friends would want the same thing for their own birthdays too,” she said.
After searching many thrift stores and antique shops, Cooper was able to locate five hats and created what was to become the Red Hat Societyʼs first chapter, which was later named the Fabulous Founders. Cooper and her five friends had their first event on Apr. 25, 1998, at a teahouse in downtown Fullerton. “The Red Hat Society is simple to understand,” Cooper said. “Women who are over the age of 50 get together with their friends and enjoy themselves without worrying what others think. There are no rules to the group, except that members have to wear a purple shirt and a red hat RED HAT 3