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Titans prepare for a sm keout CSUF Health Center to host class about smokingʼs health risks and benefits of quitting
Every third Thursday of November is the Great American Smokeout. For the first time at Cal State Fullerton, the Health Center will a host a smoking cessation class Wednesday, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the Wellness Room. Nurses from Anaheim Memorial Hospital will talk about the long-term effects of smoking, steps to help prevent the addiction and the benefits of quitting. The following day, an information table will be out around midday at Titan Walk, the pathway between Pollak Library and the Titan Student Union, providing information packets and promotional giveaways from the Student Health Center. According to the Web site of the American Cancer Society, Lynn Smith, editor of the Monticello Times in Minnesota started the Great American Smokeout in 1974.
Then it was called Donʼt Smoke Day. “The purpose of this event is to draw attention to the risks of long-term smoking and encourage quitting,” said Brie Roumeliotis, a health educator at CSUF. Business major Stanley Chen said he is aware of the risks he takes when lighting up but sees no end to the cigarette butt. “I probably go through a pack every other day,” Chen said. “I started smoking eight years ago, and I donʼt think I can quit.” According to the Web site of the American Cancer Society, about 46 million U.S. adults smoke. “I started smoking two or three months ago from pressure – family, school, love, everything,” said sopho-
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Film scrutinizes giant retailer Wal-Mart cast in negative light in new documentary By KARI HAMANAKA Daily Titan Staff
Ironically, the man who wanted no part in Robert Greenwaldʼs documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” maintained the largest speaking role of anyone else filmed. Wal-Martʼs Chief Executive
H. Lee Scott Jr. narrated Greenwaldʼs film, which the Cal State Fullerton organization Left Bank sponsored on Sunday. Scott, however, did not agree to have his voice used. Instead, after being turned down twice for an interview with Scott, Greenwald decided to use existing footage of the companyʼs chief executive. What that resulted in is Greenwaldʼs documentary, a critical commentary of the retailer. Stories of a Wal-Mart
employee who must get health insurance from the state, or local businesses that close after a Wal-Mart opens, all work to cast a negative light on the retailer that boasts of, “Always Low Prices” for its customers. Viewers of the film “will work to help change Wal-Mart and use the film to reach millions of others around the country,” said Robert Greenwald, the filmʼs producer and director, in an e-mail interview. The free screening was part of a nationwide premiere week for the film. College leaders,
fire departments, church groups and just about anyone else could order press kits complete with the film and other information to show the movie. An audience of college students, professors and locals filled most of the 111-seat lecture hall at University Hall Room 252 for the film. “I thought [the film] was pretty enlightening,” said Jennifer Nelson, a political science graduate student. “What I thought was different about
Club celebrates heritage Native American group keeps CSUF students informed about culture By COLLEEN BARRETT For the Daily Titan
Inter-Tribal Student Council, a Native-American club at Cal State Fullerton, held various events this November in celebration of Native American Awareness Month and to promote interest in Native-American culture. The Inter-Tribal Student Council meets Thursdays at 2 p.m. in McCarthy Hall, Room 104C. They hold a traditional drum circle every Thursday around 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. in the Quad. The club is open to students of all backgrounds who are interested in Native American culture. Among the celebrations this month, the club held a fry bread sale in the Quad on Nov. 4 and hosted performances by the Southern California Bird Singers and American Indian hip-hop artist MC Quese. “Fry bread is traditional to all tribes because it was developed after they were forced onto the res-
ervations. They were put on food Villalobos, a member of the rations, so they made this bread Tohono Oʼodham nation, disout of what was available: flour, cussed the history and philosophy baking soda and salt,” said Inter- of American Indians. She stressed Tribal Student Council Treasurer the importance of young American Indians maintaining interest in their Leya Hale. The Southern California Bird culture. Villalobos said that many Singers also performed. The group consists of six American Indian men, American Indian people in their ages 18 to 25, from Los Angeles and 60s and 70s today were placed into boarding schools San Diego counties. as children in an They sing traditional Native American attempt by the They beat the creation stories government to children ... they called bird songs. assimilate them literally tried to “The songs unite and remove their beat their culture all the California native identity. This Tribes together. resulted in subseright out of them. quent generations This year we really who know little wanted to focus on Jennifer Villalobos about their history Tribes indigenous Consultant and customs. to California,” Hale “They beat the said. The Bird Singers were followed children in those schools; they literally tried to beat their culture right by MC Quese. “MC Quese uses spoken word out of them. Many died,” Villalobos to try and spread American Indian said. Gloria Bogdan, a CSUF profespride and motivate young American Indians to hang on to their Native sor, is Cherokee and was put into one of the boarding schools when identity,” Hale said. On Nov. 9, Inter-Tribal Student she was young. “We were beaten. I lasted there Council hosted a speech by Native American Community Consultant only three months because I was Jennifer Villalobos and a screening CLUB 4 of the movie “Medicine River.”
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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in 1985 that he was proud of his Reagan-era work helping the government argue that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” documents showed Monday. Alito, who was applying in 1985 to become deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, boasted in a document that he helped “to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly.” “I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” he said. The document was included in more than 100 pages of material about Alito released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library on Monday. Abortion will be a key topic in January at Alitoʼs confirmation hearings to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day OʼConnor, who is a crucial swing vote on abortion on the high court. Alito, 55, has told senators in private meetings that he had “great respect” for the precedent set by the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, that legalized abortion but did not commit to upholding it. Some abortion-rights groups have already come out against Alito because of his work as a federal appellate judge, including a dissent on a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down a law requiring women seeking abortions to notify their spouses. Recently confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts also worked for the Justice Department, but argued during his confirmation that his work was just a lawyer representing his government client. “Unlike Chief Justice John Roberts, Alito says these are his own strong personal views, and not just those of the administration he was working for,” said Ralph Neas, head of the liberal People for the American Way. “Combined with his judicial record, Judge Alitoʼs letter underscores our concern that he would vote to turn back the clock on decades of judicial precedent protecting privacy, equal opportunity, religious freedom, and so much more.” Alitoʼs supporters say the judgeʼs statement
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Austin Frazer takes down a flag at Memory Garden Memorial Park Cemetery in Brea on Veterans Day. Frazer, an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, worked with volunteers at the cemetary Friday.
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Strong earthquake shakes Japan TOKYO – A strong earthquake shook northern Japan early Tuesday, triggering a small tsunami that struck coastal towns about 200 miles from the epicenter. There were no immediate reports of damage. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, hit at 6:39 a.m. (4:39 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Monday) and was centered off the east coast of Japanʼs main island of Honshu, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and Japanʼs Meteorological Agency.
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Iraqi with same name as bomber held AMMAN, Jordan – The U.S. military announced Monday it arrested and later released an Iraqi whose name matches that of one of the Amman hotel suicide bombers, saying there was no “compelling evidence” that he posed a security threat. The American military command could not confirm that the man it arrested last year, identified as Safaa Mohammed Ali, was among the three al-Qaida in Iraq militants who carried out the attacks Wednesday on the Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels. The blasts killed 57 other people.
Nation Bush takes fresh shots at war critics ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – President Bush hurled new arguments against Iraq war critics on Monday as he headed for Asia, accusing some Democrats of “sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy.” “That is irresponsible,” Bush said. Bush addressed U.S. forces and their families during a refueling stop in Alaska. It was the initial leg of an eight-day journey to Japan, South Korea, China and Mongolia. Bush has hopes of improving his image on the world stage.
Sept. 11 panel gives mixed review WASHINGTON – Reviewing action on recommendations it made last year, the Sept. 11 commission on Monday criticized the Bush administration for not adopting standards for treatment of captured terrorism suspects. The administration was given a mixed review in a report on the commissionʼs key recommendations that were designed to help the United States better prepare for and respond to a terrorist attack.
Local Searching for species before extinction SANTA CRUZ – Biologists and volunteers will go on rainy-day hunts for roadkill. They are looking for flattened Santa Cruz long-toed salamanders, an endangered species that migrates at night from breeding ponds to higher ground when the rains come. They are often run down by vehicles while crossing roads. Researchers and volunteers will set out in the pre-dawn hours after rains to survey the damage on roadways in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. It is believed there are only a few thousand Santa Cruz long-toed salamanders left, most of them clustered in an approximately 15-mile strip of land between Aptos and the Elkhorn Slough reserve. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Senior T.J. Brewer, a criminal justice major, hits his mark: teammate Jennifer Tran, a double major in anthropology and photocommunications. The two were practicing Monday for the fencing team.
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Philosophy professor overcomes hardships to work ʻdream jobʼ By VALERIE SWAYNE Daily Titan Staff
One childhood memory that shaped Cal State Fullerton professor Albert Flores was when he spent a year in Mexico. After his parents separated, he stayed with his grandmother. Although he was only 12, he supported the family by loading bananas onto trucks. “I was never the same after that. I came out of that experience as an adult,” Flores said. When he returned to his dad and younger siblings in Ohio, he took responsibility for cooking, cleaning and shopping. Despite these extra duties, he still succeeded in school. “My education became very important. I was the first one in my family to get a high school education, a college education and a Ph.D. degree,” Flores said. He started off at Cleveland University as an undergraduate architecture major with an interest in sports. He said he was determined to learn the fundamentals without formal training. “I was able to achieve great success through self-discipline,”
Flores said. “I gained strength and satisfaction from competition.” He became an All-American athlete in track and field, winning the NCAA National High Jump Championship in 1968. Dissatisfied with architecture, he decided to take an introductory philosophy course. “Once I found philosophy, it felt as if I never left the university,” Flores said. In 1974, he earned his doctorate degree in metaphysics from the Ohio State University. “How do you explain what consciousness is? Itʼs our identity, our hopes and dreams. Without it, weʼd be nothing,” he said. Flores began his tenure at Cal State Fullerton as a visiting professor in 1982. “It doesnʼt seem that long ago to me,” he said. “Iʼve had lots of opportunities to grow.” Miles McCarthy, one of the universityʼs founding professors and Floresʼ mentor, appointed him chairman of the health care professions department. Flores worked in the “dream business” for four years, helping aspiring doctors and dentists build their futures. Since then, he has served as chair of the academic senate and CSUF statewide senator. As head of the philosophy department, Flores provides guidance to more than 2,300 students. “We really try to help students think for themselves, analyze problems and argue well,” he said. “The skills we teach
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are invaluable in any career goal [they] take on.” He is involved with creating new courses in philosophy, literature, and cinema. Flores is considering a philosophy of athletics class to focus on how sports “dominate our culture” and “what it means to be an athlete”. His philosophy training has led him to work in both medical and environmental ethics. When HIV and AIDS first became prominent in the 1980s, he spoke to business management groups about its medical reality and about treating infected employees fairly. In the summer of 2004, Flores addressed the effects of globalization to economists and environmentalists at Oxford University. He was given the CSUF Outstanding Professor Award in 2002. “I just love teaching,” Flores said. “I like working with students, experiencing their hopes and dreams and sharing their frustrations.”
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Student shopping patterns cause increase in spending Reports show increase in purchases of luxury items, entertainment By KARI HAMANAKA Daily Titan Staff
When Nicole Mitchell sees something she likes in a store, she will buy it, no questions asked. “I buy something if I think itʼs cute,” said the Cal State Fullerton sophomore, a child and adolescent studies major. “If I want it, Iʼll get it.” Daisy Aranda, an undeclared freshman, feels the same way. The latest reports issued from the NPD Group Inc., a market research firm, states that Mitchellʼs and Arandaʼs spending patterns parallel that of many college students. Spending on clothing has increased 4 percent from last yearʼs totals, according to NPDʼs latest data. In addition, NPD reports that spending on luxury items, such as designer clothing and accessories, increased last year by 14 percent among 18- to 24-year-old women in the United States. The report shows an overall shift in the spending habits of young, mainly college-age students, which may be attributed to extra spending money among the young. “Itʼs kind of weird,” Mitchell said of her spending habits, “but if you really want it, you might as well get it if you can afford it.” Sometimes it is not a matter of college students having more money to spend but simply the desire to shop. “I try to set a [spending] limit,” Aranda said. “I usually go over it, but I shouldnʼt because I have more expenses.” Aranda said now that she has started college, the majority of her money goes toward school and her cell phone bill. However, she said that in the past she has splurged on name-brand purses, such as Roca Wear and Baby Phat. While the NPD report suggests many Photo Illustration by JAMIE FLANAGAN/Daily Titan
women are spending hundreds of dollars for designer purses, Mitchell said she does not. She said that spending large amounts of money on designer handbags is done as a status symbol, which is not really her style. Mitchell, however, will spend top dollar on eyewear. She wears a $300 pair of DKNY prescription glasses, and also owns a $300 pair of Calvin Klein sunglasses. “My glasses have to be name brand because theyʼre on my face; everybody sees them,” Mitchell said. Some young students, such as Mitchell, have few bills to pay, which enables them to shop. Instead of clothing or accessories, sophomore Ryan Bakonis said he uses his disposable income to eat out with his girlfriend. He said his spending habits differ greatly from that of his grandparentsʼ generation. “Thereʼs more entertainment available,” the history major said. “Both my grandparents were in the war. They just had bigger things [to think about].” The availability of credit also plays a role in spending habits. “Weʼre a debtor nation,” said Jeff Thompson, an economics graduate student who tutors students at the Economic Help Center in University Hall. “I would say that [credit] is a factor with disposable income. Our grandparents didnʼt have the credit system that we have today.” Spending on dining out and entertainment by CSUF students for the 2001-02 school year, equaled 16.8 percent of the total number of expenditures for students, according to a report written and researched by CSUF economics professors Radha Bhattacharya and Lee Cockerill. The expenses on entertainment and dining in Cockerill and Bhattacharyaʼs economic impact report were second only to spending on shelter, utilities and other housing FASHION 4
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Peace Corp offers viable option for graduates Volunteers to travel abroad, help foreign community develop
Many students are graduating at the end of the fall and spring semesters, and the question on some of those studentsʼ minds is “What am I going to do now?” After four or five years of studying, homework and exams, Cal State Fullerton students must now
go into the real world. Some students begin their careers immediately after graduation, some look into obtaining graduate degrees; others look to the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps was founded in 1961 by then-Sen. John F. Kennedy and provides graduates with an opportunity to live and teach abroad for 27 months. A bachelorʼs degree is not required, but is looked favorably upon by recruiters, said Rudy Sovinee, who does Peace Corps recruiting at CSUF. Volunteers “support by helping the community develop skills so they can do what [the student] has
learned,” Sovinee said. This is done by becoming a classroom teacher for children or by working with adults to spread knowledge of business, health and the environment. All degrees are welcome at the Peace Corps, which serves more than 70 countries and provides an allowance and savings plan for volunteers that usually matches what a teacher in the respective country would make in a year. The countries are in South America, Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. Students may
request a location, but this may hurt their chance of getting accepted, Sovinee said. The better option is to choose a climate or continent rather than a specific country. “Itʼs exciting, but scary at the same time,” said Danielle Hunt, a senior at CSUF whoʼs majoring in English and womenʼs studies. Hunt joined the Peace Corps and will be leaving for South Africa to teach English when she graduates in Spring 2006. She thinks this experience will give her an advantage in the job market. “Everybody is going to have a
degree these days,” she said. “When you have [the Peace Corps] on your resume, it shows that you can really step out of your box and help.” Hunt learned about the Peace Corps through an aunt who joined in the 1970s, and as her graduation date approached and her future remained unclear, she began exploring the Peace Corps as an option. “OK, Iʼm going to do this because I want to do something for someone else,” she said. Hunt is one of 13 CSUF students who has joined the Peace Corps this year, and only 258 CSUF students have joined the Peace Corps since
the 1960s, said David Briery, public affairs specialist for the Peace Corps. The schools with the most volunteers are the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which sent 129 students last year, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, which sent 104 students last year. Those schools have a student body size comparable to CSUF. “Students often donʼt realize the advantage to their careers for going into the Peace Corps,” Briery said. Volunteers “may not be making much money those years, but corporations look at those years as something positive.”
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solicitor general, where he stayed from 1981 to 1987. Although he sought the job of deputy assistant attorney general in 1985, he did not win that job until 1987. “I am and always have been a conservative and an adherent to the same philosophical views that I believe are central to this administration,” Alito said. Alito wrote that he believed “very strongly in limited government, federalism, free enterprise, the supremacy of the elected branches of government, the need for a strong defense and effective law enforcement and the legitimacy of a government role in protecting traditional values.” In the document, Alito said he drew inspiration from the “writings of William F. Buckley, Jr., The National Review and Barry Goldwaterʼs 1964 campaign.” “In college, I developed a deep interest in constitutional law, motivated in large part by disagreement with Warren Court decisions, particularly in the areas of criminal procedure, the Establishment Clause and reapportionment,” he said.
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family members – they are more likely to quit successfully. To kick the habit, Roumeliotis said there are several techniques people can choose from. Chemical methods include placing a patch on the skin or chewing gum. Others can try to quit smoking cold turkey, and some may look to support groups to relinquish the habit. According to the Web site of the American Cancer Society, there are 4,000 chemicals in a cigarette.
Forty-three of them are known to cause cancer. Nicotine occurs naturally in tobacco. It does not cause cancer but keeps many people addicted to smoking. The Health Center offers smoking information, resources and tips to help people quit. “College is a time when you can look at the types of benefits to stop smoking,” Roumeliotis said. “This is the time you can curve the addiction before it can become a health issue.”
already knew, she said the film did present information she did not know. “I was most surprised by the footage of China and Bangladesh,” Arsneault said. “We all kind of know itʼs sweat-shop labor, but itʼs different when you see it.” The footage Arsneault referred to was interviews with various Wal-Mart factory workers around the world who went on camera to discuss their meager wages and poor living conditions. Greenwaldʼs documentary comes at a time when Wal-Mart faces stiff opposition from many in the public. Some accuse the company of greed, poor treatment of employees and business practices harmful to the environment. The company agreed to pay an $11 million settlement in March after federal immigration officials raided 60 Wal-Mart stores. The raids uncovered the companyʼs use of illegal workers at some stores. Just recently, Wal-Mart executives decided to sponsor a conference to discuss the effects of Wal-Mart on the national and local economies. The results seemed to run parallel to much of what Greenwaldʼs
movie criticized the company for, such as decreasing wages and greater costs to state health insurance programs. “Wal-Mart can and will be forced to change by people using the film and going out and changing hearts and minds,” Greenwald said. Greenwald says on the filmʼs Web site, www.walmartmovie. com, that the documentary is not meant to provide answers to “the problem of Wal-Mart,” he said his film should serve as a starting point for the company to make reforms. When asked if what he wants is for the retailer to be eliminated or for the retailer to improve itself, he said, “I would like Wal-Mart to treat its workers better, to treat the environment better, to treat the communities it goes into better – a they have a lot of work ahead.” Whether the movie will prompt the sort of discussion that brings about the kinds of reforms Greenwald spoke of remains to be seen. As one little boy walked out from the screening with his parents he turned to his father to say, “I still like Wal-Mart.”
He said that wages remain mostly fixed amid increases in the cost of items such as gas or school tuition. While students such as Mitchell or Aranda admit to splurging on shopping trips, each said school expenses come first. They also said they recognize the difference between what they need and what they want.
“What we consider necessities arenʼt really necessities,” Thompson said. “You work so that you can have enough money to buy all the things you want; you donʼt work to sustain your family.” Mitchell, wearing her light blue DKNY glasses agreed. “Weʼre more consumer-driven,” she said.
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about ready to kill someone,” Bogdan said. Bogdan learned about her culture from her grandparents. She now teaches a course about American Indian women at CSUF. “The students come into my class looking for the dead Indian, the one that is 200 years old. I try to teach them the reality of American Indians,” she said. Bogdanʼs class co-sponsored the screening of “Medicine River.” The film is a fictional story of a contemporary American Indian man who leaves the reservation and goes out into the world. Although he becomes a successful businessman, he ultimately returns to the reservation to learn about his people. “The message of the film is that we are all different, but we are all yet together in many ways. And itʼs so funny; itʼs steeped in Native American humor,” Bogdan said.
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from 1985 shouldnʼt be held against him. “For pro-choice extremists and other liberal activists to say that this legal statement by Judge Alito in 1985 somehow disqualifies him from serving as a Supreme Court justice is absurd,” said Wendy Long, lawyer for the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network. “Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg and Justice [Stephen] Breyer had taken clear public positions to the contrary, and no one argued that those positions should be held against them.” In the document, Alito also declared himself a “lifelong registered” Republican and a Federalist Society member, and he said he had donated money to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Conservative Political Action Committee and several GOP candidates. When he wrote this document, he was working as an assistant to the
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more Andee Kuo. “I only smoke when Iʼm around friends, but Iʼm going to try to participate” in the Smokeout. Studies show that when smokers are backed with support – such as nicotine replacement products, counseling, prescription medicine to lessen cravings, guide books and the encouragement of friends and
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this, was that it showed America negatively impacted. I expected to hear [only] how it negatively impacted foreign countries.” Nelson said she felt the film did a good job of backing up many of its assertions with facts and statistics. “Sometimes these films are so full of rhetoric.” Nelson said. “But I didnʼt see a lot of evidence of that here.” CSUF political science professor Shelly Arsneault helped organize the on-campus screening with Pam Fiber, another political science professor. Arsneault said she heard of Greenwaldʼs documentary through the grassroots organization Web site moveon.org. She said she hoped for the viewers to come away from the documentary “thinking about why they donʼt have to pay so much for their clothes or their food – how thatʼs done, how we get some of these low prices.” Though Arsneault said the film mostly reconfirmed what she
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payments. While entertainment may be a large component of many studentsʼ budgets, Cockerill said students actually have less to spend today when income is adjusted for inflation.
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Mistri Solved Over-achieving, under-appreciated, or just the right fit, any way you look at it, coach Al Mistri is Titan soccer By JENNIFER BELLENDIR Daily Titan Staff
It is the end of an era. After 25 years of building the active head coaches in victories, and was tied 37th soccer program at Cal State Fullerton, menʼs soccer for all-time. His overall career record at CSUF is 264Head Coach Al Mistri has thrown in the towel. 203-40, according to Fullerton media relations. “It is the right time,” Mistri said, a couple days In 1986 Mistriʼs team won the Pacific Coast before his teamʼs final loss of the season. “It may Athletic Associate championship and earned their not be the right time for me, Al Mistri, as a coach, first ticket to the NCAA tournament. Between 1993 but it definitely is the right time for me here at this and 2000, Fullerton received five more NCAA trips, university.” Mistri said. At the conclusion of Mistriʼs last game on Saturday Mistri helped mold U.S. Olympians Brian Dunseth, there was no announcement, no ceremony; it was like Joe DiGiamarino and Mike Fox and first-round Major any other game and that is how he wanted it, Associate League Soccer draft pick Duncan Oughton, according Athletics Director Mel Franks said. to media guides. “Weʼll miss his unique personality and flair,” During a 10-year coaching career at Damien High Franks said. “He had some unmistakable quotes and School, Mistri carried a 190-40-14 record and partook in nine CIF playoffs. definitely was not one who While at Damien, Mistri was bashful to say where he stood.” coached Olympian and The menʼs soccer team is soccer Hall of Famer Rick If you want to count going to miss his humor, and Davis, according to media relations. it will be different not having my most treasured With a 16-7 record, him out there everyday, sophaccomplishment, it omore co-captain Amir Shaffii 1993 was the pinnacle of (03, 05) said. Mistriʼs career at Fullerton. is that the sport [of The hardest part for Mistri The team included previous MLS goalkeeper Mike will be leaving his players. soccer] is still alive Ammann (90, 91, 92, “I will miss the interaction at this university. 93), assistant coach Bob with the young men,” Mistri Ammannʼs brother, current said. “Sometimes it gets Al Mistri Fullerton womenʼs assistant aggravating, but when itʼs all coach Demian Brown and said and done, thatʼs really the Retiring Fullerton Coach Eddie Soto, who went on to reason why I stayed with it. play professionally for the I am going to miss them the Waves and coach three seamost beyond a shadow of a doubt.” sons at Fullerton himself, Mistri credits the youthful outlook heʼs retained to according to media relations. these “young people.” The one person Mistri feels will bring back the winThe athletes that made the most impact on him were ning seasons is Ammann. “[Bob] is knowledgeable of the sport, he has had not always the star players, but rather the men that “got into school because of soccer” and stuck through professional experience, he has had all the experience that is necessary not just to coach soccer, but to it until graduation, Mistri said. “Heʼs taught me so much about soccer and so much coach soccer here at Fullerton,” Mistri said. “Bob is about life,” Titan soccer alumnus Ray Ramirez (98, a Titan through and though. He played here and he 99, 00, 01) said. “He always stressed getting my edu- came here to become my assistant at a time when it cation; he stressed it to every player. Thatʼs something was not very popular to do so and certainly not very that I took into consideration and I am where Iʼm at remunerative.” “He is the only one that stuck it out to what [the today because of him.” Ramirez is now a head coach at Diamond Ranch program] is right now,” Mistri said. “I think he defiHigh School and an assistant coach at Mount San nitely deserves a shot, and in my opinion, he will do extremely well.” Antonio College. Ammann has always planned to take over as head Mistri cares for all of his players and has the best coach and hopes for the opportunity to put his “fingerintentions for them, Ramirez and Shafii said. But his domineering coaching style does come off prints on the program and build onto the foundation intimidating at first, said Titan soccer alumnus and that Al has built,” Ammann said. In 25 years, there are bound to be low points and menʼs soccer Assistant Coach Bob Ammann. “The first thing he told me was that the only reason Mistri has had his fair share. “The most difficult thing for me was to constantly I was going on this road trip was to sit next to him on the bench,” Ammann said. “I used that as motivation and persistently have to fight for the things that we and it just so happened that the goalkeeper got hurt had at our level and for what the kids should have and I played that game, and started the rest of my first [at our level],” Mistri said. “Weʼre constantly underfunded and finding the difficult level of cooperation I year. I liked that he was hard on me.” He may have been tough to deal with, but Mistriʼs received here was also kind of a downer.” Mistri also felt under-appreciated his last season techniques have helped 23 players establish themselves in the pros, United Soccer Leaguesʼ Portland at Fullerton, but there are alums who would beg to Timbers player and Titan alumnus Shaun Higgins (96, differ. 98, 99, 00) said. “Heʼs a great guy and easy to talk to,” Titan soccer Mistri has also influenced the coaching style of for- alumnus and former coach Soto said. “He prepared mer Titan soccer player, Demian Brown (92, 93, 94, you for what was ahead out of life and college.” 96), now an assistant coach on Fullertonʼs womenʼs Both Ammann and co-captain Shaffii agreed that soccer team. Mistri is genuine with a great heart, as well as “He was single-handedly responsible for establish- extremely intelligent; they also enjoy his humor. ing the menʼs program,” Brown said. “He needs to be “While playing UCSB, coach [Mistri] was demongiven the credit of putting CSUF menʼs soccer on the strating a maneuver in the locker room and slipped on the mat falling straight on his back,” Ammann said. “It map nationally.” When Mistri started at Fullerton in 1981, soccer was so silent you could hear a pin drop, but then we was practically non-existent. His desire was to make heard him say ʻguys Iʼm OK.ʼ The laughter broke out and we had to help him up.” certain the sport succeeded. Coaching again does not lie in Mistriʼs future at this “If you want to count my most treasured accomplishment, it is that the sport at this university is still time, but financial planning may. He has not thought alive,” Mistri said. much about what he will do, but is looking forward to By taking a program that had success on the field, spending time getting to know his father in Italy, since but was treated as a “third-world sport” off of it, he left home at 17 years old. Mistri provided stability for the soccer program, turnAfter attending the University of Bologna in Italy, ing it into something successful at Fullerton, Franks Mistri finished his schooling at Cal Poly Pomona in said. 1970. In 1973, he received his U.S. Soccer Federation “He was a classic case of creating his own little “B” coaching license and then in 1976, earned his empire,” Franks said. “A” license. Fullerton soccer was built from an “out-of-the-car Before coaching full-time at Fullerton, Mistri taught team” into a program, Ammann said. mathematics at Damien High School, while coaching “We all, as ex-players, owe the programʼs rise from the Titans part-time. basically nothing to what it is today to Al,” Ammann Mistri anticipates devoting more time to his wife said. “He was at times knocking on doors that werenʼt Nikki, son Jeff and daughter Michelle, as well as his opening and he had the desire to keep working on it to hobbies: opera, model train collecting and watching what it is today. For that, we are grateful to him.” soccer matches. In 1993, Mistri introduced the womenʼs soccer “I am very grateful for the chance that I got to be program. He coached both teams until 2001 when here and I wouldnʼt trade this for all the tea-time, as he decided to focus solely on the menʼs team, Mistri they say,” Mistri said. said. Coach Mistri will be missed by many, but his dediBefore this yearʼs record-losing season for menʼs cation and contribution to Fullertonʼs soccer program soccer, Mistri was ranked 20th among Division 1 will not be forgotten.
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(Above) Al Mistri, wearing his signature dark sunglasses, coaches his men’s soccer team from the sidelines of Titan Stadium in a game earlier this season. Respected for his devotion to the men’s and women’s programs he pioneered and for the passion he coached with, Mistri is the longest tenured coach at CSUF. His 25-year coaching career at Fullerton ended last Saturday with the Titan’s 2-1 loss against UC Riverside at Titan Stadium. Fullerton finished the season battling injuries and unfulfilled expectations with a 4-14-1 record, a 1-9-0 record in the Big West Conference and a five-game losing-streak. (Right) The Fullerton coach sits with his men’s team during a game in 1995, two years after he had introduced the women’s program he was also coaching at the time. Mistri leaves Fullerton with a lofty resume, including a 264-20340 overall record, six appearances in the NCAA tournament and a winning percentage that ranks him 20th among all active Division 1 soccer coaches. Mistri’s planned retirement was a known fact heading into this season, and Assistant Coach Bob Ammann is the frontrunner to take over the helm of the men’s program next season.
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