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Men’s soccer Head Coach Al Mistri concludes his 25-year career with Titan Athletics 6
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NCAA AllAmerican high jumper became first in his family to obtain a Ph.D 2
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Files show nominee opposed abortion
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-
Supreme Court pick donated to conservative causes, is lifelong Republican, documents indicate The Associated Press
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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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