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OPINION

Female football player leads way for women athletes Page 7

Bushʼs push for hydrogen fuel too little, too late Page 6

Alumnus’ Business Probed

Students Roll in at Film Festival

Orange County company investigated after $8 million in unathorized withdrawals

Fullerton filmmakers showcase work at annual Newport Beach event

By Julie Anne Ines

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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even Cal State Fullerton students waited in anticipation of the Edwards Island 7 Theatre at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, as their films debuted at the annual Newport Beach Film Festival on April 22.

The students were asked to submit their short films in January to Jule Selbo, CSUF Radio-TV-Film department teacher and coordinator for the event.

The festival now in its seventh year, debuts more than 350 films annually from all over the world.

Jackie Frost, Philippe Perebinossoff, Ed Fink and Shelley Jenkins, professors from the RadioTV-Film department, attended the festival in support of the student filmmakers.

The first film to be screened was “Man of Desperation”, directed by Victor Campos. It follows a man on the run for his life. This is his first project, and Campos said he is very proud.

“This is a great moment in our lives,” he said.

Nathan Hayashigawa unveiled his first short drama called “Vanish,” which follows a college student who notices that everything around him is vanishing after he makes one mistake in college.

Hayashigawaʼs parents, Larry and Sandy, attended the festival to support their son.

“He overcame a lot of adversity,” his father said. “There were lots of problems he faced, but he did it.”

“We are very proud and impressed by his tenacity,” his mother said.

John Kim, director of photography for “Vanish,” sat in the theater smiling after the credits rolled.

Director Discoro Allan DeLeon and producer Anne Seidel debuted the drama, “Bratja,” a tale of two brothers making choices to give each other a better life.

Animation major Aaron Paetz showed the animated comedy, “Freddy the Teddy,” a film about a caffeine-addicted bear that risks an arm and a leg for his morning fix.

Paetz said he drew the whole thing himself and it took nine weeks, working day and night to complete the project.

Nick Simotas directed “Joe Lies” with Jeff Horn. The film pokes fun at production classes and the stereotypes of what it takes to be a filmmaker.

Most of the actors came to support the film and cheered when it debuted.

They aimed to make a film was light hearted because a majority of people say filmmakers can only SEE FESTIVAL = PAGE 3

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TRIUMPHANT VICTORY: Javier Gamboa and Heather WIlliams embrace after ASI election results are announced.

Williams, Gamboa Win ASI Student body president, vice president elected by a 54-percent vote

Williams/Gamboa

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By Jody Cason

Hawkins/Rahman

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Heather Williams and Javier Gamboa were elected president and vice president of Associated Students Inc. Thursday, winning 54 percent of the vote. Ayra Hawkins and Urmi Rahman earned 29 percent, and Brian Richter and Julia Jurado earned 14 percent.

About 2,100 students turned out to vote in the elections last week, more than twice as many as last year.

Williams and Gamboa needed 50 percent of the total votes plus one individual vote to avoid a run-off election with the second-place team.

ASI Elections Commissioner Jamie Nangpi said more students turned out this year because of the increased competition and extra incentives used to get students to vote.

ASI offered freebies including

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• Arts: Toni Cortez • Business & Economics: Jay Carvin • Communications: Jill Hanna, Paul Rumberger • Education: Rachel Miller • Health & Human Development: Kameron Altar • Humanities & Social Sciences: Kyle Rush • Natural Sciences & Mathematics: Aaron Acero Note: There was no candidate who ran for the College of Engineering and Computer Science

hot dogs, highlighters, bowling passes and sodas to encourage students to participate this year, Nangpi said.

But ASI elections assistant Nicole Olipas said more students seemed interested this year despite all the freebies.

“Last year we had to encourage students a lot more to get them over to the polling booths,” she said. “This year they came in and sat on their own.”

Junior biology major Richard Parenteau said he votes in every ASI election.

“Itʼs important to vote because a lot of people complain

about different things going on in school, but they donʼt do anything about it,” he said.

“The candidates want to make a change, so I think we should support them by giving them our vote.”

Sophomore business major Ejla Dzin also votes regularly.

She said itʼs important to vote for the people who are hard-working, deserving and know what to do with studentsʼ money.

Williams and Gamboa, who begin their term July 1, already say they have plans on how theyʼll proceed in their elected positions.

Gamboa said theyʼre organizing a retreat this summer for the ASI Executive Staff and Board of Directors so the members can plan for the upcoming school year.

“We want everyone to be on the same page,” Gamboa said.

Williams said she wants students to know sheʼs available to hear any concerns they may have.“The more input I get from students the better,” she said.

Current ASI President Mona Mohammadi said she has confidence in the new presidential team and believes ASI will be in good hands next year.

‘Las Vegas’ Actor Talks at Comm Week As a class assignment, students contact James Lesure as guest speaker

By Cristina Rodriguez

Daily Titan Staff Writer

James Lesure, actor on the NBC show “Las Vegas,” will be speaking to students Tuesday, during Cal State Fullertonʼs annual Comm Week.

CSUF students working on an assignment for an event planning

class invited Lesure, who plays Mike Cannon on the show.

Students in the class were paired up into teams and were each given a celebrity and contact information, where the teams had to invite and secure their celebrity to speak at this weekʼs Comm Week.

RoseAnne de Ramos and Melissa Arzoomanian, both public relations majors, were the only students to secure a celebrity guest speaker.

“I e-mailed James Lesure first, then he e-mailed his publicist,”

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de Ramos said. “His publicist called Melissa and asked about the event and specific dates.”

Arzoomanian said she had to contact Lesureʼs publicist, Lisa Chance, and make arrangements for him to partake in Comm Week.

“They gave us a month before Comm Week to try to contact a celebrity,” she said. “It was initially supposed to be an experiment.”

MONDAY

James Lesure “Las Vegas” star

ational Consumer Mortgage LLC in Orange County is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission after the company revealed that its former investment manager, Cal State Fullerton alumnus Sam Favata, made $8 million in “unauthorized withdrawals,” according to an April 12 Los Angeles Times article.

Favata, 46, who left the mortgage company several weeks ago, was going to be honored at the Visions and Visionaries awards ceremony April 22, but he did not attend the event.

It is uncertain, however, if the investigation is the reason why Favata chose not to attend ceremony, said Carlos Leija, the executive director of CSUF Alumni Relations, which sponsored the ceremony.

“I canʼt speculate on why he chose not to participate,” Leija said.

He added, however, “[Alumni Relations] is disappointed that he couldnʼt.

On April 6, the campus News and Information Web site published a story, which listed the award recipients that were honored at the 13th annual ceremony.

The story has been modified since then.

Favata does not appear on the Web site today, which lists “Desperate Housewives” producer Marc Cherry as one of this yearʼs five recipients.

Favata was an All-American outfielder and a member of CSUFʼs 1979 collegiate World Series baseball team. He was then drafted by the Milawaukee Brewers.

He began his career in the mortgage industry in 1985.

National Consumer Mortgage LLC – the company Favata started with his

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MySpace Faces Safety Criticism

By Sofia Arvidson

For the Daily Titan

The popular networking Web site Myspace.com has recently suffered national criticism regarding its policies on privacy and safety.

Much of the criticism comes from the fact that users can post real or false information, which can attract unwanted predators.

“Itʼs a good Web site as long as it is used for good intentions,” Cal State Fullerton student Rene Carlos said.

But some are concerned that online predators use MySpace as a forum for their prey.

“Parents are not very proactive in protecting their children from predators on the Internet,” said Daniel Solorio, a SEE MYSPACE = PAGE 3

WEATHER TUESDAY

Partly Cloudy Cloudy High: 69 Low: 52 High: 70 Low: 52

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Few Showers High: 62 Low: 49

Scattered Showers High: 68 Low: 53

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Insurgents Kill 3 US Soliders

THIS WEEK: This is the last week to catch “The Diviners,” an awardwinning theatrical play about the friendship between a backward 14year-old farm boy and a disillusioned, down-on-his-luck preacher in Southern Indiana. Visit www. fullerton.edu/arts/events for show times and tickets.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Insurgents killed three American soldiers in the Baghdad area Sunday and fired mortars near the Defense Ministry in a spree of violence that killed at least 27 Iraqis as politicians began work on forming a new government.

The largest Sunni Arab party raised new allegations of sectarian killings – one of the most urgent issues facing the new leadership.

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the next government must decommission sectarian militias and integrate them into the national armed forces, warning that the armed groups represent the “infrastructure for civil war.”

TODAY AND THURSDAY: To kick off Comm Week the TV-Film Society will present a student film screening in the Titan Theatre & Island from 5 to 9:30 p.m. with host Prof. Shelley Jenkins.

Osama Issues New Threats CAIRO, Egypt – Osama bin Laden issued new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab television Sunday and accused the United States and Europe of supporting a “Zionist” war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

He also urged followers to go to Sudan, his former base, to fight a proposed U.N. peacekeeping force.

His words, the first new message by the al-Qaida leader in three months, seemed designed to justify potential attacks on civilians – something al-Qaida has been criticized for even by its Arab supporters.

WEDNESDAY: The Internship and Job Fair will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Quad.

WEDNESDAY: A public relations specialist panel entitled “Corporate vs. Nonprofit PR” will discuss the effects of the corporate machine on the world at 7 p.m. in Tuffree AB.

NATION

Black Voters Boost Nagin NEW ORLEANS – In a complete reversal of support from four years ago, Mayor Ray Nagin scored heavily with black voters and was practically abandoned by whites as he and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu won spots in a runoff election for mayor of New Orleans.

Slightly more than half of the overall vote was attributed to black voters, who favored the top two candidates, according to a consulting firm analyzing demographic data for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority.

THURSDAY: Prof. Larry Ward will host a screening of the documentary “The Lokotaʼs” from 3 to 5 p.m. in Heterbrink AB.

Rare Disease Links to Gene

NEW YORK – Scientists have discovered a mutant gene that triggers the body to form a second, renegade skeleton, solving the mystery of a rare disease called FOP that imprisons children in bone for life.

The finding, reported Sunday, may one day lead to development of a drug, not only to treat the rare bone disorder, but more common bone buildup related to head and spine trauma, and even sports injuries, the researchers said.

LOCAL

Bad Outlook on Gas Prices CAMARILLO – Retail gas prices across the country jumped an average of nearly a quarter per gallon in the past two weeks, according to a survey released Sunday.

Self-serve regular averaged $2.91 a gallon, up from $2.67 two weeks ago, said Trilby Lundberg, who publishes the nationwide Lundberg Survey of 7,000 gas stations.

The survey covered the period from April 7 through April 21.

Reports compiled from The Associated Press

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SUNNY STUDYING

Maria Raspanti/For the Daily Titan

Students take time to soak up the sun while resting between classes on Wednesday.

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SUNDAY: A caller reported at 2:01 a.m. that a vehicle, which had been parked in Lot G around 11 p.m., had been burglarized.

University Police took a report.

MONDAY: A call was placed at 3:10 p.m. from Dorm Manzanita reporting two suspicious males.

University Police were unable to locate the subjects.

An unoccupied vehicle with “hundreds of bees” surrounding it was reported from the faculty parking lot at College Park at 4:42 p.m.

TUESDAY: Regular fire checks were conducted in Humanitites,

VEGAS FROM PAGE 1 Arzoomanian described Chance as very easy to talk to and helpful.

“We waited for three weeks to see if he could come to Comm Week,” she said. “His publicist said we were very persistent, and I guess it paid off.”

Chance said Lesure distinctly does not want to give a speech or similar presentation of other guest speakers. He wants to keep things

Titan Shops, Langsdorf Hall and Kinesiology between 7:41 a.m. and 7:59 a.m.

A possible altercation between a professor and a student at Langsdorf Hall was reported. A university police officer was on the scene to keep the peace.

At 1:11 p.m., a caller reported an argument about religion with a professor and requested officer assistance.

A person reported a possible stolen vehicle at 3:32 p.m.

University Police took a report.

A campus safety officer reported at 11:33 p.m. that a dark, older model vehicle had driven into the new parking structure with six to eight males in the vehicle and riding on its hood and trunk.

The subjects were yelling at the driver to go faster. University Police were unable to locate the

subjects.

informal and will instead be participating in an interview administered

by Lee Bentley, director of Titan Communications.

The NBC Web site describes the “Las Vegas” show as “a fast-paced, sexy drama” about “the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of ʻSin Cityʼsʼ largest resorts and casinos, the Montecito”.

Prior to his role on “Las Vegas,” Lesure portrayed Holly Robison Peteʼs husband on “For Your Love”.

According to the biography on his

official Web site, he also appeared on “Alias,” “The Division,” “Seinfeld,” “NYPD Blue,” “Mad About You,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Martin” and “The Burning Zone.”

Lesure also appeared in several films including “The Ring Two” and “Crimson Tide” featuring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman.

Lesure is a California native and grew up in Los Angeles. He studied theatre at USC. Lesure brings the Hollywood experience to aspiring actors at CSUF Tuesday in the Titan Theatre at 11:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: A caller reported seeing an Asian male hit an Asian female on the fountain side of Langsdorf Hall. The female was crying. University Police conducted a field interview.

THURSDAY: At 5:57 p.m., a caller reported a male in his 20s on a computer in the library viewing pornography and “touching himself inappropriately.”

University Police conducted a field interview.

SATURDAY: A caller reported from the library that she had contacted someone asking for assistance with a project. The person then began asking inappropriate questions about female anatomy.

University Police took a report.

THURSDAY: The environmental studies program will host the 2006 Earth Day Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. by the humanities building.

FRIDAY: Titan baseball will take on UC Riverside on Goodwin Field at 7 p.m., on Saturday at 6 p.m. and on Sunday at 1 p.m.

FRIDAY: Discount boarding passes to Catalina will go on sale at TSU Information and Services.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: Titan softball will take on UC Davis on Anderson field at noon and again at 2 p.m., and on Sunday at noon.

OFF CAMPUS TUESDAY: Atmosphere, Brother Ali, and Los Nativos play the Glass House in Pomona at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $20. Visit www.theglasshouse. us for tickets or more information.

SATURDAY: The Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach will present its first spring festival, featuring a continental breakfast, international fair, California native plant sale and more. The new Demonstration Gardens will be dedicated at 10:30 a.m., and the Fifth Wheel Blue Grass Band will perform at 11:30 a.m. Other activities include a recycling demonstration and a tour of the habitat. For more information visit www.fsnc.org/.

SATURDAY and SUNDAY: The Coachella music festival, featuring over 80 bands including Tool, Depeche Mode, Madonna and Franz Ferdinand, kicks off in Indio at noon. A one-day pass costs $86; a two-day pass costs $165.

If you would like to submit an event to Out nʼ About please e-mail news@dailytitan.com Correction The Daily Titan staff was not high during production for our April 20 issue, contrary to what the article “Gordon Appoints New Dean” may lead our readers to think. President Milton A. Gordon appointed Claire C. Cavallaro as dean of the College of Education.

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could use to track down victims.

“I would accept friends,” said FROM PAGE 1 Joel Perales, a Montclair High School student.

“I would never go alone to domestic violence, child abuse meet them.” and sex crimes detective who has When it comes to meeting worked for the Fullerton police people from MySpace in person, department for about 13 years.

Solorio said, “Donʼt do it. You “Many parents are unsure how really donʼt know who youʼre to manipulate their own talking to or what their computer in comparison intent is. You donʼt to their children.” know who will really “You really be waiting for you.”

Because MySpace has become so big, sexSolorio added preddon’t know ual predators are hard to ators could take picwho you’re tures from anywhere identify.

The Fullerton Police talking to or to convince victims of their sincerity.

Department has too what their “Predators may extensive a caseload intent is.” use a picture found to allow detectives to Daniel in a trash can from a “bait” users, but if a Solorio school and still pose as parent reports a concern about their childʼs Fullerton Detective the student in order to online activity, an invesprey on teens around tigation can occur. the same age,” Solorio said.

The Los Angeles, A representative from MySpace Santa Ana and Long Beach Police Departments have officers who could not be reached for compose as young boys and girls to ment.

Several Web sites allow indi“bait” predators.

Because MySpace is a public viduals to search online for regaccess Web site, names such as istered sex offenders. Solorio “Mickey Mouse” are used and recommends www.meganslaw. ca.gov/. accepted online.

MySpace may have a dark side “[MySpace] does not require verified information,” Solorio for interacting with strangers, but said. users vouch for its usefulness.

Investigators said users should “You never know,” Carlos remember that the site is a public said.

“You can meet the weirdest meeting place and avoid revealing real information that strangers person or the coolest person.”

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FESTIVAL FROM PAGE 1 make serious films.

Brett Meyer wrote, produced and directed his short film “Picture Perfect,” a film about the unachievable expectations society places on American women.

“The media bothers me,” he said.

“Iʼm from Detroit, Michigan and I see so much glamour and people trying to look good that they put other people down.”

Although he was on another set, Rahim Jamalʼs short film loosely based on a true story called “Letting

Go,” is a film that looks at life through the eyes of self-destruction.

Following the screening of the short films, audience members were able to ask questions about the films and the filmmakerʼs inspirations.

“I wanted to do something totally different,” DeLeon said.

“Everything in the movie was what I had typically seen in Asian films.”

Some of the filmmakers are currently working on other projects.

“Iʼm working on a ʻcircusʼ concept and weʼre trying to get it on a network,” Paetz said.

Hayashigawa is going to keep promoting his film for the next year

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Site Provides Info on Sex Offenders

Fullerton has 115 registered sex offenders, as a whole Orange County has 1,876, according to the Meganʼs Law Web site.

Although people cannot control where sex offenders reside, people can educate themselves to warning signs, how to help endangered children and how to prevent abduction.

In 90 percent of sexual offenses children know their abuser, according to the Meganʼs Law Web site.

When children do not inform others about the abuse, it is because they fear possible harm to their loved ones or they may want to protect the sex offender, according to the Meganʼs Law Web site.

Before 1995, the public could access the names of sex offenders.

The information was only available to law enforcement personnel, said Sgt. Craig Odom of the Fullerton Police Department Family Crime Unit. Now the public can find the names of sex offenders in their city, county, state and country.

Sex offender information is categorized into either full address or

zip code only groups depending on the classification of the crime and the number of times the offender committed the crime, Odom said.

Full address is high risk, and zip code only is serious, he added that the name and picture of the sex offender are posted for both groups.

First-time offenders that do not fit into either category are not posted.

If parents are unsure if their child is being harmed, there are warning signs they can look out for.

These warning signs include: a potty-trained child who regresses back to bedwetting, or a child having a fear of certain places and acting out sexually.

These warning signs do not necessarily mean that the child is abused, however, they are a good indicator to investigate further, said Mindy Mechanic, assistant professor of psychology.

When parents do find out their child was abused they need to “support, not blame the child,” Mechanic said. The child needs to know that he or she is safe from the abuser and needs added expertise such as counseling, and parents need to file a report with the prosecutors, she added.

Parents must be aware of the many ways to protect their children from possible abduction. Children should be provided with a family

code, have their finger prints taken by local law enforcement and not leave children unattended in a motor vehicle, according the Fullerton Police Departmentʼs Web site.

and will be producing another film this summer. He will also be working on a hospital drama feature.

Most people are unaware of the amount of time and money that goes into completing these films.

“A 15-minute movie costs anywhere from $5,000 to $8,000 to make which includes paying for the rental equipment, and it takes 100plus hours to complete,” Frost said.

A moviegoer who had heard about the film festival came to see what the students had been working on.

“It was very professional and impressive,” said Lauren Hice, a real estate agent. “These are the filmmakers of our future, and

hopefully if any of them become famous, I can say I saw their first short film.”

Other moviegoers expressed what films stood out in their mind.

“I liked ʻPicture Perfectʼ because it is everything that I think about the media,” Angela Hartson, a Fullerton College student, said. “The music really hit me.”

Frost assisted many of the students with their movies in her film production one and two courses.

“Man of Desperation” was done in her Radio-TV-Film 330 class.

“Vanish” and “Joe Lies” were done in her Radio-TV-Film 430 class “They all did an amazing job,” Frost said.

FULLERTON FILMMAKERS: Cal State Fullerton student filmmakers and select cast members pose after their films were screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Saturday.

Community uses Web to educate themselves on possible local dangers

By Chineary Neth

For the Daily Titan

By the numbers:

2,881 Registered sexual

offenders in San Bernardino County

11,454 Registered sexual offenders in L.A. County

2,339 Registered sex-

ual offenders in Riverside County

1,876

Registered sexual offenders in Orange County

Number of sexual offenders in:

279 in Santa Ana 262 in Anaheim 116 in Fullerton 37 in Placentia 17 in Yorba Linda

A safe environment for children of students, staff and faculty members is the on-campus Childrenʼs Center.

Founded in 1971 this center has provided a safe environment for their children, while parents are working, studying or taking a class.

The center has teachers called “gate keepers” to patrol children when they are outside the building, said Sonia Nunez, head teacher of the p.m. shift.

If anyone wants to observe the children, they are directed to the office. They are given a “hello” sticker, and teachers are informed of any observer. There are designated observation times, not including “meal time,” Nunez said.

Meganʼs Law, which has provided the public with a wealth of knowledge, is named after 7-yearold Megan Kanka of New Jersey.

She was raped and killed by her neighbor, a known child molester.

For the last 50 years sex offenders were required to be registered, but the information was not open to the public until the finalization of Meganʼs Law on Aug. 24, 2004.

Originally the public could not obtain any information of sex offenders, until the legislature passed the Child Molester Identification Line bill in 1995 and Meganʼs Law in 1996. For more information visit www.meganslaw.ca.gov/.

Kevin Rogers/Daily Titan

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Billboard Bachelor Goes to New Heights Orange County resident uses “Wife Wanted” advertisement to end single life, find mate

By Julie Anne Ines

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Dean Morrow. Most people might not be familiar with his name, but if they drove down Newport Boulevard last October, some may at least be familiar with his face.

Up until about three months ago, Morrow was known as the “Billboard Bachelor,” a grinning character with his arms crossed, who stood alone over the busy OC thoroughfare from a billboard that proclaimed “Wife Wanted.”

Recently, Morrow said he has stopped seeking and had settled on one lady that answered his ad. But whether the relationship will go beyond its uncertain early stages so he can put an end to his comfortable existence as a bachelor by allowing someone else into his ordered world, it is too soon to tell.

Morrow lives in a gated community in Irvine where two-story houses line the streets like soldiers in a regiment.

From the manicured lawns and impeccable landscaping, to the muted tones and suburban similarity of the buildings, the entire neighborhood speaks of order and solidarity - traits that Morrow carries into his piece of suburbia.

The furniture of his living areas looks like a showroom floor, with tones and shapes calm enough to be unobtrusively tasteful, but bold enough to have a slight flare for style.

Not a single chair askew. Not a single pillow un-fluffed and out of place.

The only space that hints that the house is lived in is the home office that Morrow – a 44-year-old investment banker who does mostly merger and acquisition work – works out of.

Floor-to-ceiling birch cabinets occupy two of his walls and his laptop sits perched on his desk, surrounded by stacks of paper and books, with the occasional memo note punctuating the scene.

It was from this workstation that Morrow received and reviewed nearly 1,600 responses to his personal ad that he said started off as a joke with his friends.

As he thought about it, however, it made more and more sense, and he decided to take the steps necessary to get the billboard up.

When he told his friends of the plan, they were stunned that he had turned what had been a joke into an actual plan to find true love.

“I was kind of shocked,” said Jason Genron, who has been a friend of Morrowʼs for nearly 11 years. “It was out of his character, because Dean is typically a conservative kind of guy.”

One of Morrowʼs single friends did not seem too surprised that Morrow had taken the final steps necessary to make his vision a reality.

“It was kind of a snowball effect,” said his friend of five years, who chose only to be identified as Ted for privacy reasons.

“The more and more research he did, the more and more committed he became to the project. Heʼs the type of person that, when he starts something, he finishes it. Heʼs a man of his word.”

What resulted was what some considered extreme: first a billboard in Los Angeles for six and a half weeks, then the billboard on Newport Boulevard from October to November.

Although the billboard might have seemed drastic to some, Genron said “[Morrow] is just a normal guy with the relationship challenges that a guy living in Southern California has.”

Morrow had tried Internet dating sites and all the usual places that people go to meet people, but he found all those avenues unsuccessful and the women unfulfilling.

“I have dated a lot, but it got to be difficult. Dating wasnʼt a problem. It was finding somebody to be happy with,” said Morrow, who has been divorced for about four and a half years after ending a six-year marriage.

“I think, after having lived on both sides, I think if you have the right person itʼs a better way of life than being single. I mean, this looks pretty good to a lot of people,”

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WANTED: Dean Morrow, the “Billboard Bachelor,” advertised for a mate on a Newport Boulevard billboard. said Morrow, gesturing to his surroundings.

“But itʼs unfulfilling to some extent.”

Morrow was willing to look carefully through all the responses, but he was also willing to come out empty-handed in the end. “…If you donʼt find the right one, itʼs a nightmare,” he said.

Responses to the ad came from everywhere and everyone imaginable – men and women, old and young, Morrow said. But he narrowed them down based on several factors including their location and their appearance.

Those that were out of the country or out of state were eliminated because, Morrow said, “letʼs face it. A relationship is hard enough even when theyʼre in your backyard.”

Another factor was whether the woman had children.

Initially, Morrow had not wanted to get involved with single mothers because of the issues that sometimes arise with them as far as responsibilities go, he said. However, the

House Bill Still in Protest

By Sunem Gudiño

For the Daily Titan

The H.R. bill 4437 has produced a number of protests nationwide.

Still the biggest protest is expected to take place on May 1 throughout the United States and Latin America.

Organizers of “The Great American Boycott 2006,” or “A Day Without an Immigrant,” protest are asking supporters to skip work and school and join the marches instead.

The word has spread through Latin America, where supporters plan to refrain from buying American products on May 1.

Dagoberto Fuentes, Chicano studies professor and co-founder of the program supports the protest and said it is sometimes necessary to take such measures.

“Some say we should wait for an answer from the Senate. The message is already being sent,” he said.

“On the other hand, isnʼt it better to continue letting them know that

we havenʼt forgot, that we are still here?”

Fuentes, who plans on participating in the protest, said he is proud of the way the community has come together.

“A new face has come out in regards to immigrants, one that was not known by many Americans,” he said. “The statement they (immigrants) want to make is, ʻwe are here, we are productive, we are good for our country, and if we stop working the U.S. is going to feel the effect.”

But not everyone thinks that skipping work or school is a good idea.

Economics Prof. James Dietz said he understands and sees the value of the protest. But rather than trying to hurt the economy, he said people should go to work and protest after.

“I think people already know how important immigrants are to the labor force and the economy, and they should be more responsible in their actions,” he said.

Fuentes disagreed with Dietz on

the purpose of the protest.

“With the stoppage of work they (immigrants) donʼt want to hurt the economy, they want to have a voice. A voice that was silent for many years,” he said.

Maintenance employee Miguel Zamora, who participated in the April 1 protests, said he is proud to be a Latino working in the United States.

“We (immigrants) are the reason the U.S. is the country that it is,” he said. “We take the jobs Americans donʼt want.”

Although Zamora supports the May 1 protest, he is financially responsible for his younger siblings and canʼt afford to lose a day of work.

“Some people go to the protests because they donʼt feel like going to work,” he said. “I came here to work, and I plan on going to the protests after work.”

Angie Cordova, liberal studies major, has family members who have participated in the recent protests, and those family members plan to participate on May 1.

“I think itʼs good for people to go out there for one day and voice their opinion, but only if they are serious about it,” she said. “One day of protesting isnʼt worth losing your job or getting into trouble at school.”

Cordova said although she supports the protest, she is still deciding on whether or not to participate.

“I donʼt think that I will make much of a difference if I stay home from work,” she said. “I am just one person.”

woman that he has been dating for about three months is a mother of two.

“Because she is who she is, itʼs caused me to reevaluate a lot of the things I previously wouldnʼt have considered,” Morrow said.

Morrow met the woman he is currently dating outside of the billboard hullabaloo at a restaurant in Orange County. As a joke, he told her to send her information in to the now-offline Web site he had set up in addition to the billboard. She did.

He said the reason why he could overlook the fact that she has children is because of the simple science of chemistry, which he describes as having that feeling of knowing somebody right after you meet them.

“You have to have that chemistry because thatʼs what gets you through a lot of things.

It causes you to care so deeply about somebody else that thatʼs what gets you through,” he said.

He said that his past relationships, even though they had the elements of companionship and time invested, he sensed the emptiness in them.

“I was too young and immature to understand those things [back in college],” he said. “Having lived long enough and been through enough experiences, you get smart about things. As a 23 or 24-year-old, you just have no clue.”

Now, at the end of the quest that his billboard launched him on, which included about 50 dates, Morrow looks back with no regrets and offers some knowledge that he attained while he was the “Billboard Bachelor” and even before that.

“Date a lot of people. Find out what itʼs like to be in a lot of relationships with different people, because every experience is a little different. This allows you to be much smarter when youʼre going to be serious with somebody,” he said.

As far as marriage goes, Morrow said “Itʼs wise to wait, to get out, get a job, know what itʼs like to stand on your own two feet.”

And as far as marriage in Morrowʼs future? Again, itʼs too soon to tell. But his friends wish nothing but the best for him.

“I just want him to be happy, be with the right person,” Genron said.

Apple Takes a Bite Out of Hearing Loss

By Cristina Rodriguez

Daily Titan Staff Writer

As iPods continue to be one of the latest trends in music, Apple is making it cool to turn down the volume.

The company is now offering consumers new software – free of cost – for the iPod Nano and fifth generation iPod, which would make it easy for users to obtain a set volume, according to an Apple Computer Inc. press release.

This comes after a Louisiana man accused the companyʼs iPod for causing hearing loss.

Most students have an iPod some have other devices like MP3 players or compact disc players and report playing the device at loud volumes.

“I use it [MP3 player] everyday for almost two hours when Iʼm working out, five times a week,” business major Anna Mallari said. “I put it on really loud.”

Mallari said she does have difficulty hearing in her left ear now.

“I think my hearing will decrease over time especially because I use these little ear plugs that are so close to my ear drum,” she said.

Other people feel that they have the volume level under control and donʼt think it will affect their hearing.

Michael Martinez, 21, engineering major does not listen to his iPod at the maximum volume.

“I use my iPod about two hours a day, and not super loud, maybe about three-quarters of the way,” he said. “I donʼt listen to it all day long. I donʼt think it would make much of difference on my hearing.”

Itʼs not only the usage of iPods that can result in hearing loss.

For instance 22-year-old Mike Martinez, iPod owner, is a grocery store clerk by day and a disc jockey by night.

The thought of losing his hearing has crossed his mind.

“I have thought about it before,” he said. “When we play I like to make sure I can get the record louder.”

Martinez said he doesnʼt really worry about his hearing, because he is only engaging in these activities a few times a month.

Noises within our environment can also be detrimental especially if used purposely on a daily basis.

Any noise over 100 decibels heard for a minute or more could cause permanent hearing loss, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Web site, http://www.nidcd.nih.gov.

The Apple Web site offers tips on listening to iPods at a safe volume.

FAVATA FROM PAGE 1

wife, Sandra Favata, in 1999 – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 3 in Santa Ana. Sandra is listed as the company president and is the majority owner, according to the filing.

The bankruptcy filing listed $32.8 million in liabilities and $1.1 million in personal assets, which include an $88,000 2004 Mercedes SL500, a $45,000 Lincoln Town Car and $50,000 of artwork.

Of the $32.8 million in liabilities, $32.5 million is in unsecured non-priority claims, according to the filing.

“Unsecured” means that there is no collateral for the security of the debt. A note obligates a borrower to repay the investor at a stated interest rate during a specified period of time.

The company had sold nearly $20 million of unsecured investment notes to approximately 250 individuals, the companyʼs representative, Los Angeles attorney Lorraine L. Loder, told the Times in the article.

Loder told the Times the notes she had reviewed were for terms of two to four years, promising annual returns of 8 to 12 percent.

Loder and the Favatas could not be reached for comment.

A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing allows for company reorganization to try and make a profit again under federal bankruptcy law. The business continues to run regular operations, but significant business decisions must be approved by a bankruptcy court.

A company spokesperson refused to make any comment to the press.

At least one of their investors, however, also has been unable to speak with them.

An investor in Orange County, who chose only to be identified as Michael for privacy reasons, said he and his wife have not been able to talk to anyone at the company since its bankruptcy filing, relying solely on their attorney to give them information.

Michael and his wife bought a $90,000 note from the company in a two-year contract and were promised 13 to 14 percent in annual returns.

He said they were told by the seller of the note, Sandra Favata, the investment was backed up by real property.

He made reference to the bankruptcy filing, however, wondering how Sandra Favata could have told him that when the company had listed just a little more than $1 million in assets and his investment was specified as “unsecured.”

He said Sandra Favata handled the loans and mortgages, and Sam Favata handled the investments.

One of the investors from Orange County, who was listed in the filing as having one of the 20 largest unsecured claims, declined comment on the company because she was too “depressed.”

She had bought a $500,000 investment note.

The Securities and Exchange Commission declined to comment because an official litigation release has not yet been issued.

Loder told the Times she was preparing a plan that would repay investors from the assets of the companyʼs mortgage brokering business, which is run separately from the investment operation. The plan, however, could take a year to get court approval, she said.

According to bankruptcy court records, a meeting of creditors is scheduled for May 15, where the debtor – National Consumer Mortgage – will appear to state its assets and liabilities under oath.

N E W S @ D A I LY T I TA N . C O M

all dolled up in

NEWS

Drag

Photos by Irvina Kanarek/Daily Titan

ON WITH THE SHOW: (Above) “Bella Donna” collects tips at the Bootylicious drag show. Sponsored once a year by the CSUF Gay and Lesbian club in the TSU Pavillion on Thursday night; (below) Alex Salvador is assisted getting into drag costume for the Bootylicious drag show.

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance hosts their seventh annual drag show event

By Robert Moran

For the Daily Titan

T

he Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance premiered its seventh annual drag show “Bootylicious” at Cal State Fullerton last Thursday.

Grace Tuan, the clubʼs assistant director of public relations, said the clubʼs event raised $688, twice last yearʼs earnings. “[The show] is a fun way to raise money,” she said Club President Natasha Negrete, a double major in human resource management and accounting, said the show was a success, and the room was full of energy.

The performers danced and lipsynched to music such as “Two of Hearts” by Stacy Q and “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell.

Despite the success of the show, the night was not without incident. During the showʼs opening act, host Sadé Michaels, who has been performing in drag since 2001, read statements made by Womenʼs Center Director Barbara McDowell in last Thursdayʼs Daily Titan. The audience responded to the statements by booing loudly.

“If it wasnʼt for drag queens, gays would not be in the media,” Michaels said to the audience.

In the article, McDowell called the show “immature” and a waste of talent that would only serve to perpetuate stereotypes about the gay community. “[McDowell] is not into the culture. She seems to be homophobic herself. As a drag queen it takes a lot of courage to perform

in front of an audience,” she said. culture.”

“I donʼt fit the stereotype. I also Audience member Julio Lopez like to break the gender rules.” said drag is another facet of the “The essence of drag is that culture. gender is performance,” club Vice “Everything is fluid,” Lopez President Anjali Nath said. said. “College is about expression. Being here and Negrete was accepting [the drag shocked that kings and queens] as McDowell would artists and performnot have been sup“Being here and ers only promotes portive of the showʼs accepting [the purpose, which was greater awareness in to entertain while society.” drag kings and raising money for Drag has a long queens] as artthe club and celehistory. In Ancient ists ... only pro- Egypt, Hatshepsut brating the gay community. declared herself the motes greater “The whole purfirst female ruler awareness in pose is to be over and wore the tradisociety. ” tional beard. Queen gender roles and Elizabeth wore identities,” she said.

Julio Lopez menʼs military uniTuan said now forms while addresspeople are hearing about straight ing the military.

Show Attendant women who are very It was not until masculine. She said the 1700s that drag the term “metrobecame scandalous sexual” is applied with the dawn of to men who are doing things Molly Houses where men would traditionally associated with the solicit sex from drag queens. female gender.

Today, celebrities like Boy “Even in heterosexual culture, George, Annie Lennox and Dame gender barriers are difficult to Edna perform in drag. Drag has define,” Tuan said. “Drag shows been featured on the silver screen tend to play off stereotypes. Men in such movies as the 1993 comand women both perform. Itʼs a edy “Mrs. Doubtfire” with Robin way to combine all aspects of our Williams.

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Breathe Out: Stress Not So Daunting the National Honor Society for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, had a stress management workshop last week open to all CSUF students.

“Weʼre half-way through the

By Lori Martinez second semester and everyone is Daily Titan Staff Writer doing a lot. A lot of people are graduating this year and thereʼs a Everyone experiences stress, lot of uncertainty and stress out whether from finals, work or prob- there right now. We want to show lems with a significant other. how important it is to reflect and to But no matter what we do to pre- take some time for yourself,” said vent or treat stress it will always be Arina Mota, events coordinator for a part of life.

Kappa Omicron Nu. People have their own ways of Ken Ravizza, CSUF professor dealing with stress, including eat- for 28 years in the kinesiology ing all their favorite comfort foods department, was the guest speaker (i.e. anything with a lot of choco- for the workshop. late, caffeine and sugar), trying to Ravizza teaches stress managerelax in a hot bath, or having an ment, applied sports psychology, and history and phiextra-tough exercise session. losophy of human According to a movement, among “So many people others. course handbook are caught up in Ravizza spent written by Leslie life; they forget most of the 50Richards, a Cal State Fullerton stress man- why they are here.” minute workshop agement instructor explaining what Leslie Richards for the past 17 years, people should stop Fullerton Instructor the things people doing and how they do to relieve stress should deal with stress. often end up backfiring, causing more stress in the “Focus on what you are doing, end. stop beating yourself up for what “So many people are caught youʼre not doing,” Ravizza said. up in life; they forget why we are Often people focus on all the here. Thereʼs so much pressure to things they need to do or havenʼt perform. Itʼs important to stop and done yet, Ravizza said people reconnect,” Richards said. should stop that thinking and just She explained that people often focus on the here and now. look for a quick fix for their stress, “Be present. The time is now, which actually masks the stress the place is here,” he said. until another time.

People also create stress for Richards, who returned to school themselves by worrying about after a life-altering bike accident in things out of their control.

1978 in which she suffered a major “You donʼt have control over head injury, has practiced holistic what happens around you, but you therapy since before it became a can control how you are going to common practice. react to it,” Ravizza said.

“I went back to school, to CSUF, Richards and Ravizza both make and created my own kind of degree. the point that stress management is Iʼm very interested in the mind not about removing the stressful and the body and how they work situations from life, but changing together,” Richards said. “I studied our own perceptions. A personʼs kinesiology to get the body, but stress level depends on how peoalso studied philosophy to get the ple view situations and how they mind, and then kind of combined choose to deal with them.

The most important things to the two.”

She said the basic principles of remember when dealing with stress management are definitely stress are: take responsibility for breathing, time management, prop- whatʼs going on, be in control of er diet and meditation. yourself before controlling your “I canʼt say how important performance, and attitude is a decibreathing is, deep relaxing breaths. sion. You choose how you want to Also meditation, either sitting view life, Ravizza said.

What do you do when you find meditation, which you can do in the car or anywhere, or moving yourself stressed out? Recognize meditation, such as yoga, Tai Chi whatʼs going on, what is signaling the stress and then release it. Just or Pilates,” Richards said.

Richards is not the only one who let it go and donʼt carry it around realizes that importance of stress with you, then regroup and conmanagement. Kappa Omicron Nu, tinue with your life, Ravizza said.

Professor divulges secrets to wellness and health without the anxiety

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Monday April 24 TSU Center Gallery 8 am - 10 pm Love.Hate.Fear Photography Exhibit 8:30 am Tuffree AB Bill Kolberg Managing Director, Porter Novelli "A Look Inside a PR Agency" Host: Professor Clanin 8:30 am Heterbrink AB Mark Houska Producer, Fox Sports Net "The Realities of TV Sports Production" Host: Professor Chavira 9 am Bradford AB Jackie Combs, Alum Graphics Editor for the Chicago Tribune "Photoessays and Photo Philosophy" Host: Professor Barber 9 am Alvarado AB Mike Tharp Freelance Writer "Investigative Reporting" Host: Professor Johnson Noon Alvarado AB Pat Broeske, Alum Writer/Producer, Freelance "All You Want to Know About Writing" Host: Professor Chavira Noon Alvarado AB Jackie Combs, Alum Graphics Editor for the Chicago Tribune "Newspaper Design and the Chicago Tribune" Host: Professor Crow 1 pm Ontiveros AB Rebecca Aguilar, Alum Sr. Manager, Customer Relations, The Boeing Co. "The Ins and Outs of International PR" Host: Professor Witmer 12-1 pm KROQ

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The Next Step! Now Get to Work!

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TITAN EDITORIAL

Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE

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n the past week, gas prices have reached record highs with some stations in Beverly Hills topping out at $4 per gallon. Although prices havenʼtpeaked that high at most stations, many analysts predict that, by mid-summer, consumers can expect to be paying an average of $3.50 per gallon.

The sharp rise in gas prices – about 25 cents per gallon in the past 10 days – highlights the problem with the United Statesʼ dependency on foreign oil as well as the impact that drastic jumps in gasoline prices have on the national economy. In effect, the U.S. economy is at the whim of international oil prices.

In an effort to progress beyond dependency on foreign oil, President Bush chose an Earth Day speech in Sacramento to tout the future of energy in the U.S. He said that Americans are addicted to oil and to curb that addiction, the country needs to invest time and research money into hydrogen fuel cells.

He told the crowd that hydrogen fuel cells are the way of the future and pushed Americans to develop the technology for their implementation more quickly.

Environmentalists have long held the hydrogen cells as the perfect solution to the dilemma caused by transportation pollution. The energy is readily available in the U.S. and produces only water vapor rather than exhaust.

The plan would be a great way

to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, but the fuel cells themselves are prohibitively expensive to produce. And in order to implement the new technology, we would have to develop a new delivery infrastructure. That is, we would have to replace existing gas stations with hydrogen filling stations. The projected time for the availability of hydrogen fuel technology is sometime between 2010 and 2020.

The Bush Administration did give $1.2 billion for hydrogen fuel cell research and development in late 2003, and Bush pledged to set aside more federal money for the project. Although he didnʼt specify an amount of money to be set aside or a time at which it would be available.

The development of hydrogen technology would be a great step for America toward its goal of becoming less dependent on unstable countries around the world for natural resources.

It would also help to make our economy less dependent on factors that we have less control of.

Directly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Bush Administration should have realized that our country is overly dependent on a resource that is provided by an unstable, unfriendly area of the world. Indeed, the same could be said about the oil crisis of the 70s.

And while Bushʼs contribution to hydrogen fuel development should be congratulated as helping to usher in a new age, itʼs too little, too late.

Editorial Board Philip Fuller, Opinion Editor Nicole M. Smith, Executive Editor Kim Orr, Managing Editor In deference to the paradigm established by venerable Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, unsigned Titan Editorials strive to represent the general will of the Daily Titan editorial board and do not necessarily reflect the view of the university.

OPINION

O P I N I O N @ D A I LY T I T A N . C O M

No Cutting In Immigration Line

By Julie Ann Ines

Daily Titan Staff Writer

While the debate over the destiny of illegal immigrants has pitted the left against the right, the right against the right and some of the Catholic Church against the House of Representitives, it seems that some of the outcry against illegal immigration has come from the immigrant population itself.

That is, the legal immigrant population.

“Iʼm a U.S. citizen,” my mom emphasized, bristling slightly at the word “immigrant” when I asked her what she felt, as an immigrant, about the illegal immigrant issue. “[Illegal immigrants] should come here as legal immigrants, the right way,” she continued.

Around the world, people are waiting on lists for their opportunity to come to this country, sometimes waiting decades for their chance.

My dad echoed my momʼs sentiment, saying that illegal immigrants should “stay in line,” the way his entire family did to get here from the Philippines, a dream that took nearly two decades to come true.

My dadʼs family, where he is one of eight children, came from a province near the ocean in the northern region of the main island.

From what he tells me, they were quite poor. But his parents instilled in him the importance of education.

So, he attended grade school, high school, then college, where he met my mom.

But the job prospects were few and the pay was low in the Philippines. So, his family— inspired by many who had already made the journey—decided to seek their fortune in America.

My aunt Emy, my dadʼs oldest sister, came to the U.S. on a work-

ing visa as a teacher in 1969.

After she waited the requisite five years, she was able to become a citizen. She then set the ball rolling – in a process called “petitioning”– for her parents (my grandparents) to come here. They arrived in 1977.

My grandparents then petitioned for some of their younger children: my dad, my aunt Ely and my uncle Joe. They came here in 1978.

My dad lived in the U.S. for one year and returned to the Philippines to marry my mom in 1979.

He returned to the United States after their honeymoon and visited my mom once a year, never staying for more than 30 days.

While my dad was here, my mom worked as a professor at Saint Maryʼs College, her and my dadʼs alma mater, where she had graduated with a bachelorʼs degree in civil engineering.

My dad frequently wrote my mom letters, which were sent in the red, white and blue U.S. Mail envelopes from the post office.

Iʼm not sure what he wrote in the letters because, unfortunately, I canʼt speak the language that they grew up with.

But Iʼm sure they describe the dreams that they both had for their family in this new place.

My mom seemed reluctant to let me even see these correspondences that held their secret wishes when I pestered her as a child to let me see them.

For a while, even though he graduated with his degree in engi-

neering, my dad worked alongside Mexican migrant workers in the fields of Delano picking fruits and vegetables before landing his current job as a civil engineer.

My uncle Lito and aunt Eppie arrived in 1981.

I was born in 1983. My brother Philip was born in 1984.

In the absence of my dad, my mom sometimes received help from her older sister to help take care of us.

It wasnʼt until 1985 that my dad was able to bring my mom, my brother and me to the U.S. My mom found work as a drafting technician for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

My youngest brother, Ele, was born in 1986.

My dadʼs two older siblings were the only ones left behind.

My aunt Emy had filled the paperwork out for them in the 1970s, but their journeys were delayed because they had already married.

It wasnʼt until 20 years after the paperwork got started that they were able to come.

My uncle Rudy came with most of his family in 1994, leaving his oldest daughter behind because she was already married. My uncle Edwinʼs family came here in 1995.

Today, I can say that I have never really wanted for much. I attended a private preschool, kindergarten and grade school. My parents are paying my tuition and the tuition of my brothers, who are both attending private trade schools.

They even paid for two-and-a-

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half years of music courses when I said I wanted to be a vocal music major out of high school.

I only work because I want to.

My parents bought my car and my brothersʼ cars. A friend of my brother once commented that our driveway looked like an import car show. My parents pay the car insurance for all three of us as well.But the only reason why they can do these things for us is because they had a dream that they were willing to wait for.

The poem “The New Colossus” on the Statue of Liberty reads: “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free …”

What it doesnʼt say is that this freedom comes at a cost. My family paid the price with patience and time.

These days, the welcome mat of those words has awoken a new colossus: a group, strengthened by its sheer mass, which has chosen to take the path to citizenship into its own hands; an action which could be construed as disrespectful to those who abide by the rules.

Thatʼs not to say that the rules are perfect. Legals and illegals alike are both subject to an immigration system that is inherently flawed.

So, while the immigration debate to this point has been muddied by appeals to the better angels of our nature, it should step back and look at the entire immigration picture.

It should not just focus on illegal immigrants and what to do with the several million that are here, but also try to reconcile their wishes with the would-be immigrants waiting patiently overseas.

It should be refocused on the laws that govern immigration and rebuild the immigration system and the laws that govern it from the foundation up.

Because while this nation is one built on immigrant dreams, it is also a nation built on laws.

S P O R T S @ D A I LY T I TA N . C O M

Upstart Clippers Hungry for More

SPORTS

SPORTS IN SHORT

Baseball

Titans Sweep Past Pacific

The Associated Press

Emotions were slightly mixed for the Los Angeles Clippers a day after their first postseason victory in 13 years.

There was the good feeling that accompanies winning, of course.

But there was also some discomfort that comes with blowing a 10point lead in the last 4 minutes.

“Iʼm not happy with the way we played late in the game. The last quarter, we were terrible,” said Chris Kaman, who had 15 points and 13 rebounds in the Clippersʼ 89-87 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night.

The Clippers were outscored 21-13 in the final period, shooting 3-of-10 and being outrebounded 14-5.

“We played them good, we had them going. Weʼve got to keep the pressure on, punish them,” Kaman said after practice Sunday.

“We didnʼt do that. I think it was a little bit of jitters, maybe.”

Coach Mike Dunleavy wasnʼt so sure about that.

“I didnʼt think we were nervous,” the coach said. “Maybe he was. I thought he played great in the second half.

Kaman said the Clippers might have panicked a bit down the stretch, which wouldnʼt be a major surprise since he and four teammates who played were making their postseason debuts.

The team is in the playoffs for the first time since 1997.

Veteran Sam Cassell believes the opposition deserved some credit.

“People donʼt realize, Denver is a physical, good ballclub,” Cassell said. “Thereʼs going to be playoff jitters – itʼs how you come out of it. Thereʼs some jitters out there. Thatʼs why Iʼm on the court.”

The 36-year-old Cassell, a member of NBA championship teams with the Houston Rockets in 1994-95, entered the postseason having appeared in 103 playoff games. His teammates had played in a combined 96 postseason games.

“You can put it behind us,” Cuttino Mobley said of his teamʼs tough finish. “We have to clean up on offense. We have to get loose balls. They had 19 offensive rebounds. We have to sharpen that up. We will.

“The first gameʼs nothing. Be happy about the experience you just had. But you dwell on yesterday, you lose tomorrow.”

After the Nuggets scored 10 straight points to tie the game at 87, Vladimir Radmanovic made two free throws with 59.8 seconds left to complete the scoring. Denverʼs Carmelo Anthony missed three shots after that, including one from the left corner as time expired.

Game 2 will be played tonight at Staples Center before the bestof-seven, first-round series moves to Denver for the third and fourth games.

Radmanovic is questionable for Game 2 because of the sprained left wrist he sustained while picking up an offensive foul with 24 seconds left.

“He didnʼt do anything today,” Dunleavy said.

The Nuggets shot 38.5 percent in the opener, making the Clippers 27-1 this season in games where they held the opposition under 40 percent.

Even though the Nuggets lost, they spoke of gaining confidence because of the way they finished the game.

They trailed 76-60 at one stage before outscoring the Clippers 2711 before Radmanovicʼs gamewinning free throws.

“We take the finish as a confidence-boost for us,” Anthony said.

“I feel good about our chances the way we finished that game yesterday. Iʼm pretty sure weʼre going to come out and play that way tomorrow.”

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BREAKING FREE : A running back and wide receiver for the Orange County Breakers professional womenʼs football team, Vanessa Santillan slips past a tackler and looks to score a touchdown. Santillan hopes that professional womenʼs leagues thrive as more females try out for sports.

Shining On the Gridiron

Spurred by the love of the game, a CSUF student blazes a trail in professional women’s football

By Jason Eichelberger

Yet her decision to play almost became a moot point when efforts to attract players for the new team were initially unsuccessful. After word began to spread, the team was finally able to field a full roster. But the teamʼs future con-

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Since itʼs inception into the American landscape in the 19th century, football has always been a game steeped in tradition. However, unknown to most, a new football tradition is beginning to blossom in Orange County, and for Titan student and Orange County Breaker running back and wide receiver Vanessa Santillan, a tradition she is happy to be associated with.

“I love sports and hope that football is part of my life forever,” Santillan said.

As a young girl growing up in Foothill Ranch, Santillan was constantly exposed to football.

“My family was very athletically inclined,” Santillan said. “My dad and my older brother played football. I was constantly around athletic men.”

During high school, Santillan wanted to play football, yet channeled her athletic ability into track and soccer. Whenever she wasnʼt competing in sports, Santillan was preparing her body for competition by going to the gym, something that has remained a major part in her life.

“I live in the gym,” the 21-year-old kinesiology major said.

However, football was never far from her mind and when Santillan saw an advertisement in the newspaper for the expansion Orange County Breakers of the National Womenʼs Football Association, her passion for the game led her to respond.

“Once I saw that ad in the newspaper, I decided to just go for it,” Santillan said.

“Never let anyone [tell you] you can’t, even if you’re a girl.

Ten years ago, I never thought I would be playing football.

Anything is possible.”

Vanessa Santillan Professional Football Player

tinued to be uncertain. Before their inaugural 2005 season in the leagueʼs Western Conference Division began, the team was left without an owner and was on the verge of collapse.

Tanya Bilezikjian, a former Cal State Fullerton student and current teammate of Santillan, decided to help buy the team, a decision she was happy to have made.

“We would have folded without ownership,” Bilezikjian said. “My experience as an owner has been great, but playing is something that I want to be doing.”

For Santillan, the chance to play football serves two purposes. It is not only something that she loves to do, but it provides her a brief escape from a hectic schedule.

“Football is my balance,” said Santillan, who in addition to attending CSUF, works as a physical trainer at 24–Hour Fitness. “As a trainer,

Iʼm always helping people. With football, it is nice to get instruction.”

Instruction, along with physical talent and determination made Santillan an invaluable member of a Breakersʼ team, that posted a 6-2 record last season and won itsʼ first game of the season earlier this month.

“I would compare her quickness to that of a rabbit,” Bilezikjian said. “She is such a fast and strong runner.”

Despite her speed and agility, Santillan has experienced numerous bumps and bruises during her time with the team. But she claims that neither pain nor thought of injury have done anything to harness her love for the game.

“I never question my decision to play football,” Santillan said. “I have suffered a concussion and neck injury before, but the main pain that I felt from those injuries was not being able to play.”

There are some that worry about the constant physical pounding that Santillan is subjected to.

Enrique Hernandez, Santillanʼs boyfriend and the teamʼs Web site [www.ocbreakersfootball. com] administrator, acknowledges that he was initially concerned about her decision to play.

“I was worried at first, but after watching her play, I got into it,” Hernandez said. “Injuries are part of the game and I try not to worry about them because it takes the fun out it.”

Another source of enjoyment that Santillan derives from her experience with the Breakers is the camaraderie and unity that she shares with her teammates, which she describes as a major source of encouragement.

“Everyone is very supportive of what we do,” Santillan said. “As women football players, we are all together and we all have the common goal to do all we can to make this professional SEE FOOTBALL= PAGE 8

Lakers Fail In Their First Postseason Test The Associated Press

Kobe Bryant didnʼt score, the Phoenix Suns couldnʼt run.

Nothing was quite as it was supposed to be Sunday when the Suns escaped with a 107-102 victory over Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.

“We certainly didnʼt play very well,” said Suns point guard Steve Nash. “We look at that as a positive. We didnʼt play well and we

found a way to win, and weʼve got a lot of improvement to make.”

Tim Thomas had 22 points and a career playoff-high 15 rebounds for the Suns, who nearly succumbed to coach Phil Jacksonʼs game plan of taking the small Phoenix lineup inside, then turning to Bryant to finish it off.

Thomas was sent home by the Chicago Bulls for what they thought was a bad attitude for most of this season, then released and signed by Phoenix on March 3.

He made his first eight shots and finished 8-for-10, 4-for-5 from 3-

point range.

“I was just aggressive on both ends,” Thomas said.

Nash had 20 points, including a crucial 3-pointer with 1:07 to play, and 10 assists.

The Suns made 32 of 35 free throws, 8 for 8 by Nash.

“The Phoenix Suns set a record for fewest free throws in the league,” Jackson said, “and here they have 35 free throws. This is a team we told our guys not to foul, and we end up sending them to the line 35 times. That was one of the things we didnʼt expect to

happen.”

Shawn Marion added 19 points, Boris Diaw 15 and Leandro Barbosa 15, nine in the fourth quarter.

Bryant, the NBA scoring champion with 35.4 points per game, scored 22 points – little more than half the 42.5 he averaged against Phoenix in the regular season – on 7-for-21 shooting, 1 for 6 3s.

But Lamar Odom had 21 points and 14 rebounds and Luke Walton SEE LAKERS= PAGE 8

Brett Pill had three hits and Danny Dorn, Blake Davis and Evan McArthur added two apiece Sunday afternoon and Dustin Miller, Ryan Paul and Vinnie Pestano combined on an 8-hitter to lead Cal State Fullerton to an 8-4 victory and a sweep of its threegame series at Pacific.

The win improved the Titansʼ record to 31-10 and their Big West Conference leading mark to 81. Miller improved to 8-1 and Pestano got his 12th save, recording the final five outs after Paul worked one and one-third innings.

Pacific fell to 22-16 and 3-6.

Fullerton took advantage of wildness by Pacific starter Tyʼrelle Harris (4-2), who walked four in the first one and two-thirds innings as Fullerton built a 5-1 lead. The Tigers got within 5-3 against Miller and Anthony Jacksonʼs solo homer off Paul in the seventh got them within 6-4, but the Titans pushed across a pair of insurance runs – on John Curtisʼ squeeze bunt in the eighth and a bases-loaded error in the ninth – to ease Pestanoʼs job.

Brandon Tripp saw his 15-game hitting streak end when Adam Ching made a diving stop to start an inning-ending double play in the ninth. Fullerton has won 10 of 12 three-game series this year including seven by sweeps.

A 3-1 week should keep the Titans atop the Baseball America national poll. They are idle until a three-game Big West series at home next weekend against UC Riverside.

Softball

Marzan Throws First Perfecto Cal State Fullerton senior righthander Marissa Marzan tossed her first career, perfect game and the Titansʼ offense tied a school record for the second straight week with four home runs in a single game as Fullerton completed the threegame sweep of host Pacific thanks to a 10-0, six-inning victory on Sunday afternoon at Simoni Field.

The victory was Fullertonʼs seventh in its last eight games as the Titans improved to 28-19 overall and 9-3 in the Big West Conference.

It was Cal State Fullertonʼs first Big West series sweep of the season after taking 2-of-3 from three previous conference opponents.

The loss dropped the Tigers to 24-18 overall, 5-4 in league play.

Marzan, who earlier no-hit Loyola-Chicago on March 7 for her first career no-hitter, became the seventh different Titan (and ninth overall) in the history of the program to throw a perfect game and the first since Jodie Cox accomplished the feat against Minnesota on March 3, 2001.

Marzan (10-6) needed only 59 pitches to dispatch the Tigers, finishing with five strikeouts. Only two balls left the infield as the first two Pacific batters flew out to left. For the weekend, she went 3-0, allowing only six hits and one unearned run in 14 two-third innings of work while striking out seven.

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FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 7 sport grow.”

Santillan, who describes her family as very close and extremely supportive of her pigskin exploits, has experienced a few detractors of her efforts to play and knows that not everyone will take what her and her teammates do seriously.

For those who believe that women playing football is not to be taken seriously, her response is simple.

“I invite them to come watch us,” Santillan said. “Peopleʼs minds get changed.”

After her playing days come to an end, Santillan hopes to remain involved in athletics in any capacity.

“It will be hard for me to leave the game,” she said. “My goal is

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matched his career best in any NBA game with 19 points.

“Our game plan was to exploit the middle and do the things we wanted to, but he (Bryant) was still supposed to be a force over on that side of the offense,” Jackson said. “I just felt he never really got in rhythm until the end, and we said `Just go after it.ʼ” Even for Bryant, Jackson said, itʼs tough to turn it on after spending most of the game working the ball to others.

“He was a little more passive than usual,” Suns coach Mike DʼAntoni said. “He missed some shots that he normally makes.”

But Bryant said he felt good about the series.

“Itʼs just a matter of finding that groove,” Bryant said. “We can really attack this team inside, and so thatʼs what weʼre going to do. All I need is one jumper to go,

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“I think we did a wonderful job down the stretch. I take my hat off to us.”

Anthony discounted the Clippersʼ playoff inexperience.

“Experience and inexperience is overrated,” he said. “Itʼs all

to do anything that I can to help develop athletes.”

Santillan would like to see the progress she has witnessed in womenʼs professional football to continue.

“I have definitely seen growth during my time in football,” Santillan said. “I compare our league to that of the WNBA. We want to make changes and continue moving forward, something that I think will happen in my lifetime.”

Santillan has a message for females that aspire to follow in her footsteps and play professional football.

“Never give up no matter what anyone says,” Santillan said.

“Never let anyone [tell you] you canʼt, even if youʼre a girl. Ten years ago, I never thought I would be playing football. Anything is possible.” and Iʼm hot.”

After a 39-point first quarter, the Suns rarely got their trademark high-speed game in gear.

Trailing by as many as 14 in the second quarter and down 5850 at the break, the Lakers used an uncharacteristically balanced attack and took advantage of the

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A PROUD ATHLETE: Student Vanessa Santillan hopes to be a role model for female athletes.

Sunsʼ poor shooting to tie it at 75 after three quarters.

Sasha Vujacicʼs 3-pointer from the top of the key gave the Lakers their first lead since early in the first quarter, 80-79, with 10:01 to play.

Thomas returned to the game and sank the Sunsʼ first 3-pointer since the opening quarter to put

Phoenix back ahead 82-80 9:25 from the finish.

Bryant missed four shots over the next 2 1/2 minutes and the Suns used free throws – two by Nash and four by Barbosa – to go up 88-82 with 6:21 left.

The Lakers scored six in a row to cut it to 98-95 with 2:12 remaining. Smush Parker, who had 15 points, missed what would have been a game-tying 3-pointer.

Raja Bell missed a running 14-footer, but Diaw tipped the rebound to Nash, whose 3-pointer put Phoenix ahead 101-95 with 1:07 left.

Nash took the shot with his coach screaming to bring the ball outside to run out more clock.

“I didnʼt hear him. I wasnʼt going to listen to him anyways,” Nash said. “We really kind of just struggled through the game, so when I saw that ball coming off to Boris I knew I was going to get a great look. I wasnʼt going to pass it up and pull it out and see what we got later. I was going to make it, and thatʼs all there is to it.”

about making plays.”

Nuggets coach George Karl also spoke of the positives he saw late in the game.

“I think we shook them a bit,” he said. “They get a win, hopefully we get some intangible wins. In the last 15 minutes of the game, you canʼt play better defense than we played. We just didnʼt shoot a good percentage. The one thing we didnʼt do well is finish around the basket.”

The Nuggets lost despite committing only seven turnovers and attempting 91 shots to 68 for the Clippers.

Los Angeles shot 6-of-16 from 3-point range to Denverʼs 1-of-6.

“I think they know weʼll be around every game,” Denverʼs Andre Miller said. “Weʼve been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, weʼll have a better chance.”

“We can really attack this team inside, and so that’s what we’re going to do...”

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THROWING SMOKE: Pitching Coach Ted Silva watches as Titan ace pitcher Wes Roemer delivers some high heat, during a bullpen session at a CSUF baseball practice.

Cutting Up the Competition

Sophomore Roemer stars as Fullerton’s No. 1 ace pitcher in 2006.

By christen d’alessandro

Daily Titan Staff Writer

With a third of the season remaining for the No. 1 ranked Cal State Fullerton baseball team, a Titan pitcher who stands out is sophomore right-hander Wes Roemer [8-1, 1.46 ERA].

“Heʼs a pretty confident individual,” Titan pitcher Lauren Gagnier said about Roemer.

Gagnier said Roemerʼs confidence in throwing strikes has been a big part of his success this season.

Roemer said heʼs been successful because of all the hard work he puts in on the field and in the weight room, while also attributing his success to the coaching staff.

“We have one of the best coaching staffs in the world,” Roemer said.

On the other hand, Titan Pitching Coach Ted Silva said itʼs Roemerʼs maturity that has brought him success.

“I think heʼs matured more than anything, both on and off the field,

by the way he handles himself amongst his teammates, which is carrying over to his success on the mound,” Silva said.

With an 88:3 strikeout-to-walk ratio, Roemer can definitely find the strike zone. Roemer tied his career high with 12 strike outs in eight innings in the 2-1 win over Cal State Northridge in March.

“The fact that he throws so many strikes is pretty amazing with all his pitches,” Silva said.

Roemer has an array of pitches he has in his arsenal, but Gagnier and Silva said that Roemer has the most success on the mound when he throws his fastball and slider.

“His fastball and slider, he lives and dies with,” Silva said.

On average Roemer throws a 88-92 mph fastball, but can change speeds, especially when pitching his slider.

“He throws from different angles and keeps hitters off balance,” Gagnier said.

With so many strikeouts and so few walks on the season, some might find it unusual that Roemer has hit 17 batters this season.

“Heʼs not afraid to pitch in and thatʼs a good thing,” Silva said.

“Hitters arenʼt looking to step in the box and lean over the plate.”

Roemer said itʼs about having control of his pitches.

“I pride myself on control and I own the inner half of the plate,” Roemer said. “If I have to hit a few, I have to hit a few.”

This season, Roemer is the only pitcher on the Titan staff to pitch a complete game, and he has two of them, one of which was a shut out.

Roemer remained undefeated in seven starts until losing to UC Davis, 2-1.

“I think it was more of a shock than anything, nobody expected him to lose to Davis,” Silva said.

“But it wasnʼt as if he didnʼt give our team a chance to win, and when he does that, thatʼs all we ask.”

Picking up a loss never sits well with Roemer.

“Heʼs a competitor on the mound, he doesnʼt like to lose,” Silva said.

Roemer said itʼs always been a dream of his to become a major league baseball player.

“Itʼll be up to him on how hard he wants to work to achieve that goal,” Silva said. “Iʼd like to see whatʼs going to happen in the next five weeks, if he can really sustain this, and itʼs going to be up to him whether or not he can sustain that, if heʼs willing to come out every day and put forth the effort,” Silva said.