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Aid for New Class of Collegians Educational Opportunity Program helps low-income students with funds, counsel By Elizabeth Simoes
Daily Titan Staff Writer Jessica Jachin/For the Daily Titan The Educational Opportunity Program APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED: Student assistant at Cal State Fullerton has one goal: to Crystal Gonzalez helps another student on the phone at help students achieve academic and perthe EOP office in University Hall.
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sonal success in order to graduate. Students started a campaign for the program in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement, according to the programʼs brochure. “Ethnicity is not a requirement to be in EOP,” said Javier Ramirez, coordinator for student retention services, which the Educational Opportunity Program is under. The program is open to first-time freshmen and transfer students only. To
be eligible, students must demonstrate low-income status and a disadvantaged background. They also must be a firstgeneration college student. Students apply for the program when they fill out an application to the university, either on paper or on the Internet, by checking the box that asks if they are interested in the service. If interested, they need to fill out three additional forms for the program and submit them to the university for evaluation,
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or Cal State Fullerton students, most things available online – like music – are free for the taking. Some may not believe that cheating is stealing, but others argue that committing plagiarism is no different. According to Plagiarism.com, plagiarism has never been easier. The Internet enables a plagiarizer to find sources in seconds and quickly compose a term paper or other copy. The meaning of plagiarism is clear to CSUF biochemistry major, Phung Le, 19. “Plagiarism is when you take another personʼs work and call it your own,” Le said. “I would rather take an F than cheat. You cheat in high school, you cheat in college, you cheat in life,” she said. Students who cheat are lazy, said English-history major Margaret Butterfield. “Itʼs so much easier for students
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SMART INVESTMENTS: Teta Smart is the founder and has directed of the Miss Whittier Scholarship Pageant for 23 years. She began her own modeling career at the age of 20w. By Ariana Guerrero
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earing a long, flowing gown and a large wig, 79-year-old Teta Smart was the center of attention as she hosted the 23rd annual Miss Whittier Scholarship Pageant. Amid an eager crowd and anxious contestants, Smart entered the room in the Hawaiian themed opening number. She stood before the stage as the contestants joked about her arrival on a broomstick. She chuckled with the howling crowd. Smart is no rookie when it comes to being in the spotlight. In 1947 she captured the title of Miss Whittier Rose Queen, and ever since she has managed to stay in the limelight. For over 40 years, Smart studied classical ballet, tap and gymnastics. She modeled in Vogue, Glamour, Life and other publications. She is also the pageant director and host of the Miss Whittier and Miss California Latina scholar-
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ship pageants. “She is a nice lady with great intentions, she has helped many young girls accomplish many of their goals.” said Andrea Uribe a senior geography major at Cal State Fullerton. “I think sheʼs maybe a little too old to be doing this.… Maybe itʼs about time Teta retires,” Uribe said with a laugh. With her 80th birthday approaching, retirement isnʼt something she intends to embark on soon. “I never plan on retiring,” Smart said. “They will have to carry me out in my ballet shoes and say, there she goes with her little tutu and ballet shoes, and on her way to heaven … we hope.” Smart is the president of Smart Productions, which produces the Miss Whittier and Miss California Latina scholarship pageants. She is the owner of Teta Smartʼs School of Dance and Theatre, where she teaches ballet to children. Yesenia Alvarado, a CSUF freshman, fondly SEE QUEEN = PAGE 3
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Cheating Made Easy Online Students may lift from the Web, but teachers employ technology to catch them
Leave a bag of canned goods by the mailbox, and letter carriers do the rest
eople who want to help the Stamp Out Hunger nationwide food drive can leave bags of food by their mailboxes Saturday. The National Association of Letter Carriers created the one-day food drive. They pick up the food and take it back to the post offices, where volunteers and trucks will sort the food and load it into trailers, Jeʼnet Kreitner, special projects coordinator for the food bank said in an e-mail interview. The donated food is passed on to those in need through church pantries, shelters, soup kitchens and recovery homes, she said. Approximately 456,000 people are at risk of missing meals sometime each month in Orange County, according to the food bank. The people arenʼt hungry because they donʼt work hard, the food bank said. Most donʼt make enough money for rent, bills and groceries throughout the month. An average of 200,000 people are reached each month, according to the food bank. The associationʼs food drive is important to the food bank because it comes at a crucial time of year, Kreitner said. Donating typically drops off during the months after the holiday season, and with last yearʼs disasters, they really feel the crunch this year, she said. More than 10,000 cities and towns across America will be reached, according to the association. Nearly 1,500 local branches in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands are involved in the food drive. Sponsors of the food drive include the United Way, the AFLCIO, Campbellʼs, the U.S. Postal Service, Americaʼs Second Harvest and Val Pak. “United Way funds the Labor Agency, whoʼs able to coordinate with the Letter Carriers Association and provide them with the structure and place in order to conduct the drive,” said Yolanda Wright of the United Way. “The food drive bags will be delivered Thursday and will then be picked up on Saturday,” he said.
said Willie Bugaoan, assistant to the Educational Opportunity Program coordinator. More than 14,000 students applied for the program for fall 2006, Bugaoan said. About 2,000 students are currently enrolled in the program, Ramirez said. Of all the applicants they can only admit
to cheat now having the Internet,” she said. According to a 1991 Rutgers University study, 66 percent of 16,000 students from 31 U.S. campuses cheated at least once. Twelve percent of students cheated regularly. The average is seven out of 10 students cheat, one of which cheats all the time. Matt Tucker, 21, a biochemistry major, said he cheated once in high school, but he would not cheat now. “You donʼt really learn, and the stuff Iʼm studying now, I really need to know,” he said. Officials at UC Berkeley reported that cheating on campus increased an estimated 744 percent between 1993 and 1997. Levels of cheating and plagiarism remain high, said Don McCabe, founder of the Center for Academic Integrity. The center is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and “provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers and administrators.” The Center for Academic Integrity completed a survey in 2002 that SEE PLAGIARISM = PAGE 3
‘Journeys’ Opens Eyes to Career Opportunities By Babeeta Dhillon
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Radio-TV-Film Department Professor Lynne Gross in collaboration with three prestigious industry veterans has created a series of DVDs about the lesserknown jobs in the TV industry. “Journeys Below the Line” presents in-depth stories about experts who work abnormal jobs in television, focusing on jobs considered below the line. The “Journeys Below the Line” Web site, www.journeysbelowtheline .com, defines “below the line” as the technical services behind the production of television and movies. These experts work on hit shows and give their insight about their jobs. Students pursuing a Radio-TVFilm major or minor think of directing, acting and producing as the dominant careers in the industry, and high school students and
new college students are unaware of the other jobs, according to department Chair Ed Fink. “Students often think that the good jobs in television are being a director, an actor, or a producer, but they are overlooking many other jobs,” Fink said. “ ʻJourneys Below the Lineʼ is a good positive idea because it is one way that students can find out about jobs in the industry from people working in the industry.” Bruce Bilson, director of over 400 TV programs, conceived of the concept of “Journeys Below the Line.” Once Bilson was set on his creative endeavor, he pitched his idea to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Gross said the academy granted funding for the project, and Bilson decided to contact his longtime friend, Gross.
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WEDNESDAY: The Cal State Fullerton baseball team takes on USC at Goodwin Field at 6 p.m.
Iran Leader Writes to Bush
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranʼs president wrote to President Bush on Monday proposing what the nationʼs top nuclear negotiator called a new “diplomatic opening” between the two countries. The United States was dismissive, saying the letter did not offer any new proposal. The letter, which was not made public, appeared timed to blunt the U.S. drive for a U.N. Security Council vote this week to restrain the Islamic regimeʼs nuclear ambitions. It was a striking change after the fiery Mahmoud Ahmadinejadʼs campaign to vilify Washington and its allies as bullies.
WEDNESDAY: Indie rock group China Room plays the Becker Amphitheater at noon.
Crews Save Trapped Miners BEACONSFIELD, Australia – Two Australian miners who survived for two weeks in a kennel-size cage trapped 3,000 feet underground walked unaided out of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine early Tuesday, freed by rescue crews drilling round-theclock by hand. Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, punched the air in jubilation as they emerged, their head torches glowing in the pre-dawn light. Hundreds of local residents who gathered at the mineʼs gates erupted in cheers.
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Moussaoui Says He Lied ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says he lied on the witness stand about being involved in the plot and wants to withdraw his guilty plea because he now believes he can get a fair trial. In a motion filed Friday but released Monday, Moussaoui said he testified March 27 that he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House “even though I knew that was a complete fabrication.”
Hormone Difference Found WASHINGTON – Lesbiansʼ brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women, new research indicates. Thatʼs in line with an earlier study that had indicated gay menʼs brain responses were different from straight men – though the difference for men was more pronounced than has now been found in women. Lesbiansʼ brains reacted somewhat, though not completely, like those of heterosexual men, a team of Swedish researchers said in Tuesdayʼs edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Dell Misses Earnings Targets SAN JOSE – Amid stiffening competition, computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday its fiscal first-quarter results will miss earnings targets, blaming the shortfall on “pricing decisions.” The news sent Dell shares falling nearly 6 percent to a 52week low. The Round Rock, Texas-based company said it expects to earn 33 cents per share on revenue of about $14.2 billion, compared with analystsʼ average estimate of 38 cents per share on revenue of $14.52 billion. Reports compiled from The Associated Press
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Alexia Grajeda, 6, right, plays with a large bubble at the Santa Monica Pier last Saturday.
FACULTY FOCUS By Kirsten Alto
Daily Titan Staff Writer
Daughter of a historian and a marine biologist; a traveler from a young age; a professor at Cal State Fullerton; and an archaeologist: Andrea Murray. Murray credits her fascination with anthropology, and archaeology in particular, to her childhood experiences traveling with her parents. “I always enjoyed reading historic novels and walking through museums,” Murray said. “And I spent many summers either traveling to historic sites and marine stations or helping out with research at the shore.”
Andrea Murray Archaeology Professor So why did she choose anthropology instead of following directly in either parentʼs footsteps? “I think I chose archaeology as a career because I found a discipline that enabled me to combine the two worlds I enjoyed so much as a child, a discipline that uses scientific methodologies and techniques to study and interpret the past,” she said. She didnʼt always know she was going to be an archaeologist,
though. It wasnʼt until Murray was an undergraduate student at San Diego State that she found her way. “I took an intro to cultural anthropology class in order to fulfill a GE requirement and never looked back,” she said. “Eventually I enrolled in an archaeology methods class and was captivated.” From there, Murray went to a school in Belize and returned to the U.S. knowing she wanted to be a research archaeologist. “I was fascinated with the subject matter from day one, and the school in Belize solidified my choice in the career.” Murray says there are many great things about her career choice. Throughout her career sheʼs been able to travel internationally. Sheʼs also worked at several institutions including the British Museum in London. She now teachers four courses in the anthropology department at CSUF. Sheʼs also involved in the Orange County Curation Project at CSUF, and sheʼs conducting research as well. “Iʼm conducting research on an assemblage of Chenopodium seeds from a late-archaic, earlyformative site in the Titicaca Basin of Peru,” she said. “The research involved the use of scanning electron microscopy in the identification of micro-morphological signs of domestication among the seeds.” Although Murray is busy, she will continue to be immensely involved with different aspects of research archeology. “My career choice makes sense to me now,” she said.
WEDNESDAY: Rec Sports hosts the “Dive in Movie” event at the Titan Pool at 7 p.m. The event will include free food and drinks, giveaways and a screening of “Without a Paddle” starring Seth Green. Goodie bags containing movie snacks will also be given away. THURSDAY: Indie rockers Modern Subject play the TSU Underground Pub at noon. FRIDAY: Titan softball takes on UC Riverside in a doubleheader at home at Anderson field, beginning at 4 p.m. SATURDAY: Titan softball takes on UC Riverside at home at Anderson Field, beginning at noon. May 11 thru May 21: Catch Cal State Fullertonʼs production of the critically acclaimed “Cabaret,” directed by James R. Taulli, with musical direction by Mitchell Hanlon and choreography by William Lett. Evening and matinee shows will run throughout May. Tickets cost $16 to $18. For information, call (714) 278-3371. May 19: Last day of classes.
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Delgado said that counselors monitor grades and provide acaFROM PAGE 1 demic resources to the students, which include the learning center and tutorial assistance. 500 new students to the program “We give students opportunities every fall: 300 first-time freshmen to come into the campus and proand 200 transfer students, he added. vide them with resources to graduAfter a student is admitted to the ate,” he said. In addition to referrals, Ramirez program, he or she remains in the program until graduation. Ramirez said counselors inform students said even if the student takes a leave of other services on campus. He from the university and returns sev- added that some of the students in eral years later, he or she will still the program are now involved with be enrolled in the program upon Associated Students Inc. and other returning. “Once you are EOP, you clubs and organizations on campus. are EOP forever,” Bugaoan said. “Thatʼs the way we like to see our The Educational Opportunity students – that theyʼre connected Program offers a variety of ser- with the campus,” Ramirez said. vices. A state-funded Another service grant is available for “Sometimes they available to firststudents who demonjust need some- time freshmen is strate the most need. the Summer Bridge one to talk to.” Students could receive Program, a six-week Javier Ramirez $400 each semester, residential program Student Retention or $800 an academic on campus that begins Services year, Ramirez said. in June, Delgado said. The office of financial About 110 selected aid determines the grant and some students attend the Summer Bridge students could get more or less Program. money, depending on their indi“We believe these students will vidual situations. benefit from a summer transition The program assigns each stu- program the most by exposing dent to one of the counselors for them to a university setting earlier,” the duration of the studentʼs time Delgado said. at CSUF. He said that students who attend Students are required to meet the summer program do better in with their counselor three times per the fall semester because they got semester for 30-minute sessions, a taste of college life, course work Ramirez said. and what is expected of them. “Sometimes they just need some“They feel more confident,” one to talk to,” Ramirez said. “Itʼs a Ramirez said of those who attend chance for students to communicate the bridge program. “When there and open up.” are 30,000 students walking around Students can use the counsel- outside, they wonʼt feel lost.” ors for advice or help with filling Brittney Llamas, 19, attended the out college forms, like financial aid summer bridge program in 2004 applications, Ramirez said. Since after graduating from Bishop Amat the students are the first generation High School in La Puente. in their families to attend college, “You got your introductory classparents may not be able to assist es out of the way,” Llamas said. Llamas said the program, espethem with certain questions regarding university life. cially the counseling, has been ben“Parents are supportive but canʼt eficial for her. “Itʼs been great because you can provide answers to the college questions,” Ramirez said. talk to people like Javier [Ramirez],” Victor Delgado, coordinator for she said. “Theyʼre really helpful to EOP admissions, said the program get your classes settled.” provides academic and emotional Delgado said that students still support. have to do their part, but the coun“Weʼre here for them during tran- selors of the program are there to sitions,” Delgado said. “Itʼs a place help, guide and support them. where students can go when they “They feel they can always come need help.” here as a resource,” Ramirez said.
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JOURNEYS FROM PAGE 1 He asked Gross to be assistant producer on the project. Along with Bilson and Gross, the two other members involved on the project are Michael Gallant, the producer, and Steve Fisch, the legal advisor, Gross said. “The series will educate students about other jobs in television as well as give them an idea of what itʼs like to make TV programs,” Gross said. People who work in TV “are a creative, dynamic, insecure and fun … to work with.” The first DVD of the series features in-depth coverage of the editing process behind the show “24.” According to Gross, the DVD was tested in Phillippe Perebinossoffʼs Radio-TV-Film management class in 2005. The second DVD focuses on the Emmy-winning show “ER” and emphasizes the roles of property masters Rick Kerns and Rick Ladomade. The DVD also showcases the numerous props that are used on the set of a makeshift emergency room, according to the “Journeys Below the Line” Web site. The DVD is finished and was screened in Grossʼs radio operations class this semester.
PLAGIARISM FROM PAGE 1 measured academic integrity. The survey polled almost 50,000 undergraduates from more than 60 campuses. The center found the results alarming. On most campuses, 70 percent of students admitted to cheating. Almost 25 percent of students admitted to serious cheating, and 50 percent admitted to cheating one or more times on written assignments. Most students think that copying a sentence or two is not a problem, according to the survey. Students admitting to such behavior reached 10 percent in 1999, and 40 percent admitted to the offense in the surveys. Cheating is not a very serious crime, 77 per cent of students said. The penalty for plagiarism depends on the intent of a student and the extent of the plagiarism,
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“The jobs featured in ʻJourneys Below the Lineʼ are easier to get into than other above-the-line jobs and still pay great money,” Gross said. The third DVD, still in the editing process, focuses on the cinematography of the show “Lost.” For this project the team went to Hawaii to shoot the footage, Gross said. Set to release as soon as the third DVD is finished, the series will be available on campus and throughout the U.S. They will be distributed by 1st Light Video Distribution Company to various educational institutions, colleges, and Blockbusters, Gross said. With each DVD, a CD-ROM containing forms, bios, goals, and curriculum will be attached for faculty to use in class. Any student or faculty member interested in obtaining the DVDs can send requests to the Pollak Library. For students who choose to pursue any of the specific careers covered by the series, Fink and Gross agreed that students should first pursue an internship in that area. “The first thing students should do to pursue their career is to get an internship in the particular area they want to work in,” Fink said. “Students can in turn use the internship as a springboard. Use it to network with others in the industry, and also network through your instructors.”
CSUF English Professor Debi Lyn Esquivel said. Some students simply incorrectly cite sources, she said. About half of all high school students admitted to some level of Internet plagiarism, and 36 percent of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material. Esquivel has failed one student for plagiarizing. “A student was sorority sisters with a student who had taken my class a previous semester. The student turned in the same paper her sister did a couple semesters back,” Esquivel said. She failed the student because the action was so blatantly dishonest, she said. Honor codes help combat the problem of plagiarism. Serious test cheating on campuses with honor codes is typically one-third to one-half lower than the level on campuses that do not have honor codes, according to the report. Professors have one weapon
QUEEN FROM PAGE 1 remembers Smart when she tried out for the Miss Teen Whittier Pageant in 2001. “She likes to be very hands on with everything she does,” Alvarado said. “Before the pageant meetings would start, she would be teaching ballet to little kids.” Smart finds joy in knowing that her teachings will prove beneficial to the young women and children of Whittier. “I have the opportunity to work with these young women who might not otherwise have the opportunity to learn the things that you learn in a pageant, which is encompassing walking, speaking and the tools that they need to make their life better,” Smart said. “I canʼt think of a greater joy that you could have, just to see them grow and blossom.” Besides being actively involved in her community, Smart feels it is important to make others laugh. She takes pride in bringing out the humor in any given circumstance. “I like being funny, and itʼs not a contrived funny – itʼs just an automatic,” Smart said. “And seeing the humor in places that a lot of people donʼt see, is really what comedy is.” Smart is known as one of Whittierʼs most colorful characters Bill Bell, publisher and editor of the Whittier Daily News, said. To this day, the public persona she projects is bubbly, Barbie-dollish, energetic and slightly eccentric.
against plagiarism, the same one that students use to give them the advantage on papers: the Internet. Many professors can turn to Turnitin.com. Turnitin.com was born of iParadigms, a Northern California company that researchers at UC Berkeley started in 1996 to track copying of research papers by their undergraduates. According to iParadigms, the goals of Turnitin.com are to stop Internet plagiarism and to advance novel tools in education. Turnitin.com reports the percentage of plagiarized information in a document. If an essay comes back 5 percent to 12 percent plagiarized, Esquivel said, she usually assumes the student got the citing rules wrong. If a paper comes back 80 to 100 percent plagiarized, Esquivel assumes the person intended to cheat. The most plagiarized paper she has gotten from a student was in her English 301 class, she said. “I ran the paper through Turnitin.
com and found out that it had been copied from a Web site that specialized in movie reviews,” Esquivel said. Turnitin.com is a helpful resource, Tucker said. “It will have your text marked in red for quotes, and theyʼll bring up the page itʼs from,” Tucker said. Turnitin.com has since expanded and offers a range of other programs, including a series of tools to aid teachers in grading and evaluating assignments and to help students review and respond to their classmatesʼ work online.
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•fdc.fullerton.edu/technol ogy/turnitin to see a video and to learn about avoiding plagiarism. •www.fullerton.edu/senate/ PDF/300/UPS300-021.pdf to read the universityʼs policy on cheating. •teachx.rutgers.edu/integrity/ policy for the Rutgers policy on academic integrity.
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Scarlet Letters of the 21st Century By Cindy Tullues
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n any job, employers expect employees to perform the job at hand with some degree of proficiency. Employees who canʼt live up to their duties often lose their jobs or are forced to resign. That is, of course, unless you happen to work for the Bush Administration. CIA chief Porter Goss abruptly quit last week amid claims by several anonymous CIA sources that he was grossly incompetent in performing his duties. Heʼs been called a weak leader with a poor managing style. People filling positions beyond their qualifications usually become a problem only when it leaves a city underwater, however Gossʼs vacancy is bringing to light various problems with in the CIA and with its effectiveness. Bush hoped to appoint a new chief, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, however his decision was shot down by a leery Congress that doesnʼt like the idea of appointing a military officer as head of the CIA, not to mention Haydenʼs involvement in the controversial wiretapping program that is part of the domestic War on
Terror. Bush contends that Hayden is the right man to lead the CIA forward in the brave new war on terrorism. But in the end, it probably doesnʼt matter who Bush appoints to head the CIA. His administration wonʼt actively work to correct evident problems, but rather turn a blind eye to incompetence wherever itʼs found. This administration has had a lot of difficulty with competence during the course of Bushʼs final term in office, like the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, the handling of the War in Iraq, and losing the publicʼs trust amid scandal after scandal. The presidentʼs approval rating is alarmingly low. But not low enough. Bush just canʼt handle his oversight responsibilities. It is evident from countless problems that have gone uninvestigated until they have blown up in the administrationʼs face. Bush needs to own up to the fact that he, much like Goss, is a weak leader – albeit with strongman ambitions – and like the cronies he appoints into top management positions, grossly unqualified.
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A recent proposal that called to put the letters “DUI” in bright red on license plates for those twice convicted of driving while under the influence was denied earlier last week by the California State Legislature. What were they thinking?! Over the weekend I met a guy who drives around on an electric scooter with a beer in his hand. He nonchalantly mentioned that he has four DUIs on his record that caused him to lose his license. Itʼs people like him that I worry about. I would imagine that after the second conviction he would get his act together. But instead, he made the mistake again, not once, but twice. Granted, he is not allowed to drive anymore by law, but the fact that it took him four times to learn
his lesson is absurd – and that is assuming he learned his lesson considering he is driving around on a scooter intoxicated. While some feel that having these scarlet letters on their license plates is embarrassing and shameful to those convicted, the whole license plate should be red. If you are brave enough get behind the wheel and drive drunk, then you are obviously brave enough to accept the consequences. Someone who is willing to put their life and the lives of other innocent people at risk because they had one too many to drive deserve to be exploited for their stupidity – especially if they get caught. A couple hours of roadside community service does not serve justice. Drunk drivers should constantly be reminded of what they did. Most DUI offenders say that they have learned from their mistakes and will never do it again. But
something needs to be done to prevent people from doing it at all. Living in Orange County, everyone is so concerned about his or her image. Who is wearing what? Whoʼs dating who? Whoʼs driving what? So to prevent people from being daring enough to drive under the influence, public and social humiliation is an awesome tactic. Letʼs face it, no one in the OC is willing to hurt their image by wearing last seasonʼs denim, never mind having ʻDUIʼ on the license plate of their BMW Z4. The plates would not only serve as an embarrassment, but also be a huge preventative and safety measure for other drivers and pedestrians. If anyone saw a car with the letters ʻDUIʼ on it, theyʼd be sure to get out of their way – and quick. Who wants to be on the road with someone who has a record of driving drunk? Old habits die hard. As drivers, we deserve to know who the dangerous drivers are on
the road. We deserve that safety. It is not fair that sober drivers should put have their lives put at risk for someone elseʼs good time. The “DUI” would also draw the attention of police officers that would automatically become suspicious of the drivers. Hopefully it would make someone who has a DUI think twice before heading out to the local bar for some drinks, expecting to drive home. Why risk it? The DUI license plates might not be a solution to the problem, but it is worth the effort and should be reconsidered. If anything, it might not prevent people from driving drunk, but it will make the aftermath a lot more evident. Those convicted will be judged and ridiculed by our society, will be watched by police officers like a hawk stalking its prey and in all, be reminded that being “cool” driving under the influence, is not so cool after all.
break it down by sex. Of course Iʼm merely being facetious, but who gives a damn, right? On to the funny stuff. As I was saying, my startling discovery isnʼt that women are smart; I discovered that last year. Itʼs that women are really smart. Like diabolical and cunning. But to be fair, it doesnʼt quite require the level of cunning they are excising to trick us guys. Blonde hot, beer cold, Iʼm sold. Long story short, women have been manipulating us since the mid-90s. Of course, some snappy girlie will retort that they have been manipulating us since way before that, to which I reply, “Itʼs just a newspaper. I canʼt hear you.” Then I make some funny joke about women and literacy. Jeez, before I get into too much trouble here, let me elaborate on the whole idea of my article. I donʼt mean to bash women. I am in fact awed by them mostly – except for that one girl who tried to talk back to the newspaper. Check this out:
Remember in the mid-90s when all those sexual harassment suits started getting filed against guys? Women in the workplace didnʼt like being treated like sex objects and all that malarkey? Well, it worked. Men ceased to make sexual wisecracks to women, and all seemed to be well and dandy. But pressure built within men. See ladies, it is part of our psychological makeup to be crude … its not our fault, baby, itʼs genetics. So what happened when we could no longer make women objects of our sexual humor? We made other men into surrogate women. Picking out the wimpier guys in the social herd, we bandied them with gay jokes and called them names like “Nancy” and grabbed at their man boobs. Some of them believed it and dug deeper into the warmth of their feminine side and we dubbed them “metrosexuals.” Or maybe they dubbed themselves “metrosexuals.” Either way, they are a growing breed. So it got me to thinking, what type of women
would want effeminate guys tuned into their sensitive sides, guys who like to shop and cry at movies? Women who file sexual harassment lawsuits! Bingo! Women, or more accurately, the type of women who spell “women,” “womyn,” are creating an army. Utilizing all the tools in their brilliant arsenals, womyn are out to end the entire race of self-proclaimed “He-men,” and position these metrosexuals in our place. If the womyn had their way, this column wouldnʼt exist! Donʼt you see? We must strike back. The only way for us to survive is to beat the womyn at their own game. We must harken back to the days of the pre-mid-90s beer commercials. We must whistle like construction workers and grab our crotches in a suggestive manner whenever a foxy chick walks by. Eventually that will break through the womynʼs icy facades. That or we will have to give in and start wearing sweater vests and knowing who “Chandler” is. Hell, come to think of it, either way Iʼm good.
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Every so often I discover some wonderful new invention, some amazing cure for cancer, or make some startling discovery that rocks the world Jeff Klima to its very core. Tonight hapHumor pens to be a Columnist discovery of the latter. Peep this, my little homies: Women are smart. That isnʼt the discovery – of course you women are intelligent. Donʼt bother writing letters, because I wonʼt bother reading them. Itʼs funny. Every so often some women will band together and label me a sexist to which I, every so often, will reply that Iʼm far too much of a racist to ever
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Transfer Marques Barosso lights up the competition for CSUF track and field By lauren padilla
Daily Titan Staff Writer
Marques Barosso joined the Titans track team only three months ago and has lowered his 200-meter time from 21.9 seconds to 21.4 seconds. He is second in the Big West conference in the 200 meters and has the fastest wind legal time. “So really he is the fastest, although he appears second,” Titan track Head Coach John Elders said. Wind legal time refers to wind speeds below two meters per second. “A drop in time that significant is like a really heavy-set person losing 100 pounds in a month,” CSUF assistant track coach Kenny McDaniel said. Barosso was honored as a male track Athlete of the Week on April 26 by the Big West Conference for his efforts. Barosso transferred from Modesto Junior College at the beginning of the semester.
He said that he had the speed, but his coaches taught him and continue to teach him the mechanics of running. “I run wild, Iʼm all over the place,” Barosso said. “McDaniel is teaching me how to run so that I can improve my speed.” Mary Armstrong, a CSUF sophomore, likes to watch some of
“He’s a good person, and my philosophy is a good person makes a fast athlete.” Kenny McDaniel Titan Asst. Coach
CSUFʼs athletes in action. “Marques has a natural talent, when you see him run, you just know he loves it,” Armstrong said. Barosso started running in high school, making the varsity track team his freshman year, but got hurt the following year. Because of various difficulties, he didnʼt start running again until community college. “Running keeps me focused, if I donʼt do well in school I canʼt
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run and Iʼll lose my scholarship,” Barosso said. “Itʼs kind of like a job.” McDaniel said that Barosso is still learning how to run, but if he can fine-tune his mechanics, he might have what it takes to be one of the best runners in the country. “Heʼs a warrior,” McDaniel said. “For Marques, the better the competition, the better his performance will be.” McDaniel said that Barosso puts in the all work to be a great athlete, never missing a day of practice and never being late. “Heʼs a good person, and my philosophy is a good person makes a fast athlete,” McDaniel said. Marques said the night before a meet, he pumps himself up with music and he doesnʼt like to let the pressure get to him. He believes that if you take it too seriously you wonʼt do well. “Itʼs like a chain reaction, he calms everyone down and his good mood spreads to his teammates,” McDaniel said. Barosso hopes to one day become a teacher or coach. For now, he said he likes running because when he runs he doesnʼt have to think about anything else. “I want to be one of the fastest runners,” Barosso said.
The Phoenix Suns picked up where they left off against that other team from Los Angeles. Steve Nash had 31 points and 12 assists, and the Suns pulled away over a five-minute stretch of the fourth quarter to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 130-123 on Monday night in the opener of their Western Conference semifinal series. Shawn Marion had 20 points and 15 rebounds, including 10-of-10 free throws for the Suns, who were 24-of-25 at the line. Raja Bell added 22 points, Boris Diaw 19 and Leandro Barbosa 17 for a Phoenix team playing 48 hours after eliminating the Lakers in seven games. Elton Brand scored 40 on 18-of-22 shooting, but scored only two in the final 8:33 for the Clippers, who hadnʼt played in a week since beating Denver in five games for their first playoff series triumph in 30 years.
Sam Cassell added 28 points and Corey Maggette 20. Los Angeles shot 59 percent and still couldnʼt keep up with the Suns, who shot 55 percent. Phoenix has averaged 122 points in winning its last four playoff games after falling behind the Lakers 3-1. Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy said the score needed to be in the 90s for his team to win. Both teams had passed that by the end of the third quarter. Brandʼs dunk with 8:33 to go tied the game for the last time at 101. Diaw scored the next four on a driving layup and a running, 10-foot bank shot to trigger an 11-2 run that gave Phoenix a 112-103 lead on Nashʼs 17-footer with 5:35 remaining. The surge reached 19-6 on Nashʼs 3pointer that made it 120-107 with 2:56 left. Cassell kept the Clippers in it, and his layup cut the lead to 122-115 with 1:45 to go. But Nash converted a three-point play
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Softball Titans Take Series at Cal Poly
Katie Gollhardt tripled home on the go-ahead run and Candice Baker went the distance Sunday afternoon as Cal State Fullerton won the crucial rubber game of its three-game Big West Conference softball series at Cal Poly SLO with a come-from-behind 4-2 decision. The win improved the Titansʼ overall record to 33-22 and its Big West mark to 11-4 for a first-place tie with Long Beach State. Cal Poly dropped two games behind the Titans at 9-6 in the Big West and 25-22 overall. Baker gave up a two-run home run to Sarah Iwata in the first inning but blanked the Mustangs the rest of the way for a four-hitter while striking out five and walking none. Amanda Kamekonaʼs double keyed a two-run third inning to irvina kanarek/Daily Titan tie the game and Gollhardt tripled home Baker to make it 3-2 in the FULL SPEED AHEAD: Titan track and field sprinter Marques fifth. Kamekona was 1-for-3 in the Barosso has been one of the teamʼs more consistent performers in 2006. game. Ashlee Weatherford added an insurance run with an RBI single in the sixth. Ashley Van Boxmeer was 3-for4 in the game with an RBI. Fullerton wraps up the regubrated his 28th birthday on Sunday and Suns lar season this weekend at home with a minute left, and the game was over. The Clippers outscored the Suns 16-2 coach Mike DʼAntoni turned 55 on Monday. with a Friday doubleheader and over the final four minutes of the first half to Marion drew a technical after he was called a Saturday single game with UC for his third foul with 29 seconds left in the Riverside. go up 61-56 at the break. Long Beach State plays a threePhoenix didnʼt have a field goal in the first half. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has attend- game series at UC Santa Barbara. last 4:10 as its usually high-powered offense ed the last two playoff games in Phoenix, In the event of a head-to-head turned stagnant. Brand scored 23 in the first half on 10-for- accompanying Jerry Colangelo, the Sunsʼ tie, Fullerton owns the tie-break13 shooting. The Suns scored nine in a row chairman and former owner. Colangelo is er for an automatic NCAA berth to go up 68-65 on Marionʼs stuff with 8:49 head of USA Basketball and Krzyzewski by virtue of winning the seasonʼs is the U.S. head coach for this yearʼs world series against the 49ers, 2-1. left in the third. On Sunday, the Titans will await Dunleavy called a timeout, and Cassell championships and the 2008 Olympics. In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference word on an NCAA Regional berth scored nine in a 13-2 run that put Los Angeles back on top, 78-70, with 6:18 to go semifinals on Monday night, Vince Carter announcement. scored 27 points, Jason Kidd added 22, and in the quarter. Information provided by CSUF The Suns rallied and Bellʼs 3-pointer with the New Jersey Nets saw most of a 28-point Sports Media Relations 2.1 seconds to go in the third put Phoenix third-quarter lead vanish before hanging on www.Fullertontitans.com to beat the Miami Heat 100-88. ahead 93-91 entering the fourth quarter. Brand is the 13th player to score at least 40 points against Phoenix in the playoffs. Marion cele-
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