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Monday September 11, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton September 11, Five Years Later
Sept. 11 Paper Garners Acclaim CSUF journalists thrust into covering events of September 11, 2001 By Benjamin Weiner Daily Titan Copy Editor bweiner@dailytitan.com
The mood was somber in the Daily Titan newsroom as horrifying imagery blared from the TV. The shocked student journalists assembled to watch the events of Sept. 11, 2001, unfold. Communications Professor Jeffrey Brody was the Daily Titan faculty advisor that year. Walking into the newsroom, he knew it would be an important day for the student journalists. “Our job, when there’s a world historical event, you cover that event. And you can cover it just as
well from Fullerton as from New York,” Brody said. The campus was closed down and we all thought it was essentially a lost day, said Robert Sage, business manager and advisor for Daily Titan advertising. But Brody came in and fired up the news team. Brody gave everyone in the newsroom an option that day. He told them they could leave and go home, or they could stay and become journalists, said that semester’s Managing Editor Magda Liszewska. “One of the professors came by to give the evacuation order as the rest of the campus closed. We had a choice: go home and be with our families or stay and get the story. One student left. The rest of us hunkered down. We watched out the window as a line of cars headed toward the freeway. Then
we went to work,” said then-Senior Editor Lori Anderson in an e-mail interview. “I couldn’t be any prouder because the students had the opportunity to leave, and instead they rose to the occasion; they stayed, they acted as journalists,” Brody said. After Brody’s pep talk, the Daily Titan crew immediately went into action assigning stories and thinking of angles and contacts. “I had such a great staff that they were already on it,” said Darleene Powells, then editor in chief. “They were already doing what needed to be done.” “We all seemed to be on the same pulse that day,” Powells said. Daily Titan Assistant News Editor Rita Freeman had returned from New York roughly a week before the terrorist attacks. She recalled wanting to sleep in that
9/11 In Your Own Words
unforgettable morning, but was awakened by a phone call from her mother who was screaming about the plane crashing into the first tower. “I immediately thought of my friend Linda who worked on the 13th floor of Tower 2. I tried to call her all day,” Freeman said. Powells, whose name was Darleene Barrientos at the time, called and asked Freeman to go to Los Angeles International Airport and see
“I was scared and
shocked. You feel like you’re watching a movie. You see buildings blow up and break apart. People are actually dying while you’re watching this.”
– Jessica Hadlock Freshman Programs Student Assistant
“It was a wake-up call for America to know that there are people out there that don’t like us. We’re not a perfect nation. I learned that through 9/11.”
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Memories Still Vivid Five Years After Event
– Jose Carlos Zamora Business Major
“It brought the nation together but it divided us too. It took a disaster to bring us back together, but we still later went on to our own little ways by being divided on the issues.”
CSUF students recall their reactions during and after the attacks
– Jared Overson Biochemistry Major
“[9/11] gave the
By Nancy Mora Daily Titan Staff Writer
nation a time to reflect what our values are and what it means to be a nation.”
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WTC - David Drinks, of Baltimore, Maryland, looks at ground zero. One of the many images from the exhibit “here: remembering 9/11” hangs on the fence
surrounding ground zero Saturday Sept. 9, 2006 in New York. The fiancee of Drinks cousin, Joseph McDonald, lost his life in the World Trade Center attacks.
RELATED STORY: Sept. 11 Opinion - Page 4 TV. She wasn’t the only one unaware of what was going on. Sonia Serna, a human services major, was woken up by her panicked parents. Serna was shocked and felt sad and fearful after she followed her parents to the TV. “I never thought it could happen,” Serna said. And many others thought the same thing. “It was kind of a surreal moment,” said Daniel Geesing, a freshman majoring in technical theatre who was in the eighth grade at the time. He understood the situation better after listening to the ongoing conversations of teachers and students in school the following day. In Macau, China, Rebecca Sou was studying in class when breaking
news erupted on the television Americans. It alerted them that screen. She stopped to look at an America was not as safe from other image that she never thought would countries as it proclaimed to be. become recorded in her head. Americans were not only afraid of “I felt terrible,” Sou, a graduate future possible attacks, they were business student also afraid of said. “I saw people other people. crying on TV, “In some ways others running to I felt terrible. I saw you are judged escape.” [for being Arab],” people crying on TV, Sou noticed others running to Abraam Mikhael, many people in a freshman the city watching escape. biochemistry the TV and people said. – Rebecca Sou major, crying for the a graduate student who was- Mikhael, who was United States. The studying in China on Sept. 11 in Egypt at the chaos headlined time, is an Arab the newspapers the and thinks that next day, just like people look at in America. Arabs differently since the attacks. Sou remembers a friend of hers When returning to the states, who was studying in New York Mikhael did notice more restrictions when the attacks occurred. Her in the airports, but no one targeted friend skipped the rest of her school him. He said it was because he does year to return to China because her not have the strong accent some parents asked her to. Arabs do. The situation also frightened When he remembers the
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he date is Sept. 11. It doesn’t even need a year mentioned to define its meaning. Five years ago, on Sept. 10, 2001, The Orange County Register printed articles about a high-priced house for sale in Laguna Beach and the triumph of a well-known university’s girl’s soccer team just minutes away from Cal State Fullerton. An earthquake shook hard enough in Los Angeles that even Orange County felt the magnitude 4.2 tremor. But the quake did not compare to the rumble of the two hijacked airplanes in New York the next day. Televisions around the world glared as news stations from every channel aired live footages of the situation. Aurora Lopez, a Togo’s employee at the Titan Student Union food court, didn’t want to leave sight of her TV on the morning of Sept. 11. “My cousin didn’t let her kids go to school that day,” said Cristina Pineda, a dishwasher in the TSU food court. “I was worried.” But many of those who tried to go on with their daily routines kept themselves current by crowding into offices or classrooms and listening to a radio or watching a TV. “At first, I didn’t know what was actually going on,” said Flor Valente, a senior majoring in psychology. “And then I figured out it was in New York.” Valente was sitting alone in her high school library when she noticed people gathering around the library’s
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depressing images of Sept. 11, Mikhael feels bad for the innocent people who died. “It’s very terrifying to think about it,” Mikhael said. “ You get on a plane and you may never come back.” While some people judged those Arabs, there were those who grew suspicious of people in general. After receiving a call from her mother, Allison Varzally, an assistant history professor, turned on the TV. Varzally said her emotions were full of sadness and fear, but she grew to be more concerned about her father who worked in New York City. Before Sept. 11, Varzally was looking forward to finishing her doctorate degree. However, after the incident, she was distracted and felt melancholic. She didn’t feel safe. “I had to fly within a week,” Varzally said. “I was a little bit anxious about my fellow passengers.”
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“Part of me felt sorry for the people who died, but another part of me felt like there was more behind it.”
– Eddie Perez Biology Major
“I think America is going to feel the trauma for a very long time. [9/11] signifies the change in the way we have to live from now on.” – Vivek Mande Accounting Professor
“It means nothing.
It’s tragic that people died but people die all over the world all the time.”
– Robyn Blackfelner English Major
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September 11, 2006
In Brief
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Gail Fraser’s “Sifting Through” closes Wednesday. Fraser’s exhibit is now being displayed in the Visual Arts building’s Graduate Student Gallery East. It is open Tuesday and Wednesday from noon to 4 p.m.
Tuesday
University President Milton A. Gordon will welcome the Cal State Fullerton community to the start of the university year and will review this year’s goals and budget at the convocation ceremony. The event will take place in Pavilions A and B in the Titan Student Union beginning at 11:30 a.m. A reception will follow in Portola Pavilion C.
Wednesday
The “Make Your Best Impression Workshop” from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Titan Theatre. The workshop will address what employers are looking for in a resume and interviews. Seating for this event is limited. To reserve a seat call (714) 278-3121.
Friday
The Science Laboratory Center will be rededicated as the Dan Black Hall in honor of CSUF Physics alumnus Dan Black. The ceremony will take place in the walkway between McCarthy Hall and Dan Black Hall from 2 to 3 p.m. A reception will follow the ceremony and the hall will be open for tours. Seating for the ceremony is limited. To reserve a seat visit http://nsm.fullerton.edu/DBH. CSUF musical theater students will perform “With A Song in my Heart: The Music of Richard Rogers” in the Concert Under the Stars on the lawn north of Titan Gymnasium beginning at 6 p.m. Under the direction of James R. Taulli, the evening will feature performances by CSUF theater alumni Bradley Standley, Michael Baker, Dana Meller and Julie Kirkpatrick. It is the policy of the Daily Titan to correct any inaccurate information printed in the publication as soon as the error is discovered. Any incorrect information printed on the front page will result in a correction printed on the front page. Any incorrect information printed on any other page will be corrected on page 2. Errors on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections also will be noted on the online version of the Daily Titan. Please contact Managing Editor Cindy Tullues at (714) 278-5693 or at ctullues@dailytitan.com with issues about this policy or to report any errors.
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Big Mouth - Julie Bautista, left, and Nicole Holderman, right, take advantage of free ice cream sundaes from ASI at the Irvine campus Sept. 6.
WORDS: Students Flash Back
(From Page One)
“I am fairly desen-
sitized but even me, at that moment … I remember thinking about how in 10 seconds how many people died right before your eyes?” – Georgia Spiropoulous Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
“9/11 was a terrible
tragedy. Up until that time, I saw the world as America-focused. When that happened, it put everything in a more global stage.”
– Patrick Burgess History Major
“It was sad but we
have to figure out that we were going to get attacked sooner or later, because everything happens once at least.” – Cassandra Hester Graphic Arts Major
“[9/11] means that
the country is under attack and is not safe. There is really nothing we can do about it because it’s all sucker punches from other countries.”
– Eric Nicholson Undeclared
“It felt like it was
unreal because nothing has ever happened in the country like that before. It has always happened to other countries, but never to us. I knew this would make the history books, but I still felt weird.”
– Marissa Massu Theatre Major
Quotes Compiled by Katy French and Paolo Andres
on the wire World
MADRID – A prisoner on trial for alleged threats to a judge threatened the judge presiding over his trial Thursday. Ignacio Javier Bilbao Goikoetxea, a member of the militant separatist group ETA, is currently serving a 45-year sentence for the 2002 murder of a government official. After allegedly threatening Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bilbao Goikoetxea fired threats at Judge Alfonso Guevara during his current trial. “If you’re a man, come here – I’m going to skin you alive,” Bilbao Goikoetxea said, according to Reuters. “Come here if you’ve got the balls – I look forward to shooting you seven times when I get my hands on you.” BRATISLAVA – A 42-year-old man driving a car in the Slovak town of Levice was knocked unconscious Friday in a collision after he failed to yield to an oncoming bus. When Samaritans came to rescue him, they were dismayed at the sight of the driver, who was half naked with a vacuum pump attached to his penis. “I’ve never seen anything like this, nor have my colleagues,” said police officer Peter Polak, according to Reuters. “It’s very likely he had autosex while driving; It is a matter of investigation. After the accident he was found lying in the seat, his pants were off and [the pump] was placed on his penis.”
BERLIN – A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday when he was caught wearing shoplifted merchandise into the Bielefeld shop he had allegedly stolen them from just two days earlier. The shop owner recognized the young bandit decked out in the sport jacket and pair of shoes that were missing from his inventory and notified the authorities. “You have to wonder why he went back into the shop in the stolen get-up,” said a Bielefeld police spokeswoman, according to Reuters. “It seems he may not have been the brightest of thieves.” NORTH TYNESIDE - 33-yearold Mark Woollen of Longbenton, Northumberland did not do himself any favors when caught loitering Thursday morning at the East Benton Stables in Tyne and Wear. Wooden is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to charges of intercourse with an animal, a horse named Molly. He was banned from every stable in Britain and placed on strict curfew as a result of his transgressions. Nonetheless, Woollen resurfaced at the stables to pay another visit to Molly, only to get caught on closed circuit TV and promptly reported to authorities. Out on bail, he has been fitted with an electronic bracelet so authorities can monitor his whereabouts. “They should have kept him in custody,” said Jean Day, the horses’ owner. I could not believe he had the nerve to come back. Molly has lost weight because of the stress.”
September 11, 2006
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COVERAGE: Award-winning paper (From Page One) what was going on there. But Freeman knew that the airport was a mess and media probably weren’t allowed, so she made the choice instead to go to downtown Los Angeles and see what was happening there, she said. “My parents didn’t want me to go; they didn’t understand the journalists’ job,” she said. “L.A. was a ghost town. [There were] hardly any cars or people,” Freeman said, adding that all the flags everywhere were half-staff. The newsroom was hectic when Freeman finally arrived. People were running around frantically and phones were ringing non-stop. The sounds of the voices, typing and the TV, still tuned to CNN, filled the air. “I was trying to call my friend all day and wondering if she is dead,” Freeman said. She finally found out from family that her friend was fine. She got out
after the first plane hit, Freeman said. Freeman produced an article that day titled “Silence Creeps Upon Stunned Los Angeles.” It was one of 16 stories in the eight-page extra-special edition Daily Titan released the next day. Every story was staff-written and related to the attacks. There were no wire stories. “[While] other students left the university, the journalism students stayed and produced an awardwinning newspaper,” Brody said. “And that’s what journalisms all about.” The next year the Daily Titan Sept. 11 special-edition paper would win first place from the Associated Collegiate Press for Best Special Coverage. It also went on to win the Award for Excellence in Breaking News given at the Management Seminar for College Editors. “The moment I was really proud of was the Poynter Institute included our cover in their book of national
and international covers from 9/11,” Liszewska said. The book is called “September 11, 2001: A Collection of Newspaper Front Pages Selected by the Poynter Institute.” The book contains nearly 150 front pages from newspapers around the world. It was dedicated to the victims of Sept. 11. The Daily Titan is one of only two California universities to be featured in the book and among only eight universities nationwide. Besides the national recognition and awards, the campus community offered a lot of feedback to the paper. “In the days after, we got so many phone calls and notes saying you did a great job,” Powells said. “[It’s] a little amazing to realize that they were paying attention to us.” Everyone involved with that famous paper recalls deep memories of that day. “[There are] very few incidents in life that you feel like you made a difference and this was it,” Freeman said.
Gay Pride Festival Brings Life to The Big Easy’s French Quarter “ By Angelle Barbazon The Daily Reveille (LSU)
(U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. - Surrounded by pink and green banners and rainbow flags on Bourbon Street, New Orleans residents and visitors celebrated the 35th annual Southern Decadence, a gay pride festival, in the French Quarter. The six-day celebration took place last week with the annual bar crawl through the French Quarter in honor of the Southern Decadence Grand Marshals Lisa Beaumann and Regina Adams. The festival takes place in portions of the French Quarter that are often frequented by homosexuals. Bars like Bourbon Pub, Parade and Oz participate in the festival every year. Because of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent cancellation of Southern Decadence, bars, restaurants and hotels in the area suffered extensive economic loss. Travis Smith, a bartender at Bourbon Pub and Parade, said the festival brought more people to the city than he anticipated. “Last year’s cancellation had an impact,” he said. “It’s slow without out-of-towners, but I’d say we have about 90 percent of our local business back.” Smith said the festival has always been an important event for Bourbon Pub and Parade, which celebrated its 32nd anniversary in July. Oz bartender Brandon Adams said New Orleans is not back to full capacity, so business is slower than it was before Katrina.
[Southern] Decadence is one of those things where you can be yourself.
– Brandon Adams New Orleans Bartender
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New Orleans gay group meets for the first time since the levees broke
The bar reopened in January, but operates on limited hours. He said business has been picking up because Southern Decadence ranks in the bar’s top three celebrations, along with Mardi Gras and Halloween. Adams said he likes Southern Decadence because of its openminded atmosphere. “Decadence is one of those things where you can be yourself,” he said. Othello Hamilton, a bellman at the Place d’Armes Hotel, said New Orleans needed a big event like Southern Decadence to resume economic development after Katrina. “If Southern Decadence was actually publicized like Mardi Gras, people would see that we can accommodate a lot of things,” he said. The hotel did not have water damage and reopened in late October. Hamilton said he asks guests where they are from when they check in to the hotel. Mark Schmandt and Robert Fortney, who have residences in Milwaukee and Chicago, have attended Southern Decadence more than six times. Fortney said he likes the energy and the atmosphere. Schmandt said they planned to
visit the city together before the festival was canceled last year. “I was disappointed for the city and sad for the community,” Schmandt said. Some bartenders and store owners said they had not seen any religious groups protesting the festival as of Saturday morning. Hamilton said some religious groups may have stayed away from the festival this year out of sensitivity for the whole New Orleans community, but some groups appeared in the afternoon. “Our duty is to warn the sinners,” said Kendall Boutwell, an evangelist representing The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Brookhaven, Miss. Boutwell wore a sandwich board warning liars, drunkards, homosexuals, blasphemes and others. He handed pamphlets to tourists and locals who passed him on the corner of Toulouse and Decatur streets. He said it is important to preach against Southern Decadence because he thinks homosexuals want “special rights” like same-sex marriage and exclusive insurance policies. A passage in the pamphlet titled “Killer Storm: God Puts Sin-City Under Water” reads, “With the abomination, Southern Decadence, days from beginning, a merciful and just God finally intervened. Using Katrina as an instrument of judgment, God answered the defiant cesspool of iniquity by sending us divine retribution to a city apparently without a conscience.” Boutwell said he agreed with the pamphlet because he did not believe Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster. “I believe God is sending us signals,” he said. “[Sinners] need to repent, or God will send more.”
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MySpace Challenges iTunes for Share of Music Sales By Aliya Puri Daily Pennsylvanian (U. Penn)
(U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA - Although their tastes in music might be different, there is one thing many university students can have in common: sleek software called iTunes that sells millions of digital songs. But a new program is trying to compete. Having dominated the digital music industry – and the laptops of university students – for the past several years, iTunes may soon be challenged by the social-networking Web site MySpace.com. The site
announced plans last week to sell digital music, much of it from unsigned bands. Although MySpace executives said music listeners want alternatives to iTunes, University of Pennsylvania marketing professor Peter Fader said that the two providers serve completely different audiences. There is limited potential for serious competition, he said, and university users already loyal to iTunes will probably continue to use it. “The only real competition for MySpace,” he said, “will be with other independent-music providers.” Although iTunes sells music by some underground bands, it mostly
provides songs by established artists. “The serious underground indierock fans will likely be drawn to MySpace and not toward iTunes, while mainstream music fans will continue to flock iTunes,” Fader said. But this new venture by MySpace might help “convert” some mainstream listeners to underground music, Fader said. For some blossoming university musicians – many of whom use MySpace to publicize their bands, even if they don’t have contracts with record labels – a new audience may soon be purchasing their music.
Further Charges in Molestation Another pair charged in the sexual assault of HIVpositive 11-year-old girl By Carrie Antlfinger Associated Press Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Two more people were charged Friday in the case of an 11-year-old girl who authorities said had sex with as many as 20 people while a 16-yearold girl coached her. The 16-year-old girl and her 17year-old boy boyfriend were charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child, said the 16year-old girl’s uncle. The 16-year-old girl and a 15year-old boy also have been charged in juvenile court with being party to sexual assault of a child. A police spokeswoman said they were still seeking five others in the case. Also on Friday, alderman Mike McGee Jr. said he met with the girl, whom he described as distraught. He said she has been infected with
HIV since birth and that her mother died of AIDS. “You can’t expect her to be doing well,” he said. The likelihood of someone spreading the AIDS virus through a single sex act is not well known. A key factor is how much virus is in the infected person’s blood, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers who have studied the topic. Treatment with AIDS drugs greatly reduces the amount of virus in the blood. The 11-year-old girl told police she was interested in the teenage girl, who looked and dressed like a boy, authorities said in court records. According to the complaint filed in adult court against the two teenagers, the 11-year-old said the 16-year-old told her she should perform various sex acts on a number of young men at the teen’s house and she agreed. She was in a bedroom and began performing sex acts on a number of males, the complaint said. When the 17-year-old came home from work, the teenage girl
encouraged the 11-year-old to have sex with him. Initially, the 11-year-old refused, but eventually gave in. The 17-year-old admitted he had unprotected intercourse with the girl on the bed, the complaint said. In the juvenile court documents, the 16-year-old girl’s uncle said his niece coached the 11-year-old. The public defender’s office said no attorneys had been assigned to the teenagers as of Friday. According to court records from the juvenile court case, the 11-yearold told police after the incident in the bedroom. There, she went to the basement where there were about 15 males and “began to choose who she wanted to perform oral sex on.” The 16-year-old denied encouraging her, court records said. No child can give legal consent for sex, District Attorney E. Michael McCann said Friday. “Whether the 11-year-old child consented or not is utterly irrelevant,” he said.
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September 11, 2006
OPINION Titan Editorial Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960
Arrival of World War III By Benjamin Weiner
Daily Titan Copy Editor bweiner@dailytitan.com
Remember 9/11
One week ago, President Over 40,000 Iraqi civilians have Bush paid a visit to Louisiana in lost their lives because of Sept. commemoration of Hurricane 11. We haven’t moved beyond Katrina. Sept. 11 because it is still The storm killed thousands happening. of people and destroyed millions It is still going on every day. of dollars in property and This, of course, begs the question: infrastructure. isn’t Katrina still happening? Now the media is saturated Whole neighborhoods in with stories about the five-year New Orleans are still devastated. anniversary of the Sept. 11 Federal aid checks are being attacks. The level of coverage is given out haphazardly, when several degrees above anything they’re being given out at all. afforded to the Katrina People are still living in anniversary. trailers, at their friends’ homes At first, it seems obvious why: or on the streets. a storm is a natural disaster, A year later, New Orleans but the events of Sept. 11 were is still very much in shambles. orchestrated and The government carried out by response to terrorists. Katrina was There was We haven’t moved j u m b l e d , a conscious, confused and beyond Sept. ll coordinated ultimately because it is still attack on U.S. deadly. interests, one The effects happening. intended to are still there; demoralize flooded-out our people and shells of homes punish our that may never government. be renovated As a direct sit in empty result of those attacks, the neighborhoods throughout New United States swiftly entered into Orleans. armed conflict. First, we invaded When disaster and tragedy Afghanistan and destroyed its strike, Americans should be government. Next we turned to concerned. Iraq, overthrowing its leadership We should be scrutinizing and installing a new system. coverage, we should be looking The reason we still see for every piece of information, Sept. 11 every day has more and we should be analyzing to do with the fact that it was what’s going on. an attack. The real reason is Sept. 11 should be because it is still with us. remembered, but we’ve allowed it Some 2,500 soldiers have died to overshadow things we should in Iraq because of Sept. 11. be just as angry about.
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We are in the midst of World War III. Before you do anything rash like buying a bus ticket to Canada, allow me to explain. On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacked not only the United States, but also Western culture. This attack, when looked back on by historians, may be viewed as the start of World War III. In order to validate my theory, we first need to define what a world war is. A world war can be defined as a war in which the major nations of the world are involved. World wars usually span multiple continents, have many casualties and are severely destructive. World War III is not the same as other world wars because this current war does not include some of the factors of the definition listed above. This war is not on the scale of the first two world wars because we fight wars differently now. This is instead a guerrilla war – a war based on ideologies and fought by terrorist organizations that have infested every nation in the world. President Bush has dubbed this “The War on Terror.” The War on Terror is merely a less-invasive name given to this current war. It would frighten a lot of people if we called it World War III. But this is a world war because terrorist acts have been carried out on
every inhabited continent. So whatever we want to call it, whether The War on Terror or World War III, it is certain that it is a world-involved war. While I do think the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were the straw that broke the camel’s back and started this worldwide war, America is not necessarily the victim. History may show America as the antagonist in this world struggle. Wars are fought over who ultimately controls vital resources such as oil. And if there is blame toward terrorists for pushing their ideologies and trying to destroy those who don’t live up to their standards, then America is also to blame. Bush can easily be seen as a dictator and America could be construed as forcing democracy on others. America ushered the world into the atomic age, and now we are afraid of others having what we created. The power and influence we hold over other nations is our modern-
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day colonialism. So some may actually see the occupation of Kuwait or invasion of Iraq the start of World War III. The United States circumvented the United Nations and began a war. The United Nations was formed after World War II for the sole reason of preventing and intervening to limit future wars. It remains to be seen what history will write for our time. Historians and scholars decades from now may look at President Bush as the man who put the onceflourishing United States into an economic vortex that destroyed our nation’s foreign policy, or as the man who saw the beginnings of world destruction and made moves that maintained the world’s status quo. It is too early to tell. Only history will decide.
The Fall of Another Empire By Rachel Douglass
Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
Rome wasn’t built overnight, nor was the great nation of the United States. Both empires expanded as a result of struggle, toil and war. Rome, an all-powerful nation, pushed its military into neighboring countries. As it expanded, it began to weaken and ultimately fall. At the young age of 13, I stood holding my grandfather’s steady hand before the ruins of the once great and terribly horrific Colosseum. This was once a place of entertainment for ancient Roman man where Christians and slaves were fed to lions and forced to fight each other to the death. This edifice now serves as a tourist attraction for the thousands of tourists that flock to its remains each year. When I stood with my Grandfather, I did not fully grasp the symbolism that this edifice once represented for the great empire. The Roman Colosseum, like the World Trade Center, stood for strength and power. At 21, I returned to the very spot I had stood in. I felt my “Papa”
near me. I felt overwhelmed with nostalgia mixed with a sickening dread. Dreadfully I see parallels between our great “empire” and the nowfallen Roman Empire. Rome was a once powerful empire and is now nonexistent. With this image in my head I think of the rubble of ground zero. The hole in the ground, a result of Sept. 11, is like the deteriorating Colosseum in Rome. Rome’s which reminds me of the classical period ended in A.D. 476, which reminds me of the five years that have passed since ominous smoke billowed out of the World Trade Center towers. That day in September I walked into my first class. I was unaware of brewing hatred abroad for the United States and its leaders. I stood frozen, paralyzed by fear and shock. What did this mean? What did this mean for our people and for the country? The question lingered in my mind and for it I found no answer. Quickly the answer came as our government bombed Baghdad and called the young men of my generation off to war. This war against terrorism became a reason for the government to expand what President Dwight
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D. Eisenhower called the militaryindustrial complex. I’m still trying to figure out how we can fight covert terrorism by openly bombing civilian towns filled with women and children. It’s been four years since the war started and we’re in it for the “long haul.” I think of so many things, but mainly I think of Rome. Are we the modern-day Rome? We push our ideal of democracy, as the Roman government pushed its ideals on other people. Rome didn’t allow religious freedom until the day of King Charlemagne in 800 when Pope Leo III crowned him Emperor Augustus. Are we weakening now as the Roman military eventually weakened? Are we, as they did, running out of resources? Our troops are thinly stretched out protecting “our way of life.” We are running out of money to fund the war, going deeper and deeper into debt. I remember the saying “those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.” If so, is our fall inevitable if we refuse to learn from the past? I wonder when enough is enough.
Safer 55% “Do you think the Bush Administration has been overstating the level of threat the United State faces from terrorism, understating it, or accurately describing it?”
Overstating 29% “Do you think the U.S. campaign against terrorism is going very well, fairly well, not too well or not well at all?”
Fairly Well 45% “How much confidence do you have in the ability of the U.S. government to prevent further terrorist attacks against Americans in this country: a great deal, a good amount, only a fair amount or none at all?”
Only a Fair Amount 43% “Do you think the United States is doing all it reasonably can do to try to prevent further terrorist attacks, or do you think it should do more?”
Should do More 60% “Are you personally worried about traveling by commercial airplane because of the risk of terrorism, or do you think the risk is not that great?”
Not Worried 60% “In investigating terrorism, do you think the federal agencies like the FBI are or are not intruding on some Americans’ privacy rights?”
Are 61% Source: ABC News Poll. Sept.5-7, 2006
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“We’ve done a helluva job here at home in terms of homeland security.” Vice President Dick Cheney “I thought it was a pilot error. I thought that some foolish soul had gotten lost - and made a terrible mistake.” President George W. Bush “I knew, the farther we get away from Sept. 11, the more likely it is for some around the world to forget the mission. But not me.” President George W. Bush Source: CBS.com
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Start of Another NFL Season Brings Fans Out For various reasons, interest in the pro game is at an all-time high BY ALVIN ANOL
The Titans starts the season on fire with an unprecented 8-1 record
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eventeen weeks, 16 regularseason games. Playoffs if you are good enough, and just maybe a Super Bowl victory. Despite its short season, the National Football League holds a high place with the average American, taking the nation by storm every year when the new season begins. The season doesn’t take more than five months, beginning in September and ending in early February. Still, it is long enough to make a champion earn their way through, but short enough to maintain the attention of an audience that has a short attention span. “The game is too intense to be played any longer than it is now,” Cal State Fullerton sophomore Fernando Kamiyama said. “Football is the most physically demanding sport.” One thing the NFL is not short on is drama. The NFL has many complimentary story lines that accompany the quest for winning the Super Bowl, varying from typical rivalry match-ups to drug use. The NFL is widely regarded as one of the few major sports institutions in America that has a strict policy regarding drugs as well as a comprehensive test that detects many performance-enhancing drugs. All that has been put into question now that human growth hormone, is apparently not tested for in the NFL. The hormone is most often associated with Major League Baseball and linked with such players as Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi,
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By carlos delgado/For the Daily Titan GEEKED UP – Fans at the restuarant, Kansas City BBQ in San Diego react after a play during the Kansas City Chiefs’ opening game on Sunday. who allegedly have used HGH or other performance-enhancing drugs. “Some guys need to use it to get better, and it’s sad,” Kamiyama said. He said it cheapens the game. In an interview on the HBO show “CostasNow,” former NFL player Dana Stubblefield went as far as saying that he thought “30 percent” of NFL players are currently using HGH or some other type of performance-enhancing drug. If such an allegation is true, then one of the focuses this season will be on assuring the public that the NFL is clean.
If the NFL can produce a clean image, they won’t have trouble letting it be known. The NFL produces a product whose market audience can now be reached through six different networks [ABC, ESPN, FOX, NBC, CBS and the NFL Network] that will regularly be showing live games or replays of games. NBC is proud to make their return to broadcasting football, taking the Sunday–night time slot that was previously held by ESPN. Anchoring the Sunday–night game will be former Monday Night Football mainstay Al Michaels and
popular color commentator John Madden. The biggest change, however, is the switch of Monday Night Football from local television to cable television, with ABC switching the telecast to ESPN. For the first time in its history, Monday Night Football will only be available to viewers who have a cable or satellite broadcast. “It’s messed up,” sophomore John Marquez said. “I think they are going to lose a lot of viewers who aren’t willing to pay for cable or satellite.” The NFL Network will begin
broadcasting games later in the season and it will also offer replays of games from each week for those who may have missed a special play or highlight. The NFL Network’s 24 hour, seven days a week focus on football allows football freaks to catch up on anything they missed throughout the week. “There are a lot of shows on [the NFL Network] that NFL junkies will like,” said Damon Barber, a bartender at Dave and Buster’s. “They have celebrity fantasy leagues and ‘NFL Total Access,’ which covers just about everything.”
al State Fullerton women’s volleyball remained unbeaten in 2006 tournament play as they took the championship of the Comcast Lobo Invitational, 3-0 (30, 13, 30-21, 30-21), from the tournament’s host New Mexico Saturday night at the Johnson Center. The Titans won their ninth consecutive game improving to 81, a record never achieved by any Fullerton volleyball team in the school’s history. The Comcast Lobo Invitational runners-up, the Lobos, fall to 4-6 on the year. The Tournament’s MVP Julie Geissert had a handle on all aspects of the final game, collecting five kills, 33 assists, one service ace, seven digs and four block assists while hitting .417 in the match. In the Tournament, she posted 10.89 assists per game, while finishing second on the team in blocks with 11 assists in nine games. The Titans hit just .214 in the match, while the opponents did themselves in, committing 28 attacking errors en route to a -.024 hitting percentage. Breanna Trudeau led all players in kills with 11, with nine of them coming in the first two games for the Titans. Jeanne Fairchild led the Lobo squad with eight kills. CSUF will return to the court next Friday, as they host Lipscomb, Pennsylvania and San Diego State in the Hawthorne Suites Fullerton Classic at Titan Gym.
Women’s Soccer Loses in Double Overtime Against San Diego Toreros Over the Weekend Titans’ record drops to 2-1-1 overall after 2-1 defeat down South Titan Media Relations
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an Diego’s Veronica Ambort headed home across from teammate Natalie Vinti in the fourth minute of the second overtime to lift the host Toreros to a 2-1 extra-time victory over No. 19 Cal State Fullerton on Friday night at Torero Stadium. The loss was the Titans’ first of the season as they fell to 2-1-1 overall while playing in their secondstraight double overtime contest. USD improved to 4-1 overall. Vinti, who scored the tying goal in the 83rd minute, sent a pass across from the left corner that was met by the head of Ambort and past Fullerton keeper Karen Bardsley for the game-winner in the 104th minute of play. Junior Brianna Buffington gave the Titans the early lead late in the second half, scoring from 14 yards out off a pass from senior Lauryn Welch for the 1-0 advantage. It was Buffington’s first goal of
her Titan career. That goal almost stood up until Vinti’s score at the 82:58 mark as she scored in close off a corner from Jackie Garcia to tie the match at 1-1. Fullerton was outshot for the third consecutive match as San Diego held a 13-10 advantage in the shot column, including the only three shots in the two overtime periods. Welch and Buffington each had three shots on the night to lead the Titans while Bardsley made seven saves in the match. CSUF returns to action on Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. as the Titans return to San Diego, Calif., this time to take on San Diego State.
CSUF WOMEN’S SOCCER TO MAKE TV DEBUT ON FOX SOCCER CHANNEL
CSUF will make its television debut in October as the Titans’ clash with rival Long Beach State at Titan Stadium will be shown live on the Fox Soccer Channel at 8 p.m. For more information and local channel listings, visit their Web Site at www.foxsoccer.com.
By carlos delgado/For the Daily Titan UP HIGH – Senior goalkeeper Karen Bardsley shows off some of her skills during a Titan women’s soccer practice. For her efforts, she got weekly honors from the Big West, Soccer Buzz and Soccer America National Teams of the Week.
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