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Thursday September 21, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Positions of All Kinds at CSUF’s Biggest Job Fair By Angie El Sherif
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White tents, brightly colored tables and hundreds of students covered the Quad at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday for the Fall Internship and Job Fair. Over 230 companies attended the fair, which made it the “biggest so far,” said Ryan Gerrish, student assistant for the CSUF Career Center. Laura Matz, the arts, entertainment & communications specialist at the Career Center, said that the interest is much higher for this fair than previous ones. “We keep getting more and more employers every year,” Gerrish said.
FBI Ends Financial Aid Probe
Another observable difference, “Cartoon Network & Fox Mobile Matz said, was that “there are so Entertainment are both first time atmany different industries represent- tendees, as is Alaska Airlines,” Matz ed.” said. Several nonprofit and governPrimedia, one of the corporate ment-sector organisponsors this year zations were present and the publishers such as the Peace If a student prepares of about 150 differCorps, YMCA of for this fair well, then ent magazine titles, Orange County also present. they can save signifi- wasCompanies and the Los Angeles ofcant time in their job fered a variety of County Police. Over 30 finance- search. positions from en– Laura Matz try level and internrelated companies Career Center Specialist ships to full time. such as Alliance Funding Group, Automatic Data Inc., Bank of AmerProcessing was hirica, Citibank and Prudential Finan- ing for sales positions. “We are lookcial attended as well. ing for aggressive, outgoing personOther companies that set up alities,” said ADP Sales Recruiter tables included 24 Hour Fitness, Tamara Conrad. “It is obviously a plus when they Kaiser Permanente, Old Navy, Vons, ABC Channel 7 and The Disney- come actually prepared with their resumes and dressed professionally,” land Resort.
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she said. “The funny thing about a job fair is that the companies sometimes have job openings for positions that are very different than the industry the company represents,” Matz said. KTLA and ABC Channel 7 did not just offer jobs for camera operators, directors, or makeup artists. They were also offering internships for students interested in programming, research, sales, finance, community affairs, network affiliations, human resources and creative services, she said. Some students came prepared wearing dress clothes and carrying briefcases while other students were just passing by on the way to class. “I actually forgot that there was a job fair until yesterday,” said communications freshman Christian
By CaMeron Pemstein/For the Daily Titan
Arresting Job - Deputy Courtney Nguyen from the Orange County Sheriff Department entices Anthony Sandoval to apply for Saturday’s written and physical agility test at the Internship and Job Fair on Wednesday.
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Lone Rider
Horse Racing, Food, Contests, Parades, Music, Rides and Shopping Abound at the L.A. County Fair
Scrutiny of student loan and grant recipients formally closed in August
Megan’s Law and Issues of Privacy Efficacy and privacy of sex offender laws a concern around the world By Katy French
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The FBI just concluded a project that searched through financial aid records in their hunt for possible terrorists after Sept. 11. Project Strikeback was a combined effort of the FBI and the Federal Education Department to search for possible terrorists, primarily through federal applications for financial aid. Started just after the Sept. 11 attacks, the agencies worked together to investigate whether financial aid money was being used for terrorist activities. The Federal Department of Education cannot confirm nor deny whether the Cal State Fullerton databases were searched in the project’s wake. “During the 9/11 investigation and continually since, much of the intelligence has indicated terrorists have exploited programs involving student visas and financial aid,” said Cathy Milhoan of the FBI National Press Office. Milhoan added that their search through the financial aid databases was part of their overall mission of investigating suspects through possible leads. Mary Mitchelson, Counsel to the Inspector General, said that by using the names provided by the FBI, the Federal Department of Education examined their student financial aid databases “to determine if the individuals received or applied for federal student financial assistance.” The agencies’ investigation extended throughout schools across the nation, but they said they only inspected fewer than 1,000 names. “This was not a sweeping pro-
Earlier this month the government of New South Wales defeated legislation that would have made information about sex offenders public. Officials said that the law, similar to our own Megan’s Law, would prompt sex offenders to go underground for fear of being harassed by the public. While many countries have adopted similar Megan’s Law type legislation, questions have been raised regarding its true efficacy. This is an issue that has found its way home and is sweeping across the nation as both federal and state governments are re-examining laws concerning sexual offenses. California has led the crusade against sex offenders in recent years, and this month has introduced stricter legislation for them, increasing penalties and acknowledging new forms of sexual crime. Against the backdrop of so much emphasis on this type of legislation, the debate has continued addressing the constitutionality of Megan’s Law and the success of legislation concerning sex offenders. From its initial introduction in 1996, Megan’s Law, named after 7-year-old Megan Kanka who was raped and murdered by a known sex offender, has been the subject of serious controversy. This has only increased in the two years since information about registered sex offenders has been available to the public via the Internet. “Within 24 hours of it going public, I was receiving phone calls with people in just absolute panic,” said Fullerton police Sgt. Craig Odom. In the first two weeks of the Web site’s existence, there were 36 million inquiries. While there has been much debate about the legality of
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Megan’s Law, from disclosing personal information – including risk status, name, aliases, photographs, physical descriptions, ethnicity, date of birth, scars, marks, tattoos, sex offenses, county and zip code – to the legitimacy of its benefits, it is a subject that has maintained a strong public interest. Sexual crimes, particularly pedophilia, are especially frightening to society. “It’s probably one of the worst things that can happen to a child,” said Georgia Spiropoulos, assistant professor of criminal justice at Cal State Fullerton said. “It’s atrocious and the fact that we don’t understand this and it’s happening to children everyday is just appalling.” The public’s interest is constantly baited by shows such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and the NBC Dateline’s popular specials “To Catch a Predator.” “The media does as much damage as it does good,” Spiropoulos said, in terms of sensationalizing such crime. This fear and concern is what has prompted the string of new legislation both in California and across the United States. In spring, criminal justice major and CSUF senior Alison Soltysiak worked in the office of Assemblyman Todd Spitzer staffing legislation to tighten sex offender laws. Soltysiak worked on Assembly Bill 2196, which passed and now makes it mandatory for day cares to tell parents about the Megan’s Law Web site. She attributes the trend in stricter legislation not to politicians but to the people. She said it is “public driven” and that constituents are asking for it. “This type of movement was brought on because people want it, need it and they were made aware of the problems that our law still has, the loopholes that need to be closed,”
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CATCH OF THE DAY
Today
There will be a “Block Party” going on in the TSU from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Free morning coffee and doughnuts will give way to evening entertainment as the day progresses. Soccer Under the Lights. The Titans Men’s Soccer team opens the Big West Conference by hosting 2004 national runners-up Santa Barbara at 7 p.m. at Titan Stadium. Running until Oct. 13, “Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script” is an art exhibit showcasing the significance and influence of Chinese characters in the work of Chinese artists. The show is at the Main Art Gallery and is open from noon to 4 p.m.
Friday
The Center for Internships and Service-Learning will be hosting an all-day conference for faculty, students and community partners in the TSU. The conference will start at 9 a.m. with a networking breakfast. Registration for CSUF students is $35.
Monday
Free one-day walking workshop at the Arboretum from noon to 1:30 p.m. To RSVP contact Jeana French, Fit4Life program coordinator at the Center for Successful Aging, at successaging@fullerton.edu or (714) 278-7012.
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GOING LONG - Musical theatre major Gregg Hammer celebrates his successful catch during a lunchtime Frisbee game Sept. 20.
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ON THE WIRE
Embryo Screening Gives Parents a Choice Survey confirms many fears that many people seek designer babies By MARILYNN MARCHIONE and LINDSE
Associated Press
Boy or girl? Almost half of U.S. fertility clinics that offer embryo screening say they allow couples to choose the sex of their child, the most extensive survey of the practice suggests. Sex selection without any medical reason to warrant it was performed in about 9 percent of all embryo screenings last year, the survey found. Another controversial procedure – helping parents conceive a child who could supply compatible cord blood to treat an older sibling with a grave illness – was offered by 23 percent of clinics, although only 1 percent of screenings were for that purpose in 2005. For the most part, couples are screening embryos for the right reasons – to avoid passing on dreadful diseases, said Dr. William Gibbons, who runs a fertility clinic in Baton Rouge, La., and is president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, which assisted with the survey. “There are thousands of babies born now that we know are going
to be free of lethal and/or devastat- 415 fertility clinics, of which 190 ing genetic diseases. That’s a good responded. thing,” he said. They were asked about pre-imHowever, the survey findings also plantation genetic diagnosis, or confirm many ethicists’ fears that PGD, which can be done as part of Americans increasingly are seeking in vitro fertilization, when eggs and “designer babies” not just free of sperm are mixed in a lab dish and medical defects but also possessing the resulting embryos implanted dicertain desirable traits. rectly into the womb. “That’s a big problem if that’s In PGD, a single cell from an emtrue,” Boston Unibryo that is three versity ethicist to five days old is George Annas said It performs a much removed to allow of the sex selection its genes and chrodesired service. finding. mosomes to be ana“This is not We’re making people lyzed. a risk-free tech- happy. About 1 of every nique,” he said re20 in vitro preg– Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg nancy attempts in ferring to in vitro Director of Fertility Institutes fertilization, which the United States can over-stimulate last year used PGD, a woman’s ovathe survey found. ries and bring the Two-thirds of the risk of multiple births. time it was to detect abnormalities “I don’t think a physician can jus- that would keep the embryo from tify doing that to a patient” for sex developing normally and doom the selection alone, Annas said. pregnancy attempt. Survey results were published on In 12 percent of cases, PGD was the Internet Wednesday by the med- used to detect single-gene disorders ical journal Fertility and Sterility and like those that cause cystic fibrosis. will appear in print later. Three percent of cases were to detect The survey was led by Susanna problems that mostly affect males, Baruch, a lawyer at Johns Hopkins because they have only one copy of University’s Genetics and Public certain genes. Policy Center in Washington, D.C., However, these cases are different with the cooperation of the repro- from those done purely for gender ductive medicine society. preference. It involved an online survey of A whopping 42 percent of clinics
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that offer PGD said they had done so for non-medically related sex selection. Nearly half of those clinics said they would only offer sex selection for a second or subsequent child. “That’s really startling,” University of Pennsylvania ethicist Arthur Caplan said of the high number of PGD for sex selection alone. “Family balancing seems like a morally persuasive reason to some people,” but doing gender selection just because a couple doesn’t want any girls, or any boys, is troubling, he said. One doctor who offers it takes a different view. “It performs a much desired service. We’re making people happy,” said Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, medical director of Fertility Institutes, which has clinics in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Guadalajara, Mexico. Many countries ban PGD or restrict it to prevention of serious inherited diseases. Many people from foreign countries travel to the United States to obtain it, especially from countries like China and Canada. Baruch said the survey was intended to get a realistic view of what was going on. “This is the first time anyone has tried to quantify how often PGD is done and what it’s being offered for,” she said.
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Communications lab in College Park building answers the age-old question by replacing Dell computers with Macs
They added Mac computers to two of their labs, including the animation lab. news@dailytitan.com However, these departments were not completely switching. For some communications students this semester, Dulay said students shouldn’t have much trouble walking into the basement classrooms at College Park with the switch. was different. “For those who are switching, Mac interface is inIt was different because desktop Macs had replaced tuitive,” Dulay said. “They will find things that are the Dell computers that used to be there. similar in the PC operating system Communications major Abby and the Mac operating system. The Krom isn’t a big Mac fan. transition should not be difficult.” “I usually use PC. I’m comfortable Bedford said students should not There isn’t a right with it,” Krom said. “I’ve never had be concerned with the transition. click button. an issue with Macs, it just takes me “Working on the Mac is actually longer to figure it out.” It bothers me. easier,” he said. “But students someThe switch occurred over the sumtimes have trouble because they are mer. The Dell computers were becomtrying to do things the hard way, – Abby Krom ing dated, Mike Bedford, the Comm Communications Major like they have to in Windows. OverLab IT consultant said. all though, students adapt quite well Bedford, after testing out a new after being shown the ropes.” program that allows Windows to be Krom, who owns a PC laptop, used on Macs, suggested that the Dell said the one thing that drives her computers be replaced with Macs. crazy about Macs is the mouse. The release of Macs with Intel processors made the “There isn’t a right click button,” she said. “It bothswitch possible, he said. ers me.” “After doing some testing, I recommended to our Apple’s Web site offers a support guide called administrators that we make the switch,” Bedford said “Switch 101” for PC users who are switching over to in an e-mail interview. “Thus we are able to offer Win- Mac. dows to those who need it, and OS-X to the rest.” Maria Leon, an advertising student who recently Communications isn’t the only department that bought a MacBook Pro, said the transition has been provides Mac computers for its students. Maria Du- an easy one. lay, manager at the Titan Tech Center, said the music “I feel more protected with a Mac,” Leon said. department and the College of the Arts purchased “They rarely crash, they’re really easy to use, the design Macs. is great and the battery lasts a long time.” By Anne Chanthavong For The Daily Titan
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Mackety Mac - Students in a graphic design class work on the new 20-inch iMacs in the computer lab of the College Park building.
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Web Site Allows Note Sharing Golf Tournament To Raise Money Swapnotes provides an online forum for students to share information
Scholarship funds raised on the green will go to CSUF students By Marina Zarate
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Cal State Fullerton Alumni Association is hosting the 10th Annual Jerry Goodwin Alumni Association Golf Tournament Monday at the Yorba Linda Country Club. The event benefits CSUF students. The money raised from the tournament will be awarded as scholarships. The awards are given to students from all eight colleges, athletics and on the President’s Scholars and Guardian Scholars lists. “This is the main fundraising event that provides scholarships for students,” said Carlos Leija, executive director of alumni relations. “We always plan for this event to be a success.” Participants will include local corporations, alumni and friends of the Alumni Association. Among them will be Ralphs, Food for Less, Dave and Buster’s, Chino Ice, Geico, and Jostens. Last year’s event raised more that $40,000. Graduate student Kimberly Jackson expressed her appreciation to the sometimes-ignored Alumni Association. “It always makes me feel great to hear about an organization giving back to the students,” Johnson said. “Although I am a student, I am also an alumni and I hope to one day contribute as much as Mr. Goodwin has to the university.” Registration is set to begin at 9 a.m. with coffee and doughnuts for the players. The players will be given a
lunch, and dinner will be provided courtesy of Outback Steakhouse. The event will culminate at 5 p.m. with a live auction for travel, golf, winery and entertainment packages. Leija estimates that approximately 130 players are registered for the event and 144 tickets have already been sold. Sponsorship packages range from $2,000 to $5,000. These packages include a round of golf for four, tee signs, appreciation gifts and recognition on the CSUF Alumni Association Web site. Individual packages are also available for $250. For an additional $25, the Golf Mania package includes entrance into the hole-in-one contest to win a car and entrance to the putting contest. All golfers will get 18 holes of golf, a golf cart, goodie bags and commemorative items. Tickets for just the dinner and auction can be purchased for $35 from the Alumni Association Web site. The proceeds of these funds go into scholarship offered by the Alumni Association every year for $3,000. “I think we are such a success because of the great partnership between the Alumni Association and Jerry Goodwin,” Leija said. Jerry Goodwin has been honored by the association and has been a great contributor to both the Alumni Association and CSUF Athletics Department. Mel Franks, manager for athletics sports information, said that Goodwin and his wife Merilyn donated $1 million to the school. Goodwin’s monumental contribution led to the renaming of Titan Stadium to Goodwin Field on April 14, 2000.
BY Laura Lujan
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
College students across the country can now get ready for what could become the next big craze in peerto-peer file sharing – only this time, the files will take the form of class notes. Swapnotes.com, launched nationally on Monday, allows students to upload and share notes from any course at any American university or college. Adam Steiner, co-creator of the site and part of its programming and design team, said that his main goal for the site is to “even the playing field” for new students, transfer students or anyone else who needs to catch up on notes but has no one to turn to for help. “While I was in college, friends would constantly ask me for my notes – at the time I was the only
one with a laptop,” Steiner said in an e-mail interview. “After a couple of weeks, it dawned on me that a better idea would be to create an online site where I could publish my notes and my friends could download from there.” Steiner said that without extensive social networks, students often find it difficult to obtain old notes and may not want to ask a total stranger for help. Notes can be uploaded to the site in a variety of formats, including images and plain text documents. Swapnotes.com is not the first Web site of its kind on the Internet. Universities throughout the nation have had local note-sharing sites up for years. Steiner said he recognizes this, but wanted to provide a central place for students of all colleges. To jump-start interest in the site, its maintainers will hold biannual drawings for $3,000, which students will be entered in each time they upload a set of notes. In addition, students will receive a free magazine subscription with their first upload from a selection the site will make
available. Some Cal State Fullerton students seem to be excited about the Web site. “I would definitely use it – in fact, I need it right now,” said Renee Bogy, a junior Radio-TV-Film major. Some professors, however, expressed concern that class notes they did not place online themselves may spread inaccurate information and encourage absences from lectures. American studies Professor Randolph Baxter said that he holds disdain for sites like Swapnotes.com because, even though users can rate each set of notes, they cannot be monitored for accuracy. “It could deprive students of a vital skill – how to organize information, input and condense it down to a logical form that can help jog your memory later,” Baxter said. Baxter is also concerned that the site will promote an increase in absenteeism. Steiner said he does not think that the site will have a significant effect on class attendance, however. “Students who are often absent will continue to be so,” Steiner said.
“The question of increased absences only arises in a relatively narrow segment of the class.” Sophomore biology major Jacob Meraz said that the availability of class notes online will not encourage him to skip class and that he prefers taking his own notes and listening to the lecture. Meraz said that he might still consider using Swapnotes.com to supplement his own notes. “People who already come to class are more dedicated and will probably continue going,” Meraz said. Chad Nguyen, a senior business major, shared the concern on how that might affect class attendance. “Slackers might be absent more,” he said. “Students who already come to class will go anyway.” Still in its infancy, Swapnotes. com has only a small selection of notes available and many of the site’s features have yet to be added. But Steiner said he has high hopes for its future. “We expect a large response,” Steiner said. “We do think it has the potential to become the next big student Web site.”
Pope Apologizes for Remark on Islam Benedict XVI said that his statement was made to open communication By Carol Rojas
Daily Titan Staff
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In the wake of the backlash surrounding the pope’s controversial comments, campus religious experts generally said that open discourse about the state of religion is desperately needed and greatly overdue. The pope said he was “deeply sorry” on Sunday for a speech he made at the University of Regensburg in Germany last week. He quoted from a Byzantine emperor who characterized the prophet Muhammad as “evil and inhuman” who spread the teachings of Islam “through the sword.”
“The pope’s statement, as gleaned from the summary, is far more significant than the ‘sound bite’ published in the headlines,” James Santucci, comparative religion professor and new religious movements expert, said in an e-mail interview. “It strikes at the very heart of the relationship between reason and faith. His message, therefore, should not be trivialized or reduced to the charge made by some in the Muslim community.” Although the general consensus among the campus community seems to be that there needs to be an open dialogue about religion, some said that the pope’s comments, even though taken out of context, should not be taken lightly. “The pope added fuel to the already growing fire and led the Muslim world to believe that all Catholics
feel this way about the Islamic faith,” said Duresameen Sheikh, a communications major. “This is simply not the case. This is a sensitive time for many of us and we need unity, not division.” Another concern seems to be a lack of responsibility in the Pope’s formal apology. In it, the pope voiced his hope that the apology “serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning” of his speech which he described as “an invitation to sincere dialogue, with great mutual respect.” Some believe that the apology was more of a public diplomacy effort than sincere regret for what was said. “The LA Times reported that he recently sent out some Vatican envoys to predominantly Muslim countries,” said anthropology pro-
fessor and cross-cultural Islam expert Hilarie Kelly in an e-mail interview. “This is being interpreted by the media as damage control, not as an alteration of his basic position, which is explicitly a critique of Islam and promotion of Christianity, especially Catholicism.” While the discourse continues, some have manifested their outrage about the comments in physical and at times violent ways. There have been demonstrations in some parts of the world as a result of the comments. In Iran about 500 theological school students protested in the holy city of Qom; seven churches were attacked with firebombs and gunfire erupted in the West Bank and Gaza strip; and in Somalia the pope’s remarks may have led to the murder of an Italian nun.
Judge Orders U.S. to Turn Over Gitmo Records By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Defense to release documents containing the identities of some detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who were released or suffered mistreatment. In ruling in a case brought by The Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said the government cannot keep the names secret. He gave the government a week to provide the news organization with the information despite government claims that doing so would violate detainees’ privacy.
“The public interest in disclosing government malfeasance is well-established,” the judge wrote. David A. Schulz, who argued the case for the AP, called the judge’s decision “a resounding victory for the public’s right to know.” He said the identities of between 50 and 100 detainees who were ordered to be transferred or released from Guantanamo Bay after Jan. 1, 2005, will allow reporters to attempt to verify whether the government’s account of events is accurate. “The Department of Defense has made it virtually impossible for anyone to check the accuracy or thoroughness of what is going on in Guantanamo,” Schulz said. “The public is supposed to be able to de-
termine these things for itself.” A spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, Lauren McDonough, said the government had no immediate comment. The judge said some military officers and FBI agents who have worked at Guantanamo also have questioned the treatment of detainees. The judge also noted that some detainees have initiated hunger strikes to protest what they consider abuse, while other detainees, since released, have gone public with allegations of abuse. “In all such instances, the detainees have not hesitated to reveal their identities,” he said. Schulz said the judge also ordered the government to turn over the
identities in eight files reporting investigations of allegations of abuse of detainees by military personnel and fewer than a dozen probes of abuse of detainees by other detainees. Earlier this year, the judge ordered the Department of Defense to turn over to the AP unredacted copies of transcripts and documents related to 558 military hearings in which detainees were permitted to challenge their incarcerations. The government’s treatment of the hundreds of prisoners at the eastern Cuba prison camp has troubled human rights groups. Most have been held without being charged or publicly identified since investigations were begun into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Biggest Threat: Iran By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Israeli foreign minister on Wednesday warned that Iranian leaders pose the biggest threat to the world’s values because they “speak proudly” of their wish to destroy Israel and pursue weapons to achieve that objective. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the annual U.N. General Assembly session that the international community must stand up against Iran, which she claimed is pursuing the weapons to destroy Israel, a reference to its suspect nuclear program. “There is no greater challenge to our values than that posed by the leaders of Iran,” Livni said. “They deny and mock the Holocaust. They speak proudly and openly of their desire to wipe Israel off the map. And now, by their actions, they pursue the weapons to achieve this objective, to imperil the region and to threaten the world.” She said Iran’s support of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in south Lebanon showed the threat it poses to the region. The
world must ensure that it enforces the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended more than a month of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Livni said. “There is no place for such a regime in the family of nations,” she said. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said in the past he wants to wipe Israel off the map and dismissed the Holocaust as a myth. In his own speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad said Israel was created by driving millions of people from territory that was rightfully theirs, something he called “a great tragedy with hardly a precedent in history.” He also harshly criticized Israel’s policies, saying the country was a source of insecurity in the Middle East that was “waging war and spilling blood and impeding the progress of regional countries.” Livni met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the U.N. a day before the General Assembly session began, and both described the meeting as positive. In her speech, she reiterated their desire to reopen a serious dialogue.
Jobs: Big year for Job Fair (From Page One)
Flores. Flores prepared for the fair by attending the job workshop last week and showed up at the fair dressed in a suit. “The companies are all very excited to be here,” said business junior Zayda Huiza. “I think it’s pretty helpful that they come to us. When we go out there we can’t find any jobs.” Several companies baited students with food, pens and other goodies. Automobile Magazine, for example, passed out doughnuts to the students that approached their table. “These are career building jobs and internships, and if a student prepares for this fair well, then they can save significant time in their job search,” said Matz.
Germany Making Important Steps Paolo Andres
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Germany took a historic step Thursday as three men became the first rabbis to be ordained in the country that once tried to eradicate Jewish life. In a ceremony that acted as a milestone for the revival of Jewish life in the country, three students – a German, a Czech and a South African – received their rabbinical certificates as they stood before the watchful eyes of the world on Dresden’s modern stone synagogue. Daniel Alter, 47, of Germany, Tomas Kucera, 35, of the Czech Republic and Malcolm Mattitiani of South Africa, 38, were the first to graduate from Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam. The Nazi regime destroyed Berlin’s College of Jewish Studies in 1942. “All of Germany celebrates with
us today, and all of Europe as well,” Rabbi Walter Jacob told the New York Times. Walter is the president of a rabbinical seminary in Potsdam, where the three men studied. Germany’s Jewish population, though modest, has become one of the fastest-growing Jewish communities in the world, due in part to the migration of Russian Jews since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For decades, Germany has had a shortage of rabbis, relying on imported Jewish leaders to guide their congregations, according to The New York Times. Alter chose to remain in the country, desiring to serve the heavily populated Russian community of Oldenburg. Kucera also intends to stay in Germany, where he would serve in Munich. Of the three, only Matitiani of South Africa plans to return home, reported The New York Times. “You could feel the winds of his-
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tory hovering over your head,” said Rabbi Uri Regev, the president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, after the ceremony. “For the first time since the horrific events that destroyed the Jewish community, you could see a renewal of that community.” “Germany will never come completely full circle for the Holocaust,” said Ben Hubbard, chair and professor of comparative religion and Jewish studies at Cal State Fullerton. “The nation will always have to wrestle with how this enormity was possible in such an advanced society. But these ordinations are a very significant step forward.” Senior biology major Izza Buan believes that Germany’s future depends on its ability to cope with its shadowy past. By dealing with the Holocaust and “moving on” with the matter, Germany should be able to better cope with other issues in the future.
reFlections - Officer Fernando Jimenez of the Long Beach Police Department speaks to Daniel Megia and Isaac Hervera about enrolling into the Police Academy during the Internship and Job Fair Wednesday. By Cameron Pemstein/For the Daily Titan
RECORDS: UNKNOWN IF CSUF FILES CHecked (From Page One) gram, in that it involved only a few hundred names,” Milhoan said. Authorities said that though they searched for the names of possible terrorists, they were also investigating possible abuses in the Federal Student Aid. “When we asked for the cooperation of the Department of Education’s Office of The Inspector General it was to run names of subjects already material to counter-terrorism investigations against the databases to look for evidence of either student loan fraud or identity theft,”
Milhoan said. The Federal Education Department said no such cases were found. Many students do not see the connection between FAFSA and terrorism. “I don’t see how terrorists could find anything of help in financial aid,” undeclared freshman Greg Mausbach said. The authorities said that though Project Strikeback involved providing the FBI with personal information, the project was always made public through Congressional and General Accountability Office brief-
ings. They also asserted that their data-mining actions are in accordance to the privacy statements within the Free Application for Federal Student Aid itself. “The FBI requested the information pursuant to Exemption (b) (7) of the Privacy Act, which authorizes the release of personal data for purposes of a criminal investigation,” Mitchelson said. Though the efforts toward Project Strikeback were concluded in 2002 due to very little activity, Michelson said that the project wasn’t officially closed until June of this year.
OFFENDERS: Keeping TABS on local Pedophiles (From Page One) Soltysiak said in a phone interview. Soltysiak sees stricter laws as necessary for the welfare of victims. “As California law stands now it seems that the criminals have the benefit of the law and not the victims,” Soltysiak said. It is the extreme trauma endured by victims that triggers an emotional response with the public. This emotion, coupled with common misconceptions about sex offenders, make the issue especially sensitive. Odom believes Megan’s Law is beneficial, aiding law enforcement and maintaining contact with offenders but can also cause problems. “We want them to register,” Odom said. People misinterpret the law and assume that it “is there so they have the power to push people out of their neighborhood to prevent them from living in particular areas,” he said. Odom also notes that there is a disclaimer visitors must acknowledge before obtaining information from the Web site. The disclaimer states that the registry information is not supposed to be used to commit illegal acts. “The other misconception is because they are a registered sex offender, they are very dangerous. The way we look at it, the ones that don’t register, the ones that go into hiding, those are the ones we’re concerned about,” Odom said. Much of the debate focuses on
the help versus harm of Megan’s Law. Some argue that the offender’s constitutional rights are infringed upon. Threats of vigilantism have long been a danger posed by making the registrants known. Odom said there was only one instance of harassment in Fullerton. It was due to gross misunderstanding caused by the vague descriptions of the crime in Megan’s Law. “That’s where the problem lies with Megan’s Law,” Odom said. “We found that when this first went public, people were using this as a tool to harass these people and what we were afraid of was that they would push these people to a point where they would go into hiding.” This is a side effect that law enforcement is most fearful of: offenders feeling so threatened that they stop registering. This is especially dangerous in California, which has the largest population of sex offenders in the nation: 86,846. This fact has held California as a leader in sex offender legislation on a national scale. The state has some of the toughest laws, including being one of only eight states that allow chemical castration of sex offenders. Sen. Bill Morrow suggested chemical castration for first-time child molesters. GPS tracking devices are used for high-risk offenders. The devices can track an offender’s movement as far back as a week. Other states are following suit and creating tighter laws as extreme as Oklahoma’s,
which proposed the death penalty in some cases. California voters will soon have an opportunity to participate in reforming laws for sex offenders with Proposition 83. The proposition, dubbed Jessica’s Law, will be on the November ballot and will extend GPS monitoring of sex offenders to life, restrict residency around schools and parks, extend rehabilitation resources and lengthen prison terms. Unfortunately, while lawmakers are desperately seeking solutions nationwide, tighter restrictions will not end the problem. Odom said it is important to remember that this crime is nothing new and that we have lived among sex offenders for years. California has been registering sex offenders since 1947. “They’re out there, they’re going to live in your neighborhood, you might as well know who they are,” Odom said. “This is a crime that will never go away.” Spiropoulos agrees this issue will only become more problematic. “When it comes to abusing children, we only are skimming the surface. A lot of people go undetected,” she said. But with so much emphasis on the issue, the public is aware and that is the most proactive way to prevent crime, said Spiropoulos. “It sheds more light on the issue and that’s what we really need,” Spiropoulos said.
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Hearings to be Held for Alleged Sept.11 Mastermind Tribunals will be held to determine the legal status of detainees By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, is expected to face a hearing at the Guantanamo prison camp within three months, a military official said Wednesday. Mohammed and 13 other “highvalue” detainees recently transferred
from CIA custody to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will face Combatant Status Review Tribunals, said Navy Capt. Phil Waddingham, director of the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants. The 14 new detainees will be invited to appear at the hearings, held in a small room inside a prefab building here, which will determine whether they are combatants, Waddingham told reporters. If Mohammed appears, it would mark the first time he has been seen since he was captured more than three years ago. Detainees can refuse to appear but the tribunals will be held regardless,
State Real Estate Median Price Sees Slow Increase By ALEX VEIGA
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LOS ANGELES - The median price of a California home increased in August at the slowest annual rate in nine years, a real estate research firm said Wednesday. Four counties saw price declines, according to DataQuick Information Systems. Among the largest real estate markets, the steepest drop was 6.7 percent in San Mateo County. Other decreases were seen in Marin County (2.3 percent); San Diego County (2.2 percent); and Alameda County (1.5 percent). Appreciation in Sonoma, Santa Clara, San Francisco and Contra Costa counties was essentially flat. “Before 2007, we’re going to see more decline in home prices in more areas of California,” said Michael Carney, professor of finance and real estate at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. “The real issue is how long it’s going to go on and how severe it’s going
to be.” The statewide median price was $472,000 in August, a 3.5 percent hike over the year-ago period. It was the slowest increase since June 1997, when statewide home prices rose just 2.8 percent. Price increases peaked statewide in June 2004 at 23.2 percent. “More and more, sellers are reaching the conclusion: ‘maybe now is the time to settle, because we may not gain much more now by waiting,’” DataQuick analyst John Karevoll said. A total of 49,800 new and resale houses and condominiums were sold statewide last month, a 25.1 percent decline from a year ago but a 12.5 percent increase from July. Annual sales dropped 47.3 percent in August in Napa County, 32 percent in Orange County, and 28.6 percent in Solano County. Buyers have become increasingly reluctant to jump into a market that many consider overpriced. Homes are taking longer to sell, creating a glut of inventory.
Nursing Home Owners Indicted for Katrina Deaths By Mary Foster Associated Press
CHALMETTE - The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm. Salvador and Mabel Mangano were initially arrested about two weeks after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm. The Louisiana attorney general booked them on negligent homicide charges, but a grand jury was unable to convene for months because the court system was hobbled by damage to government buildings and the displacement of residents. The couple owned St. Rita’s nursing home in St. Bernard Parish, a coastal suburb of New Orleans badly flooded by Katrina. They remained
free on bond. Attorneys in the case were prevented from commenting by a gag order. More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against the couple by patients injured at the nursing home and the families of people who died there. In a lawsuit filed last month, the couple sued the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe or to evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached. The Manganos have argued that their hurricane plan – to keep frail residents in place with food, water and generators rather than risk moving them – was a responsible course of action, and if the levees had held, the tragedy would have been avoided. The Louisiana death toll was nearly 1,600.
Waddingham said. Army Brig. Gen. Edward A. Leacock, the deputy commander of Guantanamo, said the 14 new detainees are being treated humanely. “They’re all adapting well to their new environment,” Leacock told reporters here, adding that they’re fed three times a day, have recreational opportunities and have opportunities to pray five times per day. They have been given materials to write letters, which will be given to the Red Cross for mailing after they have been censored by the military, Leacock said. The Red Cross announced in Geneva Wednesday they will visit the 14 new detainees next week.
Waddingham told reporters visiting Guantanamo that preparations were being made for the Combatant Status Review Tribunal for Mohammed and the other 13 detainees. “I am expecting the CSRTs to begin in two or three months,” he said. Every one of the other roughly 450 detainees at Guantanamo, who began arriving in 2002, have already undergone the tribunals. The tribunals for the 14 new arrivals will almost certainly use the same procedures, Waddingham said. The tribunals are conducted by a three-member military panel, which examines evidence against a detainee, can speak to witnesses, and de-
termines if the detainee is an enemy combatant and should be held. The detainee is represented by U.S. military counsel. Those judged not to be enemy combatants are generally transferred out of Guantanamo to their home countries. Those determined to be enemy combatants stay locked up here. Congress and the Bush administration are currently working on guidelines on how detainees should be interrogated and put on trial. Ten Guantanamo detainees have been charged with crimes but their military trials were put on hold after the Supreme Court last June ruled that the tribunals were illegal, partly
because Bush administration had set them up without Congressional approval. Mohammed is believed to be the No. 3 al-Qaida leader before he was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Also among the 14 captives whom U.S. President George W. Bush announced have been transferred to Guantanamo is Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged would-be Sept. 11 hijacker; and Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to be a link between Osama bin Laden and many al-Qaida cells before he was captured in Pakistan in 2002. The Combatant Status Review Tribunals will also be held for them, Waddingham said.
Iran to be Given New Deadline By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - The nations seeking to halt Iran’s nuclear activities are working out a new deadline for Tehran despite differences over possible sanctions, the French foreign minister said Wednesday. With world leaders gathered at the United Nations, the United States had hoped to move decisively this week toward political and economic sanctions against Iran after it missed an Aug. 31 U.N. Security Council deadline to halt disputed uranium enrichment that many believe is aimed at making a bomb. But some U.S. allies are balking. France has instead proposed a compromise deal: a simultaneous suspension of all threats of sanctions and Iran’s uranium enrichment. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy pushed ahead with this plan Wednesday. He suggested that the United States and others support it and said they were discussing a possible new timeline. He also discussed it with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and said the Iranian agreed that “time is an important factor.” Douste-Blazy gave no specific date. But a senior French diplomat said the nations involved in nuclear talks with Iran are mulling an early October deadline for Tehran to agree to a simultaneous suspension of uranium enrichment and talk of sanctions. The United States and Britain remained cautious about the suspension plan. A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the confidential discussions, confirmed that the group had discussed a new timeline _ but said sanctions are still on the table. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday: “I’m not going to talk in terms of deadlines,” but added, “This cannot go on for very much longer.” She also reiterated the U.S. position that Iran suspend enrichment before negotiations can begin.
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett would not discuss a possible new date, either. “What we are looking for is a clear and sustained and concrete signal that Iran wishes to negotiate,” she told reporters. “Our patience, I think, is not unlimited.” A dinner meeting Tuesday with Rice, Beckett, Douste-Blazy and the foreign ministers of Russia, China, Germany and Italy produced little consensus about the next step, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said. He said the diplomatic effort to counter Iran was in “extra innings.” The Americans have little choice but to give the Europeans a little more time, since Washington needs Europe on board for sanctions to be effective. U.S.-Iranian tensions are in the spotlight this week, with both nations’ presidents speaking Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly _ and pointedly avoiding each other
in the halls of the world body. In his speech, President Bush said, “Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions,” but said the U.S. has “no objection to Iran’s pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program.” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted in his speech that Tehran’s nuclear activities are “transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye” of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog. He also reiterated his nation’s commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Progress hinges on talks between EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani. Larijani had been expected in New York this week, but Beckett said Wednesday that it appeared that he would not be coming. She also said the ministers have authorized Solana to go anywhere at any time to meet Larijani.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi met Ahmadinejad later Wednesday, but no details of the talks were released. France appeared determined to resist sanctions, despite mixed messages this week. President Jacques Chirac shook up diplomatic circles with a proposal to drop talk of sanctions on Monday, then appeared to soften the stance after meeting Tuesday with Bush. Chirac also said Tuesday he was not interested in new deadlines for Iran. Douste-Blazy, however, was eager to set a new timeline. “We cannot let the Iranians ... gain time,” he said. “We must have a response rather fast.” Iran hinted last week that it might be willing to suspend uranium enrichment. That was enough to sow new division among the nations seeking to stem Iran’s nuclear program _ and brake the push for sanctions.
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Men At Work Ground Control Behind the sparkling facade of CSUF’s luscious lawns and pristine property is the back-breaking labor and sunrise call times of a man who loves his job BY IAN HAMILTON Daily Titan Assistant News Editor Ihamilton@dailytitan.com
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e has spent countless hours out in the sun mowing grass and picking up trash as a groundskeeper, but the hardest part of the job is “covering for the guys who don’t show up,” Aurelio Flores Jr. said. The 54-year-old is in his 30th year caring for the grounds of Cal State Fullerton. He loves his job. Now, in a lead position, he heads a crew of four full-time employees who care for the outdoor areas on the north end of campus. Despite the managerial duties, Flores still considers himself a “working leadman” able to pull his weight along with the other guys. “I don’t really have a dirty job. To me, a dirty job is when you don’t like coming to work,” Flores said. Flores and his groundskeepers start their routine at 6 a.m. each day. They hit the trash cans in high traffic areas first and try to get out of the way before students arrive “in force,” around 9:00 a.m. By 2:30 p.m. they are done for the day.
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ground mAn - Aurelio Flores Jr., a lead groundskeeper for the physical plant, unloads equipment from his
truck to begin landscaping outside the Visual Arts building. Flores has been with Cal State Fullerton for 30 years. Some places only take a few minutes to clean up while other areas take longer. Flores said the vast majority of garbage in the parking lot doesn’t make it into the bins, so on Friday the whole crew storms the
lot to combat a week’s worth of garbage. When asked if he gets tired of doing the same thing everyday, Flores said he didn’t see it that way. “I’m not stuck doing one thing
as lead,” he said. “I consider myself very blessed with the job.” As a regular groundskeeper his demeanor wasn’t entirely different. “He always had a really good work attitude,” said Aurelio’s wife
Margie Flores, who is also a CSUF employee. While the job does require hours of physical labor, it’s easier now than it was when Flores started. “If you didn’t come here early, you didn’t get the equipment you needed. We don’t have that problem anymore,” Flores said. Probably the most physically demanding groundskeeping work is the athletic fields, said Manager of Landscape Services Steve Dugas. That crew, separate from Flores’, takes care of the Titan Stadium, Goodwin Field, Anderson Family Field, south softball field, the east play field, the west play field and the surface cleaning of the tennis courts and track as well caring for the track’s infield. Painting is one of the hardest activities because it demands hours of bending over the machines mixing and preparing the paint. “That tends to wear you down. It’s tough on the back; it’s tough on the knees. And of course they’re out in the sun when they’re doing this,”’ Dugas said. Flores worked the sports complex for years. “Some days he’s a little more SEE MAINTENANCE- PAGE 9
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Ticket Master They may be feared, they may be hated, but without campus parking enforcement, life would be chaotic, and we would all be paying for it
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from Corona. “I go back out about 45 minutes later before the class is over just to move my car and to make BY NORALY HERNANDEZ sure that I hadn’t gotten a ticket.” Daily Titan Staff Writer It was too late for Smith and news@dailytitan.com the other people who thought they tired than other days,” Mrs. Flores could get away with creating temsaid. “I don’t sense that he’s tired. porary parking out of the parking I guess it depends on what he was lot’s grass area. Each of the cars had doing. When he worked on the athany will agree that time received tickets. letic field, it was a lot more physiflies not only when you’re “Geez! I didn’t even stay the whole cal. There was a lot more overtime having fun but also when class period,” Smith said she rememrequired. He was a lot more tired on you’re forced to park in any bered thinking. a regular basis.” of the 15-, 20or 30-minute visitor Smith, who received the ticket on When someone calls in sick or is parking spaces around campus. her first day of classes as a freshman injured the trash still needs to get Whether it is to make it to class at Cal State Fullerton, said she did cleaned up. That’s when the job gets before the professor takes attennot know that where she had parked really hard. dance or to hurwas not a valid “Most of the time they’re kind of riedly drop off parking space. rushed,” Dugas said of times when a form at the She said she someone is out with an injury. “They Admissions and was then directdo have to cover for each other beWe do not get any perks beRecords Office, ed to the camcause that trash needs to be picked cause we want to set a standard some students pus Parking Enup every day whether that person is for other students out there.Even park in these forcement and there or not.” if we are working for [the Parkvisitor parking Transportation ing and Transportation Services] spaces and return Services by an we also have to follow the rules; to a parking citaunsympathetic when we are not on the job we •15 staff interpreters are available on tion reminding parking officer are regular students. campus through disabled student serthem how fast who informed vices. Duties include manual, steno and time does fly. her that once a – Darith Lee oral interpreting for hearing-impaired “It was the first citation is writstudents. week of school, I ten it cannot be CSUF Parking Enforcement Officer was looking for done away with, parking and of but only ap•CSUF events and accomplishments course all parking pealed. get publicized to the media by Paula is taken,” junior “I had to go Selleck, the news director of the departKarissa Smith the main camment of public affairs. The department said, rememberpus, find the transportation area, go also compiles a list of faculty experts ing her freshman year when she first write out [an appeal] and send it in; available for interviews. learned of the Parking Enforcement it was just a hassle,” said Smith. and Transportation Services at the Later, she had a citation waived •Auxiliary Services Corporation, hisIrvine campus. for not properly displaying her parktorically a private gift management for Smith decided to park on a lawn ing permit. She received that citathe University, now has a primary duty driveway on the side of the parking tion after taking down her permit to to oversee the CSUF’s expansive auxil- lot along with other drivers who ap- fill out the appeals form for her first iary services -- such as the Titan Shops parently had the same trouble find- parking ticket. and Food Services -- and manage the ing parking that Smith had. So who are these people in charge University’s contracts and sponsored “I go in just to get roll so I don’t of monitoring parking around camresearch funds. get dropped from class on the first pus? day,” said Smith, who commutes Meet Darith Lee, a 23-year-old SOURCE: CSUF Web site :www.fullerton.edu graphic design major, who became a parking enforcement officer this summer. “I wanted to become a parking officer because I wanted to help people,” wrote Lee in an e-mail interview. “And also catch those people who believe they are above the law.” As a parking officer, Lee is responsible for making sure that every student, faculty and staff member has a valid permit and that the cars are parked in the right area according to the permit they are issued. “Most people get tickets for not having a parking permit,” said Lee. He admitted that, after purchasing parking permits for the past five years, he likes to cite students who
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do not buy parking permits. “Most students think they can get away with it but the fact is that we check all lots,” Lee said, referring to the Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. enforcement of parking regulations. “Those are the times we are out there all the time checking,” he said. Other responsibilities include helping people unlock their cars, cable assistance and anything else
forcement agents are simply out to catch people and, like Smith said, could be more empathetic toward students, Lee said that parking officers have two ways in which they interpret the regulations when approaching a situation: the word and the spirit of the law. “There was a case when a car was about to be cited and a lady came out with three kids and was running late,” Lee said. “She had stayed in the 30 minute parking zone for 45
means being late to class. “If you are going to be late for class then you are going to be late; there is nothing you can do,” he said. Neal Baldwin, part-time criminal justice professor and retired Fullerton police officer, said being a parking enforcement agent is a very thankless but it is also a very necessary job. Once a supervisor for the city’s parking enforcement division, Baldwin said that if parking officers did
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that he or another officer can help minutes; this is where spirit of the law comes in. The car did not receive them with. Although he has only been work- a citation.” However, students who write out ing as a parking officer for two their own permits, sometimes using months, Lee said he enjoys his job so normal paper far and is proud and a marker of the services as Lee has his department witnessed, provides. He They are very mad so you have will be cited also appreciates to learn how to deal with mad peowith the word the way the staff ple, you have to learn how to calm of the law works as a team people down when they’re upset, in the form and provides you have to learn how to keep your of a parking support for each own cool. ticket. member when In general, they are out in – Neil Baldwin parking ofthe lots. ficers will “We do not Part-time Criminal Justice Professor consider the get any perks and Retired Fullerton Police Officer circumstancbecause we want es of the situto set a standard ation when for other studetermining dents out there,” whether a Lee said. “Even person deserves to be cited. if we are working for [the Parking Lee advises students to avoid a and Transportation Services] we negative encounter with a parking also have to follow the rules; when officer by purchasing the appropriwe are not on the job we are regular ate permits and parking in the desstudents.” ignated parking areas, even if this For those who believe parking en-
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not enforce the parking regulations, the problematic parking situation on campus would be worse. Despite the frustrated people that parking officers may encounter, the job offers an opportunity to develop people skills a parking officer may find useful in future occupations. “Probably most tickets you write, the person is not there, but a percentage of them a person walks up while you are writing the ticket,” Baldwin said. “They are very mad so you have to learn how to deal with mad people, you have to learn how to calm people down when they’re upset, you have to learn how to keep your own cool.” This is a skill Lee hopes to improve from his experience as a parking enforcement agent. But for now, Lee enjoys his job. “Parking and transportation is like a second family to me now,” Lee said. “Even during all this construction we are exceptional at what we are doing.”
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‘So, Who Won The War Anyway?’
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We live in an addictive society. with interactive tickers running Life can’t go on without a cell the bottom of the screen. Cars phone, a venti latte or a the new run on ethanol, vegetable oil and season of American Idol. Yet de- petroleum, that is when it’s not spite all these social necessities, generating it’s own electricity renone are more unshakable as serve. the ever-present, cross-cultural, The average student is a fullcross-generational omnipotent – time pupil, part-time worker and like. Like is more pervasive than quarter-time everything else. It’s cigar smoke on a no wonder incafé patio. telligencia and Like is an exlaymen alike cannot give up planation for The long and, um the habit of an unspeakable short of it is, that like. Who has act, an adaptable like is here to stay, time to finish a amount of time whether we, you comor a complex know, like it or not. thought, plete a sentence combination of or actually say emotions that are all that the like usually experiimplies. And it enced all at once. Its tenacity is clear, but its expla- doesn’t stop there. “Ya knows”, nation? pressure us into accordance, The world is no longer lived “ums” bide our time while the on a single plane of existence. brain reloads, and that’s not to Instead it is a conglomeration of mention the “dudes” that tranattention spans. Cell phones can scend gender and lifestyle. be newspapers, cameras and mailThe long and, um short of it is boxes all at once. News stations that like is here to stay, whether run picture in picture simulcasts we, you know, like it or not. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Titan Editorial is solely the opinion of the Daily Titan edito-
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“Just the fact that they are fighting makes neither of them a winner.”
“I think it was the stupidest thing. I watch the French news everyday and I see a different view, and I think that all the news in the U.S. don’t really show what’s going on.”
“[The war] can’t keep killing lives, there has to be peace for a little bit.”
“I don’t think anybody won. I think that everyone is a loser in this war. I don’t think it solved any problems. ”
“...I don’t think anyone has won, but eventually I think that Israel will take over Lebanon and most of that area.”
Who Won The Israel vs. Hezbollah War? By Angie EL Sherif Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
Who decides that a war is over? More importantly, how do we decide who is the winner? In the war between Lebanon and Israel, who is the winner? While trying to formulate an opinion, we are put in a ring of confusion which ultimately leads us to a jam deciding who won this war. However, this war did not end in “victory” for either Israel nor Hezbollah. It is important to realize that Israel was engaged in war with Hezbollah, not the Lebanese government. Hezbollah is a faction in Lebanon that serves as part of the Lebanese national resistance. They are considered the protectors of Lebanon. “… it’s absolutely clear that Hezbollah has been whipped,” said Is-
raeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Olmert according to CNN.com. In my opinion, Hezbollah was whipped but not defeated. It is surprising to see that even Israelis are split between who won the war. Mike Whitney summed up the feelings of Israeli Kenneth Besig in his article called “Restarting the 34 Day War.” He said that 5,000 poorly armed Hezbollah fighters with no tanks, no missiles, no fighter jets, no attack helicopters and just a few rifles fought against 30,000 Israeli Defense Force soldiers with the finest tanks, artillery, fighter jets and helicopters in the world, yet Hezbollah still managed to fight back and attack. Even though Hezbollah can be considered victorious because of their unexpected, powerful comeback, how can they be considered winners when all that was brought to Lebanon and its people was de-
struction? The obvious results of The War that Lasted 33 Days were destruction and disorientation for both nations, but mostly for Lebanon. Israel managed to destroy lives and demolish Lebanon’s infrastructure that took more than a decade to rebuild after the 1975 to 1990 civil war. More than one million refugees are now displaced and without a home. Throughout the war Israel fired rockets in areas occupied by civilians, claiming that they believed that the Hezbollah fighters were hiding among the civilians. However this claim does not justify their indiscriminate warfare. If not for the cease-fire proposed by the United Nations, both countries would have experienced more devastation. Billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild the damage caused to the smashed-up villages in Lebanon – a country that was one
of the richest and most developed counties in the Middle East. However now, after the war, Lebanon is in debt $35 billion. Everything that Israel set out to accomplish in this war failed. First, the Lebanese-held prisoners that were the initial cause of the war have not been released. Only with an exchange of prisoners will Nasrallah give them back. Second, Nasrallah is still alive and well even after several attempts to have him killed. Not only is he alive, his reputation as a leader has grown to tremendous heights in the Arab world. Third, Hezbollah remains unchanged and the war did not result in its disarmament. Two things that can be concluded from this war is that Israel did not accomplish what it went to do and Lebanon was left with billions of dollars of reconstruction.
TITANS TALK BACK
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.” - Arthur Miller
Greek Fraternity Responds EDITOR: It has come to our attention that the Daily Titan is engaging in libel against the Greek Fraternity System. A prime example was found in September 13th’s edition of Titan Editorial. The story opened up with a line about a “frat guy” who beats up two women whom he thinks are lesbians. The term is used in a generic sense, as if “frat guys” beating up suspected lesbians is a common occurrence on campuses across America, employing the line “Stop us if you’ve heard this one before:” to preface the story. This stereotype is as ignorant as the accusations being leveled. The article goes on to insinuate that we “racist, ignorant ‘party boy’(s)” support such violence by turning a blind eye to things like hate crimes. The writer also blames the members of the Greek System for the fact that “members and supporters of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance don’t feel safe on campus anymore.” That sounds just as hateful as anything chronicled in the article to us. To lump all of us into one category is just as stereotypical as the actions of the one “frat guy” who allegedly committed this terrible crime in the first place. First, let us apologize on behalf of the Greek System to the
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two women who were victims in this ordeal. This one bad apple is not the model for what fraternity men are and should be. In fraternity life, we are taught to be true gentlemen and go through a comprehensive program that teaches manners, conduct, and respect for others, especially women, regardless of their sexual orientation. Secondly, shame on the Daily Titan for being so careless as to assume that because one “frat guy” is allegedly an ignorant racist, all Greeks are. Fraternities carry members from all walks of life; straight, homosexual, Hispanic, Asian, African-American, white, as well as any and all other minority groups. So in the future, we hope that the Daily Titan will be less careless in their journalism and get the real story before they generalize all of us “frat guys.” Doubtless you will see many members of the Greek System present at the ASI event to raise Hate Crime Awareness on October 4th. We do not condone or support hate crimes of any nature, but neither will we stand by and allow our reputations to be smeared in such an irresponsible manner by an on-campus organization which supposedly prides itself on responsibility in its journalism. Thank you in advance for printing our response and giving us a fair chance to defend ourselves. The Gentlemen of Sigma Nu, Lambda Upsilon Chapter #250
In War There are No Winners By CHRISTINA MARTINEZ Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
The Israeli-Lebanon conflict has been going on for decades. The war that occurred over the summer of 2006 is just a blip on the radar of a conflict that has been going on since 1968. To take sides and figure out who “won” the war is a complicated issue that has a long history. This time around, Israel was fighting the radical militant group Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon. One night the group captured two Israeli soldiers and initially killed three Israeli soldiers. Hezbollah then killed five more Israeli soldiers after the capture. Israel retaliated with military force and naval blockades. Since Israeli soldiers were captured and killed, Israel had every right to retaliate and protect their country. However, Hezbollah retaliated against Israel’s counter-offensive,
ultimately leading the two countries into war. In war terms, Israel was winning before the cease-fire was put into place. Israel had successfully blocked every way out of Lebanon except for the small coast town of Arida. The public also seemed to agree that Israel was winning the war before the cease-fire. 55 percent of people surveyed in Israel thought that Israel was winning the war according to a public opinion by an Israeli daily newspaper, Ma’ariv, on Aug. 4, 2006. Only 3.5 percent sided with Hezbollah and 38 percent said that nobody was whining. Israel’s Army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has “caused serious damage to [Hezbollah’s]
rocket-launching capabilities.” Aside from this, Israel was also successful in blocking the rockets Hezbollah had been launching. Politically, Israel lost the war. At the end of the war, Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, had approval ratings of only 48 percent. This was down from 75 percent at the beginning of the war. The people of Israel were also struggling with whose side to be on. It also didn’t help that Hezbollah was using the people of Lebanon as human blockades. Because of this reason, there were more civilian casualties in Lebanon, not because of Israel’s attacks but because of the lack of humanity Hezbollah shared for the Lebanese. This is just like the situation in
Iraq. The United States has been split between those who support the war and those who don’t. However, the United States is winning its war. But, Hezbollah is a powerful guerilla and terrorist group that no country will be able to topple. The group can be slowed but will always have a deep-rooted radical Shiite ideology that no country can change. The only thing a country can do to “win” against them is to keep them from coercing civilians into joining. Israel succeeded in this by pushing the group as far away from the country as possible. In terms of diplomacy in war, neither side won because of the ceasefire that was put into effect in August by the United Nations. It wasn’t possible for either side to start fighting again because of the cease-fire. This cease-fire will not last forever because of the long conflict these two countries have. Eventually we will have to pick a new winner when an inevitable war between Israel and Lebanon starts again.
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September 21, 2006
Women’s Soccer Beam Up North to Finish Month Long Road Trek Titans hope to improve on 4-2-1 record with a better offensive attack BY ALVIN ANOL
Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com
By CARLOS DELGADO/For the Daily Titan GOOD CONCENTRATION – Titan Erica Janke is one of the players the women’s soccer team looks to as a leader.
The eight-match, month-long road trip of the Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team will come to a close this weekend after matches against San Francisco and No. 5 Santa Clara. The Titans will play San Francisco on Friday at 7 p.m. and Santa Clara on Sunday at 1 p.m. After their road trip is completed Sunday, the Titans will have played eight games in six different cities over a span of 24 days. They currently have a record of 4-2-1. “Traveling and playing so many preseason games helps,” senior defender Erica Janke said. “So that way when we go into conference, and we play teams that aren’t going to put as much pressure on us, it will work out for us.” It will also be the second straight week in which the Titans will play a ranked team; Santa Clara is ranked fifth in the country with a record of 6-2-0. CSUF had a split against ranked teams last weekend in Texas, beating then No.6-ranked Texas A&M 2-1, and losing to the then No.15-ranked Texas Longhorns 3-2. “We got decent results, but I don’t think we played all that well,” CSUF Head Coach Ali Khosroshahin said. “But we’re not even close to peaking yet.” Senior goalkeeper Karen Bardsley said the team may not be playing their best, but is still pleased with the results they have come away with.
“We need to just play the way we know how rather than letting other teams dictate the pace,” Bardsley said. “Sometimes we just don’t stick to the game plan, and if we do that we’ll be even more successful. Titans senior forward and team captain Lauryn Welch scored three goals during the trip to Texas. Her performance earned the Big West Conference Player of the Week award, and she was named to the Soccer American National Team of the Week. The strong showing last weekend was enough to boost CSUF back into the 14th spot of the Na-
By CARLOS DELGADO/For the Daily Titan KICKING IT – Titan senior team captain Lauryn Welch in practice. tional Soccer Coaches Association of America poll. The Titans are now one spot higher than their initial preseason ranking. Santa Clara has won three of its last four matches and will play
UCLA on Friday before their Sunday tilt with the Titans. Santa Clara has never been defeated by CSUF posting a 2-0-1 alltime record against the Titans. San Francisco started its season by losing three straight, but are now 34-1 after going 3-1-1 over their last five matches. San Francisco won the last meeting against the Titans in 2004, when the two teams met at the UC Irvine Nike/Holiday Inn Invitational. The Titans will look to add more emphasis on getting their offense started this weekend after being outshot in its previous six matches. During the Texas trip alone, the Titans were outshot 47-13. “We’re not taking care of the ball well and just not getting there enough offensively,” Khosroshahin said. In comparison, the Titans were outshot in only two matches during all of last season. As a group, the Titans are still trying to find their stride – a difficult task after returning only four starters from the previous season. “This year it’s a brand new team,” Janke said. “Some of us know each other, some of us don’t.” Janke said team chemistry will come with time. The Titans will finally get to return home Sept. 28 in a non-conference match against Arizona. “We’re so excited to finally come home,” Khosroshahin said. “Our focus is getting prepared for conference play.” Two days later the Titans will begin the defense of their Big West Champion title when they host UC Riverside in a conference matchup on Sept. 30. “We’re right in between that area where we could be really great, but we just haven’t found our potential yet,” Bardsley said.
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