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Tuesday September 26, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Special Election to Fill Senate Seat CSUF students will not be able to vote because it is a personnel matter By KEVIN COLE
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A friend indeed - Amelia Diaz, sophomore French major (right) shows off a Braille touch pad that she uses with her laptop. Her friend Cristina Jones, a freshman music major, stands behind her.
Blind Students Find Strength in Each Other By Kevin cole
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It is a rite of passage for Amelia Diaz and Cristina Jones to move out of the house. But their parents want to keep them free from harm, hurt and disappointment. “I am going to be moving out with my best friend next June,” said Diaz, a Cal State Fullerton sophomore majoring in French. Diaz said she and Jones are like sisters and can take out their frustrations on each other. On the other hand, they exchange quips constantly to reduce their stress levels. “We both have to get better at cooking,” said Jones, a CSUF freshman studying vocal perfor� mance. “We both burn things on the stove,” Jones said. “But we are pretty much OK, I suppose.” “Yeah, at least you don’t burn oven mitts on the stove, although that was not directly my fault,” Diaz joked. Both the girls are now blind. Jones had partial sight at birth while Diaz was born blind. They have known each other for 12 years and been inseparable for
nine of those, Diaz’s mother Rosa said. Rosa still doesn’t really want Diaz to go. She wants her daugh� ter to stay around until she is done with college. Diaz said her mother’s reluctance is mainly cultural and not related to her blindness. Her mother was raised in the Domini� can Republic. There, girls stay with their parents until they’re married, Diaz said. Moving out is about indepen� dence, and while Rosa said Diaz can be independent while staying at home, she doesn’t really live up to the promise, Diaz said. Both girls realize their mothers mean well. She said her mom comes into the room to wake her up 10 min� utes before the alarm is set to go off. Many blind people live very in� dependently. Blind students access information differently, but aren’t really otherwise different from other students, said Paul Miller, CSUF director of Disabled Stu� dents Services “I mean commuting isn’t a problem,” Diaz said. “We take the bus and everything, but we just want to be independent.” One time when Jones and Diaz
were at Cerritos Mall, Jones was getting irritated because her mom was telling her not to buy a skirt because it made her look fat. She said she just snapped and told her mother they could do it on their own. Her mother left to pick up her other daughter while Diaz and Jones shopped by themselves. Jones said they would take the clothes and feel them and they would say to each other, “what the heck is this? This is pretty weird stuff.” Jones said the jeans had an elas� tic front and then the clerk told them they were in the maternity section. They went on looking for clothes until they realized they had wandered into a men’s shoe store. After that, they would stick their heads in to a store, sniff and move on if it had the new shoe smell. Jones said the clerk would ask to help them. Their humor would come out with a joking response. “No, we are just looking,” they said. When they were 6 they used to think that they hated each other, Diaz said, which caused them to avoid each other. They had never spoken and don’t remember how they started talking. When Diaz was 7 and Jones was
6 they started taking tap dance classes together. They continued to go to Cypress Community Center every week for tap dancing until last year, said Rosa. University life complicates their starting up with tap dancing again. Diaz’s mother said the Braille In� stitute choir that they belonged to for nine years was excellent. Jones, as a soprano, got the National Choral Award last year, Veronica Rosales, choir director at Anaheim High School, said. She was one of two chosen in the district as a soloist for the honors choir. “Her talent is completely natu� ral,” Rosales said. “That’s what is so amazing.” Other students would come to Diaz and Jones sing, Zofia Run� dzia, an Anaheim High School French teacher, said. During lunch they would come and sing in her class. They attracted other students who would come and eat lunch there. The pair’s general music tastes are pretty much the same, Diaz said. Jones said her dream job was to
Cal State Fullerton’s special elec� tions are being held this week to de� termine who will have a seat on the faculty personnel committee. Diana W. ��������������������� Guerin��������������� , professor of child and adolescent studies����� ���� and chair of the Academic Senate, said this is an election because someone was promoted and the faculty at large has a right and responsibility to elect their personnel committee. Essentially, the faculty is just replac� ing a person who got promoted with another faculty member. Richard Lippa, CSUF professor of Psychology �������������������� and����������������� chairman ������� o������ f����� the faculty personnel committee���������� ,��������� said ��� he� deal��������������������������������� s�������������������������������� with cases like retention, pro� motions, tenure decisions and dis� agreement in the University�. He said if ��������������������������� a dean disagrees with a department chair or the department personnel committee disagrees with the dean, the committee is also in place to review cases like that. In cases where departments do not have approved personnel of� ficers, ��������������������������� the committee�������������� would review the files.� ��������������������������� The committee�������������� also review��s� department personnel standards, as well as the University personnel standards��.� When terms expire or vacancies occur, the Senate nominates a can� didate for each vacant position, ac� cording to Academic Senate Bylaw 97-3. All members of the faculty
are informed of the nomination at least two weeks before the deadline for nominating petitions. All faculty can nominate other candidates by petitions with the signatures of ten faculty members. The ballot indicates whether a candidate was nominated by the Academic Senate or by faculty. Former������������������� committee member, John Erickson, was named interim department chair of the finance de� partment in the college of business. Subsequently, he was promoted to associate dean and as management he couldn’t serve on the personnel committee. Guerin said the faculty are re� quired by their bylaws to elect the personnel and they have the right to write in other people. She said it was hard to find one person to serve because it is a big job, Guerin said. They meet every Monday for three hours and outside of that to review files. The executive committee nomi� nates all people for committees on this campus. The alternative is they can nomi� nate themselves or the college of business could have their own per� son that they want to nominate as a write-in. The faculty vote in this election includes tenured, probationary and full-time lecturers; counseling and psychological services; librarians; and athletics, according to Irene Matz, assistant professor of Com� munication Studies and chair of the Academic Senate Elections Com� SEE ELECTION - PAGE 2
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Engineer to Speak for Heritage Month By AARON HOLTSCLAW
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Professional engineers Frank Serna and Jaime Oaxaca will be speaking in the Titan Student Union pavilion at noon today in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. The title for the event is “Denial is Not Just a River in Egypt” and is sponsored by both the Society of Mexican American Engineers and
Scientists and the Society of Hispan� ic Professional Engineers chapters at Cal State Fullerton. “It’s a great opportunity for the younger students to see two older Hispanic engineers that have blazed the trails for us,” said Steven Her� nandez, president of SHPE. “It will be good to know what kind of paths they had to take to get to where they are so I can see which hurdles and obstacles will come in my way,” said Hernandez, who as�
pires to become an engineer. “I am really excited that they got Jaime Oaxaca to speak at this event,” said Adrian Hermosaillo, president of MAES. Serna was a founding member of MAES while Oaxaca founded SHPE to help promote higher education for Hispanics in the field of engi� neering. “This will be a monumental event because you can hear them speak for free,” Mesa Cooperative Representa�
tive Crystal Castellanos said. Castel� lanos organized the event along with Cesar Naza. “It’s an easy way of telling the campus that Hispanics are com� ing out and looking for a higher education,” said Naza. “Seeing Ser� na and Oaxaca shows us that we as Hispanics can reach a professional level.” Attendees do not have to be a member of either club in order to at� tend the event.
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CAMPUS CALENDAR FRIENDS: They may be Blind, But not without a voice (From Page One)
Today
Founding member of the Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientist, Jaime Oaxaca will be on campus to discuss the lack of Hispanics in the upper ranks of corporations and the government. He will be in the Portola Pavilion in the TSU from noon to 1 p.m.
Wednesday
ASI candidate packets become available in TSU room 207. Deadline to turn in packets is Oct. 10. Dollar bowling nights. Every Wednesday from 6 to 10 p.m., the TSU Underground will be providing bowling shoes and games for $1.
Thursday
Author Immaculee Ilibagiza, who wrote “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust” will be in the Irvine Campus quad at 5 p.m. for a book signing and to discuss the events she experienced in 1994.
Tuesday, Oct. 3
Titan Pride Bowling League begins. The league is open to students, faculty, staff and local community members. League matches start at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 4
Dollar bowling nights. Every Wednesday from 6 to 10 p.m., the TSU Underground will be providing bowling shoes and games for $1.
Saturday, Oct. 7
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be an elementary, junior high, high school and university choir director. “I want to teach choir and then give each of my students individual voice lessons. I can just culture them, you might say,” Jones said. “Educate them as far as music goes. Culture them, so I can build up my choir.” In the seventh grade Diaz, whose two passions are French and music, started listening to Celine Dion, she quickly became a big fan. She is considering a second major in vocal performance. “Whenever there are talent shows I am embarrassed to get up there, but I like it, I like getting up there,” Diaz said. “I don’t think many peo� ple like their own voices but I like that part.” “My first exposure to Cristina was seeing her as a drunken peasant,” Kathy Allen, science department
chair and honors biology teacher at Anaheim High School, said Allen. The Braille Institute and the Li� ons Club performed the highlights of “Les Miserables,” with a mixture of sighted and blind kids, according to Allen. She said during a bar scene, in the back of the production, Jones had a mug and she was just swinging it around like crazy. They were sup� posed to act like they were drunken peasants and she was totally into it. When Diaz graduated she gave Allen a plastic eye. She put with a card, telling her that she was going to be keeping an eye on her, even af� ter she graduated. She still has it in her classroom. A blind student uses a lot of the adaptive equipment in order to ac� cess print material. Instead they must either use Braille or have it read to them, Miller said.
Rosa said Diaz read “The Indian in the Cupboard,” a book on tape read by former inmate William Cloud and prepared by the inmaterun Folsom Project for the Visually Impaired. Then 9 years old, Diaz be� gan typing thank you cards in Braille and sending them to the program. These letters inspired Cloud to learn Braille. It led to their Braille program which now has two certi� fied Braille transcribers. She couldn’t meet them until re� cently because she was a minor and minors can’t enter the prison. In December, 2005, when Diaz was 18 years old, she was able to vis� it the 16 inmates who narrated and transcribed her books into Braille. She met government officials and the warden. Diaz gave them a plaque in appreciation. She sang a Celine Dion song, “These are Special Times.” Miller said blind students require
expensive, sophisticated typographic material. It costs $30,000 to $40,000 for one student for a set of textbooks in this specialized format. Diaz was the president of the first Braille club where all of the members were blind, funded by the Braille In� stitute. They raised money to send spe� cialized equipment to the blind kids in the Dominican Republic, Rosa said. One of the reasons they want to move out is they need to be indepen� dent, Diaz said. Her parents have always told her that she can do whatever she sets her mind to, and she is taking them to heart. “Well, the things that make us human are the core of each of us,” Miller said. “Regardless of what our particular challenges are, we learn to manage our environment.”
ELECTION: This Heart Stabber Isn’t Anyone’s Housewife Has only to do with CSUF Personnel MYSPACE PROFILE
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By MARINA ZARATE
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Below the italicized red letters of Courtney Kistler’s MySpace head� line lies a subtly provocative im� age of patent-leather black stiletto pumps and fishnet stockings. “I Stab Hearts with Stilettos” reads Kistler’s headline. “I came up with that headline in a moment of slightly sarcastic wit,” the communications major said by e-mail. There are also photos of Kistler smiling, Kistler with friends and Kistler decked out in sadomasochiststyle attire and tied up with chains that are held by a male. The photos were taken professionally and the captions read “submissive” and “do� mestic.” “Those photos were actually taken for a performance argument assign� ment in my advanced argumenta� tion class,” Kistler said. “It was my artistic concept based on ‘The Cult of Womanhood.’ The purpose of performance argument was to illus� trate, through the form of photog� raphy, how society’s characteristics of a ‘true’ woman continue to keep
Kistler women in chains.” Although the photos were shot with friends, Kistler said the photos were slightly embarrassing to take in a room of four men. Kistler provides a plethora of information about herself on her MySpace page, from her love of music to her status as a vegetarian and the fact that she does not sleep enough. “I believe that my page represents me quite well,” she said in the email. “It has a little bit of everything on there from the music I listen to most often to my favorite movies and au� thors.” However, not once on the page does Kistler state her name. This was a deliberate act on her part to deter “random friend whores from clog�
ging up my friends requests.” While Kistler does receive random friend requests, she refuses to set her profile to private. “Private is silly,” she said. “It’s simple really, I just don’t put any� thing on my profile I want to hide and keep private.” In one of her blogs, Kistler adver� tises the soap business, RAW, that she started over the summer. Her soaps and bath salts are handmade organic products that include names such as “clarity,” “stress no more,” and “sleep time.” Kistler is first and foremost look� ing forward to her graduation from Cal State Fullerton in the spring. She is also hoping to continue build� ing her soap business. As for MySpace, Kistler said she only uses the site periodically and understands why it has become so successful. “MySpace has succeeded in mak� ing the world even smaller than it was after AIM was created,” she said.
(From Page One) mittee. This process has nothing to do with student��� s, ������������������� Guerin said�������� , as it has only to do with faculty per� sonnel matters, so it is closed to student interaction. Students have their biggest input trough student evaluations. Mabel Kung, professor of infor� mation systems and decision sci� ences, was nominated by the Aca� demic Senate, said Marilyn Miller, Academic Senate department in� formation technology coordinator. The vacant faculty personnel com� mittee seat represents the College of Business and Economics. The electronic election will be held from Monday, Sept. 25, through Thursday, Sept. 28.
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Hitting the Board
Though the skate culture has gone mainstream it still maintains its roots BY KEVIN cole
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Skateboarding has come a long way from being a few surfers who wanted to continue their craft on land to a world renowned sport that has traversed mediums. It was a subculture that slowly became a counterculture and eventually became mainstream. Michael Perez, associate professor of Sociology, said whether subcultures are ethnic, religious or youth oriented, they all differ some way from mainstream culture. The skating demographic is largely young males, said Chris Overhousen, public relations specialist with Vans Skate Park. The rise of skateboarding was gradual over several decades. Skateboarding became popular in the ’60s when skate contests began to be televised and several skate magazines started publication. Skateboarding was started from, and heavily influenced by surfing. The first skateboards even looked like small surfboards. In the ’70s polyurethane wheels emerged which changed what skaters were able to do. Empty swimming pools became the main destination for skaters, Overhousen said. The Dog Town Boys from Santa Monica popularized the new freestyle skateboarding, while professional skaters
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Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta brought more of a surfing sensibility to skating. Perez said the evolution of skating occurred in the Santa Monica area. It was the rebellious youth who were labeled as deviant, latch key kids, working-class and lower-class from that area that really created their own skateboards. These kids looked to find pavement to carve up. In the ’80s plywood ramps and the street style of Tony Hawk and Steve Caballero were in. It was from these roots that skateboarding began to evolve into more of an extreme sport and eventually became part of the X-games in the ’90s. That was a perfect example of a subcultural phenomenon. It was an anti-establishment subculture and counterculture, Perez said. Perez said now skating has become mainstream with video games such as Tony Hawk. Since 2000 Tony Hawk’s name has been used on two “Underground� games, four different “Pro Skater� titles and “American Wasteland.� The games are a commodity that have become part of mainstream culture. Whether good or bad, however one looks at this politically, he said, those are the sociological things that are going on. The clothes associated with the skateboarding subculture are directly influenced by the professional skateboarding circuit.Tight fitting or “hesh� style of clothing evolved from men wearing women’s jeans in order
to get a tighter look, said Kyle Zaruba assistant manager of Beach Bums’ Anaheim Hills store. Inspired by skaters like Billy Marks and Chris Cole, the hesh skaters, wore Levis until Krew came out with a tight-fitting jean targeting the hesh skater. Nate Sherwood, a professional skater from San Diego, prefers baggy clothes. Part of his skateboarding subculture is seen in the nomadic lifestyle of a touring skater. Other skaters have slept over for extended periods at Sherwood’s home including Eric Sanders, who slept on his couch for about three months, and Jamie Rogers who also crashed on his couch for a while four years ago, Sherwood said. “House guests are like fish. After about four days they start stinking and you better get rid of them,� Sherwood said. Music has become an important part of the skating subculture. The music is often associated with rebellious youth. Derek Dobbs, a CSUF freshman music major said he listened to MXPX and the Swedish skate/punk band Millencolin as well as other skate rock bands including CKY, The Offspring, Dogwood and
NOFX. As skateboarding evolved and became mainstream it stopped being counterculture, but still held a subculture quality to it. Skaters still have a renegade attitude. They are not allowed to skate in shopping centers and many other places. There are still those insideroutsider boundaries, but skating has gone mainstream as well with storebought boards, he said. The relationship with subculture, counterculture and mainstream culture is that they are used for marketing purposes, and then they become appropriated by the mainstream culture, Perez said. That’s why there are always different formations of subculture. The very thing that defined it as an edgy, anti-mainstream, anti-establishment culture now becomes part of the mainstream and then it has to move on.
The holiday is one of the most important holidays in the Jewish religion. It is considered “judgment day� for followers because it is a day of repentance. It is also a time to reflect on one’s sins for the past year. The day before Yom Kippur, observers take part in confessional prayers or a viddui which is repeated throughout
the holiday. They also take part in a final meal before the start of Yom Kippur. The meal usually includes soup, chicken and Jewish bread or challah. There is a final meal because observers must take part in a fast. The sundown to sundown fast includes no eating or drinking and begins at sundown on the first day of Yom Kippur.
At the beginning of the holiday, two candles are lit and blessed. The opening prayer, Kol Nidre, occurs the evening of Oct. 1. Services then begin on the morning of Oct. 2, and last into the evening. The closing service is the Neilah. The services are ended with a shofar, traditionally a ram’s horn being blown to end the holiday.
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Yom Kippur - The Jewish Day of Fasting for a Clean Slate BY Christina Martinez
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Yom Kippur is the Jewish holiday meaning “Day of Atonement.� It begins on the tenth day of Tishri of the Hebrew calendar. This year will begin at sundown on Oct. 1 and lasts until sundown on Oct. 2.
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be more humiliating than to hurt you,� Irfan said. news@dailytitan.com Irfan grew up in Kurdish Sulimanyah, what he called a “very For students who once studied modern city�. in Iraq or other Muslim countries, Najim, however, grew up and the word “freedom� holds a signifiwent to school in Baghdad. The cant value. terrorist activity there caused his During Saddam Hussein’s refamily to flee to Duhok, a Kurdish gime, many Iraqi professors were region of Iraq. part of the Ba’ath party or in the Irfan listed corporal punishment Iraqi Intelligence, said Ali Najim as his least favorite memory of his graduate student of Al-Mustanserieducation in Sulimanyah, where yah University in Baghdad. he went to school up through sev“In Saddam’s rule, there weren’t enth grade, but also any religious mentioned that the controls on colGET IT ONLINE severity of the punGo online for the full version of lege, but his inthis story ishments depended telligence [offion the teacher. cials] and Ba’ath However, restrictions loosened as party members were in control of a student got older and more freeeducation,� Najim said. dom was permitted, Irfan and NaIn Iraq, teachers hold a great jim both said. amount of authority, said MohamUpon reaching high school, ad Irfan, a Marymount University which begins at 10th grade in Iraq, student who lived in Iraq for the students are considered adults and early part of his education. are “allowed to speak their minds “Teachers were pretty much sumore fully,� Irfan said. preme law over there. If you didn’t Many picture Iraqi students and abide by them, they would get anothers in traditional garb on a daigry at you real fast,� Irfan said. ly basis. That is not so, Irfan said. Most American students would “The first time I saw a woman fully shrug off an angry teacher. In Iraq, covered was in a mall in Virginia, however, corporal punishment is permitted. A student could be pun- we didn’t have that in Iraq. The traished for tardiness, absence, misbe- ditional clothing is for occasions, having, or for any other reason that such as the Kurdish New Year,� he a teacher said warranted corporal said. The majority of the people that punishment, Irfan said. wear traditional garb are the villagHe recalled one instance in ers from the outskirts, he added. which a “troublemaker� student Although traditions are held in made jokes in the back of gym class. high regard, there are many misconThe teacher went to the back of the ceptions that Americans have about room and punished the boy in what the Muslim culture. Those misconturned into a very one-sided fight ceptions are often created through including excessive slapping and generalizations, Najim said. kicks to the boy’s side, Irfan said. “Iraqis are very smart people,� The student took the beating and he said. “Don’t take them easily as was later punished for his behavior a whole.� and the teacher was not reprimandIn contrast, university life in the ed at all, Irfan said. “The point is to United States includes more freebreak you down and rebuild you to dom and hands-on learning, Irfan their standards, to get rid of your said. individual instincts. It was meant to Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Society’s Hypocritical View of Women By Katy French Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
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As we are already six weeks faces why in the world would you into this glorious fall semester, it want to begin the whole process has become glaringly apparent to all over again? us at the Daily Titan that a wave We here at the Daily Titan of immature high school behav- would like to remind all of our ior not seen since 90210 went off loyal readers that this is an instithe air has hit CSUF like a tidal tution of higher learning, not a wave. high school with ashtrays. Roving cliques that keep outAnd it’s time to adapt. siders away, petty broken friendCollege is not about the ships over top trivial, backeight rankings stabbing draAfter four years of and a repugma between nant unifor- being forced to stare at homecoming mity of out- the same acne-scarred and prom – it’s landish fashion face, why in the world about expandtrends have ing your horiwould you want to overtaken our zons, coming school like the begin the whole process and going to all over again? bad emo hairclasses as you cuts and short please, saydenim skirts ing the word that follow them. “F---” in class in an academic This is not pointing at one sense, meeting new people of group in general but all of all backgrounds, drinking yourthose who stay inclusive self into a stupor on Saturday and guard their little social night before waking up with a fiefdoms. stranger in the morning – nothAfter four years of being forced ing high school about that to stare at the same acne-scarred at all. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Titan Editorial is solely the opinion of the Daily Titan edito-
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We have all seen her. She’s the woman at the bar who had two drinks too many and is about 20 years too late. Her bleached blonde hair, tanning-salon wrinkles, fake nails and miniskirt fight desperately to mask the hand of time while she flirts with the elderly gentleman and the 21year-old bartender. She thinks she’s beautiful, you think she’s pathetic. We all think “who is she trying to fool?” We all know that, ultimately, it’s herself. But maybe it’s not her fault. Our society pushes females toward sexual maturity and then dictates that it is unacceptable to age, that one must try as long and as hard as she can to fight the inevitable. After all that effort, what is the point? But it isn’t only these wannabe “Mom’s I’d Like to F---.” You’ve probably seen their daughters too.
She’s the one at the mall with her friends. She wears thongs, lipstick and eyeliner. Her breasts haven’t developed but that doesn’t stop her from wearing a push-up bra. She’s on her cell phone and using bad words loud enough that her friends are impressed. She’s 13 and she thinks she’s cool. We’re all wondering the same thing. When did this happen? Girls are dressing sexier, younger and women are dressing sexier far past the point that they should be. Sexuality is one thing. Decency is another. Females today must fluctuate between two sets of very different yet very rigid rules. Sex is ubiquitous, but the rules keep changing and many women find themselves stuck in the middle. Now what’s a girl to do? From the moment we’re shuffling around in mommy’s high heels, the game is on. As children and early ad-
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Britney Spears taught us how sexy a school girl outfit with bra exposed can be, especially on a minor. Her antics pushed the envelope and now we don’t even blink when we see excessive displays of sexuality among teens. Most of us are not Paris Hilton. And once we hit our 20s the “warnings” begin. Start using wrinkle cream and protect yourself from sun damage. Once you hit, say, 25 the entire machine changes on you and you are not allowed to get any older. Suddenly, your whole life’s focus is about being younger. Creams, Botox injections and every imaginable contraption is employed to get you back to your youthful days. This is happening with 30-year-olds. Our lives are so accelerated that we have left no room to enjoy who we are right now. I’ll allow myself to age gracefully and if that is unacceptable, then I will age disgracefully.
Catching Illegals Should Not be a Citizen’s Job By Jaime Cardenas Daily Titan Assistant News Editor jcardenas@dailytitan.com
Imagine walking through the Quad and seeing someone wearing a shirt that read, “I am an Illegal Immigrant.” You might think the person was making a political statement, but, in actuality, the person is part of a game called, “Catch an Illegal Immigrant.” The game is the conservative, youngadult version of hunting for Easter eggs. It’s stupid. It’s ignorant. It’s racist. There is no other way to describe this game some University of Michigan students had planned to play this week. The event has been postponed to a later date, but the fact that they even thought about playing is infu-
riating. If these Wolverines think such activity is funny and not offensive, they might as well play “lynch the black slave” or “crucify the Christian.” I’m not joking. I would expect an event like “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” to be promoted by the Minutemen or Rush Limbaugh or Pat Robertson, but by college students that are supposed to be getting a higher learning? It’s disappointing. But it was refreshing to hear on Monday that the ASI wouldn’t support such game on campus. ASI President Heather Williams told Daily Titan reporter Karen Aman “that after speaking with most of the students on my executive team, it seems clear that none of them would want to support this type of event. I
do not see ASI supporting this type of event in any way.” And why would they. Why would anyone? It’s an insensitive and cruel game. A lot of people like to point out how we, as a country, are too politically correct, but if that was true, why was something so politically incorrect created. Why would Andrew Boyd and Kyle Bristow, the coordinators of the event, be such morons if this truly was a P.C. world? Bristow told the Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s campus newspaper, the game “is a game that the U.S. government needs to play about 13 million times.” “The only thing more effective would be if U of M YAF and MSU YAF were to drive down to the border and start building a wall our-
selves,” said Bristow, chairman of the Michigan State chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom. “But that would be a lot of work.” No kidding, Einstein. Bristow, I can guess, won’t be first in line to do farm work once immigrants get deported. Boyd, chairman of the Michigan YAF, thought the game would be a great idea and that it would allow people to talk about the subject. “I think the game may attract a lot of people that just an ordinary speaker may not,” he said. “I think as many people need to be educated about this as possible.” I think I need $50,000 to pay my debts, but I’m not going to rob a bank to do so. Just like staging a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game is idiotic.
By Aaron Holtsclaw Daily Titan Staff Writer
cities that are part of this county where low-income residents live. This hall can be a symbol of Costa Mesa or the other beach cities that most cannot afford to live in. However, a symbol of the county should be a place that everyone can afford to visit. It should not be exclusive to a small percentage. For example, Anaheim Stadium is one possibility. It has been part of the Orange County landscape since the 1950s. There are days when the masses can attend a game for fewer than $10. More people can afford to go to the “Big A” than a concert hall. It is also the home of the county’s only major sports franchise that has won a world championship. Granted, the Angels have changed their name to disown where they originate from in favor of Los Angeles, but the icon of the stadium remains as recognizable as the Matterhorn or the pier at Newport Beach. The Matterhorn would be another possibility. It is recognizable and visible from the 5 Freeway. However,
one must pay to enter Disneyland in order to ride it. A family of four cannot enter the park for under $200, let alone afford a meal, which makes it inaccessible to the masses. This pretty much rules out anything to do with Disneyland, because again it is not accessible to everyone in Orange County. Another option is the pier at Huntington Beach or Newport. These choices are more likely to represent Orange County, because one can reach both using public transportation from most of the county. They are also free. Hence, an antithesis of elitism and the new concert hall.However, they do not represent the whole county. There is nothing that represents the whole county. No icon or symbol represents the county’s entirety. So it is foolishness to say that the new concert hall is a symbol for us. The only thing it symbolizes is the people who own it and those who will patronize it. Not the whole county.
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olescents we are fed images of glamorous, sensual females that we aspire to be well before we are physically, and more importantly, mentally prepared. Neck and waistlines become lower as fashion filters down from the women’s to juniors’ and kids’ departments. We are racing to our teen years in hopes of becoming more “womanly” where the lines between child and adult are blurred. New words like “tween” arrive and marketers skew products to a younger audience. Back in 2002 the store Abercrombie & Fitch, notorious for its erotic advertising – you have to be 18 to get the catalog – spurned public criticism from parent groups when it began carrying thong underwear in its kids’ stores. On we grow into teens who are not adults – we have laws about sex with a minor for a reason – yet culturally these truths are eclipsed.
It has been put forth that the new concert hall in Costa Mesa is the new symbol for Orange County. How can a hall that many Orange County residents cannot afford to attend be a symbol of the people? Concert Halls by their nature are elitist, because they are private and only open to those with the money to enter them. A big portion of the county lives paycheck to paycheck. Visiting a Concert Hall is out of their league and low on their priorities list. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, attending a Mozart festival at a concert hall ranks low. This hall is a continuation of misconceptions about Orange County that are perpetuated by television shows like “The O.C.” or movies like “Orange County” which only depict rich people. It does not acknowledge that Santa Ana and Placentia, among other
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Titans Hope to Build on Sin City Win Hosting UC Irvine This Week Titans win at UNLV after playing physical in a loss to UC Santa Barbara BY ALVIN ANOL
Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com
The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team bounced back nicely in a non conference match against UNLV on Sunday after suffering a heartbreaking Big West Conference loss to No. 12 - ranked UC Santa Barbara on Thursday at Titan Stadum. They now look to face UC Irvine on Wednesday. The Titans defeated UNLV in
Las Vegas, 3-2, and were led by the efforts of senior captain Eugene Brooks, who had two first-half goals and assisted on the game-winning goal. Brooks also had the lone goal in the 2-1 double-overtime loss to UCSB on Friday. He now has six goals on the season. Titan junior Ben Hofstetter scored the game-winning goal in the 69th minute for the Titans, who improved to 4-4-1 overall, 0-1-0 conference. Titan sophomore goalkeeper Kevin Puder got his first victory of the season, making four saves during the victory. It was Puder’s second start of the season after making his first start against UCSB on Thursday. “I was a little shaky at first, but
By KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan INCIDENTAL CONTACT? – Titan Ben Hofstetter hits the grass after his encounter with UC Santa Barbara’s Eric Frimpoing in a 2-1 CSUF loss.
in the warmup I was feeling really good,” Puder said after the UCSB match. The Titans were outshot 15-11, but had more corner kicks (8) than their opponent (2). The match against UNLV had noticeably fewer fouls (six for CSUF, four for UNLV) than the 2-1 loss against UCSB. Thursday’s game was marred with fouls and yellow cards, with a total of 38 fouls (UCSB 24, CSUF 14) and four yellow cards, three of which were given to CSUF. Amir Shafii, Gabriel Farfan and Head Coach Bob Ammann were all given yellow cards. “Without saying too much, I don’t think [the officials] did a good enough job protecting the attacking players,” Ammann said. “The rules are in place to protect the attacking players, not defend the defending players.” During the match, CSUF players could constantly be seen laid flat on the grass, often at the hands of 6foot-5 UCSB defender Andy Iro. “We knew coming into this game that Santa Barbara was always hard and physical, and they’re usually a bit bigger than us,” Brooks said after Thursday’s match. The first half of the match ended in a tie, but the stalemate was broken in the 69th minute by UCSB midfielder Bryan Byrne. Byrne ran down a ball from the right side of the field and beat two defenders on his way to finding the net against Puder. With less than six minutes remaining in the match, the Titans responded when Shafii sent a cross from the right side of the field toward the front of the goal. The ball was deflected to Brooks who was just in front of the net. Brooks found the back left corner of the goal to tie the game and send it into overtime. The first of the two 10-minute periods of overtime had many opportunities for the Titans. Unfortunately, they were unable
By KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan CLEARING OUT – Gabriel Farfan tries to get past two UC Santa Barbara players during a very physical match Thursday night. The Titans ended up losing in double overtime, but came back on Sunday to defeat UNLV on the road. to capitalize on their chances against UCSB. “All in all, we had the better of the game,” Ammann said. “The difference was we didn’t take care of our numerous set pieces. We took it to them. I think they were very fortunate to get away [with the win].” UCSB received a free kick opportunity from 20 yards out five minutes into the second overtime period. UCSB sophomore Nick Perera kicked the ball, which was deflected by a Titan defender and put it past Puder fort he game-winner. The Titans were outshot 23-14 on Thursday night, and UCSB had the advantage in corner kicks 9-2.
Upcoming Titan Athletics Schedule Men’s soccer - the Titans will return to Titan Stadium on Wednesday to host UC Irvine in a Big West Conference matchup. The Anteaters are 1-0 in conference play and 6-1-1 on the season. The match is at 7 p.m. On Oct. 4, the Titans host visiting Cal State Northridge at 7 p.m. and on Oct 10 face UC Riverside at 7 p.m. Women’s soccer - Cal
State Fullerton plays host to Arizona Thursday night at 7 p.m. before coming back out to Titan Stadium Sunday night at 6 p.m. to host UC Riverside in a Big West Conference match up. Volleyball - the Cal State Fullerton team will play in the Titan Gym on Thursday to host UC Riverside in a Big West Conference matchup beginning at 7 p.m. On Friday, the Titans play host to visiting UC Davis at 7 p.m. in a non conference match. Cross country - the Titans travel to Palo Alto to compete in the Stanford Regional on Sept. 30.