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Thursday October 5, 2006

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Rally Against Hate

Talking About Hate - LGBA member Grace Tuan (left) shares her story of an incident in which she was being “pushed around” at a mall in Arcadia because of her appearance and apparent sexual preferrence. Standing beside her for moral support is club president Natasha Negrete.

Messages For Peace By Suzanne Sullivan/For the Daily Titan

By Paolo Andres

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

By Kevin Rogers/Daily Titan Photo Editor

Song OF Hope - Jade Ross, 23, is a spoken word artist who is singing from passages in her journal against hate and prejudice on Wednesday at the Rally Against Hate in the Quad.

al State Fullerton students rallied together on Wednesday in a move towards awareness of hate and prejudice. A coalition of 15 student clubs, ASI and the Inter-Fraternity Council organized the Rally Against Hate in the Quad as a response to an alleged hate crime that occurred involving CSUF students. “The primary message is that we all need to educate ourselves about what is happening in our communities around hate crimes, and we all need to take a step to combat it,” said Yen Ling Shek, coordinator of the Multicultural Leadership Center. The rally featured spoken-word artists as well as diversity training conducted by Orange County Human Relations, an organization committed to combating hate crimes.

Student Accounts Of Becoming Hate Victims By Julianna Crisalli

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

On her first day at Cal State Fullerton, Eva Magdaleno’s teacher asked the class to share some information about their lives. After doing so, students called Magdaleno a “whitewashed Mexican,” a whore for being a single mother and laughed at her because of her SEE HATE - PAGE 4 “We believe that hate is a pyramid that begins with intolerance, stereotypes and prejudice,” said Dave Southern, senior human relations trainer specialist. “The activity that we did was to open student’s eyes to how easily we fall into the patterns

of stereotypes, prejudice and hate to others.” The event also allowed students and other participants to voice their experience with hate and bigotry. The rally is rooted in an alleged hate crime on Aug. 9. A CSUF student allegedly attacked two young women, including another CSUF student, for looking like lesbians, according to police reports. When members of CSUF’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance heard of the attack through the OC Weekly, they met with Associated Students Inc. in order to raise awareness of hate crimes. Forming a coalition with other organizations, the LGBA set out to create an occasion where crimes of bigotry and hate would be brought out into the open. The group approached ASI last month for $1,556 in funding. ASI unanimously granted funding for a total of $930 with any unused SEE RALLY - PAGE 4

OC Resident at Forefront of Sneaker Collecting Industry Market commanding high prices for new, rare and vintage footwear By Benjamin Weiner

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Each month hundreds of people come together at Bar 330 in Brea to buy, sell and trade Michael Jordan’s and LeBron James. But it’s not the sports cards of your childhood that they’re wheeling and dealing – it’s the shoes. The event is called DUNKXCHANGE, and it’s the brainchild of Orange County resident Gary Hughes. A year and a half ago Hughes decided to create a live trade show after being ripped off on eBay several times. “The sellers weren’t even shipping stuff to me,” Hughes said. “I had no choice, I had to go on eBay. There wasn’t any other way to get them at the time and I kept getting fake kicks in the mail.” He said he spent about $1,500 on Internet shoe scams.

Hughes realized there had to be a better way to get shoes, or kicks as they’re known in the industry. He started thinking about ideas late one night - first thinking of a store - but he soon realized that it would take too much investment capital. “I decided on a smaller scale and that’s when I came up with DUNKXCHANGE,” he said. Hughes event has a similar setup to most sports cards shows, featuring vendor tables and allowing patrons to bring in up to three pairs of shoes with them to sell or trade. DUNKXCHANGE became the first ever to do a live trade show with shoe collectors, or “sneakerheads,” Hughes said. Almost 600 people showed up for his show last Saturday. The patrons at the shows are mostly males in the 13- to 24-year-old range, said vendor Charles Yang. What started out for Yang as a hobby has grown into a full-fledged business. Yang has been dealing in shoes for a little over a year and now has an “online sneaker boutique”

called h8rkix.com. “It’s a hobby and business,” Yang said. “It’s an investment just like any other collectible.” Vendor Dominic Bell said the shoes are considered a status symbol. There is “a lot of hype behind the shoes,” Bell said. “People see stuff they like and they want to have it, so they copy it and bandwagon.” The idea that the shoes can be a status symbol is seen in the individuality of each pair of shoes. “They represent the person wearing them,” said patron Steve Kuy. “You don’t have to worry that anyone else is wearing the same shoes.” In the year and a half that Hughes has been doing this, the company has gone from a small operation to one that is now incorporated, sponsored and national. Hughes has already brought his event from locales in Orange County, such as the House of Blues in Anaheim, to cities such as Las Vegas and New York. His 2007 schedule SEE SHOE - PAGE 5

High Prices For Swoosh Sneakers Nike Air Jordan o The first Nike Air Jordan came out in 1985. o They had a retail value of $100. o Today they sell for $7,000. Most expensive shoe o The Nike FLOM (For Love or Money). o Only six made. o Estimated at $9,000. Most expensive shoe at DUNKXCHANGE o Nike Paris o Sell for $2,000 to $3,000. Most expensive shoe currently on eBay o Nike Playstation Air Force 1 o Listed for $1,800. Source: Gary Hughes and eBay

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Shoes - Justin Hudson organizes his sneaker collection on Saturday at the DUNKXCHANGE at Bar 330 in downtown Brea.

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In Brief

TODAY

CSUF jazz performers play the works of Fred Sturm, Thad Jones and George Stone at 8 p.m. in the Meng Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 to the general public, $10 advance purchase for senior citizens and students with a CSUF ID. The theater and dance department presents Anton Chekhov’s “The Sea Gull” at 8 p.m. in the Young Theatre. Performances are scheduled every week on Sunday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday until Oct. 15. Tickets are $9 for the general public, $8 advanced purchase for senior citizens and students with a CSUF ID.

FRIDAY

Fall Women’s Tennis Intercollegiates start today and end on Sunday. This annual fall tournament features the best collegiate players in Southern California. The event will take place in the Sports Complex. For event times and more information, call (714) 278-CSUF. Admission is free.

Saturday

Last day to sign up for affordable Student Health Insurance with Blue Cross. Students can sign up online at csuhealthlink.com

Tuesday

Last day to turn in ASI Candidate Packets in TSU-207 by 5 p.m.

Friday, OCT. 13

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ON THE WIRE World

Madonna to adopt another child

BLANTYRE, Malawi - Madonna plans to adopt a child in Malawi, government officials said Wednesday, as the pop star arrived in the southern African nation on a mission to help AIDS orphans. Madonna’s publicist, Liz Rosenberg, confirmed that the singer was in Malawi on a private visit and said she had not adopted a baby, although it was not clear if there could still be plans in the works to do so. “She is building an orphanage and child care center and is involved in other initiatives geared toward helping children orphaned by AIDS through the Raising Malawi organi-

Compiled from the Associated Press zation. She has not adopted a baby despite reports that she has,” Rosenberg told Us Weekly.

National

Federal case for Foley would be difficult, investigators say

WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Mark Foley’s online conversations with teenage male pages have all the trappings of a political scandal, but making a federal case out of the sexually charged exchanges could prove difficult, veteran investigators said. Foley resigned abruptly when his e-mail and instant message transcripts surfaced. The chats discussed sexual acts and possible meetings

with pages, according to ABC News, which first reported them last week. With the FBI investigating Foley’s behavior, his defense attorney, David Roth, said that the congressman never had sex or attempted sexual contact with a minor. Foley, who is being treated for alcohol abuse, was drinking when he had the explicit conversations, Roth said. “Any suggestion that Mark Foley is a pedophile is false,” Roth said Tuesday at a news conference in West Palm Beach, Fla.

State

Documents allege former airport commissioner bought massages

LOS ANGELES - Indicted former

airport commissioner Leland Wong bought sex massages for a top aide of former Mayor James Hahn, in an effort to secure a city contract for a client, newly released court documents allege. Wong, who was allegedly receiving bribes from a company seeking a new port contract, paid for the $130 massages to influence then-Deputy Mayor Troy Edwards, prosecutors said in documents unsealed Tuesday. Wong, who held commissioner posts in three mayoral administrations, was indicted in August on public corruption charges. Citing Edwards’ grand jury testimony, prosecutors alleged Wong paid for the deputy mayor’s massages at a spa in a downtown hotel.

FACULTY FOCUS

Faculty Member a Reyes of Light Foreign language educator shines some light on the road ahead for students By Noraly hernandez

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Reyes Fidalgo has a way to solve what she calls the mystery that is U.S. Education: get involved in all kinds of committees and associations. “By getting involved you learn how things work,” Fidalgo said “Once [I] establish that knowledge, my main interest is to pass it on to my students.” Helping students learn how to navigate the academic system is one of Fidalgo’s main interests. “You see I didn’t grow up here, so for me the academic system was somewhat of a mystery,” said the foreign language educator and Spanish coordinator for the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. “This country has enormous opportunities but you need to know where they are and how to get to them.” Fidalgo said students should map the road they want to take. “Sometimes rushing hurts you more than anything,” she said.

Fidalgo, who was born in “I am curious about things so I get the Celtic region of Asturias, involved with things until I know Spain, was raised during the end of how they work and then that is fine, the Francisco FranI can move on to co dictatorship something else.” Last year Fidalin an uncommon go served as chair and intellectual This country has household where enormous opportunities, of the Chicana and a good meal and but you need to know Chicano studies after being asked to education were the where they are and temporarily fill the main priorities. vacant position. “We grew up in a how to get them. As chair, she province where ap– Reyes Fidalgo said she established pearances mattered Foreign Language Educator committees and a lot; having designasked faculty to deer clothing was not cide what direction an issue with us,” the department Fidalgo said. should take as she “In my house the main thing was well-fed and well- facilitated administrative work. “I was totally absorbed by how educated.” After receiving a scholarship to much devotion [the members of the finish her graduate studies at the Chicana and Chicano studies faculUniversity of Massachusetts, Fidalgo ty] have for the student body, for the moved to the United States and eventually transferred to California where she has been teaching at Cal State Fullerton since 1999. Fidalgo, who enjoys cooking and bringing people together, has many interests and has delved in many fields including architectural ergonomics. “I think that the main definition of who I am is curiosity,” Fidalgo said.

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future of the department, how much energy they put in there even though they were first-year and second-year faculty members,” she said. Currently, Fidalgo is doing research in language contact, including how English “loan words” get grammatical gender assigned in Spanish and adding research for her book on how one language impacts another as a linguistic system. Her book focuses specifically on English and Spanish. Despite all of her personal accomplishments in various fields, Fidalgo said one of her greatest feelings of accomplishment and sense of pride comes from watching students utilizing the available resources in order to reach their goals. Fidalgo said she gets “a great, great, great satisfaction” when she witnesses students accomplish their goals.

BY HARMONY TREVINO/Daily Titan Staff Writer

Measure would make doctors report underage abortions to parents

Proposition 85, which was prepared by the Attorney General, would amend the California Constitution and would require physicians to notify a parent or legal guardian at least 48 hours before a minor undergoes an abortion. It applies to “unemancipated” minors, which the proposition defines as a female under the age of

18 who has not entered into a valid marriage, is not in active duty in the armed services of the United States and has not been declared free from her parent or guardian’s custody. The measure does not require minors to get parental consent for the abortion. The exceptions to the notification requirements would include medical emergencies and waivers approved by a parent, guardian or the court. The state would be required to report specific information to the state Department of Health Services

Yes on 85

Paul E. Laubacher, a registered doesn’t go downtown to the courtnurse and legal proponent of Propo- house.” Laubacher mentioned that all sition 85, said that the opposition has been generating “phantom fears” surgeries on minors require parenwhen they say that teens will be put tal consent and that this particular in danger if forced surgery would only to notify a parent require parental or that teens will be notification. inconvenienced by It’s not true that the He added that court systems. the reason why this law would put teens law is necessary is “It’s not true that from abused homes in because parents the law would put would like to know teens from abused danger. All you have that a surgery is behomes in danger. to do is look at the ing performed on All you have to do historical records and is look at the his- you’ll find that it’s not their minor. “In any surgical torical records and – Paul E. Laubacher setting most peoyou’ll find that it’s not true,” Laubach- Legal proponent of Proposition 85 ple have at their bedside someone er said, referring who’s an advocate to other states who for them, either a have similar parenparent or spouse, someone like that,” tal consent laws. Laubacher said that the opposi- he said. “The minor girl is going off to an tion would like a voter to think that a teen has to endure the large court unknown location and unknown system by themselves but it is really practitioner and have no idea what’s going on – there is no advocate.” the opposite. He also said that Proposition 85 “The waiver process is all facilitated through the clinic,” Laubacher “not only brings physical and psysaid. “If the girl feels, for whatever chological safeguards to the girls, reason, that she can’t tell a parent, it also prevents sexual exploitation” then the clinic facilitates the pro- to those who are impregnated by cess of the judicial waiver, so the girl adults.

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within one month of the performed abortion. If physicians do not comply with the measure they would be liable for damages in a civil action brought by the minor or her parent or guardian. The fiscal affect on the state government would depend on how effective the new measure is regarding abortion. The history of the topic of minors and abortion has been an issue in the past. In 1953, a state law was passed which allowed minors to receive the

Faculty Perspective

Elections specialist and sociology professor comment on controversial measure CSUF’s communications ProHe also said, “It is too bad we fessor Anthony R. Fellow, a spe- don’t live in a world where young cialist in campaigns and elections, people can confide in their parents made a personal and where parents comment about have a relationship Proposition 85. I object to legislating with their children He said that talk about such relationships between to abortion is bematters.” tween a woman parents and children. Associate Proand her God and – Hilla Israely fessor of sociolAssociate Professor of Sociology ogy Hilla Israely is not anyone has examined else’s business. the proposition ”First, I am not one who advocates abortion nor on the matter of principle. “I object to legislating relado I think it should be on anyone’s legislative agenda, especially tionships between parents and male U.S. Senators or Supreme children, particularly having chilCourt justices,” Fellow said in an dren inform their parents about getting an abortion,” Israely said e-mail interview. Despite those feelings, Fellow in an e-mail interview. Minors who are victims of does agree that Proposition 85 abuse or are unusually fearful of makes sense. “In these types of situa- their parents are unlikely to share tions, minors need someone to this information with their partalk to. Let’s face it, minors do ents to begin with, Israely said. not have the wisdom, experi- “Such legislation may put them at ence or understanding to make further risk of abuse at the hands the smartest decisions in these of those who are supposed to care for them,” Israely said. cases.”

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NO on 85

Jessica Langtry, spokeswoman teens resort to dangerous alternafor the campaign for “No on 85,” tive methods to deal with their said that most teens already in- pregnancies. volve a parent in this decision and “They’ll result to back-alley aborthat this new law, if mandated, tions, go across the border or hurt will negatively afthemselves in orfect teens that have der to avoid having to tell their a troubled family parents,” she life. They’ll result to said. “For whatever back-alley abortions, She also pointreason, if they are ed out in the arsuffering abuse in go across the border gument against the home, or un- or hurt themselves in Proposition 85 fortunately, a par- order to avoid having that teens should ent actually caused to tell their parents. not have to enthe pregnancy, we don’t feel that – Jessica Langtry dure the court they are going to Spokeswoman for the system, adding want to be able to No on 85 campaign that a teen needs a counselor not a have that parent judge. negotiate and work “We think them through this it’s preposterous situation,” Langtry to think that the scared, pregnant said. “We are looking out for those teenager is going to be able to sucteens who cannot, for whatever cessfully navigate the court system,” reason, go to a parent to talk about Langtry said. “The court system here is already this.” Langtry also said that other states overburdened.” She noted that “teen pregnancies that have similar parental notification laws show that these kinds have already declined significantly of laws do nothing to change the in California over the last ten years” behavior of the teens involved and and what works is sex education that this type of law would make and communication.

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Proposition 85

same medical care for a pregnancy that was available to an adult. Later developments made it so that minors were able to get an abortion without consent or notification. In 1987, there was an attempt by the California Legislature to amend the law to require a minor to get consent from a parent before an abortion. The California Supreme Court struck it down in 1997. This proposition is a reprise of Proposition 73, which was defeated in last November’s special election. Proposition 85 is supported by groups such as the Traditional Values Coalition and Right to Life of Central California, and opposed by many branches of Planned Parenthood.

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Rally: csUF UNITES FOR TOLERANCE portions being returned to ASI despite initial concerns about not following ASI’s funding policies. “They wanted to have the rally as soon as possible after the incident while it’s still fresh in people’s minds,” said Jill Hanna, vice president of finance for ASI. “They wanted to let the campus know that it’s not OK. There are a lot of events going on all the time and it’s really hard to schedule time to have the quad for the whole day. So it’s basically based on availability and trying to get it done as soon as possible.” Many others see that immediate reaction is necessary to create a lasting impression against such crimes. “Hate crimes just happen out of the blue,” said Erik Esguerra, internal vice president of the Pilipino American Student Association. “We have to do something now while … there is time and energy.” With ASI funding and donations from other organizations on campus, the coalition set out to create the rally within the span of a few weeks. Concerns of not having enough time to properly publicize the event worried a few of the event coordinators. But Yen Ling Shek, coordinator of the Multicultural Leadership Center, emphasized the significance of the message over the number of participants. Though the rally was put together in only a few weeks, organizers felt the event was a complete success. ASI President Heather Williams said they plan to hold it annually. There were three plain clothes officers during the rally, said Judi King, CSUF chief of police. “We did everything that we had set out to do and we accomplished what we wanted to accomplish,” said Anthony Ragazzo Jr., director of program support and adviser to LGBA. “It was great that everyone wanted to pull through in this one central issue.”

By Kevin Rogers/Daily Titan Photo Editor

Far Left - Psychology major Gracie Garcia, 25, reads the messages that hang from one of the many clotheslines in the Quad during the rally. Above - Students take time to read all the message that are written on the Wall of Predjudice where students wrote about personal experiences dealing with hate. Left - Spoken word artist Gabriela Garcia Medina shares her words of strength and encouragement in support of the event. By Kevin Rogers/Daily Titan Photo Editor

By David Osborne/Daily Titan

HATE: Race, Gender AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION ARE TARGETS OF INTOlERANCE major – women’s studies. Magdaleno is not a member of one of the clubs that organized the Rally Against Hate on Wednesday, but she felt compelled to volunteer anyway. She encouraged people to write down personal encounters with hate on the Wall of Prejudice. “I hope it opens up people’s minds. Whether you mean what you say to be bad or not, your words have value. I just hope one or two people see it and realize hate isn’t worth it. Then, my three hours here will be worth it,” Magdaleno said. Throughout the rally, students

and faculty were invited to the stage to tell their personal encounters with hate. Many stories were told through tears. Nicky Wu, a sociology major, said she was beaten by her father when she told him she was gay. He put her in the car where he said no one could hear her scream. His intension was to “beat the queer out of her.” Wu eventually called the police on her parents and went to live with a foster family. “I survived and I’m going to college. I don’t need my parents,” she said.

Amanie Alfaris, a communications major, said she experiences hate for three different aspects of her life: her parents are from Iraq, she is Muslim and she is bisexual. Although it was hard to do, Alfaris said, “it felt so good to let this out.” In high school, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were attacked, she heard the anger of fellow students and was frightened. Her only hope was that they would not discover her Iraqi background. Recently, Alfaris’ girlfriend was scared to hold hands in public after the alleged hate crime involving a male

CSUF student’s attack on two females that he reportedly presumed to be lesbian. Lesbian Gay Bisexual Alliance President Natasha Negrete said the incident is the kind of event that “puts people back in the closet.” Curtis Schlaufman, director of government relations for Associated Students Inc., was impressed by the turnout and hopes the event will help spread awareness. “Hate crimes are a very serious issue in the U.S. and throughout the world. People should really be educated about it,” he said. “Hate is just

wrong on every level.” By the end of the event, there were more than 200 entries on the Wall of Prejudice and over 300 entries on the Wall of Hope. The Wall of Hope was filled with pledges made by students and faculty stating what they will do to fight hate. At 2 p.m., when the rally came to the end, the Wall of Prejudice was torn down and shredded to pieces by students and faculty. The Wall of Hope remained intact as a reminder of the pledges that had been made.

will also include Miami, Hawaii, San Francisco and Chicago. The shoe revolution is not just popular in the U.S. though. It has been popular in Japan for five or six years, but it has only really emerged in the U.S. within the last year or two, said vendor Masa Tsuzuki. Tsuzuki said he can buy hundreds of pairs in the U.S. and take them to Japan and sell them for two to three times their value. Ironically, another Asian country may be ruining the shoe trade. Last month U.S. Customs officials seized more than 135,000 pairs of fake Nike Jordans, shipped from China, in one of the largest counterfeit smuggling rings in recent history, according to ABC news reports. The shoes had a U.S. Retail value of $16 million. In 2004, CBS’ 60 minutes II reported that 15 to 20 percent of all goods in China are counterfeit. “Counterfeiting murders the industry,” Hughes said. But it doesn’t hurt his show at all, he said. “Our show is the model for the industry,” he said. “It [counterfeiting] is why we set this whole thing up.” Hughes’ vendors are as close to shoe experts as you can get and they catch the knockoffs, he said. Yang said every big shoe is counterfeited, sometimes before the real shoe even officially comes out. “It’s like Rolex, there are some poor knockoffs, and some extremely well done ones,” Yang said. Some of the counterfeiters are extremely good and the shoes have to be carefully examined. The only way you can tell with some of them is by the grain of the leather, or the stitching of the insole or by matching up the numbers on the bar code from the inside of the shoe, Hughes said. Most of the counterfeits are the high-end shoes, the $500-plus shoes, Hughes said. His advice is to know your shoes and go to reputable dealers. “If it’s too good to be true,” Hughes said, “nine times out of 10 it is.”

Deaf Student Finds Other Ways To Communicate Technology helps CSUF student tackle the challenges of everyday life By Kevin Cole

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

he clamor of students. Footsteps in the corridors. The ringing of elevator

bells. These are the sounds in the busy entrance of the Pollak Library. They are sounds Lieurene Tran, a freshman studying biochemistry, can barely make out. Tran has a hearing aid in her right ear and a cochlear implant in her left ear. The cochlear implant is a small electronic device that gives a sense of sound to those severely hard-of-hearing. The representations of the library lobby’s sound produced by the implant distracted Tran. She chose to talk in an area without background noise. “We didn’t discover her hearing loss until she was eighteen months and she was 3 before she was diagnosed as deaf,” said Denise Tran, Lieurene’s mother. Tran sat with eyes fixed on a small handheld device in a fourth floor study room. It is a T-Mobile Sidekick II with e-mail, AIM instant messaging, Internet and a camera phone. “Text messaging has opened up possibilities for hearing people to be able to communicate with deaf friends,” said Paul Miller, director of disabled students services. “Whether you are hearing or not you can text message or type on your computer with instant messenger.” The university commits substantial resources to provide support services for deaf students. Interpreters alone cost somewhere in the range of $20,000 to $30,000 per year, he said.

A videophone allows the hearing impaired to interact with others and fully participate. A deaf person can call a relay center staffed with an interpreter. The relay allows them to call a hearing person that doesn’t sign or communicate directly with another deaf person. Doctors told Tran’s mother that, because of Tran’s age, there was no possibility of her learning to talk. Her mother refused to accept the opinion and found someone who could teach her to speak. From 3 to 5 years old, Tran learned to talk. The Pomona School District and the John Tracy Clinic helped her in oral communication. She didn’t even learned to sign until eighth grade. As an 8 year old, a series of tragedies struck Tran and her mom. “I was seven months pregnant with a brain tumor. I was in the hospital and they were giving me an emergency cesarian and the next day they were doing my brain surgery, Tran’s mother said. “Her father got in a plane and left us.” They lost their home to foreclosure and declared bankruptcy as the radiation treatments continued. If anything, she said, it helped forge her character. “She has a disability but has turned it into an ability,” Tran’s mother said. “She is the one that gave me a perspective on life.” Sharon Huff was Tran’s interpreter at West Covina’s South Hills High School for classes and awards ceremonies. She said it was fun to be able to go out with Tran and interpret for her when she won awards. Tran never let deafness be something she uses as a crutch. Whenever she heard anyone make a speech that happened to include her disability, she immediately told the audience she wasn’t there because she was a poor deaf student, Huff said. Instead, she was there because she was a deaf student who could

By DAVID OSBORNE/Daily Titan

Friends - Lieurene Tran, left, biohemistry major, and her friend Kayla Benavides, a pre-med student at Fullerton College, use a Sidekick II to e-mail, text, and instant message each other. Tran is a hearing impaired student who has found help in modern day technology.

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– Denise Tran Mother of Lieurene Tran

do anything. Tran won 16 awards at graduation, she said. The only difference between Tran and the rest of the world is that she doesn’t hear as well, Huff said. She didn’t want to be segregated from the hearing students. In her freshman year of high school she wanted to try out for basketball but the school wouldn’t let her. The school told her to try out for the deaf basketball team, Tran said. She went to the school district office and asked to try out for the

hearing girl’s basketball team, without any special treatment or an interpreter, Tran said. She made the team and played for two years, up to junior varsity level. Her coaches relayed plays from the bench using signs, she said. Sixth grade was her first exposure to American Sign Language. It was all oral communication at home and when she started high school she had a harder time with her deaf peers than with her hearing peers because she didn’t sign more. Now Tran said she has an advantage because she was able to speak, lip read and sign. Tran tried out for musical productions and she said she earned roles in musicals for two years in high school. She danced and was in the choir – she wasn’t singing, she was signing. Instead of having her stand in the front of the choir, she stood with the other students, integrated throughout the entire play.

She won the 2005 Miss Teen Pasadena Pageant. Her mother said she won a trip to Florida and to the Miss Teen national competition. Tran earned a $10,000 scholarship for school. Her mother said she was afraid she was setting herself up for disappointment when she entered. She reminded Tran that she had never worn a pair of heels. She won out of 500 girls. The judges never knew she was deaf, Tran’s mother said. She was interviewed and she spoke and she just played it off and was accepted. “Generally speaking, I think what you will find is that people with disabilities are way more like anybody else that doesn’t have disabilities than they are different,” Miller said. “They do have challenges. They do things in a little different way, maybe, but there are more commonalities than there are differences.”

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At least that is what I learned when I accompanied the Cal State Fullerton chapter of the Flying Samaritans to itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clinic in El Hongo, Mexico. According to the Flying Samaritansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Web site, the organization was founded in the early 1960s. In 1961, Aileen Saunders Mellot flew a return flight from Ensenada to San Diego. Also riding in the Plane were Leah Hanlon and Polly Ross. The weather intervened forcing the plane to land in El Rosario, where, during the layover, the ladies heard stories from the locals about the plight brought on by the recent drought and the struggle of the people there. After arriving back in San Diego, Mellot, Hanlon and Ross, decided to gather toys and supplies and fly back to El Rosario just before Christmas. This time, accompanying them was a doctor, who by chance had brought his medicine bag. When he exited the plane, the people of El Rosario surrounded him. Upon his arrival in Mexico, the Flying Samaritans were born. Today, The Cal State Fullerton chapter of the Flying Samaritans is associated with the chapter from UC Riverside. On Sept. 23, I was the first per-

son to arrive in the lower level of the Nutwood parking structure. It was approximately 6 a.m. when I arrived to begin the long journey to El Hongo. About 15 students would gather there to go as well. Even though we did not know each other when we first arrived there was something that united us. At first, I thought it was the cold that kept us in such close proximity, but I soon realized that it was also our sense of mission that united us. Soon more cars arrived and what had originally been a circle of students now included a few medical professionals, two members of the CSUF faculty and a high school student. I was assigned to ride with Zarina Moreno, Jeanette Tovali and Maribel Santibanez, the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clinic coordinator. About halfway there we met up at a local McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with the Flying Samaritans from UC Riverside. Once we crossed the border into Tecate, the landscape changed. No longer were the houses neat and clean with manicured lawns, like one might expect in an Orange County neighborhood. The toll road from Tecate to El Hongo was very well taken care of by the Mexican government. I pointed some of these things out to Zarina and the other students in the car with some mild bemusement but with some anger as well. According to statistics found on the Samaritans Web site, 60 percent of Mexican citizens are not

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eligible for Mexican social security, which meant that 60 percent are not eligible for basic government sponsored health care. Yet, I realize, the government felt that it was necessary to put up signs instructing travelers to not litter and to maintain a good distance between each car. The roads in Mexico seemed to be of more importance than the people in Mexico. Still, there were those citizens who stayed in Mexico and the Flying Samaritans provided services for

them. When we turned off the toll road into El Hongo, I was reminded of what it must have been like for Mellot after having arrived in El Rosario for the first time. The place where the clinic was held was not too far away from the Panaderia Y Carniceria Hermanos Tapia, a local market The clinic was in an old home that looked as if it had been converted into a public hall of some sort. It sat on a small hill on a dusty patch

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On a mission to serve, Cal State Fullerton student volunteers picked up 1,550 pieces of trash and 800 cigarette butts at their Newport Pier Beach cleanup day. The CSUF Volunteer and Service Center offers students a variety of community events and service projects where they can donate their time and effort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to promote volunteerism among the campus commu-

nity. We want a campus filled with responsible, active individuals who care about the surrounding community,â&#x20AC;? said Amy Mattern, coordinator for the center. Student leaders organize different service opportunities throughout the year. Blood drives, habitat restoration projects and child mentoring programs are only a few of the services the center provides. Andriana Nekaj, project manager for CommUNITY Connection, a program that mentors children at the Orangewood Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home, said it is both fun and rewarding to work with children. Although she is

by clinic coordinators from CSUF and UC Riverside. Santibanez was in charge of the triage unit while Karla Juhas ran the examination room. As I watched the clinic in operation I saw that it offered the students both professional experience and the opportunity to help those in need. Smiles were a common sight at the clinic. Doctors treated the people of El Hongo for things like high blood pressure and diabetes, things for which Americans have easy ac-

cess to treatment. There was such commitment on the part of both the people of El Hongo and the volunteers. I felt that even if the services were not needed, the volunteers would come just to visit with the people of El Hongo. The people who lived in the town had a great appreciation for what the volunteers did for them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very important because at times I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the money to pay for my doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visits, and here they see me for free,â&#x20AC;? said Ana Maria Valdez, a resident of El Hongo. The residents would have to take a one-hour bus ride to Tecate to see a doctor, but for Valdez it would be hard to do so when she and the other residents do not have money, work or even Mexican social security. At about 4 p.m. the clinic closed, and the volunteers began to clean up the tables. On the way back to Fullerton they stopped in Old Town San Diego to eat, rest and reflect on the day before continuing the drive back home. These once-a-month trips will always be a challenge for the Samaritans. Despite struggles getting funds and acquiring necessary medical supplies, or even dealing with the language barriers, the volunteers understand that sometimes a smile would be their only reward. Still, â&#x20AC;&#x153;a smile is always welcome,â&#x20AC;? said Juhas.

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Against the black backdrop of the sky, glowing rods of light bounce and flash against each other with wild vigor. With one final clash, the Jedi warriors, wielding glowing swords lunge, their gleaming weapons leaving an arc of destruction in the gloomy backdrop. As the saber of light glanced the warriorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torso, a gentle hum fills the sky amidst the chaos. Prevailing in the battle to restore the force, the victorious Jedi raises his radiant weapon in triumph as the Sith lord lie beaten on the ground, shamed in defeat. Did this drama of good versus evil happen a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away? Not likely. This intergalactic battle occurred on Earth. In fact, all this happened within the boundaries of a local basketball court. Every Wednesday night, a group of Star Wars enthusiasts engage in mock battles of good versus evil. Though their weaponry may not be as technologically advanced as those portrayed in the film, they hold their arms with as much pride as they can carry. Since, to them, this mock battle is more than just preparation for charitable events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this is in celebration of what many of them consider to be the greatest movie of all time. The Orange County Star Wars So-

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the golden rule that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all heard before, but never took the time to think about. So why not take time now? This year, instead of waiting for the sappy Christmas songs and ornamented trees to inspire good will, why not create a season of giving that lasts the whole year long? The beauty about giving is that there is something out there for everyone. Charity events today are more creative than ever, offering fun alternatives to mundane weekends while providing attendees with the assurance of knowing that they are doing their part to help. So skip the movie this weekend and find an event that brings out the philanthropist in you. Here are just a few charity events to help you get started on the humanitarian road. Project Playhouse Village Tours Sept. 10 through Oct. 14 Tour the playhouses built for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Project Playhouse, an annual fundraising project where local builders construct and auction off extravagant playhouses for children. Proceeds from the project benefit HomeAid Orange County, a nonprofit organization that builds and renovates shelters for the homeless. Loose Goose Wine Festival Oct. 7 & 8 This festival will feature wines from California, out-of-state domestic and international wineries, area restaurants, live entertainment and luxury-related vendors. Proceeds benefit the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Health Foundation and other charities.

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Orange County Rescue Missionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5th Annual Hot Rod Harley Show Oct. 21 100 percent of the proceeds and all donations at the show will go to the Orange County Rescue Missionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Village of Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low-income and homeless families within Orange County.

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practicing for an upcoming appearance at Cold Stone Creamery ciety was established by like-minded individuals who found a certain love for the science fiction film that was first created 29 years ago. The Orange County Chapter is part of a larger nationwide conglomerate of Star Wars fans who gather at TheForce.net. The club has been making an impact in more than just the science fiction community. Combining their love of the film with the effort

CSUF offers a way for everyone to get in on the volunteering act proud of what the center provides, Nekaj said it is very emotional to see children who have been abused or neglected. Children are supposed to be innocent and unaware of the dangers in the world, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;when you look into some of their faces you can just see the sadness,â&#x20AC;? Nekaj said. Nekaj said the whole volunteer program is a positive experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes me feel better knowing that there are people who care about others, but the emotions never go away. It makes me sad that these situations exist,â&#x20AC;? said Nekaj. Besides volunteer work, the center has the Student ACT program, Students Advocating Civic Transformation. This program organizes monthly activities that educate students on a variety of social and political issues, Mattern said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to empower students to take action and make change,â&#x20AC;? she said. One of the Student ACT activities is CSUF Votes, a program that registers new voters and educates students about current policies.

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of dirt and was surrounded by an iron gate. A slide and a swing-set sat near the driveway to the building. When I opened the car door, I was greeted with a rush of cold air. I commented to Tovali and Moreno about how glad I felt to have had on my jacket, but they did not seem to hear me for the others were arriving as well. The setup for the clinic had begun. The clinic was split up into two By Robert Moran/Daily Titan Staff Writerr rooms: one for Volunteer clinic - Eduardo Velazquez (top) shows Zarina Moreno (left) and Jeanette Tovali (right) how to take basic vitals. The Flying Samaritans were in El Hongo, Mexico triage and one for examination. Each room was run

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The student leaders collaborate with various other clubs and organizations both on and off campus to provide information and further volunteer opportunities to students, Mattern said. Leaders work a minimum of four hours per week, but the average is six to seven hours. To become a leader, students must submit photo courtesy of volunteer & service center a resume and cover BEACH CLEAN-UP From left to right, Norma Franco, Romeo Ancheta and Rachael Lorenzetti pick letter, and have an up trash at Newport Pier Beach during Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coastal Clean-Up Day on Sept. 16. On that day, 1,550 interview with Matpieces of trash and 800 cigarette butts were collected. tern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am just looking for a good match, if assistant for the center and a blood spots fill up quickly however, so students the student has time to commit, is dedidrive coordinator, said finding new need to plan ahead. cated and there is space available,â&#x20AC;? Matvolunteers is as simple as asking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the end of events, I feel very proud tern said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not an academic thing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like with giving blood, I just go as the coordinator. To see that people are They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have to have done volunup and ask them, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;why havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you willing to give time is great. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have teer work in the past.â&#x20AC;? given blood?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; A lot of them say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no to go around and beg people to volunteer Students do not need to become a one has ever asked me.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; If you let they just come in here,â&#x20AC;? Mattern said. leader to volunteer, they can also sign up them know the facts, they want to Lauren Guvman, an administrative for individual projects. Mattern said that get involved,â&#x20AC;? Guvman said.

to help the community, the club has engaged in many charitable events. Ryan Pieper, the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president, said that the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charitable missions were started because they wanted to have a positive influence in the community. Donning Star Wars costumes, the members donate their time to charitable events and help promote them by interacting with the people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just by having Star Wars characters here, [the organization] attracts more attention,â&#x20AC;? said Carrie Florer, a club member and Cal State Fullerton graduate. The characters usually draw a crowd, and the very mention of Star Wars charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attending an event usually gives parents and children an incentive to come to the charity, Florer said. The clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence brings a celebratory atmosphere that â&#x20AC;&#x153;just [brings] more people to help donate for the cause,â&#x20AC;? said Lauren Hovey, development coordinator of MakeA-Wish Foundation for Orange County and the Inland Empire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The OC Star Wars Society helps promote the event by drawing in the crowd,â&#x20AC;? Hovey said. If the venue organizers permit, the club members offer the charities with a more engaging activity than the usual meet-and-greet. Utilizing their clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saber-wielding en-

tourage, the Orange County Saber Academy, club members provide a choreographed light saber fight to further entice their audience. With a great array of props and costumes, members show their dedication to the charitable cause and Star Wars culture by offering personal time and money to their craft. Aside from creating props and costumes, members dedicate themselves to physically honing themselves to create a more accurate portrayal of Star Wars characters Erik Norman, sergeant at arms of the club, said that the light-saber battles add an extra dimension to charitable events because it provides â&#x20AC;&#x153;an attraction to draw people in.â&#x20AC;? Since the science fiction epic was told within the span of about 30 years, the Star Wars phenomenon provides an outlet for the young and old alike. Both adults and children can enjoy the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence because of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to bridge the gap between generations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The parents and the kids recognize Star Wars characters because [Star Wars] has expanded to two generations,â&#x20AC;? Florer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great thing about the Star Wars phenomenon is that the parents, and the kids all enjoy it together.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone can find some aspect of the universe that they can identify with in Star Wars,â&#x20AC;? Norman said.

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Pre-emptive Victory The situation in Iraq has largely been considered a veritable train wreck, both domestically and abroad. Whispers of civil war have been heard and current projections have us withdrawing our troops not a day before next spring. The number of U.S. soldiers dead recently eclipsed the number killed in Sept. 11, the event this military movement was “inspired” by. With all of that said, good times are on the way. $20 million was set aside in a defense measure bill with the intent of “commemoration of success.” The money is left over from last year’s bill, as the GOP found out in “keystone cops” fashion they couldn’t go spending $20 million on Dom Perignon and gourmet truffles to “commemorate” the loss of soldier and civilian lives in a war most Americans are still confused about. “Republicans are confident we will be victorious in the ongoing war in terror, and we look forward to a time when those funds

can be used to honor the men and women who have risked and given their lives,” said Carolyn Weyforth, spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, as reported by CNN.com. Give us a break. As a taxpaying American, this misallocation of funds is an unequivocal disgrace to our political and military leaders on the right who would sanction such an egregious waste of resources. That money could have gone to subsidize far more egalitarian causes such as Katrina relief, our own domestic deficiencies in regards to social issues like the homeless or mentally ill, or, God forbid, perhaps a taste could actually go into the pockets of our soldiers and their families. But for now the money will be entrusted to military and political fat cats intent on celebrating the possible liberation of a country via a war they have not declared themselves victorious in – at least not today.

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“It’s not a simple solution, that’s for darn sure. Personally I don’t think you can eradicate all hate. The only way I can think of to lessen it is to talk and listen.”

“To be more tolerant with people and understand each other’s ideas and beliefs. And respect their different ideas. I think that’s the solution to hate.”

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“It’s becoming aware of the people around you and your surroundings. Take a chance, don’t have hesitations. Be open to new things, try it and talk to people.”

“Look within yourself. If you like yourself when you look in the mirror, and know what you’ve done and what your thoughts are then you will get along with the person next to you.”

Anchony Ha History Grad Student

“It’s education, information, awareness. And tolerance is the biggest answer. Tolerance and acceptance of others.”

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“Everyone seeing each other as equal. Like, not seeing one person higher or lower than each other. Same thing with, racism, seeing everyone as equal and loving each other for who they are inside out.”

“To address the issue accordingly if you have a problem with something. Don’t hold it in and carry it out on different people.”

“Love.”

“The solution is one person at a time, taking it one day at a time, to fight and fight for those that can fight for themselves.”

Peaceful Rally Against Hate By Jaime Cardenas Daily Titan Staff Writer jcardenas@dailytitan.com

Corey Anderson was trying to make a point – THE point, actually. Speaking early on during the Rally Against Hate, the president of the Alliance for the Preservation of African Consciousness was talking about how, to get along, it doesn’t matter what differences a person may have. Anderson was passionate about what he was saying. Erik Esguerra, who was sharing the stage with Anderson, could also feel the passion emanating from Anderson’s voice. What Anderson was saying, “encompasses the rally against hate itself,” said Esguerra, internal vicepresident of the Pilipino American Student Association, said about Corey’s speech. “I may not be Filipino,” Anderson said looking at the crowd. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk,” he continued pointing to Esguerra. Esguerra, caught up in the emotion of the moment, stretched out his arm. Anderson reached out his arm too and the two shared a handshake. The crowd, realizing the symbolism in the gesture, clapped and cheered. “I didn’t think about it as a symbolic gesture, but I realize [now] that it was,” Esguerra said. “I reached out my hand because I supported him and I want to reach out my hand to every other person in here who was affected by what is going on. This is what is all about – we’re out to support each other.” Anderson’s point, with the help of Esguerra, got across. Anderson and Esguerra set the tone for Wednesday’s Rally Against Hate event in the Quad. The rally was a positive union of people from all shapes and colors and backgrounds. It didn’t matter what color, race, major or fraternity

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you belonged or didn’t belong to. If you were there you would have felt the positive vibes. “We should be respectful to people’s differences in the world,” Anderson said. “Some people can’t,

because they are that ignorant or that immature. Everybody needs to grow up and let it go. Some people were born a certain way, so you can’t hate on them because they are born that way.” There was no hating at the Rally Against Hate event. No disturbances where seen by this reporter’s eyes, or any other Daily Titan reporters. “We had high expectations, but I think we exceeded them,” As-

sociated Students Inc. President Heather Williams said. “It’s good to see how many people cared on campus and how many are engaged on this. Especially considering the little amount of publicity we did have.” The fact that the event took three weeks and one day to organize and execute was not lost on anyone that was involved with the planning of the event. “I’m amazed at the amount that’s come out of three weeks’ worth of planning. It’s amazing,” said ASI board member Jill Hanna. “ASI can take some notes from them.”

Ye n L i n g Shek, coordinator of the Multicultural Leadership Center, said there was about 12 to 15 consistent people that were the organizers – but it took a coalition of at least 15 different clubs, ASI and the Inter-Fraternity Council to get it done. “Organizations that thought they would never work together, because of how many differences we all have, came together. And

that’s the beauty of it,” LGBA chair Natasha Marie Negrete said. Anchony Ha, President of the Asian and Pacific Islander Association, said there was some anxiety amongst the coordinators when they last met on Tuesday night on whether or not people would show up. “But we felt that did a lot of good work,” Ha said. “It was successful. We love how many people have come out to show their support. The whole point was to have people come together and be united against hate.” One of the more impressive signs of unity was shown by students involved in fraternities and sororities. Considering the chain of events that sparked the rally, it was surprising, yet symbolic, to see so many Greeks at the event. “When it comes to Greek life, when you talk about one, you talk about all of us,” said a Delta Chi member, who did not want to give out his name. “The coincidence of him being in a fraternity has nothing to do with any actions.” Brian Valdez, of the Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, said the actions of that one member did not represent those of people in the fraternity life. “That wasn’t a Greek thing, it was a that person thing,” he said. Williams said Inter-Fraternity Council members where the ones to set up the T-Shirts and signs on the clotheslines that hung on the trees in the Quad. “I think they are trying to take a stand against that and say that this is not who they are and that they really want to help out and show that they embrace differences,” Williams said. Their actions, like the actions of the more than 300 students that signed on the Wall of Hope, showed there was no hating at the Rally Against Hate event.

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Network and the Muslim Student Association, as members We, the Women’s Islamic of an educational community Network and the Muslim Stu- ostensibly committed to creatdent Association, are issuing ing a better world through the this statement of condemnation eradication of ignorance, cannot in response to a hate crime com- allow this crime to escape our mitted on the night of July 17, attention. As students and as harbingers 2006. According to the Aug. 31, 2006 OC Weekly article cover- of positive change, we should ing this crime, a fellow student all eagerly seek to set a standard here on campus verbally ha- in Orange County where hate rassed and physically beat up crimes are neither tolerated nor two young females on account ignored. Therefore, to ensure that justice is meted out to all of their physical appearance. In addition, it is confirmed those involved, we ask that the that the crime was carried out case pending against this individual is not where the unnecessarmotive conily delayed. cerned the We canassumed As students and as not stand sexual prefharbingers of posiby while the erence of tive change, we should bodily integthe two ferity of anmales. all eagerly seek to set other person O n e a standard in Orange is violated male and County where hate so close to three fecrimes are neither toler- our campus. male comOur disgust panions of ated nor ignored. towards this the perpecrime should trator witbe visceral nessed the and our colattack but did not intervene. The suspect lective response to it should be was later arrested and subse- unequivocal. We, the Women’s Islamic quently released on $20,000 Network and the Muslim Stubail. We, the Women’s Islamic dent Association iterate that the Network and the Muslim Stu- crime outlined above was indeed dent Association, as advocates a hate crime and is strongly conof Islamic teachings, take it as a demned by our organizations. We ask all organizations – irduty to inform all members of the Cal State Fullerton commu- respective of group interest, religious or political persuasion – to nity of this crime. Islamic principles inform us join us condemning this crime that all individuals are the prod- and expressing their commitucts of God and therefore it is ment to preventing the perpetuinhumane and unjust to pursue ation of hate crimes. anyone with violence or to de- Wa’ Alaikum Salaam to all moralize anyone regardless of our Brothers and Sisters their beliefs and/or lifestyle. (fellow CSUF students). We, the Women’s Islamic EDITOR:

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first half was slow for both teams. Northridge had four shots in the half, but none were on goal. Fullerton had seven shots in the half with four on goal. The Fullerton offense started out fast by scoring in the 13th minute and maintaining pressure for the first 20 minutes of the half. But the remainder of the half was

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By karl thunman/Daily Titan UP FOR GRABS – Titans’ super sophomore Brittany Moore makes the serve towards UC Davis’ Nicole Read and Kelly Patterson. CSUF is looking to come back. “My concern is with us playing our game,” Zimmerman said. “Not the outcome. We need to stop playing it safe. If we go out and play our game, I’ll be happy with that.” Zimmerman describes the Titans

game as a ball-control oriented passing team with a fast offense and good chemistry. They’ll need to execute their game well this weekend if they want to keep up their momentum.

The Titans’ next two games will prove if they are good enough to play in the postseason this year. Two of their three losses have come on the road, so this weekend should prove to be a tough test for

spent in a seesaw of both teams putting together only meager attacks on the net. “Instead of feeding off the goal, we dropped into a shell,” Ammann said. Puder said he thinks the team is missing something. He is confident that the Titans will be fine once they find out and correct their major weakness. “We come out fairly well,” Puder said. “We just don’t play the whole

90 minutes.” Yellow cards were given to members of both teams in the first half. Fergie Agwu of Cal State Northridge and Matt Sanders of CSUF received cards in the 37th minute. “I don’t know what it is yet, but we’re lacking something in the second half,” Puder said. CSUF will play UC Riverside at Titan Stadium on Saturday at 7 p.m. in yet another Big West Conference matchup.

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the Titans, especially the match against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. “I have a lot of respect for both of our opponents,” Zimmerman said. “But if Davis can [upset] us, why can’t we do it to them?”

to improve on the offensive side of the ball. (From Page 12) “It’s all about connecting in the opener to Big West preseason favor- final third of the field,” Titan junior ite Long Beach State 2-0. It doesn’t Kristen Boujos said. “Keep looking get any easier for for each other’s the Titans after feet and not force that. too many shots.” On Sunday, “We need to If we had Welch on they will face Cal take what [the Sunday, she probably State Northridge opponent] gives could have helped set (7-5 overall, 1-1 us and work with conference). up some more goals. that,” Boujos The Matadors said. have scored as But added – Ali Khosroshahin many as seven pressure of the Titan Head Coach goals against a conference play team this season, only increases the as well as scoring stakes that teams five goals in anplay for. other game. “We expect The Matadors beat UC Irvine 5-0 [Pacific and CS Northridge] to come in their Big West Conference opener, out hard,” Munoz said. but fell to Long Beach State 3-2. The Titans will take on Pacific at 7 In order for the Titans to find p.m. on Friday and Cal State Northsuccess, they will need to continue ridge on Sunday afternoon.

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There was good news and bad news for Cal State Fullerton’s volleyball team last week. The good news is that they went 7-0 at home, sweeping UC Riverside 30-27, 30-19, 30-12 last Thursday in the Titan gymnasium. The bad news came the next day when they coughed up their home court winning streak to a struggling UC Davis (2-13) team that had just lost 11 straight matches. The Titans hit the road for two Big West conference matches this week. Friday the Titans will be at UC Santa Barbara (8-7, 1-2), then Saturday at 20th ranked Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which sits atop the conference at 9-4, 3-0 and currently has a five-game winning streak. The next two conference matches will be a barometer of how the Titans stand in conference play. With two victories the Titans can shoot up in the Big West Conference standings. Although winning the next two games would be crucial to making a run to the conference tournament, something the Titans have yet to accomplish, Titan Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman isn’t too concerned about wins.

Kotsay Leads A’s to Game 2 Win

Playing it safe? Not Torii Hunter’s style. That’s why he has five Gold Gloves. Trying to make a tough catch right after his Minnesota teammates tied the game with back-to-back home runs, Hunter missed and Oakland took advantage. Mark Kotsay circled the bases for a two-run, inside-the-park homer after Hunter’s ill-advised dive for a sinking line drive, lifting the Athletics over the Twins 5-2 on Wednesday for a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series. “It was the worst feeling in the world. You can’t do anything about it,” said Hunter, who blamed himself for the defeat. The A’s handled the Boof Bonser, that is and here’s the truth: Oakland has arrived at yet another elimination game. The perennial playoff underperformers are 0-9 in those since 2000, losing four straight first-round series. “This team knows what to do,” said Eric Chavez, a regular on all four of those clubs. “We’re hardnosed baseball players that like to play the game. I don’t think anybody here, regardless if they’ve been in this position, is going to take Game 3 lightly.” The series shifts west Friday, with Twins right-hander Brad Radke taking his broken shoulder socket to the mound for possibly the final appearance of his 12-year career. Dan Haren, in his first postseason start, will pitch for Oakland which beat Cy Young Award favorite Johan Santana in Game 1 and now gets two chances to close it out at home. “We’ve won two games. OK. Congratulations. Good job. But it’s not over yet,” said Nick Swisher, who doubled against Juan Rincon and scored on Joe Nathan’s wild pitch in the ninth. The A’s had one mishap in the ninth, however. Second baseman Mark Ellis broke his right index finger swinging at a high, inside pitch, and Oakland said it would update his condition at Thursday’s workout. For the Twins, it’s certainly not over, considering they came from 12 1/2 games back to win the AL Central. Plus, there’s the recent history of these A’s, even though Chavez and Barry Zito are the only players remaining from 2000 and just a handful are left from 2003. “We’ve been backed up before,” Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. “We’ve been told, ‘you’re done’ before. That’s not something that this team takes too lightly. We’ll come out and battle. We’ll give them everything we have.”

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Life Goes On For Titans Without Senior Captain

Upcoming Titan Athletics Schedule

Lauryn Welch suffers an injury that will probably knock her senior year out

day, the Titans will come back to Titan Stadium and host UC Riverside [3-6-1 overall, 0-1-1 in the Big West Conference].

BY ALVIN ANOL

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team will take their show back on the road for the weekend when they face two more Big West Conference foes in Pacific and Cal State Northridge. The Titans will look to use the momentum of a Big West Conference-opening, 1-0 double overtime win over UC Riverside last Sunday. The win against UC Riverside was the seventh-straight Big West Conference victory for the Titans. While the win maintained one streak, it also ended another for the Titans. Prior to the UC Riverside game, the Titans had been on a four-gamelosing streak. The Titans also outshot UC Riverside, ending a nine-match streak in which the opposing team outshot CSUF. Execution on offense will be vital

By CARLOS DELGADO/For the Daily Titan SOMBER MOMENT – CSUF junior Candice Byler consoles injured senior Lauryn Welch after she netted her fifth goal of the season during the Titans’ 2-1 loss to the Wildcats on Sept. 28, at Titan Stadium. to the Titans as they will be without senior Lauryn Welch, who suffered a leg injury against Arizona. Welch led the Titans in scoring with five goals

and 12 points. Junior Brianna Buffington has the second-most goals on the team with three goals.

CSUF Head Coach Ali Khosroshahin said that Welch is likely out for the season with a “slim possibility” of returning by the end of

the season. “If we had Welch on Sunday, she probably could have helped set up some more goals,” Khosroshahin said. On Friday night, the Titans will play Pacific, a team which has gotten accustomed to winning. Sporting an 8-2-1 overall record, the Tigers have defeated a common opponent of the Titans – San Francisco State. The Tigers beat San Francisco State 2-1 on Sept. 26, whereas the Titans fell to San Francisco by the same score. That statistic didn’t bother CSUF sophomore Leslie Munoz. “The San Francisco game was the first game that we started connecting,” Munoz said. “They just happened to outscore us.” Munoz said that she noticed the team begin to connect more during the second half of the game against UC Riverside. “We did a lot better getting wide, getting corners,” Munoz said. “We’ve improved so much since preseason. The Tigers lost their conference SEE WOMEN’S SOCCER - PAGE 10

Men’s Soccer Team Fails to Come Together in Loss BY ALVIN ANOL

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

A lack of a second-half attack doomed the Titans (4-6-1, 0-3 conference), as they fell 2-1 to conference rival Cal State Northridge (4-34, 2-0-2 conference) on Wednesday night at Titan Stadium. A free kick from Northridge midfielder Taylor Canel from 25 yards out put the Titans away in the second half, keeping Fullerton winless

in Big West conference play. Canel also assisted on the other goal for Northridge. All three of CSUF’s losses during conference play have come by a difference of one goal. The Titans were able to put together an attack toward the end of the match, but could not connect to put another goal on the board. While there may have been a lack of offense from Northridge in the first half, there was no such case in the second half.

Cal State Northridge maintained possession of the ball on the Titans’ end of the field for much of the half. CSUF had a few chances to attack, but were unable to capitalize on their opportunities. While the Titans had three corner kicks to Northridge’s zero in the first half, it was a reversal of fortunes in the second half. Cal State Northridge had five corner kicks while CSUF had zero in the second half.

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“We didn’t do a good job of dealing with the pressure,” CSUF Head Coach Bob Ammann said. “But it’s difficult when players don’t want the ball. The increased pressure by the Matadors led to their first goal. Off a Northridge corner kick, the ball was deflected and landed in front of Matador freshman Dylan Riley. He took the ball and put it past CSUF goalie Kevin Puder on the left side of the goal to tie the match at 1-1.

“It was pure pressure that led to those set pieces,” Cal State Northridge Head Coach Terry Davila said. “They don’t happen by accident.” With a free kick in the 13th minute, junior defender Amir Shafii scored his third goal of the season when he got it past Northridge goalie Kevin Guppy to put the Titans ahead early. Outside of the goal by Shafii, the SEE MEN’S SOCCER - PAGE 10

Men’s soccer - This Satur-

Women’s soccer

- Cal State Fullerton [5-5-1 overall, 1-0-0 in the Big West] takes a road trip to Stockton for a Friday night Big West battle against the Pacific Tigers at 7 p.m. The Titans finish their weekend road trip with another Big West meeting, when they visit Cal State Northridge on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Volleyball - The Titans will go

on the road to play UC Santa Barbara on Friday and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Saturday at 7 p.m.