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Tuesday October 10, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Counselors Needed at CSUF’s Camp Titan
Cutting Clinic Offered by CSUF Women’s Center will address self-mutilation in Wednesday workshop By KATY FRENCH
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Summer program helps disadvantaged children find friends and mentors By GISELLE PHILLIP
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Associated Students Inc. is recruiting 50 Cal State Fullerton students to become counselors for next summer’s Camp Titan. The requirements are a 2.0 GPA, good disciplinary standing and a background check. Tony Ragazzo, director of office of program support of ASI, said that these counselors will be putting in around 200 hours, which includes training and camp. Camp Titan began in 1969 when a group of students from CSUF began a philanthropic program. The program gave about 150 underprivileged Orange County children the opportunity to meet new friends and boost their confidence. For some of us underprivileged may mean children who come from low-income families, or are from group homes, or were taken away from their parents, such as abused children and foster children said Kyle Rush, co-director of Camp Titan. The children, ranging in age from 7 to14, will attend the camp at the YMCA Camp Oaks in Big Bear, Ca. ASI President Heather Williams said that her organization is inclined to help Camp Titan in any way possible. Fraternities and sororities help raise money during Greek Week. Last year ASI received about $3,000 from change collection jars placed in the bookstore, the Hungry Titan, The Yum, Titan Express and the Brief Stop. Kyle Rush, who is the co-director of Camp Titan said that these collection jars. In addition to SEE CAMP - PAGE 2
By Songha lee/Daily Titan Photo Editor
MIcroMOUSE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) club member Jacob Kashiwada, junior electrical engineering major, is one of several members working on building a MicroMouse, an autonomous robot able to analyze and solve a maze on its own. In the foreground is a sample MicroMouse built as a senior project in 2004. The robot will look similar to the one currently being built for a competition in the spring semester.
To Build a Better Mouse
Cal State Fullerton engineering students seek to create a maze-solving robot By JOE SIMMONS
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While it’s just bits of plastic, aluminum and wires now, the robot being created by the Cal State Fullerton chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will be racing about mazes next semester. The group, called IEEE by its members, is creating the robot as part of a national competition called MicroMouse. The competition has two parts. In the first, the robots have to navigate a 16 by 16 square maze, reaching the center in the shortest time possible. The group’s aim is to have the robot complete the maze in about a minute. That’s a competitive time for Southern California and other regional competitions, said Sam Rokni, a graduate engineering student who helps the group. National times are much quicker, averaging about 12 seconds. Recently, a Japanese group had a robot finish the maze in just under 7 seconds. The second part of the competi-
By SONGHA LEE/Daily Titan Photo Editor
A-Maze-Ing - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) club members set up a portion of a maze to demonstrate what the micromouse will have to solve on it’s own for the spring semester competition. tion is for robots to map as much This new team is something of a of the maze as possible. If enough return to the fore for CSUF. In the teams don’t finish the maze to place, early ’90s, the college had several then teams are awarded based on teams that did very well, including a how much of the maze their robot first place showing at the state level. mapped within a 10-minute period. Most of the robots never finish the SEE MICROMOUSE- PAGE 2 mazes, said Rokni.
The Women’s Center will be presenting a workshop entitled “Cutting and other Self-Injurious Behaviors” Wednesday afternoon from 12 to 1 p.m. in UH 205. The workshop is part of an October series recognizing domestic violence awareness month, said Sue Passalacqua, associate director of the Women’s Center. The workshop will be led by Dr. Allison Kress, an expert in treating self-injurious behaviors and one of the few specialists in the field in California. “Self-mutilation is just starting to be publicly talked about, and I believe it is extremely important that the public be aware of this societal problem,” Kress said in an e-mail interview. Cutting is a specific form of selfinjury inflicted by individuals who are often troubled by emotional issues and seek an outlet to cope, translating psychological pain into physical form. Cutters will often cut themselves on the forearms, legs or other concealable areas. “Physical pain is used as a distraction from the emotional pain that they believe is beyond their control. It is a form of self-medication,” Kress said. One particular misconception about cutting is that cutters intend to commit suicide. This is not generally the case but the side effects of cutting can certainly be fatal. But beyond the physical threat the emotional scars caused by the inability to properly manage emotions can long outlast the physical scars. Many cutters begin in their teens, at a time when individuals are particularly sensitive. This was the case for one female student at Cal State Fullerton. The 21-year-old, who asked to remain anonymous, admits that she engaged in cutting from the ages of 14 to16. She led a “normal” and active life but suffered an immense amount
of emotional distress inflicted by an abusive boyfriend and an intense athletic schedule. “I’d just wait until my family went to bed and do it with an old razor my dad had laying around,” she said. Describing the pain as “addicting,” she would cut her wrists and ankles but hide her injuries with wristbands while playing basketball. Her team mates knew about it and her parents laughed at her, telling her to stop trying to get attention which she said, she did want. “I wanted people to know I wasn’t in a good place,” she said. She was reminded of the ordeal when she recently encountered an admitted cutter and offered to counsel them. She knows it was destructive and has not engaged in the behavior since her teens. “Inflicting bodily injury is never a healthy thing…it’s awful,” she said, also noting that because it is easily concealable, it is likely that more people engage in cutting than we suspect. Kress said research indicates that 12 percent of college students engage in self-injury and “females are twice as likely to self-mutilate compared to males.” With about 60 percent of CSUF composed of women, the Women’s Center is an appropriate place for this discussion. But it is not only females that can benefit from the workshop. Individuals who have cut, do cut or are interested in learning about the behavior, are urged to attend. “We have a huge population of students who are parents,” Passalacqua said. “We have a huge population of students who are going into mental health or the helping professions, so this helps them prepare.” Though Kress said this is not a new form of self-injury, it is now becoming more openly talked about in the medical community. Recognizing the problem is the first step to recovery and there are more resources available for cutters today than ever before. “It is important for them to seek professional help, because usually SEE CUTTING - PAGE 2
Bring Home the Fullerton Arboretum with the ‘Potting Shed’ New store has plants native to California and bird feeders for sale By Rachel Douglass
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Grand Opening of a potting shed took place Oct. 7 at the Cal State Fullerton Arboretum. Native Californian plants and hummingbird feeders were on sale as the new potting shed officially opened its doors. Shrubbery enthusiasts Jennifer Kesterson and Christine Henson
drove from their LaVerne homes to fill their bright red wagon with new plants. “We first came down for ‘Green Scene’ last spring,” Henson said. After only a handful of visits, Kesterson and Henson were so enamored with the atmosphere of the Arboretum they decided to become members. It took four months and $70,000 in donations from groups such as the Dhont Family Foundation to construct the potting shed, which was built almost entirely by volunteers and Arboretum mem-
bers. The potting shed is the result of money raised by a group of benefactors. Potting shed manager Evie Tyra decorated the location with accruements such as the Heritage House collection, white garden chandeliers and ceramic Koi fish. The potting shed not only offers its guests “garden goodies” but also a wide variety of rare and unusual plants, said Tyra. “These are things you can’t find at Home Depot,” she said. Members will receive advance notice of all special events, free ad-
mission to the annual “Green Scene” garden show, and discounts on Arboretum purchases. Arboretum officials emphasized the importance of membership and the ongoing efforts of volunteers and private members to maintain the facility. An individual membership costs $35 annually while a family membership costs $60. One of the Arboretum’s volunteers, Juanita Mueller, offered guests planting advice and explained the
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In Brief
CAMPUS CALENDAR MICROMOUSe: robot maneuvers through mazes (From Page One)
Today
Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script exhibition opens at noon in the main gallery of the Visual Arts building. This ongoing exhibit displays the importance of Chinese character within the arts. The exhibition runs through Friday. “Black and Blue: Domestic Violence and the Laws That Protect” is an hour-long clinic starting at noon to be held in Women’s Center UH205. The clinic will address such questions as the legal lines of domestic abuse, and what the police and courts can do to protect victims of domestic violence from their assailants.
Wednesday
The Dean’s Spring 2006 Honor List Reception will be held in Pavilions A & B from 5:30 until 7:30. The event is by invitation only.
Thursday
Later, Rokni led two teams in MicroMouse competitions and took third place at the 13 western states regional level in 2004. Maza Eshak, a computer engineering major, designed the programming for this year’s robot. Because the “mouse” needs to be able to quickly find the center of a maze under its own power, it needs to have an efficient way of finding the best route to the center. Eshak decided to use a “flooding algorithm,” where each square in the maze is assigned a number that corresponds to how distant it is from the center. For example, a square directly adjacent to the center would be given the number one. The squares adjacent to No. 1 squares would be assigned the number two. Of course, it’s not that easy, said Rokni. The judges are all engineers themselves, so they design traps in
CUTTING: Workshop offered
“The Sea Gull,” a play based on a Russian production (From Page One) detailing dreams of fame and glory will be held at the people who are self-mutilating are unable to stop the behavior on their Young Theatre in the Performing Arts center. Tickets own,” Kress said. Cutting is a controversial subare $9 to the general public, and $8 for advance purject and one that many are wary to chases only for senior citizens and full-time students confront. Workshops like the one with a valid CSUF identification. on Wednesday help get necessary SUBMISSIONS: To have your event in The Daily Titan’s Calendar, please submit event information to news@dailytitan.com one week prior to the date of event.
CAMP: Counselors wanted (From Page One)
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the maze. These traps aren’t pitfalls or crushing boulders, but they’re logic problems that can confound incomplete or certain types of programming. By placing the walls of the maze in a certain configuration, they can force robots to constantly move in circles. The robot’s programming can’t make heads or tails of the situation, so keeps making the best choice it can. Some simple tricks to keep robots from falling into traps are programming a robot to refuse to take more than three consecutive right turns, Rokni said. In order to help level the playing field between different schools, robots can’t be worth more than $500. The total is derived from the value of the parts in the robot, not the actual amount spent on them, said Rokni. Still, there’s some definite differences between schools like the Cali-
information to the public, information that can help to stop such be-
havior. “Most important, I believe that preventative measures should be in place where young people can learn how to cope with painful feelings in a healthy way,” Kress said. If you or someone you know is a cutter please contact www.selfinjury. com or 1(800) DONTCUT
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fornia Institute of Technology and MIT and schools that don’t have such strong engineering and mechanical bents, said Rokni. Students at engineering schools are often able to design their chassis and other parts, then have them made to specification at the school. CSUF’s team had to buy some of its pieces, including its $200 wheel and chassis assembly. The rest of the design has to work with the storebought pieces. The team created most of the mouse from scratch. Some of the pieces couldn’t be constructed at CSUF, like the chassis and engine, while other pieces like the robot’s five infrared sensors could only be made with highly specialized equipment, said Rokni. Still, that’s part of the learning process. Rokni’s previous mice are displayed in the group’s workroom, but the exercise is more about build-
ing and learning how to create the robot, said Vasily Koudymov, an electrical engineering student. “When we started this, we didn’t know what was happening. Every time we hit a problem, we solved it,” he said. That’s something the team couldn’t have done if they simply reused last year’s model. Koudymov created the circuitry that will allow the robot to understand and process analog signals. Electrical current is used to relay information in a computer, but it naturally occurs as a binary signal. Binary signals can only send an “on” and “off” pulse, but strings of binary can be understood as larger numbers with the correct programming and hardware. Other members of the group include Kenneth Ly, a computer engineering student, Erich Beck, an electrical engineer, and Jacob Kashiwada.
POTTING: Shed opens to public (From Page One)
benefits of an Arboretum membership. Mueller, who volunteers monthly for plant sales and events, said that it’s fun to volunteer for people who love plants. She explained that while her passion for plants brought her in the door, she stays because of the warmth of the people involved with
the project. “I think she [Tyra] did a great job putting it all together,” Mueller said. The potting shed is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. It is located on the north side of the campus at Yorba Linda Boulevard and Associated Road.
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MySpace Helps Student Find Lost Friends By JulIANNA CRISALLI
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Melodee Bowers decided to use MySpace as a tool to find some of her old friends from high school. She was only looking for four in particular, but ended up finding 12. Bowers, a business and finance major, started her MySpace profile four months ago and said she quickly found her lost friends. “At first I was a bit iffy about myspace, I didn’t know if my friends and I would be able to reconnect. But now, I’m happy I looked them up,” Bowers said. Her page is set to the public
Bowen viewing mode, but she only intends to communicate with her friends. “I get a lot of messages from people who say they go to this school,
but I don’t open them. I worry that they are viruses or something,” Bowers said. Her page is black, blue, pink and covered with pictures and personality quizzes. One quiz revealed her hit man name, Backseat Borris, while another uncovered her porn star name, Sindee Slickbooty. Bowers said she would recommend myspace to people who don’t yet have a profile.
“I guess it depends on the reason you want one. It is good to connect with old friends or network with businesses, but some people go on to find relationships and that just seems like a bad idea,” she said. With photos of getting a tattoo, bottles of Jack Daniels and vacations in Hawaii, Bowers hopes her page represents who she is today. “I have grown up a lot since high school,” she said. “I think my page shows that.”
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The hub
Gothics–It’s Not All About the Devil Story and photo By Katy french Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
What started as a personal social experiment in a mall in Riverside has evolved into a lifestyle for Nailz over the last decade. Nailz is “Gothic,” and while that strikes fear into the hearts of many an Orange County Republican, Goth is a thriving subculture. While there is no specific definition for the Gothic lifestyle, there are numerous traits that are typically under the Gothic umbrella. The types generally include a black wardrobe, some dark eyeliner and a darker sense of humor. Nailz is a 29-year-old Goth who works in Ipso Facto in Fullerton. He is soft spoken and calm. Resting his hands on the counter, fingernails painted black, he chooses his words carefully and recalls his first experience with the Gothic lifestyle. Nailz’s interest in sociology and psychology led to a social experiment when he was 17. He befriended a Goth and decided it would be interesting to dress up and see what it was like to go out in public as a Goth. The experience changed him. “I would walk into a crowd and people
would part and it was just a weird feeling, I had been sort of background my whole life,” Nailz said. One particular incident stood out for him that made him think there was something more intriguing about this type of life. “Something happened to me that had never happened to me before in my whole life – a girl hit on me,” Nailz said. After that initial outing, Nailz was hooked. Within a month, Nailz had dyed his blonde hair black and exchanged his “typical nerd” persona for that of a man of mystery. More than ten years later, Nailz is still a Goth and proud of it. However, being a Goth can be challenging. Those who have decided to live the lifestyle endure much criticism and ridicule. Stereotypes of devil worship and blood-drinking plague Goths like Nailz, many of whom are much more normal than society would believe. Though Nailz is weary of the many stereotypes associated with Goths, rolling his eyes when he talks about Marilyn Manson, he does fit the bill. He has slept in a coffin – a hand-me-down that he said was quite comfortable. He doesn’t believe he’s a vampire but he’s played one on TV. He is also a monster at
Knott’s Scary Farm. He doesn’t worship Satan but is knowledgeable about many belief systems and respects them. “Goths are usually better about seeing past appearances and actually looking at how people really are,” Nailz said. Unfortunately, he does not always receive the same respect from others, even his own family. He has lost relationships with important family over his lifestyle choice and is frustrated that his tolerance for others is not reciprocated. But he has found his authentic self and learned, if anything, it is important not to judge others, he said. The issue of acceptance is one that is relevant to many Goths. They enjoy their culture and revel in their differences. If mainstream society is not accepting, it only gives them a greater perspective. “When I was younger, I used to try to fit in and it never really worked so I kind of just went ‘you know what I’m not even going to try fitting in anymore’ and I’m just going to kind of do my own thing,” Vanessa Anderson said. She doesn’t label herself a Goth but does lean towards that group. She will dress up when she goes to shows but said she can be found in blue jeans and not lace – up corsets only.
To her, being Gothic can appeal to a broad spectrum of people and does not appeal only to the death-obsessed and macabre. “We’re not evil, we don’t all practice witchcraft,” Anderson said. “I used to be called witch in high school, that’s not always how it is.” Regardless of society’s view, the Gothic lifestyle is well and thriving as evident with the success of such commercial stores as Hot Topic. The store Ipso Facto in downtown Fullerton has been in business for 17 years. The store caters to the Gothic lifestyle and sells everything from sinister shoes to devilish dresses, all to compliment the Gothic lifestyle. Co-owner Bob Medeiros has been in the Gothic scene for years and particiGOTHICS - Goth enthusiast Nailz behind the pated in its evolution. counter of Ipso Facto. Medeiros is energetic and enthusiastic and one may never suspect his wicked side ing to grow up and stop wearing the eye liner?” or imagine him in bracelets and bondage shorts Now. Medeiros said his father is proud him. if they saw him in his “day job” clothes. “We don’t worship death; we just like the “It’s funny, my father told me I would never darker side and see the humor of the darkness. make any money doing this,” Medeiros said. Everyone has to die sooner or later, might as His father use to ask him “When are you go- well make it fun,” Medeiros said.
Taking a Look Abroad: Education in South Korea By Christina Martinez
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The landmass in Eastern Asia known as the Korean Peninsula is home to both North and South Korea. The Korean War in the 1950s brought turmoil to the two countries. In 1953, a line between North and South Korea was determined as a demilitarized zone. This allowed South Korea to grow and prosper unlike its neighbor, communist North Korea. According to the CIA World Factbook Web site, after this zone was created the per capita income for South Koreans rose to nearly 14 times that of a person living in North Korea.
With this came an opportunity for South Koreans to go to universities and get decent jobs just like in any other modern democracy. Eun hye Park is an 18-year-old college student majoring in chemistry and biochemistry. She goes to Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea. Park said in an e-mail interview, that the reason people go to college in South Korea is because getting employment without an education is difficult. Because of this graduate school is necessary. Park said people who want to work have to get into that higher “academic clique” to make it in South Korea. “There are many people who go
not only to college but also graduate school,” she said. Ninenteen-year-old Sunny is majoring in science at the Korean Advanced Institution of Science and Technology. She said in an e-mail interview the main reason to go to college is to become successful. Koreans have a firm belief that education is the best way to become successful. “College is viewed almost as a given in some parts of Korean society a step between high school and work,” Sunny said. A typical day for her is to get up around 8 a.m., eat breakfast and then bike to a 9 a.m. class. She then has lunch, goes to another lecture and socializes or studies in the evenings. In
her free time she likes to eat, drink, shop and hike. Like many American universities, South Korean universities offer residence halls on campus. At Korea University, advertisements for these types of resident halls are posted on their Web site. They offer two – person dorms to four – person suites. The university also advertises common areas and weight rooms throughout the dorms where students can gather and watch TV, study and workout. Korea University offers faculty studios as well. Park and Sunny don’t have jobs like many college students do in America. However, they both plan on working after college. “I want to complete the teach-
ing profession and eventually I will become a chemistry teacher,” Park said. College life in South Korea is different than in America, Sunny said. “There are numerous cultural aspects reflected in the social structure within the school, among other differences,” Sunny said. She said there can be more of a negative view towards people who aren’t attending college. “The level of your college has a big impact on how people and potential employers view you,” Sunny said. TV, for instance, is a staple in South Korean homes just like in American homes, according to BBC News online. However, newspaper readership isn’t as high in America as
it is in South Korea. Korean universities offer many of the same majors that American universities offer. Korea University offers political science, liberal arts and engineering. Class size in South Korea is also similar to that in America. For example, mandatory, basic classes are usually around 60 or 70 students, Sunny said. Like in America, the classes are set up so the professor lectures and students take notes. Sunny’s subatomic particles and cosmology seminar only has five students. Even though college life has its differences throughout the world; schedules, tests and professors are similar no matter where you are.
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OPINION Titan Editorial
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It’s Oct. 10, another beautiful up the road, today’s editorial is autumn day at Cal State Fuller- aimed at giving the campus popton, which could mean only one ulace some good advice – quit thing: 69 days of holiday shop- spending like drunken sailors ping left! and start taking control of your But as you rev up your Visa- pocketbooks. and MasterCard-fueled engines, Don’t arbitrarily change just try for once to be a little plans and spice up a boring afbit cognizant ternoon with a of conspicurandom trip to ous consump- Recent research stud- the mall that retion. You know sults in another ies conducted by – spending a lot $400 in interDemos point to as est-accumulatof money you many as 75 percent ing debt that don’t have on crap you don’t of 18 to 24-year-olds will be sorely need. have amassed credit regretted in a Recent refew years. card debt search studies In fact, you conducted by should probDemos point ably not even to as many as 75 percent of 18- plan on spending that $400. to 24-year-olds have amassed It may sound quaint, cheesy or credit card debt, an indicator of cliched, but all that junk really a generation that defies prudent isn’t doing anything for you, not spending in favor of the imme- in the long term. That cute diate thrill of getting what they blouse won’t be hanging in want, when they want it. the closet in three years, and With trick-or-treat candy, you probably won’t watch that leftover turkey sandwiches and DVD more than a few times spiked eggnog only a few exits anyway. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Titan Editorial is solely the opinion of the Daily Titan editorial board and was written after the open debate between board members. The editorial board consists of the executive editor, the managing editor, the opinion editor, the news editors, the copy chief and other editors upon appointment of the executive editor.
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The Equalizer
the order that they entered into the slowly moving stream of automobiles. jines@dailytitan.com You can’t pay off the person in There are few things in this the car ahead of you to move a litworld that level the playing field for tle faster. You can’t show off a little the rich and the poor, the atheists décolletage to make people move and the fundamentalists, not to out of your way. mention the many different ethnic Everyone is forced to be patient groups that make and take any adSouthern Califorvances in distance But as we shoot nia. as they come. One of these is If there is one toward our individdeath, and another great symbol that ual exits, we should to some extent is future generations remember that we’re will use to represent taxes. But, at least in our neck of not alone on the road, our generation, I’m the woods, there and on a greater scale, certain that they is nothing that in the world itself. can’t go wrong with is more the great freeways. equalizer than the Not only are freeway. they collectively Oftentimes, the heiress in her the great equalizer, they can also shiny, freshly waxed Mercedes show how great the miles between Benz coupe is forced to sit in the us are as we sit just inches same traffic on the Hollywood away from each other in our autofreeway that someone like me sits mobiles. in at the wheel of my white 1998 We are so intent on our Honda Civic, which gets a good destinations as we move along in washing, oh, maybe once or twice separate lanes, never really paying during the semester. attention to the people in the cars There in bumper-to-bumper traf- next to us. fic, people are forced to advance in In this sense, I’ve always seen By Julie Anne Ines Daily Titan Executive Editor
the Oscar-winning movie Crash as flawed in its metaphor. We’re not busy trying to crash into each other. Rather, we go about our lives doing just the opposite: trying to avoid each other whenever we can, racing toward our exits not caring who is in the lane right next to us. Everyone moves with a sense of self-entitlement and a “me first” attitude, as some try to one-up
each other while trying to be the King or Queen of the Road. But as we shoot toward our individual exits, we should remember that we’re not alone on the road, and, on a greater scale, in the world itself. We’re not alone because we share a collective experience, and the same frustration when a normally 15-minute drive takes us nearly an hour.
Oprah For President in 2008? By Christina Martinez Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
So some of us can’t wait until 2008 to vote a new president into office. But instead of putting a wishywashy democrat against an overthe-top Republican, let’s nominate Oprah Winfrey. That’s right, Oprah for 2008.
That’s who Patrick Crow of Kansas City, Miss. is campaigning for anyway. Crow has his own site dedicated to Oprah running for president in 2008. There’s even a theme song, campaign T-shirts and a book that he authored. What more could a presidential nominee ask for? Crow’s site, oprah08.net, states “Oprah Winfrey would not only be a good candidate for president of the United States of America, but she can WIN.” Apparently however, Oprah’s lawyers weren’t too fond of the “Oprah for 08” slogan. According to The Smoking Gun Web site, one of Winfrey’s attorneys wrote a letter to Crow. The letter said that the Oprah name used on Crow’s Web site and T-shirts “falsely implied” that she and Harpo Inc. actually endorsed the campaign. But, Oprah was actually flattered by what Crow did. She said that her lawyers overreacted. In a day when satiric politics is like second nature with shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, we should expect a resident from Kansas City to (half-jokingly)
nominate Oprah for president. But who’s to say that she wouldn’t be a good president? She’s smart, charismatic and a people person. Everyone knows who she is and she has a strong work ethic. Her charity “Angel Network” has raised millions of dollars for causes like Hurricane Katrina and gives supplies to children in Africa. But her agenda would be a “giving free-for-all” and would lead to other countries becoming greedy for U.S. money. This would lead us more into debt which is exactly what an industrialized country needs the most. I definitely think that this “giving” quality would make for a good president. Oprah has so many fans and influences that she would have a wide following. There wouldn’t be a need for a campaign. Even though it would be mostly soccer moms and the retired, they are still votes. People would just vote for her because she’s a household name. Crow has a good idea, “nominating” Oprah for president. He already knows that people would vote for
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her and knows just how influential she is. But some are afraid of the allpowerful Oprah. And who wouldn’t be? She has so much influence on so many women and men in America. They listen to her and do everything she asks them to do. It’s almost like she has created a cult in her two decades on the air. I can just see it now: Oprah making a State of the Union address while she’s holding up the current book of the month from her book club. The very next day, every single person who watched that address has that book in his or her hand. She might even make it required. And remember that Oprah doesn’t have any political experience, just charisma. This whole “Oprah for ’08” thing should be taken with a grain of salt. Even though the thought of Oprah becoming president in ’08 seems like a duh idea, just remember to really think about what it would be like if she became president.
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Larger Size Through Chemistry: Self Improvement or Just a Risk? Different supplements may cause problems as they help build the body BY CHRISTINA PEREZ
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Out of high school, his 5-feet, 7-inch frame weighed only 125 pounds. Now only three years later, Richard Coronado weighs a little over 150 pounds, most of the weight muscle mass. Coronado has taken supplements along with a balanced diet and exercise, which he said have helped him reach the weight and attain the muscle growth he has strived to achieve. Dietary supplements can be used in any number of ways. With many different types out on the market with promises to help obtain muscle quickly, lose those extra stubborn pounds, or even boost energy, it is easy to see what makes them so appealing. Supplements that promise an increase in muscle mass are especially popular among young men today, like Coronado. With the quick results that supplements offer, it seems clear why people are tempted to take them in order provide the satisfaction they are seeking in their bodies. On the other hand the types of supplements that are available over the counter, including the ones Coronado uses, are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. In 1994 the Dietary Supplemental Health and Education Act passed a set of regulations that does not ensure safety for individuals who are taking supplements. The act does not require that the supplement proves it works, that they are safe or ensure that they are manufactured by any standards.
are aware of what is being put into least risks. their bodies. Regardless of what risks ingreSenior athletics director Allison dients in supplements may or may Rich explained what the athletics de- not have, O’Neil suggested avoiding partment here at Fullerton suggests supplements for any use. to the athletes and students who are O’Neil said in order to achieve considering taking supplements. physical improvements without the “We tell students to be careful,” use of supplements, individuals can Rich said. “Student athletes should simply change their habits. Alterations in lifestyle should intalk to certified athletic trainers before taking them. Every student’s clude taking in sufficient amounts of calories, getting adequate sleep and situation is different.” CSUF currently has no policy staying well–hydrated. She warned about the risks that against student athletes taking supplements that would help promote could come with taking supplements. muscle growth. Individuals that choose to use Rich said that student athletes should be aware of what is in the supplements of any kind should supplements that they choose to take know the facts before using them. “I would never recommend supbecause it is possible that the supplement may contain ingredients that plements,” O’Neil said. “They give a false sense are prohibited of improveby the NCAA. ment. They SuppleI would never recommend are not ments are made up of supplements. They give a false worth the risk.” different com- sense of improvement. They Coroponents. Some are not worth the risk. nado on the contain proother hand, tein, Creatine, has seen Ephedra and – Frances O’neil nothing but different herbUC Irvine Dietician positive real ingredients. sults. Each ingreHe said dient may have his use of adverse effects supplements on the body. Frances O’Neil is a dietician at has never led to complications. He has seen a change in his body UC Irvine and said that Ephedra is an herbal supplement commonly as a result of his use of supplements including increases in muscle size, used to suppress the appetite. The risk of Ephedra, when mixed strength and stamina. The decision to use or avoid supwith prescription drugs, can have dangerous effects on the body by plements comes down to each individual. causing unexpected reactions. O’Neil said that more informa“As for Creatine, the body can only retain a certain amount of it tion on which supplements would before it becomes detrimental to the be beneficial for your diet and lifestyle is needed. Individuals should body,” O’Neil said. Protein is one of the ingredients do their homework and pay attenused in a supplement that offers the tion to the labels, she said.
Often people do not know these facts and take supplements anyway. Coronado is among the individual’s who is unfamiliar with the act. “Nope, I never heard of it but I
don’t worry about it too much,” Coronado said. “I do my research, I don’t take stuff just because it sounds good.” At Cal State Fullerton, students
By John Martinez/For the Daily Titan and staff have their own views on when supplements can and should be used. With the various supplements offered it is important that students