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Daily Titan
Wednesday October 25, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Take a Spooky Trip Through the Arboretum
Looking to the Future
This year 22,000 guests are expected to attend haunted Halloween treat By Rachel Douglass
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Graduate Student - Rodney Anderson, former CSUF basketball player turned graduate student, has learned to focus on the future in the hope of being able to walk again one day.
Off the Court He’s Still Making the Grade By Kevin Cole
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Everyday, Rodney Anderson’s mother sits in her 2000 Dodge Caravan waiting for him to get out of school. For six years, Martha Anderson has driven her son to Cal State Fullerton. Then she waits on campus in a van. Her son contacts her via cell phone when he needs her. Assistant Professor of Human Ser-
vices Susan Larsen lives only a mile from campus and has offered to let Martha relax at her home. Martha chooses to stay close to her son. Close is an apt way to describe their relationship. “He is my baby,” Martha said. “He is my best friend.” It’s still hard for Anderson to talk about the event that changed his life, the event that keeps his mom close – the day he was shot. On March 2, 2000, as an 18-yearold basketball player riding a full
athletic scholarship, Anderson was walking outside his parent’s home in south Los Angeles when a stranger walked up from behind him and shot him four times in the back. As Anderson fell, the gunman glanced at his face and realized Anderson wasn’t his intended target. The shooter apologized. “I had already been shot, the damage had already been done – but he did apologize,” Anderson said. He was in the hospital for five months and took the next year off
Birth Control Innovations to be Discussed at Women’s Center news@dailytitan.com
Almost all women who had sexual intercourse in 2002 – 98 percent – used at least one method of birth control, according to several government reports. Since birth control is so common, the Cal State Fullerton Women’s Center will be holding a discussion on new innovations in contraception at noon on Nov. 8. Janet Emery, a registered nurse and nurse practitioner at CSUF, is the event speaker. The event will be very interactive, using a question-and-answer format. It is meant to dispel myths about birth control and inform students about the different forms of birth control that are available for them and their partners, Emery said. “I want to give them choices and let them know they have options. I want to let them know about new methods so we can avoid unwanted pregnancies,” she said. “We want people to plan their family and we want to give them the tools to do that.” The mission of the center is to provide information on the status
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Every student that is sexually active should be using contraceptives.
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By Amanda Beckman
Daily Titan Staff Writer
– Faith Felix-Colburn Health Center Pharmacist
of men and women and the issues men and women deal with, said Sue Passalacqua, the center’s associate director. “Women’s health is an issue that should always be at the forefront,” she said. The center provides information on a variety of issues to promote understanding and build relationships between men and women, she said. “We try to provide programs that affect men and women – certainly contraception affects men and women,” Passalacqua said. Approximately 11.6 million women use the pill as contraception in the U.S., according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. While the pill may be the most popular method, there are other options available to both men and
women. The newest one is Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, Health Center pharmacist Faith FelixColburn said. As with any method, it is important that students take a contraceptive management class to educate them on their choices, she said. The Health Center provides a family planning orientation several times per week to educate students on various birth control methods and planning techniques while emphasizing that protection is vital. “Every student that is sexually active should be using contraceptives, whether it is condoms or any other birth control, unless they really have intentions of getting pregnant,” Colburn explained. Attending the event next month will help inform students about options and how to make the right choice for themselves, center associates said. The information will stem from student questions and help to educate all that participate. “It never hurts to learn more because you are dealing with your body,” Colburn said. “It is important to have control of [your] life and know what means are out there and available.”
from school. To become more independent, Anderson went to physical therapy three times a week to relearn basic skills. He worked on stretching, standing and flexing to prevent his muscles from stiffening up. “That was the hardest year of my life,” he said. “Going through rehab was harder than anything I ever had to do in athletics.” Before the shooting, Anderson SEE ANDERSON - PAGE 3
Photos From The Struggle in Palestine Speaker offers solution to ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine By Aaron Holtsclaw
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Middle Eastern Student Society presented “The Struggle for Education In Occupied Palestine: The Right to Education” photo exhibit and symposium at the Titan Student Union. The exhibit is open daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. until Thursday. “I gave an overview of Israeli violation of international law and presented a resolution to end the conflict,” said Riham Barghouti, from the Ad-Hoc Coalition for Justice in the Middle East from New York City, who spoke at the event. “I want equal rights for Palestinians living in Israel,” she said. “The only just solution is a democratic secular state.” When asked if she believed that would happen in her lifetime, she replied, “We didn’t think the Berlin Wall would come down, so yes it is possible.” “It’s an important message that education is power, nothing should stop any children from learning,” said English major, Noor Higley, president of the society. Higley visited “Palestinian areas” earlier this summer while on a six-
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Beginning Friday, Cal State Fullerton’s Arboretum will be transformed into a spooky haunted garden. Arboretum employee Mary Haller said that guests of the event should come prepared to be scared. “It’s very spooky,” she said. “We take the guests on a night tour of the garden, where there are volunteers in costume waiting to scare them.” Haller said that the volunteers bring their own costumes and develop their own personalities. A guide takes a small group through the winding paths until they reach the pavilion for a party. “We prefer the children to be six and over – it is scary,” Haller said. Christie Twentier, special events coordinator of the Arboretum, said the Haunted Garden is a fun event for children between 5 and 12 years old. In the first year of the Haunted Garden, approximately 700 guests came. Last year 1,600 people visited the weekend-long event and this year, Twentier said she expects about 2,200 guests. It takes approximately 75 volunteers a night to set up and teardown to keep the event going, she said. The Arboretum needs donations
of Polaroid film to take pictures of kids as they take the tour, Twentier said. Haller said that she was still looking for volunteers to dress up in costume, hand out candy and drinks, and help teardown. Diane Wilkinson, volunteer for the Arboretum, is trained to give grounds tours of the gardens and forests. The weekend of the Haunted Garden she said that she will give the guests tours into the spooky garden grounds. “We really get into it,” she said. “We dress up in capes and have green hair.” Wilkinson said that the tours would not be terrifying. “It’s a woodland at night,” she said. “It’s suggestive but not too scary.” The event will span the evenings of Oct. 27, 28 and 29. The tours will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will end at 9:30 p.m. On Sunday evening the event goes from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. Twentier said that the tours will run approximately 40 minutes and that reservations are encouraged. The prepaid cost of admission is $6 for children ages 5 to 12 and $10 for everyone else. At the door the cost goes up to $10 per child and $13 per adult. Twentier said that there is a “Haunted Hotline” where reservations can be made by phone. For more information call the “Haunted Hotline” at 714-2784002.
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day tour. “I hope they would learn more about the situation from objective sources,” Higley said, about her desire for students to gain the information this symposium is presenting. Different students in Palestine took photos. The photos featured children standing near soldiers, children demonstrating, a prison cell burned in effigy and even the funeral of a 16-year-old boy. Hishan Erout, a journalist from Al-Najah University who trained in television montage with the AlJazeera news network, had a photograph of a boot stuck in barbed wire. “This exhibit is important to have,” said society member Abraham Appel. “It humanizes a problem we call political – it’s pictures of reality.” “They were bringing up good and interesting points,” said junior electrical engineering major Emon Rafizadeh. “I support the moral arguments in behalf of a one state solution,” said Stephen Simon, society faculty adviser and retired philosophy professor. “We need to find out a lot more than we know. You don’t have to go to Israel or Palestine to find out what is going on. A university is a perfect place for this kind of event to take place.” “The terrorism is not terrorism, it’s resistance,” Barghouti said, when asked about suicide bombings in Is-
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Speech - Riham Barghouti presented her proposal for peace in the middle east Monday in the TSU.
rael. “It’s not morally correct but I recognize it for what it is and that is resistance.” Barghouti said the bombings didn’t start until 2001 as a response to Israel’s actions. “We hear about the 1,000 Israelis dead, but we don’t hear about the 4,000 Palestinians who have died,” she said. “HAMAS won the election not because they are a religious organization, they won because their SEE EXHIBIT - PAGE 2
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