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Tuesday March 6, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Former Physics Chair Dies
Richard III Slays CSUF Audiences Shakespearean masterpiece debuted at Young Theatre March 2 By CAITLYN COLLINS
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After two months of rehearsals, the production of Richard III has finally arrived. The Shakespearean history play opened on Friday at 8 p.m. in Young Theatre. It chronicles the War of Roses, a conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over control of England. Richard III, played by Aaron Gaines, is an aspiring dictator who hungers for power and is willing to do anything to get it. He climbs the ladder to the crown of England over the bodies of family members, the royal court and his own wife. The hardest part about playing Richard is “trying to live up to the work of amazing performers such as Olivier, Sher and McKellen,” said Gaines, a Theatre Arts major with an acting emphasis, in an e-mail interview. “Also, trying to tackle such an enormous role with only a few weeks of rehearsal” has proved difficult. “My favorite part is getting to
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the blues - George Duke of Clarence, played by Joe Calarco is comforted by his keeper after being awoken in the middle of the night by a bad dream.
Richard III opened at CSUF’s Young Theatre on March 2 and will run through March 18.
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TEAM PLAYERS Titan hoop players Bobby Brown and Scott Cutley have turned friendship into success.
positions with the companies.” Dorota Huizinga, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, arrived at the fair and emphasized the advantages students could gain. “Engineering and computer sciBy VINCENT CABRERA ence are very challenging majors,” Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com Huizinga said. “We want the students to see the light at the end of The College of Engineering and the tunnel and the employers make Computer Science hosted a career them aware of that.” fair Thursday as part of Engineering Mostafa Shiva, professor and deand Computer Science Week. Stu- partment chair for the College of dents seeking full-time employment Engineering, said CSUF students and internships had an opportunity graduate with the knowledge to to meet with employers face-to-face. make an impact. The Career Center worked in col“Engineering, especially electrical, laboration with is expanding so the College of fast,” Shiva said. Engineering and “Our students This is one of those Computer Sciwho graduate are ence to host 47 very well known venues that brings the employers that and desired by employers and stuincluded Hewlett companies.” dents together. Packard, SouthLaura Turner, ern California a recruiter for – Gloria Sims Edison and KOR ElectronIndustry Specialist Union Pacific. ics, said she was Gloria Sims, hopeful to find Industry Specialstudents looking ist, helped orgafor internships. nize the event with the Career Cen“This event gives students a ter and said she believes the career chance to talk directly to us and figfair to be an advantage for students ure out if this is the best company who are interested. According to for them to work for,” Turner said. Sims, 80 percent of the jobs involv- “If the student does well enough ing engineering and computer sci- in their internships, then we hire ence are never advertised. them.” “This is one of those venues that One student who took advantage brings the employers and students of the event was Orlando Martinez, together,” Sims said. “When students an engineering and computer scitake advantage of this opportunity, they are put in a position to talk to SEE ECS - PAGE 3 employers and inquire about future
Students look to fair for internships and possible career advancements
Women in New Music Festival celebrates female contributions
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Cal State Fullerton’s College of the Arts held the 6th Annual Women in New Music Festival at CSUF’s Performing Arts Center. This year’s festival was a celebration of women’s contribution in new music. It brought together artists from around the world in a four-day gathering of performers, composers and scholars. “This years festival featured works by women composers as well as works of new music that women perform: Electronic music, acoustic music, chamber music, music from orchestras and voices,” Pamela Madsen, artistic director of the event said. Madsen is an associate professor of Composition, Music Theory and Music Technology at CSUF. Her work focuses on the influence of technology on compositional thought, form and on the feminine voice. Madsen said that this year’s theme, “inner voices,” was brought about from the careful listening in her travels last year, and hearing women composers focusing on their inner dialogues, reflections on life, sound and images–all brought to fruition
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INNER VOICES - Director Kimo Furumoto leads the University Smphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg String Quartet and CSUF University Singers with guest composer Tanya León at the Sixth Annual Women in New Music Festival through their music. The festival was held March 1 through the 4th. Every concert over the weekend was preceded by a lecture, which introduced the performers and the type of music and messages they were trying to convey. 21st century technology was a staple of the performances over the weekend. Technology’s influence on the type of music being played was prevalent for most of the weekend. Performers made use of laptop computers, reverb pedals and synthesizers while playing such instruments as flutes, trombones and violins. The blending of new technology with classical instruments offered the audience a unique experience. “It was peculiar, and kind of scary. It was definitely something I never heard [before],” said freshman Tiffany Johnson, 18. Featured at the festival were such artists as Meredith Monk, a pioneer of extended vocal technique who combines her music with images to immerse the audience in a full sensory viewing; Zeitgest, a contem-
porary chamber ensemble; Cuban Composer Tania Leon, as well as the International Alliance for Women in Music’s annual concert, which took place Thursday night. Jane Rigler made use of her own creation, a flute that had buttons and a wire connected to a laptop so she could add highlights of sound to accompany her flute solo. “I love the thrill of the music, and I love to tell my audience my story through the music … I’m telling them what’s on my mind, what’s in the music, what’s in my heart,” Lisa Cella, a flute player and a member of IAWM, said. This year’s festival had a great public turnout, with even pre-concert lectures seats getting filled. Madsen is already thinking about next year’s festival. “Next year we will bring in a group called ‘Bang on a Can’ … The theme will be ‘Music on the Edge,’ and instead of one big festival there will be three mini festivals, with a focus on women in March,” Madsen said.
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About 20 former students, colleagues and current faculty members gathered to say farewell to Raymond V. Adams on Friday. Adams died after having suffered from a long illness on Feb. 2. The memorial service that was held in room 606 of McCarthy Hall was the same laboratory where Adams had taught his experimental physics classes during his tenure at Cal State Fullerton. The memorial began at approximately 3 p.m. Adams, who started ADAMS as a professor of physics in 1960 at CSUF, then known as Orange State College, served as the first chair of the department. “He was very dedicated to physics,” said Fred Austin, a former student of Adams who graduated in 1972. Roger Dittman, professor emeritus of physics at CSUF, said Adams had a philosophy when it came to teaching physics. Adams set a policy that all upper-division students had to take 12 units of experimental physics classes, which Dittman said has now been reduced to three, the national norm. “[Adams] emphasized teaching techniques in areas that could be applied in other fields,” Dittman said. According to Mark Shapiro, professor emeritus of physics, Adams was one of the principle architects of the constitution of the Academic Senate, which created what is known as the “Fullerton Way.” Shapiro described the “Fullerton Way” as faculty being part of the process of governing the school. According to Shapiro, Adams vision extended past the senate. “Adams had a vision as to what a student of physics should be,” Shapiro said. In 1947, the U.S. Army Air Corps hired Adams as a graduate student from Cal Tech to design a rocket that could be launched from airplanes. Adams also worked with Carl D. Anderson of Cal Tech on an academic paper “On the Mass and the Disintegration Products of Mesotron.” Anderson later won the Nobel Prize for discovering the positron. As chair of the Physics Department, he oversaw the buying of the equipment for the department in 1963. Dittman said that when McCarthy Hall was built in 1963, the building did not have any equipment. With a budget of $125,000, Adams was able to buy all of the equipment for the laboratories of the Physics Department, which occupies the sixth floor of McCarthy Hall. Adams was 86 when he died. He leaves behind no surviving family members.
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