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Thursday March 8, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Spring Forward Early
Remember These Titans
By Jake kilroy
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
By CINDY CAFFERTY
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Scott Cutley and Bobby Brown, the Titans’ 1-2 punch, lead their team into this weekend’s Big West Conference tournament By Jaime Cárdenas
Daily Titan Columnist news@dailyittan.com
Bobby Brown and Scott Cutley, Scott Cutley and Bobby Brown. It’s hard to think of one and not the other. When you see one, you see the other. It’s a package deal. It’s been that way since they first met in the eighth grade. The two are usually doing something basketball related, whether it’s playing, practicing or talking about it. But even when they are not around each other they still manage to be in contact, either by calling or texting each other. “We’re always doing something
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together,” Cutley said. “We just hang out all the time, and every time we go somewhere we make sure we know where each other is at. We’re real close. It helps us on and off the court.” Titans fans know how efficient their bond can be on the court. Brown, a 6-foot-2 point guard, and Cutley, a 6-foot-5 forward, are the team’s co-captains. The two have formed a 1-2 punch that has given CSUF alumni, students and faculty hope that the Titans might make it to the NCAA basketball
tournament this weekend. Not since 1978 have the Titans participated in March Madness. This season could end up being a very special one for Titan followers. But, win or lose, it’s already been a special season for the two teammates and longtime friends, who also happen to be roommates. The Titans begin their quest for a berth in the NCAA tournament Thursday at 6 p.m. in the second round of the Big West Conference Tournament at the Anaheim Convention Center. After finishing the
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Garden Grove Woman Gets 7 Pound Surprise April Branum delivered a healthy baby boy in an unexpected pregnancy By ERICKA SANTOS
For the Daily Titan
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For a Garden Grove family, the weekend began like any other. Relatives visited, talked over dinner and relaxed in the living room for movie night. Little did they know, that for the last nine months a special guest was preparing for his grand and sudden entrance. With less than 48 hours’ notice, on Feb. 28, April Branum and Walter Scott Edwards II, became parents to a healthy 7-pound, 7-ounce baby boy. Severe stomach pains forced 37year-old Branum to seek help at a
local emergency room in Garden tion that runs in her family, a missed Grove Feb. 26. X-rays of her stom- menstrual period was no automatic ach quickly revealed that she was signal that she was pregnant. Earlier carrying a fullvisits to her docterm fetus and tors for sympher stomach toms such as problems were, backaches, tenI just looked up in fact, labor der breasts and at the ceiling and pains. hardening of her “I remember stomach were thought, don’t pass when the docalso consistent out, don’t pass out. tor told me what with complicawas going on,” tions from un– April Branum Branum recalled. successful gastric Mother “I just looked up bypass surgery in at the ceiling and 2000. This kept thought, don’t her and others pass out, don’t from guessing pass out.” the real cause of Although she weighs a little over her symptoms before she delivered 400 pounds, Branum’s weight was Wednesday. not the primary reason she and doc“If I would have known I was tors were unaware of her pregnancy. Believing she had entered into early menopause two years ago, a condiSEE SURPRISE - PAGE 5
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season with the third best record in the conference, the Titans (19-9 overall, 9-5 Big West) have earned a first round bye and are seeded No. 3. The tandem earned all-conference first team honors on Monday after finishing the season No. 2 and No. 4 in scoring. Brown broke the school record for most points in a game (47) and most career points (1,920) two weeks ago. Cutley was the conference’s leading rebounder. Brown and Cutley. Cutley and Brown.
Cal State Fullerton will proceed with naming the new Business and Economics building after an alumnus who donated $4.5 million toward the project despite recent media speculation and on-campus controversy. CSUF President Milton Gordon said Wednesday that the university will move forward with plans to name the building Steven J. Mihaylo Hall. “Yes, we are going to proceed with the naming, “Gordon said. “I’m very proud that we are going to proceed. Steven Mihaylo has been a leader at the forefront of this university.” Mihaylo, a 1969 CSUF MIHAYLO graduate and founder and [former] CEO of InterTel, has been at the heart of recent debate in the local media as well as at CSUF since the accounts of former employees’ attempted bid rigging came to light. Inter-Tel paid a fine, and Mihaylo signed the settlement agreement admitting the company’s guilt. The former employee faces a federal trial later this year. An ensuing feud between a College of Business and Economics professor and the college’s dean has also contributed to the discussions in recent publications and on campus. Professor Hamid Tavakolian and Dean Anil Puri have been in disagreement, both internally through e-mails and externally in the press, over the naming of the building. “I have questions [about the naming of the building]. I want answers.
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On March 11 at 2 a.m., daylightsavings time will “spring ahead” early. It will also stay put longer than usual. America won’t “fall back” again until Nov. 4. For nearly the last two decades, daylight-saving time began on the first Sunday in April and lasted until the last Sunday in October. The recent change was a major theme in the Bush Administration’s Energy Policy Act, passed in 2005. The law also requires the U.S. Department of Energy to study the energy-conservation impact of the change in daylight-saving time, if there is any. Daylight-saving time was initially suggested to Parisians by Benjamin Franklin in 1784. Franklin was a minister to France at the time. It wasn’t until Englishman William Willett wrote the pamphlet “The Waste Of Daylight” in 1907 that the idea was brought to light again. Following Britain’s law of daylight-saving time in World War I, the U.S. put the time change into effect for the last two years of WWI. The law was so unpopular that it was later repealed. The law was reinstated in 1942 when the U.S. was at war again, but following World War II, there wasn’t any lawful practice of daylight-saving time for another two decades. A law involving daylight-saving time was reintroduced in 1966 and later amended in 1986. The Energy Policy Act is the latest change to the law, bumping the time-saving period up by nearly four weeks. “It could be a good thing because it’ll save energy. And I’m all for saving energy,” said Sam Serrano, a 20year-old who is double majoring in broadcast journalism and Spanish. “We have been wasting a lot of energy.” Not everyone wants to be on daylight-saving time, though. History Professor Nelson Woodard recalled his grandparents’ farm with cows. Since the animals ran on a biological clock, Woodard’s grandparents would keep all of their clocks to standard time, rather than the hour of daylight-saving time. All of them stayed standard time, except for one clock that they changed according to daylight-saving time practice, as it was the time that the milk buyers functioned on. There’s always a problem, such as kids taking buses to school in the dark, Woodard said. “We have already had some problems,” computer science Professor Susamma Barua said. “Our computers are making all of our appointments one hour ahead.” Barua advises people to go to the manufacturer’s Web site and look for any updates available. “The program updates will be available soon and should be free,” Barua added. Woodard has his own opinion of daylight-saving time. “Standard time was created by the railroads. Daylight-saving time was created by the government,” Woodard said. “And leave it to the government to screw things up.”
Mihaylo Building Plans Proceed
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By ericka santos/For the Daily Titan
happy family - April Branum and Walter Scott Edwards II pose with their one-week-old unexpected arrival, Walter Scott Edwards III. The couple had given up hope of the possibility of a child.
weather For the record MARCH 7: The headline for the Academis Senate article was inaccurate. The Academic Senate approved a resolution calling for faculty to receive additional money for teaching during the summer of 2004. However, the Senate does not have the authority to authorize the payments.
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