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ASI Trying to Pass Bill AB 302
Wednesday April 11, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
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State Senate Legislation that may further financial aid for Grant B Program BY orIoN TIPPENS
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Associated Students Inc. is working toward the passing of AB 302, a new California Senate bill that may further help students receive financial aid through the Cal Grant B program. Introduced earlier this year, the AB 302 bill aims to amend California’s educational code by allowing Cal Grant B students access to their monetary awards for their total tuition and cost within their first academic year. Currently, only Cal Grant A recipients have access to both their tuition funds and aid for expenses for the freshmen year. Both Cal Grant A and B awards have the same monetary reward amount per year. Cal Grant B aid pays for tuition and fees based on the student’s income and economic disability after their first academic year. However, based on qualifications, some Cal Grant B students have access to their funds only for expenses such as books and related materials in that freshmen year. “It would be nice to have that money earlier, since it is yours. Why can’t you just use it all at your expense right away?” said David Sandoval, 22, a geology major, who feels the rising costs college expenses will affect the morale of new college students. ASI has undergone local efforts to draw support for AB 302. CSUF representatives of ASI have set up a petition letter campaign, and distributed information in an effort to provide awareness of the new bill. At the end of March, ASI reported that 324 CSUF student signatures were collected on campus for petition letters that will be passed on to legislators in an effort to gain support for AB 302. ASI plans to collect more signatures throughout the spring semester. “Arguably your first year in college is the most important,” said Curtis Schlaufman, ASI director of government relations, who said the effect stemming from a lack of college funds could impact the student’s motivation in the following years. The CSUs and the California State Student Association are working together in support for the passing of AB 302. Members of ASI and the association will meet on April 16 for the California Higher Education Student Summit to discuss AB 302 further and other financial aid related issues including the upcoming college tuition increase. ASI will push for further action at the ASI Lobby Corp. meeting on May 2 in Sacramento. “I’m pretty optimistic,” said Schlaufman, who said the only challenges for AB 302 is the bill’s passing through legislature and getting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to approve. “Knowing that they have that money sooner will be reassuring, and they will not have to wait,” said Jeremy Haug, 25, advertising major, who said he appreciates his job related tuition reimbursement during his first academic year.
BY ErIC VILLALoBoS/For The Daily Titan Campus Crash - This was the scene on State College Boulevard when the driver of a Maxima (not pictured) turned into the path of the Toyota 4-Runner, causing the SUV to collide with the Ford Ranger. The truck then slid across the sidewalk, sheared off a fire hydrant and crashed into the Infiniti, which was parked in Lot A. All drivers involved were Cal State Fullerton students.
BY mAGGIE HAUSEr
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
A four-car accident involving one parked car resulted in two injuries and a 50-foot-high column of water from a broken fire hydrant on Tuesday afternoon near Lot A at Cal State Fullerton. The accident involved only CSUF students and took place in the northbound lanes of State
College Boulevard south of Yorba Linda Boulevard. Rush-hour commuter traffic was diverted by University Police, and spectators gathered in Lot A while firefighters worked to turn off the broken hydrant. “Best we can tell, the Maxima tried to make a left turn out of Lot A and cut off the 4-Runner,” said Cpl. DeJong with the Fullerton Police Department. “The driver of the 4-Runner swerved and hit the Ford
truck. The truck then hit the parked Infiniti.” The accident was reported to University Police at 3:55 p.m. when a parking and transportation officer called in the incident, according to Brian Barnes, University Police lead dispatcher. Arturo Perez, advertising major, was the driver of the Maxima, which only sustained minor damage to the front end. “I was just trying to turn left,”
Perez said. “When I turned, I didn’t see [the 4-Runner], and I hit her.” The driver of the 4-Runner, Grace Aranki, was treated for an arm injury at the scene, and stood wet and shaking while she told her story to police. “I had no choice but to go either right or left,” Aranki said. “The airbag went off and I couldn’t see.” Aranki’s 4-Runner was substantially damaged and had to be towed from the scene.
Rene Cortez, the owner of the Infiniti, said he was in his history class when a university police officer notified him that his car had been involved in an accident. The parked Infiniti sustained only minor damages to the rear fender and was driven from the scene. The driver of the Ford Ranger, a male whose identity was not released, was transported to St. Jude Medical Center.
said Bruce Erickson, associate vice president of university communications and marketing, of the sign on the 57 Freeway. “It is a good way for us to communicate school events.” It is also a spot for advertising. The sign, which displays the Cal State Fullerton name, is carrying the means of payment for these renovations. The sign holds three billboards which can be used for advertisements. These spots are being sold to cover the cost of the renovations and Daktronics is handling the sale of the spaces. Currently, the company advertisements on the sign pay nothing to CSUF and haven’t been for about
two years, according to Steve Diltolla, the associate director of athletics. Construction on the boards should begin in the fall once the last advertiser signs on. The cost of advertising on the marquee costs about $250,000 a year and gets viewed by an estimated 300,000 vehicles a day carrying 1.7 drivers each, Erickson said. The main marquee was originally built in 1993 and was spearheaded by the athletics department to get word out about their games and events. Attendance for games has not been affected by the low-functioning marquees, but the new displays will allow for interactive involvement during sporting events with moving images
and cheerleading phrases. The sign has been in disrepair for over three years and while the construct gets regular repairs, it has been out of commission since early last fall. Its electronic display currently shows a seemingly random series of lit dots. However, the long delay for repair on the main marquee is unacceptable to some. “It’s a poor representation of the school,” said Ashley Mckell, a CSUF alumna. “We have a lot of quality programs on campus and [the sign] just doesn’t do us justice.” A committee of CSUF employees was formed to govern the new changes, including Ditolla, who also was on
the committee that oversaw the original installation. For a year the project was open to contractors until it went to Daktronics nine months ago. The delay has been attributed to the lengthy process of auctioning the contract and finding advertisers, Erickson said. According to Ditolla, the time taken to get the refurbishments underway has been rough on the current signs. Those that use it continue to work with the dilapidated systems while they wait for the next phase of development. “The new displays will be great,“ Ditolla said. “But our current stuff barely even functions. We’re lucky to get scores up.”
New Marquee Could Mean More Dollars BY JoSHUA BUrToN
For the Daily Titan news@dailytitan.com
Plans have been made to renovate the electronic marquee that faces the 57 Freeway as well as three other electronic signs throughout the campus. The signs at the soccer and baseball fields will get a new look and four-color electronic displays. new electronics will also be added to the score tables in the gym. Daktronics, the company that originally installed the signs, has been contracted to refurbish the constructs for about $1.2 million. “That sign gets a lot of eyeballs,”
Helping Businesses Succeed BY CASEY CHIN
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Family Business Council is one of Cal State Fullerton’s Centers of Excellence within the College of Business and Economics, and it attends to an array of needs and issues in the community. The council concentrates on helping established family-owned businesses through education so they can further develop and flourish while keeping unity in the family. Judy Harmon, a CSUF business graduate, founded the council in 1995. Harmon said she saw a need
for assistance in the family business community when Mass Mutual Insurance Co. conducted a survey about American businesses. The survey revealed 80 to 90 percent of businesses were family owned, however, only slightly more than 30 percent manage to pass ownership to the second generation. Harmon met with Ephraim Smith, dean of CSUF’s College of Business and Economics, at the time and began the process of raising money, getting sponsors, and recruiting businesses to join the council. Under the direction of the College of Business and Economics and Director Mike Trueblood, the council
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has recruited over 40 members including Freedom Communications Inc., Orco Block Inc., and Wahoo’s Fish Taco, according to Trueblood. Members of the council are given the opportunity to learn from experts through monthly workshops, events, discussion groups and courses. One course offered every semester by the council is Family Business Dynamics. The course concentrates on dealing with unique personal and interpersonal issues confronted by family-owned businesses. The course was first offered in 2001 after founder Judy Harmon
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IN otHeR NewS INteRNatIoNaL NewS DNa Shows Larry Birkhead is Baby’s Dad NaSSaU, Bahamas (aP) - DNa tests prove it: Larry Birkhead is the father of anna Nicole Smith’s million-dollar baby. “I told you so!” the late Playboy Playmate’s former boyfriend said tuesday upon emerging from a closed court hearing. He added: “My baby’s going to be coming home pretty soon.” NatIoNaL NewS two Students Shot in Chicago High School CHICago (aP) - two students were shot tuesday inside a Chicago public high school on the city’s South Side, police said. two people were hospitalized and are in “critical/ serious” condition, the Chicago Fire Department said. Spokeswoman eve Rodriguez did not have information on the victims’ ages or gender. State NewS
Levi’s Jeans on the Mend SaN FRaNCISCo (aP) - Levi Strauss & Co.’s first-quarter profit rose 61 percent, providing the latest sign that the long-suffering jeans maker is finally on the mend. The San Francisco-based company said tuesday that it earned $86.6 million during the three months ended Feb. 25 compared with net income of $53.8 million at the same time last year. Levi’s is privately held but still discloses its financial results because some of its debt is publicly traded. Levi’s also believes it is winning back consumers with trendier clothing designs. The company fared well in all its major markets during the first quarter. North american sales climbed 7 percent to $584 million. european sales increased 10 percent to $266 million. In the asia Pacific, sales rose 4 percent to $188 million.
FAMILy: BUSIneSS UnITy From Page 1 met with Joann Norton. Norton was the professor of the course and became a member in 1997. She is currently the vice president of Shareholder Relations for Freedom Communications Inc., one of the council’s founding members. Freedom Communications Inc. is in its fourth family generation of operation and is the third-largest family controlled media operations in the United States, according to Norton. In referring to the relationship that the council has with Freedom Communications Inc., Norton said she believes trueblood “does an amazing job and has been a great advantage to us.” another founding member of the council, Rick Muth, president of orco Block Co., recently presented the College of Business and economics with a $500,000 grant. The grant will help establish an endowment for the Rick Muth Family Chair in Family Business. It helps
to launch a $1.5 million campaign to fully fund the university’s firstever endowed chair. Muth decided to give this grant because he said he believes it “would be beneficiary to families” who own and operate their own businesses. Most of the members on the council are well-established businesses run by the second or third generation within the family. The council’s administrative assistant Robbin Bretzing said the council assist these businesses by providing “resources dealing with succession and retirement.” Currently the council is exploring the idea of possibly starting a new Center of excellence that would help the new entrepreneur business by possibly providing resources to help issues of risk management and human resources when starting a new business. More information on the Family Business Council can be found at: csuffamilybusinesscouncil.com
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a stowaway delayed a Japanbound airliner for four hours on Sunday, but this wasn’t any usual stowaway—it was a mouse. “This is the first time we experi-
enced something like this,” Vietnam airlines spokesman Nguyen Chan told aP reporters. The little traveler was spotted during the first leg of the Boeing 777’s
flight taking off from Hanoi, Vietnam, according to an aP article on myway.com. technicians, fearing it would chew on important wiring, searched for the mouse until it was
found in a food storage area. The mouse was killed, and the flight was cleared to takeoff, tran tien Dung, head of the airline’s safety department, told aP.
By Jenn Brown
Parenthood web site. “a medical abortion can take place up to 49 days into the pregnancy,” said Dr. Radha Lewis, a family physician based in Los angeles. also available is a vacuum aspiration procedure, where a doctor stretches the cervix and inserts a tube into the uterus. a hand-held suction device or a suction machine empties the uterus and ends the pregnancy, according to the Planned Parenthood web site. The procedure itself takes less than 10 minutes, and more time may be needed for recovery if anesthesia is used. For women who choose to end their pregnancy after the first trimester, a dilation and evacuation procedure must be performed. In this procedure, dilators made of laminaria are inserted into the cervix the day before the surgery is performed. The following day a doctor uses suction and medical instruments to remove the contents of the uterus, according to a brochure from Family Planning
associates, a medical group that provides abortions in orange County. “an abortion is a very simple and very low morbidity procedure,” Lewis said. “There are rarely complications and often times an abortion is safer than pregnancy and delivery.” The most common complication is infection, Lewis said. Frequently patients are sent home with antibiotics to prevent an infection, and it can be easily corrected, Lewis said. In the last 30 years, Lewis said abortions have become “simplified, less painful, less invasive, and more accessible.” The procedure has also moved from a hospital setting to an outpatient setting. Some insurance companies and insurance plans cover abortion procedures, but a patient should call the insurance company to see if the procedure is covered, said Stephanie Kight, a representative of Planned Parenthood. “If [insurance] doesn’t cover your abortion, come to Planned Parent-
hood,” Kight said. “we want to make sure women have high quality health care regardless of the ability to pay.” Planned Parenthood offers medical abortions at all of its orange County clinics, and it has a surgical center in orange to perform the outpatient procedures. “any medical center has trained staff who can go over options with you,” Kight said. “Many women need to learn about their options when they discover they are pregnant, and Planned Parenthood has counselors who will guide women to whatever decision is right for them.” “It was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make, but I’m glad I had the option to terminate my pregnancy,” said one Cal State Fullerton senior who wished to remain anonymous. “There was so much information available that I knew I made the right decision for me and where I am in my life.”
Then and now: Abortion options Available for women Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
abortion choices for women have come a long way since 1972. The Supreme Court’s Roe v. wade decision on Jan. 22, 1973, allowed women to legally end an unwanted pregnancy without requiring a compelling reason. Since then, advances have been made legally, politically and medically to make abortions safer and more available to women across the United States. abortions are performed in several ways. a recent medical abortion has been made available in which a clinician gives the woman a dose of one of two drugs, mifeprestone and methotrexate, at a clinic to prepare the uterus to miscarry. The woman is then given a second pill of misoprostol, which causes the uterus to contract and empty, ending the pregnancy, according to the Planned
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Good, Bad and Ugly of CSUF Porcelain Men’s Best 3. Engineering and Computer Science Building: Peeing with a nice view makes the Engineering and Computer Science Building’s bathrooms one of the best campus bathroom experiences. Only a few paper towels were found on the floors and just small amounts of water had dripped on the ground. 2. College Park: The bathrooms in College Park are great places to release bodily fluids. The floors were free of paper bathroom debris and almost all the toilets and urinals had been flushed. There were no gross odors and the overall atmosphere was very pleasant. If there are bathrooms in Heaven, the ones in College Park probably closely resemble them. 1. Visual Arts Building: Although the decor screams 1978, the bathrooms in the Visual Arts Building were the cleanest bathrooms on campus. The floors were spotless, the toilets were flushed and not a single paper towel or square of toilet paper graced the ground. The floors were so clean that I would have eaten off them. There were no mysterious smells or substances invading my territory and I did not have to swim through water that had dripped to the ground.
Men’s Worst 3. Kinesiology Building: Someone better alert the Santa Ana Zoo because there is a monkey on the loose and it is smearing feces in the stalls. Shame on the guys who trash such a nice facility. It is disgusting that the stalls are unusable because somebody could not wipe properly. These are the best looking bathrooms on campus yet they were some of the most abused. 2. University Hall: Shame on all the guys who use the University Hall
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bathrooms. I observed a lot of paper waste next to the trash cans; is it really that hard to pick up missed wads of paper? Water was all over the sinks and the floors. The only saving grace was that there were no gross smells or the University Hall bathrooms would have taken first prize. 1. Humanities Building: The Humanities Building had the worst bathrooms at Cal State Fullerton. The men’s room on the first floor was the biggest offender. The essence of excretion permeated the room. Paper towels and toilet paper littered the floors. The majority of the urinals and toilets were unflushed, but hey, at least we know they are getting used. Water from the sinks had been sprayed across the floors.
But worst of all, little curly hairs had been left by their owners on the urinals and toilet seats. These bathrooms were so bad that Britney Spears would have to wear shoes in them.
3. University Hall: It’s the look of the bathroom that really draws me in. Who wants to tinkle in a smelly, dimly lit, drab-colored bathroom? I know it makes for a much better tinkling experience if I’m in a clean, stylish restroom, like the ones here. The color scheme is black and gray, a scheme that simultaneously makes it look edgy and classy. There are seven stalls to each bathroom, and to me, the more stalls the better. It gives you a buffer zone between other users. Why not handle your business in private and in style? 2. Library Basement: did you know we even have a bathroom in the basement of the library? It’s right next to the elevators near the titan Lab. Like the bathroom on the first floor, it’s large with a long row of stalls, including a handicap one. What I really want to say about it is this: the privacy you get makes it the perfect place to do what most boys think girls don’t do. 1. College Park: The bathrooms on every floor of College Park are almost flawless. numerous stalls, a handicap mini-bathroom, clean countertops and automatic toilet flushers! That’s the best part. Who doesn’t love automatic flushing? Germ freaks and lazy ladies alike can revel in the fact that these are the only bathrooms with automatic toilets. The gray and black decor is styl-
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ish. It’s always clean, so we don’t have to worry about our feminine stuff spilling out of trash cans – or other things we wouldn’t like to see left behind in the porcelain princess.
Women’s Worst 3. McCarthy Hall: The bathrooms here creep me out. not only is the paint job dreary, but the blue tiles remind me of some kind of ’70s insane asylum bathroom. Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe the designers were. In contrast to the automatic flushing found in College Park, these bathrooms have foot flush pedals. That might be better than manual levers, it might be more sanitary, but it just makes me feel like I’m driving a car after I tinkle. There’s almost always some kind of funky odor emanating from them – maybe it’s the biology specimens. Half the bathrooms also have the shower curtain stall, which most of us tend to avoid. 2. Ruby Gerontology Center: “RGC bathrooms stink, and they never seem like they’re clean,” said Kimberly de la Cruz, 21-year-old American studies major. At the center, the bathrooms nev-
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er seem to get cleaned. The handle on the towel dispenser has been forever broken. There are always towels crumpled on the floor, wet spots everywhere and the occasional ant passing through while you stare at the tile. That’s enough for me. 1. Engineering Building: First of all, there is only a handicap bathroom on the first floor of the Engineering building. This means that, iff you’re not handicapped, you have to go upstairs to the second floor to tinkle. Going upstairs means climbing. If you don’t want to climb the stairs for fear all that movement will cause an accident, you’ll have to take the elevator. But if you need to pee that badly, how are you going to wait for an elevator? Second of all, when you finally do get there, you find that there’s barely any room for you to comfortably do your thing. There is only one stall, and if you move over two steps to your right, there’s the sink! Along with the dull off-white paint job, the tiny layout makes it for one of the worst bathrooms. you’d think that it being in an Engineering building, it’d be a little more nicely designed.
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Are You Plugged In? We are a generation of ipod users, we’re losing ourselves in the process. BY ChRisTinA suARez
Daily Titan Freelance Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
Why is it that everyone on planet earth seems to have an Apple ipod? All of my friends have them and even most of my professors, yet i do not. people think i am absolutely crazy when i tell them i don’t have an ipod. They ask me, “Why?” They ask me how i listen to music if i don’t have an ipod? As if the ipod created music! While standing in line on campus to get food one day, i looked around and realized i was the only one without ear buds in my ears and an ipod in my hand. i felt like i was an outsider because i was not following the trend. A girl standing in line behind me was humming away to a tune. A guy in front of me was standing there with no emotion listening to his ipod. it was there in line that i realized we have become the “ipod generation.” But i am not a part of this generation and it is my own decision. i refuse to become so addicted to
a device. one of my nearest and dearest friends has to have her ipod with her 24 hours a day, seven days a week or she feels “incomplete.” She even has to have it in class, on her desk or in her pocket, so she feels whole. What kind of a society have we become if we are so dependent and addicted to such devices? in most of my classes the professors are putting their lectures up on podcasts. Lookout, there may be a big drop in attendance for many classes. Why do i need to go to class when i can just download the lecture onto my ipod? Students, go to class. An ipod cannot give us everything. i think we should put down our ipods for a minute and retreat back to the way life used to be before these things. Remember when we stood in line on campus without the humming and clicking of an ipod? An ipod does not complete you and you will not die if you do not have it with you at all times. This may sound surprising, but music exists outside of your ipod. Try and remember that thing in your car called a radio, it plays music too. When you start to feel incomplete without it, please do not forget that your ipod does not complete you!
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Damn That DNA So Anna nicole Smith’s baby’s daddy was unmasked as Larry Birkhead. Watching the whole proceeding was a little like a reverse Scooby Doo episode. instead of meddling kids unmasking the phantom Duck Hunter or what have you, everyone wanted to be unveiled as Smith’s daughter’s father by that meddling DnA. And you know what? Big deal. Here’s a list of news stories that got bumped off evening newscasts by the pressing question, “Which hanger-on had the most virile sperm?”: – The president of the Ukraine dissolved the country’s parliament. – The Bush administration may have been using a private e-mail system to illegally talk shop, sidestepping federal disclosure laws. – prison guards in Guantanamo Bay are force-feeding
inmates to keep them alive during hunger strikes. We’re all a little used to media circuses now. From Jacko to o.J., the media waves have been saturated with absolute filth for long enough. Even on 24-hour news networks, there’s only so much time in a day. When important stories, ones that may have a direct impact on how you and i live, are being bumped off the air over incidental fluff like who gets Anna nicole’s kid, there’s something wrong. When the nation was ga-ga over the o.J. Simpson trial, the Rwandan genocide was occurring. The death of two people somehow trumped the death of millions. This isn’t the public’s fault, but it falls to all of us to affect change. Demand that media covers real news first and foremost. Don’t settle for reality Scooby Doo.
The Advocate BY Robert
Moran
Autism is a World Being autistic, the world revolves around me. i say that to be understood, not to use my disability as a crutch or to blame if for who i am or can still be. i make personal choices and am responsible for my actions and attitudes. no matter what the challenges in life are, they can be overcome. Ever since i started working at the Daily Titan, i have begun to learn what camaraderie is and what teamwork is. We autistics are people that spend a lot of time by ourselves. This is mostly due to shame and embarrassment caused by teasing and ridicule at an early age because our social skills have been delayed or impaired one thing we need to realize is that we are not the center of the universe. But on the other hand, those we work and socialize with need to understand that these behaviors, while caused in part by our disability and by people that we have previously known, are not caused by you. We are also working hard, trying to unlearn these behaviors. A friend once told me that life is about perceptions. if we, as people with Asperger’s, view people as our enemies, they will be our enemies. That also applies to people who are not disabled. if we let our perceptions get the best of us, no matter if they are based on ethnic, religious, cultural, behavioral or appearance, we become truly disabled. Still, considering the roots of
the word autism, our self-centered way of thought is understandable but not excusable. Autism can be broken down into the prefix “auto” and the suffix “ism”. “Auto” is defined as self while “ism” means “the state or quality of being like.” in other words autism means the self-state. i sometimes feel that this selfstate is a world where we don’t follow the rules of proper behavior. Teamwork and camaraderie are rules that everyone must follow. The need to be the shining star is not conducive to these rules. it can lead to conflict and to the false perception that we are arrogant and uncooperative. Since people who are autistic have so much attention devoted to them throughout their life, the adjustment to the real world is difficult for those who do venture outside their doors and outside themselves. Many people have asked where my impairment lies. it lies in one simple phrase: Autism is a world. My suggestion to the friends and co-workers of people who have Asperger’s is to be patient with us. Be cognizant of the fact that we are trying to learn to adapt to the rules of your world. Don’t react to us with the scorn and disdain that is common in your world. The best defense for those of us with Asperger’s/autism is the other people around us.
Robert Moran writes a weekly column on life as a disabled student living with Asperger’s Syndrome. He is available to answer all questions for those interested in. Email him at opinion@dailytitan.com
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Index Announcements 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100
Campus Events/Services Campus Organizations Greeks Legal Notices Lost and Found Miscellaneous Personals Pregnancy Research Subjects Sperm/ Egg Donors Tickets Offered / wanted
Merchandise 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600 2700 2800 2900 3000 3100 3200 3300 3400 3500
Appliances Art/Painting/Collectibles Books Computers/Software Electronics Furniture Garage/Yard Sales Health Products Miscellaneous Musical Instruments Office Equipment Pets Rentals Sports Equipment
Transportation 3600 3700 3800 3900
Auto Accessories/Repair Auto Insurance Miscellaneous Vehicles For sale/Rent
Travel 4000 4100 4200 4300
Resorts/Hotels Rides Offered/Wanted Travel Tickets Vacation Packages
Services 4400 4500 4600 4700 4800 4900 5000 5100 5200 5300 5400 5500 5600 5700 5800 5900 6000
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SPORTS
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BY ALVIN
ANOL
Paying Tribute to a Historical Icon On April 15, 2007, MLB players like Ken Griffey Jr., Milton Bradley, Coco Crisp and many others from different teams will have one thing in common: each will be wearing jersey No. 42. The reason? All will be paying tribute that day to Jackie Robinson, who 60 years ago from Sunday became the first AfricanAmerican Major League Baseball player. In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Robinson’s MLB debut, his number was retired by the league. Outside of Mariano Rivera (who had the number before the league retired it), no active player in the league wears No. 42 on their back. And while the one-time wearing of Robinson’s number by an assortment of MLB players will garner much attention, it is secondary to the celebration of the anniversary. At the time Robinson entered the league with the Brooklyn Dodgers, it wasn’t just a league that was racist – it was a whole country. Segregation was still largely popular, and Robinson’s entry into what was prior to his arrival an all-white sport was nothing short of heroic. But Robinson didn’t just enter the league and flame-out. He excelled. Despite going 0-for-3 in his debut against the Boston Braves, Robinson ended up having an amazing year, batting .297 in 151 games while leading the National League in steals. Robinson, whose year in 1947 earned him the National League
Rookie of the Year Award, did all of that while drawing the ire of fans and fellow players alike – not because of his playing ability – but because of the color of his skin. But despite all the distractions he faced off and on the field, Robinson was never deterred from displaying his talent. For his career, which ended in 1956 when he retired, Robinson batted .311, was named NL MVP in 1949, was a six-time all-star and a World Series champion in 1955. Robinson’s career made him an easy choice to be inducted in to baseball’s Hall of Fame, which he entered in his first year of eligibility in 1962. Ten years later the Dodgers retired his number, and in 1987 the Rookie of the Year Award was renamed in Robinson’s honor. Robinson was also named to the MLB’s All-Century Team in 2000. And while Robinson could have focused solely on baseball, he concerned himself with matters off the field as well. He was a supporter of the civil rights movement and supported the popular civil rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a player, Robinson is a Hall of Famer. But as an icon, Robinson epitomizes the brave, courageous hero deserving of our admiration. On April 15, 2007, like the many MLB players who will be wearing Robinson’s number, pay tribute and celebrate this hero.
CSUF Baseball Team Softball Player Honored Trounces USC in 7-1 Win CSUF Athletics Media Relations
BY NOLAN ANDRE
Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com
The No. 18 ranked Cal State Fullerton baseball (20-12 overall) team bounced back against the USC Trojans with a 7-1 non-conference win at Goodwin Field. Titan center fielder Clark Hardman went 2-for-4 with a triple and two runs scored and designated hitter Khris Davis went 2-for-3 with two doubles, an RBI and a run scored. “He came in here with great credentials,” said CSUF Head Coach George Horton of Davis. “He’s going to be a star.” Titan starting pitcher Michael Morrison (3-1) pitched three innings of shutout baseball. He allowed just one hit and struck out two. Morrison (3-1) combined with relievers Paul Canedo, Travis Kelly, Bryan Harris, Dustin Birosak and Nolan Bruyninckx to strike out five and give up an unearned run on four hits. Davis doubled to open the bottom of the second and first baseman Matt Wallach followed with a bunt single that dropped behind USC pitcher Tommy Milone. After a suc-
Nick Mahin, catcher Nick Garneau lined a single to center that drove in Davis and Wallach for the first two runs of the game. Garneau was starting in place of John Curtis who was given the night off. “Garneau hasn’t been back catching in a long time,” Horton said. “He looked like he’d been in there everyday.” Hardman stroked his third triple of the season with one out in the third inning. “He looks like he’s heating up and he put on a show tonight,” said Horton of Hardman. The next batter, left fielder Josh Fellhauer, chopped the ball to the left side of the infield and the Trojans attempted to throw Hardman out at home but he eluded the tag and scored the Titans’ third run. Two innings later, Hardman again began the Titan rally by singling and scoring on Fellhauer’s triple to right. The junior center fielder continues his resurgence after two injury plagued seasons with the Titans. “It’s been a long road for him,” Horton said. “We suspected he’d have a bounce back year.” The Titans played infront of 3,310 – their biggest crowd at Goodwin Field this season.
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BY CHAD SCOTT/For the Daily Titan CAT AND MOUSE – Cal State Fullerton’s Matt Wallach [#20] takes the pickoff throw from the pitcher as USC’s Lucas Duda scrambles back to first base in the Titans’ 7-1 win over USC Tuesday at Goodwin Field. cessful sacrifice bunt by right fielder
Cal State Fullerton sophomore Lauren Lupinetti was named the Big West Conference Co-Player of the Week on Monday afternoon for her efforts in helping the Titans to a sweep of league rival Cal State Northridge. It is the first career Big West weekly honor for Lupinetti, who joins two-time winner Jessica Doucette as Big West player of the week honorees from Cal State Fullerton this season. Lupinetti (Long Beach, CA/Lakewood HS/St. John’s University), who shared the honor with Pacific’s Casey
Goldsand, was one of three Titans who hit .500 on the weekend, but she led the team in hits and drove in four runs to help pace the Fullerton offense. In Game 1, Lupinetti finished with two hits, including a three-run home run in the sixth to break open a one-run game. She also finished with two hits in the Titans’ 2-1 Game 2 victory and added an RBI and highlightreel catch in game three with the go-ahead runs in scoring position to preserve a 4-4 tie in a game Fullerton would eventually win, 6-4. Lupinetti extended her team-best hitting streak to seven games.