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Wednesday April 18, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Services ‘Level Playing Field’ bY SEAN bELk
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Clutching two wheels, he rotates back and forth next to his friend as they talk about their coursework. “I’ll meet you upstairs,” Joseph Gabbedon says. But the 21-year-old Cal State Fullerton student won’t take the stairs. Instead, Gabbedon, who was born with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, rides in the elevator after opening the automatic door near University Hall. At first, Gabbedon said he was reluctant to take advantage of the Disabled Student Services on campus. “As a disabled person there’s this stigma that you can’t do things yourself,” he said. “So I was kind of afraid to use the ser-
vices, because then I would be admitting I couldn’t do anything on my own.” Using a wheelchair to get around since about 10 years old, with his last surgery leaving him weaker than before, he said he has learned how to cope. The disease, which can result in serious cases of mental retardation, left Gabbedon with symptoms of muscle weakness in his legs, a spastic left hand and minor scoliosis, but he said he tries not to let anything keep him down. If it weren’t for the services, Gabbedon said he wouldn’t be where he is today. The service has provided him with extra time on his exams and priority housing at the campus dorms, where he has lived since SEE SErVICES - PAGE 5
CoUrTESY of CSUf DISAbLED STUDENTS
GoinG up - Joseph Gabbedon, a Cal State Fullerton Japanese major, has cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair since about age 10.
Arboretum Hosts Southern California’s Largest Plant Sale bY SArAh GAmmILL
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The 34th annual Greenscene event, largest plant sale in the Southern California region, is heading back to the grounds of Cal State Fullerton at The Arboretum. The event will run April 21 to 22, and will stretch from the north to the south side of The Arboretum, said Christie Twentier, special events coordinator of the Friends of the Arboretum. The Heritage House will also be open for tours and will be selling Victorian items.
Friends of the Arboretum will be hosting the event with 100 vendors, some coming from as far as San Francisco to showcase their goods. It is expected to draw around 8,000 people throughout the weekend. “The shopping experience is outdoors, it’s a fun day for the family,” said Mark Costello, manager of the Friends of the Arboretum. A section devoted to children will include a bug safari. Children will also be able to receive a pot, and to plant either a flower or seed in it and take it home. The vendors will carry everything, said Greg Dyment, director of The Arboretum. There will be a variety of
Annual Symposium Talks About Words
hear CSUF graduate student WenChi Chang speak on the influence news@dailytitan.com Southern Min, a Chinese dialect, has on the Mandarin spoken in Taiwan. Chang presented how socioecoTucked away in the Titan Theatre, a group of linguistics enthusiasts pre- nomic factors and the implication of sented research that could provide only speaking standard Mandarin in material for an assortment of new schools contributed to the creation of Taiwanese Mandarin. “nowadays, “Schoolhouse Rock!” tunes. The 16th annual Cal State Ful- people will speak standard Mandarin to show they are lerton Linguishighly educated,” tics Symposium Chang said. started quiStudents and etly at 9 a.m. as Anything you can professors drifted Thomas Klamdo at a univerin and out of the mer, the dean sity 16 times in a theater as the day of the College wore on. Some row is exceptional. of Humanities were interested and Social SciUniversities are inherin the topics ences, expressed ently unorganized. and others came pride in having simply to get a recurring an– Thomas Klammer extra credit for nual event for so Dean of College of Humanities their linguistics many years. classes. “Anything you “ Pr o m o t i o n can do at a uniis the toughest versity 16 times thing,” said Ryan in a row is exceptional. Universities are inherently Jackson, the vice president of the unorganized,” Klammer said in his CSUF Linguistics Students Association, the group that hosted the event. opening remarks. At the beginning, a small group “People e-mail me afterwards saying of 15 spectators had gathered to they didn’t know it was happening.
pottery and sculptures for gardens, flowers, soils, fertilizers, and many more plants and plant-related products, which he believes brings people to Greenscene. “The vendors come mainly because even if they have a retail store most of these people aren’t going to get 5,000 people through their retail store in two days,” said Twentier. The vendors, which pay a flat fee to setup, get to keep all the proceeds they earn. The flat fees all go toward supporting The Arboretum, which can gross upwards of $50,000. The Friends of the Arboretum has never had to turn anyone away because of space issues, but “has had
many times when it has been shoulder-to-shoulder,” Dyment said. A consumer can expect to see reasonable prices with high quality at Greenscene, said Costello. “It’s just a place to come for one stop shopping. They [plant buyers] don’t have to spend a whole day driving to 15 different nursery’s getting a different thing,” Twentier said. Food booths will also be available during the weekend. Knowlwoods will be selling hamburgers and the Brown Stone Cafe will also be selling food and beverages. Dyment also advises consumers to come prepared to carry everything.
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day. The Arboretum will be closed on April 20 to prepare for the event. As for the consumers, they begin to line up early Saturday morning. A big line of people waiting outside the gate to get in for first dibs usually starts early Saturday, Dyment said. “As soon as we open the gate, the madness starts,” Dyment said The gates will open at 9 a.m. for members of the Friends of Arboretum, and will open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Admission is $5 presale and $6 at the gate. Parking is free. Volunteers for both days are needed and urged to contact the Arboretum before hand at 714-278-3579.
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within the Santa Ana Unified School District that provides academic and college preparation, director Roberto Gonzalez said. The students must have a minimum of a 2.5 grade point average, have graduated from eight grade, and come from low-income or first-generation parents who did not graduate from high school or college. “We have a lot of students who are coming from single family homes,” Gonzalez said. “And many of them are extremely low-income and use this program to focus on school rather than their economic problems.” Along with the director, Upward Bound employs two academic councilors and five CSUF student tutors. Four high schools participate in the program with 88 students combined. The tutors and academic councilors provide two tutoring sessions a week per high school. The schools within Santa Ana’s district are largely overpopulated and the student-to-counselor ratio is really high, so having a smaller group of students gives them the
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Read on - Ashlee Shinn, a speaker at the Linguistics Symposium on Monday at the Titan Theatre, examines the program. They said if they had known, they would have gone.” The symposium is made up of seven CSUF graduate students, a CSUF alumnus and three featured guest speakers. Most of the presentations highlighted unique phonetic characteristics of languages that the majority of American college students had never heard. Graduate student Tom Beeman broke from this mold by presenting his findings regarding native Spanish speakers and education of formal use of accents in that language. Beeman, who has been assisting
to teach high school Spanish classes, helped develop an experiment to find a more successful way to help students understand which part of a word gets stressed. “Even the most proficient of Spanish speaker has difficulty identifying the stress of a word unless the word is overly exaggerated and emphasized,” Beeman said. “Our experiment proved that teaching via patterns and memorization is superior to the old teaching method focusing
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“The radio flyer red wagon seems to be the most popular, but for me that would be a little small,” Dyment said. He said he would go to the store and buy a larger one with blow up rubber wheels. Plan on spending at least several hours at Greenscene too, Dyment said. “It takes a long time to go down there and see what everybody has, and then when you find that plant that you want, you have to haggle with the person selling it, and the agree on a price. It takes a long time to get through here,” Dyment said. Vendors usually begin setup Thurs-
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On an average day Lisett Llerenas, a high school senior, goes to dance practice or anchors announcements before going to her classes. After school she is tutored for about an hour and a half and changes to go to work for four hours, then she returns home to study before going to bed. “If I get lucky I would get seven hours [of sleep] on a day that I don’t have much to do, which is never because I’m always doing something,” Llerenas said. Llerenas has a cumulative grade point average of 3.8, she applied to 11 universities just to be safe, she said, and was accepted to eight including her first and second choices, UC Davis and Cal State San Luis Obispo. Without the guidance of the Upward Bound program Llerenas said she would not have been as motivated to work hard for college. Upward Bound is a federally funded program that Cal State Fullerton offers to high school students
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