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Thousands Attend Annual Fullerton Train Days Event marked the second time Disneyland released locomotive

morning and the number only grew as the day went on.

There were more than 90 vendors to entertain and serve food to the event attendees. Families enjoyed different kinds of activiBY GRACE LEE ties like making bird feeders out Daily Titan Staff Writer of pinecones and peanut butter, news@dailytitan.com or getting to control toy trains with a lever. Their satisfaction Thousands gathered in down- filled the tents with laughter. town Fullerton for the ninth annual People came from everywhere Fullerton Railroad Days on Satur- with their families, students and day and Sunday. friends to enjoy the afternoon of The Fullerton Railway Plaza As- trains together. sociation hosts the event every year “My experience for Fullerton to raise money to build a future Railroad Days started five years museum. ago. I’m here today to take my “We draw somewhere between students around,” said Michael 30,000 to 40,000 people a year Kim, a visitor at the event.

– it’s the largest function in the There were many booths where city of Fullerton,” said Harold Be- people presented their work nasn, who sits on trains on the associaintricately tion’s board of designed to directors and is match every This [event] is very chairman of the detail of an special because some Historical & actual train of the trains are very Modeling Comand landscape mittee. representing rare and hard to find There are different time 250 association periods.

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Children had the chance to stand For only a couple of dollars, atop a Disneyland train that was everything from pancakes in taken directly out of the amuse- the morning to freshly squeezed ment park for this specific event. lemonade in the afternoon was “This is only the second time in served. Hot dogs, pizza, kettle the history of Disneyland that we’ve corn and funnel cake were a few been allowed to take a locomotive examples of the great snacks for out of the park to a train show,” said families to enjoy.

Royce Inglis, an engineer for Dis“This [event] is very special neyland. because some of these trains are The Fullerton Train Station filled very rare and hard to find,” Kim up with people starting early in the said.

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CHOOCHOO - Lucas, 2, with his brother Jonathan, 3, tug on the horn of the C. K. Holliday steam locomotive from the Disneyland Railroad. The

steam locomotive was on display this weekend at Fullerton Train Days at the Fullerton Train Station.

ROTC Dishes Out A Final Farewell Cadets gather together to formally honor program graduates

BY JENNY HOUSER

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Cal State Fullerton’s Army ROTC gathered at the Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa on Friday for a candlelight, poolside dinner. The formal dining out event marked the end of the semester and preparation for a new year.

Cadets arrived in uniform with their dates and prepared for an evening of socializing, reflection and motivation from guest speaker Rob Dibble, former Major League Baseball pitcher and co-host of “The Best Damn Sports Show Period.”

“It’s our farewell to our seniors and a welcome to our [juniors] in new leadership positions,” Lt. Col. William Howard said. “It enhances camaraderie, esprit de corp and [they can] see the old military traditions.”

Senior cadet Rory Patterson, who

manages a restaurant and served as the battalion commander for the semester, organized the event for his fellow cadets.

During the fall semester, ROTC had a “dining-in” event where only members from the unit were invited. and where senior members eat last.

The spring semester “dining out” allows the cadets and instructors to bring their dates and enjoy a formal event where the senior members are served first.

“The event has gone really well so far,” Patterson said. “The food is really good and [the speaker] is on his way. Rob Dibble is an awesome baseball player.”

Dibble, who won the World Series with the Cincinnati Reds in 1995, shared his experiences with traveling to Iraq and speaking with U.S. troops overseas.

“It really is an honor to be in front of you today,” Dibble said to the cadets seated before him. “I think there is no greater gift that men and women can give their fellow man, especially in this great country, than to give themselves up to be a leader or a grunt in a foxhole and to defend this country.”

Writers Workshop Draws Hundreds Award-winning writers from around the country spoke at weekend event

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BY JENNY HOUSER/Daily Titan Staff Photographer

WALKING TALL - Cadet Fenstermaker stands at attention during the

presentation of colors at CSUF’s ROTC dining out.

Dibble, who has visited the troops in Iraq twice, spoke of his dreams as a kid to become a professional player and how he now looks

up to individuals who sacrifice their

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FULL SPEED AHEAD Fullerton station hosts annual weekend Train Day event.

Several award-winning writers and editors held seminars and workshops at the 14th Annual Writers Workshop, an event held Saturday in the Titan Student Union for the conclusion of Communications Week.

The Orange County Register, Cal State Fullerton’s College of Communications and the Poynter Institute presented the workshop, which emphasized writing improvement techniques, ways to become a better storyteller and how to find a niche within the world of online reporting.

“We have speakers who will really inspire folks [to] feel better about journalism and the opportunities available to them,” said Rick Pullen, dean of the College of Communications and co-chair of the workshop’s planning committee. “This is

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a good opportunity for students to hear from the best in the business.”

Over 200 people including college and high school students, reporters, editors and teachers attended the workshop, which began at 9 a.m. with opening statements by the planning committee, followed by presentations from Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski, writing coach and bestselling author Bill Blundell and mystery author Denise Hamilton.

Banaszynski addressed the crowd with a reminder that journalists need to honor the stories they tell by connecting with society through storytelling instead of standing on the sidelines detached from others.

“In addition to being news and information gatherers, we’re storytellers,” she said. “The important work we do has a vital role in society, and we have an obligation [to serve it].”

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IN OTHER NEWS

COP BLOTTER: Sorority House Toilet Papered and Transients

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Kenya Airways Jetliner Found in Cameroon DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) - The wreckage of a Kenya Airways jetliner missing for nearly two days was found Sunday in a dense mangrove forest outside Cameroon’s commercial capital, aviation officials said. There was no information on survivors.

The chief executive of Kenya Airways said he had no news about the plane’s condition or about the 114 people who were on board.

“We have no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties,” Titus Naikuni told a news conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

The wreckage was found about 12 miles southeast of Douala, along its flight path. But it was unclear whether it might have been returning to the airport.

It had been difficult to spot because it was hidden by a thick canopy of trees, Naikuni said.

NATIONAL NEWS At Least 10 Dead from Kansas Tornado GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - Rescue workers on Sunday searched for anyone still buried in the heaps of splintered wreckage left after a massive tornado obliterated most of this south-central Kansas town.

Waves of thunderstorms rippled across the Plains states on Sunday, drenching rubble that the Friday night tornado scattered across Greensburg and threatening tornadoes elsewhere.

At least 10 people were known dead from weekend storms - eight in the Greensburg area and two others elsewhere in Kansas - one Friday night and another in violent weather late Saturday, state officials said.

Amid the destruction, rescue workers and officials held out hope that death toll wouldn’t rise and that they can rebuild their town, from replacing the destroyed churches down to the town’s fire engines.

LOCAL NEWS Hospital Evacuated Due to Chemical Leak PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A chemical leak led to the evacuation of a hospital’s emergency room Saturday, authorities said.

A sensor alerted officials to high levels of the odorless gas ethylene oxide in the ER at Huntington Memorial Hospital at about 4:20 p.m., said Lisa Derderian of the Pasadena Fire Department.

Hazardous material teams from the Pasadena, Burbank and Glendale fire departments responded within minutes, Derderian said.

Sixteen patients were moved to other floors but there were no reports of injuries or illnesses caused by the leak, she said.

Arriving emergency patients were temporarily diverted to other hospitals, she said.

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How to Report a Crime To report suspected crimes, call 714-278-2515. For emergencies call 911.

April 27 7:28 p.m. Suspicious Person Two people jumped the fence at the Track Sports Complex on North State College Boulevard. A warning was given.

8:27 p.m. Agency Assist A man said a drug dealer was trying to fight with him at Langsdorf Drive. The alleged drug dealer was wearing a black shirt and jeans and is 18 years old.

April 28 4:28 a.m. Suspicious Person An employee at the Physical Plant reported that a person on a bike was circling around the area between the Education classrooms and the lawn.

Police were unable to locate the subject.

April 29 6 a.m. Suspicious Person The Mobil Gas Station located at Associated Road and East Yorba Linda Boulevard had its lights turned off and its door secured with an unknown object.

8:40 a.m. Property Vandalism The soap dispenser was broken in the men’s bathroom at the Arboretum on Associated Road. Broken beer bottles were also found in the area. A report was taken.

April 30 2:09 a.m. Disturbance

The Sigma Kappa sorority house located on East Wilshire Avenue was toilet papered. The subjects rang the doorbell and took photographs.

6:10 p.m. Suspicious Person A man wearing all black approached the reporting party in the Kinesiology building, asked his name and held his hand. The man has been seen in the locker room about four times prior to this incident. A report was taken.

8:13 p.m. Agency Assist A transient wearing a long blue coat and burgundy coat was harassing customers at Ralphs Grocery store on East Yorba Linda Boulevard.

11:44 p.m. Disturbance-Music or Party Attendees of an art show at the Visual Arts building were playing loud music and disturbing students in the area.

May 1 11:45 a.m. Disturbance A professor at Langsdorf Hall requested that a female student who had injured another student in the past be removed.

May 2 11:31 p.m. Suspicious Vehicle A vehicle parked in a disabled parking space east of University Hall had its doors left wide open.

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Finals Draw Crowds to Computer Labs

Herb Extravaganza Growing in Popularity

“It’s unique, its different, it’s focused on one plant group,” Costello news@dailytitan.com said. “I think there’s an interest because of the cooking, and you can grow it yourself and it’s organic and Weekend event brings healthy,” Costello said.

This year the extravaganza feacommunity to The tured three speakers, a chef and Arboretum for sale the Orange County Herb Society, which was available to answer all Food, the blistering sun and questions related to herbs during plants were the main topic of dis- the sale.

“It’s growing, and overtime we’re cussion this weekend as the 2nd annual Herb Extravaganza kicked off hoping it will be like another tomato and pepper sale,” Costello said. its sale at Cal State Fullerton.

Located within The Arboretum at “We’re hoping it will get bigger and the Potting Shed, the Herb Extrava- bigger every year.”

The event ganza originally also featured started off as a different types much larger event of herb gardens similar to the Just getting the comfor individual’s arboretum’s annual Greenscene munity out here to see homes.

“A lot of peoevent, which, all the herbs available ple have herb in the past, has is the best part of the gardens,” said drawn up to Evie Tyra, man8,000 people. sale. ager of The ArYet, the Herb – E  boretum nursFair, as it was Arboretum nursery manager ery. “We have originally called, different specialdid not find the ty gardens.” instant success Each garden that Greenscene also catered to did.

“It was like a little miniature what the customer wants.

“This year there will be the cookGreenscene, we use to have vendors selling stuff, and then we stopped ing garden, with everything to cook doing that and have just started sell- with, and then the fairy garden is ing ourselves for the past five years, like little miniature plants, and then so it has morphed over the years,” there will be a perennial herb garden, said Mark Costello, manager of the a medicinal herb gardens, herbs that are used for medicine, and an ornaFriends of the Arboretum Offering over 200 herbs, the sale mental herb garden,” Tyra said.

The herbs are also sold with many has become the largest in the Southern California region to offer such a other herbs that are related to one another, Costello said. variety and quantity of herbs.

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Persian Excursion Program

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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has planned a rare excursion. Twenty students will be selected for the opportunity of a lifetime, a six-week immersion into Iranian culture and language from June 25 to Aug 3.

“Persian is obviously of tremendous importance to this nation and world, not a day goes by without the media reminding us of that,” said Thomas Klammer, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Thanks to a $1 million grant, the university will join three other CSU schools and offer an intensive language immersion program this summer. In total, seven CSUs are expected to take part. The money comes from federal funding and is a result of several years of collaboration between representatives of the universities as well as California politicians.

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BY SARAH GAMMILL/Daily Titan Staff Photographer

GOT HERBS? - Chef Martin Corso demonstrates how to prepare a five-

herb pesto for the arboretum’s Herb Extravaganza Sunday afternoon.

Sage, thyme, mint, french tarragon and lavender were just some of the herbs that were being offered during the two-day event.

Basils, though, seemed to be the most popular with over 30 varieties available, Tyra said.

The event also featured speaker Martha Murphy, who spoke on Mediterranean herbs and their uses by growing in a drought region.

Award-winning instructor and food and wine pairing expert, Peter Brown, was also on hand to speak about “Pairing Herbal Foods with Wine.”

Yet, the featured presentation seemed to be Chef Martin Corso, who showed audiences of about 30 how to prepare meals with herbs.

“He’s chatty, he’s Italian, he’s funny, and everyone is enamored by him,” Costello said. “He’s very entertaining, and people really enjoy it.”

Corso prepared for the audience

over nine recipes, all which consisted of herbs.

One herbal dish was his skillet potatoes with five-herb pesto, which everyone got a taste of.

Copies of his recipes were also distributed among the audiences, which many took notes on.

“When Hamburger Helper came out, that’s what made me decide to be a chef, because no one should eat that,” said Corso.

Corso, a long time chef who attended Johnson Whales University, sat alongside famed chef Emril Lagase in school.

Corso also gave the audience a few tips for cooking.

“Herbs like to be treated like hell,” Corso said. “And don’t fear salt, just use it.”

The two-day event ended with nearly sold out herbs.

“Just getting the community out here to see all the herbs available is the best part of the sale,” Tyra said.

Freshmen and transfer students trying to pass their first semester at Cal State Fullerton may have another obstacle ahead of them. As students buckle down for a week of extensive finals and endless papers, competing with 36,000 students for computer time will be a challenge in itself.

“During finals week there tend to be lines for the computers all day long,” said Reuel Tiosejo, lead consultant for Titan Labs. “When it gets really busy we open up an alternate computer lab on the first floor of the library, but other than that, there’s not much else we can do.”

Apart from the extra room, Tiosejo offers one option that he says many students don’t know about. Titan Labs provides twenty laptops that students may check out for two hours at a time and can be used anywhere inside the library.

Laurianne Castillo, manager of the Titan Student Union information desk, said that while the TSU Mainframe computer lab is open 24 hours a day during finals week, landing a computer at school is all about timing.

“People flock to the labs during their breaks. If you avoid those rush hours, it’ll be much easier to get a computer,” Castillo said. “Midmorning to afternoon is the worst time to go to the lab, but the traffic dies down a lot after four o’clock.”

Taliya Houston is just finishing up her first semester at CSUF after transferring from Cypress College. The 21-year-old theater major

believes that working at the Titan Bookstore will be a big help come finals week.

“The bookstore managers understand that we are all students and that there’s a lot of stress during finals week,” Houston said. “If it’s a slow day at the bookstore nobody has issues if we use the computers here to do work for our classes.”

Now in his third year at CSUF, Billy English believes that investing in a personal laptop is the only option to guarantee enough computer time for school work. The 20-yearold computer science and Japanese double major said that lugging around his laptop has been key in avoiding the chaos that ensues during finals week.

“If you have the money, buying a laptop and bringing it to school is very helpful,” English said. “Otherwise you’ll end up waiting at least 15 to 20 minutes to use a school computer, and sometimes that’s a wait you can’t afford.”

For those students who can’t afford the luxury of having their own laptop, English says that finding a computer at school is all about creativity.

“There are a lot of departments at this school and a lot of them have their own computer labs,” English said. “When I was a music major, I used their lab all the time but nobody ever checked to see if I was really a major.”

Castillo says that the best way to avoid lines at the four public computer labs offered at CSUF is to get a head start on class papers.

“People like to procrastinate and end up leaving things to the last minute,” Castillo said.

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PROGRAM: CSUF OPENS PERSIAN LANGUAGE STUDY But before that first step for Cal State Fullerton, a trial run was required at another university.

“The university in Long Beach tried out first and they were successful. Money was earmarked for the program to expand,” said Dabiri, director of Persian studies at CSUF. Cal State Long Beach offers Mandarin Chinese. Arabic can be found at Cal State San Bernardino’s campus, while in Los Angeles the program is being offered for Korean.

CSUF chose Persian as a result of the large Persian community that exists in the area surrounding the campus.

“Orange County in particular is home to hundred thousand Iranian Americans for whom Persian language and culture represent family legacy,” Klammer said.

To reflect that community, the university designed a residential

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lives for others.

“Not many of us chose a field where we are willing to give up our lives for everybody else, so people like myself can play baseball or talk on the radio and make jokes on TV,” Dibble said. “You may not think you are special, but trust me you are.”

Dibble continued saying that even though he is seen as a celebrity, an ex-major leaguer, and a host on a popular sports show, he is grateful for the sacrifices made by individuals such as CSUF’s Army ROTC cadets.

“You are the future of this country and you are willing to make that sacrifice,” he said. “I’m just an American. Every day I wake up in a free country because of men and women like yourselves.”

The speech ended with a standing ovation as everyone in attendance rose to their feet to thank the speaker for his encouraging words.

Lt. Col. Howard approached the podium and awarded Dibble on behalf of the Titan Battalion for his devotion to the troops in Iraq.

program that will teach the language to both beginner and intermediate level speakers through the method of total immersion. All participants will stay in a resident hall and their days will be filled with traditional classroom instruction and one-onone tutoring, lab hours, a speaker and film series and even a place to practice their skills while they eat lunch and dinner.

“It’s not going to be just fun and games,” Dabiri said.

In addition, all of the participants will receive a full scholarship paying for tuition, boarding, meals and excursions taken as part of the institute.

The 20 available slots will be halved, 10 going to beginner students and 10 set aside for heritage speakers, who are defined on the Strategic Language Initiative’s Web site as someone “who is raised in a

home where a non-English language is spoken, who speaks or merely understands the heritage language, and who is to some degree bilingual in English and the heritage language.”

Dabiri, along with others from CSUF, launched a concentrated advertising campaign to seek out applicants. Dabiri said she first brought attention to the event by mentioning it on Middle Eastern list services she was part of. From there the university sent advertisements to homes, community centers and places of religious worship. Local radio stations and even the OC Iranian magazine hosted advertisements.

“Actually, most people said that they just did Internet searches for Persian language courses and found out about the program through its Web site,” Dabiri said.

As a result, more than 80 people applied for the summer program. Ap-

plicants were not limited to the local area, but came from all around the country, and overseas. For Dabiri, attention is now turned to sorting through all the candidates. She said her decision will first be based on the reasons for wanting to participate.

“I was looking for students that showed the right kind of stamina,” Dabiri said. Dabiri said she will then look at the candidates’ letters of recommendation, followed by community and academic involvement.

After Aug. 3, the learning doesn’t end. Classes have been planned this fall at CSUF for intermediate and advanced Persian.

“We hope these students continue with the language,” said Janet Eyring, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

For the 40 or so applicants who don’t make it into the program this year, they’ll have another chance.

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WORKSHOP: WRITERSʼ AID TSU. Speakers for these seminars included Pamela Moreland, assistant managing editor for the San Jose Mercury News; Monica Eng, award-winning feature writer for the Chicago Tribune; Roy Rivenburg, Los Angeles Times staff writer; Tina Griego, columnist for the Rocky Mountain News; Chelsea Carter of the Associated Press; and Les Rose, photojournalist for CBS News.

“We think we are providing an up-to-date curriculum of tools in better writing for journalists,” said Larry Welborn, NWW site chairman and legal affairs reporter for the Orange County Register. “I hope that students find at least one thing that will improve their writing skills because we believe writing is the foundation of things.”

For freelance journalist and workshop participant Lindsay Trapp, the information presented helped her asses a potential career path.

“I’ve been struggling with whether I want to pursue jour-

nalism as a career, so it’s been nice to get together with a group of people whose passion is to write,” said Trapp, reporter for The Tidings, a Los Angeles-based newspaper.

After watching Monica Eng’s seminar, which focused on establishing and maintaining relationships with news sources, Trapp said she felt a little more inspired and encouraged to study journalism.

“It was very informative and interesting to hear about the process of what I might be doing in the future,” said Trapp, a South Carolina native who moved to California last August to pursue her career. “It was a positive experience being able to see the importance of writing within the community [from professionals] in the business.”

Trapp’s experience is one that the workshop’s coordinators hoped they would achieve.

“We try to give college students the opportunity to rub shoulders, to get in that career,” said Welborn.

“We really want to improve [their] writing skills and get [them] to talk to and hang out with the best writers in the country.”

HBO Executive Arrested The Associated Press info@ap.org

BY JENNY HOUSER/Daily Titan Staff Photographer DINING OUT - Cal State Fullerton Army ROTC cadets gather at their formal dining-out event at Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - HBO chairman and chief executive Chris Albrecht was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of assaulting his girlfriend outside the MGM Grand casino after a boxing match aired by his company, authorities said.

Albrecht was in Las Vegas for Saturday night’s fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and broadcast on pay-per-view by Home Box Office, Inc. Officers assigned to the fight reported seeing Albrecht fighting with a woman identified only as his girlfriend in the MGM

Grand’s valet parking lot shortly after 3 a.m., said Las Vegas Police spokesman Officer Bill Cassell.

“Some of our guys observed a domestic dispute between him and his girlfriend,” Cassell told the Los Angeles Times. “It was a physical confrontation.”

Albrecht was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and held on suspicion of a misdemeanor battery-domestic assault, Cassell said. He was later released, according to detention center dispatcher Ana Herczeg, who said she could provide no further details.

A call to an HBO representative was not immediately returned.

Albrecht joined HBO in 1985 as a senior vice president and was named CEO in 2002, according to his official company biography.

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If Youʼre All Thumbs, Then Just Use Your Brain

BY RACHEL KONRAD

AP Technology Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber.

But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a toy that incorporates brain wave-reading technology.

Behind the mask is a sensor that touches the user’s forehead and reads the brain’s electrical signals, then sends them to a wireless receiver inside the saber, which lights up when the user is concentrating. The player maintains focus by channeling thoughts on any fixed mental image.

When the mind wanders, the wand goes dark.

Engineers at NeuroSky Inc. have big plans for brain wave-reading toys and video games. They say the simple Darth Vader game – a relatively crude biofeedback device cloaked in gimmicky garb – portends the coming of more sophisticated devices that could revolutionize the way people play.

Technology from NeuroSky and other startups could make video games more mentally stimulating and realistic. It could even enable players to control video game characters or avatars in virtual worlds with nothing but their thoughts.

Adding biofeedback to “Tiger Woods PGA Tour,” for instance, could mean that only those players who muster Zen-like concentration could nail a put. In the shooter “Grand Theft Auto,” players who become nervous or frightened would have worse aim than those who remain relaxed and focused.

NeuroSky’s prototype measures a person’s baseline brain-wave activity, including signals that relate to concentration, relaxation and anxiety.

The technology ranks performance in each category on a scale of 1 to 100, and the numbers change as a person thinks about relaxing images, focuses intently, or gets kicked,

interrupted or otherwise distracted.

The technology is similar to more sensitive, expensive equipment that athletes use to achieve peak performance. Koo Hyoung Lee, a NeuroSky co-founder from South Korea, used biofeedback to improve concentration and relaxation techniques for members of his country’s Olympic archery team.

“Most physical games are really mental games,” said Lee, also chief technology officer at San Jose-based NeuroSky, a 12-employee company founded in 1999. “You must maintain attention at very high levels to succeed. This technology makes toys and video games more lifelike.”

Boosters say toys with even the most basic brain wave-reading technology could boost mental focus and help kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism and mood disorders.

But scientific research is scant.

Even if the devices work as promised, some question whether people who use biofeedback devices will be able to replicate their relaxed or focused states in real life.

Elkhonon Goldberg, clinical professor of neurology at New York University, said the toys might catch on in a society obsessed with optimizing performance – but he was skeptical they’d reduce the severity of major behavioral disorders.

“These techniques are used usually in clinical contexts. The gaming companies are trying to push the envelope,” said Goldberg, author of “The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older.” “You can use computers to improve the cognitive abilities, but it’s an art.”

It’s also unclear whether consumers, particularly American kids, want mentally taxing games.

“It’s hard to tell whether playing games with biofeedback is more fun – the company executives say that, but I don’t know if I believe them,” said Ben Sawyer, director of the Games for Health Project, a division of the Serious Games Initiative. The

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think tank focuses in part on how to make computer games more educational, not merely pastimes for kids with dexterous thumbs.

The basis of many brain wavereading games is electroencephalography, or EEG, the measurement of the brain’s electrical activity through electrodes placed on the scalp. EEG has been a mainstay of psychiatry for decades.

An EEG headset in a research hospital may have 100 or more electrodes that attach to the scalp with a conductive gel. It could cost tens of thousands of dollars.

But the price and size of EEG hardware is shrinking. NeuroSky’s “dry-active” sensors don’t require gel, are the size of a thumbnail, and could be put into a headset that retails for as little as $20, said NeuroSky CEO Stanley Yang.

Yang is secretive about his company’s product lineup because of a nondisclosure agreement with the manufacturer. But he said an international toy manufacturer plans to unveil an inexpensive gizmo with an embedded NeuroSky biosensor at the Japan Toy Association’s trade

show in late June.

A U.S. version is scheduled to debut at the American International Fall Toy Show in October.

“Whatever we sell, it will work on 100 percent or almost 100 percent of people out there, no matter what the condition, temperature, indoor or outdoors,” Yang said. “We aim for wearable technology that everyone can put on and go without failure, as easy as the iPod.” Researchers at NeuroSky and other startups are also building prototypes of toys that use electromyography – EMG – which records twitches and other muscular movements, and electrooculography – EOG – which measures changes in the retina.

While NeuroSky’s headset has one electrode, Emotiv Systems Inc. has developed a gel-free headset with 18 sensors. Besides monitoring basic changes in mood and focus, Emotiv’s bulkier headset detects brain waves indicating smiles, blinks, laughter, even conscious thoughts and unconscious emotions. Players could kick or punch their video game opponent – without a joystick or mouse.

“It fulfills the fantasy of teleki-

nesis,” said Tan Le, co-founder and president of Emotiv.

The 30-person company hopes to begin selling a consumer headset next year, but executives would not speculate on price. A prototype hooks up to gaming consoles such as the Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360.

Le, a 29-year-old Australian woman, said the company decided in 2004 to target gamers because they would generate the most revenue – but eventually Emotive will build equipment for clinical use. The technology could enable paralyzed people to “move” in virtual realty; people with obsessive-compulsive

disorders could measure their anxiety levels, then adjust medication accordingly.

The husband-and-wife team behind CyberLearning Technology LLC took the opposite approach.

The San Marcos-based startup targets doctors, therapists and parents of adolescents with autism, impulse control problems and other pervasive developmental disorders.

CyberLearning is already selling the SmartBrain Technologies system for the original PlayStation, PS2 and original Xbox, and it will soon work with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The EEG- and EMG-based biofeedback system costs about $600, not including the game console or video games.

Kids who play the race car video game “Gran Turismo” with the SmartBrain system can only reach maximum speed when they’re focused. If attention wanes or players become impulsive or anxious, cars slow to a chug.

CyberLearning has sold more than 1,500 systems since early 2005. The company hopes to reach adolescents already being treated for behavior disorders. But co-founder Lindsay Greco said the budding niche is unpredictable.

“Our biggest struggle is to find the target market,” said Greco, who has run treatment programs for children with attention difficulties since the 1980s. “We’re finding that parents are using this to improve their own recall and focus. We have executives who use it to improve their memory, even their golf.”

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OPINION

Building a Wall, Another Brilliant Bush Idea

It’s Prison for Paris You’re not going to get Paris received the DUI them back on a farm once in January, got a slap on the they’ve seen Paris? Or will wrist, and continued to wreak you? havoc along Mulholland Come June 5, Paris Hilton Drive. will be living an even simpler And for once, the punishlife – at a women’s correction- ment matches the crime. al facility in We take it Ly n w o o d . part and parAfter violatcel that celebWhat’s important rities, actors, ing terms of her proba- is that an example be m u s i c i a n s , tion – drivand made when the viola- athletes ing over 70 the like, get mph on a tor shows a repeated special treats u s p e n d e d – and needless – disre- ment in all license with gard like Hilton did. facets of life, her headand the law is lights off – a no exception.

Los Angeles We could judge sentenced the socialite probably fill a newspaper full to a 45-day stint behind bars. of stories of the aforemenWe at the Daily Titan are tioned indiscretions. What’s satisfied. important is that an example For too long, Paree has dis- be made when the violator played arrogance toward fol- shows a repeated – and needlowing the basic rules that the less – disregard like Hilton rest of us are bound to. Heck, did. We think she could afshe even arrived 20 minutes ford a chauffeur to escort her late to her court hearing. So through those long liquoredfor once it’s good to see her, up nights. We hope her jail specifically, get some time to stint will set an example, esdo some soul searching. pecially to the young and imMore importantly is the re- pressionable, that irresponsiinforcement of law and order ble behavior comes with strict for all to follow. consequence.

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BY TOM MADDEN

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

When all else fails, let’s build a wall. A big one – real big – to detour people from building huge ladders, using grappling hooks or simply killing each other. In a move reminiscent of the Qin Dynasty, President Bush and his fellow flunkies have proposed a plan to build a 12-foothigh, three-mile-long concrete wall to separate a historical Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite neighborhoods.

Boy, how much more are those Iraqi people going to thank us for all we have done? Not only have we initiated a civil war and acciden-

tally committed acts of torture on some of their residents (amongst the 1,679 Iraqi civilians who perished last month), but now every morning they get to wake up to a glorious landscape that, if Bush gets his way, will include a revolting wall that divides their country.

Is this Bush’s idea of building a democracy? Imagine if America, the model for which Bush believes Iraq should aspire to be, consisted of walls separating groups of people by religious beliefs or class. Now while some may argue the “oh-so-perfect” gated communities of Yorba Linda might be of comparison, the idea that walls that divide are a productive piece to a democracy is bogus.

Bogus yes, but not completely surprising from an administration that still believes history will view this gaffe of a war as a liberation.

Walls are walls. They cage people in like animals, and demean those who can’t peak their heads over to

see the other side. If this president is so intent on believing that one of the purposes of this war is to detour future Iraqi generations from becoming terrorists, then you can’t expect a child who has seen death at the hands of Americans and his city being divided by a barrier to grow up with a sense of respect for us.

History has shown that building walls is never a proper solution. Barriers not only isolate and produce long lasting hate and misunderstanding amongst the separated and the builders, but they also just don’t work.

The Berlin wall, which separated West Berlin and East Germany, stood for 28 years and was a cold reminder of what resulted from Communist brutality. It separated families, created economic disrepair, leading to the premature death of those trying to flee and worldwide hostility. Another wall, the Segregation wall built by the Israeli government in 2002,

separates occupied Palestinian territories from the rest of Israel and is another social setback. It took away vital farmland and resources from Palestinians who suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the concrete fence. Ironically, the Segregation wall drew criticism from Bush’s right hand woman, Condoleezza Rice, who believed the wall “aroused deep concern” and that the Israeli government should “reconsider the route.”

While Bush’s talk of democracy being on the rise flies over the unimpressed ears of the tired American public, realize that this warmonger’s view on how to treat those he’s supposedly trying to liberate consists of prison-like walls and inhumane isolation.

All walls eventually come down, and if this one is built, years from now we will still be responsible for picking up the pieces when it crumbles.

Oops, She Did it Again: Britney Tries a Comeback

BY YVONNE VILLARREAL

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

Four words: The wig stayed on.

Britney Spears hit the stage at the Anaheim House of Blues in Downtown Disney Wednesday night to a sold-out crowd continuing her “secret” mini tour through the Southland, performing the same lipsynched routine of her performance in San Diego the night before.

Gee, how surprising.

She, along with four Pussycat Doll rejects, billed themselves as the M+M’s. Really? What could M+M possibly stand for? Mildly Mental?

Mediocre Mother? Momentarily Medicated?

Her last major performance was during her Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004 in Dublin, Ireland. A knee injury prevented her from continuing her sexual prowess, and the tour was canceled. But last week, her knee was moving quicker than Heather Mill’s prosthetic appendage on “Dancing

with the Stars.” their way to the front for closer inFrankie J. opened the show… but, spection of her chiseled abs; others really, who cares about him? Fans crowded around the wood-framed chanted the name of their beloved balcony, standing on bar stools to icon and raised their plastic cups get a better view of the pop tart. in the air, causing I too pushed liquid to overflow and shoved to get from the rim.

But my fascination a glimpse. But Clad in a bejewfascination wasn’t in her perfor- my eled hot-pink bustwasn’t in her perier, a micro-mini mance, rather, I was formance, rather, I white skirt, white eagerly waiting to see was eagerly waiting knee-high gogo see her ill-fitting her ill-fitting wig mop to boots and a brunette wig mop the floor. wig – which seemed the floor.

But the powers to be locked in place that be failed to by a thick headgive me the delight band – Spears took of seeing that histo the stage shortly after 9:30 p.m. toric event in pop culture.

– 30 minutes earlier than her perforInstead, I was given a Cliff’s Notes mance in San Diego on Tuesday. review of her successful career, preIt wasn’t long before the newly rehab and pre-head shaving. fit mother of two began gyrating Although it has been reported across the stage, executing her cho- that Spears is working on a new reographed moves flawlessly, even if album, her performance failed to it meant struggling to lip synch with offer a glimpse into her new matethe pulsating tracks. rial. The set list Wednesday night Fans in the pit pushed and shoved included “Baby One More Time (re-

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mix),” “ I’m a Slave 4 U, Breathe On Me “– during which she brought a male fan onstage to shimmy around – , “Do Somethin” and “Toxic.”

The roughly 20-minute performance was devoid of fan interaction except for the four words, “Thank you so much!” that Spears uttered before running off stage after her final song.

Was it a thank you for being part of a possible come back? A thank you for paying a ridiculous amount of money to watch her strut across the stage for 15 minutes after fans waited hours in line? Or a thank you for giving her another chance?

For a woman known for being unpredictable, I was disappointed by her unsurprising performance.

Despite her lip-synching and short performance, Spears proved to be a hit with the fans who sang and danced along during the show.

But all I could think was, “thank you Britney for a forgettable performance.”

May 7, 2007

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BY Jeff

Klima

And One More Thing…

Having written columns for so many years now, I find myself with a growing list of what I term “unprintables.”

Unprintables, for me, are topics that I don’t want to formulate full columns out of, but man do they irritate me. The fact that they got rid of the diagonal crosswalk to College Park and left us with a mess of chain link fence that would give Auschwitz a hard-on is essentially an unprintable because who wants to read about a crosswalk for an entire column?

That the artwork on this campus is specifically designed to make you feel miserable and like failing is an unprintable. Take a look around, you see stuff like the broken down statue of man and the sinking ship. This was unprintable because it smacks of conspiracy theory nutbagism.

People walking up the escalators is an unprintable. People, the escalators are for people that are too fat and lazy to take the stairs!

Don’t get sniffy if I refuse to walk up the escalator, just because you thought you could beat the system and run up mobile stairs to get you there faster.

English Lit classes on campus are a constant source of irritation, that I must attend every day. In my GE course, I am forced to investigate the meanings and metaphors of old books for a grade! I love reading, but damn it, what is the point of a class that discovers the real meaning of what Chaucer means when he talks about

eating a juicy peach! He is talking about cunnilingus, so what?!

What does that do to aid me in life? Not a damn thing! There isn’t usually even any real insight in the books, it is mostly common sense hidden behind clever wordplay. Why not teach a crossword puzzle class? It amounts to the same thing. I hate the Busy Bee restaurant and wished I had started a lobby group to abolish it from this campus. I am a connoisseur of crappy Asian restaurants, but that stuff is miserable.

I hate how boring the other columnists on this paper are.

I love that I get lambasted by sororities for saying that sorority girls drink and have sex and then three from this campus release a video on Youtube where they are drinking and talking about how much sex they have. Incidentally, to the girl who is on the right in that video, “What’s up?”

I love how if you go to jail in China, they serve you Chinese food! Cha-ching! Could there be a sweeter punishment? I think Colette Rolnick should dye her hair back to blond! I think that pro-choice activists should put up pictures next to those lateterm abortion fetuses pictures those pro-life activists display, that show the miserable crooked assholes that most aborted children would probably grow up to be. I should stay on another year just to figure out ways to solve these problems, but I’ll leave that to someone else. I think I’ve done enough.

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“Darfur is Dying” is not the first You’re a starving refugee in wartorn Darfur and you see a Janjaweed in the rising line of “serious” games, militia patrol coming, hit the duck where gameplay is laced with edubutton or you might get captured, cational or social commentary on modern issues. Such controversial raped or killed!

That sounds about as thrilling as games making headlines include real life in Darfur, where the U.N. the inappropriately named “Super estimates that 400,000 innocent Columbine Massacre,” “UN Food people have died as a result of the Force,” “Peacemaker” (of the Israeli/ ongoing conflict. If the many celeb- Palestinian conflict) and “3rd World rity actors, actresses and musicians Farmer.”

However, such games are not haven’t draw in your attention to the mass genocide, perhaps a cheesy given to players as Christmas presInternet browser video game might ents nor are in high demand by the average gamer. They usually atgrab your attention.

Brought to you by mtvU, a college tract people who have concern for such issues, and network division of nothing more. The MTV, and a group are not “off of USC students, ‘Darfur is Dying’ is games the hook” or “cut“Darfur is Dying” is a free-to-play not the first in the ris- ting edge” in their simulation game on ing line of “serious” technicality, but the the Internet. As the games, where game- crowd that marvels them are usually player, you take on the role of a Darfu- play is laced with edu- media heads who rian refugee family cational or social com- deem such “creativattempting to help mentary on modern ity” as newsworthy, or bash it for daring save each other by issues. to combine elegathering water to ments of entertainsurvive and avoidment. ing capture by nearHere’s what by militia. The purpose of the game is not really to win but to join the needs to happen to get these social cause against the real-life violence awareness games out of their cavein Darfur, through in-game options painting phase.

As the music and movie indussuggesting real action through social tries have done, bring on higher activity.

Such a serious game has invited profile social games. Put the same controversy among the media and depth and outside-the-box thinking academia. Is it educational or just that produced such hits as “Grand plain entertainment? Is it just some Theft Auto,” “Metal Gear Solid” and marketing tool to further the name “Resident Evil,” where new elements of MTV, or really a desperate cry for of survival are woven into complex storylines within a deeply interactive help?

The game itself is quite daft and 3-D environment. After all, we have too simple to draw in a new crowd successful civilization development previously ignorant of the Darfur games, zoo and railroad developconflict. Ducking and finding your ment games, even a farming simulaway through a situation more remi- tion game, so why not add the social niscent of the Atari age of gaming awareness genre to our Xboxs, Playthan the Darfur conflict is about as stations and Wiis?

Combine great depth and more riveting and emotional as watching activity and we can make “Darfur is dogs bark.

And yes, real life in Darfur is sad Dying” into something truly emoBY ORION TIPPENS

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New Video Game a Poor Attempt at Awareness tional and unforgettable. Imagine a GTA style layout (without the vice) of Darfur or Baghdad, where life is far more dangerous and challenging, and death is sudden. Build a society where every person is based on someone who has died in the Darfur conflict.

Then add powerful literature and artistic-based elements that propelled so many video game franchises into iconic status. In the past, fictional literature raised social issues through novels such as “The Jungle,” “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and “Go Ask Alice.” Put the player in the shoes of a UN worker desperately using a limited amount of resources to distribute aid, use storyline elements to develop emotional attachments to supporting characters, and overwhelm it all with the impossible odds the real counterparts face right now.

As for the artistic appeal, look to history. Works of art including Picasso’s “Guernica,” and countless propaganda posters have driven many to look past the images and cheer or jeer at the social or political message implied. If done in a similar manner, a graphic rendering of dying refugee can be as thought-provoking as a real one.

The social awareness genre of video games needs to happen. It needs to not just run on its own existence as a novelty, but take it a step further with better execution. Then people will discuss the emotional impact of the game, not just the message. Until then, if any gamers wish to know about the conflict in Darfur, I suggest the newspaper.

TITANS TALK BACK EDITOR: Student loans, what a bitch.

We, the thriving backbone of America, or middle class, all need them at some point. If we are to be educated and thus enlightened the great student loan machine is a necessary evil for our short-term future.

Even with perfect grades, scholar-

ships, grants and rich relatives, we still need the great student loans.

Hmm. How many times have we heard someone tell us or reiterate “the key to your financial future is higher education,” or a study that tells us “on average, a college graduate will make $1,000,000 more in their lifetime than a high school graduate.” And it all seems true. But too, the idea of making more money is like catching a feather in the wind if you’ve taken out a great student loan.

Consider an ideal situation.

A college graduate has earned a BA and an MBA. He’s racked up over $79,000 in student loans and that’s after the grants and scholarships helped him out. So now he needs to pay this “education mortgage” off. Interest begins accruing and after paying out interest-only payments for the first five years, his payment goes up and he begins paying principle too. The average person will change jobs several times in their life and so one can reasonably expect to be unemployed for some time in between those jobs, let’s say one year of unemployment. So the college grad defers payments for that year and at six percent (yeah right, try nine percent) he now has a total bill of $126,400. Even with graduated payments, that college grad will be paying for over 30 years on his education.

Starting at payments of $330 for the first five years, the total of $126,400 will stay the same provided you aren’t laid off or fired and stop payments again.

Oh yeah, now add in 2.5 kids and a wife or two (divorce is common) and maybe a parent who needs you and voila, you have no money and no where to turn. This system seems like it’s meant to bankrupt us vs. help us shine. And that’s the middle class Oreo sandwich squeeze.

Oh and it’s not getting better, as the article “Student Loans Raising More Than Blood Pressure 5/1” observed, Bank of America now owns controlling interest in Sallie Mae, the world’s largest provider of student loans. The great student loan—oh yes, it’s here to help us...

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May 7, 2007

Baseball Team Falls Short in Series Loss Against UC Santa Barbara

BY JASON KORNFELD

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team had dampened spirits after dropping the rubber game and the series to the Santa Barbara Gauchos 7-6 on Sunday at Goodwin Field.

“It was a huge game for us,” Gaucho Head Coach Bob Brontsema said. “We beat such a quality program in their yard and the way we did it; that’s about as good as it gets for us, no question.”

After being swept by UC Riverside last weekend and falling out of the Top 25 ranked teams in college baseball, it seemed ace pitcher Wes Roemer had the Titans re-energized on Friday night. He had a career high in strikeouts with 13, and pitched a complete game to route the Gaucho’s 12-1.

The Titans would then lose their newly found momentum on Saturday night, as they failed to score with the bases loaded in the ninth inning and lost 11-9 to the Gauchos.

Then on Sunday, the Titans blew a five-run lead and appeared to have their energy stolen from them by the Gauchos, losing the series two games to one.

“We got problems,” Titan Head Coach George Horton said. “I can accept losing games but the most embarrassing thing for me today is my team did not show up to battle for nine innings.”

The Gauchos were threatening right out of the gate, scoring one run off the Mike Zuanich sacrifice fly to center field. Chris Fox tagged up on the play to give the Gauchos the first run of the game.

Adam Jorgenson, who pitched four and 1/3 innings, was able to get Cody Dee to fly out to left field to end the inning to get out of the jam.

The Gauchos were threatening again in the second inning, having runners at first and second. Jorgenson was able to survive without surrendering any runs.

For the Gauchos, left-hander Jeff Braun had the Titans offense struggling in the early innings. After Evan McArthur reached on an error

by Gaucho shortstop Shane Carlson,

BY CARLOS DELGADO/Daily Titan Staff Photographer TALE OF THE TAPE – Cal State Fullerton pitcher Adam Jorgenson made the start for the Titans on Sunday, pitching into the fifth inning, allowing three runs. he was caught stealing just moments later. Matt Wallach then reached base off his single but Khris Davis grounded out to end the inning.

The Titans were back at it in the bottom of the third inning, this time scoring two runs.

Billy Pinkerton was hit by a pitch and Joe Scott reached base on a throwing error that allowed Pinkerton to advance to third with no outs.

Hardman hit it in the gap to center,

enabling Pinkerton to score and Scott moved to third.

Braun ran into more trouble in the bottom of the fourth inning as he allowed four runs, giving the Titans a 6-1 lead.

The Gauchos refused to lie down and came right back in the fifth inning with two runs.

Matt Valaika led off with a home run and then Robbie Blauer had a sacrifice RBI.

After Jorgenson hit Zuanich with the pitch, Horton pulled him in favor of reliever Dustin Birosak, stripping Jorgenson of a chance to receive a victory.

The two runs pulled the Gauchos within three as they trailed the Titans 6-3.

Birosak was impressive in relief, allowing only one of the first eight batters he faced to reach base, and that was on a walk.

“[I was] trying to keep hitters off balance the best I could,” Birosak said.

Michael Morrison came in for the Titans in relief in the eighth inning and retired the side in order.

Morrison ran into trouble in the ninth inning though, allowing a pinch hit single to Brian Gump and a single by Valaika leaving the Gauchos runners on first and third with no outs.

After surrendering the two hits, Morrison was pulled and gave way to lefty Paul Canedo.

Canedo gave up a RBI single to pinch hitter Steve Domecus, and Horton then pulled Canedo for right hander Nolan Bruyninckx.

As if the Titans were lacking drama, Bruyninckx then walked Fox to load the bases, and Bruyninckx was pulled instantly and was replaced by Bryan Harris.

Gaucho Patrick Rose had a fielder’s choice groundout that brought in a run to make it 6-5 Titans, and then Blauer had a RBI sacrifice to left field that tied the game 6-6 with two outs.

“Things fell apart in the end,” Birosak said. “Just didn’t go our way today, didn’t bounce our way.”

To add to the Titans troubles, Zuanich was hit by the pitch and Curtis had a passed ball for the Titans allowing the runners to be on third and second. Harris then had a wild pitch strikeout, which allowed the go- ahead run to score and put the Titans behind, 7-6.

“It’s the truth, we didn’t deserve to win today and I think my team is in a crisis right now,” Horton said.

“Unless they get a hold of things it’s just going to get worse and worse.”

The Gauchos didn’t look back as they sat down the Titans in the bottom of the ninth inning, taking the game and the series.

“I’m going to tell them to figure it out,” Horton said. “They have the will to win they just don’t put in the energy to do that. I’m very frustrated and confused. I don’t know if I’ve ever been as frustrated with a group as I am right now.”

The Titans are going to have to rebound quickly as they host Loyola Marymount on Tuesday night at Goodwin field.

“We got to work hard at practice tomorrow and play Titan baseball, and we’ll get it done,” Birosak said.

If the Titans fail to get back to the winning ways they are accustomed to, there might not be much of a future.

“If we can’t come up with a better effort than that, we aren’t going anywhere,” Horton said. “We have a tough challenge next week and if we can’t pick it up, it’s probably going to be pretty ugly.”

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May 7, 2007

SPORTS

Titan Softball Celebrates Senior Day on the Field With a Grand Slam Walk Off

BY CHRIS RAMIREZ

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

It took a walk-off three-run home run by Lauren Lupinetti to preserve a senior day victory for the Cal State Fullerton Titans softball team on Sunday at Anderson Family Field, as the Titans avoided being swept by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs, winning 7-5.

With the Titans up 4-1 in the seventh the Mustangs took the lead as they started the inning with a single and a double.

With runners on second and third and nobody out Titan pitcher Jessica Doucette got Melissa Pura to hit a ground ball to short.

Courtney Martinez fielded the ball and went home.

The runner was called safe on a close play at the plate.

Krysten Cary came up next and promptly hit a three-run home run to right, giving the Mustangs a 5-4 lead, their first lead of the game.

Doucette started the comeback leading off the bottom of the seventh with a single.

With one out Ashley Van Boxmeer also reached on an infield single, when Lupinetti completed the comeback on the big three-run shot, her seventh of the year.

All three runs came off Robyn Kontra, who allowed just two runs to the Titans in a complete game in one on Saturday.

“I knew what the situation was,” Lupinetti said. “I was so nervous. I needed to hit this ball solid.”

Doucette was given the start in the circle for the Titans, with Candice Baker out due to a concussion that was sustained in the second game of a double header on Saturday.

“I started crying because it was absolutely amazing,” Doucette said of the teams’ comeback win. “It was like, wow.”

Clemens Decides on the Yankees Associated Press

The seventh-inning stretch was ending when the low, familiar voice of public-address announcer Bob Sheppard told fans at Yankee Stadium to direct their attention to the owner’s box behind home plate.

Standing there, microphone in hand, was Roger Clemens to personally announce his return to New York.

“Well, they came and got me out of Texas and I can tell you it’s a privilege to be back,” he said. “I’ll be talking to y’all soon.”

With his brief address, shown on the right-center field videoboard to 52,553 fans and many more watching on television, the Rocket rejoined the Yankees in most dramatic fashion.

He agreed to a $28 million, oneyear contract that will start when he is added to the major league roster for his first start, most likely in three to four weeks. Clemens will earn about $18.5 million under the deal, which will cost the Yankees approximately $7.4 million in additional luxury tax.

BY CARLOS DELGADO/Daily Titan Staff Photographer LOCKED IN – Titan Laura Lupinetti hit a grand slam to lead the Titans.

For the first time this series the Titans scored the first run of the game.

In the second inning Kiki Munoz continued her hot hitting in Big West play as she started off the second inning with a base hit to left.

The next batter Katie Gollhardt attempted to sacrifice Munoz to second, but she was safe at first on a throwing error by the Mustangs catcher who threw the ball into right field.

On the play Munoz went to third.

Jenna Wheeler came up and hit a sacrifice fly to right which brought in Munoz from third, giving the Titans a 1-0 lead.

The Titans doubled their lead in the fourth on a Sheila Holguin sacrifice fly, which brought in Gollhardt.

Van Boxmeer made her senior day memorable when in the fifth inning she blasted her eighth home run of the season to left, and 31st of her

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“I was like first pitch and I had to go out with a bang,” Van Boxmeer said.

Van Boxmeer is currently leading the Titans with a .333 batting average and a .522 slugging percentage.

In the sixth Cal Poly broke through scoring an unearned run off Doucette, cutting the deficit to two.

The Titans responded to the Mustang run by adding another run – this time a home run by Gollhardt, her fourth of the year.

With the win the Titans move into second place in the Big West standings, one game behind Cal Poly SLO and a game ahead of Pacific.

On Saturday, the Titans were swept by Cal Poly SLO in a doubleheader.

A one out, seventh-inning home run proved the difference as the Cal Poly SLO Mustangs held off the Titan softball team 3-2 in Game 1 Saturday at Anderson Family Field.

Sarah Iwata hit the go ahead home run, a long line drive to center field, her second of the game, in the top of the seventh inning, giving the Mustangs a 3-2 lead.

Baker (17-11) had retired 10 Mustangs in a row before giving up the game winning shot.

In 199 innings pitched in the circle, she has struck out 226.

In the second game of the double header, Cal Poly jumped on the Titans early, as the Mustangs took both games of the double header and took the series against the Titans as they won the second game, 8-3.

Titan Brooke Weekley (8-4), who gave up eight runs on nine hits, only three of the runs were earned, was the recipient of bad luck on the day as Cal Poly SLO didn’t hit the ball hard, they just placed the ball well.

“I tried to not get too frustrated,” Weekley said. “I tried to control what I could control.”

... And One

BY Jonathan Saavedra

Letting Their Chances Slip Away Kobe Bryant’s seven fingers without a championship ring are getting cold.

He’s getting older and his patience is wearing thin.

He wants a ring more than an antsy girlfriend does, and he wants that ring now.

But when will the big day come for the 28-year-old scoring machine?

Bryant was a little more vocal than usual regarding the future of the Los Angeles Lakers after the team lost its playoff series 4-1 to the Phoenix Suns last week.

Actually he was a lot more vocal than usual.

“I don’t play for anything but a championship,” Bryant said. “I want to get into the pocket with this city, where we, going into the season, believe that we have a shot at winning this whole thing.”

A team with arguably the best active player in the NBA and one of the greatest coaches in basketball should have those types of expectations to live up to.

But when you have to depend on guys like Kwame Brown and Smush Parker, a teenaged Andrew Bynum and rookie Jordan Farmar to live up to those expectations, you’re probably going to fall short – Muggsy Bogues short, It’s no secret that the Lakers need help.

For Kobe Bryant to vent his frustrations to the media and call out the Lakers’ decision-makers, saying, “I don’t want to have to wait any more than I already have,” and, “It’s on them to do their job and go out there and try to make something happen,” you’d think something is going to happen this summer.

There are the ubiquitous rumors of Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Garnett coming to Los Angeles.

Most people seem to think that because the 10-time NBA All-Star owns a house in Malibu, he’s coming to L.A. I guess I fail to see how that makes much sense, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of KG playing alongside KB. Anything is possible.

Then you have the most recent rumors of Jermaine O’Neal, Ron Artest and Pau Gasol being possible trade targets on the radar of Los Angeles.

And you can’t forget about realistic free agents such as Charlie Bell, Mo Williams, and Steve Blake.

I could play fantasy GM for hours, but the point is that there is a lot of available help out there for the Lakers to get their hands on.

There’s no excuse not to get Kobe the help he needs and it seems that Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak is saying all the right things to appease him for now.

If the Lakers do nothing more than add a “veteran” presence who doesn’t see any time on the court (see: Aaron McKie), an overpriced shooting “specialist” (see: Vladimir Radmonivich), and a bargainbin point guard with an attitude (see: Smush Parker), then Kobe’s seven other fingers without a championship ring will continue to live a bare existence.

Jonathan Saavedraʼs columns appear every Monday. sports@dailytitan.com