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A territory divided - Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ security forces march along the streets of the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday.
Israeli tanks enter Gaza Prime Minister Olmert comes to the aide of the new Palestinian leader By Diaa Hadid Associated Press Writer
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the deadliest military action since Hamas militants took control of the coastal strip. At the same time, Israel allowed in a few sick and wounded Palestinians of the hundreds of people who fled the violence – with many holed up for days at a fetid border passage with Gaza. A teenager with leukemia and four other Palestinians in need of medical care went through the tunnel at the Erez crossing in Israel, the military said. Israeli officials also authorized entry of all foreigners living in Gaza. Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian president, harshly criti-
cized Hamas for its takeover of Gaza last week, referring to members of the group as “murderous terrorists.” He accused Hamas of trying to assassinate him when he planned a visit to Gaza a month ago, digging a tunnel under a road where his car was to pass and trying to fill it with more than 550 pounds of explosives. Hamas denied the allegation. Despite the turmoil, Abbas said peace talks with Israel should resume and appealed for international help in convening a peace conference. A U.N. agency, meanwhile, warned of general food shortages in Gaza within weeks if the main cargo crossing with Israel wasn’t reopened. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at two rocket launchers in northern Gaza, in the first aerial attack on the strip since Hamas vanquished Abbas’ rival Fatah. No injuries were reported in the strike, which came in retaliation for militant rocket fire on Israel. Israeli tanks, meanwhile, rolled about 600 yards inside southern Gaza before dawn, and four militants were killed in a gunbattle, Palestinian hos-
pital officials said. Hamas and the allied Popular Resistance Committees said gunmen fired on undercover troops, prompting the army to send six tanks, two armored personnel carriers and a bulldozer to the area. The army said the entrance of the troops had been planned; was not a broad operation; and was meant to counter militant activity, including arms smuggling. In the West Bank, two Palestinian militants were killed in a predawn shootout with Israeli troops on an arrest raid on a house near Jenin, residents said. One was a local commander from the Islamic Jihad militant group and the other a local commander from a violent offshoot of Fatah. The army said armed men opened fire from the house on troops, who shot back and killed two militants. Mahmoud Zahar, the man widely believed to be leading Gaza’s new Hamas rulers, said his group was open to a cease-fire with Israel if the army halts its activities there and in the West Bank. He said Hamas was capable of
halting the frequent rocket attacks out of Gaza. “But nobody will be the protector of the Israeli border,” he told The Associated Press. In an attempt to consolidate power, the West Bank-based government installed by Abbas on Sunday annulled all decisions made by the previous Hamas government, Information Minister Riyad al-Malki said. All citizens will be required to change their travel documents to papers issued in the West Bank – in effect invalidating documents previously issued in Gaza, al-Malki said. And security personnel will be deployed in force in the West Bank to restore law and order, he added. About 200 Gazans, petrified by the chaos in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip, have been camped out for six days in a tunnel reeking of trash, urine and sweat on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing, pleading with Israeli authorities to grant them safe passage
KCET Orange is coming to a campus near you. The partnership between Cal State Fullerton and KCET is bringing about a new program, possibly late next fall, called KCET Orange. Meetings are currently in progress as to the future of this fifth PBS station that will be joining southern California televised programming. “We are interested in getting the whole campus involved with this project,” said Rick D. Pullen, dean of Communications. He and other colleges are participating in the particular details of the program, such as if an actual station will be built on campus and how students will be specifically involved in the process. Pullen said that meetings are going to be held throughout July about the upcoming addition to the CSUF curriculum. KCET Orange will be the first of its kind involving a public broadcast licensee in collaboration with a university and its programming ideas for KCET. The collaboration will provide a new demographic to the station which will include documentaries, public access shows and other cultural and educational ideas that CSUF faculty and students come up with. The involvement of all the colleges such as kinesiology, social sciences and humanities, engineering, art and more will allow for plenty of programming ideas to provide KCET. President of CSUF Milton A. Gordon praised the relationship between the university and KCET in a Titan magazine interview. He shared that the partnership has brought the university lots of coverage to southern California and that this new station is going to be a great learning resource for students and
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NEW YORK (AP) - The scarlet letter in education these days is an “R.” It stands for restructuring – the purgatory that schools are pushed into if they fail to meet testing goals for six straight years under the No Child Left Behind law. Nationwide, about 2,300 schools are either in restructuring or are a year away and planning for such drastic action as firing the principal and moving many of the teachers, according to a database provided to The Associated Press by the Education Department.
Chinese population grows and CO2 emissions rise
BEIJING (AP) - China has overtaken the United States as the world’s top producer of carbon dioxide emissions – the biggest man-made contributor to global warming – based on the latest widely accepted energy consumption data, a Dutch research group says. According to a report released Tuesday by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China overtook the U.S. in emissions of CO2 by 8 percent in 2006. While China was 2 percent below the U.S. in 2005, voracious coal consumption and increased cement production caused the numbers to rise rapidly, the group said.
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More than two-dozen young people have been killed over the last decade when sand holes collapsed on them, report father-and-son doctors who have made warning of the risk their personal campaign. Since 1985, at least 20 children and young adults in the U.S. have died in beach or backyard sand submersions.
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Setbacks caused by the state’s budget crisis are hurting today’s students By Yui Kashiwagi Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Demands in the workforce for employees to have an academic degree are on the rise. However, education systems in California are having difficulty giving students the quality and quantity of education to meet those demands. The California budget crisis forced colleges and universities to raise their tuition, narrow the financial aid and dismiss some full-time faculty. As a result, fewer courses are being offered and more students cannot afford tuition. Forty percent of all jobs in California will require a college degree from employees by 2025. Jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree will increase to 78 percent, according to the Public Policy Institute in California.
Nowadays students are expected to have knowledge that is related to the job along with the degree. Elizabeth Roux, 25, a junior, said it would be very hard to get a job if she only had a degree because the value of the degree has lessened. She said a wide variety of skills are important. “Students should learn as much as possible, such as languages, computer skills, etc.,” she said. “Practical classes in which students are asked to do what they would in a real workforce” will be helpful as well. Emeline Yong, assistant dean for Student Affairs for the College of Business and Economics, said that colleges need to emphasize helping students build skills such as communication, teamwork and critical thinking. She said she encourages students to start searching for careers early on and to get involved in to real work places through internships. Recently, the government approved a new program to respond to the needs of students called the new Career and Technical Education Improvement Act
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courtesy of arttoday.com of 2006. Gary Hoachlander said in his article in Education Leadership in April 2007 that the law would align its career and technical programs to industry standards so that students are ready to move into the workplace.
A growing number of schools are trying to catch up to those demands, he said in the article. In the course, students are given a program that emphasizes the skills they are expected to demonstrate to receive industry-based certification, according
to the article. Students learn both academic and technical contents so the assignments are beneficial for their future career, Hoachlander said in the article. Some workplaces also give opportunities to students to learn about their business system. Representatives of the Japanese External Trade Organization recently started to give presentations to universities about their organization and how it is working together with the American business market. Minoru Hara, director of public relations for the organization in Los Angeles, said he recently gave a lecture at San Diego State University and Cal State Long Beach. He said it is a good chance for both students and the organization because students can gain knowledge about the real world, as well as about the business industry. The organization, established in 1958, focuses primarily on the promotion of foreign investment in smaller Japanese firms.
CSUF second in the nation in granting degrees to Hispanics Cal State Fullerton is ranked No. 2 in the state and sixth in the nation for the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students, according to Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. The May issue, “The Top 100,” based the placement upon information that the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics used in 2006. “I think it’s significant … what is disappointing is that we slipped down to No. 2; but we slipped down to No. 2 because of 17 students,” said Silas Abrego, associate vice president for Student Affairs. The magazine placed Cal State Northridge first on the list because 1,360 Hispanic students graduated with their bachelor’s degree versus the 1,343 Hispanic students who graduated with their bachelor’s degrees from CSUF. CSUF also ranked in the top-10 list of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students in area studies, business and marketing, communications, education, English literature, protective services and visual and performing arts. The information “shows that this
campus is not only concerned with exits tionship with local schools and the suror entry and recruiting students, but it rounding community. Young students also emphasizes its concern for graduat- visit the campus to have exposure to ing their students … we’ll be back at higher education. No. 1 in no time,” Abrego said. Programs at junior high schools and According to Yen Ling Shek, coordi- middle schools help students through nator of the Multicultural Leadership their senior year to succeed in the Center, it is no surcourses to get into prise CSUF made it college. this far. Strong parentOf the 35,000 By students seeing, education programs students attending in the local schools CSUF, 27 percent of ‘Hey, my community are another way the them are Hispanic. community is inis represented,’ I think The Department of cluded, and CSUF Education recognizes that sends a positive continues to aid CSUF as a Hispanic- message. students through serving institution. their transition into “We have strong ac– Yen Ling Shek college. ademic programs that Sylvia Alva, the Multicultural Leadership are just general disciCenter Coordinator associate vice presipline but then we also dent of undergraduhave programs that are ate programs, said reflective of the diverincoming students sity of experiences here,” Shek said. will be required to do a face-to-face oriAbrego said there are three ingredi- entation or an on-line orientation this ents in the formula for CSUF’s success- coming fall. ful graduation rate and they are due to “I truly believe that mandating orithe university’s leadership. entation is a tremendous success to stu“The formula is early preparation, dents. It gives students a fair running faculty who care and out-of-classroom start into college,” Alva said. activities.” Multiple programs and organizations CSUF works to create a strong rela- remain available to ensure students con-
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tinue to progress toward their professional goals. These programs include tutoring, mentoring, counseling, financial aid, scholarships, advisement, work-study, summer transitional programs, Greek life and multicultural programs. “By students seeing, ‘Hey, my community is represented,’ I think that sends a positive message,” Shek said. Another positive message sent to
students is the accessibility of faculty outside of the classroom. Abrego described the faculty as advisors, mentors and great listeners and said these roles encourage and support students. “The Latino community in other states looks at us as leaders because of the numbers of students we have enrolled and the number that we graduate. The question they always ask us is how we do it.”
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Military wives as strong as their husbands Spouses work through separation to keep some sense of normalcy
deployment in November 2006. Her husband was finally deployed April 20. With one month left before school was over she said she tried to keep herself occupied with schoolwork. She was taking seven classes and working the morning By Belinda Hurtado hours in the Politics Administration and For the Summer Titan Justice Department office at school. Ocnews@dailytitan.com casionally she would struggle with keeping her mind on the books. The on-going war in Iraq has just be“Whenever I should’ve been thinking gun for some Cal State Fullerton Alum- of school I was thinking of him. Wishni. Pushing her way through finals, Eving he were here, elyn Sandoval made hoping he was ok,” it across the stage. Sandoval said. She is one of many Sitting next to graduating military Whenever I should’ve her in their Boyle wives whose husband been thinking of Heights apartment, was recently deployed Sandoval hugged her school I was thinking to Iraq. mother and said she “They kept telling oh him. Wishing he was her biggest suphim he was going port. and then not going,” was here, hoping he It was difficult “not Sandoval said, tear- was ok. having him physiing more with every – Evelyn Sandoval cally with me for word. “I felt sad beMilitary Wife the physical support, cause he was there like hugs,” Sandoval through most of my said. “My mom, she college career and always taught me to, pushing me to do my regardless of what best, and he wasn’t obstacles come your way, you have to here to see my accomplishment.” strive towards your goals.” Sandoval first heard about her husSandoval’s mother, Dolores Loredo, band Anthony Villalobos’ possible 47, said worries about how it would af-
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Courtesy of arttoday.com fect her daughter during her senior year wandered through her mind. “I warned him. I told him to make her feel good so she wouldn’t worry. To make it seem he was fine with going and everything would be Ok,” Loredo said. The single mother looked at her youngest daughter, Lucero Sandoval, 15, to make sure she was doing her
homework. The young girl flashed her mother a smile and continued her work while listening to her mp3. The mirror hanging above the couch had school certificates and graduation pictures tucked into its corners. “It wasn’t an option, I had to go to college,” Sandoval said, referring to her mother’s firm belief on the importance of education. “Her words were ‘four
years of sacrifice and a lifetime of enjoyment’…” Sandoval said that having to balance school, work, family and a social life had turned the experience into a positive one. She said being realistic about Villalobos’ deployment and continuing with life despite the outcome was what would get anyone through these circumstances. Sandoval pointed out a trait she had acquired in the two months he had been away: Independence. “I’m able to see how strong I am as an individual as opposed to a person in a relationship. I learned to deal with upcoming challenges on my own,” Sandoval said. Since her husband has been deployed she received her bachelor’s degree in sociology in May. She is now an intern for Orange County Social Services for the Health Access/ Family And Community Together Program. Sandoval plans to further her education in obtaining her master’s degree in sociology at Cal State Los Angeles or Chapman University. She hopes to someday become a school counselor. “It was my obligation to myself that I had completed 3 1/2 years and I wasn’t about to let his deployment affect my last month of school. I wasn’t going to take out another school loan,” the 22year-old Titan said.
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More than 800 computer hacker palestine: RELATIONS break-ins for Homeland Security SOUR IN MIDDLE EAST WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department, the lead U.S. agency for fighting cyber threats, suffered more than 800 hacker breakins, virus outbreaks and other computer security problems over two years, senior officials acknowledged to Congress. In one instance, hacker tools for stealing passwords and other files were found on two internal Homeland Security computer systems. The agency’s headquarters sought forensic help from the department’s own Security Operations Center and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team it operates with Carnegie Mellon University. In other cases, computer workstations in the Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration were infected with malicious software detected trying to communicate with outsiders; laptops were discovered missing; and agency Web sites suffered break-ins. The chairman of the House Home-
land Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said such problems undermine the government’s efforts to encourage companies and private organizations to improve cyber security. “What the department is doing on its own networks speaks so loudly that the message is not getting across,” Thompson said. Congressional investigators, expected to testify Wednesday during an oversight hearing about the department’s security lapses, determined that persistent weaknesses “threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of key DHS information and information systems,” according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office being released later in June. The Homeland Security Department’s chief information officer, Scott Charbo, assured lawmakers his organization was working to prevent such problems. “We need to increase our vigilance to ensure that such incidents do not happen again,” Charbo wrote in testimony prepared for Wednesday’s hearing. “The
department takes these incidents very seriously and will work diligently to ensure they do not recur.” The computer problems disclosed to the House Homeland Security subcommittee occurred during fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2006, and occurred at DHS headquarters and many of the department’s agencies, including TSA, the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs and Border Protection and others. The subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said break-ins to government computer networks and theft of information are “one of the most critical issues confronting our nation, and we must deal with this threat immediately.” All the problems involved the department’s unclassified computer networks, although DHS officials also have acknowledged to lawmakers dozens of incidents they described as “classified spillage,” in which secret information was improperly transmitted or discussed over nonsecure e-mail systems.
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project and this small kingdom they want to establish in Gaza, the kingto the West Bank. dom of Gaza, between those who On Wednesday, Defense Minister are using assassination and killing to Ehud Barak instructed officials to let achieve their goals, and those who in “humanitarian cases” at the cross- are using the rules of law,” he said. ing, the ministry said. No numbers Abbas said he received videotapes were specified. of the operation The Red Cross to assassinate coordinated the him, showing transfer Tuesday There is a serious militants with of seven Gazans Hamas signs on humanitarian crisis wounded in intheir shirts carryternal strife and developing in Gaza as ing out the work. hoped to arrange a result of the recent He dismissed the transfer of Hamas claims six to nine more turmoil and closure of that the exploWednesday, Red the border crossings. sives tunnel was Cross spokesman aimed at Israelis. – Arnold Vercken Bernard Barrett In WashingWFP director in Palestinian ton on Tuesday, said. The U.N. territories President Bush World Food Program, meanwhile, and Israeli Prime began bringing in Minister Ehud 225 tons of food Olmert expressed into Gaza through Israel, in addition support for Abbas at a high-profile to 200 tons of food and medical sup- news conference. plies it sent in on Tuesday. Olmert and Abbas will meet next “There is a serious humanitarian week, Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo crisis developing in Gaza as a result told Palestinian radio. Olmert’s ofof the recent turmoil and closure of fice confirmed the two would meet the border crossings,” said Arnold but said a date had not been set. Vercken, WFP director in the PalesAyman Taha, a Hamas spokesman tinian territories. in Gaza, said Cairo had invited the In a televised speech from the West Islamic group for talks with Fatah, Bank town of Ramallah, Abbas ac- and that Hamas “welcomed” the cused Hamas of attempting a coup. invitation. There was no immediate “There is no dialogue with those response from Fatah, but an Abbas murderous terrorists,” Abbas said in aide said Tuesday that dialogue with his toughest remarks since installing Hamas would be impossible until his own Cabinet. the group restored power to the le“It’s a fight between the national gitimate government.
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Cigarette BreakKei Kim, 27, smokes a cigarette while walking across the quad, Wednesday afternoon. By Daniel Suzuki/For The Summer Titan
Of the students who smoke in college, it is estimated that 70 percent will become lifetime smokers. As a result, one out of nine of today’s college students will die of tobacco-related illness, according to the College Tobacco Prevention Resource. Smoking on college campuses has become common. However, many students are disgusted by the trash and the smell left by cigarette smokers. “Smoking should not be allowed on college campuses because people don’t pick up their butts,” said Amanda Meyer, a senior. “It’s an educational facility. There should be no allowance of drugs, alcohol or tobacco.” Smoking on campus can also a health risk. As more students smoke, more are being exposed to the consequences of second-hand smoke. Breathing in the smoke from a lit cigarette, or the smoke exhaled by a smoker, is just as harmful as actually
Various forms of spyware a growing concern on campus By Michelle Dutledge For the Summer Titan news@dailytitan.com
big concern at Cal State Fullerton, said Mike Marankevicz, director of Networking and Computing Security at Cal State Fullerton. “Unknowingly, it will Sitting in front of the computer, install something in the background browsing through webpage after web- when browsing the Internet.” page, many do not realize that a proSlow performance when surfing the gram maybe keeping track of every site web is a symptom of an infected comvisited by their computer. puter, said Marankevicz. There might be another program Pop-up ads, file sharing and intemkeeping track of every keystroke typed. perate downloading pose a potential Many know about spyware, and most threat to your computer. PCs currently have “Everyone was spyware installed on downloading things their systems. all over the Internet,” The federal govView Tran, manager ernment has also You don’t want a of a small Internet noticed and two new company based in bills have recently fancy anti-virus proOrange County, said been introduced in gram. I run Spybot. when describing congress stiffening problems his business punishment for cyhad with spyware. – Mike Marankevicz “Without an IT perber-crime. CSUF Networking and son working security The first bill introComputing Security everyday, it could duced by Representative Adam Schiff, coast $100 a complaces cyber-offenses puter to fix.” Howunder the Racketeerever spyware “usually ing Influenced and Corrupt Organiza- costs more in time than money.” tion Act designed to target organized It is not always a spiteful hacker creatcrime. ing spyware programs. It is a “market to The second bill, called the I-SPY Act, make money,” said Marankevicz. introduced by California RepresentaSome companies pay people to write tive Zoe Lofgren, focuses on subversive spyware programs for them. software, generally known as spyware, To protect against possible threats, by imposing a fine and/or five-year sen- there are a few things to consider. Sotence. cial networks and file-to-file sharing can Spyware, spybots and malware – a pose problems, because it makes a commore malicious form of spyware – is a puter vulnerable to anyone using that
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program, said Marankevicz. “You don’t know who to trust,” said Marankevicz. “Would you go and bring a bunch of people into your house with you?” When purchasing on the Internet keep an eye out for official hackerproof seals of approval on business’ Web sites. “There are a lot of protocols for websites to have these,” said Tran. A site must be “up to standard” to display the seal. If using Microsoft Windows, “running windows firewall even if you don’t use it,” helps protect your computer, said Marankevicz. He recommends having an anti-spyware program installed on your computer, and running Window’s automatic update. “You don’t want a fancy anti-virus program,” said Marankevicz. “I run Spybot.” Spybot Search and Destroy is a free program available for download on the Internet. Other popular programs include Ad-Aware, Norton and McAfee, said Tran. Another option, if a computer suddenly displays symptoms of infection is performing a system restore, said Tran. A system restore rewinds the current settings on the computer to a date, specified by the user, before problems started to occur. As far as the spyware Bill, “It is a good thing,” said Tran. “After working on the Internet for so long, these things need to be stopped.”
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kcet: partnership program will provide more than a tv station From page one staff. The partnership, which began on Jan. 11, 2006, has provided many benefits for the campus, such as the contributions to the performing arts center and the access to involvement of past programs. Programs with great cultural variety that are currently being aired are “Los Ninos en su Casa,” “Life and Times,” and “A Place of Our Own.” Bruce Erickson dean of Marketing
said he has high hopes for the new program. “There is huge potential for us,” said Erickson. “Lots of universities, private and public, would like to have a relationship with a major channel like KCET.” Erickson also shared that after the program gets started it will be beneficial not only to learn how to produce cultural and educational programming and it will also be useful to learn the business of producing documentaries. In addition to the students learning
from the new station, a new faculty member has joined the university in order to head up the project and act as a liaison to KCET. Brent Foster, who will be teaching two summer courses, is being hired full time in the fall and will be specifically involved with KCET Orange at the university. He has a background in broadcasting and programming, which will be helpful in organizing and leading the students through this new experience, said Dean Pullen.
smoking a cigarette, according to the American Cancer Society, because the most harmful parts of the smoke are being inhaled. Approximately 3,000 new smokers arise each day, but this doesn’t include the number of second-hand smokers, according to The Great American Smokeout, a government anti-smoking agency. Cigarettes and cigarette smoke contain over 4,000 chemicals, 43 of which are proven to cause cancer, according to the American Lung Association. Like Meyer, many other college students are opposed to allowing smoking on campus. Joseph Cha, a sophomore, found it a shock to see people smoking on campus when he first started at CSUF. “I don’t like it,” Cha said. “People walk around smoking, spreading their second-hand smoke, slowly killing me while they do it. It makes me miss those big yellow ‘tobacco-free’ signs they had in high school.” Another sophomore, Angela Kratz, is opposed to smoking on campus because she thinks it is inconsiderate to people
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who don’t smoke. “Even though they smoke outside, you can still smell the smoke,” Kratz said. “I hate it when I’m walking to the TSU and I walk by all the smokers and smell the horrible smell.” Emily Aldana, a junior who smokes, doesn’t think that outlawing smoking on campus would make her smoke any less. She said she still has the whole ride to and from school. “If smoking on campus were suddenly not allowed, I’d feel as if my rights were being stripped away,” Aldana said. “It’s already not allowed indoors.” Colleges across the nation have begun taking actions to reduce the number of students who smoke on campus. Smoking is not permitted on CSUF’s campus within 20 feet of the buildings, as outlined in the campus smoking policy. The College Tobacco Prevention Resource is determined to help colleges begin efforts to reduce tobacco usage among students. Some strategies include smoke-free residence halls and smoking cessation programs.
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Building a new life through education By Richard Conlyn Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
By Aline Lessner/For The Summer Titan
New Life - Denise Maupin overcame a life of homelessness, drugs, burglary and prison and is now preparing to begin her college career at Cal State Fullerton. be in a similar situation,” Maupin said. Over the next few years, Maupin was in and out of jail 23 times, continued to use cocaine and was arrested for a felony that gave her a second strike. She burglarized homes just to support her habit. She tried to commit suicide. That landed her in a psychiatric ward. Maupin had reached rock bottom. She said that she didn’t want to live her whole life like this so it was time to make a change. “I got sober using the 12-step program, and I realized from this point in
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my life, that I needed to take it one day at a time,” Maupin said. One of the instrumental people in Maupin’s turnaround was her friend, a lawyer who can’t be named because of anonymity reasons, helped Denise by steering her in the right direction. She would constantly give her financial aid forms for college and words of advice to get out of the gang world and back in school. “If it wasn’t for someone else pulling me out of the gutter, I wouldn’t be here, so I need to do the same for other people,” Maupin said.
She finally decided to try school, so she enrolled in a community college. It was intimidating to Maupin because she had never heard of the most basic terms in school, like term paper or essay, so she would ask the teacher what everything meant. “I was very assertive and I have never had any problems asking questions, so every time something would come up, and I didn’t know what it was, I would raise my hand,” Maupin said. Two years went by and Maupin had completed the first part of her journey, she had her associate’s degree. Her
Working to find the right travel itinerary at the right price By Danielle Perry Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Summer for college students usually means more free time to travel but not more cash to do it with. With extra free time this summer, students might want to travel to gain exciting and educational experiences or just to relax. STA travel agency located on campus in Titan Student Union, offers discounted airline rates and vacation packages for many destinations around the world and is geared toward making student’s vacation experiences worthwhile, according to the company’s website. Branch Manager Lance Nowell sees about 300 to 500 students each month who book vacations or flights through the agency. “We mostly book for international travel,” he said. The agency advertises itself as the “world’s largest student travel organization,” and has over 400 locations worldwide. “Most locations are at universities,” said Nowell. STA offers reduced prices on everything from airline tickets from here to Las Vegas or around the country, to international flights and tour packages. Students can also purchase a discount card for approximately $22 that offers discount entry to museums, theater shows, tour discounts and more. STA’s website states that the company also offers discounted bus and rail passes, travel insurance and “blue tickets” which allow travelers the ability to change their travel dates for a minimal fee.
Students can also choose between top deck, the representative said. travel packages that suite their budget, “Contiki usually has a crowd of about which offer different levels of luxuries, 18-22 year olds,” he said. “It’s more of a according to the website. party atmosphere, whereas topdeck ofWith budget trips, students can save fers more of a mid 20’s crowd; it’s more big bucks by staying in hostels and dis- subdued.” counted hotels or can upgrade their The company’s website describes the vacation experience by purchasing trips criteria for traveling with STA; students, that offer more comfortable accommo- teachers and anyone under the age of 26 dations. can travel with STA’s ID card, becoming According to a flyer from the agency eligible for discounts in more than 100 office, all accommodations are “clean, countries. safe and centrally located so you’re never “The agency is open to all,” he said. far from the action.” “Flights are mostly for students but we Planning a trip with the agency is can work something out.” made easy and conSTA appeals to a venient with their 24 large demographic hour travel hotline with its cheap airfares where students can If I was planning a and travel opportunitalk to “experts” bemore exotic trip, even ties.Amie Poole who fore taking the next to Hawaii, I would steps in booking. was visiting CSUF They can also ap- definitely consider Monday, said she and ply for a student her family would be travel loan, according using the travel agency. taking two trips this to the website. – Annie Poole year. An STA hotline “My family is goCSUF visitor representative who ing to Santa Barbara whished to remain in August and Seattle anonymous, said the later in the year,” she agency works with said. multiple national and international tour Poole said she usually books her trips companies that allow them to offer the thought internet based travel agencies discounted rates to students not avail- such as Yahootravel.com, but would use able at other travel agencies. an agency such as STA for future trips. Nowell explained the reasons why “If I was planning a more exotic students benefit from the agency’s con- trip, even to Hawaii, I would definitely nections. consider using the travel agency,” Poole “We contract rates with taxes includ- said. ed so students don’t have to pay more Anyone interested in booking a trip after the price they see,” he said. or flight with the agency can visit their The agency primarily works with two campus location or their website at tour providing companies, Contiki and www.statravel.com.
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It was late and all she could hear were muffled sounds, laughter and the faint thump of bass in the background as she laid on the back seat. She wondered where she was going. She was blind folded, gagged and tied up. As she was crying, and unable to make a sound, she felt the tears dampen her blindfold and the smell of the old, cheap vinyl seats started to make her sick. The next thing she knew, the car stopped in the middle of the desert. Someone got out, opened the car door and threw her on the side of the road. They drove off with tires screeching as they yelled obscenities at her. This is just one of many sickening days that Denise Maupin endured before she made her miraculous turn around which changed her life forever. When she was 13, she became a gang member, dropped out of school and worked two jobs just so she could buy cocaine for her and her mother. She finally had to leave her mother’s house so she could get away from the party life and try to get sober. At the age of 16, she was homeless and sleeping in the announcer’s booth at a football field of a community college in Los Angeles. “Every morning I would get up at 6 a.m. before the students got there and go to the bathroom and wash up for the day,” Maupin said. She would walk around the campus for a while before she made her way to the streets where she was getting a different kind of education. “I remember one day I stopped and watched these students studying under this tree, it was nice. The thought never crossed my mind that someday I would
family went to the graduation and celebrated her day with pride. She was the first person in her entire family to go to college. “It was an emotional day for all of us, we cried and laughed together,” Maupin said. Maupin transferred to CSUF and recalls how good the teachers were and how a few of them really understood her and pushed her to be the best she could be. “I learned so much from her as she did from me,” Wilbur Tate, academic adviser, said. “She amazes me on how upbeat she was through all of this.” While raising four kids, and keeping a job, she maintained a 3.6 GPA. After the kids were put to bed, she studied every night to usually 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. and then get up the next morning to do it all again. “School was easy for me. What was hard was not sleeping and not knowing if I was going to have enough gas or money to make it to class,” Maupin said. One day she was waiting for her study partner so they could go over some things before class, Maupin casually looked up and realized that she was sitting under a tree, just like the vision she had 15 years earlier. “It all came back to me at once and I just sat there and cried and realized ‘wow I am here.’ I almost missed class I sat there so long,” Maupin said. The day finally came, and Maupin graduated from CSUF with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She will start her undergraduate work in the fall at CSUF. “Denise is an inspiration for people because she is a non-conformist, with a success story, ”Eileen Walsh, professor of sociology, said. Today she is still in touch with her family, working and raising her children.
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June 21, 2007
Bill intended to lower price of health care Young adults currently the largest group of uninsured people in U.S. By Travis Taylor Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The California Assembly voted 47-32 in favor of Assembly Bill 8, a new bill that takes aim at Health Care reform. The bill is intended to help nearly 70 percent of uninsured people by making health care more available. However, despite the efforts of the new bill, young people between the ages of 19 and 29, mostly students, are still the largest uninsured group in the United States and that number is growing. There are 13.7 million young adults who have no health coverage, according to ConsumerAffairs.com. That number is up 2.5 million since 2000. More than half of those uninsured have reported that they went without treatment when it was needed because they couldn’t afford the cost. This has left many young people unsure of what to do. “There are many reasons health care is so expensive and no easy answer,” said
Gail Love, professor of communications who also specializes in health, in an e-mail interview. “Americans feel the latest in medical advances and technology is an entitlement, however these are extremely expensive.” The delivery of health care is also expensive, Love said, instead of seeing a physician for a problem many of those who are uninsured end up in emergency rooms. She continued that emergency room treatment is the most expensive way to receive care. The passing of Assembly Bill 8, AB 8, includes ways to expand public health programs, cut costs of existing programs and improve the quality of private health care, according to the press release. Fabian Nunez, a speaker who wrote the bill, intended for it to help those who couldn’t afford care, which includes children. However, the bill does nothing for college-aged people who, after 17, find themselves unqualified for their parents’ plans and unable to find cheap health care. Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program have their cut-off point at age 19. Health insurance premiums have risen 87 percent over the past six years while wages have only increased 23 percent, putting pressure on minimum wage workers such as college students,
according to the Center for American Progress, Over 50 percent of high school graduates lose coverage especially if they don’t go to college, according to ConsumerAffairs.com. Of those who do not attend college, nearly 40 percent go uninsured, compared to 20 percent who do go to college. Also, roughly 60 percent of employers will not cover young adults, age 18 to 19, especially if they don’t continue their education after graduating from high school. This leaves many college students unable to afford health care. Cathy Baker, assistant director of the Student Health Center and Career Center, said that college-age students are in a transitory stage, where they are still too young, unable to work full-time and too old to be with their parents. There is another aspect to the issue, Baker said. “In my opinion, the state of health care for adults ages 19 to 29 often falls within a misconception that they are the healthiest group and the least likely to need health care,” said Baker. Davina Ling, director of the Center for the Study of Economics of Aging and Health, said, that the 18 to 29 age group also faces health care hardships because of their health itself. “A large part is health behavior,” said
Leaving behind more than just memories in college dorm rooms Students leave behind empty beer cans, bikes and old TV dinners By Richard Conlyn Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
A cleanup crew for the University of Florida found a surprise when they tried to move a dresser that was left behind in a dorm. They opened one of the drawers and found a 6-foot boa constrictor curled up in a ball. After graduation day students pack their belongings before they start their long trek home. Lava lamps, TV dinners and laptops are crammed into a car with a space just big enough for someone to see the drive home. “People tend to throw away things that don’t fit into the car,” Robin Crawford, CSUF resident adviser, said. “There are all kinds of things that we see getting left behind,” Crawford continued, “bikes, cleaning supplies, book cases, brand-new stereos still in the box, you name it we’ve seen it all.” A lot of these items that are thrown out are sometimes usable. Students know that, and look for things that they can use for themselves. Rummaging for just the right items can help students find useful things for campus survival. Dumpster diving is a term that is pretty much used to describe people fishing through dumpsters looking for items they can use throughout semesters to come. Not only is that term used, but it is practiced by many students. Some schools, such as Penn State have decided to put an end to this practice. They have an annual sale at the end of summer to sell the items left behind. Nothing is over $20. The proceeds go to charities, according to CNN.com. Other schools are finding that the ecological impact is helping groups to get involved. Boston College keeps 100,000 items annually and they donate many of those items to community organizations, according to CNN.com. Dumpster diving has become such an issue that Penn State gets volunteers to sleep on the couches the night before the annual sale just so people won’t steal the trashed treasures. Students can leave enormous amount
of things behind in their apartment, and if they leave too much then they are held responsible for a clean -up fee. “This one guy took an ordinary box fan and hooked it up to the ceiling, and he put silicone around all of the windows, so they would not open,” said Shanna Greene, The Streams apartment manager. “This renter left a pyramid of beer cans all the way to the ceiling,” Michelle Getz, manager for Carlyle Square apartments, said. “One guy, who lived in a one bedroom by himself, left only women’s
clothes behind,” Greene said about another tenant. Some of the other items left behind were Bibles, cash, condoms, and in Bates College, one guy left a three- foot inflatable Jesus, according to CNN.com. “Students of today are much more of a throw-away culture,” said Norbert Dunkel, vice president of the Association of College and University Housing, as reported by the Cincinnati Post. “Some students have means. Leaving the bike and getting a new one next year is the way they work,” Dunkel said in a press release.
Ling. “For me, the big picture is prevention, adoption of healthier behavior.” Ling also pointed out that some ethnic groups have a harder time getting coverage because they have poorer health. This comes from both genetics and their environment, Ling said. For those uninsured students here at Cal State Fullerton, their option is to make use of the student health clinic, located near Pollack Library. “Our center is a full functioning medical clinic,” said Mary Hermann, director of student health at CSUF. Hermann notes that the Student Health Center provides free basic medical care. The center features X-rays, medical labs and over-the-counter prescriptions. The center also does minor surgeries and provides psychological counseling and psychiatric consulting. Health and wellness education is provided at the center as well as burned CD’s of rehabilitation exercises for students to take home and keep. Both Hermann and Baker encourage students to take advantage of the Student Health Center, which is paid for by a mandatory student health fee. “Pay the fee, get your money’s worth,” Hermann said. The summer fee is $35, but will increase to $40 in the fall and $45 for
Spring 2008. The center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on Thursday’s when the opening is 9 a.m. Baker however, still recommends searching for some kind of coverage. “With the presence of the Health Center on campus, we still encourage students to purchase a supplemental insurance for injuries, accidents and referrals to specialty care since the health center can only provide basic medical care,” Baker said in an e-mail interview. Financial aid provides an allowance for student insurance and ASI has contracted with an insurance administrator called Health Link to offer coverage for enrolled students, Baker said. The office of financial aid could not confirm this. While students are getting hit hardest from health care, they are not the only ones who are suffering. “Everyone is having a hard time finding affordable health care,” Love said. “Health care costs continues to escalate and the number of uninsured continues to escalate along with it. “The governor has proposed a program to ensure all Californians have health insurance, but it will face a huge battle in the legislature and there are many questions about how it will be funded.”
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June 21, 2007
Celebrity gossip more important than war Hardcore reporting styles, like those of Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw, have given way to the bubbly and stylish celebrity reporting of Jillian Barberie and company. The public no longer needs the facts, government exposure or constant updates of the war in Iraq. It appears that newsworthiness has turned into reading about what a hard Father’s Day Mr. Hilton had because he had to visit his daughter behind bars. Gossip is in for readers. To date, according to CNN, there have been 3,808 coalition deaths and 87 car bombings that are ruining people’s families, homes and religious landmarks in Iraq, but nobody wants to be dowsed in these harsh realities day after day. It seems some have forgotten that there are people living this hell every morning they wake up. There are thousands of Iraqi people
that are willing to fight in the war and these contractors, who aren’t even workeven more who are willing to police their ing for the military but usually have a own cities. A death toll of Iraqi police, background in military, go out and risk who are trained by the U.S., has esca- their lives to show Iraqis how to police lated to a presumed 4,000 and another their cities. 8,000 wounded, according to CNN. These men and women hardly get While corruption news coverage behas been linked to cause again, the methe Iraqi police force, dia has seemed to the Iraqi people’s de- There are thousands dumb down our news sire to learn and self- of Iraqi people that to a point where it govern shows a sort begins to become ofof an aspiration to are willing to fight fensive. get their own coun- in the war and even An irony is that try organized. This is contractors have a positive step in the more who are willing been known to help right direction. protect the media to police their own The people that from time to time cities. are sent to train these in Iraq. A sad fact policemen are typifrom the Washingcally contractors who ton Times shows that were high-ranking media deaths in Iraq retired military. Contractor deaths are are also the highest they’ve been in a deat an all-time high at 917 deaths as the cade. Wishy-washy numbers conclude last count in May, according to the New that about 30 to 50 reporters have been York Times. killed while covering news in Iraq. It’s not a typically known fact that While all these numbers may seem
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very mundane to talk about, these lives lost are not getting top-priority coverage. For example, the Golden Mosque, called al-Askari Mosque by locals, was attacked. It served not only religious purposes for Iraqis but as a gravesite. The shrine held four graves, which held the remains of the 10th and 11th Imams, religious teachers and their family members, according to globalsecurity.org. This would be the equivalent of blowing up Mother Teresa’s grave or the pope’s grave. For most Muslims the destruction of these people’s remains is such an outrage that it brings an onset of violence. A truck strapped with major explosives driving into this sacred space hasn’t really caught many people’s eyes. Neither has the danger that has been the result. Since this attack will bring, and may already have brought, violence, the public should realize that this means more deaths will occur. While it is obvious that military families are up to date on where to find the “good” war news, typically at CNN, Fox
or print media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Week, it’s disturbing that the proverbial student isn’t taking an active interest. In a war that has similar qualities as Vietnam, it would be presumed that young men would be curious about a draft. There are young adults that decided to fight a war instead of going to college. Eventually most everyone will suffer some sort of loss because of the war. In lieu of taking an interest in the country that we live in and the surrounding countries that we make contact with every day, we’re watching Britney Spears showing her goodies and shaving her head. Never mind that our foreign policy is going to be affected. Don’t pay too much attention to those ever-rising gas prices and forget about the 3,528 Americans who have died on foreign soil. Figuring out which celebrity is going to get busted behind the wheel again with a 40 ounce in a brown paper bag is understandably much more appealing.
sion won’t show.” Morocco doesn’t have much when it comes to freedoms of the press or speech. Criticizing the monarchy, Islam or the occupation of Western Sahara is off-limits and forbidden by Moroccan law. The government owns a large portion of the country’s media, holding direct control of information – control that cannot be held on the Internet. A week before the supposed ban was enacted in Morocco, the Defense Department – this time in a country praised for its freedom of speech and the press, ours – began blocking access to social networking sites like MySpace and yes, YouTube, from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. The department blamed the ban on bandwidth issues. The sites, the department said, take up precious resources that may need to be used for military operations. An assertion Google-owned YouTube denies, which forced the department to change its reasoning, which now blames the ban on security issues. The Army announced similar restrictions on social networking and blogging two weeks earlier. Morocco isn’t the first to ban access to YouTube, nor will it
likely be the last. Turkey banned YouTube in March for videos that criticized the founder of modern Turkey. The ban lasted two days, thanks to a heavy backlash on social networking sites. Similar bans have been enacted in Thailand, Iran and Brazil. Censorship, whether with good intentions or bad, isn’t anything new to the Internet or Google. China, with its communist government, unlike the Islamic rule in Morocco, has restricted access to sites revealing violations of human rights and atrocities. Google provides China with a search engine that does not return results for such sites. Yet, despite all the “glitches” and “bandwidth” problems, not much can stop people from getting the information they want, especially in the pirateinfested waters of the Internet. If a story needs to be read or told, Moroccans can use proxy servers to visit any site they want, bypassing any government-forced banishments of the truth. Troops, looking to waste some bandwidth, can go to recreation centers or Internet cafes if they’d rather not do the same. If the source itself begins “glitching,” no proxy server will save the day. YouTube has been questioned in its procedure of removing videos that violate its code, banning any videos that are “unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law or is otherwise inappropriate,” as described in its user agreement. YouTube has continually been accused of removing videos that criticize radical Islam while leaving anything hair-raisingly violent untouched. Oh, but the pirates provide a solution once again. The Pirate Bay, destination for torrent downloads of everything from movies to music, is creating its own version of YouTube giving users full control over the content of the site. From restrictions on pirated Windows software to the blocking of sites promoting independence and human rights, Internet geeks have the solutions, solutions that some governments aren’t too excited about. It is strange to think that in a world as advanced as ours, both technologically and philosophically, the fight for freedom of information, of speech and the press, still continues even in a country as “free” as ours. So whether a government bans a popular site, or the site itself starts banning content, there will always be options – unless the government starts unplugging network cables.
Using immigrants Moroccan government bans use of to distract public YouTube, blames computer glitch By Adri Mehra Minnesota Daily (U. Minnesota)
Ah, the White House. We hardly knew ye. After years of characteristically nativist lip service denouncing undocumented immigration and tacit support for a proposed 2,000-mile steel fence along the United States-Mexico border, Republicans in the Bush administration appear to have yet again reversed their rhetorical track. In last month’s Bush-backed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, every single undocumented worker living here illegally since Jan. 1 of this year or before would be granted permanent legal status and access to a Social Security number, with some minor stipulations - amounting to what is essentially total amnesty for an estimated 12 to 20 million such individuals in the United States. Let us pause to slap ourselves into a lather that somewhat resembles this previously antithetical political reality. One: We know that corporate America loves undocumented workers, be-
cause they drastically drive down the cost of labor. Second, immigration has proven to be a remarkably successful wedge issue distracting and dividing the American public - keeping them frothing at the bit about a colorful social issue while our schools and libraries deteriorate and the middle class collapses under crushing debt. Third, this amnesty expedites the ruling class’s march toward a hypothetical North American Union, which would merge the United States, Canada and Mexico into one cooperative political and economic entity designed to counter the European Union and China in security and prosperity. According to the Financial Times, the 5-year-old euro currency has already surpassed the U.S. dollar in international cash circulation, leading many American multinationals and think tanks to fear that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will cancel the petro-dollar and begin trading oil in euros. Alas, fear not, friends. In today’s dollar-store America, no Juan gets left behind.
By Steve Jones Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Numa Numa dancing, ninjas answering e-mail and Darth Vader’s brother running a supermarket all met the same fate in Morocco – they were banned. On May 25, word spread around the blogsphere that access to the popular video sharing Web site, YouTube, had been blocked in Morocco, a North African country ruled by a constitutional monarchy. The ban lasted only a week, according to the Associated Press, which reported that the company that controls most of the Internet in Morocco blamed the ban on a computer glitch that only affected one Web site. The ban, or so called glitch, is questionable considering the country’s ban of Google Earth in 2006 and their constant watch and blockage of sites supporting independence for Western Sahara, which is governed by Morocco. “They’ve clearly blocked YouTube,” university student Abdelhakim Albarkani told the Associated Press. “I’m worried because YouTube allowed us to see things the state newspapers and televi-
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What a world it would be if we all just ignored our religion outside of Sunday. If we just sidelined what we felt about something because it wasn’t a religious matter or if we said “I’m just going to keep my religion out of this one.” Our lives would be unfulfilling and shallow and our politics would be worse. Even those who have no religious beliefs can recognize that it would be impossible to ignore them when looking at government and politics. Vatican City’s call for Roman Catholics to not contribute to Amnesty International, a human rights organization that recently asked governments to provide low-income women with access to abortion services, is the extreme of letting our religion influence our decisions. The organization said it would only use the services in cases of rape, incest or if a woman’s life is endangered because of a pregnancy. The Vatican isn’t having it. Their strong religious beliefs stand completely against abortion, no matter what the circumstances. The fact of the matter is, whatever your views on abortion might be, you should be thanking God for
their values. Amnesty is claiming their values allow them to operate abortions in certain circumstances, so if you want to argue that religious values should hold no ground in politics, then nonreligious values shouldn’t either. If we neutralize our religion when we view and judge politics we are not being true to ourselves; we are ignoring the very core of what makes us think the way we do. Our beliefs and our religion are all intertwined. Religion makes up a large part of who many people are. They hold certain values and beliefs that not only contribute to society because they are generally good values, but because if no one in politics had religion, the world would be very different. And not for the better. Values are what make our society good in any way. You don’t have to be religious to have values, but you have to have values to be religious. Many religious people play active roles in helping and bettering others’ lives. The separation of church and state is key to American politics, and it’s important to realize that the relationship between religion and politics is not the same thing, as Kenneth Cauthen, author of “The Ethics of Belief: A Bio-Historical Approach,” put it. “The problem of church and state has to do with institutions and the spheres
of action that are appropriate for each,” he writes. “Religion and politics has to do with two spheres of activities in the life of the same persons.” How then, can we sideline our religion if it is so influential in shaping our personal beliefs and values? Our government has turned to religious institutions for moral support on issues of slavery, women’s rights and so much more throughout our history. The Catholic Church’s disapproval of Amnesty’s decision is not hindering anyone outside of the church from using or supporting the organization. According to Carnegie Council’s Web site, religion is the “voice of ethics” in politics and it’s too dangerous to throw it out the window just because it is controversial. It’s more the principal of the matter for the Vatican, and it’s not to be taken lightly. Religious leaders and believers have a tightrope to walk. People, as responsible citizens and human beings, have to choose where to draw the line. For everyone it’s different, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere. Amnesty offering abortion services are immoral in the Catholic Church’s eyes, and if they want to refrain from supporting the organization because of it, then so be it. Church members have an obligation to themselves, not just their religion, to do so.
Church and state are supposed to be seperate for very good reasons Let’s get one thing straight – the Catholic Church is not God. Its members worship the Lord; they do not make judgments for the Lord. The church is supposed to represent God’s word and principles: peace, love and goodwill toward your fellow man. So the church’s recent stance against Amnesty International’s support of certain kinds of abortion was quite shocking. It is criticizing Amnesty International for its new stance on abortion and urging all Catholics across the world to stop making donations to Amnesty. The church is basically saying that all abortion is wrong, no matter the reason, and is in essence banning Catholics from thinking differently. I’m sorry, but when did the Catholic Church take away our freedom of choice, something we earned back in the time of Adam and Eve and that damned apple? Since when do we ask the pope to make decisions for us? Amnesty International has always been mum on whether abortion is right or wrong. That’s not the issue here, like the church thinks it is. The new view is
about whether or not denial of abortion then be forced to carry that baby to full violates a woman’s core human rights. term and give birth? Do women not Amnesty believes, as we all should, that have the right to say what happens to a woman should have the right to an their bodies? abortion in things such as rape cases and Amnesty says that in “the face of this when their health is in danger. suffering” they cannot stand idly by and Denying abortion and saying a wom- watch women suffer. I applaud them. an cannot put her own health and life We are supposed to be an equal society, first is a direct violation on International yet women are woefully underrepreHuman Rights. One sented and underapof those rights is the preciated. right of women to Amnesty defends an elimination of all We are supposed to be itself by saying “ours forms of discrimina- an equal society, yet is a movement dedition against them, as cated to upholding adopted by the Unit- women are woefully human rights, not ed Nations on Dec. underrepresented and specific theologies. 18, 1979. Our purpose involves underappreciated. According to Amthe law and the state, nesty International, not God.” one out of every three The Catholic women has been the Church is not above victim of sexual abuse the law. The pope is or rape and has been pushed into sex. In just a man. Why does the church conthe U.S. alone, 85 percent of domestic tinue to deny basic human rights in abuse is leveled against women. About favor of tradition? By denying support 70 percent of the abuse is by their male to Amnesty and urging for the ban of partners. U.N. Secretary-General Ban all forms of abortion, the church is supKi-moon said 80 percent of casualties in porting violence against women. war zones are women and children. Sadly, the church has always treated How is it all right for a woman to be women as second-class citizens. Just raped in a war zone by the enemy and read your history.
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Hacking Homeland The Department of Homeland Modern computer technology is Security announced that it’s been almost 30 years old. breached over 800 times in the last In short, the U.S. government two years. has had some time to prepare and That’s more than once a day, ev- maintain self-contained and logical ery day. networks. Every one of these breaches, So now we have the admission which include transmitting sensi- that the most-secretive department tive information through unsecured in our government can’t even keep channels, came from its less-sensi- key-logging software off its comtive networks. This is in addition puters – computers that aren’t even to a handful of other attacks on its connected to the outside world. more-sensitive The incomsystems that it’s petence is as admitted to. frightening as Considerit is mind-bogThe most-secretive ing the mania gling. in our There is one for privacy the department department bright ray to this is known for, government can’t even story, though. there’s a good keep key-logging soft- The department possibility that volunteered this other attacks ware off its computers. i n f o r m a t i o n haven’t been reabout its own ported. vulnerabilities. We’re also By reaching out forced to wonto Congress, the der how many department has simply haven’t been detected. done something that this nation’s The worst thing about this whole infrastructure vitally needs to do situation isn’t that these problems more often – it has communicated occurred, though that’s alarming its problems and its needs to those enough in its own right. After all, who can offer relief. the government really has no reliOur homeland security may have able way of knowing how much been compromised, but by taking information has been lost or stolen the first step of acknowledging that by unfriendly elements. problem, the department is making What’s terrible about this is that a start to help ensure these kinds of we’re living in 2007. We’ve had the problems will be minimized in the Internet for some 13 years now. future.
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June 21, 2007
The comeback of ‘dark film’ – sort of By Amy Robertson Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Film noir is a term that may not be commonly known among moviegoers today, but it is a term that most likely applies to many films they watch. Film noir, a specific genre of filmmaking, is not even easily defined by even the greatest of film buffs, but is nonetheless making a comeback with films such as “The Good German,” “Sin City,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Momento.” With the help of cult directors such as Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher, film noir has not only started to make a comeback, but has given
birth to a whole new following with movie buffs. It is because of this following that more neo-noir movies have been made in the past six years than in an entire decade that followed the classic noir years. There are 32 movies that can be considered film noir that were made between 2000 and 2006. In the 1960s, there were only 20 noir-like films produced. There have been nine films that could be considered noir made in the last year alone. With the outpouring of films like “Smokin’ Aces,” “Hollywoodland” and “Lucky Number Slevin,” it is safe that to say that film noir genre has been revived, becoming a favorite technique of directors today. However, this type of filmmaking was a favorite of directors from the blackand-white era of the 1940s as well. Back then film noir was just that – a dark movie.
They were often shot in low lighting, There are no set guidelines; it is meretook place in an urban setting and re- ly a mood or style the movie exudes. volved around such uplifting topics as In other words, people today are so murder, sexual exploitation and crime. ambiguous and indecisive that the labelIn general, noir films evoked an overall ing of any movie as film noir is almost pessimistic mood. pointless. In the classic days However, being of film noir, most the creative culture storylines centered Heroes from the we are, critics have on the private eye in the very least been and femme-fatale 1940s were so tragiable to find simitype of characters. lar characteristics cally flawed ... that With that sort amongst the movies of Dick Tracy-type character development they consider to be character a thing of played a huge role on film noir, or rather the past, the bubble neo-noir as the genre the film itself. of what film noir is most-commonly is has expanded so called now. much that what is As with the ’40s in the bubble, and and ’50s, noir films what’s not, has become nearly unrecog- still make use of low lighting, somenizable. times a result of being a lower-budget Most film critics say there is no clear film; incorporate low- and wide-angle definition of what makes a movie film shots; and take advantage of effects that noir. disorientate the viewer, such as shoot-
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ing reflections from a mirror or through window panes. Though noir films of both the past and present portray drastically flawed heroes and unusually convoluted plots that are drenched in flashbacks and other twists to confuse the viewer, classic film noir went into greater detail in doing so. Heroes from the 1940s were so tragically flawed and portrayed so extensively that character development played a huge role in the film itself. Film noir today, however, though maintaining many of the same elements from the past, is so superficial when it comes to character development. The focus today seems to be more on the plot and how good of a loop the director can throw the audience. It’s all show these days. Furthermore, because of the genre’s obscure nature, it’s hard to say how long it will last and what it may be contrived into next.
Those old horror films ain’t what they used to be By Amy Robertson Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com Web sites all over the Internet preach and proclaim their opinion on almost any subject imaginable from politics to Paris. Surprisingly, nestled among these pulpits and blogs, Web browsers may actually stumble upon valid viewpoints. Being the avid horror movie fan and curious human being that I am, I decided to search for other peoples’ opinions of what some “classic horror films” might be. Several Web sites unanimously agreed that such a category should include “The Shining,” “Halloween,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Friday the 13th” and “The Exorcist” – all of which were made between the years 1973 and 1980. In other words, most classic horror
films are from 20 or more years ago. It is understandable for films from the’70s and ’80s to be classic in the sense that they came about first, but to be classic is to also be great and it is for this reason that thrillers today have no excuse for not being of equal status to films from decades ago. All the Wes Cravens out there still have a responsibility to their audiences and to themselves to make films that are of the highest quality. I hate to be the one to say it, but unfortunately horror films today are not living up to that standard. Scary movies just aren’t scary anymore. Horror films, by nature, are designed to disgust, frighten and disturb audiences. This is achieved by tapping into the fears and nightmares that are inherit in us as humans, such as death, abandonment, torture, the supernatural – the list
goes on. However, when horror films first came about in the 1930s the fears that overtook the screens were images of monsters, vampires and other creatures such as “Frankenstein.” It wasn’t until Alfred Hitchcock came along in the 1960s that horror films started to form some of the characteristics that can be seen being imitated in movies today. However, similar characteristics are not the only reason audiences may be feeling deja vu while watching thrillers. Some horror moviegoers may unknowingly be watching a film that has already been made thanks to a popular thing known as the remake. Such films as “The Amityville Horror” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” were so groundbreaking and horrifying for their time.
However, with decades gone by the question that arises is can directors really just slap on some extra fake blood to the point of overkill and expect the same story to still be horrifying? Being scared is not the same thing as being disgusted or grossed out. But it seems the only substance horror films consist of these days are blood and guts. The problem with scary movies today is that we, as audience members, are so desensitized to graphic violence and tragedy. People are exposed to so much horror in real life, with images of murder and death splashed across newspaper pages and computer screens, that using the same themes in movies as a scare tactic is impractical. It’s not shocking anymore. Movie-company moguls think adding more blood will take away from the
lack of plot. Such makeup may work for the time being, but audiences will very soon, if they haven’t already, outgrow these mere special effects. The problem with this strategy is that directors are overusing it and because of this, horror movies are beginning to all look the same. It seems they all revolve around a murderer who terrorizes a group of young people and kills every one except one or two of the most attractive characters. The survivors, in turn, murder the killer and walk off into the sunset sweaty and tired from the nightmare they just endured. So on that note, you’re welcome for all the money I just saved everyone. You no longer have to worry about wasting two hours and four dollars on renting “House of Wax,” “The Hitcher,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” and many other supposed blockbuster flicks.
Spector trial focuses on gory death photos Both sides of the trial argue that blood splatter supports their case By Linda Deutsch AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a scene worthy of a horror movie, jurors in Phil Spector’s murder trial were bombarded with pictures of actress Lana Clarkson’s face as a forensic analyst described her
wounds Tuesday. In the images, blood oozed from Clarkson’s mouth and nose. The pictures were the subject of testimony by Lynne Herold, a sheriff’s criminalist. The pictures had been seen before, but of all the forensic experts to testify so far, Herold’s analysis was the most graphic and her descriptions the most shocking. She spoke about clotting blood, stringy blood, blood spatter and bodily fluids.
Seated in the courtroom’s front row, Clarkson’s mother and sister averted their eyes from the death photos displayed on a big screen, sometimes in groups of four. But they watched with interest when an image of Clarkson’s clothing, including the last dress she wore, was projected on a screen with marks to show where blood spattered on it. Several times, prosecutor Alan Jackson analogized the scenes jurors were seeing to the gory movies of Quentin Tarantino, which led the expert to say that details of a real murder are different than the screen versions. She said that blood on the gun that killed Clarkson and on her face and hand was smeared at some point but it was hard to tell how. She said three sources of “moving blood” would be the gun, a bloody cloth found nearby and “Mr. Spector.” “But the gun doesn’t move itself, so he moved it?” asked Jackson. “That is the inference,” said Herold. “I’m assuming no law enforcement personnel moved it.”
The expert said she was not at the death scene in Spector’s mansion and made her analysis primarily from photographs and examination of evidence in her laboratory. Clarkson, 40, died from a single bullet fired into her mouth in the foyer of the music producer’s home on Feb. 3, 2003. The defense claims that Clarkson, whose body was slumped in a chair, killed herself. “Here you can see the smeared blood up into her hair,” Herold said as jurors looked at a picture of Clarkson’s damaged profile. She said it was clear that someone had moved Clarkson’s head at some point before the body was found. Jackson asked whether Clarkson was immediately incapacitated by the gunshot or whether she could have gotten up and moved. “No, she would not have been able to move,” said the witness. “There is no movement by her after she started bleeding.” At the start of her testimony, Herold
made an assertion that contradicted a claim made during the defense opening statement. Herold said that scientific literature shows that blood spatter travels no more than 2-3 feet from the point where the bullet impacts a person. The defense claimed that blood can travel as far as 6 feet and its controversial forensic expert, Henry Lee, is expected to testify on that point. “Obviously, we cannot line up people and shoot them to see what happens,” Herold said. “But we look at crime scenes and measure blood spatter. It’s a combination of laboratory testing and crime scene observations.” Jackson asked her if it was surprising that there was so little blood spatter on Clarkson’s slip dress. “Not to me,” the witness said cheerfully. “It’s not like the guy standing offstage (in the movies) who throws the bucket of blood.” Shortly after the witness noted that a certain blood flow could barely be seen on the screen and the prosecutor noted that “jurors will have the photos to look at up close and personal,” the judge called a recess. “Given the nature of this kind of testimony I think breaks are especially important,” said Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler. Clarkson, who appeared in the 1985 movie “Barbarian Queen,” died just hours after meeting Spector at her job as a House of Blues hostess and agreeing to go home with him for a drink. Spector, 67, was a leading music producer in the 1960s and ’70s, rising to fame with a revolutionary recording technique known as the “Wall of Sound.”
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RIAA tracking college networks for piracy CSUF employs programs to prevent file sharing on its Internet network By Yui Kashiwagi Summer Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Fahra Augustin, a senior in international business at Cal State Fullerton, said she never downloaded music files or videos illegally because she did not want to pay a fine or go to jail for copyright infringement. However, this opinion isn’t all too common. A survey from last year by Student Monitor found that more than half of college students downloaded music and movies illegally. It was also found that illegal sharing of files, called peer to peer, sometimes is possible on campus. Ryo Saito, 22, Radio-TV-Film major, used to live in the dorms. He said he downloaded almost 500 gigabytes of music and movies. However, he never got into trouble with housing or the Information Technology department. The confrontation between the entertainment industry, the government and customers regarding file sharing has not stopped since the Napster case in 1999. In the latest salvo in that conflict, letters from the Recording Industry Association of America were sent to several institutions, including colleges, asking for the names of people allegedly illegally downloading files. In March 2007, it sent letters to 19 universities asking for a stop to copyright infringement by students using computers on campus, Jonathan Lamy and Liz Kennedy at the RIAA reported. Jenni Engbretsen, RIAA spokeswoman, said in ANG Newspapers that 92 notices were sent to students at UC Berkley and 92 more to students of Stanford. Both schools got almost double the number of notices compared to 2006. According to Brock Read in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the RIAA sent letters again to 700 institu-
Courtesy of arttoday tions to announce it would soon offer students the option of out-of-court settlement. It also sent 13 universities letters that offered them settlements before they sued 400 computer users across those
campuses. In fact, the association has sued nearly 18,000 computer users since September 2003, according to ANG Newspapers. Mike Marcinkevicz, director of Net-
work Computing and Security, said the department blocked many programs this semester because of complaints from the RIAA. On Nov. 6, 2003, Darren S. Cahr, Nicole Murray and Howard Zweing, members of the National Association of College and University Attornies, asked CSU schools to be aware of peer-to-peer file-sharing issues. They requested that schools educate students that copyright infringement is illegal and that infringers may have to pay up to $150,000 per infringement as well as face potential criminal penalties. The organization also asked schools to implement technical improvements that would limit the amount of file sharing. On March 7 the CSU decided to send a president’s official notice asking schools to follow Executive Order 999. The order said that “the policy of the CSU is to use any and all information technologies in a manner consistent with the federal laws governing copyright protection.” At Cal State Fullerton, students have
limited access to networks in the library and dorms so they cannot download files illegally. Moreover, students who use wireless networks and download files on campus will get a personal visit warning and have to remove those files, Marcinkevicz said. However, it is still hard to catch all of the copyright infringements. “We are trying to do the right thing.” Marcinkevicz said. File downloading is like speeding – everyone knows it is illegal but people do not feel as guilty, he said. The department uses an application called Packeteer that can restrict the browser and how fast it can work. Packeteer also works to break the software that copies files Marcinkevicz said. Due to Packeteer and restriction on networks, Cal State Fullerton has only received a few complaints to date, Marcinkevicz said. Chris Ruiv, 23, a senior at Cal State Fullerton, said he was downloading a lot of files before 2004. However, he does not do it anymore because school policy has become stricter about illegal downloading.