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Wednesday September 5, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND Racing for a cure, faculty takes a walk CSUF Inside – They have been touched by people who have battled breast cancer and they want to attack the disease that affects more than 1.2 million people worldwide. Five faculty members and an undergraduate student are lacing up their running shoes and participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, a two-day, 39mile trek through Los Angeles, to raise money for a cure for breast cancer. For more information, visit www.avonwalk.org.
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives
‘Cat burglar’ stole $20,000 from mom
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Our chemistry is actually really good right now. We’re passing well. When we get a good pass, we get a good set, we kill the ball.
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– Erin Saddler, on CSUF’s
volleyball team’s win.
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YOUTUBE: Miss Teen South Carolin-duh...
The Miss Teen America hopefully gives her painful and much talked about answer to why many Americans cannot find the U.S. on a map. She struggles through what, in her mind, is a complex answer by referencing “U.S, Americans” and “the Iraq.” It’s actually uncomfortable to watch this poor girl “uh” and “um” her way through as she makes a sad and desperate plea to sound vaguely intelligent. Duration: 0:48
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Anaheim resident Tilly Gipson had no idea so many Japanese Americans lived in Orange County prior to World War II. She marvels at the photos on the wall of the museum at the Fullerton Arboretum. “Where did they all go?” Gipson said. That is one of the questions the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum hopes to answer with its exhibit, “Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei Farmers in Pre-World War II Orange County.” The exhibit, running Sept. 8 through Dec. 16 at the Fullerton Arboretum, showcases the plight of Japanese farmers in Orange County until World War II, when many were forced into internment camps in the spring of 1942. Stephanie George, of the university’s Center for Oral and Public History and director of the exhibit’s content, chose to use photographs and orally-based accounts to tell the story of the Nikkei farmers and their struggle to build families, communities and lives in America. “Most of the photographs, held by the Center for Oral and Public History’s Japanese American Oral History Project, supported the storyline,” George said, “while borrowed
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artifacts and staged areas fleshed out the others.” The exhibit begins with a section titled “Journeying to a New Land,” which chronicles Japanese immigrants’ difficult entry into the United States. “I hope that people walk away with a sense of how hard the Japanese worked and how bad they wanted to become Americans,” said Gregory Dyment, director of the Fullerton Arboretum. “They loved this new land and the people who where already here and they wanted to be part of that.” The exhibit discusses how many Japanese immigrants worked on railroads before the agricultural boom, and features period photographs of families and original passports. The exhibit then moves on to “Forming Families,” which accounts the seamless conjoining of traditional Japanese values with a new life as a farmer; a life that men, women and children all adopted. A white, 1930s-style kitchen tucked in a cozy corner of the museum displays a period radio and brand names of the day around a dinner of steamed buns on a table set for two, giving visitors an idea of what a meal was like for Japanese immigrants. “Farming Fields” focuses on the cultivation of sugar beets and chilies and also includes an interactive children’s area designed to educate
kids about farming. There is also a small simulated farm stand. “The stand has small details that I hope visitors will catch, including the receipt book from a local Japanese American farm,” George said. “And, yes, those are real dirt furrows!” This area also features the highlight of the exhibit. Stretching up 7 feet and reaching across 10 feet is a
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I hope visitors will take the time to see the entire exhibit from start to finish.
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Fullerton Arboretum
mixed-media piece created by artist Mike Saijo. The 32-year-old New York-based artist and museum curator’s work has been featured in the New York Times and LA Weekly. Saijo, whose media can also be found on YouTube.com, created the piece exclusively for “Sowing Dreams” using photographs and writings from Orange County’s Japanese American community magazine, Echo, which was published prior to World War II. The piece’s wooden frame was
assembled in Los Angeles and is suspended by the rusted chains of a former celery farm. The moving black and white prints were created in New York. The prints show Japanese farmers posed for pictures with neat and straight rows of sugar beets extended behind them. They have the grimace of the overworked and poorly paid, but their eyes are bright and hopeful and teach the lesson Dyment hopes visitors will learn. “By working hard, being fair and honest and believing, dreams can come true,” Dyment said. The piece is made possible by second-generation Japanese American donor and dentist Ernest Nagamatsu. Nagamatsu can trace his bloodline back to a pioneering Orange County family. The prints are arranged in a haphazard collage fashion and finished with a wax sealing. Collectively, they form a tangible tapestry of Nikkei dreams. The next section, “Building Communities,” contains class pictures from the Japanese-language schools that sprang up in the community. Political and social groups, as well as churches, were also established. “They even had a baseball team!” Fullerton resident, Gayla Landrum, remarked about a photograph of a rag tag team. Landrum and Gipson wandered into the “Sowing Dreams”
exhibit from the gardens of the Arboretum. “It’s very interesting,” Gipson said. “I had no clue about all the history behind this.” “Uprooting Lives” is the final segment of the exhibit, ending the timeline at a tense period in history when many Japanese Americans were forced to vacate the area. U.S. involvement in World War II resulted in drastic consequences for Nikkei farmers. Vintage posters asking Japanese Americans to report for “evacuation” can be found in this portion of the exhibit. Many lost their property and businesses and just as many would return to Orange County to begin again years later. “Sowing Dreams” takes a close look at an unseen, rarely discussed plight of Japanese Americans in Orange County. “I hope visitors will take the time to see the entire exhibit from start to finish,” Dyment said. “That really is the only way one can see and appreciate ‘Sowing Dreams and Cultivating Lives.’” The Fullerton Arboretum is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4.p.m and by appointment during the week. Dyment looks forward to seeing students there. “I hope the university community takes the time to go through the exhibit before it closes,” Dyment said.
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O.C. exhibit showcases the lives of Japanese Americans prior to World War II
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) – A man has been charged with extorting more than $20,000 from his elderly mother by repeatedly threatening to kidnap her beloved cat and demanding ransom, police said. Garry Lamar, 47, was arrested Friday and released on $200 bail. He has been ordered to stay away from his 78-year-old mother, Mary Lamar Grancher. He started threatening to kidnap his the cat just over a year ago, after his mother kicked him out of her home, accusing him of abuse, North Kingstown Police Sgt. Daniel Ormond said. “This isn’t just a family cat,” Ormond said. “She actually called this cat her companion since she lived alone.” Lamar allegedly kidnapped the cat once and made threats on an almost weekly basis.
The Cal State Fullerton Academic Senate held its first meeting of the fall semester last Thursday to give an orientation of what they expect for the upcoming school year. Diana Guerin, academic senate chair for the Department of Childhood and Adolescent Studies, started the meeting by describing it as “the official voice of the community.” “We try and get a sense of what the campus viewpoint is and represent that,” Guerin said. Guerin went on to say that the Senate is working to update the University Policy Statements and keep
them current. “Anyone can recommend ideas for University Policy Statements and bring it to the committee, and we will try to act upon those suggestions,” Guerin said. The Senate, according to Guerin, “provides the official voice of the university community ... and develops, formulates and reviews educational and profession policy, which becomes policy if approved by the president.” When Vincent Buck, senator for the Department of Politics, Administration and Justice, took his turn at the mic, and had plenty of ideas and suggestions to convey. “We are a body of equals, we all have a role in determining policy,” Buck said. “The official voice of the
faculty, advising on academic policy; we are a [voice for the people].” Buck also spoke about the ways in which the Senate can improve itself. “The communication with the faculty could probably be better ... our socialization could be better. We could ask better questions and do our homework,” Buck said. “Some things are moving in the right directions, others are not, these are issues that need to constantly be addressed.” Kristi Kanel, member-at-large for the Department of Human Services, said that students interested in learning about the Senate should visit their Web site. “Many of the staff in the junior faculty do not know about the junior bylaws,” Kanel said. “I like to introduce
them to [University Policy Statement] 210. Many people are interested in 210, and it’s really good for most people to be aware of this policy.” University Policy Statement 210 addresses such issues as faculty tenure, promotion and evaluation. The Academic Senate is hoping to review and update the University Policy Statements, many of which have been in effect for as many as 40 years. The policy regarding the illegal use of drugs by students is pending a review by the Senate. The policy became effective on December 1968, and states that, “Persons who are arrested on this offense must face having a ‘police record’ on many applications for employment, regardless of whether they are subsequently convicted. Con-
viction of a felony currently carries penalties of imprisonment for a minimum of one year and a maximum of 10 years for the first offense.” Guerin reiterated why she felt that students should be aware of the Academic Senate. “The Senate is the voice, we can bring forward the concerns of the students,” Guerin said. “We are the megaphone of the students.” While some students may not have heard about the Academic Senate, Guerin does not necessarily think that’s a bad thing. “We’re like your legislatures, if they’re doing a good job, you probably won’t hear about it. It’s when something goes wrong that you’ll hear about them,” Guerin said.