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FEATURES: Reaching for a credit card might seem like an easy way to grab and go, but in the end the bill maybe the biggest frustration, page 3 NEWS: A series of movies shown by the Cal State Fullerton Women’s Center through the fall semester examines the role of women, page 2
Daily Titan
Tuesday September 18, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND Olympic road runs through Anaheim The 2008 Olympic volleyball pre-qualifier tournament is taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center until Friday. Contestants from North and Central America will come to California for the first time in 14 years for the Confederation Championship. The quarter finals and semifinals will occur Wednesday and Thursday. The Championship games will take place on Friday beginning at 5:30 and 8 p.m. For ticket information, visit www.anaheim.net or call (714) 765-5060.
Cat makes splashy exit via fire hose
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) – A fearful feline that was stuck in a tree for a week, clinging to branches several stories high, was finally blasted to safety with a high-pressure fire hose. Volunteers with an outstretched sheet made the save as the cat – soaked and hungry but unharmed – was hosed out of the tree by firefighters Sunday night. The cat had previously ignored people who banged cans of cat food and climbed ladders that were just out of reach. It took two shots with the hose to do the trick. “As soon as the cat landed ... it ran into the woods,” said artist and animal rescuer Greg Speirs. “Some kids helped us bring the cat back, and a man said he would adopt the cat right on the spot,” Speirs said. “You can’t come up with a nicer ending than that.”
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Most people, for lack of a better word, are stupid and just pay the minimum balance. If you’re too stupid, just don’t get a credit card.
Troubling time for Titans Titans lose two goalkeepers and three straight matches
Seminar explores the topic of finding a way to use alternative energy
By Laura Burrows
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he Titans lost another goalkeeper to injury on Sunday, while enduring a 6-1 loss against Ohio State University at the UCLA’s Men’s Soccer Tournament. The team lost its second-string goalkeeper Kevin Puder in the third minute of the match, leaving freshman Tyler Andrews to take on the Buckeyes. Puder suffered an abdominal strain after taking on a direct blow from Ohio State offender Eric Edwards. Initial reports were that Puder had pulled abdominal muscles and could be out as long as 12 weeks. First-string keeper, Brent Douglas, did not play due to a face orbital fracture he acquired in last Sunday’s match against Michigan. “I am going in for surgery on Monday and should be good to play in three to four weeks. I wouldn’t do the corrective surgery if it lengthened the healing time for my face,” Douglas said. He is anticipating corrective surgery early this week and coaches hope he will be back on the field for the Cal State Northridge match on Oct. 3. “There is no real assurance given he may have to be wearing a protective mask,” Head Coach Bob Ammann said. “Obviously that could affect his performance as a keeper, as it would any player.” See SOCCER, Page 6
By Karl Thunman/Daily Titan Photo Editor Cal State Fullerton midfielder Skyler Thuresson raises his shirt over his head in disappointment after the Titans’ 6-1 loss against Ohio State at UCLA on Sept. 16.
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YOUTUBE: PLUTO CHASES LITTLE BRAT
Pollak Library to pay tribute to luminaries Those honored will be featured on a poster to promote a favorite book By URMI RAHMAN
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First his planet status is taken away, and now he gets caught chasing some little kid who probably kicked him in the first place. Life sucks for Pluto. But the rest of us can enjoy this home video of the mascot running after a kid at full speed before an adult finally grabs him. Like any sane child abuser, he immediately denies he did anything wrong, by way of hand gestures, but gets shoved down anyway. Duration: 0:29
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In a creative celebration of Cal State Fullerton’s year-long 50th anniversary, the Pollak Library is commemorating 10 distinguished members of the campus’ past and present this week. On Wednesday, the notable members will receive their own READ @ Your Library posters that will feature their pictures and a book of their choice. The event will be held in room 130 at 6 p.m. and is open to the public. “We wanted to choose people from all different areas [and have] a representative group,” Chair of the READ planning committee, Heather Tunender, said. “We wanted everybody that plays a part [of CSUF] and to represent the whole 50 years.” The event, funded by the university’s Golden Ideas program, will be similar to an art opening with family and friends. “We kept it quiet and private. It’s just about the posters,” she said. The committee scoured the campus Web site for outstanding members of CSUF’s history, including those in the news and who won awards. Among the 10 is a distinguished member of CSUF whose tenure started in August 1990. University President Milton Gordon holds a Master of Arts and a doctorate in mathematics and has been honored by the local community for myriad services including community service and management. President Gordon chose “It Can’t
Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis as by C.S. Lewis. “[C.S. Lewis] was a man who queshis book of choice. University Librarian Pat Bril will tioned much, sought answers and tried to live a life that was honest and also be highlighted at the reception. “I was very surprised and flat- true,” Ramirez said. After reading about the other retered to be included among so many key individuals in the history of our cipients, he said he felt humbled to be university,” Bril said. “I am aware of chosen along with them. “I am privileged to represent the similar poster campaigns at other academic libraries, and I think they are a School of Education and the many great way to highlight the importance fine people who do much for CSUF, the students and the community,” he of reading within the community.” Bril began her CSUF career 35 said. Another candidate is Nancy Segal, years ago as reference librarian, has overseen the construction of the a professor of developmental psychollibrary’s north addition and worked ogy who won the Outstanding Proextensively in managing, staffing and fessor of the Year award a few years ago and is also the finance. campus director Her choof the Twin Studsen book, “The ies Center. Segal Worldly Philoso- I am privileged to reppicked “Rosalind phers: The Lives, resent the School of Franklin: The Times, and Ideas Dark Lady of of the Great Eco- Education and the many nomic Thinkers” fine people who do much DNA” by Brenda Maddox as her by Robert L. for CSUF, the students novel. Heilbroner, inOne of the first fluenced her to and the community. – A.Y. ‘Fred’ Ramirez people encounchoose economTitans Baseball Head Coach tered at CSUF’s ics as her major Human Resourcin college. es department is P r e s i d e n t ’s Carole Wilson. Scholar and Since 2007, she alumnus, April Ulloa-Cannon, will also be featured has offered a positive first impression for her accomplishments and cur- to new employees, and in 2002 was rent teaching career at CSUF. With awarded the Titan Excellence Award. a major in English, Ulloa-Cannon Her favorite book is”Tanamera: A graduated with the President’s Associ- Novel of Singapore” by Noel Barber. George Horton, the former baseates Award in 2005 and a 4.0 GPA. She chose”To Kill a Mockingbird” by ball head coach for over a decade, will also be honored at the event. Horton Harper Lee as her novel. Associate Professor of Secondary was named the Big West ConferEducation A.Y. ‘Fred’ Ramirez, who ence Coach of the Year five times and has served the university for nine has garnered national attention for years, has written over 20 scholarly CSUF’s athletic program. He chose articles and encourages students to “Heads-Up Baseball” by Ken Ravizza and Tom Hanson. teach as a profession. Alumnus Tam Nguyen earned He chose “The Screwtape Letters”
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his MBA in 2005 and promotes the campus today as a Titan Advocate. He helped develop the Vietnamese American MBA Chapter of the Alumni Association and chose “The Golden Destination,” a brochure, for his poster. Ernest Toy, the Pollak Library’s first university librarian from 1959 to his retirement in 1983 will also be honored Wednesday night. He founded the Patrons of the Library program in 1965 and has overseen many transformations from the library’s location to its extensive book collection. His novel is”Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam” by John A. Nagl. The last CSUF representative will be its elephant mascot, Tuffy Titan, who has been with the university since the ‘60s. The mascot developed from the intercollegiate elephant races held on campus in its early years. Tuffy’s book is”Babar and the Professor” by Laurent de Brunhoff. The university sought Golden Ideas Initiatives during the previous year from faculty, staff, students, supporters and alumni to create projects that could celebrate the anniversary. Funding was provided to 24 initiatives and the library received $2,000. Tunender, an electronic resource librarian, proposed the idea to Elizabeth Housewright, the associate university librarian. She headed the planning committee along with seven faculty and librarian volunteers. The pictures were taken during the summer and posters were finished this weekend. Originally, celebrity READ posters were created by the American Library Association in 1985 to promote the simple act of reading. Celebrities donate their time and image to encourage the use of libraries.
It’s not often that you see burning snow on a warm sunny Thursday afternoon in a chemistry class at Cal State Fullerton. Somehow, UC Irvine Professor Kenneth Janda conquered this feat when he demonstrated how compacted methane ice vacuumed from a steel apparatus showed the possibility of alternative energy. His seminar, explained in the wordy title, “Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Halogen Molecules Trapped in Clathrate-Hydrate Cages” is not for the faint of heart. Most who attended were already armed with a chemistry degree and had an understanding of the lecture. Currently, Janda’s research studies are under way to test why bromine crystals behave differently than water crystals. Due to its slightly different energy in each hydrate cage and the rise of temperature, the hydrogen moves to a slightly bigger cage. Using spectroscopy to determine this, Janda said, “it may be the motion inside the cage that influences the stability of the crystal formation.” Spectroscopy is the study of bonding of intermolecular interactions through the use of light or other radiation. “Water is difficult to model correctly as it disobeys the third law of thermodynamics,” Janda said. “Pure liquid water does not freeze. It only freezes if there are impurities in the water.” Methane hydrates, calthrates or simply methane ice are deposits of methane crystallized in water and can be found along the coasts of every continent. A trillion kilograms of methane is frozen into ice sediments in the ocean. Propane and methane is pressurized with ice pellets and is measured in temperatures. The ice starts to melt after the heat reaches zero degrees. When the heat hits 12 degrees, the pressure increases, and can store about 120 pounds per square inch of gas up to about 10 degrees Celsius and still be safe. Any more than 10 degrees would cause an explosion. To demonstrate the burning of ice, Janda presented a rudimentary device hooked onto a backyard barbecue propane tank. The methane ice in the steel container is pressurized. Two chunks of cylindrical ice were lit with a lighter, to the delight and gasps of the audience. Though the methane ice would not stay ablaze for the promised 15 minutes, Dr. Janda jokingly said if they lost National Science Foundation Collaborative Research in Chemistry funding, demonstrations like this would make cool party drinks. “There is enough methane frozen in the ocean sediments to run the economy for several hundred years. Unless we figure what to do with the carbon dioxide that comes from harvesting the methane – like science, it’s a double-edged sword,” Janda said. According to a United States geological survey, methane is relatively abundant and has a clean burning process that produces less carbon dioxide than other hydrocarbon fuels. “And there is a worry if methane were to come up without being burned, it’s even worse because it’s a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide itself. We need to understand it.” Fu-Ming Tao, a physical chemistry professor at CSUF, explained how important it is to find alternative energy.
See ENERGY, Page 2