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Daily Titan
Wednesday October 31, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Huntington Beach band plays the Pub Local band “A Kiss Could Be Deadly” will perform at the TSU Pub on Thursday. The performance runs from noon to 1 p.m. as part of the Pub’s ongoing concert series. Lead by vocalist Lauren, the five-piece band combines punk, rock and new wave to create their sound, which has started to garner attention from rock critics. Last year, the band was one of three winners of Alternative Press’s “Almost Famous” contest. For more information on future performances, visit myspace. com/akisscouldbedeadly.
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0wner in tears over pet pig’s big potbelly WINONA, Minn. (AP) – A woman wants abuse charges filed against an acquaintance who was pet-sitting for her potbellied pig and allowed the animal to get fat. Michelle Schmitz said her pig, Alaina Templeton, weighed 50 pounds when Schmitz left her with a co-worker who offered to care for the animal in February. Nine months later, the pig weighed 150 pounds and it took veterinarians 4½ hours to surgically remove the animal’s collar, the Winona Daily News reported. Officers are investigating whether Alaina was abused by the sitter’s neglect and overfeeding. When she tried to recover the pig in April, Schmitz said the coworker wouldn’t return her calls. She said she didn’t know where the woman lived and that when she finally found the woman’s farm Saturday, she discovered Alaina’s neck had grown around her collar and that the pig had trouble breathing. The pig now wears bandages and is healing from a pressure wound and neck infection. Schmitz said she cried for three days after she discovered her pet’s weight problem. “That pig is my life,” said Schmitz, who has a tattoo of Alaina’s name.
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It’s finally Halloween, and attractions in the spooks and scares are aplenty for thrill-seeking students. Fullerton locals looking to avoid movie theaters can check out a theatrical performance of “Night of the Living Dead” at the Maverick Theater. The show started Monday and end its run today. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $18. Make the trek to Yorba Linda and experience Haunt Hotel and Graveyard. Open from 6 to 9 p.m on Halloween, admission is free. The Haunt Hotel and Graveyard is located at 5905 Via Del Tecolote. For horror movie buffs, the Haunted Graveyard and Maze of Terror is a covered outdoor maze featuring scenes from such films as “Psycho,” “Arachnophobia,” “Beetlejuice” and others. Open from dusk until 10 p.m., this Santa Anabased maze is located at 808 La Vergn Way. Kids and kids at heart can head to Disneyland for HalloweenTime, where Disneyland characters w e a r H a l loween costumes, participate in Hall owe e n activities and other ghostly fun. Admission is $53 to $63 and parking is $11. Be prepared to go to sleep early be-
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cause Mickey and the rest of the gang go to sleep at 8 p.m. Cheapskate thrill seekers can visit the Haunted Maze, built by a group of neighbors who combined their houses for a scary experience. This year’s mazes include “death row,” “executioner’s chamber” and “cranky clowns.” The maze runs from 6 to 10 p.m on Halloween. The location is at 5925 Los Nietos, Buena Park. A Halloween alternative for the faint-hearted is the Fall Festival held at Foothill Family Church in Foothill Ranch. Games include paintball, a mechanical surfboard, a bounce house, arcade games, food and more. The free event is held at 19432 Bake Parkway from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Celebrate Halloween at the beach by heading down to Main Street in Huntington Beach for the Halloween Celebration. The fun will include trick-or-treating, rides, a costume contest, a moon bounce and arts and crafts. This event is free. Mazes are abundant Halloween night with the Block at Orange’s The Haunted Cellar. Admission is $9 to $15 and held until 10 p.m located across from the Vans Skate Park. Don a costume at the “Night of the Living Dead” Masquerade Party at the Bowers Museum. For $50, event-goers gulp mummy martinis while watching “The Mummy” on a large screen. For a less expensive event, head to the Sutra Lounge in Costa Mesa, where $20 to $40 can purchase admission to the 4th annual Lalita XS Halloween Ball. Champagne is complementary from 7 to 9 p.m. Wear a costume and dance the night away to DJ Melo-D of the Beat Junkies.
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CSUF groups gather to organize an awareness fair today to educate students By ELENI REED
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This video is a compilation of older and more recent clips of what some believe are supernatural beings. These clips are offered as “proof ” of the existence of ghosts, spirits and demons. Most of the clips are shaky, blurry or otherwise unclear, increasing the already unlikely potential for any of the videographer’s claims to be real. One clip, however, features a Japanese girl looking into a mirror. But when she looks away, the reflection does not change and the image continues to stare. Duration: 9:46
Daunting and delightful events for CSUF students seeking tricks or treats
Cal State Fullerton’s Project Earth has been expanding its horizons recently. A fundraising bowling night was held as a kick-off to Project Earth’s Environmental Awareness Resource Fair which will be held today on the Titan Walk. Director James McKenney, 19, said Project Earth typically seeks volunteers to do manual labor, such as weed and garden in local parks. The resource fair will provide the campus community with valuable information regarding how everyone can protect and conserve the environment. McKenney said there are a lot of people on campus who don’t have the time to research ways to help the environment. “[We want them] to look out with the resources they have. We will be there with information on how to do small things,” McKenney said. Wednesday’s event will include various nonprofit organizations, such as The Sierra Club, Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment and CSUF’s Environmental Action and Advocacy Committee. CSUF students put together the bowling night, “Blueprint for a Greener Earth.” For a group project, they had to plan an event for a nonprofit group. The event attracted some eager students to participate in the all-you-can-eat-pizza and allyou-can-bowl for $8, while others arrived unaware of the occasion. Nonetheless, they were willing to contribute to Project Earth’s cause of spreading the message of recycling
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By ELENI REED/Daily Titan Staff Writer A poster illustrates how common items can be recycled to help the environment.
and other things to do to protect the environment. “We were more interested in staying here and looking for a group that needed help,” said Michaela Carreon, 22, public relations coordinator. She said the ultimate goal was to get volunteers to sign up with Project Earth for upcoming events and to raise funds and awareness. A booth was stationed with various tips on how to recycle everyday items, such as cell phones, oil filters and ink cartridges. Project Earth director Shayna Horwitz, 22, expressed knowledge as to why everyone should recycle. “We want to recycle to reduce waste and have more space, a cleaner environment and use less resources,” Horwitz said. She said most Staples and Office Depot’s will take used ink cartridges and either refill them or give money for them. To recycle discarded cell phones, she said shelters or Radio Shack will take them. There are hazardous waste recycling centers in every county and she said to contact them to recycle other items as well. A group of students at the Titan
Student Union arrived to bowl, but were unaware there was an event taking place. One female was disappointed because she had just paid to eat upstairs, but still donated to the foundation. Her and her friends were on a break from their group meeting, Queer Straight Alliance, taking place upstairs. Mark Lee, 23, music major, was winning. He enjoyed the price of the event, although he and his friends arrived by chance. “We are just a bunch of friends coming down, bowling and having some fun,” Lee said. Ben Lopez, 19, a music major, said it was a good way to fundraise. “I’m glad it’s for a good cause. We didn’t mind paying for a good cause,” Lopez said. They took advantage of the allyou-can-bowl and the four of them had two games going on in two different lanes. Beatrice Nistor, 19, a linguistic major, said there was lot of jumping between lanes. The turnout pleased Carreon. “I would be happy if only 10 people showed up,” Carreon said. “But more have come.”
The removal of signs promoting a condom giveaway in November was requested after at least one complaint Monday to Robert Palmer, the vice president for student affairs. The condom giveaway, scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 14, is a combined effort of the Daily Titan and the Student Health and Counseling Center to promote safe sex among Cal State Fullerton students. It is scheduled during National AIDS Awareness Week. The sign that was found offensive is part of the promotion for the event. It depicts drawings of a condom and one pair of heterosexual stick figures utilizing a missionary position – an almost identical promotion for the event can be found on page 5 of this edition. The sign is designed to send a message: Condom use makes safe sex possible. The posters, as well as ads in the Daily Titan depicting the same image, have been used for about a month. Howard Wang, associate vice president for student affairs and acting executive director for the center, said the complainant felt the image of the stick figures is pornographic. “We had several complaints about the figures that were obviously intended to show a sex act,” Palmer said. “I could see how it could offend some people. I said we will not have
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the Health Center associated with that particular advertisement.” Wang echoed these sentiments. “I don’t want the Student Health and Counseling Center name to be associated with an icon that could create controversy,” Wang said. Mary Hermann, director of health education, expressed concerns with the unauthorized use of the name of the center. “When I had spoken to Stephanie in our conversations, I just told her that we had an issue with the Student Health and Counseling Center name being used on the posters,” she said. Stephanie Birditt, director of advertising for the Daily Titan, said the name authorization issue never came up during talks about the shared promotion. “This is not to say we will not be involved in the program,” Palmer said. “It’s a good program. Bad poster.” Wang said the decision to try and remove the poster had nothing to do with his own opinion of it. “I don’t necessarily agree with the student that it’s pornographic,” Wang said. “It’s in poor taste in that whoever created it knew that it would create some controversy. That’s a personal See SIGNAGE, Page 2