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Wednesday October 31, 2007
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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.
giveaway raise concerns with administration
CSUF groups gather to organize an awareness fair today to educate students By ELENI REED
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By JADE LEHAR AND CHRISTY Orgeta
A conservationist movement Signs promoting condom Daily Titan Staff Writer
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
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS Turkey’s prime minister: military action ‘unavoidable’
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday increased military action against separatist Kurdish rebels was “unavoidable” and pressed the United States for a crackdown on guerrilla bases in northern Iraq. Turkish helicopters pounded rebel positions near the border with rockets for a second day and Turkey brought in troops by the truckload in an operation against mountainside emplacements. Erdogan flies to Washington on Nov. 5 for talks with President Bush that could be key to whether Turkey carries out its threat of a major military incursion. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is also expected in Turkey later this week. The United States, Iraq and other countries have been calling on Turkey to refrain from a cross-border campaign, which could throw one of the few stable areas in Iraq into chaos. A Turkish incursion would also put the United States in an awkward position with key allies: NATO-member Turkey, the Baghdad government and the self-governing Iraqi Kurds in the north. At least 46 people have been killed by the PKK in Turkey over the past month, according to government and media reports. Those included at least 30 Turkish soldiers killed in two ambushes that were the boldest attacks in years and increased domestic pressure on Erdogan to act.
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Medication among young adults rising rapidly TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – Use of cholesterol and blood pressure medicines by young adults appears to be rising rapidly – at a faster pace than among senior citizens, according to an industry report being released Tuesday. Experts point to higher rates of obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol problems among young people. Also, doctors are getting more aggressive with preventive treatments. Still, Dr. Daniel W. Jones, president of the American Heart Association, said many more people should be on the drugs that lower cholesterol or blood pressure and which have been shown to reduce risks for heart attack and stroke. The new data, from prescription benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc., indicate use of cholesterollowering drugs among people aged 20 to 44, while still low, jumped 68 percent over a six-year period. The rate rose from 2.5 percent in 2001 to just over 4 percent in 2006 among Medco customers. That means roughly 4.2 million Americans in that age group are now taking cholesterol medicines. Meanwhile, use of blood pressure medicines increased 21 percent, from about 7 percent of 20- to 44-year-olds in 2001 to over 8 percent in 2006. That translates into about 8.5 million Americans in that age group taking drugs to lower their blood pressure.
STATE NEWS O.C. sheriff and wife indicted on corruption charges SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, once a rising star in California politics, was indicted on federal corruption charges for allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars in gifts and cash in exchange for political favors. A sweeping indictment unsealed Tuesday charges the 52-year-old lawman once dubbed “America’s Sheriff” with seven counts, including conspiracy, mail fraud and witness tampering. Also charged were Carona’s wife of 27 years, Deborah, and attorney Debra Victoria Hoffman, identified in court papers as his “longtime mistress.” If convicted of all counts, Carona could face a maximum sentence of 95 years in prison, plus thousands of dollars in fines. He was expected to surrender to authorities on Wednesday at the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, said U.S. attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek.
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October 31, 2007
Terror Blackout Night celebrates the unique Vandals rip
off womens choice signs
Titan Tusk Force put together an event for students to dress up
By ROB WEAVER
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Members of the Titan Tusk Force transformed the Titan Student Union Pavilions into a glow-in-thedark costume bonanza to celebrate Halloween. Pavilion C glowed with strobe lights, while the entrance-way was laced with cobwebs and streamers. “Everyone in the Titan Tusk Force has been working really hard to prepare for this,” said Kayleigh Atwater, vice chair of the Titan Tusk Force. “I love Halloween.” Flashes of screen stills from horror movies covered the walls while music blared for party–goers to dance. Celebrators participated in dance contests to the songs “Thriller” and “Time Warp” for prizes. Melanie Guinton, dressed as a ‘70s hippy, received a prize for her rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” “I’m most excited about just hanging out and learning the dance moves,” said Katelynn Monday, a member of the Titan Tusk Force. The Cal State Fullerton Hip-Hop Dance Team entertained the costumed crowd when they performed a choreographed number. Stephanie McHale, dressed as a
Vandals absconded with 40 signs legally posted in the quad that advocated women’s right to choose. Women’s Studies Student Association President Amy Pacheco said the signs were part of The Graveyard Project, an effort to educate the public about women who died because abortion was not available. Pacheco, who is also treasurer of the Third Wave Feminist Organization which is also involved in the project, said she was surprised by the vandalism on campus. “We thought the campus was more liberal than that,” Pacheco said. Pacheco said University Police told her to call the head of grounds, who offered little help in resolving the matter. Eight people participated in the project and took about eight hours to make the signs. The signs were displayed according to Student Organization Resource Center regulations, Pacheco said. The signs first went up at 9 a.m. and were gone by 11:30 a.m., but Pacheco and other members of her group scrambled to put up eight new signs. Shaped like tombstones, the gray signs displayed statistics and factoids. One sign said 78 percent of women who receive abortions are religious. Pacheco said she thinks “somebody that’s anti-choice,” took down the signs. But Pacheco said the perpetrator’s actions were in vain because the WSSA is determined to educate people, and they will keep putting up signs. “Whoever made the effort,” Pacheco said. “It was a futile effort.”
By CHRISTY ORGETA/Daily Titan Staff Writer Nester Gonzalez, an accounting major shows off as Harvey Birdman, attorney at law.
plastic surgery patient, planned the event, and said she had been working on it for about two months.
“I’m most excited about the costume contest, I didn’t get these boobs for nothing.”
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opinion. That doesn’t necessarily reflect the opinion of the health center or the university.” Birditt said the agreement between the center and the Daily Titan was that the center would pay for the condoms and the printing charges for the inserts would go in the paper the day of the giveaway. The Daily Titan would pay for all
promotional expenses. Birditt estimated the cost of poster production at $775. Genelle Belmas, a First Amendment expert at CSUF, said the posters did not meet the criteria for obscenity and conformed to the university policy statement of CSUF. “You are well within your rights to put up the signs. I think that university policy and state policy would
support the posting of the signs regardless,” she said. The condoms are still to be placed in the Nov. 14 edition of the Daily Titan.
October 31, 2007
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Participants hope to catch a ghostly glimpse during the annual Haunted Fullerton Walking Tour By Sarah Mosqueda Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
Photos By Sarah Mosqueda/Daily Titan Staff Writer Those who try the Haunted Fullerton Walking Tour visit places with ghostly pasts like the Plummer Auditorium and the home of Lillian Jagger (pictured above and below).
Fullerton may be one of the most haunted cities in Orange County, second to Santa Ana, which makes scaring up some paranormal activity for the 6th Annual Haunted Fullerton Walking Tour frighteningly easy. Just as darkness fell, ghost hunters gathered outside of the Fullerton Museum Center at 6 p.m. on a blanched Oct. 3 evening to begin the guided tour of historical hauntings. Armed with comfortable walking shoes and a good sense of humor, some tour members were eager for serious evidence of spiritual presence. For example, paranormal filmmaker, Barry Conrad, snapped pictures at every site. Others, like Chantal Mullins, a thirdyear broadcast journalism student at Cal State Fullerton, were just looking for a good spook.
“This is my first time taking the tour,” Mullins said excitedly as she settled into the theater seats at the first site, the landmark Plummer Auditorium. The ghost of Louis Plummer is said to wander the dark corridors of the catwalk, along with the spirit of a long-gone electrician and a female spirit whose identity remains a mystery. Theater Manager Tony Gonzalez relayed the ghost stories without sensationalizing them. However, he did pass around bits of deformed plastic saved from a night all of the light fixtures upstairs inexplicably began to melt. They generated no heat. As a special treat, psychic Victoria Gross joined the tour, but a little late due to traffic. “You’d think as a psychic I’d know what freeway to take,” Gross said. Gross supplements tour guide Susie Ditmar’s presentation. Gross, who worked as a psychic in Orange County
for the past 20 years, has conducted investigations in most of the sites on the tour, including the Plummer Auditorium and the historic California Hotel, which is now the Villa del Sol. The Fox Theater looked especially forlorn and eerie. A flashlight threw shadows on its walls as the lights passed through the group to view a photograph of an orb captured in an old photograph of the theater. Outside of the next site – the historical cottage of Lillian Jagger, Fullerton’s first female auto dealer – Ditmar told of the light that refuses to be turned off in Jagger’s bedroom. The house now acts as a gift shop run by John Reed. The group was led up the stairs of the tiny home to the bedroom where Jagger died. The group was brought there to feel the unmistakable drop in temperature near the doorway where her body is said to have been found.
“We see by sensing,” Gross said. “On ghost tours especially, you sometimes miss seeing something because you think you’re going to see a big apparition and it usually doesn’t happen that way. Pay attention to nuances.” The tour, which runs Wednesdays and Thursdays from Sept. 20 to Nov. 9, is a popular cult classic among ghost hunters and is usually booked by August. For those who regularly attend haunted trails, Fullerton’s is a must-stop. Buena Park resident Terri Stiles, who has taken the haunted tour at the Queen Mary in Long Beach and visited the haunted Whaley House in San Diego, has tried to buy tickets for the tour for the past three years. “I called [the Fullerton Museum Center] every Monday in July,” Stiles said. Her determination won her and two girlfriends a spot in the evening’s tour and a chance to haunt the sites of local legends.
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October 31, 2007
Un-masking monsters of Halloween fright One Cal State Fullerton student gives up her weekend evenings and dons a mask to become part of a local terror-fest news@dailytitan.com
When the moon blooms on Halloween, the ghouls and goblins of spook-fests like Knott’s Berry Farm’s Halloween Haunt and Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights arise. The patrons who brave the dark mazes either sweat, panic or cry upon their wicked stay, but they aren’t the only ones. The aforementioned symptoms can be applied to the costumers – the employees who chase girls and boys to scare the wits out of them. In the dark and smoke-filled mazes, costumers have to leap out to give customers their money’s worth – therein risking the pain that soon follows. “The bad nights are the ones I’m hit or kicked,” said Katy Beebe, a Cal State Fullerton student and a regular pro when it comes to Knott’s Scary Farm. Nights like that are old hat, though. This will be Beebe’s fourth year at the scream machine, and with age she’s learned the trick-or-treating of the trade. She keeps a watchful eye on Fridays and Saturdays, typical days for “bad moments,” which include getting her hair tugged, being grabbed at or verbally abused by the guests. “I am really disgusted with how people can behave and treat others,” Beebe said. “I sometimes wonder why I do it.” Beebe is a tough girl and screams back as loudly as
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part-time ghoul her guests. She admits it’s fun making a grown man scream like a little girl, but finds the situation difficult to describe when thrown into the lion’s den, having to frighten the visitors. Despite not getting paid very much, Beebe channels the work she does into a more creative energy. “You’re constantly pushing yourself to be more creative, to be in better shape, to be a better monster,” she said. “Once you put the costume on, you can really get into character.” Living under the costume isn’t something everybody can do. For some people, scaring people out of their wits is no consolation prize for the hard work and long nights that go into being a Halloween monster. A case in point is Katy’s older brother, Sean. After two days of working the actual event, Sean realized he wasn’t cut out for this line of work and re-evaluated his priorities. “I quit ‘Haunt’ ‘cause it was really killing my grades,” he said. “You’re abusing your body every day and then you spend most of your down time recovering instead of studying.”
Sean had his fill of “Haunt” when he worked for Knott’s in 2002 as a monster. After a oneday walk-through of the theme park and a basic orientation, he said employees were expected to know where everything was located. He did learn one important lesson. “[I would] try to get in and out of those zones really quickly, so [I wouldn’t] get hit,” he said, referring to the areas where monsters creep up on the guests. “I got punched a few times, but no serious injuries.” Strenuous hours aside – sometimes clocking out at 2 a.m. – keeping an eye out for a sucker punch is just another reason Sean couldn’t perform. As a monster, he would have to wear a latex mask. Some were comfortable and others not so much, Sean said. He was never lucky enough to wear the comfortable ones. “Every time you have a break, the first thing you do is rip your mask off and [then] you sit there venting steam for like five minutes,” Sean said. Just because they’re “monsters” doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain.
October 31, 2007
OPINION
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ALL HALLOWS EVE
Titan Editorial Horror movie formula boosts Providing insight, analysis success beyond Halloween and perspective since 1960 If there is a Christmas spirit, then surely there is a Halloween spirit. Contrary to what the obvious sentiments of evil spirits and ghoulish creatures may come to represent, Halloween does have some endearing and good-natured qualities. The Charlie Brown special reminds us how harmless, fun and family-oriented Halloween can be. Trick-or-treating with friends and family and bobbing for apples are all activities that make Halloween an American holiday. But certain events such as the one in the Castro district of San Francisco last year, remind us Halloween can be deadly. Nine people were injured in shootings, and another was trampled in one of the biggest outdoor parties held in the country. This may be an extreme example, but ask someone older than 16 and they’re going to tell you they are going to a party. Parties are great and can be fun, but like other major American holidays, Halloween once stood for quality time for families. Somewhere along the way, Halloween morphed into a perversed version of what it used to be. Women use Halloween as an excuse to become vixens while men look forward to the event for the same reason. While Halloween may be the only time of the year to party your heart out, remember what it once stood for: family fellowship and neighborly love.
By Jade Lehar
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For some, Halloween brings an opportunity to delve into our darker sides and watch horror movies (new and old). For others, however, we keep the spirit of Halloween alive through movies all year long. For as long as I can remember I’ve been obsessed with horror movies. I love the thrills and the chills you receive when you’re watching a horror movie for the first time and something jumps out at you or takes you by surprise: There is nothing else like it. When all my little friends were squealing and covering their eyes at the gruesome images, I was leaning closer to the television screen, and I considered myself quite normal. Horror movies are just fun. There are many scenes that quite possibly stay with us forever, embedded in our minds – the shower scene in “Psycho,” or possessed little Regan’s head spinning around in “The Exorcist.” Here are five reasons why I think horror movies stay successful, regardless of Halloween or not. 1) We can escape our reality: One of the things I love about horror movies is how they grab you and pull you in to them. For instance, who can worry about the trivial things in life when Michael Myers (from “Halloween”) is on the big screen chasing people with a huge knife and a blank expressioned mask? 2) We like to imagine what we would do differently: I know that whenever I watch a good horror movie and a character makes a mistake, I think, “I would have never put myself in that situation.” After watching the movie “Scream” for
the first time, I remember thinking I would have never dated a serial killer and not known it like Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). We like to put ourselves above them to think such things could never happen to us. 3) It gets our adrenaline rushing: Like a roller coaster ride – depending on how deep we put ourselves in the character’s shoes – at the end of the film you can feel as if you escaped a dangerous situation alive. For example, at the end of “Friday the 13th,” you almost breathe a sigh of relief with Alice when she wakes up in the hospital after escaping Jason Voorhees and his mother’s wrath. 4) We still love to get scared: How fun is it to be in a dark room with your friends when Freddy Krueger from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” jumps out onto the screen with his distorted face and razor-claw fingertips? Everyone screams, jumps and then laughs, then waits for the next moment Freddie will strike again. 5) We all have a dark side to us: Horror movies are ways for us to take a break from the sunny side of life for awhile – all the while it’s not reality. In a weird way, didn’t we all think Hannibal Lecter in “Silence of the Lambs” was amazingly brilliant, even though he was a cannibal serial killer? It’s because he was an imaginary character. It is just a movie, so you don’t have to feel bad about thinking the guy was pretty awesome. Most of us can imagine the theme music from “Halloween” or “Friday the 13th.” Does it send chills up your spine or make you want to go run to your horror movie collection? Either way, the movies did their jobs.
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Clothes make a statement. “Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley
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Halloween used to be family time
Grow up freeloaders By Robert Stroud
Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
With Halloween today, you may be looking to make plans for tonight. As many students have planned to celebrate by attending a Haunt event at a local theme park, or getting drunk at a friend’s Halloween party, others who might have trouble letting go of their childhood have planned to spend their All Hallows Eve the old fashioned way, by trick-or-treating. While I may not be the first person to say it, I hope to be the last; Grow up and move on with your lives. As I asked some of my fellow students their thoughts on adults who trick-or-treat, I wasn’t the least bit surprised when all of them responded in favor of the idea. Who would have thought college students would be in favor of free candy? I admit that living on a fixed income does inspire me to take what I can from time to time. But, stealing necessities like Q-tips and toilet paper is one thing, it’s a completely different matter to go door to door for a Snickers bar. The best time for people to abandon their traditional trick-or-treating routine is the year they enter high school. Once a person leaves junior high, new opportunities for celebrating this holiday become available, so it makes sense to move on to bigger and better things. Once kids leave junior high they are introduced to a variety of different experiences; one of those being the introduction to high school parties. And while it may not be entirely legal, these parties introduce young adults to an important part of childhood development: the introduction to alcohol. When left with the choice between walking door-to-door for a couple of bite sized candy bars – or
Cartoon for the daily titan by rocky vidal bags of pennies if your neighbor is the antichrist – and getting drunk while surrounded by women in scantily clad “costumes,” it’s obvious what students will chose. Now you may be thinking to yourself, “Can’t I just get drunk and go trick-or-treating?” While that is a sound plan, I must advise against it. It may sound fun to get inebriated and wander aimlessly in search of free chocolate, but one must also remember children are present and it would be inappropriate to expose them to that unsavory behavior. Even though I feel people should refrain from trick-or-treating after the age of 13, there is one way a person could still go door-to-door for candy, without being a complete disgrace to their family. The only respectable way an adult can go trick-or-treating is if they are
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accompanying a child. If you have a nephew or a child of your own, it is acceptable to take candy from the people who offer it to you, but it still should be frowned upon. If you’re planning on spending Halloween circling your neighborhood for Milky Way and Abba-Zaba bars, I hope you have a good excuse for doing so. While getting older doesn’t mean you have to refrain from celebrating this holiday, it does mean you should find a way that is appropriate for your age.
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Think Different. Think Simon. Simon Liang
Some baseball stories don’t have happy endings Not all Cinderella stories have fairytale endings. Few expected the Colorado Rockies would even make the playoffs, let alone the World Series. I’ll be honest, I never even noticed the Rockies were creeping close to playoff contention until the last week of the regular season. So in my last column, I predicted the series to go to seven games; boy, was I wrong. Boston massacred the Rockies, making them look like a Double-A team. Red Sox Nation is standing strong now. They finally broke the curse of the Bambino in 2004 and now another World Series Championship. After this series, Terry Francona will finally be recognized as one of the top-tier managers in the game. He is undefeated in World Series play, having swept both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Rockies. Game 1 was what I thought it would be with Josh Beckett’s dominance. I was shocked the Red Sox could garner 13 runs on the Rockies ace. These playoffs showcased Josh Beckett as the best pitcher in the game right now. He is so calm and collected. Game 2 was a slug fest. Ubaldo Jimenez didn’t disappoint me with his stuff. He is a young guy, but you’ll hear his name again. I was wrong about Curt Schilling. The old man still has some pitch left in him. Game 3 was like Game 1, where Boston simply destroyed Colorado pitching. Dice-K will improve next year and prove to be a formidable No. 2 starter next to Big-Game Beckett.
Game 4 was down to the wire. If Jamey Carroll’s fly-out in the 9th would have gone a little higher it would’ve turned into a crazy 4-4 game. Well, so much for my dreams. John Lester really showed the world you can’t let anything stop you. He is a cancer survivor and won the game clincher in the 2007 World Series. I was thoroughly impressed with the young players in the series. They really showed up and were not phased at all. For Boston, Jacoby Ellsbury and Justin Pedroia just kept hitting and hitting. For Colorado, Troy Tulowitzki can flat out play and Matt Holiday is going to be a very rich man soon. World Series MVP Mike Lowell is a free agent but he’ll probably resign unless Boston flirts with Alex Rodriquez and pays him to play for the Sox. I had Lowell on my fantasy baseball team for the first half of the season. He had a history of second-half troubles so I dropped him when he started getting cold. My mistake! He ended up with 120 RBIs. I don’t know if the Rockies can repeat this year’s success because they need major reconstruction on their pitching staff. Baseball fans, beware. Red Sox Nation is raging and they just gained more members after this year’s World Series. They have a strong team for years to come with a foundation of Beckett, Papelbon, Ortiz and Ramirez. The curse of the Bambino? What curse? Now it’s the Chicago Cubs’ turn. The curse of the Billy Goat will soon fade into the darkness.
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CSUF lacrosse team supports itself by eleni reed
Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com
Lacrosse is North America’s oldest sport, but most of its popularity is on the East Coast. Three years ago, Cal State Fullerton students sought to bring the trend westward and has had small, but growing, momentum. Of about 45 members, CSUF’s lacrosse team is up and coming, but with no financial assistance. “Basically we are an NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association] team, but we are our own administration,” said Ricardo Martinez, 20, president of the lacrosse team. Martinez said the group has to pay for its own league dues, training, coaches, referees for each game and equipment. Also, the team pays for its own travel and to host games on campus. During the spring semester, the lacrosse team will be hosting teams from schools such as USC and UC Irvine. The team will also be taking a trip to play UNLV. “Over time there’s a lot that adds
up. It becomes expensive,” said Julian Galindo, 19, vice president of the lacrosse team. Galindo said lacrosse is just as pricey as playing football. Both Martinez and Galindo agree the sport is worth the fees and continue to play for the love of the sport. “There’s a very small amount of people who play [lacrosse] on the collegiate level. That’s a very special thing and it’s what keeps me playing,” Galindo said. He said the team is trying to make CSUF love lacrosse, but it’s hard being such a small entity. Martinez said CSUF currently does not have a football team and hopes lacrosse can fill its shoes. “[It is a] very exciting [sport]. It is full contact and an alternative to football,” Martinez said. He said the majority of the players come from a football background and agree lacrosse is more fun to play. Despite the entertainment the game offers, Galindo said the ultimate goal is to start an outreach program.
“We’re trying to meet with a place on campus that does outreach or some sort of community service,” Galindo said. So far, this young squad has begun to make progress. Martinez said there will be a women’s lacrosse team starting this semester at CSUF. In order to support all the needs of the lacrosse team, it will be holding its second annual casino night at the Imperial Ballroom, located in downtown Fullerton. The event is Saturday and begins at 7 p.m. The fundraiser is open to all ages, but cocktail attire is required. “The event is formal attire, but at the very least, men should wear a shirt and tie,” said Mitch Lasser, 23, treasurer of the lacrosse team. He said the team has sold 350 tickets so far and the event should be fun. Guests pay $20 pre-sale or $25 at the door. The money is exchanged for game money and can be played at any one of the professional tables, which include craps, roulette, blackjack and poker. The dealers are Las Vegas-trained, Lasser said.
At the end of the night, the person with the most money can win a Nintendo Wii. Other items to be won include an iPod, tickets to the Anaheim Arsenal, a minor league basketball team for the Los Angeles Clippers, and restaurant coupons. The occasion will also showcase two live bands and a DJ for entertainment. Alcohol is available for those who are 21 years of age and over and Lasser said the premises will be under surveillance for any underage drinking. “In addition, 30 to 40 lacrosse players will be auctioned off for dates,” Lasser said. The men range in age from 18 to 23, but Lasser predicts the men’s girlfriends will be buying them. Florian Zitzelsberger, 20, computer science major, will be attending the event. He said he knows some poker, but defiantly plans to win the Wii. “All my friends are going ... and I wanted to [check it out],” Zitzelsberger said. For more information and to buy tickets, patrons are to email csufcasinonight@yahoo.com.
pearances in as many seasons before turning down a one-year, $5 million offer for next season with an additional $3 million in incentives on Oct. 18. Torre, who completed a threeyear, $19.2 million contract this year, ranks eighth on baseball’s career list with 2,067 victories and has won a record 76 postseason games. Colletti said he had an idea the 57-year-old Little was leaning toward resigning, so he recently discussed the job with potential replacements. The GM said he didn’t want to get caught empty-handed. One of those candidates, Colletti acknowledged, was Joe Girardi, hired by the Yankees as Torre’s successor earlier Tuesday. “I wanted Grady Little back. I encouraged him a handful of times to think it through,” Colletti said. Team owner Frank McCourt said on the season’s final day that Little would return next year, but recently several news outlets reported the Dodgers were speaking with Torre about their managerial job. Torre’s agent, Maury Gostfrand, declined comment. Speaking on CBS’s “Late Show With David Letterman,” on Monday night, Torre said: “There’s nothing to any of it so far.” The Dodgers entered this season as the clear-cut favorite to win the NL West and had the league’s
best record in mid-July. But they dropped 11 of their last 14 games to fade out of contention, finishing at 82-80. Clubhouse unrest surfaced between veterans and young players during the season’s final two weeks, when the Dodgers lost seven straight games to the Colorado Rockies. Little said that wasn’t why he stepped down. “It’s nothing in particular,” he said. “It’s just a decision we’ve come to. This is all personal. There’s a lot of belief I’ve been dealt an injustice here. That couldn’t be further from the truth. My plans? To play with my grandkids.” The Dodgers have won only one postseason game since winning the 1988 World Series. Little managed the Boston Red Sox from 2002-03 before being fired despite winning more than 90 games each season. The Red Sox led the Yankees 52 late in Game 7 of the 2003 AL championship series before Little opted to leave in pitcher Pedro Martinez instead of going to the bullpen. The Yankees rallied to tie the game before winning in the 11th on a homer by Aaron Boone. That led to Little’s firing. Speaking before what turned out to be Little’s final game, McCourt said he was encouraged about the Dodgers’ direction under Colletti
and Little. “We should be playing next week,” McCourt said. “It’s sort of an odd place I’m at right now. I feel the fans’ disappointment. I share it. On the other hand, I feel something very positive here. The future is very, very bright.” The Dodgers went 88-74 and made the playoffs as the NL wild card in Little’s first season as their manager before being swept by the New York Mets in the first round. Mattingly’s son, Preston, is a minor leaguer in the Dodgers’ organization.
Torre may take Dodger managing job
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grady Little resigned as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday, paving the way for Joe Torre to take the job. Little said it was a move he considered for some time, and he told general manager Ned Colletti of his decision Tuesday. First, Little called it “a mutual resignation.” Later, he said it was his choice to leave with a year remaining on his contract. “I’ve got my own personal reasons,” Little said on a conference call. When asked if reports that the Dodgers were speaking with Torre influenced his decision, Little replied firmly: “No.” Torre and his former bench coach with the New York Yankees, Don Mattingly, have discussed the possibility of joining the Dodgers together, according to a person with knowledge of those talks. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the manager’s job was still open in Los Angeles. “We haven’t hired anybody,” Colletti said. “We’re talking to some people, that’s all I’m going to tell you. We’ll talk about where we go from here at a later date.” The 67-year-old Torre managed the Yankees to four World Series championships and 12 playoff ap-
Torre Stats as a Manager 2067-1770 overall won-loss record 1173-767 won loss-record with New York Yankees [19962007] Led the Yankees to four World Series championship teams [1996, 1998, 1999, 2000]
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Fensing team takes on alumni at annual tournament Former fensing Titans take on their successors during a tournament to raise money for the current team
volved with the team, attend practices and help the current fencers. sports@dailytitan.com “[The alumni] come to the tournaments,” Hinojos said. “Many of The referee stands off to the side them help referee.” of the fencers. The two opponents The fencing team is young this tap weapons, pull their masks on year, but the alumni tournament and take their stances. allows the less-experienced to train “Ready ... Fence!” with veteran fencers. The two foes lunge and attack. “We have a lot of freshmen They backpedal and defend. The [and] new fencers,” Hinojos said. fencers keep their feet shoulder- “I want them to be able to fit in width apart. Each fencer’s strong with the seniors. The veteran hand clenches his weapon. They fencers need to have help.” keep their other hands held out for Mostly though, the alumni balance. tournament is about having fun. The current Titan fencing team “It helps them relax a little faced off against former Titan more,” Hinojos said. fencers on Saturday in the KinesiJake Jennings, a sophomore ology Building for fencer, enjoys the the annual fencing chance to meet alumni tournaand challenge the ment. The alumni alumni. outnumbered the “Practice, I current team and guess. It’s more ranged from the for fun to chill class of ‘86 to last with alumni,” Jenseason’s squad. nings said. After a short One of the introduction, the alumni who still –Mike Hinojos, competes on a fencers split into Head Coach three different regular basis is groups: epee, foil 2005 graduate and sabre. Matthew McConIn the epee comnaughy. McConpetition, the whole naughy, who combody is the target. This is the least petes about once a month in Long regulated of the three with fewer Beach, enjoys coming back for the rules or rights of way. In the sabre, tournament. the whole upper body is the target “It’s always fun,” McConnaughy and in foil, only the torso is the said. “You kind of compare it to target. what it was like when you were on The alumni tournament is the the team. It’s always different.” major fundraiser for the fencing McConnaughy stays involved team. It also benefits current team with the team and plans on commembers to fence against former ing back every Thursday night for fencers, Head Coach Mike Hino- training. jos said. Overall, the alumni tournament “Team members from the past had a relaxed feel to it. Everyone come back. They [the current was laughing and having a good team] get a chance to see good time, but with the start of the fencers,” Hinojos said. “They regular season next weekend, that support us financially.” care-free attitude might not last. The fencing alumni are still in“The season starts pretty soon,” by nathan wheadon
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By Nathan wheadon/Daily Titan Staff Writer Jake Jennings and Matthew McConnaughy compete against each other at the alumni tournament last Saturday in the Kinesiology Building, room 202.
back from the epee team,” Jennings said. Hinojos knows that with such a young team, the experienced fencers will have to lead by example. The epee team is led by Jennings,
who went to nationals last year. Erika Diaz is the top fencer for the women’s sabre team and John Ott is the men’s top sabre. The epee team is young, so the more experienced sabre team will have
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to lead. “Our sabre squad is very strong,” Hinojos said. “I expect men’s sabre to have the best showing overall.” The season officially starts Nov. 3 in Berkeley, Calif.
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