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Italian legal clerks going a little looney ROME (AP) – Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary. An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case. In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city. The court summons cites Titti, Paperino, Paperina, Topolino – the Italian names for the characters – as damaged parties in the criminal trial of a Chinese man accused of counterfeiting products of Disney and Warner Bros. Instead of naming only the companies and their legal representatives, clerks also wrote in the witness list of the names of the cartoons that decorated the toys and gadgets the man had reproduced, said Fiorenza Sorotto, vice president of Disney Company Italia. “Unfortunately they cannot show up, as they are residents of Disneyland,” Sorotto joked in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “Let’s hope the characters will not be prosecuted for failing to appear.” Phones at the Naples court were not answered Tuesday.
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Making a comeback
O.C. Fairgrounds plays host to an old-fashioned drive-in movie theater By Justine lopez
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A line of cars snakes into the entrance of the Star-Vu Drive-In on Sunday evening. As the cars pull into the parking spaces, their headlights shine on the monstrous inflatable screen in front of them. During the day this area serves as a parking lot for the Orange County Fairgrounds, but at night it is transformed into a scene from the 1950’s. While other drive-ins across the country are shutting down, the StarVu Drive-In opened its parking lot in May. “It is the first drive-in in Orange County in 10 years,” said Mary Jean Duran, president of the Star-Vu Drive-In. Since its opening, the drive-in has become a popular place for families and friends to gather in their cars and watch movies the way their parents and grandparents did decades ago, Duran said. Duran said she enjoys bringing a piece of history to a generation that may have never had the chance to experience drive-ins. “We see a lot of college students that have never been to a drive-in and have no idea what to expect,” See DRIVE-IN Page 3
By Cameron Pemstein/Daily Titan Photo Editor
Customers watch movies from their cars at the Orange County Fairgrounds Drive-In Movie Theater.
Afro-Ethnic chairwoman inspires change and ideas Exploring Wiki as a legit source Julie Stokes hopes for a more deliberate way to deal with racial tension By GAIL NAVARRO
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A vision swirls around in the head of Julie Stokes, first-semester Cal State Fullerton Afro-Ethnic Studies Department chair. She said supplying students with a little bit more knowledge promotes tolerance and understanding of different cultures. “As people become more educated and less ignorant about our history, our past and how it affects others, I believe we could make a difference,” Stokes said. After replacing long-time chair Wacira STOKES Gethaiga, Stokes said when people question authority figures and live proactive lives, then as a society, people can move closer to eliminating racism and stop it from spreading. She said this change could start as early as childhood when parents begin to teach their young ones. “They can educate their own
children,” Stokes said. “As the generations continue to mature, just as we’ve reached a point now where it’s not part of the social mainstream, as others continue to educate their kids, it will become more and more further removed from the public consciousness of this country.” However, the American public is well aware of racial tension due to recent events, such as the Jena 6 case in Louisiana and the noose hanging incidents at CSUF and in other college campuses in New York and Maryland. Stokes said it is just not enough for people to simply react by conducting peace protests and rallies because so much more needs to be done in the long haul. “There’s not a consistent effort to remedy this [racism] on a large, national scale,” Stokes said. “We’ll continue to see ourselves revisiting the same issues over and over again.” The newly-elected Afro-Ethnic Studies chair specializes in historical issues related to racism as a professor teaching classes on the subject. Stokes welcomed the opportunity of balancing between two leadership positions: chair and professor. “I like the versatility,” Stokes said. “My passion is teaching and the administrative role that I’m
now in allows me a greater oppor- and values that African-Americans tunity to organize course offerings hold here in the United States,” and invite other faculty to come to Stokes said. teach for us.” While only about 20 students Two faculty members started registered as Afro-Ethnic studies this fall semester: educator Jamel majors, Stokes said she hopes to Donner and historian Kendahl increase that number after students Radcliffe. realize the various jobs one can acDonner said she has the ability quire with an Afro-Ethnic studies to keep an open mind, which is degree, including an attorney, an important educator and a for the social worker. developIn addition, ment of students receive the Afrodiversity trainEthnic ing while in colStudies lege, which will Departbenefit graduates ment. in the work force – Julie Stokes, who need to un“I beCSUF Afro-Ethnic Studies dergo the same lieve her Chair h a r d type of training. working “It kind of disposigives them tion and [graduates] a willingness to hear multiple per- little extra edge compared to the spectives on a topic make her a person who only has a degree in a strong leader,” Donner said in an particular discipline,” Stokes said. e-mail interview. “I believe that the Stokes is not only a professor, Afro-Ethnic Studies Department but a role model to the students. is poised to be a major player in Her influence and presence in the CSUF’s academic scene.” department contributed to black Next semester, Stokes plans to leaders at CSUF, which includes introduce a minor that focuses on Tim Singleton, president of the Africa, mainly in the western re- Afro-Ethnic Student Association. gion. “She is vital to the African“[The minor will] show the re- American students and to their lationship between pre-colonial academic success on this campus,” Africa and some of the attitudes Singleton said.
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Former Cal State Fullerton professor dies at 77 CSUF Public Affairs Andrew F. Montana, emeritus professor of chemistry at California State University, Fullerton, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. He died Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, in Edmonds, Wash., his home state. Montana was one of the university’s early faculty members and played
a major role in shaping how science, in general, and chemistry, in particular, are taught on campus. “Andy loved the outdoors so much,” said his wife, Kay Montana. “He loved hiking and fishing and just being outdoors. Only his love of Cal State Fullerton and his students kept him there all those years.” Montana taught at Cal State Fullerton for 29 years, then returned to Washington when he retired from
the university in 1992. He won a number of awards and distinctions during his career, but he is best known on campus for three major achievements. He was instrumental in setting the standards for teaching and research that are still followed today, said Maria Linder, chair and professor of chemistry and biochemistry. In addition, she noted how Montana was instrumental in the design and oversight of Dan
Black Hall and the development, along with university computer technician Jeffrey Buell, of the computer program Organic Reaction Mechanisms. The program, inspired by Montana’s drive to improve the educational experience of his students, animated dozens of chemical reaction mechanisms and was a teaching aid that could be used in computer See MONTANA Page 2
University of Washington professor has students write a Wikipedia article By CHRISTIN DAVIS
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Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has quickly become one of the most widely known and used reference Web sites, but it has yet to establish full reliability in the academic world. While many professors do not allow the site to be used as a credible reference in college–level courses, one professor at the University of Washington is having students write a Wikipedia article in lieu of a traditional term paper. The Web-based, free content encyclopedia project is known for its volunteer collaboration from writers around the world with over 8.7 million articles written in more than 250 languages. “Wikipedia stands or falls on the merit of a particular piece,” said Martha Groom, UW professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences. “Being able to think about knowledge creation as a cooperative venture and participate in it makes the writing seem less like practice.” On Wikipedia, the same people who visit to find information also contribute information. Articles can be added and edited by anyone as long as they fit the editing policies and standards. Unreferenced facts are subject to removal as one thousand administrators constantly monitor the validity of writing and a judicial committee can take corrective measures if necessary. Because such a wide variety of See WIKIPEDIA Page 3
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
December 5, 2007
Brigade Commander’s Challenge
Demands imposed by opposition leaders in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistan’s major opposition parties joined forces Tuesday in drawing up a list of demands for President Pervez Musharraf to meet if he wants to avoid a threatened boycott of next month’s elections. As conditions for their participation in parliamentary elections, the parties are preparing to demand the end of emergency rule and the release of former Supreme Court judges. The move raises the stakes for Musharraf ’s government, as part of efforts that Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister, likened to a war to “save Pakistan from further destruction.” Representatives of Sharif ’s faction and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s party set up a joint committee to draw up the list of demands and set a deadline for compliance. Sharif told supporters in Abbottabad their main demand will be that “all the actions in declaring emergency rule should be withdrawn.” He said the committee’s will be how much time to give Musharraf ’s government to accept the demands. Since he declared emergency rule on Nov. 3, Musharraf has filled the Supreme Court with loyalists, which quickly approved his continued rule, and jailed hundreds of civic activists and lawyers.
NATIONAL NEWS
Congress questions rising interest rates on credit cards WASHINGTON (AP) – Credit-card executives on Tuesday deflected congressional criticism of their practice of using falling credit scores to charge customers higher interest rates. Industry critics say it’s another example of abusive, confusing credit-card practices that can push consumers deeper into debt. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, said customers who consistently pay on time are getting whacked by credit-card issuers that raise such rates without an adequate warning or a clear notice. Levin is holding out the club of possible legislation to spur voluntary changes by the industry. But executives from Bank of America Corp. and Discover Financial Services LLC. told the subcommittee that a credit score is one of several factors in determining whether to increase a customer’s interest rate. Bruce Hammonds, president of Bank of America Card Services, said his bank also considers customer behavior on an account and their debt to others, in addition to credit scores. But it’s the behavior of credit-card issuers that prompted several consumers to testify before Levin’s subcommittee about not being informed when their rates were hiked.
STATE NEWS Talks resume in writer’s strike: online revenue key LOS ANGELES (AP) – A relatively scant $21 million separates contract proposals disclosed by studios and striking Hollywood writers. But the difference that matters the most is the one between the $20,000-plus that writers now earn for a single network rerun of a TV episode and the $250 the studios are offering for a year’s online use of an hourlong show. It represents the chasm between the old business order and burgeoning new media that the two sides are confronting as they try to end the strike, now in its fifth week. A bargaining session was set to begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday but a possible news blackout could keep further details from being released. A Wall Street analyst said that if the strike continues into next year, it would begin to affect the first- and second-quarter outlooks for the TV divisions of media conglomerates. The strike could cost CBS, ABC and Fox a combined $300 million, according to a report from Alan Gould, senior analyst with New York-based Natixis Bleichroeder. The report did not include NBC, which is owned by General Electric Co.
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Free speech issues are raised with teacher’s arrest The Associated Press
Bloggers and free speech advocates are calling on prosecutors not to file charges against a teacher arrested for allegedly posting an anonymous comment online praising the Columbine shooters. Some were disturbed by the post police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending. The suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for the Nov. 16 comment left on www.bootsandsabers.com, a blog on Wisconsin politics. The comment, left under the name “Observer,” came during a discussion
over teacher salaries after some commenters complained teachers were underworked and overpaid. Buss, a former president of the teacher’s union, allegedly wrote that teacher salaries made him sick because they are lazy and work only five hours a day. He praised the teen gunmen who killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide in the April 1999 attack at Columbine High School. “They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time!” he wrote, adding they should be remembered as heroes. The comment disturbed at least one teacher, who called police in West Bend, 40 miles north of Milwaukee and home of the blog’s administrator.
Police traveled to arrest Buss at his home in Cudahy, south of Milwaukee, last week after the blogger gave them the anonymous poster’s IP address. After his arrest, Buss spent an hour in the Washington County jail before he was released on $350 bail. He did not return phone messages and emails seeking comment, and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer. Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens is considering whether to charge Buss with disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communication systems. “If you look at all the factors in this case, it’s pretty clear it would be a mistake to charge,” said Larry Dupuis, legal director of The American
Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. “At worst, it was somebody expressing admiration for somebody who did something reprehensible. But the more reasonable explanation is this is somebody who is trying to mock the conservative view of teacher salaries.” Police Capt. Toby Netko defended the arrest. He said the teacher who complained was disturbed by the reference to “one shot at a time” and other educators agreed it was a threat. “What happens when you say bomb in an airport? That’s free speech, isn’t it?” he said. “And people are taken into custody for that all the time.” The teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave.
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laboratories and on students’ own computers, a rarity at the time of its development. It was meant to be particularly useful to students who had trouble visualizing chemical reactions. Buell and Montana began developing the program in the 1980s and received National Science Foundation grants for the effort. In 1992, the program won the prestigious national Software and Curriculum Innovation Award from EDUCOM, then a nonprofit consortium of 650 colleges and universities devoted to information exchanges on computing in higher education. In 2006, Organic Reaction Mechanisms won Montana the MERLOT Award for outstanding education software. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online
Teaching – better known simply as MERLOT– is a CSU -administered program for faculty development and instructional technology that now has international participation. “Dr. Montana was truly a loyal and giving member of the Cal StateFullerton community. He loved his students and was an exemplary professor,” said Steve Murray, dean of the CSUF College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. “He appreciated the value of research and used his influence to ensure that his department hired productive scholars. Andy always set the bar high for himself and for others and in so many ways helped establish a culture of excellence in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at CSU Fullerton. He will be sorely missed.” Montana, the academic, was
known as an outstanding educator and innovator, but Montana, the person, made an impression, as well, said Linder, who echoed the sentiments of many at the university who knew him. “He had a wonderful sense of humor that brought cheer into a room just because he’d entered,” Linder said. Montana came to CSUF as an assistant professor of chemistry in 1963, just four years after the first classes were held at what was then known as Orange County State College. Two years later, he became chair of the Chemistry Department. He served as chair through 1971, returning as interim chair in 19771978. He became a full professor in 1970. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Seattle Pacific College
in 1951 and his doctorate in organic chemistry at the University of Washington in 1957. Before joining the CSUF faculty, he taught at the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii, where he was an assistant professor from 1961-63. Besides his wife, Kay, Montana is survived by son, Stephen; grandchildren, Shayne and Seth; and sisters, Florence Harrison and Delores Meyer. The family asks donations be made to a fund in Montana’s name to aid undergraduate students in purchasing books. Checks can be made out to the Andy Montana Book Fund and sent to the Andy Montana Book Fund, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry/MH-582K, Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, CA 92831-3599.
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DRIVE-IN: ENJOYING A TASTE OF THE PAST From Page 1
Duran said. “The next time, they bring chairs, pillows and blankets.” Despite the recent chilly weather and sporadic raindrops, customers set up lawn chairs and wrapped themselves in blankets to watch Sunday’s feature, “Bee Movie.” Others stayed in their cars with the heat running while children stayed warm in their pajamas. At the snack bar, the buttery smell of popcorn hangs in the air. Bursting kernels make muffled popping sounds as the fluffy white popcorn overflows from the tin. Greg Belarde and his 11-year-old son Kai debated over which candies and snacks would go best with the outdoor atmosphere. “We heard about the inflatable screen so we thought we would check it out,” Belarde said. The films are projected on a 65by-33-foot inflatable screen. As part of an agreement with the O.C. Fairgrounds, the parking lot must return to its normal state by morning, Duran said. “[The screen] goes up and down every night,” Duran said. “It’s very labor intensive.” Marty Tenebaun, a Rancho Santa Margarita resident, said she enjoys coming to the drive-in because it offers a sense of privacy that theaters do not. “You can talk inside and no one will say anything to you,” Tenebaun said. For people like Tenebaun who bring young children to the movies, the drive-in is a place where kids and adults can have fun and not worry about bothering anybody. “It’s a dome of privacy you don’t have when you’re in movie theater,” Duran said. Some listen to the films through
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Photo BY ELAN KLEIN/Courtesy of Justine Lopez Elsa Martinez prepares the next batch of popcorn in the snack stand at Star-Vu Drive-In for those looking for something to munch on.
their car radios while others bring portable radios to listen outside. “They used to have sound through speakers attached to poles, [but] people would back into the poles or the speaker would scratch their cars,” Duran said. FM radio is an improvement from the traditional speakers because the
quality of sound is much higher, Duran said. Unlike most drive-in theaters, the Star-Vu Drive-In will remain open during the winter months. “We are expecting a great holiday season with a lot of family movies,” Duran said. The drive-in will be showing fam-
ily movies such as “Enchanted,” which began Nov. 21, and “National Treasure: Book of Secrets.” Show times and dates vary. Visit www.Star-Vu.com for up-to-date movie information. Tickets are $8.50 for adults and $5 for children. Children under age 4 get in for free.
WIKIPEDIA: A WEALTH OF INFORMATION? From Page 1
individuals can edit any page, it is difficult for any group to censor or impose bias. Articles are continuously updated and therefore tend to be more comprehensive and balanced the longer they exist. Wikipedia lists an ideal piece as “factual, notable, verifiable with external sources and neutrally presented with external sources cited and linked.” Groom showed students examples in her class of good and bad Wikipedia articles and explained what kind of work she expected. “All pages are evolving so someone else is likely to come along and make changes,” Groom said. “That’s how scholarship works.” Groom first issued the Wikipedia assignment to 34 students in a junior level environmental history class, a core class for the global studies major at UW. It accounted for 60 percent of the student’s grade. When she took over the environmental history class, Groom said she searched the Internet for resources on potential topics for research papers and kept coming upon work in Wikipedia. “The coverage was pretty uneven. Some things were covered well and others were very thin,” Groom said. “I thought if the students were going to be writing on similar subjects, why not do it here. It would improve Wikipedia and be an incentive to do the best work possible because others will see it.” Groom said someone in New Zealand even wrote to one of her students, thanking them for posting information. While Groom said she admits students were initially intimidated by the assignment, all of them admitted using Wikipedia to find in-
formation. Two-thirds had been told by a professor not to use the site as an academic source. “The level of conversation was a bit higher because it was real; it wasn’t just a paper,” Groom said. “Everyone shared the need for a high level of referencing and research, which should happen anyway, but this assignment demanded it.” One student contributed a piece to Wikipedia called “Deforestation during the Roman period.” It outlines the causes underlying Roman deforestation and the consequences and was rated as B-class on the Wikipedia assessment scale, which is defined as containing a majority of the material needed for a comprehensive article, but still missing elements. Wikipedia makes its disclaimers highly visible, just as more accepted sources like Encyclopedia Britannica and the Associated Press do, but because anyone can edit on Wikipedia, it is more easily vandalized and sus-
ceptible to unchecked information. “Wikipedia has some potential, but it must be used with caution,” said Mark Hyer, professor of beginning college writing at CSUF. “Because the entries can be manipulated by anyone, they are difficult to monitor for accuracy. Too many of the entries lack citations or sources.” While Hyer admitted Wikipedia is an easily accessible resource, he said the potential abuse of its system could easily mislead inexperienced student scholars. “If one uses Wikipedia, he or she should verify the source material,” Hyer said. “Always double check the quality and accuracy of your information. Wikipedia might be a good starting point for further research, but it probably isn’t enough by itself for an acceptable academic paper of quality.” CSUF post-graduate biology student Angela Shaw said she regularly uses Wikipedia to further under-
stand concepts discussed in class or in the textbook. “I think Wikipedia is reliable. When the book is not explaining something well, I compare it with an article from Wikipedia, which uses simpler words,” Shaw said. “I wouldn’t use it as a source for a paper though. I don’t think professors would want us to cite from the Web.” Groom has since used the Wikipedia writing assignment in a senior level class on the conservation of sustainable development in Africa, but made it worth just 40 percent of the total grade. “It depends on the learning goals of [the] particular class, but I’m sure I will introduce the assignment into other classes along the line,” Groom said. “I will also consider a range of sites where the work ends up live, accessible and interactive in an online community that can collaborate and improve the work.”
Chemistry major Alex Mendoza said he was always curious as to why there was a lack of blue recycling bins around campus. He said he feels guilty about throwing his plastic Pepsi bottles in the regular trash after drinking it. “I know it seems trivial but I’m interested in helping the world, even if it is just recycling plastic bottles,” Mendoza said. Many similar concerns from students, faculty and staff have prompted a mass e-mail from Cal State Fullerton’s Physical Plant Director Willem van der Pol to alert about the already enforced recycling program and to justify the university’s choice of eliminating the blue bins. “Cal State Fullerton does care, we have an active and responsible recycling program,” van der Pol said. “We are fully compliant with Bill AB75 which requires that we divert at least 50 percent of our waste from landfills.” According to the California Dept. of Transportation, Assembly Bill 75 was made mandatory in 1999 for all state facilities to divert its waste by 2004. A waste reduction award program was implemented as an added incentive. So far, Cal State Sacramento has won the State Agency Recycling Recognition Awards Program (STARR) for recycling in 2002. The university has signed a threeyear contract with Newport Beachbased Ware Disposal, a reputable trash and refuse recycling establishment with a sister off-site waste-processing facility in Santa Ana. The need to have blue bins on campus has become obsolete as Ware Disposal picks up the campus trash, sifts and separates garbage from recyclables and is forwarded to its corresponding objective.
It is also a step less than what students and faculty are required to do. “It really couldn’t be any easier for our students,” CSUF Recycling Coordinator Steve Dugas said. “They simply put waste into a waste receptacle and much of that trash is recycled.” Recycling bins in the past were left stationed at frequented eateries, nearby classrooms and vending machines. But trash would still make its way with the plastic bottles and aluminum cans. The university’s physical plant was responsible to sort through the mess before sending it off to its respective destination. Van der Pol found sorting and separating trash from recyclables was time-consuming and “a cumbersome process.” Now with Ware Disposal lined up to do the dirty work, van der Pol thinks this is the best way to go. “Recycling needs to be executed on the appropriate scale and we feel that we’re currently on the right track,” van der Pol said in his mass e-mail statement. This poses another concern whether students, faculty and staff are off the hook to avoid putting trash where it belongs. “It does make things easier for most of us who don’t think about (recycling) 24/7,” Mendoza said. “But it isn’t a reason to be lazy about it too.” There are proactive measures the university encourages students to take to reduce waste. Junior Cory ScottAlvarez has taken it upon himself to recycle his batteries and toner cartridges through inter-campus mail to CSUF’s Shipping and Receiving. He, like many other students did not know computer equipment, furniture and even refrigerators can be picked up. Scott-Alvarez said it that made easier for him to deal with recycling. “I think the reason why many of us aren’t really recycling is because it’s more work,” Scott-Alvarez said. “We’re either too busy or lazy to do it.” The recycling program accepts a variety of recyclables and other waste materials at different locations on campus.
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Where have all the college boys gone? The percentage of male enrollment, especially minorities, has dropped
Lifelong learning loses its founding president Leonard Shapiro is remembered for his drive, dedication to program
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People who look around the Cal State Fullerton campus may find something peculiar. Many times, one may see more women than men trekking to class, studying in the quad or eating in the Titan Student Union. However, the female predominance isn’t just an illusion. Years after the feminist movement peaked, women are walking away with more college diplomas than ever before, leaving many men in the dust. “If you look at both high school and college, you’ll see that more women are graduating than men,” said Sergio Banda, sociology professor. According to Department of Education statistics, men in all socioeconomic groups are trailing women in both graduation rates and grades. Last year, men made up 42 percent of America’s college students, lagging behind women at the associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s levels. Women’s Center director Barbara McDowell said that since 1978, CSUF’s student population has been more than 50 percent women. Currently, there are 37 males to 63 females. “It’s not that men are falling behind, women are just outpacing them,” she said. This imbalance is caused by a variety of social factors. McDowell said many men hold blue-collar jobs women don’t typically pursue. “They can make a very decent living from these careers,” she said, adding that the fact that men are dominating blue-collar fields may have something to do with the way they’ve been socialized. Sociology Professor Katja Guenther said social norms have an impact
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on men’s performance in school. “The American construction of masculinity doesn’t always center on intellectualism,” Guenther said. “Males are presented with a different set of things to be important to them, such as athletics. Women are typically socialized to be academically focused.” Generally, young boys are pres-
sured by their peers to engage in deviant behavior. Stigma attached to girls who are involved in academia is not as substantial. “School and culture really reinforce each other,” Guenther said. “They reflect the same values. If a man is intelligent, he’s usually labeled a ‘geek’ or ‘dork.’” Women are more likely to obtain a college degree in a field such as nursing, psychology or social work. Math and science programs are comprised of mostly men. Guenther said most sociology reports show it’s more nurture than nature. She said the gaps between the programs occur during adolescence, when girls begin dropping out of math and science programs. “Puberty is a big issue,” Guenther said. “This is when girls become
aware of their social expectations. Guenther also said that at a college level, cultures that disfavor women in math and science exist. “These departments have a problem with role models,” she said. “The leading names in most programs are all male.” During the 1960s and 1970s, the number of males attending universities spiked. McDowell said the Vietnam War played a pivotal role in the changing number of men at universities. Men were not sent to battle if they worked toward a college degree. This spike was also due to the peak of engineering and math programs at institutions. A large discrepancy exists between black and Latino women and men See MALES, Page 5
Leonard Shapiro, born Jan. 4, 1905, learned news things each and every day. To friends, family and co-workers, he was funny, kind, energetic, but most of all, bright and dedicated to lifelong learning. On Oct. 31, Shapiro’s life of learning came to an end. He passed away at the age of 102. Shapiro’s endless contributions to the university, and the community as a whole, has insured that other people with a thirst for knowledge will be able to learn until their minds are content. Betty Robertson, a long time friend of Shapiro’s, recruited him in the early 1980s to put together a program for senior citizens interested in lifelong learning. He eventually became first president of the Continuing Learning Experience (CLE) at Cal State Fullerton, now known as the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). Roberston found Shapiro through a good friend, Dr. Mort Fierman of Religious Studies. “He knew of a retired VP of both Sears & Roebuck in Chicago and later Alpha Beta markets in Orange County who, after a distinguished business career, was between challenging projects,” Robertson said. “Leo was restless and uncommitted … Timing is everything.” Timing, however, had nothing to do with Shapiro’s extensive career. “He was a dynamite,” said Barbara Talento, longtime friend of Shapiro’s and current president of OLLI. “He was maybe, 5’1”, but he had a big voice. He was insightful, funny and could talk the birds out of a tree.” Shapiro received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago. He spent the early part of his career in the marketing
industry. He was the national merchandising manager for Sears, Roebuck and Co., before moving to the marketing enterprise The Druggette and then became the vice president of advertising and sales for Alpha Beta. “This was a man who had four different careers,” Talento said. Shapiro retired from the Alpha Beta Company in 1970. Although his body was ready to take it easy, his mind was just getting started. He worked for the next several years as an independent consultant until 1978, when Robertson recruited Shapiro for the adult learning program. “Leo had a few rules. The classes had to be consistent with college catalogs. They had to be college level, meaty classes. No fun and games. And we would not pay people to teach. The classes would be taught by retirees or expert faculty,” Talento said. OLLI has offered lectures, classes and travel opportunities to seniors in the Fullerton community who wish to continue their learning experience. “That’s how it started, and that’s how it remains,” Talento said. “But he hated that term, senior citizens.” Many people were taken with Shaprio’s brilliance as well as his endless supply of energy. “I had the privilege of first meeting Leo in March 1988 – my very first week on the job at Cal State Fullerton,” said Bill Dickerson, executive director of the CSUF Foundation. “I had just turned 41 years old the previous week and Leo had recently celebrated his 83rd birthday. I remember thinking at the time, ‘Wow! What a bundle of energy from a man more than twice my age’ and, of course, over the next 19 plus years, I was to repeat that observation many, many times.” He worked hard and expected no less of his peers. Talento remembers one instance when Shapiro needed something See SHAPIRO, Page 5
Shapiro: Visionary not forgotten done. Two weeks later when she had it resolved, she called to let him know. “You know what he said? Not thank you, not good job, but ‘What took you so long?’ ” Taledo said. Shapiro is also largely responsible for the Ruby Gerontology Center, the gerontology research center at CSUF which also serves as the OLLI headquarters. “In the summer of 1989 Leo brought me a clipping from Newsweek Magazine describing a joint venture between the University of Virginia and the Marriott Corporation in which Marriott would be building senior housing for the University,” Dickerson said. “Leo felt that with over 900 members in CLE, many of whom would be looking to move into senior housing in the coming years, this presented a great opportunity to build upon the success of CLE and to build upon the success of our newly-developed gerontology program.” Although Shapiro did not live
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to see senior housing at CSUF, the project is expected to be completed in the next two to three years, Dickerson said. CLE ended up with offices in the Ruby Gerontology Center and classrooms to both call their own and share with the university. Shapiro served as co-chair of fundraising for the center and has a wing named for him and his wife, Devora. As a result of his fundraising efforts work on the Ruby Gerontology Center building campaign, Shapiro was awarded the President’s Medallion in 1989, the university’s most prestigious honor awarded to community members.
“At his memorial service the word ‘visionary’ was used a lot, and I think that’s accurate. That was Leo,” Talento said. Dickerson fondly remembers dinner gatherings of both family and friends who always started with cocktails and h’ordoevres at Shapiro’s home. “He took great pride in both the snacks that he served, most importantly, serving them himself,” Dickerson said. “After all, Leo was the host and it is the job of the host to serve the guests – even at age 102.” Talento spoke with Shapiro just two weeks before he passed. “He said, ‘You know, I lived a rich, full life. I have no regrets . . . and I’m ready to go home.’ ” Talento said. “Two weeks later he was gone.” But certainly he was not forgotten. “We are indeed all better people for having known him,” Dickerson said. “We will hopefully become even better people in the future for having known him and, I can assure you, we will never forget him.”
Males: Men’s numbers dropping obtaining college diplomas. Females of black and Latino descent are leapfrogging their male counterparts. “When we break this issue down into ethnicity, we see trouble,” McDowell said. In 2000, nearly 70 percent of black college graduates were female. Guenther said oppression plays a major role. “Black men face a unique challenge,” Guenther said. “They’re challenged by teachers who aren’t giving them the benefit of the doubt and pushed by social forces to not go to college.” A study conducted by the Women’s Center noted that an implicit message that many black males receive is that they may excel in sports and not academics. It also noted that successful black men are more likely to be labeled “sell-outs” by their peers. “Black women trying to find a suitable mate have trouble because they greatly outnumber educated black men,” Banda said. McDowell said first-generation
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male Latino immigrants are more discriminated against than their female counterparts. “The women don’t seem to feel as disempowered as the men do,” McDowell said. In Latino families, males are more pressured to find success in providing for the family opposed to obtaining an education, McDowell said. “Latinos have trouble shifting that message,” she said. Guenther said members of our society should look at the early education blacks and Latinos receive that may play a part in sending
them on the wrong track. “These are red flags about the messages we’re sending to the black and Latino community,” Guenther said. Although women are graduating in higher numbers, they still must face the “glass ceiling,” Guenther said. The term refers to the career barrier women face in corporate America that keeps women out of high-level positions. Guenther said the wage gap has been shrinking, but very slowly. Currently, women earn 70 cents to the male dollar. “Women in our society need to have some sort of college degree. Males have their gender to fall back on,” Guenther said. Even though women are taking advantage of educational opportunities, discrimination is still a reality, Banda said. “The good news is that more women are obtaining college degrees,” Banda said. “The bad news is that the glass ceiling is currently alive.”
Years of CSUF
Music department helps man find voice By Jennifer Caddick
Daily Titan Buzz Editor news@dailytitan.com
Even a person with a natural talent sometimes needs to have “a moment of clarity” before realizing his/ her life’s calling. For Marty Schaefer, his moment was getting that unexplainable rush while singing a solo in front of 3,000 people at the performance of Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem.” While 30-year-old Schaefer has built a successful career for himself as being a professional singer and arts administrator, he didn’t always know performing with music was what he wanted to do. The Cal State Fullerton alumnus graduated in 2000 with his major in music education with an emphasis on choral. However, before beginning his college career, Schaefer took a year off to travel back East with friends after high school. “We fancied ourselves as quasi ‘beatniks’ like Kerouac and his cronies in ‘On the Road,’” Schaefer said. “I heard a lot of amazing music that year and followed some of my favorite bands around.” Schaefer grew up in California’s central valley in a town of 45,000 people, called Porterville. Although it was such a small town, the friends he made a strong bond with while traveling moved to the Southern California area, allowing them all to maintain a vital relationship with each other. CSUF entered Schaefer’s life after some CSUF faculty approached him. CSUF’s reputation for singers and choral music – including John Alexander, professor of music and director of choral studies, and Mark Goodrich, past head of the vocal department – in its staff “sealed the deal” for Schaefer. For a decade the vocal program at CSUF was chaired by Goodrich, who describes those years as some of the happiest of his life. “He’s somehow able to help me see the drama and wonder in the story of what I sing. Many times
after a voice lesson I have a ‘body buzz’ or an exhausted overwhelmed feeling,” Schaefer said. “These are the highs most of us live for anyway, and the fact that I get to experience them as a part of training is gravy on the potato.” Goodrich, who is now part of the voice faculty at Cal State Los Angeles, could tell from the beginning that Schaefer’s voice had the potential to be utilized professionally. “Marty has developed into a real artist,” Goodrich said. “He is the real deal.” Alexander, CSUF professor of music and director of choral studies, has worked as the artistic director and conductor of the Pacific Chorale for the past 28 years and was presented with the Outstanding Individual Artist Award from Arts Orange County in 2000. “Maestro Alexander taught me the professional side to things … all the preparation that must go into performance,” Schaefer said. “Most of John’s students are instilled with a sense of drive and a certain sense of respect for yourself.” The music department at CSUF created Schaefer’s most memorable life moment. Alexander arranged for the ensemble Schaefer was a part of to travel to Vatican City and perform at the Sistine Chapel for the 2000 Jubilee, the Catholic religion’s recognition of Christ’s birthday. The group preformed a private show for Vatican officials. “We all stood in a circle and started the chant of a 16th-century motet and within three bars I was weeping as were most of the choir,” Schaefer said. “The sound was like nothing I had ever heard before, like something other and greater was creating the sound and we were simply being absorbed by it.” Since being a student at CSUF, Schaefer has continued to experience musical success. He has obtained noble reviews in his second season as a member of the artist group with the Opera Pacific. The Orange County Register called Schaefer’s baritone performance in Mozart’s Don Giovanni as Masetto “rich and sinewy.”
Schaefer He has also soloed at the Hollywood Bowl in Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy” and performed as the Mandarin in “Turandot” and the Jailer in “Tosca.” “To walk out there first and be on the same side of the stage that many of my favorite performers, all the way from the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Radiohead, Belle and Sebastian and the Flaming Lips, have performed [on] is really cool,” Schaefer said. Schaefer also works as an arts administrator at Tustin’s Red Hill Lutheran Church. On Sunday mornings Schaefer is responsible for creating and producing a performance. “I feel like I’m contributing to something by, hopefully, enhancing the worship experience for the people who attend church there,” Schaefer said. Even though Schaefer attributes pieces of this success to his times spent at CSUF taking honorable classes and working with acclaimed professors, he has stronger memories. The occasions spent on the lawn behind the Performing Arts Building playing hacky sac and hitting on girls with his friends are the moments he nostalgically remembers. “[Do] not to take things as too important … there are a lot of wonderful things out on the margins of life,” Schaefer said. “Most of the greatest stuff starts out on the margins before making its way into the mainstream.”
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Carson Daly first to cross the WGA picket line Last Wednesday Carson Daly betrayed his staff writers by crossing the WGA picket line. Outraging members of the Writer’s Guild of America, he decided to continue filming his late-night talk show Last Call with Carson Daly. On Monday evening the show hit airwaves for the first time in a month, sparking a flurry of negative media attention. During Monday’s show Daly addressed the situation, claiming NBC would lay off 75 percent of his staff members if he didn’t return. “We ran out of repeats,” Daly joked. “A month is a long time.” A month isn’t a long time compared to how long the writers have been waiting to receive fair pay. He also attempted to lighten up the situation by cracking a second not-so-humorous quip. “I miss my writers,” he said. “None of this is written – clearly!” But does Daly truly miss his writers, or is his disloyalty a desperate cry for media attention? His decision to return may have brought him closer to executives at NBC, but it has cut ties with the people who truly make the
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show. His buddies at the network laid off nonunion staff members from its other two late-night talk shows, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” The thing is, Leno and O’Brien reach into their pockets to cover their staff members’ bills while the strike continues. Daly obviously wasn’t willing to step up to the plate. His excuse seemed like the perfect way to get the best of both worlds. He is now the only late-night talk show host not sticking by his writers’ sides. This will only hurt Daly’s image and could signal an end to an already pathetic career. His days with TRL playing “BFF” with Kid Rock and seeing 13-year-old girls collapse to his feet are long gone. Although Daly has secured his own TV show, he is not the idol he once was. Regardless of Daly’s celebrity status, talk show hosts have an obligation to support their writers as they ask for their fair share. Without the writers their jokes will fall flat. Carson Daly, get ready to be a nobody.
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Radio: Dead or alive?
iPick my content By Robert Stroud
Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com
While some morning audiences are still tuning into their favorite drive-time shock-jocks, radio stations are gradually losing their listeners to the ever-expanding threat of technology. Thanks to the accessibility provided by portable music players, such as the Apple iPod, radio stations are beginning to lose their appeal to the general public. Even though radio stations are able to offer their listeners the latest and greatest releases from some of the current chart topping bands, their inability to diversify their playlists can force their audiences to search elsewhere in hopes of expanding their listening experience. As unrealistic as it might sound, these stations need to take drastic measures to ensure their audiences don’t look to these portable music players as their main source of entertainment during their daily commute. First off, the demand for radio stations to play the most popular songs of the time often prohibits listeners from hearing the wide variety of songs that could be offered by a portable music device. Sure, the radio may occasionally benefit some listeners by playing newly released songs they have never heard before, but very rarely is there a single released on the radio that hasn’t already been made available for purchase at the iTunes store. Second, radio stations often fall short on playing certain songs considered to be too risqué, vulgar and just all around inappropriate for younger audiences. D o n’t get me wrong, I do understand there is some material out there not suited for younger demographics, but I am sick and tired of the entertainment of the masses taking a back seat to the “fragile” minds of the simple children of this country. Thanks to the FCC, I must do my part to protect other peo-
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Radio 2.0: A renaissance ple’s offspring by suffering through some of the most bland, recycled and unoriginal music in the world. But thanks to my audio device, I can still listen to Slayer at 8 o’clock in the morning, without the risk of corrupting the minds of these poor and defenseless children. Some DJs have been lucky enough to obtain jobs on satellite radio stations, giving them the opportunity to play unedited versions of their favorite songs. This is good, considering that listening to certain radio edited songs on Power 106 is equivalent to watching a butchered episode of “The Sopranos” on A&E. The major drawback to listening to satellite radio is that you have to pay for the service. Why keep spending money month after month for this service, when a music player allows an almost unlimited selection for a one-time fee. Finally, one of the greatest drawbacks to radio is the barrage of advertisements one is forced to sit through in hopes that one day the DJ will once again fill the airwaves with something somewhat entertaining. When it gets down to it, there is little radio can offer that cannot be matched by a portable music device. Now that some stations have decided to make some of their popular morning talk shows into d ow n loadable podcasts, there is no need to stick with this outdated form of entertainment. With a constant supply of personalized playlists at the fingertips of the public, there is no need to deny that the video iPod killed the radio star.
Fear not, radio; your time hasn’t come just yet. It’s been said that radio isn’t the most popular medium on the block. Actually, some dispute that radio is on its way out, destined to go the way the dinosaurs and dial-up Internet connections did. Now, more than ever, media heads are logging online to get their news fix. They download music onto slim portable MP3 players and hook it up to their car stereo system for easy listening on the road. Traffic and weather can easily be retrieved by way of Yahoo, AOL or Google homepages. But it’s not that radio is doomed. It’s just evolving, just like all of our other cherished technologies. Personalized Internet radio stations, podcasts – think of it as “Radio Version 2.0.” Internet stations may not be radio in the traditional sense, but the mechanics are the same. Music listeners are free to channel surf as they please. Putting radio on the Internet just makes the medium far more convenient for everyone involved. To start stations, companies put a stake on radio wave frequencies, and there’s only a limited number of spaces available. When it comes to the ‘net, space is far from restricted, and even the average person can start his own radio station. Last.fm, for one, has users download a program that starts up every time the computer does. When the user turns on the Winamp or Windows Media Player, the program takes note of every song he or she listens to. Based on those songs, Last.fm creates a radio station whose playlist complements the user’s tastes, throwing in artists he or she may not be familiar with, but may enjoy. Some online radio platforms even enable its listeners to skip songs they don’t want to hear. Podcasts are the TiVo of radio; listeners can turn to their favorite radio show whenever they’d like. If they don’t want to stay up until midnight to hear “Rodney on the ‘ROQ” on KROQ, they don’t have
to. Users can share whole hourlong radio shows with each other, even when the show isn’t available at the local radio frequencies. That’s another plus to online radio: It promotes diversity and increases exposure. A student radio show at Brown University can become a West Coast sensation overnight, all because a buddy from Caltech hyped it up with all his unknowing friends in Southern California. Radio shows, both mainstream and obscure, know to offer their audio goods via the Internet. It’s smart marketing. All of these digital advancements doesn’t mean that traditional AM/FM radio is floundering. AM news and sports stations still serve their purpose. AM radio is a hands-free newspaper, and news buffs don’t have to shell out a fortune to get its services. People can access the latest breaking news and sports scores on their iPhones, but try that while driving. Bluetooth won’t solve everything. Talk radio also grabs wide audiences and, among those, plenty of faithful listeners. It’s one thing to download a podcast of some Christian evangelical’s rant on stem cell research or of an alien abductee calling in to the Art Bell show, but would one actually take the time to hunt down and download these shows? Talk radio shows are perfect for stumbling upon, in part because of how radical many of them are. These extremist views can be difficult to imagine, let alone search for. And believe it or not, there are people out there who do not have an iPod, who do not want to surf the Web on a Saltine-cracker-sized screen and who are not going to budge from their radio dials. Record player enthusiasts still exist. Others still make mixtapes with cassette tapes. There will always be the renegades who stick to the old medium, if only for nostalgia’s sake. Some people just find it hard to grasp new technologies. It’s not their fault, and they aren’t being hardheaded; it’s just how they do. Radio’s name is changing into words like “podcast” and “streaming radio.” Call it anything; it’s still radio. Fact is, this medium may no longer be in the spotlight. But it sure isn’t going to be burning out anytime soon either.
A Sep. 7, 2007 survey conducted by the American Media Services found that: • 63 percent of Americans listen to free radio one or more times a day. • Compared to five years ago, 74 percent listen to
the same or more amount of radio. • Only 11 percent of Americans subscibe to satellite radio. • 74 percent of Americans turn on the radio when they get into the car.
After Howard Stern’s departure from FM radio into satellite radio in 2006, an AM station, talk radio KFI AM (640), became the No.1 listened-to morning station in Southern California at the time.
When it gets down to it, there is little radio can offer that cannot be matched by a portable music device.
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Aries (March 21 - April 19) You will be in an extremely stuffy meeting today, which will seem to last forever. You will be able to liven things up a smidge by putting a few small feathers in your hand, and then “coughing” them out.
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) You will rest peacefully, and sink into a strange dream. In the dream, you will be playing an odd version of soccer with huge clear balloons, and people will be cheering you on from the sidelines, who are dressed in white formal attire. Don’t go into the light. The extra point isn’t worth it.
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Excellent day to pretend to have various infirmities. Pretending to have a hunchback is my personal favorite, and is often favor ably combined with a drooling problem.
Cancer (June 21 - July 22)
Not a good time to go forth and conquer. Try going fifth, and hover in the background.
Leo (July 23 - August 22) Ooh! Oh. I should have warned you. I’m sorry.
Virgo (August 23 - September 22) People will tease you about wearing your golf shoes indoors. Don’t you mind them, though -- they’re undoubtedly just jealous.
Libra (September 22 - October 22) Stinky feet day, today. Don’t go to a Japanese restaurant.
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Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Good day to use nautical terms in ordinary situations, and to refer to the different sides of your building as “port” and “starboard.”
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Lacrosse lives at CSUF As popularity grows for a well-known East Coast sport, the CSUF campus lacrosse team hopes to garner official support and publicity by Ryan Castle
For the Daily Titan
sports@dailytitan.com
Perhaps the fastest growing sport on the West Coast has hit Fullerton in a big way, as the Cal State Fullerton Lacrosse team gears up for its first season as a member of the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA). What started as just another oncampus club in 2001 has become a growing team that i s quickly becoming legitimate contenders in the sport of lacrosse. The lacrosse members are coached by Frank Podsiadlik, who is in his third season with the team, second as head coach. Podsiadlik marvels at the team’s rapid improvement in the past year alone. “I would say we’ve progressed by leaps and bounds,” Podsiadlik said. “We have more guys at a practice on a day we shouldn’t even be having practice than we had at all mandatory practices last year.” The sport of lacrosse has an enormous fan base along the East Coast, but is relatively unknown in the West. There are 57 Division 1 lacrosse teams, with just over 200 teams in the entire NCAA. Of these, only three schools west of the Rocky Mountains are members of the NCAA: Whittier College, Notre Dame de Namur and The University of Denver. The CSUF team currently plays in the MCLA, which has over 100 teams participating, many of which are in the West Coast, thus making it easier to compete in. The team is doing extremely well for being in the league for just its first full season. They recently finished its first preseason tournament, where
they knocked off the #1 ranked UC Irvine 5-1. The team hopes to use the momentum of the sport within the school to generate more and more popularity for the sport within the area. “Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport right now in Southern California, and I think there’s a lot of talent in this area,” said Kyle
Dunn, a second-year member of the team. “I think if Fullerton had a NCAA lacrosse team it would put us above any other school around, because we’d be the first ‘State’ school to have an NCAA Lacrosse team.” Although it would be a major accomplishment to become a sanctioned NCAA team, it is a bit of a lofty goal. Coach Podsiadlik said, it could take up to eight to 11 years for the team to become a member of the NCAA. “Most programs are choosing to stay in the MCLA, only because it’s less expensive and less on the university,” Podsiadlik said. “On the flip-
side, whoever goes NCAA first on the West Coast will get the greatest benefits financially.” For now, the team’s goal is to one day reach the MCLA National Championships in Dallas. “I hope to see us as a powerhouse in lacrosse in Orange County,” said Ricky Martinez, the team–elected president. Perhaps the rapid improvement of the team as well as growing membership the past few years is in the team’s encouragement of players with no experience in the sport. “I played football for four years in high school, and when I came here I started getting bored not playing any athletics. I saw we had a lacrosse team so I came out and they were pretty welcoming,” Martinez said. “We still have maybe 15 people who came in with no prior experience.” While the team practices hard every day to prepare for its first season as a full member of the MCLA, it also hopes the work it’s putting in now will be the start of something great. “It would be nice to come back to something and say we had a part in starting it. We’re kind of like the founding fathers,” Dunn said. The team works hard to make a name for the sport on the field, but also off the field, looking to increase interest in the sport around the area. “We’re hoping to start some youth programs out here and maybe with the local high schools around Fullerton, and just get the sport out there,” Martinez said. “We look forward to winning some championships and getting Fullerton’s name out there, and let people know that we have a lacrosse program, and we’re pretty good.”
December 5, 2007
Bram Makonda
Bram’s Breakdown
NFL punishment for Patriots not fit for the crime This year’s biggest NFL game will not be on a cold day in January. It will be the pre-Christmas special on Dec. 23, when the unbeaten Patriots face off against the winless Miami Dolphins in Foxboro Stadium. All who watched the Patriots win against the Baltimore Ravens know they will go unbeaten through the regular season. Not only do they have arguably one of the most potent offenses in history, apparently they have the officials and the league behind them too. Down by four and driving deep inside Ravens territory, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady appeared to be stopped short of the first down when a defensive holding play was called that gave the Patriots a new set of downs. There had been questionable calls all night on both sides of the ball, but the official’s failure to let the teams play with the game on the line is up for question. If you ask anyone in the Ravens’ locker room after the game, he will tell you that the game was fixed, and the league wants the Patriots to go unbeaten. “Allow the players to dictate how the game is going to go, especially the last couple of seconds. “It’s kind of like basketball. There’s three seconds on the clock. Let the guys play. The best team is going to win,” Ravens’ receiver Derrick Mason said. “You don’t let outside circumstances dictate how the game is going to go. It’s hard to play against the best team in the NFL and beat
them. You are out there and working hard. You are playing against them and then also you have [the officials] and it seems you are playing against them, also.” Can you blame them for complaining? Already plagued with injuries for the season, the Ravens made this game against the Patriots their own Super Bowl. To end the game on a bailout the way the Patriots did was heartbreaking to say the least. Conspiracy theorists will tell you that the league wants the Patriots to finish unbeaten, but I don’t think they will go as far as to work the officials in their favor. Remember, this was a team that was heavily penalized for the spy-gate incident. However, I believe the NFL will welcome a record-breaking season. Of all the off-the-field issues that marked this NFL season, think of Vick, Pacman and the tragic death of Sean Taylor, Commisioner Roger Goddell will want to end the season with a record-breaking team. Were the officials instructed to “fix” the game? Probably not. But they did allow a Patriots team to get a second chance. This team has been given one
too many second chances. Although the spy-gate punishment stripped them the power to draft successfully in the future, the punishment did not address this year’s team for this year’s violation. The punishment was effective against the organization as a whole, but not against this year’s team. They committed the violation, they should’ve suffered for it. What they got was a second chance. You can’t blame them for running away with it, and converting on all of their opportunities. But give me a break, they’re not the team of destiny; that honor belongs to the hapless Dolphins. It’s harder to lose 16 games in the NFL than to win 16 games. So two days before Christmas, I’ll be watching the game, not because I’ll be rooting for either team, or any fantasy value (I got this season in the bag for two of my leagues); it will be recordbreaking regardless of the outcome. My prediction: Pats 70, Dolphins 2 (Tom Brady hooks up with Moss and Welker for 400 yards and Miami will score when Patriots’ backup quarterback Matt Cassel trips into his own endzone).
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This team has been given one too many second chances. The punishment was effective against the organization as a whole, but not against this year’s team.
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