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DTSHORTHAND Campus Life The Titan Student Union and the Associated Students, Inc. will sponsor the biannual All Night Study program May 5-16. During this end-of-semester program, the TSU will keep it’s doors open for 24 hours for two weeks. All Cal State Fullerton students are encouraged to participate in the free activities and services offered to help prepare for final exams. To kick-off finals week, the TSU will host “Cram Your Cranium” at midnight on Monday, Free scantrons, bluebooks and other school supplies will available for students to pick up in the TSU Garden Café courtyard. On Tuesday, May 13th , students will not have to leave campus to celebrate taco Tuesday. Instead, they can enjoy free food and giveaways at “Finals Fiesta” beginning at 10 pm in the TSU Garden Café courtyard. For a complete schedule of activities during the All Night Study program, visit the Web site at http://asi.fullerton.edu/ allnightstudy or contact Crystal Schmidt at (714) 278-5869.
Authorities found it easy to crack the college drug culture Associated Press
Undercover agents who posed as college students to bust more than 100 suspected drug dealers at San Diego State University never had to crack a book to gain acceptance on campus. All it took was cash. The federal agents went to one or two parties but never actually went to class or lived in the dorms. Instead, they merely arranged meetings with suspected dealers and asked about buying cocaine, Ecstasy, methamphetamine, marijuana and other drugs, authorities said Wednesday. “All it took was saying, ‘Hey, I go to State, can you hook me up?’” said San Diego County prosecutor Damon Mosler. “And then it was off to the races.”
The day after the drug sweep landed members of three fraternities in jail and led to the suspension of six frats, investigators revealed how easy it was to penetrate the university’s drug culture. Students who had gotten caught for fighting, drinking, minor drug offenses or other crimes quickly turned informants and used text messages to introduce their drug dealers to undercover agents. Dealers made handoffs in front of dorms, in parking lots or behind frat houses, sometimes in broad daylight in full view of surveillance cameras. They apparently made little effort to launder their spoils. One fraternity brother arrested Tuesday drove his Lexus directly from a $400 cocaine sale on campus to a nearby
bank, where he deposited the cash, according to court papers. That came as a surprise to agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, who were used to being thoroughly screened by dealers scared of being arrested. “They never gave any thought that we could be doing an operation there,” said Eileen Zeidler, a spokeswoman for the DEA office in San Diego. At least 75 people arrested during the five-month sting were San Diego State students, and 13 of them were from seven fraternities. All together, there were 128 arrests, 61 on Tuesday. Theta Chi had the highest number of students arrested, with five. Campus police started the probe a year ago after the cocaine over-
dose death of a freshman sorority member, but they soon called in federal agents to provide fresh faces on campus and supply the money needed to make drug buys. That was a major departure from the arms’-length relationship that has existed between colleges and police since the 1960s. For decades, police in many communities have largely turned a blind eye to drugs on campus. The DEA had been on campus at San Diego State before, to help investigate a student suspected of cooking methamphetamine for his own use in a campus chemistry lab, and campus police said they cooperated with the FBI after receiving a hoax threat in the wake of last year’s Virginia Tech shootings. Yet the invitation to federal authorities
was unusual because it involved an open-ended investigation that did not involve a violent crime. The ringleader, a 19-year-old, brazenly sent out text messages advertising weekend blowout sales on cocaine, authorities say. Apart from that, however, the fraternity did little to attract attention. In fact, it was known for having a no-alcohol policy at its rundown gray house. “Theta Chi did not have that reputation, nothing that would have led us to suspect they were the primary purveyors,” said Lt. Lamine Secka of the campus police. One informant told investigators the profits from drug sales were being plowed back into the fraternity’s operating budget, according to prosecutors.
A Blooming
Arboretum Photos by Taylor Tunno/For the Daily Titan
Some of the scenes from the Fullerton Arboretum’s 38th
City wants to split Florida in two states
annual Green Scene event held in April. Extended summer evening hours for the Arboretum will be scheduled for July
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. - One city commission wants to divide Florida into two states: North Florida and South Florida. The North Lauderdale City Commission says in a resolution that it's not confident in state leaders when it comes to collecting and spending their own money. It also says it would be "in the best interests of the citizens and residents" to divide the state. Commissioner Rich Moyle says they're frustrated with the state Legislature "ignoring the cities in South Florida." But he acknowledges the idea likely won't pass. When asked Tuesday about the resolution, Governor Charlie Crist could only muster up a laugh. Meanwhile, other municipalities and counties are being asked to join in the resolution. The boundary line would be from Palm Beach County down through Monroe County.
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A man in South Carolina came up with an idea to cut his gas mileage in half, regardless of the odd looks his modified car receives. Mike Turner transformed his 1992 Honda Accord and with around $400 worth of material and a few days of work, he reduced the wind resistance, which doubles his gas mileage. Visit Yahoo news to see this video.
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An array of cacti and succulents were for sale at this year’s annual Green Scene event held at the Fullerton Arboretum [left]. A volunteer teaches a child at the annual Green Scene event about a succulent plant.
Spoiling mom on Mother’s Day A special time of the year focuses on the women who lead their families By KETURAH MILLER
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n celebration of the beautiful lives that our mother’s have given to each individual on this earth, children and adults will celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday. This historical holiday goes back as far as the ancient Greeks, who paid tributes to Rhea, the mother of all goddesses, according to a Mother’s Day information Web site (www.mothersdaycelebration.com).
Many families will celebrate the hard work that mothers have endured by honoring them and thanking them. Many people will enjoy a special luncheon, dinner or just a quiet afternoon spent together. According to the Associated Press, 55 percent of men and women planned to spend an average of $70.30 on a gift for mom – up almost $4 from last year, despite the fact 82 percent of mothers would rather see their children spend less on them this year. According to the Associated Press, men also planned to outspend women this year with an average amount of $77.50 compared to $63.90 for women.
For those looking for ideas, there are more than a few suggestions available. Bahar Mandegar, 22, a student at Santiago Canyon College, is looking forward to hanging out with her mother and brother on Mother’s Day. “A few years ago, we took my mom to Laguna Beach and ate at Las Brisas restaurant and that was a lot of fun ... it overlooks the water and it was so pretty,” Mandegar said. “We might take her there again ... it was so beautiful.” On Mother’s Day, going out to a restaurant is always a great way to spend the day with Mom. Other restaurants worth trySee MOTHER’S DAY, Page 2
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IN OTHER NEWS Mother’s Day: Pampering many Clinton INTERNATIONAL moms just right on their day to stick around Cyclone deaths in Myanmar could top 100,000
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Hungry people swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in Myanmar’s swamped Irrawaddy delta Wednesday as a top U.S. diplomat warned that the death toll from a devastating cyclone could top 100,000. The minutes of a U.N. aid meeting obtained by The Associated Press, meanwhile, revealed the military junta’s visa restrictions were hampering international relief efforts. Only a handful of U.N. aid workers had been let into the impoverished Southeast Asian country, which the government has kept isolated for five decades to maintain its iron-fisted control. The U.S. and other countries rushed supplies to the region, but most of them were being held outside Myanmar while awaiting the junta’s permission to deliver them. Entire villages in the Irrawaddy delta were still submerged from Saturday’s storm, and bloated corpses could be seen stuck in the mangroves. Some survivors stripped clothes off the dead. People wailed as they described the horror of the torrent swept ashore by the cyclone. “I don’t know what happened to my wife and young children,” said Phan Maung, 55, who held onto a coconut tree until the water level dropped.
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Reverend Al Sharpton arrested in protest
NEW YORK (AP) – The Rev. Al Sharpton has been arrested at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge in a protest over the acquittal of three police officers involved in the 50-bullet shooting of an unarmed black man. Sharpton, two survivors of the shooting and the slain man’s fiancee were arrested Wednesday in one of a series of demonstrations calling for a federal investigation into the November 2006 shooting. Sharpton had called for acts of civil disobedience across the city. Several other demonstrators have been arrested as they stopped traffic at bridges and tunnels. As police keep their distance, organizers are giving protesters instructions on how to behave when arrested. The three officers were acquitted of state charges last month.
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Charges filed against 10 real estate scammers SAN BERNARDINO (AP) – Prosecutors filed felony charges against 10 defendants for allegedly conspiring in a $2 million-plus predatory lending scheme operating out of Rancho Cucamonga. San Bernardino County prosecutor Larry Roberts says the defendants were doing business as Nationwide Discount Home Loans and Preferred Metropolitan Escrow Inc. The felony charges were filed Wednesday. Prosecutors allege Nationwide Discount Home Loans acted as a mortgage loan broker making loans on three foreclosed properties – located in Moreno Valley, San Clemente and Simi Valley – and they quickly resold them to Countrywide. Investigators say the properties involved the use of a “straw buyer” arranged by the defendants, and the truth of the transactions were hidden from Countrywide and the homeowners. Prosecutors say the goal was to place the loans with Countrywide to reap the commission, and bleed the homeowner’s equity off as inflated loan fees, costs and real estate commissions.
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ing for brunch include San Pedro’s Ports O’ Call restaurants or local Don Jose’s and Ricardo’s Mexican restaurant. Both places have ample amounts of food and complimentary champagne. A perk of Ports O’ Call is it not only offers sushi and barbecued ribs, but the restaurant also overlooks the riverfront. In addition to the amazing food, guests can also take a beautifully narrated harbor cruise around the Worldport of Los Angeles, which is also included in the brunch price at Ports O’ Call. If brunch or dinner is not that appealing, spending a day at a day spa
Thursday 5/8/08
Event: Vocal Jazz Night
Description: College Night Time: Doors open at 7:30 p.m, show starts at 8:00 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Steamers Jazz Bar 138 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton
Event: Glow Bowling
Description: Afternoon of Bowling Time: 3-7 p.m. Cost: Free (Shoe rental is $2.50) Location: Titan Bowl & Billiards
Event: Fullerton Downtown Mar-
ket Description: Live entertainment, outdoor beer and wine garden, fresh produce, food and lots more! Time: 4-8:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Fullerton Downtown Plaza on Wilshire Avenue, between Harbor Boulevard and Pomona Avenue
Friday 5/9/08
Event: Continental Room-Chico
Mann (Direct from NYC) Description: Blended world music such as Afro beat and Cuban Latin rhythms.
or salon for the ultimate pampering treatment is also a great idea. Laura Saari, 21, a student at Cypress College, plans on spending the day at the spa with her mother. “I am not sure whether I am taking my mom to Burke Williams for a manicure or pedicure day, or I might take her to Glen Ivy for an all-day session in the grotto,” Saari said. “I know whatever we do, we are totally being pampered, which is absolutely fabulous.” Guests can spend time at the grotto at Glen Ivy Hot Springs Spa in Corona, Brea, Valencia or South Bay with no appointment necessary for $25 in addition to the $48 spa
Time: 9:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Continental Room 115 Santa Fe Avenue, Fullerton
Event: Spring Texas Hold ‘Em
admission. Any additional services such as massages, body treatments or facials, might require an appointment. Whether it be a brunch, a dinner, a day of pampering or just some quality time with Mom, enjoy the day, giving honor and thanks to mothers. Letty Rivera, 22, a Cal State Fullerton student, plans on staying at home with her mother for the special day. “I am pretty sure that I will fix her breakfast and maybe order in lunch, watch a few movies and [I am] for sure getting her flowers,” Rivera said.
way, between Commonwealth and Santa Fe Avenue
Sunday 5/11/08 Event: Mother’s Day Gospel
Brunch Description: Enjoy live Gospel Music and buffet style brunch. Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Cost: Varies Location: House of Blues Anaheim
Saturday 5/10/08
Event: Continental Room - Doc-
House Description: Celebrating 100 years of service in Fullerton. Featuring station tours, fire equipment, demonstrations, food and more! Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Fullerton Fire Dept. 312 E. Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton
Event: Western Round-Up Fund-
raiser Description: Featuring carnival booths, games, raffles, entertainment and food! Time: 12-5 p.m. Cost: Free Location: SOCO District Walk-
Her money drained and her options dwindling, a resolute Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to press on with her presidential bid even as she and top advisers were hard-pressed to describe a realistic path for her to wrest the nomination from Barack Obama. After a wrenching primary outcome Tuesday in which she was routed in North Carolina and barely won Indiana, Clinton made a hastily scheduled trip to West Virginia to show her determination to fight on.
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Tournament of Champions Description: The finale to the semester poker series. Time: 2:00 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Titan Bowl & Billiards
Event: Fire Department Open
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tor Cartwright Description: Vocalist, singer and trumpet player harmonizing a soulful melody of music. Time: 9:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Continental Room 115 Santa Fe Avenue, Fullerton
Monday 5/12/08 Event: All Night Study
Description: Free Bowling & Billiards Time: Throughout the Night Cost: Free Location: Titan Bowl & Billiards
Tuesday 5/13/08 Event: El Tarasco-Taco Tuesday
Description: $1 Tacos, $1 Beer Time: All Day Cost: $1 Location: 2931 E. Nutwood Avenue, Fullerton
Wednesday 5/14/08
Event: Continental Room-Elvis
Night Description: Elvis performs live on stage Time: 9:30 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Continental Room
115 Santa Fe Avenue, Fullerton
Event: Fullerton’s Farmers Mar-
ket Description: Market offers fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers and more! Time: 8:00 a.m.-1:30p.m. Cost: Free Location: Independence Park 801 W. Valencia Drive, Fullerton
Thursday 5/15/08
Event: Cal State Fullerton base-
ball game Description: CSUF vs. San Diego State Time: 7 p.m. Cost: Free for students with valid ASI student ID Location: Goodwin Field
Friday 5/16/08
Event: Angels baseball game
Description: Angels vs. Dodgers Time: 7:05 p.m. Cost: Varies Location: Angel Stadium
Saturday 5/17/08
Event: Motor Car Festival
Description: Event will feature hot rod show Time: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: Free Location: Mukenthaler Cultural Center 1201 W. Malvern Avenue, Fullerton
Sunday 5/18/08
Event: Motor Car Festival
Description: Event will feature elegant car show Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $10 Location: Mukenthaler Cultural Center 1201 W. Malvern Avenue, Fullerton
A special night enjoyed by CSUF’s veterans A two-hour celebration focused on students who sacrifice for the country
Alum gives advice to broadcasting students KNBC-4 weathercaster, Elita Loresca graduated as Titan back in 2000
By CRAIG GROSSMAN
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
In celebration of students’ services in the United States military, Cal State Fullerton held a special event in their honor at the Golleher Alumni House. About 150 students, friends and family gathered for Veteran’s Appreciation Night on Sunday. The event was designed to honor students currently in the military who are being deployed to the Middle East this summer and to celebrate those graduating this month. The two-hour evening celebration was spearheaded by the Student Veteran’s Association (SVA). Guests, wearing formal attire, were seated at white-draped tables at the outdoor patio. The speaker lineup included anthropology Professor Charles Royston, Vice President of Student Affairs Robert Palmer, U.S. Marine Col. Patrick Gough and the Associate Director of the Women’s Center, Sue Passalacqua. A disc jockey played hip-hop music while a raffle drawing was also held to benefit the SVA. A $100 STA Travel gift certificate, free Hollywood Video gift certificates and a Toshiba laptop computer were donated by local businesses and awarded to participants in the drawing. A military tribute slide show featuring servicemen and servicewomen on land and sea was also shown to guests. The slide show depicted both smiling soldiers and those fighting on the front lines. It ended with a military serviceman saluting the American flag. Human services major Joseph Chang, 33, created the SVA last September and also serves as its current president. Chang was originally in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. “I was personally inspired to have an organization of student veterans and there was none,” Chang, who is graduating in May, said. “So after a long time thinking and brainstorm-
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By VANESSA FABELO
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By DAMON CASAREZ/Daily Titan Photo Editor “[The event took] tremendous focus, persistence, positive thinking, you name it,” Joseph Chang said of Veterans Appreciation Night.
ing, I decided to start it. Luckily, I was interning at the Women’s Center and they gave me encouragement. I walked around the campus looking for people with short haircuts. I met five guys who were willing to show up for Tuesday meetings.” It was a large undertaking to organize Sunday’s event but the Associated Students, Inc. and Student Affairs helped fund the event with about $2,000 and $2,400, Chang said. “[The event took] tremendous focus, persistence, positive thinking, you name it,” Chang said.”I really believed we [could] do it as long as we stayed positive and [kept] working on it.” Some of the nearly 35 military servicemen and servicewomen in attendance were based in installations throughout Southern California, Chang said. Elaine Ravalcava accompanied
her son in the military service, Herbert Garza, an SVA member, to the event. “He [Garza] called and invited me because his wife wasn’t able to come. I enjoy coming to some of his events,” Ravalcava said. Her son has served as a Navy Reservist for 11 years, with three years of active duty, and is based in San Diego. Daisy Vargas, 24, came to Veterans Appreciation Night with her boyfriend, Staff Sgt. Justin Jones. “I came to accompany my boyfriend who is in the Student Veteran’s Association,” Vargas, who is a comparative religion major, said. Jones has been in the Army Reserves for six years and has served two tours in Afghanistan. He is based in Upland and will be deployed to Iraq in August. Chang was thoroughly impressed with the planning and organization
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of Veteran’s Appreciation Night. “[The evening] was wonderful, it was much better than I thought,” he said. “Because when you start planning things, there’s uncertainty. You just don’t know how many people will show. It just worked out so beautifully.” A team of about six event coordinators, five volunteers and nine members of the SVA executive board helped organize the event. The CSUF SVA is a group of more than 40 members and “assists veteran students at CSUF in successfully transitioning into the academic environment through camaraderie, guidance and resources,” according to a flier at the event. Chang will be replaced as chapter president by one of SVA’s original members, Brandon Larson, 34, a CSUF engineering student and active army reservist based at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside.
With about 13,000 hits, a search on Google for Elita Loresca’s name reveals her popularity. Loresca, who graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2000, is mentioned in numerous blogs, featured in YouTube clips and was LORESCA chosen FHM’s “America’s Sexiest Newscaster” award in 2006. More than 80 students filled seats, leaving some standing, as they listened to Loresca, the KNBC-4 morning and midday weathercaster, give advice on campus. Loresca established her first on-air weather job in Fresno a year after graduating. “It’s not easy getting an on-air job right away but for weather it is, if you know how to ad-lib well,” Loresca said. “Being a weathercaster kind of just fell into my hands, but I soon loved it.” Although Loresca started her career off as a reporter in Bakersfield, her first experience with weather was at CSUF when she edited the weather page for the Orange County Register. To be successful in broadcasting, building from the bottom is key. “Experience is very important if you want to distinguish yourself over others,” Loresca said. In college, Loresca was in a sorority and got involved with internships, which gave her a lot of knowledge and experience before graduating. The best way to network is to get involved in organizations or clubs, she said. “Get involved early with internships,” Loresca said. “The more, the better.” She stressed versatility.
Loresca spoke about how broadcasting students will have better success if they are well-rounded in writing, producing and editing stories. When getting ready to send out a demonstration tape of packages for potential jobs, the first 30 seconds need to be the best, Loresca said. Receiving mentoring is also helpful because everyone needs constructive criticism to excel, she said. “Take advice to your advantage and apply it to your next project, follow through and don’t let anyone say ‘no’ to you, that was a big accomplishment for me,” she said. CSUF Professor Beth Evans took her advanced electronic news production class to listen to Loresca’s lecture during her appearance in Comm Week to gain some knowledge and advice. “She’s really trying to help encourage students, and has proven it [making it in the field] can happen to anyone sitting in the room,” Evans said. “I’m very proud that she’s an alum because it’s nice for students to see someone who made it in the field.” Loresca did not sugarcoat any information. “She gave a lot of great advice from being in a position that I want in the future and letting us know that we need to be well-rounded,” Erica Espitia, 20, a broadcast journalism major, said. “It’s nice to dream, but we know we have to put work into working our way up.” When working to get a foot in the door, Evans suggested starting off in a small market, regardless of location. Making sure that the tasks of the job are well done is also important, Loresca said. She said that in October she started working for KNBC-4, after working in Miami for three years. She also said she was very nervous when she was invited to come speak during Comm Week since she had never spoken to college students before. “One of the reasons why I came is because I feel a connection with the students who do not know what they want to do, I know what that feels like. Just pursue what you want to do and have support,” Loresca said.
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Wise in age but young at art For former CSUF Art Gallery Director Dextra Frankel, art is everything BY Karl Zynda
Daily Titan Copy Editor news@dailytitan.com
Brightly painted and lovingly polished motorcycles. Orange and avocado trees in redwood planter boxes. “Smoke atmospheres” at the Quad, athletic fields and the then-standing bridge over Nutwood Avenue. This is some of the widely- and wildly-varied art that Dextra Frankel, art professor and Cal State Fullerton gallery director from 1970 to 1991, brought to the campus. Today, Frankel, who was born in 1924, lives in a modern artwork and art-book-filled condominium in Mar Vista, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles. Abstract paintings and prints cover the white walls. There are prints and books of art by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Max Ernst and David Hockney, among others. A diminutive woman in her 80s who moves slowly after a stroke in 2006, Frankel nevertheless spoke animatedly as she recalled her career. “The way I feel, I should be 45,” she said. Frankel grew up in the Los Feliz and Hollywood areas of Los Angeles. She attended the Wolf School of Costume Design in downtown Los Angeles, pursuing her initial ambition of becoming a costume designer. She found work at Saks Fifth Avenue designing children’s clothes and women’s sportswear. Saks was ready to let her design her own line of clothing when she walked away from the job. Frankel became a part-time teacher and gallery director at CSUF in 1964 while becoming an artist. Art teachers at Los Angeles Valley College in Van Nuys had encouraged her to pursue a career in art. She entered an art competition at the La Jolla Museum of Art and won. The prize was an individual ex-
hibit at the museum. Held in 1961, the exhibit featured a group of mosaics, prints and enamels. Afterward, she began working on a group of sculptures for an exhibit that never happened. “I kind of abandoned the sculpture because I found out Cal State Fullerton was my creative work,” she said. “I really enjoyed it. Every exhibit was different. The processes were different and the research was different, so it was like always learning. And I very much liked working with the students and enjoying their growth.” After teaching part-time at the university for several years, Frankel became a full-time teacher and gallery director at CSUF in 1967. She developed a master’s and a graduate certificate program in Museum Studies, had the CSUF Main Art Gallery built and put on a succession of varied and eclectic exhibits. “She put out some very impressive students over the years,” Professor Mike McGee, the current CSUF gallery director, said of Frankel. “That’s part of the legacy she left. Her former students are working at institutions all over the world.” McGee named Patricia Watts, the associate director of the Sonoma County Museum of Art, as an example. The CSUF Main Art Gallery was designed by Frankel, according to McGee. The strong and hard floor made of end-cut fir, the movable walls, the lamps arranged in a highly adjustable four-foot grid and the tall ceilings and doorways were all built according to her specifications. It cost $1.9 million, but the result was a versatile, durable and adaptable space to exhibit, under Frankel’s direction, almost any kind of art. And in looking at the list of shows at the gallery curated by Frankel, it seems almost any kind of art was shown there. Everything from motorcycles to trees to neon lamps were displayed as art in the gallery. “The wonderful thing about Dextra as a curator, she had such a wideopen range of projects she wanted to develop,” Samuelson said. The “Paint by Molly” exhibit
in January 1971 brought custompainted choppers and race cars to the gallery. Artist Rollin Sanders, better known as a car and motorcycle painter, originated the yellowand-black Yamaha and green Kawasaki motorcycle color motifs of the ‘70s. Sanders also had paintings and sculptures on exhibit in addition to the vehicles. “The people who owned them would stop by and polish them every few days. They were in love with their motorcycles,” said Jerry Samuelson, the chair of the CSUF Art Department, who began working with Frankel in the mid-’60s. “Portable Orchard Survival Piece #5” by environmental artist Newton Harrison, brought orange and avocado trees in redwood containers into the gallery in 1972. KNBC news filmed a “Citrus Feast” event at the preview opening, where fruits from the trees exhibited were served. Some of the most unusual art brought to the campus by Frankel was the performance art of Judy Gerowitz (aka Judy Chicago) in 1970. “Three Atmospheres” created “smoke atmospheres” at the bridge that crossed Nutwood Avenue, on the Quad, and on an athletic field. In the Quad, assistants stationed on the tops of the surrounding buildings triggered smoke pots that nearly filled the quad with smoke, according to Samuelson. “I don’t think we’d be allowed to do such things today,” Samuelson said with a laugh. Whatever the exhibit was, Frankel’s talent for ideally arranging the gallery space to display the art always showed. “The exhibits took on a very wide range of such very architecturally designed kinds of exhibit spaces,” Samuelson said. “It wasn’t just hanging art on four walls. It was designing spaces where the exhibits could live.” As an example, Samuelson cited the “Santos” exhibit in 1974. Holy images from New Mexico, Mexico and South America were displayed in what Samuelson described as a “churchlike interior.” The gallery walls were covered in adobe-like
Dextra Frankel’s sculpture, Weathervane, was created in 1967 with cast bronze, steel pipe and ball bearings. Weathervane was installed at CSUF in 1994 in the Visual Arts Center quad. By nathan wheadon/Daily Titan Features Editor
plaster, and a Mexican architectural quality was given to the gallery. Frankel retired from teaching in 1991 as a professor emeritus. She left CSUF to design and curate art exhibits at the Bradley Terminal at LAX. When that was finished, she continued to design, working mostly on museum and gallery spaces and exhibits. Frankel was designing an exhibit called “Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists 1980-2006,” which was displayed at Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood in 2007, when she suffered a stroke. She was hospitalized for three and a half months. From the hospital, an assistant relayed her directions. Eleven days before the opening of the exhibit, the hospital released her. “I continued working the minute I got out of the hospital. I went to Barnsdall and was directing traffic,” she said. In 1972, Frankel had curated “Visible/Invisible,” another show of women artists at the Long Beach
Museum of Art. She compared the status of women in the Southern California art scene then to that of today, saying there were “vast differences.” “They have freedom, they have larger studios, they are included in prominent galleries,” Frankel said. “At the time I did the first exhibit, there were very few venues for women’s art. Now it’s open.” Today Frankel continues to recover from the stroke, which paralyzed the left side of her body. After a lot of therapy, she has regained use of her left side and now lives unassisted. She has recently been working on finding a venue for an exhibit of Betty Gold sculpture titled “From a Rectangle.” CSUF, which has two of Gold’s sculptures on campus, has been mentioned as a possible venue. In an e-mail sent in April from Mallorca, Spain, where she was directing sculpture installations, Gold said that she would be very pleased to have the exhibit at CSUF to let students see how she works.
Frankel’s “Weathervane,” a 14foot-tall work of cast bronze, pipe and ball bearings, is on display in the Art Department’s courtyard. The bronze pieces, which weigh 2,000 pounds altogether, were lost-waxcast at her studio in Laguna Canyon. It was completed in 1965, and installed at CSUF in 1997. Frankel defined how she sees art in the foreword to a catalogue for “Neon Signs and Symbols,” a show that mixed the neon signs from manufacturers displaying beer and gasoline brands alongside the work of contemporary artists working with neon. “Art is everything we see that affects us emotionally,” she wrote. “The art experience does not occur ‘out there’ but internally, like an underground explosion inside the perceiving mechanism, ourselves.” There is an awful lot of things out in the world that we can see that affect us emotionally. To Dextra Frankel, it all has the potential to be art, if only we can see the art in it all.
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Closing the aperture on photo comm A recent notice on a bulletin board in the College Park building has shaken the lives of a small number of Cal State Fullerton students. “Attention Photo Comm Students!!! Comm 321 will not be offered for the 2008 fall semester,” the bulletin reads. The class, Advanced Color Photography, is a prerequisite for internships in the four-year Photo Communications major. Its exclusion from the fall schedule could be the beginning of the end for the major, the enrollment for which is so small the university apparently cannot afford to offer necessary courses every semester. It is not the university’s fault that there are so few people in the major and the university is also not responsible for the massive budget shortfall that’s beginning to trickle down to the CSUs. However, the university should
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be required to fulfill the promises of every student’s catalog year. For the dwindling number of students in the photo communications major, that means providing Comm 321. Graduation is already delayed a semester for students in many majors because they’re forced to take an internship after their final major class. For photo comm, though, they just received a full-year delay on their life plans. The College of Communications is still going to offer the class in the spring semester, but that’s apparently just to fulfill the legal requirement of providing a degree for these students. College of Communications faculty, however, have no sympathy or solutions for this life-changing problem. And make no mistake, spending an extra semester in college is lifechanging. The available jobs in many
fields, including communications, are changing every six months. But the stodgy, unconcerned people who set university policy have never cared about causing students to spend extra money on their education. We can think of two easy solutions to this scary situation. The College of Communications should either offer the course via independent study or waive the internship prerequisite. This would allow students to apply for an internship in the fall rather than in the summer after they supposedly graduated. Of course, the plight of communications majors may just be the tip of the iceberg. The budget crunch that we are all suffering may well strike other departments. We only hope other colleges will take more rational action and not pass the bill along to students without a fight.
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Grab your stuff and skip town. I mean it. You need this vacation. Look at you. You’re all worn and brittle, damaged and dizzy, with a droopy face, much like … Droopy The Dog. OK, fine, so that last comparison was awful. But give me a break, this is my last week of classes in college. Some of us just need a break. I certainly did. The last weekend of April, my brain was swelling with panic, like the chest of some cocky guy at the party who still calls the guy who changes the stereo to electro-anything “dweeb.” Two weeks ago, I wasn’t understanding natural logarithms (and still don’t), the silliness that is partner yoga wasn’t starting up for another week, and I was finding physics to be the most infuriating subject I’ve ever taken. Here’s why: “Wow, OK, it just took me 20 minutes to do that problem. That was so much math. Did we just invent a new energy? Or build a rocket or something?” “Actually, we just figured out the velocity of a ball being thrown between two children.” “AGGGGGHHH!” See? See how physics mocks us? Anyway, with school metaphorically whapping me in the face with textbooks, I did what any good student would do. I fled to Mexico. With a posse of surfers and a few accomplices, we sped across the border just before midnight and drank
Jake’s Take ourselves to bed on the beach. I’ve lucked out over the years, as my friend’s grandparents have a colorful and architecturally rebellious house on the beach in La Misión, a small community between Rosarito and Ensenada. While at La Misión homestead over the weekend, I found some measure of peace, as I almost always do. But the peace I found on this trip wasn’t fluctuating enough with the war that school in America challenges me to at the end of every summer. We surfed, we rock-climbed, we played music, we ran into the ocean naked at midnight. Oh, and we crashed a Mexican wedding. Here’s how that all played out. The bartender at the favored restaurant and cantina of my band of rebels invited us to a church party that he was bartending in the valley. So, the 17 of us, dressed for fun, piled into a single van and showed up to the party. We strolled in between the iron gates to a dance floor with the mariachi band in full effect and the perplexed looks in even fuller effect. Then we collectively had the following conversation: “Dude, you guys ... this is a wedding.” “No, it’s not. I mean, look over there. There’s ... wait, there’s gifts on the table! There’s a bridesmaid! Oh my God, we’re at a wedding!” Unaware of what to do next, half of the crew abandoned the scene and the other half coaxed them back in.
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After we were all together again, we ruled the dance floor. The bartender gave us free margaritas and beer while we danced with senoritas and challenged boys to dance competitions. Those who knew Spanish did their best to toss jokes with the locals while the better dancers disappeared into the crowd of dancing party-goers. After a few festive hours, a fight broke out and we bailed. The 17 of us, most buzzed off tequila and the rush of crossing “crash a wedding” off of our list of life goals, crammed back into the van, all riled up, and laughed the whole way home. The moral of the story (yes, I’m finally closing one of my columns with that nonsense) is that everybody’s got contacts somewhere. Everybody needs a vacation and everybody has some form of resources for a weekend trip. I left Friday evening and was home Sunday night. Weekend trips aren’t too costly or time-consuming. Get moving! I always have one reason for why I shouldn’t go on an adventure, but I usually have 10 reasons for why I should.
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May 8, 2008
OTHER NEWS Titans make Waves look flat IN Track and Field Komatsu homers, Rath gets first career win in Titans 9-1 victory by tom sheridan
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Cal State Fullerton banged out 14 hits to help freshman hurler Kevin Rath pick up his first career victory in a 9-1 rout of Pepperdine in nonconference action Tuesday night at Goodwin Field. The Titans (30-16) had everything working for them and were simply too much for Pepperdine (28-16) to handle at the plate and on the mound. After an early season loss in Malibu, the Titans were well prepared for the rematch. In only his third career start, Rath baffled Waves hitters, allowing only one run to cross the plate in four solid innings. “I think last week he went out and was a little too careful,” CSUF Head Coach Dave Serrano said. “Tonight
he took a step forward in his maturity process of going out and keeping it simple.” The bullpen for the Titans followed Rath’s lead and blanked the Waves the rest of the way. Michael Morrison, Jason Dovel and Ryan Ackland gave up only five hits in five shutout innings of relief. “They did what they’ve been doing lately and fortunately, because we’ve been getting such good starting pitching on the weekends, we’ve kind of rested our bullpen,” Serrano said. “They’re not pitching a lot of innings during the weekend series, so they’re fresher during the midweek and that’s what I think has helped contribute to our success.” Pitching was only one ingredient in the Titans’ recipe for domination. Key contributions from Erik Komatsu (3-5, one home run) and Jared Clark (3-4, two runs and two RBI) helped ignite a Titans’ offense that got hits from eight of nine starters. “One through nine is hitting the ball great right now,” Clark said.
“That’s when you know what a really good team is – when it’s one through nine – not just a couple of guys here and a couple of guys there.” Rath worked his way out of a first-inning jam when he gave up a two-out triple to Pepperdine’s Eric Thames, then got the next hitter, Trent Diedrich, to fly out to Komatsu in right. He would throw two more shutout innings before giving the Waves their only run of the game in the top of the fourth. “They’re a good hitting team, so I was just trying to throw strikes,” Rath said. “We’ve got a great defense, so I was trying to get ground ball outs.” The Titans opened up the scoring in the bottom of the third when Dustin Garneau led off the inning with a single up the middle, then scored on a high chopper off the bat of Christian Colon. Another single up the middle, this time by Komatsu, sent Colon home and gave the Titans a 2-0 lead. Pepperdine cut the lead in half with a run in the top of the fourth,
but the Titans answered right back with two runs in their half of the fourth and two more in the fifth to open up a 6-1 lead. “I thought our offense was very efficient tonight,” Serrano said. “Some teammates picked up other teammates when guys didn’t come through.” With two outs in the seventh, Komatsu sparked another two-run-rally when he deposited his seventh home run of the year over the wall in right center field. Clark followed with a single, stole second and scored on an error by Pepperdine’s shortstop Chase d’Arnaud. “When he’s going good in the middle of our order, it makes it a lot easier offensively,” Serrano said. Clark knocked in Joe Scott in the bottom of the eighth to close out the scoring for the Titans and give them a 9-1 win. CSUF plays again Friday in Big West Conference action when the Titans face Cal Poly at 5:15 p.m. at Goodwin Field.
Clemens not welcome on US Olympic team Former all-star is seen more as a distraction than an asset to USA baseball ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) – Roger Clemens is not welcome on the U.S. Olympic baseball team. U.S. General Manager Bob Watson said Wednesday that he isn’t considering the 45-year-old right-hander for his roster for the Beijing Games. “From my standpoint, we don’t need that type of distraction,” Watson said. In addition to his duties as vice president of on-field operations for Major League Baseball, Watson is general manager of professional baseball operations for USA Baseball and works to select manager Davey Johnson’s roster. A former GM of the Houston As-
tros and New York Yankees, Watson said he didn’t anticipate being overruled by higher-ups. “I have not talked to the commissioner. I have not talked to (MLB Chief Operating Officer) Bob DuPuy, nor have I talked to his agent, but I just think the distraction that he’s carrying right now, from my standpoint, we don’t need that,” Watson said. A seven-time Cy Young Award winner, Clemens was accused by his former trainer, Brian McNamee, of using performance-enhancing drugs in 1998, 2000 and 2001, before players and owners agreed to ban them. Clemens repeatedly denied the accusations and filed a defamation suit against McNamee. In November, a month before the Mitchell Report was released, Clemens’ agent, Randy Hendricks, said pitching in the Olympics was “something to consider.” Hendricks
said he had discussed it in general terms with Clemens. Clemens played for the U.S. team in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. He went 6-6 with a 4.18 ERA for the Yankees last season, and the 354-game winner has not said whether he wants to play in 2008. “The other thing, too you’ve got to remember his last three or four outings, he had to take injections in his elbow. He had to take injections in his groin area. He wasn’t the healthiest guy on the team,” Watson said. “So there’s some young guys who are throwing the ball well, and I think we could put together 12 pitchers, sadly to say, that would be throwing better than he was at the end of the year last year.” At the U.S. Olympic team media summit last month, Watson was quoted as saying Clemens was not “on my radar screen” because of his
performance at the end of last season. On Wednesday, however, Watson said “distraction” was an issue, too. Last week, the Daily News reported Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was 15 and an aspiring singer. The newspaper also linked the seven-time Cy Young Award winner to former Manhattan bartender Angela Moyer and Paulette Dean Daly, a former wife of champion golfer John Daly. Clemens apologized Monday for unspecified mistakes in his personal life and denied having an affair with a 15-year-old. Players not on 25-man major league rosters are eligible for consideration for Olympic baseball teams. Baseball was dropped for the 2012 London Games but is attempting to gain reinstatement for 2016. American Heart Association Memorials
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Two Titans hit NCAA Regional Marks
IRVINE – Two more NCAA regional qualifying marks by the men and a couple of major personal best improvements by women’s distance runners highlighted Cal State Fullerton’s efforts over the weekend at the Steve Scott Invitational Track and Field Meet at UC Irvine. Michael Stokes had the most dramatic accomplishment, beating his personal best by about 18 inches and his 2008 best by almost two feet with an NCAA regional qualifing mark of 24-11 in the long jump. Roberto Archibold qualified for the men’s 400 hurdles with a time of 52.41, his best career mark. Steve Truong also ran his best 400 race at 55.33. Both David Soto and Eddie Perez posted career bests in the steeplechase with times of 9:30.15 and 9:30.80, respectively. Garrett Myers
had a personal record in the 400 meter hurdles at 48.24. On the women’s side, Ciara Short continued her strong season with a personal record of 24.66 in the 200 meters and Andrea Aguilar and Yomaira Hernandez both ran well in the 5K. Aguilar clocked in at 17:56.79 to beat her previous best by about 10 seconds, while Hernandez improved by 24 seconds with a time of 18:04.79. Lauren Williams set a personal record on the 400 hurdles with a time of 62.24. Danielle Alvarado posted a Big West qualifying time of 65.07 in the same event. “This time of year, it’s about improvement and getting healthy,” said Coach John Elders. “We were hoping for major improvements and to gain confidence going into the conference championships.”
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Jessica Doucette named Pitcher of the Week
FULLERTON – Cal State Fullerton senior right-hander Jessica Doucette was named the Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week on Monday following a pair of strong efforts in the circle to help the Titans keep their postseason hopes alive. It is the first weekly pitching honor from the conference of her career and she becomes only the second upperclassman (UC Riverside’s Christin Songer being the other) to win the award this season. The Titans took two-of-three from league-leading Long Beach State, splitting a pair of one-run contests with the No. 17 49ers, 3-2 and 2-1 on Saturday and 3-0 on Sunday’s finale. In the opener, Doucette matched Long Beach ace Brooke Turner in-
ning for inning in regulation, allowing just one run through seven innings. However, an error in the eighth allowed a key run to come home as Doucette suffered the heartbreaking loss. Sunday afternoon saw the Titans’ senior dialed in as she tossed a threehit shutout in Fullerton’s, 3-0, victory. Doucette faced just three batters over the minimum, retiring 14 consecutive batters at one point. The three hits were the only baserunners the 49ers could manage on the day as Doucette finished with five strikeouts to post her team-best fifth shutout of the season. For the weekend, Doucette held the 49ers’ bats to a .182 average (including just one extra-base hit) and posted a 0.93 ERA in two starts.
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CSUF adds third signee of 2008-09
FULLERTON – Nneamaka Anyanwu, a 5-foot-10-inch forward from Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif., has signed a national letter of intent to continue her playing career with the Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team beginning with the 2008-09 season, Head Coach Maryalyce Jeremiah announced. Anyanwu joins previously announced signees Destainee Rudison and Megan Richardson, who signed letters of intent with CSUF during the signing period last November. “We are excited that Maka has chosen Cal State Fullerton as the place for her college career ... and a good one it should be,” Jeremiah said. “She can score, rebound and do them with consistency. Her love of the game and commitment to help a team reach the NCAA Tournament are the ingredients we look for in athletes with her skills and athleticism.
“She should contribute early as she adjusts to college life as an student-athlete.” Jeremiash continued. “Her ‘percentage scoring’ and ability to finish strong adds strength to our program.” Anyanwu was a four-time Oakland Athletic League All-City selection during her career, leading the league in scoring as a senior at 21.9 PPG while also averaging 9.4 RPG and shooting just over 54 percent from the field. She also finished fourth in the league in rebounding while averaging 2.0 steals per game and blocking 20 shots on the year. Anyanwu averaged better than 11 points and shot better than 40 percent from the field in three of her four prep seasons, including averaging 12.8 points and 7.4 rebounds per game as a junior. The Titans ended their 07-08 season with an 11-19 overall record and finished tied for fifth in the Big West Conference with an 8-8 mark. stories courtesy titan media relations
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Softballer earns quadruple crown Senior Kiki Munoz leads the team in average, RBIs, HRs and smiles
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Only once in a four-year span. That is the number of times Cal State Fullerton softball Head Coach Michelle Gromacki said she has seen Titans’ senior designated player/catcher Kiki Munoz without a smile. It is hard to imagine Munoz without a smile. She is always willing to talk after a Titans’ loss, and when she does, she always stresses the positives. Gromacki said that type of attitude is crucial to team morale. What is special about Munoz is that she can give all the clichés in sports that collegiate athletes say and believe in; however, she backs it up mentally and on the field. “It’s fun. You can’t forget that factor about softball, and once you lose that, you lose everything that you had when you were younger,” Munoz said. “And there is always more to look at. It’s bigger. Softball is bigger. This game is about failure and you can’t always think that you’re going to produce because you’re always failing – You’re trying to hit a round ball with a stick.” Munoz has had plenty to smile about this season, having the most success at the plate of her four-year career with the Titans. She has progressively developed each year in a Titans’ uniform. “She goes up there with complete confidence, doesn’t matter what the count is,” Gromacki said. “She just stands there. She looks around and if it’s outside, she goes out, or if it’s inside ... it just doesn’t matter. She just looks like she is very confident in what she is doing.” She leads the team with a .421 batting average and is pacing the offense by leading the team in hits, home runs, doubles, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, walks,
Down From Heaven
By Ron Fu/For the Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton senior Kiki Munoz leans back in the on deck circle while looking out at Anderson Family Field.
total bases, intentional base on balls and smiles per game. In 2005, her freshman season, she hit a paltry .233 and didn’t improve much in her sophomore season. Then, she made a big jump in her junior year – averaging a solid .339 from the plate – helping the Titans reach the NCAA Super Regionals. Although she played the majority of her career at catcher, Munoz has been relegated to the designated player position this season due to a back injury. But that has not stopped her focus. “What I do before games is I pick out one girl … and I go out there every game and I try to beat her,” Munoz said. “I don’t want her to get a step ahead of me so each game, it’s one bat at a time, just trying to beat her out.” The Big West Conference recently recognized Munoz by giving her Big West Player of the Week honors, the
first of her career. Of course, she does not let the honor get to her head. “Coach always says, ‘Clap twice, but don’t clap three times.’ Go ahead and congratulate yourself, but know you got to keep working hard and [it] doesn’t mean you’re better than anyone,” Munoz said. “That is what I am working on, I am working to get that every week and if I don’t get it, then it’s just more motivation for me the next. I finally got it and I’m just gonna work for it next week.” The native of Orange, Calif. did not decide where to play softball until a month before classes began at CSUF. An injury in her junior year at El Modena High School had her discouraged in her senior year, making her wonder if anyone was going to pick her up to play softball. She visited CSUF to talk with the coaching staff a month before the fall semester began, thinking she would be a walk-on player. Munoz said she
luckily got a scholarship after the visit and was blessed to sign with an amazing tradition and family. Her smile has been with the Titans squad since. “She is always smiling. She’s just happy. She’s wonderful. She’s a pleasure to be around regularly,” Gromacki said. Munoz is the oldest of six children in her family, all girls, and provides a great example of what hard work can help athletes and students accomplish. With seven freshmen on the Titans’ roster this year, Munoz has been an irreplaceable leader for the squad. “Kiki is a great leader and example for our teammates,” senior third baseman Katie Gollhardt said. “These past four years that we have played together have been great ones. I am truly going to miss the Katie/Kiki attack up at the plate.”
I love baseball and everything about it. A monster home run, to me, is the most beautiful thing to behold in any sport. One of the things I have always loved about the Angels is the fans – the true fans – the people who have stuck it out through the bad times and good and have seen this team progress over the years. Troy Percival, the Angels’ alltime leading closer, made the same distinction during a ceremony honoring his 300th career save. He told the capacity crowd that he did it all for the true fans, the ones who stay ‘til the final out is recorded instead of leaving early to beat traffic. He respects true fans, and so do I. That is why last season I shouted at the so-called “fans” sitting around me. Ervin Santana, the once-andfuture king of the Angels pitching staff, was in the middle of his toughest season to date. His control was lousy – batters feasted on him like a Christmas ham – and he couldn’t hold a lead to save his life. Understandably, the fans were sick of seeing this time and again, as was I. We all know the potential that Santana has to be a great pitcher, so of course it was devastatingly frustrating to sit by and watch him blow leads as his ERA climbed steadily start after start. It was no surprise that when he started up with these same shenanigans again on a warm evening in August, showing no improvement four months into the season, the fans got restless. In the first inning, low grumblings started as Santana walked and gave up hits to more than a few batters. A few disapproving outbursts rang out when the first
opposing runs crossed the plate. I grew upset as well. But not with Santana. With every angry outburst and pointless smattering of boos, I became more and more frustrated with the “fans” sitting around me. This is Southern California – not New York West. We do not boo our players here for having a bad game. Alex Rodriguez is arguably the best player to grace the field in the last 15 years. So what do Yankees fans do any time he drops a ball or hits a grounder to second? They yell and scream and call for his head. Well, not here. At the risk of embarrassing my girlfriend, I turned and shouted at the loud group to my right. “Shut up and support your team!” Admittedly, it was not the most profound statement in the history of baseball. It was simply the aggrieved reaction of a distressed fan sick of hearing his players berated. My outburst exploded like a 96 mph fastball, and when I was finished, you could hear the ball hit the catcher’s mitt. I had suddenly silenced the frustrated masses. It’s not that they were such bad people, they simply didn’t know how to be true fans. Santana needs to be supported, to be cheered on, and it is our job as fans to be there for our team when it needs us. Since then, he has gone on to achieve a 6-0 record this season with an ERA hovering around 2.00. I’d like to think it has something to do with his fans. Either way, as a proud member of the red sea, I support the Angels and keep cheering, no matter what. And the rest of the fans in the crowd should act accordingly.