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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

DTSHORTHAND Campus Life Cal State Fullerton’s College of Education is hosting “Education Night,” Tuesday from 4-7 p.m. in the Titan Student Union Pavilions. This event will highlight the College of Education programs in a resource fair and will include two panel discussions, one with students from various credential and graduate programs and one with teachers, administrators and district representatives. Several industry experts will also be available to review student résumés.

Fires lead to evacuation

Survey reveals big salaries for college presidents CHICAGO (MCT) – A dozen presidents of private colleges earned more than $1 million in compensation during the 200607 year. The annual survey of presidential pay released Monday by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that 89 private college presidents took home more than $500,000 in annual compensation, more than double the number who did five years earlier. News of the increase comes amid concerns that the economic downturn and skyrocketing tuition costs could put a college diploma further out of reach for many prospective students. “One thing colleges have to be worried about is this perception that you have a lot of presidents making big dollars at a time when students and their parents are really worried about making tuition payments,” said Chronicle editor Jeffrey Selingo.

Firefighters prepare the hoses to put out a palm tree that caught fire across the street of Wildcat Way in Brea on Saturday, Nov. 15

Fast-moving fires in Brea, Diamond Bar, Yorba Linda, Corona, and Anaheim Hills caused concern for students and visitors at Cal State Fullerton over the weekend By Jonathan Montgomery For Daily Titan

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On the ground were pieces of white ash, some as large as a dollar. The air was filled with smoke and it looked like it was snowing, but this was no snow. Fast-moving fires in Brea, Yorba Linda, Corona and Anaheim Hills caused concern for students and visitors at Cal State Fullerton over the weekend. At lease one fire was visible from CSUF rooftops on Saturday,

with smoke enveloping the campus. Despite the choking atmosphere, two youth soccer teams stayed behind to finish their game at the intramural field. By Saturday afternoon, a line of cars stretching for about two miles on North State College Boulevard, a clear sign that people were evacuating. The fire caused concern for some

residents of Fullerton University Village, a housing complex for students across the street from the Fullerton campus. The fire left residents standing on their balconies, staring at the sky. “Fullerton Police Department told us it’s not a mandatory evacuation,” Jori King, a resident adviser at See O.C. FIRES, Page 3

‘Tubing fail,’ is one way to take advantage of a Hurricane Fay’s effects

This man still seemed to have enjoyed his urban inner tubing session regardless of its abrupt end. He and his friends secured an inner tube to the tailgate of a car and hydroplaned down the streets of their neighborhood. The extreme water quantity was produced by Hurricane Fay earlier this year.

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Photos By Ron Fu/For The Daily Titan A L.A. County Fire helicopter dumps water over the flames along Wildcat Way in Brea on Saturday, Nov. 15.

Budget cuts to hit CSUF Online classes may be capped Sales tax may increase as the state deficit grows

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A possible $66.3 million budget cut could be coming to the CSU, leading to an increase in tuition costs and class sizes while decreasing student services and faculty. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special session of the legislature on Nov. 6 in response to an $11 billion budget deficit and the possibility of the state running out

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of money by February if no immediate action is taken, according to San Jose Mercury News. “In the six weeks since I signed our last budget, the mortgage crisis has deepened, unemployment has increased, and the stock market has lost almost 20 percent of its See BUDGET, Page 2

Senate Executive Committee will discuss limiting online classes that may be credited to a degree

At the same time that schools such as Cal State East Bay are expanding their online options to include several online-only degree programs, some Cal State Fullerton faculty members are discussing a potential cap on the number of online classes that would count towards a degree. Just as there is a cap on the number of units that can be transferred from

other colleges and universities, the cap would be applied to distance education courses on the basis of online courses being considered not as valuable to students as face-to-face classes. “The Senate Executive Committee will discuss this proposal sometime in the next few weeks,” Scott Hewitt, professor of chemistry and

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CSUF Academic Senate chair, said. Hewitt sees both advantages as well as disadvantages to putting a cap on online courses. Many students say that saving gas and time in the commute and the fight over a parking spot are reason enough to stay home and turn on the computer for class. See ONLINE CAPS, Page 2

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IN OTHER NEWS BUDGET: GOV. ASKS FOR CSU BUDGET CUT INTERNATIONAL

Iraq cabinet approves timetable for withdrawal

BAGHDAD (MCT) – Iraq’s cabinet on Sunday approved a security pact that sets a timetable for the nearly complete withdrawal of American forces within three years, but the agreement faces an uncertain outlook in Iraq’s parliament. The largest Sunni party in Iraq, the Iraqi Islamic Party, wants the agreement to go to a nationwide referendum. Followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, view the agreement as an affirmation of the American occupation and oppose it outright. Representatives of al-Maliki’s Dawa party framed the deal as a means to end America’s occupation of Iraq while phasing out the assistance coalition forces provide. It strengthens Iraqi controls over U.S. forces by: – Requiring the U.S. to get Iraqi consent before searching homes. – Enabling Iraqis to search U.S. cargo. – Prohibiting Americans from conducting raids in other countries from Iraqi soil. – Eliminating the judicial immunity that applies to foreign contractors and U.S. soldiers working in Iraq under the occupation’s current mandate.

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Alaska’s dropout rate is double the U.S. average

ANCHORAGE (MCT) – Battling one of the worst dropout rates in the country, Alaska educators gathered to brainstorm how to stop the epidemic of kids quitting school before earning their diplomas. They called dropping out a result of an accumulative failure, which can start before kids even enter school. “This is a social issue, one we all own,” said Carl Rose, Association of Alaska School Boards executive director. Among the grim statistics: – Alaska’s dropout rate, at 8 percent, was double the national average in the 2005-2006 school year, according to the latest figures available from the U.S. Department of Education. – 38 percent of today’s ninth-graders will have no high school diploma 10 years from now, according to the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education. – Alaska ranks 50th, or last, in the number of ninth-graders who will likely have a bachelor’s degree in 10 years, according to the commission.

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Court ruling shifts care for diabetic students

SACRAMENTO (MCT) – A Sacramento Superior Court ruling Friday marks a major shift in the treatment of nearly 14,000 California schoolchildren with diabetes. Judge Lloyd Connelly sided with the California School Nurses Organization, the American Nurses Association, the California Nurses Association and other nursing groups in their challenge to a 2007 rule that enabled trained school staff – not just school nurses – to administer insulin shots to diabetic kids. “This is a big setback,” said Jim Stone, who has a 12-year-old diabetic son and has fought, with other parents, to expand the number of people who can administer insulin to diabetic children in public schools. There are 2,800 nurses in the 9,800 public schools across the state. In a class-action lawsuit filed in 2005, parents had argued that with so few school nurses left in California, they were having to keep their diabetic children out of school or leave jobs to administer insulin shots themselves.

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value,” Schwarzenegger said during his Nov. 6 press conference in Sacramento. His plan would include a 1.5 percent increase of the sales tax, a reduction of funding education programs, a 90-day grace period before foreclosing a home, an economic stimulus package to increase jobs, and adjustments to the unemployment insurance fund. With the reduction of funding, $132 million will be taken away from the CSU and UC, and $66.3 million of that will be taken from the CSU budget, according to Schwarzenegger. The tax increase must be passed by a two-thirds majority of both the state Senate and Assembly before it goes into effect, according to the Los Angeles Times. “These budget cuts are not good

for us. Fewer classes will be offered, making it harder for students to graduate in a timely manner. We are also not able to admit as many students into the universities. Ten thousand students were turned away this year alone from CSU campuses,” said Professor Mougo Nyaggah, California Faculty Association’s Fullerton chapter president. Each CSU campus would be impacted if this proposal is passed. Class sizes could increase due to campuses offering fewer classes.Student services such as libraries and counseling and health centers could be cut. With less money, the universities cannot afford to hire or keep highcaliber professors on the staff, which decreases the quality education offered to students. The CSU system is the largest university system in the country with 23 campuses and more than 450,000 students, according to the CSU Web

site, www.calstate.edu. “The CSU system is an economic engine. We are placing people into the work force: engineers, teachers, just about everyone. We are part of the backbone of the state economy,” said Teresa Ruiz, a public affairs communication specialist at the CSU chancellor’s office. Schwarzenegger restored $97.6 million to the CSU system on Sept. 23. This gave back some of the $312.9 million in state funding support that was cut in January. If passed, the special session proposal would take back a large portion of the money that was recently restored. “I think our governor gets blamed for a lot of stuff. Our budget needs to stay balanced and sometimes cuts are the answer,” said Joshua Bishop, a Cal State Fullerton sophomore and musical theatre major. “I wish this budget cut didn’t have

to happen, but I am more disappointed in the state legislature,” he said. Ruiz and Nyaggah encourage students and the entire community to voice their opinion about the importance of higher education by calling or writing letters and e-mails to California government officials. People can sign up for the Alliance for the CSU, an organization that includes students, faculty, and alumni who are concerned about cuts to the state university system, at www.allianceforthecsu.org. Students and faculty may have their voices heard at the CSU Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 18 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Nov. 19 from 9 a.m. to noon, according to Nyaggah. The meetings will be held at the CSU Chancellor’s Office located at 401 Golden Shore in Long Beach.

have said that they worry that the quality and authenticity of CSUF degrees will decline with an increase in online classes because of a lack of the type of critical thinking that occurs during spontaneous interaction between professors and their students in a classroom. One professor mentioned that she was against online classes because she believes a true education relies on an interactive, personal dialogue between a mentor and student. “Classes may be difficult or impossible to teach online, such as lab classes or classes that involve complex issues and significant feedback between students and instructor,” Hewitt said.

There are several potential outcomes of the meeting to discuss this proposal. The committee will decide whether or not to send the proposal to one of the Senate standing committees, such as the University Curriculum Committee, for further discussion, take the proposal directly to the Academic Senate, or take no further action. “Campus classes and online classes have equal academic value; the reservations I have would be classes like ceramic making, might not be as effective or classes that require more hands-on instruction,” Professor of Anthropology John McDermott said.

“I was surprised when I taught my first online class at how effectively I was able to use cyberspace to teach.” Some CSUF students feel that online classes lack interaction. Although the classes demand a high level of self-motivation, they can instead lead to laziness. “You get distracted in front of the computer and it makes it harder to focus,” art major Durrell Odom said of his online anthropology class. The issue is still at the beginning stages of the process. If any student is interested in this issue, they can write to the Senate standing committee or to the Senate Executive Committee that is taking action on this issue.

police responded to medical aid call. It was reported that a female student was in need of assistance in the first floor women’s restroom.

marker could be seen in the first level men’s restroom near the Titan Theatre.

ter hope your car doesn’t get keyed.”

ONLINE CAP: CLASS LIMIT CONSIDERED From Page 1

“Fewer trips to campus means that the campus doesn’t need to build more buildings and parking structures, and is environmentally more friendly,” Hewitt said. Internet resources can be fully utilized in online classes, which is not possible in classrooms except for those classes that are in computer labs, Hewitt mentioned. Online classes for students who are working or have disabilities or family responsibilities that restrict them from attending class in person is something that has been made available with growing technology. However, some CSUF professors

Cop blotter: parking causes row TUESDAY – Nov. 4

11:21 a.m. – Police responded to a disturbance in the quad. It was reported that a large gathering was surrounding an individual preaching about religion and politics. 11:41 a.m. – A grand theft was reported to have occurred in the Visual Arts Building. 2:09 p.m. – In Lot E, police responded to a suspicious vehicle call. It was reported that a white van was distributing flyers. The individual was warned by officers. 2:36 p.m. – In the College Park parking lot, police responded to a traffic accident. It was reported that a silver Honda and silver BMW crashed into each other. No injuries were reported to have occurred. 10:19 p.m. – In Lot E, police responded to a call regarding a suspicious person in a vehicle. It was reported that about four individuals in a vehicle were blocking another individual’s vehicle. The four individuals then proceeded to follow and harass the other individual a short distance. Upon arrival the officers could not find the group of individuals. WEDNESDAY – Nov. 5 10:41 a.m. – In the Nutwood parking structure, police responded to a suspicious person’s call. It was reported that a male in his early 20s carrying a skateboard was looking into vehicles. THURSDAY – Nov. 6 1:35 p.m. – In the bookstore, a petty theft was reported. FRIDAY – Nov. 7 1:28 a.m. – In the Birch student housing complex, police responded to a blue phone emergency call. 9:44 a.m. – On Nutwood Avenue and North State College Boulevard, police responded to a suspicious vehicle call. Upon arrival everything checked out OK. 10:26 a.m. – At the University Police Building, police responded to a disturbance call. 11:22 a.m. – In McCarthy Hall, police responded to a property vandalism call. On the east breezeway wall “No on Prop. 8” signs were hung. 12:19 p.m. – At College Park,

12:44 p.m. – In the Nutwood parking structure, police responded to a suspicious vehicle call. Police cited the individual in the vehicle in question. No details could be given about the specifics of the citing. 12:59 p.m. – In Mihaylo Hall, police responded to a blue phone emergency call. 1:29 p.m. – In the Visual Arts Building, police responded to a medical aid call. It was reported that a male in his 20s cut his finger. The student then fainted and continued to have a seizure. The student did regain consciousness, however. 3:38 p.m. – Police responded to a traffic accident on North State College Boulevard. Injuries were reported to have occurred. SATURDAY - Nov. 8 3:03 a.m. – In the Computer Science Building, police responded to a suspicious person’s call. It was reported that two individuals were running from the security guard on site watch. Upon arrival police were able to detain the two individuals. 10:20 a.m. – On the Inner Campus Biker Path, police responded to a blue phone emergency call. 11:18 a.m. – In Lot I, police responded to a blue phone emergency call. 11:24 a.m. – In Lot E, police responded to a suspicious person’s call. Upon arrival officers were unable to locate the individual. 10:57 p.m. – In the Titan Student Union, police responded to a blue phone emergency call. A child’s voice could be heard in the background of the call. Officers responded to the call and everything checked out OK. SUNDAY – Nov. 9 10:57 p.m. – In the Manzanita student housing complex, police responded to a blue phone emergency call. MONDAY – Nov. 10 9:22 a.m. – In the Titan Student Union, police responded to a property vandalism call. It was reported that a bunch of scribbling in red

9:33 a.m. – In the Visual Arts Building, police responded to a petty theft. It was reported that all of the hot water and some of the cold handles were removed from the buildings restrooms. Police couldn’t give any specifics other than an individual was cited. 9:38 a.m. – In Lot E, police responded to a parking disturbance. Apparently two parties were arguing over a parking space with one party thinking the other was going to damage their vehicle. One of the individuals told the other, “You bet-

5:36 p.m. – In the Library South Building, police responded to a disturbance. It was reported that a male student was talking loudly on his cell phone. 8:32 p.m. – In Langsdorf Hall, police responded to a disturbance. It was reported that about three males were smoking right outside the door of the building. TUESDAY – Nov. 11 11:46 p.m. – At the Home Depot on South Placentia Avenue, police responded to a suspicious vehicle call. Everything checked out okay.

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November 17, 2008

OC fire: many displaced from homes From Page 1

University Village said. In fact, some resident advisers in the oncampus dorms were told that the school was more likely to become an evacuation center than to be evacuated, Kristina Hohmann, a sophomore resident adviser, said. However, the reassurance did not stop some residents from planning their own escape. “A lot of residents are packing up, and a lot of residents have left,” King said. Resident Adviser Alicia Fernandez said she received over 100 calls in the office on Saturday. “I have gotten calls all day from parents, from bosses and from residents,” she said. Many residents and parents also requested that University Village workers call back with any new information. King and Fernandez said resident

advisers had a plan ready for residents if an evacuation did need to take place, but they were also personally getting prepared. “I already know what I’m going to grab if we have to,” Fernandez said. Students who live in neighboring cities also packed up and sought shelter further away from the smoke. Lindsey Goodreau, 21, an economics major at CSUF, said some of the people in her apartment complex in Brea also packed up and left. “Some people wanted to leave and some people felt like it was fine,” she said. Although there was no mandatory evacuation called in her neighborhood, she decided to stay at a friend’s house where she felt it was less dangerous. “I wanted to be safer than sorry,” Goodreau said. “I grabbed a few bags and some pictures and stuff.” Over 200 journalism students from the Southland who had come

to CSUF on Saturday for the annual Journalism Association of Community Colleges conference stayed indoors, while a few left to take photographs of the fire in neighboring Brea and Yorba Linda. Some of the community college students questioned throughout the day if they should stay on campus because of fear that the fire would spread or worries about smoke inhalation. Ultimately, the conference continued and students who had left to take photos presented their work during a slide show at the awards ceremony, garnering gasps and admiration from fellow students and advisers. Mountain View Park, at the corner of State College and Bastanchury, provided a good vantage point of the fires. Residents gathered, ambulances drove past, and people watched in awe. Photographers and families lined up on the road with eyes and lenses glued to the mountainside.

The hills displayed fires that seemed to surround Fullerton. “Armageddon, Armageddon. Pack up the kids and head for the coast,” Fullerton resident George Williams said. Williams said he wasn’t going to leave yet because he felt the fire hadn’t put his house in that much danger. However, Williams added, “with the wind blowing this way, it could jump,” a fear among many of the Fullerton residents watching the fire. “It’s like a scene from a bad horror flick,” Williams said. As the sky grew darker, residents stayed and watched the flames glow in the night. The sky blackened from smoke and the red sun had nearly set; but the fires remained. As of Sunday evening, more than 100 residences and 10,475 acres had burned, according to the Orange County Register.

By Mike radford/For the Daily Titan Left: Firefighters try to put out a blazing house fire on Vista del Sol in Yorba Linda Saturday. Middle: Firefighters are unable to rescue the house as the fire burns away most of the Yorba Linda home. Right: Neighbors help out a fellow resident as they try their best to help stop a fire from claiming other houses.

Features

November 17, 2008

ROTC cadets win Ranger Challenge Story and graphic By Rae Nguyen Daily Titan Staff Writer features@dailytitan.com

It was a sweet victory for the ROTC cadets who won first place in this year’s Ranger Challenge at Camp Pendleton, a competition for regional ROTC schools testing mental and physical endurance and agility. Cadets Mariana Bernardo, who participated last year, had predicted a win at this year’s challenge, which took place Friday and Saturday. “We’ve been training real hard for this, every semester three days a week in the morning, it’s just all paying off right now, all our training is paying off,” Bernardo said. Ranger Challenge team competition focuses on basic infantry skills, in which squad-sized teams

have nine members plus one alternate in case a cadet cannot perform the task. At least one female cadet must be on the team. Seven schools from the Western region, including San Diego State, claremont McKenna and University of Nevada, Las Vegas came together for the annual Ranger Challenge. Fullerton ROTC organized and hosted the competition. The cadets are challenged on their abilities in seven events, including rifle marksmanship, written exam for patrolling, assembly and disassembly of an M-16 A2 rifle, orienteering or land navigation, a written test and an Army physical fitness test. The competition ends with a 6.2-mile team road march with 35-pound rucksacks. This challenge also gives them an opportunity to meet other students and learn the skills necessary to be a leader, Master Sgt. William Tramel said. “(ROTC) is to help these cadets with leadership skills, contrary to what other people think the program is based on,” he said.

Tramel said it is all about ego and event. This year, however, there’s pride at Ranger Challenge. been speculation that it might not “(winning team) That school has happen and Ranger Challenge will trash-talking rights for a year,” Tra- be the final competition for this mel said. year. Nine competitive cadets volunThough there are nine particiteer for the challenge, training more pating cadets, only eight scores are vigorously in previcounted, with the ous years to maxilowest score bemize their enduring dropped. ance and agility. During the “They get a little weapons Disasmore strenuous exsembly and asercise than normal,” event, – Master Sgt. William Tramel sembly Sgt. 1st Class Raul each cadet must Rivas said. “They disassemble an prepare themselves M-16 A2 rifle, reto get the timing right, to get up to assemble it and perform a function speed, to make sure all their team check for the officer in charge. Sgt. (mates) are up to standard,” Rivas Maj. George Crisostomo of Universaid. sity of Nevada, Las Vegas had the Last year, CSUF did very well but opportunity to check out Fullerton’s was placed second. finest. “It was really, really close. So it “I heard what (Capt. Alan left them very bitter. They want to Sholes)’s cadets can do. Let’s see if show them that they can (win first it’s true,” Crisostomo said. place). And they’re doing it,” Rivas Cadres or military science instrucsaid. tors oversee the events for different Normally, the winning brigade schools other than their own so the then competes in a western regional scores would not be manipulated.

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The event tests soldier skills; marksmanship, grenade throwing and land navigation

“(Its) So that we have fairness across the board,” Crisostomo said. Cadets can earn a total of 140 points if they finish each step in less than two minutes and complete all parts of their tasks. The function check is not timed, but as soon as the rifle is put down, the cadet must then run back to the starting point, which is 50 meters away. The first cadet to go is Cadet Josh Rosner. His hands shake a bit and he mumbles an expletive but remains calm and collected. He finishes under two minutes and completed every required step, earning all 140 points. Rosner’s perfect beginning wasn’t exactly a precursor for the rest of the cadets. With the exception of Rosner and the captain of the team, Cadet John Pak, the other cadets missed several steps, ultimately docking their points with an average of 133.87 out of 140. Most of the cadets failed to move the sector switch from “fire” to “safe.” Still, Crisostomo insisted the team performed very well.

“This is the best average so far that I’ve seen, it’s good enough to be in first place,” Crisostomo said. The cadets caught a breather and then headed to Area 62 obstacle course for the Grenade Assault Course, where cadets hurl twopound dummy grenades within a marked area where cardboard cutouts of “the enemy” are grouped. The course was made to look like a war zone. Cadets started 50 meters away from their target and moved towards it, facing cover in a ditch. Once there, the cadets made overhand throws. A cadet grader from Claremont McKenna yelled either “hit” or “miss” to mimic detonation. Bernardo admits this is not her favorite event. “I hate throwing grenades, I’m not good at it,” she said. The team received good reviews from the visiting officer-in-charge and headed to either the orienteering or land navigation events. At the end of the day, announcements of the winners were made. The results were close, but Fullerton ROTC came on top.

Volunteer Service Center finds solutions for homelessness Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week will include ‘Tent City’ and campus food drives By Christian Brown

Daily Titan Staff Writer features@dailytitan.com

For 22-year-old Cal State Fullerton student Julissa Prado, homelessness is something worth fighting against. “It hurts my feelings when people say negative things about homeless people,” Prado said. “I could have very easily been in poverty myself.” While reflecting on childhood memories of the impoverished neighborhoods of Tijuana, Prado

found purpose. “What can we do to change that?” she asked. This week, Prado and the CSUF Volunteer and Service Center hope to dispel wrong assumptions about poverty during a series of events that will promote community service and advocacy for those burdened with hunger and homelessness. For several years, “Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week” has drawn in thousands of canned goods for local food banks while inspiring hundreds of students to volunteer and help serve their community. Birthed by nearly half a dozen students three years ago, the project has grown each year. Amy Mattern, coordinator of the Volunteer and Service Center, witnessed the humble beginnings. Starting with campus-

wide food drives, this year the event will include a film screening and an interactive exhibit open to the entire campus community. “We made it huge,” Mattern said. “Now we have over 30 students working really hard to put on these events.” Starting Monday, student volunteers from the center will begin collecting monetary donations that will go to the Women’s Transitional Living Center, an organization committed to seeking solutions to end domestic violence. All canned food donations will be given to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, which received more than 1,100 food items last year from the center. According to Mattern, both sites

are experiencing shortages in funds during this current economic downward spiral, increasing their risk of closing down. “Helping others is a part of our responsibility,” Mattern said. “Whatever is hurting us, is hurting others more.” The documentary film, “Ties on a Fence: Women in Downtown Los Angles Speak Out,” which chronicled the lives of homeless women living in the city, will be shown Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. in McCarthy Hall, Rm. 238. The movie will be followed by a discussion, facilitated by Pamela Hope, senior development officer for ChildNet Youth and Family Services of Long Beach. Formerly homeless herself, Hope now serves as an advocate for the less fortunate in

the community. The week will also include a resource fair in the Quad on Wednesday starting at 11a.m., a CSUF excursion for youth ages 7 to 18 from local homeless shelters and schools on Friday, and “Tent City,” an interactive exhibit that allows visitors to walk through and encounter the reality of hunger and homelessness. Kinesiology major Daryll De Vera, 19, answered the call to volunteer and now serves as the project director for the “Tent City” exhibit. “I never realized that homelessness is so prevalent,” he said in a telephone interview. “Homeless people are not just lazy or people on drugs … sometimes students, even at CSUF can be homeless.” Mattern encourages students to

become a part of the solution to the problem. “Everything we do in the Volunteer and Service Center is, ‘here’s the issue and here’s what you can do about it,’” she said. “It’s your world. Here’s what’s going on. Now change it. Do something.” Prado, a sociology major and the project director of “Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week,” believes that those homeless, which include women, children, veterans and students, need help. She is hopeful that students will respond to the center’s call to action. “The average age of a homeless person is nine years old,” said Prado soberly. “We want to trigger people’s emotions and inspire students to open up their wallets and donate.”

November 17, 2008

opinion

Comedies shouldn’t need sex to make viewers laugh By Eui-jo Marquez

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” came out Oct. 31, opening to great reviews and the second largest gross of any movie that weekend with $10.7 million. But I’m not going to see it. Raunchy sex comedies are the new fad. “The 40 Year Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and “Superbad” are just a few of the new, “funny” movies. I’m careful now whenever someone recommends a movie to me. I realize that what some find funny, I find totally offensive. The first crude comedy I saw was “American Pie.” I had no idea what I was in for and I would have walked out if I didn’t care so much about what my date thought about me. I

dreaded being called a prude, but now I don’t care. Sex in movies makes me uncomfortable. Imagine watching a really romantic movie in the theater and then there’s a steamy sex scene. Why is that scene there? To titillate? That means the old guy next to you is feeling the same thing. So is the middle-aged couple in front of you and the teenagers beside them. So are your parents. That’s creepy. I want sex to be discreet – it’s more special that way. It means less when it is blown up on the big screen in a trashy way. Making a mockery of sex in a tasteless and immature way perverts it. It is no longer special, but something disgusting and embarrassing, or at the very least mundane. At the other extreme, in the early part of the twentieth century sex was repressed and censorship was high.

The Hays Code began to restrict what could be shown in movies in the 1930s. It was a set of guidelines on what was morally acceptable and unacceptable. Nudity, drugs and alcohol use, and homosexuality, among other things, were all prohibited. The code was replaced by the ratings system in 1968, which was about the time movies began to depict sexual themes more openly. "That was probably a more healthy and natural thing to do," sociology professor Troy Zimmer said. But now he believes we as a society have gone too far in the other direction about sex. "Have we now turned (sex) into some kind of meaningless activity?" he asked. “Is it just another way of saying hello?" Lately, movies have become even

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more brazen about sex. Zimmer believes that our preoccupation with sex is a sign of how much our self-worth depends on sex. Everyone wants to be sexy and we brag about sexual exploits. Men are concerned with performance and women with being desirable, Zimmer said. Movies focusing on sex reinforce these obsessions. We see characters who are concerned with sex and not much else. Aren't we concerned with other things in life? Don't we want to watch movies that explore other dimensions of reality? Not only that, but these movies portray sex unrealistically. Characters have one-night stands and come out emotionally unscathed and STD-free. This teaches us that we can do that, too. But I have not yet had a sexual experience that didn’t

leave me feeling emotional, even when I was trying to have a purely “physical” relationship. There’s no such thing as purely physical. Movies like “Zack and Miri” make me think that we are becoming dumb. Filmmakers are catering to our basest nature. Can’t we come up with funny movies that don’t rely on sex for humor? Sadly, I’ve had a hard time finding more "clean" comedies. Most of the movies on both Bravo’s and AFI’s lists of the 100 funniest movies are sexual. But some hilarious movies made the lists and they don’t rely on overt sex at all. “Tootsie” is a movie from 1982, but it’s still funny. Dustin Hoffman is an actor who dresses like a woman to get a part. There is an implied sex scene, but nothing blatant. “Groundhog Day,” “Dr.

Strangelove” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” are all clean comedies. And just reading the title “What About Bob?” makes me laugh, remembering how funny it is. Two people sharing an intimate moment should be private. If a filmmaker wants to tell a story about intimacy, they can do it without resorting to vivid scenes of sex. I like movies where something is left to your imagination. Remember "The Philadelphia Story," with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant? There isn’t a single sex scene in the movie, but it's full of flirting and sexual tension. "We're losing our sensitivities and our abilities to appreciate nuances,” Zimmer said. He believes that we need it literal, simplistic and slapped in our faces. I think that's sad.

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of the religious will be missed. The daywithoutagay.org Web site states that the gay community and their allies have “reacted to anti-gay ballot initiatives in California, Arizona, Florida and Arkansas with anger, with resolve, and with courage. NOW, it’s time to show America and the world how we love.”

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...instead of staying home and refusing to participate in capitalism, protesters will attack the opposition with something much more unconventional; they will provide community service.

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Soon we will have reason to turn to a friend, stare at their face and say, “Merry Gay Day.” With the influx of Mormon harassment and product boycotts by “No on 8ers,” Los Angeles Times columnist and straight man, Joel Stein, recently penned another way to create a hiccup in society. “No Gays for a Day” day would have slapped America’s face on Dec. 5, but Stein discovered that someone else, a gay someone else, thought of it too. Willingly, Stein backed down, even after surviving a conversation with Kathy Griffin in the attempt of recruiting a celebrity spokesperson. Stein simply allowed the rightfully angry to take over. Instead, “Day Without a Gay” day will arrive Wednesday, Dec. 10. The protest is seemingly inspired by the 2006 boycott by Latino immigrants who attempted to prove their existence is invaluable in America by vanishing for a day. But instead of staying home and refusing to participate in capitalism, protesters will attack the opposition with something much more unconventional; they will provide community service. It is certainly more productive than wreaking havoc on those who threw fistsfull of dirty cash at the Yes on 8 Campaign. The idea to “Call in gay” instead of sick in order to spread love and donate time to service sounds great and logical, but the berating

They are also claiming that gay people are “compassionate, sensitive, caring, mobilized, and programmed for success” and “a day without gays would be tragic because it would be a day without love.” Altruists will be out in droves and engaging in the act of giving, which God-fearing people teach about on Sundays. But this Sunday elite is deciding to take away their fundamental rights. The media began pointing fingers at black voters for their part in passing the proposition, but to reiterate the lessons of the past, skin color has nothing to do with it. The root of the problem lies deep within society’s religious beliefs. The staunch God addicts decided long

ago to limit the freedoms of those unwilling to conform. And here we are. It’s 2008 and people still believe the cloudstraddling white man in the sky cares about who loves who. The “Day Without a Gay” effort is also using Dec. 10, as it is International Human Rights day. In doing this, maybe those who can not “call in gay” can allocate some time to remember those who have had to persevere through oppression. Let’s see … well, obviously we will be thinking of the LesbianGay-Bisexual-Transgender communities. Who’s next? Women were oppressed and still are, when unequal wages and general disrespect in a patriarchal society are considered. Hmm … it is utterly disgusting what happened to the Jews and African-Americans. It’s safe to say the Native Americans had it pretty bad with losing their land and dying of syphilis and all. Who else? The Christians. They were persecuted, spit on, stoned and generally disliked. But now they are living free and happily running many parts of American government. The irony here is that people from some of these examples may have had a hand in allowing Prop. 8 to pass, but hopefully on Dec. 10 they will see the error in their beliefs. Take the day off, people. Outgood those bastards.

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November 17, 2008

By Amy Robertson Daily Titan Columnist

Thomas Beatie pregnant again I like to think of myself as an open-minded person, but there is one story that has recently surfaced in the news that I can’t seem to wrap my mind around. The story is not new to the public and the person it involves is not a “celebrity.” However, they’re just as well known now as any celebrity. I mean, it’s not everyday you hear about a man being pregnant. Is it? Although the pregnant man, Thomas Beatie, already gave birth to his baby girl last June, he has confirmed to the world that he is pregnant once again. Though the story sounds extraordinary, there really is nothing to it. Although Beatie identifies himself as a man, he was, in fact, born a female. He still decided, however, to keep his reproductive parts in hopes of someday having a baby. I completely understand and respect any person’s right to have a baby if they’re able and wanting. Furthermore, I respect Beatie’s decision for a sex change. I have no problem with any aspect of his story except for how publicized it has been. Sure, on his end, he’s probably getting paid pretty nicely for all the interviews. And sure, he’s shedding light on an interesting topic. There’s no reason he should have to hide, but there’s something about all the media on him that rubs me the wrong way. I hate to even write what I’m about to because I feel like one of those close-minded “Yes on Prop 8” advocates, but really … how do we explain this to children? There was a response to the story on Usmagazine.com where a woman was saying that her young child saw the pregnant man on the TV and asked how that was possible.

The woman didn’t even know where to begin explaining the situation. This comment made me think of an instance from years ago when my little cousin Brittany asked me what a period was. I had no idea what to say, which leads me to think that if I couldn’t come up with an answer for that, there’s no way I’d be able to enlighten her as to how a man gets pregnant. Not only are other peoples’ children going to have questions, but his children will surely have an ocean of questions in the future. However, that’s not so much of a concern. I’m sure he and his wife will be great parents, explain everything to their kids and teach them more about love than some other parents do. I’m concerned, though, about how others kids will treat the Beatie juniors. Classmates and such will most likely find out one way or another that the two Beatie children were birthed by their dad and not their mom. Yet, the immense amount of press this family has received is going to make obtaining that information that much easier. While I hope the Beatie clan hasn’t received much negative criticism already, I do worry about the repercussions that will hit them in the future when their children are growing up. And, though the two proud parents are entitled to do whatever they want and have as many children as they want, I don’t know why they need to go blabbing to Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters about it. The story isn’t even what it’s being made out to be. It’s not a pregnant man. It’s a pregnant woman because, anatomically speaking, he is a she. Despite the argument over whether

he is a he or a she, I do applaud him for his strength and bravery, but I don’t really know how I feel beyond that. Like I said, I like to think of myself as being open-minded, but this is no Heidi Montag or Miley Cyrus situation. I’m not so clear on my feelings with this one.

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Titans trounce Tigers, move into fourth place Women’s volleyball wins weekend matches to give dimming postseason hopes light with showdown versus Big West-leading Long Beach State this weekend By Crysania Salcido

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team defeated tough opponents UC Davis and Pacific over the weekend in a pair of five-set matches, moving them to fourth place in the Big West Conference. “We played amazing. We played point-for-point and got the job done,” freshman Sydney McDowell said. The Titans (16-14, 9-6 in the Big West) started off on Friday wanting some revenge against UC Davis (12-16, 4-11 in the Big West) after losing to them at Titan Gym. After losing sets one and two the Titans rallied back in set three to

take it 31-29. The Titans knew it wouldn’t be easy but they pressed through and took control of set four and used that momentum to break through and take set five. “It took a while for us to start but we picked things up in the third game and played really well as a team,” freshman Andrea Ragan said. Senior Brittany Moore led all players in kills with 29 and rounded out her performance with 18 digs, one solo block and two block assists. Following Moore was sophomore Erin Saddler who also turned in an impressive performance with 17 kills, three service aces, three block assists and one solo block in the match. Defensively, sophomore Cami

Croteau led all players with 25 digs and was followed closely by junior Ashley Collier with 22. Ragan added another double-double with 51 assists and 19 digs, junior Alex Wolnisty had four block assists, and McDowell posted three block assists in the win (21-25, 20-25, 31-29, 25-17, 15-10). The Titans tied the Aggies in blocks with 10, but outperformed them in every other aspect. They led in kills, 61-51, assists, 58-49, and digs, 95-86. “We definitely fought hard against Davis. We weren’t about to lose to them a second time,” McDowell said. With the match against the Aggies behind them, the Titans focused on facing the Tigers (10-15, 9-6 in the

Big West) at Spanos Center where the Tigers perform their best. “We had beaten them before and we knew what we were capable of,” junior Deven Bukoski said. “That’s the kind of mentality we went in there with.” After narrowly winning the first set, the Titans lost sets two and three to the Tigers and had to stop their momentum or go home. The Titans managed to stop the Tigers’ momentum and took control in set four, and dominant kills from Wolnisty and Moore in set five gave the Titans the big win to pass Pacific in the standing (26-24, 22-25, 21-25, 25-16, 15-10). Both Moore and Wolnisty set career highs in kills during the match. Moore turned in 31 kills, a .333

hitting percentage, and 16 digs for her 16th double-double in kills and digs for the season. Wolnisty had 20 kills and an incredible .500 hitting percentage in the set to add to her three blockassists. Following the powerhouse duo, Saddler had 14 kills, a .317 hitting percentage and 11 digs, while Bukoski added six kills, 12 digs and four block-assists. For the defense Croteau led all Titans with 24 digs. Collier added 13 digs and Ragan posted a season-high 65 assists and the Titans’ only service ace. “We knew Pacific was a tougher team and we had to step it up,” Ragan said. “Our passing and defense was really good and the hitters put

the ball away.” The Titans are hoping to use the momentum and confidence they gained over the weekend to bring it into their final Big West match and home game at Titan Gym on Saturday evening against the formidable Long Beach State. Saturday will also be Moore’s final home game as the program pays tribute to its lone senior before the match. A win against Long Beach State could mean a chance in the playoffs, so the Titans will be working hard all week. “We had really good energy over the weekend, so hopefully we’ll be able to use that ... and we’ll keep working hard all week,” Bukoski said.

VOLLEYBALL SEASON STANDINGS School Big West

By Rafael A. Delgado/Daily Titan File Photo The Titans three-match winning streak leading into home finale versus conference-leading Long Beach State leaves team with a chance at playing in postseason.

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Long Beach St 12

.857

.852

Cal Poly

.714

.600

UC Irvine

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.556

CSUF

.600 16

.533

Pacific

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.400

UCSB

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UC Davis

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.276

CSUN

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