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CRASH SENDS ONE TO HOSPITAL CSUF student amid
Boston bombings Boston falls to silence after at least three are killed and 144 injured by explosives IAN WHEELER Daily Titan
TIM WORDEN / Daily Titan A dark blue Honda Accord, driven by a woman who was transported to UCI Medical Center rests on the curb of Folino Drive between the dorms and Eastside Parking Structure on Monday afternoon. The driver of the white Ford Explorer, Samantha Witherspoon, was not injured.
One woman was transported to the hospital after a twocar T-bone collision smashed the driver’s side of her car near Eastside Parking Structure Monday afternoon. The collision occurred on Folino Drive between the dorms and Eastside Parking Structure around 2:07 p.m. and the woman was transported to UCI Medical Center, according to University Police Capt. John Brockie. She was transported around 2:20 p.m. Samantha Witherspoon, 18, an undeclared major, was driv-
ing south down Folino Drive, which runs parallel to the 57 Freeway, when she hit a car that was turning right onto Folino from the parking lot. Witherspoon, driving a white Ford Explorer at around 20 mph, saw the woman who was driving a dark blue Honda Accord at the last second, she said. Witherspoon then hit the woman directly on the woman’s driver’s side door, she said. Witherspoon said she and witnesses at the scene saw the woman clutching her
head after the impact, but that the woman was able to talk to the witnesses and was not bleeding. “She was taken to the (hospital), but she was conscious,” Witherspoon said. “I didn’t see any cuts or anything,” she added. According to a University Police officer at the scene, the woman “(had a) good bump on the head because she was T-boned, so her head hit the window.” The entire left side of the car was smashed inward and the driver’s window was shat-
tered. The impact pushed the car about three feet into a patch of bushes on a divider island off Folino. It is unknown whether the injured woman was a Cal State Fullerton student and her condition was not known as of early Monday evening. UCI Medical Center is unable to provide patient information if the name is not known, John Murray, media relations manager for UCI Medical Center, said. Brief by TIM WORDEN
FEATURES | ASI
ASI election results stalled in deadlock Two presidential candidates continue to push their campaigns after a voting tie LAUREN HARRITY Daily Titan
Tensions are mounting for the two Cal State Fullerton students vying to be Associated Students Inc. president for the 2013-2014 school year. After weeks of campaigning Rohullah Latif and Carlos Navarro were left on the edge of their seats until late Thursday night when the first round of voting was declared a deadlock. The two presidential hopefuls are remaining optimistic as they go into the second round of voting this week. Latif and Navarro will continue their campaigns this week as polling stations are set up once again Wednesday and Thursday. The deadlock declared in the first round of voting is actually not all that unusual, said Megan Martinez, elections commissioner. A policy has been in place for some time about how to handle these types of results. “Usually if there are more than two candidates, the elections have a runoff between the two teams who received the highest number of votes. It is rare that out of three candidate teams, that one will receive the 50 percent plus one to win,” said Martinez. The third candidate in the race, Ryan Quinn, was eliminated after receiving only 15 percent of the vote. Navarro and Latif are planning on making one last campaign push to put them ahead in the race and
President Barack Obama assured the “full weight of justice” would fall on those responsible for the deaths of at least three people after two explosions tore through a crowded sidewalk in Boston at about 11:50 a.m. PST Monday. At least 144 were injured by the bombs, which detonated within 15 seconds of each other and appeared to target a mass of spectators at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in what the FBI has characterized as a terrorist attack. Doctors were “pulling ball bearings out of people in the emergency room,” an expert told CNN, indicating the explosives may have been designed to propel shrapnel. Hunter Swanson, 27, a grad student of screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton, was having drinks with his girlfriend and another friend at a restaurant about a block away from
where the bombs struck. “About 10 minutes after sitting down, the whole building shakes like a car had just hit it,” said Swanson. “We looked out through the window and people are turning to look down the street and then running the opposite direction—it’s just a stampede of people.” Swanson said he began running toward the scene of the explosions, against the crowd, where he saw a man with his clothes blown off, mouth open and eyes unblinking, standing in shock. “I see this guy ... his jeans had been torn from his ankle all the way to his thigh, his shirt is torn apart, he is bloody, covered in ash—I realized that I am literally standing right in between where the two bombs had just gone off,” he said. People were lying in the street, which was covered in debris, Swanson said. “I helped a few other people clear the street and stop people from running in front of a firetruck and an ambulance so they can get by,” he said. SEE BOSTON, 3
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Global linguistics focus of annual symposium Keynote speakers and a panel of students discuss their research on language MICHELLE TUYUB Daily Titan
The 22nd Annual Linguistics Symposium was held on Monday at the Titan Theatre, featuring faculty members and a student panel as a part of Humanities and Social Sciences Week. The first keynote speaker of the symposium was Timothy Henry, Ph.D., a linguistics professor at Cal State Fullerton. Henry’s lecture focused on the Mongolian dialect of Xalxa. He spoke about the vowels and the different tongue roots. Henry also said that they might cause variations in the size of the pharyngeal cavity, which is part of the throat located below the nasal cavity. In his research, Henry used a group of three males and three females between the age of 19-33 and looked at the difference in the vowel use. Using two different devices, he recorded the difference between long and short vowels of the research group. “I was trying to record vowels, to look at different aspects of vowels, how speakers tell the differ-
ence between vowels essentially in English you have vowels (sounds in the letter a) those contrast the two sounds and you can measure them ... that’s essentially what I was doing,” said Henry. Franz Mueller, Ph.D., a linguistics professor, was the second keynote speaker at the symposium. Mueller discussed the social stratification in the Javanese language, which originates from the Austronesia area from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south. Javanese has three language levels, which distinguish a person based on their status. At times the three different languages do not differentiate very much but some words do. The levels consist of Krama, the high level, Madya, the middle level, and Ngoko the basic level. According to Mueller, it is considered a social violation if people do not follow the language rules. “Linguistics is all about understanding how language works and principle and were very well familiar with languages like English or Spanish ... but its when you look elsewhere in the world, perhaps among lesser known languages that you really find surprising things,” said Mueller. SEE PANEL, 3
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Carlos Navarro, left, and Rohullah Latif, right, speak at the initial ASI debate. The two candidates are still in the running for the presidential title and will undergo a second round of voting Wednesday and Thursday.
bring them the presidency. “Going into next week’s run-off elections, Jonny (my vice president candidate) and I will make sure to keep spreading our message, keep talking to students about our platform and our goals, while making sure that they are informed and prepared to vote,” said Latif. A fourth-year student, Latif moved to the United States from Afghanistan 11 years ago and during his time at CSUF he has been involved in many campus organizations. He was elected president of freshman programs, served on the ASI Board of Directors and was
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even the school mascot during his freshman year. “CSUF has given me so much and I want to be able to return that back to my fellow Titans. My experience at CSUF has inspired me to run for ASI president,” Latif said. “I want to make sure that ASI is offering all the opportunities to our students to be successful in and out of the classroom,” he added. As ASI president, Latif said he hopes to increase Titan pride and facilitate communication with students, university administration and the surrounding community.
“The only way we, as a university, are going to be successful, is if students, faculty, and the administration work together in achieving the best possible environment for CSUF students to learn, innovate, grow and achieve as individuals,” Latif said. Recently Latif started his own business and after graduation he plans on attending law school while continuing to grow his company. Navarro is a Spanish major who aspires to get his master’s in higher education. SEE ELECTION, 6
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