Daily Titan: Wednesday, November 4, 2009

INSIDE: FEATURES

SPORTS: After 22 years, golf program returns to CSUF, Page 6

Q&A with Knott’s Museum curator and collector, Page 2

OPINION: Police must have reasonable doubt to pull someone over, Page 3

Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 32

Wednesday November 4, 2009

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

People and pets to play at Pittsford Park

By Nicole F. Park

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

photo by ron fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Bao Nguyen, 27, looks at the display of a mangled car that was involved in a drunk driving accident for an awareness campaign by MADD on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Sorority acts against drunk driving

By Nicole F. Park

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

The Delta Zeta sorority at Cal State Fullerton is hosting a week of alcohol awareness on campus with the help of Greeks Advocating for Mature Management of Alcohol and the CSUF Student Health Center.

The three-day drunk driving awareness campaign kicked off Tuesday.

A crumpled Toyota sedan sat inside a Mother’s Against Drunk Driving trailer on Titan Walk. The trailer also displayed news clips and photos from the scene along with a full narrative of the accident. No names were used on the public display.

An intoxicated man fled from police in a high-speed vehicle pursuit, running numerous red lights and reaching speeds exceeding 100 mph. It was upon contact with the Toyota, which was carrying two men in their fifties, that the vehicle came to a stop. Both men, who had wives and children, died at the scene.

Jennifer Hampton, a human services major and vice president of programming for Delta Zeta, said alcohol awareness is recognized every year within the sorority.

“Watching the video ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’ is one of the national requirements for sororities. We usually watch the video, talk about facts and have a speaker come to the house. This year is different because we’re including everyone, not just Greeks,” Hampton said.

MADD’s Web site states 3 in 10 Americans are involved in a drunk driving accident “at some time in their lives,” and a person is killed from a drunk driver every 45 minutes.

Hampton, 21, experienced her first alcohol-related accident when she was just 4 years old.

“I don’t remember much about it since I was so young, but I know I was in the car with my family at a red light and a drunk guy slammed into us,” she said. “We were just leaving McDonald’s.”

Although Hampton was virtu-

ally unharmed, her brother, who was 1 year old at the time, broke bones in both his legs in the collision. After the experience of being a victim of drunk driving, Hampton says that she has also witnessed the repercussions that intoxicated drivers face.

“I also have a family member who got a DUI. She lost her license for three

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We’re from a small town and everyone knew about it because she had to ride her bike everywhere,” Hampton said.

This week’s events come just one week after CSUF sociology major Jessica Shekell, who may have been driving under the influence of alcohol, was behind the wheel of the truck that

killed two San Bernardino women.

“The timing was a complete coincidence. We’ve been planning this event since the summer. It was originally going to be during the actual National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, but that came on furlough week, so we pushed it to now,” said GAMMA President Gladys Loza, 20.

Loza said the week’s events end on Thursday night with a presentation in the Titan Gym at 7 p.m. There, officers from the Fullerton Police Department will present the dangers of drinking and driving, drinking underage and excess drinking. A showing of the film “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” will follow the police presentation, and the final event of the week will end with a speaker from MADD. Delta Zeta President Malorie Juarez, 22, said the video is shown to Delta Zeta members nationally.

The film is based on a true story in which Scott Krueger, a Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brother at MIT, became intoxicated to the point of alcohol poisoning during a rush activity in 1997.

Future of CSUF’s Irvine campus discussed Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

On Oct. 28 at the Irvine campus’ Titan Student Union, the Irvine campus Task Force held an open forum that was mostly led by 47 students who expressed how much they need their campus to remain operative.

Yesterday the Pollak Library staff, faculty and advisers gave their input about the issue. Many of the topics discussed were concerns of rent of the site, course availability, admission of applicants and the continued need for education.

The first issue of importance that was discussed by the Task Force panel, including the dean of the Irvine campus, Susan Cooper, was “What should be the vision and mission for the Irvine campus and how should it support the mission and strategic goals of the university?”

Stephen Stambough, a professor of political science and criminal justice at the Irvine campus, said that on average the majority of his classes were not

filled to capacity, as opposed to courses believes that the county will continue at the main campus in Fullerton. He to grow, and the campus will remain a added that professors were not around valuable presence. for the students on a daily basis.

“We have heard from the campus The Task Force responded and said communities ... some were looking for that there were not an expansion of classes available the campus so that that could fit more it can grow,” said than 60 students.

Ephraim Smith, They have been vice president of working closely Academic Affairs. with the chairs Five majors are and associate deans currently being to identify which offered at the site, courses were needand 48 courses are ed for certain stumade available to dents who do not the students for need them on a the 2009-10 acafrequent basis. demic year.

Anil Puri, dean Shelly Arsof the Mihaylo neault, professor –Jack Bedell of political science, College of Business Chair of anthropology and Economics, said that she along said that there are with many profescertain classes that are not available for sors of the political science faculty do students at Fullerton, so they are made not wish to work at that location. available at Irvine.

“If the good folks of south Orange Since most of the students come County are so supportive, why don’t we from southern Orange County, Puri get them their own campus?” she said.

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It was a heated conversation at some point in this discussion, in order for everyone to get their point to express their feelings and opinions (about the Irvine campus)

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“If it was going to grow, it wouldn’t have taken 20 years to grow. If it was an idea that was going to take off, I thought it would have taken off already. Maybe that is a matter of budget,” Arsneault said.

It is a group of faculty members that volunteer to operate and teach at the Irvine campus, Smith said.

The campus was encouraged to close enrollment, and they did so this year on Jan. 23, with the advice of the chancellor’s office. Last year, there were 3,000 students who applied for courses on the Irvine campus, and this year there were close to 8,000, he said.

Smith was one of the faculty members that answered many of the questions of concern.

“It was a heated conversation ... in this discussion, in order for everyone to get their point to express their feelings and opinions (about the Irvine campus),” said Jack Bedell, chair of anthropology and one of the leading moderators of the Irvine campus Task Force.

“We were out to get good data and information about the site for those defending their argument,” he said.

The Friends of Lake Forest Animals will celebrate their second-annual “Family Pet Day” at the city’s Pittsford Park on Nov. 7. from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

In hosting the day of fun and fundraising, its organizers aim to unite animal lovers throughout Orange County “to raise awareness of the plight of lost and stray pets,” the press release states.

For five future practitioners of public relations, the event will not only allow them to actively make a difference in the lives of local animals but will also get them one step further to graduation.

Ashley Greaney, Audrey Huynh, Natashia Tomek, Nicole Pierce and Steven Muniz comprise Avant Garde Public Relations. The “firm,” though it does conduct genuine PR campaigns, is solely an academic endeavor.

Avant Garde PR will function as a team throughout the semester, serving different clients for various assigned projects.

Family Pet Day will include a pet whisperer, pet butler, the Lake Forest Police K-9 squad, music, trick contests, an animal magician and a face painter for children. There will also be plenty of specialty pet bakeries among the vendor booths providing tasty treats for four-legged attendees.

Free goody bags will be given out to the first 200 guests.

Animal adoption will be available from local pet shelters and rescues for those looking for a companion. Local veterinarians will be on hand to answer questions and offer specials on pet health care needs for those with a pet in tow.

FOLFA’s Heather Cereghino encourages families to come and bring their pets along as well.

“There is no cost for entry, and the entertainment and activities are free. We wanted this event to be fun for families and did not want to have our guests worry about an entry fee or paying for

the activities. This is a great event for families to get out and enjoy a day on us and the City of Lake Forest. Remember to bring your four legged friends because they are family too,” Cereghino said.

The event is expected to be a massive hit among animal lovers.

Last year’s Family Pet Day welcomed over 700 guests and with AGPR on board, the crowd is anticipated to be larger. The AGPR team, along with FOLFA, is looking for animal lovers to volunteer at Family Pet Day. Volunteer duties would include passing out goody bags and food, setting up booths, cleaning up, posting flyers to increase the event’s visibility and help generate community spirit for the event.

AGPR’s Greaney urges students to take part in the event as a student volunteer.

“Volunteering is important in a student’s life because not only do you build experience on your résumé, but it also sends a message to potential employers about how well-rounded your activities are and gives them an idea of what kinds of causes are close to your heart, and it may even help them identify with you on some level,” she said.

“Students who volunteer can request a letter of recommendation from the board of directors, fulfill assigned community service hours and gain hands-on PR experience,” Huynh said.

According to its Web site, FOLFA, established in 2008, was born from the South County Animal Shelter Coalition to address the animal welfare concerns of the citizens of the City of Lake Forest. FOLFA’s mission is to create a safe harbor for the community’s lost, stray and abandoned animals. The group donates pet food to food banks throughout the year and also has its own food distribution program “to ensure that during this rough time our community can still feed their animals,” Cereghino said.

For more information about Family Pet Day and how to volunteer, log onto FOLFA.org or e-mail Events@FOLFA.org.

photo courtesy of Friends of Lake Forest Animals In 2008, the City of Lake Forest proclamed the day of Pet Extravaganza “Responsible Pet Ownership Day.”

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November 4, 2009

Knott’s memorabilia collector speaks

By Nikki Mao

Daily Titan Staff Writer features@dailytitan.com

It’s hard to imagine that thundering roller coasters and giant costumed characters would take the place of a humble roadside fruit stand made famous by the Knott family’s special boysenberry pie.

Jay Jennings, a native filmmaker and author, has been diligently collecting Knott’s memorabilia for almost 40 years, chronicling Knott’s Berry Farm from its beginning. His collections fill Knott’s Berry Farm Museum, where over 50 years of Knott’s history is displayed in six exhibits containing collectibles, menus, maps, souvenir books, tickets and postcards from the 1930s to the 1970s, according to Jennings’ blog. He is currently working on his second book with details about his collection.

Daily Titan: Hello Jay, we are big fans of Snoopy! I’m really excited to learn more about his “hometown.”

Everything has a beginning, so why and when did you begin to show interest in Knott’s Berry Farm collectibles?

Jennings: I was 4 years old, growing up in the late 1960s, going to Knott’s Berry Farm at least once a month. This was a long drive to Buena Park for my parents and I since I grew up in Hollywood, California.

I always enjoyed the TV cowboy shows on local television back when

I was a kid (Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and John Wayne), so my early love of the Old West was magnified every time we’d go to Knott’s.

Before all the rides were put in, you just walked around, went on a train, met an Indian chief or two, rode some burros, panned for gold and basically took your time walking from one end of the farm to the other.

To me, Ghost Town at Knott’s was like being on the set of an old Western TV show. It’s safe to say that 1969 is the year I took home my first piece of Knott’s memorabilia.

It was a souvenir marshal’s badge with my first name printed on the front. Flash forward 40 years later and that marshal’s badge is just one of 2,000 vintage relics that I have from Knott’s Berry Farm’s past (which include menus, matchbooks, shot glasses, ashtrays, rare snapshots, short films and Walter Knott autographs).

DT: Wow, 40 years … that’s impressive. Are you doing it just for fun, or do you have some personal expectations or goals when collecting Knott’s Berry Farm memorabilia?

Jennings: Of course I enjoy collecting Knott’s Berry Farm memorabilia, and it is extremely fun and rewarding, but my number one goal is to preserve all the vintage items and have them on display so that Knott’s fans of all ages can relive its storied history or learn things they didn’t know before.

DT: It must be interesting to tell stories using your extensive collection. You also wrote a book called “Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years.” I think this is another great way of recording the history.

Jennings: Outside of being a filmmaker, I’ve been researching the history of Knott’s Berry Farm and the Knott family for over 25 years.

Last year I was approached by Arcadia Publishing to write a history book about Knott’s that included over 200 rare black-and-white photographs which came from both my personal collection and the Orange County Archives.

My book, “Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years” is one part history book/one part time machine. I wrote it in such a way that it takes the reader back to the old Knott’s of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, right up until the 1960s and ’70s, with a firsthand look at how the farm began, the people who worked there and all the attractions.

DT: How about your real Knott’s ephemera, do you plan to share them with us in another book?

Jennings: Indeed, yes. Next year I plan on turning my Knott’s collection into a book of old relics, grouped in specific exhibits and by decades.

The setup will be very similar to the Knott’s Berry Farm Museum which I am the curator of.

DT: How many Knott’s Berry Farm items have you collected so far?

PHOTO COURTESY JAY JENNINGS Cups, shot glasses, commemorative plates, trays, keychains, spoons, jars, pie tins, ashtrays and figurines are among the many memorabilia that comprise Jay Jennings’ Knott’s Berry Farm collection.

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PHOTO COURTESY JAY JENNINGS Knott’s Berry Farm Museum curator Jay Jennings owns the largest collection of Knott’s memorabilia in the world. Jennings has spent nearly 40 years collecting and wrote the book “Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years.”

Jennings: About 2,000 items, spanning more than 50 years of Knott’s history.

DT: No surprise you can fill a museum with all of that. Where did you find all these rare items?

Jennings: Swap meets and estate sales. Sometimes, I’ll luck out and find a big box of stuff (i.e. slides, snapshots, posters), while other times I may find only a single item, like a Knott’s ashtray from the 1940s.

DT: Do you have a favorite one?

Jennings: I get asked this a lot, and it never gets old.

Since the Haunted Shack was my favorite Knott’s attraction as a kid, my favorite Knott’s souvenir is a Haunted Shack brochure from the early 1950s that was given away at the ticket booth in front of the shack. It’s a yellow, four-page leaflet with pictures on the inside of people

defying gravity. Pretty creepy stuff for a kid.

DT: Interesting that you mention this creepy “Haunted Shack” since we just had Halloween and Knott’s Berry Farm is always the place to go this season. Some people may be unfamiliar with the historical side of Knott’s Halloween Haunt.

Jennings: Nearly 40 years old, Knott’s Scary Farm in recent years has become the park’s most successful event during the calendar year. It began in 1973 with its first host, local TV boogeyman “Seymour” (Larry Vincent). After that, radio personality “Wolfman Jack” and horror queen “Elvira” took over hosting duties. The original monsters roaming the park in those days were from old Universal horror films such as “Dracula,” “The Mummy,” “The “Wolfman” and “Frankenstein.” The

evening’s festivities also included monster make-up shows. It’s ironic that fog machines were not allowed back then due to safety concerns, yet fog plays a big part in today’s version of Knott’s Scary Farm, as do many blood-curdling mazes and groaning zombies.

DT: Are there any other memorable experiences that you recall from your interactions at Knott’s Berry Farm?

Jennings: Meeting the different members of the Knott family as well as having old-time Knott’s employees donate their personal Knott’s mementos to the museum are my most memorable moments. I feel honored and blessed to have met them all.

For more information, visit Jennings’ Web site: KnottsBerryFarm.

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Second Life adds new dimension to classes

By Susannah Blakey For the Daily Titan

features@dailytitan.com

The flag ripples in the breeze, with Tuffy swaying back and forth.

The sea shines and daytime turns to dusk. You fly past it all to make it on time for your evening class, settling into your seat for a lecture.

This is the path many visual communications students took spring semester of 2008 while attending an online class offered by Dr. Paul Lester, photocommunications concentration coordinator. The class was taught exclusively through Second Life, a 3-D virtual world developed

by Linden Lab in 2003 that allows users to create an avatar and travel around different online worlds while socializing with other avatars.

One can seemingly live their life online through Second Life. Linden Labs reported last month that users have spent over one billion hours using its site.

Fullerton is just one of many universities, organizations and businesses that are on Second Life, utilizing the site as a teaching tool. Most students at CSUF are familiar with Fullerton’s online learning tool, Blackboard, but the school is now trying to extend the experience via Second Life. Helping spearhead the effort is Lester, who wanted to test the new technology.

“The idea of integrating a virtual look so it wouldn’t be just a chat room appealed to me,” Lester said.

After visiting the site and discovering its potential, Lester taught his online visual communications class solely through the Second Life Web site. Lester taught his students about topics such as movement, color and depth using tools on the site. The class — and Second Life — uses personalization to help simulate the faceto-face aspects of regular classroom learning. Students and teachers design their own avatars. Just like a regular class, the avatar has to be in class at a designated time.

Lester along with Dr. Cynthia King, part of the entertainment studies concentration faculty, recently completed a study comparing the experiences of students in the same class taught online versus in a classroom. Lester and King found that students in both learning environments received similar grades.

Fullerton Island is CSUF’s virtual campus in the Second Life world, but it is only one of the worlds students can visit to broaden their horizons.

Students can also take a spin through places like replicas of the Sistine Chapel, ancient Rome and even the inside of a computer.

Lester said creating this immersive educational resource is no easy task.

“One of the drawbacks of Second

SCREEN CAPTURE BY PAUL LESTER Some Cal State Fullerton professors use Second Life as an extension of their classroom.

Fullerton Island is where students and faculty congregate on the site.

Life is the amount of time it requires from a teacher,” he said.

He further stated that like any other technology it takes “time getting used to,” so many teachers may have a hard time adjusting to it.

Dennis Robinson, director of Distance Learning, which manages Fullerton Island, teaches faculty workshops on how to use the virtual tool in classrooms.

“Variety is important because students have lots of different learning styles,” Robinson said. “Second Life offers a social presence lacking from traditional online learning. It offers students live meetings with teachers

which is more similar to traditional face-to-face teaching.”

Online courses are becoming popular because of advancements in technology and the rise of the Internet.

Students at CSUF are no strangers to online learning and more classes are becoming available on the Web. One student who sees the value of the online learning approach is political science major Sylvia Gutierrez, “I would love to take a class in Second Life. I feel there is more of a student-teacher interaction, compared to Blackboard where the approach is more individualistic,” she said.

OPINION

November 4, 2009

Titan Editorial

Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960

Ruling protects drivers’ rights We have all seen our fair share of drivers speed- many when dealing with a person’s life. Roberts also ing and sometimes swerving down the freeway late at stated that allowing an officer to simply pull over a night on our way home. driver with an anonymous tip does not violate the Due to the fact that we are all such “upstanding” Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizure); it citizens, it is our civic duty to call 911 and report any still seems highly unreasonable for an officer to pull and all suspicious drivers on the road. someone over based on an average citizen’s untrained But is this all the information police require to jus- judgment call. tify pulling someone over? Or should they first obCitizens calling in with tips on suspected drunk serve the suspected driver to obtain reasonable doubt drivers are a great help to officers, but there are many indicating they are intoxicated or partaking in some indicators officers can observe to determine if someother illegal activity? one may be driving under the influence; a tip should According to a Virginia Supreme Court ruling, a not be the only reason someone is pulled over. police officer is allowed to follow a car but cannot Officers serve the community by observing, restop the suspected drunk driver based on a tip called sponding and then reporting. Officers are here to upin until the officer observes the driver doing some- hold the law by responding to a call and then, after thing suspicious, such as swerving in a lane. justifying it by seeing the wrongdoings, they act and Although this may seem unfair to certain people, enforce our laws and do what needs to be done to we believe that officers need something more than a protect the other citizens. tip from an anonymous caller to pull someone over, Although protecting citizens from drunk drivers such as reasonable doubt from a first-hand witness is a major concern for officers, they need to observe experienced in observing drunk drivers. Although suspicious behavior before they can be allowed to pull drunk driving is a deadly offense, suspicion is not rea- someone over. sonable doubt and must be investigated.

If police are allowed to pull someone over withThe consequences of drinking and driving are so out taking the time to assess the situation themselves, severe that cops should be sure that the driver is in- then not only would that be unfair to the driver, it toxicated rather than simply assuming and pulling would also waste the police departments’ time and over someone who may or may not have been drink- resources. ing. Though the ruling in Virginia does not have to By the officer not waiting to observe something be followed in other states, it will hopefully lead oth- suspicious happening with the car, there is no justifiers to speak out cation for pullagainst police ing the driver officers being over, only susallowed to take picion. action without Not only justification. should the SuChief Justice preme Court John Roberts uphold the rulwanted to go ing, but other against the lowstates should er court ruling, also implesubmitting the ment laws that case to the U.S. restrict officers Supreme Court from pulling on Oct. 20 for someone over review, because without seeing even “one free suspicious acswerve” may be tivity for themone swerve too Illustration By Jon Harguindeguy/For the Daily Titan selves.

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Boll-ing for Darfur by ashleigh johnson

Daily Titan Copy Editor opinion@dailytitan.com

Today, Dear Readers, is a day of honesty. Think of it as a game of truth or dare, only without the dare part. And the tickle fights. And the copious amounts of booze juice (first grade is hell).

So really it’s nothing like truth or dare, but whatever, I’m running with it anyway so shut up.

But before we proceed, we need to have complete trust in each other.

Tell me your biggest secret …

Uh huh, go on …

Whoa! Dude, take that to a doctor. I really don’t want to know what you did with Lego blocks and paperclips. There’s a line, man, and you just crossed it. What you did to that parakeet is absolutely inexcusable.

I’m going to slowly back away now, but as I do, allow me to share with you a secret of my own. It’s one that will undoubtedly fill your heart with rage, but I’m sick of living a lie.

The truth must be known.

I, Lt. Dr. Sen. Ashleigh Johnson III, Esq., am sort of a Uwe Boll admirer.

This may come as a bit of a shock, but I have yet to find the last piece of the magic amulet that will grant me untold wisdom and the knowledge of the ancients, so there are some things in life that I just don’t understand.

War, death and the general inhumanity of man are three good examples; Uwe Boll is the fourth.

Despite my love for his work, I just can’t wrap my mind around him for some reason. Sometimes I’m convinced that everything he does is

just part of some evil scheme to harvest the tears and rage of fanboys as a way to power his doomsday device and ultimately take over the Gummi Glen and rid the world of those pesky Gummi Bears once and for all.

Other times I find myself really enjoying his work. The dark humor of “Postal” comes to mind.

Hey, I’ll admit it, it’s one of my favorite movies – it’s absurd, it’s warped and it’s completely awesome.

In short: It’s my kind of movie.

Then again, he also made “Alone in the Dark.” So, you know, there’s that. Whatever the case, I’m genuinely convinced that he is a film fan and that he does have the capability to write and direct a damn good movie.

While I was on a Mountain Dewfueled high and brainstorming ideas for this column, I came across a video interview of the director discussing a movie he recently finished – a biopic about the genocide in Darfur.

Definitely not a career move I anticipated from the guy who is probably most famous for movies based on video games.

On a whim, I decided to somehow try and get in touch with either: a) someone who knew the director, b) someone who could give me information regarding the Darfur biopic, or c) all of the above.

What I didn’t expect was for Boll to contact me himself. Through his personal e-mail.

Allow me to make one thing clear: Boll is a pretty cool guy.

He was open to questions and after I fired back an e-mail chock-full of them, he answered them all.

Here are some highlights – unedited and uncut (yes, these are real): On

how he handles critics: “i handle the negative critics offensive and aggressiv ...because they didnt even watch my movies. in the last few years i did with POSTAL, STOIC, TUNNELRATS, DARFUR, RAMPAGE great movies ... and they still write and think i do ALONE IN THE DARK movies [sic].”

On what he thinks is the worst films of all time: “this is not a fair question but really bad were (from the big movies) BC 10.000, electra, battleship earth.., indiana jones 4 [sic].”

The best films of all time: “clockwerk orange, apocalypse now, dances with wolves, godfather, raging bull, once upon a time in the west.”

On why he did a movie about Darfur: “the idea is to stop the genocide in sudan...its a crime ....children getting hacked in pieces and we do nothing ... [sic].”

On his most memorable experience on a set: “a lot.... michael madsen with loaded, real guns in front of me ..drunk....for example [sic].”

I’m stumped. On one hand, he’s an interesting person; he does what he wants; and he’s unapologetic for that.

On the other hand, he’s done some awful movies, and he’s unapologetic for that too.

Most film geeks fall into either one of two camps: They either loathe Boll, or they love him.

I fall into neither because I’m more confused than your mother upon visiting the gynecologist (paying someone to see her vagina?

What? It’s supposed to be the other way around!) I have a lot of thinking to do – I’ll be in the doom fortress if you need me.

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Alien in America “From the inside looking out”

Everything’s better in Texas

by Isa Ghani

Daily Titan Multimedia Editor opinion@dailytitan.com

I’ve mentioned before how much I hate accents in America. I think I’ve also mentioned how I find food here too fattening and unhealthy, and how I find people here seem to just want to get laid.

I take it all back because I find I was wrong on all counts. Turns out, it’s just California.

Last week I had the chance to go to Austin, Texas, for a couple days, and I jumped at the opportunity.

I got to experience barbecue ribs, cowboy hats, large belt buckles and, of course, the infamous 6th Street in Downtown Austin.

As a result, I’ve fallen in love with Texas. I’ve fallen in love with the South and Midwest, from Georgia to Kansas and back down to Texas again, I love it all. I love the accents, the women and the food.

To all other immigrants to America, or even Americans who haven’t traveled much, you have not lived until you’ve visited Texas, or at least the South.

I hate the Californian accent, with its incessant use of the word “like” as a verb, adjective and descriptive noun. But I love Southern accents.

I love it when people refer to me and my friends as “y’all” or call me “darlin’.” Oddly, it’s not strange or overtly intimate – it’s just friendly.

People are also much more polite there – they actually say please and thank you regularly, and mean it too.

In California, people say, “How you doing?” in lieu of the word “Hi.” I’ve sadly gotten used to this – when you meet a stranger in the street, both of you say, “Hey, how you doin’?” to each other and walk on by without waiting for a reply.

In the South, people actually wait for your reply, because they genuinely care as to how you are doing.

It’s pleasantly refreshing.

Southern food is something amazing too. I have never had Texas barbecue before and for every other “Alien in America,” it’s something you have to try before you die.

Nothing can beat the taste of a big juicy rib, slow cooked for hours, smothered in barbecue sauce, so tender it melts in your mouth when you take a big bite.

OK, so it’s unhealthy as hell – it’s completely worth it in this case.

Plus, who doesn’t like a big meaty bone in their mouth?

During my time in the South, I also discovered my affinity for wings.

Buffalo, Cajun style, honey barbecue – it doesn’t matter. They are all mind-blowing.

Nothing beats a meal of wings at three in the morning after a ton of beer (which Texans have a ridiculously good supply of ), capped off with some fried shrimp and more barbecue sauce. If they would let me drink the stuff, I would.

And of course, there are the people. No boardshorts and wife-beaters here, from the second I got off the plane I saw two men in cowboy hats wearing big belt buckles. I knew then that I was in a completely different place.

But who cares about what the men are wearing when there are girls in cowboy hats too, with flannel shirts (I love flannel shirts on girls, especially when they leave the first couple of buttons undone) and Daisy Dukes, which I am told refers to denim shorts that barely cover a girl’s butt cheeks. My hat’s off to the “Dukes of Hazzard” for starting the trend.

Oh, and don’t forget – these girls

end nearly every sentence with that sexy “y’all.” I was in country heaven.

Throughout the trip I was regaled with stories of sipping moonshine on dirt roads, riding in tractors and watching girls in skimpy clothing riding on real bulls (not mechanical ones).

OK, I made the last one up, but that’s one country fantasy of mine that has yet to be fulfilled.

Any aspiring travelers to the South should keep in mind that they don’t seem to like Asians much there.

I got jostled several times by guys in clubs and bars and even picked up by my shirt by a large man who thought I threw a ball at him.

So if you do go to the South, here are some tips on how to blend in: Wear a cowboy hat. It doesn’t matter if you look like an idiot, Texans will immediately spot you as one of their own.

If you are in Austin, wear a Longhorns cap – that’s the big university football team there.

Just don’t wear it outside of Austin, fandom is judged geographically, not on whether each individual team is any good at all.

Constantly have a beer in your hand, it doesn’t matter what beer it is as long as it’s never empty for long.

If you can act belligerent, drunk and loud at the same time, even better.

Talk about American football incessantly. I learned it doesn’t matter what you say as long as you support the right team – see above for details on picking the right team.

Learn one or two names of the best players, just sprinkle them into your conversations and you should be good to go.

If all else fails, be as polite as possible, be courteous, say “please,” “thank you” and “y’all” a lot. You should blend in fine.

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said in a phone interview. “We also had to get a committee and commitsports@dailytitan.com tee chairmen. We have people in our program with the financial whereAfter an absence of more than two withal and the generosity in their decades, men’s and women’s golf has character to see this thing through.” returned to Cal State Fullerton.

Drotter, who played golf at Cal Thanks in large part to private State Long Beach, serves as the direcdonors, $2 million was raised in the tor of golf at Fullerton. He coached effort to put Fullerton’s golfers back both the boys’ and girls’ golf teams at on courses.

Villa Park High School for six years.

Athletic director Brian Quinn, There have been some noticeable who was not at Fullerton at the time differences since he began coaching that the golf program originally left at the collegiate level, some of which Fullerton, thought that it was “prob- have added responsibilities that he ably financial aid” that forced its was unaccustomed to at the high original demise. school level.

Men’s golf was last played at Ful“At the high school level, logistics lerton during the 1987-88 season. plays a huge role,” Drotter said. “You Women’s golf cannot recruit. had gone deIf you’re in an funct prior to affluent area, that, last gracyou usually ing Fullerton have a pretty in 1985-86. good team, so The reinstateit’s your job to ment of golf get them over has brought the hurdle. the Titans up You don’t have – Jason Drotter, quite as much to a total of 17 Men’s golf head coach intercollegiate freedom at the sports offered high school on campus. level.”

Men’s golf Head Coach Jason Drotter added that at the college Drotter was instrumental in help- level it is all about building a team ing the Titans return to the links. and developing players.

He had a primary hand in finding “At the college level, you assemble sponsorships, creating schedules and your own team; recruiting is a huge learning the ins and outs of NCAA issue, fundraising is an issue; and policy to re-establish the golf pro- cultivating good players into great gram. players is really my responsibility,” “I think putting the right team to- Drotter said. gether was the biggest issue,” Drotter The men’s golf team teed off By stephanee bee

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I think putting the right team together was the biggest issue.

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Top: from left: Asst. Coach Jeremy Weinrob, Dakota Duerr, Jacob Golembiewski, David Lyons, Coach Jason Drotter, Scott Rubzin, John San Juan, Josh Harvey, Nick Ellis and Darren Saqui. Bottom: from left: Deidra Crabtree, Kaori Suda, Alicia Chavez, Kristen Aiu, Coach Pearl Sinn-Bonanni, Taylor Fowler, Michelle Guzman, Jessica Ko, Neomi Hunt and Felicia Titus.

photos courtesy titan media relations Freshman Deidra Crabtree watches the ball during a match for the women’s golf team earlier this season.

their season in an Oct. 7 tournament against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo at the Firestone Grill College Invitational, finishing second in their debut, seven strokes behind Cal Poly. Junior John San Juan led CSUF, holding a 54-hole total of 215 strokes.

Playing at the Bill Collum Invitational Tournament in Simi Valley Oct. 26 – 27, the men’s golf team tied for eighth after three rounds of play.

Totaling 884 strokes over the course of two days, the Titans matched scores with Cal State Bakersfield in a field of 17 teams. Pacific emerged as the victor of the tournament, with 843 strokes, 21 under par.

Nick Ellis highlighted the men’s team in the tournament, shooting an even par with 216 strokes. San Juan was two strokes over par, with 218.

The women’s team has also had a jump-start on their season. Led by Head Coach Pearl Sinn-Bonanni, a former U.S. Amateur Champion and a veteran to the LPGA tournaments who has participated in over 100 events, the Titans kicked off their season at the Payne Stewart Memorial Tournament on Sept. 21 and 22.

The women’s team concluded their first tournament on the links, with highlights from freshmen Neomi Hunt and Micaela Guzman, who tied for 50th place overall in the tournament, holding scores of 244.

Overall, the women’s team ended up placing 14th out of 15 total teams, while the host of the tournament, Missouri State, won with a final score of 901. The Titans totaled 1,001 strokes.

In their most recent tournament, the Lamkin Grip Invitational, which was played at the Cypress Ridge Golf Course Nov. 1 and 2, the women’s golf team placed 11th. It was the Titans’ third tournament of the season, and they were led by Hunt,

Freshman Darren Saqui surveys the green during a men’s golf match earlier this season.

who finished with a team-best 153 strokes over two rounds. As a team, Fullerton totaled 636 shots.

Cal State Northridge won the tournament with 591 strokes.

Bonanni, working with a team of freshmen and first year players, is looking for the team to continue its performance each time out on the links.

“Our team is made up of mostly freshmen or first year players at CSUF, including myself,” Bonanni said. “I have set very realistic goals for our team. I would like to see our team be competitive in the confer-

ence and, more importantly, to improve at each event we play.”

Both the mens’ and womens’ teams will compete on various public and private courses throughout the season while competing in the Big West Conference.

Drotter holds high hopes for the future of golf at Fullerton, believing that it will have the staying power this time around.

“I think we are going to be successful. I think that we will be one of the elite programs in Orange County and Southern California,” Drotter said.

Yankees turn to Pettitte to close out World Series (MCT) – Andy Pettitte goes for a different sort of triple crown on Wednesday night.

Pettitte, who won the clinching game of the Division Series against the Twins and closed out the Angels in the American League Championship Series, tries to secure World Series title No. 27 for the Yankees on Wednesday night in Game 6.

“What an opportunity,” Pettitte said Tuesday of trying to win a third clinching game this postseason.

“That’s really the only way you can look at it, to be able to hopefully pitch the game that will bring a 27th world championship to this organization and this city, it’s what we set out to do. I’ve had the opportunity to close out, to be able to pitch games the previous two rounds, it’s exciting.”

But Pettitte, 37, will be asked to do something he hasn’t done since 2006 when he was with the Astros – pitch on short rest, doing so Wednesday night against an old Red Sox adversary, Pedro Martinez.

Pettitte, 3-0 with a 3.24 ERA this postseason, has a mixed resume when it comes to pitching on three days’ rest, though it does read better in the postseason.

He is 4-6 with a 4.15 ERA in 14 regular-season starts on short rest but he is 3-1 with a 2.80 ERA in five postseason starts on three days.

Two of those games helped make the “Big Game Andy” legend – Game 5 of the 1996 World Series when he didn’t allow a run in 8 1/3 innings in Atlanta and Game 2 of the 2003 World Series against Florida when he allowed an unearned run in 8 2/3 innings.

He said, “I really don’t think there’s that big of a difference,” pitching on three days’ rest and felt fine physically, but later acknowledged as a 37-year-old, “I don’t know how I’ll feel.”

“Physically for me, it obviously is a little concern,” Pettitte said. “Just seeing how my body is going to feel on that short rest, because I’m just not sure at my age or whatever.”

But Pettitte’s Game 3 start, when he had to “grind” his way through six innings, giving up four runs and five hits, came on extra rest.

“I know I felt terrible the other night and I was on six days’ rest,” Pettitte said. “I just, you know, am going to go as hard as I can for as long as I can.”

The Yankees are trying to become the first team since the 1991 Twins to win the World Series with a threeman rotation, something manager Joe Girardi began preparing his three starters for in September when the Yankees had a big division lead.

“That we haven’t had to overwork him the last, I don’t know, two

months basically, that’s probably why he feels extremely well,” Girardi said. “With all the extra days that he’s had and missing the start the one time (Sept. 16), physically I think it’s helped him.”

While Pettitte admitted to not knowing exactly what to expect, his teammates have seen enough.

“Andy’s solid throughout the whole year but something about the postseason he rises to the occasion,” said A.J. Burnett, who did not in Game 5.

Mark Teixeira, in the midst of an awful series at the plate (2-for-19), said the entire team needs to rise to the occasion, much as it did in this situation in the ALCS when the Yankees closed out the Angels in Game 6 after dropping Game 5 in Anaheim.

“Tomorrow’s very important,” Teixeira said. “We don’t want to push it to a Game 7. We want to finish it off, just like the last series when we came back here, we want to finish it off in Game 6.”

If not, it will be up to CC Sabathia, who would take the mound in Game 7 on three days’ rest.

“It would be unbelievable, this is what you sign up for,” Sabathia said Tuesday of the prospect of pitching a seventh game. “This is what you come here for, this is what you play for. So it would be fun. But hopefully we don’t have to get there.”

photo courtesy mct New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte stares at a Philadelphia Phillies batter during the first inning in Game 3 of the 2009 World Series at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Penn. Saturday, Oct. 31.

Stein claims NFL avoids responsibility for player injuries (MCT) – Despite an expanding body of evidence linking brain damage to violent collisions on the football field, Bob Stein can still indulge in a little gallows humor. “The good news,” he said, “is that I can’t remember how many concussions I had.”

The attorney and former Minnesota Timberwolves president spent eight years knocking heads as an NFL linebacker. One injury he does recall – just barely – happened in 1971, when his Kansas City teammate Willie Lanier tried to stop O.J. Simpson on a kickoff return by swinging a fist at him. Lanier missed and hit Stein instead, knocking him unconscious.

A doctor examined Stein on the sideline and told him he might have a concussion. As was the custom at the time, he asked if Stein wanted to return to the game; as was the custom, Stein said yes. He had no idea he had a skull fracture until 15 years later, when a sinus infection slipped through the break and morphed into a near-fatal case of spinal meningitis.

Stein knows he could well be blindsided again in another 15 years. The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University announced last week that a 10th NFL retiree had been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The degenerative brain disease causes such symptoms as memory impairment, emotional instability and erratic behavior as it grows into full-blown dementia.

A week earlier, CTE also was diagnosed in a former college player who died at age 42, marking the first time the illness has been found in a player who did not go on to a pro career. The disease, which can only be diagnosed postmortem, has been found in all 11 football players whose brains have been examined at BU. Yet the NFL continues to deny, ignore or downplay such studies, even as Stein sees the mounting toll.

“I don’t know if anyone gets out unscathed,” said Stein, a Gophers All-America who won a Super Bowl with the Chiefs in 1969. “There is a trail of broken bodies littering the landscape of the NFL, and it’s the guys who built the league. And the league is ducking its head in the sand. It should take some accountability and responsibility, but so far, the answer is no.”

In recent weeks, though, the NFL has faced growing pressure to own up to the game’s dangers and implement reforms. A “60 Minutes” report last month showed images of the brain of former Viking Wally Hilgenberg, who died last year of Lou Gehrig’s disease. The slides revealed blotches caused by the buildup of tau, a toxic protein which indicates brain trauma.

PBS’ “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” illustrated the issue last week through a visit with Hall of Famer John Mackey, who suffers from advanced dementia at age 68. An article in the Oct. 19 New Yorker magazine explained how the damage builds, even through hits of lesser force, and the culture that leads players to shrug off symptoms despite greater knowledge of the consequences.

The concern has reached as far as Washington, where the House Judiciary Committee held hearings last week to discuss the matter.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell did not acknowledge a connection between CTE and head trauma incurred in football, a predictable response given the league’s consistent rebuff of all independent research.

The NFL even criticized a recent study it commissioned, which indicated that former players 50 and older suffer from dementia and related illnesses at a much higher rate than the general population.

The increased public awareness isn’t likely to affect the bottom line of America’s most popular sport, which pulled in $7 billion in revenues last year. But it should make us ponder the human cost. After years of seeing the devastation wrought on his NFL brethren, Stein filed a federal classaction lawsuit last August on behalf of fellow league retirees, seeking a share of the revenues the NFL makes from using the images of those former players to promote itself.

The league, he said, owes at least that much to the men who sacrificed their health to the game. It could fully repay the debt by acknowledging the true price the sport exacted from them.