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Tuesday September 15, 2009

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Student housing enters phase III By Eric Broude

By Katelin Paiz

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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The construction in the northeastern edge of campus, which began in March of this year, is devoted to providing housing for the increasing number of on-campus residences available to students. According to the Design and Construction Office Web site, the project, which is scheduled to be finished in June of 2011, will add 1,064 new beds, as well as two residential community coordinator apartments, two faculty-in-residence apartments, administrative offices, multipurpose conference rooms, laundry and mail rooms, a maintenance facility, a central plant and a dining/kitchen facility. This will all be contained in five buildings with a total of 25 floors, said Robert Brobst, associate director of housing. The new facility will be a dormitory, or community styled dorm, with two students sharing a room, 48 students per floor, with each floor containing shared bathrooms and showers, a study room and a recreation room, said Brobst. This differs from the apartment style of the current dorms, which are set up in one of two ways. The singles provide students with their own rooms with four students sharing a living room, kitchen and two bathrooms. The current doubles have two students per room, and each suite contains three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, living room and dining room. The current dorms only house a total of 800 students. The budget for the project is $142 million, according to the Web site. Brobst added that this money has come from bonds, which will be paid back with the money generated from the students who will live in the new dorms.

By Ron fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Above: Safety Coordinator Jorge Rodriguez provides a tour of the dorms being built near the existing housing. Below: A construction worker at the future student housing project on Monday, Sept. 14. The dorms are scheduled to be completed by June 2011.

Michael Smith, Director of Design and Construction, elaborated on this system saying that the new dorms, as well as the new parking structure being built in the southeast corner of campus are paid for in revenue bonds, which are borrowed from the state and paid back by the university. These differ from general obligation (GO) bonds, which have been used in the past to pay for the Student Recreation Center and a portion of Mahaylo Hall. GO bonds are voter-approved and are paid back by the state. Meanwhile, students are finding the construction difficult to deal with. “I think it’s nice that they’re building more dorms,” said Angie Rodriguez, a third-year criminal justice major. “I just wish they had waited until the new parking structure was

done.” Rodriguez has lived in the doubles throughout her three years at CSUF. In regards to the parking difficulties, Smith said that the inconveniences are a temporary hardship. “Right now we’re really trying to fill the needs of the students,” he said. “We’re doing what we have to do to get to a better place.” He also expressed his understanding of students’ frustration toward the construction projects. According to Smith, the new parking structure, dubbed the Eastside Parking Structure, will be completed next year, providing some relief to the students’ parking needs.

Hostel makes home for weary travelers By Katelin Paiz

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

photos By RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer The Spanish-style Fullerton Hostel on 1700 North Harbor Blvd. in Fullerton on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.

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Along Harbor Boulevard, on one of the best known roads in Fullerton, is a little known meandering road that leads to an even lesser known historical Fullerton landmark. At the end of the road, atop one of Orange County’s many green rolling hills, is a Spanishstyle house that is shielded from the world by the trees that surround it. It’s also home to many of Cal State Fullerton’s own international students a few days out of the year, as well as other travelers from around the world. Hostelling International Fullerton is one of many hostels owned by the non-profit company throughout the world. But before the building was a working hostel, it was home to a Brea Dams’ keeper and his family, making the building over 60years-old. Hostelling International rents the building for $100 a week from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The building has existed in its modern purpose for almost 25 years, and will soon be celebrating its anniversary as a temporary home for world travelers.

“We get a lot of backpackers and also a lot of students that are going to Cal State Fullerton,” said Patricia Silveira, the hostel’s assistant manager and employee of 10 years. While the hostel is only open for the summer months between July and September, many CSUF students choose to stay there before student housing becomes available. “They came all throughout the summer, even the ones that had two months before school started, that way they could travel around,” said Silveira. The hostel has three rooms: one that holds six men, one that holds six women, and one co-ed that holds eight. It costs $24.20 per day for members to stay and $27.20 per day for non-members. The guests are expected to make their own food and clean up after themselves, as per the usual hosteling procedure. Silveira and her fellow employees take a great amount of pride in their hostel, which, according to her, is the only one in Orange County. “For the last two years, we won two awards for the best hostel in the U.S.,” Silveira said. “It’s funny because we’re such a small hostel; we are only open three months out of the year.”

One of the guests, who was on his way to Knott’s Berry Farm before his departure back to New South Wales, Australia, wore a shirt demonstrating his devotion to the Iron Man Triathlons of which he is a regular participant. “I’m a bit apprehensive about going back to Australia,” said 59-year-old John Hook, adding, “but I have to keep working so I can have at least two more holidays in the USA.” While only about 30 percent of the hostel’s guests are American, according to Silveira, two were present during the last few days of the season. “My first time staying in a hostel was one in Japan, and I thought it was a good experience, so I thought I would try one here,” 23-year-old Sacramento resident Victoria Chew said. Chew, who is in Southern California visiting a friend, found the hostel online and chose it mainly because of the affordable price. One of the hostel’s oldest patrons, in more than one way, 86-year-old Robert Bickel, has been coming for 10 years and returns again and again because as he says, he enjoys watering the plants and feeding the birds. “I come here when they’re open, and I try to stay 10 days a month here because it is a lovely place to stay,” said Bickel.

A bill that would make the Cal State University system’s private foundations, which include ASI and the Housing Authority, transparent in the way they gain and spend money, has been passed in both houses of the state legislature and now sits on the governor’s desk awaiting a signature. The bill was introduced by Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) following a series of scandals involving these foundations, which are known as auxiliaries. The main catalyst for this bill seems to have been an incident that occurred at Cal State Fresno, in which a reporter asked for the names and contributions of donors to a new arena built on campus, and was denied. The court ruled that the California Public Records Act, which requires public agencies to make their information available to the public, did not apply to auxiliaries, the Los Angeles Times reported. “I think there is a sense, particularly among the faculty and the staff of the Cal State system, that if there is money out there for special projects or whatever it might be … at a time when people are taking salary cuts and cutting back on their class offerings and having to take furloughs, maybe it would be better if those auxiliaries could try to replenish the university’s coffers more directly,” Scott Spitzer, professor of political science, said, though he said that he was not an authority on the subject. In another instance of alleged misappropriation, an organization affiliated with Sonoma State University lent money to a former member of its board in an attempt at an investment but was exposed to public disapproval when the former member could not settle his debt. In addition, a former chancellor of San Francisco City College was indicted on charges of allegedly using money from an auxiliary foundation to fund personal expenses, according to the Sen. Leland Yee LA Times. “If it ends up on the television or newspaper, that one particular instance makes everyone look bad, even though the vast majority of the operations do everything exactly the way they are supposed to,” Frank Mumford, director of finance and administration, said. The primary purpose of these private organizations is to solicit contributions from private donors and distribute the funds through scholarships, grants and various other projects meant to further the universities with which they are associated, according to Mumford.

Meat-eating plants hunt on campus By ron fu Daily Titan Staff Photographer A toy skeleton is placed inside a Pitcher plant to amuse visitors and demonstrate the fate of insects that land on it. The carnivorous plant can trap prey and digest it with a special liquid. The greenhouse is located between McCarthy Hall and the Nutwood Parking Structure

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IN OTHER NEWS Air conditioning leaves CSUF students heated Terrorist group builds new base in Pakistan PAKISTAN (MCT) - A Pakistani terrorist group that’s allied with alQaida and sends jihadists to Afghanistan to fight U.S. and government troops is building a huge new base in full view of the authorities in Pakistan’s most heavily populated province, locals and officials told McClatchy. Jaish-e-Mohammad (“Army of Mohammad”), which is linked to a series of atrocities, including an attack on the Indian parliament in Delhi and the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, has walled off a 4.5-acre compound three miles outside the town of Bahawalpur in the far south of the Pakistan’s heartland Punjab province. Jaish and Pakistani officials said the facility, which is still under construction, is simply a small farm to keep cattle. It’s unclear whether the new facility will be a radical madrassa - Islamic school - or even a terrorist training camp. Nevertheless, its construction, unimpeded by Pakistan’s military or intelligence service, raises new questions about how committed Pakistan is to the war on terror.

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General Motors restores temporary pay cuts DETROIT (MCT) - General Motors told white-collar workers Friday morning that it is restoring temporary pay cuts made May 1. The 3 percent to 10 percent pay cuts to salaried workers’ pay came at a time when GM was desperate to save cash to keep the company operating prior to filing bankruptcy June 1. Brenda Rios, a GM spokeswoman, confirmed the decision and noted that it saved about $50 million. “This was done to save money at a particularly crucial time,” Rios said. She added: “We always said it was temporary.” The announcement does not affect the pay cuts made to the company’s top-level executives who saw their pay reduced because of federal loans given to keep the company afloat.

STATE Bail set to $30 mill for suspected rapist PLACERVILLE (MCT) - An El Dorado County judge set Phillip Garrido’s bail at $30 million. Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister granted a defense attorney’s request that Garrido undergo psychological evaluation. His wife, Nancy, remains in custody without bail, and her attorney plans on making a similar request for an evaluation. Even if Phillip Garrido makes bail, he would be subject to a parole hold because of his conviction in the 1976 kidnapping and rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman. The Garridos could each receive multiple life sentences if convicted of abducting Dugard as an 11-year-old and raping her over several years in a hidden backyard warren of tents and sheds, where authorities say she gave birth as a teen to two girls fathered by Phillip Garrido. The couple have pleaded not guilty to 29 felony charges. District attorney Vern Pierson said his office might file additional counts, based on evidence gathered since the charges were filed Aug. 28, two days after Dugard’s identity and the confinement and abuse accusations came to light.

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The warmer temperatures in classrooms around CSUF this semester are yet just another result of the budget cuts, according to Physical Plant Director, Willem van der Pol. The classrooms don’t serve much of a relief to the high temperatures outside, as the air conditioning in campus classrooms is either set to a not-so-chilling 78 degrees, or not turned on at all. This is an expense that the school had to cut back on due to the loss of state funds. However, there can always be an up side to a bad situation, said van der Pol and Scott Hewitt. Referring to the cutbacks on expenses, Hewitt, the chair of the CSUF Acadamic Senate, said, “If we can do that in a green way, even better.” Within the last year, many other steps have been taken in decreasing CSUF’s expenses. There have been reductions in equipment and operating supply expenses, an increase in black and white printing on two-sided copies, minimized subscription and memberships, and a utilization of online distribution for handouts, schedules, etc., rather than hard copies. On June

3, these changes plus others took effect, the school has been able to save more than $100,000, according the the Planning Resource and Budget Committee (PRBC). Some students and faculty may be excited to hear that news, but those melting in the heat from lack of air conditioning may not. “ The reason for the cutbacks is foremost related to the dismal budget situation we are in,” said van der Pol. “Some of the cutbacks also stem from our efforts to make our environment more sustainable.” With a decrease in campus utilities, Hewitt explained that this allows for more classes to be offered. Van der Pol added that with the saving of money, we are also limiting the carbon output in many different ways. Helen Davenport, administra-

(MCT) – A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers ushered in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama said Monday that although the nation was “beginning to return to normalcy,” Congress still must pass new regulations on the financial industry to avoid a repeat. “Normalcy cannot lead to complacency,” Obama told a Wall Street audience in a speech at Federal Hall in New York in which he also defended as necessary his $787 billion economic stimulus plan. He appealed to the financial community to support what he considers necessary changes in the way it does business, and to Congress to enact a regulatory overhaul by year’s end. Both appear unlikely. The president predicted with confidence that “the reforms I’ve laid out will pass and these changes will become law,” but he urged Wall Street to work on its own to rebuild trust with American consumers. “You don’t have to wait” for legislation to pass before using “plain language” in dealing with consumers, voluntarily seeking shareholder votes on senior executive bonuses, changing which employee behaviors are rewarded and working harder to modify mortgages or to extend credit to small-business owners, Obama challenged the financiers. He asked them “to embrace serious financial reform, not fight it.” He also issued a moral challenge: “It is neither right nor responsible, after you’ve recovered with the help of your government, to shirk your obligation to the goal of wider recovery, a more stable system and a more broadly shared prosperity.” The president was referring to the heavy lobbying being conducted by financial firms that are interested in watering down his proposed regulations. Banks and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are fighting Obama’s proposal to strip consumer protection from the current hodgepodge of regulators and give it to a new agency. “The better answer to consumer protection is to amend the charters

of the existing prudential regula- the regulated system. - Holding financial firms to tors, giving consumer protection parity with safety and soundness stronger capital and cash requireregulation,” Steve Bartlett, the ments. As companies grow larger, president of the Financial Services they’d be required to hold bigger Roundtable, the lobby for big fi- capital set-asides to offset the greatnance, said in a statement shortly er risks they pose to the system. after Obama’s speech. - Giving regulators “resolution T h e authorpresiity” to d e n t allow has prothem to posed dissolve financial giant, r e v i globsions inally concluding: nected - Esfinancial tablishinstituing a tions C o n a n d sumer avoid – President Barack Obama instituFinancial Protions betection coming Agency to regulate credit cards, “too big to fail.” If taxpayers must home loans and other types of con- bail out a company, he’d compel sumer credit finance. The Federal the financial industry to repay “evReserve and other bank regulators ery cent.” do this now. - Working with other nations - Closing loopholes to prevent to establish global consumer and companies from shopping for their regulatory protections. preferred regulatory agencies or, for Obama called on Congress to hedge funds and trades in complex pass the regulatory revamp this derivatives, from operating outside year, but that appears unlikely.

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tive support assistant for the facilities management office, explained that the cutback on air conditioning is part of the budget cuts that were made by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger which then made their way down to the chancellor and then to Pres.Gordon Other efforts being made in order to stay within the budget while being environmentally-friendly include: the minimization of vehicle travel, more online assignments and classrooms, turning off lights in unoccupied rooms, and reduced use of high-quality and/or color paper. Titan Magazine was also re-worked over the summer with a change in the paper weight and the elimination of paid freelance writers and photographers. The suggestions behind these changes have come not only from the state’s cuts, but also from the

ideas and suggestions from students and faculty. Bulletins and emails were sent out by the PRBC over the summertime in an effort to raise awareness of some of the cuts being made and the “Go Green” effort that the school was beginning to utilize and merge into the campus. “I have noticed the lack of AC and I feel like it affects some classes more than others at different times. Maybe there is a conspiracy!” Said Dallas Geerlings, 22, an English major at CSUF. Geerlings may be correct about the difference in temperatures in different rooms because the air conditioning is a result of the different settings that buildings have. In order to keep up with the cutbacks, effort has been made by the Academic Senate since last year to obtain more external funding from the campus community. With the increase in education costs and less support from the state, the funding is important and necessary. It appears as though the reduction of air conditioning use is just a small part of the goal officials have for the future of CSUF. Although it may have started out as an act of the state, the Academic Senate and others are trying to make the new guidelines something of their own and ultimately, something beneficial, by going green.

Obama forsees normalcy, defends stimulus

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It is neither right nor responsible, after you’ve recovered with the help of your government, to shirk your obligation to the goal of wider recovery, a more stable system and a more broadly shared prosperity.

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Some lawmakers who are needed to spearhead financial revisions are preoccupied by the drive to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Others are resisting what they think is a pattern of too much government control of the private sector. Still others agree that better regulation of Wall Street is needed but not with the president’s road map on how to get there. The House of Representatives is likely to approve Obama’s financial approach with little major change. However, the Senate is balking at his proposals for a new consumer protection agency and for giving the Federal Reserve greater powers. The Senate also may merge more than two banking regulators. The Senate may stretch the timetable. A delay may not be such a bad thing, said James K. Galbraith, a prominent liberal economist at the University of Texas at Austin. “Getting effective action may have to wait until after this first few quarters of relatively high growth is behind us and people realize that we’re not actually in an economy that’s moving in a credible way back toward high employment. People will say, ‘OK, there’s an unfinished agenda,’ “ Galbraith said.

Bill: foundations could become transparent from page 1 Mumford is quick to point out that about 99 percent of the time donations made to these organizations come with restrictions from the donor preventing the university from using the money wherever it is needed. It is instead used wherever the donor specifies. The bill has been passed 35 to 1 in the senate, and has faced little opposition other than CSU and

the Auxiliary Organization Association, according to Capitol Weekly. “I think it will largely pass because people are in the mood to say our money in the state of California is really scarce. We have such a budget crunch, we really want to get the most bang for our buck. We want to make sure that the money is spent responsibly and efficiently,” Spitzer said. Mumford, CSU and AOA also seemed convinced that the bill will

become law despite their efforts against it. “I think the governor will sign it, I do, and that’s why we’ve been proactive and put together something to help the auxiliaries put together a policy on campus,” Mumford said. The “proactive” action that Mumford speaks of is a guide distributed to all CSU campus auxiliary organizations that is meant to help the organizations in the practice of disclosing information.

At least one Cal State Fullerton student seems to be strongly in favor of transparency. “I’m definitely for that bill because it sounds like, honestly, if clubs have nothing to hide as far as where their funding is going or how they plan to pay things back then they shouldn’t have any reason to be against it,” Noelle Everage, a senior business major, said. “I think having a system of accountability is just common sense.”

September 15, 2009

FEATURES

Visiting with the family-owned ‘Bruery’

By Laura Barron-Lopez/For the Daily Titan The Bruery in Placentia is considered a three-vessel brewhouse, having 15-barrel, 30-barrel and 40-barrel tanks. Three 30-barrel tanks hold beer to be bottled in the future.

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“I began home brewing my first year in Chapman Law School. Throughout the rest of my college years, I became better at brewing and probably worse at school,” Patrick Rue, the founder and owner of The Bruery stated. Now two years after building his dream of opening a small family brew house, The Bruery has been open for 15 months. The Bruery is more than just another American beer company brewing one of man’s favorite drinks. They are, as they like to call themselves, “The origins of a new craft brewery.” The Bruery, intentionally misspelling brewery, substitutes “rew” with the owner’s last name, Rue. Rue loves that he started this brew house because there is variety in

what he can do, “biology, chemistry, business, everything, so I never get bored.” Now his dream has become a reality and has expanded at a rapid pace, becoming more popular. Currently selling to 14 states (soon to be 22), this brewing company follows the outline of that selfmade American dream. Tyler King, director of brewing operations/head brewer, let the Daily Titan behind the scenes into the heart of The Bruery, revealing the process of making beer and the patience it requires. King ran through a brief overview of the arduous process they endure to make batches of beer. Beer, the drink so many love, yet few truly understand, begins as malted barley. The barley is placed into a two-roller mill where it becomes grist, so water can get inside to make it starchy. After this, there are quite a few steps, but once they reach the boil-

ing stage the liquid is sanitized for an hour. This is also the step when they add the hops. “This ingredient adds the bitterness and creates a balance with the sweetness,” King explained. Furthermore, the hops has great significance to the beer process. King added, “if you add hops at the beginning of the boiling process the taste will be a lot more bitter; but if you add it at the end then you achieve more of an aroma/flavor taste. It all depends on what you want as a brewer.” There are a few more steps, but King said, “We make bitter wort, the yeast makes the beer.” After the yeast is added it ferments for around seven days. They allow natural carbonization to occur in the bottle. Their traditional yeast is the Belgian strain. “The owner has always loved Belgian-style beers the most because they allow for so many spices and flavors,” King said.

By Laura Barron-Lopez/For the Daily Titan Several of the beers the brewery sells. Patrons can currently try Autumn Maple which is brewed with “cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup, and fermented with our traditional Belgian yeast strain,” their Web site reads.

By Shruti Patel/Daily Titan Photo Editor Travis Smith, lead brewer, and Jay Goodwin, assistant brewer, bottle a new batch of beer at The Bruery in Placentia on Monday morning to get ready for shipment.

Between light and dark beer, King explained the differences. “A lot of people like to categorize beer by its color. The old saying ‘You should never judge a book by its cover’ holds true to beer in that you should never judge a beer by its color,” King said. “Most people see a dark beer and expect it have a strong roast. This isn’t always true. Our Trade Winds beer is golden in color but 2.3 percent alcohol by volume stronger than Black Orchard, our dark-colored beer. Trade Winds has a strong kick to it and all around is a bigger beer than Black Orchard.” King said, “We do a lot of barrel aging and to do this, you need a dark beer that can withstand the wood and the flavor that it can add to a beer, creating the right balance.” Unlike many breweries, The Bruery likes to take risks and experiment, keeping their yeast in-house. They have many different yeasts and spices they play with, which to “many brand-name brew houses would be dangerous and frightening” because the elements have to be just right to keep the taste they are known for exactly the same. King verified that, “protein content is what affects foam stability.

You want a head on your beer the whole time you are drinking it.” For the short time The Bruery has been existence, they have won a good amount of awards for their unique beers. Orchard White, their most popular beer, won the Top 25 Beer award in 2008, and in the Los Angeles International Beer Competition 2008, they won gold, for American or German-style sour ales. They hope to expand production and sales distributions soon as well as their tasting room area. “We truly let our fans tell us where we are going,” Rue said. “And I’d like us to eventually become Orange County’s niche brewery.” The Bruery’s small, family feel adds to its character and intrigue. They want to provide supplies to everyday people who want to have home breweries and enjoy learning and developing their own beer creations. They stock all the ingredients they use in a shop next door to their brewery. Everything happens in Placentia, every beer brewed, every bottle capped, every keg sealed and shipped out from 715 Dunn Way; further

adding to the feeling of a true family brew house that strives to produce quality products. “Patrick Rue, the owner, is a beer geek. That’s why he started this. I’m a beer geek. We make beer for the beer geeks,” King said. “We don’t brew for those who just drink to drink, but for those who truly appreciate and love the flavors, aromas and spices of beer.” Among Rue’s reasons for starting the brewery, he said, “I love craft beer and making my own beer. It allows me to be creative, to put my kind of mark on the world and make beers that no one else has or has tasted before.”

The Bruery is located at: 715 Dunn Way, Placentia, Calif. 92870. Bring this article for a free taster.

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September 15, 2009

Meat-eating plants hunt on campus

byists like me get permission from the developer to go in and dig a few up … Their habitat’s gone,” Read said. It is easy to think that the carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, are more like an animal because they move and digest, but they are not much different from other plants. “Plants don’t have memory. They don’t have a brain. But (they have) a false trapping mechanism,” explained Read. “If you touch one of those hairs, nothing happens. You touch it again, within two seconds it will shut. Say a rock or leaf or something walks up against it, it won’t close.” Carnivorous plants are more difficult to take care of then other plants because they need to be constantly watered with purified or reverse-osmosis water. They do not have the ability to obtain the nutrients it needs from the soil, so it must obtain those nutrients from its prey. Despite this, it is far from impossible to grow carnivorous plants in a home or garden. Some species like the Nepenthes need to be in a terrarium but others, like the Venus flytrap or Drosera Capensis, are fun to have at home. They could even provide some benefits. By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer “I brought one in and set it down Ed Read oversees many types of plants inside the greenhouse at Cal State Fullerton. The Biological Greenhouse Complex plays host to various rare plant species, including the carnivorous Nepenthes that feed on insects. on my kitchen table and instantly a fly flew right in there,” Read said. in 1963 along with McCarthy Hall, ed in-vitro, which is in test tubes as “I’ve traveled to Brazil over a to see some plants,” he continued. “I couldn’t believe it.” By Fred Bloom making it one of the older struc- a way to clone them, when I was a dozen times; Mexico six times. My Plants are his excuse to travel, Although the greenhouse area is Daily Titan Staff Writer tures on campus. student here,” Read said. last trip to Mexico we discovered a but many carnivorous plants can be not necessarily open to the public, features@dailytitan.com Unlike the Arboretum, the He has traveled across the world new species,” Read said. found without going too far. Read is more than happy to accomGreenhouse Complex was not built in order to better understand these “It’s been a reason to go to places The Sarracenia sp. can sometimes modate curious guests for tours. Thousands of students pass by for the public to tour, its purpose is plants. you wouldn’t normally go. Who in grow locally. For more information or to every day and think nothing of it. to provide plants for research and On a trip to Mexico, Read and their right mind would go to the “Most of these are from locations make an appointment, contact It is not as famous as the Arbo- use in biology classes. his crew discovered a new species of tallest mountain in Brazil? Two and that are now like a KFC or a park- Read at 657-278-2766 or eread@ retum, but might be a more prized Perhaps the most interesting of carnivorous plant. half days in a boat, two days hiking, ing lot or something, where hob- fullerton.edu. possession. the plants growing in the greenBehind the brick walls between house are the carnivorous plants. the Nutwood Parking Structure The Nepenthes attracts insects and McCarthy Hall lies a plant with nectar from its leaf, then traps lover’s fantasy. them and digests their nutrients. The Cal State Fullerton BiologiIt mainly catches ants, but also cal Greenhouse Complex is home feeds on larger insects such as grassto rare and sought-after plants; in- hoppers or beetles. cluding some H o w e v e r, that are on the they are difendangered ficult to grow species list. unless in a controlled enPlants from vironment. the greenhouse Ed Read is have been sent the greenhouse around the manager. country for research, to His interplaces like the est in plants Huntington began with Botanical Garhis first expedens for disrience with play, and even carnivorous – Ed Read, seen in movies plants in high Greenhouse manager such as “Mischool. nority Report.” “I’m not a A corpse flower guy. I flower, which like plants that takes about nine years to bloom do something cool, like medicine or and gives off a powerful stench, can eat something,” Read said. be seen at the Huntington BotaniHe started growing some seeds cal Gardens. which now flourish in the greenIt was originally grown at the house when he was a student at By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer greenhouse. CSUF about nine years ago. A fly’s digested corpse lays inside a Venus Flytrap at the Cal State Fullerton’s greenhouse complex managed by Ed Read. The complex was originally built “These are from seeds that I start-

Plants don’t “have memory.

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September 15, 2009

OPINION

Web perspectives Comments from readers of the Daily Titan Re: LPAC Relates Obama to Hitler

Should courts be allowed to force people to recieve medical treatment they refused?

By Rachel David

Daily Titan Copy Editor opinion@dailytitan.com

Who’s to dictate what sort of medical treatment should be prescribed to sick individuals? This question is at the forefront of the story of Daniel Hauser, a 13year-old Minnesota boy, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in January. According to the Associated Press, Daniel and his parents “rejected chemo after a single treatment.” Judge John Rodenberg, who presides in Brown County, Minnesota, ruled that Daniel “must continue getting the treatment because it appears to be working,” reported the Associated Press. Daniel’s mother, Colleen Hauser, 40, said that chemotherapy “violates the family’s religious convictions” and prefers “healing methods of an American Indian religious group known as the Nemenhah Band.” After the court ordered the continued use of chemo, Daniel and his mother fled the state, resulting in a warrant for “deprivation of parental rights.” The story is not only a legal issue, but a humanitarian and ethical one. Is it right for the mother to make the executive decision to follow a hippie-dippy medical regime when

Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a highly curable cancer with chemotherapy? Judge Rodenberg didn’t think so, ruling that Daniel is in need of child protection services, and neither do I. How irresponsible of Colleen, to deprive her son of an effective treatment and to flee the state, leaving her seven other children behind, and not telling her husband of her whereabouts. When taking all of her actions into consideration, and the fact that she made the decision for Daniel to stop chemo only after one treatment, I completely stand behind the ethical ruling of Judge Rodenberg, which was ultimately in the best interest of Daniel, unlike his mom who behaved in an immature and potentially harmful manner. As a minor, Daniel is heavily influenced by his irresponsible mother, who made the decision that could have heavily jeopardized his health. As far as science is concerned, there is no solid research stating that homeopathic treatment is beneficial to cancer patients; however, there is a substantial amount of research stating that chemotherapy is a highly effective form of cancer treatment. Why then, would Colleen go against the facts and want to put her son in a further harmful situation? In the end, a compromise was reached. Daniel and his mother have returned from their irrational and spontaneous Jack Kerouac “On the Road”-type adventure, and he has been on chemotherapy and is taking “alternative therapies to ease the side effects,” reported the Associated Press. Perhaps if Colleen had not been so impulsive and uncooperative, this compromise could have been achieved a lot sooner.

By Greg Lehman

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

In American culture we sit atop a society founded, and largely based upon, personal autonomy. Our valuable right to choose and live as we see fit chafes against most of the controversies and struggles we face both as a whole and individually. Abortion, taxation, justified wars and the draft are a few of the issues that are largely based on the human will. Are you going to do what I tell you to do? Am I going to do what you tell me to do? What right does the government, or anyone at all, have to tell someone that they know better than them, and make it illegal if they refuse to comply? The weight of authority can swing back to us when we ask how we would feel if it was against the law to do what we truly felt was right for ourselves and the people we love. Stories like this come up every so often. Usually we collectively chastise and condemn the perpetrators. They do not share our values or knowledge so we deem them ignorant, or worse, deserving of the consequences of their actions. Sometimes this can be the correct response. But it is what we do following this primary revulsion that

counts, and how we go about doing it. The only productive way we can go about changing someone’s mind is to meet them where they are and show them what we think is best. Forcing demands, even the right ones, on someone only exacerbates a contempt that might have existed before. Through education and mutual understanding true change for the better can take root. If the mother and son could have been shown demonstratively that real medicine was the only way the son would survive, and that anything worth doing is going to essentially involve sacrifice and endurance, and they still refused the treatment, then that is all the state can do. Sometimes we see people do horrible, senseless things and it can make us feel powerless. This has always happened and will continue that way as long as everyone has their own freewill. It is when the balance is learned to extend every effort in helping someone, while preserving their respective freedoms, that a peace can be forged. If there had been prior cases of neglect, the state was certainly within its rights to take the boy away from his mother and place him in the hands of more responsible guardians. Could the boy have died without chemotherapy? Absolutely. Is it the state’s responsibility to protect its citizens? Yes. People have left this life of their volition, and whether or not this was within their rights is still a debatable gray area. The mother and son in this situation did not want to do this. They wanted to live on their own terms.

I’m all for freedom of speech, and consider it one of America’s most precious rights. But where do we draw the line. When you start drawing childish mustaches on the current President of the United States and likening him to such a vial monster as Adolf Hitler, we need to take a step back and look at the situation. LPAC is a paranoid, hateful, conspiracy theory group who does not know the meaning of research or civility. Love Obama or hate him, he is our President and deserves the respect the office requires. Beside that, he is a good and kind man. LPAC needs to do some research on what Hitler and his T4 was really about instead of spouting ridiculous propoganda. If CSUF feels that we must allow these unmannered fanatics on campus, there should be a limit as far as the posters depicting President Obama as Hitler. Simply vile and uncouth. Dianne K. Re: Mail sorting technology is now a tool for CSUF parking officers Thanks, CSUF, for spending our money to take our money! Yet another example of how the CSU system feels obligated to nickle and dime its students. For anyone interested, the Marriott now offers $5 a day parking instead of the ridiculously $8 charged by the campus. The goal of parking enforcement is clearly to make more money off of CSUF students. The director of parking essentially said it, despite the idiot, Aaron Chaves, from Parking Company of American trying to sugar coat it. Hell, Ferrer and Orr are giant bull****ters too with their claims of money as a side effect of enforcement. If money wasn’t the goal then tickets wouldn’t only go to cover operations costs instead of ranging from $45-$330. Anonymous Re: Tiger shark arrives at the Aquarium of the Pacific So the shark expert is explaining the horrors or shark finning, and you cut to pictures of a bunch of kids at the touching pool? Typical Daily Titan form. Way to hammer the point home, guys. Really The preceding are the opinions of the www.dailytitan.com commenters and are not necessarily the views of the Daily Titan, its staff or Cal State Fullerton.

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OPINION

That’s So Gay “Out of the closet and into the limelight”

September 15, 2009

The president’s new mustache By Cort Tafoya

by Daniel Batalla

Locker room education

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I love men. Really, I love most men. I love redheads, artists, greasers, men with neck tattoos, men with beards, men who read and chubby men. But I’d have to say that my favorite kind of man is the straight man; sexual orientation be damned. Straight men are the Holy Grail. For the same reason some women think they can “convert” a gay man, I feel at the very least I can help expand a straight guy’s options. My search for the perfect straight man began when I was 12. Changing in the boy’s locker room in junior high stirs up a lot of questions for boys, not just about sexual orientation but also about the awkwardness that is the pre-pubescent body. Whereas most pre-teen boys either enjoyed physical education or were simply indifferent to the idea of running laps around a weed infested track, I looked forward to fin-

ishing my lunch and heading to the locker room to get an eyeful of what sex education couldn’t, or wouldn’t, teach me. I never excelled in sports; in fact, I quit almost every sport my parents signed me up for as a kid. I quit karate after the first lesson because according to a 6-year-old me I learned everything I needed to know in one day. I quit tennis because I got tired of chasing the ball. And I wouldn’t even go near the baseball field my parents wanted me to, to play with my cousins. But P.E. I liked. Or rather, I should say P.E. was bearable. Walking from the cafeteria to the locker rooms I would often have to conceal my “excitement” for P.E. with a textbook. On those rare occasions I found myself without the books, sticking my hands in my pockets would cover up the eagerness to undress in front of a bunch of boys. I would be the first one in to change and last one out, often times running late to the field due to my

wandering eye. Oh by the way ladies, regardless of what your guy friends tell you, gay or straight, we all look. The locker room was where my love of straight men developed. The smell of musk, the foul language, the dressing, the undressing all made up for the fact that I couldn’t tell my peers I was gay. I would construct these sometimes outlandish stories in my head about the boys I was undressing next to and would play them over and over in my head as we changed. In these fantasies, one boy was my “secret” boyfriend. He was sensitive, kind and an artist. Another boy was a second love interest who played sports by day and spooned me by night. A third boy, who I later found out was actually gay, was smart and a little nerdy. In my mind he would write me fictional poetry. When any of these boys would show me the slightest form of platonic affection in the real world, I would over analyze the signs and create a romantic fantasy for myself instead.

Gay’s don’t usually get a traditional junior high or high school experience, at least not when it comes to love. We don’t get to publicly date our boyfriends. We’re not allowed to “scam” behind the bungalows. And we’re never voted cutest couple in the yearbook. I guess I just never snapped out of my fantasy. I date gay men now, openly gay men, but to this day I still get excited when my straight friends pretend to take a romantic interest in me. Not “excited” in the sense that I need my old textbooks to cover the bulge (I can control that now) but excited over the chase. Some may consider it foolish to have a straight crush. It would most certainly explain why I’m still single. And I have had my share of heartache. But it’s exhilarating to know we live in a time when sexual exploration is open to anyone, including the romantically challenged, like me. Now, if I could only find a straight man who was interested in men.

Mexico’s drug war rages on, U.S. ignorant By Jamie Iglesias

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

For the past year, whenever I watch Spanish-language news I have been constantly reminded of the escalation of violence in Mexico and its war on drugs. Many do not understand or speak Spanish, and cannot rely on Spanish news networks to keep themselves informed; but the fact that the disorder in Mexico is ongoing and that the center of it all, Ciudad Juarez, is less than 800 miles away from Fullerton is an issue that, at this point, should not be dismissed. Thousands have been killed since 2007 in Mexico’s drug war. Sadly, people are massacred every day and the bloody violence is only increasing. Corruption and the battle between the government and drug cartels have been the major contributors to this problem, but we cannot dismiss the fact that the U.S. is a major contributor to this problem because it is one of

the largest consumers of drugs. Major news networks, especially those in Southern California, should provide audiences with more coverage of this problem. It is the responsibility of the media to inform the public about what is going on throughout the world and I feel there is a lack of coverage about Mexico’s struggle. If we want to keep ourselves informed about other regions we are often forced to research the topic on our own and thanks to the internet we are able to find such information, but not all of us are willing or able to look for that information and that is why major media outlets should take their responsibility more seriously. Early in February of this year I was watching Laura Ling’s documentary, “Narco War Next Door” on Current TV. I remember seeing the grieving families and hearing women screaming when they saw the bloody bodies of their loved ones. After seeing her documentary I was able to get a firmer grasp of the severity of this conflict.

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I read newspapers and saw images on Spanish-language news, but I was never able to see just how severe this problem was until I saw Ling being driven around to different murder scenes. At one murder scene Ling was informed that a doctor had just been killed along with his daughter. Once Ling got to the scene all her camera crew could catch was a river of blood and the family grieving, waiting to be let on to the scene. Ling also reported that young people are joining the cartels. This fact showed that the demand for bodies exists and what people will do when they are desperate for money. There are many factors that contribute to the chaos in Mexico. Unfortunately, the hardest thing to understand is the motivation behind the cold-blooded killing. It seems that those committing the murders have become accustomed to just firing at someone without ever questioning why. Humanity is the main issue here. People were once appalled by what was going on around them, but

they have since become accustomed to it. Towards the end of her documentary, Ling was disturbed by the sight of people passing a murder scene on their way to the grocery story, walking by as if nothing was wrong. That reaction only showed how prevalent the problem is. It is becoming a normal part of life and my biggest fear is that such an attitude will be carried into the U.S. The fact that news networks are not paying much attention to this problem adds to its normality. Humanity is at stake in Mexico. People are being killed without remorse and it is spreading rapidly. We have to remember that we are not so far away from Mexico and if the majority of us are not aware of the situation it could become eventually become a direct problem in the U.S. We should acknowledge that this is not just a Latin American problem, but a human problem. Everyone deserves to be informed of the struggle in Mexico, not just the community that it directly affects at the moment.

Letters to the Editor *This comment was written in reference to an article that is posted on the Web site as: “If passed, new bill could obstruct CSU private foundations’ funds” *The story appears today on pg. 1 as “Senate solicits accountability” Dear Editor, The headline of this article, “If passed, new bill could obstruct CSU private foundations’ funds” is without any justification or explanation contained in the body of the article. Contrary to the headline, the piece goes on at length about making campus auxiliary organizations more transparent and accountable to the public. According to CSU’s own budget documents, nearly 20 percent of their funding is contained within auxiliary organizations, and the CSU administration seems content on keeping that funding from public scrutiny. The bill, SB 218, would do nothing to “obstruct” private funds as the CSU administration has argued. When such a claim was made in the 2001 court case mentioned above, the court concluded such arguments were speculative and were inadmissible without proper evidence. At the very least, I would hope the Daily Titan would at least explain the basis for such a headline so it can be easily refuted. - Eduardo Martinez, Legislative Director Senator Leland Yee

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Nothing compares to free speech in America, where even the deranged get front row seats at the court of public opinion. While walking through the quad at Cal State Fullerton I saw President Barack Obama’s face hanging over a table with Adolf Hitler’s mustache computer generated onto his upper lip. Though it wasn’t the first time I’d seen this particularly ridiculous attempt at public persuasion, I walked past it sighing loudly to myself, “Oh my God.” Suddenly I stopped dead in my tracks. I didn’t know what I was going to do to the people who brought their pathetic point of view to our campus, but I decided I had a moral obligation to, in some way, confront stupidity. I asked a young woman standing in front of her propaganda poster “OK, what’s all this about?” She responded by asking if I would like some of her flyers, as if I looked interested in joining the cause of creating mass, unsubstantiated hysteria. “No, I just wanted to know your reason for having a picture of Hitler’s mustache on the president’s face. I really don’t see how this is helping anybody.” Like a talking points robot she explained that Hitler supported universal health care just like Obama. Let’s take two seconds to dismantle the logic of such a silly comparison – and yes, all it takes is two seconds. In mathematics this line of thinking is known as the transitive property. It reads something like this: if a=b and b=c then a=c. The formula works great with eighth grade algebra, but it’s delusional to apply it to world leaders. “You know who else supported universal health care?” I asked her. “Winston Churchill. Is he a Nazi? How about the French? They were our allies in World War II. Are they

Nazis? What about other presidents like Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt?” I’d like to think that world history clearly shows just because you support universal health care, that doesn’t make you the next Hitler. Churchill in particular was a fiery Brit who gave Nazi Germany a hell of time as they tried to conquer England some seventy years ago. But to my dismay she attempted to present a rebuttal, only my emotions weren’t going to allow me to hear it. “We’re fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan every single day,” I said. “Fighting alongside countries that have universal health care. Does that mean we’re all Nazi allies? Think of how stupid your premise is!” My temper was in full force, but not wanting to duplicate her group’s violent tone, I quickly cooled off. And not wanting to leave without imparting some heartfelt advice, I gave the gift that her tiny little mind needed the most: an idea. “If you want to debate universal health care the right way,” I said, “Talk about how inefficient government is, talk about how expensive universal health care could be, the staggering deficits our country is running or the possibility of higher taxes. But don’t compare the guy to Hitler.” People responsible for mass genocide don’t make good rhetorical examples. How hard is it to just say, “Hey, if you love the way the government runs our public schools, if you like the job the government did handling the economy these last few years, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, you’ll love the way they run universal health care.” See, a solid argument and no Hitler. Until the madness from imbeciles on the right leaves the public arena, libertarian leaning people such as myself will – and should – continue a balancing act of enlightening the stupid while expressing respectful, reasoned opposition to Obama. In the mean time, please keep shaving Mr. President.

Missed connections By Todd Boldizsar

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Generally, missed connections don’t involve cell phones unless someone has lost their phone and is missing calls. A missed connection has such a negative connotation. But what if a missed connection saves your life? When it comes to walking through a crosswalk on a cell phone or texting, a missed connection is the difference between life and death. I’m talking about the men and women of Cal State Fullerton routinely stepping off the sidewalk and into the intersection as soon as the light changes while having a cell phone near-surgically glued to their ear. Are Audrina Patridge’s tweets about sun tanning in Mexico worth losing your life over? I have seen this happen over, and over, and over again: When the light changes and the little white man appears on the crossing signal, students step right off the curb with the phone to their ear and their head down. The student trying to beat the light and turn right has to burn a hole in their brakes to avoid hitting them, all the while the student continues on, oblivious to their neardeath experience. Weren’t they told as a child to look both ways before they crossed the street? I guess cell phones, Facebook, Twitter and the Blackberry weren’t around when they were riding tricycles. As technology continues to evolve and human cognitive capacity continues to dwindle, it creates scenarios of seemingly deliberate abandonment of consciousness. Maybe it’s the huge dark sunglasses, maybe it’s the clothes getting tighter and tighter, thus cutting off circulation to the brain, or maybe it’s

just the accessibility of information available from such a small device. I sincerely hope it’s the latter because I’m not opposed to the tight clothes, but I have genuine concerns about this generation, and them becoming parents for the next generation. Sure, I am analyzing a very small piece of current college life and society, but where does it stop? It stops when we become aware of our surroundings and start paying attention to warning signs. You don’t have to be a ninja or the savior of the Matrix to be well aware of your surroundings. Let’s catch up to our technology, for only then will we be a truly sophisticated race. I refuse to believe that human progress is furthered by becoming lazier as our machines get smarter. Do me a favor: sit on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Nutwood Avenue and record a log of how many times a student steps off the curb while on a cell phone without looking or acknowledging that they almost got smeared. I personally guarantee it is astounding. A note to students everywhere: You should buy into the hype that we are the future generation that will be running this planet. Let’s set a good impression by taking necessary safety precautions while on a cell phone and near an intersection. I’m not just saying this because CSUF is paying me to (because who are we kidding? They’re not), but I would really hate to see our school make the news over something like this. When the light changes, look both ways, hold hands if you must, but steady the course. Godspeed, Twitter fanatics and texting fiends in intersections everywhere!

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SPORTS

September 15, 2009

Barkley born to lead Trojans By juan Saucedo

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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Joe Montana, John Elway and Tom Brady. There’s one thing that these three legendary quarterbacks have in common with the University of Southern California freshman quarterback Matt Barkley – a knack for staying cool, calm and collected in the most stressful situations. Unlike Montana, Elway and Brady, however, Barkley is still trying to show the world that he has what it takes to make the Football Hall of Fame by winning championships. On Saturday, Sept. 12, the world witnessed Barkley inch one step closer to ascending into football lore by leading USC to an 18-15 late fourth-quarter comeback victory over Ohio State at the Horseshoe, one of the toughest places to play in college football. Barkley not only led the Trojans down the field in an instant classic, but he showed amazing composure in the six-minute, 14-play drive that led to a two-yard touchdown by Stafon Johnson. Before a crucial 3rd and 8 on USC’s 16-yard line, Barkley dissected the Buckeye defense and called an audible at the line with single digits running down on the play clock. He then stepped back and completed a 5-yard pass to running back Joe McKnight, who came out of the backfield and ran for 16 yards after the catch to give the Trojans a first down with less than six minutes remaining in the game. With a 1st-and-10 on the Trojan’s 37-yard line, Barkley threw a 26yard pass to the middle of the field to Anthony McCoy. The Trojans faced another crucial third down after an incompletion and one-yard run by McKight. With the ball on the Buckeyes’ 36yard line, Barkley methodically kept USC alive by completing an 8-yard pass to Damian Williams, and then picking up the first on a 4th and 1, 2-yard quarterback sneak with 3:03 remaining in the game. The Trojans had the ball at Ohio State’s 26-yard line. After four rushes by McKnight put

photo courtesy MCT USC freshman quarterback Matt Barkley and Head Coach Pete Carroll hug after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes 18-15 Saturday at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

the Trojans at the Buckeyes’ 6-yard line, Barkley once again picked up a first down on a sneak, setting up Johnson’s touchdown run that made it 16-15 in favor of USC. Barkley, who finished the game with 195 yards on 15-for-31 passing and one interception, capped the drive by completing a two-point conversion pass to McKnight, giving USC an 18-15 lead with 1:01 left in the game. Somehow, most people were surprised by Barkley’s ability to keep his cool down the stretch. The so-called pundits of college football acted as if Barkley was a stranger to being a first-year starter for a legendary program before his first big challenge of the season.

Most folks had forgotten that he started as a freshman for Mater Dei High School, which has one of the most storied high school football programs in southern California, and played the rest of his three years for the Monarchs as a starter. No matter what happens later in the season, this sports writer can attest to Barkley’s greatness on the field. On October 2007, I witnessed from the stands one of Barkley’s great moments. He lead a then-undefeated Mater Dei past another then-undefeated team, Corona Centennial, in a game that was so hyped that it was televised live on Fox Sports Net. Barkley had an amazing game that night, leading Mater Dei to 51-37

victory, throwing for 365 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions on 21-for-32 passing, according to MaxPreps.com. Yet, most folks didn’t expect Barkley to have a fantastic night at the Horseshoe. Fans and pundits alike expected the USC running attack and the tough defense, which roughed up San Jose State last week, to single-handedly win the game for the Trojans. Barkley’s heroic drive left fans ecstatic, but his composure made them believe in his future potential, which may materialize this season with a Bowl Championship Series title. But, Barkley isn’t a one-trick pony. His ability to throw the outpass better than most college and

pro quarterbacks made him the No. 1 football recruit in the nation last spring. College coaches from around the nation couldn’t help but drool at the fact he was committed to USC. And against the Buckeyes on Saturday, Barkley channeled his inner Montana, Brady, Elway or whatever one might call it, and showed he has the most important skill needed to be a winning quarterback in college football or in any league. He demonstrated a cool, calm nature that helped him avoid making any freshman mistakes during a crucial drive. “We’re Trojans. That’s what we do,” Barkley told an ESPN reporter after the game. “This is what we dreamed of, coming back like this.”

Assistant track and field coach Brandon Campbell has resigned his post and will be leaving Cal State Fullerton after a decade on campus for a similar position at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. Campbell came to Fullerton from St. Louis, Missouri, in the Fall of 1998 on a basketball scholarship. He was a starter for parts of five seasons around nagging foot injuries, averaging 8.3 points and 3.4 rebounds in 84 career games. But he really excelled in track and field and earned All-American honors. He was the Big West Conference Male Athlete of the Year in 2001 and he holds six school records including the high jump (7-4 1/2), the long jump (2510), the 400 meters (46.98) and the decathlon (6,637 points). He was a two-time Big West Conference champion in the long jump (1999 and 2001) and high jump (2001 and 2002) and was on a pair of championship 4x400 meter relay teams (2000 and 2001). He qualified for the NCAA Championships in both jumps in 2001 and 2002, earning All-American status in the high jump in 2002. He earned his bachelors degree in 2005 in sociology and spent a year prior to his CSF appointment in 2006 as a personal speed coach and assisted at Huntington Beach High School, where he qualified three individuals for the CIF Championships. In his three-year tenure as the jump coach at CSUF, he had at least one athlete qualify for the NCAA Championships each year including two in both 2008 & 2009. He also coached three Big West individual champions: Johnathan Golden (high jump) and Garrett Myers (triple jump) in 2008, and Laron Brown (high jump) in 2009. Coach Campbell will have the opportunity to coach both the sprinters and jumpers at Adams State, a NCAA Division II national power. story courtesy of titan media relations.

SPORTS

September 15, 2009

Think Different. Think Simon.

LA may not have a football team, but at least I don’t have to watch golf on Sundays anymore

Daily Titan Assistant Sports Editor sports@dailytitan.com

I have been waiting for months now. The anticipation has been eating away at my soul. I need some more excitement in my life. I am jumping for joy because the National Football League is finally back. I have been yearning to see Adrian Peterson back on the field (he did not disappoint in his first game), to finally see Michael Vick in action again, and to see all the young stars become household names overnight.

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By Simon liang

That is what the NFL is all about. I was seven years old. The NFL is also about the drama. My parents had left me for dead It is about the gut-wrenching drives for a couple days so I just stayed with down the field in the fourth quarter. some relatives. It is about Isn’t it sad watching your that somefavorite players times the only As the John Elway and teams go at thing we reit week by week, two-peat came and member is the mano a mano, bad? a fight to the went, the Patriots Well this death. story would started their own Whether it’s definitely fit the tailgate par- dynasty, and the the bill. ties or the lazy Manning brothers both I became Sundays staring bed-ridden at the televi- won Super Bowls , but and the trashsion, we all live there was still something can was my for this. best friend. But let’s just missing. Dare I say say my fascinamore? tion with footE v e n ball might be a though I have little different. barely any recollection of Super My first memory of watching the Bowl XXXI, I do remember the two NFL was actually a blur. teams that played.

photo courtesy mct Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson scores a 64-yard touchdown run against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

From then on, four things happened: 1) I developed a love for watching football 2) I hated the New England Patriots 3) I wanted an NFL team in Los Angeles 4) The Super Bowl became my favorite event of the year As the John Elway two-peat came and went, the Patriots started their own dynasty, and the Manning brothers both won Super Bowls on their own, there was still something missing. A football team in LA. The LA Rams and Raiders both jumped ship in 1994. They were long gone before I could even get a glimpse of them. What makes matters worse, the Rams and Raiders made the Super Bowl in 2000 and 2003, respectively, after they said sayonara to the LA Coliseum. We have two NBA teams, two MLB teams and two NHL teams, but no football team? Where is the sense in that? I am still without an NFL team to root for. I always get asked the question, “What is your favorite football team?” And of course, I always have to answer with the lame answer, “I don’t have a favorite football team because...” Because there is no freaking team in LA! It makes it even harder that players change addresses all the time. I mean, my allegiance to a team was nonexistent. First it was the Packers, then the Vikings, then the Rams, then the Colts and now I have just completely given up. If I ever root for a basketball team that is not the LA Lakers, I will feel the utmost guilt. Probably greater guilt than the people who get caught on “Cheaters.” Yes, my love for the Purple and Gold runs deep. But I never did feel bad about my

photo courtesy mct Fans like the Green Bay Packers “Cheeseheads” can make football games more fun.

never-ending seesaw battle of favorite football teams. To this day, no team has been worthy enough to have a permanent place in my heart. So the question lingers, can you really watch the NFL without having a team to call your own? Yes, it is possible but I am still hopeful a team will land in LA fairly soon. But before that goes down, I can still dream. I long to be part of the Cheeseheads of Green Bay and be on the receiving end of the “Lambo Leap.”

I long to actually spend hours trying to transform myself into a member of Raider Nation. I long to join the Hogettes in Washington and sport a Hogette name as well. Any suggestions? Boy, how much fun would that be? I don’t know about you but I am in the mood to dress up like a Bronco fan and do the Mile High Salute. There is actually some good that has come out of this; at least I am not discriminating. I like all the football teams. Well, except the damn Patriots.

SPORTS

September 15, 2009

Yanks drop Angels

photo courtesy mct Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter high-five as they head off the field after the seventh inning of their 5-3 victory over the Angels.

(MCT) - In their scorching second half, the Yankees had already dispatched one of their first-half tormentors, the Red Sox. They got their shot at the other one Monday night, albeit for a single game. “It’s extremely important,” Joe Girardi said before the makeup game against the Angels, who have owned the Yankees this season ... and this decade. The Yankees played like it, getting a solid four innings from Joba Chamberlain, plus the key hits typically absent when they play the Angels and just enough from the bullpen in a 5-3 victory at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees (93-52) moved six games ahead of the Angels (86-57) in the race for the American League’s best record and home-field advantage. The Yankees start a three-game series in Anaheim on Monday. After Phil Hughes let the Angels tie it at 3 in the eighth, the Yankees scored twice in the bottom half. Mark Teixeira, who hit a two-run triple in the fifth, ripped a one-out double into the rightfield corner. Alex Rodriguez walked and Brett Gardner ran for Teixeira. Girardi called for a double steal, and when

catcher Mike Napoli’s throw sailed into left, Gardner scored to make it 4-3. After Hideki Matsui struck out, Robinson Cano brought in A-Rod with a single up the middle, making it 5-3. Mariano Rivera, in his first game since last Tuesday, issued a twoout walk in the ninth but earned his 40th save, converting his 36th straight opportunity. The other story line was Chamberlain’s fourth start since his “rules” were redone. “He’s been scuffling,” general manager Brian Cashman said before the game. “I thought he was better his last outing (Wednesday), once he got past the first inning, and I look forward to seeing what he does tonight.” Chamberlain pitched fairly well, going four innings and allowing one run and four hits. There had been plenty of discussion about Chamberlain’s previous three starts as he was pulled after three innings in each of them. “We’re going to do what we think is right,” Cashman said. “And when somebody else has the keys to kingdom, they can do what they think is right.”

As for the “just let him pitch” crowd, Cashman all but rolled his eyes. “Those people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about,” he said. “Anybody who says that, they’re just stupid.” The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the second as Vladimir Guerrero led off with a long home run, his 14th of the season, to left. That was all the Angels would get against Chamberlain, who pitched a 1-2-3 third inning and got out of the fourth with no damage after two Angels reached with one out. Nick Swisher made it 1-1 in the third, smacking his 27th homer (but just his sixth at home) into the second deck in right on Jered Weaver’s 1-and-1 pitch. Alfredo Aceves gave up a run in the fifth as the Angels took a 2-1 lead. The Yankees took the lead back in an odd bottom half of the fifth. Swisher led off with a double, Melky Cabrera walked and Derek Jeter bunted them over. Johnny Damon’s broken-bat one-hopper to short would have scored Swisher easily, but Cabrera interfered with shortstop Erick Aybar and was called out and Swisher had to go back to third.