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So the big chisme into this Ear this week is the news that they want to

close Dolcini’s!!! The one mom-and-pop establish-ment on the entire campus! Aren’t we a true reflection of corporate America! But of course it is not really

“we,” because nobody asked us students what we’d prefer (ain’t that a recurring theme!). This Ear only found

out while in line to buy itself a coffee. The Dolcini’s staff asked for our signature in support of their new “Save Dolcini’s” movement. Go take a look. If you see a wax smear… that was us. Can you believe that the plan is to get rid of Dol-cini’s so that we can have some more plastic grass? And more chairs on which nobody will sit, like the ones on Greenlee Plaza? Be-cause… it has been said… we students need more space to study?! Nobody can study without coffee, ok!!! And not every-body can afford Starbucks, ok!!! Hey… here between your ear and ours… what are the chances that there’s a connection between the great Walmart-of-coffee-Starbucks and what is go-ing on, huh?? Think… think….I say we go on a hunger strike on the steps of Dolci-ni’s. Oh wait… That won’t help their business…I say we chain ourselves to the bars, chairs, and tables of Dolcini’s! Yeah, that’s it! We chain ourselves from one hand, while with the other we hold a cup of their coffee.

Learning from the bar-da workshop with John Siddique

Twenty people, stu-dents and faculty, attended the open

workshop held by John Siddique last Thursday in the Poetry Center at King Hall.

The British Council Writ-er-in-Residence guided those present through timed writing exercises in-tended to free up their cre-ativity. The writers prac-ticed incorporating images and other sensory elements – such as the scent of per-fume, the breeze, cookies, and so forth - into their

work. They likewise at-tempted to describe a loved one by focusing on his or her surroundings, sort of the photographic style of bokeh applied to the writ-ten word. (Bokeh is a Japa-nese technique that uses a scene’s background to bring a subject out into the spotlight).

Siddique read some of his yet-to-be-published poetry, part of a commission by the Lancaster University to create a series of poems portraying the immigrant experience in Manchester, UK.

Siddique Workshop University threatens to terminate lease

by Princess G. Manasseh

Not yet half-way into a 28-year lease, CSULA of-ficials are asking Dolcini’s café to shut down in order to make room for “exter-nal student meeting, study, and learning spaces,” ac-cording to a letter sent by university administration. The café, which has been on campus 12 years, is subletting the space from the University Auxiliary Services (UAS).

George Pardon, Vice President for Administra-tion and Chief Financial Officer at CSULA, sent a letter to the UAS offices December 15, 2008 stat-ing the University is can-celling the lease to use the property adjacent to King Hall, effective June 30, 2009. In the letter Par-don stated his reasoning as the need for more meet-ing spaces. “[CSULA] has been planning, creating,

and promoting the use of external student meeting, study, and learning spaces across campus. Evidence of such spaces on campus are: the courtyard around the music building, the courtyard at the adminis-tration building, Greenlee Plaza, the Golden Eagle and the University Stu-dent Union…These spac-es have been well received by the campus communi-ty,” read the letter.

Some students do not ac-cept Pardon’s explanation. “The University obviously has ulterior motives,” said Roberta Smith, a junior and communications stud-ies major ,“It makes no sense that they want to close Dolcini’s to build a learning area, that’s exact-ly what Dolcini’s is. This place is always crowded with students studying, whereas those Astro Turf areas hardly ever have anyone sitting there.”

The terms of the contract make clear that the uni-

DOLCINI’S ASKED TO SHUT DOWN

BREAKING NEWS

Dolcini’s serves as a campus study hall and socializing space (Daniel Park photo)

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Earn What You Learn

(CSULA- UT) President Obama has proposed a challenge to Americans. His idea would positively impact the lives of millions and drastically change the path of our economy.The President wants every-one to commit to at least one year of higher education. He believes that increased high school drop out rates and low college completion rates have been a “prescrip-tion for economic decline”. His proposition for higher education gives people the option of either going to a college, technical training program or apprenticeship.Currently, Americans are allowed to drop out of high school at the age of 16, something Obama Chief

of Staff Rahm Emanuel feels should no longer be al-lowed. The least educated are more vulnerable in times of economic downfalls.A recent statistic released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that people without a high school diplo-ma or higher education cer-tification are twice as likely to be unemployed in com-parison to those who have some college experience.One of the cons to this challenge is that, many jobs don’t necessarily require a degree. In turn, some peo-ple decide that their college attendance is not necessary. However, those who do have a higher education will gen-erally have higher earnings, this is of course an incentive to further education.Currently the unemploy-ment rate is at its highest in

25 years. The main concern is to get Americans the skills that will make them mar-ketable. Fields dealing with important services such as health care are expected to grow rapidly. Higher edu-cation is a requirement for these jobs. Someone who is qualified for a position in this field can usually count on job stability and good salary.Education and the economy do tend to have a domino effect. People with a higher education will most likely be qualified for better jobs, they will make more mon-ey, their fields will be more stable. The money these people earn will be used to purchase goods, eventu-ally serving as an economic stimulant.UT

PRESIDENTS PLAN

Making tuitions more predictable

Colleges around the nation are ex-perimenting with a

concept called, “locked-in tuition” in order to make life more stable and predict-able for college students. Locked-in tuition would mean that incoming fresh-man, would pay the same tuition for all 4 years of college. The proposal has educational institutions and families supporting college students at odds.Because of consistent tuition increases in Califor-nia, college students have been inconvenienced and forced to make the decision to either keep up with the rising costs or give up all together while Governor Schwarzenegger takes ac-tion to get California back

on track.

Universities see the tu-ition guarantee program as a potential risk because they can lose money. Col-leges like the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Kansas have experimented with the idea and are not very fond of it. However, families and stu-dents are excited about the idea because of its predict-ability. “ Tuition is expen-sive,” said Alberto Ortega, a Biochemistry Senior. “It’s a drag, and it’s kind of like discrimination in a way. The government should make it equal for everyone because then it would weed out people who aren’t tak-ing school seriously.” The Locked-in tuition proposal will rely on the creativity of the colleges

and how successful their new ideas are at keeping students interested in en-rolling despite their finan-cial situations.

The University of Texas at Dallas began its guar-anteed Tuition Rate Plan in the Fall of 2007 as a way to “provide simplicity, predictability, and clarity for our students.” says Curt Eley the University’s Vice President for enrollment management.

Students will save money in the long run if they decide to stay long enough to complete a degree. They will also be able to better plan out their finances for the year because the tuition rate will be consistent and encourage college students to graduate on time.

LOCKED-IN TUITION

Young Students get a taste of college life…

(CSULA – UT) Beginning in 2004, CSULA’s EPIC (Educational Participation In Communities) program came up with a new idea to introduce local elemen-tary age children to college life. The event is known as “Cal State L.A., Here We Come!” The hope is that exposing children to college at an earlier age will excite them about the opportunity when they’re older.

EPIC also sends univer-sity student volunteers to the surrounding elemen-tary schools to tutor the students in a variety of subjects. The “Here We Come,” event gives those same elementary students the opportunity to visit their college mentors in a different setting. Children spend the entire school day touring the CSULA campus. Children enter campus via the USU and begin their day as college students. CSULA student volunteers, and the EPIC staff, escort the youngsters

to the Eagles Nest gym for breakfast. In efforts to enhance the experience, the students attend mock college classes in vacant classrooms. Throughout the day, students visit a number of campus sites and are treated to special presentations designed specially for them.

During the day children are given the opportunity to conduct science experi-ments in the recently built La Kretz Hall, discuss athletics with CSULA athletes and members of the athletic staff, and are given presentations about the importance of higher education.

“It was a proud day for the CSULA campus communi-ty,” said Amanda Garcia, a CSULA student and event volunteer. “Everyone’s enthusiasm and dedica-tion in coming together to ensure these local children enjoyed the college experi-ence was fulfilling for all,” Garcia said.

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THE FUTURE OF CSULA

Coach Karwasky let go after 20 years

(CSULA-UT) After twenty years of coaching the CSU-LA tennis team, Tina Kar-wasky’s contract will not be renewed. Dan Bridges, director of Athletics is cur-rently looking at 50 appli-cants and is hoping by July to have a new coach. “The decision has been made. All efforts are being focused on

finding the best coach pos-sible,” said Bridges. “We are moving forward with enthusiasm and looking at a bright future for CSULA tennis team.”

When asked exactly why Karwasky was being let go, Bridges was very tight lipped. He would not give an exact reason as to why her contract will not be re-newed. This comes as a great sur-prise to freshman tennis

player Marine Pororost, “She was a really good coach and I’m deeply sad-dened by this news. Most of the team feels that this is un-fair.” Fellow freshmen ten-nis player Crystal Lam has similar feelings. “Honestly this is really disappointing, I was recruited by Karwasky. She is a really good person,” said Lam. “She knows how

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Distinguished Profes-sor Honored at Award Ceremony

(CSULA – UT) On Tuesday May 19 Dr. Gerald Beer, the 2009 recipient of the Presi-dent’s Distinguished Profes-sor Award gave a lecture to the campus community en-titled “Random Thoughts of a Mathematician.” A reception followed the lec-ture in honor of Beer. “This award represents a combi-nation of careers here,” said Beer “It is a very meaning-ful award to me. I appreci-ate the confidence they have in me.”

Beer has been a professor of mathematics at CSULA since 1971; he also has held the position of Faculty Ath-letic Representative (FAR) for more than 12 years. In his position as FAR Beer works closely with coaches, and provides guidance to student-athletes. Beer is the senior FAR in the Califor-nia Collegiate Athletic As-sociation. In that capacity, he certifies the eligibility of all student athletes and rep-resents the University at CCAA and NCAA meet-ings.

Since, coming to CSULA

Beer has received numer-ous awards and recognition on behalf of the Univer-sity. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Professor Award, General Education Honors, Program Professor of the Year Award, and also the faculty prize for Distin-guished Teaching Assistants at UCLA.

Gerry, as his colleagues call him, is the author of “To-pologies on Closed Convex Set,” one of the best-known texts in the field. Beer has also authored over 100 ar-ticles in referreed journals, including publications in The Journal of American Mathematical Society, and The American Mathemati-cal Monthly, one of most the widely read journals in the U.S.

Beer has been an invited speaker in many different parts of the world, including France, Italy, and Morocco. He will soon be enjoying the summer working with the athletics department. UT

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Literary collection by students and faculty is published.

By Dena Burroughs

The 2009 issue of Statement magazine was released on Saturday in an elegantly ar-ranged banquet room in the USU building. As it has now for 59 years, this year’s issue of Statement contains the literary work of CSULA undergrad and graduate students, and for a first time, it includes poetry and prose written by faculty. Present to read their cre-

ations were the Dean of Arts and Letters Terry Allison, former Dean Carl Selkin, and English Professors Mel-vin Donaldson and Mary Bucci Bush. Also in atten-dance were several student contributors, including the winner of the Dean’s Prize in Poetry, Tarik Booker. This year’s Statement is dedicated to Jean Burden, an American poet who be-came a long-standing sup-porter of poetry at CSULA. In his tribute to Burden, Carl Selkin spoke in length of her significant contribu-tions to our university, par-ticularly since 1986 when

CSULA instituted the Jean Burden Annual Poetry Se-ries. For a second year in a row, CSULA grad student Juan Carlos Parrilla led the mag-azine’s publishing commit-tee. Of the experience Par-rilla says, “The Statement launch was a very reward-ing experience. I felt very honored to be in the pres-ence of such creative and inspiring artists.” A copy of the 2009 Statement maga-zine can be obtained at the English Department office, on the 6th floor of the E & T building.UT

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The Ted Nichols Interview

By Andy Pesich, ITS

(Frederick Flintstone, Es-quire)

In the 1980s I worked with a happy-go-lucky telecommunications

technician by the name of Dave Hernandez. His ever-complaining and never-satisfied wife kept complaining that she was tired of being perceived as Mexican; she wanted the family surname changed to Hearn. Dave refused; so Katie changed hers back to Mitchell. A year later she divorced him and hooked up with an aspiring Rite-Aid (then Thrifty) District Man-ager. Dave hooked up with a computer programmer named Mary who, like Dave, was very lively and outgoing. A year later Mary and Dave moved to Virginia to follow her job. Mary, who had a near-to-impossible-to-pro-

nounce Russian-Jewish sur-name, was happy to change her name to Hernandez.

Later, you’ll find out why this is relevant.

Ted Nichols is best known as the long-time head musical director and composer for Hanna-Barbera (now part of Warner Brothers) which produced television cartoons such as the Flintstones, Jetsons, Scooby-Do, and oth-ers. Almost simultaneously, between 1960 and 1972, he taught and directed music at CalStateLA.

Growing up in Washington State, Ted longed to see

the world, act on his inspira-tions, and make music. As a teenager during World War II, he had to wait to enter service in the Navy but promptly left that to get a Music Education bach-elor’s at Baylor University in Texas. While at Baylor he joined the Air Force ROTC and was quickly promoted to band director. On comple-tion, the Air Force sent him to New York to run the re-gional Air Force Band there as an Air Force Lieutenant.

That was not enough. He returned to Texas to fin-ish is Master’s in Music

Composition at the Texas University of Fine Arts and Communication with an eye on coming to Hollywood to be a film composer. By then he was married to his one-and-only (and also still living) wife Doris, whom he had met at Baylor, and was raising children. So, he took up a position of band direc-tor at Inglewood High in 1958. Also, in 1958 he took up a part-time, weekend job at Disneyland as the baritone in the park’s barbershop quartet the Dapper Dans. With the Orange County connection he moved his teaching career to Santa Ana College in 1959.

It was there at Santa Ana that CalStateLA contacted him through the efforts of Fran Baxter, the CSULA choir director. Not oddly, Baxter had been Ted’s choir director back at John Rogers High School (Spokane, WA). CalStateLA had outgrown the student-lead pep band and needed a marching band organized to compli-ment the growingly success-ful football team. In time, he also directed the jazz ensem-ble, musicals orchestra, and taught orchestration.

In about 1962-63 he wrote three musicals with the CalStateLA musicals direc-

tor Walt Beaver. Professor Beaver hated the idea of rest rooms in the lobby of a theatre (the sound of toilets flushing in the distance I suppose). So, that’s why the State Theatre has out-house-style restrooms not attached to the building. Former Dean Don Dewey told me recently that folks back then wanted to call those rest-rooms Beaver Hall.

This was still not enough. He quit Dapper Dans to be

the music director at the Church of the Open Door which was at 550 South Hope Street (a block from the main library) in down-town Los Angeles. The church was conceived and founded by R.A. Torrey, the same guy who founded Biola University. In 1964, one of the choir members at the church arranged for Ted to interview Bill Hanna of Hanna-Barbera. Ted was given the job to com-pose and direct music for the Flintstones Christmas Special of 1964. That clinched him the Flintstones job. Being that music (espe-cially background music) for a television series is mostly summer work, Ted contin-ued at CalStateLA as well as the church.

This was still not enough. By 1968 all the work seemed so easy that he decided to enroll in a doctorate pro-gram in music. Unfortu-nately, both UCLA and USC were asking for breadth re-quirements he didn’t want to spend time on. So, he chose Claremont Graduate Uni-versity. He never finished. In 1972 he was asked to be the musical director of the world-wide tour of Campus Crusade for Christ. He quit the CalStateLA job (anyway, the football team was start-ing to have losing seasons), handed over the church job to an assistant and handed some Hanna-Barbera work to other assistants. Google him and you’ll find a very large catalog of work.

Ted is now 80 with three children (all successful), six grandchildren, and a great-grandchild born in 2007 and lives in Arizona with Doris. He’s still active in church music.

My interview with him was a combination of phone con-versation and email. With

probing I found out that his original name was Theodore Nicholas Sflotsos. His at-tending Baylor, the largest Baptist College in America, was because he wanted to convert to being “Chris-tian,” he said. I asked him what religion, if any, was he originally, and he said, “Greek Orthodox” to which I retorted, “that’s not Chris-tian?” The changing of one’s non-Anglo name to an Anglo name was common then especially if one wanted to be an entertainer; so I let it pass. Even with that, he didn’t speak of his Greek origins. I did some data mining to find the death cer-tificates of what I surmised were his father Nicholas and mother Josephine. With the following email he cor-roborated that they were his parents. Ted’s return email said, “My father was a great Greek chef and worked at several of the big hotels in Spokane.” The omission bothered me. I’m proud of my father who was only a tuna boat crewman and later dockworker; I would have included that earlier if some-one was interviewing me.

Nonetheless, Ted Nichols is a great talent and I’m

grateful I got to talk to him, especially to dispel the Cal-StateLA myths about him. The popular recruiting myth is only that. What he did was he used to put on a marching band extravaganza on our field yearly with thir-ty, local high school bands. It was from this event that he recruited for the band pro-gram. It’s true that many of his students were later hired by him for various projects such as Flintstones.

Postscript: I spent three years searching for Ted, apparent-ly in the wrong places. In the end I contacted a “band” friend of mine who works as an accountant for the Radio and Television News Guild. His brother works at Rico Reeds and had contacts with the Air Force Band. An Air Force guy knew Ted was af-filiated with an Evangelistic Church in Washington (but not Spokane) and forwarded the church telephone num-ber, which I called. The secretary at the church gave me Ted’s number in Ari-zona. UT

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Historian transformed study of US History

(Berkeley--UT) Ronald Takaki, a pioneer in the field of ethnic studies who taught the University of California system’s first black history course, has died. He was 70.

Takaki was the author and editor of 20 books, includ-ing Strangers from a Different Shore: a History of Asian Amer-icans, which was selected

by The New York Times as a “Notable Book of the Year,” and by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the best 100 nonfiction books of the 20th century.

“I was born, politically and intellectually, at UC Berke-ley,” Takaki once wrote. “After I entered the history Ph.D. program at Berkeley in 1961, I was stirred by the moral vision of Martin Luther King and, like many students, joined the Civil Rights Movement.” Takaki

wrote his dissertation on slavery.

Takaki helped found UC Berkeley’s Ph.D. program in ethnic studies, which was established in 1984 and was the first of its kind in the country. He was also in-strumental in establishing the UC Berkeley’s Ameri-can Cultures requirement, which requires all under-graduates to complete a course designed to broaden their understanding of ra-cial and ethnic diversity.

“Ron Takaki elevated and popularized the study of America’s multiracial past and present like no other scholar, and in doing so had an indelible impact on a generation of students and researchers across the na-tion and world,” said Don T. Nakanishi, director of UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center.

Takaki also advised Presi-dent Bill Clinton on his ma-jor speech on race in 1997.

The grandson of Japanese immigrants, Takaki grew up in Hawaii, surfing and working in the Chinese res-taurant run by his mother.

He was the first in his fam-ily to attend college, gradu-ating in 1961 from Ohio’s College of Wooster with a bachelor’s degree in history. He went on to UC Berkeley, where he earned a master’s degree in 1962 and a Ph.D. in history in 1967.

Takaki began his teaching career in 1966 at UCLA, where he taught the UC sys-tem’s first black history class in the wake of the city’s deadly 1965 Watts riots.

After joining UC Berke-ley’s faculty in 1971, Takaki went on to write nearly 20 books, most of them dealing with marginalized Americans, i n c l u d i n g Iron Cages: Race and Cul-ture in 19th Century Amer-ica Takaki’s A Different Mirror: A His-tory of Multi-

cultural America is read on college campuses across the country and has over half a million copies in print.

According to his son ToTakaki took his own life in his Berkeley home after suf-fering for two decades from multiple sclerosis, a debili-tating neurological disease.UT

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versity reserves the right to take over the space if it is needed for special educa-tion purposes.

Amir Barour, the owner of Dolcini’s café, does not be-lieve the proposed student learning areas fulfill the in-tention of that clause in the contract. “The contract is saying if this area is need-ed for more classrooms or a lab or a research facility then the university can use it for that, but not for As-tro Turf,” said Barour.

“When we came the only other food facility on cam-pus was a food truck. We took this space and trans-formed it into what it is now,” said Barour, “we changed the ambience and beautified it.” As he sat on the café’s patio dur-ing the interview, Barour pointed out a tall tree he said he planted when he first opened Doclini’s. “That tree was this tall,” he said holding his hand

3 feet above the ground, “this patio is used by more than just our customers…even Starbucks customers come and use this patio which we maintain.”

Many students agree with Barour calling the Dolci-ni’s patio “a great place to study.” Jaenette Guerroro, a Child Development ma-jor, often uses the Astro Turf study areas near the physical sciences building, yet expressed an appre-ciation for Doclini’s patio. “I don’t understand why they need more of these spaces,” said Guerror of the university’s external student meeting areas, “I mean they’re kind of ran-dom. Dolcini’s definitely looks a lot nicer and a lot of people study there. Sure it’s a little loud but I think we definitely have enough of these areas . We don’t need any more.”

The university first breached it’s contract with Dolcini’s café when it con-tracted an agreement with Starbucks. In the Univer-

sity’s contract with Dolci-ni’s the café is given exclu-sive rights to vend gourmet coffee, espresso, and cap-puccino. When Barour raised concerns about the breach of contract, the executive director of the UAS assured him that the university would make it up to them by awarding them two more locations on campus.

Dolcini’s never received those locations and ac-cording to Barour the university later admitted to their breach of con-tract and attempted to buy them off asking how much

they should pay to get Dolcini’s to leave. Barour refused the university’s of-fer and claims that he will take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

When asked about the sudden termination of the lease, Patrick Harris,

current Interim Executive Director of UAS had “no comment.” George Par-don’s office also gave no comment, declining to re-turn two messages.UT

And when the demolish-ing wrecking ball gets here we lie down in front of the café like Sandra Bullock did on Two Weeks Notice!

And we create a stink that will tell the powers that may be that we actually like non-corporate entities. And that we actually like real trees whose branches may or may not fall on our heads periodically! And that plastic grass belongs only on miniature golf courses!

This is the most excite-ment we’ve had in a while folks! Com’on! Those of you with a mouth, say something!UT

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to motivate people and all she wants is for you to try your best.”

This comes as a great dis-appointment to Karwasky who has dedicated herself not only to CSULA, but also to the tennis team. The question remains as to why Karwasky is being let go after an impressive career here at CSULA. In 2004, she received the University’s Distin-guished Faculty Alumna Award and in 2003 was honored by the United States Tennis Association with the Southern Califor-nia USTA/ITA Commu-nity Service Award for her efforts in developing com-munity based tennis pro-grams in the Southland.

Karwasky will be deeply missed by CSULA faculty, staff, students, and espe-cially her tennis players. CSULA will have to wait and see who fills in after Karwasky’s twenty years of hard work and dedica-tion. . UT

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June 04, 2009 University TimesNEWS 7

LIGHTS, CAMERA, PERFORMANCE

Impressive perfor-mances, Less impres-sive turnout

(CSULA-UT) Seven CSULA students gathered at the USU Los Angeles room last Wednesday, anx-iously awaiting to perform for an expected audience of one hundred that never arrived.

“How sad, I added an extra year just to change my major to communica-tions,” said junior Ashley

Jones after performing in a nearly empty room. “I was looking forward to performing in front of my future Comm professors to show them a lot of me.” Jones composed her piece, “Father, Where Are You?” about the experience of growing up without her fa-ther.

Nika Nourmohammadi, who organized this Perfor-mance Hour ,apologized to the performers for the lack of an audience. She

said several professors had emailed her confirming that their class would at-tend.

Six of the seven perform-ers came from professor Ulises Moreno’s COMM 267 oral interpretation class.

Sophomore Rosemarie Tan was first to perform her untitled poem about a cheating boyfriend. Prin-cess Manasseh continued with “Woman to Woman”,

a performance about a cheating husband. TVF junior Samantha Sollano performed three pieces she wrote: “An Uncompleted Song,” “Twisted,” and “Long Awaited Album.”

Junior Juan Victorio was the only male performer for this event and the only student not in Moreno’s class. Victorio performs because he simply loves performing in front of people. “It’s a rush, you al-ways have to enjoy it,” says Victorio who performed a piece not written by him, but one he very much be-lieves in: “Women Rule This World”.

Alyssa Acuna combined two pieces and changed the mood from heartfelt to an adrenaline rush with her performance “Dreams and The Edge is Where I Want to Be.”

Vaginas were the last topic of discussion after Kristine Cervantez performed a

72-year-old lady that had the audience in laughter from Vagina Monologues. Cervantez did a great job keeping a serious face throughout her perfor-mance which at the end re-vealed the funny piece on a woman’s “down there” actually ended with cancer.

Lambda Pi Eta, The Eagle Eye Public Relations Club and The RhetOracles pro-vided a token of appre-ciation to these performers for their hard work. UT

The workshop was one of two scheduled during the poet’s one-month stay. Siddique is the fifth writer to be sent to CSULA since the USA-UK Writer-in-Residence Program in the West was instituted in 2005. He will remain in campus until June 12.

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BACK STORYJune 04, 2009University Times NEWS8

POMP AND C I R C U M -STANCE

With graduation cere-monies just a short time away, Ball State Univer-sity student Noah Glick thought the old pomp and circumstance could use an update. In an ar-ticle from the university’s Daily News, Glick sug-gested students be al-lowed to wear jeans, have a DJ instead of a keynote address, and shorten the ceremony. Glick also suggested school funding be decided on the length of the ceremony; the shorter the ceremony, the more money allotted for the school. UT

GREEN IS GOOD??

Going green may not be as energy efficient as original-ly thought. A recent study conducted by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative think tank, found that green schools have been less energy ef-ficient than the newest non-green schools from the same region. Green schools also cost more to build. With a bill in the Senate designed to mod-ernize and renovate public schools while encouraging green technologies, envi-ronmentalists have their work cut out for them. The cost of switching to green technology still outweighs the benefits. UT

BITTER BE-HAVIOR

Feeling bitter may soon be classified as a mental ill-ness. Since the behavior is so common and destruc-tive, some psychiatrists are urging it to be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic em-bittered disorder. Embit-tered people are those who have worked hard at some-thing and when an awful event happens, such as the dissolution of a marriage, become angry, pessimistic and aggressive. The dis-

order, modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder, leaves people seething for revenge. 1% to 2% of the population is estimated to be embittered.

Schools Out For Summer

Statewide budget cuts have led the Los Ange-les Community College District to cancel one of its summer sessions. The district’s nine campuses will proceed with the first session beginning in mid-

June. The second session, which normally begins in July, has ben cancelled. Students will miss out on core general education classes including eng-lish, math and science courses. The second ses-sion would have enrolled almost half the students seeking summer classes.UT

iPHONE

Apple’s iPhone can be used to keep track of many things. Administra-tors at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo have required 550 of their stu-dents to use it to keep track of their attendance. The college students will use its GPS system to accom-plish this. Since good at-tendance is a graduation requirement at this institu-tion it is crucial that profes-sors have some way to keep accurate record of their students. Although it is likely that students will still

try to avoid going to class, university officials believe students will not go with-out their iPhone.

URINE FIL-TRATION

Astronauts at the Interna-tional Space Station recent-ly perfected an advanced filtering system allowing them to recycle their own urine for drinking water. The body waste is collect-ed from the station’s toilet and then boiled. The vapor from boiling is then col-

lected, condensed and then filtered, much like home filtration systems. The re-cycling system is cheaper than sending water to the station on cargo rockets. The crew of three men said they were not uneasy or disgusted by the idea at all . In fact, they thought that the recycled excrement didn’t taste bad at all. “The taste is good,” American Astronaut Micheal Barrett said. “This is something that had been the stuff of science fiction.” The space station is looking to ex-pand their crew from three members to six, and with the use of the new filtering system, there will be a lot more room for the other people coming aboard.UT

TOXIC PLAS-TICS

Stunted growth may not just be a result of Amer-ica’s dependency on caf-feine but rather an effect

of a plastic that is used in baby bottles, plastic sippy-cups, and tupperware. The senate has just passed a bill that would ban the manu-facturing of Bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical sub-stance that, according to over 200 scientists, causes “brain development prob-lems, the early onset of pu-berty and several types of cancer.”

When heated, toxic chemi-cals leak into the liquids causing infants to ingest the chemical.

Lobbyists from the US Chemical Industry, and the leaders of the plastic mar-ket have begun to contest the bill saying that those who oppose the plastic are “needlessly restricting products deemed to be safe by scientific experts world-wide.”

Senate Joe Simitian, of Palo Alto advises consum-ers to take precautions now before health reviews con-firm an onset of physical damages.UT

B L A C K -BOARD OR BLOGS

Jim Groom, an instruction-al technologist, called for universities to start using free blogging software for online courses at an event last month at the City Uni-versity of New York. Many colleges currently use the Blackboard program, but system glitches and crashes have led them to consider

alternative applications. CSULA uses Blackboard, but some courses like New Media Technologies in the TVF major use other pro-grams. While speakers at the CUNY event encour-aged the use of blogs, they said universities should still support both. UT

FAST TRACK

Some colleges are now offering students the chance to finish their de-grees in just three years. The schools are not the first as similar programs exist at the University of Cambridge and Oxford University in England, but the program is a wel-come addition. Partici-pating in the three-year program allows students to get out to the “real world” sooner, elimi-nates “fluff ” classes and costs less since it cuts one year of tuition expenses. The degrees offered in three-year programs are also available in the more standard four-year pro-gram form. UT

GREEN CA-REERS

Going ‘green’ is not only helping the environment, it can also help the job mar-ket. Careers in solar ener-gy are prevalent in today’s market. There are many companies in various in-dustries that are making changes to benefit the en-vironment. These changes require the expertiese of engineers. Students who are unsure of what to major in may consider electrical enge-neering. This specific area of study will open doors to the world of technological change. Businesses and ho-meowners are beginning to implement design changes that require this expertise. According to greenca-reersguide.com, average solar operations engineers earn between $52,000 and $62,000 per year. The low-est level of education need-ed is a bachelor’s degree while a master’s degree is reccommended. UT

—20— King Features Weekly Service

May 11-17, 2009