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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
April 12, 2010Vol. 87 Issue 32
MONDAY
Learn more about the ASI Elections that took place April 7-8, and find out
what happens next at:
Watch the event coverage of the Cal State Fullerton Relay for Life at:
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La Habra Citrus Fair welcomes communityAttendees of the fair enjoyed rides and food as well as various
vendors only a few miles from campus. NEWS, Page 3
KIDS THESE DAYS:‘16 and Pregnant’ exploitsteen mothersOPINION, Page 5
Softball drops two games, tied for first place in Big WestSPORTS, Page 8
Relay For Life returns ASI election comes down to run off
Titans remain in first place
With a total of 3,656 votes counted (approximately 10 percent of the student body), the 2010 Associated Students Inc. elections for president, vice president and board of directors came to a close Thursday, April 8, with an unusual ending. While Joe Lopez and Andy Lopez received the highest number of votes at 1439, none of the four running parties managed to win over 50 percent (plus one) of the votes, which is required for the presi-dential and vice-presidential positions. Lopez and Lopez will now enter a run-off election April 14 and 15, with Joel Thayer and Beth Velasco, who recieved the second highest number of votes at 888.
“We’re very excited,” Joe Lopez said after the an-nouncement of the run-off was made. “This is going to be a chance for the student body to get more involved in the decision. This is a position that should be earned, and we’re ready to earn it.”
If the old adage is correct and two-out hits do indeed get you to heaven, then Cal State Fullerton baseball strode into the pearly gates Sunday after-noon with a dominant 6-1 victory over No. 18 UC Irvine at Cicerone Field at Anteater Ballpark.
Three of the six CSUF runs came with two outs as the Titans walked away with sole possession of first place in the Big West Conference after claiming Sunday’s series finale against the Anteaters.
“Our goal is to maintain what we’re doing,” said junior shortstop Christian Colon. “What we’ve been doing the last two days is the right thing to do, ob-viously, so we’ll just maintain this and take care of business the rest of the way.”
The Titans followed their 10-hit performance April 10 with another offensive outburst, exploding for 13 hits against UCI senior right-hander Eric Pet-tis, who came into the game as arguably the Anteat-ers hottest pitcher with a 5-0 mark.
Cancer – a word usually synonymous with doubt, despair and death – was given a new meaning at Cal State Ful-lerton’s second annual Relay for Life.
“We need to make cancer all right to say,” said Tara Hussey, a leukemia sur-vivor and CSUF student. “We need to find the humor and joy in it.”
At this 24-hour-long relay, partici-pants celebrated survivors, remembered
Cal State Fullerton’s partnership with KCET is be-ing renewed, and production of CSUF’s public affairs show “OC Insight” will increase from four episodes a year to 12.
One reason is because of the show’s uniqueness, said Brent Foster, assistant professor of communica-tions and producer of “OC Insight.”
Foster said he can’t think of any show that follows the format of “OC Insight,” which in-volves three panelists and one host involved in a moderated discussion.
“We weren’t trying to replicate anything,” Foster said. “This was a creation from the ground up.”
The partnership between CSUF and public
those that have been lost and encour-aged those who continue to fight back against this deadly disease.
Relay for Life has become one of the most well-known fundraisers for the re-search and treatment of cancer, and is sponsored by the American Cancer So-ciety (ACS). This event includes more than 3.5 million volunteers and partici-pants in over 5,000 communities across America, according to the Relay for Life Web site.
The relay was brought to CSUF last year when the Colleges Against Cancer
broadcasting station KCET is in its third year of a three-year agreement.
The partnership obliges CSUF to provide content to KCET. “OC Insight” is CSUF’s signature offering to KCET, said Jeffrey Cook, associate vice president of strategic communications and the executive pro-ducer of the show.
“OC Insight” is a talk show about issues of impor-
organization contacted the ACS and ex-pressed an interest in holding the event, said Laura Lee, molecular biology ma-jor and co-chair for the Relay for Life committee.
It just so happened that the ACS had set aside funds specifically for starting new relays on college campuses, Lee said.
“I just hope by doing this I can help move us closer to a cure,” Lee said.
The event started on a foggy and chilly Saturday morning with speakers inspiring the audience with their in-
tance specifically to Orange County. The show airs on KCET’s Orange Channel broadcasting on cable and digital channel 28.2.
A melange of faculty members, alumni, television industry professionals and students make up “OC Insight’s” production team.
credible story of resilience, remission and recovery.
One of the morning’s more notable speakers was CSUF sophomore Kelly Kim, who had survived two brain tu-mors before graduating high school.
At the age of 11, Kim had a grand mal seizure that left her unconscious. When she came to she found out that her seizure had been brought on by a brain tumor in the left lobe of her brain.
Production of ‘OC Insight’ to continue
By Charles Purnell Daily Titan Staff Writer
By MIChael arellanO Daily Titan Staff Writer
Michaele McDonald speaks to the crowd at CSUF’s Relay for Life Luminaria Ceremony about the loss of her father, Fullerton Police Officer Mike McDonald, to cancer.PhOtO By MIChael arellanO/Daily Titan Staff Writer
Bill Habermehl, Orange County superintendent of schools, and Kathy Marvin, science teacher at Sierra Vista High School participate in an episode of ‘OC Insider.’ This episode about public education in Orange County will be the last under the original terms of the partnership between CSUF and KCET.
PhOtO By Charles Purnell/Daily Titan Staff Writer
See BASEBALL, Page 8
See ASI, Page 2
By GIna BaxterDaily Titan Staff Writer
See INSIGHT, Page 4
Teammates greet redshirt freshman designated hitter Carlos Lopez who scored on senior catcher Billy Marcoe’s third inning, two-run double. Lopez went 1-5 on the afternoon with an RBI and a run scored.
PhOtO By BrIan whItehead/Daily Titan Staff Writer
See RELAY FOR LIFE, Page 3
By BrIan whItehead Daily Titan Staff Writer
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ISSUE dATE: April 6In the article titled “Tanning salons to suffer
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INterNAtIoNALEuropean countries offer $41 billion to Greece
GOP may filibuster Supreme Court nominee
City to vote on prayer at city meetings
LANCASTER –to pray to Jesus, or not? That is the question voters in the city of Lancaster, calif., about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, are being asked to decide in tuesday’s municipal election.
Ballot Measure I asks whether the city should continue its policy of randomly selecting clergy from different faiths to deliver the invocation at council meetings, “without restricting the content based on their beliefs, including references to Jesus christ.”
other Lancaster ballot measures include whether to change the mayor’s term limit from two to four years and whether Lancaster should become a charter city. But it is Measure I that has by far polarized the most voters.
The issue of praying before city meetings came to a head in the city last August when the American civil Liberties Union of Southern california sent a letter to city officials stating that the group had received “a number of complaints” about council members and commissioners opening their meetings with invocations given in “the name of Jesus,” or containing other explicitly sectarian religious references.
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GREECE – european finance officials agreed Sunday to make about $41 billion in loans available to Greece to help the Mediterranean nation stave off the threat of default.
The loans would be charged at below-market rates to enable Athens to keep its borrowing costs down as it struggles to raise money to finance its runaway public debt. Global markets have punished Greece in recent days with high interest rates, reflecting widespread anxiety over Athens’ credit-worthiness.
The Greek government continues to insist it will not need to resort to assistance from fellow european countries or the International Monetary Fund to stay afloat. But Athens has called on its neighbors to show their willingness to extend a hand if necessary, to calm jittery investors and thwart speculators betting on a default.
WASHINGTON – Senate republicans on Sunday declined to rule out a filibuster to block President Barack obama’s next nominee for the Supreme court, but they said it will only happen with an extremist pick.
“I’m never going to take it off the table,” said republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, appearing on ABc’s “This Week.”
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top republican on the Senate Judiciary committee, said any nominee with a “judges know best” philosophy will prompt a big fight with the GoP.
obama was given the choice to fill a Supreme court seat after moderate Justice John Paul Stevens, who will be 90 soon, announced last week he would retire.
ASI: Run off ReSultS on ApRIl 15
PASA shares Pilipino culturethe 23rd Pilipino culture
Night (PcN) was held at the La Mirada theatre for Performing Arts Saturday by the cal State Ful-lerton student organization Pilipi-no-American Student Association (PASA).
“hero,” a story about two lead-ers of the Philippine revolution of 1892, was the theatrical focus of the night. Pre-show performanc-es by PASAbilities, PASA’s con-temporary hip-hop dance crew, launched both showings at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
“the focus of the performance is to bring awareness of our national heroes,” said Selyna Arciaga, 21, PASA’s president and communica-tions major. “Jose rizal is consid-ered our national hero and Andres Bonifacio is one of the greatest leaders of the Philippines. PcN is a way for us to share that little bit of history, but significant part of Pilipino culture, with the audi-ence.”
the theatrical performance in-cluded song numbers as well as modified and choreographed pre-sentations of traditional Pilipino dances.
one of the dances performed was the Philippine national dance tinikling, a folk dance that in-volves a group of people rhythmi-cally tapping and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other, while dancers step over and in between them in coordina-tion.
“We wanted to tell the history of the Philippines,” said cherry Anne Mabutas, 21, the PcN dance coor-dinator and health science major. “these aren’t just regular dances. they’re not just movements put together, they tell stories of the way of life back then.”
For clyde Bessey, the PcN co-ordinator who wrote the script and songs and directed the per-formance, the night was not only about education but entertainment and creating a mixture of both.
“It’s not anyone’s responsibil-ity to know about (other people’s cultures) but that’s not what it’s about,” said Bessey, 21, junior film major. “What it’s about is having a good time and enjoying your-self and maybe learning a thing or two in the process. I’m not ask-ing people to come and learn, I’m asking them to come and watch a fun show, a good show that we all worked hard on.”
With support from other cSUF groups like the Associated Stu-dents, Inc, and the Association for Inter-cultural Awareness (AIcA), PASA was able to hold PcN with-out a hitch.
Funding PcN takes anywhere from $9,000 to $12,000, said Ar-ciaga, who was glad to just be able to hold the event because of bud-get problems.
the play featured a true story centered on true characters, but Bessey took some creative license in interpreting the events, he said. one of the secondary characters, Maria clara, is a fabrication rep-resenting the Philippines and the Pilipino people’s love for their country. Bessey merged modern storytelling devices with tradition-al themes and historical figures to keep the story flowing and inter-esting, Bessey said.
By AlISon MunSonDaily Titan Staff Writer
“the main theme of the story line itself is sacrifice, what it takes to lead the world forward but in my opinion that’s only a part of the theme of the show,” Bessey said. “But what I want this show to do is actually teach people their own culture. this part of our his-tory is severely unappreciated by other (Pilipino-Americans).
When Bessey asks students who the national hero is many reply, Manny Pacquiao (a famous Pili-pino boxer).
“Something that I’m trying to instill is that appreciation for our history, our culture and our past,” said Bessey.
Scene six, Bye Goes the Leader, of the Pilipino-American Student Association’s (PASA) Pilipino Culture Night performance, “Hero” held Saturday April 10, at the La Mirada Theater for Performing Arts.
photo By AlISon MunSon/Daily titan Staff Staff Writer
his running mate, Andy Lopez, agreed with his partner about the upcoming round of elections.
“It just makes us want to try that much harder next week,” Lopez said. With a large support system pres-ent at the meeting, the Lopez team is confident that the run-off results will end in their favor.
With just over 24 percent of the votes, Joel Thayer and Beth Velasco were also excited to be a part of the upcoming round of elections.
“I think we have a chance to win this. We’re going to campaign harder and plan it more,” Beth Velasco said. “With more time, I think we can be successful.”
While the two running parties for
From Page 1 the ASI presidency began strategizing their next moves, the newly elected representatives for each cSUF col-lege celebrated their victories.
Yue (eric) Zhou Niu became the new representative for the college of Business and economics, gathering an impressive 727 votes.
eric Thai, the candidate for the college of communications, won with 454 votes, and rohullah Latif beat out her opponent in the col-lege of engineering and computer Science with a total of 111 votes.
In the college of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, elizabeth Shipley received 24 votes for the win. Lani endo became the new face of the college of health and human de-velopment with 436 votes.Lorenzo Frausto won over the college of hu-
manities and Social Sciences with a total of 94 votes.
The college of the Arts and the college of education did not pro-vide ASI with any candidates for possible election.
Also on the ASI agenda were the results of a poll on campus smoking laws. on question one, 56 percent of students were in favor of a general smoking ban on campus.
on question two, 69 percent of students polled were in favor of desginated smoking areas. ASI now has the task of drawing up an official statement to give to the school.
“All of the votes will be tallied up and considered by the Board of
directors to make an official ASI statement,” said Genevieve eldred, ASI elections commissioner. “That statement and the results will be for-warded to dr. Gordon to make an official policy on the issue.”
The new run-off elections be-tween the two remaining parties will be held on campus April 14 and 15, with both parties campaigning for a final shot at the presidency for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year. All of the over 36,000 regis-tered students are eligible to cast a ballot.
Final results on the elections will be announced April 15 in the tSU at 9 p.m.
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La Habra Citrus Fair offers entertainment
By Gina BaxterDaily Titan Staff Writer
The ferris wheel, a crowd favorite, was a focal point at the La Habra Spring Citrus Fair held April 9-11.photo By Daniel c. enos/For the Daily titan
The first annual La Habra Spring Citrus Fair, located on La Habra Boulevard between Cypress and Euclid street, opened last weekend to rave reviews from the surrounding community. Packed with entertain-ment, rides, rows of food stalls and different exhi-bitions, people from neigh-boring cities brought friends and family to the fair from April 9-11 to enjoy a beautiful spring weekend in Or-ange County.
Along with several other local business owners, Martha Lester was on hand to pro-mote the Gary Center, a nonprofit social services agency dedicated to providing affordable services like parenting classes, domestic vio-lence awareness, substance abuse counseling and language courses. The Gary Center, located in La Habra off Hillcrest Street, offers crisis counseling, dental services
and food distribution to members of the community on a sliding fee scale, with services in both Eng-lish and Spanish. The La Habra Spring Citrus Fair was an excellent way for Lester to spread the word that the Gary Center is trying to make a difference in people's lives, especially those less fortunate than others.
“We serve over 10,000 i n d i v i d u a l s each year,” Les-ter said. “Our core programs include fam-ily and group c o u n s e l i n g , we have a full-mouth dental clinic open to adults and chil-dren, and our food distribu-
tion program serves about 150 families each Friday. We’re here today (at the fair) to try and raise money to help some of our low-income families.”
Volunteers from the Gary Cen-ter spent the day at their booth passing out informational pam-phlets and selling homemade food items.
The La Habra Journal, Wells
Fargo, the U.S. Census and ra-dio station 93.1 Jack FM were just a few of the businesses in the surrounding communities that flocked to the fair in order to pro-mote their services.
Armed with dancing citrus fruits as the fair’s mascots, the city set out to make a welcoming statement to the spring season by having demonstrations on home and gardening techniques, live lo-cal entertainment and food for La Habra to enjoy.
Rajnish Khanna, one of the many vendors who set up shop at the fair, agreed that the La Habra Spring Citrus Fair was a great place to see and be seen.
“This is my first time here, and I’m enjoying myself. It’s a beauti-ful day,” Khanna said. Khanna was at the fair to promote his home and garden decoration business.
While children scrambled to get in line for rides, families walked down aisles packed with food and crafts. Businesses like Panera and Jamba Juice were on hand to pass out samples of their products, while others, such as the Home Depot, offered free classes on gar-dening, home craftsmanship and more. Helm and Sons, the carni-val experts, were behind the set-up of different skill games, water
gun races and exciting rides, mak-ing the fair into a family-friendly environment. There was a mix of food and crafts to encourage peo-ple to come out and support their community.
“I like all the local venues that are here and the way it's set up,” said Jennifer McCammon, who works in the La Habra city district. "It's family friendly, the parking is easy to get to... I was surprised at
how good the fair is." With easy street access and the
police department on hand, the city officials made sure that the fair was in an accessible and peace-ful area for the citizens to enjoy.
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“It’s family friendly, the parking is easy to get to... I was surprised at how good the fair is.
– Jennifer McCammon attendee
self-image discussed at workshop
relay For liFe: people Gather on campus to Battle cancerFrom Page 1
By Katie rossomanoDaily Titan Staff Writer
Many people suffer from the almost debilitating self consciousness in regard to their body image, an issue discussed at the workshop.photo courtesy FlicKr.com
Cal State Fullerton’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) hosted a Healthy Mind and Body workshop April 8. Students had the opportunity to discuss their expe-riences with food and body image and to learn about “normal” eating habits, how to accurately interpret hunger “cues,” coping strategies to deal with negative self-image and ways to create a positive one.
The workshop was facilitated by staff psychologist Ya-Shu Liang and psychology graduate student Crystal McIndoo.
“I think I’ve met one girl in my entire life that was complete-ly comfortable with the way she looked,” said Caralie Kennedy, a human services senior who at-tended the workshop.
Liang and McIndoo began the workshop by asking the 11student attendees to fill out a brief survey.
The survey listed statements re-garding food and body image and participants were to rate their re-sponses on a “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree” scale.
The surveys were anonymous, but students were asked to remem-ber the number of their survey so that they could fill out another one at the end so the facilitators could determine how informative or helpful the workshop was.
Next, everyone was asked to in-troduce themselves and discuss an issue that they were having with food and/or self-image. The fa-cilitators said that they wanted to encourage a warm, interactive and confidential environment where everyone would feel comfortable.
The most frequent issue that participants mentioned was “emo-tional eating.”
Liang and McIndoo provided a pamphlet which listed seven types of “binges.” The Stress Binge is also known as “emotional eating” which occurs when people eat to alter their mood.
“Do not skip meals, it will make you want to binge,” Liang said.
After introductions, partici-pants received three small stacks of different colored sticky notes in preparation for an activity. Li-ang would say a word or phrase, such as “food” for the orange stack of sticky notes, and then students
were to write down the first three words that came to their mind. Afterward, everyone stuck their sticky notes on the wall and dis-cussed the common themes that they observed.
“Normal” eating was a major point of discussion.
Liang emphasized the impor-tance of flexibility; it is normal to over-eat or under-eat occasionally.
“Normal eating is eating when you are hungry and stopping when you are full, it means trusting your body,when you are paying atten-tion to your body, you are paying attention to your feelings,” Liang said.
The facilitators also provided a Body Mass Index (BMI) table in the pamphlet so that students could determine if they were at a healthy weight. BMI takes into ac-count one’s height and weight.
During the second half of the work shop, the discussion focused mainly around body image. Some of the topics included the messages that participants had received from others (about their body) and the messages that they tell themselves.
“It is helpful to think of our-selves as a whole being. We are more than just our body image,” McIndoo said.
The facilitators emphasized the danger of polarized, all-or-nothing thinking which can create guilt. They said that negative thoughts
can decrease motivation by generating doubt. In the pam-phlet provided were 10 Steps to Positive Body Image, which included advice such as wear-ing comfortable clothing and surrounding oneself with posi-tive people.
“Losing weight does not guarantee that you are going to have a better self image. It is really about what you tell your-self on a daily basis,” McIndoo said.
This was the first Healthy Mind and Body workshop, and the facilitators plan to have an-other one next semester.
Liang, who is the psychologi-cal consultant for the Titan Fit-ness Challenge, said that this workshop was inspired by the one created for participants of the Challenge. She said that if enough students are interested, she would like to make it a weekly group.
“It was worth coming to and I would recommend it to other students,” said Alex Munguia, junior finance major, who at-tended the workshop.
Doctors surgically removed the tumor and put Kim on anti-seizure medication, but in 2006 she suffered another grand mal seizure. The doc-tor thought that it was brought on by the scar tissue from her last sur-gery, but when they went to operate found that tumor had re-grown and removed it.
Now Kim is cancer free and dedi-cates her time and hard work to find-ing a cure so that fewer people have to go through the hardships she went through.
“We are going to find a cure in my lifetime,” Kim said.
After the morning’s speakers, the relay was kicked off when cancer survivors, holding banners with “Cel-ebrate, remember and fight back” printed on them, led the more than 600 participants on their first lap around the grass field in front of the Student Health and Counseling Center.
As the day went on the teams be-gan to set up camp pitching their 10 man tents, laying out snacks and bringing out an assortment of sports equipment.
The National Criminal Justice Honor Society Alpha Phi Sigma set up not only a canopy, tables and chairs but found the will to create a 6-by-6 foot jail cell.
The purpose of the cell was to raise additional funds for the relay. The sign on the bars read, “Put cancer behind bars. $1.00 for arrests. $1.00 for bail.”
Throughout the day people were chased down by the society's mem-bers, who carried bright pink hand-cuffs after receiving a dollar donation from the fugitive’s friends. Then the person had to beg and plead with on-lookers to put up the $1 bail so they
could be liberated. The team was able to raise more than $3,100.
The group dedicated their involve-ment in the relay to Fullerton Police Officer Mike McDonald who recent-ly lost his life to cancer, said Jennifer Harris, Alpha Phi Sigma’s vice presi-dent.
But as the day moved on and the sun set the mood began to become more serious and solemn; it was draw-ing close to the luminary ceremony, which was dedicated to remembering the loved ones that people have lost to this disease.
Surrounding the track were deco-rated white paper bags filled with little electric candles. These bags told the stories of individuals who endured the life-or-death struggle with cancer. The ceremony ended with a silent lap lead by McDonald’s family.
Friends, family and strangers of-fered comfort to each other as they walked around the course, lighted by nothing other than the dim lights in the bags, hand in hand in memory of those that did not survive.
“It’s so exciting to see a community come out to support those who have had their lives changed by cancer,” Hussey said.
Throughout the night, the com-mittee provided various activities in-cluding movies, music and games.
“This was very well planned out,”
said Dennis Tsai, a fraternity brother from Beta Upsilon Delta. “There was never a time when there was nothing to do.”
Besides the unexpected shower participants got at 4:30 a.m. from the lawn’s sprinklers, the night went off without a hitch, Lee said.
Around 9:00 a.m., the participants began to clean up the field, taking down their tents and throwing away their trash in preparation for the clos-ing ceremony. While most had slept for only a few hours, they seemed more energetic than when they start-ed the relay.
The closing ceremony began with a speech from CSUF alumna and breast cancer survivor Norrissa En-nis.
Ennis talked out how exciting it was to have a relay at CSUF, how encouraging it was to see how sup-portive the community is and how enlightening it was to see what the future holds for society.
“We need to fight together as a community,” said Ennis, ending her speech, “We need to know that we will fight for one another.”
As of now, this year’s CSUF Relay for Life has raised over $21,000 to fund cancer research and even though the event itself has ended, there are still opportunities up until August to donate, Lee said.
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Stephanie Yu, photocommunication major, examines one of her artworks for sale at the Social Justice Summit silent auction held in the Garden Cafe Friday afternoon.photo By christa connelly/Daily titan photo editor
““Art speaks powerfully in a way words can’t.
– Stephanie YuPhotocommunication Major
By chelsea MensheKFor The Daily Titan [email protected]
Hi there Cal State Fullerton! I’m Chelsea Menshek. You may not know me but you soon will. I’m a fellow Titan that wants to help brighten up your days. Join me on groovy adventures as I travel Southern California. I’ll explore the best places to go and
food to eat, without going over our “starving student” budgets. From Venice Beach to Santa Ana, there is always trouble to get into and I’ll be there to lead the way. Check the Daily Titan in the Campus Life section on Mon-days, or the Web site for my new segment: Life Is A Highway. Let the journey begin.
The Garden Café at Cal State Ful-lerton offered the perfect atmosphere Friday afternoon for the second an-nual Art Auction hosted by the Vol-unteer and Service Center.
The auction was created to be a fundraiser for the upcoming Social Justice Summit on April 17.
This annual summit hosts speakers and workshops that cover a variety of social issues such as human rights, animal cruelty, healthcare and green living, said Amy Mattern, director of the Volunteer and Service Center.
Friday afternoon, volunteers worked to create an enchanting at-mosphere for the summit’s largest fundraising event.
The courtyard of the Garden Café was filled by various unique pieces of art – some of which were displayed in easels while others hung from the courtyard’s vine-wrapped fences.
The art was accompanied by melo-dies courtesy of CSUF’s classical gui-
By Michael arellanoDaily Titan Staff Writer
tar students, who donated their time in order to bring awareness to the possibility of their major being cut.
Every piece of art that was up for bid had been donated by the artists in support of the summit, said Tris-ta O’Connell, art auction advisory board member.
This auction was inspired by the success of the Art for Health event put on by the Student Health and Counseling Center, said O’Connell, also assistant director of the University Learning Center.
Since the summit has no budget, every dollar must be raised through donors and/or fundraisers, and since the recession has left few will-ing donors, this committee has had to rely more heavily on fundraising, O’Connell said.
The committee stepped up to the added responsibilities by getting over
50 pieces of art donated, Mattern said.
“Art can be powerful,” O’Connell said. “They can be tools to convey messages about what’s happening in the world.”
This event gave the audience the opportunity to experience social sat-ire depicted in the work that was up
for auction.A deco-
rated door at the en-trance of the auction commemo-rated social justice lead-ers, a row of
photographs represented the beauty of every life and a mixed media por-trait dedicated to the women’s rights movement were a few examples of the message conveyed by works on display at the auction.
Stephanie Yu, a senior photocom-munication major, donated seven different photographs and frames for this year’s event. Yu got involved with this auction last year after Mat-
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“It’s really a fantastic opportunity for KCET because they have some Orange County-specific content to put on their channel,” Cook said. “But moreover, it’s a great opportunity for the students, particularly in the college of commu-nications, to get real-life experience in creating a public affairs talk show.”
Through the show, students get training on everything from operating cameras, lighting, applying makeup, field production and script writing.
The show’s director, lighting director and stage manager are industry profes-sionals from KCET’s headquarters in Los Angeles.
Director of the PBS’s “Tavis Smiley Show,” Jonathan X, is also “OC In-sight’s” director.
Heather Lacayo, who graduated in 2005, earning a BA in communica-tions, is the editor of “OC Insight.” She said the crew does a really good job.
“Every set of shows, the quality is getting better,” she said. “I think the
tern, seeing Yu’s exhibit in the Titan Student Union, asked if she would be willing to donate some of her art.
Yu found that this was not only a way to showcase her art but also a way to connect with people through the messages of her photographs.
“Art speaks powerfully in a way words can’t,” Yu said. “Images leave an impression on your heart.”
Many of the pieces that were do-nated to the auction represent ideas that will be presented during the So-cial Justice Summit, said Tatiana Pe-droza, a women studies and sociology major and member of the Art Auc-tion Planning Committee.
Pedroza not only donated her time for the planning of this event, but also donated some of her own pho-tographs to be auctioned and raise awareness.
For her the auction was not only an awesome event but a rare occa-sion to interact with people and share ideas.
“It’s good for people to expose themselves to different theories,” Pe-droza said. “It helps them to break out of their shells.”
students are getting sharper, getting better. Everything is flowing really well. We’re all getting used to each other. It’s a nice show.”
Three new episodes were filmed in the basement of Pollack Library on April 8, which were the last produc-tions under CSUF’s original agreement with KCET.
Episodes about the “changing faces of AIDs” and “O.C.’s History” were completed by noon. After lunch, the production team filmed an episode on “public education in Orange County.”
Two of the panelists were Kathy Marvin, a science teacher at Sierra Vis-ta High School and one of five teachers named California Teacher of the Year; and Mark Ellis, assistant professor of secondary education.
“OC Insight” has, in the past, been assigned the 7 p.m. time slot right after BBC World News.
According to Cook, the demograph-ics most likely to watch the new epi-sodes are people who watch the news and are into current events.
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With the recent retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, President Obama has the his-toric opportunity of replac-ing two Supreme Court jus-tices during his first year and a half in office. Stevens was widely considered a liberal-leaning justice, and progres-sives hope Obama replaces him with someone of similar judicial philosophy. However, given the radical erosion of the many protections guaran-teed to citizens under the bill of rights this past decade, the most important quality the next Supreme Court justice must have is an affinity for the people’s civil liberties.
Consider the recent report from The New York Times (“U.S. Approves Targeted Killing of American Cler-ic”). The paper detailed that President Obama has taken the unprecedented authority to assassinate U.S. citizens. The rationale behind these killings are that the suspects were in some way tied to terrorist activi-ties. The only known victim so far of the assassination policy is the radical Middle Eastern cleric Anwar-al-Awalki, who officials believed was participating in the planning of attacks against the United States.
The flaw of such a policy goes beyond the fact that it is a clear violation of the right to a trial by jury. Too often our government has been entirely and immor-ally wrong when it comes to the guilt or innocence of suspected terrorists. After years of locking away indi-viduals in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and Abu Ghraib on the basis of little or shoddy evidence, the inconve-nient truth surfaced that hundreds of these men were above suspicion and completely law-abiding.
We cannot allow our government to go from im-prisoning innocent people, to torturing innocent people, to killing innocent people. It is essential that whoever is chosen to replace Justice Stevens does the right thing by striking down these unprecedented ex-ecutive powers.
The Supreme Court also needs a justice that doesn’t view the right to a trial by jury as some sort of luxury. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Bush administrations handling of Guantanamo detain-ees were unconstitutional and that these individuals should have access to federal courts. While the de-cision was a victory for believers of civil liberties, it
was a close decision that with one more wrong-minded jus-tice could have gone the other way.
Just over a month ago, Pres-ident Obama extended provi-sions in the Patriot Act that will allow the continuation of eavesdropping, and seizure of private records from American citizens. Obama has unfortu-nately adopted many of the legal positions of George W. Bush – either out of politics or simply because he agrees with Bush’s constitutional philoso-phy.
However, as a Senator, Obama said that the Patriot Act, “didn’t just provide law enforcement the powers it needed to keep us safe, but
powers it didn’t need to invade our privacy without cause or suspicion.” With numerous provisions in the Patriot Act already struck down as unconstitutional, it’s time we find a Supreme Court justice that will help kill the bill for good.
Lastly, many states across the country continue to illegally deny homosexuals the same protections as heterosexuals. The 14th Amendment reads that “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
By not allowing gays to marry, states are depriv-ing them of numerous benefits. For straight couples, married status comes with additional legal and finan-cial benefits for taxes, property ownership and family medical care. It is therefore very important that the next Supreme Court justice believe in equality for all citizens.
Founding Father James Madison shared with us his belief that, “there are more instances of the abridge-ment of the freedom of the people by gradual and si-lent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
It is our hope that the president’s next Supreme Court pick will reverse the unnerving trend regard-ing American’s freedom this past decade and choose someone who will steadfastly defend our Bill of Rights.
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New judge must defend liberty
Sunday might be my favorite day of the week. It’s my one day to sleep in, I can lie around all afternoon in my pajamas and I usually make my-self a nice stack of syrupy waffles.
The only thing that frustrates me about this day of rest is the available programming in the late morning. Even after my several angry letters, “The Price is Right” has refused to expand their work week for my view-ing pleasure, so I’m stuck clicking through Oprah reruns and made-for-TV movies.
With that in mind, it is under-standable that one day I would end up chomping down a bowl of Spe-cial K with my eyes glued to MTV’s “16 and Pregnant.” Who knew there were so many knocked-up teens will-ing to expose their broken relation-ships and southern accents to the masses? Apparently, enough to make up several marathons for the former-ly music video-logged network.
As soon as the mascara-stained yelling matches began, my loving boyfriend resigned himself to his studies in our bedroom, leaving me alone to absorb all of the awful that is “16 and Pregnant.”
Move over Flavor Flav, this pro-gram might be the new embodiment of everything I hate about television, specifically MTV.
You might expect a show with a name like “16 and Pregnant,” to re-side on a channel like TLC, with all
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of the other baby crap that people like to watch, but there is a very good reason it doesn’t. It’s because “16 and Pregnant” isn’t so much about being 16 and pregnant as it is about cry-ing, whining, reading from cue cards and irresponsibility.
Relationship drama is what domi-nates this train wreck of a series, and not the sort of relationship drama that might normally result from an unplanned teen pregnancy. It’s the same “he said; she said” crap you find on “The Real World,” with the resulting baby playing the role of ac-cessory and afterthought.
The particular episode I was lucky enough to catch followed the life of a cheerleader expecting twins. She had no mon-ey, a young rela-tionship with a man who had a serious thing for camouflage and overalls, and a fu-ture that looked suspiciously stained in regurgitated baby formula.
Her biggest worry throughout the course of the show? Getting back to-gether with her ex-boyfriend, a fresh-faced grade-A douche bag who wore his baseball cap at a jaunty angle.
The show does try to tackle the issue of unplanned infants at the source, reminding viewers that un-protected sex often results in a cry-ing, pooping, life-ruining burden.
The part that bothered me the
most had nothing to do with the content or characters. I’ve come to expect some seriously vile program-ming from MTV and the exploita-tion of young motherhood is well within the crap they’re willing to film. No, my beef with “16 and Preg-nant” is one that runs deep and pops up in most of reality television.
That beef is cue cards.I would rather have my head held
underwater as a thousand New Jer-sey housewives scratch a thousand chalkboards with their excessively-manicured fingernails than listen to another pregnant 16-year-old nar-rate an hour-long special about her
contractions in an eerily rehearsed and broken voice.
Any soul these poor girls had left seems to be sucked out when they’re asked to read their bad decisions back to viewers, accompa-nied by scratchy
illustrations of the stages of their pregnancy on notebook paper.
After an hour of sense-assaulting scenes of terror and mayhem, my boyfriend re-emerged from our bed-room and was immediately alarmed by the foam forming in the corners of my mouth. He switched channels immediately, just before “The Chal-lenge: Fresh Meat” came on.
We spent the rest of the afternoon watching “Ninja Warrior,” and swore to never speak of MTV again.
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March Madness is known for its men’s and women’s college basket-ball tournaments.
However, there is a different type of competition that wrapped up over the weekend, and it’s known as the Frozen Four.
The Frozen Four is the men’s college ice hockey national tourna-ment.
The tournament ran from March 26 to April 10 and took place at Ford Field in Detroit, Mich.
It is a single-game elimination tournament starting with 16 dif-ferent colleges including Michigan, Yale, Cornell, Vermont and New Hampshire universities, ending with only one champion.
Last years’ defending NCAA ice hockey champions, Boston Universi-ty, didn’t even make the tournament after being eliminated by Maine in the Hockey East semifinals.
It was time for a new team to pre-vail in 2010.
While going into the tournament, Wisconsin, Denver, Miami-Ohio and Boston College were named the top four seeds.
However, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) managed to eliminate Denver in the first round with a close score of 2-1.
The remaining top three seeds made it to the semifinals along with RIT, and this is where the strong dominated and the weak packed their bags.
While Boston College destroyed Miami-Ohio with a score of 7-1, Wisconsin humbled RIT with a re-sult of 8-1.
Making for an awfully interest-ing speculation period for the cham-pionship game, both were seen as obvious contenders, even though Wisconsin was placed right above Boston College in the top four tour-nament placements.
Eagles win Frozen Four
By Brian ZBysenskiDaily Titan Staff Writer
The Final Four often overshadows hockey’s postseason tournament
Blake Geoffrion, a senior forward for the University of Wisconsin, won the Hobey Baker award, an award given to the most outstanding col-lege player of the year.
With both the Boston College Eagles and Wisconsin Badgers both hungry for the title and sharing al-most identical records (Boston Col-lege was 28-10-3, while Wiscon-sin was 28-10-4), they both came out with a fast-paced and physical game.
Boston College opened the game with the first goal at 12:57 into the first period, when Ben Smith scored a power play goal on a slap shot from the blue line.
The puck managed to find its way into the back of the net through a screened Wisconsin goaltender, Scot Gudmandson.
There were no goals throughout the second period, and not until 1:38 into the third period did we see Boston College put in another one.
Putting the game at 2-0, Cam At-kinson scored on a backhanded shot with a quick two-on-two attack on Gudmandson.
And only 2:02 later, the Eagles made it 3-0.
Forward Chris Kreider scored with a redirected pass from winger Jimmy Hayes and into the net. While trying to intervene with the play, Wiscon-sin forward Derek Stepan slid into the boards head-first and laid on the ice for a few minutes.
Fortunately, he was able to get up under his own strength and walk to the locker room.
Unfortunately, the rest of the Wis-consin team wasn’t able to rebound.
With 12:40 left on the clock, Atkinson scored his second of the night with another power play goal on a partial breakaway with a quick backhanded shot over Wisconsin’s goaltender’s glove.
With less than five minutes left, Boston’s forward Matt Price scored with an empty net goal.
Boston College’s outburst of goals and Wisconsin’s lack of positive mo-mentum throughout the game put this match to an end.
With the dominating victory and fourth national title for the Boston College Eagles, goaltender John Muse has won his eighth straight postseason win in his collegiate ca-reer and was Coach Jerry York’s third title with the team.
The Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s tennis team took on the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos on April 10.
CSUF’s women’s tennis team was excited to hit it off in a com-petitive tennis match.
With most of the audience be-ing family members; proud par-ents cheered for their daughters in the mid-day sun.
CSUF made a competitive ef-fort, but ultimately lost to UC Santa Barbara in both singles and doubles categories with a final score of 7-0.
“The Titan women’s tennis team practices everyday from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the ten-nis courts on campus with weight lifting, conditioning and prac-
Gauchos sweep Titans
Freshman Malorie dela Cruz hits a powerful serve against UC Santa Barbara in a Big West conference match on April 10.photo By christa connelly/Daily titan photo editor
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tice,” said Barbara Wiesener, the mother of junior Erin Wiesener.
“My daughter, Erin Wiesener, has been playing since she was 8 years old and received a scholar-ship, which helps out with the tu-ition.”
UCSB fans sat in the corner, cheering on their players with signs edging them to win the match.
Gauchos’ sophomore Sofia No-vak, business economics major, said that the team may be young but they are doing really well.
Novak said she has been playing tennis since she was 4 years old.
Novak competed with CSUF’s number one player, freshman Tif-fany Mai in a singles mach.
Mai gave a competitive effort but lost to Novak 6-3, 6-7 (11-9).
Like many other CSUF athletes on campus, Mai has her own per-sonal trainer, Chico Bonner, who has been coaching for 29 years.
Mai was seemingly upset when she realized her team could lose to UCSB.
“Mai knows what she needs to do, but sometimes shots just do not come together,” Bonner said. “It is very frustrating when you miss it.”
The Titans may have lost a round to UCSB, but with more practice they believe they can quickly get back on their feet.
“The three freshman Malorie dela Cruz, Monica Rodriguez and Tiffany Mai battled and continue to improve the team,” Titan Head Coach Bill Reynolds said. “I look forward to the next game to see what they can bring.”
CSUF’s next game is against Loyola Marymount University on on March 13 at 1:30 p.m. at the LMU Tennis Center.
The Titans will try to snap an 11-game losing streak.
Boston College’s Edwin Shea (with trophy) celebrates with his teammates in a 5-0 win over Wisconsin in the NCAA men’s hockey championship in Detroit, Mich.
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Highlanders get first-ever series win over Titans By james goBee
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History was made when the UC Riverside Highlanders gained their first-ever series victory over the Cal State Fullerton softball team during Big West Conference play on Sun-day at Anderson Family Field.
“Right now, we are a very un-disciplined team,” said Titan Head Coach Michelle Gromacki.
After the Titans’ 27-run and 36-hit burst in last week’s series against UC Santa Barbara, the Titan offense seemed to be brought back down to size on Saturday after totaling only seven hits with six runs in a double-header matchup against the High-landers.
“After the series against Santa Bar-bara, we felt real good going into the series against Riverside,” said junior first baseman K.C. Craddick.
The first game on Saturday was a battle to the very end for the win. The Titans ended up suffering their first loss in conference play to the Highlanders, 5-4.
Junior pitcher Ari Cervantes seemed to struggle against UCR, al-lowing 10 hits and five runs out of 109 pitches.
The Highlander lead didn’t last long as the Titans came back and tied the series with a 2-1 win in the second game of the doubleheader.
Titan redshirt sophomore right-hander Krystal Heinle salvaged game two with a no-hitter up until the fifth inning but still ended the game with allowing only four hits.
“If they bring me in to relieve, I just have to get the job done,” Hein-le said.
With a win apiece, both UCR and CSUF were looking to take the series-win in the rubber-match Sun-day.
“We were trying to make a state-ment in the third game because we didn’t have the energy going into the first game,” Gromacki said.
The Highlanders took an early lead at the top of the first 1-0 and scored again at the top of the second, putting them ahead by two.
The Titans tried to maintain a stiff defense with efforts like an awe-inspiring double play at the top of the third.
CSUF’s bats seemed to be down as they remained without a hit.
In the top of the fourth, the Highlanders scored a pair of runs the first on a throwing error by redshirt freshman pitcher Katey Laban and
the second off of a single scoring the runner on third.
Heinle came in to relieve Laban at the end of the fourth inning.
In the bottom half of the inning, Craddick singled and scored Titan sophomore third baseman Nicole Johnson, making the score 4-1.
“It’s our hitting that was the prob-lem,” Craddick said. “We tried to hit harder and further than we should have and when the hits didn’t go, they just ended up being pop flies.”
The Titans seemed to have seen a glimmer of hope, a chance to come-back and take the win from UCR.
“I think we expected to get the hits and went up with big home run swings when we could have been focusing on base hits rather than home runs,” Laban said. “Base hits are what are ultimately going to win the ball game.”
The fifth, sixth and seventh in-nings were quickly over as soon as they began, while neither team scored additional runs, the game ended with a 4-1 UCR victory.
“I had full confidence going into this series,” Gromacki said. “I felt that we prepared very well, we pre-pared for their hitters and we knew what (senior Marissa) Alvidrez would throw at us and we felt ready for it,
but it didn’t show.”The Titans could only muster up
one hit and one run, from Craddick, against Alvidrez and the Highland-ers in Sunday’s game.
Alvidrez was named the Big West pitcher of the week for her play in the UC Santa Barbara series.
“We didn’t show what we really felt in the third game,” Cervantes said. “We really wanted to win that game.”
The Titans are now in a three-way tie with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UCR for first place in the Big West conference.
“We know that no team is just go-ing to roll over and let us win,” Cer-vantes said.
The Titans will try to keep their spot in first as they hit the road to take on the Cal Poly Mustangs in a three-game series starting with a doubleheader Saturday April 17 at noon and wrapping up the series on Sunday at noon.
“We have no other option other than to win everything now if we want to go to post season. We don’t want to make history and not go to post season,” Laban said. “We need to take the mentality into every game we play that we have no other option but to win.”Junior second baseman Natalie DeLeese makes contact with the ball against UCR.
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BASEBALL: TITANS DEFEAT NO. 18 ANTEATERS, TAKE OVER FIRST PLACE IN BIG WEST STANDINGS
“It was a great pitcher’s duel,” Ti-tan Head Coach Dave Serrano said. “Pettis had us baffled kind of like how Tyler (Pill) had them baffled. We were able to dink some balls in ... we hit some balls hard that were right at people. We just got more dinkers today than they did.”
Senior catcher Billy Marcoe gave the Titans the early lead in the top of the fourth inning with a two-out RBI single.
With a one-run lead in the fifth inning, redshirt freshman right field-er Carlos Lopez followed a two-out single by junior center fielder Gary Brown with an RBI-double to the gap in left-center.
Sophomore starting pitcher Tyler Pill followed suit with his own two-out hit, a single to center that chased Lopez home and gave CSUF a 3-0 lead.
“We’re playing hard, playing the game the way it’s supposed to be played,” Colon said. “We’re playing
within ourselves, putting the bat on the ball.”
In his first start since March 28, – a 10-7 loss to Hawai’i – Pill was magnificent all game, holding the Anteaters to one unearned run on seven hits in 8.1 innings of work en route to his first win since Feb. 21, – his second of the season.
“Tyler kept them off balance all game,” Serrano said. “He had all four pitches working and did a great job throwing strike one.”
Protecting a three-run lead in the bottom of the fifth, Pill wiggled out of a second-and-third, one-out jam by striking out his third batter of the game and inducing an inning-end-ing popout to Colon.
“I just trusted my pitches and tried to minimize the situation whether it be one run or none at all,” Pill said. “I just pounded the zone with the defense behind me.”
The Titans added a run in the top of the sixth inning and two more in
the eighth, increasing their lead to 6-1, giving Pill the most run support he has seen in a while.
“(Run support) helps a lot because I can be more riskier with pitches in different counts with different hit-ters,” Pill said. “As far as the score, I have to do my job.”
As was the case Saturday, all nine CSUF starters got a hit, while five different Titans scored a run.
“We’re proud of winning this se-ries against one of the better oppo-nents in this league, but if we have a lapse somewhere along the way and not continue to strive to win every series, then it doesn’t matter what we did this weekend,” Serrano said.
In the second game of the series, Marcoe broke a 2-2 tie in the third inning with a bases loaded two-out two-run double.
The Titan’s third hit of the deci-sive four-run inning put them ahead for good and paved the way for a 6-3 victory against No. 18 UC Irvine.
“Billy’s been in the program for a long time,” Serrano said. “The one thing we’ve always known about Billy is that he swings the bat well. He’s gotten some big hits for us this year and he got a pitch up and put a crooked number on the board.”
Trailing by two in the third, a throwing error by UCI senior start-ing pitcher Christian Bergman al-lowed CSUF’s freshman left fielder Anthony Hutting to reach base to leadoff.
Following a sacrifice bunt and flyout, Brown chased Hutting home with an opposite-field triple – his seventh of the year.
Lopez followed Brown’s triple with a game-tying RBI single and Pill kept the two-out rally alive with a double down the first-base line.
With runners on second and third, Bergman intentionally walked junior second baseman Corey Jones to face Marcoe, who promptly gave the Titans their first lead of the af-
ternoon with a two-run double to right-center.
A two-run lead was more than enough cushion for junior righty Daniel Renken who allowed three runs – one earned – in 6.1 innings of work en route to his fourth win of the season.
“I felt good,” Renken said. “I was just trying to go out there and throw
more strikes than I have been. My problem has been flying open ... I wasn’t throwing strikes consistently but I’ve been working hard the last two weeks to get back on it.”
The Titans (18-12, 5-1) head to UC Santa Barbara for a three-game series starting Friday at 2 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
Sophomore pitcher Tyler Pill delivers a pitch to a UC Irvine batter in the ninth inning.photo By Brian whiteheaD/Daily titan staff writer
