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Protesters engageCSUF to fight back
The Cal State Fullerton Titan Walk was full of activity on Tuesday as two groups protesting budget cuts passed out flyers and asked for signatures. The California Faculty Association and a student group affiliated with “Elephant in the Room” had different priorities, but both asked for student involvement and participation for change.
Signs reading “Remove Reed” deco-rated the Titan Walk. CFA members called for signatures, while offering students a free slice of pizza.
“Funding has been reduced. Stu-dents’ fees have gone up 167 percent. There’s been a decline in the quality of education on all levels,” said Jade Jewett, professor for the Department of Art and a member of the CFA for
16 years.Jewett said there were three goals for
Tuesday’s demonstration: to educate students, staff and faculty so everyone feels engaged in the dialogue about funding the California State Univer-sity; to call for a vote of no confidence for Chancellor Reed; and to present Assembly Bill 656, a piece of legisla-ture to bring money to the CSUs.
Kim Geron, the statewide vice pres-ident for the CFA, expanded on these goals and said they are trying to bring more awareness to the budget cuts af-fecting the California education sys-tem and the issue of failed leadership.
“We recognize that Chancellor Reed is part of the problem; he’s not the only part of the problem. There’s a bigger problem in the state, but he could be a stronger advocate and that’s why I’m here to support their efforts. We really think we need strong advo-cacy by the board of trustees and the chancellor, and unfortunately that hasn’t happened,” Geron said.
AB 656 is a levy tax on oil and natu-ral gas that would generate about one billion dollars for the CSU if taxed at the planned 9.9 percent, Geron said. California is the only state in the coun-try that does not do this type of taxa-tion, he added.
Additionally, Geron said the pay cuts and pay freezes aren’t happening all over the country.
“A pay cut when we are already paid lower than most professors around the country is kind of an insult to people who made a sacrifice to come here from all over the country to take a job at CSUF,” Geron said.
Geron added he doesn’t call it mis-management, but they haven’t been forthright about coming up with alter-natives to generate enough funds.
“If they supported AB 656, that’d go a long way as saying they really want to try to solve this problem. And until they do, we’re going to say they’re not doing their job,” Geron said.
As the day continued, “Sign the pe-tition, lower your tuition” was chanted over and over by CFA volunteers. Stu-dents slowly congregated around the blue tents and created a growing line for pizza.
“I think it’s a pretty good thing that people are getting together. I’m not sure if one guy is to blame, but if you look at the stats, definitely a lot of
Cal State Fullerton’s President’s Scholars Association will be send-ing care packages to a troop of 16 Marines in Afghanistan this fall semester as one of their volunteer projects.
One of the troops’ members, 25-year-old Joe Gazmen, is an alumnus from CSUF and a mem-ber of President’s Scholars.
President’s Scholars is a group of students on campus whose focus is to do various volunteer projects throughout the school year. To become a member of the group, students must apply before the be-ginning of their freshman year on campus.
President’s Scholars createcomfort parcels for troops
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things haven’t gone in the students’ fa-vor,” said Roman Valdez, 22, a music and marketing major, while in line.
Valdez said he is signing the petition because he has witnessed budget cuts, course reductions and decreased office hours for his professors over the five years he has spent at CSUF.
Valdez said he thinks it’s good that volunteers are collecting signatures. Getting students to remove someone from their position is the most proac-tive thing they can do, Valdez said.
“Basically, I’m upset. (I’m) disheart-ened at the state of education thus far. I’m upset that I’m paying 32 percent more in tuition, so I came out here. The point of this whole petition is we want to remove Chancellor Reed,” said China Lawrence, 22, a political science major and member of the CFA.
“We want to hold him accountable. He was the one that approved of the fee hikes for students. I think that’s wrong. I want him to make us a prior-ity because he should be fighting for us,” Lawrence said.
Later on, a few members of El-
ephant in the Room, who asked to be regarded as “students defending their education,” walked around with poster boards hanging around their necks.
The posters were covered in class cancellation notices, which are the pa-pers posted on the doors of cut classes.
The group passed out flyers de-manding the cuts come to a halt and for the removed classes to come back.
They are trying to get signatures for a “contract to defend education.”
“We’re not going to take the class cancellations anymore; we’re not going to take the library hours cut anymore; and we’re not going to take the fac-ulty staff cuts anymore,” said Chirag Bhakta, 21, a history major. “We can’t afford this anymore, apathy is not an option.”
Klint Penamante, a CSUF student and protester said that the 15,000 sig-natures on the petition will be present-ed to the governing board of the Titan Student Union, President Gordon and Chancellor Reed so they know the stu-dents are upset about decisions regard-ing the CSU budget.
An unusual game of Simon Says drew a crowd to the Titan Bookstore Tuesday to watch students compete
for a free Macbook. Students participating in the game had to keep their lips on a Macbook box while acting out commands. Mike
Khalil, an Apple campus representative, shouted out instructions to eliminate
inattentive players. A short drizzle started midway into the game, but
no one budged. Brenda Lopez, 18 (center), won the prize with chapped lips after four hours.
“Based solely on merit, the President’s Scholar Program rec-ognizes the outstanding achieve-ments of incoming freshman who have demonstrated excellence in academic work, leadership ability and community service,” states the organization’s Web site.
Students applying for Presi-dent’s Scholars must have ob-tained at least a 3.75 GPA during their sophomore and junior years in high school and provide proof of involvement in academic and leadership programs.
The program grants students with scholarship benefits for four years, so long as the scholars main-tain their program eligibility.
The scholarship benefits, which are all funded by private donors, include full payment of Cal State
University en-rollment fees, $750 for books and supplies through the Titan Shops, priority reg-istration for classes, auto-matic admit-tance to the U n i v e r s i t y Honor’s Pro-gram and op-portunities of up to 20 hours of on-campus work per week.
“The best part of being a scholar exists on a much more profound level than the monetary and tan-gible benefits,” said Stacy Lombia-
Corinne Sandhoefner and Laurent Punzalan pack candy, cards and other items into care packages for marines.BY MAUREEN FOx/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
do, 21, a health science major and vice president of President’s Schol-ars. “I have never been so proud to be a part of such a bright and promising group of colleagues.
They are what distinguishes this scholarship from any other schol-arship given.”
BY MEgHAN ALFANODaily Titan Asst. News Editor
See SCHOLARS, Page 2
PHOTO BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
BY JONATHAN MONTgOMERYDaily Titan Staff Writer
Tuesday at the Titan Walk, Dani Stratz, 22, shows Carolina Franco, 18, where to sign her name on a petition calling for a halt to the cutting of classes.
PHOTO BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Melissa Warstadt, 21, hands out flyers about the state budget cuts on the Titan Walk on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
PHOTO BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
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IN oTher NewSINTerNaTIoNaLViolence continues in Pakistan
MOSCOW (MCT) – If hillary clinton was hoping to win russian sup-port for efforts to use a threat of sanctions to pressure Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions, her first trip to Moscow as secretary of state got off to a rocky start Tuesday.
russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said that economic sanctions or similar moves during the current standoff with Iran about its nuclear pro-gram would be “counterproductive.”
Iran has agreed in principle to allow international inspectors at a previous-ly secret nuclear facility near Qom and to ship most of its enriched uranium to russia to be refined for civilian uses.
Lavrov’s announcement came despite President Barack obama’s recent decision to scrap plans for a ballistic missile defense shield in Poland and the czech republic, a system that the Kremlin had strenuously opposed. while both sides denied that the decision about the missile defense sites was linked to a deal with russia about Iran, observers had suspected otherwise.
analysts in Moscow said the bottom line is that russia isn’t going to back sanctions against Iran - at least not anytime soon.
NaTIoNaLWASHINGTON (MCT) – The environmental Protection agency on
Tuesday released a copy of a long-suppressed report by officials in the george w. Bush administration concluding that, based on the science, the gov-ernment should begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions because global warming posed serious risks to the country.
The report, technically known as an “endangerment finding,” was pre-pared in 2007 but the Bush white house refused to make it public because the administration opposed new government efforts to regulate the gases most scientists see as the major cause of global warming.
a finding that greenhouse gases and global warming pose serious risks to the nation is a necessary step in the process of instituting government regu-lation. President Barack obama and congressional democrats are pushing for major climate legislation, but if congress fails to act, the administration has raised the possibility that it would use an ePa finding to move toward regulation on its own.
Violence continues in Pakistan
STaTeViolence continues in Pakistan
FRESNO(MCT) – cliff Finch today pleaded no contest to a felony charge of assault with a gun stemming from a September 2007 shootout with police after a high-speed chase across north Fresno.
Finch, 60, the father of olympic snowboarder andy Finch, pleaded no contest to assault with a firearm. after extensive negotiations, prosecutors changed the charge Finch faced: assault on a police officer. In exchange, Finch agreed to drop his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Fresno police have said that on Sept. 24, 2007, Finch was on his way to the home of his wife, who had obtained an emergency protective order against him.
Police tried to stop him but he fled, running red lights and clipping a car before police forced him off the road.
at that point, police said, Finch began firing a handgun at them. Four officers returned fire, hitting Finch several times.
Finch’s family believes he was suffering a flashback to his days in Vietnam, a phenomenon associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Professor encourages Fullerton to “Shake out”By allie moSier
For the Daily [email protected]
If you’ve ever taken a geology course, the terms P-waves, S-waves, frequencies and the name San an-dreas Fault probably sound famil-iar.
dr. david Bowman, chair of the geology department, held a semi-nar at the Fullerton Public Library on oct. 8 to talk about the causes of earthquakes and earthquake pre-paredness.
The San andreas Fault is the
sliding boundary between the Pa-cific Plate and the North american Plate. In simpler terms, it is a crack in the ground that cuts through california.
although californians are no strangers to earthquakes, the San andreas Fault is predicted to pro-duce an earthquake of a magnitude of 7.8, which would cause severe damage. The San andreas Fault produces earthquakes approximate-ly once every 150 years. each time one occurs, the fault moves 30 feet.
“The last earthquake that oc-curred on the southernmost part
produce a sound in the rock that you can’t hear, but when they occur, what you feel is a jolt. S-waves, or secondary waves, are second to ar-rive and produce a sharp, jolting, side-to-side motion. They are the most damaging waves.
Surface waves are the second group of waves to hit and produce a low frequency motion. Unlike body waves, they are strongest further from the epicenter. Two other types of waves are Love waves and ray-leigh waves. Love waves produce a swaying side-to-side motion and rayleigh waves produce a rolling motion.
The size of the fault also deter-mines the strength of an earthquake. Big faults, like the San andreas, produce low frequency shaking. Small faults produce high frequency shaking and are most damaging to homes.
Soil types as well as the depth of basins determine the amplification
of an earth-quake. Loose, unconsolidated soil amplifies shaking from seismic waves.
“The more sand and gravel, the more shak-ing,” said Bow-man.
In general, deeper basins have stronger ampli-fications. Bowman pointed out that the orange county basin is only one mile to half-a-mile deep which would produce less shaking.
In order to reduce damage caused by an earthquake, Bowman gave these simple recommendations: don’t have objects above your bed and secure bookcases and televi-sions to the wall.
“The building isn’t the hazard; the contents of a building are the hazard,” Bowman said.
John greenwood, a Fullerton resident, attended the seminar be-cause, “events like these are worth listening to,” he said.
“I came to see if I could find out anything new and to make sure I’m prepared,” said Kate dalton, a Ful-lerton resident.
Because of the success of the shakeout drill that occurred last year, it is now mandatory statewide. The shakeout drill will occur every year on the third Thursday of oc-tober. This year it will take place on oct. 15 at 10:15 a.m.
“Make it your disaster prepara-tion time,” said Bowman.
of the fault was over 430 years ago. That’s why we say it’s overdue,” said Bowman.
although the San andreas Fault is predicted to produce an earth-quake of great magnitude, Bowman said the San andreas Fault isn’t the biggest threat to california – the Puente hills Thrust is.
The Puente hills Thrust is a fault that runs from Northern orange county to downtown Los angeles. It is predicted to produce an earth-quake of a magnitude of 9.7.
Bowman estimated the earth-quake would cause 7,600 fatalities, 12,000 injuries, 274,000 displaced households and a total economic loss of $130 billion.
“we’re right on the edge where se-vere damage occurs,” Bowman said. But he doesn’t believe this earth-quake will occur in our lifetime.
Bowman has one simple formula to evaluate the risk of an earthquake: risk equals earthquake likelihood, plus likely shak-ing, plus building fragility.
“Buildings re-spond differently to different frequen-cies of shaking,” Bowman said.
Big buildings resonate to low fre-quencies and small buildings resonate to high frequencies.
an important factor that deter-mines how a building will survive an earthquake is the material it is made out of. Buildings are usually made out of materials like adobe, unrein-forced masonry, steel and wood.
adobe has no strength in earth-quakes and crumbles to nothing.
“This is why we see huge damages in earthquakes in the Middle east. The smallest earthquake can crum-ble (a building),” said Bowman.
Unreinforced Masonry, also known as brick, turns to dust when it is shaken. Bowman deems this as “dangerous building material.” Steel frame and wood frame buildings are both good for earthquakes because steel and wood can bend and flex.
“Buildings in california are made so they’ll survive an earthquake,” Bowman said.
earthquake waves also determine the damage an earthquake produc-es. Body waves are the first group of waves and produce a high frequency motion. They are also strongest near the epicenter.
P-waves, or primary waves, are first to arrive but are weak. They
Scholar: care PackageS Sent to aFghaniStanFrom Page 1
gazmen attended cSUF from 2002 to 2006, and graduated with a degree in physics and business.
aside from being an active mem-ber of President’s Scholars, gazmen also held office as vice president of the University honor’s Society, was a founding member of Future Business Leaders of america Phi Beta Lamda cSUF chapter and was a national par-liamentarian for the organization. he became the first ever recipient of the dan Black Scholar award as well.
gazmen has always been very patri-otic and was moved to join the services after the Sept. 11 attacks on the world Trade center.
“The idea of giving back was al-ways something he cherished,” said former president of President’s Schol-ars dianne ramos, 25. ramos is also gazmen’s girlfriend of six years whom he met his first year at cSUF through President’s Scholars.
ramos, who graduated with a de-gree in international business with an emphasis on French, said gazmen told her that as a child, saying the National anthem in class often brought him to tears.
Upon graduating, gazmen was able to go straight into the officer training program for the Marines. In april of this year, gazmen was promoted to first lieutenant, and in May, he was sent on his first assignment to afghan-istan, where he is currently located.
gazmen and ramos are still active alumni members of the organization and give back to the group by present-ing the Vern wagner Passion award to graduating scholars who “show an outstanding level of involvement with President’s Scholars,” ramos said. She said they started it with hopes of en-couraging scholars to maintain activ-ism in the program beyond their years at cSUF.
carol Kresse, current president of the President’s Scholars, approached ramos last May to send care packages to gazmen and his fellow troops.
“we wanted to give back to Joe be-cause he still does a lot for President’s Scholars” said Kresse, 22, a business finance and political science major.
ramos helped act as a communi-cator between the organization and gazmen, figuring out what the troops were in need of and making sure they could send what they were donating.
ramos added that her communica-tion with gazmen is good; they e-mail regularly, and she has been able to talk to him via the phone 10 times since his deployment.
“Thanks to technology, we get to talk a lot. I don’t think I would have
survived it having to communicate through snail mail,” she said.
The group has put together 16 personalized boxes for each of the Marines, which include necessities such as socks, sunscreen, snacks and other items such as magazines, mov-ies, candy and letters written to the troops. The overflow of donated items received will also be sent in separate boxes, for a total of 25 care boxes.
“The event was a huge success, more amazing than I could ever imag-ine,” said Kresse. “I hope we’ll consider doing it again in the future.”
She also added that she felt that the
President’s Scholars Patrick Fitzpatrick and Russell Argenal put candy into Tupperware containers for care packages to send to Alumnus Joe Gazmen and his fellow Marines in Afghanistan. The group put together 16 care packages for the troops, and had exttra items left over to send to the troops.
Photo By maureen Fox/Daily titan Staff Writer
project was special to the organization because of gazmen and his connec-tion with President’s Scholars.
“The scholars are doing an out-standing job; they are going above and beyond what they have to do,” gazmen said. “I am truly humbled that they have gone out of their way to send us care packages.”
ramos added that she was awe-struck when Kesse approached her about the care packages.
“Joe and I were very honored and proud that they came up with the idea,” she said. “It’s not only for their own but for the troops as a whole.”
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“Make it your disaster prepared
time.– dr. david Bowman,
chair of the geology department
FEATURES October 14, 20094
Boasting 11.5 million monthly subscriptions, the popular mas-sive multiplayer online role playing game “World of Warcraft” has spread its influence across millions of com-puters, gaming cafes and col-lege laptops.
B l i z z a r d Ente r t a in -ment, which created the computer game, has w o r k e d hard to s u p p o r t its com-munity by creating an expansive world full of excit-ing quests, in t r i c a t e lore, strong social re-lationships and a place for others to share their cre-ativity through role play and fan art.
Grace Kook-Anderson, curator of exhibitions at the Laguna Art Museum, saw the potential of this creativity
This screen capture shows the computer game“World of Warcraft,” which millions play around the globe, has inspired countless art pieces. Screen captureS By Skylar Smith/Daily titan Staff Writer
‘WoW’ as an art medium
and made the art exhibition “WoW: Emergent Art Phenomenon.”
“Before I started, Blizzard had ac-tually proposed to do something at the Laguna Art Museum, also to cel-ebrate the fifth anniversary of ‘World of Warcraft,’” said Kook-Anderson. “I was also really interested in looking at artists who play “World of Warcraft” or who are looking at this game’s unique appeal, and I was hoping for a
conversation between the two.” This exhibition show-cased hundreds of fan art
projects, art from sev-eral of those on the Blizzard payroll, a
room dedicated to Machinima (vid-eos in which the game is used to create stories), a downstairs mostly con-sisting of interactive media and a massive sculpture of an Orc r i d i n g his wolf mount in the lobby.
The fan art posted at the ex-h i b i t i o n was entirely taken from
the “WoW” community
Web site and filled a small
room from floor to ceiling. Pieces
ranged from comi-cal to epic and fea-
tured all races and classes in “WoW.”
Jorg Dubin, a traditional oil
painter who works mostly on linen canvas, had three paintings on display that had a gritty and realistic depic-tion of “WoW.”
“Night Elf with a 12 Gauge,” fea-tured a night elf touting a shotgun, “Blood Elf with Head of Stranger” was a gruesome and dark depiction of a Blood Elf ’s latest kill, and “Days End in Dalaran” which showed a de-pressed looking blood elf drinking and holding a bottle of whiskey.
Wei Wang, one of the Blizzard staff artists who is also working on “Star-craft II,” had many pieces on display, including several drawings of the Lich King Arthas, the main villain in “WoW’s” latest expansion, “Wrath of the Lich King.”
Glenn Rane was another staff artist who had many of his works on dis-play, one of which was an impressive depiction of the game’s undead queen Sylvannas Windrunner.
Traditionally drawn and painted
art aside, the interactive, video and experimental art was the focus of the exhibition.
Pieces such as Antoinette LaFarge’s “World of World” attempted to take on the complex topic of the relation-ship between player and avatar. Her piece, splicing webcam pictures of a player and in-game screenshots, ex-plained the sometimes disturbing ob-sessive relationship between the player and their in-game character. Within the wall consuming display was text in the form of a dialogue between the character and the player, developing unhealthy relationship.
Robert Nideffer’s “2007 BC, ‘09,” a triptych inspired by Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and The Temp-tation of St. Anthony, used in-game images depicting the conflict between two of the top guilds on a server, “Death and Taxes” and “Nihilum.” This epic mural included several of the guild members in combat (some
of them naked) and evidence of their conquests (corpses of Dungeon boss-es), on the sides of the triptych.
Nideffer also co-created a side scrolling RPG with Alex Szeto, based around “WoW” called “WTF?!,” which was playable at the exhibition. The game drops several philosophers, such as Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud as characters in the “WoW” universe.
The exhibition has seen many stu-dents in its four-month run including Kevin Takenaka, 19, an architecture major from Saddleback Community College. “I’m here for a school assign-ment in my art history class,” said Takenaka, “I have played ‘WoW’ be-fore, but that was a long time ago, but the exhibit is pretty cool.”
Even some of the staff who never really experienced “WoW” previously were influenced by the exhibition and are now actively involved in “WoW.” Bret Eagleston, an animation major
at Laguna College of Art and De-sign, a member of the security team and a host at Laguna Art Museum is currently a level 59 (possibly higher now) undead mage. He started play-ing around the same time the exhibi-tion opened. “I like most of the art upstairs like the fan art, and I really like the sculptures,” said Eagleston. “The interactive stuff is kind of weird though.”
The event was highly successful, and many students and “WoW” members are wondering if it will con-tinue next year. “For now, it’s a one time thing,” said Kook-Anderson.
Although the exhibition has end-ed, all of the art featured is available online, including videos and interac-tive entertainment.
By Skylar SmithDaily Titan Staff [email protected]
Online role-playing game inspires artists around the world with its animation
check out Dailytitan.com/ worldofwarcraft for links to artwork, videos and more on this story
After waiting several years to see it produced on the Cal State Fullerton campus, “Ivanov” has finally opened to students, the incredible cast and visionary director have not let this stunning Russian classic down.
The play opened to a nearly sold out crowd last Friday, and the Sat-urday night performance received a standing ovation at the end. I was absolutely blown over by this gem of theater.
The Hallberg Theatre’s intimate seating (I was an arms length from the actors at least 10 percent of the time) suited the show perfectly and brought the intensity that the play needed. And it was intense.
Before going into plot details, I must first commend Svetlana Efre-mova for her elegant and majestic turn as Anna. She gave her character a tired, fun-loving, yet viciously fiery coloring that illuminated her perfor-mance and brought a beating heart to the production. Every moment she was on stage, I found my heart drawn to her, and it cried to her on more than one occasion. If Efremova is the heart of the show, director Maria Co-minis must have been the brain.
Cominis offered a feast of delicious imagery, ending with one of the most beautiful moments I have seen in the-ater. People, use the term “visionary director” way too often to describe mediocre helmers these days, but Cominis stepped up to the plate and delivered a chillingly gorgeous theater experience that refused to let me go. Her vision, combined with the out-standing work of set designer Natalie Rich allowed the show to explore hid-den dimensions and brought the au-dience into the labyrinth of “Ivanov’s” complex story.
“Ivanov” follows the story of Niko-lai Ivanov, a man who has grown tired of his life and seeks to renew it. His wife, Anna, has resigned from her Jewish heritage, Jewish family and even her Jewish name to be with him. And yet, Ivanov leaves Anna in her sickly state to attend parties in the city. When Ivanov meets a young
Sasha and falls in love with her, he makes plans to leave the dying Anna to marry her. The public reacts in an outcry, claiming that he only wants to marry Sasha for what would surely be a large dowry.
Ben Lambert was terrific as the incredibly twisted and confused Ivanov.
You can tell he is a talented ac-tor when you can sympathize with a character who leaves his dying wife for a younger woman.
And this is only the first half of the show. It is after the intermission that the tensions break like an enormous dam, flooding the audience with a wave of drama that they just did not see coming.
When I read the play in my fresh-man year of college, I had always seen it as just an incredibly sad show. I was delighted when I saw it to find that in addition to being the first tear-jerker of the fall season, some parts were re-ally quite funny. Leave it to Comi-nis and guest artist James Young to
lighten up this otherwise macabre and tortured piece of work.
Young plays Ivanov’s heart-warm-ing, yet cranky uncle, and he brought the audience’s spirits up whenever he merrily trotted onto the stage.
Although Efremova and Young were the highlights of the show, the entire company was terrific, and I was hard-pressed to find a real weak link in the cast.
The show found its share of faults, however. A few scenes had dramatic issues that took me out of the show, and a few stylistic choices confused me and brought a nervous laugh from the audience. These were minor speed bumps.
By the end of the shows breath-taking finale, I had no doubt that what I had experienced was magical.
“Ivanov” will continue its run in the Hallberg Theatre on campus this Thursday, Oct. 15, continuing through Nov. 1.
Tickets are $9 for students, and $10 general admission.
a cheating husband wins the audience’s sympathy in ‘Ivanov’
By JameS BeanFor the Daily Titan
Anna Ivanov, center, (Svetlana Efremova) discovers her husband, Ivanov (Ben Lambert) with Sasha (Hannah Parsons), with whom he is having an affair, in a scene from “Ivanov” by Anton Chekhov. The play continues in the Hallberg Theatre through Nov. 1.
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5FEATURESOctober 14, 2009
Students with a desire to travel the world and experience new cultures found guidance Tuesday at the Of-fice of International Education and Exchange’s annual Study Abroad Fair, held on campus from 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. in the Titan Student Union.
The International Education and Exchange office originally booked Ti-tan Walk to host the event but moved the fair indoors to Pavilion B in the TSU to avoid the threat of rain.
More than 30 programs were repre-sented at the fair, including Cal State Fullerton’s international, exchange and department-run programs.
Most of the participants were third-party organizations, such as GoAbroad.com and Global Student Experience.
Study Abroad Program Assistant Kathryn Morrissey said the study abroad office has been organizing the event since June.
Morrissey said the study abroad office put on the fair to “promote awareness to tell students that they can study abroad and look at all the options that are available to them.” Morrissey added that the office hopes students will get the information they need, get excited and go abroad.
Last year, 176 CSUF students studied abroad. Morrissey hopes the current economic downturn will not discourage students from studying abroad this year.
I n s i d e the pavilion, brightly-col-ored table-cloths battled for visitors’ a t t e n t i o n , as a number of organiza-tions set up tables and spoke with students about the details of their particular pro-grams.
Several exchange students volun-teered at the CSUF booth to answer questions and encourage students to study abroad. Maurice Hagin and Sandra Polgan, both exchange stu-dents from Germany, said they want-ed to help out at the fair as a way to give back to the program.
They chose to study in Califor-
nia to experience a new culture and country.
“I wanted to get some new impres-sions and see something else,” Hagin said.
“And learn English,” Polgan added. Each program’s representatives em-
phasized their organization’s unique benefits and their own perspectives on why students should study abroad.
One organization was Semester at Sea, which takes students to 10 coun-tries during the course of a semester and helps students meet the costs by giving out $3.25 million in financial aid.
D e r e k Olson, a s p o k e s -man for Semester at Sea, said the study a b r o a d program is a compara-tive pro-gram that
allows students to compare and con-trast what is going on in the world, from religion to history, culture and politics.
Olson also said studying abroad is extremely beneficial in today’s so-ciety.
“It doesn’t really matter what ma-jor they’re in; everybody in every major needs to have an international perspective these days,” Olson said. “We’re all connected very, very close-
ly and no matter what profession you get into, you need some perspective beyond America, beyond Califor-nia.”
Another outside program at the fair was International Studies Abroad, which offers study abroad programs in Europe, North Africa and Latin America.
April Wareham Limon, a senior site specialist for ISA, said they of-fer programs for every major in both the countries’ native languages and in English.
“It’s a great opportunity to expand their knowledge of other cultures,” Limon said.
Limon added that ISA tries to make their programs affordable for students by keeping costs low, offer-ing financial plans and accepting fed-eral aid.
Throughout the day, students visited each table and learned more about their options for studying abroad.
Many students seemed excited about the opportunities available to them and left the fair loaded up with flyers and pamphlets full of information.
Eliseo Cabrera, a second-year in-ternational business major, attended the fair because he plans to study abroad next year.
He is mostly interested in Europe-an programs, particularly Germany.
“Since I’m an international busi-ness major, it will help me out in my major, while at the same time I’ll learn about the cultures and just have some fun,” Cabrera said.
College students can ignite a fire of upheaval by repeating one simple chant: “The students unit-ed will never be divided!”
A group of about 100 students used this passionate chant, among others, when they held a protest against university budget cuts on Sept. 29. That same evening, an-other group of students held a sit-in at the Pollak Library.
The recent protests on campus were held in opposition to the ad-ministration’s response to the state budget crisis.
Tamara Khoury, a 19-year-old CSUF nursing major and a mem-ber of CSUF’s MECha (Movi-miento Estudiantil Chicano/Chi-cana De Aztlan), has participated in the rallies as an opponent to fee hikes.
Khoury has participated and helped organize anti-war pro-tests with the activist group A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).
Other than recent budget cut protests, she has also participated in a rally on campus protesting the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
There should be more student ac-tivism, she said, but some students might feel resigned about decisions affecting them.
“Protesting is absolutely necessary in our country to educate, commu-nicate and to organize people to take action instead of waiting for others to do it instead,” she said.
As far as the downfalls of being an activist on campus, Khoury said the repercussions can have an impact on a student. She said a student may fear punishment for protesting.
“When it comes to organizing a movement on campus, students have everything to gain but everything to lose at the same time,” she said.
Dr. Jarret Lovell, associate profes-sor of political science and criminal justice, said activism is contagious.
Lovell is the author of “Crimes of Dissent,” a book focusing on civil disobedience, criminal justice and the politics of conscience.
He said student activism puts ideas taught in the classroom into action.
“If students think they don’t have a say in how their university is run, they need to realize things are not going to change until they demand it,” he said.
Lovell said activism on campus shouldn’t be seen as a burden to stu-
dents who have busy schedule.“It’s important that as a society,
we don’t perpetuate the myth that protesting is a full-time job,” he said. “Protesting includes educat-ing others about your cause. Any-thing that opens up discussion about your cause is protesting.”
James Goebel, 23, is a philoso-phy major who joined in the pro-test over budget cuts. He hand-cuffed himself to the Information desk during the sit-in at the Pol-lak Library.
“Civil disobedience has a way of raising questions,” Goebel said. “Not through words and theories, but through bodies and action.”
He said student activism can give an issue exposure.
“The idea that things are go-ing to get better at a university without student involvement is a delusion,” he said.
There is not one leader for the budget cuts protests at CSUF, Goebel added.
“A collective movement with-out one central organization makes it so everyone feels free to participate,” he said. “One can only hope independent struggles can emerge to form a unified core with one voice.”
Kimberly Iona, right, shows the type of study abroad programs available to Margarita Melendez, 20, at the TSU pavilion on Tuesday, Oct. 13, as part of the Office of International Education and Exchange’s annual Study Abroad Fair.
PHOTO By ROn Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Fair shows options for education abroadBy MauReen FOx
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Activism promotes campus changes
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“ It’s a great opportunity to expand their knowledge of other cultures.
– April Wareham Limon, International Studies Abroad senior
site specialist
A student, who declined to give her name, hands out fliers about the CSU budget cuts on the Titan Walk on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009.
PHOTO By ROn Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
By aMBeR STePHenSFor the Daily Titan
OPINION October 14, 20096
Who would have thought that conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh would be the one to step forward and attempt to take the struggling St. Louis Rams un-der his wing?
Limbaugh, along with the NHL’s St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts, has begun talks of plac-ing a bid on the 0-5 Rams.
Can a NFL player honestly force himself to play for a man that said, “I don’t think he’s been that good from the get-go. I think that we’ve had here a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.” These re-marks were referenced to Donovan McNabb by Limbaugh on ESPN’s NFL pre-game show in 2003.
This man’s blatantly offensive re-marks have even pissed off Rev. Al Sharpton, and he too is taking sides with the NFL players and sports columnists that are against his bid for the Rams.
In a letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell published in full in the Oct. 9 New York Daily News, Sharpton wrote: “Rush Limbaugh has been divisive and anti-NFL on several occasions with comments about NFL players, including Mi-
chael Vick and Donovan McNabb, and his recent statement that the NFL was beginning to look like a fight between the Crips and the Bloods without the weapons was disturbing.”
Players don’t need to put up with his ignorance and lack of tolerance. Should this man take the reins of the team, then it is entirely up to the players to do whatever they choose.
They can either play for a man that makes racist comments about America’s athletes and politicians, or they can sit on the sidelines and watch him burn his money on ama-teur replacement players taking a shot at the NFL’s finest.
In 1987, NFL teams fielded line-ups of amateur athletes, and many of the millionaire players walked picket lines like blue-collar workers on strike for better working condi-tions. The owners were not willing to satisfy the players’ request to be allowed to free agency and partake in the league’s growing revenue.
After five weeks of refusing to play, the players’ demands were not met by the league and owners, and they returned back to work empty-handed.
In 1919, eight professional base-ball players from the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series when owner Charles Comiskey refused to pay them their well-deserved mone-tary bonus after winning the Ameri-can League pennant toward the end of the regular season. This goes to show that players of the past have re-belled against the owners that smite them time and time again.
The players don’t need to put up with his racist representation; in fact, they should kick each other right in the middle of their jockstrap before every game if they choose to suit up and play for him.
By GilBert Gutierrez iiiDaily Titan Staff Writer [email protected]
If ever there was a public figure who should not own a team in the National Football League, it’s Rush Limbaugh.
Limbaugh, who is best known as the voice of the Republican party and an extreme conservative, is vy-ing to become co-owner of the St. Louis Rams should the current own-ers decide to sell the franchise.
Over the years, Limbaugh has brought up a lot of controversy with comments he has made aimed pri-marily at black people. He claimed Gen. Colin Powell only supported President Barack Obama because he is black.
He accused the media of over praising black quarterbacks, and that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb did not deserve credit for his team’s success.
It’s pretty obvious that McNabb has blossomed into a bona fide sig-nal caller.
So then what happens if Lim-baugh’s bid is accepted and he does become an NFL owner? Many play-ers have voiced their concerns over the possibility of playing for an own-er who has made headlines primarily by making controversial comments.
Even Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said he wouldn’t vote to
approve Limbaugh.Should players have to work for
a team owner that they feel looks down on them and can cut them loose at any time he pleases?
Regretfully, the answer would be yes. As much as it pains me to say, a contract is a contract. Players are legally bound to their contract and must fulfill their duties if they want to get paid. After all, the NFL is a business, and they have to show up for work. It doesn’t mean they have to like it, but they have to be pro-fessional about it.
In no other type of job, other than sports, can someone simply not show up (hold-out) and de-mand they be transferred (traded) somewhere else without getting the boot.
Show up, do your job and when your contract is up, go your sepa-rate ways and find a new team.
This applies to drafted rookies as well. Everyone knows that rookie holdouts always end up signing at the last minute, or in the case of San Francisco 49ers 2009 first-round draft pick Michael Crabtree, decide to play “hard to get” until finally agreeing to a contract five weeks into the season.
Holding out and threatening not to play for your team, or just Lim-baugh, would be unprofessional.
As painful and agonizing as it may be to have to play for an owner who has verbally degraded non-Caucasians over the years, at the end of the day you have to put those shoulder pads on and go out and hit somebody and make plays on the football field.
Luckily for the Rams’ players, Limbaugh won’t become an owner. The owners won’t vote him in, and the league won’t risk losing a fran-chise.
By AdAn VAsquezDaily Titan Sports Editor
If Rush Limbaugh buys a stake in the St. Louis Rams, should those players be forced to stay?
Here’s one thing I can finally agree with Americans on: The Department of Motor Vehicles sucks.
I recently had to undergo the long-winded ritual of applying for a California driver’s license. Oh, boy, was it a fiasco.
First, I had to go into the dreaded DMV building to actually fill out an application. I made it through the entire process without a hitch, no accidents, insults, tears, body cav-ity searches or secondary security inspections because I have a “bin” in my name. That’s right, the same “bin” that Osama bin Laden has.
When I finally make it to the counter, I’m told that I need to show them my I20 – the document that allows me to legally attend an American university. Of course, this is the one document I didn’t bring with me. I did have my passport, in-ternational driver’s license, birth cer-tificate, plane ticket stubs, student ID, library pass, business card and this discount card a stripper in Vegas gave me. Basically everything under the sun, except my I20.
Take two: I returned with an even bigger collection of documentation a week later. Here’s the best part, this time they didn’t even ask for my I20. Regardless, I still insisted on show-ing it to the guy behind the counter repeatedly, just out of spite.
When I finally got in to take my written test, I realized that it is ri-diculously easy to get a California driver’s license.
Most of the questions are pretty straightforward and based on com-mon sense. It is pretty easy to figure out that if the car in front of you brakes, you should too.
And even if you’re a complete mo-ron, you get three tries to pass your written test.
There is only a limited number of questions they could possibly ask, so if for some reason you do fail the test twice by the third time you would have memorized most of the ques-tions and answers.
I also found out that you get three tries to pass the behind the wheel driving test. So, if I take my behind the wheel test, then crash into a school bus, drive over a fire hydrant and come to a halt inside a Dunkin’ Donuts I get another two tries be-fore I’m banned from the road?
Awesome.In Malaysia, I had to sit through a
six-hour workshop, endure 20 hours of driving with an instructor in the car and take two different behind the wheel driving tests. We also all had to take the driving tests in crappy old stick shift cars that are reminis-cent of the Smart Car, without any of the features that make it “smart.”
Oh, and if you fail any part of the process, whether it is the written test, the road test or if your instructor just thinks you are a horrible driver, you have to wait three months before you can take it again.
When I took my road test I had a female instructor who I found out
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has a huge aversion to rats. I learned this interesting little bit of personal trivia five minutes into my test.
As I pull out of the DMV, she started screaming at me. I freaked out, thinking, “God, did I run over someone already? I haven’t even left the parking lot yet.” I tried to stay calm and ask what’s wrong.
“Dead rat! Dead rat outside the car! Oh my God, there’s a dead rat outside the car!” she screamed into my ear. Trying to make light of the situation, I informed her that I thought it was still alive because it was kind of squirming.
Not a good idea – she freaked out even more.
Unsure of what to do, with her yelling at me, me yelling at her while receiving ridiculous and counter-productive instructions like: “Get out of here now! Please just drive away from the rat now!” Coupled with, “But drive slowly, carefully and obey all traffic laws,” I finally make it out and onto the road fine, but ex-tremely rattled.
She then told me to just drive normally. Sure, as if I could do that now when I’m freaked out because my instructor just shrieked into my ear for the last five minutes.
Because I was kind of nervous and wanted to pass so I could get the heck out of there, I drove slowly, carefully and obeyed all traffic laws to the letter.
I stopped at every stop sign.I signaled nearly a minute before
I made turns. And if the speed limit was 35, I went 30 mph.
I eventually completed the course without killing pedestrians or rear-ending any squad cars and drove back to the DMV.
My instructor turned the car off, turned to me and said, “You are kill-ing me with your driving; you drive so slowly.”
Back home I would regularly go around 100 mph and weave in and out of traffic like a ninja on crack. I’ve been driving for three years. I drive fast, and I drive well, so to have a rodent-phobic, slightly neurotic driving instructor tell me I drive too slowly for her, well that just killed me.
I just lowered my head, apolo-gized and let her tear me a new one for about 10 minutes. I groveled, I begged, I whined and I pleaded for her to just let me pass. The whole time I was wishing that she would eventually pass me or that rats would carry her away in her sleep.
The former happened, and I walked away with my driver’s license after a long, arduous ordeal. I felt ac-complished, proud and grateful to have somehow “won” at the DMV.
Two weeks later, I got my license in the mail, and realized that, no, there is no such thing as winning when it comes to the DMV – they got my name wrong.
Now I have to go back and see the delightful people at the Fuller-ton DMV once again sometime this week. This time, I’m bringing a thick book. Not for reading, but to throw at the next DMV official who yells at me because of small furry animals.
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Think Different. Think Simon.
By simon LiangDaily Titan Asst. Sports Editor
I’m telling you right now, you cannot miss the Los Angeles Angels - New York Yankees series. tiVo it if you must because the Sports Center highlights may not be sufficient.
This year’s American League Championship Series definitely has a West Coast/East Coast rivalry go-ing on. Although this does not have the historical significance of a Bos-ton red Sox and Yankees match up, this rivalry is becoming more intense year after year.
The numbers don’t lie, the An-gels and Yankees ended the season with the two best records in all of baseball, and they were also the two biggest run producers. Both teams swept their opponents in the first
round with memorable ninth inning comebacks.
Since the turn of the millennium, the Angels have had the Yankees’ number, first in 2002 when the Ha-los won the World Series and again in 2005 in the ALDS.
But the Yankees have a whole new cast of characters this time around.
roger Clemens is gone.randy Johnson is gone.Jason Giambi is gone.The 2009 version of the Bronx
Bombers has CC Sabathia as the ace of the staff and Alex rodriguez and
Mark teixeira as the sluggers in the heart of the lineup. Scary thought. Who said money can’t buy happi-ness?
But is the “Evil Empire” the best team that money can buy?
If they win, it will be justified by their payroll. If they lose, it will be a monumental failure. That’s just how the cookie crumbles when you play for the pinstripes.
In past postseasons, Sabathia and rodriguez have not been able to translate their regular season suc-cess into the playoffs. However, this postseason they have played up to their potential.
The most dangerous thing about this team is that from top to bottom, every player can make it a home run derby.
After Sabathia, the question is if old reliable Andy pettitte still has any more gas left in the tank and if the big offseason signing of A.J. Bur-nett will pay dividends.
The biggest concern for the Yan-kees is which Joba Chamberlain will show up. Will it be the Chamberlain in “The Bug Game” or will he be the pitching phenom he once was?
Let’s not forget, at age 39, Mari-ano rivera has 35 saves with a 0.74 ErA in the postseason. His cut fast-ball still has hitters dazed. Without a doubt, he is the greatest closer of all-time.
While many Yankees have boat loads of playoff experience, the An-gels have a lot of underrated players who have exceeded expectations the entire season.
Vladimir Guerrero is still a good player, but lately he has been a hit-or-miss. Good thing for them, Juan rivera and Bobby Abreu have been there to pick up the slack.
The middle infield for the An-gels is a combination of scrappy little guys who just get it done. Their bench depth will prove to be very crucial in this series when they need a big hit in the late innings.
The Halos’ offense has always been run-and-gun under manager Mike Scioscia. The batting order will put pressure on Yankees’ starters be-cause of their speed and hitting abil-ity. They had 10 players with over 100 hits for the season. talk about efficient.
Watch out for superstar-in-the-making first baseman Kendry Mo-rales. After only playing 27 games last season, the Angels have not skipped a beat with Morales taking over teixeira’s spot. The Halos will need his big bat to compliment his teammates.
For Scioscia, he knows he can de-pend on John Lackey, but Scott Ka-zmir and Ervin Santana will need to be on their “A” game if they want to stop a Yankee power surge.
The wild card for the Angels is Jered Weaver. If he pitches like he did in the ALDS, then it will take great pressure off of the bullpen. I have always seen great stuff from Weaver, but he has just not been able to be consistent. This should be his coming out party.
For old time’s sake, I have to mention the significance of Abreu and teixeira facing their respective former teams. They have shined in both uniforms, and I expect to see the same in this match up.
This series will go the distance to seven games. Both teams are so bal-anced and relentless that no team will give up without a fight.
I predict that most of the games will go down to the wire. Late-game heroics and walk-off hits are defi-nitely on the horizon.
Unfortunately, there will be no rally Monkey this year. The Yanks will take it to the Angels and go on to the Fall Classic.
The dream of a “Freeway World Series” will have to wait one more year. Those damn Yankees ruin ev-erything.
The ‘Evil Empire’ will beat the Angels in seven to return to fall classic
CC Sabathia’s arm will be a huge factor in the Yankees moving on to the World Series.photo courtesy mct
Angels center fielder Torii Hunter during home game at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.photo courtesy mct
old faces in Dodgers and phillies series
(MCT) – Familiarity doesn’t al-ways breed contempt. Sometimes it brings back memories and leads to friendly handshakes.
That certainly will be the case dur-ing the National League Champion-ship Series for the players and team personnel who have ties to both the Dodgers and the phillies or the cities in which they play.
Ned Colletti, completing his fourth season as Dodgers general manager, once worked in philadel-phia as a sports writer, covering the philadelphia Flyers in 1980 and 1981 as a beat reporter for the now-defunct philadelphia Journal.
(I remember that tabloid well, be-cause I was working in Baltimore at the time and often went to philly on assignment. My two favorite Jour-nal headlines: “Cheap Hood Kills Cop” and “phillies Fan Wins Nobel prize.”)
When that newspaper folded, Colletti went to work for the Chi-cago Cubs, first in pr and then in baseball operations, before accepting a job in the San Francisco Giants front office and serving nine years as assistant GM. (For some reason he doesn’t like talking about the Angels-Giants World Series in 2002.)
He became Dodgers GM in 2005 and, ironically, had to go through the Cubs and the phillies in the
2008 playoffs to try to reach the World Series.
His Dodgers swept the Cubs but lost to the phillies in the NLCS in five games.
This week, Colletti’s team gets an-other shot at philadelphia.
It’s a similar situation for Dennis Mannion, the Dodgers’ president and chief operating officer since 2007. Mannion formerly spent 16 years (1982-97) working for the phillies, including eight years as Vice president of Marketing and Sales. He’s also looking forward to another shot at philly.
Down on the field, there are plenty of ex-phillies in the Dodgers dugout and ex-Dodgers in the phil-lies dugout.
randy Wolf and Vicente padilla – the Dodgers’ respective starting pitchers in Games 1 and 3 in the NL Division Series against St. Louis – will have a chance to beat their for-mer teams in the NLCS.
Wolf came up in the phillies orga-nization and pitched for them from 1999-2006 before signing with the Dodgers as a free agent. He pitched for the 2007 Dodgers, left for a year (when L.A. met philly in the 2008 NLCS) and returned this season.
padilla pitched for the phil-lies from 2000-2005, including a 14-victory seasons in 2002 and
Dodgers third base coach, Larry Bowa, disputes a call during a game against the Phillies.photo courtesy mct
2003, but he wore out his welcome there and signed with texas in 2006. The rangers also got tired of his be-havior when they released him in August, and was quickly signed by the Dodgers.
outfielder Jayson Werth, who had the winning hit in the phillies’ NLDS clincher against Colorado on Monday night, was with the Dodg-ers from 2004-06. He was signed by the phillies as a free agent after miss-ing the entire 2006 season recover-ing from wrist surgery.
phillies second baseman Chase Utley was born in pasadena, grew up as a Dodgers fan, went to UCLA and now resides in Carson during the offseason.
Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa managed, coached and played for the phillies and was regarded as the best shortstop in franchise his-tory until current star Jimmy rollins came along.
Dodgers first base coach Mariano Duncan came up in the Dodgers’ or-ganization and played for the Dodg-ers from 1985-89 and later signed as free agent with the phillies, where he played from 1992-1995 and made the All-Star team in 1994.
phillies first base coach and base running instructor Davey Lopes was a longtime second baseman for the Dodgers (1972-81), culminating with the Dodgers’ World Series-win-ning team in 1981. He’s been on the phillies coaching staff since 2006.
And phillies manager Charlie Manuel was Dodgers slugger Manny ramirez’s hitting coach at Cleveland from 1994-99, Manny’s first six full years in the majors.
All of which means there likely will be a lot of fraternizing around the batting cage when NLCS opens Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
parting shot: After the Dodgers finished off their sweep of the Cardi-nals at Busch Stadium on Saturday, tBS on-field reporter tom Verducci approached Manny ramirez on camera and asked him how his team would stay sharp with four days off before the NLCS.
“Are you talking about practice?” Manny retorted, doing his best Allen Iverson imitation.
It was very funny.
