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INSIDE: DETOUR SPORTS: Titan ice hockey to face USC Red carpet fashion in third match of season, page 8 breakdown, page 6 FEATURES: Controversial literature barred from libraries are honored, page 3 OPINION: U.S. considers subsidizing newspapers, page 4 Since 1960 Thursday Volume 85, Issue 12 September 24, 2009 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Visit DailyTitan.com/mockfuneralcsu for more Featured on the Daily Titan Web site alongside this story is video from the The day higher event. Log on to watch footage of the protesters arriving in the hearse, carry- ing the casket representing ‘California’s Master Plan for Higher Education’, and blocking the doors to the CSU Chancellors office in Long Beach. Over 200 protesters turned up at the event carrying placards and banners mourn- education died ing the ‘death’ of the CSU’s plan for higher education. BY PatricK COWLES representing a thousand students Daily Titan Asst. News Editor who were denied admission to a [email protected] CSU this academic year. With four pallbearers carrying Fog descended upon Downtown the casket, a cavalcade of black-clad Photos BY Shruti Patel/Daily Titan Photo Editor Long Beach the morning of Wednes- students and faculty formed a pro- Above: BagpiperTucker Fleming led the procession of pallbearers and casket from the hearse day, Sept. 23. Under the same skies, cession toward the chancellor’s of- to the funeral service on Sept. 23 outside of the CSU Chambers. Top Right: After about 200 faculty and students of the Cal State fice. Bagpiper Tucker Fleming led students and faculty dropped their flowers and “hopes and dreams” inside the casket, they University system laid to rest their the “mourners” with the sounds of stood behind the casket to commemorate a day that will forever be in their memories. Right: hopes and dreams for higher educa- “Amazing Grace.” Crowds of students and faculty members stood in union as they listened to fellow comrades tion in California. The students and faculty treated speaking their minds on how the CSU has died with their broken dreams and hopes of the In a mock funeral for California’s the mock funeral as a protest against future. Below: Mourners display their grief over the loss of higher education. master plan for higher education, what they felt were wrongs perpetu- Cal State Long Beach faculty and ated by CSU leadership toward the students organized an event to pro- universities. Fleming treated the test the CSU Board of Trustees and event as any other funeral. state legislators’ poor administrative “This is definitely unique,” said and legislative leadership which has Fleming. ”But I hope to bring about led to class cancellations, fee increas- a real funeral experience.” es and furlough days, as stated in fac- After the pallbearers laid the ulty and student speeches. ‘California Master Plan’ to rest, “We are witnessing the systematic Yamada introduced the speakers, dismantling of California’s master which included President of the plan for higher education,” said Teri California Faculty Association Lil- Yamada, president of the Long Beach lian Taiz, Chico State senior Jamela chapter of the California Faculty As- Pugh, CSU Employees Union Presi- sociation and professor of Asian and dent Patrick Gantt, CSULB student Asian American studies at CSULB. Jaqueleen Larson, professor of Mu- Around 11 a.m., a hearse carry- sic and Digital Media Arts at CSU ing a coffin filled with a mannequin Dominquez Hills David Bradfield, dressed in a graduation gown ar- and spokesperson for the California rived at the CSU chancellor’s office. Nurses Association Gianne McKil- It proceeded directly to the funeral lan. grounds at the outside lobby of the office building, which had 50 posts See FUNERAL, Page 2 DT SHORTHAND Techno or Piano Stay connected to the Visually impaired artistically inclined Daily Titan on: ing their art displayed and educating you are stronger in others, so being For those of you not attending people about their vision loss and how blind allowed him to develop more the 15th Annual Nocturnal Festi- they were able to create it with that vi- in art,” Sisoev said. val in San Bernadino on Saturday, sion loss. I love to hear the buzz out “A lot of people have a knack for Sept. 26, there is another option here during the reception night and it, and they go for it. It’s incredible you could explore right here at Cal to hear the stories and hear them talk that these are blind artists. It’s unbe- State Fullerton. about their work,” Kammer said. lievable, “Sisoev said. Eric Le Van, a Los Angeles born WWII internees Kammer got the idea from a patient Tickenoff has optic nerve dam- pianist, will be playing at 8 p.m. of hers, Kurt Weston. “He asked about age, which limits his peripheral vi- honored with degrees the blank walls and suggested the idea sion. Nina Goudy, Tickenoff’s sister, at the Meng Concert Hall. Buy of having an art exhibit,” Kammer said. said, “He has been an adventurer all tickets online at http://www.ful- Japanese Americans who at- “After brainstorming for half an hour, of his life. He’s just an artist all the lerton.edu/arts/events for $20 or tended Cal State University and he convinced me to get this done.” way around. He never gives up. He $15 if you qualify for the Titan were held in internment camps In order to be one of the artists, is hoping that there might be stem Discount. during World War II were grant- “They have to be at a minimum of cell research that might return his ed honorary degrees on Wednes- 2200 central vision loss, which means eyesight.” they cannot see the big “E” on the eye “What makes his art different is day. chart with corrected vision (glasses),” that it seems like he has a photo- WEATHER The CSU Board of Trustees said Arlene Kaye, director of market- graphic memory, and he has stored voted unanimously. ing and curator for the exhibit. all of that stuff in his brain all of TODAY TOMorrow “Hundreds of students were BY Shruti Patel/Daily Titan Photo Editor Other conditions that these artists these years. It’s all of his experienc- removed from colleges and uni- Anne Sanregret, a former marketing teacher at Cal State Fullerton, admires the art have is tunnel vision or reduced visual es. It’s hard for us to understand,” versities, forced to delay or aban- on exhibit at the Southern California Eye Care Center on Tuesday. field, which means a visual field that is Goudy said. don their dreams based solely on 20 degrees less than the normal visual Juny Wendel has central vision their ancestry,” CSU Chancellor BY JAMIE IGLESIAS ist and show people the amazing tal- field status, Kammer said. loss and recently lost some of her vi- ent they have and to show those with The artwork was displayed along sion. She describes her art as eclectic High: 99° High: 97° Charles B. Reed said. Daily Titan Staff Writer “The internment of Japanese [email protected] visual impairment are not limited just hallways where guests could roam and or whimsical: “I use more media. I Low: 63° Low: 63° by their vision. In fact, some artists ac- observe the variety of work. Along with throw in a lot of different things, Americans and Japanese im- The Eye Care Center (ECC) at tually created their work after they lost each piece, there was a brief description and I think that is what makes my Sunny Sunny migrants during World War II the Southern California College of their vision,” said Rebecca Kammer, as- of each artist and his or her condition. art different,” Wendel said. She represents the worst of a nation Optometry (SCCO) held its fifth sociate professor and chief of the Low There were paintings, sculptures, pho- used eye shadow to add color to one CONTACT US driven by fear and prejudice. By annual Shared Visions Internation- Vision Rehabilitation Department at tographs, sketches, and mosaics. of her butterfly pieces. issuing honorary degrees, we al Art Exhibit on Tuesday featuring the SCCO. Deni Sisoev joined her mother to The exhibit will run from Sept. Main line: (657) 278-3373 hope to achieve a small right in 90 pieces created by blind and le- “For a lot of the artists, this is their see her uncle, Michael Tickenoff’s, 22 until mid-August 2010. For ad- News desk: (657) 278-4415 gally blind artists. first time having their art exhibited. Advertising: the face of such grave wrongs,” artwork and was impressed. “I think ditional information, contact Ar- (657) 278-4411 “Our goal is to feature the art- They are super pumped about hav- that when you are weak in some areas lene Kaye at (714) 992-7865. E-mail: [email protected] Reed said. 2 Page Two September 24, 2009 IN OTHER NEWS INTERNATIONAL Israel refuses to cooperate in investigation TEL AVIV (MCT) – Israel’s government erred in not cooperating with the Goldstone Commission, which investigated claims of human rights vio- lations during operation “Cast Lead” in Gaza. In refusing to cooperate with the commission, Israel missed an opportunity to justify its position and insist that the international community adapt the rules of warfare to the reality of the 21st century. Even without cooperating, though, Israel’s claim that the rockets fired from Gaza into civilian areas constitute a war crime, possibly even a crime against humanity, was upheld over the claim made by many Pal- estinians that they are a “legitimate form of resistance to the occupation.” Israel’s decision stemmed from concern that cooperation would confer legitimacy on the commission’s conclusions.

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