Otter Realm, August 16, 2007

p13 the otter August 16th 2007 Driving Potter Fans Mad RCalifornia State University Montereya Bay’s Campus Nlewspmaper otterrealm.net CAUTION: construction Continues P3 From p6 p11 p16 Gunshells Fancy Meeting You Here to Seashells Summer sweat Reuse Plan Brings New Life to Dunes and Feeling Fit Excepts From This Otters Black Book . News Arts Sports Remnants of Ft. Ord Compiled Sean Tibbitts, Arts Editor tom down and focused as a university,” [email protected] Anderson said. “We hope that someday it becomes a resource; an education In shadowy comers, all over the CSU center for the region.” Monterey Bay campus, remnants of Dennis Sun, FOMA photographer the former Fort Ord have begun to and Library Circulations Manager accumulate, but these pieces of is passionate about the project and documented history are in need of continues to preserve the base history a home. The Fort Ord Museum and through his photography and labor. Archive (FOMA) has plans to archive “It’s important since Ford Ord these pieces and a lot more. has been such an influential part of In 1996, the Fort Ord Alumni the local community’s history,” Sun Association was founded to “preserve said. “There is over half a century of and honor the history of Fort Ord and symbiotic relationship with this base to support CSUMB students,” accord and community.” ing to their website. Now the Alumni Although the project has certainly Association has combined with the seen progress since its formation, both campus to form FOMA. Dr. Anderson and Sun agree that there Along with a handful of faculty, staff are obstacles ahead. and students, Dr. David Anderson, Chair “A big challenge right now is finding of FOMA, has begun to collect and pro space to collect and preserve materials,” fessionally curate special remnants of Anderson said. “The cost of renovating the military base’s past. is enormous and finding resources to Hidden across campus, in a variety of upgrade space is hard.” buildings, personal closets and garages Sun also recognizes another challenge are valuable artifacts that have been they face; the lack of a permanent team collected, including items such as sculp to work on the project. “We don’t have tures, murals, shell casings, letters, and a group specifically here for the support even whole doors. of FOMA,” Sun said. He also added Among the assortment is a large col that current volunteers see this task as a lection of books similar to yearbooks, labor of love. which contain the names and photos FOMA was recently awarded a of soldiers trained, their Commanding $14,000 “historic preservation grant” Officers, and action shots of their activi by the Community Foundation of ties and leisure time. Monterey County, which Dr. Anderson “We know there’s a lot of rich history said will be used to help create the much here, and it is disappearing as it gets needed facility. S T T s I B B I T N A E S Y w B S O T e O H P n 2 | Otter Realm | Aug. 16—Sep. 5,2007 Construction CAUTION: Continues Mary Freeman Staff Reporter but students can expect to see improvement project Divarty should take the initiative to [email protected] the softball/baseball fields Street and part of General keep themselves posted on and the field house opened Jim Moore Blvd. are closed changes and detours at the around the end of Sept. and will be followed by This upcoming semester, “You Need To Know” section This will finally allow closures of Fifth Street and of FirstClass. According members of the CSU CSUMB to have home games then finally Inter-garrison to Ventimiglia, “you’d be Monterey Bay community on campus. Blvd. amazed how many people can expect business as usual Construction will also Also, those who remember just ignore it and think they with four distinct, ongoing continue in the improvements last winter’s demolition of can drive straight through, construction projects. of landscaped areas and dorm 207 can expect a similar around [the construction].” This construction is just dormitories, which will close process in the upcoming With campus construction another aspect of CSUMB’s vital campus roads. destruction of Divarty Street‘s becoming a part of CSUMB “master plan” to transition “It’s so hard to get used dorm 209, and four other vernacular, Ventimiglia from a small, young campus to driving a certain route wooden structures located on reminds us that, “it’s a slight into a well-established, large and then having to change it third Street. Currently the inconvenience for now, but community that is able to every time a road on campus projects are in an abatement in the long run it’s just the accommodate a growing closes,” said senior HCOM period, but as soon as certain number of students. process of growing and major Jay Punkar, “But I insurance issues are resolved improving on what we have Anyone visiting the CSUMB understand that it will only the demolition will proceed. here to make the campus look campus will notice the make our campus better.” Those interested in the better and function better.” construction of the 136,151 As a part of a utilities continuing construction square feet, multi-level building, located diagonally from the Chapman Science Academic Center on Fifth Avenue and Divarty Street. The large structure is the greatly anticipated Tanimura- Antle Library. The library has a projected completion date of Sept. 2008. Located south of the library will be a new walkway edition. Named for it’s shape, The Crescent will function as a border near the meadow and will serve as a landscaped transition into the natural environment. The campus construction n will also continue on the new softball and baseball fields. e Fans of athletics and sports will be excited to know that w according to campus architect Kathleen Ventimiglia there s are still a few more “fixes,” PHOTOS BY MARY FREEMAN Aug. 16—Sep. 5,2007 | Otter Realm | 3 Wii Console Proves Worth the Wait Kristina Kendrick, Managing Editor [email protected] From Pong to Ms. Packman and original Nintendo to XBOX, the video game world has gone through many changes; most recently the Nintendo Wii has taken over as the hot new console to have. For those who don’t have access to a Wii or have been living under a rock for the last year, the vast complexity of this machine is astonishing. Not only does it play video games like Zelda, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Rayman Raving Rabbids, but the Wii allows users to organize personal photos, check the weather and news and have access to the World Wide Web. With features like these, it’s no wonder finding a Wii to buy might be more difficult than one might think. “I tried for a week and a half, calling seven different places until I found one,” said Sam Myers, junior CSU Monterey Bay TAT major. Retailers like Best Buy, Circuit City, and EB Games carry the console, games and the many accessories but they rarely know when they will get a shipment in until very soon before it hits the shelves. The Wii console and its counterparts, “We usually know we are getting a the Wiimote and Nunchuck are both shipment only one day ahead of time,” vital during gameplay, (above) said Seaside’s EB Games manager, Wii Sports allows players to use Aaron Cranson. “It’s on a first come, customized Mii’s during a match, (left) first serve basis, those who walk in BUS senior Travis Clark steps up to when we have some get lucky.” bat in a game of Wii baseballl. (below) Crason has witnessed ' many crazy incidents involving the Wii. One person he dealt with spent over $1000 in one visit on Wii products. It’s not only kids that are into these games either. “Most of the people I see are parents buying for themselves and their kids,” said Cranson. “It’s so interactive, making it different than the other consoles.” expense of cutting edge graphics like Those still looking to find a Wii are that of the XBOX 360 and Playstation encouraged to get to retailers right when 3. With this said, the cost of the Wii is they first open for the day. about half of the other two. Calling the stores is a start but by the For more information about the Wii P H time a store has them in stock, they are including tech support, software updates O T O s already gone; which could be part of and uploaded videos from Wii users, S B Nintendo’s grand scheme. check wii.com. Y S “I was more stoked when I finally got Buying off the internet is another E A N w my Wii because I waited so long to get option by visiting, buy-wii-online.com, T I B it,” added Myers, who has owned a half which gives availability and prices for B I T dozen other consoles. many retailers like Amazon, E-bay and T e S While the Wii involves many Wal-mart. The console runs around $250 interactive qualities, this might be at the and games go for around $50 a piece. n 4 | Otter Realm | Aug. 16—Sep. 5,2007 More information on participating in the Adventure Connections activities can be found on their website at http://sports.csumb. Staying Connected Otter Style edu/site/xl8394.xmL Celissa Valenzuela, Staff Reporter WHY Cel issa_Val enzuel [email protected] RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN? LOW MONTHLY PAYMENTS! Summer vacation is rapidly coming to an end and it is time to start planning the next academic year.

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