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Ugly Mondays Bad Boys, Bad Boys DailyTitaN Columnist discusses issues of Campus troublemakers sow up in www.dailytitan.comOnline kharma OPINION, p. 6 Cop Blotter PAGE TWO Since 1960 Monday Volume 84, Issue 31 April 9, 2007 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton ASI Presidency Undetermined tive Vice President Javier Gamboa, est number we’ve had in the last two Run-off election results who is running for president with years,” Meza said. and new president will be Linda Vasquez as his executive vice “This has been the craziest elec- president. tion I’ve ever seen and I’ve been announced next week Over 40 people gathered in the involved with each one for the last Legislative Chambers of the Titan three years,” said CSUF student An- Student Union to hear the election gela Meyers, who was campaigning BY KRISTINA JUNIO results Thursday night. for Williams and Schlaufman. Daily Titan Staff Writer Gamboa and Vasquez had 1,202 After the polls closed, Williams [email protected] votes while Williams and Schlaufman said she was feeling pretty good. had 1,132 votes. Kerry Belvill and “Last year I was out talking to a The results of the Associated Stu- Cassandra Rehm had 218 votes and lot of people, but this year I did not dents, Inc. spring presidential race would not be participating in the hold back what so ever, every person prompted a run-off election between run-off. who walked by I talked to and a lot the two highest voted pairs because “In order to win, according to the of people said they voted,” Williams none of the candidates won by a ma- bylaws, you have to have 50 per- said. jority, as required by the bylaws. cent of the votes plus one individual “I think the quality of all the The run-off election will be be- vote,” said Becky Meza, ASI com- candidates this semester drove a lot tween ASI President Heather Wil- missioner. “Obviously neither team of students out to vote,” Gamboa liams, who is running for re-election had 50 percent of the votes.” BY REZA ALLAH-BAHksHI/Daily Titan with Curtis Schlaufman as her exec- This year 2,579 students voted, WAITING FOR IT - Heather Williams and Curtis Kaufman await the results for who will become the next ASI utive vice president, and ASI Execu- “Which has definitely been the high- SEE ASI - PAGE 3 president and vice president Thursday. The election ended in a run-off and another vote will be held later next week. Title IX Demonstration in Los Angeles to Protest Immigration Law Legislation affecting dollars to become U.S. residents. and need it now.” are so frustrated,” he said. That plan would have allowed “Charging that much, Bush is The march passed through one The White House’s draft plan, many of the country’s illegal immi- Provides undocumented workers going to be even more expensive of most heavily Hispanic districts leaked last week, calls for a new “Z” grants to stay in the United States, targeted by 15,000 than the coyotes,” said protester in downtown, collecting people visa that would allow illegal immi- work and apply to become legal Armando Garcia, 50, referring to who had come to do their weekend grant workers to apply for three- residents after learning English, pay BY PETER PRENGAMAN smugglers who transport people shopping. At City Hall, protesters year work permits. They would be small fines and back taxes and clear Associated Press across the Mexican border. “He will listened to a number of immigrant renewable indefinitely, but would a background check. Equality become the No. 1 rights speakers. cost $3,500 each time. Many Senate conservatives op- [email protected] coyote.” Advocates say To get a permit and become le- posed that plan, and it failed to Law, long used to fund Thousands of people marched Garcia said he If they kick me out, many of the area’s gal permanent residents, illegal im- gain traction in the then Republi- was in the U.S. “ illegal immigrants migrants would have to return to can-controlled House, which at the through downtown on Saturday, who is going to take women’s sports, designed legally but has sev- feel betrayed by their home country, apply at a U.S. end of 2005 passed the punitive demanding a way for the country’s care of my daughters? to create gender equity estimated 12 million illegal im- eral brothers here President Bush, embassy or consulate to re-enter le- immigration reform bill that an- migrants to become citizens and illegally. The government? I who they had long gally and pay a $10,000 fine. gered immigrant communities and Alfredo Gonza- considered an ally. The proposal has been sharply led to massive protests. BY LEYLA ALAHMAD condemning President Bush’s latest don’t think so. “ lez, 33, an illegal “People are re- criticized by Hispanic advocacy “Last year, we were fighting for For The Daily Titan proposal. – Alfredo Gonzalez immigrant from ally upset,” said groups, Democrats, the Roman legalization, and this year we are [email protected] Carrying signs saying “Amnesty Illegal Immigrant from Mexico Now,” about 15,000 people danced Mexico, marched Juan Jose Gutier- Catholic Church and unions that fighting for legalization and against with his wife and rez, president of have many immigrants in their all these raids,” said Maria Lopez, It is the 35th anniversary for Title to Mexican ranchera music and daughters, ages 6 Los Angeles-based ranks. They argue the costs of work 50, an illegal immigrant who works IX, a federal law enacted in 1972 passed large American flags over and 8. He said he Latino Movement permits and the green card applica- as a seamstress and sends $200 a requiring gender equality in educa- their heads. fears the stepped-up immigration USA, one of several organizers of tion, which could total more than month home to family in Mexico. tional institutions. Although Title IX Organizers said many illegal im- raids occurring across the country. the rally. $20,000, are prohibitive. “We have no way to come up is best known for requiring gender migrants were angry about a White “If they kick me out, who is go- “For years, the president spoke in The plan is far more conservative with that much money, and Bush equality in athletics, it was initially House plan that would grant them ing to take care of my daughters? no uncertain terms about support- than the one passed by the Senate knows that,” she said. “He is doing intended for gender equality across work visas but require them to re- The government? I don’t think so,” ing immigration reform ... then this last year with bipartisan backing this on purpose so we don’t ever be- the entire educational realm. turn home and pay thousands of he said. “We need full legalization kind of plan comes out and people and support from President Bush. come legal residents.” Title IX states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activ- Tanning Beds Provide Alternatives to Sunlight ity receiving federal financial assis- tance.” For less-dangerous bronze year long simply because they don’t let B rays, which are the shorter rays Steve DiTolla, associate athletics like to look pasty. that immediately burn your skin and director at Cal State Fullerton, said, skin, sun worshippers can Business Major Derek Hrubeniuk lead to aggressive skin cancers. “The basic principle behind Title IX head to an ultraviolet bed is well aware of the risks involved The ultraviolet A rays emitted is to provide equal opportunity for with tanning beds as he has experi- by the high pressure beds enhance student athletes to participate in ath- enced some burning before, yet he the coloring agent in the human letics.” BY NATALIE DEFAY tans in the regular beds once every body; tanning will happen slower, An article in the Daily Titan on For the Daily Titan couple of weeks. yet with longer-lasting color and September 23, 1981, almost 10 years [email protected] “I only go in because I’m really less damage done to bather’s skin, after the law was enacted, discussed fair skinned,” he explained. “In the Siggson said. the possible elimination of the law As the winter season draws to a wintertime I get really white and I The bulbs in these high-pres- by the Reagan administration. Ac- close, the pressure to be tan is on the don’t like it.” sure beds cost approximately $110 cording to the 1981 article, even if minds of many beach-goers at Cal As many people want to hit the a piece, whereas the regular bulbs Title IX were to have been eliminat- State Fullerton. The images portrayed beach looking as good as possible, it merely cost around $15. ed, the fight for fairness would not by the media often glorify a bronzed is easy to see why many will ignore Siggson said people should be have stopped. body. According to the Food and the risks and dangers involved with careful when investing in the use of Today, however, the law is still ac- Drug Administration, 38,000 cases exposure to the harmful ultraviolet a high-pressure bed; he said another tive and required by schools falling and 7,300 deaths linked to tanning, rays projected in most tanning beds. local Fullerton tanning salon claims under certain categories. including malignant melanoma and Still, there are dangers associated to offer these expensive beds, but ac- “Gender equity in athletic insti- other related skin cancers, are antici- with artificial tanning, as well as with tually uses the regular bulbs.