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SPORTS: Division III Titan rugby falters INSIDE: Social justice in bid for Division II status, page 10 resist ignorance, provoke FEATURES: The proper way to place both thought, incite change, page 3 male and female condoms, page 5 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 39 Tuesday April 21, 2009 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Jon Wilhite fundraiser ASI looks to cut leaders’ stipends Lucky Strike Orange is hosting a fundraising event with a portion of BY SEAN BELK increase in overall funding, some or- amendments have increased the of the proposed $101,573. the proceeds going to charities in Daily Titan Assistant News Editor ganizations were left short. surplus from $835 to over $15,000 “I think we student leaders can honor of those who lost their lives [email protected] The main reason is because the – money that can now be used to make some cuts,” Hernandez said. and a portion will be going to a fund university plans to curtail enroll- fund other areas. To cut costs, the “It’s not a whole lot, but it can make for Jon Wilhite to help him through Board of Directors debates slashing student pay as ment by 2 to 4 percent this Summer ASI Board approved reducing board a difference. It can be more effective the recovery process. university expects 2 to 4 percent cut to enrollment and Fall because of the state’s eco- travel funds and eliminating a stu- somewhere else.” nomic downturn, which is expected dent position at the Irvine campus, The proposal produced widespread Where: With campus organizations pro- get that currently projects $6.9 mil- to bring down student fee income along with keeping its contracts, fees contention among board members, 20 City Blvd. testing planned budget cuts from lion in total disbursements. for ASI. and rentals the same. with some saying cuts to any student West Bld. G Suite 2 Associated Students Inc., a proposal ASI leaders are finding new ways ASI Board Chair Christine Her- The next suggestion, however, positions should be made “fair” and Orange, CA 92868 to reduce student leader pay has re- to make sure all clubs, councils and nandez brought a proposal to the didn’t come as easy – cutting more “across the board.” The debate is When: ceived mixed reactions. programs will be fully funded. April 14 board meeting, hoping to than $19,800 from executive staff whether to reduce stipends for only Wednesday, April 22 In the next few weeks, Cal State Even though there is more than make a difference. stipends. The cut would bring stu- top paid executive positions or in ad- Fullerton’s ASI Board of Directors $170,000 carried over from 2008- After being unanimously approved dent leadership awards back to dition to other paid positions. From 7-9 p.m. Lucky Strike, Or- will be approving its 2009-10 bud- 09 and a 2.23 percent comparable by the Board last week, the budget 2007-08 figures, or $80,102 instead See CUTS, Page 2 ange will have a private room avail- able for the showing of the Angels game. The silent Auction will be open from 8-11p.m. $5 minimum donation upon en- try with 100 percent going to the recipients. ‘Farmers to Flyers’ exhibit earns its wings The building will be exclusively for the fundraiser from 9 p.m. to BY Christine AMARANTUS midnight with 20 percent of all sales Daily Titan Assistant Opinion Editor going to the recipients. [email protected] Currently accepting donations for the silent auction. Call Rachelle Bea- Veterans share their oral sley at Lucky Strike 714-221-0387. histories about the former Marine Corps base Long before Irvine’s Orange In Memoriam County Great Park began floating A memorial service for The Daily its gargantuan orange balloon in Titan Newsroom founding adviser the sky, U.S. Marine Corps fighter and emeritus professor James P. Al- aircraft, Corsairs, shot through the exander will be held today at 10 am wild, blue yonder – buzzing over in College Park building room CP- lima bean fields and inspiring the oc- 670. casional fearful turkey to kill itself. Originally a Glendale Junior Col- “Turkeys on the local farms would lege professor, Alexander became think the planes and helicopters were Cal State Fullerton’s first full-time birds of prey and commit suicide by journalism professor in 1960 for the running into buildings,” 26-year-old Department of Communications, graduate student Kira Gentry said. and also the chair for the school’s Gentry and several other Cal State journalism program as a successor to Fullerton students interviewed vet- J. Wiliam Maxwell. erans and civilians regarding El Toro Alexander then became the very Marine Corps Air Station, a military first adviser for CSUF’s new student- base in Irvine, which closed in 1999 generated newspaper The Daily Titan to make way for the Orange County in 1961, launching the News-Edito- Great Park. This oral histories proj- rial Sequence for the Department of ect is being exhibited in the Orange Communications soon after. County Agricultural and Nikkei He also developed the depart- Heritage Museum in the Arboretum ment’s internship program in 1965, under the title “Farmers to Flyers: which became the biggest in intern MCAS El Toro and Mid-Century program in the nation during the Orange County.” One of the veterans Gentry had 1980’s. BY Kelly Lacefield/Courtesy OF CSUF PUBLIC Affairs As a professor, he taught report- interviewed told her of the fright- ing, writing, copy editing, and other ened fowl, which she had confirmed The “Farmers to Flyers” exhibit includes military artifacts and was brought to Cal State Fullerton through the year-long efforts of history graduate students and runs through Dec. 10. valuable journalist techniques. with the turkey farmers in the area. He was recognized by the Califor- “It’s been very rewarding to meet I’d consent to be interviewed. I did a Like many Marines who were on Sarah Barca, 26, curated the exhibit. The Orange County Great Park, nia Newspaper Publishers Associa- with these people and document the two-hour oral interview. It was very their way to the action in the Pacific Barca did the project as her history which is “growing” on what was El tion as the state’s most outstanding history of the base to when it closed professional,” Rawlings said. during World War II, Chamblin’s thesis, which was much more fun Toro, kept Hangar 244 with the in- teacher in journalism in 1975. in ‘99,” Gentry said. “My life has Rawlings retired from the Marine time at El Toro was relatively brief. than writing a paper, she said. tent of making it into an aviation been enriched with how they came Corps as a major, but back at El Toro “I was there from fall of ‘43 to fall “I did a little bit of everything. museum. A sign on the hangar reads, out on top. It’s been great. The tur- in 1943, he was a second lieutenant. of ‘44,” he said. “I was flying a dive This was a year in the making,” Barca “This hangar was built in 1944 for key story is definitely my favorite.” Rawlings described El Toro, “The bomber and I was giving close air said. “It’s really nice that my room- the original air battalion stationed Obama orders cabinet Natalie Fousekis, a history profes- base was not entirely paved and they support to the army as they liberated mates finally get to see what’s been here during World War II. Finding sor and director of the CSUF Center had three squadrons, 150 pilots and the Philippines. I was there when the keeping me up late at night.” new purposes for old buildings at to make spending cuts for Oral and Public History said, 12 planes. They didn’t have enough war ended.” Of all of the narrations, Barca said the Great Park helps commemorate “This project started in 2007 to re- quarters, so they took over the La- “Farmers to Flyers” also features she found the ones by women fasci- the history of the Marine Corps Air WASHINGTON (MCT) – Presi- port stories of the men and women guna Beach Hotel for the officers.” photographs and objects, dating nating. Her favorite is one done with Station El Toro.” dent Barack Obama called his full and their families who worked at El Fellow Marine, retired Lt. Col. back to when the air station was sur- a woman who worked at a beauty Chunks of the broken-up run- Cabinet together for the first time on Toro. We have interviewed about Loyd Chamblin, 84, saw a request rounded by lima bean fields. Model shop on the base. ways are being recycled and artisti- Monday and instructed department 160 people. Most of them are in for interviews in the paper. planes, uniforms, helmets, patches “Revlon had make-up specially cally-placed around the park in the heads to cut enough money from their 70s and 80s. If we had not got- “They were looking for people and many other artifacts color in the made. It had names like ‘Bravo,’” hillsides. “El Toro Stone,” as signs their budgets to set a new “tone” in ten their stories down now, in a de- who had been at El Toro, either ci- oral histories. A winged red bull, El she said while laughing. “A lot of around the park refer to it, will be Washington. cade or so, they might be lost.” vilian or military. I responded to it Toro’s logo, hangs prominently in the interviews talked about dances used “for everything, from paving, But the target the president set for Veterans like 87-year-old Art and they sent an interviewer out.