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OPINION: Daily Titan columnists bid the SPORTS: Page 10 semester goodbye, page 5 ‘Wave’ of trouble hits FEATURES: Healthy eating over the women’s basketball team holidays: Mission Impossible, page 4 Since 1960 Volume 87, Issue 54 Monday December 15, 2008 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Business, Campus Life Hold ‘em or fold ‘em Ending Dec. 19, the Titan Student Union Center Gallery pleasure will be hosting an art exhibit featuring the works of Thomas Cruz’s “The Fall of the Rise.” The exhibit is a collection of political pop art done with acryl- a means ics in bright and vibrant colors. The TSU Arts Program en- courages cultural and artistic awareness and brings together for success works of art through the Arts Ac- quisition Programs and through CSUF Council hosts short-term exhibits. panel on husband-wife entrepreneurship teams Drowsy Longhorns have By JennifeR Tat Daily Titan Staff Writer trouble passing exam [email protected] (MCT) AUSTIN, Texas – Per- It was a typical storybook romance, sonally, I’ve never cottoned to the with some business involved. 2003 name change of the univer- Larry and Carole Scherzer met sity south of here, a move fostered at Pat Joyce’s Tavern in Cleveland, by an administration that thought Ohio in 1966 and fell in love in- the name too regional. stantly. They decided to elope for Southwest Texas State invokes their wedding. In 1993, Larry the image of a picturesque campus Scherzer founded Scherzer Interna- on the edge of the Hill Country tional, a background investigations where a river runs through it – as company. When the marketing ap- the San Marcos does. plicant he hired to help him build Texas State? Sounds like a pris- the company was in an automobile on. Or an optical company. accident, his wife came in to help At best, basketball-speaking, it as an insurance agent. This was the certainly lacks the cachet of UCLA beginning of the couple’s bountiful or Villanova, the last two oppo- business relationship. nents disposed of by sixth-ranked The Scherzers were one of four Texas before Saturday’s 79-73 vic- couples invited to take part in the tory over the Bobcats. “Husbands and Wives Working To- And Saturday’s modest crowd of gether Spells Success” panel discus- 6,415 hardly matched the intensity sion on Wednesday, Dec. 10. Host- the Longhorns experienced playing ed by The Family Business Council, the Bruins 10 days ago week before which is part of the Mihaylo College the earliest sellout in Erwin Center of Business and Economics at Cal history. Or battling the Wildcats State Fullerton, the panel addressed before a full house in Madison success for couples in businesses. Square Garden on Tuesday – after JoAnne Norton, a lecturer in family which the Longhorns landed in business dynamics at CSUF and also Austin at 5 a.m. on Wednesday the vice president of shareholder rela- looking semester final exams in the tions at Freedom Communications, face. moderated the panel and guided the And though understandable for couples to answer specific questions all the above reasons, Texas frankly, regarding all aspects of their business in scratching out a patchy victory relationship. over the Bobcats, looked like it was Norton first asked the men what taking a test it hadn’t studied for. READ THE story ON paGE 3 part of working with their spouse is A step slow on defense, evidenced their favorite. Leo Zlaket, of Zlaket’s by way too many reach-in fouls. By JoeL RosARio/Daily Titan staff Photographer Market, a gourmet deli, catering and Missing open, point-blank shots Students sit around a card table Saturday night to play in the Texas Hold ‘em Classic that is held every semester by the Titan Bowl & Billiards. meat market in Garden Grove, said that added up to a game shooting their business is very fast and furi- percentage of a tick less than 36 ous when it comes to dealing with percent. Giving up 16 fast-break employees and customers. points and a dozen off second- “She (his wife) brings the calm chance opportunities. CSUF profs publish a second edition that settles everything down,” Leo Zlaket said. Married for 41 years, Virginia A family game name By Jesica eAsTmAn Book offers advice for everyone working in the teaching Zlaket recalled meeting her husband Daily Titan Staff Writer industry on how to deal with challenging students over dinner. When her husband’s fail is ‘Ball Buster’ [email protected] brother retired from the family-run Zlaket Market, she convinced him The approval-seeking perfectionist shared with each other their chal- troubling elementary and middle- to buy out the company so they student, the student who has given lenging classroom experiences after a school-aged children, is not the first could run it together. up and the manipulative student are long day at work. Jeffrey Kottler was to be written by the Kottlers. Ellen Norton also presented a slide show just some examples of what Cal State inspired to write the first edition of Kottler has written 13 books and her of research and statistics of couples Fullerton professors Jeffrey Kottler the book. husband has authored 75, said Deb- who work together. She emphasized and Ellen Kottler have faced in their “I would come home from school ra Cano Ramos of the CSUF Public that love should take precedence and careers as educators and counselors. and ask for Jeffrey’s advice about a Affairs Department. be a strong foundation before a busi- Those students are the inspiration particular student,” Ellen Kottler The first edition of “Students ness relationship can flourish. for publishing the second edition said. “We wanted to write a book Who Drive You Crazy” was written The Scherzers have been married of “Students Who Drive You Crazy: that would help teachers build re- by Jeffrey Kottler. Ellen Kottler, a 41 years and have been able to main- Succeeding with Resistant, Unmo- lationships with students and help CSUF secondary education lecturer, tain a healthy business relationship. tivated, and Otherwise Difficult teachers understand roles and re- contributed to the new second edi- The actual ad: Larry said that from his perspective, Young People.” sponsibilities.” tion. The name of the game is ‘Ball his favorite thing about working As husband and wife and lifelong The book, which is specifically Buster.’ It’s a family game. Fun with his wife is that he can never get educators, the Kottlers regularly geared to helping teachers cope with See SECOND EDITION, Page 2 for children ... and for adults it’s enough. exciting. “It’s the romantic part of the total You make strategic offensive being that inspires me,” he said. and defensive moves then try to Norton also asked the women bust your opponent’s balls. Project asks mentally ill students about warning signs, care how they managed stress during It’s as easy as checkers but these trying economic times. Julie exactly like pool. You’re a ball Crisp of C2 Reprographics, a print (MCT) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. buster. in October after mentally ill stu- the signs that they are reaching a mentally ill people have filed elec- company based in Orange County, – Students with mental illness at dents went on shooting rampages at breaking point; authorization for tronic directives with the state Secre- said that witnessing so many people the University of North Carolina- Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois someone to make medical decisions tary of State’s office. Marvin Swartz, Chapel Hill are being asked to share University. for them, and even a list of which a Duke professor and director of WEATHER a cheat sheet describing how they Scheyett, who works at the School medicines tend to work and which the National Resource Center on See BUSINESS PANEL, Page 2 look and what they need when they of Social Work and specializes in don’t. The directives can be filed any- Psychiatric Advance Directives, has come undone, in hopes of avoiding mental illness, was also troubled where the student wishes: the Dean helped at least 400 people fill out di- the kind of bloody rampages seen on about the quiet fading away of men- of Students’ office, the university -po rectives, some of which are filed with TODAY TOMorrow other campuses in the past year. tally ill students. lice department, with a resident or a national registry. Swartz said two- In a test project that’s the first of “You e-mail and call and (some faculty adviser. thirds of the patients he’s offered to its kind at an American university, students) just don’t come back,” she The advanced directives are mod- help fill out directives have agreed to UNC-CH is offering mentally ill said. “We’ve got to find a way to help eled after living wills and have been do it. students the chance to tell university people and their families get the care available to the mentally ill in North “Mentally ill patients have repeat- officials how to care for them when they need to be here and well.” Carolina since the late 1990s. The ed episodes,” Swartz said. “When High: 59˚ High: 58˚ their illness takes over. These “ad- But it’s been hard getting students document is legally binding and ac- they’ve recovered, they have a pretty Low: 45˚ Low: 42˚ vance directives” allow students to to enroll, a problem Scheyett blames cessible to doctors in the event that a good sense of what works for them state their wishes and put in place a on the stigma surrounding mental person has a psychological break.
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