SPORTS: Page 10 OPINION: Whiskey, cigarettes and love Former pro surfer joins letters, what’s in your stash? page 5 the Titan family FEATURES: CSUF Dance Repertory Theatre performs the classics, page 4 Since 1960 Volume 87, Issue 22 Thursday October 9, 2008 DailyThe Student Voice of California Titan State University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Campus Life The CSUF business club, Online evaluations face opposition SAM – Society for the Advance- ment of Management is hosting a forum that will be held today. Profs say that Internet class time, a change that was met CSU employees. satisfied students, resulting in an un- didn’t have to sit in class and bubble The purpose of this event is analysis yields different with mixed reactions. According to Anthony Fellow, realistic evaluation of professors, and in arbitrary circles. I felt like I could to give the opportunity for the In a recent e-mail, California Fac- Chair of the Department of Com- that online evaluations run higher be much more honest since I was in biggest candidate forum to speak results than in-person ulty Association President Mougo munications, each department was risks of collusion between unsuper- my own space on my own time.” and possibly debate. Nyaggah recently advised depart- given the choice of how they wanted vised students due to the fact that Others disagree, citing the fact This is also an opportunity BY Andy ANDERSON ment chairs throughout the CSU to administer evaluations. they take place out of class. that more students actually complete for the community in Orange Daily Titan Staff Writer system to resist the immediate im- Students were asked to take time Many students, however, found the surveys when done in class. County to ask these candidates [email protected] plementation of an all-online class outside of class to provide the uni- them to be much more convenient “I liked it much better when sur- evaluation format, and continue versity with feedback regarding their and less time-consuming than their veys were conducted in class,” psy- questions. End-of-term student evaluations The candidates include run- the use of previously handwritten professors, as opposed to the existing manual predecessors. chology major Claudia Zuniga, 19, were adminstered online for the first opinions. The CFA is an organiza- hand-marked, in-class evaluations. “Evaluating your professors on- said. “It was nice that every student ning mates for U.S. Congress, time last semester, in a campus-wide California Senate, California As- tion comprised of more than 23,000 The CFA claims that online evalu- line is so much better,” Jamie Peter- in class did evaluations at the same attempt to reduce Cal State Fuller- state university professors and other ations attract more dissatisfied than son, 20, a kinesiology major, said. “I sembly and Orange County Su- ton’s carbon footprint and conserve See ONLINE SURVEYS, Page 2 perior Court Judge. Contact Wil- lis Lee at [email protected] for more information. Dow’s dramatic drop Use your smarts, not your fists was hard to predict CSUF students get self- MELVILLE, N.Y. (MCT) – defense lessons from What difference a year makes. A year ago Thursday, the Dow Fullerton Police Jones industrial average reached By Lezanne De WeT its highest level ever, 14,165 For The Daily Titan points. [email protected] But after a spate of high- Richter financial earthquakes Telling students that there is that include the current credit no fake bubble around Cal State crunch and the need for a $700 Fullerton to protect them from billion government rescue pack- assault, University Police Cpl. Iris age, the Dow, not surprisingly, Cortes-Valle shared some valu- is setting records in the oppo- able lessons about self-defense in site direction. the Titan Student Union Pavil- Monday it closed below ions last night. 10,000 for the first time in There have been a lot of situ- four years, at 9,956, down 370 ations where students need to points. Tuesday it continued know self-defense, Cortes-Valle that slide, closing at 9,447, said. During 2006-2007, there down 508 points, then dropped were 151 reported crimes on another 189 points on Wednes- campus, according to the Univer- day to close at 9,258. All told, sity Police Web site. This includes the index has tumbled more aggravated assaults, sex offenses, than 30 percent from last year’s burglary, and vehicle theft. Many all-time high. students seemed shocked when The Dow’s dramatic drop they heard this information at the and the economy’s spectacular self-defense seminar. downturn were hard to call, CSUF junior Allison Steen, some experts said, because, un- a child and development ma- like the tech bust that was lim- jor, said that the statistics that ited to extraordinary risk-taking Cortes-Valle provided definitely in one sector, the downturn in- helped her realize that knowing volves several areas: the mort- self-defense is extremely impor- gage industry, credit markets, By KaLeaH King/For The Daily Titan tant. banking and stock market. And Freshman Chris Voss prepares to deflect an attack by Fullerton Police officer Matt Braun during a self-defense seminar at the Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union last night. See SELF DEFENSE, Page 3 some financial planners believe Students learned the best way to prevent an attack is to avoid it entirely. this market more than ever de- mands that people rely on a bal- anced portfolio to weather the storm. Profs ‘How America Celebrities come together to encourage people to vote pays for college’ in ‘5 friends uncensored’ discuss A national survey reveals paid 23 percent by borrowing and 10 percent with savings and income, petrol how students cover the according to the study. cost of higher education CSUF communications and en- tertainment studies major Geraldine CSUF faculty explains By HaiDOng PiaO Morales, 21, said she does not receive the cause and effect of For The Daily Titan financial help from her parents, and [email protected] pays for school with student loans soaring gas prices and by working full-time at Ameri- While most students and their can Eagle Outfitters. Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, BY Christian Brown families agree that college is a wor- “School is expensive, and it’s al- Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whita- Daily Titan Staff Writer ker have created public service an- [email protected] thy investment, many often do not most impossible to pay for it with nouncements to encourage Ameri- have a deliberate plan on how to pay my job if I don’t get a loan, but I can youth to register to vote. The As gas prices continue to take their for it. think it’s worth it and I can get a nonpartisan PSAs, produced by Di- toll on pocket books across the coun- Sallie Mae, a company that pro- good paying job later to pay it off,” Caprios Appian Way, were created try, two Cal State Fullerton faculty vides saving-and-paying tools for Morales said. to engage and inspire young people members held an in-depth discussion college, and Gallup, a research or- Scholarships and grants covered to register and vote and participate to explain the soaring costs while re- ganization, recently conducted the another 15 percent while the re- in the upcoming election. assuring the campus community that study, “How America Pays For Col- maining three percent came from prices will decline if consumer de- lege.” It was done from a national friends and relatives, according to mand weakens. perspective on how students and the study. WEATHER In an effort to inform the public their families covered the cost of “We wanted to successfully de- about the gas supply, the College of higher education. velop the first-ever mathematically Natural Sciences and Mathematics Although most college students representative picture of how the TODAY TOMorrow hosted professors Jeffrey Knott and By KaLeaH King/For The Daily Titan are legally adults and like the idea of typical American family pays for Mark Filowitz at the Coyote Hills Cal State Fullerton student Raine Kosmicki fills up her tank at a local gas station. being independent, this recent study college,” Martha E. H. Holler, Sal- Golf Course in Fullerton for a presen- showed that when it is time to pay lie Mae’s vice president of corporate tation titled, “Baby, You Can’t Drive gas for 25 cents. It (gas) was coming of Bastanchury and State College,” tuition, parents still foot the biggest communications, said through an e- My Car: Rising Gas Prices, Why Is It from Brea,” Knott, a former senior he said. portion of it while students often mail interview. Happening and When Will It End?” geologist for Unocal Corp. (Union Mark Filowitz, former president turn to borrowing. Holler also said a key finding of September’s presentation was the first Oil Company of California), said. and chief executive officer of Wynn The study showed that, on aver- the study was that students and par- High: 78˚ High: 72˚ in a series to be hosted by the college, “Now we get it from the Gulf of Oil Company and current associate age, parents paid 48 percent of high- ents should pay more attention to Low: 57˚ in which it will highlight issues that Mexico.” dean of the College of Natural Sci- er education’s total price tag, with the full cost of college and develop Low: 52˚ are interesting to the public. As a result of this lack of supply ences and Mathematics, highlighted 32 percent of the total through their a comprehensive plan to pay for it, Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Knott, an associate professor of on the mainland, oil companies have the United States’ rapid consump- savings and income, and 16 percent including research on what kind of geological sciences and Filowitz, the discovered new areas to excavate, tion of oil, which is also attributing through loans.