Otter Realm, November 11, 2004

Nov. 11 - Dec. 2, 2004 Uncommon Sense.,..........pg 9 V. 11 The Naked Otter............pg 14 Otter Realm No.6 Opinion...................... .pg 17 www .OtterRealm.net California State University Monterey Bay's Student-Run Newspaper Dedicated to Informing the Campus Community Drugs are Crime prevalent threatens atC SUMB By Adam Joseph, Staff Reporter campus [email protected] By Alex Chapman, Staff Reporter [email protected] In 1968 college students began showing signs of anti-establish Otters, where’s your crime? ment. Men were growing their According to the first 69 days of hair past their ears, women police logs this semester, most hard were setting their brassieres on crime occurs in Frederick Park. fire in public, and both started “Ever since we’ve had stu spending time smoking mari dents, a disproportionate amount juana to expand their minds. of work has come from Frederick The year is 2004, and’ aside Park,” said Lt. Jay McTaggart of from the brassier burning, col the University Police Department. lege life at CSUMB is still the “It’s job security.” same as when students’ parents Firefighters put out an intentionally-set car fire on Halloween. photo provided by hanna daleo were in college. A college resi CRIME continued on page 6 dential atmosphere for many students lends itself to experi mentation, pushing boundar Students doubt cleanliness of eating facilities ies, and sometimes living like Cheech and Chong. By Kimber Solana, StaffR eporter my butter wasn’t sanitary.” gov the separation of different and Bawiec have expressed their [email protected] “It’s plentiful; it’s cheap, Alysia Walther, a WLC sopho types of food is one of the “4 steps concern on the fact that gloves and it’s common,” said Lt. Jay more, believes there is room for to Food Safety” because to not do used to handle raw and frozen McTaggart, of the University Nothing makes eating a pancake improvement in the ways the staff so, it can lead to the cross-con hamburger patties are also being Police Department, on mar with syrup more delightful than can keep the main source of food for tamination of diseases. This may ijuana’s popularity amongst spreading a touch of butter and the hundreds of students more sanitary. be the reason why both Walther . CLEANLINESS continued on page 6 CSUMB students. sweet delicacy of human hair on it. “I understand that they’re McTaggart continued that For many students, the dining busy, but they just need to be around 90 percent of all the services at CSUMB are the only more aware of sanitation poli drug-related calls to the cam place where they can get some cies,” said Walther. “Maybe pus police are about mari thing to eat. Freshmen and sopho emphasize that clean and sani juana. Students have been mores are required to have a non- tary aren’t exactly the same.” known to grow it in their refundable meal plan on campus, Walther witnessed a Dining dorms, apartments, and out so it is important to many students Commons (D.C.) worker wipe a side around the campus. to have a sanitary place to eat. table with napkins and placing the A junior living on campus “I don’t really feel that the din same napkins on the napkin tray whose name will be kept con ing services at this school is sani for students to use. fidential, described the one way tary,” David Bawiec, a TMAC “I was planning on getting that drugs have ever had a nega junior, said. a Chinese bowl and the lady tive impact in her academic life. Bawiec also suggested that the working there was coughing “Sometimes my friends and I food might have gotten him sick excessively, so I decided not go and smoke [pot] in between when he transferred to CSUMB. to,” Denise Buzzini, a CHHS classes. There have been some “When I first came here, ! junior, recalled of one of the occasions in which we smoked got sick,” said Bawiec. “I’m not few times she’s ever gone to sure whether it was the food that the D.C. DRUGS continued on page 6 caused it, but I know that hair in According to www.foodsafety. The kitchen at the DC needs some maid service. PHOTO BY CHAD GHIRON News Hundred-Year itch Athletics Department seeks student dollars CSUMB to bury time capsule By Christopher Gallegos, Staff for University Advancement. Reporter Warrington explained that the lined [email protected] metal box costs roughly $2,500 GRAPHIC BY SARA DOWE and will probably be housed in a By Alex Chapman, Staff Reporter Director Bill Trumbo, refer our alumni and our donor base to not The tent-like spread that sticks out protective Plexiglas display. lex hapman csumb edu A _C @ . ring to CSUMB’s recent move have student support,” said Trumbo. of the University Center’s roof The capsule is to be sealed to National Collegiate Athletic Even with the increase in funds, like a volcano draws the eye to the during a ribbon-cutting ceremony There’s a price to be paid for the Association (NCAA) Division II. athletics will be fundraising. building, but gives little hint to the for the Alumni and Visitor’s cen NCAA and it may be CSUMB stu “We have coaches who are “We’re going to have to find fact that inside lies an important ter early next year. When the dents who pay a small part of it working full-time and receiving key to understanding CSUMB’s Tanamura and Antle Family resources beyond this,” said past and future. Memorial Library com The “Enrichment of Student compensation less than if they Trumbo. “We’re not going to be This key is a cylin pletes construction Life through Sports, Recreation were a student assistant in our flush by any means.” der-shaped cardboard around 2008, the and Leisure Activities” referen program,” said Trumbo, con Among their most famous fund container with a blue time capsule will be dum for student fee support will cerned about the unpaid time that raising events are the President’s page taped on all of displayed there. ask students to vote to raise fees coaches volunteer for students. Cup Golf Tournament and the its curves, reading: Warrington is incrementally to an additional $50 Eight percent of the fee, $4 per Monterey Bay Half Marathon. “Stories and other mem slightly disappointed per semester by 2010, according semester by 2010, will be retained orabilia for the time cap that the time capsule to a preliminary draft introduced for administration. ’We have coaches sule.” This donation bin has not drawn a larger at the Oct. 29 student fee advisory “Students will get back what is meant for items that campus response. committee meeting. they put in,” said Trumbo. “Maybe who are working full represent CSUMB’s first As October drew to “I’d rather not have it. I don’t more so.” time and receiving 10 years of operation. a close, the donation need any more fees,” said finan Money raised through increased compensation less “We’re asking people cylinder was filled with cial aid recipient and LS junior student fees will fund contin for photos, documents, what looked like joke items: than if they were a Melissa Oksen, who would sup ued free student access to the trinkets or memorabilia,” said a plastic squirrel, a fake $3 bill port the fee only “if [the athletics Otter Sports Center, intramural student assistant." Joan Weiner, News and Public mocking local politics and several department] makes the case that programs, free admission for -BILL TRUMBO Information officer. Weiner cellophane wrapped toothpicks. laughingly admitted that while The only items with appar they need it.” Associated Students, recreational she was not here when the uni ent emotion behind them were “With the increase in students, sports clubs, and maintenance and versity first opened, she would a medal honoring Lt. General our Sports Center hasn’t received stabilization of on-campus sports like to see a catalog from that James E. Moore Jr. and a bottle any more money,” said Student medicine programs. Trumbo said fundraising would first year placed into the time of 1993 Chardonnay wine from Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) Increased funding will main be easier if donors knew students capsule to give students in a hun Windsor Vineyards sporting a vice president Jared Jungwirth, tain and stabilize levels of sup had invested in the school them dred years a taste of CSUMB’s CSUMB logo on the label. who said financial aid recipients port for sports, recreation and selves. humble beginnings. Warrington smiled when dis need not worry. “Those seeking leisure activities; bring CSUMB There is a “much greater need “Think of the time capsule cussing where CSUMB might be financial aid will get an increase into compliance with Title IX; for money than before,” accord as a glorified mailbox,” said in a hundred years. He said one in financial aid.” and the Cal-Now Gender Equity ing to Jungwirth. Scott Warrington, vice president of his wishes is a more pedes If passed as drafted, the ini Decree and ensure the safe travel Associated Students president trian friendly campus because tial fee will be $25 per semester of teams, according to the draft. Yuri Beckelman’s main concern students today still need a vehi beginning in the 2005-2006 aca Former basketball player and was putting the vote off long enough cle to get around, as the army demic year. The fee will be raised HCOM senior Mike Miller said to fully inform students. “Generally had the area built for vehicular by $5 per semester in year two he knew athletes who “needed I think this is something that will be use when military activities were and three, and $7.50 per semester bigger uniforms but had to wear signed off on by the senate,” said still occurring on the area of the uniforms that didn’t fit.” former Fort Ord.

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