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Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 (Full Layout) Today’s Weather Swine flu, schmine flu Daily Our View: H1N1 vac- cine not being taken seriously in black A n n High Low t h i v e community. 6 0 r s a r y 78 52 Tomorrow’s Forecast 49er See Page 4 High 78 Low 52 Vol. LIX, Issue 178 www.daily49er.com Tuesday, November 24, 2009 GOBBLING UP THANKSGIVING Families are finding less expensive ways to celebrate the holiday Thanksgiving Deals • Ralphs: Frozen tender BY SARAH PETERS gold turkey, 37 cents a Assistant City Editor pound with club card Millions of Americans are finding inex- • Albertsons: foster pensive ways to express their gratitude this farms turkey, 99 cents Thanksgiving. per pound This year, 38.4 million people will be trav- eling away from their homes, a 1.2 percent in- • Honey-baked ham crease from last Thanksgiving, according to a store: $10 coupon report by AAA. Many people are finding it challenging to good for 8 pound ham afford expensive holiday travel, which may • Vons: $5 Safeway tur- explain the significant increase in automotive key with 25 minimum travelers this year. About 86 percent of the na- tion’s population will be traveling by car, the purchase study reported. • Whole Foods: com- “Although far too many Americans remain unemployed or under other financial stress, plete prepared dinner AAA’s projected increase in Thanksgiving for a six-person family, travel from one year ago is another hopeful sign that economic conditions are stabilizing $99.99 and improving in some areas,” said AAA’s • Bristol Farms: free- director of travel services, Glen MacDonell, erage price of a F r e s h - range fresh turkey, in the report. Thanksgiving din- man Jordan Some families are even replacing holiday ner is $1.07 cheaper Jackson said $1.99 a pound moments with distant relatives by communi- than last year, ac- her family cating through telephones and Web cameras cording to the Amer- will be shop- instead of paying for a plane ticket. ican Farm Bureau. ping smart this Freshman Juile Burns and her family will The price measures holiday season. Vons is offering Safeway frozen whole turkeys use conference calling while apart this holi- the average cost of “Pick less expensive al- for $5 with a $25 purchase. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE day season. groceries and prepa- ternatives when going to the grocery store. “Consumers are benefiting at the grocery “After dinner, [my family and I] put the ration to feed up to 10 people. A frozen turkey for $10 is just as good as organic store from significantly lower energy prices phone on speaker, so we can all talk together,” To maximize savings, the bureau suggests turkey,” she said. and the effects of the economic slowdown,” said Burns said about talking to her grandparents, that “shoppers with an eye for bargains” keep a Many grocery stores are offering discounts AFBF economist Jim Sartwelle in the bureau’s who live in Canada. look out for special offers in their areas, such as on fresh and frozen turkeys. Albertsons super- annual Thanksgiving report. “Again this year, Families can also expect to save more mon- grocery stores offering a free turkey with a $50 market in Long Beach is currently offering Fos- the cost per person for this special meal is less ey this year when grocery shopping. The av- minimum purchase. ter Farms turkeys for 99 cents per pound, while than a typical ‘value meal’ at a fast-food outlet.” Professor thought outside of the box August Coppola inspired students to ‘dig deep in their imaginations’ BY TIM LYNCH and Peter Carr. The department explored world literature, rather Staff Writer than only British and American literature, which was the common August Coppola taught more practice of comparative literature than just literature at Cal State Long departments of the time. Beach during the ’60s and ’70s. He He introduced classes on the was also a man who taught others weekends for students who worked about life. full time, according to Roland Bush. “It’s all right to get an F. You learn He was also a California State Uni- from your mistakes,” actor Nicolas versity trustee. Cage told the Press-Telgram in 1990 He also helped found “Genre: An about advice he received from Cop- International Journal of Literature pola, his father. “That’s something and the Arts,” a CSULB literary for an educator to say.” journal first published in 1967. Coppola died Oct. 27 due to a Coppola wrote the preface for “Genre heart attack. He was 75 years old and 12: 1990, Muses: Words into Music.” In lived in Savannah, Ga. it, he wrote, “Our ‘awakening’ will be in He was born Feb. 16, 1934, in Hart- the sharing and expression of what we ford, Conn. He earned a bachelor’s always had to begin with — our music, degree in philosophy from UCLA, a our literature, ourselves.” MICHAEL CHAN YEE / DAILY 49ER master’s degree in English from Hofs- The magazine consisted of po- tra University and a doctorate in com- etry, fiction, essays and graphic Preparing for the holidays parative literature and interdisciplin- arts. The diversity of content was Nicole Biala, left, a senior health science major, and Alyssa Telado, a junior psychology major, sell snacks and ary studies from Occidental College consistent with Coppola’s lifelong before teaching at CSULB. efforts to build bridges between the drinks to raise money for the Filipino Christmas Festival on Monday outside the Liberal Arts 5 building. Coppola created the comparative various arts. Hosted by the Pilipino American Coalition and Kappa Psi Epsilon, the festival will take place Dec. 5 on the literature department at CSULB lawn outside of the University Student Union and will feature entertainment, performances, an art exhibit, with professors Thomas Hubble See COPPOLA, Page 2 food, vendors and a kids’ area, Telado said. 2 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 www.daily49er.com [email protected] COPPOLA of sight in our society has been used Continued from Page 1 to produce thrills — artificial ones — and not bodily experience,” he wrote “He made students dig deep in in 1990, years before the proliferation their imaginations,” said Roland of the Internet and video games that is Bush, a professor in the comparative seen today. literature department. Bush was a Coppola designed the Tactile Dome student of Coppola’s and eventually at the Exploratorium in San Fran- worked with him in the department cisco. The original press release from and on “Genre.” 1971 describes the one hour, 15 min- Bush said that one of Coppola’s ute experience as a chance for visi- strengths as an educator was that he tors to “feel, bump, slide and crawl always treated students as individuals. through and past hundreds of materi- “In the 1960s professors lived als and shapes, which blend, change in one world, and students lived in and contrast.” another, and they didn’t really con- At the end of the maze, visitors nect,” Bush said. “But he was the would fall from the darkness through kind of person who was open and a chute, which Bush compared to a re- looked at people as individuals, and creation of being born. tried to get them excited about cre- Coppola had said of the idea be- ativity and learning to make it a part hind the Tactile Dome, “As soon as of their lives.” we’ve stopped chewing our toes, the Bush said Coppola once told him at first commandment in life is given: the height of the 1960s drug culture ‘DON’T TOUCH.’ ” that he wanted to “get people turned He believed this led to people being on without the use of drugs or artificial uncomfortable with physical contact. stimulants.” The tactile dome is still an exhibit at After Coppola’s role at CSULB, the Exploratorium today. he went on to become the dean of He was not the only creative creative arts at San Francisco State member of his family. His father University. was a composer, and his mother, a At one point, he spent months walk- lyricist. He is survived by a brother, ing around blindfolded to write a book filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola; a titled “The Intimacy.” He even rode a sister, Talia Shire; sons Christopher rollercoaster blindfolded. Coppola, Marc Coppola and Cage; “I believe that the predominance and six grandchildren. Correction Monday’s article “CSULB may get new degree programs” should have reported that the civil engineer degree, which is in between a master’s and doctorate degree, is under consideration for elimination. 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