Making Sense out of Matter
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PAGE 4 FEATURES: Reaching for a credit card might seem like an easy way to grab OPINION and go, but in the end the bill maybe the biggest frustration, page 3 Will Halo 3 empty NEWS: A series of movies shown by the Cal State Fullerton Women’s Center campus of males? through the fall semester examines the role of women, page 2 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 11 Tuesday September 18, 2007 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Olympic road runs Troubling time Making through Anaheim The 2008 Olympic volleyball sense out pre-qualifier tournament is tak- ing place at the Anaheim Con- for Titans vention Center until Friday. Contestants from North and of matter Central America will come to Titans lose two goalkeepers California for the first time in Seminar explores the 14 years for the Confederation and three straight matches Championship. topic of finding a way to The quarter finals and semi- use alternative energy finals will occur Wednesday and BY LAURA BurroWS Thursday. The Championship Daily Titan Staff Writer BY RAE NGUYEN games will take place on Friday [email protected] Daily Titan Staff Writer beginning at 5:30 and 8 p.m. [email protected] For ticket information, visit www.anaheim.net or call (714) he Titans lost another goalkeeper to in- It’s not often that you see burn- 765-5060. jury on Sunday, while enduring a 6-1 ing snow on a warm sunny Thursday loss against Ohio State University at the afternoon in a chemistry class at Cal State Fullerton. Cat makes splashy TUCLA’s Men’s Soccer Tournament. Somehow, UC Irvine Professor The team lost its second-string goalkeeper Kenneth Janda conquered this feat exit via fire hose Kevin Puder in the third minute of the match, when he demonstrated how com- YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) – A pacted methane ice vacuumed from a fearful feline that was stuck in leaving freshman Tyler Andrews to take on the steel apparatus showed the possibility a tree for a week, clinging to Buckeyes. of alternative energy. branches several stories high, was Puder suffered an abdominal strain after His seminar, explained in the wordy finally blasted to safety with a taking on a direct blow from Ohio State offend- title, “Spectroscopy and Dynamics of high-pressure fire hose. Halogen Molecules Trapped in Clath- Volunteers with an out- er Eric Edwards. rate-Hydrate Cages” is not for the stretched sheet made the save as Initial reports were that Puder had pulled faint of heart. the cat – soaked and hungry but Most who attended were already abdominal muscles and could be out as long as armed with a chemistry degree and unharmed – was hosed out of the 12 weeks. tree by firefighters Sunday night. had an understanding of the lecture. Currently, Janda’s research studies The cat had previously ignored First-string keeper, Brent Douglas, did not are under way to test why bromine people who banged cans of cat play due to a face orbital fracture he acquired in crystals behave differently than water food and climbed ladders that last Sunday’s match against Michigan. crystals. were just out of reach. Due to its slightly different energy It took two shots with the hose “I am going in for surgery on Monday and should be good to play in three to four weeks. I in each hydrate cage and the rise of to do the trick. temperature, the hydrogen moves to a “As soon as the cat landed ... wouldn’t do the corrective surgery if it length- slightly bigger cage. it ran into the woods,” said artist ened the healing time for my face,” Douglas Using spectroscopy to determine and animal rescuer Greg Speirs. said. this, Janda said, “it may be the mo- “Some kids helped us bring tion inside the cage that influences the cat back, and a man said he He is anticipating corrective surgery early the stability of the crystal formation.” would adopt the cat right on the this week and coaches hope he will be back on Spectroscopy is the study of bond- spot,” Speirs said. the field for the Cal State Northridge match on ing of intermolecular interactions “You can’t come up with a nic- through the use of light or other ra- er ending than that.” Oct. 3. diation. “There is no real assurance given he may have “Water is difficult to model cor- Most people, for lack to be wearing a protective mask,” Head Coach rectly as it disobeys the third law of thermodynamics,” Janda said. “Pure BY KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan Photo Editor of a better word, are stupid Bob Ammann said. “Obviously that could af- liquid water does not freeze. It only fect his performance as a keeper, as it would any Cal State Fullerton midfielder Skyler Thuresson raises his shirt over his head in “and just pay the minimum disappointment after the Titans’ 6-1 loss against Ohio State at UCLA on Sept. freezes if there are impurities in the balance. If you’re too stupid, player.” See SOCCER, Page 6 16. water.” Methane hydrates, calthrates or just don’t get a credit card. “ simply methane ice are deposits of – CSUF student Allen Arsianian, methane crystallized in water and can on people with credit card debt be found along the coasts of every See Features, page 3 continent. A trillion kilograms of methane is frozen into ice sediments in the ocean. Pollak Library to pay tribute to luminaries Propane and methane is pressur- YOUTUBE: PLUTO ized with ice pellets and is measured CHASES LITTLE BRAT in temperatures. Those honored will be Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis as by C.S. Lewis. his MBA in 2005 and promotes the The ice starts to melt after the heat featured on a poster to his book of choice. “[C.S. Lewis] was a man who ques- campus today as a Titan Advocate. reaches zero degrees. University Librarian Pat Bril will tioned much, sought answers and He helped develop the Vietnam- When the heat hits 12 degrees, promote a favorite book also be highlighted at the reception. tried to live a life that was honest and ese American MBA Chapter of the the pressure increases, and can store “I was very surprised and flat- true,” Ramirez said. Alumni Association and chose “The about 120 pounds per square inch of BY URMI RAHMAN tered to be included among so many After reading about the other re- Golden Destination,” a brochure, for gas up to about 10 degrees Celsius Daily Titan Staff Writer key individuals in the history of our cipients, he said he felt humbled to be his poster. and still be safe. [email protected] university,” Bril said. “I am aware of chosen along with them. Ernest Toy, the Pollak Library’s first Any more than 10 degrees would similar poster campaigns at other aca- “I am privileged to represent the university librarian from 1959 to his cause an explosion. In a creative celebration of Cal demic libraries, and I think they are a School of Education and the many retirement in 1983 will also be hon- To demonstrate the burning of ice, State Fullerton’s year-long 50th an- great way to highlight the importance fine people who do much for CSUF, ored Wednesday night. He founded Janda presented a rudimentary device niversary, the Pollak Library is com- of reading within the community.” the students and the community,” he the Patrons of the Library program in First his planet status is taken hooked onto a backyard barbecue memorating 10 distinguished mem- Bril began her CSUF career 35 said. 1965 and has overseen many trans- propane tank. away, and now he gets caught bers of the campus’ past and present years ago as reference librarian, has Another candidate is Nancy Segal, formations from the library’s location chasing some little kid who prob- The methane ice in the steel con- this week. overseen the construction of the a professor of developmental psychol- to its extensive book collection. His tainer is pressurized. ably kicked him in the first place. On Wednesday, the notable mem- library’s north addition and worked ogy who won the Outstanding Pro- novel is”Learning to Eat Soup with Life sucks for Pluto. Two chunks of cylindrical ice were bers will receive their own READ @ extensively in managing, staffing and fessor of the Year award a few years a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons lit with a lighter, to the delight and But the rest of us can enjoy Your Library posters that will feature finance. ago and is also the from Malaya and Vietnam” by John gasps of the audience. this home video of the mascot their pictures and a book of their Her cho- campus director A. Nagl. Though the methane ice would not running after a kid at full speed choice. The event will be held in sen book, “The of the Twin Stud- The last CSUF representative will stay ablaze for the promised 15 min- before an adult finally grabs him. room 130 at 6 p.m. and is open to Worldly Philoso- “I am privileged to rep- ies Center. Segal be its elephant mascot, Tuffy Titan, utes, Dr. Janda jokingly said if they Like any sane child abuser, he im- the public. phers: The Lives, resent the School of picked “Rosalind who has been with the university since lost National Science Foundation mediately denies he did anything “We wanted to choose people Times, and Ideas Franklin: The the ‘60s. The mascot developed from Education and the many Collaborative Research in Chemis- wrong, by way of hand gestures, from all different areas [and have] a of the Great Eco- Dark Lady of the intercollegiate elephant races held try funding, demonstrations like this but gets shoved down anyway.