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http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu Volume 75, Issue 44 TUESDAY December 3, 2002 DT Students Could Get Tax Break Holiday Spirit in part of higher educational costs. tuition and related fees] and of 50 [qualified] tuition and fees,” Fister nFINANCE: Through Two are educational credit pro- percent of second $1,000. The maxi- said. grams and two are loan interest and mum credit is $1,500 per student It can only be used per return (or various credit pro- tuition and fee expenses deduction. per year,” said Gerald L. Fister, an per family of a parent and a child, Fullerton grams, people paying The Hope and Lifetime Learning income tax planner in Fullerton. or two children), and the maximum Credits can be claimed and turned Students using the Hope Credit credit is $2,000. for college may be into tax credits and deductions that must also be enrolled at least part The Lifetime Learning Credit, can add up to $3,500. The rules are time. Qualified tuition and related unlike the Hope Credit, is available nEVENT: The city’s awarded a big return not simple, and each student can only fees do not include the cost of insur- for an unlimited number of years claim one of the credits for any year. ance, student health fee, room, trans- for any courses of post-secondary downtown area is By Anna Buss Therefore, not everyone may benefit portation and other personal expens- education and courses to improve looking to boost Special to the Titan from them, but they may be worth es. job skills. looking into for some students. Although junior and senior college Students are only eligible for Christmas sales Some parents or students can use Only freshmen or sophomore col- students cannot use the Hope Credit, the Hope and Lifetime Learning one of the four new educational lege students can claim the Hope they may benefit with the Lifetime Credits if, as a single person one with its Winterfest tax benefit programs, approved by Credit, which is “100 percent of Learning Credit, which “is 20 per- TAXES/ 8 NEWS: Iraq still has not Congress this year, to compensate for the first $1,000 spent [with qualified cent of the first $10,000 spent for By Olivia Maciel Daily Titan Staff Writer responded to Bush’s Back to the Daily Grind With Christmas rapidly Sunday deadline, approaching and crazed shoppers looking for gifts, many major which makes war more retailers are coming up with vari- likely ous strategies to bait customers. But smaller retailers, like those in Downtown Fullerton, are using a different approach. Please see page 6 Winterfest, a holiday celebra- tion held in Downtown Fullerton is the approach they hope will draw Fullerton residents and potential customers into their stores. The annual event will be held Dec. 7 from noon to 6 p.m. in Downtown Fullerton on streets adjacent to Harbor Boulevard, such as Chapman, Wilshire and Commonwealth avenues. The city plans to truck in 40 tons of snow for children to play in, hold a George Fullerton look- alike contest, schedule a classic OPINION: Holiday car show, live entertainment and carriage rides. shopping got you For the past six years the Fullerton Downtown Business down? The magic of Association, Fullerton Chamber of Commerce and the City of retail is just a mouse Fullerton, have hosted this event to entertain the community and to click away. Also, a keep sales within the city. “This event gives families an “Diego and Rivera” cast opportunity to kick off the holiday season and to come together as a member speaks community,” said Michael Ritto, president of the association. “It’s Please see page 4 also to show residents that this FESTIVAL/ 8 LISSETTE LEBRILLA/Daily Titan It was back to business as usual in the Pollak Library and Cal State Fullerton on Monday, as the weeklong holiday break ended. CSUF Workers Keep Busy During Thanksgiving Break

nCAMPUS: While the assistants. These workers spent their school took a vaca- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday SPORTS: The Cal State doing office work and trying to tion, many faculty and catch up while other students were Fullerton men’s bas- away. student assistants “It’s not as hard as a lot of stu- ketball team picked up worked on campus dents make it seem,” said Shazia Peshimam, a worker for Freshman an 18-point win over By Jill Daloria Programs. “I think our office is Daily Titan Staff Writer small and close-knit, different from Morris Brown College large offices. Everyone who works wants to be here, and if you don’t Empty parking lots, wind blow- on Monday night want to work then you don’t have ing through a very sparse Quad to be here.” and classrooms that were once Working during the break for filled with the hustle and bustle staff and student assistants was of students, were bare during the optional in most cases. Please see page 10 Thanksgiving break. Aaron Salcido, a worker at the Could it be that space aliens have Academic Affairs Office, opted to taken over Cal State Fullerton and work. “They asked me to come annihilated the student body? work so I was more than happy. But wait ... some life forms have TITAN I can work full time this week survived within the recesses and because I don’t have classes.” e x t r a s offices of the school, people who For student assistants like Salcido, take their break time to keep the the option to work during the break online school running while others are at TOYA BAKER/Daily Titan rest; they are the staff and student WORK/ 8 Aaron Salcido worked in the Academic Affairs Office during Thanksgiving break. n Check out the Daily Titan online this year at http:// Campus Volunteer Group Gives Time and Turkeys dailytitan.fullerton.edu. nSERVICE: CSUF stu- State Fullerton’s Human Services bers hold about 20 campus and com- annual banquet and serve free elabo- tunity to reach out, make friends, New features and Student Association members met munity events per semester, includ- rate meals to thousands of needy have fun and experience self-grati- sections will be dents pack restaurant on Thanksgiving day to feed local ing activities such as meetings and residents. fication. available this year! underprivileged families. fund-raisers. The response to the event was so Leigh Volker, the association com- site to help make a The “We Give Thanks” event, Nanchy said 28 members includ- overwhelming that many of those munity service coordinator, agreed. difference in Orange sponsored by La Casa Garcia restau- ing relatives and friends showed were asked to return home. “I encouraged our members to upcoming rant in Anaheim, was the last com- up at the restaurant parking lot “It’s about helping people even if get involved because this is a good County munity service activity the associa- on Chapman Avenue and Harbor it means just setting up trash cans,” chance to give back to the commu- tion organized for the fall semester. Boulevard in Fullerton. said Mario Garcia, a junior human nity,” Volker said. “As future human n A new art exhibit uti- By Margie Rivera “Our primary goal is to link stu- “The gratification is great as you services major who is not related to services workers, we need to make a lizing paper will be in Daily Titan Staff Writer dents to the community,” HSSA see everybody getting together as a the restaurant owner. “Volunteering difference around us.” the library and more President Nicole Nanchy said. “We community,” she said. gives you a satisfying feeling that The CSUF volunteers were Dressed in white T-shirts embla- try to have fun events that concen- Hundreds of volunteers from dif- you won’t know until you actually assigned different tasks throughout will be revealed. zoned with orange and blue hand trate in community involvement and ferent organizations, schools, busi- try it.” the day. Read about it in prints and the words “Lending a student enrichment.” nesses and churches geared up early Nanchy said these types of activi- tomorrow’s Daily Titan Helping Hand,” some of Cal The association’s 150 active mem- Thursday morning to set up the ties provide students with the oppor- VOLUNTEER/ 8 2 Tuesday, December 3, 2002 DailyDaily Titan NEWS

CALENDARCALENDAR OFOF EVENTSEVENTS page On Campus Chambers from 2:30 p.m. to 4 the TSU Underground, from 3 enough very beneficial to those Dec. 3 p.m. You might as well go to p.m. to 7 p.m. who spent their high school a guide to It’s been awhile, but get your see if they really do any work. years wondering if an elvish free billiards on in the TSU Stop playing your game destroyer can beat an orcish Underground from 3 p.m. to 7 Women’s basketball versus of Magic: The Gathering army. Or those who spent what’s p.m. Air Force. The preseason and join your fellow dateless every night memorizing lines game will start at 5 p.m. in wonders for this week’s free from “The Simpsons.” Manny To go along with those free Titan Gym. For more informa- movie. This week the movie Stamatakis brings his swar- happening billiards try some breakdanc- tion, call (714) 278-CSUF. orcs will pleasure your fancy thy self to the Learning Light ing. That funky trip will be in with the debauchery of Peter Foundation in Anaheim to teach the TSU Pub during the same Men’s basketball versus Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings: you how to create-a-mate. It BRIEFS time as the billiards. Wow, your Pepperdine. The preseason The Fellowship of the Ring.” only costs $75 and you might Fullerton Police Chief everything2 you noticed about him lucky day, you freak. 3 p.m. to game will start at 7:05 p.m. in In Titan Theatre at 5 p.m. and be able to form someone you Offers Holiday Safety Tips - height, weight, eye and hair color, 7 p.m. Titan Gym. For more informa- 8:30 p.m. kind of have a crush on into noticeable scars, clothing – and tion, call (714) 278-CSUF. someone who you can marry. The seminar runs from 10 a.m. 597-3722. The Fullerton Police Department give it to the police.” Dec. 4 Event of the Week to 5 p.m. For more information, is sending out warnings due to For more information, call the The TSU Governing Board Dec. 5 Dec. 7 Get your free bowling on in This is gold. And oddly call (714) 533-2311. nationwide statistics that say that Fullerton Police Department at will meet in the TSU Legislative citizens are especially vulnerable (714) 738-6836. to burglaries, robberies and other crimes during the holiday season. Air Museum Remembers CALENDAR OF EVENTS The Police Department will step Pearl Harbor COP BLOTTER up patrols in local shopping centers Monday, Nov. 18 Row 35 that had its front window was brought back to the campus The Air Museum “Planes of throughout the season as well. Police were notified at 7:11 smashed out. police station at 10:01 p.m. At 2:30, police pulled over Fame” will host its monthly special “Citizens and business owners a.m. about vandalism that had a tan Toyota traveling west on event called “Pearl Harbor – Day need to concentrate on not mak- occurred on the south Soccer Wednesday, Nov. 20 Friday, Nov. 22 Chapman Avenue. The driver of Infamy,” at the Chino Airport this ing themselves an easy target for Field. Someone had driven onto At 8:17 a.m., it was reported The vehicle of an habitual was under the influence of a Saturday at 10 a.m. criminals,” said Chief Pat McKinley. the field and spun “doughnuts” that there was a vehicle parked parking offender was located controlled substance. No further The event will feature Pearl McKinley said citizens and busi- into the grass. Damage to the in Lot F with a dog locked in it. in the 30-minute zone of South information was available. Harbor veterans and will conclude ness owners should always be field is estimated at $500. The dog was wearing a sweater Campus Drive. The driver owed aware of their surroundings during with a flight demonstration of the and police deemed that it was $200 on five tickets. The car Thursday, Nov. 28 “Planes of Fame” Mitsubishi A6M5 the holidays as well as all year- The car of an habitual parking too hot outside for the dog to be was booted at 8:40 a.m. The A report of vandalism at Zero fighter plane. round. offender was found at 12:23 p.m. in the car safely. Police were boot was then removed later at Sycamore Hall came into police The fighter plane was among McKinley also offered other in the South Campus Drive 30- unable to contact the owner 9:58. at 11:38. Someone had dam- the Japanese aircrafts during the suggestions to the public as well minute parking lot. The car was of the car. A parking officer aged the front door of the dorm attack of Pearl Harbor and the including: Women should shop in a blue Honda and the driver had responded with a slim jim to get Someone called the police at building. plane’s quality shocked the United pairs, not alone. Do not carry large amassed 10 tickets for $400. the dog out of the car. 6:08 p.m. and reported a heavy amounts of cash, and never flash States and contributed greatly to fertilizer smell in University Hall. Friday, Nov. 29 Japan’s early success in the war. money in public. When shopping, At 3:24 p.m. a theft was A woman fell outside of the Police advised that the odor was Police made a routine traffic Yet the Americans were able to park as close to the stores as pos- reported from the Performing parking office at 11:02 a.m. Her campus wide. stop on State College Boulevard overcome the Zero with their own sible in a well-lit area. When going Arts Building. A woman was injuries were unknown. at 9:54 a.m. The vehicle pulled new warplanes. out for the evening, leave lights dying her clothes in the costume Saturday, Nov. 23 over was a Ford Ranger. No fur- The Air Museum “Planes of and a radio or television on in your shop and left her purse unat- At 4:05 p.m., a woman called At 2:06 a.m., police pulled ther information was available. Fame,” is a non-profit educational home and lock all doors and win- tended. When she returned to police and reported that a man over a white Honda. The driver institution and is funded through dows when you leave. it, she found her wallet and other wearing khaki shorts and a was operating the vehicle without Saturday, Nov. 30 donations, event admission fees Businesses are also at risk for items missing. blue plaid shirt was following a driver’s license. The driver At 1:59 a.m., a person called criminal acts as well and McKinley and income from the use of its her around the sixth floor of the was also found to be driving police and reported a possible aircrafts for different events and also offered business owners some Police were called to the library and fondling himself. The under the influence and was burglary in progress. The person productions. advice as well. fourth floor of University Hall. man was described as 5 feet 10 arrested and brought to the cam- saw several males around the The museum is open Keep all non-public doors A woman, believed to be in inches tall and 160 pounds. pus police station at 2:46 a.m. student housing area putting daily, except Christmas and locked. Keep parking lots lit. her 40s, collapsed. Her prior Fullerton Tow was dispatched at a computer monitor out of a Thanksgiving, from 9 a.m. to 5 Position cash registers so they are medical history was unknown. Police recieved a medi- 2:49 a.m. dorm room window. The sus- p.m. Admission is $8.95 for adults, visible from the street. She was transported to Kaiser cal aid call on the east side pect vehicle was a gold GMC $1.95 for youngsters 11 and under, “If a robber does confront you, Hospital in Anaheim. of Humanities at 6:45 p.m. A Sunday, Nov. 24 Suburban. Two suspects were never play hero,” McKinley said. and free for accompanied children woman had twisted her ankle Police pulled a red Honda seen running across Yorba Linda “Comply with his demands. When under five. Tuesday, Nov. 19 and there was no further infor- over on Nutwood Avenue at Boulevard towards the Mobil gas For more information, call (909) he leaves, immediately write down At 2:53 a.m., police were noti- mation available. Medics were 8:54 p.m. Police took the driver station across from the base- fied that there was an intoxicated dispatched at 6:55 p.m. back to the campus police sta- ball stadium. One of the men student with a knife in Sycamore tion where they were cited and was wearing dark clothes and Hall. It was unknown if he was Thursday, Nov. 21 released for possessing a false a baseball cap. The other was DailyDaily Police stopped a white Toyota vehicle registration. Fullerton wearing dark clothes and a dark threatening suicide or harm to other students. He was pick-up truck in Lot D at 2:36 Tow was dispatched to get the bandanna on his head. Police EDITORIAL described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, a.m. The driver was arrested car at 9:32 p.m. apprehended six suspects and Editor in Chief Kimberly Pierceall sandy blond hair without a shirt. for driving under the influence. took them to the campus police Managing Editor Trinity Powells His wrists had tape on them. It Police took the prisoner to the Tuesday, Nov. 26 station. No further information Business Manager Robert Sage was believed that his roommates campus police station at 3:09 It was reported to police at was available. Asst. News Editor Heather Hampton a.m. and Brookhurst Tow was 11:28 a.m. that there was a Asst. News Editor John Paul Gutierrez had taped them. Police located Asst. News Editor Christina Guerrero the suspect and were interview- dispatched at 3:13 a.m. stray dog in the area of South Sunday, Dec. 1 Sports Editor Brian Thatcher ing him. He was held upon veri- Campus Drive. At one point, it A white Chevrolet Cavalier Asst. Sports Editor Ricardo Sanchez Jr. fication that he was not a threat At 4:49, the car of an habitual jumped into a car that was on was pulled over on the 57 Detour Editor Laila Derakhshanian to himself or to others. He was parking offender was located the road. Animal control was Freeway at 10:35 a.m. The Opinion Editor Matthew Sedlar transported to the campus police parked next to the Titan House. dispatched to pick it up. driver was operating the vehicle Perspectives Editor Trinity Powells station. No further information The car was a black Cadillac without a license. Jaime Nolte Photo Editor was available. and the driver owed $200 on five Wednesday, Nov. 27 No further information was Katie Cumper Photo Editor tickets. A petty theft was reported available. Copy Desk Chief Brian Miller Police found a habitual park- from the Performing Arts Copy Editor Cindy Bertea ing offender at 9:54 a.m. who Police pulled over a brown Building, Room 323. One week At 5:48 p.m., a gray Copy Editor Matthew Sedlar had six outstanding tickets and Chevrolet at 9:04 p.m. It was ago, items were taken off of the Oldsmobile was pulled over on Production Manager Gus Garcia found that the driver of the office door. It was unknown State College Boulevard. The Production Abigaile C. Siena owed $280. Internet Editor Ryan Hoppe vehicle did not have a driver’s who the suspect may be. It was driver was found to be in pos- Faculty Adviser Thomas Clanin At 4:10 p.m., police were noti- license. Fullerton Tow was dis- estimated the stolen items were session of less than an ounce of patched at 9:35 and the driver worth $20. marijuana. The driver was cited Editor in Chief 278-5815 • Managing Editor 278-5693 fied that there was a car in Lot E, News Editorial Fax 278-4473 E-mail: [email protected] Main Line 278-2128 ADVERTISING The Daily Titan Online Advertising Sales Director Dan Taylor Assistant Advertising Manager Erik Alden http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu Advertising Production Manager Ishmael Salleh Classifieds Aubrey Alford National Felicia Glade Account Executive Allsion Smith Church of Account Executive Dan Karp Account Executive Kevin Cook Scientology Account Executive Lisa Otoide Planned Parenthood Account Executive Tracy Beetler 2*4 Account Executive Tom Sullens 2*3 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising 278-3373 • Advertising Fax 278-2702 The Daily Titan is a student publication, printed every Tuesday through Friday. 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She is also scheduled Provide Joy to Ill Patients how her pieces are at Agate High in to write three novels in the next four Cutler has gone from featured in nine 1993. or five years, two romantic fictions other books and Cutler’s older and an autobiography of her life that a small town to the big several other maga- sister, Siam will include her search for her Thai zines since 1997. Rimmer, said biological mother. time, after Watermark She talks about every Sunday With a dazed look in her caramel Press published her how she is only 27. their father eyes and a strong but heavy heart, hours maximum and 12 to 14 hours She talks and would sit all his Cutler said her biological mother nCHARITY: Each By Odeen Domingo minimum to make. talks and talks and seven children left her Irish father, David, with Thursday, campus Some of the women take the Daily Titan Staff Writer talks, one wouldn’t in one room and three daughters about 24 years ago. blankets home and continue their think she ever tell them to be Her given name is Long-Waii, staff get together at crocheting from there. Her father’s words are not only wrote. proud of being a but she is known only as Loni. But “It feels good to give to the com- written in every birthday card she But don’t mis- Cutler and that she uses the Americanized spelling, the Volunteer Center munity,” Oliver said. “It gives us a judge her. She their options in “Longway.” receives from her family, they come to knit warm gifts for chance to interact with people we do out of her sisters’ lips almost every doesn’t talk the way life are limitless. Cutler said she has forgiven not normally see.” time they say goodbye, they are she does because of And even though her biological mother because of a local hospital All the blankets were handmade etched in her mind and sealed in self-adulation or of they were raised “unconditional love.” by the volunteers, who gave their her heart. narcissistic bias. in a small town She has always dreamt of meeting By Jill Daloria time and effort to make each one To understand Loni Cutler where the only her and after a long, hurtful search, Her father’s words have taken Daily Titan Staff Writer special. her here. Loni Cutler, is to goal was either Cutler will “face the woman that “It’s something that we made, Cal State Fullerton print journal- understand where she is from. to be a farmer or to marry one, they left” her in two years. “Blankets of Love,” a volunteer we could have easily bought it at ism major Loni Cutler sits at a table You must understand her past and could be anyone or do anything they “Even though I have no strength service program run by the Volunteer a store,” said Susan Cervantes, a outside Carl’s Jr., munching on an why it is so significant to all her suc- want to do when they grow up. to accept it,” Rimmer said, “it’s and Service center, gets together worker for University Advancement. egg breakfast and talking about her cess and who she is today. “Believe in your dreams and beautiful that she never gave up her every Thursday to knit blankets for “After the blankets are done, we life. You must understand her father’s reach for your goals,” Cutler says, search for her biological mother.” preemies and terminally ill patients give them to Yvonne. She washes It’s a Tuesday morning, cold with words. recalling her dad’s favorite line that But Cutler said she thanks her of the Presbyterian Inter Community them and then brings them to the a slight wind, but her long, curly Cutler said she spent her early would become the family motto. mother, Mary (she doesn’t call her Hospital. hospital.” brown hair stays perfectly still atop years on the flat “fruited plains” Rimmer said, “Our dad would tell a stepmother), for developing her The group is com- Some of the a face worthy to be on the cover of of a remote “little house on the us to believe in ourselves, no matter writing skills because Mary gave all posed of mostly staff women joined magazines. prairie” town called Agate, Colo. what. If we did that, we would have her seven children journals to keep members who donate because of their She sits up straight, no slouching Population, 56. everything we always wanted.” and encouraged them to write. “It feels good their time every Thursday personal experi- detected, as she proudly talks about Agate had no sheriff, traffic lights, Cutler soon will have everything Cutler would write in her journal at noon. ences with pree- her life, like a mother would if her paved roads or grocery stores. Not she’s wanted. every single day. The program was to give to mies and termi- child earned honors at the local even a mini mall. But it did have She already holds the Colorado “Ever since she was a little girl, started by Yvonne Felix nally ill patients. elementary school. two gas stations. state record for most consecutive she loved to rhyme,” Rimmer said. who started crocheting as the commu- “I’ve been She talks about how she had her There were no drugs and the only three-point shots (seven) in a girl’s “She wrote beautiful poems. There a hobby at home. working on baby first book published, a romantic crime was not saying “hi” to passing high school game. was nothing else to do on the farm. “We started in blankets for poetry collection titled “From the neighbors. But in a very short and successful But we didn’t know where she gets nity. It gives September and have cro- preemies,” said Beginning to the End,” in April And she said her single biggest writing career, Cutler, a part-time that great imagination from.” cheted about 25 blankets,” Miriam Dockery, 2001. thrill was going to a New Kids On nanny, already has her own pub- But Cutler’s on-again, off-again Felix said. us a chance to secretary for She talks about her first book The Block concert in Denver, the lisher. relationship with ex-boyfriend “Blankets of Love” the College of signing a month after when more big city three hours away. She said she is working on a Gerardo S. A. (she did not want is composed of mostly Business and than 500 people showed up to meet She’s the middle child of a fam- series of 10 children’s books. And interact with PROFILE/ 8 women staff members Management her. ily of nine — three more than her she intends to write 20 novels by the Department. “I who aim at helping the people we do community. have a friend “It gives us a chance to whose baby was bond,” said Patty Oliver, not normally born 28 weeks a volunteer for “Blankets premature, so of Love.” “We get to talk see” I know what about things that we as they are going women talk about.” through.” Crocheting started as a Felix said hobby at home for most of that the women the women in the group. buy their own “Most people who yarn, except crochet work on a series for the ones of projects,” said Evelyn Lawrence, that are donated by the Volunteer a staff worker for the Center for and Service Center. Entertainment and Tourism. “It’s The program is still accepting really nice to have crafts that can donations of soft yarn. begin and end with a feeling of Volunteers are still needed to cro- accomplishment for something else chet blankets, and there is no experi- rather than for my family. It takes it ence necessary. one step further.” The group meets every Thursday The blankets take about 22 to 23 at noon in McCarthy Hall Room

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Supplement Direct 4*4 6 Tuesday, December 3, 2002 DailyDaily Titan NEWS Delay Risks War, Bush Warns Iraq Lecture Examines Theodore Roosevelt, n been destroyed by U.S. air attacks. United States will be making one why confronting the threat posed by CONFLICT: The Also Monday, Iraqi air defens- judgment: Has Saddam Hussein Iraq is not a distraction from the war president’s Sunday es fired on U.S. and British war- changed his behavior of the last 11 on terror. It is absolutely crucial to planes for a second consecutive day years? Has he decided to cooperate winning the war on terror. Saddam Progressives’ Beliefs deadline for Saddam as they patrolled the “no-fly” zone willingly and comply completely, or Hussein is harboring terrorists and the over northern Iraq, U.S. officials has he not?” Bush said. instruments of terror,” Cheney said, lingers, with possibility said. The planes retali- “So far the signs although he cited no hard evidence to ated. U.S. and British are not encourag- back up those allegations, according for war more likely forces created “no- ing,” he said, refer- to a transcript of his remarks pro- By Diego Ibarguen fly zones” following “Any act of ring to Iraqi anti-air- vided by the White House. Knight Ridder Newspapers the 1991 Persian Gulf craft attacks on allied Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul War to protect Kurds delay, decep- planes and to Iraqi Wolfowitz, in London to meet with President Bush pointed yesterday in the north and Shiite “letters filled with members of Iraqi opposition groups, Muslims in the south protests and false- said the only hope of “achieving to a looming Sunday deadline for tion or defi- Iraq to detail its illicit weapons pro- from Iraqi aggression. hoods.” the peaceful outcome is if we can grams and warned that stalling tactics The United States Bush said Iraq’s confront the Iraqi regime with a cred- to delay United Nations inspections maintains that Iraqi ance will prove weapons declara- ible threat of force behind our diplo- would signal that Saddam Hussein attacks on allied jets tion, which is due macy.” has decided to risk war. are a violation of the that Saddam on Sunday, “must be If Iraq does not cooperate with “Any act of delay, deception or U.N. Security Council credible and com- weapons inspections and “inspec- resolution passed last plete _ or the Iraqi tors are forced to go back to the old defiance will prove that Saddam Hussein has Hussein has not adopted the path of month. That measure, dictator will have cat-and-mouse game the world saw compliance and has rejected the path passed unanimously by demonstrated to the so often before, then the effort to of peace,” Bush said at a Pentagon the 15-nation council, not adopted world once again that resolve this problem peacefully will ceremony where he signed legislation gave inspectors a man- he has chosen not to have failed,” Wolfowitz said in a authorizing $393 billion in military date to search for weap- the path of change his behavior.” speech to the International Institute spending for fiscal 2003. “America ons anywhere in Iraq at In a separate speech for Strategic Studies. will confront gathering dangers early, any time without any compliance” to Air National Guard White House spokesman Ari before our options become limited interference. The reso- leaders in Denver, Fleischer said Bush has made no and desperate.” lution presented Iraq Vice President Dick decisions on how he might proceed Meanwhile, U.N. weapons inspec- with a “final opportu- George W. Cheney contended with Iraq, but “Saddam Hussein will tors paid a six-hour visit Monday to nity” to comply with that confronting Iraq have to figure out how long the the heavily guarded Karama missile disarmament before it is essential to win- United States intends to go along until development plant in Baghdad. A faces “serious conse- ning the war on we find out what Saddam Hussein is subsequent U.N. report said that some quences.” terror. really doing. equipment that had been tagged by Bush used his com- “There is also “The president is skeptical that KYLE MONK/Special to theTitan previous inspection teams was miss- ments on Iraq, his first since inspec- a grave danger that al-Qaida or Saddam Hussein will comply and Bob Linn speaks at the Ruby Gerentology Center on Nov. 21. ing from the site. According to the tions resumed last week, to lay out other terrorists will join with out- it’s too soon to say. One week is not report, Iraqi officials said some of the criteria for deciding how to deal with law regimes that have these weapons adequate time,” Fleischer said. nDISCUSSION: CSUF on Nov. 21 at the Ruby Gerontology missing items had been transported future Iraqi defiance. to attack their common enemy, the Center’s Mackey Auditorium. to other sites and that some of it had “In the inspections process, the United States of America. That is alumnus Bob Linn The progressives believed that busi- ness had seized an unhealthy amount discussed the political of power because of industrialization, and sought to pass legislation that movement that peaked would shift the balance of power back from 1900 to 1914 in the direction of the government, U.S. Sends Christmas Trees Across Border Linn said.------By Paul Wright The progressive movement peaked Daily Titan Staff Writer from about 1900 to 1914.- The pro- gressive presidents were Roosevelt, By Bradley Meacham Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree to grow as ties strengthen. low-maintenance artificial trees. William Taft and Woodrow Wilson.-- The Seattle Times Association in Salem, Ore. Trees now are loaded into refriger- Real and fake trees each had about Bring up the subject of government ------This year growers will export ated containers to the border, where half the nationwide market in 1990. regulation to a business owner and Linn said that the progressives had Feliz Navidad is taking on new about 1.2 million trees to Mexico, at they are reloaded into Mexican But since then the number of fake it’s likely you would get an angry three main goals:- to restore control meaning for Washington’s Christmas wholesale prices ranging from $12 trucks for transport to the retailers. trees has grown to 60.3 million, or tirade about everything from unfair of government to the common peo- tree growers. for Douglas fir, the most popular Though the North America Free 68 percent of the households with tax laws to nonsensical environmental ple, correct abuses and injustices that Rising personal income in Mexico export species, to $30 for noble fir. Trade Agreement made trade eco- Christmas trees. sanctions.------accompanied industrialism and restore and other parts of Latin America “The sky’s the limit,” said Bryan nomical, a tree shipment to Mexico The total number of real trees And while it may seem like our greater equality of opportunity in eco- means a bigger market for many Ostlund, the association’s execu- City still takes at least a week. sold dropped to 27.8 million in 2001 government and businesses have nomic affairs.------kinds of luxury items – including tive. The Bush administration last week from 35.4 million in 1990, accord- always been at each other’s throats, Linn said that the first attempts by real Christmas trees. “Mexico City alone could keep us announced plans to allow Mexican ing to the National Christmas Tree prior to the “progressive movement” government to regulate business in the It couldn’t come at a better time busy for years.” trucks throughout the U.S., poten- Association in St. Louis. the two simply ignored each other. United States came in the 1880s when for growers, who are gradually los- Though precise export statistics tially streamlining future shipments New markets could help Cal State Fullerton alumnus and state and local officials attempted to ing the battle with fake trees for the are hard to come by because per- to south of the border. Washington tree farmers who say former Sunny Hills High School his- control certain aspects of the railroad American living room. mits don’t provide specific totals “Export is definitely a bright ave- they’re struggling in the face of tory teacher Bob Linn talked about the business. Trees have long been exported to and middlemen handle much of the nue,” said Tom Taylor, a salesman stricter environmental regulations progressives, particularly President Railroad businessmen were not American expatriates and military shipping, growers say the volume is for Noble Mountain Christmas trees and rising land prices. Theodore Roosevelt, in his lecture LECTURE/ 8 personnel abroad, as well as to mar- increasing. in Chehalis, Wash. “It’s definitely getting more kets such as Hong Kong and Japan. Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Costco “It’s outside our traditional mar- difficult to run a business,” said But the trees will never be much and Mexican chain stores are boom- ket and any growth there helps at Mark Steelhammer, owner of KLM more than a novelty niche in non- ing south of the border, making home.” Christmas Tree Farm in Rochester, Christian cultures. it easier for consumers to find Most trees grown in Washington, Thurston County. By contrast, demand for trees in Christmas trees. the country’s fourth-largest producer, Obstacles in Washington include Mexico, with a Roman Catholic- The Mexican government is and Oregon, the biggest, are shipped time-consuming permits, regula- dominated culture and a growing encouraging the Christmas tree to other states, with California alone tions on spraying, and water quality. middle class, grew rapidly in the trade. accounting for 46 percent of trees The pending increase in labor-and- CSU Sacramento 1990s. The Mexican consulate in Seattle harvested. industry taxes means labor becomes Mexico now accounts for 9 per- recently did a study of the Christmas But unfortunately for growers, more expensive. cent of Christmas trees harvested tree industry for a Mexican maker of the domestic market is shrinking as 2*4 in the Northwest, according to the plastic tree bases and expects trade busy consumers increasingly put up

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Off Campus 2*6 NEWS DailyDaily Titan Tuesday, December 3, 2002 5 UCLA Professor Still Stalked by Islamic Fundamentalists nCONTROVERSY: he had aired for years -usually to gating the threats and the C h r i s t i a n i t y write fundamentalist Islamic schol- 1963 and spent much of his youth Muslim audiences. vandalism of El Fadl’s car “I am the big- and Judaism. arship and cultural and community in Egypt, where he was imprisoned Khaled Abou El Fadl At the time the article was pub- while it was parked out- W a h h a b i s m , centers around the world has stifled briefly after he returned for a visit lished, many Muslims were speak- side a San Fernando Valley however, calls open debate about the role of Islam the summer after his junior year still receives hate mail ing out against radical Islam, the movie theater earlier this gest danger for a return to in modern society. at Yale. He says Egyptian officials kind personified by Osama bin year. Although the windows the Koranic inter- “The Koran says that if you are held him and tortured him because for his op-ed piece for Laden. So what was it about El were shattered, nothing was to their [ver- pretations that harsh and unkind, people will not they were suspicious of his Western the LA Times Fadl’s views that provoked such a taken from the car. flourished in the come to you, so the Koran recogniz- influences. furious reaction? Police tapped El Fadl’s sion of] Islam, decades that fol- es that decency has to be there,” he He earned a bachelor’s degree By Vincent J. Schodolski “I am the biggest danger to their telephone, but never were lowed the death said. “If Wahhabism had dominated in 1986, then a law degree at the Chicago Tribune [version of] Islam, not to Islam, and able to trace the source of of Muhammad, Islam, (it) would be a very small University of Pennsylvania and they don’t make the distinction,” El the threatening calls. not to Islam, the seventh-cen- religion.” a doctorate in Islamic studies at LOS ANGELES – The death Fadl said. At first he thought the tury prophet of According to El Fadl, funding by Princeton. He has been on the UCLA threats have stopped and the white “They,” he said, were people who, threats were coming from and they don’t Islam. the Saudis is used not to stop Muslim Law School faculty since 1998. van no longer lingers ominously for various reasons, support a ver- non-Muslims angered by Those who leaders from speaking out against El Fadl is critical not only of outside his San Fernando Valley sion of Islam that has roots in Saudi the terrorist attacks. But make the dis- espouse such fanatics or terrorists, but rather to conservative Muslims, but also of home, but the uproar Khaled Abou Arabia and which, El Fadl suggests, soon, El Fadl and authorities interpretations prevent people like him from speak- moderates who fail to speak out. El Fadl unleashed a year ago has has gained wide sway because of concluded that they were tinction” disdain centuries ing out against Wahhabism and its He said the failure of moderates to not abated. the willingness of the Saudi Arabian from Muslims angered by of modernization strict interpretation of Islam. openly oppose the dominance of El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law government to spend money to his criticism of those who and trends with- “And it (the money) is really fundamentalist clerics had contrib- at UCLA, has long been a moderate export its views. failed to speak out against Khaled Abou in Islam toward so that the people don’t speak out uted greatly to the misconceptions voice urging Muslims in the United More than a year later, he still what he calls a “puritani- El Fadl, more pluralistic against them,” he said of the Saudi many Americans have about Islam. States and elsewhere to speak out receives numerous e-mails and let- cal” form of Islam espoused views. ruling dynasty. He pointed to the recent protests UCLA professor against radical elements of Islam. ters on his views. He has people by the Saudis. El Fadl insists He said that any attempt to speak by Iranian students against religious So when he wrote an op-ed article screen all his calls, and UCLA has That form of Islam, that the willing- out against this fundamentalist view leaders in that country as a sign that published by the Los Angeles Times taken steps to ensure his safety on known as Wahhabism, is ness of the of Islam was seen by devotees as the tide may be turning. in the days after the Sept. 11 terror- campus. in some ways similar to Saudi govern- arrogance against God. ist attacks, he was expressing views The FBI and police are investi- fundamentalist views in ment to under- El Fadl was born in Kuwait in President Bush and Sept. 11 Added to Quotation Reference Book n A compulsively browsable Kaplan said he has tried to make bring justice to our enemies, justice the 17th edition of “Bartlett’s” most toward none, with charity for all,” LITERARY: Since compilation, spanning the ancient the book both timeless and timely. will be done.” likely is his last. But he’s already “I have a dream,” “Mr. Gorbachev, 1855, more than Egyptians through George W., Kaplan, who made unilateral deci- Rudolph Giuliani, then-mayor of taking notes for the editor of the tear down this wall,” and “I’m not “Bartlett’s” aims to capture both a sions about the book’s contents, has New York: “Our hearts are broken, next edition, which will be pub- a crook.” 25,000 quotes from bit of pop culture and the sweep of pruned some of the dead poets and but they continue to beat, and the lished around 2012. Crooked words, said with a history. authors and added newer quotations spirit of our city has never been At the top of Kaplan’s list are straight face, can be funny some- more than 2,500 peo- “There’s a certain amount of bal- from popular culture. He has includ- stronger.” two words that were made public times, but sorry, folks, “yada, yada, ancing between something that is of ed quotes from movies, television, And Kaplan includes a quotation too late to meet the deadline for yada” didn’t make the “Bartlett’s” ple have been printed the moment and something that will advertising slogans, cartoons, street from “Here Is New York,” a 1949 the new book. The quote is from a cut. By Marja Mills be familiar in years to come,” said slang, politics and music. essay by E.B. White. The 53-year- passenger’s last phone call on Sept. Neither did Al Gore’s lockbox or Chicago Tribune Mary Tondorf-Dick, senior manag- “A lot of people think the book is old words, about life in New York in 11 before he and other passengers any of President Bush’s malaprop- ing editor of Little, Brown and Co., anachronistic and irrelevant, slightly the nuclear age, show how the old aboard the aboard hijacked United isms, such as “I know how hard it is Shakespeare remains the leader, which publishes the classic refer- fusty, old-fashioned,” said Kaplan, can collide with the new. “It’s an Airlines flight 93 rushed the cockpit. for you to put food on your family.” with 1,906 entries. But Bill Clinton ence book. the award-winning biographer of eerie passage that gives you chills to The plane, believed to have been on “To include one of the Bushisms is gaining ground, with six. Massachusetts bookseller John Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. read,” Kaplan said. a terrorist mission to wipe out the we all laugh at,” Kaplan said, “I “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” Bartlett first published his book of “But it’s really quite quirky and “The city, for the first time in White House, crashed instead into thought would be too much of a has released its latest edition, the quotations in 1855 as a literary ref- charming and fun to read.” its long history, is destructible. A the Pennsylvania countryside, kill- cheap shot.” first update in 10 years. It adds quo- erence work. Shakespeare still leads The newer quotations follow single flight of planes no bigger ing everyone on board. Bill and Hillary Clinton, however, tations from _ among other things everybody with 1,906 of the 25,000 Kaplan’s first principle: “Look for than a wedge of geese can quickly Beamer’s last two words have get the needle. He gets six entries. _ movies of the last decade, the quotes from more than 2,500 people the ones that illustrate turning points end this island fantasy, burn the become an icon for the war on ter- She gets three. Him: “I experimented aftermath of Sept. 11 and long-ago in the 17th edition. The Bible is next in history.” Sept. 11, 2001, was one towers, crumble the bridges, turn rorism: “Let’s roll.” with marijuana a time or two. And I times and places that got added as with 1,642 entries. The book quotes of those moments, and the 17th edi- the underground passages into lethal “Quotations are a form of cap- didn’t like it, and didn’t inhale, and chief editor Justin Kaplan saw fit. about 100 new people, among them tion of “Bartlett’s” gets to the point: chambers, cremate the millions. The sule history,” Kaplan said, “a way never tried it again.” Her: “I suppose (No easy job. Todd Beamer’s now- Mother Teresa and Maya Angelou, President George W. Bush to intimation of mortality is part of of summing up in a few words an I could have stayed home and baked famous “Let’s roll,” for example, Alfred Hitchcock and Hillary Congress nine days after the ter- New York now: in the sound of jets entire era of history.” cookies and had teas.” didn’t make it in – this time. The Clinton, Jerry Seinfeld and J.K. ror attacks on the Pentagon and overhead, in the black headlines of “Let’s roll,” he said, might be up volume was being proofread when Rowling, Katharine Graham and the World Trade Center: “Whether the next edition.” there with “The only thing we have Sept. 11 happened.) Princess Diana. we bring our enemies to justice, or Kaplan, who just turned 77, said to fear is fear itself,” “With malice

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gerated, Roosevelt did indeed start the LECTURE trend toward government interven- FESTIVAL tion in business in the United States; n from page 1 n from page 6 a practice that remains very strong today, Linn said.------is an alternative place to do holiday pleased, and neither were other entre- “He believed in the power of the shopping.” preneurs who feared that the govern- presidency,” Linn said.- The event will also include a tree- ment might target them next. “And you’ll find that the greatest lighting ceremony, food and craft Businessmen of the time sub- presidents felt that the president should booths and the coronation of the win- scribed to the socioeconomic ethical be powerful.- Roosevelt believed that ter festival queen and her court. system of social Darwinism, in which the president could do what he wanted Free shuttle bus services will also financial success was just nature’s as long as the Constitution did not be provided to take people to and from way of rewarding the most fit, Linn specifically forbid it,” he said.------the businesses, Ritto said. said.------Continued Learning Experience Judy Flowers, a business owner “Rockefeller (Standard Oil) said student Pat McAdams said that Linn’s and coordinator for this year’s royal ‘God gave me my wealth,’” Linn lecture piqued her interest regarding court, said she starts looking for her said.------the presidency of Roosevelt.- “I don’t “queens” in late October or early ------know zip about him-and I’ve-got to November. “The attitude was that it was just the learn,” she said.- “The queens must be seniors in nature of the universe for one man to Another lecture attendee, Walt high school, residents of Fullerton, try to drive the other out of business,” Cleary, said that all of United States involved in the school community he said of the economic philosophy of history is important to him.- and enthusiastic,” Flowers said. “To the time.------“I came here today because the be chosen, the girls must also say Roosevelt’s mission, Linn said, was last chance I had to take history was how they would change or improve to make government more powerful my first year of college,” Cleary sai Fullerton.” than business. d.------This addition to the festival began “Roosevelt believed that govern------about two years ago and was a way to ment really could represent the peo- Linn’s lecture was part of the involve young Fullerton residents in ple,” Linn said. Review of the Twentieth Century city activities. And although his reputation as a lecture series being held at Mackey The holiday event originated in the MARGIE RIVERA/Daily Titan “trust buster” might be slightly exag- Auditorium. HSSA members volunteer their time on Thanksgiving at La Casa Garcia in Anaheim. chamber of commerce and until three years ago, the Fullerton Downtown all walks of life more than 15 years “I’m just giving a little of my Business Association became the pri- ago. time to help unfortunate people in VOLUNTEER something if I am emotionally mary coordinator of the event. “My parents were very poor,” said Thanksgiving,” Leon said. “It’s a n from page 1 attached to it.” “It makes more sense (that the asso- Frank Garcia, wearing his traditional great feeling.” PROFILE Those are the reasons why people ciation coordinates the event),” said white cook’s apron. “Thank God my Fellow association member n from page 3 Some lifted heavy tables and are drawn by her writing. Chris Lowe, executive director for re-arranged them before the family and I’ve always had shelter Noemi Medina said that something the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce. to give his full name to save her “She only writes what she feels Thanksgiving feast started. A few and a plate of food so I’m just trying little usually contributes to some- “Since business is their focal point “Argentinean Stallion” from embar- and what she knows,” Cutler’s best helped control the massive flow of to pass it along now.” thing big. and the event is also geared towards rassment) was the main reason why friend Nancy Maya said. “Her writ- men, women and children being “Frank Garcia brings a taste “Every venue counts,” she said. generating business in the area.” she got published. ing is heartfelt. It could feel good served while others handed out apple of heaven to the community,” “Sometimes people live in a dark Aside from creating a festive atmo- Cutler said her first published and bittersweet.” pies and gelatins at the end of the said Father Jaime Soto, who sang world and your actions can bring sphere for local residents and provid- book, “From the Beginning to the Writing about her life experi- long snake-lined tables. “Amazing Grace,” after blessing the hope and light and impact their ing additional shopping options, the End,” was a collection of poems ences has made her own life a work Tram Ngo, a human services food. lives.” event also allows people to donate she wrote while going through that of art. junior, volunteered at La Casa Garcia The display of generosity was pal- Frank Garcia said about 1,200 toys to less fortunate children. rocky relationship. “I admire the obstacles she’s been for the first time. pable as corporations and individuals volunteers lent him a hand one way Past events have included a “Spark It is a three-part book that chroni- through and her ambition,” Maya “It fulfills me to help out,” she donated hundreds of golden turkeys, or another once again this year. of Love” parade, in which, firefight- cles how every relationship is. said. “She knows what she wants said. “I’ll definitely be back next pounds of rice and mashed potatoes, “So many people are here that the ers have driven fire trucks from the “The first part is lovey-dovey,” and she won’t settle for less. She’s year.” Chinese food, pies, gelatins, cookies organizers don’t even need all of us,” Hard Rock Café in Newport Beach to she said. “The middle section is so young and she’s already been Restaurant owner Frank Garcia and other goodies and supplies. Mario Garcia said. “We’re making Fullerton collecting toys, Lowe said. where I tell him all my insecurities published.” started the annual county tradition Jessica Leon, a junior human ser- this event truly happen.” and the end is where we break up Rimmer said, “She had her own of feeding thousands of people from vices major, also donated her time. and make up and vice versa.” dream and she wanted to be her own Her first two poems “The One” person. Like all of our family, she became for the center for Entertainment Joseph Gazmen, a freshman phys- and “Scared,” which are also in successful even though we came and Tourism office. “It’s not unusu- ics major, said. “As a student, we the book, won her two poetry con- WORK from a small town. She made some- al because we’ve worked during are paid on an hourly basis, so [the] tests sponsored by the International n from page 1 thing of her life.” TAXES Thanksgiving break before. What is more hours you put in, the more Poetry Society and the Poetry It all started on the “fruited n unusual is the quiet.” money you make.” Guild. from page 1 plains“ of a “little house on the has always been offered. Some faculty even came to school The choice to work during break She said Watermark Press pub- prairie” town and nine simple words “For all my experiences, the to catch up on work. is left up to each department to lishers were so impressed with her has an income between $41,000 to from her father’s mouth that would choice to work has always been “It’s actually nice,” said Cynthia decide if work needs to be done. work that they offered her a contract $51,000, and as joint filers $82,000 shape her life. optional,” Salcido said. “I could King, an associate professor of com- “When holidays come around, to write books for them to publish. to $102,000 a year. If married cou- “My sisters and I always remind always take time off, I’m not sure munications. “You get time to get campus is always open on given “I try to inspire people with my ples file incomes separately, they are each other of it (my father’s motto). how it goes in other offices.” things done. I can get some of my dates, implies that there is cover- rhymes,” Cutler said. “I only write not eligible to claim the credits (IRS And we still talk about it continu- Although staff and student assis- other work done. [The] nice thing age hours from the normal business publication 970). tants worked three days during the about having a professor’s job is hours from eight to five,” Peshimam “A single dependent student can- week, they had Thursday off to that you have time flexibility.” said. “In most cases, there is limited not use the education credits if some- enjoy the holiday. Many people came to work to staffing coverage. There might be one else (i.e. their parents) claims “It’s not very long that we’ve had earn extra money. one person answering the phones, them as a dependent on their return. this type of Thanksgiving recess,” “Honestly, I don’t mind it at all, taking care of walk-ins and working The credit would then be available said Evelyn Lawrence, a worker and sometimes I need the money,” on office projects.” to the parents on their return, but the availability of the credit is phased out at higher-income levels,” Fister said. Fister also said “students should file separate returns from their par- ents only if they have over $7,700 of earned income and can take advan- tage of the education credits. If the parents’ income is too high to take the credits, it may be advantageous to let the student claim himself and take the credit.” A tax credit is used to reduce the Golden West College amount of income tax one has to pay. “Due on a dollar-for-dollar basis, 2*6 the student could use the education credits to reduce their tax liability to Elite Fertility Solutions zero, but the credits are not refund- able,” Fister said. “Students that do not have significant income would 3*5 not even have a tax liability, so the credits may not benefit them at all.” Therefore, unlike a deduction, which reduces the amount of income subject to tax, a credit reduces the tax itself. Besides the credit programs, two other new changes were made to reduce taxes on higher education for returning students or parents who earn a modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) between $50,000 to $65,000 for singles, or $100,000 to $130,000 for joint filers. The student loan interest reduction allows students with high MAGI to deduct all student loan interest payments from the first 60 months that interest payments are required. A student can also deduct qualified education expenses (IRS Publication 970). “There is no limit to deduct it (loan interests) after five years, so the good news for returning stu- dents is that all interest payments are deductible,” said CSUF accounting professor Donald P. Cram. The tuition and fees reduction can also reduce higher education costs of one’s income subject to tax CSULB Registration Don Jose by up to $3,000. These deductions benefit people with high income and 2*5 therefore cannot take the other edu- 3*5 cational credits. “The good news for CSUF stu- dents is that these programs may be extremely beneficial for most of them, since the proportion of stu- dents attending school and working here are greater than at any other school. These would lower costs of education,” Cram said. But Cram also said that a lot of students are not aware of these new educational tax benefit programs, and therefore do not use them. Students can access the IRS at www.irs.ustreas.gov and refer to Publication 970 to get more informa- tion about these four programs. NEWS DailyDaily Titan Tuesday,December 3, 2002 7 Supreme Court Enters Debate Over Affirmative Action

by rejecting white applicants while the face and complexion of higher of the University of Michigan’s law the lower courts about the lawfulness Washington-based Center for Individual nLAW: A decision accepting minority students with lower education,” said Mark Rahdert, a con- school in a 5-4 decision handed down of using race and ethnicity as a factor Rights, a conservative public-interest grades and test scores. stitutional law professor and associate in May. The court heard arguments in admissions to achieve a ‘diverse’ law institute that is representing the was made as to If the high court strikes down such dean at Temple University’s Beasley in the undergraduate case but has yet student body.” white applicants, acknowledged that whether universities public university programs, it would School of Law in Philadelphia. to rule. The high court’s decision to They noted decisions in the U.S. minority enrollment dropped sharply be a near-fatal blow to the use of affir- The white students who were turned hear that undergraduate case before Court of Appeals’ 5th and 11th circuits at flagship public universities in Texas can use race as a mative action, which was conceived away claim they were discriminated the lower federal court had ruled is that ruled against affirmative action and California after race was eliminat- of as a remedy for discrimination. If against in violation of federal civil- unusual. plans at public universities. ed as a factor in admission. But those factor in admission it supports the university, it could rights laws that ban race-based bias, Attorneys for Grutter called on the University of Michigan President numbers are rebounding, proof that provide a blueprint for how such pro- and the Constitution’s guarantee of Supreme Court to clear up confusion Mary Sue Coleman said overturning racial preferences are not needed to By Shannon McCaffrey grams should work. equal legal protection. from its 1978 ruling on affirmative the Bakke ruling “could result in secure minorities’ educational oppor- Knight Ridder Newspapers James Cott, associate director of The university says its intention action. the immediate resegregation of our tunities, Pell said. (KRT) the NAACP’s Legal Defense and was simply the enhanced educational In that case, Allan Bakke, a white nation’s top universities, both public The court is expected to rule by the Education Fund, called the pending benefit that comes when students of man, was turned down for admission and private.” end of June. WASHINGTON - The Supreme challenges to affirmative action, both diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to medical school at the University “Now is not the time to turn back On Monday, an array of civil rights Court set the stage Monday for what involving the University of Michigan live of California at Davis while minori- the clock,” she said. groups and activists, including the could be a landmark ruling on affirma- in Ann Arbor, the “most important and learn together. ties with lower scores were admitted. University lawyers said Michigan Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, tive action, agreeing to decide whether civil rights cases to come before this The law school case involved The school reserved 16 percent of its did not have a quota but sought a promised to rally outside the Supreme universities can use race as a factor in court in a quarter of a century.” Barbara Grutter, a businesswoman admission slots for minorities. “critical mass” of minority students. Court building when it hears the case admitting students. The high court’s rulings in the who was denied admission to the In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme “We want enough students so that early next year. The high court in recent years has Michigan cases will apply directly Michigan law school in 1996 when Court ruled that such racial quotas there are differences of opinion,” the The cases are Grutter vs. Bollinger chipped away at government affir- only to public colleges and universi- she was 43. She claims that minority were impermissible. university said in court papers. and Gratz vs. Bollinger. Lee C. mative-action programs dealing with ties. applicants received preferential treat- But Justice Lewis Powell wrote in The university said that between Bollinger was president of the univer- such things as government contracts. But experts say all schools, pub- ment, and she still wants to attend law a separate opinion that schools could 1992 and 2000, the proportion of sity at the time the suits were filed. But it has not spoken on the use of lic or private, that use race-conscious school at Michigan. consider race as long as they did not minority students at the law school For more about the pending cases, racial preferences in higher educa- admission policies are likely to take In the second case, which involves use quotas. hovered between 13.5 percent and 20 turn to these Web sites: tion in more than two decades, which cues from the high court’s ruling. undergraduates, Jennifer Gratz and Universities often have used the percent. University of Michigan lawsuit leaves legal experts wondering how it “Whatever the court decides, it will Patrick Hamacher argue that they also late justice’s opinion as a benchmark If race were disallowed as an admis- site: will rule. have a profound impact on who goes were denied admission because of for affirmative action. It also has been sion factor that number could shrink www.umich.edu/(tilde)urel/admis- At issue is whether the University to colleges and graduate schools in race. criticized as vague. to 4 percent for an incoming class, sions/ of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its this country. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Grutter’s attorneys said there was a they say. Center for Individual Rights: http:// law school violated the Constitution It will have a profound impact on Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in favor “sharp and substantial disagreement in Terry Pell, president of the www.cir-usa.org/ Activists Turn to Computer Hacking in Information Age

By Karen Brandon that authorities will confiscate the infor- out charge to democracy activists. The lions of computers every day. tion so even if it’s stolen, it’s of no in San Francisco. Chicago Tribune mation and to find chinks in the barriers software gives users access to banned “There’s not much you can do to get use to anybody except us,” said Susie The same kind of technology chal- (KRT) governments have erected to block access content by hiding digital messages in around the radio jamming,” said Ken Kemp, external counsel for the Center lenged in the hotly contested Napster to Internet sites they find objectionable. pictures. One budding project using the Berman, program manager for Internet for Human Rights Legal Action, which case, involving distribution of copyright- LOS ANGELES _ A hybrid has For example, when the Chinese gov- technology aims to make biblical pas- anti-censorship efforts for the International represents witnesses in 22 of the coun- ed music, could benefit human-rights arrived at the intersection of human- ernment shut the door to the use of the sages available in Chinese. Broadcasting Bureau, which administers try’s indigenous communities who have groups seeking to share data, Tien said. rights activism and the derring-do of search engine Google earlier this year, And the group is waiting for federal and engineers the Voice of America. accused eight high-ranking government These networks have been “demonized computer hacking. a hactivist devised a way to reopen it in approval to distribute Six/Four System, On the Internet, by contrast, “It’s a cat- officials, including former presidents and as instruments of copyright infringement It is called hacktivism. less than a day. a computer protocol whose name is and-mouse game,” he said. the head of the ruling political party, of in the public mind,” he said, but they Across the globe, elite computer “In the public perception, the term taken from the date of the June 4, 1989, Using Freenet-China, software created genocide and war crimes. have potential for free speech. experts with some of the world’s most hacker equals criminal,” said one com- Tiananmen Square massacre in China. this year, people in China have been able Martus.org, a system named for the And the Council of Europe Convention technically innovative minds are setting puter expert who wished to be referred Six/Four would let activists to enter a to get to banned sites and documents, Greek word for witness, is being designed on Cybercrime, which the United States their sights on ways to help human-rights to by his computer handle, Oxblood private electronic suite or tunnel to use including government documents on the to serve as an electronic “human-rights has signed but not yet ratified, autho- causes. Ruffin. e-mail, chat and browse the Internet. Tiananmen Square massacre, and Web bulletin system,” to help groups gather rizes government surveillance powers Armed with what may become one Oxblood Ruffin three years ago “We are essentially offering the sites for the outlawed religious movement and collect data. that easily could be used by totalitarian of the most important weapons in the founded Hactivismo.com, an organiza- same technology banks would have to Falun Gong, according to Bill Xia, presi- The “pseudo proxy,” the technical regimes seeking to monitor democracy struggle for human rights _ computer tion of several dozen hackers who con- democracy advocates,” Oxblood Ruffin dent and founder of Dynamic Internet instrument that allowed Chinese access advocates. code _ the “hactivists” are trying to give sider themselves a technological brain said. Advocates are just beginning to Technology. Xia, a Chinese immigrant, to Google despite the government’s In Washington, policymakers are activists electronic ways to circumvent trust to further human rights. tap the capacity of new technology. For said the company’s focus is developing blockade, was devised by members beginning to address the pivotal role the government surveillance and information “We are the most rabid pro-democ- instance, the Voice of America, whose software to get around Chinese govern- of Citizen Lab, a group of technology Internet may play in promoting human management. racy activists in the world. We are much radio broadcasts are jammed by China, ment censorship. experts formed in June at the University rights and democracy. The devices, the Information Age more interested in the hack part” of hack- now sends daily news report into the In Guatemala, where human-rights of Toronto who are developing free soft- In October, California Reps. equivalent to assumed identities and tivism, he said, “which is to say we are country through e-mail. activists have been alarmed by an epi- ware and computing tools for global civic Christopher Cox, R, and Tom Lantos, D, messages strapped to a homing pigeon’s much more interested in the technology. Though Beijing’s electronic fire- demic of thefts of their computers and activism. introduced legislation to develop policies leg, are aimed at enabling human-rights But we see that as the prime catalyst for wall is notorious, a technology called the data they hold, some organizations “People don’t realize we’re export- to counter Internet blocking around the workers to send and receive electronic change.” Anonymizer.com disguises the identity are learning encryption technology as ing censorship,” said Lee Tien, senior world. messages free of government monitor- This summer, the group introduced of the Voice of America as the source of protection. staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier ing, to store computer data without fear Camera/Shy software, available with- the e-mail, letting it slip through to mil- “We have had to safeguard informa- Foundation, an online civil liberties group http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu

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Thai Rama Planned Parenthood Golden State Theater 2*3 2*3 2*3 Daily Titan Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Fullerton Wins Big nMEN: Titans get solid team effort in trouncing of Morris Brown at home By Ricardo Sanchez Jr. Junior forward Pape Sow finished glass five times while gliding up and Daily Titan Asst. Sports Editor with 16 points and 10 rebounds, his down the court with a fire not seen in first double double of the season, but Fullerton for quiet some time. It’s been a long time coming. the Titans seemed to have trouble at “I play with a lot of energy,” Holmes Well, only three games into the sea- times feeding the ball into the post. said. “Coach stresses energy.” son, but Monday night’s 74-56 beat- “We were being patient,” said Will they be able to sustain this ing of the Morris Brown Wolverines Daniels, who was pleased his team type of energy and pressure against was nothing short of first-aid relief for didn’t try to force into the big guy. Pepperdine on Wednesday? a Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball Probably the most efficient player “Yes, sir,” Holmes said. team that limped off to a 0-2 start. on the night was Bron Groomes, who Reshard Alonza was the Wolverines Titans head coach Donny Daniels scored 15 points in 16 minutes of only real threat, scoring 18 points and rubbed the back of his head and smiled play. He fouled out with 6:19 left in grabbing nine rebounds. outside the locker room after a game the game, but received a nice ovation Many of the Titans turnovers that saw the Titans win by the largest from the 623 fans in attendance. came after forcing the out-of-con- margin of victory (18) over any Div. I Daniels was content with the team’s trol Wolverines into offensive fouls. opponent in four years. performance and the fact that they Daniels was impressed that even Sow “We were waiting for this one,” were able to keep the defensive pres- stepped in and drew one. he said. sure on for most of the game. “He finally took a charge,” Daniels They didn’t have to wait long. “We sustained [the press], and that said. “And that is something we are From the opening tip-off, Anthony was the good thing, you have to going to have to do so that we can win Bolton streaked from the right wing remember we have five new guys try- some games.” for an easy layup and the Titans never ing to do it.” Daniels said. looked back. Daniels started Amir Bar-Netzer at “This is a real confidence booster power-forward, saying he has earned BY THE NUMBERS for us,” said Ralphy Holmes, who it with his hustle and gutsy play. Bar- finished with 20 points and nine Netzer finished with five points and Morris Brown 26 30 56 rebounds. two assists, but he brings an unparal- Cal State Fullerton 40 34 Building a lead that reached as high leled energy to the court that his team- Morris Brown Leaders as 22, the Titans used a defensive- mates feed off. Points: Alonza 18 zone press that had the Wolverines But it was Holmes who continues Rebounds: Alonza 9 confused for the majority of the first to turn heads. Assists: Alonza 3 half. “I said it from the very beginning, CSUF Leaders The Titans defense forced 16 turn- Ralphy Holmes will lead this team Points: Holmes 20 overs on the night, many of them in offensive rebounds,” Daniels said. off steals under the basket after the “He’s just that kind of player. He’s a Rebounds: Sow 10 inbound pass, as the Wolverines strug- high-octane guy.” Assists: Bolton 5 JANEL WRIGHT/Special to the Titan gled to get the ball across mid-court. Holmes swiped the offensive Forward Pape Sow battles for a rebound in the Titans’ 74-56 victory over Morris Brown on Monday. CSUF Salvages Season with Titans Win One, Lose Two to Big West Victory Open Season nBASKETBALL: Women defeat Centenary, but nVOLLEYBALL: For next, so treat every point the same,” a hand in the fall to New Mexico and Kansas at home last week Zimmerman said. win.” By Natalie San Roman my team.” the first time in nearly The Titans had some indications Senior set- Daily Titan Staff Writer that a victory was possible. ter Krista The next game for the Titans against three months, Titans “We’ve worked so hard and been Bebernes, along New Mexico was a little different. In the so close,” freshman setter Lindsay with Levey, will The Cal State Fullerton women’s bas- first half both teams were neck-and-neck win a match, beating Shondell said. “Before the match also be waving ketball team started the season at home until 10 seconds left in the half. At that Riverside in five sets started, Anthony (Mirabal, the goodbye to their with a bang on Nov. 24, winning their point, the Lobos made a shot to end the By Laura L. Gaghan Titans’ volunteer assistant coach) set playing days at first game against Centenary, 74-61. half, leading CSUF 34-31. Fullerton followed that performance, At the start of the second half, Allyson Daily Titan Staff Writer the scoreboard at 30-18, we won the Fullerton. The first two games 30-18,” she said. long-awaited win however, with two straight losses to New Alhadeff hit two quick baskets, but the The Titans stayed positive in the was a nice touch Mexico on Nov. 25, 80-55, and Kansas Titans struggled to make their shots from They finally did it. week before their last meeting with to their careers at on Nov. 27, 66-56. that point on. With seven minutes left The Cal State Fullerton wom- UC Riverside (6-22 overall, 2-16 in CSUF. The combination of Audrey Taylor’s in the half, New Mexico pulled away en’s volleyball team won their first Big West), who swept Fullerton in “It’s been quickness and great ball-handling from the Titans by a score of 64-51. The Big West Conference match of the their first meeting on Sept. 21. a long ride,” and Heather Hansen’s domination on Lobos were getting good looks and hit season on Nov. 22 against their “We all thought, we’re going out Bebernes said. the boards led CSUF to the win over their shots, which proved too much for last opponent of the season, UC winners,” sophomore outside hitter “I think I have Centenary. Catherine Holman came CSUF. Riverside, (30-18, 30-18, 30-32, 28- strong off the bench and hit two baskets In the start of Fullerton’s third game Lauren Goins said. learned more LAURA L. GAGHAN/Daily Titan 30, and 15-9). Junior libero Renee Vignery from losing so in a row late in the game to keep the against Kansas, there were a lot of fast A win over UCR gave CSUF reason to cel- The Titans had endured a 24- dreamt of their accomplishment the many games than Titans ahead of Centenary. breaks by both teams. Tamara Quinn match losing streak, with their last night before. anything. It was the best way to end “We’re going to miss them.” “We felt good this game,” Titan head shot well throughout the game scoring win Sept. 6 against Evansville, a “Renee had a dream that we won the season.” The Titans will have to look to coach Barbara Ehardt said. “We had a 15 points for the Titans and was 3-for-4 non-conference opponent. in five,” Shondell said. “We won in The season wrap up has not yet new members to fill the void. lot of energy, emotion and enthusiasm from the line. At the start of the second The win couldn’t have come at five.” sunk in for Levey. “We have a lot [of recruits] com- during this game and performed well.” half, Quinn hit two three-point shots in a better time. OK, maybe it could Goins had 26 kills in the match, “It doesn’t seem real that it’s ing in,” sophomore middle blocker The Titans had great defense, moved the first five minutes of play. The inten- have, but the Titans are happy none- her highest total of the season. over,” she said. “I think maybe in Carley Dial said. “We’ll find some- the ball well and were able to read each sity changed from high to low through theless. Senior setter Kim Levey added two weeks it’ll be real, but now I am one.” other so well that they had no trouble the whole game and the Titans’ energy “Better late than never,” Titan to her CSUF record in assists by in denial about it.” Only four days after the UC putting this game in the bag. went back and forth. The Jayhawks coach Carolyn Zimmerman said. contributing 52 in her last collegiate Other Titan players will have to Riverside match, Melanie Meister “We were all excited for our first game started turning the ball over and Fullerton “I almost don’t have the words to match, running her career total to face the realization that they are an outside hitter for Valley High and have been practicing for weeks,” played harder defense to stay in the express.” 3,621. She also had 13 digs. losing two of their most solid team- School in Des Moines, Iowa, signed Titans forward Heather Hansen said. game. Andrea Adams stepped up and The match clincher for the Titans The duo of Goins and Levey mates. a National Letter of Intent to play “We had a lot of energy and enthusiasm went 3-for-3 from the line and made (5-26 overall, 1-17 in Big West) came certainly did their part this season. “It’s going to hurt,” Goins said, volleyball for the Titans. and our defense was good.” two-three pointers in a row to try and in the fifth game of the match. They earned honorable mention in “[Levey’s] my mom. She keeps me The Titans will look to Meister, Hansen scored 20 points and ham- keep the Fullerton in it, but by the end it Zimmerman felt going into game the All-Big West Conference, but grounded and it’s going to be a bum- who is considered the top high mered the boards to get seven rebounds. was too late. five that the team needed to calm the Titans needed the unity of every mer to lose her.” school hitter in Iowa, and those yet Though she had a dominating perfor- With their record 1-2 thus far, CSUF down because they were tightening member to win the match against the The Titans understand the change, to join the team to keep the momen- mance, she maintained a humble attitude has come a long way in developing into up in previous games. Highlanders. but they are emotional about it. tum going for Fullerton into next after the game. the team they are now and want to con- “They just had to realize that no “It was a total group effort,” “It’s sad to see them go,” fresh- season. “I can’t take a victory on my own,” tinue to work hard as a team. one point is more important than the Zimmerman said. “Everybody had man outside hitter Amy Dixon said. “I’m excited for next year,” Hansen said. “Everything was done as “We need to play as hard as we can,” a team and I was successful because of Hansen said. “We need to lay everything Volleyball Finally Ends Losing Streak, Which is a Shock to One ‘Die-hard’ Fan

nCOMMENTARY: As Of course you weren’t there to see Phil Mickelson will win a Major. But I will tell you that it took every this last win, but who was? Of course The Boston Red Sox will win the set allowed in a match for the Titans the Titans put an end it came after 24-straight losses, but World Series. to win. A six-win UC Riverside team who’s counting? Of course, it was the The Memphis Grizzlies would beat took Fullerton to the limit. Riverside to a rough season, last match of the season, which means the Arizona Wildcats. must be the worst volleyball team this the team won’t lose anymore. The Anaheim Mighty Ducks will side of Fullerton Junior High. one person looks back So get naked and run around your sell out a game. Senior setter Kim Levey and soph- and puts it in perspec- dorm in all your dangling greatness! The Cincinnati Bengals will win omore outside hitter Lauren Goins, By Odeen Domingo Drive on the other side of the road! two games. however, continued their solid play Daily Titan Staff Writer Mismatch your socks! The average American will learn and finally got it done. Toss a midget! the rules of soccer. And what about next season? The Neuter your pets! President George W. Bush will team loses Levey and Krista Bebernes, Friday, Nov. 22, 2002. Flip off a nun! complete a sentence without mispro- the team’s second-string setter, to grad- Mark it down. Bite a bat’s head off! nouncing a word. uation. The setter is the quarterback of Just when you thought it would Make like a thug Lakers fan and tip But how, you ask yourself. How a volleyball team. Losing two senior never happen, when you turned and over news vans, jump over fires, break can it be possible? I mean a Cal State setters on a five-win team doesn’t look walked away, when you came, saw store windows, get hit by the National Fullerton volleyball victory? Isn’t that good for the 2003 season. and poked your eyes out with frustra- Guard’s rubber bullets and inhale an oxymoron? But the Titans will get incoming tion. Worry no more, my friend. smoke from the tear gas! Rage against I could tell you it was great passing, freshman Melanie Meister next season, The Cal State Fullerton volleyball the machine! Riot on the streets of timely hitting and a Rally Monkey. considered the best hitter in Iowa. team finally won a match. Fullerton! But that’s old. But Iowa? Iowa’s best sport is hog- Yes, you read that right, you die- Or not. I could tell you it was Destiny and tying, not volleyball. hard Titan fan! They not only won one But what seemed to be the impos- Aura. But they are both off tonight. But let’s not engage into semantics, match set, they won three! Rejoice! sible became possible. Now anything I could tell you it was dominant but dwell in the present. Be free and release the joy you is up for grabs. play and superior women’s volleyball The Titans won! The Titans won! LAURA L. GAGHAN/Daily Titan haven’t felt since Sept. 6 – exactly 72 Anna Kournikova will win an ATP talent. But this is Cal State Fullerton, Somewhere a pig is flying. Senior Krista Bebernes dives to dig a ball in Fullerton’s win over days since the team’s last victory. singles event. not Cal State Long Beach. http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu DailyDaily Titan Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Daily Titan Letters to the Daily Titan . . .

Our Voice MEChA, no protest. the changes at the Daily Titan have been obvi- Culture Clash Now that there is a film out about Frida, ous and successful. I am neither writing to com- of which I will say, is visually stunning but plain or argue. I merely found the irony of the lacks any sort of passion or fire between the placement of the two articles and their timing Shopping Alternatives Online I was a bit frustrated to open up your paper two of them and is not completely historically completely, you guessed it, ironic. to find the article on the Frida Kahlo exhibit correct. Curly suffers from a rare condition known sponsored by MEChA [Nov. 22]. Frustrated Since the film there has been an explosion as neurofibromatosis. His body is replete with The holidays are here, Southern California should because last semester the Theater Department of Frida fans all over the world. That is won- large tumors in his muscle tissue. The tumor in and the malls have reached jump on the Internet band- of this school put up a production of a play derful. She and her husband were brilliant art- his brain, behind his right eye, is only one of capacity faster than an wagon before the 57, 91, called "Rocky and Diego." ists. She painted from her soul and the result several. American Idol audition. 22 and 5 freeways collapse The play dealt with Frida's husband Diego is a thing of sheer beauty. Curly lost effective control of the left side of Are those jingling bells or under the weight of traffic. Rivera, and his struggle with capitalism dur- My question is this. Where was MEChA his body when these tumors applied too much cash registers? We can’t tell The Web has become ing the Rockefeller Center travesty. when Frida was a presence on this campus pressure on his brain and he suffered a stroke. because we can’t get near an easier, more practical One of the main characters in the show last year? Where were they when they were Yet, he is as sharp as anyone could imagine, the shopping centers. source for purchasing holi- was Frida Kahlo. Much of the play centered invited to the performance to activate more cognitively. The major North Orange day goodies, as long as you around her and the tumultuous, yet love-filled Latino involvement in something that is sorely Curly refuses to stop coming to campus County malls received more have a handy credit card at relationship she had with him. lacking in it? spreading his message of love. attention last weekend than your side. The only attention Frida got from MEChA My only choice is to assume that there He doesn't scream. He doesn't shout. He's not Harry Potter. One of the According to a Los at the time was the rumor of a staged walkout was no attention paid to the show because nearly as annoying as those guys passing out only things that received Angeles Times article, of the play because the two people cast as the actors playing them were not of Mexican fliers for "Extra Income" or "Jimmy Joe's Beer minimal interest after ComScore Networks Inc. Rivera and Kahlo were white. I know because descent. Bust." He just quietly sits in his donated, motor- Thanksgiving was Disney’s — a company that tracks I was the man cast as Rivera. While that may only be and assumption, ized wheelchair calling out to any who will stop “Treasure Planet.” online sales — estimat- Upon hearing this I called one of the heads it raises a question as to the integrity of the and afford him time. The holidays are sup- ed that “Internet shop- of the organization on campus and had a dia- organization. The answer to the question in the Nov. 20 posed to be about love, pers spent $195.6 million logue with her about what was really being paper was a definite, "No." family and unity. Instead, on Friday.” This is a 30 protested. In her defense, she told me that she Brian Rickel "No, we do not need God." we find ourselves sitting in percent increase over last had not heard of any such thing and we contin- theater arts student Humanism was the suggested antidote for our traffic-laden parking lots, year’s figures. ued the discussion. I told her the reasons for perils and depravity. Interesting to me, immedi- staring intently at pink bum- More people are switch- the casting, and the main one was that we do ately after reading the aforementioned article, per stickers proclaiming, ing over, so should you? not have a large population of Latinos in our was the thought of a humanist sitting for twenty “Daddy’s Little Princess.” Are you still afraid of a department. A Question of God years at the same corner, spreading a message of If you can even get stuck lack of online security? I will not apologize for my performance or - what would it be? in the parking lot, you are Download a firewall, and for the performance given by the incredibly Curly would say he needs God. And I'll stand considered lucky. deck the halls. talented actress who played Kahlo. On Tuesday, Nov. 19, the feature article with Curly. Or so I thought. The majority of people in We took the challenge given to us, and of the Daily Titan discussed Curly Dalke. Just as I began to feel smug and justified in through months of research and dialect work, Curly got a front page spread, was called an my righteous indignation, I realized I would gave performances filled with truth, fire and icon and had a big photo with the president of never sit there as Curly has these twenty years. integrity. the university. Absorbing insult and indifference, his message I invited MEChA to come to the show and On Wednesday, Nov. 20, there was an has never waivered and to me he is truly a hero. Daily Titan stay for a dialogue between them and the cast intriguing question posed to the readers of the But that's not for me. I am far too talented, too and director after the show. The purpose was Daily Titan on the front page, left hand col- good looking, too ambitious. Too ... humanis- to possibly increase awareness in the school umn [teasers]. "Do we need God?" tic. Op/Ed to get more ethnic blood into the theater Just ironic. Made me chuckle. A little. department. The result of the discussion? No I think the student body would agree that Joel Traywick

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