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WWW.DAILYTITAN.Com June 12, 2007 VOLUME 4, No. 5 $1.5 Mil in grants formed New scholarship for transfer students is paid for by CSUs and Edison BY RICHARD CONLYN Summer Titan Staff Writer [email protected] Cal State Fullerton and four other Titans will CSU institutions joined together with Southern California Edison. The group will form a $1.5 million scholarship fund for transfer students from community colleges. All five colleges said they will pool go to Omaha money to match Edison’s annual $150,000 contribution for a total of $300,000 a year for the next five years. Men’s baseball is bound The Bruins finished with a record of This will make the total fund $1.5 33-28 and watched the Titans celebrate million. for College World Series their World Series-qualifying win. The money will go to community after winning Saturday There were many key plays in the college transfer students who qualify for game that lived up to the drama of a low-income status. playoff game. They must be majoring in a STEM BY ERIC SIFUENTes Junior Matt Wallach drove home the concentration – a science, technology, Summer Titan Staff Writer game-winning run with an RBI single [email protected] engineering or math degree. in the seventh inning, a lead that would The scholarships will be offered for stay with the help of relievers Adam Jor- With the series win against UCLA, the first time in the fall. genson and Bryan Harris. Community college students who the Titans punched in their ticket to On the defensive side, third baseman Omaha and the College World Series. are transferring into any one of the five Evan McArthur made a spectacular play schools will be eligible. In front of 3,442 fans at Goodwin that saved the lead for the Titans. Field, CSUF pulled off a dramatic 2-1 PHOTOS BY MATT BROWN Both Fullerton campuses, CSU San With one out in the ninth inning PLAY BALL - Above, Cal State Fullerton’s pitcher Jeff Kaplan throws to Bernardino, CSU Domingo hills, CSU victory over the Bruins that ended their and a runner on third, McArthur got a season. UCLA’s Jermanie Curtis in the first inning of Saturday’s game. Channel Islands and CSU Los Angeles ground ball and spun around to throw will host the scholarship fund. This will be the 15th trip to the dance out Justin Uribe at home with an assist for the Titans, who have a record of 38- Left above, the Titans celebrate after winning Saturday’s game 2-1 and win- 23 overall with momentum heading ning the Super Regionals. The team is headed to the College World Series in into Omaha. SEE OMAHA - PAGE 4 Omaha next week. SEE SCHOLARSHIP - PAGE 4 Cal State Fullerton linguistics professor dies at age 63 Alan Kaye specialized in “He loved to speak to people in their most knowledgeable about Hebraism Kaye was the chair of the linguistics throughout the years. native languages,” Kaye’s son, Jeremy – even the teachers would come to him department for several years and he sat “I remember being excited that my Arabic and traveled all Kaye, said. for information,” Klammer said. on the library committee. dad was traveling, and he would be He enjoyed going to difficult-to-ac- He visited 100 different countries “I attended a lecture by Professor gone sometimes as long as six months. over the world to study cess parts of the world and recording and lectured in 75 of them. Kaye pub- Kaye back in 1995 in Cairo and I have He would send home African Art and I different languages. lished nearly 20 books, 100 articles and fallen in love with his mind. He was so remember thinking ‘what is this?’” Jer- BY RICHARD CONLYN “Cal State Fullerton will not be the 450 notes. kind and so humane and so respectful,” emy said. Summer Titan Staff Writer same without Alan, and the field of “He wrote countless reviews of schol- said Bahaa-Eddin M. Mazid, assistant Jeremy received his bachelor’s degree [email protected] linguistics will not replace him. Alan arly books, and he was very good at it professor of linguistics at the United in English from CSUF and is currently studied many aspects of linguistics and because he was an expert at linguistics,” Arab Emirates University. “The time he finishing up his doctorate in English lit- Christopher Morley, an American many different languages, but his real said Robert Angus, professor of English spent here in the United Arab Emirates erature. journalist, once said, “There is only one specialty was the peripheral dialects of and comparative literature. was loved by everyone. “I feel like I am following in his foot- success – to be able to spend your life in Arabic,” said Thomas P. Klammer, dean He also received two Fulbright Schol- “I was brave enough, encouraged by steps in the academic life,” Kaye said. your own way.” of the college of humanities and social ar awards, a distinguished Faculty Award how kind he was, to ask him to coau- Here is an excerpt of a poem that Alan Kaye did just that. He lived a sciences. and was an editor for several monograph thor a book, ‘Politics of Translation,’ Jeremy wrote about his dad, called “A life that was full of notable accomplish- Kaye was a CSUF professor of Eng- series publications. with me. He read my draft and made Trip.” ments and raised a family. lish and comparative literature and lin- Kaye was considered to be an expert substantial comments. Yet, he refused “Countless people, young and old Kaye, a CSUF professor, passed away guistics. in Arabian communications. After Sept. to put his name on a book he regard- stood in line to meet you. You spoke May 31. He was 63. He was fluent in 15 different languag- 11, he was asked by the State Depart- ed as entirely mine, although I would calmly, elegantly. I stood in the periph- When Kaye was just 16 years old he es and used his abilities to communicate ment to help investigate the attacks. have been honored if he accepted,” he ery, admiring.” learned the entire Arabic language. He and educate people all over the World. “He believed in the goodness of added. Kaye is survived by his son, Jeremy; was inspired by the movie Lawrence of “When Allan was at UCLA, he was people and in the innocence of traveling Jeremy said he and his father were daughter, Jennifer; and sister, Carol Mo- Arabia to lead his life’s path. 19-years-old and considered to be the and exploring,” Jeremy said. close and shared many memories shos. TODAY THURSDAY STUCK TO A WINDSHIELD RELICS WITHOUT A SAINT IS HOOKAH SAFE? See what the campus is doing about those Artist Jeffrey Vallance’s art is showcased at Some say the trendy smoke is safer than annoying fliers plastered to cars CSUF’s Grand Central Art Center cigarettes, but experts aren’t so sure 2 WWW.DAILYTITAN.COM NEWS JUNE 12, 2007 WEATheR CALenDAR 5-DAY FORECAST END OF THE LINE JUNE 12 - JUNE 17 TODAY Partly Cloudy / High: 80, Low: 61 TUESDAY: Food Safety and You, from 10 to 11 a.m.: Informative workshop WEDNESDAY designed to teach the basics of proper Sunny / High: 83, Low: 64 food safety. Located at College Park. THURSDAY Free Billiards, from 3 to 7 p.m.: Sunny / High: 82, Low: 63 Offered to all CSUF students with valid Titan Card. Located at the Titan FRIDAY Student Union. Sunny / High: 77, Low: 61 SATURDAY THURSDAY: CalPers/Financial Sunny / High: 77, Low: 59 Finesse – Personal Financial Basics, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Workshop provides financial advice for those seek- ing financial independence or looking to get out of debt. Located at College 46..&3 Park. Fullerton Market, from 4 to 8:30 p.m.: 5*5"/ Features of the market will include farm-fresh produce, craft booths, live entertainment and an adult beer gar- Main Line: 714.278.3373 den. Admission is free. EDITO R IAL Fax: 714.278.4473 Free “Glow Bowling”, from 3 to 7 [email protected] p.m.: “Glow” bowling free with valid Titan Card. Shoe rental is $2.50. Lo- Executive Editor cated at the Titan Student Union. Joe Simmons [email protected] FRIDAY: Staying safe at CSUF, from JUBILee HAGER / For the Summer Titan 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Workshop includes News Editor discussions of the Virginia Tech shoot- Julianna Crisalli Sitting on the right hand side of the train tracks in the Orange Circle, Sterling, 15, stares off into the ings, emergency preparedness and [email protected] distance, down the seemingly neverending parallel lines. CSUF’s Campus Watch. Located at the Assistant News Editor Titan Student Union, Pavillion A. Johnathan Kroncke [email protected] Photo Editor Cindy Cafferty NEWS IN BRIEF [email protected] LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL, WORLD Compiled from the Associated Press Internet Editor Ian Hamilton [email protected] Deportation of mentally disabled The free program is the latest move tence for consensual teen sex “a grave JFK bombing suspects denied bail American leaves family outraged by Apple to expand its reach beyond its miscarriage of justice.” PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A Faculty Adviser LOS ANGELES (AP) - The family Macintosh computers and, at the same Wilson has served more than two judge denied bail Monday for three sus- Tom Clanin of a mentally disabled man who was time, attract new converts to its prod- years for aggravated child molestation.