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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON DailyDaily http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu Volume 75, Issue 34 THURSDAY November 7, 2002 Addition to DT Muslims Usher in Ramadan Enhance Children’s Facilities By Deanna Lucci Daily Titan Staff Writer NEWS: A creative and The Cal State Fullerton Children’s playful atmosphere can Center will soon be welcoming a much- needed addition to its facility. A new be found on room will be added on to allow more children to receive daycare at the center. campus at the CSUF Children’s Center Director Betsy Gibbs reported the news to the Associated animation “Head and Students, Inc. Board Hands” class of Directors meeting Tuesday. The univer- sity allocated $150,000 for the design and con- Please see page 4 struction of the addi- tion, and the room will be finished before the start of the spring semester at the earliest, she said. This addition will make room for 20 more children to be integrated into the Children’s Center program. Gibbs said the new room will also be a place where children of different ages can learn together. “This allows us to have a multi-age classroom [where the children] can learn from each other in a multi-age setting,” she said. “Parents will have a choice where students can be placed.” The Children’s Center is partially Detour: The “Truth funded by ASI and currently cares for About Charlie” is that LISSETTE LEBRILLA/Daily Titan 174 children, mostly children of CSUF Yusef Estes, the National Muslim Chaplain, delivers a lecture on Islam to the campus community. students. Because of the limited space at the center, there are usually 20 to 30 nobody really knows student mothers who want to enroll their what is going on. children, and the number on the list is Group Addresses Muslim Perspective rising, Gibbs said. Experience two pages “The waiting list is growing,” she said. “The new classroom will accom- of Detour goodness n Awareness and Associated are about because these religions then you are going to automati- modate more students.” EVENTS: Muslim Students Inc. cospon- closely relate to one cally assume that it’s an act of ter- This new addition is the first step in chaplain lectured on sored the event, another. rorism; at the same time, you have a larger effort to improve the Children’s Please see pages 5&6 which drew the He said Islam to ask why they are attacking. Center facility. In 1996, CSUF students Islam during event large crowd consist- doesn’t only mean “As a Muslim, I pray for all passed a referendum which raised tuition “We know $10 to go toward building a brand celebrating the ing of non-Muslims peace, but also sur- people in the world,’’ Estes said, to Muslim students that Saddam render, submission, concluding the lecture. new, much larger center on campus. Muslim culture and faculty. obedience and purity. Eihsan Khalife, president of Approximately $8 of that $10 goes into Islam students ini- Hussein is a “The very things the organization, said they orga- a savings program for the new center and By Mayu Ogura tiated the event with Islam teaches are to nized the event to inform the cam- $2 goes to current operation funds. The prayer, which is per- fight oppression and pus about Islam beliefs from the center is currently located on the edge Daily Titan Staff Writer bad leader, formed by Muslims terrorism, even if it Muslim perspective. of parking Lot A in temporary buildings five times a day but most means you are giving Khalife said members in the that date back to the 1960s. The Muslim Student Association toward the direction up your lives,” Estes organization, which has over 100 The ASI Board of Directors approved organized a two-day event, entitled of Mecca, and fol- people that said. members and has been an active plans for an advisory committee for the “Discover Islam,” to educate the lowed it with a reci- “Islam forbids club for many years, meet twice a Children’s Center facility at the meet- campus community about Islam tation. suffer from suicide,” Estes said, week and also gather to pray five ing Tuesday. The committee will be during the beginning of Ramadan. Estes, a lecturer “Anybody takes their times a day in their room, which is made up of 16 people, eight of which The Muslim month-long fast of who converted from the war are own lives without located in the TSU. are students. It will be responsible for Ramadan began Wednesday. Christianity to Islam, any purpose, they go The members comprise diverse reviewing and recommending changes SPORTS: The Titan Ice According to Omar Musallet, gave a general over- going to be to the hell forever. ethnicities including Middle to the current building, planning for the Hockey Club is look- a member of the organization, view of the religion Additionally, Islam Eastern, Korean, Vietnamese, new facility and helping to clarify the Ramadan is the month on the including the foun- innocent forbids any killing of British, American and black facility’s relationship to campus depart- ing to make a name for Islamic lunar calendar during dation of Islamic innocent soul.” Muslims. ments, according to ASI President Alex which Muslims abstain from food, beliefs. He then talk- civilians” Estes said that the Khalife said there have been Lopez’s proposal to the board. themselves with their drink and other sensual pleasures ed about terrorism. things people may hear some hate crimes against Muslims ASI Executive Director Harvey from sunrise to sunset. Islam, Judaism or read about Islam off campus after Sept. 11; how- McKee expressed his excitement about talent rather than with At one of the events, Yusuf and Christianity all Yusef Estes, through the media or ever, none have taken place on the plans for a new Children’s Center Estes, National Muslim Chaplain National Muslim believe in one God, Chaplain for a certain religion have campus. and pointed out the effect it will have on dirty tricks and muscles for American Muslims, lectured he said. Therefore, a certain amount of “On campus people are usually recruiting new faculty. on “Islam and Terrorism” Tuesday people should pay bias or prejudice in more intelligent,” Khalife said. “This will make it easier to recruit new at the Titan Student Union. The attention to what it. Estes said when “And they know that some indi- faculty who have children,” he said. Muslim Students Association, the other religions people attack you, He said that with high California Association of Inter-Cultural LECTURE/ 8 Please see page 10 ASI/ 3 TITAN e x t r a s Titan Online Rehab Hopes to Improve Connections n last semester with students log- “But the way they register doesn’t online, Blackburn said. online REGISTRATION: ging on for information that was make a difference to us.” “Registration is our top prior- only available on the site. The first registration window ity,” he said. 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By Lissette Lebrilla The new student portal has will have prepaid for their classes “We are concerned about Use the student portal to find your helped to keep those lingering already. what people are going to do in New features and Daily Titan Staff Writer grade reports and detailed study list. students off Titan Online. Registration for the spring will January,” Bednar said. “Are we sections will be Students are able to personalize have more windows for a smaller communicating to them?” available this year! As the spring semester their student portal to access infor- number of students. Blackburn The important thing that IT Do not request a Degree Audit Report approaches, so does registration. mation, including class schedules, also said that they received more wants students to know is what is during heavy registration periods. The Whether it is through Titan grade reports and other campus memory for the mainframe com- happening around them. Bednar process of creating a report slows down upcoming Online or over the phone, many services. puter. said students come to Cal State TITAN Online. students have found the registra- With the convenience of the “The problem is when people Fullerton because it fits their tion process frustrating. student portal, students will not call at the beginning and the end lives. n What will the regula- If you are having trouble accessing Some of that aggravation comes use Titan Online as much and will of their window,” Blackburn said. “Students here don’t get the tions be for students from the busy traffic on the phone TITAN Online, use telephone registration free up space for students that “No one seems to call in the convenience of a full-time col- [(714) 278-7902]. adding classes this and online.