THE SINCE 1975 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD One copy per person of each edition is Vol. 34, No. 4 www.csub.edu/runner FREE free. Additional copies 50 cents each. October 15, 2008 Students honored at the Dr. Proposition 8 proves to be a sensitive topic Ernest W. Williams Jr. By Perla Madrid Scholarship Fund Awards Dinner Staff Writer By Celia Kelly Tension was in the air last Staff Writer Thursday night in Cal State Bakersfield’s Multipurpose Many prominent community individuals, CSUB fac- Room, which was at its max- ulty and students convened on Saturday night to imum capacity due to a fiery acknowledge this year’s recipients of the Dr. Ernest W. and emotional debate on Williams Jr. scholarship. The scholarship awarded Proposition 8. Multitudes of $25,000 worth students and community of scholarships members entirely congested to noteworthy all entrances into the facility, CSUB students. while many others stood In 1986, the along the wall or took a seat Dr. Ernest W. on the room’s tile floor. Proposition 8 seeks to Williams Jr. amend the California Scholarship Constitution to state that Fund was only marriage between a established by man and a woman is valid or concerned Perla Madrid/The Runner recognized in California, and There was a packed house watching the heated Prop 8 debate. CSUB faculty will appear in California’s and staff to November 2008 ballot. marriage would never be union of one man, one CSUB psychology professor assist African Panelists included Marylee enough. woman, a husband and a Dr. Duran who stated she was a straight woman, mar- American and Shrider and Ken Mettler Shrider concluded her argu- wife ... how do I tell God ried to a man and an oppo- other students defending traditional mar- ment by saying, “Man and he’s wrong?” Shrider’s marriage are creations of question was followed by nent of the proposition. achieve a riage, and Dr. Anne Duran Duran argued, “if marriage is and Whitney Weddell God, some of us know that, sudden laughter that quickly dream they may for procreation, then what defending same-sex couples’ with our hearts and minds filled the room. not otherwise we really should do, logical- right to marry. and souls, some of us know it As the night progressed, attain without ly, is test people’s fertility Columnist, Shrider, referred innately, which is why his issues of artificial insemina- financial assis- when they get their marriage to the legislative attempt as creation, his approval and his tion, the definition of mar- tance. In 1988, certificate.” an “If you give a mouse a affirmation is now so desper- riage and religious persecu- the first schol- Kern High school District cookie,” proposition, and ately sought. Through his tion arose. arship was trustee, Mettler, said it was stated that simply redefining word, God makes it clear his Opposing Proposition 8 was awarded to design for marriage, its the [Continued on Page 2] Jesse Beed and Leticia Martin Isaiah Morfin blows audience away CSUB in the amount By Oscar what they have of $250. Now, Lozoya witnessed and awarded 20 years later, Staff Writer heard tonight. each recipient Claps and cheers $10.4 million of the award The young man then erupt as the received starts to play, it’s confident per- grant for Celia Kelly/The Runner $1,000, an as if he has trans- former morphs Dr. Jackson speaking at the Dr. amount that is formed into back to a humble child health Ernest W. Williams Jr. Scholarship matched by another person. young man, Fund Awards Dinner. President The reverbera- walking off stage study Mitchell’s tion coming from his shirt once By Nicole Schorr President Scholarship Matching Fund, to total each his saxophone again begins to Staff Writer individual receiving a $2,000 award. silences the drown his body. “Over the course of the 22 years we have awarded mixed age This was the Cal State Bakersfield had an exciting start to the new somewhere between $240,000 and $245,000,” said Mr. crowd. When he scene as Isaiah school year. In August they Charles Craig, a long time committee member of the stops playing, his Morfin closed photo courtesy of bakersfield.com were awarded a $10.4 mil- scholarship fund. shirt drowns his Isaiah Morfin playing his saxophone. his last set at the slender body, but CSUB Jazz lion grant for a national As those who are receiving the scholarship are an when he starts, he is filled heads, penetrating deeper Coffeehouse event Saturday child health study. CSUB important part of this project so is that who gives the with so much confidence his and deeper with every note. night. These venues are put will be partnering with scholarship its namesake. Dr. Ernest W. Williams Jr. shirt looks as if it was cus- The boy finishes his set and on twice a quarter by the University of California, was born on July 17, 1912 in Thomasville, Georgia. He tom tailored. Tears escape the crowd is in awe. They CSUB music department pri- Berkeley, University of attended Meharry Medical College and earned a medical from faces in the audience as are hesitant to clap, knowing marily to showcase local tal- California, Irvine, and degree in 1941. In 1945 Dr. Williams arrived with his memories rekindled from the that just a simple applause ent. The proceeds from this University of Chicago’s [Continued on Page 5] song pass through their would not truly compliment [Continued on Page 4] National Opinion Research Center. The grant is a giant step for Economic crisis trickles down to CSUB students CSUB, a step they have been By Hillary Haenes waiting to take for more than Staff Writer a year. The partnership began For the last 60 years we have been the when CSUB President largest and leading economy in the Horace Mitchell was con- world, but after this economic crisis is tacted about the study by a over, the status of the United States in former colleague, Jim the world financial system may change, Swanson, who is the princi- according to Professor of Economics pal investigator of the study. and Department Chair, Dr. Don Without any hesitation, Oswald. President Mitchell agreed. “I think one or both of these two pres- “There was no question that idential candidates should look the pub- we wanted to contribute to photo courtesy of proelite.com lic in the eye and tell them, given these the effort,” said President Mitchell at a national news Inside the Runner circumstances, there is no way I can give you the things I am promising you. conference. Kimbo Slice loses big! There is going to be no money. I don’t The first step was given to Read all about it, Page 8 see how McCain can cut taxes or how Interim Assistant Vice Obama can get universal health care,” President of Grants and Graph courtesy of Mark Martinez Volkslauf said Dr. Oswald. Research, Dr. Bob Horton. America’s national debt in trillions of dollars from 1970 to 2008 Read about the dirtiest annual Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, He joined the CSUB less event in Bakersfield. Page 4 the U.S. economy has experienced its Congress and the Federal Reserve. rules. You say one piece of candy a day than a year ago and the first ups and downs - known as the business “Regulation is not the enemy of the and if there is not enough, you’ve got to item on his to-do-list was to Sports cycle. Some of the factors that set the market. Regulation helps markets work share it,” explained Political Science make the grant proposal hap- Read about Kimbo Slice and stage for the down spiral of our econo- ... It is like if you threw candy out to a Professor Dr. Mark Martinez. pen. After a failed attempt, the Fall BBQ. Page 6 my were: deregulation, a culture of debt pile of kids and said, ‘have at it.’ You Deregulation really took off after 1982 Horton and his team had to and a combination of mistakes made by can’t do that. You have got to have [Continued on Page 5] [Continued on Page 2] 2 News October 15, 2008 THE RUNNER CSUB awarded Volume XXXIV, Issue 4 The Runner California State University, Bakersfield $10.4 million grant 9001 Stockdale Hwy. Bakersfield, California 93311-1099 Telephone 661.654.2165 Fax 661.654.6905 for Child Health E-mail [email protected] editorialstaff Studies EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Phillip Barnett [cont. from Page1] County. The researchers will [email protected] randomly monitor the chil- MANAGING EDITOR Juan Torres go back to the drawing board dren from before birth until [email protected] and rework the grant propos- they are 21. The key focus in Perla Madrid/Runner al. In April of this year, the the study is to take the data Audience members line up to ask questions of the panelists. NEWS EDITOR Ellen Piris second draft, of 500 pages and develop treatments and [email protected] was sent in and just four prevent techniques to health ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Debate on Prop. 8 months later they were noti- issues. Ashley Sizemore [cont. from Page 1] they don’t agree with. with her mind made fied that they had received The impact this will have on [email protected] This is about civil mar- up, and when asked if the grant. the community and the cam- The National Children’s pus is immense. It’s a big FEATURES EDITOR Emily Shapiro as simple “as ABC: A riage ..