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Online Online Helping Hands Men’s Soccer DailyTitan Local charities bring smiles to Titans lose 2-1 against Cal State www.dailytitan.comOnline their communities INTROSPECT, p. 6 Northridge SPORTS, p. 12 Since 1960 Thursday Volume 83, Issue 20 October 5, 2006 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton Rally Against Hate TALKING ABOUT HATE - LGBA member Grace Tuan (left) shares her story of an incident in which she was being “pushed around” at a mall in Arcadia because of her appearance and apparent sexual prefer- rence. Standing beside her for moral support is club president Natasha Negrete. BY SUZANNE SULLIVAN/For the Daily Titan Messages For Peace BY PAOLO ANDRES of stereotypes, prejudice and hate to Daily Titan Staff Writer Student Accounts Of others.” [email protected] The event also allowed students Becoming Hate Victims and other participants to voice their al State Fullerton students experience with hate and bigotry. rallied together on Wednes- BY JULIANNA CRISALLI The rally is rooted in an alleged day in a move towards Daily Titan Staff Writer hate crime on Aug. 9. A CSUF stu- [email protected] Cawareness of hate and prejudice. dent allegedly attacked two young women, including another CSUF A coalition of 15 student clubs, On her first day at Cal State student, for looking like lesbians, ac- ASI and the Inter-Fraternity Coun- Fullerton, Eva Magdaleno’s cording to police reports. cil organized the Rally Against Hate teacher asked the class to share When members of CSUF’s Les- in the Quad as a response to an al- some information about their bian Gay Bisexual Alliance heard of leged hate crime that occurred in- lives. After doing so, students the attack through the OC Weekly, volving CSUF students. called Magdaleno a “white- they met with Associated Students “The primary message is that we washed Mexican,” a whore Inc. in order to raise awareness of all need to educate ourselves about for being a single mother and hate crimes. what is happening in our communi- laughed at her because of her ties around hate crimes, and we all Forming a coalition with other organizations, the LGBA set out to need to take a step to combat it,” SEE HATE - PAGE 4 said Yen Ling Shek, coordinator of create an occasion where crimes of the Multicultural Leadership Cen- bigotry and hate would be brought ter. “We believe that hate is a pyramid out into the open. The rally featured spoken-word that begins with intolerance, ste- The group approached ASI last artists as well as diversity train- reotypes and prejudice,” said Dave month for $1,556 in funding. ing conducted by Orange County Southern, senior human relations ASI unanimously granted funding BY KEVIN RoGERS/Daily Titan Photo Editor Human Relations, an organiza- trainer specialist. “The activity that for a total of $930 with any unused SONG OF HOPE - Jade Ross, 23, is a spoken word artist who is singing from passages in her journal against hate tion committed to combating hate we did was to open student’s eyes to and prejudice on Wednesday at the Rally Against Hate in the Quad. crimes. how easily we fall into the patterns SEE RALLY - PAGE 4 OC Resident at Forefront of Sneaker Collecting Industry Market commanding Hughes realized there had to be a called h8rkix.com. better way to get shoes, or kicks as “It’s a hobby and business,” Yang high prices for new, rare they’re known in the industry. said. “It’s an investment just like any High Prices For and vintage footwear He started thinking about ideas other collectible.” late one night - first thinking of a Vendor Dominic Bell said the Swoosh Sneakers BY BENJAMIN WEINER store - but he soon realized that it shoes are considered a status sym- Daily Titan Copy Editor Nike Air Jordan [email protected] would take too much investment bol. o The first Nike Air Jordan came capital. There is “a lot of hype behind the out in 1985. Each month hundreds of people “I decided on a smaller scale shoes,” Bell said. “People see stuff o They had a retail value of come together at Bar 330 in Brea to and that’s when I came up with they like and they want to have it, so $100. buy, sell and trade Michael Jordan’s DUNKXCHANGE,” he said. they copy it and bandwagon.” o Today they sell for $7,000. and LeBron James. But it’s not the Hughes event has a similar setup The idea that the shoes can be a sports cards of your childhood that to most sports cards shows, featuring status symbol is seen in the individu- Most expensive shoe they’re wheeling and dealing – it’s vendor tables and allowing patrons ality of each pair of shoes. o The Nike FLOM (For Love or the shoes. to bring in up to three pairs of shoes “They represent the person wear- Money). The event is called DUNKX- with them to sell or trade. ing them,” said patron Steve Kuy. o Only six made. CHANGE, and it’s the brainchild DUNKXCHANGE became the “You don’t have to worry that any- o Estimated at $9,000. of Orange County resident Gary first ever to do a live trade show with one else is wearing the same shoes.” Hughes. A year and a half ago shoe collectors, or “sneakerheads,” In the year and a half that Hughes Hughes decided to create a live trade Hughes said. has been doing this, the company Most expensive shoe at show after being ripped off on eBay Almost 600 people showed up for has gone from a small operation to DUNKXCHANGE several times. his show last Saturday. one that is now incorporated, spon- o Nike Paris “The sellers weren’t even shipping The patrons at the shows are most- sored and national. o Sell for $2,000 to $3,000. stuff to me,” Hughes said. “I had no ly males in the 13- to 24-year-old Hughes has already brought his choice, I had to go on eBay. There range, said vendor Charles Yang. event from locales in Orange Coun- Most expensive shoe currently wasn’t any other way to get them What started out for Yang as a ty, such as the House of Blues in on eBay at the time and I kept getting fake hobby has grown into a full-fledged Anaheim, to cities such as Las Vegas o Nike Playstation Air Force 1 kicks in the mail.” business. Yang has been dealing in and New York. His 2007 schedule o Listed for $1,800. He said he spent about $1,500 on shoes for a little over a year and now BY DAVID OsboRNE/Daily Titan Internet shoe scams. has an “online sneaker boutique” SEE SHOE - PAGE 5 SOURCE: GARY HUGHES AND EBAY SHOES - Justin Hudson organizes his sneaker collection on Saturday at the DUNKXCHANGE at Bar 330 in downtown Brea. MONDAY NEWS ONLINE www.dailytitan.com WEATHER FENDER FOCUS TITAN LIVE TODAY TOMORROW Fullerton Museum Center showcases Leo Fender’s Check the Daily Titan online for videos, podcasts, Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy musical instrument creations. radio shows and more. High: 74 High: 72 Low: 55 Low: 55 2 October 5, 2006 IN Brief CAMPUS CALENDAR ON THE WIRE Compiled from the Associated Press WORLD zation. She has not adopted a baby with pages, according to ABC News, airport commissioner Leland Wong TODAY despite reports that she has,” Rosen- which first reported them last week. bought sex massages for a top aide Madonna to adopt another child berg told Us Weekly. With the FBI investigating Foley’s of former Mayor James Hahn, in an CSUF jazz performers play the works of Fred Sturm, BLANTYRE, Malawi - Madonna behavior, his defense attorney, Da- effort to secure a city contract for a Thad Jones and George Stone at 8 p.m. in the Meng plans to adopt a child in Malawi, NATIONAL vid Roth, said that the congressman client, newly released court docu- government officials said Wednes- Federal case for Foley would be never had sex or attempted sexual ments allege. Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 to the general public, day, as the pop star arrived in the contact with a minor. Foley, who is Wong, who was allegedly receiving $10 advance purchase for senior citizens and students southern African nation on a mis- difficult, investigators say being treated for alcohol abuse, was bribes from a company seeking a new with a CSUF ID. sion to help AIDS orphans. WASHINGTON - Former Rep. drinking when he had the explicit port contract, paid for the $130 mas- Madonna’s publicist, Liz Rosen- Mark Foley’s online conversations conversations, Roth said. sages to influence then-Deputy May- berg, confirmed that the singer was with teenage male pages have all “Any suggestion that Mark Foley or Troy Edwards, prosecutors said in The theater and dance department presents Anton in Malawi on a private visit and said the trappings of a political scandal, is a pedophile is false,” Roth said documents unsealed Tuesday. she had not adopted a baby, although but making a federal case out of the Tuesday at a news conference in Wong, who held commissioner Chekhov’s “The Sea Gull” at 8 p.m. in the Young The- it was not clear if there could still be sexually charged exchanges could West Palm Beach, Fla. posts in three mayoral administra- atre. Performances are scheduled every week on Sunday, plans in the works to do so. prove difficult, veteran investigators tions, was indicted in August on Thursday, Friday and Saturday until Oct.
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