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OPINION: PAGE 6 Getting internships should be SPORTS an easy task, page 4 Titan named MVP in FEATURES: Campus club promotes volleyball tournament student entrepreneurship, page 3 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 4 Wednesday September 5, 2007 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Racing for a cure, Sowing faculty takes a walk CSUF Inside – They have been Dreams, touched by people who have bat- tled breast cancer and they want to attack the disease that affects more than 1.2 million people Cultivating worldwide. Five faculty members and an undergraduate student are lac- ing up their running shoes and Lives participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, a two-day, 39- mile trek through Los Angeles, to raise money for a cure for breast cancer. For more information, visit www.avonwalk.org. ‘Cat burglar’ stole $20,000 from mom NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) – A man has been charged with extorting more than $20,000 from his elderly mother by repeatedly threatening to kid- nap her beloved cat and demand- ing ransom, police said. Garry Lamar, 47, was arrested Friday and released on $200 bail. He has been ordered to stay away from his 78-year-old mother, Mary Lamar Grancher. He started threatening to kid- nap his the cat just over a year Photos by Julianna Crisalli / Daily Titan Managing Editor ago, after his mother kicked him out of her home, accusing him of abuse, North Kingstown Police Sgt. Daniel Ormond said. “This isn’t just a family cat,” O.C. exhibit showcases the lives of Japanese Americans prior to World War II Ormond said. “She actually called BY SARAH MOSQueda artifacts and staged areas fleshed out kids about farming. There is also a assembled in Los Angeles and is exhibit from the gardens of the Ar- this cat her companion since she Daily Titan Staff Writer the others.” small simulated farm stand. suspended by the rusted chains of boretum. lived alone.” [email protected] The exhibit begins with a sec- “The stand has small details that a former celery farm. The moving “It’s very interesting,” Gipson Lamar allegedly kidnapped the tion titled “Journeying to a New I hope visitors will catch, including black and white prints were created said. “I had no clue about all the his- cat once and made threats on an Anaheim resident Tilly Gipson Land,” which chronicles Japanese the receipt book from a local Japa- in New York. The prints show Japa- tory behind this.” almost weekly basis. had no idea so many Japanese Amer- immigrants’ difficult entry into the nese American farm,” George said. nese farmers posed for pictures with “Uprooting Lives” is the final icans lived in Orange County prior United States. “And, yes, those are real dirt fur- neat and straight rows of sugar beets segment of the exhibit, ending the to World War II. She marvels at the “I hope that people walk away rows!” extended behind them. They have timeline at a tense period in his- Our chemistry is actually re- photos on the wall of the museum at with a sense of how hard the Japa- This area also features the high- the grimace of the overworked and tory when many Japanese Ameri- ally good right now. We’re passing the Fullerton Arboretum. nese worked and how bad they light of the exhibit. Stretching up 7 poorly paid, but their eyes are bright cans were forced to vacate the area. well. When we get a good pass, “Where did they all go?” Gipson wanted to become Americans,” said feet and reaching across 10 feet is a and hopeful and teach the lesson U.S. involvement in World War II “ “ we get a good set, we kill the ball. said. Gregory Dyment, director of the Dyment hopes visitors will learn. resulted in drastic consequences for – Erin Saddler, on CSUF’s That is one of the questions the Fullerton Arboretum. “They loved “By working hard, being fair and Nikkei farmers. volleyball team’s win. Orange County Agricultural and this new land and the people who I hope visitors honest and believing, dreams can Vintage posters asking Japanese See Sports, page 6 Nikkei Heritage Museum hopes to where already here and they wanted will take the time to come true,” Dyment said. Americans to report for “evacua- answer with its exhibit, “Sowing to be part of that.” “ The piece is made possible by sec- tion” can be found in this portion Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei The exhibit discusses how many see the entire exhibit ond-generation Japanese American of the exhibit. Many lost their prop- Farmers in Pre-World War II Orange Japanese immigrants worked on rail- donor and dentist Ernest Nagamat- erty and businesses and just as many YOUTUBE: Miss Teen County.” The exhibit, running Sept. roads before the agricultural boom, from start to finish. “ su. would return to Orange County to 8 through Dec. 16 at the Fullerton and features period photographs of – Gregory Dyment, Nagamatsu can trace his bloodline begin again years later. South Carolin-duh... Arboretum, showcases the plight of families and original passports. Fullerton Arboretum back to a pioneering Orange County “Sowing Dreams” takes a close Japanese farmers in Orange County The exhibit then moves on to family. look at an unseen, rarely discussed until World War II, when many were “Forming Families,” which accounts The prints are arranged in a hap- plight of Japanese Americans in Or- forced into internment camps in the the seamless conjoining of tradi- hazard collage fashion and finished ange County. spring of 1942. tional Japanese values with a new life mixed-media piece created by artist with a wax sealing. Collectively, they “I hope visitors will take the time Stephanie George, of the univer- as a farmer; a life that men, women Mike Saijo. form a tangible tapestry of Nikkei to see the entire exhibit from start to sity’s Center for Oral and Public and children all adopted. A white, The 32-year-old New York-based dreams. finish,” Dyment said. “That really is History and director of the exhibit’s 1930s-style kitchen tucked in a artist and museum curator’s work The next section, “Building Com- the only way one can see and appre- content, chose to use photographs cozy corner of the museum displays has been featured in the New York munities,” contains class pictures ciate ‘Sowing Dreams and Cultivat- a period radio and brand names of Times and LA Weekly. Saijo, whose from the Japanese-language schools ing Lives.’” The Miss Teen America hope- and orally-based accounts to tell the the day around a dinner of steamed media can also be found on You- that sprang up in the community. The Fullerton Arboretum is open fully gives her painful and much story of the Nikkei farmers and their buns on a table set for two, giving Tube.com, created the piece exclu- Political and social groups, as well as Saturday and Sunday from noon to talked about answer to why many struggle to build families, communi- visitors an idea of what a meal was sively for “Sowing Dreams” using churches, were also established. 4.p.m and by appointment during Americans cannot find the U.S. ties and lives in America. like for Japanese immigrants. photographs and writings from Or- “They even had a baseball team!” the week. Dyment looks forward to on a map. She struggles through “Most of the photographs, held “Farming Fields” focuses on the ange County’s Japanese American Fullerton resident, Gayla Landrum, seeing students there. what, in her mind, is a complex by the Center for Oral and Public cultivation of sugar beets and chil- community magazine, Echo, which remarked about a photograph of a “I hope the university community answer by referencing “U.S, History’s Japanese American Oral ies and also includes an interactive was published prior to World War rag tag team. Landrum and Gipson takes the time to go through the ex- Americans” and “the Iraq.” It’s History Project, supported the stor- children’s area designed to educate II. The piece’s wooden frame was wandered into the “Sowing Dreams” hibit before it closes,” Dyment said. actually uncomfortable to watch yline,” George said, “while borrowed this poor girl “uh” and “um” her way through as she makes a sad and desperate plea to sound vaguely intelligent. Duration: 0:48 First senate meeting of the 2007-2008 year outlines priorities BY JADE LEHAR them current. faculty, advising on academic policy; them to [University Policy Statement] viction of a felony currently carries WEATHER Daily Titan Staff Writer “Anyone can recommend ideas we are a [voice for the people].” 210. Many people are interested in penalties of imprisonment for a mini- [email protected] for University Policy Statements and Buck also spoke about the ways in 210, and it’s really good for most peo- mum of one year and a maximum of bring it to the committee, and we will which the Senate can improve itself. ple to be aware of this policy.” 10 years for the first offense.” TOMorrow The Cal State Fullerton Academic try to act upon those suggestions,” “The communication with the University Policy Statement 210 Guerin reiterated why she felt that TODAY Senate held its first meeting of the fall Guerin said. faculty could probably be better ... addresses such issues as faculty tenure, students should be aware of the Aca- semester last Thursday to give an ori- The Senate, according to Guerin, our socialization could be better. We promotion and evaluation. demic Senate. entation of what they expect for the “provides the official voice of the uni- could ask better questions and do our The Academic Senate is hoping to “The Senate is the voice, we can upcoming school year.