Musink 2010 Invades OC

Vol. 87 Issue 12 February 25, 2010 Baseball prepares for TCU after 1-2 start Hopes are still high as the Titans return to Goodwin Field for another three-game weekend against a highly-ranked opponent. SPORTS, Page 8 Can the USA Olympic THURSDAY hockey team pull off another ‘Miracle on Ice?’ OPINION, Page 4 Hispanic CSUF student is the leader of Mandarin club NEWS, Page 3 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Musink 2010 invades OC Wrestling ready Third annual tattoo and music festival blends body modification and punk rock for a three-day event in Costa Mesa for Pac-10 championships PHoTo CoURTESY TiTan Media RelaTions Junior wrestler Adin Duenas grapples with his opponent. Duenas placed third in the Pac-10 championships last season. BY NICHOLAS FORTES Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected] The Cal State Fullerton wrestling team (2-9-1, 0-6-1 Pac-10) will travel to UC Davis this weekend to take part in the annual Pac-10 Conference Championship on Friday and Saturday. The Pac-10 will determine who goes to the NCAA Wrestling Championships. The Titans will be competing in an individual match tournament against No. 12 Boise State, No. 15 Oregon State, No. 16 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and un-ranked Cal State Bakersfield, Stanford, Arizona State and host UC Davis. PHOTO BY SHRUTI PATEL/For the Daily Titan It will feature 25 wrestlers ranked in the top-20 of Johnny 2/3 of Yer Cheat’N Heart Tattoo in Gardena, Calif., one of over 300 artists from around the world at Musink, puts needle to skin as he creates a freehand traditional tribute piece. their respective weight classes, according to InterMat Div. I college rankings. BY DONALD C. STEFANOVICH Johnny did inside the hangar-turned- slingers worked to a soundtrack provided first made a name for himself as a profes- Daily Titan News Editor convention-hall would certainly be the by the likes of punk bands spanning three sional skateboarder and has fronted the [email protected] most meaningful so decades. hardcore outfits, Mike V. and the Rats See WRESTLER, Page 8 far. The initials of Friday night and Revolution Mother. After hosting Searing. Stabbing. The white-hot cen- loved ones lost were MULTIMEDIA saw a slow start as an all-star skate-jam on the mini-ramp, ter of pain becomes a focal point as your inscribed as part of To see Daily Titan News Editor crowds trickled he lead his latest, By the Sword, in as- brain struggles for distraction. After a a traditional piece Don Stefanovich get inked go to in and ’80s post- saulting audiences with an array of Black while, you’re no longer sure if the inces- – the kind Johnny punk legends Flag and Minor Threat covers, a concept Huntington Beach sant droning in your head is the hum of is famous for. The The Cult took he said was originally for Rev Mom and the tattoo machine puncturing your skin sign outside the the stage. Before only temporary until By the Sword had some 30,000 times per minute, injecting hangar summed it they had their more material. band draws CSUF its indelible ink deep in your dermis or up. “Ink.” chance, however, “When punk rock came along, hard- the swan song of the sonically-receptive Johnny, re- a man whose core came along, it became very acces- students to Becker hair-cells of your inner-ear after the last nowned for his name transcends sible,” Vallely said backstage after his set. punk band to take the stage. traditional and re- all boundaries Covered in ink, mostly from the notori- By osCaR RoMeRo Welcome to Musink. alistic work in the DailyTitan.com/musink of sports, music ous Kat Von D., Vallely somehow seemed Daily Titan Staff Writer “The great thing is once somebody South Bay and be- and art repre- to be a walking summation of the spirit [email protected] gets a tattoo, typically, they become one yond, was one of over 300 artists from as sented over the three-day convergence of of Musink. of us,” Johnny 2/3 said. far away as Switzerland and Japan. counterculture took the stage. Moostache rocked out at the Becker Amphitheatre While not the first, the damage Only half of the attraction, the ink- Mike Vallely, better known as Mike V., See MUSINK, Page 5 for another one of Associated Students Inc. Produc- tions’ Wednesday Concerts, performing in front of a crowd of significant size. Despite the difficult weather, Moostache managed to put on a free show that had some crowd members mov- ing their feet and clapping their hands to the rhythm. Students strolling by took a break from the commotion Medical mission takes students to Vietnam of getting to class to enjoy a few seconds of the performance. By Melissa Maldonado See MOOSTACHE, Page 5 Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected] MULTIMEDIA Twelve undergraduate students, one graduate teaching assistant and one professor will be traveling over 8,000 miles to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam for Cal State Fullerton’s first international field trip. Communications professor and mem- ber of the Asian American Studies Pro- gram Council Jeffery Brody has teamed up with Project Vietnam to expose broadcast and print journalism majors to an international setting and give them the chance to be foreign correspondents. “I thought it would be an excellent program, considering I have researched Check out the video of Moostache’s performance at Vietnamese Americans and Vietnam, to DailyTitan.com/moostache take a group of journalism students there so they can participate in the program and write stories about the program as well as feature stories about Vietnam,” Brody said. INDEX Project Vietnam has aided needy re- News ....................................................... page 2,3 gions since 1996, aiming to improve Opinion ................................................ page 4 healthcare assistance and services, as well Sound-Off................................................. page 5 ,6 as provide medical training for profes- Classifieds .................................................. page 7 sionals. Sports ...................................................... page 8 The 14 travelers will participate in pro- viding medical aid to the rural poor and will document their experiences on their CONTACT US Web site, Vietnam.dailytitan.com. PHoTo Courtesy MCT Main line: (657) 278-3373 Dao Thi Kieu, 57, works her rice field, Sept. 19, 2009, outside of Bien Hoa, Vietnam, where her fields were sprayed with herbicides by News desk: (657) 278-4415 See TRIP, Page 3 Americans during the Vietnam War. Advertising: (657) 278-4411 2 February 25, 2010 IN OTHER NEWS CSUF reacts to Marjah offensive INTERNATIONAL BY SERENA WHITECOTTON Taliban members, Elaine Yetemian, alties, Capt. Jocelyn Simmons, the most likely. Daily Titan Staff Writer a 21-year-old English major, ex- Reserve Officer Training Corps. For Yetemian, peace doesn’t seem Greeks strike agianst austerity measures [email protected] pressed her fear of what the Taliban’s (ROTC) battalion executive officer probable. retaliation might be. and assistant professor of military “There’s no such thing as peace “Sometimes if they capture them, ATHENS, Greece -Protesters and police officers clashed in the heart of The U.S. Military launched its science, supports the president’s de- in today’s society,” Yetemian said. it creates more danger because we’re the European capital on Wednesday, as Greeks took to the streets to voice first attack on Taliban havens in cision and is ready to go to war. “That’s just unrealistic.” going to piss them off even more their discontent at the government’s plans to impose tough measures aimed Marjah, Afghanistan Feb. 14. “As far as feelings of being sent Shamim has hope for the U.S. and then they’re going to try and at reducing the deficit and regaining market confidence. Almost 6,000 U.S. Marines are to, or our fellow troops being in, Af- troops and believes they must try to do something to attack us,” said Ye- Two of Greece’s main trade unions, the private sector, GSEE, and the leading the joint campaign, called ghanistan, we are here to receive and defeat the Taliban. temian. “It’s going to bite us in the public sectorm, ADEDY, declared a general strike, and members of the Operation Moshtarak (“moshtarak” execute missions. We stand ready to “This offensive may not go on butt, I think.” Communist workers’ group PAME also joined. means together in the Dari lan- serve the commander-in-chief to the for a long time but the strategy is According to iCasualties.org, No flights took off from or landed at Athens International Airport on guage), with the Afghan National best of our ability,” Simmons said. to build an Afghan army that will the independent Web site that has Wednesday. The city’s subway system was also shut down. Army. Peace won’t come soon for the be able to tackle the Taliban. And tracked troop fatalities since 2001, In downtown Athens on Wednesday, thousands of people marched near This operation is in response to troops in Afghanistan. The opera- as long as that is not done, the U.S. the number of U.S. casualties is Syntagma Square, where the Parliament building is located. President Obama’s Dec. 2, 2009 call tion is proposed to last at least 12 and NATO will have to be there,” for 30,000 more troops in Afghani- now at 1,006. There have been more to 18 months, the latter being the Shamim said. stan. than 100 deaths in While some feel the president’s 2010 so far. NATIONAL decision to bring more troops Spitzer stressed President of Toyota apologizes for 34 deaths into Afghanistan goes against his the importance of campaign’s promises, Choudhury not being apathet- WASHINGTON - The president of Toyota apologized Wednesday for Shamim, a Cal State Fullerton po- ic, an education in acceleration problems in his company’s cars as Japan announced that it has litical science professor, thinks Pres- world issues and launched an investigation into the issue.

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