C A LIFO R NI A S T A T E U NIVE RS IT Y , F U LLE R TON Jodie Cox strikes INSIDE out 16 Scarlet Knights as the 3 n NEWS: Sushi restaurants offer unique Titans begin the cuisine and community atmosphere Kia Klassic 4 n DETOUR: Nas and Jay-Z throw in their with a win. towels in the battle of lyrics —see Sports page 6 VOLU M E 73, I SSUE 14 THURSDAY M ARCH 14, 2002 Lecture explores female nSPEAKER: Artist Jacqueline Cooper presents contemporary feminist performance art Wednesday BY MICHAEL MATTER may be at CSUF but you will be negative signification of the written are still stuck trying to use exterior Daily Titan Staff Writer getting a Harvard or Scripps College word,” Cooper said. “ Arguably, a language to explain the similarities lecture.” similar spatial imperative fueled the and divisions between interior space As part of the Women’s History Cooper was born in London. She development of a performance and in both the literary and the visual Month lecture series, artist, author earned her master’s degree from installation art practice increasingly arts. and social critic Jacqueline Cooper, UCLA in 1998 and has taught at apparent since the emergence of Cooper’s opening video presenta- offered a multimedia presentation Santa Monica College and Long the women’s movement in the late tion showed three separate women titled “(Re)Presenting the Feminist Beach City College. 1960s.” sitting on stools facing the audi- Vision,” at the Titan Theatre She has also taught at UCLA and Cooper suggested that perfor- ence. The first two women wore red Wednesday. recently has been hired to teach at mance and installation art are symp- dresses as they vomited red stomach Professor Linda Kroff introduced the San Francisco Art Institute. tomatic of the need to find a lan- fluids into clear glass buckets they Cooper as an artist, drawer, painter, Cooper’s lecture emphasized guage for the interior. held with both hands on their laps. curator and writer. using internal female space in con- The language for the exterior This scene was repeated with a “For all you artists in the audi- temporary art. has always been masculine. This is third woman wearing a yellow vinyl ence, you may not know how lucky “This need for an individualized the language that has recorded and hooded raincoat while she vomited you are to have a keynote speaker space beyond language is a space edited visual history until recently KATIE CUMPER/Daily Titan of this caliber,” Kroff said. “ You that by its very existence is the Cooper explained. She said critics SPEAKER/ 3 Jacqueline Cooper discusses the importance of feminist space. Under construction Alleged drug possession hurts dream BY AMY ROTTIER Third in Daily Titan Editor in Chief a Series Ardeshir Asgari knew he missed his second chance to go to the Olympics. The Just as 22-year-old wrestler had been stuck in jail for a few weeks on an arrest for allegedly the coach selling heroine. The large room slept 300 is about prisoners and was crowded with smokers who constantly hacked and coughed. The to com- guards reveled in their power. Asgari did not belong there. pete at the On Jan. 18, 1988, Asgari was supposed Olympics, to become a U.S.-citizen so he could wrestle in the Olympics. But being stuck he is in jail, he missed his opportunity. Things were not looking good. Asgari wrongfully knew there was a conspiracy against him. He was wrongly arrested for possession jailed for of drugs that he had never seen before and possession he remained in jail. As he tried to fit infor- mation into the puzzle, he remembered of heroin back to when his friend with the “favor” came into his life. The Persian man was about 10 years older than Asgari and was standing by the wrestling schedule. The two became friends after they chatted and hung out a few times. He was Asgari’s only friend who shared the same back- ground and had the same native language. One day, his new friend questioned him about representing the United States in the Olympics. “Don’t you think you should wrestle for the country where you were born?” the friend asked with anger. The conversation turned into an argument as the man tried to convince Asgari not to compete for America. Eventually, each accepted that the other had different beliefs – or so he KATIE CUmpeR/Daily Titan thought. A student suffered lacerations on the back of his head and the bridge of his nose when plywood covering a window on the second floor of the north side of College Park fell Now he was in jail after doing a “favor” for this Persian on top of him at approximately 3:46 p.m. Wednesday. Witness Donelle Jordan said that Cal State Fullerton student Soomin Kim was taking still photos for a project for their man who was loyal to Iran. visual journalism class when a large gust of wind blew the planks loose that protect the windows during the seismic retrofitting being conducted on the building, and landed on And the police were lying. him, trapping him underneath. Jordan said she then asked Kim if he was pinned by the wooden boards and after confirming that he was, she lifted the planks high enough to The police report stated that the drugs were found under- allow Kim to roll from underneath. Jordan said that once free, Kim said that he was okay, but by then an ambulance had already been called to the scene. Kim was alert when neath a black car that belonged to Asgari. But Asgari’s car the ambulance arrived and American Medical Response paramedic Jason Ward said that Kim would be transported to St. Jude’s Hospital in Brea for examination. 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A drug that may be legal in on Drugs Abroad” brochure by the in European countries are subject to get arrested in a foreign country, one country might not be legal in the Bureau of Consular Affairs because that law. know your rights and call American Those traveling abroad this spring neighboring country. they have found them- “I didn’t know it was Embassies to get proper guidance.” n Check out or summer might want to rethink According to “Travel Tips for selves in unfamiliar illegal” will not get you Americans may think they are “Each the Daily Titan breaking the laws in other coun- Students,” a pamphlet distributed locations and are inca- out of jail, according to immune to foreign law but they are online this tries. by the Bureau of Consular Affairs, pable of prudent judge- year many Soest. expected to obey all of the laws of In a press release from Secretary about one-third of American stu- ment while intoxicated. U. 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