C A LIFOR N I A S T A T E U N IV E RSIT Y , F U L L E RTO N INSIDE Tough breaks 4 n PERSPECTIVES: Fascination with the Titanic still exists, even 90 years after it plagued the sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean Titans at Goodwin Field 5 n NEWS: A trip to Mexico shows how the simpler things in life lead to happiness Tuesday night —see Sports page 6 VOLUME 74, I SSUE 25 WEDNEsdAY APRIL 10, 2002 Students cook up defense nFUND-RAISER: The “No Hot dogs with relish sold for $360,000. obviously they don’t have the money for a the budget shortfall. Freshly grilled hamburgers went for fee increase.” “I don’t want [the increase],” he said. “I Fee Increase” campaign $500,000. Chilled water bottles were on sale Young Kim flipped burgers during the don’t want to pay more. We already pay for $200,000. event. Kim, a graduate student, said he enough for things like parking and books.” has a goal to collect 2,000 About 50 students stopped by the lun- opposes tuition hikes because students The barbecue marked the start of the cheon, which was held in front of the book- already pay costly fees. An increase could lobby corps’ “No Fee Increase” campaign. signed letters to help stop store, but no one bought the pricey cuisine. deter people from enrolling at state schools, The campaign, which urges state legislators a rise in tuition in fall 2002 Instead, free food was given to those who he said. to keep university tuition at current levels, is signed letters in opposition of a student fee “If they raise the fees, it will be harder for sponsored by a coalition of hundreds of UC, BY THERESA SALINAS increase that could be used to offset the state people to go to school,” Kim said. “This is CSU and California Community College Daily Titan Staff Writer- deficit. not the time to raise fees.” students. “Many of the students were sympathetic Student Simon Rantisi was drawn to the Coalition members are asking students Members of the Associated Students and had heard about the issue,” said Dante event by the succulent scents that wafted across the state to sign letters that will be sent VaLENTIN MEndOZA/Daily Titan Lobby Corps held a barbecue fund-raiser Gomez, AS director of statewide affairs. from the grill. He said he is glad that student to legislators in coming weeks. John Migliarini (left) barbecues a cheeseburger Tuesday to help bridge the $17.5 billion “Some came because there was free food. leaders are trying to inform students about for Brian Smith at Tuesday’s fund-raiser. shortfall in the state budget. If they don’t have money to buy lunch, then the measures that legislators could take to fix BARBECUE/ 8 Saved by the bell Price of parking to increase nCAMPUS: To fund the construction of the new structures, permits will rise from $54 to $99 next semester BY THERESA SALINAS Daily Titan Staff Writer- Parking permits will be more expensive and harder to attain next semester, university officials said. During Associated Students Board of Directors meeting Tuesday Joe Ferrer, director of parking and transportation, said 3,000 to 4,000 additional parking spaces need to be created on campus to curb current traffic congestion. To accomplish this goal, the university will build two parking structures by 2005. The first is an $18.7 million structure located in Lot D. It will add 1,600 spaces and is slated to open in January 2004. The second is a $14.6 million struc- “Students ture located in Lot B. It will add 1,419 parking spaces and is sched- need to know uled to open in January 2005. Student parking fees will finance about the construction. Ferrer said fees will increase from the current rate of $54 per semester, to $99 in fall changes so 2002, then $144 in fall 2004. However, hundreds of parking that it’s not a spaces will be lost during construc- tion. shock come The university will cut the num- ber of parking permits it sells to coincide with the number of avail- next fall.” able stalls. The university typically sells 21,000 parking permits per Edgar year. During construction it will only Zazueta, sell 19,000. Associated Officials are still trying to deter- mine how the permits will be sold. AS Executive Vice President Edgar Zazueta urged the board to implement a public information cam- ERICK FIERRO MARTINEZ/Daily Titan paign before the parking changes are implemented. Cal State Fullerton executes a near-perfect evacuation drill Tuesday at approximately 3:30 p.m. The drill lasted “We need to be proactive in the latter part of this semester,” he said. “Students need to know about the changes so that it’s not a about 15 minutes in which all individuals were evacuated into designated safe zones. “In previous drills it was dif- shock come next fall.” ficult to get the students to evacuate,” said Judi King, CSUF police chief. “This year, the building marshals did an In other business, the board is preparing to enter budget deliberations. excellent job. The drill was phenomenal, everyone did a really good job.” While some students complained of the Students pay an AS fee of $54 per semester. About $14 of inconvenience others were ecstatic that some professors postponed exams. that money goes to athletics’ programs, $8 goes towards the PARKING/ 8 Children celebrate Cesar Chavez nHONOR: Elementary and work Cesar Chavez did,” said Isaac Chavez and his remarkable impact on [my mom] helps people a lot too.” Cardenas, the chairman of the Chicano California. Letting the children interpret their school students learned Studies program. “About service to com- In the orchard of the Arboretum, heroes was one of the project’s goals. munity because service begins in the easels supporting the collages elemen- Thomas Klammer, dean of the College about the activist and other home and community.” tary students made of their own personal of Humanities and Social Science, said heroes in their lives The Cesar Chavez Heroes Project heroes surrounded a white tent with red, one of his favorite parts of the event was brought together students from Ruby white and black balloons, the colors of the displays of pictures representing the BY JOHN PAUL GUTIERREZ Drive and Hurley elementary schools to the United Farm Workers, the union children’s heroes. Daily Titan Staff Writer celebrate Chavez’s life and close a project Chavez founded in 1962 that advocates Jorge Herrera, a CSUF Chicano the- that has inspired and informed elementa- for farm workers. ater major, agrees. “I think it is really important for them Cesar Chavez’s face was adorned in ry students with Chavez’s granddaughter Ruby Drive student Daniel Pirali dis- to have someone to relate to,” Herrera maroon on beige screen-printed T-shirts played pictures of his mom and dad, Julie Chavez Rodriguez. said. “It gets them to look at the heroes in that several children wore. Tuesday The CSUF Office of Service Learning who he said were his heroes. afternoon he became imprinted in the their community.” and the Governor’s Office on Service “My dad goes to some hospitals and After the children were called to the minds of hundreds of elementary school and Volunteerism created the six-week gets blood samples and takes them to a students thanks to Cal State Fullerton tent, they sat and listened to the poems JOHN PAUL GUTIERREZ/Daily Titan program that matched university stu- lab to test it,” Pirali said.“My mom is a that their classmates had written about student mentors. dents with 420 third, fifth and sixth grade bus driver and gets the children safe to Elementary school children learned about the life of Cesar Chavez, “We want them to learn about the life students to mentor and teach them about their homes. [My dad] helps people a lot, CHAVEZ/ 8 the farm workers rights activist, in the Arboretum Tuesday. http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu 2 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2002 NEws CCALENDARALENDAR O OFF EVEEVENTSNTS Community The Museum of Latin American of paintings, automobiles and Art in Long Beach will host the mixed media images by Kenny The Main Art Gallery hosts The Fairplex in Pomona exhibition “Situaciones Humanas/ Scharf through April 28. For more the exhibit “Definite Ambiguities: will have a Home and Garden Human Conditions” by Dominican information, call (714) 567-7233 Films and Paintings by R.T. Pece” Show in Fairplex 5 and 8 April 12 artist Jose Garcia Cordero April or log on to www.arts.fullerton. through May 9. Admission is free. through 14. Admission is free. For 13 through July 21. Tickets are $5 edu/events. For more information, call (714) more information, call (909) 623- for general admission and $3 for 278-3262. 3111. seniors and students. Admission is Campus ttwwoo free on Fridays. For more informa- The Student Diversity Program A guide to WHat’S HAPPening The J. Paul Getty Museum will tion, call (562) 437-1689. The Women’s Center & Adult is looking for gifted students for the have an exhibition focusing on the Re-entry will host a presentation upcoming talent show on May 1. BRIEFS work of a 17th century Holland Spring ESL classes will be on the experiences of women who Participants can win money. For painter from April 16 through July offered at the Brea Community re-enter universities April 10 at more information, call (714) 278- 7. Admission is free. Parking is $5 Center between April 8 and June noon in UH-205.