Vol. 87 Issue 37 April 29, 2010 Underground sounds: The Bloody Beatroots duo electrifies crowd at the House of Blues in San Diego SOUND-OFF, Page 4 Bardsley: Making impact THURSDAY felt in WPS SPORTS, Page 9 Multimedia Find the rhythm and feel the rhymes of the Poetry Slam at: www.dailytitan.com/poetryslam2010 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Professional The 15-month Persian language program will teach students why Farsi is the ‘language of love’ journalists BY MELISSA HOON Monday through Friday from 8:30 The second module convenes over of modern languages and literature. Daily Titan Asst. Opinion Editor a.m. to 5 p.m. Over several weekends the next two semesters (fall 2010 and “Tajikistan is the next best thing to [email protected] this summer, the class will visit places spring 2011). In this module, stu- living in Iran, which is impossible at and attend events in the area that will dents will take necessary classes to- this time, because students are able to return to CSUF Cal State Fullerton is offering a help students become more familiar ward the completion of their Persian use the language they studied at Cal Persian language program this sum- with Persian culture. These cultural- major. State Fullerton.” mer, beginning June 14. ly-enriched locations include the Ira- Students will spend most of their Living and studying abroad will BY JUANITA VASQUEZ The 15-month “life-changing” nian Church of Love in Orange, as 2011 summer studying abroad in Ta- allow students to do more than prac- Daily Titan Staff Writer program, funded by a grant from the well as a Zoroastrian Temple and an jikistan for the third module. They tice their Persian. [email protected] Strategic Language Initiative Pro- Islamic Center. A potluck will also be will live with a local host family to “Studying abroad in Tajikistan is a gram, has three modules. held to become familiar with Islamic help improve their Persian and better fantastic opportunity (for students) As part of the ongoing Comm. Week activities, The first module takes place over a families. understand the culture. to experience the Persian culture, the Daily Titan will celebrate half a century of jour- nine-unit summer school session and “It’s best for students who want to “(Module three) is essential. customs and way of life. The students nalism excellence on Saturday, with the Daily Titan covers three Persian courses – Persian study Persian to communicate with Classroom learning is used to assist will be able to live it firsthand,” said 50th Anniversary Reunion. 203, 204 and 300. The class, taught families (of that heritage) and to be students to engage in natural com- Persian Professor Parastoo Danaee. “We’re taking advantage of very well-placed alum- by Persian program coordinator Ali involved in areas (that boast) Persian munication in real Persian context,” ni by putting them in a panel to talk about the future Miremadi, is six weeks long and meets culture,” Miremadi said. said Janet Eyring, department chair See PERSIAN, Page 3 of print journalism and the distribution of informa- tion,” said Rick Pullen, dean of the college of com- munications. The reunion is part of a series of events that in- clude a tour of the Daily Titan newsroom, an alumni panel, a social hour and silent auction and will close This week at the Becker with a dinner. See ANNIVERSARY, Page 2 CSUF chair receives rare lifetime award Speaker Junkies PHOTO COURTESY KAREN TIPIA Dr. Irene Lange, professor of Marketing, is awarded for her work with students and faculty at the university. BY MELISSA HOON Daily Titan Asst. Opinion Editor PHOTOS BY MARK SAMALA/For the Daily Titan [email protected] Professor and chair of marketing, Irene Lange received the Lifetime Achievement Award on April 8. The award recognizes her array of accomplish- Multimedia www.dailytitan.com/speakerjunkies ments over her career at Cal State Fullerton Details, Page 4 since 1965. Lange, a Lithuanian native, came to the United States in 1951. With an intense passion for learning, she powered her way through school and received Library poetry event her Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Illi- nois. generates creativity See LANGE, Page 2 BY CORT TAFOYA reason for combining poetry month Daily Titan Staff Writer and Asian American and Pacific Islander [email protected] Heritage month. “Those things overlap. Sometimes On Wednesday afternoon, the Pol- we’ll mix it together with library week,” PHOTO BY CORT TAFOYA/Daily Titan Staff Writer lack Library hosted a joint celebration Praitis said, laughing. “At the end of the Filipino poet Oliver De La Paz reads his poems to CSUF students in the Pollack Library. of National Poetry Month and Asian semester things are kind of crazy. Doing American and Pacific Islander Heritage stuff like this reminds us of things that “And I wanted to spend a longer time in what inspired them to write their po- Month. The event featured two poetry refresh us,” Praitis added. Los Angeles. I wanted to revisit for a bit. ems. The audience seemed to enjoy writing workshops, a poetry reading Isip, who is a Cal State Fullerton So I booked four readings, one of which hearing the writers’ poems and from professor Irena Praitis and teach- alumnus currently working on his Mas- was (at) CSUF.” clapped after each reading. ing associate J.D. Isip, as well as special ter’s, talked about what he likes best Paz also talked about the type of po- Isip’s poems discussed guest reader, Oliver De La Paz, a poet about this annual event. etry he likes to write. issues such as sex and of Filipino heritage. Associated Stu- “Reading my own stuff is kind of fun. “Depends on what project I’m work- death, while Paz’s dents Inc. provided some funding for We generate interest in people talking ing on,” he said. “When I first started, included many the event. about poetry,” Isip said, adding that the it was kind of light. I worked on magic issues about About 25 guests sat down in room inclusion of guest speaker Paz made the realism. Now it’s gotten a little more se- where he PLS 102A to support their love of po- event even more memorable. rious. My themes of interest are finding grew up. etry. Praitis and Isip were the key co- Paz has written multiple poetry books. grace.” ordinators who put the special occasion He lives in Washington and has taught One of the two writing workshops together. there for five years as a professor of cre- was a lesson on how to use criticism “We like to set aside a week each year ative writing, but didn’t want to miss a to improve writing. The other involved to host this event. We’ve been bring- chance to come visit Southern Califor- finding musicality within poetry. ing in poets for about four or five yeas nia, where he attended school. Before the readers shared their now,” Praitis said. “I had a previous speaking engage- work, they offered crowd-pleas- She then explained the simplistic ment booked in California,” Paz said. ing anecdotes explaining 2 April 29, 2010 IN OTHER NEWS INTERNATIONAL Israel denies freezing settlements JERUSALEM – A month after the Obama administration asked Is- rael to clarify its position on controversial settlement-building projects in East Jerusalem, Israeli officials openly disagree with developers about whether there’s a freeze. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat have said publicly that there’s no freeze in Jerusalem construction, but developers on the ground say there’s been a “change in atmosphere” regarding settlement projects. “We are running into problems in places where we didn’t used to. There is suddenly red tape and holdups. The municipality is making it very hard for us and asking us to be quiet about it,” said Aryeh King, the founder of the Israel Land Fund and a well-known activist on behalf of Jewish projects in East Jerusalem. NATIONAL Senate proceeds with financial bill WASHINGTON – The Senate agreed Wednesday to end a three-day stale- PHOTO By Brenna PHILLIPS/Daily Titan Staff Writer mate and move ahead with formal consideration of historic legislation to overhaul Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Highlander hybrid is capable of 68.3 miles per gallon as opposed to the 22 miles per gallon eked out by the unleaded only version. the nation’s financial regulatory system. Efforts to craft a bipartisan agreement broke up Wednesday, withR epublicans, who’d stalled the bill, getting few, if any, concessions and perhaps starting to suffer some political consequences. The Senate next will begin debating and voting on possible changes to the massive bill, which would order the biggest overhaul since the Great Depression Toyota’s future of fuel of how the government oversees financial institutions. The Senate should take about a month to work through the legislation, and if it passes, it will have to be reconciled with a different version. Hydrogen-powered hybrid showcased at Cal State Fullerton as part of “Future Vehicles Technologies” series By Brenna PHILLIPS mechanical engineering at UCI and Ward compared the differences be- ogy,” said David Gonzalez, a Cal State Daily Titan Staff Writer president of the governing board of the tween Toyota’s Highlander hybrid ve- Northridge alumni and member of the STATE [email protected] Southern California branch of SAE. hicle and the current Highlander, stat- SAE. “I think the biggest thing that Los Angeles is still the nation’s smoggiest city “Every company seems to be doing it ing that the hybrid was able to get 68.3 I’m still skeptical about is the cost and Toyota showcased its hydrogen- slightly differently because we are not miles per gallon while the regular only how they are going to implement it.