War or Peace? A Look around the Globe and in our own backyards Page 2 News 2-3 Arts.... 4-5 For All Students Opinion................6 Sports.......... ....7 Calendar..... ...8 http://www.csusmpride.com TheCalifornia State Universit Pridey San Marcos Vol. IX No. 5/ Tuesday, October 2,2001 Ninth Annual Pow Wow will Kick Off Homecoming Week By JENNIFER HOLMES cultural, and sacred, according are asked to call (760) 839-1634. Pride Staff Writer to Giron. Some of the scheduled Homecoming activities will events include native drumming, continue on Monday when the The American Indian Student singing, intertribal dancing, and university hosts the first Cal State Alliance (AISA) will host the 9th native arts and crafts. Organizers San Marcos Squares. Student Annual CSUSM Pow Wow from expect 50 vendor booths, which veterans on campus will also 10 a.m. to 10 p.m on Saturday, will provide native foods, arts hold a free BBQ lunch at the Oct. 6 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and crafts, and beverages outside Dome Plaza for students. On on Sunday, Oct. 7. the dance and drum arena. Tuesday, the men's soccer team "There is truly something for ; "What makes this year's Pow will play a homecoming game at everyone at the upcoming Pow Wow different from last year's 4 p.m. on Mangrum Field against Wow," said Karin Giron, Pow is that we will have Hawaiian UCSD. Wow co-chairperson, and AISA dancers performing during the The homecoming celebration president. "AISA looks forward dinner break Saturday evening, will continue Wednesday, with to carrying on this most precious Oct.6," said Giron. Angela Davis, a featured speak- tradition, and warmly Welcomes Sponsors of this year's Pow er for the Intercultural Speaker any support that you may have Wow include Nordstrom, Series. The lecture will be held at to offer." CSUSM President Alexander 7 p.m.. at the California Center for This is the second year that Gonzalez, CSUSM's the Arts, Escondido. The home- this student organization has Instructionally Related Activities coming celebration will conclude served as the main organizer Board, and several individuals, on Friday evening with a mas- for the event. AISA expects departments, and organizations querade dance in the Dome. that approximately 10,000 people on campus. Those who would like more infor- from all cultures and tribes from The Pow Wow is free to mation on homecoming week are the Indian Nation will attend the the public and will be held on asked to contact ASI at (760) Pow Wow. the field on the corner of Twin 750-4990. The theme for this year's Pow Oaks Valley Road and Craven Wow is honoring the past, and Drive. Those who would like (Right) A dancer performs celebrating the future. The tradi- more information regarding the during last year's Pow Wow. tion of the Pow \yow is social, scheduled events at the Pow Wow {Pride Photo/Cheryl Cline) Fall Accident GEW Under New Leadership By CHRIS ING Rallin is interested not only by allocating more resources to Pride Staff Writer in providing students with criti- writing instruction. As an exam- Numbers Revealed cal skills that will be of use to ple, CSUSM's GEW classes have As the new school year gets them in other university classes, a maximum enrollment of 20 stu- By AMY GRANITE to drivers misjudging the^speed underway, GEW will come under but also in encouraging students dents; the maximum enrollment Pride Staff Writer of oncoming traffic and making new leadership as Dr. Aneil to assume the role of public intel- of the comparable first-year writ- last minute turns, according to Rallin, Professor of Literature lectual, and to intervene in public ing course at UCSD is 12. "Since Automobile accidents are con- campus police. When some stu- and Writing, takes over the reins debates about the role of the uni- there is no debate about the ben- cerns for some students and staff dents discover damages to their as Director of CSUSM's General efits of smaller classes for stu- of CSUSM, primarily during the vehicles, there is little else for Education Writing (GEW) Pro- dents, we have our work cut out morning hours for drivers en route them to do but file a police gram. Rallin has a diverse edu- "I hope to for us," said Rallin. to campus. An accident involv- report. cational background spanning One wish Rallin has is office ing a student and faculty member "Most often, when someone help cultivate three continents. space for the GEW instructors. occurred on the morning of Sept. hits another car in the parking lots He completed his undergrad- this awareness "I understand that space is at a 24 in Lot C, bringing attention to on campus, usually in an attempt uate studies in Bombay, India i premium on this campus, but it this on-going problem. to park, that person drives off and by complicating and his Ph.D. in English Studies is a disgrace to the university The collision was minor, said away from the scene to another with a concentration in rhetoric that our GEW instructors have campus police officials. After the spot, said Sgt. Bill McCullough. students' think- and composition at Ohio State no institutional space to call their incident, the student and faculty An accident is considered a University. He has also studied ing rather than own." member exchanged contact and hit and run if a driver fails to at Oxford University in England. The GEW program has 11 insurance information. Most of stop after a moving collision, or simplifying it." Most recently, he taught at the instructors who are graduate stu- the accidents on or around cam- if a driver hits another car and University of Southern Califor- dents in the Literature and Writ- pus usually involve no interven- fails to leave a contact note for nia, CSU Chico, and Temple Uni- versity. Towards that end, he said ing Studies master's program, tion by campus police if a reso- the owner. This is considered a versity. that he feels it is essential for and the instructors teach more lution is reached between the misdemeanor, and if the driver is Rallin described his ideas students to understand the many than 400 students. involved parties. pulled over, he/she is considered about the function of Cal State layers of complexities withijti any . He said he hopes that There have been accidental a hit and run suspect and will San Marcos' GEW program. text or dialogue and he said CSUSM will be able to keep pace reports involving hit-and run be arrested. If a hit and run He views writing and reading he hopes to help cultivate this with national trends by develop- incidents this semester. Campus occurs and someone is injured, as interdependent activities that awareness by "complicating stu- ing and requiring all the students police reported five "property whether it is a moving accident promote intellectual inquiry and dents' thinking rather than sim- an advanced writing course. damage only" accidents that did or a parked car Is struck, the growth. plifying it." Rallin's research interests not involve injuries. There were crime becomes a felony. He said he sees writing to He used the GEW program include contemporary rhetoric six hit and runs so far this semes- Those that would like to con- learn is not only the process of as an example of the university's and theories of composition; ter. There have been no major tact the campus police regarding advancing a claim, but also a efforts to strengthen students' queer theory; feminist theory; injuries reported. an accident on campus may call "process of knowledge-making, writing. He said, however, that he postcolonial studies; and experi- The number of accidents that their non-emergency line at (760) and a device for demystifying the would like to see the university mental writing, film and video. occur when students leave the 750-4567. powers invested in discourse." fortify its commitment to writing parking lots has risen, often due ^fie Cry Heard'(Round the W/orCd conflict resolution and embrace some people down to this forum versities came together at the Uni- peace ideas in the Sunday school with fliers and contact lists to versity of Pittsburgh's Cathedral classrooms. At city schools, the build anti-war activities. We got of Learning, a Pittsburgh curriculum includes conflict man- much more than we had hoped. landmark. More than 600 stu- agement, and students were A minister, who was a bomber dents from Carnegie Mellon, taught how to say "hello" jn in WWII in an atomic squadron, Chatham, and Duquesne marched Arabic, according to a San Diego gave a particularly moving speech to the University of Pittsburgh's teacher in the coalition. about his disgust at racism and campus. On Sept. 22, the coalition why we should oppose mass "Speakers and demonstra- held a peace vigil in front of destruction of innocent people tors emphasized that this was Horton Plaza in downtown San for revenge. Next thing we know not an anti-American protest," Diego. The Peace Vigil lasted two the vigil, as a whole, takes on said Quinten Steenhuis, a student hours, and more than 400 people a strong anti-war character. Stu- activist and organizer of the dem- attended. Participants held signs dents who we didn't even know onstration from Carnegie Mellon and banners, and lined Broadway got up and made statements for University. "Students sang along from 3rd to 4th Street. peace," said Stemke. to the national anthem, carried "Overall public reaction, At UCSD on Thursday eve- flags, and even addressed the while by no means unanimously ning, a student progressive meet- issue directly^ ' We consider our- positive, was supportive, and ing and candlelight vigil were selves the true patriots,' said one better than many had expected.