SPORTS: Can a Trojan tame the Denver INSIDE: FEATURES Bronco offense, page 10 Renowned festival begins FEATURES: The valiant story of a Peace today, see preview page 4 Corps volunteer continues, page 4 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 41 Thursday April 23, 2009 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND The ever-changing face of Cal State Fullerton A Gold for Being Green The Student Recreation Center at Black 3% Cal State Fullerton hosted “Positive- Other ly Green,” an event celebrating its re- cent LEED® Gold certification from Ethnicities the U.S. Green Building Council 15% (USGBC), yesterday. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Hispanic 28% Environmental Design) is the US- GBC’s Green Building Rating Sys- tem™ used to distinguish the world’s greenest, most energy efficient, and high performing buildings. The Student Recreation Center achieved the second highest rating, receiving LEED Gold certification White 32% for energy use, material selection, lighting and water conservation, and incorporating a variety of sustain- able strategies including a Construc- tion Waste Management Plan which diverted the project’s construction waste from landfills to recycling cen- ters. The “Positively Green” celebra- Humanities and tion featured a presentation of the Arts LEED Gold plaque; speaker Jorden Social Sciences Segraves, Chair of the USGBC - Or- Asian 22% ange County Chapter, speaker Jason Black 1.25% Black 6.4% Lorcher of Green Dinosaur (a south- ern California firm specializing in White 77.5% White 70.4% assisting organizations through the LEED rating process); and an infor- Hispanic 5% Hispanic 7.7% mation fair showcasing “green” ef- Photo forts of Cal State Fullerton academic Asian 8.75% illustration Asian 10.3% programs, student organizations and by daniel SUZUKI others. Daily Titan Photo Editor President, CEO and Founding All others 7.5% All others 5.1% Chair of the USGBC, Rick Fedrizzi notes, “The Student Recreation Stats in photos above correspond with CSUF student population. Center at Cal State Fullerton is an important addition to the growing Stats in boxes correspond with full-time faculty in each department. strength of the green building move- ment.” Business and Communications Engineering and Health and Human Natural Sciences Economics Computer Science Education Development and Mathematics Solving the puzzle Black 3.5% Black 1.6% Black 0% Black 1.3% Black 2% Black 0% White 60% White 76.5% White 41% White 79% White 73% White 75.3% (UWIRE) – While most struggle to solve a Rubik’s Cube with infi- Hispanic 0.6% Hispanic 1.6% Hispanic 2.6% Hispanic 9% Hispanic 6% Hispanic 3.1% nite time on their hands and solid ground underneath their feet, Uni- Asian 30% Asian 14.1% Asian 51.3% Asian 5% Asian 11% Asian 16.5% versity of Alabama student Adam Morgan managed to solve one in All others 6.9% All others 6.2% All others 5.2% All others 5.2% All others 7% All others 5.1% 47 seconds while free falling from a plane 14,000 feet in the air. Morgan, a freshman majoring in computer science, accomplished this feat when he skydived for the first time on April 11. The video of his stunt has been featured on a few Faces bobbing among Cal State Changes in diversity of full-time faculty blogs already. 100 % A member of the Army skydiving Fullerton’s lines and crowds are team scrambled the cube on the way 90 % up as Morgan prepared himself for the jump. markedly different than the less- 80 % “I don’t remember much of the Hispanic free fall,” he said. “I wasn’t nervous diverse student body of 20 years 70 % about the jump itself, but I had a lot of pressure to actually do the cube 60 % White because if I didn’t, it would just be a ago; so much so that CSUF complete failure.” 50 % You can watch Morgan solve the stands as an island with a more Black Rubik’s Cube during free fall at you- 40 % tube.com. diverse population than Orange 30 % Asian County. While that diversity de- 20 % Correction creases when full-time faculty is 10 % GRAPH AND The ‘Hay Fever” photo caption professor stats 0 % by Austen Montero featured in the Wednesday edition taken into regard, CSUF is en- 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 of the Daily Titan incorrectly identi- 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 Daily Titan Editorial Director fied the actors in the photo. The ac- tors in the photo were Ben Lambert deavoring to diversify every as- All faculty figures in graphs and story are based on Fall 2007 statistics. playing Sandy Tyrell and Lee Lee Lawler playing Jackie Coryton. pect of the university. Fall 2008 statistics were not available at the time of writing. The production of “Hay Fever” by the Cal State Fullerton Theatre and Dance Department runs until May 3. People like the I can tell you I’ve worked for two presi- Tickets are available for purchse concept of equal op- dents here ... both believed and practiced online at http://www.fullerton.edu/ “ “ arts/events/seanpg.html. portunity, they hate things about pushing ahead and forward in the idea of quotas. making gains and strides in diversifying the “ “ workforce. WEATHER – Matthew Jarvis, – Paula Selleck, Assistant Professor TODAY TOMorrow of Political Science Senior Communications Officer Minority students can relate more to those minority professors. High: 70° High: 65° “The white professors or non-minority professors can also interact Low: 52° Low: 49° with them and get more, it’s not just student to professor but it’s“ PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY professor to professor also and they can learn from each other. – Michael Yahia, CONTACT US Criminal Justice Major Main line: (714) 278-3373 News desk: (714) 278-4415 Advertising: (714) 278-4411 E-mail: [email protected] See full Diversity story on page 3 2 PAGE TWO April 23, 2009 IN OTHER NEWS Planning INTERNATIONAL Oil-rich Kirkuk should not be divided, U.N. says BAGHDAD (MCT) – The United Nations said Wednesday that it had in poetic given Iraq four options for resolving the Kurdish-Arab dispute over the oil- rich city of Kirkuk as well as recommendations for ending disagreements over 14 other contested areas in northern Iraq, The U.N. gave no details of the recommendations, which it said had been motion BOBBY “DouBLE B” WILLiaMS MARissa DURAN seen by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government. BY CRISTINA CONTRERAS It said all the Kirkuk options “use the Constitution of Iraq as a starting For the Daily Titan point ... and require a political agreement among the parties and then some [email protected] form of a confirmatory referendum.” All four options treat Kirkuk as a single entity and don’t include plans for Student Organizations Accessing splitting the territory, its statement added. Resources-Communications Inter- Though Iraqi officials aren’t obliged to accept any of the recommendations Club Council (SOAR-CICC) hosted of the long-awaited report, they’ve pledged to take them seriously. its fourth annual Poetry Slam Tues- Discord has long existed between Sunni Muslim Kurds and Sunni Arabs day at 8 p.m. in the Underground in Iraq, but it has worsened dramatically in recent months. Pub at the Titan Student Union, as part of the 31st annual Communica- tions Week at Cal State Fullerton. Steve Ramirez, the host of Two BENNY FRANCO ERIC MORAGO NATIONAL Idiots Peddling Poetry in Orange FEMA nominee pledges high standards for disaster response hosted the Poetry Slam. Ramirez was the first to go on stage and read SCREEN SHOTS BY KATHERINE OROZCO For the Daily Titan WASHINGTON (MCT) – Craig Fugate, who oversaw the response to his poem so others could feel more back-to-back hurricanes in Florida, said at his confirmation hearingW ednes- comfortable. day that he would hold the Federal Emergency Management Agency to a “There were a great diversity of “much higher standard of success” than its Hurricane Katrina performance. Crimson poet takes top prize, but poets, wide range,” Ramirez said. Fugate, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the agency, which was Contestants needed to have at roundly criticized for its performance during the aftermath of the 2005 hur- least two original pieces in case they ricane, got a friendly reception from senators, who warned him that there’s made it to the second round, and audience at Pub end up winners plenty of work left to be done at FEMA. their pieces could be no longer than He told members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and four minutes. The top three poets re- BY ELIZABETH MANZO AND As the lights dimmed at Cal State summer 2007, titled “And then ev- Governmental Affairs that he wants to create a “national focus on the next ceived gift cards ranging from $50 to KATHERINE OROZCO Fullerton’s Underground Pub, late erything got all awkward and I had disaster” – which, he noted, could occur without notice. 100. Of the 20 poets who competed For the Daily Titan arriving students squeezed through to take her home.” “We have to begin looking at our citizens as a resource, integrating and in the first round, the top seven went [email protected] the crowd to get a better view of the The second place contestant was building readiness at a local, state and federal level,” he said. on to the second round. contestants, as the cheers rose for the the returning winner from last year’s Members of the committee, which championed changes to the federal Mario Davis, 21, a broadcast It was a night of expression, raw brave souls who took the stage.