'' \ j OTIER ENTERTAINMENT OTIER COMMUNITY - OTIERART OTIER SPORTS Rewind: Audioslave Sex and the univerCity campus Murals- Page 7 Finishing Strong: Men's Soccer ends their This is a new sound, fusing --- - - --- ------- best season yet " .,i- , ... fJrJ the strengths of two of the Creating an id~ntity ,! - • -., most influential bands of on campus: °',-. -:\\'\ \~I t ,.- ~w\ Men's & Women's ourtime Bumper stickers Basketball .-:.page3 -Page6 -Page9 TERREALM NOVEMBER.20. 2002 A CSU MONTEREY BAY STUDENT-RUN CAMPUS NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO INFORMING A MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY VOLUME 8 NO 5 Open container Not thin enough policy changed in One girl's struggle Frederick Park for self image By Ian Myslivec IAN_~ JY LI EC@C lJ MB.ED IJ By Pete Ashman [email protected] The University Police Department (UPD) has started enforcing a She is lying on a small bed, her diminutive frame Monterey County ordinance banning silhouetted by insufficient light from a single open container of alcohol in public. lamp. She hasn't moved for 13 days. Inside, her Although this ordinance has been in body is eating itself; her heart rate has dropped effect for a long time, according to dangerously low, her stomach lining has cor­ roded, and she is in immediate danger of dying. UPD Sgt. Earl Lawson, it ha not been While this sounds like a scene from Somalia enforced in Frederick Park becau e of or Kosovo, it was in fact the scene in the dorm legal questions pertaining to what room of CSUMB student Catherine, a 20-year­ actually constitutes drinking in public. old Social and Behavioral Sciences Major. She On Monday a judge issued a ruling was anorexic, and had been so for six years. that the law was indeed enforceable in "There was a battle in my head every minute Frederick Park. Lawson said that the Junior Brian Ebach raises his fists in fury after realizing the laundry machines won't of those 13 days," she said about the episode. "I UPD would start enforcing the law accept dollars. Not shown is a much needed quarter machine. See Page 4 felt like I finally had control, even though I was immediately. I physically so weak that I could barely walk up At Ouer Realm press time, no one the stairs to class or even to study. I also knew had been cited und r this ordinance, that I would .end up in the hospital again, so I and the fine ha not been determined. wanted to go as long as I could without eating According to Lawson, the fine will not Trojan horse program tries to before they found out. I ·was proud of myself be punitive. It i meant to be a deter­ though because I had finally 'accomplished' my rent to drinking on campy . This steal CSUMB passwords goal, yet I was deathly afraid that it would kill me enforcement is part of a campus-wide before someone forced me to get help. I didn't campaign by th CSUMB administra­ want to die, but once I went day after day with­ tion to reduce drinking. By James Thomas Green the user's SSN. The news that someone may be out food, I couldn't stand the thought of eating [email protected] collecting passwords based on· SSNs created again." concern about what could be done with this . Anorexia nervosa is one of many eating disor­ An unauthorized program designed to steal First information. ders that affect young women and men in c.oun­ Class e-mail logins was discovered in the CSUMB Student Zack Davidson said, "With a tries around the world. According to the Join the Otter Realm CSUMB Media Learning Center (MLC). social and a name, they have just about all they National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), The Oner Realm seeks reporters, pho­ The program, called a "Trojan Horse", was need to get a credit card in your name. You of anorexia is a psycho physiological disorder that tographers, and columnists fo.r the installed in some computers on Nov. 11 at about course won't hear about it until you try to buy a is characterized by a fear of becoming obese, Spring 2003 seme ter. If you are inter­ 11:00 a.m., according to Dr. Eric Yihching Tao, car a year from now and find out there are 13 col­ along with a distorted self-image, a persistent ested, sign up for HCOM 395 Special the Director of the Institute for Communications lections companies after you." unwillingness to eat and severe weight loss. Self­ Topics: Otter Realm, available for 2 or 4 Science & Technology (ICST) . CSUMB Student Abigail Keller said, "For as induced vomiting, excessive exercise, malnutri­ unit. The. program worked by mimicking a First long as I've been here, the issue of using SSN s to tion and other physiological changes often The class meets 8 to 9:50 p.m. Class e-mail program login page. This causes log into Banner/Planner Web has been a major accompany it. Mondays and Wedne days. For more unsuspecting users to enter their login and pass­ concern brought up by TMAC majors. If this is Reports from NEDA suggest that on~ out of­ information, contact FacuJty Advi or word. The program then transmitted this infor­ true, then the day we've all been afraid of has every 100 college-age women suffer from Rachele Kanigel on FirstClass mation to another computer in room 18/164. - finally come- where we could all be victims of anorexia and four out of 100 suffer from bulimia, [[email protected]] or call Tao said, "We have cleaned all Trojan Horse pro­ identity theft by a hacker." a similar illness characterized by periods of (831) 582-3115. grams from room 104 and changed the security Beatriz Rogers, a CSUMB alumni, said, "I intense binge eating and then purging. The Otter Realm al o accepts free­ measure in the server. We are diagnosing the prob­ requested a different student ID to be used While these numbers seem small, they imply lance submis ion. Contact Editor lems and continue to monitor the computers." instead of my SSN, even when I got it, it didn't that every individual knows at least one person d1anelle Raboteau on Fir tClas CSUMB, like many universities, uses the stu­ work well because it gave me more headaches who is suffering from a potentially fatal disease. [chanelJe_raboteau@ umb.edu]. dent Social Security Numbers (SSN) as basic than I ever imagined. I think if there's a large Only half of those that report the illness are cured. identification. The default password issued with new First-Class E-mail accounts contains part of ~ TROJAN HORSE: Page 4 ~ ANOREXIA: Page 5 ' ( ( 2 I The Otter Realm I· November 20, 2002 ARTIST OF THE WEEK Chad Schmid By Amanda Wollard to do with fun and amusing topics, like in his [email protected] song "It's a Mullet, You Can't Control It." He says he tries to not take himself too seriously, It's hard to define Chad Schmid's songs. but that he eventually wants to delve deeper I It's also difficult to guess what instrument and incorporate different aspects of his life he'll decide to play. It's even harder to predict into his musi~, such as his strong e_nviron­ when he'll be performing. But if you get a mental consciousness. chance to see him, you're in for a good time. "That's the struggle, the challenge: to Mainly playing acoustic guitar, but well write a song that means something." versed in the saxophone, piano and har­ You may be able to catch Schmid playing monica, Schmid frequently performs at at open mic night at the BBC, but he has open mic nights at the Black Box Cabaret nothing formally planned. He's looking into (BBC). Schrnid's performances range in tone performing at open mies around Pacific from silly to folksy and are usually unsched­ Grove or Monterey as well. uled and unrehearsed. "It's good to play at places like [the BBC]," Schmid says. "You get to see people playing "I see music as an escape. Lots different kinds of music and expressing them­ selves in different ways." Schmid says there is of people think that they're not much pressure in playing at the BBC, too old, that they can't do which makes it a great way for beginning per­ formers to get used to getting up in front of a it-they get frustrated. It just -group of people other than their friends. But that doesn't mean friends are no longer takes time. Everyone has a included in-the performance process: Besides certain pace." the BBC, Schmid plays at parties and jams with groups of friends. Playing with random -people allows him to experiment with his style The same 5 questions we ask every week and his technique-something he couldn't do {plus an extra credit question}: in front of a packed crowd at open mic. · Schmid grew up in a emjronment con­ 1. Boxers or briefs? (laughs and practically ducive to creativity; his parents always had blushes) What about nothing? No, just jok­ instruments around the house, and Schmid ing. Boxers. actually has pictures of himself strumming May I ask why? Briefs are too constricting. on a guitar when he was only three or four years old. 2. Estimated I.Q. level? I have no idea. I've Schmid didn't take lessons for any instru­ never taken a test. With all the drugs I do ..