Vol. 89 Issue 11
February 22, 2011
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Tully’s Coffeehouse opens its doors to CSUF New café next to College Park provides an alternative for students to get their daily caffeine fix with a dash of ambiance
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Culture Fest for a Good Cause Pakistani Student Association raises awareness and funds to help build a children’s hospital in Pakistan
The hazards of love and romance Workshop in SHCC teaches students how to keep relationships FLOR EDWARDS Daily Titan
WILLIAM CAMARGO / Daily Titan A runway model struts down the catwalk at the Pakistani Student Association’s Culture Fest Sunday night. The models showcased traditional Pakistani couture at the fashion show which was put on for charity.
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The Pakistani Student Association of Cal State Fullerton held its second annual Culture Fest Sunday night in the Titan Student Union. Tickets to this event included admission to the festivities as well as dinner, provided by Mughal Halal Tandoori Restaurant and Banquet. The program included several cultural dance performances, a fashion show featuring Mireasma Botique clothing and inspirational rap performances by artist Manifest 1. Persian comedian Max Amini was also planned to appear and perform several skits. “I’m really looking forward to the dance performances
and the fashion show,” said Dania Zaidi, 20, a biology major at CSUF. There was also a raffle for prizes such as boxing gloves signed by world champion boxer Amir Khan and a Nintendo DS. Other prizes included a model Toyota collectable car, a Pictionary board game, a day planner and a set of MAC makeup. All proceeds from the evening will be donated to charity in an effort to help raise money to build the second story of Maa-Zulekha Jiwani Welfare Hospital in Pakistan. PSA expected upward of 400 people before the end of the night, with the hopes that each one would be willing to donate to its cause. Its main goal is to raise $30,000 before the end of the night, according to Umair Ashraf, 22, a double major in
marketing and religious studies and co-president of PSA at CSUF. “It’s 100 percent for charity,” said Maira Ahmad, 28, a computer science major at CSUF and member of PSA. “It’s better to give (the money) away. Keeping it to yourself has no benefit.” Music, chattering voices and the aroma of authentic Middle Eastern food filled the air as the night progressed. The PSA wanted to get in touch with its community with this event. They intend to showcase their culture and help reach out to other Pakistanis and Middle Easterners, according to members. See CULTURE, page 2
During a workshop hosted by Amanda di Bartolomeo, Ph.D. and Allison Kozinos in the Student Heath and Counseling Center on Thursday, students were confronted with challenging questions dealing with relationships and love. The discussion was based on a workshop di Bartolomeo developed while teaching at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and posed the universal question, what is love and how do we maintain healthy relationships? Students showed up in the conference room, and all but one were women. Reed Salan, 24, a civil engineering major and the only male in the room, said he attended to find out about the benefits of creating a positive relationship. “I want to be more aware of the social aspects of relationships,” he said when the students were asked to give a brief introduction of why they were there. The workshop started with a showing of Hallmark’s Valentine “I Love Us” commercial. Di Bartolomeo said the workshop was intended to address and apply to a lot of different types of relationships – inter-gender, interracial and interfaith. Students were given multi-colored Post-it notes and asked to write one good quality of a relationship, one quality they were unsure of and one unhealthy quality. The responses overlapped, with some students labeling jealousy as unhealthy, while some were unsure. But all were unanimous that communication and trust were vital components to any relationship. See LOVE, page 2
Titans escape Dirtbags, 2-1
Celebrating the arts in Fullerton
In a soggy doubleheader, baseball wins one over Long Beach State, loses to UNC Tar Heels
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center houses art and history in North Orange County
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A young boy sits on his greatgrandfather’s lap, scoping the foyer of the mansion that rests atop a hill on Malvern Lane. A lavish Italian staircase with a brass banister and rusty red carpet spirals upward to a door with a wooden plank that reads, “Employees Only.” The marble floor leads to a gallery with polished wood floors. The shiny white walls are cluttered with a vibrant collection of photographs depicting the lush colors of spring and the fiery colors of fall. Outside, English ivy cascades down a grassy slope that leads to a stone pagoda where lovers often meet to proclaim their vows. Afternoon sunlight streams through the tall glass windows. “Grandpa, you gave up living here to live there?” he says, referring to his great-grandfather’s modest two-bedroom home that he lives in now. Harold Muckenthaler chuckles at his great-grandson’s innocence. “Yes, son. I did,” he says. The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, an Italian Renaissance-style estate, rests atop eight-and-a-half acres of sprawling hillside in Fuller-
DANIEL ENOS / For the Daily Titan A lonely piano sits in an exhibit area inside the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton.
ton. It started as a dream by Muckenthaler, 87, and his mother, Adella, after his father, Walter, died. The 1924 historic building, commissioned originally at $35,000 according the TheMuck.org, was once his childhood home. Tall palm trees tower over the boxy palace. There is a theater outside, a gift shop and art galleries inside, and ceramics and pottery workshops amid picnic benches and grassy fields. Ann Milazzo, 65, a senior volunteer coordinator and receptionist at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, recalls the story of Harold and his great-grandson. She has been working at the Muckenthaler, or “The Muck” as employees and members know it, for four and a half years. See MUCK, page 5
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Though Mother Nature at the time looked its worst, the No. 8 Cal State Fullerton baseball team was able to pull through and defeat rival Long Beach State 2-1 in the nightcap of their home opening doubleheader at Goodwin Field. With the victory over the Long Beach State Dirtbags, the Titans improved their record to 1-1 on the season. The Titans lost in the afternoon to the visiting North Carolina Tar Heels in an intense extra-innings affair. The Titans, who trailed LBSU throughout most of the game, 1-0, finally got in the groove when their bats awoke in the bottom half of the seventh inning. After being held to only two hits through six innings of play, junior designated hitter Tyler Pill started off the seventh smashing a double into the right-field corner. On the following at-bat, junior third baseman Joe Terry laced a triple into the same corner to drive Pill home. Terry, who was unproductive in the day game, came in to score the game-winning run four batters later when sophomore shortstop Richy Pedroza drove him in with a sacrifice fly to deep right. “I feel excited just to get that monkey off my back,” said Terry. “I didn’t get any hits in the first game, and it was kind of bothering
MARK SAMALA / Daily Titan Titan senior second baseman, Walker Moore, turns the double play at the second against North Carolina’s Tar Heels at Goodwin Field.
me. So I just went out there and just said it’s a new day, it’s a new game and let’s play.” After a jittery first inning, junior right-hander Noe Ramirez (1-0) quickly took command of the Dirtbags’ hitters in his seveninning performance. Ramirez finished the night allowing six hits, while striking out five and only
one earned run. With the courtesy of his teammates and coaches Ramirez was able to pull out the victory. “I just came out and got out of my technique, what I do best, control myself,” said Ramirez. “But help from Coach (Kirk) Saarloos was huge. He’s a great addition to this coaching staff and came out in
the second inning and started doing (his) thing.” Titan Head Coach Dave Serrano seemed satisfied with the victory, but knows there is still much the Titans can do to get into stride for the season. See TITANS, page 8