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Earth Week goals signed

Study abroad inspires lifelong career

Task force gets Climate Commitment signed at campus sustainability event

New international adviser Mikyong KimGoh uses experience abroad to lead

ARIANNE CUSTER Daily Titan

As evidence of Cal State Fullerton’s commitment to embrace and enact sustainability methods on campus, university President Milton A. Gordon signed the Talloires Declaration and the University Presidents’ Climate Commitment at the recent “Sustainability at CSUF: Progress and Goals” forum.

A main focus of Earth Week and the event Monday was sustainability, which was touched on

by Steve Murray, the acting vicepresident for Academic Affairs who described sustainability as the “long-term maintenance of environmental, economic and social well-being.”

He continued with, “We understand that our planet is a limited environment and that the activities of the human population can impact its well-being. We also know that many important resources necessary to support our way of life are in limited supply.”

As a way of addressing those concerns, the documents were signed as part of a panel discussion given by Ad Hoc members.

Ad Hoc is a group that was established by the Academic Senate in the fall of 2007 and is part of the sustainability task force appointed by Gordon in 2010.

According to Greg Dyment, director of the Arboretum, “We are a committee of people who are from different disciplines and departments who are concerned with sustainability.”

The Talloires Declaration has been signed by over 400 university leaders in over 50 countries, and CSUF is now the sixth CSU to sign.

According to the university leaders for a Sustainable Future, the secretariat for the signatories of the declaration, it is an “action plan for incorporating sustainability and environmental literacy in teaching, research, operations and outreach at colleges and universities.”

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KATHLEEN ROSELL Daily Titan

The beginning of the semester saw the appointment of Professor Mikyong Kim-Goh to the post of acting associate vice president of International Programs. KimGoh, a professor in the Department of Social Work and a faculty member in the College of Health and Human Development since 1992, has assisted in international affairs on campus before the appointment.

Kim-Goh is new to the position, but is not new to the world of international affairs. From an early age she became acquainted with international affairs and her studies abroad broadened her perspective on the world and guided her path to where she is today.

“I would say that (studying abroad) was a transformative experience,” said Kim-Goh. “It was such an influential experience that it, in a sense, guided the direction in terms of my career.”

See ADVISER, page 6 LUCIO VILLA / Daily Titan In an effort to merge the Declaration to Defend Public Education with a statement prepared by President Milton Gordon, students work through the night in Langsdorf Hall.

Campout in Langsdorf After two meetings with President Milton Gordon, student activists stage an all nighter

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Two meetings took place between President Milton Gordon, students and faculty members Monday to discuss the Declaration to Defend Public Education that was presented to Gordon Wednesday.

The second meeting came to a close in similar fashion to the first – Gordon refused to sign or work on a revision ­– when one student, Ally Bordas, 21, spoke up.

“Why won’t you sit here and work with us on this?” said Bordas.

Gordon’s reply echoed throughout the second meeting.

“You don’t think I support public education?” said Gordon.

Students interrupted the statement demanding to know why the president would not work with them to merge a statement with the declaration prepared by students and faculty.

“Well you know what, you can sit here and merge these two documents, and I will take a look at them when they are merged,” Gordon said. “I will make a decision then.”

Gordon added that he had, “a lot of things to do,” and would look at

the merged statements at a later date.

After two hours of meetings Monday, waiting in the halls of Gordon’s office for some students was a not only a collaborative effort but their only course of action.

However, Cal State Fullerton University Police Lt. John Brockie informed the students that the eighth and ninth floors of Langdorf Hall were officially closed at 5 p.m.

When asked if the students could discuss their next course of action, Brockie responded, “(The students) can leave; I am deciding for you.”

After deliberation between Brockie and Cameron Mahdad, a student

organizer and CSUF student, the two parties came to an agreement that would allow the students to stay the night on the second floor to work on creating a merged document.

“The plan for the rest of the night is to work as a people’s assembly and strategize on how we can get President Gordon to sign the declaration,” said Mahdad. “Students, faculty and staff are tired of trying to do all the work and the admin just sitting back and watching it. It should be a joint thing.”

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WHAT’S INSIDE NEWS Na’vi language creator comes to symposium ........................................2 OPINION Devil’s Advocate: Should we re-elect Obama? ........................................4 FEATURES For Your Health: The right foods for staying hydrated ........................................6 SPORTS Softball closes out series with Mustangs with a comeback ........................................8

Softball walks off with a sweep and first place The Titans outhustled Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for sole possession of conference’s top spot JEFF PRENOVOST Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton softball team (17-17, 6-2) took both games of a doubleheader Saturday by scores of 3-2 and 3-0 at Anderson Family Field against the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs.

In game one, senior center fielder Torrie Anderson gave the Titans an early lead in the first inning with her RBI-single to center field, which scored senior first baseman K.C. Craddick, who hit a single earlier and had advanced to second on a fielder’s choice.

The Mustangs rallied back in the sixth inning when junior right fielder Nicole Lund swung on the first pitch she saw and hit a double to the gap in right field. Senior catcher Stephanie Correia then hit an RBI-single down the right-field line and advanced to second on the close play at

the plate, which saw Lund reach home to tie the game at 1-1. Sophomore Cal Poly SLO pitcher Rebecca Patton then came to the plate with runners on second and third and with no outs, and hit an RBI-single past the Titan infielders to give the Mustangs a 2-1 advantage.

Senior pitcher Ari Cervantes kept her composure, though, and got out of the inning with three straight outs to limit the Mustangs’ lead to one run. The Titans rallied right back in the bottom of the sixth with sophomore left fielder Ashley Carter’s RBI infield single that allowed two runners to score.

“Coach told me before that at-bat that I had to put it on the ground and they will make an error or freak out someway, so I just focused on putting the ball in play and see if I could create havoc for them,” said Carter. “Sliding into first was a reaction thing. I knew I had to be safe, but I did it anyway.”

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Sophomore catcher Ariel Tsuchiyama walked to lead off the inning, and freshman right fielder Leesa Harris successfully bunted down the firstbase line. Freshman second baseman Lauren Mario then loaded the bases with a grounder to first that the first baseman bobbled, which allowed Mario to reach the bag just before the first baseman. That set the plate for Carter’s hit, and she barely made it to first with a feet-first slide, just in time because the first baseman and second baseman could not execute the relay fast enough. Her hit allowed freshman pinch runner Jena Rubio to score from third.

Harris caught the Mustangs napping in the confusion of Carter reaching first and stole home to get the lead right back for the Titans at 3-2.

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CLIMATE: Sustainability at CSUF ...Continued from page 1 Scott Hewitt, a professor and the vice chair of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, said during the forum, “Sustainability is not just something done once. It’s something you continue to work on and progress on.”

With this in mind, Hewitt pointed out that in 2007 there were 53 courses that focused entirely or at least partially on sustainability in the curriculum. Now there are 82 courses where the “main focus is clearly on sustainability.”

In regards to the University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, “The overall goal is to make campuses more sustainable and address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to reduce and ultimately neutralize greenhouse gas emissions on campus,” Murray said.

“I’m particularly proud of our actions that have been taken up to this point,” said Gordon just before signing the documents.

He listed examples such as the removal of cleaning products with harmful chemicals, the installation of better irrigation controls, solar power generating systems and LED lighting in place of fluorescent, and the establishment of the Center for Sustainability.

During the Q-and-A portion of the forum, Doug Moody, Associ-

ated Students Inc. Environmental Advocacy Committee chair, was asked how to get students more involved with the sustainability movement.

Moody expressed that he would like to see staff, faculty and students work together on future sustainability efforts, perhaps under the umbrella of the ASI EAC, so that it would be a more concentrated effort and the word would get out to more people.

“Students need and want to do our part to make sustainability ideas a part of the world that we are inheriting,” said Moody.

Sean Takayoshi, a student in the environmental engineering graduate program at CSUF, attended the forum and expressed his desire to see better efforts toward a “zero waste” university by asking the panel, “What is our Arboretum doing to work with our facilities to compost our food waste on campus?”

Dyment explained that contractors building the student housing inquired about installing a kitchen composter, which would cook down the food waste and then be put in the compost pile at the Arboretum, and said, “It would be great to have something similar at our food court.”

For those who missed the forum but would like to express their ideas or know more about sustainability, go to Sustainability.Fullerton.edu.

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LUCIO VILLA / Daily Titan Students meet with President Milton Gordon and Vice President Silas Abrego to persuade the pair to sign the Declaration to Defend Public Education created by the students and faculty. The meeting was held in Gordon’s conference room on the ninth floor of Langsdorf Hall.

GORDON: Refuses to sign the Declaration to Defend Public Education ...Continued from page 1 The intent of students and faculty for the initial 1 p.m. meeting with Gordon was to work with the president on creating a revised Declaration to Defend Public Education that all parties involved would be willing to back.

Gordon raised concerns with the wording of several statements in the declaration – including the clause that states that CSU Chancellor Reed “refuses to bargain for fair contracts with faculty and staff.” Gordon added that he is not involved in any of the contracts for faculty members, and there were several other points made in the declaration he disagreed with.

“I won’t be able to sign this agreement,” Gordon said.

Questions arose over the Cali-

fornia Faculty Association’s involvement in the meeting and in the drafting of the declaration.

Both Gordon and acting Vice President for Student Affairs Silas Abrego suggested that the meeting itself was a CFA function.

“The declaration makes reference to the CFA,” said Abrego.

“There are ongoing negotiations going on right now. There is representatives for the CFA and the CSU in negotiations. We can’t have anyone else intervene in those negotiations.”

Abrego added that the document was a way to generate support for the CFA and attendees were commingling two issues ­– for a better contract and better education.

After the issue was discussed, two CFA members who were present removed themselves from the room.

Gordon continued to stress that he would not sign the statement or any agreement at all despite the pleas of students and faculty.

After more dialogue, Gordon agreed to work on his own statement but had to leave to sign a climate commitment as a part of the Earth Week program at CSUF. “I’m not surprised, but I am frustrated,” said Bryan Norton, a student organizer. “The vice president of Student Affairs was largely speaking for (Gordon) … and was actually largely indecisive until the vice president of Student Affairs began feeding him answers.”

Newly elected vice president of ASI, Jay Jefferson, attended the first meeting and also expressed his feelings.

“I think public education is important,” said Jefferson. “I knew that today they were going to take

action and try to get Gordon to endorse (the declaration), and I was interested to see if he was going to sign it and if he didn’t, why not?”

Jefferson added that it is a tough position for the president to be in and he hopes Gordon will take the initiative to sign something.

In the second meeting, Gordon read a prepared statement commending the students for their work and passion. But he continued to stress that he would not sign anything nor work with the students to draft a merger of the two statements.

When late classes ended Monday night in Langsdorf Hall, there were still students waiting on the second floor.

They intended to camp out and work on a new draft throughout the night to bring to Gordon in the morning.

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Eric Niu has a hefty plate full of responsibilities, and now he can add one more to the top of the list as Cal State Fullerton’s newest Associated Students Inc. president.

The international business major, 22, is planning to make the most of his time while he’s energetic enough to juggle it all – his classes, his job and his involvement in his campus fraternity.

“I just believe we only live once and we should do as much as we can while we’re young. I can manage everything perfectly. I don’t really go out or anything. My priority is school and now it’s ASI and my fraternity. I’m handling it,” said Niu.

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Niu and his running mate, Vice President-elect Jay Jefferson, garnered enough student votes to win the leadership positions last week in a runoff race against candidates Aissa Canchola and Megan Martinez. The first time around the race was too tight, with neither team coming up with the majority of votes.

Now the work begins. He has even canceled his plans to travel to Barcelona, Spain this summer to concentrate on his new role, Niu said.

Traveling is among his greatest passions and he has already visited places like Japan and France. Last year he studied in Heidelberg, Germany, where he met some friends who ended up studying at CSUF last semester. His dream is to combine his love of traveling and a career in international trading someday.

“My dream is always to do something with international trading,” Niu said. “Every place has its own culture.

It was really good to see things from a different perspective. (In Germany) I learned from different people I met everyday. It was a great experience.”

Niu, who lives in Irvine, was born in China and moved to the United States at 13 years old.

“It was a completely different world to me. I had to meet new friends, learn the language and adapt to the culture.

It’s definitely another experience that has got me to be open-minded and become stronger.”

Michelle Santizo, a friend and former CSUF ASI board member, said there is much students can learn from Niu. She even remembers last year when Niu mentioned that he would someday like to be president on campus.

“There’s a lot of things students can learn from him,” Santizo said. “From his dedication and the way he strives for his dreams no matter how difficult the situations in life may be.”

In addition to his classes, Niu, a junior at CSUF, also works roughly 15 hours a week as a community service leader at the Lakeview Senior Center in Irvine. There, he helps teachers plan exercise classes and organizes activities like pool, bridge and dances.

“My favorite part about my job is that I really get to become friends with seniors, and I love to listen to their stories. I’ve learned to view the world using different perspectives from people’s experiences,” Niu said.

He also serves as treasurer for his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi. Now as ASI president-elect, Niu’s first duty is to select an executive team.

He and Jefferson will begin conducting interviews for the positions.

“I think we’re looking for passion,” Niu said. He is a former member of the ASI Board of Directors. “You need a lot of passion to do the work; it’s not easy.

It requires a lot of time and definitely the ability to work with us.”

Jefferson and Niu met on a trip to Sacramento last spring to lobby against budget cuts. They were roommates for the weekend.

“We all became very good friends,” Jefferson said of Niu and a third roommate. “It was definitely a good time and I learned Eric was a pretty good guy.”

Niu approached Jefferson two to three weeks before the election to ask him to be his running mate. During the campaign, Jefferson said he learned that Niu is very open-minded.

“He’s open to hearing what other people have to say and that’s going to be critical to his role as ASI president,” Jefferson said.

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The creator of Na’vi, the language of the fictional people of Pandora in Avatar, spoke at the 20th annual Linguistics Symposium Monday.

Other speakers included professors from UCLA, Claremont McKenna College and USC. Paul Frommer, linguist and creator of Na’vi, earned his Ph.D. in linguistics from USC and taught clinical management communication at the Marshall School of Business until he retired last year. He also taught a linguistics class for one year at Cal State Fullerton in the late ‘70s.

“I had a really good time teaching here,” said Frommer. “I taught a class on animal communication and language. Probably no one else wanted to teach it, so I picked it up.”

He also taught an introductory course on linguistics during his CSUF teaching gig.

Frommer is best known for the language he created in James Cameron’s $400 million epic science fiction film Avatar.

“Na’vi attracted a lot of interest,” Frommer said.

Roy Kouchakgi, a graduate TOESL student with a passion for linguistics, was excited to see Frommer speak.

“The movie is out-of-this-world beautiful,” said Kouchakgi. “(Frommer) created a language! It’s not every day that a language is created.”

The creating of a new language started with phonetics and phonology.

“There are many misconceptions about language,” Frommer said. “It’s the most human thing that we do. It’s what defines us. No other living creature communicates like humans.”

Frommer said every language has rules and the study of linguistics teaches that every group has a legitimate way of communicating.

“There’s a misconception that any non-English language is inferior,” Frommer said. “(The study of linguistics) helps you appreciate different languages and the variety of human communication.”

Kouchakgi, who plans to graduate

next spring and hopes to teach English abroad, said he’s enthused about linguistics. “I’m fascinated with how sounds come together. The human capacity is to speak and communicate.

We are the only animal to do so.”

Frommer also said linguistics helps people to understand themselves better because language “pervades every aspect of existence.”

Frommer was able to combine his love for astronomy with his passion for linguistics when he received a forwarded email about Lightstorm Entertainment’s search for a linguistics expert to develop a new language for Cameron’s epic film.

Victor Hugo Miranda, a CSUF linguistics student and chair of the Linguistics Symposium, said, “Believe it or not, language is the most complicated thing we learn in school. It seems easy, but when you break it down it’s not so easy.”

Frommer defined linguistics as the “scientific study of language.”

“It helps you when learning other languages. It helps you appreciate languages more,” Frommer said. But more than anything, Frommer finds the study of language fascinating. That fascination is what drove him to create a language that is similar to many other languages in that it is 30 to 40 percent wordier than English.

The task was not an easy one and took Frommer four years working closely with the Oscar-winning director. The task included creating MP3 files of the 1,000-word language. He also met with actors in one-on-one tutorials to ensure that the syllables of Na’vi were pronounced exactly the way Frommer intended in a languagelearning type setting.

Miranda said the symposium is intended to inform the general public of other fields and designed to introduce research to students interested in linguistics and languages.

Miranda, who is set to graduate this spring, said the study of linguistics is very useful when teaching a foreign language.

“The U.S. is a monolingual culture,” Miranda said. “There’s a joke that if you speak two languages you’re bilingual. If you speak one language you’re American.”

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OC walks for wishes The Make-A-Wish Foundation holds its first two-mile awareness fundraiser CHRISTOPHER PARK Daily Titan

Hundreds gathered at the Orange County Great Park over the weekend for the Make-A-Wish inaugural Walk for Wishes, a twomile walk to raise funds and awareness to help grant wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses.

Dozens of teams were at the event, with each team raising funds to grant a wish for one child. Reach for a Wish, a team comprised of Cal State Fullerton students, was also at the event.

“Our team has granted a wish.

We’ve made over $5,000,” said Katy Davis, a CSUF student and member of Reach for a Wish.

At the time of publication, they exceeded their goal by $389 and had 55 members join their team, which also exceeded their goals of trying to hit 50 members.

“My team members and I went back and forth between, ‘This is easy, we’re gonna do this!’ and ‘Oh no, we’re halfway to our point and we only have half the members;

are we gonna make that?’ And you know what, really, to see the kind of people that are here, I’m not surprised that kindness came through and we made our goals with that,” said Davis.

Reach for a Wish is also part of the VIP group of teams, a group highlighted for raising the most funds out of all the teams at the event. They sit within the top five teams.

Reach for a Wish got its start due to Delivering Services for Communities 411, a class functioning as a learning experience for students pursuing a human services degree. Students enrolled in the class are split into a handful of groups, finding and choosing benefit communities, like children with life-threatening illnesses and doing what they can to aid them.

In this case, Davis and her team saw Make-A-Wish as the support community in which to help benefit the community.

Charles Royston, professor of human services, has taught the class for several years. “(Katy and her team’s accomplishments are) a confirmation

that people make a difference individually, but the best mechanism is groups,” Royston said.

Make-A-Wish teams, like Reach for a Wish, have gone on to grant wishes to thousands of children and have granted wishes for more than 195,000 children since its inception.

“I can’t really express, not enough words to really go into what this foundation does for kids and for families who can’t really do their dreams for their kids. This foundation really makes a huge difference,” said Tom Houwen, father of Kaylee Houwen. “She’ll never forget this whole experience for the rest of her life. It’s amazing.”

Kaylee’s wish was to go to Disneyworld and she got her wish granted. Kaylee has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Her cancer is currently in remission.

Make-A-Wish was founded in 1980 and has since grown into the largest wish-granting foundation and nonprofit organization in the world. Walk for Wishes, which Make-A-Wish hopes to make an annual event, has generated over $100,000 in funds.

HHD Inter-Club Council looks to elect new board members As executive staff of the HHD-ICC graduate this May, the council hopes to fill three leadership positions for next semester AMY LEADBETTER Daily Titan

It’s getting close to election time for the Health and Human Development Inter-Club Council (HHD-ICC) and as its executive board members are graduating, there is a need for strong leaders to fill vacant positions.

Krystal Santiago, a public administration major with a minor in human services, currently serves as the chair of the HHD-ICC. It is her fourth year on the council and her second year as chair.

“We don’t like to be seen as ‘politicians’ or ‘elected officials.’ We’re no different than the students we serve,” said Santiago.

Every college on campus has its own ICC. Each ICC consists of a group of executives that act as a mediator between ASI and the clubs within that college. They are responsible for distributing funds provided by ASI and are commit-

ted to the growth and support of graduate and undergraduate education.

Student Associations are eligible to apply to the ICC for money to cover the cost of a guest speaker or to fund other activities, events, research, public service and professional development.

“The upcoming elections are a very important part of campus life,” said Lindsey Ellsworth, a child and adolescent studies major. “(The interclub council) helps distribute funds for events.”

Ellsworth served on the HHDICC as director of administration from 2009-10. She could not participate for another term because she became vice president of the Child and Adolescent Student Association, which is an active organization within the ICC. She said the ICC is currently promoting the organization, open positions and welcoming potential candidates to its upcoming meetings to help the council find suitable leaders to fill positions.

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According to the HHD-ICC Constitution, the officers shall not hold any major officer positions in any of the various College of Health and Human Development clubs or organizations due to potential conflict of interest.

The HHD-ICC strives to strengthen school unity among the body within the College of Health and Human Development and throughout campus through their clubs. It is currently home to 12 student associations and facilitates aid and continual success to all of them.

Most of the clubs incorporate weekly or biweekly guest speakers. Through funding proposed by HHD-ICC and approved by ASI, the Inter-Club Council also funds members of organizations to promote and host events. At the end of March the HHD-ICC put on the Carnival of Connections event that incorporated all of its student associations.

Santiago said since ASI is funded by the student body, the purpose of

the Carnival of Connections was to let students know where their money was going. They hosted a fun way to inform students through carnival-like games of all the community service and good deeds their clubs are doing.

Although 12 clubs do not seem like a lot, some of them consist of hundreds of members. Santiago assures that there are a lot of students within the College of Health and Human Development that are involved in their clubs and associations.

The HHD-ICC is comprised of three officers in the executive staff that consist of the chair, vice chair and the director of administration.

All three positions are issued scholarships. According to the ASI Fiscal Year 2010-11 Budget Summary, the three positions receive scholarships ranging from $890 to $1,840.

Lani Endo, a child and adolescent studies major and natural sciences minor, has served on the executive board for three years.

In the fall 2009 semester she served as the director of administration. She admits that through her involvement with the Inter-Club Council, she learned a lot about ASI and the way they worked and eventually became vice chair for the Board of Directors.

“There are so many leadership opportunities within our college and organizations and especially within ASI,” said Endo. “When it comes to leadership I started out as president of a club and eventually worked my way up to the Executive Board of the HHD-ICC. I enjoy being an advocate for students and helping fight for what the students and college wants.”

The positions’ qualifications consist of having at least six semester units of credit per term while holding office, being in good standing with the university, not being on judicial or academic probation and having a cumulative GPA of 2.5.

An officer also must be either majoring or minoring in health and human development.

The duties of the chair are to be the presiding officer and run all the meetings, rule on matters of interpretation of the bylaws, prepare the agenda for each General Council meeting and also be responsible for attending all Executive Senate meetings.

The vice chair fulfills all duties of the chair in the event that the chair is unable to do so. The vice chair manages all funds of HHD-ICC, serves as a liaison between the Executive Staff and HHD-ICC representatives regarding all financial issues, reports financial data, coordinates the Finance Committee when needed and ensures that all HHD-ICC funding complies with ASI bylaws, policy statements and fiscal policies.

The director of administration takes minutes, maintains file of attendance, agendas and all relevant information to HHD-ICC. The current HHD-ICC will begin preparing for elections the last week of April. The elections will take place Wednesday, May 4, where the council will vote in three nominated officers.

A transition meeting has been bumped up two weeks sooner than normal to Wednesday, May 11, to assure that the transitions between officers is effective and efficient.

“We want to guarantee that there will be a smooth transition.

Anyone who is interested but apprehensive because they feel they are not qualified or inexperienced, please come meet with us,” Santiago said. “During the transition, we will trade information, pass down all our documentation and records, and provide the new officers with the foundation they will need.”

Santiago encourages any students who are interested to sit in one of their upcoming council meetings to see the way they operate and meet the current executive board.

The council meets every Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in EC 605. The term of office is July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

Ticketmaster, owned by Live Nation Entertainment Inc., will introduce a new “dynamic pricing” program sometime this year, potentially dropping prices for some events, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc., which is the largest event ticket retailer in the world, will base its prices on consumer demand. It will begin with concerts and sporting events and offer the program later for theater and arts events, according to the article.

That means if a concert isn’t selling well, the price could dip for consumers looking for a cheaper price.

“Efficient pricing is one of the most important and untapped opportunities,” said Nathan Hubbard, Ticketmaster chief executive, as quoted in the LA Times. “By utilizing MarketShare and Ticketmaster’s technology, our clients will be able to retain economic value that is normally siphoned off by the secondary market and to sell more of their tickets that go unsold today. Meanwhile, more fans will have more opportunities to enjoy live entertainment events because tickets will be more accessible and pricing options will broaden.”

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CSUF Welcomes Comm Week Cal State Fullerton is hosting its annual Comm Week April 25 through May 1 for students, faculty and professionals in the communications field.

The event aims to educate students interested in working in the field on current communications issues while giving advice and providing an inside look into the industry through working professionals and alumni.

Attendees can expect industry professionals from NBC Universal, Churm Media, the Orange County Register, E! Online, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Echo Media Group, KTLA and much more.

There will also be industry mixers and internship fairs, discussions on public relations, social media and writing, as well as advice on how to get started and what to do after graduation.

For live coverage of the events, visit DailyTitan.com Brief by Jessica Druck

Anti-Hate Rally to be Held at Becker Cal State Fullerton student organizations are joining forces to present the “Corners of Hate, We’re Just As American As You” to respond to the recent protest rally at a Yorba Linda Islamic community center charity event.

The anti-hate rally will take place April 28 at the Becker Amphitheatre from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The ASI and AICA-sponsored event will aim to bring together individuals from different ethnicities and races that are often victims of hate incidents and racism.

The video of the anti-Islam rally in Yorba Linda shook Orange County and created a buzz online because of the hateful comments hollered by the protesters at the families present at the fundraiser.

Students will be able to voice their opinions and give personal testimonies at the event, while information tables and speakers will highlight the message of the rally.

A number of different student organizations including the Association of Chinese Students Cambodian Students Association, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Iran Students Association, Inter-Tribal Student Counsel, Middle Eastern Students, Muslim Students Association Society, Nikkei Student Union, Pakistani Students’ Association, Queer and Straight Alliance and the Vietnamese Students Association are all taking part in the rally.

For more information contact Soaliha Lakhani (of the PSA) at soalihalakhani@yahoo.com or Sepideh Nia at sepidehnia@fullerton.edu.

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April 19, 2011

Should we re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012 for another term?

Four years is not enough time to change the world, re-elect him KATHLEEN ROSELL Daily Titan

Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!

In 2008, an obscure senator from the state of Illinois came into the limelight and stole the election.

At first we were all like, “Obama? Obama who?”

He had a funny name and was a different color than the last 43 presidents that have served before him.

But once we got over the obvious fact that he was different and began to listen to his talks of change, we realized that he may in fact be the guy that we had been looking for.

Only a couple mere weeks ago, Obama announced his intentions to run for presidential re-election in 2012.

Now the question is, should we re-elect him to continue his work and let him have four more years to come through with his promises?

Critics like to say that he has not come through with his promises.

Well, let’s think about it— what politician has?

The fact of the matter is, politicians no longer believe in serving their constituents; they serve themselves, thus the different parties are unable to compromise or work together in order to help the country move further into the future.

But one thing the country has forgotten is that Barack Obama, 49, is only human.

His lofty campaign slogans gave people an idea that he was their savior here to thwart the wrongdoers in the world and save them from everything.

The reason people are so unhappy with the last few years is they have realized that he’s not a god—he’s mortal and cannot just

wiggle his ears and change the world.

Unfortunately, it does not work that way.

In his first days in office, he did begin to go through with his campaign promises.

He ordered that Guantanamo Bay be closed; the reason that it has yet to be shut down is because Congress will not approve the funds.

He ordered less secrecy with documents, which has been done, and he reversed the ban on funding for establishments that perform abortions.

He tried to implement universal health care, but that turned into a nightmare because no one was willing to put forth the effort to work together.

His ideas and intentions were undeniably good, but when you have a government of thousands of people from different sides screaming for different footnotes in a bill, there is no surprise the bill ended up the way it did.

Like presidents before him, Obama started off with a high approval rating, and of course it has gone down.

What is remarkable is how quickly Americans lost faith in him.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Obama’s approval rating hit a low of 38 percent last July, which then went up to 53 percent in January and has been staying between that and 46 percent since.

Many of the other complaints against him are about the economy, national budget and various wars around the world that we are involved in.

Just in case everyone forgot, let me remind you that all of those

problems were around before he took the oath of office.

You cannot make a national debt of $14 trillion disappear overnight; the money to repay that has to come from somewhere.

Cutbacks and higher taxes are really the only solutions.

The trouble is Americans have gotten so used to so much for so little that they will not even think of considering paying more in

taxes.

Obama is only one man in the world.

He has done many good things for this country, but they are overshadowed by some of the biggest problems our country has faced in decades.

Plus, incumbent presidents always do more in their second term because they are no longer concerned about being re-elected and do not mind stepping on toes.

If we elect in another newcomer, then we are going to have another four years of nothing happening.

Obama needs another four years to execute the promises that he has put forth.

We have yet to see the full power of Obama.

By voting him out of office we will only be left with the question, “What if?”

We cannot trust President Obama with our economy or security PETER CORNETT For the Daily Titan

What was your greatest disappointment in the last few years?

The loss of a favorite sports team?

The unfortunate cancellation of a TV show?

Mine is the abysmal performance of Barack Obama as president of the United States.

The historic election of the first black U.S. president brought with it many great expectations. Sadly, Obama’s ideological shortcomings and ineptitude as a leader have critically damaged the international standing of our great nation.

In nearly every aspect of analysis, Barack Obama’s presidency has been a failure of disastrous proportions.

Barack Obama spends like a drunken sailor: Obama’s horrific mismanagement of economic policy is inexcusable. For all his talk of “inheriting” a bad economy from his yokel predecessor, Obama has somehow managed to outdo George W. Bush in frivolous spending.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Budget deficit was $438 billion in 2008.

The deficit in 2011, according to projections by the CBO, will be a colossal $1.5 trillion; Obama has

nearly quadrupled the deficit in less than three years.

Barack Obama is operating as an imperial president: In stark contrast with the actions of his predecessor, Barack Obama has failed to request congressional approval for the recent military engagement in Libya. The Constitution of the United States as well as the War Powers Act of 1973 require that the president obtain approval for military intervention from Congress.

Even Bush managed to drag himself before Congress to get the go-ahead for Iraq and Afghanistan; Obama hasn’t even paid them lip service.

Barack Obama supports military interventionism: A recent study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute found that the United States alone accounts for 43 percent of global military expenditures (more than $687 billion). The people screaming about the military-industrial complex seem to be right. Obama has failed to withdraw troops from Iraq (nearly 50,000 troops still remain, according to CNN), and U.S. troops are still dying in Afghanistan.

The recent military assault on oil-rich Libya has convinced me that Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize he was given for allegedly strengthening “international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

Barack Obama continues to break his promises: During his initial campaign, Barack Obama presented himself as a reform candidate and a constitutional scholar.

The reality, however, doesn’t live up to the fantasy. Obama has broken a vast array of campaign promises, from public negotiation of his health care policy to the immedi-

ate closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

We have not seen even minimal progress on the comprehensive immigration reform bill he guaranteed would surface in the first year of his presidency or on the cap and trade bill to limit carbon emissions. The campaign slogan of “Yes we can!” has become “No we didn’t.” Why would anyone believe his grandiose promises when this man begs for another four years?

Barack Obama rammed through a broken and costly health care bill: According to research from economist Veronique de Rugy and the CBO, the health care act will result in a federal deficit increase of $254 billion as a direct consequence of passing Obamacare. The health care law is not only expensive, but was passed by lawmakers who didn’t understand its provisions.

David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner said former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi might as well have stated to the Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties in 2010, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

Scary.

Sadly, the hope that millions of people had for Barack Obama has turned out to be baseless. Obama’s recycled policies and playbook have earned him the illustrious title of Bush 2.0; he speaks more eloquently than Dubbya, but is otherwise disturbingly similar. As his record proves, we cannot trust Barack Obama with our security, and least of all, the economy.

Obama’s rabid and fanatical apologists always attempt to rationalize away blame placed on our dear leader, but Americans are slowly figuring out the truth; we deserve more than an armchair president with an ego approaching the size of the federal deficit.

When it comes time to vote in 2012, I will be checking the box entitled, “Anyone but Barack Hussein Obama.”

Hippie Health

by NICOLE FELTON

“How to Live a Greener Life”

Music: Our favorite therapy Studies show that music can lower blood pressure, subsequently lowering risk of heart disease and stroke “One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.”

Bob Marley was able to put the quality of music into a sentence so simple.

What if I told you listening to any kind of music was actually a way to ultimately improve your health?

Well, listening to music will improve your health.

Music may not cure cancer or AIDS, but it does have a positive impact on your well-being.

According to Japanese researchers, participants in a study who were exposed to music over a three-month period lowered their blood pressure by five to six points.

This means that listening to music may reduce your risk for diseases linked to high blood pressure.

According to the American Heart Association, high blood pressure, which is also known as hypertension, is also linked to heart disease and stroke.

This is not to be confused for being a magical medicine that will lower blood pressure and prevent heart disease.

The results found in the study are not enough for doctors to prescribe music for high blood pressure.

Vera Brandes, the director of the research program in music and medicine at Paracelsus Medical University, believes that music may influence the parasympathetic nervous system, which allows the body to relax and slows heart rate.

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understood.

However, according to a recent meeting at the American Heart Association in Atlanta, music reportedly lowered blood pressure, resulting in the possible loss of weight.

It doesn’t matter what type you listen to; the universal feeling people get from music is happiness, and happiness improves your health.

This does not mean that listening to music will make you lose 10 pounds, although that would be amazing.

This simply means that music may cause relaxation of the heart or blood vessels, which will decrease blood pressure.

From elevator music to your fifth grade musical, we are surrounded by music on a daily basis.

Now every time you are exposed to music of any genre, you know you are benefiting yourself and your health.

Music can offer hope when there is nothing else left to believe.

Music can be therapeutic when times are difficult, and it can touch your heart with each powerful verse.

Music is something you can feel not only in your body, but your spirit.

People can express themselves through music in ways they might not be able to otherwise communicate.

Although there hasn’t been research or a study done on how music can affect your soul or spirit, I think we each understand the positive influence music has on us.

It doesn’t matter what type you listen to; the universal feeling people get from music is happiness, and happiness improves your health.

Turning on the radio in your car after a long stressful day and hearing your favorite song will ease all of your worries for that brief moment.

A life without music is like a life without soul and passion.

I love to explore nonconventional ways to improve and benefit your health.

Music will have such a positive impact on each and every person’s life.

Enjoy your favorite music that much more knowing you are creating a healthy environment for yourself.

Peace, love and recycle!

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The inevitable decline of CDs A look into reasons music sales, digital and physical, are on the way out MICHAEL ESQUIVEL

Arboretum celebrates Earth Week

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ARIANNE CUSTER / Daily Titan Visitors to the Fullerton Arboretum’s Green Scene 2011 Plant and Garden Show purchased gardening-related items as well as ecofriendly items to support the Earth Week cause.

The Green Scene 2011 Plant and Garden Show at the Arboretum kicked off Earth Week and California Native Plant Week at Cal State Fullerton. Attendees were able to shop for unique plants, garden art and supplies from over 100 vendors last weekend.

Attendees walked from tent to tent, spread out over the Arboretum garden, purchasing items such fair-trade baskets, eco-friendly bags, hand-thrown planters and license plate roof-topped birdhouses.

Exotic, drought-resistant and California-native plants were also for sale in abundance.

Sarah Jayne, a volunteer with the California Native Plant Society since 1985, was at one of the booths explaining the importance of and how to go native in the garden.

“I just happen to be a native plant enthusiast,” said Jayne.

Part of her efforts was to explain proper gardening practices to gardeners who stopped by.

“They think that natives grow so well out in nature neglected and then they try to grow them at home and it’s not as easy as they expect,” Jayne said.

Jayne explained that with knowl-

edge on drainage and watering, new gardeners could enjoy growing Cora Bells, Sages, California Fuchsia and native grasses, for example.

Jayne also answered questions on California Native Plant Week.

“It was voted in by legislature last year to begin this year.

It will be an annual event the third week of April from now on,” Jayne said. “The purpose is to celebrate Native plants. Just get out there and enjoy them. Appreciate them in the wild.”

More experienced gardeners, like Helen Cunningham from Whittier, also attended the show. This was her fourth year at the show.

“We came for very specific things and found them. Some of the time we come to see what’s new, but this year we had a specific list,” said Cunningham.

One of the 13 items that Cunningham came for and bought was Viburnum, a flowering plant with big snowballs of white flowers, something that she had seen the previous year at the show and wanted for this year to start a cottage garden.

Brita Lemmon, who has owned her business, Brita’s Old Town Gardens for 14 years, educated any of her shoppers who wanted to

know more about cottage gardens.

She explained, “Having a really diverse garden, like a cottage garden, attracts bees, butterflies and humming birds. You’re going to use a little more water, but you’re also going to bring in an ecosystem.”

“When you are using annuals that make seeds, that means you are going to have pollen to attract wildlife. If we don’t have pollen, then we don’t eat,” Lemmon said.

“It doesn’t take a lot of space to have a few of these plants.”

She suggested mixing and matching perennials and annuals.

Lemmon recommended the annual Cerinthe, which has deep, purple tubular flowers and seeds each year.

“The bird reaction to the seed litter is so fun,” Lemmon said.

She also suggested tall poppies, an annual that bees are attracted to. Another annual cottage flower is the Scabiosa. According to Lemmon, “It is a beautiful tall one great for cutting.”

A perennial to incorporate with the cottage annuals would be Verbascum Phoeniceum, because it is drought tolerant and seeds, according to Lemmon.

If you missed out on the show, you can still visit the Arboretum’s

potting shed for gardening items.

“The potting shed propagates a lot of the California natives we have on the grounds,” said Janet McGarvey, coordinator of events at the Arboretum.

McGarvey suggested stopping by the Arboretum because, “It’s a quiet, peaceful place where you can learn more about plants in the world. It’s a beautiful park-like setting, an oasis in the city. You forget the freeway is right there. It’s a tranquility that is often missed out on by the community or even people on campus.”

The Arboretum is open every day, except for major holidays and for occasional special events. The grounds are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. Special extended visiting hours (on the grounds only) occur during the summer months. The Arboretum closes in July at 8 p.m., August 7:30 p.m. and September 7 p.m.

Admission is generally free, except during occasional special events. However, to help support the development of the Arboretum gardens and educational programs, voluntary donations at the main entrance are encouraged. For more information, visit FullertonArboretum.org.

Almost 11 years ago, stores like Tower Records and Wherehouse Music were mobbed with over 2.4 million people waiting to purchase N’Sync’s No Strings Attached album.

Today, music stores like those are almost non-existent, and those that are still in business do not receive much foot traffic in the CD aisles.

The sales of compact disc albums have seen a significant decline since that record week in 2000.

Nielsen Sound Scan reported that over 730 million units sold in 2000.

In 2010, album sales hit an all-time low of 326 million units sold, including digitally downloaded albums.

“Nobody wants to go through the trouble of going to a music store, finding and buying a CD, opening the package, etc. Now we just click a button on the Internet and instantly have music,” said Keegan Gogerty, 22, a singer/ songwriter and radio-TV-film student.

Digitally downloading music has played a major role in the decline of CD sales, but the biggest factor is the illegal digital downloading of music.

Pirating music has been on the rise since Napster launched its peer-to-peer file-sharing software in 1999.

Napster was known for allowing users to share and trade their MP3 files with one another over the Internet for free.

Napster was later shut down after multiple lawsuits, but more peer-to-peer outlets surfaced,

such as Kazaa, Morpheus and LimeWire.

Peer-to-peer sharing has grown from MP3 sharing to multiple-file sharing and torrent sharing.

“I don’t blame people for not wanting to purchase music. If I want to support a band, I will attend their concerts or buy a Tshirt. That is where they receive the most royalties anyway,” said Charlie Hatano, an advertising graduate student.

“We live in a generation of simple living, the digital age,” Gogerty said.

Online music stores such as iTunes and Napster give consumers the option to purchase music at the click of a button.

However, Ashley Sutton, 24, a psychology major, still buys compact discs.

“Nothing beats getting a new CD, reading the booklet and reading the lyrics,” said Sutton.

“I agree Internet downloading is more convenient, but I find owning a physical CD collection rewarding, rather than clogging up my computer with music I download.”

The music industry has tried to crack down on the peer-to-peer file-sharing software programs, but people are still using different forms of illegally downloading or sharing music, such as torrents and Google searches.

“I’ll admit that I have had friends burn an album for me or copy them into my computer for my iPod,” Sutton said. “Making copies of CDs, illegally downloading the album and sharing, it is all the same.”

In an interview with USAToday.com, the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) CEO said illegal music sharing has been “contained.”

“I remember people downloading one song at a time with Napster. More recently I have seen people download 10 albums at the same speed they could download one song in 1999,” Hatano said.

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ADVISER: Cal State Fullerton’s new international adviser thanks studying abroad for inspiring her lifelong career field and the areas within the social work field that I have been interested in, we see many issues that have to do with immigration, immigrants, displaced people and refugees.”

In 2009 Kim-Goh traveled to Korea to do a three-month-long field research on married immigrants in Korea. She focused on the multicultural changes in Korea, which she said is a relatively new phenomenon.

“Social work not only covers individual family issues at the micro level, but it also deals with the broader issues such as social justice,” Kim-Goh said.

...Continued from page 1 Immigrant Student Being immersed in international issues is not a new lifestyle for KimGoh. In the late 1970s, her family was at the beginning of the Korean wave of immigration to the United States.

She describes her life as being turned upside down during the transition from Incheon, South Korea to Southern California. Yet, even with the new country, it was not long before KimGoh became friends with another international student. In her senior year of high school, Kim-Goh became best friends with a student from the Acapulco region of Mexico.

“We became very good friends, so when she left for Mexico after my senior year in the summer, I went with her because she invited me to come and stay with her family for about a month,” Kim-Goh said.

Study Abroad Only a few short years passed before Kim-Goh would follow in her friend’s footsteps and become an international student herself. In the second semester of her junior year at Pomona College, Kim-Goh had the chance to study abroad. With 12 other students, she traveled to Lund, Sweden, where she spent the semester living in a Swedish dormitory with her classmates and other Swedish students, getting the full immersion experience that studying abroad provides. The group was led by Professor Steven Koblik, who is now president of the Huntington Library.

Koblik arranged many guest speakers for the students to hear, including the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme, who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Palme was

Courtesy of Mikyong Kim-Goh Mikyong Kim-Goh stands in Amsterdam, Netherlands, one of the places she traveled to on a class trip.

assassinated only a few years later. It was while Kim-Goh was studying abroad that she found her calling in life.

“It was there in Sweden we learned about the social welfare policy and programs in Scandinavian countries,” Kim-Goh said. “I had never heard of those programs as a psychology major.

We did not have a social work major at my school. That was the very first time I was exposed to the topic of social work and social welfare. So, when I returned to the United States I started

Spring in the bay One CSUF student documents her travels and delicacies in San Francisco FLOR EDWARDS Daily Titan

About halfway to San Francisco on the 5 Freeway, somewhere between Kettleman City and Los Banos, Calif., my 18-month-old nephew was screaming in his toddler seat to my right while my mom jerked the gears of my black RAV 4, apologizing that the radio was stuck on a Christian station and she didn’t know why. I buried my face in Flannery O’Connor, adjusting to the awkwardness of someone else handling my vehicle and thought to myself, “What was I thinking? Spending spring break with my mother!? Who does that?”

San Francisco seemed like the best destination to escape to for spring break this year. Why I chose to tote along my mother and nephew is a whole other story, but I’ll justify it by saying we have family in the area.

My aunts and cousins live in the hippie town of Ukiah, two hours north of San Francisco, and my twin sister lives in a cute apartment near the bluffs of Seacliff, one of the richer parts of San Francisco, with breathtaking hikes and multi-million dollar mansions hanging onto some of the rockiest cliffs in Northern California.

I’ve always had a love affair with Northern California ever since I first visited San Francisco when I was 17.

There’s something about it - the clean air, the early morning fog that rolls in from the bay, the delicious food - that makes one feel content.

It’s one of the places I can go and truly relax my body and my mind. It’s also an excellent place to go for great food.

I’ve discovered plenty of great eateries tucked away in the city during my travels to the bay, some well known and some not so well known.

One such not so well-known place is Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant. Located on Geary Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets, Tommy’s may not be a tourist hot spot, but it’s a tequila connoisseur’s heaven and a Yucatan flavorlover’s dream.

My sister and I walked to the tiny restaurant on a drizzly Sunday afternoon after sending mom and baby Patrick up to Ukiah to visit the aunts. There is no happy hour and no reservations. It’s first come, first served and seating can be tight, especially as drinking hour nears the evening.

The first thing you notice when you walk in is the decor. Childlike paintings and old photos clutter the wall, small piñatas hang from the ceilings, unlit Christmas lights dangle from the rafters and the rusty red carpet seems old and dusted with permanent debris.

By 6 p.m. there is a line out the door. Waiters pick up speed as they shout commands in Spanish.

No one seems to speak English.

Tommy’s is run by Tommy Bermejo and his wife, Elmy, both natives of Yucatan, Mexico.

Their son, Julio Bermejo, is the ambassador of tequila to the United States and can often be found at the bar with a wide smile and infinite, abundantly ready tequila wisdom, pouring “the most extensive collection of 100 percent agave tequila outside of Mexico,” according to their website. My sister’s roommate Jen dubbed him “the tequila nerd,” and the nickname seemed to describe him perfectly.

Tommy’s prides itself in making what they believe to be “the best margarita on Earth.”

If you’re a tequila novice like me, there’s no need to feel intimidated since “less than 5 percent of people who already drink tequila are knowledgeable about the exquisite qualities of a 100 percent agave tequila.”

When at Tommy’s, mentioning the word “Patron” is sacrilegious and pretty soon it becomes apparent that Americans have no idea how to drink tequila. They don’t know that tequila, like wine, is truly an art form to be appreciated and savored.

Tequila at Tommy’s is sipped in delicate glasses, not gulped in rowdy shot-taking competitions.

The margaritas are perfectly balanced between sweet and citrus, with ice clanging against homestyle margarita mini-goblets.

And the best part is that the tequila is so pure you’ll wake up the next morning sans a hangover.

Waking up in San Francisco is one of my favorite things to do.

You don’t have to look far to find some of the best coffee and pastry joints.

One of my favorites is Campbell’s Irish Bakery, just a few blocks from Tommy’s.

Fluffy scones are a bargain at around a buck and baked fresh every day.

One street over, Emma’s Coffee House serves up steaming lattes and organic coffee.

Driving home from San Francisco, I always feel just a slight pang of nostalgia, as if I’m saying goodbye to something I will never find again. But comfort comes in knowing that at any time, I can pack up my car and drive up the 5. The fog will still roll in. The trees will still be standing, and the people will always be smiling.

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looking into graduate programs in the area of social work.”

Field Work The jolt of inspiration while studying abroad sent Kim-Goh’s life in a new direction. She earned a Ph.D. in social welfare from UC Berkeley and has been active in the field ever since.

“It is amazing how small the world is now,” Kim-Goh said. “You have this constant flow of people coming and going. When we talk about social work

International Campus Affairs Kim-Goh’s career, inspired while studying abroad, has had a great impact on Cal State Fullerton. Not only has she taught social work classes, but she has helped the small program grow into a department.

“She taught our cultural diversity class,” said Professor Caroline E. Bailey.

“We were so lucky to have someone like her teaching that class. She has a good grasp of international issues and of cross-cultural social work issues, and she is a leader in her field in that way.”

Kim-Goh was a driving force in helping create the newly accredited Department of Social Work.

“She was really responding to a need within Orange County,” Bailey said.

“She saw that need in our community, and she put forth that process to create the Department of Social Work.”

On a class trip, Mikyong Kim-Goh stands with her group in front of the Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden, the residence of the king.

nicated,” Kim-Goh said. “What I am hoping in the long run is for this office to become a depository of information about all international activities at Cal State Fullerton.”

Apart from helping develop new agreements between CSUF and foreign universities, she will also be involved with international students, study abroad programs, promoting faculty research abroad and exchange,

and the Fulbright program.

“She is a very thoughtful faculty member,” said Jeannie Kim-Han, director of the OURIP and CICE offices. “I think that she has all of the skills as well as the intellectual capacity to pull all of these sort of disparate kinds of activities and to really help create a strategic infrastructure to help support the students to have these international experiences.”

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Future The position of acting associate vice president of International Programs is not a small one.

“My job is not to actually run all the international activities on campus, but to oversee and make sure that the programs are cohesive and well commu-

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For Your Health: Staying hydrated

by SABRINA PARK Consuming liquids such as teas and soups are common methods used when trying to fight minor illnesses, but keeping hydrated is not exclusive to those times when you start to feel under the weather.

Staying hydrated is necessary when trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and while frequently drinking water and other liquids is extremely beneficial to your health, there are also various hydrating foods that dew, cucumbers and plums. Make will equally do the trick. Accord- ice pops using low-sugar fresh fruit ing to Shape magazine, cucumbers, juice in the summer or serve hot tomato sauce, applesauce, canta- cider during cold weather months.”

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Keeping hydrated is essential, as nuts and olive oils. Diluted fruit it can improve well-being and pre- juices, milk and vegetable juices vent failure of your body’s regular will rehydrate your body and properformance in a healthy state, like vide essential vitamins.”

Reggie Grovey, from the Shawmuscle spasms, exhaustion and loss nee News Star, said studies show of coordination.

Laura Posada, of the Las Vegas roughly 70 percent of humans are Review-Journal, said, “Staying constantly experiencing dehydraproperly hydrated is imperative. tion.

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Jolie Warstadt, an entertainment studies major, loves putting outfits together and dressing up for school. She attributes her interest in fashion to her job at Nordstrom. She is inspired by menswear and often adds androgynous touches to her outfit. She is wearing a Zara top, with pants from Nordstrom and Jessica Simpson shoes.

Her style stands out from the crowd because it makes a strong fashion statement that is both practical and inspiring.

1. Puffed sleeves add a feminine touch to a striped boyish shirt.

2. Simple accessories, such as this simple chain necklace, should be worn with a statement-making outfit to keep the look from being overwhelming.

3. Colored denim, pleated trousers and harem pants should be on your shopping list if you want to be seen sporting the latest trend, because this spring it is all about the pants. Warstadt’s choice of silky pleated trousers is both stylish and comfortable, and is a perfect example of menswear-inspired women’s fashion.

Style Watch will feature photos of some of the most stylish and trendy looks sported by the students on campus. So whether you consider yourself the vintage queen or king, or a trendy fashionista, you never know when our Style and Fashion expert might spot you anywhere on campus!

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‘Power in Pink’ too much for Mustangs TITANS: Softball takes third straight series in sweep ...Continued from page 1 “I saw she was arguing with the umpire and so I knew I could get home before she saw me running, get the ball out of her glove and throw it, so I knew I could beat her,” said Harris.

Cervantes took the circle for the seventh inning and protected the one-run lead by getting three straight infield outs to earn another complete game win.

Cervantes allowed just six hits to the Mustangs and struck out three batters to improve her record to 11-10 for the year. Harris went 3 for 3 at the plate, and Carter and Craddick both finished with two hits.

Redshirt sophomore pitcher Katey Laban put together her first career complete shutout in game two of the doubleheader and allowed just five hits to the Mustangs in the Titans 3-0 victory.

Craddick got the early lead for the Titans with her RBI-single up the middle of the field, which scored Mario in the first inning to give them a 1-0 advantage.

The Titans didn’t get another hit until the fifth inning when junior shortstop Adriana Martinez led off with an infield single that the second baseman got to, but could not throw to first in time to get the speedy shortstop out.

Cal Poly SLO threatened in the top of the sixth with a deep ball

by Lund that forced Carter to the warning track. With her back against the fence, Carter made a spectacular jumping catch to get the first out.

Laban shut down the Mustangs with two consecutive outs after that, and in the bottom of the sixth inning the Titans got an insurance run by way of junior third

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Titan junior third baseman Nicole Johnson accounts for the out and checks for other base runners. Johnson went 4 for 5 from the plate Sunday, including a two-out three-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh inning.

baseman Nicole Johnson’s leadoff home run over the left-field fence.

Her third home run of the season gave the Titans a 2-0 edge.

Johnson said, “I felt like a base hit would do but luckily it went over by a centimeter, and so (I’m) thankful that it did and that I

could put up a run for Katey, because she deserves it.”

The Titans applied more pressure with Tsuchiyama’s single to right field, which was followed up by a successful bunt by Harris.

Martinez then hit one back to the pitcher who bounced the throw

Softball in driver’s seat for Big West JEFF PRENOVOST Daily Titan

In the third annual Power in Pink event to support breast cancer research and awareness, the Cal State Fullerton softball team finished the weekend with a three-game sweep over the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs with an action-packed 11-8 come-from-behind victory.

Sunday at Anderson Family Field the Titans claimed their first Big West Conference series sweep of the season from junior third baseman Nicole Johnson’s clutch game-winning three-run home run to left field. Her fourth home run of the season flirted with the foul pole, but stayed fair.

“It felt really good to get the win for the team,” said Johnson, who went 4 for 5 at the plate Sunday.

“It was a huge win for the team and I just hope we stick with it, have the confidence that we got and go in hard the next weekend.”

The win over preseason favorite Cal Poly SLO earned the Titans sole possession of first place in the Big West and improved their record to 18-17 overall and 7-2 in the division.

The Mustangs (6-29, 2-7) came out swinging but ended up losing their sixth straight contest.

The Titans put five runs on the board by the end of the second inning with RBI-hits from redshirt freshman Latisha Dedeaux, senior Ari Cervantes, sophomore Ashley Carter, senior K.C. Craddick and senior Torrie Anderson.

Cal Poly SLO squirmed from behind for the 6-5 lead in the fourth inning with junior right fielder Nicole Lund’s three-run blast over the left-field fence.

The Titans tied the game up in the bottom of the frame with another RBI from Dedeaux when she laced one through the left side, which allowed Carter to score.

CAMILLE TARAZON / Daily Titan Titan senior pitcher Ari Cervantes (12-10) pitched in two victories this weekend for a combined 12 innings of work. The ace in the circle leads the team with a 2.47 ERA.

After two impressive defensive plays by freshman right fielder Leesa Harris and junior shortstop Adriana Martinez, the Mustangs again retaliated with a two-out RBI-double from senior pitcher Anna Cahn followed by an RBIsingle that put the Mustangs ahead by two in the sixth inning.

The Titans were able to tie the game again in the bottom of the sixth.

Johnson drew a walk and senior center fielder Torrie Anderson shot off a double to left-center field, which was just a few inches away from leaving the park. Dedeaux then hit an infield dribbler, which the shortstop mishandled and allowed Johnson to score. Anderson had advanced to third base on the play and was able to steal home after a two-out wild pitch by Mustangs’ pitcher Cahn.

“Just to be able to help my team with each at-bat felt good, so it was nice,” said Anderson, who went 3 for 3 at the plate.

With the game tied at eight, Cervantes was re-entered into the game to pitch the seventh inning.

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She gave up a one-out double, but managed to keep the Mustangs from scoring with a crucial strikeout and groundout to end the inning.

Martinez singled to center field to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning for the Titans.

After a sacrifice bunt by freshman second baseman Lauren Mario, Carter was then intentionally walked to put runners on first and second.

The Mustangs had gotten another out when Johnson came to the plate and crushed a changeup over the left-field fence to give the Titans the walk-off 11-8 victory.

“It felt good just to know that by myself getting on base gave another person an at-bat. It obviously worked out with Nicole coming up to hit, so that felt good to set the tone for the last inning,” said Martinez, who went 3 for 4 at the plate and scored twice.

The Titans hit the road this weekend for a three-game battle with UC Davis starting with a doubleheader Friday at 1:30 p.m. at La Rue Field.

past the first baseman, which allowed Martinez to advance to second and brought around Tsuchiyama to home to give the Titans the 3-0 lead.

Laban took the circle in the seventh looking to cap her excellent performance. She got the first

two batters out with a ground ball to short and a strikeout. She beaned the next batter she faced, but closed the game out when she got the next batter to fly out to left field.

Laban earned the win, her fourth in a row to improve her re-

cord to 4-4 for the year, and improved to 4-0 in the circle in Big West Conference play this season.

Pitchers Rebecca Patton and Anna Cahn each suffered a loss Saturday for the (6-28, 2-6) Cal Poly SLO Mustangs as the Titans gathered their fourth straight win.