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s the semester comes to an end, so too will the controversial reign of Associated Students President Heith Rothman. Rothman, who was the first ever three-term student government president in the CSU system’s history, will quietly leave his post and AS will have it’s first new president, Christian Tesoro, in three years. Although many of the AS students,
Inaugural victory tainted by scandal It began on April 21, 1995 when the jeans and T-shirt wearing Republi-
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Local historian focuses on race relations in L.A. By CINDY JIMENEZ Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Associated Students president, Heith Rothman will hand his position over to Christian Tesoro.
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chronicled the history of Latinos in Southern California over the past two decades.
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including himself, see his tenure as productive, his career as a student leader at Cal State Fullerton has definitely had it’s ups and downs, including bribery and election misconduct charges. As the Rothman presidency comes to a close, the Daily Titan recaps some of the “highlights” from the AS president’s three-year reign. While, by no means an exhaustive study, we dug up some past issues of the newspaper and started reading.
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can won the 1995 election by 66 votes with a platform that included promoting athletics on campus and lower textbook prices. His celebration was short-lived however when he was charged with election violations six months later in October 1995 by the AS Election Commissioner Bryan Davenport. Allegedly Rothman illegally posted campaign fliers of his opponent David Mendoza. The fliers violated the University Posting Policy and resulted in Mendoza’s disqualification from the race. Davenport said that Rothman had admitted that he and Mike Troncale,
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Car windows were shattered. Innocent people pulled from their cars were slashed, kicked and beaten. As the nation watched the evening news, truck driver Reginald Denny was beaten to near death in front of dozens of people at the corner of Florence and Normandie during one of the most senseless acts of violence in L.A. County history. So what significance does this tragic event on April 30, 1992 have to George Sanchez, a renowned historian of Chicano culture and expert on Latino issues. Sanchez informed the students and faculty gathered in the CSUF Titan Student Union on Tuesday that Denny was just one of two white people beaten at that history-making corner. All the other victims of violence were people of color. Many of those were Mexican American, others were Japanese Americans and Vietnamese American. Sanchez said the L.A. riots, motivated by the Rodney King incident and the later acquittal of his white police attackers, was an anti-immigrant spectacle from the very beginning. This racially-motivated incident, like many before and after, have alarmed Sanchez, who has researched and chronicled the lives of Mexicans in Southern California. The 37-year-old Sanchez, who is presently the director of the Chicano/Latino Students Program at USC, recognizes the historical plight of Latinos in this country. Over the last decade, Sanchez has chronicled the struggle of Latinos as they have migrated in and out of the United States since the beginning of the century.
American Studies students at Fullerton are familiar with Sanchez by way of his book “Becoming Mexican American, Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 19001945,” which is required reading for the 301 class. Sanchez chronicles in detail the immigration patterns, living and working conditions and racial prejudices Mexicans have faced, and still face, as they make the cultural transition from South to North America. And, according to Sanchez, it is a perpetual struggle.
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USC professor George Sanchez greets Elisa Heredia after his speach. During his hour-long address to the capacity crowd of over 100, Sanchez criticized the continuing attempts by lawmakers to control legal as well as illegal immigrants in L.A. Sanchez said Proposition 187, for example, was an attempt to punish illegal immigrants by keeping them from school and health care. He said officials try to tie issues of crime and immigration into tidy packages. He said that propositions like 187 and 227, the bilingual initiative, are anti-immigrant propositions that offer non-solutions to real problems. Sanchez said he believes immigrants are punished for not adapting to American society, but
New associate dean keeps herself busy n FACULTY : In her new
position, Lori Walker-Guyer thrives on getting students involved. By MELISSA MORRIS Daily Titan Staff Writer
Lori Walker-Guyer
She managed Communications Week, ended her term as assistant dean of communications and began her new job as associate dean of students—all at the same time. Lori Walker-Guyer, the new associate dean of students, is also the chair of a professional development committee, owner and operator of a Chino Hills-based consulting firm and treasurer of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. “I literally have business meetings one after the other,” Walker-Guyer said. Walker-Guyer thrives on being busy. As a child, her mother encouraged her to try everything, and she did. She was an ice skater, a diver, a swimmer, a tennis player, even an opera singer. Now her activities focus more on getting others involved. “I have an internal connection for opening that door to people,” Walker-Guyer said. As associate dean of students, WalkerGuyer oversees New Student Programs,
Connections, Classic, Co-curricular Achievement Record and Fullerton First Year. According to those who know her, she remains optimistic, even when managing a variety of tasks. “She always has a smile on her face,” freshman Oney Legaspe said. Professor and chair of the Communications Department, Wendell Crow, said Walker-Guyer has a unique ability to work with students. “She relates well to students, which I think makes a difference,” Crow said. “I enjoy the connection with people,” Walker-Guyer said. Walker-Guyer was the first person in her family to go to college and said some part of that experience gave her a desire to work with new students. “I’m really passionate about working with students in their first year,” Walker-Guyer said. Walker-Guyer and her husband of 11 years, William, escape to Catalina Island when the pressure becomes too much. “I like to spend quiet time with my husband. It brings back memories,” she said. Looking back on her life, Walker-Guyer said she has no regrets. But there still are things she would like to do, like meet the Dalai Lama for example. “I love the culture of Tibet,” she said.
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U.S. drafts antitrust case against Microsoft n LAWSUITS: Microsoft is
accused of violating the antitrust law regulating monopolies.
By James V. Grimaldi Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department is putting the finishing touches on a broad antitrust lawsuit, to be filed as early as next week, aimed at Microsoft’s business practices surrounding Windows 98 and its handling of a competitor’s software programming language. Prosecutors have drafted an allegation that Microsoft transformed rival Sun Microsystems’s Java software language—designed to run on
all types of computers—to create an exclusive version that works only on Microsoft Windows operating systems and not other products, according to someone familiar with a draft of the lawsuit. That allegation—bolstered by another charge—that Microsoft plans to illegally bundle its Internetbrowsing software with Windows 98 - would be used by the government to build a broad case that Microsoft is following a practice of illegally extending and protecting its monopoly in personal-computer operating systems. Prosecutors are planning to focus, among other things, on Microsoft’s deals with computer makers on
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Forget the flowers, May brings more showers
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The Channel 7 ABC helicopter hovers above a two-car non-injury collision on the 57 northbound at Nutwood on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. All of the rain-slicked lanes were closed until CHP officers cleared the wreck. The rain, which has dumped 1.57” on the L.A. Civic Center so far this month—1.38” more than normal— is supposed to clear up today. Copyright ©1998, Daily Titan