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CSUF promotes World AIDS Day nAWARENESS: Various health organizations provided HIV/ AIDS education By Peggy Gomez
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Jay Friedman, who lectures the college circuit, adds humor to the serious issue of AIDS by demonstrating how to put on a condom with a hat-sized example.
Art exhibit focuses on nMUSEUM: Sculptures by Alison Saar deal with images of the female body By Jamie K. Ayala
Daily Titan Staff Writer A new exhibition is aiming to increase the knowledge and understanding of the female image in American and African art. “Body Politics: The Female Image in Luba Art and the Sculpture of Alison Saar” opened on Nov. 12 at the UCLA Fowler Museum. It features sculptures of Saar, a Los Angeles-based artist, and 18th-century artifacts from the Central African Luba
Kingdom, borrowed from private and museum collections. Although the two types of art were created for different reasons in diverse environments, they are linked through similar themes. The comparisons offer varying perspectives of the female role. Interpretation of image is left open for speculation. Co-curators are Saar and Museum Chief Curator Mary Nooter Roberts. Themes that are presented include body ownership, scarification, secret sanctuaries and the anatomy of dreams. “There are only a few men portrayed in the exhibit — Saar calls them our token men,” said Roberts at an open dialogue on Sunday. Saar’s sculpted man is lying down and his head pops open to expose a
brain of glass. If looked into carefully, behind the glass fissures is a woman. This piece represents the influence of a woman in a man’s thoughts and perhaps decisions. Roberts, who gathered the Luba art, said that the culture requires women to scar themselves and their skin becomes canvasses or maps of life. “The eroticism about this tradition is its tacticity,” Roberts said. Roberts said that women are considered very strong. For instance, she said mediums are always women because only a “woman has the body to carry a spirit.” Scarification is prevalent amongst Saar’s sculptures as well. A quote by Saar in the display reads, “A lot of the work is about women’s resistance to pain and the ability to
“I recently found out that a close friend of mine has AIDS, and that made this day so much more meaningful to me,” Esther Lim said. Cal State Fullerton celebrated and honored World AIDS Day by offering free HIV/AIDS testing, providing free safe sex kits and ensuring students that “Love Matters.” “It is a day when the world is dedicated to educating people about AIDS,” Lim said. Two AIDS remembrance quilts were rented for the day at $500. “The rental fee goes directly to AIDS research and gives the students a chance to see them up close,” said Lim, union and special programming coordinator for Associated Students Productions. Up to a hundred students took advantage of the free HIV/AIDS testing provided by the Health Center. A service provided by the Health Center year round for $17. “We want to reach people that haven’t been tested to increase awareness and have people screened,” said Bonnie White, health counselor. OraSure, the HIV/AIDS test offered, was a painless test. Without using a needle, oral fluid is extracted from the mouth onto a swab and tested for the HIV antibody. According to White, the results are 98 percent accurate and can be made available within one week. “A good attitude people have today
go beyond the pain…you can always push beyond those boundaries that are presented because you realize that the job still needs to be done.” Secret sanctuaries refer to the women’s breast. In the Luba culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, royal emblems have women. Some have them gesturing to the breast. This isn’t a sexual gesture, it is a symbolic way referring to the power held inside. Saar’s works reveal what’s inside, such as the piece of a bird. Dreams and dreamlike states are also themes. One of Saar’s life-size pieces has a nude woman with a bent head. She said that this is a woman functioning on a different plane. “Many emblems are made by men for male office holders,” said Roberts
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about testing is that it is an initial screening, because you never know,” White said. The Orange County Health Care Agency participated in the World AIDS Day events by promoting reproductive health education and screening. “In terms of infection rates, the 18-24 year age group has the highest increased number of HIV infection rates,” said Thuan Tran, community health assistant for the Orange County Health Care Agency. According to Tran, it is very important for people of the college-age population to be screened for various diseases. Males in this age group are at risk for testicular cancer and so should be aware of their anatomy. Females are encouraged to be aware of their breast anatomy in breast cancer prevention. The agency was also providing free condoms and information on alternative forms of contraception. Tran pointed out the feeling of invincibility when the issue of HIV/ AIDS arises. Because of the cocktails and drugs available, people are living longer with the disease, but they are not being cured. People are beginning to forget that the disease is being passed and feel invincible. “Love Matters” was the topic of a speech presented by college circuit speaker Jay Friedman. He provided three conditions to ponder before having sex with someone you know, love or lust. First, he pointed out affirmation. Prior to intercourse, if one cannot look longingly into the other’s eyes while the lights are on, then they are not ready to have sex. “That is the intimacy of love,” Friedman said.
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“Female Figure” by Alison Saar.
American studies offers tour of nHISTORY: Professor Michael Steiner gives an annual walking tour of downtown Los Angeles to explore cultural and historical aspects of the city By Sabrina Sakaguchi Special to the Titan
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Professor Michael Steiner stands in front of the original L.A. Times Building.
Some Orange County residents have never seen the city that is an approximate 45-minute drive away. “We’ve lived in Orange County for 25 years, but we’ve never seen or been to Los Angeles,” said Cal State Fullerton student Mary Beyer, 67, about her and her husband Charlie’s, failure to explore the city. Others are trying to make Los Angeles more desirable to visit. “People need to see the real Los Angeles, the ordinary people,” Michael Steiner, CSUF American studies professor, said.
Since 1978, Steiner offers the annual tour of downtown Los Angeles to CSUF students, alumni, faculty, staff and their friends. Steiner offers a unique opportunity to view the city he considers “a difficult city to walk through.” Difficult not so much because of dangers, but because someone could easily get lost in the large metropolis. At this year’s tour, held on Saturday Dec. 2, 18 CSUF students and friends accompanied Steiner from the Amtrak station in Fullerton to the Union Station in Los Angeles and through the streets of downtown, for more than four hours of walking, seeing and learning. Steiner said many people who have taken his tour expressed some fears prior to starting the tour of getting lost in the city or meeting dangerous people. Through his tour, Steiner hopes to disprove these stigmas while guiding participants through the majestic and historic landscape and architecture of Los Angeles. This year’s participants saw Union Station, Oliveras Street, Pershing Square, the Biltmore Hotel, the Bradbury Building, the Grand Central http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu
Market and the lively streets of downtown Los Angeles. Steiner said he tries to make every year a little different and focuses on different sights. Over the 22 years Steiner has been offering his tour, downtown Los Angeles has gone through some dramatic changes. The Grand Central Market has been improved. The aged theaters and other buildings are falling and no longer safe to view from inside. But according to Steiner, one of the greater changes is the diversity found in Los Angeles. Steiner said the city was quite diverse when he first started his tour, but today Angelenos are even more of a spectrum of cultures. Steiner has been able to watch the 220-yearold city change and grow. While walking through the Union Station, Steiner commented, “I’m seeing more traffic at the station and that’s good.” He added that for a time the station was not widely used as Southern Californians chose to drive themselves everywhere rather than use public transportation, a service Steiner strongly supports.
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Growth expected for CSUs nEXPANSION: Plans may include the use of the El Toro base to augment the university By Samantha Gonzaga Daily Titan Staff Writer
Cal State Fullerton is not the only campus experiencing the squeeze of a growing enrollment. In a report given at the November meeting of the Board of Trustees, CSU universities are expected to add 130,000 students in the next 10 years. CSU Executive Vice Chancellor David Spence and Executive Director of the California Post-secondary Education Commission Warren Fox predicted that the enrollment will be expanding from 1998’s 350,000 students to over 479,000 in 2010. The 2000 fall’s enrollment number is at approximately 369,000 - 50,000 more than that of 1994. According to the study, the improvement of education, coupled with the coming of age baby boomer’s children are factors affecting the rising numbers. Strategies to accommodate the growth include converting of government facilities to new campuses, more night classes and the development of distance education. These echo CSUF’s Master Development Plan, which aims to address the campus’ student growth and attend to limited facilities. The acquisition of the El Toro base as part of CSUF’s off-site learning centers mirrors means by which other CSUs will make room for future growth. “One of the strategies is the use of the [El Toro] Marine base,” said CSUF’s Vice President of Facilities Management Jay Bond. “We have expressed our interest to appropriate authorities.” The base’s usage, however, has been a hot topic of debate. While there are proponents to have part of it converted into educational facilities, there are also those who hope to use it as an airport. The status of El Toro as a possible off-campus center is still being debated. Year-round operations were also an option that CSUF and other CSUs might use. State-supported instruction may offer a window to help alleviate the student crunch. Summer school may get more affordable for students, CSUF’s Vice President of Academic Programming Keith Boyum said. “We believe that the governor’s budget, which will be released in January, will include money toward the CSU universities,” Boyum said. “If it does, CSUF will be one of the
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