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Strip clubs and team codes clash in morals controvernPOLICY: Allegations of a double standard reflect the conduct of individual male and female players
By Amy Rottier
Daily Titan Staff Writer Double play, double header, double standard. For years women have fought for equal treatment and Leilani Rios’ story of being kicked off the Cal State Fullerton track team because she is a stripper raised the question of gender equity on the campus sports teams. “Maybe it is a double standard, I don’t know,” baseball coach George Horton said. Rios said her night job was kept secret — only her husband and her
sister-in-law knew. One Friday night, a group of males sporting CSUF baseball apparel showed up at her place of work and rumors of Rios’ private life were revealed to her track coach, John Elder. Rios was given the ultimatum of giving up stripping or giving up track. She chose to keep her job so she could continue to pay for her schooling. Since it was never proven that the males clad in CSUF garb were actual baseball players, none were punished. Horton said that if he told the players not do go to strip clubs and they did anyway then they would be punished — just like Rios was given a choice. Horton also said that even though he does not want his players to go to strip clubs, they will not be punished if they go. “I’m not naïve. If I find out that a guy went to a strip club he is
not going to be dismissed from the team,” Horton said. “As far as our team policy goes we do not condone that type of behavior or recreation,” he said. “If they chose to frequent those types of places the right thing to do is to not wear CSUF clothing.” Vice President of Student Affairs Robert Palmer said that fair and equal treatment is given to all students. He said that the baseball players would be given the same option as Rios—to quit the behavior or quit the team. “We are not going to tolerate any double standards,” Palmer said. After speaking with Palmer, Horton said that at the time of the allegations of baseball players going to the strip club there was no code against it. Since then, Horton said that the players were told twice that it was unacceptable behavior and reparations will be taken against any baseball player that disobeys the new
rule. A standard athletics code of conduct exists and each team has its own code as well. In a released statement, Elders said that he dismissed Rios because he determined that her decisions to remain an exotic dancer would detract from the image and accomplishments of her teammates, the athletics department and the university. Associate Athletic Director Mel Franks said that the student athletic code of conduct is up to each coach to interpret the rules. “The university is not endorsing his personal views but someone has to interpret and enforce the rules and that is the head coach,” Franks said. Palmer said that it is not up to coaches to interpret the code. “We do not have a double standard,” Palmer said. “We may have standards that vary from sport to sport.”
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Exotic dancer Leilani Rios was kicked off the track team last year.
Pain of dying eased
Liv Tyler dazzles her audience
nDEATH: In-home care and counseling provide a more personal level of treatment for dying patients By Terry Jolliffe
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Liv Tyler, star of upcoming movie “One Night at McCool’s,” talks with fans about her experience playing a temptress.
Summer tuition nFEES: The goal of the newly-implemented program is to establish year-round class availability By Peggy Gomez
Daily Titan Staff Writer Students will find some financial relief this summer with the new cost of tuition. “Summer school is not initially part of the academic year,” said Harry Norman, dean of university extended education. “Just like elementary or high school — it is something that became optional.” CSUF has been included in the first wave of 10 Cal State universities, including Long Beach and San Marcos, which will be converted from self-supported summer sessions
to state-supported sessions. ‑ The remainder of the campuses, including Fresno and Northridge will receive partial funding this year and will be fully funded following the two-year transition. The remainder of campuses will be state supported for summer 2002. “Starting this year there is state money available for summer just like fall and spring,” Norman said. Prior to the upcoming summer session, there were four CSU state funded campuses. Any portion of the self-support Hayward, Los Angeles, Pomona or San Luis Obispo contributions will be immediately converted to state-support. According to Norman, one of the reasons the state has decided to fund a summer session is because buildings cannot be made fast enough to meet the increasing number of students that wish to attain a higher education. “We are one of the fastest grow-
ing— if not the fastest growing— CSU,” Norman said. “So to deal with the rapid growth it would be desirable to be part of the first wave.” The principal goal of Year Round Operations is to help students earn a degree within a reasonable time frame. ‑Accessibility is the second concern. It is anticipated that year-round sessions will lessen the demand for more buildings. ‑It is not a goal of the Year Round Operations to have three equal sessions. ‑ “The California State University system would be very pleased if we were ever to hit 40 percent of the enrollment that we have in the fall and spring,” Norman said. Keith Boyum,vice president of university extended education said that financial aid will be a great factor in the success of the year-
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A high school dropout joined the navy and later returned to school to become an electrical engineer. He decided after a few years to enter medical school and was accepted to the University of Chicago on a scholarship. Today, Melvin Sterling, M.D., is an internist in Orange and Director for the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) Hospice who devotes his life to helping the terminally ill live out their last days with the aid of counseling, pain control — and usually at home surrounded by their loved ones. “I had a patient when I was an intern about 25 years ago on my first day— a woman with breast cancer,” Sterling said. “ She was in a lot of pain in a five-bed ward, socially isolated.” Sterling said he ordered Demerol every four hours for her. “The next day I asked her how she was doing and she said, ‘miserable.’” He said the dose he prescribed was not enough to ease her pain. “After my residency and receiving my medical license, I visited an elderly man who was dying in his home one evening. He was lying in a hospital bed with a bottle of morphine. He had good pain control under his own control and it opened my eyes,” Sterling said. “The difference between the lady with breast cancer and the old man was essentially hospital versus home and the attitude of people caring for the patients,” Sterling said, “The doctor was sensitive to the needs of the old man — a light bulb went off that there was a better way to do it.” VNA Hospice grew out of a movement started by Dame Cicely Saunders of England in the 1940s. Then a social worker, Saunders was caring for David Tasma, a wealthy but dying man. “He donated his money to Saunders and she became a physician and created VNA Hospice,”
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