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Wes Craven speaks at TSU nCOMM WEEK: “Scream” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” creator talks about the film industry By Patrick Vuong
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Wes Craven speaks at the TSU Pavilion C Wednesday.
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You probably wouldn’t recognize him. If he walked right by you wouldn’t even give the 61-year-old man a second glance. You would have no clue that he is the mastermind behind several mass murders. Celluloid murders that is.
He is Wes Craven — famed director, writer and producer whose credits include such horror films like the highly successful “Scream” trilogy and the classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Craven visited Cal State Fullerton’s TSU Pavilion C Wednesday as one of dozens of guest lectures for Communications Week, the campuswide event designed to promote the field of communications to the university and the larger Los Angeles and Orange counties. After receiving a cacophony of cheering and clapping as he came to the speaker’s podium, Craven opened his lecture with some humor. “Before I came here, I was asked to name my lecture so I decided to
call it ‘You can do it if you want to,’” Craven said. “So here it is: Whatever your or dreams are, you can do it. That’ll be all. Thank you very much.” After rapturous laughing, the packed audience listened to Craven described his adverse life growing up in Cleveland and the Midwest in a strict, Anabaptist, single-parent family after his father died at an early age. “I wasn’t allowed to watch movies because my mother’s church felt that they weren’t good things to see, but I was able to see Disney movies,” Craven said. “So I wanted to be a Disney animator, but by age 10, I realized I couldn’t draw.” Craven then set his sights on a
career as a pilot, but while studying aeronautics at Wheaton College, he became partially paralyzed for three months by a form of polio, ending his dream of being a Navy fighter pilot. The director eventually earned a master’s degree from John Hopkins University and had various careers as a college professor, a taxi driver and a sound editor for a post-production company in New York. “When you don’t know what direction you’re going, that’s where the spark is,” Craven said. Despite his many hardships, Craven stressed the importance of persistency. “The only thing that got me
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nEVENT: Noted author, Mimi Donaldson, takes a humorous and unconventional approach to helping people achieve their fullest human potential at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday By Rita Freeman
Daily Titan Copy Editor As students, faculty, staff and around 70 guests from the Southern California College of Optometry sat at tables and chairs eating eggs, sausage, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and drinking coffee, Mimi Donaldson, author of “Negotiating for Dummies,” spoke about improving communication in the workplace. To celebrate Professional Staff Day, approximately 320 guests attended a breakfast organized by the Employee Training and Development Center at the Portola Pavilion in the Titan Student Union. The guests listened to Donaldson as she shared anecdotes about different couples and training classes she attended. She spoke about gender differences between men and women and different communication and listening techniques to use. “Mimi is a dynamic speaker and she is an expert in her field,” said Donna Pallette, assistant director of employee training and development and coordinator of the event. “She was entertaining and quite, quite funny.” Donaldson’s topics included how men “hate to lose face” when it comes to different things such as how men never ask for directions when they are lost, or how women pride themselves at working multiple tasks at one time. She added several humorous stories in her speech to demonstrate her points showing how women love to shop and men just buy. “I thought it was surprising that almost everything she said was so dead-on, especially with driving,
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I get so defensive,” said Michael Morris, director of security for the College of Optometry. “With the aspect of shopping, I like to go in and buy what I want, and with my wife, it’s almost like a recreation.” Morris added that he was amused at how correct Donaldson was when she mentioned that men like to time everything. “I’m on a time schedule, I want to know how long, what time I will be back and will I have time to get back to take a nap or watch a game,” Morris said. Donaldson has been working on these training classes since 1981. She worked in human resources at such places as Northrop and Disney and started her own business in 1984. “I was a drama major in college and I liked speaking in front of people,” Donaldson said. “But I liked doing it better as myself than doing it as someone else.” She added that she has more than eight hours of material that she tries to tie into 40 minutes. One staff member said she thought the event was a great way for her to find ways to improve communication. “My husband was sitting right next to me and the tips that she used really fit,” said Edna Turnbow, administrative analyst for the dean’s office for the College of Business and Economics. “The analogies fit and will help negotiating to get my point across.” Donaldson said the top three things she emphasizes in her speech are to make respectful requests, do not make people wrong and never
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Sex offenders could lose privanBILL: The Public Safety Committee has passed AB4 and now awaits Appropriations Committee approval By Heather Blair
Daily Titan Staff Writer Most people come to class everyday and have no idea who their classmates are. Cal State Fullerton is a commuter campus where more
than 27,000 students come and go as they please and never ask questions of their fellow classmates. People on campus have the right to privacy, but many may wonder whom they are sitting next to in class, or work next to on campus. Questions about whether their fellow students are drug abusers, alcoholics or sex offenders could be in the back of their minds, but most would never dare ask. But one of these questions may be answered by a new bill proposed by Patricia C. Bates (R- Laguna Niguel). According to Bates’ office, the bill, AB4, would require sex
Students look for work nEVENT: Despite a 5 percent drop in company participation, the job fair enjoyed a successful turnout Wednesday By Peggy Gomez
Daily Titan Staff Writer Perspiration from the spring heat did not spoil the professional atmosphere in the Quad for companies passing out pencils and pamphlets. The Career Center and Internship office were host to 195 companies Wednesday at the Job and Internship Fair. ‑ The event was about 10 companies shorter in comparison to last year’s fair.
“I think it reflects a bit of the recent down swing in the Orange County economy,” said Michelle Powell, associate director of career management and college relations. The Los Angeles County Recruitment Center was providing information to prospective employees. There are 80 school districts in Los Angeles County that have an abundance of positions available, said Jason Sanchez, senior program specialist for the Teacher Recruitment Center. A bachelors in the arts and completion of the CBEST are the two minimum requirements of prospective teachers. “The average starting salary [in Los Angeles County] is $35,000 to $42,000,” Sanchez said. Gap Inc. was promoting the College Management In Training program. Six to eight positions are available in Southern
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offenders to register with campus police if they plan to attend school or work on any of California’s college campuses. Russell Lowery, legislative director for Bates, said the bill has already passed in the Assembly Public Safety Committee and will be proposed to the Assembly Appropriations Committee within the next three weeks. AB4 is an extension of what has already been touched on in Megan’s Law, which requires sex offenders to register in the community they live in. The law that became effective
in 1996 requires the California Department of Justice to have a CDRom containing information on serious and high-risk sex offenders. The information is available at all sheriff’s departments and police departments in cities with a population of 200,000 or more. AB4 would make the information on sex offenders available to the public through campus police in addition to already being registered with their community. This means anyone who is suspicious of a fellow student or employee can find out if the person is a
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Several students mill around the job fair booths in front of the Humanities Building on Wednesday. Around 195 companies were present that day.