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Victories are Close Call nELECTION: Less than 10 percent of the 30,000-plus population voted for Board of Directors
nDIALOGUE: Minority populations will increase and health care will become a top priority for legislators
By Deanna Lucci
Daily Titan Staff Writer
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Exactly 954 students voted this week in the Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors election. Over 30,000 students were eligible to vote. Voter turnout surpassed Elections Commissioner Rosanne Yetemian’s expectations of 700 to 800 votes. “I’m pretty happy [with the turnout],” she said. “My adviser told me 800 would be good, our goal was to exceed that.” In the fall of 2001, 826 students voted, and in the ASI presidential election in spring 2002 approximately 1,800 voted when 3,000 were expected. In an effort to increase voter turnout, a $50 gift certificate for Titan Shops will be given away to one randomly selected voter from each college, Associate Dean of Students Sandra Rhoten said. A faculty parking permit will be given away during the spring elections, where the ASI president and vice president are elected as well as board members. It was a close race for most of the ASI candidates. Incumbent Elnaz Momeni beat Jonathan Lee Smith by five votes for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. “I lost by nine votes!” Jeroll Rodgers yelled out jokingly when the results revealed that Mary Lawrence got 60 votes over his 51
By Melissa Chavez
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Freshman Lissette Pena discusses the voting process with students during Thursday’s election. for the College of Communications. Incumbent Samanaz Kapadia won by 13 votes over Katherine Garcia for the College of Business and Economics. “I’m ecstatic,” Kapadia said. “I had an amazing support base, all these people came out for me; the Greek community, business clubs and the Resident Student Association backed me, too.” Incumbent Karen McCord won by the largest number of votes with 63 more than Jason Thompson for the College of Humanities and Social
Sciences. “I feel like I can breathe now,” McCord said. “I’m pretty surprised, I was trying to psych myself out like ‘I’m not gonna win,’ I’m very pleased.” Less than 20 candidates, supporters and ASI executive staff members gathered in the Titan Student Union legislative chambers Thursday night anxiously awaiting the election results. After everyone waited almost an hour, Yetemian entered the room with the results at around 8:50 p.m. Yetemian
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Anaheim RecognizesVeterans nCELEBRATION: Vehicles, machinery from previous wars were displayed at city’s commemoration
SPORTS: Hector Orellana makes one of the greatest goals in CSUF history against UC Riverside in a double-overtime classic on Wednesday
and coordinator for Greek Life Shari Scott went behind a dry-erase board to write down the winners. The room erupted in applause and cheers as they turned over the board to reveal the winners. The candidates only had to wait 50 minutes after the polls closed to hear the results, which is early compared to past elections where paper ballots were used. Usually, the votes wouldn’t be
By Benjamin Becker
Daily Titan Staff Writer The American flag wrestled with the wind as city council members, students and others gathered Thursday to honor U.S. veterans at Anaheim’s first Veterans Day Commemorative Celebration. Anaheim Mayor Tom Daly was at the Center Street Promenade to declare Nov. 7 Veterans Day Commemoration with a proclamation signed by the city council. “[We] get a bigger turnout honoring veterans prior to Veterans Day,” Daly said, regarding why the council chose Nov. 7, since Veterans Day is on Nov. 11. The celebration, emceed by director of community services Christopher K. Jarvis, kicked off with the pledge of allegiance and a performance of the “Star Spangled Banner” by the
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Cornell Iliescu (middle) stands in a salute to honor veterans. Anaheim High School band. Many decorated veterans of the community were on hand serving as a link to the past, adorned in their colorful uniforms, all bearing the red, white and blue. Authentic World War II vehicles were
stationed in a nearby parking lot, allowing pedestrians to get a feel of the type of machinery used in past wars. Mike Gunter, a veteran who was involved in both the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War, supervised an ambulance and a jeep armed with a .50-
caliber machine gun mounted on top. Gunter, who maintains historic vehicles and machinery for Orange County, said that the ambulance was donated to the county by the makers of the film “Wind Talkers,” along with almost $5 million worth of other World War II memorabilia. Veteran Jeff Sharp, from the Veteran’s Service Office of the County of Orange, was also attending to the vehicles. He said that a historic blimp hangar in Tustin, which can hold up to 12 blimps at a time, was recently donated to the county along with 84.5 acres of surrounding land to create the largest veteran’s museum in the country. Sharp said the facility is 3 million cubic feet and will house war artifacts. “It is definitely the biggest in the country and may even be the biggest in the world,” he said. Daly said that the city hopes to hold a similar ceremony every year, implementing it into Anaheim’s regular schedule of events. “We have a deepening awareness and commitment to recognize veterans,” Daly said. “It’s always a challenge getting people to show up for these patriotic ceremonies ... I’m pleased with the turnout this year.” See http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu for
Five panelists, including a Cal State Fullerton professor, debated the future of Orange County on Wednesday. A town hall meeting on the issue “Orange County 2050: A Community Dialogue,” reflected concerns over educating the growing population and maintaining a high quality of life in Orange County. Faculty, students and members of the community attended the event in the Portola Pavilion of the Titan Student Union. The academic representatives on the panel included Al Flores, CSUF professor of philosophy; Scott Coltrane, a sociology professor at UC Riverside; and George Sanchez an American ethnic studies professor at USC. Addressing the health care and business concerns of the community were panelists Carol Bradley, the principal of Careforce Consulting, and Stan Oftelie, president and CEO of the Orange County Business Council. Flores considers teachers to be undervalued today and that adequate child care is needed in Orange County. He was recently named CSUF Outstanding Professor for 2002 to 2003. “Teachers and caregivers educate and care for our children,” Flores said. “We should treasure them and pay them more, since our children are our future.” Based on the trends of increasing housing prices, Flores also said the students in the audience will not be able to afford to buy the house they lived in as children. Oftelie said, “There is a growing gap between the very rich and the poor in this county.” The standard of living in Orange County is so high, more first-generation immigrant families and lower income families need two or three members to work just to afford a house, he said. Sanchez thinks it is the birthrate of recently immigrated families, not immigration itself, which is leading to the increase in population in Orange County. Sanchez said there will be a nonwhite majority in the county sometime in this decade, a Latino plurality by 2020 and majority by 2050, which is a conservative benchmark. As a historian, he sees a trend in the replacement of the white population with that of Asians and Latinos. This change is likely to occur amid an incredible overall population growth, he said. “Orange County population is likely to double in the next 50 years,” Sanchez said. Bradley addressed health care as being one of the top priorities concerning quality of life in Orange County. She discussed the lack of nurses in hospitals, and said, “Probably the greatest crises that we have facing our health care ben-
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Election Forum Brings Political Issues to Students nDISCUSSION: Rep. Loretta Sanchez spoke at 2-day event that also covered criminal justice topics By LaToya Baker
Daily Titan Staff Writer Whoever said young people are not interested in politics never met the students at Cal State Fullerton. About 200 criminal justice, public administration and political science students crowded inside the Library to hear Rep. Loretta Sanchez speak at a political forum sponsored by
the Division of Political Science and Criminal Justice on Wednesday. Politics, Administration and Justice Days was a two-day event aimed at taking politics and criminal justice out of the classroom and bringing them into the real world. “These are things you can’t necessarily get inside the classroom,” said Pam Fiber, a political science professor at CSUF and the organizer of the event. “I don’t know if students will get a better idea of how politics works, but I think they will get to see a lot of the theory they learn about in class, they will get to see that in action.” This marks the fifth year Politics, Administration and Justice Days has been held on the CSUF campus.
Each year students majoring in political science, criminal justice and public administration come to hear politicians, lawyers and analysts discuss the ins and outs of politics and the justice system. This year the event began on Election Day. Fiber said she hoped starting the event on Election Day would get students excited about the election. “The forum began on Election Day so that we could mobilize students to go vote,” she said. “I think a democracy relies upon its civilians to be active in an election and this was just a way to get students to be more involved in the issues.” Jasmine Soderlund, a senior majoring in political science, came to the event with her campaigns and
elections class. “I think it’s good that students get to come and meet some elected officials,” she said. “I have never met [Loretta Sanchez] before and I would like to hear her ideas and what she stands for. I think it will definitely give us some political knowledge.” The congresswoman was slated to speak about her views on American foreign and national policy, however students were more interested in her opinion on the outcome of Tuesday’s election. “I just would like to find out what her opinions are on how the elections went yesterday and how life is going to be in Congress now that the Republicans control Congress,” said
John Krzeminski, a political science major at CSUF. The event included 10 discussion forums on subjects such as the three strikes law revisited, views on the U.S. war with Iraq, American liberalism, citizen empowerment, election 2002 wrap-up, life after majoring in political science, national security post-Sept. 11 and life as a criminal investigator. Carrissa Byers, a freshman majoring in liberal studies, said the event was insightful. “It definitely helps me to learn about politics in the real world,” she said. “It’s more interactive. You get to actually see what’s going on in the real world rather than just being in a classroom and talking about it.”