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As part of Cal State Fullerton’s two-day Constitution Day festivities, a three-member panel comprised of Communications Dean Rick Pullen, Professor of Political Science Scott Spitzer, and Professor of Criminal Justice Max Dery.

The discussion was held in the Quad, dubbed “Contemporary Challenges under the U.S. Constitution.”

The trio of panelists discussed the effects that the war on terror has had on the home front. Spitzer was the first to speak, highlighting the fact that the modern presidency has become the centerpiece of the national government since Franklin Delano Roosevelt served in the oval office.

The expansion has risen in stark contrast to the system of checks and balances put in place by the Founding Fathers.

“Presidents always expand their powers during wartime,” Spitzer said.

According to Spitzer, the power of the presidency has become unfettered and unchecked under the Bush Administration.

According to Spitzer, the Bush Administration has adopted a

Students Spill About Instructors Web site acquaints students with professors before they see them

By Karen Aman Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

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University celebrates holiday for historic document with event

By Robert MORAN Daily Titan Staff Writer

A Cal State Fullerton student accused of attacking two women over summer appeared in court for his arraignment Tuesday.

The arraignment, however, was continued until Oct. 10 at 8:30 a.m.

No reason was disclosed.

Gaston Alejandro Gastelum, 21, faces two misdemeanor battery charges and one felony hate crime charge for the July 17 assault of two women, one of whom is Rheavell Caba, a CSUF student.

Gastelum is currently out on $20,000 bail.

While students have praise for their teachers, they also have annoyances. And some students are posting them online.

Brian Frick, a computer science major, used RateMyProfessors.com to make a decision between two teachers.

RateMyProfessors.com is a Web site where students use a system to evaluate professors from one to five stars and post comments online.

Frick discovered on RateMyProfessors.com that one of the professors was “mean and didn’t explain anything well.” Comments about the other professor indicated that he was nice and that all of his students liked him.

“So I said, mean angry person or nice guy? I chose the nice guy,” said Frick.

Tracy Brislawn, a human communications major, said her pet peeve is a professor who asks each student to present a chapter from the text and has the students teaching the class.

“I don’t think I learn anything from that except for my chapter,” Brislawn said.

But Brislawn won’t use RateMyProfessors.com.

“Now that’s my pet peeve,” she said.

Only slackers who are failing the class or have a personality clash with the professor use that site, she said.

Visitors can see other people’s opinions on RateMyProfessors. com, whether they’re slackers or not, Frick said. It’s easy to pick up on the spiteful comments because they usually have “bad grammar and write like a 13 year-old.”

Frick’s math teacher, who Frick said he and everyone in his math class loves, has five stars.

Teachers and Students Discuss Constitution

policy that focuses on Article II of the Constitution.

“This view basically says the President can do and must do whatever he and his advisers believe is necessary in order to protect American security,” Spitzer said. “Even if that means violating Congressional laws like FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.” Spitzer added that the view allowed the president to subvert international laws such as the Geneva Conventions and to suspend individual rights such as the right to due process to terrorism suspects.

“Mind you,” Spitzer said pausing to glance at the audience, “I said suspects, not convicts.”

Dery said the way people view their expectations of privacy influences their view of their constitutional rights, something students aren’t always fully aware of.

“I don’t think if you push people to say, ‘do you really care about your Constitution?’ I think most of our students would say that they do,” Spitzer said.

Pullen, is in his 33 years of teaching, is familiar with the attitudes of students at CSUF. “They are here to simply go through the motions, get their diploma and go out into the workforce,” Pullen said. “Nobody is really seeking out the information so that they can become better scholars.”

Only twenty students attended SEE CONSTITUTION - PAGE 3

CSUF Graduate Students Donate Shoes for Smiles

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By DAVID OSBORNE/Daily Titan

STAYING SAFE - Criminal justice major Danielle Noll picks up her son A.J. from the CSUF Children’s Center on Tuesday. Noll is supportive of sex offenders having to register with campus authorities on account of their past trangressions.

Sex offenders are required to register with University Police if they attend the school or work on campus

By ADAM LEVY Daily Titan News Editor alevy@dailytitan.com

This upcoming Oct. 28 will mark the four-year anniversary of the Cal State Fullerton Police Department’s enactment of Penal Code 290.1. The law is one that requires sex offenders to register with Campus Police if they have any tie whatsoever to the university grounds.

“That’s part of their probation,” said Univesity Police Sgt. Fred Molina. “We like to know where these people are because we have many children coming onto campus for the Titan camps, day care and all of the activities that go on here.”

Under its provisions, offenders are required to file under Section

290.1 if they are students, employees, volunteers or working on campus as contracted employees for a period of two weeks or longer.

They are mandated to register in and out of the system within five days of their arrival and departure.

“It’s an important policy to have because you don’t know what is going to happen in the future and if something does happen, it is better to have that information than not,” said 21-year-old communications major Stephen Jones in an e-mail interview. “But it shouldn’t be plastered on walls for all to see.”

On a grander scale, the state of California has had a long and storied history in criminal registration, becoming the first to enact laws requiring sex offender registration in 1947. It currently stands as having the largest sex-

offender populace of any state.

On a more localized basis, 120 registered sex offenders call the city of Fullerton their home, including six living within the perimeter of Acacia Avenue, Chapman Avenue, Yorba Linda Boulevard and Placentia Avenue.

Men freed from custody for sex crimes are now free to walk the streets, shop alongside us at the grocery store and walk through the parks where children play. It’s not inconceivable with the localities involved that some of them might actually make their way onto the campus.

Amongst them include a 40-yearold man convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child; a 56-year-

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Angelica Haro runs for sport.

Her shoes take her five, 10, sometimes 20 miles. But eventually her shoes get too worn out to guide her though marathons and jogs.

When that happens, her running shoes take her to third world countries to help someone in need.

Haro donates her shoes in exchange for smiles.

Haro and P. Adrian Medrano, both Cal State Fullerton graduate students and avid marathoners, established Shoes for Sonrisas, or shoes for smiles in English, as a

way to make good use of their discarded running shoes.

It serves as both a way to help those who can’t afford shoes, and also as a means of promoting a physically active lifestyle.

In August, they donated 180 pairs of shoes and boxes of clothes and toys to a church in Tijuana, Mexico.

“They were really excited,” Haro, also a part-time CSUF jogging and aerobics instructor, said. “The children were so well behaved and smiling. It was a really great experience and that’s why we SEE SHOES - PAGE 4

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Angelica Haro (left), co-founder of Shoes for Sonrisas, and her sister, Veronica, set up clothes and shoes that were donated to a church in Tijuana, Mexico last month.

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CAMPUS CALENDAR

SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS

Today

Job and Internship Fair in the Quad from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be 250 employers, according to the Career Center.

Texas Hold’Em Poker Tournament in the TSU Underground at 4 p.m. Registrations begin at 7 a.m. in the Underground.

Running until Oct. 13, “Han Zi Reinvented: The Rhythm of Chinese Script” is an art exhibit showcasing the significance and influence of Chinese characters in the work of Chinese artists. The show is at the Main Art Gallery, and is open from noon to 4 p.m. Dollar bowling nights. Every Wednesday from 6 to 10 p.m., the TSU Underground will be providing bowling shoes and games for $1.

Thursday

Soccer Under the Lights. The Titans Men’s Soccer team opens the Big West Conference by hosting 2004 National runners up Santa Barbara at 7 p.m. at Titan Stadium.

There will be a “Block Party” going on in the TSU from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Free morning coffee and doughnuts will give way to evening entertainment as the day progresses.

Friday

The Center for Internships and Service-Learning will be hosting an all-day conference for faculty, students and community partners in the TSU. The conference will start at 9 a.m. with a networking breakfast.

Registration for CSUF students is $35.

Monday

Free walking workshop at the Arboretum from noon to 1:30 p.m. To RSVP contact Jeana French, Fit4Life Program Coordinator at the Center for Successful Aging, at successaging@fullerton.edu or (714) 2787012. Packets are available in TSU room 207. Deadline to turn in packets is Oct. 10.

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STROLLING ALONG - A student walks through the shadows of McCarthy Hall on Tuesday.

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FACULTY FOCUS

American Studies Professor Back for Round Two

By NORALY HERNANDEZ Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Once a Titan, always a Titan.

Part-time American studies Professor Trista O’Connell seems to stand for the motto embodies.

O’Connell received her undergraduate studies in art history and American studies and her master’s in American studies at Cal State Fullerton. She’s back to teach.

“It’s great that I am able to come back now, years later and actually teach in the same campus and teach with those faculty members that taught me,” O’Connell said. “I feel a great connection with the campus.”

American studies Professor Terri Snyder described O’Connell as an engaged student who went above and beyond her duties. Snyder continues to see O’Connell’s qualities shine through as a colleague.

“She is very committed to teaching,” Snyder said. “She was a terrific student and she is a great

By DAVID OSBORNE/Daily Titan

Trista O’Connell, an American Studies professor at CSUF, displays her national pride in her classes as well as in her office. colleague.”

For those not familiar with American studies, O’Connell compares it to history, in that both fields study the human experience. American studies not

only concentrates on the American culture but, also, analyzes the circumstances that led to the facts, she said.

“What we do in American studies is look at American culture,”

O’Connell said. “Were looking at how we as Americans give value, meaning and understanding to the world around us.”

O’Connell teaches Introduction to American studies, Introduction to American Pop Culture and American Character.

Although O’Connell admits that students may stumble upon American studies in an attempt to meet general education requirements, many go on to major in the field after they take their first courses.

“You are studying history but what we are doing is that we are taking the past and we are relating it to the present,” O’Conell said. “I think it does become personal on many levels for people.”

Although O’Connell said she loves to teach, her artistic background allows her to enjoy other activities outside the academic field including, cooking, drawing, traveling, as well as visiting museums.

“I absolutely love teaching and I put all of me into it but I also love to

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NEWS

Mother Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A mother accused of breast-feeding her son methamphetaminelaced breast milk pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, helping her avoid going to trial a third time.

Amy Leanne Prien, 34, entered her plea Monday in Superior Court and was sentenced to four years in state prison. Earlier in the day, a different judge sentenced

Prien to 10 years in state prison for child endangerment, a charge she was convicted of in her first trial.

Prien said she woke up Jan. 19, 2002, and found her 3-yearold son, Jacob Wesley Smith, dead in bed. When she was arrested, blood tests showed the methamphetamine levels in her blood were within a potentially lethal range, but police never tested her breast milk.

A coroner’s report found

that the baby died of “acute methamphetamine intoxication.”

In the most recent trial, prosecutors argued Prien, who had smoked meth for 10 to 15 years, breast-fed her child after smoking even though she knew it could damage him.

Prien’s attorney, Stephen Yagman, said he expected his client to be eligible for parole in 18 months because of time already served and good behavior.

PEEVES: Annoying Professors (From Page One) “So I can vouch that the comments for at least two professors are true,” he said.

If one professor has many positive remarks and one horrible comment, then you can’t trust the negative, Frick said.

Veronica Pasley, a criminal justice major, said she doesn’t like professors who lecture all the time.

“You don’t understand what’s going on compared to a professor who interacts more,” she said.

Pasley said that in one class students were not allowed to talk or click their pens.

“And if you came in within 5 minutes late, [the professor] would literally degrade you and kick you out of class,” she said.

Another thing that drove Pasley crazy was an intimidating professor who always walked around with a ruler.

“If somebody would make a noise or talk in class, he would whack the table super loud,” she said.

Alisha Dehaan, a criminal justice major, said she doesn’t like teachers who hold students past class time or who let their cell phones go off in class.

“And they yell at us for it,”

she said. “That happened today.

My teacher’s cell phone went off twice.”

Some teachers encourage students to go to their offices, said Katie Russell, an undeclared major.

But every time Russell goes to one of her teacher’s offices, she ends up feeling like a dummy.

“It bothers me,” Russell said.

“Don’t ask me to come into your office if you’re going to make me feel stupid.”

Chris Clough, a communications major, says that his pet peeve is teachers talking down to students or debating them in a meanspirited way rather than just having a discussion.

“Or if you ask a question and they fire back with some counter point that makes you look stupid in front of the class,” Clough said.

Clough also had a teacher who forced his political views on a captive audience.

“It wouldn’t even be an undertone. He would directly state that he doesn’t like this person or this group. I’ve had a lot of teachers who go there. I don’t think they should do it at all.”

Russell said that two or three times she waited 20 minutes for her English professor during her office hours.

“I would have to leave for my

next class and ended up e-mailing her later. It was annoying,” she said.

Clough said one of his teachers said “um” more than any student he’s ever met.

“She was definitely smart, but she wasn’t a good teacher,” he said.

It was enough of a distraction “for us to take out a piece of paper and count every time she said it,” Clough said. “She said ‘um’ 257 times in an hour and 15 minutes.”

A teacher’s voice can be annoying, Russell said.

“I had a 2 hour and 45 minute class with a professor that was so monotone, I thought I was going to kill myself. You can’t pay attention to that,” Russell said.

Pippa Stern, a communications major, said that some professors “spout on and on and on” without asking any questions.

“You don’t want to participate-you want to fall asleep,” Stern said.

Jake Murray, an RTVF major, said teachers need more training with video equipment.

“I’ve had way too many teachers who spend at least 15 or 20 minutes trying to figure out how to play a video,” Murray said.

PHOTOS BY KARL THUNMAN Moe Faulkner; an eight grader from Orange performs with the rest of his group from Cerro Billa Middle School during Constitution Day on Monday (left).

CSUF’s ROTC honor the flag (right).

Constitution: Celebrated by CSUF (From Page One)

the discussion of contemporary challenges to the U.S. Constitution.

Spitzer said the event was not publicized as well as he would have liked, but like Pullen, he acknowledged that students are extremely busy.

“They are running from class

to class, and in between they are trying to grab lunch. Their priorities may or may not necessarily to attend an academic forum on the Constitution,” Spitzer said.

The forum, which was held in the quad, was partially concealed by a large canopy and the tables being setup for the CSUF’s upcoming career fair.

Pullen, the chair-elect of the California First Amendment Coalition, stressed the importance of protecting constitutional rights and knowing what they are.

“This is not a Republican or a conservative or a liberal position – it’s all about protecting democracy,” Pullen said.

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NATION & WORLD

Coca Cash Crop Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) Bolivian president Evo Morales brandished a coca leaf on the floor of the United Nations Tuesday in a passionate rebuke of U.S. criticisms of the South American nation’s anti-drug policies.

The State Department on Monday included Bolivia in its annual list of major drug-transit or drug-producing countries, singling out Morales’ government for continuing to permit the legal harvest of coca, the principal ingredient in cocaine.

Morales, a former coca-grower elected in December as Bolivia’s first indigenous president, surprised the U.N. General Assembly by pulling out the small leaf – banned in the United States

– and holding it aloft.

“Coca is green, not white like cocaine,” he said, to a smattering of applause. “Scientifically ... it has been demonstrated that the coca leaf does no harm to human health.”

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Christy McCampbell expressed “very serious concerns” about the effectiveness of Morales’ coca policy. She reiterated demands for a more thorough eradication program, the development of alternative crops and an overhaul of Bolivian drug laws.

Without significant change in the Morales’ program, Bolivia could face decertification – the loss of some $100 million in U.S. government aid in the fight against narco-trafficking.

September 20, 2006

Penis Transplant Not Fun For Couple

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press

Chinese doctors said they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in the medical journal European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology.

The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report did not explain how the 44year-old man lost his penis. It said only that “an unfortunate traumatic accident” left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally.

Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital

performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ.

“There was a strong demand from both the patient and his wife” for the transplant. The operation “was discussed again and again” and approved by the hospital’s ethics committee, Hu wrote in the journal.

Despite how shocking and radical the operation sounds, it involved standard microsurgery techniques to reconnect blood vessels and nerves.

From a medical point of view, “the main hurdle is the functional recovery,” said Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, chief of plastic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

From arm and leg reattachments, it’s known that nerve regrowth occurs at a rate of about an inch a

month and often is insufficient to allow normal use, he said.

However, the ethical and psychological challenges in such cases can be even more paramount, as this and other recent transplants involving hands and faces illustrate.

“Some of the considerations for a penile transplant are the same as for a hand or face transplant,” such as the need to take lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, Lee said.

The drugs can cause kidney and other damage, acceptable risks when the transplant involves a vital organ such as a liver or heart, but more ethically perilous when the operation is aimed at improving quality of life rather than extending it, Dr. Yoram Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, wrote in an accompanying commentary in the urology journal.

The world’s first hand transplant recipient stopped taking immune suppression drugs and later requested that the hand be amputated.

Lee recalled speaking with the recipient of the world’s first doublehand transplant in France, who told him it took months for him to accept his new hands and stop referring to one as “it.”

Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed “because of the wife’s psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis,” the surgeons reported in the journal.

Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors said.

If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counseling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, “the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided,” Vardi wrote in his commentary.

Gay Governor to Release Book Detailing Affair He Resigned Over

By ANGELA DELLI SANTI Associated Press

PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey said he has no desire to return to politics since he left office two years ago amid a sex scandal but hopes his new tell-all book leads to public acceptance of his homosexuality.

McGreevey, who announced his resignation in a televised speech on Aug. 12, 2004, said Tuesday that he felt he had to come clean about his personal and political life.

“The danger is when people

have to act out in dark shadows,” McGreevey said. “If people can be who they are in the bright light of day, can celebrate their uniqueness ... that’s what promotes a moral fabric in a society.”

He also said his book contains some “messy, shameful, sinful” passages, including details of his relationship with an Israeli that he says began when he was governor, then married and a brand new father.

McGreevey’s estranged wife moved into her own home in Springfield after her husband left office.

“Over the past two years my focus

has been on protecting my daughter and establishing our lives as private citizens, and I will continue to do so.

I have no further comment at this time,” she wrote in an e-mail to the AP on Tuesday.

McGreevey’s memoir, “The Confession,” was out in bookstores Tuesday, coinciding with the airing of an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped last week in Chicago.

On the show, McGreevey discussed back-alley trysts behind a Washington, D.C., synagogue and anonymous sexual contacts with scores of men in bookstores and

rest stops.

“The closet is a sick place. Every day, every hour, every minute, every interaction, I lied, I hid,” McGreevey told Winfrey. “That’s not where you find love, in the back of a booth.

That’s where you fulfill a physical need. But that’s not being godly, that’s not finding love.”

McGreevey, 49, said he is now in a committed relationship with Australian-born financier Mark O’Donnell.

McGreevey told the AP that he is “stumbling and progressing” on a spiritual journey.

“What I didn’t understand was

that being gay, as with everything else, is a grace from God, and that by accepting that grace and by accepting that reality, by embracing that truth, I could authentically be who I was,” he said.

McGreevey retreated from the limelight and had remained publicly silent since resigning.

He wrote in the book that he was forced to quit after a man he loved, whom he put on the state payroll as homeland security adviser, threatened to reveal his homosexuality unless he was paid millions to stay quiet.

He said he’s even thankful to the

man, Golan Cipel, for forcing him to shed his false life.

“Ironically, he did me a favor,” McGreevey told Regan Books publisher Judith Regan for her program on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Without him “I’d still be in the closet today.”

Cipel, who has repeatedly denied being gay, said McGreevey forced himself on him and insists that McGreevey’s portrayal of their relationship in the book is untrue.

McGreevey on Tuesday told the AP that Cipel’s responses to reports of the book’s contents have been “unfortunate.”

SEX OFFENDERS: Students pleased with campus policy requiring registration old man convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years; a 35-year-old man convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years; a 56-year-old man convicted of lewd or lascivious crimes against children; a 55-yearold man convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years; and a 34-year-old man convicted of rape by force who has been in violation of the terms of his registration for over two years.

Many CSUF students who have children feel the need for public disclosure is necessary when

considering the high stakes with children involved.

“They should have to register,” said 35-year-old geography major Bill Miller, who has a 4-year-old son. “As a parent, I want to be aware of the type of history [of those people.]”

Tisha Thomsic, a 30-year-old mother of two, concurs that the knowledge is a must for those who bring their kids to school.

“We have a right to know that someone who has abused children is going to be around our children,” she said.

Some of the parents had little sympathy for the “scarlet letters” released sex offenders must wear when trying to integrate back into the social order.

“That was their choice [to commit the crime] and they screwed up,” said 22-year-old criminal justice major Danielle Noll, who has a 2year-old son.

CSUF students who don’t have children had varied reactions to the close-to-home implications of the disclosure.

“I think that it is a very good idea for sex offenders to register with the

campus,” said 18-year-old nursing major Jamie Turner in an e-mail interview. “It scares me to think that six sex offenders live a mile from campus. You always think that it will never happen to you and the men are always so far away -- but they are not far away and it can happen to you.”

Jones provided a male student’s perspective on the six sex offenders that reside within walking distance of CSUF. “That is a significant amount to be so close to the school. But I don’t think it would be right to say that

they couldn’t live close to the school and deny such basic rights because of past wrongs. I am a guy, so I am not too concerned,” he said.

According to the Department of Justice, some sex offenders do not possess the inherent ability to cease their actions even if they want to. While we invest faith in our justice system to properly punish and rehabilitate criminals, some find it unsettling nonetheless to think that the area is populated densely with those who have committed such acts.

Complicating matters is the

fact that the Megan’s Law database admittedly omits listing about one out of every four registered sex offenders for a multitude of reasons.

The public disclosure eliminates the shield of anonymity, but the newfound knowledge creates a wary uncertainty all the same.

Tomorrow’s issue will take an indepth look at American sex offender disclosure policies in relation to global policies on the matter.

SHOES: INSPIRE SMILES (From Page One)

want to do it again.”

Haro and Medrano first came across the idea of donating shoes to third world countries after they took several trips into Mexico and saw the need of the people firsthand. They felt that by donating their shoes they could reach out to people who didn’t have the same opportunities that people in the United States have.

“Our mission is to raise gently worn athletic shoes and distribute them in third world countries,” Haro said. “We’ve made one delivery to Mexico so far and are looking forward to incorporating more countries by next summer.”

Haro and Medrano essentially began their organization at the grassroot level. The co-founders solicited the help of small businesses, family, friends and private donors face-toface. Once their endeavor developed steady support, they created a Web site at www.shoesforsonrisas.org.

Ashley Baker, a student in one of Haro’s classes, saw benefit in donating her shoes to the charity.

“It’s better than throwing them away or leaving them to smell up your closet,” Baker said. “I know it’s going to a good cause and I can appreciate what Miss Haro’s doing.”

Up until now, Haro has been focused on getting her kinesiology students involved with the program, but the organization is working on expanding their community base.

The co-founders are in the process of waiting for approval for an on-

campus shoe drive.

“Right now, we have about 500 pairs of shoes and my room is being used as a storage closet,” Haro joked.

“The goal is to get more shoes … so that I won’t be surrounded by shoes.”

The next trip to Mexico is scheduled to take place sometime between the end of November and the beginning of December.

In the meantime, Haro and Medrano are looking to expand the organization by recruiting student volunteers to help spread the word.

“We hope to have the volunteer program up and running by October,” Haro said. “We want them to promote awareness in the community and have them ask for donations.”

The charity plans to donate shoes to the Dominican Republic and Cuba next summer. They are also accepting clothing, blankets and toys.

“We think that the need will be greater in Cuba and the Dominican Republican,” Haro said. “We are currently looking for a storage facility to store all the shoes as well as a travel agency that will provide discounted group rates.”

Shoes for Sonrisas is hoping to reach El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Applications to volunteer for the organization will be available on their Web site in the next month. A 5k marathon is also scheduled to take place in January to raise additional funds and shoes for future trips.

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THE STUDENT BODY

Energy drinks growing more popular among college students

BY SHEENA DESAI Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Although these drinks help keep people awake, there are health risks linked to excessive consumption, especially when mixing these drinks with alcohols such as vodka and Jagermeister.

Emedicine, an online medical library, describes depressants as a way to relax a person and calm their nervous system down while stimulants increase vigilance and sense of well-being.

When these two are taken simultaneously, fatigue and dehydration are likely to follow.

Daily use of energy drinks may also result in physical symptoms such as headaches, fatigue and depression.

In addition, overuse of energy drinks may lead to long-term and severe health problems, Consumer Reports reported.

Radio-TV-Film major Chris Kim is an occasional consumer of energy drinks who has had some bad experiences.

“Energy drinks are a quick pickme-up that I primarily use to wake

Many college students are familiar with those days when it feels as though they have run out of motivation and have no more strength inside to finish what they started.

Some students have turned to energy drinks to boost these dragging days.

Energy drinks are marketed to provide consumers with a boost of energy that will keep them on their toes for the time being and will drastically improve their physical abilities to do even the most complex and challenging tasks, wrote ScienceDaily.com.

“When I procrastinate all semester long and need to pull an all-nighter, and coffee just doesn’t cut it, I have a can of Monster and that helps me stay awake and finish my work on time,” said psychology student Madiha Rahman.

Most of these drinks include a combination of caffeine, guarana, taurine and various forms of ginseng, wrote Wine X, an online magazine.

They often also contain high levels of sugar or artificial sweetener. These ingredients act together to churn out the effect of heightened energy.

Consumer Reports stated the most successful energy drink today, Red Bull, has been the No. 1 seller amongst athletes and youth. Red Bull has made its way to bars, clubs, sports environments and even convenience stores.

me up or keep me awake, but the drop-out after the caffeine wears out can leave me feeling much more fatigued than before I took a swig of that energy drink,” Kim said.

Athletes and gym members also rely on energy drinks to gain a competitive edge and the physical potency they may be lacking before their big game or work out.

“I would say that 80 percent of gym members drink some sort of energy drink,” Eric Norrbohm, a 24 Hour Fitness sales manager said.

“If a person has taken some sort of stimulant ahead of time, the amount of power one has increases and betters the performance,” he said.

However, many sports drinks such as PowerAde are considered energy drinks without caffeine.

They still contain ingredients such as high fructose levels but do not do as much damage to one’s system because they are simply designed to re-hydrate the body, according to Consumer Reports.

BY RACHEL GREGORIUS/For The Daily Titan

Getting to Know Your Skin Detecting early warning signs can help prevent Melanoma skin cancer

BY MAGGIE HAUSER Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Moles are a mark of distinction and can be considered attractive, but they may be deadly.

In the past 30 years, melanoma, a type of skin cancer, has more than tripled in women, and has become the most common cancer in women ages 25 to 29, according to statistics released by the American Cancer Society.

College-aged students face a higher risk for skin cancer due to the popularity of pastimes like sunbathing at the beach without using sunscreen and frequenting tanning salons.

“Many college students seem to think that they’re invincible,” said Cal State Fullerton Kinesiology Department Chair Kathy Koser.

“But the risks of developing skin cancer are there.”

Melanoma is almost always curable in its early stages, but it is also likely to spread to other parts of the body. Melanoma is much less common than other skin cancers, but it is far more serious, and accounts for about four percent of all skin cancer cases, according to Smart Tan tanning salon training manuals.

According to the American Cancer Society, melanoma is a cancer that begins in the melanocytes of human skin, where pigment is produced. The lesions associated with melanoma often closely resemble moles or freckles.

What were once known as “beauty marks” have begun taking

on a more sinister quality.

“I tell all of my students to do their own skin checks. They know their own skin better than anyone else,” Koser said.

Koser also said that it’s always important to monitor any moles that may appear on the body. Pay attention to something Koser calls the “melanoma alphabet.”

“A” stands for asymmetry: If a mole begins to lose symmetry over time, or if it was never symmetrical to begin with, a doctor should check it.

“B” is for border: The borders of moles should be smooth and

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even. When the skin around any mole or freckle becomes jagged, a doctor’s help should be sought.

“C” is for color: Since most melanocytes keep creating melanin, melanoma tumors are often brown or black and resemble moles. If they begin to change colors, for example from brown to black, a doctor should take a look.

Finally, “D” is for diameter: moles are typically small in size. Dr. Hector Fernandez, an oncologist in Orange County, said that if a mole is larger than a pencil eraser, it’s a wise choice to have it examined by a physician.

Studies conducted by the American Cancer Society have found that people who have a

history of melanoma or a family history of skin cancer are at risk of developing melanoma.

People with fair skin, weak immune systems or who spend long periods of time in the sun without the proper clothing or sunscreen are also at risk.

Fernandez is quick to point out, though, that skin cancer doesn’t just strike those who are fair skinned.

“I’m darker skinned,” Fernandez said. “The risk may be less for people like me, but it’s still there. I always use sunscreen.”

According to melanoma survivor and former steel worker Ray Pittman, skin cancer is the most common of all cancers.

While it causes the most skin cancer deaths, it is also one of the most preventable forms of cancer.

“I work outdoors a lot, but now I avoid being outdoors in the sun for too long, especially in the middle of the day,” said Pittman. “I always protect myself with long-sleeved shirts, sunglasses and hats whenever I can.”

Fernandez also urged people to use sunscreen and lip balm with an SPF factor of 15 or more. Apply generously about 20 to 30 minutes before going outside so skin can absorb it, and reapply every two hours.

Seeking a dermatologist’s help is the first step if melanoma is suspected. Koser said that usually a biopsy is done to determine if a lesion is malignant. Treatment options vary from radiation, chemotherapy and experimental vaccines.

College students need to act as their own advocate for their health, Koser said, and the sooner, the better.

The Fight Against HPV HPV vaccine is now available to young women at risk

BY RACHEL DOUGLASS Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

In 2005 the Center for Disease Control estimated HPV, or the Human Papillomavirus, would be carried by 50 percent of sexually active people.

Because of increased rates of HPV contraction, pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. launched the “Tell Someone” campaign to raise awareness of the seriousness of the virus.

“You would tell her she has lipstick on her teeth,” the campaign brochure says. “So why wouldn’t you tell her about a virus that can cause cancer?”

The brochure explains that genital warts are caused by certain types of HPV and

explains the different treatments available, such as creams, removal by burning and surgery.

In concurrence with the “Tell Someone” campaign, Merck released a preventative vaccine, Gardasil, on the market. The vaccine targets four strains of the virus.

Two of these strains are not cancer causing while the other two are, said Mary Hermann, director of Health Education and Promotion for the Student Health and Counseling Center.

Currently scientists have identified over 100 strains of the virus.

Gardasil is not a cure however, but a preventative method targeted at girls before they become sexually active.

Hermann said the vaccine is recommended to females between the ages of 11 and 26, primarily pubescent teens and sexually active women who have multiple partners.

Hermann added that women over the age of 26 who still practice possibly dangerous sexual behaviors are also candidates for the vaccine.

The virus is about as common as the cold, and is transmitted both sexually and via skin-to-skin contact, said Hermann. This means that a condom does not protect against HPV. Three injections of the vaccine are given over a period of six months and cost about $360 total.

According to Merck, possible side effects of the treatment are pain, swelling, itching, redness at the injection site and fever.

To be proactive about cervical health, Hermann said that it is imperative that women come in a get their annual exam to decrease the chance of

abnormal cells becoming cancerous, even if patients don’t know if they have the virus.

“HPV lives in the blood stream and lies dormant a lot of the time,” she said. “That’s why a lot of people don’t know they have it.”

Not only do a majority of carriers not know that they have the virus, but many do not even know what the skin-lesion-causing virus is.

This is a result of the Bush administration’s mandate that all K12 schools receiving federal funding to teach abstinence, Hermann said.

Therefore, many young people are not thoroughly educated on safe sex practices or on all of the many sexually transmitted diseases circulating through the population, she said.

Margaret Hilgemann, a registered nurse practitioner in the Student Health Center, described the types of HPV in an e-mail interview.

“Most HPV infections do not cause any health effects and are eliminated by a person’s immune system before they can create serious cell changes,” she said.

There are about 30 types of the virus that affect the genital area. Some are high-risk, causing abnormal cervical cells and possibly cervical cancer, Hilgemann said.

Strains considered to be “lowrisk” cause genital warts and noncancerous changes in the cervix.

Because they don’t have a cervix, the virus does not cause cancer or sterility in men.

In fact, men are only at risk of genital warts if carrying the virus.

Male carriers of HPV can pass it without knowledge of having it, Hermann said.

Registered nurse Judy Lindemann, of the Student Health Center, said in an e-mail interview that the only way to completely avoid the virus is to refrain from any sexual contact.

Another option would be to only have sex with one person who is only having sex with you, Hilgemann said.

For the average college student, avoiding HPV may seem impossible because, even with the use of condoms, the virus can be spread.

“Pap testing can’t prevent cervical cancer,” Hermann said. “If treated early on, it [cancer] is very curable; in later stages it can be tragic.”

To learn more about the HPV students can contact the Student Health Center or the Center for Disease Control.

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strengthening the muscles around the ligament, as well as his forearm and shoulder.

CSUF team photographer Matt Brown, who is documenting Pestano’s road to recovery with photographs, described Pestano as “very much of a bulldog.”

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September 20, 2006 “When you actually see it day in and day out, it’s pretty impressive how dedicated he is to getting himself back,” Brown said.

The dedication to baseball that Pestano has displayed since he entered the game 17 years ago certainly paid off when his name was called by the Cleveland Indians in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft in Round 20 on June 7.

He eventually signed a contract with Cleveland on Aug. 17 after discussing it with his family and coaches.

“It was awesome,” Pestano said.

“The entire summer with the surgery, everything was uncertain with the draft. Who knows what would’ve happened if I didn’t get hurt? A lot of guys were telling me top five rounds. That’s just what I

was being told.” mental game.

Pestano’s mother, Anne, said she “For me it’s all about mentality,” is glad her son will be playing in the 6-foot, 200 pound closer said. the big leagues but also finds it is “When I go on the mound, I am sad that he’ll be leaving for training 6-foot-6. I do throw 95 even though camp in a short period of time.

I’m more 90 miles per hour.”

“I would really love to have him For Pestano, it was an honor to closer to home, but he seems very play in the rich baseball environment happy with it,” Anne said. “He’s at CSUF, he said. very excited about it. If he’s excited As he continues on the road to about it, I am, too.” recovery from Tommy John surgery His father, Bill said a lot of the while simultaneously making the dedication Pestano possesses came leap from college ball to the pros, from the time he spent as a bat boy Pestano said that it would be tough for CSUF when he was in his early to leave. teens.

“It’s a new team, new guys, it’s a “Most bat boys will show up different mindset,” he said. “But I’m for the game and always going retrieve bats and to have this. stuff,” Bill said.

I’m always “Vinnie was going to have I’ve strained muscles there for every the alumni before, but I’ve never single practice game to come and stayed the back to every torn ligaments. It’s entire eight year.” something I’ve never hours during the Although experienced before. practice session.” he hopes one Bill said when day to make – Vinnie Pestano Pestano pitched his name a On Suffering His Injury a no-hitter at household 14 years old at name and a Pony League have little game in front of kids going George Horton, to baseball he knew he had games wearing the ability to be something special. his jersey, he said he will always have “He knew that it was a special time a family at CSUF. to be playing in front of somebody “I love the guys that I play with,” that he respected so much,” Bill Pestano said. “I got a bunch of said. friends and I wouldn’t trade my Aside from his dedication to the time here with those guys and game, Pestano said what separates my relationships with them for him from other pitchers is his anything.”

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By KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan PASSING GLANCE – Vinnie Pestano looks over the field out at Goodwin Field. A former Titan closer, Pestano is spending the fall semester at CSUF before he goes to Florida in the spring to join the Cleveland Indians’ organization.

USC Fumes After Top Secret Hand Signal Revealed on TV Broadcast Associated Press Southern California formally complained that ABC-TV’s Brent Musburger revealed privileged information in play-by-play commentary during Saturday’s game against Nebraska.

The university sent a letter to ESPN, which oversees sports programming on ABC, saying Musburger, with less than 10

minutes to play and the Trojans leading 21-10, began describing how USC quarterback John David Booty lets his receivers know he has spotted a certain kind of coverage.

“John David told us that his signal when he finds one-on-one and they’re coming, it’s that ‘hang loose,’ that familiar sign you’ve seen surfers use,” said Musburger, referring to the sign where the thumb and little finger are raised.

Announcers and producers met with coaches and star players Friday as part of their game preparation, and Booty’s signaling was discussed in what was described as private, background-only talk.

Congressman Looks for Closure in Investigation in Death of Pat Tillman Associated Press A California congressman urged the Pentagon on Tuesday to complete its criminal investigation into the friendly fire death of Corp.

Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan after quitting the NFL to join the U.S. Army Rangers.

Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat who represents the San Jose region where Tillman grew up, faxed a letter to acting Defense Department Inspector General Thomas Gimble.

The inspector general announced in March that he would open a criminal probe into Tillman’s April 2004 death.

Although the Pentagon has never publicly revealed the scope of its investigation, Army officials have told The Associated Press privately that it focuses on possible negligent homicide charges against fellow troops.

Multiple investigations have failed to account for Tillman’s April 22, 2004, death, Honda said.

“Whether intentional or unintentional, the Army’s missteps have exacerbated the pain and sorrow felt by the Tillman family over their loss,” Honda wrote. “The legacy of a fallen warrior, resolution for family members on the home front, and the confidence of our heroic service members in their civilian and military superiors require, at long last, an immediate conclusion to the investigation.”

The Army conducted three

inquiries into Tillman’s death even before the inspector general’s current probe, which also covers allegations of a coverup.

The negligent-homicide probe was the outgrowth of a review begun in August 2005 of the third and most sweeping of previous investigations. The Tillman family has been promised completion many times, only to see repeated delays, Honda said.

The inspector general’s office now projects the current investigation will be done by December, Honda said.

“Justice deferred is justice denied, and justice for Pat Tillman and his family has been inexcusably denied,” Honda said in a statement that accompanied the letter.

“Despite multiple flawed attempts by the Army to determine precisely how Pat was killed, and numerous postponements of DoD investigations into the Army’s mistakes, Corporal Tillman’s family is no nearer to closure than the day he died.”

A spokesman for the inspector general said that the office has a policy of not commenting on investigations or setting timetables for their completion.

There is growing talk among lawmakers of opening an independent congressional investigation into Tillman’s death if the inspector general’s probe is inadequate, or if Gimble does not release his findings.

Angels Pick Up 5-2 Win Associated Press Robb Quinlan and Vladimir Guerrero homered to back rookie Joe Saunders, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 Tuesday as they tried to gain ground in the AL West.

The Angels, who have 11 games left, began the night 6 1/2 games behind division-leading Oakland.

Saunders (6-3) struck out a career-

high eight in seven innings, allowing one run and seven hits, and Angels rookie starters improved to 18-5 this season.

He escaped a bases-loaded, oneout jam in the fifth when he struck out Emil Brown and Ryan Shealy.

Francisco Rodriguez pitched the ninth for his major league-leading 43rd save in 47 chances.

Kansas City clinched its third straight last-place finish.

USC sports information director Tim Tessalone sent a formal

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and sent a copy to the Pacific-10 conference office.

“We’re supposed to be partners in this, but this is certainly going to make us think twice about trying to help them have as good a broadcast as possible,” Tessalone said. “What he did was unconscionable.

“In my 28 years, I’ve never seen such an egregious breach of trust.

Brent is not a rookie at this and he should know better.”

During the meeting, there was discussion about how a replay of the Ohio State-Texas broadcast on Sept.

9 showed Buckeyes quarterback Troy Smith tapping the top of his helmet to let receiver Ted Ginn Jr. know he’s

noticed one-on-one coverage.

Booty was asked if Southern California had a similar signal, and Booty told Musburger about his “hang loose” signal.

“We are very mindful of what we learn in pre-game meetings in terms in what is appropriate for broadcast and what is for our background. We’re sorry this led to an unfortunate misunderstanding, which was never our intention,” ESPN said in a statement released by spokesman Josh Krulewitz.

Asked about Musburger’s on-air revelations, USC coach Pete Carroll said with a laugh, “Just wondering what they’re going to tell us next...”

D-League Makes Draft Choices Associated Press The Anaheim Arsenal selected forward Jawad Williams, a starter on North Carolina’s 2005 NCAA championship team, with the third overall pick in Tuesday’s NBA Development League expansion draft.

The 6-foot-9 Williams averaged 14 points in four games for the nowdefunct Fayetteville N.C. Patriots last season.

He also played in Spain after being released by the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs before the season began.

With their remaining choices, the Arsenal took center George Leach, forwards Ryan Randle and Bryant Matthews, guards Sung-Yoon Bang and T.J. Sorrentine, forward Seth Doliboa, guards Jason Clark and Justin Johnson and center Kevin Owens.

The Arsenal will complete stocking their roster with players chosen in the NBA Development League draft Nov. 2, free agents they sign, and players assigned to them by their NBA affiliates, the Los Angeles Clippers, Portland Trail Blazers and Orlando Magic.

The Arsenal open training camp Nov. 12, and make their debut Nov. 24 against the Los Angeles DFenders at the Anaheim Convention Center.

The D-Fenders selected forward Duane Erwin with the fourth overall selection.

The 6-foot-9 Erwin split last season between the Patriots and Florida Flame, averaging 7.7 points in 30 games. He played his college ball at Memphis.

The D-Fenders, owned by the Los Angeles Lakers, will complete stocking their roster with players chosen in the NBA Development League draft Nov. 2, free agents they sign and players assigned to them by the Lakers.

The D-Fenders open training camp Nov. 12.

Their first game at Staples Center is scheduled Nov. 28 against the Bakersfield Jam.

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Coca Nation

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, standing before an audience of world leaders at the United Nations, smiled, reached in his pocket and pulled out a coca leaf.

Morales, the first indigenous president of the country, wants to develop Bolivia’s main export – coca – into everyday items.

“Coca is green, not white like cocaine,” he told the audience. “Scientifically it has been demonstrated that the coca leaf does no harm to human health.”

The State Department on Monday included Bolivia in its annual list of major drug-transit or drug-producing countries. It singled out Morales’ government for allowing the legal harvest of coca, the principal ingredient in cocaine.

Morales, who used to work in the coca fields, intends to use coca leaves in more creative ways like hemp has been used to sustain a niche market. He already uses it in tea and medicine.

Christy McCampbell, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, shared growing concerns over Bolivia’s government not taking the necessary action to reduce the dependency on

its biggest agricultural industry.

The U.S. doesn’t like it, but who are we to tell a country that is poor how to go about surviving?

Let’s not forget tobacco’s historical role as a cash crop in the United States. While tobacco is unlike cocaine in its physical effects, it does cause addiction.

Like the United States profited from tobacco, Bolivia, a thirdworld nation, would highly profit from such an evolution in its most resourceful industry.

In Bolivia, soon people will be able to wear T-shirts, sweaters and pants as well as write or read from books made of a material from coca leaves.

Coca plants being used as an alternative resource for other materials doesn’t sound like a bad plan for a country that relies heavily on coca production.

“With all respect to the government of the United States, we are not going to change anything. We do not need blackmail or threats,” Morales said. “Certification or decertification is an instrument of recolonization, or colonization, of the Andean countries. That we will not accept.”

Neither should anyone else.

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‘Guest-Worker-Program,’ or Amnesty?

By Joey T. English

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

When Congress granted amnesty to more than 2.7 million illegal aliens in 1986, most of the problems of illegal immigration were not solved. In turn, the amnesty enticed more illegal immigrants to sneak past America’s borders – increasing their population to an estimated 10 million to 12 million today.

In the current illegal immigration debate, senators and pro-immigrant groups strategically avoid the word “amnesty.” They are instead calling for a “guest-worker-program” which paves the way toward citizenship by qualifying millions of illegal applicants for residency.

Essentially, though, this is amnesty.

It rewards illegal immigrants for breaking the law and spits in the face of those who value U.S. citizenship enough to pursue it legally.

When America’s immigration

debate exploded in May, thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly Latinos, took to the streets in protest against proposed immigration laws and demanded U.S. citizenship under a collage of Mexican and Latin American flags (until organizers admonished them to wave American ones).

Their attempt to cripple the nation’s economy by rejecting a day’s labor on May 1 had little effect.

In fact, the demonstration proved that America functions fine without exploiting illegal labor.

And America would function better if amnesty were not granted to illegal immigrants.

The costs for taxpayers who already finance illegal immigrants through various government services – such as medical, school and prison systems – would increase if amnesty were granted.

“Illegal aliens create significant costs for taxpayers mainly because they are unskilled, not because they

are illegal,” states a July report from the Center for Immigration Studies.

Further, amnesty will not make things any better for less educated American workers. According to the Center, “If illegals are allowed to stay, the oversupply of less-educated workers will remain.” Based on the principals of supply and demand, this “oversupply” drives down the price of less-skilled labor.

Thus, the least educated American workers would still compete for shrinking paychecks and benefits with millions of uneducated former illegal aliens.

Moreover, those advocating amnesty forget to mention that it will spur more illegal immigration and potentially repeat the same mistake of the 1986 amnesty, which failed to achieve enforcement provisions such as securing the borders.

Before granting citizenship to millions of undocumented workers, America needs to get a grip on the border, especially in the post-Sept.

11 world.

There needs to be a rapid increase in enforcement personnel and a fencing project to ensure America’s security. It is staggering that the government’s negligence on this issue has caused American vigilantes to patrol the border themselves.

And since the porous borders served for so long as a green light for emigrates of all backgrounds, it is a legitimate concern that an illegal immigrant terrorist already resides in “the shadows” of America’s undocumented population. Granting amnesty for this illegal immigrant is an accident waiting to happen.

Effective background and criminal checks are no guarantee, considering the enormous bureaucratic workload an amnesty plan will require.

People who want to become a citizen of this country ought to come for the opportunities its legal structure will provide them.

Rewarding those who cut in line is the wrong note to start on.

Border Nations Suffer From Unequal Trade

By Carol Rojas

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

Amnesty probably seems like some radical, idealistic and overly simplified solution to illegal immigration for many people.

The thought of rewarding the approximately 9 million people, according to the 2003 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services report, that have broken the law by illegally entering the United States goes against the very idea of the American Dream we pride ourselves in.

It’s simple. If you play by the rules, have a family member economically stable enough to support you and are requested through an employer or another lawful means of entering the country, then you may eventually acquire the freedom enjoyed by those patient enough to do things legally.

The reality however, is that the process is far from straight forward.

Fill out the paperwork, wait for a response, call for information, get conflicting answers, get assigned an immigrant visa number, wait for a response, get approval for a visa, wait through years of emotional distress and work to become a permanent resident, and maybe, eventually, become a U.S. citizen.

If you are patient enough to get to that point, you will be rewarded with the rights automatically given to those lucky enough to be born here.

So why not just play by the rules?

The truth is most Mexican immigrants that migrate into the United States are in such dire living situations that they don’t have the luxury to wait years for legal recognition.

Between abiding by regulations or putting food on the table, we would all make the latter choice.

So why should we care? It’s quite simple. The United States, in large part, is responsible for the crumbling Mexican stability that has millions unable to afford necessities.

In 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico promised to bring Mexican living standards to the level of their northern neighbors.

Although conditions improved for some, millions were impoverished as fierce competition to sell crops increasingly lowered prices. This led to the demise of farming communities in central and southern Mexico.

Mexican self-sustainability changed dramatically, forcing millions to flee to northern Mexico.

Eventually, the workers smuggled their way into the United States for survival.

So what does this all boil down to? It begins with acknowledging the big picture. Until we create borders and regulations for the trade industry that has left millions of immigrants working for less than minimum wage, we cannot create barriers for the human beings themselves.

In a society that prides itself in the “American” virtues of liberty and justice for all, we find ourselves in a cycle of active oppression and escape from responsibility that led to the exploitation of our most vulnerable neighbors. The idea of justice for all is a facade in and of itself.

What we should claim is justice for all who speak the right language, have the right skin color, or were born on the right side of some imagined frontier.

Or maybe we just prefer to be hypocritical.

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SPORTS

September 20, 2006

Baseball’s Pestano is Taking it One Step at a Time Former Titan hopes path to recovery leads to his eventual success as a pro

By KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan SHOWING OFF – Former Titan hurler Vinnie Pestano reveals his scar from his Tommy John surgery. Pestano’s Titan pitching career ended during the 2006 season after he made an appearance against USC.

there was indeed a tear, Pestano met with Los Angeles Angels team physician Dr. Lewis Yocum.

On July 21, Yocum performed the surgery on Pestano.

The surgery is called ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction or

BY JONATHAN SAAVEDRA Daily Titan Staff Writer UCL. The surgery is also called Tommy sports@dailytitan.com John surgery, named after former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tommy It took one pitch.

John, who was the first professional A 1-2 slider, to be exact. athlete to successfully undergo the It was the pitch that did more operation 32 years ago. than strike out USC’s Cyle Hankerd F u l l in the 9th inning rehabilitation on May 10. from the The pitch surgery takes behind a torn approximately a ligament that year for pitchers. would prevent Cal It usually takes State Fullerton about another year sidearmer Vinnie before they return Pestano from to full form. playing the final Pestano’s father, season of his Bill Pestano, said college career in he was more 2007. nervous about the It was a pitch operation than his that Pestano son was. remembers quite “It was definitely vividly. difficult,” Bill said.

“I didn’t want “You never want to believe what to see your son get was happening Titan Media Relations injured.” because when you Yocum replaced feel a pop in your GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Cleveland is banking on Vinnie Pestano to the damaged elbow, you know make a full recovery and show the form that made him a Titan bullpen ace. ligament with immediately that something’s not right,” the 21-year- of having to watch his team from a ligament from Pestano’s left old criminal justice major said. “I the dugout. “It hurt worse watching hamstring.

“There’s an 80-20 chance of had tingling and numbness in my than it did throwing.”

After having doctors classify it as recovery, but I would’ve done it if hand, but shook it off and got the nothing more than a strain, Pestano it was 20-80,” Pestano said. “My ball back.” lifeline is my arm and I’ve never He said after Hankerd struck out, wasn’t convinced.

“I knew it was a lot worse,” wanted to do anything else in my the crowd was going and so was his adrenaline. Pestano attempted one Pestano said. “I’ve strained muscles life except for play baseball.”

Pestano is currently in rehab more slider against the next hitter, before, but I’ve never torn ligaments. but by the time he got the ball back, It’s something I’ve never experienced he felt a throbbing in his already- before.”

SEE PESTANO - PAGE 7 After doctors finally discovered swollen right arm.

“I called the trainers out there and that was it,” Pestano said.

For the remainder of the season, although Pestano was inactive, he served as an emotional leader on the team, which was an important role, Head Coach George Horton said.

He accepted that role and tried to become more of a team leader.

But not being able to help lead his team advance to the College World Series was tough for him, Pestano said.

“It was excruciating,” Pestano said

By carlos delgado/For the Daily Titan GETTING READY – Titan runners Daniel Alvarez [front] and Damien Nieves warm up before Fullerton’s opener.

“The next race will be better because we will see more people from our conference,” Alvarez said.