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Tuesday October 17, 2006
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
CSUF Alumnus Reshaping U.S. Foreign Relations Congressman Ed Royce will speak at CSUF’s diplomacy summit By Sean McCormick
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Congressman and Cal State Fullerton alumnus Ed Royce will give a speech Wednesday about citizen diplomacy in shaping U.S. foreign relations. Royce, a Fullerton resident, has served in the Committee of Interna-
tional Relations all seven of his terms since his induction in 1992. His speech is part of a Citizens Diplomacy Summit honoring CSUF’s partnership with the National Committee for International Visitors that began last December. According to the mission statement on its Web site, the committee’s goal is to generate strong international communication through faceto-face interaction “one handshake at a time.” The organization’s site also said that the people of the world are interdependent and that volunteering is an inherent quality of being an
American. As part of his job Royce has traveled the world. Royce serves as vice chairman of the subcommitROYCE tees on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations. For a long time Royce worked to improve human rights in Vietnam, working on bills to promote democracy and religious freedom. This September he welcomed Cong Thanh Do back to the
U.S. after Cong was in Vietnam for prodemocratic activities. “We are very appreciative that he can take time out of his congressional schedule to talk about a subject that is close to him,” CSUF director of Community Relations Susan Katsaros said. The focus of the speech will be citizen diplomacy, which Royce describes as the right and responsibility of an American citizen to guide U.S. foreign relations. The Department of State-sponsored program aims to increase citizen influence on U.S. foreign
Supermodels banned from fashion shows for being underweight
The Examination in Writing Proficiency is a degree requirement
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Web site. “It will give us an opportunity to showcase our programs internationally,” Katsaros said. Services involve professional meetings, home stay, interpretation services, transportation and tours as well as connecting foreign leaders, specialists and scholars with their U.S. counterparts. International visitors range from business representatives and government officials to students. At last year’s annual meeting the SEE ROYCE - PAGE 2
Media Promotes Unhealthy Images
Deadline Nearing for Writing Exam
The deadline to sign up for the Examination in Writing Proficiency is this Thursday. The test is being administered Nov. 4th. The Cal State University board of trustees requires that all students show they have sufficient writing skills in order to receive a bachelor’s degree, which the EWP tests for. Students are allotted 90 minutes to write about an essay topic. The test is graded on organization, development, appropriate word choice, grammar, punctuation, spelling and logic. It is graded by faculty selected from the university who are trained specifically for the EWP. The readers grade an essay on a scale of one to five. The essays are then read by two faculty members who combine their scores. The two scores added together must equal a six or higher in order to pass. Dictionaries and thesauri are permitted during the test, but electronic spelling devices are not. The essay topic changes from test to test. The testing center offers EWP orientations before every test to let students know what to expect from the test and what materials students will need to bring on the test date. The orientation date for the next EWP test will be Oct. 27 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Business major Diana Zablan said the EWP test was easy. “My topic was: What do you think about cheating? Write four pages, and you’ll be fine,” she said. Testing center coordinator Lorrie Harnach assured that quantity is not a factor in determining whether or not one passes. It’s about quality. “The EWP is designed to assess your writing skills,” Harnach said. “They cannot assess your writing
relations said Yong Kim, director of Asian affairs at Royce’s Fullerton office. Other guest speakers at the summit will include students in international programs and co-sponsor of the event Vincent Dropsy, president of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Students and Scholars. Collaborating with the committee will create a symbiotic relationship, providing CSUF with increased diversity and foreign visitors a chance to work with their U.S. counterparts, according to the committee’s
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In Training- Army cadets maneuver a tarp mimicking a capsized boat as part of the Field Leadership Reaction Course during training at Camp Pendleton.
Future Army Leaders Train Hard CSUF ROTC members navigated, shot and climbed during training By Robert Moran
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Cal State Fullerton’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps marched into its twice-a-year training event, which ran through Friday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 1 at Camp Pendleton. Seventy-five cadets in the ROTC gathered at 4 a.m. on Friday morning
to make the drive to the Marine Corps base near Oceanside. The cadets faced several events as part of their training. Cadet Victor Ting said that everything the cadets learn has a practical use in the Army when the cadets become officers or when they come back to the civilian world. “Nothing here that we teach is stupid or for nothing,” Ting said. The first task that the cadets’ faced was the land navigation, or LANDNAV, test. Ting said the purpose of the exercise was to teach the cadets how to navigate
using a map, compass and protractor. “It gets us to basically navigate our terrain” without the use of the Global Positioning System, Ting said. The cadets were required to find at least five points out of eight to pass. The test’s course was path about 3 kilometers long winding through a 2 kilometer by 2 kilometer area. The cadets are normally allotted five hours to complete the test, but because of time constraints only had three and a half.
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Eating disorders have become such a worldwide health concern that a fashion show in Spain recently prevented several models from participating. The presenters of the show cited the model’s weight as the key factor. According to Reuters, all the banned models were nearly 6 feet tall and weighed less than 120 pounds. Health officials in Spain said that their body mass index was too low. All the models who participated in the show were required to maintain an index of at least 18. Colleen Kvaska, a nutrition professor at Cal State Fullerton, explained in an e-mail interview what the body mass index was. It’s a measure of a person’s weight relative to his or her height. An index less than 18.5 is considered to be underweight. An index between 18.5 and 24.9 is a healthy weight. An index between 25 and 29.9 is overweight, while an index over 30 is considered to be obese. According to the Web site for the National Blood and Lung Health Institute, any person over six feet tall and under 140 pounds is considered underweight. Kristy Richardson, a nutrition professor at CSUF, liked the idea that the presenters of the show had set the minimum index at 18. She said it was feasible for the presenters to set it at that level. “This would still be underweight, but since it is barely underweight the models wouldn’t have as high of a health risk,” she said. She said the average model has an index of 14 to 16, depending on the country. “This is very unsafe for the health of the models,” she said. Having a low body weight increases the risk for osteoporosis and can also impair the immune system, she said. “If someone who is underweight becomes ill, they have very little reserves to fall back on,” she said.
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Kvaska also pointed to hair loss, dry skin, anemia, and insomnia as the result of protein and calorie malnutrition. “If young growth ceases, basal metabolic slows. With continued starvation the heart muscle becomes weak, the chambers of the heart begin to shrink, blood pressure falls, body temperature drops,” Kvaska said. “Finally, they may suffer multiple organ failure and die. Many of them of heart failure.” Richardson said the fashion show presenters banned the super-thin models from their shows to try to change the way that the media portrays women and to promote a healthy body image. Genelle Belmas, a professor of communications at CSUF, agreed. Just opening up a magazine, flipping through the channels, or watching a movie demonstrates that women are supposed to be stick-thin, small-pored, big-chested, small-waisted and well-coifed. These images also demonstrate that women are supposed to be elegant, full-haired, tall and pale, she said. “Most women aren’t that ideal, and many women spend their whole lives reaching to achieve that unachievable idea,” Belmas said. The media’s constant bombardment of images enforce the unachievable stereotype and can lead to an obsession with size and weight. When such an obsession occurs, women begin to view normal weight as too fat and take unhealthy actions to lose weight. They have to resort to starvation to achieve and maintain these body weights, Kvaska said. Despite the influx of images leading to the weight obsession, Belmas said there are a few things the media can do to downplay the effect of unrealistic female imagery. She said she loves Dove’s “Real Woman” and Crystal Light ads because the women who are portrayed are not the typical ideal of beauty. More companies should be targeting that demographic, Belmas said. “The more we teach our children [and] consumers of media that the portrayals they see are often not even real or desirable, the more likely they are to be able to reject and challenge those portrayals,” she said.
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