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Congressman Royce Speaks to Students

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CSUF alumnus discusses intercultural issues at the Titan Student Union

By Adam Levy

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‘Ask A Mexican’ About O.C. History OC Weekly columnist Gustavo Arellano packs room at Langsdorf Hall

By Jaime Cárdenas

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

HistoryGustavo Arellano, author of OC Weekly’s “Ask a Mexican” column, tells students on Tuesday about the Hispanic heritage of Orange County that historians have brushed aside.

By DAVID OSBORNE/Daily Titan

Ask A Mexican? How about Ask a Mexican-American Historian?

Gustavo Arellano, the OC Weekly’s “Ask A Mexican” columnist, turned his visit to Cal State Fullerton on Tuesday into a MexicanAmerican history in Orange County lecture, focusing on the 1948 ruling in the Mendez v. Westminster case that desegregated schools in California six years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

The event was scheduled to start at 4 p.m., and every seat in room 321 of Langsdorf Hall had been taken before it began. People were still shuffling in as Arellano began to talk. Many of them stood up against the walls while some sat down in the aisles of the classroom.

Arellano, 27, said he was surprised to see such a large turnout, even if a lot of them were told to show up by

their teachers.

A lot of people in attendance probably expected an elongated, live version of Arellano’s column, but instead got a lecture on the absence of Mexican-American history from Orange County history books.

The Mexican-American history of the county “is not something that is convenient to the story of Orange County,” which is stereotypically rich and white, Arellano said.

“It was an alternative to evil, urban Los Angeles,” he said.

Arellano, whose family migrated from Zacatecas, Mexico, said his family came to Orange County to work in the grove fields. His grandfather, he said, is “one of the people that made this county what it is.”

“And nobody is telling his story,” he added.

At the start of the lecture, Arellano asked those in attendance if they’d heard about the Mendez v. Westminster case. Around five people raised their hand. Almost everyone raised his or her hand when asked about Brown v. Board of Education.

In a documentary about the case SEE HISTORY - PAGE 5

CSUF Gets $75,000 for Suicide Prevention

By Paolo Andres

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Cal State Fullerton is one of 34 groups nationwide to receive money under a memorial grant designed for youth suicide prevention.

The federal government appointed the university with a three-year, $75,000 grant under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act for youth

suicide prevention to help students and the community with issues of suicide, including mental health problems and identifying substance abuse issues.

“For far too long suicide prevention is an issue that was ignored.

Now we are taking action and I have made suicide prevention a priority,” said Charles Curie, Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in a

press release.

“As a result of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, the administration is now working with state and local governments and community providers to stem the number of youth suicides in our country. Each of these new grantees will help fill a significant need in their community,” he said.

According to CSUF health educator Brieana Roumeliotis, the funds

would be used to implement programs that would help bring awareness to factors that bring about suicidal tendencies, such as depression and anxiety disorders. The money would also be used to implement a campus suicide watch and a tracking system that would report student issues to various campus resources.

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Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) spoke about citizen diplomacy and international communications in an hour-long speech given in the Titan Student Union Wednesday morning.

Since 1993, Royce has represented California’s 40th District, which includes parts of Cypress, Stanton, Buena Park, Fullerton, Placentia and Orange.

The dialogue, a part of the university’s Citizen Diplomacy Summit, drew 150 attendees to the TSU, who listened to the Titan-turned-senatorturned-representative emphasize the importance of American-sponsored radio broadcasts in countries such as Afghanistan, Africa and China.

Intercultural issues have been a recurring theme throughout his career, which include a stint on the House Committee on International Relations, a committee that presides over issues pertaining to foreign affairs.

“What I’m suggesting here is an approach to international diplomacy that is far less combative and far more constructive,” Royce said.

“You look at what has changed the world, exchanges, alternative visions – you look at history and look at what works.”

Audience members had split sentiments on the topic.

“I like where he’s going with the idea of the radio,” said 18-year-old political science major Diana Coronado. “It’s smart to understand other cultures, not a lot of people do.”

Political science Professor Gloria Badal had a skeptical take on Royce’s visions, questioning the true intentions of the influential radio waves, intimating that the shows were more intended for subversive mobilization.

“He’s advocating setting up the sending of messages we are promoting Royce to people in other countries,” Badal said. “Oh it’s so nice of us, were not going in, but setting up these radio stations that broadcast the messages that erode their power systems.”

Closer to home, Royce cited a shortage of housing and hotel amenities in hopes of recruiting more students and faculty. He strongly encourages students to study abroad.

“It will help establish credibility on your resume,” he said.

Royce reminisced on his days as a Cal State Fullerton student, crediting the education and networking connections he made here as the building blocks of his political career. After serving as the chairman for the College Republicans, he used his CSUF alumni base to establish himself as a politician. The university also provided him with a humSEE ROYCE - PAGE 5

What Goes On in Washington Macroeconomics class hosts Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez

By Robert Moran

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) discussed the economic impact of the war in Iraq and its influence on the domestic economy before Nasser Duella’s macroeconomics class Wednesday morning at Cal State Fullerton.

Since 1996 Sanches has represented California’s 47th district, which includes parts of Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Anaheim.

“I am a politician. And I say that with a great amount of pride,” Sanchez said. “Most people who serve in the U.S. House

of Representatives or in the Senate really hate the word politician.

I personally really, really enjoy it — being a politician is about the people.”

Sanchez said the reason she came to speak to the class was to explain what goes on in Washington because most people don’t know or don’t care.

Sanchez said committees handle everything in Congress. She sits on the Joint Economic Committee, which has both senators and house members on it, dealing with the competitiveness of the U.S. economy in comparison to the rest of the world.

Sanchez said the biggest concern of this country should be competitiveness, not security.

“If we are not smart someone SEE SANCHEZ - PAGE 5

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CSUF’s Friendship Games Saturday

21st annual campus event Today at 5 p.m. is the registration deadline for the attracts competing teams Nov. 4 Examination in Writing Proficiency test. The from around the U.S. test is $20. Registration instructions can be found at

By AARON HOltsclaw www.fullerton.edu/testing.

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com If students miss the registration deadline but wish to take the EWP, they may try to take the exam on a Schools from all over the state and surrounding areas will be sending standby basis. Call the Testing Center at 714-278teams to Cal State Fullerton Satur3838 for detailed standby instructions. Admission is day to compete in wacky events at the Friendship Games. not guaranteed.

“Seussical: The Musical” will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre of the Performing Arts Center.

Tickets cost $16 for full-time students with CSUF identification. Performances are Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and at 8 p.m., as well as Sunday at 2 p.m.

The CSUF chapter of Pilipino American Student Association is hosting the games for the 21st consecutive year.

The series of five events begins at 9 a.m. and will be held on the lawn outside the Engineering and Computer Science building.

Each team will cheer for a minute to show their spirit, pride, unity and

friendship. The winning team at the member crawls through the legs of end of the day wins the 8-foot tall the line and “Tidal Wave” has team SPUF trophy. members pass glasses of water above Trophies will also be awarded to their heads from one end of the line the second- and to the other. The third-place schools.

“Conveyor Belt” has CSUF has yet to This is the biggest players roll on the win the trophy in ground, simulating Pilipino collegiate the 23-year history a working conveyor event in California by belt, until all playof the events.

“The Nasty” is far. We’ve had teams ers have been rolled a relay race where from Las Vegas, Texas, across the top. participants pass a Michigan and Hawaii.

The “Alpine baton between their Green” features – Dru Wu legs without the use teams of four with Pilipino American Student Assoc. Pres. of hands. two-by-fours tied “We like to to their feet walkpractice that,” ing across the field. said co-event coordinator DenFor the halftime show, “the teams son Kaiklian. “Our team is always come out with something bigmotivated to try and win the tro- ger and better to show their pride,” said co-event coordinator Mike Ong. phy.”

The “Big Groundhog” has team The three teams in the lead after members form a line while the last five events go on to “Final Ram-

page,” which is an obstacle course that will decide the winner. The winning team will gain bragging rights for the next year.

CSUF participants are hungry to break the 21-year losing streak.

“They’ve been holding practice three days a week and are very serious,” Ong said.

“This is the biggest Pilipino collegiate event in California by far,” association President Dru Wu said.

“We’ve had teams from Las Vegas, Texas, Michigan and Hawaii in the past.”

Defending champion San Francisco State will be competing along with 34 other schools.

“Come out,” Ong said. “If this is your first friendship games, you won’t be disappointed.”

For more information on the event, check out www.myspace. com/friendshipgames.

Skills for Life” is a workshop offered about themselves because they don’t on campus for students that want to stand up for themselves, Edelmanbuild on communication skills to get Blank said. what they want without being too agEdelman-Blank will also present gressive. different scenarios Edelman-Blank to help students determine how they will speak to stu- Men may also, just as dents about what much as women, really will be firm or if assertiveness is and choose to. benefit from learning they“I’m isn’t and show how really goit differentiates how to be assertive ... ing to help people – Deborah Edelman-Blank think about times from being aggresCSUF Clinical Psychologist in their own life sive or passive-agwhen they haven’t gressive. been assertive and “It’s basically Assertiveness 101,” Edelman-Blank how they can choose to be assertive,” said. “What the pros and cons of Edelman-Blank said. being assertive is and when to be asSome of the students that have sertive.” gone to the workshop have learned The workshop will also cover the how they can communicate properly relationship between assertiveness in a nonaggressive manner, stating and self-esteem. A lot of people who what they want instead of having aren’t assertive tend to feel badly others walking all over them, she

said.

“The good thing about assertiveness is that it really affects everybody,” Edelman-Blank said.

Women are more passive when it comes to getting what they want, whereas men are given more permission to be aggressive, she said.

“Men may also, just as much as women, really benefit from learning how to be assertive and how to communicate with intelligence without being aggressive,” Edelman-Blank said.

Sue Passalacqua, associate director of the Women’s Center and organizer of the workshop, organizes many student programs.

“We try to offer a variety of programs that have a gender-related approach,” she said.

The workshop will be presented on Oct.31 at noon in UH205.

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Doormat Workshop for the Downtrodden

The Titan Cross Country Invitational will be held at the Titan Sports Complex track from 4:30 to 6 p.m. University psychologist will address aggression Women’s Volleyball will play Long Beach State at 7 in students’ everyday life p.m. in the Titan Gymnasium.

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Daily Titan Staff Writer

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Women’s Volleyball will play UC Irvine at 7 p.m. in the Titan Gymnasium.

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Tired of people walking all over you and never letting you have a say in things?

If you want to learn how to combat those feelings and take charge of your life then a new workshop on campus may help you establish those assertive skills you are lacking in.

Deborah Edelman-Blank, clinical psychologist at Cal State Fullerton, will be presenting a workshop designed to help students enhance their communication skills.

“Ditch the Doormat: Assertiveness

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BY PAUL SAIEDI/Daily Titan Staff Writer

Proposition 1C The California state government would issue $2.9 billion in bonds to provide for urban developments and housing programs to assist underserved citizens under Proposition 1C, the Housing and Emergency Trust Fund Act. Development programs covered

by Proposition 1C would be delegated $1.3 billion and are aimed

at improving public transportation, funding for state parks and distribution of grants to cover improvements in water supply, sewer systems and environmental cleanup efforts, according to the proposition’s text.

New homeownership programs focused on serving low-income households, providing down payment assistance and issuing grants aimed at reducing barriers for first-time buyers would all be covered under Proposition 1C, according to an independent state analyst.

Yes on 1C

Proposition 1C funding will not the new programs,” Delson said. raise taxes; it will come from existing “That is completely untrue. Only state funding in the form of bonds, those who are citizens will be eligible said Sam Delson, the communications for new or existing housing and dedirector for Housing 4 California. velopment programs.”

“There are Eligibility for the 360,000 homeless low-income housfamilies in Caliing grants provided There are 360,000 fornia. Something

by Proposition 1C needs to be done,” homeless families in will be based on an Delson said. “There California. Something existing formula reare 4,000 foster needs to be done. quiring applicants teens released each – Sam Delson to show income year in the state. Housing 4 Calif. Communications Dir. levels at or below Where are they 80 percent of the surrounding area supposed to live?

Proposition 1C is a step in the right or jurisdiction, Delson said. direction.”

“This bond measure will not solve Statewide 200,000 homes are con- all of the housing problems facing structed each year, but the demand the state, but it will do good,” Delfor new homes is approximately son said. “It will benefit everyone by 250,000, Delson said. “That leaves getting people off the street and serv50,000 people without homes each ing to buttress the private construcyear and drives the cost of homes tion sector with new jobs.” through the roof.”

Having a home and place to live is Half of the funding from Proposi- something that all California residents tion 1C will go to existing programs should be concerned with, Delson said. and half will go to new programs, “This proposition is an immedibut both will be strictly monitored ate and effective way for students to make a difference in their state,” and audited, Delson said.

“One major miscommunication Delson said. “Proposition 1C dithat is being propagated by oppo- rectly helps those people in Californents of the bonds is that illegal im- nia that are the most vulnerable and migrants will be able to benefit from desperate for help.”

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In addition to grants and funding, the bond would provide housing to foster children upon release from foster care, the construction of homeless shelters and a program to house farm workers.

The state legislative analyst estimates the total cost of the proposition to be $6.1 billion, to be paid back over a 30 year time period.

This estimate would cover the approximate interest on the bond of $3.3 billion and the principle of $2.4 billion. The annual cost to the state would total $204 million over

Community Perspective Children’s home director of services says the proposition would benefit the underpriveleged

Shelters in Orange County In August the shelter turned are overfilled and overrun, said away 55 women and children, William O’Connell, director of and in September it turned away services at Colette’s Children’s 97, O’Connell said.

Home.

“It’s not only about getAccording ting people off to the county’s the streets,” 2005 needs asO’Connell said. sessment survey, Proposition 1C is about “Proposition 1C the number of giving people a chance is about giving people that bea chance to pull themselves out people to obtain tools to come homeless pull themselves in a given year of poverty. out of poverty.” is estimated at – William O’Connell The probalmost 35,000 individuals and Colette’s Children’s Home Dir. of Services lem goes beyond just one persons in famishelter, and all lies in Orange over California County.

However, there are only 41 people are being turned away and temporary shelters providing everyday from help, O’Connell 2,647 beds for the homeless on said.

“It boils down to this, voters any given night “Proposition 1C is a way need to make a change and help for people to give back to their not only women in shelters, but community and make a differ- also in ending homelessness and ence in the lives of those most in helping foster low income housing for citizens,” O’Connell said. need,” he said.

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Measure would provide funding services for the underpriveleged

the life of the repayment period.

The populations that the proposition would specifically assist would be battered women and their children, low-income senior citizens, the disabled, military veterans and working families, according to the proposition’s text.

Accountability for funds and a review of administrative costs and overhead for new and bolstered housing and development projects would need to be conducted and published by auditors, said an independent state analyst.

The projected administrative costs for the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Housing Finance Agency would total between $100 million and $150 million.

NO on 1C

State bonds, like those created Proposition 1C will create over $3 billion in debt for California by Proposition 1C, get first call on taxpayers and will not create afford- the state income tax revenue when able housing, said Chris Vosberg, the yearly budget is announced. spokesman for the Howard Jarvis This in turn will drain the state of funds and put it Taxpayer Associaat an even higher tion. debt ratio than “I think that idelast year, Vosberg ally this proposi- People are simply said. tion sounds like a unaware of just how great idea,” Vodberg “Bottom line said. “Once this many billions and this mean less money for things money gets into the billions of dollars like transportahands of the spend- Proposition 1C, in tion and roaders it’s a different conjunction with other story. In the past, Vosberg propositions, will create. ways,” some bonds money said.

– Chris Vosberg Sometimes has gone to insane Howard Jarvis Taxpayer bonds are necthings like yoga and Association Spokesman essary, but too event catering.” many at once is The goal of the not the answer, Howard Jarvis TaxVosberg said. payer Association “We need to prioritize how we is to encourage voters to be more suspicious of the propositions they are going to spend the hard-earned dollars of taxpayers,” he said. vote for, Vosberg said.

Voters need to look at the entire “People are simply unaware of just how many billions and billions package of legislation that is being of dollars Proposition 1C, if passed placed in front of them. in conjunction with other proposiThey cannot consider any one tions, will create,” Vosberg said. “A proposition alone, Vosberg said. good rule of thumb is that whatever “Students who vote yes will be hanamount of bond money is passed, dling the funding burden for the next 30 years,” he said. the taxpayer will owe double.”

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BY HARMONY TREVINO/Daily Titan Staff Writer

Proposition 1D Proposition 1D would authorize the sale of a $10.4 billion statewide general obligation bond.

The bond would provide funding to improve older schools and reduce public school overcrowding.

The money would go to the K12 system, community colleges, the California State University system and the University of Califor-

nia system. K-12 school facilities would receive $7.3 billion for modernization of existing school facilities.

It would reduce overcrowding by constructing new classes. In addition it would fund to build charter school and technical facilities, as well as environmentally friendly and joint-use projects.

Higher education facilities would get $3.1 billion to construct new buildings, fix existing buildings and purchase equipment.

California community col-

Yes on 1D

Daniel Conway, spokesman for He said that when Gov. SchwarYes on 1D, said the proposition is an zenegger and the Legislature sat down opportunity to plan for the future and put together Proposition 1D [and and that the money from it would other bonds on the ballot], they were be spent on tangible things instead looking to the future. of programs like the “I don’t even opposition has arthink that makes gued.

This money is meant sense just because “This money is to build facilities this is the beginmeant to build facilining of a process ties to benefit all stu- to benefit all students that would build dents from kindergar- from kindergarten facilities, classten to college ... it’ll to college. rooms and repair help build facilities – Daniel Conway classrooms. There for them to learn the Yes on 1D Spokesman is no way that skills they need.� that would be The opposition has accomplished in suggested that instead of a bond, ev- two years,� he said. ery year the state should set aside a Despite the fact that interest certain amount of money from the would increase the amount of monbudget to build new facilities. ey, Conway believed that this propoConway said that wouldn’t sition is important. work. “The logic is that the benefits will “You can’t really pay all the money outweigh the cost. That the money up front that is necessary to build that we invest on new school fathese facilities. But by passing these cilities in the long run, will greatly bonds, it will enable you to borrow outweigh the money that is spent that money upfront so that you can up front to actually build the buildstart building these buildings imme- ings,� he said. diately,� he said. “Essentially, what we’re trying to Conway said that the proposition do, is we’re trying to prepare Califoris not shortsighted, although the op- nia students and California’s econoposition has claimed that the propo- my for the 21s century and we think sition is only designed to fund the that Proposition 1D is a vital step to next two years of need. make that happen.�

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leges would receive $1.5 billion, the UCs would receive $890 and the CSUs would receive $690 million.

The governor and the Legislature would select the projects for higher education that will be funded by the bond.

The cost of the bonds would depend on interest rates and the time period in which they are repaid.

It is estimated that the cost of this bond, with the interest rate at 5 percent, would be about $20.3 billion, making the average payment $680

Faculty Perspective

Political science professor discusses the implications of a bond measure If voters approve Proposition ical science at CSUF, did not speak 1D, Cal State Fullerton would directly on Proposition 1D, but exreceive $14.9 million dollars to plained in general what a bond is. upgrade facili“The state isties. The money sues bonds that would go to buy and It’s sort of like a credit people equip the Coldepending on lege of Business card ... You end up the conditions of and Economics’ paying interest on the the purchase, the future home, amount of money that state promises Steven G. Mi- you are borrowing. to pay back the haylo Hall as amount of mon– Phillip Gianos well as upgrade CSUF Prof. of Political Science ey that you paid old buildings for the bond, inand build a new cluding interest, computing labover time,� he oratory for the Kinesiology and said. “It’s one of the way the state Health Science Building. raises money.� “We want to provide a worldGianos said that historically, class education for business stu- states have issued bonds to pay for dents, and to make that happen, very large capital projects, such as the new building must have the roads, sewers, and buildings. latest technology for the use of Bonds, he added, seem to be our students and faculty mem- painless. bers,� Anil Puri, said in an article “It’s sort of like a credit card,� released by the Office of Public he said. “In return for getting the Affairs. Puri is the dean of the Col- immediate purchase, you end up paying interest on the amount of lege of Business and Economics.

Phillip Gianos, professor of polit- money that you are borrowing.�

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Measure would provide money for grade school, college improvements

million per year.

The K-12 system includes 1,000 local school districts and has about 6.3 million students.

Right now K-12 school facilities are funded through state and local general obligation bonds, developer fees and special local bonds.

The School Facility Program applies for funding for the school districts.

With modernization projects, the state pays 60 percent and the school district pays 40 percent.

Higher education facilities are currently funded through local general education bonds, gifts and grants, and UC research revenue.

The higher education system has about 2.1 million students.

NO on 1D

A spokesperson from the Cali- “So if we’re talking about pressure fornia Taxpayers Protection Com- on the general fund, wouldn’t it be mittee, the opponent to Proposition better to go ahead and spend the $3 1D, could not be reached for com- billion, or whatever it’s going to be ment. However, the president of the annually, to make these payments committee, Mike right away and Spence, spoke on the build schools National Public Rarather than pay dio station on War- These kids that are that interest? ren Olney’s show getting educated right It really doesn’t “Which Way L.A.?�, now, their grandmake any sense.� and said why voters children are going to Spence saw a should vote no on problem in the be paying off these Proposition 1D. overall spend“I want to have bonds. – Mike Spence ing of the bond an investment in Calif. Taxpayers Assoc. Spokesman money. schools. What I “We need to don’t want is more reform the probond debt that inefcess. Otherwise ficiently puts money into districts these kids that are getting educated that may not need classrooms and right now, their grandchildren are that doesn’t build the infrastructure going to be paying off these bonds we actually need. [Proposition] 1D and that doesn’t make sense for is more of the same bond debt fi- California, California’s economic nancing that California can’t afford future and California’s educational without actually getting resources future,� he said. to build the classrooms that CaliSpence said that there needs to fornia needs,� he said. be another way to address the eduSpence said that bonds are the cation funding. most inefficient way to finance “Let’s reform the system, let’s get schools. rid of some uncesseary spending “The interest payments and the and let’s start building schools now principle payments for this, comes so that every kid can get the educaout of the general fund,� he said. tion they deserve.�

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Election Drive Ends Friday History: Telling An Untold Story (From Page One)

By Angie El Sherif

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

A weeklong voter registration drive concludes tomorrow.

So far, over 950 students at Cal State Fullerton have registered to vote through this drive.

“I have been meaning to do it, but I just found it easier to do it here,” said Joe Ortega, a history major who had just registered at the TSU table.

“I am a strong believer that you need to register to vote, it is not only a privilege of being a citizen of this country, it is a responsibility.”

All week students have had the chance to register to vote for the Nov. 7 elections during the voter registration drive.

Associated Students Inc., California Student Public Interest Research Group and the California State Student Association are holding this event through Friday.

The research group is one of hun-

dreds of chapters that work for government accountability.

“We make sure that our elected officials stay accountable to the public’s demands as opposed to the demands of the special interest group,” the group’s campus organizer Nathan Rose said.

Their goal for this drive is to get 1,500 registered students, Rose said.

Curtis Schlaufman, ASI executive director of Government Relations, said that this drive has gone to all 23 CSU schools and that CSUF has had the most registered voters of any of them.

To advertise, they hang posters, pass out easy voter guides, do class presentations and send volunteers all over campus to register students.

By registering to vote, students will get the opportunity to vote for several issues. It will include voting for governor, house and senate positions, California Supreme Court judges and finally propositions.

This election’s propositions cover

Royce: Radio Instead of War

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bling experience that would ring ironic when looking further down the timeline.

“I ran for student government and I lost,” he said. “Since then, I’ve had better luck.”

The 1977 graduate also recounted one of the university’s darker moments. He was enrolled during the summer of 1976 when the infamous shooting in the library occurred.

“Paul Paulson was a friend of mine and his sister was shot – that was so traumatic for the student body and the families involved, and still is,” he said.

Criminal justice major Sarah Tupo, 20, said she was turned on to many new concepts and ideas from Royce’s presentation.

“It was very insightful and enlightening about the radio,” said Tupo. “I’m excited he’s a Titan.”

Royce’s return to his alma mater was a step on the campaign trail for the Fullerton-native.

Royce is up for re-election Nov. 7 for his eighth consecutive congressional term.

issues including roads, schools, water, the environment, transportation, sex crimes and oil taxes.

Volunteers are getting mixed messages about how students feel about this drive.

“Most people are saying that they have already registered,” said student volunteer Pei-pei Chu. “When someone is not interested, there is not much you can do about it.”

While some students are uninterested and do not approach the table or the volunteers, others who want to register do, said student volunteer Urmi Rahman.

“This semester is better than last semester - we’ve also had a lot more volunteers and more people encouraging it,” Rahman said.

Ortega said he gets annoyed at people who do not vote and complain about the policies of the State.

The last day to register for this election is Friday.

“If you don’t vote, you don’t have a voice,” Ortega said.

SANCHEZ: Competitiveness More Important Than U.S. Security

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else will be dictating to us what our day looks like.”

Sanchez said Americans should be mindful of their economic independence because the national deficit is $700 to $800 billion per year.

She said part of the U.S. deficit is a result of skyrocketing operating costs of the war in Iraq.

The government spends $2 billion dollars per week in operating costs for the war.

“How many $2 billion dollars can we spend? Bush does not have a plan with respect to Iraq,” she said.

She said that constitutionally any spending or tax bills must start in the U.S. House, which controls the purse strings of the government.

Scott Spitzer, a professor of political science at CSUF, did

not agree that the U.S. House completely controlled the purse strings. The U.S. House can pass a bill, but it still has to go to the Senate where it can be stopped, or the President can veto it.

“She’s not entirely correct,” Spitzer said.

Sanchez said money allocated for combat could be going towards education, transportation and communication. Sanchez said Republican control has allowed Bush to overstep his boundaries in dealing with Iraq.

Duella agreed with her assertion that money spent on the Iraq war could be invested in the economy.

“It’s all about choices,” Duella said. “Society has to choose between using our scarce resources to fight international terrorism or to improve the education and the U.S. infrastructure.”

shown during the lecture, the youngest living Mendez, Sandra, said she didn’t find out about the case until she was in college at UC Riverside, even though she graduated from a High School in Orange County.

“It’s voices that are left out, and they shouldn’t be left out,” said Valerie Alley, an American studies major who hadn’t heard about the case until Arellano’s lecture.

Arellano said Mexicans in Orange County “don’t have a historical identity.”

“History isn’t being told,” he said. “They don’t want you to know the clashes. They don’t want you to know the struggles.”

The lecture was titled “The Plight of Mexicans in Orange County” and Arellano started by reading an e-mail he received the night before from a person asking “what plight?”

The e-mailer said “cultures make choices” and they should live by the choices they make.

“This idea of Mexicans being below, or beneath, is still prevalent in Orange County,” said Arellano.

Chicana and Chicano studies Professor Alexandro Gradilla said during the lecture that Latinos have always been a nonwhite group.

“They don’t fit,” he said. “They are perceived as a threat – a cultural threat … language, race and religion.”

Arellano said Orange County is at the forefront of the immigration debate He is currently working on two books - one is a “part memoir, part history” of Orange County and the other is a compilation of his best “Ask A Mexican” columns.

He said people need to learn about their history to change the present.

“I think you’ll see a lot of reaction and comments being influenced by the past,” Arellano said. Knowing the past “allows us to better react.”

After the documentary, Arellano opened the floor to questions and

comments. Only one person had a question related to his column.

Arellano answered it, but reminded those in attendance “I want to stick to the history of Mexicans in Orange County.”

Arellano said he was sure some in attendance came to hear the “Ask A Mexican Columnist” and not a history lecture.

However, “I’m always delighted to throw a curveball,” Arellano said with a small laugh. “There’s a serious side to me and that’s where my column comes from.”

That’s also where his passion to seek out stories that haven’t been told comes from too, he said. Stories like the absence of Mexican-Americans in Orange County history books.

“I came here to hear about history and that’s what I got,” said Ryan Louder, an American studies grad major, who was one of the few students who know about the Mendez v. Westminster case. “It was very pleasantly interesting.”

Grant: Money would Create Suicide Watch

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lation the size of ours, suicide will always be an issue. We deal with a high risk population simply because of the levels of stress and family issues going on,” Roumeliotis said.

Though the grant money was only received in September, the university has already started the initial stages of a youth suicide prevention program. Roumeliotis said the campus would start to see the actual physical products in the next six months as the grant money is allocated to the different programs.

“We have three years to complete the different areas that were included in the scope of work,” Roumeliotis said.

The university’s Auxiliary Service Corp. will monitor the spending as the grant money is placed in the different budget categories.

Blake Eudy, coordinator of the CSUF Auxiliary Service Corp. said though the terms and conditions set by the federal agency are extensive, the main concern is to make sure the costs are allowable and can be allocated to the grant.

“The terms and conditions were really just a matter of making sure that we are meeting all the objectives that we have set for ourselves in the timeline we had established,” Roumeliotis said. “The terms and conditions are really just doing what we had set out to do.”

Nationally, an estimated 712,000 Americans under the age of 21 planned to end their lives during episodes of major depression, according to the administration Web site.

In all, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration issued 46 grants worth $25.7 million. Last year, the grant total was almost $3.2 million.

“Every dollar that helps heal those battling life-threatening depression brings us closer to saving our children and families,” Sen. Gordon Smith said in a press release. “Young people can be lost in the deep darkness of mental illness and these programs will help find sufferers and get them life saving help.”

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October 19, 2006

INTROSPECT

Not Your Average Regular by daralyn schoenewald Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

photo courtesy of Jaimarie Sutherland

self-published - Jim Worth spent his days in a Brea Starbucks making friends and writing a book, a process that from pen to publishing has taken him nine years.

Ask any Starbucks employee in Brea if they know Jim Worth and the answer will be a resounding “yes.” Ask about him at It’s a Grind or Seattle’s Best and you’d get the same answer.

Worth really likes the atmosphere of coffee shops. So much so that when he began the process of writing his first book, he ended up writing it primarily in a Starbucks.

I first encountered Jim Worth as a new barista at Starbucks. I was learning how to make drinks for the first time. Another barista handed me a coffee cup and said, “Do you know Jim’s drink?”

I didn’t know Jim’s drink.

I did, however, learn Jim’s drink– grande cappuccino in a ceramic mug with extra thick foam.

Worth has been coming to the Brea Starbucks for nine years, so it’s little wonder that his drink is started for him before he even walks through the door. His reputation goes farther than that.

“He’s taken the time to get to know everyone’s name. He always

One reporter discovers the truth about a Starbuck’s regular. He’s not only there for the coffee.

talks to the other regulars,” barista Melanie Bowen said. “He greets everyone with a smile.”

Barista Brianna Safe agreed.

“He’s very personable,” she said.

“He can find a common ground with just about anybody he talks to.”

It wasn’t long before I also learned what Worth did as he sat faithfully at the same table almost every day.

He was writing a book. A book he would ultimately publish on his own.

While in his early 20s, Worth, fresh out of the Army, lost his right leg in a car accident.

When Worth attended Cypress College, a professor told him he should be a writer but Worth didn’t immediately pursue the recommendation.

“I’ve always enjoyed writing but life just got in the way,” he said.

Worth soon transferred to Cal State Fullerton as a kinesiology major. As an amputee himself, Worth wanted to learn to adapt the skills he learned in his major to wheelchair sports.

As a wheelchair athlete, Worth competed in basketball, tennis and bowling. Twice, he won the National Scratch Bowling Champion title and

proudly said he carried about a 155 average – exceptional considering bowling “scratch” means the bowler does not get a pin handicap. He was also a national wheelchair basketball champion.

Worth left CSUF 13 units shy of graduating to take a job with Casa Colina Hospital in Pomona, where he competed on their wheelchair sports team and helped raise funds for wheelchair sports.

Worth’s talents don’t end with athletic ability – he has also appeared on TV and in movies. He was an extra in three episodes of “China Beach” and appeared in “Coming Home” with Jane Fonda and Jon Voight.

Worth worked in the graphic arts business after leaving wheelchair sports. He owned his own company, but began to think about writing again and attempted to finally write a novel.

He completed his first draft in six weeks, writing it all freehand.

“When my arm got tired, I quit writing,” he said laughingly.

He tried to get an agent to shop the book for him, but was turned down 29 times.

“It was frustrating. They’d take a look at one page and say they

couldn’t place it,” Worth said.

And that’s how J.W. Publishing was born.

Worth decided that he’d publish the book himself.

He rallied his friends and fans to invest in the venture and got the ball rolling to be his own publisher.

Mystique Press is the division of J.W. Publishing that published “Final Audit,” Worth’s first novel after four years of publishing attmepts.

The book is the first in a series of six that Worth has planned so far.

He designed the cover of the book himself, drawing on his experience as a graphic artist. He also does the marketing and promotion himself and estimated that he spent 10 to 12 hours a day working on something for the book.

But for Worth, the hardest part has been getting the book into stores. He said it’s a process that involved countless phone calls and a lot of convincing.

“I had to convince them that I’m more than self-published,” he said.

The book is currently available at several local Borders bookstores, including Brea, and Worth is working on getting it into bookstores in states that are featured in his novel.

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Behind everday people and places can be spectacular lives, courageous endeavors and stories so inspiring that we are quieted by their discoveries. Here, found on our own campus and in our own communities, are two such stories.

Life inLabor by sean mccormick

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Teaching runs in Michelle Lau’s family, but she has yet to teach a class. In fact Lau spends her time – the last 11 years – working as a custodian in Dan Black Hall cleaning classrooms rather than teaching in them.

Lao has become an example of determination because she has accomplished something few have.

Between working on campus in the early morning and going to school in the afternoon Lau earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and graduated at the top of her class.

Motivated by the students around her as well as her two sons, Christopher and Brian, the 54-year-old night custodian spent the last nine years amassing units through a university employee program which extends the opportunity of an education to campus employees for a registration fee of only $5.

“Her performance was outstanding, she had elaborate research and went beyond the requirements,” said Jacob Pandian, Lau’s former anthropology professor. “She is a brilliant scholar and Ph.D. material.”

After being convinced by Pandian, Lau gave a speech at her graduation ceremony.

“If I can do it, anyone can,” she said.

Beginning of the Journey When communism solidified its grip on Vietnam, Lau’s family left the country. She came to the U.S. in 1973 from Hong Kong after her husband was released from the military. They started out in New Jersey and moved to Washington D.C., following her husband’s engineering job offer from the Navy.

After Washington D.C. was a year-and-a-half stay in Alabama when her husband got a job with Boeing and Lau lived in her “dream home” in the mountains.

From Alabama, Lau made her last move to Brea. She has lived there for the last 23 years.

Life at Work The morning janitorial crew usually arrives before the morning dew.

The sun doesn’t come up until three hours into their shift.

Lau took the janitorial job when her family was experiencing hard times and has since found a home among the Cal State Fullerton community. Each morning Lau wakes up around 2 a.m. and shows up for work at 3 a.m. Every classroom is cleaned before Lau leaves at 11 a.m.

Lau said waking up early is not hard, but the adjustment from a 4 a.m. start to to the even earlier shiftwas difficult.

“When you start early you go home early,” Lau said. “You still have

She cleans classrooms but also succeeds in them. The story of one CSUF employee who does double duty on campus.

the half day ahead of you. I get to go home and play with my dogs.”

Like ants in an ant farm, Lau and her crew crawl in and out of the corridors of Dan Black Hall orchestrating the daily maintenance required of a science building.

Lau begins her morning routine with a sweep of the main hallway.

She then switches to cleaning individual labs and classrooms. Lau begins cleaning each room by emptying the trash and follows that with dusting and wiping down every lab table and white board.

Mondays are the easiest days, said Lau, because the building is barely used on Fridays and never on Saturday and Sunday.

When trash is light she said she tries not to change the liner, but to transfer the trash because there is too much trash in our landfills, Lau said.

“We have to do something about it,” she said. “Human beings are the worst polluters.”

Honor and Credibility If home is where the heart is, then Lau’s home is in Dan Black Hall.

A laboratory safety program, developed by radiation officers Skip Hines and Sue Fisher, trained Lau and the other janitors assigned to Dan Black Hall in laboratory safety.

On Aug. 18 the governor honored Lau in Sacramento with the Governor’s annual Employee Safety Award.

She was nominated by Fisher.

“She is very attentive and makes this place her responsibility,” Fisher said .

Lau insists that she is just doing her job.

“This award validates our job,” Lau said. The night crew “doesn’t get the recognition they deserve, coming late at night. When we are short handed everybody hustles.”

Academic Endeavors “I always have nice teachers and they treat me so well,” said Lau. “I am not afraid to ask for help and when I need help they have been there.”

Aside from her association with Dan Black Hall, Lau is surrounded by science, and what Lau describes as exceptional academic achievement.

“In this building there are a lot of future scientists and they are very goal oriented,” Lau said. “They are so smart.”

Taking the advice of Pandian, the janitor has taken on the challenge of a graduate program and, Alzheimer’s looks forward to a spring of working on her thesis on the disease. Lau said she hopes to get her master’s degree at the end of the spring semester.

Lau’s mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and lives with Lau’s brother in Sydney.

After all she has been through, Lau said she feels lucky. Her son Christopher graduated from CSUF

By sean mccormick/Daily Titan

CAMPUS CLEANER - Custodian Michelle Lau has made the best of her time at CSUF. She has also obtained a bachelors degree with the university. with a bachelor’s in criminal justice in 2002. Her other son Brian is currently working on his doctorate in neurobiology at New York University. Lau’s husband works as a civil

engineer for Raytheon and gives her moral and technical support.

“He cooks. He is a computer geek and I am a computer idiot and so he helps me,” Lau said.

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October 19, 2006

OPINION Titan Editorial

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U.N. Sourced to Back Up U.S. Law?

By Angie El Sherif Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

Under laws like Megan’s Law and Jessica’s Law, registered sex offenders are put under severe restrictions and monitoring.

With Megan’s Law, for example, a person’s identity is revealed to anyone who has access to a computer.

Once inside the government Web site that identifies sex offenders, anyone can find out information about the offenders’ last known address, date of birth, gender, height, weight and ethnicity, among other things.

Under Jessica’s Law, which is Proposition 83 on this year’s ballot, a registered sex offender is prohibited from residing within 2,000 feet of a park or a school.

While these laws are made solely to protect the public, they strip sex offenders of their protected liberties.

But not only are their civil liberties denied, they also face harassment from their communities.

The harassment that sex offenders face violate many basic human rights.

According to Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, every human has the right of liberty and security. According to Article 7, they have the protection of the law against discrimination. And Article 12 states that they should not have any random interference with their privacy.

An article on BBC News by Julian O’Halloran titled “Indecent liberties” gives an example of a sex offender who was harassed by his community and denied his civil liberties. It said that Jim Powers, who was released after four years from jail for sexual assault on a child, was faced with a cruel campaign of abuse in his local neighborhood. People protested his presence, and he said

that his life was “made a misery from then on.”

While picketers and protesters might not substantially harm a registered sex offender, other things can.

Some sex offenders can be prevented from getting work in local jobs or can be driven out of their homes.

An online article prepared by the Public Defender Service said some registered sex offenders entered psychiatric hospitals and committed suicide because of the reaction from their communities.

Also, vigilante attacks have bedisplay of information can force sex come the norm for these offenders. For example, there offenders underground.

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These laws are arguably ineflaws do more harm than good?”

Alan Greenbelt said that the public fective in that they do not always

prevent sex crimes from occurring.

Therefore, these laws might not be worth all the taxpayers’ money and the drain on law enforcement resources.

If implemented Jessica’s Law will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

This money should be spent more productively on things like childcare programs, health care for poor families or improving education.

Not only do these laws cause sex offenders discomfort in their lives, some experts argue that they deny their constitutional rights.

While people of a community have the right to protection, there should be a sort of balance that meets the needs of both the public and the individual.

In next month’s elections, voters should vote no on Proposition 83 because it denies registered sex offenders their basic civil liberties.

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OPINION

October 19, 2006

WORD on the Street

JUST THE FACTS COMPILED BY Nancy Mora/Daily Titan Staff Writer

Should Meagan’s Law respect the right of privacy for sex offenders?

• 17 states now allow prisoners to be held for evaluation and treatment after serving their sentences • Civil commitment - holding of offenders involuntarily in mental institutions and similar facilities - costs approximately $100 thousand per year per inmate • Adam Walsh Act calls for the attorney general to study different containment and treatment methods

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“It’s a good idea, because it would help protect children. It might be an invasion of privacy, but it’s a safety concern. It can decrease the amount of child abductions and assaults.”

“No, because when sex offenders commited those crimes they lost their rights as citizens.

By taking away someones else’s rights they have sacrificed.”

“No, they shouldn’t, because they broke the law. At least I think that once they rape, they’ll do it again.”

“It’s tough. Because I have a daughter, so part of me would say ‘yes,’ but on the other side it is a violation of their freedom.”

“No, because sex offenders don’t respect the rights of others so why should we respect their rights.”

• Approximately 60 to 70 percent of sex offenders are given either probation or a combination of jail and probation 90 percent of those are required to participate in treatment • There has been a 400 percent increase in sex-offender convictions over the past decade nationaly • In California, the number of forcible rapes dropped by nearly 40 percent from 1999 to 2004

Right to Privacy Reserved for the Respectable

By Nancy Mora Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

It was 9:30 p.m.

I had just come home from work and I was feeling a little too stressed to even think about homework. I decided to gear up for some running in the park or around the block.

Before I walked out the door, my brother asked me if I was crazy.

Then he told me to look online to check out the “friendly” registered sex offenders living in our area that he found online on meganslaw. ca.gov. He advised me to work out in my room.

Instead, I ignored his advice. As soon as I turned the street corner, I became wary and suspicious. Every man running towards me became a suspect and I held my breath as they passed me by.

As soon as I returned home I went

online and found that there were seven sex offenders around my block. It didn’t sound like a large number, but a creepy feeling overcame me as I realized that it only takes one to hurt me.

I let out a sigh of relief knowing that I had found this information before it was too late, but I grew silent as I remembered who was to thank for this.

In 1994, a little girl named Megan Nicole Kanka was raped and murdered by a sex offender who lived across the street from her house.

Jesse Timmendequas lured Kanka into his house by telling her about a puppy he never actually had. The Kanka family, upset and anguished over the tragedy, filed a petition for the public to know whom the sex offenders are and where they live.

10 years ago Megan’s Law came into effect allowing the public to view personal information of sex

offenders by going into a local police station or by calling a 900 number. In 2004, the government signed a new law which made the information available online. In November 2006, Jessica’s Law, Proposition 83, will be on our ballots.

This proposition penalizes the state if registered sex offenders fail to reregister.

The meganslaw.ca.gov Web site lists information about sex offenders in California. The public can get information on more than 63,000 registered sex offenders. 22,000 of them do not have the information on the site, but are known to law enforcement personnel.

That means over 20,000 sex offenders are out right now without the public knowing who they are and where they live. It isn’t a way to humiliate or segregate them; it is a way for us to be safe. Anyone of them can strike again, just like Timmendequas did.

It should be against the law to not let the public know about sex offenders in the area of their residence.

Anyone’s information can already be found online by clicking the directory of any search engine Web site, so why deny this to offenders.

During Hurricane Katrina many files were lost and destroyed in Louisiana, including the list of sex offenders and their whereabouts. According to CNN.com, more than 2,000 evacuated sex offenders were gone without a trace. They had fled to different states and failed to reregister their information to the local states they settled in.

“Jessica’s Law,” named after Jessica Lunford from Florida who was abducted and killed last February by a convicted sex offender, states that it will reduce federal grant money to any U.S. state that doesn’t confirm its sex offender registration laws.

Imagine these offenders living in your neighborhood without you being aware of who they are. Some, people think it denies the offenders rights of privacy but they let their privacy be tainted the minute they decided to commit a lewd crime against a child. If they didn’t respect a human being why should they be treated with respect?

They obviously were aware of the wrong-doing their act was promoting. Instead of respecting their own dignity and name they chose to taint it by hurting an innocent life.

Others believe that it’s wrong for their information to be made public because offenders become a target for angry civilians or they become segregated. However, they may feel segregated, but I will feel safe knowing where they live in case I ever decide to go running after eight again, dodging the streets they live on.

•13 percent of children ages 10 to 17 have been solicited online for sexual activity conversations, according to New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center • The Communications Decency Act of 1996 made it a crime to transmit “patently offensive” material over the Internet in a way that would be accessible to minors •In 2003 the court upheld the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000, which requires libraries that accept federal funds to install anti-pornography filtering software •In 2005, Jessica Lunsford, a 9year-old Florida girl, is abducted, sexually assaulted and buried alive.

In response, two-dozen states enact “Jessica’s Law,” requiring stricter tracking of convicted sex offenders SOURCE: CQ Researcher, Sept. 8, 2006

SPORTS

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October 19, 2006

CSUF Women’s Soccer Hungry for More Conference Wins Clinching the Big West is a priority for the Titans who look to be on top

BY ALVIN ANOL

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team will try to use the familiarity they have on the road to try and rebound after a less-than-spectacular two-game home stand.

Last weekend the Titans (7-6-2 overall, 3-1-1 Big West) went winless against Big West Conference foes UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, suffering a loss and salvaging a tie.

The 4-1 loss to UC Santa Barbara marked the first loss for the Titans in Big West Conference play since their 1-0 loss against UC Riverside during the regular season in 2005.

“We looked past Santa Barbara,”

CSUF Head Coach Ali Khosroshahin said. “You look at their record and you wouldn’t expect them to be that type of team.”

Titan freshman forward Courtney Heinen scored the lone goal against UC Santa Barbara.

“Santa Barbara was a desperate team that needed a result against us to keep their season going,” Khosroshahin said.

The scoreless tie against Cal Poly SLO also marked the sixth shutout on the season for Titan senior goalkeeper Karen Bardsley.

The winless weekend also marked the first time that the Titans played two Big West Conference matches without posting a win since back in 2004.

That year the Titans had a tie against UC Riverside and lost to UC Santa Barbara in consecutive Big West matches.

“It was a tough weekend,” senior defender Erica Janke said. “I think it

was well needed though. It woke us up a little bit.”

Despite the lackluster weekend the Titans still remain atop the Big West Conference standings, locked in a tie with 10 points with rival Long Beach State.

The Titans will play Long Beach State in the second-to-last game of the season on Oct. 25.

“We can’t take teams lightly. We just have to play,” Janke said.

The matchup ahead still leaves the Titans with a chance to at least share a part of what would be their third consecutive Big West Conference championship.

But before that week comes the Titans will go on the road to take on a UC Davis Aggies team that has not fared well against Big West Conference teams.

The Aggies have played four matches against Big West schools, posting a winless record of 0-2-2.

The Aggies host Long Beach State on

Friday before their match with the Titans on Sunday.

The Titans have only three matches left to play on the season, with the season finale against UC Irvine on the road.

“We’re at the end of the season and we’re right where we want to be,” Khosroshahin said. “We still control our own destiny.”

After that, depending on CSUF’s Big West Conference standing, they have the chance to either host a conference tournament or have to go one the road.

The winner of the conference tournament is granted an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.

Titan forward Brianna Buffington said the key to winning this weekend would be finishing the offensive opportunities the team receives.

“We just need to connect in the middle of the field and when we’re in the box putting it away,” Buffington said.

NFL: POTENTIAL THREAT (From Page 12)

said the threat was “questionable” and was discussing it with the NFL as “part of our routine discussions this week.”

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said stadiums around the country “are very well protected through the comprehensive security procedures we have in place, including secure facility perimeters, pat-downs and bag searches.”

Officials were made aware of the Web posting on Oct. 16.

The threat was timed to be carried out on Sunday, Oct. 22, marking the final day in Mecca of Ramadan the Islamic holy month.

“The death toll will approach 100,000 from the initial blasts and countless other fatalities will later occur as result from radioactive fallout,” according to a copy of the posting obtained by The Associated Press.

It said al-Qaida would automatically be blamed for the nearly simultaneous attacks and predicted, “Later through al-Jazeera, Osama

By KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan CHARGING HARD – CSUF’s Brianna Buffington gets after the ball.

bin Laden will issue a video message claiming responsibility for what he dubbed ‘America’s Hiroshima.’”

The posting noted that all but one of the stadiums, Atlanta, are openair arenas, adding: “Due to the open air, the radiological fallout will destroy those not killed in the initial explosion.”

Several NFL teams and stadium owners acknowledged that they were in contact with federal officials, including the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which operates Giants Stadium, the home of the Jets and Giants.

In Indianapolis, where the Colts were preparing for a home game this weekend, head coach Tony Dungy said, “I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a couple of years now and you try and handle the security and put it out of your mind.”

“We’ll let the security people do their job and we’ll do our job,” Dungy said. “We’ve got a lot of confidence in NFL security and our own security here.”

Raiders senior administrator Artie Gigantino said there would be no noticeable increase in security this

weekend at Oakland Coliseum.

“But if we say we are going to do something different or obvious. It wouldn’t be security anymore,” he said.

Authorities traced the site’s Internet provider back to Voxel Dot Net Inc., which has support and engineering staff based in Troy, N.Y. A man who answered the phone at Voxel, who declined to give his name, said he was unaware of the posted threat on the Web site and refused further comment..

The author of the threats, posted at 9:31 p.m. EDT on Oct. 12, identified himself online as “javness.”

“In the aftermath civil wars will erupt across the world, both in the Middle East and within the United States,” javness wrote. “Global economies will screech to a halt. General chaos will rule.”

The nation’s general alert level remains at yellow, signaling an elevated risk of an attack.

The threat level for airline flights is at orange, where it has been since a foiled plot to bomb U.S.-bound commercial jets was revealed on Aug. 10.

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New York Mets Force a Game 7 in NLCS

October 19, 2006

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Titans Trying to Get Back Their Winning Ways Volleyball team hosts Long Beach State on Friday at the Titan gym

BY JAMES THOMPSON

Associated Press

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

With the New York Mets on the brink of elimination, John Maine pitched a game to remember.

The rookie dominated the St. Louis Cardinals with the poise of a veteran, Jose Reyes sparked the offense with a leadoff home run and the Mets rock ‘n’ rolled at boisterous Shea Stadium to beat St. Louis 4-2 on Wednesday night and force the NL championship series to a decisive seventh game.

“He was amazing,” Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca said. “I think after the first inning he really settled down.

He showed me a lot tonight.”

Reyes had three hits and two stolen bases, Shawn Green boosted the lead with a fourth-inning RBI single and Lo Duca let the loud crowd of 56,334 exhale with a two-run single in the seventh off Braden Looper that made it 4-0.

Now the pennant comes down to Thursday night, when the Cardinals send Jeff Suppan to the mound to save their season. The Mets, carefully piecing together their pitching following injuries to Pedro Martinez and Orlando Hernandez, will start Oliver Perez on three days’ rest.

Of 11 prior teams to trail 3-2 in the LCS and force a seventh game, eight won pennants. The exceptions were the 1988 Mets, the 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates and 2003 Boston Red Sox. Darting in and out of trouble twice in the first three innings, Maine outpitched reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Chris Carpenter, pitching 5 1-3 shutout innings.

The Cal State Fullerton volleyball team seems to have hit a wall.

A Big West Conference loss to Cal State Northridge on Friday made it four losses in a row and with redhot Long Beach State (14-4, 4-1 Big West) coming this Friday, things don’t look good for the Titans (13-6, 2-4 Big West).

If CSUF loses this Friday, it would be four straight conference games they have dropped, slowly closing the window on their chance to make a NCAA tournament appearance.

CSUF outside hitter Brittany Moore attributes the losing streak to the team’s up-and-down play. In their last match against CSUN, the Titans had a sluggish start losing the first match 30-21.

“We need to come out with intensity,” Moore said. “We need to come out firing and maintain that intensity.”

Titan Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman agrees and said the team needs to be sharp early and not wait and see what the opponent is throwing at them.

With the recent losing streak Titan players have managed to stay positive and morale seems to be up.

“We’re obviously upset about the losses,” Moore said. “Our chemistry is still there. The trust is still there.”

Long Beach State rides a fourgame winning streak into Titan Gym Friday, and has star player Alexis Crimes, who was named Big West Player of the Week. The Titans plan to quell that momentum with

NFL Threats Met With Skepticism Associated Press

By KARL THUNMAN/Daily Titan SETTING UP – Titan Brittany Moore [#10] directs the serve in a match against UC Davis earlier in the season. defensive fronts for Crimes.

“Long Beach is never easy and we’re very excited to play them at home,” Zimmerman said. “Crimes

is not as scary as she looks. All we can do is front her and if the blocks don’t stop her – it’s the defense’s responsibility.”

Libero Vanessa Vella made program history last Friday with 1,394 career digs, making her CSUF’s alltime dig leader.

An Internet message claiming that seven NFL stadiums will be hit with dirty bombs this weekend was met with “strong skepticism” on Wednesday by government security officials.

With nothing to indicate an imminent attack, local authorities and stadium owners were alerted.

Dated Oct. 12, the posting was part of an ongoing conversation titled “New Attack on America, Be Afraid.”

It appeared on a Web site called “The Friend Society,” which links to various online forums and off-color cartoons.

The message said trucks would deliver radiological bombs to stadiums in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland and that Osama bin Laden would later claim responsibility.

Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said the threat was being viewed “with strong skepticism.”

But the agency did contact the NFL, local authorities and stadium owners “out of an abundance of caution.”

The NCAA, which oversees college athletics, said it was also notified.

“The department strongly encourages the public to continue to go about their plans, including attending events that involve large public gatherings such as football games,” Knocke said.

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko SEE NFL - PAGE 10

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