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Basketball Photo Gallery
Shimmies, Shakes and Shouts
Fullerton Photo Essay of Intersession basketball games OPINION, p. 8
CSUF veterans cold war kids recall the battle at Becker THE BUZZ, p. 5
Daily Titan
Week of January 22-28, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Let it Snow – in Fullerton
Auditor Search Begins Candidates interviewed by faculty, staff, and students for key jobs
Think fast - twelve year old Katie Hulse enthusiastically hurls a snowball at her younger brother, Andy Hulse at the Brea Dam Recreational Area on Saturday. Over 900 people turned out to play in the snow.
By Karl Thunman/Daily Titan Photo Editor
Crowd comes out to play in Fullerton’s winter wonderland Aleksandra wojtalewicz Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
“Caution: Snowballs in flight” signs warned children and adults alike of the playful snowball fights. Children’s laughter and shrieks were
heard as they sledded down a hill of snow. The Snow Day event held at the Brea Dam Recreational Area on Saturday, Jan. 20, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. drew over 900 people to experience snow without having to drive hours
McGwire Speaks to Titan Slugger Breaks Silence in Daily Titan Exclusive By Adam Levy
Daily Titan Executive Editor news@dailytitan.com
TUSTIN - Mark McGwire commented in response to his exclusion from the Baseball Hall of Fame while appearing at a charity event last week. “I had an absolutely wonderful career that I am very proud of,” McGwire said, as he scribbled his signature on a plethora of bats, caps and cards fans handed him. “I’m not in control of what happens – I was in control of hitting the ball.” The 43-year-old, who ranks seventh on the all-time list with 583 career home runs, received only 23.5 percent of the votes according to results released last week by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Former Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr. and San Diego Padre Tony Gwynn were elected and will be inducted in Cooperstown July 29. Sentiments were divided on the power hitter’s claim to Cooperstown fame since the controversial voting totals were released. Voting members are writers with a minimum of ten years of service in the Association. While some are
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notorious for not electing any players – neither Ripken nor Gwynn received 100 percent of the votes – the sentiment is that McGwire’s low vote count is a direct backlash of the steroid allegations that have haunted him in his retirement. The slugger appeared before Congress in a March 2005 hearing that shed a light on the use of steroids in Major League Baseball in the wake of controversial accusations cast by former teammate Jose Canseco. McGwire said he was not there to discuss the past, but rather to “make a positive influence on this.” Some in the sports world feel McGwire to be a victim of circumstance, as his career totals exceed the traditional statistical criteria requisite for admission into baseball’s most vaunted museum. His accolades include: the aforementioned home run totals; winning the American League Rookie of the Year Award with 49 home runs in 1987; revitalizing the sport’s popularity with his record-breaking 70 homerun season in 1998; and following that up with a 65 homerun campaign in 1999. Willie Fraser, a retired major leaguer who pitched for five teams over a ten-year career from 19861995, said it was a shame McGwire SEE MCGWIRE - PAGE 8
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SNOW DAY Check out the video of Fullerton’s snow day along with last semester’s web videos.
to the mountains, said Ron Molendyk, director of Fullerton Parks and Recreation. Forty-four tons of snow was brought to the area at a cost of approximately $7,000. “We hardly get to see the snow,”
said Tina Fristensky, who took her three children ages 5, 7 and 10 to the Snow Day. “It’s great that the city puts this on.”
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Cal State Fullerton faculty, staff and students have begun the hiring process for the open position of Director of Internal Audits of the university by meeting the first two candidates. The candidates spent Jan. 9 and 11 meeting in open sessions and scheduled engagements with the Academic Senate Executive Committee, Search Committee and President’s Administrative Board. CSUF President Milton Gordon had expressed interest in hiring two internal auditors for the university prior to the negative publicity the university received after the most recent audit, which was released in October 2006. The move will make CSUF one of few schools in the CSU system to have more than one internal auditor. The audit, which focused on financial operations between January 2001 and December 2004, found evidence of fraud, financial mismanagement and preferential treatment by administrators at the CSUF campus. The Senate focused on the concerns and negative publicity stemming from the allegations for several meetings during the Fall 2006 semester. Jack Bedell, sociology professor and the senate Ex Officio Chair, said that the AS Executive Committee is looking for more transparency and
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Head Counting the Homeless By Joey T. English
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Social Science Research Center at Cal State University Fullerton will help conduct a federally mandated homeless count and survey this week to collect information on Orange County’s homeless population. Volunteers will tally homeless persons in shelters, parks and on the streets on Jan. 25 and will administer questionnaires to homeless persons the following day, according to Gregory Robinson, director of the SSRC. “It’s really a colossal research challenge to devise a research procedure that gives some credible means of enumerating the homeless population in a county as large as [Orange County],” Robinson said. “That’s 798 square miles.” Robinson said the center spent most of 2006 devising research methods consistent with government guidelines for its task partners: the County of Orange Housing and Community Services Department, and nonprofit agencies 2-1-1 Orange County and OC Partnership. According to the U.S. Depart-
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Songha Lee/Daily Titan Thomas Mazzone, 52, is shown from a large mirror inside a store named Blends in downtown Los Angeles, where he went to visit an employee. ment of Housing and Urban Development, every county and large city across the nation is obligated to conduct the study at least every two years to benchmark whether the problem is increasing or decreasing
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and to update agencies that provide services for homeless persons. “We must engage in this national process in order to preserve over $10 million in federal funding for homeless services in Orange County,” said
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Jennifer Lee-Anderson, Point-InTime project coordinator for 2-11 Orange County. Lee-Anderson said this federal SEE HOMELESS - PAGE 6
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