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Daily Titan
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton Lets the Dogs Out By Jenny Houser
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The city of Fullerton has many parks and recreational centers, but none that cater to man’s best friend, at least, not until now. The Fullerton Parks and Recreational Commission has recently begun construction on a dog park for both small and large dogs. The gated park, located adjacent to the Hunt Branch Library, will provide over an acre of space for off-the-leash canines. The park will open on a trial basis that will last between six to 12 months to see how the local neighborhood adapts to the new facility. “We’d like to see the community get behind and support the dog park, adopt it, and use it in a fashion that will help us make it a permanent facility,” said Dave Alkema, Fullerton’s parks manager.
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Alkema was instrumental in creating a successful dog park in Costa Mesa. He said he hopes to see the same amount of success and popularity at Fullerton’s new dog park. “We think this could be a very big improvement for the city,” Alkema said. Chris Gerry, the park’s project manager, said he has seen a lot of support from the local neighborhood. After sending out proposal letters to residents within a 350-foot circumference of the new park, Gerry said he has received e-mails and letters from excited dog owners. The park’s commission is looking for supportive dog owners to serve on a special volunteer advisory committee. The committee will be responsible for establishing a set of rules for park participants to follow. They will also be “park ambassadors”
Dedicated professor is rewarded by teaching tomorrow’s doctors. By sylvia masuda
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Asian Exhibit at Arboretum By Sarah Gammill
Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com
The Cal State Fullerton Arboretum is honoring the Asian American community in an exhibit titled “Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei Farmers in Pre-WWII Orange County,” that focuses upon the Nikkei community. In an exhibit 10 months in the making, and hosted by the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, the journey and lives of Asian Americans will be showcased. The Anthropology, History, Biology and Art departments, and the Center for Oral and Public History, helped to setup the exhibit. Curator Stephanie George, and exhibit designer Carlota Haider, also contributed to the exhibit that opened on Saturday to the public. “The Japanese American community here in Orange County and else where lived by the philosophy, that the group is more important than the individual,” said Arthur Hansen, CSUF professor of history and Asian American studies, and director for the Oral and Public History Center. This museum exhibit was due in large part to the help of the late Clarence Nishizu, who helped to raise funds upward of around $750,000 around 1995, and support among the Nikkei community, said Hansen. After Japanese immigrants made their way to the United States in the era before WWII, they settled in Orange County. Beginning around 1882 after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese began their journey to America. “They got here, they came over on a boat, and then they one way or another, were able to take a piece of the land and work it by growing crops on it, and that’s how they sustained their livelihood, “ said Greg Dyment, director of the Arboretum. Around the 1900’s they began to lease, sharecrop the land, and cul-
tivate it, leading to many types of farms in Orange County after their journey. The Nikkei, along with the Issei, and some Nisei, (which are generations born after WWII), began to grow fruit, vegetables, raise poultry, livestock, and even goldfish. Henry Kiyomi Akiyama had a goldfish farm that produced amounts of up to 300,000 fish. The exhibit also focuses on how Japanese Americans began to set up and raise their families in Orange County by establishing roots. It begins to show how, after their families were established, they acquired and maintained their permanent communities in Orange County, and became a fixture throughout the community through their farming, marrying, raising of families, and social groups. At the period before WWII the Nikkei could account for about 13 percent of Orange County’s wealth. Their crops such as vegetables, strawberries and peppers were producing much needed supplies, and were making upwards in the millions. By 1940, Orange County was rated one of the richest agricultural counties in the United States, said Hansen. Uprooting lives, is the last section of the exhibit, and shows how around 2,000 of the Japanese Americans were taken out of their homes and farms during the outbreak of WWII and placed into camps. “They went through internment. They were ripped out of their homes with maybe a weeks notice, left crops standing in fields,” said a tearful Molly McClanahan a member of the Friends of the Arboretum. “We’ve been hearing about these things, but then when you visible see it you comes out with a different feel,” said George Kato, an attendee born after WWII. The exhibit will run though July 29 and will be open Saturdays and Sundays from noon to four. It can also be shown upon special request. Admission is free.
By karl thunman/Daily Titan Photo Editor onward march - Protesters marched trough the Little Saigon District of Garden Grove on October 14, 2006 in protest of North Korea’s descision to detonate a nuclear bomb. Protesters marched down Garden Grove Boulevard with signs featuring slogans such as “Stop Nuke Test,” “Stop Sunshine Policy!,” and “Kim Jong-il - Wanted For Crimes Against Humanity.”
N. Korea Halts Nuclear Program Tiny nation agrees to stop making weapons in exchange for oil By Alexa olesen Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) - A hard-won disarmament pact that the U.S. and four other nations struck with North Korea on Tuesday requires the communist nation to halt its nuclear programs in exchange for oil while leaving the ultimate abandonment of those weapons projects to a potentially trouble-filled future. In a sign of potential problems to come, North Korea’s state news agency said the country was receiving 1 million tons of oil for a “temporary suspension” of its nuclear facilities _ and failed to mention the full disarmament for which the agreement calls. It wasn’t clear if the report represented an attempt by the government to backtrack on the deal, or was simply a statement of bluster for a deeply impoverished domestic audience that Pyongyang has rallied around the nuclear program as a cause for national pride.
And by tackling so many issues in a process likely to take years, the deal could unravel, pulled apart by differing agendas of its six signers, which also include China, South Korea, Russia and Japan. “We have a lot of work to do,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told reporters. “It’s certainly not the end of the process, it’s really just the end of the beginning of the process.” Nevertheless, the agreement marks a turnabout for North Korea, which rattled the world only four months ago when it tested a nuclear device. If Pyongyang follows through with its promises, they would be the first moves the communist state has made to scale back its atomic development since it kicked out international inspectors and restarted its sole operating nuclear reactor in 2003. “These talks represent the best opportunity to use diplomacy to address North Korea’s nuclear programs,” President Bush said in a statement. “They reflect the common commitment of the participants to a Korean Peninsula that is free of nuclear weapons.” Robert J. Einhorn, a former State Department official who visited North Korea with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said Americans should applaud the agreement, but he predicted it would come un-
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der heavy questioning from both the right and the left. He said, “I think a number of people are going to ask the question, `Couldn’t this deal have been concluded three or four years ago before North Korea conducted its nuclear test and acquired enough additional plutonium to build anywhere from six to 10 nuclear weapons?’” On the right, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said the agreement rewards North Korea for bad behavior while encouraging Iran to ignore international demands that it roll back its nuclear program and hold out for a better deal. Within that time, more talks are planned on ending the hostilities between North Korea and the United States and Japan that have made northeast Asia a tense corner of the world. In return, North Korea will receive 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, a modest down payment on a promised 1 million tons in oil or aid of a similar value if it ultimately disarms. One million tons of oil would be equivalent to more than twothirds of North Korea’s entire oil consumption in 2004, according to the CIA Factbook. Hill said the aid package was worth about $250 million at current prices
weather For the record The Daily Titan erroneously reported the title of human communication department chair kurt Kistleman in the Feb. 12 edition. The Daily Titan erroneously reported the names of the Chicago band members in the Feb. 8 edition; their names are Keith Howland (left,) and Jason Scheff (right.)
TODAY
Harold Rogers clutches his father’s hand as Dr. Nathan Rogers creeps closer to his last breath. Dr. Rogers’ wish for his son was to enter the medical field. “Look at your hands,” Dr. Rogers, an ophthalmologist, once said to Harold, who had the uncommon skill of keeping his hands perfectly still. “You should be a surgeon.” On Dr. Roger’s deathbed, Harold promised his father he would become a doctor. “‘There will be another Dr. Rogers in this family,’” he said. And he kept his promise. Harold Rogers became a doctor of chemistry. Even at a young age, Harold said the interactions between chemicals fascinated him. At 6 years old, Harold was already working in his mother’s lab – the kitchen. He was vulnerable to severe food allergies, and Harold’s mother, Beatrice, cooked the family’s dinners “to death” to accommodate for it. If Harold was going to eat stuff he wanted, he was going to have to cook it himself, he said. He started with easy recipes: scrambled eggs, French toast, grilled cheese sandwiches. These days, he’s whipping up Pozole soup made with fresh pork shoulder, peppers and chilies. He fries lemongrass and shrimp Lumpia with bamboo shoots. Harold’s passion for cuisine is obvious. His voice rises with excitement as he explains what a star fruit is, and how to pick ripe lychees. Whatever the subject, Harold is genuinely thrilled. It can be about the alchemic history of phosphorus. Or bagpipes, his current musical undertaking. Even something as simple as cats, which he calls “the sexiest of all animals.” But learning – that’s different. Harold is more than enthusiastic about it; he lusts for knowledge. “When I wake up, I ask myself what more can I learn today,” he said. “I love to eat problems for breakfast. It’s like an adrenaline junkie who’s going to snowboard down a fresh avalanche,” Harold said. “(Learning) is living, it’s vitality. Working with young people is vitality,” he said. “I refuse to grow up. Maybe I suffer from Peter Pan syndrome.” His inner child shows. Harold’s wardrobe consists almost entirely of casual jeans and whimsical T-shirts, some science-related, some from Hot Topic. And he’s a big Monty Python fan. He owns a plush Holy Hand Grenade, a fictional weapon from the Monty Python film, and a black knight with detachable arms and legs. Next on his wish list: a pair SEE ROGER - PAGE 2
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