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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Stroke Claims CSUF Chair

Human Beings For Sale

Gustave Bording Mathieu taught at Fullerton for 26 years

Academic Senate approves repayment after Trustees’ Audit

By carol rojas

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

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By JAZZY GRAZA/Daily Titan Staff Photographer

TWO WORDS - Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, advocate for the B-SAFFE Anti-Trafficking in Persons Project and Free the Slaves, speaks at the TSU Theater on Tuesday morning for an event on human trafficking sponsored by the CSUF Women’s Center.

Human Trafficking issues discussed this week in the TSU

By Michelle ascencio

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

The first session of the “Human Trafficking: Modern-Day Slavery in Southern California” conference was held Monday in the Titan Student Union, where speakers discussed many facets of human trafficking, such as sexual slavery and forced labor among children and adults.

Monday night’s session opened with Arlene Irion, chief of the Orange County branch of the FBI, who discussed sexual slavery and prostitution in Orange County.

“Some enter prostitution for money to buy designer clothes,”

Irion said. “But “There are 118 there are so many sex offenders in that go into it Fullerton alone,” looking for love Irion said as she o Check out dailytitan.com and affection.” flipped through for video coverage the Human Trafficking event.

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Gustave Bording Mathieu, a Cal State Fullerton emeritus professor and founding chair of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, died on Feb. 16 of pneumonia induced by a stroke.

Mathieu taught at CSUF for 26 years where he received the 1967 Outstanding Professor Award for superior faculty performance.

The award, which is CSUF’s top MATHIEU faculty honor, recognized Mathieu for his commitment to teaching, research and service.

“He was very knowledgeable and interested in motivating students to learn German,” said Curtis Swanson, a professor of modern languages and literatures, who taught during Mathieu’s time as the department chair.

“He was very passionate about everything and he was a very dynamic person,” Swanson said. “He had a very strong personality and a great many friends.”

Mathieu spent six years as acting chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department. As chair, he reserved half of the faculty positions for professors who were nonnative speakers of the languages they taught, to help encourage students to reach their potential in learning foreign languages.

“I think it became a fundamental part of the department,” said Lee Gilbert, professor of modern languages and literatures and one of the first faculty members who worked under Mathieu’s non-native speakers program.

“He pushed and motivated us to become role models to students who studied foreign languages,” Gilbert said.

Mathieu, who began teaching at CSUF in 1960, was born in Germany and raised in France. Later he served in the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain and Psychological Warfare divisions from 1942 to 1948.

During his time in the service, Mathieu worked with the Americancontrolled, German-language radio station, Radio in American Sector, which was based in Berlin. The radio station was founded by American occupation authorities after World War II to provide the German population unbiased news and political reporting.

After becoming news chief of the radio program in 1945, Mathieu was exposed to top-secret information from the Nazi Ministry of People’s

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information was shocking.

“These [sex offenders] can be Hispanic, Caucasian, anything.

They’re right there and we don’t even know who they are,” Robles said.

Both Khan and Irion said the victims of trafficking cannot just get up and leave from the situation. They said there are many reasons, including dependence for food, clothing and shelter, and being brainwashed into believing that their captors love and care for them, or that they deserve the horrific treatment they are receiving.

Khan said in the U.S. alone there are an estimated 12.3 million people held in all kinds of involuntary servitude.

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Vast Library Resources Untapped

By John sakata

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

David Ahmn, a biology major, goes to the Pollak Library almost everyday.

“I do research [at the library],” he said, sitting outside the building, eating lunch. “I study sometimes, pretty much studying.”

For the last academic year, the library ranked third out of all CSUs with an information resource budget of over $2.8 million, according to a 2005-06 CSU library statistics report. The report stated that Cal State Fullerton’s library carries about 75,000 bound periodicals; 7,000 units of film and video material; 1.1 million units of microforms; and other resources to aid students in projects and term papers.

As for books, the library has 770,000 books in its collection,

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27,000 of which are electronic.

“We probably have a collection on every medium that has ever been used, from ’78 plastic disks to cassettes to DVDs,” said Librarian Richard Pollard.

Suellen Cox, head of instruction and information services, said she remembers coming to the library over a decade ago. The library was offering between 25 and 60 library sessions to inform students about the different services the library offers students, she said. It now offers up to 300 sessions, Cox said.

The library Web site alone has over 200 databases to access data, according to Cox. The library Web site includes copies of The New York Times back to 1861 and journals back to its first edition in a database called JSTOR. “We’re making a shift from print resources to make the resources available electronically,” Cox said.

“Anytime, night or day, 24-7, anywhere, not only on campus but the Irvine campus, or at home or the dorm room.”

The demand for library sessions comes from faculty members weary of receiving students who pull up biographies with a single click on Google. But just because library sessions have increased dramatically, it doesn’t necessarily mean the students are able to fluently use the library’s resources, Pollard said.

“It’s like the old song about horse and water. You can lead the horse to the water but you can’t make it drink,” Pollard said. “With a horse you can’t reason, but with the students you can reason. But what you decide to do with that is a free will decision.”

Librarians also worry that students are becoming too dependent on the computer for research, gravitating away from traditional print

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sources; with so much information available with a single click, students may never leave their chair.

“The Harvard Business Review is one of the more important journals in business,” information and services Librarian Robert Sage said. “Students need to read this. But what happens is students come across the article, they see that we have a link but we don’t have it in print and they ignore it. A lot of students ignore it even though it is one of the key journals for business research.”

Sociology Professor Cynthia Irvine teaches a writing class in which students are not allowed to use Google searches in their bibliography. Though her students use links like JSTOR, she said she believes the papers could be more comprehensive.

“They could be better,” Irvine said.

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The Academic Senate approved a resolution to repay faculty for a 2004 pay cut they received after an audit conducted by the CSU Board of Trustees revealed that faculty may have been able to collect their full salary.

The alleged misuse of school funds occurred between Jan. 2001 and Dec. 2004. A failure by Sherri Newcomb, former chief financial officer of Cal State Fullerton, to keep accurate budgetary statements resulted in an inappropriate accumulation of funds, according to a special investigation report released by the Board of Trustees.

A reduction in the state budget in Jan. 2004 created a difficult situation for the summer session, which could have been shut down, run on a very small scale, or paid for through University Extended Education, President Milton Gordon said during the meeting.

“What we attempted to do was educate as many students as possible in the summer of 2004,” Gordon said.

It was decided to run the summer program through Extended Education, but the budget appeared unable to support the full salary normally offered by state-funded money. Instead, administrators came to the California Faculty Association with a contract that offered to pay 85 percent of their salary, according to Diana Guerin, chair of the senate and board member of the association.

“Of the 10 [CSU] campuses that ran their summer program through Extended Education, only four paid up to 85 percent,” Gordon said.

However, Guerin believes some campuses that chose to run their summer program through some other channel received full pay.

After the audit was conducted and the accumulation of funds discovered, Dr. Nanjundappa, president of the association’s CSUF chapter, drafted a resolution to repay the faculty for the salary they missed out on.

“We consulted the CFA and agreed to sign, but the agreement [for summer 2004] doesn’t preclude the special audit report,” Nanjundappa said at the meeting.

Gordon has the final say in whether or not faculty will receive repayment, she said.

Guerin said she sees the challenges the president faces, as a contract was signed by the association, but she said the association feels that they “operated under misinformation.”

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Scooter Libby Loser in Leak Case

By Jennifer Church

Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960

“Where’s the Pardon?”

So former adviser I. Lewis tence is farcical, at best.

“Scooter” Libby was convicted We can say with full conTuesday of lying and obstruct- fidence right now that Libby ing a leak examination that will have nothing to worry shook the Bush administra- about come January 19, 2009. tion to its very foundation.

That will be a great day in The jury was swayed by American history – Bush’s last testimony indicating Libby, day in office! And the day that with the knowledge of Presi- Libby is magically pardoned dent George for his past W. Bush and offences. vice presiLest we forAs a result, Libby get, Bush is dent Dick Cheney, was is free until June 5, a card-carrydisseminating member ing informa- when he then fac- of the good tion to New es a sentence of 25 ole’ boy netYork Times years – yeah right! work. reporter JuThe fundith Miller niest thing in hopes of is the spectasilencing the tor role the critics of the Iraq war.

American public plays with As a result, Libby is this. They know he’s not the free until June 5, when he only one with dirty hands. then faces a sentence of up They know he’s the fall guy. to 25 years – yeah right! They know he’s gonna get off.

Call it our liberal, reeking of But nobody cares. donkey doo opinion, but we’d The apathy the public is take it to Vegas that this sen- showing towards this political tence will not hold up. dog and pony show before our Bottom line is that this sen- eyes is, well – pathetic.

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Amidst news of Britney Spears’ downward spiral and Anna Nicole Smith’s funeral is the obstruction of justice and perjury case of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

Why should anyone care that Libby was found guilty of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and one count of making false statements to the FBI? It’s so much easier to wrap our heads around celebrities’ messy lives and the ruins left behind by their poor decision-

making skills.

I am jumping on the proverbial bandwagon in blaming the media for not galvanizing enough interest in this case. These more-oftenthan-not spin doctors failed to make Libby’s case sexy enough for us to dig into because really, it has all the makings of a sensational story: lies, the FBI and the CIA ultimately leading to the White House and its decision to go to war with Iraq.

The case wasn’t about finding out who the leak was, but the attempted cover-up. National security was compromised because people in the administration think that it is acceptable to wield power against those who oppose them.

The Los Angeles Times re-

ported that Cheney was so focused on discrediting Iraq war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV, that he prepared handwritten talking points for his top aide to counter Wilson.

Libby was not the first or only government official to talk to reporters about Wilson’s wife and former CIA operative, Valerie Plame.

Some people may even say that he was made a scapegoat, but during the course of the trial, witnesses contradicted Libby’s account that he did not know Plame’s identity.

Perhaps the most shameful issue in the whole scandal is the role the media played. The press, who is supposed to be the public’s advocate, proved that it

crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, she too faces a backlash that involves sponsors pulling ads off of her Web site.

To those of you who were watching “The Simpsons” instead of the evening news when the story broke, Coulter’s exact statement was, “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I’m – so, kind of at an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”

Coulter’s remark is being reported as a homophobic slur. Ultimately, it’s a slur because you can’t use the “F” word these days, as Coulter pointed out – at least not without the media jumping all over you for it.

Coulter’s opinion, and yes it was merely her opinion, wouldn’t have caught media attention if she hadn’t used that word. Had she, instead, bolstered opinion by calling Edwards a weenie, or better yet, a butthead, she might not be the focus of such intense scrutiny right now.

Forget the usage of the “F” word for just a minute and remember that ultimately Coulter was exercising her right to freedom of speech. I am not

condoning her usage of the word; however, I do applaud her for speaking her mind, as I applauded the Dixie Chicks for doing the same.

She didn’t outright call Edwards the “F” word. She made a political comment with social implications by declaring that you “have to go into rehab” if you use that word.

I admire her for being brave enough to use a word she had to have known would raise ire in the media. And because I refuse to believe that she doesn’t know any better than to use such vile and bigoted language than she did, I can only accept that she knew exactly what she was saying and used to the word to get media attention.

So she crossed the line by using the word. OK. But when people choose to use words like “faggot” in the media, as did Isaiah Washington from Grey’s Anatomy and now Coulter at the conference, all that is happening is that everyday people like you and me are learning that it is not okay to say things like that. A debate is sparked, opinions are formed and all the while, minds are expanding. And the only lasting effect Coulter’s slur will have is that of change.

can be sloppy at times. When journalists were questioned about the leak on the witness stand, no one could provide straightforward answers because the notes they took weren’t specific enough for them to recall who said what.

In the end, it seems as if the press let itself be used as a tool by people in power. Why else would it release information that was so shoddily provided when one of the hallmarks of good journalism is plain and simple attribution?

Libby is facing up to 25 years in prison and can be fined up to $250,000 on each guilty count. In the meantime, the number of U.S. casualties in the Iraq war has reached over 3,100.

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by Daralyn Schoenewald Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

Since recent studies show that most of us would rather watch “The Simpsons” than memorize the Bill of Rights, let me remind you that the First Amendment is the one that guarantees Americans the freedom of speech.

This was a right bestowed upon us by our forefathers to (arguably) give us the right to discuss the government without getting thrown in jail for unfavorable opinions.

Forget jail time, these days people are serving a different kind of sentence for expressing political opinions.

When the Dixie Chicks’ lead singer, Natalie Maines, made her now infamous remark about President Bush, what followed could only be called a media frenzy that resulted in many radio stations blacklisting the group.

And now in the days after conservative commentator Ann Coulter used the word “faggot” while addressing the

The Advocate

BY Robert

Moran

Autistic Serial Killers?

Autistics are the perfect serial people around them, yet autiskillers. At least that is what J. tics can learn to recognize that Arturo Silva and several col- others do have feelings through leagues have stated in a series of behavioral training and because papers on the psychopathology we do not suffer from delusional of autism, written for the Jour- behavior. nal of Forensic Science and the We’re not crazy. We just lack Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. common sense.

Silva states that Jeffrey DahWhile Silva’s claim may be mer and Ted Kaczynski may plausible, it is also possible that have had Asperger’s. In Silva’s serial killers may have some report he states that Dahmer other psychopathological disorand Kaczynski both seemed der. Autism is referred to as a aloof when dealing with other pathological disorder. It is often people. One of the characteris- called autistic psychopathy. It tics of Asperger’s is that we often shares several characteristics with forget that othschizophrenia er people have including obfeelings, and tuse, ritualistic it is true that behavior. But ... while other patho- while other serial killers don’t put much logical disorders also p a t h o l o g i c a l importance on can create delusional disorders also the feelings of can create detheir victims. states, autistics do not lusional states, How could suffer from them. autistics do they when they not suffer from are usually disthem. membering While most their victims psychopaths, or dispatching them in an even a word which is derived from more emotionally remote fash- the word psychopathology, are ion: mail bombs? dangerous criminals, autistics While most autistics forget for the most part are the victims about other people’s feelings, of crime. there are often times that we reWithout knowledge about member. the nature of autism, reports Silva states that most se- such as Silva’s can be. Such misrial killers often have repetitive understanding may unfairly cast behaviors, a characteristic of a dark shadow over the autistic Asperger’s, especially in the ritu- community. alistic manner that they kill.

Still, there is a link between The pathology of autism is Asperger’s and crime, as some the one thing all pathological recent court cases have shown. disorders have in common. We But while those cases did not are often unable to empathize involve psychopathic behavior, with others. I, for one, am no the link is still evident exception.

These cases, though sensaI can think of various exam- tional, can be dangerous and ples where this has happened, useful at the same time by creperhaps too many to count. ating fear in people who have Psychopaths, because of their not encountered someone with delusional states, are often never Asperger’s, but also by creating cognizant of the feelings of the awareness about the disorder.

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A Center of Shame

by Tom Madden

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

The number 18 is quickly becoming the worst number in America.

For our troops it signifies the age at which many enlisted to fight the disastrous war over in Iraq, and now it’s the building number that houses the mold, rodent feces and cockroaches that plagues the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

While the Bush administration claims that the Iraq war is being fought overseas to keep terrorists away from our homeland, it’s apparent that the wounds America deals with everyday are self-inflicted.

On Monday, two soldiers that were wounded in Iraq shared stories of the neglect and mistreatment they received at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center before members of Congress.

The Walter Reed Medical Center, located only several miles from the White House, is the nucleus of the military’s medical system. Although its Web site’s motto is “We Provide Warrior Care,” the center is under fire for housing wounded soldiers in rooms deteriorating from rodent droppings and mold, while giving inadequate and confusing information about outpatient services to patients looking for treatment.

According to nytimes.com, Sgt. John Daniel Shannon, who suffered a head wound from an AK-47 round, was released only a week after receiving rushed treatment at Walter Reed. While disoriented from brain injuries and the loss of an eye, Reed was “given a map and told to find his own way.”

Accounts like Reed’s exhibit the irresponsibility of the Bush administration. The president’s plan of sending 21,500 more troops to the bloody streets of Baghdad might mean catastrophe both in Iraq and at the medical centers across the nation, which can’t provide proper care for our wounded troops.

With 11 soldiers already dead in the early days of March, according to icasualities.org, coupled with the despicable government-provided treatment that our troops receive, it is definitely time for a regime change.

Why does it take four years and a Washington Post story to uncover the injustices taking place only miles from President Bush’s bedroom?

Why is it that every time a highranking official gets questioned over their incompetence, they pass the blame onto others? When will the American people hold their public officials accountable?

According to nytimes.com when former Walter Reed director Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley was asked to explain the soiled and vile conditions at the center he told Congress that “inspections were not part of his normal job duties.”

As head of any medical center, let alone one that houses the brave soldiers whose lives will forever be changed by disfigurements, disabilities and mental anguish, wouldn’t making sure the foundation that houses them is at least a cut above an abandoned warehouse be one of your “duties”?

While the blame gets predictably passed on down the line, let’s hope it will reach the minds of the Americans that voted for these incompetent rats, and that they will have enough civility to make sure our wounded troops and their distressed families will be given the treatment they rightfully deserve.

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Binging is Most Common Disorder Compulsive eating is a more common disease than anorexia or bulemia

By Arianne Baker Tufts Daily Tufts University

Courtesy of arttoday.com

Drug Use in College has a Different Nature

By Ben Slivnick

The Diamondback University of Maryland

EDITOR’S NOTE: The names of students in this story were changed to allow the students to speak more candidly about their drug habits.

(U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. - If there’s any one thing recreational drug experts are likely to remember about this generation, it would probably be that young people are refusing to follow the drug use trends of yesterday.

This generation’s predecessors might have been content to dabble in cocaine, try marijuana or drop ecstasy. But nowadays, recreational drug use is far more likely to begin with a prescription in an orange bottle.

This trend is troubling drug experts who say the potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals showing up in dorm rooms and even college libraries are the product of habits likely formed in high school, according to a newly released analysis of several studies conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-free America that examined drug use among highschoolers over four years.

Conner, a freshman art history major, said few students in his circle have experimented with nonprescription drugs.

“I don’t know that many kids that have done coke, none that have tried crack, and only a few that have dropped acid. I can’t even count all of the ones who’ve taken Adderall,” he said. “In my freshman year of high school, I took it at 9 at night and stayed up all night to do math homework.”

And unlike the drug trends of previous generations, which often used sought brief euphorias, the 18-to-25 set today are far more likely to use pharmaceuticals for a wide range of purposes.

“I don’t know what I would do without it,” said Catherine, who earlier had taken a dose of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder drug Adderall. “There’s no way I could have kept my scholarship if I didn’t use it.”

Strewn across Catherine’s dorm

room floor were laptops, textbooks and notes from a variety of classes.

Also on the floor was freshman art history major Marianne, who said when she took Adderall before college, it was for different reasons than studying.

“When we would go out drinking back then, it would help us stay up. In high school, I used it for fun, as a diet pill, or to sell it,” Marianne said. “I never take it for fun anymore.”

The pressures of college coursework often prompt students to move to using drugs like Adderall, which they use as a substance for academic success rather than for an occasional high.

As many as 20 percent of college students have used Adderall or the similar ADHD treatment Ritalin, according to a study released by the National Center on Addiction

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[Adderall] makes me feel absurdly alert. I feel like I could stare at millions of pages and never get bored.

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and Substance Abuse in 2004.

Prescription painkiller use has also experienced a sharp rise, according to an analysis of several drug-use studies performed by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America over the past four years.

OxyContin use jumped from 2.7 percent to 3.5 percent. Vicodin use increased from 6.0 percent to 6.3 percent. During the same period, marijuana use dropped from 30.1 percent to 25.8 percent, the analysis showed.

Researchers at the University of Maryland found last spring that students in College Park reported ADHD treatments like Adderall and Ritalin are easily available and in widespread use, said Erin Artigiani, deputy director of policy and governmental affairs for the Center for Substance Abuse Research at the university.

Students participating in the study were from a diverse background and represented students at both high and low risk for drug use, Artigiani said.

“People are using these prescription medications instead of coffee

or energy drinks because they felt that they were safe, long-lasting and more effective ... as well as having fewer calories,” Artigiani said. “In our key findings, alcohol, marijuana and, as far as stimulants go, Adderall and Ritalin were the most easy to get according to the panel.”

Freshman psychology major Nina is one student who began using Adderall in high school and said she never considered obtaining a prescription because the drug is so easy to get.

“The first time I took it was in high school for AP exams when I had eight straight hours of testing,” Nina said. “It makes me feel absurdly alert. I feel like I could stare at millions of pages and never get bored, you focus so intently.”

Marianne and Catherine said they’ve used Adderall so long, they’ve built up a tolerance that requires them to take the drug in higher doses for effect. Sometimes they need as much as 75 milligrams of time-release pills over a 48-hour span for intense cramming sessions. Adderall comes in capsules of up to 30 milligrams.

“I weigh about a hundred pounds, so I know I shouldn’t be taking that much,” Marianne said, her eyes focused on a homework assignment. “But if I don’t, I’m lazy and don’t accomplish anything.”

Although many common side effects of abusing such medications are headaches, anxiety, dehydration and skin rashes, Kendra Smoak, who leads the Alcohol & Other Drug Peer Education programs at the Health Center, said the drugs carry more dangerous effects such as triggering of a preexisting medical condition like an irregular heartbeat.

Combining the drugs with alcohol is even more concerning, Smoak said.

“When you take stimulants with alcohol, you may not feel as drunk because an upper counters the effect,” Smoak said. “Are students talking about it? Yes. Are we educating students about the harmful effects of abusing prescription meds? Yes, definitely.”

For Catherine and Marianne, however, warnings about side effects are far from their minds.

“As many negative effects as there are, the positives are so much better – you perform well at school and stay on task all throughout the day,” Catherine said.

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(U-WIRE) MEDFORD, Mass. When typical college students hear the words “eating disorder,” plenty of images may come to mind: emaciated bodies, salad-only dinners and image-conscious high school students puking in the bathroom.

Though American teenagers learn about eating disorders and their dangers in middle and high school, most students only hear about anorexia and bulimia, respectively self-starvation or binging and purging.

But according to a study conducted at McLean Hospital and published in the February edition of “Biological Psychology,” the most common eating disorder in America is lesser known: binge eating.

The study found that anorexia was found in 0.6 percent of people while bulimia was prevalent in 1 percent.

Binge eating was found to be more common than both disorders combined at 2.8 percent.

“Binge eating is common, and has been for a long time,” Tufts University Health Services Medical Director Margaret Higham said via e-mail.

Binge eating is currently gaining more attention than it had in the past. As a result, the number of diagnosed cases may be rising while the actual number of people afflicted remains steady, Higham said.

A proposed disorder in the official manual of psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, binge-eating disorder is characterized by binge eating at least twice a week for six months without signs of from anorexia or bulimia.

Binges typically involve eating more food or more rapidly than normal in a short amount of time.

Some research has shown that

binge eating may be related to obesity. Morbidly obese people tend to have more binge-eating disorders than others. A surprising characteristic of binge eating is that it often comes hand in hand with dieting.

“I think that dieting can lead to binge eating, because people are watching what they eat – so when they eat a lot, they just binge,” said Robin Kanarek, a professor of psychology who has researched binge eating in the past.

People who diet “restrict themselves so much that when they get access to food or allow access to food, they binge,” Kanarek said.

One student said that she thinks the pattern of dieting and binging does happen among Tufts students.

“People think of dieting as ‘going on a diet’ – not maintaining it – so they don’t make healthy choices consistently,” junior Ashley Griffin said.

“People go on swings of binging and then being ‘good’ for a few days, eating rice cakes. I see a lot of girls walking around eating rice cakes.”

According to Kanarek, viewing different foods as decidedly good or bad is part of the foundation for binge eating disorders.

“Most people in our society and particular people with eating disorders tend to dichotomize food,” she said. “Fruits and vegetables are good, candy is bad, for example ...

Even those of us who don’t have eating disorders tend to think of cakes and cookies as being not as good of food as an apple, but one cookie is one cookie.”

When people do eat that one cookie, Kanarek said, they often see it as a total loss.

“People get into a dichotomous thinking, so that if they have one cookie, they say ‘Oh, I’ve been bad,’ and binge,” she said.

College students on the whole tend to have fewer binge-eating disorders than slightly older young adults – the McLean study found that the mean age of onset is 25.

However, the stresses of college life can certainly contribute to disor-

dered eating habits.

“Binge eating is a common response to stress,” Higham said. “Often, food is used to relieve emotional distress – loneliness, sadness, anxiety.

College students are certainly vulnerable to many of these factors.”

The crazy routines of many college students can add to their stress.

“Many of them come to college without good skills in regulating their daily life, being unable to provide structure and routine in their life,” Higham said. “Regular meal times are lost, regular sleep” is lost.

Other “binging behaviors” are frequent in college, too, Higham explained: study binges, drinking binges, sleeping binges, etc., can all contribute to how students eat.

Many students will binge eat after drinking, Kanarek said.

Tufts students themselves don’t seem to find that binge eating is much of a problem.

“My overall perspective of Tufts is that the University is fairly healthy and fit, based on the atmosphere of encouragement of exercise and health,” graduate student Mike Ferrelli said. “With running programs and the school of nutrition, there are a lot of programs for students to take advantage of.”

Senior Rachel Leven agreed. “The majority of people I know are pretty healthy in their eating,” Leven said.

“I think Tufts students are generally pretty aware of what’s healthy, and they regulate themselves.”

For Jumbos who find themselves binging, Kanarek has simple advice.

“One thing to do is start looking at food as food, not a good or bad thing,” she said. “You can allow yourself the freedom to have a cookie or ice cream every once in a while.”

But changing our most basic thoughts about food isn’t easy.

“It’s hard because people tend to develop these patterns of thinking about food early on, in childhood.

[The dichotomous thinking about food] has become more prevalent because of awareness of nutrition,” Kanarek said.

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS Powerful Indonesian Earthquake Kills 70 SOLOK, Indonesia (AP) - Imelda Kusmawati’s husband grabbed their two children and ran from the house when the ground reared up beneath them, cracking roads and collapsing nearby buildings in seconds. The powerful earthquake _ the latest in a string of natural disasters to hit Indonesia _ killed at least 70 people and injured hundreds.

“My house is on the brink of collapse,” said Kusmawati, 28, one of tens of thousands sleeping in tents or under the stars instead of returning indoors after Tuesday’s quake. “I am still traumatized and worried about aftershocks,” she said as her son and daughter huddled close to her.

The 6.3-magnitude quake struck on Sumatra island just before 11 a.m. and was felt as far away as neighboring Malaysia and Singapore, where some tall buildings were evacuated. Two hours later, a 6.1 aftershock rattled the region.

NATIONAL NEWS Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Trial WASHINGTON (AP) - Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush administration.

He is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since National Security Adviser John Poindexter in the Iran-Contra affair two decades ago.

In the end, jurors said did not believe Libby’s main defense: that he hadn’t lied but merely had a bad memory.

The CIA leak case focused new attention on the Bush administration’s much-criticized handling of intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war. The case cost Cheney his most trusted adviser, and the trial revealed Cheney’s personal obsession with criticism of the war’s justification.STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS Mother to Stand Trial for Attempted Murder of Infant VISALIA, Calif. (AP) - A judge ordered a teenage mother to stand trial on a murder charge for allegedly killing her infant daughter by spraying her face with Lysol to stop her from crying.

Shyla Chapman, 19, of Visalia told investigators she was frustrated her 4month-old daughter, Tamme Mae Logan, wouldn’t stop crying and sprayed the cleaner into her face, detectives testified Monday in Tulare County Superior Court.

Chapman said she was upset that no one helped her care for the baby and was seeking psychiatric help after giving birth.

She was scheduled to be arraigned March 19 on charges of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.

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Most of the cultural events that occur on campus—from various guest speakers to Brazilian dancers— happen because of the Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness (AICA).

The name of the club spells out its responsibilities. According to the Club Directory’s organization description, AICA’s purpose is “to bring cultural awareness and diversity through education, empowerment, and encouragement” to the “CSUF community, students, faculty, and staff.”

Advised by Anthony Ragazzo, Jr., it is a funding council within Associated Students, Inc. that consists of 27 cultural organizations on campus. Such clubs include the Pilipino American Student Association, the InterTribal Student Council and Hip Hop Congress.

Together, these various clubs form AICA. Each representative sits at the table with a sign bearing the name of their club and a microphone in front of them.

Each Thursday afternoon in Titan Student Union Gabrielino they meet to discuss funding proposals and hold cultural presentations.

“We propose funding for each club,” said Toanono Vaifale, 21-yearold business major and president of the South Pacific Islander Cultural Association (SPICA).

“If we want to throw an event on campus, we propose to AICA how much money we need. Most of the time they’ll approve it,” he said. “[The] event on campus has to be related to awareness and trying to improve cultural standings.”

Allocation request forms have to be filled out for such events, and takes about three weeks to get the proposal approved. When a proposal is made, it gets a “second,” and then members vote on it.

“It’s a process,” said Walter Santizo, 22-year-old American Studies major and AICA representative for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A). “It’s not like giving away money. They have to do two readings and then it gets voted on.”

Members of AICA have to go to at least two events held by another club, which “forces us to expose ourselves to different cultures,” Santizo

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mathieu: remembered From Page 1 Propaganda and People’s Enlightenment.

He integrated his radio work into his doctorate research at Columbia University and later explored World War II propaganda and literature during his Outstanding Professor lecture in 1967.

In addition, Mathieu served as president of the American Association of Teachers of German from 1976 to 1977. This organization was dedicated to bringing the language, literatures and cultures of the German-speaking world to all Americans.

When thinking about Mathieu, CSUF faculty members said they remember him fondly and with great admiration.

“He was very supportive to me,” Swanson said. “He helped me very

much in my early years at Cal State Fullerton. He guided me and gave me advice about adapting to the department.”

Mathieu made many contributions toward promoting the German language. He published 40 articles and papers and to co-authored “Deutsch Fur Alle (German for Everybody),” “Brieflich Erzahlt (told in letters),” and “Invitation to German Poetry.”

“What I remember most about him was the passion and enthusiasm that he had for teaching,” Gilbert said. “He was an extraordinarily gifted teacher who got students excited about learning.”

Mathieu is survived by his wife of more than 50 years, Lea, his sons Marc, Kent and Bryn, and his grandchildren Kazumi, Ryden and Carla Maria. He was 85 years old.

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Because the council serves as a coalition of all the different cultural clubs, each one knows about another’s events so there are no scheduling conflicts. Instead each club works together to help expose each other’s culture to the campus.

“We help each other out,” Santizo said. “When you vote for someone’s event, you’re helping fund it. When you abstain or object, you’re not.”

ASI allocates a certain amount of money to AICA every year to be used for funding events. The more money that is used, the more it gets the following year. The money that AICA gives to each club is spent on guest speakers, entertainment or food for the events thrown.

“When you propose the money, you usually get reimbursed afterwards,” Vaifale said.

Though AICA is primarily a funding organization, its purpose is more than to just help cultural clubs with money. According to some members, by funding cultural events, AICA helps to enrich and broaden the community’s sense of culture.

“We’ve had indigenous elders come,” Santizo said. “We’ve had Brazilian samba dancers in October for Latino Heritage Month, APISA

[Asian Pacific Islander Student Association] is throwing their spring festival, JCC had drums.”

He also believes that these events are learning experience, and if the campus, as a whole, would actually go to these events, they would learn a lot. To him, it’s a good way to expose histories of cultures.

Lina Al-Agha is AICA’s chair and 22 year-old political science and international business major. She believes these organizations contribute to make themselves known on campus for the benefit of the rest of the student body by sharing their individuality, culture, opinions and experiences.

“It’s about people and their culture,” Al-Agha said.” Everybody in the world has a culture, but the fact that these organizations actually stand up and say, ‘Hey, this is our voice and we want the rest of the student body to recognize that we’re here and we’re here to make a difference,’ that says a lot to me.”

Upcoming events funded by AICA include Hip Hop Congress’ “Under the Stairs” on March 31.

tsu: TRAFFICking From Page 1 namese Alliance to Combat Trafficking, said this is a fight that this generation can win.

“People have to be angry enough to do something and realize that this isn’t something that doesn’t happen in the U.S.,” Le said. “People think this is a situation that is bigger than them, but every action helps. Volunteer, anything.”

CSUF alumnus Thomas Dade came to the conference to support his friends who were hosting the event.

“I had the opportunity to research 13- to 17-year-olds who were sold [into sexual slavery] in the Philippines,” Daide said. “You can tell they were forced.”

Dottie Laster, administrator of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, said there

are ways for people to help.

“Notice the signs [of victims] and just write down the number of organizations that can help,” Laster said.

“It’s a very dangerous lifestyle, so at that point, all you can do is give them that number.”

Laster said some of the signs include persistent fear, depression and anxiety, a lack of identifying documents, excessive work hours, and untreated illnesses and infections.

Laster made available a wallet-sized card with numbers of organizations that can help trafficking victims.

Filmmaker Michael Cory Davis showed his movie, “Svetlana’s Journey,” based on a true story of a 13-year-old Bulgarian girl and her struggle to survive the horrors of sexual slavery.

“The only thing I can do is use my talents to get the message across,” Davis said.

Once the 40-minute film was over, the room fell silent.

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SPORTS

The Fastest Game on Two Feet

HANGING TOUGH

A List

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Get Your Football Fix the AFL Way

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Are you a football fan in dire need to see the pigskin fly through the air? Do you need fast-paced action that will keep you on the edge of your seat?

Well, folks, travel down to the Staples Center when the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League are in town and be prepared to see football like you’ve never seen it before.

For starters, you won’t see 11 players for each team – each team has only eight on the field at a time. Much of that is because the dimensions of the AFL field, 85 feet wide and 50 yards long.

And it’s good that things aren’t too crowded because the AFL believes in a liberal use of the pass play – which is reason for the ridiculously high scores. The AFL just had their season-openers this past Sunday and the “lowest” scoring game featured a total of 67 points as the Dallas Desperados overwhelmed the New York Dragons 60-7.

In such a pass-happy league, don’t expect to see too many run-

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It is commonly referred to as “the fastest game on two feet.” The game is extremely popular in the Northeast and is making its way westward.

That game is lacrosse.

Lacrosse is the continent’s oldest sport and is played on a field about the same size as a football field. Each team has 10 players on the field - a goalie, three defensive players, three midfielders and three attackers. The midfielders are allowed to play both offense and defense. The collegiate game is played for four quarters, 15 minutes each, with a 10-minute halftime.

In comparing lacrosse to another sport, hockey would be the closest fit. The ways in which goals are scored are very similar. Some of the rules and the physicality of the game are similar too.

Some of the rules for hockey are the same for lacrosse. Cross checking, slashing and tripping are called the same for both sports. Another rule, though it’s not a hockey rule, is that a team must have four people in their defensive area at all times, one of those people may be the goalie. If a team is caught with less than four, they then must serve a penalty.

When someone takes a penalty they must go to the penalty box and serve either a 30-second penalty or a one-minute penalty.

The other team then has the advantage and is referred to as playing a man up. The man up advantage is very much like a power play in hockey. The player in the penalty box is released after their time in the box expires or a goal is scored on their team.

While in possession of the ball, the player is subject to body checks and whacks from opponents sticks in attempt to get back possession of the ball for their team.

“Lacrosse is a very intense sport,” said freshman Attila Szenczi-Molnar, an attacker for the Cal State Fullerton lacrosse team.

The length of the players’ sticks depend on the position played. Attackers and midfielders sticks cant be longer than three-and-a-half feet long. The defensemen can’t have sticks that are longer than six feet.

CSUF Lacrosse started two years ago and is the only full contact sport at CSUF. “It’s more of a developmental team in league, but we’re doing very well,” lacrosse club president and player Michael Warner said.

Some of the players, like Warren Lee, have been playing lacrosse since high school.

“It is very physical, very intense,” Lee said about lacrosse.

Keith Coburn, 23, a kinesiology major, likes the game because it is fast paced.

“It’s got everything that you need; you get to hit people which is great,” Coburn said. “It’s physical, it’s fast, it’s high scoring, lots of action. It’s got something for everybody.”

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ing plays in the AFL. The only running you might see that starts from the backfield is in the deep backfield, where a wide receiver is getting a 10-yard head start on his sprint route – before the snap.

And what about special teams?

In the AFL, teams are not allowed to punt. But who needs to punt when the field is only 50 yards?

And don’t even think about touchbacks. Not with those big nets behind the kick returners. If on a kickoff the kicker boots the ball into the nets, the return specialists must turn their backs to the defense, field the ball off the nets, turn around again, and then start running.

Even the quarterbacks can use the nets on pass plays, with the ball not whistled dead until it hits the ground.

Now that’s action!

Alvin Anol’s columns appear every Wednesday. sports@dailytitan.com

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SMACKED AROUND - Cal State Fullerton’s Toni Thomas [right] fights Long Beach State for a rebound in the second half during the Titans’ 73-59 loss to the 49ers at the Walter Pyramid. As the No. 5 seed in the Big West Tournament, the Titans will take on No. 8 seed Pacific in the opening game of the tournament today at noon. The Titans finished the 2006-07 season with a 14-15 overall record and the team was 7-7 in the Big West Conference.

The Titans will lean heavily on Thomas and senior Charlee Underwood. Thomas, a sophomore was named to the All-Big West first team. Underwood was named to the All-Big West second team for her efforts this season.

Titan Softball Wins 6-2

BY CHRIS RAMIREZ

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An enormous mistake proved very helpful for the Cal State Fullerton softball team as they continued their winning ways in the Worth Tournament on Tuesday after beating Loyola-Chicago 6-2.

The Titans took an early 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Lauren Lupinetti. In the second inning the Ramblers’ bats came alive. The first three hitters each reached safely on singles.

An out was then recorded, which was followed by a hit batter who brought in the first run. After another single loaded the bases again, a bloop single to left brought in a second run. With two runners already across giving the Ramblers the lead, the bases were loaded for Ellen Kresl, who hit what would have been a bases clearing tri-

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ple. The umpires ruled that the runner at second, Krista Crosson, did not touch third while rounding the bases before the hit. The third out was recorded as a force-play, with none of the runners scoring on the play, to end the threat.

“That’s huge,” Titan Head Coach Michelle Gromacki said. “Three runs off the board.”

The Ramblers ended up with just the two runs on four hits in the inning.

“It was a relief,” Titan pitcher Brooke Weekley said of the play.

Aside from the second inning, Weekley, who pitched a complete game, allowed only two hits.

“I don’t think I had all my stuff.

I tried to help my team make the outs,” Weekley said after picking up her second win of the season. “I let them put the ball on the ground. We played our game and got the win.”

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