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VOLUME 04, EDIITON 01
Blu-ray or HD?
Set in stone - The Memeorial Grove Plaque, set in stone, names those slain in the 1976 CSUF library shooting. The Grove can be found north of the Pollak library.
Two new disk formats promise a better picture with a higher pricetag By Johnathan Kroncke Summer Titan Assistant News Editor
Growing strong, tall and with a purpose
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In the 1970s, JVC’s new VHS video format and Sony’s Betamax duked it out for the controlling stake of the video market. By the ’80s, VHS had become king of the mountain. Now, with demise of VHS and the advent of the DVD, a new battle has begun. Sony is once again backing another horse in this technological race and this time they are packing heat with a new format, the Blu-ray Disc. This upgrade from the current DVD format has a major competitor, and that is the HD DVD. So far, there is no clear-cut winner between the two formats. Although sales of Blu-ray players appear to be higher, this is still anyone’s game because of the quality of each product. Blu-ray and HD DVDs share some similarities, including offering high-definition picture quality by using a blue
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By Asa Barnla For The Summer Titan
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Photos By Cindy cafferty/Summer Titan Photo Editor living memory - The Memorial Grove’s seven symbolic trees commemorate the seven lives lost in CSUF’s 1976 library shooting.
The trees that stand in the grove on the north side of the Pollak Library can easily go unnoticed. “They just look like regular trees to me,” said Devi Wiseman, Cal State Fullerton student. But these are not just regular trees. They provide a living tribute called Memorial Grove, dedicated to the tragedy that occurred at the library on July 12, 1976, when 37-year-old library custodian Edward Charles Allaway shot and killed seven university employees and wounded two more.
“I’ll look at these trees differently from now on,” kinesiology major Aurelio Ramirez said, who eats his lunch at the grove every Monday. Allaway entered the library basement from the west doors with a brand-new rifle and shot nine people in the basement and first floor, The Los Angeles Times reported. Witnesses said that Allaway seemed to be distraught over his recent separation from his wife and that his remarks during the shootings indicated that he felt his victims were responsible for his failed marriage in some way.
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Giving board rooms the feminine touch By Aleksandra Wojtalewicz For The Summer Titan
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Although greatly underrepresented, women are rising up in the political and corporate world and are starting to “wear the pants.” “It is important that women gain access to these positions because we need more diversity of opinions in how businesses and politics should be run,” said Women’s Studies professor Donna Gough in an e-mail interview. “Plus, there is nothing that proves women cannot be great leaders. It’s just that they haven’t been given the opportunity.” For instance, Hillary Clinton is a strong Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidency.
“The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible,” Clinton said in a 1969 commencement address at Wesleyan College, as if foreshadowing her run for the presidency and proving that the presidential seat is not only a man’s domain. As the first female senator from New York, Clinton introduced almost 500 congressional bills and won the 2006 congressional re-election with 67 percent of the vote. Similarly, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has broken political glass-ceiling barriers by becoming the first woman Speaker of the House. “It’s harder for women to reach the top because of the glass ceiling and sticky floor phenomena where women who have the same credentials and work ethic are prevented from moving up in an organization because they lack access to the ‘old boy’s network,’” Gough said. “The other thing that makes getting to the top difficult is the idea that women
have to balance work and family life. anything,” Faust said in the Harvard Which means, for some organizations, Crimson, the campus’s newspaper. “And that women can’t devote 100 percent of that includes being the president of Harvard.” their energies to their jobs.” Although they are few in number, But Pelosi managed to raise five children and be a member of a number of women are taking positions in almost every sector of socigovernment commisety – even among the sions before becompews. ing the Speaker of the There is nothing that church Bishop Katharine House. Jefferts Schori beYet it is not just proves women cannot came the Episcopal in the political be leaders. It’s just Church’s first female world that women bishop last year. are climbing up the that they haven’t been “Jesus would sit ladder into the top given the opportunity. and eat with anyone. positions. Drew Gil– Donna Gough To me that says the pin Faust became Women’s Studies Professor church is meant to Harvard’s first female be inclusive of all hupresident earlier this manity,” Schori said year, even though in an interview with former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers said Glamour magazine. According to Forbes, one of the most that gender differences explain the low number of women in mathematics and influential TV personalities is a woman. From a small town in Mississippi, the sciences. “Women have the aptitude to do Oprah Winfrey scrambled up to the
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Today
Memorial Day
Some barbecued, others remembered the veterans. See pages 5 and 8
Clubs
Joining campus organizations enriches college experience. See page 6
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Women are showing up as company leaders and heads of state
windy city and into the limelight, becoming one of the most-recognized leading women on television. The billionaire hosts her own show; has her own magazine, Oprah; launched Oprah & Friends, an XM Satellite Radio network; and recently gave $40 million to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa to give girls of poor families an education. In 2006, women only held 15.6 percent of officer positions in Fortune 500 companies. That is a decline from 2005, where women held 16.4 percent of the top ranks. “For a very long time, women were thought of as best suited for private, domestic life, while men were better suited for work in the public sphere. Such assumptions are based on faulty beliefs about natural gender roles, themselves based on struggles for power and wealth,” said Women’s Studies professor
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Thursday
Judi King
CSUF’s police chief does a lot more than just ticket cars.