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Monday November 5, 2007

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PUB KARAOKE – Free karaoke is offered to students in the TSU Pub from noon to 1 p.m. CARL’S JR. HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY – Customers will be entered to win three $100 Titan shops gift cards, Knott’s tickets or a Nintendo DS with the purchase of any $6 burger combo. The contest will run through Dec. 7. SUSTAINABILITY AT CSUF – Jason Hamilton, associate professor of biology at Ithaca College in New York and plant ecologist, will discuss sustainability and its importance to the future of the university. The discussion will take place in the TSU Theatre from 10 to 11:30 a.m. It will also be repeated Tuesday in KHS-199 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. INTRAMURAL SPORTS – Women’s ultimate frisbee begins today at the intramural fields from noon to 1 p.m.

Georgia says if it’s yellow, let it mellow ATHENS, Ga. (AP) – Fans who have had their fill of beer at the University of Georgia’s homecoming football game on Saturday be warned – no flushing allowed. Earlier this week, crews put up signs in bathrooms asking people not to flush “if it’s yellow” and to leave the handle-pulling to attendants, who will do the job for the estimated 93,000 people at Saturday’s game. It’s part of the university’s “Every Drop Counts” water conservation effort in the drought that’s struck Georgia and much of the Southeast. The university is considering replacing all of the stadium’s old toilets, which use 3.5 gallons of water per flush, with new ones that use less than half that amount – 1.6 gallons – per flush, said Arthur Johnson, associate athletic director for internal operations. But two old-fashioned trough urinals that have constant running water will be open beneath the west end stands during the game against Troy University. “We’ve got a lot of fans in that area that would need to use the restroom and it would be impractical to ask them to go to another part of the stadium,” he said. The drought has worsened with sweltering temperatures and a drier-than-normal hurricane season. Now drought in almost onethird of the Southeast has been deemed “exceptional” – the most severe drought category.

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Eid ul-Fitr ends the month of Ramadan CSUF Muslim students hold a campus event to celebrate the holy month By Evan Corcoran

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Ramadan is a month of fasting celebrated by Muslims all over the world. Muslims use this time to reflect on themselves and their devotion to God. “It’s a holy month were Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. A show of humbleness and sacrifice,” said Sumanah Mithani, public relations officer for the club and president of the Women’s Islamic Network. The actual celebration of Eid ulFitr, or Festival of Fast-breaking, was a two and a half weeks ago according to Mithani. “It’s an opportunity to gain awareness of what Ramadan, Eid and the Muslim community is all about,” Mithani said. The Muslim Student Association celebrated Eid ul-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan in the Titan Student Union. Zohaib Qazi, a computer science graduate student at Cal State Fullerton and club member, said Eidul-Fitr was celebrated so the Muslim and non-Muslim student body could celebrate the holiday. “We have a lot of international students, a lot of students from different states and other places who are a little bit away from their families, so this sort of gives the same atmosphere that they would have back home,” Qazi said. Jennifer Shalabi, an American Studies major, was happy to join the celebration. “It’s like Christmas for Muslims,” Shalabi said. Muslims pray five times a day, so the event began, with the fifth prayer of the day, at 6:15 p.m. The president of the club, Kevin SantosFlores, took the stage after the prayer and thanked everyone for joining in the celebration. “We had [this event] here on campus to get the Muslims here on campus to know that there is an MSA See EID UL-FITR, Page 2

Day of the Dead celebrates the lives of those who have died ROTC

cadets aid during San Diego fire

Ceremonies take place over the weekend for many in Santa Ana By EDWARD PETERS

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Though outsiders may view it as ghoulish, Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is an ancient Aztec tradition embracing death and celebrating the continuation of life. A plethora of shrines lined the festival grounds, all surrounded by macabre relics. An array of candles eerily flickered around the faces of the dead. One of those faces was Marco Antonio Firebaugh (1966-2006), the man responsible for introducing the AB540 legislation, allowing undocumented immigrant students to attend schooling institutions in California. The Cal State Fullerton organization Alliance of Students for an Equal Education, was celebrating the death of Firebaugh at the festival. They were disseminating information on the AB540 legislation, which became a law in 2002. “Today we put up an altar in an attempt to bring awareness to people on AB540 students and what they can do to help us out, which is basi-

The National Guard and Red Cross are among others who help out By RAe NGUYEN

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Photo by EDWARD PETERS/Daily Titan Staff Writer One of many shrines dedicated to the dead at the Dia de los Muertos celebration in Santa Ana.

cally bring awareness, to know that we are here and [to recognize] the injustice that it is for us to not be able to use our degrees in the future whether we do achieve them,” said

alliance member Carmen Lopez. Firebaugh was a man who helped our dream become reality and we are here tonight celebrating his death, Lopez said.

Two young men, Adam Gonzalez and Danny Gallegos, both killed within days of each other in an ‘07 drive-by shooting, were among the See CELEBRATION, Page 3

When Cal State Fullerton ROTC cadet Josh Paik received a call from his company battalion he was told he would be assisting the Escondido Police Deptartment with the San Diego Witch Fire. “I left that same day after it was determined I would be deployed to help with the local law enforcement,” Paik said. Paik and three other cadets from Fullerton ROTC served seven days of duty to assist the local law enforcement. They were among the 50 soldiers from the National Guard who volunteered with the evacuation efforts See ROTC CADETS, Page 2


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