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DTSHORTHAND Campus Life: Voter Mobile - Calling all OC voters! Cast your vote early on Tues. Jan. 29 at the Central Quad, hosted by Pi Sigma Alpha. From 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Black History Parade and fair CSUF President Milton Gordon named grand marshal. Parade will begin at 10 am and fair at noon on Sat. Feb. 2 in Santa Ana. Super Sunday Football Party Come join fellow students at the TSU on Sun. Feb. 3 at 3 p.m., and watch the big game with free pizza and drinks.

Video: Man on Mars?

Champions yet again

By Ian hamilton/Daily Titan Executive Editor Senior Mika Jessica Mitsui performs Titan Dance Team’s new jazz routine.

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By Ian hamilton/Daily Titan Executive Editor Junior and captain of the team Kenndra Alvarez (left) and Sophomore The dance team recently won awards for both their jazz and hip hop Courtney Astorino dance with a hip hop style. dance routines.

CSUF dance team takes home two awards at the Universal Dance Association National Competition, see page 10 for more

Picture from Nasa of manlike figure on Mars sparks questions among viewers.

Check it out and decide for yourself at ABCNews.com

Kitty Porn Leads to Arrest AUSTIN (AP) – A cat snooping around its new apartment found a hiding place where the previous resident hid a stash of child pornography.

The woman who owns the cat noticed it could stick its head in a gap between the pantry and ceiling, then a friend reached into the gap and found DVDs containing child pornography.

The woman took the DVDs to the apartment office and police tracked them to Luis Jimenez, who had moved out of the apartment last year.

Jimenez, 24, has been charged with possession of child pornography and was being held on $40,000 bail.

By Damon Casarez/Daily Titan Staff Photographer

The award winning CSUF Dance team performs at halftime of the men’s basketball game against UCR.

Lewis makes students’success a priority CSUF Theater: Mark of Zorro A philharmonic Society of Orange County presents “Mark of Zorro,” a silent film with music. Conductor Rick Benjamin and Paragon Orchestra have performed for over 20 years. A blend of romance, comedy and swordplay will come to life as Zorro slashes his trademark “Z” for justice. The show will be presesnted at 8 p.m. on Wed. Jan. 30 for $10$25.

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Mostly Sunny / High: 57, Low: 41

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Sunny / High: 63, Low: 42

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CSUF assistant dean is honored for her hard work and dedication

By Muey Saephanh

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Cal State Fullerton Professor Lea Beth Lewis, assistant dean of the college of health and human development, was awarded for her outstanding achievement in career development by EUREKA. EUREKA holds a conference every November in Northern California to bring together career professionals from all over California to discuss their experience and/or challenges in career planning.

Lewis received the Leigh Robinson Award, which is named afLEWIS ter one of the founders of this organization.

According to their Web site, EUREKA is a program that helps students search and plan their careers.

EUREKA helps students search for the college that fits them best, as well as helping with identifying their skills, planning their career

paths and much more.

“I feel strongly that Lea Beth works hard and deserved her recognition,” said Dolly Naura, administrative assistant dean at the dean of students office.

Lewis said she was honored to receive this award on Nov. 9, 2007, “I was astounded and it means an enormous amount,” Lewis said.

Through years of education, Lewis received a doctorate in educational leadership from USC and a master’s degree in counseling.

She earned the credentials needed to achieve her goals as an assistant dean.

Lewis pursued her career because she said she had her own challenges in finding her own career.

She said she wanted to have the opportunity to expose students to different careers through experiences, so career planning was the path she wanted to take.

Lewis was part of the first group of registered professional career counselors in California.

With her certificate in career counseling, Lewis taught a career planning class at Cal State Fullerton.

This course goes through indepth career planning, such as learning organization and time management.

Her course gives the opportunity for students to explore their

strengths and weaknesses.

As an assistant dean, Lewis has many duties.

Her job is to help students succeed.

She assists students and their concerns with school and/or faculty.

Lewis and her colleagues even hold “Welcome to CSUF Day” and “Fall Preview Day,” which welcome new students to their college.

Lewis is also involved in outside activities. She volunteers for a program called Kids to College.

This program invites sixth graders in the Fullerton, Brea and Placentia area to come to the CSUF campus to experience some things that college students do.

Lewis conducts a puzzle activity to observe the way children use their teamwork abilities.

“I asked the children, ‘The way you put together the puzzle, is that the way you do your life?’” Lewis said.

Some of her participants take charge and assign duties to their peers and some just stand back and watch.

Lewis observes the way they are and helps them come up with better approaches or encourages them to continue what they are doing.

Lewis is not only concerned with current CSUF students, but looks to the future.

She is hands-on with children

and helps them prepare for their future.

Lewis is constantly in different places and is wanted by many people.

“Lewis cares for her students and she understands everyone and their needs,” said Christina Ge, president of the Business Inter Club Council in 2004. “I am happy that she received this award. She deserved it very much. She knew exactly what she is doing and she never pressured me to do anything.

She was my coach and she was a great advisor.”

Lewis is also the adviser for the Inter Club Council for the College of Health and Human Services.

Many students come to her to talk about school and their issues with school.

They also come and talk to her about their problems with faculty.

“If I don’t know the answer, I’ll find someone who does. And if the answer is located somewhere else on campus, we’ll walk over there together and get the information you need,” Lewis said in the CSUF assistant dean for student affairs Web site.

Lewis’ passion is to help students in any way she can. She wants her students and other students to succeed in everything they do.

“The Leigh Robinson award means a lot, but my real award are my students,” Lewis said.

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Possible budget cuts loom for CSUs $312.1 million lost could mean higher admission fees and cancelled classes

By Joshua Burton

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

The California State University system could lose out on $312.1 million because of a budget cut proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to the CSU official Web site.

This might also include a $73.2 million cut in general funds that could result in an increase in fees Cal State Fullerton students pay for enrollment.

This is, in large part, because of the California deficit that finds the state $14 billion below the red.

This news could result in a drastic loss of services the school offers.

The monetary losses would be distributed “pretty evenly, based on the size of the schools, but schools See BUDGET CUTS, Page 4

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January 28, 2008

Naming of Business School is official

INTERNATIONAL

Young trader found in $7 billion bank fraud

PARIS (AP) – Police on Saturday questioned the young trader blamed for a massive fraud that cost France’s Societe Generale bank more than $7 billion, as the country’s president accused global financial institutions of having “gone haywire” and urged common sense.

The possible motivations of the 31-year-old trader, Jerome Kerviel, remained a mystery, and the bank said it appeared that he made no personal gain from the unauthorized trades.

Judicial officials said Kerviel was taken into custody earlier in the day — two days after Societe Generale’s announcement that he was responsible for one of history’s biggest frauds.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

Under French law, Kerviel can be held up to 48 hours.

NATIONAL

Uncontrollable U.S. spy satellite may hit earth WASHINGTON (AP) – A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or March, officials said.

The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down, they said.

“Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation,” said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, when asked about the situation after it was disclosed by other officials. “Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly. We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this satellite may cause.”

A senior government official said that lawmakers and other nations are being kept apprised of the situation.

Such an uncontrolled re-entry could risk exposure of U.S. secrets, said John Pike, a defense and intelligence expert. Spy satellites typically are disposed of through a controlled re-entry into the ocean so that no one else can access the spacecraft, he said.

Pike also said it’s not likely the threat from the satellite could be eliminated by shooting it down with a missile, because that would create debris that would then re-enter the atmosphere and burn up or hit the ground.

STATE

Absentee voters warned votes may not count

SACRAMENTO (AP) – County election chiefs across California are warning that thousands of ballots may not be counted in next month’s presidential primary because absentee voters are voting for candidates outside their parties.

Election officials are reminding voters that Republicans have to vote for Republicans, and Democrats for Democrats.

Part of the confusion is because millions of California voters decline to state their party affiliation. Those voters can cast ballots for Democrats or American Independent Party candidates — but not for Republicans.

To get their ballot counted, those voters have to request a special ballot.

PHOTO By DAmon casarez/Daily Titan Staff Photographer

The naming of the CSUF business school was unanimously approved Jan. 22 by the CSU Board of Trustees. The vote declared CSUF as the official home of the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics after a $30 million donation was made by the alumnus on Jan. 3.

COP BLOTTER: No one responds to trash can fire started In the past week, a trash can fire errupted in an outside bin at the Pollak Library on Wed. Jan. 23.

The state fire marshall was called, but did not respond. The fire was put out anyways.

Outside of the Arboretum a bicycle locked to the fence was stolen on Sat. Jan. 26. The bike was locked up all night and has been reported missing.

In other University Police news:

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SUNDAY, Jan. 20

12:50 p.m. Among the 12 traffic stops that took place on Sat., an arrest was made at East Walnut Avenue and South Acacia Avenue in the intersection.

MONDAY, Jan. 21 11:52 a.m. There were six traffic stops made in which three drivers were given warnings.

12:13 p.m. At the Arboretum Gift Shop, a blue phone emergency call was made to officials; however, no action was required.

TUESDAY, Jan. 22 4:15 p.m. Eight traffic stops took place on this date; however, only two drivers were cited. One of the citations took place on East College Place and Titan Drive.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 23 10:31 a.m. Disturbance occured prompting a 911 call on lot E on N. State College Boulevard. The police left after warning the subject.

12:42 p.m. A blue phone emergen-

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cy call was made from an elevator in the Humanities building. There was no call for service needed.

12:44 p.m. A second phone call was made from lot A on North State College Boulevard. No call for service was needed.

1:03 p.m. Property vandalism took place in the Performing Arts building. In one of the mens restrooms, the towel dispenser was graffitied.

3:28 p.m. A suspicious person was reported lurking outside of McCarthy Hall. This former employee periodically returns to “harrass the faculty and staff.”

The suspect arrived at the building and was told to leave by a faculty member. The suspect is a white male with white hair, about 170 pounds and was seen wearing a brown suit with a flower in the left lapel.

THURSDAY, Jan. 24 9:25 a.m. Another vandalism report was taken. This inicident occured in

the Visual Arts building, where graffiti was found in the mens restroom.

5:24 p.m. A disturbance was reported in the south side of lot A on North State College Boulevard.

Subjects were playing a game of lacrosse and hitting vehicles with the ball. Police were unable to locate the subjects.

FRIDAY, Jan. 25 8:29 a.m. Petty theft occured at the Titan Student Union and a report was filed.

7:00 p.m. At parking structure two, near the gym on North State College Boulevard. Call came in, caller “heard a commotion, possible yell,” in the ground level. Officers were unable to locate alleged yeller.

SATURDAY, Jan. 26 11:22 p.m. Disturbance occured at the Valencia Dorms on North State College Boulevard.

About twenty people were involved in activity including alcohol. The subjects were warned.

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January 28, 2008

Survival in college requires time management skills and effort Counselors at university’s student diversity program outline ways for success

By Eric Bartolome

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Wide-eyed and eager, freshmen step onto college campuses looking for adventure. Students wanting to experience the “best time of their lives” engage in social interactions and intellectual stimulation.

Leaving the structure and authority of high school, they delve into a world where they dictate their own success.

However, as students get settled and begin their second semester of their first year at a university, time plays the role of a killjoy even for the most optimistic students.

As euphoria fades, students are met with the reality that they must have real life skills in order to survive in college. College life requires that young adults practice time management, goal setting and coping skills. Many students crumble under the pressure. For these young adults, college will offer nothing but an ill-fated road spiraling toward a collapse.

“Students who are first-time freshmen have the highest dropout rate than any other cohort on college campuses,” said student counselor John Reid. Counselors in Cal State Fullerton’s Student Diversity Program said many “at-risk” students are freshmen who have yet to learn how to manage their time and struggle in coping with the stresses of life. Students such as

these bore a high risk of entering academic probation and eventual disqualification for enrollment.

The Student Diversity Program (SDP) promotes the message that at-risk students can move out of probation and enter a flourishing college career.

Along with a signed contract, SDP promotes three crucial tools that not only improve GPA, but also instill life skills necessary for success.

TIME MANAGEMENT With busied lives embodying school, work, family and friends, today’s student are in dire need of time management skills.

“Time management is key,” counselor Rodney Anderson said from CSUF. SDP promotes using a time management sheet. On an hour by hour calendar students should purposefully set aside time for class, work, studying and everything else imaginable.

Students should keep in mind that research indicates that to ensure a 4.0 GPA a student must study three hours per unit. While this may seem a drastic increase for some, SDP recommends a gradual increase to two hours per unit.

To ensure productivity SDP also recommends studying in threehour periods.

Students must also maintain a careful balance between work and play, student counselor Lily Law said.

“A lot of students tend to focus all on academics and they don’t give themselves time to relax and they get burned out,” Law said.

“Or they focus too much on the social aspect, getting over involved, going to the typical college parties and not focusing on academics.”

Reid said students who sustain a strong self-esteem succeed in time management. Maintaining positive self-esteem creates confidence and self-respect, motivating students to stay true to their time management schedule.

GOAL SETTING Reid said that having an achievable goal compels students to make a maximum effort to achieve their desires. While Reid said that although not every student may attain their ultimate goal, a 100 percent effort is necessary to make that goal at all possible.

“If you want it and truly need it, you have to put 100 percent in,” Reid said. “Sometimes you won’t get that gold medal, but at least you’ll be better off than in the beginning.”

THE ART OF MASTERY It is a near certainty that students will have relational conflict sometime in their college experience.

Such conflict amongst family members, friends, boyfriends and girlfriends may confuse even the most focused college student and decrease their academic performance.

“I have students who have problems with friends, family. When they get like that, everything’s out the door,” Reid said. “They are crying, frustrated and can’t sleep.”

Practicing the art of mastery encourages students to develop cop-

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ing skills.

It entails students to proactively take on relationship conflict through communication focused on resolution.

In practicing the art of mastery, students focus on having an internal locus of control. This means that they do not allow outward circumstances to affect their ability to perform.

While most students can proactively fix negative habits through discipline, some students find it

impossible to overcome problems such as clinical depression, Reid said. In such cases, counselors recommend students turn to programs like Student Health Services, which offer solutions such as Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).

When put into practice, these three skills can play an integral role in restoring the fallen college student. Every year the SDP sees dozens of students integrate these skills. In turn, most of these stu-

dents not only get out of academic probation, but enter the honor roll or deans list. Students who learn time management, goal setting and the art of mastery return to a sense of optimism and hope that their years spent in college can still be the “best time of their life,” Reid said.

“Once you learn those types of life skills, which turn out to be survival skills, you never forget,” Reid said. “You do your part ... the sky’s the limit.”

Obama’s landslide victory in South Carolina shows change Associated Press Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that his landslide win in South Carolina’s presidential primary marks a turn in political history, showing that a black candidate can appeal to voters of all colors and in all regions.

The Illinois senator told a raucous crowd of more than 9,000 here that his big victory Saturday disproved

the old notion “that if you get black votes, you can’t get white votes,” and vice versa.

“We’re going to write a new chapter in the South, we’re going to write a new chapter in American history,” he said during his 64-minute speech to a capacity crowd at the University of Alabama at Birmingham basketball arena. The crowd was roughly twothirds black and one-third white.

Earlier Sunday he made a similar

argument, responding to comments by former President Clinton that some interpreted as an effort to diminish Obama’s win Saturday over Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bill Clinton noted that Jesse Jackson won the South Carolina primary in 1984 and 1988. Jackson never became the party’s presidential nominee.

Obama, speaking during a television interview, said “there’s no doubt” that Jackson set a precedent

for blacks seeking the presidency.

But he noted that was two decades ago.

“I think that what we saw in this election was a shift in South Carolina,” he said, with implications “all across the country. I think people want change. I think they want to get beyond some of the racial politics that, you know, has been so

dominant in the past.”

Obama resisted being drawn into a spat with the Clintons, even though he suggested they are part of a political past the country is ready to leave behind.

“I think that Bill Clinton did important work back in the 1990s,” he said. “The question is, now we’re in 2008, and how do we move it for-

ward to the next phase?”

“I think that in the ‘90s, we got caught up in a slash-and-burn politics that the American people are weary of,” Obama said.

He said Hillary Clinton will have an advantage in the sprawling race on Feb. 5, when Democrats vote in 22 states, because of her nearly universal name recognition.

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January 28, 2008

Thunderstorms pound California Associated Press

By ERIKA CARMONA

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Raymond A. Reyes, a recently retired professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at Cal State Fullerton, died Dec. 27 from complications after heart surgery. He was 66.

“It was a shock to hear that a man full of energy and vitality had heart problems,” said Dagoberto Fuentes, department chair and emeritus professor of Chicana and Chicano studies.

It was only recently that Reyes celebrated his retirement with friends, colleagues and students at Mariscos Chapala in Placentia after a decade of lecturing at CSUF, said Nayeli Madero, Chicana and Chicano resource center student coordinator.

Reyes joined CSUF in 1997 and continued teaching until the spring semester of 2007. He taught ancient Mexican culture, the history of the Chicano, the Chicano family, the cultural differences in Mexico and the Southwest and more.

Reyes attracted many students with his energetic and charismatic personality, filling classes almost always to their maximum capacity, Fuentes said.

His courses were not always the easiest. He was famous for his blue book exams since he was opposed to objective tests, said teacher of Chicana and Chicano studies Peter J. Espinoza, who was a long term friend and colleague.

“He stimulated the intellectual side of each student and saw them as people,” Madero said, a former student of Reyes.

He was popularly known for his broad traveling to Mexico and taking students semester after semester to experience the culture far beyond the books. The students alongside Reyes traveled to discover the beauties and mysteries of the Mexican culture.

In their daily excursions, they

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It was a shock to hear that a man full of energy and vitality had heart problems.

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Instructor of Chicana and Chicano studies suffers a fatal heart attack

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Chicana and Chicano Studies dept. chair

discovered everything from Mexican art to Mayan pyramids.

“One of the reasons he knew Mexico extremely well was because he traveled [to Mexico] since the ‘60s. He knew it better than any Mexican,” Espinoza said.

Besides CSUF, Reyes had an extensive teaching career in several community colleges. Over the years he taught at Los Angeles Trade Tech College, Cathedral High School, Roosevelt Adult Education School in Boyle Heights and the California Youth Authority Fred C. Nelles School.

He also taught at Ventura College, Glendale College and Saddleback College.

He was a primary developer of Chicano studies programs at community colleges, said Espinoza,

who knew Reyes since the ‘70s.

In addition to being a professor, he was also a strong advocate for Latinos and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. He presented the need for policy change at board of government meetings at the community college level, Espinoza said.

It was no surprise that a man who made guyaberas, a traditional Mexican garment – his signature mark, continued his quest for the betterment of Latinos. In Reyes’ younger years he worked closely to Caesar Chavez, a man whom he admired, Madero said. He then followed Chavez’ footsteps and became an influential individual for many Latino students at CSUF. He was a mentor for MEChA and was a keynote speaker at many of their events.

The Chicano Resource Center at the Pollack Library also represents what Reyes left behind. It holds an organized set of archives, books, videos and many other resources he put together to help students for research.

“Paper by paper, he’d clip and file on Saturdays. He went above and beyond of what was required in his teaching contract,” Espinoza said.

Reyes continues to help students learn. He wanted his body to be donated to USC Medical for scientific research, Fuentes said.

Also, instead of accepting flowers at his celebration of life ceremony at the Diamond Bar Center on Jan. 5, he preferred donations to be sent to the Cathedral High School Scholarship Fund.

Reyes is survived by his wife, Flora, three children, Madeline, Ann and Anthony, and five grandchildren.

The Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, meanwhile, canceled horse races for the sixth day this month because of wet conditions on the synthetic track.

The storm system also soaked parts of Northern California and the weather service posted winter storm warnings for parts of the Sierra Nevada. A highway was closed in the mountains south of San Francisco, and Pacific Gas and Electric said about 2,700 homes and businesses were still blacked out because of earlier storms.

A series of fierce storms has caused deadly avalanches, flooded streets and set off mud and rock slides in recent days.

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would have control of how the cuts would be distributed,” said Paul Browning, of the CSU public relations department.

The financial losses could end many specialty classes that each college offers.

Other big cuts could include funding to the university’s outreach programs that tend to help the ethnically diverse or underprivileged.

“Anything the school deems ‘not as important’ could be cut,” said Curtis Schlaufman, the executive vice president of Associated Students, Inc at CSUF. The university system expects that the cut could “jeopardize the gains in enrollment of students from underserved communities that we have accomplished as a result of our K-12 and community partnerships,” Chancellor Charles B. Reed said in an announcement on the CSU Web site. “This will have significant long-term economic and social consequences if we are not able to continue to improve the rate of college-going students in California.”

The threatened cut could also effect enrollment by preventing the enrollment of about 10,000 stu-

dents into the CSU system.

The application deadline for many CSU campuses has been moved up to February 1 in anticipation of the budgetary stormy

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Anything the school deems ‘not as important’ could be cut.

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CSUF professor remembered

Thunderstorms brought new waves of rain on Sunday to Southern California, following days of drenching weather and heavy mountain snowfall.

Up to 2 inches of rain had fallen by early afternoon in valley and coastal areas since nightfall Saturday, with about double that in the mountains, the National Weather Service said.

“We’re not completely done with this storm yet,” forecaster Steve Vanderurg said.

Officials said the rain brought a threat of serious slides on hillsides stripped of vegetation by last year’s

wildfires. Mud and minor rock slides prompted authorities to shut a highway through a San Diegoarea burned between Ramona and Escondido.

The Los Angeles County and Orange County fire departments were on standby for possible flash floods and slides. Flash flood watches remained in effect through Sunday night for Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties.

In downtown Los Angeles, Sunday’s basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers was delayed 12 minutes after a small leak in the Staples Center roof allowed a steady flow of raindrops to fall on the court.

– Curtis Schlaufman, ASI Executive Vice President

weather.

Without the general funding, there is an expected $276 increase in student fees per person, Schlaufman said.

A financial aid department report for 2006-2007 school year at CSUF showed that 35,706 students applied for financial aid last year and only 14,949 students received funds.

Attendance in the fall 2007 semester was about 37,000 students.

The cut is fully expected to take $36 million out of mandatory costs

that fund employee health benefits and compensation agreements for faculty and staff.

This monetary reduction would be distributed throughout the 23campus CSU system.

“This is the first step in a long dance,” said Phillip Gianos, CSUF chair of department politics, administration and justice.

The governor’s proposed cut will take a while before it starts eating a hole in Cal State Fullerton’s pocket.

It still has to go through a review in May, where it will be chewed on by the state legislative body.

“To a lot of people, raising taxes isn’t something people will want,” Gianos said. “California’s budget problems predate the US economic problems.”

The budget cuts certainly will not happen this year, Gianos said.

Schwarzenegger is not due to sign the bill until July 1 at the latest.

However, last year’s budget was released seven weeks after the start of the 2007-2008 fiscal year because of a lengthy partisan war between the Republicans and Democrats.

On the Web: http://www.calstate.edu/

January 28, 2008

FEATURES

Weeks of Welcome, Spring Discoverfest Over 100 clubs and organitzatons will be represented in the quad

By Alyssa Dikitanan

daily titan staff writer news@dailytitan.com

Cal State Fullerton’s Weeks of Welcome celebration for the Spring 2008 semester kicks off this week with Discoverfest and Moonlight Madness. Discoverfest will be held in the Central Quad Wednesday Jan. 30 and Thursday Jan. 31 from 11a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Moonlight Madness will be held in the Titan Student Union Underground Thursday Jan. 31 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Discoverfest is an event where many of the campus resources, organizations and clubs gather for students to learn about the great oncampus opportunities, Acting Senior Coordinator for New Student

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Lavender (LGBT) Community Welcome 1:30 to 3:00pm Titan Student Union Legislative Chambers (2nd Floor). The Lavender (LGBT) Community Welcome is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to gather and learn about the resources available for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at Cal State Fullerton.

Programs Serena Cline said.

“Discoverfest brings everyone together,” Cline said. “It really helps students discover how to get involved and engaged on campus.”

New Student Programs collaborates with the Student Life and Resource Center to host Discoverfest every semester.

This year 144 of the 255 clubs and organizations on campus will have a table at Discoverfest, Assistant Coordinator for Student Life Jamaar Walker said.

“This is a great opportunity for clubs and organizations to reach out to students,” Walker said. “Each semester we have a higher and higher participation rate because of the networking and recruiting opportunities.”

Students can expect to see a variety of clubs from specific department clubs, Greek Life, Honors Societies, ASI, religious groups and cultural groups.

Titan Radio will be playing music and games both days of the event as

photo courtesy of fullerton.edu Welcome booth at the Discoverfest. For information about discoverfest go to www. fullerton.edu. The event will take place in the main quad.

photo courtesy of fullerton.edu Discoverfest signs in the main quad pointing to different locations.

well, Cline said.

Moonlight Madness on Thursday evening is hosted by Titan Bowl and Billiards in collaboration with New Student Programs. Students will have the opportunity to take advantage of the free bowling and shoe rentals, free food and drinks and free billiards, Titan Bowl and Billiards

every hour on the hour during Moonlight Madness, so students shouldn't miss out on this event, Cline said.

“My favorite part about Discoverfest and Moonlight Madness is the student interaction and the improvement of the campus community,” Walker said.

Manager Kenneth Maxey said.

“This is our fourth or fifth semester hosting Moonlight Madness and we usually have a consistent flow of students,” Maxey said. “Anywhere between 70 and 80 students on average throughout the night and it’s a lot of fun.”

There will be free food and drinks

CSUF students teach immigrants

Manhattan-based Trillium Ensemble to perform

CSUF students teach elderly immigrants English through project SHINE

“Trillium” blends classical, theatrical and show tunes with opera sounds

By Jessica Terrell

daily titan staff writer news@dailytitan.com

It began with a desperate act of isolation. Over 20 years ago, an elderly immigrant woman from Laos committed suicide, setting off a chain of events that culminated in the creation of a national service organization called Project SHINE. Through Project SHINE, which stands for Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders, Cal State Fullerton students help elderly immigrants learn English, move toward obtaining citizenship and transition into more active roles in their communities.

Since SHINE began recruiting volunteers on the Fullerton campus

in 2001, 564 CSUF students have spent over 11,000 hours assisting 1,071 older immigrants, according to Inside, the online news magazine of the CSUF Office of Public Affairs.

Elderly is defined by SHINE as 50 years of age or above.

“I am not so sure that's elderly,” CSUF Sociology professor Lorraine Prinsky said. “But I think it's just a matter of perspective.”

A service learning option for CSUF students since 2001, SHINE's beginnings stretch back to Temple University in Philadelphia.

The program was created after Gail Weinstein-Shr, an assistant professor at Temple, read an article about an older Hmong woman from Laos who took her own life.

“She was surprised that someone could have committed suicide in this tight-knit community, so she began to investigate what services were available,” said Tina Kluetmeier, the

national director of SHINE. What Weinstein-Shr found was that most elderly programs targeted native-born speakers, and ESL (English as a Second Language) classes were aimed at younger immigrants.

Older immigrants are a particularly vulnerable population, suffering higher poverty rates than their America-born contemporaries. Immigrants who don’t speak English or have close families are often very isolated, cut off not just from companionship, but often social services.

“She was so lonely she couldn’t stand it anymore,” Weinstein-Shr told the New York Times in 1988.

“It got me focusing on the isolation of older people.”

Weinstein-Shr teamed up with the director of Temple’s Institute on Aging to create LEIF, Learning English through Intergenerational Friendship. Through the years, the program evolved into SHINE, which See Shine, Page 7

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Patricia Prunty, associate professor of music, decided to throw out her obo and focus on what makes her heart really skip a beat singing.

On Friday, Feb. 1, Prunty, accompanied by fellow musicians Bruce Rameker and Richard Pearson Thomas in the group “Trillium Ensemble,” will fill the Meng Concert Hall with music ranging from as serious as classical music to as light and up-beat as Broadway tunes.

Prunty, Rameker and Thomas saidthey are hoping to provide concertgoers with an experience as versatile as a Baroque composition itself.

“You can expect, hopefully, a very

entertaining performance with music ranging from classical to operetta and cabaret,” Prunty said. “It will be the two of us; Bruce and I [will be], singing, and Richard will be doing a lot of his original compositions.”

The trio met through the love of music at festivals and through companions. The group is comprised of Prunty singing soprano, Rameker singing baritone and Thomas playing piano.

“The program that we’re doing has a lot of variation and color and humor in it,” Thomas said. “A lot of the stuff that we’re doing that I have written is entertaining and funny, so I know that students would like it.”

A typical recital show seems to have an element of exclusivity for those who attend. Thomas discourages the idea that anyone should feel as if classical music is just not their style.

“A lot of people don’t go to classical music concerts because they feel

they have to know something just to appreciate it, but that’s not true about this concert,” Thomas said.

“Anybody could walk in there and appreciate it. I’m sure of that.”

See Trillium, Page 7

portrait courtesy of fullerton.edu Patricia Prunty, associate professor of music.

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CSUF student turns abandoned town into art

“Reckless Abondonement” exhibit onlooker, 23-year-old kinesiology major Bryan Simeroph leans in for a closer examination.

Junior April Fisher uses artifacts and photographs for her portayal of the Salton Sea in the TSU

by Adam Elmahrek

daily titan staff writer news@dailytitan.com

An hour’s drive south of Palm Springs is the Salton Sea, an enigmatic California ghost town that for decades had been deserted and undocumented. April Fisher, 24, revived the Salton Sea’s memories in

her combined photo/artifact display, reckless abandonment, at the Plaza Gallery of the Titan Student Union.

“Reckless Abandonment” chronicles five houses, a bar, a hotel and a yacht club through photographs that were abandoned when a climate change destroyed the oasis as a popular get-away.

Fisher admits that her style of art is rare, and doesn’t believe other photographers or artists have influenced her work.

“I’m more inspired by the few who are into the same photography,” Fisher said.

Those inspirations include the

photo books Ghosts in the Wilderness by Tony and Eva Worobiec, Gone by Steve Fitch and Lost America, by Troy Paiva.

The artist, a junior at Cal State Fullerton, refers to her art as a collage­, a journey that should be taken from beginning to end as you walk by the display, instead of just checking your hair in the glass reflection.

“Calendars left unturned from decades ago, old checks never cashed, milk left to expire in the refrigerator, shoes that have taken their last step,” Fisher said in her artist’s statement.

The display’s creation was also a journey for Fisher, one that she seeks

Photo by Nicole Padilla/for the daily titan

Photo by Nicole Padilla/for the daily titan An old can of DAP glazing compound used by April Fisher in her art exhibit in the Titan Student Union.

to share with passers-by.

“Part of the excitement for me is the mystery of the story behind some of these things,” Fisher said.

She noted that the person living at one house must have been a traveler because the floor was littered with out-of-state tourist pamphlets.

Her favorite photograph is the first one seen in the display. It’s black and white and shows an old bar, burned down and awash with 20th century history. A faded jukebox caricatures its tale.

“That was a once in a lifetime shot right there,” Fisher explained.

This is the first time Fisher incor-

porated objects taken from the scene in her photos, marking a departure in the way she viewed her craft.

“I never thought of taking the stuff,” Fisher said. “I only thought of taking pictures.”

She succeeded in re-kindling a livelihood left hastily behind by the up-scale residents of the Salton Sea. “I like how she incorporated the photos and the objects,” said marketing and public relations coordinator for Graphic Arts, Ashley McKell, “You get a feel for what the Salton Sea was really like.”

As far as art goes, Fisher thinks that almost anything is art.

“Having a talent to do something… is the art,” Fisher explained.

“Some of the stuff at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles you look at and think, is that even art?”

But it is, and although she appreciates the extremely abstract LA style, she prefers Orange County artists.

“In Orange County museums it’s a little abstract but you can at least still kind of get the point.” Fisher said.

The official reception for Reckless Abandonment is on February 2nd in the TSU.

Proposed Toll Road 241to extend to San Onofre Surfers and beach-goers unite against proposed toll road 241, but commuters unite for it Sarah Cruz

daily titan staff writer news@dailytitan.com

The Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) have offered $100 million to the state in exchange for permission to build in the state park to extend the SR 241 toll road to San Onofre State Beach, according to an environmental agency fighting the plan.

SR 241 currently ends in the middle of Coto de Caza, a small upscale city in South Orange County. The proposal extends the road down through San Diego to Basilone Road, which connects to the 5 freeway. Basilone Road is also the exit for San Onofre State Beach and Trestles, one of California's most popular surf spots.

“Trestles beach is the last watershed in California that is not dammed or developed," Conservation Organizer for the Sierra Club

Robin Everett said.

A watershed is an area drained by a river or stream into the ocean.

Polluted watersheds are often close to recreational beaches and funnel contaminated waters directly to the ocean. The Sierra Club, the oldest environmental agency in America, strongly opposes the expansion.

“It is unprecedented to go through a state park," Everett said of the development plans that cover 4 miles of watershed with paved roads. “Trestles is the last beach we can swim in after the rain and not get sick."

Doheny State Beach in Dana Point succumbed to urban development in the late 60's. It is ranked among the most polluted beaches in California, according to Heal The Bay’s annual report card.

"If we let the TCA build in a state park, it opens the doors for other entities to do the same," Everett said.

Equally adamant about the issue, the TCA insists the county needs the expansion.

"In 2025 traffic will increase 60%," the TCA's Web site advocating SR 241's extention, http://www. relievetraffic.org, said. "That's more than 201,000 trips a day. Can you

say gridlock? Something needs to be done. The population is booming and the quality of life in Orange County depends on having an alternative route through South Orange County."

About 30,000 homes are being built in Orange County, so some residents say that road expansion is a necessity. The TCA wants to know if the toll road expansion is a better option than widening the 5 freeway.

Construction on the 5 freeway may impact homes and businesses along the widened path. However, if the toll road plan is accepted, commuters could still expect greater delays during construction before the traffic congestion eventually eases up.

Toll rates have not yet been decided, but other toll roads in the county prove that drivers fed up with congestion are willing to pay money to save time.

Although some commuters opt to pay for open roads, not everyone agrees that saving time is worth threatening a natural resource.

"It will destroy the last real surf spot we have," Brian Lindstrom of Infinity Surf in Dana Point said.

He said he believes money is at the root of the decision and the high

Trillium: Eclectic composition From Page 5

After realizing the perfect dynamic the group had, Prunty decided it was best to focus on singing, rather than also playing piano, the obo and the guitar.

“I played piano. I used to play the obo, but eventually that had to bite the dust because I became more focused on singing,” Prunty said.

Rameker and Thomas are based in New York, creating slight obstacles to scheduling performances and rehearsals.

“It is very tricky to balance all of it. Trickier than you might think when two members of our ensemble are New York residents. We rehearse about two to three times a year, and I will either fly there or they will come here,” Prunty said.

The Trillium Ensemble seems to have to battle time and the cost of plane tickets just to be able to perform together, but there is another obstacle that challenges the group.

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“It [is] always a challenge to get people interested,” Rameker said.

“At times, a person may have to be convinced to see the recital, and then they realize they enjoy classical music.”

Rameker has performed for a laundry list of venues, and specializes in the Baroque period of music.

“Baroque is one of the specialties I do,” Rameker said. “I do an eclectic variety of music. With the group we do a couple of Baroque, but the majority of songs are new, having been written in the last 10 to 20 years by Richard."

Thomas has written compositions that have been renowned nationwide and performed before Congress.

The Trillium Ensemble was his route to achieving success.

“We got together partially as a way to get my music out there, and both Bruce and Patty had done music individually quite a bit,” Thomas said. “This was just another way to

get it out in the world.”

And if people have said that music cannot take people places, they obviously have not met Prunty.

She has traveled to the Middle East, Stockholm, Africa and Paris, and has observed that the one thing that is truly universal is music.

“The interesting thing about performing overseas is the collective desire for classical music,” Prunty said.

“Good music translates into any language or culture.”

Future performances in California include one on Feb. 3 at the Globe Theater in Topanga Canyon.

Two other performances are scheduled in Pasadena at the South Pasadena Church and a short afternoon luncheon at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

For information on ticket sales, contact the performing arts center box office at (714) 278-3371 or visit the CSUF College of the Arts at www.fullerton.edu/art.

price tag being offered by the TCA will sway the politicians involved.

The Coastal Commission meets on Feb. 6. The commission is going to try and decide if the proposal violates the California Coastal Act. The act, created in 1976 and updated in 2008, lays the foundation for protecting California's parks and beaches. The act limits infringement upon protected areas. The commission's decision might play a major role in the construction of the toll road.

Both sides attempt to garner public support to influence the commission, through Web sites, bumper stickers, T-shirts and advertisements.

Photo courtesy of Surfrider.org Thousands of surfers and beach-goers alike rally to save Trestles Beach. Trestles is located on the border of Orange County and San Diego County in San Clemente.

The Surfrider Foundation will be holding a rally on Wed. Feb. 6 at 9 a.m. at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. For additional information go to www.surfider.org or www. savetrestles.com. For any additional information regarding the proposed 241 toll road go to www.relievetraffic.org or go to www.thetollroads.com.

shine: students helping immigrants From Page 5

not only assists the elderly in learning English, but also helps older immigrants achieve U.S. Citizenship.

Dawn Macy, who oversees Project SHINE on campus, said there is a special need for SHINE in California because the state is a gateway for many immigrants.

“It really supports an under-served population,” Macy said.

Not all immigrants who benefit from SHINE are interested in seeking citizenship. Many elderly residents simply want to learn English to become more active in their communities or to be able to communicate with grandchildren who speak only English. Some of the immigrants have lived in the U.S. for over 30 years without learning English.

Ann Nguyen, director of the Stanton Community Services Center, said learning English helps give older immigrants a sense of worth, which in turn, can lead to greater civic participation and a better community.

Although SHINE is aimed at seniors, younger immigrants can also receive assistance from the program.

Anne Im, a Korean-American CSUF student working toward a master’s degree in education, volunteered with a class of Hispanic women at a church in Buena Park last semester.

Many of the women in Im’s class had children attending daycare at the church, but the women were struggling to learn English at a preliterate or preschool level.

“They were really low and they were extremely frustrated and shy.

They didn’t know where to begin,” Im said.

Im said she was struck by how many of the women in her class were driven to learn English out of a need to survive. During her time volunteering last semester, Im said she witnessed students making huge improvements in their communication skills.

“It’s a feeling I can’t describe,” Im said.

Students are a great help to older immigrants, but program administrators and participants stress the personal growth that volunteers experience through one-on-one interaction with elders from different cultures.

“We’ve had amazing stories of friendship come out of this,” Macy said. “It’s not only cross-cultural, but intergenerational.”

SHINE was implemented at CSUF with the help of a grant from Temple University. That grant ran out two years ago.

“I think one of the strengths of Fullerton is that they have laid a

foundation to sustain the program beyond the funding we provided, so SHINE has become institutionalized at Fullerton," said Tina Kluetmeier, the director of Project Shine.

Although participation in SHINE is a requirement in certain classes at CSUF, the program tries to entice volunteer participants. The impact these volunteers have had on the community over the last six years earned CSUF a Presidential Service Medal on Jan. 17 but the number of students volunteering has declined over the last 6 years. Last semester no undergraduate students volunteered. Macy said that since the grant ran out, she has been limited in the amount of time she can spend recruiting.

“All I am able to do right now is run it. I can’t grow it,” Macy said.

Participation in SHINE gives students an opportunity to develop intercultural relationships that provide important, real world experience, Janet Eyring, chair of the department of Modern Languages and Literatures, said.

“You can sit at home and watch TV,” Eyring said. “But if you want to make an impact in your community, in your world, you have to get out there.”

The next training day for SHINE will be conducted on Feb. 8.

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Kaplan leads Titan pitching staff CSUF wrestling has

eyes on Pac-10 title “ The Titans look to make history and win their first conference championship

by david carrillo

Daily Titan Sports Editor sports@dailytitan.com

Michal Olszewski

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

By Damon Casarez / Daily Titan Staff Photographer Friday night starter Jeff Kaplan sitting in the stands of Goodwin field talking about the upcoming baseball season.

“

His mentality and his bullpen routine is as good as anyone I’ve been around

“

At the tender age of four, baseball was already on his mind. From playing catch with his father to stepping on the mound for the first time at Goodwin Field, there has always been one goal.

He is now a 22-year-old senior and the anchor of a very good Cal State Fullerton baseball team. Like most collegiate pitchers, he hopes that with each pitch, strikeout and pickoff, he becomes a stronger presence on the major league radar.

His name is Jeffrey George Kaplan – better known as Jeff or “Kappy” by his teammates – and in the immortal words of Ron Burgundy, he’s “sort of a big deal.”

Last year, despite a rough start, the Titans managed to play their way into the College World Series.

In the process, former Titan pitcher Wes Roemer received a wealth of accolades and fanfare, but Kaplan was right there with him every step of the way.

Roemer went 11-7 overall in 19 starts, and Kaplan also went 11-3 overall, also in 19 starts. Roemer posted a 3.19 ERA and had opposing hitters bat .261 against him, while Kaplan had a 3.30 ERA and an opposing batting average of .253.

Kaplan also posted two complete game shutouts – something not even Roemer did that season – and looks to ride those impressive stats into a bigger role on the team this season.

“I try to position myself in the staff as someone who’s a leader, but at the same time, on the same level as everyone else,” Kaplan said. “You have to play devil’s advocate sometimes because you have to be the leader and discipline guys and be their friend and teammate at the same time.”

One difference between this sea-

– Dave Serrano,

Head Coach

son and last is the fact that all eyes will be focused on Kaplan from day one. He has already been named to the 2008 Preseason Brooks Wallace Player of the Year Award Watch List, an annual list published by the College Baseball Foundation noting top college baseball players in the country.

“It’s not more pressure, it’s just

different from last year in that I have to live up to expectations that people have,” Kaplan said. “I’m the guy who opens the door for the whole season or series. I’m the one that sets the tone, really.”

Something that could impact Kaplan’s progression is the arrival of new Head Coach Dave Serrano, who rejoined the Titan program following the departure of former Head Coach George Horton.

Serrano also serves as the team’s pitching coach and has a unique perspective of Kaplan, having coached against him last year while at the UC Irvine program.

“There’s not a lot that rocks his world and it’s hard to even get him to smile sometimes, but he’s a comSee Kaplan, Page 9

BY THE NUMBERS Jeff Kaplan’s 2007 season

3.30

Earned Run Average over 122.2 innings pitched

11-3

Win/loss record

.253

What opposing batters averaged against him SOURCE: Titan Media Relations

The Cal State Fullerton wrestling team continued their Pac-10 domination with two key victories over Arizona State and Boise State, placing the Titans 23rd in the latest USA Today/InterMat/NWCA national coaches’ poll.

Now, with a 7-5 overall record, 5-1 in conference play, the Titans are in position to win their first ever Pac-10 championship.

Senior Morgan Atkinson, who wrestles at the 149-pound weight bracket, was excited about the news of the ranking.

“It’s awesome. Since I’ve been here, the team has never been ranked in the top 25,” Atkinson said. “So far, we’ve just had a really strong season and we’ve done everything we’ve needed to, so it’s nice to see things finally fall into place.”

While the news of the national ranking was a tribute to the hard work the team has put in, Head Coach Dan Hicks said the team’s goal is still the same, to win the Pac10 title. Since Hicks arrived six years ago, he has pulled the Titans out of the cellar and given them a chance to compete with the conference powerhouses. In fact, the win over ASU was the team’s first-ever home victory against the Sun Devils.

“The fact that we have a legitimate shot to win the Pac-10 is huge,” Hicks said.

Hicks scheduling has enabled the team to take on top non-conference competition. Three of the Titan’s five losses have been to nationally ranked top-25 teams, including defending national champion Minnesota.

Conference competition has also been historically tough, with ASU

The fact that we have a legitimate shot to win the Pac-10 is huge.

“

Senior right-hander is a team leader and majorleague prospect

– Dan Hicks,

Titan Coach

and Boise State combining to win 10 out of the last 11 Pac-10 titles.

The Titans are led by six nationally ranked wrestlers, including No. 4 in the heavyweight bracket, junior Wade Sauer. Sauer is ranked first in the Pac-10 with a 6-0 record and three pins and is 22-3 overall. The All-American came to CSUF from Fresno State following their wrestling program contraction.

“It’s hard to find big, strong heavyweights that will work hard and he’s really helped our program,” Hicks said. “His confidence has been the biggest key since he’s come here.

His confidence continues to improve with every match.”

Atkinson and fellow senior Ian Murphy have helped the Titans in Pac-10 play as well, with a combined 11-1 record.

“Ever since I got here, our goal has been to win the Pac-10,” Atkinson said. “Before, it was a nice thing to say, but now, it’s actually something we believe. We know we can do it.”

Atkinson was the Titans lone Pac-10 champion last season and is currently ranked 11th in the nation.

Murphy is ranked 12th in the 184pound weight class and also is a contender for a Pac-10 championship.

“The team has worked hard over the years and we’re right where we expected to be,” Murphy said. “We’re establishing ourselves on a national scale with those teams.”

The Titans return home for a double header Sunday, Feb. 3 for their final home dual-meets. They battle Cal State Bakersfield at noon and Menlo College at 4 p.m.

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CSUF tops Highlanders Women’s Tennis mixes new players with veteran talent

Several Titans come up big in another Titan Big West Conference win

Freshman Erin Wiesener parlays high school success into the number one spot on CSUF team

by ryan castle

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

by Tom sheridan

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

By damon casarez/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Cal State Fullerton guard Frank Robinson lays down a monster dunk against UC Riverside forward Christian Soto, helping the Titans to a Big West Conference victory

“

I was hungry. I got my opportunity and wanted to prove myself.

“

Despite losing their ace shooter in a game-time decision, the Cal State Fullerton Men’s Basketball team kicked off the spring semester with a bang, defeating the Highlanders of UC Riverside 72-61 Wednesday night in the Titan Gym. Josh Akognon, the Titan’s top scorer this season, injured his finger last week in a game against UC Davis and, after testing it out during shoot-around, determined he was unable to play. Nonetheless, the Titans rallied thanks to a great team effort and strong defense.

Head Coach Bob Burton was proud of his team’s ability to overcome the surprising turn of events and rise to the occasion.

“It was a great win for us, especially when you come in and find out your leading scorer’s not going to play,” Burton said. “Our team really relies a lot on shooting [and] it took a long time for the offense to adjust, but I thought our defense was really good. The defense won the game tonight.”

The Titans held the Highlanders to a mere 39 percent shooting, due in part to the imposing presence of the 5-foot-6-inch guard from Santa Cruz, Junior Russell. In addition to pouring in 16 points on the Highlanders, Russell was a menace on the defensive end, taking two steals the length of the floor for scores.

“I thought we played alright without our main scorer, and even though we were at a loss we were still able to come out with a victory,” Russell said.

The Titans also got a huge lift from junior Marcio Lassiter, who added a career-high 17 points off the bench, including a 3-point buzzer-beater at the end of the first half. Burton felt the shot gave them the momentum they needed to come out strong in the second half.

“He’s capable of doing that. He just needed the opportunity to do it,

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– Marcio Lassiter,

Junior Guard

and tonight he got it,” Burton said.

Rather than seeing the injury to Akognon as a handicap, Lassiter saw it as an opportunity.

“I was hungry. I got my opportunity and wanted to prove myself. I’m not here to be just another man on the team,” Lassiter said. “Whether

[I’m] a starter or the last man off the bench, I just go at it every day and it wasn’t any different tonight.”

This was the second Titan victory over the Highlanders this season, the first coming in a 30-point blowout at UCR. The victory moves the Titans to 12-6 on the season and 5-2 in Conference play and places them right on the heels of the Big West Conference-leading Cal State Northridge.

Burton is very optimistic about the team’s chances this season to take the Big West championship and earn a bid in the NCAA tournament, but continues to take it one game at a See Basketball, Page 11

After losing its top three players from last year’s squad, the Cal State Fullerton Women’s Tennis team will be counting on some new faces, as well as some old ones, to hold court in the competitive Big West Conference in 2008.

“This is a really young team with only one senior,” Head Coach Bill Reynolds said. “It’s going to be a learning process this year.”

One of the new faces that Reynolds said he plans to lean on this season is freshman Erin Wiesener.

No stranger to pressure, Wiesener was voted Athlete of the Year as a senior at Calabasas High.

That’s one of the reasons she has been asked to step in and play in the number one position for CSUF, a role usually occupied by an upperclassmen.

As the number one player, Wiesener will routinely face the top junior and senior players from na-

tionally ranked Division I schools.

“It’s a challenge because I feel like you have a lot of pressure on you, but I enjoy it and I just want to do well this year,” Wiesener said. “It’s definitely like playing at a completely different level.”

A returning veteran Reynolds said he hopes will help guide this young team is junior Shelly Injejikian. Injejikian’s willingness to challenge the net has earned her a reputation as a fierce competitor.

“She has kind of an aggressive personality,” Reynolds said. “That has helped her become a very good doubles player.”

In her third year at CSUF, Injejikian has become an accomplished singles player, but she seems to have a certain affinity for playing doubles. ”I like the quickness of it, I like the intensity. I like how you can pump yourself up a lot more with somebody else,” Injejikian said. “It brings a team element to this individual sport.”

Assistant Coach Ruya Inalpulat played Reynolds in the number one spot for four years. She sees some promise in this year’s team despite its lack of experience.

“They are really young, like coach says, but I think they have a lot of potential as long as they put forth 100 percent effort,” Inalpulat

said. “If they have a good attitude and they believe in themselves, I think they can go really far this year.”

Some other notable Titans to watch out for this season are sophomores Jerusha Cruz and Brandy Andrews, freshman Karina Akhmedova, and the team’s number two player, junior Cheyenne Inglis.

In his 18th year of coaching CSUF tennis, Reynolds knows how hard it can be to win at the Division I level and said he tries to instill confidence in his players regardless of what the scoreboard reads.

“It’s not necessarily if you won or lost. It’s -- How did you perform?” Reynolds said. “If you don’t get down on yourself and try your hardest, you can walk off the court with your head held high. As long as you gave it your best, I don’t care if the score was 6-0, 6-0.”

The Titans are currently on a two game skid, having suffered consecutive losses to San Diego State.

They have their first home match against Azusa Pacific Wednesday on the Titan Courts at 2:30 p.m. That will be their last non-conference match before Big West league play begins Feb. 1 against Long Beach State.

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petitor,” Serrano said. “He’s tough on himself, but his mentality and his bullpen routine is as good as anyone I’ve been around.”

Kaplan’s demeanor on the field – serious, business-like, straight-laced – doesn’t exactly translate away from the mound.

While Kaplan will probably never win a class clown award, fellow pitcher Daniel Renken said he does like to joke around once in a while.

Senior pitcher Adam Jorgenson, who also looks to step up as a leader this season, said “Kappy” isn’t all work and no play. “[Kaplan] isn’t always serious, he’s a laid-back kind of guy and likes to do fun things,” Jorgenson said. “He’s definitely the leader of our pitching staff, and it looks like we’re going to be better than we were last year.”

As for Kaplan’s post-college plans, they can be summed up in just three words: Major League Baseball. He

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hopes to play at the next level, like most college athletes do, but many would be surprised to hear where.

“Doesn’t matter,” he said with a snicker on his face. “Whoever treats me the best and pays me the most.”

The Titans first game of the season is Friday, Feb. 22 against Texas Christian University at 6:30 p.m.

CSUF Baseball makes its home debut Tuesday, Feb. 26 against Loyola Marymount. The game takes place at 6 p.m. at Goodwin Field.

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The Fullerton Sports Guy Looking forward to Super Bowl Sunday by david carrillo

Daily Titan Sports Editor sports@dailytitan.com

If you were going to rob a bank, Sunday, Feb. 3 would be the day to do it.

You see, one Sunday a year people gather together and celebrate Super Bowl Sunday, truly, one of the great joys in life. While sports may not be the most important thing in the world, sometimes they transcend themselves and become something more.

Super Bowl Sunday is now a national holiday – official government backing or not – and you would be hard pressed to find another occasion that galvanizes a community better than it.

Families will throw lavish parties. Sports bars will be packed to the brim. The streets will be empty.

For this one day of the year, people are not concerned with the color of people’s skin, only the color of the jerseys on the field. Friends, relatives, co-workers, strangers and everything in between will spend the day indulging in food and drink, watching two teams pound away for diamond-encrusted rings and bragging rights.

I love sports, but what I love about the Super Bowl goes so much beyond the game itself. I love the week leading up to the game, when overscrupulous reporters analyze every tidbit of information that comes their way.

There will be more rumors, twists and turns than a day-time soap opera. Even now, they are rolling in by the minute.

What’s wrong with Tom Brady’s ankle? Can Eli Manning step up in the big game? Will Randy Moss (who had a spectacular regular season) snap out of his playoff funk? How will “Spy Gate” impact New England’s legacy?

Can veteran Junior Seau finally nab that elusive Super Bowl victory? How will the Boston-New York sports hatred play out in the media? Will New England com-

plete their perfect season?

The quest of perfection is always intriguing, regardless of the platform of pursuit. A Patriot victory would be their fourth title in seven years, placing them statistically among the all-time greats.

The 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only other team in NFL history to go undefeated, but they played at a time when dynasties weren’t crippled by the salary cap and free agency.

Then there are the famous Super Bowl commercials that, each year, manage to take on a life of their own, sometimes even eclipsing the game itself. From talking frogs to scantily-clad women, companies spend two-to-three million dollars per 30-second spot hoping to capitalize on the biggest television audience of the year.

Nielsen ratings annually report around 100 million people tuning into the big game, roughly a third of the United States population. Both men and women, young and old, black and white tune in to watch. What other event can claim that kind of annual success?

And finally, there is the game itself. If history has taught us anything, it’s that you can’t predict what will happen in the big game. In 2002, the Patriots were heavy underdogs against the greatest show on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. With Pro Bowl quarterback Drew Bledsoe out due to injury, their backup, an unknown 6th round draft pick out of Michigan, wound up pulling off one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history. The unknown quarterback’s name was Tom Brady.

This year, who knows what will happen? Maybe Brady trounces the New York Giants and picks up his fourth ring. Maybe Manning has the game of his life and lifts the initial 14-point underdogs to Super Bowl glory. What I do know is that I will be there every step of the way, with friends, family and everything in between, with food and drink, watching grown men transcend sports into something beautiful, and I hope you do too.

January 28, 2008

We are the champions

by damon casarez / daily titan staff photographer

The Cal State Fullerton Dance Team brought home yet another national title, their eighth in the past ten years Eric bartolome

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton Dance Team took first place at the Universal Dance Association National Championship earlier this month, an annual competition held in Orlando, Florida that features hundreds of cheer and dance squads from the United States and Puerto Rico.

The CSUF dancers swept the competition, taking first place in both the jazz and hip-hop divisions.

In the jazz finals, CSUF performed to an acapella version of “Son of a Preacher Man.” In the hip-hop division, the Titans gave a playful, entertaining set, as they danced to a medley of recent radio hits. Exuding character and creativity, they set themselves apart from the rest of the competition.

The Titans finished above the 2007 Hip Hop champs, the University of Illinois-Chicago, which placed second at this year’s event. Big West Rival UC Davis also competed and placed 6th in the Hip Hop division.

In the jazz division, the Titans topped their Big West rivals Long Beach State, which finished in second place. Idaho State University came in third, while North Dakota University finished in fourth place.

“In prelims we finished in first, so that pumped us up 110 percent,” junior Captain Kenndra Alvarez said.

“Our rivals, Long Beach, finished in second, only 4.5 points behind us, so that really got us pumped up [too].”

Judges scored the performances based on appearance, choreography and execution. To enter the competition, each team was required to send a video audition. After being select-

ed, each school performed in a semifinal round from which teams were chosen to perform in the finals.

Coaches Sam Shen and Jennie Volkert, both CSUF alumni, have led the team for the last decade.

Under their leadership, the CSUF dance team has taken first place in the jazz division eight of the last nine years. They attribute the team’s success over the years to consistency, work ethic and a family dynamic.

“It’s amazing. Every year it gets harder and harder because everybody wants to beat us,” Volkert said.

“It just makes us that more difficult for our girls to step it up and be flawless. They can’t go on the floor and leave any doubt.“ Standard practice for the team is usually three times a week, but leading up to the competition, the team practiced three hours every day.

“It was a lot of work because we

practiced either really early or really late, but it was definitely worth it,” said freshman Sarah Ellman.

This year the Titan Spirit Squad has five new freshman, two sophomores, four juniors and only one returning senior, Jessica Mika Mitsui.

While many of this year’s dancers are local products, others have come from all over the nation. To make the team, potential dancers go through a three-step process where they perform before a panel of judges.

“The team is very talented,” Shensaid. “They’re all elite dancers.”

Next year, Alvarez said she hopes the team can repeat their success defending their national title.

“It’s hard walking in there. All the teams are after us because they want to steal our title,” Alvarez said.

“We’re coming back each year with the intention of bringing home the title.”

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“Our goal right now is game to game, winning the next game, playing good defense and keeping the momentum going,” Burton said.

The team has been very strong offensively this season, despite the loss of all-time leading scorer Bobby Brown, who graduated last year. The point guard combination of Junior Russell and Marcus Crenshaw has helped fill the void and both are major players in what Burton refers to as “the best offensive team we’ve had shooting-wise.”

“I’m not going to say I’m filling Bobby’s shoes because he’s a scorer.

He led the team in everything,” Russell said. “I’m just here to play and to lead the team. I’m trying to fit in and make my way to be like Bobby, but he’s way better than me.”

No matter what injuries or setbacks the Titans may encounter, there is no question about what the team’s goal is for the season: to win the Big West Championship.

“After every day of practice we say, ‘championship on three.’ We still believe it,” Lassiter said. “We can have a guy injured, but we always trust all our teammates. They always come and step it up.”

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Titan basketball will continue its march for the championship this Thursday when they travel to Long Beach State for their first meeting with the 49ers of the season. Akognon is expected to play, assuming X-rays reveal no broken or fractured bones.

By damon casarez/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Titan Frank Robinson works the glass, outleaping Highlander Sean Cunningham.

Match-ups to look out for on Super Bowl Sunday The Patriots versus the Giants: Players who will impact the game The Associated Press

Having scored 35 points in their season-finale loss to New England, the Giants know they can move the ball on the Patriots. Moving the ball is not enough, though. Nor is kicking field goals. New York must reach the end zone several times, while also using up the clock.

That means Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw must run often.

Both have been particularly effective down the stretch, with the rookie Bradshaw breaking some long runs.

New England is most vulnerable in that area, although calling the Patriots’ run defense a weakness would be an exaggeration.

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New York’s blocking has been superb in the playoffs, providing ample protection for Eli Manning and opening wide holes for the running backs. Tackle David Diehl and guard Chris Snee have been particularly impressive.

If Manning gets the same amount of time he’s received recently, his hookups with WRs Plaxico Burress, Amani Toomer and rookies Steve Smith and TE Kevin Boss will give the Patriots plenty of trouble.

Burress is not the deep threat the Patriots’ Randy Moss provides, but he’s nearly as dangerous because of his size, good hands and athletic ability.

When the Patriots have the ball, unquestionably, the key for New York is slowing Moss, who overwhelmed Giants cornerbacks and safeties in their last meeting. Moss had six receptions for 100 yards and two TDs

as he broke Jerry Rice’s NFL mark with 23 touchdown catches.

While Corey Webster has made some big plays in the postseason, he’ll need help from Gibril Wilson and the other safeties. The Giants must be aggressive in their approach against Moss.

Of course, that usually leaves Wes Welker with single coverage, and Welker can be destructive on underneath routes. He had 11 catches for 122 yards in the season finale.

There’s also Donte’ Stallworth and Jabar Gaffney for New York cornerbacks Webster, Sam Madison, rookie Aaron Ross and R.W. McQuarters to deal with.

Engineering it all is the league MVP, Tom Brady, who is 3-0 in Super Bowls, twice earning MVP honors. Unless the Giants get ample pressure on Brady with their standout linemen — Michael Strahan,

Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck and Fred Robbins — and linebacker Antonio Pierce, Brady might get a third individual trophy.

New York simply doesn’t lose on the road, and the Giants are the designated away team at University of Phoenix Stadium. They’ve won 10 straight away games, and they have outplayed all three opponents in the playoffs on both sides of the ball.

All the pressure is on New England though, not that the Patriots care about pressure. They are the perfect example of a team that responds to whatever challenge.

This is the best version of any of the Pats teams to make the Super Bowl this decade, and their undefeated record has placed them in a glaring spotlight for months.

New England is experienced, well-rounded and incredibly focused on this championship.

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When coaches, owners and management clash How many basketball teams do we have in Los Angeles again?

The Lakers are really good, and oh, wait a minute, what happened to that other team, um, the Clippers, right?

These days, the Clippers have been invisible in the midst of Lakers’ success. When the season first began, I predicted that the Clips would end up being the 10th seed in the West and miss the playoffs.

Apparently, owner Donald Sterling thought otherwise, even with the injuries to Elton Brand and Shaun Livingston.

Sterling, once deemed the cheapest owner in sports, obviously was blind to the fact that his roster was lacking in quality, which brings us to a current hot topic: the complaints of Sterling about his team not performing at the level he expects.

Well, he’s not putting any blame on the personnel, rather on General Manager Elgin Baylor and Head Coach Mike Dunleavy.

The drama between Dunleavy and Sterling has heated up, with words being exchanged in the media, recently, between the two, indicating that the different factions of the organization aren’t exactly on the same page.

I’m just waiting for the demise of the Clips. They might as well throw this season in the toilet and join the Heat and Timberwolves in the lottery next year.

Sterling cannot blame the Clippers’ bad season on Dunleavy because the players are just not producing and the injuries are hurting them badly.

Sure, the Lakers have a lot of injuries right now too, but they also have the best player in the NBA -- Kobe Bryant.

Bad things happen when coaching and management don’t get along. For example, at the end of the Michael Jordan era, management was disputing with Head Coach Phil Jackson. In the end, the championship team was disassembled and the Bulls had to start from scratch. [The] next

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year they were among the worst teams in the NBA. Another example is when former Head Coach Rick Carlisle, who won Coach of the Year honors in 2002 with the Detroit Pistons, was replaced by future Hall-of-Fame Head Coach Larry Brown because of his quarrels with management.

Unfortunately, Sterling is using Dunleavy as the scapegoat for the Clippers’ troubles. The situation reminds me of the current drama in Raider Nation with owner Al Davis and Head Coach Lane Kiffin. Davis has asked for the resignation of Kiffin, but as many would agree, Kiffin has done a good job with what has been given to him and it’s unfair to blame the Raider’s woes on him.

The good news for Los Angeles’ “other team” is that their best player, Elton Brand, has been cleared to start running and jumping and will soon rejoin the squad -- albeit a little too late to make a playoff push.

The bottom line is that when teams start losing, everyone starts pointing fingers because they are not on the same page. This is when teams start to fall apart.

Two good organizations that have set a standard of success and stability are the San Antonio Spurs and the New England Patriots. Everyone knows their role and is willing to sacrifice their own success and glory for the team to thrive. Their multiple championships show they know what they’re doing.

Which leads us back to the Clippers, whose immediate future does not look pleasant, especially since their next-door neighbors look to be legitimate contenders for as long as number 24 calls Staples Center home.

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No hanging chads in this debate

To mock, divine It’s a cheap trick to use a tragedy to spread personal beliefs and it has been seen countless times.

Rev. Jerry Falwell used Sept. 11 as evidence of God’s wrath for the “sinning” gays in America, as well as for the blasphemous spoutings of “feminazis.”

Now, with the death of Heath Ledger, they’ve taken to their soapboxes again.

Ledger’s Oscar-nominated performance in Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” was ridiculed and condemned by religious leaders and their ignorant followers even before it was viewed by the general public.

So some members of the religious right, given a forum to express their ridiculous viewpoints on national “news” programs like Fox News and other outlets, have seized Ledger’s death last week as an opportunity to have their antihomosexual message heard.

To these few uneducated and ignorant people, Ledger was clearly struck down with a mighty thunderbolt from God for his portrayal of a man struggling with his love for another man.

Childish responses like “serves him right” and “he got what was coming to him” are being tossed around by these zealots, lowering this nation’s level of maturity to

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that of third, maybe fourth graders. Some have even threatened to protest at the actor’s private funeral.

What happened to love and compassion being the basis of the Christian religion?

It has been quite a while since our last Sunday school lesson, but we don’t remember the lesson on how to rally hate in the wake of a man’s death.

Maybe we missed that lesson.

We would have hoped people would have grown a bit by now after so many examples of hate and small-mindedness in our history. It is incredibly disheartening to see that so many remain set in their cruel ways.

What gives these people the right to criticize a man, after he has died, for some part he played in a movie?

The lenghts to which certain, mainly conservative, radio hosts will go to “rally the troops” is deplorable. How dare they even be allowed back on the air.

Every person in this country is entitled to his or her opinion, but to spout pompous musings on the proper punishment for gays can no longer be accepted.

It’s time to give Rush Limbaugh and the rest of his dittoheads the the Don Imus treatment.

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Voters are too uninformed or Even one vote changes things, so go make your voice heard apathetic to affect change

By Heather Perry

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

Voting is the most sacred of American rights. However, voting seems to not have a great affect on the outcome of America’s overall condition.

Voting is a futile effort, despite the movements to encourage it. In 2004, “Fahrenheit 911” came out in part to inspire people to question authority and try to change the state of affairs. Advertisements for “Rock the Vote,” sponsored by VH1, excited young voters. Billboards boasting huge logos stating one must “Vote or Die” provided by Sean “Diddy” Combs was supposed to rouse voting as well.

However, all efforts to inform America proved to be fruitless.

George W. Bush was back in office and, as proven by his decreasing approval rates, no one is satisfied with the voting results.

It’s interesting that when you bring politics with young people, they often respond passionately about their beliefs. So what the happened at the polls in 2004 when the majority of young voters wanted to oust Bush?

Nothing. Students got all riled up, wearing pins and attending events, but when November rolled around, they forgot or had something better to do. Voting does not count and people know it. They care about the future of the country, but one little vote is doesn’t change things.

The majority of young people wanted to remove Bush from office, but in 2004, the turnout for youth voting remained the same as in 2000.

Look at the 2008 primaries. There are countless voters on television openly admitting that they want Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney.

But people do not know what they want, and they certainly are not educated enough on the subject matter to make an informed decision.

When people vote on propositions, most of the time they have not researched the topic. So they check “yes” to the ones that give money to hospitals, and “no” to the ones that increase taxes. Voting is not effective when voters are making snap decisions on subjects they know nothing about.

It is worth saying that voting has a minor impact when intelligent people band together in their mutual understanding of politics, but Americans are busy. To be truly passionate about a topic is not to read a pamphlet received in the mail, but to research the subject or person at hand.

Voting systems are flawed as well.

In 2000, Florida’s voting system was so flawed that the winner was determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, not the popular vote.

According to a study done in 2007, the voting systems are still flawed in Florida and it is not as if a re-count of hundreds of thousands of votes is a viable option. It must be said that not all systems are flawed, but it is foolish to believe that all are foolproof.

Overall, there are too many factors that reveal the ineffectiveness of voting. It is an amazing right that all Americans should take advantage of, but unless the person is informed and sparks initiative in others, voting is a waste of time.

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It’s 6 a.m. and my mom shakes my brother and I awake to go with her to the voting polls.

We walk through the process with her as she explains everything and at the end, we get a sticker that says we voted.

Afterwards, I sit in my first grade class, so proud that I made a difference that I show off my sticker on the playground.

Even as a young child, I understood the importance of voting and used to listen as my mother laid out the reasons why everyone should vote.

First, she told me if people didn’t vote, then they couldn’t complain.

It’s like not going shopping for food and then getting mad because you’re hungry and there is nothing in the refrigerator.

Second, she would say people shouldn’t be mad when a law is passed that they don’t like. So what if it’s legal to have an abortion? If you don’t like it, put your child up for adoption and stop complaining.

Third, she told me people should never express their opinions on how the country should be run.

If someone thinks a woman should stay at home, pregnant and barefoot, then go vote.

The other day, I was really excited about the primaries and about the hard-fought victories on both sides.

When I got to work, I started to talk to an older lady who had so much to say.

We were having a great conversation until a co-worker about my age

jumped in, saying she doesn’t vote because “it’s a waste of time.”

Is she crazy? It’s a waste of time to choose who spends our money and who decides whether our soldiers go to war and die?

I was upset and asked her who she thought the future candidates for president would be in 30 years.

She had no answer, but her eyes bulged when I told her that it would most likely be someone our age now.

In 30 years, we will be in our 50’s and that is generally when presidents start out on their campaigns.

What is going to happen to our nation when all of the baby boomers are no longer running the country and it’s up to us? Will our nation still stand strong or are we looking at the end of the United States in our lifetime?

I look at history and see how each great nation fell as their citizens became confident that they were not needed in the process of growth.

While in reality, every one of us is needed because each vote not only helps the person for whom it is cast, but it helps the nation stay strong.

A divided nation can’t stand as was proven during the Civil War. But even worse is a nation that can’t find the time to make sure the people who decide life and death are the best available.

I watch as my peers go though life comfortable in the knowledge that when the time comes, we are going to fail and watch our world come crashing down.

So yes, voting is necessary and everyone should participate, no matter what. You don’t have to claim a party – just vote your heart.

Miss America doesn’t make a good role model for girls

The Gossip Girl

By Amy Robertson opinion@dailytitan.com

When I heard about Heath Ledger’s tragic death, I knew he would be making headlines everywhere.

I knew I would probably get told about it by friends at least five more times throughout the day. And I knew that, as a celebrity gossip columnist, I should probably talk about it to some degree in this week’s column.

However, I have decided to be a rebel and, instead, talk about a 19-year-old girl named Kirsten Haglund.

To some of you, she may be a nobody. And compared to Ledger, she is.

Though, to others, she is known as Miss Michigan, the newly crowned Miss America and the subject of a social experiment – an experiment created by the Miss America Organization in an attempt to make the pageant queen more of a ready-made

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celebrity.

But, I think all it’s turned her into is a fraud.

Haglund, along with the other 51 delegates, were not only vying for the Miss America title, they were spotlighted in the TLC reality show “Miss America Reality Check.”

The show, which ran for four weeks leading up to the competition, was a ploy to make Miss America more popular and modern by housing the women together and coaching them through their reinvention.

The idea of reinvention intrigued me at first. I watched the show, but it wasn’t like when I watched “One Tree Hill” or even “Make Me a Supermodel” and my eyes were glued to the screen.

I would watch it and surf the net or read my “Us Weekly.”

After hearing so many times to not “wear your hair so big,” “apply less makeup” and “that dress just isn’t right,” I became very bored.

But, despite my growing disinterest, I found myself still thinking about the concept of the show.

I realized that what the organization was doing was not reinventing Miss America, but rather reshaping her into a mold it had already created for her.

The organization didn’t want Miss America to be more modern in terms of being more relatable to girls today.

It wanted her to be more trendy and popular, which, in my opinion, only furthers the popularity complex introduced in grade school.

In my grade school and even rolling over into high school somewhat, it was all about what you wore.

I remember crying to my mom on the car ride home from school one day because I felt pressured to have the newest Adidas shoes.

I had to wear what everyone else was wearing.

Similarly, the Miss America contestants were told time after time what they could and couldn’t wear.

One delegate was criticized for wearing a track jacket during one segment of the show, even though it was cold out.

This woman was what I think a modern girl should be – herself.

However, the judges scolded her, saying the jacket wasn’t “appropriate.”

Though Miss America has always followed some sort of standard, I don’t agree with forcing the women to change to the point where they are no longer merely adapting, but

changing who they are.

And that’s what the show did as they confessed that they no longer knew how to dress or even behave.

And yet, they found a way to cope – they conformed. And this only disturbed me more.

The fact that they were so willing to change themselves makes me question who these women really are.

Are they more like the oldfashioned Miss America or the new, modern one? Were they conforming before or are they conforming now?

And do we really want a role model for young women who transforms herself because someone says so?

Even though the Miss America Organization was trying to add diversity to the pageant and change things up, it still ended up with a group of contestants who all look the same.

And as they tried to make Miss America into a bigger celebrity than she’s been in the past, this gossip girl doesn’t think Haglund will end up being quite that.

Celebrities are trendsetters, not followers.

FDA says cloned meat, it’s what’s for dinner

By Tanya Obermeyer

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

For the love of lamb chops and meatloaf, it seems as though it was only yesterday when little Dolly, the cloned lamb, was the subject of debates nationwide.

Nearly 12 years later, the debate now rests on whether or not to break out the barbecue and plop Dolly on top of it.

The idea of eating a cloned animal, especially the cute and lovable Dolly, seems morbid.

But FDA Chief of Veterinary

Medicine Stephen Sundlof, who has meat? Scientific satisfaction? overseen the long-stalled risk assessI am led to believe, as the mild ment, said in an online Washington uproar caused by the topic suggests, Post article dated 2006 that "the that a large percentage of people will food from cloned animals is as safe not be happy with the production of as the food we eat this meat. every day."

I do have a I would want to The question of problem with whether it is safe is know if I am eating growing a cow not my largest con- cloned meat, plain, like a plant, startcern. ing with a symsimple and honest. I We see scandal evbolic seed or emerywhere we turn in refuse to be the trialbryo, and creating and-error guinea pig the food industry. an animal for the Remember the for the FDA. soul purpose of Wendy's incident eating it. with the finger in the Weird. chili?

The meat, I assume, would adEven though that turned out to be dress some financial advantages in a scam, food in America is something order to be successfully marketed to the public. we are all quite protective over.

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Some people may need a little covincing before trying lab-grown beef

and ends up being cheaper than “regular cow,” most restaurants will be led in the direction of cloned meat for profit reasons.

I smell a scandal cooking in the kitchen.

Because it is a topic that so many people are aroused about, the restaurants will need to be forthcoming on whether the meat they use in preparing their dishes is cloned.

If a restaurant were to use the meat without telling customers, even though it poses no health risks as the FDA is reporting, customers should still have the right to know.

I would want to know if I am eating cloned meat, plain, simple and honest.

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Get a quick fix from your local chemist So here we are in week two in London and, like many of my other fellow adventurers, I have fallen ill.

For the last few days, I’ve been fighting a bad sinus infection (ew, I know), but even though I was stuck in my flat for two and a half days, the experience has allotted me another glimpse into an aspect of British culture.

Yep, everything is a learning experience.

It seems England has devolved a simple yet superior, answer to minor health care needs. Here, it is only appropriate to go to the doctors or hospitals for emergencies or severe illnesses. For a cold or the flu, or any of those other medical annoyances, you simply pop down to the local pharmacy.

These are everywhere.

There are pharmacies in a couple of chains, like Boots, which operates much like a Rite Aide, but they are also in supermarkets and independent stores.

In the pharmacy, standing between walls shelved high with assortments of pills, potions and powders, are the “chemists,” which I admit is a bit of a villainous and ominous-sounding title.

Describe your symptoms to the chemists and they’ll give you the means to fight it, along with advice. They have a wide variety of tools at their disposal, which are available to shoppers provided you have the necessary symptoms.

After I went in coughing, they set me up with throat lozenges, cough syrup and sinus medication with an air of authority and nonchalance.

Consider this for a moment: If Americans knew they could get trusted advice about what to take for their symptoms close to home, would we take our illnesses more seriously?

It seems now that we either rush to the doctor for every little thing or tough it out because being sick means missing work. We all reach for that instant cure, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a little better guidance as to what that miracle pill was?

The Londoner

By Erin Tobin

opinion@dailytitan.com

Furthermore, wouldn’t putting a knowledgeable person in charge of medications in a store be a better way to curtail abuse? Instead of trying to get stronger cold medication by going to a doctor to get a prescription to take to the pharmacy to have filled, you just head to the chemist and describe your condition effectively.

On the other hand though, there’s no Airbourne (cold preventer medicine) in London.

When we approached the chemist about something to take to keep from getting sick, he scoffed at us.

I guess if you have a good way of getting better if you're sick, you don’t have to work as hard to keep it from happening.

So now I am feeling better. I have some medicine to last me through too 'til my next health related problem and [I have] good advice about what to do when I’m feeling under the weather again.

On another note: The death of Heath Ledger was just as huge on this side of the Atlantic, which of course makes sense.

True to their nature, the free tabloids wild with the terrible incident. Banner headlines dominated the front pages with horrible pictures of Ledger and all the nitty-gritty details anyone ever suggested about the man.

The British news does seem to love their sensationalism.

Just the other day, a big stir was made out of Ledger's maid's numerous phone calls to Mary Kate Olsen, complete with grainy and awkward pictures.

It allowed the issue to be completely rehashed in the paper, right next to Eva Longoria’s fashion advice to Posh Spice.

Well, if nothing else, it makes for a free read on the ride home.

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Customers will still crave special sauce New York tries to force fast food chains to post calories on menus

the temptation of fast food even easier for us to fall victim to by creating the dollar and value menus.

Fast food fits comfortable into a college budget.

If you only have $3 in your pockBy Melissa Pollard et and a half hour before class, you Daily Titan Staff Writer don't have the time or money to opinion@dailytitan.com sit down at a restaurant and order Fast food. We all know it is bad something healthy.

But that same $3 will buy you a for us, yet we keep falling into the full meal off the dollar menu at Mctemptation.

Starting in March, New York Donald's, and you won't be late for City's fast food restaurants will be class.

Placing the calorie amounts on required to show the calorie count fast food menus may affect a few for all items on their menus.

The New York City Board of customers, but it won't stop them Health passed a regulation that re- from eating what they want and quires all fast food chains with 15 or where they want.

After the new menus are up, there more locations in New York to post the calorie amounts on their menus. will likely be a decline in the number So with the calories being out in of patrons going to fast food restauthe open for us to see, are we going rants, but it will be only a small decline and for only a to stop eating fast short time. food?

If you only have There will be I don't think those people that that showing us the $3 in your pocket stop going for amount of calories and a half hour before will a few weeks, maybe we eat is going to a month at most. stop us from order- class, you don’t have They will come ing a Big Mac or the time or money to realize how unChicken McNugto sit down at a healthy the food gets. really is, but will Customers are restaurant and order eventually get past not idiots. something healthy. it and go back to We don't need eating fast food the to know how many same way they did calories are in an order of french fries to understand that before the new menus went up.

There may also be a change in they are unhealthy and that people what customers order when going to shouldn't be eating them.

So if we know that fast food is fast food restaurants.

With the calorie amounts of all unhealthy, why do we keep coming the food and beverages easily availback for more? able to them, some will want to take Two reasons: time and money.

My biggest excuse for eating fast the heathy route and order a salad or food is that it fits into my schedule a lettuce wrap.

These people will still visit fast and, like me, there are many of us out there that are both full-time stu- food restaurants, they will just order the items with the least amount of dents and full-time employees.

Sitting down to a home-cooked calories, thinking they are still eating meal just doesn't always fit into the healthy.

Fast food chains have been around breaks we have in our lives.

Going through a drive-thru to for years.

It's hard to drive down a main grab dinner or lunch before class is much more convenient than sitting highway anywhere in the country down at a restaurant and ordering a and not see a Carl's Jr. or Taco Bell on every corner and this isn't going potentially healthier meal.

Fast food chains such as McDon- to change just because calories are ald's and Wendy's have also made being displayed on the menus.

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MySpace and Facebook have ruined good breakups I've been thinking a lot about relationships lately, watching spring flings spring up early and winter lusts end cold. And I've caught myself thinking about my own.

Don't get me wrong, my girlfriend's fantastic. She lets me use her hair to make handlebar mustaches while we hang out with her friends and can fake cry on command for discounts at restaurants and local retailers.

And that's roughly ... 20 percent of what I look for in a relationship. However, even though things are going great, I still have to keep on the lookout for a breakup.

We're not married, we're not engaged, we're not tied together like Harrison Ford and Karen Allen at the end of "Indiana Jones and The Raiders Of The Lost Ark". We're just college students that have been together for almost a year. There's always a chance of a random breakup.

Let's say we do breakup. Where does that leave us?

Well, for the first week, she'd sob relentlessly while drinking cups of coffee to stay awake enough to fill her diary, observing the romantic collapse by way of writing awkward poetry and sketching pictures of me.

While she would be productive, I would just be passed out nightly in a variety of forms – face down in my living room with a bottle of cognac, with sunglasses on in my bathtub with a bottle of whiskey or at my dining room

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table with a bottle of bourbon and a half-finished board game that I've been playing by myself.

Following that week of destruction, I'd pull myself out of my unhealthy rampage of a rut and listen to nearly every friend tell me, "Listen, man, you just have to get back out there" or "Just keep it a clean break."

But there hasn't been a solid breakup for any college student since MySpace or Facebook happened.

Like ... eight people had Friendster, so I won't even go back that far.

Social networking sites have allowed young adults to push themselves back into the game at rapid speed while still clinging onto the old life. It's a bad combination.

Allow me to jump into a second person male narrative for dramatic effect. Post-breakup, your nights are now filled with hours of browsing profiles of friends and acquaintances you always found attractive and then posting comment after comment accordingly.

You make casual offerings like, "Hey, haven't seen you for a while.

We should hang out. What are you doing next week?" Without thinking, you send out messages to a few previous crushes.

You write rough drafts to make sure that your photo comments don't sound too desperate.

You post a bulletin on MySpace as well as a note on Facebook with some snide reference to now having more time on your hands, hoping that possible prospectives venture to your page to notice your newly single status in order for them to

make good use of those newly single hands.

Your new evening activity is like speed dating without the personality or smiles. You're all business. You're moving fast and thinking faster.

You're on the prowl like a coked-up lion, like a teenage Simba if Disney and Brian De Palma collaborated.

Social networking sites are your chance to score more rebounds than Dennis Rodman (long before anyone had to ask, "Hey, why does that name sound familiar?").

However, after you've bounced yourself from one uncomfortable date to another, you realize how much you miss your former significant other. And that's when the obsession kicks in.

You find yourself as a loose wreck of a detective, like that traditional Hollywood cop character who just hasn't been the same since the night his wife was murdered.

You're on a mission, you're looking for clues, you're putting pieces together like you were still doing puzzles with your grandfather.

It'll be hours after midnight, in the second hour of inspecting every detail of your ex's profile page and you'll say, "Who is this Kyle character? He's left like ... four comments in the last few days. Wait, why is he saying that he had fun last night?

Hold on ... let me just check out his page ... OK, there she is ... 'Yeah, f'reals. Three hours of Pete & Pete is always a good time.'

“What the ... ? She had a good time with this guy for three hours?

She's such a slut. And she's already moved on. Well, so have I!"

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But you spend the next twenty minutes crying. Finally, you get back on the computer.

It's nearly 3:30 a.m. and you've been at this for a few hours already, only breaking for that sporadic cry and a microwave burrito, still with no end in sight.

This is what you've been reduced to because of social networking sites. It seems impossible to just walk away.

You know if she still looks good and who she's been seeing (because of the 70-plus pictures), you know her vacations (given that she's added Facebook's "trips" application) and you know her relationship status (as changing that on MySpace and Facebook is our generation's promise ring or steady pin).

There's no clean breakup anymore. You can't just throw her number away and move on. If you delete her as a friend online, she'll know and ask you what your problem is.

You can't lie to your friends because her MySpace headline now reads "All good things must come to an end" and their Facebook feed will tell them that she changed her relationship status.

Social networking sites have destroyed the clean breakup.

Starbucks’ smaller coffee meant for thinner wallets

By Sarah Cruz

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

In coffee, as in life, perhaps balance is the key to success.

Starbucks Coffee Company built its sometimes controversial reputation on high-priced specialty coffee beverages.

But now, the company is exploring a more affordable offering. A se-

lect few stores in Seattle will be selling 8 ounce cups of coffee for just $1 with free refills.

Of course, this new drink is a far cry from the usual financial strain to which many coffee drinkers have become accustomed.

Starbucks chains are enjoyed by customers willing to pay up to $6 for a single drink, and criticized by those who think a little bit of coffee with a few ounces of milk hardly

warrants the cost.

On one side of the caffeine aisle reside the people for whom Starbucks is a destination.

On the other side sit the relics who are still amazed that a simple ‘cup of joe’ can cost more than a Sunday paper.

In response to this polarization of coffee drinkers, the company is attempting to wade through the middle of the coffee wars, warding off

competitors like McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts by testing out the new $1 coffees.

McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts recently introduced “specialty coffees," implying that their new beverages are the same quality as Starbucks but at a cheaper price.

However, I’m not sure any of us actually believe that Dunkin' DoSee COFFEE, Page 16

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These fraudulant candidates want nothing but power Just when the American public elected Bush as the worst president of all time, along came a group of frauds that would most definitely prove them all wrong.

I mean these people are incredible. When I look at them, a horrible feeling of my past comes to life. I’m sitting as a child, staring in fright at those lame sitcoms that are “Full House,” “Family Matters” and “Step by Step.”

And to think, one of these hotdogs will serve as America’s next president.

I would much rather pay attention to the more important issues, like alien cults and pyramids.

Whatever the case may be, reality says that Bush’s time is up, and a new crook will resume as the next leader of the most powerful nation on earth.

To be honest, after looking at the cast of characters in this year’s presidential race, the idea of an infinite Bush is beginning to sound good.

The Republican hopefuls are: a Mormon guy that is being hugely underestimated because of his religion, even though he served as governor in the most Catholic state in the country; Mike Huckabee, who reminds me of Richard Nixon and looks

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Donkeys and Elephants

alone are enough to say this isn’t a good idea; and Rudolph Giuliani, a man who scares me even more than Bush.

Luckily, he did himself over by completely skipping the early primaries, resulting in his ultimate failure.

This guy was banking his whole election on the terrors of Sept. 11.

He said he was pro-choice, but had a huge backing from the religious right. Rudy was the biggest sham of all.

And don’t forget about John McCain, the one guy that I think has most experience for the job, although I wouldn’t be caught dead voting for him.

One of these four men, minus Giuliani, will be chosen as the Republican nominee for president of the United States.

The Democratic hopefuls are, realistically, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

These two are like little children, fighting to be leader of the fort. The things they say to one another makes me think we’re living in 1808, and the South Carolina primaries proved me right.

They called a truce to the fighting earlier, but quickly resumed during the South Carolina primaries, as apparently they saw nothing else better to do.

Hillary accused Obama of being a

liar. He countered by calling the former first lady a corporate crony, saying that, “While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.”

Hillary hit back with what many are calling a racist statement. She accused him of “representing your contributor” in “his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago.”

In the end, why should I be surprised by all these vindictive taunts?

Politicians, after all, are a slimy breed of people looking to wreak havoc around the world.

They will stop at nothing to gain supreme power and this is why you, the public, should consider very closely the choices you make.

Most of you are fooled into thinking that electing Hillary would be a historic change for America and democracy.

But women leaders are nothing new. Historically, many women have held high seats of global power.

Prime-minister Golda Meir of Israel and Prime-minister Margaret Thatcher of the U.K. are just a few.

And often, they are no better than their male counterparts.

Margaret Thatcher was a wartime leader, ordering troops to the Falkland Islands in 1982 and even going as far as threatening the small power

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with nuclear weapons.

So why would it be such a big deal to elect Hillary as president?

Ultimately, it doesn’t make a difference who’s elected because they all serve the same interest.

These people are frauds seeking to indulge the needs of corporations, oil tycoons and everlasting war and turmoil.

Two parties have held control over America since its inception, and that is no coincidence.

Hardly any third-party candidates have held high seats of office, whether they be legislative, judicial or executive.

Yet people still would like to think they are living in a free society.

Unless a nuke strikes the homeland, leading to Bush’s indefinite reign as emperor, my money is on either John McCain or Mitt Romney on the Republican side, and Barack Obama for the Democrats.

Stay tuned for Tuesday, Feb. 5 to see if my prediction holds any validity.

Actor’s demise is cause for reflection Shrouded in mystery, Heath Ledger’s death has impacted young people U-WIRE

STANFORD – Few college students picture themselves dead in 10 years, which could partly explain why our generation is reacting so emotionally to the news of Heath Ledger's death.

The Oscar-nominated Australian actor was just 28 years old, making his death seem, at least to young people, almost too tragic to bear.

Although authorities have found no evidence of foul play, the questionable circumstances surrounding Ledger's death have left us with an incomplete picture of how and why

his life ended so suddenly.

Ledger, who had been ill with pneumonia, was found naked, facedown on the bed of his Manhattan apartment.

Sleeping pills and other prescription drugs were discovered nearby, but currently there is no indication that Ledger took his own life.

His family members insist that he was not that kind of person.

However, he might have been depressed in recent months following his break-up with Michelle Williams, his former fiancee and mother of their 2-year-old daughter, Matilda.

Williams, Ledger's co-star in 2005's critically-acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain," reportedly flew to New York when she heard news of his death.

Ledger received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for "Brokeback Mountain," and that's not all that Ledger accomplished in his brief but stellar acting career.

Ledger began acting as a teenager, and people who knew him then are eager to extol the considerable talent he had even as an adolescent.

He won 13 awards in a variety of cities, states and countries and was nominated for 28 more.

Other well-known films in which he acted include "Ten Things I Hate About You," "The Patriot," "A Knight's Tale," "Casanova" and "Monster's Ball."

Prior to his death, Ledger filmed "The Dark Knight," which is due to be released later this year.

He was also in the process of film-

ing "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus."

Ledger also placed in Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars and similar contests and was once called "the new Matt Damon."

Since making it big as a stereotypical heartthrob, though, he tried to avoid being typecast in that image.

Ledger was known for taking any and every kind of role, pursuing a reputation as a talented, versatile actor.

Perhaps the best way to capture the tragedy of Ledger's death is in his own words.

In Vanity Fair in August 2000, the actor was quoted as saying, "I don't want to do this for the rest of my life ... I don't want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry.

There's so much I want to discover."

nuts serves coffee that is comparable to Starbucks, no matter how many donut holes we’ve consumed.

Starbucks' answer to its competitors comes in the form of a “short” cup of coffee.

It took me 10 years and a brief stint as a barista to memorize the names of the cup sizes (“tall” is actually the smallest cup, and “grande” doesn’t mean what you think it means), and now they throw another one in to the mix.

At least this one’s name is more intuitive.

More interesting than the name or size of the drink, though, is that Starbucks is prepared to offer free refills.

I’m not sure if they realize it, but this is like leaving a box of cookies unattended in a dorm room at 2 a.m. on a Friday night.

Cheap coffee with free refills is something every college student dreams of come finals season.

Visit any one of the numerous Starbucks that surround our campus around mid-May and you will see a good number of students camped out in the chairs and couches, cramming their brains with caffeine and coursework.

Oftentimes, when I’m studying at Starbucks, I can only afford one trip

to the counter.

Now, however, I can proudly return with my soggy coffee cup and gratefully request a free refill of the delicious amber nectar.

That is, of course, if the company doesn’t scrap this idea before expanding it to all their stores.

Is there anyone else who is just a little wary that we are trusting these Seattleites not to screw this up for us?

After all, these are the guys and gals that made flannel shirts fashionable along with grunge music.

It remains to be seen if this move will produce greater sales among consumers who are not already regular customers.

Despite a loyal customer base, the price of Starbucks shares have fallen dramatically over the last year.

No doubt, the oh-so-wealthy head honchos decided it’s time to cave in to pressure and lure in the bargain beverage shoppers.

Starbucks only stands to gain by broadening their consumer base.

Perhaps the yuppy South County luxury car owners will sniff at the influx of middle class and college-age visitors to their caffeine club.

But it’s America, people, land of equality.

I say let all those who yearn for quality caffeine at a reasonable cost stand up and be counted.

meat: Economic factors will also enter into the debate From Page 13 guinea pig for the FDA For many people, eating cloned meat is going to pose ethical questions of whether this is the work of God or a higher being and if science is overstepping its boundaries.

I know that I don’t want to eat the meat.

At this point, since my stomach turns just thinking about it, I’m going to let the brave Americans test their iron clad stomachs before I jump in with my fork and knife.

We also have to consider our ever downward-sliding economy, which may mean the marketing for cloned meat couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for its producers.

People are searching in times like these to save a dime or find an alternative way of doing things.

But what will happen to the thousands of farms and dairies across the United States that have built and fed this country for generations?

Eventually, if the idea of eating cloned meat pacifies the general public and its popularity rises, farms and dairies will be forced to close.

America is a constantly evolving nation and cloning is just another [topic] in a long line of issues that push ethical and emotional boundaries.

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