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Student Rec Center opens today for use The CSUF Student Recreation Center opened today at 6 a.m.

Membership for currently enrolled students is included in Student Union Fees. To activate the membership, students need to visit Level 2 of the SRC. The SRC is funded by the Titan Student Union and features state-of-the-art fitness equipment indoor gyms, multipurpose activity spaces, sports courts, multimedia cardio room (the first in the CSU system), indoor track, rock wall, and an outdoor swimming pool.

The center’s program will be organized to serve individual and group fitness training; non-credit group exercise classes; campus intramural sports programs; university-recognized student club and organization activities.

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Sociology Week The CSUF Sociology Department will host Sociology Week on March 17th and 19th with discussions and events.

Some of Monday’s events include disussions about careers in sociology, health care plans and the medical rights of pregnant teenagers, to name a few.

On Wednesday, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez will speak about the federal chidren’s health insurance bill. The day will also include a discussion about the social implications of HIV and AIDS on communities in Orange County.

Check back with Monday’s issue of the Daily Titan for exact date and times for featured Sociology Week events.

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By Daniel Suzuki/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Above- Zeta Tau Alpha cheering supporting the Titan Base Ball team, while supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. Left- Jason Dovel striking out a San Diego hitter in the first inning.

Business week engages students’ interests Women’s A collaboration by CSUF volunteers offers job fair, workshops and speakers

By MARISSA WILLMAN

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Business-related clubs and organizations worked together to host Business Week, a four-day event that runs through Thursday.

It will feature an invitationonly luncheon with donor Steven G. Mihaylo as well as workshops, guest speakers and a job fair open to all Cal State Fullerton students.

“This event is open to everyone and meant for everyone,” said Emeline Yong, assistant dean for student affairs for the College of Business and Economics.

Taryn Moore, a sophomore international business major and the executive vice president of the Business Inter-Club Council, said the week’s theme of “A Look at the Past, A Plan for the Future” was intentionally created with a broad scope so that it could include all majors as well as within the CBE. “Donuts with the Dean” will take place today and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on the patio of Langsdorf Hall, where students can enjoy free coffee and donuts.

Dean of College of Business and Economics Anil Puri will share the free breakfast with students Thursday morning.

The event is scheduled to cul-

minate Thursday with an alumni communications lecturer Christopanel at 10 a.m., a lecture by Clark pher Deal spoke to students about Jones, a vice president of finance at the importance of understanding Disneyland Resort, at 1 p.m., the differences and communicating inUrban Land Institute Panel at 2 terculturally in the business world. p.m. and a lecture by Jennifer Sun“We have this idiom to put yourderland, principal of Strategic Pay self in someone else’s shoes,” Deal Resources, at 4 p.m. said. “But we don’t actually do it. I Approximately 50 business stu- encourage you to.” dents are invited to Thursday’s Deal posed scenarios to the auluncheon with prominent alumni, dience that highlighted conflicts including Mihaylo, who recently that could arise between businessdonated $30 million to the CBE people of different cultures and and is who the college will be encouraged students to consider named afother points ter. of view and T h e ask queswe e k’s tions. events W h e n kicked off Deal posed with guest the quesspeaker tion, “How Robert many of you Kleinbelieve you – Christopher Deal, have more henz, depCSUF Human Communications uty chief to learn econoabout other mist for c u l t u r e s ,” the Calinearly every fornia Association of Realtors, ad- hand in the room went up. dressing the “sub-prime crisis” on “The main thing he said is that Monday. you can’t think others will act like It was followed by a presenta- you do,” said Roman Sobolkin, a tion by the Center for Insurance freshman international business that crowded the Titan Student major.

Union Theater to the point where Sobolkin is also an executive students sat in the aisles and stood board member of the BICC, one in the back, said Yong. of the groups that spearheaded the Delta Sigma Pi and the Future production of Business Week.

Business Leaders of America pre“[Putting Business Week tosented the “Cultural Business Eti- gether] wasn’t as stressful as it was quette Workshop” Monday night challenging,” Sobolkin said, “but it in TSU Pavilion C, where human came out a lot better than I could

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We have this idiom to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. But we don’t actually do it. I encourage you to.

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The works of more than 65 Cal State Fullerton visual arts alumni in the entertainment-related industries of feature animation, television, video games, children’s publishing, movie promotion and more are being showcased in the current exhibit “Opening Credits.”

“Opening Credits” is part of the university’s 50th anniversary celebration and is the third in a series of exhibitions highlighting the talents of art alumni.

The work will be displayed until March 23.

A few of the artists include: Jeff Bacon (B.A. art ’80) - managing director for the Designory, Christian Hill (M.F.A. art ’05) assistant professor of art, CSUF, Adolph Lusinsky (B.F.A. art ’93) - look and lighting director for the Walt Disney Feature Animation and Joshua Pruett (B.F.A. art ’02).

Also featured is award-winning art from the Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards Student Competition and Nickelodeon Studio’s animation pitch competition.

The location for the show include the Main and Project Room galleries at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana and the West Gallery.

have expected.”

Moore said the BICC is confident students will be pleased with the content of the events.

“Students who have never been involved can know they have an automatic free invitation to free food and great events with people with a ton of experience and a lot to offer,” Moore said.

Yong said the events had proven to be “very successful” so far and was pleased with the turnout.

“We based this event on quality of events rather than quantity,” Yong said. “We encouraged different clubs to combine and co-host events.”

Yong said the event is similar to Comm Week held by the College of Communications and relies on volunteer efforts.

“It’s done strictly by a group of students who volunteer to put it together,” Yong said. “I’m very proud of these students who see the value of getting involved.”

Stephanie Cuellar, a senior majoring in business finance and president of BICC, was one of the main volunteers for Business Week.

She said it was difficult to get publicity for Business Week in the past but the club has seen more success this year by promoting within classrooms and with faculty.

“The faculty is the driving force behind making any on-campus event successful,” Cuellar said.

“They offer motivation by informing their students, bringing classes to events and offering extra credSee BUSINESS WEEK, Page 2

history month observed A conference hopes to showcase the impact of women through time

By CARMEN DRUMMOND For the Daily Titan

news@dailytitan.com

Some of history’s most fascinating women still haven’t made it into mainstream history.

How does gender ideologies affect the circulation of popular culture?

Cal State Fullerton is hosting a “Scholarship on Gender” conference on March 24, from 10 a.m.5:15 p.m.

The conference, which is free and open to the public, features academic researchers from Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal State Fresno and UC Irvine.

The conference will consist of various discussion panels, a keynote presentation by Professor Shira Tarrant from the women’s studies department at Cal State Long Beach on “Trash TV: It’s Not Just a Waste of Time,” and a documentary film, “The Hat Lady,” about See HER STORY, Page 2

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IN OTHER NEWS INTERNATIONAL

Guantanamo prisoners allowed phone calls GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) – The U.S. military said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in extreme isolation for as long as six years.

The new policy by the Defense Department, which previously said security concerns prevented such calls, is part of a strategy to ease conditions for frustrated prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, said the telephone policy reflects a commitment to maintaining the health and well-being of Guantanamo detainees. No start date has been set for the program.

Inmates’ contact with the outside world generally has been limited to mail delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross and meetings with their lawyers.

A spokesman for the detention center, Army Lt. Col. Ed Bush, said it is working out procedures for the calls. He declined to provide details about which detainees would be eligible and how often calls would be permitted.

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Gov. reportedly spent over $80,000 on call girl ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign over a call girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars – perhaps as much as $80,000 – with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period of time.

Spitzer and his family, meanwhile, remained secluded in their Fifth Avenue apartment, while Republicans began talking impeachment, and few if any fellow Democrats came forward to defend him.

On Monday, when the scandal broke, prosecutors said in court papers that Spitzer had been caught on a wiretap spending $4,300 with the Emperors Club VIP call-girl service, with some of the money going toward a night with a prostitute named Kristen, and the rest to be used as credit toward future trysts. The papers also suggested that Spitzer had done this before.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that Spitzer, in fact, had spent tens of thousands of dollars with the Emperors Club. Another official said the amount could be as high as $80,000.

But it was not clear over what period of time that was spent.

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Another fatal shooting shocks high school

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A man police say is a member of a Los Angeles street gang was charged with murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a high school football star.

Pedro Espinoza, 19, is accused of killing 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., a standout running back at Los Angeles High School, yards from the student’s home in the Crenshaw area on March 2.

Espinoza was charged with a single murder count with a special-circumstance allegation that could make him eligible for the death penalty, said Shiara M. Davila, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. The special circumstance was that it was a gang-related shooting, Davila said. Prosecutors also included special allegations that the crime involved the personal use of a firearm and that it was a gang-related felony offense.

Espinoza was arrested Friday and appeared in court Tuesday. Police have said two Hispanic gang members approached Shaw, who was black, and asked him where he was from - meaning the name of his gang - and then shot him. But Shaw was not in a gang, authorities and his family said.

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Students scramble for internships The Internship Event at CSUF attracted at least 400 students on Tuesday

By CRAIG GROSSMAN

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

With the spring semester ending in the next two months, some Cal State Fullerton students are taking steps to gain work experience in their chosen professions over the summer.

Many of the job-seeking pressures these students may have been feeling have been averted thanks to the CSUF Career Center.

Mostly dressed in dapper business attire and wielding resumes, an estimated 400 CSUF students converged at the Titan Student Union Pavilions on Tuesday to gather information and mingle with internship representatives at

“The Internship Event.”

The two-hour event began at 1 p.m. and attracted a broad range of employers from across Southern California, including Mattel Inc., NBC Universal, the American Heart Association and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

After introductions from the approximately 30 employers in attendance, the employers met students who braved long lines at individual cocktail tables.

Student attendees were asked to RSVP on the Career Center Web site, but some were also allowed entry if they were dressed professionally and had a resume, according to Career Center Arts and Entertainment Specialist Laura Neal.

Neal said preparations for this event began in earnest well before the semester. She also said it was difficult to secure some of the high-profile representatives.

“The planning started last fall,

and not real aggressively until after the semester began,” said Neal, who indicated that Career Center internship and student employment specialist Leticia Llamas and events coordinator Patricia Hymes assembled the logistics, respectively. “Usually, it’s more challenging to get these more glamorous companies. [Llamas] went through our database and selected the employers to invite, and they only have summer internships.”

CSUF student Roberto Clemente, 26, visited three tables associated with his field.

“The first one I went to was DreamWorks; that’s the one I wanted to go to,” said Clemente, a fine arts major who said he thought the event was geared toward business and not enough studios and animators. “Then I went to Nickelodeon, and I just stopped talking to Fox.” Diane Pacheco, who is a client

Associated Press

Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month’s high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.

Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only about one-quarter of the white vote, extending a pattern that carried him to victory in earlier primaries in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

His triumph seemed unlikely to shorten a Democratic marathon expected to last at least six more weeks — and possibly far longer — while Republicans and their

nominee-in-waiting, Sen. John McCain, turn their attention to the fall campaign.

“Now we look forward to campaigning in Pennsylvania and around the country,” Maggie Williams, Clinton’s campaign manager, said in a written statement that congratulated Obama on his victory.

“I’m confident that once we get a nominee, the party is going to be unified,” Obama said as he collected his victory.

But in a race growing more contentious, he took a swipe at the way his rival’s campaign has conducted itself.

“We’ve been very measured in terms of how we talk about Senator Clinton,” he said. “I’ve been careful to say that I think Senator

Clinton is a capable person and that should she win the nomination, obviously, I would support her. I’m not sure we’ve been getting that same approach from the Clinton campaign,” he said on CNN. Returns from 92 percent of Mississippi’s precincts showed Obama gaining 59 percent, to 39 percent for Clinton. Obama picked up at least 17 of Mississippi’s 33 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, with five more to be awarded.

He hoped for a win sizable enough to erase most if not all of Clinton’s 11-delegate gain from last week, when she won three primaries.

The Illinois senator had 1,596 delegates to 1,484 for Clinton. It takes 2,025 to win the nomina-

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Neither of the two rivals appears able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to prevail in their historic race for the nomination, a development that has elevated the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who will attend next summer’s national convention as unelected superdelegates.

Obama leads Clinton among pledged delegates, 1,385-1,237 in The Associated Press count, while the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247211.

There was little suspense about the Mississippi outcome, and both Clinton and Obama spent part of their day campaigning in Pennsylvania.

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it.”

Cuellar said two-minute presentations for Business Week were done during the two weeks preceding the event for approximately 1,500 students.

“My goal was to physically be in the classrooms,” Cuellar said. “We

knew that 1,500 students were going to know about the event and then hopefully tell their friends.”

“It’s difficult to publicize anything and for a lot of people, business is not that exciting,” Moore said. “They don’t realize how exciting it can be.”

Moore said students will be able

to network and get insight through attending the events.

“Once the students are here and in the door, we know they’ll be pleased with the content,” Moore said. “There’s no smoke and mirrors. Once the students are here at the events, they’ll see for themselves.”

Moore said she hopes students attend tomorrow’s events.

“I really hope to see more of what we saw Monday,” Moore said.

“We had a lot of students who have never attended any events on campus and were uninvolved come to the events and I hope that continues.”

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The session will feature the coproducers of the documentary, Diane Ambruso and Jacqueline Frost, both from the Radio-TV-Film department at CSUF. “It’s a real diverse mix of academic and multimedia presentations on gender in literature, rhetoric of gender in professional sports and the role gender played in the Southern California wildfires,” said Marjorie Jolles, an assistant professor of women’s studies on campus.

“Scholarship on Gender” is just one of the many events that will be presented throughout the month of March in celebration of Women’s History Month. Women’s History

Month is an opportunity to “focus of the things that may not always not only on the present achieve- be talked about, so these are the ments of women, but also discuss places to go and do that,” said Rethem in the context of our histo- nae Bredin, chair and associate prory,” said fessor of Rebecca w o m e n’s Dolhistudies. now, a T h i s CSUF year two assistant new events profeshave been sor of added to women’s the “Girls studies.

G o n e T h e W i l d , confer– Renae Bredin, Feminism ence on and its Women’s Studies Associate Professor D i s c o n gender w i l l tent,” calfeature endar. music, O n film, debates, lectures and a Battle March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Titan of the Bands competition.

Student Union Pub, Battle of the “It’s a way to learn about some Bands will feature Slow Mo Erotic,

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I would love to see lots of people who may not normally think of themselves as someone who would want want to talk about women’s issues.

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manager in the Pacific southwest region of INROADS, a non-profit organization, estimated that she met with dozens of students. INROADS has been attending CSUF job fairs for 17 years; and currently accepts freshman and sophomores with a 2.8 minimum GPA in specialized majors.

“I think that the students have great qualities,” said Pacheco, whose organization partners with Fortune 500 companies to identify minority students for companies.

“I saw the seniors whom I was impressed with; they had suits and ties. And the females were very nicely dressed professionally. The [students in attendance] were definitely qualified.”

“The Internship Event” is held annually in the spring and is sponsored by the Target Corp. and the Business InterClub Council, which is the third event of BICC’s “Business Week.”

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Numerous debates questioning sexuality, porn, hip hop, rock ‘n’ roll and fashion will be highlighted throughout the month of March.

“I would love to see lots of people who may not normally think of themselves as someone who would want to talk about women’s issues to join these events,” Bredin said.

“And it’s a great opportunity to drink beer and listen to good music, all while learning about the stereotypes of the female body as a sex object.”

Sponsors for the events include the Women’s Studies and Nursing departments, the Women’s Studies Student Association, the Liberal Studies Student Association, the European Studies Student Association and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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March 12, 2008

Titan Editorial Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960

Hunting for real internships Cal State Fullerton’s “Internship Event” brought heavy-hitting corporations like NBC Universal, Target, MTV, the FBI and 20th Century FOX to the outstretched hands of students eager for job opportunities.

After a few minutes of introductions, and with phrases like “we will pay you with knowledge” and “I was hired from this internship,” the build-up among the students was evident.

Students rushed to talk to the big companies, but after an NBC recruiter addressed the herd of Titans, it became apparent the paperwork would get lost on its way to Burbank.

Cards with names were handed out, one and two-minute conversations were had, but the end result was the same: “Sign up on the Web site.”

The various recruiters offered the same advice that some of the students had contemplated many times before.

The question we have is whether or not the momentary small talk with companies will make enough of an impression.

Considering that the CSUF Career Center attracted a broad range of employers to its “Internship Event,” it is almost inconceivable that it was only a twohour event.

Letters to the Editor:

With the long lines and some 30 employers in attendance, the event did not give students a sufficient amount of time to mingle with prospective employers to explore their options.

With one of the largest communications and RTVF departments in Southern California, the focus of “The Internship Event” was narrow in focus.

The jobs that students are able to secure at this event are far from the glamorous or desirable internships most are looking for.

Instead, they are about as fulfilling as a summer spent licking stamps.

It is any wonder why these companies don’t just simply advertise with flyers on telephone poles. At least that way, students know what they are getting into.

Under the current system, students are shown a feast and handed the scraps.

We are told useless words and given no security in the job hunt.

The only guarantees students are left with after circling the grounds were a full stomach and a fresh pencil with “Nickelodeon” written on the side.

Perhaps with better organization and more time for students and perspective employers to interact, the next event will be more effective.

Any feedback, positive or negative, is encouraged, as we strive to keep an open dialogue with our readership. The Daily Titan reserves the right to edit letters for length, grammar and spelling. Direct all comments, questions or concerns along with your full name and major to Opinion Editor Johnathan Kroncke at jkroncke@dailytitan.com

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Reaching out to home-schoolers

By Steven Martinez

Reasons parents choose home school

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

I was home-schooled.

Every weekday morning I woke up, got dressed, ate breakfast and got ready for school like any other kid.

The difference was, instead of walking to a bus stop or getting driven to school, I merely walked upstairs.

From third- through eighth-grade, my mother, and sometimes father, took on the roles of both teacher and nurturer. I had books for each subject, an allotted time for each lesson and homework for each class.

I originally went to public school, but my parents made the decision to put me through home school when we moved to a new house and the rest was history. I don’t feel any different, but I guess I am.

The California appellate court recently ruled that parents who want to home school their children must have a teaching credential.

31.2%

Concern about environment of other schools.

29.8%

To provide religious or moral instruction

16.5%

Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools

7.2%

Child has other special needs

6.5%

Child has a physical or mental health problem

From a 2003 survey of parents by the National Center for Educational Statistics

My mom recently received her degree in liberal arts and is now pursuing her teaching credential, but when I was being home-schooled, neither of my parents had a college degree.

Yet, they taught me for six years of my life and looking back, I don’t feel as though I was cheated out of a good education.

It wasn’t like my parents wrote their own books, mixed it in with a Bible study and called it a day.

Getting past the barrier to experience a new language We’ve made it to the halfway mark here, so that means it's time for celebration. Last week was spring break, at least for me and my study abroad pals.

So we scattered, like the commonplace image of fall leaves, over the continent of Europe.

Many left in groups to Spain, Prague and Germany. Even our resident adviser left for Cambodia and Vietnam.

As for me, I boarded a 747 bound for Gothenburg, Sweden.

There, I was going to visit two former members of the Daily Titan family, but the trip quickly became much more than just a happy vacation of sightseeing.

I sat alone on the plane, normally a mundane experience for anyone who flies more than once

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Other reasons

The curriculum they taught with was certified by the state. And truthfully, the curriculum is where all the necessary information comes from.

A teacher’s job is just to present the information to the students, which my parents did perhaps even better than a teacher who couldn’t know me like they do.

I went on to a private high school and now a public college and while I didn’t make it into Harvard or MIT, I don’t think having a gym class and

cafeteria lunches would have gotten me there either.

I understand that the government feels that keeping up education standards is part of its duty, but teaching your own child is so different from teaching a classroom of other people’s children that a credential program could be going overboard.

Maybe it isn’t, I can only speak from my own experience.

However, what honestly makes me sad is that some would believe that because I was home-schooled, my mind is somehow inferior to a publicly educated one.

Some believe that because I had a Bible class, I don’t have the open mindedness to contribute to society in a positive or meaningful way.

I don’t hate homosexuals, I don’t hate biology, I don’t hate change and I am certainly not the exception to the rule.

Many of my friends who were home-schooled went on to better colleges than me and I firmly believe they will make a difference one day.

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in their life. This time though, I had a stark realization of my place in the cosmos.

As the pilot started welcoming people onto the flight, I realized I couldn’t understand a word he was saying.

Suddenly I was in a linguistic minority, and I had no one to share that experience with. No one to turn to and make quiet comments in English about our mutual situation.

But it was actually a amazing experience.

English is the high and mighty language after all, so why should we have to worry about what everyone else is trying to say?

I’ll be honest, I’ve never considered how it would feel to not understand what those around you are saying. It makes you feel small and

yet, it's exciting.

Suddenly, the world just feels huge. The brain expands when it can’t read the signs, follow the programs or ask for directions.

Like Juliette Binoche‘s character in “Dan in Real Life” remarks, the perfect day really can be going to a country where you don’t speak the language, a place with different cultures and customs.

Though my friends in Sweden and their family speak wonderful English, they often spoke comfortably in Swedish. It wasn’t on purpose, nor was it irritating, which was a shock.

Instead, there was a feeling of growth as I was forced to rely on body language, tone and expression to know when it was appropriate to laugh, be worried or respond in some other way.

By Erin Tobin

opinion@dailytitan.com

Isolation helps you understand the outsiders a little better; the struggle of foreigners who are far from home.

Have no doubts, I had a wonderful time in Sweden. My hosts were perfect guides and translators and I’d love to return.

It only took a couple of minutes on that plane for the pilot to repeat his message in English, making sure everyone knew how welcome they were on his plane.

But in those few moments, I knew I had grown a bit as a person.

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BY John Synco

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

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Creativity Complexity

Professor Karyl Ketchum is a part-time instructor and a fulltime artist

A metaphor comparing fish in water to humans and the collective blindness of our reality perfectly explains why Karyl Ketchum creates.

“We’re the fish and ideology is the water,” Ketchum, a part-time lecturer in the Women’s Studies Department said. “It’s impossible for the fish to analyze or even imagine water, because it’s wholly immersed.

The thing that being creative does may be our only way out of the fishpond, maybe it’s our only way to get a critical distance and actually see the water, or see the ideology and begin to subvert it, poke at it, turn it upside down or even give it a name.”

When Ketchum talks about academics and art, wisdom radiates from her hazel eyes, but when she’s forced to recall memories from a childhood riddled with change, the brilliance in her eyes is replaced with an innocent stare of a little girl once lost.

Ketchum, 44, will become a fulltime teacher in the fall and will head classes like Gender and Technoculure, Intercultural Women’s Studies and Gender and Globalization.

She attributes her success to a series of events that led her into the arms of her adopted grandmother Francis.

“My family background is fairly complicated,” Ketchum said. “I was born in Cleveland, Ohio to my birth mom who, at the time, was 16 years old and then I was put up for adoption.”

Ketchum lived in foster care for six months before her adopted family arrived to take her to a new home in Elyria, Ohio.

“All of a sudden I have a grandmother who is one of the first women to get a Master's degree in literature,” she said. “[She] ended up quoting Emily Dickinson to me and all the great women poets, along with many of the great male poets.

[She] really instilled in me a love of art in all its forms.”

These are aspects of life she said would have never crossed her path had she stayed with her birth family.

“I was born into a family that was incredibly poor that lived in southern Ohio, really an area that we

Paintings By karyl Ketchum All artwork are original pieces by Karyl Ketchum. Top: “Monu Time.” Bottom Left: “The Seduction of Whiteness.” Bottom Right: “Imogene Carrie.”

would call Appalachia,” Ketchum said. “ [It had] the kind of poverty that most people can’t even imagine.

Most people associate this kind of poverty with third world spaces.”

Her adopted father James, a retired journalist, also instilled factors within Ketchum’s life, that helped shape her professionally.

She developed a love for language and learned through the power of creative thought she could create change.

“He had a really profound influence on my life,” Ketchum said.

“Both of them [her father and grandmother] are humanists. Both of them believe, believed in the case of my grandmother, in social justice, art and in language. I trace a lot of what I’m doing back to both of them.”

The family moved to San Diego when Ketchum was 15 when her father became the managing editor of the San Diego Evening Tribune.

Ketchum graduated from Poway High School in 1982.

Although she considers her high school years to be quite boring, she did frequent the beach and develop a serious painting habit.

In the years following graduation she married her high school sweetheart, gave birth to her two daughters Britt and Hail, divorced her high school sweet heart and then re-married.

In 1994, after her grandmother passed away, they moved to Northern California.

“I was accepted to U.C. Davis,” she said.

Ketchum received her Bachelors degree in art studio and women and

gender studies in 1999.

She earned her Master’s Degree in cultural studies in 2001 and soon after, she received her doctorate in the same discipline.

She began teaching at U.C. Davis when she entered graduate school.

"She's a terrific addition to our faculty," Renae Bredin, the program director for women's studies said. "[Ketchum] is an amazing artist and has an amazing theoretical background in terms of cultural studies theory, feminist theory, post modernist theory, and that’s a rare combination."

Student feedback like "amazing" and "extremely compelling" funnel back to Bredin regarding Ketchum's teaching. "[Students] feel like they come out of classes having learned more than they imagined they would have learned," Bredin said. "She has a depth of understanding that transcends boundaries. She’s not only an artist and she’s not only a theorist, she’s both at the same time, which in terms of the kind of work she does, the research she does and the combination between that and her art, is very rare – very unusual."

This is Ketchum's third semester at Cal State Fullerton.

“The Women’s Studies Department at Cal State Fullerton actually decided they wanted to include a cultural studies emphasis in their program,” Ketchum said. “So what that means for me, is that my background in cultural studies and my passion for art making, in all its different forms, is really valued here.

That’s why this is a really perfect place for me to be.”

Now that Ketchum has obtained full-time status, she will move from her cubicle into an office, but more importantly, she will continue to participate in an ongoing conversation within cultural studies and its relationship to feminist theory.

She also wants to see more men in the classroom.

Radio-TV-Film major Robert Regalado can't imagine taking a women's studies class only because his major restricts extra time from his schedule.

"If I had extra time I would consider it," Regalado said in a recent interview.

“I think there’s a real problem with thinking that women’s studies is all about male bashing,” Ketchum said. “I think that still lingers, that idea and it’s so outdated. It’s not at all what it’s about. It’s like the fish thing. It’s all of us getting that critical distance.”

Ketchum said she wants her students to grasp the notion that they can make sense of the world by critically deconstructing and reassembling it in a way that makes sense so they can navigate it mindfully and not blindly.

Also, she said she wants students to get a sense of who they are in the world and understand the responsibilities of being educated.

“To be at the university is a tremendous privilege,” Ketchum said.

“That privilege, as all privilege does, confers a great deal of responsibility.

Not just the responsibility to go out and get a job and make money, but a responsibility to share that knowledge and a responsibility to live mindfully.”

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Tennis loses to Texas State Bobcats Lakers’ forward pays it forward

The Titans continue to struggle, dropping to 2-10 on the year

By damian kelly

For the Daily Titan

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Professional athletes take a lot of heat for the millions of dollars they make to play a game. Many people think they’re overpaid, receiving salaries in one year that a working-class person doesn’t earn in their entire life. Their claims gain more credibility when disgruntled players are heard demanding trades and asking for a better supporting cast.

With all the talk about player salaries and their personal shortcomings, the positive things they do are often forgotten. Fortunately, there are two sides to a story, and members of the Los Angeles Lakers stand out as positive role models of giving back to their community.

Forward Vladimir Radmanovic is a notable example, as demonstrated through his foundation to help abandoned children. Based in Seattle, Washington, The Vladimir Radmanovic Children’s Foundation was created in 2005, after Radmanovic signed with the Seattle SuperSonics.

Matthew Wade, Director of the Vladimir Radmanovic Children’s Foundation, said Radmanovic called him about his desire to give back to his community after experiencing many hardships as a young boy.

“Vladimir grew up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, which was a war-torn area, and he saw a lot of devastation,” Wade said. “He saw a lot of children abandoned and he wanted to do something to see children not go through the same thing as he did.”

Radmanovic’s foundation has gone a long way towards accomplishing that goal, having donated $110,000 to International Orthodox Christian Charities, an Orthodox Christian humanitarian organization, to provide a vocational training program for orphans in Belgrade, according to Wade. Not only does he assist orphans in his home country, but also in Los Angeles County.

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Battling is what the Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team has done all year, but the results have been mostly disheartening, and their most recent match was no exception.

The Titans (2-10) fell 6-1 to the Texas State Bobcats (5-5) in a nonconference match at Titan Courts on Tuesday afternoon.

In the No. 3 doubles match, CSUF sophomore Brandy Andrews and senior Breanna Stowell combined for a 9-8 (8-6) victory over Bobcats’ Ali Gulida and Sumarie Muller. Unfortunately for the Titans, it would be one of the only highlights of their day.

Titan Freshman Erin Wiesener and sophomore Jerusha Cruz fell to Ashley Ellis and Lainey Chafitz 5-8 in the No. 2 doubles match. This put pressure on CSUF’s No. 1 doubles team of Shelly Injejikian and Karina Akhmedova, who played against Andrea Giraldo and Rabea Hartmann.

The Bobcats had a few things go their way in the match, like Akhmedova having a few balls bounce off the net and fall back on the Titans side for points.

“Those things you can’t control and that kind of sucks,” Injejikian said. “We just got to get a little more aggressive at the net in general.”

Injejikian and Akhmedova eventually fell short and lost 7-9 in the tight doubles match.

“We had four match points, so it was really sad,” Akhmedova said. “It was kind of hard to get over that.”

In the singles matches, Texas State took five of six despite the best efforts of CSUF. Akhmedova was able to take the sole singles match for the Titans with a 7-5, 0-1 win. The match ended early due to an injury to Bobcats’ Ellis. Akhmedova said she was pleased with her victory despite her exhaustion, but felt she

By Xavier Hernandez/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Cal State Fullerton sophomore Jerusha Cruz striking the ball with a forehand Tuesday afternoon at the Titan Courts.

could have done better in the win.

And while the Titans lost the remaining matches, they fought until the end in them, refusing to give up in the No. 2 and No. 5 matches. In the No. 2 match, Injejikian faced the same opponent from her doubles match earlier in Hartmann and lost 6-7, 4-6.

“It didn’t feel like a loss to me,” Injejikian said. “I didn’t feel like we actually lost today. I feel like its

something we learned. We’re getting closer and closer.”

Andrews’ singles match went down to the wire as she lost 5-7, 6-3, 11-9 to Jennifer Nowland in the No. 5 match. Wiesener lost to Giraldo in the No. 1 match, 2-6, 1-6, Cruz lost to Gulida 0-6, 0-6 in the No. 4 match, and Stowell fell to Mackenzie Farmer 4-6, 1-6 in the No. 6 match.

“We are getting closer to winning that doubles point and we need that

doubles point to gain momentum in the singles [matches],” CSUF Head Coach Bill Reynolds said. “When we get that close to winning the doubles point, if we don’t win it, they got to put it behind them, forget about it, and go out and play singles with a positive attitude.”

The Titans next match is on Thursday against UC Irvine in a conference match at 2 p.m. at Titan Courts.

Five Acres is an orphanage in Los Angeles County and Vladimir Radmanovic has made significant contributions to it, according to information posted on their Web site.

Children at Five Acres are given to family relatives or they are placed with a foster family where there is a strong family connection.

Wade said the children they take in often have a poor family life.

“The children we get have been abused or there are drugs in the home, so they are coming from poor family situations,” Wade said.

Individual Lakers players aren’t the only ones who help the less fortunate. The Lakers organization as a whole are generous contributors to their community. The California wildfires in 2007 caused mass devastation across the state. The Lakers decided to lend a helping hand when they donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which provided aid to those affected by the wildfires.

Eugenia Chow, Director of Community Relations for the Lakers, presented the check to Paul Schulz and Edmond Lelo, CEO and Chairman of the Board for the American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles.

Lakers fans at the game that evening were encouraged to make donations to the relief fund, which resulted in 250 participants raising a total of $1,810 by the end of the night.

“They were very generous to help victims in the community,” Mary Jolivet said, the Chief Marketing Officer for the American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles. “It helps us out a lot because we can only help people through donations, and this was a wonderful way to do it.”

Although the Lakers partnership with the Red Cross is a fairly new, Jolivet said she is sure they will find opportunities in the future to work together. Generosity by a well-paid athlete and his organization all go towards showcasing the positives of professional sports and their teams in giving back.