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Symposium to discuss Iraq War’s impact Experts on the Middle East will dicuss the Iraq War tomorrow in a daylong symposium in Cal State Fullerton’s Pollak Library.

Organizers hope to raise awareness of the war and its impact on the world.

There will be four panels discussing the issues and impact of the war, perspectives from overseas countries and international law.

The event is sponsored by the university’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and departments of History and Modern Languages and Literatures.

The event will run from 9:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. and is open to the public.

Undocumented students striving for more benefits supports the Dream Act

By Juliette funes

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

91 Freeway to undergo closures next weekend

Both directions of the 91 Freeway at Green River Road will undergo nighttime closures next weekend to make way for construction.

The closures include: Westbound 91 at Green River Road from 10 p.m. Friday, May 9, to 8 a.m. Saturday, May 10. Also, eastbound 91 at Green River Road from 11 p.m. Saturday, May 10, to 9 a.m.

Sunday, May 11.

Motorists should take I-10 and Route 60 as east/west routes into and out of the Inland Empire; the 57 to reach the 10 and 60; and I-15, Route 71 and I-215 to travel north/south within the counties.

Construction crews will set scaffolding for the second half of the new Green River Road bridge.

The $21-million multi-agency project, which includes adding two traffic lanes and the realignment of on-ramps and off-ramps, is expected to be completed later this year.

For more information, the public may call 1-866-383-4631.

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Dealing with the problems of autism and Asperger’s Syndrome in a creative manner Author wrote a children’s book designed to teach tolerance and interaction

By Paul Aranda Jr.

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

A former Cal State Fullerton President’s Scholar is set to release a new children’s book this summer allowing readers to gain a better understanding and appreciation for children with autism.

Joanna Keating-Velasco will KEATINGbe releasing her VELASCO second book, titled “In His Shoes – A Short Journey Through Autism” this summer.

This children’s book is set apart from other books because the main character has autism. The book provides an inside into the thoughts of the main character as he transitions from elementary school into middle school. This is often a climatic change for any child. By reading this book, children will be more comfortable around other children who happen to be autistic, KeatingVelasco said.

“People with autism are people that are looking for a communication tool,” Keating-Velasco said.

She said she wrote the new book lect, Keating-Velasco said. Those on for kids in grades four through six the less severe side of the spectrum because she wanted to educate them have what is called Asperger’s Synon how to properly interact with drome. People with the syndrome kids with autism. can go all the way to adulthood beKeating-Velasco felt helpless fore being diagnosed because their when she saw other kids on the symptoms are minor and mistaken playground could not interact with as behavioral problems instead of a her students. At least 94 percent medical condition. of children with autism experiAutism effects people’s ability to ence some form of being bullied at interact with others because they school, she said. are missing the “social rulebook,” Keating-Velasco began advocat- Keating-Velasco said. Autism efing for autism awareness two years fects an individuals ability to utilize ago after she remultiple senses turned to George causing a sensory Key School in overload that ofPlacentia, where ten results in what she works as an is often labeled as instructional aid odd behavior. for children with These behavautism. ioral acts, such – Joanna Keating-Velasco, as hand-flapping Having no preAuthor vious experience or rocking, are with the brain just a couple of disorder, Keating-Velasco spent the many different ways in which many hours in the library research- people with autism calm themselves ing the complex issues involved with down, Keating-Velasco said. autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.

We all have such behavioral patAs she found herself immersed in a terns that have been accepted by world with autism, she decided to society, such as tapping our feet or stay to expand her efforts to help biting our fingernails, Keating-Velaeducate people on how best to in- saco said. teract with people with autism.

Keating-Velasco’s first book on “When something hits you, you children with autism was released want to share it with everyone,” she last year. “A is for Autism, F is for said.

Friend,” has been nominated for the Autism is a spectrum disorder, 2008 Autism Society of America which means that it effects each in- Outstanding Literary Work of the dividual differently and to varying Year. degrees. Those with the more severe There are students with Asperger’s forms of autism are nonverbal and Syndrome who are highly functionare often mistaken to have no intel- al, John Douglas Liverpool, Learn-

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In a pressing race to cure blood cancer, participants in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team-in Training are gearing up to put their minds, bodies and fund raising powers to the test.

On June 8th, the Orange County/Inland Empire chapter of Team-in-Training will be taking over 100 participants to compete in the Kings Trail Triathlon in Maui.

Before the competition, the goal is to raise $5,000. All proceeds go to fund research for Leukemia and Lymphoma patients across the country. One quarter of every dollar raised also pays for the coaching staff that helps the team prepare.

The chapter is seeking donations from residents interested in helping the cause. Donations starting at $25 are enough to provide patients with vital information booklets with facts about their disease and methods of treatment.

Any donations can be made to the donation site sponsored by participant Aimee Charest at http:// www.active.com/donate/tntors/ tntorsAChares. The deadline for all donations is May 31.

Longing to live out their dreams

ing Disability/Mental Health Specialist with the Office of Disabled Students Services, said in an e-mail interview.

Students at CSUF who feel they may have had this disorder misdiagnosed need to consult with a psychiatrist or psychologist off-campus for evaluation. Students diagnosed with the disorder are provided certain accommodations based on the functional limitations associated with their specific case, Liverpool said.

The Director of Disabled Student Services, Paul Miller, said the number of students at CSUF has increased the last several years as national levels in the diagnoses of autism increases.

The university does not have the resources to customize academic programs for students with the disorder. There are several universities in the U.S. that do offer customized courses for students with the disorder, Miller said. It is made clear to parents that their children with the spectrum disorder should enroll at CSUF only if they are highly functional and independent, Miller said.

The university does not have any official statistics on how many students with the disorder are enrolled because student enrollment with the office of Disabled Student Services is voluntary. Miller estimates that there may be as many as two dozen students with the disorder on campus. There are many students with the disorder who may feel comfortable with their abilities and do not require any assistance, Miller said.

Themed as “Students for Equal Access to Education,” members of the Cal State Fullerton student group Alliance of Students for an Equal Education launched a letterwriting campaign to rally support for the California Dream Act. The event offered support to documented and undocumented AB540 students in the CSU and UC systems.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to review the legislation this month.

Currently, AB-540 students qualify to pay in-state tuition regardless of immigration status, but are not allowed to receive state or federal money to fund their education.

Through the act, undocumented AB-540 students would be eligible to apply for institutional financial aid offered by California colleges and universities, including grants, scholarships, loans and work-study.

It would exclude aid provided through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) program, however.

Letty Serrato, a psychology and human services major and an organizer of the event, said the community does not offer a safe place for AB-540 students to openly talk about the problems they have and the difficulties they encounter in trying to achieve a higher education.

“We are all here for an education,” Serrato said. “Even without documents, we all deserve an equal education.”

A student’s desire for an education should be enough to provide them an opportunity, she said.

Despite the idea that immigrants would take money from rightful students, undocumented students have contributed $64 million to California colleges and universities, said Ana Grande, the project director for the advocacy and political organization PowerPAC. The act would focus only on the one percent of undocumented students who make up the AB-540 California population, she said.

“About 40 percent of those students make less than $10,000 a year,” Grande said.

Patricia Perez, assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, spoke about how limited students are in their choices.

“School choices are reduced because of cost and locality,” Perez said. “They have to pay their own way and have limited modes of transportation.”

Students are also limited to majors that do not require internships, which necessitate background checks.

They also take longer to graduate because they postpone transferring from community colleges and lack funds.

“Once students graduate, they are left in limbo because [they] cannot work legally,” Perez said.

According to a California Dream Act Fact Sheet: SB 1301, “Many undocumented students are honor students, athletes, student leaders and aspiring professional, but because of their immigration status, they are unable to access higher education.”

“We don’t want our potential doctors and lawyers to be in school seven or eight years,” Grande said of students who have to limit themselves.

However, they have an “intense motivation to succeed despite all the obstacles that face them,” Perez See DREAM ACT, Page 2

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IN OTHER NEWS DREAM ACT: Lobbying for MORE benefits for INTERNATIONAL MOSCOW (AP) – For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia’s throne.

Some said the delicate 13-year-old had somehow survived and escaped; others believed his bones were lost in Russia’s vastness, buried in secret amid fear and chaos as the country lurched into civil war.

Now an official says DNA tests have solved the mystery by identifying bone shards found in a forest as those of Alexei and his sister, Grand Duchess Maria.

The remains of their parent – Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra – and three siblings, including the czar’s youngest daughter, Anastasia, were unearthed in 1991 and reburied in the imperial resting place in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Orthodox Church made all seven of them saints in 2000.

Despite the earlier discoveries and ceremonies, the absence of Alexei’s and Maria’s remains gnawed at descendants of the Romanov dynasty, history buffs and royalists. Even if Wednesday’s announcement is confirmed and widely accepted, many descendants of the royal family are unlikely to be fully assuaged; they seek formal “rehabilitation” by the government.

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White House regrets displaying banner WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the “Mission Accomplished” banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.

Thursday is the fifth anniversary of Bush’s dramatic landing in a Navy jet on an aircraft carrier homebound from the war. The USS Abraham Lincoln had launched thousands of airstrikes on Iraq.

After shifting explanations, the White House eventually said the “Mission Accomplished” phrase referred to the carrier’s crew completing its 10-month mission, not the military completing its mission in Iraq. Bush, in October 2003, disavowed any connection with the “Mission Accomplished” message.

He said the White House had nothing to do with the banner; a spokesman later said the ship’s crew asked for the sign and the White House staff had it made by a private vendor.

“President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said ‘mission accomplished’ for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday.

At least 49 U.S. troops died in Iraq in April, making it the deadliest month since September when 65 U.S. troops died.

STATE

Doctor indicted for writing prescriptions LOS ANGELES (AP) – A grand jury indicted a doctor on narcotics charges in the wake of a federal investigation that alleged he pocketed about $100,000 a week in cash for writing painkiller prescriptions.

The 23-count federal indictment was returned late Tuesday against Dr. Masoud Bamdad, 54, of Granada Hills, who has been in custody since his April 17 arrest.

The indictment consists of 17 counts of prescribing oxycodone without medical purpose, five counts of prescribing oxycodone without medical purpose to people under age 21, and criminal forfeiture of property and funds obtained through illegal activity.

Criminal defense attorney Bruce Margolin said Wednesday that Bamdad will plead not guilty.

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The American dream is desired by so many, she said. However, there is a mixed message in which students are told if they work hard then they can get what they want, but some are not able to achieve that dream.

Although most undocumented students keep quiet about their status out of fear, some faculty members who are sensitive to the issues AB-540 students face offer a safe space.

Alexandro Gradilla, assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, offered that space to them and spoke about some of the issues that hold students back.

“Despite having incredible skills, students are denied access to services,” Gradilla said.

The library will not loan students

laptops because they do not have a still could not work because she did driver’s license to leave as collateral, not have a green card. he said. Some AB-540 students are Rodriguez’s documents eventually “lacking access to something as basic came through and she now teaches as laptop services,” Gradilla said. at a high school in Santa Ana. Herminia Ro“The road to driguez, a former higher educaCSUF AB-540 tion is difficult, student, attested to but it’s worth the difficulties. She it,” Rodriguez had to pay her way said.

“That through school by window of opworking numerous portunity will jobs and applying eventually hit.”

– Jose Moreno, for private scholarShe said deships. spite all the Long Beach State Professor She said her opchallenges faced tions were very by undoculimited by the money she had and mented students, they are resilient, the schools she could go to. have the drive and “within their Despite graduating in 2003 with minds and hearts, they’re still hopea bachelor’s degree in mathematics ful for change.” and a master’s degree in 2006, she Assistant Professor of Chicano

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Kids shouldn’t be forced to live in fear, lose their culture or their language.

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and Latino studies at Long Beach State, Jose Moreno, was also an undocumented student and had sympathy for the students.

“Our students have all the drive, energy and motivation to do what we tell them to do,” Moreno said.

However, he said AB-540 students are constantly putting themselves at risk by just trying to go to school. Participating in school activities, for example, generates a fear of being caught by school officials and kicked out of school entirely, Moreno said.

“Kids shouldn’t be forced to live in fear, lose their culture or their language,” Moreno said. “All they want to do is live out a dream.”

Students at the Friday event at the Titan Student Union were encouraged to sign petitions and write letters to Schwarzenegger.

Getting Iraqi women on the program Guest speaker talks about the role of women in Iraq during and after the war

By MUEY SAEPHANH

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

The Women and Philanthropy (WP) network at Cal State Fullerton hosted a luncheon at the Alta Vista Country Club in Placentia that featured guest speaker Eileen Padberg, who spoke about empowering Iraqi women. The network gives women the opportunity to be involved in the campus community and be recognized for their successes.

The WP network focuses on social issues relevant to professionals, such as financial planning, leadership seminars and shaping CSUF’s future.

“I helped build this speaker series and I wanted women to be more involved,” Pamela Hillman, vice president of university advancement, said. “Women have to come together and become strong advocates.”

The WP hosts seminars and luncheons so that women can share experiences with other members, according to a pamphlet from the WP network.

These experiences include those of Padberg’s. She is a political consultant and strategist to elected officials around the nation. She has also been asked to help with different nations’ up-and-coming democracies around the world by private international engineering companies. She has traveled worldwide to countries such as the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Guatemala, according to a press release about Padberg.

The WP network asked Padberg to discuss her experiences with rising democracies, especially with their effects on women in Iraq, at a luncheon titled “A Civilian’s View of Life in Iraq and The Way Forward for Iraqi Women.”

Padberg was assigned to stay for six months in Iraq but stayed for 22 months because she said she felt there was more to do. Padberg went to Iraq to help business women succeed in getting their own busi-

nesses started. She held informational and career training seminars to help Iraqi women get jobs. She also helped women bid on United States contracts so they could build their businesses.

“I felt that if there is ever going to be any sort of democracy, the only way to do that is to make sure women had some piece of [it],” Padberg said. “Iraqi women have always had their own businesses. They are very entrepreneurial.”

Her goal was to help women figure out what they were doing wrong and what they needed to do to get a bid on American contracts.

It was difficult for the Iraqi women because all the contracts were in English and although they did not have a difficult time speaking the language, reading and writing presented a challenge. Padberg was there to translate and help them with any difficulties. She also helped the women fill out proposals correctly.

“We took it page by page out of 105-page proposals because the government did not even care to put them in Arabic,” Padberg said.

“I just helped them understand how to fill it out.”

She said the proposals needed to catch the government’s eye so they would approve their plan and provide funds. The proposals consisted of building infrastructure, a number of rooms, building materials, budgets and time lines. The U.S. government then checks which proposal fits their requirements. Padberg made sure everything was up to American standards.

When the United States declared war on Iraq, the government decided to help fund any reconstruction that Iraq wanted to do, Padberg said. Roads, schools, pipelines and new buildings were all promised by the government.

“I really felt that [if there] was a way that women would build businesses, why not use this opportunity?” she said.

Padberg wanted the women in Iraq to be able to start businesses and receive the same opportunities as men.

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May 1, 2008

Titan Editorial Providing insight, analysis and perspective since 1960

Our hollow graduation College graduation, a time filled with excited cap throwing, smiling parents and hearts brimming with pride and accomplishment.

These are the things of fantasy.

You would think that if you can survive the pop quizzes, late-night essay writing and 9 a.m. classes marred by hangovers, you would be rewarded with a stress-free (and cost-free) commencement process.

But this, our most proud moment, is shattered by immense stress and empty pockets – courtesy of our helpful friends in the Admissions and Records and graduation offices.

The thousands of dollars we spend on tuition and books every year already aren’t quite enough to satisfy the immense cost of going to college. So, to add insult to injury, before we walk proudly across the commencement stage, they will make sure to milk us for every last penny.

Grad check: $115 Cap and gown: $50 Announcements: $25 The extra three units you still need to pay for and take: annoying as hell.

The endless parade of hoops we are forced to jump through is simply ridiculous.

See the general education counselor, see the college counselor, see

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your concentration adviser, file your grad check a year in advance, receive the completed grad check, walk it to the graduation office, watch a graduation video, receive your tickets, buy your cap and gown, send out announcements (hopefully receive much needed money from a proud and large family,) then, hopefully, graduate.

And, after all that, it’s likely your name will make it onto the list called at graduation, but you still may not receive a diploma.

And what about the transfer students?

Students who have to have their official transcripts sent to CSUF are undoubtedly likely to have classes which were promised to count but don’t.

The politics and money requirements behind graduation and college in general is far too extreme.

It should be much easier for students to succeed.

Many of us were expected to attend college after high school.

We lived up to our end of the bargain and spent four, five, six or seven years of our young life working hard to get through college.

The California State University system should be expected to live up to their end of the bargain – give us a diploma with guidance and relative ease.

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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A course in elevator etiquette

By Ryan Castle

Daily Titan Staff Writer opinion@dailytitan.com

Have you ever noticed that the most awkward room in any building is the one that transports people from floor to floor?

I’m speaking of course of elevators, and if you’re like me, you take a ride in these at least once a day.

Without a doubt, elevators are the most uncomfortable 5-by-6-squarefoot space you will ever stand in.

Why is this? Why does the inescapable awkwardness that accompanies us every time we step through those sliding doors chase us down like a rabid dog?

From the uneasy decisions of who presses the button to who steps out first, elevator rides are generally the most uncomfortable 15-20 seconds

of our day.

Why are people so afraid to speak in the confines of an elevator? It’s like we're being charged by the word.

Is it the fact that nobody else is speaking and thus, listening in on every word you’re saying, whether they want to or not?

Perhaps it’s the fact that we don’t want to dive into a conversation that will inevitably be ended within the next 30 seconds.

Let’s go over some of our different scenarios and characters that we often come across in these cubicles of boredom: There’s the man who feels the need to take his important phone conversations into the elevator.

For some reason, he relishes the fact that his voice is the only one being spoken, and you apparently need to hear every word of his riveting conversation.

Why do our college crushes still crush us?

My friend Carly dropped by my house last week, and after we swapped plans of an unruly summer, she mentioned a case of boy trouble as I washed some dishes.

The problem was she had trouble talking to a boy in her class.

“Jake, I’ve always been able to talk to almost anyone. You know me. I’ve never had this problem.

This is so weird,” she lamented.

And that’s not so much a rare thing, when the old butterflies start dive-bombing your tummy and your heart beats as loud and hectic as an old punk rock drum.

Even in college.

To motivate her, I offered up the wager of a meal at Del Taco if she had the courage to score his name and a few items of his background history.

Days later, she called me. I had won. She couldn’t do it.

Surprised (but excited about my pending spicy jack quesadilla

Then there’s the dude who uses the elevator to reach the second floor. Is that really necessary?

Take the stairs, jerk. Don’t forget about the guy who feels the need to start talking to you mid-conversation, as if you’d had something before the trip to the elevator.

“Women, they’re something else.”

I’m sorry, who are you? Are you really expecting constructive feedback in the allotted time period provided within this elevator ride?

Riding with this guy can be as annoying as listening to people explain their tribal tattoos.

How about the rare instance of finding yourself paired up with a cute girl for the ride? And the realization that comes over you that you have 30 seconds to come up with something witty at the risk of your ego taking just another bruise

it didn’t need.

Or the horrible occasion in which you stand side by side with your professor and realize, as much as it kills you, forced small talk is necessary.

Maybe if we all tried a little harder we could fix this terribly awkward situation that is the elevator ride.

We’ve all faked pressed the dooropen button as someone runs up to the closing door. We’ve all sat in that terrible silence with no sounds other than the elevator tracks and a cough or a sneeze and maybe a “bless you” if someone is feeling bold enough.

So let’s work together and try just a little harder to help liven up the elevator scene. The next time you walk in the elevator, start some interesting small talk, or even just say ‘hello.’

If we work together, maybe we can make the elevator a fun place … or at least bearable.

Jake’s Take

and fries), I began to recall other “socially active” friends who have exhausted themselves the same way.

My friend Rex, the life and selfappointed host of nearly every party I‘ve ever attended with him, adored a girl in his class last semester.

He wanted to ask “Math Girl” out on a date, but instead of taking command of the situation like he did with logarithms, Rex left his phone number on a note attached to her window wiper in the parking lot.

Even my friend Chase, who broke into the Coachella Music Festival last year and has barged his way through the Costa Rican jungles on two separate surfing excursions, didn’t know how to stop sweating and swaying when talking to a girl in chemistry.

Impressed that this was coming from a guy who once took a bus for over 10 hours in a foreign country to see the girl that he loved, I asked Chase why, in some ways, the classroom has remained as the same arena

for crushes that it was in elementary school.

“I think it’s the whole humbling experience of realizing, ‘Oh my God! Emotionally, I’m still 10 years old!’” he told me with a chuckle.

There’s been some evolution. We drop lines in bars, pull stunts at parties and swing our way from one date to another, but Chase is right.

There’s something that remains utterly hopeless about the classroom.

Sure, it’s not always like that, but there seems to be this one person in everybody’s college career that they just couldn’t bring themselves to talk to, complete with elementary school butterflies and dizzy spells.

And you remember your crush(es) in elementary school, back when the mutual love of “Oregon Trail” was a sure sign of affection.

“Hey, I’m so sorry to tell you this, but you drowned in the river,” you’d tell your crush in a quiet voice.

“Aw, that sucks,” they’d say.

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“I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean for that to happen. An ox went down with two cases of ammo too,” you’d say with a pause. “Am I at least still alive in your game?”

“Actually ... I don’t think I put your name in ...”

“What do you mean?”

“I ran out of people to name.”

“Oh really?” you’d say before mumbling, “Now there’s no hope of us making it to Oregon together to start a family.”

“What?” they’d ask curiously.

“Nothing!” you’d shout.

But then you’d spend recess throwing dirt clods at her.

Oh, how our inner-child won’t let us grow up.

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City employees battle it out in dodgeball tournament City of Fullerton’s Park and Recreation sponsors dodgeball tournament

BY Melissa Pollard

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Acting like a kid again can be so much fun, but childish behavior has its time and place.

The City of Fullerton’s Park and Recreation Department held an adult co-ed dodgeball tournament.

The tournament was teams of six women and men facing against each other in a battle of who could outlast the other.

Each team paid a $100 entry fee for the tournament.

This fee paid for commemorative tournament shirts, referees to judge the game and trophies for the champion team.

The tournament took place at Independence Park on Valencia Drive in Fullerton.

The basketball court inside the Frances Wood Activity Center, also known as the Independence Park Gymnasium, was made into a dodgeball court.

Red tape marked area of play, but rubber balls were flying all throughout the court.

Fans who went to watch the games sat along the sides of the gym, but had to be aware of what was going on in the game at all times or they could become a victim of a rubber ball.

There were four teams in the tournament: the Usual Suspects, Bad Boys, Fullerton’s Finest and the Five Ds. With only four teams, there were no eliminations until the championship rounds, which had been split into two sections.

The Consolation Championship round was played first.

This was the two bottom teams, the Usual Suspects and the Bad Boys, playing for third and fourth place.

The team that won the two of three games would take third place.

The Bad Boys, which was made up of male and female Fullerton Police Cadets, won the first two games played and were victorious over the Usual Suspects.

Tony Bogard, 33, who played for the Usual Suspects, said he had a good time at the tournament, even though his team placed last.

“It was nice being able to let loose.

I haven’t played dodgeball since I was in, like, elementary school,” Bogard said.

Bogard, a Fullerton resident, heard about the dodgeball tournament from an e-mail that he received from the city.

The second half of the championship round was for 1st place.

Fullerton’s Finest dominated the first two games against the Five D’s to win the championship.

Fullerton’s Finest was made up of Fullerton City employees.

Alex Solis, 20, organized the entire tournament.

“We needed another team to make the tournament work, so I asked some of my fellow employees to play along with me,” Solis said.

“It was fun.”

Solis is a junior at Cal State Fullerton majoring in history.

Fullerton’s Finest only had one girl playing on their team.

Stefanie Tash, 24, graduated in December of 2007 with a degree in business.

Tash said she did not mind being the only girl on the court.

“They needed a player and I was already working, so I figured ‘Why not?’ They were all real[ly] encouraging and good teammates,” Tash said.

Each month the Fullerton Parks and Recreations Departments host a co-ed adult sport tournament.

Solis is continually planning for

City of Fullerton employees take to the court in the dodgeball tournament.

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the following month’s event.

Next month they will be having “wallyball,” also known as ‘rebound volleyball.’ This game – played on a racquetball court –is a combination

of racquetball and volleyball.

For more information on this event or other events in Fullerton, go to the city Web site at www. ci.fullerton.ca.us.

Student Veteran’s Association on-campus center is goal Joseph Chang joined the Army; he’s trying to get a center for veterans

BY Karl Zynda

Daily Titan Copy Editor news@dailytitan.com

In the vicinity of Baghdad in 2005, the U.S. Army outposts “War Horse,” “Gabe” and “Normandy” were constantly under threat of attack by car bomb or mortar fire.

Postal Operations Sgt. Joseph Chang found out they were difficult places to deliver mail.

“It was a lot of work,” Chang, a senior and human services major at Cal State Fullerton, said. “Dangerous work.”

Chang, now 33, lives in Hacienda Heights, Calif. He was responsible for the movement, guarding and distribution of mail in Baghdad, as well as collection of soldiers’ mail.

He found out that he had a job that was seen as being very important by his commanding officers.

“If you don’t get mail, the morale goes down,” Chang said. “It was one of the most important morale boosters.”

But not all mail sent to Iraq found its way to whom it was addressed.

“We were also notified of dead soldiers,” Chang said. “We had to send back their mail. Dealing with those was one of the most difficult things in Iraq.”

Chang’s path to Iraq began when he joined the Army when he was 22.

Having immigrated to America when he was 16, he was still trying to become a part of American society.

“I’ve seen many minorities, Koreans, ethnic students, get a job in their own community, low-wage job … undesirable job,” Chang said. “Yet, here we are to achieve American dreams. I did not want to victimize

myself by falling into the same steps.

I wanted a sense of ownership.”

In Korea, Chang had seen many feature films with stories about the U.S. military.

The values he saw depicted in them – heroism, courage, sacrifice and honor -- were inspiring to him.

“Rambo has a good impact,” he said. “Those are the American heroes.

The best military in the world.”

Chang eventually decided that the Army offered the opportunity he was looking for.

“A guy like me who just came from another country would have a hard time achieving that otherwise,” he said. “It would be a way of ad-

vancement for me – to better myself, to discipline myself, to be more of a true American and true citizen who has a sense of ownership of this country.”

Chang joined the Army and became part of the 101st Airborne Division.

He was an honor graduate at Airborne School.

After training, he was stationed in Korea at the Demilitarized Zone, where he served as a translator for a general.

Chang left active service but remained in the Army reserves. He started at CSUF in fall 2004.

He chose CSUF because it was

close to his home and was a wellknown school.

The army ordered Chang’s return to active duty in April 2005.

In July, of that year, he was sent to Iraq and assigned to a postal and combat support unit.

“I had to laugh when I got that order,” he said. “But after I got to Iraq I started appreciating my job as a postal operations sergeant.”

Constant mortar fire was directed at the bases where Chang was stationed, as well as several car bombs.

“You cannot imagine the noise,” Chang said of the car bombs. “Just so loud and the impact is so amazSee Veterans, Page 5

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Veterans: appreciation day at alumni house “ ing. Several gate guards got killed and the walls at the gate got damaged.”

Chang also knew many soldiers who were wounded by mortar fire or roadside bombs.

Four mortar shells landed close to him, including one that landed on another soldier’s bed while he was away.

One friend of his was even accidentally killed while moving blast walls.

Chang was unwounded, or so it seemed.

But when he returned home in 2006, he found he had symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a terrifying event in which grave physical harm was threatened, according to the National Institute of Mental Health Web site (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ health/topics/post-traumatic-stressdisorder-ptsd/index.shtml).

It can put its victims at risk for substance abuse or suicide, according to an article in USA Today in October 2007 (http://www.usatoday. com/news/washington/2007-2007 -10-18-veterans-stress_N.htm).

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the beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and almost half of the cases were PTSD. “Once you come back, you feel difficulty in adjusting to a peaceful environment in contrast to Iraq, where you are constantly on guard,” Chang said. “There’s no relaxing [in Iraq]. We try, but there’s truly no relaxing. When you come back, that doesn’t go away easily.”

Nightmares about the war troubled Chang.

He felt a sense of loss and a lack of focus and purpose.

“Any big noise around a neighborhood resonates, and you react to any noise,” Chang said. “You wake up in the morning thinking you have to go on guard duty.”

The PTSD made concentrating on homework difficult. Other problems were social isolation and the need to readjust to civilian life.

“When I came back, I just wanted to get done in school and I was too tired to get involved with organizations,” Chang said.

Talking to other veterans, he realized they were having problems readjusting that were similar to his.

“I thought that was only me, but I found out through conversations with other veterans that that was almost everybody’s experience,”

Chang said. “So that’s when I decided to start this veteran’s group.”

Chang walked around the CSUF campus looking for people with short haircuts, clothes, hats or backpacks that were military style.

He would approach them and, if they were veterans, he would tell them his idea for a veteran’s discussion group.

“And I felt like I was spreading the gospel,” Chang said.

The discussion group began with five veterans meeting at CSUF’s Aloha Java coffee stand in August 2005.

They talked about their experiences in the war and in readjusting to civilian life and school.

PTSD was not discussed.

“No, they don’t talk about it,” Chang said. “A couple guys have minor PTSD. But they don’t talk about it because of military culture. If you go to sick hall, if you seek help that is a sign of weakness, sissyness and being a wuss. Soldiers are expected to be strong, to be independent and a figure of selfless service. They are not conditioned to take care of themselves.”

Out of the discussion group, the Student Veterans Association was formed. Brandon Larson, a junior who is majoring in civil engineering, served in the Navy for six years be-

fore being redeployed with the Army in Iraq in 2004-2005.

Chang refers to Larson as his “right-hand man.”

“I’ve been busy trying to get things organized,” he said of his work for SVA. Larson advises the club about education opportunities and benefits available to veterans.

Chang also acknowledges the support and advice of Barbara McDowell and Sue Passalacqua, the director and associate director of the CSUF Women’s Center, where Chang is now interning for the second time.

“They [students] don’t realize how challenging marketing can be,” said Passalacqua, of starting a new club.

“He came with the idea and the passion and our help has been with support.”

Passalacqua recommended marketing strategies for the club such as eye-catching fliers and a logo. Forming the club has been a great benefit for Chang.

“It became a cure for my PTSD,” he said. “My anger toward this war, resentment about this whole situation, emptiness and loneliness are gone because I was able to provide care and empathy to other veterans who went through similar things, who went through the same expe-

I thought that was only me, but I found out through conversations with other veterans that was almost everybody’s experience. So that’s when I decided to start this veteran’s group.

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rience. I guess what goes around comes around.”

The long-term goal of the SVA is to have an on-campus veteran’s center. The SVA has approached Dr. Robert Palmer, Vice President of Student Affairs, and Dr. Silas Abrego, Associate Dean of Student Affairs, for support. Both men are

Vietnam War veterans.

“We went to see them at the end of February and we had a little meeting with them and we got a promise of support,” Chang said.

Dr. Abrego, in an interview, was emphatic in his support of the SVA. “I think it’s only right to see that every opportunity to succeed is provided for them on this campus since they have served this country in many ways. The [SVA] center would become a base in which the veterans are integrated with campus life, an anchor for their endeavors and a family for them to draw personal support from,” he said.

On Sunday, May 4 the Student Veterans Association will host Veterans Appreciation Day at the Alumni House from 6 to 9 p.m.

Chang said 150 guests have already sent an RSVP. Sue Passalacqua, Associate Director of the Women’s Center/Adult Reentry Center, Dr. Robert Palmer and Col. Patrick Gough, Deputy Commander of Installation West, Camp Pendleton and CSUF Alumni Association President-Elect, are the three speakers for the evening.

Chang gave credit for the preparation for the event to his fellow SVA members who helped.

“They’re doing a great job to prepare this event in appreciation of vets and bringing awareness to vet’s issues and needs on campus,” Chang said.

Advertisements belong on TV, not on the diamond

by johnathan kroncke

Daily Titan Opinion Editor sports@dailytitan.com

Sometimes I hear it in my sleep.

That horrible, ear-splitting quack.

Then I sit bolt upright and try to answer the trivia question that was in my dream before it dissolves from my memory.

This odd version of night terrors may be exactly the type of thing Aflac wants – potential customers dreaming of its ads – but I think I speak for most sports fans when I say we just want to watch the game.

Professional sports like the NBA, NFL and MLB have become so burdened with expenses that the only way to cover all of the costs and still turn a profit is to sell their souls, and their airtime, to advertising.

As sports fans, we know this and we accept it. It’s just the nature of the beast. But nowadays, the ads are

Down From Heaven

seeping out of the designated commercial time and have nearly taken over the broadcasts themselves.

In baseball, the in-game advertising has become so pervasive that there is hardly a shot that does not catch some piece of a CitiBank or Del Taco sign in the stadium.

Every time the camera turns to show Angels manager Mike Scioscia, I’m bombarded with California Pizza Kitchen symbols. That’s OK though, I love that restaurant.

But then the image switches to show Garrett Anderson at the plate, and suddenly I’m forced to watch the at-bat against a Bank of America background.

When G.A. lifts the ball into the outfield, I struggle to focus on the action for the blur of Panda Express and Banco Popular signs displayed on the outfield wall.

God forbid a rain delay forces the field crew to break out the infield tarp, neatly kept along the foul line and covered with its own advertisements.

And when the camera has to peel itself away from the field to show a replay, we are treated to replays courtesy of electronics dealer Howard’s and British car maker Jaguar. I didn’t even think the Brits liked baseball.

But be that as it may, the ads are mind-numbingly repetitious and only serve to exasperate viewers rather than appeal to them.

Now, I’m no advertising major or anything, but it seems that annoying your potential customers is kind of the opposite of what advertisers want to do.

Generally, the roadside billboards and TV commercials I see throughout the day try to create some kind of happy feeling that I might associate with the product. They try to make me laugh or reflect on good times with my dad.

I still get the warm-fuzzies when I see Ronald McDonald dolling out greasy cheeseburgers and fries.

But that same positive sense is lost on me when it interrupts the game I’m trying desperately to fit in between homework assignments.

My next big screen will not be purchased at Howard’s and I have no intention of ever opening up an account at Banco Popular. In fact, those ads actually make me want to go to Angels games more than the games inspire me to buy the products in the ads. A slight reversal of their intention.

Fortunately, the issue hasn’t reached NASCAR status – yet. The league has already denied a proposal from Warner Bros. to put “Spiderman” movie ads on top of the bases.

Not that I don’t love “Spiderman,” but the thought of commercial advertising actually being apart of the field of play truly offends me.

The day Vlad Guerrero trots out to right field sporting a Pennzoil patch on his back is the day I round up a posse, grab a few torches and pitchforks and march on Commissioner Bud Selig’s office.

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Titan Baseball Blogger Jon ‘Grandpa’ Wilhite blogs the humorous side of Titan baseball said he is sure Wilhite will receive best teammate of the year award sports@dailytitan.com again. The first-baseman said players look up to Wilhite.

He leans back in a casual manner “He doesn’t always get to play, but in an orange stadium seat at Good- he still gets his at-bats,” Clark said. win Field following a game between “He is always cheering everyone on Cal State Fullerton and the Sun Dev- in the dugout.” ils of Arizona State. Not one bead of Wilhite, or “Grandpa” as his teamsweat drips down his face and he is mates know him, has played baseball still wearing his warm-up pullover. since the young age of 3.

At the ripe age of 23, fifth-year se“Most of the guys on the team nior Jon Wilhite is one of the oldest are 18 years old and I have been player on the baseball team, but he around for a long time,” Wilhite said understands the meaning of sports- about his nickname given to him by manship. Even if that means not teammates, who also call him “Old starting in every game.

School,” according to his blog.

Wilhite was voted best teammate Wilhite is not only a veteran playof the year in 2007. His roommate er, but he also acts as a spokesman and teammate, of some sort for Matt Fahey, says the team, writWilhite is a good ing a weekly blog leader and is that gives fans someone everysome insight on body wants to be team players. The around.

Fahey idea came from also said he has a Mike Greenlee, good personality assistant media in the dugout and relations direc– John Wilhite, tor in the athletic on the field.

Wilhite plays department, who Titan Catcher catcher and first suggested Wilhite base as a backup write a blog from and is also brought in to pinch hit the road. The blog can be accessed when needed. from the Baseball Web page at ful“When you don’t play every day, lertontitans.cstv.com. you need to be ready to do what you Wilhite said people liked his first need to [do] to win,” Fahey, a back- blog, so later he was asked to write up shortstop, said. another. From there, the idea took Fahey said he and Wilhite usually off. Now Wilhite writes a new blog come in at the end of the game. If it every Wednesday, illustrating the latis a close game, they know they will est team adventure. He has recently have a chance to help the team in the let fans in on the making of some dugout and out on the field. player nicknames.

“To us, it’s all about winning and “I try to get behind the scenes to being on a good team,” Fahey, a ki- show fans how crazy and goofy some nesiology major, said. “And that’s all of the guys really are,” Wilhite said. you can ask for in college.”

He has read other blogs that playJared Clark, a fourth-year player ers have written and noticed they and fellow roommate of Wilhite, were all about the games. Wilhite by sarah mendoza

Daily Titan Staff Writer

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I try to get behind the scenes to show fans how crazy and goofy some of the guys really are.

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By Xavier Hernandez Daily Titan Staff Photographer Cal State Fullerton catcher Jon Wilhite waiting for an opportunity to get into the game and help the Titans get the win.

said fans can find out about the game by going to the Web site, but he wants to provide fans with more than just stats.

Some players don’t like to be made fun of, but fans and families like the blog and there have been no huge complaints about the blog, Wilhite said. Fahey said the blog is sometimes discussed over dinner the night before. The roommates brainstorm ideas and focus on things that they would like to know about the team if they were fans.

Clark, a communications major, said the blog is a good way to let fans in on what really goes on in the clubhouse.

Wilhite is a communications major with an emphasis in entertainment studies and is scheduled to graduate in May. He is still undecided on his future, but said he would like to continue with baseball if the opportunity should arise.

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Shooter in the press box Simulations test university emergency preparedness

The teams swarmed the press box building carrying mock handguns and assault rifles.

With students briefed beforehand by Detective John Brockie on how to interact with police during the exercise, two students ran down the hallway screaming hysterically.

University Police officers commanded them to get down on the ground, but the simulation required some of them to resist.

The police entered the press box and confronted David Glazen, a student who played the part of shooter for the day. Two teams separately ran the exercise, each ending differently. In one, Glazen was “shot” by an officer who yelled “bang, bang, bang” because his pink gun made no sound. In the second, the shooter was apprehended peacefully.

After hearing gunfire, Sgt. Carl Jones, Cpt. Stewart Dejong and Officer Eva Ku (at right) sprint down the hallway in the Titan Stadium press box during an active shooter simulation held last Friday.

The sounds of screams, gunfire and cell phones filled the air near the press box while students across campus were advised to avoid windows and doorways as part of the shelter in place drill. A mass e-mail was sent out while thousands of phones were called simultaneously to test the ConnectED mass notification system. University and county officals, along with CSUF personnel, helped observed the shelter in place drill.

Photos By Daniel Suzuki/Daily Titan Staff Photographer