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Men’s soccer team struggling for their first win at home

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Monday October 13, 2008

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DTSHORTHAND Campus Life The Titan Student Union’s annual art show is now showing in the Center and Plaza Galleries of the TSU. Students of all majors were invited to submit art pieces to the contest for cash prizes: $200 for best of show, $125 second place, and $75 for third place. Some pieces will also be purchased by the TSU Arts Acquisition Committee as part of the TSU Permanent Art Collection Contact Ashley McKell in the TSU Marketing Department at (714) 278-5869 for more information.

Geneticists say evolution may be on its way out LONDON (MCT) – Human evolution may be winding down as the forces that once drove it _ older fathers, isolated populations and widespread child mortality _ are disappearing, a geneticist at the University College London argues. In a lecture this week titled “Human Evolution is Over,” genetics professor Steve Jones said the rate of genetic mutations found in humans is falling dramatically, something he believes is largely the result of lifestyle changes. Powerful men who once fathered dozens or hundreds of children, often into their 60s and 70s, have given way in most developed parts of the world to younger fathers who tend to sire just a few children in their 20s and 30s. Because older fathers are more likely to pass on genetic mutations, the rate of those mutations entering the population has declined, he argued. Similarly, child survival rates, abysmal in antiquity, have dramatically improved in much of the world, cutting natural selection pressures. And the world’s increasingly huge, mobile population has nearly eliminated the possibility of unusual genetic traits taking hold in isolated populations, he said.

Caffeine and art found in just one cup in: ‘Coffee art’

Barista’s around the world have made their jobs a little more interesting by adding a little bit of art in their everyday lives. Coffee art is made simply by added normal ingredients and dragging a stick-like tool across the top to move around the foam and steam. Pouring in steamed milk carefully will help create a masterpiece like this butterfly.

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Titans lead the way Market The College Democrats and College Republicans are working together to register voters in record numbers. CSUF holds the title for registering the most voters.

trouble persists Stats say unemployment rates on the rise while retirement funds dwindle By Caroline Duffy

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The race is on. Not just the presidential race, but the race to register the highest number of college voters ever in time for a historic election. In a nonpartisan effort, Associated Students Inc., the College Republicans, the College Democrats and the California Faculty Association have launched a campaign to register college students to vote and encourage political activism among young people. ASI was out on the Quad on Wednesday getting attention with the delicious smell of free food, along with party tunes supplied by DJ Element. According to ASI chief governmental officer, Leo Otero, 120 students registered to vote at the event before all the pizza, soda and ice cream were exhausted that afternoon. “We’re going to break the record!” Otero exclaimed into a microphone to the surrounding students. He was referring to the highest number of students ever registered to vote at a CSU school in an election year. Otero said that the record is at 1,691 students and so far CSUF is at 1,450, only a month before the election. He believes the record can get wrapped up by next Wednesday. Some students, like 19-year-old psychology major Jerry Caldwell, were registering because they recently had a change of address. Others, like biology major Helen Musharbash, 21, just found it convenient to vote at school between classes. A lot of people are thinking about the elections during this

By Leo Otero/For The Daily Titan CSUF students are leading the way in their efforts to recruit and register as many voters as they can before the November election. CSUF already holds the record for most registered voters among CSUs and seeks to shatter its own record before the Oct. 20 deadline.

critical time in our nation’s history, Musharbash said. “I think people are very contemplative about who will be the next person to be in office,” Musharbash said. The College Democrats and College Republicans were also out on campus with tables full of stickers, pamphlets, and voter registration forms. The two CSUF clubs were in close proximity to each other but showed no animosity. Instead, the two political groups were busy informing people and telling them about upcoming meetings and events. Courtney Baxter is a 22-year-old accounting and political science major and president of the College Democrats at CSUF. She explained that the College Democrats are trying to get students excited and rid them of past apathy about politics during voter registration drives. Public administration and po-

litical science major Kelly Kim, 18, chair of the College Republicans, is also working to get students politically active in order to see a change in government. She said that the College Republicans don’t really care if a person is Democrat or Republican, just as long as they vote. The Internet is also proving to be a successful tool in registering young people. Both the College Democrats and the College Republicans have their own Web pages on social networking sites, but there are also many other online voter resources. In a press release by the CFA, the group pointed out easy ways for people to register. Facebook has partnered up with Rock the Vote, a voter registration group that mobilizes popular musicians to help register young people to vote, to offer its users the opportunity to register directly from their social networking site. MySpace is also getting people

CSUF students working with friendly F.A.C.E.S. A capstone project is also lending a helping hand to a Fullerton charity group that works with broken homes By Ashley Landsman

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Twenty three-year-old Mission Viejo resident Cieanna King is a busy full-time mom. She and her toddler daughter’s father never married, but do live together with their child. Now, as she goes through a complicated split from him, she wonders what she will do and who she can turn to. “It’s the scariest thing to realize you can’t make it,” King said. “But someone once told me it’s better to be from a broken home than to live in one; and I really believe that now.” The undeniable truth, according to Mary O’Connor of Family Assessment, Counseling & Education Services (F.A.C.E.S.), is that 66 percent of couples who get married today will not see a tenth wedding anniversary. Furthermore, a quarter of a million children in Orange County are living in single parent or blended family homes. Although the rate of divorce continues to increase, there is a resource in Southern California for single parents and their children, like King and her daughter, through the support and counseling offered by F.A.C.E.S. F.A.C.E.S. is a nonprofit organization designed to help families better cope with the turbulent course of a separation. Its founders, Mary O’Connor, Shelley Driscoll and Cheryl Ramirez, run three centers with the help of many volunteers.

O’Connor, a single mother with five children, was a court-appointed mediator for four-and-a-half years before she got the idea for F.A.C.E.S. She said she saw a need for extra support, counseling and resources for families caught in the trenches of divorce. The coalition is dedicated to benefiting families in any stage of divorce or separation. F.A.C.E.S. helps families cope with divorce and supports the children caught in the middle, through counseling on an individual basis or in a group setting. There are three Orange County locations that families or single parents can turn to for information and support: Fullerton, Laguna Niguel and Santa Ana. The organization provides mental health services for families on a sliding scale, and is the only non-profit in Southern California to do so, for single parents. A session can range anywhere from $25 to $100 an hour, depending on income. “We never turn anyone away,” O’Connor said. For a project in their capstone course, a group of six Cal State Fullerton seniors majoring in public relations are holding a fundraising and publicity event for F.A.C.E.S. on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Baja Sharkeez in Newport Beach. The night’s events will feature a 50/50 raffle, beer pong, good food and a good time, group member Katie Tague said. Tague and her group members hope to see a lot of CSUF students at Tuesday night’s venue. “The goal is to get a thousand dollars donated for their big event October 18,” Tague said. “The big event” is a fundraiser and celebration for the organization’s twentieth anniversary. Saturday’s “Monte Carlo night under the stars” will feature live and silent auctions, food and drink. The festivities will last from 5:30-10 p.m. at the Village Crean in Newport. Tickets for Monte Carlo night are $75 and $100 for gaming chips.

registered to vote by partnering with Declare Yourself, which is another voter registration campaign that focuses on young people. The League of Women Voters is utilizing the Web site Vote411.org as well as http://smartvoter.org, a search site they developed with Google that searches for county election information using zip codes, polling locations using addresses and the elections that candidates are in using their names. A video on YouTube ironically named, “Don’t Vote” features celebrities Jennifer Aniston, Usher, Halle Berry, Dustin Hoffman, and Leonardo DiCaprio in a sarcastic message about voting. Users of Xbox Live can even register to vote via their gaming consoles. More than 50,000 voter registration forms were downloaded in the first month of their availability via the consoles, according to the Los Angeles Times.

With the news from Wall Street being consistently bleak, students are starting to feel the pain of the country’s aching economy. Wednesday was the sixth consecutive day that the stock market continued to drop, despite the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut. Many students have become fearful for the future of their finances. “My mom just got let go from her job and now I’m the only one bringing in money,” Amy Saunders, a psychology major, said. “I waitress part-time, so obviously I’m not making a ton of money. The only real money my mom has saved is money for her retirement and these past few weeks, she’s lost money from her 401(k) because of the stock market crashing, and now without her job, there’s no money going into her savings at all,” Saunders said. “If she doesn’t find a job soon, I really don’t know what we’re going to do.” Unfortunately, Saunders’ situation is becoming more common in an economic climate where retirement funds are dwindling and unemployment is rising. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Web site, the unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent in August, and another 159,000 jobs were lost in September. Fear of unemployment and a panic over savings have created an uneasy atmosphere, especially for those working in the problem-riddled banking industry. “The people I work with are scared and worried,” said Shauna Charles, a business administration major who See MARKET TROUBLES, Page 2

War protest

By Todd Barnes/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Party for Socialism and Youth Liberation member Andrew Gwozdziowski passionately shouts antiwar chants with other activists gathered outside of the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Santa Ana Oct. 11 on the seventh anniversary of the Afghanistan War. Around 35 protesters from multiple groups, including “CSUF Students for Peace and Social Justice,” had gathered around noon in front of the station to demand US military out of Afghanistan, Iraq and Santa Ana Public Schools. See photo coverage on page 3