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Tuesday December 9, 2008

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DTSHORTHAND Campus Life “The Juiceman Cometh” by Peter Spiro is a short play that portrays the “extreme vegan philosophy.”

With a cast of goofy characters this show satirizes the “healthconscious fanaticism against the gluttony of carnivores.”

Also being performed is the “Sailor’s Song” by John Patrick Shanley which is a romantic fable about a “dreamy seaman” grappling with the mysteries of love, death and destiny.

The double feature runs from 8-10 p.m. on Wednesday in the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.

‘No go’ for railroad plans

DVDs scheduled to be released on Tuesday (MCT) – Everybody will be telling you about the release Tuesday of “The Dark Knight,” the latest Batman installment and the one with the remarkable performance

by Heath Ledger.

So here, we’re going to look at a film that likely will – again – be overlooked: “Blue Blood” (aka “If I Didn’t Care”). This indie film, released theatrically in 2007, stars two-time Oscar nominee Roy Scheider in one of his final performances. Whether as the Bob Fosse surrogate in “All That Jazz,” a New York City narcotics cop in “The French Connection” or in any number of other performances, Scheider shines.

In “Blue Blood,” he plays a private investigator trying to unravel the mystery of a murder in the Hamptons. This film-noir thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock tradition is for mature (as in “serious”) audiences but is unrated.

For less-serious viewers, there’s “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who,” an animated version of the popular children’s tale that features the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, among others. It comes in single-disc and two-disc (plus digital copy) editions as well as in an amazon.com exclusive gift set that includes the movie, an audio storybook and a Horton plush toy. The film is rated Geeeee!

Not many coconuts break in: ‘Coconut world record breaking fail’

Although this video is titled “Coconut world record breaking fail” it seems the only thing this guy is breaking is his left hand.

Watch as this ambitious fighter misses the coconut entirely and lands a couple packed punches directly on the steel pedestal.

Although the competitor speaks in a foreign language his groans and body language are pretty clear – it’s a painful competition.

By Yvette Garciaparra/For Daily Titan The Fullerton City Council voted down the proposal that would have constructed an interactive railroad attraction next to the Fullerton train station. The 2-acre parcel of land is now left without a development plan.

A proposal to add an interactive attraction is denied by the city council

By Morgan McLaughlin Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

After 13 years of planning and dreams, the prospect of an interactive railroad attraction in downtown Fullerton was quashed last week by the City Council, leaving the area without a specific plan for development.

The land, a 2-acre parcel in the Fullerton Transportation Center area south of Commonwealth Ave. and east of Harbor Blvd., sits next to the very active Fullerton Transportation Center. The parking lot there sits empty when not used by

commuters and an inactive section of railroad tracks is home to an old rail car.

But this undeveloped site is home to one of Fullerton’s most attended annual events: Railroad Days, organized by Fullerton Railroad Plaza.

The event drew more than 40,000 visitors from all over the state and country this year, according to the Fullerton Railway Plaza Association newsletter, who come to experience antique steam engines, like Disneyland’s Fred Gurley steam engine, dozens of model train collections, railroad layouts, vendors, food and live entertainment.

Planners had hoped that the addition of a new railway attraction would have brought an influx of year-round visitors and contributed to the redevelopment of the downtown area.

Although councilman Richard Jones was willing to give the project organizers six months to raise the money, the council as a whole was tied 2-2 (with one member who withdrew, citing conflict of interest) in its decision defeating the proposal.

After approximately three hours of hearing comments and reviewing project plans and numbers, the meeting was adjourned, with grumbling from audience members.

“I have no idea what is going to happen now, and so I can only say I have no comment,” said Sue Kientz, vice president of Southern California Scenic Railway Association.

The future of the downtown transportation area and its immediate and surrounding land is now unknown.

A derailed plan The idea of the Southern California Railroad Experience was conceived in 1995 and has been diligently pursued by the FRPA and others.

Not until last summer did the idea come closer to reality when members of the FRPA and SCRX staff met with the JMI/Morgan Group to reach an agreement on projected capital and operating costs.

The Railroad Experience, proposed by the FRPA, was going to cost approximately $35 million.

The organization planned to provide $12.9 million of the money for development, leaving the rest to be provided by the city’s Redevelopment Agency. The land is currently city-owned and could have been provided at zero out-of-pocket cost.

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Industries may go green (MCT) WASHINGTON – A 75gallon tank of goo that in the course of a week or so changed color from lime green to almost black was one of the stars of last summer’s Farnborough International Air Show in England.

As airlines ordered hundreds of planes worth billions of dollars at the world’s largest air show, the tank, or bioreactor, was a near-perfect breeding ground for what could become the fuel of the future: the lowly algae.

Aerospace companies and airlines are betting that algae – simple organisms that come in some 30,000 species, many of which can be genetically modified – will prove to be a green fuel that can power jet planes.

Algae also could be blended into diesel and gasoline, and perhaps could even replace petroleum-based diesel and gasoline one day.

As the infant industry organizes, algae must make their case for the kinds of tax breaks, market incentives, loans, and research and development backing that other biofuel sectors have. Though corn and soybean growers long have lobbied in Washington, the Algal Biomass Organization is a new kid on the block.

On Monday, the organization will meet in the nation’s capital to discuss how to convince Congress and the incoming Obama administration that algae are much more than the film inside your fish tank, the scum blooming in the neighborhood pond or, in one of their most See GOING GREEN, Page 2

Baby boomers give Peace Corps a chance A generation of retirees focuses their efforts on overseas service during their ‘twilight years’

(MCT) DALLAS – Eileen Marin didn’t think “change” when she listened to Presidentelect Barack Obama’s recent endorsement of the Peace Corps.

She’d heard it almost a half-century ago, when President John F. Kennedy used similar words to inspire baby boomers like Marin, some of whom are just now acting on them.

Peace Corps applications have increased as economic uncertainty looms, a nascent administration takes shape, and a generation of retirees turns to overseas service in their twilight years.

But it’s not zealous college students as much as their parents who are helping to fuel the increase. Applications among those born in the aftermath of World War II have spiked across the country in the past year as some choose to fulfill a volunteerism mission statement they

heard throughout their childhood.

“It was part of a journey that started years before,” said Marin, a 61-year-old who sold her Richardson, Texas, home when she joined the Peace Corps and moved to Armenia a little more than two years ago.

She said her “body returned” to Texas in August but her thoughts linger on the daily rituals of the rural country and its inhabitants. She’s wrapped herself in the transitional guilt that often occurs when returning to First World affluence. Overstocked shelves of laundry detergent still make her grimace.

These reactions come from a former market research consultant and three-time cancer survivor who once thought: “How am I ever going to learn a language at 59, live through winters with no heat and no water? Well, it became my See PEACE CORPS, Page 2

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IN OTHER NEWS railroad: events draw in over 40,000 INTERNATIONAL

Mysterious phone call may have caused war

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MCT) – A mysterious night-time phone call brought nuclear India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks last week, Pakistani officials said Sunday. They said the “threatening” call was made, ostensibly by India’s foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, to Pakistan’s president, Asif Zardari, on Friday, November 28, two days into the Mumbai assaults, in which some 170 people died. India had, by then, declared that the militants who had stormed Mumbai were all from Pakistan.

The heated conversation left Zardari believing that India was about to mount an attack on Pakistan and led him to place Pakistan’s armed forces onto “high alert,” according to Wajid Hasan, Pakistan’s ambassador to London, a close associate of Zardari.

Given Pakistan’s inferiority in conventional forces, it might not have been able to respond except with nuclear weapons to an Indian attack, analysts said.

India, however, did not put its forces on the alert. Zardari quickly mobilized Western leaders in an attempt to avert war, telephoning Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State, and British foreign minister David Miliband, among others, who in turn frantically called India, Hasan said.

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Protest suggests workers call in ‘gay’

CHICAGO (MCT) – The HR office has probably never encountered this before: People around the country are being urged to skip work Wednesday after calling in “gay.”

The loosely organized protest, called “Day Without a Gay,” is intended as a statement against California’s recent ban on same-sex marriage, along with other political developments considered anti-gay.

Some are calling for a boycott of all economic activity to highlight the gay community’s financial power. Others want gays and lesbians to spend the day volunteering for worthy causes to demonstrate their compassion, which could win new sympathy to their cause.

Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network in Chicago, said he didn’t expect people to actually “call in gay,” as the event logo suggests, but added that “many people will find one way or the other to not be in work that day, because we’re sick of being treated like second-class citizens.”

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Tribune Co. files for bankruptcy protection

CHICAGO (MCT) – Media conglomerate Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers and media properties, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday in Delaware so it can restructure its debt.

The Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, which Tribune Co. has on the auction block, are not part of the filing. The company said it has sufficient cash to continue to operate its media businesses, including publishing its newspapers and running its television stations and interactive properties, without interruption. Chicago-based Tribune Co. had more than enough cash on hand to make a payment of $70 million due Monday. But the company was unable to convince lenders to embrace a broader restructuring of its debt.

Tribune has repaid approximately $1 billion of its senior credit facility since real estate magnate Sam Zell, now Tribune’s chairman and chief executive, took the company private last December. But the situation at the company, which has suffered from industry-wide declines in advertising revenue that have eroded its cash flow since the deal was made, is emblematic of the squeeze felt throughout the media business overall, and newspaper companies in particular.

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However the development of the building and parking garage would have been left to the city, a hefty $22 million that would have fallen on taxpayers.

The plans for the SCRX were to create a new kind of museum attraction. Instead of static displays, the proposal included a theater for historic and educational films, actual movable rail cars on tracks for walking tours, in addition to historic rail artifacts on display, all of which could be rotated out with new material to keep the experience fresh and draw repeat visitors and school groups.

In addition to projected costs, the JMI/Morgan Group, along with Knowledge Based Consulting Group (the proposal peer reviewer), found that the estimated annual attendance of the attraction based on visitor attendance numbers of similar railroad museums would have been 234,000 people – about half what the railroad museum in Sacramento draws each year. From comparing the overhead and the income the attraction could hope to achieve the net annual operating profit was only projected at a little more than $16,000.

Additional income or “economic impact spillover” was projected to be $6.2 million from visitor purchases in Fullerton, $62,000 of which would go to the city in tax revenue.

In answering questions from Mayor Sharon Quirk, developers told the council that the cost would be closer to $200 million for a phase one roll-out plan as opposed to the previously projected $35 million.

One peer review of the project plan documents had also found that the

projected costs were unrealistically low, suggesting the project was not viable.

It was also revealed at the meeting that the 2005 bond monies that had been suggested as a means of funding the SCRX were already oversubscribed to other city projects and would either be unavailable for use or would require the city to reallocate monies.

“I am very conservative when it comes to spending city money,” councilman Richard Jones said. “I’d like to see this but I don’t want to see it if I have to put in millions and millions of our citizens’ money.”

Not all citizens were excited at the SCRX proposal.

“We have a live, interactive railroad museum already happening – you can actually purchase tickets and ride the train,” said Tony Bushala, a Fullerton resident and business owner and Fullerton political activist.

Bushala feels that to spend such a large amount of public funds to create a museum where there are already real-life trains was purposeless. Fullerton resident Vince Buck opposed the project in his comments to the council members.

“The trains unfortunately are not attracting the younger crowd,” he said. “This is extremely valuable land in a key location, which could be used for other purposes.”

The FRPA and others felt differently.

“A new kind of experience arose in the last 15 to 20 years … people are now coming to cultural attractions that make learning fun,” said Barry Howard, the designer of the rail museum in Sacramento who worked with FRPA on design. “In this case, the city of Fullerton has a powerful connection with railroad-

ing.”

Other concerned citizen’s felt that the 86,700 square-foot attraction would have been a money pit for taxpayers and that the city is actually looking to let developers take the land for more apartment buildings.

A look to the future Robert M. Zur Schmiede, executive director of the Fullerton Redevelopment Agency, felt objectively that the decision should be a community choice based on facts.

“The decision whether or not to develop this facility is truly a community choice and it is the responsibility of the City/Redevelopment Agency staff to provide pertinent, accurate information to our elected officials who represent Fullerton residents and taxpayers so that they may make an informed decision,” he said.

Now that the land is no longer slated for a railroad attraction, it will continue to stay a parking lot for train station commuters and be used by FRPA for Railroad Days until the land is developed further.

In June of 2007, as a result of public workshops dealing with future land uses of a 33-acre area around the FTC, the city council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency, approved a document called The Framework Plan that was undertaken jointly by JMI and the Morgan Group. This had included the possible railroad attraction.

“Now we need to take that framework plan and convert it into a specific plan, which becomes a city document for zoning the area,” Zur Schmiede said. “We’re going to hone that and modify it.” Schmiede also said the area anticipates a mix

of land uses that include housing units, retail, office space and potentially a small grocery store or boutique-size hotel.

“There have been some other uses suggested also, (there is) a group working on a music venue like the House of Blues-type venue,” he said, alluding to the (tentatively titled) Valley of Bones project that was unveiled earlier this year.

“In addition to these uses what is also contemplated is a public plaza,” Zur Schmiede said, explaining the city’s application for state funding for transit-oriented development for public use.

He said this is where the Railroad Days could potentially be moved to in the future, along with other public events.

No matter what happens next for development in Fullerton, the city’s development partner, The Morgan Group, will be involved.

The Redevelopment Agency is aware of the past disappointment from The Morgan Group developments and has plans for future improvements.

“JMI has not developed in Fullerton before,” Zur Schmiede saide.

“The Morgan Group has one (development) in downtown – City Pointe – and one in Amerige Heights. That is not the example of the quality we’re looking for; many people including myself are not happy with that … we’re trying to hit a higher order of architectural quality with the transportation center.”

The director, however is hopeful in his expectations for the coming planning stages. “We’re happy with the pairing we have – Morgan Group who knows Fullerton and JMI who knows urban development – we have a group who understands what we’re trying to do here.”

peace corps: boomers giving it a chance From Page 1

life very quickly.”

It’s fast becoming the decision of other baby boomers, who now make up 5 percent of the Peace Corps’ 7,876 volunteers and 9.2 percent of applicants, the highest percentage in the agency’s 47-year history.

“A lot of seniors say they’ve had great jobs, a good life, but they don’t just want to retire and sit around,” said Linda Tucker, a local recruiter who served in Africa with the Peace Corps while in her 50s.

“I’m a Kennedy kid, so it was always in the back of my mind to do Peace Corps,” said the 61-year-old Dallas resident. She’d pocketed the

idea of traveling across the African continent or volunteering with the Peace Corps until after her two boys grew up. Then National Geographic, a growing restlessness and an echoing call to duty motivated the HIV/ AIDS counselor to apply.

Tucker assumed an age-limit existed until she discovered that basic life-training and an established skill set are actually what the Peace Corps craves.

“A lot of them have been in the work force for 30 years,” she said.

“They are very flexible and bring a lot of experience.”

These kinds of volunteers may even end up monopolizing fewer spots, said Shannon Borders, the

Dallas Regional Office’s spokeswoman. With an $18 million shortfall over this year and next, the agency is cutting 400 positions nationwide.

The Bush administration has requested $343.5 million for next year, just 4 percent more than the 2008 congressionally approved budget of $330 million.

This hasn’t stopped the applications, which have increased 16 percent this year, the largest boost in five years. Converse-clad students and gray-haired women packed a South Dallas classroom at a recent information session. One commercial real estate agent had just been laid off. Another attendee was about to graduate from college with a fash-

ion merchandising degree and few job opportunities.

Something beyond economics motivated 66-year-old J. Tom Ashley III to accept an assignment in Romania starting in May. The semiretired McAllen, Texas, architect said he’s “getting a bit bored” and is “ready to roll up my sleeves and get back into working mode.”

But he’s elected to do this by teaching environmental education in Eastern Europe.

“It’s always been an uphill battle with people saying what is cheapest, what is fastest,” he said, admitting a wave of pre-move flutters. “But I’m just ready to kind of go and see a different sunrise.”

going green: trying to bet the algae From Page 1 complex forms, seaweed.

“We are up against formidable opposition from competing interests,” Jason Pyle, the chief executive of Sapphire Energy, said of resistance from ethanol and biodiesel groups during an algae industry meeting in Seattle earlier this fall.

Sapphire, a San Diego company, already has made a type of gasoline using algae that meets fuel quality standards, is compatible with current gasoline-manufacturing infrastructure and achieved a 91 octane rating. Pyle said that current policy favored such alternative fuels as corn for ethanol or soybeans for biodiesel and provided only limited assistance to algae-related products. He said that one of the top priorities for the new Congress and the Obama administration in their first 100 days would be to write a comprehensive energy bill. Pyle said it was crucial that the algae industry make its presence known.

“The train is moving ... it hasn’t left the station yet,” Pyle said in urging the algae industry to make a concerted lobbying effort. “But we are approaching the final opportunity ... to grab a seat on the energy train.”

In addition to algae, biofuel researchers have looked at jatropha a bush that grows in arid environments, needs little water and yields more oil than corn and halophytes, salt-tolerant plants such as seashore mallow.

First-generation biofuels made from corn, soybeans, sunflower seeds and rapeseed were rejected because they use valuable agriculture land and water, can result in deforestation in developing countries and the demand for them has driven up food prices and caused scattered food

shortages.

Virgin Atlantic which is a member of the Seattle-based Algal Biomass Organization along with Boeing, Air New Zealand and Continental Airlines _ successfully tested a green aviation fuel based on jatropha on a 747 flight from London to Amsterdam. Air New Zealand plans a similar test.

Though jatropha has attracted a lot of attention, Darrin Morgan, who heads Boeing’s effort to develop biofuels and is one of the Algal Biomass Organization’s chairmen, said algae might be the best bet in the long run.

If algae-based fuel can be certified for commercial use and large enough quantities can be produced, Morgan said, it’s realistic that it would be used in commercial aviation in three to five years.

“It would be possible to fly on 100 percent (algae), but most likely it will be a blend,” he said.

The Department of Energy studied algae as a fuel source as far back as the 1970s but abandoned the research in 1996 to focus on ethanol.

Last year’s energy bill required the department to report to Congress on the feasibility of algae as a biofuel.

NASA has been looking at algae as a jet fuel and for other uses in outer space.

“It’s hard not to get excited about algae’s potential,” said Paul Dickerson, the chief operating officer of the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

While most of the interest in developing algae farms has focused on southern California and Arizona, where it’s sunny, or near coal-fired generating plants, where carbon dioxide emissions could be used as plant food, it’s possible to grow algae

anywhere. They can flourish in salt water, fresh water, brackish water or wastewater. Last year’s energy bill requires the production of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022.

Ethanol and biodiesel manufacturers think that provides more than enough room for the algae industry.

“We don’t necessarily see them as competitors,” said Matt Hartwig, a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol trade group.

Michael Prolich of the National Biodiesel Board said, “We would welcome their work to grow the biodiesel industry.”

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Cacti and succulent sale ends Sex addiction not so funny

By Diana Corpus

Daily Titan Staff Writer features@dailytitan.com

The Potting Shed and The Orange County Cactus and Succulent Society had their annual cacti market December 5-7 at the Arboretum.

The Winter Cactus and Succulent Show and Sale had thousands of rare cacti, succulents, and hoyas and also featured other plants from xeric and desert regions from around the world.

Awards were also given to the top plants and free discussions were offered for anyone interested in growBy Joe Von Regius/Daily Titan Staff Photographer ing these plants.

The Orange County Cactus Suc- Cacti are displayed with their awards on the judges table during the Winter Cactus ans culent Society is a nonprofit orga- succulent show and sale at the Arboretum. nization, which was founded in 1973. teach how to grow them and where drasco, about the cacti market.

Its main goal is to create inter- they come from and it is a great Wendell “Woody” Minnich, est and education about cactus and way for people ... to come together owner of Cactus Data Plants, locatsucculent plants. The OCCSS has as a group to enjoy these plants,” ed in Antelope Valley, since 1975, been showcasing said Vince Basta, was a vendor at the show and is also their market at show chair for an expert in succulent plants. the Arboretum OCCSS. “This is a way to feature plants in since 2004. The S u c c u l e n t the holiday season that are drought OCCSS, a local plants live in dry resistant and so this show has these affiliate club of e n v i r o n m e n t s , marvelous different kinds of succuthe Cactus and where they store lents and potters come to stage our Succulent Society their water in plants so it’s decorative,” Minnich of America, has their roots, stems said. monthly meetor leaves.

Minnich remains active in clubs. ings, guest speakThey can be He does field work in South Ameri– Michael Vendrasco, found in desert ca, Central America, and Africa and ers, plant sales and field trips. areas in North brings back seeds for trade.

All meetings and South Amer“Throughout the world, water are held at the Arica and Africa. conversation is a big issue, we’re tryboretum. Members meet the fourth There are about 10,000 succulent ing to grow a lot of plants that use Thursday of each month at 7:30 plants, of which 2,000 are cacti. very little water, they are perfect for p.m.

Cacti belong to a family called Cac- an environment where water is at a “The function of the club is to ed- taceae. premium without seeing it go highucate people on how to grow them, “I like the great diversity of plants er and higher and secondly, they go they see these specimen plants and that are here and you don’t see these through drought, these plants can then they wonder how they got that plants anywhere else. I have a suc- take drought,” Minnich said. way, if you come to meetings we culent garden,” said Michael VenFor more information about cacti

By Daniel Enos/Daily Titan Staff Photographer Cliff Meng shows off his items to cacti shopper Ethyl Boykins during the Cactus and Succulent show and sale Saturday.

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I like the great diversity of plants that are here and you don’t see these plants anywhere else. I have a succulent garden.

By Daniel Enos/Daily Titan Staff Photographer The exhibit hall displays a wide variety of cacti and succulents during the 3-day show and sale.

and succulents, please visit The Orange County Cactus and Succulent Society at their Web site, www.occss.org and the Arboretum at www. fullertonarboretum.org.

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Service discovered in human services class

By Jennifer Tat

Daily Titan Staff Writer features@dailytitan.com

What started as an inspired vision of helping children with disabilities is turning out to be a reality for Melissa McCabe and her group members.

McCabe, 22, a human services major, is currently taking a human services course that gives students the opportunity to serve the community.

After hearing guest speaker Rene Roberts, talk about a vision she had to open a gym for children with disabilities, her group decided to take Roberts’ vision and run with it.

“We were required to pick a community to serve. I’ve always had a passion to help kids with disabilities, and when Rene spoke, it was the perfect opportunity,” McCabe said.

Roberts is a friend of Professor Charles Royston, who teaches the Human Services 411 course. Her vision of opening the gym stemmed from her own personal experience.

She was diagnosed at birth with

cerebral palsy, which is a name of raising funds to open the gym. given to a group of disorders that “We started Inclusion Infusion affect the brain’s ability to control so that hopefully, one day, people movement. with all types of disabilities have a Last year, when she had a knee place to come to as sort of a supreplacement, her doctors told her port group, while also getting fit,” she would be confined to a wheel- McCabe said. chair. At the time Since the gym she was using a has not opened cane, refusing yet, Fitwize4to believe that a Kids, a children’s wheelchair was fitness center her only option. located in HunSo she decided to tington Beach, is join a gym and exhelping out. ercise as a form of The center is physical therapy. currently spon“I was watchsoring five meming “The Biggest berships for kids Loser,” and it into use its facilspired me to get ity until Inclufit,” Roberts said. sion Infusion is – Melissa McCabe, up and running, “Since then, I’ve Student participated in Roberts said. three sprint triRoberts, Royathlons and a 26ston and the mile bike marathon.” group members held a fundraiser Roberts knew the running part on Saturday Dec. 6 at Steamers would be a challenge, but she says Jazz Cafe in downtown Fullerton it was exactly that, which inspired to raise awareness about the cause. her to do it.

There were raffle donations, jazz, “For the running portion, I just piano and singing performances. walk. I came in last place (in one of Roberts shared her story as well as the races), but it’s really not about her vision of what she would like placing,” Roberts said. to see happen with Inclusion InfuThus, Inclusion Infusion was sion. born. Currently, Roberts and the “We raised over $2000,” said group members are in the process Elizabeth Lopez, 24, a member of

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We started Inclusion Infusion so that hopefully one day, people with all types of disabilities have a place to come to as sort of a support group, while getting fit.

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CSUF human services major Melissa McCabe and her group, Inclusion Infusion, wants a gym for disabled children

the group. “The turnout was a lot bigger than we expected, which is great.

A lot of students from other classes came out to support us. It was just a great experience and very emotional.”

Roberts said that her ultimate goal is for kids with disabilities to know they are strong.

“I want them to focus on not what’s wrong with them, but what they can do,” Roberts said. “There would be support groups in the center. I want families to know their children are supported and will have a place to go to.”

Lopez has a sister who is mentally challenged and a nephew with autism who is also participating in the cause. What she took away from the experience was a sense of empathy and compassion.

“After being a part of this, I have so much more appreciation for them,” Lopez said. “I understand how difficult it is, but there are so many different services that are provided for them. I am so grateful to be a part of this group, and Inclusion Infusion.”

For McCabe, the best part of working on the project was the journey.

“We may not get to our main goal right away, but we’re helping people in the process,” McCabe said .

(MCT) Minneapolis – Sex addiction has come out of the closet.

Once spoken of in hushed and skeptical tones only, sex addicts have become the subjects of memoirs and movies (“Choke,” “Black Snake Moan”). Characters defined by their uncontrollable bed-hopping now pop up on prime-time television shows like “Nip/Tuck.” In the recent much-publicized case of life imitating art, David Duchovny, who plays a serial adulterer on the cable series “Californication,” completed treatment for a sex addiction that he says broke up his marriage to Tea Leoni.

As addictions go, sex is the last frontier. It’s the one people doubt. The one people say is just an excuse for bad behavior or a shame label pasted on the promiscuous by moralizing prudes.

The one you can still make fun of without a pinch from the PC police. Health experts and therapists are divided as to whether it exists; sex addiction is not recognized by the psychiatric bible, the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders).

Sex Addicts Anonymous has 900 chapters worldwide. The often-cited statistic that 3 to 5 percent of the population could be considered sexually compulsive is based only on those who voluntarily seek treatment.

Robin Cato is more aware than most of sex addiction’s recent pull on the national psyche or at least talk-show producers.

As director of the Atlanta-based Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH), she gets frequent calls from radio and television employees.

“They say, ‘I need a sex addict to interview in 30 minutes, and we need to fly him in this morning,’” she said (a request she doesn’t accommodate).

For obvious reasons, sex addiction makes for titillating TV in a way that the now muchdiscussed topics of alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders and obsessive gambling do not.

It’s also major joke fodder, Will Ferrell’s character in “Blades of Glory” being just one example.

“When something is laughed at and talked about on television, it means it’s on people’s minds,” said Cato, who sees signs that acceptance is advancing in the public admission of Duchovny and its aftermath. “He came out and said what he was getting help for, and there was a lot of attention, but people accepted it because they either know about it personally or know someone else who’s affected by it. It’s turning less slap-down hilarious, into something people want to talk about.”

While academics and therapists don’t agree on whether to call it a disease or a compulsive disorder, most do generally define the problem in the same way, said Anne McBean, a psy-

chologist and therapist who coordinates treatment for compulsive sexual behavior at the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

“It’s not about liking sex or being sexual a lot or what kind of sex a person might choose,” she said. “It’s about having an obsessive and driven relationship with sex, constantly telling yourself you’re not going to do this anymore but you do it, with repeated negative consequences that most people would learn from and adjust their behavior.”

Stereotypes of sex addicts fall into three categories, she said: “fools, like Sam on ‘Cheers,’ slobbering freaks, or monsters the sex offenders.”

In reality, they come from all walks of life. The men whom McBean treats are often devoted husbands and fathers, well thought of at work, including doctors, professors, lawyers, plumbers “people with good enough jobs to have insurance coverage,” she said. “For many of the people I work with, the biggest fear is if they tell someone they have a sex-addiction problem, they will be shunned and their children will be taken away.”

The University of Minnesota Medical School’s Program in Human Sexuality runs four sex-addiction therapy groups of eight men each, all there voluntarily. For about 80 percent of them, the Internet is the primary source of the problem.

Two new memoirs, Susan Cheever’s “Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction” and Rachel Resnick’s “Love Junkie,” show that while most people who seek treatment are men, a growing number of women including those 40 and older see themselves as sex addicts.

“Most women we see come from more troubled backgrounds than the men,” McBean said. “It’s more acceptable for women to be compulsive with food or shopping, but with sex, the condemnation is universal: She’s a slut. For a man, it’s ‘Boys will be boys,’ or ‘What a man!’”

Men are more likely to engage in obsessive activities that don’t require a real-life partner, such as looking at porn, she said.

“The way women act out sexually tends to be more partneroriented, like meeting up with men they talk to on chat lines.

They are more likely to understand that what they’re doing is searching for love, but there’s also that sense of emotional high along with sex that men also feel.”

Because sex addicts are dealing with a behavior rather than a substance, withdrawal can be especially difficult, McBean said: “Just like a person with an eating disorder can’t stop eating, the ultimate goal for a sex addict is a healthy sex life, not abstinence.”

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At last, confessions Five of the 9/11 conspirators being held at Guantanamo Bay are now asking to confess, according to a cnn.com report late Monday night.

According to Maj. Gail Crawford, they asked a military judge if they could plead guilty, thus withdrawing all pending motions against them. At this point it seems almost futile.

Seven years after the event happened and five years after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – the confessed planner of the attack – was captured, they are now trying to enter a guilty plea.

According to CNN, the judge accepted the pleas from Mohammed, Ali Abdul Azziz Ali and Walid bin Attash but said that a competency hearing was needed for Mustafa al Hawasawi and Ramzi bin al Shibh as they may not be deemed competent to stand trial.

Maybe they have realized the atrocity of their crimes and it’s an attempt to clear their conscience.

They say that hindsight is always 20/20 and they’ve had plenty of time to look back on the planning and execution of the attack.

Maybe they are tired of waiting around in a cell for the courts

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to call them in. It gets boring and lonely in there. Some people would plead guilty when they weren’t, just to get a change of scenery.

Maybe they are attempting to avoid the death penalty. This would be anyone’s best reason.

Sure, prison doesn’t sound like a bed of roses, but most people would take prison over the an electric chair. And it has yet to be determined if they will be facing a potential death sentence, so they could be trying to get out of it while they still can.

At this point, they have already sentenced thousands of innocent people to death, so why shouldn’t they attempt to avoid it?

It would seem that any of these reasons are feasible, and it could be a combination of any of the three. Or maybe they have some other ulterior motive that isn’t so obvious. Martyrdom perhaps?

Either way, we already know one is guilty, as Mohammed has already confessed. The others accused didn’t seem to stand much of a chance, either.

It leaves the rest of us with one question, that may never be answered.

Why now?

Castle’s Corner

By Ryan Castle

Daily Titan Columnist

Music hath charms to soothe the savage skater What has the ability to reveal our deepest emotions, yet allow us to express ourselves as loudly as we want?

What causes us to think deeply, yet hear the honest thoughts of others? What can pick us up and comfort us in our lowest hour, and yet add just a little bit more fun to our most enjoyable nights?

In a word: music.

Music is all of the above and more. The magic of taking manufactured noise and creating the most entertaining form of sound our ears hear, then combining that with the expression of passion, a strong message or just nonsensical verbiage, is music.

Everybody has their own taste, their own style, their own flavor. A single song can do different things for each person listening.

I need music in my life. The places I go become more enjoyable with the added company of a classic tune. Waiting in lines, walking through school, driving on long trips – all these tedious activities can be improved with the addition of some delightful instrumentals.

Suddenly, these boring events become a journey through the pleasure canals of my mind. The

song that is playing serves as the soundtrack for my life at that very moment.

Song lyrics can serve as an effective form of subliminal therapy for us. Lyrical poetry that captures exactly how you’re feeling can be a powerful thing. Someone else has felt what you're feeling, and you’re not alone. I believe there truly is a song for every emotion.

It makes me wish I had the ability to sing beautifully harmonic notes. Unfortunately, I seem to be tone deaf. I wouldn’t recommend turning the back-up voice down all the way if I’m doing karaoke.

I develop creative song lyrics that explain my thoughts and feelings all the time. If only I had the talent to express them by singing.

I use music for everything in my life. Melodic sound gets me out of bed in the morning. They play while I skate around the world and keep my mind occupied and entertained, resulting in clearer thought, which always produces good things. I even listen to some easy listening tunes to lull me off to sleep every now and then.

My life is often DJ'd by my infamous, ever-changing play list, which, when shuffled, can serve as

a divine presence that guides me through my immediate surrounding with harmonious jams.

I can satisfy my taste for classic dance music with tunes from The Isley Brothers, Mary Jane Girls, or Earth Wind and Fire, or I can indulge my interest in deep lyrics over an innovative beat of underground hip-hop, with People Under the Stairs, Living Legends or Mos Def. Which then may be followed by some electronic easy listening hits from the likes of MGMT, Daft Punk or Basement Jaxx.

Or, with simply providing some of my all-time favorite jams that always put me in a good mood, like classics from Outkast, 311, Common, Kanye West or Bob Marley.

Whatever it is, there is certainly no loss of variety.

My secret style that gets me through life is acid jazz. The sleek mix of smooth jazz with a polished beat and a touch of electronic funk blends to create a musical outcome that, when done right, is a melody of sound that massages my brain.

DJ Mark Farina and Thievery Corporation produce some of the best acid jazz around if you want to check it out for yourself. I use it for any and all the life scenarios

played out above, but especially when writing, as I am while typing up this piece.

Music relates to our lives. The right song can conjure up deep thoughts of that person on your mind, a cherished moment of accomplishment, a moment that lives in the depths of your past in infamy, or maybe a memory of fondness that you relive each time it plays.

Music can do anything for you.

Sometimes you just need to let your mind run with the melodic sounds in your ear and let your brain make its own interpretation of what you’re hearing.

How does it make you feel?

Does it make you think?

Do the sound waves hit you in a beautiful way?

Maybe you’ll love something you never thought you would. Or perhaps, it's something that is constantly enjoyed and loved.

I like to move, I like to think, I like to have fun, I like to express myself, I like to dance, I like to relax, I like to be happy and I like to be motivated.

There is only one thing in the world that can consistently do all these things for me – music.

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 Daily Titan Opinion Editor Austen Montero at opinion@dailytitan.com.

Jake’s Take

By Jake Kilroy Daily Titan Guest Columnist

The magnum opus of a succumbed mopus I figure one thing: If you’re not creating, you’re destroying ... hear me out If you’re not making art, you’re critiquing it. If you’re not running (in) the revolution, you’re watching it. And that’s destructive to any rebellion.

You either train yourself to be magnificent or train yourself to watch those who are. You either made the Molotov cocktail or you drank the beer.

Do you want another one of these outrageously-hipster-friendly-fauxpoetic diagrams?

Because I’ve made a living off of them.

Sure, this is all very over-the-top and all over the place, but art should be. This is (not) art, by the way. Or maybe it is. I don’t know (I’m not René Magritte, so I can’t pull off sly wit).

It’s up to you to judge where all (the symbols) should go and what it (all) means. It’s your job to add and subtract (the parentheses).

Yes, I suppose this may just be some chaotic effort to dig a little farther than this grave box was meant for, but I hold a serious problem of having money and not using it to travel and create.

Or maybe drink myself to death.

I mean, if I’m not writing, at least I’d have an interesting bar tab for someone to explain in my eulogy.

And in all of this, I want to know what my generation is up to.

I want to know what we’re doing collectively and what we’re doing individually.

And this could just be me talking

to myself, I guess. Art is usually just that anyway.

So let’s talk art, seeing as the museums won’t wait for you.

Let’s talk about art like it matters, like it’s (a) vital (hospital patient wearing thin after a life of service and gratitude). Let’s talk about art beyond the pretense of coffee shop Mensa hookers and grad student wayfarers.

I mean it. Let’s actually talk about art.

Not the canvases you bought at Ikea, not the finger-painting your mom saved for decades, not the shelves of books you’ve read, not the street musician you handed change you weren’t planning on spending anyway.

I want to know what art you’ve been responsible for.

Have you been listening to music instead of making any?

Have you been reading instead of writing?

Have you been watching movies instead of filming?

Or are you on the other side entirely?

Have you been dragging your talking carcass like a pirate-shoulderparrot to the museum just so you could feel like you were involved in art somehow?

Did you stare at enough portraits of old white European royalty?

Did you see enough clay pots from a civilization you don’t really care about?

Did you put money in the donation box so that everyone would see?

On the drive home, did you talk about seeing a play just to talk about seeing a play?

But don’t think that hanging out

in a museum is the same as hanging in a museum. You didn’t do anything spectacular. You put the same effort into the museum that you did the movie theater when you saw a weekend’s best offering of low-brow comedy.

I mean, art critics and actual artists are radically different. Clearly.

It’s not as if one could compare college professors and college students. Sure, they’re able to share the same institution, but never are they allowed to be condemned to exposure in the same light.

You’re better than that though anyway, right?

You’ve got this small little personal space called life and you’re going to contribute something creative, right?

You’re not just going to pay attention to everyone else’s artwork, right?

Poetry, songs, paintings, sculptures, movies, journal entries ... none of ‘em have to be amazing, or even good. They just have to be honest.

I mean, come on. You don’t have to be God just to sit in a church.

What are you contributing?

I want to know. I really do. I want to know what you’re doing.

I want to know that my generation has good people who have cracked knuckles from pounding clay or fingers stiff from plucking a guitar.

Tell me “I write corny sad songs on a guitar my dad gave me when I was 10” or “I paint when I can, but I don’t really have the time.”

I want you to tell me all about it: take.kilroy@gmail.com.

And more importantly, I want you to know what you’re doing. And, if you’re not doing, I think you should consider starting.

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School adds men’s and women’s golf teams Sport returns after over twenty years and becomes the final Big West Conference school to feature a men’s golf team sports@dailytitan.com

Orange County may seem like the perfect place to hit the fairway, with its sunny weather and seemingly countless golf courses, but Cal State Fullerton has lacked a competitive golf program for the last two decades.

The athletic department has teamed up with local businessman and philanthropist Paul Folino, Jason Drotter, the new head coach of men’s and women’s golf, and a full committee of willing donors to raise $2 million for the CSUF golf program, which will be reinstated for the 2009-2010 season.

Although the projected figure has not been fully raised, the program has a sufficient amount to tee off.

“I think everyone is aware of the budget crunch, but we have the funds now,” Drotter said. “Financially, we are in good shape and we have strong donors behind us.”

Even in these difficult economic

times, CSUF Athletic Director Brian Quinn remains confident that the golf program will be a success. He said that plans are “rollin’ along.”

“We have a blue-ribbon committee, established mainly by Mr. Folino, of outstanding people – very well-connected,” Quinn said. “There seems to be no question in anybody’s mind that we’ll raise ($2 million).

We wouldn’t do it if we didn’t think we would absolutely be successful.”

Quinn said that he appreciates Folino and the committee for all their dedication to re-establishing the golf team.

“Our plan is to make them very proud and very pleased with the kind of program it’s going to be – very classy,” Quinn said.

Folino not only took it upon himself to initiate the committee, but he recruited Drotter during the initial stages. Drotter quickly became involved and was later asked to be the director of golf operations. He has 10 years of experience teaching golf at the high school and recreational levels. Drotter works as a golf profes-

sional and manages a practice facility marily first-year students. as well.

“There are so many outstanding “We really like Jason,” Quinn said. golfers within our footprint, liter“He’s doing a terrific job already. He ally,” Quinn said. “And we like to has such a great attitude, and he’s got think golf could have a tremendous so much background.” amount of success with local kids.”

With the head coach in place, the The athletic department and next step is to round up golfers. The coach have substantial expectations recruiting process and goals for the inhas already begun. coming team. They Drotter said that he both have hopes of has started looking taking a conference for women’s playchampionship and ers first and he has competing in the received dozens of NCAA. According e-mails. to Quinn, they will “There is a buzz compete in the Big – Brian Quinn, West Conference out there,” Drotter said. “We are off to CSUF Athletic Director right away. a good start as it Prior to the reinrelates to signing statement of golf, good players.”

CSUF was the only men’s team in Quinn said, “Anyone we are going the Big West without a golf proto recruit, we want to make sure they gram, and only one of three for are good citizens, good students and women’s. Although this goes against obviously good golfers.”

Big West Conference policy, CSUF According to Quinn, they are has been “grandfathered in” to conscoping out the local courses first in tinue their 33-year participation in search of talented young players, pri- the conference, according to Quinn.

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...We wouldn’t be able to a add a new sport without adding golf first. That’s the Big West policy.

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Think Different. Think Simon.

By Simon Liang

Daily Titan Columnist sports@dailytitan.com

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for the Motor City.

First, the Detroit Tigers finish well below expectations and end up last in their division. Then, the Detroit Pistons trade away Chauncey Billups for Allen Iverson, which has not worked out so far.

Among all the mediocrity, one team stands out. Detroit’s very own Lions. Yes, that one team that plays for the National Football League.

They exist, but the only time they got television time was on Thanksgiving, when the Tennessee Titans ate them for dinner.

Why even waste space to talk about a team that is irrelevant? Well, this team might be a part of history. They could very well become the first winless NFL team since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Miami Dolphins came very close to achieving the honor last year but they were not nearly as horrible as this year’s Lions.

In fact, speaking of the Dolphins, they are currently 8-5. They are neck-and-neck with the defending AFC Champion and perennial contendending New England Patriots, who actually went undefeated in the regular season last year.

What a strange turn of events for the Dolphins, who actually lucked out and became the clear winner of

The policy, however, required CSUF to add a golf program prior to any other sport.

“If we wanted to have football for example, if we wanted to add men’s volleyball or water polo or any sports, first we would have to add golf. We wouldn’t be able to add a new sport without first adding golf,” Quinn said. “That’s the Big West policy.”

CSUF’s Athletic Council proposed dropping the women’s golf program in March of 1986, citing a high turnover of coaches and a lack of NCAA-caliber players, according to a Daily Titan article from May 1986. The women’s program was terminated shortly thereafter. Men’s golf was dropped in 1988 in order to bring back men’s track, according to a Daily Titan article in August of that year.

Although that was decades ago, one can only hope that the upcoming golf program stays in place for more than 18 holes.

Drotter said, “As long as we work really hard, I don’t think there’s any chance that we’ll lose golf again.”

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$2 million dollars donated to reinstate program at CSUF School has been a part of Big West for 33 years 1988 was the last year the men had a team 1986 was the last year the women had a team One NCAA individual championship (Paul Wise in 1972)

Detroit Lions winless season shows the team won’t be good any time soon

the Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers drama. When the New York Jets acquired Favre they instantly dropped the injury-prone, but Pro-Bowl caliber, Chad Pennington.

Pennington proved to be a blessing in disguise for Miami. He has the fifth-highest quarterback rating in the NFL with promising young players around him.

Turnarounds like that do not happen often in the NFL and success does not come overnight.

However, when you have Bill Parcells in the front office pulling the strings, you know you are in good hands.

So can the story of the 2007 Dolphins motivate this year’s Lions to push that extra mile?

Sadly, the forecast looks dim at best. They are giving up a leagueworst 31.8 points per game. Their next three opponents all feature dynamic aerial attacks. Smells like trouble if you ask me.

They have the Indianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers on the schedule in the next three weeks, which all have playoff aspirations. The Lions will have to play flawless football in order to come out with a victory this season.

If you have watched Peyton Manning this season you can tell that he is not himself, but the Colts are still a solid team that is experienced and poised.

The Saints put up over 400 yards a game because of Drew Brees’ arm.

In the last game of the season they have to deal with Rodgers and the always dangerous Packers offense.

If the Lions cannot stop anyone right now, who expects them to stop anyone later? Of course there is always the will to win that drives many professional athletes. I mean, who likes to lose? I sure don’t.

They have a washed-up Daunte Culpepper at quarterback, a weak ground game, and a defense that lets opponents waltz into their end zone frequently.

So if the Lions do go winless, there is at least one bright spot – wide receiver Calvin Johnson.

Although they failed with the draft picks of wide receivers Mike Williams and Charles Rodgers and

traded away Roy Williams, they have found a gem in Johnson.

In his first year in the league, he has already established himself as a big-play receiver. The guy comes to work every Sunday and plays hard.

Nobody likes to see a team lose all their games, but this season we have a good chance of seeing that happen.

Sorry Detroit, maybe next year.

Florida and Oklahoma to meet in college football BCS Title game (MCT) – The BCS got it right.

Oklahoma will meet Florida on Jan. 8 in Miami to conclude the college football season.

Whether the Big 12 got it right by having Oklahoma emerge from the three-team tie breaker with Texas and Texas Tech to play in the league title game will never have full agreement.

“Everybody has their opinions, and some are different than others,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said.

But as champions of the two conferences that produced the greatest number of highly ranked teams this season, the Big 12 and Southeastern Conference deserve to be represented on the final stage.

Oklahoma finished first in the final BCS standings. The Sooners ranked first in the USA Today coaches’ poll and in the average of six computers. No. 2 Florida was first in the Harris Poll, second in the coaches’ poll and third behind Texas in the computer average.

This isn’t new territory for Oklahoma or Florida.

Since the start of the BCS system in 1998, the Sooners have played in three championship games, winning in 2000.

This will be Florida’s second appearance in the championship in three years. The Gators beat Ohio State for the 2006 title.

They also won the 1996 national championship, when Stoops was the Gators’ defensive coordinator.

The 33 other bowls lined up Sunday, and it doesn’t appear the Longhorns will have an opportunity to gain a split national championship.

Texas will play Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, and the Longhorns probably needed to be ranked ahead of Oklahoma in The Associated Press poll, which isn’t part of the BCS system and crowns a final No. 1 team after the bowls.

But in the AP poll released Sunday, Florida was ranked first, followed by the Sooners and Texas, which lost out on representing the South division in the Big 12 title game because it ranked behind Oklahoma in last week’s BCS standings – despite having defeated Oklahoma this season.

The Rose Bowl offers traditional

Big Ten/Pacific-10 fare with Penn State taking on Southern California.

Alabama will face Utah, champion of the Mountain West and one of two undefeated teams, in the Sugar Bowl.

ACC champion Virginia Tech returns to the Orange Bowl to meet Big East champion Cincinnati.

All eyes will be on the BCS championship game, which has paired Oklahoma’s remarkable offense with Florida’s all-round skill and two quarterbacks expected to be in the thick of the Heisman Trophy race.

The Sooners’ Sam Bradford leads the nation in passing efficiency and touchdown passes with 48.

Florida’s Tim Tebow is the nation’s fifth-highest rated passer and has thrown two interceptions in 268 attempts this season.

He helped Florida to nine straight

victories after a regular-season home loss to Mississippi.

“Nine weeks ago our team got together and said let’s make every game count,” Florida coach Urban Meyer said.

Both quarterbacks were major forces in their teams’ conference championship-game victory. Tebow passed for three touchdowns as the Gators outlasted the top-ranked Crimson Tide 31-20.

Bradford passed for 384 yards and two touchdowns as Oklahoma crushed Missouri 62-21. On Sunday, he underwent surgery to repair torn ligaments in his left (non-throwing) thumb and hand suffered in a victory over Oklahoma State two weeks ago.

“It was a clean, routine procedure, and we expect Sam to bounce back quickly,” Stoops said.

By DAVID EULITT/MCT Oklahoma linebacker J.R. Bryant, No. 21, and defensive back Nic Harris, No 5, celebrate after recovering a fumble from Missouri Tigers quarterback Chase Daniel in the second quarter during the Big 12 Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium.