Daily Titan: Monday, March 22 2010

March 22, 2010

Vol. 87 Issue 24

Titan Softball comes up big with a victory over No. 15 Texas 3-1

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Sports, Page 8

‘Frankenfood’ is good for you, the country and the world OPINION, Page 4

4-1 vote by the Fullerton City Council in favor of the development of West Coyote Hills News, Page 2

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Dissent heard in Hollywood House passes health care

By Adrian Gaitan

Daily Titan Copy Editor news@dailytitan.com

With a 219-212 vote, the House passed the health care bill on Sunday. The issue has been consistently debated over the past year. Now that the bill has passed with the House, the Senate will vote on it.

This bill will change the current health care system and grant millions of Americans with medical benefits, even if they are uninsured. The new bill will also prevent health insurance providers from denying coverage to people with existing medical conditions, as well as prevent them from dropping coverage of people who become ill.

The bill is seen in two different lights. “Republicans said the plan would saddle the nation with unaffordable levels of debt, leave states with expensive new obligations, weaken Medicare and give the government a huge new role in the health care system,” the New York Times reported.

While some Republicans may feel this way, Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur believes this bill will be a new era of health care for Americans.

President Obama also issued an executive order, assuring that this bill will continue to restrict the use of federal funds for abortions, according to current law.

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PHOTO By Charles Purnell/Daily Titan Staff Writer Participants in the “U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now!” peace protest March 20, making their way slowly down Hollywood Boulevard at 2 p.m. they dramatize returning to life after being killed in the Afghanistan or Iraq War. The performers limped like zombies, craddled the heads of dead family members, nursed the wounded and hugged family members that awoke from the dead.

By Charles Purnell

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

Saturday, thousands took to the streets of Hollywood, Calif. as part of “March in Los Angeles – U.S. Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now!” The demonstration was a march and rally to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Cal State Fullerton student Tamara Khoury, 20, was a lead organizer and stage manager at the anti-war protest and peace march.

Khoury is also a member of Act Now to Stop War and Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.), the organization that put on the event. Formed Sep-

tember 14, 2001, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, A.N.S.W.E.R. has crown to encompass branches in nearly every major city across the country and has organized some of the largest demonstrations in recent years, including the annual March 20 mutli-city marches.

Hollywood Boulevard and Vine was the meeting point for the protesters and organizers. The rally began one block away on Ivar Avenue at noon.

Signs, songs and chants expressing sentiments that 9/11 was an inside job, disgust with the Obama administration and passionate pleads to end wars and put more money into education and jobs, filled the streets Khoury was the third guest speaker, taking the microphone after Richard

Students discuss issues over pizza

By Ashley Luu & Juliana Campbell Daily Titan Staff Writers news@dailytitan.com

Students concerned with budget cuts and policy changes within the Cal State University system voiced their opinions at the Pizza with the Presidents open forum at the Becker Amphitheatre held March 18.

Panelists included: President Milton A. Gordon, Associate Vice President of Financial Services Brian Jenkins, Vice President for Student Affairs Robert Palmer, Vice President for University Advancement Pamela Hillman, CSU Vice Chancellor Emeritus Jack Smart, Associated Students Inc. (ASI) President Juli Santos and ASI Vice President Joseph Lopez.

President Gordon said that enrollment must be reduced by 40,000 students within the 23 campuses over the next two years because “that is the amount of students that the state of California is not paying for.”

The CSU has taken a budget cut of almost $600 million this year, where Cal State Fullerton’s share was cut by nearly $40 million, Jenkins said.

“We are going into the next fiscal year with a completely balanced budget. We don’t have any structural deficit, unlike our sister campuses,” Jenkins said.

Many students asked about statements made

Castaldo, a member of the Peace and Freedom Party and a candidate for congress.

Khoury delivered an ardent speech advocating the dropping all charges against the Irvine 11, a group of UC Irvine students arrested for protesting the visit of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren to their campus.

“It is extremely hypocritical of UCI to bring a representative of Israel, a country whose government completely destroyed 18 schools and damaged another 200 in the Gaza Strip last year, to speak on its campus,” she said.

“And it’s the same government who continues to demolish and take over Palestinian schools and the West Bank so that illegal Israeli settlers can seize and build upon the land. On be-

half of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, I extend my solidarity to the Irvine 11 as they face unjust and obvious discriminatory punishment.”

Khoury also claims responsibility for the yellow flyers circulating campus announcing the march and said she has been organizing with A.N.S.W.E.R. for five years. The group seemed all business on the morning of March 20.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. members didn’t express sentiments regarding the war or the protest as they worked, preparing for the opening rally and march.

But, Khoury said, they were feeling the impact of the issues they were about to speak out against.

See PROTEST, Page 3

in the “Strategic Planning Summary” that was released March 9.

Rodrigo Calderon, a representative for the College of the Arts, spoke on behalf of the students about their worry and concern about the potential budget cuts within their departments.

“I hear it all the PHOTO By Christa Connelly/Daily Titan Photo Editor time. I hear it from my constituents. President Gordon addresses student concerns at Pizza with the Presidents March 18.

They don’t like being referred to as ‘esoteric.’ They don’t like that “clients, consumers and human capital,” in their majors are being called, ‘merely desir- the document. able,’” Calderon said.

“I think we were waiting for somePresident Gordon offered reassurance by stat- one to do something and no one did ing that everyone supports the arts, and it is al- anything and finally, it went too ways our theater season that is the leading com- far. We had to speak up for munity draw for the CSUF campus. the re-humanization of so“I think it (Strategic Planning Summary) was ciety and the university,” there to provoke discussion. We’re not going to Bebawi added. lose them (arts, liberal arts) just because we’re in this temporary budget situation,” Hillman said. See PIZZA ,Page 4 Jackie Bebawi, history major, demanded that the administration value education and the meaning of education for students. She said that she did not appreciate being listed as,

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Mixed gender dorms on the rise

By Alex Solis

For the Daily Titan

news@dailytitan.com

Since fall of 2004, a strong gender-neutral activist campaign has some colleges and universities rethinking their student housing policies to accommodate the needs of all students.

So far, about 50 schools in the United States, including a few Ivy League campuses and several schools in California, have allowed students to choose the gender of their roommate. With Cal State Fullerton housing phase III on the way, there is a chance the movement will catch on here as well.

See HOUSING, Page 2

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March 22, 2010

IN OTHER NEWS Commision recommends Coyote Hills development

INTERNATIONAL

Tensions rise as Israeli soldiers kill 2 Palestinians JERUSALEM – As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to embark Sunday on a trip to Washington to mend United States.-Israeli ties, tensions built in the West Bank when Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian men they say threatened them with a pitchfork and ax.

The shootings brought the Palestinian death toll to four during the last two days in the Nablus region. On Saturday, two Palestinian teenagers were shot by soldiers after a clash with Jewish settlers over a water well.

Sunday’s violence arose after an Israeli military patrol stopped to question two Palestinians they deemed suspicious, Israeli military officials said.

“When they got out of their vehicle, the Palestinians tried to stab a soldier with a pitchfork and an ax,” an army spokeswoman said.

Palestinian officials said the men were local farmers.

NATIONAL Tea party protests faded as outcome became clear WASHINGTON – Thousands of protesters from all walks of life descended on the United States. Capitol Sunday for one last push on health care. It brought a day of contrasting bombast and belligerence.

The day began with a show of solidarity for black congressmen who on Saturday had been pelted with racial insults and spittle. Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) walked triumphantly to the Capitol, holding hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders en route to the vote. A trumpeter played the Civil Rights’ era song “We Shall Overcome.”

Competing demonstrators lined the driveway into the Capitol through which most House members arrived, shouting pro and anti-health care slogans while inside, six Capitol Police officers subdued an unruly protester who had managed to make it to the House visitor’s gallery.

STATE

Food stamp participation rate is nation’s second-lowest Los Angeles – Despite persistent economic woes, California leaves billions of federal food stamp dollars on the table each year that could help ease hunger and boost the local economy, officials say.

Only 48 percent of eligible Californians are enrolled in the nutrition program, according to federal figures from 2007, the most recent year available. That is well below the national average of 66 percent Only Wyoming has a slightly lower rate.

California officials dispute the way the figures are calculated and say they do not reflect recent steps to improve the state’s record, including greater outreach and simplified procedures.

As of December, more than 3 million people, about 1 in 11 California residents, were receiving food stamps, according to state figures. That is nearly 46 percent more than in December 2007. Because the number of people eligible for the program has soared during the recession, it is unclear whether the participation rate has gone up.

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Fullerton’s Planning Commission voted 4-1 March 18, in favor of recommending to the City Council the allowed development of the West Coyote Hills area by Pacific Coast Homes.

Planning Commission Vice Chairman Douglas B. Chaffee opposed the recommendation, saying that the proposed project needed further considerations in areas such as greenhouse gases, seismic activity and the inclusion of lowincome housing.

“They’ve done an outstanding job in doing what they’ve done,” Chaffee said. “I just think there are a few more things that need to go in a project of this consequence.”

A presentation to the Planning Commission by Wendell Hanks, lead speaker for the Friends of Coyote Hills, outlined the organization’s arguments for the preservation of the West Coyote Hills area.

Among reasons such as public support for preservation, Hanks raised concerns about potential health problems that could arise from building homes on a 100year-old oil field.

“It’s unfair to come after Pacific Coast Homes as a villain. Their job is to build homes on property,” Hanks said. “The point I’m asking you all to ask yourself, ‘Is this the wrong place?’ ” Other organizations, such as the Coyote Hills Committee, were in favor of the building project be-

Photo By Christa connelly/Daily Titan Photo Editor West Coyote Hills is the subject of a 30-year debate over whether to develop the area, despite the possible negative ecological effects.

cause of compromises and positive negotiations with PCH. The Fullerton Chamber of Commerce also embraced the project because of its possible prospects related to business owners, consumers and to those wishing to visit the Bob Ward Nature Preserve.

“This is a very generous arrangement that they’ve set up,” said Jack Dean, president of the Fullerton Association of Concerned Tax Payers. “Who can argue with funding something in perpetuity with an endowment?”

While the majority of public comment was in opposition to the development of West Coyote

Hills, the Planning Commission agreed on several points in favor of the project.

As the development of West Coyote Hills has been a 30-year debate, with many negotiations having been made, Thursday’s hearing was a good opportunity to move the project forward, Commissioner J. Michael Cochran said.

Cochran further argued that saying no to the project would leave the property unusable by both its owner and the community for an indefinite amount of time.

Commissioner Bruce Whitaker said he shared the public’s concern about the loss of open space, but recommended allowing the project

because the applicant had returned with an improved plan and with the compelling argument of public benefit.

Planning Commission Chairman Dexter Savage had concerns about the project’s effect on water conservation, but was still in favor of recommending it.

“Basically, the public receives a lot of benefit with no financial burden,” Savage said.

Commissioner Scott Lansburg said the project would be beneficial to the value of the city.

“In a perfect world, if it was a park, that would be fantastic,” Lansburg said.

“But I just don’t see how that’s going to happen.”

Housing: Co-Ed dorms increasing nationally From Page 1 The gender-neutral housing movement began as a response to a rise in activism in support of gay, bisexual and transgender students who feel more comfortable living with members of the opposite sex.

Jeffrey Chang, co-founder of the National Student Genderblind Campaign, told the LA Times that only an estimated 1 to 3 percent of students living on campuses with that option actually choose it.

“I cannot speculate as to what the university may do in the future, but I wouldn’t rule it out,” said CSUF Resident Community Coordinator Jason Curtis.

“As of now, sharing a room with a member of the opposite sex is not acceptable,” Curtis said.

A big problem Curtis sees with the policy is finding enough stu-

dents who would want that option.

Many students are unaware of the movement that allows the freedom to not only choose who your roommate is, but to choose their gender.

According to the CSUF Student Housing Web site, when students receive their license agreement, they only have the option of requesting a person of their same gender to be their roommate.

Hannah Mae Sturges is a theater major who is in her second year living in the CSUF dorms.

“I love being able to choose my own roommate,” Sturges said.

“Students who pay out of pocket should have the option of choosing whether their roommate is a guy or a girl.”

Andrew Brown, sophomore history major who is also in his second

year living in the CSUF dorms, disagrees with Sturges.

“We pay to buy into their system.”

Brown said that the university has to make people happy as a whole.

“Since we are located in a highly conservative Orange County, a change like this may not go over well with the local community,” he said.

Brown does agree that having the option to choose his own roommates allows for a better fit in personality. He said he would not mind having female roommates.

“Some of my best friends are girls.”

According to the Student Housing Web site, one of the goals is to provide students with an enhanced educational experience.

CSUF dorms currently house about 800 occupants and with the completion of phase III of construction, are looking to add about 1,000 more vacancies.

“In most cases, the call for genderneutral facilities comes from students – usually members of campus groups for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students,” USA Today reported.

The choice, however, has not been limited to that community.

Heterosexual students have been using this freedom of choice to live with compatible roommates of the opposite sex.

Both Gretchen Waldron, a musical theater major and Zach Lewis, a civil engineering major agree that “the benefits of having a male roommate would be the same as having a female.”

Juliana Romo, a freshman nursing major who also lives in the dorms, said that having a male roommate would mean “less drama.”

Most students living in the dorms are in agreement that student housing does offer a unique experience to the college life.

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March 22, 2010

New eats open now

Banks overhaul overdraft policy, students react By nathalie silva

For The Daily Titan news@dailytitan.com

By luz roman

For The Daily Titan news@dailytitan.com

Since June 2008, the Cantina Lounge has stood alone across from Cal State Fullerton in what is now called the University Plaza. That will all change with the completion of new buildings beside the Cantina Lounge.

The new construction will be giving the community a wider variety of food and coffee choices.

Construction will bring three new venues: The Habit Burger Grill, Tully’s Coffee and the Flame Broiler.

The Flame Broiler, which just opened its doors this Monday, offers customers a “healthier” choice.

Owner Lee Davis said that they don’t know what the initial turnout will be like, but hopes that the new restaurant can get off to a good start.

photo By shruti patel/For The Daily Titan The Habit Burger Grill and Flame Broiler on Nutwood Avenue now offer students more options for eating out.

The Flame Broiler’s menu consists of teriyaki bowls featuring varying types of rice, meats and vegetables.

“We offer reasonable prices, healthy food and a fast service,” Davis said.

Tully’s Coffee, which is still undergoing development, is different from your typical coffee shop. Tully’s will be providing a Seattle-based coffee and will open soon.

The Habit Burger Grill will open its doors March 26 - 28 for charity. The proceeds of those three days will be donated to local elementary schools.

General Manager Valentin Alvarez said that The Habit Burger Grill always

opens the weekend before the grand opening to give back to the community.

The grand opening will be March 29 at 10:30 a.m. The Habit Burger Grill’s menu offers salads, sandwiches and its signature burgers, which have been compared to In ‘N’ Out burgers.

“Food will do most of the talking,” Alvarez said. He added that everyone will know when the restaurant is open thanks to the great smells that will be coming out of The Habit Burger Grill.

This location will be number 28 for the company. The next-closest locations can be found in the cities of La Verne

and Santa Ana. Alvarez conducted interviews for 16 open positions. Eight positions were for front jobs, such as waiters, and the other eight were for back jobs, such as cooks.

The last day for interviews was March 19.

Cantina Lounge manager Jennifer Hanson thinks that the new businesses will not affect the Lounge’s, but will produce more customer traffic and boost sales.

Cantina Lounge offers lunch specials from Monday to Friday and has something its neighbors do not: alcohol.

PROTEST: City of angels speaks out From Page 1

“It’s really the veterans that have had their lives deeply impacted,” she said. “I myself went to a public school and they constantly told me they were bankrupt and there was no money for schools. Meanwhile, they were pumping hundreds of millions of dollars everyday into the application of Iraq and Afghanistan. So, we all feel it. It’s impacting us all at some level.”

Thousands began marching at 1:06 p.m., chanting phrases such as: “Hey Obama we say no/ The occupation has got to go...”; “Hey Obama

you will see/ The Iraqi people will be free...”; “What do we want, troops out!/ and when do we want them, now!” and “The people united/ will stop the wars!”

Local grassroots organizations participating in the peace march included Topanga Peace Alliance, Teamsters Union, LA Workers’ Voice and Long Beach Area Peace Network.

Carl Roman, from the LA Workers’ Voice, passed out two fact sheets to protesters regarding the war in Afghanistan and other occupations abroad. He said the people can’t rely on Obama, and it’s all about breaking

away from the Democratic Party and people relying each other.

“We can’t rely on the democrats, including the senate, who sold out at the last minute on this health bill,” Roman said.

Leonard Baric from the Long Beach Area Peace Network carried a sign promoting his organization with a partner.

“We’re against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Baric said.

“We would like to have immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the troops that are there come home, if they need medi-

cal attention either physical or mental, or any other health issues, they should receive proper care and not shoddy care they are receiving now.”

At the closing rally in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Khoury introduced the remaining guest speakers to the crowd.

Khoury said she hopes that everyone, and especially CSUF students, leave the protest with a renewed dedication to fight against the war.

“They go back to their communities, they organize, they get people back into the streets to fight,” she said of fellow activists.

The Federal Reserve has created a new law requiring established corporation banks to offer customers overdraft protection. The law will go into effect this month for JP Morgan Chase, and in July for Bank of America. Financial institutions such as Bank of America and Chase are now giving customers options when it comes to getting overdraft protection or not, allowing those who wish to enroll the chance to avoid fees.

Students at Cal State Fullerton know how inconvenient and overpriced the overdraft and non-sufficient funds can be.

Bank of America, for example, collects nearly $24 billion annually by charging a $35 fee every time a customer overdraws their accounts.

Kevin Lim, 21, business major, agrees that the new policy will benefit most customers.

“I feel that Bank of America’s new overdraft policy will keep clients more responsible in terms of managing their accounts,” he said. “The only downside to this is if you’re out to dinner and your debit is declined, you’ll have to ask your date for financial backup.”

Last year Bank of America made a small change in its policy in which the account would not be charged the fee if the charges were less than $10. Now, when customers attempt to withdraw more than what they have in their accounts at a Bank of America ATM, there will be a warning about the fee and they are offered

the choice to keep going with the transaction. If a customer tries to use their debit card and there aren’t enough funds, the transaction will not be approved.

Edwin Rodarte, 24, CSUF grad student and library science major, sees the change as positive.

“Good job B-of-A, because now we can spend the money that we ‘actually’ have, rather than paying with fees at a later time.’”

Although Bank of America has mostly received positive feedback about the new program, not everyone believes in the banks trying to be courteous with the customer.

Carlos Franco, 20, engineering major, closed his account with Bank of America earlier this year due to outstanding charges. Because of this, he does not believe that the bank has a customer’s best interests at heart.

“Bank of America are crooks for charging overdraft fees in the first place and they are still crooks for removing it,” Franco said.

“Facing the facts, they still have to make money and they’ll find a way.”

In Chase’s case, if the customer says “yes” to the overdraft program, the customer will still be charged the $33 fee when charging to an account with insufficient funds. If they opt out, the transaction will simply be declined and the costumer will not get charged.

Other banks, such as Citibank, are keeping their overdraft program the same – costumers do not get charged for overdraft and transactions that would produce one are not approved.

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March 22, 2010

Students struggle for jobs

By Alexander apodaca

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

This roller-coaster economy has been hard on college students who must make ends meet while dealing with the loss of jobs and rising cost of tuition.

Ashley Rueckert, 21, child and adolescent development major, said she is majoring in a subject where the job market is scarce and things look bleak right now.

She currently works as an after school teacher, but her job seems more unstable by the day. She is following her dream of becoming a teacher, but the outlook is far from good.

“Since the economy is not doing well, my hours are being continually cut,” Rueckert said. “My hours have already been cut twice in the past three weeks.”

Rueckert’s mother is currently unemployed and has been on unemployment for the past two years.

Unfortunately for the Rueckert family, the clock is ticking. “(My mom) is a single parent so unfortunately money is very tight in my house because we basically have no money,” Rueckert said. “(She) has about one more month on unemployment before they cut her off.”

“I pay for school completely through grants. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t be in school right now,” Ruecker added.

Karissa Giacone, 20, a business marketing major at Cal State Long Beach, works as a part-time hair stylist at Platinum Strands in Orange. She has also experienced a loss of income.

“There used to be a lot more walkins,” Giacone said. “Clients are cutting back on services, they are getting the less expensive services, and they are

photo courtesy Cookin’ For College Website King’s Cookin’ For College Website that helps students tackle their fears of cooking. King already has 900 fans on Facebook.

By christa Connelly/Daily Titan Photo Editor Some students have had to resort to counting change when making purchases due to lack of income, leaving them to use every bit of money they have.

waiting longer periods of time between appointments.”

Giacone’s new strategy is to advertise better. She is getting door hangers and banners and is going to advertise on Craigslist.org.

She is living at her grandparents’ house with her parents and her younger brother and sister. She lives in a house built for three people with double the amount of people living there.

“There is nothing you can do, there is nowhere to go,” Giacone said when she was asked about privacy issues.

Giacone’s mother runs her own graphic design business and works on logos for businesses but her father is currently unemployed and has been for about a year and a half. He was the owner of a closet organizing business that failed with the housing market crash.

“I am doing decently. It’s not enough for the family. My parents don’t have any money,” Giacone said.

The Giacone family tries to stay positive about their financial situation.

Derek Fett, 21, has an associates

degree from Santa Ana Community College and is currently enrolled in Orange Coast College in the culinary arts program. He has seriously considered going to a Cal State University but heard about the difficulty students face getting classes and decided against it.

Fett is currently unemployed and has been for about a year and a half.

“We did government work for schools and stuff, and since the schools’ financial situations are bad we didn’t get any work,” Fett said.

The roofing business, owned by his grandfather and run by his father, has tried to stay afloat by cutting workers and cutting owners’ salaries.

Fett’s father’s salary has been cut and the once upper-middle class family is now slowly creeping towards the lower-middle class.

“We’re not poor, we’re fine,” he said.

“We have money saved up, but it has been going down quickly.”

Still, the major blow to the middle class families will take a long time to recover.

Student serves up simple cooking tips

By Allie Moiser

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

It’s dinner, you’re tired and the last thing you want to do is prepare yourself a meal. You want something quick and easy. Instant chicken-flavored ramen noodles meet both requirements.

Yes, you’ve had them every night for the last week, but what’s a busy college student to do?

Arthur King, a sophomore at Gainesville State College in Georgia, created an online cooking show called “Cookin’ for College” to show students how to make quick and affordable home-cooked meals.

“I got the idea for a cooking show targeted towards college students after watching my roommate struggle to make good meals,” King said.

King created “Cookin’ for College” a few weeks ago and already has more than 900 fans on Facebook.

King offers a variety of tasty recipes on his Web site, ranging from pizza subs, s’more pancakes, shrimp fettuccini alfredo and bacon-wrapped teriyaki pork chops. Aside from his

recipes King also posts videos on YouTube, showing step-by-step instructions on how to prepare each meal.

Many of King’s recipes include meat, but vegetarians shouldn’t worry. King is slowly starting to expand his recipes to include vegetarian meals. As of now, one of his vegetarian friendly recipes is cooked cucumbers, but he soon plans to add a veggie quesadilla to the mix.

If you think you’re cooking skills are not up to par, King offers some advice.

“You can just take simple things and add ingredients to it. Students don’t realize how fast it really is,” King said.

The average price to make one of his meals is under $10 and if you’re looking to make the easiest recipe on his list, King suggests going with the s’more pancakes, taco chili or beef nachos.

Cooking didn’t come as a natural talent for King. He began by experimenting with food.

“My dad is our family cook. He taught me the basics and then I just ventured off. I still call him and ask for advice,” King said.

King’s father has a restaurant in At-

lanta called Casserole.

Kira Glasser, King’s girlfriend and publicist for “Cookin’ for College,” is in charge of filming and editing King’s videos. “‘Cookin’ for College’ is really all about showing college students who are intimidated in the kitchen that it is easy and fun to cook your own meals,” Glasser said.

King aspires to get “Cookin’ for College” on the Food Network. He has already reached out to the Paula Dean Network, but in order to make his dream a reality, he needs to build a nationwide fan base.

“We want ‘Cookin’ for College’ to be readily available on television for everyone,” Glasser said. “Cooking meals at home saves money, and this is the perfect show for them.”

Nora Garcia, a biology major, said that “Cookin’ for College” was a great alternative to buying take-out.

If you’re tired of eating ramen noodles and want to try something new and tasty for dinner, check out King’s Web site. Cookin’ For College: https:// sites.google.com/site/cookinforcollege/home.

Pizza: Students voice concerns about cuts From Page 1 According to Hillman, the Strategic Planning Summary was a product of a strategic planning group that included many people from areas on and off campus that did not necessarily represent a particular constituency. “(It) is inclusive of all opinions. So take all that information and act on it in a collective way, rather than on an individual statement,” Hillman added.

The key issue is that California has forgotten to re-invest in higher education, which forces colleges to put caps on enrollment, Santos said.

“This is a call for all of us that we need to have one united message in re-investing in higher education …

As long as people are on board with working together … once we do that, I think we’re going to be a force to be reckoned with,” Santos said.

Melyssa Dela Cruz, psychology ma-

jor, said that she wanted everyone to work together and focus on the same goals.

“I know that working with everyone on campus is more effective than working alone. Personally, I know that we need to openly communicate and unite under one idea,” Cruz said.

ASI Chief Communications Officer Andrew Lopez said that everyone attended the forum to voice their concerns.

“From what I understand, we are the only campus that does that. If we do not address problems then nothing will happen,” Lopez added.

Palmer suggested that students find ways to communicate and collaborate in order to continue dialogue.

“We’ll be looking at ways in which we can facilitate a formal structure and the grass root movement that evidently, is a part of a culture that’s growing here,” Palmer said.

Monster tomato and pepper show breaks records

By Andrew Kwok

Daily Titan Staff Writer news@dailytitan.com

The Fullerton Arboretum’s 8th annual Monster Tomato and Pepper Sale drew thousands of gardeners to Cal State Fullerton March 19-21, and is expected to exceed lasts year’s sales records.

“It’s a major success for something as obscure as tomatoes,” said Mark Costello Friends of the Fullerton Arboretum Manager. “Nobody, eight years ago, would have ever thought that you could sell as many tomatoes as we do.”

The private sale, which was accessible only to Arboretum members, opened Thursday, March 18 from 3-7 p.m.

As many as 100 visitors lined up before 9 a.m. Friday, when the sale was opened to the general public,

Friends volunteer Mary Dalessi said.

Over 230 varieties of tomatoes and 75 varieties of peppers were sold at the event. Many, to the dismay of late visitors, were sold out

by Saturday afternoon.

Mike Krauser attended with his wife to buy German Queen Tomatoes for a specific recipe.

“We’ve been coming to the arboretum for years, and we just stopped by,” Krauser said.“We didn’t even know it was happening” The sale used to be a part of the Green Scene Garden Show held by the Arboretum in April, but the event had eventually grown to a size that required its own sale, and has nearly doubled in size and profits every year, Nursery Manager Evie Tyra said.

While the sale originally reached out to cities neighboring Fullerton, publicity for the event must now be

handled three months in advance to accommodate the interest it has accumulated.

“We just do anything and everything we can do get the word out,” Costello said.

Tyra recalled visitors that had come all the way from San Diego, Santa Barbara and San Francisco.

Considering current economic conditions, Costello and Tyra were very pleased with the turnout and success of this year’s tomato and pepper sale.

“Last year was by far a phenomenal year,” Costello said.

Costello and Tyra expect this year’s sales to top last year’s.

The Friends of Fullerton Arboretum is a non-profit company, separate from the Arboretum itself, which donates all of its proceeds to the Arboretum to enhance its gardens, pay staff and to buy new collections.

Volunteers are the majority of the workforce of the organization.

The Monster Tomato and Pepper sale is one of the most volunteer-intensive events hosted by the Arboretum, requiring about 35 volunteers per day, according to Dalessi.

Such a large variety of specialty tomatoes and peppers was what led to the sale becoming its own weekend event.

“When they first started it, that was what people told us they couldn’t find in other nurseries,” Dalessi said.

Debra Brodbeck, who drove from Mission Viejo to attend, had reasons aside from a love of gardening to explore the sale’s variety.

“I’m furloughed, I don’t have a lot of money,” Brodbeck said.“It’s nice when you have your own garden ... it’s much cheaper, and the quality is better.”

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March 22, 2010

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Genetically modified and engineered crops (GMs), and should be used to help other countries as well. commonly referred to as “frankenfood” by activists Many countries soon to receive these GMs, such as who oppose the altered plants, have recently been those in Asia and Africa, are in desperate need of corn given a vote of confidence in the eyes of the global that can grown in drought conditions, or rice that has agricultural community. self-producing pesticides.

“In an announcement that drew little attention in The health of the world supersedes the complaints November, China said it had approved biotech rice of select groups of activists and it’s great that China and corn varieties, which some believe could be the will help in pushing that initiative forward. China is beginning of a broader acceptance of the 16-year-old now the biggest investor in public GM crop research technology,” according to an article in USA Today. in the world and will rapidly influence the countries This announcement means a lot of things to a lot surrounding them. of people. To those countries that still oppose GMs The argument that these seeds and crops are dislike almost all in Europe and most of Asia and Af- tributed and controlled by heartless corporations falls trica, this is bad flat on its face news because the in the case of pressure is on to China, as much abandon the agriof the GM crop cultural methods will be produced that they have by smaller busikept for centunesses. ries.

The genetiHowever, for cally modified those countries corn being prothat support duced throughGMs, such as the out the nation United States, the may be used to adoption of these produce feed crops in China for pigs, cows means the rapid chickens Photo Courtesy MCT and expansion of an Genetically engineered corn plants, recently transplanted from test tubes to soil. that are abused industry that Biotech companies across the country foresee a universe of genetically modified and injected could potentially crops that were unimaginable only a few years ago. with growth provide people hormones. That with jobs, and allow scientists to gain support to pro- corn may also be used to make high-fructose corn duce more crops with specfic benefits to each coun- syrup, a product that contributes to the rising count try’s agricultural environment. of people with diabetes. However for third-world Although there are still some questionable meth- countries, a crop that is resistant to any manner of ods involving the production and distribution of weather issues, pest issues and tough-to-farm soil, is these GMs, it cannot be denied that they are now a an absolute life or death necessity. much-needed necessity in every country.

In the end we should be blaming our own food Much of the argument against this “frankenfood” industry for abusing these GMs, not the scientists atis not based on scientific fact and but purely on emo- tempting to make this world a better place for people tional attachment. Almost every serious argument to live. put forward is simply accusing scientists of not testThis quote from the USA Today article by Greging enough (considered the precautionary principle), ory Jaffe, biotechnology director for the Center for or not having long term research done, even though Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit group much of this product has been in our food and on the in Washington, D.C., best explained the situation: fields for more than a decade.

“Farmers are smart people … they wouldn’t continue The truth is that genetically modified foods have to grow these over the years if in fact they weren’t been helping the U.S. sustain its population growth beneficial to them.”

Be a good liver - keep yours

by Danielle Flint

Daily Titan Copy Editor opinion@dailytitan.com

If any of you are able to fight through the pain and read my column every week, you’ll remember my brief mention of alcohol last Monday. I focused mainly on bragging and only dedicated about 200 words to the subject.

Something happened underneath my window this weekend that convinced me to spend a little more time on the time-honored teenage tradition that is copious alcohol consumption: It’s 3 a.m. I have a cold.

I am woken from my snotty, drooly slumber by high-pitched screeching reverberating off the walls of the paved courtyard (parking lot) beneath my window. Puzzled, I peek between my plastic blinds to see a sloppy blonde in a mini dress climbing into the front seat of a BMW. Her boyfriend (presumably) stumbles after her and blocks his lady friend from closing the door on him.

“I’m done! I’m done! I’m so done!” yells the woman, prompting several windows in the surrounding area to slam shut.

“Give me my keys! Give me my keys! I am so done! SO DONE!” The next hour is filled with drunken slurring and mindless babble on the part of the sloshed bimbo, interrupted every so often by the roars and howls of her “classy” and potentially abusive man friend.

It ends only when a disgruntled mother yells at the couple from a nearby balcony, informing them that their persistent careless shouts have woken her infant… twice.

This behavior is not uncommon

at my apartment complex. I live only a hop, skip and a jump from campus, and am graced by predominantly college-age neighbors. Now, I was warned for before I received my acceptance letter that college kids love to drown themselves in Jose Cuervo and do body-shots off their fraternity brothers, but no one ever made clear why.

I have never seen a night of binge

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College kids love to drown themselves in Jose Cuervo and do body-shots off of their fraternity brothers

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drinking end well – EVER. Have you ever heard a conversation on the escalator that went like this?: “Oh gosh, Trisha, last night sure was fun!”

“You bet your bum, Barbie, especially when I held your hair back while you wretched into Tom’s toilet!”

“Only it wasn’t a toilet… It was his roommate’s sink! Hahaha!”

“That’ll be fun to clean up!”

Or how about this?: “Gosh, Todd, Becky sure was into you last night! Didn’t she lose six rounds of beer pong?”

“Golly gee willikers, Dexter, she sure did! Lucky for me, it’s hard to say ‘no’ when you don’t even remember your middle name!”

I can understand a few beers with friends at a bar, or even taking shots every time Jim from “The Office” gives a knowing side-glace to the camera, but willingly holding your nose as you funnel gallons of piss-

water down your throat, just so you don’t remember anything the next morning, is ridiculous.

How is that fun?

I can’t even count the number of phone calls I’ve gotten from panicked friends who did something incredibly stupid in the name of Captain Coke.

Another story comes from a high school party that was thrown at someone’s house while their parents were away: A well-mannered girl in her early teens laid on the floor as a gaggle of her friends crowded around. She whined as one of her companions shoved a cell phone to her ear.

“Tell him!” one of them shouted.

The girl put her hand to the phone and spilled her heart out to the boy on the other line.

“I love you, but why don’t you ever call? Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

No, I love you. I can’t. No, I’m not...

I’m not... I’m not drunk. I hate you.

I hate you. Okay, I love you, bye.”

Words spilled forth without filter and her eyes drooped as she fell asleep, forgetting to hang up the phone.

In the distance, a couple puked in loving unison on the kitchen floor, a softball star knocked her head on a brick wall in the backyard, and fourteen co-eds took shots of cheap syrupy vodka.

Fun. I’ll never pretend to understand, but hear this: The next time you feel like sloshing through a parking lot with a bottle of Sour Apple Schnapps tucked under your arm, remember that there might be someone peeking through their plastic blinds, scratching down notes.

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March 22, 2010

I am a tea partier, not a crazy

by Cort Tafoya

Re: The Devil’s Advocate: Does the expansion of legal medical marijuana do more harm than good?

Daily Titan Staff Writer

Whether or not marijuana is a gateway drug has been studied many times. Why not read the studies and report what they showed?

Marijuana has been legal, in tablet form, for over twenty years, and is used for control of nausea and stimulation of appetite. It is modestly effective. Somehow, during the “medical marijuana” debate that led to the current law, this fact was not mentioned – by either side. Patients with bona fide diagnoses who are seeing licensed physicians do not have a barrier to marijuana in tablet form. So, the debate about compassion for suffering patients is really about something else.

The entire discussion of the adverse effects of chronic marijuana use is off the table if we are talking about effective medication for serious illness. But for those who are not ill, the effects of chronic use become a much more important issue. Of these, the most serious is “amotivational syndrome” as the researchers call stoners.

The senior citizens that comprise my apoplectic group of goofy conservatives don’t check Urbandictionary.com, but I do. I know what “tea bagger” means and I don’t play on that side of the field, OK? This movement is deeper than you think, or at least too deep to be nicknamed after some obscene party-foul.

Try to understand what this is really about. We’re not all waiting for Fox News to tell us where to protest, or freaked out that Mexicans are about to outnumber us four to one in six months. I’m used to seeing that at every Thanksgiving family reunion. My food is spicier, but I survive.

I’m a tea partying conservative.

Not the “Who knew Africa was a continent?” or “This foreign policy stuff is frustrating!” Bush/Palin sort of conservative. I’m talking about the, “Why the heck is the president of Freddie Mac making six million dollars more than the president of the United States?” sort of conservative.

I mean the, “Why are we spending billions of dollars inspecting the polar ice caps of Mars while the economy sucks?” sort of conservative.

I mean the “If you subsidize everyone’s health insurance and mandate them to buy it, the corporations will raise premiums every year” sort of conservative.

I’m a tea partier. I like to get my John Adams on and get all “revolutionary.” I like to rattle off Thomas Jefferson quotes like, “Commerce with all nations, alliance with none.”

I like old-school ideas like that.

And maybe if these old-school ideas where applied today, we wouldn’t enforce embargoes against communist Cuba while taking billion dollar loans from communist China.

I’m a tea partier and I’m taxed enough already.

Every time I tell people that they respond with something dumb like, “What about the roads and the bridges?” Some even say that I “Just want poor people to die.” Others point out our tax dollars “help save the environment.”

Re: TDA: Should addiction be medically considered a disease?

I find it interesting that the examples Gobee gives are medically induced genetic disorders. If an addict has a genetic predisposition to addiction, that would seem to imply that addiction while at first a choice, could be caused by a similar chemical imbalance in the brain.

Addication, simply put, is a different monster for each addict and once individualized there is not one course of treatment that will work nationwide. The bottom line is that for some the choice to stop a current addiction is a choice, while for the others the choice to stop is not possible due to a genetic predisposition that creates a chemical imbalance in their hypothalmus! The hypothalmus, being the pleasure center of the brain, is overactive in individuals that have a genetic predisposition to addiction!

There is not enough known about addiction to blindly assert that addiction can not be a disease. At one point, diseases such as AIDs, were not considered diseases. We as a population now know differently.

Also, did Gobee stop to think about the consequences for insurance coverage? How are addicts to get treatment if it is not covered under insurance (which it wouldn’t be if not considered a disease)?

– Concerned Student Re: LMFAO confirmed for spring concert It is beyond ridiculous that $100,500 is spent on this. At a time of budget short-falls, furloughs, class reductions and pay cuts it is reprehensible, to say the least. Students and faculty protested not too long ago about this (http://www.dailytitan.com/2010/03/students-faculty-to-protest-stateof-public-education-today/) And now we spend $100,500 on a useless concert that does absolutely nothing for the advancement of our education. Why doesn’t the DT speak up against this? Why don’t students protest such a blatant act of wasteful spending? Ridiculous!!!

- Jacob Davalos The preceding are the opinions of the www.dailytitan.com commenters and are not necessarily the views of the Daily Titan, its staff or Cal State Fullerton. Comments are edited for grammer and A.P. Style.

Photo Courtesy MCT Larry Bennett from Orlando, Fla., holds a “No More Bail Puts” sign at a massive tea party protest outside of Orlando City Hall, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

But I’m a tea partier. I look at budgets. And the budgets tell me that none of the money goes to the roads or bridges. If they did, our country’s infrastructure wouldn’t have received a “D” grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

It’s much more likely the money is going to the Pentagon, where all of our tax dollars make the United States the largest military spender in the world.

And I surely don’t want poor people to die, because I’m a tea partier. I know that our tax codes don’t save poor people; they make poor people, and then throw them in jail. It’s more likely our tax dollars will fund an immoral drug war that says users of crack cocaine should get a jail sentence twenty times more severe than users of powder cocaine. It’s a law so skewed in favor of the rich that I think Lindsay Lohan and Robert Downey Jr. are opening up a lobbying firm on Capitol Hill.

I’m all for helping the environment (on my own), but the money I give to the Environmental Protection Agency is used to clean up oil spills caused by oil corporations.

That doesn’t sound like good-oldfashioned progressivism, that sounds like corporatism. In my tea partying world I have this wacky idea that if you spill it, you clean it.I’m a Tea

Partier, and I don’t like Wall Street or bailouts. It’s not because I have some sick fantasy of watching the world financial system fall apart faster than Tiger Woods’ marriage. It’s because I think it creates a moral hazard, like signing a pre-nup. Why create an incentive for sabotage?

I’m a tea partier, which means I’m a deficit hawk. That’s much

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We’re not all waiting for Fox News to tell us where to protest, or freaked out that Mexicans are about to outnumber us four to one in six months.

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– Jonathan Blitzer, MD

opinion@dailytitan.com

different from a Republican deficit hawk. Republicans only like to warn of hyperinflation when the “radical communist socialists” spend all their money but don’t seem to think the same economic principles will apply if their money is being spent by “Jesus-loving terror-fighters.”

Indeed, I am tea partier. In my tea-partying world, neither group of delinquents would get to spend my money. In this world, the progressives stop raising taxes for subsidies, regulations, and an alphabet soup of government agencies and the Jesus-

loving terror-fighters stop crapping their pants and starting trillion dollar wars with countries that have no Army or Navy.

I’m a tea partier, and I think President Obama has entered the frightening James Buchanan-pantheon on my presidential-performance metric system. It’s a metric that at the bottom starts with George W. Bush, proceeds to James Buchanan and gradually makes its way up to Abe Lincoln and George Washington.

I don’t feel this way because Obama hasn’t laminated his official birth certificate and FedEx’d it to my doorstep. I feel this way because he doesn’t understand economics. In fact, I don’t think he’d understand economics if Adam Smith slapped him in the backside with a hardback of “The Wealth of Nations.”

I know the Founders were super old and super white, but so are your liberal professors, and you listen to them.

So lets get back to being oldschool conservative. Let’s get back to being libertarians, like Ben Franklin and James Madison.

Let’s hop on board that freedom train where you can smoke whatever the heck you want and the unfettered, unregulated, unbridled free market means one thing: the tickets are cheap.

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor and the Daily Titan, I am deeply concerned of the unbalanced and biased article “Club informs students of Israeli-Palestinian conflict” by Daily Titan staff writer Allie Mosier.

I have one simple question: Where is the voice of the other side?

As students of academia, we should be asking ourselves, what is the other perspective? What are the opposing viewpoints?

This article is filled with half-truths and blatant lies.

The security fence is saddening, yet necessary. Barriers exist in many other countries including Spain, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States with Mexico.

Has anyone asked themselves the question of why there is a barrier (3 percent wall, 97percent fence) in the first place?

Unfortunately, Palestinians are paying the price for the extremist terrorist Palestinian minority who have claimed the lives of over 950 Israeli civilians and con-

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tinue to orchestrate terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.

I hope to see the day when the security barrier is no longer needed and both Israeli and Palestinian children can play together peacefully, side by side, for the future of our children and future generations.

Before the security fence: Daily terrorist suicide bombings in coffee shops, buses, clubs, restaurants, weddings and schools.

After the security fence: Hundreds of attacks have been thwarted, including ambulances with “pregnant” women strapped with suicide bombing vests.

Coincidence? I think not.

By simply accepting information you are being told without challenging the information or seeking out the other perspective, you fall victim to the same propaganda that Hitler fed the citizens of Germany about Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, blacks and other minorities during World War II. Submitted by: Jonathan “Yoni” Mann

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 the Daily Titan Opinion Desk at opinion@dailytitan.com.

For the record Articles written for the Daily Titan by columnists, other Cal State Fullerton students or guests do not necessarily reflect the view of the Daily Titan or Daily Titan Editorial Board.

Only the editorials are representative of the views of the Daily Titan Editorial Board.

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March 22, 2010

Titan softball go 2 for 5 in Judi Garman Classic

By James gobee

Daily Titan Staff Writer sports@dailytitan.com

The Cal State Fullerton softball team took two out of the five games at the Judi Garman Classic at Anderson Family Field this week. Beginning March 17, the Titans suffered a 10-4 loss to Purdue.

The next day, they dropped another to Fresno State 4-1. The Titans put out the fire March 19, with a 3-1 victory over the Texas Longhorns.

The next day an upsetting 6-2 loss to No. 24 Louisville brought the Titans to their final game of the tournament on March 21, with an RBI show from Titan sophomore Trina Harrison, who drove in seven runs during CSUF’s 9-6 win over University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Words cannot describe the smile on Titan Head Coach Michelle Gromacki’s face when Cal State Fullerton Softball broke a 13-game losing streak.

March 19, in the third day of the Judi Garman Classic at Anderson Family Field, CSUF upset the No. 15 Texas Longhorns 3-1.

“Look at this,” said Gromacki, as she pointed to the big smile on her face when asked how she felt after the game.

“We had a good plan going in and we wanted to bring our ‘A’ game,” Gromacki said. “I wanted to get them in a good frame of mind of continuously competing while still collecting losses.”

In the second inning, senior right fielder Kadie Baldwin hit a one-run single, allowing junior pitcher Ari

Photo By Lucio villa/For the Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton softball team huddles up before taking the field.

Cervantes to score from second base, 1-0.

“I was more accountable for my own playing, but we as a team have learned we need to put the ball in play, and know that good things will happen when we do,” Baldwin said.

Defensively, the Titans seemed to be on point, striving to hold the lead over the Longhorns.

In the bottom of the fourth, junior center fielder Torrie Anderson was hit by a pitch and Cervantes singled on a bunt-and-run, allowing Anderson to leg it out to third base.

Baldwin then grounded out to first and moved the runners forward, extending the Titan lead, 2-0.

In the top of the sixth inning, Texas brought in senior pinch hitter Tallie Thrasher, who hit for a single, allowing junior catcher Amy Hooks to score, leaving the Titans ahead by one.

Longhorns’ senior center fielder Brittany Chalk was walked by redshirt sophomore relief pitcher Krystal Heinle, loading up the basses for sophomore first baseman Lexy Bennett.

However, she was unlucky when she flied out to sophomore second baseman Adriana Martinez, leaving all three Longhorns’ runners stranded.

At the bottom of the sixth inning, with junior pinch runner Sammie Dabbs on base, Heinle hit a sacrificefly to right field and drove in Dabbs as she tagged up, 3-1.

At the top of the seventh inning, it seemed as if the Longhorns were determined to come back. With a runner on second base, freshman shortstop Gabby Aragon threw out a runner at third for a fielder’s choice.

Aragon would end the game by throwing out the next two batters at first base.

photo By sue lagarde/For the Daily Titan Sophomore third baseman Nicole Johnson settles in and gets ready to take a swing against Louisiana-Lafeyette Sunday afternoon.

“I don’t think we did anything different. I think that we eliminated a lot of errors and it was all part of the process to getting better,” Cervantes said. “We have to keep doing what we’re doing and we will be able to continue winning.”

Longhorn Head Coach Connie Clark and Gromacki have history together. Back in 1986, the two played side-by-side for CSUF as they took home the Women’s College World Series Championship against Texas A&M. Now, Clark and Gromacki

are both Div. I head coaches. The two are still great friends and happily face each other each year.

The Titans will square off with the DePaul Blue Demons on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Anderson Family Field.

Men’s Rugby dominates, en route to higher ranks sports@dailytitan.com

Cal State Fullerton Rugby Football Club had their first game at Titan Stadium in the program’s 25year history, smashing Occidental College 32-10 in a dominant performance, putting the Titans one win away from moving up to Div. II. “The school is starting to recognize us. We’re working with them and they’ve been great; they’ve helped us a lot,” said Titan Head Coach Phil Grieve.

“Twenty-five years of Titan rugby and we’ve never played in (Titan Stadium), and we wanted to make it a good event and make it fun for the people who came, and I think we did that.”

Titan Rugby (7-0) had to pay their way into the stadium with $1,000 of their own money, some of which they gained through sponsorship and fundraising, but also from their own pockets.

“We had two goals at the beginning of last year and this year: play in the stadium and win D-3. We came close last year, but we’ve completed one and with a win next week we’ll have both. So, we’re pretty stoked to say the least,” said Jeff O’Brien Titan Rugby senior inside center, captain and team president.

Although Titan Rugby is 25 years Odhiambo took a boot to the face old, the program was in shambles and remained down for several mintwo years ago when they had play- utes until paramedics were able to ers outside of CSUF participating, take him to a local hospital for treatbut when the old timers came back ment. to revamp the program, their success He is still being treated for his inwas imminent. juries but is in stable condition after “They switched the whole pro- surgery last night. gram around. It’s a lot better now.

The injury seemed to take the TiEveryone’s committed and that’s tan momentum away, but Occidenwhat it took,” said Titan junior tal could only score on a soft try and hooker Kevin De Natale. was never able to confuse CSUF. CSUF used their size in the pack The Titans added one more try and speed in the backs to take the toward the end of the game as they lead, going in at continued to roll half time 27-3. over Oxy in their Titan Rugby 32-10 win. scored 27 points The night culon four first half minated with trys, two trys by house music O’Brien and one blaring through by freshman wing Titan Stadium – Titan Head Coach and the team as Taylor Edwards, Phil Grieve both of who cela whole running ebrated birthdays up the north side over the weekof the stadium to end. stand underneath the winning score Junior fly half Ian Forner con- from the scoreboard and raised their verted two of four extra points and hands in unison, showing their No. a penalty goal from about 38 meters 1. It was a perfect ending to a long to begin the scoring raid, just two awaited struggle and fight to get a minutes into the game. game in a place to show they are a Fullerton Youth Rugby & South legitimate program and a force to be Orange County U-12 coed teams reckoned with. played during halftime.

The CSUF rugby team heads to The second half started on a scary San Diego to meet Point Loma Satnote when junior flanker Randy urday at noon.

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Twenty-five years of Titan rugby and we’ve never played in Titan Stadium.

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By nicholas fortes

Daily Titan Staff Writer

photo By paul rudman/For the Daily Titan Titan forward Taylor “Speed” Edwards takes down an Occidental defender during a 32-10 victory on Saturday.