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Daily Titan
Wednesday
March 12, 2008
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
DTSHORTHAND
Titans
Fall
Student Rec Center
opens today for use
The CSUF Student Recreation
Center opened today at 6 a.m.
Membership for currently enrolled students is included in Student Union Fees. To activate the
membership, students need to
visit Level 2 of the SRC.
The SRC is funded by the Titan Student Union and features
state-of-the-art fitness equipment
indoor gyms, multipurpose activity spaces, sports courts, multimedia cardio room (the first in
the CSU system), indoor track,
rock wall, and an outdoor swimming pool.
The center’s program will be organized to serve individual and
group fitness training; non-credit
group exercise classes; campus
intramural sports programs; university-recognized student club
and organization activities.
6-2
against
University
of San Diego
Sociology Week
The CSUF Sociology Department will host Sociology Week
on March 17th and 19th with
discussions and events.
Some of Monday’s events include disussions about careers in
sociology, health care plans and
the medical rights of pregnant
teenagers, to name a few.
On Wednesday, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez will speak
about the federal chidren’s health
insurance bill. The day will also
include a discussion about the
social implications of HIV and
AIDS on communities in Orange
County.
Check back with Monday’s issue
of the Daily Titan for exact date
and times for featured Sociology
Week events.
‘Opening Credits’
highlights alumni art
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Above- Zeta Tau Alpha cheering supporting the Titan Base Ball team, while
supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. Left- Jason Dovel striking out a San Diego
hitter in the first inning.
Business week engages students’ interests Women’s
A collaboration by CSUF
volunteers offers job fair,
workshops and speakers
By MARISSA WILLMAN
Daily Titan Staff Writer
[email protected]
Business-related clubs and organizations worked together to host
Business Week, a four-day event
that runs through Thursday.
It will feature an invitationonly luncheon with donor Steven
G. Mihaylo as well as workshops,
guest speakers and a job fair open
to all Cal State Fullerton students.
“This event is open to everyone and meant for everyone,” said
Emeline Yong, assistant dean for
student affairs for the College of
Business and Economics.
Taryn Moore, a sophomore international business major and
the executive vice president of the
Business Inter-Club Council, said
the week’s theme of “A Look at the
Past, A Plan for the Future” was
intentionally created with a broad
scope so that it could include all
majors as well as within the CBE.
“Donuts with the Dean” will
take place today and Thursday
from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on
the patio of Langsdorf Hall, where
students can enjoy free coffee and
donuts.
Dean of College of Business and
Economics Anil Puri will share the
free breakfast with students Thursday morning.
The event is scheduled to cul-
minate Thursday with an alumni communications lecturer Christopanel at 10 a.m., a lecture by Clark pher Deal spoke to students about
Jones, a vice president of finance at the importance of understanding
Disneyland Resort, at 1 p.m., the differences and communicating inUrban Land Institute Panel at 2 terculturally in the business world.
p.m. and a lecture by Jennifer Sun“We have this idiom to put yourderland, principal of Strategic Pay self in someone else’s shoes,” Deal
Resources, at 4 p.m.
said. “But we don’t actually do it. I
Approximately 50 business stu- encourage you to.”
dents are invited to Thursday’s
Deal posed scenarios to the auluncheon with prominent alumni, dience that highlighted conflicts
including Mihaylo, who recently that could arise between businessdonated $30 million to the CBE people of different cultures and
and is who the college will be encouraged students to consider
named afother points
ter.
of view and
T h e
ask
queswe e k’s
tions.
events
W h e n
kicked off
Deal posed
with guest
the
quesspeaker
tion, “How
Robert
many of you
Kleinbelieve you
– Christopher Deal, have more
henz, depCSUF Human Communications
uty chief
to
learn
econoabout other
mist for
c u l t u r e s ,”
the Calinearly every
fornia Association of Realtors, ad- hand in the room went up.
dressing the “sub-prime crisis” on
“The main thing he said is that
Monday.
you can’t think others will act like
It was followed by a presenta- you do,” said Roman Sobolkin, a
tion by the Center for Insurance freshman international business
that crowded the Titan Student major.
Union Theater to the point where
Sobolkin is also an executive
students sat in the aisles and stood board member of the BICC, one
in the back, said Yong.
of the groups that spearheaded the
Delta Sigma Pi and the Future production of Business Week.
Business Leaders of America pre“[Putting Business Week tosented the “Cultural Business Eti- gether] wasn’t as stressful as it was
quette Workshop” Monday night challenging,” Sobolkin said, “but it
in TSU Pavilion C, where human came out a lot better than I could
“
We have this idiom to
put yourself in someone
else’s shoes. But we don’t
actually do it. I encourage
you to.
“
The works of more than 65 Cal
State Fullerton visual arts alumni
in the entertainment-related industries of feature animation,
television, video games, children’s
publishing, movie promotion
and more are being showcased
in the current exhibit “Opening
Credits.”
“Opening Credits” is part of
the university’s 50th anniversary
celebration and is the third in a
series of exhibitions highlighting
the talents of art alumni.
The work will be displayed until
March 23.
A few of the artists include:
Jeff Bacon (B.A. art ’80) - managing director for the Designory,
Christian Hill (M.F.A. art ’05) assistant professor of art, CSUF,
Adolph Lusinsky (B.F.A. art ’93)
- look and lighting director for
the Walt Disney Feature Animation and Joshua Pruett (B.F.A. art
’02).
Also featured is award-winning
art from the Hollywood Reporter
Key Art Awards Student Competition and Nickelodeon Studio’s
animation pitch competition.
The location for the show include the Main and Project
Room galleries at the Grand
Central Art Center in Santa Ana
and the West Gallery.
have expected.”
Moore said the BICC is confident students will be pleased with
the content of the events.
“Students who have never been
involved can know they have an
automatic free invitation to free
food and great events with people
with a ton of experience and a lot
to offer,” Moore said.
Yong said the events had proven
to be “very successful” so far and
was pleased with the turnout.
“We based this event on quality of events rather than quantity,”
Yong said. “We encouraged different clubs to combine and co-host
events.”
Yong said the event is similar to
Comm Week held by the College
of Communications and relies on
volunteer efforts.
“It’s done strictly by a group
of students who volunteer to put
it together,” Yong said. “I’m very
proud of these students who see
the value of getting involved.”
Stephanie Cuellar, a senior majoring in business finance and president of BICC, was one of the main
volunteers for Business Week.
She said it was difficult to get
publicity for Business Week in the
past but the club has seen more success this year by promoting within
classrooms and with faculty.
“The faculty is the driving force
behind making any on-campus
event successful,” Cuellar said.
“They offer motivation by informing their students, bringing classes
to events and offering extra credSee BUSINESS WEEK, Page 2
history
month
observed
A conference hopes to
showcase the impact of
women through time
By CARMEN DRUMMOND
For the Daily Titan
[email protected]
Some of history’s most fascinating women still haven’t made it
into mainstream history.
How does gender ideologies affect the circulation of popular culture?
Cal State Fullerton is hosting a
“Scholarship on Gender” conference on March 24, from 10 a.m.5:15 p.m.
The conference, which is free
and open to the public, features academic researchers from Cal State
Fullerton, Cal State Dominguez
Hills, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal
State Fresno and UC Irvine.
The conference will consist of
various discussion panels, a keynote presentation by Professor Shira Tarrant from the women’s studies department at Cal State Long
Beach on “Trash TV: It’s Not Just
a Waste of Time,” and a documentary film, “The Hat Lady,” about
See HER STORY, Page 2
Page Two
IN OTHER NEWS
INTERNATIONAL
Guantanamo prisoners allowed phone calls
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) – The U.S. military
said Tuesday that it will allow detainees to make regular phone calls to their
families from Guantanamo Bay prison, where many have been confined in
extreme isolation for as long as six years.
The new policy by the Defense Department, which previously said security concerns prevented such calls, is part of a strategy to ease conditions for
frustrated prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, said the telephone
policy reflects a commitment to maintaining the health and well-being of
Guantanamo detainees. No start date has been set for the program.
Inmates’ contact with the outside world generally has been limited to mail
delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross and meetings
with their lawyers.
A spokesman for the detention center, Army Lt. Col. Ed Bush, said it is
working out procedures for the calls. He declined to provide details about
which detainees would be eligible and how often calls would be permitted.
NATIONAL
Gov. reportedly spent over $80,000 on call girl
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – With pressure mounting on Gov. Eliot Spitzer
to resign over a call girl scandal, investigators said Tuesday he was clearly a
repeat customer who spent tens of thousands of dollars – perhaps as much as
$80,000 – with the high-priced prostitution service over an extended period
of time.
Spitzer and his family, meanwhile, remained secluded in their Fifth Avenue
apartment, while Republicans began talking impeachment, and few if any
fellow Democrats came forward to defend him.
On Monday, when the scandal broke, prosecutors said in court papers that
Spitzer had been caught on a wiretap spending $4,300 with the Emperors
Club VIP call-girl service, with some of the money going toward a night
with a prostitute named Kristen, and the rest to be used as credit toward
future trysts. The papers also suggested that Spitzer had done this before.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that Spitzer, in fact, had spent tens of thousands of dollars with the Emperors Club. Another official said the amount could be as high as $80,000.
But it was not clear over what period of time that was spent.
STATE
Another fatal shooting shocks high school
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A man police say is a member of a Los Angeles
street gang was charged with murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a high
school football star.
Pedro Espinoza, 19, is accused of killing 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., a
standout running back at Los Angeles High School, yards from the student’s
home in the Crenshaw area on March 2.
Espinoza was charged with a single murder count with a special-circumstance allegation that could make him eligible for the death penalty, said Shiara M. Davila, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s
office. The special circumstance was that it was a gang-related shooting, Davila said. Prosecutors also included special allegations that the crime involved
the personal use of a firearm and that it was a gang-related felony offense.
Espinoza was arrested Friday and appeared in court Tuesday. Police have
said two Hispanic gang members approached Shaw, who was black, and
asked him where he was from - meaning the name of his gang - and then shot
him. But Shaw was not in a gang, authorities and his family said.
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March 12, 2008
Students scramble for internships
The Internship Event at
CSUF attracted at least
400 students on Tuesday
By CRAIG GROSSMAN
Daily Titan Staff Writer
[email protected]
With the spring semester ending
in the next two months, some Cal
State Fullerton students are taking
steps to gain work experience in
their chosen professions over the
summer.
Many of the job-seeking pressures these students may have been
feeling have been averted thanks to
the CSUF Career Center.
Mostly dressed in dapper business attire and wielding resumes,
an estimated 400 CSUF students
converged at the Titan Student
Union Pavilions on Tuesday to
gather information and mingle
with internship representatives at
“The Internship Event.”
The two-hour event began at 1
p.m. and attracted a broad range
of employers from across Southern California, including Mattel
Inc., NBC Universal, the American Heart Association and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
After introductions from the approximately 30 employers in attendance, the employers met students
who braved long lines at individual
cocktail tables.
Student attendees were asked to
RSVP on the Career Center Web
site, but some were also allowed
entry if they were dressed professionally and had a resume, according to Career Center Arts and Entertainment Specialist Laura Neal.
Neal said preparations for this
event began in earnest well before the semester. She also said it
was difficult to secure some of the
high-profile representatives.
“The planning started last fall,
and not real aggressively until after the semester began,” said Neal,
who indicated that Career Center
internship and student employment specialist Leticia Llamas and
events coordinator Patricia Hymes
assembled the logistics, respectively. “Usually, it’s more challenging
to get these more glamorous companies. [Llamas] went through our
database and selected the employers to invite, and they only have
summer internships.”
CSUF student Roberto Clemente, 26, visited three tables associated with his field.
“The first one I went to was
DreamWorks; that’s the one I
wanted to go to,” said Clemente, a
fine arts major who said he thought
the event was geared toward business and not enough studios and
animators. “Then I went to Nickelodeon, and I just stopped talking
to Fox.”
Diane Pacheco, who is a client
Associated Press
Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi’s Democratic
primary Tuesday, latest in a string
of racially polarized presidential
contests across the Deep South and
a final tune-up before next month’s
high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.
Obama was winning roughly 90
percent of the black vote but only
about one-quarter of the white
vote, extending a pattern that
carried him to victory in earlier
primaries in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.
His triumph seemed unlikely to
shorten a Democratic marathon
expected to last at least six more
weeks — and possibly far longer
— while Republicans and their
nominee-in-waiting, Sen. John
McCain, turn their attention to
the fall campaign.
“Now we look forward to campaigning in Pennsylvania and
around the country,” Maggie Williams, Clinton’s campaign manager, said in a written statement
that congratulated Obama on his
victory.
“I’m confident that once we get
a nominee, the party is going to
be unified,” Obama said as he collected his victory.
But in a race growing more contentious, he took a swipe at the
way his rival’s campaign has conducted itself.
“We’ve been very measured in
terms of how we talk about Senator Clinton,” he said. “I’ve been
careful to say that I think Senator
Clinton is a capable person and
that should she win the nomination, obviously, I would support
her. I’m not sure we’ve been getting
that same approach from the Clinton campaign,” he said on CNN.
Returns from 92 percent of Mississippi’s precincts showed Obama
gaining 59 percent, to 39 percent
for Clinton. Obama picked up at
least 17 of Mississippi’s 33 delegates to the Democratic National
Convention, with five more to be
awarded.
He hoped for a win sizable
enough to erase most if not all of
Clinton’s 11-delegate gain from
last week, when she won three primaries.
The Illinois senator had 1,596
delegates to 1,484 for Clinton. It
takes 2,025 to win the nomina-
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tion.
Neither of the two rivals appears able to win enough delegates
through primaries and caucuses
to prevail in their historic race for
the nomination, a development
that has elevated the importance
of nearly 800 elected officials and
party leaders who will attend next
summer’s national convention as
unelected superdelegates.
Obama leads Clinton among
pledged delegates, 1,385-1,237 in
The Associated Press count, while
the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247211.
There was little suspense about
the Mississippi outcome, and both
Clinton and Obama spent part of
their day campaigning in Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS WEEK: SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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it.”
Cuellar said two-minute presentations for Business Week were
done during the two weeks preceding the event for approximately
1,500 students.
“My goal was to physically be in
the classrooms,” Cuellar said. “We
knew that 1,500 students were going to know about the event and
then hopefully tell their friends.”
“It’s difficult to publicize anything and for a lot of people, business is not that exciting,” Moore
said. “They don’t realize how exciting it can be.”
Moore said students will be able
to network and get insight through
attending the events.
“Once the students are here and
in the door, we know they’ll be
pleased with the content,” Moore
said. “There’s no smoke and mirrors. Once the students are here
at the events, they’ll see for themselves.”
Moore said she hopes students
attend tomorrow’s events.
“I really hope to see more of
what we saw Monday,” Moore said.
“We had a lot of students who have
never attended any events on campus and were uninvolved come to
the events and I hope that continues.”
HER STORY: PRAISING womeN’s contributions
From Page 1
a remarkable woman who provides generous charity in the most
unique ways to newly diagnosed
cancer patients.
The session will feature the coproducers of the documentary, Diane Ambruso and Jacqueline Frost,
both from the Radio-TV-Film department at CSUF.
“It’s a real diverse mix of academic and multimedia presentations on gender in literature,
rhetoric of gender in professional
sports and the role gender played
in the Southern California wildfires,” said Marjorie Jolles, an assistant professor of women’s studies
on campus.
“Scholarship on Gender” is just
one of the many events that will be
presented throughout the month of
March in celebration of Women’s
History Month. Women’s History
Month is an opportunity to “focus of the things that may not always
not only on the present achieve- be talked about, so these are the
ments of women, but also discuss places to go and do that,” said Rethem in the context of our histo- nae Bredin, chair and associate prory,” said
fessor of
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music,
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film, debates, lectures and a Battle March 20 at 7 p.m. in the Titan
of the Bands competition.
Student Union Pub, Battle of the
“It’s a way to learn about some Bands will feature Slow Mo Erotic,
“
I would love to see lots of
people who may not normally
think of themselves as someone
who would want want to talk
about women’s issues.
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manager in the Pacific southwest
region of INROADS, a non-profit
organization, estimated that she
met with dozens of students. INROADS has been attending CSUF
job fairs for 17 years; and currently
accepts freshman and sophomores
with a 2.8 minimum GPA in specialized majors.
“I think that the students have
great qualities,” said Pacheco,
whose organization partners with
Fortune 500 companies to identify
minority students for companies.
“I saw the seniors whom I was impressed with; they had suits and
ties. And the females were very
nicely dressed professionally. The
[students in attendance] were definitely qualified.”
“The Internship Event” is held
annually in the spring and is sponsored by the Target Corp. and the
Business InterClub Council, which
is the third event of BICC’s “Business Week.”
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Hadassah Hill and Eva Bronosaurus.
Numerous debates questioning
sexuality, porn, hip hop, rock ‘n’
roll and fashion will be highlighted
throughout the month of March.
“I would love to see lots of people who may not normally think of
themselves as someone who would
want to talk about women’s issues
to join these events,” Bredin said.
“And it’s a great opportunity to
drink beer and listen to good music, all while learning about the
stereotypes of the female body as
a sex object.”
Sponsors for the events include
the Women’s Studies and Nursing
departments, the Women’s Studies
Student Association, the Liberal
Studies Student Association, the
European Studies Student Association and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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March 12, 2008
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Hunting for real internships
Cal State Fullerton’s “Internship Event” brought heavy-hitting
corporations like NBC Universal,
Target, MTV, the FBI and 20th
Century FOX to the outstretched
hands of students eager for job
opportunities.
After a few minutes of introductions, and with phrases like
“we will pay you with knowledge”
and “I was hired from this internship,” the build-up among the
students was evident.
Students rushed to talk to the
big companies, but after an NBC
recruiter addressed the herd of Titans, it became apparent the paperwork would get lost on its way
to Burbank.
Cards with names were handed
out, one and two-minute conversations were had, but the end result was the same: “Sign up on the
Web site.”
The various recruiters offered
the same advice that some of the
students had contemplated many
times before.
The question we have is whether or not the momentary small
talk with companies will make
enough of an impression.
Considering that the CSUF
Career Center attracted a broad
range of employers to its “Internship Event,” it is almost inconceivable that it was only a twohour event.
Letters
to the
Editor:
With the long lines and some
30 employers in attendance, the
event did not give students a sufficient amount of time to mingle
with prospective employers to explore their options.
With one of the largest communications and RTVF departments in Southern California, the
focus of “The Internship Event”
was narrow in focus.
The jobs that students are able
to secure at this event are far from
the glamorous or desirable internships most are looking for.
Instead, they are about as fulfilling as a summer spent licking
stamps.
It is any wonder why these
companies don’t just simply advertise with flyers on telephone
poles. At least that way, students
know what they are getting into.
Under the current system, students are shown a feast and handed the scraps.
We are told useless words and
given no security in the job hunt.
The only guarantees students
are left with after circling the
grounds were a full stomach and
a fresh pencil with “Nickelodeon”
written on the side.
Perhaps with better organization and more time for students
and perspective employers to interact, the next event will be more
effective.
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Reaching out to home-schoolers
By Steven Martinez
Reasons parents choose home school
Daily Titan Staff Writer
[email protected]
I was home-schooled.
Every weekday morning I woke
up, got dressed, ate breakfast and got
ready for school like any other kid.
The difference was, instead of
walking to a bus stop or getting
driven to school, I merely walked
upstairs.
From third- through eighth-grade,
my mother, and sometimes father,
took on the roles of both teacher and
nurturer. I had books for each subject, an allotted time for each lesson
and homework for each class.
I originally went to public school,
but my parents made the decision to
put me through home school when
we moved to a new house and the
rest was history. I don’t feel any different, but I guess I am.
The California appellate court recently ruled that parents who want
to home school their children must
have a teaching credential.
31.2%
Concern about environment of other schools.
29.8%
To provide religious or moral instruction
16.5%
Dissatisfaction with academic instruction at
other schools
7.2%
Child has other special needs
6.5%
Child has a physical or mental health
problem
From a 2003 survey of parents by the National Center for Educational Statistics
My mom recently received her
degree in liberal arts and is now pursuing her teaching credential, but
when I was being home-schooled,
neither of my parents had a college
degree.
Yet, they taught me for six years
of my life and looking back, I don’t
feel as though I was cheated out of a
good education.
It wasn’t like my parents wrote
their own books, mixed it in with a
Bible study and called it a day.
Getting past the barrier to
experience a new language
We’ve made it to the halfway
mark here, so that means it's time
for celebration. Last week was
spring break, at least for me and
my study abroad pals.
So we scattered, like the commonplace image of fall leaves,
over the continent of Europe.
Many left in groups to Spain,
Prague and Germany. Even our
resident adviser left for Cambodia and Vietnam.
As for me, I boarded a 747
bound for Gothenburg, Sweden.
There, I was going to visit two
former members of the Daily Titan family, but the trip quickly
became much more than just a
happy vacation of sightseeing.
I sat alone on the plane, normally a mundane experience for
anyone who flies more than once
8.8%
Other reasons
The curriculum they taught with
was certified by the state. And truthfully, the curriculum is where all the
necessary information comes from.
A teacher’s job is just to present
the information to the students,
which my parents did perhaps even
better than a teacher who couldn’t
know me like they do.
I went on to a private high school
and now a public college and while I
didn’t make it into Harvard or MIT,
I don’t think having a gym class and
cafeteria lunches would have gotten
me there either.
I understand that the government
feels that keeping up education standards is part of its duty, but teaching your own child is so different
from teaching a classroom of other
people’s children that a credential
program could be going overboard.
Maybe it isn’t, I can only speak
from my own experience.
However, what honestly makes
me sad is that some would believe
that because I was home-schooled,
my mind is somehow inferior to a
publicly educated one.
Some believe that because I had
a Bible class, I don’t have the open
mindedness to contribute to society
in a positive or meaningful way.
I don’t hate homosexuals, I don’t
hate biology, I don’t hate change and
I am certainly not the exception to
the rule.
Many of my friends who were
home-schooled went on to better
colleges than me and I firmly believe
they will make a difference one day.
The Londoner
in their life. This time though, I had
a stark realization of my place in the
cosmos.
As the pilot started welcoming
people onto the flight, I realized I
couldn’t understand a word he was
saying.
Suddenly I was in a linguistic minority, and I had no one to share that
experience with. No one to turn to
and make quiet comments in English about our mutual situation.
But it was actually a amazing experience.
English is the high and mighty
language after all, so why should we
have to worry about what everyone
else is trying to say?
I’ll be honest, I’ve never considered how it would feel to not understand what those around you are
saying. It makes you feel small and
yet, it's exciting.
Suddenly, the world just feels
huge. The brain expands when it
can’t read the signs, follow the programs or ask for directions.
Like Juliette Binoche‘s character
in “Dan in Real Life” remarks, the
perfect day really can be going to a
country where you don’t speak the
language, a place with different cultures and customs.
Though my friends in Sweden and
their family speak wonderful English, they often spoke comfortably in
Swedish. It wasn’t on purpose, nor
was it irritating, which was a shock.
Instead, there was a feeling of
growth as I was forced to rely on
body language, tone and expression
to know when it was appropriate
to laugh, be worried or respond in
some other way.
By Erin Tobin
[email protected]
Isolation helps you understand
the outsiders a little better; the
struggle of foreigners who are far
from home.
Have no doubts, I had a wonderful time in Sweden. My hosts
were perfect guides and translators and I’d love to return.
It only took a couple of minutes on that plane for the pilot
to repeat his message in English,
making sure everyone knew how
welcome they were on his plane.
But in those few moments, I knew
I had grown a bit as a person.
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BY John Synco
Daily Titan Staff Writer
[email protected]
Brilliance
Change
rt
Education
Creativity
Complexity
Professor Karyl
Ketchum is a part-time
instructor and a fulltime artist
A metaphor comparing fish in
water to humans and the collective
blindness of our reality perfectly explains why Karyl Ketchum creates.
“We’re the fish and ideology is
the water,” Ketchum, a part-time
lecturer in the Women’s Studies Department said. “It’s impossible for
the fish to analyze or even imagine
water, because it’s wholly immersed.
The thing that being creative does
may be our only way out of the fishpond, maybe it’s our only way to get
a critical distance and actually see the
water, or see the ideology and begin
to subvert it, poke at it, turn it upside down or even give it a name.”
When Ketchum talks about academics and art, wisdom radiates
from her hazel eyes, but when she’s
forced to recall memories from a
childhood riddled with change, the
brilliance in her eyes is replaced with
an innocent stare of a little girl once
lost.
Ketchum, 44, will become a fulltime teacher in the fall and will head
classes like Gender and Technoculure, Intercultural Women’s Studies
and Gender and Globalization.
She attributes her success to a series of events that led her into the
arms of her adopted grandmother
Francis.
“My family background is fairly
complicated,” Ketchum said. “I was
born in Cleveland, Ohio to my birth
mom who, at the time, was 16 years
old and then I was put up for adoption.”
Ketchum lived in foster care for
six months before her adopted family arrived to take her to a new home
in Elyria, Ohio.
“All of a sudden I have a grandmother who is one of the first
women to get a Master's degree in
literature,” she said. “[She] ended
up quoting Emily Dickinson to me
and all the great women poets, along
with many of the great male poets.
[She] really instilled in me a love of
art in all its forms.”
These are aspects of life she said
would have never crossed her path
had she stayed with her birth family.
“I was born into a family that was
incredibly poor that lived in southern Ohio, really an area that we
Paintings By karyl Ketchum
All artwork are original pieces by Karyl Ketchum. Top: “Monu Time.” Bottom Left: “The Seduction of Whiteness.” Bottom Right:
“Imogene Carrie.”
would call Appalachia,” Ketchum
said. “ [It had] the kind of poverty
that most people can’t even imagine.
Most people associate this kind of
poverty with third world spaces.”
Her adopted father James, a retired journalist, also instilled factors
within Ketchum’s life, that helped
shape her professionally.
She developed a love for language
and learned through the power of
creative thought she could create
change.
“He had a really profound influence on my life,” Ketchum said.
“Both of them [her father and
grandmother] are humanists. Both
of them believe, believed in the case
of my grandmother, in social justice, art and in language. I trace a lot
of what I’m doing back to both of
them.”
The family moved to San Diego
when Ketchum was 15 when her father became the managing editor of
the San Diego Evening Tribune.
Ketchum graduated from Poway
High School in 1982.
Although she considers her high
school years to be quite boring, she
did frequent the beach and develop
a serious painting habit.
In the years following graduation she married her high school
sweetheart, gave birth to her two
daughters Britt and Hail, divorced
her high school sweet heart and then
re-married.
In 1994, after her grandmother
passed away, they moved to Northern California.
“I was accepted to U.C. Davis,”
she said.
Ketchum received her Bachelors
degree in art studio and women and
gender studies in 1999.
She earned her Master’s Degree in
cultural studies in 2001 and soon after, she received her doctorate in the
same discipline.
She began teaching at U.C. Davis
when she entered graduate school.
"She's a terrific addition to our
faculty," Renae Bredin, the program
director for women's studies said.
"[Ketchum] is an amazing artist and
has an amazing theoretical background in terms of cultural studies
theory, feminist theory, post modernist theory, and that’s a rare combination."
Student feedback like "amazing"
and "extremely compelling" funnel
back to Bredin regarding Ketchum's
teaching.
"[Students] feel like they come
out of classes having learned more
than they imagined they would have
learned," Bredin said. "She has a
depth of understanding that transcends boundaries. She’s not only an
artist and she’s not only a theorist,
she’s both at the same time, which in
terms of the kind of work she does,
the research she does and the combination between that and her art, is
very rare – very unusual."
This is Ketchum's third semester
at Cal State Fullerton.
“The Women’s Studies Department at Cal State Fullerton actually decided they wanted to include
a cultural studies emphasis in their
program,” Ketchum said. “So what
that means for me, is that my background in cultural studies and my
passion for art making, in all its different forms, is really valued here.
That’s why this is a really perfect
place for me to be.”
Now that Ketchum has obtained
full-time status, she will move from
her cubicle into an office, but more
importantly, she will continue to
participate in an ongoing conversation within cultural studies and its
relationship to feminist theory.
She also wants to see more men in
the classroom.
Radio-TV-Film major Robert
Regalado can't imagine taking a
women's studies class only because
his major restricts extra time from
his schedule.
"If I had extra time I would consider it," Regalado said in a recent
interview.
“I think there’s a real problem
with thinking that women’s studies
is all about male bashing,” Ketchum
said. “I think that still lingers, that
idea and it’s so outdated. It’s not at
all what it’s about. It’s like the fish
thing. It’s all of us getting that critical distance.”
Ketchum said she wants her students to grasp the notion that they
can make sense of the world by critically deconstructing and reassembling it in a way that makes sense so
they can navigate it mindfully and
not blindly.
Also, she said she wants students
to get a sense of who they are in the
world and understand the responsibilities of being educated.
“To be at the university is a tremendous privilege,” Ketchum said.
“That privilege, as all privilege does,
confers a great deal of responsibility.
Not just the responsibility to go out
and get a job and make money, but
a responsibility to share that knowledge and a responsibility to live
mindfully.”
Rec. Center open at 6 a.m.
By daniel suzuki/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
The new Rec Center opens at 6 a.m. onWednesday, featuring everything from treadmills to rock climbing walls. Locker rentals are
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Sports
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March 12, 2008
Tennis loses to Texas State Bobcats Lakers’ forward
pays it forward
The Titans continue to
struggle, dropping to
2-10 on the year
By damian kelly
For the Daily Titan
by jon castillo
[email protected]
[email protected]
Professional athletes take a lot of
heat for the millions of dollars they
make to play a game. Many people
think they’re overpaid, receiving salaries in one year that a working-class
person doesn’t earn in their entire
life. Their claims gain more credibility when disgruntled players are
heard demanding trades and asking
for a better supporting cast.
With all the talk about player
salaries and their personal shortcomings, the positive things they do are
often forgotten. Fortunately, there
are two sides to a story, and members of the Los Angeles Lakers stand
out as positive role models of giving
back to their community.
Forward Vladimir Radmanovic is
a notable example, as demonstrated
through his foundation to help
abandoned children. Based in Seattle, Washington, The Vladimir Radmanovic Children’s Foundation was
created in 2005, after Radmanovic
signed with the Seattle SuperSonics.
Matthew Wade, Director of the
Vladimir Radmanovic Children’s
Foundation, said Radmanovic called
him about his desire to give back to
his community after experiencing
many hardships as a young boy.
“Vladimir grew up in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, which was a war-torn
area, and he saw a lot of devastation,” Wade said. “He saw a lot of
children abandoned and he wanted
to do something to see children not
go through the same thing as he
did.”
Radmanovic’s foundation has
gone a long way towards accomplishing that goal, having donated
$110,000 to International Orthodox
Christian Charities, an Orthodox
Christian humanitarian organization, to provide a vocational training
program for orphans in Belgrade, according to Wade. Not only does he
assist orphans in his home country,
but also in Los Angeles County.
Daily Titan Staff Writer
Battling is what the Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team has done
all year, but the results have been
mostly disheartening, and their most
recent match was no exception.
The Titans (2-10) fell 6-1 to the
Texas State Bobcats (5-5) in a nonconference match at Titan Courts
on Tuesday afternoon.
In the No. 3 doubles match, CSUF
sophomore Brandy Andrews and senior Breanna Stowell combined for
a 9-8 (8-6) victory over Bobcats’ Ali
Gulida and Sumarie Muller. Unfortunately for the Titans, it would be
one of the only highlights of their
day.
Titan Freshman Erin Wiesener
and sophomore Jerusha Cruz fell to
Ashley Ellis and Lainey Chafitz 5-8
in the No. 2 doubles match. This put
pressure on CSUF’s No. 1 doubles
team of Shelly Injejikian and Karina
Akhmedova, who played against Andrea Giraldo and Rabea Hartmann.
The Bobcats had a few things go
their way in the match, like Akhmedova having a few balls bounce off
the net and fall back on the Titans
side for points.
“Those things you can’t control
and that kind of sucks,” Injejikian
said. “We just got to get a little more
aggressive at the net in general.”
Injejikian and Akhmedova eventually fell short and lost 7-9 in the
tight doubles match.
“We had four match points, so it
was really sad,” Akhmedova said. “It
was kind of hard to get over that.”
In the singles matches, Texas State
took five of six despite the best efforts of CSUF. Akhmedova was able
to take the sole singles match for
the Titans with a 7-5, 0-1 win. The
match ended early due to an injury
to Bobcats’ Ellis. Akhmedova said
she was pleased with her victory
despite her exhaustion, but felt she
By Xavier Hernandez/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Cal State Fullerton sophomore Jerusha Cruz striking the ball with a forehand Tuesday afternoon at the Titan Courts.
could have done better in the win.
And while the Titans lost the remaining matches, they fought until
the end in them, refusing to give up
in the No. 2 and No. 5 matches. In
the No. 2 match, Injejikian faced the
same opponent from her doubles
match earlier in Hartmann and lost
6-7, 4-6.
“It didn’t feel like a loss to me,”
Injejikian said. “I didn’t feel like
we actually lost today. I feel like its
something we learned. We’re getting
closer and closer.”
Andrews’ singles match went
down to the wire as she lost 5-7, 6-3,
11-9 to Jennifer Nowland in the No.
5 match. Wiesener lost to Giraldo
in the No. 1 match, 2-6, 1-6, Cruz
lost to Gulida 0-6, 0-6 in the No. 4
match, and Stowell fell to Mackenzie
Farmer 4-6, 1-6 in the No. 6 match.
“We are getting closer to winning
that doubles point and we need that
doubles point to gain momentum in
the singles [matches],” CSUF Head
Coach Bill Reynolds said. “When we
get that close to winning the doubles
point, if we don’t win it, they got to
put it behind them, forget about it,
and go out and play singles with a
positive attitude.”
The Titans next match is on
Thursday against UC Irvine in a
conference match at 2 p.m. at Titan
Courts.
Five Acres is an orphanage in
Los Angeles County and Vladimir
Radmanovic has made significant
contributions to it, according to information posted on their Web site.
Children at Five Acres are given to
family relatives or they are placed
with a foster family where there is a
strong family connection.
Wade said the children they take
in often have a poor family life.
“The children we get have been
abused or there are drugs in the
home, so they are coming from poor
family situations,” Wade said.
Individual Lakers players aren’t
the only ones who help the less fortunate. The Lakers organization as
a whole are generous contributors
to their community. The California
wildfires in 2007 caused mass devastation across the state. The Lakers decided to lend a helping hand
when they donated $100,000 to the
American Red Cross Disaster Relief
Fund, which provided aid to those
affected by the wildfires.
Eugenia Chow, Director of Community Relations for the Lakers,
presented the check to Paul Schulz
and Edmond Lelo, CEO and Chairman of the Board for the American
Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles.
Lakers fans at the game that evening
were encouraged to make donations
to the relief fund, which resulted in
250 participants raising a total of
$1,810 by the end of the night.
“They were very generous to help
victims in the community,” Mary
Jolivet said, the Chief Marketing
Officer for the American Red Cross
of Greater Los Angeles. “It helps us
out a lot because we can only help
people through donations, and this
was a wonderful way to do it.”
Although the Lakers partnership
with the Red Cross is a fairly new,
Jolivet said she is sure they will find
opportunities in the future to work
together. Generosity by a well-paid
athlete and his organization all go
towards showcasing the positives of
professional sports and their teams
in giving back.