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Tuesday September 15, 2009
Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 7
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
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A bill that would make the Cal State University system’s private foundations, which include ASI and the Housing Authority, trans-parent in the way they gain and spend money, has been passed in both houses of the state legislature and now sits on the governor’s desk awaiting a signature.
The bill was introduced by Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) fol-lowing a series of scandals involv-ing these foundations, which are known as auxiliaries.
The main catalyst for this bill seems to have been an incident that occurred at Cal State Fresno, in which a reporter asked for the names and contributions of donors to a new arena built on campus, and was denied. The court ruled that the California Public Records Act, which requires public agencies to make their information avail-able to the public, did not apply to auxiliaries, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“I think there is a sense, par-ticularly among the faculty and the staff of the Cal State system, that if there is money out there for spe-cial projects or whatever it might be … at a time when people are taking salary cuts and cutting back on their class offerings and having to take furloughs, maybe it would be better if those auxiliaries could try to replenish the university’s cof-fers more directly,” Scott Spitzer, professor of political science, said, though he said that he was not an authority on the subject.
In another instance of alleged misappropriation, an organiza-tion affiliated with Sonoma State University lent money to a former member of its board in an attempt at an investment but was exposed to public disapproval when the for-mer member could not settle his debt. In addition, a former chan-cellor of San Francisco City Col-
lege was in-dicted on charges of al-legedly using money from an auxiliary foundation to fund personal expenses, ac-cording to the LA Times.
“If it ends up on the television or newspaper, that one particular instance makes everyone look bad, even though the vast majority of the operations do everything exactly the way they are supposed to,” Frank Mumford, director of finance and administra-tion, said.
The primary purpose of these private organizations is to solicit contributions from private donors and distribute the funds through scholarships, grants and various other projects meant to further the universities with which they are as-sociated, according to Mumford.
Student housing enters phase IIIThe construction in the northeastern edge
of campus, which began in March of this year, is devoted to providing housing for the increasing number of on-campus residences available to students.
According to the Design and Construc-tion Office Web site, the project, which is scheduled to be finished in June of 2011, will add 1,064 new beds, as well as two residen-tial community coordinator apartments, two faculty-in-residence apartments, administra-tive offices, multipurpose conference rooms, laundry and mail rooms, a maintenance facil-ity, a central plant and a dining/kitchen facil-ity. This will all be contained in five buildings with a total of 25 floors, said Robert Brobst, associate director of housing.
The new facility will be a dormitory, or community styled dorm, with two students sharing a room, 48 students per floor, with each floor containing shared bathrooms and showers, a study room and a recreation room, said Brobst. This differs from the apartment style of the current dorms, which are set up in one of two ways.
The singles provide students with their own rooms with four students sharing a liv-ing room, kitchen and two bathrooms. The current doubles have two students per room, and each suite contains three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, living room and din-ing room. The current dorms only house a total of 800 students.
The budget for the project is $142 million, according to the Web site. Brobst added that this money has come from bonds, which will be paid back with the money generated from the students who will live in the new dorms.
Michael Smith, Director of Design and Con-struction, elaborated on this system saying that the new dorms, as well as the new park-ing structure being built in the southeast cor-ner of campus are paid for in revenue bonds, which are borrowed from the state and paid back by the university. These differ from gen-eral obligation (GO) bonds, which have been used in the past to pay for the Student Recre-ation Center and a portion of Mahaylo Hall. GO bonds are voter-approved and are paid back by the state.
Meanwhile, students are finding the con-struction difficult to deal with.
“I think it’s nice that they’re building more dorms,” said Angie Rodriguez, a third-year criminal justice major. “I just wish they had waited until the new parking structure was
done.”Rodriguez has lived in the doubles
throughout her three years at CSUF.In regards to the parking difficulties,
Smith said that the inconveniences are a temporary hardship.
“Right now we’re really trying to fill the needs of the students,” he said. “We’re do-ing what we have to do to get to a better place.”
He also expressed his understanding of students’ frustration toward the construc-tion projects.
According to Smith, the new parking structure, dubbed the Eastside Parking Structure, will be completed next year, pro-viding some relief to the students’ parking needs.
Senate solicits accountability
BY KATELIN PAIzDaily Titan Staff Writer
Sen. Leland Yee
BY ERIC BROUDEDaily Titan Staff Writer
Above: Safety Coordinator Jorge Rodriguez provides a tour of the dorms being built near the existing housing. Below: A construction worker at the future student housing project on Monday, Sept. 14. The dorms are scheduled to be completed by June 2011.
BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Along Harbor Boulevard, on one of the best known roads in Fullerton, is a little known mean-dering road that leads to an even lesser known historical Fullerton landmark.
At the end of the road, atop one of Orange County’s many green rolling hills, is a Spanish-style house that is shielded from the world by the trees that sur-round it. It’s also home to many of Cal State Fullerton’s own in-ternational students a few days out of the year, as well as other travelers from around the world.
Hostelling International Ful-lerton is one of many hostels owned by the non-profit com-pany throughout the world. But before the building was a work-ing hostel, it was home to a Brea Dams’ keeper and his family, making the building over 60-years-old.
Hostelling International rents the building for $100 a week from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The building has ex-isted in its modern purpose for almost 25 years, and will soon be celebrating its anniversary as a temporary home for world trav-elers.
“We get a lot of backpackers and also a lot of students that are going to Cal State Fullerton,” said Patricia Silveira, the hostel’s assistant manager and employee of 10 years.
While the hostel is only open for the summer months between July and September, many CSUF students choose to stay there be-fore student housing becomes available.
“They came all throughout the summer, even the ones that had two months before school start-ed, that way they could travel around,” said Silveira.
The hostel has three rooms: one that holds six men, one that holds six women, and one co-ed that holds eight.
It costs $24.20 per day for members to stay and $27.20 per day for non-members. The guests are expected to make their own food and clean up after them-selves, as per the usual hosteling procedure.
Silveira and her fellow employ-ees take a great amount of pride in their hostel, which, according to her, is the only one in Orange County.
“For the last two years, we won two awards for the best hos-tel in the U.S.,” Silveira said. “It’s funny because we’re such a small hostel; we are only open three months out of the year.”
One of the guests, who was on his way to Knott’s Berry Farm before his departure back to New South Wales, Australia, wore a shirt demonstrating his devotion to the Iron Man Triathlons of which he is a regular participant.
“I’m a bit apprehensive about going back to Australia,” said 59-year-old John Hook, adding, “but I have to keep working so I can have at least two more holi-days in the USA.”
While only about 30 percent of the hostel’s guests are Ameri-can, according to Silveira, two were present during the last few days of the season.
“My first time staying in a hostel was one in Japan, and I thought it was a good experience, so I thought I would try one here,” 23-year-old Sacramento resident Victoria Chew said.
Chew, who is in Southern Cal-ifornia visiting a friend, found the hostel online and chose it mainly because of the affordable price.
One of the hostel’s oldest pa-trons, in more than one way, 86-year-old Robert Bickel, has been coming for 10 years and returns again and again because as he says, he enjoys watering the plants and feeding the birds.
“I come here when they’re open, and I try to stay 10 days a month here because it is a lovely place to stay,” said Bickel.
BY KATELIN PAIzDaily Titan Staff Writer
The Spanish-style Fullerton Hostel on 1700 North Harbor Blvd. in Fullerton on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009.
PHOTOS BY RON FU/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Hostel makes home for weary travelers
A toy skeleton is placed inside a Pitcher plant to amuse visitors and demonstrate the fate of insects that land on it. The carnivorous plant can trap prey and digest it with a special liquid. The greenhouse is located between McCarthy Hall and the Nutwood Parking Structure
BY RON FUDaily Titan Staff Photographer
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PAKISTAN (MCT) - a Pakistani terrorist group that’s allied with al-Qaida and sends jihadists to afghanistan to fight U.S. and government troops is building a huge new base in full view of the authorities in Pakistan’s most heavily populated province, locals and officials told Mcclatchy.
Jaish-e-Mohammad (“army of Mohammad”), which is linked to a series of atrocities, including an attack on the Indian parliament in delhi and the murder of american journalist daniel Pearl, has walled off a 4.5-acre compound three miles outside the town of Bahawalpur in the far south of the Pakistan’s heartland Punjab province.
Jaish and Pakistani officials said the facility, which is still under con-struction, is simply a small farm to keep cattle.
It’s unclear whether the new facility will be a radical madrassa - Islamic school - or even a terrorist training camp. Nevertheless, its construction, unimpeded by Pakistan’s military or intelligence service, raises new ques-tions about how committed Pakistan is to the war on terror.
deTroIT (McT) - general Motors told white-collar workers Friday morning that it is restoring temporary pay cuts made May 1.
The 3 percent to 10 percent pay cuts to salaried workers’ pay came at a time when gM was desperate to save cash to keep the company operating prior to filing bankruptcy June 1.
Brenda rios, a gM spokeswoman, confirmed the decision and noted that it saved about $50 million.
“This was done to save money at a particularly crucial time,” rios said.She added: “we always said it was temporary.”The announcement does not affect the pay cuts made to the company’s
top-level executives who saw their pay reduced because of federal loans given to keep the company afloat.
General Motors restores temporary pay cuts
Terrorist group builds new base in Pakistan
PLacerVILLe (McT) - an el dorado county judge set Phillip gar-rido’s bail at $30 million.
Superior court Judge douglas Phimister granted a defense attorney’s request that garrido undergo psychological evaluation. his wife, Nancy, remains in custody without bail, and her attorney plans on making a simi-lar request for an evaluation.
even if Phillip garrido makes bail, he would be subject to a parole hold because of his conviction in the 1976 kidnapping and rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman.
The garridos could each receive multiple life sentences if convicted of abducting dugard as an 11-year-old and raping her over several years in a hidden backyard warren of tents and sheds, where authorities say she gave birth as a teen to two girls fathered by Phillip garrido.
The couple have pleaded not guilty to 29 felony charges. district at-torney Vern Pierson said his office might file additional counts, based on evidence gathered since the charges were filed aug. 28, two days after du-gard’s identity and the confinement and abuse accusations came to light.
Air conditioning leaves CSUF students heated
Bail set to $30 mill for suspected rapist
Bill: FoUndAtionS CoUld BeCome trAnSpArent
By, lAUren FeleChnerDaily Titan Staff Writer
The warmer temperatures in classrooms around cSUF this se-mester are yet just another result of the budget cuts, according to Physical Plant director, willem van der Pol.
The classrooms don’t serve much of a relief to the high tem-peratures outside, as the air con-ditioning in campus classrooms is either set to a not-so-chilling 78 degrees, or not turned on at all. This is an expense that the school had to cut back on due to the loss of state funds. however, there can always be an up side to a bad situ-ation, said van der Pol and Scott hewitt.
referring to the cutbacks on expenses, hewitt, the chair of the cSUF acadamic Senate, said, “If we can do that in a green way, even better.”
within the last year, many other steps have been taken in decreas-ing cSUF’s expenses. There have been reductions in equipment and operating supply expenses, an in-crease in black and white printing on two-sided copies, minimized subscription and memberships, and a utilization of online distribu-tion for handouts, schedules, etc., rather than hard copies. on June
3, these changes plus others took effect, the school has been able to save more than $100,000, accord-ing the the Planning resource and Budget committee (PrBc). Some students and faculty may be excited to hear that news, but those melt-ing in the heat from lack of air condi- tioning may not.
“ T h e reason for the cutbacks is foremost related to the dismal budget situ-ation we are in,” said van der Pol. “Some of the cutbacks also stem from our ef-forts to make our environ-ment more sustainable.”
with a de-crease in cam-pus utilities, hewitt explained that this allows for more classes to be offered.
Van der Pol added that with the saving of money, we are also limit-ing the carbon output in many dif-ferent ways.
helen davenport, administra-
tive support assistant for the facili-ties management office, explained that the cutback on air condi-tioning is part of the budget cuts that were made by gov. arnold Schwarzenegger which then made their way down to the chancellor
and then to Pres.gordon other efforts be-ing made in order
to stay within the budget while being environmen-tally-friendly include: the m i n i m i z a -tion of vehicle
travel, more online assign-ments and c l a s s r o o m s , turning off lights in unoc-cupied rooms, and reduced use of high-quality and/or color
paper. Titan Magazine was also
re-worked over the summer with a change
in the paper weight and the elimination of paid freelance
writers and photographers.The suggestions behind these
changes have come not only from the state’s cuts, but also from the
ideas and suggestions from stu-dents and faculty. Bulletins and emails were sent out by the PrBc over the summertime in an ef-fort to raise awareness of some of the cuts being made and the “go green” effort that the school was beginning to utilize and merge into the campus.
“I have noticed the lack of ac and I feel like it affects some classes more than others at different times. Maybe there is a conspiracy!” Said dallas geerlings, 22, an english major at cSUF.
geerlings may be correct about the difference in temperatures in different rooms because the air conditioning is a result of the dif-ferent settings that buildings have. In order to keep up with the cut-backs, effort has been made by the academic Senate since last year to obtain more external funding from the campus community. with the increase in education costs and less support from the state, the fund-ing is important and necessary.
It appears as though the reduc-tion of air conditioning use is just a small part of the goal officials have for the future of cSUF. although it may have started out as an act of the state, the academic Senate and others are trying to make the new guidelines something of their own and ultimately, something benefi-cial, by going green.
(MCT) – a year after the col-lapse of Lehman Brothers ushered in the worst economic crisis since the great depression, President Barack obama said Monday that although the nation was “begin-ning to return to normalcy,” con-gress still must pass new regula-tions on the financial industry to avoid a repeat.
“Normalcy cannot lead to com-placency,” obama told a wall Street audience in a speech at Fed-eral hall in New York in which he also defended as necessary his $787 billion economic stimulus plan. he appealed to the financial com-munity to support what he consid-ers necessary changes in the way it does business, and to congress to enact a regulatory overhaul by year’s end. Both appear unlikely.
The president predicted with confidence that “the reforms I’ve laid out will pass and these chang-es will become law,” but he urged wall Street to work on its own to rebuild trust with american con-sumers.
“You don’t have to wait” for leg-islation to pass before using “plain language” in dealing with consum-ers, voluntarily seeking shareholder votes on senior executive bonuses, changing which employee behav-iors are rewarded and working harder to modify mortgages or to extend credit to small-business owners, obama challenged the fi-nanciers.
he asked them “to embrace seri-ous financial reform, not fight it.”
he also issued a moral chal-lenge:
“It is neither right nor respon-sible, after you’ve recovered with the help of your government, to shirk your obligation to the goal of wider recovery, a more stable system and a more broadly shared prosperity.”
The president was referring to the heavy lobbying being con-ducted by financial firms that are interested in watering down his proposed regulations.
Banks and the U.S. chamber of commerce are fighting obama’s proposal to strip consumer protec-tion from the current hodgepodge of regulators and give it to a new agency.
“The better answer to consumer protection is to amend the charters
of the existing prudential regula-tors, giving consumer protection parity with safety and soundness regulation,” Steve Bartlett, the president of the Financial Services roundtable, the lobby for big fi-nance, said in a statement shortly after obama’s speech.
T h e p r e s i -d e n t has pro-p o s e d financial r e v i -sions in-cluding:
- es-tablish-ing a c o n -s u m e r F i n a n -cial Pro-t e c t i o n agency to regulate credit cards, home loans and other types of con-sumer credit finance. The Federal reserve and other bank regulators do this now.
- closing loopholes to prevent companies from shopping for their preferred regulatory agencies or, for hedge funds and trades in complex derivatives, from operating outside
the regulated system.- holding financial firms to
stronger capital and cash require-ments. as companies grow larger, they’d be required to hold bigger capital set-asides to offset the great-er risks they pose to the system.
- giving regulators “resolution author-ity” to a l l o w them to dissolve g i a n t , g l o b -ally con-n e c t e d financial inst i tu-t i o n s a n d a v o i d inst i tu-tions be-coming
“too big to fail.” If taxpayers must bail out a company, he’d compel the financial industry to repay “ev-ery cent.”
- working with other nations to establish global consumer and regulatory protections.
obama called on congress to pass the regulatory revamp this year, but that appears unlikely.
Some lawmakers who are needed to spearhead financial revisions are preoccupied by the drive to overhaul the nation’s health care system. others are resisting what they think is a pattern of too much government control of the private sector. Still others agree that better regulation of wall Street is needed but not with the president’s road map on how to get there.
The house of representatives is likely to approve obama’s financial approach with little major change. however, the Senate is balking at his proposals for a new consumer protection agency and for giving the Federal reserve greater powers. The Senate also may merge more than two banking regulators. The Senate may stretch the timetable.
a delay may not be such a bad thing, said James K. galbraith, a prominent liberal economist at the University of Texas at austin.
“getting effective action may have to wait until after this first few quarters of relatively high growth is behind us and people re-alize that we’re not actually in an economy that’s moving in a cred-ible way back toward high employ-ment. People will say, ‘oK, there’s an unfinished agenda,’ “ galbraith said.
obama forsees normalcy, defends stimulus
Mumford is quick to point out that about 99 percent of the time donations made to these organiza-tions come with restrictions from the donor preventing the univer-sity from using the money wher-ever it is needed. It is instead used wherever the donor specifies.
The bill has been passed 35 to 1 in the senate, and has faced little opposition other than cSU and
the auxiliary organization as-sociation, according to capitol weekly.
“I think it will largely pass be-cause people are in the mood to say our money in the state of califor-nia is really scarce.
we have such a budget crunch, we really want to get the most bang for our buck. we want to make sure that the money is spent responsibly and efficiently,” Spitzer said.
Mumford, cSU and aoa also seemed convinced that the bill will
become law despite their efforts against it.
“I think the governor will sign it, I do, and that’s why we’ve been proactive and put together some-thing to help the auxiliaries put to-gether a policy on campus,” Mum-ford said.
The “proactive” action that Mumford speaks of is a guide dis-tributed to all cSU campus auxil-iary organizations that is meant to help the organizations in the prac-tice of disclosing information.
at least one cal State Fullerton student seems to be strongly in fa-vor of transparency.
“I’m definitely for that bill be-cause it sounds like, honestly, if clubs have nothing to hide as far as where their funding is going or how they plan to pay things back then they shouldn’t have any reason to be against it,” Noelle everage, a se-nior business major, said. “I think having a system of accountability is just common sense.”
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“It is neither right nor re-sponsible, after you’ve recovered with the help of your govern-ment, to shirk your obligation to the goal of wider recovery, a more stable system and a more broadly shared prosperity.
– President Barack obama
FEATURESSeptember 15, 2009 3
“I began home brewing my first year in Chapman Law School. Throughout the rest of my college years, I became better at brewing and probably worse at school,” Pat-rick Rue, the founder and owner of The Bruery stated.
Now two years after building his dream of opening a small family brew house, The Bruery has been open for 15 months.
The Bruery is more than just an-other American beer company brew-ing one of man’s favorite drinks. They are, as they like to call them-selves, “The origins of a new craft brewery.”
The Bruery, intentionally mis-spelling brewery, substitutes “rew” with the owner’s last name, Rue. Rue loves that he started this brew house because there is variety in
what he can do, “biology, chemistry, business, everything, so I never get bored.”
Now his dream has become a real-ity and has expanded at a rapid pace, becoming more popular.
Currently selling to 14 states (soon to be 22), this brewing com-pany follows the outline of that self-made American dream.
Tyler King, director of brew-ing operations/head brewer, let the Daily Titan behind the scenes into the heart of The Bruery, revealing the process of making beer and the patience it requires.
King ran through a brief overview of the arduous process they endure to make batches of beer. Beer, the drink so many love, yet few truly understand, begins as malted barley. The barley is placed into a two-roller mill where it becomes grist, so water can get inside to make it starchy.
After this, there are quite a few steps, but once they reach the boil-
ing stage the liquid is sanitized for an hour.
This is also the step when they add the hops. “This ingredient adds the bitterness and creates a balance with the sweetness,” King explained.
Furthermore, the hops has great significance to the beer process.
King added, “if you add hops at the beginning of the boiling process the taste will be a lot more bitter; but if you add it at the end then you achieve more of an aroma/fla-vor taste. It all depends on what you want as a brewer.”
There are a few more steps, but King said, “We make bitter wort, the yeast makes the beer.”
After the yeast is added it fer-ments for around seven days. They allow natural carbonization to occur in the bottle. Their traditional yeast is the Belgian strain. “The owner has always loved Belgian-style beers the most because they allow for so many spices and flavors,” King said.
By Laura Barron-LopezFor the Daily Titan
The Bruery in Placentia is considered a three-vessel brewhouse, having 15-barrel, 30-barrel and 40-barrel tanks. Three 30-barrel tanks hold beer to be bottled in the future.
By Laura Barron-Lopez/For the Daily Titan
Travis Smith, lead brewer, and Jay Goodwin, assistant brewer, bottle a new batch of beer at The Bruery in Placentia on Monday morning to get ready for shipment.
By ShruTi paTeL/Daily Titan photo editor
Several of the beers the brewery sells. Patrons can currently try Autumn Maple which is brewed with “cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup, and fermented with our traditional Belgian yeast strain,” their Web site reads.
By Laura Barron-Lopez/For the Daily Titan
Visiting with the family-owned ‘Bruery’
Between light and dark beer, King explained the differences. “A lot of people like to categorize beer by its color. The old saying ‘You should never judge a book by its cover’ holds true to beer in that you should never judge a beer by its color,” King said. “Most people see a dark beer and ex-pect it have a strong roast. This isn’t always true. Our Trade Winds beer is golden in color but 2.3 percent al-cohol by volume stronger than Black Orchard, our dark-colored beer. Trade Winds has a strong kick to it and all around is a bigger beer than Black Orchard.”
King said, “We do a lot of barrel aging and to do this, you need a dark beer that can withstand the wood and the flavor that it can add to a beer, creating the right balance.”
Unlike many breweries, The Bru-ery likes to take risks and experi-ment, keeping their yeast in-house. They have many different yeasts and spices they play with, which to “many brand-name brew houses would be dangerous and frighten-ing” because the elements have to be just right to keep the taste they are known for exactly the same.
King verified that, “protein con-tent is what affects foam stability.
You want a head on your beer the whole time you are drinking it.”
For the short time The Bruery has been existence, they have won a good amount of awards for their unique beers.
Orchard White, their most popu-lar beer, won the Top 25 Beer award in 2008, and in the Los Angeles In-ternational Beer Competition 2008, they won gold, for American or Ger-man-style sour ales.
They hope to expand production and sales distributions soon as well as their tasting room area.
“We truly let our fans tell us where we are going,” Rue said. “And I’d like us to eventually become Or-ange County’s niche brewery.”
The Bruery’s small, family feel adds to its character and intrigue. They want to provide supplies to everyday people who want to have home breweries and enjoy learning and developing their own beer cre-ations.
They stock all the ingredients they use in a shop next door to their brewery.
Everything happens in Placen-tia, every beer brewed, every bottle capped, every keg sealed and shipped out from 715 Dunn Way; further
adding to the feeling of a true family brew house that strives to produce quality products.
“Patrick Rue, the owner, is a beer geek. That’s why he started this. I’m a beer geek. We make beer for the beer geeks,” King said. “We don’t brew for those who just drink to drink, but for those who truly ap-preciate and love the flavors, aromas and spices of beer.”
Among Rue’s reasons for starting the brewery, he said, “I love craft beer and making my own beer. It allows me to be creative, to put my kind of mark on the world and make beers that no one else has or has tast-ed before.”
The Bruery is located at: 715 Dunn Way, placentia, Calif. 92870.
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September 15, 20094 FEATURES
A fly’s digested corpse lays inside a Venus Flytrap at the Cal State Fullerton’s greenhouse complex managed by Ed Read. By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
Thousands of students pass by every day and think nothing of it.
It is not as famous as the Arbo-retum, but might be a more prized possession.
Behind the brick walls between the Nutwood Parking Structure and McCarthy Hall lies a plant lover’s fantasy.
The Cal State Fullerton Biologi-cal Greenhouse Complex is home to rare and sought-after plants; in-cluding some that are on the e n d a n g e r e d species list.
Plants from the greenhouse have been sent around the country for research, to places like the Hu n t i n g t o n Botanical Gar-dens for dis-play, and even seen in movies such as “Mi-nority Report.”
A corpse flower, which takes about nine years to bloom and gives off a powerful stench, can be seen at the Huntington Botani-cal Gardens.
It was originally grown at the greenhouse.
The complex was originally built
Meat-eating plants hunt on campus
in 1963 along with McCarthy Hall, making it one of the older struc-tures on campus.
Unlike the Arboretum, the Greenhouse Complex was not built for the public to tour, its purpose is to provide plants for research and use in biology classes.
Perhaps the most interesting of the plants growing in the green-house are the carnivorous plants.
The Nepenthes attracts insects with nectar from its leaf, then traps them and digests their nutrients.
It mainly catches ants, but also feeds on larger insects such as grass-hoppers or beetles.
H o w e v e r , they are dif-ficult to grow unless in a controlled en-vironment.
Ed Read is the greenhouse manager.
His inter-est in plants began with his first expe-rience with c a r n i vo ro u s plants in high school.
“I’m not a flower guy. I like plants that
do something cool, like medicine or eat something,” Read said.
He started growing some seeds which now flourish in the green-house when he was a student at CSUF about nine years ago.
“These are from seeds that I start-
Ed Read oversees many types of plants inside the greenhouse at Cal State Fullerton. The Biological Greenhouse Complex plays host to various rare plant species, including the carnivorous Nepenthes that feed on insects. By Ron Fu/Daily Titan Staff Photographer
ed in-vitro, which is in test tubes as a way to clone them, when I was a student here,” Read said.
He has traveled across the world in order to better understand these plants.
On a trip to Mexico, Read and his crew discovered a new species of carnivorous plant.
“I’ve traveled to Brazil over a dozen times; Mexico six times. My last trip to Mexico we discovered a new species,” Read said.
“It’s been a reason to go to places you wouldn’t normally go. Who in their right mind would go to the tallest mountain in Brazil? Two and half days in a boat, two days hiking,
to see some plants,” he continued.Plants are his excuse to travel,
but many carnivorous plants can be found without going too far.
The Sarracenia sp. can sometimes grow locally.
“Most of these are from locations that are now like a KFC or a park-ing lot or something, where hob-
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byists like me get permission from the developer to go in and dig a few up … Their habitat’s gone,” Read said.
It is easy to think that the car-nivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, are more like an animal because they move and digest, but they are not much different from other plants.
“Plants don’t have memory. They don’t have a brain. But (they have) a false trapping mechanism,” explained Read. “If you touch one of those hairs, nothing happens. You touch it again, within two sec-onds it will shut. Say a rock or leaf or something walks up against it, it won’t close.”
Carnivorous plants are more difficult to take care of then oth-er plants because they need to be constantly watered with purified or reverse-osmosis water.
They do not have the ability to obtain the nutrients it needs from the soil, so it must obtain those nutrients from its prey.
Despite this, it is far from im-possible to grow carnivorous plants in a home or garden.
Some species like the Nepen-thes need to be in a terrarium but others, like the Venus flytrap or Drosera Capensis, are fun to have at home.
They could even provide some benefits.
“I brought one in and set it down on my kitchen table and instantly a fly flew right in there,” Read said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Although the greenhouse area is not necessarily open to the public, Read is more than happy to accom-modate curious guests for tours.
For more information or to make an appointment, contact Read at 657-278-2766 or [email protected].
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“ Plants don’t have memory. They don’t have a brain. But (they have) a false trapping system.
– Ed Read, Greenhouse manager
OPINIONSeptember 15, 2009 5
Who’s to dictate what sort of medical treatment should be pre-scribed to sick individuals?
This question is at the forefront of the story of Daniel Hauser, a 13-year-old Minnesota boy, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lym-phoma in January. According to the Associated Press, Daniel and his parents “rejected chemo after a single treatment.”
Judge John Rodenberg, who pre-sides in Brown County, Minnesota, ruled that Daniel “must continue getting the treatment because it ap-pears to be working,” reported the Associated Press. Daniel’s mother, Colleen Hauser, 40, said that che-motherapy “violates the family’s religious convictions” and prefers “healing methods of an American Indian religious group known as the Nemenhah Band.”
After the court ordered the con-tinued use of chemo, Daniel and his mother fled the state, resulting in a warrant for “deprivation of pa-rental rights.”
The story is not only a legal is-sue, but a humanitarian and ethical one.
Is it right for the mother to make the executive decision to follow a hippie-dippy medical regime when
Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a highly curable cancer with chemotherapy? Judge Rodenberg didn’t think so, ruling that Daniel is in need of child protection services, and neither do I.
How irresponsible of Colleen, to deprive her son of an effective treat-ment and to flee the state, leaving her seven other children behind, and not telling her husband of her whereabouts.
When taking all of her actions into consideration, and the fact that she made the decision for Daniel to stop chemo only after one treat-ment, I completely stand behind the ethical ruling of Judge Rodenberg, which was ultimately in the best interest of Daniel, unlike his mom who behaved in an immature and potentially harmful manner.
As a minor, Daniel is heavily in-fluenced by his irresponsible mother, who made the decision that could have heavily jeopardized his health.
As far as science is concerned, there is no solid research stating that homeopathic treatment is beneficial to cancer patients; however, there is a substantial amount of research stating that chemotherapy is a highly effective form of cancer treatment.
Why then, would Colleen go against the facts and want to put her son in a further harmful situation?
In the end, a compromise was reached. Daniel and his mother have returned from their irrational and spontaneous Jack Kerouac “On the Road”-type adventure, and he has been on chemotherapy and is tak-ing “alternative therapies to ease the side effects,” reported the Associated Press.
Perhaps if Colleen had not been so impulsive and uncooperative, this compromise could have been achieved a lot sooner.
By Rachel DaviDDaily Titan Copy Editor [email protected]
In American culture we sit atop a society founded, and largely based upon, personal autonomy.
Our valuable right to choose and live as we see fit chafes against most of the controversies and struggles we face both as a whole and individu-ally. Abortion, taxation, justified wars and the draft are a few of the issues that are largely based on the human will.
Are you going to do what I tell you to do? Am I going to do what you tell me to do?
What right does the government, or anyone at all, have to tell someone that they know better than them, and make it illegal if they refuse to comply?
The weight of authority can swing back to us when we ask how we would feel if it was against the law to do what we truly felt was right for ourselves and the people we love.
Stories like this come up every so often. Usually we collectively chas-tise and condemn the perpetrators.
They do not share our values or knowledge so we deem them igno-rant, or worse, deserving of the con-sequences of their actions.
Sometimes this can be the correct response. But it is what we do fol-lowing this primary revulsion that
counts, and how we go about do-ing it. The only productive way we can go about changing someone’s mind is to meet them where they are and show them what we think is best.
Forcing demands, even the right ones, on someone only exacerbates a contempt that might have existed before. Through education and mutual understanding true change for the better can take root.
If the mother and son could have been shown demonstratively that real medicine was the only way the son would survive, and that anything worth doing is going to essentially involve sacrifice and endurance, and they still refused the treatment, then that is all the state can do.
Sometimes we see people do horrible, senseless things and it can make us feel powerless.
This has always happened and will continue that way as long as everyone has their own freewill. It is when the balance is learned to extend every effort in helping someone, while preserving their re-spective freedoms, that a peace can be forged.
If there had been prior cases of neglect, the state was certainly within its rights to take the boy away from his mother and place him in the hands of more respon-sible guardians.
Could the boy have died with-out chemotherapy? Absolutely.
Is it the state’s responsibility to protect its citizens? Yes.
People have left this life of their volition, and whether or not this was within their rights is still a de-batable gray area. The mother and son in this situation did not want to do this. They wanted to live on their own terms.
By GReG lehmanDaily Titan Staff [email protected]
Should courts be allowed to force people to recieve medical treatment they refused?
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Re: LPAC Relates Obama to Hitler
I’m all for freedom of speech, and consider it one of America’s most precious rights. But where do we draw the line. When you start draw-ing childish mustaches on the current President of the United States and likening him to such a vial monster as Adolf Hitler, we need to take a step back and look at the situation. LPAC is a paranoid, hateful, conspiracy theory group who does not know the meaning of research or civility. Love Obama or hate him, he is our President and deserves the respect the office requires. Beside that, he is a good and kind man. LPAC needs to do some research on what Hitler and his t4 was really about instead of spouting ridiculous propoganda. If CSUF feels that we must allow these unmannered fanatics on campus, there should be a limit as far as the posters depicting President Obama as Hitler. Simply vile and uncouth.
Dianne K.
Re: Mail sorting technology is now a tool for CSUF parking officers
Thanks, CSUF, for spending our money to take our money! Yet another example of how the CSU system feels obligated to nickle and dime its students. For anyone interested, the Marriott now offers $5 a day parking instead of the ridiculously $8 charged by the campus. The goal of parking enforcement is clearly to make more money off of CSUF students. The director of parking essentially said it, despite the idiot, Aaron Chaves, from Parking Company of American trying to sugar coat it. Hell, Ferrer and Orr are giant bull****ters too with their claims of money as a side effect of enforcement. If money wasn’t the goal then tickets wouldn’t only go to cover operations costs instead of ranging from $45-$330.
Anonymous
Re: tiger shark arrives at the Aquarium of the Pacific
So the shark expert is explaining the horrors or shark finning, and you cut to pictures of a bunch of kids at the touching pool? typical Daily titan form. Way to hammer the point home, guys.
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September 15, 20096 OPINION
I love men.Really, I love most men.I love redheads, artists, greasers,
men with neck tattoos, men with beards, men who read and chubby men.
But I’d have to say that my favor-ite kind of man is the straight man; sexual orientation be damned.
Straight men are the Holy Grail. For the same reason some women
think they can “convert” a gay man, I feel at the very least I can help ex-pand a straight guy’s options.
My search for the perfect straight man began when I was 12.
Changing in the boy’s locker room in junior high stirs up a lot of ques-tions for boys, not just about sexual orientation but also about the awk-wardness that is the pre-pubescent body.
Whereas most pre-teen boys ei-ther enjoyed physical education or were simply indifferent to the idea of running laps around a weed in-fested track, I looked forward to fin-
That’s So Gay“Out of the closet and into the limelight”
Locker room educationby DanieL baTaLLa
Daily Titan [email protected]
ishing my lunch and heading to the locker room to get an eyeful of what sex education couldn’t, or wouldn’t, teach me.
I never excelled in sports; in fact, I quit almost every sport my parents signed me up for as a kid.
I quit karate after the first lesson because according to a 6-year-old me I learned everything I needed to know in one day.
I quit tennis because I got tired of chasing the ball. And I wouldn’t even go near the baseball field my parents wanted me to, to play with my cousins.
But P.E. I liked.Or rather, I should say P.E. was
bearable.Walking from the cafeteria to the
locker rooms I would often have to conceal my “excitement” for P.E. with a textbook.
On those rare occasions I found myself without the books, stick-ing my hands in my pockets would cover up the eagerness to undress in front of a bunch of boys.
I would be the first one in to change and last one out, often times running late to the field due to my
wandering eye.Oh by the way ladies, regardless of
what your guy friends tell you, gay or straight, we all look.
The locker room was where my love of straight men developed.
The smell of musk, the foul lan-guage, the dressing, the undress-ing all made up for the fact that I couldn’t tell my peers I was gay.
I would construct these some-times outlandish stories in my head about the boys I was undressing next to and would play them over and over in my head as we changed.
In these fantasies, one boy was my “secret” boyfriend. He was sensitive, kind and an artist.
Another boy was a second love in-terest who played sports by day and spooned me by night.
A third boy, who I later found out was actually gay, was smart and a little nerdy. In my mind he would write me fictional poetry.
When any of these boys would show me the slightest form of pla-tonic affection in the real world, I would over analyze the signs and create a romantic fantasy for myself instead.
Gay’s don’t usually get a tradition-al junior high or high school experi-ence, at least not when it comes to love.
We don’t get to publicly date our boyfriends.
We’re not allowed to “scam” be-hind the bungalows. And we’re never voted cutest couple in the yearbook.
I guess I just never snapped out of my fantasy.
I date gay men now, openly gay men, but to this day I still get excited when my straight friends pretend to take a romantic interest in me.
Not “excited” in the sense that I need my old textbooks to cover the bulge (I can control that now) but excited over the chase.
Some may consider it foolish to have a straight crush. It would most certainly explain why I’m still single.
And I have had my share of heart-ache.
But it’s exhilarating to know we live in a time when sexual explora-tion is open to anyone, including the romantically challenged, like me.
Now, if I could only find a straight man who was interested in men.
For the past year, whenever I watch Spanish-language news I have been constantly reminded of the escalation of violence in Mexico and its war on drugs.
Many do not understand or speak Spanish, and cannot rely on Spanish news networks to keep themselves informed; but the fact that the disorder in Mexico is ongoing and that the center of it all, Ciudad Juarez, is less than 800 miles away from Fullerton is an issue that, at this point, should not be dismissed.
Thousands have been killed since 2007 in Mexico’s drug war. Sadly, people are massacred every day and the bloody violence is only increasing.
Corruption and the battle be-tween the government and drug cartels have been the major con-tributors to this problem, but we cannot dismiss the fact that the U.S. is a major contributor to this problem because it is one of
Mexico’s drug war rages on, U.S. ignorantby Jamie iGLeSiaS
Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected]
the largest consumers of drugs.Major news networks, espe-
cially those in Southern Califor-nia, should provide audiences with more coverage of this problem.
It is the responsibility of the me-dia to inform the public about what is going on throughout the world and I feel there is a lack of coverage about Mexico’s struggle.
If we want to keep ourselves in-formed about other regions we are often forced to research the topic on our own and thanks to the internet we are able to find such informa-tion, but not all of us are willing or able to look for that information and that is why major media out-lets should take their responsibility more seriously.
Early in February of this year I was watching Laura Ling’s docu-mentary, “Narco War Next Door” on Current TV. I remember seeing the grieving families and hearing women screaming when they saw the bloody bodies of their loved ones.
After seeing her documentary I was able to get a firmer grasp of the severity of this conflict.
I read newspapers and saw im-ages on Spanish-language news, but I was never able to see just how severe this problem was until I saw Ling being driven around to differ-ent murder scenes.
At one murder scene Ling was in-formed that a doctor had just been killed along with his daughter.
Once Ling got to the scene all her camera crew could catch was a river of blood and the family grieving, waiting to be let on to the scene.
Ling also reported that young people are joining the cartels. This fact showed that the demand for bodies exists and what people will do when they are desperate for money.
There are many factors that con-tribute to the chaos in Mexico. Unfortunately, the hardest thing to understand is the motivation behind the cold-blooded killing. It seems that those committing the murders have become accustomed to just firing at someone without ever questioning why.
Humanity is the main issue here. People were once appalled by what was going on around them, but
they have since become accustomed to it.
Towards the end of her docu-mentary, Ling was disturbed by the sight of people passing a murder scene on their way to the grocery story, walking by as if nothing was wrong. That reaction only showed how prevalent the problem is.
It is becoming a normal part of life and my biggest fear is that such an attitude will be carried into the U.S. The fact that news networks are not paying much attention to this problem adds to its normality.
Humanity is at stake in Mexico. People are being killed without
remorse and it is spreading rapidly.We have to remember that we are
not so far away from Mexico and if the majority of us are not aware of the situation it could become even-tually become a direct problem in the U.S.
We should acknowledge that this is not just a Latin American prob-lem, but a human problem.
Everyone deserves to be informed of the struggle in Mexico, not just the community that it directly af-fects at the moment.
The president’s new mustache
by CorT TafoyaFor the Daily Titan
Nothing compares to free speech in America, where even the deranged get front row seats at the court of public opinion.
While walking through the quad at Cal State Fullerton I saw President Barack Obama’s face hanging over a table with Adolf Hitler’s mustache computer generated onto his upper lip.
Though it wasn’t the first time I’d seen this particularly ridiculous at-tempt at public persuasion, I walked past it sighing loudly to myself, “Oh my God.”
Suddenly I stopped dead in my tracks.
I didn’t know what I was going to do to the people who brought their pathetic point of view to our campus, but I decided I had a moral obligation to, in some way, confront stupidity.
I asked a young woman standing in front of her propaganda poster “OK, what’s all this about?”
She responded by asking if I would like some of her flyers, as if I looked interested in joining the cause of creating mass, unsubstanti-ated hysteria.
“No, I just wanted to know your reason for having a picture of Hitler’s mustache on the president’s face. I really don’t see how this is helping anybody.”
Like a talking points robot she explained that Hitler supported uni-versal health care just like Obama.
Let’s take two seconds to dis-mantle the logic of such a silly com-parison – and yes, all it takes is two seconds.
In mathematics this line of think-ing is known as the transitive prop-erty. It reads something like this: if a=b and b=c then a=c.
The formula works great with eighth grade algebra, but it’s delu-sional to apply it to world leaders.
“You know who else supported universal health care?” I asked her. “Winston Churchill. Is he a Nazi? How about the French? They were our allies in World War II. Are they
Nazis? What about other presidents like Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt?”
I’d like to think that world his-tory clearly shows just because you support universal health care, that doesn’t make you the next Hitler.
Churchill in particular was a fiery Brit who gave Nazi Germany a hell of time as they tried to conquer Eng-land some seventy years ago.
But to my dismay she attempted to present a rebuttal, only my emo-tions weren’t going to allow me to hear it.
“We’re fighting in Iraq and Af-ghanistan every single day,” I said. “Fighting alongside countries that have universal health care. Does that mean we’re all Nazi allies? Think of how stupid your premise is!”
My temper was in full force, but not wanting to duplicate her group’s violent tone, I quickly cooled off.
And not wanting to leave without imparting some heartfelt advice, I gave the gift that her tiny little mind needed the most: an idea.
“If you want to debate universal health care the right way,” I said, “Talk about how inefficient govern-ment is, talk about how expensive universal health care could be, the staggering deficits our country is running or the possibility of higher taxes. But don’t compare the guy to Hitler.”
People responsible for mass geno-cide don’t make good rhetorical ex-amples.
How hard is it to just say, “Hey, if you love the way the government runs our public schools, if you like the job the government did handling the economy these last few years, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, you’ll love the way they run univer-sal health care.”
See, a solid argument and no Hit-ler.
Until the madness from imbeciles on the right leaves the public arena, libertarian leaning people such as myself will – and should – continue a balancing act of enlightening the stupid while expressing respectful, reasoned opposition to Obama.
In the mean time, please keep shaving Mr. President.
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FOR THE RECORD
Letters to the Editor*This comment was written in reference to an article that is
posted on the Web site as: “If passed, new bill could obstruct CSU private foundations’ funds”
*The story appears today on pg. 1 as “Senate solicits ac-countability”
Dear Editor,The headline of this article, “If passed, new bill could ob-
struct CSU private foundations’ funds” is without any justi-fication or explanation contained in the body of the article. Contrary to the headline, the piece goes on at length about making campus auxiliary organizations more transparent and accountable to the public. According to CSU’s own budget documents, nearly 20 percent of their funding is contained within auxiliary organizations, and the CSU administration seems content on keeping that funding from public scrutiny.
The bill, SB 218, would do nothing to “obstruct” private funds as the CSU administration has argued. When such a claim was made in the 2001 court case mentioned above, the court concluded such arguments were speculative and were in-admissible without proper evidence. At the very least, I would hope the Daily Titan would at least explain the basis for such a headline so it can be easily refuted.
- Eduardo Martinez, Legislative DirectorSenator Leland Yee
Missed connectionsby ToDD boLDizSarFor the Daily Titan
Generally, missed connections don’t involve cell phones unless someone has lost their phone and is missing calls. A missed connection has such a negative connotation. But what if a missed connection saves your life?
When it comes to walking through a crosswalk on a cell phone or tex-ting, a missed connection is the dif-ference between life and death.
I’m talking about the men and women of Cal State Fullerton rou-tinely stepping off the sidewalk and into the intersection as soon as the light changes while having a cell phone near-surgically glued to their ear. Are Audrina Patridge’s tweets about sun tanning in Mexico worth losing your life over?
I have seen this happen over, and over, and over again: When the light changes and the little white man ap-pears on the crossing signal, students step right off the curb with the phone to their ear and their head down.
The student trying to beat the light and turn right has to burn a hole in their brakes to avoid hitting them, all the while the student con-tinues on, oblivious to their near-death experience.
Weren’t they told as a child to look both ways before they crossed the street? I guess cell phones, Fa-cebook, Twitter and the Blackberry weren’t around when they were rid-ing tricycles.
As technology continues to evolve and human cognitive capacity con-tinues to dwindle, it creates scenari-os of seemingly deliberate abandon-ment of consciousness.
Maybe it’s the huge dark sun-glasses, maybe it’s the clothes getting tighter and tighter, thus cutting off circulation to the brain, or maybe it’s
just the accessibility of information available from such a small device.
I sincerely hope it’s the latter be-cause I’m not opposed to the tight clothes, but I have genuine concerns about this generation, and them be-coming parents for the next genera-tion.
Sure, I am analyzing a very small piece of current college life and soci-ety, but where does it stop? It stops when we become aware of our sur-roundings and start paying attention to warning signs.
You don’t have to be a ninja or the savior of the Matrix to be well aware of your surroundings.
Let’s catch up to our technology, for only then will we be a truly so-phisticated race. I refuse to believe that human progress is furthered by becoming lazier as our machines get smarter.
Do me a favor: sit on the cor-ner of Commonwealth Avenue and Nutwood Avenue and record a log of how many times a student steps off the curb while on a cell phone without looking or acknowledging that they almost got smeared.
I personally guarantee it is as-tounding.
A note to students everywhere: You should buy into the hype that we are the future generation that will be running this planet.
Let’s set a good impression by taking necessary safety precautions while on a cell phone and near an intersection.
I’m not just saying this because CSUF is paying me to (because who are we kidding? They’re not), but I would really hate to see our school make the news over something like this.
When the light changes, look both ways, hold hands if you must, but steady the course. Godspeed, Twitter fanatics and texting fiends in intersections everywhere!
Re: Daily Titan 50th Anniversary Issue, September 8, 2009
Thank you for taking the time to publish the recent 50th Anniversary Issue of the Daily Titan.
It’s a great accomplishment for the current staff and it will be appreciated by all who have been associated with this newspa-per. Instructors Clanin, Brody and Fellow provide valuable in-sight with their entries and looking at past issues to see names of my colleagues was a lot of fun.
They say newspapers are dying but it’s obvious that the Daily Titan spirit is as strong as ever. Again, thank you.
- Ali Dorri Daily Titan staff, fall 2004.
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Joe Montana, John Elway and Tom Brady.
There’s one thing that these three legendary quarterbacks have in com-mon with the University of South-ern California freshman quarterback Matt Barkley – a knack for staying cool, calm and collected in the most stressful situations.
Unlike Montana, Elway and Bra-dy, however, Barkley is still trying to show the world that he has what it takes to make the Football Hall of Fame by winning championships.
On Saturday, Sept. 12, the world witnessed Barkley inch one step closer to ascending into football lore by leading USC to an 18-15 late fourth-quarter comeback victory over Ohio State at the Horseshoe, one of the toughest places to play in college football.
Barkley not only led the Trojans down the field in an instant classic, but he showed amazing composure in the six-minute, 14-play drive that led to a two-yard touchdown by Sta-fon Johnson.
Before a crucial 3rd and 8 on USC’s 16-yard line, Barkley dissect-ed the Buckeye defense and called an audible at the line with single digits running down on the play clock.
He then stepped back and com-pleted a 5-yard pass to running back Joe McKnight, who came out of the backfield and ran for 16 yards after the catch to give the Trojans a first down with less than six minutes re-maining in the game.
With a 1st-and-10 on the Trojan’s 37-yard line, Barkley threw a 26-yard pass to the middle of the field to Anthony McCoy.
The Trojans faced another crucial third down after an incompletion and one-yard run by McKight.
With the ball on the Buckeyes’ 36-yard line, Barkley methodically kept USC alive by completing an 8-yard pass to Damian Williams, and then picking up the first on a 4th and 1, 2-yard quarterback sneak with 3:03 remaining in the game. The Trojans had the ball at Ohio State’s 26-yard line.
After four rushes by McKnight put
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Barkley born to lead TrojansBy juan Saucedo
Daily Titan Staff [email protected]
the Trojans at the Buckeyes’ 6-yard line, Barkley once again picked up a first down on a sneak, setting up Johnson’s touchdown run that made it 16-15 in favor of USC.
Barkley, who finished the game with 195 yards on 15-for-31 pass-ing and one interception, capped the drive by completing a two-point conversion pass to McKnight, giving USC an 18-15 lead with 1:01 left in the game.
Somehow, most people were sur-prised by Barkley’s ability to keep his cool down the stretch.
The so-called pundits of college football acted as if Barkley was a stranger to being a first-year starter for a legendary program before his first big challenge of the season.
Most folks had forgotten that he started as a freshman for Mater Dei High School, which has one of the most storied high school football programs in southern California, and played the rest of his three years for the Monarchs as a starter.
No matter what happens later in the season, this sports writer can attest to Barkley’s greatness on the field.
On October 2007, I witnessed from the stands one of Barkley’s great moments. He lead a then-undefeated Mater Dei past another then-unde-feated team, Corona Centennial, in a game that was so hyped that it was televised live on Fox Sports Net.
Barkley had an amazing game that night, leading Mater Dei to 51-37
victory, throwing for 365 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions on 21-for-32 passing, according to MaxPreps.com.
Yet, most folks didn’t expect Barkley to have a fantastic night at the Horseshoe. Fans and pundits alike expected the USC running at-tack and the tough defense, which roughed up San Jose State last week, to single-handedly win the game for the Trojans.
Barkley’s heroic drive left fans ec-static, but his composure made them believe in his future potential, which may materialize this season with a Bowl Championship Series title.
But, Barkley isn’t a one-trick pony. His ability to throw the out-pass better than most college and
pro quarterbacks made him the No. 1 football recruit in the nation last spring. College coaches from around the nation couldn’t help but drool at the fact he was committed to USC.
And against the Buckeyes on Sat-urday, Barkley channeled his inner Montana, Brady, Elway or whatever one might call it, and showed he has the most important skill needed to be a winning quarterback in college football or in any league.
He demonstrated a cool, calm nature that helped him avoid mak-ing any freshman mistakes during a crucial drive.
“We’re Trojans. That’s what we do,” Barkley told an ESPN report-er after the game. “This is what we dreamed of, coming back like this.”
USC freshman quarterback Matt Barkley and Head Coach Pete Carroll hug after defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes 18-15 Saturday at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.photo courteSy Mct
Assistant track and field coach Brandon Campbell has resigned his post and will be leaving Cal State Fullerton after a decade on campus for a similar position at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado.
Campbell came to Fullerton from St. Louis, Missouri, in the Fall of 1998 on a basketball scholarship. He was a starter for parts of five seasons around nagging foot injuries, aver-aging 8.3 points and 3.4 rebounds in 84 career games. But he really ex-celled in track and field and earned All-American honors. He was the Big West Conference Male Athlete of the Year in 2001 and he holds six school records including the high jump (7-4 1/2), the long jump (25-10), the 400 meters (46.98) and the decathlon (6,637 points).
He was a two-time Big West Con-ference champion in the long jump (1999 and 2001) and high jump (2001 and 2002) and was on a pair of championship 4x400 meter relay teams (2000 and 2001). He quali-fied for the NCAA Championships in both jumps in 2001 and 2002, earning All-American status in the high jump in 2002.
He earned his bachelors degree in 2005 in sociology and spent a year prior to his CSF appointment in 2006 as a personal speed coach and assisted at Huntington Beach High School, where he qualified three individuals for the CIF Champion-ships.
In his three-year tenure as the jump coach at CSUF, he had at least one athlete qualify for the NCAA Championships each year including two in both 2008 & 2009. He also coached three Big West individual champions: Johnathan Golden (high jump) and Garrett Myers (triple jump) in 2008, and Laron Brown (high jump) in 2009.
Coach Campbell will have the op-portunity to coach both the sprint-ers and jumpers at Adams State, a NCAA Division II national power.
IN OTHER NEWSTrackBrandon Campbell Leaving Titan Athletics
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September 15, 20098 SPORTS
Think Different. Think Simon.
By Simon liangDaily Titan Assistant Sports Editor
LA may not have a football team, but at least I don’t have to watch golf on Sundays anymore
I have been waiting for months now. The anticipation has been eat-ing away at my soul. I need some more excitement in my life.
I am jumping for joy because the National Football League is finally back.
I have been yearning to see Adrian Peterson back on the field (he did not disappoint in his first game), to finally see Michael Vick in action again, and to see all the young stars become household names overnight.
That is what the NFL is all about.The NFL is also about the drama.
It is about the gut-wrenching drives down the field in the fourth quarter.
It is about watching your favorite players and teams go at it week by week, mano a mano, a fight to the death.
Whether it’s the tailgate par-ties or the lazy Sundays staring at the televi-sion, we all live for this.
But let’s just say my fascina-tion with foot-ball might be a little different.
My first memory of watching the NFL was actually a blur.
I was seven years old.My parents had left me for dead
for a couple days so I just stayed with some relatives.
Isn’t it sad that some-times the only thing we re-member is the bad?
Well this story would definitely fit the bill.
I became b e d - r i d d e n and the trash-can was my best friend. Dare I say more?
E v e n though I have
barely any recollection of Super Bowl XXXI, I do remember the two teams that played.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson scores a 64-yard touchdown run against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.photo courteSy mct
Fans like the Green Bay Packers “Cheeseheads” can make football games more fun.photo courteSy mct
From then on, four things hap-pened:
1) I developed a love for watching football
2) I hated the New England Pa-triots
3) I wanted an NFL team in Los Angeles
4) The Super Bowl became my fa-vorite event of the year
As the John Elway two-peat came and went, the Patriots started their own dynasty, and the Manning brothers both won Super Bowls on their own, there was still something missing.
A football team in LA.The LA Rams and Raiders both
jumped ship in 1994. They were long gone before I could even get a glimpse of them.
What makes matters worse, the Rams and Raiders made the Super Bowl in 2000 and 2003, respective-ly, after they said sayonara to the LA Coliseum.
We have two NBA teams, two MLB teams and two NHL teams, but no football team?
Where is the sense in that?I am still without an NFL team to
root for. I always get asked the ques-tion, “What is your favorite football team?”
And of course, I always have to answer with the lame answer, “I don’t have a favorite football team because...”
Because there is no freaking team in LA! It makes it even harder that players change addresses all the time.
I mean, my allegiance to a team was nonexistent.
First it was the Packers, then the Vikings, then the Rams, then the Colts and now I have just complete-ly given up.
If I ever root for a basketball team that is not the LA Lakers, I will feel the utmost guilt.
Probably greater guilt than the people who get caught on “Cheat-ers.”
Yes, my love for the Purple and Gold runs deep.
But I never did feel bad about my
never-ending seesaw battle of favor-ite football teams.
To this day, no team has been worthy enough to have a permanent place in my heart.
So the question lingers, can you really watch the NFL without hav-ing a team to call your own?
Yes, it is possible but I am still hopeful a team will land in LA fairly soon.
But before that goes down, I can still dream.
I long to be part of the Cheeseh-eads of Green Bay and be on the re-ceiving end of the “Lambo Leap.”
I long to actually spend hours try-ing to transform myself into a mem-ber of Raider Nation.
I long to join the Hogettes in Washington and sport a Hogette name as well. Any suggestions?
Boy, how much fun would that be?
I don’t know about you but I am in the mood to dress up like a Bron-co fan and do the Mile High Salute.
There is actually some good that has come out of this; at least I am not discriminating.
I like all the football teams. Well, except the damn Patriots.
As the John Elway two-peat came and went, the Patriots started their own dynasty, and the Manning brothers both won Super Bowls , but there was still something missing.
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September 15, 200910 SPORTS
(MCT) - In their scorching sec-ond half, the Yankees had already dispatched one of their first-half tor-mentors, the Red Sox. They got their shot at the other one Monday night, albeit for a single game.
“It’s extremely important,” Joe Gi-rardi said before the makeup game against the Angels, who have owned the Yankees this season ... and this decade.
The Yankees played like it, get-ting a solid four innings from Joba Chamberlain, plus the key hits typically absent when they play the Angels and just enough from the bullpen in a 5-3 victory at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees (93-52) moved six games ahead of the Angels (86-57) in the race for the American League’s best record and home-field advan-tage. The Yankees start a three-game series in Anaheim on Monday.
After Phil Hughes let the Angels tie it at 3 in the eighth, the Yankees scored twice in the bottom half.
Mark Teixeira, who hit a two-run triple in the fifth, ripped a one-out double into the rightfield corner. Alex Rodriguez walked and Brett Gardner ran for Teixeira. Girardi called for a double steal, and when
catcher Mike Napoli’s throw sailed into left, Gardner scored to make it 4-3. After Hideki Matsui struck out, Robinson Cano brought in A-Rod with a single up the middle, making it 5-3.
Mariano Rivera, in his first game since last Tuesday, issued a two-out walk in the ninth but earned his 40th save, converting his 36th straight opportunity.
The other story line was Cham-berlain’s fourth start since his “rules” were redone.
“He’s been scuffling,” general manager Brian Cashman said before the game. “I thought he was better his last outing (Wednesday), once he got past the first inning, and I look forward to seeing what he does to-night.”
Chamberlain pitched fairly well, going four innings and allowing one run and four hits.
There had been plenty of discus-sion about Chamberlain’s previous three starts as he was pulled after three innings in each of them.
“We’re going to do what we think is right,” Cashman said. “And when somebody else has the keys to king-dom, they can do what they think is right.”
As for the “just let him pitch” crowd, Cashman all but rolled his eyes. “Those people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about,” he said. “Anybody who says that, they’re just stupid.”
The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the second as Vladimir Guerrero led off with a long home run, his 14th of the season, to left.
That was all the Angels would get against Chamberlain, who pitched a 1-2-3 third inning and got out of the fourth with no damage after two Angels reached with one out.
Nick Swisher made it 1-1 in the third, smacking his 27th homer (but just his sixth at home) into the sec-ond deck in right on Jered Weaver’s 1-and-1 pitch.
Alfredo Aceves gave up a run in the fifth as the Angels took a 2-1 lead. The Yankees took the lead back in an odd bottom half of the fifth.
Swisher led off with a double, Melky Cabrera walked and Derek Jeter bunted them over. Johnny Damon’s broken-bat one-hopper to short would have scored Swisher easily, but Cabrera interfered with shortstop Erick Aybar and was called out and Swisher had to go back to third.
Yanks drop Angels
Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter high-five as they head off the field after the seventh inning of their 5-3 victory over the Angels.photo courtesy mct