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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
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our elevators is a different riding the elevators: "The
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this made them feel unsafe at can all avoid a repeat of the
school. One student, a first- tragic incident at CSU Long
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year student who wished not Beach," referring to an into be identified, said, "It's a cident in Dec. 2011 when
huge misnomer consider- an employee of CSULB got
ing you have the safety of stuck in an elevator and atall your students going up tempted to climb out. The eland down the elevator, and evator began to move again,
it's just a simple thing mak- trapping and killing the eming sure your tags are up-to- ployee under 2,000 pounds
of machinery.
date."
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California State University
and University of California
campuses recently addressed
private note-selling between
college students, while some
are already facing consequences.
According to the investigative reporting website, California Watch, this issue raises questions as to who owns
copyrights of the notes, the
students listening to lecture,
or the instructor providing
the lecture. Professors at UC
Berkeley and CSU Chico are
concerned with note accuracy. They fear that these notes
are provided by students
with low grades. As a result,
low note quality could ultimately hurt the instructor's
reputation.
"Students that [sic]
are downloading or
buying this information [are]
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sites continue to provide
these notes for sale. There
have already been some
changes made to school policies in regards to attaining
and purchasing notes from
such websites. CSUSM's
student conduct "prohibits
any business or person from
selling or otherwise distributing or publishing class
notes for a commercial purpose," (California Education
Code section 66450).
Muniz found this situation
to pertain more to a plagiarism issue as well: "I don't
support the ban [of websites]
but I do support actions
against students using these
notes for plagiarism."
But there are some students
who are more than willing to
support the ban, seeing that
some of
should put up their notes...
but not students who have
failing grades. I don't know
how tbe website would judge
that, but I understand that a D
student shouldn't put up thennotes [for sale] ," Karen Hernandez, CSUSM sophomore
and Biology major, said.
Outside sources and critics state that the universities
are focusing on the wrong
aspects of the situation, and
the notes are simply there
to share knowledge. There
is still a discussion about
whether disciplinary students should receive disciplinary action, although some
students have already been
reported in regards to their
affiliation to such purchases.
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said.
Different websites including NoteUtopia and
Chegg have received letters
from CSU and UC campuses in their attempt to shut
down the space available for
students to post their notes
up for sale, according to
California Watch. Although
some websites have already
complied with the CSU/UC
system's wishes other web-
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CSUSM aimed to make the
campus more communityoriented and attractive to
students with the University
Student Union (USU) which
kicked off with a groundbreaking ceremony and
after-party last Thursday,
Feb.23.
The lawn between Kellogg Library and the Cesar
Chavez stairs is fenced off
because CSUSM is in the
process of cpnstructing the
new USU building. USU
will house student eveiits,
clubs, activities and community life. The two "Phases"
are due to for completion
August 2013, and the structure will be ready for occupation January 2014.
"I think that it is really hard
to capture the excitement of
it. There have been so many
people working really hard
on this. It is actually student- room, more food services
designed; they brought in and more student organizasome students to get their tion offices.
opinions on what it should be
"The Clarke used to be
like," Eloise Stiglitz, Ph£>. the hub for student organiVice President of Student zations, but soon there will
Affairs said.
be the Student Union. In the
. USU's Phase I (58376 sq. rainy weather you will have
ft) will provide services in- a building to go to," Ed. D.
cluding food services, retail Executive Director, Universpaces, dining, a ballroom, sity Corporation, Kim D.
conference rooms, student Clark, said.
This new University Stuorganization offices, recreational and game areas as dent Union building has been
well as USU administration in the books since CSUSM
offices. Phase H (85,880 sq. opened in 1989. The total
ft) will provide a large ball- cost of the building will be
$43.98 million, and the Student Body Center Fee that
each CSUSM student pays
will fund the entire project.
It will take 30 years to pay it
off completely.
"I'm excited. It's a sign
that our school is growing.
It'll be worth it," Phoebe
Morris, CSUSM sophomore,
said.
The opportunities and
space it will provide the
student community will add
greatly to the student life
here on campus.
"I don't like the fencing,
but I am excited about the
Student Union being built,"
Kaitlin Lingnau, a freshman,
said.
In fact, the Cesar Chavez
staircase will be completely
out of commission from
spring break until mid-August 2013.
The groundbreaking ceremony speakers and attendees
included CSUSM President
Karen Haynes, President
& CEO of ASI Travis Wil. son, USU Advisory Board
Chair Cipriano Vargas, Vice
President for Finance and
Administrative Services Dr.
Linda Hawk and Director of
the Clarke House & the USU
Sara Quinn.
"Student life is going to
be absolutely amazing. I ' m
excited for this opportunity,
and I am proud to call this
my school," Wilson said.
For more information go
to: www.csusni.edu/usu.
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Students and staff gather f o r President H aynes ' and Chief Diversity Office r Crawford's diversity based open forum.
Photos by:Amira El-Khaouli.
Diversity Matters Forum
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A Diversity Matters Forum addressed the importance of diversity of students
and staff, but Cal State San
Marcos professors and comM EDI A M ANAGE R
munity spokespeople alleged
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senters.
A D V E R T I S I N G M ANAGE R
President Karen S. Haynes
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and Chief Diversity Officer
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Willie "Derrick" Crawford
held the Diversity Matters
D IS T RIB U T IO N MAN AGE R
forum to explain their belief
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concerns of the community
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on Feb. 16,2012.
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Haynes emphasized diverC U R T I S B OVE E
sity as a wa y to strengthen the
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campus and to teach* students
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how to interact in the world.
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CSUSM has "almost half of
the entire student body as
m inorities] , that's 5,000 students," Haynes said.
"Diversity comes in a variety of f orms.. . [CSUSM
is an] inclusive campus for
all meanings of diversity,"
Haynes said.
Crawford explained his
five-year plan for diversity
which included changes in
curriculum and staff diversity composition in order to
be pragmatic andT broaden
the-meaning of diversity.
Professors and some students questioned how this
talk would be put into action
during these tough financial
times.
Professor Marisol ClarkIbanez of the Sociology de-
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partment questioned where
the resources are coming
from when there aren't any
to give. Clark-Ibanez is the
program coordinator for
the Ethnic Studies minor;
she stated she only receives
$1,060 annually for the program.
Crawford's five-year plan
for diversity is due to President Haynes late this spring.
In the meantime, CSUSM
faces economic challenges, a
60:40 ratio of women to men
and a growing awareness of
diversity.
There is another Diversity Forum today, Feb. 28,
noon - 12:5 0 p jn. , in Markstein 103.
This semester, History and
Global Studies professor Dr.
Kimber Quinney, and her
History 393 students took
advantage of a mentoring
opportunity working with
high school students at High
Tech High School.
Alongside teacher Ms.
Michelle Clark, Dr. Quinney
teamed the High Tech High's
students and CSUSM's History students together in
groups and presented their final projects, ¿11 following the
theme: Wash. Rinse. Don't
Repeat, on Friday, Feb. 17.
With the help of Dr. Quinney's class, High Tech
High's students compiled an
arrangement of videos and
interviews to compare historic events, such as the Holocaust, to recent events like
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Their primary goal was to
spread awareness to prevent
these catastrophic tragedies
from reoccurring through
media, interviews of Holocaust survivors and spoken
word. Junior Jenna Phelps'
group dedicated their video
to spreading awareness of
the injustices in history and
how, unfortunately, it can
replicate.
"Racist comments aren't
taken seriously, and we want
to show everyone that it isn't
okay andjwe need to stand up
against it so it won't repeat,"
Phelps said.
Not only did the students
of High Tech High benefit
from their mentors, but also
CSUSM students took advantage of a great opportunity to branch out and experience a different kind of
learning.
CSUSM
student/mentor Bryan Romanelli spoke
of his experience working
alongside these students.
Seeing the final production
come together was the highlight of his experience.
"Being a mentor was honestly one of the coolest experiences ever. The students
cut above the rest, took the
bull by the horns and ran
away with it. They were extremely dedicated and wer e
on top of their work. It was
great being able to work with
these students for a common
goal: to prevent history from
repeating itself," Romanelli
said.
SPORTS
NBA Stars shine bright at
All-Star game in Orlando
A L E X F RANC O
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With the NBA All-Star
weekend in Orlando, Fla.
coming to a close, the 2012
All-Star game came down to
the wire in the last seconds
of the fourth quarter as the
West stars stopped the East
stars dead in their tracks.
The game began with a
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of the All-Star players from were, Chicago Bulls point
Both the NBA's Western and guard Derrick Rose, Miami
Eastern Conference's,
Heat shooting guard Dwyane
Starting for the West were, Wade, Miami Heat small
forward LeBron James, NY
Knicks small forward Carmelo Anthony and hometown favorite Orlando Magic
center Dwight Howard.
The first quarter of the
game was filled with the defense-less basketball play we
come to love and enjoy during All-Star weekend. There
were ferocious slam dunks,
and alley-oop dunks from
both sides of the court, f ro m
Chris Paul throwing it up
to Blake Griffin to Dwyane
Wade sending it to teammate
LeBron James. The West got
out to an early lead, a lead
they wouldn't surrender f o r
the rest of the game, leading
88-69 at halftime.
The West's 88 points at
halftime now stand as the
All-Star game record f o r
points in a half. That wasn't
the only record that we saw
fall Sunday night. Kobe
Bryant in his record tying
fourteenth All-Star game appearance broke the record
f o r most career points in the
All-Star game passing Michael Jordan's mark of 262
points. Dwyane Wade of the
East registered the third triple-double in All-Star game
history with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.
Kevin Durant and Bryant carried the West in their
win over the East. Durant led
all scorers with 36 points;
enough to have him voted the
game's MVP. Lebron James
led the East's late charge at
the end scoring 36 points for
the East, but also gave the
ball away in the closing seconds of the game, sealing the
victory for the West.
" Can' t turn the ball over
like that, I let my team down,
but overall it was a great
weekend," James said.
The weekend came to a
close with the West 152-149
victory, which is now the
second year in a row they
have walked away the winners.
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Healthy weight loss
CURTIS BOVEE
STAFF W R I T E R
With summer right around
the corner, losing weight to
perfect your 'beach body' i s
perhaps a top priority. Sadly,
too many people are unaware of healthy ways to lose
weight and can inadvertently
cause more harm than good.
With so many crash diets
available on the market, it
is hard not to get caught u p
with them. Unfortunately,
they have proven to be ineffective.
"They d on' t work and can
be harmful to your h ealth/ '
Lea Roberg-Chao, professor of Kinesiology here at
CSUSM, said.
Many crash diets emphasize maintaining a 1,000 calorie diet or less, which certainly i sn' t safe or effective.
The goal is to lose one to
t w o p ound s per w eek.
aptwo pounds p e r week . "Rapid weight loss is mostly water loss and muscle loss.
"The key t6 losing weight
is to look beyond going on
a diet," Laura de Ghetaldi,
professor of Kinesiology at
CSUSM, said.
One pound is equivalent to
about 3,500 calories. Implementing a strategy to have
a deficit of 500 calories per
day would lose one pound
per week on average. 500
calories per day is the difference between a salad and
a cheeseburger with fries.
Seems pretty easy, not to
mention worthwhile, doesn't
it?
Imagine if you employed
an exercise routine with your
diet; the pounds would come
off even easier. Ideally, this
is the goal. Modifying only
your diet might prove as an
e ffectiv e m etho d f o r w eigh t
effective method for weight
loss, but utilizing some type
of aerobic activity will prove
to be more effective.
"A healthy diet coupled
with a healthy aerobic exercise program where one gets
the heart rate up for 30 minutes per day, four days per
week, will easily and safely
lose one to two pounds per
week," de Ghetaldi said.
More importantly, crash diets work in opposite fashion
of one's goal to lose weight.
"They slow down the body's
metabolic rate, causing the
body to burn calories less efficiently," de Ghetaldi said.
Keep these things in mind,
and not only will you shed
that 10-15 pounds by summer, but you will have created a healthy template that
you can follow the rest of
your life.
Congratulations to the Men's and
Women's Basketball teams who both
finished their inaugural seasons with
wins and earned spots in the A.I.I,
conference championships.
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As the basketball regular season comes to a close
and the playoffs commence,
I spoke to Sarah Jackson,
three guard, from the Women's Basketball team before
the Cougars went to South
Dakota for the A.I I. (Association of Independent Institutions) conference championship.
Jackson is a junior majoring in Sociology and mi-noring in Psychology who
has been playing basketball
since she was six-year-old.
Jackson's favorite team is the
Los Angeles Clippers, while
her favorite player being Miami Heat forward, LeBron
James.
Juliana Stumpp: What is
the best thing about playing
here at CSUSM?
Sarah Jackson:
The
strong friendships I 'v e made.
It's taught me a lot of leadership skills. Basketball keeps
me on track with my priorities.
J S : In what way has basketball benefited your academics?
SJ: I 'v e always been a
good student athlete. I know
it is student before athlete,
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play, and basketball is such
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because of my grades.
JS: What is your practice
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SJ: During season, Mondays through Fridays we
practice from 1:45 until 3:45
p.m. Before the season starts
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p.m. Off-season, I go to the
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Justin C ampbel l r epresent s
CSUSM in DJ s howcas e p art y
DJs from San D ieg o universities c ompet e in President's D a y c elebration
Lux B oreal' s "LahfB" p resent s
p raise d p erformanc e at CSUSM
JULIANA S T U M P P
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CSUSM students and faculty gathered on campus
to enjoy the contemporary
dancing in Lux Boreal's
presentation of "Lamb" on
Feb. 21.
This was the first time
that the performance was
presented at CSUSM as it
is typically preformed in
many festivals and theaters
in Mexico.
Phillip Adams, of Australia, in collaboration with Lux
Boreal, created the production. The company's name,
"Lux Boreal" translates to,
"lights from the north."
The performance began
with a queen-like woman lying in the middle of the stage
with six dancers off to the
side wearing a black cloth
over their faces with feathery
sashes over their bodies. In
the beginning of the show,
the dancer's movements
started slow and leisurely,
but throughout the performance, the dances became
more emotional and dramatic
as even some of the dancers
started t o c r y .
At the side of the stage,
there were six red, toy pianos
that were played occasionally for the effect of spiritual
DANEA
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STAFF W R I T E R
The Wavehouse in Mission
Beach played host to a Red
Bull-sponsored DJ showcase
and President's Day party for
Greek leaders and captains
from local dorms and sororities on Feb. 19.
The top DJs from UCSD,
USD, SDSU and CSUSM
were invited to the event to
compete before a large number of Wavehouse patrons
and the DJs' fellow students
in attendance.
Selected as the top student DJ from Cal State San
Marcos and chosen to represent CSUSM in this friendly competition was Justin
Campbell. He opened the
competition, which ran from
noon to 5 p.m., and as per the
rules of the contest, he had
an hour to spin.
After finishing his set, he
joined me for a brief chat
about the contest, his motivation and music in general.
Campbell has been DJing
for two years and has been
gradually building his reputation by posting his songs
online. Mostly instrumental
mash-ups (a song created
by entwining two other usu"Lamb" w a s honored in
ally well-known and preDance Magazine's list of Top recorded songs), Campbell'sr
25 Performances to Watch in music caught the attention of
2009.
local clubs downtown, and
pretty soon, he was being
change.
In "Lamb," the shepherdess helps guide her six lambs
to the Promised Land. The
show included multiple
themes including forgiveness, innocence and sin and
many biblical references.
Eunice Contreras, who
played the shepherdess, gave
her insight to the meaning of
the production.
"The sheep have to trust
in the path I ' m giving them,
because it's the path to salvation. They have to forgive
themselves, but they also
must be forgiven. You have
to ask for forgiveness. You
have to surrender to that,"
Contreras said.
At the end of the show,
some of the dancers answered questions from the
audience.
"[Phillip Adams] spent his
time explaining his thoughts
and beliefs. He didn't give us
a direct definition of what the
pianos represented. He gave
us room for imagination. To
me the red pianos represented blood," performer Henry
Torres said.
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known establishments as
The House of Blues have allowed Campbell to branch
out of San Diego and permitted him to spin at places like
Los Angeles' historic Avalon
theater, where The Beatles
played their first west coast
performance.
When asked about his musical palette, Campbell says
that his taste is quite broad,
and that as a DJ, one should
be open to all sorts of genres
and sounds when composing
a piece. This speaks to his ultimate goal as a DJ which is
to keep underground music
creative.
As the party went on and
the other DJs completed
their respective sets, it ultimately became the audience
that would decide the winner
through applause and cheers.
As the roar of the crowd
was gauged, it was determined that the winner of the
STAFF W R I T E R
The traveling film festival
LUNAFEST is making a
stop at CSUSM on Thursday,
March I at 6 p.m.
LUNAFEST is a short-film
festival with works made by,
about and for women.
Established in 2000, LUNAFEST is dedicated to
sharing stories of women
through film and spreading
those connections through
the traveling festival.
According to the LUNAFEST website, the festival
has spread to more than 150
screenings in North America
with over ninety filmmakers featured so far. Since its
foundation, the festival has
raised nearly $1.2 million.
At this year's festival,
nine films will be presented,
showing the diversities of
community. The shorts will
illustrate different genres and
content, all of which are representative of women.
The festival will donate
—
Right and Below: CSUSM student, Justin
Campbell, performs his set at The Wavehouse in Mission Beach.
Photos proided by: Tom Nguyen.
I InFonna+ional Day
Women's Center to host film festival
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showcase was Justin Campbell. It came as no surprise
that CampbelFs skills triumphed, but it still came as
a very welcome victory for
CSUSM to overcome their
big-time rival schools.
To hear some of Justin
Campbell's music, visit
http://soundcloud.com/
jcam8989.
all proceeds and ticket sales
from this event to various charities, including the
Breast Cancer Fund and the
ASI Women's Center.
Tickets are available at the.
ASI Corporate Office andj
at the door the night of theî
festival. Ticket prices range?
from $5 for students, $10 for
general admission and $15
for VIP tickets.
To view a trailer featuring
clips from the short films,
go to www.csusm.edu/wc/
events/LunaFest .html.
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CSUSM's The Pride Center presented "The Distorted
Male" on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in
association with next week's
Eating Disorder Awareness
week supported by the three
social justice centers on campus.
The event consisted of
pictures hanging f ro m the
ceiling at eye level, depicting different types of male
bodies, different statistics
pertaining to male eating
disorders and different views
about male body images .
The pictures and statistics
were presented in a more engaging way which allowed
students to walk around and
prised to see students show
up to an event and fully engage in discussion about
such a controversial topic.
An anonymous attendee
male body images in society stated that t h e event met exsee these different pictures and what it means to be maspectations. However, the stuand initiate conversation culine or feminine.
dent felt that the discussion
about them.
"I knew it was there, but I stayed at a surface level and
After students viewed the didn't realize that it was so
wished it was more critical
d i ff e r e n t
p r e v a l e n t , about the topic. The attendee
pictures,
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campus, like create an at- alize
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about their bodies.
Later, after light snacks the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
"I feel like that's what we
and drinks, everybody gath- Transgender,
Questioning
need to do more on campus,
ered to engage iri a lengthy and Allies (LGBTQA), said.
like create an atmosphere
discussion about common
Chatham went on to say where everybody feels like
misconceptions
regarding how he was pleasantly surthey can talk," Chatham said.
Leap Year r eappear s
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the common calendar of the
present-day.
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amount of toppings, varying
from cheeses to meats a nd .
Flippin* Pizza opened a vegetables. The prices f o r
new location on South Twin the 18-inch custom whole
Oaks Valley Road on Feb. 1, pizzas start at $14.50 for the
providing CSUSM students "Cheese Pie" with an extra
and staff members with a $2 for each topping. Flippin'
convenient location.
Pizza also offers their classic
As I walked into Flippin' red and white pies for $19
Pizza, I was eager to taste each.
their New York-style pizza
For my night out with
and excited to have a pizza friends, we chose the Pesto
place across the street from Classic White Pie and split
campus. For students who the cost five ways. It was
don't have cars, Flippin' Piz- perfect, because we each ate
za's location is ideal.
two pieces for only about
The menu has a large vari- $4.00 per person.
ety of offerings at affordable
While the franchise also
prices for the typical college has restaurants on the east
student on a budget. A sim- coast, only five locations are
ple cheese slice is $2.25. A currently open in Southern
pizza slice with toppings is California. These locations
just 50 cents more.
are in Carlsbad, Encinitas,
If you and your Mends or La Costa, Vista and San Marfamily are especially hun- cos, with a sixth location set
gry, 18-inch custom pizzas to open soon in San Diego.
are available with a large
STAFF
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ated with the day from other
countries.
"St. Bridget struck a deal
with St. Patrick to allow
women to propose t o men and not just the other way
around - every four years.
This is believed to have been
introduced to balance the
traditional roles of men and
women in a similar way to
how Leap Day balances the
calendar," another article on
timeanddate.com states.
The article goes on to share
that in Scotland, it is considered unlucky to be born on
Leap Day, and in Greece it is
considered unlucky to marry
during the entire year and especially on Leap Day.
In spite of its occasionally
ominous presence for some
cultures, the day is typically
embraced in many areas of
the world with enthusiasm
and a cause for celebration.
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K YL E M .JOHNSO N
S TAF F W R I T E R
CSUSM President Karen
Haynes recently announced
that the Developing Reading
Education with Arts Method
(DREAM) program contributed towards improving elementary student test scores
in reading by 87 points.
The program is a 4-year
arts integration program with
a nearly $1 million grant
received from the United
States Department of Education.
According to the DREAM
website, "The goal of
DREAM is to train third and
fourth grade teachers to use
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training technique through
week-long summer programs
and classroom arts coaching
with teachers.
"We're not taking the emphasis off of reading and
math by integrating the arts.
We're really supporting it,"
Merryl Goldberg, Artistic
Director of DREAM, said
in a video on the program's
website.
The program is a collaboration of CSUSM, North
County Professional Development Federation, San Die-
go Office of Education and
ten North San Diego County
school districts, specifically
141 teachers and 3,000 students.
"The arts, because it's at
the core of [DREAM], teach
creative thinking,, innovative thinking, teach critical
thinking, teach how to think
outside the box, how to problem solve, how to work well
with others. These are skills
that are just fundamental to
what we need for the 21st
century," Goldberg said in
the video.
For more information on
the DREAM program, visit
dream.sdcoe.net.
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Shocking salary facts
Cal State presidents earn more than Facebook execs
D AN E A
VANDERVELDEN
S TAF F W R I T E R
Recent reports from the
CSU Chancellor's office
have brought some interesting monetary facts to the
table regarding the salaries
of the CSU system's head
honchos.
Facebook is undoubtedly
one of the most powerful
companies on the face of the
Earth and in February went
public and released the salaries of its employees. Sheryl
Sandberg, one of the top executives of this multimedia
juggernaut, makes $300,000
annually, stated the initial
public offering of Facebook.
A hefty sum, but for a top
executive of one of the most
well-known companies, it
may come to us as a surprisingly low amount.
The numbers herein reveal
to us that at least six of the
CSU system's top employees
make more than Sandberg on
an annual basis including the
Chancellor, SDSU president
and CSULB president. The
average CSU president banking in on $300,541 and nine
cents stated the Chancellor's
Executive
Compensation
2011/2012 report on www.
calstate.edu. In addition to
that, they also received an
extra $60,000 for housing assistance.
*
Outrage has broken out
over these facts from students and other taxpayers
alike. The California State
Facing Racism
and racial slurs in this video,
I had many questions
when a friend showed me
YouTube, the home7of hu- this video. First, where are
mor, music, film and artistic their parents? You'd figure
talent, as well as the original someone would have taught
place of the "It Gets Better" them manners at some point
campaign against bullying is in their lives. Also, they're
now the home of the most of- from Arizona. If I ' m not misfensive video to go viral that taken, Arizona, like CaliforI have ever seen.
nia, New Mexico and Texas,
On Jan. 6, 2012, three is heavily populated by the
teenage girls from Arizona Mexican culture. It saddens
uploaded a video demon- me that a place so diverse
strating their hate for the could produce such ignoMexican Race. As a Mexican rant ideologies. Instead of
woman, I am infuriated that celebrating diversity, we are
these girls hate one culture discouraging people because
so profoundly that they made of their differances.
this video. As an American, I
It infuriates me that one
am embarrassed to live in the day, if these girls have chilsame country as these wom- dren, their distorted ideen as I see their views are als may be passed onto our
tolerated. As a woman, I am country's next generation.
offended. Their ludicrous be- I ' m livid that these girls,
havior i sn' t helping us gain when they turn 18, can vote
the respect so many deserve. on the lives of my people,
I understand that everyone and that they may deny my
has his or her own opinions. family the right to live in this
However, not even the First country and dismiss their atAmendment of Free Speech tempt at their promise of "the
. can justify the hate speech American dream," as empty
MELISSA MARTINEZ
S TAF F W R I T E R
as it may be.
Why is if that these views
are tolerated? Why do we
live in a country that segregates cultures so much? The
progress we've made seems
minimal to the credo of racism, sexism and homophobia
that has become a "norm"
within our society; instead of
promoting this notion of being "colorblind/' we should
be embracing our diversity,
rather than blatantly condoning the ignorant racism and
hate we can't seem t a extinguish.
I am however, extremely
proud of the video responses
from people of different genders, races and religions who
made it clear that though
these girls are extremely intolerable, they do not represent the opinions and views
of those similar to them.
Though the three girls have
publicly apologized, this
incident shouldn't have occurred at all.
S TAF F W R I T E R
When Ashley Wardle was
admitted to San Diego State
University, she must have
been expecting a place where
all ideas and beliefs were
welcomed and tolerated by
all - especially by school officials.
However, while protesting proposed tuition hikes at
the CSU Board of Trustees
meeting on Nov. 16, 2011,
in Long Beach, Wardle was
arrested after students were
banned from participating in
the closed-doors meeting and
forcibly removed from CSU
Chancellor Charles Reed's
-office.
Upon her return to SDSU,
Wardle faced an informal
hearing regarding her actions. With officials claim-
ing her actions violated the
school's code of conduct,
Wardle risked a formal hearing and expulsion if she refused a two-year suspension.
After weeks of negotiations,
a settlement was presented
to the graduate student: the
suspension would not be activated; yet Wardle will be
ineligible to participate and
hold leadership positions in
student organizations .
This should boil the blood
of every American college
student. College is supposed
to be an open forum for discussion and the sharing of
ideas where the tolerance of
said ideas is undisputed. For
Elliot Hirshman, the president of SDSU, to even consider suspending a student
whom was expressing her
opinion is a blatant violation
of Wardle's First Amend-
ficult economic times, the
CSU(s) must compete on
a national level for highly
qualified candidates to serve
as presi-
dents of its institutions ."
Reed attempted to substantiate the swelling of these individuals' salaries, but at the
end of the day, student's wallets are emptier than ever,
and when students cannot
afford school, they can't
attend i t ; Hopefully the
'Board of Trustees'
p keeps this in mind,
when mulling over
the potential ramifications of their
next act of greedmongering.
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CHRIS GIANCAMILLI
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In the current era of gaming, the amount of downloadable content (DLC) is
quickly rising. Unfortunately
for gamers, this rise is a double-edged sword.
Don't get me wrong—we
love new maps, playable
characters and added storylines. However, we have a
serious problem with paying
an extra $15 for something
that should have been packaged with the game itself.
In some cases, the bonus content is available
on the same day the game
is released. According to
Gamespy.com, "Mass Effect 3" will feature a new
DLC storyline available on
release day. The DLC is included with the Digital Deluxe Edition, but those who
purchase the standard edition
of the game will have to pay"
extra. Gamers are basically
supposed to pay more for
something that is ready on
day-one.
Players also have "Game
of the Year" (GOTY) or
"Greatest Hits" editions to
watch out for. When a game
is rereleased with one of
these tags, it generally features a lower price and past
DLC included. Though this
varies f ro m game to g ame r
those patient or frugal gamers might want to wait f o r
one of these editions. Sadly,
not all games are rereleased
like this. So paying the f ul l
price could become the only
solution for some.
Publishers are exploiting
the wallets of gangers, and
it's killing all the f un . For
money-conscious
college
students, an extra $10 or $15
could mean skipping a few
meals for video game content that could have been free
with purchase.
W orld' s w ors t b os s
The demise of NBC's "The Office99 t elevisio n series
A t SDSU, First Amendment
rights need not apply
F REDRIC K M I S L E H
University Board of Trustees
is the group responsible for
setting CSU employee salary, decided to bump up the
new president of SDSU's
salary to $400,000.
With tuition and other paid
necessities for students skyrocketing in price like
the 9 percent tuition
increase voted in f o r
the CSUSM 2012/2013
school year, it is hard for
any elected 'board ' or individual to justify these
-salary hikes. Chancellor Charles Reed
took a swipe
at it anyways,
stating within
the report that,
"Even in dif-
ALEX FRANCO
head from here.
they once had.
It has been reported that
I personally don't believe
In 2005, NBC producer the writers and producers of there is enough of a story and
Greg Daniels brought the "The Office" have decided depth to be able to carry this
popular British comedy "The to create a spinoff follow- as a long running series. The
Office" to American televi- ing the Assistant to thé Re- reason Dwight is such a sucment right to free speech.
It seems as though Hirsh- sions. Steve Carell was hired gional Manager, Dwight cessful character is because
man wanted to silence all to star and play bumbling Schrute (played by Rainn he meshes and feeds of the
dissent by making a public boss Michael Scott and carry Wilson). The show would other characters in the office
example of one student — a the television show for seven revolve around Dwight and so well. Also, I ' m a big Jim
classic move pulled out of amazing seasons of pure co- his beet farm/bed and break- Halpert (John Krasinski) and
any dictator's playbook. Had medic genius. Unfortunately, fast. I ' m not sure why the Pam Beesly Halpert (Jenna
the Chancellor and all the after seven and a half sea- call has been placed to put Fischer) fan and would hate
Trustees in attendance al- sons of comedic mockumen- this move into action with to see them go and no longer
lowed dissenting opinions to tary, Carell left "The Office" the current season of "The pull pranks on Dwight tobe heard, chances are high and Andrew Bernard (Ed Office" still turning out hi- gether.
With many of the main
Wardle would not have been Helms) took over as Manag- larious episodes and captier of Dunder Mifflin Sabre, vating story lines. My guess staples of "The Office" conarrested.
is that they believe the show tracts ending after the seaWe as the students who pay Scranton.
Normally, a hit television is not bringing in the view- son, it will be clear where
tuition, which translates into
the six-figure salaries paid show wouldn't succumb to ers it once did with Carell on the producer^ decide to take
the ending of an era; how- the show. And that is their the show with season 8's end
to school administrative officials, should have a greater ever, many would agree that problem; they can't have the later this spring. The answer
say regarding how much we the Dunder Mifflin Scran- expectations of a Carell-run is simple, resign everybody
pay and where that money ton Branch isn't the same. "Office" show.
and continue the show as it
The producers should un- is, with no spin-off or new
goes. Until then, no CSU Though the rest of season
system chancellor or presi- 7 and now season 8 have derstand that with Carell's direction taken. With time, I
dent should infringe upon proved to be comedy none- departure they were going believe the show can regain
the First Amendment rights theless, it is obvious the to lose some die-hard Carell the support and fandom it
writers of "The Office" are fans and they weren't going once enjoyed with Carell at
of his or her students.
desperate to decide where to to generate the viewership the helm. In Ed Helms I trust.
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how women are perceived in
today 's media.
"Black Swan" will be
shown as part of their monthly "Sister Cinema" program.
This is their third semester
presenting Sister Cinema, in
which they provide pizza,
drinks and a comfortable setting to watch view the movie.
Following the movie, there
will be a discussion pertaining to the issues and controversies displayed in the film.
Even though the movies presented will depict women's
lives and their struggles, men
are more than welcome to
join the event.
"Everyone is welcome to
the Women's Center; its purpose is to have a place tohang
out and build community,"
Community Dialogue Facilitator of the Women's Center,
Alejandra Ramos, said.
Ramos and staff hope that
this event will allow more
students to find an inclusive
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The comic book corner: Marvelous Marvel events
F AIT H O RCIN O
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Marvel Entertainment announced three comic events
and a special crossover that
will create quite a stir in the
comic book universe.
Thé universe already completed two of its biggest
comics, "Fear Itself* and
"Spider-Island/' but it isn't
quite over for the characters.
February's event is ' Th e
Circle of Four" which
takes place in the on-going
"Venom" series. By some
strange demonic force, Eugene "Flash" Thompson
a.k.a. Venom, must fight
with X-23, the new female
Ghost Rider, Alejandra,
and the Red Hulk, Gen and
"Thunderbolt" Ross, to save
Las Vegas. The event starts
in Venom #13, with four
(#13.1-.4) point issues and
then concluding in Venom
#14. This unlikely team must
stop evil before Sin City literally turns into Hell.
March is going to be an
explosive month when the
Avengers Academy gets
some new transfer students.
The misfit Runaways join
for a special crossover span-
ning two issues. In addition
to the cast, artist Karl Moline
will be the penciler f o r those
issues. Moline was on the
creative team for the "Loners" series, which Avengers
Academy team member Julia Powers a.k.a. Lightspeed
was affiliated with. Marvel
expects a throw down on the
west coast when the two collide.
In April, two events will
surely shake things up. "The
Omega Effect" event creates
an unlikely team. SpiderMan, Daredevil and the Punisher t ik e on some of the top
crime syndicates in order to
make sure they do not get
their hands on the mysterious
Omega Drive. It will take
place in "Avenging SpiderMan #6," "Daredevil #11"
and "The Punisher #10" with
highly acclaimed writers
Mark Waid and Greg Rucka
working together with Marco Checchetto as the interior
artist f o r all three issues.
New York will then become the battleground for
the "Avengers vs. X-Men"
event. It will take place after
the conclusion of "Avengers: The Children's Crusade"
and "X-Sanction." Most of
the fighting will be in the
12-part limited series under
the same name of the event
while certain series will have
issues crossovers with it.
Questions rise concerning
those who have dual membership to both parties, such
as Wolverine and Beast, to
see where their true alliances
belong.
Many teasers are floating
around comic shops and on ^
the internet, but Marvel is
keeping things in the dark.
Several stores such as the f a mous Midtown Comic store
in New Yoik have chosen
their sides. Special early release parties on April 3 will
be held in participating shops
around the nation, a day before the first issue of "Avengers vs. X-Men" is out. Ask
your local vendor if they will
be joining the festivities.
For more information on
any of the Marvel events,
visit Marvel.com. If you
want to get a copy of some
of the issues, check out your
local comic book shop or online vendor.
B oo k of the month: Entering the H unge r G a m e s
A REL Y R A M O S
STAFF W R I T E R
Author Suzanne Collins
introduces "The Hunger
Games", as . the first book
to the epic trilogy, leaving
readers anxious in completing what seems like a neverending story.
Though the series was first
released in 2008, the excitement of seeing the games on
the big screen is making the
series exceedingly famous.
Thé plot unravels when a
district rebels, causing the
Capitol to punish the remaining districts by forcing
two teenagers from each of
the twelve districts to fight
one another in an arena with
provided weapons. As part
of entertainment for the public, the games are aired live
on television. The winner
represents their district a s
well as receives honor and
respect for themselves and
family. Children are entered
at the age of twelve and
THE
must fight against the
other competitors until
only one survives.
The main character,
Katniss Everdeen, is
responsible -for taking care of her mother
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and sister, and to do
so, she trespasses outside the fences of Disc\ WM
trict 12 in order to hunt
for food, entering the
Hunger Games arena
and changing her life
foreyer. "The Hunger
Games" offers friendship, love and rebelbearable.
lion, all within the first
Though another book may
book of the series.
Collins' detailed descrip- seem like a distraction to
yodr homework or obligations of the characters and
object in the book are so tions, once you begin readspecific, i t feels as if the ing the first page, putting it
reader is a part of the rebel- down will seem impossible.
lion. You will not be able to Regardless the genres you're
eat or sleep without know- most interested in, "The
ing what characters Katniss, Hunger Games" is by far the
Peeta and Gale will endure best all-around book I have
next. The anticipation is un- ever read.
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Tap Gear - Britain"
The seventeenth season of
Martin Scorsese's latest
Top Gear is out on DVD today.
film is about a boy named
The British series centers on
Hugo (Asa Butterfield) who
motor vehicles and presents its
lives in a train station in
content in interesting, quirky
1930s Paris. After his father's
and fun ways that attract more
death, Hugo takes up his task
than just car lovers. The Top
in repairing a mysterious broGear series was revamped in
ken automaton. "Hugo" is a
2002 and is currently hosted
widely praised film by critby Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and
ics andfilmlovers. It won six of the 11 Academy
Jaibas May.
Awards it was nominated for.
Pink Floyd
The Cranberries
Released yesterday is "Roses»" the newest album from
Irish band The Cranberries.
'Roses" i s the band's sixth
studio album following a
iatus of six years (their l a s t ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B
lbum "Wake Up and Smell The Coffee" was released back in 2001). If you are a nineties kid,
you may recognize some of their earlier hits
includin"Linger," "Dreams" and "Zombie "
B
"The Wall" is widely seen as
one of the greatest (if not the
greatest) Pink Floyd album!,
First released on November
3 0,1979 , "The Wall" went on
to become one of the bestselling albums in the United States and became a certified 23x platinum album. The Immersion Box
set of 'The Wall" is digitally remastered, with unreleased material, artwork, photographs and many
other keepsakes.
A memorable evening
is one understatement
about the film, 'Project
X,' centered around four
Pasadena high school
students, who lose control over a house party.
Produced by Todd Phillips, the film chronicles
four teenagers (Thomas,
Costa, JB and Dax) while
they plan a "get together" at Thomas's house
while his parents are out
of town that eventually
entertains around 1,500
people and literally burns
down half his neighborhood.
The plot unravels when
Thomas realizes Costa
posted his address on
Craig's List and the night
gets a little out-of-hand.
So, instead of stopping
the party, Thomas drinks
more alcohol and takes
ecstasy to cope. As far
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social outcasts throwing also gives it an R-rating,
a huge party and sud- resembling more of a
denly becoming popular college party than a high
throughout high school, school rendezvous.
equals the plot of many
Though this film makes
raunchy comedies.
you realize your parties
Though the "found aren't half as cool as they
footage" style of filming could be, it also provides
documented the entire what you'd expect from
night of the party, there a racy and wild movie
aren't any unexpected that will surely make you
laugh out loud. If you're
twists in the plot.
Producer Phillips (di- into scandalous films,
rector of "The Hango- "Project X" is witty, enver" series), doesn't tertaining and surprisdisappoint with scandal ingly compelling.
"Project X" hits theatand comedy, though you
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Vol VIII No. 4/ Tuesday, September 19,2000
California State University, San Marcos
Got
Health
Stack
By: Kevin Frisk
Pride Staff Writer
Drawing ofProposed Field Clark House/ Student Union Courtesy ofPlanning Design and Construction
Andy Schick explains stack
parking to reporter.
Photo By: David Ruiz
By: Kathleen Hash
Pride Staff Writer
By: Giovanni Ferrer
Pride Staff Writer
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C SUSM S tudents
to Vote on
Student Union
As student enrollment has
increased, so has the need for
more parking, Research studies,
involving parking and enrollment, have been conducted at
other California State Universities, and were used as a measuring tool to reflect the needs
of CSUSM.
One temporary solution this
semester was stack parking.
Many students feel that it has
been a success, but worry that
it is ending this week. Yesenia
Castro used stack parking the
first week of the semester and
said "I felt a little worried about
using it at first, but after parking a few times I became comfortable" She had heard other
people express t heir fears upon
getting items removed without
their knowledge. She became
reassured one day, when she
found that she had left her
checkbook in her car and nothing was touched.
CSUSM
In
addition,
Parking
Services painted
roughly sixty more stalls as
a temporary solution to help
alleviate some of the drudgery
of parking.
Do students really need a
$7.4 million Student Union?
The University Student Union
Advisory Board (USUAB)
thinks we do and they are asking
students to help pay for it. Full
time students at CSUSM • currently pay $20 per semester in
student fees, while part time students pay only $10. On October
9 and 10 students will have the
opportunity to vote on whether
or not they are willing to increase
their student fees to $50 (for
full and part time students). The
increase would take effect in
Fall 2001 to help pay for the
proposed building.
I f the Student Union Fee
According to Andy Schick,
Parking Services, the 60 new
stalls
P a i n t e d i n parking lot " C"
were the direct result of increased
enrollment; contrary to rumor that
it was due to frequent car accidents.
Other parking changes include
thirty minute parking, now located
parking lot "E" in front of
University Commons. Thirty minute parking was removed from parkin l o t
g
" c " t o m a l c e way for additional regular parking.
from
Stack Parking set to end Friday, September 22,
but the number of students parking is not decreasing.
Photo By: David Ruiz
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This
Imhb
Referendum passes, construction on The Clarke Field House/
University Student Union would
begin in 2001 and could be completed as early as Spring 2003.
The planned facility includes a
gymnasium, a weight/exercise
room, men's and women's locker
rooms and a sports medicine
facility. Conference rooms, student government offices and club
meeting rooms are also a part of
the proposed project.
President Alex Gonzalez
addressed A.S.I. at Friday's
board meeting in an attempt to
get ASI's blessing. ASI members
seemed confident that their support would increase the referendum's chances of passing.
"We need desperately a place
for students to congregate," said
President Gonzalez, "what we
have here is a positive opportunity to build a Student Union."
Hesitant to support the referendum at first, A.S.I, quickly
turned the discussion to their
concerns on future rent and
utilities. Robin Milch, A.S.I.
Executive Vice President of
External Affairs, told the president "So far, the information
given to ASI has been inaccurate." Milch wanted assurance
from Gonzalez that A.S.I, would
not end up "...getting burned
with rent." A.S.I. was also concerned that not many students
seemed to know about the referendum. In the end, however,
A.S.I, voted unanimously to support the referendum.
» Continued on Page 2
On Wednesday, September
20 starting 10:30am, California
State University San Marcos is,
once again, hosting its Health
& Wellness Fair. The theme
for this year's fair is "Got
Health?"
This year the fair boasts
over 24 different organizations
promoting fitness and healthy
lifestyles.
The organizations will be
handing out samples, information, and loads of f ree advice.
The fair will take place
in CSUSM's very own Palm
Court. A list of participant
include,
CSUSM
Human
Resources,
Associated
Students, Inc., Student Health
Services, Counseling and
Psychology Services.
Also represented are the
Back and Neck Pain Relief
Center, Escondido Community
Health Center, 24-Hour Fitness,
San Diego's Blood Bank, Red
Cross
Blood
Services,
Arrowhead Mountain Spring
Water, Kaiser Permanente,
North County Health Services,
Delta Dental, and others.
This is the first year that
the Health and Wellness Fair
will be available to students.
For more information about
the Health & Wellness Fair,
contact Yasuko Shirakawa at
(760)750-4425.
C SU B oard of T rustees A pproves
L owering G raduation R equirements
By: Jayne Braman
Pride Staff
This past July the CSU Board
of Trustees approved lowering
the minimum graduation requirement from 124 to 120 units.
In a press release from CSU,
Chancellor Charles Reed states
that "This revision will help students graduate sooner. The new
requirements are consistent with
most universities in the nation
and just make sense."
Based on a normal course
load of 15 units per semester,
the 124-unit requirement leaves
students in a four-year program,
four units short of graduation.
With implementation of the
120-unit requirement, Trustee
Ralph Pesqueira believes that
this policy will make it easier
for students to graduate in fours
years Or possibly even three
years by attending school year
round.
Before celebrating, CSUSM
students need to be aware that
the lowering of units for graduation is a baseline from which all
majors build upon. Many majors
will still require more than the
minimum 120 units required for
graduation.
Every academic program is
reviewed on a five-year cycle.
The review process allows
departments to evaluate the number of units required in keeping
students competitive not only
with the demands of the job
market, but also with students
graduating from other universities in the same field. The fiveyear evaluation process means
that gradual implementation of
the 120-unit requirement will
most likely not affect current
students in the system.
CSUSM President Alexander
Gonzalez stated "that majors
exceeding the 120 unit minimum
require approval before they can
be implemented."
Gonzalez went on to state
that accountability of unit
requirements is based on the
fact that the CSU strives for a
balance between training for the
work force and educating wellrounded citizens.
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The Pride
Local News
Politics In S an M arcos
By: B enjamin Wayne
Pride Staff Writer
Bombarded by the rhetoric
f rom what is being called the
most glamorized presidential race
in U.S. history, many San
Diegans' have l eft their local concerns and alliances by the wayside as they prepare t o choose
who will lead the country.
However, as San Marcos resident and city council h opeful,
Mike Sannella says, the most
important decisions a re the ones
being m ade in your local community.
" I j oined t his race because
I have the desire t o help build
a healthy community," said
Sannella. "My w ife and I are both
four-year residents and alumnus
of Cal State San Marcos. We love
the city and i t's a place where we
would like to raise our kids, but
then there are also some issues
that need to b e addressed."
Sannella, 25, is r unning a
grassroots campaign in an e ffort
t o seize one of two contested
seats in the elections for San
Marcos City Council. He h as
already scoured the city with his
part-time s taff of four, raising
money a nd awareness f or h is
campaign, but as any political
experts will tell you, he still has
a long way to go.
A s November nears and the
council race heats up, Sannella
keeps h is cool character and h is
message simple: San Marcos is
one of San Diego's fastest growing communities and it needs a
city council that will allow it
t o continue to grow responsibly
and correctly. " The city of San
Marcos is a complex community
f ull of its own special needs,"
added Sannella, "and t o address
R eferendum Fee
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A rticle C ontinued f rom Page 1
A n open f orum was held
for students on Wednesday,
September 13 in the f ree speech
area, but attendance w as poor.
T he audience was comprised, mostly, of U SUAB and
A.S.I, delegates. M ike Harrod,
Another student, Surya
Metzler, felt that the building
would help increase student life
on campus. "They a re going to
b e building dorms. What are
those students going t o d o?"
Metzler also felt the exercise
those issues y ou have to have a
complex p lan/Right now there
is no s oft retail in San Marcos
that is not only inconvenient for
the consumer, but is costly for
t he city in t erms of lost t ax
revenue."
The plan that Sannella refers
t o is a set of pro-growth ideals
that he intends to apply in San
Marcos if elected.
O n the top of h is agenda
for San Marcos, Sannella says
he will address the community's
growing t raffic concerns. " I am
going to make it my top priority
t o address t he t raffic issues
w ithin our community," said
Sannella. "Widening the roads
would b e the most obvious
option, however, that can't always
b e done. Other options include
encouraging carpooling, building more bike lanes and encouraging city b us use."
The second area of concern
for Sannella is San M arcos'
stance on business. Realizing
t he t ax base that retail provides,
the candidate says that he will
encourage prosperity by welcoming the addition of planned retail
shops and centers.
Some of t he projects that
Sannella endorses include the
"Heart of the City " plan for
the 1,500 acre area surrounding
Mike Harrod at Open Forum
Photo by Enrique Refugio
and weight rooms would b e an
economical way f or students
to relieve stress* " I pay $35 a
month now at my g ym. This is
only a $30 increase per semester, which, for me, is a huge
decrease."
Susanne Green, Executive
Director of the USUAB, who
also spoke to A.S.I., is hoping
that students will take the initiative t o f ind out more about the
referendum.
The USUAB -has posted a
link on CSUSM's homepage
under
the
Events
and
Announcements section where
students can get detailed information on t he referendum and
the planned building. Mike
Harrod is hoping that a lot
of students will attend t his
Thursday's open f orum, " I want
to give people an opportunity to
speak if they have heard about
it and a chance t o hear if they
h aven't"
for City Council. Courtesy ofwww.sannella2000.com
CSUSM. " The University is
going t o b e a m ajor player in
San Marcos," added Sannella.
" Our university breeds diversity
which is healthy for the community, and its p resence w ill
help shape the f uture of g rowth
in San Marcos."
San M arcos' rapid g rowth
has become a m ajor issue i n the
eyes of some people (including
opponent Cynthia Skovgard w ho
is also r unning f or City Council)
who feel that t he city is faf past
the point of calling the development responsible growth.
If elected, these individuals
that they would limit or halt
growth in San Marcos by the
passage of specific propositions,
including Prop. S, which would
require a special election f or
rezoning projects w ithin San
Marcos. " I am really worried
about those propositions," added
Sannella, " I t hink that when you
s tart limiting g rowth in a city, it
b ecomes t he death of a city. The
city h as t o have t he flexibility
t o react."
I n general, Sannella's stance
on g rowth, business, and f uture
roles f or t he city represent a
conservative t rend that h as swept
both city a nd c ounty elections
i n t he p ast decade. Although
t he r ace is t oo close t o call at
t his point* one t hing is for sure:
San M arcos h as 54,000 people,
23,000 of w hom a re registered
voters. T here a re six candidates,
t wo of w hom a re incumbents
that a re r unning f or t wo seats on
t he 2001 city council. In these
cases, voters statistically cast one
vote f or t he incumbent and one
f or t he n ew candidate, " they are
looking at h ow t o cast their second," said Sannella, "and I hope
t o b e t heir choice.
Despite Fuel and Utility Costs,
North County Still Booming
By Nathan Fields
Pride Staff Writer
chair of t he USUAB, feels that
the b oard's small advertising
budget of $500, has prevented
them f rom getting students the
information they need to make
an i nformed decision, but hoped
that there w$s still time t o get
the word out.
Another open f orum meeting is planned for September 21,
at 11:45am in the f ree speech
area located between Science
and Academic Halls. Harrod
hopes that the sun won't keep
people away f rom the discussion of how they want t heir
f unds to b e s pent."Students are
paying these fees a nd this gives
u s a chance to give them something tangible," says Harrod.
CSUSM student T iffany
Slocomb felt the facility would
b e an important addition to
the school, " I would vote yes
because I really want to see this
school grow." The Clarke Field
House/ Student Union could
make it easier for CSUSM t o
expand the h andful of Title 9
sports t eams on campus.
Mike Sannella
W hile C alifornia residents
f ind themselves facing Governor
Gray Davis' deferred utility
payment solution, f laws in
California's energy deregulation
system were investigated last
week in San Diego during two
federal hearings.
Although no f irm conclusions have emerged f rom the
hearings, other than the realization that residents are indeed
paying too much for electricity
(utility bills doubled and t ripled), there were a number of
f ingers pointed:
at SDG&E
for not seeking the most a ffordable prices for consumers, at the
Public Utilities Commission for
not allowing SDG&E t o sign
cheaper, long-term contract with
suppliers, at suppliers for taking
advantage of a f lawed and f ledging de-regulated energy purchasing system, and at the state's
deregulation law itself, including
the state legislators who-passed
it. Investigations are still in progress.
Meanwhile, the new proposition to r un high-voltage transmission power lines f rom Riverside
county to San Diego county to
compensate for the period of
energy shortage before new generators are completed was p roposed b y SDG&E and the state's
top-power managing agency
(ISO).
The plan would cost h undreds of millions of dollars and
incur other environmental, residential, and aesthetic costs that
have consumer groups, environmental regulators, and area o fficials and residents protesting and
demanding to see proof that t his
is the most effective solution.
The high cost of living continues to beset residents at home,
work, and now on the road.
Recent rising gasoline p rices show no signs o f abating.
Some attention has b een d eflected f rom deregulation t o international gasoline issues including
OPEC production and the recent
f uel crises in Europe.
Local f uel averages are at
$1.85 per gallon, among the
highest in the country. N orth
County Times analysts show t hat
corporate gasoline interests in
California are realizing nearrecord profit margins, with t his
last f iscal quarter as one of the
most profitable in history.
Besides the rising p rice of
crude oil, the increase of r efin-
ery m argins, t he one component
of the p rice equation the oil companies control a nd p rofit from,
almost tripled what they were
less t han a year ago.
T he biggest gasoline providers in N orth County, Chevron,
Exxon-Mobile, Amoco, Shell and
Texaco, £re p rofiting double:
f rom p rice h ikes on crude oil
and increased r efinery margins.
CSUSM
student
Peter
K ramer, w ho alternates between
driving a c ar and motorcycle to
school, c ommented that, "These
big corporations a re t rying to
control oil production from
g round t o tap, p ushing out the
little guys w ho have neither wells
or r efineries and have to buy gas
wholesale at $2.09 per gallon."
Interestingly, w hen Peter was
asked whether riding h is motorcycle b enefited h im in terms
of p arking and gas mileage he
w as indecisive. " The University
m akes m e b uy t wo parking passes, one f or each vehicle, so that
undercuts m y savings."
Despite such increases in the
local c onsumer price index this
year, t he j ob market and population of San Diego County, continues t o grow. Microcosmically,
San M arcos and CSUSM
continue t o build and develop,
a ttract m ore c orporate interests,
increase student fees, admit more
students, a nd stack more cars in
t he p arking lot.
�Cougars Race in Aztec Invitational
By: Steve Compian
Pride Staff Writer
The CSUSM Cougars faced
stiff competition f rom some of
the best major college teams
f rom California at the Aztec
Invitational held at Balboa Park
on Saturday, September 16'.
The Texas A&M Aggies
were also among the sixteen
teams who raced for honors on
what turned out to be an unusually hot morning. However, the
temperature wasn't the only sur- MacDonald agreed, "The temperature w asn't as bad as the
prise in store for the runners.
The generally f lat course hills, they were very deceiving."
described by meet officials as Still, it was another strong show"made of dirt, grass, and con- ing for the women's squad.
The women's team placed 8th
crete with some hills'* left an
out of the 16 competing teams
impression
and Coach
with some of
Steve Scott
the runners.
praised
Heather
them
for
Garritison,
another
the highest
good perplacing r unformance,
ner for the
"they did
Cougars
well
and
women's
they
team
said,
improved
"Those hills
again."
came out of
G arritson,
nowhere. If I
the junior
had realized
transfer
they were like
f rom Cal
that, I might
Track Team In Action.
State Fullerton
have r un difPhotos by Steve Compian
led the way, f inferently." Renee
Athletes Get
ready at theStaring Line, at
last weeks Aztec
Invitational held
at Balboa Park
Photo by Steve
Compian
ishing in 29th place of 108 runners. Cara Rumble, who placed
30th, was one second behind
Garritson, and was followed by
MacDonald who was in the 38th
spot.
While the women's team
trailed a bit, they also finished
ahead of some good schools
including USC, UCSD, Long
Beach State, and Cal State
Fullerton.
The men's team, winners
of last year's Aztec Invitational
in the "Open Division," found
that
running
in
the
"Invitational Division" was a
much tougher task.
By the time the men began
the last race of the morning,
the heat had. definitely become
a factor in their performance.
Scott cautioned his runners to
abbreviate their normal warmup routine and to stay in the
shade until race time.
Brian Sullivan led the young
squad in a race that ended with
James Adams nearly collapsing
f rom heat exhaustion.
There were wet spots along
the course, and by the time the
men ran the fourth race, the
footing became unstable in some
areas along the course. This made
for generally slow times for all
the competitors.
Sullivan came in 18th place
with a time of 26 minutes and
50.5 seconds, followed by Adams
in 44th place and Marcus
Chandler in 68th place out of
150 runners. The men finished
in 10th place out of the 15 team
field.
According to Assistant
Coach Joe Keating, running
against the big schools is necessary. "They have to compete
against the stronger teams to get
better," said Keating.
Coach Steve Scott and Brian Sullivan
Photo by Steve Compian
�4 Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Fall 2000
Men's Golf Schedule
Sep 23-26 (Sat-Tues)
University of Mary
Hardin Baylor
Belton, TX
Oct 15-17 (Sun-Tues)
CSU Bakersfield
Bakersfield, CA
Oct 29-31 (Sun-Tues)
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA
Women's Golf Schedule Men and Women's
Cross Country
Sep 23-26(Sat-Tues)
Schedule
University of Mary Hardin
Baylor
Belton, TX
Oct 15-17 (Sun-Tues)
Boise State University
Boise, ID
Oct 29-31 (Sun-Tues)
CSU Northridge
Northridge, CA
Nov 5-7 (Sun-Tues)
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
Sep 9 (Sat)
Irvine Invitational
Central Park
9:00am
5K/8K
Huntington Beach, CA
Sepl6 (Sat)
Aztec Invitational
Balboa Park
9:00am
5K/8K
San Diego, CA
Sep 30 (Sat)
Stanford Invitational
Stanford
,3:45pm
Palo Alto, CA
CSUSMGolf Team
Picture Courtesy of
www. csusm. edu/athletics
C ross-Country Team
Working Together
By: Steve Compian
Pride Staff Writer
Running is an individual
sport, right? Don't try telling
that to the CSUSM cross-country team. Visit the track around
3:30 and you'll find no individuals out there, rather everything
(push-ups, sit-ups, and stretching exercises) is done as a team.
An observer will notice that
these athletes are having f un,
even finding laughter while exerk rising in 90- degree heat. These
runners are serious about their
warm-ups, but they can also
enjoy themselves.
Watch the team just before
the start of a race and you'll
see them run to the starting
line together. After the race is
over, the words "cool down, cool
down," can be heard, a reminder
that these runners must gradually return their bodies to normal operating temperature. A
group of racers will also jog
off to facilitate the cool down,
but always together. This is all
part of Head Coach Steve Scott's
model for success.
In talking with Coach Scott,
the moral of The Tortoise and
The Hare comes to -mind—it's
steady progress that will win
the race. Scott's philosophy is
to have his runners strong and
running their best races at the
national level in November.
"We don't want them to peak
too early," Scott said. It is a
philosophy that paid off handsomely in 1999, the team's first
year of competition. It's also the
reason that athletes are transferring to CSUSM.
Two of CSUSM's transfer
students exemplify the highs and
lows of choosing which college
to attend,
Senior James Adams attended high school at the foot of the
Julian Mountains in Ramona.
The Pride
Sports
He transferred to CSUSM from
California Baptist University so
that he could learn from Scott.
"My high school coach and Scott
have been friends for a while,"
said Adams, when asked how he
learned of Coach Scott. Adams
arrived with solid credentials,
but felt that Coach Scott (who
holds the American record in the
mile run) would give him the
best shot at helping him break
the four-minute barrier in the
mile run.
Along with the "mountain
man," came a CSUSM junior,
Cara Rumble, who attended
Orange Glen High School in
Escondido. Rumble is another
accomplished runner who felt
that being coached by Steve Scott
was too tempting to pass up.
She left Concordia University
in Irvine to attend CSUSM.
This Valley Center native, who
first met her coach at a camp,
placed high in the cross-country
Oct 14 (Sat)
Fresno Invitational
Woodward Park
3:45pm
5K/8K
Fresno, CA
Oct 21 (Sat)
Vanguard Invitational
Fairview Park
9:00am
5K/8K
Costa Mesa, CA
Nov 3 (Fri)
NAIA Regionals
Morley Field
TBA
5K/8K
San Diego, CA
Nov 16-19 (Thurs-Sun)
NAIA Nationals
nationals last year. According to
Rumble, "I liked the way that he
trained and I enjoyed the way he
presented it."
Both Adams and Rumble
took different routes that eventually brought them to the same
team. They enjoy being at
CSUSM, but their initial attraction was to join a program
coached by Scott. Adams and
Rumble also joined the CSUSM
cross-country team to have f un,
run strong, and win—together.
Cougars at the Irvine
Invitational
The team's first outing came
when they participated in the
Irvine Invitational on September
9. This was the chance to see
the Cougars race against quality
competition, including several
of the top-ranked major college
teams in the nation. How well
did Coach Scott think his team
performed?
Scott used the word "disappointed" when reviewing the
men's team performance in the
8K race. The Irvine Invitational
coincides with the start of school,
so most of his runners' prepa-
Men's Soccer Schedule
September
17
University of
California, Santa
Barbara*
3:30pm
24
California State
University Long
Beach*
11:00am
.
30
Pepperdine University*
TBA
October
11
University of
California, Riverside*
7:00pm
rations had to occur on their
own, during the summer. There
were some good individual performances that made Scott smile
though.
Senior transfer student James
Adams covered the 5.3 mile
course in 26 minutes and 46.5
seconds, good enough for 19th
place in a field of 91runners. Next
was Brian Sullivan in 34th place,
followed by Marcus Chandler
in the 44th position. CSUSM
finished sixth out of the nine
teams in the men's category.
The lady Cougars looked
very strong in running the 5K
distance. Led by junior transfer
student Cara Rumble's 23rd place
finish (19 minutes, 37.5 seconds)
and closely followed by Heather
Garritson's 27th place (19 minutes, 46.9 seconds), they were
able to finish in 7th place overall
out of eleven teams.
In the women's 3.1 mile race,
four of the top five spots were
won by nationally-ranked NCAA
teams. Other women placing for
CSUSM were Renee MacDonald
in 42nd place, Felisha Mariscal
63rd, Camille Wilborn 75th ,
and Mariel Holcomb in the 84th
position.
CSUSM Golf "Tees Up" for New Season
By: Steve Compian
Pride Staff Writer
The Cal State San Marcos
Golf team is ready to tee up
for the new season. Coach Fred
Hanover and his team travel to
Belton, Texas this week to compete in the University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor Tournament. The
five man, five woman team is
looking to continue the winning
ways established by last year's
team.
In only its second season
of competition, CSUSM's men's
golf team finished in 11th place
and the women finished 8th
among all NAIA (National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics) schools.
While winning on the college level is new to his team, it is
not a new experience for Coach
Hanover.
Hanover twice led Cal State
San Bernardino to third place
finishes in the NCAA Division
II Tournament. His formula for
success involves recruiting players who know more than just
how to swing a club.
Hanover expects his athletes
to be competitive academically
as well as physically, thus allowing him to focus on coaching
them and not worrying about
whether they will be eligible to
play. Hanover also looks for a
competitive spirit in all of his
players.
Three of the new recruits for
the team include Tony Sellers, a
transfer from Pima Community
College, and freshmen Nick
Mitchell from De La Salle High
School in Fairfield, and Jack
Spreng from St. Maria Goretti
High School in Maryland.
Hanover fans their competitive fires by making them try
out for the team, and that's just
the beginning. Since only five
players per team (women and
men) can travel to tournaments,
his linksters have to battle each
other for the right to represent
CSUSM; that competition is
extremely close this year. "It's
coming right down to the wire,"
said Hanover.
How does this year's tearh
look? Hanover believes that they
will be solid again. "It'll take
a little time to develop, but by
the end of the season, we should
be right up there,"said Hanover.
Evaluating individuals is a more
difficult matter right now, "At
this point I wouldn't be able to 29-31, and then to Santa Clara
say, but I'll know after the first University from November 5-7.
tourney," added the coach.
This first tournament for
the year at the University of
Mary Hardin-Baylor, will offer
Hanover the perfect opportunity
to see how his team reacts to
prime competition. The Texas
hosts are expecting to have another fine season.
Last year Mary HardinBaylor's women's team won the
NAIA national championship,
and their men's team has
improved greatly. The tourney
also attracts several of the state's
best small college teams.
The rest of the schedule
finds our Cougars in competition at the CSU Bakersfield from
October 15-17, the San Diego CSUSMGolf Coach Fred Hanover
State Tourney from October
Photo By: Melanie Addington
�Arts & Entertainment
The Trojan
C o m e to
By Kathleen Hash
Pride Staff Writer
Never before have I left a
play feeling so uncertain about
the production.
Marianne McDonald's modern adaptation of The Trojan
Women opened on Sunday,
September 3, at The Old Globe
Theater in front of a f ull house.
Euripides, a Greek dramatist, wrote the original play by
the same name. Euripides' play
tells the story of the fall of
Ancient Troy to the Greeks in
416 BC. However, McDonald's
modern adaptation, directed by
Seret Scott, takes a look at war
from a different perspective.
Talk of smart bombs and
SCUD missiles are some of
the clues as to the direction of
changes from the original text.
et he Best
Women GEWTOH USED
N
L ife a t T he O ld G lobe
The psychological effects of
the play are fascinating as the
waning of helicopters never
stops while soldiers
dressed
completely in
camouflage
march across the
stage.
The women
in the war camp
wear garments
of thick layers
of cloth with
robes, to small
tops and long
skirts.
The
costumes play
an
enormous
role in delivering the play's
Mm
message. Vietnam
was never far from
my mind with two
of the female characters dressed as
Vietnamese prostitutes.
The female
characters display
nudity that I did
not find offensive,
but I would not
call it artistically
subtle
either.
Helen of Troy
makes an appearance as a confident nymph whose
sexual excursions
are indicated as
the cause of the
gveSyssi 4 Mwpii
&
war. In high heels
and g-strings, the
female characters
T imeless S ounds
a t t he 2 000 J ulian
B luegrass F estival
By: Christopher F. Orman
Pride Staff Writer
On Saturday, September 16,
approximately 2000 people
crowded into a small, oak-filled
natural amphitheater to attend
the first day of the two-day
Julian Bluegrass Festival. With
performances by four remarkably talented bluegrass bands
and the combination of warm,
sunny weather in the mountains,
the festival forced a grin upon
every attendee's face, merely
proving Steve Martin's infamous
comment, "Hell, it becomes pretty difficult to feel teary-eyed
listening t o banjo music."
The first day of the festival
began with an assortment of
competitions from beginning
banjo to professional fiddle.
Probably the highlight of the
competition occurred when an
eight-year-old girl performed the
ubiquitous Turkey in the Straw.
Most of the spectators were
in awe of the youngster's performance, not because of her
age and relaxed presence, but
because she revealed the spirit
of the festival: the timelessness
of bluegrass music.
The genre has an unknown
element that becomes addictive,
and forces the performer or listener to consistently examine
the ageless art form. After the
competitions concluded several
bands performed, including
Highway 52, Silverado, and Lost
Highway.
Conspicuously talented, none
of the acts created the fervor
or enjoyment spawned by the
Laurel Canyon Ramblers This
particular band—Herb Pederson
on banjo, Michael Witcher on
dobro, Kenny Blackwell on mandolin, Bill Bryson on bass, and
Roger Reed on guitar—mixed
the spirit of rock and roll into
bluegrass.
Flying through various standards and numerous originals,
Laurel Canyon Ramblers eventually played gospel, rock, reggae and straightforward bluegrass songs; making the band
enormously different from most
of the acts performing at the
festival, whom never stray away
from certain established boundaries of traditional bluegrass.
Eloquently mixing talented musicianship with stellar three-part
harmonies, the Laurel Canyon
Ramblers literally stole the show
at the first day of the Julian
Bluegrass Festival.
Interestingly, maybe because
the Laurel Canyon Ramblers
were the major act for the bluegrass festival's first day, many
in the crowd left the amphitheater after their performance and
meandered through the parking
lot, where stunning players gathered in circles to jam.
No pedestrian with an instru-
ment case becomes safe wandering through the crowd of players: even yours truly became
involved in a humorous version
of Bill Monroe's Working On a
Building, complete with vocals
and jaw-dropping banjo playing
by two teenagers.
After watching several
groups perform, one can become
mesmerized by the technical
ability exhibited by so many
people. Whether banjo, fiddle,
bass, guitar, or mandolins, a
plethora of great, obscure performers displayed their skills.
Upon leaving at six o'clock in
the evening,T realized the depth
that music is capable of. Most of
the music featured on assorted
radio-stations only equals one
percent of the total music created in our world. Interestingly,
bluegrass may be one of many
forms that will never die and
will continue to gather listeners
searching for a simple form of
music, which, like the wind, carries the thoughts and feelings of
lost years.
Bluegrass music has a long
history, beginning with the music
of Scotland and Ireland circa
1600. As the genre evolved, bluegrass added elements of jazz,
blues, and hillbilly mountain
music. While the common vision
by society concerning bluegrass
originated from the banjo-playing boy in "Deliverance," the
music has more sophistication
and certainly a higher technical
fortitude than most musical
genres.
At one moment a bluegrass
group may sing a gospel number
like I Hear a Voice Calling and
then immediately launch into a
breakneck version of the popular fiddle tune Red Haired Boy;
playing as fast as many punk
bands. Such a variety of material and speed within the idiom
makes bluegrass enjoyable for
those who love music.
r-
express two very different types
of nakedness.
The
entire
production
seemed to flow nicely, but each
of the characters had a moment
when his or her performance
was unbelievable. I. left the
theater anxious to get to the
ladies room to hear other people
talk about what they had seen,
yet nobody talked about it. It
may have been mediocre direction or an awkward script, but
there was something that really
held the play back from being
great. Yet, I cannot say that I
did not enjoy the performance.
If your curiosity is getting
the better of you, The Trojan
Women will run until October
14 at The Old Globe Theater in
Balboa Park. For ticket information, please call (619) 239-2255.
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Candide:
B ernstein's C omic O pera
By: Nathan Fields
Pride Staff Writer
I have never seen opera
so socially critical while retaining genuinely contagious humor.
Candid in its shocking comedy
and flaunting offenses against
everyone who matters, Leonard
Bernstein's operatic adaptation
of Voltaire's satiric and philosophically profound novel,
Candide, inspires ironic and disturbing Pulp-Fiction-tyye laughter.
A pleasing combination of
Scenefrom Candide
flawless orchestration, talented
actors and singers, and lively
stage production, this comic
opera, playing
the Casa Del
Prado Theater in Balboa Park,
offers Bernstein's successful
opera in the 100th anniversary
year of its composer's life.
Unlike most romantically
nauseating operas, this sardonic
tale of a young man's mid-eighteenth-century journey through
Germany, Spain, Turkey, France,
colonial South America, and
Italy,
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�6 Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Candide
» Continued from Page 5
chronicles his process of
experientially unlearning the
pretentious and naive bourgeois philosophies of popular
enlightenment thinkers.
Scenes of warfare, slavery,
religious hypocrisy, murder,
violent rape, sexually transmitted diseases, large-scale misogyny and racism may make some
, viewers consider the deeper
philosophical implications of
Voltaire's poker-faced comedy
as social analysis.
On the surface a witty,
bantering tale of misadventure, Candide reveals itself to
actually be a . savage, satiric
thrust at the philosophy of
"Optimism" (the play's alternate title); which proclaims that
nationwide disasters and individual sufferings are both just
part of a cosmic plan that is
essentially good.
Voltaire was not easily prepared to excuse the world's
vices quite so easily, nor would
he encourage people to accept
evil as fate without trying to
prevent it or fight it.
Candide also represents
curiously accurate, yet damaging caricatures of the
European intelligencia, the
Catholic Church, Judaism,
Women, Men, Europeans, royalty, and everyone else.
Although published in 1759,
the contemporary applications
of Candide seem very close at
hand. In a time where there
seems to be an abundance of
pseudo:philosophical explanations for manmade injustice
and intellectual copout acquiescence disguised as wisdom,
Candide seems to shout,
"Action is necessary! All is
not well, but all things can be
bettered!" and then laugh at its
own candidness.
If you like opera, see
Candide. If you don't like
opera, see Candide. This comic
opera ends next weekend.
Remaining performances
are Friday, September 22 at
8pm, Saturday, September 23
at 2pm, and Sunday, September
23 at 2pm.
Candide is performed at
the Casa Del Prado Theater in
Balboa Park.
For ticket information call
(619)239-8836.
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The tenderness of the romantic scenes contrasted against the
roughhouse play between brothers provides for great insight into
the dynamics of family and dating relationships. More importantly, there are no car chases,
no explosions, and the women
are fully clothed or wearing at
least a bra in every scene. Derick
Martini stated, "I didn't need
to show breasts [in their film,
because it is] not that kind of
film."
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By: Melanie Addington
Pride Editor
The Film
:
How could an independent
film possibly compete with
Hollywood blockbusters? "After
this, anything is possible," states
Kevin Jordan, director of Smiling
Fish and Goat on Fire. This
movie, being one of the greatest
romantic comedies released this
year, made with a budget of only
$40,000.
The film stars real-life brothers, Derick Martini (Chris), and
Steven Martini (Tony), as brothers helping each other on their
way to finding true love.
When they were born, their
half Native-American grandmother nicknamed free-spirited
Tony as Smiling Fish and serious
Chris as Goat on Fire. After their
parents die on the 405 freeway,
Chris raises Tony in their impoverished house in Los Angeles.
Tony is a fun-loving actor
who enjoys many women that
come his way, especially his
pseudo-girlfriend, who runs
screaming out of the house after
finding a ribbed condom that
she did not buy him. Later he
meets a single mom (played by
Christa Miller from The Drew
Carey Show), who fate seems to
destine as his true love.
Chris, Tony's brother, works
as an accountant and is trying
to salvage a dead-end relationship with his high school sweetheart Alison (played by Amy
Hathaway).
Interwoven into the comedy
is a beautiful story about Clive
Henderson, that is based on a
real movie sound man that director Kevin Jordan met. Clive
(brilliantly performed by Bill
Henderson) is a ninety-year-old
At the pre-screening of
Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire in
Hillcrest Thursday night, director
Kevin Jordan, and stars Derick
and Steven Martini, and Bill
Henderson discussed the f ilm
with the audience. Derick stated, "the purpose is to meet
the audience because it is hard
to compete with Hollywood,"
and Jordan jumped in, stating,
"we are doing this grassroots
style!" Bill Henderson informed
the audience that in the begin-
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romantic who tells Chris amazing stories about his deceased
wife and the motion pictures
they worked on in their youth.
Eventually, Clive helps Chris
along the path to finding true
love when he meets a gorgeous
Sicilian woman (Anna), at a
Christmas party.
Overall, this is one of the
best independent films I have
seen to date. Although several
scenes between the brothers have
lulls in the conversation, it works
for the film by giving the audience a sense of reality in their
relationship.
ning of movie theatres, they
called this barnstorming."
After winning the Toronto
Film Festival Award and Best
Film at the Milan Film festival,
the trio (Jordan and Martini
Brothers) signed a deal for two
more films with much larger
budgets. The key to making this
film work with a small budget
was trying to get as much as
possible for free, and "get a lot
of favors," according to Derick
Martini.
The three grew up together
in New York, and "we really
get each other," states Steven
Martini. This made a world of
difference on the set because
there were no creative differences and the dynamics of the
set remained very professional
but everyone had a real sense
of trust. Henderson piped in by
stating that it also helped to
have "this director [that] loves
actors.''
When asked how much
money they will make on this
film, Jordan jokingly said, "at
least fourteen dollars."
One member of the audience
asked the filmmakers, "What
motivated them to write this
script?" Derick stated, it is a
story they wanted to tell and
wanted to have as a reflection of
true life; they even went so far as
to say that Steven was really hit
in the head with a toaster (just
as depicted in the film).
Another audience member
asked, "Since these characters'
experiences are similar to your
true-life experiences, how many
scenes are ad-libbed or did you
follow the script?" The Martini
brothers chuckled, and Derick
replied, "a lot of it was
improvisational, but they
knew what we had to get
out of each scene."
One woman came up
to Derick after the discussion, and with a concerned look, asked if
their parents were still
living. Martini immediately responded, "Oh
yes, they are quite alive...
divorced...but still good friends.
We had to take a lot of flack
for killing them off in the film
though."
Smiling Fish and Goat on
Fire opened in theatres on
September 15, and is playing
exclusively
in
Hillcrest
Landmark Theatres. This movie
marks Kevin Jordan's directorial
debut; he is also a co-writer with
life-long friends, the Martini
brothers. The f ilm is 90 minutes
long and is rated R.
Weekly Web Site:
The Ideal Movie Web Site
By: Jafo_wac
The opening page of http:/
/ www.smilingfishmovie.com/
contains a sound clip that explains
the names of the characters for
the film Smiling Fish and Goat
On Fire, and the designers of
this web page actually succeed in
keeping a high sound quality for
the site. The page loaded quickly
at 56k modem speed, which is
the best way to start a web page.
As a movie page, the content
is predictable, but the pictures are
good. The web site also includes
favorite movie quotes, a synopsis
of the film, a trailer, clips and
stills, and information on the
main actors, all of which are presented in a refreshingly simple
and quick loading format.
There is also a link entitled
"What is a Corduroy Penis?" (a
song from the filmy. The link,
"What is a Corduroy Penis?"
contains the lyrics and a clip j
of the song, which has interest- !
ing twangs in both sound and
Bill Henderson (Clive) is the voice of
lyrics.
the web page. All Smiling Fish Photos
The best feature of the web- Courtesy of the Smiling Fish web site.
site is what is left out: a flashy
introduction and huge graphics.
The lack of excessive banners, http://www.smilingfishmovie.com/.
ads and cooperative tie-ins is
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also a plus.
Simple, effective, stylish and com with comments or suggestions for the next website
fast, web designers should pay
review.
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�C ameron C rowe is Almost Famous
By: Jennifer Miller
Pride Staff Writer
Filmed partly in the gas-lamp
district of San Diego, Almost
Famous is a fantastic, brilliantly
mastered f ilm written and directed by Cameron Crowe. Almost
Famous is Crowe's f irst movie
since his blockbuster hit Jerry
Maguire, and it proves t o be a
captivating, intelligently written
script f ull of laughs and tears.
This semi-autobiographical
f ilm was written during a pivotal
time in the history of rock and
roll. Crowe sets his story in 1973,
in San Diego, and chronicles the
f unny and often poignant coming of age of 15-year-old William
Miller, whose intelligence and
genuine enthusiasm lands him
the gig of a lifetime.
Like his young protagonist,
Crowe also got his start in journalism when he landed his first
j ob at the age of 15 as a journalist
for Rolling Stone Magazine.
One of Crowe's most i nfluential friends and mentors was
the legendary rock critic Lester
Bang, whose character offers
advice and friendly words of
experience to the main character
William.
While still in his teens,
Crowe, an avid music f an, profiled many of the era's most
Scene from Almost Famous
influential artists and toured
with bands across the U.S. "I
didn't want it to be like some
of those semi-autobiographical
stories that glorify the writer
because the truth is* I never felt
like the center of any room I
was in at the time. I was an
observer. That's what the character of William Miller is—he's
an observer."
William is befriended by his
idol, Lester Bangs (played by
Philip Seymour Hoffman from
Boogie Nights) and l ands his
first assignment, an interview
with Black Sabbath.
At the concert, he also
befriends the up-and-coming
fictional band, Stillwater^ led
by the charismatic lead guitarist, Russell Hammond (Billy
Crudup), and lead singer Jeff
Bebe (Jason Lee). William also
meets a group who call themselves the "Band Aids," led by the
beautiful and bewitching Penny
Lane (Kate Hudson). When
Rolling Stone offers William a
huge opportunity to write a cover
story of Stillwater, he joins the
tour, appropriately titled "Almost
Sunny Day Real
Estate Releases The
Rising
By: Adam Bailey
Pride Staff Writer
Sunny Day Real Estate falls off
pace with their fourth and latest
album, The Rising Tide. Having
recently switched labels f rom Sub
Pop Records to Time Bomb
Recordings, this Seattle-based band
offers u p a more complex, melodically arranged CD to date.
From the very moment fans bring
this CD home, open it up, and read
the liner notes, they will notice the
difference right away. They will
notice a much more complex set of
word arrangements and a greater
emphasis being placed upon the
words of each song as the catalyst
for this album's music. A change that
is noble, but ultimately falls short of
the intended result when listening to
the finished musical product.
Photo by Neal Preston
Tide
The f irst two songs on this CD,
Killed by an Angel and One are not
much different f rom Sunny Day's
previous endeavors under Sub Pop's
production. Fairly stripped down
by today's standards, these two
songs,' emotionally-charged aggression compels listeners to listen to the
rest of the album.
However, a fter listening to the
first two songs on the album, the
mode takes an almost 180-degree
turn. The album f rom the third
selection on is much more complex,
revealing a much more heavily produced and textured sound. A sound
that works some of the time, like
the singles Rain Song or Faces in
Disguise. Both songs invoke some
passion with soulful melodies and
the bowstrings' melancholy sound.
However, the sound really grows old
and tiresome a fter so many monotoous selections.
Overall
this
Ibum is decent,
{but ultimately falls
short in comparison to their
(first album Diary,
[which delivered to
;he music industry
much itiore
irogressively orignal,
emotional,
nd exciting selecion of material.
RETIREMENT
Famous," and begins his journey.
Frances McDormand plays
Elaine, William's mother, and
she adds family hostility. Her
relentless advice and presence
scares everyone she comes in
contact with. "Don't do d rugs!"
Elaine says redundantly.
Soon William becomes part
of the inner circle of the band he
idolizes, disregarding the caution
from his mother and Lester Bangs
who warn him not to befriend the
bands. William comes of age as
he observes the chaos and on-the-
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friendships that William makes
are genuine^ and heartfelt as he
also falls hard for Penny Lane,
the passionate and adoring fan.
William is soon f aced with
the task of honest and unmerciful journalism as he writes the
cover story for Rolling Stone.
Confused and anxious, William
sets out to tell the truth about the
band and its members who are
now his friends.
I laughed throughout the
entire movie and felt an instant
connection with the characters.
Everyone will be entertained and
mesmerized with this film and
its characters.
The movie's soundtrack
includes compositions by Peter
Frampton and Nancy Wilson
(a member of the band Heart
and who is also Crowe's wife).
Interlaced with blasts of Led
Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and
other classic rock bands, the
music is brilliant.
Almost Famous is now playing at theaters, and I recommend this f ilm to everyone. The
movie is rated R because of brief
nudity, drug scenes, and language. Almost Famous is a mustsee movie that will turn into
a rock-n-roll classic and is one
movie I can't wait to buy on
DVD.
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�8 Tuesday, September 19,2000
—
— — Opinion -
What if no one voted?
By Steve Compian
Pride Staff Writer
What happened if there was
an election and no one voted?
With the general election scheduled for November, I decided to
ponder the question. Knowing
the history of voter participation in this country, when barely
sixty per cent of all eligible voters who actually cast a ballot
constitute a high water mark,
I wanted to ask, "What would
happen if no one voted?"
I understand that this is a
purely hypothetical question, but
if we can struggle to understand
why one person gets booted off
of Survivor Island or why the
San Diego Chargers can't outscore the San Diego Padres then
it may be a question worth pondering.
Here's a scenario: The general election to decide the next
President of the United States
has just occurred and no one
voted. The power of voter enthusiasm has waned into blackout
proportions. We saw the names
of all the candidates and decided that they sucked, so we just
bailed out of the voting process
all together. What would occur?
Letter to the
Editors
I want to take this opportunity
to thank the Pride, in particular Nicole Moreno for the front
page article of the Pride titled,
"What about the Women?
This is truly a success story.
This week the list went from
having 6 to 19 women! I am
excited to have such a good
response!
The women will be attending
a team meeting sometime next
week. They will each receive
phone calls to coordinate the
meeting.
Regarding men Soccer we
have 32 male students signed
up and a large number of them
showed up to practice, today,
Friday Sept. 8th at 11:00 am.
Sincerely,
Susana Gonzalez
Assistant Executive Director
Associated Students, Inc.
California State University
San Marcos
(760) 750-4990
Fax (760) 750-3149
More specifically, what
mechanism for the continuation
of democracy would kick in?
Would the old President simply
remain in office as the undefeated champion or do the polls
remain open until someone votes,
as in sudden death overtime in a
sporting event? Our constitution
must address this somehow. I
didn't really know the answer,
so I decided to engage the help
of my fellow students.
should a person who wasn't popular enough to swing one popular vote be President?)
Most of them began with
the predictable, "It would never
happen." The question is not if
it will happen, but rather what
are the ramifications of such an
event occurring? It would also
be fair to clarify that this is not a
scientific poll. It falls more into
the "Daddy what i f..." category.
Wendy (Sociology Major): "I
don't know, maybe they'd have
to vote again."
Here are the responses of
students I spoke to at the Dome:
George (Business Major):
"Wouldn't Clinton just stay
President? (No, he's at the end
of two terms).
Ryan (Mathematics Major):
"Gore would automatically
become President, because he's
the current Vice President."
(Hmmm. Interesting thought, but
Diana (Part-time Student):
"That's why we have an Electoral
College." (O k. we have an
Electoral College and then
what?) No response.
Patricia (Education Major):
"Maybe they'd have to do it
[election] over?"
Rachel (Women's Studies):
"No idea."
It's probably not unusual that
so many of us don't have a
clue as to what would happen,
because the chances of such an
event ever occurring is so remote
that it is regarded as pure fiction.
Could it be, however, that we
have never given the topic much
thought because there is always
the security of believing that
someone else will vote? And
what if that mysterious someone doesn't do what we had
assumed? Then, where would
that leave us?
The Pride
New Budget Gets
Academic Year Off to
Good Start
By Dr. Charles B. Reed
Chancellor, California State
University
I want to take this opportunity
to welcome all of you to a new
academic year at the California
State University, especially those
students who have enrolled at a
CSU campus for the first time this
fall. We are very proud to have
all of you as members of the CSU
family.
I know that in a place as large
as the 23-campus CSU system,
it can be difficult to find up-todate information about our system.
That's why I hope that occasional
columns like these can provide you
with some of this important information.
I'm proud to report that our
year is off to a good start already,
thanks to a landmark budget signed
by Gov. Davis over the summer.
This is one of the best budgets
the CSU has ever seen. Our total
general fund budget, for 2000/01 is
approximately $2.5 billion; and the
general fund increase totals $333.7
million, our largest increase ever.
The governor and the legislature
have also passed new legislation
to increase financial aid for many
more students in California next
year.
What does this mean for the
CSU? It means that our top two
priorities — access for students and
compensation for employees — will
be funded as follows:
Access — The budget includes a
$73.1 million general fund increase
to accommodate the 12,577 additional full-time equivalent students
expected to enroll during this academic year. Our system is expected
to continue to grow at this incredible pace, taking on a total of about
130,000 new students by 2010.
Compensation — The budget
includes $113.2 million for a six
percent compensation pool for all
CSU employees. This continues to
help close the faculty salary gap.
In addition, the budget includes
funds for year-round operations,
community service learning, CSU
Channel Islands, CSU Stanislaus
Stockton Center, the Coachella
Valley Center of CSU San
Bernardino, and technology training for teachers. It also supports
the California Workforce Initiative,
which funds high-cost programs in
such fields as nursing, agriculture,
engineering, computer science, and
the biological sciences.
This budget will allow us to
continue to uphold our priorities of
serving students, assisting the public schools, improving and expanding teacher preparation, eliminating the need for remedial education, and making the most of new
advances in technology. It will also
allow us to add a new focus on preparing students for the workforce
of California.
If you would like to learn more
about our budget, you can read
about it on our web site at http://
www.calstate.edu/tier3/PubAffairs/
news/budget2000.html. Or for more
general information about the system, you can go directly to our
home page, www.calstate.edu.
I wish you best of luck in
your studies, and I look forward to
visiting each of your campuses in
the coming academic year.
C liches - Paradoxes
of C onventional W isdom
By: Bryan Clark
Pride Staff Writer
I'm tired of them. I'm tired
of hearing them all the time.
People too often use them without knowing what they mean.
I'm talking about cliches.
Far too often people cling
to the "conventional wisdom" of
cliches. But most people don't
realize that cliches, while meant
to be uplifting and truthful, constantly contradict themselves.
I have a quick list of cliches
that really capture the need for
truth and inspiration, yet when
presented with others, unfortunately cancel out the message.
Enjoy:
"Always make a good first
impression" versus "Never judge
a book by its cover".
"Life is hard" versus "It's as
easy as 1-2-3".
"Never give up" versus "If you
can't beat them, join them".
now or never".
"We always hurt the ones we
love".
"Expect great things" versus "Better safe than sorry" versus
"Don't count your chickens until "Risking life and limb".
they've hatched".
"Better late than never" versus
"Don't give up your day job" "Time is of the essence".
versus "Follow your dreams".
"Two wrongs don't make a right"
"The best things in life are f ree" versus "Who's to say what is
versus "Nothing is free in life". right or wrong?"
"Life is short" versus "Live long "Love hurts" versus "No pain,
and prosper".
no gain."
"Life will get better as you go "Free love" versus "It's a labor
-on" versus "When it rains, it of love".
pours".
"There is safety in numbers"
"There is no time like the pres- versus "Your better off alone".
ent" versus "Time will tell".
"Its hope against hope" versus
"Take it one step at a time" "When worse comes to worse".
versus "It's all or nothing",
"Never look a gift horse in the
"All good things come to those mouth" versus "Look before you
who wait" versus "Don't hesitate leap".
or all is lost".
"Being in love means never hav"Bide your time" versus "It's ing to say you're sorry" versus
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"Crime doesn't pay" versus "Illgotten gains".
So the next time someone
tries to give you some "conventional wisdom", don't take it.
Do the opposite and see what
happens.
Look the g ift horse in the
mouth; see if it has cavities. If
someone tells you, "Don't worry
be h appy" immediately scream
at them and freak the hell out!
Crime doesn't pay? There are
more criminals t han days of the
year!
If they tell you everything is
going to be all right, go home,
pack your things, and move far,
FAR away because it won't be
all right for a very, very long
time.
I guess I could be overreacting to all these conflicting and
I should take it with a grain
of salt, but maybe I should just
stand up and face the facts.
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�S tudents S peak Out on
t he S tudent Union Fee
Referendum
Vote Yes
I don't really
understand why we
even need to vote
on this one. I guess
it's just a CYA thing
(That's "Cover Your
A ssef's for those
who don't know) . In
By: Steve Kerrin
anyone complains,
we have to be able
to say, "The students voted on it, it wasn't done
without their approval." I really don't think
anyone should complain.
Consider how cheap it is to go to school here
compared to anywhere else locally. Hiition is less
than $900/semester. Books cost about the same
as anywhere else. We don't have to burn a tank
of gas every day driving through freeways as
congested as 15, 8, and 5. We all have a free
exercise program too, just park in the lower lots
off Barham and walk up the stairs every day.
When you put all that together, along with
the convenience factor of having a university in
North County where most CSUSM students live,
you see we have a great deal going here. Even
if we do have to pay another $30/semester in
Student Union fees, it still beats the crap out
on t he S tudent
Union Fee
R eferendum
Vote No
Actually,
Stephen most of
what you said was
true— the truth as
we have all been
led to absorb it.
But in college
By: Steve Compian
we're supposed to
look beyond the
regurgitated, spoon-fed party line, and ask the
hard questions in order to unveil t he truth.
The issue here isn't about buying new jock
straps for the team or painting a mural on the side
of a building. It's about spending money.
When you're old enough and have dolled-out
enough taxes to pay for every imaginable outhouse ever built, maybe you'll be in a better
position to understand what it is I have to say.
We really need to think about what it is we're
going to do.
I'm not against building or growth, but before
people go to the polls, we need to clarify a few
things. First, the increase in student fees is not
easily reversible. As soon as the university gets
the yea vote, those bulldozers that we've been seeing around campus are going to dig some holes.
Also, the fee increase will not decrease after the
structure is paid for; it will remain FOREVER,
except when it is scheduled to increase again. If it
doesn't pass, we can always try again later.
Second, why are they calling this the
on t he S tudent
Union Fee
R eferendum
The Pride
Co-Editor
Co-Editor
Graduate Intern
Melanie Addington
Victoria B. Segall
Jayne Braman
Faculty Advisor
Madeleine F. Marshall
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of dealing with SDSU. It will still be only $50.
SDSU students pay $142.
I hear people saying, "Well if it's so cheap
why would we want to make it more expensive?"
Let me ask these people this: Did you really
think that students on a new, growing campus
wouldn't be hit up for fee increases at some point?
I would accuse anyone who didn't think that
would happen of being naive. It's inevitable that
we would have to foot the bill for some things.
The State would never pay for every amenity that
we students want.
Don't worry if money's tight and you're getting financial aid. The fee increase gets factored
into that equation. For the rest of us, saving
$30/semester to make up for the difference is not
so tough. Just cut that $3 cup of coffee out of
your morning ritual one day a week. Or the next
time someone asks you "Do you want fries with
that?" just say, "No." Maybe stick to domestic
beer instead of import. Wait, nevermind, we have
to draw the line somewhere.
The point is, $30 for something that will make
life better for all concerned is a bill worth paying.
And if future students are really pissed off that
we did this to them, they can vote to reverse it.
Somehow, I don't think they will.
"Fieldhouse/Student Union?" Is it descriptive of
its use or is it because officials felt that we
wouldn't cough up the dough for a field house,
so they got the idea that setting aside space for a
student union would make it sell better? If we're
going to pay for a gym that can serve the purpose
of a student union and double as a church on
Sunday, fine. Just tell us that we're voting on
a gym.
Finally, we need to think about all those students who will follow us later. These fee increases
will continue to rise. What about tuition? That's
a different issue and comes under a different
account. If tuition increases, they won't be able to
cry about fees because we voted for it. Times are
good right now. There is plenty of money via jobs,
scholarships, grants, and cheap loans. But when
the economy goes b&d, as it does occasionally,
all that money will dry up and the students that
follow may not be able to afford school then,
making the building of a structure now a moot
point.
Again, I am not opposed to construction,
expansion, or looking towards the future. What
I feel strongly about is that people need to ask
the university the hard questions before voting.
Everyone should vote. But if the only decision
that we can make is an uninformed one, then the
foundation that we lay today may not support the
future that we seek to build for tomorrow.
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Have you heard about the student
union fee referendum? How do you
feel about it?
" N o , I h a d n ' t , b ut i f t he
s chool i s g oing t o g et a n y
b igger i t's g oing t o h ave
to happen."
— Jeannie B etita
" Yeah, I ' v e h e a r d o f t hat.
I p robably w o u l d p a y i t.
$ 3 0 b u c k s p e r s tudents i s
n ot t o o m u c h t o p ay."
—Po C h a r e s t
' Yes. I t h i n k t hat i t's o .k.
I t's f or a g o o d t hing."
— Michelle H e i m l i c h
" I r eally d idn't k now m uch
a bout i t, b ut I w ould a gree
b ecause t hat i s o ne t he m ajor
a spects m issing f rom t his
s chool. T he t rack w as a g ood
t hing b ut t hey n eed m ore.'
—Wendy K ennedy
" Yeah, I ' v e h e a r d a bout
t hat a n d I t h i n k w e ' d b e
d oing s o m e t h i n g f or t he
f u t u r e s tudents."
— Ihiro T erauchi
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n eeds s omething l ike t hat
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Academic Bulletin
Election 2000 - Gore
vs. Nader, and other
election issues
North County FORUM presents a free public forum:
Saturday, September 30th,
North County Forum will present a free public forum on Gore
vs. Nader, or "the lesser of two
evils?"
There will be speakers from
the Democratic and Green parties, as well as audience partici-
Influenza
Vaccine
Shortage
and Supply
Delays
In a statement released by
the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), there will be a delay in
influenza vaccine shipments
and possibly a nationwide
shortage of the vaccine for the
2000-01 seasons. The CDC
is encouraging all health care
providers to provide the vaccine to the patients who are
at highest risk of death from
influenza only at this time
and to delay mass immunizations of adults until November
2000.
Individuals with high-risk
medical conditions and pregnant females in the second
and third trimester ofpregnancy are at a high risk for serious complications from influenza infections, including hospitalizations and deaths. These
individuals are encouraged to
obtain the vaccine.
If you have questions as
to what the high risk conditions are, please contact your
health care provider as soon
as possible. Students may
also direct their questions to
the Student Health Services
at (760) 750-4915. TDD (760)
750-4924. Staff and students
may call the clinic in
November to check on the
availability of vaccine. At this
time, f lu clinic dates have not
been identified for November.
Karen D. Nicholson, M.D.,
M.P.H.
Director, Student Health
Services
CSU San Marcos
pation on both sides.
will follow the speakers.
Time permitting, we will
also discuss Propositions 36, 38,
For more info, call
39, and the Vista School Board.
The program begins at 6:30 (760) 758-2410 or
p.m.,
Palomar
Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship, 1600 e-mail:
Buena Vista Drive, in the NCForum@aol.com.
Shadowridge section of Vista.
A Q&A Discussion period
Health and
Wellness Fair
at CSUSM
September
20th
Healthy shakes, body fat analysis, bottled water and health
information are featured at the Health and Wellness Fair at
California State University San Marcos 10:30 am to 2:00 pm,
Wednesday September 20.
The theme of this year's Fair is "Got Health?" Nearly twodozen organizations will provide information and samples at
the fair, including fitness organizations and community health
providers.
Campus organizations will be on hand with information on
benefits, including retirement plans, for university employees.
The fair takes place in Palm Court on campus.
"This is a chance for us to bring together information on
health and wellness for the whole campus community," says
Tanis Brown, who coordinates human resources training and
special projects at Cal State San Marcos. "Last year we targeted
employees in during open enrollment period for health benefits
and this year we saw the fair as a perfect opportunity to provide
important resources to our students as well."
Participants include: Cal State San Marcos Human
Resources, Cal State San Marcos Associated Students, Inc.,
Back and Neck Pain Relief Center, Escondido Community
Health Services, 24 Hour Fitness, San Diego Blood Bank, North
County Health Services, American Red Cross Blood Services,
Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water, Costco, CSUSM Student
Health Services, CSUSM Counseling and Psychological
Services, PERS Retirement Services, Kaiser, Delta Dental and
others.
For information .on the Health and Wellness Fair, call
760-750-4425.
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(760) 750-4090.
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Calendar
Intro to Career Services
Location: Craven 4201
Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Location: Commons 207
Time: 12pm-3:00pm
to apply for Spring and Summer
2001 graduation
Grammar and Punctuation
Location: ACD 314
Time: 12:00pm-l :00pm
Intro to Career Services
Location: Craven 4201
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
A workshop for those who need
help with grammar and punctuation.
A workshop on getting started
in career services.
Health & Wellness Resource
Fair: "Campus & Community"
Open To Everyone
Location: Palm Court
Time: 10:30am-2:00pm
Career Skills
Location: Craven 4201
Time: l:00pm-5:00pm
Learn how to job search, create
a resume, and interview.
Alumni/Student Networking
Night
Location: The Pizza Port in
Carlsbad
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September 21,2000
Anime Project Alliance
Meeting
Location: University 370
Time: 4:30pm-10pm
Accounting Society General
Meeting
Location: Commons 206
World-acclaimed alto-saxophon- Time: 9am-llam
ist, Charles McPherson and his
quartet perform jazz.
Guest Speakers: Peterson Co.
Organizing an Academic Essay
Location: Craven 4201
Time: 12:00pm-l :00pm
Learn how to organize an academic essay.
Careers for Psychology Majors
Location: Craven 4201
Time: l:00pm-2:00pm
Thursday,
September 28,
2000
For more information contact
race director Kathy Loper at
(619) 298-7400 (Monday-Friday
from 9am-4pm)
The Blazers
Location: Dome Stage
Time: 12:00pm-l :00pm
Anime Project Alliance
Meeting
Location: University 370
Time: 4:30pm-10pm
Tuesday,
September 26,
2000
Lemon Pepper Concert
Location: Powersurge Cafe
Time: 8pm
Jewish folk music of Eastern
European and Yiddish theatre.
C.J. Hutchins Blues Concert
Location: Powersurge Cafe
Wednesday,
September 27,2000
Time: 8 m
P
Earl Thomas & the Blues
Ambassadors
Location: Dome Stage
Time: 12:00pm-l:00pm
Soccer
Location: Long Beach
Former San Diego "Artist of the
Year" sings the blues.
Benefits the CSUSM Track &
Cross-Country Programs
Monday, October
2, 2000
"Uneasy Neighbors"- Film
Screening by Paul Espinosa
Location: Commons 206
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Second Ave Klezmer •
Location: Dome Stage
Time: 12:00pm-l :00pm
Fees (late if postmarked after
9/22/2000):
5K Run/Walk $18, late fee $22
Alumni, current students &
staff $15, late fee $22
Kids Run $10, late fee $22
Race day registration begins at
6:30am
Register pnline at
wwwJcrthvfcya^^
Learn about careers for psychology majors.
East Los Angeles root-rock,
R&B and Latin rhythms.
Friday, September
2 2,2000
Sunday, September
24,2000
CSUSM's 2nd Annual
Cougar Chase 5K/Cougar Cub
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Location: Mangrum Track
Time: Begins 8:00am
Charles McPherson Concert
Location: Dome Stage
Time: 12:00pm-l :00pm
Harvest Festival
September 22-24
Location: Del Mar Fairgrounds
Time: llam-8pm Friday,
1 larri-8pm Saturday,
10am-8pm Sunday
For more information check out
www.harvestfestival.com
or call (800) 321-1213.
Saturday,
September 23,
2000
Sunday, October 1,
2000
Receive an introduction into
career services.
Tuesday,
Friday, September Monday,
September 25,
September 19,2000 22,2000
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Reminder: This is the last day *
Meditation Group
Wednesday,
September 20,
2000
The Pride
Discussion to follow film.
Friday, September
29,2000
Career Skills
Location: Craven 4201
Time: 9:00am-l 1:00am
Future Educators Club
Meeting
For information contact FEC at
their website: www.csusm.edu/
fee
Zeinabu Irene Davis
Location: ACD 102
Time: 8pm
Sundance Film Festival Finalist
and, UCSD professor of communication, will show and discuss her experimental film,
"Compensation."
Inspired by a poem from a
an early African American writer, this unique drama explores
aspects of African American
culture, in two parallel love stories.
New Glub At CSUSM
By: Rachael Jenkins
There is a new club on campus for students who wish to
become teachers. The Future
Educators Club is designed to
inform students about applying
fer the credential program here
at Cal State San Marcos.
Jennifer Moon is the
President of FEC this year. She
states, "I'm excited to have such
a club on campus to help students be more prepared for the
credential program by informing members of what's needed
to be accepted into the credential program as well as a place
to meet future colleagues."
organizing a donation drive for
books, clothing, and toys.
Former President of FEC,
Raeanna Wertz began the Future
Educators Club at Mira Costa
College. When Raeanna transferred to CSUSM she carried
the FEC project with her. "I
realized that Jo Dube, Jennifer
Moon and myself had to do
something," states Raetfnna.
"We spoke with different
people on campus, telling them
about our idea. We took out
the paperwork from ASI and
SRL and then the College of
Arts and Sciences approached
us. They had lost a large part of
their advising department and
needed to find a way to pass
information to the students and
we were looking for a place to
connect with; so it was a match
made in heaven."
FEC's plans for this academic year include motivational
speakers, hosting a CPR class
for students to become certified at a discount, and t o participate in campus events. FEC also
For further information,
has plans to assist the CSUSM visit The Future Educator's Club
Child Development Center by website: www.csusm.edu/fec.
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The Pride
California State University San Marcos
Vol VIII No. 8/ Tuesday, October 17,2000
Students Vote Yes
to Fee Increase
Student Union to Break Ground as Early as Next Month
J. Ryan Sandahl
Pride Staff Writer
How would you feel if you
received a score of 96% on a test?
Most students would be proud of
such a high score, but a fellow
student informed me that after
receiving a test score of 96%, she
was given a B+ on the test! She
said that a grading curve pulled
her grade down. A professor on
campus told me that professors
are only allowed to give a certain
number of A's, B's, C's, etc., to
a class. Is this normal? I asked a
professor of mine if this is true,
and she directed me to Dr. Paul
Jasien, Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences and former
professor of Chemistry.
When asked if a red flag
would go up if a professor gave
all A's in a class, Jaisen simply
answered, " y e s " as one would
go up if a professor gave all F's.
He added that there is no process
of checking the grades given by
professors each semester. The
only way in which this information could be obtained would be
either through student evaluation
forms where every student gives
a professor a perfect evaluation,
or if students go around talking
about how they all received A's
in a class.
"The evaluation forms are
reviewed by a committee," says
Marilyn Ribble, a GEO professor. She went on to state that
after review, a sampling of the
evaluations goes into the professor's file and can be reviewed at
a later date.
Paul Jasien went on to state
that if most or all of the evaluations are giving a professor a
perfect score, that may mean the
professor and/or the course should
be reviewed because there should
usually be a couple students that
the professor was unable to connect with. "Evaluations can be
difficult for professors to read by
the end of the semester because
they know that something just
does hot click with every single
student and they wish it did,"
Jasien said.
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Proposed site of the Clarke Field House/Student Union. Photo courtesy of Planning Design and Construction.
By: Kathleen Hash
Pride Staff Writer
With only a 465 CSUSM student voter turnout, the Student
Union Fee Referendum Increase
was approved last week. The referendum was part of an effort
by the University Student Union
Advisory Board (USUAB) to
build the Clarke Field House/
Student Union. The first measure students approved was a
fifty dollar fee increase per
semester which would take place
Measure 1 passed
on July 10, 2001. The students
340 "yes" votes
also approved the second increase
in student fees of fifteen dollars
to 120 "no* votes
for July 2006, along with another
(there werefiveblank
fifteen dollar increase in July
2010.
ballots)
When asked about the Student
Numbers Courtesy of CSUSM
Union Fee Referenda results,
President Gonzalez said, "I feel long run." Gonzalez hopes the
really good. It's a win-win situ- student union construction can
ation for the students. The stu- begin as early as next month.
dents are showing us that they
Seven to eleven percent of
know what is important in the
CSUSM students participated in
—Measure 2 passed
with 300 "yes" votes
to 148 "no" votes
(there were 17 blank
ballots). "
the vote said Francine Martinez,
Vice President for Student
Affairs. 465 votes were cast on
Monday and Tuesday of last
week. » Cont. on Pg 2
Faculty Drop One of Three Workload
Grievances Against Administration
By: Nathan Fields
Pride Staff Writer
The California Faculty
Association (CFA) withdrew the
first of three College of Education
workload grievances. This griev-
ance was filed in 1998 and
was scheduled for arbitration on
October 10, 2000. The faculty
grievance was over an increase
from 18 to 19 units per year
in instructional workload for
College of Education faculty. It
also grieved reduction from 1/2 to
1/3 in WTUs (Weighted Teaching
Units) for supervision of student
teachers. James Semelroth, CFA
Central Office's arbitration specialist, added emphatically, however, that "withdrawal of the arbi-
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tration demand in no way should
be construed by the CSU to mean
that CFA is conceding that the
workload adjustments in 1998 are
not violations of the agreement
and past practices of the campus,
they clearly are." >Cont on Pg 2
Academic
Bulletin
Calendar
�Grading Student
» Continued from pg. 1
Possibility of all A's?
The possibility of every student in a class receiving all A's
does exist; yet the probability is
very low that it will happen. "If
every Student in a class received
an A, one of two things could be
happening. Either every student
was phenomenal and did A work
and deserved an A, or the professor is nof distributing assignments that would distinguish A's
from B's and so on," explained
Jasien.
When asked if professors
can create their own grading
scale, Dean Jasien responded,
"Absolutely, usually professors
are able to figure out, over the
course of a few semesters, how
students are learning and can
adjust their grading scales accord*
ingly. It is a. matter of knowing
their clientele [students], the percentage of work they are able to
do, and the information they are
able to learn," said Jasien.
Do grading curves exist?
Again, yes. Professors are
allowed to use grading curves
in their classes versus a straightpoint system. Straight-point systems are simple and put the choice
of earning the grade into the
students' hands. If students do
the work and earn A's, then they
will receive A's. This may be
an incentive to students helping
each other.
But if a professor is using
a curve to grade students, there
may be less incentive for other
students to help each other. A
curve normally pulls the low
grades up, where as higher grades
can be pulled down. So if students are helping each other and
everyone is doing well on tests,
the curve goes up (thus pulling
some higher grades down, which
allows for a 96% B+).
"If students know that a curve
can harm them, the incentive to
helping other students diminishes," explained Jasien. According
to the Dean, there is no policy
about grading except to grade
fairly according to a students'
effort in a class.
How to dispute a grade
If a student is unhappy with a
grade, he or she is allowed to dispute it. The first thing students
should do if they have a grade
dispute is to go to the professor.
If the problem is not resolved,
the student can go to the chair of
the department, then to the Dean,
and so on. At the top of the
ladder is a formal student grievance committee for resolution of
grade disputes.
"Students do have the right
to dispute grades if they feel
they have not received the grade
they earned," states Jasien. Grade
disputing should be taken very
seriously and only students who
feel they received an undeserved
grade should dispute it.
Union
Fee
Increase
Passes
»Continued from Pg 1
Current university enrollment
€m
is approximately 6,000 full time
Clarke Field House/Student Union plans include ASI offices, club meeting rooms, a gym, shower
students. "We need student parand locker facilities, storage, and eventually a convenience store. There will also be outside
ticipation," said Brian Polen, who
eating and lounging areas designatedfor student use.
is on the Board of Student
Photo Courtesy ofCSUSM's Planning, Design and Construction
Representatives, "without it, [the
political process] is stagnant."
When asked about low voter turnHowever, student Karen the Free Speech Area. A.S.I, also other minor expenses," said Susan
out, President Gonzalez cited stu- Zeisler feels the low voter turnout passed out buttons in support of Green, Associate Vice President
dent and community apathy as was due to the lack of publicity the referendum with equipment pf Administrative Services.
the problem.
for the Fee Referendum Vote. "I and materials donated by Mira Green, who also works as desigdon't think they told anybody," Costa College. "This is our last nee for the USUAB, explained
she said. Zeisler seemed upset chance to get people to vote," said that they had originally hoped to
that the information had not got- A.S.I. President Dean Manship. build a Student Union for under
ten to her earlier. "Paying $50 in Buttons were distributed from a $3 million but "it just isn't posfees doesn't benefit me," Zeisler table located on Founders Plaza sible anymore." The Clarke Field
House/ Student Union is expectcommented after learning the fact during the two voting days.
ed to cost over $7 million.
that the Student Union will not be
completed until after she graduStudent Union History
ates.
The university has not yet
The USUAB said they were
In 1992 students at CSUSM determined who, besides CSUSM
doing what they could to get the approved a plan to build the stu- students, will be able to use the
word out aboi£ the upcoming dent union. The first two refer- Field House. However, during a
vote, but only had a $500 budget endums had failed, but the 1992 Fee Referendum Open Forum,
for
their
ad
campaign. vote meant that in 1993, students USUAB Chairman Mike Harrod
Informiation was available on- began paying student fees for the speculated that alumni would
line and fliers were distributed first time at CSUSM. The funds most likely have to pay additional
on campus as well as open forum raised in the subsequent years fees to use the gymnasium and
Students voted on Oct 9 and 10.
Photo by Melanie Addington
meetings hosted by USUAB in were put into "design fees and the exercise facilities.
CSUSM Faculty Drop Grievance
»Continued from Pg 1
Because arbitration is expensive, the CFA must weigh the
financial costs against the probability of winning. CFA felt it
would be difficult to prove that
the small increase in workload
of the first grievance was "excessive" or "unreasonable" as stated
in the contract. Rather than spend
the time and energy on this arbitration, CFA decided to withdraw
its grievance.
CFA's concern that withdrawal from arbitration would be misconstrued as conceding defeat
arose after CSUSM President
Alex Gonzalez issued a memo
to the faculty, which Semelroth
described as "very misleading".
Gonzalez' memo informed faculty that CFA had withdrawn "the
San Marcos workload grievance",
when only one of three grievances
were withdrawn. Semelroth further contested Gonzalez' assurance that "resolution of the
grievance is clear" saying that,
"Nothing could be further from
the truth. The resolution of the
grievance is not clear.. .the issue
persists and [administrators] have
won no victory."
In response to questions asked
about the dropping of the one
grievance, President Gonzalez
responded saying, "I can impose
on [the faculty] what they're
going to do as long as it's not
arbitrary and capricious. I haven't
done it, that's why this whole
thing is a big red herring. It's
going to be resolved, if they don't
like the resolution they can grieve
it, and it can go to arbitration."
Gonzalez added, "They
pulled out of [this arbitration]
with the rational that it's only
one Unit. What's the difference
between one unit and three units?
It's still more than nifie isn't it?"
But concerns persist among
faculty that an imposition of
a 12 direct teaching unit workload will decrease the quality
of education at CSUSM. Some
faculty are especially concerned
by the workload in the College^
of Education because only four
instructors have been hired to
accommodate a 200 student
increase in that college in the
last three years, causing a steep
increase in the student to faculty
ratio from 14.7:1 t o 18.0:1.
"An increase of those 200
students brought about $1.3 million to CSUSM. The addition
of four faculty members in
College of Education cost about
$250,000. We need to ask where
the money went," said George
Diehr, President of the San
Marcos CFA Chapter and
Professor
of
Management
Science.
Many believe the money
should have been used to hire
more faculty for the College of
Education. The other two workload grievances remain active and
are pending arbitration should
CFA choose to do so. The most
recent grievance involves a substantial increase in workloadfrom nine to twelve units in one
semester. Faculty have always
accounted for teaching 12 units,
as both President Gonzalez and
faculty agree, by utilizing a three
unit flexibility which allows them
to do research, develop the curriculum, pr work on special projects. This flexibility, which some
consider crucial for continuing the
current standard of quality education offered at the college, appears
in danger of being removed by the
administration who could require
them to direct teach all 12 units.
"The faculty have proven by
experience that CSUSM can be a
model campus with a reasonable
workload while delivering quality instruction to its students,"
said Semelroth, "One should be
proud of being on the cutting
edge rather than regressing to the
norm of punishing workloads of
other campuses."
President Gonzalez told Pride
reporters in an interview Friday
that, "I think there is going to
be a resolution, and it's going to
happen this year. 12 units, it's
a heavy teaching load. I have
pledged to work at the system
level to reduce that workload, but
until we do, we have to conform to
the requirements of the whole system." President Gonzalez added
that "there has to be a resolution,
and it won't be tomorrow by the
way, but over the next few years,
it will get in there."
Any forced change in workload on the campus is subject to
new grievances by CFA, which
could also end in arbitration.
�O) What do e ach of
t hese books h ave i n
c ommon?
• Always Running-La Vida
Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by
Luis Rodriquez
• Animal Farm by George
Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous
Huxley
• Capital: A Critique of Political
Economy by Karl Marx
• Cognitive Therapy of
Depression by Aaron Beck
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury
• Ideology and Curriculum b y
Michael Apple
• One Hundred Years of
Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Mirquez
• Labor's Untold Story b y
Richard Boyer and Herbert
Morais
•The Labyrinth of Solitude by
Octavio Paz
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
by Paolo Friere
• The Prosperous Few and
the Restless Many by Noam
Chomsky
• 2001: Space Odyssey by
Arthur Clarke
• Yno se lo trago la tierra (And
the Earth did not Devour Him)
by Tom&s Rivera
What's
Behind
the Books
in the
Library?
Campus
Ants Invade Campus
By: Adam Bailey
Pride Staff Writer
therefore, we find ants hanging
around many trashcans and recycling containers. It is inevitable
that ants will find a way to
make homes in and around the
very same buildings that humans
inhabit.
in its make up to be an effective
ant killer. Windex is also less
harmful to the human population.
Ants, ants, they're everywhere! They seem to be invadWhat can we do?
ing everything from University
Hall to the Dome. It seems
Both methods of spraying
as though you can't take a step
prove very effective for stopping
through a door these days with- What can be done to reduce the
growth to existing ant popuout finding a tiny infantry of ants amount of ants?
By: Jayne Braman
lations, but what can be done
located right beneath your feet
Pride Graduate Intern
toward prevention? What can we
or, better yet, a single solitary
Well, there are the obvious
Each year CSUSM's library ant, clinging on for dear life, to answers such as spraying them do, as individuals, so that these
officials ask the Chair of the the bread of the sandwich that with pesticides. Facility Services little pests don't end up taking
does periodically hire an outside over entirely?
Academic Senate Committee to you are about to eat for lunch.
We can control how much
contractor to help alleviate the
share a collection of his/her most
problem. The contractor sprays food or water is left lying around.
influential, inspirational, and/or Where are all those ants coming
a strong pesticide around the If you decide to eat inside your
favorite books. This year's honor from?
perimeter of all buildings on cam- office and not in the Dome, don't
goes to Dr. Gerardo Gonzalez.
One reason they're invading pus in order to try and prevent ant let food lie around for too long.
When asked how he selected
his booklist, Dr. Gonzalez stated our buildings and classrooms is populations from gaining access Empty your trashcans into larger
that he "chose books from his that it is cooler inside during the into those buildings; However, ones, preferably located outside.
formative adolescent years, clas- summer and warmer during the this service does not seem to Take home your extra food or
leave it in the refrigerator; whatsics from the '60's and '70's," as winter. Ants are no different than always work.
Spraying the inside of the ever you do, don't let food sit
the rest of us in that they can't
well as books related to his professional development as a clini- perform as well during extreme buildings with pesticides is not around or ants will come in after
cal psychologist. Dr. Gonzalez weather. As a result, ants make an option due to the fact that such it. This goes for water as well,
said that he "chose the books their way into our air-conditioned pesticides are a health risk and wipe up any water you spill, take
that he felt most helped him to rooms and offices because they the potent smell of such chem- home your bottle if there is some
ical agents can be a nuisance left over, or recycle the bottle
examine [his] options at various find it suitable to their needs.
A) Gerardo G onzalez, Ph.D.
Also, the ants seek food and for many people. That's where when you are finished with it.
stages in [his] life."
If faculty, staff, and students
water. Have you noticed that there Windex comes in real handy . . .
» Continued on pg 4
take these preventive steps, there
tends to be an increase in the yes, Windex!
When it comes to indoor ant should be no reason why we can't
ant population in areas close to
food and water sources? That is problems, this simple household and won't be able-to claim back
because ants migrate to where cleaner contains what turns out this campus from the ants.
they can find sustenance and, to be a lethal amount of ammonia
mementoes with pictures of every
By: Steve Compian
service branch, but she has a
Pride Staff Writer
special place in her heart for
One out of every nine the Marine Corps. "My husband,
T h i n k i n g : a b o u t a .....
CSUSM students receives vet- James, is a Korean War Veteran
erans' benefits to help pay for who served in the Marines. This
their education, but before attend- year the Korean Veterans celing classes, those students have ebrated their 50th anniversary,"
to visit Corkie Lee. Lee, the said Lee.
Lee hopes to increase camVeteran's Affairs Representative
at CSUSM, helps m orethan 500 pus awareness of the contribuveterans and 200 Cal-Vet depen- tions made by veterans for the
dents who rely on financial assis- United States. According to A.S.I.
Executive
tance.
Vic
e
Lee came to
President
CSUSM in 1994
R aeann a
after
working
Wertz, Lee
twenty-two years
has been helpat Cal Poly San
ful
in
Luis Obispo. She
supporting
assumed her curWertz's idea
rent position as
for organizing
Veteran Affairs
a Veterans'
Rep in July 1997.
Day
celeLee says that
bration
at
most of the vetCorkie Lee by Victoria Segall
CSUSM. Lee
erans who come
through her office are Marines, and Wertz hope to honor veterans
"due to the proximity of Camp at CSUSM with a cake-cutting
Pendleton." She also sees veter- ceremony and a flag-raising cerans from the other branches of emony conducted by a Marine
military service and personally Color Detail (similar to Color
assists almost as many students Guard). Wertz, who served in
as the veteran's office at SDSU. the Marines from 1982 to 1988,
1:00
PM-3:00PM
Besides helping veterans speaks glowingly of Corkie Lee.
Commons 206
interpret the various government "She is very willing to help any
documents that are necessary to veteran, and she'll go to the mat
receive payments, Lee oversees a for her veterans," said Wertz.
Students who wish to conReserve Officer Training Corps
(ROTC) program. Currently the tribute to an upcoming Pride artiROTC program has eight stu- cle about Veterans' Day may condents and Lee hopes to see that tact Steve Compian by e-mail
number grow in the future. Lee at pride@csusm.edu .Those who
said, "Many students don't real- wish to participate in the CSUSM
ize that although courses needed Veterans' Day celebration are
for ROTC are not given here, encouraged to contact A.S.I. Vice
they can attend SDSU (to aug- President Raeanna Wertz at
ment regular courses given at 750-4990 or by ermail at
raeanna@home.com.
CSUSM)."
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By: Tiaca Carter
Pride Staff Writer
Anyone who has ever had a
night class may have noticed the
lights around campus. Although
any light is better than no light,
the CSUSM campus lights are
dim, kind of yellowish, and not
exactly the type of lighting one
would expect on a college campus. The dim appearance is due
to the low-pressure sodium lights
that the campus has installed to
help prevent light pollution.
Many people may agree that
in this day and age, pollution
is rampant. We have to worry
about air pollution from automobiles and factories, water pollution from trash and chemicals
being thrown into the ocean, and
noise pollution from our neighbor's son's car stereo. But who'd
ever thought we'd have to be
concerned about light pollution?
Surprisingly, light pollution has
been a problem for quite sometime.
Light pollution occurs in populated areas where an abundance
of lighting fixtures leads to light
misusage. Light misusage begins
when a light fixture is misdirected (such as straight into the
sky), shielded improperly or just
too bright. This misuse of light
is known as "wasted" because it
is not effective, and can even be
harmful (such as a bright light
that produces dark shadows conducive to "stranger danger").
Light pollution also wastes
energy, which, like in Europe,
has led to a serious economic
crisis. Europe's energy costs had
become so high that something
By: Jafo_Wac
Contributing Writer
had to be done about it, so
there was a switch to low- pressure sodium lights. Although lowpressure sodium lights give off
a yellow cast, if used properly,
they can provide plenty of sufficient lighting. Out of all choices
of lighting, low-pressure sodium
lights are the most cost efficient;
the use of low-pressure sodium
lighting in Europe saved energy
and reduced light pollution.
Low-pressure sodium lights
are also important when it comes
to star observation. It is easier
for telescopes to filter low-pressure sodium lights than any other
CSUSM Lightpost Photo byMelanie Addington
type of lighting. The west coast,
(specifically Southern California
because of the clear air and good
weather conditions), is one of the
best places in the world for scientists to observe stars. However,
Southern California is getting
more populated by the minute,
and more people means more
lighting fixtures. More lighting,
like misdirected light fixtures,
may send light into the night
sky, making telescopic observations difficult (particularly
objects coming towards Earth
like Armageddon asteroids).
In the United States, only
three cities use low-pressure sodium lights: Tucson, San Jose, and
San Diego. But will it take a crisis
like Europe's in order for the rest
of the U.S. to change? According
to Paul Etzel, Chairman of the
Astronomy Department and
Director of the Observatory at
San Diego State University,
"Economics will force people to
realize that good lighting is not
only good for astronomers, pedestrians, and motorists, but it is
better for saving energy."
CSUSM is considered a commuter school, which means all
of us require gasoline to get to
school every day. College students, as a whole, are notorious
for their shortage of cash and
unfortunately for us, gas prices
have been high lately. However,
with a couple clicks on http://
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find the cheapest gas in your area
and save money.
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is a web site published by the
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prices around San Diego County.
The site updates gas prices on
a weekly basis and on Tuesdays
prices are grouped according to
county regions.
Unfortunately for those people who have vehicles that require
premium gasoline, only the price
for regular gasoline is tracked.
Simply select your part of
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your budget a favor and check
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Gonzalez Puts Books on Display
» Continued from Pg 3
Dr. Gonzalez, one of nine
children, was raised in the San
Joaquin Valley in Central
California. He credits much of
his success to his parents and
their philosophy of wanting a
better life for their children.
Dr. Gonzalez' parents were farm
workers who had limited opportunities themselves, but they
believed in the importance of
education for their children. All
nine of the Gonzalez children
graduated from high school and
attended college. Dr. Gonzalez
is proud of his cultural upbringing despite the socioeconomic
hardships that he has faced.
According to Gonzalez,
"Literature, such as And the
Earth Did Not Devour Him, put
into perspective much of what
I experienced as a MexicanAmerican adolescent having to
come to terms with the biases
imposed on me." Dr. Gonzalez
recognizes this book for not only
teaching him how to cope with,
but how to overcome some of the
hardships that he experienced.
La Vida Loca is a book
that described to Dr. Gonzalez
what he saw happening around
him during his formative teenage years. Dr. Gonzalez said
that he saw many of his friends,
"people that were just as academically capable as I was," turn
to gang life for various reasons.
"Strong family support and the
ability to make my own decisions kept me from making the
same mistake," stated Gonzalez.
Animal Farm helped Dr.
Gonzalez to see society differently. Gonzalez describes himself as an idealist who believes
that by being active in his community, he can make a difference. While attending Fresno
State, he was active in A.S.I,
organizations and committees,
as well as Chair of the campus'
M.e.Ch.a. organization. Brave
New World, Fahrenheit 451, and
2001: Space Odyssey relate to
themes of science and technology. Even though Dr. Gonzalez is
a clinical psychologist, he feels
that he is "a scientist at heart."
Other books have aided his
professional
development.
Ideology and Curriculum taught
him how to be "democratic
in the classroom." Mostly, Dr.
Gonzalez believes that literature
has helped him to be proud of
who he is. He feels that the literature that he has been most influenced by reflects and reinforces
our capabilities as human beings
instead of our limitations.
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to Your Health?
By: Jennifer Miller
Pride Staff Writer
Glass is over and you are
waiting for your friends in the
Dome when suddenly you get
an itch: you must call someone!
Anyone! You frantically search
your backpack or pocket to find
that cell phone. You quickly dial
up your friend, mom, job, or significant other, and send that call
across the airwaves with nothing
to say except, "I'm out of class!
Wahoo!"
Even though cellular phones
are quickly becoming the most
convenient device since computers, are there disadvantages to
owning a cell phone? Thousands
of students and faculty are frequently using cellular phones
everywhere on campus: classes,
hallways, computer labs, and cars.
We all have our own opinions
on cellular users and driving, but
road rage aside, are cellular and
mobile phones dangerous to our
health?
?
According to Katherine Hunt
of tlfe Medill News Service, more
than 90 million Americans use
mobile phones. "This number
CSUSM student Nam Ngo makes a phone call in The Dome.
Photo by David Ruiz.
is growing exponentially as prices drop and wireless products
become more widely available,"
states Hunt, "but little is known
about the health effects of radio
frequency (RF) emissions on cell
phone users." What many of these
cellular users don't know is that
each phone sends electromagnetic
waves into the user's head. Every
phone sold in the United States
has a documented measurement
of how much microwave energy
penetrates the brain.
An October 1999 FDA consumer update on mobile phones
states that high levels of radio
frequency can produce damage
through heating effects (this is
how your microwave oven is
able to cook food). However,
the report also states that it
is unknown whether, to what
extent, or through what mechanism, lower levels of RF might
cause adverse health effects.
Ever since the public outcry
following a 1993 Larry King
Live episode in which a widower
claimed that a cell phone gave his
wife terminal brain cancer, funding for research on the health
effects of cell phones has
increased; but the results have
been inconclusive.
George Carlo, former head
of the industry-funded Wireless
Technology Research Program
(set up in 1993 to study cell-phone
safety), surveyed more than 50
studies, many of them still unpublished. In a Newsweek article,
Carlo states, "We've moved into
an area where we now have some
direct evidence of possible harm
from cellular phones."
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Yeah, I guess. They're good for
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advised to research the validity
of such products and their intended functions. Some products have
been found to be unnecessary
and even fake. Many products,
however, have been found very
useful and effective. Some devices, like a mounted exterior antenna and headset or earpiece product, can really decrease RF's, as
well as decrease the risks for car
accidents when using the phone
while driving.
CSUSM student Josh Zamora
stated, "Driving with cell phones
is very dangerous, and I think
extremely large amounts of anything can be harmful, including
cell phones." Students may find
taking precautions and protecting
themselves while using cellular
and mobile phones, useful.
We know not to press our
face against the microwave as
we watch the Lazy Susan spin,
and we don't sit too close to the
television, so why are we constantly putting microwave-emitting devices next to our head on
a daily basis? I don't know, but
my cell phone is ringing.
�Che Guevera: Love, Politics, and Rebelliousnes
M.E.Ch.A. Facilitates Discussion on Revolutionary Film
By: Nathan Fields
Pride Staff Writer
On Wednesday, October 11,
M.E.ChA.
(Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan)
led a discussion following its
showing of Cuban director
Teresita Gomez* documentary
film, Che Guevara: Love,
Politics, and Rebelliousness. The
presentation occurred on the
Cuban holiday, El Dia del guerra
historico, 33 years after Ernesto
"Che" Guevara, Latin America's
most active international revolutionary since Simon Bolivar,
was murdered while attempting
to incite revolution in the jungles
of Bolivia.
M.E.ChA. member, Ricardo
Favela, spoke to the culturally
diverse group of CSUSM students that filled Commons 206
before the film. Ricardo took
issue with the controversy surrounding Che's ideas and actions.
"I don't think he should be treated as controversial because he
represents everything the United
States claims to stand for, true
equality and justice for people,"
said Favela.
Favela also commented on the
recent difficulties surrounding
the posting of their Che banner,
which had been vandalized the
previous year. This year, A.S.I.
approached M.E.Ch A. with a
"new policy" that disallowed
posting of the banner in front
of the science building, causing
the club to move it to the top
of the facing stairway. Although
M.E.Ch.A. is the first to be confronted with the new policy, it is
Last week, M.E.Ch.A moved the Che Guevera bannerfrom Science Hall
after A.S.I, implemented a "new policy:" The banner was vandalized last
year, but the perpetrators were never caught.
Photo by Melanie Addington
expected to extend to all clubs
equally.
"A lot of people complained
about the banner saying that it
offended them " Favela said, "but
those who should be offended are
la raza Latino." Favela explained
that many Latinos took offense
to the school's bust of William
Craven, senator and founding
figure of the university who
made some questionably racist
comments against Latino immi-
grants.
The film, Che Guevara:
Love,
Politics,
and
Rebelliousness, chronicles the
revolutionary's life with a rich
combination of live footage and
personal accounts from Fidel
Castro, Che's family, and veterans of the revolution. As a soldier,
laborer, and government official
Che held countless positions in
Cuba including economic advisor, head of the national bank,
and international diplomat. It was
in this last position that Che
gained valuable political, social
and economic knowledge from
nations in Europe, Asia, Latin
America, Africa and the Middle
East. The film concerned itself
minimally with the United States,
and seemed disinterested with the
U.S. attitude towards the revolution and new government except
when the Americans made physical attacks on the island, such
as during the failed Bay of Pigs
Invasion in 1962.
During his lifetime, Che
Guevara became a familiar figure
to the entire world as an idealist
and humanitarian. He was also
the author of theoretical works on
economics, society and guerrilla
warfare. An important aspect
of Guevara's ideology, however,
was that he practiced it. "He
had ideas, but Che's extensive
knowledge was based in practice
and action," explained Favela. He
fought actively against imperialism, colonialism and n eocolonialism, giving assistance to revolutionary struggles around the
world, such as his participation
in the liberation movement in
Zaire. Although Guevara never
wished to be a revolutionary martyr, the respect and admiration
he drew from his relentless idealistic practices made this inevitable.
Many who attended the
presentation were surprised to
learn that Che Guevara is from
Argentina, and that he completed
a degree there as a medical doctor, later becoming the only nonCuban to be granted the status of
"Cuban citizen by birth." Though
Che recognized Cuba as his "cultural substrate," he asserted that
he felt "as Cuban as any other
Cuban," emphasizing his ability
to "feel the suffering of any other
person in any other nation."
After the film, a lively discussion probed further into the
life of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
and his influence on the world.
Those present exhibited varying
degrees of knowledge concerning Guevara and Cuba, U.S. relations with Latin America and
revolutionary politics. Except for
the one Cuban individual's sobering personal experiences during
and after the revolution, the discussion was dominated by rhetoric that mostly romanticized the
struggle and criticized the United
States' political and economic
involvement.
Many students were drawn
to the event to learn more about
a figure they knew little of,
as others were attracted by the
prospect of discussing what they
already knew with an interested
group. Such educational events
are important because individuals such as Guevara are not given
much coverage in American history books. Favela explained that,
"Che's image has also been commercialized to the point that either
much of his ideology has been
lost, or people don't understand
what he stood for."
M.E.Ch.A. plans to host a
similar film and discussion forum
concerning the Zapatista uprising in southern Mexico later in
the semester.
How to Become A Chicana Role Model
Michele Serros Holds Book Signing
and Lecture Outside Library
By: Victoria B. Segall
Pride Editor
"Some people write from the
heart and soul, I write from
the stomachache," said Michele
Serros.
On Thursday, October 12, a
small intimate crowd gathered
to hear Serros lecture in the
Library Courtyard. Serros began
her lecture by reading her poetry
and excerpts from her novels;
her most recent novel is How to
Become a Chicana Rote Model.
Writer and poet Serros says
that as a child, she found it very
difficult to express her feelings
or share problems that were troubling her, and this was painful
for her. However, Serros says
that when she began writing,
she noticed her pain slowly disappeared, "It was like exhaling
those emotions," she told the
crowd.
With stories inspired by her ing her questions, Serros quizzed
real-life experiences and family the crowd on her lecture, handmembers, Serros' writing style ing out books and t-shirts as
resembles the styles of Latina prizes. A book signing followed
writers like Julia Alvarez {How the lecture.
the Garcia Girls Lost Their
Serros' most recent novel,
Accent) and Sandra Cisneros (The How to Become a Chicana Role
House on Mango Street% Cisneros Model, a how-to-succeed in life
has even described Serros as "a guide for young women, can
sassy young writer whose bril- be purchased at the University
liant weapon is her humor."
Store. Serros is also the author
of Chicana Falsa: And Other
Stories of Death, Identity, &
Oxnard. Michele Serros* lecture
Indeed, Serros' stories are and book signing was one of many
humorous, with tales ranging events celebrating Latino/Latina
from her sister competing in "The Heritage Month, September
Price Is Right" to her father's 15-October 15.
quest for the perfect parking
Michelle Serros had a book signing
space (while Serros and her sister
grow nauseous in the back seat in the library courtyard on Thursday,
October 12th. Her most recent novel
of the Volkswagen).
is How to Become a Chicana Role
Serros' displayed her humor
Model.
throughout the lecture. During
Serros gave a lecture beforehand.
the question and answer period,
Photo by Victoria B. Segall
rather than having the crowd ask-
�The Pride
Arts & Entertainment
Lukas Haas will be starring in
Too Cool as the main character's
friend, Tom Patch. The Client 's
star Ben Renfro will play the lead
character Triple E.
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Independent Film Producer
Speaks with CSUSM Students
By: Melanie Addington
Pride Editor
CSUSM
Professor's Too
Cool Book to be
Made into Film
By: Christopher Orman
Pride Staff Writer
_
In the next few years, CSUSM
professor Duff Brenna's novel
Too Cool will move beyond the
literary field to land on the
screens of movie theaters across
the nation. However, individuals
familiar with Brenna's novel may
be startled at the changes being
made for the public's consumption.
The novel exposes the hardedged life of Triple E, a sixteenyear-old car thief, who is continually expected to conform to
the norms of society. Triple E, his
cousin Ava, his friend Tom Patch,
and his girlfriend Jeanne, leave
Colorado after Triple E's escape
from Good Pasture, a correctional facility for juvenile delinquents. As Triple E searches for a
way to avoid an upcoming roadblock, the car ends up stuck in
a snow-filled ravine. Upon being
stopped in the snow, Triple E
begins reflecting on his life and
considers the mistakes he has
made.
Eventually, the flashbacks of
past events become a reoccurring
second story line throughout the
book, with certain physical entities spawning specific memories
for Triple E. Instead of flashbacks, there are two parallel
stories crisscrossing at different
scenes in'the film. The only flashback is when Triple E, played by
Brad Renfro, remembers back to
his early childhood.
One major change with" the
film version concerns the deletion of the Mrs. Bridgewater character, a psychologist at Good
Pasture Correctional Facility. In
the novel, she becomes a common
thread through most of Triple E's
snow based tribulations, as he
remembers back to the moments
leading up to when he raped her.
"We really did not feel a rape
needed to be added, given thev
large amount of sexual content
throughout the film," said Denise
Shaw She felt it might be too
confusing for the audience when
trying to relate to Triple E; she
believed the rape would overshadow Triple E's heroic acts in
the story. Shaw added, "Little
Ray will be the educator of Triple
E and give him Kafka [books]
instead of Bridgewater; we are
concerned with the likeability of
Independent
filmmaker
Denise Shaw spoke at CSUSM
on Monday, October 9. CSUSM's
Professor Duff Brenna hosted a
showing of Shaw's first film,
Bodies* Rest and Motion (starring Eric Stoltz and Tim Roth).
Shaw is currently working on an
adaptation of Professor Brenna's
book Too Cool. Shaw's credits
also include the 1993 hit Bed of
Roses (starring Christian Slater
and Mary Stuart Masterson),
Julian Po (also with Christian
Slater), Pie In the Sky and the
upcoming Ben Stiller film,
Maclintock's Peach.
Denise Shaw got her start
in the film industry like many
others: with the family video
camera. Shaw began her film
career by making films with her
brother before going to UCLA
film school with the hopes of
becoming a director. After her
first film project, she realized
that she was terrible at directing,
yet Shaw loved overseeing the
making of the film and soon
realized she wanted to produce.
After graduation, Shaw went
to work at New World
Productions. According to Shaw,
this was every young filmrtiaker's dream because of the chance
to work with producer Roger
Corman. Corman had given
directors like Martin Scorcese
and James Cameron their breakthrough opportunity to work in
the film industry. Although
Corman is now considered the
maker of "B" films, he has 286
producing credits to his name;
plus he has worked as a director,
writer and actor.
When Shaw discovered that it
would take years for her to get
Triple E."
Being the creator of the text,
Brenna seemed somewhat concerned about the loss of Mrs.
Bridgewater but felt confident
that the screenwriter, Michael
Steinberg would keep the spirit
of the book. Despite the changes,
which may increase as production begins, Shaw is quite hopeful about the movie, "The script
is very unconventional, poetic
and artistic, but I think people are
really going to love this film."
On the artistic prowess of the
film, Shaw noted, "We are shooting each story in two film stocks.
The snow scenes will be shot in
reversal stock, giving a grainy
muted style, while the flashbacks
will be shot in normal stock yielding tons of color. As the two stories meet, so do the stocks." Such
careful attention to film stocks
and music, regardless of changes
made to the story line, will make
Too Cool into, as Denise Shaw
stated, "a hip-hop Romeo and
Juliet." Although, the movie will
have enough artistic elements to
keep the litferary types amused,
the movie will almost certainly
garner attention all over the country.
the chance to even get close
to producing, she quit the production company and became
an agent. Shaw has represented
directors, writers and actors,
including Michael Steinburg, the
director of her first film, Bodies,
Rest and Motion.
Upon seeing the script for
Bodies, Rest and Motion, Shaw
immediately knew it was the
"perfect film to become a producer." The film looks at human
relationships and the Newtonian
Law of Physics (bodies at rest
tend to remain at rest; bodies in
motion tend to remain in motion).
The film stats Phoebe Cates
(Gremlins), Bridget Fonda (Jackie
Brown), Tim Roth (Reservoir
Dogs) and Eric Stoltz (Pulp
Fiction).
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Shaw's second film, Bed of
Roses, was coined a success, but
Shaw feels embarrassed at the
outcome of the film. The script
was a "magical piece," but the
director turned it into a mushy
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romance marketed towards young
girls who would buy tickets to
see Christian Slater. She originally wanted Johnny Depp and
Jennifer Jason Leigh in the lead
roles, but due to conflicts with
the distributors, she cast Slater
and Masterson.
Shaw says she made two
major errors with Bed Of Roses.
The first is that she cast two
romantic leads without them
being in the same room together.
She feels this led to a lack of
chemistry on screen. Secondly,
she hired a director that, at age
twenty-four, had never been in
love and had no idea how to envision a romantic film. "People just
don't talk like that," comments
Shaw in regards to the film's use
of sappy romantic lines.
In discussing the future of
independent film, Shaw points
out that, "the distribution outlet
[for independent filmmakers] is
disappearing. The formula for
making small movies is gone."
She believes that the future of
independent film will be in
digital cameras rather than the
traditional 35 mm. The Blair
Witch Project is a prime example. Although Shaw feels it was
a shoddily made film, "it is the
number one selling film of all
time, nothing can touch it dollar
for dollar."
Shaw's recent finished project is an independent comedy
titled Maclintock's Peach. The
story involves two blue-collar
workers who decide to rob a grocery store for fun. The film
stars Ben Stiller (star of
Something About Mary), Kristen
Johnson (star of television show
Third Rock from the Sun), and
Mike Myers {Austin Powers).
Maclintock's Peach is set for
release this year.
�Setting the Record Straight
Letter to the Editor
Regarding your article
September 19th in The Pride,
"Politics in San Marcos " it's
apparent someone hasn't done *
his homework. It's time to
set the record straight for San
Marcos voters.
Proposition "S" is a San Marcos
charter amendment that would
require the city to follow state
law as it pertains to general
law (non-chartered) cities in the
matters of land use, planning
and development, including the
requirement that zoning be consistent with the city's general
plan. It bears no resemblance to
Escondido's initiative of a couple
By: Ryan Bernal
Contributing Writer
Students who eat on campus
in the infamous Dome know the
selection they have to choose
from: Mexican food, pizza and
subs, Chinese or, new for this
semester, a week old salad bar.
Most likely students also know
that the cheapest item on the
menu is steamed rice for $0.99.
And because there is no sales tax
on food purchased in the Dome,
it works out to an exact $0.99.
This means that students can eat
a fair sized bowl of rice with
sauce (teriyaki, sweet and sour,
or spicy) and crunchies for under
a dollar. But is the steamed rice
with sauce and crunchies really
worth $0.99?
You've got your dollar, and
you've got your bowl of steamed
rice. It will only be a few minutes
until you get to sit down with
your friends and enjoy your meal.
You sit down, fork in hand, and
the first bite starts out great.
Nothing this bland has ever tasted
so good. Until that so-called delicious bite ends up being a clump
of hard rice grains that have not
been fully cooked. You then realize that plain bread would have
been a better investment. You
try to ignore that first bite and
risk another one, only to find that
your steamed rice is really a bowl
of soggy carbohydrates with hard
grains mixed in for volume (similar to what they serve in prison
where this meal would be free
and most likely better prepared).
Disappointed and deceived by
looks, that bowl of rice goes into
the trash.
years ago. It is not a no-growth
or pro-growth initiative. It does
not require a special election
to rezone properties or pass
a general plan amendment. It
does not take away anyone's
property rights; it strengthens
them. Proposition "S" merely
places into the charter language
that should have been included
from the onset.
As a charter city, San Marcos
is exempted from state planning
and land-use consistency
requirements unless the city
adopts these laws through its
charter, or by ordinance. San
Marcos does currently have an
Later that day your friend,
who drove 1.3 miles roundtrip to
the Jack in the Box off of San
Marcos Blvd., informs you of the
rice he ate for $0.81 (tax included): freshly prepared steamed
rice with teriyaki sauce that actually tastes as good as it looks.
Your mouth waters at the thought
of good rice.
So what's the problem with
the steamed rice at the Dome?
Second year student Jim
Balderson comments, "The people in the Dome shouldn't re-use
rice for more than one day." He
believes that in an effort to save
money, they recycle the left over
rice from the previous day. Jim
also notices that fellow classmates are ashamed to eat the
$0.99 Dome steamed rice in front
of others.
First year transfer student
Jason Sherman regards the Dome
steamed rice as "a joke!" He
would rather spend his dollar
buying ten $0.10 candies in the
Dome store. Other CSUSM students also look down on the quality of the Dome's steamed rice
agreeing that the quality and price
need to be changed.
Why is it that the friendly
people in the Dome can't make
steamed rice? The process of
making it seems easy enough and
the workers in the Dome are all
university students. Maybe our
school is buying cheap rice. Or
perhaps they don't add enough
water to the rice cooker. Maybe
their rice cooker needs to be
cleaned. Whatever the problem,
it should be fixed.
When you do the math,
including gas and sales tax, Jack
ordinance. However, ordinances
can be amended or repealed
by the city council or, as I
recently found out, "forgotten."
Changes t o the charter, on the
other hand, can only be made
by a majority vote of the people.
Why is Proposition "S" so
important to San Marcos residents, property owners, and taxpayers? Just as a successful corporation maintains and follows
a business plan that defines
its goals and objectives, so too
the city has a "general plan." It
defines zoning, densities, intensities and even overall population at build-out, the city's goals
in the Box steamed rice works
out to be $0.05 cheaper than
the Dome's steamed rice (assuming that gas is $2.00 per gallon
and the vehicle gets 20 miles to
the gallon.). And for someone
interested in lunch, this means of |
obtaining steamed rice includes
a lovely hike up at least three
flights of stairs (what better way
to use those calories?)
Why is Jack in the Box selling steamed rice to the public for
less money than CSUSM sells it
to the students? If Jack in the
Box can sell their quality rice for
$0.75, why then can't CSUSM sell
their under cooked rice for that
same price? Or better yet, sell
good rice for that same price.
So is that bowl of Dome
steamed rice with sauce and
crunchies really worth $0.99?
To a starving student who woke
up late, missed breakfast, has
only one dollar in pocket change
and has approximately 10 minutes before their next mid-term,
maybe. For them, the rice serves
as a quick answer during desperate times. And for the cheapskate who is too lazy to drive
the 1.3 miles, steamed rice is
the best deal on campus. But to
the student who is looking for a
genuinely good bowl of steamed
rice, the $0.99 is hardly worth
it.
The outcome: CSUSM should
lower their price of steamed rice.
Even though students can go
to Jack in the Box for rice,
they shouldn't have to. The
steamed rice on campus should
be improved in quality and
decreased in price.
and objectives.
We've all heard the old adage,
"If you fail to plan, you plan to
fail." It would be irresponsible
for San Marcos to not follow
its own general plan and ignore
the overall benefits of integrated
planning. Yet that's
exactly what charter cities are
allowed to do, to the detriment
of residents and all property
owners who rely on the general
plan. Zoning could be changed
at "political will," without, regard
to property values or property
rights. Even the California Court
of Appeals has questioned the
wisdom of permitting charter
cities "to ignore such a fundamental principle of sound
land-use planning as consistency
between a city's
zoning enactments and that
city's general plan for land-use
and development."
Proposition "S" makes good
business sense and is crucial
to the future development of
San Marcos. I encourage
everyone to vote yes for this
charter amendment.
Elayne Oswald
San Marcos resident
and proponent of
Prop "S"
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How Safe Is Our For Love of
By: Lane Harden
Pride Staff Writer
How safe is our campus? Two
weeks ago a student fell after tripping over a box that was propping open a door. The door was
open at such an angle that it was
impossible for the student to see
the obstacle lurking around the
corner. Unfortunately, the student
fell onto the hard concrete surface and was injured badly. The
student blacked out for a moment
and, after regaining consciousness, realized that she in quite a
bit of pain.
Fortunately, there
were a few kind individuals who
helped her to her feet and offered
to take her down to the health
center.
Upon her arrival, the doctor
reportedly told her that they could
not treat her because she suffered head trauma. It appears that
this sort of injury is much too
serious for our health services
here on campus. Within a couple
of hours the student's arm and
hand swelled seriously, she had a
bump the size of a golf ball above
her eye, two black eyes and lots
of bruises. The next morning she
went to the hospital and found out
that she had a sprained elbow and
wrist.
What bothers me the most is
not just the fact that our school
cannot afford a two dollar door
stop, but the fact that the health
center turned their cheek to an
injured lady. I know that this
was just an unfortunate accident,
but the truth of the matter is it
can happen again if nothing is
done to insure our safety in every
way possible. Who would have
thought that something as minor
as using , a box to prop open a
door could cause someone serious injury?
I was so angered after hearing about this that I called and
spoke with Steve Orsak, inquiring if there are any safety codes
on campus that deal with such
an issue. To my surprise, his
response was that the doors are
not meant to stay open and should,
in fact, be closed at all times. I
also asked if there was anything
that the school could do to insure
that this was a one-time accident,
and he responded, "We just have
to better educate people that "the
doors are to remain closed, that's
all.''
That's all. It's little accidents
like this that could have caused
even more injury to the student,
like broken bones. The most infuriating part to this unfortunate
story is the fact that health services did nothing to help this
student in any way. The doctor
did not even check her vital
signs, nothing. Don't we pay these
people every semester for medical service?
I guess the purpose of this
article was to inform students not
to turn a corner without looking
first, and not to be somewhat seriously injured and expect health
service to come to the rescue.
That may sound rude and the accident may have been minor, but no
one should ever be denied, help.
This is a lesson to be learned by
all. Hopefully people will think
twice about everyone's safety, no
matter what the case may be.
The Wedding Trilogy
By: Melanie Addington
Pride Editor
Monday evening I sat alone
listening to the beautiful sounds
of Nat King Cole. I had been
feeling discontented but couldn't
quite place the source of the
pain deep inside of my soul.
Something in Cole's bittersweet
song, Looking Back, had dredged
up a sorrow within me. As I
listened, I found myself literally
looking back to old photographs,
which helped aid my memory in
defining the pain f rom my recent
past.
As I opened the photo album,
a picture of my cousin Jenny
caught my eye. I thought back
to the moment when her fiance
was killed in a fatal car accident,
and the pain she endured at such
a young age, the age I am now.
Jenny got married three weeks
ago to Dustin, the best friend of
thefianceshe lost. She and Dustin
supported each other through
their mutual ordeal and years later
discovered love. At their sunset,
lakeside wedding in Big Bear,
their faces reflected the shared,
passionate love between them and
a glow surrounded them as they
stood in the entrance of the garden
gazebo. My heart cried out to
understand that deep of a bond
between two people.
I glanced across the album's
page from my cousin's picture
into the fac e of my smiling, happy
son. My heart filled with the joy
of knowing that I had the luck
of bringing such a light into my
life.
My son's father got married
last weekend. I didn't attend the
wedding. Part of me feels quite
sad, as if a chapter of the book of
my life has finally ended. Part of
me rejoices that he finally has the
happiness he searched so long to
find. However, the bitter, angry
female within me choked up and
I sobbed, letting loose the pain I
held on to for far too long.
As I dried my -eyes, I turned
the page to photos of my early
days. Childhood friends and a
younger brother, long since grown
up, stared back with hope shining
on their youthful and innocent
faces. I smiled fondly in remembrance.
As if the two previous weekends had not tormented me
enough, this weekend I attended
the wedding of a childhood friend.
I would like to say the same
hopeful things about their union
as I did about Dustin and Jenny's,
but I cannot. Their vows felt
forced and they both looked isolated within their own private
worlds. After the wedding, the
best man gave his toast. The
groom then took the mic from
him and, like an ape, yelled out a
cheer that suited a football game
better than one of the "best"
moments of his life. The drunken
wedding party then proceeded to
try to dance as they clung to
their beers, fresh from the keg. I
sighed at the spectacle and went
home early.
After surviving these past
three weekends, I tried to imagine being married at this stage
of my life. I wondered how my
friend could possibly be walking
down the aisle already. At twenty-two, I've watched several of
my friends pair off, yet she was
the first to take the plunge into
an eternal union. I, on the other
hand, am barely treading water in
keeping my life serene as I handle the craziness of raising my
son, being a student, and working
full time. Just the thought of trying to blend my life into someone else's makes me shudder.
Still, in moments like these, I
know that deep within my heart
I ache to have that perfect glowing moment. Let's just hope the
groom doesn't like football.
the Game
By: Jared E. Young
Pride Staff Writer
Why do people fall so in love
with sports that their every emotion hangs on the win or loss pf
their favorite team?
I must admit, I'm just as
guilty—if not more so—than the
next guy. I used to get kicked out
of the house if the San Francisco
49ers lost. My parents would
force me to watch the game in
my room because I would get
so upset over a blown play or a
missed call that they feared for
their lives. Currently, it's the San
Francisco Giants (and the Niners,
and the Warriors, and the Sharks-I'm from the Bay Area, in case
you couldn't tell). When the
team (the Giants) lost its second
playoff game I almost left work
early because I was too depressed
to help customers. Then they
were eliminated and I found out
during dinner—I was hard-pressed
to keep my dinner in my stomach.
Yeah, I'm addicted to sports.
I've played soccer for 13 years;
I played baseball for 6, football
for a couple, and basketball offand-on my entire life. Also, I've
been a sports journalist for seven
years. I feel this justifies my
passion for teams that I have
never played for.
Now, what about people who
have never played sports? It
seems as though the biggest sports
nuts are always the guys that
haven't seen their feet for years
and never get off the couch unless
they need another beer or a bathroom break (where they usually
have another TV hooked up!).
Are these people just living vicariously through "their" teams? Or
are their lives so pathetic that the
only joy they can derive is that
of watching their favorite player
drain the game winning three at
the buzzer? I'm guessing its a
little of both.
My next question is : if these
people could harness some of
the passion they have for sports
and apply it to something useful,
wouldn't they be pretty productive citizens?
Take, for example, myself.
I can sit down and watch the
49ers suffer through one poor
play after another for three hours-three boring hours, no less—
without ever leaving my couch,
without ever blinking. Put me
in a classroom for f ifty minutes,
I'm out like a light in less than
ten.
Now, if I could take the
excitement I feel when Barry
Bonds drives one deep into the
bay behind right field and put
that into a paper for my Literary
Criticism class, I would be on the
Dean's list every semester!
This is what Cal State San
Marcos needs. They need to find
a way to harness the energy that
sports create and transfer it into
the classroom. Can you imagine
the outcome? San Marcos would
be cranking out Nobel Prize winners every year. Field's Medal?
San Marcos would have a monopoly. CEOs in the tech industry?
Can you spell "graduated from
California State University San
Marcos in . . . ? " It is purely
amazing how much time, passion,
and energy people can devote to
watching sports, and then how
much they can slack off in ACD
213 (or any other room, for that
matter).
It is one thing to enjoy watching sports, but if watching is all
you're doing, then it isn't "your"
team. Why people feel the need
to say "we won today" or "we
were down by three before we
came up big in the ninth," I
don't know. Did you ever play
for the Braves, Bulls, Penguins,
or Jaguars? Not frickin' likely.
Therefore, it is not your team.
However, it is your life.
If you take the emotion and
passion we put into sports and
put it into the classroom, then
using the personal "we" is perfectly acceptable. We didn't win
the game, but we did get an 'A'
on our paper. See how it works?
It's almost as if the passion we
have for sports is meant to be put
toward schoolwork. But, at some
point in time, someone messed
up and started living his or her
life through a team. Shouldn't
your life be lived through your
life? I don't know, maybe it's a
crazy idea, but it is an idea.
Like I said before, I'm just
as guilty as the next guy when it
comes to living and dying with
some team that I've never stepped
onto the field with. That is why
I, for one, have decided to make
a difference: I will be the first to
apply my passion for sports to the
work that Cal State San Marcos
so lovingly assigns to m e... right
after the game, that is.
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Team Building and Group Time: 10am-5pm
Dynamics
Meditation Group
The 10 Mobile will be located
in the safety zone along with
SDG&E, CHP, Fire Department
and the Blood Mobile. Healthy
Learn different leardership
and Wise Bear will make an
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appearance. The Parent/Child
Expo will also take place
Seminar: Public Forum on Sunday, October 22 from 10amHIV/AIDS
5pm at the fairgrounds.
Location: UCSD Garren
Auditorium
Monday, October 2 3
Time: 6pm-8pm
Speakers will discuss research,
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available at UCSD. This event is Location: Founders Plaza
free and open to the public.
Time: lOam-lpm
Location: Commons 206
Time: lpm-2pm
Have an event planned?
Send The Pride an e-mail with
the name, date and location to b e
added to the Pride Calendar!
Tuesday, O ctober 17
Thursday, October 19
Group Dynamics
Blood Drive
Location: TBA
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Upper Parking Lot
Time: 9am-2pm
For location Contact ASI. Learn LAFS Monthly Meeting
how to attract more members,
Location: Craven 1258
and how to delegate responsibili- Time: 12pm-lpm
ties.
For more information contact
call (858) 534-5545 or e-mail at
sholt@ucsd.edu.
This is a general meeting of the
Writing in an Active vs. Pas- Latino Association of Faculty
sive Voice
and Staff, its members and
Location: Academic Hall 418
friends are welcome to attend.
Time: 12pm-lpm
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Over 60 graduate
schools/programs will be represented, so plan to attend!
MOOL
Location: Commons 206
Time: 12pm-12:30pm
This meditation group meets
weekly on Tuesdays in
Commons 206. Groups run on a
drop-in" basis.
Wednesday, O ctober 25
Grammar and Punctuation
Location: CRA3106
Time: 5 :00pm-6:00pm
Learn how to improve your
grammar and puctuation.
Job Hunting at a Job Fair
Location: CH 4201
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Learn how to job hunt at a job
fair.
Using Transitions
Learn how to write your essays
in an active voice.
Location: Academic Hall 420
Time: 5pm-6pm
Blood Drive
Learn how to use transitions in
your essays.
Location: Upper Parking Lot
Time: 9am-2pm
Sigma Iota Epsilon General Meeting
Wednesday, October 18
Location: Academic Hall 411B
Time: 6pm
Guest Speaker Joann Mitchell
from the State Board of
Equalization
Getting Ready to Register
Location: TBA
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
For location, contact ASI. Learn
how to get yourself registered.
Anime Project Alliance
Meeting
Film for Thought:
The War Room
Location: University Hall 370
Time: 4:30pm-10pm
Location: Escondido Center For
the Arts
Time: 6:30 pm
Thursday, O ctober 26
Job Hunting at a Job Fair
Location: C H420
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Learn how to job hunt at a job
fair.
Many opportunities f or full f unding with
stipends ranging from $11,000 to $20,000.
If you are f rom an American imcial/ethnic
minority, call Associate Dean Poorman at
( 219)631-8423.
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the public.
Time: llam-12pm
Location: PPHS
Time: 12pm-12:30pm
This meditation group meets
weekly on Fridays in Dr. Fritz
Kreisler's office. Groups run on
a "drop-in" basis.
Saturday, October 21
AJS.I. Child Trot 2000
Location: CSUSM Mangrum Track
Time: 9am-lpm.
Career Skills
Location: CH 4201
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Learn great career skills:
resume, job search, and interview.
Second Annual "FORE!
Education" Golf
Tournament
Location: Commons 206
Time: l:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Maderas Golf
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Time: 10:30am Check-in begins
This workshop follows the grad- Benefits CSUSM Athletics
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Learn how to define research
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Graduate & Professional
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Location: ACD 314
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I N D E P E N D E N T S T U D E N T N EWSPAPER
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008
www.thecsusmpride.com
VOL. XIX NO. 10
Student Union planning underway
Facility planners and architects receive feedback from students
BY ALEX HAND
Pride Staff Writer
and determining feasibility.
In an effort to gather information and get student feedback
regarding the Union, the university
put together many focus groups
of students who met facility planners and architects on Tues. March
18. The meetings were designed
to acquire student feedback and
gather information in regards to
As enrollment at CSUSM is
increasing, the university is looking to expand campus life and
resources with talks of adding a
new Student Union. Currently, the
process is in its first phase, which
consists of gathering information
students wants and needs in a Student Union. In attendance to conduct the research were Brailsord &
Dunlavey Facility Planners and the
HGA Architecture Firm.
The first question addressed to
students in attendance was why
they chose to come to Cal State San
Marcos. Student responses varied
but mostly had to do with small
class sizes and location. Consistent
with the focus on student wants
and needs; the meeting proceeded
.with discussion surrounding what
students would like to see in a Student Union on campus.
James Carruthers of Braiisford
& Dunlavey made it apparent that
they were listening to what students had to say when he stated,
GRADFEST 2008
Gas prices
skyrocket
nationwide
Price per gallon
could rise to $4
this summer
BY JONATHAN E. THOMPSON
Pride Staff Writer
According to MapQuest, the
lowest national gas price is currently $2.56 and the highest
national gas price is $4.33 with
a national gas price average of
$3.45 per gallon. San Marcos
has a low of $3.50 and a high of
$3.80 per gallon of gas.
In 2002, a gallon of gas cost_
roughly $2 in Southern California. Six years later, the cost
for a gallon of gas has nearly
doubled. Barrels of gasoline
reached the $100 mark and are
inching past $110.
There are numerous theories and speculations on gas
pric.es—-most conflicting with
one another. However, America
See Gas, Page 4
Photo by Jackie Carbajal / The Pride
Seniors make preparations for commencement during Grad Fest.
soon to be graduates the
opportunity to purchase class
rings, announcement packLast week, the official count- ages, diploma frames, cap and
down to graduation began as gowns, and much more.
With the promise of comthe University Store sponsored
reach,
GRADFEST 2008 offered mencement within
BY JACKIE CARBAJAL
Pride Staff Writer
San Diego bans alcohol on beaches
O ne year trial b an in effect
BY TORIA SAVEY
Pride Staff Writer
On January 14, after a San
Diego City Council vote, a
one-year trial ban of alcohol
on beaches and in many public
parks went into effect. The vote
was 5-2, the minimum needed
to pass it. The ban includes locations like La Jolla Cove, Mission
* Beach and Ocean Beach.
Banning alcohol on beaches
has come up with the city council in the past. In 1994, the city
council voted for the same type
of one-year trial ban, but opponents gathered enough signatures
for a referendum, and the council
was forced to repeal the ban. In
2002, the ballot included voting
on an 18-month alcohol in parts
of Pacific Beach and Mission
Beach, which was rejected by a
narrow margin.
About 30,209, or 5% of registered city voters, would be needed
to force a referendum in the same
manner at 1994. The group,"
Ban the Ban," run by the grass
roots organization Our City, Our
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T ODAY
LGBTA will host
its annual 'Spring Gay Wedding' today, March 25, in Forum
Plaza from 12-1 p.m. The ceremony serves as a demonstration
to oppose current legislation that
restricts marriage to a man and a
woman.
Photos by Pamela Castillo
/The Pride
seniors are having difficulty
sorting out a wave of emotions.
"If s so exciting to be graduating soon but I won't believe it
until I have my diploma in my
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"This is going to be more of a student oriented space as opposed to
an academically oriented space, if
that's okay with you guys."
Russell Decker, of Planning
design and Construction on campus
had something similar to say.
"We build what people want us to
See Union, Page 4
Safer Spring
Break preview
BY ELBERT ESGUERRA
Pride Staff Writer
As students anticipate spring
break less than a week away, Student Health and Counseling Services wants to ensure they also
keep safety as a priority.
Throughout this week,, SHCS
is hosting various events to promote awareness for a safer spring
break. The marquee event will
be held on Wednesday at Clarke
Field House, with a lecture perfornfajlce entitled "JMSpot: A Sex
Educator Tells All" and renowned
sex educator Jay Friedman.
According to Health Educator
Cathy Nguyen, "I've seen him
perform at a San Francisco conference and he was very entertaining. I think students will find
the performance educational and
funny and I hope that they will
be able to walk away with more
knowledge about sex and healthy
relationships."
Today, the campus is having
a survivor fair that includes a
number of activities such as a
walk-the-line DUI checkpoint
and alcohol screenings. SHCS is
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CSUSM honors March 31
as an observed holiday to
honor the life and legacy of
labor leader and civil rights
activist Caesar Chavez.
"These trends are part of the forces
of histofy that cannot be stopped.
No person and no organization
can resist them for very long.
They are inevitable. Once social
change begins, it cannot
be reversed. You cannot
uneducate the person who
has learned to read. You
cannot humiliate the person
who feels pride. You cannot
oppress the people who
are not afraid anymore"
-Caesar Chavez
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recent h istory as a v ariety of the arrival of the Olympics in
problems and controversy are August. One such d iscrimina^
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controversies is the Chinese f acilities f rom using new bathgovernment, which is guilty of room f acilities, a glaring r efleca grave m ishandling of prepa- tion of the meager social progrations for 2 008's Olympic ress typical of modern China.
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Basketball fans got
there wishes and saw
Tampa Bay, Florida
deliver four upsets
in the second day of
first round games.
In the first game,
No. 12 Western Kentucky
watched their lead dwindle as
io piiöt: ' No. 5 Drake came back to tie
the game. Then Western KenK V W tucky took care of business in
overtime when Tv Rodgers hit a
: three point buzzer beater. Then
No. 13 San Diego was able to
hold on and win in overtime
against No. 4 Connecticut.
Later in the a fternoon, No. 13
Siena took care of business and
beat the struggling No. 4 Vanderbilt by winning by 21 points.
Then the final upset of the first
round took place when No. 12
Villanova was able to control
the flow of the game and beat
' ' i / 1 ^ No. 5 Clemson.
Then add No. 10 Davidson,
Western Kentucky, Villanova,
and No. 7 West Virginia to the
sweet sixteen creating mayhem
with the brackets.
The Bad
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Three of my five brackets I
have playing i n money pools.
Seeing Clemson and
Vanderbilt
getting
eliminated, took out
two teams that I had
beating Kansas in the
Sweet 16 and advancing to the Elite Eight.
But despite losing a
lot of the one point
games in the first
round, I am happy
to say I have all my final four
teams and the loss of certain
teams does help my final standings in my brackets.
The Ugly
This one is easy: Duke! No.
15 Belmont knew what they
needed to do to beat No. 2
Duke. Belmont tasted their first
tournament victory in history
with 11.9 seconds remaining in
the game. But there best wasn't
enough as they fell 71-70. But
it was West Virginia who was
able to get the ball down low
and take care of O uke 73-67 in
the second round.
Duke, like others, were over
exposed and overrated. Unable
to do what they needed to do to
advance, there now going get to
watch the rest of the madness
with the rest of us on the television.
Any comments or comments
can be sent to churc009@csusm.
edu or pride@csusm.edu.
be a matter of serious c oncern
for any f reedom-embracing
country. C hina's t ies to the
genocide in D arfur and c urrent
tension with autonomy-seeking Tibet have brought f orth
numerous calls t o b oycott the
Beijing Olympics f rom a multitude of individuals and g roups
— a signal that C hina is still not
prepared to be a world leader
much less a host to the Olympics.
As if the controversies
caused by the Chinese government w eren't enough to r uin
the Olympics t his year, the
location could easily seal the
deal on t his already botched
Olympic f estival.
The air
quality in Beijing is so poor
that many athletes and health
o fficials are concerned with
how the c ity's e nvironmental
issues will a ffect p erformance.
Endurance sports could see
unimpressive p erformances as
the poor air quality, heat, and
humidity take t heir toll on athletes p articipating i n long competitions.
Several c ountries
will delay the a rrival of t heir
athletes for as long as possible and some have even set
up t raining f acilities elsewhere
to limit e xposure to B eijing's
air. The water and food a ren't
much b etter, p resenting health
c oncerns for the athletes. A
questionable t ap water supply
and s teroid-ridden meat have
p rompted the U.S. to ship in its
own f ood to avoid athletes getting sick or t esting positive for
steroids.
For such an i mportant globàl
event like the Olympics to be
hosted by a c ountry so willing
t o compromise t he w elfare of
its c itizens s ignifies a critical
m isallocation o f r esponsibility
by the i nternational powers that
be. No m atter how many t imes
the C hina recites t his years
Olympic slogan, " One World,
One D ream," a C hina-hosted
Olympic f estival w ill still
always be m arred by the mismanagement t hat h as become
indicative of its g overnment.
A nd here as A mericans, casting j udgment on a c ountry w ith
which we are limitlessly b ound,
the sense of responsibility, if
only p artial, i s inescapable.
Blood, Sweat, Tears,
Turtles
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BY TORIA SAVEY
Pride Staff Writer
"You do realize
you have a reptile in
your house then?"
Ok, in all fairness,
it's not so much a
reptile as a turtle.
Before you get all
taxonomy and point
out that a turtle is a reptile, it's
not really. It's a turtle. Reptiles
freak you out if they escape
from their cages, and they do
things like slither, and make
your grandmother faint. A
turtle just kind of galumphs
along.
But wait. There's more. This
turtle is much more than a
turtle. This, my friends, is war
with a shell. Well, more like
a passive aggressive battle of
wits between my significant
other and myself.
You see, this is relationship
rehab. Recovering addicts,
depending on the program,
are taught to ease back into
responsibility. Try a plant.
Then a fish. Then a dog or a
cat. Thenfinally,you can move
onto people. I didn't go to
rehab, but I've been in a buttload of unhealthy relationships. I did things a little backwards though. I got the guy
first. Then followed it up with
no plant, and now a turtle. So
really, I think we're both just
making sure ^we can keep the
turtle alive before we
make a bigger commitment.
I mean, would you
marry a turtle killer?
No, I wouldn't either.
So, here's a little
view of how my morning went. Get up too
early. Check and make
sure turtle's still alive.
He's still alive. (Sidenote: we don't
know if it's a boy or a girl yet.
People have been asking me how
you check the sex. Answer: Play
soft music and buy it flowers and
candy until it rolls over for you.)
Text significant other to say that
I'm worried Mr. Turtle doesn't
have enough room to swim and
he seems unhappy. Significant
other's response: "He'll be fine,
babe. Take him on a field trip to
the bathtub." Um, my boyfriend's
ex-roommate used to go shopping.
At bars. For men. Every night. I'm
way more worried about the bath
tub giving Mr. Turtle the clap
than I am about catching salmonella from him. I'm pretty sure if
the turtle catches syphilis on my
watch, I lose the battle.
So, perhaps you too are in a
serious relationship but afraid to
take that next step. But I bet if
you knew the next step could eat
goldfish, like mine can, you'd be
all over that and walking down the
aisle (or having a commitment ceremony in the Bahamas.. .or being
hitched at a drive-thru chapel in
Vegas by Elvis) i n no time. -
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BY BILL RHEIN
Pride Staff Writer
W hen I t hink
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c ountry
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t he g reat songs
by
J ohnny
C ash, C harlie
D aniels, or Willie N elson. On
t he o ther h and, t here is t he contemporary m odern c ountry that
s eems t o have sold out. T here is
a d istinct d ifference in t he t empo
and sound of c ountry music t oday
as c ompared t o p ast decades.
T he p eople in t he music industry could c larify t his by labeling
m odern music of t his n ature as
" country p op."
One d ifference I find between
the two eras.of country music is the
popularization of t he new breed.
Today p erformers have replaced
the dated ' twang' sound with synthesized vocals and electric guitar.
Like all genres, it seems it is more
about the money t han the music.
If this were not t rue, there would
not be an entire television station
devoted to c ountry music, and in
f act, there are two. T his changeover, with singers such as Shania
Twain, is an i nformal selling out.
A nother reason f or t his clarification is the ability for lyrics t o be
change into other genres. Carrie
Underwood's t une "Before He
C heats" could j ust as easily
become a p op or R&B song. On
the other hand, Cash's " Ring of
F ire" and Daniel's " The Devil
Went Down to Georgia" do not
sound right p erformed any other
way, such as in Guitar Hero III.
Yet most songs by groups such
as the Dixie Chicks or Rascal
Flatts have a popularized lyrics
and tempos:
t he n ail in t he c offin f or t his
involved e xamination of another
g enre. Rock widely encompasses
m any styles and t ypes of music.
C ountry is l arge as well, but
people do not b reak it into subgenres. A s for rock, t here is classic r ock, blues-rock, psychedelic
r ock, p op r ock, a lternative rock,
and m any more t ypes. Some
g enres when blended receive
a ppropriate t itular s tatus, yet
c ountry is u nwilling t o budge.
People place a rtists like Molly
Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynyrd into
" southern r ock," t hough t here are
definite c ountry influences in t he
music.
There is more t o the f acets of
country music the j ust country
western. Based on the style of
music in both lyrics and instrumentation, it is f air to label the
m odern country music scene as
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figure out thefinancialthreshold at this
point," said Bohannon.
build" said Decker.
With the CSU system facing budget
Ideas and programs discussed pri- cuts, it is important to determine where
marily had to do with food and a better the funds to build the Union would
social environment on campus. Stu- come from. Chances are the funds
dents in attendance had a great variety would come out of the pockets of the
of ideas ranging from a cafeteria, to an students since the Student Union would
internet cafe, or even a pub on campus. be a student-oriented, student-run
One student even voiced the suggestion space. Another question addressed to
that the building should be made out of students was how much they were willrecycled materials, since CSUSM has ing to see their tuition increase in order
a reputation of being such a recycling to see that the Student Union was built.
Most students in attendance had no
savvy campus.
Matthew Bohannon, also of Brails- problem with a slight increase in tuition
ford & Dunlavey incorporated feasibil- just as long as the Union was built the
right way.
ity into the discussion as well.
"Part of what we are trying to do is
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also really excited to start making
some money instead of studying all
the time."
Commencement 2008 is on Saturday, May 17 at the Grandstand at the
Del Mar Fairgrounds. There will be
two ceremonies; one at 8:30 a m. and
3:00 p.m. Any students with direct
questions regarding commencement
ceremonies can email grad2008@
csusm.edu or visit www.csusm.edu/
commencement for more details.
hand, I feel like something will go
wrong," said senior Business major
Debbie Gralla.
Students go to college, ideally, to
manifest their education towards a
successful career. Leading up to graduation, seniors face the challenge of
finding the right job.
"I'm nervous about searching for
a career and not just any job. I hope
that cougar jobs can help me out. I 'm,
the problems last Labor Day in Pacific
Beach, in which the arrest of one reveler turned into a major clash between
beach goers armed with rocks and glass
beer bottles and police officers in riot
gear, which ended with the arrests of 16
people. The police department has been
accused of using excessive force in the
situation.
For afirsttime offense, the maximum
fine is $250. However, repeat offenses
could bring up to $1000 infines,and may
include up to a six-month jail sentence.
The ban covers beaches up to the Del
Mar city limits, leaving residents of
North County in the middle of a checkerboard of beaches covered by alcohol
laws. A full list of areas where alcohol
is banned by the new law can be found
at www.sandiego.gov/city-clerk.
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Responsibility, collected 45,000 signatures. However, when the city clerk's
office randomly sampled 3% of the peti*
tion, they found only 680 of 1,367 signatures to be valid. As a result, the petition was declared to haye an insufficient
number of signatures. The question
remains over whether random sampling
is fair. However, it is more economical.
According to a press release from the
city clerk's office, "The cost of a signature-by-signature verification of the
petition has been estimated at $70,000
- $147,000. Therefore, any person who
desires to challenge the determination
of insufficiency by random sampling
method must post.. .a certified check for
$70,000 to initially cover that cost."
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handing out pledge kits on Thursday encouraging students not to drink and drive and
will be giving free pizza with it for a safer
spring break.
"While spring offers a f un and enjoyable week away from school, college students need to be aware of safe and responsible activities " said Tracey Armold. "Just
because we have the capability to drink
alcohol, doesn't actually make us adults, it's
how we conduct ourselves and how we are
held accountable as well."
For years, spring break has been notorious for its high levels of excess drinking
and sexuality. However, recent studies have
shown a change in trends. A Nielsen Media
study shows 84% of college students drank
responsibly and 90% think providing community service projects to college students
is a good way to spend their spring break.
Some of the more infamous destinations
for student retreats include Las Vegas, Fort
Lauderdale, Rosarito, and Cabo San Lucas.
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sees sharp gas price increases as summertime approaches. People o ften travel more
during the summer as they vacation across
the nation. The increased demand lowers
the available supply, thus in6reasing the
cost of gas.
Gas prices are an u nfortunate p art of
CSUSM. CSUSM currently holds the label
as a commuter school. Most Cougars commute to campus. This inherent phenomenon is evident in the parking lots. Increasing gas prices are not enough to thwart o ff
an education, therefore forcing students to
shell out the extra bucks at the pump.
Junior Business Major Kyle McClellan
seemed to have a lot to say when asked
about his opinion on gas prices.
"Soon gas prices will be higher than the
Empire State Building. It's so expensive I
will have to mortgage my house j ust to buy
another gallon. I t hink I will have to invest
in a bicycle to ride everywhere. If Gandhi
were alive, he would agree with me, gas is
too expensive. Gas already costs an arm
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Over the past weekend, police arrested three
young men in Daytona Beach, Florida for
detonating an explosion at local hotel terrace. The blast mildly injured a nearby
family, according to the Daytona Beach
News-Journal.
On March 15, authorities halted the Spring
Fling event hosted by Associated Students
Incorporated abruptly due to rambunctious
activities by many. of attendees. Reports
onboard the San Diego yacht of underage
drinking and detrimental behavior by a
number of underage students surfaced and
forced the event back to shore.
Locally, San Diego City Attorney Michael
Aguirre specifically addressed students and
warned them of the alcohol ban on all San
Diego beaches.
"San Diego city beaches are now alcohol
free," Aguirre said in a letter sent out to 20
nearby universities in California, Arizona,
and Colorado. "Violating this law can put
a real damper on your entire spring break."
First time offenders could be fined up to $250
and repeat offenders as much as $1000.
and a leg, what body p art comes next,"
McClellan said.
The trend seems to show no mercy. Gas
prices have been increasing for years,
granted there are few decreases along the
way. Unfortunately, these decreases are
minuscule and short lived. Make preparations now and plan for $4 per gallon of gas
this summer.
Gas Prices in San Marcos
Prices current as of 03-22-08
1 Chevron - 130 Knoll Rd., San Marcos:
$3.56 Regular, $3.68 Mid-grade,
$3.78 Premium
2.Chevron - 1200 W. San Marcos Blvd.,
San Marcos: $3.56 Regular, $3.68
Mid-grade, $3.78 Premium
3.Exxon - 102 W. Mission Ave., San
Marcos: $3.56 Regular, $3.66 Mid-grade,
$3.76 Premium
4.Chevron - 110 N. Rancho Santa Fe
Rd., San Marcos: $3.58 Regular, $3.68
Mid-grade, $3.78 Premium
5.7 - Eleven - 1650 W. San Marcos
Blvd., San Marcos: $3.60 Regular, $3.70
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BY BILLRHEIN
Pride Staff Writer
Thanks to websites
such as YouTube and
Photo Bucket, unconventional art is on
the rise. One of the most notable and skilled
unconventional artists is Phil Hansen.
Though his works reflect the same skill as
most drawings and sculptures, Hansen uses
several unique tactics to create his art. In
one of his works, "Influence," he only uses
paint and his own body as a canvas. However, he has also used pinecones, other parts
of nature, a blowtorch, and his own hands
and feet as paintbrushes.
"Influence" is a video of Hansen painting
thirty pictures on his own stomach—most
of which are of people that influenced him.
Not only is being able to point on one's own
chest a skill, he does it thirty times and with
incredible skill. Hansen paints each picture
A video of
inspiration
over the one before it. He reveals his
clever thought process in the end when
he peels the entire work off and cuts it
into two faces opposite each other.
The skill of his work comes from the
material he chooses to use and/or how he
makes it. There are instances where his
piece is made of eggs, Starbuck's cups,
or matches, in which he cannot create an
outline, and most times, he does not have
the final picture before him. The project
wraps around him and he can imagine the
entire work in his mind without physically seeing it.
There is more to his work than just
"Influence." He has created over a dozen
works of art, most of which become
destroyed in the process and only exist in
online videos. His videos are on YouTube,
but his main website is www.philinthecircle.com, where viewers can watch the
production, completion, and destruction
of his art.
Photo courtesy philinthecircle.com
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BY AMANDA ANDREEN
Pride Staff Writer
Has anyone else seen random students
around campus carrying bright green spoons
in their hands? It's more than likely that the
answer is yes, so this brings about the question
of why? Why are students carrying around
bright green Kermit spoons, to be exact?
Well, it looks like the answer can be found
at Student Life and Leadership, where many
campus inquiries can be answered. For its
second year, the Orientation Team from Student Life and Leadership—also known as the
O-Team—is in the middle of a war: a spoon
war.
What initially began as a way for the
O-Team to grow and learn about one another,
has quickly evolved into a new tradition here
at CSUSM that is integrated within the entire
campus community. Implemented by Jennie
Goldman, the director of New Student Programs, and O-Team Director John Hall, this
new tradition is an adaptation of the game
"Assassins."
"Each person on O-Team was given a bright
green Kermit plastic spoon," said O-Team
member Angela Ortiz. "We are to carry the
spoons everywhere. They need to be in our
hand and if we let go of the spoon, it must be
able to fall." Throughout the war, each participant has an assigned "target" they are watching. If they catch their target without
their spoon, their target is out—or
technically speaking, "spooned,"
by their hunter, and then the target's target becomes the hunter's new
target. Everyone on the O-Team is a
hunter and a target during the spoon
war.
"We cannot tag a person while they
are working or if there is a presentation going on during one of our O-team
meetings. Other than that, you can tag
a person anytime, anywhere," said Stepha-
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for Seeqpod.
According to the Seeqpod website,
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media resources currently available. precise results."
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Connecting users to every bit of playable media on the Internet is the primary simple, Seeqpod has applied its innofunction of Seeqpod, which has quickly vative search methodology to comdeveloped a name for itself in the realm pile one of the most comprehensive
of online multimedia, music in partic- indexes of web-based playable media
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playable media that can be shared with constantly expanding as it combs the
others and even embedded into social Internet with crawlers retrieving new
networking websites and the like.
links to media all the time. This masSeeqpod claims on its website that sive index is then put to use when users
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purchase results, as well as iPhone and online.
iPod Touch compatibility."
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system used by genomic biologists to search engines. In a subset of Intersort through a library of staggeringly net groups that has been plagued with
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the information, an algorithm was that holds promise for Internet music's
developed, an algorithim that would latest addition.
BY BEN ROFFEE
Pride Staff Writer
Beware of the spoon
nie Michaels of the O-Team. "This is a team
building exercise that teaches you to keep your
friends close, and your spoons even closer,"
said O-Team member Kevin Chatham. "The
spoon war can last for a really long time or a
really short time," said Ortiz. "This game can
go on for months..." said Hall.
Last year Ortiz got spooned at home by her
own sister who was also on the O-Team only
an hour after the war started, and Michaels
lost at last year's Spring Fling while dancing
without holding her spoon. "I wanted a truce
so I didn't have to dance with my spoon but
my friends wouldn't do it," said Michaels.
Chatham, commenting last year's war said,
""I can't believe I got out! I thought she was
just giving me a hug but she spooned me!"
"Ifyou see someone holding a plastic green
spoon, then you know who O-Team is and you
know the Spoon War is on. The Spoon War
is all about bonding with your target," said
Ortiz. "You get to know where they hang out,
whether it's the library, C3, SLL or in some
random classroom. You try to scope out who
others have, and attempt to build alliances.
No
one is safe, not at any Spring
Fling dance, lunch outing,
O-Team meeting or before
class."
"The spoon wars are a
great way for our organization to 1oe visible, have fun,
and further build community
in our organization," added
Hall.
"Whether in orientations or in the classroom, O-Team will be
there to show school
spirit, even if it means
holding a little green
spoon with the image of
Kermit the Frog all over
it," said Ortiz.
Photo by Jackie Carbajal/The Pride
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Photo by Tim Moore / The Pride
Freshman, Marly Barth singles to start off the sixth inning against Williams, Saturday
BY TIM MOORE
Pride Staff Writer
the Sun West Tournament. The tournament, hosted by Chapman University took place at Hart Park and featured talent
from across the nation. In their final four games, the Cougars
CSUSM Softball played six games in five days in an saw Avila University of Kansas City, Missouri; University of
extremely busy week of play. The Cougars capped of the St. Thomas of St. Paul, Minnesota; Tufts University of Medweek with four wins in theirfinalfour games of the Sun West ford, Massachusetts; and Williams College ofWilliamstown
Tournament in Orange. The wins put the Cougars at a per- Massachusetts;
fect 6-0 record in the round-robin tournament
The Cougars kicked thing off with a bang on Friday, beatThe Cougars started the week off on Wednesday with a ing up on Avila University with an 8-0 mercy rule shutout.
Junior Melissa Lerno, threw the second no-hitter in the hisdoubleheader against the #10 ranked Vanguard Lions.
In game one, the Cougars' defense kept it locked up at zero tory of the school's softball program, striking out 11 of 16
until allowing a bases-loaded double in the bottom of the batters faced.
In the second game on Friday, the Cougars faced off
sixth, driving in two runs. The Cougars would not be able to
against the University of St. Thomas and struck first in the
recover from the plate - losing the game by a score of 2-0.
Game two brought increased run-production from both top of the fourth inning, scoring three runs, sparked by a
teams. Vanguard struck first in the bottom of the third, with lead-off home run by Erica Coelho. The Cougars scored two
a four-run inning. The Cougars put up one run in the top of more runs in the top of the seventh, improving their lead to
the fourth inning, before seizing the lead in sixth. The sixth 5-0. Freshman pitcher, Brenna Sandberg fought off a threeinning saw a four-run Cougar rally sparked by Sophomore, run comeback attempt by St. Thomas in the bottom of the
Erica Coelho. The Cougars took advantage of Vanguard seventh, closing out the game with a 5-3 win.
The Cougars carried an undefeated Sun West Tournament
errors to take the 5-4 lead going into the bottom of the sixth.
Vanguard came back in the sixth to score two runs, bring- record into theirfinalday of play on Saturday.
In game one, Tufts University got on the board first, scoring the score to 6-5. A scoreless top of the seventh inning
for the Cougars gave the win and the doubleheader sweep ing four runs in the top of the second inning. The Cougars
countered in the bottom of the third, putting up two. Tufts
to Vanguard.
The tough luck would not last long, as the Cougars made took the 5-3 lead in the fourth inning. CSUSM would tie it
the trip to Orange to participate in their final four games in up in the bottom of the fifth, scoring two runs on a series
of errors by Tufts. The 5-5 tie would carry into the bottomhalf of the seventh inning where freshman, Nicolette Nassif
would drive in freshman, Lise Leibl for the game-winning
run.
Going into theirfinalgame of the tournament, the Cougars
.faced Williams University in a nail-biting contest. CSUSM
s tack early -with a dhe-run first inning, only for it to be
equaled out by one-run Williams half of the first inning.
Once again, the the Cougars had a one-run inning in the
fourth, only for Williams to counter with a run in the bottom-half. A Holly Russell RBI double would give the Cougars yet another one-run inning in the sixth, but this time,
Ashley Salvino would hold Williams scoreless in the bottom
of the sixth, giving the Cougars a 3-2 lead. Salvino's pitching
would hold up to close out the game, giving the Cougars their
sixth win in the tournament.
The Cougars' record in the round-robin Sun West Tournament stands at 6-0. The tournament concludes Thursday.
The Cougars record on the season is 20-9. Their win on
Saturday evening doubled their win total from last season's record of 10-31. The Cougars play USD on Thursday
in a rematch of their 0-6 loss on March 12. This game is
the second on the Cougars' schedule that features an NCAA
Division I opponent.
For more photos see page 10
Photo by Tim Moore / The Pride
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BY AMANDA ANDREEN
Pride Staff Writer
In a world briefing released by
the New York Times on Feb. 28,
the Associated Press announced
that South A frica's government
said it would end a 13-year mor• atorium on killing elephants
beginning in May to reduce the
overgrown population of South
A frican elephants in hopes of
protecting the ecosystem and
impacted wildlife parks. The
brief stated that at the t urn of
the 20th century, there were
only 200 elephants in South
A frica. Now, there are between
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elephants currently in South
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the year 2020—merely 12 years
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Interestingly enough, there is
another population of elephants
that is undergoing population
problems. However, t his p opulation's problem i sn't overgrowth, it is extinction. 5,853
miles across the Indian Ocean,
in Laos, once heralded for
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dubbed the "Land of a million elephants," only has what
is believed to be 700 Asian
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5% of t heir weight a day.
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captive Asian elephants. A
hundred years ago however,
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upwards of 100,000 Asian elephants. So why are there so few
Asian elephants l eft in Laos?
T hanks to f armers, p oachers,
loggers, and dam builders (who
all use elephants as t heir labor),
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endangered elephants to survive the t hreats and demands
of man.
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Pride Staff Writer
Earlier last week, the Associated
Press released an article about the
nation's drinking water supply being
contaminated with pharmaceuticals.
The Associated Press conducted a
five-month long investigation that
revealed pharmaceutical drugs in the
drinking water supplies of 24 large
metropolitan areas.
Trace concentrations ofiheart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen
hormones, anti-convulsarits, mood
stabilizers, and tranquilizers were
found in areas including southern
California, New Jersey, [Michigan,
and Kentucky. Similar drugs were
found in upstate New York and in
Philadelphia, other medicines such
as asthma, high cholesterol, and epilepsy were found. In southern California, anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety
medications were revealed in treated
drinking water that 18.5 million
people consume.
The article reports that over the
past couple of years, Americans'
intake of prescription and nonprescription drugs has increased. The
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contamination of water could conceivably be traced back to metabolized use (drugs do not just "stay" in
our bodies and are "flushed out" and
back into the water supply) or simply
unused by humans.
Additionally, there is the issue of
contaminants, such pesticides and
lead that have been focused on and
regulated because higher concentrations presented a clear health risk. In
regards to pharmaceutical drugs, some
officials note that human safety may
not be jeopardized because of studies
done with larger amounts of trace concentrations and lab animals.
Other officials are concerned
because humans consume water
every day consistently and in respectable amounts. Another point of view
on the subject is that pharmaceuticals,
contrasting to other contaminants, are
designed for the humans. With a compounding consumption, these trace
amounts could especially affect and
be more devastating to those more
in more sensitive conditions—the
elderly, pregnant women, and significantly ill people.
Currently, the federal government
does not have any required testing for
cle mentions that some studies have
found trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in Asia, Australia,
Canada, and Europe. There are
also documented health issues
with wildlife that are being further investigated.
It is also important to
address that based on what
the pharmaceutical industry
knows, they justify that there is little
effect on human health by these
trace contaminants. While this is
important news, the AP did not conduct a comprehensive, scientific study
to examine the full effects of this on
humans, so these discoveries cannot conclude a specific causeand-effect relationship
on humans. Many scientists emphasize that
research is limited on
this subject matter and
a lot of information is
unknown.
For more information, and to read the
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pharmaceutical drugs in water nor a
maximum or minimum level of safety.
The AP article also notes that some
water providers that do screen for
drugs only screen for a small number,
which overlooks the prospects of other
drugs.
Another concern is the addition
of chlorine in water can exacerbate
the toxicity of drugs. Furthermore,
another matter is bottled water and
home filtration systems, which do not
remove these impurities. Bottled water
is often the same tap water repackaged
and is not treated for pharmaceutical
contamination.
The article also explains that the
only known technology to remove
pharmaceutical contaminants is
reverse osmosis, but the drawbacks of
this procedure is its expense for mass
production and it also produces large
amounts of contaminated water for
every small amount that is clean of
pollutants. So, unless a home filiation
system specifically features a reverse
osmosis capability, the water may still
contain harmful pharmaceutical pollutants.
This problem is not just contained to
the United States either—the AP arti-
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environment m inister released
a revised proposal that would
allocate roughly $700,000 for
more s cientific study as to what
the most humane and e ffective
way for elephant population
control. Though there is still
much debaté and controversy
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people of all levels on involvement on both sides, n othing has
been f irmly decided f or the f ate
of 14,000 elephants.
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protect both the elephants and
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longer and straighter, with a
slight p ink hue. However, while
the A frican savanna elephant
that inhabits South A frica
seems to have no problem copulating, the A frican forest elephant is extremely endangered
because of poaching.
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quoted Sebastian D iffillot,
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very dramatic in about 10 years
if nothing changes," f urther
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�Baseball Goes 1-1
Nearly complete major upset
BY LANCE CARTELLI
Pride Staff Writer
March Madness is in full force with the second round being completed on Sun., but Cougar baseball came in as the Cinderella and
almost came away with the upset.
Playing against an extremely talented #2 Azusa Pacific team, the
Cougars surged late but could not complete the comeback.
Azusa Pacific started strong scoring six runs in the first two
innings, knocking out SP Steve Triolo after just 1 1/3 IP.
Down 6-0, the Cougars got on the board as 3b Austin Coleman hit
a solo homerun in the bottom of the 2nd, and would tack on two more
in the third to be down 7-4.
In the bottom of the 7th, DH Austin Way hit his second home run
of the game to start the comeback, but Azusa Pacific would come
right back with three runs in the top of the 8th to put them up 11-6.
The game would end 11-8 in a victory for Azusa Pacific University.
CSUSM does not have a football team, but by looking at the score
of the second game of the week for the Cougars, some may make
think otherwise.
Scoring at least one run in every inning, the Cougars beat Principia 24-3 in complete domination.
Principia lead the game off with two runs to take the lead. The
Cougars blew the game open in the bottom of the 2nd, lead by a grand
slam by 3b Coleman. Scoring eight runs in the 2nd, the Cougars were
up 10-2 already.
SP Chris Skaalen would pick up his second win of the year going
4 innings giving up two earned runs on four hits while striking out
four.
In the bottom of the fourth, Way continued his hot streak with a
grand slam which was the second of the game for the Cougars.
The Cougars' record improves to 11-14-1 on the season. The Cougars travel t o Point Loma today, before playing host to Bethany University this weekend.
NCAA.com and CBS
Photo by Tim Moore / The Pride
Freshman pitcher, Ashley Salvino works her way to seven strikeouts in CSUSM's 3-2 win over Williams
University, Saturday. For full story see page 7.
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Photo by Tim Moore / The Pride
perfect internet streaming
BY TIM MOORE
Pride Staff Writer
In this vast world of technological advancement, the live
streaming of sporting events is a task not to be taken lightly. It is
an undertaking that requires mass amounts of bandwidth and a
dedicated repair staff. Rarely is the art of making sports available
to the masses done right.
NCAA.com, in association with CBS has done it right.
Throughout the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament,
NCAA.com is streaming games live and 100% free. The concept
is great, and the execution is even better.
The service caters primarily to those in professional environments, locked away from access to a television during one of the
best times on the snorting calendar. The interface features the
fabled "boss button" for the paranoid employee. The "boss button"
transforms the interface into a mock-spreadsheet, instantly giving
office-wandering superiors the security of productivity, or so they
. think.
The service also comes in handy when more than one game is
in play. CBS choses what games they will show region by region.
For instance* in Sunday's secoiid-round matchups, San Diego's
CBS affiliate KFMB showed nearly exclusive coverage of USD's
game with Western Kentucky. Near the end of the game, USD
was trailing by double-digits with under 30-seconds left on the
clock. The game was clearly out of reach for the Toreros, however, because of geographic restrictions KFMB aired the game
to the final buzzer, which lasted around five minutes because of
timeouts and fouls. During this time, #10 seed Davidson was in
the process of upsetting the #2 seed Georgetown. A few clicks
was all it took for viewers to have access to the Georgetown,
Davidson game online.
Before, accessing the online coverage, users must first log in
with a CBSSports.com, CBSNews.com, CBS.com, CBSGames:
com, TheShowBuzz.com, or NCAAsports.com username and
password.
The interface of the service is simple and responsive. A pre-roll
short advertisement plays before the user's initial selection, and
after that, the only additional advertisements are the normal commercial breaks. The video quality in full-screen mode is comparable to that of the television broadcast. The only drawback to the
service is a buffer delay (around one minute) from the actual live
game.
NCAA .com and CBS have offered the services for f ree that
other leagues charge premiums for. The service is giving people
what they want, and it is a win-win for all parties involved. CBS
is projecting advertising revenues of at least $21 million, some
$10 million more than 2007's tournament.
�What happens on spring break doesn't stay
on spring break Wcfcr urges youth to consider sta:s
BY JACKIE CARBAJAL
Pride Staff Writer
Spring Break '08 is a home stretch away
and with that comes the necessary proactive
safety advice from the campus, family and
friends. Many just looking to "don't worry
be happy" for a week may mistake concern
for annoyance, believe rules aré meant to
be broken, and consider those cautious as
'square.' Warnings can only go so far—in
one ear and out the other, but the truth
doesn't lie.
Jennifer Wider, M.D., author of The Doctor's Complete College Girls' Health Guide:
From Sex to Drugs to the Freshman 15,
warns college girls of the possible repercussions of activities that ensue during a stereotypical college Spring Break vacation.
Alcohol, drug use, and promiscuous sexual
activity can leád to sexually transmitted
diseases, pregnancy, overdose, and serious
health problems.
"An American Medical Association
survey of college students found that 83 percent agree that Spring Break trips involve
more or heavier drinking than typical college life," says Wider, M.D. "Almost threequarters of the surveyed students acknowledged that increased sexual activity takes
place on these trips—70 percent know
friends who were sexually active with more
than one partner on Spring Break. STDs and
pregnancy are two very real risks of spontaneous sex that have lasting consequences
after the trip ends."
Information mentioned by Wider originated from an online survey of 644 women
age 17-35 conducted from Feb. 27-March 1,
2006.
Wider adds that the only 100 percent
preventative measure against an STD or
unplanned pregnancy is abstinence; how- it later, and be aware of surroundings at all
ever, youth should prepare themselves in the time.
event they do have sex during Spring Break.
The 'Girls Gone Wild' film crew isn't
In addition to always using a condom, women the only thing to worry about anymore. In
can make sure to refill their birth control pre- this day and age of Facebook, Myspace and
scriptions before they leave for Spring Break. other Internet venues, students should keep
Plan B emergency contraception (EC) is now in mind how nearly impossible it is to elimiavailable without a prescription at pharma- nate something once it appears on the web.
cies for anyone over the age of 18. To down- Pictures say a thousand words—words that
load a card that makes purchasing EC more can't be taken back.
privately, visit www.go2planb.com. Women
Staff and faculty members routinely monshould never substitute EC for birth control itor students involved in clubs and organias the pill is not effective when already preg- zations online. More and more businesses
nant and does not protect against STDs.
nowadays use search engines to screen
Whether planning on pontoon boating in applicants. Think about that the next time
Havasu, clubbing in Cancun, or any other you down one too many J ell-0 shots in
popular Spring Break hotspot remember Rosarito.
the weeks, months, and years that follow it.
Having a mature outlook on the future
Always travel in groups and discuss limi- alone will be enough of an awareness to
tations and expectations beforehand. Keep make the right decisions and still have a
an eye out for friends—they'll appreciate good time.
A once in a lifetime opportunity
The World Nomads Travel Scholarship
BY ALEX H AND
Pride Staff Writer
There are scholarships that help pay for
books and tuition.. .then there are scholarships that help pay for the experience of a
lifetime. The World Nomads Travel Writing Scholarship provides the opportunity
for one lucky student to have this experience. This opportunity has recently been
opened up to the students at Cal State San
Marcos.
The scholarship will send one outstanding
student to participate on an i-toi volunteer
project to the tsunami-devastated region
of Sri Lanka. The chosen student would
spend time living in a small coastal village
amongst locals of the region. The scholarship winner would also receive mentorship
from Sydney Morning Herald journalist and
travel writer Keith Austin throughout their
stay. Among the perks is also a new Lenovo
laptop the student would use
to draft up their
own fea-
ture travel article highlighting their stay.
Upon return, the student's article could
be published by the Sydney Morning Herald
(www.smh.com.au). If published, the story
would be read by thousands of traveler's
worldwide.
Previously, The World Nomads Travel
Writing Scholarship has sent students on
various assignments in locations such as
Anhem Land-Australia, Kenya and Cambodia giving away four educational scholarships to date. World Nomads is partnered with key industry leaders such as
Lonely Planet and National Geographic.
The "passionate about travel" organization was established in 1999. They have
been offering travel insurance and travel
safety services to adventurous independent travelers ever since.
According to WorldNomads.com,
the scholarship program is "designed to
create a dynamic, experiential learning
opportunity, which offers mentoring, produces exciting content and facilities partnership to publish/
Illustration
by Amanda
Andreen/The
Pride
broadcast/exhibit student's work." There
are currently 4 scholarships open each year
in areas of Travel Writing, Podcast Journalism, Photography and Film Documentary.
Any students in the fields of communications, journalism, media, arts, writing and/
or lecturers are encouraged to apply. There
are no specific eligibility requirements but
the scholarship aims to attract "those students who have a passion for travel and a
strong desire to learn and contribute to
making a difference in the world." The
application deadline is May 25th. For f ull
scholarship and application details visithttp://j ournals .worldnomads .com/scholarships/post/15629.aspx
�'08-'09 ASI Cabinet Nominees Bios
*Some bios were edited for length in order to accomodate layout spacing.
The full bios can be accessed online at thecsusmpride.com
Alexander Hoang-President & CEO
Alexander Hoang hails from Vista, CA and is currently an International Resident Advisor and Business Administration/Management student at CSU
San Marcos. Alexander's experience spans Education, Business, Non-profit work, and the Arts. He has served in Education as a Team Orientation Counselor and Advisor for UC Riverside and CSU, San Marcos, Princeton Review Instructor, and Meditation instructor. Alex has experience in commercial real
estate sales, and is intensely involved in the pursuit of a Business Management Degree at CSU San Marcos, his brokers license, and JD MBA in the near
future. Serving his community is Alex's passion. He is thankful for the opportunity to run for ASI President and is grateful to all his supporters.
Zachary de la Pena - President & CEO
My name is Zachary T, de la Pena and I am running for Associated Student Inc. President and CEO. I am a junior at CSUSM in both graduating year
and units completed. I am a political science major and plan on attending law school upon graduating from Cal State San Marcos. I am an extremely hard
worker and have great determination. I am running for President because I feel that I could do great things for CSUSM and would be an asset to ASI. I have
experience as a leader in an array of organizations and have held a variety of leadership positions throughout my life. I am currently an active member of the
executive office in ASI as I am a Board Director of the College of Arts and Science. I would be able to use my experience on the board and my knowledge
of how ASI functions to guide the board throughout my term.
DON'T BE WACK VOTE FOR ZACH
Lynn Torbert - VP of Operations
Hello, my name is Lynn Torbert and I am currently running for Vice President of Operations. I am a junior here on Cal State San Marcos Campus. I
am a Communication major and plan on going into managing marketing for a fashion company. At this time I am involved in Orientation Team, Alpha
Chi Omega, and ASI. I should be VP Operations because I have many ideas that I would like to see get accomplished and having more of a voice will
help me do that. I would like to see more involvement on campus and the best way to do this is by having more activities and to advertise more on what
ASI is all about. I am the besicandidate for these positions because, my goal is to turn this commuter campus into a f un place to be where you can truly
experience all aspects of college life. I am running on a slate.
Vote Cougar Slate
Christian Pedersen
My name is Christian Pedersen I am double majoring in Mass Media and Political Science; I am currently a junior here at CSUSM and am running for the
position Vice President of External Affairs. As a Political Science major, I feel that I have the understanding necessary to serve our university on the state
level; acting a liaison between the students, ASI, and the CSU system. Having been a member of Lobby Core in years past, I have a good understanding of
the challenges and c ommitment awaiting the Vice-president of External Affairs. I have been involved in many organizations on campus, and have held
leadership roles in a number of them. My past leadership positions have helped to give me the knowledge and experience necessary for serving our cammis
and you the students.
Stephen Castro - VP of Finance *
VOTE COUGAR SLATE!! Stephen Castro (VP of Finance), Zach Delapena, Gil Cardenas, Lynn Torbert, Zach Morrison, Giovanna De Los Reyes
Trevor Frerking!! Proven ability, experience with making difficult decisions, and the integrity to garner the faith of the people are the character qualities I
possess. These can be seen through my leadership of an organization on campus, Global Business Management Association. My education here at CSUSM
has given me the skills to properly manage not only my financial duties but also the time management responsibilities associated with the position of VP
of Finance. I recently accepted the position of Vice Chairman of the ASI Finance Board further contributing to my overall knowledge of the financial
situation here at CSUSM. In the absence of the current VP of Finance, I chaired the Budget Marathon meeting and worked diligently with the Board I
am running on a slate and with them we are in favor of REDUCING Parking Prices, Having More Dance Tickets, Increased student out reach by ASI and
C5>U Admin, More availability in congested Classes, and More Athletics and Intramurals. Our goal is to work together as a Slate to make Cal State San
Marcos a FUN PLACE TO GO TO SCHOOL!!! VOTE COUGAR SLATE!!!!
Conrad Ottey - VP of Finance
Hi, I'm Conrad Ottey
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I've been advocating for students for three years now, two of those years on the ASI Board of Directors. I have extensive knowledge of the inner workings of ASI and I am very excited for the opportunity to serve as the Vice President of Finance. I've served in a variety of ways to better CSUSM Over
the past two years I have travelled twice to Sacramento to lobby the State Senate to lower student fees and grant more access and affbrdability I am a
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Kayla Robinson - Rep at Large
. W * r r U n n i n f , f ° r J e p r e S e n t a t i v e a \ L a ^ ' a " d 1 c h o s e t h i s P otion because I wanted to involve myself with the student body as well as learn more
about the issues others have on campus. I think this position is perfect for me and I can bring a lot to the role. I am already Treasure^offfie S S S Z
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�'08-'09 ASI Cabinet Nominees Bios
*Some bios were edited for length in order to accomodate layout spacing.
The full bios can be accessed online at thecsusmpride.com
Jessica Mills - VP of Marketing
Hi, my name is Jessica Mills and I am running for the VP of Marketing position. I am currently your Student Rep at Large. By being the VP of Markétmg I will make sure that students are informed on the events that are going on, on campus. I will also talk to the ASI president on the goals that ASI has set
to make sure that they get completed.
Hoping for your vote,
Jessica Mills
Gil Cardenas - VP of Marketing
Hello students of CSUSM my name is Gil Cardenas, I'm a Global Business Management -Marketing Major with a minor is Political Science. I've been
a part of ASI for the last two year as a Student Representative @ Large in 2006/2007 and The Vice President of Finance in 2007/2008, This is my third
time running for the Board of Directors for ASI and I'm excited at what new challenges I can solve next. My number one concerns for next year's board
will be: Lowering or Freezing the Parking Fee increase for 2009 *Raise the budget for the annual Masquerade Ball and Spring Fling dances so
we can invite more students. ^Advertise to students through the Pride Newspaper the events that are going on, on campus for that current week
or month. ^Providing students with a plethora of extra curricular events to raise school spirit. *Expand the current Recreations Department
that currently provides activities such as, paintball excursions, snow boarding excursions, trips to theme parks, to provide more activities and
allow for more students to participate.
Sabrina Oleson - VP of Marketing
Hi! My name is Sabrina Oleson. I am entering my senior year here at CSUSM as a Marketing major in the Business program, which makes me a perfect
candidate for the VP of Marketing with ASI. I am mature, reliable, and intelligent. I have the experienced needed to not only get the job done, but do it
fantastically! Currently, I am on ASI's Programming Board as the Annual Events and Traditions Specialist, planning and executing events for you, the
students. Some of my duties included Welcome Week, Cougar Fever Week, Masquerade Ball, and Spring Fling. I am familiar with the school's needs
and what the students want. I have professional experience in the real world with marketing and understand the restraints on working with a budget. So
remember to VOTE for SABRINA OLESON for VP of MARKETING! Thank you! Sabrina
Brian Buttacavoli - VP of Marketing
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I am a Business Major and an RA for the on campus housing. I want everystudent to have a voice, and I believe that with my team we will get CSUSM
where it needs to be. This campus has a lot of potential, so by using creativity and charisma, I will make marketing for this campus efficient and effective.
I will make sure that no student is left in the dark because we will get this campus more involved. I enjoy lobster dinners with my main man Cesar Chavez
and long walks on grassy knolls. I also plan on marrying Sara Bareilles, and we will have many beautiful children. So remember, vote with confidence,
Vote for Brian!
Giovanna De Los Reyes - Rep for College of Arts and Sciences
Hello everyone, my name is Giovanna De Los Reyes and I am currently running for Representative of college of arts and sciences. I am in my first year at
Cai State San Marcos. I am a Kinesiology major in hope to eventually become a dentist, Currently I am involved in Alpha Chi Omega.i should be a representative for college of arts and sciences because I am a hard worker and very goal oriented, and I feel it is important to voice the opinions of the students here
at Cai State San Marcos. In addition to my running for representative I am running on the cougar slate to which we are in favor of: -Lower parking prices
-More dance tickets -More ASI sponsored adventures -More student reach out by asi and csu admin. -More availability in congested classes -More athletics
and intramurals our goal is to work together as a slate to make cai state san marcos A FUN PLACE TO GO TO SCHOOL!! VOTE COUGAR SLATE
Benjamin Bertran-Harris- Rep for College ofArts & Sciences
My name is Benjamin Bertran-Harris and I am a freshman with a nursing major. If elected to be a representative for the college o fArts and Sciences I
will emphasize on creating a branch in ASI that represents our nursing students and any Cal State San Marcos student whose major is in the medical field.
I am a hard worker and will do what should be done. If you would like to know more then you can look me up on facebook.
Zach Morrison - Rep at Large
Mv name is Zach Morrison I am a Political Science Major and am running to be a Student at large representative. I am a hard worker who is seeking this
oosition to make a positive impact here at Cal State San Marcos and I will do my best accomplish this. I currently hold a position as VP of Public relations for
Hillel here at CSUSM and well connected with the student body. As a student representative I will seek out your concerns, desires and opinions to make sure
that the resolutions I propose to the ASI Board of Directors is what you, as a student body want.
I am running on a slate and with them we are in favor of: REDUCING Parking Prices, Having More Dance Tickets, Increased Student Reach out by ASI and
CSU Admin More availability in congested Classes, More Athletics and Intramurals. Our goal is to work together as a Slate to make Cal State San Marcos A
FUN PLACE TO GO TO SCHOOL!!! VOTE COUGAR SLATE!!!!
VOTE ONLINE!! Voting started Monday 3/24 and goes through this Thursday 3/27 at 8:00 p.m.
http://lynx.csusm.edu/vote/index.asp
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Community and World Literary
Series Presents: Edwin Torres
BY JACKIE CARBAJAL
Pride Staff Writer
Markstein Hall.
encounters with poetry came
Critically known for his live from Mad Magazine.
performances, Torres is not your
"The song satires and stupid
You have to appreciate a man typical poetry reader. Ad libbing, rhymes reminded me so much
who "MacGyver"s a tape recorder singing and incorporating theat- of Uncle Martin, my mother's
and microphone into a surround rics into his performances is par, brother. [He] lived a few blocks
sound system.
for the course. Not surprisingly, away until my high school
After pesky laryngitis led to Torres has worked with many years, providing comfort and
the cancellation of his originally performing artists throughout his support after my father died...
scheduled reading on Feb. 21, career. He even has a CD, "Holy He was sort of a Puerto Rican
contemporary poet Edwin Torres Kid" (Kill Rock Stars Records). Benny Hill...Humor was a motiperformed for students, staff, and Some of Torres' books include vating force for me since there
faculty on Thursday, March 20 in I Hear Things People Haven't was always humor in the houseReally Said, Fractured Humor- hold," said Torres in an interous, The All-Union Day Of The view with Salon.com.
Shock Worker, and ThePoPed6lr> Much of his work was sung
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or rapped as well—potentially
It was an enjoyable night for broadening his likeability
all in attendance. The mood was among musicians as well as litlight hearted as the audience erary afficianados.
often found themselves laughConsider the line from his
ing aloud in response to another poem, Exotic People, "Bohemiantic from Torres or a witty line ans is a catch phrase thrown out
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Torres' readings are clearly
meant to be appreciated live or
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simply text just will not do.
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with good communication skills.
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How San Diego is
getting overlooked
BY ADAM LOWE
Pride Staff Writer
Have you ever heard of a
movie called "Blindsight"? No.
What about one called "The
Band's Visit"? Still nothing?
How about "Contempt"? All
right, so you haven't heard of
any of these movies, that's fine
- neither have I, to be honest.
They are only the top rated
movies on www.rottentomatoes.com, so why should we
have heard of them?
Well that is why we should
have , heard of them. If they
are the most popular recently
released movies - wouldn't
you think they'd be in all the
major cities across California? Wrong. These "popular"
movies, even though they are
currently dubbed the most popular movies in the nation, NONE
of them have found their way
down to the San Diego area.
I am a big fan of going to the
moyie$, and I'm an even bigger
fan of road trips - but I am
NOT a fan of having to go on
a road trip just to see a movie,
which is exactly what I'd have
to do if I wanted to see these
. "popular" films. Some of these
movies look quite entertaining
and I would absolutely love to
see them, but I don't want to
drive for a few hours j ust so that
1 can sit and watch a movie for
2 hours. Now, I live in Orange
County - and going to La-L.A.land is a drive for me, so I completely understand how much
worse it is for everyone down
here in San Diego County.
So I guess if we want to see
"Blindsight", " The
Band's
Visit", "Contempt", "Jar City",
or "The Diving Bell and The
Butterfly", we are j ust going to
have to plan a road trip. We'd
have*to head up to L.A. to see
most of these. For some, however, we'd have to drive all the
way up to the glorious misty air
of the San Francisco Bay area.
But for even some others - we
would have to enjoy a delightful flight all the way to good old
New York City.
So why aren't these " great"
movies playing in our major
cities? I don't know, perhaps
someone should write a letter to
the Motion Picture Association
of America. We could say that
we aren't upset. We could tell
them that we are JUST DISAPPOINTED - that will zing 'em!
�w on't put y ou to s leep
BY ADAM LOWE
Pride Staff Writer
A s I w alked u p t o t he d oorman/
b ouncer and p aid my $5 t o get i n, he
a sked w ho I w as t here t o s ee. " Sleepless M e, f or s ure!" T he G ypsy L ounge
in L ake F orest, CA is q uite a h omey
p lace. C ouches l ine t he m irrored w all,
and t here a re c omfy s tools l ining t he
i ncredible b ar ( where t hey k now hcrw
t o m ake a d rink). It is n o b igger t han a
l arge l iving r oom, but I 'd say it is j ust
t he r ight size f or a local b and v enue.
T hen Sleepless Me t ook t he s tage,
Now, I have s een t hese g uys play q uite
a f ew t imes, and I am b eing t otally
h onest w hen I say t hat t hey get b etter
e ach t ime. T his n ight w as n o e xception,
T he sound s ystem w as m uch l ouder
than u sual, so w hen S leepless b egan
p laying, it w as e xceptionally loud and
h ad t he feel of an e pic aretta. N eedless t o say, t hese g uys s ounded s uperb,
even m ore so t han u sual.
Sleepless Me is C ory, D ale aiid B ach,
E ach of t hese g uys b rought a n awesome (in t he o riginal s ense of t he w ord)
p resence t o t he s tage l ast n ight. B ach's
Photo byMerrilee Burke, courtesy of myspace.com/sleeplessme
Casa
s tuffed shells, ravioli, eggplant parmesan, and much more.
Every d inner you order comes with
salad and garlic b read, and w ith each
d inner c osting less t han $10, it is a
g reat deal. A nother g reat p art of C asa
A ngelo's menu is t heir sandwiches.
Some of the choices include p astrami,
meat b all, " moosolini" (meatball, sausage
A ND p epperoni), v egetarian, and chicken.
For an 8 " s andwich, it is less t han $6 and
f or an e ntire 12" sandwich the p rice is less
t han $7.
A n essential p art of C asa Angelo is
t heir speedy delivery. From t he t ime we
ordered t o t he t ime t hey w ere at our house
door w as less t han 20 m inutes.
O verall, C asa A ngelo is a small hole in
t he wall r estaurant t hat greatly exceeds
y our e xpectations. I r ecommend everyone
t ry it at least once b ecause I can p romise t hat you w ill not be d isappointed. You
w ill have a newly f ound favorite p izza
and I talian p lace t o eat.
To check out t he menu and plan your
order, go t o www.casa-angelo.com.
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out and e njoy sotrie real r ock m usic!
P izza
BY ROSS LICHTMAN
Pride Staff Writer
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cible g uitar r iffs, a nd u nstoppable v ocals
m ade f or one of t he g reatest Sleepless Me
shows I 've ever s een - and I 've seen q uite
a few. T hese g uys even r ocked so h ard
t hat t hey c overed t he L enny K ravitz song
" Rock and Roll is D ead" and t hey p roved
t hat r ock a nd roll is v ery m uch alive in
t hem!
W ith t he r elease of t he s econd EP, " 2",
Sleepless M e has, m uch t o o ffer at t heir
shows. P laying t heir r ockin' songs f rom
t heir f irst E P r "Grow?' and all t hree songs
f rom " 2", t hey n ever c ease t o e ntertain
t he crowds a nd, on o ccasion, have b een
k nown t o r ock t he f aces o ff e veryone in
t he r oom! So i f you ever get t he opport unity t o check out a S leepless show, you
should absolutely ¿ heck in f or t he r ide of
y our l ife.
Sleepless Me a re once a gain h opef uls f or t his y ears O range C ounty M usic
A wards " Best A lternative B and" and
d espite r eceiving a p oor r eview f rom OC
Weekly by a g uy w ho d oesn't l ike anyt hing but t echno, Sleepless h as a g reat
c hance of w inning t hat a ward. D etails
a bout Sleepless Me, as well as a p lace t o
l isten t o a lot o f t heir m usic, can b e f ound
at w ww.sleeplessme.com. C heck t hem
Casa Angelo is a
family owned pizza
and fine Italian restaurant. It is virtually
unknown to most of
San Marcos but is located c onveniently
close to campus, on San M arcos Blvd.
The restaurant is r un by a m arried
couple, with the help of t wo or t hree other
delivery boys.
Being so small, one m ight t hink t hat it
doesn't have t he s ame r esources, along
with time and money, t o c ompete a gainst
high-powered p izza p laces such as D omino's or Piz;za Hut. W here t hey lack in
size, they m ake u p f or w ith t heir delicious
food.
From t he m oment you s ink y our t eeth
into their m outh-watering p izzas, you c an
tell that they w ere m ade w ith c are.
Not only do t hey s erve g reat p izzas but
they also have a w ide v ariety of t asty and
authentic I talian f ood. T heir I talian d inners include s paghetti, c hicken p armesan,
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COUNJJNG CROWS
In their fifth studio release, and first since 2002, the Counting Crows are back
with more inspirational arid listener-friendly music. The album has two sides
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�Pride Staff Writer
Don't be fooled. A movie with the
promised antics of Jack Black may sound
tempting, but this is one comedy that
doesn't fulfill its intended purpose.
Jerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker
who attempts to destroy an electrical plant
that he believes is reading his mind. But
when his plan goes sour, his magne
tized body ends up erasing all the
tapes in his friend Mike's (Dante
'Mos D ef Smith) video store, conveniently named Be Kind Rewind.
With a store full of blank videotapes, Jerry and-Mike embark on a
not-so adventurous journey to remake
some of the most memorable movies
of our time. The ironic idea in this disappointing movie is that some of the best and
most memorable movies are being remade,
which just begs you to ask yourself the question: Why aren't I watching those movies right
now?
Considering this is a comedy, I found myself
NOT laughing 90% of the time. Don't get me
wrong, the remakes that the protagonists made
were amateurishly comedic, but the entire movie
just failed to move the audience emotionally.
The remade movies, although humorous, failed to be
consistent and plentiful enough to act as a driving force
in the film. While Jack Black's performance was usual
Jack Black as always, Mos Def came across as a little
slow and boring, and that is definitely something that
comedies are not about.
With somewhat bland characters and an even
duller story, "Be Kind
Rewind" fails to hook
the audience with its
scarcity of laughter.
Chances are you'd
be better off
staying at home
and listening
to your Tenacious
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CDs.
Photos courtesy Photo courtesy Abbot Genser/New Line Cinema
Stone Imperial
Russian Stout
BY JONATHAN E. THOMPSON
Pride Staff Writer
Stone Brewery brews and bottles Stone Imperial Russian Stout
in Escondido, California. The
brewery originally opened in San
Marcos in 1996. In 2006, the company moved to a new facility in
Escondido to better meet product
demand. The current facility is
capable of producing of up to 250,000
barrels. Stone Brewery should be in
Escondido for an extended amount of
time.
The brown glass
bottle
holds
22 fluid ^ ^ H ounces.
A gargoyle wearing a ^ ^ ^
f ur cap
ad or n e d
with a star, no d oubt
a throwback to Imperial
Russia, squats holding a
mug of stout. The bottle
has a bright blue outline
while a foggy white outlines the gargoyle. A shiny
gold glazed bottle cap,
featuring the company's
logo in black stencil, caps
a bottle with an alcohol by volume of
10.8%. The double than average AVB is
characteristic of Imperial Russian Stouts,
which often have ABVs of 10-11% The
stout retails for $5.99 at BevMo.
The stout pours chunky — a rich black
liquid fills the glass. A thin head forms
and disappears quickly. The stout radiates
a gothic blackish-purplish color. Coffeelike aromas seep into the surrounding air.
The murky stout first attacks the tongue.
A subtle tingling sensation spreads
throughout the taste buds.
The stout gathers intensity during the
peak of consumption and finishes off the
rest of the oral cavity like a Jackie Chan
fight scene. The stout leaves a powerful rolling wave of energy as the stout
descends below. The lips smack in joy
and demand more.
Stone Imperial Russian Stout should
be consumed leisurely in a relaxing environment to fully experience the adventure.Unwind during spring break with
this week's stout. If considering the stout,
visit a local BevMo quickly as the stout is
scheduled to disappear after spring. Have
a f un and safe spring break, Cougars!
OneRepublic
"Dreaming Out Loud"
BY AMANDA ANDREEN
Pride Staff Writer
Thirteen tracks of juicy vocals and teasing guitar—OneRepublic's "Dreaming Out
Loud" is sizzling. A scintillating blend of
what falls easily on the ears as a mixture
of The Fray, Maroon 5, Keane, and Snow
Patrol, "Dreaming Out Loud", off Interscope Records, is heating up the charts and
the airwaves across the nation.
"Dreaming Out Loud," moved from slot
45 last week, to slot 20 this week on Billboard's Hot 200 albums. The single "Apologize" featuring Timbaland is #9 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, and "Stop
and Stare" is up three spots to the #9 song
on Billboard's Pop chart, and is also #9 on
iTunes' Top 100 Songs. Not only that, but
"Apologize" is the #17 most downloaded
ring tone in the nation this week, falling in between "The Devil Went Down to
Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band and
"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin.
The album opener, "Say (All I Need),"
is a scenic ballad with a techno flare,
promptly followed up by "Mercy" which
was most recently featured on the March
13 episode of "Smallville," along with
"Apologize" and "Stop and Stare." Following "Mercy" is "Stop and Stare"—which
stops me in my tracks everytime I hear it.
It's that good.
Then comes "Apologize," and there really
isn't that much to say about this track other
than it's amazing and catchy. "Goodbye
Apathy" which falls directly after "Stop and
Stare" and "Apologize", mirrors The Fray's
sound so closely, it could most definitely be
mistaken for a track like "Little House" off
their last album, "How to Save A Life."
Track 7, "Tyrant," brings to mind
"Erlkonig" by Franz Shubert with it's
pounding one note intro, and it definitely
isn't the strongest track on the album, but it
is apparent they were trying something different, as this track has a little more of a U2
and Bon Jovi vibe.
"Prodigal" starts out slower, and leads
in with creeping vocals that could be compared to Snow Patrol and Keane as the song
slowly builds into a full-blown pacing rock
song with a hint of the Beatles, circa "I am
the Walrus" era.
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"Won't Stop" has a bit more of a Nashville feel to it, with violins and percussive
elements accompanied by a confident steel
guitar and curious piano interludes. "Someone to Save You" and "All We Are" sound
pretty much the same, except for the really
lame sounding drum intro on "Someone to
Save You."
Except for those two tracks and "Tyrant,"
the rest of the album is solid, and even
though the "Timbaland featuring OneRepublic" version of "Apologize" rocks, I have
no doubt they could have made it to the top
without his help.
Photo courtesy Amazon.com
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